Speaker 1: Live from Blonde Sester.
Speaker 2: This is Paul Murray Live our town.
Speaker 1: How good Blonceston. Fire it up tonight.
Speaker 3: We are in the north of Tasmania tonight for our town.
Speaker 3: This is a spectacular location. We have had a magnificent weekend.
Speaker 3: The weather has been just absolutely top notch. The people,
Speaker 3: as you will meet later tonight, are just spectacular. As
Speaker 3: we always say, at least once a month go see
Speaker 3: Australia because it's the best holiday.
Speaker 1: You'll ever have.
Speaker 3: Come and see Lonnie. They're the best people that you
Speaker 3: can come and hang out with. It is if you're
Speaker 3: loving Instagram, you can fill your entire feed with beautiful
Speaker 3: pictures here and you can meet some wonderful people while
Speaker 3: you are here. I can tell you that we are
Speaker 3: going to show you a little bit more of some
Speaker 3: of the beautiful natural sites around here around Tipmas of course,
Speaker 3: is the Olympic champion from Tasmania. I'll have a chat
Speaker 3: to her a little bit later. And the Bogs Brewery
Speaker 3: just down the road. Have we sampled bobes that all
Speaker 3: my friends?
Speaker 1: I thought so? How many have sampled it in the
Speaker 1: past fifteen minutes? Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 3: Enough all right? How many are planning to in the
Speaker 3: next fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1: Hey, there we go, all right, excellent, don't worry.
Speaker 3: It's all on Andrew Bolt. So you can drink as
Speaker 3: much as you want. Okay, that's all right, He'll be fine.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have a look at how they make it,
Speaker 3: where they make it, and the good people that are
Speaker 3: behind all of that. But first let's talk about the
Speaker 3: news that is around today. And I'm going to say
Speaker 3: something that normally I wouldn't say, but I would gladly
Speaker 3: say to you, the good people of Long Syst not
Speaker 3: a lot happened today, so we can focus on some
Speaker 3: good news for a moment or two here. I know
Speaker 3: that there's a protest stuff. We'll deal with that, of
Speaker 3: course once we get back to the man Cave tomorrow.
Speaker 3: But as you know, the King and Queen are bouncing around.
Speaker 3: They are doing so in Sydney right now. And who
Speaker 3: cares about your view on this?
Speaker 1: This is just nice, all right. Australia had a nice
Speaker 1: day today. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: It's not as exciting as the sky's falling in. It's
Speaker 3: that we had a nice day today. They went to
Speaker 3: church in Sydney, they went to the New South Wales
Speaker 3: Parliament as well, and people turned up. They turned up
Speaker 3: in their thousands and they had a good day. And
Speaker 3: by extension, these pictures go around the world. Beautiful weather,
Speaker 3: nice people, a nice day to feel Australia.
Speaker 1: There's a special moment.
Speaker 3: We just said on the Great Vine, ran down on
Speaker 3: the bus and we did not expect to be shaking
Speaker 3: hands with the King.
Speaker 4: We're both like shaking now and had.
Speaker 5: A conversation with them, quite a conversation. Welcomed into Australia,
Speaker 5: said how well he's doing, and he was just like
Speaker 5: as a fabulous and it's just lovely to be here
Speaker 5: in such a warm welcome.
Speaker 2: Really fine and hype exciting.
Speaker 6: We were just walking fast and we sold a cloud
Speaker 6: and we just started a step back and quite excited
Speaker 6: to see the king.
Speaker 7: Not because a very cain for a sense, very nice
Speaker 7: to meet him.
Speaker 3: You see what I like about what you just saw,
Speaker 3: Their modern Australia. Right, it doesn't matter where and how
Speaker 3: long and all the rest of it, but people who
Speaker 3: enjoyed a good moment, same as the good people over
Speaker 3: in Perth raising millions of dollars when it comes to
Speaker 3: their telephone as well. We are a good people. We
Speaker 3: deserve to take a moment or two to enjoy a
Speaker 3: good day. Today was a very good day in terms
Speaker 3: of what they were doing, and of course, his Majesty
Speaker 3: a couple of moments caught on microphones today about what
Speaker 3: he was doing.
Speaker 8: Having been with you for your one hundred and fiftieth anniversary,
Speaker 8: I am delighted and proud to be able to return
Speaker 8: to the Parliament of New South Wales in order to
Speaker 8: celebrate the occasion of your base and tinery.
Speaker 3: Now, I always think about this when you know royal
Speaker 3: visits or prime ministers or presidents come to Australia. Do
Speaker 3: you think that there's any chance that you know, there's
Speaker 3: a secret tour that none of us see, where they
Speaker 3: just go up the Cross for the rest of the night,
Speaker 3: no cameras. Who knows what's really happening behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: When Camilla and Charles are off, they're just having a
Speaker 3: dinner party in some random person's house, which could be
Speaker 3: the reason why my mum told us we always had
Speaker 3: to have a clean room.
Speaker 1: I don't know, just in case.
Speaker 3: Maybe this happened once that the Queen was going to
Speaker 3: turn up, and maybe that's what's happening tonight.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 3: Who knows, But anyway, I love you, Mum. I'm glad
Speaker 3: you're watching all right. As for what they did today
Speaker 3: in the plans for the next little while, he is
Speaker 3: our reporters.
Speaker 7: Royal watchers lined Saint Thomas Anglican Church ahead of their
Speaker 7: Majesty's first public appearance at a Sunday service. It's the
Speaker 7: first time they've seen the royals in Australia as King
Speaker 7: and Queen. There were smiles from young and old people,
Speaker 7: waved flags and presented their majesties with flowers.
Speaker 5: Thank you very much for the reply.
Speaker 7: They were greeted by dignitaries and carried out formalities.
Speaker 3: But today a star was born. She is four years
Speaker 3: old and her name is Gabriella. Have a look at
Speaker 3: her full curtsy for the Queen and the King. She
Speaker 3: apparently had been practicing this for days and days. Look
Speaker 3: at that little kiddy in the bottom. Ride a good.
Speaker 1: Right, Australia had a good day to DAYE. Australia had
Speaker 1: a good dyna DAYE.
Speaker 3: What a gorgeous little girl. Lots of other people who
Speaker 3: turned up again. Lots of great photos that are up.
Speaker 3: You can see all this at sky News dot com
Speaker 3: dot Au were on lots of other places as people
Speaker 3: had the chance to meet a king that maybe they
Speaker 3: had seen before as a prince, but kids having that
Speaker 3: once in a lifetime moment.
Speaker 1: I thought it was awesome. I really do. Now.
Speaker 3: As for the usual types, they say it's time to
Speaker 3: flick the king, just wait, really, regardless of your opinion
Speaker 3: on this stuff, I think the majority of Australians are
Speaker 3: not interested in a referendum on anything anytime soon. Right,
Speaker 3: we had a big one last year, four hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars. You're going to have to wait. Oh,
Speaker 3: but that didn't stop the Turnbull Times. King Charles is
Speaker 3: not the adversary of an Australian republic. But the time
Speaker 3: has come, hasn't it for the crown to go whatever?
Speaker 3: Over In the Financial Review they're editorializing that it's time
Speaker 3: for an Australian republic. Look, if it happens, it happens.
Speaker 3: But till then, put us sock at it and just
Speaker 3: let people like Gabriella have a lovely day in Australia.
