Speaker 1: From The Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
Speaker 1: It's Friday, May seventeen. Peter Dutton is proposing a dramatic
Speaker 1: federal intervention into the criminal justice system to make Australian safer,
Speaker 1: including tougher knife laws, a crackdown on bail and new
Speaker 1: Commonwealth laws prohibiting domestic violence offenders using digital technology to
Speaker 1: stalk or control their victims. Coming up later in the episode,
Speaker 1: We've got a Friday treat for you, a dive into
Speaker 1: the glamour and the silliness of Australian Fashion Week, which
Speaker 1: has just wrapped. Our expert from Vogue Australia tells us
Speaker 1: why we might all be wearing bonnets before too long,
Speaker 1: and why even in today's tough economic climate, designers think
Speaker 1: it's worthwhile spending one hundred thousand dollars or more to
Speaker 1: stage a runway shop. Stay with us.
Speaker 2: I give a call to the Hororable, the leader of
Speaker 2: the Opposition.
Speaker 1: If the Federal budget is a bit like school speech night,
Speaker 1: with everyone wearing their best suits and making very important speeches.
Speaker 1: The Thursday after budget is muck up Day, when the
Speaker 1: kids get to go a bit wild. Jim Chalmers delivered
Speaker 1: a big, ambitious budget on Tuesday designed to ease the
Speaker 1: cost of living, crush inflation and get labor re elected.
Speaker 1: And on Thursday night muck up Day, Peter Dutton got
Speaker 1: to deliver his budget in reply. When you're in opposition,
Speaker 1: you don't actually have to make all the numbers add
Speaker 1: up like the government does. You can use the platform
Speaker 1: to go beyond budget policy and go big on vision.
Speaker 1: Last year Peter Dutton used his budget in reply to
Speaker 1: make the case for nuclear power. This year, Dutton's gone
Speaker 1: for another big theme, the safety of women and everyone
Speaker 1: in our society.
Speaker 2: A coalition government will provide much needed leadership in tackling
Speaker 2: knife crime. We will work with states and territories to
Speaker 2: develop uniform knife laws across all jurisdictions. Laws which will
Speaker 2: give police the powers to stop and search using detective
Speaker 2: ones like Queensland's Jack's Law, and laws which will limit
Speaker 2: and restrict the sale and possession of knives to minors
Speaker 2: and dangerous individuals.
Speaker 1: Dutton is calling on his law and order credentials.
Speaker 2: As a former police officer. The horrific scenes of beaten
Speaker 2: women and distraught children I encountered stay with me. To
Speaker 2: this day, as do the memories of taking women who
Speaker 2: are shaking with fear to shelters and safe homes and
Speaker 2: helping them relocate with their children to safety.
Speaker 1: Dutton's promising a radical overhaul of the way crime and justice,
Speaker 1: which are usually left to the states and territories, will
Speaker 1: be handled. He's promising to tighten bail laws, but hasn't
Speaker 1: said how he'll get the labor states to fall into line.
Speaker 2: Recently, Molly Tyshurst, to twenty eight year old mother from
Speaker 2: New South Wales, was murdered because her violent expartner was
Speaker 2: on bailed. The Coalition government will make it in fence
Speaker 2: to use mobile phones and computer networks to cause an
Speaker 2: intimate partner or family member fear for their personal safety,
Speaker 2: to track them using spywaar, or to engage in coercive behaviors.
Speaker 2: We will toughen the bail laws that apply to these
Speaker 2: Newcommonwealth offenses.
Speaker 1: The Budget in reply is also a platform to seledge
Speaker 1: the government.
Speaker 2: This labor government has made life so much tougher for Australians.
Speaker 2: This labor government has set our country on a very
Speaker 2: dangerous course. It started with the Prime Minister's voice referendum
Speaker 2: not only did it waste four hundred and fifty million
Speaker 2: dollars which could have helped families with the cost of
Speaker 2: living pressures that you're now facing. The referendum also divided
Speaker 2: our nation. You, your family, your children, and our country can't
Speaker 2: afford another three years of this government. I know how
Speaker 2: to make decisions to get our country back on track.
