Speaker 1: Whoa across Australia this is weekends would look Grant.
Speaker 2: But you gotta keep your head up and let's.
Speaker 3: Your hand up.
Speaker 2: You gotta keep your head up and lets your hand up.
Speaker 2: I know it's hard, No, it's hard. Sometimes you gotta
Speaker 2: keep your head up. Thank you, let your head downy.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to weekends with Luke Grant. Great to
Speaker 1: be with you on two GB in Sydney, four being
Speaker 1: sitting in Brisbane and listeners on our apps joining us
Speaker 1: all around Australia. It's June twenty first Saturday morning in
Speaker 1: the greatest country on Earth and what I bitterly call
Speaker 1: start of the day today minus one at Camden in Sydney,
Speaker 1: zero ward Richmond in Sydney, minus seven point six in Canberra,
Speaker 1: minus Kenneth Goldban in Queensland. Zero at ok It's about
Speaker 1: the coldest I could see Stanthorpe, where it's normally near
Speaker 1: or below zero. Currently nine six at Winton in out
Speaker 1: back Queensland. One at Charleville near zero at Roma, six
Speaker 1: at Amblee, rug Up I Cantinllue. Today in Australia is
Speaker 1: the shortest day of the year quote unquote, as the
Speaker 1: Southern hemisphere experiences the winter solstice. Now, the exact moment
Speaker 1: the Southern hemisphere is at its furthest tilt from the
Speaker 1: sun is at twelve forty two pm. We'll be on
Speaker 1: air then. I feel like we should mark the occasion.
Speaker 1: I don't know how we do that, but we've got
Speaker 1: some time to think about it. While the winter solstice
Speaker 1: is referred to as the shortest day and longest night
Speaker 1: of the year, it actually just means it's the day
Speaker 1: with the least amount of daylight hours, and that's because
Speaker 1: it's when the Southern hemisphere is at its furthest to
Speaker 1: tilt away from the sun, meaning we get less sunlight.
Speaker 1: At the same time, Unsurprisingly, the northern hemisphere will be
Speaker 1: experiencing the summer solstice, which is often regarded as the
Speaker 1: longest day of the year. We have our summer solstice
Speaker 1: on December twenty second. For those playing along at home,
Speaker 1: today's forecast in Sydney a Sunday day tops of nineteen
Speaker 1: in the city nineteen and Penrith nineteen. Parramatta and a
Speaker 1: bond dine along the coast to top of eighteen. Tomorrow
Speaker 1: is sunny day again nineteen. Brisbane today partly cloudy, a
Speaker 1: medium chance of showers, most likely late morning and early
Speaker 1: afternoon in the city twenty two Airport twenty two. I's
Speaker 1: which twenty three Sunny Coast, twenty two Gold Coast twenty
Speaker 1: three Tomorrow in Brisbane A shower or two and it
Speaker 1: should get to twenty three degrees. Now, so much to
Speaker 1: tell you about today. Let's start in the Middle East.
Speaker 1: The New York Times reporting the President Trump has dismissed
Speaker 1: a European diplomatic effort seeking to keep the war between
Speaker 1: Israel and Iran from spiraling into a broader conflict. He
Speaker 1: told reporters Iran didn't want to speak to Europe. They
Speaker 1: want to speak to US. As Israel and Iran pummeled
Speaker 1: each other with their strikes and missile attacks for the
Speaker 1: eighth consecutive day, representatives of Iran and Europe held three
Speaker 1: hours of talks in Geneva that ended with no signs
Speaker 1: of a breakthrough. The foreign ministers of Britain, France, and
Speaker 1: Germany emerged discussing the need to continue speaking with Iran,
Speaker 1: hoping the talks will offer an off ramp for Iran
Speaker 1: and forestall a decision by Trump to thrust the US
Speaker 1: into hostilities now, a day after backing away from threats
Speaker 1: that raised the specter of an imminent US strike and
Speaker 1: creating a two week window for diplomacy, Trump said he
Speaker 1: still wanted to be a peacemaker, but he suggested that
Speaker 1: only direct talks between the US and Iran would produce
Speaker 1: a way out of the war. He said, Europe is
Speaker 1: not going to be able to help now. The Europeans
Speaker 1: urged Iran to resume direct nuclear talks with the US,
Speaker 1: but Iran's top diplomat, Abbess Arakchi, said Iran would consider
Speaker 1: re engaging in diplomacy only quote once the aggressor was
Speaker 1: held accountable for the crimes committed unquote. Trump suggested there
Speaker 1: was little he could do to get Israel to stop
Speaker 1: its bombing. He said, Israel's doing well in terms of war.
Speaker 1: I think he'd had to say Iran is doing less well.
Speaker 1: It's a little hard to get someone to stop. Now.
Speaker 1: In the second hour, we'll go to Israel and I'll
Speaker 1: speak to someone there. Police updates this morning in Queensland,
Speaker 1: an eighteen year old man has been charged to one
Speaker 1: man who's in hospital. This follows a brawl at a
Speaker 1: Autitude Valley pub early today now. Emergency services were called
Speaker 1: on the corner of Brunswick and Robertson Streets around twelve
Speaker 1: to thirty five am reports of a fight involving a
Speaker 1: large group of people. It'll be alleged an eighteen year
Speaker 1: old man armed himself with a piece of furniture and
Speaker 1: assaulted multiple people following an argument. A man in his
Speaker 1: thirties taken to Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital a serious but
Speaker 1: stable condition. An eighteen year old Churmside Westman taken into custody,
Speaker 1: charged with three counts of assaults occasioning bodily harm whilst
Speaker 1: armed in company and one count of refray. He'll be
Speaker 1: at Brisbane Magistrate's Court on July thirty one. Anyone who
Speaker 1: witnessed the incident, Police would like to hear from you now.
Speaker 1: This happened like yesterday. At Lismore in New South Wales,
Speaker 1: the driver of a truck has died in a single
Speaker 1: vehicle crash. Reports that a truck had veered off Bangalow
Speaker 1: Road at Kloon's, fifteen kilometers northeast of Lismore into a tree.
Speaker 1: Paramedics treated the forty six year old mail driver, but
Speaker 1: sadly he died at the scene. How about this one?
Speaker 1: Five senior New South Wales government staffers could face arrest
Speaker 1: after failing to appear at an inquiry into an explosive
Speaker 1: laden caravan found on Sydney's outskirts. Remember this now in
Speaker 1: a dramatic escalation of an otherwise routine inquiry. The process
Speaker 1: to arrest high ranking staff and the officers of Premier
Speaker 1: Chris Mins and Police Minister Catley was set in motion
Speaker 1: yesterday after the group declined to appear, The committee chair
Speaker 1: and Independent MP rod Roberts conducted a role calls for
Speaker 1: the Premier's chief of Staff James Cullen and four other staffers,
Speaker 1: before approaching Upper House President Ben Franklin to seek arrest warrants.
Speaker 1: Roberts said the President was noncommit when asked to go
Speaker 1: to the Supreme Court for the warrants, but Franklin had
Speaker 1: a quote very important and very crucial decision unquote. He says,
Speaker 1: all along labors tried to stonewall, delay and ridicule this
Speaker 1: important inquiry. Those words from John Ruddick agreeing to pursue
Speaker 1: the warrants could come with a personal awkwardness for Franklin,
Speaker 1: given he's a godfather of the premier's second child, or
Speaker 1: who cares if they've done the wrong thing and that
Speaker 1: leads to arrest warrants. Hello, for the rest of society,
Speaker 1: we can from what I understand, we're not in a
Speaker 1: position where we can say I don't want to turn up, well,
Speaker 1: I don't want to be there. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: compelled to go, you should go. Well see where all
Speaker 1: that goes? Extraordinary, isn't it? How about this one today? Extraordinary?
Speaker 1: Have I said that enough yet? Let me say it again. Extraordinary.
Speaker 1: Patients are waiting up to a year up to a
Speaker 1: year to receive a cancer diagnosis at Sydney Hospitals. At
Speaker 1: least twenty one patients have had to wait up to
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty three days due to massive demand
Speaker 1: for endoscopies at Westmead. This is a letter that was
Speaker 1: sent to the hospital management late last week. The letter
Speaker 1: warned these cases, which included a man in his sixties
Speaker 1: diagnosed with esophageal cancer two hundred and fifty two days
Speaker 1: after his first referral, were quote likely a significant underestimation
Speaker 1: of the problem unquote, because thousands of patients were waiting
Speaker 1: longer than recommended for the procedure. There were just over
Speaker 1: thirty three hundred patients on the endoscopy waitlisted Westmead as
Speaker 1: of last month, abid half of which were Category one
Speaker 1: cases needing the procedure within thirty days. Now, about twenty
Speaker 1: five hundred patients did not have a date for their procedure.
Speaker 1: No patient had their cancer diagnosed within the thirty days
Speaker 1: recommended by the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, and many
Speaker 1: exceeded the one hundred and twenty day maximum wade time
Speaker 1: recommended by the Cancer Council, according to The Herald. The
Speaker 1: letter says these significant delays are largely because Westmead has
Speaker 1: significantly fewer anesthetic lists than equivalent sized peer hospitals. Now
Speaker 1: we all remember not that long ago a bloke wanted
Speaker 1: to be Prime Minister getting up on stage with a
Speaker 1: Medicare card. Hello, that's extraordinary, And this from Queensland. A
Speaker 1: female journalist has spoken out about the hostility she faced
Speaker 1: while covering CFMU protests in Brisbane, where she was labeled
Speaker 1: a media b. Channel seven reporter Georgia Chumbley was yelled
Speaker 1: at by the union members who also threatened to disrupt
Speaker 1: Brisbane's Olympic Games build during a second day of action
Speaker 1: in Bowen Hills, Miss Chumbley told the ABC the verbal
Speaker 1: abuse was shocking. She says they were yelling at us
Speaker 1: pretty much verbally abusing us, yelling at us, tell the truth,
Speaker 1: Tell the truth. It was all female reporters there this morning.
Speaker 1: We were surrounded by a majority grown men screaming in
Speaker 1: this while we were trying to do our job. I
Speaker 1: also got called an abusive term. I know another journalist
Speaker 1: was sworn at. Things did really heat up. Now, given
Speaker 1: us the the fundraising arm of the Labor Party, can
Speaker 1: someone from the left call out this misogynistic behavior and
Speaker 1: find out who was responsible and deal with them, maybe
Speaker 1: remove their membership. Well it's okay, it's a union protest,
Speaker 1: is it. I mean it is breathtaking some of the
Speaker 1: hypocrisy and here we go again. Senator Lydia Thorpe has
Speaker 1: sparked controversy after sharing photos of herself standing outside Buckingham
Speaker 1: Palace making a rude gesture. The Independent senator, who made
Speaker 1: international headlines after gate crashing an event during the King's
Speaker 1: visit to Australia and yelling you're not my King, was
Speaker 1: in London this week to attend a conference why the
Speaker 1: hell would you go to London. During her trip, she
Speaker 1: donned a black Sovereign Movement shirt and was pictured outside
Speaker 1: the gates of Buckingham Palace holding an Aboriginal flag, making
Speaker 1: a rude gesture with her middle finger and standing with
Speaker 1: her hands on her hips. Goodness me, Senator Lydia Thorpe
Speaker 1: brackets kindergarten student. What a thing to do? Ah, turn
Speaker 1: up at the palace, flip the bird, wave the flag,
Speaker 1: look at my unbelievable. On the show today, Dennis Shanahan
Speaker 1: from The Oars joined me for the latest in federal politics.
Speaker 1: Albo and the Trumpster will have to wait a little
Speaker 1: longer for that first handshake, after the PM's office indicated
Speaker 1: that Albo won't attend the NATO meeting this week. What
Speaker 1: should albou do? I mean, it's not like there's anything
Speaker 1: happening with our alliance, tariffs orcus anyone. Maybe if he
Speaker 1: had a decent ambassador on the ground, someone that didn't
Speaker 1: refer to the US President as a village idiot, you know,
Speaker 1: might have just got access. What an absolute mess, What
Speaker 1: an absolute mess. We'll get to Dennis soon after ten
Speaker 1: this morning. I'll talk to someone on the ground in Israel,
Speaker 1: not far from Tel Aviv. Now, night after night, day
Speaker 1: after day, bombs fired by the nuclear fixated Iranian regime
Speaker 1: rained down on the city. Citizens are bunker down, listing
Speaker 1: out for sirens warning of incoming bombs, and locked in
Speaker 1: bunkers or shelters, hoping that they'll get out alive. So
Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a peek behind the curtain
Speaker 1: to what daily life currently looks like in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 1: I've been chatting with an antimum and lawyer living in Israel,
Speaker 1: Lisa Segalov, since just after October seven, twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: and I've been unceasingly amazed at her intelligence, of bravery
Speaker 1: and her good humor amidst what's been an extraordinarily difficult
Speaker 1: few years. We'll speak again this morning. Don't miss it
Speaker 1: economists from macrobusiness dot com, dot au and weekends regularly
Speaker 1: Fan Onslan. He'll join me after eleven today. He'll walk
Speaker 1: us through the latest population data. I was looking at
Speaker 1: those numbers yesterday. He might have heard me speak with
Speaker 1: and Maynard on his program. And there's a bit of
Speaker 1: a furfee. And the furfee is this, there's a bunch
Speaker 1: of people leaving Australia for whatever reason, and we talk
Speaker 1: about net overseas migration. The number improves the more people
Speaker 1: that leave. Well, more people are leaving now. I thought
Speaker 1: when we went to the last election we had an
Speaker 1: undertaken from both major parties to reduce the number of
Speaker 1: people coming here. Not because we're racist or we don't
Speaker 1: subscribe to certain cultures or religions, not at all. It's
Speaker 1: purely a matter of mathematics. So you bring in, let's say,
Speaker 1: or you increase population by more than three hundred thousand,
Speaker 1: which we did by the end of last year, and
Speaker 1: you're only building one hundred and thirty thousand new homes. Again,
Speaker 1: do the mathematics. It's just dumb. We'll do that with Leith.
Speaker 1: He's got an economic champion this week, two weeks in
Speaker 1: a row. This is outstanding. We also have an economic clown,
Speaker 1: but we've gone, you know, we give it up. We'll
Speaker 1: leave it up to him pick a champion or a
Speaker 1: clown second champion. It's a US energy expert who testified
Speaker 1: before Congress. Is written for the Wall Street Journal, dropping
Speaker 1: truth bombs on Australia's net zero fantasy. He described it
Speaker 1: as madness and reckless. Ask a trade this morning with
Speaker 1: Simon Stevenson at ten thirty love it. When Simon's in here,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about window tinting your home. Can you make
Speaker 1: a real difference to your homes temperature with a bit
Speaker 1: of tinting? And do you need a trade to do it?
Speaker 1: Or can you doy window tint I reckon, if I
Speaker 1: had a crack of that, I'd have I'd tint my arms,
Speaker 1: my hands, my face, my hair. There'd be a little
Speaker 1: bit on the window. Hopeless of that stuff. We'll talk
Speaker 1: to Simon after ten thirty. We'll take your DIY calls
Speaker 1: as well. Craig Bennetting Star Strugg looks at the life
Speaker 1: of Judy Garland, who we lost fifty six years ago.
Speaker 1: This weekend Alice stoles from them with a deep dive
Speaker 1: into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney. Of course,
Speaker 1: I quiz your calls, texts, emails, all the breaking, use
Speaker 1: all the information to help you get around in town
Speaker 1: with a minimum of fuss. It's Saturday, June twenty one,
Speaker 1: nine degrees in Sydney. They say it feels like five
Speaker 1: fifteen degrees. In Brisbane, they say that feels like fifteen.
Speaker 1: This is Weekends with Luke Grant on two GBN four
Speaker 1: BC and Dennis Lee. He's got his eye on the
Speaker 1: traffic today now plenty of texts this morning. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Steve says good. I look, how does someone determine what
Speaker 1: the temperature feels like? Does someone stick their head out
Speaker 1: the window and say feels like five when it's actually eight? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of wind and humidity. I
Speaker 1: don't know if someone licks their finger and holds that
Speaker 1: outside and oh my finger's cold, but that's how they
Speaker 1: work it out, Sieve. I think it's a humidity and wind. Good. Hey,
Speaker 1: Luke love the show. Are we building one hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty thousand new homes a year or are we knocking
Speaker 1: down one hundred thousand and replacing them with new so
Speaker 1: we aren't building many new homes as such, Peter, that's
Speaker 1: not an unfair point. Thank you for making it good,
Speaker 1: Luke read Lydia Thorpe, this is from Molina. Is that
Speaker 1: how you represent Australia and Australian's politicians that do the
Speaker 1: wrong thing by our country and people. Assies should have
Speaker 1: her sacked or you get elected as a Green then
Speaker 1: you carry on like a well, let's call it a
Speaker 1: two bob watch. Then you leave that party and then
Speaker 1: you get six years at whatever, many hundreds of thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars. Thank you. Molina Dave says Lydia needs to
Speaker 1: be thor petered out of Parliament. To Shay, Luke, isn't
Speaker 1: Lydia Thorpe seventy percent Scottish? I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: And if she is, what seventy percent of her is Scottish? Luke,
Speaker 1: Lydia on business class five star hotels. We're all paying
Speaker 1: for it. Yeah, thank you, Steve. I wonder if she'll
Speaker 1: meet and negotiate the return of the settlers. Thank you.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Luke. Love the show on the weekend. On
Speaker 1: my drive to Sydney from the Hunt of Valley, we
Speaker 1: paid Lydia Thorpe over two hundred grand a year to
Speaker 1: sprout that rubbish. You should be immediately removed from parliament.
Speaker 1: Ashley from the Hunter of Valley, have a great morning
Speaker 1: you too, Ashally. Thanks a lot for listening to our show.
Speaker 1: And if you're wondering why we're talking about Lydia Thorpe,
Speaker 1: it's because Lydia Thorpe has gone out the front of
Speaker 1: Buckingham Palace, holding the Aboriginal flag and flipping the bird,
Speaker 1: thinking that that was one of the great things an
Speaker 1: Australian politician can do. I assume there are people she represents.
