WEBVTT - Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard – Full Show June 3rd 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:11.960 Onto GV. 0:00:13.119 --> 0:00:16.480 This is sitting now with Clinton. 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:19.279 Tuesday, June three, Clinton, Maine with you one three one 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:21.799 eight seven three. We are dealing with a traffic nightmare 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:23.520 on our road to this say afternoon, and I'll keep 0:00:23.560 --> 0:00:25.680 you up to date right throughout the program. Right now, 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:28.880 the crane remains stuck in the M five tunnel. All 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.239 the westbound lanes are open, but the eastbound lanes are 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.040 still closed. And look, it's unlikely the'll open anytime soon. 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:36.640 We'll bring you the latest in just a moment. But 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:38.800 I should point out you are paying for the privilege 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:40.960 of being stuck in this traffic jam. The M five 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:44.320 toll five dollars seventy eight in each direction. On the 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:46.440 show today, more than two and a half million workers 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:48.600 will be given a pay rise from next month three 0:00:48.640 --> 0:00:51.280 and a half percent. It amounts to thirty two dollars 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.239 a week. Is that going to make a difference or 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.400 is it going to hurt business? We'll talk about that. 0:00:55.600 --> 0:00:58.280 There's a growing problem with electric cars as more Aussies 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:00.600 by them. It is emerging that they're very difficult to 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.640 repair because simply there are not enough technicians to do 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:05.560 the job. We're going to talk to the NRMA about 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.840 that MG a little sick this Afternoonie was coming down 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.240 with it yesterday, I think. So we've got a special 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:14.080 guest to look after sport on the show today. Keep listening, 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.480 you'll love him. Plus we've got a good prize to 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.000 give away five hundred dollars Winston with a Wie vouchers 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:21.000 when we play the quiz. You are my eyes and 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.520 ears when it's happening in Sydney now, So text me 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.280 zero force zero eight seven three eight seven three have 0:01:26.400 --> 0:01:37.480 you say one three one eight seven three. Okay, let's 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.000 get straight to this Sydney Now problem. On the M 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.840 five tunnel, the crane remains rolled over inside the tunnel. 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:47.039 It did force the closure of the tunnel in both directions, 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.000 but the lanes now have started to reopen. So the 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:54.360 westbound lanes have reopened inside the M five tunnel, the 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.920 eastbound is still closed. Superintendent Adam Dewbree is from Fire 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.040 and Rescue. Adam, what's the latest. 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:04.520 Yeah, Clinton, we're making pretty good progress. Actually the crane 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:07.280 has been put back on its wheels and taken out 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:10.720 of the tunnel. Fire risking New South Wales has made 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.760 sure that there was no further hazardous oil spills. It 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.600 did lose quite a quantity and the deluge system, the 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.280 fire sprinkler system had operated, had been ripped out when 0:02:21.320 --> 0:02:25.160 this vehicle had turned over onto its side, causing a 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.480 lot of that oil to be washed away. We've contained 0:02:27.480 --> 0:02:30.320 that rendered that safe, but this oil can be quite 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:34.120 corrosive to the surface, so all workers being done to 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:37.000 get that assessed, to make sure that the surface, the 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.840 pavement of the road is safe. The side of the 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.960 tunnel has also been damaged. There was some sharp edges 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:46.080 that also need to be corrected and working. But I 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.400 can guarantee everyone out there listening. It transports the New 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.720 South Wales through their traffic Management Center. We're working with 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.960 the Traffic Commander's Highway Patrol. Everyone is conscious of how 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.360 important this infrastructure is and a working world. I mean, 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.360 if the listeners out there could hear the chatter that 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.760 goes on between all the agencies to get this resolved 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:10.280 as quickly as possible, you know, that's what they're doing 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.840 and I can guarantee that's what doing, so hopefully we'll 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:17.400 see this open sooner rather than later. The deluge system 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.800 has been taken out, which is the fire protection. We've 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.040 put a strategy in place. We've got a couple of 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.880 fire trucks on stand by at the end of the 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.600 tunnel just to provide that extra protection. But the aim 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.640 I understand is to get that tunnel open as quickly 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:32.240 as possible. 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:34.280 So just to confirm that, Adam, you can have the 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.200 tunnel open without the sprinkless system working as normal. 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.560 Yes, but the fire trucks will be on the one 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.920 stand on sceone because we lasting we want is a fight, 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.480 because it does happen, not often, but it can happen 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.720 and does happen. So fire trucks are close by and 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:50.640 on scene at the end of the tunnel to get 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.360 in and knock any fire out. But the passageways are 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.800 still there, those other safety systems that are in place 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.360 for people to get out, get into the safety, the 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:01.760 refuge system in the tunnel, they're all still operating as well. 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.320 And the deluge system I understand is operating in the 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:07.320 westbound lanes. It's just the eastbound that he's been taken okay, 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:07.600 And so. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:09.360 Just to confirm the crane's now being taken out of 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:10.320 those eastbound lanes. 0:04:10.920 --> 0:04:13.360 Yeah, the crane and they did a marvelous job to 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.520 get get it up on its wheels. 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:16.800 A little bit of work and maneuvering. 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:18.840 But they were able to use winters off the heavy 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:20.880 haulage trucks to get it up and back on its 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.520 wheels and it's been taken out and it's getting assessed, 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.599 I believe by police and the transport people. 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:28.720 Okay, that's good. Thank you, Adam. Adam Debrey from Fine 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.400 and Rescue in New South Wales. It's cross to the 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.320 Transport Management seat of Derek Peterson is at the TMC 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.400 at the moment. Thank you for joining. It's Derek, So 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:37.200 just just to confirm how this is going to now 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.480 work over the next couple of hours. The westbound lanes 0:04:40.520 --> 0:04:42.400 closed right at the moment, but you should be able 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:43.080 to open them soon. 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:44.039 High Clinton. 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.280 Yeah, thee eastbound lanes that are currently closed and as 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.760 you heard from the superintendent there, there's been making some 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:52.240 good progress in preparing to reopen the tunnel, but the 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:56.000 eastbound lanes do remain closed at the moment. As you heard, 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.800 the crane that drilled over has been removed from the tunnel, 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:01.760 so that is out who remain on site there checking 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.440 some of the damage and they're still working at the site, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:07.520 but just to go back over what happened here and 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.599 how this actually happened. The crane rolled over just after 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.640 about eleven thirty this morning. That blocked all the lanes 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.400 of the eastbound tunnel, so soon after that the eastbound 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.120 tunnel was closed. Versions put into King George's Road and 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:22.320 Bexley Road. The traffic has been mostly using the D 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:26.000 five diversion route. That's a signposted route that uses Stony 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.800 Creek Road, Forest Road, West Botany Street and Marsh Street. 0:05:29.080 --> 0:05:31.960 That has been carrying extra traffic as you would expect, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:34.680 but no very long delays as a result of this 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.919 on those other roads, about five minutes or so those delays, 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.360 and the TMC has been working just to make sure 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.320 that the traffic lights are faced suitably to keep that 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:46.479 traffic moving on the diversion route. Of course, so when 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.440 that diversion was put in, that still left some traffic 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:53.200 trapped in the tunnel behind the incident. Those cars were 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:56.679 progressively turned around with the assistance of traffic crews and police. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:59.360 The heavy vehicles that were stopped there, they took a 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.680 bit longer to get out, of course, some were reversed 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.839 out and then some were able to go past the 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.680 crash site, but only after they got the crane upright. 0:06:06.760 --> 0:06:09.600 So the crane when it tipped over was blocking two 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.720 citybound lanes. Once they got the crane upright, they were 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.640 able to take some of those trapped heavy vehicles to 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:19.480 go forward past the crash site using that one lane. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:22.360 So they are all out now as well. So current 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:25.000 situation is the crane that crashed has been taken out 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.400 of the tunnel. They got a low loader in that 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.680 to get that out. Crews still in the tunnel checking 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:30.560 the damage and making it safe. But for now, the 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.279 citybound M five East tunnel is still closed. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:35.159 So for those citybound lanes, and it's good that the 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:38.800 westbound so outbound is opening because that's obviously where the 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.640 stronger traffic, the bigger traffic had snails usually out at 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.120 this time of the day. But in terms of those 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:46.200 eastbound lanes, do you think they'll open during the peak. 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.280 Yes, that's the plan. We have a cruise on site 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.320 now working to get citybound open as clear as soon 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.159 as possible, as soon as it is safe to do so. 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.840 As you heard there from Fire and Rescue, there has 0:06:57.880 --> 0:06:59.520 been some damage to the delude systems. 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.279 They need to have those proceedings. 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.040 In place to make sure that everything is safe. But 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.760 the plan is that the hope is to get those 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:11.800 citybound lanes open sometime soon this afternoon, but then there 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.960 will need to be a further closure tonight after the peak, 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:18.640 so probably around seven pm they'll need to close that 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.000 citybound tunnel again to do some permanent repairs. The aim 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.720 is to get to citybound open as soon as it 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:26.440 is safe to do so, and then the traffic can 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:28.720 start going using that to citybound in five eas tunnel 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:29.120 once again. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.840 And so when you make that those citybound closures late tonight, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.080 that would be both the lanes of the tunnel. It 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.040 won't be simply one lane. 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.559 Will It will be both these bound lanes. 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:39.000 That's right. 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:39.440 That's right. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.720 So the citybound tunnel will need to we expect again 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:46.160 tonight to complete those repairs. I don't think there'll be 0:07:46.160 --> 0:07:49.800 a need to close the westbound tunnel tonight. The westbound 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:53.880 tunnel was closed earlier on this afternoon during this incident 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.560 for a couple of reasons. One, as you heard from 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.000 Fire and Rescue, some water pipes were damaged, so crews 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.520 needed to look at that damage. And second, so there 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.280 are cross passages between the westbound and eastbound tunnels that 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.120 the Mercy Services use to get access, so to get 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.280 access to the eastbound tunnel, that was one of the 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:12.640 reasons the westbound tunnel was closed tonight. When repairs take place, 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:14.680 we would expect that to take place in the east 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:16.200 con Tumble, but we'll keep you updated on that. 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:19.040 Thank you for the update, Derek, Thanks Clinton. Derek Peterson 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:21.760 from the Transport Management Center. So just recapping all the 0:08:21.760 --> 0:08:24.120 westbound lanes are now open for the M five and 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:25.600 that's good at this time of the day given it's 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.520 out of the city, but the citybound lanes, the eastbound 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:32.240 lanes remain closed. The Transport Management Center and Fine RESCU 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.000 is very hopeful they'll reopen those soon, but later tonight 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:38.120 they'll then have to close them again because the sprinkler 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:41.120 system is not operating. Extra fire trucks are going to 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.480 be on standby just in case there are any emergencies, 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.200 but they're going to need to carry out some more 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.280 extensive repairs that will hope happen late tonight at some point. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.840 So they're confident those eastbound lane the citybound lanes will 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:54.959 open soon. Of course, we'll let you know if it's 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:55.960 happening in Sydney. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:59.640 You'll hear it on Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.600 On gb quarter past three. An update for me Australia 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.400 Electoral Commission on the ongoing recount in the seat of 0:09:05.440 --> 0:09:09.760 Bradfield in Sydney's North and the gap has widened this morning, 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.800 but now it's starting the narrow once again. So Nicolette Buller, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.119 the Teal candidate, is now in front of Gizelle Capteririan, 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:18.959 the Liberal by twenty seven votes. They are now through 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:22.720 eighty five percent of the recount. The projection is this 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:28.000 will finish by tomorrow. Thankfully. Gezelle cap Tirian's actually narrowed 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.440 the gap a little in the past couple of hours. 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:32.160 It had reached up thirty three at one points. I 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:34.880 don't know we're talking literally vote by vote here, but 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.480 this is how close this is. And when the final 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.200 count was the original count was complete, Jeselle cap Tian 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:42.520 is only in front by what's one or two? So 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.760 Nicolett Buller is in front by twenty seven At the moment, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.080 it's expected we should have a result by tomorrow, mind you. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.600 Gesell Capteririan has been given an outer position within the ministry, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.280 a shadow assistant role as the Member for Communications, the 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.400 Shadow Minister for Communications under Susan Lee's cabinet. She might 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.520 not be able to take up that role, mind you. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.240 There could then be a legal challenge and potentially there 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.800 could be a by election. The big issue in mcquarie 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.880 Street this afternoon is the future of the new South 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:14.440 Wales workers' compensation scheme. It all liyes have been on 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.679 the Coalition on whether they'll support the government's reforms in 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:20.080 this area. Now the government is desperate to pass this 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.920 legislation this week and you might think this is a 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.760 load of mumba jumbo, it doesn't affect me. Well, it's 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:27.840 going to win the end because the prediction from the 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.600 government is that workers' compensation premiums for businesses will increase 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.160 by around thirty percent at least be something like an 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:37.560 extra billion dollars in premiums, and businesses will pass that 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.040 on to us. The customer, whether it's a shop, whether 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.600 it's a service, will end up paying more for workers 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.079 compensation insurance. So the pressure has been on the Coalition, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.960 given that Liberal Party is the party for small business 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.680 and the Nationals the party for those in the Bush 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:55.480 to pass this legislation, and the government is desperate to 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.960 pass the legislation this week, so by Friday, in order 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:00.440 to have it all in place in time for the 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.880 budget and to avoid some big increases from July one. Well, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.000 the coalitions confirmed they will support the legislation. They won't 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.040 refer it to an Upper House inquiry, which would just 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:12.080 delay the whole thing, but they want some they want 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.360 some critical amendments to the legislation. Now it's all very confusing. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:17.200 I won't go through the whole lot to you because 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:22.040 its eye glazing, but effectively, what the opposition is claiming 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:26.280 is that this change would see injured people and a 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:28.960 lot of this is about psychological injuries kicked off the 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:31.359 scheme after two and a half years with no justification. 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.160 So they want some amendments made, some changes to the 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.959 detail of all this. In the end, there needs to 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.280 be changed because the system is going broke and all 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.440 those costs are going to be passed onto businesses, which 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.800 means we're going to pay a lot more. So hopefully 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.480 they sort this out in the next couple of days. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.120 It's good that there's not going to be another inquiry 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.720 because we have too many inquiries, too many reviews. But 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:54.199 in the end, if the changes aren't made, it's going 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:56.840 to be us the consumers that are going to suffer, be. 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.559 Your part of Sydney. Now with Clinton Maynard call one 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.320 three one eight seven three. 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:04.400 Pet to forward coming up shortly. There's been a twist 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.680 in the case of Blake Lively versus Justin Baldoni. Peter 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.040 will have all the difference, all the details coming up. 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:12.760 Tell me an extra thirty two dollars a week. If 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.240 your pay goes up by thirty two dollars, is that 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.000 going to make much of a difference to you. That's 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.320 the increase in the minimum wage that's been approved by 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:21.719 the Fair Work Commission today. They've approved a three and 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:24.880 a half percent increase. It's less than what the unions wanted, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:26.880 but it is more than what business wanted, so it's 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.320 pretty much halfway in between. I should note that it's 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:33.560 more the inflation rate. The Act is selling McManus. She 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:34.600 is happy today. 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.400 That is a really good outcome, man. It's a great 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.520 outcome because it's one point one percent more than inflation. 0:12:42.080 --> 0:12:45.680 So it means that finally award wage workers in Australia, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.760 our lowest paid workers are getting ahead again. 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:51.440 So inflation's are two point four percent, so it is 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.760 a real wage increase. The Prime Minister has supported the move. 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:59.840 This decision today will be welcomed by people who keep 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:05.720 our economy going, the essential workers who need this wage increase. 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.679 So it applies to two point six million people, so 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.320 those on the lowest wages. But it'll have a flow 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.000 and effect through the rest of the economy in the 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.319 west of the workforce. There'll be pressure for people on 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:18.240 high wages to have their salaries increased as well for 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.280 business and you'll have serious economic implications because it will 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.000 affect potentially inflation and that flows through to RBA decisions 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:28.760 on interest rates as well. But on the flip side, 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.640 for a low paid worker, just thirty two dollars a 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:34.360 week really get them much. I was doing a few 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.920 calculations before. If you're stuck on the M five at 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:39.360 the moment and you're in the traffic jam, you could 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.160 actually use the five and a half times per week. 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:45.160 It's five dollars seventy eight for the M five toll. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:47.520 My train ticket to work this morning was six dollars, 0:13:47.760 --> 0:13:50.120 so I'd buy you about five train tickets, could buy 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.600 you half a case of VB, or it could buy 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.400 you one movie ticket to go to Bankstown. Heyts, you 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.199 couldn't take your kids, but you could go yourself, maybe 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.760 buy some maltese at the same time. Is it going 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.600 to make a difference if you work in retail, if 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:06.319 you work in the services sector and you are on 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:08.640 the minimum wage? Are you happy about that? Let me know. 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:10.719 One three, one eight seven three is our number. 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:14.439 For your part of Sydney. Now with Clinton. Maynard called 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.480 one three, one eight seven three. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:17.280 Twenty five past three. 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:19.560 Hello Neil, Hey Clinton, how are you? 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:19.840 Mane? 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:20.560 Good by friend? 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:22.400 What's happening? 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:23.480 You tell me? 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.640 I'm just wondering. We've heard the story about the roll 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.000 over in that, but I'm just wondering how it occurred. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:34.120 What how did the damn thing get to roll over? 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:36.800 Was it a blown tire? Was it drive error, a 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.000 medical incident? Heard nothing about it? 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.000 We'll certainly find out in the next couple of days. 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.440 And you would have seen some of the photos if 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.480 you have a look at two GB dot com. It 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.680 is how it happened is leaving a lot of people 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.360 scratching their heads of the moment. But it's a very 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.720 good question to Neil. At the moment, the focus in 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.200 the authorities has been removing the damn crane, which they 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.600 now have done. But they'll need to ensure that they 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.520 figure out what happened, because you won't want to see 0:14:57.560 --> 0:14:58.000 a repeat. 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:01.560 Has anyone got any death cam footage or anything like that? 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:03.040 Yeah, good question. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:03.520 Nine. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.440 Well, look, if our listeners happened to have been in 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:07.520 the N five tunnel when this occurred, it's it was 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:10.000 in the eastbound lanes whe the crane rolled over. Let 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.160 us know, good question, Neil one, three, one, eight, seven 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.280 to three. Oh gee, this news has just broken. Nick 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.720 Kurios has just announced he's pulling out of Wimbledon. He 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.040 will not play any of the grass court tennis season 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.920 at all. He has suffered a set back in his 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:25.920 recovery from injury. He has posted on social media. Just 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.800 wanted to give a quick update. I've had a small 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:31.200 set back in my recovery. Unfortunately, won't make it back 0:15:31.200 --> 0:15:33.160 for the grass season this year. I know how much 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:34.960 you've all been looking forward to seeing me out there. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:37.600 I'm genuinely sorry to disappoint. This is just a bump 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.000 in the road, though I'm already working harder to get back, 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.200 stronger than ever. Thank you for your continued support. It 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.240 means everything to me. See you soon. You do wonder 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:48.160 whether Nick Kirios ever actually reached the top of tennis again, 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.880 even get back on the court again. But just confirmation 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.280 now Nick Kirios will not be playing in Wimbledon this year. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.600 As update, upgrade and save with Winston with a Wine 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.400 twenty percent of Mote, rice, blinds, curtains and dawnings. Book 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:03.920 now at Winston dot com. 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:08.840 Aues Hey. 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.240 Good afternoon, Josh Bryance, Good afternoon, Clinton. A crane which rolled, 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:14.920 damaging part of the East M five East Tunnel and 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.680 closing eastbound lanes for ours has now been removed from 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.800 the area. Crews still working to repair the damage and 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:24.200 get the eastbound lanes open again. Traffic can still use 0:16:24.240 --> 0:16:27.800 the tunnel westbound. One man has been charged with murderer's 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.520 Police search for a second following the death of a 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:33.880 man in Sydney's Inner West. The state opposition says it 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.400 will support reforms to workers' compensation in New South Wales, 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.680 but that the state government has to agree to amendments. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.000 At a Labrador has been rescued from the bottom of 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.960 an eight meter mine shaft in central Victoria. Ted the 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.200 labrador found four days after going missing with fellow canine 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:52.760 Penny the labradoodle, whose barking helped alert neighbors to the 0:16:52.800 --> 0:16:56.200 injured dog's location. In Sport, Bulldogs coach Camera Serado has 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.360 guaranteed Toby Sexton will keep the halfback spot for Monday's 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:02.080 clash with the Ear amid the speculation about whether Lachlan 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.800 Galvin would be rushed into the number seven jersey after 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.400 signing with the club. We'll have more news and sported. 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:09.359 For Thank you, Josh. Nineteen degrees in the coast, it's 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.879 nineteen degrees in Campbelltown. So what can you do with 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.040 the thirty two dollars a week pay rise that minimum 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:16.320 work at women and wage workers will receive based on 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.800 the Fair Work Commission's decision. You could buy or maybe 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:23.199 eight cups of coffee. Some research has been released today 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.200 that shows morning coffee could help women age more healthy. 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.000 In fact, three cups of coffee a day would actually 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.760 help women. Researchers tracked almost fifty thousand for thirty two years. 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.080 It's found that those who drank caffeinated coffee were significantly 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:42.320 more likely to age well, maintaining mental, physical, and cognitive 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:45.119 health into their seventies and beyond. The same link with 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.600 healthy aging was not seen with ta or decaf coffee. 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:51.520 So you can maybe buy yourself eight cups of coffee 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:54.639 over the course of a week if you'd like to age. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:59.000 Well until six. This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:03.159 on two GBS call now one three, one eight seven three. 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.960 Well a few Jackman's been in the news lately over 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:09.800 his breakup with his long term partner, his wife Deborah Lee, 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.000 and he's hit the town with his new will actually 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:15.760 separately with his other half. Hello, Peter Ford. 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:18.320 Yes, I guess they've got to get out and about, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.840 don't they. So Sutton Foster, who is the new lady 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.199 and in Hugh's life, Well, she's been around for a 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.679 while now, but it's sort of become very public in 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.800 the last week and she attended the Drama Desk Awards, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.359 which are very big deal awards for the theater. She 0:18:33.480 --> 0:18:37.080 was nominated for Best Performer in a Musical. She didn't win, though, 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.680 but she attended with a co star, so she clearly 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:43.720 they're not ready to do that red carpet moment yet, 0:18:44.000 --> 0:18:47.159 and in fact she avoided the press. She agreed to 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:49.840 be photographed, but she didn't go along the actual red 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:53.439 carpet where you are literally face to face with reporters. 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:56.760 And meanwhile, Hugh was hitting the town. He went to 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.720 the pub, like any good Australian bloke who when there's 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:02.119 times are tough, you go to the pub. And he 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:04.680 went to a pub called Old Mates, which is a 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:09.320 very interesting established that's establishment that's been opened by Andy 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:11.440 Lee and a group of other people in New York. 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.720 And it's an Australian pub and not just a themed pub, 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.359 but they really imported things from Australia, right down to 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:24.280 carpet and badstools. And Hugh went there and spent time 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:27.159 with Andy. And he's put up some social media posts 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:29.760 as Hugh has as well. So yes, both getting out 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:31.640 and about, but not together. 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:35.119 So when is there a certain rule the way it 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:37.760 works in Hollywood when a couple breaks up and they 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.200 move on with a new partner, how they got together 0:19:40.240 --> 0:19:42.840 and whether, whatever the circumstances were, is there a particular 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:44.639 rule about when you're then allowed to go out on 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:45.760 the red carpet together? 