WEBVTT - Paul Murray Live | 5 March 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:04.880 From the Skying Center. This is Paul Murray live. 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:08.920 Can I get evening, especially to our mates in Southeast Queensland. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:11.000 We will be on the ground with you tomorrow night 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:12.400 and all weekend. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:13.400 For the most obvious of reasons. 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:15.560 Before I get into the latest and we get to 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:19.400 a reporter who has been watching people prepare and gives 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:22.439 us the latest from Southeast Queensland, particularly the Gold Coast. 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.280 In a second, can I say something now that I'm 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:25.840 probably not going to get the chance to say for 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:27.640 the next couple of days, and I think a lot 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:32.840 of people feel it. These events are not about politicians. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:36.600 They shouldn't be used by politicians. They should, of course 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:39.400 be about the people and giving as much information as possible. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.520 Now we know why the Prime Minister is in Southeast Queensland. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.400 Queensland can't stand him, so he's going to try to 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.160 use this to look like the leader. Here's the reality. 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.720 The people who will do the emergency services work. They 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:54.040 work for the state government or they are part of 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.080 local government. The federal government does have some money here, 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.920 and yes they throw some extra. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:00.080 Troops at it. 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.080 But watching the Prime Minister begin a period of carrying 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.200 on today and bringing ministers who are just frankly being 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.120 publicized as local labor MPs. It's not okay with me, 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.920 and thankfully there are other people who view this. An 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:19.360 opinion section in the Courier Mail this afternoon says, this 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.440 morning the Prime Minister visitor of the State Coordination Center 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:25.440 a companied by the federal Sports Minister, Anika Wells. Anika 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.960 Wells is the Sports Minister and the Age Care Minister. 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:30.840 She has no relevance to this whatsoever, but she's a 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.280 member for Lily and they are afraid that she may 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.240 lose her seat, so she gets front and center. She 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:38.960 along with the Prime Minister, are wasting some people's time here. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.160 We need the people to know that they're doing it 0:01:43.200 --> 0:01:45.520 and focused on what they're doing, not being dragged away 0:01:45.560 --> 0:01:48.680 to entertain politicians as our state braces for the worst. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.760 Mister Ravenezy's visit amounts to a shameless grab for votes 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:54.920 ahead of the looming election. Labor looks set to lose 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:59.320 Queensland is aren't stupid? This Albo and Alfred show is 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.440 just an There is an exception, of course, and that 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:03.680 is the state Premier. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:04.520 Now. 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.280 I come from a different era when it wasn't state 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:09.480 premiers who were the ones who. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:10.680 Were sort of m seeing these things. 0:02:10.720 --> 0:02:13.079 Instead it was the head of the rural fire Service, 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.240 the head of the sees. But now, particularly after Anna 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.640 Bly the best part of what ten years ago when 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.880 it came to the floods. Back then, all politicians and 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.000 certainly at the state level, they become the chief spokesperson 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:28.400 for everyone connected into the government. So I don't think 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.000 I think it's important to the prime ministers across it. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:32.919 But I think the idea that the Prime Minister is 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.400 going to stand there and soak up time on the 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:39.200 hour every hour, or popping up somewhere else and standing 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:42.080 next to Labor Party MPs, that is desperately trying to 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.320 prop up. I know I'll cop flak for it, but 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.000 I'm saying it now before the things get serious. Best 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.760 be out of the way, not front and center. But 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.680 this prime minister is of course shameless. The people I 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.400 want to hear from is not just the premier, but 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:58.560 I want to hear from the emergency officials. I want 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.640 to hear from the people who actually do the work, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.720 because I'll tell you the truth, be it COVID or 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:06.160 be it an earthquake, or be it a bush fire, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:07.240 be it a flood. 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:08.560 Or be it a tropical cyclone. 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:13.280 The experts are the ones who are briefing the politicians. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.519 I want to hear from the people who are the experts. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.600 I want to hear about their theories about whether things 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:20.880 are getting better or worse, whether it's going to land here, 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.679 whether it's going to move this way or that way. 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.920 The granular detail matters. Yes, the opportunity is there, and 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.520 if we have the opportunity to talk with the Queen's 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.720 Land Premiere, I gladly will. But the Prime Minister laying 0:03:30.760 --> 0:03:32.480 on top of all of this, I've got my issues 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:34.120 so too. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:35.280 What is about to bear down? 