Speaker 1: Perhaps Lydia should just come home and represent the people,
Speaker 1: but as we know, it's all too often about her
Speaker 1: and just quickly here. A teenage boy was found with
Speaker 1: serious leg injuries in the early hours of this morning
Speaker 1: following an alleged hit and run in Sydney's East. This
Speaker 1: was is a Beecham Road or bow Champ Road. It
Speaker 1: depends where you're brought up. I guess Marubra. Around four
Speaker 1: am reports a person who had been hit by a car.
Speaker 1: Police rushed to the scene found a teenage boy believed
Speaker 1: to be sixteen, with serious leg injuries. It was treated
Speaker 1: by paramedics taken to Sydney Children's Hospital. A crime scene's
Speaker 1: been established. Police will remain on the scene, canvassing the
Speaker 1: area for evidence if you can assist one eight hundred,
Speaker 1: triple three, triple zero. It appears several pieces of evidence
Speaker 1: have been left behind, including items of clothing and empty
Speaker 1: beer bottles. While the entrance to a unit block has
Speaker 1: been taped off by police. It says he tapped off
Speaker 1: one eight hundred triple three triple zero Prime Minister the
Speaker 1: Labor Party Ventral politics with Dennis Shanahan. And sadly, Dennis
Speaker 1: and I will be talking for the last time for
Speaker 1: quite a few weeks because I'm about to have a
Speaker 1: bit of a break he pooh. And Dennis is having
Speaker 1: his regular winter break, and when I come back, he
Speaker 1: won't be here. But when he does come back, I
Speaker 1: will be here, but that might be a few weeks off.
Speaker 1: So good morning, my friend. I look forward to resuming
Speaker 1: activities in a few weeks. In the meantime, How is
Speaker 1: it in the Nation's capital? I think I read it
Speaker 1: was minus seven point six earlier today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look at I tell you though, the weather is
Speaker 4: beautifully that there's no wind. You know you talk about
Speaker 4: windchill factor and no wind at all. It is just
Speaker 4: perfectly sunny, clear.
Speaker 5: But it is cold.
Speaker 4: This morning, as I was preparing for my little chat
Speaker 4: with you, I washed a big pied turrelong come in.
Speaker 4: He comes in every day to land on the on
Speaker 4: the bird bath, have a drink and a bit of
Speaker 4: a bath, and then he flies off. This morning he
Speaker 4: went down and slipped straight across.
Speaker 6: The board, fell off the other side.
Speaker 5: It was solid ice.
Speaker 4: I've never seen a turrelong with surprised look on his face.
Speaker 4: It was col The bird bath is solid ice.
Speaker 1: Wow. Fancy that now, Dennis A PM's trip to Canada
Speaker 1: is over and ended with a whimper as Donald Trump
Speaker 1: ducked out of the G seven and didn't even give
Speaker 1: Albow a sorry, I can't make it. There's no rush
Speaker 1: to NATO. In fact, I think that's been ruled out now,
Speaker 1: little prospect of a face to face meeting for some time.
Speaker 1: As I joke before, it's not like there's, you know,
Speaker 1: anything significant happening with our relationship potentially not if you
Speaker 1: count orcus and tariffs as things that a serious. What's
Speaker 1: going on here?
Speaker 4: Well, look I think that, yes, Donald Trump left the
Speaker 4: seventh early. He didn't meet a number of other leaders,
Speaker 4: but Anthony Alberinase he was listed as the second last
Speaker 4: on the agenda. I don't know if actually who was last.
Speaker 4: When Donald Trump said I'm leaving early, he rang other
Speaker 4: leaders and said, oh, look I'm sorry, we can meet
Speaker 4: up later.
Speaker 5: Whatever.
Speaker 4: Anthony Albinas didn't even get a call, and so what
Speaker 4: we're seeing is that the failure of Anthony Albinas to
Speaker 4: try and establish an early relationship with Donald Trump, despite
Speaker 4: the political differences and all the rest. The Prime Minister
Speaker 4: said on another a number of occasions, doesn't matter who's president,
Speaker 4: who's promenist, we need this relationship. Well it's not happening.
Speaker 4: The Prime Minister had gone to Canada with a whole
Speaker 4: series of ideas about critical minerals that were going to
Speaker 4: use as a bargaining chip to get lower tariffs. There
Speaker 4: was going to be discussion of ORCUS while there was
Speaker 4: a review on in the US, and nothing happened. The
Speaker 4: Prime Minister met some trade officials that Kevin rad as
Speaker 4: Ambassador to Washington, had already met. So what we've seen
Speaker 4: is a failure early on for the Prime Minister to
Speaker 4: try and establish that key personal contact with President Trump.
Speaker 4: He did consider going to the Netherlands to get the
Speaker 4: NATO meeting on the off chance of getting a sideline meeting,
Speaker 4: but in the end has decided no, he's not going
Speaker 4: to do that. The likelihood is that he was good
Speaker 4: go over there, not going to meeting anyway. So this
Speaker 4: has been a failure as far as a trip goes
Speaker 4: where the Prime Minister had hoped to meet and discuss
Speaker 4: and negotiate issues of tariffs, which are still very I
Speaker 4: boughtant for US and of course UCAS to try and
Speaker 4: talk to the President about August before the US review
Speaker 4: is completed. Now looks like there'll be no meeting until
Speaker 4: probably New York in September.
Speaker 1: At the UN Joe Hockey as a massive to play
Speaker 1: golf with Trump. Kevin Rudd referred to him as a
Speaker 1: really jdiot. Can you can you shoot any of the
Speaker 1: blame to Kevin Rudd? I mean, they're not going to
Speaker 1: take him seriously, are they?
Speaker 4: Look I think that actually Kevin Rudd's done quite a
Speaker 4: good job as far as ambassad on the ground's concerns
Speaker 4: is kept open. All the negotiations on tariff almost escaped
Speaker 4: the full brunt of tariff. But there was a political
Speaker 4: interference there. Certainly what Kevin Rudd had said previously about
Speaker 4: President Trump wouldn't help. But look, the the issue here
Speaker 4: is about leaders face to face and that relationship. This
Speaker 4: is what Donald Trump operates on. And we saw the
Speaker 4: success of their care starmer, a UK prime minister who
Speaker 4: went early to see Donald Trump and put up the
Speaker 4: UK spending on defense very quickly. It is clear that
Speaker 4: Donald Trump talks to people who are prepared to talk
Speaker 4: to him and act.
Speaker 1: You know, I reckon the PM's office would be, wouldn't
Speaker 1: they very concerned that if he went to Washington there
Speaker 1: would be a you know what show if the meeting
Speaker 1: was in the Oval office. It's not like Trump has
Speaker 1: spared any other leader from embarrassing them or at least
Speaker 1: calling them out. There's no doubt in my mind that
Speaker 1: if Albo and the Trumpster sat together and the cameras
Speaker 1: were rolling, Trump would have some difficult questions, wouldn't.
Speaker 4: He He would indeed, And look I've mentioned before on
Speaker 4: the program. I've been there in that room. It was
Speaker 4: Scott Morrison, who is Prime Minister, and Donald Trump and
Speaker 4: that was very warm and friendly and a little bit
Speaker 4: off a wall. But in any case, there would be
Speaker 4: no doubt that a trip to Washington would have to
Speaker 4: mean that appearance in what is now become a star
Speaker 4: chamber where the Prime the President is prepared to rip
Speaker 4: strips off people, so is the Vice president, and it
Speaker 4: would be extremely embarrassing. The advantage of a so called
Speaker 4: meeting in the sidelines is that it's not televised and
Speaker 4: there isn't that whole feeling of being interrogated. I think
Speaker 4: that the Prime Minister would prefer to go to New
Speaker 4: York and meet President Trump again in the sidelines of
Speaker 4: the UN meeting.
Speaker 1: What about orcus mate? There's concern here, isn't there? The
Speaker 1: US wanted us to spend more on our defense. Richard
Speaker 1: Miles is going to have to come up with more
Speaker 1: than just words here, isn't he?
Speaker 5: We certainly is.
Speaker 4: And of course, apart from tariff which went nowhere, UCUS
Speaker 4: was the other big issue that Australia had to address
Speaker 4: with President Trump in Canada. That didn't happen, and now
Speaker 4: it is clear that the Prime Minister has made it
Speaker 4: clear he is not going to the Netherlands. They thought
Speaker 4: about it and then thought, no, we wouldn't do it.
Speaker 4: This means that Richard Miles, as Deputy Prime Minister and
Speaker 4: Defense Minister, has to go to the NATO meeting and
Speaker 4: there defend Australia's decision not to increase defense spending to
Speaker 4: three point five percent, which the US wants us to do.
Speaker 4: That's much less than what the US wants our NATO
Speaker 4: allies to He wants them to go to five percent
Speaker 4: of GDP on defense. We can see what's happening in Israel,
Speaker 4: we can see what's happening in the Ukraine. There is
Speaker 4: a worldwide pressure pressure to actually increase defense spending. It's
Speaker 4: not happening in Australia. Richard Mars is going to have
Speaker 4: to try and explain this to the US. The Prime
Speaker 4: Minister has not been able to talk to Donald Trump
Speaker 4: while and we've already paid eight hundred million dollars by
Speaker 4: the way, on the nuclear submarines, and we can't even
Speaker 4: get to talk about it while the US is reviewing it.
Speaker 4: Our only hope has been a starmer of the UK
Speaker 4: who managed to get the present to nod to nod
Speaker 4: at the joint press conference when he said yes, that
Speaker 4: was still going ed with August. This is how tenuous
Speaker 4: it is. It is a key issue, and as we
Speaker 4: discussed last week, the Australian government, the current own government,
Speaker 4: still refuses to put forward a very strong justification to
Speaker 4: the Aucust project, and it looks as if somehow it's
Speaker 4: actually not committed to it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Dennis, So we'll take a break before
Speaker 1: we do. Elizabeth has called through from Brisbane with a
Speaker 1: traffic drama. Elizabeth, thank you for this. What can you
Speaker 1: tell me?
Speaker 7: There's a like a car's gone into a real estate
Speaker 7: on Logan Road at Mancrovit and and there's a car
Speaker 7: behind it smashed as well, and tree lanes are blocked
Speaker 7: all the way to Garden City.
Speaker 1: And do we have emergency services on the scene, Elizabeth,
Speaker 1: there is, yes, there is, Okay, Am I right in
Speaker 1: saying this is a corner of Logan Road and Selborne Street.
Speaker 8: That's the one.
Speaker 1: Okay, Thank you so much for calling and allowing us
Speaker 1: to share that news with people on the roads in Brisbane.
Speaker 1: Thanks Elizabeth A. Carr and theer A real estate agency
Speaker 1: blocked the corner of Logan Road in Silborne Street at
Speaker 1: Mount Gravat back in a moment. It's a quarter to
Speaker 1: ten and we're of course Dennis Shanahan Dennis Jim Chalmers
Speaker 1: has considered the budget is unsustainable, promised not to shoot
Speaker 1: down any ideas on tax reform, as the Productivity Commission
Speaker 1: suggests changes to the GST would help. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he's open to every suggestion, do you.
Speaker 4: No, he's not. Look, it was a very important speek.
Speaker 4: Squy the Treasurer at the Press Club in Cambera this week.
Speaker 4: While all the concentration was on what the Prime Minister
Speaker 4: was doing Israel and Ukraine and all the other defense issues,
Speaker 4: the economy continues to be a grave concern and the
Speaker 4: treasure of this week actually said without change, the budget
Speaker 4: is unsustainable.
Speaker 5: Now, this would have been nice to have heard about
Speaker 5: a little while earlier.
Speaker 4: You and I have been talking about productivity for as
Speaker 4: long as we've been on the show to get us
Speaker 4: and of course it is the big issue. The treasure
Speaker 4: has now come out and said, yes, it is the
Speaker 4: big issue. That's why the budget's not sustainable. We have
Speaker 4: to have tax reform and we have to actually increase productivity.
Speaker 4: Now how he goes about that is going to be
Speaker 4: the big issue. And can he continue to try and
Speaker 4: lift productivity while continuing to spend government spending is getting
Speaker 4: out of control and can he do it without introducing
Speaker 4: new taxes? Now, the Productivity Commission Commissioner has said today
Speaker 4: in Australian well, look we could look at the GST,
Speaker 4: actually increasing the GST and increasing the coverage of the
Speaker 4: GST as well as how we distribute it to the states.
Speaker 4: So this is a big issue. The Productivity Commission said
Speaker 4: we should look at The Treasurer also said, oh, look,
Speaker 4: he was going to stand by the tax, the capital
Speaker 4: gains tax on unrealized capital gains tax for people with superannulation,
Speaker 4: and that he said, no, no, we're not going to
Speaker 4: touch that.
Speaker 5: This is the idea that I hear.
Speaker 4: All things are on the table. He also, though obviously
Speaker 4: concerned about the fact that people are arguing that this
Speaker 4: unrealized superannuation tax, which is not indexed, will over ten
Speaker 4: years increase its grad to eight billion dollars as one
Speaker 4: estimate from today. And what we've seen already is fears
Speaker 4: that the capital gains tax could be applied to a
Speaker 4: family home or some inheritance tax. Now Jim Chalmers has
Speaker 4: said no, we're not going to touch a family home.
Speaker 4: We're not going to touch in inheritance or death tax.
Speaker 4: But he's leaving open the whole idea of family trusts
Speaker 4: and the continuing pressure on superannuation funds. At the moment,
Speaker 4: over three million is when you start paying the tax
Speaker 4: on unrealized capital gains and that that will just grow.
Speaker 4: So what we're seeing, on the one hand, the treasure
Speaker 4: is saying and trying to make a very bold statement,
Speaker 4: and it's about time somebody did it, to say that
Speaker 4: debt is deficit and lack of productivity means the budget
Speaker 4: is unsustainable. We're facing a decade of deficits. He says,
Speaker 4: something has to be done. He try and pull together
Speaker 4: a group of business leaders and union leaders and so
Speaker 4: on to try and do something about productivity. But the
Speaker 4: issue remains that there are still no go zones as
Speaker 4: far as he is concerned, while others are saying you're
Speaker 4: going to have to do much more than just put
Speaker 4: a tax on unrealized capital gains for superannuation. I think
Speaker 4: the Treasurer has been courageous here at the courageous in
Speaker 4: opening up the issue. He has admitted it's not sustainable.
Speaker 4: But what is he going to do and what can
Speaker 4: he do? These are big issues for the economy and
Speaker 4: for the new the newly elected labor government.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and with those taxes, it's it's not work starts,
Speaker 1: it's it's where it finishes. And that's that's the real concern.
Speaker 1: Are you are you heading away to your weekender on
Speaker 1: the Mediterranean?
Speaker 4: Not just yet, but I will be away and I'm
Speaker 4: very sorry to hear that today is our last night
Speaker 4: on Chat for a while, but I'll be I'll be
Speaker 4: around for a bit long yet before I head off
Speaker 4: right to the Apennines and the Italian Alps.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're lucky, lucky thing. Well, mate, I'll miss you
Speaker 1: for the four or five or six weeks for you
Speaker 1: don't get to talk. But of course I really enjoy
Speaker 1: talking to you, know that, Dennis. But we'll catch you
Speaker 1: when I'm back and you'll be on with Trent next week.
Speaker 1: Stay well, my friend.
Speaker 4: Stay well the week and have a good holiday.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks so much mate, And when you get to
Speaker 1: have on you too, Dennis Shanahan one three one eight
Speaker 1: seven three. That is the open line number you can
Speaker 1: text me. Lots of people have done that zero four
Speaker 1: six zero eight seven three eight seven three. We might
Speaker 1: get to some of that feedback after we take this
Speaker 1: break at ten to ten. It's six to ten, get
Speaker 1: a jesse.
Speaker 9: Hi, yall?
Speaker 1: Are you it really well? You got something going on
Speaker 1: in the Brisbane area today, do you?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely so. At the Animal Welfare League Queen Bank, we've
Speaker 3: got a community back kind of in davy Hill where
Speaker 3: we're offering three vaccinations to jogs under two years old today?
Speaker 1: What time is it? All day? Half the day?
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we're here till four o'clock and we're doing
Speaker 3: free vaccinations to annie dog under two years old as
Speaker 3: long as that owner lived in either Woodridge, Kingston, Inala,
Speaker 3: Collingwood Parks, Goodner or Red Blank Planes.
Speaker 1: Okay, and whereabouts is it happening?
Speaker 3: So it's our daisy Hill Community that clinic which is
Speaker 3: ten Old Chatwood Roads, just near Tender Disposals.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you Jesse for getting in touch and
Speaker 1: the fact we can help out some of our four
Speaker 1: BC listeners who might have a doggie is a great thing.
Speaker 1: Have a wonderful day. Thank you for getting in touch.
Speaker 1: And there'll be people listening to this show today at
Speaker 1: daisy Hill Community ve Clinics, the venue that wake up
Speaker 1: this morning and think, oh I wonder what I'll get
Speaker 1: from listening to Luky today. There'll be people with dogs
Speaker 1: under two going. You know what I got out of
Speaker 1: that today? Relieve aside the compelling humor and incisive political commentary,
Speaker 1: free vaccination. It's a gift from us to you. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of stuff we do here. Okay, five
Speaker 1: to ten now, it's a minute to ten o'clock after
Speaker 1: the news. Apart from speaking to a couple of listeners,
Speaker 1: I will speak with Lisa Seglov, the Ouzzie mum and
Speaker 1: lawyer living in Israel right now and asking her what
Speaker 1: it's like. We've been speaking to Lisa regularly since twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three October seventh, just after so we'll get to
Speaker 1: herm hope that she's keeping well. Simon's here too, Simon Stephenson.
Speaker 1: Amongst other things, we'll talk about window tinting and should
Speaker 1: you do it yourself, we'll get someone to do it
Speaker 1: for you, and does it make a difference. This is
Speaker 1: not your car but your home. So Simon will be
Speaker 1: here also take your DIY calls as well. On the text,
Speaker 1: Richard says Luke further to Dennis and the fibbing Treasurer,
Speaker 1: who knew Australia's budget problems before the third of May
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five federal election. He certainly did I mean
Speaker 1: to come out this week and say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: the budget's under pressure. The voters bribe of seventeen million
Speaker 1: dollars of taxpayers money to students owing hex cut immigration
Speaker 1: to seventy thousand for ten years. That'll cut taxpayer costs.
