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Speaker 1: And six PR Perth Life presenter Oli Peterson is with

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Speaker 1: us this afternoon go to Olie get A Jack. So

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Speaker 1: it is the October seventh anniversary and the first repatriation

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Speaker 1: flight from Lebanon are touching down today.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to land just after seven o'clock tonight

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Speaker 2: Sydney time. There's about two hundred people on board. They

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Speaker 2: left Lebanon, went to Cyprus. It's one of two flights

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Speaker 2: which is being operated by Quantus on behalf of the

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Speaker 2: Australian government, so they're flying back to Australia free of charge.

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Speaker 2: There's expected to be another three hundred odd passengers on

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Speaker 2: the other flight, which is due to touch jet down

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Speaker 2: on Wednesday. These flights, there's still plenty of people in Lebanon,

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Speaker 2: plenty of Australians in Lebanon at the moment saying they

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Speaker 2: are unable to get out of the country. Yeah, are

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Speaker 2: unable to get to Cyprus and get onto these Mercy

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Speaker 2: flights back to Australia. But at this stage there are

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Speaker 2: no other plans for additional flights. But I mean it's

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Speaker 2: obviously a moving beast at the moment, so there could

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Speaker 2: be other announcements later in the week.

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Speaker 1: Just just talk to us about things on the ground today,

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Speaker 1: because I know there was a lot of contention heading

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Speaker 1: into the anniversary about protests around the country, you know,

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Speaker 1: particularly in Sydney. I think at one stage the police

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Speaker 1: said they didn't want them to go ahead, and then

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Speaker 1: they relent and said no, maybe it is a good

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Speaker 1: idea that they go ahead. How have things been so

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Speaker 1: far today? So so far.

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Speaker 2: Things haven't really kicked into gear, and it's meant to

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Speaker 2: be later this afternoon in Sydney. We saw some protests

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Speaker 2: around the nation over the weekend. Here where I am

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Speaker 2: in Perth, there was about three hundred or so people

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Speaker 2: that gathered in the middle of our CBD on Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: It was mostly peaceful. There was one particular protester who

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Speaker 2: was carrying with them a particular placard with the face

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Speaker 2: of a Hesbala leader and was asked to remove that

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Speaker 2: by police. Likeally, there's been a bit of to and

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Speaker 2: fro about whether or not that person should have been arrested.

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Speaker 2: But I do worry about what might happen in Sydney

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Speaker 2: this afternoon because it's not just people who are joining

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Speaker 2: the cause on behalf of being say pro Palestinian protesters.

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Speaker 2: It's looping in a lot of other groups jack for

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Speaker 2: causes that have absolutely nothing to do with anything in

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Speaker 2: the Middle East. I think there's a few professional protests

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Speaker 2: taking advantage of the fact. In Sydney today it is

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Speaker 2: the Queen or stop to Queen anymore, as it's King

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Speaker 2: Charles's holiday birthday weekend, so they're going to make the

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Speaker 2: most of protesting this afternoon in the CBDSU.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I can imagine that that is going to

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Speaker 1: be a huge event, So we'll keep a close eye

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Speaker 1: on things there. Hey, working from home days are numbered.

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Speaker 1: Bosses are all day staff back in Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Dell all the computer giant and flight Center telling all

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Speaker 2: the stuff they got to come back to work. And

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Speaker 2: in fact, there was a only a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: KPMG Australia said that eighty two percent of CEOs believe

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Speaker 2: everybody will be back in the office by twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 2: We're almost getting an announcement from lots of different businesses

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Speaker 2: at the moment that they're telling their staff to come

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Speaker 2: back to work. But interestingly a lot of public sector

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Speaker 2: workers are starting to find in their latest pay and

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Speaker 2: enterprise bargaining agreements that in fact they're being offered nine

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Speaker 2: day work fortnights to try and retain the staff. Now

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Speaker 2: they're being told they'll have to work more so in

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Speaker 2: extra forty five minutes per day to access that second

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Speaker 2: Friday off every other week. But maybe that's going to

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Speaker 2: be the compromise. Year staff have to go back to

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Speaker 2: the office. They'll be able to nego s yet these

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Speaker 2: ideas and Okay, I'll come back, but I don't want

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Speaker 2: to be there every Wednesday, and you know, eventually don't

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Speaker 2: want to be there every Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Would would you do the forty five a day for

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Speaker 1: a day off every fortnight?

