Speaker 1: Live from Bendigo. The thing this is Paul Murray Live, our.
Speaker 2: Town, then Australia, I go.
Speaker 3: We're now Aly tonight.
Speaker 2: Welcome the most beautiful part of Victoria.
Speaker 4: We are physically at the Central Debrah gold Mine.
Speaker 2: We have spent a spectacular weekend in Bendigo. The people
Speaker 2: are wonderful, the buildings are beautiful, and tonight we are
Speaker 2: going to make television history because the Fat Controller is
Speaker 2: going to drive a tram. I will drive a tram
Speaker 2: tonight and we're going a very special guest. I'm looking
Speaker 2: forward to wall of this. This facility here, the sunset,
Speaker 2: by the way is absolutely glorious. Where you are, where
Speaker 2: we are right now, the chance he is to be
Speaker 2: able to go and see a gold mine as it was.
Speaker 1: We are in one.
Speaker 2: Of the tin sheds that have seen plenty of action
Speaker 2: over the years, and the good people of Bendigo have
Speaker 2: been nothing but kind and wonderful to us the entire time.
Speaker 2: So we're going to celebrate this city. We're going to
Speaker 2: sell break you guys, and we're gonna have a wonderful
Speaker 2: night together. But first, as always, let's talk about the news.
Speaker 2: And a strange thing happened this weekend. Now, no, I
Speaker 2: am not squeezing a stone to get one little more
Speaker 2: drop of blood out of it. But remember what they
Speaker 2: said about the American election over and over again.
Speaker 1: Presss play New.
Speaker 5: Paul has Kamala Harris and Donald Trump locked in a
Speaker 5: dead heat.
Speaker 1: Latest Wall Street Journal, Paul.
Speaker 6: In Washington Post poll out this morning.
Speaker 4: Harris up by four dead locked race. He tied.
Speaker 7: According to most polls in the United States, this election
Speaker 7: is very close and could go either.
Speaker 2: Way, and Bendigo was the result to tie. No, I
Speaker 2: didn't think so who won again? And how big big?
Speaker 2: I thought so, that'd be the case. Well trained, everyone,
Speaker 2: well done, you get a fishing, You get a fishing, you.
Speaker 1: Get a fish. Well done. Well.
Speaker 2: Of course, the people who were far more accurate than
Speaker 2: the polls, and I said this at the time as
Speaker 2: a person who spent way too much reading them, is
Speaker 2: let's have a look at the bookies. Now the bookie,
Speaker 2: the red line, of course is Trump. The blue line
Speaker 2: was Biden. Who was I think this is his heart rate.
Speaker 2: Actually he was dead for many months, and then they
Speaker 2: gave him a little packawhacker, and then he died again.
Speaker 2: And then of course Camala took over in the pantsuit
Speaker 2: and joy and love and all the rest of it.
Speaker 2: And then she pissed a billion dollars against a wall
Speaker 2: and he kicked her ass.
Speaker 4: Is that good education about politics?
Speaker 8: Excellent?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: As you can see, they were pretty clear. So I
Speaker 2: think you might know where I'm heading, because it won't
Speaker 2: surprise you that when we go on the road every
Speaker 2: now and then on the Friday or the Saturday night,
Speaker 2: after the chats have finished, after the politics has been discussed,
Speaker 2: there'll be a little bit of a pull out of
Speaker 2: some of those sports bet apps or the tab app
Speaker 2: or the lab brokesapp, and we'll be betting on dogs
Speaker 2: in South Africa at two o'clock in the morning. But
Speaker 2: while we were doing so, we noticed what are the
Speaker 2: odds for the upcoming federal election? Is it a line
Speaker 2: ball or not? Well, remember, according to many of those
Speaker 2: to speak for a living, they say that Australia's definitely
Speaker 2: headed towards a minority government. They say that there's a
Speaker 2: most chance that Labor ends up being there because as
Speaker 2: I bored you before about the teals and all the
Speaker 2: rest of it. But have a look right now, sports
Speaker 2: bet has the Coalition as favorites after the next election.
Speaker 2: Now that is an expectation that they will form government
Speaker 2: with a minority. But Labor is now starting to blow out.
Speaker 2: Now this is not me saying that jump on one
Speaker 2: or the other, but it is fascinating that the indicators
Speaker 2: that the polls are telling us ever so tight, but
Speaker 2: it'll fall Labour's way. These things tell us ever so tight,
Speaker 2: but it all fold the coalition's way. That tab their
Speaker 2: tab app is exactly the same where they are saying
Speaker 2: by an even bigger margin they think that the coalition
Speaker 2: is going to get there or with greater certainty. Now
Speaker 2: again the way that all these bookies work, and certainly
Speaker 2: in Australia should remember one of these companies said that
Speaker 2: Shorten was going to win in twenty nineteen. They even
Speaker 2: paid out a couple of days before thinking that was
Speaker 2: going to be the result. But a fascinating little look here,
Speaker 2: which means some of that outer analysis about Australian politics
Speaker 2: is maybe something we should be paying attention to. Let's
Speaker 2: not be surprised by what results end up turning up.
Speaker 2: Let's look at what might be coming. And of course
Speaker 2: there is one person who has been saying by the
Speaker 2: Financial Review and he's a format labor senator that there
Speaker 2: could well end up in such a significant change after
Speaker 2: just one term of this mob that yes, Dunton and
Speaker 2: the Coalition, they'd take some deals they take plenty of labor.
Speaker 2: Labor would lose potentially to people.
Speaker 1: Like the Greens. So we are on our way to
Speaker 1: not just.
Speaker 2: A tight result, but according to the book, is a
Speaker 2: change of government after one term. Now, Bendigo, I know
Speaker 2: many people who vote here vote to opposite them this room,
Speaker 2: but how does this room feel about a one term
Speaker 2: elbow government? Might be the case which brings me to
Speaker 2: what I have been thinking about ever since the Trump election,
Speaker 2: and I've been slowly thinking about over months, which is
Speaker 2: what what is this next federal election going to be about?
Speaker 1: Now we know what the issues are.
Speaker 2: We know that the difficulties that people have had when
Speaker 2: it comes to cost of living becomes pretty clear. We
Speaker 2: know that on multiple poles, in multiple ways, we're told
Speaker 2: that the majority of the country things that we're headed in.
Speaker 1: The wrong direction.
Speaker 2: But as we have a look at the candidates that
Speaker 2: are going to be up and available for government, I
Speaker 2: want to credit it a very dear friend of mine
Speaker 2: who's been seeding this idea for a little while, but
Speaker 2: in the past couple of days he's poured as much
Speaker 2: fertilizer and impossible, and it's now starting to grow as
Speaker 2: my central theory of the case.
Speaker 1: Which is.
Speaker 2: Politics often is something that we talk about in relation
Speaker 2: to demographics like age or sex, or for some it'll
Speaker 2: end up being a religion or race. I certainly think
Speaker 2: that what we saw in the United States was a
Speaker 2: realignment of things where it was your economic circumstance that
Speaker 2: was the ultimate determinant of your vote.