Speaker 1: Australians need to protest to every MP in march in
Speaker 1: the streets. Richard, thank you for getting in touch. It's
Speaker 1: almost ten years. Next Cross Australia. It's back to weekends
Speaker 1: with look grat good morning. I hope you're warming up
Speaker 1: a little bit on this very cold start of the
Speaker 1: day on Saturday one three one eight seven three. The
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Speaker 1: is click on the feedback icon. Just some news through
Speaker 1: A man's been charged with allegedly trying to possess thirty
Speaker 1: kilograms of cocaine after a wild police raid. This is
Speaker 1: a double bay. A footage showed a forty year old
Speaker 1: man being escorted away from a home on Holt Street
Speaker 1: a double bay Friday afternoon by undercover police dressed up
Speaker 1: as tradees. He's since been charged with attempting to possess
Speaker 1: a commercial quantity of unlawfully imported border controlled drugs. Police
Speaker 1: will allegend court he was the intended recipient of thirty
Speaker 1: kilos of cocaine imported by a criminal criminal syndicate offshore,
Speaker 1: and had traveled to a quote unquote dead drop in
Speaker 1: Alexandria on Friday to collect what he believed to be
Speaker 1: the drugs. Dead drops are a secret location where items
Speaker 1: such as cash and illicit drugs are left for other
Speaker 1: people to collect. The police had intercepted the delivery and
Speaker 1: replaced the alleged cocaine with an inert substance, according to
Speaker 1: the AFP. The AFP will allege the man removed a
Speaker 1: sports bar containing the thirty kilos of the substitute material
Speaker 1: and then returned to his home in Double Bay. Wild
Speaker 1: footage has shown undercover officers raiding the multi million dollar home.
Speaker 1: Number of cars pulled up on a hurry. Bunch of
Speaker 1: undercover cops dressed as trade's jumped out. A neighbors said
Speaker 1: some crew and substantial gear were basically just belting on
Speaker 1: the door, ramming it trying to get access. As his
Speaker 1: situation developed, the neighbors said the street became a hub
Speaker 1: of police activity. Sounds like one of those cop shows,
Speaker 1: doesn't it. Anyway? They got their person. One three one
Speaker 1: eight seven three is the open line number. David says
Speaker 1: good ay, Luke. I normally listened to you from Shanghai,
Speaker 1: but today I'm listening to you from Taiwan. Well, David,
Speaker 1: I know you listened from Shanghai because I look forward
Speaker 1: to communicates. Thank you for tuning in wherever you are.
Speaker 1: Good day, Luke. Politicians lighter us every opportunity. They sit
Speaker 1: out the front of the church whenever the opportunity arises.
Speaker 1: Very good point. Thank you, Joy says good day, Luke.
Speaker 1: I listen to you every Saturday. You're my favorite. Oh
Speaker 1: thank you. You keep me company while my husband's playing golf.
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Speaker 1: Joy very much indeed for listening.
Speaker 11: Good a Colin Luke, love your show mate, Thank you mate.
Speaker 12: Well, the wife and I three years ago had the
Speaker 12: privilege to go over to will A tour to willpeen
Speaker 12: A Pound in South Australia too. There's a little village there,
Speaker 12: a motel, absolutely spot on beautiful, run by the Aboriginals.
Speaker 12: And also they gave us a speech in the middle
Speaker 12: of this football ground and they said the first thing
Speaker 12: he said, now, you don't do we don't do any
Speaker 12: of that's making. So that's something that oh well his
Speaker 12: name escapes me. Now that had the TV show does
Speaker 12: it on the TV only board that in a few you're.
Speaker 1: Talking about Ernie Ernie Dingo.
Speaker 12: Then he said, that's our flag, not the one that's
Speaker 12: hanging over the harbor bridge. There was a green flag
Speaker 12: if some sort it had a bit of age to it, okay,
Speaker 12: And I thought that with the Lydia thought one the
Speaker 12: other day. I thought, you know, I couldn't do anything
Speaker 12: but recommend this place for people to go. There's toores
Speaker 12: out of there and that's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: So it's called Willpina.
Speaker 12: The way things really are.
Speaker 1: So what's it called will Pena Now, yeah, Colin, can't
Speaker 1: hear me, I heard you, mate, clear as a bell,
Speaker 1: but for some reason you couldn't hear me. I think
Speaker 1: it was Can we just check the name of that
Speaker 1: Will Peena. It is Willpina w I l pe n a.
Speaker 1: Thank you Colin, and thank you for listening. Stephanie, good morning.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Luke. It has been said Lerk that when
Speaker 10: factions dealing in fictions, if they do that, they will
Speaker 10: suffer from frictions and break into fractions. And thus it
Speaker 10: is with the Liberal Party, whether it's New South Wales
Speaker 10: or Victoria predominantly, and they so expertly have demonstrated, certainly
Speaker 10: from Victoria of the last day or so, how they
Speaker 10: can shoot themselves in one foot and then two feet
Speaker 10: and then blow their heads off. So with the issue
Speaker 10: down in Victoria, with pursuito, that very little dishonorable man,
Speaker 10: I must say, pursuito or the pursuito or ham of politics,
Speaker 10: Chaddie's bacon saved by the Liberal Party members who've kept
Speaker 10: in the money to get this man out of hock,
Speaker 10: the hock of his own doing, because he was found
Speaker 10: to have defamed a good and decent and honorable woman
Speaker 10: by portraying her as a Nazi sympathizer. Could anything worse
Speaker 10: be said about anybody? And yet this individual, this little
Speaker 10: pipsqueak of nobody, has refused to apologize to her, would
Speaker 10: not meet any of her very generous offers initially before
Speaker 10: they went to court, and has relied on his mates
Speaker 10: like Jeff Kennet and the rest of them to back
Speaker 10: him up, and they did to the hills. So if
Speaker 10: I were a Liberal Party member down in Victoria, I'd
Speaker 10: be pretty ropeable that my money was going to this man,
Speaker 10: this little individual, who wouldn't in the honorable way mortgage's
Speaker 10: house to get himself out of his own debt, but
Speaker 10: relies on other people to do it. So is it
Speaker 10: any wonder that the Liberal Party is breaking apart when
Speaker 10: you see this happened. They put that woman at PURSUITO
Speaker 10: and Kennett and the rest of the mob through two
Speaker 10: years of in tolerable stress, completely Laura Deeming and her family,
Speaker 10: and it is absolutely insupportable that the Liberal Party can
Speaker 10: exist under those conditions. So they're breaking into fractions. Then
Speaker 10: you look at New South Wales and there was a
Speaker 10: illustrating this brilliantly Warren Mundy and had a peace in
Speaker 10: the fin Review a couple of weeks ago, and he
Speaker 10: reminded that in it that he'd been in the Labor
Speaker 10: Party for decades, including as its national president, but then
Speaker 10: joined the Libs in something like twenty nineteen, and he said,
Speaker 10: while he was in the Labor Party, we all knew
Speaker 10: and everyone else did. The factional brawling there is absolutely brutal.
Speaker 10: But he said I never saw factions actively undermine each other,
Speaker 10: so the point of losing a seat or members portraying
Speaker 10: their own faction with no consequence, but said, I've seen
Speaker 10: and experienced both in the Liberal Party. And he tells
Speaker 10: us then about the relentless pursuit and undermining of federal leaders,
Speaker 10: the ill discipline, the distrust to the point of paranoia,
Speaker 10: and the liberate sabotage and sometimes just plaid in competence.
Speaker 10: You'll remember, I'm sure as everyone else will, but the
Speaker 10: Liberal Party executive New South Wales somehow a while back
Speaker 10: couldn't even organize the nomination paperwork for one hundred and forty
Speaker 10: endorsed car so call government. There are plenty who would
Speaker 10: say it wasn't just in competence carefully related to do that,
Speaker 10: so they couldn't get a Conservative candidate up there. He
Speaker 10: finishes his piece by saying that receptor quote screw up.
Speaker 10: Administrators were appointed and at least two federal elections now
Speaker 10: we've seen inexplicably delayed pre selections, well not inexplicable my view,
Speaker 10: and candidates selected or replaced at the last minute, so
Speaker 10: he said, and left the Liberal Party can stand up
Speaker 10: and have the courage to stand up for what you
Speaker 10: believe and take your authentic message to voters. Forget it,
Speaker 10: you're done and you're gone. And I would totally agree
Speaker 10: with that. You've got Susan lay now with the woke
Speaker 10: green left in the Liberal Party and just going back
Speaker 10: to Warren, they refused pre select this outstanding man and
Speaker 10: put their preferred woke green left woman Gisel something or
Speaker 10: another in there, and the same they did the same
Speaker 10: thing to Jim Moland. That extraordinary to see Liberal Party. Well,
Speaker 10: it entered the Liberal and if they think the Conservatives
Speaker 10: are coming back to vote for you ever again, then
Speaker 10: you know you've blown your head off. No brains, you
Speaker 10: can't think you don't know what you're doing, but you're
Speaker 10: just a hears rabbel and pursuito. You are the prime
Speaker 10: example of what is wrong with the Liberal Party.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, look and look beautiful youth. I've got to say,
Speaker 1: Stephanie of hock pursuto' ham and Bacon, You're on a roll.
Speaker 1: I was wondering what cut was coming next. I couldn't
Speaker 1: agree with you more. I could not agree with you more.
Speaker 1: And I've got plenty of grief about referring to the
Speaker 1: Liberal Party of New South Wales as the clown show.
Speaker 1: And as Stephanie says, it is a factions lead to fractions,
Speaker 1: brilliant words. Not even a third of Australians could bring
Speaker 1: themselves to put the Liberal Party first on a ballot paper.
Speaker 1: After winning so many of the previous elections federally, they
Speaker 1: have almost not quite almost become irrelevant. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of work to do and whether they can win people
Speaker 1: back is still very much up in the air. Great call, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: Love it to chat to you. It's eighteen after ten.
Speaker 1: This is Weekends with Luke Grant. Thank you for your company.
Speaker 1: I want to get to Israel now and just near
Speaker 1: the city of Tel Aviv now. As you know, Tel
Speaker 1: Aviv can be one of the safest and most picturetque
Speaker 1: spots in the Middle East, renowned for its vibrancy, modernity
Speaker 1: and coastal charm, but now, of course, residents are living
Speaker 1: in fear. Night after night, bombs fired by the nuclear
Speaker 1: fixated Iranian regime rained down on the city. Now you
Speaker 1: might know for some time, I've been chatting with an
Speaker 1: Aussie mum and lawyer living in Israel, Lisa Segalov, since
Speaker 1: just after October seven, twenty twenty three, and I've been
Speaker 1: unceasingly amazed at her intelligence, of bravery and her good
Speaker 1: humor amidst what's been a very difficult few years. Find
Speaker 1: out what life looks like in Tel Aviv or need
Speaker 1: to it right now, I'm delighted to say that Lisa
Speaker 1: Segalov is on the line. Lisa, thank you for your time.
Speaker 1: I hope you're okay.
Speaker 8: Thanks, Luke.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's been pretty scary days, the last eight days
Speaker 9: of this fourth.
Speaker 1: So how close has the action been to you.
Speaker 9: Lisa, I It's relatively close. I live like thirty k's
Speaker 9: from Tel Aviv, and.
Speaker 8: Actually I worked in Tel Aviv.
Speaker 9: Yees today I received it was Thursday I received morning.
Speaker 9: I noticed not to come to work because the fallout
Speaker 9: from one of the missiles had hit our buildings, so
Speaker 9: the top three floors, all the windows have blown out
Speaker 9: and glasses everywhere. So we were told to stay home
Speaker 9: and not to come near the building.
Speaker 8: So it's pretty close.
Speaker 9: Somen get closer than that, really.
Speaker 1: No, you're right, Are the attacks all the time? Have
Speaker 1: they only adnired during the day? When does this most
Speaker 1: often occur?
Speaker 9: Well, it's really any time. There's been at all hours,
Speaker 9: either early.
Speaker 8: In the morning during the day, five o'clock, eight o'clock
Speaker 8: in the.
Speaker 9: Evening, and quite a lot at night. There were some
Speaker 9: lights where we had three or four times where we
Speaker 9: had to go to the shelter, which, of course you
Speaker 9: don't get very much sleep.
Speaker 8: So for about a week we didn't get a lot
Speaker 8: of sleep.
Speaker 9: Last night was the first night that we actually got
Speaker 9: straight seven hours in the center of the country. Sometimes
Speaker 9: the warnings go to the north or the south, and
Speaker 9: so those areas only have to run too shelters, and
Speaker 9: sometimes it's the whole country, and sometimes it's just the center.
Speaker 9: And when we get a warning, now.
Speaker 8: We've got up to ten minutes, we get a warning on.
Speaker 9: Our phone that said miss also been launched from run
Speaker 9: and then at ninety seconds in the center of the country,
Speaker 9: there is a siren.
Speaker 8: And you run to your safe room.
Speaker 9: If you don't have a safe room in your home,
Speaker 9: you have to run down. If you're in an apartment building,
Speaker 9: it's usually on the basement floor, and if you don't
Speaker 9: have one in your apartment's building, then you can run
Speaker 9: to a public shelter. Train stations and underground car parks
Speaker 9: have been converted into places where you can seek shelter,
Speaker 9: and lots of people have set up mattresses there with
Speaker 9: sheeps so their children can.
Speaker 8: Spend the night there. So it's a real thing.
Speaker 1: What does a shelter typically look like it Is it
Speaker 1: just a bare below ground concrete enforced room. Is that
Speaker 1: what it is?
Speaker 9: Well, for instance, we've got one in our house because
Speaker 9: all houses that were built up in nineteen ninety two
Speaker 9: have to have a shelter in the house. So it's
Speaker 9: a reinforced concrete room with the door that you can
Speaker 9: close and seal, and many people use it for different things.
Speaker 9: Most people use it for an extra bedroom, and so
Speaker 9: most people that have one in their home have set
Speaker 9: it up so that with mattresses on the floor and
Speaker 9: you know, water and things like that, so that they
Speaker 9: can stay there. Most kids are sleeping in their shelters,
Speaker 9: so at least the kids are sort of getting a
Speaker 9: full night sleep because they don't really know when the
Speaker 9: siren's golf purse there asleep. But more than as I said,
Speaker 9: more than fifty percent of people don't have shelters in
Speaker 9: their home, so they're all running there, running downstairs of
Speaker 9: an apartment building to get to a basement where there
Speaker 9: is a shelter, or they're staying in a in a
Speaker 9: space like the light rail stations or underground car parks
Speaker 9: where they can seek shelter.
Speaker 1: Right, what about the thoughts of the people understanding, of
Speaker 1: course that Iran has made it clear that they want
Speaker 1: to see the end of Israel, and the fact that
Speaker 1: they were enriching uranium nuclear fuel is a great concern.
Speaker 1: So the argument is that unless the Israelis did this,
Speaker 1: then they'd have to do with much worse consequences. Is
Speaker 1: that have you most of you share and do you
Speaker 1: support what the government's done?
Speaker 9: Yes, I think equivocally the majority of Israelis are for
Speaker 9: the current actions. You know, there's no doubt that Iran
Speaker 9: is one of the most dangerous regimes in the world,
Speaker 9: and giving them one of the most dangerous weapons. A
Speaker 9: nuclear bomb for Israel is an exerc a total threat
Speaker 9: to his existence. There is no doubt that they want
Speaker 9: to wipe Israel off the face of the map.
Speaker 8: And there is.
Speaker 9: Also no doubt that they have reached the point of
Speaker 9: enrichment where they can enrich the uranium and turn it
Speaker 9: now into the coin production. I turned it into a
Speaker 9: nuclear bomb.
Speaker 8: So it's very.
Speaker 9: Important that we stop this process. And indeed we've made
Speaker 9: a very big dent in the process as well, as
Speaker 9: they're eliminating a lot of their ballistic missulets and other
Speaker 9: missiles that they have which they can use and are
Speaker 9: using against us.
Speaker 1: So do you imagine that America will join with Israel?
Speaker 1: And is that the view of people around you that
Speaker 1: in fact, the US will get involved or do you
Speaker 1: think once again Israel will do the heavy lifting on
Speaker 1: its own.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure about that one. Not sure.
Speaker 9: President Donald Trump is unpredictable.
Speaker 8: We do not know that what he will do.
Speaker 9: There are wider consequences of American actions. It is very
Speaker 9: clear that the Iranian current regime is not only anti Israel,
Speaker 9: it's anti American, anti democratic democracy, and I you know,
Speaker 9: President Trump knows that, but to be involved he has
Speaker 9: to consider wider consequences. I have no doubt that he
Speaker 9: will support Israel and is supporting Israel in every action
Speaker 9: that they are taking against Iran at the moment. But
Speaker 9: whether he will be involved, I don't know. It's a
Speaker 9: continuing story that's been revealed every.
Speaker 1: Day you and I over the several years now we've
Speaker 1: been talking. You've shared with us the fact that you've
Speaker 1: got three adult children who, at various times observed in
Speaker 1: the defense forces. Of those people, have they been called up,
Speaker 1: so to speak, or are they away from having to
Speaker 1: serve right now?
Speaker 9: They're at home now and lots of reserve forces have
Speaker 9: been called up. Fortunately they haven't been called up at
Speaker 9: the moment, don't know when they will be. And my daughter,
Speaker 9: who's the youngest, is currently doing her three year national service,
Speaker 9: so she's still in the army.
Speaker 1: Goodness goodness, me must be difficult to cope with. Or
Speaker 1: do you get used to it?
Speaker 7: I don't think you.
Speaker 9: Ever really get used to it.
Speaker 8: It's just it's something we live with. But you don't
Speaker 8: get used to it.
Speaker 9: You're always worried about them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when when we spoke originally following the horrific her
Speaker 1: mass attacks, that was a different kind of concern. The
Speaker 1: whole world, with the exception of a few predictable types,
Speaker 1: widely condemned what was perpetrated amongst all those beautiful, innocent Israelis.
Speaker 1: And of course we knew that there were continuing efforts
Speaker 1: by Hamas to destroy Israel. Does it feel more or
Speaker 1: less safe now with the Iranian conflict?
Speaker 9: The Iranian conflict is totally different from what happened on
Speaker 9: October the seventh. It's a very scary thing to be
Speaker 9: inside what you a concrete room, a concrete shelter, probably
Speaker 9: what you would describe as a concrete manker, and here
Speaker 9: massive booms go above you.
Speaker 8: You know, which you think are above.
