Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 2: Thursday, June five. It is Clinton Maynard. He won three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three Right now in the city seventeen degrees.
Speaker 2: It actually feels like thirteen point seven. But a little earlier.
Speaker 2: I was walking across Pimont Bridge about eight thirty this morning,
Speaker 2: my way to work cross Darling Harbor, and I had
Speaker 2: to look at the phone because it felt pretty chilly.
Speaker 2: The feels like temperature was zero point two degrees. Yes,
Speaker 2: it was zero degrees. It was freezing, but mind you,
Speaker 2: it is winter. It's the first week of winter. It
Speaker 2: feels like it's a bit early for zero temperatures. The
Speaker 2: average top temperature in Sydney for June is actually seventeen degrees,
Speaker 2: so today and this week is nothing out of the ordinary.
Speaker 2: Coming up on the program, we'll give you an insight
Speaker 2: into what's going to happen in the seat of Bradfield.
Speaker 2: Will there be a legal challenge now the teal Nicolette
Speaker 2: Buller has won. I've been talking to my contacts within
Speaker 2: the Liberal Party. They are certainly looking at their options today.
Speaker 2: They need grounds, They need grounds to take to the
Speaker 2: Court of Disputed Returns before there's even a hearing, so
Speaker 2: I assure you they're looking at it hard. We're going
Speaker 2: to talk about legalities today. David Elliott is our Thursday
Speaker 2: Straight Shoot. He'll have some choice words about veteran liberal
Speaker 2: Alan Stockdale. Mark Geyer is back. He's over the flu,
Speaker 2: so MG is back in action. Craig Bellamy has signed
Speaker 2: on as the Melbourne Storm coach for another year. It'll
Speaker 2: be his twenty fourth year in the job. We might
Speaker 2: talk about how long you can spend in the one
Speaker 2: job now. Certainly if you're running the Melbourne Storm, you'd
Speaker 2: want Craig Bellamy to stay on as the coach. And
Speaker 2: I do have some family passes to give away to
Speaker 2: Taronga Zoo. Today is Taronga Giving Day to raise funds
Speaker 2: for Taronga's Wildlife Hospital. So in recognition of their great
Speaker 2: fundraising efforts and not give the details about HAG can
Speaker 2: help out. I have double passes to give away a
Speaker 2: little later in the program. I'm going to play some
Speaker 2: mystery animal sounds a little later. You are my eyes
Speaker 2: and ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so if
Speaker 2: you see something we need to know about, set me
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Speaker 2: seven three our number one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Well in Sydney. Now the trams are not running to
Speaker 2: the eastern suburbs at the moment. Trams are still blocked
Speaker 2: between Circular Key and Moore Park following the tragic death
Speaker 2: of a man in Devonshire Seat Street, Surrey Hills a
Speaker 2: little earlier this soufter and I want to go straight
Speaker 2: to Howard Colin's and Transport from New South Wales for
Speaker 2: the latest. Obviously we're dealing with an awful situation in
Speaker 2: Devonshire Street. What can you tell us Howard.
Speaker 3: Yes, obviously the operator trans Dev advised us at coult
Speaker 3: a past one this morning this terrible incident and we
Speaker 3: certainly reach out and offer our condonances. But also the
Speaker 3: customers involved, the people who obviously witnessed the incident, and
Speaker 3: there is an officer needs for the supporting them as well.
Speaker 3: And then also shout out to the emergency services and
Speaker 3: even our Sydney Train team who came to the rescue
Speaker 3: pretty quickly, but unfortunately someone started. Look, this is a
Speaker 3: police investigation. The police are doing a very thorough job,
Speaker 3: as you would imagine. We are hoping clinton to get
Speaker 3: the trams between Central and Circular Key operating about three
Speaker 3: point thirty this afternoon.
Speaker 4: We're asking people to use.
Speaker 3: The alternative background buses, the schedule buses, because at this
Speaker 3: time of the day it is very difficult to risk
Speaker 3: up additional buses. It will take longer, but you can
Speaker 3: imagine this is important. The investigation via the operating company
Speaker 3: and the police is the thorough and then once the
Speaker 3: police clear site, we will then start to operate services again.
Speaker 2: So the expectation would be you mentioned three point thirty,
Speaker 2: so that would just be the trams between Circular Key
Speaker 2: and Central. They wouldn't continue on to More Park than beyond.
Speaker 3: And you know, quite often it is important the police
Speaker 3: do do their analysis and forensic review and we've got
Speaker 3: to leave them to do that. Often people ask me,
Speaker 3: well how long is this going to take? It is
Speaker 3: important it's done thoroughly, so we are certainly believing that
Speaker 3: the afternoon peak will be impacted this. We're working with
Speaker 3: the police and as soon as we get information that
Speaker 3: they're clear and they've satisfied they've gathered all the evidence,
Speaker 3: then we will start to recommission the service.
Speaker 5: End to end the.
Speaker 3: Moment, More Park South is okay, but the bit between
Speaker 3: more Park and Central is closed. Use alternative bus routes
Speaker 3: and then we hope about three point thirty today will
Speaker 3: run a shuttle service between Circular Key and Central Station
Speaker 3: which will get you up through town Hall when you're
Speaker 3: at Bridge Street.
Speaker 2: Howard, I realized it's very early in the investigation and
Speaker 2: you also dealt with a similar incident within two years
Speaker 2: ago when a teenage girl I think she was trying
Speaker 2: to move between two of the carriages and she was
Speaker 2: struck on George Street. At this early stage, is there
Speaker 2: is there any idea about how this happened?
Speaker 3: Clinton, You know, it's too early to say. The operator
Speaker 3: has obviously ers and much evidence and information plus eyewitnesses.
Speaker 3: The police will go through that whether they're similar or
Speaker 3: not is pure speculation at this stage. We're just making
Speaker 3: sure that everyone is kept safe. Obviously the police will
Speaker 3: through and also the our regulator who's on site. They
Speaker 3: will make their findings and obviously of the operator and
Speaker 3: US as Transport for New South Wales will obviously understand
Speaker 3: what that means.
Speaker 2: We'll keep in touch. Thank you, Howard, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2: Howard Colin's from Transport for New South Wales. So probably
Speaker 2: in around fifteen to twenty minutes time, the trends should
Speaker 2: be operating between Central and Circular Key, but they won't
Speaker 2: be going from Central down towards More Park probably for
Speaker 2: the peak out. Given how far of this investigation needs
Speaker 2: to be do you want to.
Speaker 6: Know what's happening in Sydney stay tuned to Sydney Out
Speaker 6: with Clinton Lane long.
Speaker 1: To GV twelve.
Speaker 2: Past three police have made several arrests and now laid
Speaker 2: charges as well for the first week of the operation
Speaker 2: Task Force Falcon now Task Force Falcon was announced to
Speaker 2: just about a fortnight ago. So cracking down all the
Speaker 2: violent crime, the organized crime that we're witnessing across Sydney
Speaker 2: at the moment. Authorities have now sees ten cars in
Speaker 2: the past week. Also they've alleged these cars and they
Speaker 2: have made arrest of some very young people here. But
Speaker 2: they had alleged these cars could have been used in
Speaker 2: serious organized crime. For more on this, Detective Superintendent Jason Box,
Speaker 2: who is the commander of Task Force Falcon joins me,
Speaker 2: thank you for your time. Thank you some important rest
Speaker 2: you've ever made today and I know one of the
Speaker 2: arrests you made is of agent only fourteen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's correct. Task Force Falcon operatives for about conducting
Speaker 7: taskings around the Lincoln area last night about eleven thirty
Speaker 7: pm and they saw a stolen vehicle. They went to
Speaker 7: pull it over. The two occupants fled, one being a
Speaker 7: fourteen year old male and the second one of being
Speaker 7: a fifteen year old male who was just arrested in
Speaker 7: the last hour that ridden that car, and also in
Speaker 7: that car was Jerry Canes. There was another vehicle driven
Speaker 7: by a seven een and nineen year old that was
Speaker 7: in convoy with that vehicle. All being charged for being
Speaker 7: in a joint currental enterprise with that stolen mate of
Speaker 7: vehicle and also for being accessory before the fact that
Speaker 7: damaged property by fire.
Speaker 2: Task for as Facon and I understand you bringing together
Speaker 2: about a dozen different strike forces that are investigating the
Speaker 2: most serious of crimes. What you believe the gang land shootings,
Speaker 2: these arrests, and the people that you have charged. Are
Speaker 2: these people at the bottom end of the food chain,
Speaker 2: You might.
Speaker 7: Say, no, not necessarily, they're facilitating these serious crimes. This
Speaker 7: vehicle will alleged was going to be used for a
Speaker 7: serious crime somewhere in the Sydney area. It was either
Speaker 7: going to be staged for people to use in these
Speaker 7: serious crimes or used as means to get away after
Speaker 7: commit the serious crimes. And a number of other people
Speaker 7: will charge yesterday for possessing style of firearms and are
Speaker 7: property out at austral and we're alleging that they were
Speaker 7: being retained and stored at that location for that same use.
Speaker 7: And last week we also arrested a juvenile for being
Speaker 7: in possession of a stolen motor vehicle at a semi
Speaker 7: automatic weapon in that and a pistol and Jerry Kens
Speaker 7: and face covering. So in terms of they're being complicit
Speaker 7: to major offenses, I wouldn't say they're at the bottom there.
Speaker 7: They're assisting these people can commit these crimes and they're
Speaker 7: just as complicit as the people that carry out the offenses.
Speaker 2: Because Jason Nothen, when we report on this and you
Speaker 2: tell us about what's occurred, we see gang land hits
Speaker 2: and then a few suburbs away there's a car that's
Speaker 2: set a light burnt out. So it may well have
Speaker 2: been that the cars that you've seized and those you've
Speaker 2: arrested involved in that process.
Speaker 7: Actually to be used for the offense for the shooting
Speaker 7: or attempted murder, or to be used to flee the scene,
Speaker 7: or you know, in a chain of vehicles that will
Speaker 7: be used. You know, it's not uncommon they have multiple
Speaker 7: vehicles that will be used to flee these you know,
Speaker 7: these offenses.
Speaker 2: Is the interpretation Jason, that these very serious criminal gangs
Speaker 2: that are conducting these hits are recruiting teenagers.
Speaker 7: Well, we believe that that is happening. We believe that,
Speaker 7: you know, through social media, through encrypto devices, through word
Speaker 7: of mouth, they are in fact recruiting young offenders. And
Speaker 7: we've proven that. We just chawed someone last week for
Speaker 7: that for an offense, for having a semi automatic firearm
Speaker 7: like a rifle in the vehicle and a pistol, and
Speaker 7: you know, and you look at the you know, the
Speaker 7: reasoning behind that is that it's probably cheaper to recruit
Speaker 7: these people. There's less chance of ever connecting them back
Speaker 7: to the people who are going to commit the offenses,
Speaker 7: and you know it, you know, and if they are caught,
Speaker 7: you know, they probably believe that the punishment will be less.
Speaker 7: It's quite that's attractive problems.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's quite frightening. Congratulations, on the work so far.
Speaker 7: Not a problem, thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Detective Inspector Jason Box, who is the commander of Task
Speaker 2: Force Falcon. Critical work they're now doing, and this is
Speaker 2: the early stage of this task force, but we are
Speaker 2: seeing it's all about drugs. It's about turf the game
Speaker 2: war that's broken out that has claimed some innocent lives. Now,
Speaker 2: I think about that twenty three year old who was
Speaker 2: show dead arriving home from work late at night. He
Speaker 2: was a plumber in his driveway Condale Park a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago. And then there was a burnout car
Speaker 2: found a few suburbs away. Well, what police are alleging
Speaker 2: is it's these kids who are recruited to go and
Speaker 2: steal the car in the first place. It is quite terrifying.
Speaker 2: We'll have a look at the future of superannuation. Some
Speaker 2: significant developments in Canberra to day in a moment, if
Speaker 2: you'd like to have your say one three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. This is Sydney now. It's seventeen degrees in
Speaker 2: the city, seventeen degrees in Campbelltown. It is a wild
Speaker 2: afternoon in mcquarie Street at State Parliament. In about ten
Speaker 2: minutes we expect a vote in the Upper House on
Speaker 2: the future of the new South Wales government's workers' compensation legislation.
Speaker 2: I'll bring you the details of some of that shortly. But
Speaker 2: there's also been a massive blow up about sexism in
Speaker 2: the Lower House and i'll bring that to you in
Speaker 2: just to tick one three one eight seven three. Butt's
Speaker 2: want to cross to Canberra and what's going on in
Speaker 2: federal politics to mom about the future of superannuation. This
Speaker 2: has been such a big issue on this station in
Speaker 2: the past couple of weeks, the changes that have been
Speaker 2: proposed by Jim Charmers and the newly elected government that
Speaker 2: would increase superannuation for some Australians. Michael Packey has all
Speaker 2: the way to Kiday, Michael good A Clinton. There has
Speaker 2: been a resolution of sorts in the coalition will oppose
Speaker 2: these changes.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Look, the Shadow Treasurer Ted O'Brien, he had flagged a
Speaker 9: potential compromise with Labor a few days ago. He got
Speaker 9: slapped down and in today's cabinet meeting, which was the
Speaker 9: first shadow Cabinet meeting since the Liberals and the Nationals
Speaker 9: agreed to keep the coalition intact, they've formally decided that
Speaker 9: they will not support Labour's superannuation policy that the tax
Speaker 9: would double on super earnings above three million dollars.
Speaker 2: Which is and that's what you would expect. You would
Speaker 2: expect that. But the suggestion was perhaps and Ted O'Brien
Speaker 2: are giving this indication that the be some negotiation between
Speaker 2: the government coalition, So there'll be no negotiation'll just to
Speaker 2: pose it.
Speaker 9: They will just suppose that. And that's because especially the Nationals,
Speaker 9: they were demanding that the coalition oppose this policy because
Speaker 9: one of the biggest problems that they have with it
Speaker 9: is but not only is this policy not index, the
Speaker 9: other thing is that it would tax unrealized gains on
Speaker 9: assets that are held in super funds and those assets
Speaker 9: could be shares or a property like a farm, and
Speaker 9: there are plenty of farmers with self managed super funds
Speaker 9: that would be especially worried as a result of this tax.
Speaker 9: Now probably still coming into play because Labor will no
Speaker 9: doubt get the support of the Greens to get it
Speaker 9: over the line.
Speaker 2: But the Greens actually want to make some changes to this.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 9: They similar to the Liberal Party. They believe that it
Speaker 9: should be index, so it should be linked to inflation
Speaker 9: and the unrealized gains aspect of all of this, they're
Speaker 9: not quite comfortable with it. The other change that the
Speaker 9: Greens want to make as part of their negotiations with
Speaker 9: labor is, for instance, at the moment the tax hit
Speaker 9: superbalances above three million, the Greens believe that should be
Speaker 9: lowered to two million. So potentially more people could be
Speaker 9: targeted if it goes from three down to two million.
Speaker 2: We will follow that. Thank you, Michael, No problem, how
Speaker 2: federal political Leedit to Michael Packy until six.
Speaker 6: This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 6: call now one to three one.
Speaker 2: Twenty four past three. There is more controversy about Meghan Marken.
Speaker 2: There's a video now doing the rounds of her dancing
Speaker 2: when she was heavily pregnant. We'll talk to Peter Ford
Speaker 2: shortly about that. Reese on the text line talking about
Speaker 2: how cold it's been the last couple of days, says,
Speaker 2: I've just done the trip down to the snowy hydro
Speaker 2: Scheme yesterday and today this morning the feels like temperature
Speaker 2: was minus ten minus four this morning when I woke
Speaker 2: up in Cuba. Thank you, Reese. So yeah, when we're
Speaker 2: winging about her feels like temperature of half a degree.