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.200 Well, none of it is a rule, but I guess 0:19:48.200 --> 0:19:51.240 it depends on how you feel, and you know, you 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.680 don't want to live your life being locked up all 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.879 the time, not able to go out. And to be honest, 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:59.080 they have really been doing that for quite some time now, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.440 so they're probab itching to go out together different places 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.760 and events. But I'm sure they're getting some pr advice too. 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.880 But you know, if I was Hugh, I would probably say, 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.760 you know, let's bite the bullet, let's go together to something, 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.320 do the red carpet. Everyone gets a photograph, that suddenly 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:19.680 the bounty to get the photograph is gone. They won't 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.240 be chasing as us in the same way that they 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.720 are at the moment. But look, it's a tough time. 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:27.679 It's tough for the three players involved, including deb Lee, 0:20:27.800 --> 0:20:31.000 because you know, everybody, all the gossip columns, all the 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.160 magazines are all itching to get photographs and to get 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:35.440 quotes from them all. 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.160 And the paparazzi photo is worth fortune. But but honestly, would 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.960 they actually consult a pr agent. Maybe they have a 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.879 per agent full time about whenners appropriate they do. 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.679 Hugh absolutely does. He does do his own social media, 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:50.840 which is why he made that gath last week, that 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.800 very inappropriate gaff you know, of him skipping just after 0:20:55.840 --> 0:20:58.800 the news of deb Bely's statement. I mean, any wise 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.240 PR person would have said, don't be stupid, but he 0:21:02.320 --> 0:21:05.239 did that. But no, he does have prpeople. 0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:07.240 Sitting down there is either on the phone or maybe 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:09.560 seeing someone in person in an office saying Okay, when 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:11.240 do you think we should actually go out in public? 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:15.479 Yeah, a different world, Yeah, totally. I mean, you know, 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:17.320 at the moment they are under siege. 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.879 Unfortunately, there's been a major twist in the case of 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:21.840 Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:23.960 Yeah, I don't think this is ever going to get 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:25.560 to court. It it's due to go to court in 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:28.400 March of next year. But I think this is almost 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.639 like she's setting up an exit strategy for herself. So 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:33.560 one of the main things, you know, he was the 0:21:33.600 --> 0:21:36.280 director of the movie that she was in. She's accused 0:21:36.359 --> 0:21:39.280 him of all sorts of harassment and bad behavior. But 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:43.639 now she's actually asked the judge to withdraw a couple 0:21:43.720 --> 0:21:47.200 of major parts of her complaint, and one is the 0:21:47.240 --> 0:21:53.359 intentional infliction of emotional distress and also the negligent infliction 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:58.040 of emotional distress. Now, why she's decided she doesn't want 0:21:58.080 --> 0:22:01.560 to pursue those things is she's been told you'll have 0:22:01.600 --> 0:22:06.080 to hand over your health and medical and mental health records, 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.360 so that's part of the discovery. So she doesn't want 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.800 to do that. So therefore, which either means what the 0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:17.560 content of it is highly embarrassing, or it maybe means 0:22:17.560 --> 0:22:20.000 there's nothing there that's going to back up her claim. 0:22:20.320 --> 0:22:22.400 I mean, I think what we have seen, if you've 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.560 been following this over the last six months, is that 0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:28.320 she says a lot of stuff, and she obviously felt 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:31.560 a lot of stuff, but she can't prove much because 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:36.400 Justin Baldoni has been very good on handing out receipts, videos, 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:40.439 you know, emails, everything because he was the director, he 0:22:40.520 --> 0:22:43.200 had access to everything and seems to have kept everything. 0:22:43.480 --> 0:22:46.520 Whereas it seems like unless she's got some smoking gun 0:22:46.840 --> 0:22:49.040 that she's going to pull out in the courtroom, I 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:51.000 just don't see that she's got much to back up 0:22:51.000 --> 0:22:51.680 what she's saying. 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:53.800 Yeah, maybe it'll never get to the courtroom. Thanks Peter, 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.560 Thanks Clinton. Now entertainment correspondent Peter Ford. It's twenty three 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:00.480 to four. Now, the five just to reach if you're 0:23:00.480 --> 0:23:03.080 in the traffic at the moment. The westbound lanes, so 0:23:03.240 --> 0:23:06.800 the citybound lanes are now open. The eastbound lanes are 0:23:06.840 --> 0:23:09.520 still closed. The crane's been removed from the tunnel, but 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.600 they're still inspecting the road surface. The sprinkler system won't 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:14.880 be operating and they will have to close even once 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.600 they open the eastbound lanes hopefully shortly late tonight, they'll 0:23:18.640 --> 0:23:20.080 have to close and again to try to fix the 0:23:20.119 --> 0:23:22.960 sprinkless system. There are some fire trucks that have been placed 0:23:23.000 --> 0:23:26.080 on standby, but there's questions already been asked about what's 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:30.080 actually caused this crane to crash and then roll over 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.399 a little earlier in the afternoon, Darren says, And you 0:23:32.400 --> 0:23:34.360 can see some photos of the crane on our website 0:23:34.359 --> 0:23:36.600 two GB dot com. Darren. The text line says the 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.520 crane that rolled over is Franner now and you can 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:42.800 see this detail on our website. They articulate in the 0:23:42.800 --> 0:23:45.679 middle using a hydraulic steering system. They are prone to 0:23:45.720 --> 0:23:48.800 getting the wobbles and perhaps the wobbles may have caused 0:23:48.840 --> 0:23:53.080 the problem. We'll find out hopefully quickly, Darren. Dave says, 0:23:53.240 --> 0:23:54.480 are you still going to be hit for the toll 0:23:54.520 --> 0:23:56.520 if you're stuck on the M five. Of course, Dave, 0:23:56.680 --> 0:23:59.119 don't worry five dollars seventy eight for the privilege of 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.000 being stuck in a track jam. This afternoon, Harry on 0:24:02.040 --> 0:24:04.399 the text line, we've been talking about the increase in 0:24:04.440 --> 0:24:06.800 wages for low paid workers. It's three and a half percent, 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:10.360 will be thirty two dollars a week. Harry rightly points out, 0:24:10.440 --> 0:24:13.760 let's not forget about tax. You'll pay about five dollars 0:24:13.840 --> 0:24:16.679 seventy five on that, so it's about twenty six dollars 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:20.040 in your pocket after tax. Neil says, in regards the 0:24:20.080 --> 0:24:24.160 pay rise, don't forget politicians never miss out every year 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.199 via the so called independent body. But the group that 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.360 does miss out a rage pensioners. No relief for them, 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:33.800 the people that can least afford the inflation, Thank you, Neil. 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.160 Well to be fair to the politician, certainly at state level. 0:24:36.240 --> 0:24:38.840 When Chris Min's was elected, he did promise there would 0:24:38.840 --> 0:24:42.880 be a freeze on politicians pay rise. So cabinet approved 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.800 legislation to freeze the pay of state MPs and public 0:24:45.840 --> 0:24:49.000 service senior executives for two years. So at the moment, 0:24:50.240 --> 0:24:53.520 the men's government, the opposition, the other MP's in state 0:24:53.560 --> 0:24:55.880 partment in Macquariy Street, they don't get a pay rise. 0:24:55.960 --> 0:24:58.119 At a federal level, there was an increase for the 0:24:58.119 --> 0:25:00.960 federal polly's last year. They had a three and a 0:25:01.000 --> 0:25:02.960 half percent increase, so it's the same increase as the 0:25:02.960 --> 0:25:06.239 minimum wage increase. It meant the base politician pay went 0:25:06.320 --> 0:25:08.480 up to two hundred and thirty three thousand dollars. The 0:25:08.520 --> 0:25:11.480 Prime Minister on six hundred and seven thousand. 0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.520 Dollars Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. 0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:15.919 If it's happening in. 0:25:15.800 --> 0:25:20.400 Your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to ginb Now. 0:25:20.440 --> 0:25:23.119 The Prime Minister and the Premier have just announced some 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:26.640 increased payments for people affected by the floods mid North 0:25:26.680 --> 0:25:29.840 Coast and also the Hunter Valley, particularly small businesses and 0:25:30.040 --> 0:25:33.760 primary producers. So this will include grants of up to 0:25:33.760 --> 0:25:36.479 twenty five thousand dollars for small businesses with fewer than 0:25:36.520 --> 0:25:39.840 twenty employees and also nonprofit organizations. So for instance, when 0:25:40.400 --> 0:25:42.560 when I did the show from Tari last week, I 0:25:42.760 --> 0:25:45.960 visited a motel, this would be eligible. This would be 0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:48.200 a business eligible for a twenty five thousand dollar grant. 0:25:48.520 --> 0:25:50.919 To be honest, they suffered so much damage that'll just 0:25:51.000 --> 0:25:52.960 touched the sides. But I'd think it'll be welcomed by 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:56.120 the owners. Grants are twenty five thousand dollars for eligible 0:25:56.160 --> 0:25:59.920 primary producers. So for instance, Gus the oyster farmer, I 0:26:00.200 --> 0:26:02.480 paid a visit to his property, he be eligible for 0:26:02.480 --> 0:26:05.480 twenty five thousand dollars grants of up to ten thousand 0:26:05.480 --> 0:26:08.600 for eligible rural landholders, and there'll also be money for 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:11.800 drainage on private land as well. One hundred and eighty 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:15.080 dollars Hardship payments for individuals capped at nine hundred dollars 0:26:15.080 --> 0:26:17.960 for household So the Prime Minister and the Premier did 0:26:18.200 --> 0:26:21.520 promise there'd be some increased grants for those affected, and 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:24.640 they've just announced that detail right there. Look, talking about 0:26:24.640 --> 0:26:27.080 the impact of the floods, reality is when we go 0:26:27.119 --> 0:26:30.200 through natural disasters, whether it's drought or flood, it has 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:33.840 a particular impact on our primary producers and that affects 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:35.600 us here in the city. It affects us through what 0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:37.600 we pay at supermarkets, when we go to the fruit 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:40.600 and ved shop, what we pay there, and we've had 0:26:40.720 --> 0:26:43.280 us today that milk and dairy prices are set to 0:26:43.400 --> 0:26:46.440 rise because of the extreme weather in both New South 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:49.960 Wales and Queensland, and then the dairy heartlands of Victoria, 0:26:50.040 --> 0:26:52.639 South Australia Tasmania very much in the grip of drought. 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:56.640 At the moment, experts predict four and five milk producing 0:26:56.680 --> 0:27:00.240 farmers are recovering from some sort of natural disaster. What's 0:27:00.240 --> 0:27:02.639 that going to mean for us? Well, likely we're going 0:27:02.680 --> 0:27:05.920 to pay more. Eliza Redfirm is the Analysis and Insights 0:27:05.960 --> 0:27:09.080 manager at Dairy Australia. Eliza, thank you for joining us 0:27:09.080 --> 0:27:09.800 on the program. 0:27:10.320 --> 0:27:11.280 Hey, thanks for having me. 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.720 The industry estimates about one hundred and thirty seven dairy 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:17.080 farms across New South Wales have actually been affected by 0:27:17.080 --> 0:27:19.200 the flooding that we've been reporting on in the past week. 0:27:19.480 --> 0:27:20.800 How bad has it been for farmers? 0:27:21.880 --> 0:27:25.359 Yeah, look, it's a good question, and the impacts have 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:29.000 really varied across all of those farms. As mentioned that, 0:27:29.080 --> 0:27:31.680 it's quite a significant number that have been impacted there 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.520 and as our National Dairy Farmer Survey results have shown 0:27:35.560 --> 0:27:38.080 for twenty twenty five, is about sixty nine percent of 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:40.959 farming businesses across the country that have been impacted by 0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:44.200 extreme weather this season, and that survey was taken back 0:27:44.240 --> 0:27:46.920 in February, so the number is likely to be higher. 0:27:47.400 --> 0:27:50.439 But ultimately you know that the impacts do really vary 0:27:50.920 --> 0:27:54.200 depending on on location, and it's right from a minor 0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:58.280 level right down two significant impacts in terms of damages 0:27:58.320 --> 0:28:02.439 to infrastructure, water log paddis, those kinds of things. 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:04.399 I was having a look at a drought map today 0:28:04.400 --> 0:28:06.359 and also the forecast for the next couple of months, 0:28:06.359 --> 0:28:09.280 and it appears that the area of drought affecting New 0:28:09.280 --> 0:28:11.240 South Wales very much based around the River area, but 0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:14.119 drought affected areas much of southern New South Wales, so 0:28:14.160 --> 0:28:18.080 that would include a lot of prime dairy land. Yeah. 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:20.880 Correct, So we're seeing the impacts of the dry conditions 0:28:21.119 --> 0:28:25.240 in several regions now and South Australia and southwest Victoria 0:28:25.320 --> 0:28:27.960 have been two key ones that have been impacted throughout 0:28:27.960 --> 0:28:31.159 the majority of this season by dry conditions, and in 0:28:31.200 --> 0:28:34.200 recent months we've started to see parts of northern Victoria, 0:28:34.720 --> 0:28:38.040 southern New South Wales and parts of western and southern 0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:40.320 Gippsland as well that have been impacted by the dry 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:41.000 conditions too. 0:28:41.320 --> 0:28:43.640 So how does drought but also flood how does that 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:44.840 directly affect prices. 0:28:46.000 --> 0:28:49.000 So ultimately you know that there's impacts on milk production 0:28:49.240 --> 0:28:51.320 in terms of what's being collected in it and produced 0:28:51.320 --> 0:28:55.200 on farm and the decisions that farmers make in response 0:28:55.240 --> 0:28:58.320 to those conditions, and you know as they go through 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:03.880 their recovery process coultantly impact that volume of milk coming out. Now, ultimately, 0:29:04.080 --> 0:29:08.600 the tighter milk production in these key regions then warrant 0:29:08.640 --> 0:29:11.040 a higher milk price paid to those farmers. So we're 0:29:11.080 --> 0:29:15.360 seen in the announcements from yesterday for the opening minimum 0:29:15.400 --> 0:29:18.560 farm gate milk prices paid to farmers for the new season, 0:29:19.040 --> 0:29:22.160 there has been some increase relative to this current season, 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:26.080 and that tighter milk production forecast for the rest of 0:29:26.080 --> 0:29:29.280 this season or the other new season sorry, is likely 0:29:29.320 --> 0:29:33.840 to warrant further increases to the prices paid to farmers. 0:29:33.840 --> 0:29:36.400 But ultimately that's going to be tempered by how both 0:29:36.400 --> 0:29:38.440 of the export and domestic markets. 0:29:38.120 --> 0:29:40.719 There So that farm gate increased, that's going to applause 0:29:40.760 --> 0:29:41.880 that from the new financial year. 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:46.760 Yeah, correct, Yes, So ultimately the processes have to announce 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:50.680 their minimum opening milk price by a deadline around the 0:29:50.720 --> 0:29:54.800 start of June every season. Ultimately, that's an announced. Farmers 0:29:54.880 --> 0:29:57.120 can then see what what prices are being offered by 0:29:57.200 --> 0:29:59.560 various processes and then move on through the season. 0:30:00.000 --> 0:30:02.120 Do you have an estimate of what we're going to 0:30:02.120 --> 0:30:05.400 pay in supermarkets in the cities or other retails when 0:30:05.400 --> 0:30:07.360 we buy a bottle of milks they've saved for a 0:30:07.440 --> 0:30:08.880 leader of milk or with you by the two or 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:09.920 three liter bottles. 0:30:10.520 --> 0:30:13.240 Well, ultimately, when we're talking about that flow on impact 0:30:13.280 --> 0:30:17.200 through to consumers as far as the dairy industry works, 0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:20.360 is it's not as simple as you know the interactions 0:30:20.360 --> 0:30:22.280 that we might see in the vegetable or the beef 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:25.760 space for instance. So ultimately, going forward, there is a 0:30:25.760 --> 0:30:29.440 lot of retail price pressure at the moment within that space. 0:30:29.480 --> 0:30:32.880 Australia still has its high cost of living, so ultimately, 0:30:32.920 --> 0:30:35.920 going forward there is going to be some limitations in 0:30:36.000 --> 0:30:39.040 terms of what some of those price increases will be 0:30:39.640 --> 0:30:40.920 to retail prices. 0:30:41.240 --> 0:30:44.840 For years, we have discussed the way the supermarkets operate 0:30:44.920 --> 0:30:47.880 with the farmers. Are farmers still struggling to get a 0:30:47.880 --> 0:30:49.400 fair deal out of the big supermarkets. 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:52.720 Well, what we're seeing within this current environment is that 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:56.120 there is that mounting retail price pressure and Ultimately, since 0:30:56.120 --> 0:30:58.920 the end of twenty twenty four, we've seen that some 0:30:58.960 --> 0:31:01.720 of the shelfall the sticker prices of some dairy products 0:31:01.760 --> 0:31:05.080 and private label products have come down since the end 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:07.680 of last year. So ultimately that that flows onto that 0:31:07.720 --> 0:31:11.600 competition on the shelf right across the dairy case. And 0:31:11.640 --> 0:31:14.000 so there is that pressure on that space at the moment. 0:31:14.240 --> 0:31:16.520 So would you expect and I see there is some 0:31:16.640 --> 0:31:19.360 rainfecast for the winter months and hopefully that will mean 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:22.120 the drought affected areas hopefully will shrink across the state. 0:31:22.360 --> 0:31:25.480 Would you then expect that that would translate into better 0:31:25.520 --> 0:31:28.360 cost base for the farmers and potentially for dairy prices 0:31:28.400 --> 0:31:29.880 to come down well. 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:34.000 More favorable seasonal conditions would definitely help in terms of 0:31:34.040 --> 0:31:36.960 that recovery piece, but ultimately it would have to be 0:31:37.000 --> 0:31:40.520 the right around, right amount of rainfall at the right 0:31:40.560 --> 0:31:43.640 times as well in order to help those drought affected farmers, 0:31:44.160 --> 0:31:46.400 and then of course those in the more northern dairy 0:31:46.440 --> 0:31:50.040 and regions probably need less of that rainfall too. So 0:31:50.720 --> 0:31:52.840 you know where we're heading into winter now there are 0:31:52.840 --> 0:31:55.959 colder temperatures as well which impact that pasture growth. It 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:59.240 is our lower producing months of the season, so ultimately 0:31:59.240 --> 0:32:01.200 we need to see how conditions fair as we head 0:32:01.240 --> 0:32:02.120 into the spring month. 