Speaker 9: You, but they could be twenty thirty miles away from you,
Speaker 9: and there's just you don't know what's going to happen.
Speaker 9: You don't know if they've been intercepted. The majority are intercepted,
Speaker 9: but you know, unfortunately there are some that do get through.
Speaker 9: And there have been twenty four people killed in the
Speaker 9: last eight days from missile attacks, and another six thousand
Speaker 9: have been homeless from damage to their property, their home
Speaker 9: so that they cannot return and we've had about a
Speaker 9: thousand people that have been wounded, most of them slightly,
Speaker 9: not critically. So it's a serious thing and it's a
Speaker 9: very scary thing. October seventh was a totally different experience.
Speaker 9: Both of them tragic, both of them quite scary, both
Speaker 9: of them ex estential threats to Israel, but in a
Speaker 9: very different way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got to let you go. But before I do,
Speaker 1: you've heard no doubt and seen some world leaders talk
Speaker 1: about moderation and de escalation and the like. It seems
Speaker 1: to me that their words don't resonate certainly with the
Speaker 1: people in Iran or the Iran Iranian leadership. It seems like,
Speaker 1: I guess words used to fill the vacuum. What's going
Speaker 1: to happen here? How does this resolve itself?
Speaker 9: If it can, well you have to have a parenty
Speaker 9: that comes to the table and to say that, yes,
Speaker 9: Israel can exist, I'm not going to wipe you out,
Speaker 9: and America can exist. And we do recognize the countries
Speaker 9: and their principles and they're moral values.
Speaker 8: Let's talk.
Speaker 9: If you're saying that, I'm going you know, our aim is.
Speaker 8: To wipe out Israel. The story is ral completely and.
Speaker 9: Whatever Americans we can come after in the process, we
Speaker 9: will get that.
Speaker 8: Then there's no way.
Speaker 9: That we can have a dialogue until is a change.
Speaker 9: And I believe that there will be a change in
Speaker 9: the major already of countries and we will see greater
Speaker 9: peace between a lot of the countries. But until Iran,
Speaker 9: in the regime in Iran, makes that change, I'm not
Speaker 9: sure that they can do that with the current leadership.
Speaker 9: In fact, I don't think they can do it with
Speaker 9: the current leadership. Then we don't have a choice in
Speaker 9: what we're doing. We started talking after October seventh, and
Speaker 9: at that time there were almost two hundred hostages that
Speaker 9: Hamas had taken. Today we still have fifty three Israeli
Speaker 9: hostages in Gaza, twenty one of which we believe are alive,
Speaker 9: and we.
Speaker 10: Need to have them back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, obvious thing to say. Stay safe, Locks of love,
Speaker 1: We'll talk again, Lisa.
Speaker 8: Thanks, Luke, same to you.
Speaker 1: Ye Ray It's twenty two to eleven. Just a couple
Speaker 1: of text messages, Angela says, thanks for the wonderful educational interview.
Speaker 1: Thank you Angela very much. Indeed, Luke sending Lisa Sidney's
Speaker 1: Jewish Communities prayers and best wishes. Thank you, Dorothy and Maria.
Speaker 1: Please stop with the Israeli propaganda. Why don't you get
Speaker 1: subject matter experts on? Well, she's living there, Maria, I mean, really,
Speaker 1: what sort of a half would say get an expert?
Speaker 1: What get someone from a local university or speak to
Speaker 1: someone and tell Aviv you do the mathematics. Please give
Speaker 1: me a break. And Emily, thank you for your note.
Speaker 1: We're thinking of your morning, Luke. My husband's in Israel
Speaker 1: visiting family. Just sent me a message. They're in a
Speaker 1: bomb shelter now at Rishon. Not to you back for
Speaker 1: a few weeks, but hoping it'll be over by then. Well,
Speaker 1: we're thinking of Cindy. Thank you for getting in touch
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Speaker 13: Hello mate, you're well I'm well, thank you good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not too bad at all. We wanted to start
Speaker 1: off by talking about window tinting. I nearly said, tindo winting.
Speaker 1: I don't know why, but I nearly did. Can I
Speaker 1: make a real difference to the temperature on the house.
Speaker 1: It gets you if we've got full sun and you
Speaker 1: don't want it.
Speaker 14: You know what, do you know what's amazing. We get
Speaker 14: our cars window tinted, don't we. Yeah, and we do
Speaker 14: that for temperature and a little bit of privacy too,
Speaker 14: and it's the same with your home.
Speaker 13: I had a house years ago.
Speaker 14: I had windows facing directly east and in the morning,
Speaker 14: that land room used to get so hot. I had
Speaker 14: window tinting done and I ended up taking all the
Speaker 14: blinds down, and it was amazing because we had a
Speaker 14: bit of a view and we were able to take
Speaker 14: the blinds down because the blinds were there to try
Speaker 14: and stop the heat coming into the room. And it
Speaker 14: just made a massive difference. I reckon at least ten
Speaker 14: degrees difference in the mornings in that lound room, so
Speaker 14: my air conditioner didn't have to work so hard. And
Speaker 14: you know the other thing is there's so many different
Speaker 14: tints now from almost completely clear tint. So if you
Speaker 14: do have a view, the clear tint is there and
Speaker 14: it's designed you know, obviously it's not going to put
Speaker 14: a darkness on the windows. But what it does is
Speaker 14: it stops the UV coming through the glass, and the
Speaker 14: amounts of UV that comes through from the sun can
Speaker 14: damage things like carpet, timber, flooring, furniture, even curtains themselves.
Speaker 14: If you have curtains up for many years, they will
Speaker 14: break down from the UV where they'll just tend to
Speaker 14: fall apart. So thinking about getting your windows tinted can
Speaker 14: make a huge, huge difference to your home.
Speaker 1: Is it something you can do yourself or should you
Speaker 1: get an expert or trading or someone to do it
Speaker 1: for you.
Speaker 14: There are tints available at hardware stores that you can
Speaker 14: get yourself, but truly, I've tried to do it. It's
Speaker 14: not as easy as it looks, okay, like really, because.
Speaker 1: It is a thin film, isn't it. You've got to
Speaker 1: be and it's full of glue.
Speaker 14: So it's a thin film, yes, so you know you've
Speaker 14: got to be able to cut it to size.
Speaker 13: Your glass has.
Speaker 14: To be perfectly clean as well, so you've got to
Speaker 14: make sure that you run over the glass with a
Speaker 14: blade to clean any sort of imperfections off. You know,
Speaker 14: it's quite time consuming and to watch the professionals do it.
Speaker 13: It's one of those jobs where you know, there's a few.
Speaker 14: Jobs tiling rendering, obviously electrical and plumbing, but also window tinting,
Speaker 14: which I think are one of those ones to leave
Speaker 14: the professionals, definitely, but definitely worth looking at. And if
Speaker 14: you do have old window tint and you want to
Speaker 14: get it off, if it's starting to break down, because
Speaker 14: it does have a lifespan, put newspaper onto the glass internally,
Speaker 14: because window tints always apply from inside. Put newspaper on
Speaker 14: the glass and then spray it with water and keep
Speaker 14: it wet for a good while, an hour or so,
Speaker 14: and then that that tint will just peel right off you.
Speaker 14: Is that right, That's a simple solution to get it, Okay?
Speaker 1: I didn't know that, all right? One three one eight
Speaker 1: seven three Grace, good morning. How can we help you?
Speaker 15: Oh, good morning, Luke and Simon morning. Problem in the
Speaker 15: shower recess one tile, the one that you tend to
Speaker 15: step on to getting in, is losing its surface ceramic
Speaker 15: and revealing the terra cotta color of the tile underneath.
Speaker 13: Okay, that's unusual.
Speaker 14: I mean the tiles are usually they got a glaze
Speaker 14: or something on them, and they shouldn't normally lose that.
Speaker 13: And I don't know why one one tile would.
Speaker 14: Have you tried giving it a really good clean to
Speaker 14: make sure that it is definitely losing its sheen.
Speaker 15: Just yes, yes, you can pick up a little flivver
Speaker 15: of it.
Speaker 13: All right, So it's obviously breaking down.
Speaker 14: And look, whether you can get a tiler to come
Speaker 14: in and replace one tile, it may be a little
Speaker 14: bit difficult.
Speaker 13: The other option would.
Speaker 14: Be maybe to paint that tile, and you need to
Speaker 14: use a two pack of POxy.
Speaker 13: Something from an r glass or something.
Speaker 14: You could fill it and then paint it so it
Speaker 14: could match the tiles that are already there.
Speaker 13: So that is another option to think about.
Speaker 15: Oh do golly? So, yes, it wouldn't be a good
Speaker 15: idea to try and remove one tile, would Look.
Speaker 14: The problem you've got is if you're removing a floor
Speaker 14: tile that you're stepping on, you're then compromising the waterproof
Speaker 14: membrane underneath. So you're better off trying to repair it
Speaker 14: if possible.
Speaker 1: Okay, good luck, Grace, thank you for calling. On the
Speaker 1: text Gdeluke and Simon. A few weeks ago, Simon spoke
Speaker 1: about a sealer for putting in small cracks on concrete driveway. Simon,
Speaker 1: could you please mention the product name again, Dug on
Speaker 1: the Gold Coast.
Speaker 13: Okay, Doug.
Speaker 14: It was called ePIE Res one two three, so ep
Speaker 14: i r z epi Res one two three. And it
Speaker 14: comes in like a tomato sauce bottle with a little tube,
Speaker 14: you know, and you just squirt it into that crack.
Speaker 14: It seeps the way down and what you do is
Speaker 14: you keep going back and forth to the crack till
Speaker 14: it will not accept anymore.
Speaker 13: It does then foam up.
Speaker 14: A little bit and fill that crack up, and it
Speaker 14: will then give it full strength back to normal.
Speaker 1: And does it when it foams up, does it go
Speaker 1: outside of the crack? Do you end up having it sound? Yeah?
Speaker 13: Look, we did, we did it.
Speaker 14: We did a garage floor where we did end up
Speaker 14: sanding that because we ended up putting a coating over
Speaker 14: the top of the garage floor afterwards. And that depends
Speaker 14: on the size of the crack too. That is designed
Speaker 14: for hairline cracks or bigger just a little bit bigger.
Speaker 14: You're not going to do something ten mils wide with.
Speaker 1: That, Okay? And what's it called again?
Speaker 13: EPI res one two?
Speaker 1: Okay, Simon, I have an outdoor table that's stained and sealed.
Speaker 1: I want to paint it. What prep is required? And
Speaker 1: can I use water based paint?
Speaker 13: Okay?
Speaker 14: Yes, you can use a water based paint if it
Speaker 14: is stained and sealed. I would use an oil based
Speaker 14: primer on their first, So sand the coating. Make sure
Speaker 14: that you have got a solid surface to work from.
Speaker 14: Then use something you can use either the nor Glass
Speaker 14: Universal Primer their primer, or you can use something like Zinza.
Speaker 14: Cover stain is another product you could use, and then
Speaker 14: you can go over wa the water base. I would
Speaker 14: go with a water based enamel. It's going to be
Speaker 14: a little bit harder wearing than just something like a
Speaker 14: du lux weather shield, because when you put plates and
Speaker 14: cups and things down, you want it to be a
Speaker 14: little bit harder wearing.
Speaker 1: Okay, good on your David, Hope that helps. Now give
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Speaker 1: eleven o'clock. Patricia, Good morning to you. How can we
Speaker 1: assist to you?
Speaker 16: Good morning, Simon and Luke. I'd like to ask how
Speaker 16: what to do to the surface of tinted windows that
Speaker 16: have already have a Marx on them. But there's been
Speaker 16: a painter in and there are marks from the painter
Speaker 16: and there's just a mars on the tinted surface. It's
Speaker 16: been there a few years.
Speaker 17: And I don't want to remove it.
Speaker 14: Okay, Simon, do you know if it is a water
Speaker 14: based paint that he's got on there, or if it
Speaker 14: is an oil based paint. Do you know that whether
Speaker 14: he's got what's on the surface of the tint.
Speaker 16: Yes, it's the water based paint.
Speaker 18: Okay, well, no it's no, it's not no, No, the
Speaker 18: windows were done with oil based the window frame.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Unfortunately, if it's on the tint, there's nothing you can
Speaker 14: do to get it off. There's there's no remover that's
Speaker 14: going to take that off that won't damage the tint.
Speaker 14: So unfortunately, I think you're going to have to get
Speaker 14: the windows reach inted again. If it was water based,
Speaker 14: I could definitely help you there, but oil based no way.
Speaker 18: Can you tell me what if it's water based from
Speaker 18: the plastering that's done earlier and not the other because
Speaker 18: there's been both tradesmen here. What would I do if
Speaker 18: before the water.
Speaker 14: Based paint, if you can get to a Mito ten
Speaker 14: store or an Inspiration paints or something, get a product.
Speaker 13: Called lift Off and it.
Speaker 14: Has got an acrylic paint remover and try spraying some
Speaker 14: one a cloth and rubbing it on the surface. Just
Speaker 14: try an inconspicuous area first, just to you know, just
Speaker 14: so it doesn't checked, it doesn't damage the tent, but
Speaker 14: it should work.
Speaker 1: Okay. What's that called lift So lift.
Speaker 14: Off and it is the acrylic paint remover of it,
Speaker 14: so it works.
Speaker 1: Really really well now this night from Lisa. Thank you Lisa.
Speaker 1: We were hoping to lay laminade floorboards over our existing
Speaker 1: timber floor, the original ones when we bought the house.
Speaker 1: But the floor isn't level so the new boards won't
Speaker 1: be flush and the installers can't give a guarantee on them.
Speaker 1: What options do we have other than ripping up the
Speaker 1: existing boards and replacing them. We have the option of tiling.
Speaker 1: How does that work on existing flawing? Is that easier
Speaker 1: with regards to our leveling issue?
Speaker 14: Okay, so you can't tile over floorboards. It has to
Speaker 14: be like a cement sheet to get tile over. Otherwise
Speaker 14: those those tiles will crack when it comes to your
Speaker 14: floorboards that you're putting over the top. There are self
Speaker 14: leveling products, but I don't know how that's going to
Speaker 14: go sticking to the floorboards either. So land Co make
Speaker 14: a self leveling product. I would contact land Co themselves.
Speaker 14: It's available at the hardware stores and ask them if
Speaker 14: you can put that over a timber floor. And what
Speaker 14: you do is you mix up at a bucket and
Speaker 14: pour it. It's self levels over that surface. So that's
Speaker 14: what they use for leveling. Your other option is maybe
Speaker 14: try a vinyl People forget about vinyl. Vinyl is amazing
Speaker 14: option and you can get it.
Speaker 13: That looks like timber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 14: It's warm under the feet, it's a bit softer than timber.
Speaker 14: Before you can spill a bucket of water and it's
Speaker 14: not going to be affected. I really think people, you know.
Speaker 13: Just forget about vinyl all the time. It's not like
Speaker 13: the sixties.
Speaker 1: No, I showed you those hybrid square hybrid vinyl granite
Speaker 1: looking flooring I put on in the in the laundry,
Speaker 1: and you are so right, and you think vinyl vinyl
Speaker 1: I'm not going to put liner doesn't have to be
Speaker 1: that at all.
Speaker 14: It's nothing like what it was in the sixties. I mean,
Speaker 14: there is ones that look that you and I were
Speaker 14: around in the sixties. Absolutely, that's only going on what
Speaker 14: people tell us.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, all right, So vinyl is an option and land
Speaker 1: cover is it L A n C O to get right?
Speaker 13: Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, Peter, good morning.
Speaker 5: Good morning.
Speaker 17: How are you going?
Speaker 1: Good?
Speaker 17: Good good, Yeah, thanks for taking a call. Look, there's
Speaker 17: there's this year I've got with some walls in you know,
Speaker 17: get it. So there were some al pierce of the
Speaker 17: roof because water water was coming down the walls. Yep,
Speaker 17: that's been repaired. It's been painted through the insurance. But
Speaker 17: now when we look at the wall, there seems to
Speaker 17: be it looks like water marks still down the wall. Okay,
Speaker 17: even though it's been painted, yep, but it doesn't seem
Speaker 17: to be wet.
Speaker 13: All right.
Speaker 14: I'm just wondering when you say water marks is when
Speaker 14: you say water marks is like a brown light brown
Speaker 14: stain coming through something like that brown.
Speaker 17: What you what it looks like. It looks like it's streaking.
Speaker 17: It's like a lighter color.
Speaker 14: Okay, So what what I'd say is happening is you're
Speaker 14: getting something bleeding through that paint. They've probably just gone
Speaker 14: straight over with an acrylic paint. You need to prime
Speaker 14: that surface with a stained seiler something like the Zinza.
Speaker 13: Bin b I N.
Speaker 14: That's completely going to solve that issue. And then you
Speaker 14: go over with the acrylic paint. So whoever did the
Speaker 14: paint hasn't done the job properly. They haven't solved the
Speaker 14: stain issue first, Okay, if you've got to go back
Speaker 14: and do that, go back. Yeah, So I'd contact the
Speaker 14: insurance company. And so listen, that's this is not right.
Speaker 13: It needs to be fixed properly.
Speaker 1: Okay, right, see how you go with that, Peter. Now, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get time to get to our
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Speaker 1: It's back to weekends with Luke Grant. Good morning, thank
Speaker 1: you for listening. It's good to be with you on
Speaker 1: this twenty first day of June. Cold one seven three
Speaker 1: is the number to call here. A cold wheather never
Speaker 1: gets called out, only hot temperatures. They get a run,
Speaker 1: don't they. We notice that if you've got an eye
Speaker 1: on what's happening on planet Earth. As an in drinking
Speaker 1: story in the other I want to get to it
Speaker 1: in a moment or two. But we try to help
Speaker 1: listeners as best we can. And I've got a listener
Speaker 1: online who's ringing from Sydney, who I won't identify because
Speaker 1: it's it's best to keep these issues private. But thank
Speaker 1: you for calling through. Your mum is at the border
Speaker 1: in Iran. Is Is that right.
Speaker 3: Hi, luk Yah. Yes, she's seventy years old, she's alone
Speaker 3: and she's been in the She's an Australian citizen. She's
Speaker 3: been a nurse a midwife for forty years in Sydney
Speaker 3: and for the last she's been an educator of facilitated
Speaker 3: teaching nurses in universities in the hospitals across Sydney and
Speaker 3: now she needs help.
