1 00:00:00,640 --> 00:00:04,560 Speaker 1: International correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, peace of mind 2 00:00:04,600 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 1: for New Zealand business. Murray Olds is with us out 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,160 Speaker 1: of Australia. Hammers afternoon to your Heather. So how's Australia 4 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:13,800 Speaker 1: reacting to this news? Well, it was grief and a 5 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: national scale, and and spiritual leaders of just about every 6 00:00:17,079 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 1: faith you can imagine, joining our political leaders and ordinary 7 00:00:20,640 --> 00:00:25,759 Speaker 1: Aussies I suspect mainly Catholic Australians and acknowledging the passing 8 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: of Francis has been a mass said and scores of 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:32,360 Speaker 1: churches across the country many opened early. Many churches opened 10 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:35,159 Speaker 1: early to let people come in to pray and reflect 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:37,400 Speaker 1: on the life of a fellow who, in so many 12 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:40,720 Speaker 1: ways was a very humble man. One young woman vox 13 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,760 Speaker 1: popped in Western Sydney. She said, the fact that he 14 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:47,880 Speaker 1: shunned any flash car and took the bus, She said, 15 00:00:47,880 --> 00:00:49,440 Speaker 1: That's what I loved about him, Just the fact he 16 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,919 Speaker 1: was so ordinary. Given the fact that you had such 17 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: an important and important role, political leaders suspended campaigning today, Heather, 18 00:00:57,400 --> 00:01:00,040 Speaker 1: the first day for early voting for our election, and 19 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 1: on Saturday week and when the I mean it shouldn't 20 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:05,840 Speaker 1: have come as a shock right, because he's been very unwell. 21 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 1: But you saw him in Saint Peter Square over the 22 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:13,040 Speaker 1: Easter weekend. You thought, you wizh okay, maybe he's going 23 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: to rally here. But I thought of that speech, that 24 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:19,039 Speaker 1: famous line from Julius Caesar, when beggars die, there are 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:22,759 Speaker 1: no comets scene. The heavens themselves blaze forth the death 26 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: of the princes. And he was certainly a prince of 27 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:27,440 Speaker 1: the church, no doubt about him. Fair enough, Hey, so 28 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: Duston is losing ground with women, a big time, big time. 29 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: I mean, in fact, you'd have to say, and you know, 30 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,080 Speaker 1: you know my politics. I'm a Labor guy and I'm 31 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: not just bagging Dutton. But boy boy, and this is 32 00:01:41,240 --> 00:01:44,319 Speaker 1: a news pole right. It's conducted by the Murdock Organization, 33 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,279 Speaker 1: and the latest poll has found women voters have dropped 34 00:01:47,280 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: the opposition like hot spuds. Female voters have swung in 35 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 1: the last three weeks five points to Labor two party preferred. 36 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,760 Speaker 1: The coalitions lost ground and key battlegrounds in Western Sydney 37 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:03,080 Speaker 1: and western Melbourne, some very important electorates there. The mortgage 38 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 1: belts swinging back to Labour, according to news poll by 39 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:09,360 Speaker 1: age listening to this thirty five to forty nine, fifty 40 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,360 Speaker 1: six percent to forty four in favor of labor, and 41 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,960 Speaker 1: younger voters two to one. Even more that these are 42 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Speaker 1: voters from thirty four down to eighteen. And of course 43 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,760 Speaker 1: many of these Heather as you know, are first time voters, 44 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,240 Speaker 1: very sharply moving towards labor. The Green's outpolling a coalition 45 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:31,079 Speaker 1: and second spot with the young voters. Yeah, well that's 46 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:33,000 Speaker 1: not really a surprise, as the young people love the Greens. 47 00:02:33,160 --> 00:02:35,880 Speaker 1: What's the story with the Sydney woman who is king? Wow, 48 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:38,880 Speaker 1: this is like something you see in a movie, but 49 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:41,240 Speaker 1: it's not. Its real life. Her name was Kim Tran, 50 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,480 Speaker 1: kidnapped and murdered, then set on fire in the back 51 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:48,000 Speaker 1: of a stolen car late last Saturday night. Now police 52 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,800 Speaker 1: say the forty five year old was killed because of 53 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 1: her husband's activities with a criminal organization thought to be 54 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: based in Victoria. Her husband was up in Queensland on 55 00:02:57,160 --> 00:02:59,720 Speaker 1: business and the night that his wife was abducted in 56 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: Mr didn't by the way, these rat bags bashed a 57 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:03,880 Speaker 1: bat over the head of his eight year old son. 58 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:06,160 Speaker 1: The son will never be the same again. He's in 59 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:10,519 Speaker 1: hospital and induced coma. So they say that she was 60 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:13,600 Speaker 1: murdered because of the husband's involvement with they think an 61 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: Asian crime gang. And December last year, I've forgotten about 62 00:03:17,160 --> 00:03:18,880 Speaker 1: this until I heard it on the news at midday 63 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,560 Speaker 1: the bodies of an Asian couple, her husband and wife 64 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:25,119 Speaker 1: were found wrapped in plastic and dumped in a waterway 65 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:27,320 Speaker 1: just out near the back of the airport in Sydney. 66 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:32,200 Speaker 1: And they owed drug money. So it's extra I mean 67 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:34,920 Speaker 1: it's as police say that this crime is just off 68 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: this off the scale. They haven't seen stuff like this 69 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: for a very long time. Miss thanks for that look 70 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 1: after yourself. That's Murray Older, Australia correspondent. 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