WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live Our Town: Toowoomba 0:00:00.800 --> 0:00:05.880 Why from Toowoomba. This is Paul Murray live now town. 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:12.840 Not again. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.720 Let the means proceeds. Good on you guys, your fire 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:17.840 leading for. 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:18.480 A big night. 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:21.200 Thank you so much for being here. 0:00:21.280 --> 0:00:24.200 We have got our jeems show warp hands. 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.680 Such a great weekend into Woomba. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:29.480 It's got to be on your list. Of course. 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:31.560 You can fly straight into weld Camp from all over 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:34.440 the country and get into all of the action that's here. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.479 The wonderful food, the beautiful people. This is a place 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:40.800 that is just kicking goals, more and more of the 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.960 meat every year. It's a beautiful place to visit and 0:00:44.040 --> 0:00:46.320 maybe a place if the time is right, come and 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.639 move here. It is a great place to bring up kids, right, 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.040 good place to be with people, the community that takes 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:54.680 care of each other and they're taking care of us tonight. 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.360 Now what about the news. I mean, this was quite 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:00.640 fortuitous that we came here and it was just by 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:03.560 luck timing wise, but he pleased that to Womba is 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:06.759 going to be hosting part of the twenty thirty two Olympics. 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:08.080 Event. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.880 One of the events, one of the venues it'll be 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.800 the equestrian Now I think one of the local papers. 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:16.720 They did a little bit of an AI version of it. 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.839 I don't think this is exactly how it's going to look, 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.039 but still this is the closest we could get for 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.920 some sort of an idea of what the futuristic thing 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:25.880 is going to look like when it comes to the showgrounds. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:30.000 But I think they just wrote Equestrian AI twenty thirty two. Bang, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.360 that's what appeared. The Jetsons will be feeding everyone. It'll 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:35.960 be fun to see in the next little while. Now 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.400 this weekend was Mega two. Now we've had everything. We've 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:43.240 had everything from the local show, the races, the King 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.840 of the Mountain, the fog from Melbourne was fun for 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.080 a couple of days and we made our most that's 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:53.720 me treating the kids to the belting they deserve sometimes 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.680 on the Dodgers and plenty of fun that we had. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.680 And yeah the pink hat why not. Hay just did 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:02.480 turn the odd head once we got to the wood chipping. 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:04.880 But other than that it was great and fun. Now 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:07.320 before we celebrate everything that's here and we talk about 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:09.440 some of the politics that's around, the good times that 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.200 are being had into Woomba, well out west, there's some tough. 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:14.600 Times that are happening right now. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:18.360 Huge floods, biggest rains that have happened in decades, and 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.000 the floods. The expectation is that these things which announced 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:23.400 it are bigger than some European countries are going to 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:26.000 stick around for a while. There's lots of consequences that 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.240 come from this mental note. Wasn't it interesting that when 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.440 there was a flood in southeast Queensland the Prime Minister 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:32.960 was there. 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.560 Don't think he's visiting there at the moment in Western Queensland. 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:37.360 You should remember that. 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.880 But one of the big issues is apart from people, businesses, livelihoods, 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.000 of course, livestock, plenty of them have been lost in 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.200 the last little while. The Premier, who has been in 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:48.120 the region over the past couple of days, had this 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.240 to say it and I just wanted before we started 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.040 and celebrated, just to send strength and love to everyone 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:53.560 out west. 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:59.080 It's early days, but the initial assessment assessments suggest that 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:02.320 there has already been significant stock losses into the tens 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.919 of thousands, which is why mobilizing quickly to make sure 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:11.239 that starvation doesn't become a factor is really really important 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:11.720 to us. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.520 Now, remember lots of different charities that you can give to. 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:17.440 Farm maid dot org dot au is the one we 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.200 often point to because they can help with feed, they can. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.400 Help with financial assistance. 0:03:21.639 --> 0:03:23.160 You can do a one off donation, you can do 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.600 the monthly donation, which means you can help for future 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:31.200 situations like this because regardless of the size, this stuff happens. 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.040 In our country. So again, strength and love to everyone there. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.360 All right, bitter politics before we get into celebrating to womba. 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:39.560 Today marks thirty four days to go in the federal 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.200 election Saturday just gone four more after that and we 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:43.840 will find out who's going to be running the joint 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.400 for the next three years. The Prime Minister will he 0:03:46.440 --> 0:03:49.320 spend the weekend, as always, blaming somebody else, this time 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:50.520 the supermarkets. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:56.640 I got asked today by someone as well, how do 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.200 you know what's price gougy? Price gougy is when supermarkets 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.920 are taking the piss off austral and consumers. 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:05.040 That's what it is. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.839 That's what price gouging is. Everyone out there knows, consumers 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:09.880 know will take action. 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:12.760 Of course, the Prime Minister has been taking the piss 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.920 for the past three years. But okay, we get it. 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:17.880 He thinks that the people are going to fall for it. 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:19.600 But that's the way it is, all right. As for 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:21.520 Peter doudn't he was trying to not just respond to 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:23.279 the announcements of the government. He's trying to keep the 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:26.599 focus on the national gas reservation for the East Coast 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.839 and how that brings down power prices, meaning it's easier 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:32.560 to run business and the price of everything starts to drop. 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:34.840 I want to get prices down. 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.360 I want to make sure that we can stop the 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.599 wreckage of Cris Bowen and Anthony Alberanezi in relation to 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.559 their energy policy, and that has forced up the price 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.280 of electricity and there is a big difference as we 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.960 go into this election. The Prime Minister is promising to 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.800 increase the cost of electricity in gas, but he has 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:56.159 broken his promise in relation to reducing power prices. 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.560 And speaking of Chris bow and unconfirmed reports has been 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.520 locked in the bood of the Prime Minister's car for 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:06.680 the next five weeks now. Theme of tonight's conversation a 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:09.160 week is a long time in politics. It was an 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.240 American politician, I think Harold Wilson who ended up saying 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:13.000 it a long time ago. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:14.800 I didn't know that, of course, they googled it. 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.360 But yes, that was something that remains pretty true now. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.840 February twenty five you gov poll headline Coalition best place 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.520 to form government, currently falling just two seats short of 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:29.920 a majority. They said the coalition would be on its 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.919 way to seventy three seats Labour sixty six, the Independent six, 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:34.200 the Greens. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.880 Wiped out to one. Cattera Australian Party. 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.039 Center Alliance the only other people making it into the Parliament. 0:05:40.520 --> 0:05:43.440 The headline's pretty obvious three short of a majority. Labour 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.839 was ten short of a majority. And as for the 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:48.960 preferred Prime Minister, well, Peter Dutton leading thirty five to 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:53.080 sorry thirty nine to thirty five in the News poll 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:55.520 released just last week having a look at how the 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.640 year has gone thus far, Coalition fifty one to forty nine. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:02.239 Well, apparently this is the way. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:05.039 That you connect with average Australians who knew that this 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.640 was the way to change their mind was to talk 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:09.120 to them like preschool students. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.559 Now in maths context, Labour's tax carts are like Ree 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.400 and Jeff. Rie and Jeff arrived on maths to discover 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:20.200 they knew each other, they weren't marrying a stranger. They're 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:22.920 dead it before they've gotten along, And the second time around, 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.320 after a few dinner parties and a conversation with the experts, 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.719 they're ready to commit and like were and Jeff Labour's 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:32.040 tax cars are the real deal of their heresday. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.160 She's the aged Care Minister and has earns four hundred 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:41.680 thousand dollars. But the poles have changed. Fifty one to 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.160 forty nine is according to Newspop Big Day of polls 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:46.920 that have dropped this evening fifty one to forty nine 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.479 in favor of Labor. That of course would see them 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:53.360 easily returned to the majority position in terms of being 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:54.960 able to form a minority. 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:56.960 But I have a look at preferred prime minister. Remember 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:57.760 what I showed you before. 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:02.000 Dunne up by a few now Albanezy forty two, Dote 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.720 thirty three according to this poll. That's a week as 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.440 a long time in politics. Remember the Yugov poll saying 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.440 that it was the Libs a couple short of a majority. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.680 The one that dropped this weekend now shows Labor one 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:17.200 seat short of forming the majority. Labor allegedly is at 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:21.840 seventy five seats, Coalition at sixty Independence with eleven, Greens 0:07:21.920 --> 0:07:24.440 would be able to hold on to two Center Alliance 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:28.440 and Catter Australia Party Labor one short of a majority. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:30.239 What seats would change hands? 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.000 Now, whatever you may hear from somewhere, big upping, what's 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:35.560 a marginal seat, what's a tight seat according to YouGov? 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:37.760 And that's a pole of tens of thousands of people. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:41.280 It's not just about voting intention, but it's demographics and 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:43.800 trying to work out this and that. Well, the Liberal 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:48.520 Party would win Ben along Gilmore, Werrower and Robertson. They'd 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.800 also win lions in Tasmania, but the Labor Party would 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.640 win Deacon off the Libs. They'd get two off the 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:59.560 Greens one and in Victoria would go from Liberal to 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.640 win de Pea and kauper On. The mid North of 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:04.760 New South Wales apparently would go independent but simply Lives 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:08.680 win five but end up losing a collection off the. 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:09.040 Back of it. 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:13.160 Labor win five and end up again losing, Sorry, lose five, 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.000 but end up winning three to replace it. Essentially a 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:17.600 little bit like if you remember the West Wing from 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.040 a long time ago. If the election was held this weekend, 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.080 not a lot changes. All the noise, all the lies, 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.520 all the ads, all the gas lighting, all the bears, 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.280 all the billions and a trillion point to one point 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.280 two trillion dollars in debt will pretty much not move 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:33.280 the needle. But of course we are only just at 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.640 the start of the election campaign. So before you start 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.120 thinking twice about whether you want to stick in with 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:40.880 this for the next five weeks, can I show you 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.560 another pile, this one from the Red Bridge one which 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:46.280 is showing the movement towards labor. But these are the 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.559 sorts of things that I think can change people's minds 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.920 when you are having a chat around the barbecue, kitchen, table, 0:08:52.000 --> 0:08:55.360 backfence or the shops. Can you name a single thing 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:57.840 that the federal government, led by Anthony Obernezi, has done 0:08:57.840 --> 0:08:59.760 since May twenty two that made your life better in 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.360 way fifty four percent, no majority of the country, No, 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.000 twenty eight percent of labor voters, no, seventy three percent 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.920 of Coalition voters, no, forty four percent of Green's voters know, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:16.360 And amazingly, sixty five percent of the everything else, everyone 0:09:16.440 --> 0:09:19.800 from one Nation to Victorian socialists and teals and fake 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:23.920 teals in between, sixty five percent of people not being 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.840 able to name it latest betting odds. Sports Beds say 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:31.920 Labor favorite, just Ladbrokes say Labor favorite just tab Well, 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:34.160 they've now gone to a dollar ninety each, but depending 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:35.760 on when you check it, they had the libs in 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.720 front a little bit earlier today. Cos Samaris is the 0:09:38.720 --> 0:09:40.360 man we like to talk to stated of the race 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.160 each and every Sunday, we'll do a big and proper 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.400 version of it in a couple of days time, after 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.360 our Peter Dutton pub test tomorrow night now celebration of 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.320 to woomber Tonight is of course the boss of the 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.560 Red Bridge organization, who, like me, loves the data dump, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.320 and there was one hell of a one this weekend. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.400 Coz love you to see you, mate, Because there seems 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.040 to be a lot of noise, and by that I 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:01.440 mean lots of different polls show us lots of different things. 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:02.920 The trend is pretty obvious. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.160 But as a bloke who's making these poles himself and 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.160 swimming through everyone else's data, what are you saying about 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:09.640 the noise? 