Speaker 1: Live from Newcastle. This is Paul Murray live out of town.
Speaker 1: Can I leaf Hello, Hello, Hello, loving to see you.
Speaker 1: We are specifically a fighter world the William Town which
Speaker 1: is just up the road. There is so much to
Speaker 1: get to tonight, and I'll tell you what. There is
Speaker 1: no better place to be in the middle of winter
Speaker 1: than right in the middle of an airport hangar. It
Speaker 1: is crispy in here, and by that I mean, of
Speaker 1: course freezing. Now great night we have ahead. In a
Speaker 1: moment or two's time, we'll get to Maddi John's will
Speaker 1: join us live from Paris. But of course he's one
Speaker 1: of the most famous Newcastle Knights of them all. But
Speaker 1: let's start with the Olympics. Australia is winning the Olympic Games.
Speaker 1: Ladies and Jelema at the top of the table. Finish it.
Speaker 1: It's over. Don't watch it anymore. Nothing better will happen
Speaker 1: than night one.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Australia currently on top with three goals, ahead of the
Speaker 1: People's Republic of China. We've beaten China. It's something for
Speaker 1: one day, and then the US of course, and then
Speaker 1: France and then the Republic of Korea. But congratulations to everyone.
Speaker 1: What a spectacular effort was but from the three Golden Girls.
Speaker 1: Of course, Arion Tipmas a very strong part of our
Speaker 1: team here in Australia, but also a big part of
Speaker 1: her supporters come from our mates at Harvey Norman. She
Speaker 1: did a spectacular job and she is going to go
Speaker 1: round again in the next twenty four hours. And as
Speaker 1: we told you on Thursday night, when you actually have
Speaker 1: a look at all of the Olympic medals, the gray
Speaker 1: bit in the middle is actually part of the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1: My question still remains, there are hundreds and hundreds of
Speaker 1: these things to be handed out. Which leg did they
Speaker 1: cut off the Eiffel Tower to put onto those medals.
Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that, of course. The road
Speaker 1: cycling as well. We got to gold there. I love
Speaker 1: we did. I'm a fat bloke who did nothing, but
Speaker 1: for seventeen days every four years we did it right.
Speaker 1: Oh how good were we swimming? How good were we cycling?
Speaker 1: Wait till we start doing rhythmic gymnastics. Also one of
Speaker 1: my favorite things that happens every four years when it
Speaker 1: comes to the Olympics. We are all experts on everything,
Speaker 1: like we just know. Oh seriously, at eight point five.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me. At best, that was a seven point two,
Speaker 1: Like we've got any idea, but it's fun to watch,
Speaker 1: and of course it's all happening as we speak now.
Speaker 1: Again not the artist of people, but I will give
Speaker 1: the French just a little breathing room. But that opening
Speaker 1: ceremony was kooky, right, Like all of them are a
Speaker 1: little bit kooky, and all of them go on too long,
Speaker 1: and all of them are a little bit cringey. Like
Speaker 1: I went back and watched the Sydney two thousand ones
Speaker 1: and I went, oh, jeez, a lot of drys a bone,
Speaker 1: which is great, good people, but a lot of it
Speaker 1: was there. There was Kylie on a pink thong in
Speaker 1: the closing ceremony, so let's not pretend we nailed it right.
Speaker 1: But the French with the Mary Antoinette, her head was
Speaker 1: cut off and blood is spurnted at the top of it.
Speaker 1: I'm watching the highlights with my kids and little z eighties,
Speaker 1: like Daddy, what happened to that Laney? And I don't
Speaker 1: know that much about my history that I'm going to
Speaker 1: go back and tell her what happened to Marie Antoinette.
Speaker 1: All I will say is something about cake and then
Speaker 1: they ripped her head off, and then they made a
Speaker 1: song about it and let the people sing. Apparently needs
Speaker 1: to be shown that La mis arrahb every two years
Speaker 1: at the State Theater. That's all I know. But of
Speaker 1: course the French Revolution all the rest of it. Then
Speaker 1: of course there was whatever the hell the dudes who
Speaker 1: look like me with no shirt on. I'm all sort
Speaker 1: of doing a bit about the Late Last Supper. Okay,
Speaker 1: who knew Papa Smurf had a kink, but apparently he does.
Speaker 1: Now we will talk to Maddie John's about what's happening
Speaker 1: in Paris, what it's like to be in Paris, And
Speaker 1: of course he is, as I say, one of the
Speaker 1: greats of the Newcastle Knights, so we'll talk to him
Speaker 1: in a moment or two time. I reckon he is
Speaker 1: having an awfully good time while he's there. But good
Speaker 1: luck to everyone who's involved. Now, speaking of teams that
Speaker 1: represent all of us. Anthony Easy, of course, not just
Speaker 1: the greatest prime minister, but he's the greatest athlete of
Speaker 1: all time, the greatest Olympian of all time. And like
Speaker 1: all politicians, you know when they hey, hey, I see
Speaker 1: how Newcastle votes. It ain't one hundred percent what this
Speaker 1: room is cheering right now, but it's good to see
Speaker 1: all of your votes turn up every three years. It
Speaker 1: is good to see all right now. Of course today
Speaker 1: he was doing his bit where he was announcing the
Speaker 1: reshuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic. But have
Speaker 1: a look at how he compares himself and his government
Speaker 1: to the Australian Olympic team. This was him today, no
Speaker 1: editing press play.
Speaker 3: Australia is a great sporting country. We punch way above
Speaker 3: our weight imp capita terms, and Australians will all be
Speaker 3: cheering on the team tonight. I'm also very proud of
Speaker 3: the strong team that I'm privileged to lead as your
Speaker 3: Prime Minister. A team that is united, a team that
Speaker 3: is ambitious, a team that is absolutely focused on continuing
Speaker 3: to deliver and work for Australia.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly the same, right, like exactly the same anyway.