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.120 Yes, I know we're a couple of days out and 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:38.960 some people may say, hey, let's talk about it when 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.400 it's here. No, let's talk about it now, because now's 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.160 the time you can prepare. Hopefully this thing is not 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:45.960 as bad as it seems. But if it is as 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.320 bad as it seems, Southeast Queen's Land and an awful 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.400 lot of people are in real trouble. Anywhere between twenty 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.160 thirty thousand homes anywhere from the top of the Sunshine 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.000 Coast to the top of the north coast of New 0:03:59.000 --> 0:04:00.920 South Wales are going to be in the eye of 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:01.280 this thing. 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:01.840 Now. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.400 It's either going to be heavy rain, it's going to 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:05.760 be strong winds, it's going to be the storm surge. 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.360 A lot of properties in Queensland are right up against 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.040 the beach, so there's lots of things to pay attention 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.480 to here today. Local councils, and I've got to say 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:16.800 a massive shout out to the local councils in southeast 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:20.000 Queensland the way that they respond. They are the ones 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.839 who offer the free sandbacks, and there have been hundreds 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:27.279 of thousands of them that have been handed out. People 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:29.760 have had to wait hours for them, but Queensland has 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.560 been Queenslanders. They take it all in their stride. But 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.360 well donder the councils that have provided these things, and 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.480 they don't provide it two days before they do it 0:04:37.520 --> 0:04:39.600 for the best part of all of this week. Here 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.000 are some of the people who have been doing that 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:45.080 to prepare if the water gets anywhere near the little 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.200 breaks under the door or towards their home that hopefully 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.280 it won't be higher than the fortresses they are building 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:56.080 as we speak. Apparently we limited to twenty five so Yeah, 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:57.200 you're going to get them as you. 0:04:57.400 --> 0:04:58.800 Try and get the lot. Yeah. 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.120 Oh myself, neighbors down the road. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:02.839 I've just moved into a new house, so I'm really 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:06.000 not sure how it's going to behave yeah through this 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.800 weather events. So yeah, better be safe than sorry. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.440 Not just sandbags, lots of other things people are doing also, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:16.400 so important message came from the Queensland government today. If 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:20.800 you've got solar panels, turn them off now. Obviously these 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.120 things may blow around, may be pulled off from roofs, 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:25.839 but they're saying turn off the systems right now rather 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:28.760 than trying to secure them. Certainly, don't do what a 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:30.080 couple of people have done, which is to put the 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.760 sandbags on those things, because of course things are going 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.440 to blow around and those things become projectiles. Here's more 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.520 people getting ready. What are they doing in southeast Queensland. 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:40.800 Remember we're not talking about a little bit. We're talking 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.640 about the vast majority of Queensland's population that sits anywhere 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:45.320 from the Sunny coast to the border. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:48.719 It's a sensible thing to do right now to pack 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.720 up so that we're not having to pack up in 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.160 the full on cyclone winds tomorrow. 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:53.640 So here. 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.680 Oh pretty much. God is there's no water in that. 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:57.880 It's all gone. So I've gone with coconut water to 0:05:57.920 --> 0:05:58.520 replace it. 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.000 Ands that's pretty much I'm going to be trying to 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:02.320 live off. 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.640 Yeah, I'm pretty scared about it. So and we've been 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.360 told to in a take all caution, so I think 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:11.000 everyone should be serious to do that. 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.160 One of the officials I want to hear a lot 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.120 from is the Lord Mayor of Brisbane. Unlike most places, 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.400 Brisbane basically has one giant local council area that is 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.920 the Metropolitan Area of Brisbane, which means that a little 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.359 bit like a mayor in the United States, they're not 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:28.680 just talking about their little pocket. They are talking about 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:32.520 the entire capital and future Olympic city. He's Adrian Shrinner. 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.560 People should not be out tomorrow and the next day 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:40.120 at the very least. It is a personal safety matter 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:45.440 and we're certainly encouraging everyone in the community tomorrow Friday. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.800 Please stay indoors. It is the safest place for you, 0:06:49.400 --> 0:06:49.640 all right. 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.400 Get to Jonathan Lee in a second. He's standing by. 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:53.400 He's been watching all of this and the preparations. But 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.320 let's get to sky on his weather. The very latest 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:57.720 about exactly what he's going to be the potential hit 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:01.080 zone of what he's being at this moment, colloquially referred 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:02.520 to as Cyclone Alphie. 