Speaker 2: We shouldn't be complaining now in Macquarie Street. There are
Speaker 2: dramas unfolding, firstly in the Upper House with the changes
Speaker 2: to workers compensation, and that's potentially going to go to
Speaker 2: a vote about five minutes time, and I'll bring in
Speaker 2: some of the details of that soon. But in question
Speaker 2: time today, the Police Minister Yasmin Catley has called the
Speaker 2: Opposition leader mar Speakman a sexist man. This relates to
Speaker 2: comments that Mark Speakman has made in a press conference. Now,
Speaker 2: mister Speakman has described the Police Minister Yasmin Cattley as
Speaker 2: being out of her depth and then said she gave
Speaker 2: hysterical answers in Parliament. Well, this is Yasmin Cattley's response.
Speaker 10: Yesterday the leader of the Opposition got up after question
Speaker 10: time and called me hysterical, not once, but twice.
Speaker 11: Mister Speaker, if a man.
Speaker 10: Came in here with a strong view about you deliberately
Speaker 10: bagging the cops and trying to confuse the public about
Speaker 10: who is responsible for cracking down on a list of tobacco,
Speaker 10: would you have used that language.
Speaker 11: Sterical? No, it's a sexist word used by a.
Speaker 2: Sex the ladies that I work with here in the office,
Speaker 2: and they tell me as females. If somebody calls them hysterical,
Speaker 2: it's one of the most offensive things, one of the
Speaker 2: most offensive pieces of language that can be used. So
Speaker 2: Mark Speakman now labeled sexist. We have a response now
Speaker 2: from Mark Speakman via our friends at the SMA, he
Speaker 2: says in regards to Yasmin Catley now accusing him of
Speaker 2: being sexist, because Yasmin Cattley says, Mark Speakman called her hysterical.
Speaker 2: Mister Speakman said, I said the minister's response was hysterical,
Speaker 2: and that's about tone, not gender. When serious questions regularly
Speaker 2: met with yelling and finger pointing instead of an answer,
Speaker 2: the public deserves to call those responses for what they are,
Speaker 2: over the top. Des Hasler could be in a little
Speaker 2: bit of trouble. The NRL has issued the Gold Coast
Speaker 2: Titans coach with a final warning for direct and targeted
Speaker 2: criticism of NRL match referees. The warning relates to comments
Speaker 2: that Desi made after the last match the Titans play
Speaker 2: in Round thirteen. Now you recall just a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago, Adam O'Brien, the Newcastle Knights Coat. He caught
Speaker 2: the same warning from the NRL. So at this point
Speaker 2: des Hasler has not been fine, but he's been told
Speaker 2: you are in your last warning. Pangarterid in Josh Bryant.
Speaker 12: Good afternoon, Clinton. A third teenager has now been arrested
Speaker 12: after a stolen car was seized by police who are
Speaker 12: investigating gangland violence across Sydney. The vehicle at Lincoln is
Speaker 12: the tenth car that's been seized so far by Task
Speaker 12: Force Falcon investigators. A man has died after being hit
Speaker 12: by a light rail in Sydney CBD Emergency Services arrived
Speaker 12: at the scene at Surrey Hills to find the man
Speaker 12: in his forties under the carriage and he couldn't be saved.
Speaker 12: A report into blackouts in the States Far West caused
Speaker 12: by a storm last year has made twenty recommendations on
Speaker 12: how to close gaps in energy and mobile phone reliability.
Speaker 12: In New South Wales and National Parks and Wildlife Service
Speaker 12: workers have spent World Environment Day on Botany Bay completing
Speaker 12: training on how to get Wales free from netting. In Sport,
Speaker 12: the manager of Finland's women's football team has been left
Speaker 12: red faced after accidentally naming a fifty one year old
Speaker 12: former player in for a match with Serbia. A twenty
Speaker 12: three year old defender who is supposed to be selected
Speaker 12: shares a surname with the former player who was included.
Speaker 12: We'll have Morenius and sported for.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Seventeen degrees in the city, sixteen degrees
Speaker 2: in Penrith. At the moment, it looks like the Tasmanians
Speaker 2: will be going to an election, and effectively what they'll
Speaker 2: be going to an election over is a Tasmanian AFL team.
Speaker 2: There is no confidence motion being considered by the Tasmanian
Speaker 2: Parliament against the Liberal Premier, Jeremy Rockcliffe, and that's going
Speaker 2: to transpire in the next couple of hours or so.
Speaker 2: A vote of no confidence. It's likely to be successful
Speaker 2: and that will mean that there'll be an election, and
Speaker 2: the Premier has indicated that today. But what's the core
Speaker 2: of this? That much of it is about funding of
Speaker 2: infrastructure in Hobart and the fact that like most state governments,
Speaker 2: Tasmanian governments virtually broke, they don't have enough money. But
Speaker 2: at the core of this is the new stadium in Hobart,
Speaker 2: the stadium for the Hobart or the Tasmanian Devils as
Speaker 2: they're going to be called, and it very much puts
Speaker 2: the AFL team at risk because if the stadium isn't built,
Speaker 2: the AFL won't allow the team to actually start, and
Speaker 2: so that's a massive deal for Tasmanians. But funny that
Speaker 2: an enticed election could be fought out over an AFL team.
Speaker 6: Basically until six, This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard
Speaker 6: on two GB call now one three one A seven.
Speaker 2: Three twenty seven to four. Meghan Markle is making headlines,
Speaker 2: or rather her videos are sweeping the world once again.
Speaker 2: Peter Ford, what did you make of the video of
Speaker 2: her dancing while pregnant.
Speaker 13: Look, I didn't have a problem with her doing it
Speaker 13: or Prince Harry joining in. I'm just curious as to
Speaker 13: why she fell the need to make it public.
Speaker 8: So this stems back.
Speaker 13: Four years ago and Lily Bett was due to arrive
Speaker 13: and she was overdue, so they were just letting off
Speaker 13: steam and messing about and they did this sort of
Speaker 13: dance routine together in front of an iPhone, I imagine,
Speaker 13: and never saw the light of day. And of course
Speaker 13: we know Lily Bett arrived safely and she's now four
Speaker 13: years old. So last night Meghan went to her social
Speaker 13: media put up some never before seen photographs of her
Speaker 13: and Lily bet together, one of the photographs of Lily
Speaker 13: actually showing quite a lot of her face.
Speaker 8: It's kind of odd.
Speaker 13: When you think about it, that Harry is always going
Speaker 13: on about don't let your kids near social media, and
Speaker 13: they're putting their own kids on social media so often now.
Speaker 13: But then a few hours after those photographs, she put
Speaker 13: up this video, which again was meant to be in
Speaker 13: honor of Lily Bette's birthday. But if you look at it,
Speaker 13: to me personally, I think it's unbecoming of a member
Speaker 13: of the royal family to be putting that type of
Speaker 13: thing up. She's dancing in there, and some people are
Speaker 13: describing it as being provocative or that she's twerking. She's
Speaker 13: obviously nine months pregnant, and I think she's having fun.
Speaker 13: Good luck to her, But I just question her judgment
Speaker 13: as to why she wants to make that public. And
Speaker 13: sometimes I think she's her own worst enemy. I mean,
Speaker 13: sometimes I think people attack her unfairly. But when you
Speaker 13: put something up like that up, you know it's not
Speaker 13: going to be unanimous praise. Well, maybe that, maybe she
Speaker 13: doesn't know. Maybe she does and take advice and doesn't listen,
Speaker 13: and she thinks the world's going to love her.
Speaker 2: Do you think she still considers herself I mean this
Speaker 2: was four years ago, but does she consider herself a
Speaker 2: member of the royal family.
Speaker 13: Well, I don't think she could consider herself an active
Speaker 13: member of it, but she certainly wants all the perks
Speaker 13: and the titles, There's no question about that, and she
Speaker 13: wants to be treated in a kind of regal way. Now,
Speaker 13: some people will say, you know that the video was delightful.
Speaker 13: It shows them to be human and having fun. But
Speaker 13: you know, I just think she wants to have her
Speaker 13: cake and eat it too.
Speaker 2: You couldn't imagine Queen Elizabeth back in the day dancing
Speaker 2: around like that, But I don't think working had been invented.
Speaker 13: Well, I must say I did think when I saw it,
Speaker 13: I thought what would the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince
Speaker 13: to make of this? I think they would be pretty
Speaker 13: appalled by it.
Speaker 2: It seems Nicole Kidman enjoys massages in Paddington, Yes.
Speaker 13: But noss have you heard of this place? It must
Speaker 13: be very top shelf.
Speaker 2: I haven't heard of it, and I haven't been there.
Speaker 13: It's in Oxford, straight and I had a look at
Speaker 13: their website and it looks great. I mean, it's clearly
Speaker 13: you're paying top dollar and you get great service in return.
Speaker 13: And she was asked by The New York Times about
Speaker 13: her favorite things, and she lists to a whole bunch
Speaker 13: of things which are completely accessible for next to nothing
Speaker 13: or completely free, including Harry's Cafe de Wheels, the Royal
Speaker 13: Botanic Gardens, the Art Gallery, and.
Speaker 9: Also the Harbor Pools.
Speaker 13: The only one that sort of jumped out at people
Speaker 13: for being top end is the Venustas day spar And
Speaker 13: she recommends the six hand massage, which will set you
Speaker 13: back one thousand and fifty nine dollars. Now she's got
Speaker 13: that money, obviously, now she's coping blowback for that. Look,
Speaker 13: if you can afford it, it's great. You know most
Speaker 13: of us can't or wouldn't fork at that kind of
Speaker 13: money for a massage. To her, it's obviously irrelevant. It's
Speaker 13: it'll be great for their business because these recommendations are
Speaker 13: appearing in the New York Times, So anybody from overseas
Speaker 13: who's looking to come to Sydney. I have no doubt
Speaker 13: we'll think, Gee, I'm better take know to those places.
Speaker 2: What's a six hand massage? Do you think?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 13: It's three people, Oh right, so it has two hands,
Speaker 13: so the three people conduct the sixth hand massuch. So
Speaker 13: I'm sure it's a wonderful, blissful experience which you and
Speaker 13: I will probably never really fully comprehend.
Speaker 2: That's what it costs one and fifty nine dollars. I
Speaker 2: might you see there next week? Thanks Pete, see Peter Ford.
Speaker 6: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 6: Now with Clinton on.
Speaker 2: To GB The no confidence motion for the Tasmanian Premiere
Speaker 2: is now before the Tasmanian Parliament. There is a tie.
Speaker 2: It is seventeen a piece, so that's all playing out
Speaker 2: right now. The reality is that this will probably end
Speaker 2: up going to an election now in Mcquarie Street. The
Speaker 2: issue of workers' compensation right now is before the Upper
Speaker 2: House and what's probably going to happen. You can never
Speaker 2: predict what our MP's going to do in Mcquarie Street's
Speaker 2: probably going to end up in an inquiry, which means
Speaker 2: the whole process will be delayed and there will be
Speaker 2: no change to workers compensation in the way the scheme
Speaker 2: operates before the budgets handed down in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: So what the government is suggesting is that that's going to
Speaker 2: push up the premiums immediately beyond just an eight percent
Speaker 2: increase and overall if these changes aren't made, the government says,
Speaker 2: the scheme that loses five million dollars a day, premiums
Speaker 2: for small businesses rise over three years by more than
Speaker 2: thirty percent. The Coalition claims the whole process is being rushed.
Speaker 2: Members of the labor back bench aren't happy either, because
Speaker 2: the unions are campaigning against it very heavily, and so
Speaker 2: various Labor MPs in the backbench they're unnamed at this point,
Speaker 2: have made their thoughts known to the premiere. And what
Speaker 2: happened is they were going to write a letter and
Speaker 2: this was published in the papers this morning, and then
Speaker 2: sign it. But apparently the premier's staff told them, no, no,
Speaker 2: don't sign the letter. Don't sign the letter. Anyway, it's
Speaker 2: before the Upper House of the moment, but it has
Speaker 2: dominated question time in the lower House a little earlier.
Speaker 2: And I want to play you this because I said
Speaker 2: I think it says a lot about the way politics
Speaker 2: operates in our state. This is a really serious issue,
Speaker 2: both for the injured workers but also the businesses who
Speaker 2: are facing potentially massive hikes in premiums if these changes
Speaker 2: aren't made. This is how our politicians are treating it.
Speaker 2: Mark Speakman asking the Premier a question.
Speaker 12: Who were the at least a dozen labor MPs who
Speaker 12: wanted to sign a letter to you to defer workers
Speaker 12: compensation legislation?
Speaker 8: Thank you, thank you, Premier.
Speaker 2: Man beze Man bez will come to order. So that's
Speaker 2: the speaker trying to calm the crowd down. We'll yelling
Speaker 2: at each other.
Speaker 5: Hambo Castle mamber Vale, Castle Hill.
Speaker 2: You're on the first call for the day.
Speaker 14: I think it might be the first for your career.
Speaker 2: You'll come to order, and it goes on and it
Speaker 2: goes on.
Speaker 1: The Premier has been asked the question.
Speaker 6: He will be given the opportunity to answer it.
Speaker 3: In silence, mister Speaker, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, we'll leave it there. So I just wanted
Speaker 2: to demonstrate there was I timed it thirty eight seconds
Speaker 2: of the politicians carrying on light there in kindergarten. These
Speaker 2: are the men and women who are trying to decide
Speaker 2: with the workers compensation scheme which loses five million dollars
Speaker 2: every single day, is going to be changed. So small
Speaker 2: businesses meeting business, big business as well don't have their
Speaker 2: premium skyrocket, and of course those costs are going to
Speaker 2: be passed on to us. And then there is the
Speaker 2: issue of the workers who may be injured at working
Speaker 2: legitimately need some help. So it's a really important issue.
Speaker 2: It's now before the Upper House and that's the way
Speaker 2: our politicians carry on. There were dramas a little early
Speaker 2: this afternoon on the T three, the T three train lines,
Speaker 2: the T two train line as well throughout the southwest
Speaker 2: as Sydney. There was a drama, an incident at Cabramattat
Speaker 2: that has now cleared, so the trains and the T
Speaker 2: two and the T three are now operating. Okay. Straight
Speaker 2: to the Tasmanian Parliament. That's no confidence motion against the
Speaker 2: Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe has been successful. It was locked
Speaker 2: at seventeen all the speed has had the final vote
Speaker 2: and she has voted against the Liberal Party. So the
Speaker 2: Premier is speaking right now. And so what this will
Speaker 2: mean there'll be an election. There was last a Tasmania
Speaker 2: election not long ago. It was only March of last year,
Speaker 2: March of twenty twenty four. But given a no confidence
Speaker 2: this motion has passed against the premier, he basically has
Speaker 2: to go to the state's governor and say we've got
Speaker 2: to call an election. So they'll be an election, and
Speaker 2: it looks like that's going to be fought out over AFL.
Speaker 6: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 6: Now with Clinton.