Speaker 1: Can I offer another.
Speaker 2: Theory though, that I think in many ways this election
Speaker 2: is going to be about do you want the state
Speaker 2: to control your life or do you want to control
Speaker 2: your life on what sorts of issues do you want
Speaker 2: to be left alone? And what sorts of things do
Speaker 2: you want to be trusted as a parent or as
Speaker 2: a grandparent. Now again, traditionally Australia can have a conversation
Speaker 2: about collective responsibility, which traditionally has been of the left
Speaker 2: and personal responsibility, which has been of the right.
Speaker 1: But this is something different.
Speaker 2: When I talk about that sense of control, think about
Speaker 2: between now and the election, and certainly the past three
Speaker 2: years since our election, about the types of politicians who
Speaker 2: want to ban something or change something, or limit something,
Speaker 2: or overthund something or restrict something, And then think about
Speaker 2: the world before these people existed, say in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: or let's even go back to twenty ten. We don't
Speaker 2: have to get in the way back machine and get
Speaker 2: out the Swan lager and pretend that we've just on
Speaker 2: the America's cup in nineteen eighty three. We can have
Speaker 2: this conversation about our twenty first century, which is about
Speaker 2: your want to control your life. And it's not a
Speaker 2: conversation about oppression versus freedom. It's about your right to
Speaker 2: make decisions about your life. Now. At times, I've disappointed
Speaker 2: plenty of people with my views on all sorts of
Speaker 2: different issues, but I always turn around and say on
Speaker 2: say things like gay marriage or euthanasia, like your choice
Speaker 2: to say no shouldn't rule out somebody's ability to say.
Speaker 1: Yes, and vice versa.
Speaker 2: All right, we want a system that says, while I'm
Speaker 2: not planning on using this system or that system, i
Speaker 2: want the availability of somebody who wants to go and
Speaker 2: do it, to go and do it. But as soon
Speaker 2: as the state starts turning around and saying look at
Speaker 2: this fork in the road. We're going to take away choice.
Speaker 2: We're going to tell you there's one choice that needs
Speaker 2: to be made over others. And I think that's going
Speaker 2: to be a massive factor at this election. The first
Speaker 2: signs of people in and around this issue is going
Speaker 2: to be particularly men between thirty five and fifty five.
Speaker 2: These are men who have been brought up in a
Speaker 2: left wing education system. These are people who may will
Speaker 2: have paired off into partnerships or started to have children.
Speaker 2: They may well have entered the workforce, owned their own business,
Speaker 2: had an ABN, paid the taxes, filled out the forms,
Speaker 2: and you can see that they are starting to track
Speaker 2: in a very different direction than where they were even
Speaker 2: three years ago. Now again, for the smart asses that
Speaker 2: are watching or the people that are thinking, oh, he's
Speaker 2: just trying to pull a Trump, there is no way
Speaker 2: that you pull a Trump. In the Australian system, we
Speaker 2: don't vote for a single person. We vote for local MPs,
Speaker 2: we vote for parties. There's the control of the Senate.
Speaker 2: But I will be fascinated to see at this election
Speaker 2: about the types of policies that are put in front
Speaker 2: of us, because I'm not entirely sure that Australians are
Speaker 2: desperate to hear that there's a government planning to spend
Speaker 2: more money than they did last time on a problem
Speaker 2: that will only be exactly the same as a well
Speaker 2: was before they threw more money. I have a feeling
Speaker 2: that we're going to have an attraction to politicians who
Speaker 2: are going to say, hey, we're going to try to
Speaker 2: get out of your way. Imagine that is a thirty
Speaker 2: three day election campaign where you don't have an announcement
Speaker 2: a day, you have a promise every day which I'm
Speaker 2: going to get out of the way. I'll do my
Speaker 2: best to within responsible targets, pull back on a whole
Speaker 2: collection of things like regulations, which brings us to why
Speaker 2: it's so important that we have fought as hard as
Speaker 2: we have and talked about it for as long as
Speaker 2: we have. But you will have heard the news today,
Speaker 2: Bendigo that the plan to censor the Internet is dead,
Speaker 2: finally dead. Now. As you know, the plan for all
Speaker 2: of this was that the government wanted to decide that
Speaker 2: you should only be allowed to post things on your
Speaker 2: social media that are approved officially by the government, the
Speaker 2: stamp of truth from the same people who, of course
Speaker 2: always tell us that down is up and left his
Speaker 2: right that all sorts of things don't quite make the
Speaker 2: sense that they used to. Here in part was that
Speaker 2: media excited today about this stupid plan finally hitting the wall.
Speaker 7: A bill aimed at cracking down on misinformation and disinformation
Speaker 7: on the Internet has been pulled by the federal government.
Speaker 4: Labor has dumped its controversial misinformation bill.
Speaker 7: The Albanezy government has scrapped its controversial misinformation bill.
Speaker 1: That they all look so disappointed, don't they. Yes, but
Speaker 1: it's happened right. Why Because as we've.
Speaker 2: Shown you all the way through, and I explained to
Speaker 2: everyone last week, the numbers just weren't there in the Senate. However,
Speaker 2: the final blow comes from the Greens who say it
Speaker 2: didn't go far enough, and that blew. I'm with you,
Speaker 2: and that is back to that central conversation I was
Speaker 2: saying about how much control versus how much freedom. It's
Speaker 2: not just in this case the Labor Party who put
Speaker 2: forward decision when it comes to misinformation. Remember Jackie Lamby
Speaker 2: said it didn't go too far. It didn't go far
Speaker 2: enough on some levels. The Teels didn't think that it
Speaker 2: went far enough, and the Greens didn't think that it
Speaker 2: went far enough, and all of that's on the ballot paper,
Speaker 2: and everyone should remember that. Everyone should remember that at
Speaker 2: one of the most fundamental choices of our time, there
Speaker 2: was a very significant chunk of Australian politics who may
Speaker 2: well end up deciding the next federal government because they
Speaker 2: are the ones with the power in a minority government,
Speaker 2: who wanted to go harder, wanted to go further.
Speaker 1: Of course, there were those who fought it.
Speaker 2: Hard and hard from day one, Pauline Hanson in Won Nation,
Speaker 2: Ralph Babbott and the United Australian Party, eventually, of course,
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party. But we all knew the second that
Speaker 2: we first saw this that this was not okay. Never
Speaker 2: forget that Labor didn't let it get defeated in the Senate.
Speaker 2: They pulled it before it could get defeated. And in part,
Speaker 2: remember what one of their key motivations were. What was
Speaker 2: that word they used over and over again when the
Speaker 2: sixty forty support for the Voice became sixty forty hell no,
Speaker 2: including here in lefty Victoria.
Speaker 1: What was that M word they said, over and over again?
Speaker 6: Misinformation? Misinformation, misinformation, the.
Speaker 7: Misinformation which is there so misinformation.
Speaker 2: Now, another issue that you've got to get to and
Speaker 2: inevitably talk about is the economic scenario cost of living.