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:10.800 Yeah? 0:10:10.840 --> 0:10:14.559 I can almost guarantee you Labor's not winning Deacon in Victoria, 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:17.319 that's for sure. The only thing's going to be happening 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:19.120 in Victoria's Labor's going to be losing please to the 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:23.400 Coalition at the moment. On a good day, Labor loses 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:28.160 about three federal seats to the Coalition in Victoria. So 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:32.040 look the polls, if you step back and you look 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:36.120 at them, it's fifty one forty nine Labor's way. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.080 Three weeks ago it was the other way around. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:42.280 We're dealing within the margins right now because the electorate 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:46.959 is so fractious and there is a very big group 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:49.839 of Australians out there who know frankly, don't have any 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:55.120 lawties to anyone, are swimming in the mix. So right 0:10:55.160 --> 0:10:59.640 now they're in most parts of the country willing to 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.680 part their vote on the Labor Party more than the 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.960 Coalition obviously in a number of key seats. That doesn't 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:06.839 mean the thing is actually done and dusted. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:12.760 Yet if most people around the country and bigger margins 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.240 outside of the Labor vote so that can't name a 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.640 single thing that's made your life better in three years? 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.360 How is it fifty one forty nine in either direction? 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.480 Yeah, because basically, when you speak to voters, as you 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:24.720 say to them, all, what do you think of the 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:25.240 current mob? 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:26.080 Not much? 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:29.640 What about the other blike not much right, and so 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:35.559 Dunton's real challenge here is to actually offer millions of 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:39.920 Australians who quite peeped off at the moment some hope, 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:46.520 a plan that actually gives them an alternative. You know, 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.480 if he does that, he does that successful in the 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.920 next two or three weeks, he could. 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.680 Reverse this situation quite quickly. 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:56.920 It's you know, I make the point that about forty 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.400 two percent of the voter's role is made up of millennials. 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.760 That he's people forty four years and under. And these 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:05.840 individuals only half will tell you they have a values 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:10.559 connection to a single register political party in the country. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:13.960 So fifty percent of them they have no connection to 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:17.280 anyone and so it doesn't take much to move them. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:20.200 Now. 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.240 You obviously do focus groups as well, where you get 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.120 to talk to the people who participate in the surveys. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.960 What are they saying and what has changed say in 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.440 the past couple of weeks, not just about leaders, but 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.920 about what they're looking for, hoping for. 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:36.240 And demanding of our debate in the next four weeks. 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:37.720 It depends where you are. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:39.839 If you were in the inner parts of Melbourne and 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:42.680 Sydney and Brisbane, you're going to get a very different 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:47.240 response to to Dutton's cuts to public the public service 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.800 for example. However, if you were in outer suburbs, the 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:56.040 most most of the feedback will get is, look, you know, 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:59.960 the tax cuts are nice. I'm not going to feel it. 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.920 I'm it's not only going to touch the size to 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.560 my problem. What about in moston the question what do 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.760 you think of the opposition's policy? I don't know anything 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.040 about them, so they're not getting any cup. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.079 For it right now. 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:14.800 The few excise policy that was announced last Thursday may 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:16.760 indeed have some cumfort, but they need to do a 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.600 lot more of that in the coming weeks to actually 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:22.680 get their attention. And this is the key thing, get 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:24.640 their attention because they're not tuned in at all. 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.119 Dumb question, But you've been on the inside of campaigns, 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.720 You've been watching things from the outside for a while. Yes, 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.640 we know about the role of everything outside the quote 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.079 unquote traditional media and a lot of that stuff when 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:42.440 it comes to socials. As a hardcore political person, does 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.280 your stomach turn a little bit like mine when you 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.640 see government ministers sort of talking like play school presenters, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:50.280 trying to link the federal budget to maps because we're 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.240 down with the kid is Yeah. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:55.040 The problem is I mean the sort of end. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.720 The way I can describe what they do sometimes is 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.040 it reminds you of some old like on the dance 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.320 floor trying to act like they're at twenty five years 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.679 years of age. Right, you just go, just cringe, you 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.040 just go. Don't stop it, Please don't do it again. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.560 And then my message to them is, yeah, don't do it. 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:17.160 You come across as crass, You're not authentic. There are 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.200 better people out there online who could do this a 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:19.720 lot better. 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.600 You should go and talk to them. 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.000 Yeah, I'm with you completely because on fine with a 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:26.720 little bit instead of dad dancing at a wedding, a 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:28.120 bit of this and a bit of that. But I'm 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:29.560 not going to be pretending to know any of the 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.880 words to anything. And obviously when horses by Daryl Braithwaite, 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:34.480 we just stand on this because it's one of the 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:35.440 national anthems. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:36.320 Thank you, Chaus. 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.720 We'll see on Tuesday, mate for longer and proper version 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:39.320 of state of the race. 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.080 Give me random applause cause some mars and red brick. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:45.600 All right, let's sell it, right, Tala, Let's talk about 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:49.360 this right place all right, so talk wm Bars, you know, 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:52.160 a couple of hours away from Brisbane. For those that 0:14:52.200 --> 0:14:53.600 need to know where it is on a map, it's 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:56.400 in place called Queensland. 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:56.320 All right. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:59.160 It's a wonderful part of Australia that's got a whole 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.840 bunch of things, including one of the greatest cultural buildings 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.920 in regional Australia is the Empire Theater. That thing is 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.760 so special. I know it had its problems in the past. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.880 I know, rebuilding it all the rest of it controversial, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.960 while ago it's spectacular. There are, believe me, country towns 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.880 around the country that would dream of what that sort 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.160 of a facility is. It can bring everything from the 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.440 ballet of stand up comedy to think. It was a 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.840 rotary conference this weekend which was great, the Quarters Flight Academy. 