Speaker 1: Onto GV.
Speaker 2: This is sitting now with Clinton.
Speaker 1: Tuesday, June three, Clinton, Maine with you one three one
Speaker 1: eight seven three. We are dealing with a traffic nightmare
Speaker 1: on our road to this say afternoon, and I'll keep
Speaker 1: you up to date right throughout the program. Right now,
Speaker 1: the crane remains stuck in the M five tunnel. All
Speaker 1: the westbound lanes are open, but the eastbound lanes are
Speaker 1: still closed. And look, it's unlikely the'll open anytime soon.
Speaker 1: We'll bring you the latest in just a moment. But
Speaker 1: I should point out you are paying for the privilege
Speaker 1: of being stuck in this traffic jam. The M five
Speaker 1: toll five dollars seventy eight in each direction. On the
Speaker 1: show today, more than two and a half million workers
Speaker 1: will be given a pay rise from next month three
Speaker 1: and a half percent. It amounts to thirty two dollars
Speaker 1: a week. Is that going to make a difference or
Speaker 1: is it going to hurt business? We'll talk about that.
Speaker 1: There's a growing problem with electric cars as more Aussies
Speaker 1: by them. It is emerging that they're very difficult to
Speaker 1: repair because simply there are not enough technicians to do
Speaker 1: the job. We're going to talk to the NRMA about
Speaker 1: that MG a little sick this Afternoonie was coming down
Speaker 1: with it yesterday, I think. So we've got a special
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Speaker 1: you say one three one eight seven three. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: get straight to this Sydney Now problem. On the M
Speaker 1: five tunnel, the crane remains rolled over inside the tunnel.
Speaker 1: It did force the closure of the tunnel in both directions,
Speaker 1: but the lanes now have started to reopen. So the
Speaker 1: westbound lanes have reopened inside the M five tunnel, the
Speaker 1: eastbound is still closed. Superintendent Adam Dewbree is from Fire
Speaker 1: and Rescue. Adam, what's the latest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Clinton, we're making pretty good progress. Actually the crane
Speaker 3: has been put back on its wheels and taken out
Speaker 3: of the tunnel. Fire risking New South Wales has made
Speaker 3: sure that there was no further hazardous oil spills. It
Speaker 3: did lose quite a quantity and the deluge system, the
Speaker 3: fire sprinkler system had operated, had been ripped out when
Speaker 3: this vehicle had turned over onto its side, causing a
Speaker 3: lot of that oil to be washed away. We've contained
Speaker 3: that rendered that safe, but this oil can be quite
Speaker 3: corrosive to the surface, so all workers being done to
Speaker 3: get that assessed, to make sure that the surface, the
Speaker 3: pavement of the road is safe. The side of the
Speaker 3: tunnel has also been damaged. There was some sharp edges
Speaker 3: that also need to be corrected and working. But I
Speaker 3: can guarantee everyone out there listening. It transports the New
Speaker 3: South Wales through their traffic Management Center. We're working with
Speaker 3: the Traffic Commander's Highway Patrol. Everyone is conscious of how
Speaker 3: important this infrastructure is and a working world. I mean,
Speaker 3: if the listeners out there could hear the chatter that
Speaker 3: goes on between all the agencies to get this resolved
Speaker 3: as quickly as possible, you know, that's what they're doing
Speaker 3: and I can guarantee that's what doing, so hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: see this open sooner rather than later. The deluge system
Speaker 3: has been taken out, which is the fire protection. We've
Speaker 3: put a strategy in place. We've got a couple of
Speaker 3: fire trucks on stand by at the end of the
Speaker 3: tunnel just to provide that extra protection. But the aim
Speaker 3: I understand is to get that tunnel open as quickly
Speaker 3: as possible.
Speaker 1: So just to confirm that, Adam, you can have the
Speaker 1: tunnel open without the sprinkless system working as normal.
Speaker 3: Yes, but the fire trucks will be on the one
Speaker 3: stand on sceone because we lasting we want is a fight,
Speaker 3: because it does happen, not often, but it can happen
Speaker 3: and does happen. So fire trucks are close by and
Speaker 3: on scene at the end of the tunnel to get
Speaker 3: in and knock any fire out. But the passageways are
Speaker 3: still there, those other safety systems that are in place
Speaker 3: for people to get out, get into the safety, the
Speaker 3: refuge system in the tunnel, they're all still operating as well.
Speaker 3: And the deluge system I understand is operating in the
Speaker 3: westbound lanes. It's just the eastbound that he's been taken okay,
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 1: Just to confirm the crane's now being taken out of
Speaker 1: those eastbound lanes.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the crane and they did a marvelous job to
Speaker 3: get get it up on its wheels.
Speaker 4: A little bit of work and maneuvering.
Speaker 3: But they were able to use winters off the heavy
Speaker 3: haulage trucks to get it up and back on its
Speaker 3: wheels and it's been taken out and it's getting assessed,
Speaker 3: I believe by police and the transport people.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. Thank you, Adam. Adam Debrey from Fine
Speaker 1: and Rescue in New South Wales. It's cross to the
Speaker 1: Transport Management seat of Derek Peterson is at the TMC
Speaker 1: at the moment. Thank you for joining. It's Derek, So
Speaker 1: just just to confirm how this is going to now
Speaker 1: work over the next couple of hours. The westbound lanes
Speaker 1: closed right at the moment, but you should be able
Speaker 1: to open them soon.
Speaker 4: High Clinton.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thee eastbound lanes that are currently closed and as
Speaker 5: you heard from the superintendent there, there's been making some
Speaker 5: good progress in preparing to reopen the tunnel, but the
Speaker 5: eastbound lanes do remain closed at the moment. As you heard,
Speaker 5: the crane that drilled over has been removed from the tunnel,
Speaker 5: so that is out who remain on site there checking
Speaker 5: some of the damage and they're still working at the site,
Speaker 5: but just to go back over what happened here and
Speaker 5: how this actually happened. The crane rolled over just after
Speaker 5: about eleven thirty this morning. That blocked all the lanes
Speaker 5: of the eastbound tunnel, so soon after that the eastbound
Speaker 5: tunnel was closed. Versions put into King George's Road and
Speaker 5: Bexley Road. The traffic has been mostly using the D
Speaker 5: five diversion route. That's a signposted route that uses Stony
Speaker 5: Creek Road, Forest Road, West Botany Street and Marsh Street.
Speaker 5: That has been carrying extra traffic as you would expect,
Speaker 5: but no very long delays as a result of this
Speaker 5: on those other roads, about five minutes or so those delays,
Speaker 5: and the TMC has been working just to make sure
Speaker 5: that the traffic lights are faced suitably to keep that
Speaker 5: traffic moving on the diversion route. Of course, so when
Speaker 5: that diversion was put in, that still left some traffic
Speaker 5: trapped in the tunnel behind the incident. Those cars were
Speaker 5: progressively turned around with the assistance of traffic crews and police.
Speaker 5: The heavy vehicles that were stopped there, they took a
Speaker 5: bit longer to get out, of course, some were reversed
Speaker 5: out and then some were able to go past the
Speaker 5: crash site, but only after they got the crane upright.
Speaker 5: So the crane when it tipped over was blocking two
Speaker 5: citybound lanes. Once they got the crane upright, they were
Speaker 5: able to take some of those trapped heavy vehicles to
Speaker 5: go forward past the crash site using that one lane.
Speaker 5: So they are all out now as well. So current
Speaker 5: situation is the crane that crashed has been taken out
Speaker 5: of the tunnel. They got a low loader in that
Speaker 5: to get that out. Crews still in the tunnel checking
Speaker 5: the damage and making it safe. But for now, the
Speaker 5: citybound M five East tunnel is still closed.
Speaker 1: So for those citybound lanes, and it's good that the
Speaker 1: westbound so outbound is opening because that's obviously where the
Speaker 1: stronger traffic, the bigger traffic had snails usually out at
Speaker 1: this time of the day. But in terms of those
Speaker 1: eastbound lanes, do you think they'll open during the peak.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's the plan. We have a cruise on site
Speaker 5: now working to get citybound open as clear as soon
Speaker 5: as possible, as soon as it is safe to do so.
Speaker 5: As you heard there from Fire and Rescue, there has
Speaker 5: been some damage to the delude systems.
Speaker 1: They need to have those proceedings.
Speaker 5: In place to make sure that everything is safe. But
Speaker 5: the plan is that the hope is to get those
Speaker 5: citybound lanes open sometime soon this afternoon, but then there
Speaker 5: will need to be a further closure tonight after the peak,
Speaker 5: so probably around seven pm they'll need to close that
Speaker 5: citybound tunnel again to do some permanent repairs. The aim
Speaker 5: is to get to citybound open as soon as it
Speaker 5: is safe to do so, and then the traffic can
Speaker 5: start going using that to citybound in five eas tunnel
Speaker 5: once again.
Speaker 1: And so when you make that those citybound closures late tonight,
Speaker 1: that would be both the lanes of the tunnel. It
Speaker 1: won't be simply one lane.
Speaker 5: Will It will be both these bound lanes.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 5: So the citybound tunnel will need to we expect again
Speaker 5: tonight to complete those repairs. I don't think there'll be
Speaker 5: a need to close the westbound tunnel tonight. The westbound
Speaker 5: tunnel was closed earlier on this afternoon during this incident
Speaker 5: for a couple of reasons. One, as you heard from
Speaker 5: Fire and Rescue, some water pipes were damaged, so crews
Speaker 5: needed to look at that damage. And second, so there
Speaker 5: are cross passages between the westbound and eastbound tunnels that
Speaker 5: the Mercy Services use to get access, so to get
Speaker 5: access to the eastbound tunnel, that was one of the
Speaker 5: reasons the westbound tunnel was closed tonight. When repairs take place,
Speaker 5: we would expect that to take place in the east
Speaker 5: con Tumble, but we'll keep you updated on that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for the update, Derek, Thanks Clinton. Derek Peterson
Speaker 1: from the Transport Management Center. So just recapping all the
Speaker 1: westbound lanes are now open for the M five and
Speaker 1: that's good at this time of the day given it's
Speaker 1: out of the city, but the citybound lanes, the eastbound
Speaker 1: lanes remain closed. The Transport Management Center and Fine RESCU
Speaker 1: is very hopeful they'll reopen those soon, but later tonight
Speaker 1: they'll then have to close them again because the sprinkler
Speaker 1: system is not operating. Extra fire trucks are going to
Speaker 1: be on standby just in case there are any emergencies,
Speaker 1: but they're going to need to carry out some more
Speaker 1: extensive repairs that will hope happen late tonight at some point.
Speaker 1: So they're confident those eastbound lane the citybound lanes will
Speaker 1: open soon. Of course, we'll let you know if it's
Speaker 1: happening in Sydney.
Speaker 2: You'll hear it on Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 1: On gb quarter past three. An update for me Australia
Speaker 1: Electoral Commission on the ongoing recount in the seat of
Speaker 1: Bradfield in Sydney's North and the gap has widened this morning,
Speaker 1: but now it's starting the narrow once again. So Nicolette Buller,
Speaker 1: the Teal candidate, is now in front of Gizelle Capteririan,
Speaker 1: the Liberal by twenty seven votes. They are now through
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the recount. The projection is this
Speaker 1: will finish by tomorrow. Thankfully. Gezelle cap Tirian's actually narrowed
Speaker 1: the gap a little in the past couple of hours.
Speaker 1: It had reached up thirty three at one points. I
Speaker 1: don't know we're talking literally vote by vote here, but
Speaker 1: this is how close this is. And when the final
Speaker 1: count was the original count was complete, Jeselle cap Tian
Speaker 1: is only in front by what's one or two? So
Speaker 1: Nicolett Buller is in front by twenty seven At the moment,
Speaker 1: it's expected we should have a result by tomorrow, mind you.
Speaker 1: Gesell Capteririan has been given an outer position within the ministry,
Speaker 1: a shadow assistant role as the Member for Communications, the
Speaker 1: Shadow Minister for Communications under Susan Lee's cabinet. She might
Speaker 1: not be able to take up that role, mind you.
Speaker 1: There could then be a legal challenge and potentially there
Speaker 1: could be a by election. The big issue in mcquarie
Speaker 1: Street this afternoon is the future of the new South
Speaker 1: Wales workers' compensation scheme. It all liyes have been on
Speaker 1: the Coalition on whether they'll support the government's reforms in
Speaker 1: this area. Now the government is desperate to pass this
Speaker 1: legislation this week and you might think this is a
Speaker 1: load of mumba jumbo, it doesn't affect me. Well, it's
Speaker 1: going to win the end because the prediction from the
Speaker 1: government is that workers' compensation premiums for businesses will increase
Speaker 1: by around thirty percent at least be something like an
Speaker 1: extra billion dollars in premiums, and businesses will pass that
Speaker 1: on to us. The customer, whether it's a shop, whether
Speaker 1: it's a service, will end up paying more for workers
Speaker 1: compensation insurance. So the pressure has been on the Coalition,
Speaker 1: given that Liberal Party is the party for small business
Speaker 1: and the Nationals the party for those in the Bush
Speaker 1: to pass this legislation, and the government is desperate to
Speaker 1: pass the legislation this week, so by Friday, in order
Speaker 1: to have it all in place in time for the
Speaker 1: budget and to avoid some big increases from July one. Well,
Speaker 1: the coalitions confirmed they will support the legislation. They won't
Speaker 1: refer it to an Upper House inquiry, which would just
Speaker 1: delay the whole thing, but they want some they want
Speaker 1: some critical amendments to the legislation. Now it's all very confusing.
Speaker 1: I won't go through the whole lot to you because
Speaker 1: its eye glazing, but effectively, what the opposition is claiming
Speaker 1: is that this change would see injured people and a
Speaker 1: lot of this is about psychological injuries kicked off the
Speaker 1: scheme after two and a half years with no justification.
Speaker 1: So they want some amendments made, some changes to the
Speaker 1: detail of all this. In the end, there needs to
Speaker 1: be changed because the system is going broke and all
Speaker 1: those costs are going to be passed onto businesses, which
Speaker 1: means we're going to pay a lot more. So hopefully
Speaker 1: they sort this out in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: It's good that there's not going to be another inquiry
Speaker 1: because we have too many inquiries, too many reviews. But
Speaker 1: in the end, if the changes aren't made, it's going
Speaker 1: to be us the consumers that are going to suffer, be.
Speaker 2: Your part of Sydney. Now with Clinton Maynard call one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Pet to forward coming up shortly. There's been a twist
Speaker 1: in the case of Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni. Peter
Speaker 1: will have all the difference, all the details coming up.
Speaker 1: Tell me an extra thirty two dollars a week. If
Speaker 1: your pay goes up by thirty two dollars, is that
Speaker 1: going to make much of a difference to you. That's
Speaker 1: the increase in the minimum wage that's been approved by
Speaker 1: the Fair Work Commission today. They've approved a three and
Speaker 1: a half percent increase. It's less than what the unions wanted,
Speaker 1: but it is more than what business wanted, so it's
Speaker 1: pretty much halfway in between. I should note that it's
Speaker 1: more the inflation rate. The Act is selling McManus. She
Speaker 1: is happy today.
Speaker 6: That is a really good outcome, man. It's a great
Speaker 6: outcome because it's one point one percent more than inflation.
Speaker 6: So it means that finally award wage workers in Australia,
Speaker 6: our lowest paid workers are getting ahead again.