Speaker 2: We all know how painful cost of living it can
Speaker 2: be and is for plenty of people right now. We
Speaker 2: know it when it comes to people that are trying
Speaker 2: to pay off a house, find a house to rent,
Speaker 2: people who are of course, you know, people everyone who
Speaker 2: has to go to the shops to buy inconvenient stuff
Speaker 2: like food or of course power prices which were supposed
Speaker 2: to be down by two seventy five permanently by next year, right,
Speaker 2: never forget that at the upcoming one. Well, what about
Speaker 2: this from the analysis of the numbers that are around
Speaker 2: at the moment from the Bureau of Statistics, the coalition
Speaker 2: who did it. But still our living standards are the
Speaker 2: worse since nineteen fifty nine. Right now, I eat your
Speaker 2: ability with the amount of money that you make each week,
Speaker 2: month or year, and your ability.
Speaker 1: To pay for life in Australia, it's the worse since
Speaker 1: nineteen fifty nine.
Speaker 2: Now, okay, you're immediately going, hay, what about the nineties
Speaker 2: with seventeen percent interest rates? And what about that thing
Speaker 2: in the seventies and that thing in the nineties. It's
Speaker 2: about that overall package, though, about how much money is
Speaker 2: coming in versus how much money is going out, and
Speaker 2: households are suffering the worst decline in living standards since
Speaker 2: the nineteen fifties, with a fall in real disposable income
Speaker 2: eclipsing that of the last four recessions, including the ones
Speaker 2: of the nineteen seventies or even the COVID pandemic.
Speaker 1: The analysis of the.
Speaker 2: Official government statistics shows that the current cost of living
Speaker 2: crisis has hit households twice as hard as the nineteen
Speaker 2: oh one and nineteen eighty two to eighty three recessions,
Speaker 2: and significantly more sharply than any period dating back to
Speaker 2: nineteen fifty nine. There might be a size nine boot
Speaker 2: that is coming for those that are currently in power.
Speaker 2: I've got a feeling it might be steel capped, and
Speaker 2: I might have a feeling that it will kick the
Speaker 2: Prime Minister so hard in the ass that he'll ask
Speaker 2: for an upgrade, because you'll be that high in the air,
Speaker 2: and we certainly know when it comes to an upgrade elbow.
Speaker 1: This bloke loves an upgrade.
Speaker 2: But can I talk about somebody else who loves the
Speaker 2: sweet life as well?
Speaker 1: This is the.
Speaker 2: Gender equality ambassador. Did you read about this today? Where
Speaker 2: this gender If you've never met this person, they love
Speaker 2: spending other people's money telling us how bad everything is.
Speaker 1: Have a look.
Speaker 6: Hello.
Speaker 9: I'm Stephanie Copus Campbell, Australia's new Ambassador for gender equality.
Speaker 9: I'm incredibly honored to take on this role as the
Speaker 9: lead international advocate for Australia's commitment to gender equality and
Speaker 9: the human rights are women and girls and persons of
Speaker 9: diverse gender identities.
Speaker 2: What anyway this person, in their time representing us on
Speaker 2: all of that stuff, has spent how's this thirty five
Speaker 2: thousand dollars on taxpayer funded trips around the world, including
Speaker 2: to multiple conferences where, of course they turn around and
Speaker 2: collectively always conclude that Australia is the worst ever. Talk
Speaker 2: about other people's money, other people's priorities, and don't forget
Speaker 2: what this Prime Minister has previously turned around and said
Speaker 2: is to be his priority after this election, which is,
Speaker 2: among other things, for us to host an international climate conference.
Speaker 2: I think the Australian people might be somewhere else and
Speaker 2: we'll be with them the whole way along Bendigo. This
Speaker 2: is a beautiful place and let's celebrate it for the
Speaker 2: rest of this hour, including the opportunity for us to
Speaker 2: jump on a tram. And yes, the big fella drives
Speaker 2: a tram here. It is some trams in Bendigo.
Speaker 1: Rolla take.
Speaker 2: Bendigo has got so many beautiful buildings and features and
Speaker 2: things like this fountain, which was first put up in
Speaker 2: eighteen eighty one, and the best way to see them
Speaker 2: is to travel on a bit of history yourself. Let's
Speaker 2: write a tram is about trans and Bendigo.
Speaker 1: How far does it go back?
Speaker 8: So it's a pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: Story, So I take it back to eighteen ninety the
Speaker 5: first of a tram and Beni was actually a batue
Speaker 5: powered tram, so ahead of that time. Amazing And that's
Speaker 5: as about as school as the sexy as that story.
Speaker 5: Guests balled nineteen seventy two when they try to shut.
Speaker 8: Down the trams here in Bendigo up silu.
Speaker 5: Public hour raisor trends were getting pulled off the drags here.
Speaker 1: So why does Bendigo to love its tramps?
Speaker 2: I mean, if this is beautiful, but why do you
Speaker 2: think that Bendigo I loves its trands?
Speaker 5: Without saying too cliche has other DNA. So we think
Speaker 5: about Bendia, you think about gold and trams, and you know,
Speaker 5: we look at the vistas of our beautiful city.
Speaker 8: And you know, the trams and the story and.
Speaker 5: Connectivity, and yeah, there's a quite I think, a romantic
Speaker 5: part of it. And I grew up here and I
Speaker 5: can't have a picture of Bendigo without having a tram rally.
Speaker 1: Down the mainstream. I love you.
Speaker 4: It is infectious your enthusiasm for it.
Speaker 2: So this tram is this one that has written these
Speaker 2: lines for a long time.
Speaker 1: Is it from somewhere else? Built from scratch? Tell me
Speaker 1: about what we're running in now.
Speaker 5: So we're riding on trendom in nineteen the California Combination
Speaker 5: trams about early World War One, so about nineteen sixteen.
Speaker 5: This tram so started its life in Melbourne. And then
Speaker 5: we got a lot about trams secondhand here, so probably.
Speaker 8: In the thirties and forties that came to here and we.
Speaker 1: Were stoked to have it.
Speaker 5: Here because yeah, it's a pretty even it was the secondhand
Speaker 5: it's a pretty special tram. And I look at the
Speaker 5: detail of the woodwork, the finge in the lights they
Speaker 5: used to build things.
Speaker 1: Well back in the day.
Speaker 2: And that's what that's one of the many reasons why
Speaker 2: people want to write them and love them, is that
Speaker 2: I mean, as you say, everything from the leather straps,
Speaker 2: the leather seats, as you say, through to the brass,
Speaker 2: give us an idea.
Speaker 1: About what it takes to keep these things on the line.
Speaker 5: Yeah, So we part of our organization, so.
Speaker 1: We run the trams. Trams are really expensive things to run,
Speaker 1: so which we.
Speaker 5: Lose money running into at tram each year. So the
Speaker 5: way we offset that we created a social enterpriser or
Speaker 5: on manufacturing divisions.
Speaker 2: Who has the biggest smiles, kids that have never been
Speaker 2: on them, or people who remember them from a long
Speaker 2: time ago.
Speaker 1: Oh, a bit of both. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: makes trams special.
Speaker 5: Everyone kind of has some connection and this trams or
Speaker 5: trains kids always.
