Speaker 1: Jason Lauren on one hundred.
Speaker 2: Morning Everyone, twenty seven Fast eight. You are on the
Speaker 2: air with Jason Lauren. This is No. One hundred. Let's
Speaker 2: say hello to our next guest.
Speaker 3: Our next guest is the longest serving female minister in
Speaker 3: Victorian state history.
Speaker 4: It's not lost on me that I am only the
Speaker 4: second woman to lead this stage, and that is also
Speaker 4: comes with some emotions. Please, welcome to the show, the
Speaker 4: Premiel Victoria just center.
Speaker 2: Ella, Hey, good morning, welcome back to the show.
Speaker 5: You've rolled in in a red suit looking like a
Speaker 5: Nova mascot.
Speaker 4: Please, I didn't realize I'd coordinated my wardrobe with overbranding.
Speaker 4: I'm delighted to you.
Speaker 1: I hope that means you're not going to any other
Speaker 1: radio stations after me.
Speaker 4: No I would.
Speaker 6: If you are, I'll give you the nov Boy head
Speaker 6: to wear. So look, last time you read I made
Speaker 6: this comment, I was devastated when we found out you're
Speaker 6: coming from Bend to Go this morning, that we didn't
Speaker 6: give you the heads up to swing past the cream,
Speaker 6: bring in a couple of snot blocks.
Speaker 4: They know how to do it out, so snop blocks
Speaker 4: and pies.
Speaker 2: I can't help but notice you walked in with a
Speaker 2: little little bag.
Speaker 4: A little bit of morning tea on the table. What
Speaker 4: do we go you bend it? Some of Bendigo's finest Well,
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Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Andrews rolled in with a couple of snopblocks back in
Speaker 6: the day. Nah, I was about to say, you would
Speaker 6: have got my boote.
Speaker 5: That's all right, Hey, you've got a bit going on.
Speaker 5: We do now talk to us about this housing. Some
Speaker 5: people love it, some people hate it. You're suggesting that
Speaker 5: we build more apartment buildings close to train stations so
Speaker 5: people can beat me their families and get to work.
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 4: That's pretty much it, Lauren, That's pretty much it, because well, firstly,
Speaker 4: we've got to build more homes, just full store.
Speaker 1: People can't afford houses.
Speaker 5: I know people my age are trying to buy their
Speaker 5: first homes and they not even just my age, but
Speaker 5: they just can't afford it.
Speaker 4: And that's what I hear time and time again that
Speaker 4: younger Victorians, you know, let's call it anyone under the
Speaker 4: age of forty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's finny.
Speaker 4: It really hard, like my generation because I'm a little
Speaker 4: bit older than forty. Anyone in my generation, Jason's generation,
Speaker 4: unfair generation. I'm going to go the next decade. But anyway,
Speaker 4: you know, I had the opportunity to buy home by
Speaker 4: my first time startup family. And it's also about building
Speaker 4: your long term wealth. It's tough. It's really tough.
Speaker 1: People are mad about it. Yeah, people are over it.
Speaker 4: And I want something done about it too, because for
Speaker 4: how we got here is by nothing being done about it,
Speaker 4: by accepting the status quo, just saying, oh, well, you know,
Speaker 4: do your best. Well, that's not acceptable to me, which
Speaker 4: is why we've been announcing building more homes and yes
Speaker 4: part of that around train stations, building a bit more
Speaker 4: high apartments.
Speaker 5: How high are we talking because there's people protesting is
Speaker 5: in protesting in the streets about not wanting these apartment
Speaker 5: buildings together.
Speaker 2: Mate.
Speaker 6: I was down at Brighton on the weekend. I took
Speaker 6: the kids out for frozen yogurt and I came out
Speaker 6: in the angry rich old people that were protesting outside
Speaker 6: half Moon Hotel in Church Street and I'm like, what
Speaker 6: are they winging about now they don't want it in
Speaker 6: the Bay Side area.
Speaker 4: Well, that appeared to be their argument. But if you
Speaker 4: start saying don't have it here, don't have it here,
Speaker 4: don't have it here, you don't have it anywhere. And
Speaker 4: that's how we got to this point. And so that's
Speaker 4: why a bit of height around train stations.
Speaker 1: Seeing closer to the city or out in the Adams.