Speaker 1: Another pole telling us what the reality is for the
Speaker 1: government right now is the despite their protection racket inside
Speaker 1: the camera bubble of the bubble, of the bubble, inside
Speaker 1: the bubble next to the bubble with the WhatsApp that
Speaker 1: talks to the bubble. Another pole comes out today saying
Speaker 1: that things are not looking good right now in afflection
Speaker 1: was held and it wouldn't be, but still the liberal
Speaker 1: and national putty is in front, according to the Redbridge pole,
Speaker 1: fifty one and a half percent. Now, what's fascinating to
Speaker 1: watch here is that if you dig deeper into the numbers,
Speaker 1: and you know, I'm the data dude, so I won't
Speaker 1: bore you too much with it, but literally, the people
Speaker 1: who've got lots of money and got no money and
Speaker 1: all in between, currently favoring the Libs. The people who
Speaker 1: own a house, paying off a house, renting a house,
Speaker 1: currently favoring the Libs. So think about where the politics
Speaker 1: is supposed to be at the moment where the two
Speaker 1: little too late tax cuts get It's almost like somebody
Speaker 1: made this point a thousand times that it wasn't going
Speaker 1: to match, and it didn't work, and it didn't sugar
Speaker 1: hit and all the rest of it. Let's put it
Speaker 1: this way. The only way Albo could quickly change his
Speaker 1: polls whack on a wig and call himself Kamala, And
Speaker 1: that's the way that he might get a little change,
Speaker 1: just a little one, and then we'll see what happens
Speaker 1: then of course that would mean Peter Dutton has to
Speaker 1: pay himself Orange. Okay, bad ideas, all bad ideas, but
Speaker 1: we're having a chat right now. Interestingly, this pole adds
Speaker 1: to the wider trend. Now remember they always say, oh,
Speaker 1: this one pole doesn't count and it's only one and
Speaker 1: the biggest polls election. All of that true, And I'm
Speaker 1: not somebody who believes that it is going to be
Speaker 1: at this stage most likely a one term government. But
Speaker 1: trend is always worth noting here, and it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: whether it is the left wing, the right wing, the
Speaker 1: news Corp, the Channel nine newspaper, the freaking Guardian opinion poll.
Speaker 1: Have a look at what's been happen. This is all
Speaker 1: current numbers on primary vote preferences. Of course, who knows
Speaker 1: where it all ends up, but you need to have
Speaker 1: a look here that at the last election the Labor
Speaker 1: Party is about the same at thirty two percent in
Speaker 1: Newspoll and red Bridge, but it's down four points in Resolve,
Speaker 1: three in Essential, one in fresh Water, one in Morgan.
Speaker 1: I remember that was the lowest level they had got
Speaker 1: in the best part of a century. If that was
Speaker 1: to be repeated then most likely the Greens in some place.
Speaker 1: It's a couple of places the Libs. The question is
Speaker 1: all about the Teals and what happens there. But the
Speaker 1: Libnat vote is up two point three in News poll
Speaker 1: five point three in red Bridge. Red Bridge, by the way,
Speaker 1: does a lot of polling for the Teals, So let's
Speaker 1: see what data comes out of that two point three
Speaker 1: for the resolve down in the Essential Pole, which happens
Speaker 1: to come out in the Guardian, but still fresh Water,
Speaker 1: it's up four point three and in Morgan it's three
Speaker 1: point eight. So despite the fact that the Poles are
Speaker 1: where they are, the Prime Minister has had to make
Speaker 1: a couple of changes. But it's not like we saw
Speaker 1: these changes coming. Apart from the fact that we all
Speaker 1: saw them coming. Clueless Claire O'Neill and that idiot Andrew Giles.
Speaker 1: What they did to the border, what they did to
Speaker 1: national security was a disgrace. You could be the hardest
Speaker 1: of hardcore labor supporters and know it will be people
Speaker 1: who didn't vote for it and be even more aggravated.
Speaker 1: But this was the Prime Minister standing by Andrew Giles
Speaker 1: and Claire O'Neill over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: I will be continuing in their roles. Impeter dutt in
Speaker 3: another day, another bit of negativity.
Speaker 1: I have no.
Speaker 3: Intentions of making changes imminent.
Speaker 1: A guess who got the ass today? The very two
Speaker 1: people who he was apparently saying, we're the best ministers
Speaker 1: of all time. Time out of Home Affairs, out of immigration.
Speaker 1: Andrew Giles now makes his way too. Sorry, the fighting
Speaker 1: gents are just taking off. I don't know where they're heading,
Speaker 1: but New Zealand make sure you get a good night's
Speaker 1: sleep now choking, Relax everyone. Of course what happened was
Speaker 1: is that Andrew Giles now goes off to skills or something,
Speaker 1: which is more ironic because he doesn't have them. And
Speaker 1: then of course Claire O'Neil is going to go off
Speaker 1: to housing because she knows how to build them. I
Speaker 1: don't know, it's ridiculous, right, But the person replacing them
Speaker 1: is Tony Burke. So does anyone think Tony Burke is
Speaker 1: going to do any better with the borders than the
Speaker 1: other two. And my favorite detail of the reshuffle, and
Speaker 1: again normal people could not give a tuppen th razu
Speaker 1: about a reshuffle. But not only does he keep most
Speaker 1: of his former ministries, he gets all these at it
Speaker 1: on top of it, so he's simultaneously in charge of
Speaker 1: Home Affairs, Immigration, but he'll remain the Minister for the Arts.
Speaker 1: How does this work, I don't understand, but anyway, so
Speaker 1: he will be apparently tossing all of those things at
Speaker 1: the same time. Meantime, is there about to be an
Speaker 1: early election? Now? Remember the earliest that can happen August.
Speaker 1: For one to be called for the end of August,
Speaker 1: that it have to happen now, So now we're looking
Speaker 1: at earliest case scenario September, but of course September October
Speaker 1: Queensland election and the US presidential election could be that
Speaker 1: where you go for the distraction. Otherwise we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: So most likely November December obviously, if it's to take
Speaker 1: place this year. But I wanted to show you the
Speaker 1: game that the Prime Minister is now going to play.
Speaker 1: And this is so infuriating because look, he calls it
Speaker 1: when he calls it right, he calls it next week,
Speaker 1: next month, next year, and we're all ready. I'm pretty
Speaker 1: sure you will know how to vote in the next
Speaker 1: little while. I'm pretty sure you'll all bring a pen
Speaker 1: with you. I know the people in this room. They're
Speaker 1: bringing a pen no pencils. But the reality is is
Speaker 1: that it's got to happen sooner rather than later. Prime
Speaker 1: Minister started to play the game that the Camber Press
Speaker 1: gallery loves more than anything, which is Prime Minister, Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: will there be an election anytime soon? Well, seeing you asked,
Speaker 1: let me announce it. No, but he leaves the door open.
Speaker 3: From now, I would expect that this is the team
Speaker 3: that I will take to the election when it is
Speaker 3: held sometime in the future.
Speaker 1: And this bloke is a little high on his own supply.
Speaker 1: Now we all know that Albo thinks he's the best ever.
Speaker 1: He's comparing himself to the Australian Olympic team. Does that
Speaker 1: mean there's like a little Laurie Lawrence running around in
Speaker 1: his head going go Albo, go get on your son,
Speaker 1: get in there like that's how he pumps himself up
Speaker 1: every who knows. Right, when he starts stealing Japanese flags,
Speaker 1: there's a litt Dawn Fraser inside him. We'll all see
Speaker 1: what happens, okay when he goes to the G seven
Speaker 1: and starts taking things. But have a look at how
Speaker 1: he spoke to a reporter today. Now again I'm no
Speaker 1: faner the Cambra Press gallery. But how patronizing is this
Speaker 1: leader of the country with a reporter doing a natural
Speaker 1: follow up to the when is the election going to be? Vague? Question?