Speaker 6: They're like a magnet.
Speaker 1: Are again someone's stopped.
Speaker 4: I always got some romantic story about.
Speaker 5: Some tram anywhere in the world and kind of brings
Speaker 5: them back to those memories.
Speaker 2: Now, of course I'm fully licensed and accredited.
Speaker 6: Can I drive it? Of course.
Speaker 2: We'll give you a goram God, love you, thank you.
Speaker 2: It was fun And I'm now fully accredited and mum,
Speaker 2: I've got a backup career now, so that's good.
Speaker 1: Finally a real job to fall back on.
Speaker 2: Matthew Evans is a man who's represented this area in
Speaker 2: lots of different ways. He looks forward to doing so
Speaker 2: in the Federal Parliament the next federal election.
Speaker 1: Both the Liberal.
Speaker 2: Party and the National Party are running, of course against
Speaker 2: the current Labour MP here. But Matt I wanted to say, firstly,
Speaker 2: gaday and welcome to you mats everybody, how are you?
Speaker 8: Thanks?
Speaker 4: Very good?
Speaker 6: All right?
Speaker 1: Did Cob dippit in mayor? Before we get into the
Speaker 1: overt politics. Is a place that is special? What makes
Speaker 1: bin to Go special? Why is it a place that
Speaker 1: you've decided to plump the family?
Speaker 10: Well, I think if you look at the people in
Speaker 10: this room, it's the people, and it's the community. And
Speaker 10: my wife is the Bendigonian and we decided that when
Speaker 10: we first moved to Bendigo that this is the place
Speaker 10: that we wanted to raise our family. Great communities, great
Speaker 10: families that run massive, wonderful small businesses as well, great
Speaker 10: economic economy as well. But the thing I love about
Speaker 10: is just the community. I'm involved with a couple of
Speaker 10: sporting clubs, the Golden Square Football netball Club and the
Speaker 10: Straffield say Jets in the cricket they're just wonderful people.
Speaker 8: But it's the people of not just bending over.
Speaker 10: Central Victoria that just make it all worthwhile.
Speaker 2: And you've sat on council before, you've been a diperty
Speaker 2: there before, backwards and coming forwards when they want to
Speaker 2: tell you what they really think.
Speaker 10: Yeah, absolutely, it's always about sticking to the three hours,
Speaker 10: but also just managing rate, pays money responsibly, but also
Speaker 10: in many respects just representing the.
Speaker 8: Community as fully. There's some amazing things.
Speaker 10: That we did at local government to serve our community,
Speaker 10: particularly coming out of COVID, But like all things, you've
Speaker 10: just got to put the community first.
Speaker 2: This seems like a place that again from breakfast in
Speaker 2: the morning to the late nights like it's a place
Speaker 2: that's bubbing a buzzing. Right, meant, plenty of trainees in
Speaker 2: the past few days who you know, doing pretty damn well,
Speaker 2: all sorts of people, right. Give us an idea though
Speaker 2: about some of the people who struggle on the edges
Speaker 2: or the places where people need a little bit of help.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think for.
Speaker 10: A lot of regional communities and that's probably similar but
Speaker 10: in particular to Bendigo. But right across central Victoria and
Speaker 10: communities like Cassamine and Kaitan, even up as far as Rochester,
Speaker 10: there are a lot of families that are really struggling,
Speaker 10: a lot of businesses that are struggling. And when we
Speaker 10: talk about these headline topics of cost of living and
Speaker 10: the impacts on inflation, when you actually chat to people
Speaker 10: about those impacts. For example, earlier this year, I was
Speaker 10: in Molden, the first notable town, and the business there
Speaker 10: spoke about the thirty percent increase in the cost of.
Speaker 8: And that was just on bacon alone.
Speaker 10: But then the next thing was what they tried to
Speaker 10: do to not pass that cost.
Speaker 8: Onto their customers.
Speaker 10: Because mold it's a small town, it's a proud community,
Speaker 10: but they're the sorts of people that do feel the
Speaker 10: cost of living crunch.
Speaker 1: How important is.
Speaker 2: It that when somebody does represent the community or gets
Speaker 2: a chance to go to Melbourne for state politics or
Speaker 2: canbra for federal politics, that they're willing to not just
Speaker 2: stand up and to give the speech, but to stand
Speaker 2: in front of the biggest names from the biggest city
Speaker 2: and say no, we're not going to cop this because
Speaker 2: big swedes of regional Victoria are being basically steamrolled by
Speaker 2: the state government when it comes to things like the
Speaker 2: renewable energy roll out. What's your promise to people in
Speaker 2: this room or maybe watching that You're not just going
Speaker 2: to turn up in the local paper wings here, but
Speaker 2: you're going to be able to look say a prime
Speaker 2: minister in the Ia or not on my watch.
Speaker 10: Well, one of the things I've learned on local government
Speaker 10: is that local government is the closest level of government
Speaker 10: to the people, and that in the four years they
Speaker 10: had that opportunity to do that, it's underscored.
Speaker 8: The most important thing and.
Speaker 10: The thing that I can absolutely promise is that I
Speaker 10: will put the community first, because if you do not
Speaker 10: put the community first, you get turfed out. And I
Speaker 10: feel that, as we've seen on your program tonight already,
Speaker 10: are the consequences when you do not put the community
Speaker 10: first and what matters really to them first and foremost
Speaker 10: on the agenda.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put words in your mouth, so
Speaker 2: please disagree if you wish, But what about my thesis
Speaker 2: at the start of the show about this idea that
Speaker 2: for many people, I don't think it's going to be
Speaker 2: about the announcements of the day and the promise of
Speaker 2: the next three years.
Speaker 1: What about do you feel.
Speaker 2: Any change in the Australian political population that for many
Speaker 2: things the best promise you can make is I'll get
Speaker 2: out of the way.
Speaker 8: I do agree with that, certainly.
Speaker 10: I think a lot of people are more values based
Speaker 10: these days, particularly amongst young voters as well. But right
Speaker 10: across the board, and I think again it underscores that
Speaker 10: point that if you're focused on what really matters to
Speaker 10: people and just say, look, at the end of the day.
Speaker 8: My community is the most important thing.
Speaker 10: What happens in our community, and also if something's playing
Speaker 10: out federally or even globally, and we've seen that in
Speaker 10: other contexts as well, the consequences if you lose touch
Speaker 10: of your community and what actually has an impact on that.
Speaker 10: I think that's the lush pretty quickly, absolutely so. And
Speaker 10: again I think a lot of us and even my
Speaker 10: my Nationals colleague as well, you know, we're pretty much
Speaker 10: on common sense politics and very much put in the
Speaker 10: community first. And I guess right across the board, what
Speaker 10: we've heard is that when you're worrying about other things
Speaker 10: that are not the bread and butter issues.
Speaker 8: You know, it leaves people behind.
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't imagine going to be suggesting a change
Speaker 2: to the constitution anytime soon about any.
Speaker 1: As you were distracting on that for a year or so.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Matt.