Speaker 1: It's been a big week for politics and crime. So
Speaker 1: join us as we put one stiletto in front of
Speaker 1: the other and strut right into fashion week. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: we'll be back after this break. Hello, thanks Jaws. I
Speaker 1: cannot wait to see what the girls are wearing.
Speaker 3: What are you wearing?
Speaker 1: That's a fashion shrend that you can't get enough of?
Speaker 1: My sunglasses adult Chanek Vanna from designer I Outfit One.
Speaker 2: This is for the Eric Vaughn Show.
Speaker 3: We're doing white Sands today follow on my show. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so we're gonna be naked pretty much, except they won't
Speaker 3: let me wear bikini because I'm only said yeah.
Speaker 1: Francisca Wallace's Bogustralia's digital director, Francisca, you've been down at
Speaker 1: fashion Week this week? What have you seen on the runway?
Speaker 3: First, there's lots going on, lots of emerging designers, which
Speaker 3: has been really really nice to see.
Speaker 4: Amy Lawrence was a standout for me.
Speaker 3: She's an incredible Melbourne based designer who was doing the
Speaker 3: most beautiful kind of structural gowns, these gorgeous little sort
Speaker 3: of head pieces and bonnets, which I think will.
Speaker 4: Become very popular.
Speaker 3: And Rory William Jockerty who's a New Zealand based designer
Speaker 3: who's doing some very interesting work with prints and layering
Speaker 3: and texture. I think both really exciting names for.
Speaker 4: Us to watch.
Speaker 3: Also, lots going on in the street because it is
Speaker 3: such an important part of fashion week now as well
Speaker 3: what goes on outside the shows. So yeah, lots of red,
Speaker 3: lots of Western and cowboy inspired outfits. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of metallics, a lot of sheer, a lot of little
Speaker 3: caps and hats.
Speaker 1: I've seen a story on Bogustralia about tiny hats, in
Speaker 1: particular leather berets. You mentioned bonnets. Are Australians willing to
Speaker 1: embrace the hat? Do you think in anything more than
Speaker 1: just a straw hat at the beach?
Speaker 3: I think we might be. I think the tide may
Speaker 3: be shifting on the hat. I'm for one, I'm very
Speaker 3: excited about that because I love a cap. I think
Speaker 3: the cap is the gateway hat into the rest of
Speaker 3: the hats.
Speaker 1: So why that's a relief I was worrying about the bonnet.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't worry. That's the advance level.
Speaker 3: Everyone else can start with a cap and work their
Speaker 3: way upwards. This season, and what's been brewing over the
Speaker 3: last couple of years is a real sense of personal style.
Speaker 3: I think that's something that we talk about a lot
Speaker 3: of vogue, and we're really glad that it's permeated the
Speaker 3: kind of cultural conversation. And I do think that's a
Speaker 3: lot in part to TikTok, because that encourages individuality in
Speaker 3: a sense. It also encourages a lot of conformity, which
Speaker 3: is another element of it. But there's also this generation
Speaker 3: that are growing up with the idea that you know,
Speaker 3: you really want to express your personal style and they're
Speaker 3: sort of learning about personal style a lot earlier than
Speaker 3: I think many of us, and I know that I did.
Speaker 1: The past decade's biggest trend has been activewear, taking your
Speaker 1: joggers to work and the cocktail bar, maybe even with
Speaker 1: a sports bra and a bum bag. That's largely due
Speaker 1: to Pip Edwards, the designer behind at leisure label pe Nation.
Speaker 1: It's full of big, bold prints and Pip's own initial
Speaker 1: emblazed on everything. She's used this fashion week to relaunch
Speaker 1: the label completely.
Speaker 4: Do you want to introduce yourself? Oh yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: you don't really need any passion.