Speaker 3: All right, Let's let them do it now. Lots of
Speaker 3: people got bugged over by one of the banks this weekend.
Speaker 3: No giant surprise, but become off bank if of course
Speaker 3: the nation's largest, and the glitch and I'd love.
Speaker 1: And they get to say glitch. Right, If the purpose
Speaker 1: of your business is to.
Speaker 3: Be able to have people have access to your money
Speaker 3: and have enough of that money left over that you
Speaker 3: can access the money, then you didn't really.
Speaker 1: Do your job this weekend. It's not a glitch.
Speaker 3: Okay, A glitch would be me randomly talking about how
Speaker 3: great the greens are. But other than that, and that
Speaker 3: gleachain happening people that gleech ain't happening anytime soon, all right.
Speaker 1: Well, so they had a change in there.
Speaker 3: They're systems that meant that people were being double billed
Speaker 3: for things that they had already paid for. His Channel
Speaker 3: seven explaining exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: An alarming morning message alerting customers to a banking blunder.
Speaker 2: Transactions doubled, leaving them out of pocket, and accounts emptied.
Speaker 9: It said that it was overdrawn my account and therefore
Speaker 9: I did pay Combank back.
Speaker 2: Recent payments charged by Commonwealth Bank a second time at
Speaker 2: a time when every dollar counts.
Speaker 3: Unsurprisingly, the pr people from the Comonwealth Bank were out
Speaker 3: and about and they were saying, not which bank, but
Speaker 3: sorry bank.
Speaker 2: Commonwealth Bank have apologized to customers, saying they're aware of
Speaker 2: the duplicate transactions. Their teams are working urgently to reverse season.
Speaker 2: Any phase charge will be refunded.
Speaker 9: Customers don't need to take action to ensure this takes place.
Speaker 1: We will do it automatically on their behalf. All right,
Speaker 1: here's an idea.
Speaker 3: If you're going to force everyone to have to do
Speaker 3: everything over the internet, when the internet stuffs up, you
Speaker 3: have to compensate in the same way that Optus.
Speaker 1: Well, they had the wrong type of compensation when they
Speaker 1: turned around and.
Speaker 3: Said free data, more data than you would normally use. Therefore,
Speaker 3: it's not really a giveaway. Here's an idea. What about
Speaker 3: no charges for the next month or so on tap
Speaker 3: and go?
Speaker 1: What about that?
Speaker 3: Just as a simple idea, you turn it off, you've
Speaker 3: got a mega profit. You'll lose a little bit more.
Speaker 3: But that's what's called paying for a glitch. Now, as
Speaker 3: we know that the Prime Minister of Australia, Anthony Aberanez,
Speaker 3: the greatest leader of all time. Right, sorry to the people,
Speaker 3: have been dragged along by people.
Speaker 1: Going what show am I watching? All right?
Speaker 3: Well, as you know, he had a great week last week.
Speaker 3: He showed that he's down with the people by buying
Speaker 3: a four point three million dollar investment property for when
Speaker 3: eventually he's going to retire, which may or may not
Speaker 3: be sooner than he's actually planning. The reason I say
Speaker 3: that is because the same Block who used to be
Speaker 3: a Labor Senator for Queensland has written in the past
Speaker 3: and the Financial Review, looking at the data about polling
Speaker 3: and demographics and other issues, that he thinks it's maybe
Speaker 3: not just a minority government, but maybe a change at
Speaker 3: the upcoming election. He previously wrote about a month ago
Speaker 3: that when we add it all up, we find that
Speaker 3: Labor will lose thirteen seats. They go from seventy eight
Speaker 3: currently to sixty five. Coalition may well be up seventeen
Speaker 3: from fifty five to seventy two. Now I told you
Speaker 3: at the time, I think that's a little bit hot,
Speaker 3: a little bit sort of wishful thin. But he's doubled down,
Speaker 3: particularly after the pole results that are playing out in
Speaker 3: places around the country, but also the events that took
Speaker 3: place last week, because the threat of course to Labor
Speaker 3: comes when it comes to power, It'll come from the
Speaker 3: Liberal National Party or the LNP when it comes to
Speaker 3: some of their representation, it's going to be the Greens
Speaker 3: where if they end up finishing second or even potentially third,
Speaker 3: because remember their primary vote is the lowest it's been
Speaker 3: in more than one hundred years, well then a whole
Speaker 3: lot of weird things.
Speaker 1: Are going to happen.
Speaker 3: So what he wrote in the Financial Review this weekend
Speaker 3: was the Labour's chances.
Speaker 1: Of holding onto power was slim now way for thin.
Speaker 3: Let me read a month ago Anthony Albernezi had a
Speaker 3: slim chance of remaining the Prime minister after the next election.
Speaker 1: But over the past week the slim chance has disappeared.
Speaker 1: He says.
Speaker 3: If you have a look at the Queensland election, which
Speaker 3: will be focused on next week, well you'll be able
Speaker 3: to see there what's going to happen in certain seeds.
Speaker 3: Double check and think about whether people are starting to
Speaker 3: move to the left or the right, particularly in area's
Speaker 3: Labor are banking on to be able to hold on.
Speaker 3: If we see the Labor Party lose some of its
Speaker 3: lower income primary votes to people like the Greens, or
Speaker 3: lower income voters to the Coalition, than the electoral odds
Speaker 3: favorite Dutton winning outright in twenty twenty five, so we'll
Speaker 3: all see what happens. You also thinks the failures of
Speaker 3: the Labor Party in Victoria at the moment could be
Speaker 3: a particular issue.
Speaker 1: And don't forget there's a third of.
Speaker 3: The country that's trying to pay off a house after
Speaker 3: those interest rates have gone up by a dozen times
Speaker 3: since this bloke became Prime minister. But I don't want
Speaker 3: you to think that Peter Dutton had an amazing weekend.
Speaker 3: In fact, he had quite a traumatic experience, one that
Speaker 3: may well force him out.
Speaker 1: Of Australian politics.
Speaker 3: He was sort of he was speaking about nuclear power
Speaker 3: and he was, as the ABC reported, heckled by protesters.
Speaker 3: Look at how many protesters heckled him.
Speaker 1: This was the lead story.
Speaker 3: On their freaking website one, two, three, four five. And
Speaker 3: I'm going to be kind the two people up in
Speaker 3: the back. They were convinced by the protests. Seven people
Speaker 3: is enough to get you a headlined on Channel two.
Speaker 3: But that's all right, we pay for it regardless of
Speaker 3: whether you like it or not. All right, let's turn
Speaker 3: our attention to Queensland right now, where today the LNP, well,
Speaker 3: they launched their campaign for the election, which will be
Speaker 3: taking place on Saturday. What the election result is going
Speaker 3: to be, New Pole's going to show that it is
Speaker 3: exactly as I predicted, a little tighter than maybe some
Speaker 3: people thought. Now, remember half most likely of all people
Speaker 3: in Queensland will vote before election day, which is why
Speaker 3: the Labor Party had their launch last week and because
Speaker 3: the other half are getting ready for this weekend.
Speaker 1: That's why the LNP went. Now, Now, there.
Speaker 3: Was a lady who was very strongly represented, and I'll
Speaker 3: get to that in the moment, But first, David Cruci
Speaker 3: fully potentially six days away from wiping out Labor.