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.440 The wind and the rain will increase through Thursday along 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.080 the East coastline, but the worst of the weather is 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:14.320 now expected to arrive on Friday, as tropical Cyclone Alfred 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.480 is likely to reach the coast later. There's even a 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:21.720 chance it won't make landfall until Saturday. The most dangerous 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.400 part of the system could easily be the storm surge, 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.920 where the water levels could rise very high and into 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:28.960 people's homes. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.840 Now again, talking to people on the Sunny coast this evening, 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:36.080 get to them watching right now again. Their expectations are 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:37.760 things are going to be a little bit closer to Brisbane. 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.120 But keep an eye on all of those maps and 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:40.120 keep yourself safe, all right. 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:43.320 Jonathan Lee is in Burley Burly Heads, which is of 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:45.760 course on the southern part of the Gold Coast. Mate, 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:47.720 what have you seen today as people get ready for 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:48.760 a heck of a weekend. 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:52.600 Yeah, good eating to you, Paul. 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.560 Please don't think that I'm a poor imitation of a DJ. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:56.520 It just starts to get hard at times. 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:57.280 To hear from you. 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:01.840 The squally gets up and we've just nearly got knocked 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:02.440 off our feet. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:03.920 It's been a heck of a day, to be honest. 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:05.840 There's a lot of people who are deeply unnerved with 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:09.000 what's coming and what's headed their way. As you talked 0:08:09.000 --> 0:08:11.040 about before, you're looking at the better part of around 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.840 four million people southeast Queensland, over the border of the 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:17.680 Tweed community and then down into the northern rivers of 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:20.480 New South Wales, which just continues to be beaten and 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:23.240 bashed over the last fifteen years with flood after flood. 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.920 Your heart really goes out to those people. In particular. 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.200 We're looking at hundreds of thousands of sandbags which have 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.000 gone out to communities. We're being told that more people 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:34.480 have snapped them up, especially in the Redlands Bay area, 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.320 which is where this cyclone is expected to cross, in 0:08:37.400 --> 0:08:41.720 ways they've never done before. Lines six seven hours long 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.319 for people to get sandbags. People turning up with things 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:46.360 like trolleys, trying to get in front of the cars 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:49.080 as best they can to get their sandbags to get away. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.760 There's a lot of people deeply, deeply nervous about all 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:55.520 of this. One of the things that been seriously concerned 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.920 about is this tidal flow. If the cyclone was to 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.760 hit at the peak of high around the two am mark, 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.760 that would end up pushing that wall of water even 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.160 further down the rivers and creeks, which would do even 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:10.360 more damage to the homes, which obviously live a longest. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.360 It starts to look at this point in time, though, 0:09:12.360 --> 0:09:15.079 that we might end up seeing the tropical cyclone crossing 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.959 later than expected. What will that mean If it's Saturday 0:09:18.960 --> 0:09:22.120 morning instead of Friday, we might lose some of that intensity, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:25.199 which would be good for the Queensland homes. They're the 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.520 ones I worry most about. You might live in a 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:30.040 pretty Queenslander, but if the house down the street hasn't 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.520 been renovated like yours, and it hasn't gone through a 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.920 cyclone for the past fifty years, you might find that 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.000 that ends up in your backyard. That's the sort of 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.800 stuff you've got to be worried about, especially if you 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:42.520 live on stumps and you haven't had a decent weather event, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.280 or this is going to be the biggest weather event 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.280 on the Gold Coast in seventy years. That's the sort 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.080 of thing people are talking about. So we start to 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.280 look at the intensity of the cyclone itself on the 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:53.840 level of rain. If it doesn't come in until Saturday, 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.160 it looks like it perhaps might not be as intense, 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.400 but we'll end up seeing more rain. How that plays out, well, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:03.160 that'll impact on the communities living either along the rivers 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.439 and the creeks and the tributaries, or where the water 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.640 will end up in, like communities like Rosalie, which is 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.360 in a low Brisbane has a lot of valleys throughout 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.880 the city and that's where that water ends up going. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.080 We spoke to some people who were waiting here today 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.960 having a gork at the incredible waves, the thumping waves 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.960 which have been rolling in. One of the gentlemen we 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:24.320 spoke to said he's actually staying in the caravan about 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.040 one hundred and fifty meters away. Let's have a listen 0:10:26.040 --> 0:10:27.199 to what the locals were telling us. 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:30.160 Yeah, everyone's saying different things. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.120 Some people saying, Betty go stay. 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.120 It's got a fizzle hour when it hits land. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:36.679 So I don't really know. 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.400 I'm It's anyone's guess. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:39.480 Isn't it. 0:10:39.520 --> 0:10:43.040 I I've just obviously moved uff around the house. Yeah, 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:46.559 just to prepare for I suppose what's expected. Yeah, it 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:48.160 might have sort of bit surreal at the moment you 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.480 sort of yeah, it's obviously not too windy, but a 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:56.520 little bit of rain. But yeah, next thirty hours or yeah. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:57.600 Now, John, I was just going to ask about, you know, 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.240 the Gold Coast in particular here where up Stay Runaway Bay. 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.480 You've got a whole bunch of those houses, newer houses, 0:11:03.679 --> 0:11:07.320 but they are basically, you know, right up and off 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.360 the major coastline. A whole bunch of other things down 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:14.440 around Labrador Southport, and obviously we make our way through 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.560 into the canals in and around the Gold Coast. 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:19.080 The surge in. 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.640 Water is going to be part of the problem here. Again, 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:25.200 it's not just what comes down, it's what comes up. 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:28.360 It's what's happening a couple of streets over of what 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:30.280 you've been able to put together of the picture of 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:34.559 the Gold Coast through say the mayor officials, briefings. People 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.240 you're talking about be as specific as you want to, 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:39.679 you know, suburb by a suburb if you wish, But 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.719 what are the areas of the Gold Coast in particular 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.960 that are of concern? 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:48.679 Oh, Paul, I think you've just now them all on 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.080 the head anyone who's living along a tributary and inlet. 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.240 That was very good what you just said. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.239 Gold Coast is famous for those who live along the waterways, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.199 and that's where this is going to rise up and 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.319 likely damag The Premier today was making the point that 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.520 they're going to be prepositioning assets along those areas and 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.200 routes to try and get assistance to people where they can, 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.280 especially for instance, if they're going to be cut off. 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.760 There's talk here that people should expect to lose power 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:14.719 for five to seven days to make sure that they've 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.080 got the food and the water needed if they're going 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.280 to be cut off. So that's a very real danger 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.360 if you've got your house backing onto a canal and 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.120 you start to find the water coming and lapping at 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.600 your back door going over the pool, So very real. 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:27.559 As we said, it's the biggest weather event to strike 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.000 this region in seventy odd years. The last cyclone I 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:33.880 covered was two thousand kilometers north of here. That was 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.840 in Cooktown. I covered another in Cairns where we traveled 0:12:36.880 --> 0:12:39.160 on a chopper sixteen hours to get there to make 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.800 sure we had a chop a preposition to cover the story, and. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.240 We needed to. 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.960 Cyclones don't come this far south. They're not supposed to. 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.480 We've been hearing about the water being warmer than expected 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.400 and warmer than the Coral Sea, which is the reason 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.080 perhaps why it's hovered around and gone parallel to the 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.040 coast here. It's not unusual. It's not to say that 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.840 it's never happened before, but you don't normally expect to 0:12:57.840 --> 0:12:59.760 be covering a cyclone in your back door when it 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.000 comes to the Gold Coast or southeast Queensland. With this 0:13:02.040 --> 0:13:04.000 thing crossing the CB depot. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:04.440 Good on your mate. 0:13:04.440 --> 0:13:05.920 We'll see you in person tomorrow and we'll have you 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.000 on the show of course tomorrow night. We'll be there 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:10.160 all the way through everything over the next few days. 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.960 Thoughts by the way, and strength and love to everyone 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.200 who's on stratty, Bribe islands, lots of other areas that, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.120 of course are going to be in the eye of 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:18.760 all of this thing. 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:20.520 Yes, we are talking about it a lot. 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.400 It is potentially a couple of days away anywhere from 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:25.920 Friday morning through to Saturday morning. But the effects of 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.160 it are real important and as easy going as Queensland 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:31.160 as our Please take it as seriously as it is 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.600 being suggested, it's not just a Queensland issue. We'll get 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.920 to the northern rivers of New South Wales, that northern 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.959 half that has already gone through so many problems when 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.440 it comes to flooding and mates in Lismore and further north. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:41.680 We'll get the wall of that in a moment or 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:42.320 two time. 0:13:42.400 --> 0:13:44.719 But back to the point I was making about the 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.640 Prime Minister and why he's got to be very careful 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.480 about how he inserts himself into this thing. Again, it's 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.640 a time when people don't want showboating. They're not interested 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:54.560 in any way, shape or form. That goes for the 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.440 media too, of course, which is why you keep your distance, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.280 but you tell the story. Okay, that's going to be 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:03.200 our plans, an opportunity for us to stand and do 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:06.040 silly things. It's again just to give information to people 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.920 and to be able to spread that news across the country. 