Speaker 1: Is this a guy who is doing anything other than
Speaker 1: playing games?
Speaker 4: What's you take given the elections sort of around the corner?
Speaker 2: How much of this light around the corner?
Speaker 3: Although I keep reading August thirty one, which means I
Speaker 3: need to go see the GG this afternoon. If that's
Speaker 3: the case, you really no one out there, not necessarily.
Speaker 3: What's the car, mate, see where it goes? It's the
Speaker 3: one with the flag on the front.
Speaker 5: How much of this ministry, particularly your senior players, some.
Speaker 3: Of whom.
Speaker 1: Seriously, this guy he just keeps hitting him, doesn't he?
Speaker 1: And there is six and out because they keep hitting
Speaker 1: the neighbors roof six and out six and out almost
Speaker 1: likely the neighbor's cat. I know that was Malcolm Turnbull.
Speaker 1: Now let's talk here about another little issue which was
Speaker 1: allegedly which was that Matt Thistleflake. Now he of course
Speaker 1: was appointed to the most bizarre of the ministries when
Speaker 1: now they first became the prime minister two and a
Speaker 1: big years ago that scenario was that he was the
Speaker 1: Deputy Minister for the Republic and then sixty percent of
Speaker 1: Australia said hell no last year. So guess what disappeared today,
Speaker 1: the Ministry for the Republic. But despite the facts, you
Speaker 1: like it, okay?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 1: So despite the fact that it was his idea and
Speaker 1: he named someone for the job, right, he kept them there,
Speaker 1: did not sack them, did not move them, did not
Speaker 1: anywhere else. Right. Anthony Alberanezi, when asked why did you
Speaker 1: get rid of it now, blamed the previous leader of
Speaker 1: the Labor Party, Bill Short and have a look for
Speaker 1: a decision he made today.
Speaker 6: I thought, you've asked.
Speaker 3: The Republic as a portfolio.
Speaker 1: Why have you done that?
Speaker 7: And he's had an admission that that was a bit
Speaker 7: of an indulgence and not realistic.
Speaker 3: Well, the portfolio was appointed first under the previous Labor leader.
Speaker 3: It's something that I inherited.
Speaker 1: What is his fault? What is his responsibility? Now? Fingers crossed.
Speaker 1: Inflation members, they stay in the line ball territory for
Speaker 1: the Reserve Bank if they mirror what had happened last
Speaker 1: month as opposed to the month before. When it comes
Speaker 1: to what it will happen with June with inflation, interest
Speaker 1: rates go up. If interest rates go up, we are
Speaker 1: told eight hundred thousand more Australians end up going into
Speaker 1: mortgage stress. This is on top of the millions more
Speaker 1: who are finding it very difficult to pay a house off.
Speaker 1: There's a serious worry of people right now. We've had
Speaker 1: the money blasted against the wall of fourteen bucks a week.
Speaker 1: That didn't change anything politically. That could well have gone
Speaker 1: into many other things, including in my view, if a
Speaker 1: government has a surplus, they should take a couple of
Speaker 1: billion dollars and give it straight to the charities that
Speaker 1: are actually doing the things for the difficult times right now,
Speaker 1: right because it helps.
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 1: I cliche, It's just like it really gets me.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's quickly get to the States and the question I
Speaker 1: will be asked right up until November the fifth. No
Speaker 1: doubt it's Trump going to win, Paul, do you think
Speaker 1: Trump's still going to win? What's going to happen when
Speaker 1: it comes to Trump? Now, I've got to say well
Speaker 1: done to the news corp sites around the country that
Speaker 1: have had to come up with a slightly different way
Speaker 1: of covering what felt like a pretty boring campaign. But
Speaker 1: now that, of course, is all changed in the past
Speaker 1: couple of weeks. It's called United Mates. This is when
Speaker 1: it's a cool idea. They're going to go and visit Brisbane, Hobart, Sydney, Adelaide,
Speaker 1: Perth and Melbourne, but not in Australia. They're going to
Speaker 1: Brisbane in California, Hobart in Wisconsin, Sydney and Ohio, Adelaide
Speaker 1: and Pennsylvania, Perth in Delaware, and Melbourne in Florida to say, hey,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think of what is happening with
Speaker 1: this election? And this is part of their series that's
Speaker 1: up on the websites. Now it's good, well, well.
Speaker 2: Let's go office. The country was in far better shape
Speaker 2: than when we came into office.
Speaker 1: The economy was on fire. He got us involved in
Speaker 1: any war.
Speaker 7: That is the scariest human being that I've ever encountered
Speaker 7: in the United States of America.
Speaker 1: I think he wants to be a ten. Now are
Speaker 1: things tightening, Yes they are, but we're still not close
Speaker 1: enough to know enough data as to whether this thing
Speaker 1: has become fifty to fifty, has gone Harris's way, or
Speaker 1: is staying Trump's now, remember when Biden's brain exploded before
Speaker 1: the world one point change, when the former president's ear
Speaker 1: exploded one point change. Whether there'll be a bigger change
Speaker 1: as a result of a change of candidate will find
Speaker 1: it together. Betting Market's fifty seven forty in favor of
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. That has come down from the high sixty.
Speaker 1: So it is a change. So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: In terms of the swing states. Of the six that
Speaker 1: are here, the Republicans would end up winning five of
Speaker 1: them right now, that would be a pretty comfortable lead.
Speaker 1: But the media is doing its best, including CNN to
Speaker 1: tell us that Kamala Harris is Obama in a skirt
Speaker 1: and Hilary with the braid.
Speaker 8: I think she is someone who comes across as very fun,
Speaker 8: as very engaging, as very relatable. I can tell you
Speaker 8: that's been my experience with her whenever I've interacted with her,
Speaker 8: and she is someone who really cares about people, and
Speaker 8: it's sort of like a cool aunt in a lot
Speaker 8: of ways.
Speaker 1: The cool auntie Radio now also, But then jd Vance,
Speaker 1: who is a problematic figure and I'll get to that
Speaker 1: tomorrow night with what some of the issues are with
Speaker 1: him as the running mate, but he's kind of mini Trump, right,
Speaker 1: No apologies, double down, including having a crack at the media,
Speaker 1: because the media are the ones who held up Biden
Speaker 1: are now trying to pump up Harris.
Speaker 8: We've got some of our friends in the media back
Speaker 8: there and after.
Speaker 1: They deserve it. I don't think I look like him.