Speaker 2: On to GB I've got tickets to give away to
Speaker 2: Taronga Zoo. Keep listening. I'm going to give a double
Speaker 2: pass away, a family double pass, a family pass away
Speaker 2: this hour. Do you drive along Henry Lawson Drive at
Speaker 2: Padstow Heights or specifically Alford's Point Road, River Road Reesby
Speaker 2: because I received this message from James. James says I
Speaker 2: wanted to bring up an issue regarding Henry Lawson Drive
Speaker 2: Padstow Heights. There are a number of large heavy vehicles
Speaker 2: trucks parked alongside the road where they're serviced and they're washed,
Speaker 2: looks like they've been abandoned. On top of that, seem
Speaker 2: to be dumping rubbish there. There are currently about four
Speaker 2: piles in that section. I've co tacked the local council.
Speaker 2: Nothing's being done. Well, I've been sent some of the
Speaker 2: photos and we're not talking bags of rubbish being dumped.
Speaker 2: Looking at the photos, lots of tires, old tires. There
Speaker 2: is a piano or maybe it's an organ that's been
Speaker 2: dumped and a lot of other rubbish one three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three. If you're from that area, have you
Speaker 2: seen the rubbish that's dumped along Henry Lawson Drive. Now
Speaker 2: we contacted the Canterbury Banks Down Council about this. They
Speaker 2: say Henry Lawson Drive is a state owned road and
Speaker 2: the responsibility falls on the RMS. Having said that if
Speaker 2: councilor is made aware of dump rubbish, steps are taken
Speaker 2: to ensure it's removed. Recently a Councilor report outline some
Speaker 2: of the measures being undertaken to prevent illegal dumping. Transport
Speaker 2: for New South Wales who's sort of response from them?
Speaker 2: They say dumping is a serious offense. Transport for New
Speaker 2: South Wales has identified where this is locating. We're working
Speaker 2: with the appropriate contractor to remove the offending material. If
Speaker 2: people witness a legal dumping. You can make a report. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's talk to James. James, tell me what happened? What
Speaker 2: did you see?
Speaker 4: Hi?
Speaker 15: Clinton, Thanks for having me on look. I contacted to
Speaker 15: raise you about this ongoing issue at Henry Lawson Drive
Speaker 15: at Padstow Heights, especially between that section of row that
Speaker 15: you're talking about. What started to be one or two
Speaker 15: trucks about four years ago has now become a makeshift
Speaker 15: truck debot with about thirty heavy vehicles and trailers regularly
Speaker 15: parked there. And I noticed them being washed and serviced
Speaker 15: on the road side, which is causing what I think
Speaker 15: would be possible serious environmental concerns. It's also a safety issue.
Speaker 8: It's on a.
Speaker 15: Blind corner, so when the trucks are pulling out of there,
Speaker 15: there's been a lot of near misses that I've witnessed
Speaker 15: and I'm sure other people have witnessed as well. This
Speaker 15: spot is on the Georgia's River catchment. It's right alongside
Speaker 15: Little Salt Penn Creek and the Georgias River National Park,
Speaker 15: and it supports a vital aquatic mangrove v system and
Speaker 15: they run off from these oils into two agency waste
Speaker 15: You know it threatens these areas which are critical for
Speaker 15: the quality of the water in our local wildlife. And
Speaker 15: to make it worse, it's just being used as a
Speaker 15: dumping ground. This has been happening for years. The locals
Speaker 15: are fully aware of it.
Speaker 2: So I guess you got two issues here, James. You
Speaker 2: have the fact that the trucks are parked there so
Speaker 2: using as you point out, as a depot. But it's
Speaker 2: the rubbish that's been left behind, which I'm assuming some
Speaker 2: of it's coming from these trucks.
Speaker 15: I'm not blaming these truck drivers. They've got to park
Speaker 15: their trucks somewhere, but I believe it's not the appropriate
Speaker 15: location to park them. But there's trades people and that
Speaker 15: are just been reversing their dump trucks. They're their little
Speaker 15: tippers and their trailers and then just chucking the stuff
Speaker 15: out and doing the run up.
Speaker 2: I wonder whether maybe it's and we're just speculating here,
Speaker 2: whether some people are dumping all this garbage. And as
Speaker 2: I mentioned that, we're not talking just bags of rubbish.
Speaker 2: There a piano and one of the photos have been
Speaker 2: sent because those trucks are parked there. Whether they think
Speaker 2: they can hide the rubbish effectively behind those trucks hundred percent.
Speaker 15: Yes, it seems to be more behind the trucks than
Speaker 15: out in the open. But there's a little park that
Speaker 15: no one uses unfortunately. It's a beautiful little spot where
Speaker 15: the ROMs does truck inspections and that's a regular dumping
Speaker 15: spot too.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for letting us know about that. I'm going
Speaker 2: to put you in the running for our Word on
Speaker 2: the Street. We want to actually get this rectified, obviously
Speaker 2: by the local Council of Transport for New South Wales.
Speaker 2: Good on you, James, Thank you. Yeah, if you see
Speaker 2: something around Sidney that we should know about, that's what
Speaker 2: Word on the Street is all about. Word on the
Speaker 2: Street for Temper, a great night's sleep, night after night.
Speaker 2: The difference is temper and James is going on the
Speaker 2: running to win our Temper cooling pillows tomorrow. So if
Speaker 2: you see something like this, let us know, but be
Speaker 2: intrigued to know whether you've actually passed this spot Henry
Speaker 2: Lawson Drive. Look, it's such a busy part of Sydney
Speaker 2: and Padstow where there's just this piano actually looks like
Speaker 2: it's been sitting there by the side of the road
Speaker 2: for about a year. I don't know how long it's
Speaker 2: been there for. So transport in New South Wales that
Speaker 2: they say we take this issue seriously dumping. If you
Speaker 2: witness a legal dumping, you can make a report through
Speaker 2: rid rid online line which is RID online, dot EPA,
Speaker 2: dot n SW, dot gov, dot AU. And the council
Speaker 2: is saying, look, it's a state owned road, so effectively
Speaker 2: it's the responsibility of Transport for New South Wales. But
Speaker 2: if you see similar things around Sydney, let me know
Speaker 2: about it. One three one eight seven three is our number.
Speaker 6: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 6: Now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To gb Taronga Zoo is running a special fundraising campaign today.
Speaker 2: It's called Taronga Giving Day. They are rising funds raising
Speaker 2: funds for the Wildlife Hospital at the zoo. They care
Speaker 2: for hundreds of injured and orphant animals every month. Often
Speaker 2: if you see and I know whyres has this relationship.
Speaker 2: If they see an injured animal by the side of
Speaker 2: the road, they take them to Wronga for help. But
Speaker 2: the zoo is trying to raise some money to the
Speaker 2: hospital hasn't had any renovations in decades. So they're trying
Speaker 2: to raise some money. If you want to give to Taronga,
Speaker 2: there's a website give dot Taronga dot org dot au
Speaker 2: and of course all donations over two dollors at tax
Speaker 2: to duct. Now, every contribution that's made today is quad
Speaker 2: rippled by the zoo's very kind partners. So it will
Speaker 2: help raise money to keep this hospital in operation and
Speaker 2: to upgrade the hospital. But in recognition of the fundraising
Speaker 2: campaign today, I've got a couple of double passes, a
Speaker 2: couple of family passes to give away. In fact, I'll
Speaker 2: give away one now, but I'm not gonna make it easy.
Speaker 2: You've got to guess what this particular animal is, okay,
Speaker 2: one three one eight seven three? What animal zoo? Animal
Speaker 2: is this? I was gonna say whale. But you don't
Speaker 2: find a way on Tarronga Zoo, do you. I'll have
Speaker 2: you in the harbor. Okay? What's that sound? One three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. And our winner will get a
Speaker 2: family pass to gother to Wrongazoo. I'll give you a
Speaker 2: chance to win a family pass to Wrong Park Zoo
Speaker 2: in just a moment. This is breaking news from the NRL.
Speaker 2: This is actually a really big deal. The NRL has
Speaker 2: announced they are moving to suspend two leading player agents.
Speaker 2: Now agents have been in the news recently about the
Speaker 2: amount of control they have in the game. The NRL
Speaker 2: has issued what they call show caused notices to two
Speaker 2: of the agents for alleged breaches of the accreditation scheme. Now.
Speaker 2: The agents are Mario Tartak and Matthew de Zeira. Now
Speaker 2: it's alleged that mister Tartak communicated with an underage player
Speaker 2: without a parent or illegal guardian being present. He's also
Speaker 2: alleged to it entered a commercial agreement with two NRL
Speaker 2: clubs in breach of the scheme's rules. It is proposed
Speaker 2: to be suspended for twelve months and be fined twenty
Speaker 2: five thousand dollars. Mister Dazeira is accused of non reporting
Speaker 2: and dishonesty. Following police charges and court proceedings, it's proposed
Speaker 2: a six month suspension and a ten thousand dollars fine.
Speaker 2: Now he represents the likes of Jaden Campbell from the Titans,
Speaker 2: Greg Marzu, Williamy, Kickout from the Bulldogs and even Benji Marshall,
Speaker 2: the West Tiger's coach. Mario Tartak, Damian Cook and this
Speaker 2: is interesting Dominic Young now where this is important. Dominic
Speaker 2: Young at the moment places the roosters. He has been
Speaker 2: linked to a move right now to Newcastle. So it'll
Speaker 2: be mister Tartak who is negotiating that move. Well, that
Speaker 2: could be in jeopardy because of this.
Speaker 6: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney
Speaker 6: now with Clinton Maynard until six.
Speaker 2: Okay, what's this animal? Well, Dave reckons, that sounds like
Speaker 2: one of the parliamentary backbenches in McCrory Street. No it's not,
Speaker 2: it's not. Oh Andrews says, that's Maria Sharaprova. I know
Speaker 2: that grunt from No, that's what Michael's doing on his program.
Speaker 2: We're not doing tennis grunters. We're doing animals at Taronga Zoo.
Speaker 2: Hello Shelley, Hello Shelley, how are you doing? My friend?
Speaker 2: Do you know what? Do you know what that animal is?
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a hysterical seal.
Speaker 2: Is an hysterical seal. It's the Yasmin Catley of the
Speaker 2: tah Yeah, of course you can on this show. We're
Speaker 2: going to send you out a family pass to go
Speaker 2: to Taronga. It is Taronga's Giving Day, the rise raising
Speaker 2: funds for the Wildlife Hospital, which helps kept hundreds of
Speaker 2: injured norphan animals every year. If you'd like to donate,
Speaker 2: give Taronga dot org dot au. Donations over two dollars
Speaker 2: a tax deductible. Every contribution today will be calld rippled
Speaker 2: by the zoo's partner. So congratulations, Shelley. You can take
Speaker 2: the family to Wronga Zoo. I do have another pass
Speaker 2: to give away and we'll give that away in the
Speaker 2: next hour of the program. One three, one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Just on illegal rubbish dumping. Do you come across it
Speaker 2: much in Sydney, lou.
Speaker 16: Ah, Yeah, we do this. There's quite a bit of it, Quentin.
Speaker 16: I'm a local there and I've been there for twenty
Speaker 16: five years and it's just gut wrenching seeing what's happening.
Speaker 2: So in padsdo henry laws and drive that's correct. Yeah,
Speaker 2: what have you seen there? What have you seen? Dumped?
Speaker 8: Many things?
Speaker 16: So I do recall that piano that was there and
Speaker 16: that's been picked up at the moment. Good at the moment,
Speaker 16: there's four lots of rubbish being dumped, four lots of piles.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, it's for the peace people that dump it.
Speaker 8: Lou.
Speaker 2: It's insulting to the rest of us because sure there
Speaker 2: is a cost with disposing of waste. You don't take
Speaker 2: it down to Lucas Heights, a wherever you're dump rubbish.
Speaker 2: But honestly it's insulting for the rest of us who
Speaker 2: then have to put up with it. It's quite frankly wrong.
Speaker 2: The Tasmanian Premier Jeremy Rockcliffe is still on his feet
Speaker 2: in the Tasmanian Parliament. He is now likely to get
Speaker 2: to an election and no confidence motion against him has
Speaker 2: been successful. And it's all about the AFL.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney now with Clinton on to GenB.
Speaker 2: It is a very busy US afternoon across Sydney this afternoon.
Speaker 2: The light rail network is still disrupted after Sadly, there
Speaker 2: was a fatality in Surrey Hills this afternoon in Devonshire Street,
Speaker 2: a man age believed in his forties has been struck
Speaker 2: by a tram. Police crime scene investigates they're on the scene,
Speaker 2: which means the trams cannot run through Surrey Hills at
Speaker 2: the moment. Now it is hope the trams will run
Speaker 2: a shuttle service shortly between Circular Key and Central, but
Speaker 2: the trams won't be operating from Central through to moor
Speaker 2: Park for quite some time. There is tram service between
Speaker 2: Moore Park and then Kingsford and Randwick, so it's quite
Speaker 2: limited there. At the moment this investigation will take several hours.
Speaker 2: The police are actually speaking about it right now in
Speaker 2: the city. It is hoped those trams can run through
Speaker 2: the CBD itself soon, but at the moment they've had
Speaker 2: to bring in some replacement buses. One three, one eight
Speaker 2: seven three is our number. If you see something around
Speaker 2: Sydney that we need to know about SEMIA, text message
Speaker 2: zero four six zero eight three eight seven three. It
Speaker 2: looks like Tasmania is off to an election. The Premier
Speaker 2: in Tasmania, Jeremy Rockcliff, who is a Liberal Premier, has
Speaker 2: failed to win support in Parliament to effectively remain in
Speaker 2: the job. There's been a no confidence motion against him.
Speaker 2: Now the vote was locked at seventeen all The Speaker
Speaker 2: then had a casting vote, and the Speaker is a
Speaker 2: member of the Labour Party and she has voted against
Speaker 2: the premier, so eighteen seventeen that means that an election
Speaker 2: is all but likely. Now Jeremy Rockcliffe has been quite
Speaker 2: emotionally parliament.
Speaker 17: In my personal opinion, this is a very sad day
Speaker 17: for Tasmania.
Speaker 2: It's a sad day as well because I put a
Speaker 2: lot on line, on a lot on the line for
Speaker 2: this parliament.
Speaker 17: It wasn't easy to get a thirty five seed parliament.
Speaker 17: And yes, not everything's gone to plan, namely.
Speaker 3: A parliament in the State of Australia where everything goes
Speaker 3: to plan.
Speaker 2: Now, what this is all about is financial issues the
Speaker 2: Tasmanian government is facing. They're spending on infrastructure, various infrastructure programs.
Speaker 2: What is critical here though, is the plan for a
Speaker 2: new stadium in Hoba, which is partially funded by the
Speaker 2: federal government. And this is where it is attracting a
Speaker 2: lot of attention because Tasmania will have a new AFL team. Well,
Speaker 2: I say will. The plan was for Tasmania to have
Speaker 2: the Devils in the AFL. If the stadium is not built,
Speaker 2: the AFL won't proceed with that new team won't happen.
Speaker 2: And they've already been hiring people for this team as
Speaker 2: there's a board, there's management of this team as well.
Speaker 2: So this election may will be fought out on whether
Speaker 2: Tasmanians have their own team in the Australian Football League
Speaker 2: until six.
Speaker 6: This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 6: call now.
Speaker 2: One three, one A seven three Dramas on the roads.
Speaker 2: At nine past four, Gary is on the Northern Beaches.
Speaker 2: What have you seen? Gary?