0:32:02.560 --> 0:32:05.840 Thanks for your insight, Eliza, Thanks so much, Eliza Redfern, 0:32:05.880 --> 0:32:09.440 who's the Analysts and Insights manager at Day Australia. Late 0:32:09.480 --> 0:32:11.280 in the program yesterday I brought you the news that 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:13.160 a body of a man had been discovered at a 0:32:13.160 --> 0:32:16.200 home in Croydon Park, had been stabbed to death and 0:32:16.240 --> 0:32:18.560 a man had been arrested at the scene. Well, that 0:32:18.720 --> 0:32:21.280 man has now been charged. He was taken to hospital 0:32:21.360 --> 0:32:24.680 initially before he was taken to Boward Police station. He 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:27.840 is now before the courts. He's been charged over the 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:31.600 murder of the twenty nine year old victim. Thirty two 0:32:31.680 --> 0:32:33.960 year old man arrested the scene now facing a range 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:36.480 of charges. Police and this law play out between before 0:32:36.480 --> 0:32:38.440 the courts over the coming weeks in the coming months. 0:32:38.960 --> 0:32:43.040 But police alleged this was basically a bungled drug deal. However, 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:45.960 police are still looking to speak with another man who 0:32:45.960 --> 0:32:48.320 they say maybe able to assist with their investigations. This 0:32:48.400 --> 0:32:50.840 was a man last scene on Kembla Street, Croydon Park 0:32:50.920 --> 0:32:54.680 yesterday afternoon. He's described as being Asian appearance. A solid 0:32:54.720 --> 0:32:56.760 bill was last scene, wearing a black jumper with the 0:32:56.800 --> 0:33:00.320 red symbols on the back, blue jeans, black shoes, black hat, 0:33:00.640 --> 0:33:03.400 and carrying a black satchel. So police don't want to 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:06.160 find this particular bloke. You've got any details, you can 0:33:06.160 --> 0:33:08.680 call crime stoppers one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero. 0:33:08.720 --> 0:33:11.360 But one man has now been arrested and charged, a 0:33:11.440 --> 0:33:15.480 thirty two year old. He is before the courts. One three, 0:33:15.520 --> 0:33:19.000 one eight seven three is our number. Gide Sam oh 0:33:19.080 --> 0:33:20.960 Hi Clinton, how are you good? You want to speak 0:33:20.960 --> 0:33:22.440 about farmers and milk prices? 0:33:23.600 --> 0:33:26.360 Oh, you know, I understand, you know, these things happen. 0:33:26.480 --> 0:33:29.960 But in turn, when the government assists the farmers, you know, 0:33:30.000 --> 0:33:33.120 when they need help, which they do, Why why are 0:33:33.160 --> 0:33:34.080 we paying twice? 0:33:35.120 --> 0:33:39.600 They not? Not every business gets this assistance. They shouldn't 0:33:39.600 --> 0:33:40.800 be putting up their prices. 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:43.640 The problem is though, that if we if we let 0:33:43.680 --> 0:33:46.680 our primary producers flounder when they go through these natural 0:33:46.680 --> 0:33:49.120 disasters in the end, where we're going to pay even 0:33:49.120 --> 0:33:49.960 more down the track. 0:33:51.160 --> 0:33:53.200 Yeah, but no one gets like, you know a lot 0:33:53.200 --> 0:33:56.000 of businesses are affected, but not all get a fit. 0:33:56.520 --> 0:33:59.400 Not all get it. In particular, grant as the different 0:33:59.400 --> 0:34:01.280 farmers in the on the mid North Coast going to receive. 0:34:01.360 --> 0:34:04.080 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's the same thing because the 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:05.680 taxpayer has to pay either way. 0:34:05.960 --> 0:34:08.879 I think we need a different system and whether it's 0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:13.200 a government sponsored insurance scheme where we provide a fallback 0:34:13.239 --> 0:34:16.000 of safety net for whether it's primary producers or other 0:34:16.080 --> 0:34:18.840 businesses that operate in these areas that are prone to 0:34:18.920 --> 0:34:22.439 natural disasters. We seem to wait until the last minute 0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:25.440 when things go wrong to provide these bailouts, and that's 0:34:25.440 --> 0:34:27.160 why we've got these grants that have now been announced 0:34:27.200 --> 0:34:28.879 by the Premier and the Prime Minister today. I think 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:32.120 we need a better insurance scheme that provides some more 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.560 certainty for those producers one three one eight seven three. 0:34:34.640 --> 0:34:36.800 Thank if you call Sam. Don't forget word on the 0:34:36.800 --> 0:34:39.279 streets thanks to Temper a great night's sleep, night after night. 0:34:39.320 --> 0:34:41.600 The difference is Temper. If you see something around the 0:34:41.600 --> 0:34:43.200 city that we need to know about, you can send 0:34:43.200 --> 0:34:45.880 me a text message zero force zero eight seven three 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.839 eight seven three. If there's something you'd like us to investigate, 0:34:48.880 --> 0:34:52.000 send me an email to gb dot com. Tony's just 0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:54.360 sent me a message. Okay, So the thirty two dollars 0:34:54.360 --> 0:34:57.000 a week increase. Is that enough money to buy me 0:34:57.040 --> 0:34:59.440 a ticket to a Shark's game? Tony mus wants to 0:34:59.480 --> 0:35:01.160 go to a Shark's this weekend. Well, no, I've checked 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:04.080 that out, Toney, No, it's not. General admission to a 0:35:04.160 --> 0:35:06.520 Shark's game is forty one dollars, So for most of 0:35:06.560 --> 0:35:09.719 the NRL matches these days, thirty two dollars isn't enough 0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:12.600 to get you into a game. Thirty two dollars they 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:14.759 will buy your movie ticket. So the going rate for 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.680 a movie ticket these days at Hoyts and Events Cinema 0:35:17.960 --> 0:35:21.120 is twenty six dollars. Do they still have cheap Tuesday? 0:35:21.320 --> 0:35:23.040 Remember Tuesday used to be half prop when we were 0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:26.960 growing up, I'll call it tight backside Tuesday. It was 0:35:27.080 --> 0:35:30.120 very cheap on a Tuesday was pretty much half priced. 0:35:30.160 --> 0:35:32.920 I don't know if that still exists anymore. If you 0:35:33.000 --> 0:35:36.399 go to Hungry Jacks at Saint Peter's through the drive through, 0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.720 you might get a surprise. Hungry Jacks has now confirmed 0:35:39.760 --> 0:35:42.440 thenews dot Com that I do today that they're trialing 0:35:42.480 --> 0:35:45.880 AI in the drive through. So you pull up and 0:35:45.920 --> 0:35:49.080 you might want to order your double whopper with fries. 0:35:49.560 --> 0:35:51.359 You're not going to speak with a person anymore, you'll 0:35:51.400 --> 0:35:55.080 actually be speaking with AI and apparently if this is successful, 0:35:55.080 --> 0:36:00.080 they're going to roll it out right across the city. 0:36:00.000 --> 0:36:04.200 We sit now, we've clinton on to GMB. 0:36:04.440 --> 0:36:07.560 It's seven past four. Still traffic mayhem on the M 0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.400 five or westbound lanes the M five and our running, 0:36:10.440 --> 0:36:12.279 so that's good. The crane that was stuck in the 0:36:12.320 --> 0:36:16.040 eastbound lanes after a crash and over turned, it's been removed, 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:18.799 but the eastbound lanes of the M five tunnel are 0:36:18.800 --> 0:36:22.359 still blocked at the moment, and it's hoped this hour. 0:36:22.480 --> 0:36:26.040 Hopefully this hour those eastbound lanes, the citybound lanes will reopen. 0:36:26.080 --> 0:36:28.280 But what's occurring is they need to check the roadway 0:36:28.320 --> 0:36:29.600 to make sure it's safe. There's been a lot of 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:32.719 oil that's spilt as well. The sprinkless system is not 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:36.400 going to be working, so there are extra fire trucks 0:36:36.400 --> 0:36:39.960 that are actually stationed around the tunnel. Both ends to 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.560 ensure that if there are some sort of emergency, firefighters 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:45.279 can be deployed quickly, and we are told once the 0:36:45.360 --> 0:36:48.800 road is open it will be safe. But later tonight 0:36:49.120 --> 0:36:51.359 the authorities will need to close the M five again 0:36:51.680 --> 0:36:53.680 so they can actually repair the sprinkless system and the 0:36:53.719 --> 0:36:57.840 other emergency operations there. So at the moment, westbound is open. 0:36:58.400 --> 0:37:01.480 The on ramp to the Motorway of Mars has also reopened. 0:37:01.800 --> 0:37:05.440 The city bound is closed from Bexley Road along with 0:37:05.440 --> 0:37:09.000 the city bound on ramp at Kingsgrove Road. Now, if 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:12.160 you need to use the route, if you follow signposts 0:37:12.160 --> 0:37:15.120 that have the D five sign and will bottom sent 0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:16.880 me some photos a little after in the afternoon, you 0:37:16.960 --> 0:37:20.440 might not even notice on major roadway signs there is 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:24.240 sometimes in this particular area D five noted. That's a route, 0:37:24.280 --> 0:37:27.080 it's a diversion effectively that you can follow, but it'll 0:37:27.080 --> 0:37:29.879 take extra time. The good news is westbound so out 0:37:29.880 --> 0:37:32.080 of the city is operating five at the moment, it's 0:37:32.120 --> 0:37:34.319 into the city that's an issue. We are told it 0:37:34.320 --> 0:37:37.680 will open soon, but again the M five will close 0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:42.040 later tonight so more substantial repairs can be conducted. Right now, 0:37:42.080 --> 0:37:44.800 the Prime Minister is holding a cabinet meeting in Perth 0:37:44.840 --> 0:37:47.760 and he's actually been joined by the WA Premier, Roger 0:37:47.800 --> 0:37:51.040 Cook as part of this meeting. Now, interestingly this has 0:37:51.040 --> 0:37:53.359 come at the same time that Chris Mints and other 0:37:53.440 --> 0:37:56.480 premiers on the East Coast have renewed a campaign to 0:37:56.480 --> 0:37:58.719 reform the GST. Now, this has been an issue that 0:37:58.800 --> 0:38:01.280 dates back years now, dates to the time when Malcolm 0:38:01.280 --> 0:38:05.520 Turbule was the Prime Minister. WA successfully negotiated with Malcolm 0:38:05.560 --> 0:38:08.480 Turbule a much more generous carve up of the GST. 0:38:08.960 --> 0:38:11.840 And to be honest, it's a joke and despite the 0:38:11.840 --> 0:38:14.240 fact we're of course biased because we're on the East Coast, 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:18.440 it's a joke because the WA economy, given their resources, 0:38:18.760 --> 0:38:21.040 the fact that they're a mining based economy, they've been 0:38:21.040 --> 0:38:23.920 doing well for years now. Yet because Malcolm Turnbull and 0:38:23.920 --> 0:38:26.640 Scott Morrison continued it. Now both continued it as well 0:38:26.920 --> 0:38:30.319 because they needed to win those seats in Perth. They 0:38:30.320 --> 0:38:33.200 gave them a better deal. So we suffer. It's not 0:38:33.239 --> 0:38:36.800 based on population, it's not based on need. It's based 0:38:36.840 --> 0:38:39.719 on politics and the fact that Malcolm Turbule years ago 0:38:39.840 --> 0:38:42.920 near the wind seats in Perth. Well, the Prime Minister 0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:46.279 has been asked about this today, Chris Min's has been 0:38:46.360 --> 0:38:48.120 quizzed about it. This is what the New South Wales 0:38:48.200 --> 0:38:50.319 premiers had to say. We need to revisit it. 0:38:50.360 --> 0:38:51.879 And the truth of the matter is that we've got 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.000 a big pull on resources in New South Wales. 0:38:54.040 --> 0:38:55.120 We take the. 0:38:54.880 --> 0:38:59.320 Largest amount of inbound migrants. We've got the most diverse 0:38:59.360 --> 0:39:01.680 economy and as a result of that we need a 0:39:01.680 --> 0:39:02.440 fairer share. 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:05.560 Well, bad news. The Prime Minister's confirmed he has no 0:39:05.640 --> 0:39:06.719 plans to revisit it. 0:39:06.880 --> 0:39:11.200 We support the position on WA that I took to 0:39:11.239 --> 0:39:14.240 the election I took to the twenty twenty two election, 0:39:14.360 --> 0:39:16.000 and that we're enshrined. 0:39:15.960 --> 0:39:17.520 At the National cabinet. 0:39:17.800 --> 0:39:21.280 It must be said some I think a year ago 0:39:22.040 --> 0:39:25.640 were enshrined that going forward. Importantly as well, part of 0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:29.000 that is that no states being worse off that guarantee, 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:30.120 and that guarantee is in. 0:39:30.120 --> 0:39:33.319 Place, so no state is worse off. But it's not 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.000 fair because we have the biggest population here on the 0:39:36.040 --> 0:39:38.759 east coast, New South Wales when it comes to immigration 0:39:39.160 --> 0:39:42.160 takes more than any other state, which means our infrastructure 0:39:42.200 --> 0:39:44.960 is stretched more than any other state. But it's WA 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:46.200 that's getting all the money. 0:39:46.360 --> 0:39:49.520 If it's happening in Sydney, cull hear it on Sydney 0:39:49.560 --> 0:39:51.680 now with Clinton Maynard on. 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:54.239 To GB it's ten past four to two point six 0:39:54.320 --> 0:39:58.040 million workers will receive a pay rise as of July one. 0:39:58.320 --> 0:40:00.640 The Fair Work Commission has proved a three and a 0:40:00.680 --> 0:40:03.080 half percent increase to two point six million workers on 0:40:03.200 --> 0:40:07.000 the minimum awards. So this will translate into a thirty 0:40:07.040 --> 0:40:09.520 dollars a week, thirty two dollars a week increase that'll 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.719 be before tax. It's one of the largest above inflation 0:40:13.040 --> 0:40:17.080 increase it's actually ever been approved. Now effectively, it's below 0:40:17.080 --> 0:40:20.000 what the unions were after, but it's more what business. 0:40:20.040 --> 0:40:22.880 It's above what business wanted, So it's pretty much smack 0:40:22.920 --> 0:40:26.000 bang in the middle. Ben Pike is from Business New 0:40:26.040 --> 0:40:27.640 South Wales. Thank you for your time. Ben. 0:40:28.440 --> 0:40:29.320 Now is Clinton? 0:40:29.480 --> 0:40:30.800 How is this going to affect business? 0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:35.520 Well, look, I mean it mostly relates to hospitality, health 0:40:35.560 --> 0:40:41.080 and social assistance admin services, those sort of labor intensive businesses. 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:45.359 But look, a three point five percent increases, as you say, 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:48.160 above what business asks. We ask for two point five percent. 0:40:48.800 --> 0:40:51.440 And the reason why is because this is against the 0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:55.719 backdrop of flatlining productivity. There is a significant amount of 0:40:55.719 --> 0:40:59.320 businesses that are under a lot of pressure already with costs. 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:04.480 And so yes, we understand that minimum wage employees do 0:41:04.600 --> 0:41:07.680 need to see an increase in their wage, but but yeah, 0:41:08.080 --> 0:41:11.680 we would class this as a generous decision for employees, 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:14.680 and it will there will be some businesses that will 0:41:15.360 --> 0:41:17.080 be doing it tough as a result of it. 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:19.520 It is above inflation, it's one point one percent above 0:41:19.520 --> 0:41:22.080 the current inflation rate of two point four percent. Do 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:24.120 you feel that it will fuel more inflation? 0:41:25.760 --> 0:41:28.920 Look, the jury is out on that, Like that has 0:41:29.640 --> 0:41:32.080 been an argument that's made previously, especially when there was 0:41:32.160 --> 0:41:36.280 higher levels of inflation. At the moment, inflation is within 0:41:36.360 --> 0:41:41.000 the target band that the RBA has set. So the 0:41:41.080 --> 0:41:43.719 jury is out as to whether it will. I mean, 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:46.400 the higher it goes that, the higher the chances that 0:41:46.480 --> 0:41:49.680 it will. But what we do know is that businesses, 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:53.600 for example, eight and ten of our businesses are paying 0:41:53.719 --> 0:41:57.879 double digit increases on their general insurance for example, So 0:41:57.920 --> 0:42:01.239 while inflation might be two point five percent, their insurance 0:42:01.239 --> 0:42:05.800 still is eleven twenty thirty percent. And that's not before 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:07.280 we talk about workers comproform. 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.920 Yes, we'll talk about that as well. Tell me, is 0:42:10.960 --> 0:42:13.400 there much capacity for business and I know you represent 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.359 many different styles businesses, but to actually pass on cost 0:42:16.440 --> 0:42:19.040 to customers or do you reach your point where the 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:21.400 customer can't take anymore? Given that we've been through this 0:42:21.480 --> 0:42:22.840 very high inflationary environment. 0:42:23.719 --> 0:42:27.000 Yeah, well, look, I suppose a business makes a few decisions. 0:42:27.120 --> 0:42:30.240 They make decisions about headcounts, and so they might decide 0:42:30.239 --> 0:42:34.360 that they'll just not hire a person. They make decisions 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:37.240 about business expansions, so they might be looking for another 0:42:37.280 --> 0:42:39.600 market to expand in suit, but they decide not to. 0:42:40.320 --> 0:42:43.280 And businesses have to make this decision against the backdrop 0:42:43.320 --> 0:42:45.920 of all the other taxes that are on business, for example, 0:42:45.960 --> 0:42:49.680 payroll tax. And a lot of businesses are finding that 0:42:49.800 --> 0:42:55.520 people and the associated costs are extremely expensive. And businesses 0:42:55.600 --> 0:42:59.400 want to hire, they want to have people. But it 0:42:59.480 --> 0:43:02.920 means for some businesses that are really on that thin line, 0:43:03.840 --> 0:43:06.720 they might decide that it's not worth it, or for others, 0:43:06.760 --> 0:43:09.719 they might decide that the expansion plans will be put 0:43:09.760 --> 0:43:12.520 on hold, and they might wait till the next financial 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:14.359 year when their books look a bit better. 0:43:14.480 --> 0:43:17.120 Can you see it this way? If low paid workers 0:43:17.160 --> 0:43:19.520 have an extra thirty two dollars in their pocket because 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:22.080 they're on a low income, they're likely to spend a 0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.439 higher proportion of an increase and been a high paid 0:43:24.480 --> 0:43:26.920 worker would. If they're spending that money, that's going to 0:43:26.960 --> 0:43:29.719 be pumped back into a business that's got to be 0:43:29.719 --> 0:43:30.640 good for business, isn't not. 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:35.680 Yes, in some senses yes, Like we obviously want to 0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:39.280 see people spending in businesses and we know that across 0:43:39.320 --> 0:43:42.000 the state. You're thinking your local high street in Dubo 0:43:42.640 --> 0:43:46.920 or Tamworth or whatever. We as a representative of smaller 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.680 medium businesses in New South Wales, we want people out 0:43:49.680 --> 0:43:52.640 there and spending. It's great, but we also have to 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:55.959 balance that with the interests of our members who say 0:43:56.000 --> 0:43:58.600 to us that wages are just one of a cluster 0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:02.880 of costs that they're associated with and they have to 0:44:02.920 --> 0:44:05.680 deal with, and so that's why we push for the 0:44:05.680 --> 0:44:08.320 two point five percent. Obviously the three point five percent 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:14.480 was the decision. It was generous to employees and look 0:44:14.880 --> 0:44:17.959 it's you know it's six and one, half a dozen 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:18.279 or the other. 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:20.640 Yeah, I think, Ben, just well, I've got you here. 