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.760 Huge fight to get that here, and it's excellent that 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.320 that's in regional Queensland as well. You can take a 0:15:33.320 --> 0:15:35.440 look at a whole bunch of beautiful places around here, 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.520 including what I think is the best and biggest Australian 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:39.800 flag in the country. 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:41.080 I love that thing. 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:44.120 Never take it down, all right, even if in fifty 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.560 years they vote to change the freaking flag. Keep that 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.680 one up because I like that one. Lots of fun 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.360 things here history to see as well. Population about one 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.600 hundred and twenty eight thousand people. Median age is about forty, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.960 so it's right at the prime of people's lives. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.080 They've got kids, they've got parents, they. 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.080 Want to get on with things and they know how 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.360 to have a good times. This was part of what 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.480 we did on a big weekend into Womba. There's no 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.880 place I'd rather be than in country Queensland, and I 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:14.440 can tell you this is the weekend to be. 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.640 In too, Womba. The local show is on. 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:20.360 This weekend and the biggest race day in regional Queensland. 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.160 Let's start with the show and here at the showgrounds. 0:16:23.240 --> 0:16:24.760 It's not just big news this weekend. 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:28.040 It's big news for the twenty and thirty two Olympics 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.800 because Mighty Old to Woomba is going to be hosting 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.400 the equestrian This. 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:33.920 Will be an Olympic venue. 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:35.960 It already looks great, but it's going to look a 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.960 million bucks when the foreigners roll in in just a 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:49.160 few years time. All of my favorite food groups are here. 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:09.879 Thank you very much, appreciate it. Come I get a 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:12.400 pink cowboy hat place. Thank you very much. 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:27.520 Come on horse, pardon, let's get bubbles of crack. 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.960 Come on your bag, Come on your bagga. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:50.639 Ah tag with the Country show y. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:01.360 You may will have. 0:18:01.320 --> 0:18:03.639 Noticed by now two things are very different. This is 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:06.240 a real man, but this is a champion real man. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.920 Brighton. Congratulations mate. How long have you been swinging in 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:11.880 X Since I was nine years old? 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.960 But obviously as a young foller you know, don't have 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:17.040 a mass my hand since I could walk so a 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:17.520 long time. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:23.200 Well a dad would dog at lead to Woomba Show. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.920 The race just starting for days only getting started off 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.400 to the races. 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.720 Not a day nothing like a country Queensland race day. 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:38.880 But the King of the. 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.760 Mountain this is a special one for the Womba. 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:42.920 It is a special one Hall. 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:44.800 This is the third running of the King of the Mountain. 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:46.879 We're really excited to have it here on the Timber 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:50.440 Show holiday, which is a race day of tradition. Here 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.879 into woman, all these people they love racing. Country racing 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:57.000 is just flying at the moment. The weather has not 0:18:57.080 --> 0:19:00.800 been kind to us today, but Warber have come out 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.000 and I have supported Rising and supported the club. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.560 It's been pumping for hours. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:28.560 G I fashions on the fielder, what's on? Off and 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.520 running in the King of the Mountain? 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:35.159 Steady ready in front fifty the guy with rushing the lines. 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:36.680 Of my line, jodging. 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:40.679 My bas steady ready. 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:48.119 Jess what did I but. 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:48.600 What did I? 0:19:48.800 --> 0:19:49.640 Had the risis? 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:59.200 Would you recommend country rights to everyone? Bloody eye? That's 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.080 the King of the Mountain. A race day into Wombo 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:04.040 It was great. It's fun. 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:11.440 And I personally think that looking like a dround rat 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.919 rat is my best look. Don't you think just a 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:15.680 heavily soaked fat bloke in the rain. 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:16.880 It's just a beautiful look. 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.640 Thank you to everyone who hung out with us. Will 0:20:19.640 --> 0:20:21.720 show you some other fun stuff around. Can I also 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:23.720 give a particular shout out to some very special people 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.320 I had dinner with last night, John Wagner, of course 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.760 ahead of the Wagner Corporation, to do such incredible work. 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.280 Round of applause to your good self John family as well. 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:35.800 This bloke is committed to Woomba. 0:20:35.960 --> 0:20:37.960 He loves it and I tell you what, he was 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.199 absolutely clear about. Pump up the joint. Pump up the 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:44.399 joint because he believes in it. He's made it for 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:46.280 the better. You should be proud of him and everything 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.040 that he's done, along with the team of Gusts and 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:50.520 everyone else at Harvey Norman who've done a great job 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:52.240 with us in the past little at fore youw days. 0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:54.800 So thank you John, thank you family, thank you to Womber, 0:20:54.840 --> 0:20:55.720 thank you Harvey Norman. 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:58.480 Plenty more On a sec here I'll pull my real life. 0:20:58.800 --> 0:21:12.080 Glad you're watching live into Wimber in Queensland. Hight hot start. 0:21:12.080 --> 0:21:12.520 We're back. 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:13.920 Hello everyone, holiday for that. 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.000 Let's get into this now now. 0:21:18.720 --> 0:21:20.920 Harving Normal, of course, are the people who have supported 0:21:20.960 --> 0:21:23.800 us since the very first outtown, which was in so 0:21:23.920 --> 0:21:27.320 Woomba years ago. We've grown it and grown it to 0:21:27.400 --> 0:21:29.639 the size it is right now and so many people 0:21:29.680 --> 0:21:32.040 turning up. And one thing that's really different this year 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:34.840 and great this year is that we're asking or Harvey 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.800 Normal i should say, is asking locals in the places 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:40.440 that we go to to nominate the people in their 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:43.160 community who deserve just a little bit of extra support. 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:45.720 I had the chance to meet them now. Normally when 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:48.040 we go and do this, the local store puts it on, 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:49.920 but I got to say the one into Woomba, they 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:52.639 lay out the best morning tea I've ever seen and 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:54.639 some of the best people that were met in a 0:21:54.760 --> 0:21:55.760 very long time. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:21:59.120 To Warma is a. 0:21:59.080 --> 0:22:02.119 Really special place because it's the very first location we 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:04.680 ever picked when it came to our towns. The good 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.560 people of Harvey Norman mean a lot to me as well, 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:09.280 because they have been with us since day one. 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:12.040 And this year they're asking locals. 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.080 In the places that we visit to nominate the local 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:33.080 heroes to get a big reward from their community. Tell 0:22:33.160 --> 0:22:35.680 us who have we got and what are they about 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:35.960 to get. 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:39.800 It's really exciting to see so many people voting for 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:41.040 so many charities. 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:42.520 But there's always got to be three winners. 