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:11.760 So the Prime Minister has to take it carefully. And 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.839 as I say, it's not a time for politicians, it's 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:16.600 a time for information, and if the politician is giving 0:14:16.640 --> 0:14:18.839 information that should be the premiere or anything above that. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.480 I think it's a post game. But I'm sure I'll 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:24.320 be criticized for saying. So, here's the reality across the 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:27.440 country right now. The preferred prime Minister is not Anthony Arbernezi, 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.760 which is why he would, in the cynical part of things, 0:14:31.080 --> 0:14:33.880 be hoping or the people around him, if I want 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.240 to be uncharitable to them, think there's an opportunity to 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:36.760 change this. 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:37.760 But have a look at this. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.960 In Queensland, the preferred prime minister is well and truly 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.600 Peter Dutton. Anthony Arbernesi doesn't even have a third of 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.840 the votes in Queensland. 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:46.400 He needs to. 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:49.040 Treat it very carefully in the next few days. As 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.800 for his job performance nationally, fifty six percent of people 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.280 say he's doing a poor or very poor job, sixty 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.720 percent in Queensland. As for the direction that the country 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:00.840 is heading, in a few more detail about some pollingd 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:02.640 that we got out of the turble times otherwise known 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.200 in the Garden Guddion via the Essential organization. When it 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.800 comes to the right track the wrong track for both 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.680 the Prime Minister and Peter Dutton to be fighting what 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:14.240 seems to be the early days of the election could 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.640 be well called this weekend. The expectation of it being 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:18.640 called maybe as late as Monday. Otherwise we're off to 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 a budget and then we are looking at something closer 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.960 to May rather than the April election. Forty nine percent 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.320 of Australian say we're headed in the wrong direction. Just 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.320 a third of people say that we are headed in 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.840 the right direction. And in terms of the number of 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.840 people who are certain about which way they're going to vote, 0:15:34.880 --> 0:15:35.400 have a look at this. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.560 Fifty two percent of people. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:40.000 Say, bang lock me in, I'm done, So they've already 0:15:40.000 --> 0:15:42.120 decided whether they're going team red, team blue, team yellow, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.200 team team orange, whatever they're going to be. There is 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.640 the best part of thirty five percent of people who 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.200 say that they can change their mind, but have a 0:15:49.240 --> 0:15:52.000 look at this. Thirteen percent of people say no decision 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.680 has been made yet. Put simply that forty seven percent 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.640 of people is of course where the election is going 0:15:57.680 --> 0:16:00.240 to be fought. But once you start to dig down 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:03.080 into the information, we might be working out where these 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.600 people who haven't made any decision are hiding their votes 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:08.280 when it comes to talking to the polls. Now, this 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.000 could be something that will surge labor when it comes 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.440 to preferences and get them across the line. Probably not 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:17.360 as a majority government, but closer to a majority than 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:20.080 anyone else. Or if they're about to make a big 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.400 change and go to a minor party that will preference 0:16:22.440 --> 0:16:24.840 the Libs or vote for the Libs, then obviously it 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.480 is going to be game over for the existing government. 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:28.200 But have a look. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.680 Remember the red line are the people who have not 0:16:30.800 --> 0:16:33.920 made a decision yet yet. When they are telling posters 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:36.200 about whom they're going to vote for, it looks like 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:39.880 they're hiding their vote right now in none of the above, 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.520 the independent or other parties. Now whether these are people 0:16:43.560 --> 0:16:45.640 saying that they want to vote for a local teal 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:47.840 but in actual fact, twenty percent of them have made. 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.200 No decision yet. 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.520 So a lot of people are looking granularly at each 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.200 of the seats, and how many people are going to 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.520 go something other than the major parties, Well, twenty percent 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:01.200 of that vote hasn't even begun the process of making 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.960 a decision. Still the best part of what thirty eight 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.960 percent should have warned the glasses tonight. Thirty eight percent 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.040 of people they say that they are flexible. But all 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:13.600 of that fascinating and important to watch now. Of course, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.840 if the news events don't help the Prime Minister, Well, 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:19.399 guess what your money apparently will. One of the ways 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.200 that this government is able to keep flogging its bad 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:26.520