Speaker 1: So inflation's are two point four percent, so it is
Speaker 1: a real wage increase. The Prime Minister has supported the move.
Speaker 7: This decision today will be welcomed by people who keep
Speaker 7: our economy going, the essential workers who need this wage increase.
Speaker 1: So it applies to two point six million people, so
Speaker 1: those on the lowest wages. But it'll have a flow
Speaker 1: and effect through the rest of the economy in the
Speaker 1: west of the workforce. There'll be pressure for people on
Speaker 1: high wages to have their salaries increased as well for
Speaker 1: business and you'll have serious economic implications because it will
Speaker 1: affect potentially inflation and that flows through to RBA decisions
Speaker 1: on interest rates as well. But on the flip side,
Speaker 1: for a low paid worker, just thirty two dollars a
Speaker 1: week really get them much. I was doing a few
Speaker 1: calculations before. If you're stuck on the M five at
Speaker 1: the moment and you're in the traffic jam, you could
Speaker 1: actually use the five and a half times per week.
Speaker 1: It's five dollars seventy eight for the M five toll.
Speaker 1: My train ticket to work this morning was six dollars,
Speaker 1: so I'd buy you about five train tickets, could buy
Speaker 1: you half a case of VB, or it could buy
Speaker 1: you one movie ticket to go to Bankstown. Heyts, you
Speaker 1: couldn't take your kids, but you could go yourself, maybe
Speaker 1: buy some maltese at the same time. Is it going
Speaker 1: to make a difference if you work in retail, if
Speaker 1: you work in the services sector and you are on
Speaker 1: the minimum wage? Are you happy about that? Let me know.
Speaker 1: One three, one eight seven three is our number.
Speaker 2: For your part of Sydney. Now with Clinton. Maynard called
Speaker 2: one three, one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Twenty five past three.
Speaker 8: Hello Neil, Hey Clinton, how are you?
Speaker 4: Mane?
Speaker 1: Good by friend?
Speaker 8: What's happening?
Speaker 1: You tell me?
Speaker 8: I'm just wondering. We've heard the story about the roll
Speaker 8: over in that, but I'm just wondering how it occurred.
Speaker 8: What how did the damn thing get to roll over?
Speaker 8: Was it a blown tire? Was it drive error, a
Speaker 8: medical incident? Heard nothing about it?
Speaker 1: We'll certainly find out in the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: And you would have seen some of the photos if
Speaker 1: you have a look at two GB dot com. It
Speaker 1: is how it happened is leaving a lot of people
Speaker 1: scratching their heads of the moment. But it's a very
Speaker 1: good question to Neil. At the moment, the focus in
Speaker 1: the authorities has been removing the damn crane, which they
Speaker 1: now have done. But they'll need to ensure that they
Speaker 1: figure out what happened, because you won't want to see
Speaker 1: a repeat.
Speaker 8: Has anyone got any death cam footage or anything like that?
Speaker 1: Yeah, good question.
Speaker 4: Nine.
Speaker 1: Well, look, if our listeners happened to have been in
Speaker 1: the N five tunnel when this occurred, it's it was
Speaker 1: in the eastbound lanes whe the crane rolled over. Let
Speaker 1: us know, good question, Neil one, three, one, eight, seven
Speaker 1: to three. Oh gee, this news has just broken. Nick
Speaker 1: Kurios has just announced he's pulling out of Wimbledon. He
Speaker 1: will not play any of the grass court tennis season
Speaker 1: at all. He has suffered a set back in his
Speaker 1: recovery from injury. He has posted on social media. Just
Speaker 1: wanted to give a quick update. I've had a small
Speaker 1: set back in my recovery. Unfortunately, won't make it back
Speaker 1: for the grass season this year. I know how much
Speaker 1: you've all been looking forward to seeing me out there.
Speaker 1: I'm genuinely sorry to disappoint. This is just a bump
Speaker 1: in the road, though I'm already working harder to get back,
Speaker 1: stronger than ever. Thank you for your continued support. It
Speaker 1: means everything to me. See you soon. You do wonder
Speaker 1: whether Nick Kirios ever actually reached the top of tennis again,
Speaker 1: even get back on the court again. But just confirmation
Speaker 1: now Nick Kirios will not be playing in Wimbledon this year.
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Speaker 9: Good afternoon, Josh Bryance, Good afternoon, Clinton. A crane which rolled,
Speaker 9: damaging part of the East M five East Tunnel and
Speaker 9: closing eastbound lanes for ours has now been removed from
Speaker 9: the area. Crews still working to repair the damage and
Speaker 9: get the eastbound lanes open again. Traffic can still use
Speaker 9: the tunnel westbound. One man has been charged with murderer's
Speaker 9: Police search for a second following the death of a
Speaker 9: man in Sydney's Inner West. The state opposition says it
Speaker 9: will support reforms to workers' compensation in New South Wales,
Speaker 9: but that the state government has to agree to amendments.
Speaker 9: At a Labrador has been rescued from the bottom of
Speaker 9: an eight meter mine shaft in central Victoria. Ted the
Speaker 9: labrador found four days after going missing with fellow canine
Speaker 9: Penny the labradoodle, whose barking helped alert neighbors to the
Speaker 9: injured dog's location. In Sport, Bulldogs coach Camera Serado has
Speaker 9: guaranteed Toby Sexton will keep the halfback spot for Monday's
Speaker 9: clash with the Ear amid the speculation about whether Lachlan
Speaker 9: Galvin would be rushed into the number seven jersey after
Speaker 9: signing with the club. We'll have more news and sported.
Speaker 1: For Thank you, Josh. Nineteen degrees in the coast, it's
Speaker 1: nineteen degrees in Campbelltown. So what can you do with
Speaker 1: the thirty two dollars a week pay rise that minimum
Speaker 1: work at women and wage workers will receive based on
Speaker 1: the Fair Work Commission's decision. You could buy or maybe
Speaker 1: eight cups of coffee. Some research has been released today
Speaker 1: that shows morning coffee could help women age more healthy.
Speaker 1: In fact, three cups of coffee a day would actually
Speaker 1: help women. Researchers tracked almost fifty thousand for thirty two years.
Speaker 1: It's found that those who drank caffeinated coffee were significantly
Speaker 1: more likely to age well, maintaining mental, physical, and cognitive
Speaker 1: health into their seventies and beyond. The same link with
Speaker 1: healthy aging was not seen with ta or decaf coffee.
Speaker 1: So you can maybe buy yourself eight cups of coffee
Speaker 1: over the course of a week if you'd like to age.
Speaker 2: Well until six. This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard
Speaker 2: on two GBS call now one three, one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Well a few Jackman's been in the news lately over
Speaker 1: his breakup with his long term partner, his wife Deborah Lee,
Speaker 1: and he's hit the town with his new will actually
Speaker 1: separately with his other half. Hello, Peter Ford.
Speaker 10: Yes, I guess they've got to get out and about,
Speaker 10: don't they. So Sutton Foster, who is the new lady
Speaker 10: and in Hugh's life, Well, she's been around for a
Speaker 10: while now, but it's sort of become very public in
Speaker 10: the last week and she attended the Drama Desk Awards,
Speaker 10: which are very big deal awards for the theater. She
Speaker 10: was nominated for Best Performer in a Musical. She didn't win, though,
Speaker 10: but she attended with a co star, so she clearly
Speaker 10: they're not ready to do that red carpet moment yet,
Speaker 10: and in fact she avoided the press. She agreed to
Speaker 10: be photographed, but she didn't go along the actual red
Speaker 10: carpet where you are literally face to face with reporters.
Speaker 10: And meanwhile, Hugh was hitting the town. He went to
Speaker 10: the pub, like any good Australian bloke who when there's
Speaker 10: times are tough, you go to the pub. And he
Speaker 10: went to a pub called Old Mates, which is a
Speaker 10: very interesting established that's establishment that's been opened by Andy
Speaker 10: Lee and a group of other people in New York.
Speaker 10: And it's an Australian pub and not just a themed pub,
Speaker 10: but they really imported things from Australia, right down to
Speaker 10: carpet and badstools. And Hugh went there and spent time
Speaker 10: with Andy. And he's put up some social media posts
Speaker 10: as Hugh has as well. So yes, both getting out
Speaker 10: and about, but not together.
Speaker 1: So when is there a certain rule the way it
Speaker 1: works in Hollywood when a couple breaks up and they
Speaker 1: move on with a new partner, how they got together
Speaker 1: and whether, whatever the circumstances were, is there a particular
Speaker 1: rule about when you're then allowed to go out on
Speaker 1: the red carpet together?
Speaker 10: Well, none of it is a rule, but I guess
Speaker 10: it depends on how you feel, and you know, you
Speaker 10: don't want to live your life being locked up all
Speaker 10: the time, not able to go out. And to be honest,
Speaker 10: they have really been doing that for quite some time now,
Speaker 10: so they're probab itching to go out together different places
Speaker 10: and events. But I'm sure they're getting some pr advice too.
Speaker 10: But you know, if I was Hugh, I would probably say,
Speaker 10: you know, let's bite the bullet, let's go together to something,
Speaker 10: do the red carpet. Everyone gets a photograph, that suddenly
Speaker 10: the bounty to get the photograph is gone. They won't
Speaker 10: be chasing as us in the same way that they
Speaker 10: are at the moment. But look, it's a tough time.
Speaker 10: It's tough for the three players involved, including deb Lee,
Speaker 10: because you know, everybody, all the gossip columns, all the
Speaker 10: magazines are all itching to get photographs and to get
Speaker 10: quotes from them all.
Speaker 1: And the paparazzi photo is worth fortune. But but honestly, would
Speaker 1: they actually consult a pr agent. Maybe they have a
Speaker 1: per agent full time about whenners appropriate they do.
Speaker 10: Hugh absolutely does. He does do his own social media,
Speaker 10: which is why he made that gath last week, that
Speaker 10: very inappropriate gaff you know, of him skipping just after
Speaker 10: the news of deb Bely's statement. I mean, any wise
Speaker 10: PR person would have said, don't be stupid, but he
Speaker 10: did that. But no, he does have prpeople.
Speaker 1: Sitting down there is either on the phone or maybe
Speaker 1: seeing someone in person in an office saying Okay, when
Speaker 1: do you think we should actually go out in public?
Speaker 10: Yeah, a different world, Yeah, totally. I mean, you know,
Speaker 10: at the moment they are under siege.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there's been a major twist in the case of
Speaker 1: Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't think this is ever going to get
Speaker 10: to court. It it's due to go to court in
Speaker 10: March of next year. But I think this is almost
Speaker 10: like she's setting up an exit strategy for herself. So
Speaker 10: one of the main things, you know, he was the
Speaker 10: director of the movie that she was in. She's accused
Speaker 10: him of all sorts of harassment and bad behavior. But
Speaker 10: now she's actually asked the judge to withdraw a couple
Speaker 10: of major parts of her complaint, and one is the
Speaker 10: intentional infliction of emotional distress and also the negligent infliction
Speaker 10: of emotional distress. Now, why she's decided she doesn't want
Speaker 10: to pursue those things is she's been told you'll have
Speaker 10: to hand over your health and medical and mental health records,
Speaker 10: so that's part of the discovery. So she doesn't want
Speaker 10: to do that. So therefore, which either means what the
Speaker 10: content of it is highly embarrassing, or it maybe means
Speaker 10: there's nothing there that's going to back up her claim.
Speaker 10: I mean, I think what we have seen, if you've
Speaker 10: been following this over the last six months, is that
Speaker 10: she says a lot of stuff, and she obviously felt
Speaker 10: a lot of stuff, but she can't prove much because
Speaker 10: Justin Baldoni has been very good on handing out receipts, videos,
Speaker 10: you know, emails, everything because he was the director, he
Speaker 10: had access to everything and seems to have kept everything.
Speaker 10: Whereas it seems like unless she's got some smoking gun
Speaker 10: that she's going to pull out in the courtroom, I
Speaker 10: just don't see that she's got much to back up
Speaker 10: what she's saying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it'll never get to the courtroom. Thanks Peter,
Speaker 1: Thanks Clinton. Now entertainment correspondent Peter Ford. It's twenty three
Speaker 1: to four. Now, the five just to reach if you're
Speaker 1: in the traffic at the moment. The westbound lanes, so
Speaker 1: the citybound lanes are now open. The eastbound lanes are
Speaker 1: still closed. The crane's been removed from the tunnel, but
Speaker 1: they're still inspecting the road surface. The sprinkler system won't
Speaker 1: be operating and they will have to close even once
Speaker 1: they open the eastbound lanes hopefully shortly late tonight, they'll
Speaker 1: have to close and again to try to fix the
Speaker 1: sprinkless system. There are some fire trucks that have been placed
Speaker 1: on standby, but there's questions already been asked about what's
Speaker 1: actually caused this crane to crash and then roll over
Speaker 1: a little earlier in the afternoon, Darren says, And you
Speaker 1: can see some photos of the crane on our website
Speaker 1: two GB dot com. Darren. The text line says the
Speaker 1: crane that rolled over is Franner now and you can
Speaker 1: see this detail on our website. They articulate in the
Speaker 1: middle using a hydraulic steering system. They are prone to
Speaker 1: getting the wobbles and perhaps the wobbles may have caused
Speaker 1: the problem. We'll find out hopefully quickly, Darren. Dave says,
Speaker 1: are you still going to be hit for the toll
Speaker 1: if you're stuck on the M five. Of course, Dave,
Speaker 1: don't worry five dollars seventy eight for the privilege of
Speaker 1: being stuck in a track jam. This afternoon, Harry on
Speaker 1: the text line, we've been talking about the increase in
Speaker 1: wages for low paid workers. It's three and a half percent,
Speaker 1: will be thirty two dollars a week. Harry rightly points out,
Speaker 1: let's not forget about tax. You'll pay about five dollars
Speaker 1: seventy five on that, so it's about twenty six dollars
Speaker 1: in your pocket after tax. Neil says, in regards the
Speaker 1: pay rise, don't forget politicians never miss out every year
Speaker 1: via the so called independent body. But the group that
Speaker 1: does miss out a rage pensioners. No relief for them,
Speaker 1: the people that can least afford the inflation, Thank you, Neil.
Speaker 1: Well to be fair to the politician, certainly at state level.
Speaker 1: When Chris Min's was elected, he did promise there would
Speaker 1: be a freeze on politicians pay rise. So cabinet approved
Speaker 1: legislation to freeze the pay of state MPs and public
Speaker 1: service senior executives for two years. So at the moment,
Speaker 1: the men's government, the opposition, the other MP's in state
Speaker 1: partment in Macquariy Street, they don't get a pay rise.
Speaker 1: At a federal level, there was an increase for the
Speaker 1: federal polly's last year. They had a three and a
Speaker 1: half percent increase, so it's the same increase as the
Speaker 1: minimum wage increase. It meant the base politician pay went
Speaker 1: up to two hundred and thirty three thousand dollars. The
Speaker 1: Prime Minister on six hundred and seven thousand.
Speaker 2: Dollars Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 1: If it's happening in.
Speaker 2: Your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to ginb Now.