0:22:42.920 --> 0:22:46.679 And the first one is we've got to adapt mentorship 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:47.600 with Adam and Susie. 0:22:51.160 --> 0:22:53.159 Second, we've got Hope Horizons Rachel. 0:22:52.920 --> 0:22:55.040 Thank you very much, are well done. 0:22:55.320 --> 0:22:58.400 Last we've got Either's Placed Juliet. 0:22:57.840 --> 0:22:58.280 Well done. 0:22:58.920 --> 0:23:01.200 So we work with young people who are disengaged from 0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:04.000 school and the New Justices and Child Factory system. 0:23:04.240 --> 0:23:05.200 We create safe. 0:23:04.960 --> 0:23:07.520 Spaces for them so they can come on a weekly basis, 0:23:07.520 --> 0:23:10.159 a consistent basis, and so we can build trust and 0:23:10.240 --> 0:23:12.520 let them know that they're actually value and they are part 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:20.879 of our community. 0:23:14.840 --> 0:23:26.679 We also had a sensational mourning tea with spectacular people 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:29.480 who are from the Organization's Harvey Norman help in the 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:30.480 community as well. 0:23:31.080 --> 0:23:32.720 Tell us about life flight. What do you guys do? 0:23:32.920 --> 0:23:36.880 All right? So we are air Wrecker. 0:23:37.080 --> 0:23:40.760 Aeromedical Matrieval Services out in the community of Broadest, Starling 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:44.440 Downs North through Queensland, because we're delivering essentially our flying 0:23:44.640 --> 0:23:45.880 icudd to. 0:23:46.080 --> 0:23:48.800 A remote area on the side of the road somewhere now. 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:51.560 Over time, businesses like Harvey Norman have come on board 0:23:51.600 --> 0:23:54.360 with support and they've been involved with us about five 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:56.560 years now. I'm in all different levels of support from 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.919 helping out at our gala to providing some finance and 0:24:00.080 --> 0:24:02.240 goods and services you name it. 0:24:02.560 --> 0:24:04.879 Gus he's in charge of the operation here at Harvey 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:08.199 Normana to Womba. You are a local champion and I 0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:11.520 mean this when you talk to the charities, you talk 0:24:11.600 --> 0:24:15.760 to community groups. What does it mean to you to 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:18.320 not just be a business in this community. 0:24:17.800 --> 0:24:19.880 But to be part of this community. 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:22.160 Well, I think businesses like Harvin On when it comes 0:24:22.160 --> 0:24:24.200 from the top down. This is built into our DNA. 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:26.720 Jerry and Katie have started this a long. 0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:30.080 Long time ago and it does filter down to this community, 0:24:30.080 --> 0:24:32.760 but get caught up. They caught up in the most 0:24:32.800 --> 0:24:34.960 generous community in all of Australia. 0:24:34.960 --> 0:24:35.520 I'm kind of. 0:24:35.520 --> 0:24:38.639 Saying that because no matter what happens, we've got businesses 0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:41.480 right now every single day that are taking care of 0:24:41.520 --> 0:24:41.920 our own. 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:45.520 What a mega day for us and Harvey Norman here 0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:48.560 into Woomba. Now we spread the love all over the country. 0:24:48.720 --> 0:24:50.719 And next month we are in cal Gooley. So if 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:53.320 you can think of somebody who is helping your part 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:56.520 of the community, come into the store and nominate them. 0:24:57.920 --> 0:25:01.719 How how what has it that's from Harvey Norman. 0:25:03.000 --> 0:25:05.959 I've got Gussie from Harvey Norman, ripping in love him, 0:25:06.040 --> 0:25:08.840 Thank you, thank you all right. Garth Hamilton is the 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:10.200 local federal MP for the Center. 0:25:10.200 --> 0:25:13.119 Groom Jiff McDonald is the mayor of these parts and 0:25:13.119 --> 0:25:14.000 they're both joined us now. 0:25:14.119 --> 0:25:14.960 Lads, Hello, love. 0:25:14.880 --> 0:25:18.440 You to see you in the capital of the world. 0:25:18.520 --> 0:25:21.200 Mate, right here, bloody spot, I'll take it the spot. 0:25:21.280 --> 0:25:24.080 It The show's fantastic and I love that not you 0:25:24.080 --> 0:25:27.639 know a mayor, but a woodship, a wood chopping mayor, 0:25:27.880 --> 0:25:30.280 a mayor who's been in that for a long time. 0:25:30.320 --> 0:25:31.919 And the bloke we had a chat to was what 0:25:31.960 --> 0:25:33.080 do you say but queen. 0:25:32.920 --> 0:25:36.640 Right now, Lord lives in Kingstook twenty minutes away World 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:39.720 Championship On Friday, won the World championship. He's won five 0:25:39.760 --> 0:25:43.399 out of seven World championships and then Saturday Queensland champion 0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:44.720 twenty minutes strive from here. 0:25:44.760 --> 0:25:46.600 Good an Olympic sport. 0:25:46.680 --> 0:25:48.359 This is Yes, it's guy to watch. 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:49.920 Well, you've got the venue twenty thirty two. 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.000 What happens, We'll see what happens. 0:25:52.520 --> 0:25:55.159 I'd love to say, how was the show for you? 0:25:55.240 --> 0:25:56.879 I saw that you and the team were there for 0:25:57.240 --> 0:25:57.720 all the time. 0:25:57.880 --> 0:25:59.720 Yeah, look, it's a great show. It's a great way 0:25:59.760 --> 0:26:01.560 to say, celebrate everything that happens in our region. Now, 0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:03.359 we've got so much in our region. I know Jeff's 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:05.400 a big supporter of this, but we've got the most 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.040 feed lots in our region here, we've got eggs, pork, everything. 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:10.639 You go out and see that show, you get to 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:14.440 see the best of regional queens and we're the gateway. 0:26:14.560 --> 0:26:16.479 We're the gateway to all the stuff that lines your 0:26:16.480 --> 0:26:18.679 shelves all the way down the East coast. That's us 0:26:18.720 --> 0:26:19.480 and we're really very. 0:26:19.400 --> 0:26:19.920 Proud of it. 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:22.760 So also, what I love about a Queenslander won't hold 0:26:22.800 --> 0:26:24.520 back right, They'll look you're right in the eye and say, 0:26:24.520 --> 0:26:27.399 all right, mister mayor, fix this traffic light, do this? 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:27.840 Do that? 0:26:28.080 --> 0:26:30.320 What's it like representing people that want to be that honest. 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:31.520 They're not going to hide, They're not going to be 0:26:31.600 --> 0:26:33.800 keyboard warriors. They'll get right up in your face. 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:34.800 And I love it. 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:35.240 Well. 0:26:35.440 --> 0:26:37.359 The greatest strength of our region of the people. 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:38.240 You hear it here. 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:44.200 Listen to these seriously inspirational. You've mentioned John Wagner twice. 0:26:44.240 --> 0:26:45.440 You must be on commission or something. 0:26:45.480 --> 0:26:47.240 Johnts three times. 0:26:47.359 --> 0:26:49.200 But you know you need to back up job driving 0:26:49.200 --> 0:26:52.760 your truck one day. I've already said I'm willing to put. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:53.960 Your doser if necessary. 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:56.879 All right, name, I have a plan B exact, thank you, 0:26:57.160 --> 0:26:59.840 name me. Anywhere else in Australia, Regional Autrava, anywhere else. 0:27:00.320 --> 0:27:02.720 You can learn to be a pilot Connors Pilot Academy. 0:27:02.760 --> 0:27:05.560 You can discover new planets at University of Southern queens 0:27:05.600 --> 0:27:08.159 Then you can learn a trade at TAFE. You can 0:27:08.200 --> 0:27:13.119 be part of Queensland's largest agriculture. You can learn to 0:27:13.160 --> 0:27:16.320 be a doctor, a nurse. You can then be part 0:27:16.359 --> 0:27:20.160 of an education sector that's beyond anywhere else in Australia 0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:22.399 that all happens here. And now we're inn Olympic region. 0:27:22.800 --> 0:27:25.160 Now we're an Olympic region. I love it. 0:27:25.320 --> 0:27:28.280 I love it Garth again as somebody who gets to 0:27:28.359 --> 0:27:32.600 go to Canberra, and obviously much of the media they 0:27:32.640 --> 0:27:35.280 only talk about regions like this in times of disaster. 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:37.119 How do you keep it? How do you keep it 0:27:37.240 --> 0:27:40.960 on the front foot so that a minister, a Prime minister, 0:27:41.000 --> 0:27:44.040 an opposition leader shadow, they don't forget that this isn't 0:27:44.080 --> 0:27:46.359 a place that just turns up every three years, that 0:27:46.400 --> 0:27:47.800 you need to take care of it in between. 0:27:48.200 --> 0:27:50.399 It wasn't surprising you've been a regular guest here, but 0:27:50.440 --> 0:27:53.560 I've had I think I've had thirteen the front bench 0:27:53.720 --> 0:27:56.479 of our team come across just this term because they 0:27:56.520 --> 0:27:57.920 want to come here and they want to be taken 0:27:57.960 --> 0:28:00.639 photos with the feed lots out. They want to come 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:02.879 in and see the Empire Theater. Yes, what a great 0:28:03.160 --> 0:28:04.840 display that is. They want to come to the cow 0:28:05.280 --> 0:28:07.000 have a beer with everybody down there and be part 0:28:07.040 --> 0:28:09.200 of this great city. We've got such a great story 0:28:09.200 --> 0:28:11.879 and I think people don't realize just how close we 0:28:11.920 --> 0:28:14.960 are to bridge and that connectivity is really important. But 0:28:16.040 --> 0:28:18.440 I think this is one of these places that's really 0:28:18.480 --> 0:28:20.800 the heartbeat of queens and politics. 