1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:01,560 Speaker 1: Murray olds Lossie corresponds with us. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,120 Speaker 2: Now, hey Mars, very good morning. Hither muz listen. 3 00:00:04,280 --> 00:00:06,880 Speaker 1: News just coming out of Australia right now. The rally 4 00:00:06,880 --> 00:00:09,559 Speaker 1: that was off and then on is now scrapped again. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 2: Well that's news to me because police have got a 6 00:00:14,240 --> 00:00:18,560 Speaker 2: news conference scheduled here in Sydney this morning closing business 7 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:24,000 Speaker 2: last night. The rally was going ahead on Saturday. On Sunday, 8 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:26,520 Speaker 2: I beg your part, and then a candle lit vigil 9 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:31,479 Speaker 2: on the Monday evening was planned for Sydney's Town Hall 10 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:33,879 Speaker 2: in the heart of a city on George Street. So 11 00:00:33,960 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 2: if that is new, you've actually surprised me because I'm 12 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,479 Speaker 2: in here in the newsroom this morning and I've yet 13 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,360 Speaker 2: to see any information from the Palestine Action Group. This 14 00:00:43,400 --> 00:00:46,400 Speaker 2: is the group that's been out there every single weekend, 15 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 2: every Sunday for the last fifty one weeks. And the 16 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 2: police went to the Supreme Court yesterday. It was at 17 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: two o'clock start here in Sydney. By five o'clock both 18 00:00:57,560 --> 00:01:01,160 Speaker 2: sides had reached a compromise that Yeah, through big rally 19 00:01:01,200 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 2: would go ahead. Police were worried, of course, about policing 20 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:09,360 Speaker 2: this rally because tempests can get pretty pretty frayed. Flags 21 00:01:09,400 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: are being waived and people are charting and whatnot, so 22 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:17,559 Speaker 2: police were a bit anxious. The compromise involved the march 23 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,160 Speaker 2: not going anywhere near the Grand Synagogue here in town, 24 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:25,800 Speaker 2: which is probably you know, hello, hello, how smart? I mean? Please? Anyway, 25 00:01:26,240 --> 00:01:28,880 Speaker 2: if that's the case, mate, that's news to me. Off 26 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 2: the phone, I'm going fell them. 27 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:32,560 Speaker 1: Must I tell you what's going on here. It's actually 28 00:01:32,560 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 1: the same thing. It's just a different interpretation of it. 29 00:01:35,080 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: So it's going ahead. You understand. It's going ahead as 30 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,479 Speaker 1: a vigil which is what the compromise is. And it's 31 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:42,920 Speaker 1: being reported that the rally part has been scrapped, so 32 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: both of them are true. It's still going ahead. Rally scrapped, 33 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,480 Speaker 1: vigils on therefore different but as you say, different route 34 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: as well. So is that the compromise is that may. 35 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,240 Speaker 2: That's my understanding. Yeah. The police said we don't want 36 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 2: either thing to go ahead. The Paliside Action Group said, 37 00:01:59,240 --> 00:02:01,560 Speaker 2: we'll bugger that. We can go ahead anyway with your police, 38 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,680 Speaker 2: you know, whatever the Supreme Court has to say, the 39 00:02:04,760 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: rally will go ahead, and they had well, it depends 40 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: on you talked to last weekend, I reckon they had 41 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 2: thirty thousand people. Thirty thousand people, that's like the anti 42 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 2: Vietnam marches of fifty years ago. It's a big deal. 43 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 1: But the thing is that what upset them last weekend 44 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: was a whole bunch of people out there with his 45 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,960 Speaker 1: baller flags. Right, so it's a terrorist organization's flags. Now, 46 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: you might have perfectly reasonable people sitting down and saying, Okay, 47 00:02:25,760 --> 00:02:27,040 Speaker 1: we're going to do this properly, we're going to have 48 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 1: a vigil, we're going to walk this, we stuff, But 49 00:02:28,919 --> 00:02:31,560 Speaker 1: can you really stop the kind of extreme elements turning up? 50 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:32,680 Speaker 1: They may well just turn up. 51 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,360 Speaker 2: Well indeed they might, and you know, to their to 52 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 2: be fair to the organizers, the Palestine Action Group organizes 53 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,040 Speaker 2: the leadership of this group. They said, listen, we tell 54 00:02:43,080 --> 00:02:46,800 Speaker 2: everybody you can't bring flags. Waving these flags is outlawed. 