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:24.200 Today in New South Wales Parliament, the Coalition has decided 0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:27.440 they will support changes to workers compensation the legislation to 0:44:27.719 --> 0:44:30.600 make significant changes to the scheme, but they will be 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:33.680 insisting on some critical amendments. The government is saying that 0:44:33.719 --> 0:44:36.439 this will put at risk passing the legislation this week. 0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:39.120 They say that if the legislation is not passed this week, 0:44:39.840 --> 0:44:42.719 there will be increases, substantial increases above eight percent for 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:44.520 the new financial year. Does that worry you. 0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:48.480 Yeah, one hundred percent, it does. It really does, because 0:44:48.520 --> 0:44:52.240 the reality is is that we spoke to our businesses 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:54.200 and one in five to hold us, they're going to 0:44:54.239 --> 0:44:57.520 have to cop the thirty six percent increase, which is 0:44:57.560 --> 0:45:00.640 a projected increase in their workers' compensation in premiums in 0:45:00.719 --> 0:45:04.120 the next three years. They'd have to close like that 0:45:04.280 --> 0:45:07.160 is the fundamental reality. And so the longer that this 0:45:07.200 --> 0:45:10.400 gets pushed, the more and more businesses. 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:10.880 That will go to the wall. 0:45:10.920 --> 0:45:14.640 In the first three quarters of this financial year, there's 0:45:14.680 --> 0:45:18.799 been more than four thousand businesses. Four thousand businesses which 0:45:18.840 --> 0:45:21.920 have gone to the wall. That is a lot of businesses. 0:45:22.520 --> 0:45:26.040 We were pushing to have this legislation pass as soon 0:45:26.080 --> 0:45:28.480 as possible in order for the scheme to get back 0:45:28.560 --> 0:45:32.279 under control. It's disappointing that we probably won't get a 0:45:32.320 --> 0:45:34.360 result this week because we know that a lot of 0:45:34.360 --> 0:45:36.920 our members are under pressure in relations to workers comp 0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:41.400 I spoke to one business based in Western Sydney, manufacturer 0:45:41.440 --> 0:45:44.960 who said, mate, I've got operations in Victoria and I've 0:45:45.000 --> 0:45:47.560 got operations in Queensland. I'll just push more of my 0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:50.680 people into those because we won't have to pay the 0:45:50.800 --> 0:45:53.680 sorts of workers' comp bills that we have to in 0:45:53.680 --> 0:45:54.360 New South Wales. 0:45:54.440 --> 0:45:55.640 Yep, it's going to be sort of that. Thank you 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:58.280 for your time, Ben, thanks so much, Chin Ben Paiku's 0:45:58.280 --> 0:46:01.799 from Business New South Wales and djasent on the text 0:46:01.880 --> 0:46:04.520 line says small business is getting absolutely smashed at the 0:46:04.560 --> 0:46:08.520 moment with high electricity prices and insurance premiums. Everything is 0:46:08.600 --> 0:46:10.840 going up now. Labour costs are going up with increasing 0:46:10.840 --> 0:46:14.120 the minimum wage. I'm sympathetic, but timing is everything with 0:46:14.160 --> 0:46:16.239 these sorts of things. I don't believe that now is 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:19.239 the time to do it and watch inflation increase as 0:46:19.239 --> 0:46:23.040 a result. Seventeen past four, the SEES has now formally 0:46:23.040 --> 0:46:25.719 concluded their operational response to the floods on the Mid 0:46:25.719 --> 0:46:30.400 North Coast and the Hunter Valley since fourteenth of May Wednesday, 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:34.680 the fourteenth of May, the SES received seventeen six hundred 0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:38.040 and seventy nine calls for help. They responded to eighty 0:46:38.120 --> 0:46:41.560 eight hundred and ninety five incidents. They completed eight hundred 0:46:41.560 --> 0:46:45.160 and six flood rescues they issued more than twelve hundred warnings, 0:46:45.160 --> 0:46:48.960 They completed four hundred and sixteen resupply missions in isolated communities, 0:46:49.400 --> 0:46:53.239 They conducted more than twelve thousand damaged assessments, and over 0:46:53.239 --> 0:46:56.960 that time more than two thy two hundred volunteers assisted. 0:46:57.040 --> 0:47:00.520 Imagine where we'd be without the volunteer workforce, and imagine 0:47:00.520 --> 0:47:03.160 the cost to the community, to the taxpayer if we 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:06.399 actually paid for that labor and that help well. As 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:08.720 confirmed the sou afternoon by the Prime Minister and the Premier, 0:47:08.800 --> 0:47:11.880 they have announced a package of grants for businesses and 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:14.239 farmers that have been affected by the floods that are 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:17.080 grants available of up to twenty five thousand dollars. Had 0:47:17.080 --> 0:47:20.799 several messages and emails from pensioners saying what about us? 0:47:21.680 --> 0:47:24.880 Can we not forget about pensioners? And I absolutely appreciate 0:47:24.960 --> 0:47:27.120 that we do need to think about people who are 0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:30.040 on the age pension in particular who are missing out. 0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:32.520 So this increase announced today by the Fair Work Commission 0:47:32.600 --> 0:47:36.839 simply applies to those on the lowest award wage, which 0:47:36.880 --> 0:47:39.920 is still in the high forty thousand dollar range, equates 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:42.080 to thirty two dollars a week, but pensioners shouldn't be 0:47:42.080 --> 0:47:44.520 forgotten about either. Now, just talking about costs, so I 0:47:44.920 --> 0:47:47.600 sense some information that has just flown under the radar 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:50.200 which could be a significant way a change in the 0:47:50.280 --> 0:47:53.200 way you pay for a taxi in Sydney. IPART so 0:47:53.239 --> 0:47:55.680 I passed the regulator that sets prices for whether it's 0:47:55.719 --> 0:48:00.160 taxi fare or water rates. IPART released their recommendations for 0:48:00.719 --> 0:48:04.040 taxi fares that will kick in from July one, and 0:48:04.239 --> 0:48:07.360 this hasn't been reported yet, but they are recommending that 0:48:07.480 --> 0:48:10.640 increases in fares of about two to five dollars for 0:48:10.960 --> 0:48:14.280 basic taxi trips. It'd be an increase in the flag 0:48:14.320 --> 0:48:17.359 fall from three dollars sixty to five dollars, and then 0:48:17.400 --> 0:48:20.120 there'd be an increase in the distance race rate for 0:48:20.160 --> 0:48:22.320 the first twelve kilometers of a trip by ten percent. 0:48:22.560 --> 0:48:24.160 But this is what really jumps out at me, and 0:48:24.200 --> 0:48:28.320 nobody's reporting this. They're recommending a trial of fixed taxi 0:48:28.360 --> 0:48:32.320 fares from Sydney Airport to the CBD and their suggestion 0:48:32.560 --> 0:48:36.560 is a sixty dollars flat rate taxi fare if you're 0:48:36.600 --> 0:48:39.680 trying to get into the CBD. Now, usually if I've 0:48:39.760 --> 0:48:41.560 caught a taxi from the airport. It's going back home, 0:48:41.600 --> 0:48:43.480 back to the Sutherlandshire. It's actually a lot more than 0:48:43.520 --> 0:48:47.239 sixty dollars. It would sixty dollars represent a saving for you. 0:48:47.360 --> 0:48:48.800 Let me know if you've caught a taxi from the 0:48:49.440 --> 0:48:52.000 airport back to the CBD in recent times, how much 0:48:52.000 --> 0:48:53.480 do you pay for a taxi or for that matter 0:48:53.520 --> 0:48:56.120 at uber So this is for taxis, it would be 0:48:56.200 --> 0:49:00.480 a fixed rate sixty dollars taxi fare between the airport 0:49:00.719 --> 0:49:03.840 and the CBD. You want to know what's. 0:49:03.600 --> 0:49:07.040 Happening in Sydney, Stay tuned to sit me out with 0:49:07.200 --> 0:49:09.880 Glenton on to gb. 0:49:10.000 --> 0:49:12.520 Hello, Henrik, Hey, Kenc. 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:16.080 I just want to highlight that when everybody's mentioning the 0:49:16.200 --> 0:49:19.239 thirty two dollars increase for minimum ways, that. 0:49:19.320 --> 0:49:22.680 That is before tax, so there's probably even less left 0:49:22.719 --> 0:49:25.640 after tax i. Do realize that level of tax at 0:49:25.680 --> 0:49:26.799 that very good point. 0:49:26.840 --> 0:49:28.880 One of our listeners that did the calculation to be 0:49:28.880 --> 0:49:30.920 about five dollars seventy five in tax. 0:49:31.840 --> 0:49:34.640 Right, Okay, that's good. Thanks for your program. I love it. 0:49:34.680 --> 0:49:37.439 Thank you, Henrik. Yes, you'll certainly won't get thirty two 0:49:37.480 --> 0:49:40.000 dollars take home, just talking about prices. I asked that 0:49:40.080 --> 0:49:43.959 question a little earlier Cheap Tuesday? Does Cheap Tuesday still 0:49:43.960 --> 0:49:47.839 exist at the cinemas well? Rosemary says absolutely, you still 0:49:47.880 --> 0:49:50.560 find cheap movie tickets on a Thursday. Mark says in 0:49:50.600 --> 0:49:53.520 Campbelltown you can get go to the movies for right 0:49:53.520 --> 0:49:57.040 dollars fifty on a Tuesday. Elizabeth says, if you're a 0:49:57.080 --> 0:50:00.520 Telstra customer, tel Stree users can buy a movie tickets. 0:50:01.080 --> 0:50:03.719 I knew some points as well. We saw Mission Impossible 0:50:03.719 --> 0:50:06.480 for three dollars forty? Was it worth seeing Mission Impossible 0:50:06.520 --> 0:50:09.080 for three dollars forty? I heard it had some bad reviews. 0:50:09.520 --> 0:50:17.640 Gone to the chapel, Gone again? Mary Well, the Prime Minister, 0:50:17.719 --> 0:50:20.840 says he's now narrowed down the date when he'll finally 0:50:20.880 --> 0:50:26.640 get married to his fiance Jody. Jody and Albow were 0:50:26.680 --> 0:50:29.719 engaged back in February twenty twenty four, so we're now 0:50:29.800 --> 0:50:32.279 midway through twenty twenty five. That's a long engagement, isn't 0:50:32.280 --> 0:50:34.719 it eighteen months? What's the stand? Is there a rule? 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:36.759 Is there a rule how long you're engaged? I'm just 0:50:36.760 --> 0:50:39.759 trying to think when I did it? Not in six months? 0:50:39.760 --> 0:50:42.799 For us twenty years ago. I guess the PM has 0:50:42.800 --> 0:50:44.440 been a little bit busy. He's had an election to 0:50:44.440 --> 0:50:47.759 deal with and he's done a few overseas trips over 0:50:47.800 --> 0:50:51.040 that time as well. But he has confirmed today he's 0:50:51.360 --> 0:50:54.040 been getting closer to the date. He says he held 0:50:54.040 --> 0:50:55.960 off planning the wedding because of the May three election. 0:50:56.080 --> 0:50:59.000 I deliberately did not get ahead of myself, so from 0:50:59.040 --> 0:51:01.880 May three and beyond and I had a blank diary. 0:51:02.560 --> 0:51:07.080 He said he had considered seriously eloping on Valentine's Day. 0:51:07.600 --> 0:51:10.240 There's then been the question of what sort of honeymoon 0:51:10.280 --> 0:51:12.600 he's going to go on. He said had the result 0:51:12.680 --> 0:51:16.680 of the federal election gone a different way he lost, 0:51:16.760 --> 0:51:18.160 he would have had a lot of time to plan. 0:51:18.160 --> 0:51:20.080 He probably would have gone the two month honeymoon, but 0:51:20.160 --> 0:51:22.359 he says we're now trying to find just a couple 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:24.520 of weeks because I reckon that'd be fairer for the 0:51:24.600 --> 0:51:28.160 Australian people. 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In Australia, the average engagement 0:52:40.719 --> 0:52:44.680 period generally falls between twelve months and eighteen months, so 0:52:45.360 --> 0:52:48.399 elbows a little bit late like that. Marian's just sent 0:52:48.480 --> 0:52:51.000 her best wishes via the text message. I'm sure Albo 0:52:51.120 --> 0:52:53.680 is very happy to hear your best wishes, Marion one 0:52:53.719 --> 0:52:57.160 three one eight seven three. So taxi fares between the 0:52:57.200 --> 0:53:00.239 CBD and the airport or airport and CBD is a 0:53:00.280 --> 0:53:03.800 proposal from IPART, the independent regulator, to have a fixed price, 0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:06.120 and this would be the first time this happens in Sydney. 0:53:06.120 --> 0:53:08.759 There is no fixed price taxi service in Sydney, and 0:53:08.800 --> 0:53:14.680 it would be sixty dollars get a matte. Yeah, Clint, Hi, 0:53:14.960 --> 0:53:16.960 do you think a sixty dollar fixed price is a 0:53:16.960 --> 0:53:17.440 good idea? 0:53:18.360 --> 0:53:19.840 I think it's a great idea and they do it 0:53:19.840 --> 0:53:22.000 in other countries as well. When you arrived there, they 0:53:22.000 --> 0:53:25.040 have fixed rates to CBD. I mean part of the 0:53:25.080 --> 0:53:28.320 issue is it's the inconsistencies. And I've had friends visiting 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:31.440 who paid anywhere between sixty to one hundred dollars from 0:53:31.480 --> 0:53:34.799 the airport to the CBD. And this is also driven 0:53:34.840 --> 0:53:37.759 by the fact there's so many different taxi companies, so 0:53:37.800 --> 0:53:40.120 when you look at Uber, you know exactly what you're. 0:53:39.960 --> 0:53:40.359 Going to pay. 0:53:40.440 --> 0:53:42.400 People get on there and I came out of the 0:53:42.440 --> 0:53:44.960 airport yesterday, there was a long line of taxis and 0:53:45.000 --> 0:53:47.239 everyone's waiting for ubers. So I think they need to 0:53:47.239 --> 0:53:49.480 do something or it's really going to hurt them in 0:53:49.520 --> 0:53:50.000 the long run. 0:53:50.120 --> 0:53:52.200 And certainly if you travel overseas, you got to go 0:53:52.239 --> 0:53:55.520 to Indonesia, you're told don't go with a fixed price 0:53:55.560 --> 0:53:57.359 taxi because you're going to get ripped off. Make sure 0:53:57.360 --> 0:53:58.480 the meat is actually running. 0:54:00.160 --> 0:54:02.200 Yeah, well that's right, And I think you know, there's 0:54:02.239 --> 0:54:07.000 other share right companies in different different cities as well 0:54:07.000 --> 0:54:09.960 around the world. But if you go to some countries, 0:54:10.000 --> 0:54:12.560 and particularly even in the US, you'll see, you know, 0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:15.200 downtown to San Francisco, it will be a set rate 0:54:15.560 --> 0:54:17.200 and you can just jump in that taxi and you 0:54:17.239 --> 0:54:19.680 know you're going to pay twenty thirty fifty. But what 0:54:19.800 --> 0:54:22.160 are the services do you ever take on where you 0:54:22.200 --> 0:54:24.560 don't know what you're going to pay until you get there. 0:54:24.680 --> 0:54:27.160 That's the problem that the taxi industry has. 0:54:27.400 --> 0:54:29.560 I caught a tax i. Don't catch taxis a lot, 0:54:29.560 --> 0:54:31.759 but I caught a taxi back from the airport to 0:54:31.800 --> 0:54:33.759 my place. Must been late last year. May was when 0:54:33.760 --> 0:54:36.560 I come back from the Olympic games arrived at my destination, 0:54:36.760 --> 0:54:38.600 my house, and you know this is on a trip 0:54:38.640 --> 0:54:41.680 back from Europe, so you're pretty tired. And the card 0:54:41.719 --> 0:54:43.520 that I was going to use, which was a company 0:54:43.520 --> 0:54:45.759 cab charge, you wouldn't accept it. And it was like 0:54:45.760 --> 0:54:47.640 a of course, I had no idea how much the 0:54:47.680 --> 0:54:48.919 cost was going to be. Think it was one hundred 0:54:48.920 --> 0:54:50.960 and thirty dollars. And so when they don't accept the 0:54:51.000 --> 0:54:52.960 card that you're trying to use, that's a shock. 0:54:54.400 --> 0:54:56.320 Yeah, and you have to watch them too, because sometimes 0:54:56.360 --> 0:54:58.520 they put a tip on at the end and they 0:54:58.600 --> 0:55:01.120 just then push it through, so you really don't know 0:55:01.600 --> 0:55:02.480 what you're going to pay. 0:55:02.920 --> 0:55:04.600 Good point, Matt, thank you for your call on the 0:55:04.640 --> 0:55:07.120 text line. A recent trip from Barrangaro station to the 0:55:07.160 --> 0:55:09.799 Shangrila hotel in the city, so that's only a short 0:55:09.800 --> 0:55:11.879 trip via d D which is one of the ride 0:55:11.880 --> 0:55:15.040 sharing services, cost seven dollars twenty three, but the return 0:55:15.120 --> 0:55:19.000 journey Shangrilaud of Barranguru station taken in the traditional taxi 0:55:19.120 --> 0:55:22.840 was twenty six dollars thirty two. The start contrast in 0:55:22.880 --> 0:55:25.840 pricing for essentially the same route it raises concerns about 0:55:25.840 --> 0:55:29.560 fair transparency and potential price gouging word on the street. 0:55:29.600 --> 0:55:31.560 We bring you word on the street thanks to Temper 0:55:31.840 --> 0:55:34.360 a great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is Temper. 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:36.880 If there's something you'd like us to investigate, our best 0:55:36.880 --> 0:55:39.040 Word on the Street every week goes into the drawer 0:55:39.120 --> 0:55:42.280 to win two Temper Primer cooling pillows worth six hundred 0:55:42.280 --> 0:55:45.840 dollars every Friday. And the issue that dominated our program 0:55:45.920 --> 0:55:50.200 late last week about wastewater stormwater drains was based on 0:55:50.239 --> 0:55:52.120 a word on the Street tip. One of our listeners, 0:55:52.160 --> 0:55:55.880 Andrew in Leppington, contacted us and he'd used his Bobcat 0:55:55.920 --> 0:55:58.640 to clean out a stormwater drain in Lippington. And this 0:55:58.680 --> 0:56:00.600 is during the downpour of now a couple of weeks ago. 0:56:00.960 --> 0:56:04.400 That saved his neighbour's house from flooding. And his neighbor's 0:56:04.440 --> 0:56:07.359 house has flooded previously because of a block stormwater drain. 0:56:07.680 --> 0:56:10.000 That's the responsibility of the council. And so what did 0:56:10.000 --> 0:56:13.319 the council do. They threatened to have him charged by 0:56:13.360 --> 0:56:16.440 the police for using the Bobcat illegally, and we're then 0:56:16.440 --> 0:56:18.800 going to send him a bill to remove the debris 0:56:18.840 --> 0:56:21.799 that he pulled out of their stormwater drain and left 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:26.520 on the council strip well. Thankfully, hopefully because we've drawn 0:56:26.520 --> 0:56:29.200 some attention to this, he hasn't received that bill yet. 0:56:29.760 --> 0:56:32.040 Now I know that Todd Carney, the mayor of Penrith, 0:56:32.040 --> 0:56:34.560 wasn't keen to come on the program. Hopefully they've made 0:56:34.560 --> 0:56:36.880 that decision. We won't send the bill because Andrew has 0:56:36.920 --> 0:56:39.560 not received yet, which is good. But I've just received 0:56:39.600 --> 0:56:42.399 so much feedback across the past couple of days about 0:56:42.520 --> 0:56:46.240 stormwater issues in local government areas across New South Wales. 0:56:46.640 --> 0:56:50.640 It is just astonishingly how bad local councils manage this problem. 0:56:50.800 --> 0:56:53.959 Sydney does not handle rain well and it doesn't help 0:56:54.040 --> 0:56:57.520 when local councils don't take responsibility for maintenance. This was 0:56:57.640 --> 0:56:59.560 a message from one of our listeners who works in 0:56:59.560 --> 0:57:02.880 the plumbing trade, who tells me with housing developments the 0:57:02.920 --> 0:57:06.399 way housing developments now often built, they're built to maximize 0:57:06.680 --> 0:57:08.680 the building, the size of the building on the block 0:57:08.680 --> 0:57:12.440 of land, and then not enough is done to manage stormwater. 0:57:13.040 --> 0:57:17.320 And particularly in big developments where we're talking major unit developments, 0:57:17.360 --> 0:57:20.160 you have common areas and then a common stormwater system 0:57:20.440 --> 0:57:24.200 and technically councils would usually maintain these, but councils then 0:57:24.240 --> 0:57:28.320 put back the responsibility to the property owner. Stormwater is 0:57:28.360 --> 0:57:30.880 often now set up under easements under the blocks, and 0:57:30.920 --> 0:57:34.160 there are big square pits that residents now have to maintain, 0:57:34.520 --> 0:57:37.480 not the council. And because it's share property, then sometimes 0:57:37.480 --> 0:57:41.320 those stormwater pits are not maintained. My listener told me 0:57:41.360 --> 0:57:43.880 about one of these pits filling up with debris from 0:57:43.960 --> 0:57:47.400 multiple homes. The council says, it's not our problem. Then 0:57:47.400 --> 0:57:52.120 household insurance wouldn't cover damage caused by flooding because they 0:57:52.520 --> 0:57:56.640 the residents did not maintain the stormwater pit. My listener said, 0:57:56.680 --> 0:57:58.680 as a result of this system, where bigger buildings are 0:57:58.680 --> 0:58:01.080 being constructed on land, it makes more money for the 0:58:01.120 --> 0:58:05.000 developer by building something that's larger, more money for the 0:58:05.040 --> 0:58:07.720 state government through stamp duty, more money for the council 0:58:07.760 --> 0:58:10.680 through rates. Yet none of these various levels of government 0:58:10.720 --> 0:58:13.680 take any responsibility for cleaning out the store water drains. 0:58:14.080 --> 0:58:16.200 Another one of our listeners, James James, has been in 0:58:16.240 --> 0:58:17.680 contact with me over the past few days. 0:58:17.680 --> 0:58:17.919 Now. 0:58:18.640 --> 0:58:21.120 Some years ago, he invented what he believes is a 0:58:21.160 --> 0:58:24.760 solution to stormwater drain problems. It is a new design 0:58:24.800 --> 0:58:26.640 for a drain. He actually sent me a picture of 0:58:26.680 --> 0:58:30.320 this today and it's just to describe. But where you 0:58:30.360 --> 0:58:32.880 have a gutter and a drain. In a gutter, there's 0:58:32.880 --> 0:58:36.280 a gap between the road and the drain and so 0:58:36.400 --> 0:58:39.920 what James has come up with is a vertical grill. 0:58:40.400 --> 0:58:42.360 It's a little like the front of a car grill 0:58:42.760 --> 0:58:44.840 and he says it can be made of plastic. It's 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:48.240 attached with two bolts and this vertical grill then prevents 0:58:48.520 --> 0:58:52.080 the debris getting into the stormwater drain. Now, James has 0:58:52.080 --> 0:58:54.560 been in contact with different levels of government for decades. 