Speaker 1: The Prime Minister and the Premier have just announced some
Speaker 1: increased payments for people affected by the floods mid North
Speaker 1: Coast and also the Hunter Valley, particularly small businesses and
Speaker 1: primary producers. So this will include grants of up to
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars for small businesses with fewer than
Speaker 1: twenty employees and also nonprofit organizations. So for instance, when
Speaker 1: when I did the show from Tari last week, I
Speaker 1: visited a motel, this would be eligible. This would be
Speaker 1: a business eligible for a twenty five thousand dollar grant.
Speaker 1: To be honest, they suffered so much damage that'll just
Speaker 1: touched the sides. But I'd think it'll be welcomed by
Speaker 1: the owners. Grants are twenty five thousand dollars for eligible
Speaker 1: primary producers. So for instance, Gus the oyster farmer, I
Speaker 1: paid a visit to his property, he be eligible for
Speaker 1: twenty five thousand dollars grants of up to ten thousand
Speaker 1: for eligible rural landholders, and there'll also be money for
Speaker 1: drainage on private land as well. One hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: dollars Hardship payments for individuals capped at nine hundred dollars
Speaker 1: for household So the Prime Minister and the Premier did
Speaker 1: promise there'd be some increased grants for those affected, and
Speaker 1: they've just announced that detail right there. Look, talking about
Speaker 1: the impact of the floods, reality is when we go
Speaker 1: through natural disasters, whether it's drought or flood, it has
Speaker 1: a particular impact on our primary producers and that affects
Speaker 1: us here in the city. It affects us through what
Speaker 1: we pay at supermarkets, when we go to the fruit
Speaker 1: and ved shop, what we pay there, and we've had
Speaker 1: us today that milk and dairy prices are set to
Speaker 1: rise because of the extreme weather in both New South
Speaker 1: Wales and Queensland, and then the dairy heartlands of Victoria,
Speaker 1: South Australia Tasmania very much in the grip of drought.
Speaker 1: At the moment, experts predict four and five milk producing
Speaker 1: farmers are recovering from some sort of natural disaster. What's
Speaker 1: that going to mean for us? Well, likely we're going
Speaker 1: to pay more. Eliza Redfirm is the Analysis and Insights
Speaker 1: manager at Dairy Australia. Eliza, thank you for joining us
Speaker 1: on the program.
Speaker 11: Hey, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: The industry estimates about one hundred and thirty seven dairy
Speaker 1: farms across New South Wales have actually been affected by
Speaker 1: the flooding that we've been reporting on in the past week.
Speaker 1: How bad has it been for farmers?
Speaker 11: Yeah, look, it's a good question, and the impacts have
Speaker 11: really varied across all of those farms. As mentioned that,
Speaker 11: it's quite a significant number that have been impacted there
Speaker 11: and as our National Dairy Farmer Survey results have shown
Speaker 11: for twenty twenty five, is about sixty nine percent of
Speaker 11: farming businesses across the country that have been impacted by
Speaker 11: extreme weather this season, and that survey was taken back
Speaker 11: in February, so the number is likely to be higher.
Speaker 11: But ultimately you know that the impacts do really vary
Speaker 11: depending on on location, and it's right from a minor
Speaker 11: level right down two significant impacts in terms of damages
Speaker 11: to infrastructure, water log paddis, those kinds of things.
Speaker 1: I was having a look at a drought map today
Speaker 1: and also the forecast for the next couple of months,
Speaker 1: and it appears that the area of drought affecting New
Speaker 1: South Wales very much based around the River area, but
Speaker 1: drought affected areas much of southern New South Wales, so
Speaker 1: that would include a lot of prime dairy land. Yeah.
Speaker 11: Correct, So we're seeing the impacts of the dry conditions
Speaker 11: in several regions now and South Australia and southwest Victoria
Speaker 11: have been two key ones that have been impacted throughout
Speaker 11: the majority of this season by dry conditions, and in
Speaker 11: recent months we've started to see parts of northern Victoria,
Speaker 11: southern New South Wales and parts of western and southern
Speaker 11: Gippsland as well that have been impacted by the dry
Speaker 11: conditions too.
Speaker 1: So how does drought but also flood how does that
Speaker 1: directly affect prices.
Speaker 11: So ultimately you know that there's impacts on milk production
Speaker 11: in terms of what's being collected in it and produced
Speaker 11: on farm and the decisions that farmers make in response
Speaker 11: to those conditions, and you know as they go through
Speaker 11: their recovery process coultantly impact that volume of milk coming out. Now, ultimately,
Speaker 11: the tighter milk production in these key regions then warrant
Speaker 11: a higher milk price paid to those farmers. So we're
Speaker 11: seen in the announcements from yesterday for the opening minimum
Speaker 11: farm gate milk prices paid to farmers for the new season,
Speaker 11: there has been some increase relative to this current season,
Speaker 11: and that tighter milk production forecast for the rest of
Speaker 11: this season or the other new season sorry, is likely
Speaker 11: to warrant further increases to the prices paid to farmers.
Speaker 11: But ultimately that's going to be tempered by how both
Speaker 11: of the export and domestic markets.
Speaker 1: There So that farm gate increased, that's going to applause
Speaker 1: that from the new financial year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, correct, Yes, So ultimately the processes have to announce
Speaker 11: their minimum opening milk price by a deadline around the
Speaker 11: start of June every season. Ultimately, that's an announced. Farmers
Speaker 11: can then see what what prices are being offered by
Speaker 11: various processes and then move on through the season.
Speaker 1: Do you have an estimate of what we're going to
Speaker 1: pay in supermarkets in the cities or other retails when
Speaker 1: we buy a bottle of milks they've saved for a
Speaker 1: leader of milk or with you by the two or
Speaker 1: three liter bottles.
Speaker 11: Well, ultimately, when we're talking about that flow on impact
Speaker 11: through to consumers as far as the dairy industry works,
Speaker 11: is it's not as simple as you know the interactions
Speaker 11: that we might see in the vegetable or the beef
Speaker 11: space for instance. So ultimately, going forward, there is a
Speaker 11: lot of retail price pressure at the moment within that space.
Speaker 11: Australia still has its high cost of living, so ultimately,
Speaker 11: going forward there is going to be some limitations in
Speaker 11: terms of what some of those price increases will be
Speaker 11: to retail prices.
Speaker 1: For years, we have discussed the way the supermarkets operate
Speaker 1: with the farmers. Are farmers still struggling to get a
Speaker 1: fair deal out of the big supermarkets.
Speaker 11: Well, what we're seeing within this current environment is that
Speaker 11: there is that mounting retail price pressure and Ultimately, since
Speaker 11: the end of twenty twenty four, we've seen that some
Speaker 11: of the shelfall the sticker prices of some dairy products
Speaker 11: and private label products have come down since the end
Speaker 11: of last year. So ultimately that that flows onto that
Speaker 11: competition on the shelf right across the dairy case. And
Speaker 11: so there is that pressure on that space at the moment.
Speaker 1: So would you expect and I see there is some
Speaker 1: rainfecast for the winter months and hopefully that will mean
Speaker 1: the drought affected areas hopefully will shrink across the state.
Speaker 1: Would you then expect that that would translate into better
Speaker 1: cost base for the farmers and potentially for dairy prices
Speaker 1: to come down well.
Speaker 11: More favorable seasonal conditions would definitely help in terms of
Speaker 11: that recovery piece, but ultimately it would have to be
Speaker 11: the right around, right amount of rainfall at the right
Speaker 11: times as well in order to help those drought affected farmers,
Speaker 11: and then of course those in the more northern dairy
Speaker 11: and regions probably need less of that rainfall too. So
Speaker 11: you know where we're heading into winter now there are
Speaker 11: colder temperatures as well which impact that pasture growth. It
Speaker 11: is our lower producing months of the season, so ultimately
Speaker 11: we need to see how conditions fair as we head
Speaker 11: into the spring month.
Speaker 1: Thanks for your insight, Eliza, Thanks so much, Eliza Redfern,
Speaker 1: who's the Analysts and Insights manager at Day Australia. Late
Speaker 1: in the program yesterday I brought you the news that
Speaker 1: a body of a man had been discovered at a
Speaker 1: home in Croydon Park, had been stabbed to death and
Speaker 1: a man had been arrested at the scene. Well, that
Speaker 1: man has now been charged. He was taken to hospital
Speaker 1: initially before he was taken to Boward Police station. He
Speaker 1: is now before the courts. He's been charged over the
Speaker 1: murder of the twenty nine year old victim. Thirty two
Speaker 1: year old man arrested the scene now facing a range
Speaker 1: of charges. Police and this law play out between before
Speaker 1: the courts over the coming weeks in the coming months.
Speaker 1: But police alleged this was basically a bungled drug deal. However,
Speaker 1: police are still looking to speak with another man who
Speaker 1: they say maybe able to assist with their investigations. This
Speaker 1: was a man last scene on Kembla Street, Croydon Park
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon. He's described as being Asian appearance. A solid
Speaker 1: bill was last scene, wearing a black jumper with the
Speaker 1: red symbols on the back, blue jeans, black shoes, black hat,
Speaker 1: and carrying a black satchel. So police don't want to
Speaker 1: find this particular bloke. You've got any details, you can
Speaker 1: call crime stoppers one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero.
Speaker 1: But one man has now been arrested and charged, a
Speaker 1: thirty two year old. He is before the courts. One three,
Speaker 1: one eight seven three is our number. Gide Sam oh
Speaker 1: Hi Clinton, how are you good? You want to speak
Speaker 1: about farmers and milk prices?
Speaker 12: Oh, you know, I understand, you know, these things happen.
Speaker 13: But in turn, when the government assists the farmers, you know,
Speaker 13: when they need help, which they do, Why why are
Speaker 13: we paying twice?
Speaker 4: They not? Not every business gets this assistance. They shouldn't
Speaker 4: be putting up their prices.
Speaker 1: The problem is though, that if we if we let
Speaker 1: our primary producers flounder when they go through these natural
Speaker 1: disasters in the end, where we're going to pay even
Speaker 1: more down the track.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but no one gets like, you know a lot
Speaker 4: of businesses are affected, but not all get a fit.
Speaker 1: Not all get it. In particular, grant as the different
Speaker 1: farmers in the on the mid North Coast going to receive.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the same thing because the
Speaker 4: taxpayer has to pay either way.
Speaker 1: I think we need a different system and whether it's
Speaker 1: a government sponsored insurance scheme where we provide a fallback
Speaker 1: of safety net for whether it's primary producers or other
Speaker 1: businesses that operate in these areas that are prone to
Speaker 1: natural disasters. We seem to wait until the last minute
Speaker 1: when things go wrong to provide these bailouts, and that's
Speaker 1: why we've got these grants that have now been announced
Speaker 1: by the Premier and the Prime Minister today. I think
Speaker 1: we need a better insurance scheme that provides some more
Speaker 1: certainty for those producers one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Thank if you call Sam. Don't forget word on the
Speaker 1: streets thanks to Temper a great night's sleep, night after night.
Speaker 1: The difference is Temper. If you see something around the
Speaker 1: city that we need to know about, you can send
Speaker 1: me a text message zero force zero eight seven three
Speaker 1: eight seven three. If there's something you'd like us to investigate,
Speaker 1: send me an email to gb dot com. Tony's just
Speaker 1: sent me a message. Okay, So the thirty two dollars
Speaker 1: a week increase. Is that enough money to buy me
Speaker 1: a ticket to a Shark's game? Tony mus wants to
Speaker 1: go to a Shark's this weekend. Well, no, I've checked
Speaker 1: that out, Toney, No, it's not. General admission to a
Speaker 1: Shark's game is forty one dollars, So for most of
Speaker 1: the NRL matches these days, thirty two dollars isn't enough
Speaker 1: to get you into a game. Thirty two dollars they
Speaker 1: will buy your movie ticket. So the going rate for
Speaker 1: a movie ticket these days at Hoyts and Events Cinema
Speaker 1: is twenty six dollars. Do they still have cheap Tuesday?
Speaker 1: Remember Tuesday used to be half prop when we were
Speaker 1: growing up, I'll call it tight backside Tuesday. It was
Speaker 1: very cheap on a Tuesday was pretty much half priced.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that still exists anymore. If you
Speaker 1: go to Hungry Jacks at Saint Peter's through the drive through,
Speaker 1: you might get a surprise. Hungry Jacks has now confirmed
Speaker 1: thenews dot Com that I do today that they're trialing
Speaker 1: AI in the drive through. So you pull up and
Speaker 1: you might want to order your double whopper with fries.
Speaker 1: You're not going to speak with a person anymore, you'll
Speaker 1: actually be speaking with AI and apparently if this is successful,
Speaker 1: they're going to roll it out right across the city.
Speaker 2: We sit now, we've clinton on to GMB.
Speaker 1: It's seven past four. Still traffic mayhem on the M
Speaker 1: five or westbound lanes the M five and our running,
Speaker 1: so that's good. The crane that was stuck in the
Speaker 1: eastbound lanes after a crash and over turned, it's been removed,
Speaker 1: but the eastbound lanes of the M five tunnel are
Speaker 1: still blocked at the moment, and it's hoped this hour.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this hour those eastbound lanes, the citybound lanes will reopen.
Speaker 1: But what's occurring is they need to check the roadway
Speaker 1: to make sure it's safe. There's been a lot of
Speaker 1: oil that's spilt as well. The sprinkless system is not
Speaker 1: going to be working, so there are extra fire trucks
Speaker 1: that are actually stationed around the tunnel. Both ends to
Speaker 1: ensure that if there are some sort of emergency, firefighters
Speaker 1: can be deployed quickly, and we are told once the
Speaker 1: road is open it will be safe. But later tonight
Speaker 1: the authorities will need to close the M five again
Speaker 1: so they can actually repair the sprinkless system and the
Speaker 1: other emergency operations there. So at the moment, westbound is open.
Speaker 1: The on ramp to the Motorway of Mars has also reopened.
Speaker 1: The city bound is closed from Bexley Road along with
Speaker 1: the city bound on ramp at Kingsgrove Road. Now, if
Speaker 1: you need to use the route, if you follow signposts
Speaker 1: that have the D five sign and will bottom sent
Speaker 1: me some photos a little after in the afternoon, you
Speaker 1: might not even notice on major roadway signs there is
Speaker 1: sometimes in this particular area D five noted. That's a route,
Speaker 1: it's a diversion effectively that you can follow, but it'll
Speaker 1: take extra time. The good news is westbound so out
Speaker 1: of the city is operating five at the moment, it's
Speaker 1: into the city that's an issue. We are told it
Speaker 1: will open soon, but again the M five will close
Speaker 1: later tonight so more substantial repairs can be conducted. Right now,
Speaker 1: the Prime Minister is holding a cabinet meeting in Perth
Speaker 1: and he's actually been joined by the WA Premier, Roger
Speaker 1: Cook as part of this meeting. Now, interestingly this has
Speaker 1: come at the same time that Chris Mints and other
Speaker 1: premiers on the East Coast have renewed a campaign to
Speaker 1: reform the GST. Now, this has been an issue that
Speaker 1: dates back years now, dates to the time when Malcolm
Speaker 1: Turbule was the Prime Minister. WA successfully negotiated with Malcolm
Speaker 1: Turbule a much more generous carve up of the GST.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, it's a joke and despite the
Speaker 1: fact we're of course biased because we're on the East Coast,
Speaker 1: it's a joke because the WA economy, given their resources,
Speaker 1: the fact that they're a mining based economy, they've been
Speaker 1: doing well for years now. Yet because Malcolm Turnbull and
Speaker 1: Scott Morrison continued it. Now both continued it as well
Speaker 1: because they needed to win those seats in Perth. They
Speaker 1: gave them a better deal. So we suffer. It's not
Speaker 1: based on population, it's not based on need. It's based
Speaker 1: on politics and the fact that Malcolm Turbule years ago
Speaker 1: near the wind seats in Perth. Well, the Prime Minister
Speaker 1: has been asked about this today, Chris Min's has been
Speaker 1: quizzed about it. This is what the New South Wales
Speaker 1: premiers had to say. We need to revisit it.