Speaker 1: Somebody said I did. Clearly. If I look like him,
Speaker 1: it'd be unelectable, right, Nobody this big gets to run
Speaker 1: for vice president. All right, let's have a chat nowt
Speaker 1: to the wonderful Maddie John's we love Maddie of course
Speaker 1: on Fox League Legend of the Newcastle Knights Rugby League
Speaker 1: football club. A wonderful man. He's got a great new
Speaker 1: podcast up with James Madison. We'll get that in the second.
Speaker 1: But have a look. He's got it all behind him.
Speaker 1: The Olympics happening in the Eiffel Tower. This just screams
Speaker 1: and Newcastle boy to me, yeah.
Speaker 9: Paris what it's not exactly Sessanov, but it's okay. Poulie
Speaker 9: having a great time here. It's been fantastic. Last night
Speaker 9: when it was Arion Tipmas it was really really something special.
Speaker 2: But it's been fantastic here.
Speaker 9: We went down watched the Matilda's in Marseillese beautiful city.
Speaker 2: It's been fantastic.
Speaker 9: It was a little bit a little bit probably the
Speaker 9: opening ceremony, it was a little mixed. They had the
Speaker 9: It was a great idea, I thought, putting the athletes
Speaker 9: on the boats. But yeah, it didn't really they didn't
Speaker 9: really pull it off. Of some of the poor countries
Speaker 9: weren Dinghy's. I think one bloke was on a boogie board.
Speaker 1: Eric the Eel is still following up right now, give
Speaker 1: us an idea. I mean that opening ceremony right again,
Speaker 1: French artie, contrarian, all the rest of it. But when
Speaker 1: I said before, when I had to explain to my
Speaker 1: six year old why the ladies head was cut off
Speaker 1: and blood was coming from it, it was a weird
Speaker 1: moment I didn't expect to have a chat about when
Speaker 1: it came to the Olympics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't really scream an Olympic spirit.
Speaker 1: No, it wasn't. Sort of I didn't sort of think,
Speaker 1: you know, faster Hire further was relation to the guillotine.
Speaker 1: But you know, perhaps that's their exhibition sport which is
Speaker 1: coming up. But give us an idea. When you said
Speaker 1: about being there with the swimmers. You know, watching it
Speaker 1: on the telly, it's infectious and it didn't matter whether
Speaker 1: you watched it in the middle of the night live
Speaker 1: or saw it a thousand times to day. But I mean,
Speaker 1: she's an amazing athlete. But the number of people there,
Speaker 1: I mean, when a French person swimming, it's awesome. But
Speaker 1: what I love about a swimming crowd is that it
Speaker 1: is able to follow best in field and doesn't just
Speaker 1: go silent because the person swimming isn't from their country.
Speaker 9: Paul, you the atmosphere at all the events has been amazing.
Speaker 9: I went to the rugby seven's yesterday at the Big
Speaker 9: Stadium there and I mean it was remarkable bender Grand
Speaker 9: Finals State of Origin matches, but I've never heard anything
Speaker 9: like it. When the French team ran on the field,
Speaker 9: it was deafening. It was amazing in your right, like
Speaker 9: in the background. Now you wouldn't be able to hear it,
Speaker 9: but you know you can hear the roar occasionally with
Speaker 9: the beach volleyball.
Speaker 2: It's terrific. And you know you said about the swimming.
Speaker 9: We spoke to the Tipmus family, Ariane's family straight after
Speaker 9: the event and I said, what's your emotions?
Speaker 2: Is it elation or relief?
Speaker 9: And they said, well, it's probably relief with all the
Speaker 9: pressure on it. But that's what makes her amazing, you know.
Speaker 9: And one thing is to excel at a sport, but
Speaker 9: when you apply pressure, it's completely different.
Speaker 2: And she delivered. It's going to be really interesting in
Speaker 2: the two hundred.
Speaker 9: Now Arian has got a lot of momentum after winning
Speaker 9: the four hundred. Molly is the favorite in the two hundred.
Speaker 9: But I don't know the miss Old James Magnus and
Speaker 9: he reckons Am might get.
Speaker 1: A Now let's talk about this right yourself the missile
Speaker 1: together in a podcast. He seems to be a bloke
Speaker 1: just like yourself. And I love telling people about this
Speaker 1: that not just passion and finding the big brain. And
Speaker 1: you get so much more than sometimes the scope of
Speaker 1: what you're able to get away and talk about on television.
Speaker 1: So what's it like for you guys to be rapping
Speaker 1: about all sorts of stuff in the freedom of a podcast.
Speaker 2: Well, it's been brilliant.
Speaker 9: James, he's a fantastic talent. I mean his brain not
Speaker 9: just for not just for swimming, but just all sports
Speaker 9: is brillant. Like last night talking about you know, before
Speaker 9: we went in he spoke about Arion and how she
Speaker 9: was going to approach it. You know, he text me
Speaker 9: straight after he was in there or having a bit
Speaker 9: of a yarn and he texted me instead.
Speaker 1: Mate.
Speaker 9: She won in the third one hundred and explained exactly
Speaker 9: why it's amazing to have an insight from James.
Speaker 2: But yeah, he's a terrific bloke. A tear what Paul.
Speaker 2: He's a straight shooter, he's not afraid have an opinion.
Speaker 2: I really like him. He's been terrific.
Speaker 1: All right, Well do your best. Send me some photos
Speaker 1: of the cigar bars are there, because if nothing else,
Speaker 1: the French, ironically, while hosting the greatest athletic competition in
Speaker 1: the world, loves smoking. The one place left where they
Speaker 1: love smoking. Maddie, we love your big fellow. Sorry, before
Speaker 1: you go.
Speaker 9: You finish up for I just ye, I just want
Speaker 9: to say you had to be in Newcastle for the
Speaker 9: you know, like for the people of Newcastle.
Speaker 2: That that city. Honestly, what it means means to me
Speaker 2: and my family. Like also stop going in on Cessnal
Speaker 2: Council moved there. Got to start with the Knights.
Speaker 9: Married Trish there had two beautiful sons, and I just
Speaker 9: love it.
Speaker 1: You're a good man. He loves this place and it
Speaker 1: loves you back. Maddie John's do we love Maddi John.
Speaker 1: We love Maddie John. You're a great man. Church is
Speaker 1: a lovely lady. All the best of your family, mate,
Speaker 1: enjoy the games. We'll talk again as they roll on.
Speaker 1: Good Man, Maddie John's joining us there from Paris. Now
Speaker 1: where we are right now is Fighter World. Now Fighter
Speaker 1: World is right on the side of the air base
Speaker 1: and as you can see around there is some incredible
Speaker 1: pieces of aviation military history to have a look at. Here.
Speaker 1: He's part of a tour of a place that's got
Speaker 1: to be on the bucket list. Well Dale, thank you
Speaker 1: very much for having us. So, I'm so excited we
Speaker 1: are here. Tell us about this facility before we start
Speaker 1: to get into the incredible machinery. What's it about? What's
Speaker 1: it for?