Speaker 4: This is across the suburbs, but identifying train station locations
Speaker 4: because train we've been busy removing level crossings, upgrading the
Speaker 4: train line. That's exactly where you want to have people
Speaker 4: to live. You can jump on the train to get
Speaker 4: to school youth services.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're talking building more apartments in your train stations now,
Speaker 6: getting rid of like stamp duty costs and stuff for
Speaker 6: that for people to be able to buy into a
Speaker 6: cheaper Are we talking public housing as well?
Speaker 4: This is well, the government will continue to build public
Speaker 4: social affordable housing. We're doing that already. This is about
Speaker 4: is about how do we build more homes in the
Speaker 4: private private market.
Speaker 2: Will they be half private half public.
Speaker 4: Because so there'll be a mix, right, it is a mix.
Speaker 6: Because there's a big thing in the States at the moment,
Speaker 6: I was talking to a friend of ours over there,
Speaker 6: and what they're doing over there is to get down
Speaker 6: taxes and stuff like that. The government are saying, hey,
Speaker 6: if you include one like maybe levels one to three
Speaker 6: are public housing and three to nine a private housing,
Speaker 6: then people are buying too that unit block are getting
Speaker 6: less taxes.
Speaker 2: Or less fee.
Speaker 4: So let me do what we're doing.
Speaker 6: And so it's just saying sometimes they have separate entrances,
Speaker 6: which I couldn't believe.
Speaker 2: I could not believe.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's that's not definitely not what we're doing here.
Speaker 4: What we're doing is for these these sorts of developments,
Speaker 4: there's a streamlined planning process, and we're saying you've got
Speaker 4: to have at least ten percent social affordable housing as
Speaker 4: part of your development. Same developments, in the same developments,
Speaker 4: in the same development. Okay, so if you're building ten
Speaker 4: story apartment building and you want to go through our
Speaker 4: faster planning processes because you get it built more quickly,
Speaker 4: you've got to have at least ten percent social affordable.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, let's cut through it.
Speaker 7: Then.
Speaker 6: Do you think that's the issue that some people have?
Speaker 6: They're like, oh, well, you know what I don't want
Speaker 6: a building we're ten percent public housing in my area,
Speaker 6: because that's what I reckon.
Speaker 2: Hope in the area.
Speaker 4: Everyone deserves the dignity of roof.
Speaker 2: But I just wonder if cutting through all the crap
Speaker 2: is that what.
Speaker 8: The issue is.
Speaker 4: I'd really hope not, because it doesn't matter whether you
Speaker 4: need a house that the government builds or a house
Speaker 4: that the private industry builds. Who they do build the
Speaker 4: majority of homes in this state, Yeah, we need more
Speaker 4: of them, and that's why we've been We announced we're
Speaker 4: releasing more land in the outer suburbs. So if you
Speaker 4: want a big house on a bigger block, there's a
Speaker 4: there's land supply and a pipeline.
Speaker 5: Some of the housing in the public housing needs a
Speaker 5: really good clean up. I saw an investigation into it
Speaker 5: the other day, and there's families living in these environments.
Speaker 5: They're so unsafe and so dangerous for these families and
Speaker 5: their kids, and they don't want to black. Some people
Speaker 5: would rather be in a shelter than be in these places.
Speaker 6: And you know that people that looked out like we
Speaker 6: used to live on just off Bluff Road in Hampton
Speaker 6: East there and there was a huge government housing area
Speaker 6: and people used to look down upon it, and he
Speaker 6: used to give me the shits because I'd sit there
Speaker 6: and go in a second.
Speaker 2: You could end up needing accommodation.
Speaker 4: More and more people are finding themselves vulnerable around because
Speaker 4: we're not building enough. And that's why a game. We've
Speaker 4: got to get a mix apartments. Townhouses are a great
Speaker 4: way to go as well. How do you make it
Speaker 4: easier for more townhouses to be built again around transports,
Speaker 4: train station locations. That's what we're focused on. And look, yes,
Speaker 4: there will be some people will have a different view
Speaker 4: and won't like what you're doing. But listening to the
Speaker 4: voices who only say no got us to this point.
Speaker 4: I want to listen to the people who want us
Speaker 4: to say yes to building more homes.
Speaker 6: Okay, bigger issue. Any chance you can have a chat
Speaker 6: with our local council. I need my bins collected more
Speaker 6: than fortnightly.
Speaker 4: That's do you want to pull him out?
Speaker 2: No, I'm in the Bentley area? Is killing me? Just
Speaker 2: sent down? Well, I'm going around the shopping center's looking
Speaker 2: for whely.