Speaker 14: And the truth of the matter is that we've got
Speaker 14: a big pull on resources in New South Wales.
Speaker 1: We take the.
Speaker 14: Largest amount of inbound migrants. We've got the most diverse
Speaker 14: economy and as a result of that we need a
Speaker 14: fairer share.
Speaker 1: Well, bad news. The Prime Minister's confirmed he has no
Speaker 1: plans to revisit it.
Speaker 7: We support the position on WA that I took to
Speaker 7: the election I took to the twenty twenty two election,
Speaker 7: and that we're enshrined.
Speaker 1: At the National cabinet.
Speaker 7: It must be said some I think a year ago
Speaker 7: were enshrined that going forward. Importantly as well, part of
Speaker 7: that is that no states being worse off that guarantee,
Speaker 7: and that guarantee is in.
Speaker 1: Place, so no state is worse off. But it's not
Speaker 1: fair because we have the biggest population here on the
Speaker 1: east coast, New South Wales when it comes to immigration
Speaker 1: takes more than any other state, which means our infrastructure
Speaker 1: is stretched more than any other state. But it's WA
Speaker 1: that's getting all the money.
Speaker 2: If it's happening in Sydney, cull hear it on Sydney
Speaker 2: now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 1: To GB it's ten past four to two point six
Speaker 1: million workers will receive a pay rise as of July one.
Speaker 1: The Fair Work Commission has proved a three and a
Speaker 1: half percent increase to two point six million workers on
Speaker 1: the minimum awards. So this will translate into a thirty
Speaker 1: dollars a week, thirty two dollars a week increase that'll
Speaker 1: be before tax. It's one of the largest above inflation
Speaker 1: increase it's actually ever been approved. Now effectively, it's below
Speaker 1: what the unions were after, but it's more what business.
Speaker 1: It's above what business wanted, So it's pretty much smack
Speaker 1: bang in the middle. Ben Pike is from Business New
Speaker 1: South Wales. Thank you for your time. Ben.
Speaker 4: Now is Clinton?
Speaker 1: How is this going to affect business?
Speaker 13: Well, look, I mean it mostly relates to hospitality, health
Speaker 13: and social assistance admin services, those sort of labor intensive businesses.
Speaker 13: But look, a three point five percent increases, as you say,
Speaker 13: above what business asks. We ask for two point five percent.
Speaker 13: And the reason why is because this is against the
Speaker 13: backdrop of flatlining productivity. There is a significant amount of
Speaker 13: businesses that are under a lot of pressure already with costs.
Speaker 13: And so yes, we understand that minimum wage employees do
Speaker 13: need to see an increase in their wage, but but yeah,
Speaker 13: we would class this as a generous decision for employees,
Speaker 13: and it will there will be some businesses that will
Speaker 13: be doing it tough as a result of it.
Speaker 1: It is above inflation, it's one point one percent above
Speaker 1: the current inflation rate of two point four percent. Do
Speaker 1: you feel that it will fuel more inflation?
Speaker 13: Look, the jury is out on that, Like that has
Speaker 13: been an argument that's made previously, especially when there was
Speaker 13: higher levels of inflation. At the moment, inflation is within
Speaker 13: the target band that the RBA has set. So the
Speaker 13: jury is out as to whether it will. I mean,
Speaker 13: the higher it goes that, the higher the chances that
Speaker 13: it will. But what we do know is that businesses,
Speaker 13: for example, eight and ten of our businesses are paying
Speaker 13: double digit increases on their general insurance for example, So
Speaker 13: while inflation might be two point five percent, their insurance
Speaker 13: still is eleven twenty thirty percent. And that's not before
Speaker 13: we talk about workers comproform.
Speaker 1: Yes, we'll talk about that as well. Tell me, is
Speaker 1: there much capacity for business and I know you represent
Speaker 1: many different styles businesses, but to actually pass on cost
Speaker 1: to customers or do you reach your point where the
Speaker 1: customer can't take anymore? Given that we've been through this
Speaker 1: very high inflationary environment.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well, look, I suppose a business makes a few decisions.
Speaker 13: They make decisions about headcounts, and so they might decide
Speaker 13: that they'll just not hire a person. They make decisions
Speaker 13: about business expansions, so they might be looking for another
Speaker 13: market to expand in suit, but they decide not to.
Speaker 13: And businesses have to make this decision against the backdrop
Speaker 13: of all the other taxes that are on business, for example,
Speaker 13: payroll tax. And a lot of businesses are finding that
Speaker 13: people and the associated costs are extremely expensive. And businesses
Speaker 13: want to hire, they want to have people. But it
Speaker 13: means for some businesses that are really on that thin line,
Speaker 13: they might decide that it's not worth it, or for others,
Speaker 13: they might decide that the expansion plans will be put
Speaker 13: on hold, and they might wait till the next financial
Speaker 13: year when their books look a bit better.
Speaker 1: Can you see it this way? If low paid workers
Speaker 1: have an extra thirty two dollars in their pocket because
Speaker 1: they're on a low income, they're likely to spend a
Speaker 1: higher proportion of an increase and been a high paid
Speaker 1: worker would. If they're spending that money, that's going to
Speaker 1: be pumped back into a business that's got to be
Speaker 1: good for business, isn't not.
Speaker 13: Yes, in some senses yes, Like we obviously want to
Speaker 13: see people spending in businesses and we know that across
Speaker 13: the state. You're thinking your local high street in Dubo
Speaker 13: or Tamworth or whatever. We as a representative of smaller
Speaker 13: medium businesses in New South Wales, we want people out
Speaker 13: there and spending. It's great, but we also have to
Speaker 13: balance that with the interests of our members who say
Speaker 13: to us that wages are just one of a cluster
Speaker 13: of costs that they're associated with and they have to
Speaker 13: deal with, and so that's why we push for the
Speaker 13: two point five percent. Obviously the three point five percent
Speaker 13: was the decision. It was generous to employees and look
Speaker 13: it's you know it's six and one, half a dozen
Speaker 13: or the other.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think, Ben, just well, I've got you here.
Speaker 1: Today in New South Wales Parliament, the Coalition has decided
Speaker 1: they will support changes to workers compensation the legislation to
Speaker 1: make significant changes to the scheme, but they will be
Speaker 1: insisting on some critical amendments. The government is saying that
Speaker 1: this will put at risk passing the legislation this week.
Speaker 1: They say that if the legislation is not passed this week,
Speaker 1: there will be increases, substantial increases above eight percent for
Speaker 1: the new financial year. Does that worry you.
Speaker 13: Yeah, one hundred percent, it does. It really does, because
Speaker 13: the reality is is that we spoke to our businesses
Speaker 13: and one in five to hold us, they're going to
Speaker 13: have to cop the thirty six percent increase, which is
Speaker 13: a projected increase in their workers' compensation in premiums in
Speaker 13: the next three years. They'd have to close like that
Speaker 13: is the fundamental reality. And so the longer that this
Speaker 13: gets pushed, the more and more businesses.
Speaker 4: That will go to the wall.
Speaker 13: In the first three quarters of this financial year, there's
Speaker 13: been more than four thousand businesses. Four thousand businesses which
Speaker 13: have gone to the wall. That is a lot of businesses.
Speaker 13: We were pushing to have this legislation pass as soon
Speaker 13: as possible in order for the scheme to get back
Speaker 13: under control. It's disappointing that we probably won't get a
Speaker 13: result this week because we know that a lot of
Speaker 13: our members are under pressure in relations to workers comp
Speaker 13: I spoke to one business based in Western Sydney, manufacturer
Speaker 13: who said, mate, I've got operations in Victoria and I've
Speaker 13: got operations in Queensland. I'll just push more of my
Speaker 13: people into those because we won't have to pay the
Speaker 13: sorts of workers' comp bills that we have to in
Speaker 13: New South Wales.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's going to be sort of that. Thank you
Speaker 1: for your time, Ben, thanks so much, Chin Ben Paiku's
Speaker 1: from Business New South Wales and djasent on the text
Speaker 1: line says small business is getting absolutely smashed at the
Speaker 1: moment with high electricity prices and insurance premiums. Everything is
Speaker 1: going up now. Labour costs are going up with increasing
Speaker 1: the minimum wage. I'm sympathetic, but timing is everything with
Speaker 1: these sorts of things. I don't believe that now is
Speaker 1: the time to do it and watch inflation increase as
Speaker 1: a result. Seventeen past four, the SEES has now formally
Speaker 1: concluded their operational response to the floods on the Mid
Speaker 1: North Coast and the Hunter Valley since fourteenth of May Wednesday,
Speaker 1: the fourteenth of May, the SES received seventeen six hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy nine calls for help. They responded to eighty
Speaker 1: eight hundred and ninety five incidents. They completed eight hundred
Speaker 1: and six flood rescues they issued more than twelve hundred warnings,
Speaker 1: They completed four hundred and sixteen resupply missions in isolated communities,
Speaker 1: They conducted more than twelve thousand damaged assessments, and over
Speaker 1: that time more than two thy two hundred volunteers assisted.
Speaker 1: Imagine where we'd be without the volunteer workforce, and imagine
Speaker 1: the cost to the community, to the taxpayer if we
Speaker 1: actually paid for that labor and that help well. As
Speaker 1: confirmed the sou afternoon by the Prime Minister and the Premier,
Speaker 1: they have announced a package of grants for businesses and
Speaker 1: farmers that have been affected by the floods that are
Speaker 1: grants available of up to twenty five thousand dollars. Had
Speaker 1: several messages and emails from pensioners saying what about us?
Speaker 1: Can we not forget about pensioners? And I absolutely appreciate
Speaker 1: that we do need to think about people who are
Speaker 1: on the age pension in particular who are missing out.
Speaker 1: So this increase announced today by the Fair Work Commission
Speaker 1: simply applies to those on the lowest award wage, which
Speaker 1: is still in the high forty thousand dollar range, equates
Speaker 1: to thirty two dollars a week, but pensioners shouldn't be
Speaker 1: forgotten about either. Now, just talking about costs, so I
Speaker 1: sense some information that has just flown under the radar
Speaker 1: which could be a significant way a change in the
Speaker 1: way you pay for a taxi in Sydney. IPART so
Speaker 1: I passed the regulator that sets prices for whether it's
Speaker 1: taxi fare or water rates. IPART released their recommendations for
Speaker 1: taxi fares that will kick in from July one, and
Speaker 1: this hasn't been reported yet, but they are recommending that
Speaker 1: increases in fares of about two to five dollars for
Speaker 1: basic taxi trips. It'd be an increase in the flag
Speaker 1: fall from three dollars sixty to five dollars, and then
Speaker 1: there'd be an increase in the distance race rate for
Speaker 1: the first twelve kilometers of a trip by ten percent.
Speaker 1: But this is what really jumps out at me, and
Speaker 1: nobody's reporting this. They're recommending a trial of fixed taxi
Speaker 1: fares from Sydney Airport to the CBD and their suggestion
Speaker 1: is a sixty dollars flat rate taxi fare if you're
Speaker 1: trying to get into the CBD. Now, usually if I've
Speaker 1: caught a taxi from the airport. It's going back home,
Speaker 1: back to the Sutherlandshire. It's actually a lot more than
Speaker 1: sixty dollars. It would sixty dollars represent a saving for you.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you've caught a taxi from the
Speaker 1: airport back to the CBD in recent times, how much
Speaker 1: do you pay for a taxi or for that matter
Speaker 1: at uber So this is for taxis, it would be
Speaker 1: a fixed rate sixty dollars taxi fare between the airport
Speaker 1: and the CBD. You want to know what's.
Speaker 2: Happening in Sydney, Stay tuned to sit me out with
Speaker 2: Glenton on to gb.
Speaker 1: Hello, Henrik, Hey, Kenc.
Speaker 8: I just want to highlight that when everybody's mentioning the
Speaker 8: thirty two dollars increase for minimum ways, that.
Speaker 4: That is before tax, so there's probably even less left
Speaker 4: after tax i. Do realize that level of tax at
Speaker 4: that very good point.
Speaker 1: One of our listeners that did the calculation to be
Speaker 1: about five dollars seventy five in tax.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, that's good. Thanks for your program. I love it.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Henrik. Yes, you'll certainly won't get thirty two
Speaker 1: dollars take home, just talking about prices. I asked that
Speaker 1: question a little earlier Cheap Tuesday? Does Cheap Tuesday still
Speaker 1: exist at the cinemas well? Rosemary says absolutely, you still
Speaker 1: find cheap movie tickets on a Thursday. Mark says in
Speaker 1: Campbelltown you can get go to the movies for right
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Speaker 1: Telstra customer, tel Stree users can buy a movie tickets.
Speaker 1: I knew some points as well. We saw Mission Impossible
Speaker 1: for three dollars forty? Was it worth seeing Mission Impossible
Speaker 1: for three dollars forty? I heard it had some bad reviews.
Speaker 1: Gone to the chapel, Gone again? Mary Well, the Prime Minister,
Speaker 1: says he's now narrowed down the date when he'll finally
Speaker 1: get married to his fiance Jody. Jody and Albow were
Speaker 1: engaged back in February twenty twenty four, so we're now
Speaker 1: midway through twenty twenty five. That's a long engagement, isn't
Speaker 1: it eighteen months? What's the stand? Is there a rule?
Speaker 1: Is there a rule how long you're engaged? I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to think when I did it? Not in six months?
Speaker 1: For us twenty years ago. I guess the PM has
Speaker 1: been a little bit busy. He's had an election to
Speaker 1: deal with and he's done a few overseas trips over
Speaker 1: that time as well. But he has confirmed today he's
Speaker 1: been getting closer to the date. He says he held
Speaker 1: off planning the wedding because of the May three election.
Speaker 1: I deliberately did not get ahead of myself, so from
Speaker 1: May three and beyond and I had a blank diary.
Speaker 1: He said he had considered seriously eloping on Valentine's Day.
Speaker 1: There's then been the question of what sort of honeymoon
Speaker 1: he's going to go on. He said had the result
Speaker 1: of the federal election gone a different way he lost,
Speaker 1: he would have had a lot of time to plan.