Speaker 9: Under our plan, we will make sure the youth offenders
Speaker 9: are doing something productive for themselves. Don't want to go
Speaker 9: to class today, well, too bad, you are going. If
Speaker 9: the state is taking over the responsibility of their care,
Speaker 9: we must ensure we use their time to become better people.
Speaker 3: Now I said that there was a person who loomed large.
Speaker 3: Violine White is the grandmother who was stabbed in front
Speaker 3: of her grandchild.
Speaker 1: Why because she went to the shops on a Saturday afternoon.
Speaker 3: The court process will play out and do what it does,
Speaker 3: but it was the line in the sand for many
Speaker 3: people in Queensland who had enough about youth crime and
Speaker 3: it was a major push why David Cruso fully is
Speaker 3: trying to put in place laws which is adult crime
Speaker 3: equals adult time. Her family have now formerly endorsed the
Speaker 3: Liberal Party and a change of government at the upcoming election.
Speaker 3: Her husband who you can imagine any invocation of her
Speaker 3: name would break his heart while he was there battling
Speaker 3: for Violeine's law. Her daughter also spoke today ahead of
Speaker 3: the official launch of the campaign. This was powerful stuff.
Speaker 3: This will in my view, put the nail.
Speaker 1: Right through the Labor Party up there.
Speaker 10: There's no other options. Well, Labor and Stephen Miles have
Speaker 10: run from the Queensland youth victim crisis when all other
Speaker 10: victims of any crisis, we watched David and the LMP
Speaker 10: team take it head on. I'm one of the few
Speaker 10: Queenslanders who have looked both Stephen Miles and David Chrysti
Speaker 10: fully straight in the eye and that is why I
Speaker 10: will be voting for David Chris fully and his LMP team.
Speaker 3: Amazing stuff, Queensland. Six days you know what to do.
Speaker 1: See you later.
Speaker 3: I'll be there with the Domestos on Saturday night to
Speaker 3: cailing away what maybe we're left off that government looking
Speaker 3: forward to it. Now, let's talk quickly in America because
Speaker 3: the data is all starting now to treat one way,
Speaker 3: and that is Donald Trump looks like he might be
Speaker 3: about to win this upcoming election.
Speaker 1: Lonnie, how do we feel about that? Yeah? Good de
Speaker 1: scene all right now.
Speaker 3: When it comes to the latest book, he's fifty seven
Speaker 3: forty two in.
Speaker 1: Favor of Donald Trump. However, there are.
Speaker 3: Individual bets which have been really big, which have helped
Speaker 3: fiddle with that number.
Speaker 1: But still, let's look at the polls.
Speaker 3: One, two, three or seven of the swing states currently
Speaker 3: on average are going Trump's way.
Speaker 1: Also, when it comes to the prediction.
Speaker 3: Models, Nate Silver, who have told you before, he says
Speaker 3: fifty one forty eight Trump is a chance of winning.
Speaker 3: When it comes to the five point thirty eight, they
Speaker 3: now have Trump in front two saying he's fifty two
Speaker 3: out of one hundred times likely to win when they
Speaker 3: run everything through the computers.
Speaker 1: So it's all looking good when it comes to the data.
Speaker 3: However, in lefty Land, for those who of course hate Trump,
Speaker 3: they only saw one story this weekend, which was that
Speaker 3: there was problems at a rally, which meant that he
Speaker 3: was apparently wandering around stage for eight eight minutes, not
Speaker 3: actually delivering.
Speaker 1: Huge speeches on all of that.
Speaker 3: As for Harris, she was being endorsed by, among others, Usher,
Speaker 3: and of course she is doubling down at the moment
Speaker 3: on her central message when it comes to it's a
Speaker 3: nice jacket, very big caller though. Anyway, the doubling down
Speaker 3: on changing the making sure that Trump does not win. Now,
Speaker 3: for those of us in Trump Land, what did we
Speaker 3: see this weekend? Well, we saw Trump being endorsed by
Speaker 3: the Undertaker, and by that I mean the former multiple
Speaker 3: World Wrestling Federation champion, the Undertaker and Cain.
Speaker 1: He also was endorsed by steel workers.
Speaker 3: In Pennsylvania, and he told a fantastic locker room story
Speaker 3: which will offend every lefty that you know about the
Speaker 3: golf and great Arnold Palmer. Roll the tape and hold on.
Speaker 1: To your pearls.
Speaker 6: This is a guy that was old man.
Speaker 1: His man was strong and tough.
Speaker 6: And I refused to say it, but when he took
Speaker 6: showers with the other pros that came out of there,
Speaker 6: they said, oh my god, that's unbelievable. I had to
Speaker 6: say it.
Speaker 1: I love that so much. I really want to repay it.
Speaker 3: I'm going to play it every single night this week
Speaker 3: because I think it's the most inappropriately.
Speaker 1: Wonderful thing I've seen in a long time.
Speaker 3: All Right, let's focus here in and around Long System,
Speaker 3: this part of our town. Thanks for the very good
Speaker 3: people of Harvey Norman Bridget Archier is of course like
Speaker 3: a federal MP in the federal electorate of Bass and
Speaker 3: we were able to talk to her about what it's
Speaker 3: like to represent this area, perhaps its most beautiful area.
Speaker 1: Well, Bridget, this is one hell of an office. We're
Speaker 1: all not bad.
Speaker 5: We're here in Lonceston's beautiful Cataract Gorge and this is
Speaker 5: the first base in here with the city of Lonceessant
Speaker 5: swimming Pool.
Speaker 1: That's where else would you want to be? This year
Speaker 1: is the perfect spring day.
Speaker 3: The second you get off the plane, you feel the air,
Speaker 3: you feel the people. But to have resources like this,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd love to tell you this is a
Speaker 3: three hour drive out from No, it's not.
Speaker 1: It's ten minutes. Ten minutes from the CBD.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you can see even today we had terrible
Speaker 5: weather yesterday but a bit of sun and people are
Speaker 5: out and enjoying this part of the city and it's
Speaker 5: right on their doorstep.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the town, this area your seat.
Speaker 3: How are you feeling about things, not politically, but just
Speaker 3: the vibe of the place. How does it feel compared
Speaker 3: to when you first ran a few years ago.
Speaker 5: Yeah, look, I think it's mixed in some ways. I
Speaker 5: think it's a really exciting time for Northern Tasmania and
Speaker 5: there's a lot of positive things happening and there's been
Speaker 5: some great, you know, tourism developments. I'm always surprised to
Speaker 5: see some new small businesses opening every couple of weeks
Speaker 5: and it's great to see, like I said, people having
Speaker 5: a go. And I think they're a real and always
Speaker 5: has been a real entrepreneurial spirit in Launceston. You know,
Speaker 5: it's really We've just celebrated this week the one hundred
Speaker 5: and seventy fifth birthday of the Launceston Chamber of Commerce,
Speaker 5: one of the oldest in the country, and I think
Speaker 5: it speaks to the kind of entrepreneurial spirit that we
Speaker 5: have here in Northern Tasmania. But you want everyone to
Speaker 5: benefit from that as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, and you know, we all know that promise
Speaker 3: has made and all the rest of it that haven't
Speaker 3: come true.
Speaker 1: But I've got to say, and this is all over
Speaker 1: the country right there's.