0:58:54.600 --> 0:58:56.760 In fact, when Tim Moore was the Minister for the Environment, 0:58:56.800 --> 0:59:00.000 I think back in the grind of fe government days. 0:59:00.000 --> 0:59:02.080 He has made contact. He's made contact with Clove Moore's 0:59:02.120 --> 0:59:05.120 council and nothing. They don't seem to be interested. And 0:59:05.160 --> 0:59:07.840 he says this is a simple invention. The wooden't cost 0:59:07.880 --> 0:59:09.800 a lot because it's just plastic, but it would prevent 0:59:09.920 --> 0:59:12.680 debris getting into the store water drain. But nothing. The 0:59:12.680 --> 0:59:16.360 authorities don't listen. Well, Sydney does not cope well with 0:59:16.400 --> 0:59:19.120 heavy downpours. We saw so much of it last week 0:59:19.360 --> 0:59:22.640 and no one wants to take responsibility. It's time that 0:59:22.760 --> 0:59:29.720 changed on Sydney. Now you can't handle the true, the 0:59:30.080 --> 0:59:34.440 straight shint, straight shooters. For a Tuesday Afternoon we feature 0:59:34.440 --> 0:59:37.280 our poly's Liberal senator in New South Wales, outgoing Liberal 0:59:37.360 --> 0:59:38.600 Senator the Holy Hughes, Hello. 0:59:38.360 --> 0:59:40.439 Holy, Hey Clinton, how are you going? 0:59:40.560 --> 0:59:44.640 And the Labour MP for mcquarie, Susan Temperman, Hello Susan, Hello, 0:59:44.720 --> 0:59:47.320 good stee with big political issue of the last couple 0:59:47.320 --> 0:59:50.840 of days has been the defection of Dorinda Cox, the 0:59:50.960 --> 0:59:54.080 Greens Senator, to the Labor Party. And just from the outset, 0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.760 and I've said this when Lydia Thorpe, for instance, became 0:59:57.800 --> 1:00:02.360 an independent, when Corey Bernardi left the Liberals, I think 1:00:02.400 --> 1:00:04.720 it is morally wrong and I actually think we should 1:00:04.760 --> 1:00:06.520 change the laws that if somebody is elected in the 1:00:06.560 --> 1:00:10.160 Senate they stay with that party or they resigned from parliament, 1:00:10.160 --> 1:00:13.160 because when politicians are elected on the Senate ticket, it's 1:00:13.240 --> 1:00:16.000 usually above the line. People usually vote for the party, 1:00:16.080 --> 1:00:18.480 not the individual. In the main I think it is 1:00:18.560 --> 1:00:21.720 morally wrong that they stay in parliament. What do you think, Holly. 1:00:22.360 --> 1:00:25.000 I think there's a real problem with people getting elected 1:00:25.080 --> 1:00:28.360 under a particular banner and then defecting. And I think 1:00:28.400 --> 1:00:32.600 the hypocrisy has grudged large from the Labor Party after 1:00:32.680 --> 1:00:34.880 the behavior that we saw from them in the Senate, 1:00:35.280 --> 1:00:38.520 the treatment of Fadom of Payman when she left the 1:00:38.600 --> 1:00:41.920 party to go sit on the cross bench, the moral 1:00:42.560 --> 1:00:48.320 outrage demonstrated by the Labor Party, and now within weeks 1:00:48.320 --> 1:00:52.640 of an election, within weeks of being unsuccessful at attempting 1:00:52.720 --> 1:00:56.640 to be the deputy Leader of the Greens, Durinda Cox 1:00:56.800 --> 1:00:59.680 is welcomed by the Prime Minister with open arms. I mean, 1:00:59.680 --> 1:01:03.680 this is someone who clearly doesn't have any true convictions 1:01:03.760 --> 1:01:06.360 or the elites. Because it was in the lead up 1:01:06.400 --> 1:01:10.160 to the election that Senator Cox was very vocal about 1:01:10.440 --> 1:01:14.600 the Northwest Shelf and opposing that. And you know, at 1:01:14.720 --> 1:01:17.560 least if you're a backbencher in the coalition, you actually 1:01:17.560 --> 1:01:21.080 have the freedom to speak out on issues if you disagree. 1:01:21.440 --> 1:01:25.240 That doesn't exist in later and Senator Cox is now 1:01:25.360 --> 1:01:28.480 very supportive of the extension to the Northwest Shelf, which 1:01:28.680 --> 1:01:33.240 personally she's had some great sensible conversion to actually ensuring 1:01:33.320 --> 1:01:36.400 we have energy security in this country rather than chasing 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:40.680 unicorn farming dreams. Fantastic, but somehow I don't think that's 1:01:40.720 --> 1:01:41.120 the case. 1:01:41.160 --> 1:01:43.040 And I should point out she wasn't up for election 1:01:43.280 --> 1:01:45.400 in the election we've just gone through in May. She 1:01:45.520 --> 1:01:48.040 is serving. She's midway through a six year term. Senators 1:01:48.040 --> 1:01:50.920 have six years terms, but she was elected as agreed, 1:01:51.000 --> 1:01:53.560 she's previously been a Labor member. I should point out 1:01:53.960 --> 1:01:56.680 it's very different when we elect the politician like yourself, 1:01:56.720 --> 1:01:59.120 Susan in the lower House, because technically, I know a 1:01:59.120 --> 1:02:00.760 lot of people do vote on party lines, but we 1:02:00.800 --> 1:02:03.720 do vote for the individual. So if you, for instance, Susan, 1:02:03.720 --> 1:02:06.880 were to abandon the Labor Party and become an independent, 1:02:07.280 --> 1:02:09.600 I think ethically that would be that would be okay. 1:02:10.040 --> 1:02:12.160 But the reality is most of us when we vote 1:02:12.160 --> 1:02:14.600 in the Senate vote above the line, so we're voting 1:02:14.600 --> 1:02:17.200 for a party ticket. So from the labor side, how 1:02:17.240 --> 1:02:19.920 can it be justified that Derinda does this. 1:02:21.200 --> 1:02:22.040 Well, look, I. 1:02:21.960 --> 1:02:24.280 Think we're splitting hairs. But just for the record, I 1:02:24.280 --> 1:02:26.840 would never move from being a labor person to being 1:02:26.920 --> 1:02:31.240 anything else. Just want to close that one off. We 1:02:31.240 --> 1:02:37.520 welcome people who having worked with Labor senators in the Senate. Obviously, 1:02:37.680 --> 1:02:41.640 Derinda has seen from experience how you make a difference. 1:02:41.680 --> 1:02:42.560 She has another that. 1:02:42.600 --> 1:02:45.840 She was voted as a Green. What the Green's voters 1:02:45.840 --> 1:02:47.120 now aren't represented by her. 1:02:48.080 --> 1:02:51.520 Well, she has another three years, and she was voted 1:02:51.560 --> 1:02:55.920 in to represent a state. More than anything. She's there 1:02:55.960 --> 1:02:59.280 to represent a state, and she's made a decision about 1:02:59.560 --> 1:03:02.959 how can she can make the biggest contribution, and she's 1:03:03.080 --> 1:03:07.080 determined that she can do that within government more effectively 1:03:07.440 --> 1:03:09.640 than a member of a protest pastor. 1:03:09.920 --> 1:03:13.040 Well, Holly, you're an outgoing senator. Holly, you're an outgoing senator. 1:03:13.120 --> 1:03:15.720 Do you think people were voting for you personally or 1:03:15.760 --> 1:03:18.080 the Liberal Party or the coalition ticket as it would 1:03:18.120 --> 1:03:19.120 have been in your case. 1:03:19.280 --> 1:03:22.320 Well, they were voting for the coalition ticket. And I 1:03:22.440 --> 1:03:26.080 was always aware that I was a Liberal senator by 1:03:26.120 --> 1:03:30.280 the grace of the Liberal Party. I was one of, 1:03:30.680 --> 1:03:33.400 in fact, very few people. We had a number of 1:03:33.400 --> 1:03:35.919 cross benches as we came into the last election where 1:03:35.920 --> 1:03:38.920 people had been unsuccessful in pre selection or for whatever 1:03:39.000 --> 1:03:41.840 regisent had taken them outside of the party they were 1:03:41.840 --> 1:03:45.120 elected to serve. I did not do that. I didn't 1:03:45.120 --> 1:03:48.320 make that decision. And I'm not saying there weren't opportunities 1:03:48.320 --> 1:03:51.720 for me to do things, but I've always believed you've 1:03:51.720 --> 1:03:54.080 got to dance with the one that brung you. And 1:03:54.240 --> 1:03:57.560 I was a Liberal senator because of the Liberal Party. 1:03:57.960 --> 1:04:02.000 I mean, I am please please me on when Susan 1:04:02.600 --> 1:04:07.320 you know, is now lauding the defection of Senator Cox 1:04:07.760 --> 1:04:11.520 after we know there were significant claims of bullying. 1:04:11.200 --> 1:04:12.640 From her staff. 1:04:12.720 --> 1:04:18.800 There was investigations and inquiries on going around those bullying allegations, 1:04:18.880 --> 1:04:20.080 the staff turnover. 1:04:20.360 --> 1:04:21.520 There was much. 1:04:21.960 --> 1:04:25.960 Being made about the way Senator Cox ran her office 1:04:26.320 --> 1:04:28.800 and now the Prime Minister in the Labor Party is 1:04:28.880 --> 1:04:31.919 working in her with open arms. Well, I don't think 1:04:31.960 --> 1:04:35.200 that sends a very positive message to those staffers that 1:04:35.320 --> 1:04:36.520 had made those allegations. 1:04:36.560 --> 1:04:39.600 Well, Susan, how did your colleagues feel? We know what 1:04:39.640 --> 1:04:41.920 we've heard on the grape vine, but how did they 1:04:42.120 --> 1:04:44.040 and some public comments, but how did they feel in 1:04:44.080 --> 1:04:46.880 the party room when Senator the Payment left the Labor Party. 1:04:47.960 --> 1:04:52.040 Oh, we were really disappointed to lose someone like some 1:04:52.240 --> 1:04:56.520 of the payman who bought a really diverse perspective to 1:04:56.600 --> 1:04:59.680 the Parliament. So you know, we are we're a party 1:04:59.760 --> 1:05:02.960 that welcomes people from all walks of life and a 1:05:02.960 --> 1:05:06.120 whole lot of women do choose our party you know, 1:05:06.200 --> 1:05:09.880 right now, with Derinda's joining the party, we must be 1:05:09.920 --> 1:05:13.440 getting closer to sixty percent of female representation in our 1:05:13.480 --> 1:05:16.440 party room than the sort of fifty six percent fifty 1:05:16.480 --> 1:05:20.040 seven percent that we were. So look, we have all 1:05:20.120 --> 1:05:24.920 welcomed Denda's decision. We're really pleased when someone sees the 1:05:25.040 --> 1:05:28.280 light and can see that Labor has not only been 1:05:28.400 --> 1:05:31.400 a good government for its first term, but has really 1:05:31.440 --> 1:05:36.520 ambitious plans which include protecting the environment but making sure 1:05:36.600 --> 1:05:39.760 that the rules that we have give business a clear 1:05:39.840 --> 1:05:43.040 message on how they can do the essential developments that 1:05:43.080 --> 1:05:47.280 we need, but also provide better protections for the environment 1:05:47.320 --> 1:05:48.520 for future generations. 1:05:48.640 --> 1:05:50.160 Well, I just I actually think we need to change 1:05:50.160 --> 1:05:52.400 the rules. I think it is really wrong. And look, 1:05:52.440 --> 1:05:55.760 the saying goes for conservatives. Corey Benardi did it as 1:05:55.800 --> 1:05:57.600 well to the Liberal Party. I think it's really wrong 1:05:57.640 --> 1:05:59.880 when someone's elected, particularly in the Senate, to then jumps 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:04.080 on to the next issue. Andrew Bragg, one of your colleagues, Holly, 1:06:04.560 --> 1:06:06.520 has done a bit of a backflip on the work 1:06:06.560 --> 1:06:10.680 from home issue. He's become a champion of work from home. 1:06:11.000 --> 1:06:13.880 Disagrees it would seem that would change him. What's your view, 1:06:13.920 --> 1:06:15.720 do you think work from home is the future, and 1:06:15.760 --> 1:06:17.800 do you think the Liberal Party should never be fully supportive. 1:06:18.600 --> 1:06:22.280 Look, I think what Senator Bragg was talking about was 1:06:22.400 --> 1:06:27.880 looking at ways that we can boost productivity and everything needs. 1:06:27.640 --> 1:06:28.880 To be on the table. 1:06:29.360 --> 1:06:32.959 And the reality is we've seen a increase in pay 1:06:33.040 --> 1:06:38.640 rates today above inflation for for low income earners. But 1:06:38.800 --> 1:06:42.280 it is also a pay rate that has increased higher 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:45.720 than productivity, which we are seeing in decline. And so 1:06:45.880 --> 1:06:49.600 particularly for small businesses that are now going to have 1:06:49.840 --> 1:06:56.440 larger wage impacts, they're going to need to see greater productivity. 1:06:56.480 --> 1:06:59.480 So whatever is able to produce that will help our 1:06:59.480 --> 1:07:02.720 economy grow. And I know that you know labour are 1:07:02.720 --> 1:07:04.760 going to say, isn't this great these low work If 1:07:05.200 --> 1:07:07.920 low income earners are getting a pay rise, well, if 1:07:07.960 --> 1:07:11.240 you're working at McDonald's and someone that's going to get 1:07:11.240 --> 1:07:14.600 this pay rise, working from home isn't an option for you. 1:07:15.080 --> 1:07:17.400 So a lot of these low income earners are actually 1:07:17.440 --> 1:07:20.280 not the people that benefit from working from home policies. 1:07:20.720 --> 1:07:24.000 That's me need to make sure they're not being conflated. 1:07:24.440 --> 1:07:26.800 The people that benefit from work from home are quite 1:07:26.800 --> 1:07:30.240 often in corporate, white collar jobs. It's not the doctors, 1:07:30.240 --> 1:07:32.240 it's not the nurses, it's not the teachers, it's not 1:07:32.240 --> 1:07:35.120 the police and fire brigades that are able to do that, 1:07:35.800 --> 1:07:39.240 and it's not low worker low income owners in the 1:07:39.240 --> 1:07:40.280 hospitality sector. 1:07:40.440 --> 1:07:42.440 I suspect after the election that work from home in 1:07:42.440 --> 1:07:44.960 the future actually won't be a political issue. 1:07:45.000 --> 1:07:48.600 What do you think, Susan, It shouldn't be a political issue. 1:07:48.720 --> 1:07:50.080 I mean people should. 1:07:49.760 --> 1:07:52.360 Work in a way that they are most productive. And 1:07:52.640 --> 1:07:55.800 when you've got people like the ones I represent in 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:59.160 the Blue Mountains for Hooksbury, who getting to an office 1:07:59.200 --> 1:08:01.600 can mean travel for one and a half to two 1:08:01.600 --> 1:08:07.880 hours each way, then clearly you get massive benefits in productivity. 1:08:07.960 --> 1:08:11.680 You get people are feeling less tired when they're at work. 1:08:11.680 --> 1:08:14.520 You get people who are relishing the idea that they 1:08:14.560 --> 1:08:16.680 can might be able to get out, pick up a 1:08:16.760 --> 1:08:19.800 kid from school, drop them to something, and still through 1:08:19.800 --> 1:08:24.599 the workhouse that are involved. So you know, the Liberals 1:08:24.640 --> 1:08:27.120 are all over the shop on these issues. I think 1:08:27.160 --> 1:08:29.519 what's interesting is there was this commitment by the leader 1:08:29.560 --> 1:08:31.920 that they're going to review all the policies, they're not 1:08:31.960 --> 1:08:34.680 going to take positions on anything, and here we are 1:08:34.840 --> 1:08:38.160 a week or so later different shadow ministers starting to 1:08:38.200 --> 1:08:43.599 pick policies that they're backing in. So it's obviously it's 1:08:43.600 --> 1:08:44.120 a shamble. 1:08:44.520 --> 1:08:46.599 Now a sad day for you, Holly. You've been cleaning 1:08:46.640 --> 1:08:49.360 out your desk the next election, you've been cleaning out 1:08:49.400 --> 1:08:50.280 your disk in camera. 1:08:51.120 --> 1:08:54.799 I have my office in Canberra has now been cleared. 1:08:56.439 --> 1:08:58.040 It's everything's in boxes. 1:08:58.800 --> 1:09:01.479 Were you're a politician, your MP, are you allowed to 1:09:01.520 --> 1:09:04.080 have an untidy disc Oh? 1:09:04.200 --> 1:09:07.479 I think I mean for me personally, it would start 1:09:07.560 --> 1:09:11.360 with excellent intents at bang or tidy and organized, and 1:09:11.520 --> 1:09:14.080 give it about four hours into a sitting week and 1:09:14.120 --> 1:09:19.000 I there would be different inquiries or committee reports or 1:09:19.400 --> 1:09:22.960 folders with meeting briefing notes or whatever it might be 1:09:23.000 --> 1:09:26.200 started to pile up. So I think you start the 1:09:26.240 --> 1:09:29.280 week looking pretty good. You try and finish the week 1:09:29.320 --> 1:09:32.599 with it tied it up, but the in between it's 1:09:32.640 --> 1:09:33.040 so good. 1:09:33.080 --> 1:09:35.360 Sometimes if you've ever had to clean out of desk, suson, 1:09:35.400 --> 1:09:37.120 what's the strangest thing you've ever found? 1:09:38.840 --> 1:09:41.240 Not strange so much, but other thinking about Holly, I'm 1:09:41.280 --> 1:09:44.120 thinking about the things that would matter to me. I 1:09:44.200 --> 1:09:46.640 have I drank my tea out of mugs that my 1:09:46.720 --> 1:09:49.439 local schools have given me. So this morning I had 1:09:49.479 --> 1:09:52.960 courage on public school. I got Panola Catholic College right now. 1:09:53.760 --> 1:09:55.680 And it's that sort of stuff. I think if you 1:09:55.720 --> 1:09:58.640 were packing up a desk that had really, you know, 1:09:58.760 --> 1:10:01.080 tunts the heartstrings, because I love going to our school 1:10:01.120 --> 1:10:02.240 than Hollywood, be the same. 1:10:03.200 --> 1:10:03.439 Look. 1:10:03.720 --> 1:10:05.960 Can I tell you there's a present going to a 1:10:06.040 --> 1:10:08.960 colleague of mine who's unaware. He will get it in 1:10:09.000 --> 1:10:13.120 the internal mail. But I was gifted some whips for 1:10:13.400 --> 1:10:18.439 whip cracking whips, yeah to you know, which I cannot do. 1:10:19.400 --> 1:10:21.200 Years ago I tried and I ended up with some 1:10:21.280 --> 1:10:22.200 nice welts on my pew. 1:10:22.280 --> 1:10:24.240 You're telling me there's politicians that are walking around Putman 1:10:24.280 --> 1:10:25.160 House cracking the whip. 1:10:25.640 --> 1:10:27.280 I had two whips in my office. 1:10:27.360 --> 1:10:29.280 They're very high quality whips. 1:10:29.479 --> 1:10:32.600 And a friend of mine, one of my colleagues in 1:10:32.640 --> 1:10:35.599 the Senate, has one of the more interesting offices of 1:10:36.120 --> 1:10:39.360 little knick knacks and a coach Chremonts that he's acquired. 1:10:38.880 --> 1:10:39.599 Over the years. 1:10:39.640 --> 1:10:42.040 So I've written him a little note and they'll be 1:10:42.080 --> 1:10:44.840 waiting for him in his inbox. He doesn't know they're coming. 1:10:44.920 --> 1:10:47.320 Well, of course, each party does have formerly a position 1:10:47.680 --> 1:10:50.360 of the whip. The person who had zeb Brown keeps 1:10:50.400 --> 1:10:51.840 them in line and gets them into the chamber. On 1:10:51.880 --> 1:10:54.360 tom you'll have to give them the whip. Thank you, Holly, 1:10:54.439 --> 1:10:56.400 thank you. Susan now whip on birthday. 1:10:56.520 --> 1:10:58.320 I did think of keeping one for her. 1:10:59.080 --> 1:11:01.640 Susan teen and the Hughes our straight shooters for a 1:11:01.680 --> 1:11:05.040 Tuesday afternoon. Holy put your whip away. 1:11:05.080 --> 1:11:12.360 Come on, this is Sydney now with Clinton on to. 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:15.360 GB seven past five dark across Sydney now and it's 1:11:15.400 --> 1:11:17.640 a very difficult afternoon on the roads. As you've heard 1:11:17.680 --> 1:11:20.680 with Steve paramounta Road Rawson Street, Auburn, there's been a 1:11:20.720 --> 1:11:24.439 motorcycle crash. Two out of the three eastbound lanes are closed. 1:11:24.640 --> 1:11:29.000 The paramedics believe it's involved, Yes, a motorcycle and a car. 1:11:29.160 --> 1:11:31.799 A male patient is now being assessed for a leg injury. 1:11:31.840 --> 1:11:35.200 But that's causing some traffic problems. Paramount of Road Rawson Street. 1:11:35.240 --> 1:11:38.320 It's affecting two out of the three eastbound lanes. There 1:11:38.360 --> 1:11:41.680 are still dramas unfortunately on the M five. Let's get 1:11:41.680 --> 1:11:43.720 the latest from Craig Moraine from Transport for the New 1:11:43.760 --> 1:11:45.960 South Wales. Get I, Craig, get a. 1:11:46.000 --> 1:11:47.879 Clinton and good afternoon to your listeners. 1:11:47.960 --> 1:11:50.640 Okay, so the westbound lanes have been open ow for 1:11:50.680 --> 1:11:53.600 several hours following the train of the crane crash a 1:11:53.600 --> 1:11:55.759 little early, but the eastbound lane still closed. 1:11:56.680 --> 1:12:00.280 Yeah, that's right, Clinton, just before three o'clock. We've got 1:12:00.280 --> 1:12:03.800 all westbound lanes open prior to the peak, but the 1:12:04.040 --> 1:12:08.240 eastbound lanes are still closed. We've had some engineers from 1:12:08.240 --> 1:12:11.160 West Connects on site there and there's some damage to 1:12:11.200 --> 1:12:14.120 the pavement, which means that has to be fixed before 1:12:14.160 --> 1:12:15.400 we can safely reopen. 1:12:15.840 --> 1:12:17.559 So the closure. 1:12:17.040 --> 1:12:19.360 Eastbound will remain from now. 1:12:19.320 --> 1:12:20.040 Into the night. 1:12:20.240 --> 1:12:22.840 Okay, so make sure we get it open before the 1:12:22.880 --> 1:12:23.799 amp tomorrow. 1:12:24.120 --> 1:12:26.280 The indication we had a few hours ago from the 1:12:26.320 --> 1:12:29.360 TMC was that it was likely would open during the peak. 1:12:29.400 --> 1:12:30.960 That's not possible. 1:12:30.560 --> 1:12:33.559 Now, yeah, look that's what we were working too. But 1:12:33.600 --> 1:12:37.120 we had to get the crane out of the way 1:12:37.200 --> 1:12:38.559 and we also had to get rid of some of 1:12:38.600 --> 1:12:40.519 the debris to get the engineers in there to have 1:12:40.560 --> 1:12:43.240 a look at the pavement. And because of the diesel 1:12:43.320 --> 1:12:46.639 and hydraulic floor that's spilt on the pavement, we can't 1:12:46.680 --> 1:12:48.719 safely reopen it until that's repaired. 1:12:48.960 --> 1:12:51.120 Okay. So is the plan now, because it was going 1:12:51.160 --> 1:12:54.120 to be reopened and then close again for some more work, 1:12:54.240 --> 1:12:55.960 is the plan that is to keep it closed throughout 1:12:55.960 --> 1:12:56.360 the evening. 1:12:57.040 --> 1:12:59.640 Yeah, that's exactly right. We were planning to close it 1:12:59.640 --> 1:13:02.760 again seven o'clock, but given you know that's only under 1:13:02.760 --> 1:13:05.960 two hours away, now we'll keep it closed to make 1:13:06.000 --> 1:13:08.080 sure we can get all of this repair work done 1:13:08.080 --> 1:13:10.240 and we can open it to people for the morning peak. 1:13:10.479 --> 1:13:12.880 You've had diversions that have been operating, and if our 1:13:12.880 --> 1:13:16.240 listeners follow the signpost D five is what you'll see 1:13:16.280 --> 1:13:19.679 on some signs. If you follow the D five signs, 1:13:19.720 --> 1:13:21.639 that's the diversion. How has that been operating? 1:13:22.439 --> 1:13:24.960 Look, you're right, the D five diversion route which takes 1:13:25.040 --> 1:13:28.840 down King George's Road and along Stony Creek Road, that's 1:13:28.880 --> 1:13:31.880 actually been working quite well this afternoon. And I think 1:13:31.920 --> 1:13:35.200 also you know, with the supporter yourselves, getting the message 1:13:35.240 --> 1:13:37.439 out to people to avoid the area, particularly when they're 1:13:37.520 --> 1:13:41.120 hitting eastbound, has helped. So people have gone other ways 1:13:41.160 --> 1:13:43.679 and also use the D five d tour route. 