Speaker 2: Giving up, Thank you all this trying to as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you so great And it could take back when
Speaker 2: more plenty to celebrate, including the great regional women who
Speaker 2: make this place great.
Speaker 1: We want to see from bending.
Speaker 4: Then to go heritage attraction.
Speaker 1: They are the ones that help.
Speaker 2: Us out when it comes to the transit hinto of the.
Speaker 1: Central debt gold mine.
Speaker 2: Now, the Shine Awards is this awesome thing that has
Speaker 2: been happening now for the best part of I think
Speaker 2: seven years now, and it's our dear friends at Harvey
Speaker 2: Norman getting together with The Weekly.
Speaker 4: Times finding and celebrating women.
Speaker 2: In regional Australia. He's just some of those who deserve
Speaker 2: your attention. The Shine Awards make us proud to be Australian.
Speaker 2: Since twenty seventeen, the Shine Awards, presented by The Winkly
Speaker 2: Times and our friends at Harvey Norman.
Speaker 1: Have been celebrating incredible.
Speaker 2: Women in our regions who make a difference in their communities.
Speaker 2: These awards look at a nominees courage, dedication, passion, belief, spirit,
Speaker 2: and grace to celebrate what makes our country work. Who
Speaker 2: are these wonderful women well? Along with many others, these
Speaker 2: are just some of those that had been highlighted this year.
Speaker 1: Danny Mason Kinder is nominated for her courage.
Speaker 2: She took great personal tragedy and turned it into something
Speaker 2: to help others. After the tragic loss of her twelve
Speaker 2: year old daughter, Billy, Danny channeled her grief into establishing
Speaker 2: the be kind of foundation.
Speaker 7: There was something about Billy, and you know, my dad
Speaker 7: always used to say that Billy she was an old soul,
Speaker 7: you know, maybe she'd been here before. She just got people.
Speaker 7: She was really kind, really empathetic. She'd actually just got
Speaker 7: a scholarship to high school based on her writing ability.
Speaker 7: And she used to write poems and stories and forever
Speaker 7: had a book in her hand. And she'd often come
Speaker 7: to me and her dad and say, you know, I'd
Speaker 7: like to write a book. What shall I write about? So,
Speaker 7: as you can imagine, after Billy died, it became a
Speaker 7: really big thing that she hadn't written her book. So
Speaker 7: we collected up all her poems, stories, and her artworks
Speaker 7: and we put them into a beautiful book which is
Speaker 7: called Hope. Hope was a keepsake for the family and
Speaker 7: a memory. And then what happened was we ended up
Speaker 7: selling over eight thousand copies. And then what happens we
Speaker 7: had parents and people coming back to us saying that
Speaker 7: Billy's words had instigated conversations with their children that they
Speaker 7: didn't normally have.
Speaker 2: The b kind of Foundation makes interactive well being programs
Speaker 2: and workbooks using Billie's writings, helping children, especially in rural areas,
Speaker 2: cope with the challenges of things like bullying, loneliness, and
Speaker 2: mental health issues.
Speaker 7: We want to empower and inspire children to believe that
Speaker 7: they can make a difference. And you know the same
Speaker 7: with Billy. She's a twelve year old school girl, just
Speaker 7: like them. And if Billy can make a difference, so
Speaker 7: can they. One little boy he was using the work book.
Speaker 7: He was in grade three, and I asked him if
Speaker 7: he liked it, and he said, I really like it.
Speaker 7: He said, because timee we use it, then when we
Speaker 7: go in the playground, everyone is nice to each other.
Speaker 2: Katrina Ogden is another fantastic example toward us. She's nominated
Speaker 2: for her dedication. Katrina has been organizing fundraisers through the
Speaker 2: Sharing for Kids with Cancer event for teen years now.
Speaker 11: It originally started back year back in twenty fourteen. One
Speaker 11: of our local families their young daughter who was three
Speaker 11: at the time, Laurie. She was diagnosed with a tumor
Speaker 11: on her kidney and some spots in her lungs. So
Speaker 11: Laurie's Auntie decided to do a fundraising event down there
Speaker 11: to raise some money and my husband was long with
Speaker 11: some other sharers decided to put their hands up for
Speaker 11: a day of sharing, and one of the local farmers
Speaker 11: farmers here, Bill Barlow, brought the day and it went
Speaker 11: from there. So then we started a little one there
Speaker 11: and it just it's obviously just got bigger and bigger
Speaker 11: and bigger every year. We have raised a lot of money.
Speaker 11: We probably raised probably closer to six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: Kylie Dennis is nominated for her passion with fourteen's experience
Speaker 2: as a police officer. Kylie uses her skills to identify
Speaker 2: and expose scammers. This make sure that vulnerable Australians are
Speaker 2: not losing their hard earned savings to these online predators.
Speaker 12: In twenty twenty three, I received a phone call from
Speaker 12: my mum and she had indicated that she was was
Speaker 12: dating somebody and I sort of looked at that photo
Speaker 12: and thought there was something sort of not right there,
Speaker 12: and so I did a bit of an investigation. I
Speaker 12: found out that she was actually a victim of a
Speaker 12: romance scam, and then I started looking into it and
Speaker 12: sort of realized that there was so much out there.
Speaker 12: I went online dating myself and created a fake profile,
Speaker 12: and then I identified that there were so many fake
Speaker 12: profiles within that online dating platform that I didn't.
Speaker 9: Think that anyone else was doing it.
Speaker 12: So then I went, well, what can I do to
Speaker 12: help victims and victims' families? So I created two face investigations.
Speaker 2: It's a lot of work, but for Kylie it's worth
Speaker 2: it because she's helping people.
Speaker 12: It's okay to admit that you've been a victim of
Speaker 12: a scam. Let's talk about it, you know, make the
Speaker 12: phone call five minutes, we can have a chat about it.
Speaker 12: And that's sort of trying to continually educate people are
Speaker 12: still at home not wanting to admit to the fact
Speaker 12: that maybe they could be a victim of a scam.
Speaker 12: So tomorrow is how do I get those people to
Speaker 12: ring me? So it's just that continual. It's like just
Speaker 12: building a wall. I just put one more brick down,
Speaker 12: one more brick down.
Speaker 2: There are so many strong and powerful women in our regions.
Speaker 2: The Shine Awards is the perfect way to showcase them
Speaker 2: and share their inspiring stories to the next generation of
Speaker 2: women who will lead the world.
Speaker 12: I say to anyone, grab a notepad, write everything down,
Speaker 12: and what's in your belly will be successful.
Speaker 8: Just keep going.
Speaker 9: If you've got that passion, you won't stop.
Speaker 7: If using Billy's words and Billy's way being, I can
Speaker 7: save one child, then I guess that's everything to keep going.
Speaker 11: I suppose until we're not allowed to do it anymore.
Speaker 11: We really enjoy it. It is a lot of work to
Speaker 11: put for the day, but we all love it and
Speaker 11: it's a great day.