Speaker 3: A rivalry between Townsville and Cairns.
Speaker 1: Oh who's better, who's great?
Speaker 3: There is obviously a divide at times between North and
Speaker 3: South Tasmania, so much so that there are separate public holidays,
Speaker 3: separate public holidays.
Speaker 5: And very different beers.
Speaker 3: This is it, So tell us the North of the South.
Speaker 3: What makes the two different? What's different about a Northerner
Speaker 3: than someone down around Hobah.
Speaker 5: Look, I think it is partly that sort of contrast
Speaker 5: between you know, Hobart's the kind of capital city center
Speaker 5: of the kind of public service, that sort of thing,
Speaker 5: and then Launceston I think really founded on that kind
Speaker 5: of small business, entrepreneurial you know, mums and dads having
Speaker 5: a go and building a life for themselves. Like I
Speaker 5: think it's a bit of a different sort of vibe.
Speaker 5: But and yeah, there's there's a strong sort of parochialism.
Speaker 5: I think that still exists. Mostly it's reasonably good natured
Speaker 5: and of course it's diverse here in the North. I
Speaker 5: think you've got Lonceston here as a kind of regional city.
Speaker 5: We say, the greatest regional city in the world.
Speaker 1: But then who's going to fight you on that today?
Speaker 1: No one's fighting you on this today.
Speaker 5: It's perfect. But also yeah, it's it's got this sort
Speaker 5: of natural environment very close by as well, and then
Speaker 5: right out into sort of rural areas, advanced manufacturing down
Speaker 5: the river at Bell Bay, and you know there's a
Speaker 5: diversity I think to the economy here in the North.
Speaker 3: Well, look, no disrespect to the South, but in the North,
Speaker 3: I love that classic cars.
Speaker 1: They've got the Classic Car Museum.
Speaker 3: They've even got an event that I think you're off
Speaker 3: to a little bit later today. But just finally about
Speaker 3: what you hope for this region in the next little while, right,
Speaker 3: What are the types of things that you would like
Speaker 3: to see you have that dream relationship between potentially yourself
Speaker 3: in a government working with the state government.
Speaker 1: Give us an idea of the types of what's next
Speaker 1: about this joint good life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I think we really need to focus on
Speaker 5: all of these natural assets that we have here in Lonceston.
Speaker 5: Both in terms of these sort of natural assets mean
Speaker 5: it's a really high potential for a tourism area and
Speaker 5: there's a lot of growth been undertaken in that year.
Speaker 5: More to do where now are you NESCo City of Gastronomy, Wow,
Speaker 5: which is pretty cool, I think, and building a fermentation
Speaker 5: world class fermentation center just another ten minutes out of
Speaker 5: town to value add to our agricultural industries. But we
Speaker 5: also still you know, we have other advanced manufacturing industries
Speaker 5: here that have been here for a long time where
Speaker 5: I live at Georgetown, you know Belbaluminium, It's been there
Speaker 5: no seventy years or something now, providing a lot of
Speaker 5: jobs for people. But we need to make sure that
Speaker 5: everybody has the opportunity to benefit from that. We need
Speaker 5: to recognize that we do have some challenges as an island,
Speaker 5: and you would see there's a bit of an inquiry
Speaker 5: going on at the moment into freight equalization for example.
Speaker 5: So we need to just keep building on that entrepreneurial
Speaker 5: spirit that exists here and giving people the opportunity to
Speaker 5: do what they do best. And for May as a liberal,
Speaker 5: that means, you know, you have a government that kind
Speaker 5: of gets other way.
Speaker 3: A little bit across that's Northern Tasmania.
Speaker 1: Lonnie.
Speaker 3: You've got a wonderful representative in Bridge at all the
Speaker 3: best for the upcoming election.
Speaker 1: But more importantly I have passion you are about the place.
Speaker 1: I love how you're represented on the national stage. So
Speaker 1: congratulations to you. It's good to see you in Lillipool.
Speaker 3: I like Richards, is a nice light and very passionate
Speaker 3: about a community. It's a seat that can of course
Speaker 3: pass and Brandon normally sort of one term, as she
Speaker 3: would be at the first to be going for three
Speaker 3: terms in quite a while.
Speaker 1: A man I also knows that to represent this.
Speaker 3: Part of Tasmania is Michael Ferguson. Michael Ferguson, gi him around,
Speaker 3: applause of course.
Speaker 1: How are you mate? Yeah, really good, good good, got
Speaker 1: so good to be here.
Speaker 3: That gorge is not fourteen you know, not a four
Speaker 3: hour drive. It's ten minutes out of town. I love
Speaker 3: that at Lon Seston, in any particular direction, you can
Speaker 3: have a change of scenery, a new thing to do.
Speaker 3: You can spend much more than just a weekend here.
Speaker 3: That gorge in particular.
Speaker 1: Is just beautiful.
Speaker 11: You can go to the gorge, you can go to
Speaker 11: the mountain, you can go to the beach, you can
Speaker 11: go to the river. You go to the wilderness. You know,
Speaker 11: within twenty or sixty minutes of the city.
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of choice.
Speaker 11: Where spoil here in Northern Tassim. We're glad you're here.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: So give us an idea when you're in the harder
Speaker 3: government and you're trying to fight for this area, what
Speaker 3: are the sorts of things that this area wants of
Speaker 3: state government.
Speaker 11: People in Northern Tasmania want government to focus on their
Speaker 11: everyday needs, desires, the goals they've got for their families.
Speaker 11: They're less interested, in my opinion, on what peak bodies
Speaker 11: and so called stakeholders have got to say. You know
Speaker 11: what I'm talking about, And government does need to listen
Speaker 11: to stakeholders and peak bodies, but they've got to listen
Speaker 11: to the people of the community and focus on them.
Speaker 11: Often they don't have a voice.
Speaker 1: Often they're not.
Speaker 11: Loud voices, and it does fall to the politicians to
Speaker 11: use wise judgment. Be careful who we're listening to. Don't
Speaker 11: just go into parliament repeating what the last person said
Speaker 11: to you. Go and listen to the people in the supermarkets,
Speaker 11: in their homes, in their churches, in their schools.
Speaker 3: One of the many things I'm sure it's deeply frustrating
Speaker 3: if you are in front of the process. But the
Speaker 3: thing I love most about Lonzessene Bass in this area
Speaker 3: in particular is they're not afraid of getting up in
Speaker 3: your face.
Speaker 1: Right, They'll do it. You're a space now, this is it? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got a good hour as soon as we're
Speaker 3: off the air. But what that's like because obviously it
Speaker 3: keeps you in check. It make sure that you don't
Speaker 3: get too distracted by the hobart of everything.
Speaker 11: Maybe that's why Northern Tasmania the seed of bass that
Speaker 11: Bridget represents for us so well, maybe that's why it's marginal.
Speaker 11: Maybe it's because people are not sold just on a
Speaker 11: particular personal party, but they are interested in those who
Speaker 11: are going to focus on their family, their community, their river,
Speaker 11: their school, their hospital.
Speaker 3: So in terms of all of those competing interests, again,
Speaker 3: the sense of Tasmania from outside of Tasmania is that
Speaker 3: they are often sort of these tectonic plates that at
Speaker 3: times are not necessarily pushing in the right direction. How
Speaker 3: do you manage those tectonic plates.