Speaker 18: Okay, just your listeners heading north on Pittwater Road on
Speaker 18: the corner of Tamena Street and Pittwater Road. Please have
Speaker 18: the Kelearway lane closed. This two car accident. A white
Speaker 18: van has punted a small blade vehicle into a telegraph
Speaker 18: pole and their total way. But I don't think there's
Speaker 18: anything too serious. But the traffic now starting to bank
Speaker 18: back because you've got three lanes merging into two. And
Speaker 18: this is Sydney in peak house, so you can imagine
Speaker 18: what's happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's Pittwater Road to Metas Street Mona Vale, correct, right,
Speaker 2: Thanks letting us know about that, garyt. Look, it looks
Speaker 2: like those including the driver who's been pun it into
Speaker 2: the powerpole, looks like they're going to be okay. But
Speaker 2: obviously at this time of the day that is causing dramas.
Speaker 2: Ten past four. It is all happening in mcquarie Street
Speaker 2: at the moment. Now coming up later this hour, David
Speaker 2: Elliott will be my guest, my straight shooter for a
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon, former Liberal politician, of course, a four minister
Speaker 2: in the last coalition government. And I'll ask David about
Speaker 2: his opinions on Alan Stockdale and the comments he made
Speaker 2: to the Women's Council in New South Wales. You've all
Speaker 2: heard about it now. We brought it to you yesterday.
Speaker 2: The suggestion and look he was joking, and he's today
Speaker 2: came out and said he was joking. But the suggestion
Speaker 2: where he said, oh look we might need some quotas
Speaker 2: for men in the Liberal Party completely, it's inappropriate, particularly
Speaker 2: given the state of the Liberals at the moment. It's
Speaker 2: not the sort of comment that was needed. Chris Min's
Speaker 2: has responded in Parliament, what do you reckon?
Speaker 8: Boys?
Speaker 2: Can we squeeze another bloke?
Speaker 4: You're over there?
Speaker 11: Look at them all, mister speaker.
Speaker 2: It's like a men's shed. It's like a men's shed
Speaker 2: up there, mister Premier, Premier. And that comes after Hasmen Cattley,
Speaker 2: the Police Minister, accused Mark Speakman of being sexist.
Speaker 11: Yesterday.
Speaker 10: The leader of the opposition got up after question time
Speaker 10: and called me hysterical, not once, but twice.
Speaker 11: Mister Speaker, if a man came in here.
Speaker 10: With a strong view about you deliberately bagging the cops
Speaker 10: and trying to confuse the public about who is responsible
Speaker 10: for cracking down on a list of tobacco.
Speaker 11: Would you have used that language, member for cough sterical. No,
Speaker 11: it's a sexist word used by.
Speaker 19: A sex man.
Speaker 2: Now, Mark Speaker's come out and said no, No, I
Speaker 2: didn't call Yasmin Catley hysterical. I said her comments were hysterical.
Speaker 2: So look, it's the last week of a city, last
Speaker 2: Davis sitting week. They're all going just a little bit crazy,
Speaker 2: I think in macquarrey Street today and the worker's compensation
Speaker 2: laws and amendments so currently before the Upper House. Now,
Speaker 2: yesterday around this time, we brought you the news that
Speaker 2: the AEC had confirmed that the recount in Bradfield had
Speaker 2: resolved in the tier independent Nicolette Bullet being elected. Now
Speaker 2: Gizelle Captirian was in front by eight votes after the
Speaker 2: initial count, but after the recount, Nicolett Buller has recorded
Speaker 2: a win by twenty six votes. But this saga is
Speaker 2: not over. I've been speaking with people within the Liberal
Speaker 2: Party today and they're examining what grounds they may well
Speaker 2: have to take this to the Court and disputed Returns. Now,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean even if the Liberal Party then makes
Speaker 2: a submissionor makes an application of the Court of Disputed Returns,
Speaker 2: they've got to do so within forty days. It doesn't
Speaker 2: mean the Court itself and it's effectively three High Court
Speaker 2: judges who form the court. It doesn't mean they themselves
Speaker 2: would hold a hearing of some sort, but they could.
Speaker 2: Now there's not a lot of precedent, which what's happening
Speaker 2: here very rare that a recount is then challenged legally.
Speaker 2: Graham Or is a University of Queensland Law School professor.
Speaker 2: He is an expert in this area and joins us. Professor,
Speaker 2: thank you for your time. You've been monitoring what's been
Speaker 2: happening in Field and it's one of those seats that
Speaker 2: is so close. We've now seen recounts in your view
Speaker 2: and how you've followed it. How do we get to
Speaker 2: this point of a recount resulting in a different result
Speaker 2: from the first outcome.
Speaker 4: The first outcome was what we are in law called
Speaker 4: the bees dick outcome. So then have a very thorough,
Speaker 4: fresh recount where the scrutinys will argue over different votes,
Speaker 4: and they're using the most experienced counters in the AEC.
Speaker 4: So there might still be some ballots that would be
Speaker 4: subject to disputation, but whether there's between fourteen and twenty
Speaker 4: seven to overturn the margin is one question.
Speaker 2: So AB's dick the legal terminology, Thank you, professor.
Speaker 4: Well, it's point oh two extent. But when you think
Speaker 4: about it, spent on many, many days doing a very
Speaker 4: thorough account, it's very unlikely that they would find enough
Speaker 4: contested ballots because the teals will have ballots that they
Speaker 4: would be wanting to contest, so the liberals will probably
Speaker 4: have to look for other grounds as well.
Speaker 2: So okay, so the grounds that the liberals will be
Speaker 2: looking for at the moment, what would they be examining.
Speaker 4: Right, So, in that long running recount, they would be
Speaker 4: taking notes and asking to have ballot sort of flagged
Speaker 4: where they disputed, whether it was formal or informal or
Speaker 4: you might think, well, how can this be? But there's
Speaker 4: a lot of older people or people who's handwriting is
Speaker 4: a bit shaky, people who might have signed the ballot,
Speaker 4: and there might be arguments about whether that identified them.
Speaker 4: The other type of ground that they might be trying
Speaker 4: to add to it, because if they can claim, like
Speaker 4: forteen votes are in the wrong pile, that they could
Speaker 4: claim the seat right, but that's very unlikely. But they
Speaker 4: may also be using the forty days to try and
Speaker 4: find other grounds, which could be things like, oh, there
Speaker 4: were some people enrolled who were improperly denied a vote,
Speaker 4: or there were a handful of people who weren't enrolled
Speaker 4: who were somehow voted. If they can cast enough doubt
Speaker 4: and show that we're likely the result would have been different,
Speaker 4: they might be able to get a fresh election as
Speaker 4: opposed to claiming the seat.
Speaker 2: So they would take just for instance, they do find,
Speaker 2: is the Liberal Party, for example, finding some grounds, they
Speaker 2: put that to the court. Does that then mean the
Speaker 2: court has an obligation themselves to conduct a hearing of
Speaker 2: some sort? Is that the way it works?
Speaker 4: Yes, So normally this would go to a single judge
Speaker 4: like of but because there's almost no law on this,
Speaker 4: it's all just fact based stuff, which would take several
Speaker 4: days in court, they'd refer it to the federal Court
Speaker 4: because the High court is not really a court, the
Speaker 4: whole trials and hearings, and then yes, the judge would
Speaker 4: have to summon up those ballots that may be being
Speaker 4: disputed and go through them one by one. The liberals
Speaker 4: would also have to try and find evidence in a
Speaker 4: reliable evidence, not just people saying, oh, you know, I
Speaker 4: didn't get a vote, people that were somehow denied aboute.
Speaker 8: And it won't just be the teal.
Speaker 4: Who would resist it. The AEC will be likely defending
Speaker 4: their own practices. So it's not so close that you
Speaker 4: could you'd say, look, it's it's a toss up coin.
Speaker 2: Would the judges themselves got to that point, would they
Speaker 2: be physically examining the ballot papers?
Speaker 4: They would, they would take some of them into custody.
Speaker 4: I think this happened in McEwan in two thousand Victoria,
Speaker 4: but it's very rare. As you said, I think the
Speaker 4: last time I can remember where you know, there was
Speaker 4: a very close margin of like twelve votes out of
Speaker 4: thirty thousand in Queensland nine ninety five, and some ballots
Speaker 4: didn't reach the defense horse in time, no salt of
Speaker 4: the Electric Commission. That result was overturned of the fresh
Speaker 4: election and actually change the government of the gost government laws.
Speaker 4: But that's the last time I can think we're a
Speaker 4: very close vote was overturned and sent to a new ballot.
Speaker 2: And so the court could the Court itself declare a winner.
Speaker 2: For instance, they could they overturn the decision of effectively
Speaker 2: the AEC is what the ac has come to. Or
Speaker 2: would they just by process call a new election and
Speaker 2: by election.
Speaker 4: If, and I think it's are unlikely there were enough
Speaker 4: votes that the court ruled should have been in the
Speaker 4: liberals pile and not in an informalre of the Teal pile,
Speaker 4: then they could award the seat to the Liberals.
Speaker 8: That would be very very rare.
Speaker 4: More likely they would probably find it weren't enough votes
Speaker 4: and they would reaffirm the Teal. But if there are
Speaker 4: other grounds, including as I said, you know, people who
Speaker 4: shouldn't have voted, people who couldn't vote because of some
Speaker 4: ara of the AEC, and they might be able to
Speaker 4: get it into the fresh election territory. The last time
Speaker 4: we had a quarters to the returns case was actually
Speaker 4: a Liberal seat down in Victoria in twenty nineteen, but
Speaker 4: that was they had misleading Chinese how to vote material,
Speaker 4: but the margin was five hundred there so even though
Speaker 4: the Liberals had broken the law, the margin was just
Speaker 4: too big to overturn.
Speaker 2: It's a much bigger margin. Yeah, So in your view,
Speaker 2: how you've watched this, how do you think the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks going to transpire.
Speaker 4: I suppose it'll be on the radio. But if they
Speaker 4: do go to court, there's two issues. I mean, the
Speaker 4: issue is that, you know, we've got a good case,
Speaker 4: and there's also this issue where we want to risk
Speaker 4: the money if they end up. If they lose, the
Speaker 4: Liberals would have to pay the costs of the AAC
Speaker 4: and the Teal. Even if the Liberals get Barrasses to
Speaker 4: do it at rates for themselves, it still could be
Speaker 4: a several day hearing. On the other hand, they might
Speaker 4: want to, you know, at least keep us some kind
Speaker 4: of cloud over the Teal, just because they hate losing
Speaker 4: seats like this, and once the Teal's getting trenched, it's
Speaker 4: very hard to win back. But that's something for the
Speaker 4: Liberal Party and their lawyers to discuss. But we all
Speaker 4: know that North through or Sydney is the center of Australia,
Speaker 4: so I'm sure we'll be talking about this.
Speaker 2: If there's a case, certainly we'll be thank you for
Speaker 2: your expertise anytime. Professor Grahmore Law, he's from the University
Speaker 2: of Queensland. He's an expert in electoral law. I've spoken
Speaker 2: to people within the Liberal Party the moment they up
Speaker 2: obviously because it's such a type margin twenty six they're
Speaker 2: looking at this very closely. They're not making any commitment
Speaker 2: at the moment. They will have about forty days once
Speaker 2: the ritz are finalized. They have forty days from that
Speaker 2: point they will be looking at whether there are grounds
Speaker 2: that potentially there is a group of voters who weren't
Speaker 2: given the opportunity to vote. For instance, So if you
Speaker 2: and I had to look at a seat back in Queensland,
Speaker 2: was the seat of Herbert in twenty sixteen and it
Speaker 2: was won by Kathy O'Toole who was the Labour candidate,
Speaker 2: and then there was a recount and then she still won.
Speaker 2: But there was and this was Malcolm Turnbull was the
Speaker 2: leader of the Liberal Party, and there was a claim
Speaker 2: that soldiers at a local barracks in Toowoomba weren't given
Speaker 2: the opportunity to vote because they were on an exercise
Speaker 2: in Australia and then they didn't vote. Now, the Liberal
Speaker 2: Party looked closely at that. But even despite that claim,
Speaker 2: it didn't get all the way to the Court of
Speaker 2: Disputed Returns, so those three High Court judges. So it's
Speaker 2: while it's happened at a few times at a state level,
Speaker 2: it's basically unprecedented at a federal level. There was a
Speaker 2: case in two thousand and seven in Victoria, McEwan where
Speaker 2: on first count Labour's Rob Mitchell won from fran Bailey.
Speaker 2: You remember hers, she was a tourism minister in Liberal Party.
Speaker 2: He won by seven votes. There was then a recount
Speaker 2: and Bailey won by twelve votes. So Mitchell then challenged it.
Speaker 2: Labour challenged it and it was considered by the High
Speaker 2: Court justices, the three judges, but it didn't actually get
Speaker 2: to the point of a hearing as such. So there's
Speaker 2: still a fair bit of water to go under the bridge,
Speaker 2: but it will take a lot for the Liberals to
Speaker 2: get this result overturned. It's twenty past four, twenty four
Speaker 2: past four. This news just to hand. Some limited light
Speaker 2: rail services are now running between Circular Key and more Park.
Speaker 2: Now it's very slow, it's not moving quickly, but very
Speaker 2: limited services are now running, so if you are planning
Speaker 2: to use a lot rail you're going to have to
Speaker 2: give yourself a lot of extra time. But they were
Speaker 2: completely cut because of the fatality that's occurred devon Shear
Speaker 2: Street in Surrey Hills this afternoon. A man aged in
Speaker 2: his forties has been killed. A little more detail has
Speaker 2: now come from Inspector Andrew Lessing from New South Wales Police.
Speaker 20: At this stage he was waiting on the platform and
Speaker 20: then stepped off to try and cross the tram line
Speaker 20: between the carriages. But obviously that had formed part of
Speaker 20: our report to the coroner, witness statements and further CCTV
Speaker 20: canvas and it appears to be a set of tragic circumstances.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was on the platform moving off, so
Speaker 2: that investigation will continue. In Parliament House, the upper House
Speaker 2: is currently debating the State government's workers' compensation legislation. The
Speaker 2: government is desperate to have this legislation passed by the
Speaker 2: end of the night. Today is the last sitting day
Speaker 2: of the week. They want to pass now so the
Speaker 2: changes can be included in the budget, and they say
Speaker 2: by making these changes it will prevent significant premium increases
Speaker 2: kicking in from July one. There are arguments now being
Speaker 2: made in the Chamber against what is occurring and what
Speaker 2: the government wants to do, including from the Greens MP.
Speaker 2: Abigail Boyd has been quite emotional.
Speaker 21: Labor members often talk about change from within, but how
Speaker 21: far do you have to change yourselves from within, to
Speaker 21: change your own principles in order to contort yourselves into
Speaker 21: a person here today who is capable of sitting quiet
Speaker 21: while something this unconscionable, something that would cost actual lives
Speaker 21: in a more immediate way than anything else you've been
Speaker 21: asked to support happens in your name. You may not
Speaker 21: like me particularly right now, or my party. You may
Speaker 21: not like the coalition most of the time, I don't.
Speaker 21: You may not even like your own party right now.
Speaker 2: But you need to like yourselves, Abigail boy they're appealing
Speaker 2: to Greens back benches in the Upper House to vote
Speaker 2: against their own legislation, which that's not going to happen,
Speaker 2: and she's claiming that lives will be lost if this
Speaker 2: legislation is passed. There's a fine balance there because there
Speaker 2: are clearly many people also routing the system, and that's
Speaker 2: what the government is trying to now prevent one three
Speaker 2: one eight seventy three, so legally the New South Wales
Speaker 2: Liberal Party is considering what grounds they may have to
Speaker 2: challenge the result in Bradfield that has seen Nicolette Bull
Speaker 2: the Tea Or claim the seat by twenty six votes.
