1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:04,800 Speaker 1: International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind 2 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: for New Zealand Business. Oliver Patterson six pur Perth Line 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:10,520 Speaker 1: presented with us. Oliver, welcome to the show. Good to 4 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:11,559 Speaker 1: have you on Giday. 5 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:11,920 Speaker 2: Ryan. 6 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,400 Speaker 1: What's the latest on the floods in North Queensland. 7 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:16,960 Speaker 2: Oh, the delus is just quite unbelievable. 8 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:20,360 Speaker 3: Six months of rain they are saying within three days. 9 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:24,240 Speaker 3: For example, the Herbert River at the Ingham Pump station 10 00:00:24,360 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 3: could reach fifteen meters today, which is just enormous. There's 11 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,640 Speaker 3: been four hundred and eighty odd requests for assistance and 12 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 3: eleven swift water rescues right across the region. 13 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:35,880 Speaker 2: So far. 14 00:00:36,080 --> 00:00:40,920 Speaker 3: North Queensland is really suffering under this monsoonal rainfall that 15 00:00:40,960 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 3: you just played in the world wise, one person has died, 16 00:00:43,159 --> 00:00:46,040 Speaker 3: four hundred people are currently taking shelter in six evacuations 17 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,839 Speaker 3: setters across the region. There are some towns without power. 18 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,360 Speaker 3: Now you've got major supermarkets obviously closed to be and 19 00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:57,360 Speaker 3: or isolated by floodwaters. So look, there's no chance of 20 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 3: this drying up anytime soon. It's just battened out the 21 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,560 Speaker 3: hatches and hope that many residents there in far North 22 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:05,760 Speaker 3: Queensland are going to be okay, But the pitches that 23 00:01:06,280 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 3: are being splashed across television screens here in Australia are 24 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:14,959 Speaker 3: quite confronting. We've seen, for example, a bridge which is 25 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: between Ingham and Townsville along the Bruce Highway. It's just 26 00:01:18,680 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 3: split in half and you can see the water running 27 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 3: through the middle of the bridge. So yeah, it's a 28 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:27,720 Speaker 3: difficult time obviously, Ryan, for Far North Queensland residents. It's 29 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 3: a difficult time as well for those working in the 30 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:32,440 Speaker 3: sas to actually respond to requests for help. 31 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:34,759 Speaker 2: So just keep your fingers and toes crossed. Everyone will 32 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:35,280 Speaker 2: be okay. 33 00:01:35,560 --> 00:01:38,120 Speaker 1: And the federal government that's on the issue of terrorism 34 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 1: obviously something that's a big issue there at the moment 35 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:43,679 Speaker 1: to clean New South Wales. They're now going after a 36 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,840 Speaker 1: neo Nazi network. 37 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 2: Yeah they are. 38 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 3: And obviously parliament's about the seat and resume for the 39 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:51,240 Speaker 3: next two weeks. It's believed, in fact, this could be 40 00:01:51,240 --> 00:01:53,960 Speaker 3: the last two weeks Ryan before we head towards a 41 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,240 Speaker 3: federal election. But we've heard from Penny Wong, the Foreign 42 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:01,520 Speaker 3: Affairs Minister, that it will now be a criminal. 43 00:02:01,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: Offense to use or deal with any of the. 44 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:08,400 Speaker 3: Assets from Terogram Now this is what they're calling terragram 45 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,680 Speaker 3: I telegram that many people have been sending messages from. 46 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:16,160 Speaker 3: They have now come to a decision to put some 47 00:02:16,200 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: financing sanctions on groups who they believe are associated with 48 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:24,720 Speaker 3: white supremacists and their ability to combat anti Semitism. As 49 00:02:24,760 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 3: you mentioned there, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne, there are 50 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,240 Speaker 3: a spate of anti Semitic attacks. Who actually had one 51 00:02:30,240 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 3: here in Perth where I am over the weekend on 52 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 3: a house in the western suburbs of Perth, which is 53 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 3: sort of the wealthy area of Perth. There was a 54 00:02:37,160 --> 00:02:40,120 Speaker 3: big graffiti of f the Jews. So this is not 55 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 3: obviously going down well in Australia at the moment, and 56 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:45,360 Speaker 3: many people are looking for more leadership from the front. 57 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 3: So I'm sure that the Prime Minister will be asked 58 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,720 Speaker 3: about this in question time as he faces the music 59 00:02:50,760 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 3: in Federal Parliament. 60 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 1: New South Wales transport ministers had to apologize for booking 61 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:59,760 Speaker 1: a ministerial car to drive her and some friends out 62 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,080 Speaker 1: to lunch at a winery. 63 00:03:01,360 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 2: This is sack of all material. How is this right? 64 00:03:05,200 --> 00:03:07,200 Speaker 3: She is up in the hunt of Valley, so she's 65 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 3: a good two and a half hours away. 66 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:11,240 Speaker 2: From the Sydney CBD. 67 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 3: On Australia Day, of all days, she summons a car, which, 68 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:15,840 Speaker 3: by the way, under the rules you can use a 69 00:03:15,919 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 3: ministerial car for private purposes. The car drives from Sydney 70 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:22,919 Speaker 3: to the Hunter Valley, takes her and some friends, including 71 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:25,720 Speaker 3: the Housing minister whose name is Rose Jackson, out for lunch. 72 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:29,239 Speaker 3: And it costs seven hundred and fifty bucks. Right, that's 73 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:31,000 Speaker 3: what it costs to hire this car just so she 74 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 3: could go with her girlfriends to have a boozy lunch. 75 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 3: Now this is a cost to seven hundred and fifty bucks. 76 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:40,200 Speaker 3: As I said, thirteen hour shift on Australia Day, a 77 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:43,080 Speaker 3: four hundred and forty six kilometers round trip, just so 78 00:03:43,160 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 3: the driver could take her from. 79 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 2: Hunter Valley out to a Hunter Valley winery. 80 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:49,240 Speaker 3: As I pose the question, Ryan, what does it take 81 00:03:49,280 --> 00:03:52,840 Speaker 3: to get sacked anymore? When you're a minister of the crowd. 82 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 3: I mean, anybody would say this doesn't pass the pub test. 83 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 3: But on Australia Day long weekend, she has to be kidding. 84 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:01,720 Speaker 1: Do you know what sort of cars they get show 85 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: for randomly? 86 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 3: I think she had no This one was a Kia 87 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:10,280 Speaker 3: carn or Key, one of those kind of minibuses if 88 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 3: you like the seven Seeds. 89 00:04:11,800 --> 00:04:15,119 Speaker 1: Nothing too fancy looking, but no still, can you imagine. 90 00:04:14,800 --> 00:04:15,320 Speaker 2: Being the driver? 91 00:04:15,520 --> 00:04:17,200 Speaker 3: Imaginetting that call Ryan, how you got to go pick 92 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 3: up you know, this minister up in the heart of 93 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:19,840 Speaker 3: valley and take her out to lunch. 94 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 1: He'd be spitting chips. Imagine the chat on the way home. Hey, 95 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:28,839 Speaker 1: thank you very much for that. Oliver. Oliver Peterson six 96 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: pr PERS Live presenter with us with all the news 97 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:34,279 Speaker 1: you need to know from Australia. For more from Hither 98 00:04:34,440 --> 00:04:37,159 Speaker 1: Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news talks. 99 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:40,359 Speaker 3: It'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast 100 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:41,480 Speaker 3: on iHeartRadio.