Speaker 1: So what in relation to what defact are doing? And
Speaker 1: I can't imagine the significance or how difficult this would be.
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not going to go to the border
Speaker 1: and find a NAUSI they're here to help. Let's get
Speaker 1: you out of here. It must be very difficult. So
Speaker 1: what has she been told she should do and what
Speaker 1: kind of help has been for bying?
Speaker 3: What's been what's been said? You know the crisis line
Speaker 3: in Sydney, we thought this is great. You know, for
Speaker 3: a week we've registered her there and put all the
Speaker 3: details as they requested and we've been telling them, look,
Speaker 3: she's got it's a six hour, six hour journey for
Speaker 3: her to make it to that border. It's the closest line.
Speaker 3: It's the one that the Australian Ambssy used to get
Speaker 3: out of. It's the one that's been saying. They've been
Speaker 3: telling people to go to Australian citizens and you know
Speaker 3: with ten leaders of Petrol, you know they've been giving
Speaker 3: them lining up from the morning till night to get
Speaker 3: ten leaders the petrol and I don't even know how
Speaker 3: this woman has done it, and she's she's gotten herself there.
Speaker 3: She can't have there's no way back, and then there's
Speaker 3: not no way forward. What we understood was that the
Speaker 3: government and the MBSC were on the other side of
Speaker 3: the border and they were facilitating the process as her
Speaker 3: you know, the media here and they're telling her you
Speaker 3: need authorization from the Australian government. So on the cross
Speaker 3: crisis line they know what is required. But I don't
Speaker 3: know where the breakdown is here. I mean the idea
Speaker 3: was we gave them, you know, a few days notice,
Speaker 3: and we've been continually telling them this old woman he's
Speaker 3: coming through, please, you know, make it clear for her
Speaker 3: it's some kind of authorization to cross. But she's been
Speaker 3: turned away. So for the last twelve hours, I don't
Speaker 3: even know where she is, what she's doing.
Speaker 1: How do you how do you communicate with her?
Speaker 3: There's been a blackout, so internet blackout, as he probably
Speaker 3: knows that she couldn't use her WhatsApp, We couldn't get
Speaker 3: in contact with her. She's been trying to use other
Speaker 3: people's mobiles. Her own, you know, Australian mobile doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Even though it's got global roaming, she's had patchy reception
Speaker 3: through other people's mobiles. You know, sometimes strangers to just
Speaker 3: leave a message and we just get the message saying,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm at this point, I'm headed to this point.
Speaker 3: When she got close to the border, we're now able
Speaker 3: to She's got some more access. It is again patchy,
Speaker 3: but again internet, so we can communicate via WhatsApp messages
Speaker 3: every now and again. It's not easy, but it's possible.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand she was directed to this particular border.
Speaker 1: Was she directed there because she'd be met by people
Speaker 1: from DEFAT or they would give her her paperwork or
Speaker 1: what was meant to happen before she crossed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so apparently the Australian embassy and Tehran, which was
Speaker 3: closed down because of the attack. Yes, they got those
Speaker 3: people out to that border, they crossed them, and they
Speaker 3: are supposed to be sitting on the other side facilitating
Speaker 3: this in the process with the crisis Center here in Australia,
Speaker 3: and they're supposed to be the support there that when
Speaker 3: you get there, they facilitate the crossing. I mean, we're
Speaker 3: not asking for you know what's been advertised. You know,
Speaker 3: the Defense Force is getting you know there and so forth.
Speaker 3: I'll forget about that. We're not asking for a flight,
Speaker 3: We're not asking for them to help to get to
Speaker 3: the border or even help after the border. All we're
Speaker 3: saying is there's citizens there at the border. Give them access,
Speaker 3: give them the access to cross, yeah, to get into
Speaker 3: safety so that they can then make their way home.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well look, that's that's entirely reasonable, and you must
Speaker 1: be so concerned. As I mentioned before, I won't do
Speaker 1: anything other than do our best to assist you off air.
Speaker 1: So my producers, who are two very intelligent, hardworking, decent people,
Speaker 1: will do what we can to reach out to the
Speaker 1: department and somehow facilitate a conversation. But to think you're
Speaker 1: here in Sydney and your seventy year old mum has
Speaker 1: against the elements, found a way to the border and
Speaker 1: get to that border, the border that she was directed to,
Speaker 1: and then you know, there's seemingly nothing on offer. That's
Speaker 1: not what Australians want to hear. So we'll go I
Speaker 1: will send you back to Kitty and will continue the conversation.
Speaker 1: So media release from Penny Wong released yesterday the Australian
Speaker 1: governments directed the departure of all Australian officials, dependents and
Speaker 1: suspended operations at our embassy based on advice. Australia's ambassador
Speaker 1: to Iran will remain in the region to support the
Speaker 1: Australian government's response. De FAT is deploying consular staff Azerbaijan,
Speaker 1: including its border crossing, to support Australians supporting departing rather Iran.
Speaker 1: We arege Australians who are able to leave Iran to
Speaker 1: do so now it is safe. Those who are unable
Speaker 1: to or don't want to leave, or advice to shelter
Speaker 1: in place. We're continuing to support Australians seeking to depart Iran.
Speaker 1: We remain in close contact with other partner countries. At
Speaker 1: this stage, our ability to provide consul of services is
Speaker 1: extremely limited. The airspace remains closed. And there you are.
Speaker 1: So yeah, a few pieces of that puzzle are seemingly missing,
Speaker 1: and we'll off air, we'll have a conversation and we'll
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Speaker 1: done today. Very concerning for that listener. Now we'll take
Speaker 1: a break, after which I'll speak to Leith van Onsolin
Speaker 1: from Macrobusiness dot Com dot Au nineteen minutes after eleven o'clock. Shane,
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Speaker 17: Mate.
Speaker 1: Okay, well mate, Thank you for letting us know about
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Speaker 1: be careful. Thank you again, Shane, appreciate that call. Twenty
Speaker 1: two year old banks Here Beach woman has been charged
Speaker 1: with multiple offenses following reports of vehicles and properties stolen
Speaker 1: in Zillmere. Around three o'clock this morning, the offender entered
Speaker 1: a residence at Zilmeir, taking keys to a nineteen seventy
Speaker 1: nine white Volvo Hope. They had a hat nine eighteen
Speaker 1: this morning. The allegedly stolen Volvo was located on McGhee
Speaker 1: Street at three point fifteen. On Sunday, June fifteen, a
Speaker 1: white toy aut a Yarras was stolen from Zilmir as well.
Speaker 1: Around four am on the same morning, patrolling police located
Speaker 1: the Yarras in an undercover garage and a unicomplex at Zilmere.
Speaker 1: Police observed a woman enter the allegedly stolen carrent attempt
Speaker 1: to started with the keys. She was arrested. Police located
Speaker 1: alleged stolen property in the vehicle. The dale alleged been
Speaker 1: stolen a short time before Femeni Suzu Dmax Utility Park nearby.
Speaker 1: Police will further alleged the woman was in possession of
Speaker 1: implements used for breaking and entering, a clip seal back
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Speaker 1: located Volvo two four five. Twenty two year old BankSA
Speaker 1: Beach Woman's been charged with two counts of enterpremises, commit
Speaker 1: and diedable fence offences and will be at Brisbane Magistrate's
Speaker 1: Court on June twenty third. On Monday each week, we
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Speaker 1: at macrobusiness dot com dot au, wh is where we
Speaker 1: get our economic news each day. An excellent place ahead
Speaker 1: and Leith's on the line. Sorry to keep you waiting,
Speaker 1: made things so much I hope you.
Speaker 19: Well, yeah, okay, look here I'm fine, thanks.
Speaker 1: Good on you. Housing crisis it continues to be a
Speaker 1: thing here. Obviously didn't affect the election result. But we've
Speaker 1: had population data I saw I think come through on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and I think there's a bit of I don't want
Speaker 1: to say it's not fudging of the figures, but the
Speaker 1: government's got lucky here because more people are leaving Australia
Speaker 1: from what I could see.
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, So Thistramioatistics release the official population data for
Speaker 19: the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four and it showed
Speaker 19: that both immigration and population growth continue to ease back
Speaker 19: from their post pandemic extreme levels. So over the year,
Speaker 19: so this is twenty twenty four, austraight as population grew
Speaker 19: by about four hundred and forty six thousand. So it's
Speaker 19: basically a camera. So we added a camera in one
Speaker 19: year and that was driven by net overseas migration of
Speaker 19: about three hundred and forty one thousand. Now this is
Speaker 19: obviously down from about five hundred and fifty odd quite
Speaker 19: a lot net overseas migration, but just to keep it
Speaker 19: in the perspective before the pandemic hit, Australia's single biggest
Speaker 19: year for net overseas migration was just under three hundred
Speaker 19: and sixteen thousand in two thousand and eight, so three
Speaker 19: hundred and forty one thousand still very high historically.
Speaker 5: And just to put some.
Speaker 19: Numbers around you stuff, I was in Queensland. City sales
Speaker 19: grew by one hundred and eight thousand last year and
Speaker 19: that was driven almost one hundred percent by net overseas
Speaker 19: migration of just under one hundred and seven thousand. So
Speaker 19: New South Wales lost about twenty eight thousand people to
Speaker 19: either states, primarily because you've got expensive housing up there,
Speaker 19: and that loss of residents to other states basically offset
Speaker 19: in your net births. Queensland grew by one hundred and
Speaker 19: just under one hundred and three thousand last year, and
Speaker 19: that was driven by NED overseas migration about fifty seven thousand.
Speaker 19: You received about twenty six thousand from other states, and
Speaker 19: you had net verths about twenty thousand. So you know,
Speaker 19: population growth still remains very high, although it is coming
Speaker 19: down now. This is obviously, you know, very good news
Speaker 19: if you're worried about the housing market, because if you've
Speaker 19: got less people coming in, it means less pressure on
Speaker 19: rents and house prizes and that sort of stuff. And
Speaker 19: obviously housing is incredibly expensive, both the purchased and rent
Speaker 19: at the moment, so near historical record highs Now, the
Speaker 19: Federal Budget's forecast that immigration is going to ease back
Speaker 19: to its pre pandemic level by twenty twenty seven, and
Speaker 19: it then forecasts that we're going to have two hundred
Speaker 19: and thirty five thousand NETO of seas migration for the
Speaker 19: next four decades. Now they'll come out and say, look, look,
Speaker 19: see we've halved immigration. But the problem, Luke, is that
Speaker 19: two hundred and thirty five thousand projected net overseas migration
Speaker 19: is still incredibly high and it's going to ensure that
Speaker 19: Australia remains in a permanent housing crisis. And we only
Speaker 19: need to look at the last twenty years of data
Speaker 19: to show why that's the case. So Australia's population growth
Speaker 19: surged after the Big Australia Policy came in and twenty
Speaker 19: years ago, and Australia's netto sas migration more than doubled
Speaker 19: after two thousand and five. So in the sixty years
Speaker 19: following World War Two, Australia's net overseas migration averaged ninety
Speaker 19: thousand per year, and there's only three of those years
Speaker 19: in that sixty years following World War Two that we
Speaker 19: exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand. We didn't exceed it
Speaker 19: by much, but in the last twenty years, and this
Speaker 19: includes the pandemic, Australia's net overseas migrations average two hundred
Speaker 19: and thirty one thousand, so that's one hundred and fifty
Speaker 19: six percent increase on the sixty year average post World
Speaker 19: War Two. And as a result, Australi's population has grown
Speaker 19: by eight point seven million people this century, so since
Speaker 19: the year two thousand, that's that's forty six percent growth
Speaker 19: and that is the strongest growth in the advanced world.
Speaker 19: So this extreme population growth is why we have not
Speaker 19: been able to build enough housing or infrastructure. We've not
Speaker 19: kept up with demand and as a result we've got
Speaker 19: this housing crisis across all the major cities and declining
Speaker 19: libability in our major cities. So I've built nothing infrastructure.
Speaker 19: Everything's getting more crushloaded now. The problem is the housing shorty,
Speaker 19: immigrations coming down, and based on the budget forecast, it's
Speaker 19: still projected to worsen. So recently, Ampchief Economy Shane Oliver
Speaker 19: estimated that Australia's current housing shortages is somewhere between two
Speaker 19: hundred and three hundred thousand homes. And last month, the
Speaker 19: federal government's own advisory council, the National Housing Supply and
Speaker 19: Affordability Council, released their later State of the Housing Report,
Speaker 19: and it forecast that Australia's shortage is going to worsen
Speaker 19: by another seventy nine thousand over the.
Speaker 5: Next five years.
Speaker 19: And what they did was they based their population forecast
Speaker 19: on the Treasury's own forecasts. They just basically grabbed the
Speaker 19: Center for Populations forecasts are based the Budget and inter
Speaker 19: Generational Report, et cetera. And then they worked out what's
Speaker 19: a realistic level of ability and it said we're going
Speaker 19: to come up for seventy nine thousand homes short the
Speaker 19: next five years. So that means our cumulative housing shorge
Speaker 19: is going to increase from where it already is somewhere
Speaker 19: between two hundred and two hundred thousand by another seventy
Speaker 19: nine thousand. But here's a rebblue. The National has in
Speaker 19: Supply and Affordability councils own now sensitivity noalys.
Speaker 5: At the end of the.
Speaker 19: Report, they said that if we cut population growth by
Speaker 19: just fifteen percent, or population growth is fifteen percent less
Speaker 19: than what the government.
Speaker 5: Forecasts, instead of having a shortage.
Speaker 19: Of seventy nine thousand homes over five years, we'd actually
Speaker 19: have a surplus of forty thousand homes.
Speaker 1: That's cutting in by just fifteen percent.
Speaker 19: Fifteen percent, mate, And what that tells you is that
Speaker 19: the primary solution if you want to solve this mess
Speaker 19: is to cut at NAT overseas migration. Obviously you bring
Speaker 19: less people in that they need less housing for them.
Speaker 5: But sadly, Luke, the federal.
Speaker 19: Government has no genuine intention to solve the housing crisis
Speaker 19: because it wants to keep running this big Australia policy.
Speaker 19: And in fact, the Center for Population's own projections, and
Speaker 19: these were released in December twenty twenty four, so they're,
Speaker 19: you know, as current as we've got that's run out
Speaker 19: of the Australian Treasury. They said that we're going to
Speaker 19: grow the population by thirty and a half million people
Speaker 19: in the next forty years. So put that into perspective,
Speaker 19: and that follows obviously eight point seven million so far
Speaker 19: this century. That is equivalent to adding another Sydney, Melbourne
Speaker 19: and Brisbane to the current population.
Speaker 5: So think of all the houses.
Speaker 19: And infrastructure and everything that are in Sydney, Melbourne and
Speaker 19: Brisbane right now, we'd have to replicate that in forty years.
Speaker 5: It's not going to happen.
Speaker 19: And it took Australia one hundred.
Speaker 5: And eighty five years to reach a population.
Speaker 19: Of thirteen point five million in nineteen seventy three. We're
Speaker 19: supposed to add that same amount in just forty years.
Speaker 19: So this just proves that the primary solution to the
Speaker 19: housing crisis is to merely cut immigration back to pre
Speaker 19: two thousand and five historical levels that we had in
Speaker 19: the sixty years post World War Two. And if we
Speaker 19: did that, we would be able to catch up and
Speaker 19: supply of both housing and infrastructure, and we'd have more
Speaker 19: livable cities and I'd our yourso better economy, a more
Speaker 19: diverse by better economy, and everything else that the government
Speaker 19: says around supply and everything, it's all window dressing. The
Speaker 19: number one solution is to stop adding to the problem
Speaker 19: every year but adding hundreds of thousands of extra people
Speaker 19: that meet housing the infrastruy for It's very simple.
Speaker 1: It is very simple. We say that often when you
Speaker 1: and I talk at this time, and you know we
Speaker 1: did get the hope at the election that perhaps something
Speaker 1: might happen, because it's just a no brainer. And even
Speaker 1: if you go back, if you want to be generous
Speaker 1: and go back to before the pandemic, if if you
Speaker 1: believe supply is the issue, you go back before the pandemic.
Speaker 1: The targets that the government are published now it's one
Speaker 1: point two million homes over five years. I think it
Speaker 1: is they would have to that would have to be
Speaker 1: building homes at a rate we've never built homes in
Speaker 1: the history of Australia. Whilst they say at the same
Speaker 1: time there's a labor shortage and the cost of building
Speaker 1: has gone through the roof? Is it is a fantasy?
Speaker 1: Or you could cut net overseas migration by fifteen percent? Hello,
Speaker 1: now mate, do we have a Do we have a
Speaker 1: champion or a clown? This week?
Speaker 5: It's a champion?
Speaker 1: Well, stand by, stand by. This is very very very
Speaker 1: good news because you know, we'd like to point out
Speaker 1: the wrongs, but we also like to reward the excellence.
Speaker 1: So who's a champion? Mate?
Speaker 19: Okay, So this week's champion is US energy expert Robert
Speaker 19: Bryce So he's a US energy expert who's testified before
Speaker 19: the US Congress and then done energy. He wrote for
Speaker 19: the Wall Street Journal. And you know, Robert Bryce is
Speaker 19: visited Australia and he's dropped some truth bombs in Australia's
Speaker 19: and net zero fantasy, which he described as quote madness
Speaker 19: and reckless. So Bryce told two GB's own ben Forden
Speaker 19: fact that Australia is a quote energy superpower, but we
Speaker 19: act like a quote energy weekly Now he liked me.
Speaker 19: Questioned why Australia exports He says seven times more coal
Speaker 19: than it consumes, yet we are blowing up our coal plants.
Speaker 5: A very good question. We also question why we.
Speaker 19: Export many times more gas. So it's about four times
Speaker 19: more gas than we use locally, but we deny ourselves
Speaker 19: access to cheap and abundant gas. He also said that
Speaker 19: Australia's position on nuclear power is completely contradictory, and that
Speaker 19: we are logical to say yes to net zero and
Speaker 19: no to nuclear power when Australia holds nearly a third
Speaker 19: of the world's uranium reserves, and he likened Australia's energy
Speaker 19: policy stands to Saudi Arabia refusing to use its own oil,
Speaker 19: and he described us as the Saudi Arabia the southern hemisphere,
Speaker 19: and he said, you know, could you imagine a situation
Speaker 19: whereby the Saudis deny themselves the use of their own
Speaker 19: oil while they exported to the.