Speaker 1: He probably would have gone the two month honeymoon, but
Speaker 1: he says we're now trying to find just a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks because I reckon that'd be fairer for the
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Speaker 9: With the latest Josh Bryant, Good afternoon, Clinton, A man
Speaker 9: has now been charged with murder over what police have
Speaker 9: described as a gruesome attack in Sydney's Inner West. Police
Speaker 9: are still looking for a second man they want to
Speaker 9: speak to over the incident at Croydon Park. A crane
Speaker 9: which crashed has now been moved out of the M
Speaker 9: five East Tunnel, but the tunnel itself remains closed to
Speaker 9: eastbound traffic as Cruz work to repair the damage. Business
Speaker 9: groups say some operators may struggle to afford the three
Speaker 9: and a half percent increase to the minimum and award
Speaker 9: wages that's now been approved by the Fair Work Commission,
Speaker 9: and the latest data shows three million dollars has been
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Speaker 1: Thanker Josh. Seventeen degrees in the coast, it's nineteen degrees
Speaker 1: in Penrith. According to Vogue. In Australia, the average engagement
Speaker 1: period generally falls between twelve months and eighteen months, so
Speaker 1: elbows a little bit late like that. Marian's just sent
Speaker 1: her best wishes via the text message. I'm sure Albo
Speaker 1: is very happy to hear your best wishes, Marion one
Speaker 1: three one eight seven three. So taxi fares between the
Speaker 1: CBD and the airport or airport and CBD is a
Speaker 1: proposal from IPART, the independent regulator, to have a fixed price,
Speaker 1: and this would be the first time this happens in Sydney.
Speaker 1: There is no fixed price taxi service in Sydney, and
Speaker 1: it would be sixty dollars get a matte. Yeah, Clint, Hi,
Speaker 1: do you think a sixty dollar fixed price is a
Speaker 1: good idea?
Speaker 15: I think it's a great idea and they do it
Speaker 15: in other countries as well. When you arrived there, they
Speaker 15: have fixed rates to CBD. I mean part of the
Speaker 15: issue is it's the inconsistencies. And I've had friends visiting
Speaker 15: who paid anywhere between sixty to one hundred dollars from
Speaker 15: the airport to the CBD. And this is also driven
Speaker 15: by the fact there's so many different taxi companies, so
Speaker 15: when you look at Uber, you know exactly what you're.
Speaker 3: Going to pay.
Speaker 15: People get on there and I came out of the
Speaker 15: airport yesterday, there was a long line of taxis and
Speaker 15: everyone's waiting for ubers. So I think they need to
Speaker 15: do something or it's really going to hurt them in
Speaker 15: the long run.
Speaker 1: And certainly if you travel overseas, you got to go
Speaker 1: to Indonesia, you're told don't go with a fixed price
Speaker 1: taxi because you're going to get ripped off. Make sure
Speaker 1: the meat is actually running.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well that's right, And I think you know, there's
Speaker 15: other share right companies in different different cities as well
Speaker 15: around the world. But if you go to some countries,
Speaker 15: and particularly even in the US, you'll see, you know,
Speaker 15: downtown to San Francisco, it will be a set rate
Speaker 15: and you can just jump in that taxi and you
Speaker 15: know you're going to pay twenty thirty fifty. But what
Speaker 15: are the services do you ever take on where you
Speaker 15: don't know what you're going to pay until you get there.
Speaker 15: That's the problem that the taxi industry has.
Speaker 1: I caught a tax i. Don't catch taxis a lot,
Speaker 1: but I caught a taxi back from the airport to
Speaker 1: my place. Must been late last year. May was when
Speaker 1: I come back from the Olympic games arrived at my destination,
Speaker 1: my house, and you know this is on a trip
Speaker 1: back from Europe, so you're pretty tired. And the card
Speaker 1: that I was going to use, which was a company
Speaker 1: cab charge, you wouldn't accept it. And it was like
Speaker 1: a of course, I had no idea how much the
Speaker 1: cost was going to be. Think it was one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty dollars. And so when they don't accept the
Speaker 1: card that you're trying to use, that's a shock.
Speaker 15: Yeah, and you have to watch them too, because sometimes
Speaker 15: they put a tip on at the end and they
Speaker 15: just then push it through, so you really don't know
Speaker 15: what you're going to pay.
Speaker 1: Good point, Matt, thank you for your call on the
Speaker 1: text line. A recent trip from Barrangaro station to the
Speaker 1: Shangrila hotel in the city, so that's only a short
Speaker 1: trip via d D which is one of the ride
Speaker 1: sharing services, cost seven dollars twenty three, but the return
Speaker 1: journey Shangrilaud of Barranguru station taken in the traditional taxi
Speaker 1: was twenty six dollars thirty two. The start contrast in
Speaker 1: pricing for essentially the same route it raises concerns about
Speaker 1: fair transparency and potential price gouging word on the street.
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Speaker 1: dollars every Friday. And the issue that dominated our program
Speaker 1: late last week about wastewater stormwater drains was based on
Speaker 1: a word on the Street tip. One of our listeners,
Speaker 1: Andrew in Leppington, contacted us and he'd used his Bobcat
Speaker 1: to clean out a stormwater drain in Lippington. And this
Speaker 1: is during the downpour of now a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: That saved his neighbour's house from flooding. And his neighbor's
Speaker 1: house has flooded previously because of a block stormwater drain.
Speaker 1: That's the responsibility of the council. And so what did
Speaker 1: the council do. They threatened to have him charged by
Speaker 1: the police for using the Bobcat illegally, and we're then
Speaker 1: going to send him a bill to remove the debris
Speaker 1: that he pulled out of their stormwater drain and left
Speaker 1: on the council strip well. Thankfully, hopefully because we've drawn
Speaker 1: some attention to this, he hasn't received that bill yet.
Speaker 1: Now I know that Todd Carney, the mayor of Penrith,
Speaker 1: wasn't keen to come on the program. Hopefully they've made
Speaker 1: that decision. We won't send the bill because Andrew has
Speaker 1: not received yet, which is good. But I've just received
Speaker 1: so much feedback across the past couple of days about
Speaker 1: stormwater issues in local government areas across New South Wales.
Speaker 1: It is just astonishingly how bad local councils manage this problem.
Speaker 1: Sydney does not handle rain well and it doesn't help
Speaker 1: when local councils don't take responsibility for maintenance. This was
Speaker 1: a message from one of our listeners who works in
Speaker 1: the plumbing trade, who tells me with housing developments the
Speaker 1: way housing developments now often built, they're built to maximize
Speaker 1: the building, the size of the building on the block
Speaker 1: of land, and then not enough is done to manage stormwater.
Speaker 1: And particularly in big developments where we're talking major unit developments,
Speaker 1: you have common areas and then a common stormwater system
Speaker 1: and technically councils would usually maintain these, but councils then
Speaker 1: put back the responsibility to the property owner. Stormwater is
Speaker 1: often now set up under easements under the blocks, and
Speaker 1: there are big square pits that residents now have to maintain,
Speaker 1: not the council. And because it's share property, then sometimes
Speaker 1: those stormwater pits are not maintained. My listener told me
Speaker 1: about one of these pits filling up with debris from
Speaker 1: multiple homes. The council says, it's not our problem. Then
Speaker 1: household insurance wouldn't cover damage caused by flooding because they
Speaker 1: the residents did not maintain the stormwater pit. My listener said,
Speaker 1: as a result of this system, where bigger buildings are
Speaker 1: being constructed on land, it makes more money for the
Speaker 1: developer by building something that's larger, more money for the
Speaker 1: state government through stamp duty, more money for the council
Speaker 1: through rates. Yet none of these various levels of government
Speaker 1: take any responsibility for cleaning out the store water drains.
Speaker 1: Another one of our listeners, James James, has been in
Speaker 1: contact with me over the past few days.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 1: Some years ago, he invented what he believes is a
Speaker 1: solution to stormwater drain problems. It is a new design
Speaker 1: for a drain. He actually sent me a picture of
Speaker 1: this today and it's just to describe. But where you
Speaker 1: have a gutter and a drain. In a gutter, there's
Speaker 1: a gap between the road and the drain and so
Speaker 1: what James has come up with is a vertical grill.
Speaker 1: It's a little like the front of a car grill
Speaker 1: and he says it can be made of plastic. It's
Speaker 1: attached with two bolts and this vertical grill then prevents
Speaker 1: the debris getting into the stormwater drain. Now, James has
Speaker 1: been in contact with different levels of government for decades.
Speaker 1: In fact, when Tim Moore was the Minister for the Environment,
Speaker 1: I think back in the grind of fe government days.
Speaker 1: He has made contact. He's made contact with Clove Moore's
Speaker 1: council and nothing. They don't seem to be interested. And
Speaker 1: he says this is a simple invention. The wooden't cost
Speaker 1: a lot because it's just plastic, but it would prevent
Speaker 1: debris getting into the store water drain. But nothing. The
Speaker 1: authorities don't listen. Well, Sydney does not cope well with
Speaker 1: heavy downpours. We saw so much of it last week
Speaker 1: and no one wants to take responsibility. It's time that
Speaker 1: changed on Sydney. Now you can't handle the true, the
Speaker 1: straight shint, straight shooters. For a Tuesday Afternoon we feature
Speaker 1: our poly's Liberal senator in New South Wales, outgoing Liberal
Speaker 1: Senator the Holy Hughes, Hello.
Speaker 16: Holy, Hey Clinton, how are you going?
Speaker 1: And the Labour MP for mcquarie, Susan Temperman, Hello Susan, Hello,
Speaker 1: good stee with big political issue of the last couple
Speaker 1: of days has been the defection of Dorinda Cox, the
Speaker 1: Greens Senator, to the Labor Party. And just from the outset,
Speaker 1: and I've said this when Lydia Thorpe, for instance, became
Speaker 1: an independent, when Corey Bernardi left the Liberals, I think
Speaker 1: it is morally wrong and I actually think we should
Speaker 1: change the laws that if somebody is elected in the
Speaker 1: Senate they stay with that party or they resigned from parliament,
Speaker 1: because when politicians are elected on the Senate ticket, it's
Speaker 1: usually above the line. People usually vote for the party,
Speaker 1: not the individual. In the main I think it is
Speaker 1: morally wrong that they stay in parliament. What do you think, Holly.
Speaker 16: I think there's a real problem with people getting elected
Speaker 16: under a particular banner and then defecting. And I think
Speaker 16: the hypocrisy has grudged large from the Labor Party after
Speaker 16: the behavior that we saw from them in the Senate,
Speaker 16: the treatment of Fadom of Payman when she left the
Speaker 16: party to go sit on the cross bench, the moral
Speaker 16: outrage demonstrated by the Labor Party, and now within weeks
Speaker 16: of an election, within weeks of being unsuccessful at attempting
Speaker 16: to be the deputy Leader of the Greens, Durinda Cox
Speaker 16: is welcomed by the Prime Minister with open arms. I mean,
Speaker 16: this is someone who clearly doesn't have any true convictions
Speaker 16: or the elites. Because it was in the lead up
Speaker 16: to the election that Senator Cox was very vocal about
Speaker 16: the Northwest Shelf and opposing that. And you know, at
Speaker 16: least if you're a backbencher in the coalition, you actually
Speaker 16: have the freedom to speak out on issues if you disagree.
Speaker 16: That doesn't exist in later and Senator Cox is now
Speaker 16: very supportive of the extension to the Northwest Shelf, which
Speaker 16: personally she's had some great sensible conversion to actually ensuring
Speaker 16: we have energy security in this country rather than chasing
Speaker 16: unicorn farming dreams. Fantastic, but somehow I don't think that's
Speaker 16: the case.
Speaker 1: And I should point out she wasn't up for election
Speaker 1: in the election we've just gone through in May. She
Speaker 1: is serving. She's midway through a six year term. Senators
Speaker 1: have six years terms, but she was elected as agreed,
Speaker 1: she's previously been a Labor member. I should point out
Speaker 1: it's very different when we elect the politician like yourself,
Speaker 1: Susan in the lower House, because technically, I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people do vote on party lines, but we
Speaker 1: do vote for the individual. So if you, for instance, Susan,
Speaker 1: were to abandon the Labor Party and become an independent,
Speaker 1: I think ethically that would be that would be okay.
Speaker 1: But the reality is most of us when we vote
Speaker 1: in the Senate vote above the line, so we're voting
Speaker 1: for a party ticket. So from the labor side, how
Speaker 1: can it be justified that Derinda does this.
Speaker 3: Well, look, I.
Speaker 17: Think we're splitting hairs. But just for the record, I
Speaker 17: would never move from being a labor person to being
Speaker 17: anything else. Just want to close that one off. We
Speaker 17: welcome people who having worked with Labor senators in the Senate. Obviously,
Speaker 17: Derinda has seen from experience how you make a difference.
Speaker 17: She has another that.
Speaker 1: She was voted as a Green. What the Green's voters
Speaker 1: now aren't represented by her.
Speaker 17: Well, she has another three years, and she was voted
Speaker 17: in to represent a state. More than anything. She's there
Speaker 17: to represent a state, and she's made a decision about
Speaker 17: how can she can make the biggest contribution, and she's
Speaker 17: determined that she can do that within government more effectively
Speaker 17: than a member of a protest pastor.
Speaker 1: Well, Holly, you're an outgoing senator. Holly, you're an outgoing senator.
Speaker 1: Do you think people were voting for you personally or
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party or the coalition ticket as it would
Speaker 1: have been in your case.
Speaker 16: Well, they were voting for the coalition ticket. And I
Speaker 16: was always aware that I was a Liberal senator by
Speaker 16: the grace of the Liberal Party. I was one of,
Speaker 16: in fact, very few people. We had a number of
Speaker 16: cross benches as we came into the last election where
Speaker 16: people had been unsuccessful in pre selection or for whatever
Speaker 16: regisent had taken them outside of the party they were
Speaker 16: elected to serve. I did not do that. I didn't
Speaker 16: make that decision. And I'm not saying there weren't opportunities
Speaker 16: for me to do things, but I've always believed you've
Speaker 16: got to dance with the one that brung you. And
Speaker 16: I was a Liberal senator because of the Liberal Party.
Speaker 16: I mean, I am please please me on when Susan
Speaker 16: you know, is now lauding the defection of Senator Cox
Speaker 16: after we know there were significant claims of bullying.
Speaker 1: From her staff.
Speaker 16: There was investigations and inquiries on going around those bullying allegations,
Speaker 16: the staff turnover.
Speaker 13: There was much.
Speaker 16: Being made about the way Senator Cox ran her office
Speaker 16: and now the Prime Minister in the Labor Party is
Speaker 16: working in her with open arms. Well, I don't think
Speaker 16: that sends a very positive message to those staffers that
Speaker 16: had made those allegations.
Speaker 1: Well, Susan, how did your colleagues feel? We know what
Speaker 1: we've heard on the grape vine, but how did they
Speaker 1: and some public comments, but how did they feel in
Speaker 1: the party room when Senator the Payment left the Labor Party.
Speaker 17: Oh, we were really disappointed to lose someone like some
Speaker 17: of the payman who bought a really diverse perspective to
Speaker 17: the Parliament. So you know, we are we're a party
Speaker 17: that welcomes people from all walks of life and a
Speaker 17: whole lot of women do choose our party you know,
Speaker 17: right now, with Derinda's joining the party, we must be
Speaker 17: getting closer to sixty percent of female representation in our
Speaker 17: party room than the sort of fifty six percent fifty
Speaker 17: seven percent that we were. So look, we have all
Speaker 17: welcomed Denda's decision. We're really pleased when someone sees the
Speaker 17: light and can see that Labor has not only been
Speaker 17: a good government for its first term, but has really
Speaker 17: ambitious plans which include protecting the environment but making sure
Speaker 17: that the rules that we have give business a clear
Speaker 17: message on how they can do the essential developments that
Speaker 17: we need, but also provide better protections for the environment
Speaker 17: for future generations.