0:28:21.440 --> 0:28:23.680 But also when you've got i mean at the state level, 0:28:23.680 --> 0:28:25.640 we've got treasurers, you've got you've got plenty of great 0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:29.320 connections which is going to help the area. But also 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:32.359 what I have seen with my own eyes and obviously 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:34.760 in the preparing of this, that it's a very caring 0:28:34.800 --> 0:28:37.600 community right where and everywhere all say, oh, we take 0:28:37.640 --> 0:28:40.000 care of each other, but it's so visible and so 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:42.760 vocal right that. I mean literally the number of people 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:45.800 that we're handing stuff over at the Harvey Norman store 0:28:45.840 --> 0:28:48.080 about who they thought they should back in For those 0:28:48.200 --> 0:28:53.440 organizations as well, they do the work on top of 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:56.240 what government stands up and announce its How important is 0:28:56.280 --> 0:28:58.840 that And what's an example of the types of organizations 0:28:58.840 --> 0:28:59.440 that you're proud of? 0:28:59.440 --> 0:29:01.520 You one, and you've met a couple of guys here 0:29:01.520 --> 0:29:03.960 and they've got a lot of credit to gus from 0:29:03.960 --> 0:29:06.240 Era with Life Side, and you could talk to any 0:29:06.320 --> 0:29:09.680 number of organizations that raise money here for charitable goods 0:29:09.920 --> 0:29:12.920 in Tomboe and we outperform, We do better than what 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:15.560 they do down in Britain because we get together. We 0:29:15.600 --> 0:29:18.760 are a little bit outside of that little southeast Coinsland click. 0:29:18.880 --> 0:29:20.840 Sometimes we have to look after ourselves and we do 0:29:21.160 --> 0:29:23.680 as one of the best places for that, Tom was great, 0:29:23.880 --> 0:29:26.600 go outside to Oki. It's exactly the same, little town 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:29.000 where people look after each other. Pittsworth exactly the same. 0:29:29.000 --> 0:29:31.240 We can go right across our region. That's what makes 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:32.520 us special and I think that's. 0:29:32.400 --> 0:29:33.120 What makes us Tea. 0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:35.520 So let's look forward to that future. We know twenty 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:37.920 thirty two and that venue is such an obvious thing 0:29:37.960 --> 0:29:40.760 to be working towards. But tell us about the future 0:29:40.800 --> 0:29:42.760 for this area, the types of things that you'd like 0:29:42.840 --> 0:29:44.840 to see that are right on the verge of being 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:45.360 opened up. 0:29:45.360 --> 0:29:48.440 What you had probably three care areas for us, Paul, 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:51.800 to be honest, the first one is as unlocking more Land. 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:55.560 We're a solution to the problems in the southeast and 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:58.880 we're a service and have been for since eighteen sixteen, 0:29:59.120 --> 0:30:02.040 actually hundred nine year when Alan Cullingham came through here 0:30:02.080 --> 0:30:05.360 and discovered this place first European settlement. We've been doing 0:30:05.360 --> 0:30:07.479 that to our west, we've been looking after them, so 0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:09.320 we've been at a service to them, we're a solution 0:30:09.400 --> 0:30:11.360 to our which we need to unlock all of our land. 0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:14.640 Our industrial land will be a solution to the east. 0:30:14.760 --> 0:30:15.440 That's the first one. 0:30:15.480 --> 0:30:19.040 The second one is around the Crestbrook Dam safety improve 0:30:19.080 --> 0:30:23.400 and upgrade. It's around safety disasked to ready downstream into Girlawa. 0:30:23.520 --> 0:30:25.920 We need funding for that two hundred and seventy million dollars, 0:30:25.960 --> 0:30:26.800 so push hard for us. 0:30:26.840 --> 0:30:29.160 Good good god, I love it to do list. 0:30:29.600 --> 0:30:31.800 And your budget's two hundred million capital. This is two 0:30:31.880 --> 0:30:35.160 hundred and seventy million, big impost into our community. It's 0:30:35.200 --> 0:30:38.040 a massive impost. So they're the first two. And the 0:30:38.120 --> 0:30:40.360 last one, which has been no surprise to everyone, is 0:30:40.440 --> 0:30:42.800 more funding into local government more broadly. And I know 0:30:42.880 --> 0:30:45.880 you have Australian Local Government Association on here. Regularly zero 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:49.080 point five point one of one percent of the national 0:30:49.120 --> 0:30:50.640 tax take goes to local government. 0:30:50.680 --> 0:30:52.000 They're asking for more money. 0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:55.480 Surprised he's in there baton front dating for his community. 0:30:55.920 --> 0:30:57.640 It's for all these people and one hundred and eighty 0:30:57.680 --> 0:31:00.760 two thousands are out there across our thirteen thousands were kilometers. 0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:03.200 That's what it's for. Because they're going to be hit 0:31:03.240 --> 0:31:05.080 with this. They're going to be hit with it and 0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:07.280 it's really hard for them. We shouldn't have to and. 0:31:07.840 --> 0:31:10.680 I support because the demand on council greater than it's 0:31:10.720 --> 0:31:14.600 ever been. I completely agree Garth again, where you want 0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:17.000 this joint to be in the next next five to ten. 0:31:17.120 --> 0:31:18.080 Well, I say this all the time. 0:31:18.200 --> 0:31:20.280 We are a place that has all the things you need. 0:31:20.720 --> 0:31:23.320 Now we've got wonderful hospitals, wonderful schools, and I've got 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:25.640 a couple of boys and some of the best schools 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:28.560 you'll find. I think what we're turning into is a 0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:30.000 place that's going to have the things you want. I 0:31:30.000 --> 0:31:32.320 think we're going to turn into a really special city, 0:31:32.360 --> 0:31:35.920 a genuine regional city, sitting out looking across that Brisbane 0:31:35.960 --> 0:31:38.120 valley there, and it's going to be such an attractive place. 0:31:38.200 --> 0:31:40.640 Jeff is right where the solution. It's a hard time 0:31:40.720 --> 0:31:41.880 finding a place in Brisbane. 0:31:42.160 --> 0:31:42.840 Come up here. 0:31:43.040 --> 0:31:45.600 This is a fantastic place. We're growing, we're getting ahead, 0:31:45.960 --> 0:31:47.760 and look, I think the future you come back here, 0:31:47.800 --> 0:31:48.800 you get coming back. 0:31:49.160 --> 0:31:49.920 Every couple of years. 0:31:49.960 --> 0:31:51.840 You're just going to see this place go ahead further 0:31:51.880 --> 0:31:52.280 and further. 0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:54.960 Now, did you get a prize in the local show? 0:31:55.200 --> 0:31:56.400 Please you mention that pool. 0:31:58.400 --> 0:31:59.440 How did that happen? 0:32:00.160 --> 0:32:05.040 Learning your prize place is in the audience, Get on your. 0:32:04.960 --> 0:32:06.400 Lessa Pembroke County. 0:32:06.480 --> 0:32:09.120 Oh thank you Pembroke County people. There we go. 0:32:09.280 --> 0:32:11.000 We're very proud of that. 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:11.400 Thanks good. 0:32:11.560 --> 0:32:13.200 You might have got a prize you too, Paul. 0:32:13.320 --> 0:32:16.560 Yes, oh hello, it is a Grand Champion Champions, Grand 0:32:16.600 --> 0:32:18.280 Champion session, best of breed. 0:32:18.440 --> 0:32:22.000 Thank you, thank you, yes, thank you. 0:32:22.920 --> 0:32:24.600 Satus you might be a sass Sason, but I'm going 0:32:24.640 --> 0:32:25.200 to be sas. 0:32:25.560 --> 0:32:32.720 I'm lago ready all right, Sam, Thank you much, thank you, 0:32:32.720 --> 0:32:36.920 thank you, appreciating, Thank you boys good. I love it, 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:41.480 money Moore for a second, look comes, I'm best in brain. 0:32:41.960 --> 0:32:42.880 Tast get brain. 0:32:49.640 --> 0:32:52.800 I love their putting in Queensland and the bill us 0:32:52.840 --> 0:32:55.120 are doing their bit at the moment when it comes 0:32:55.400 --> 0:32:58.040 to representing us your best and brave they are. 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:01.520 Harvey Norman wants them all away. 0:33:11.000 --> 0:33:13.120 We all know how important sport is to regions like 0:33:13.160 --> 0:33:15.360 Tawomba and we want to make sure that the next 0:33:15.400 --> 0:33:18.600 generation of athletes get the support they need, which is 0:33:18.600 --> 0:33:20.960 why our mates at Harvey Norman come in to support 0:33:21.080 --> 0:33:24.360 women from pathways to the elite version of the sport 0:33:24.760 --> 0:33:30.800 and This is what we mean when we say elite 0:33:31.880 --> 0:33:35.280 rugby league is in the entertainment capital of the world, 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:39.640 Las Vegas and literally lighting up the globe. A massive 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:41.960 part of that is going to be the biggest game 0:33:42.720 --> 0:33:46.560 in the history of women's rugby league. The Jillarous, supported 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.520 by our great mates at Harvey Norman, are about to 0:33:49.600 --> 0:33:52.560 take to a field with a stadium of tens of 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:56.880 thousands of people, so many people watching at home. And 0:33:57.080 --> 0:34:00.120 these girls deserve every bit of our support because I 0:34:00.200 --> 0:34:02.840 have worked their backsides off and they're going to put 0:34:02.840 --> 0:34:04.400 on the best show in town. 0:34:05.560 --> 0:34:08.840 This is a beautiful place to showcase what our female 0:34:08.840 --> 0:34:10.440 athletes are doing down that side of the world. 0:34:13.800 --> 0:34:16.520 What's the way your Robinson A Why she's a truck 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:24.560 story free Kelly and Robinson gorgeous pass Kelly. 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:25.919 Won't you stuff from there? 0:34:26.320 --> 0:34:26.800 Isabelle? 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:27.759 Kelly is over. 0:34:29.960 --> 0:34:35.000 Congratulations to the Australian jilarus A seventeen trying to one demolition. 0:34:40.200 --> 0:34:42.400 I've told girls to think about their first jersey and 0:34:42.440 --> 0:34:44.760 what that looked like and where that was and mine 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:47.320 was in the backstreets of New Zealand with hard lany lights. 0:34:47.320 --> 0:34:49.200 And then when we were on the stadium today, there's 0:34:49.280 --> 0:34:53.440 lights everywhere, there's people everywhere. It's a moment, but it's 0:34:53.520 --> 0:34:56.000 just going to be an absolutely huge time for the 0:34:56.080 --> 0:34:57.439 Jilarus to spread our game. 0:35:01.280 --> 0:35:03.520 What made this event even more special was that the 0:35:03.640 --> 0:35:07.440 NT Titans women's team was part of this incredible landmark 0:35:07.440 --> 0:35:10.680 EVN in Vegas. We actually first had the chance to 0:35:10.719 --> 0:35:14.000 meet these wonderful players through their assistant coach, Biancha Scrimdaw, 0:35:14.120 --> 0:35:16.640 who was one of the Spirit Award winners of the 0:35:16.640 --> 0:35:20.840 Harvey Norman Schine Awards last year. It was absolutely incredible 0:35:20.920 --> 0:35:24.160 to see these players present their jerseys to their heroes 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:25.360 in the Jillarrus. 