Speaker 5: Rest of the world, which is effectively.
Speaker 19: What we're doing with coal and gas. And he also
Speaker 19: said that Australias and zero ambitions are futile and won't
Speaker 19: make any difference to the global climate, but are going
Speaker 19: to come at a very high cost to our.
Speaker 5: Own regis residence.
Speaker 19: So he said that Australian emissions have gone down from
Speaker 19: about one and a half percent to one percent of
Speaker 19: the global total emissions. Meanwhile, China and India have gone
Speaker 19: to about forty percent of the total emissions and their
Speaker 19: emissions are skyrocketing. So he basically said Australia should quote
Speaker 19: stop doing stupid things such as shutting down coal plans prematurely,
Speaker 19: and that our power prices are skyrocking you to the
Speaker 19: detriment of the poor and working class. And of course,
Speaker 19: you know, everyone knows that these views obviously mirror my own,
Speaker 19: so that's why I obviously support it. But my constant
Speaker 19: ramblings are that Australia should give itself cheap and reliable
Speaker 19: energy by book burning more of its coal at home
Speaker 19: and exporting a bit less. Same with gas yep. And
Speaker 19: that's what the global quim would be. No worse yep
Speaker 19: and worse off, but we'd have cheap and abuton energy.
Speaker 19: It's just common sense.
Speaker 1: It's just common sense. Great stuff, mate, Stay well. I'm
Speaker 1: happy in a couple of weeks break, but I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you on my return. And thanks for jumping on
Speaker 1: each week. We love your work mate, Stay well. Lead
Speaker 1: than ontol and macrobusiness dot com dot a you twenty
Speaker 1: four to midday it is time to check out all
Speaker 1: the sport or the racing this weekend. We do that
Speaker 1: with Glenn Munsey from Ladbrogs, who joins us on the line.
Speaker 1: How are you going.
Speaker 11: I'm fantastic, Luke and yourself.
Speaker 1: Just fine, my friend, just fine. We've got plenty of
Speaker 1: NRL action today. Penrith outside is against the Warriors and
Speaker 1: I understand why Ivan Cleary and I think that one
Speaker 1: Warriors player on fronting today to fly from Perth back
Speaker 1: to all the way back to New Zealand after the
Speaker 1: origin and it's a long way to go, isn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I don't think you'll find any of the Penrith Origin
Speaker 11: players are going to take part for Penrith today. That's
Speaker 11: why there's such massive outsiders to the Warriors. This match
Speaker 11: at three o'clock in Auckland, the Warriors won twenty two
Speaker 11: Penrith at four dollars and forty cents thirteen and a
Speaker 11: half the line going to Penrith there forty five and
Speaker 11: a half the over. Under this stage, Warriors third on
Speaker 11: the premiership table in Penrith. For still a lot of
Speaker 11: people saying if they make the eight, they're going to
Speaker 11: be competitive because they're too good. We'll have one of
Speaker 11: the last four competitions, so don't write them off at all.
Speaker 5: That's at three o'clock.
Speaker 11: At five thirty we're back in Perth again. So Perth
Speaker 11: men are very very busy. We had the Origin their
Speaker 11: Wednesday night, we had the AFL Thursday night and we've
Speaker 11: got the Dolphins playing Newcastle night.
Speaker 1: Carlin Ponger is.
Speaker 11: Very very happy he didn't have to leave person to
Speaker 11: come home. The Dolphins here won twenty five. They scored
Speaker 11: nearly one hundred and sixty points in their last three
Speaker 11: matches the Dolphins there one twenty five favorites over in
Speaker 11: Newcastle who were four dollars outsiders, twelve and a half
Speaker 11: the line there and forty seven and a half the
Speaker 11: over under. Then at seven thirty to night at Homebush
Speaker 11: South's take on Melbourne and Craig Bellamy takes this incredible record,
Speaker 11: having defeated Wayne Bennett. I think it's the last fourteen
Speaker 11: or so times they've coached against each other South Southsiders
Speaker 11: here latrelle is backing up for Souths and Keyon Kalamatangi
Speaker 11: because they had with a fractured eye socket last week,
Speaker 11: is definitely playing for Souths. Don't say they haven't got carriage.
Speaker 11: These footballers four ten outside of Souths. Melbourne favorites at
Speaker 11: one twenty four, twelve and a half the line there
Speaker 11: and forty eight and a half the over under. Of course,
Speaker 11: the Continuous Call team covering all these matches as well
Speaker 11: as the Sunday games, Brisbane favorite over Cronulla. We've got
Speaker 11: the Roosters favorite over the Cowboys and Paramatta outsiders.
Speaker 5: To the Gold Coast there.
Speaker 11: Canterbury, Manly and the Saint George Lawa Dragons all having
Speaker 11: to buy and the market up already for Origin three
Speaker 11: July eleven at home Bush, New South Wales one forty
Speaker 11: two Queensland two ninety seven and a half the line
Speaker 11: there and it's down to being a decider and it
Speaker 11: should be a packed house at homebook.
Speaker 1: You know what made that's south Ford Kalamatangi folk said
Speaker 1: that right. Yeah for me, he's he's got to be
Speaker 1: handed a Blues jersey before game three, don't you think?
Speaker 5: Well, the way that.
Speaker 11: He's since wayn' been. Now the difference here in rugby
Speaker 11: league in twenty twenty five, you're not a front rower
Speaker 11: or a second rower or a lock forward. You're either
Speaker 11: a middle forward, an edge forward or a back. And
Speaker 11: he's moved from the edge where he played wide, so
Speaker 11: you know, getting the ball two passes off the ruck
Speaker 11: now he's getting the ball from the dummy half and
Speaker 11: he's in the middle of the field. And he's been
Speaker 11: exceptional for South over the last three games having moved
Speaker 11: back into the middle there. He already has represented New
Speaker 11: South Wales a couple of seasons ago. Key On kaloa mctangney,
Speaker 11: former Mascot junior the Mascot Jets near the Mighty mascot
Speaker 11: Jets who I've played for all the way back in
Speaker 11: nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 1: Yere they still talk about you. What about racing today?
Speaker 11: Well racing and they're just about to go here in
Speaker 11: the second race at Randwick, although we could have a
Speaker 11: late scratching here at the moment.
Speaker 1: With the Civic saxes.
Speaker 11: The feature race here at Roandwick, which is race nine
Speaker 11: this afternoon Headley Grange. The two dollars seventy favorite and
Speaker 11: the biggest part of the year. Party of the year
Speaker 11: in Queensland is Ipswich Cup Day which is today. It's
Speaker 11: race seven the Ipswitch Cup. Diablo Bolt the favorite there.
Speaker 11: The eyeliner is race eight. Unwarning the favorite there and
Speaker 11: acute ost to my good mate Alan Hat sakan and
Speaker 11: now resident.
Speaker 5: Of Hong Kong.
Speaker 11: He said, Warning should be suited at Ipswich because it's
Speaker 11: a turning track.
Speaker 1: Ah, that's brilliant. Thank you Mins. Have a wonderful weekend
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll turn our attention to real estate after this.
Speaker 1: It's nineteen to midday. Look stacks of text messages. Thank
Speaker 1: you for them. We'll share them with you after midday
Speaker 1: because we're a little busy up until then doing things
Speaker 1: like this and now the real estate show thanks to Domain,
Speaker 1: Australia's trusted property marketplace. So thanks to Domain. The national
Speaker 1: Property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles, is with us again
Speaker 1: this morning.
Speaker 13: Get a Alice, good morning.
Speaker 21: We're great to be with you.
Speaker 1: Nice to talk to you again. So much to get
Speaker 1: through today. I guess we should begin where we normally do,
Speaker 1: with a look at what's happening in both Sydney and
Speaker 1: Brisbane in terms of auctions. Big numbers are they.
Speaker 22: Indeed, well a little bit of a dip today in
Speaker 22: Sydney six hundred and sixty nine houses are going under
Speaker 22: the hammer, a bit of a dip from last week.
Speaker 22: And in Brisbane we're saying eighty seven auctions today, so
Speaker 22: not bad options for Brisbane. And when we look at
Speaker 22: what happened last week, Luke, you know we talked about
Speaker 22: those huge numbers in Sydney last week and the clearance
Speaker 22: rate came in at sixty nine percent in Sydney last week,
Speaker 22: and that was with all that volume, nearly seventy percent
Speaker 22: of stock was actually cleared, so pretty yet again an
Speaker 22: encouraging result for sellers in Sydney. Now, Brisbane came in
Speaker 22: at forty five percent last weekend, which which is pretty
Speaker 22: much in the in the realm of what they often
Speaker 22: see week to week in the Brisbane market.
Speaker 1: So let's have a look at the expensive sales and
Speaker 1: the best buyers from last weekend. We can start with Sydney.
Speaker 1: If you like an East Lindfield.
Speaker 22: Yeah, lovely, beautifully renovation house in East Lynnfield sold at
Speaker 22: auctions for fiveero point three million dollars. Now, this is
Speaker 22: a great example here. It's got five bed, four bath
Speaker 22: but it's just that sort of turn key home. Look,
Speaker 22: can you kind of look at it? And I'm sure
Speaker 22: these buyers thought nothing to do here except workout what
Speaker 22: side of the you know what side of the bathroom
Speaker 22: cabinet I'll put my toothbrush. And we increasingly see many
Speaker 22: buyers just wanting that desirabiloship of product that's ready to go.
Speaker 22: Clearly that worked in the favor of that vendor last
Speaker 22: weekend and in Annelie in Brisbane. A lovely sort of
Speaker 22: quite a period old house, but it's kind of a
Speaker 22: lovely old Queenslander style sold at.
Speaker 21: Auction last weekend in the Brisbane market.
Speaker 22: And came in at one point eight eight five million dollars.
Speaker 1: Gee, you know that interesting. When we bought our place,
Speaker 1: we thought we were buying something we'd have to do
Speaker 1: nothing too, until we've spent a fortnight there and then thought,
Speaker 1: you know what, a very it's a great sentiment, and
Speaker 1: you're prepared to pay a bit more because you have
Speaker 1: to do nothing, or so you think, until you're there
Speaker 1: for couple of weeks ago, you know what. Anyway, just
Speaker 1: an observation from me.
Speaker 22: No, but that's so true, Luke, and I think it's
Speaker 22: a good anxiety. It's a good thing for buyers to
Speaker 22: be aware of, Like, don't be too lured by or
Speaker 22: dazzled by, you know, lovely, freshly painted homes where there
Speaker 22: it actually is sort of under the surface things that
Speaker 22: they're doing.
Speaker 21: I guess that's also why.
Speaker 22: I'm not saying you didn't, but you should do your
Speaker 22: due diligence and have a building inspection done. That sort
Speaker 22: of thing just to ensure this is just not a
Speaker 22: vanity sort of spacelift and it is actually sort of
Speaker 22: structurally in sound as well.
Speaker 1: Yes, spot on best buyers from last week.
Speaker 22: Yeah, look in Sydney an interesting one. It was a
Speaker 22: townhouse in Preston's Now this sold for This was three
Speaker 22: bedrooms and it sold for eight hundred and five thousand dollars. Now,
Speaker 22: I think it's fair to say we very rarely have
Speaker 22: a three bedroom property in Sydney go for eight hundred
Speaker 22: and five thousand, but that did indeed take place last weekend,
Speaker 22: a little townhouse. And again the desirability of these at
Speaker 22: the prices, particularly for first home buyers, remains quite high
Speaker 22: at the moment given where house prices are going, which
Speaker 22: we can talk.
Speaker 21: In a bit.
Speaker 22: And in Brisbane there was a house in Logan Reserves.
Speaker 22: It sold for eight hundred thousand dollars for bed property
Speaker 22: and that was the best buy there. So yet again
Speaker 22: that Brisbane market basically on par with Sydney last week
Speaker 22: compared to the most affordable property for sale there.
Speaker 1: Now. This week Domain release gives price forecast report predicting
Speaker 1: what the property market would look like in the next year.
Speaker 1: What were the findings.
Speaker 22: Yeah, look, it's it's pretty eigh watering stuff, particularly if
Speaker 22: you're a first time buyer. The news is not great.
Speaker 22: Property prices are expected to grow around seven percent in
Speaker 22: the Sydney market over the year ahead and five percent
Speaker 22: in the Brisbane market. Now again there's this sort of
Speaker 22: contrarian situation here, because it's great news if you're a homeowner,
Speaker 22: they'll be delight should no doubt with seeing more growth
Speaker 22: realized in their neighborhood. However, again that challenge for first
Speaker 22: home buyers because what it means is in Sydney we
Speaker 22: may well crack one point eight three million dollars for
Speaker 22: the medium the average past price in the Sydney market.
Speaker 22: The markets likely just to sort of just touch one
Speaker 22: point one million dollars. So it's an interesting conundrum because,
Speaker 22: as I said, for some people it's going to be
Speaker 22: very welcome news, but for others it just makes that
Speaker 22: so much more challenging than ability to get into the market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, gosh, wow. Now, I always like these conversations talking
Speaker 1: here about tree change towns, and we hear from time
Speaker 1: to time suggestions of you know, what the hot tree
Speaker 1: change places are, And there's some interesting work from domain
Speaker 1: tell me about this.
Speaker 22: Yeah, Look, tree changes obviously a hugely hot topic a
Speaker 22: few years ago when people were sort of taking them
Speaker 22: during the COVID period. And what we've seen though is
Speaker 22: we saw really sort of turbocharged rises take place during
Speaker 22: those years and then many of them drop back again.
Speaker 22: But what we've done is actually look at the ones
Speaker 22: who have kind of sort of remain managed to last
Speaker 22: the distance. I guess they weren't kind of one hit
Speaker 22: wonders now. Leading that is of no surprise to probably
Speaker 22: many people was Byron Bay. Now, you know in March
Speaker 22: twenty twenty that was around nine hundred and thirty thousand
Speaker 22: dollars and now in March twenty twenty five hit one
Speaker 22: point six million dollars, So it's a seventy percent rise
Speaker 22: in that region. They're similar for Kyamara in your South
Speaker 22: Wales up sixty nine percent, and again and Queensland. We
Speaker 22: saw it happen in NUSA, you know in March. This
Speaker 22: is hard to imagine. In March twenty twenty, look, seven
Speaker 22: hundred and fifty thousand dollars was a meeting house price
Speaker 22: in NUSA. Now it's one point two seven five million dollars.
Speaker 22: So nuts just how long hoirable those areas have remained.
Speaker 1: And that's it, the desirable did you say lifestyle locations.
Speaker 21: That's what it is.
Speaker 22: And part of the appeal of them is because it
Speaker 22: has this, I guess, the best of both words. You've
Speaker 22: got a lovely sort of it feels a bit like
Speaker 22: you're sort of regional, but you have usually a sort
Speaker 22: of wonderful community there, a very beautiful area if you
Speaker 22: want to rent it out, it's very highly desirable. So
Speaker 22: it also makes a good investment spot and you can
Speaker 22: have you know, chances, I've got a great neighborhood there.
Speaker 22: You've got your mates that you might have had from
Speaker 22: the city years ago were also living there now as well.
Speaker 22: So people have managed to sort of hit that sweet spot,
Speaker 22: I guess from happening as I said, like the best
Speaker 22: of both worlds, rather than having to give up something
Speaker 22: for the other.
Speaker 21: And that's what we call a classic lifestyle area.
Speaker 22: And they're the areas that continue to be in very
Speaker 22: high demands.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fascinating, all right, Else, we'll take a break here,
Speaker 1: come back and look at the unique properties of the
Speaker 1: week where in Sydney we're off to the rocks and
Speaker 1: we're off to Port Douglas if you don't mind after this.
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Speaker 1: a U. Alice stoles with us as she is each Saturday,
Speaker 1: and Alice, we're about to go to the unique properties
Speaker 1: of the week. We might start at the Rocks in Sydney.
Speaker 22: Okay, we're going up market today. Luke a triple level penthouse. Now,
Speaker 22: it's called the sky House. It's in the Harry Seidler
Speaker 22: Design Cove building down by the Rocks.
Speaker 21: And this is like nothing I've ever seen before.
Speaker 22: It's got five supersized bedrooms, seven bathrooms and it's spread
Speaker 22: over nearly seven hundred square meters.
Speaker 21: So when they.
Speaker 22: Say this is an apartment, I mean this is kind
Speaker 22: of like a sort of a super sized apartment.
Speaker 21: I guess. It has a private internnel lift across all
Speaker 21: three floors.
Speaker 22: In case you're worried about how many steps you're going
Speaker 22: to clock up throughout the day, a self contained little
Speaker 22: wing for nanny or a guest ring with its own
Speaker 22: private entrance, goneway, kitchen, butler's pantry, and this incredible rooftop
Speaker 22: terrace that was inspired by a super yacht.
Speaker 21: Would you believe?
Speaker 7: Now?
Speaker 22: If this is all sounding pretty good, have to have
Speaker 22: water caution.
Speaker 21: The price guide for it is thirty million.
Speaker 1: Dollars right, you had me up until it Isn't It
Speaker 1: just nuts though?
Speaker 22: To think just how expensive decent the places are.
Speaker 21: I mean, it's just mind boggling.
Speaker 22: But I guess it shows the strength of the Australian
Speaker 22: property market that those these places do turn over, would
Speaker 22: you believe? But a bit something a little bit different
Speaker 22: also import Douglas today.
Speaker 1: This is now, I've got the pictures of this place
Speaker 1: in front of me, and this is this also.
Speaker 22: Wow, it's beautiful, isn't it, Luke? And I mean this location,
Speaker 22: how lucky we in Australia have spots like this. It's
Speaker 22: basically on that island point of flag Stuff Hill and
Speaker 22: it's this beautiful architectural home, a saltwater pool with year
Speaker 22: round temperature control, and this incredibly modern house inside and
Speaker 22: it's had a complete revamp. The owners have obviously gone
Speaker 22: all out and have thrown a lot of Italian marble
Speaker 22: and Morano chandeliers at it, so it kind of almost
Speaker 22: is reflective of the bright colors of the Great beerrier
Speaker 22: inside this house.
Speaker 21: But I've got to say I'd just be happy in
Speaker 21: that garden there.
