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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Fitzi and whipp A Podcast twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. We need to get our premiere on Dominic Parents. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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Speaker 2: Monay, Okay, welcome, great to have you on. Here we go.

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Speaker 3: We're back into it, oh, Dom, You know, we need

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Speaker 3: to address it. We need to get it out of

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Speaker 3: the way straight ONPO doesn't want to talk about it.

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Speaker 3: Is the big question that we need to ask straight up.

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Speaker 3: Whose side are you on? Michael Clark's or Karl Stefanovics.

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Speaker 4: Tom, I hope you you'll stay out of that one.

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Speaker 2: Guys, where were you on the seventeenth of December? Sex

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Speaker 2: and out.

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Speaker 4: I'm decided.

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Speaker 1: It's a bit ugly, isn't it. Dom. It is a

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Speaker 1: little bit ugly. It is a little bit ugly. No, Dom,

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Speaker 1: thanks for coming on.

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Speaker 3: We're very very excited because in the next couple of

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Speaker 3: days and when does this happen, especially.

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Speaker 1: In the building industry, at the moment that.

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Speaker 3: Something gets completed two months earlier, Dom, hon, you announced

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Speaker 3: to everyone.

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Speaker 4: Under our government, our government's.

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Speaker 3: Strawdinaryson, this is to go from Paramatta to the airport,

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Speaker 3: and how many traffic lights are we going to be

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Speaker 3: by passing by getting into this tunnel done.

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Speaker 4: TOM fifty two fifty two from Penrith.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: So you think about this, if you're in the if

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Speaker 4: you're in the Blue Mountain and you want to travel

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Speaker 4: to the airport. Once we finish the next part, which

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Speaker 4: is a gateway, you will you will not have to

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Speaker 4: drive through one set of traffic light.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 4: We think to say, the saving of time here is

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Speaker 4: around forty minutes. So this is when we started this

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Speaker 4: massive West Connects project years ago. This one we're opening

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Speaker 4: tonight is the M four M E connection so Sat

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Speaker 4: Peter's into Habitfield. We started that in twenty and eighteen

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Speaker 4: and it's a seven seven and a half kilometer tunnel

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Speaker 4: and it look it's going to make a real difference.

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Speaker 4: But these are the major projection. One of the great

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Speaker 4: things about them, guys, is that when I go around

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Speaker 4: all the constructions that's happening across the state, with so

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Speaker 4: many people go from one of our projects to the

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Speaker 4: next project to the next project. So during the pandemic,

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Speaker 4: it's jobs all the way through, hundreds of thousands of

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Speaker 4: jobs on all of these major infrastructure projects. And at

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Speaker 4: the end you get to work quicker, home faster, and

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Speaker 4: spend more time with your.

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Speaker 1: Stami, Tom, can I ask?

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Speaker 2: I mean when they launch a new cruise ship, they

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Speaker 2: will smash and swing a bottle of champagne, often in

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Speaker 2: a sock, into the side of it. How do you

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Speaker 2: open a tunnel? What sort of celebration do you have

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Speaker 2: for that? For that big thing?

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Speaker 4: I think it's pretty pretty lame. This morning, I think

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Speaker 4: we're just cutting a ribbon.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, another big round.

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Speaker 4: They'll play around with the lights and things like that.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure. I'm sure that, I'm sure. I'm sure that

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Speaker 4: the construction teams have been up overnight working coming.

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Speaker 3: Out seven and a half kilometers long as premiere and

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Speaker 3: coming up to a state election.

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Speaker 1: Can you see the light at the end of the tunnel?

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Speaker 2: Very good, very good time, A.

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Speaker 4: Very good No. Look, it's hard work, right, but the

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Speaker 4: states that we're doing a lot of the states heading

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Speaker 4: in a very strong direction, and we've got to the

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Speaker 4: economic plan to take it forward. And it's not just

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Speaker 4: for us, it's it's the generations to come. And these projects,

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Speaker 4: as you know, they don't happen over items as I

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Speaker 4: started as set in twenty eighteen, but it's this project

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Speaker 4: of the North Connects project, which has cleared a whole

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Speaker 4: lot of trucks off Penny Hills Road. People getting up

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Speaker 4: of Central Coast faster. So we just got to keep

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Speaker 4: building and keep moving forward.

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Speaker 1: How much is it going to cost? Have you worked

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Speaker 1: that out yet?

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Speaker 4: Don Well, this project is sixteen point eight billion dollars.