Speaker 4: Being a chance local government elections are on now, you
Speaker 4: could have.
Speaker 1: Where's your enrollment going on?
Speaker 2: Anyway?
Speaker 6: Yeah, you found that since he move moving on Lauren
Speaker 6: thirteen twenty four to ten.
Speaker 2: If you have a question for the premiere, Hey, it's
Speaker 2: not the Royals?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 4: Well no, I mean I think it's great that the
Speaker 4: King has come to visit Australia and we would love
Speaker 4: to have him here.
Speaker 1: Didn't he come to Melbourne?
Speaker 4: Well, I think there's there's a bit been said about it.
Speaker 4: His trip was focused around Sydney and Canberra had to
Speaker 4: head off into the Pacific. Couldn't possibly agree before he
Speaker 4: had to head off to the to chair the media.
Speaker 4: We could have.
Speaker 5: Stayed in Sydney because he's tired, right, he's He could
Speaker 5: have sent Camilla down for a bit of a little
Speaker 5: to see nine out at barb Amy. Milla would have
Speaker 5: loved ther knees up in Melbourne, don't you think I
Speaker 5: think she would have? So did you choose not to meet?
Speaker 1: To be a part of it?
Speaker 7: Was?
Speaker 4: There was a reception event that had a significant number
Speaker 4: of people at Parliament Housing.
Speaker 2: There are Snooze Festival.
Speaker 4: And again the government, the Victorian community was really well
Speaker 4: represented by our governor who is indeed the King's representatives
Speaker 4: in the state, Margaret Gardner, and that is an important
Speaker 4: part of her role and the government was represented by
Speaker 4: my part.
Speaker 1: That would have seen Christmas Day having the King and Queens.
Speaker 4: And I've been very busy this week focusing on how
Speaker 4: we can build more homes. Did not guarantee you didn't
Speaker 4: want to go to is a great place, but my
Speaker 4: focus has very much been on building more homes here
Speaker 4: in Melbourne.
Speaker 5: Blocked okay in all seriously to get the kids from
Speaker 5: school one day, the phones have lit up because I mean,
Speaker 5: as the premiere of this state, there's a lot of
Speaker 5: things going on.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of things people want to.
Speaker 4: Talk to you about.
Speaker 5: We're going to take your calls next thirteen twenty fourteen.
Speaker 5: If you do want to want to chat to us
Speaker 5: and the premier of Victoria Center, Alan, do you get
Speaker 5: nervous when this stuff happens and the pub the public
Speaker 5: get a chance to actually ask you a question.
Speaker 4: Well, it's a great part of the job. I say
Speaker 4: that genuinely, whether it's taking calls or speaking for people
Speaker 4: to public, that's that's what we should be doing.
Speaker 2: All right, Ship, nothing's off limits done Center Alan's actually.
Speaker 6: Calls next when you hear Coldplay Paradise, give us a
Speaker 6: ring and you will win tickets to the gig.
Speaker 2: Are you going to cold play for Center?
Speaker 4: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: Well, you're going to have to call us if you
Speaker 1: want to.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Now, we don't might not go down well with
Speaker 6: the voters if we're like, okay, Central, Alan's on the line,
Speaker 6: you've got ticket ticketing.
Speaker 5: Politicians can't do anything? Can they even elbows in trouble
Speaker 5: for buying a house, which seems ridiculous to me.
Speaker 2: What do you think of that? Bad timing?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, yeah, you got to leave, you've got to buy
Speaker 4: a house. I think I'm more focused on you know, frankly,
Speaker 4: are we going to get support from our federal government
Speaker 4: here in victory or with what we want to do?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I'm He's the Prime minister, though he
Speaker 5: should be allowed to have a buy a house.
Speaker 1: Blokes worked very hard his whole life.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's more a ting issue anyway.
Speaker 5: Anyway, we've asked Melbourne to give us a ring to
Speaker 5: ask Premier just into Alan some questions. Are you ready
Speaker 5: for this? Does this stuff freak you out? When this
Speaker 5: could be anything?
Speaker 4: But it's great?
Speaker 6: All right, good luck, it's got a hillside, Thomas. You're
Speaker 6: on the line of the premiere, which question I.
Speaker 3: Just think Jason learned, Hello morning. I just want to
Speaker 3: know without the rising uth crime going on at the moment,
Speaker 3: and what your thoughts are on that, and also how
Speaker 3: they're getting bailed so quick.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems to be the big concern.