Speaker 22: Apparently it's got some three thousand newly planted orchids in
Speaker 22: the garden, with these beautiful tropical.
Speaker 21: Flowers all over that estate.
Speaker 22: Now that one's on the market for six million dollars,
Speaker 22: So I mean, I'm not really bringing much to the
Speaker 22: affordability today.
Speaker 21: But perhaps next week I will.
Speaker 22: But I do think it's important to sort of have
Speaker 22: a bit of inspiration every now and then of just thinking, gosh,
Speaker 22: we live in a pretty spectacular country.
Speaker 21: We do get an expensive one some porus point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So there's two thousand square meters, three levels, indeed,
Speaker 1: and it's six million plus and you've got the all
Speaker 1: round heated pool and all the other things, or an apartment.
Speaker 7: I'm going it.
Speaker 22: Walked to that four mile beach, which I just think
Speaker 22: you can getting up there each day and toodling on
Speaker 22: down there, and.
Speaker 21: Got a bit of a dip in the morning there.
Speaker 1: You know, without being critical, it's a shame that the
Speaker 1: pictures of the Port Douglas property aren't a little more
Speaker 1: warm than just the white timberfore tile. Look, you know,
Speaker 1: even the bookshelves put some bloody books in them.
Speaker 22: It's so interestingly because I mean, people obviously try to
Speaker 22: appeal to a broader pull the buys, and I agree
Speaker 22: with you personally that when people add that little bit
Speaker 22: of character and uniqueness to a property, it makes you
Speaker 22: I think it's easier to sort of understand living in
Speaker 22: a place like that.
Speaker 1: Yes, you can picture yourself there, can't you.
Speaker 22: That's right. But but meant more and more people are
Speaker 22: offering very homogenized homes, so I always encourage people to
Speaker 22: sort of.
Speaker 21: Stand out in a gentle way.
Speaker 22: To sort of make it look like a warm, emotionally
Speaker 22: kind of charged house that you're going to have a
Speaker 22: lovely life potentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, all right, Alice, have a wonderful weekend. Great
Speaker 1: to chat to you again. That was terrific Today. I'm
Speaker 1: having a couple of weeks off, but I'll I'll write
Speaker 1: heume our conversations. They'll continue on the show, but we'll
Speaker 1: talk again. In a few weeks. Stay well.
Speaker 21: Thank you, Luke Likewise.
Speaker 1: National property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: we love chatting to Alice each week. But I don't
Speaker 1: know anyone that says, hey, let's get let's get ten
Speaker 1: or twelve or fifteen bookshelves, paint them white and leave
Speaker 1: them empty. I don't want to be critical, but you
Speaker 1: want to almost have some idea of what your stuff
Speaker 1: might look like. Or I don't know, maybe maybe I'm
Speaker 1: what I'm sounding like the old blog on the radio again,
Speaker 1: damn it not right? One three one eight seven three
Speaker 1: is the open line number. We're getting close to midday.
Speaker 1: After the midday news, Craig Bennett will be here the
Speaker 1: life and times of Judy Garland, who we lost on
Speaker 1: this weekend fifty six years ago. I want to play
Speaker 1: some super Tramp. We always like to play a song
Speaker 1: on the on the show, so we'll do that and
Speaker 1: we'll check him with the continuous call team. Mark leaves
Speaker 1: in the house. All that. After the news across Australia,
Speaker 1: it's back to weekends. We'll look grand, good afternoon. Great
Speaker 1: to be with you on this Saturday, the twenty first
Speaker 1: of June. I always during our midday news during the
Speaker 1: footy season, I like to go looking for the big man.
Speaker 1: I can tell you he's here. He's in great form,
Speaker 1: and he'll be part of the continuous call team along
Speaker 1: with Goo Fergo and Mark Lee. After our next news break.
Speaker 1: We'll check in with Mark a little later on in
Speaker 1: the hour. And look, don't forget this is a significant
Speaker 1: hour today, not that it's not on other days, but
Speaker 1: it's even more significant today because, as we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the program, winter solstice, So this is the day
Speaker 1: where the tilt has us in the Southern hemisphere as
Speaker 1: far as we ever are from the sun. So they,
Speaker 1: I think, often refer to this as the shortest day
Speaker 1: of the year, not that it's less than twenty four hours,
Speaker 1: but it's the lowest level or the lowest amount of sunlight.
Speaker 1: The exact moment the Southern hemisphere is at furthest tilt
Speaker 1: or what I and other solstice a scholars refer to
Speaker 1: as the solstice tilt is twelve forty two. Twelve forty two,
Speaker 1: So that's this our eighteen to one o'clock, and we
Speaker 1: want to celebrate that together. I'm just I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'll be at that time talking to Craig I
Speaker 1: probably will be, and I don't want to necessarily interrupt him.
Speaker 1: I want to come up with a sound that enables
Speaker 1: us to let everyone know that, you know, it's that
Speaker 1: time went to a solstice as us in the saltless business.
Speaker 1: I like to call it. That's we can get the
Speaker 1: Has anyone seen the studio goat? I'm going away this weekend,
Speaker 1: and who's going to look after that when I'm not here?
Speaker 1: We need someone with plenty of time in their hands. There,
Speaker 1: It is right. I shouldn't have done this on air.
Speaker 1: I should have found it off here and spoken to it. Look,
Speaker 1: studio Goat, while you're there, we need someone. We need
Speaker 1: someone to look after you while I'm away. So I'll
Speaker 1: give you the choice of Now, let's think about this,
Speaker 1: and we don't want to get ourselves offside with anyone.
Speaker 1: We need people with plenty of time in their hands.
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking Liam McGuire, ben zp. Tom Malone, Managing
Speaker 1: director of nine Radio. Okay, apparently it won't be trom
Speaker 1: alone fair enough? Anyone else? What about Clinton? Clinton Maynard
Speaker 1: who told me yesterday? Okay, Clinton's okay, great? Clinton told
Speaker 1: me yesterday when I spoke to him, he was displeased
Speaker 1: with his daughters because they wash their clothing every day,
Speaker 1: so they were it on the day. Then they put
Speaker 1: it out to wash, and he said that was overdoing it.
Speaker 1: And he says, you should be able to get a
Speaker 1: couple of days out of your clothing. Who thinks that's okay.
Speaker 1: I'm worried that he might just not treat the studio
Speaker 1: gat with the respected sew. Anyway, that's what's happening. That
Speaker 1: started with me saying, what are we going to do
Speaker 1: to let you know it's winter solstice time. I'll just
Speaker 1: sit on that for a moment. Not on the studio
Speaker 1: go that would be completely wrong, but on that thought,
Speaker 1: and we'll get back to it. Wow, I was wondering
Speaker 1: how i'd feel that six minutes there you go, this
Speaker 1: is somewhat recent in fact that it was published, and
Speaker 1: thank you for telling me about this. He goes back,
Speaker 1: only a day or two back. Maritime experts believe they've
Speaker 1: finally and I only say that because I thought this
Speaker 1: was solved some time back. Maritime experts believe they're finally
Speaker 1: pinpointed the exact resting place of Captain James Cook's legendary
Speaker 1: ship just off the coast of a US New England
Speaker 1: resort town. A report about HMS Endeavor was published by
Speaker 1: the Australian National Maritime Museum on June three. In s
Speaker 1: venteen seventy eight, the British intentionally sank the ship off
Speaker 1: the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, in a strategic move
Speaker 1: to block French and American attacks. While it's long been
Speaker 1: known that the eighteenth century vessel lies off the coast
Speaker 1: of that state, its exact location has eluded marine historians.
Speaker 1: But now experts are sure that a Rhode Island State
Speaker 1: Archaeological site named ri I two three nine four is
Speaker 1: a final resting place of the ship, and they have
Speaker 1: decades of research to back it up. They've identified Captain
Speaker 1: James Cook's HMS Endeavor off Newport, also known as the
Speaker 1: Kerry Site. The shipwreck is between thirty nine and forty
Speaker 1: three feet underwater. The site includes a linear stone ballast pile,
Speaker 1: the eastern periphery of which features a line of partially
Speaker 1: exposed frame ends that are closely spaced and of substantial size.
Speaker 1: According to a report, four iron cannons are also present
Speaker 1: on the site. Two are largely exposed above the seabed
Speaker 1: and lie immediately adjacent to one another on the western
Speaker 1: side of the site. The site also features remnants of floors,
Speaker 1: a staunchon and a thing called well, I'll spell it
Speaker 1: because I don't know how to say it. F U
Speaker 1: double t ocks? Would that be buttocks? With a F
Speaker 1: it would be? Wouldn't it? Are they really bad buttocks?
Speaker 1: See what it did there? By twenty nineteen, Careful Service
Speaker 1: investigation of wuship wrecks located within the limited study area
Speaker 1: determined that RI two three ninety four most likely candidate
Speaker 1: for the x HMS Endeavor. It meets ten criteria that
Speaker 1: experts previously agreed upon, and there's a whole range of
Speaker 1: things there. The report concluded, RI two three ninety four
Speaker 1: is the largest shipwreck site with the survey area and
Speaker 1: exhibits and attributes that fulfill the criteria. Consequently, the preponderance
Speaker 1: of evidence supports this shipwreck site identification as HMS Endeavor,
Speaker 1: and at the same time discounts any of the other
Speaker 1: investigators shipwreck sites as that of James Cook's renowned ship
Speaker 1: of Exploration. So they're saying we found a baby. Officially,
Speaker 1: as a result, of all of that. One three one
Speaker 1: eight seven three is the app of night number Craig
Speaker 1: Bennett coming up in a moment or two. But this
Speaker 1: is super tramp for the dreamers out there on a Saturday,
Speaker 1: Super tramp dreamer. Eighteen after midday one three, one eight
Speaker 1: seven three is our number here, Craig Bennett coming up
Speaker 1: in a moment or two. But again I reinforced to listeners.
Speaker 1: At twelve forty two. That is this hour. It's the
Speaker 1: exact moment the southern hemisphere has at its furthest tilt
Speaker 1: from the sun. Significant moment in all our lives. It's
Speaker 1: the winter solstice. In terms of what happens at twelve
Speaker 1: forty two, absolutely nothing, But isn't it wonderful to be
Speaker 1: alive and sharing this moment? So many people have come
Speaker 1: up with ideas about a sound effect that we need
Speaker 1: to make it twelve forty two. Some of them are
Speaker 1: worthy of mentioned, most of them aren't. You're naughty listeners,
Speaker 1: but we'll have something for you. And if that's not
Speaker 1: worth hanging around four, then you know, there's that Craig
Speaker 1: Bennett thing coming up. Euh, it's eighteen after midday. Craig's
Speaker 1: next Yeah, just on the text line, Greg says Luke
Speaker 1: quote absolutely nothing happens at twelve forty two one quote
Speaker 1: you're so self deprecating about your show. Thank you, Greg
Speaker 1: thing Oh, Brian, now mate Brian Wilson from three, aw
Speaker 1: your soul'stice sound effect. What about the the bloke in
Speaker 1: Hobart the sound he made when he jumped in for
Speaker 1: the nude swim event this morning? Well, I haven't heard that,
Speaker 1: and thankfully I haven't seen it. Thank you, Brian. We'll
Speaker 1: do some work on that. I think Trent should look
Speaker 1: after the studio go I think Trend's too busy to
Speaker 1: be looking after the studio Goaden to be frank, he
Speaker 1: is a bit difficult to deal with at times, and
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't put that at the feet of
Speaker 1: Trend to me, wouldn't be fair. One three, one eight
Speaker 1: seven three is our open line number. Now it's time
Speaker 1: for gramb the smelling Souls industrial strength if you have them,
Speaker 1: and don't forget the pickle juice, because it's time for
Speaker 1: Starstruck with Craig Bennett. Now today we look at one
Speaker 1: of the most fascinating yet tragic stories from Hollywood's golden years.
Speaker 1: We're talking today about the life of Judy Garland.
Speaker 23: They shook hands away.
Speaker 24: Hellolu get happy about the.
Speaker 23: Judgment day sna shining.
Speaker 24: Come on, get happy.
Speaker 1: The lot is when to take your hair shah hallelujah.
Speaker 1: Come on, get happy. We're gonna be Gland into the promise.
Speaker 2: Man, all because of the Man that God world.
Speaker 23: No call.
Speaker 24: To me in Saint Louis, Louis, and I heard yea.
Speaker 1: From her early days as a child, start to her
Speaker 1: years of Hollywood stardom and her trumphant returned to the
Speaker 1: concert state. Judy Garland captivated audiences like no other. Hello,
Speaker 1: Craig Bennett.
Speaker 6: And Luke Grant, Hello to you. Yes, the unmistakable tones
Speaker 6: of Judy Garland. And we're chadding Judy today because this weekend,
Speaker 6: in fact actually tomorrow, Luke fifty six years since she
Speaker 6: left us. June twenty two, nineteen six nine, it was,
Speaker 6: and she was found dead by her husband and fifth
Speaker 6: husband in the bathroom of a home they were renting
Speaker 6: in London, only forty seven. And you think about her life,
Speaker 6: She's lived the equivalent of maybe ten hundred regular lives,
Speaker 6: hasn't she? Because she seemed to cram so much into
Speaker 6: those forty seven years, so much drama. And you know, Judy,
Speaker 6: like Marilyn and Elvis, doesn't need a surname. The legend
Speaker 6: that just simply doesn't dim with time showed this phenomenon.
Speaker 6: We know she made a singing debu when she was
Speaker 6: two and a half. The fascinating story actually how she
Speaker 6: went from Frances Gum, which was the name she was
Speaker 6: born with, to Judy Garland. And you think of the
Speaker 6: stats on this. By seventeen, she was a star. By
Speaker 6: twenty seven, a bona fide legend, and forty seven, of
Speaker 6: course she's gone thirty four movies, The Wizard of Oz
Speaker 6: I guess being one of the most revered of Hollywood classics.
Speaker 6: She dazzled in The Harvey Girls. There was what was
Speaker 6: some others Easter Parade with Fred Astaire. She did three
Speaker 6: Andy Hardy movies with Micky Rooney. In fact, they were
Speaker 6: quite the screen team because they did ten movies all together.
Speaker 6: She was in A Star Is Born, the version with
Speaker 6: James Mason in the fifties Judgment at Nuremberg Till the
Speaker 6: Clouds Roll By. That was with Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, and
Speaker 6: her last movie was I could go on singing with
Speaker 6: Jack Klugman nineteen sixty three. Now, interesting, look, there were
Speaker 6: four big movies she was signed on the star and
Speaker 6: in fact the cameras had started rolling, but due to
Speaker 6: lateness or issues with medicational boohs or whatever it might be,
Speaker 6: she was fired and she was replaced by some really
Speaker 6: big stars. In fact, those movies turned their careers around.
Speaker 6: So I'll tell you about that. She won a special
Speaker 6: Oscar in nineteen forty. She got two further nominations. So
Speaker 6: we're talking somebody here who had terrific acting chops two
Speaker 6: Grammy Awards on the mantle for a music and you
Speaker 6: think some of the songs, you heard some of them there,
Speaker 6: but you know the other zing went the strings of
Speaker 6: my heart, you made me love you, there's the wonderful
Speaker 6: trolley song on the Atchison, to peek around the Santa
Speaker 6: Fe And all that talent, immeasurable talent on screen, on stage,
Speaker 6: wherever it might be. She had her own TV show,
Speaker 6: The Judy Garland Show. But with all of that, you
Speaker 6: flip it over and the private life was tumultuous. The
Speaker 6: five husbands, two of whom were gay.
Speaker 5: I've got a bit of a chapra about that too.
Speaker 6: That concerns Peter Allen. You'll need smelling salts. And if
Speaker 6: you've got the pearl, Tandy, start clutching now or I'll
Speaker 6: warm into it. Chorrus stories of abuse that she suffered
Speaker 6: at the hands of two husbands, the pills that look,
Speaker 6: we've kind of heard it all. You mentioned at the
Speaker 6: get Go that tea word tragedy. I've interviewed Judy's daughter,
Speaker 6: Laurna lop wonderful Broadway star and sensational singer who refused that.
Speaker 6: And I've got a bit of Laurna coming up later,
Speaker 6: Luke to tell you why Judy Garland wasn't tragic. And
Speaker 6: then you think, look the array of books and movies
Speaker 6: on Judy Garland's like Judy Davis. How Judy Davis was
Speaker 6: excellent in the TV mini few years ago based on
Speaker 6: Lorna has booked Me and My Shadows, And of course,
Speaker 6: more recently, renez el Wager played Judy Garland in a
Speaker 6: movie about Judy Garland. Obviously, look as Al Jolson once
Speaker 6: famously equipped, you ain't heard nothing yet, so I would
Speaker 6: pull your car over.
Speaker 5: I would sit.
Speaker 6: Down now if you're standing up this is a rocket ride,
Speaker 6: but we are told not tragic, but certainly tinged with
Speaker 6: tremendous highs and boyo boys, some absolutely crushing loads.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned pearls before. What is it we need
Speaker 1: to do? Yes with the pearls, clutch them?
Speaker 13: Is that what you said, we clutched them?
Speaker 6: I think that's the old expression, clutch the pearls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the pearls.
Speaker 6: Don't know where it came from, but it's just something
Speaker 6: that's lingered in the back of my mind. And yeah,
Speaker 6: I thought, well, while we're talking Judy galland no more
Speaker 6: appropriate time to drag him out perhaps.
Speaker 1: And if you if you don't have pearls, you might
Speaker 1: just have some amethyst or something else. You just clutch
Speaker 1: that as well as this only something to do with
Speaker 1: you could.
Speaker 6: Clutch the cubic xicaronia. You know, you don't need to
Speaker 6: be fancy fancy about it.
Speaker 1: That's our style, all right, mate, back with more from
Speaker 1: Craig right after this, and just before I hand back
Speaker 1: to Craig, don't forget today it exactly twelve forty two
Speaker 1: that will be the exact moment here in the Southern
Speaker 1: Hemisphere that we will be at our fullest or furthest
Speaker 1: tilt from the sun during this winter solstice at twelve
Speaker 1: forty two, and we will be I won't be wanting
Speaker 1: to interrupt, Craig, but if I have to, I will,
Speaker 1: and I'll be just reminding you that that's a moment,
Speaker 1: a significant moment in time, has no impact on your
Speaker 1: life at all. But you know, we just like to,
Speaker 1: We just like to make you aware of this gear
Speaker 1: winter Solstice exactly twelve forty two, and we'll be paying
Speaker 1: homage to other people like me, people I like to
Speaker 1: refer to a Solstice enthusiasts on the show today at
Speaker 1: twelve forty two. In the meantime, more important than all
Speaker 1: of that life and times of Judy Garland, Craig.