1:13:43.760 --> 1:13:46.320 We also had some reports about the radio system being down. 1:13:46.600 --> 1:13:48.679 Do you know what happened there and has it been rectified? 1:13:49.720 --> 1:13:52.320 Look, I don't know the full details. I'd heard about that, 1:13:52.360 --> 1:13:54.800 and it's quite possibly because we. 1:13:54.800 --> 1:13:57.000 Had the damage to the deluge. 1:13:56.520 --> 1:13:59.920 System or the sprinkler system in the tunnel, the crash 1:14:00.040 --> 1:14:02.479 could also have damaged from of the wiring as well. 1:14:02.840 --> 1:14:04.559 Are you confident the road's going to be open tomorrow 1:14:04.600 --> 1:14:07.120 morning for the peak, because obviously it's good that you've 1:14:07.120 --> 1:14:08.840 got westbound open because it's out of the city, but 1:14:09.000 --> 1:14:11.400 citybound tomorrow morning. If it's not operating by tomorrow morning, 1:14:11.439 --> 1:14:12.280 it's going to be a nightmare. 1:14:12.880 --> 1:14:15.439 If I could express it some other way, Clinton will 1:14:15.479 --> 1:14:17.439 move Hell and High Water to make sure that it's 1:14:17.439 --> 1:14:19.120 open for five o'clock in the morning. 1:14:19.240 --> 1:14:21.880 Okay, that'd be good, Craig. Just one last question. We've 1:14:21.920 --> 1:14:23.920 had a few inquiries about what the cause of the 1:14:24.520 --> 1:14:26.840 accident with the crane is. I know it's early days, 1:14:26.880 --> 1:14:27.960 but do you have any idea yet. 1:14:28.880 --> 1:14:31.400 Look, we don't have a real good idea. 1:14:31.560 --> 1:14:34.919 It's obviously been quite a significant impact because it's damaged 1:14:34.960 --> 1:14:38.519 some of the barriers and some of the wall paneling 1:14:38.520 --> 1:14:40.360 in the tunnel, as well as some of the plumbing 1:14:40.400 --> 1:14:41.479 for the delude system. 1:14:41.920 --> 1:14:44.200 What causes we don't know at this stage. 1:14:44.200 --> 1:14:46.040 Will leave it up to New South Wales police is 1:14:46.080 --> 1:14:47.320 part of their investigations. 1:14:47.560 --> 1:14:49.360 Okay, we'll certainly follow that over the next couple of days. 1:14:49.360 --> 1:14:49.920 Thank you, Craig. 1:14:50.520 --> 1:14:51.200 Thanks Clinton. 1:14:51.280 --> 1:14:53.439 Craig Moran from Transport for New South Wales. So it 1:14:53.520 --> 1:14:55.959 is a significant change to the plan there. The eastbound 1:14:56.040 --> 1:14:58.280 lanes were to reopen during the peak out, they will 1:14:58.280 --> 1:15:01.519 remain closed. They will remain closed a because of damage 1:15:01.520 --> 1:15:05.799 to the roadway. The Transport for New South Wales maintenance 1:15:05.800 --> 1:15:07.760 cruise will now use that as an opportunity to try 1:15:07.760 --> 1:15:10.080 and fix the sprinkler system but also the side walls. 1:15:10.160 --> 1:15:13.720 So Craig has given us as best he can and 1:15:13.800 --> 1:15:16.200 assurance that the aim is to reopen the road by 1:15:16.200 --> 1:15:18.640 five o'clock tomorrow morning. Let's hope that's the case. If 1:15:18.680 --> 1:15:21.360 we are without the M five tunnel in peak hour 1:15:21.439 --> 1:15:24.839 tomorrow morning heading into the city, the roads in Sydney 1:15:24.880 --> 1:15:27.800 are just going to be absolute chaos. So the plan 1:15:27.920 --> 1:15:31.200 is at the moment westbound remains open. It's operating, okay. 1:15:31.880 --> 1:15:34.880 The eastbound is closed, but hopefully it will be opened 1:15:34.920 --> 1:15:39.280 by tomorrow morning. Okay. The count in Bradfield, the recount 1:15:39.320 --> 1:15:41.720 has wrapped up for the day Giselle Captiri in up 1:15:41.720 --> 1:15:45.559 against the Teal Nicolete Buller, and it's Titan once again. 1:15:45.640 --> 1:15:48.800 But Nicolett Buller is now, when I say firmly in front. 1:15:48.840 --> 1:15:51.320 We are talking the Sydney of fifty six thousand votes 1:15:51.360 --> 1:15:54.639 in total for each candidate, Nicolett Buller is in front 1:15:54.680 --> 1:15:57.800 by twenty six votes. Very much to turn around from 1:15:57.840 --> 1:16:01.559 this time yesterday afternoon. The understanding now from the AEC 1:16:01.920 --> 1:16:05.400 is they should complete this recount by some time tomorrow, 1:16:05.479 --> 1:16:08.680 so we should have a final result by tomorrow. But 1:16:08.800 --> 1:16:12.680 given this is so tight, this ain't over. There could 1:16:12.720 --> 1:16:17.680 be legal cases and don't be surprised if another election's call, 1:16:17.760 --> 1:16:20.840 whether there's an election in Bradfield, that could happen. But 1:16:20.880 --> 1:16:24.120 as things stand now, eighty five percent through the recount, 1:16:24.200 --> 1:16:27.679 the TIL candidate Nicolette Buller is twenty six votes ahead 1:16:27.720 --> 1:16:29.720 of the Liberal candidate Gisel Capteriian. 1:16:30.000 --> 1:16:33.120 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 1:16:33.160 --> 1:16:36.280 now with Clinton May on to gb. 1:16:36.360 --> 1:16:39.040 Just this information threw from New South Wales police there 1:16:39.080 --> 1:16:41.920 searching for a second man that they want to speak 1:16:41.960 --> 1:16:44.000 to in relation to the murder of a twenty nine 1:16:44.040 --> 1:16:46.200 year old in Croydon Park. It was this time yesterday 1:16:46.240 --> 1:16:48.320 I told you about the discovery of the man's body. 1:16:48.640 --> 1:16:51.800 He'd been stabbed to death. Police are investigating whether this 1:16:51.880 --> 1:16:55.040 is some sort of drug deal gone wrong, so they 1:16:55.080 --> 1:16:57.720 do having custody a thirty two year old. He was 1:16:57.800 --> 1:16:59.960 arrested at the scene and he was taken to Hospit 1:17:00.200 --> 1:17:02.760 for treatment. He has now been charged with murder. But 1:17:02.800 --> 1:17:05.200 police are now looking for a second man described as 1:17:05.200 --> 1:17:07.960 being Asian in appearance, solid build. Last scene wearing a 1:17:07.960 --> 1:17:11.280 black jumper with red symbols on the back, blue jeans, 1:17:11.320 --> 1:17:14.679 black shoes, a black hat and carrying a black satchel. 1:17:14.720 --> 1:17:17.200 Look if you see this man, don't approach him. He 1:17:17.320 --> 1:17:19.800 was last seen at Kembler Street, Croydon Park, but now 1:17:19.880 --> 1:17:23.360 yesterday afternoon, but police are searching for him. If you 1:17:23.400 --> 1:17:25.759 do have any information, give the police a call, Bird 1:17:25.800 --> 1:17:31.800 Police or crime Stoppers one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero. 1:17:32.400 --> 1:17:35.160 More and more of us are driving electric vehicles, and 1:17:35.680 --> 1:17:37.320 this is what is a concern. I know of many 1:17:37.320 --> 1:17:41.160 people who were thinking about buying an EV. It's their longevity, 1:17:41.360 --> 1:17:44.240 it's if they suffer mechanical problems in the future. Are 1:17:44.240 --> 1:17:47.400 they going to be simple to repair. Some new NRMA 1:17:47.520 --> 1:17:50.920 Insurance research highlights some growing concerns. More than sixty percent 1:17:50.920 --> 1:17:53.599 of EV owners those who already have one, are worried 1:17:53.600 --> 1:17:56.040 about a lack of qualified repairers in their area because 1:17:56.080 --> 1:17:59.200 fixing an EV it's very different to a standard car. 1:17:59.640 --> 1:18:03.280 Plus almost seventy percent are unsure about how you recycle 1:18:03.360 --> 1:18:06.760 or you dispose the old EV batteries. Sewan Tyehurst is 1:18:06.760 --> 1:18:10.200 the head of Enterman Insurance Research and joins us Cady Sean. 1:18:11.160 --> 1:18:12.240 Cleon Good to be here. 1:18:12.280 --> 1:18:15.040 Obviously EV's are taking off, and know we have mixed 1:18:15.080 --> 1:18:18.000 views from our listeners about them, but I do know 1:18:18.040 --> 1:18:20.639 people who are very open minded about buying an EV 1:18:20.840 --> 1:18:22.880 are concerned about repairs. 1:18:24.120 --> 1:18:28.200 Right and we're seeing that in the research we've just 1:18:28.280 --> 1:18:32.240 published that people are concerned on that evs are starting 1:18:32.280 --> 1:18:35.639 to grow, and we've got to upscale repair network, which 1:18:35.680 --> 1:18:38.960 is something we're focused on with our partner repair network now. 1:18:39.840 --> 1:18:42.479 And one thing I can re ensure people on is 1:18:42.520 --> 1:18:44.960 a lot of the EV repairs are quite simple and 1:18:45.000 --> 1:18:47.400 they can be undertaken with some basic train. 1:18:48.240 --> 1:18:49.880 Quite simple, but it's probably not a lot the old 1:18:49.960 --> 1:18:52.559 days back in the eighties and before that when we 1:18:52.560 --> 1:18:54.600 were working on cars in our own garage. 1:18:55.600 --> 1:18:58.200 No, and people have to be careful with that. There 1:18:58.280 --> 1:19:01.519 is a lot of there's high voltage share and safety 1:19:01.560 --> 1:19:05.759 has got to be paramount. But with the right training, 1:19:06.400 --> 1:19:10.240 the disarming process for a battery takes under thirty minutes, 1:19:10.439 --> 1:19:13.760 so it can be done by qualified technicians in the 1:19:13.840 --> 1:19:14.560 right workshops. 1:19:14.600 --> 1:19:16.200 Now, from what I understand, and not the guy don't 1:19:16.240 --> 1:19:18.639 own an EV sean, but from what I understand, electric 1:19:18.720 --> 1:19:21.720 vehicles when things don't go wrong, the basic servicing, the 1:19:21.800 --> 1:19:25.040 intervals are actually a lot bigger, and the servicing process 1:19:25.120 --> 1:19:29.240 is quite simple. It's simpler than a standard car. Correct. 1:19:29.400 --> 1:19:30.120 Yeah, you're right. 1:19:30.840 --> 1:19:34.799 There's less components as you said, and the intervals are longer. 1:19:34.920 --> 1:19:37.320 The costs are cheaper as well, and often that's a 1:19:37.400 --> 1:19:39.960 big reason why people are going towards dvs is those 1:19:40.040 --> 1:19:41.200 lower costs of ownership. 1:19:41.360 --> 1:19:43.640 But when things do go wrong, so for instance, if 1:19:43.640 --> 1:19:46.240 you have an accident in an EV I've heard stories 1:19:46.240 --> 1:19:48.200 from some people I know who own them that they 1:19:48.240 --> 1:19:52.120 face horrendous times waiting for parts to arrive in the country. 1:19:52.520 --> 1:19:55.960 We have seen that experience and it does seem to 1:19:56.479 --> 1:20:00.360 relate to different brands, car brands and off and we're 1:20:00.360 --> 1:20:03.400 finding the evs are coming in by new brands to 1:20:03.439 --> 1:20:06.559 the market, so we're working with those brands to make 1:20:06.600 --> 1:20:09.599 sure they've got the right parts coverage for Australians so 1:20:09.720 --> 1:20:10.759 people aren't stranded. 1:20:11.000 --> 1:20:14.800 So mechanics who service a traditional combustion engine vehicle, they're 1:20:14.800 --> 1:20:18.519 obviously not trained to service an EV. What's happening to 1:20:19.200 --> 1:20:21.720 improve their skills or upskill them? 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:27.760 There's training courses available today the technicians can do. The 1:20:27.960 --> 1:20:30.800 challenge we've got clinton too, is there's a skill shortage 1:20:30.840 --> 1:20:34.400 across the whole automotive services industry in general. There's about 1:20:34.439 --> 1:20:38.080 thirty eight thousand roles that are open at the moment 1:20:38.160 --> 1:20:41.240 before we even get into evs, So we've got that 1:20:41.360 --> 1:20:42.280 challenge to address. 1:20:42.520 --> 1:20:43.280 And then it's. 1:20:43.120 --> 1:20:47.719 Transitioning existing technicians into learning about evs, which can happen 1:20:47.840 --> 1:20:50.920 through the training. But it's also an opportunity for younger 1:20:50.960 --> 1:20:54.360 people coming into the industry to focus on new technology, 1:20:54.360 --> 1:20:55.719 which can often be quite exciting. 1:20:55.800 --> 1:20:59.360 So it can be an existing mechanic can improve the 1:20:59.560 --> 1:21:02.280 upskill to service an V because much of the car 1:21:02.360 --> 1:21:04.719 is the same, whether it's the suspension and other components 1:21:04.760 --> 1:21:08.960 the vehicle. Absolutely, it's obviously going to be though at 1:21:09.000 --> 1:21:11.240 a long and complex process. Thank you for your time, Sean. 1:21:11.880 --> 1:21:15.040 Thank you Sean Tyhurst, who's from the Enerm Insurance Research 1:21:15.120 --> 1:21:16.880 And I'm just intrigued to know whether if you've got 1:21:16.920 --> 1:21:20.160 an EV and I know it's a polarizing issue electric vehicles, 1:21:20.160 --> 1:21:23.000 but plenty of you have evs. When you've had an 1:21:23.040 --> 1:21:27.000 accident beyond just a standard service, have you had trouble 1:21:27.040 --> 1:21:29.680 getting your car fixed? I've heard some stories about yet 1:21:29.760 --> 1:21:32.639 it is particular makes as Sean says that some people 1:21:32.760 --> 1:21:35.320 had to wait months and months and months for different 1:21:36.040 --> 1:21:38.519 components for a card or arrive in the country. In 1:21:38.560 --> 1:21:41.360 your experience, has that been a problem and does that 1:21:41.400 --> 1:21:43.720 put you off buying an EV. I know, particularly from 1:21:43.800 --> 1:21:46.760 the second hand point of view, because EV's and you 1:21:46.840 --> 1:21:48.840 on the market, A lot of people have concerns about 1:21:48.840 --> 1:21:51.120 ERE one battery life, whether they're going to last longer 1:21:51.120 --> 1:21:53.320 than eight years, and what the resale value of an 1:21:53.360 --> 1:21:55.120 electric vehicle is going to be. If you'd like to 1:21:55.160 --> 1:21:56.880 have your say, one, three, one, eight seven three is 1:21:56.920 --> 1:21:59.759 that number twenty one past five MG is not feeling 1:21:59.800 --> 1:22:01.439 too well the South and now he's going to be okay, 1:22:01.479 --> 1:22:03.760 it's just a I think it's man flu. MG has 1:22:03.800 --> 1:22:05.320 man flu. But he's going to be back later in 1:22:05.320 --> 1:22:07.200 the week. So we have a special guest for sport 1:22:07.280 --> 1:22:10.240 coming up this hour. It's the Big Marin. Daryl Browman's 1:22:10.280 --> 1:22:12.679 going to join me. New South Wales Health is issued 1:22:12.720 --> 1:22:15.040 a warning now that we're in winter for parents to 1:22:15.200 --> 1:22:19.600 particularly cautious with their kids around hot food and hot liquids. 1:22:19.640 --> 1:22:22.120 So in twenty twenty four, this is quite surprising. More 1:22:22.160 --> 1:22:25.840 than four hundred children across the state suffered burns and 1:22:25.920 --> 1:22:28.360 quite bad burns that they needed to actually be treated 1:22:28.400 --> 1:22:30.840 at the burns unit the Children's Hospital. So New South 1:22:30.840 --> 1:22:33.240 Wales Health is saying parents need to take particular care 1:22:33.320 --> 1:22:36.080 in the kitchen around their kids. One three, one eight 1:22:36.160 --> 1:22:39.320 seven three. If you haven't an electric car, what's your 1:22:39.320 --> 1:22:42.639 experience being with repairs and servicing? There is a shortage 1:22:42.640 --> 1:22:47.439 of experts in the trade. Have they reta OHI Clinton. 1:22:47.840 --> 1:22:50.400 I've ran a show for Transport business and I have 1:22:50.680 --> 1:22:55.679 three chandlers and I did have a BMW. Fully electric 1:22:56.720 --> 1:23:01.960 chaflers have been amazing. Servicing has been pretty easy. It 1:23:02.080 --> 1:23:05.880 was easier when we first got our original model X 1:23:06.840 --> 1:23:09.800 that original bowl X has now got almost six hundred 1:23:09.840 --> 1:23:13.240 thousand kilometers. But we did have to Yeah, yeah, we're 1:23:13.240 --> 1:23:16.559 well show for transport. We did have to change the 1:23:16.600 --> 1:23:20.000 battery at three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers. 1:23:20.040 --> 1:23:21.839 And how expensive was that for the new battery? 1:23:23.000 --> 1:23:25.880 Well, at the time, part of our contract was a 1:23:26.000 --> 1:23:27.600 lifetime battery replacements. 1:23:27.760 --> 1:23:30.760 Okay, but I'm going to take a guess. 1:23:30.479 --> 1:23:34.000 That's probably somewhere between twenty and thirty thousands olds. It 1:23:34.160 --> 1:23:37.320 may have changed, but you know what I say to people, 1:23:37.960 --> 1:23:40.400 A lot of people, you know, saying lots about things 1:23:40.439 --> 1:23:44.479 about piddlers, but most people don't own a car for 1:23:44.600 --> 1:23:47.200 three hundred and sixty thousand kilometers, and if they did, 1:23:47.200 --> 1:23:50.360 it probably take them about fifteen years to get to 1:23:50.439 --> 1:23:56.280 that amount of kilometers. Now, interestingly, our bmsws, do you 1:23:56.479 --> 1:24:02.839 look for car it's spent more time in than the TENBLA, 1:24:02.880 --> 1:24:05.840 has spent more time in servicing than on the road. 1:24:06.320 --> 1:24:09.120 Pads were an issue, but I put that down to 1:24:09.200 --> 1:24:15.040 the fact that BMW wasn't an electric speple company, and honestly, 1:24:15.160 --> 1:24:18.800 I don't think they really knew what they were doing. 1:24:19.040 --> 1:24:22.759 Yeah, well, Tesla's obviously as specialist. They only sell electric cars, 1:24:22.840 --> 1:24:25.559 I think, and I think the issue is servicing, because 1:24:25.720 --> 1:24:29.240 servicing is quite the intervals along with electric cars. It's 1:24:29.240 --> 1:24:30.880 not so much the servicing is the problem. I think 1:24:30.960 --> 1:24:33.120 the issue is when things actually go wrong, if you're 1:24:33.120 --> 1:24:35.240 in an accident and then you have a long wait time. 1:24:35.280 --> 1:24:37.479 Good to hear you've had a good experience. Tony, though, 1:24:37.520 --> 1:24:38.760 has a different view. 1:24:38.800 --> 1:24:45.200 Hollo Toney the program sepeasons why I would buy one. 1:24:45.640 --> 1:24:52.320 I have not got a I've got to I've got 1:24:52.760 --> 1:24:57.560 the insurance costs three to four times as much. Secondly, 1:24:57.960 --> 1:25:01.360 it's not a bad action at five if it's. 1:25:02.800 --> 1:25:05.160 Yeah, your line's not great there, Tony, But understand the 1:25:05.200 --> 1:25:08.160 point you're making that the insurance costs soar. And I 1:25:08.200 --> 1:25:10.720 have seen the insurance premiums for electric vehicles, depending on 1:25:10.760 --> 1:25:12.920 which one you have, they are substantially more. There is 1:25:12.920 --> 1:25:14.640 a fire risk, and we've seen plenty of fires that 1:25:14.720 --> 1:25:16.760 have been sparked by electric cars. Good on your Turny 1:25:16.800 --> 1:25:19.320 one three one eight seven three. The black market tobacco 1:25:19.439 --> 1:25:21.479 trade has been probably the big talking point in the 1:25:21.560 --> 1:25:25.879 past twenty four hours, but I've been talking about illegal cigarettes, 1:25:25.880 --> 1:25:27.960 I think for about eighteen months on my program suddenly 1:25:28.000 --> 1:25:30.240 the politicians have woken up. I think the Premier is 1:25:30.280 --> 1:25:32.400 one hundred percent right with what he said about excise. 1:25:32.880 --> 1:25:35.160 That is the first politician to really come out and 1:25:35.200 --> 1:25:38.360 say the fact that the exercise is so high it 1:25:38.439 --> 1:25:41.360 is effectively encouraging smokers to do the wrong thing and 1:25:41.360 --> 1:25:43.280 buy the illegal product. And good on the premium for 1:25:43.360 --> 1:25:47.200 saying that. Mister Mins was also very clear when he 1:25:47.200 --> 1:25:50.280 appeared on Ben Forden's program this morning that tobacconists are 1:25:50.320 --> 1:25:54.280 opening up everywhere. At one point said there in every suburb, 1:25:55.080 --> 1:25:57.760 there's every second shop in the high street is tobacconist. 1:25:58.680 --> 1:26:01.160 But it doesn't mean he's going to introduce new laws 1:26:01.160 --> 1:26:02.960 to actually deal with it. And no, we're speaking with 1:26:03.000 --> 1:26:05.519 some people today at St Parma. They said at the 1:26:05.560 --> 1:26:08.760 moment there's no plans in New South Wales for legislation. 1:26:09.600 --> 1:26:13.600 Mister Mins admits the job of policing this issue is 1:26:13.640 --> 1:26:15.560 becoming too big for health inspectors. 1:26:15.640 --> 1:26:18.960 You can't have health bureaucrats effectively trying to confront what 1:26:19.120 --> 1:26:22.799 might be elicted activity. It might even be organized crime. 1:26:23.240 --> 1:26:24.400 That's the police's job. 1:26:24.720 --> 1:26:30.759 Well, then I have to take police off organized crime investigations, serious, serious, 1:26:30.840 --> 1:26:33.320 youth crime issues in regional New South Wales not to 1:26:33.320 --> 1:26:35.920 mention domestic violence and put them on illegal product. 1:26:36.240 --> 1:26:38.439 We've heard from one of the shop owners in the 1:26:38.479 --> 1:26:41.160 eastern suburbs who said, look, you can get fined by 1:26:41.200 --> 1:26:43.920 New South Wales Health, but the money you make from 1:26:44.000 --> 1:26:46.479 bringing in the illegal vapes that pays for the fine 1:26:46.600 --> 1:26:47.479 in your lunch break. 1:26:48.000 --> 1:26:48.880 Cost of doing business. 1:26:48.960 --> 1:26:50.280 I think many of them are saying so. 1:26:50.360 --> 1:26:52.519 Even the Premier is they're admitting that the fines aren't 1:26:52.520 --> 1:26:55.360 big enough because the retailers who are doing the wrong 1:26:55.400 --> 1:26:57.960 thing just treat as a cost of doing business. Now, 1:26:58.200 --> 1:27:00.160 what they are considering at the moment is when they 1:27:00.240 --> 1:27:02.000 release the budget the state cup or leads to the 1:27:02.000 --> 1:27:04.439 budget in a couple of weeks time, they will consider 1:27:04.439 --> 1:27:07.240 whether they bring this under the control of the police. 1:27:07.760 --> 1:27:10.760 And I think they need to because it's beyond it's 1:27:10.800 --> 1:27:14.200 beyond what health inspectors can do. There is something like 1:27:14.200 --> 1:27:16.560 twenty four health inspectors and that's a doubling of the 1:27:16.640 --> 1:27:20.080 number who are looking after this area. It's not enough. 1:27:20.120 --> 1:27:22.840 But even though it's not enough, you think about what 1:27:22.840 --> 1:27:27.000 a health inspector does. They're enforcing a regulation, they're not police. 