WEBVTT - Paul Murray Our Town: Cairns | 25 May 0:00:01.080 --> 0:00:09.039 Live from Cans. This is Paul Murray Live out Town. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.480 Hello everyone here, we are here in beautiful topical lor 0:00:13.640 --> 0:00:17.200 Queens Plans. Have a look at this beautiful location that 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:21.040 we're in tonight. We have got a wonderful celeblation and 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.320 a great part of Australia coming up now. We've got 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:25.439 lots of fun things that we've been doing all over 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:28.760 Cans this weekend. Please, if you've been here ten years ago, 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:30.800 twenty years ago, time to come back. If you've never 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.920 been moving up the bucket list. This is a spectacular 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:37.120 part of Australia. It's got something for everyone. You can 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.120 go all the way from the eco tourism to playing 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.120 with the crocodiles. You can do everything. And wonderful bars 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:45.960 and restaurants all around the place, and some of the 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.199 best mac and cheese you could possibly ever have in 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:50.080 the history of my life. And believe me, I know 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.480 im a mac and cheese. It is available here, believe 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.320 it or not. Also, we're gonna have a chapter tonight, 0:00:55.400 --> 0:00:59.080 not just to local community leaders, people who celebrate this area. 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:01.560 They'd love you to visit here, maybe come and live 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.080 one day, but also people who want to look deep 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:07.280 into the future, including the potential role of North Queensland 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:10.679 in a space program. Imagine Australia being able to send 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.720 itself to space. Of course, just like Oprah's mate or 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.080 Katie Perry, I expect to be on the first flight. 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:23.200 Just imagine what the jiggle looks like in zero gravity. 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.080 I would offer to have the first cigar in space, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:29.440 but then I'm pretty sure that that doesn't work for 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.760 anyone when it comes to their health. All right, now, 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.400 before we get to the fund of this place, let's 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.240 catch you up on what's been happening this weekend. Terrible 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:38.880 situation when it comes to the floods in Northern and 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.720 New South waleses lots of problems as well on the fringes, 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:43.560 and some of the rain's going to move its way 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:46.720 down south. He's a little bit about the latest of 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:50.920 our mates down south from where we are here in Cairns, a. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:54.480 Woman spoke to a police officer just west of Dorigo 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.800 and they traveled in convoy. As they traveled towards Costs Harbor, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.920 some flood waters at Karamba Road, which is near wild 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.600 Cattle Creek Bridge, the officer. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:09.160 Stopped and told the woman he wasn't continuing. 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.440 The officer claims he told the woman to be careful 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:13.799 and gave her his mobile phone number. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:15.880 About thirty minutes later, they got a phone. 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:17.360 Call from her who's in trouble. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.320 Emergency services attended in the search of the area, but 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.360 the woman was unable to be located. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:26.320 That's how fast life is, and reminded of all of 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.240 us about how safe we may feel this weekend, we 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:30.680 don't know what our life is going to be like 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.400 next weekend. Strength and love to her family and the 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:38.079 others that have been deeply affected not just by injury 0:02:38.120 --> 0:02:40.200 but obviously death in the past of the while in 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:42.680 terms of the food of the flood level starting to 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.920 fall around places like tare good news there, but the 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.280 cleanup operation kicks in when we're now talking about tens 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.040 of thousands of homes which need to be taken care 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.320 of the difficulty, of course, if you've insured, not insured, 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:56.560 you guys know all of that. After many of the 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 situations that you've had. Here, here's some of those that 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.400 are facing that operation of trying to bring themselves back 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:02.840 to normal. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.320 On the door level out the bark, you've actually got. 0:03:07.919 --> 0:03:12.720 About that high, so over two meters surely, yeah. 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:13.160 This is bad. 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.040 We need people here over the other side the bridge 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.360 and you start to see the live stock losses and. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:23.600 People's likelihoods. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:28.880 Sorry, poor buggers again from everyone who is dealing with 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.639 it right now, Strength and love from all of us 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.440 here in North Queensland, who of course have had plenty 0:03:33.480 --> 0:03:36.880 of natural disasters themselves. Commitment though about what we're going 0:03:36.920 --> 0:03:39.240 to be doing on the TV show for the next week. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.960 We'll obviously focus on the clean up operation, but as 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.880 the week rolls on, we're going to have people on 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.080 in and around how to battle when it comes to 0:03:46.120 --> 0:03:48.880 your insurance company, So we'll be will and truly across that. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.520 As for the live radar and what is happening about 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.160 where that weather and rain is happening to fall his 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:55.840 the latest from sky News. 0:03:55.600 --> 0:04:01.320 Weather floodwaters are receding across New South However, there are 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.240 still flood warnings in place. Moderate flood warning for Lumbee 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:08.280 Brook at Volga following a peak on Saturday evening, and 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:13.040 minor flood warning for the Hunter River, Maitland and Raymond Terrace. Now, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.960 even though it looks very different map than it did 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.680 a day or two ago, there are still dangers to 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.680 be aware of infrastructure damage, particularly to road washouts, is 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:24.320 important to be mindful of. 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:28.880 Did you see this garbage that took place in Melbourne 0:04:28.880 --> 0:04:32.320 today where two gangs apparently had had some sort of 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:38.800 an organized fight in a shopping center, machetes involved. There 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:42.960 was apparently some issues in and around failure to shut 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:44.800 the thing down quickly enough. By that, I mean the 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.919 shopping center and get the warnings in and around the place. Again, 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.320 he's part of this madness. How a machete is legal 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:57.520 anywhere in Australia, I don't know. Littlelone, Suburban Melbourne, LL tape. 0:04:58.000 --> 0:05:01.200 It was about two thirty. Here's a group of thugs 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.800 have stormed the outlet, sending it into lockdown. It appears 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.760 that they were armed with machetes, a police say. Then 0:05:09.160 --> 0:05:12.680 an opposing group or two opposing groups have then engaged 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.480 in a fight and one person has been stabbed in 0:05:16.520 --> 0:05:19.080 that group, sustaining serious injury. 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.880 And here's the latest when it comes to the police, 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.800 of course trying to prevent this stuff, trying to deal 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.080 with it as well. But what a sign about societal 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.800 decay that this garbage happens on a Sunday afternoon in 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:31.520 a public shopping center. 0:05:32.560 --> 0:05:37.719 There was two rival gangs had a pre meeting to 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.720 meet up at the shopping center where there was an 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.400 a fray, so in effect a fight between those two 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.440 rival gangs. But what I want to do is reassure 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.520 the community that this was not just some random thing 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:57.440 that happened. It was a pre organized gang meeter where 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.360 that affray has taken place. Members of the public, it 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:07.000 would have been absolutely frightening to witness what they saw today. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.960 I mean, can you imagine the genius is organizing about 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:13.279 this meeting rather than you know, local park under a bridge. Now, 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.679 let's do it in the middle of where good, normal 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.640 people are, where kids are hanging out on a disgraceful right. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.760 I look forward to learning more about it across the week, 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.279 and obviously keeping the pump on the Victoria Police for 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.480 more information. Now, everyone here at the no Overtail, We've 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.359 got something very special for you. Okay, sorry, at the 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.600 no Overtel caans Oasis, that's the official name. Get it right. 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:36.160 Brings down the cost, which is we had a very 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:40.160 special guest for you this evening. She's come all the 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.360 way from the United States of America. The Vice President, 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:51.080 Kamala Harris is in Queensland. How exciting, I mean, how exciting. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:57.880 So Kamala Harris has come to Australia, hung out, had 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.920 dinner in Sydney, quick run up to the GC where 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.159 she was paid, you know, a one bedroom unit on 0:07:05.160 --> 0:07:08.680 the Gold Coast amount of money to give us her 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:14.600 insights into being a loser. I'm not sure, right, but 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:16.880 just think about this looking again, No disrespect to the 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:19.960 great people of the real estate industry around Australia, but 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.840 this is the best you could do is to find 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:26.600 this nothing, To find this nothing from somewhere else, to 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.360 come over and tell us what what was she going 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.240 to say? Like, unless she's going to turn around and 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.360 sort of give us advice about how to refer to, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.000 you know, a president who's dying before our eyes as 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:41.200 sort of a renovators special. I'm not entirely sure what 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.920 it was that she was going to do, but this 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:46.760 is part of the garbage she was thrown around. 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.840 I have a lived experience that has taught me something 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:53.320 I talk about all the time. 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.040 So if you care about your career, you're invested in it, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:57.240 You're invested. 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:57.600 In doing well. 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.840 There's a dissension between speaking truth and some people are 0:08:00.920 --> 0:08:02.680 colck handed, all right. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.520 You might have heard the siren going off in the background. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.280 So of course, every time you offend a Democrat and 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.320 you appear in public in part of a crowd, do 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.320 what Trump does. Just move your head a lot. Okay, 0:08:10.400 --> 0:08:12.160 just move your head a lot. So I'm just gonna 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.000 keep moving around just in case. All right, And there's 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.240 this a couple of balconies, so we'll be fine. All right, 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.040 Let's get into celebrating the beautiful people of cans are 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:21.920 the wonderful things that you can do, and some of 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:40.160 the wildlife that you can make. How north Queensland is 0:08:40.200 --> 0:08:44.400 this picturesque, but this is a picture with bite. You 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:48.480 see forty five minutes just north of the CBD in 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:52.960 Cans is Hartley's Crocodile Adventures. They are legends in these 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.280 parts and you can see some of the strongest jaws 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:03.320 in the world that are even stronger than mine. So 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.200 what does a crocodile eat apart from people? Apart from us? 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.360 As long as it's not vadgies, mate, I don't think 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:14.160 they really care. Yeah, there's no salads on the crocodile diet. 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:17.400 Here at the park at Hartley's they get an extra 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.440 of things, but chicken, beef, pork, kangaroo or anything like that. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.840 And we feed these guys as little as possible. They 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.400 don't need to be fed all the time. We don't 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:26.240 want to overfeed them. 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.319 So tell me about this bugger? How old? How big? 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:30.120 How mean? 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.960 So this guy here, he's the largest on the park. 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.679 His name Spidacus. He's four point six meters in length. 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.920 We had to lose a volunteer to find that one out. 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.000 I don't want the job hearing that. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:44.920 He's probably about five six hundred kilos. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.840 This guy here, Riki, you want to have a go bloody? Yes? 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.199 Do kild of their head? Sield with their head. He's 0:09:53.240 --> 0:10:08.120 thinking about Spartacus. You're bigger than me. You meet it 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:11.760 in me. But I've got the food right now, and 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:16.480 it's not me. It's doctor Seuss apparently trying to feed here. 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:25.360 We come on mate, Oh wow, you know, hold on woo. 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:24.040 Yeah. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.920 So what we got in here is a man made 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.439 lagoon is created to recreate a wild habitat for these 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:42.680 crocs and hair. So it's a paperbark Mela Luca Wetland. 0:10:42.840 --> 0:10:47.400 You've got about thirty saltwater crocodiles in here about twenty girls, 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:51.120 ten lucky boys. It's all about managing the hierarchy. So 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:54.640 just over here, underneath the branches, you have our dominant male, 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:57.560 so four point three meters four or five hundred kilos. 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.760 His name is zont is a cattle killer, so allegedly 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:03.640 he killed Ferdy cattle. 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:06.920 You have got to come to hart Lea's when you 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:11.520 are in cans. The experience of just seeing these magnificent 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.400 animals with your own eyes is something I'll never forget. 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.160 The opportunity to get as close as you can hear, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.160 and you're able to take photos with lots of wildlife. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.360 And if you want to give that special gift to 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:27.240 someone special, they can feed the croc like I just 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:29.520 did too. This is amazing. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.040 Take it away, Angelo and the term of Hardley. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:35.440 Did you like the. 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:38.880 North Queensland out there? Did you like the very loud shirt? 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:39.520 It was good? 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:40.120 All right. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.120 Let's have a chat now with two people very passionate 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.920 about this part of Australia. The local mayor is none 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:48.319 other than am the Eden and Annette Derrek, who was 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.400 the Citizen of the Year this year. Give him around 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:56.160 of a pause, give him around of a pause, Adam 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:59.440 mayor what a part of the world to represent? What's 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.480 it like to were to represent this incredible bit of Australia. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:05.880 Oh look, it's busy, but it's good. I love Cans 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:07.560 and I've got the T shirt to prove it. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:08.040 Bloody O. 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.160 We are the gateway to Pacific and Turres and Cape. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:15.560 We have such an exciting opportunity ahead of us. We've 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:17.320 just got to grasp it a bit like you grasp 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:17.840 in the crocs. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.640 Correct. Correct. By the way, I've got official miuroral approval 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.160 about that shirt that I was wearing. Think that was 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.439 colorful standby for what we're planning a little bit, a 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:30.080 little bit later. In terms for the locals though, I mean, 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.640 obviously the tourism in picture well established, right, But for locals, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.440 what's the sort of infrastructure that Cans needs? And perhaps 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:40.680 on national television and opportunity to remind the Southeast about 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:42.000 what the North needs. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:46.040 We probably wouldn't believe it, but they say humidity. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:46.800 Is the new altitude. 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:49.160 We've got lots of humidity if you would believe it. 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.880 I'm aware of it yet right now, I'm pretty sure 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:52.640 I'm aware of it. 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:56.040 So that makes us along with our international airport and 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.439 all the accommodation. It makes us a wonderful training hub 0:12:59.520 --> 0:13:01.319 for the twenty thirty two Olympics. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.120 Ah nice. 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:04.959 Yeah, So we want to be the sporting destination. We're 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.760 aspiring to be the capital of women's sport in the country. 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.520 Little bit ambitious here, but we're going to give it 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.080 a crack. So we need a high performance center and 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.960 that will make the Cowboys Women's move to camp. Moved 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.200 to camps from Townsville go to Cowboys and that will 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.839 really get us moving in that space. So being a 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.840 training camp for Olympics, the Green Gold Runway, that's us. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:27.280 So. 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.240 And then when somebody turns around and says you've been 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:31.720 nominated for Citizen of the Year, how did that go down? 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:32.760 Well? 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.640 I thought I was just turning up for a nomination 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:39.080 certificate and I didn't know there was a winner. So 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:43.160 I did the big ugly cry and yeah, got presented 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:46.280 that award and it was that blew my mind, it 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:46.840 really did. 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:49.599 So sport is your focus and you've been volunteering with 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:50.640 them for a long time. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:51.200 Yeah. 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.480 So I've been with the Kangaroos Junior Rugby League club 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.520 for a long time. Probably only five years. But my 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.840 husband grew up in that club. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:00.760 And when my. 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.280 Twin boys decided they wanted to play rugby league in 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:06.560 twenty twenty, were like, okay, well there's only one club 0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:11.160 you're going to and that's Ruse. So of course, even 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.360 when the boys started primary school, I jumped up and 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:15.959 wanted to be a president in their first prep year 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.520 and they like, give it a year, so second year 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.400 I was, and then I helped all their events and 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.560 all that throughout the year. So volunteering has been in 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.160 my blood. But helping the football club once I got 0:14:26.200 --> 0:14:29.760 there and I saw these young kids, like my boys 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.600 didn't start an under sixes, but you know they started 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.360 under tens. But you see these kids that just go 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.720 out there and they play the little hearts out and 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:39.880 the club's. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:40.400 Pretty run down. 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:44.040 It's it needs a lot of money ingested into. 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.560 It, so a lot of grants. 0:14:45.600 --> 0:14:48.640 We struggled getting sponsors, but I did get a fifty 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:52.400 eight thousand dollars grant through the gambling grant, which we 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:56.080 did our canteam, which is our number one income, so excellent. 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:59.160 That's now set up so that they can work more 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.480 efficiently to make more money, which we can then put 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.200 back into the club. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.360 I never forget way back when when my mum was 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.520 running our local little athletics club, right, and you know, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.120 obviously volunteers, there's the person who's great with the canteen, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.480 the person who's great with the timing, all the rest 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:15.880 of it. But it is and i'd imagine it is 0:15:15.920 --> 0:15:19.480 exactly the same today as it was last century, which 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:22.240 is a lot of these clubs really do hang on 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.200 by just a thread, right, it's just year to year. 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.680 If ten kids more or less decide to turn up, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.240 it's the difference between whether you're going to make it 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.200 or not. But what's it like in a community like 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.920 this that obviously loves sportlight like rugby league that if 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:40.600 it needs help, can you get help pretty easily from 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:42.280 the parents' families. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.040 I'd love to say yes, but unfortunately not. You know, 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.800 we reach out every year for sponsorships and it's really 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:52.480 really hard. We've only got two fields, but we have 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:55.560 the biggest registration of kids, and we're also ninety three 0:15:55.600 --> 0:16:00.200 percent Aboriginal Torres Strait Islanders as well. With registrations, we 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.200 do know the biggest registration all of our competitive teams 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.720 at the moment are actually all top three on the ladder, 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:09.840 so happy for that. So we've got some great people. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.080 And for the state of origin coming up, Nano and Hammaso, 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:18.200 they came from Kangaroo's juniors, so we've got some up 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:23.360 and coming natural talent coming through. So, you know, sponsorships 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:25.720 and donations is a big thing that I try to 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:26.640 really work on. 0:16:26.840 --> 0:16:30.160 When you've got as passionate people as this is part 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.880 of the community, it is a place where there's an 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:35.400 awful lot of people that want to get involved and 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:37.360 want to make it can do. How do we make 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.160 sure that Ken's continues to move towards can do. 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:42.720 I think it's just in our blood, Paul. 