Speaker 11: A great question. Well, pick an example like forestry. Like
Speaker 11: forestry has been cast over time and time again, and
Speaker 11: it's always been, well frequently been the case that a
Speaker 11: state like Tasmani that actually does forestry really well, whether
Speaker 11: it's native sustainable forest practices or plantation and getting into
Speaker 11: some new industries and new and clever products, it doesn't
Speaker 11: necessarily follow that just what's good for our community and
Speaker 11: our state is something that will find its way into
Speaker 11: a mainstream labor party policy, because there are mainland capital
Speaker 11: till seats and voters to appeal to Greens and labor left,
Speaker 11: and so they can sway the major party, in particular
Speaker 11: on the left of politics. And yet our people are
Speaker 11: the ones who have to pay the price. It's happening
Speaker 11: in our on salmon. We've got to watch that like
Speaker 11: a hawk. And we've got to protect these industries because
Speaker 11: they're good industries and they're putting food on the tables
Speaker 11: of our families.
Speaker 1: Good Man, you're a wonderful representative. Thank you, Michael Post,
Speaker 1: thank you. Give them around of reports. Good Man. Good Man,
Speaker 1: all right, stayed there because I've got a quick break.
Speaker 3: In a moment or two's time, back to her in
Speaker 3: Monceys and takes you good people of Parvey. Norman harry
Speaker 3: On Tidmus will talk to her and other star athletes.
Speaker 3: There must be something in the water here because it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Welcome back in a long cistern. We are having a
Speaker 1: great time.
Speaker 3: Ariana Tipmas is of course a multiple Australian, a multiple
Speaker 3: Olympic gold medal winner.
Speaker 1: She did such incredible things in Tokyo.
Speaker 3: We remember that as the panacea to what it was
Speaker 3: like to be locked up at home to see how
Speaker 3: well she did and how excited.
Speaker 1: Her coach was.
Speaker 3: Of course, she went on to even greater success in Paris.
Speaker 3: That in part is because of the commitment that Harvey
Speaker 3: Norman have had to her. They've saw her coming for
Speaker 3: a very long time. She's very proud Australian, very proud Tasmanian.
Speaker 3: It was in honor to have a chapter her a
Speaker 3: bit earlier. She is an Olympic champion and she is
Speaker 3: particularly proud of where we are tonight, that being beautiful Tasmania,
Speaker 3: because she's from this part of the world. Ariana Tipmas
Speaker 3: joins us now. Congratulations and thank you so much for
Speaker 3: the chat mate.
Speaker 12: Hi Paul, thanks for having me so.
Speaker 3: At First things first, where do you put the gold medals?
Speaker 3: Where do they go? Are they back at mum and
Speaker 3: Dad's Do you keep them by the bedside?
Speaker 1: What do you do? Because you've got a few.
Speaker 12: Now, Yeah, they're actually living in a few pairs of
Speaker 12: socks that I got in Paris because they haven't got
Speaker 12: their cases home on the freight yet. But they're in
Speaker 12: the safe, in the socks, keeping them nice and cozy.
Speaker 3: Very good, and the safe of course his name mystery location.
Speaker 3: Let's not be specific everyone, please, Now, I always wanted
Speaker 3: to ask you this right where when you feel that pressure,
Speaker 3: and you feel the inevitable pressure of expectation, you feel
Speaker 3: the pressure of being on a billboard, being somebody who
Speaker 3: is more visible than most of the people on.
Speaker 1: The team, how do you cleanse that out?
Speaker 3: How do you make sure that when you're just prepping,
Speaker 3: you're walking your way towards the blocks? I mean, how
Speaker 3: could you not be thinking about twenty seven million people
Speaker 3: at home that might be leaning into a television. But
Speaker 3: how do you try to flush us out of your race?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 12: It actually is really challenging. I definitely felt it these
Speaker 12: games more than ever. I actually, for the first time
Speaker 12: in my career, worried what would happen if I was
Speaker 12: to lose, which is something I've never never felt before.
Speaker 12: But I think I'm pretty hard on myself as well.
Speaker 12: I have really high expectations for my performances and I
Speaker 12: expect highly of myself as as my coach, and so
Speaker 12: I think I really try to think about that, and
Speaker 12: that kind of like blurs out the rest of the pressure.
Speaker 12: Of course, I want to some well for our country,
Speaker 12: and that I think turning into a positive thing is
Speaker 12: what drives me. Just turning the pressure to perform more
Speaker 12: so into support and people just willing and wanting me
Speaker 12: to win is actually a positive thing and I'd rather
Speaker 12: have it than not. So I think it just the
Speaker 12: way you look at it can change your outlook on it.
Speaker 3: When you've won a gold medal, one assumes celebration is
Speaker 3: not part of anything until the meat is over. But
Speaker 3: do you reward yourself, you know, on the day you
Speaker 3: win a gold medal with anything, like do you have
Speaker 3: I don't know, sparkling water, not bottled water? What do
Speaker 3: you do when you're in the middle of a competition
Speaker 3: but you've won a gold medal and you kind of
Speaker 3: want to go, well done, mate, well done.
Speaker 12: So I got back to my bedroom after the four
Speaker 12: hundred around one am, and I had a fred A frog.
Speaker 12: But I couldn't treat myself too much. I had to
Speaker 12: I had to wake I had to wake up the
Speaker 12: next morning about eight o'clock to get out there and
Speaker 12: race my two hundred heats. So Alfredo did it, and
Speaker 12: you kind of just have to forget about the race
Speaker 12: because I had the two hundred the next morning. So yeah,
Speaker 12: a little bit of a little bit of chocky you
Speaker 12: got me through.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about outside the pool away from swing, right,
Speaker 3: because you know fully rounded, normal person who believes lots
Speaker 3: of things and loves lots of things outside of what
Speaker 3: you do for a job. Give me an idea about
Speaker 3: you know, what life is like outside of the pool,
Speaker 3: all those times where you're not as aggressively training for something.
Speaker 1: What will we find you doing? What do you like
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 12: In the past, I've probably been pretty mellow with my decisions.
Speaker 12: Quiet dinner in a trip to the beach. I love
Speaker 12: cooking things like that. But at the moment, I'm really
Speaker 12: trying to live my best life. I've made myself as
Speaker 12: busy as possible, which I'm really enjoying. I'm doing a
Speaker 12: lot of speaking engagements and meeting a lot of people
Speaker 12: and telling my story, which I'm really enjoying. Actually doing
Speaker 12: a bit of work in the broadcast world in the media,
Speaker 12: which I find comes really naturally to me, which I'm enjoying.
Speaker 12: I'm spending as much time as possible with my friends
Speaker 12: and family. I'm a huge sports fan outside of swimming,
Speaker 12: so I've been to all the footy finals, which I've
Speaker 12: thoroughly enjoyed. We're heading into spring racing carnival seasons, so
Speaker 12: I will be at the Lexus Melbourne Cup and the
Speaker 12: Melbourne Cup Carnival, which I'm excited for. So I'm just
Speaker 12: kind of reveling in life at the moment, which is
Speaker 12: really fun.
Speaker 3: You do you or I made a final message for
Speaker 3: everyone here in Tazzy. What do you want to say
Speaker 3: to people about why Tazzy means what it does to you?
