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Speaker 1: From the morning headlines to late night thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Kate Talk is where real people talk about real things.

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Speaker 2: Kate too joined the conversation. Time now for our Pacific

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Speaker 2: Dispatch with Katie McDonald coming to you live from Sydney, Australia.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Katie. Hope you've been well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning, Lester. I have and luckily I remember that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: daylight saving ended last weekend. I nearly missed it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm very happy that you can join us install

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Speaker 2: at this time. But let me start here. Fascinating story

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Speaker 2: Queens A man charged with theft of more than one

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Speaker 2: point one million Ossie dollars worth of diesel from unmanned depots.

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Speaker 2: But yere's the thing. It's not from the last forty

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Speaker 2: one days of a war in Iran. He started this

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Speaker 2: a year ago. Was he grazing into a crystal ball

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Speaker 2: or something?

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Speaker 1: Well exactly, I mean, I do have to say not

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Speaker 1: kind of ignoring the seriousness of the crime. I looked

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Speaker 1: at this and I thought, what does he know that

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Speaker 1: the rest of the rest of us don't know? But

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Speaker 1: maybe not a lot, because I think what he's done

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Speaker 1: is pretty stupid. It is a serious crime, and to

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Speaker 1: have been found out. Now, considering what's happening globally with

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Speaker 1: regards to fuel, it's got more attention, one would think.

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Speaker 1: So he's basically been charged. They think he's sterlen. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but one point one million dollars worth of diesel I mean, Lester,

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Speaker 1: that is a huge amount of fuel, and it's from

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Speaker 1: as you said, unmanned service stations. But what's also happening

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Speaker 1: is that other people are seeing fuel theft or fuel

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Speaker 1: theft is up. So like a trucking company in Sydney

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Speaker 1: he's had almost ten thousand dollars worth of diesel sterlen

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Speaker 1: or siphoned in the past month. And according to one

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Speaker 1: of these tracking sites, fuel theft from service stations has

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Speaker 1: increased between eight and thirty percent nationally, and that's since

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Speaker 1: the war began. So it's a serious situation. This gentleman

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Speaker 1: will have his day in court and he'll have to well,

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Speaker 1: if found guilty, pig, I would imagine quite a hectic price.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fuel, Lester. We need fuel.

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Speaker 2: And then in Indonesia, prosecutors they have charged nineteen people

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Speaker 2: with trafficking babies to Singapore.

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Speaker 1: Now this is too sad, So they've charged nineteen people.

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Speaker 1: They arrested them last year. Someone informed on them and

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Speaker 1: the authorities are calling it one of the all the

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Speaker 1: country's largest baby trafficking cases that they've seen, and they

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Speaker 1: started operating in twenty twenty three. It's just heart wrenching

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Speaker 1: because they target financially desperate pregnant women and they go

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Speaker 1: in They to cover their medical costs in exchange for

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Speaker 1: their newborns, and sometimes they even reserve these babies before

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Speaker 1: they were born, so it's quite quite sad, quite desperate,

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Speaker 1: and then the babies are sent to Singapore.

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Speaker 2: And just like and then just like Cape Town, Katie,

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Speaker 2: Sydney Eights. I know, what would you call them, Sydney Ciders.

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Speaker 1: We tried to reach Sydneysiders.

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Speaker 2: Sydney siders, that's right. All struggling with the cost of living,

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Speaker 2: can't afford to buy a house in cities like Sydney,

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Speaker 2: particularly younger people. But what about buying a whole town

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Speaker 2: in Queensland for roundabout I think it's four point six

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Speaker 2: million South African runt you can buy a whole town

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Speaker 2: for yourself.

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Speaker 1: I have to say. That caught my eye and quickly

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Speaker 1: I quickly messaged someone I know and said, that's where

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Speaker 1: we're going. So this couple, Carolyn Joe, they bought the

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Speaker 1: whole lot three years ago. It's a four bedroom home,

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Speaker 1: it's a roadhouse and it is an actual town. It's

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Speaker 1: got a postcode and everything. So you've got to do

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Speaker 1: the whole lot. I mean basically they're the only two

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Speaker 1: people there. They do the food, accommodation, everything, practical deliveries

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Speaker 1: and lester. As you'd know, Australia is pretty big and

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Speaker 1: we've got these properties, massive properties in the country and

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Speaker 1: they service a lot of them. So they've decided after

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Speaker 1: three years it's time to retire and it's on the market.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, looks like a potential. It's a lot cheaper

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Speaker 1: than a home here. The average house price in Sydney

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Speaker 1: is just under one point seven million dollars at the moment.

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Speaker 2: Well, if I have a pretty penny, maybe I can

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Speaker 2: consider buying the entire time. But no, Australia has rules,

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Speaker 2: strict rules on foreign foreign land ownership, so I'm probably

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Speaker 2: going to have to become some form of you're pointing

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Speaker 2: to yourself, Yeah, oh, most money to you. Send the

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Speaker 2: money to you, o'h go into a partnership. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 2: put up the cash, you can put up the passport

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Speaker 2: and let's buy that town. Katie McDonald, I'll chat you

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Speaker 2: again next week live from Sydney for the Pacific Dispatch