Speaker 7: Change starts with us, and I think we all can
Speaker 7: and we all should be the solution. And these mental
Speaker 7: health statistics, it doesn't have to be this way, you know,
Speaker 7: if we all were a little kinder, spoke more with
Speaker 7: more kindness, and actually active and role modeled with kindness
Speaker 7: and empathy and compassion. I think our younger generation would
Speaker 7: have a better chance at, you know, dealing with the
Speaker 7: world as it is today.
Speaker 1: Every one of them is spectacular. Every one of them
Speaker 1: is about to be honor. Penny Fowler is divorce at
Speaker 1: the Week three times and.
Speaker 2: See along with their different Katie Page and the good
Speaker 2: people of Harvey Norman helped judge you win the awards
Speaker 2: each deary, and I'm pleased to say the wonderful Penny
Speaker 2: Fowler joins us now, Penny, can you believe eight years
Speaker 2: since you and Katie Page got together with this fabulous
Speaker 2: idea to celebrate the women of regional Australia. Love you
Speaker 2: to see you and congratulations on the awards going into
Speaker 2: their eighth year.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Paul.
Speaker 9: It's really lovely to see you too.
Speaker 13: I cannot believe eight years it's gone by so quickly.
Speaker 13: The Weekly Times and having Norman when Katie and I
Speaker 13: first got together and thought what can we do to
Speaker 13: shine a light on rural and regional women around Australia
Speaker 13: And the thing that's been going eight years. We've shon
Speaker 13: light on over a thousand women from all over and
Speaker 13: every year we've had these amazing stories about these amazing
Speaker 13: women who do making difference in their communities.
Speaker 2: What do you think sets the awards apart from others,
Speaker 2: particularly it's focus, I suppose on rural women.
Speaker 1: But what sets it apart.
Speaker 13: Well, I really feel a lot of these women are
Speaker 13: the unsung heroes of their communities. I think women are
Speaker 13: not necessarily recognized as much in remote communities and regional communities,
Speaker 13: and I sort of I feel that they're always doing
Speaker 13: these amazing things behind the scenes or the overcoming adversity
Speaker 13: or tragedy, and they.
Speaker 6: Go through so much.
Speaker 13: And I think often in these communities, you know, around
Speaker 13: regional Australia and rural Australia, women are the backbones of
Speaker 13: the communities and they're sort of the silent achieves in
Speaker 13: some way. So I just think this is really unearthed
Speaker 13: the whole of these amazing women and their stories and
Speaker 13: what they're doing to make a different So I think
Speaker 13: that's what makes it different. And I also think utilizing
Speaker 13: the weekly Times, that national footprint, the help of the
Speaker 13: Australia and all of our news masters to amplify all
Speaker 13: these stories, and then to have Harvey Norman and you know,
Speaker 13: Katie who's an amazing promoter and supporter of women and
Speaker 13: tell stories throughout the communities. I think it's really nice
Speaker 13: and I also love the categories that we have. I
Speaker 13: think that's sort of unique to you know, I've got grace, belief, courage, passion,
Speaker 13: dedication and the last four years we've had a Youth
Speaker 13: Winner and some of these young people things they're doing
Speaker 13: is incredible to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're both inspiring and frightening at the same time
Speaker 2: because this next wave of people coming through, they are
Speaker 2: ten foot tall, stronger and more confident than many of
Speaker 2: us would ever have dreamed of being. Give you give
Speaker 2: me an idea about some of the criteria that goes
Speaker 2: into this, because as always the list is so impressive
Speaker 2: this year no different. What are some of the criteria
Speaker 2: about who you decide to recognize?
Speaker 13: Well, I think what happens is we have a really
Speaker 13: amazing team at the Weekly Times who go out and
Speaker 13: get nominations and we actually amplify that all around, including you,
Speaker 13: Thank You, Fall and your show, Sky News, The Australian
Speaker 13: and they're under those different categories and so that when
Speaker 13: what happens is people nominate and send in stories and
Speaker 13: we go out and uncover the stories, and then we
Speaker 13: have a judging panel and we sit around and we
Speaker 13: go through all these and we try and work out
Speaker 13: look to be honest, that all winners, in my mind,
Speaker 13: all the fins, the winners, all the people are amazing
Speaker 13: and so it's really difficult to sort out and actually
Speaker 13: work out who's the overall winner. And so we just
Speaker 13: go down and if you look at I think some
Speaker 13: of the stories about people overcoming adversity, people whose children
Speaker 13: have died and they've gone on to make a difference,
Speaker 13: people who you know, like Sharon I went in last year,
Speaker 13: she overcame diversity, She's got her own indigenous food business.
Speaker 13: I mean, she's incredible. Emily Riggs from South Australia. The
Speaker 13: year before she was a young girl who lost her
Speaker 13: mother and she's got her own wool brand.
Speaker 6: So I think, what the criteria.
Speaker 13: There's no set criteria, I don't think, but it is
Speaker 13: people and women who are making a difference. But it's
Speaker 13: also you know, people who are doing making great successes
Speaker 13: in rural communities and regional communities in their businesses. So
Speaker 13: I think it's recognizing these outstanding achievements of theirs.
Speaker 1: What would be something that all of these women have
Speaker 1: in common.
Speaker 2: What's something that you would suggest is the commonality amongst
Speaker 2: all of the people who are up and about.
Speaker 13: All the people having about I think all these women, well,
Speaker 13: I think they're all inspiring.
Speaker 10: I all.
Speaker 13: I think most of them, in fact, all of them
Speaker 13: that I I've come across or had the pleasure of meeting,
Speaker 13: are very humble and very gracious and just very They're
Speaker 13: just really devoted people.
Speaker 8: They've devoted to.
Speaker 13: Their families and if they don't have their families, so
Speaker 13: their work to their communities. And I really feel that
Speaker 13: that makes them different. So, I mean, obviously the other
Speaker 13: thing they all have in common is they're women.
Speaker 14: So I think the.
Speaker 1: Go go, go fight, fight, fight, all of that.
Speaker 13: Yes, So I sort of feel like that's sort of
Speaker 13: a bit of you know, but I mean it is
Speaker 13: that in all these stories, and they always have these
Speaker 13: amazing stories too, I think. And so whether they're you know,
Speaker 13: working for the Royal Flying Daughter Service, or they're starting
Speaker 13: their own business, or they're overcoming tragedy.
Speaker 4: And if you think all things.
Speaker 13: Have been going on around the fires, the floods, all
Speaker 13: the natural disasters have had over the last years too,
Speaker 13: I think these people, I just think they're really naturally
Speaker 13: their instinct is to give back to their communities and
Speaker 13: make a difference.
Speaker 2: You mentioned that there's you know, it's impossible obviously for
Speaker 2: everyone to end up as the ultimate winner, but all
Speaker 2: of them are winners for their recognition, but more importantly
Speaker 2: for what they do in their lives. What do you
Speaker 2: think the rest of us can take from these women's achievements.
Speaker 2: What's the sort of stuff that we should be learning
Speaker 2: from what these women are doing?