Speaker 10: These hangars exist so that the historical artifacts that really
Speaker 10: tell us about where we've come from this nation, how
Speaker 10: we've survived is can actually be accessed via the general public.
Speaker 1: The evolution is extraordinary and it's all on show here.
Speaker 1: Yes it is.
Speaker 10: Yes, probably the The best example of that is a
Speaker 10: replica sopwith camera.
Speaker 1: So how long did this take for the team here
Speaker 1: to build?
Speaker 10: I believe it was nine years and it was an
Speaker 10: ex rap retirey that actually headed up the project. Yes,
Speaker 10: it was built in past, but it took about nine
Speaker 10: years to do that.
Speaker 1: And way back when when this was a fighting machine,
Speaker 1: what are the sorts of things that would be dropped
Speaker 1: from the sky.
Speaker 10: Originally it was a matter of carrying other opinion lap
Speaker 10: and dropping them out of the cockpit.
Speaker 1: Just literally lifting and going oh yes, now, Dale, this
Speaker 1: is a big step up. But what am I looking
Speaker 1: at here?
Speaker 10: What you're looking at is late fifties technology that was
Speaker 10: produced by the Dessault factory in France, and it's cold
Speaker 10: a mirage.
Speaker 1: This one was rated at MAC two.
Speaker 10: Now Mactoo effectively means that it was able to fly
Speaker 10: at twice the speed of sound per hour.
Speaker 1: That's about twelve hundred and seventy five comments. Now time's
Speaker 1: too wow. All right, Now here's the bit where the
Speaker 1: Bogan's going to ask the expert about the top gun
Speaker 1: of it all. Not entirely the exact same machine, but still,
Speaker 1: anyone who saw the movies this is sort of close enough.
Speaker 1: But tell me about the hornet and when it was up,
Speaker 1: when it was down, and some of its features, including
Speaker 1: that massive gun. The point of this gun is to
Speaker 1: kill something in front of me or to somehow bend
Speaker 1: it down, because this is a bloody big gun, and
Speaker 1: I'm thinking a little bit of resistance in the air
Speaker 1: follow All right, Good, so I told you it wasn't done.
Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Definitely not done. But under
Speaker 1: the nose.
Speaker 10: Here there are doors that actually swing down that actually
Speaker 10: take the weapon up. Oh wow, wow, so effectively the
Speaker 10: projectiles are firing over the nose and in line with
Speaker 10: the aircraft.
Speaker 1: So this is inside, Yes, it is. There we go
Speaker 1: for those of us again, we've seen the movies, what's
Speaker 1: the top gun? All the rest of it? Right, as
Speaker 1: a man who understands the science of these things, what's
Speaker 1: the greatest load of b esterday in those movies that
Speaker 1: you think, No, that can't even be done? What most
Speaker 1: of it? Far be it from me to find vs
Speaker 1: with it simply because I enjoy it. But I reckon
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise being able to go straight down and straight
Speaker 1: up seems difficult. I do agree. Good there you guys
Speaker 1: see they're the polite, scientific version of its garbage. Quite
Speaker 1: a well. Is awesome to all the blokes who help
Speaker 1: run it, of course, Dick Coleman, Rick Dyson, lads love
Speaker 1: you to see you.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: Adding for the top gun theme as the sun was
Speaker 1: sitting this afternoon, I love that you guys and all
Speaker 1: of the other volunteers do the shirtless volleyball thing at
Speaker 1: sunset for anyone who wants to come and have look.
Speaker 1: It's a lovely touch you put on here. Now. Your
Speaker 1: aviation history we've discussed while we're up here last time,
Speaker 1: and the facility that you've built here is so important
Speaker 1: that people are able not just to see the machines,
Speaker 1: but it was in talking to yourself and other people
Speaker 1: that I also started to make the immediate connection to
Speaker 1: the people who have flown them as well. How important
Speaker 1: is that as part of the story of what you've
Speaker 1: built here, that it's a gateway to better understanding the
Speaker 1: people that have flown them as well.
Speaker 2: I think it's very important, Paul.
Speaker 11: Where As you've seen Dale talking to you just in
Speaker 11: the clip, there where a great team of storytellers and
Speaker 11: that's what Fier World is all about, passing on history
Speaker 11: and the best way to do that is through storytelling.
Speaker 1: And it's something that again the you know, a long
Speaker 1: time ago, people worked out that the future of museums
Speaker 1: was things that you could touch and look at and
Speaker 1: all of that. Well, hello, that's where you've been since
Speaker 1: day one, right that this is very tactile place as well,
Speaker 1: that idiots like me can come up and have a
Speaker 1: look at everything, but kids, you can imagine that their
Speaker 1: eyes light up. The chance to be able to sometimes
Speaker 1: even get close to sitting.
Speaker 11: In one of these things absolutely inspired. It's a great
Speaker 11: thing to have the children here. They can sit in
Speaker 11: some of the airplanes, they can look at the airplanes,
Speaker 11: they can touch the airplanes, and you can't do that
Speaker 11: anywhere else where. A unique museum when it comes to those.
Speaker 1: Side of things, Now, Rick, I want to get lost
Speaker 1: in the politics of how things work, but people need
Speaker 1: to know that this is an entirely independent thing, right
Speaker 1: like this, Yes, has its connections to the Air Force,
Speaker 1: but it is its own thing. It stands on its
Speaker 1: own two feet. And that also means funding and finance
Speaker 1: and donations and people turning up. It's really important that
Speaker 1: even people who may have been here before on a
Speaker 1: school excursion they come back because it helps with the
Speaker 1: financial future of this place for somebody to bring their
Speaker 1: kids back. Oh. Absolutely.
Speaker 12: From an air Force perspective, our key role here is
Speaker 12: to actually deserve the artifacts. While you will call them
Speaker 12: an aircraft, they're no longer an aircraft from our point
Speaker 12: of view. From a museum perspective, they're an artifact and
Speaker 12: so we have to care for them and nurture them
Speaker 12: and make sure that they're around for generations to come.
Speaker 12: And you know, we look, I'm unfortunately a little bit
Speaker 12: biased towards the Fighter World team. They do an astonishing
Speaker 12: job and you know, we're incredibly grateful for what they've
Speaker 12: done over over thirty years now to preserve the local.
Speaker 1: History of Newcastle.
Speaker 12: And you know, Air Force, as it does, it's bit
Speaker 12: there to actually take care of all of those artifacts
Speaker 12: to make sure that Fighter World and other volunteer organizations
Speaker 12: around the country are able to actually present the Australian
Speaker 12: history and the Australian aviation history in particular.
