1 00:00:00,600 --> 00:00:04,480 Speaker 1: International correspondence with NS and Eye Insurance, Peace of mind 2 00:00:04,519 --> 00:00:07,040 Speaker 1: for New Zealand business. So Australia we go now, Oli 3 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: Peterson six per perth Life presents a only good afternoon. 4 00:00:10,200 --> 00:00:12,639 Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Ryan, You've got a cyclone set to hit 5 00:00:12,680 --> 00:00:14,920 Speaker 1: Brisbane later this week. How bad do they reckon? 6 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:17,759 Speaker 2: Pretty bad. It's so bad in fact that the opening 7 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 2: round of the AFL season, which is meant to be 8 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,200 Speaker 2: played at the Gaber on Thursday night, could be canceled. 9 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 2: So all the fanfare, the build up for the season 10 00:00:24,640 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 2: and they may have to postpone the match. Decision will 11 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: be made on Thursday, which has got all the Geelong 12 00:00:30,680 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 2: Football Club team and supporters pretty upset because they want 13 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:35,240 Speaker 2: to know whether or not they need to go to Queensland. 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 2: As you and I speak right now, David Cruci fully, 15 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,280 Speaker 2: the Premiere of Queensland, is on his feet and he 16 00:00:41,400 --> 00:00:43,680 Speaker 2: is telling it parts of Queensland and New South Wales 17 00:00:43,760 --> 00:00:47,959 Speaker 2: now brace for significant rainfall severe wins. Exactly when it's 18 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Speaker 2: going to hit is not known at this stage, but 19 00:00:50,520 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 2: it's still a fair way off the coast. It could 20 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:54,720 Speaker 2: be a Category two or three, but coming down so 21 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:57,520 Speaker 2: far the coast, you know, it's going to hit Brisbane. 22 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,720 Speaker 2: Like at the moment, the eye of this thing is 23 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:02,920 Speaker 2: somewhere between Brisbane and Mariucci or a little further north. 24 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,399 Speaker 2: But this time of year, like we're into March, obviously, Ryan, 25 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:10,520 Speaker 2: you don't hear about cyclones hitting that low if you're 26 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: like in Australia at this time of years. So there's 27 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 2: obviously a lot of precautions being taken, a lot of 28 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:19,560 Speaker 2: people being notified as early as possible as possible. But 29 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,920 Speaker 2: of course this is going to build and intensify and 30 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:25,319 Speaker 2: we should know more in the next twenty four hours. 31 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:27,400 Speaker 1: All right, Ollie. The federal government now they're still going 32 00:01:27,440 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 1: with the health handouts, the Federal government promising fifty more 33 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:31,920 Speaker 1: urgent care clinics. 34 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're saying that they're hoping that every single 35 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:38,000 Speaker 2: Australian can be seen by a doctor within twenty minutes. 36 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 2: That's the aim of these fifty new urgent care clinics 37 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:43,760 Speaker 2: that have cost US six hundred and fifty million dollars. 38 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:46,320 Speaker 2: Seems actually as though there might not be enough money 39 00:01:46,360 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: to build those fifty new urgent care clinics. But straight 40 00:01:48,920 --> 00:01:53,880 Speaker 2: away the Royal College of Australian GPS have said, why 41 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,600 Speaker 2: why do you want to go and build additional facilities, 42 00:01:56,600 --> 00:01:58,040 Speaker 2: Why not pumpty into hospitals? 43 00:01:58,240 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: Why not also put that. 44 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,120 Speaker 2: Funding towards the medical centers that we already have, which 45 00:02:02,160 --> 00:02:03,920 Speaker 2: have to shut at six o'clock or seven o'clock at 46 00:02:04,000 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 2: night and keep them mompent until ten or eleven or twelve. 47 00:02:06,320 --> 00:02:08,359 Speaker 2: I mean, that seems to make a bit more economic sense, 48 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 2: doesn't it Ryan that you might get doctors doing night 49 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 2: shifts in clinics that are in the suburbs so that 50 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:16,200 Speaker 2: people go, I'm not going to the emergency department. I 51 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 2: know that there's a major clinic in my area that 52 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:20,760 Speaker 2: I can go to that's the infrastructures already, they've been 53 00:02:20,760 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: there for a decade or two. SEEGP that way, that 54 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:25,320 Speaker 2: seems to make a bit of sense. I think the 55 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:28,639 Speaker 2: racgp's got a good idea here. But this is going 56 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 2: to be and so it should be an election for 57 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:34,080 Speaker 2: overhealth because from my point of view, it's the number 58 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 2: one issue that we are fighting with at the moment 59 00:02:35,960 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 2: in this country, apart from costa living, and our health 60 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,520 Speaker 2: standards are just not up to scratch in a country 61 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 2: that we live in. I know it's similar for you 62 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,560 Speaker 2: in New Zealand at the moment, Ryan, but you just 63 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 2: expect more. 64 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, what's happened to the former Australian of the 65 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:50,120 Speaker 1: Year who's had been battling cancer. 66 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 2: This is really sad. Professor Richard Scollier, who was a 67 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,240 Speaker 2: joint Australian of the Year in twenty twenty four for 68 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:00,160 Speaker 2: his incredible work at the Melanoma Institute of Australia, he 69 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 2: has just discovered that his brain cancer is growing back. Now. 70 00:03:04,440 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: He undertook an experimental trial and he was happy to 71 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: use himself for one of a better term as a 72 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,079 Speaker 2: guinea pig with some of the work that was being 73 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: done through the Melanoma Institute to try and stop the 74 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 2: growth of his brain cancer, and until late last week 75 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,959 Speaker 2: he had some success. Now the brain cancer is back. 76 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: He's undergoing surgery today. He has been very very candid 77 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:26,360 Speaker 2: about this and believes that he will probably be dead 78 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 2: within three to six months. And that is just a 79 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 2: horrible turn of events because I had the great privilege 80 00:03:31,160 --> 00:03:33,519 Speaker 2: of interviewing him here in Perth last year and he 81 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:35,560 Speaker 2: would be one of the most inspiring people that you 82 00:03:35,600 --> 00:03:38,840 Speaker 2: have ever met. And obviously somebody who has dedicated his 83 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 2: entire life to try and find a cure for melanoma. 84 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,720 Speaker 2: It looks like brain cancer is going to take his 85 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:47,000 Speaker 2: life as well, which is just incredibly. 86 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:49,400 Speaker 1: Sad, very sad. Indeed, Oliver, thank you for that. 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