Speaker 2: Hello Ryl Hi, do you live in the area.
Speaker 22: I live in the area of Bradfield, Yes, I do.
Speaker 2: What do you think should happen?
Speaker 22: There should be a by election or whatever you want
Speaker 22: to call it. It's too close and with the preferential
Speaker 22: voting system that you have here. I mean I was
Speaker 22: born overseas, I'm Australian, but there are people who manipulate
Speaker 22: know how to manipulate the preferential voting and this margin
Speaker 22: is so close that I don't think anyone's going to
Speaker 22: be comfortable with either of them.
Speaker 2: And I think the big difference is between previous close
Speaker 2: votes is the fact that it has changed what happened
Speaker 2: to Kewan many years ago in Victoria. The fact that
Speaker 2: the Liberal initially was the leader and now it's it's
Speaker 2: gone to the Teal. That's different from usually when there's
Speaker 2: these bit close votes. There's still the same outcome, but
Speaker 2: this is significantly different. I think there'll be quite a
Speaker 2: lot of people in Bradford who want a revote. I
Speaker 2: doubt that's going to happen, but time will tell. It's
Speaker 2: Clinton Maine with you this afternoon, but dealing with a
Speaker 2: lot of hard news on the program so far. But
Speaker 2: this has just been sent to me via email today.
Speaker 2: I'm on the mailing list for Domino's pizzas they don't
Speaker 2: have any commercial arrangements at the radio station. And it's
Speaker 2: their new meat pie crust pizza. Believe they're selling it
Speaker 2: from this week and it's it's a pizza and instead
Speaker 2: of the normal base, the edge of the base, so
Speaker 2: the crust of the pizza features four and twenty beef
Speaker 2: mini pies one, two, three, four, five, six, The seven
Speaker 2: pies around in a circular in a circle at the
Speaker 2: edge of the pizza. So just think about that. You're
Speaker 2: having your Hawaiian pizza, you're having your ham and pineapple pizza,
Speaker 2: and you're about to bite into the crust. But instead
Speaker 2: of just biding into usual pizza dough, you're biting into
Speaker 2: a meat pie and it's actually got dollops of sauce
Speaker 2: on each one of the little party pies before you
Speaker 2: get to the meat. The actual pizza bit a curious flavor.
Speaker 2: The mixing the pineapple with the meat pie flavor very strange.
Speaker 2: Now we have been absolutely treated here at TWOGB today.
Speaker 2: Our boss Burnsy actually he moonlights making donuts. And I
Speaker 2: know there's one of the big donut retailers who's going
Speaker 2: to have some special donut promotion tomorrow. Forget them. Burnsy
Speaker 2: is the king of donuts. I know there's that outlet
Speaker 2: called Donut King. Well, Burnsy, I think he's going to
Speaker 2: open his own donut King on the side of working
Speaker 2: here at TWOGB running the show. He has made the
Speaker 2: most delicious cinnamon donuts today. He's done three running. He
Speaker 2: brought it seriously. He brought in the deep fryer. We've
Speaker 2: got a little balcon here at two GB that's usually locked.
Speaker 2: People don't go out there. Burns. He found the key,
Speaker 2: set up the deep fly And how how many donuts
Speaker 2: has he produced today? Probably about three hundred. I reckon
Speaker 2: the one nine eighty five. He would have heard about
Speaker 2: that on Levey as well as his baconing worl. Absolutely sensational. Burnsey,
Speaker 2: well done, We are you one let's check out his
Speaker 2: headlines and we all latest Josh Bright.
Speaker 12: Good afternoon, Clinton, Tasmania's premier will request the state's second
Speaker 12: election in fifteen months. A no confidence motion forcing him
Speaker 12: out of the state's top job has passed State Parliament.
Speaker 12: Police in Sydney say they're speaking to witnesses and reviewing
Speaker 12: security footage as they investigate how a man came to
Speaker 12: be fatally struck by a light rail carriage in Surrey Hills.
Speaker 12: The Coalition has formally decided to oppose the Federal government's
Speaker 12: super tax changes in parliament, and drivers are being reminded
Speaker 12: double demerits will be inforced from midnight to night ahead
Speaker 12: of the King's Birthday long weekend in Sport. The Giants
Speaker 12: and being back Breton Daniels for Saturday nights AFL clash
Speaker 12: with Port Adelaide. The small forward missed the past eight
Speaker 12: games with an abdominal injury. We'll have more news and
Speaker 12: sported five.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Fifteen degrees on the coast at the
Speaker 2: moment at Holsworthy, it's sixteen degrees. Josh just mentioned. Double
Speaker 2: demerits reinforced from midnight tonight, running across the King's Birthday
Speaker 2: Long weekend. No, it's not the Queen's Birthday Long week anymore,
Speaker 2: the King's Birthday Long weekend. I'll be speaking with the
Speaker 2: head of the Highway Patrol a little after five o'clock,
Speaker 2: David Elliott, with straight Shooters coming up as well. Trams
Speaker 2: are now running again in the city, limited service. They
Speaker 2: are delayed, so ife you usually use the light rail,
Speaker 2: the T two or the T three line to Kingsford
Speaker 2: and Randwick. I'd suggest still giving it a miss. Sadly,
Speaker 2: a man in his forties has been killed today. There
Speaker 2: was an accident devon Shears Street, Surrey Hills a little earlier.
Speaker 2: But they do have light rail operating once again. It
Speaker 2: is very slow and at the moment it is a
Speaker 2: limited service. The toy retailer Toys Are Russ has gone
Speaker 2: bust once again. Now Toys are US and they owned
Speaker 2: They had a lot of stores around the country and
Speaker 2: it was an adaptation of the American brand. They closed
Speaker 2: down I would have been maybe five, six, seven, eight
Speaker 2: years ago. Now they couldn't compete with Big w and
Speaker 2: some of the other discount retailers, but they were revived
Speaker 2: and there've been an online retailer well. It looks like
Speaker 2: they've gone bust once again. Their shares have been suspended
Speaker 2: today from the Australian Stock Market. They've handed themselves over
Speaker 2: to administrators. And this is the second time buyers are
Speaker 2: being sought out for the collapsed business. So it was
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen administrators were last appointed and that's when they
Speaker 2: did have stores across the country. You'd remember them. They
Speaker 2: were in most of the big shopping centers and I
Speaker 2: actually think it's such a loss not having a big
Speaker 2: toy chain like Toys r US anymore. Australia Posters today
Speaker 2: announced that it's equipping its posters with citronella spray. Now,
Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon we spoke a lot on the program about
Speaker 2: dogs off leash, off their leads and the troubles they
Speaker 2: can cause, and some local councils have made submissions to
Speaker 2: the state government and the state governments reviewing the Companion
Speaker 2: Animals Act. At the moment, they've made submissions to increase
Speaker 2: penalties for owners, in particular doing the wrong thing. Well, incidentally,
Speaker 2: Australia Posts says they're going to need to equip posties
Speaker 2: with citronella spray. Why because of the big increase in
Speaker 2: the number of dog related incidents. In six months, forty
Speaker 2: four posties a week fall victim to a threatening dog,
Speaker 2: So it's nine per day. Australia's Post says, despite repeated
Speaker 2: appeals from dog owners to secure dogs during deliveries, data
Speaker 2: reveals more than one and fifty dog related incidents occurring
Speaker 2: in just six months. It highlights the growing concern for
Speaker 2: the physical and psychological well being of posties. Australia Post
Speaker 2: says the spray won't be harmful. It will only be
Speaker 2: used as a last line of defense to protect team
Speaker 2: members from imminent attack. Wow, okay, so the posts they
Speaker 2: will now have citronella spray to fight the attacking.
Speaker 1: Dogs on Sidney. Now you trance handle the truth the
Speaker 1: streets into.
Speaker 2: Our straight shotor on a Thursday afternoon. Is the former
Speaker 2: Minister in New South Wales and the coalition government, David Elliott,
Speaker 2: longtime Liberal Party member, So he can give us an
Speaker 2: insight and exactly what's going on in the Liberal Party
Speaker 2: at the moment. Hello David, Hello Clinton, Alan Stockdale.
Speaker 23: Well, if I had to write an episode of Yes
Speaker 23: Minister dedicated to how you'd send the political party into
Speaker 23: implosion mode, I'd probably include two entitled geriatrics from another state,
Speaker 23: and that's exactly what we've got at the moment. And
Speaker 23: Allen has actually done something that many in the Liberal
Speaker 23: Party have been trying to do for decades and he's
Speaker 23: united everybody, but they've all been united to oppose his
Speaker 23: role in the restructure of the party.
Speaker 2: So it's been very well reported now in the past
Speaker 2: twenty four hours. We brought you the news yesterday about
Speaker 2: the comments that he made in early a teleconference to
Speaker 2: a women's council meeting. Completely can't read the room clearly
Speaker 2: on Stockdale, but just for a bit of background because
Speaker 2: some people aren't quite aware of going on here, Alan
Speaker 2: Stockdale and Richard Austen former how a government minister had
Speaker 2: along with Peter Seaton, had been appointed to try and
Speaker 2: sort out the Liberal Party rewrite the constitution. He's from Victoria,
Speaker 2: He's not from New South Wales.
Speaker 19: That's right.
Speaker 23: There was and there was probably a good reason for
Speaker 23: Peter Dutton step in, particularly after the Devaca with the
Speaker 23: local government campaign, and there was a you know, and
Speaker 23: it was the party does have some issues when it
Speaker 23: comes to fastionalism. But I must say when we're looking
Speaker 23: at the demographic that we have to now appeal to
Speaker 23: and looking at the demographic that is represented in that
Speaker 23: three person committee, you have to ask yourself if we're singing.
Speaker 19: From the right song sheet.
Speaker 2: And I think.
Speaker 23: If I was, if I was out in Stockdale, i'd
Speaker 23: resigned today. And I think that there should be people
Speaker 23: in the Liberal Party calling for him to resign because
Speaker 23: he's put us, He's put.
Speaker 19: The party reputation in disrepute. Yes, it was a jake.
Speaker 23: We've all made stupid Jack's goodnessign that I'm king of
Speaker 23: stupid Jackson. But you know, when you're when you've got
Speaker 23: this issue with being so sensitive, and you've got that's
Speaker 23: the issue of demographics and of representation, and you've got
Speaker 23: a person that doesn't really understand politics in this city,
Speaker 23: let alone this state. I think it's proof positive that
Speaker 23: that that the reform that he's going to be trying
Speaker 23: to bring in will be probably just knocked on.
Speaker 19: The head out of spite.
Speaker 2: So his term was to end, I think at the
Speaker 2: end of this, and they're seeking extension because they actually
Speaker 2: haven't finished rewriting the constitution.
Speaker 23: Yeah, well, I mean nobody has seen a draft version
Speaker 23: of that. I hoping that Mark Speatman and Susan Lee
Speaker 23: have seen a draft. But nobody's saying that we didn't
Speaker 23: need to have federal intervention. We certainly did need to
Speaker 23: have federal intervention. But I think we got it wrong
Speaker 23: when we when we picked when we picked it a
Speaker 23: couple of our blokes from Victoria. I mean, I can't
Speaker 23: imagine going down to Victoria or South Australia and giving
Speaker 23: them instruction about how to do politics.
Speaker 2: Just couldn't imagine it. And this is all the same
Speaker 2: day it was revealed in the web, but it was
Speaker 2: revealed yesterday and the same day that the AEC declares
Speaker 2: that the Liberals have lost another Blue ribbon seat.
Speaker 23: That's exactly right, I mean, And this is an issue.
Speaker 23: While we're talking about quotas, which I don't agree with,
Speaker 23: but we're talking about diversity and while we're talking about
Speaker 23: who is our new constituency, Well, yesterday was proof positive
Speaker 23: our new constituency are working people from the outer suburbs.
Speaker 19: That's all we've got.
Speaker 23: We've got Lindsay, we've got Barrara, we've got Mitchell and
Speaker 23: we've got Cook.
Speaker 19: That's it.
Speaker 23: So if you're wanting to find out in this town,
Speaker 23: particularly who our demographic is it is lowell, middle class
Speaker 23: tradees and families that live in those out of perimeter areas,
Speaker 23: and now we've got to build on that. We can't
Speaker 23: lose them. And that's exactly what we're doing now.
Speaker 2: A lot of people because they tell me in that
Speaker 2: demographic bi legal cigarettes and they've been telling me now
Speaker 2: for the last year. The reeks, I've been banging on
Speaker 2: about this for a long time now, but have been
Speaker 2: telling me about this for the last year. There's simple
Speaker 2: reason they do, their law abiding citizens usually, but the
Speaker 2: reason they're doing is because the price differential is so bad.
Speaker 2: I took my hat off to Chris Mins this week
Speaker 2: for becoming really the first politician to actually argue against
Speaker 2: the excise or that the level of it.
Speaker 23: Well, and all power to Chris, and I think I'm
Speaker 23: seeing him next week and I'm going to give him
Speaker 23: a wrap for this because ten years ago, when I
Speaker 23: was first made Minister and the Justice portfolio, as the
Speaker 23: tobacco industry came and spoke to me and they said, listen,
Speaker 23: this chop chop is bad news. It is going to
Speaker 23: forfeit the taxpayer. It's a rightful excise. Okay, that's a
Speaker 23: good consideration, but it's going to be used to do
Speaker 23: everything from funding counter terrorism organizations to money laundering everything
Speaker 23: that the tobacco industry. And you can say what you
Speaker 23: like about them, but they did their work on this
Speaker 23: particular brief. Everything that they told me was going to
Speaker 23: occur has now occurred in the last couple of years,
Speaker 23: and I think that Mens is in the right space
Speaker 23: to push the envelope on this is dead. This is
Speaker 23: prohibition all over again. And the criminals, like they did
Speaker 23: in the nineteen thirties in the United States and now
Speaker 23: using tobacco, particularly the cost and the illability for people
Speaker 23: to afford tobacco. They're using that as low hanging fruit
Speaker 23: when it comes to funding their operations. And I think
Speaker 23: it just goes to show how disengaged Canberra is for
Speaker 23: their just immediately dismissing Chris on this. And I also
Speaker 23: think that it should be bipartisan. I'd like to see
Speaker 23: the opposition jumping up and down about this as well
Speaker 23: the new stuff I was opposition. I think I think
Speaker 23: Mark Speakman should be getting on this issue and making
Speaker 23: sure that the Premier has as the maximum amount of
Speaker 23: politically air cover that it can get.
Speaker 2: Jim Charmer's shot it down pretty quickly, though. Does it
Speaker 2: help in practice because you were in power when there
Speaker 2: was a liberal government, a coalition government power in Canberra?
Speaker 2: Does it help when there's a labor government? Canbra a
Speaker 2: labor government in New South Wales to negotiate on these
Speaker 2: sort of things?
Speaker 23: You know what, I never really found it. I had
Speaker 23: just as good a relationship with Catherine King when I
Speaker 23: was Transport Minister as I did with the federal Liberal transportman.
Speaker 23: This is that's the beauty about Australian politics. We actually
Speaker 23: have personal relationships on both sides and it's important that
Speaker 23: there's a bit of a level of trust there. Charterers
Speaker 23: I thought was quite bizarre him just basically immediately dismissing it,
Speaker 23: because clearly when the Treasurer is dismissing something, it means
Speaker 23: that he's worried about the bottom line. Well, I was
Speaker 23: coming down though, that's exactly right, and this is this
Speaker 23: is what I could. I don't think he understood exactly
Speaker 23: what the Premier was trying to highlight the fact that
Speaker 23: there we are forfeiting exercise by the illegal tobacco. You're also,
Speaker 23: by the way, Treasurer are potentially aiding money laundering and
Speaker 23: criminal activity. So if your argument is, oh, well I
Speaker 23: can't afford it, well you can't afford not to this new.