Speaker 6: I think everyone is sick and tired and agree with
Speaker 6: me or disagree here Thomas, but I think everyone's sick
Speaker 6: and tired of seeing offenders get caught doing something harsh
Speaker 6: and finding out that they're actually already out on parole.
Speaker 4: No, look, it is and that's why a couple of
Speaker 4: months ago we announced that we've strengthening bail, the bail changes,
Speaker 4: particularly for youth offenders here in Victoria put and the
Speaker 4: legislation has already gone through the Parliament because we do
Speaker 4: recognize that we have a particular issue. We do have
Speaker 4: too many younger people. It's a smaller number, but it's
Speaker 4: the repeat offenses.
Speaker 5: And here, these repeat offenders do one too many and
Speaker 5: bang they've killed someone innocently riding their bick to work.
Speaker 4: And that's and that's horrific for the family and loved
Speaker 4: ones of that person. And that is why we've done
Speaker 4: a bunch. There's a bunch of things around this, but
Speaker 4: particularly with a focus on strengthening that bail. So for
Speaker 4: that's through the Parliament.
Speaker 5: And are you're confident that will make a difference because
Speaker 5: it feels like this problem is out of controlling Melbourne's.
Speaker 4: Well just again, it's there's a number of things you've
Speaker 4: got to do. There is a it's a smaller number
Speaker 4: of young people and can I in terms of the
Speaker 4: work that Vic Poldo they have every night overnight from
Speaker 4: dust or dawn. They have dedicated police out on the street.
Speaker 5: But I'm working with no doubt the police are doing
Speaker 5: their bit. That's the issue. I think everyone knows the
Speaker 5: police are doing their bit and then these kids are
Speaker 5: getting out again.
Speaker 4: And so we're dealing with the court issue in terms
Speaker 4: of strengthening the bail, but we've also got to go
Speaker 4: back and stop it before we get to this point,
Speaker 4: which is why there's a huge amount of work going
Speaker 4: on with police as well. How do we get these
Speaker 4: young kids when they've done something more lower end and
Speaker 4: get them away from that life.
Speaker 6: Christ sticking with cops, I just want to go to
Speaker 6: lily Dale. Now we've got Mark on the line who's
Speaker 6: a police officer. And I think we have all seen
Speaker 6: the cop cars, the ambulances driving around Melbourne, fibrigade covered
Speaker 6: in text of the cops saying we need more money,
Speaker 6: we need more hours on market morning, Mate, you're on
Speaker 6: the Larne at the center, Hi.
Speaker 4: Mark.
Speaker 8: Yes, First of all, I'd just like to thank the
Speaker 8: opportunity wan to talk in regards to this issue itself.
Speaker 8: But the question I really want to pose anyways, whether
Speaker 8: or not the Premier is willing to step up and
Speaker 8: intercede in this discussion of the ongoing EBA pay dispute
Speaker 8: between the police force and just correct the situation that's
Speaker 8: unfolded where we've had to go into Stage two industrial
Speaker 8: action in regards to an ongoing discussion of where our
Speaker 8: pays at. It's something that is quite demoralizing as a
Speaker 8: police officer to have our livelihood. I suppose just back
Speaker 8: and forth between government and our senior management in regards
Speaker 8: to it and whether or not there can be some
Speaker 8: sort of an arrangement step in and sort it out.
Speaker 2: You can hear the emotion in your voice.
Speaker 5: Mark.
Speaker 6: That's not easy to talk about, mate, and rightfully so,
Speaker 6: is that something you can sort out.
Speaker 4: Look, thank you. Firstly, thanks Mark, And I was having
Speaker 4: the same thought Jason that you can hear it. Mars
Speaker 4: obviously a really committed police officer, So I want to
Speaker 4: thank Mark for the work he does.
Speaker 7: Sook.
Speaker 4: This has been going This has been going on for.
Speaker 1: A little while.
Speaker 4: Knowledge, Yeah, and we do want to see it resolved.
Speaker 4: There was an offer that was negotiated, it was agreed
Speaker 4: between the parties, but it didn't get through the final
Speaker 4: bit of the process with the police membership. And that's okay,
Speaker 4: that's part of the process. So we are back at
Speaker 4: the what they call the negotiating table. We're working through
Speaker 4: the process. And my takeout from Mark and this is
Speaker 4: certainly something I would agree with. We've got to get
Speaker 4: on and get it resolved. Because I didn't hear from
Speaker 4: he wants to go back to me.
Speaker 2: Can you help with that in the position you're in,
Speaker 2: we can help.