Speaker 1: What's your favorite what's your favorite one that's in here?
Speaker 1: To pick a baby that you like more than.
Speaker 12: Others, Well, I'm going to get in trouble because I'm
Speaker 12: actually going to pick a replica, and my favorite is
Speaker 12: the st with cameel.
Speaker 1: Yes, so yes not its fans.
Speaker 12: Absolutely that aircraft was built from original plans by the
Speaker 12: Fighter World team.
Speaker 1: So that's the other thing too. You may not, I
Speaker 1: don't know the weather word fits right, Like obviously there's
Speaker 1: such engineering and aeronautical nouse, right, but there's an artistry
Speaker 1: as well in doing those things. Do you have a
Speaker 1: certain amount of pride from the stuff that you guys
Speaker 1: have been able to get up to show rather than
Speaker 1: just something that comes in.
Speaker 11: Yes, And it goes back to the guys who grew
Speaker 11: up in an era where they had to be hands on,
Speaker 11: They had to make the things themselves. These days everything
Speaker 11: is computer controlled.
Speaker 1: CAD generated.
Speaker 11: I have a team of guys here that can make
Speaker 11: virtually anything at all. They are amazing and they're all
Speaker 11: our volunteers. Without them, we wouldn't exist.
Speaker 1: Well, So it's here widimtown to physically come and do it.
Speaker 1: But if you're in the region and you'd like to
Speaker 1: come and volunteer, that's a good thing too, right, So
Speaker 1: get in touch because we want people of all different
Speaker 1: ages to be as connected to this place. Other people
Speaker 1: who run it as the people of all different ages
Speaker 1: that come and visit it. Lads, thank you very much,
Speaker 1: do appreciate it. And you don't need just four letters
Speaker 1: in your name, all right. You could be of anyone
Speaker 1: anywhere if you're coming and do it. Thank you guys,
Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Is an absolute credit. There's more stuff
Speaker 1: to do for year at quite a world, including literally
Speaker 1: a little bit of the simulation. I'll get involved in
Speaker 1: a moment or two is time, but more here from
Speaker 1: Winningtown to start the road from Newcastle in a moment
Speaker 1: here on Paul Murray Live. Welcome back here to win
Speaker 1: in Town, just off the Newcastle. Love it to see you.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much for coming along. Guys. We've got
Speaker 1: a great audience. You go for a been awesome now
Speaker 1: Harving Norman, of course, such an incredible part of what
Speaker 1: we're able to do, to be able to come to
Speaker 1: each and every part of the country for as many
Speaker 1: years as we have and each and every month. I
Speaker 1: know there's so many people who love these shows because
Speaker 1: we get to tell you stories again about the people
Speaker 1: who just are doing a bit for their communities and
Speaker 1: don't normally get the attention. But there's a wonderful effort
Speaker 1: that is put on by the Weekly Times with Harvey Norman,
Speaker 1: which of course the Shine Awards. And I had the
Speaker 1: chance a couple of days ago to talk to a
Speaker 1: wonderful lady named Sarah. Now she's put together this website
Speaker 1: that can help people right across regional Australia sell their
Speaker 1: goods on the Internet, so you don't end up with
Speaker 1: a scenario where there's just, you know, one little shop
Speaker 1: in Orange that's trying to compete against you know, the
Speaker 1: biggest stuff in the world versus something happening in Western Australia.
Speaker 1: It's a one sort of imagine a one stop shop
Speaker 1: for all of the other little shops that are around Australia.
Speaker 1: And she was recognized by the Shine Awards and you
Speaker 1: had a chance to visit her in a beautiful family
Speaker 1: just before. Our mates of Harvey Norman are so proud
Speaker 1: to present the Shine Awards each and every year, and
Speaker 1: why wouldn't they be. It's such a great way to
Speaker 1: honor the regional women who were doing their best to
Speaker 1: serve their community and make us so proud to be Australians.
Speaker 1: Sarah Britz was nominated in twenty twenty three for her
Speaker 1: work with Spend with Us. Now, this is an online
Speaker 1: marketplace which is connecting regional businesses with potential customers. So
Speaker 1: think about it.
Speaker 13: If you were a small regional shop, you have your
Speaker 13: own website, but no one's going to your website. But
Speaker 13: if everyone gets together behind the same website, well then
Speaker 13: a lot more people know about the incredible things that
Speaker 13: have for sale each and every day in the high
Speaker 13: street of every country town.
Speaker 1: So to learn a little.
Speaker 13: More, we went to Fountaindale to meet Sarah and understand
Speaker 13: what Spend.
Speaker 1: With Us is all about. Sarah, So love you to
Speaker 1: meet you, love me to meet your team. Congratulations on
Speaker 1: the Shine Awards, but more importantly, congratulations on what you've
Speaker 1: been able to build. Give us an idea. Where did
Speaker 1: you get the idea from to help people in this way?
Speaker 14: So it was during the twenty ninety two twenty bush
Speaker 14: fires I realized there were so many small businesses in
Speaker 14: rural and regional areas that didn't have websites.
Speaker 6: They weren't online, and when the bush fires were affecting their.
Speaker 14: Towns, they couldn't keep trading, they couldn't get to markets,
Speaker 14: they couldn't open their stores and tourists couldn't come in
Speaker 14: and buy from them and support them. So I came
Speaker 14: up with the idea of creating one central place where
Speaker 14: these businesses with no technical knowledge to come and create
Speaker 14: a website store very quickly and very easily.
Speaker 1: Virginias of the idea is to have a hub, mainly
Speaker 1: that there is this one place where you might be
Speaker 1: intending to go and search for something, but you might
Speaker 1: find something else, which means just like when you were
Speaker 1: walking up and down the main street of a country town,
Speaker 1: you would be you wouldn't realize that you were shopping
Speaker 1: for honey, but you bought some honey exactly.
Speaker 14: There are just so many unique and beautiful products in
Speaker 14: our marketplace.
Speaker 6: We have every twenty thousand products on there.
Speaker 14: And there's almost two thousand register small businesses on the
Speaker 14: site as well, so you'll find everything from yet, like
Speaker 14: you said, honey, to boutique wine, to clothing to Marino
Speaker 14: baby blankets. It's just everything. There's so many small businesses.
Speaker 14: They didn't have a clue what to do when it
Speaker 14: comes to e commerce, and now they're pros. You know,
Speaker 14: they they've been able to scale their businesses. They'd be
Speaker 14: able to diversify. You know, we provide not only a marketplace,
Speaker 14: but we also provide them a place to advertise and
Speaker 14: promote their products through our huge three hundred and sixty
Speaker 14: thousand member Facebook groups.
Speaker 1: Tell us about some of the people behind some of
Speaker 1: those businesses.