Speaker 2: South Well's health that has the job of And I
Speaker 2: spoke to an inspector at length off air this week
Speaker 2: and he went to chapter in verse how it all works,
Speaker 2: and look, he does his best, but he conceides it's
Speaker 2: just simply not enough of them. Christ miss is indicated
Speaker 2: that might need to move responsibility to the police. When
Speaker 2: you were a police minister, had police express concerns about
Speaker 2: the growing market?
Speaker 4: No, not.
Speaker 23: The irony is that I had my eye on this
Speaker 23: issue as the counter Terrorism Minister, not necessarily as the
Speaker 23: police minister, and for those reasons because it was very
Speaker 23: much a health in the health jurisdiction. But I think
Speaker 23: when you're looking at the element the type of people
Speaker 23: that are benefiting and profiting from a legal tobacco, then
Speaker 23: it does become a police matter because not only is
Speaker 23: it important for the police, who there's fourteen fifteen thousand
Speaker 23: of them out there, so they certainly have the ability
Speaker 23: to run an operation, an ongoing operation, or to maintain compliance,
Speaker 23: but also they know what to look out for when
Speaker 23: it comes to a legal activity, and people that have
Speaker 23: got unexplained wealth, they know what to look out for.
Speaker 23: A Department of Health inspector is not going to then
Speaker 23: have suspicion that the bloke that's selling illegal cigarettes also
Speaker 23: has a maserati and his wife's full of plastic. She's
Speaker 23: had public she's had plastic surgery in three times last week.
Speaker 23: And the kids are all driving, you know, sports cars.
Speaker 23: It's that's that's not something that a health inspector would
Speaker 23: be trying to look at.
Speaker 2: Police can police can do that. King's birthday, not the
Speaker 2: Queen's birthday. The King's birthday long weekend this weekend. Have
Speaker 2: you met the King?
Speaker 20: I have?
Speaker 19: I have, and in fact it's also my birthday. Thanks
Speaker 19: for thanks for mentioning that. You can get the point
Speaker 19: always probably the reason.
Speaker 23: Why from a very young age I was a staunch
Speaker 23: monarchist because I was scared they were going.
Speaker 19: To take away my birthday holiday.
Speaker 23: Yeah, tomorrow's column I'm dedicating to the royal family, nine
Speaker 23: of them who I've met, and I'm talking about my
Speaker 23: personal experiences. Which one do you think i'd want next
Speaker 23: to me in a pub brawl? In a brawl in
Speaker 23: a pub brawl, not just not a rugby pub brawl.
Speaker 2: How does Prince Andrew go?
Speaker 23: No, he doesn't get him. I've never met him, and
Speaker 23: now I'm glad. You know, I got enough scheme in
Speaker 23: my life to worry about something.
Speaker 2: Case. Well, look, he's a he's married into the royal family.
Speaker 2: I'll go Mike Tindall, the former rugby player.
Speaker 23: The only one that's married in that's mentioned that I've met,
Speaker 23: and I'm going to be honest with you. I'm going
Speaker 23: to be brutal with her. Is Meghan Markle?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 19: Yeah, well I hosted the Invictors Games, of course, and
Speaker 19: so I had a fee bit to do with it.
Speaker 2: Harry's baby.
Speaker 23: Yeah yes, indeed. So in the three different jobs I've
Speaker 23: had as a member of Palmer's, an army officer and
Speaker 23: with my involvement with Sint John Ambulance, I've met nine
Speaker 23: of them in that capacity. One of them gets two
Speaker 23: mentions because this person I think changed after a certain
Speaker 23: event happened in their life.
Speaker 2: Who's that? So who would you want next to in
Speaker 2: a pub braw? So, okay, it's not Andrew. Although I
Speaker 2: did see some vision of Megan Markle dancing around while
Speaker 2: she was pregnant today. That's been released as Harry for
Speaker 2: it now.
Speaker 19: Harry, I think really can because he was a soldier.
Speaker 19: But no, he's not the one that i'd want next
Speaker 19: to me in a pub braw.
Speaker 2: We'll have to read tomorrow.
Speaker 19: I have to read tomorrow and I'd be very keen
Speaker 19: to get your feedback.
Speaker 2: David Elliott in the Telegraph. Thank you, thank you, David Elliott.
Speaker 1: You're listening to.
Speaker 6: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB cool now
Speaker 6: one three one eight.
Speaker 2: Seven three, nine to five. This has just happened in
Speaker 2: mcquarry Street. The state government has failed in its attempt
Speaker 2: to get workers' compensational legislation through the upper House. The
Speaker 2: opposition has been successful in combining with the Greens. What
Speaker 2: this means is there will be an inquiry. Apparently it's
Speaker 2: a short inquiry, but there will be an inquiry, so
Speaker 2: the whole process will be delayed. We'll get a response
Speaker 2: from Mark Speakman after the five o'clock news. What's that? No,
Speaker 2: it's not a politician, Okay, it's an animal you'll find
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Speaker 2: What's that sound?
Speaker 16: It sounds like a devil?
Speaker 2: No, it's not a tazzy devil. Very appropriate, given it
Speaker 2: looks like the Tasmanian devils. May not make the AFL
Speaker 2: after all. Michelle's in Miranda, Hello, Michelle, Hi, what's this sound?
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 24: I think it's a mountain goat? A mountain goat.
Speaker 2: I don't think they have any mountain goats at Tronkazoo.
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Speaker 15: Quinton, how are you?
Speaker 2: What's this mate?
Speaker 4: What?
Speaker 8: No thing?
Speaker 15: It sounds like a I think it sounds like a giraffe.
Speaker 2: One hundred percent correct, Well done, my friend, you are
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Speaker 2: How'd you pick that?
Speaker 8: I've been of the doo a couple of times.
Speaker 18: Not for a while though, But yeah, I just sort.
Speaker 15: Of remember when they are eating some carrot punti and
Speaker 15: I'm making a few noises, so I think that was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, poor Giraff sounds like he's in a great deal
Speaker 2: of pain there. Given his zoo, he won't be in
Speaker 2: pain because they're very well cared for. Well done, mate,
Speaker 2: We're sending you out a family past. Today is tarrong
Speaker 2: get Giving Day as well to wronga Giving Day is
Speaker 2: raising funds for the Tronga Wildlife Hospital. You can donate
Speaker 2: at give dot Taronga dot org dot au. All donations
Speaker 2: over two doors at tax deductible. Every contribution made today
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Speaker 1: This this Sydney.
Speaker 2: Now we've clinton on TGB. It is seven past five.
Speaker 2: The light rail network, the T to the T three
Speaker 2: between the city and the eastern suburbs Kingsford and Randwich
Speaker 2: is operating once again. It is slow. There are some delays. Sadly,
Speaker 2: there was a fatality. A man is being killed after
Speaker 2: being struck by one of the light rail carriages a
Speaker 2: little early this afternoon Devin Shear Street in Surrey Hills.
Speaker 2: Now police are still trying to figure out exactly what's occurred.
Speaker 2: This is Inspector Anderson listing at.
Speaker 20: This stage he was waiting on the platform and then
Speaker 20: stepped off to try and cross the tram line between
Speaker 20: the carriages. But obviously that had formed part of our
Speaker 20: report to the coroner, witness statements and further CCTV canvas
Speaker 20: and no, it appears to be a set of tragic circumstances.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was on the platform moving off. So
Speaker 2: the emergency services have been in a way to clear
Speaker 2: out a path so the trams can actually get through,
Speaker 2: but it is slow going at the moment.
Speaker 6: You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tune
Speaker 6: to Sitney Now with Clinton laynar Onto GMB.
Speaker 2: The biggest issue this week in state politics, no doubt,
Speaker 2: is the future of the workers compensation scheme. And I
Speaker 2: know some of the detail this can be dry, but
Speaker 2: it's important because the changes the state government has wanted
Speaker 2: to mate are crucial for when it comes to premiums
Speaker 2: paid by business and if premiums go up by the
Speaker 2: amount the government forecasts, and they're predicting that if changes
Speaker 2: aren't made to work its compensation, the premiums will increase
Speaker 2: by more than thirty percent over three years. We're the
Speaker 2: ones who are going to pay more. The scheme is
Speaker 2: losing five million dollars a day now these changes, and
Speaker 2: it's quite a complex issue, but they concern workers who
Speaker 2: make claims for psychological injury and then on this scheme
Speaker 2: in the long term. The government has had legislation before
Speaker 2: Parliament today this afternoon. It has been knocked over effectively.
Speaker 2: What's going to happen is there's going to be an inquiry,
Speaker 2: which means the scheme is effectively up in the air somewhat.
Speaker 2: The changes the government wants to make cannot be made
Speaker 2: in time for the new financial year, in time for
Speaker 2: the budget. It's going to be handed down in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks time, and the government has said that
Speaker 2: is going to force premiums up in July for businesses
Speaker 2: and those be passed on to us the customer. Mark
Speaker 2: Speakman is the opposition lead. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 25: Mark.
Speaker 2: Thanks Lyinton, you've teamed up with the Greens to knock
Speaker 2: this over. Does that?
Speaker 8: See?
Speaker 2: Well with you?
Speaker 17: I wouldn't put it that way. Clinton. Then, just to
Speaker 17: correct something you set in you introductory remarks, premiums won't
Speaker 17: go up in July. The premiums have already been set
Speaker 17: for the next financial year, and the premiums for twenty
Speaker 17: six twenty seven won't be set until March.
Speaker 2: Daniel Bookie says that there was the risk that they
Speaker 2: would go up in July by more than the eight percent.
Speaker 17: Well, that's news to us to quite frankly, the premiums
Speaker 17: have already been set. We want reform, and we want
Speaker 17: reform that will drive down premiums of small business and
Speaker 17: all business actually, but we also want reform that is fair.
Speaker 17: And what the government has done at the heel of
Speaker 17: the hunt. They've given us a piece of legislation out
Speaker 17: of the blue a week ago that will stop long
Speaker 17: term benefits for the most seriously psychologically injured. They want
Speaker 17: to increase what's known as the whole person in thresh
Speaker 17: impairment threshold from twenty percent twenty one percent to thirty
Speaker 17: one percent. Now, these are the same people who are
Speaker 17: a couple of years ago, before the election, wanted to
Speaker 17: get rid of the twenty percent threshold altogether. They didn't
Speaker 17: want a threshold at all. They said it was harsh
Speaker 17: and unconsortable and unfair, et cetera. People would be thrown
Speaker 17: on the scrap peep. Now they want to increase it
Speaker 17: to thirty one percent. And the effect of that is
Speaker 17: you are almost completely abolishing long term support for psychologists,
Speaker 17: severely psychologically injured workers, or any Almost no one will qualify.
Speaker 2: But they've made the point though, that the amendments that
Speaker 2: you were considering would have added one point nine billion
Speaker 2: dollars to the cost of this scheme. Already, the scheme
Speaker 2: losers were told five million dollars a day. Obviously, there's
Speaker 2: a balance that needs to be found, but business can't.
Speaker 17: And the big point of difference between us and the
Speaker 17: government is on this WPI. But there were plenty of
Speaker 17: other savings they identified and which we were prepared to support.
Speaker 17: They could bank those savings and get the majority of
Speaker 17: their savings right now if they supported the amended legislation.
Speaker 17: And in addition to that, we've come up with others
Speaker 17: estions for savings. We think it would be fairer to
Speaker 17: be tackling lower level claims and what we proposed, which
Speaker 17: had been put to us by the bar associations, instead
Speaker 17: of attacking the most seriously injured workers, weed out the
Speaker 17: lower level claims, tighten the definition of bullying and save
Speaker 17: money that way. So we're trying to be constructive. If
Speaker 17: the government could have could have passed the meded legislation
Speaker 17: this week and got immediate savings straight away, and savings
Speaker 17: that would represent most of the increased costs they're talking about.
Speaker 17: But instead they won't come to the table to compromise
Speaker 17: in transient and this has now been This will now
Speaker 17: have to be the subject of an inquiry, whine inquiry
Speaker 17: because we've got figures plucked out of the air at
Speaker 17: the last minute. This is really serious legislation.
Speaker 2: We want as an inquiry. That means that this legislation
Speaker 2: obviously can't pass this week, so it can't be part
Speaker 2: of what happens from the new financial year. Now, I
Speaker 2: know you said that the premeremi the premiss will being
Speaker 2: sept Then why is Daniel Mookie so desperate to get
Speaker 2: it done? Now?
Speaker 17: Well, look I understand his point that. Well, firstly, it
Speaker 17: doesn't affect his Actually he says he's already budgeted for
Speaker 17: this is not happening. Secondly, premiums won't go up next
Speaker 17: financial year. They've already been said. But he says, and
Speaker 17: we accept that the scheme is losing money every day.
Speaker 17: We don't know whether it's five million dollars. That's a
Speaker 17: figure he's given us. He hasn't given us any modeling,
Speaker 17: any substantiation. We don't know whether that's right. But I
Speaker 17: accept the scheme is losing money every day, and that's
Speaker 17: why we need reform. Why we are supporting most of
Speaker 17: the amendments, sorry, most of the legislation which would deliver
Speaker 17: most of the savings, and why we suggest that additional savings.
Speaker 17: But it's got to be done in a fair way.
Speaker 2: But what is living everyone confused is you've got your
Speaker 2: traditional constituency business, small business now speaking out against it.
Speaker 2: You saw the comments from Daniel Hunter from Business to
Speaker 2: New South Wales today very well reported. Your core is
Speaker 2: against what you're doing, mister speakman.
Speaker 17: They want a rapid answer to this, and so do we.
Speaker 17: They want to drive premiums down and so do we.
Speaker 17: But we cannot in good conscience abandoned the most severely
Speaker 17: injured people. We think it is much fairer to be
Speaker 17: looking at savings at the other end, weeding out lower
Speaker 17: lee or claims. And at the end of the day,
Speaker 17: when we are there to represent small business, but we're
Speaker 17: also there to represent injured workers. And these are workers
Speaker 17: if they're beyond this thresholder basically incapable of going back
Speaker 17: to work. And the government's answer is throw all these
Speaker 17: people on the scrappeet. We think there are fairer ways
Speaker 17: to get a satisfactory solution.
Speaker 2: My colleague Mike Levy reported this this morning. But I've
Speaker 2: also spoken to people within your party today about this,
Speaker 2: and there is the suggestion that's being made that members
Speaker 2: of your party room, of your senior team, have pushed
Speaker 2: this to destabilize your leadership, to basically make you look
Speaker 2: bad with the traditional core Liberal Party supporters.
Speaker 17: Ah, Look, there always all sorts of theories. Are that's
Speaker 17: an interesting theory. I haven't heard that one before. Look
Speaker 17: what we are trying.
Speaker 2: That's come from people. I've spoken to two people today
Speaker 2: within the Liberal Party.
Speaker 17: Well, well that's the first I've heard. That's an interesting theory. Look,
Speaker 17: the reality is this is legislation where you have to
Speaker 17: get the balance right. We offered a sensible set of amendments.
Speaker 17: But even without those amendments, most of the savings the
Speaker 17: government is seeking it would be made if they passed
Speaker 17: the amended legislation. They could have had these savings straight away.