Speaker 3: But like I'm Pep Edwards, the co founder and creative
Speaker 3: director of Peny Nation.
Speaker 4: What are you wearing? Are you tough? I am wearing
Speaker 4: pe Nation.
Speaker 1: Naturally, Edwards is smart enough to use fashion week not
Speaker 1: as an opportunity to flex, but to sell.
Speaker 3: Pip is definitely a marketing genius, and there was a
Speaker 3: lot of change with this collection. I think what we're
Speaker 3: seeing now is active wear as ready to wear. In Austraya,
Speaker 3: We've been wearing active wears clothing for a long time.
Speaker 3: But what's different about this is it felt like there
Speaker 3: were more pieces that you could wear in the every
Speaker 3: day rather than just for exercising. There were also a
Speaker 3: lot less logos, the colors were a lot more muted.
Speaker 3: Who you kind of want these basics to work harder
Speaker 3: for you, and you can wear something like a pant
Speaker 3: or a legging or a short not just to work out,
Speaker 3: but you can also wear it and actually look really
Speaker 3: great wearing an out to lunch to dinner. So I
Speaker 3: don't think that's going anywhere. And Australians absolutely love a
Speaker 3: piece of active wear that can do double duty for them.
Speaker 1: This year marks the twenty eighth anniversary of Fashion Week.
Speaker 1: When it started, the buyers for department stores of London
Speaker 1: and New York were the most powerful forces, along with
Speaker 1: magazine editors. Now everything has changed. The power has shifted
Speaker 1: to online retailers like Netaporte and to influencers. The cost
Speaker 1: of staging a show is immense.
Speaker 3: I've heard of shows that have nudged into the six figures,
Speaker 3: over one hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 4: More more than that, you have to pay for models.
Speaker 3: You have to pay for makeup artists, hair, there's seating,
Speaker 3: there's music, there's the whole av production that goes into it.
Speaker 3: You have to pay for something as simple as shoes
Speaker 3: can be extremely expensive if you don't make them yourself.
Speaker 3: And then there's of course all the pr and the
Speaker 3: marketing that goes into it, and the guest list and
Speaker 3: everything that creates a whole lot of management.
Speaker 4: So it's very expensive.
Speaker 3: It can be very confronting for a lot of especially
Speaker 3: emerging designers, though I think the industry does have to
Speaker 3: take a look at how it's supporting young designers and
Speaker 3: see where we can lift them up there.
Speaker 1: Australia's fashion industry is facing the same manufacturing and cost
Speaker 1: of production challenges that are making on shore productions so
Speaker 1: hard for all manufacturers.
Speaker 4: Obviously, manufacturing locally is extremely expensive. We're all looking for
Speaker 4: Australie made clothes, but is it too expensive to actually
Speaker 4: make them in Australia. How do we mitigate that? And
Speaker 4: Vogue was a part of an event.
Speaker 3: Last week actually at Kuberley House with Jodi Hayden, and
Speaker 3: that was all about the fashion and the tech innovation
Speaker 3: space to make this more viable industry locally, but also
Speaker 3: just the shipping costs and the staff costs and all
Speaker 3: the sort of logistics, and you do have to realistically
Speaker 3: fly to Paris and New York a couple of times
Speaker 3: a year to sell your product, to sort of be
Speaker 3: there and do the sales directly with the buyers. So
Speaker 3: there's all this travel, all these prohibitive costs that can
Speaker 3: really add up as well, which is why the clothes
Speaker 3: that are made here is so expensive, which we personally
Speaker 3: think at Vogue that it's a worswhile investment, but that's
Speaker 3: not always the case, and not every customer, especially with
Speaker 3: the cost of living crisis, is sort of able to
Speaker 3: afford those clothes.
Speaker 1: Francesca Wallace is Vogue's digital director. Check out their coverage
Speaker 1: of fashion Week at Vogue dot com dot a You
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