Speaker 14: There's a lot so I mean, we've got businesses have
Speaker 14: been with us from you know, when the bushfires happened,
Speaker 14: a lot of them. There's a business called Liro Mac Designs.
Speaker 14: You know, their farm was decimated with the bushfires. They've
Speaker 14: had to rebuild a lot of a lot of the
Speaker 14: the fences and everything to keep going. And they make
Speaker 14: these beautiful Marino baby blankets and scarves and beanies.
Speaker 6: You know, they're they're just one of the stories.
Speaker 14: We've got another business, Amy from Quentin park Our Packers.
Speaker 14: She makes this incredible outpack of fiber products. You know,
Speaker 14: she started off making paper products and then had other
Speaker 14: si Figer in the drought, and now she makes outpack
Speaker 14: of flowers, autpacka hearing, a black of Bier earrings are
Speaker 14: just incredible products as well.
Speaker 1: Tell us about the experience of the Shinawards. Obviously, you
Speaker 1: don't know it's happening until it happens. What was that
Speaker 1: like for you?
Speaker 14: We showards an amazing, amazing awards thee really I mean
Speaker 14: it highlights the incredible achievements of.
Speaker 6: Rural immugionable women. And many rural imusional women get overlooked
Speaker 6: really and kind of hiding the shadows.
Speaker 1: They don't like to be in the limelights, correct.
Speaker 14: But by getting a nomination, you know, for the Shine Awards,
Speaker 14: it just gives you that encouragement that boost your confidence,
Speaker 14: opens up so many opportunities in marketing opportunities, company customers, partnerships.
Speaker 6: It's just it's a great thing to be a part of.
Speaker 1: How important is it to you that you're part of
Speaker 1: this family that is supporting women no matter where they
Speaker 1: live in the country.
Speaker 6: It's extremely important, you know.
Speaker 14: I think there are so many incredible regional and rural
Speaker 14: women doing.
Speaker 6: Fantastic things and they don't get noticed.
Speaker 14: So by getting a nomination and being part of an
Speaker 14: awards like this helps to boost their awareness about them
Speaker 14: and it gives them encouragement.
Speaker 1: Let's imagine somebody is impressed by your story, which would
Speaker 1: be easy. They'd like to nominate someone for the Shan Awards,
Speaker 1: but they're just on the edge why should people do it?
Speaker 14: Oh, that should do it because you know, it shines
Speaker 14: a light on that person. It gives them a boost
Speaker 14: of confidence. It's a great way to show that person
Speaker 14: they've been seen. And you know there's so many incredible
Speaker 14: women doing amazing things and impact.
Speaker 6: Making impact in the community.
Speaker 14: Just to get a nomination from somebody commun the world
Speaker 14: to them and it because they can help so many
Speaker 14: new opportunities.
Speaker 1: To good on you, sir, Thank you do. Sarah is amazing,
Speaker 1: a perfect example of the sort of person who had
Speaker 1: an idea and it turned from the side hustle into
Speaker 1: the main game. She is a wonderful person. Her husband
Speaker 1: and I certainly know all of her family who watched
Speaker 1: the show as regularly as they do, and her little
Speaker 1: kids have got great YouTube channels as well. I promised
Speaker 1: that I'd give them a little plug all right now.
Speaker 1: The wonderful Katie Page has not just supported this show,
Speaker 1: but has been able to support many people involved in
Speaker 1: the Olympic and Parilampic Games, and Arion Tipmus has been
Speaker 1: somebody that she identified a long time before the rest
Speaker 1: of the country knew her as a household name. And
Speaker 1: Katie has recorded a message for this Australian champion after
Speaker 1: getting gold in Paris overnight.
Speaker 7: Carry on you one. We are also proud of you.
Speaker 7: Here Australia is proud. You're an absolute superstar. We all
Speaker 7: wish we were there with you, all twenty seven million
Speaker 7: people of us, so so fantastic. What more can I say.
Speaker 1: Katy, We love you area. Thank you to Katie, Thank
Speaker 1: you to Harvey Norman and more from Newcastle, my secundertartment.
Speaker 1: Welcome back. Quite a world here women Chunders North in Newcastle,
Speaker 1: beautiful part of the Hunter Valley in New South Wales.
Speaker 1: People who represent the area both the local government and
Speaker 1: federal government level. Of course David Gillespie well known as
Speaker 1: a local federal MP, and of course a councilor. Peter
Speaker 1: Winnie Barts wanted to get it all correct, is a
Speaker 1: local councilor here in Newcastle. Thank you very much welcome.
Speaker 1: I lovely to see you this part of the world.
Speaker 1: It is spectacular to see, but it's also fairly diverse, right,
Speaker 1: like we all know there there is the places that
Speaker 1: your dream of being able to buy and there are
Speaker 1: the tougher parts of town. Right in terms of your
Speaker 1: job of trying to represent it in the federal Parliament.
Speaker 1: How do you make sure that the average citizen gets
Speaker 1: represented the same way, so a big industry would be
Speaker 1: represented because most people in Canberra would generally only think
Speaker 1: of the industry.
Speaker 4: Right, well, you keep in touch with your base. I
Speaker 4: visited here regularly. I've got some of the most beautiful
Speaker 4: parts of New South Wales. What other places got beaches, whales, vineyards, golf,
Speaker 4: concert venues, big city. It's the engine room of the state.
Speaker 4: All the lights would go out and all the trains
Speaker 4: had stopped, everything else that'd stop if it wasn't for
Speaker 4: the under correct and look there's history here.
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we got some of the best while watching only
Speaker 4: sort of close second to Port Macquarie, which is the
Speaker 4: other end of mind.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, it's all you get the
Speaker 1: best of both worlds, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I've got a beautiful part of the world.
Speaker 4: The thing about Newcastle is there's people who know how
Speaker 4: to put the nuts and bolts of life and the
Speaker 4: machinery of an economy together. It's produced a steel for decades.
Speaker 4: It was sad when the steel works go. We've still
Speaker 4: got aluminium and we hope that it stays here forever,
Speaker 4: and lots of other heavy industry in this area. But
Speaker 4: you've got beautiful beaches, you know, poor Stevens Nelson Bayhawk's
Speaker 4: Nest up to the Great Lakes.
Speaker 1: You can drive over.
Speaker 4: What places can you be at the beach watching whales,
Speaker 4: go to a vineyard, play golf on top notch courses,
Speaker 4: ride bikes across the hunt of flats and see all
Speaker 4: this colonial history all in one pace. You've got a
Speaker 4: beautiful indigenous heritage in this pace, and it's just it's
Speaker 4: got everything. And this is going to be an international
Speaker 4: airports and so all those people from Asia and the
Speaker 4: West Coast will be able to.