Speaker 17: They could have had less pressure on the system straight
Speaker 17: away and in the longer term, not this financial year
Speaker 17: because the premiums already said, but in the longer term,
Speaker 17: less pressure on premiums. But instead the government won't come
Speaker 17: to the table. They want to throw the most civilian
Speaker 17: injured workers on the scrap heap, and we can't in
Speaker 17: good conscience do that. We want to make savings, we
Speaker 17: want the scheme that's sustainable, but there are fairer and
Speaker 17: better ways of doing it.
Speaker 2: Rare that we see that the State Liberal Party is
Speaker 2: staying alongside the Union Movement and the Greens. Missus big,
Speaker 2: while I have you here, I need to play you
Speaker 2: some comments that Yasmin Catley made in Parliament following comments
Speaker 2: that you made in the press conference yesterday.
Speaker 10: Yesterday the leader of the Opposition got up after question
Speaker 10: time and called me hysterical, not once but twice, mister Speaker.
Speaker 10: If a man came in here with a strong view
Speaker 10: about you deliberately bagging the cops and trying to confuse
Speaker 10: the public about who is responsible for cracking.
Speaker 11: Down on a list of tobacco. Would you have used
Speaker 11: that language, remember for hysterical. No, it's a sexist word.
Speaker 11: Used a se.
Speaker 2: Menisa the police minister ysmen Katleyen question time today, she's
Speaker 2: accused you of being sexist. Are you sexist?
Speaker 17: No, that's rubbish. I didn't call her hysterical. I said
Speaker 17: her comments were hysterical. It's not a gender term. The
Speaker 17: tone of her comments yesterday were hysterical. I asked her
Speaker 17: a simple question, and every time you asked the police
Speaker 17: minister a question, her standard response is to scream across
Speaker 17: the chamber and said, why are you bagging police? And
Speaker 17: I asked her a question yesterday that had no criticism
Speaker 17: of police in it. But her answer, the manner of
Speaker 17: her response was hysterical. And that's a word that I
Speaker 17: would use whether she's a man or a woman. This
Speaker 17: is basically a diversion by labor finling to tell us
Speaker 17: what they're doing about illegal tobacco. I mean early in
Speaker 17: the week the premier wanted to divert resources from fighting
Speaker 17: domestic violence, fighting youth crime and fighting organized crime to
Speaker 17: police illegal tobacco. That was Plan A, and then Plan
Speaker 17: B was to lobby the Feds or ask the FEDS
Speaker 17: to cut the federal excise. They're not doing that. There
Speaker 17: is no Plans C. And my job as an opposition
Speaker 17: leader is to probe this and not to have a
Speaker 17: minister screaming abuse across the chamber, which is what she did.
Speaker 2: And I know you are very supportive of the police.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time. Mark.
Speaker 17: Thanks Clinton.
Speaker 2: Mark Speakman, the New South Wales opposition leader until six.
Speaker 6: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 6: call now one three one.
Speaker 2: Eight seven three sixteen past five and you report has
Speaker 2: been released today revealing how tough things are for the
Speaker 2: Sandwich generation. Have you heard of that term before? They're
Speaker 2: Australians who are juggling both their children and their aging parents.
Speaker 2: Now you may form to that category. Nine to ten
Speaker 2: careers say they're experiencing burnout and it's no wonder. They
Speaker 2: spend an average of thirty hours a week unpaid care,
Speaker 2: either looking after children, elderly parents or both. They're forking
Speaker 2: out an average of eighteen thousand dollars a year supporting
Speaker 2: their elderly parents or all the in laws while trying
Speaker 2: to hold down jobs raise kids. Annabel Readers, the CEO
Speaker 2: of Care as Australian, joins us. This is quite a challenge.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, Annabella, Thank you Cointin.
Speaker 24: It's a pleasure to join you.
Speaker 2: This is quite common that the Sandwich generation is not
Speaker 2: a small number of people.
Speaker 24: Is it absolutely not. I mean, in Australia there are
Speaker 24: three million family and friend cares and the Sandwich generation
Speaker 24: is that group of carers within those three million Australians
Speaker 24: who are juggling care, often for aging parents are also
Speaker 24: with parenting responsibilities as well, so that's you know, that's
Speaker 24: a big responsibility for that group.
Speaker 2: Is this just something we should accept that our demographics
Speaker 2: have moved in this way or because we do have
Speaker 2: an aging population overall.
Speaker 24: Well, given the aging population and the silver tsunami that
Speaker 24: we're talking about, we also have to consider that carers,
Speaker 24: you know, are often juggling paid employment at the same
Speaker 24: time as providing care. So we can't ignore this issue.
Speaker 24: We have to embrace more inclusive workplaces for carers so
Speaker 24: they can continue to participate in paid employment along with
Speaker 24: care and responsibility.
Speaker 2: So what's that you believe that that employers who in
Speaker 2: their workforce they have people who fall in this category
Speaker 2: and need to provide what more flexible working hours.
Speaker 24: Absolutely, and sometimes there are really simple things that can
Speaker 24: be done to help a care for example, advanced notice
Speaker 24: of rostering.
Speaker 15: So if they have to take.
Speaker 24: Mum with dementia to a medical appointment, they know in
Speaker 24: advance and are able to manage work around that care
Speaker 24: and responsibility.
Speaker 2: It must and I unfortunately at this point don't fall
Speaker 2: into that category. But it must just be so stressful
Speaker 2: when you're dealing with your own parents who may suffer dementia,
Speaker 2: as you say, but your kids might be in high
Speaker 2: school or early as university and they're struggling a lot.
Speaker 22: Yeah.
Speaker 24: Absolutely, And the report did show so you know, like
Speaker 24: you said, nine outs ken of Sandwich carers are showing
Speaker 24: signs that burnout, things like emotional stress, They're experiencing time pressure,
Speaker 24: it's interrupting their sleep and it's also impacting the time
Speaker 24: they have for themselves to look after themselves and remain healthy,
Speaker 24: like exercising or eating well or going.
Speaker 15: To the GP.
Speaker 2: So in a built other than workforce changes, what else
Speaker 2: could be done?
Speaker 24: Well, there's a real financial impult for carers. So we
Speaker 24: can't ignore that some carers have such a large responsibility
Speaker 24: they can't participate in paid employment. And we know those
Speaker 24: carers are able to get some paid support that some
Speaker 24: of those supports like the care of supplement and care
Speaker 24: Allowance has not been indexed for a long time, so
Speaker 24: the cost of providing care and the report shows, you know,
Speaker 24: eighteen thousand a year and caring associated costs was the
Speaker 24: average for the survey respondents. You know, the amount of
Speaker 24: money that a care can apply for and get support
Speaker 24: on it is really in comparison to that.
Speaker 2: And that care they're providing. May we'll be saving the
Speaker 2: government money in age care costs at the time or
Speaker 2: even down the track. We'll open it up to our listeners. Annabelle,
Speaker 2: thank you for your time.
Speaker 24: Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Adabel Reid, who's the CEO of care Is Australia. Do
Speaker 2: you fall into that category? Do you still have children
Speaker 2: at home but you are effectively looking after your own parents,
Speaker 2: whether they're at the point of moving into age care
Speaker 2: or whether they're more reliant on you.
Speaker 17: I know it is.
Speaker 2: It is a really big toll that it's playing on
Speaker 2: so many people. Let me know, been intrigued to find out.
Speaker 2: One three one eight seventy three. A former NRL player
Speaker 2: has been charged with refusing to take a drink driving test.
Speaker 2: You'll remember Stuart Webb. He's now forty four, but he
Speaker 2: played for the Sydney Roosters and also played a little
Speaker 2: for St Georgia, Lawi and South Sydney. Please say. The
Speaker 2: forty four year old has been charged with refusing to
Speaker 2: submit to a breath analysis driving an understod vehicle as well.
Speaker 2: He was pulled over in Pagewood a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: He is now before the courts now talking about our roads.
Speaker 2: The police operation for the King's Birthday long weekend is
Speaker 2: starting to Assistant Police Commissioner, he is head of the
Speaker 2: Highway Patrol. David Driver joins us, thank you for your time.
Speaker 26: Thanks good to talk to you.
Speaker 2: Double demerits from tonight.
Speaker 26: That's right at midnight they kick in for speed spreading offenses, restraints,
Speaker 26: phones and helmets, offenses on motorcycles, so they'll be double
Speaker 26: for those categories.
Speaker 2: Will you have extra police on the roads.
Speaker 26: We'll have available resources and we've get assistance from the
Speaker 26: perspective commands and police districts across the state and engaging
Speaker 26: the activity, plus the specialist commands as well, so there
Speaker 26: will be an elevated profile of police presence.
Speaker 8: On the roads.
Speaker 2: If I know, when you joined me in the studio
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, after Easter and Anzac Day,
Speaker 2: we were talking about police resources, and I think we
Speaker 2: all agree that when you see a police officer on
Speaker 2: the road, that's what makes people slow down.
Speaker 26: Certainly, our presence acts as of the turnative effect. But
Speaker 26: we certainly, and I'm the first to acknowledge that we
Speaker 26: can't be everywhere all the time, but we can be
Speaker 26: anywhere anytime. But I certainly implore upon everyone to think
Speaker 26: about the safety of everyone else. You know, they shouldn't
Speaker 26: need the presence of the police to comply with the law.
Speaker 26: The mere fact that they don't want to hurt anyone
Speaker 26: else or anyone in their.
Speaker 1: Vehicle should be the incentive to comply.
Speaker 2: Double mirror points have been used as a tactic on
Speaker 2: long weekends and hillway periods for many years. Now do
Speaker 2: you think they're as effective as they were when they started?
Speaker 26: Well, look, what drives people to comply is going to
Speaker 26: vary from person to person.
Speaker 2: But we know that long.
Speaker 26: Weekends are periods of increased risk. Therefore, there is that
Speaker 26: additional incentive not to break the law because if, for example,
Speaker 26: if you use a mobile phone, you're going to lose
Speaker 26: ten points and that could be enough to take a
Speaker 26: license away. You've had one other infringement in the last
Speaker 26: three years. So I think we need to As I've
Speaker 26: said before, I think we need to pull every lever
Speaker 26: possible to reduce raid trauma and get to that aspirational
Speaker 26: target of zero.
Speaker 2: And I know, David over at the long weekend you
Speaker 2: will have a target of motorbike safety this weekend. Why
Speaker 2: is that the case?
Speaker 26: Yeah, Unfortunately we have sent an increase in motorcycle fatalities.
Speaker 26: We've had thirty six motorcyclists killed on our roads this
Speaker 26: year so far, and then last weekend we saw a
Speaker 26: spike again. Motorcyclists they are of unruallle cohortive road users.
Speaker 26: You know, they don't have the protection of the physical
Speaker 26: protection of a car, and obviously when they involved in
Speaker 26: a crash, the risk of serious injury and depth is
Speaker 26: far greater. They're also harder to see. So we're asking
Speaker 26: when we are when everyone's using the roads this weekend
Speaker 26: pay particular attention and look for motorcycles. They are harder
Speaker 26: to see. They can be blocked by the construction of
Speaker 26: the car by the pillars.
Speaker 2: It's a good message to get out there. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your time.
Speaker 26: Thanks much, appreciate it.
Speaker 2: David Driver, who's the assistant Police Commissioners headed the highway patrol.
Speaker 2: So double demerits enforced from tonight.
Speaker 1: If it matters to.
Speaker 6: You, then you'll hear it here Sydney Now with Clinton
Speaker 6: Maynard until six So.
Speaker 2: New research shows the Sandwich generation, people who are caring
Speaker 2: for both children and their parents. Aging parents are spending
Speaker 2: thirty hours a week on unpaid leave. Vince, are you
Speaker 2: a career.
Speaker 8: My sister is, and she's.
Speaker 25: Looking after a ninety year old woman and a fourteen
Speaker 25: year old autistic boy. Oh geez, my mother has got
Speaker 25: dementia and my nephew is a autistic he's non verbal.
Speaker 2: And does your sister have need to work as well?
Speaker 8: And she does. She works from home. She works for
Speaker 8: logistics company, so she's got all these balls in the here.
Speaker 25: She's an unbelievable person, someone I admire very much because
Speaker 25: at the end of the day, you will never find
Speaker 25: someone who can care for your loved ones as much
Speaker 25: as one of your own. And she's a fantastic young.
Speaker 2: You actually, in the end, Vince, you can't put a
Speaker 2: value on the work that she's doing. Good on you
Speaker 2: for the shout out as well. Frank is in Camden,
Speaker 2: Hello Frank.
Speaker 27: Hey Unquinn. Yeah, look only I was a care for
Speaker 27: my mum Last Wednesday, Senn just rang me up and
Speaker 27: just said thank You're not a care anymore. She's in
Speaker 27: age care. But during that age care I'm there all
Speaker 27: the time. I'm also she's had two and a half
Speaker 27: months in hospital because she's had two broken hips.
Speaker 2: And so you've got to when she's going to hospital,
Speaker 2: you've got to help her get there, and you got
Speaker 2: to visitor with.
Speaker 27: A person that I was also taking her to all
Speaker 27: her medical appointments until it got to a point where
Speaker 27: I couldn't physically get her in our car. But then
Speaker 27: I'd still have to attend those medical appointments. I've also
Speaker 27: got a down syndrome brother who who's getting dementia. And yeah,
Speaker 27: they never take all this into account of what you've
Speaker 27: got to do.
Speaker 2: We're good at throwing money at all sorts of causes.
Speaker 2: We're good at wasting a lot of money in our society.
Speaker 2: But this is an area that we do need to
Speaker 2: pay more attention to because there is so much that
Speaker 2: loved ones do for their families that just goes goes unnoticed,
Speaker 2: goes unpaid, and if we switch that care to the
Speaker 2: public sector, simply the budget wouldn't be able to afford it.
Speaker 2: Good on you, Frank for.
Speaker 17: What you do.
Speaker 2: And good afternoon, Josh Bright. Good afternoon again.
Speaker 1: Clinton.
Speaker 12: Changes to workers compensation in New South Wales will not
Speaker 12: go ahead for now, with a bill in the Upper
Speaker 12: House instead referred to an inquiry. Police say it's believed
Speaker 12: a man had stepped off a platform trying to cross
Speaker 12: between courriages when he was fatally struck by a light
Speaker 12: rail in Sydney, CBD. The Green say they won't conduct
Speaker 12: negotiations through the media, as the federal government tries to
Speaker 12: reach a deal on its superannuation tax changes, and Australia's
Speaker 12: short lived trade surplus with the United States has now ended,
Speaker 12: boosting the federal government's case for a tariff exemption. In Sport,
Speaker 12: an NRL star says he's open to offers to join
Speaker 12: the New Perth Bears. West Tiger's captain Happy Chorus out
Speaker 12: comes off contract at the end of next season, just
Speaker 12: in time for the Bears to be introduce to the
Speaker 12: Premiership in twenty twenty seven. We'll have more news and
Speaker 12: sport at six.
Speaker 2: Thank you Josh fourteen degrees in Sydney at the moment.
Speaker 1: Finance Update dead.
Speaker 2: Night hosting Money News from seven o'clock tonight. Hello deav
Speaker 2: Hello Dear Clinton. How did the markets fair today?
Speaker 11: Well, the US.
Speaker 28: Markets were pretty mixed overnight, so we thought we were
Speaker 28: in for a pretty strong day. The local boss was
Speaker 28: strong at the open, but it fell came back a bit,
Speaker 28: not a great deal of damage. The A six two
Speaker 28: hundred is still within really touching points of the record
Speaker 28: high as it closed just three points lower. Four of
Speaker 28: the eleven sectors were positive. Tech stocks for the real
Speaker 28: standout today and the dollars doing extremely well. Still it's rising.