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, we can't do it in this game,

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Speaker 2: can we? But if I was doing something else, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean happy would it be having every second Friday off?

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Speaker 2: Like good luck to them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's it's interesting

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Speaker 1: that they're offering that. I mean that the order for

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Speaker 1: the public service here's not an order, but in a

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Speaker 1: directive is that that you know, they're expecting a few

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Speaker 1: more people to be back in the office than perhaps

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Speaker 1: have been in the post COVID era. You sort of

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Speaker 1: get the sense that this is not something you know,

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Speaker 1: this is this is kind of sweeping into the public

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Speaker 1: seat that having already been instituted in the private sect

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Speaker 1: for some time ago. The NRL expansion plans are on ice,

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Speaker 1: at least for some of the teams, because the dollars

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Speaker 1: don't it up.

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Speaker 2: Well, this is what it looks like. It was very

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Speaker 2: interesting Grand Final Day, obviously in all the action on

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Speaker 2: the Panthers beating the storm, but what was actually happening

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Speaker 2: off the field was Peter Velandi's the chair of the

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Speaker 2: aar LC, was holding all these different interviews and all

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Speaker 2: these radio stations around Sydney and obviously we have a

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Speaker 2: bit of skin in the game over here in Perth

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Speaker 2: because they're about to revive the Bears from North Sydney

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Speaker 2: and make them the Western Bears. And we were look,

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Speaker 2: we all sort of given the nod nod, wink wink wink. Hey,

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Speaker 2: this this is going to happen, like there is an

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Speaker 2: announcement coming this week. All of a sudden, he reckons

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Speaker 2: it doesn't stack up. The finances are not there. That's

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Speaker 2: the Perth bid, he says. All the other bids aren't

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Speaker 2: really stacking up. The only one that's stacking up is

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Speaker 2: the bid from Puppy and New Guinea whenever went's underwritten

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Speaker 2: by the federal government, the China six hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 1: It's going to stack up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But

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Speaker 1: the but person not going to be getting its team.

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Speaker 2: We don't know, we don't know. Frantically, and I was

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Speaker 2: talking today to the Bier organizers and they're saying, no,

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Speaker 2: we're still negotiating. I think it's going to be on track.

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Speaker 2: I think they can just try and sense they can

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Speaker 2: get a few more dollars out of either the state

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Speaker 2: government here or you know, the co sponsorship between the

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Speaker 2: with Sydney Bears and the w A bid teams. So

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Speaker 2: it'll be very interesting. But maybe maybe the finances don't

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Speaker 2: stack up. Maybe the broadcasters don't want to pay as

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Speaker 2: much money for extra content for extra rugby league matches.

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Speaker 2: It's fat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's interesting. So because you know only how in

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Speaker 1: different cities and states like that, the sporting tastes differ

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Speaker 1: substantially Australia, so your Victoria tastes quite different to your

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Speaker 1: Sydney taste, etcetera, etceteracetera. Well, can you just give us

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Speaker 1: the top three sports in terms of winter popularity in Perth.

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Speaker 1: Do you think, like where would rugby league rank? Would

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Speaker 1: that be one or two?

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Speaker 2: No, it's AFL one, two and three.

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Speaker 1: It's an AFL town, massively huge. So they'd almost be

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Speaker 1: better off just putting another team in Sydney right, well

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Speaker 1: in some ways, but I mean you look at the

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Speaker 1: success obviously of the Warriors in terms of.

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Speaker 2: You pack Yeah, yeah, Sorts stadium. I should say every

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Speaker 2: single week you pack it. Now, we could pack our

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Speaker 2: stadium here at twenty five thousand every week as well.

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Speaker 2: I know the South Island team wants to enter the competition,

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Speaker 2: but if you want to be a truly national game,

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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of five over, a lot of

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Speaker 2: people have moved into Western Australia out of Queensland and

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Speaker 2: New South Wales where they're born and bred rugby league diets,

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Speaker 2: they would love it. It would work here. It genuinely

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Speaker 2: would work here and give you an extra time zone.

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Speaker 2: But it's just interesting eleventh hour something else seems to

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Speaker 2: be up because the bid team so mate, there's no

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Speaker 2: problem with finances, they're just changing the goalposts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, this makes sense. Okay, thanks Ollie, appreciate your

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Speaker 1: time on you Jack Sea mate there does Ollie Peterson

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