Speaker 1: Come well because it's a thing where Peter that I
Speaker 1: mean in the time of visiting Newcastle, and I visited
Speaker 1: it for a whole bunch of reasons for a long
Speaker 1: period of time, right, seen it change that area right
Speaker 1: down that sort of honeysuckle, all of that area pretty
Speaker 1: fancy now, to be honest, it's right up there with anywhere,
Speaker 1: with anywhere that you could go for top notche food, accommodation,
Speaker 1: all the rest of it. Right, How Newcastle represents itself
Speaker 1: and how it's itself to not just the rest of
Speaker 1: its region, but how it represents the rest of the state.
Speaker 1: They're really kind. There is everything here if you wanted to, right,
Speaker 1: you can go one hundred percent footy and go karts
Speaker 1: if you want to. But if you also want to
Speaker 1: do sort of wine and cheeses, that's all great, and
Speaker 1: you can fill a weekend there too.
Speaker 15: And I think that's something we're really priding ourselves on.
Speaker 15: We don't just look at Newcastle in its as a silo.
Speaker 15: We do really look at as a region. There is
Speaker 15: a gateway everywhere to everywhere else. You know, we have
Speaker 15: an international airport, we have a deep water port that's
Speaker 15: now diversifying as well. You know, we have jobs, we
Speaker 15: have the visitor economy. I think you know, in years
Speaker 15: gone by, it would have been a place where people
Speaker 15: perhaps finished school and went on to union and thought
Speaker 15: about where else they're going to go. I know, my children,
Speaker 15: who are you know, twenty four down to twelve, They're
Speaker 15: not going anywhere. They're all staying here in Newcastle.
Speaker 1: So tell us about it had that blank checkbook, maybe
Speaker 1: not just about money, but just about say attention, right,
Speaker 1: Like if you could just have a week of the
Speaker 1: government's full focus, what does this joint need.
Speaker 4: Oh look, it'd be great to have a high speed
Speaker 4: round network coming out out of here. I think it's
Speaker 4: just more investment in the energy. As you know, outside
Speaker 4: of Parliament wants to keep gas in cold going and
Speaker 4: this would be a great center for the nuclear industry
Speaker 4: as well because Australia, the economy of the industrial world
Speaker 4: runs on electrons and we need heaps of them. The
Speaker 4: digital world runs on electricity. Everything runs on electricity and
Speaker 4: the Hunter has been the center of that for New
Speaker 4: South Wales. Sure we're adding other forms of energy with renewables,
Speaker 4: but it wouldn't be working tonight if we're relying on
Speaker 4: windmills or solar panels.
Speaker 1: So good point. So, Peter, you could get the premiut
Speaker 1: of this that one week title focus What does this
Speaker 1: place need?
Speaker 15: I think it's key for us.
Speaker 6: Housing is an issue.
Speaker 15: Whether it's density as well as a diversity of housing.
Speaker 15: I think, you know, I've been lucky enough to work
Speaker 15: and come in contact with lots of organizations in my
Speaker 15: time at Council and it is something that stretches right
Speaker 15: across the breadth of everything we do. We're seeing more
Speaker 15: development in the city of Newcastle. Absolutely, our housing target's
Speaker 15: well reached and now almost doubled, but the gap between
Speaker 15: the have and have not is quite for me. I'm
Speaker 15: involved with another organization called HUNT a Homeless connect very
Speaker 15: very soon, we're having a Homeless Connect Day, which is
Speaker 15: a very unique event that is run at the entertainment
Speaker 15: center for people experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
Speaker 15: And what I see every year is numbers of attendees growing.
Speaker 1: Both you very very active on socials. That's the way
Speaker 1: people can get in touch with you, or online or
Speaker 1: all the rest of it. Lots of millions, millions of
Speaker 1: ways to get in touch. But give them a random applause.
Speaker 1: They fight for you every day. Thank you very much,
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, David. The reason I say fight,
Speaker 1: apart from the fact that they are, is that it
Speaker 1: was somewhat of a segue to get another thing you
Speaker 1: can do here and fight at world, which is to
Speaker 1: well be a top gun yourself. And I think I
Speaker 1: did amazing. Which button do I not press? I'm going
Speaker 1: to do this very poorly, but let's see if a
Speaker 1: fat man can fly. This is so cold. I felt
Speaker 1: the need, the need for shooting lights of stuck down
Speaker 1: hand speech. How do I turn off my missiles and
Speaker 1: just start shooting again? I regret nothing. That is amazing.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much, Thank you. That's very cool. You've
Speaker 1: got to come here, You've got to do this. Firstly,
Speaker 1: crashings not bad. Look at me. I'm fine. Secondly, shooting's better.
Speaker 1: So on my application for the Air Force. Can take
Speaker 1: a life, will lose one while landing. I think it's
Speaker 1: a complete will be a one to one game. All right,
Speaker 1: more here caron finer world in a second here as
Speaker 1: we are doing the show from Winniamtown, just Northern Income.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for having Norman, for bringing outtown
Speaker 1: to us here in rid Intown. Also shout out to
Speaker 1: the White Sox Baseball Club. The play over at walls
Speaker 1: End today was their Old Sox Day. The club started
Speaker 1: nineteen forty six. Shout out to everyone involved in the club. Now,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones rants a thing called the Live Free Project.
Speaker 1: She's part of someone trying to help fill the gaps
Speaker 1: that exist in the community like this and please say
Speaker 1: she joins us. Now love you see you, Chris, Thanks
Speaker 1: for having us so tell me about the project. How
Speaker 1: do you fit in to help people in the area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well we're in Newcastle based, so local, very local
Speaker 5: and work with low socioeconomic community DV, working with children
Speaker 5: and families and just walking alongside of people in that
Speaker 5: scary journey and helping.
Speaker 1: Them and do just that hyper local. We literally you
Speaker 1: can sort of know the different strength suburb, suburb, this
Speaker 1: bit of the city. That is that local knowledge is
Speaker 1: what is the key to understand, because.
Speaker 5: You're absolutely, absolutely the key. It's part of that thing
Speaker 5: of knowing local community, knowing your principles, knowing your local
Speaker 5: doctors and hospitals and things like that, and really working
Speaker 5: into like a connection, beautiful community meshment really and helping
Speaker 5: people just to know community well and build trust and
Speaker 5: trusted relationships, and I guess for people who have experienced DV, violence, trauma,
Speaker 5: any of those things, trust is at an all time low.
Speaker 1: And also the loneliness when you're taking to you you're
Speaker 1: by yourself, trying to have somebody see you and pull
Speaker 1: you through the darkness. So how do people get in
Speaker 1: touch with you? There's plenty of people watching you might
Speaker 1: want to support. How do they do it? If you're
Speaker 1: watching and you want to reach out, how do you
Speaker 1: do it.
Speaker 5: Sure, you can do it on our website just lift
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