Speaker 1: Well, I just I actually think we need to change
Speaker 1: the rules. I think it is really wrong. And look,
Speaker 1: the saying goes for conservatives. Corey Benardi did it as
Speaker 1: well to the Liberal Party. I think it's really wrong
Speaker 1: when someone's elected, particularly in the Senate, to then jumps
Speaker 1: on to the next issue. Andrew Bragg, one of your colleagues, Holly,
Speaker 1: has done a bit of a backflip on the work
Speaker 1: from home issue. He's become a champion of work from home.
Speaker 1: Disagrees it would seem that would change him. What's your view,
Speaker 1: do you think work from home is the future, and
Speaker 1: do you think the Liberal Party should never be fully supportive.
Speaker 16: Look, I think what Senator Bragg was talking about was
Speaker 16: looking at ways that we can boost productivity and everything needs.
Speaker 18: To be on the table.
Speaker 16: And the reality is we've seen a increase in pay
Speaker 16: rates today above inflation for for low income earners. But
Speaker 16: it is also a pay rate that has increased higher
Speaker 16: than productivity, which we are seeing in decline. And so
Speaker 16: particularly for small businesses that are now going to have
Speaker 16: larger wage impacts, they're going to need to see greater productivity.
Speaker 16: So whatever is able to produce that will help our
Speaker 16: economy grow. And I know that you know labour are
Speaker 16: going to say, isn't this great these low work If
Speaker 16: low income earners are getting a pay rise, well, if
Speaker 16: you're working at McDonald's and someone that's going to get
Speaker 16: this pay rise, working from home isn't an option for you.
Speaker 16: So a lot of these low income earners are actually
Speaker 16: not the people that benefit from working from home policies.
Speaker 16: That's me need to make sure they're not being conflated.
Speaker 16: The people that benefit from work from home are quite
Speaker 16: often in corporate, white collar jobs. It's not the doctors,
Speaker 16: it's not the nurses, it's not the teachers, it's not
Speaker 16: the police and fire brigades that are able to do that,
Speaker 16: and it's not low worker low income owners in the
Speaker 16: hospitality sector.
Speaker 1: I suspect after the election that work from home in
Speaker 1: the future actually won't be a political issue.
Speaker 17: What do you think, Susan, It shouldn't be a political issue.
Speaker 18: I mean people should.
Speaker 17: Work in a way that they are most productive. And
Speaker 17: when you've got people like the ones I represent in
Speaker 17: the Blue Mountains for Hooksbury, who getting to an office
Speaker 17: can mean travel for one and a half to two
Speaker 17: hours each way, then clearly you get massive benefits in productivity.
Speaker 17: You get people are feeling less tired when they're at work.
Speaker 17: You get people who are relishing the idea that they
Speaker 17: can might be able to get out, pick up a
Speaker 17: kid from school, drop them to something, and still through
Speaker 17: the workhouse that are involved. So you know, the Liberals
Speaker 17: are all over the shop on these issues. I think
Speaker 17: what's interesting is there was this commitment by the leader
Speaker 17: that they're going to review all the policies, they're not
Speaker 17: going to take positions on anything, and here we are
Speaker 17: a week or so later different shadow ministers starting to
Speaker 17: pick policies that they're backing in. So it's obviously it's
Speaker 17: a shamble.
Speaker 1: Now a sad day for you, Holly. You've been cleaning
Speaker 1: out your desk the next election, you've been cleaning out
Speaker 1: your disk in camera.
Speaker 16: I have my office in Canberra has now been cleared.
Speaker 13: It's everything's in boxes.
Speaker 1: Were you're a politician, your MP, are you allowed to
Speaker 1: have an untidy disc Oh?
Speaker 16: I think I mean for me personally, it would start
Speaker 16: with excellent intents at bang or tidy and organized, and
Speaker 16: give it about four hours into a sitting week and
Speaker 16: I there would be different inquiries or committee reports or
Speaker 16: folders with meeting briefing notes or whatever it might be
Speaker 16: started to pile up. So I think you start the
Speaker 16: week looking pretty good. You try and finish the week
Speaker 16: with it tied it up, but the in between it's
Speaker 16: so good.
Speaker 1: Sometimes if you've ever had to clean out of desk, suson,
Speaker 1: what's the strangest thing you've ever found?
Speaker 17: Not strange so much, but other thinking about Holly, I'm
Speaker 17: thinking about the things that would matter to me. I
Speaker 17: have I drank my tea out of mugs that my
Speaker 17: local schools have given me. So this morning I had
Speaker 17: courage on public school. I got Panola Catholic College right now.
Speaker 17: And it's that sort of stuff. I think if you
Speaker 17: were packing up a desk that had really, you know,
Speaker 17: tunts the heartstrings, because I love going to our school
Speaker 17: than Hollywood, be the same.
Speaker 1: Look.
Speaker 16: Can I tell you there's a present going to a
Speaker 16: colleague of mine who's unaware. He will get it in
Speaker 16: the internal mail. But I was gifted some whips for
Speaker 16: whip cracking whips, yeah to you know, which I cannot do.
Speaker 16: Years ago I tried and I ended up with some
Speaker 16: nice welts on my pew.
Speaker 1: You're telling me there's politicians that are walking around Putman
Speaker 1: House cracking the whip.
Speaker 16: I had two whips in my office.
Speaker 19: They're very high quality whips.
Speaker 16: And a friend of mine, one of my colleagues in
Speaker 16: the Senate, has one of the more interesting offices of
Speaker 16: little knick knacks and a coach Chremonts that he's acquired.
Speaker 4: Over the years.
Speaker 16: So I've written him a little note and they'll be
Speaker 16: waiting for him in his inbox. He doesn't know they're coming.
Speaker 1: Well, of course, each party does have formerly a position
Speaker 1: of the whip. The person who had zeb Brown keeps
Speaker 1: them in line and gets them into the chamber. On
Speaker 1: tom you'll have to give them the whip. Thank you, Holly,
Speaker 1: thank you. Susan now whip on birthday.
Speaker 4: I did think of keeping one for her.
Speaker 1: Susan teen and the Hughes our straight shooters for a
Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. Holy put your whip away.
Speaker 2: Come on, this is Sydney now with Clinton on to.
Speaker 1: GB seven past five dark across Sydney now and it's
Speaker 1: a very difficult afternoon on the roads. As you've heard
Speaker 1: with Steve paramounta Road Rawson Street, Auburn, there's been a
Speaker 1: motorcycle crash. Two out of the three eastbound lanes are closed.
Speaker 1: The paramedics believe it's involved, Yes, a motorcycle and a car.
Speaker 1: A male patient is now being assessed for a leg injury.
Speaker 1: But that's causing some traffic problems. Paramount of Road Rawson Street.
Speaker 1: It's affecting two out of the three eastbound lanes. There
Speaker 1: are still dramas unfortunately on the M five. Let's get
Speaker 1: the latest from Craig Moraine from Transport for the New
Speaker 1: South Wales. Get I, Craig, get a.
Speaker 20: Clinton and good afternoon to your listeners.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the westbound lanes have been open ow for
Speaker 1: several hours following the train of the crane crash a
Speaker 1: little early, but the eastbound lane still closed.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's right, Clinton, just before three o'clock. We've got
Speaker 20: all westbound lanes open prior to the peak, but the
Speaker 20: eastbound lanes are still closed. We've had some engineers from
Speaker 20: West Connects on site there and there's some damage to
Speaker 20: the pavement, which means that has to be fixed before
Speaker 20: we can safely reopen.
Speaker 4: So the closure.
Speaker 20: Eastbound will remain from now.
Speaker 4: Into the night.
Speaker 20: Okay, so make sure we get it open before the
Speaker 20: amp tomorrow.
Speaker 1: The indication we had a few hours ago from the
Speaker 1: TMC was that it was likely would open during the peak.
Speaker 1: That's not possible.
Speaker 20: Now, yeah, look that's what we were working too. But
Speaker 20: we had to get the crane out of the way
Speaker 20: and we also had to get rid of some of
Speaker 20: the debris to get the engineers in there to have
Speaker 20: a look at the pavement. And because of the diesel
Speaker 20: and hydraulic floor that's spilt on the pavement, we can't
Speaker 20: safely reopen it until that's repaired.
Speaker 1: Okay. So is the plan now, because it was going
Speaker 1: to be reopened and then close again for some more work,
Speaker 1: is the plan that is to keep it closed throughout
Speaker 1: the evening.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's exactly right. We were planning to close it
Speaker 20: again seven o'clock, but given you know that's only under
Speaker 20: two hours away, now we'll keep it closed to make
Speaker 20: sure we can get all of this repair work done
Speaker 20: and we can open it to people for the morning peak.
Speaker 1: You've had diversions that have been operating, and if our
Speaker 1: listeners follow the signpost D five is what you'll see
Speaker 1: on some signs. If you follow the D five signs,
Speaker 1: that's the diversion. How has that been operating?
Speaker 20: Look, you're right, the D five diversion route which takes
Speaker 20: down King George's Road and along Stony Creek Road, that's
Speaker 20: actually been working quite well this afternoon. And I think
Speaker 20: also you know, with the supporter yourselves, getting the message
Speaker 20: out to people to avoid the area, particularly when they're
Speaker 20: hitting eastbound, has helped. So people have gone other ways
Speaker 20: and also use the D five d tour route.
Speaker 1: We also had some reports about the radio system being down.
Speaker 1: Do you know what happened there and has it been rectified?
Speaker 20: Look, I don't know the full details. I'd heard about that,
Speaker 20: and it's quite possibly because we.
Speaker 3: Had the damage to the deluge.
Speaker 20: System or the sprinkler system in the tunnel, the crash
Speaker 20: could also have damaged from of the wiring as well.
Speaker 1: Are you confident the road's going to be open tomorrow
Speaker 1: morning for the peak, because obviously it's good that you've
Speaker 1: got westbound open because it's out of the city, but
Speaker 1: citybound tomorrow morning. If it's not operating by tomorrow morning,
Speaker 1: it's going to be a nightmare.
Speaker 20: If I could express it some other way, Clinton will
Speaker 20: move Hell and High Water to make sure that it's
Speaker 20: open for five o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 1: Okay, that'd be good, Craig. Just one last question. We've
Speaker 1: had a few inquiries about what the cause of the
Speaker 1: accident with the crane is. I know it's early days,
Speaker 1: but do you have any idea yet.
Speaker 4: Look, we don't have a real good idea.
Speaker 20: It's obviously been quite a significant impact because it's damaged
Speaker 20: some of the barriers and some of the wall paneling
Speaker 20: in the tunnel, as well as some of the plumbing
Speaker 20: for the delude system.
Speaker 4: What causes we don't know at this stage.
Speaker 20: Will leave it up to New South Wales police is
Speaker 20: part of their investigations.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll certainly follow that over the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Craig.
Speaker 20: Thanks Clinton.
Speaker 1: Craig Moran from Transport for New South Wales. So it
Speaker 1: is a significant change to the plan there. The eastbound
Speaker 1: lanes were to reopen during the peak out, they will
Speaker 1: remain closed. They will remain closed a because of damage
Speaker 1: to the roadway. The Transport for New South Wales maintenance
Speaker 1: cruise will now use that as an opportunity to try
Speaker 1: and fix the sprinkler system but also the side walls.
Speaker 1: So Craig has given us as best he can and
Speaker 1: assurance that the aim is to reopen the road by
Speaker 1: five o'clock tomorrow morning. Let's hope that's the case. If
Speaker 1: we are without the M five tunnel in peak hour
Speaker 1: tomorrow morning heading into the city, the roads in Sydney
Speaker 1: are just going to be absolute chaos. So the plan
Speaker 1: is at the moment westbound remains open. It's operating, okay.
Speaker 1: The eastbound is closed, but hopefully it will be opened
Speaker 1: by tomorrow morning. Okay. The count in Bradfield, the recount
Speaker 1: has wrapped up for the day Giselle Captiri in up
Speaker 1: against the Teal Nicolete Buller, and it's Titan once again.
Speaker 1: But Nicolett Buller is now, when I say firmly in front.
Speaker 1: We are talking the Sydney of fifty six thousand votes
Speaker 1: in total for each candidate, Nicolett Buller is in front
Speaker 1: by twenty six votes. Very much to turn around from
Speaker 1: this time yesterday afternoon. The understanding now from the AEC
Speaker 1: is they should complete this recount by some time tomorrow,
Speaker 1: so we should have a final result by tomorrow. But
Speaker 1: given this is so tight, this ain't over. There could
Speaker 1: be legal cases and don't be surprised if another election's call,
Speaker 1: whether there's an election in Bradfield, that could happen. But
Speaker 1: as things stand now, eighty five percent through the recount,
Speaker 1: the TIL candidate Nicolette Buller is twenty six votes ahead
Speaker 1: of the Liberal candidate Gisel Capteriian.
Speaker 2: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 2: now with Clinton May on to gb.
Speaker 1: Just this information threw from New South Wales police there
Speaker 1: searching for a second man that they want to speak
Speaker 1: to in relation to the murder of a twenty nine
Speaker 1: year old in Croydon Park. It was this time yesterday
Speaker 1: I told you about the discovery of the man's body.
Speaker 1: He'd been stabbed to death. Police are investigating whether this
Speaker 1: is some sort of drug deal gone wrong, so they
Speaker 1: do having custody a thirty two year old. He was
Speaker 1: arrested at the scene and he was taken to Hospit
Speaker 1: for treatment. He has now been charged with murder. But
Speaker 1: police are now looking for a second man described as
Speaker 1: being Asian in appearance, solid build. Last scene wearing a
Speaker 1: black jumper with red symbols on the back, blue jeans,
Speaker 1: black shoes, a black hat and carrying a black satchel.
Speaker 1: Look if you see this man, don't approach him. He
Speaker 1: was last seen at Kembler Street, Croydon Park, but now
Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon, but police are searching for him. If you
Speaker 1: do have any information, give the police a call, Bird
Speaker 1: Police or crime Stoppers one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero.
Speaker 1: More and more of us are driving electric vehicles, and
Speaker 1: this is what is a concern. I know of many
Speaker 1: people who were thinking about buying an EV. It's their longevity,
Speaker 1: it's if they suffer mechanical problems in the future. Are
Speaker 1: they going to be simple to repair. Some new NRMA
Speaker 1: Insurance research highlights some growing concerns. More than sixty percent
Speaker 1: of EV owners those who already have one, are worried
Speaker 1: about a lack of qualified repairers in their area because
Speaker 1: fixing an EV it's very different to a standard car.
Speaker 1: Plus almost seventy percent are unsure about how you recycle
Speaker 1: or you dispose the old EV batteries. Sewan Tyehurst is
Speaker 1: the head of Enterman Insurance Research and joins us Cady Sean.
Speaker 4: Cleon Good to be here.
Speaker 1: Obviously EV's are taking off, and know we have mixed
Speaker 1: views from our listeners about them, but I do know
Speaker 1: people who are very open minded about buying an EV
Speaker 1: are concerned about repairs.
Speaker 18: Right and we're seeing that in the research we've just
Speaker 18: published that people are concerned on that evs are starting
Speaker 18: to grow, and we've got to upscale repair network, which
Speaker 18: is something we're focused on with our partner repair network now.
Speaker 18: And one thing I can re ensure people on is
Speaker 18: a lot of the EV repairs are quite simple and
Speaker 18: they can be undertaken with some basic train.