Speaker 28: It's just under sixty five US cents.
Speaker 2: Is that because I guess the peak time for people
Speaker 2: to go overseason holidays for those that you know want
Speaker 2: to go on over this holiday can afford it is
Speaker 2: probably the end of the year.
Speaker 28: Well, unless you want. I got to Europe in summer,
Speaker 28: which is what people do at the moment, don't they
Speaker 28: you know, came to Italy and France, all of those
Speaker 28: people who've sworn off.
Speaker 2: If you can get some time off, yes, if you
Speaker 2: can get some time off. So yeah, maybe this is
Speaker 2: a good time to travel the moment streaming services and
Speaker 2: we touched on the cinema this week. While they're taking
Speaker 2: up the fight to cinema, they're also banking on children's films.
Speaker 28: Yeah, kids' movies are making a motza for the film
Speaker 28: studios and Lilo and Stitch.
Speaker 2: You know, if you've seen that, I've seen I haven't
Speaker 2: seen the movie. I've seen the primos for it.
Speaker 28: Well, it's Disney's live action film and it was made
Speaker 28: for one hundred million US dollars. It's on track to
Speaker 28: make one and a half billion dollars, so a massive
Speaker 28: payday at the box office around the world. And it's
Speaker 28: just the latest in movies targeting the under eighteens that
Speaker 28: are doing extremely well. The Minecraft movie, the critics hated it,
Speaker 28: but it grows nine hundred and forty eight million dollars.
Speaker 28: It cost one hundred and fifty million to make Moana
Speaker 28: two and Inside Out too as well, both hugely successful,
Speaker 28: making more than a billion dollars globally, and this is
Speaker 28: where a lot of the dollars are coming in because
Speaker 28: the cinemas know, the movie houses know that if they
Speaker 28: can get the kids attracted to come along, the parents
Speaker 28: will go to It's a family event. It's a guaranteed
Speaker 28: way of getting bums on seats in the cinema. So
Speaker 28: with returns like that, expect more kids movies.
Speaker 2: To be made, and then the Maltesers and the chop
Speaker 2: the rest of the popcorn, all.
Speaker 11: The rest of it.
Speaker 28: I'm sort of getting out of the age group now. Well,
Speaker 28: my youngest is still nine, so we still go to
Speaker 28: see a lot of these films. But yeah, every school holidays,
Speaker 28: I'm there front and center. I have been for a
Speaker 28: long time watching all of the new release of kids movies,
Speaker 28: and a lot of them are fantastic as well. For adults.
Speaker 2: Well, John Stanley's become a massive Formula one fan off
Speaker 2: the whole Netflix Drive to Survive. I'm taking him to
Speaker 2: the Formula one movie in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Fantastic.
Speaker 2: We're going to go on the big screen. That'll be.
Speaker 2: We're going to do a listener competition, maybe do a
Speaker 2: listener promo as well have decided we were going to
Speaker 2: do that. Yet I think John's very keen to do that.
Speaker 28: It's some friends to go along with you throw roll
Speaker 28: the malts.
Speaker 2: It's actually going to be really The Formula one movie's
Speaker 2: gonna be really big. It's going to start is starring
Speaker 2: Brad Pitt and it was actually filmed during Formula One races.
Speaker 2: They actually set up a pit in the garard of
Speaker 2: the races throughout last couple of years. It's going to
Speaker 2: be quite quite realistic.
Speaker 28: Yeah, and after the success of the Netflix series, there'll
Speaker 28: be lots of people wanting to go along.
Speaker 2: That is why they're doing a debil here from seven
Speaker 2: o'clock tonight. Thank you Money News from.
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Speaker 2: What's the weekend looking like? Mostly sunny on Saturday, which
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Speaker 6: You want to know what's happening in Sydney, Stay tuned
Speaker 6: to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on to.
Speaker 2: Gimb We have a special guest, Yes to talk sport.
Speaker 2: Mark guyra Is back.
Speaker 8: Hello, MG, Hello buddy, how are you may I'm miss
Speaker 8: shirt mate?
Speaker 2: How are you? I know I've been joking a bit
Speaker 2: about Manfley, but I know you've been knocked around a bit.
Speaker 8: I have been knocked around a bit made.
Speaker 5: I've had a torrid week, had a bit of influenza
Speaker 5: A which I thought it might have been COVID to
Speaker 5: start with, but I had a COVID testament was negative.
Speaker 5: So yeah, mate, I've just been basically convalescing in bed
Speaker 5: and my wife Meigs has been looking after me and
Speaker 5: my mum come down today to jump on board and
Speaker 5: help help with the chicken noodle soup. But all good, buddy,
Speaker 5: Big game tonight in the footy.
Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to years before we talk about the
Speaker 2: foota tonight. See I'm accused of it of not handling
Speaker 2: illness as well as the women in my house, my
Speaker 2: daughters and my wife. You reckon, that's actually right, we're
Speaker 2: a bit more.
Speaker 5: I think it's I think it's one hundred percent accurate.
Speaker 5: I think it's one hundred percent. I think us man
Speaker 5: our horses somewhere that comes to illness. So I think
Speaker 5: we put it on and we take it for everything
Speaker 5: it's got.
Speaker 2: Is that just because we don't go through childbirth, so
Speaker 2: we really don't.
Speaker 8: Know really well, I think it's got something to do
Speaker 8: with that.
Speaker 5: I think that the female race is a lot tougher
Speaker 5: than we are at times, and I think especially when
Speaker 5: it's a there's a bit of a sniffle of the nose,
Speaker 5: we kind of we take it to the oscar proportions
Speaker 5: and go, I want to, I want to I want
Speaker 5: to meddle for that because I'm really crooked.
Speaker 8: So he's helped me out ployees.
Speaker 5: But yeah, look it's look, I would say one thing,
Speaker 5: I did get the flu shot, So I'm pretty glad
Speaker 5: that I got that because I could imagine how quick
Speaker 5: I might have been if I hadn't.
Speaker 8: Got the flu shot.
Speaker 5: Clinton, So if you're still thinking about not getting it
Speaker 5: get the flu shot this winter because it will help
Speaker 5: you profoundly.
Speaker 2: Let's talk some footy. Newcastle up against Manley tonight. This
Speaker 2: one's been played in Newcastle.
Speaker 5: Mate's look, it's around fourteen, already wrapped around fourteen in
Speaker 5: a year, just after halfway, and Newcastle Marley tonight appears
Speaker 5: to have more at stake than the two points, because
Speaker 5: it would appear that from the Maroon's camp in origin
Speaker 5: the DC Daily Cherry Evans for Manley and Kylen Ponger
Speaker 5: for Newcastle need massive games tonight to keep their origin spots.
Speaker 5: A game two in Perth, it suggested that they're looking
Speaker 5: at the Hammer to put him at back Hamsi Fido
Speaker 5: Fido fullback. Reck Walsh comes back. DC, on the other hand,
Speaker 5: is facing after a good game last week. He's facing
Speaker 5: some heat from Tommy Didon who is And I suppose
Speaker 5: of the reluctance of Billy Slater to endorse DC even
Speaker 5: as far as three or four days ago, made people
Speaker 5: kind of one day is he still in the frame.
Speaker 5: So look, personally, I think Bailey Sherivans is the man
Speaker 5: for the job. I think that you know that first
Speaker 5: game they were just blown away by a better team
Speaker 5: and I think they will come back bigger and better
Speaker 5: in Perth, but there is some pressure on them tonight.
Speaker 5: I think that mainly will prevail tonight because they've got
Speaker 5: a host of players out in Newcastle, they're injured lists
Speaker 5: something like something from Mash So look at you. I
Speaker 5: think mainly tonight in a probably thirteen plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think mainly a win as well, looks like
Speaker 2: pretty much confirmed almost. I think the confirmation may will
Speaker 2: come tomorrow. Malmaninge to be the next Perth Bears coach,
Speaker 2: which means who's going to be the Kangaroo's coach.
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's the sixty four thousand dollars question of
Speaker 5: Brad Feller's name has been mentioned, Cameron Smith's name has
Speaker 5: been mentioned. I say, why don't you send both of
Speaker 5: them as coaches? As co coaches, you know you've got
Speaker 5: usually there's a lot of when you go away on camp,
Speaker 5: and I've done this on the Kangaroo tour. You've got
Speaker 5: a new South Wales coach which was Bob Fulton and
Speaker 5: the Coinsland aren't happy with that. And likewise, when malmon
Speaker 5: Inger's been coached, I suppose a lot of news Arth
Speaker 5: Welshman get the NAIs out of joint because they seem
Speaker 5: to favor their state, which is which is.
Speaker 8: I don't mind that.
Speaker 5: But if you take a Brad Feidler and a Kareron
Speaker 5: Smith as your co coaches, I think that would be fantastic.
Speaker 8: For the for the Australian team. I think.
Speaker 5: You have both both camps being appeased and you'd have
Speaker 5: two guys who are both worn in the jersey with pride,
Speaker 5: and I think Camera Smith hasn't coached before. Brad Fielder's
Speaker 5: obviously coached a bit of club foot, but mostly into
Speaker 5: hath Whales. I think it'd be great to put their
Speaker 5: heads together and take them on this in the season
Speaker 5: Ashes tour in October.
Speaker 8: And November over to France and England would be great
Speaker 8: for him.
Speaker 2: M Joe was having listened to your old coach Gus
Speaker 2: Good on his six Tackles with Gus podcast with Matt
Speaker 2: Thompson from the CCT and he was telling and Matt
Speaker 2: asked Gus about the prospect of Freddie being the Kangaroo's
Speaker 2: coach and Gus told the story of Freddy's first Kangaroo
Speaker 2: tour was when Bozo Fulton was the coach and they
Speaker 2: sent Freddy along to go and get experienced if he
Speaker 2: wasn't going to play in the test matches. Anyway, Freddy
Speaker 2: had just signed the new contract with the Panthers and
Speaker 2: in the deal Freddie wanted more money than Gus wanted
Speaker 2: to play, right, So they came up with a deal. Okay,
Speaker 2: if you ever go on a rep side, we'll cover
Speaker 2: your tab for your mini bar. And Gus tells the
Speaker 2: story that Well, Freddy made full use of that on
Speaker 2: the Kangaroo tour. It seems he entertained the whole team
Speaker 2: and the whole of England in his hotel room. Have
Speaker 2: you got any info about that?
Speaker 5: Well, I was on that Kangaroo tour right, What happened,
Speaker 5: Well I happened. All I know is that we got wade.
Speaker 5: Every Monday, we got wade. As far as you know
Speaker 5: how traveling on that Monday's brother would be gain missing.
Speaker 5: So Brad went away. Bradfield went away eighty eight kilos.
Speaker 5: On arrival back to Penrith for our ninety one pre season,
Speaker 5: he was one hundred and five hundred and four.
Speaker 2: He went to eighty eight to one hundred and four.
Speaker 8: He put on about or four a kilos on the
Speaker 8: Keg group too.
Speaker 2: So did you go into his room and enjoy the
Speaker 2: mini bar?
Speaker 13: Two?
Speaker 10: Ah?
Speaker 8: He was living lar, he was living large. What about
Speaker 8: MG restaurant?
Speaker 5: Ma, I was look, I actually here we go talking
Speaker 5: about sicknas. I got tonsolitis for the first two weeks
Speaker 5: on the Kangaroo to Us. So I sat in my
Speaker 5: bed for two weeks.
Speaker 8: Oh mate, I know, but look for kangaroos too.
Speaker 5: I turned twenty two. From the Kangaroo to I was
Speaker 5: in France. We met Kevin Costner. It was just a
Speaker 5: fantastic trip. Three months of playing footy and because I
Speaker 5: was in the EMUs which the Mews were the midweek team.
Speaker 5: We kind of played on Wednesday night.
Speaker 8: Mid week and then we'd have a drink on Wednesday night,
Speaker 8: have a drink.
Speaker 5: On Fesday night, have a drink on Friday night, train Saturday,
Speaker 5: and then go to the Big Boys game on Sunday
Speaker 5: and then be there kind of board boys and then
Speaker 5: have a drink with them and train Mondays.
Speaker 2: You're going for three months and you still went through undefeated.
Speaker 2: I said, I was one of the tragic sEMG. I
Speaker 2: was just a kid, but I'd stay up and I'd
Speaker 2: put my alarm on it and I watched the Kangaroos
Speaker 2: play Wiggin or Warrington or one of those teams. Hey,
Speaker 2: we're almost out of time. Craig Bellamy, did they confirming
Speaker 2: he's going to play. He's going to coach for the
Speaker 2: Storm yet again. Twenty fourth season next year, twenty four
Speaker 2: years in one job. You reckon. Anyone can match that.
Speaker 8: He's look at massive coup.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fantastic for Melbourne Storm, but it's also fantastic
Speaker 5: for the game because you're right, the sixty five year
Speaker 5: old Bellamy, he'll catch his twenty fourth consecutive season. That's
Speaker 5: five hundred and eighty eight games, twenty one final series,
Speaker 5: five Grand Finals. Obviously two of them have been stripped,
Speaker 5: but that you know, that's not worry about that. Six
Speaker 5: minor premierships. This guy is a winner. Look at just look,
Speaker 5: just have to look what he did subtly in the
Speaker 5: South Wales just recently with Lori Dally and Lorry Daily.
Speaker 8: Well done for you because you kind of put your
Speaker 8: ego aside.
Speaker 5: And you said I want Craig Bellamy encampered me because
Speaker 5: he's the best coach in the land at the moment
Speaker 5: and I want some of his wisdom to rub off
Speaker 5: on me.
Speaker 8: And so that was a very un question. Jack Son one.
Speaker 5: On the Melbourne One on Craig Bellamy, two great organizations.
Speaker 2: Glad you're back. MG. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 8: So everybody, I miss job, see you tomorrow, like go out,
Speaker 8: time to.
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Speaker 2: In a big game of footy tonight with many in
Speaker 2: the Knights playing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, indeed, Clinton brings back some great memories, doesn't it.
Speaker 14: Ninety ninety seven Darren Albert whizzing over for the Knights
Speaker 14: to give them their first premiership. We've got Jonathan Thurson
Speaker 14: coming onto preview the big game there. They need to
Speaker 14: win the Knights badly.
Speaker 2: And at home they usually grow a leg at home,
Speaker 2: but you can't tip the Knights with any confidence at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 14: Now merely bounced back to form against Bronco last week.
Speaker 14: Daly Cherry Evans will be up for another big game
Speaker 14: with selections for Origin just around the corner. Will he
Speaker 14: keep you spot? That's going to be a big focus tonight.
Speaker 14: We'll also talk about the who's going to coach the Kangaroos.
Speaker 14: That job is going to become available very shortly for Freddi,
Speaker 14: our man Freddie, He's going to get it. Brody Grundy
Speaker 14: from the Swans will join me. They're looking to redeem
Speaker 14: themselves against Richmond after that horror show against Adelaide and
Speaker 14: Robbie Slater will come on the Socker Ru's Legend to
Speaker 14: talk about the soccer US game tonight against.
Speaker 1: Japan in Perth.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's at not nine o'clock out to on this Gusts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they could be on their way to the World Cup.
Speaker 2: So that's a critical game, isn't it? You win this
Speaker 2: we're going yeah, just about pretty much. Hawsey with why
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