Speaker 6: Luke, I've got my eyes set firmly on my watch
Speaker 6: twelve forty two. She wasn't born Judy Garland. She was
Speaker 6: born Francis Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. And you realize,
Speaker 6: had she's still been with us, she'd have turned one
Speaker 6: hundred and three earlier this month. But it wasn't to be.
Speaker 6: Dad was a singer, and look, this is the start
Speaker 6: of a recurring theme in her life because her father
Speaker 6: was secretly gay one was a concert pianist who pushed
Speaker 6: her three daughters into showbiz. So you've got Judy's older sisters, Mary,
Speaker 6: Jane and Dorothy. They formed this group called the Gum Sisters.
Speaker 6: And it was when Judy was two and a half
Speaker 6: she sang jingle bells with her sisters, and so I
Speaker 6: guess you'd say the die was cast. In fact, it
Speaker 6: was Luke Showbiz Store with the Great George Jess, a
Speaker 6: wonderful comedian, among her a lot of other things. He
Speaker 6: suggested the name change, and he did so when an
Speaker 6: announcer introducing her Gum Sisters got it wrong and called
Speaker 6: them a no introducing the Glum sister. So George saides
Speaker 6: to move away from mc gum, the glum whatever it is,
Speaker 6: and he came up with the name Garland. So the
Speaker 6: Glum Sister rather the Gum Sisters became the Garland Sisters.
Speaker 6: And as for Francis becoming Judy, it was an homage
Speaker 6: your beautiful word there at homage to the Hogy Carmichael
Speaker 6: song Judy so well up. Judy Garland is born. Look.
Speaker 6: The Gum family moved to Los Angeles in nineteen twenty six.
Speaker 6: Duty was only four and The real reason was because
Speaker 6: of a brewing scandal with their dad, Frank Gum, who'd
Speaker 6: gotten involved with a young man. Don't know the details,
Speaker 6: but that's why they kind of packed up everything and
Speaker 6: scadaddled right out of town. Now, Judy made her movie
Speaker 6: debut nineteen thirty six of the Maths on that as
Speaker 6: she was fourteen. It was a short feature at MGM
Speaker 6: called Every Sunday with the Beautiful Deanna Durban. Now this,
Speaker 6: I know it sounds like it's not, but this is
Speaker 6: an absolutely true story as to how Louiebye made The
Speaker 6: MGM boss signed up Judy Garland after she made her
Speaker 6: debut in that movie I just told you about Every Sunday.
Speaker 6: He barked to some lackey, go sign up the flat one.
Speaker 6: Back then Deanna Durban if he could believe it. Apparently
Speaker 6: couldn't hit a note because she went on to become
Speaker 6: one of the great movie singers. But the lackey thought
Speaker 6: he said, go sign up the fat one. And back
Speaker 6: then Judy was a little on the chubby side, so
Speaker 6: it was a mistake of sorts, if you can believe it.
Speaker 6: Look a big break at MGM came in the Broadway
Speaker 6: Broadway Melody Movie of nineteen thirty eight, where she sang,
Speaker 6: in fact, to a photo of Clark Gable, you made
Speaker 6: Me Love You Now, such an iconic song. She was fifteen.
Speaker 6: When she was sixteen, on went the Gingham dress, and
Speaker 6: she made the Wizard of Oz playing Dorothy the Yellow
Speaker 6: Brick road Tote, the flying Monkeys, and all that, the
Speaker 6: Munchkins and the rest, as they say, is history. It
Speaker 6: was in fact during this time that Judy was put
Speaker 6: on this very strict regime. She was only allowed to
Speaker 6: eat chicken broth and cottage cheese in a bid to
Speaker 6: keep her figure from becoming wayward, and the doctors at
Speaker 6: MGM recommended all sorts of pills. There were sleeping pills
Speaker 6: to ensure she got plenty of beauty sleep. There was
Speaker 6: uppers to give her energy and vim there were down
Speaker 6: as to counter the uppers so that you didn't have
Speaker 6: too much. I know all that, and you see the
Speaker 6: thing is luke. It was all highly addicted. But understand
Speaker 6: they didn't know back then, and Judy was not on
Speaker 6: drugs like heroin or cocaine. They were pills prescribed by
Speaker 6: the doctors, and so of course she just took them.
Speaker 6: And became majorly addicted. And here's how all that played out.
Speaker 6: You see, after the Wizard of Oz she was a
Speaker 6: major star, and with the triumphs came the disappointments. For instance,
Speaker 6: she was signed up to Stone a movie called The
Speaker 6: Barkleys a Broadway, but she was dump for being zonked
Speaker 6: out on pills. Ginger Rogers replaced her, and that just fomented,
Speaker 6: you know, a fortified Ginger's stratosphere in Hollywood. She became
Speaker 6: a great star. She was cast as a duty to
Speaker 6: play Annie Oakley in Annie Getcha Gun. Same troubles, plus
Speaker 6: she was erratic and a nervous wreck. Incomes Betty Hutton.
Speaker 6: You think of Annie Oakley and you think of Betty
Speaker 6: Hutton in that movie. Then there was a glossy role
Speaker 6: in the Valley of the Dolls, similar trouble. So Judy's out,
Speaker 6: Susan Haywood replaced her, etc.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 6: Her five marriages were drama filled, to say the least. Hubby.
Speaker 6: Number one was a British composer, David Rose was his name.
Speaker 6: They wed in the early forties forty one, so she
Speaker 6: was nineteen, he was thirty one. Barely lasted three years,
Speaker 6: during which time she fell pregnant, but her mum, who
Speaker 6: did not appreciate or approve of this marriage, forced Judy
Speaker 6: to have an abortion. She met her second husband, Vincent Manelli,
Speaker 6: on the set of Meet Me in Saint Louis St.
Speaker 11: Lewis.
Speaker 6: He was a director. They wed in nineteen forty five.
Speaker 6: It was had a daughter, Liza together Liza the Neelle,
Speaker 6: but it wasn't to last, as Judy would come home
Speaker 6: to find him, perhaps in a dallyance with a gardener
Speaker 6: or a pool boy or something or other. During their marriage,
Speaker 6: she suffered severe depression, became a nervous wreck. She tried
Speaker 6: to take a life on an array of occasions, was
Speaker 6: admitted to psychiatric clinics. Judy had an affair during their marriage.
Speaker 6: In fact, it was with Sid Luft, who would go
Speaker 6: on to become her third husband. So they went in
Speaker 6: the early fifties, had two kids together, sing a lorn
Speaker 6: A Luft and a son, Joey Luft. Sid got Judy's
Speaker 6: career up and firing again, but it wasn't the last.
Speaker 6: They divorced in the mid fifties at thirteen years though
Speaker 6: her longest marriage. But Judy claimed that Sid was an
Speaker 6: alcoholic who beat her and stole her fortune. So you
Speaker 6: had all that going on. Straight after divorcing Sid, she
Speaker 6: wed actor and tour promoter Mark Heron. Now they were
Speaker 6: in this very splashy ceremony in love, I guess. But
Speaker 6: it didn't last. And there's a reason for that because
Speaker 6: Mark was gay.
Speaker 1: So what's going on here?
Speaker 6: What? I ask you the same questions, No wonder. I
Speaker 6: told you to grab those pearls and give them a
Speaker 6: good old clutch. Yeah, here is a stunning revelation. There
Speaker 6: are reports that claim that Judy's daughter Liza found Mark,
Speaker 6: Judy's husband, in bed with Liza's then husband Peter Allen.
Speaker 6: I mean, come on, well, I can remember Liza.
Speaker 5: In fact, Liza said.
Speaker 6: Recently in her documentary, she said, I learnt one day
Speaker 6: never to come home early from work because you're never
Speaker 6: going to go You're never going to know what you're
Speaker 6: going to find. I mean, as they say in the classics, girl,
Speaker 6: honk the horn loudly if you're arriving home earlier.
Speaker 1: Way listen, we're about to get the Palster's.
Speaker 6: Time twelve forty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, in about twenty five seconds. And I just
Speaker 1: if you don't mind, I said to my listeners earlier
Speaker 1: that I would i'd make a noise and play some effects. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: in fact, I've had my because I'm an exponent of
Speaker 1: the recorder, I've had my recorder broad into the studio
Speaker 1: and I just wait there, mate, here we go, Here
Speaker 1: we go. Oh, I'd like to think I give a
Speaker 1: bit for this show. In fact, I give my all
Speaker 1: for this show. And I only I've learned that during
Speaker 1: the news at one o'clock it was a little bit scratchy,
Speaker 1: but total eclips of the heart on Winter Saucers Day.
Speaker 1: That's what we're prepared to do for you, dear listener,
Speaker 1: and you my dear friend Craig. Sorry to interrupt you.
Speaker 1: Where were we?
Speaker 6: No, that's okay. I can hear Carnegie Hall calling you
Speaker 6: on the other line. Oh really, here is yeah, ring,
Speaker 6: ring ring. We want Brant and his recorder for Carnegie Hall.
Speaker 1: Yes, how do you?
Speaker 6: Jackman's tickets aren't selling that well? Looking for replacement?
Speaker 5: Good for you?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 6: Yeah, look I've lost track. But anyway, the hobby number
Speaker 6: four that's right, was apparently secretly go. Hobby number five
Speaker 6: was a musician, Mickey Deans, who was a nightclub manager.
Speaker 6: He was significantly younger than I think fifteen years sixty
Speaker 6: nine May, where she seemed to glow with happiness, telling
Speaker 6: Vanity Fair magazine Wohoo, I finally found real love. Drag
Speaker 6: out the recorders the last Three months Later, he found
Speaker 6: her in the bathroom of their home in London. She'd
Speaker 6: been there doing a series of concerts. They had some
Speaker 6: blistering row the night before she went screaming into the
Speaker 6: street in the nightgown or something. He went to bed.
Speaker 6: When he woke up, she wasn't beside him. He had
Speaker 6: to break the bathroom door down and there she was
Speaker 6: forty seven.
Speaker 5: Look.
Speaker 6: The final years had been tumultuous. The pills, the vodka
Speaker 6: not a good mixed. Her life was full of turmoil.
Speaker 6: Hardly had any money too. Incredibly surprising considering the career.
Speaker 6: She came to Australia in nineteen sixty four. Look. In
Speaker 6: Sydney she staggered around, but in Melbourne was booed off
Speaker 6: the stage. And you mentioned Judy Garland and invariably the
Speaker 6: word tragedy is used to describe her. I've interviewed Lorna
Speaker 6: left her daughter several times, and she refutes that. She
Speaker 6: says her Mum absolutely wasn't tragic. If you got a
Speaker 6: sec here's a little bit of a grab of that.
Speaker 23: She had a wicked sense of humor, and she was
Speaker 23: really funny and for all the people who didn't know her,
Speaker 23: when people would say to me, oh, you know, the tragic,
Speaker 23: and she hated that because she wasn't. And she's used
Speaker 23: to say, I had tragedies of my life, but I
Speaker 23: wasn't tragic. But she was funny, and she was kind,
Speaker 23: and she was generous. She was complicated. But again, all
Speaker 23: of the things that I had to find out about
Speaker 23: her career I had to learn. You know, she never
Speaker 23: she never sat down and talked to us. She just
Speaker 23: did it. And I remember I went into the office
Speaker 23: and I looked down and there was a great, big,
Speaker 23: red leather picture book and I started going through it
Speaker 23: and there were just dreadful things in it, just awful events,
Speaker 23: tornadoes and hurricanes and all these things. And she happened
Speaker 23: to come in and I said, Mama, what is this
Speaker 23: And she said, oh, Darling, that's my tragedy book. I
Speaker 23: said what, and she said, oh, my tragedy book said
Speaker 23: whenever I think I have a problem, I can open
Speaker 23: this book. And say you think I have it bad,
Speaker 23: Look what happened to these people? Like she said, Oh,
Speaker 23: people don't want a happy Judy Gore London. I said,
Speaker 23: well why and she'd say, oh, it doesn't make for
Speaker 23: good print or something she'd say.
Speaker 10: But she knew that.
Speaker 6: Jeez, incredible, I know. Look, she died of an overdose.
Speaker 6: Loop to wrap here quickly. Her funeral in New York
Speaker 6: was absolutely massive, something like twenty two thousand people filed
Speaker 6: past her casket that was glass top, so that was open.
Speaker 6: She was buried wearing one of her wedding dresses and
Speaker 6: originally buried in New York, and then twenty seventeen her
Speaker 6: remains were exhumed and she was reburied in the Hollywood
Speaker 6: Forever Cemetery with spots next to her for her kids,
Speaker 6: Lisa and Lorna, who you just heard from there. And
Speaker 6: Joey left an extraordinary story and you know, you go
Speaker 6: back and look at those movies and they really are timeless,
Speaker 6: and he just had something that so few have.
Speaker 1: You know what, Sometimes sometimes you hear these names and
Speaker 1: you if you were perhaps not born at the time,
Speaker 1: and think, oh, yeah, they reckon go back and have
Speaker 1: a look as Craig says, and just understand the magic
Speaker 1: that they brought to the screen, these people that died
Speaker 1: tragically so young and have their addictions and battles as
Speaker 1: they make their way through stardom in very different times.
Speaker 1: We kind of sometimes focus on that and not the
Speaker 1: excellent body of work, which could be a lot wider.
Speaker 1: But sadly we're robbed of that great work from you, mate.
Speaker 1: I'm away for a couple of weeks, but I look
Speaker 1: forward to chatting to you on our return. One of
Speaker 1: our listeners wants us to do something on Dick van Dijk.
Speaker 6: Oh, of course, I know in another Susan Haywood and
Speaker 6: Elizabeth Taylor. So the requests are rolling. Oh my god,
Speaker 6: I know where you're off to. It's Carnegie Hall with
Speaker 6: your record exactly right. Don't hide it from us.
Speaker 5: We know these things.
Speaker 1: I'm a bit modest and shy, you know.
Speaker 5: I know you are, I know.
Speaker 6: But when you've got those dancing girls behind you and
Speaker 6: you're blowing away, be a sensation.
Speaker 1: I'll be sure to have my pearls with me. Bye bye,
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Speaker 1: I just got a little notification Mark Leaby's here. Mark
Speaker 1: was how was Perth? Earth was good? Yeah? Earth was good?
Speaker 13: Still recovering.
Speaker 1: Believe it.
Speaker 20: It's only a two hour time difference, but it feels
Speaker 20: like you're on another planet.
Speaker 1: But I really like Perth. You did. Yeah, apparently there's
Speaker 1: a common Ara parkway at Waronga a fire. But if
Speaker 1: fire has started, there's no immediate danger starting. Okay, great,
Speaker 1: do you get those warnings? It's and good is what
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Speaker 5: Very good.
Speaker 1: I was out there before and the Big Man kept
Speaker 1: saying that he asks too many questions and it's been
Speaker 1: seen as a negative, he said, particularly by you tell
Speaker 1: me can you walk me through these? Well?
Speaker 20: I had the unfortunate pleasure of sharing a ride share
Speaker 20: car to off the stadium with him on Wednesday and
Speaker 20: I went back to the hotel, had a little snooze.
Speaker 20: Good morning shot and when you're just waking up, the
Speaker 20: last thing you want is four thousand quest questions and like,
Speaker 20: I'm not from Perth. Where are we going? How are
Speaker 20: we getting there? How are we going to get? What
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Speaker 13: Well, it wore me down a little bit.
Speaker 20: I dared to bring it up on Wednesday night and
Speaker 20: he's cracked.
Speaker 1: You know what? Oh, he to be getting a under
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Speaker 20: And there will also be a new host of the
Speaker 20: Continuous Call Team because I vowed last week to to
Speaker 20: leave gall in charge for half an hour, because he
Speaker 20: maintains that anyone can do my job. So I'm going
Speaker 20: to I'm going to put him in charge for half
Speaker 20: an hour and see how he handles live radio, looking
Speaker 20: after callers, emails, text messages, playing information, break structure, timing and.
Speaker 1: Timing, make light and shade, and he realizes how easy
Speaker 1: our job is as a host of its try and.
Speaker 20: Be funny occasionally goodluck that get ment to punish.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what about give Fergo she'd be terrific. I see
Speaker 1: her on the eighth of Mortal with Joey the.
Speaker 20: Podcast, and she started doing some hosting on Channel nine
Speaker 20: as well on the foot. But see Fergo. She loves
Speaker 20: the roles he's playing on the Continuous Till team. It's
Speaker 20: Paul that he can and run the show. We're beginning
Speaker 20: with p Yes, I was going to say something else.
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Speaker 1: Thanks, great job, grad call the origin to by the way,
Speaker 1: really good. Where's the clock? There's a clock, has a
Speaker 1: moved or the hands are moving, so let's get to it.
Speaker 1: It's Richard. Hello, Richard, Dava Heights. I grew up near
Speaker 1: Daver Heights, beautiful part of Sydney. Is it your wedding
Speaker 1: anniversary today?
Speaker 18: Fifty seven years today?
Speaker 3: Night?
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Speaker 1: was the G seven summit held this week? Was it
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Speaker 1: Trump's family announced they're starting a new business this week.
Speaker 1: Are they selling smartphones or typewriters.
Speaker 5: Smartphones.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fighter question for the wind State of Origin TiO
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Speaker 1: happy anniversary. I have to say Richard, happy anniversary. And
Speaker 1: you've got the spinally's pillow and can I say to
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Speaker 1: you so much for listening to our show. Well done
Speaker 1: you and I got to say happy birthday, Don Rob's
Speaker 1: dad good O'dona I met you. I hope you're good
Speaker 1: in good health, and thanks so much for listening. Now
Speaker 1: we're back in the morning at nine o'clock. There's a
Speaker 1: story we'll be covering that is essentially how heading a
Speaker 1: soccer ball can change your brain. All very interesting and
Speaker 1: the history of driving cinemas and Adam Crichden from the
Speaker 1: IPA he'll be with us as well. So much to
Speaker 1: do tomorrow at nine until then stay well and happy
Speaker 1: bye bye m