55 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,160 Speaker 2: In fact, the New South Wales heather waving these flag 56 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 2: is the equivalent of waving a Nazi flag that's been outlawed. 57 00:02:54,520 --> 00:02:57,800 Speaker 2: I mean, the Nazi word was invoked this week just 58 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 2: gone because two years ago the New South Wales government 59 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: past law you can't wear Nazi insignia, you can't wear 60 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:07,960 Speaker 2: Nazi uniforms. You can't do Nazi salutes and so on 61 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:11,400 Speaker 2: in public, that's how abhorrent that is. Well, the push 62 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: this week was to class flags representing Hezbollah and Hamas 63 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: in the same way. Where that's got to in Parliament House. 64 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:21,959 Speaker 2: I'm not sure where the government is at with that. 65 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 2: But look, it's a very very mobile, such a fluid 66 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:30,240 Speaker 2: situation here, lots of moving parts, Fingers crossed. The weekend 67 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:34,360 Speaker 2: goes ahead without any massive confrontations. At the same time, 68 00:03:34,400 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: of course, lots and lots of concern for people in Lebanon. 69 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,320 Speaker 2: There are about fifteen thousand Australians we understand in Lebanon. 70 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 2: The government's got six hundred seats on flights seventeen hundred people. 71 00:03:47,080 --> 00:03:49,080 Speaker 2: As I say closed the business last night, there was 72 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:52,640 Speaker 2: seventeen hundred Ozzies who were very very keen to get 73 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 2: the heck out of Lebanon and get home. So we'll 74 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: have to make checks on that this morning too. But 75 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,600 Speaker 2: six hundred seats is what they didn't have yes this 76 00:04:00,680 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 2: time yesterday. So that's a couple of plane loads of 77 00:04:03,520 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 2: Australians getting out of there. 78 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:06,760 Speaker 1: Mas you going to sit down to watch the Grand. 79 00:04:06,520 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 2: Final, Oh, you're kidding, of course, are you backing? Well, 80 00:04:10,320 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 2: look a lot of people are saying Penrith because it's 81 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 2: the start of a dynasty. This hasn't happened since Saint 82 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 2: George won eleven straight and that's going back many many 83 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,400 Speaker 2: decades now. But I was the same w hang on 84 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,800 Speaker 2: Pendus had three in a row. It's time for someone else. 85 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,599 Speaker 2: And look, I think there's a cigarette paper between the 86 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 2: two sides. Clearly they're the best two teams all year. 87 00:04:30,160 --> 00:04:33,760 Speaker 2: The Jerome Hughes I sat down after he won them. 88 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: They had a really terrific montage of this young fellow 89 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:42,039 Speaker 2: went for about four minutes. The Hughes season. My god, 90 00:04:42,080 --> 00:04:45,200 Speaker 2: that guy is a magician. He's fantastic. But then you 91 00:04:45,240 --> 00:04:48,480 Speaker 2: look at young Cleary behind the Penrith pack, big monstrous 92 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,920 Speaker 2: pack that I've got, And look it's two very very 93 00:04:51,960 --> 00:04:54,520 Speaker 2: even sides I honestly got. I know he's going to win, 94 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,880 Speaker 2: and if the Storm get up, I'll be reasonably happy, 95 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 2: even though they're from Melbourne. And if Pendrith get up, 96 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: we'll get on them because they've got a wonderful coach, 97 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:07,520 Speaker 2: they've got a terrific halfback with a great team around them. 98 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:09,720 Speaker 2: So I really think it's going to be a fantastic 99 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:10,560 Speaker 2: game on Sunday night. 100 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the kind of game you want one. You 101 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,920 Speaker 1: don't know how it's going to go. Muz enjoy it 102 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:15,400 Speaker 1: very much and good to talk to you mate. 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