Speaker 13: Well, I really feel what we should be learning is
Speaker 13: everyone can make a difference in what every way they can,
Speaker 13: and so you know, there's a lot of people who
Speaker 13: I think in life, giving back into your community, being
Speaker 13: part of your local community, helping others is something that
Speaker 13: we can all learn from all these women. And these
Speaker 13: women are exceptional in their stories are inspiring, but so
Speaker 13: so many people's stories, and I think that it's just
Speaker 13: that being involved in your local community and really try
Speaker 13: and giving back to your local community. I think, particularly
Speaker 13: in rural and regional Australia, you know, we sometimes they
Speaker 13: don't get as much attention as they should, and so
Speaker 13: I feel like that's sort of what the real learning
Speaker 13: is for everybody. There are so many amazing people and
Speaker 13: you can do whatever you do, whatever a little bit
Speaker 13: you do to give back. I think it really makes
Speaker 13: a difference.
Speaker 2: Bloody oth Penny, thank you so much. I love you
Speaker 2: all the best for the holiday period. Congratulations to you
Speaker 2: everyone in the Weekly Times of course, Katie Page and
Speaker 2: everyone in Harvey Norman.
Speaker 1: I love the Shine Awards. All the best, mate, We'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Thanks so much, Paul, all the
Speaker 1: best to Penny, to Katie, to their respective teams. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much.
Speaker 8: To Harvey Norman.
Speaker 1: Of course.
Speaker 4: The reason we're able to celebrate all the.
Speaker 2: Different parts of the country is because of their support.
Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone who deals with us in these shows.
Speaker 2: Over at Harvey Norman, thank you for supporting that wonderful
Speaker 2: Australian institution as well. Quick break back with more. It's
Speaker 2: time to go deep and dark into a gold mine.
Speaker 2: We do so next in Bendigo here are Paul Murray Live.
Speaker 2: We ten called Deborah gold Mine in Bendigo. You're able
Speaker 2: to come and have a look at it now. What
Speaker 2: is incredible, including where we are right now, is that
Speaker 2: you can still see all of the buildings everything from
Speaker 2: the blacksmith all the way through to all different things
Speaker 2: that were part of the community that send people down
Speaker 2: the mines for as long as it did. Thousands of
Speaker 2: tons of gold have come out of places like this.
Speaker 2: Is many more in this particular region. And rather than
Speaker 2: me banging on about it, let me show you Golden
Speaker 2: Bendigo synonymous. But tell us about what's unique about the
Speaker 2: experience I'm about to have.
Speaker 15: Wow, we're going sixty one meters underground, so it's about
Speaker 15: the same as a twenty two story building, which is
Speaker 15: a fair old tick down underground. We're heading into an
Speaker 15: original gold mine operated for fifteen years from nineteen thirty
Speaker 15: nine to nineteen to fifty four, so you can actually
Speaker 15: see what it was really like when the miners were
Speaker 15: experiencing it during our gold ruck.
Speaker 1: And way back then, how long was a shift when
Speaker 1: you were working on eight hours?
Speaker 15: Eight hours underground couldn't come up for any reason until
Speaker 15: the very completion.
Speaker 8: Of your shift.
Speaker 1: All right, well, what are we about to see today?
Speaker 15: We're going to see some drills, Okay, the hard work
Speaker 15: I had to get the gold out of the ground.
Speaker 15: Will see some gold because there's still is gold down
Speaker 15: there in the war which is really cool. We get
Speaker 15: to see the original shafts where they had their lunch,
Speaker 15: the whole work.
Speaker 1: But first, the coolest lift in Australia.
Speaker 15: Okay, if you want to beningese a little bit, you can.
Speaker 8: If you want to let a little squeal.
Speaker 1: You're building this side now, are you ready?
Speaker 12: You go?
Speaker 8: Three two one? Well, Paul, welcome to the crew room.
Speaker 1: This is beautiful. What a lunch What a lunch room.
Speaker 1: It's just the lunch rooms.
Speaker 2: To think of the big blokes smoking and eating a
Speaker 2: pasty that have sat.
Speaker 15: Here having a great time, having a great time, not
Speaker 15: doing their hard work, eating some food like they should be.
Speaker 15: Got thirty minutes for lunch here at Central Debra only
Speaker 15: time you could stop.
Speaker 1: Work all day. How many blokes could they fit in here?
Speaker 2: It doesn't look like that many, but how could they They.
Speaker 8: Squeeze in pretty tight.
Speaker 15: Okay, you could probably have eight crews in here, which
Speaker 15: is about sixteen blokes if you really wanted to sixteen.
Speaker 15: If they weren't sitting on the seats, they were sitting
Speaker 15: on the ground. As long as there wasn't a part
Speaker 15: all they were pretty happy just to stop working.
Speaker 1: All up and down the mine.
Speaker 2: There are these things obviously holding everything in place. And
Speaker 2: I've just asked how big is the thing you've got
Speaker 2: to bang into the wall? Answer that big? See how
Speaker 2: long is this six foot six foot? You've just got
Speaker 2: to bang it into the wall. And how much does
Speaker 2: each plate hold in place?
Speaker 1: For people? That are the tourists today, not the miners of.
Speaker 15: Yester, holding about seven tons of rock in place per plate?
Speaker 2: She wiars, eureka or not? Really, that's fool's goal. You
Speaker 2: want to see real goal over here?
Speaker 15: Tell us what we're looking at now, right, So we've
Speaker 15: got gold still in its original state, still here in
Speaker 15: the courts old times never found this reef. That means
Speaker 15: I get to show it to you real cool. What
Speaker 15: we're looking at is the small yellow blobs there inside
Speaker 15: of the courts doesn't look like very much. And this
Speaker 15: little cluster here just below that gold label about fifteen
Speaker 15: hundred bucks worth of goal. Well, Paul, we advertise deep,
Speaker 15: dark and dirty, so we better experience the darkness.
Speaker 8: We turn these cap lands off to see how.
Speaker 15: Dark it is down here for you four right, oh, Paul,
Speaker 15: rock down here really really hard. Can't use pick axes
Speaker 15: or anything like that. We need to use these big
Speaker 15: bad pneumatic drills. Each shift mine would have to drill
Speaker 15: between fifteen and twenty holes. Each hole's taking about ten
Speaker 15: to fifteen minutes to drill, So you're using these drills
Speaker 15: for about two hours every time you come to work.
Speaker 2: All right, time for me to earn my keea. Oh,
Speaker 2: thank you so much? What to day pleasure? Paul, Thanks
Speaker 2: for coming.
Speaker 1: That was cool? All right, Well you can take the
Speaker 1: softman's option.
Speaker 4: You've hardened me up.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the ladder.
Speaker 8: Have fun.
Speaker 1: Does any one think that I actually took the ladder?
Speaker 2: You know who's care you go and the team but
Speaker 2: great as well as James over at the trans Remember
Speaker 2: it's the Bendigo heritage attractions that link all of it,
Speaker 2: and you.
Speaker 1: Can come and see this with your own eyes.