Speaker 12: Tasmanian's punched above their weight and I'm so proud to
Speaker 12: be from Tazzy. It will always be my home. I'll
Speaker 12: always be Tasmanian, and I think more than anywhere in
Speaker 12: the country, I've truly felt support from home and I
Speaker 12: can't wait to give back as much as i can
Speaker 12: to Tasmanians and meet as many fans as possible and
Speaker 12: just kind of be down there and enjoy what is
Speaker 12: my home state is. It truly is beautiful and I
Speaker 12: think every Australian should really get down there and experience
Speaker 12: what Tazzy has to offer, because it's truly one of
Speaker 12: the best places in the world. And I've traveled a lot,
Speaker 12: but I'm being serious and saying that its scenery is
Speaker 12: beautiful and I really am proud to be from there.
Speaker 1: I agree with you one hundred times over. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for the chat.
Speaker 3: It's an honor to be able to talk to you,
Speaker 3: and of course it's all thanks to the support of
Speaker 3: our difference at Harvey Norman who backed you in very
Speaker 3: hard for a very long time.
Speaker 1: They will for the rest of your career and I would.
Speaker 3: Imagine beyond congratulations mate, you give such pleasure to those
Speaker 3: of us on the other side of the world when
Speaker 3: you're taking on the world. So congratulations, enjoy the break
Speaker 3: and whatever you want to do after that.
Speaker 12: Thanks Paul.
Speaker 13: She is also doesn't she a huge credit to Tasmamia,
Speaker 13: her family and a force Australia as is none other
Speaker 13: than Ladies and didn't put your hands together for a lady,
Speaker 13: you're about to fall in love with no pressure our
Speaker 13: viney ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Pressure pressure, all right, so Paralyinki.
Speaker 3: And there's lots of notes that I have, but let's
Speaker 3: get rid of those. Let's just have a good old
Speaker 3: fashioned chat, all right.
Speaker 1: What was terrorist like? Did you like it? I did?
Speaker 1: I loved it.
Speaker 14: I love this more.
Speaker 1: Oh, let's just have a chat. When did you first
Speaker 1: start competing?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 14: I came into the world of parisport about six years ago,
Speaker 14: a little bit under that and yeah, within three months,
Speaker 14: I was actually thrown into the world of the national team.
Speaker 14: So competition came at me hard and fast and it
Speaker 14: hasn't slowed down since then.
Speaker 3: We had a chat to before and my sense of
Speaker 3: your personality is that you can take it all in
Speaker 3: your stride. But that's a lot to take in your stride.
Speaker 14: Wow, you just said no pressure before and now you're
Speaker 14: throwing this in me. Great, Okay, I'm glad that's what
Speaker 14: you picked up about my personality.
Speaker 3: So what I'm saying this is that what was your sinsult?
Speaker 3: How did you deal with that? And has that changed
Speaker 3: the more you've been exposed to things?
Speaker 14: Because Paralympic's huge Yeah again, pressure, No, it was. It
Speaker 14: was an honor straight away, but it was also something
Speaker 14: that I dreamt about my whole life. I grew up
Speaker 14: without a disability and acquired one at the age of eighteen,
Speaker 14: and at that point that's when society said, Ali, you're
Speaker 14: different now, so this isn't for you anymore. And I
Speaker 14: didn't believe that or feel that, but it's what I
Speaker 14: was faced with. So when I came back into the
Speaker 14: world of sport, when my opportunity finally presented itself, I
Speaker 14: was ready. I was an adult, and I just took it.
Speaker 14: I took it as this is what I wanted. I'm
Speaker 14: going to see how far I can go.
Speaker 3: Now, when you're rowing, give us an idea about the
Speaker 3: where the individual stops and where the team takes over. Obviously,
Speaker 3: best case scenario, it's you and everyone else, if you're
Speaker 3: all one giant whatever, right, But when you're trying to
Speaker 3: get into that zone, are there processes?
Speaker 1: Are their songs? Are their superstitions?
Speaker 14: Wow? I mean all of the above. Rowing is a
Speaker 14: really interesting sport. You're an individual right up until the
Speaker 14: moment that you're selected. You're actually competing against everyone else
Speaker 14: that's there. So we go through a trialing process. It's
Speaker 14: back to back racing, and until your name is actually
Speaker 14: called out, you don't know that you're actually in the team.
Speaker 14: And when you become a team but that constant change,
Speaker 14: having to make everything work until you're selected, like it
Speaker 14: is individual but at the same time, you have to
Speaker 14: be the best team player possible because if you miss
Speaker 14: out on being that team player even once, that could
Speaker 14: be your opportunity gone. So yeah, rowers are incredible. They're
Speaker 14: very hard working individuals, but they're also the best teammates
Speaker 14: that you could potentially come across.
Speaker 3: So what's special about this area to you? And either
Speaker 3: your ability to train? Can you train have that sporting
Speaker 3: career here? Do you have to sort of live a
Speaker 3: life here but then up to the performance and here
Speaker 3: and this, that and the other. What role does Tazzy
Speaker 3: playing in your athletic life at the moment?
Speaker 14: What Tazzy plays is It's been the place that I've
Speaker 14: come home to on the back of any campaign. There's
Speaker 14: a lot of feelings and experiences that an athlete has
Speaker 14: gone through. And when I landed back from Paris, one
Speaker 14: of the first places I wanted to come was home.
Speaker 14: It's where my family, it's where I grew up. It's familiar,
Speaker 14: and it feels safe. And when you have put everything
Speaker 14: out there in front of the whole world and whether
Speaker 14: you've reached metal potential, you've reached your potential. You need
Speaker 14: that safety net and to come home and feel safe, supported,
Speaker 14: and also celebrated as well, because as an athlete, we
Speaker 14: are so tough on ourselves and sometimes you just need
Speaker 14: people to say wow, like what you're doing is amazing,
Speaker 14: and what you're doing for the community is amazing, and
Speaker 14: you kind of lose sight of that sometimes when you
Speaker 14: are competing. So to come home and be embraced by
Speaker 14: the Tazi community has has been the best medicine.
Speaker 1: So yeah, of my life.
Speaker 3: Give us an idea about your expectations outside of outside
Speaker 3: of what would you like to to do or you're
Speaker 3: working on a career goal or the nature of training
Speaker 3: means you can't do that stuff.
Speaker 1: What do you want to do? No? Not when you
Speaker 1: What do you want to be when you? When I
Speaker 1: grow up?
Speaker 14: What do I want to be? I want to be
Speaker 14: a Paralympian forever. No, what I what I do outside?
Speaker 14: I'm a qualified strengthen initially coach and sports scientist. I
Speaker 14: worked in AFL and AFLW for quite a while and
Speaker 14: then came into the world of rowing. But at the
Speaker 14: moment I'm doing quite a lot of keynote speaking, so
Speaker 14: I don't know why people bother to do that. Quite
Speaker 14: good at waffling on the feelings, you know.
Speaker 1: The feeling you can buy like a whole house, that's great,
Speaker 1: one of those would be great. Too much time, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you can eventually get a house.
Speaker 14: Someone else can enjoy it. For me, no, at the moment,
Speaker 14: for me, it's very important. We are eight years away
Speaker 14: from Brisbane twenty thirty two, the Olympic and Paralympic home game.
Speaker 1: You're so going to be there, well.
