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Speaker 1: Murray olds as well as from Australia this afternoon day,

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Speaker 1: Murray after Jack and speaking of unemployments, Australia is not

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Speaker 1: too different from New Zealand. In this department. The unemployment

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Speaker 1: rate has increased.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's ticked up four point one percent the latest figure,

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Speaker 2: despite the fact last month more than fifty thousand new jobs,

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Speaker 2: extra jobs were created, most of them full time. So

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Speaker 2: what's going on? Well, the simple fact of the matter

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Speaker 2: is more people now are looking for work because of

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Speaker 2: the cost of living crisis that's biting even harder over here.

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Speaker 2: This time last year, three and a half percent was

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Speaker 2: the unemployment rate. Now pre COVID it was over five percent.

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Speaker 2: So the big question now, of course, will interest rates

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Speaker 2: have to go up to try and hose down inflation.

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Speaker 2: The Reserve Bank meets early in August, and these job

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Speaker 2: numbers will be of concern because look, I mean, more

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Speaker 2: people in work is good, right, more people are working,

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Speaker 2: there are more jobs being created. That's also going to

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Speaker 2: fuel inflation, is the fear because all those extra pay

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Speaker 2: packets who washing around in the economy. Now for the

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Speaker 2: Reserve Bank over here, public enemy number one definitely is

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Speaker 2: inflation and some economists are now tipping the bank's going

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Speaker 2: to pull the trigger in August and lift rates by

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Speaker 2: a quarter of one percent. That's the cash rate, just

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Speaker 2: to keep tapping the inflation break and households need that

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Speaker 2: like a bang on the head.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, labor has taken aim at the embattled construction union.

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Speaker 2: Oh but heavens above. I mean it was just I mean,

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Speaker 2: the big question is why has it taken them so long?

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Speaker 2: I mean state governments and the federal labor government. They've

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Speaker 2: been in bed with unions ever since they were set up.

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Speaker 2: They were set up by unions. So gee, wheez, big

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Speaker 2: surprise that labour's in bed with unions. But here's the thing,

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Speaker 2: this is a bedmate you don't want because there have

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Speaker 2: been so many allegations against the Look, it's a big

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Speaker 2: omnibus union. The construction, the Sea of him he, construction, forestry, mining,

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Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Most of them are fine. It's the

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Speaker 2: construction buffheads who, according to newspapers and sixty minutes over here,

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Speaker 2: the construction side of things have been absolutely raughting the system,

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Speaker 2: getting organized crimes, infiltrated building sites. Bikis have got key jobs.

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Speaker 2: We had the building the Master Builders Association. On the

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Speaker 2: other morning. I know the guy who runs it here

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Speaker 2: in New South Wales. He says, thousands of dollars change

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Speaker 2: hands just to guarantee peace on building sites. The union

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Speaker 2: tells bosses, tells developers who they can and can't hire.

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Speaker 2: They cop bribes as I said, for on site peace,

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Speaker 2: and those who don't pay, well, they've just you know,

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Speaker 2: good luck getting your concrete on time. Here's the thing,

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Speaker 2: all these kickbacks and so on can add thirty percent

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Speaker 2: to the cost of a building project. That's labor and materials,

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Speaker 2: and the builder's labor a bigger part of the builder's

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Speaker 2: labors that was outlawed by Bob Hawk all those years ago.

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Speaker 2: The new version of the twenty first century version the

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Speaker 2: Construction Union is now being threatened with an independent administrator. Basically,

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Speaker 2: the people who have been running a show are going

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Speaker 2: to be kicked out and they are howling. So it's

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Speaker 2: Peter Dutton, and I bet Peter Dutton's winning a lot

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Speaker 2: of friends over here by saying, my mate, you bud,

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Speaker 2: you will you know this is what you've reaped now

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Speaker 2: is what you sawed. As soon as Labour won the

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Speaker 2: last election, they abolished the building industry watchdog that was

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Speaker 2: set up by Scott Morrison. What do they expect?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm not surprised. Hey, I have nothing

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Speaker 1: to base us on except for vibes. But I reckon

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Speaker 1: here in New Zealand, among rugby league fans, I reckon

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Speaker 1: eighty to ninety percent would be Queensland Reds fans. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of disappointed people. Yeah, this is a a

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Speaker 1: lot of disappointed people after last night.

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Speaker 2: But well, you know it is very tribal, no doubt

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Speaker 2: about that. I mean Richard Muwanga very interested to read

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Speaker 2: about him this week. He was in the New South

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Speaker 2: Wales camp before the big game, big decider in Brisbane.

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Speaker 2: It was one each New South Wales got pumped in Sydney,

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Speaker 2: went down in Melbourne. They absolutely smoked Queensland. So you know,

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Speaker 2: you get a decide in Queensland, that's a big event.

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Speaker 2: And Muranga was making the point that all of his

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Speaker 2: family's Reds fans, he's the only one who likes New

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Speaker 2: South Wales. Anyway. It was I think, hand on heart

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Speaker 2: one of the greatest games of the rugby league I

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Speaker 2: can remember. It was absolutely gripping, it was brutal, huge

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Speaker 2: hits big tackles, you know, pinpoint kicking, great passing and

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Speaker 2: all paid at one hundred and one miles an hour.

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Speaker 2: Half time was two nil to got only one penalty

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Speaker 2: goal two all they had four to two to Queensland.

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Speaker 2: And then the last ten eleven twelve minutes, New South

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Speaker 2: Wales gets two tries to bust the wide open. So

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Speaker 2: it was fantastic with two unique moments. Jack. One guy

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Speaker 2: was sin bend. He was sitting on the bench. He

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Speaker 2: wasn't even playing, but he's joined in a bit of

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Speaker 2: a stink on the sideline and I guess he decides

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Speaker 2: to wander in like a big puffed Ola Kauwatu who

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Speaker 2: was who plays for my team? Man, he's going to

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Speaker 2: get to two weeks banned from the game because he

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Speaker 2: wasn't even playing. He was in a suit, in a

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Speaker 2: blazer and a pair of chinos. He's gone waddling into

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Speaker 2: the little It wasn't even a fight, it was a slap. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and oh the kawa Whos decided to shove his nose

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Speaker 2: and well thanks for that, Genia, Good on you idiot. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: New South Wales says bragging rights for another year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, very good. Hey, thanks so much time for

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Speaker 1: your time, Murray always appreciated. Murray olds with us from Australia.

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