Speaker 4: There is there are you know, there is any a
Speaker 4: framework around how industrial relations negotiated, but it is certainly
Speaker 4: that is a priority that we want to get resolved.
Speaker 4: We've done it with the ambo's, we've done it with
Speaker 4: the nurses. We know we need to do it with
Speaker 4: the police.
Speaker 5: Is there a timeline on that because these guys are
Speaker 5: working their guts out overnight.
Speaker 1: They're exhausted as it is, and I condee.
Speaker 2: Now I would not want that job.
Speaker 6: And as a tax payer, I'd rather mind money going
Speaker 6: towards these guys out there protecting us than building a
Speaker 6: parking statue.
Speaker 4: Yep, yep, well look at it.
Speaker 1: We can lay off the statues.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, I'll take take that as take that
Speaker 4: as red.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 4: Look I agree this and look and i'ld go back
Speaker 4: and check. I know there is a huge amount of
Speaker 4: work going on because we've got to get this result.
Speaker 1: We want to a priority.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, government, we're talking about this on the show the
Speaker 6: other day. I was at the Boundary Hotel the other
Speaker 6: week and there was this lady. I had one hour
Speaker 6: of freedom and I say, okay, I'm going one hour
Speaker 6: of freedom. And I got there and this poor lady
Speaker 6: had fallen over and she was in the car park.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 6: And there was one of the bartenders there and I
Speaker 6: stayed with him and it was like late in the day,
Speaker 6: it was getting cold. Thank god, I had all the
Speaker 6: kids jumpers in the boot, so we covered the lady.
Speaker 6: We waited an hour and twenty five minutes for an ambulance.
Speaker 6: We had ring triplo four times. It was honestly like
Speaker 6: ringing thirteen cabs. They were just like, hey, we'll get
Speaker 6: one there when we can. And then when an ambulance
Speaker 6: a right. This is the part that I found the
Speaker 6: most frightening. It was one ambo. He was on his own,
Speaker 6: so the only way they got her if we weren't there,
Speaker 6: he wouldn't been able to get her on a stretcher,
Speaker 6: get her into the ambulance to give a pain relief.
Speaker 6: What's going on in the like in the country's biggest city,
Speaker 6: how can we have that?
Speaker 2: I'll be honest, I was so frustrated.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look we and again our ambo's also do a
Speaker 4: great job, and we've got more of them on the
Speaker 4: road in fact than other in terms of head of
Speaker 4: population than any other state. But that doesn't mean, you know,
Speaker 4: we've got to stop there. There is a lot of
Speaker 4: work that's also going on and how those calls that
Speaker 4: are made, how they are their triage through the process,
Speaker 4: because we know.
Speaker 6: But then I've got a mate who's an AMBO officer,
Speaker 6: and he will spend this is no jo. Here's been
Speaker 6: half a shift sitting there playing word or parked at
Speaker 6: a hospital waiting.
Speaker 4: That's what I was. That's one of the things we've
Speaker 4: got fix. And that's one of the things between Ambulance
Speaker 4: VIC and hospitals. We've got them doing some work on
Speaker 4: exactly that. Because we are seeing that transfer a patient
Speaker 4: between AMBO and the hospital front door.
Speaker 5: That's not so frustrating for them as well, because that's
Speaker 5: not what they're trained up to know. They don't want
Speaker 5: to be sitting there making small talk with someone. And
Speaker 5: we've had people calling through as well right now who
Speaker 5: are asking how we're supporting these essential service workers because
Speaker 5: we're seeing our ambos are burnt out.
Speaker 1: We're seeing our front all of them. Please fire, they're
Speaker 1: all burning out.
Speaker 6: Can I push on it? And I get you have
Speaker 6: to give me the answer go And we're working on that.
Speaker 6: We're having those discussions. I don't know how it works, admittingly,
Speaker 6: but do you just get them in a room and go.
Speaker 6: We're not leaving until we sort it out.
Speaker 4: And that's what needs to be done, particularly on that
Speaker 4: issue of can you mat the ambulance the ambulance back
Speaker 4: door in the hospital front door. We've got to do
Speaker 4: that better. And there is that is that is that
Speaker 4: is the government? Yes, absolutely, it's the government and we
Speaker 4: have we are there are there's work going on right
Speaker 4: now on how that needs to be improved, because it's not,
Speaker 4: as you said, it's not an ambo's passion to go
Speaker 4: and sit.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 6: Actually, Lauren, that day, if that was my mum laying
Speaker 6: in that car park for an hour and a half
Speaker 6: and it turned out she broke a hit for poor bugger,
Speaker 6: and I was I was furious. I was like, as
Speaker 6: a taxpayer, where's the help when you call?