Speaker 14: Hopefully maybe as the CEO, maybe as the Chef de mission,
Speaker 14: hopefully not still as an athlete. I feel like I
Speaker 14: might be a bit washed up by then. But in
Speaker 14: the process, there is eight years to have conversations and
Speaker 14: to let Tasmanians know that we are capable of performing
Speaker 14: at the highest level. But also there are so many
Speaker 14: jobs that are a part of getting athletes to the
Speaker 14: world stage, and so it's for me, I spent eight
Speaker 14: years wondering where I fit in. And now I have
Speaker 14: eight years to help have the conversation to let the
Speaker 14: whole community know that this is the most amazing thing.
Speaker 14: Whether you want to be the athlete, whether you want
Speaker 14: to be the doctor, the sports scientist, the commentator, the
Speaker 14: world's your awso.
Speaker 1: I can do it.
Speaker 3: Anyone can help, so good to make you congratulations, Congratulations
Speaker 3: you'll start stay there because I'm going to go help
Speaker 3: pay for all of these things. Are the very good
Speaker 3: people of Harvey Norman or like quick back in a
Speaker 3: moment or two.
Speaker 1: We are in long sense.
Speaker 3: Then we are here in the King's Bridge By and
Speaker 3: Restaurant in Lonceston. There's some amazing accommodation both here and
Speaker 3: just up the road. Please come to lon cyst and
Speaker 3: I say it all the time, see Australia. This is
Speaker 3: a magnificent place. Not just for the weekend, stretch it
Speaker 3: out of course, across the entire week. Now while you hear,
Speaker 3: one of the things you can do is going to
Speaker 3: have two of the Bogue's Brewery. It's exactly what we
Speaker 3: did with our mate Charlie who doesn't know James Bogus, Well,
Speaker 3: this is the place where they.
Speaker 1: Make it here in lon Cisteon.
Speaker 3: Charlie, thank you for having us a pleasure show us around.
Speaker 1: But the story begins here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's correct. In fact, the story begins even before this.
Speaker 4: But this is eighteen eighty one. This is the original
Speaker 4: facade of the Esque Brewery. So behind this and encompassing
Speaker 4: the whole block is the longest continuously operating brewing side
Speaker 4: in Tasmania, going all the way back to eighteen fifty three.
Speaker 1: So, Charlie, where are we now are?
Speaker 4: So where we are now is on the second floor
Speaker 4: of our brewhouse, which has been open since two thousand
Speaker 4: and nine.
Speaker 1: This brewhouse is where we.
Speaker 4: Will transform fifty thousand liters of water, barley and hops
Speaker 4: into a liquid that will ferment and turn into beer.
Speaker 4: There's a conveyor belt just up there pole which will
Speaker 4: bring somewhere between six and eight tons of malted barley,
Speaker 4: deposit it into.
Speaker 1: This first vessel called the mash.
Speaker 4: Ton, and we add thirty thousand liters of water. Now
Speaker 4: we heat that up while heating the waterer. What will
Speaker 4: be doing it will be dissolving the sugars that are
Speaker 4: in those barley grains, and that sugar is the fermentable
Speaker 4: sugar that we'll use to create the beer. Lad We've
Speaker 4: got our first filtration process, which occurs here in the
Speaker 4: laughter Ton. This has got a big false floor in
Speaker 4: the bottom of it. We're gonna pump thirty thousand liters
Speaker 4: of liquid over the top of that false floor.
Speaker 1: We're gonna filter it out until.
Speaker 4: The liquid runs and it looks something like We also
Speaker 4: pump an extra twenty thousand liters of water over the
Speaker 4: top of the remaining mash to extract the last microparticles
Speaker 4: to give it better depth of flavor.
Speaker 1: After that, we're.
Speaker 4: Going to go to the third vessel, which sits further
Speaker 4: along in the brew house.
Speaker 1: And this third vessels called the Kettle.
Speaker 4: It's pretty creative name, too much imagination to work out
Speaker 4: what goes on in there. In this vessel, our work
Speaker 4: will be boiled and this is where we add the hops.
Speaker 4: At the end of all of this will have fifty
Speaker 4: thousand leads of liquid and this is what we want
Speaker 4: to ferment.
Speaker 1: We turn into beer at the fermentations. Okay, let's check
Speaker 1: out what's next.
Speaker 3: So, Charlie, this looks very big and very important in
Speaker 3: the process.
Speaker 1: What are we about to see? He's very big and
Speaker 1: it is very important. So what we've got.
Speaker 4: Here, Paul, ten fermentation vessels. Each one of those is
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty thousand legs. So this is where
Speaker 4: we're going to be added the fourth ingredient, which is yeast,
Speaker 4: to ferment our liquid and turn it into beer over
Speaker 4: the course of seven days. At the end of it,
Speaker 4: the beer needs to be filtered one more time so
Speaker 4: that we can put it into bottles, keeps, and cans,
Speaker 4: so it's ready to be sold to a consumer.
Speaker 1: So where did that happen.
Speaker 4: That happens on the packaging line, which is at the
Speaker 4: other end of the brewer, which is where we're going.
Speaker 1: To go next. See the man knows his TV well done.
Speaker 1: I've watched a bit of it, Dully.
Speaker 3: I see nothing but an opportunity here. But I also
Speaker 3: see systems that have been worked on and refined and
Speaker 3: refined and refined. So tell us the final part of
Speaker 3: the journey.
Speaker 4: In this place, it summed up beautifully, very refined, highly automated.
Speaker 4: We're at the start and finish of the bottling and
Speaker 4: canning line here, about nine hundred to one thousand a
Speaker 4: minute over the course of a twelve hour shift.
Speaker 1: We can do the.
Speaker 4: Best part of half a million units. As long as
Speaker 4: everything goes according to plan, which is normally done half
Speaker 4: a million bottles or King blimey, the roguody garments will
Speaker 4: assemble the cartoners place them on a palette ready to
Speaker 4: be dispatched.
Speaker 3: Just offers little gift packs for Australia, exactly, just little
Speaker 3: gift packs full of love, little packs of beery goodness, full.
Speaker 4: Of love, full of creativity, all of love, passion, prime.
Speaker 1: Correct, the perfect gift for Father's d.
Speaker 3: Take it to Charlie and all the people approached, and
Speaker 3: I'm going to say we've been lucky enough to be
Speaker 3: shown around some pretty amazing things around the country. I
Speaker 3: don't think I've seen a more passionate and more detailed
Speaker 3: person than Charlie is about the job that he does.
Speaker 3: And that's again one of those moments when you come
Speaker 3: and you see a tour and you see somebody who
Speaker 3: isn't just doing a job, but is passionate about it.
Speaker 3: Absolutely fantastic bloke. So galated Charlie and his family. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be watching right now. Karen and Michelle joined
Speaker 3: us now from the Benevolent Society. Give them around of applause,
Speaker 3: because what they do is you deal with the tough
Speaker 3: stuff all right, and we don't shy away from it.
Speaker 3: You know, in between all the other stuff that we
Speaker 3: talk about on the show on a day to day basis,
Speaker 3: I'm obsessed with the cost of living stuff because there's
Speaker 3: a whole collection of people who are losing touch. It's
Speaker 3: hurting harder and things are tougher. Give us an idea
Speaker 3: about are you guys busier than you've been in a while?
