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Speaker 1: Olli Peterson six pr Perth Life Presents with us Oli.

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Speaker 1: Hello are you there, Ollie?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got a load and clear? Can you me?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I can hear you now, good to hear your dulcet tones.

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Speaker 1: They may listen. So the calls for these speeding finds

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Speaker 1: to be based on income, right, this is not new.

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Speaker 1: What's brought it up now?

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Speaker 2: Well, you know we're the nation of a fair go header,

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Speaker 2: you know' that's what Australia is all about. And the

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Speaker 2: thing called the Australia Institute, which is a left wing

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Speaker 2: think tank, has decided that it's just not fair that,

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Speaker 2: you know, two hundred bucks to a low income earner

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Speaker 2: who might be on the doll having to fork that

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Speaker 2: out because they've broken a speeding law versus the billionaire who,

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Speaker 2: you know, two hundred bucks might just be a drop

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Speaker 2: in the ocean. They're looking towards. I think it's Finland,

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Speaker 2: where there was recently a bloke who was fined two

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars for going thirty k's above the speed

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Speaker 2: limit because he was driving his very fast European manufactured

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Speaker 2: car and he obviously didn't care. But they're indicating that

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Speaker 2: this is you know, we'll start to provide a bit

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Speaker 2: more of an equitable situation, might start to bring down

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Speaker 2: the road till I'm not so sure. I'm not saying

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Speaker 2: don't do it, but I just think that there's probably

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Speaker 2: other ways to try and bring down the road tile

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Speaker 2: than pegging the fine to somebody's so somebody's wealth.

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Speaker 1: Do you not have a system like we have here

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Speaker 1: where we get a phone, but we also get demerit

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Speaker 1: points and when you rack up a certain number of

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Speaker 1: demerit points, you lose your license.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, correct, we have the same system. But in Wa

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Speaker 2: obviously where I live these days, I think they're really

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Speaker 2: quite generous, where basically, if the speed limits sixty ks

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Speaker 2: an hour, you can travel at seventy k's an hour

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Speaker 2: before the demerits start kicking in. So naturally everybody drives

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Speaker 2: at seventy ks an hour because they're risking a hundred

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Speaker 2: dollar fine. Whereas if you live in Sydney or Melbourne,

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Speaker 2: if you're caught doing say sixty three and a sixty zone,

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Speaker 2: demerits start kicking in. So I'd look at it that way,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you get twelve demerits and then all of

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Speaker 2: a sudden, if you don't have it.

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Speaker 1: You don't feel disincentive, right, I mean, you've got a billionaire,

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Speaker 1: and they often I know people who do this because

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Speaker 1: they're so low they don't really care about what the

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Speaker 1: costs of breaking the law when they face the possibility

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Speaker 1: of losing their license, like every single one of us.

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Speaker 1: That's the equalizer, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Of course, absolutely, and maybe that's it. You know, we

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Speaker 2: have double demerit weekends obviously around holidays and the like,

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Speaker 2: so the chances, you know, losing two points might go

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Speaker 2: to four. Maybe you need that permanently because the risk,

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Speaker 2: as you save, losing your license is more severe than

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Speaker 2: perhaps the fin.

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Speaker 1: Yes, exactly. Hey, has NAB got a problem with drinking? Well,

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Speaker 1: they reckon, they do.

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Speaker 2: They're quite a you know, they've still got that interesting

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Speaker 2: culture which look a lot of companies do where they

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Speaker 2: have midweek drinks and you know, after work drinks when

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Speaker 2: deals have gone through and know a few beers are

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Speaker 2: open in the office. So look, they're calling on a

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Speaker 2: booze band and they want to organize this by Christmas.

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Speaker 2: And they're not the only bank to do it coming

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Speaker 2: with bank does I think the A and Z Bank

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Speaker 2: does it here as well, I mean, look, there's two

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Speaker 2: sides to this right. One, it's obviously a cost saving

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Speaker 2: exercise from the companies if they're going to be putting

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Speaker 2: on drinks for staff regularly. But two, they're saying that, yes,

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Speaker 2: it's created some antisocial behavior and obviously some human resources

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Speaker 2: issues amongst colleagues because grog's in, truth's out and who

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Speaker 2: knows what else is out that that stuff. So look,

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Speaker 2: it's funny, isn't it. I was reflecting on it at

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Speaker 2: our company this year. We've gone from the trend of

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Speaker 2: having it, you know, a Friday or Saturday night Christmas

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Speaker 2: party to a Thursday night Christmas party And a lot

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Speaker 2: of people in the office say, well, that's just an

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Speaker 2: Australian heather because you can't go out and have a

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Speaker 2: good night and they're going to rock up to work

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Speaker 2: the next day or we're all taking a you know,

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Speaker 2: an RDO on the Friday. But I know one again,

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Speaker 2: it's bringing costs down, isn't it, from the company's point

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Speaker 2: of view, and they want us to turn up to

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Speaker 2: work on a Friday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's some benefit in actually having a

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Speaker 1: tipple with your colleagues, and I think we're losing it.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, what if are too busy to care anyway?

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Speaker 1: You know what do you know what I mean, Ollie,

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Speaker 1: Like when you've got little kids, you're like you go

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Speaker 1: out and booze everybody else. I'm just yeah, I'm planning

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Speaker 1: to wake up tomorrow start.

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Speaker 2: Correct, and I'll be waking up at five o'clock tomorrow morning,

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Speaker 2: regardless if I have one beer or five beers or

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Speaker 2: five hundred beers.

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Speaker 1: Because he's still waking up at am. Hey listen, so

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Speaker 1: Scomo's got himself another job as he's joining the space race.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. It's called Space Australia, I think is

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Speaker 2: the name of the organization or Space Center Australia who

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Speaker 2: are ambitiously trying to launch rockets out of Cape York

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Speaker 2: in Northern Queensland. Look, I'm not trying to sound pessimistic,

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Speaker 2: but I would be very surprised if they ever launch

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Speaker 2: a rocket out of Cape York in far North Queensland.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you know the timing of the announcement as well,

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Speaker 2: when we were just talking about Elon Musk in the

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Speaker 2: world wise and those pictures are spectacular catching that rocket.

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Speaker 2: I know Australia wants to be involved in the space

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Speaker 2: race and I think that's fantastic. But you know, launching

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Speaker 2: rockets out of Australia is one thing I think it's

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Speaker 2: a little bit pigh in the sky, being well, you

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Speaker 2: never know, you.

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Speaker 1: Could catch up. We're doing it already, so maybe you

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Speaker 1: can join us. Hey, Ollie, thank you, look after your

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