Speaker 2: Another thing while you're in Bendigo is to celebrate its
Speaker 2: connections with the Chinese community, including an artifact that links
Speaker 2: back to our federation. The Yeu One Gardens here in
Speaker 2: bendigaren a perfect symbol of a community that's been here
Speaker 2: for a long time now. For many people, you may
Speaker 2: not think about the Chinese community and Bendigo as being
Speaker 2: interlinked for a long time, but they have been from
Speaker 2: the goal rushes of the eighteen hundreds all the way
Speaker 2: through to today.
Speaker 1: It's a vibrant community.
Speaker 2: But also it's a community that has gone from being
Speaker 2: an absolute outsider to now an absolute heart of a community.
Speaker 2: And one of the ways that they have integrated themselves
Speaker 2: with the community over the years is through cultural celebrations.
Speaker 2: There's a spectacular museum here that has everything from dragons
Speaker 2: from nineteen oh one to the ones they parade each
Speaker 2: and every Easter. All right, we're here with Hugo. He
Speaker 2: is the most passionate man about dragons in all of
Speaker 2: ben To go lovely to see you what an incredible collection.
Speaker 1: What are we looking at here?
Speaker 16: Okay, So this is the sun Lung Gallery at the
Speaker 16: Golden Dragon Museum. We've got two gallery spaces. Sun Lung
Speaker 16: is primarily where we keep our dragons, and you can
Speaker 16: see Diagum Lung on the right in the background, and
Speaker 16: then sun Lung on the.
Speaker 6: Left in the background. But because we're so pressed for space,
Speaker 6: we have all sorts of objects.
Speaker 16: We've got their regalia, their banners, their lines, and then
Speaker 16: some of our very wonderful.
Speaker 6: Collection all in the one space.
Speaker 16: So we have the three Imperial processional dragons and therefore
Speaker 16: regalia from nineteen oh one to the present day.
Speaker 6: Well, this is lung and lunging can need means dragon.
Speaker 6: He is from nineteen oh one. He is the oldest
Speaker 6: complete imperial processional dragon in the world.
Speaker 16: Now, there are older elements around the world and even
Speaker 16: closer to Bendigo, but this is the oldest complete imperial
Speaker 16: processional dragon long. We have photos of being part of
Speaker 16: the parade in or the parades in Australia's Federation in
Speaker 16: nineteen oh one, and we believe that he is the
Speaker 16: last remaining element from those parades.
Speaker 1: You've got to come here, You've got to see it.
Speaker 2: To be in this room is phenomenal, and please meet
Speaker 2: this bloke.
Speaker 6: Go on, you go, thank you, thank you. Wow.
Speaker 2: That was awesome, Peggy, if you go and everywhere else
Speaker 2: would say those new things just fantastic ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Here in Bendigo and everyone watching at home a very
Speaker 2: special guest.
Speaker 3: Sannah's here where to be padlu with be next and
Speaker 3: pullmery lifey Santa give me a candle. Hey, very aw.
Speaker 1: Then you go over here with Santa Hella.
Speaker 2: Now, of course, so one of the things you get
Speaker 2: to do when you come here is to do a
Speaker 2: little bit gold.
Speaker 4: Pen we do, Paul, and I've been doing this. Do
Speaker 4: you want me to show you how it's done?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 6: What we do?
Speaker 4: Paul?
Speaker 14: As you're putting a bit of dirt into your trough
Speaker 14: in your pen of the trough, and you're going to
Speaker 14: swish this really fast, okay, And we're washing away the
Speaker 14: dirt Paul, So I got to keep it in the wall.
Speaker 14: That's probably a bit fast, not like a washing machine.
Speaker 14: And your gold is going to settle at the bottom.
Speaker 14: Is there any gold deer?
Speaker 4: Paul, there's no gold, no gold deal. Let's have another go,
Speaker 4: no idea?
Speaker 1: What am I looking here?
Speaker 4: Here we go, We'll have another go.
Speaker 1: What are you okay? Swishing away? Swish, swish, swish? Hang on?
Speaker 1: What have you found the.
Speaker 14: I think there might be some gold here, Paul, breaking
Speaker 14: news Santa past for everyone else's Christmas.
Speaker 4: Let's have a look, Paul. You hard to see in
Speaker 4: the light here you have a look?
Speaker 8: M M.
Speaker 1: I'm worried about Santa's glasses now fogging up here? Paul?
Speaker 8: Can we see?
Speaker 4: Let's if you Paul here.
Speaker 1: We need to help me Santah.
Speaker 4: Well, here we go, hell, have a look.
Speaker 6: Is that is that? What I think it is?
Speaker 1: I think it is goodness?
Speaker 8: Me?
Speaker 6: There we go?
Speaker 1: Is that is that? God? Now that's a stone.
Speaker 4: That's a stone.
Speaker 1: That's a stone stone Santa. Okay, no, cood, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep going.
Speaker 4: We're going to keep going.
Speaker 1: All right, the Royal report.
Speaker 2: You're going to wait, okay, because there's a chance, there's
Speaker 2: still a chance at any moment now that we're going
Speaker 2: to find Come on, we can do this here say
Speaker 2: and I believe in you.
Speaker 1: I believe you.
Speaker 4: I don't know why we're focused on your pan not mine,
Speaker 4: because it's random.
Speaker 8: Here we go.
Speaker 1: Okay, what about that one?
Speaker 8: That is gold?
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen go, there we go.
Speaker 4: Now, now we've got a hand that back?
Speaker 1: How did that happen?
Speaker 4: He's got to hand that back for the tale.
Speaker 1: It's done.
Speaker 14: Okay, you got to hand that back then, Yes, all right,
Speaker 14: well done, Paul, give it up, Boring, well done.
Speaker 2: Thank you to everyone here in the.
Speaker 8: Very Christmas God love your sat up.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: That is our show from Bendigo. That is our show
Speaker 2: when it comes to our town for the year. I
Speaker 2: want to thank everyone involved in our production. Their names
Speaker 2: won't mean an awful lot to you, but they mean
Speaker 2: everything to me. Can you give a round of applause
Speaker 2: to the people who.
Speaker 1: Make all of this happen. Thank you James and recor
Speaker 1: helped us out behind the scenes. Of course, without normal
Speaker 1: paor Murray Live all year. Thank you to Harvey Norman.
Speaker 2: Without you, without your focus and your help each and
Speaker 2: every month, this show is impossible and the most important
Speaker 2: thing I always have to say. And don't worry, We're
Speaker 2: around for another couple of weeks with the normal show.
Speaker 2: Please see Australia when you get a chance this summer.
Speaker 2: Getting the car pointed in the direction, and just one
Speaker 2: hour this way, two hours that way, go to a
Speaker 2: different state, go to a place youvan't been for a while,
Speaker 2: and the first place on your list.
Speaker 1: Bendigo.
Speaker 2: All right, Bendigo, first mention my name and pay full price.
Speaker 2: That's our show from Bendigo. That's out down. Thank you
Speaker 2: very much for watching. We'll see you again tomorrow night from.
Speaker 1: The man Cave for plenty more. Paul Murray Life can
Speaker 1: always send me an.
Speaker 2: Email to Forward Sun News dot com dot au.
Speaker 3: Goodnight from then they go. Sanna