Speaker 1: Quite simple, but it's probably not a lot the old
Speaker 1: days back in the eighties and before that when we
Speaker 1: were working on cars in our own garage.
Speaker 18: No, and people have to be careful with that. There
Speaker 18: is a lot of there's high voltage share and safety
Speaker 18: has got to be paramount. But with the right training,
Speaker 18: the disarming process for a battery takes under thirty minutes,
Speaker 18: so it can be done by qualified technicians in the
Speaker 18: right workshops.
Speaker 1: Now, from what I understand, and not the guy don't
Speaker 1: own an EV sean, but from what I understand, electric
Speaker 1: vehicles when things don't go wrong, the basic servicing, the
Speaker 1: intervals are actually a lot bigger, and the servicing process
Speaker 1: is quite simple. It's simpler than a standard car. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 18: There's less components as you said, and the intervals are longer.
Speaker 18: The costs are cheaper as well, and often that's a
Speaker 18: big reason why people are going towards dvs is those
Speaker 18: lower costs of ownership.
Speaker 1: But when things do go wrong, so for instance, if
Speaker 1: you have an accident in an EV I've heard stories
Speaker 1: from some people I know who own them that they
Speaker 1: face horrendous times waiting for parts to arrive in the country.
Speaker 18: We have seen that experience and it does seem to
Speaker 18: relate to different brands, car brands and off and we're
Speaker 18: finding the evs are coming in by new brands to
Speaker 18: the market, so we're working with those brands to make
Speaker 18: sure they've got the right parts coverage for Australians so
Speaker 18: people aren't stranded.
Speaker 1: So mechanics who service a traditional combustion engine vehicle, they're
Speaker 1: obviously not trained to service an EV. What's happening to
Speaker 1: improve their skills or upskill them?
Speaker 18: There's training courses available today the technicians can do. The
Speaker 18: challenge we've got clinton too, is there's a skill shortage
Speaker 18: across the whole automotive services industry in general. There's about
Speaker 18: thirty eight thousand roles that are open at the moment
Speaker 18: before we even get into evs, So we've got that
Speaker 18: challenge to address.
Speaker 4: And then it's.
Speaker 18: Transitioning existing technicians into learning about evs, which can happen
Speaker 18: through the training. But it's also an opportunity for younger
Speaker 18: people coming into the industry to focus on new technology,
Speaker 18: which can often be quite exciting.
Speaker 1: So it can be an existing mechanic can improve the
Speaker 1: upskill to service an V because much of the car
Speaker 1: is the same, whether it's the suspension and other components
Speaker 1: the vehicle. Absolutely, it's obviously going to be though at
Speaker 1: a long and complex process. Thank you for your time, Sean.
Speaker 1: Thank you Sean Tyhurst, who's from the Enerm Insurance Research
Speaker 1: And I'm just intrigued to know whether if you've got
Speaker 1: an EV and I know it's a polarizing issue electric vehicles,
Speaker 1: but plenty of you have evs. When you've had an
Speaker 1: accident beyond just a standard service, have you had trouble
Speaker 1: getting your car fixed? I've heard some stories about yet
Speaker 1: it is particular makes as Sean says that some people
Speaker 1: had to wait months and months and months for different
Speaker 1: components for a card or arrive in the country. In
Speaker 1: your experience, has that been a problem and does that
Speaker 1: put you off buying an EV. I know, particularly from
Speaker 1: the second hand point of view, because EV's and you
Speaker 1: on the market, A lot of people have concerns about
Speaker 1: ERE one battery life, whether they're going to last longer
Speaker 1: than eight years, and what the resale value of an
Speaker 1: electric vehicle is going to be. If you'd like to
Speaker 1: have your say, one, three, one, eight seven three is
Speaker 1: that number twenty one past five MG is not feeling
Speaker 1: too well the South and now he's going to be okay,
Speaker 1: it's just a I think it's man flu. MG has
Speaker 1: man flu. But he's going to be back later in
Speaker 1: the week. So we have a special guest for sport
Speaker 1: coming up this hour. It's the Big Marin. Daryl Browman's
Speaker 1: going to join me. New South Wales Health is issued
Speaker 1: a warning now that we're in winter for parents to
Speaker 1: particularly cautious with their kids around hot food and hot liquids.
Speaker 1: So in twenty twenty four, this is quite surprising. More
Speaker 1: than four hundred children across the state suffered burns and
Speaker 1: quite bad burns that they needed to actually be treated
Speaker 1: at the burns unit the Children's Hospital. So New South
Speaker 1: Wales Health is saying parents need to take particular care
Speaker 1: in the kitchen around their kids. One three, one eight
Speaker 1: seven three. If you haven't an electric car, what's your
Speaker 1: experience being with repairs and servicing? There is a shortage
Speaker 1: of experts in the trade. Have they reta OHI Clinton.
Speaker 19: I've ran a show for Transport business and I have
Speaker 19: three chandlers and I did have a BMW. Fully electric
Speaker 19: chaflers have been amazing. Servicing has been pretty easy. It
Speaker 19: was easier when we first got our original model X
Speaker 19: that original bowl X has now got almost six hundred
Speaker 19: thousand kilometers. But we did have to Yeah, yeah, we're
Speaker 19: well show for transport. We did have to change the
Speaker 19: battery at three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers.
Speaker 1: And how expensive was that for the new battery?
Speaker 19: Well, at the time, part of our contract was a
Speaker 19: lifetime battery replacements.
Speaker 1: Okay, but I'm going to take a guess.
Speaker 19: That's probably somewhere between twenty and thirty thousands olds. It
Speaker 19: may have changed, but you know what I say to people,
Speaker 19: A lot of people, you know, saying lots about things
Speaker 19: about piddlers, but most people don't own a car for
Speaker 19: three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers, and if they did,
Speaker 19: it probably take them about fifteen years to get to
Speaker 19: that amount of kilometers. Now, interestingly, our bmsws, do you
Speaker 19: look for car it's spent more time in than the TENBLA,
Speaker 19: has spent more time in servicing than on the road.
Speaker 19: Pads were an issue, but I put that down to
Speaker 19: the fact that BMW wasn't an electric speple company, and honestly,
Speaker 19: I don't think they really knew what they were doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Tesla's obviously as specialist. They only sell electric cars,
Speaker 1: I think, and I think the issue is servicing, because
Speaker 1: servicing is quite the intervals along with electric cars. It's
Speaker 1: not so much the servicing is the problem. I think
Speaker 1: the issue is when things actually go wrong, if you're
Speaker 1: in an accident and then you have a long wait time.
Speaker 1: Good to hear you've had a good experience. Tony, though,
Speaker 1: has a different view.
Speaker 3: Hollo Toney the program sepeasons why I would buy one.
Speaker 12: I have not got a I've got to I've got
Speaker 12: the insurance costs three to four times as much. Secondly,
Speaker 12: it's not a bad action at five if it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your line's not great there, Tony, But understand the
Speaker 1: point you're making that the insurance costs soar. And I
Speaker 1: have seen the insurance premiums for electric vehicles, depending on
Speaker 1: which one you have, they are substantially more. There is
Speaker 1: a fire risk, and we've seen plenty of fires that
Speaker 1: have been sparked by electric cars. Good on your Turny
Speaker 1: one three one eight seven three. The black market tobacco
Speaker 1: trade has been probably the big talking point in the
Speaker 1: past twenty four hours, but I've been talking about illegal cigarettes,
Speaker 1: I think for about eighteen months on my program suddenly
Speaker 1: the politicians have woken up. I think the Premier is
Speaker 1: one hundred percent right with what he said about excise.
Speaker 1: That is the first politician to really come out and
Speaker 1: say the fact that the exercise is so high it
Speaker 1: is effectively encouraging smokers to do the wrong thing and
Speaker 1: buy the illegal product. And good on the premium for
Speaker 1: saying that. Mister Mins was also very clear when he
Speaker 1: appeared on Ben Forden's program this morning that tobacconists are
Speaker 1: opening up everywhere. At one point said there in every suburb,
Speaker 1: there's every second shop in the high street is tobacconist.
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean he's going to introduce new laws
Speaker 1: to actually deal with it. And no, we're speaking with
Speaker 1: some people today at St Parma. They said at the
Speaker 1: moment there's no plans in New South Wales for legislation.
Speaker 1: Mister Mins admits the job of policing this issue is
Speaker 1: becoming too big for health inspectors.
Speaker 14: You can't have health bureaucrats effectively trying to confront what
Speaker 14: might be elicted activity. It might even be organized crime.
Speaker 1: That's the police's job.
Speaker 14: Well, then I have to take police off organized crime investigations, serious, serious,
Speaker 14: youth crime issues in regional New South Wales not to
Speaker 14: mention domestic violence and put them on illegal product.
Speaker 21: We've heard from one of the shop owners in the
Speaker 21: eastern suburbs who said, look, you can get fined by
Speaker 21: New South Wales Health, but the money you make from
Speaker 21: bringing in the illegal vapes that pays for the fine
Speaker 21: in your lunch break.
Speaker 1: Cost of doing business.
Speaker 14: I think many of them are saying so.
Speaker 1: Even the Premier is they're admitting that the fines aren't
Speaker 1: big enough because the retailers who are doing the wrong
Speaker 1: thing just treat as a cost of doing business. Now,
Speaker 1: what they are considering at the moment is when they
Speaker 1: release the budget the state cup or leads to the
Speaker 1: budget in a couple of weeks time, they will consider
Speaker 1: whether they bring this under the control of the police.
Speaker 1: And I think they need to because it's beyond it's
Speaker 1: beyond what health inspectors can do. There is something like
Speaker 1: twenty four health inspectors and that's a doubling of the
Speaker 1: number who are looking after this area. It's not enough.
Speaker 1: But even though it's not enough, you think about what
Speaker 1: a health inspector does. They're enforcing a regulation, they're not police.
Speaker 1: So where does the tobacconists get their illegal smokes from.
Speaker 1: They get them obviously from illegal sources, so by definition
Speaker 1: they must come from criminals. We know the criminal gangs
Speaker 1: control the black market. So if you're a health inspector
Speaker 1: and you've got a job of inspecting different stores, are
Speaker 1: you going to walk into a tobacconist that is selling
Speaker 1: a product that's controlled by criminals? You don't have a weapon,
Speaker 1: you're not a trained police officer, you're not trained to
Speaker 1: deal with violent incidents. How do you know that people
Speaker 1: inside that bu business that is selling something that's supplied
Speaker 1: by a criminal gang? How do you know that they're
Speaker 1: not armed? So you're going to be hesitant to do that.
Speaker 1: So clearly this is now a job for the police,
Speaker 1: and I think Chris Men's is actually right and what
Speaker 1: he says that well, it's probably going to become a
Speaker 1: police enforcement issue. The state government is going to need
Speaker 1: to set up some sort of task force or a
Speaker 1: strike force within the police who are armed with guns,
Speaker 1: who can conduct proper raids on these shops. But in
Speaker 1: Queensland this hasn't received a lot of publicity here, But
Speaker 1: in Queensland in the last week they've announced much tougher
Speaker 1: measures on this under proposed laws. The Queensland Government has
Speaker 1: announced that the landlords themselves, the landlords of the tobacconists,
Speaker 1: could be sent to jail. They could be fined six
Speaker 1: figure figures if they lease to a tobacconist selling a
Speaker 1: legal product. And that's much tougher than what happens here.
Speaker 1: So one we need police to be involved in this,
Speaker 1: not just health inspectors. Two we need the businesses themselves
Speaker 1: to take some responsibility and the landlords themselves to take responsibility.
Speaker 1: And three the excise, Even though this is a difficult
Speaker 1: one politically, the excise needs to be cut.
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Speaker 9: With the latest news from Josh Bright, good afternoon again, Clinton.
Speaker 9: The M five East Tunnel will remain closed eastbound throughout
Speaker 9: the night to ensure that repairs can be completed before
Speaker 9: the morning commute tomorrow. Repairs to the damage caused by
Speaker 9: an earlier crane crash have been taking longer than expected.
Speaker 9: A man's now been charged with murder after a body
Speaker 9: was found at Croydon Park Home. Police still looking for
Speaker 9: a second man. Unions are welcoming a three and a
Speaker 9: half percent increase to minimum and award wages, saying it
Speaker 9: will help workers keep up with rising costs and will
Speaker 9: also help businesses by giving people more cash in their pockets.
Speaker 9: And a man is expected to be charged with stealing
Speaker 9: t large plastic ice cream cones from outside a store
Speaker 9: in Melbourne. The display items were tracked down after being
Speaker 9: sold off online. In Sport, new recruit Lachland Galvan's being
Speaker 9: named in Caterbrey's twenty two man squad for Monday's NRL
Speaker 9: clash with Paramatta.
Speaker 1: Will have more news and sport at six. Thank you Josh,
Speaker 1: who would steal two large plastic ice cream cones? Actually,
Speaker 1: more importantly, who would buy the two plastic ice cream cones?
Speaker 1: Michael on the text line says, look, don't worry about
Speaker 1: the tobacconist. Most petrol stations are now selling cheap black
Speaker 1: market cigarettes as well. I buy a packet every morning
Speaker 1: from a service station. Finance Update dep Night, hosting Money
Speaker 1: News tonight from seven o'clock. Deb Palo Do you Clinton?
Speaker 1: The Fair Work Commission today announcing an increase to the
Speaker 1: minimum wage.
Speaker 22: Yeah, and you know that they've probably landed on about
Speaker 22: the right figure when neither the ACTU or the unions
Speaker 22: or the business groups got the figure that they wanted, so.
Speaker 1: They were washing in the middle.
Speaker 22: Yeah, right bang in the middle for what both groups
Speaker 22: were pushing for three and a half percent. The fact
Speaker 22: that it is the first real increase higher than the
Speaker 22: rate of inflation that we've had since twenty twenty one
Speaker 22: is to be applauded. For the lowest paid workers, about
Speaker 22: twenty five dollars an hour. I know you've been looking
Speaker 22: at how much that equates to in real money, but
Speaker 22: it'll still help with a cost living crush that many
Speaker 22: people are experiencing. So we'll take a closer look at
Speaker 22: that in detail.
Speaker 3: Time.
Speaker 1: You can go to the movies. You can't bring your kids,
Speaker 1: but you can buy one adult ticket. You can't buy
Speaker 1: any soft chop tops or popcorn, but you can buy
Speaker 1: some mal teasers outside the movies and bring them in
Speaker 1: and maybe have a dollar check.
Speaker 22: Every dollar counts, though, for people who are earning that minimum.
Speaker 1: Wage, how's the market fair today? The market's had a.
Speaker 22: Pretty good day, another good day off the back of
Speaker 22: a good night on Wall Street. There SEX two hundred
Speaker 22: closed point six percent or fifty two points higher to
Speaker 22: eighty four hundred and sixty six. It's about the strongest
Speaker 22: we've seen in a month in terms of performance for
Speaker 22: the ASX two hundred. The big four banks really help
Speaker 22: the financial sector lead the way up one point one
Speaker 22: percent today. The dollar, though the rebound for the Aussie
Speaker 22: dollar has been shortly of it's fallen back to sixty
Speaker 22: four point six against the green back.
Speaker 1: We make a guarantee on this program we always learn
Speaker 1: something every day, and we're going to learn what to
Speaker 1: stay vestor is well.