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:28.400 So I'm actually going to invite up Erin from the 0:35:28.440 --> 0:35:32.920 Northern Territory team to present our number one jersey to 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:37.640 Tamika Upton Jillery number one seventy four five test matches. 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:38.040 For the Jilare. 0:35:48.680 --> 0:35:51.799 It's like, it's a bit surreal. I've been in the 0:35:51.800 --> 0:35:55.560 pathways since i was a teen. I'm now twenty one, 0:35:55.719 --> 0:35:58.880 so yeah, we used to just go to national CompCert 0:35:59.320 --> 0:36:02.160 like just over to Queensland and stuff, and nowhere around 0:36:02.160 --> 0:36:02.520 the world. 0:36:02.840 --> 0:36:06.200 Within any sporting club, it's crucial that players feel support 0:36:06.320 --> 0:36:09.880 across the board, from the psychologists to the dietitians and 0:36:09.920 --> 0:36:13.520 in particular the coaching staff. And it's clear this team 0:36:13.719 --> 0:36:16.080 absolutely loved their coach Leon. 0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:18.400 Leon's is an awesome person. 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:18.600 He is. 0:36:18.840 --> 0:36:21.000 It's done a lot for me and my family. You know, 0:36:21.160 --> 0:36:23.560 I just I really enjoy working with him and being coached. 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:25.759 HEMI has a head on his shoulders. 0:36:25.920 --> 0:36:28.040 They knew there was a job to be done over here. 0:36:28.520 --> 0:36:30.280 They were determined to put. 0:36:30.120 --> 0:36:32.239 Their best foot forward on the footy field, but. 0:36:32.360 --> 0:36:35.120 Also enjoy themselves or say yeah, I. 0:36:35.120 --> 0:36:37.279 Can't think them enough for what they've done over here 0:36:37.280 --> 0:36:37.640 for us. 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:39.120 And while I was over there, I got a chance 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:41.080 to catch up with a few of the Jillaru stars 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:43.359 to find out what the experience meant to them. 0:36:43.800 --> 0:36:46.360 Hey, everyone was so supportive with the women and I 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.520 think that's that's amazing and it's just to see how 0:36:48.560 --> 0:36:51.440 father women's games come. It's it's pretty special that we 0:36:51.480 --> 0:36:54.480 get to have this opportunity to play and showcase our 0:36:54.480 --> 0:36:58.240 women's rugby league at Allegiance Stadium in such a big event. 0:36:58.520 --> 0:37:02.000 But hopefully after this the game on Saturday, our games 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:03.560 is going to go to another level and we're going 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:07.399 to get more support and more sponsors are putting into 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:10.160 our game to make us become professional athletes, and then 0:37:10.440 --> 0:37:12.840 where our game can just go to another ten levels 0:37:12.840 --> 0:37:13.200 above that. 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:16.880 It is the biggest game of rugby league the team 0:37:17.000 --> 0:37:20.080 has ever played, the jill Arruse in front of that crowd, 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:23.840 with all that exposure, that is such a testament to 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:25.640 the hard work you guys have put in for a 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:26.120 long time. 0:37:26.200 --> 0:37:27.920 All right, don't maybe know it's just yet. 0:37:27.960 --> 0:37:41.600 All right, So now that the Jillarus have played the 0:37:41.719 --> 0:37:45.200 very first women's NRL game in Las Vegas, with the 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:47.719 help of our mates at Harvey Norman, it's incredible to 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:49.920 imagine how far the women's game. 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:53.560 Has gone, is going and will thrive into the future. 0:37:53.960 --> 0:37:59.840 This is number five. I love putting in Quaint Player. 0:38:00.000 --> 0:38:02.359 I love particularly hearing for Wimbre two women who are 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:05.440 really incredible things in here haped you Mintel who is 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:09.880 with the Qing CWA, and Amanda Dalton with an organization 0:38:10.000 --> 0:38:12.960 called pro to Your Place, both special women who are 0:38:12.960 --> 0:38:15.040 doing special things. You'd love you to see you both 0:38:15.880 --> 0:38:17.439 now a matter. I've got the chance to meet you 0:38:17.560 --> 0:38:20.960 yesterday when we're at Harvey. Mormon locals have nominated you 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:23.719 with somebody doing something special, tell us a little bit 0:38:23.719 --> 0:38:26.520 about the place and what you do. 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:31.480 So I created Pardia Place, which is a women's support center. 0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:36.360 Nearly six years ago. We didn't have anything into Womba 0:38:36.480 --> 0:38:39.879 that was a place where women could just go, whether 0:38:39.920 --> 0:38:44.759 it be domestic and family violence, or homelessness or any 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:50.040 other life trauma. So I decided to start something up. 0:38:50.480 --> 0:38:54.040 And I think because of our amazing community that we 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:57.320 have here in too Woomberg, we've been completely community funded 0:38:58.200 --> 0:39:00.160 for the past five and a half years, which is 0:39:00.200 --> 0:39:03.239 phenomenal and testament to our Tawoomba community. 0:39:03.400 --> 0:39:05.680 And part of what you do apart from a safe 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:06.880 space when it may be needed. 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:10.160 And again this is a great place, but as every place, 0:39:10.200 --> 0:39:11.480 there's times that are. 0:39:11.320 --> 0:39:12.040 Tough for people. 0:39:12.680 --> 0:39:15.120 But also I've heard stories about what you do that 0:39:15.200 --> 0:39:17.080 you in the middle of the night are willing to 0:39:17.120 --> 0:39:19.960 go and meet somebody and bring them to the place. 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:22.800 What does it mean to you on that personal level 0:39:23.000 --> 0:39:26.439 if you can help one woman for one night. Yeah. 0:39:26.520 --> 0:39:31.560 So obviously domestic and family violence has a massive impact, 0:39:32.080 --> 0:39:36.200 and particularly in the homelessness space. That is the largest 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:39.440 reason that women and or children are becoming homeless is 0:39:39.480 --> 0:39:42.640 because of domestic and family violence, and unfortunately with a 0:39:42.680 --> 0:39:47.040 housing crisis on us, it's made it a million times 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:48.240 worse and a lot harder. 0:39:48.440 --> 0:39:49.920 How much money do you need out of the Queen's 0:39:49.960 --> 0:39:50.440 name Government? 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:52.200 Six hundred and thirty six thousand, All. 0:39:52.080 --> 0:39:56.719 Right, Premier, deliver it tomorrow. All right, deliver it tomorrow, Treasurer, 0:39:56.840 --> 0:40:00.239 local MP, deliver it tomorrow. If not, I'll kick your us. 0:40:00.320 --> 0:40:02.239 All right. That's the way it's going to work, all right. 0:40:02.239 --> 0:40:06.040 That's called advocacy, Amanda or now, of course, Phoebe. 0:40:06.080 --> 0:40:08.400 We met you the very first time that we were here, 0:40:08.560 --> 0:40:12.279 and it's lovely to see you again. The CWA is 0:40:12.360 --> 0:40:15.960 known nationwide, the Queensland branch of it. What have you 0:40:16.000 --> 0:40:17.640 guys been focused on in the past, of the world? 0:40:17.640 --> 0:40:18.279 How do you help? 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:21.319 Okay, So at the moment we're the quiet achievers. We're 0:40:21.360 --> 0:40:24.840 in the background doing a lot of work on the 0:40:24.880 --> 0:40:29.680 ground helping emergency crews. At the moment, we're providing food 0:40:29.840 --> 0:40:32.920 in central Queensland to emergency crews who are helping out 0:40:32.920 --> 0:40:36.960 those in flood. We're also giving packages of food vouch 0:40:37.040 --> 0:40:40.560 just that type of thing out around a Amanga. We've 0:40:40.600 --> 0:40:43.759 got one of our members who's actually provided housing for 0:40:43.880 --> 0:40:47.640 people to come into In Tambourine, we're doing the same. 0:40:48.160 --> 0:40:52.160 They're providing food on going. It's not royal while now 0:40:52.360 --> 0:40:55.760 while it's happening, we're there for months after as well. 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:59.360 So that's one thing that's continued on from Cans on 0:40:59.440 --> 0:41:02.200 from all of them. The other space that we're working 0:41:02.239 --> 0:41:06.000 in at the moment, and it's early stages for us, 0:41:06.080 --> 0:41:11.440 but that is there's a huge has Amanda said, women 0:41:11.680 --> 0:41:16.480 and poverty and homelessness is huge, and so where we 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.400 are as QCWA is we're actually in the process at 0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:24.200 the moment. We're actually lobbying to government in all areas 0:41:24.320 --> 0:41:30.120 to try and change some of the policies around around 0:41:30.120 --> 0:41:35.520 women and around the availability of assistance for women. And 0:41:35.560 --> 0:41:40.600 then also not only the policy, we're advocating for a 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:45.879 whole lot of changes in that space all together. On 0:41:45.960 --> 0:41:48.720 the ground stuff that we're doing is that we're because 0:41:48.760 --> 0:41:52.560 we have over between two hundred and three hundred branches, 0:41:53.320 --> 0:41:56.040 we have women on the ground all over the place 0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:59.600 who are actually doing things like dB connect packs, so 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:02.200 there making up packs, they're delivering them to the local 0:42:02.280 --> 0:42:08.680 DV connect places, etc. They're putting together emergency toiletries, emergency 0:42:08.760 --> 0:42:11.279 kits for children and that type of thing. So that 0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:13.959 goes on all year, every year, and we've been doing 0:42:13.960 --> 0:42:16.560 that for some fifteen years now. 0:42:17.280 --> 0:42:19.279 I ask a dumb question, but it's my role at 0:42:19.280 --> 0:42:21.680 this moment to do so how do blokes help? 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:22.440 How to blokes? 