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Speaker 1: International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business. Sam Imrie is our Aussie correspondents today.

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Speaker 1: Hey Sam, good, Hey, Heather, Like, what's in your water

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Speaker 1: in Sydney?

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Speaker 2: Well, no one really wants to know, I think after

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Speaker 2: the reports of today, it's not the kind of headline

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Speaker 2: that anyone ever really wants to wake up to, is it, Heather?

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Speaker 2: But Sydney Water very quietly published this new data that

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Speaker 2: shows these forever chemicals are in our drinking water catchment

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Speaker 2: areas forever chemicals. It's sort of pfas P forward. It's

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Speaker 2: been a few different sort of names that it's been

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Speaker 2: known as over the last twenty or so years. It's

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Speaker 2: cancer linked man made substance and it was found in

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Speaker 2: low levels at three of the major filtration plants, but

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Speaker 2: also found in high levels at two other ones up

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Speaker 2: around the Blue Mountains area. And Heather. This also comes

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Speaker 2: off the back of the fact that we just heard

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Speaker 2: about dead platypuses that have been found in our rivers

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Speaker 2: by researchers from Western Sydney UNI. These plats course has

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Speaker 2: had high levels of the chemicals in them as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you remember ten, fifteen, twenty years ago,

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Speaker 2: we've sort of first heard of these chemicals that were

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Speaker 2: contaminating land around government sites. You know, they were using

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Speaker 2: firefighting foam containing the chemicals. That's led to billions of

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Speaker 2: dollars in compensation, contaminate land, all that kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: The federal government basically came in on an electric election

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Speaker 2: promise to put a huge inquiry into this. They've just

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Speaker 2: received the report about a month ago, Heather, but they

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Speaker 2: are showing no signs of releasing the fightings or any

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Speaker 2: information on it. We've been trying to find out just

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Speaker 2: what the recommendations are from this inquiry. But for now,

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Speaker 2: perhaps this news from Sydney Water, the fact that we've

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Speaker 2: actually found real evidence of it in our drinking water

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Speaker 2: in our catchment areas no less, Maybe that'll give them

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Speaker 2: a bit of a bump and we might actually find

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Speaker 2: out what's in this report.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, fair enough. Hey, I see this gambling ad stuff

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Speaker 1: is becoming quite big. What are the casino guys saying

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Speaker 1: about it?

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Speaker 2: The casino guys are obviously saying that the gambling ads

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Speaker 2: should be not fully banned, but allowed to have some

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Speaker 2: sort of advertising around sports areas and not necessarily on

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Speaker 2: the TV, but outside the games and outside the events.

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Speaker 2: It's again another massive election campaign that Labor wrote in

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Speaker 2: on to try and get rid of gambling advertising for good,

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Speaker 2: the same way that they have with the cigarettes. The

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Speaker 2: PM and the Opposition leader now being urged by two

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Speaker 2: independent MPs to allow a conscience vote, and then also

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Speaker 2: another gambling big wig has actually slapped the government across

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Speaker 2: the risk. He's come out saying if you want to

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Speaker 2: protect the children, you go ahead with a total band.

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Speaker 2: If you want to protect the bookmakers profits, you go

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Speaker 2: ahead with a partial band. That's Stuart Kenny from the

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Speaker 2: sport online sporting giant paddy Power. Kenny's considered a pioneer

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Speaker 2: of the game and he's basically just sad that the

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Speaker 2: arguments that this band might move people offshore to illegal providers.

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Speaker 2: He's called it a load of baloney and said that

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Speaker 2: he used the same argument when he was a gambling lobbyist,

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Speaker 2: you know. So, however, the government has basically said that

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Speaker 2: they will limit the ads, but they're not. I haven't

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Speaker 2: sort of had the guts to come out and say

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Speaker 2: total ban just yet.

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Speaker 1: I think this is going to roll on for a

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Speaker 1: little while. Actually, Hey, the parliamentary staff, So how much

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Speaker 1: are they getting paid now?

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Speaker 2: Well, this is yet another thing where you wonder just

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Speaker 2: how well the government's going to come off after this.

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Speaker 2: It's an eleven point two percent rise over four years,

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Speaker 2: sorry over the next three years. But this includes a

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Speaker 2: new forty thousand dollars allowance for staff who travel with politicians,

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Speaker 2: fifteen hundred dollars allowance for staff who speak multiple languages,

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Speaker 2: three days of cultural and religious leave, and the big one,

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Speaker 2: eighteen weeks parental leave for both sides. The ABC also

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Speaker 2: understands a one off payment of around one thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: and the pay deal is not surprisingly had a widely

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Speaker 2: expected to be approved after it was put to a

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Speaker 2: vote yesterday. So it's an interesting one for the government

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Speaker 2: to be coming out in this time of cost of

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Speaker 2: living crisis and when everyone's really trying to find where

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Speaker 2: their next dollar is going to come from. But you know,

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Speaker 2: I mean, everyone deserves a pay rise. Is it actually

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Speaker 2: fair that it's going to come this big? And I

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Speaker 2: can't really understand how people who just travel with politicians

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Speaker 2: are also included in this increase of money. I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: mind a bit of money coming my way for a

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Speaker 2: few extra hands to following me around.

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Speaker 1: Well that's how everybody feels. Sam, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Sam Emory, Australia correspondent. For more from

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