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Speaker 4: But as part of that we completed a transaction which

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Speaker 4: I set up a West Investment under five billion dollars,

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Speaker 4: which were which we're investing in road projects, schools, public

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Speaker 4: spaces all through all through western Sydney. And in relation

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Speaker 4: to the toll, the poles of this section the N

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Speaker 4: four eight five dollars sixty five, but the whole section

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Speaker 4: is capped at eleven dollars and eleven cents.

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Speaker 1: Right, so you cap that's good catwoo.

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Speaker 4: So we've capped it as well. It's all about choice, right,

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Speaker 4: You don't if you don't want to use the Motor eight,

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Speaker 4: you don't have to. You can use Paramatta Road and

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Speaker 4: that's now flying faster. And to make this point, can

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Speaker 4: you imagine if we never built if we never built

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Speaker 4: this road, Paramatter Road, Paramatter Road, it would be an

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Speaker 4: absolute car par I don't know what opposition it is,

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Speaker 4: but I know people have different views on it. But

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Speaker 4: if we don't, if we stop building the state stores

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Speaker 4: and we don't go forward, and the other point of make

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Speaker 4: for your listeners. From the twenty fourth of January, we

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Speaker 4: have a toll relief package that comes in and that's

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Speaker 4: forty percent off your tolls. If you spend more than

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Speaker 4: three hundred and seventy five dollars on tolls, you get

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Speaker 4: forty percent back up to seven hundred and fifty dollars

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Speaker 4: a year. So that will also help great.

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Speaker 3: And you're looking after the because you know what, we

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Speaker 3: do have some we have some hounds out there that

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Speaker 3: like to speed onm but you know what, there are

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Speaker 3: a lot of great drivers out there that do the

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Speaker 3: right thing, and you're deciding to look.

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Speaker 1: After those drivers. I really do like this.

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Speaker 3: So so if you is it a three year perfect record,

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Speaker 3: you're going to be looked after a little bit more.

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Speaker 4: Don yep. So if you've if you if you haven't

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Speaker 4: had an infringement for three years, and then following you

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Speaker 4: when you get your next infringement, we'll wave that will wave,

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Speaker 4: will wave the fine. Okay, now that's the that's that's

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Speaker 4: for low range offenses. But you know, if you've got

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Speaker 4: a good driving record, if you're doing the right things.

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Speaker 4: I was out yesterday with the Prime Minister announcing one

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Speaker 4: hundred million dollars for a road out in near the

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Speaker 4: Hawksbury Bells line of roads. So we're making sure that

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Speaker 4: our roads are safer, but at the same time we

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Speaker 4: want to help people are doing the right thing with

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Speaker 4: put a bit more money back in.

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Speaker 3: Then I'm glad you said low range, because I said,

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Speaker 3: if you had three years perfect.

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Speaker 1: Driving record, I mean you could go two hundred.

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Speaker 4: Excuse to go wild you've had.

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Speaker 2: I've missed the idea, mate, And is a parking fine

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Speaker 2: considered an infringement on your driving record?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 4: I mean there's well it's not. The parking fines are

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Speaker 4: issued by by counsel. When I was actually when I

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Speaker 4: was a treasurer, we cut we cut all the state

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Speaker 4: parking fines and encouraged councils, of which many of the

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Speaker 4: councils jumped on board to cut to cut their fines.

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Speaker 4: But I'd still like to see them do more in

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Speaker 4: that space because some of the some of the parking

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Speaker 4: to the councilor just go to control.

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Speaker 2: Besides the election. Let's turn to the home front with

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Speaker 2: hell and seven kids. It's one kid for every kilometer

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Speaker 2: of the tunnel. No one that we're going to go

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Speaker 2: over eight Should we suggest that there's an announcement soon, mate?

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Speaker 4: Eight kid or no, No, sit and a half.

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Speaker 2: Let's look at Oh my god.

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Speaker 3: There is no way in the world leading up to

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Speaker 3: an election that you would even be thinking about any

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Speaker 3: of that At the moment.

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Speaker 4: Dom, it's it's start cracker daw on to the end

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Speaker 4: of the day. Mate, it's flight out. But I think

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Speaker 4: the States, the state's in a very good space. There's

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Speaker 4: a lot happening. We've got the lowest unemployment rate. Everyone

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Speaker 4: who wants a job and can get one in this

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Speaker 4: in this state, it's been the best job market in

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Speaker 4: the history in your South Wales. And that's really good

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Speaker 4: because that provides for our family. The economy is the

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Speaker 4: engine room of the country and we've got this. We've

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Speaker 4: got a long term economic plan drive our state board.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, buddy, we know how busy you are. From here.

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Speaker 3: They stick to the suits, no from a no more

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Speaker 3: fancy dress as well, and we appreciate.

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Speaker 1: You coming on the shark. Dom cut a ribbon see

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