Speaker 22: Stay vestor is probably something that people who are saying
Speaker 22: get the kids out of the house and they've grown
Speaker 22: up would be well aware with, well familiar with.
Speaker 2: So this is the.
Speaker 22: Younger generation millennials gen zetas, who are struggling to get
Speaker 22: a foot on the property ladder, but they want to
Speaker 22: have bricks and mortar and they want to ensure that
Speaker 22: they can. So there's an increasing number of them buying
Speaker 22: unit or buying a first home and then staying living
Speaker 22: at home with mum and dad, renting it out to
Speaker 22: ensure that they can afford the repayments so that they
Speaker 22: can build their equity, build their wealth and then continue
Speaker 22: to grow and go from there and move on. But yes,
Speaker 22: stay vestors is something that buyers agents are seeing more
Speaker 22: and more of, and there are more and more parents
Speaker 22: who with their grown up children, are saying, when will
Speaker 22: I ever get that spare bedroom back to make use
Speaker 22: of for my own uses, my own pleasures.
Speaker 1: Are you asking that question in your house yet?
Speaker 2: Not quite?
Speaker 22: No, my son's only sixteen, so yeah, we're still a
Speaker 22: while off for my eldest to consider what he'll do next.
Speaker 22: But I've got grand plans for what I'll do with
Speaker 22: his bedroom when he does eventually move out, don't you worry.
Speaker 1: I've got sixteen year old, a sixteen year old, and
Speaker 1: to fourteen year olds. I reckon, I'm looking at another
Speaker 1: fifteen years at least.
Speaker 22: Well, I'm encouraging if they do want to go on
Speaker 22: to further study or go to tafe, to do it
Speaker 22: in another city so that they can then enjoy the
Speaker 22: pleasures of living in a group house all the craziness
Speaker 22: that goes with that. I want them to do that
Speaker 22: and have that experience.
Speaker 1: So if they're going to stay at home. When do
Speaker 1: you start charging them board once they get a.
Speaker 22: Job, once they start earning away.
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, Stephanie, my youngest, she's now into a third
Speaker 1: first job. She's working for somebody who runs those kids'
Speaker 1: parties and she goes along. She does makeup for little girl.
Speaker 22: Well, when you're sort of earning a little bit on
Speaker 22: the side, she's fourteen, I think that's a bit early.
Speaker 1: To be starting on board.
Speaker 22: But you can also ensure that she pays for the
Speaker 22: things that she would normally tap you for.
Speaker 1: You know she is doing that.
Speaker 22: Ye in that little step he go, you're building resilience
Speaker 22: in your children. That should be applauded.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to charge your board. Don't jump on that.
Speaker 10: Do it eventually.
Speaker 22: If she's earning a full time.
Speaker 1: Wage, she got a fourteen I want We'll be listening
Speaker 1: from seven o'clock. Thanks deb Night with Money Years tonight
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Speaker 2: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 2: call now one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 1: Of course this time every day we speak with MG.
Speaker 1: Mark Guy. Unfortunately MG's gone down with the lurgie. I
Speaker 1: think he may have a bad case of man flu.
Speaker 1: So the big Man has stepped into his shoes. Ah,
Speaker 1: I Darryl Brahman, Clinton.
Speaker 4: Here you go. I'm happy to step into his shoes.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, I've done it for years and
Speaker 4: years and years. I've just I'm almost outraged by something
Speaker 4: I've just heard. You say.
Speaker 1: What did I say?
Speaker 4: Did you say you're going to charge a fourteen year
Speaker 4: old daughter step board Nora?
Speaker 1: Look it did The thought passed through my mind. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to I just want to reassure it. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to charge your board, but you can start
Speaker 1: paying for things around the house, like what maybe the
Speaker 1: Netflix subscription internet connection.
Speaker 4: You're a bad fun You are very ma You've got
Speaker 4: to have a good look at yourself. You'd been the
Speaker 4: only father in the saddle and show charging a fourteen
Speaker 4: year old board.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's about teaching resilience. Really, no, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to charge your board.
Speaker 4: Got nothing to do with resilience. You love a dollar,
Speaker 4: that's what you tried to do. Poor step. I mean,
Speaker 4: this is this is just criminal.
Speaker 1: You're not wrong, right? What have we got to talk about? Rugby?
Speaker 1: League wise? Teamless Tuesday? Some significant INDs this week?
Speaker 4: Yeah, looks that way, doesn't it. Reecee Walsh is back
Speaker 4: for the Broncos, and don't they need him? I mean,
Speaker 4: I know there were a lot of people critical of
Speaker 4: Reece Walsh earlier this year and he wasn't playing particularly well,
Speaker 4: but geez didn't they hadn't they shown in the last
Speaker 4: seven weeks how much they miss him. He's a he's
Speaker 4: a great player and I know he hasn't played well
Speaker 4: this year, but he'll be a big He'll be a
Speaker 4: big class for them. There's a man be better after
Speaker 4: a couple of runs, you know, surely this is the
Speaker 4: week they when they're playing the Titans, who are last
Speaker 4: in the competition, you know, saying that they weren't dreadful
Speaker 4: last week to Broncos. But there's others as well. Sam
Speaker 4: Walker's back, I understand for the for the Roosters, Cody
Speaker 4: Walker and Jack White and back for South So there's
Speaker 4: a few big names coming back.
Speaker 1: And Lucky Galve and he's in the extended squad for
Speaker 1: the Bulldogs up against the Years after making the switch.
Speaker 4: Yeah he is. I'd be surprised if he's not in
Speaker 4: there at seventeen. I think they'll play off the bench. Well,
Speaker 4: I think, so what's the point of buying him? And
Speaker 4: Ameron's sitting on his bum yeah playing?
Speaker 1: What do you make of his haircut?
Speaker 4: Ye're beautiful, but do you know what Clinton haircuts? I'm
Speaker 4: over haircuts. I've seen some of the worst haircuts in
Speaker 4: the history of the world in the mutineer in the
Speaker 4: last three or forty Some of the footballer's haircuts are
Speaker 4: just despicable, but his is right up there. I think
Speaker 4: it's really.
Speaker 1: I think the problem was when the West Tigers. They
Speaker 1: opened their high Performance Center at concour which is just
Speaker 1: a lovely facility. Originally they had a barber, and I
Speaker 1: think when Shane Richardson, their CEO, it took over. He decided, look,
Speaker 1: we've got to we're going to change the culture of
Speaker 1: the joint. I think he got rid of the barber.
Speaker 1: I reckon, that's the real reason Lockie Galvin's left the Tigers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well that's worked well for them, haven't. They're running
Speaker 4: thirty eighth. The Tigers get a barber back in there,
Speaker 4: I reckon, let's get another one back there. And you
Speaker 4: know they can have all sorts of hairstyles. Poor unlucky.
Speaker 4: I mean he can't. He can't get away from the
Speaker 4: from the media, can he. I think the Dogs will
Speaker 4: playing this week. You know, I'd be surprised that they. Dad,
Speaker 4: there's no point came through all this drama and not planning.
Speaker 4: But I'd say, off the bench. I think all the
Speaker 4: boys who have been there and done the job for
Speaker 4: them over the last twelve weeks will start. But you'll
Speaker 4: find a spot on the bench, I reckon.
Speaker 1: Now Bigne is in tennis, your man Nick curios Is
Speaker 1: today ruled himself out of Wimbledon.
Speaker 4: Well, why not, he's not going to win it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's trying to make his come back from injury.
Speaker 4: Mate, he go out in the first round. Nick, I
Speaker 4: mean Nick. Nick's like a few mates of mine. They
Speaker 4: make big statements that they haven't really fulfilled their potential.
Speaker 4: I don't think. Do you think Nick's fulfilled his potential?
Speaker 4: Like when he gets to the end of his career
Speaker 4: and looks back on his life, he's going to say,
Speaker 4: you know, I do I might have stuck that up
Speaker 4: a little bit. My career. He's probably made a good
Speaker 4: decent living out of it, but he could have made
Speaker 4: a lot better living out of it. But that's not
Speaker 4: what it's all about. It's all about performance. And then
Speaker 4: he's just I don't know how old curiosity.
Speaker 1: Oh, he'd be up, but he'd be late twenties by now.
Speaker 4: I reckon, you'd have to be made.
Speaker 1: But he's indicated that's not over. He's indicated he still
Speaker 1: wants to play.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll play do something instead of talking.
Speaker 1: Well, maybe he just wants to play. The South African
Speaker 1: cricketer I know you're a big fan of his work.
Speaker 1: Iso Rabada. He's come out and said he had a
Speaker 1: few issues with some drug issues a few years ago,
Speaker 1: and he says when he plays in the World Test
Speaker 1: Championship Final against the Aussies, he's happy for the Aussies
Speaker 1: to to sledge him. Back in your playing days, you
Speaker 1: would have copped some good sledges over the years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, I can't really remember, but there's
Speaker 4: no doubt I did cop a lot of sledging because
Speaker 4: I was a bit chubby, and the words fat came
Speaker 4: into nearly every sledge I copped. You know, various ways, nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
Speaker 4: whatever you want to use, but the common denominator was
Speaker 4: fat and it's probably warranted. Sometimes I wasn't playing particularly well,
Speaker 4: particularly in reserve. But I'll tell you who's the greatest
Speaker 4: sledger that I ever played against. Craig Coleman from South
Speaker 4: tug half back. Yep, couldn't be sledge mate. He was
Speaker 4: one of the great sledges of the eighties and I
Speaker 4: was sometimes any spotlight. Unfortunately, when I wasn't playing.
Speaker 1: These days on the football field, they actually would not
Speaker 1: be allowed to call you fat. That would be discrimination.
Speaker 4: Well they probably they'd probably called me fat as opposed
Speaker 4: to some of the other names I was called that
Speaker 4: they wouldn't have called. I think they'd allow fat compared
Speaker 4: to some of the other names that they called me
Speaker 4: and other blogs. It was the way it was. I
Speaker 4: mean the game is so different there. You reckon someone.
Speaker 4: If someone said to whoever big bloke is, it's easier
Speaker 4: a fat he you reckon, he.
Speaker 1: Would be often that they'd be taken to any discrimination board.
Speaker 1: They have a case.
Speaker 4: I want to so you just give me an example
Speaker 4: of what you think a sledge in the modern day
Speaker 4: would be, Oh, gee, you painted your fingernails? Wash?
Speaker 1: Does he have nail?
Speaker 4: Of course he does, he does. I'm sure he's not
Speaker 4: the only one. A lot of them.
Speaker 1: He's got lovely eyes.
Speaker 4: You could talk about Lucky Galbert's haircut. That's the poor haircut, Lucky.
Speaker 4: I mean that in the old days.
Speaker 1: There was a bit different things that Chase hate big manin.
Speaker 1: Thanks for filling in today.
Speaker 4: Thanks, this is a great segment.
Speaker 1: Goodbye The Legend Daryl Browman Tim Finn will be my
Speaker 1: special guests on Sydney Now tomorrow afternoon. Of course, the
Speaker 1: Legend from Split Ends played with his brother Neil and
Speaker 1: Crowded House as well, So Tim Finn actually, don't forget
Speaker 1: while we're talking music, did you hear Chris Mins this
Speaker 1: morning with Ben Fordham. We brought you this story a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago that Jeremy Buckingham, who is the
Speaker 1: member for the Smoke Wall Cannabis Party in the Upper House,
Speaker 1: suggest that we need a memorial in Sydney for ac DC. Well,
Speaker 1: Chris Mitten's Todd Ben Fordham.
Speaker 14: This is a chance potentially in Birdwood or maybe around
Speaker 14: King Street, closer to the city where they used to rehearse,
Speaker 14: and we're looking at it. I think that's a good initiative.
Speaker 14: Jeremy makes the point that it could be a pilgrimage
Speaker 14: site for people that love the ac DC, something to
Speaker 14: do when you're traveling through Sydney and it's our it's
Speaker 14: their hometown. I mean most of the band's time, particularly
Speaker 14: the Young Brothers, was spent in Sydney. The band formed here,
Speaker 14: it rehearsed here.
Speaker 21: Which is why it's kind of crazy that there's nothing here.
Speaker 21: I mean, other states in Australia have things honoring ac DC.
Speaker 21: We've got nothing here, So you'd like to make something right.
Speaker 14: Yes, So we're looking at an ac DC memorial.
Speaker 1: I reckon it should happen and no wonder Chris Mins
Speaker 1: wants to see it. This is actually Chris Min's playing Thunderstruck.
Speaker 1: It was during the election campaign a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: He's actually a pretty good guitar player.
Speaker 2: Time to expose your minds.
Speaker 1: You may begin your questioning on.
Speaker 16: Sydney Now's question Origen's questions.
Speaker 1: That's important to pay atention. I know how sway you
Speaker 1: are and answer a question. Clinton's quick quick, Okay, let's
Speaker 1: play the quiz. We've got a five hundred dollars Winston
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Speaker 14: How are you?
Speaker 1: I'm good, my friend? And Josh is in Holsworthy. Josh,
Speaker 1: you are going to go first, Josh? Or thirty second
Speaker 1: starts now? What is the capital of Norway or hush Oslo?
Speaker 1: Which animal lays the largest eggs the emu or an
Speaker 1: Ostrich Ostridge? Correct, You're on one. It's still rock and
Speaker 1: roll to me is a song by which American musician
Speaker 1: Let's still look Billy Billy Joel Billy. Correct, correct. What
Speaker 1: is the color of the Statue of Liberty have a grack?
Speaker 1: It's gray. What I'm going to go green? You know gray,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go green. So you're on too, Josh, you've
Speaker 1: got a fair chance. Okay, Joseph, your thirty second starts. Now.
Speaker 1: What is the name of Mickey Mouse's girlfriend Mini? Correct?
Speaker 1: Which NRL side is currently first on the ladder?
Speaker 4: The Bulldog?
Speaker 1: Correct? What is the official language of Brazil Brazil Spanish? No,
Speaker 1: it's Portuguese. When was the euro introduced the euro currency
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and two? Two thousand
Speaker 1: and two incorrect. Okay, we've got a tie, so we're
Speaker 1: on too. We'll play the tie broke up, Josh and Joseph.
Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you a question. Whoever answers correctly,
Speaker 1: just shout out your name and you'll be able to
Speaker 1: answer it. Okay, So the question is, what is the
Speaker 1: name of a baby kangaroo? Joseph, Joseph, what's the name
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Speaker 23: Yeah, Clinton, plenty of big names coming back Reese while
Speaker 23: she's back for the Baker Man.
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Speaker 23: Yeah yeah, re sent me at Cheerio today. Rees, thanks
Speaker 23: for listening in mate. We've got Freddie Fitler coming on.
Speaker 23: He'll be talking about the Lachlan Galvenus at the Bulldogs.
Speaker 23: He's been naming that twenty two man squad. Connor Tracy
Speaker 23: from the Dogs will join us. Also, he's playing his
Speaker 23: one hundredth game against the Egels. That should be a
Speaker 23: blockbuster on So surely.
Speaker 1: They're going to play Galvin if he's in the twenty
Speaker 1: two man squad. Well, here come off the bench.
Speaker 23: I think he'll come off the bench. Jack Buckley's going
Speaker 23: to join us Clinton from the GWS Giants big game
Speaker 23: against Port Adelaide.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're listening to Hawsey tonight. After Reese Walsher
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