Speaker 4: And I do just want to say it is there
Speaker 4: in terms of for the really serious this case. I'm
Speaker 4: not saying this lady's case wasn't serious, but we do
Speaker 4: have a great.
Speaker 6: System was playing on the ground. It was as serious
Speaker 6: as I've seen it. I'm going to hold you to
Speaker 6: that meeting. I put me in the room.
Speaker 2: I'll get them bloody sort of it?
Speaker 7: All right?
Speaker 2: Should we go to Hillside? All right? Tom morning?
Speaker 1: Youth Crime.
Speaker 5: Emily was asking about the essential service workers and how
Speaker 5: we're helping them with burnout and fatigue, because it feels
Speaker 5: like all of our frontline workers are on the brink
Speaker 5: of people don't want to work in.
Speaker 2: Emily, what industry are you in.
Speaker 7: I'm actually an accountant.
Speaker 2: But you've got police officers in your family.
Speaker 7: Yeah, My families are predominantly police officers and like obviously
Speaker 7: the essential service workers. And so it's actually quite concerning
Speaker 7: to see the hours that they work and then the
Speaker 7: next day they have to get up being mom, b
Speaker 7: dad and then go back to work and work those
Speaker 7: extensive hours again. And what they see on the shifts
Speaker 7: and what they deal with to see it affect their
Speaker 7: mental health sometimes, Like you know, when they've done back
Speaker 7: to back shifts and they've been pretty bad shifts, they're burkout,
Speaker 7: They're exhaust there, they're fatigued, they're stressed because they're like, oh,
Speaker 7: I still got to do the paperwork or the reports
Speaker 7: or and the mental toll on them, like they're just
Speaker 7: so burnt out. Their mental health takes a bit of
Speaker 7: a toll. So my real question is like what are
Speaker 7: you doing to support these work is because they are
Speaker 7: under staff they're taking on the extra load and ye
Speaker 7: account and when yeah, when my team like is short staffed,
Speaker 7: it's stressful. And mate, I only do numbers in a calculator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, thanks, thanks Emily. Look there is alongside the
Speaker 4: discussion we've had so far about the pay and the
Speaker 4: enterprise bargaining process, there's been some targeted programs that have
Speaker 4: been developed with the Police Association Victoria Police for police
Speaker 4: mental health because it is recognizing that it is a
Speaker 4: job like no other. You do see some are you
Speaker 4: tough stuff, and it is also a job that's twenty
Speaker 4: four hours a day, seven days a week, so you're
Speaker 4: out at different times of the day when the rest
Speaker 4: of us don't have to be out out and about.
Speaker 4: So there is some really targeted support for vic POP
Speaker 4: that is run through vic Pole for Victoria Police. And
Speaker 4: this is a program we supported following advice from the
Speaker 4: Police Association saying hey, we need to do more to
Speaker 4: support police mental health.
Speaker 1: Right, and that's happening. Yes, it is happening.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hey, I'm just quickly on that. The other concern
Speaker 6: I had was Shane Patton, our police Chief Wigham, the
Speaker 6: head honcho of the.
Speaker 1: Victory I love him, we love him.
Speaker 6: However, he didn't know that the cops were referred to
Speaker 6: as the popos.
Speaker 1: Right Is that a question for the Premieer.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 6: I think in your next briefing you should let him
Speaker 6: know the slang terms used.
Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, look, we can't get to all the calls.
Speaker 5: The phones have I mean, this has gone as nuts
Speaker 5: as when we say we've got Coldplay tickets room. Now,
Speaker 5: there's a lot of people that want to talk to
Speaker 5: you there. Victoria is a great state. We've got some
Speaker 5: serious issues. Thanks for answering those questions. Oh, we appreciate it, and.
Speaker 4: Thanks to your callers. It is there are some challenges,
Speaker 4: but it is a great place and we've got to
Speaker 4: work at how do we work through those challenges and
Speaker 4: continue to support the things we love about Melbourne.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're right, we love this state and I'm sorry
Speaker 6: to get heated and by all means we wouldn't want
Speaker 6: your job. Oh god, no, no, we barely do this one.
Speaker 6: But yeah, there are a lot of frustrations and we just.
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