0:42:22.520 --> 0:42:25.359 I mean, obviously there are things that need to change 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:27.200 in attitudes and all the rest of it. I believe, 0:42:27.320 --> 0:42:29.040 as a person who would die for the women in 0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:31.239 my life that that's a majority of people. I know, 0:42:31.320 --> 0:42:34.920 you guys see a different picture in an area, But 0:42:34.960 --> 0:42:36.560 how do men help? 0:42:36.600 --> 0:42:37.120 What you do? 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:41.440 So behind every woman there is actually a man usually 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:44.239 who's helping or a partner who's helping in the background. 0:42:44.920 --> 0:42:49.960 That's one way they help is actually assisting our members. 0:42:50.040 --> 0:42:52.200 But the other way that they're actually helping is that 0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:55.560 we actually have what we call Friends of QCWA, which 0:42:55.719 --> 0:43:01.319 is open to all men and sponsorship ands. So we 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:06.080 have two main two main areas that are tax deductible 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.400 that we get only funding. We don't get any funding 0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:14.320 at all government funding. We're completely and in this last 0:43:14.960 --> 0:43:19.080 month we've given out forty thousand dollars in aid to 0:43:19.160 --> 0:43:23.319 those who need it in food vouchers in clothing, in 0:43:23.400 --> 0:43:26.240 that sort of thing. And that's just from our Disaster 0:43:26.360 --> 0:43:29.120 Fund and our Public Real Crisis, both of which tax 0:43:29.200 --> 0:43:33.440 deductible and both which you can actually donate to us online. 0:43:33.560 --> 0:43:35.480 Well, it's that thing we're across the country right now. 0:43:35.600 --> 0:43:37.759 That's how you can help male, female or anything else. 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:39.440 That's how to do it. We'll make sure all the 0:43:39.440 --> 0:43:42.560 details are up on the websites. Again, Government, listen to 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:45.000 these ladies. They're at the cold face. They know what's 0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:47.520 going on. And to Woomba, be very proud that they're 0:43:47.520 --> 0:43:49.600 doing it in your community. Thank you, ladies, we really 0:43:49.600 --> 0:43:53.759 do appreciate it. All right, take a quick break and 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:55.440 then I'm going to tell you some of the great. 0:43:55.239 --> 0:43:58.440 Sites of filmomm want to see. Thank you very much. 0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:06.880 So we are here in Twombar. Big shout out to 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:09.960 everyone in mirth precint what a great dinu this is. 0:44:10.320 --> 0:44:11.480 Thank you to everyone. 0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:12.960 Helping us out in the coffee bars up the back. 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:14.760 Look at that. Not only are they serving the coffees 0:44:14.760 --> 0:44:17.160 in the back, they're clapping and cheering along as well 0:44:17.280 --> 0:44:18.440 with the studio audience. 0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:19.080 Good on you guys. 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:21.719 I appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right now 0:44:21.880 --> 0:44:24.520 Tomorrow Night gove you a little preview. Don't forget. We 0:44:24.600 --> 0:44:26.640 didn't realize that the timing would be like this, but 0:44:26.680 --> 0:44:28.759 we know Anthony Abernez. He always wants to do me 0:44:28.840 --> 0:44:31.520 a favor. And the favor that he's done us is 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:34.000 calling the election on Friday. So the first big event 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:37.560 of the election when it comes to Peter Dunton, is 0:44:37.600 --> 0:44:40.719 going to be the pub test, where again huge room 0:44:40.760 --> 0:44:42.520 full of people who watch this show, they get to 0:44:42.560 --> 0:44:45.319 ask him whatever questions that they want or follow up 0:44:45.320 --> 0:44:47.319 here and there. But the event is not about me. 0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:50.200 It's about those questions. And I love all of these 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:53.600 in pub tests or people's forums or debates where you 0:44:53.640 --> 0:44:56.160 watch the body language go okay, how do they deal 0:44:56.160 --> 0:44:56.480 with this? 0:44:56.880 --> 0:44:58.799 How do they do their decision making? All of that. 0:44:58.920 --> 0:44:59.799 So that'll be. 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:02.879 Fun, and that's of course tomorrow night. Here on Sky 0:45:03.000 --> 0:45:06.520 News eight o'clock Queensland time. What's this nine pm Australian 0:45:06.600 --> 0:45:11.640 Eastern Daylight standard rubbish? It's eight o'clock in Queensland, the 0:45:11.680 --> 0:45:14.640 only joint that matters. And I had the chance to 0:45:14.640 --> 0:45:17.480 walk around with one of the local council's councilors here Edwena, 0:45:17.520 --> 0:45:20.400 because a new segment that I thought up before this 0:45:21.200 --> 0:45:22.680 our town, and we'll do it in Calgoley, and we'll 0:45:22.680 --> 0:45:26.000 do it everywhere else. Is show us three really cool 0:45:26.160 --> 0:45:29.480 buildings around the town, because well, I don't pretend to 0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:31.560 be any sort of architecture of Fifth Leonardo. 0:45:32.120 --> 0:45:33.360 I do like a good building. 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:35.879 I can work out a form and Edwin it tells 0:45:35.920 --> 0:45:37.680 us three of the ones worth remembering here. 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:39.439 There's many, many more, but three of the best. 0:45:46.360 --> 0:45:49.600 They're just lovely old and new, which keeps a place alive. 0:45:50.600 --> 0:45:52.759 So give me an idea about. 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:54.719 The three things when you come to to Woomba you've 0:45:54.719 --> 0:45:55.719 got to see with your own night. 0:45:55.840 --> 0:45:59.160 The Empire Theater, the most beautiful Art Deco building in town. 0:45:59.360 --> 0:46:03.319 Almost it burned down a number of years ago. They've 0:46:03.680 --> 0:46:06.680 council voted to rebuild it and it almost divided the town. 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.000 No one wanted it, and now it is the jewel 0:46:09.200 --> 0:46:09.960 in our crown. 0:46:10.200 --> 0:46:10.719 Gorgeous. 0:46:10.760 --> 0:46:13.960 We got the chance to see it last night with 0:46:14.040 --> 0:46:15.960 all of the fog around, which just was this really 0:46:16.239 --> 0:46:17.319 beautiful dream thought. 0:46:17.320 --> 0:46:18.719 Today it's plenty of it. 0:46:18.880 --> 0:46:19.960 Part of Talma all right. 0:46:20.080 --> 0:46:23.040 Number two, we've got a gorgeous courthouse, or it used 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:25.280 to be the courthouse. It's now been turned into a home. 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:27.919 We've got residents now moving into town, and that's something 0:46:27.920 --> 0:46:30.239 that we're also trying to encourage here at Timber's Shop top. 0:46:30.280 --> 0:46:33.120 Living more people living in town. They can then walk 0:46:33.160 --> 0:46:35.279 to work, keep off the roads, but also visit all 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:36.840 the shops and businesses downtown. 0:46:36.960 --> 0:46:39.000 I don't know if you agree with me, but we've 0:46:39.000 --> 0:46:40.120 got to talk about a toilet. 0:46:40.600 --> 0:46:42.480 We're going to talk about one toilet right now. 0:46:42.520 --> 0:46:42.680 Now. 0:46:42.800 --> 0:46:45.960 It's not going to take long to visit. But it 0:46:46.000 --> 0:46:46.799 looks really cool. 0:46:47.000 --> 0:46:49.200 Yeah, and it is cool, and it's so random, but 0:46:49.239 --> 0:46:51.920 it was built in nineteen nineteen, and it was so 0:46:51.960 --> 0:46:57.680 sturdy that it stood the twenty eleven floods. The inland 0:46:57.719 --> 0:47:01.400 tsunami washed all the way through town and building. That 0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:04.480 toilet is still standing and it's there today. 0:47:07.760 --> 0:47:12.279 I repeat and dozens of things to see, hundreds and 0:47:12.360 --> 0:47:14.480 hundreds of things to do, But if a toilet looks 0:47:14.480 --> 0:47:16.400 as good as that, I have to talk about it, 0:47:16.440 --> 0:47:18.279 all right. I'm a bloke, and that's the way that 0:47:18.320 --> 0:47:20.560 it works, all right. Thank you to everyone into one, 0:47:20.640 --> 0:47:22.480 but thank you for being so kind to us this weekend. 0:47:22.520 --> 0:47:24.800 Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for the 0:47:24.800 --> 0:47:26.719 support that you have, not just for the show but 0:47:26.880 --> 0:47:29.200 the station. We've got plenty of fire up when it 0:47:29.239 --> 0:47:31.279 comes to the election. But the most important thing about 0:47:31.280 --> 0:47:34.480 these shows is these are great people. And I say it, 0:47:34.520 --> 0:47:37.960 whether it's the smallest part of Tasmania or it's big 0:47:38.000 --> 0:47:40.719 regional centers like this, whether it's going to be Calgooli 0:47:40.760 --> 0:47:43.520 in Western Australia in a few weeks time, or it's 0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:48.040 country capitals. Australia is a magnificent place. It's a massive place. 0:47:48.080 --> 0:47:50.400 It's a different place. And if you're somebody who is 0:47:50.480 --> 0:47:52.040 just sick and tired of taking an hour and a 0:47:52.040 --> 0:47:54.279 half to get from one side of a capital city 0:47:54.280 --> 0:47:55.040 to another. 0:47:54.920 --> 0:47:57.520 There's this place called the rest of Australia. 0:47:57.680 --> 0:48:02.279 Okay, come and visit it, move to it, bring business here, 0:48:02.680 --> 0:48:06.359 bring big ideas, and particularly in a place like to Woomba, 0:48:06.440 --> 0:48:08.439 this is a can do join. This is a can 0:48:08.480 --> 0:48:11.520 do join that has connected itself not just the rest 0:48:11.520 --> 0:48:13.000 of Queensland, but of the rest of the world. 0:48:13.040 --> 0:48:13.760 Through the airport. 0:48:13.960 --> 0:48:17.839 It connects itself through business parks, through people who are 0:48:18.120 --> 0:48:21.040 hard working and wanting to work harder. There are people 0:48:21.120 --> 0:48:23.840 who have worked hard their whole life and will welcome 0:48:23.880 --> 0:48:27.080 you with open arms. To Woomba is a very special place. 0:48:27.280 --> 0:48:29.560 That's why it was our first, our town, that's why 0:48:29.560 --> 0:48:31.720 it's the place we've been to more than anything else. 0:48:31.920 --> 0:48:34.879 And again on behalf of myself and everyone at sky News. 0:48:34.880 --> 0:48:36.919 Thank you to woman. We love you guys, honestly, thank 0:48:36.960 --> 0:48:38.879 you for that's our shape. 0:48:38.880 --> 0:48:39.200 All night. 0:48:39.239 --> 0:48:40.560 We will see you again. 0:48:41.080 --> 0:48:42.759 Tomorrow night we're telling up. 0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:46.160 We'll be taking the pup taste, taking questions from the 0:48:46.239 --> 0:48:49.399 Sky News viewers, and I'm up for another big night 0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:52.200 in the great town of the Pan Time.