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.520 To be honest, we're often in the top ten for GoFundMe. 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:49.160 We're generous, we're kind hearted people, and we create opportunities 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:51.920 to make people have a purpose, still have a purpose. 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:52.800 And connection to community. 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.880 But generally a city that most people know their neighbors, 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:57.720 so you know, if you run out of the brown 0:16:57.800 --> 0:16:59.960 sugar or the onion, you can just pop next door. 0:17:00.000 --> 0:17:02.040 And it's that type of mentality that I think is 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:02.840 displayed here that the. 0:17:02.880 --> 0:17:05.280 Net's talking about. All of our community groups. 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:09.159 We have so many we're massively multicultural here and we 0:17:09.240 --> 0:17:11.679 have so many events, and everyone has to roll up 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.160 their sleeves, whether you're sweating or not, and get in 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.639 and they just do it with a smile. So you know, 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.400 we've got beautiful sunshine, ripened pineapples and big juicy smiles 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:23.119 hanging on doing whatever we're doing, whether it's weeding in 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.800 the community garden or you know, being. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:26.879 A ref out on the field. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.240 How many people volunteer in this community doing something somewhere 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:33.719 else right up the backs, life and active. All right, family, 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.400 that's your family, as if you've got any choice, As 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:39.919 if you've got any choice. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.520 So my husband's the coach of our team and I'm 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.919 the manager, and my boys play in the under fifteen. 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.720 Give us a way, family, get on you well done, 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:50.800 EXCEP every home game they're they're they're setting up at 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.240 five thirty six o'clock in the morning with me and 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:54.440 then they're there to pack up in the. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:55.919 Aft and do everyone else will put up your hand. 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:58.040 Thank you for what you do and for everyone else didn't, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:17:59.760 I'm pretty sure you're having the past. So thank you 0:17:59.760 --> 0:18:01.680 to all of you for what you do for the community. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.359 All the time. Give them round of applause. Thank you 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.120 very much, congratulating, lovely. 0:18:05.000 --> 0:18:05.359 To meet you. 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:08.560 We've got plenty more from Kansas where poolside. While it's 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.480 a little cold where you are, it is awesome where 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:19.520 we are here on a Sunday night. Welcome back Cans. 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:22.080 We are having a great time here at an overtel 0:18:22.560 --> 0:18:25.320 beautiful pool by the way, open all the way till 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.919 ten pmka so you can have a cool down and 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:30.600 you need it when it comes to the humidity. But 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:34.040 it is an absolutely spectacular part of Australia and we 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.760 love Australian made products right. It's really important that we 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.120 make sure that we have as much industry and make 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:43.760 as much stuff here as possible. Harvey Normand is together 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.520 with the good people from Australian Maid celebrating over the 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:56.000 past week, just gone everything that is Australian Made. You 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.879 all know how much I love this incredible country, from 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:04.800 our magnificent city to a unique outback, the beautiful coasts, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:09.119 every little bit of it. I think I might have 0:19:09.160 --> 0:19:13.080 some competition this week because the great people at Australian 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.800 Made feel just the same and they are committed to 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:21.159 supporting all things Ozsie when you. 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.719 Buy Australian made, not only getting products made to some 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.560 of those highest standards in the world both from a 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.520 safety and quality point of view, you're creating jobs here 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.000 in Australia, you're keeping people employed, you're pumping money back 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:37.360 into the economy, and you're often supporting local businesses now 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.119 into the future. 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:41.960 We got to catch up with local Aussie manufacturer Kevin Adno, 0:19:42.359 --> 0:19:45.439 who helped us understand just how beneficial it is to 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:49.480 both the company and the consumer to support local manufacturers 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:50.000 like him. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:56.160 We believe in producing product and furniture in a market 0:19:56.200 --> 0:19:59.280 that it's close to its consumers and to its customers, 0:20:00.440 --> 0:20:08.640 and sustainability. Localized manufacturing is sustainable, It's inherently sustainable and 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:13.000 for all those elements, the customer gets those benefits as 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:17.919 well as the benefits of a shorterly time, highly customized 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:20.560 product and a better value product. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:29.679 In some very exciting news, full time Olympic gold medalist 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:33.800 Arion Titmus is now both Harvey Norman and an Australian 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.959 Made ambassador. You can truly feel how infectious she is 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:38.840 about everything green and gold. 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:43.560 Now I've represented Australia for almost a decade now, and 0:20:44.080 --> 0:20:48.080 we have that underdog mentality, and I think that people 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.800 don't recognize manufacturing in our own country often enough, and 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:53.920 so maybe to put a young face of the campaign 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.800 off the back of the Olympic Games, it's been important 0:20:56.840 --> 0:20:59.400 to kind of put some eyes onto the campaign more. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.560