Speaker 15: Yeah, food relief now has really increased. We supplied food
Speaker 15: relief to three and a half hours and long Sestonians
Speaker 15: last year. The increase what we're getting through now, just
Speaker 15: having to look at the figures the other day, June
Speaker 15: and July had a twenty percent increase on January, February March.
Speaker 3: So when things are getting better for others, they are
Speaker 3: getting progressively worse and inevitably, Michelle, the types of people
Speaker 3: that you're dealing with as well, there are a lot
Speaker 3: of people who stereotypically people wouldn't think are the types
Speaker 3: of people who need help.
Speaker 1: That's correct.
Speaker 16: There shouldn't be a stigma on it at all, because
Speaker 16: there is absolutely no reason why. It's just not an
Speaker 16: ordinary person who may be in financial crisis, there could
Speaker 16: be addiction, there could be mental health, or it could
Speaker 16: just be that they just can't.
Speaker 1: Afford to live. So how do you try to break cycles?
Speaker 3: How do you try to help this the immediate We'll
Speaker 3: give you something to eat, will help you. How are
Speaker 3: you able to push people towards services that mean they
Speaker 3: can find a way to change things?
Speaker 15: Yeah, So we've started doing a lot more work with
Speaker 15: other societies like City Mission and Salvation Arm Anglicare So
Speaker 15: we're emergency relief, so we supply food and furniture and
Speaker 15: basically anything goes into a house where we can do
Speaker 15: work with the other societies. Like last week, we had
Speaker 15: a gentleman that's been homeless for three years. The City
Speaker 15: Mission got him accommodation and Angler Care as sister to
Speaker 15: get the accommodation for him. So that was three societies
Speaker 15: doing the world together. So Brad from the City Mission
Speaker 15: came to us and said, Karen, we've got Adam off
Speaker 15: the streets after three years. Are you able to supply
Speaker 15: furniture for him? And I said, not a problem at all,
Speaker 15: bring him in. So Brad bought Adam in and walked
Speaker 15: him around the place, Adam got to pick out his
Speaker 15: own furniture. Yeah, and then the Salvation Army they dropped
Speaker 15: off a dining table for him. So last week, Adam,
Speaker 15: on Thursday night, Adam slept in his own unit, in
Speaker 15: his own bed, with his own count.
Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, thank you for doing that.
Speaker 3: Thank you also, and all those other services people are
Speaker 3: Lonnie are awesome and are always there to help out.
Speaker 1: How can they help out more? How can they resist?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 16: Look, we've got a lovely community here in non Systein.
Speaker 16: Our only big fundraiser for the Society is our charity event,
Speaker 16: which is on the ninth of November this year. It's
Speaker 16: out under the stars, and we have so many local
Speaker 16: businesses that just hand out to us, help us out
Speaker 16: with wonderful action items and it all just works together.
Speaker 16: We got wonderful businesses. We all support each other and
Speaker 16: just help help us.
Speaker 1: They just we're very lucky.
Speaker 16: So our annual event coming up on the ninth of
Speaker 16: November will be big and.
Speaker 1: If you want to buy tickets, more about it. What's
Speaker 1: the website? Facebook? How do we get in touch with
Speaker 1: the magnetics?
Speaker 16: Just go onto the Benevolent Society Facebook page. You can
Speaker 16: buy a ticket and win a car. We've got a
Speaker 16: car raffle this year, only five hundred tickets sold. Jackson
Speaker 16: Motor Company helped us out.
Speaker 3: There, and I'm happy with the blogs buggery just as much.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, ladies, thank you for what you do.
Speaker 3: You make the place better for people, and thank you
Speaker 3: for the hard work. I know how lonely that can
Speaker 3: get sometimes, but good on you for taking care of
Speaker 3: each other.
Speaker 1: It's awesome to be benevolent society.
Speaker 3: More information up on our Facebook page Especiation Perfomo Life.
Speaker 3: All right, quick break back with more Japanese monkeys. Yes,
Speaker 3: we're going to do the monkey thing you're saying at
Speaker 3: the moment.
Speaker 1: Here I'm pull my y line in long Sester.
Speaker 3: Welcome back here, Yeah, welcome back here to Lon Cessteon.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: One of the wonderful things here was an exchange which
Speaker 3: took place between the Sister City in Japan and Lon
Speaker 3: System the Gift Monkeys.
Speaker 1: We're in city park. We're here with Bridy. Bridie's a
Speaker 1: zoologist zoo keeper. Oh no, no, come on, I've upgraded you.
Speaker 1: What are we about to see?
Speaker 3: Because this is this is one of the most season Lonnie.
Speaker 17: It is it is so this is our famous for
Speaker 17: all the locals call it monkey Park that we're about
Speaker 17: to see our Japanese macackic exhibit. So we've got twenty
Speaker 17: three Japanese macacs in the middle of city.
Speaker 3: Pa squint hard enough, I'll be able to work out
Speaker 3: one of them as my cousin.
Speaker 17: Well, we actually share a ninety three percent DNA with
Speaker 17: this species.
Speaker 1: Sorry, long lost brother, long lost brother. Sorry Jayceon, thought
Speaker 1: it was just you. Or I'll have a look. So
Speaker 1: twenty three. Do they play? Do they fight, do they
Speaker 1: like a bunch of toddlers? Or are they calm a
Speaker 1: little bit of everything.
Speaker 17: So we're ranging from nine months old all the way
Speaker 17: to twenty seven years old. Oh wow, so we've got
Speaker 17: pretty much everything in between. So yeah, twenty three, so
Speaker 17: you've got a fair range of ages. So they play,
Speaker 17: they fight, they get annoyed with each other, they love
Speaker 17: each other. So this species they actually have friends. Wow,
Speaker 17: they have their little friends group in there. We've got
Speaker 17: some of our young ones that play with some of
Speaker 17: our older ones, which is really nice to see. So
Speaker 17: it's kind of like that grandpa and grandchild relationship going on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so a little bit of everything.
Speaker 17: Our dominant one is a twenty five year old female
Speaker 17: who gets whenever she wants.
Speaker 3: Fair enough, it makes perfect sense and I wouldn't argue
Speaker 3: with that order at all.
Speaker 17: They don't just groom each other to stay clean. They
Speaker 17: also do it to say sorry, to show forgiveness, to
Speaker 17: build up their close social bonds, but also to build
Speaker 17: up their political rank as well.
Speaker 1: Ah, yes, yes, yes, we're aware of that. We know
Speaker 1: how that works pretty much. Have a look at this.
Speaker 3: This is how you get numbers in a Japanese monkey
Speaker 3: colony if you're trying to you know there are many
Speaker 3: politicians around Australia who have done the same thing for
Speaker 3: a vote, and clearly that's what you're willing to do
Speaker 3: in this group.
Speaker 1: Come have a look. No cuddles and don't feed them.
Speaker 1: Love it to me, she is gorgeous. All right. That's
Speaker 1: that say from Lon Sess And thank you very much
Speaker 1: for coming. Everyone appreciate it. Keep fight up. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for everyone here at the Kingsbury's Bar and Restaurants.
Speaker 1: It makes it hardy Norman, it's the only reasonable able
Speaker 1: to be here. We'll see you back in the man
Speaker 1: time tomorrow and then grizzy for the queens and election.
Speaker 1: Thank you for cupping too much. Here's a Royal Report
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