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Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance Feace of mind

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Speaker 1: for New Zealand business.

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Speaker 2: Sam Imriy is with US out of Australia High Mat

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Speaker 2: half noon, Heather. So the construction workers have gone on strike,

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Speaker 2: have they?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Heather, they certainly have. In fact, it's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest unions in Australia, boasting over one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen thousand members. It's pretty much the main trade union

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Speaker 1: in Australia for the building, construction, shipping and several other

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Speaker 1: manufacturing industries. And at eleven o'clock this morning they downed

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Speaker 1: tools and walked off their jobs. So protesting this decision

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Speaker 1: to put the construction branch into administration last week following

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Speaker 1: some pretty big allegations and well known allegations of bullying,

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Speaker 1: corruption and criminal infiltration. Heather. This building industry leaders are

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Speaker 1: worried about the potential for more action obviously in the

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Speaker 1: week's coming, and they're urging authorities to keep a close

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Speaker 1: watch on what happens. Thousands gathered in Sydney, CBD this morning,

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Speaker 1: some of them traveling well over two hours from play

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Speaker 1: is like a newcastle to get there. In fact, it's

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Speaker 1: so big that the police are asking cap City locals

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Speaker 1: to be patient and allow extra travel time. The Victorian

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Speaker 1: Premiere has come out saying that they're going to work

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Speaker 1: with the companies that are running these major projects to

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Speaker 1: try and deal with any of these impacts from the rallies.

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Speaker 1: The arm Budsman's come out warning that they'll be monitoring

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Speaker 1: these protests for any illegal industrial action, and just recently

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Speaker 1: Heather the PM weighed in as well, with Albout warning

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Speaker 1: that there may be consequences for construction workers who strike today.

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Speaker 1: So for an industry that was very much on its

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Speaker 1: on shaky legs already, it's going to be one to

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Speaker 1: watch and we'll see what the fallout will be.

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Speaker 2: What do you take from the construction workers going out

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Speaker 2: on strike. Does this say that they are unconcerned by

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Speaker 2: the allegations against the union or that they do not

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Speaker 2: believe them.

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Speaker 1: I think they're calling for more of a fair inquiry

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Speaker 1: into this rather than pulling it straight into administration. They're

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Speaker 1: saying that it's been a too heavily much of a

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Speaker 1: heavy hand from the government to sort of to pull

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Speaker 1: them straight into administration like that. It obviously shows that

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Speaker 1: they're fairly confident that nothing wrong has gone on, But

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Speaker 1: I think it's more a way of showing solidarity more

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Speaker 1: so than maybe whether or not they believe whether it's

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Speaker 1: the allegations are true.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now this situation with the airbnbs is fascinating. So

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Speaker 2: do you think that any councils in Victoria are actually

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Speaker 2: going to block airbnbs?

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Speaker 1: Well it's interesting, isn't Heather, Because if they do block them,

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Speaker 1: then what and what are you know, how do they

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Speaker 1: actually sort of enforce that and how do they then

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Speaker 1: make sure that it continues to happen. I mean, there

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Speaker 1: are forty eight thousand Victorian homes on Airbnb, for example,

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Speaker 1: and the Green say it's an investment. It's that investment

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Speaker 1: bottleneck that's obviously pushing the property prices up because it's

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Speaker 1: locking out buyers and renters. But the opposition is saying, no,

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Speaker 1: that's not the problem. You should be actually support in

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Speaker 1: the investors, you know, giving them incentives to try and

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Speaker 1: lower their rent and make their properties more available. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's really sort of it's hard to know how they

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Speaker 1: could actually police this, Heather. You know, but at the

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Speaker 1: same time, we do know that we are in one

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Speaker 1: of the biggest housing crisises that Australia has seen people

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Speaker 1: are forgoing medicine and food to pay their rent. You know,

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Speaker 1: I'm certainly in that group here in Sydney at the moment.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's very difficult if you've got kids in

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Speaker 1: school and everything to try and have enough money to

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Speaker 1: have the bare necessities that we all think we should have.

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Speaker 1: So the reforms are due to come before Parliament this week.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure everyone will in Australia will be watching this

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Speaker 1: to see a if it gets up and then how

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Speaker 1: it goes once it's actually in play.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, faird point. I mean, I suppose it's pretty tough

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Speaker 2: and you want to blame someone, don't you Listen This

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Speaker 2: a alcout a coach who's chased after the kafie for the

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Speaker 2: suspected kathie. Who is this person? And did they manage

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Speaker 2: to do it? Like, did they manage to actually apprehend them?

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Speaker 2: Were they in the car?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I've got answers to all those questions. So

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Speaker 1: there it was AFL coach Michael Voss and he did

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Speaker 1: actually chase down and detain an alleged car thief who

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Speaker 1: tried to flee the scene of a crash. In Melbourne

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Speaker 1: this morning was a sixteen year old near Melbourne school

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Speaker 1: around nine o'clock, so it would have been very busy,

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Speaker 1: and he tried to flee the scene. But little did

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Speaker 1: he know Heather that a very fast paced, in middle

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Speaker 1: aged and most importantly very fit professional football coach was

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Speaker 1: hot in his heels. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say, I mean, being on foot

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Speaker 2: like this guy struck it unlucky to have an AFL

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Speaker 2: coach chasing, didn't.

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Speaker 1: He He really had. Yeah, he really went because the

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Speaker 1: cafe owners and he tried to actually chase him down himself,

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Speaker 1: but he said, next thing, you know, Voss, he just

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Speaker 1: went straight past him because he obviously had a bit

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Speaker 1: of pace.

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Speaker 2: Still with good from her mate, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: Sam really appreciated Sammy Marie the Australia Crosspond.

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