1:27:27.600 --> 1:27:30.679 So where does the tobacconists get their illegal smokes from. 1:27:31.040 --> 1:27:34.520 They get them obviously from illegal sources, so by definition 1:27:34.560 --> 1:27:37.599 they must come from criminals. We know the criminal gangs 1:27:37.600 --> 1:27:40.719 control the black market. So if you're a health inspector 1:27:41.200 --> 1:27:44.559 and you've got a job of inspecting different stores, are 1:27:44.600 --> 1:27:47.519 you going to walk into a tobacconist that is selling 1:27:47.560 --> 1:27:52.160 a product that's controlled by criminals? You don't have a weapon, 1:27:52.640 --> 1:27:55.760 you're not a trained police officer, you're not trained to 1:27:55.800 --> 1:27:58.840 deal with violent incidents. How do you know that people 1:27:58.840 --> 1:28:01.960 inside that bu business that is selling something that's supplied 1:28:01.960 --> 1:28:04.320 by a criminal gang? How do you know that they're 1:28:04.320 --> 1:28:07.519 not armed? So you're going to be hesitant to do that. 1:28:08.000 --> 1:28:10.400 So clearly this is now a job for the police, 1:28:10.880 --> 1:28:12.720 and I think Chris Men's is actually right and what 1:28:12.760 --> 1:28:14.479 he says that well, it's probably going to become a 1:28:14.479 --> 1:28:17.280 police enforcement issue. The state government is going to need 1:28:17.320 --> 1:28:19.080 to set up some sort of task force or a 1:28:19.080 --> 1:28:22.839 strike force within the police who are armed with guns, 1:28:22.960 --> 1:28:25.680 who can conduct proper raids on these shops. But in 1:28:25.800 --> 1:28:28.519 Queensland this hasn't received a lot of publicity here, But 1:28:28.600 --> 1:28:31.200 in Queensland in the last week they've announced much tougher 1:28:31.240 --> 1:28:35.160 measures on this under proposed laws. The Queensland Government has 1:28:35.160 --> 1:28:38.800 announced that the landlords themselves, the landlords of the tobacconists, 1:28:38.880 --> 1:28:41.679 could be sent to jail. They could be fined six 1:28:41.760 --> 1:28:45.400 figure figures if they lease to a tobacconist selling a 1:28:45.439 --> 1:28:48.519 legal product. And that's much tougher than what happens here. 1:28:49.880 --> 1:28:51.800 So one we need police to be involved in this, 1:28:51.960 --> 1:28:57.440 not just health inspectors. Two we need the businesses themselves 1:28:57.479 --> 1:29:01.760 to take some responsibility and the landlords themselves to take responsibility. 1:29:01.960 --> 1:29:05.320 And three the excise, Even though this is a difficult 1:29:05.320 --> 1:29:07.679 one politically, the excise needs to be cut. 1:29:08.560 --> 1:29:11.640 An ease, update, upgrade and save with Winston with a 1:29:11.680 --> 1:29:15.799 Wine in twenty five percent of motorized blinds, curtains and dawnings. 1:29:15.880 --> 1:29:19.160 Book now at Winston dot com dot As. 1:29:22.720 --> 1:29:25.759 With the latest news from Josh Bright, good afternoon again, Clinton. 1:29:25.800 --> 1:29:29.040 The M five East Tunnel will remain closed eastbound throughout 1:29:29.080 --> 1:29:32.200 the night to ensure that repairs can be completed before 1:29:32.200 --> 1:29:35.559 the morning commute tomorrow. Repairs to the damage caused by 1:29:35.600 --> 1:29:39.160 an earlier crane crash have been taking longer than expected. 1:29:39.439 --> 1:29:42.000 A man's now been charged with murder after a body 1:29:42.120 --> 1:29:45.479 was found at Croydon Park Home. Police still looking for 1:29:45.560 --> 1:29:48.000 a second man. Unions are welcoming a three and a 1:29:48.040 --> 1:29:51.240 half percent increase to minimum and award wages, saying it 1:29:51.280 --> 1:29:54.360 will help workers keep up with rising costs and will 1:29:54.360 --> 1:29:57.439 also help businesses by giving people more cash in their pockets. 1:29:57.640 --> 1:29:59.759 And a man is expected to be charged with stealing 1:29:59.800 --> 1:30:03.160 t large plastic ice cream cones from outside a store 1:30:03.200 --> 1:30:06.160 in Melbourne. The display items were tracked down after being 1:30:06.160 --> 1:30:09.559 sold off online. In Sport, new recruit Lachland Galvan's being 1:30:09.640 --> 1:30:12.679 named in Caterbrey's twenty two man squad for Monday's NRL 1:30:12.680 --> 1:30:13.800 clash with Paramatta. 1:30:13.840 --> 1:30:16.080 Will have more news and sport at six. Thank you Josh, 1:30:16.160 --> 1:30:20.360 who would steal two large plastic ice cream cones? Actually, 1:30:20.400 --> 1:30:23.400 more importantly, who would buy the two plastic ice cream cones? 1:30:23.520 --> 1:30:25.400 Michael on the text line says, look, don't worry about 1:30:25.400 --> 1:30:28.880 the tobacconist. Most petrol stations are now selling cheap black 1:30:28.920 --> 1:30:31.439 market cigarettes as well. I buy a packet every morning 1:30:31.640 --> 1:30:36.720 from a service station. Finance Update dep Night, hosting Money 1:30:36.760 --> 1:30:39.240 News tonight from seven o'clock. Deb Palo Do you Clinton? 1:30:39.400 --> 1:30:42.600 The Fair Work Commission today announcing an increase to the 1:30:42.600 --> 1:30:43.200 minimum wage. 1:30:43.240 --> 1:30:45.840 Yeah, and you know that they've probably landed on about 1:30:45.880 --> 1:30:48.960 the right figure when neither the ACTU or the unions 1:30:49.120 --> 1:30:51.759 or the business groups got the figure that they wanted, so. 1:30:51.680 --> 1:30:52.920 They were washing in the middle. 1:30:53.000 --> 1:30:54.760 Yeah, right bang in the middle for what both groups 1:30:54.840 --> 1:30:56.599 were pushing for three and a half percent. The fact 1:30:56.560 --> 1:30:59.360 that it is the first real increase higher than the 1:30:59.400 --> 1:31:01.679 rate of inflation that we've had since twenty twenty one 1:31:02.280 --> 1:31:05.000 is to be applauded. For the lowest paid workers, about 1:31:05.000 --> 1:31:06.599 twenty five dollars an hour. I know you've been looking 1:31:06.640 --> 1:31:09.640 at how much that equates to in real money, but 1:31:09.800 --> 1:31:12.200 it'll still help with a cost living crush that many 1:31:12.200 --> 1:31:14.880 people are experiencing. So we'll take a closer look at 1:31:14.880 --> 1:31:15.479 that in detail. 1:31:15.520 --> 1:31:15.720 Time. 1:31:15.760 --> 1:31:18.320 You can go to the movies. You can't bring your kids, 1:31:18.360 --> 1:31:21.120 but you can buy one adult ticket. You can't buy 1:31:21.160 --> 1:31:25.200 any soft chop tops or popcorn, but you can buy 1:31:25.280 --> 1:31:27.760 some mal teasers outside the movies and bring them in 1:31:27.880 --> 1:31:28.960 and maybe have a dollar check. 1:31:29.040 --> 1:31:31.920 Every dollar counts, though, for people who are earning that minimum. 1:31:31.640 --> 1:31:33.519 Wage, how's the market fair today? The market's had a. 1:31:33.479 --> 1:31:35.519 Pretty good day, another good day off the back of 1:31:35.680 --> 1:31:37.759 a good night on Wall Street. There SEX two hundred 1:31:37.840 --> 1:31:40.400 closed point six percent or fifty two points higher to 1:31:40.479 --> 1:31:43.679 eighty four hundred and sixty six. It's about the strongest 1:31:43.720 --> 1:31:46.000 we've seen in a month in terms of performance for 1:31:46.120 --> 1:31:48.880 the ASX two hundred. The big four banks really help 1:31:48.920 --> 1:31:51.679 the financial sector lead the way up one point one 1:31:51.720 --> 1:31:54.599 percent today. The dollar, though the rebound for the Aussie 1:31:54.640 --> 1:31:57.280 dollar has been shortly of it's fallen back to sixty 1:31:57.280 --> 1:31:58.880 four point six against the green back. 1:31:59.040 --> 1:32:01.040 We make a guarantee on this program we always learn 1:32:01.080 --> 1:32:02.640 something every day, and we're going to learn what to 1:32:02.640 --> 1:32:03.920 stay vestor is well. 1:32:04.000 --> 1:32:07.160 Stay vestor is probably something that people who are saying 1:32:07.240 --> 1:32:08.920 get the kids out of the house and they've grown 1:32:09.000 --> 1:32:11.160 up would be well aware with, well familiar with. 1:32:11.360 --> 1:32:12.000 So this is the. 1:32:12.439 --> 1:32:16.599 Younger generation millennials gen zetas, who are struggling to get 1:32:16.600 --> 1:32:18.559 a foot on the property ladder, but they want to 1:32:18.680 --> 1:32:20.600 have bricks and mortar and they want to ensure that 1:32:20.600 --> 1:32:23.759 they can. So there's an increasing number of them buying 1:32:24.160 --> 1:32:27.519 unit or buying a first home and then staying living 1:32:27.560 --> 1:32:30.200 at home with mum and dad, renting it out to 1:32:30.439 --> 1:32:32.519 ensure that they can afford the repayments so that they 1:32:32.520 --> 1:32:36.440 can build their equity, build their wealth and then continue 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:39.160 to grow and go from there and move on. But yes, 1:32:39.280 --> 1:32:42.519 stay vestors is something that buyers agents are seeing more 1:32:42.600 --> 1:32:45.719 and more of, and there are more and more parents 1:32:45.840 --> 1:32:48.360 who with their grown up children, are saying, when will 1:32:48.400 --> 1:32:51.280 I ever get that spare bedroom back to make use 1:32:51.320 --> 1:32:54.320 of for my own uses, my own pleasures. 1:32:54.560 --> 1:32:56.400 Are you asking that question in your house yet? 1:32:56.560 --> 1:32:57.000 Not quite? 1:32:57.160 --> 1:33:00.240 No, my son's only sixteen, so yeah, we're still a 1:33:00.240 --> 1:33:03.320 while off for my eldest to consider what he'll do next. 1:33:03.360 --> 1:33:05.640 But I've got grand plans for what I'll do with 1:33:05.680 --> 1:33:08.080 his bedroom when he does eventually move out, don't you worry. 1:33:08.200 --> 1:33:10.240 I've got sixteen year old, a sixteen year old, and 1:33:10.240 --> 1:33:13.000 to fourteen year olds. I reckon, I'm looking at another 1:33:13.880 --> 1:33:15.200 fifteen years at least. 1:33:15.479 --> 1:33:18.240 Well, I'm encouraging if they do want to go on 1:33:18.320 --> 1:33:20.920 to further study or go to tafe, to do it 1:33:20.960 --> 1:33:24.519 in another city so that they can then enjoy the 1:33:24.680 --> 1:33:27.760 pleasures of living in a group house all the craziness 1:33:27.760 --> 1:33:29.599 that goes with that. I want them to do that 1:33:29.760 --> 1:33:30.679 and have that experience. 1:33:30.840 --> 1:33:32.720 So if they're going to stay at home. When do 1:33:32.760 --> 1:33:35.720 you start charging them board once they get a. 1:33:35.760 --> 1:33:37.280 Job, once they start earning away. 1:33:37.400 --> 1:33:41.639 Okay, Well, Stephanie, my youngest, she's now into a third 1:33:41.800 --> 1:33:45.479 first job. She's working for somebody who runs those kids' 1:33:45.520 --> 1:33:48.120 parties and she goes along. She does makeup for little girl. 1:33:48.200 --> 1:33:49.600 Well, when you're sort of earning a little bit on 1:33:49.640 --> 1:33:52.959 the side, she's fourteen, I think that's a bit early. 1:33:52.760 --> 1:33:53.679 To be starting on board. 1:33:53.720 --> 1:33:56.320 But you can also ensure that she pays for the 1:33:56.360 --> 1:33:58.240 things that she would normally tap you for. 1:33:58.360 --> 1:33:59.280 You know she is doing that. 1:33:59.400 --> 1:34:02.120 Ye in that little step he go, you're building resilience 1:34:02.160 --> 1:34:03.559 in your children. That should be applauded. 1:34:03.720 --> 1:34:05.600 I'm not going to charge your board. Don't jump on that. 1:34:05.800 --> 1:34:06.400 Do it eventually. 1:34:06.439 --> 1:34:07.639 If she's earning a full time. 1:34:07.520 --> 1:34:09.840 Wage, she got a fourteen I want We'll be listening 1:34:09.840 --> 1:34:12.120 from seven o'clock. Thanks deb Night with Money Years tonight 1:34:12.200 --> 1:34:14.160 from seven on Sydney Now. 1:34:14.360 --> 1:34:18.200 A weather update will be here to help in unexpected weather. 1:34:18.520 --> 1:34:22.000 Nrima Insurance a help company. Sixteen degrees in the coast 1:34:22.040 --> 1:34:24.040 at the moment, it's thirteen degrees in the west. It 1:34:24.120 --> 1:34:26.920 should remain dry this evening. Tomorrow, though there is the 1:34:26.960 --> 1:34:29.360 forecasts of a few showers. Are partly cloudy day with 1:34:29.400 --> 1:34:32.120 the top of only sixteen degrees in Sydney. Thursday, the 1:34:32.120 --> 1:34:35.000 weather will be sunny, slight chance of a shower on 1:34:35.040 --> 1:34:36.800 the coast in the morning, but the bulk of the 1:34:36.840 --> 1:34:39.479 day will be fine and sunny at top of seventeen. Friday, 1:34:39.520 --> 1:34:43.320 partly cloudy seventeen at this stage, cloudy on Saturday, sunny 1:34:43.360 --> 1:34:45.559 on Sunday until six. 1:34:45.880 --> 1:34:49.200 This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB 1:34:49.760 --> 1:34:52.440 call now one three one eight seven three. 1:34:52.800 --> 1:34:54.840 Of course this time every day we speak with MG. 1:34:54.920 --> 1:34:58.439 Mark Guy. Unfortunately MG's gone down with the lurgie. I 1:34:58.479 --> 1:35:00.760 think he may have a bad case of man flu. 1:35:01.320 --> 1:35:03.960 So the big Man has stepped into his shoes. Ah, 1:35:03.960 --> 1:35:06.280 I Darryl Brahman, Clinton. 1:35:05.880 --> 1:35:08.479 Here you go. I'm happy to step into his shoes. 1:35:08.520 --> 1:35:10.320 I mean, you know, I've done it for years and 1:35:10.400 --> 1:35:13.920 years and years. I've just I'm almost outraged by something 1:35:13.960 --> 1:35:14.960 I've just heard. You say. 1:35:15.120 --> 1:35:15.960 What did I say? 1:35:16.479 --> 1:35:18.720 Did you say you're going to charge a fourteen year 1:35:18.760 --> 1:35:21.600 old daughter step board Nora? 1:35:23.400 --> 1:35:26.120 Look it did The thought passed through my mind. I'm 1:35:26.120 --> 1:35:27.639 not going to I just want to reassure it. I'm 1:35:27.640 --> 1:35:29.679 not going to charge your board, but you can start 1:35:29.720 --> 1:35:33.080 paying for things around the house, like what maybe the 1:35:33.120 --> 1:35:36.280 Netflix subscription internet connection. 1:35:37.479 --> 1:35:42.280 You're a bad fun You are very ma You've got 1:35:42.280 --> 1:35:44.400 to have a good look at yourself. You'd been the 1:35:44.439 --> 1:35:47.519 only father in the saddle and show charging a fourteen 1:35:47.600 --> 1:35:48.439 year old board. 1:35:48.880 --> 1:35:55.320 I mean, it's about teaching resilience. Really, no, I'm not 1:35:55.360 --> 1:35:56.679 going to charge your board. 1:35:57.120 --> 1:35:59.719 Got nothing to do with resilience. You love a dollar, 1:35:59.760 --> 1:36:02.479 that's what you tried to do. Poor step. I mean, 1:36:02.520 --> 1:36:04.720 this is this is just criminal. 1:36:05.000 --> 1:36:07.800 You're not wrong, right? What have we got to talk about? Rugby? 1:36:07.880 --> 1:36:11.280 League wise? Teamless Tuesday? Some significant INDs this week? 1:36:11.760 --> 1:36:14.160 Yeah, looks that way, doesn't it. Reecee Walsh is back 1:36:14.200 --> 1:36:17.240 for the Broncos, and don't they need him? I mean, 1:36:17.280 --> 1:36:19.479 I know there were a lot of people critical of 1:36:19.520 --> 1:36:22.200 Reece Walsh earlier this year and he wasn't playing particularly well, 1:36:22.880 --> 1:36:24.720 but geez didn't they hadn't they shown in the last 1:36:24.720 --> 1:36:28.439 seven weeks how much they miss him. He's a he's 1:36:28.479 --> 1:36:31.080 a great player and I know he hasn't played well 1:36:31.120 --> 1:36:33.040 this year, but he'll be a big He'll be a 1:36:33.040 --> 1:36:35.280 big class for them. There's a man be better after 1:36:35.320 --> 1:36:39.040 a couple of runs, you know, surely this is the 1:36:39.040 --> 1:36:41.840 week they when they're playing the Titans, who are last 1:36:41.920 --> 1:36:47.360 in the competition, you know, saying that they weren't dreadful 1:36:47.400 --> 1:36:49.759 last week to Broncos. But there's others as well. Sam 1:36:49.800 --> 1:36:54.759 Walker's back, I understand for the for the Roosters, Cody 1:36:54.800 --> 1:36:57.679 Walker and Jack White and back for South So there's 1:36:57.720 --> 1:36:59.000 a few big names coming back. 1:36:59.080 --> 1:37:01.559 And Lucky Galve and he's in the extended squad for 1:37:01.600 --> 1:37:03.840 the Bulldogs up against the Years after making the switch. 1:37:05.280 --> 1:37:07.800 Yeah he is. I'd be surprised if he's not in 1:37:07.880 --> 1:37:12.240 there at seventeen. I think they'll play off the bench. Well, 1:37:12.280 --> 1:37:13.920 I think, so what's the point of buying him? And 1:37:14.280 --> 1:37:16.559 Ameron's sitting on his bum yeah playing? 1:37:16.840 --> 1:37:17.920 What do you make of his haircut? 1:37:18.800 --> 1:37:23.320 Ye're beautiful, but do you know what Clinton haircuts? I'm 1:37:23.400 --> 1:37:26.280 over haircuts. I've seen some of the worst haircuts in 1:37:26.320 --> 1:37:28.400 the history of the world in the mutineer in the 1:37:28.479 --> 1:37:31.160 last three or forty Some of the footballer's haircuts are 1:37:31.240 --> 1:37:36.200 just despicable, but his is right up there. I think 1:37:36.280 --> 1:37:37.320 it's really. 1:37:37.520 --> 1:37:39.559 I think the problem was when the West Tigers. They 1:37:39.600 --> 1:37:42.160 opened their high Performance Center at concour which is just 1:37:42.160 --> 1:37:44.720 a lovely facility. Originally they had a barber, and I 1:37:44.720 --> 1:37:47.720 think when Shane Richardson, their CEO, it took over. He decided, look, 1:37:47.720 --> 1:37:49.680 we've got to we're going to change the culture of 1:37:49.680 --> 1:37:51.160 the joint. I think he got rid of the barber. 1:37:51.200 --> 1:37:54.120 I reckon, that's the real reason Lockie Galvin's left the Tigers. 1:37:54.560 --> 1:37:57.000 Yeah, well that's worked well for them, haven't. They're running 1:37:57.000 --> 1:37:59.120 thirty eighth. The Tigers get a barber back in there, 1:37:59.160 --> 1:38:01.600 I reckon, let's get another one back there. And you 1:38:01.640 --> 1:38:04.559 know they can have all sorts of hairstyles. Poor unlucky. 1:38:04.640 --> 1:38:07.000 I mean he can't. He can't get away from the 1:38:07.240 --> 1:38:10.439 from the media, can he. I think the Dogs will 1:38:10.439 --> 1:38:14.080 playing this week. You know, I'd be surprised that they. Dad, 1:38:14.120 --> 1:38:17.080 there's no point came through all this drama and not planning. 1:38:17.240 --> 1:38:19.080 But I'd say, off the bench. I think all the 1:38:19.120 --> 1:38:21.160 boys who have been there and done the job for 1:38:21.200 --> 1:38:24.439 them over the last twelve weeks will start. But you'll 1:38:24.479 --> 1:38:25.800 find a spot on the bench, I reckon. 1:38:25.920 --> 1:38:28.400 Now Bigne is in tennis, your man Nick curios Is 1:38:28.439 --> 1:38:30.040 today ruled himself out of Wimbledon. 1:38:31.520 --> 1:38:34.080 Well, why not, he's not going to win it. 1:38:35.000 --> 1:38:36.960 Yeah, but he's trying to make his come back from injury. 1:38:37.560 --> 1:38:40.280 Mate, he go out in the first round. Nick, I 1:38:40.280 --> 1:38:42.680 mean Nick. Nick's like a few mates of mine. They 1:38:42.720 --> 1:38:45.479 make big statements that they haven't really fulfilled their potential. 1:38:45.520 --> 1:38:47.759 I don't think. Do you think Nick's fulfilled his potential? 1:38:49.080 --> 1:38:50.880 Like when he gets to the end of his career 1:38:51.000 --> 1:38:52.840 and looks back on his life, he's going to say, 1:38:52.880 --> 1:38:54.280 you know, I do I might have stuck that up 1:38:54.280 --> 1:38:56.880 a little bit. My career. He's probably made a good 1:38:56.880 --> 1:38:59.120 decent living out of it, but he could have made 1:38:59.160 --> 1:39:01.360 a lot better living out of it. But that's not 1:39:01.400 --> 1:39:03.800 what it's all about. It's all about performance. And then 1:39:03.880 --> 1:39:06.320 he's just I don't know how old curiosity. 1:39:07.080 --> 1:39:09.160 Oh, he'd be up, but he'd be late twenties by now. 1:39:09.200 --> 1:39:11.120 I reckon, you'd have to be made. 1:39:11.840 --> 1:39:14.679 But he's indicated that's not over. He's indicated he still 1:39:14.680 --> 1:39:15.240 wants to play. 1:39:15.880 --> 1:39:18.920 Yeah, we'll play do something instead of talking. 1:39:19.120 --> 1:39:24.200 Well, maybe he just wants to play. The South African 1:39:24.280 --> 1:39:26.120 cricketer I know you're a big fan of his work. 1:39:27.200 --> 1:39:31.760 Iso Rabada. He's come out and said he had a 1:39:31.760 --> 1:39:34.160 few issues with some drug issues a few years ago, 1:39:34.520 --> 1:39:37.559 and he says when he plays in the World Test 1:39:37.640 --> 1:39:40.160 Championship Final against the Aussies, he's happy for the Aussies 1:39:40.200 --> 1:39:43.600 to to sledge him. Back in your playing days, you 1:39:43.640 --> 1:39:45.639 would have copped some good sledges over the years. 1:39:46.080 --> 1:39:49.320 Yeah, you know what, I can't really remember, but there's 1:39:49.320 --> 1:39:52.960 no doubt I did cop a lot of sledging because 1:39:52.960 --> 1:39:57.120 I was a bit chubby, and the words fat came 1:39:57.160 --> 1:40:03.200 into nearly every sledge I copped. You know, various ways, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, 1:40:03.439 --> 1:40:06.400 whatever you want to use, but the common denominator was 1:40:06.439 --> 1:40:11.200 fat and it's probably warranted. Sometimes I wasn't playing particularly well, 1:40:11.240 --> 1:40:13.400 particularly in reserve. But I'll tell you who's the greatest 1:40:13.400 --> 1:40:17.320 sledger that I ever played against. Craig Coleman from South 1:40:18.040 --> 1:40:22.120 tug half back. Yep, couldn't be sledge mate. He was 1:40:22.160 --> 1:40:25.320 one of the great sledges of the eighties and I 1:40:25.439 --> 1:40:29.080 was sometimes any spotlight. Unfortunately, when I wasn't playing. 1:40:29.400 --> 1:40:31.519 These days on the football field, they actually would not 1:40:31.520 --> 1:40:34.280 be allowed to call you fat. That would be discrimination. 1:40:35.000 --> 1:40:37.759 Well they probably they'd probably called me fat as opposed 1:40:37.800 --> 1:40:39.680 to some of the other names I was called that 1:40:39.720 --> 1:40:42.320 they wouldn't have called. I think they'd allow fat compared 1:40:42.360 --> 1:40:43.960 to some of the other names that they called me 1:40:44.000 --> 1:40:46.360 and other blogs. It was the way it was. I 1:40:46.400 --> 1:40:49.040 mean the game is so different there. You reckon someone. 1:40:49.280 --> 1:40:52.439 If someone said to whoever big bloke is, it's easier 1:40:52.439 --> 1:40:53.920 a fat he you reckon, he. 1:40:53.920 --> 1:40:59.400 Would be often that they'd be taken to any discrimination board. 1:40:59.120 --> 1:40:59.880 They have a case. 1:41:01.320 --> 1:41:03.599 I want to so you just give me an example 1:41:03.600 --> 1:41:06.200 of what you think a sledge in the modern day 1:41:06.200 --> 1:41:12.600 would be, Oh, gee, you painted your fingernails? Wash? 1:41:12.680 --> 1:41:13.320 Does he have nail? 1:41:14.560 --> 1:41:16.559 Of course he does, he does. I'm sure he's not 1:41:16.600 --> 1:41:17.880 the only one. A lot of them. 1:41:18.120 --> 1:41:19.120 He's got lovely eyes. 1:41:19.520 --> 1:41:23.439 You could talk about Lucky Galbert's haircut. That's the poor haircut, Lucky. 1:41:23.760 --> 1:41:25.320 I mean that in the old days. 1:41:25.120 --> 1:41:28.559 There was a bit different things that Chase hate big manin. 1:41:28.560 --> 1:41:29.599 Thanks for filling in today. 1:41:30.160 --> 1:41:31.360 Thanks, this is a great segment. 1:41:31.400 --> 1:41:39.600 Goodbye The Legend Daryl Browman Tim Finn will be my 1:41:39.640 --> 1:41:42.920 special guests on Sydney Now tomorrow afternoon. Of course, the 1:41:43.040 --> 1:41:45.519 Legend from Split Ends played with his brother Neil and 1:41:45.520 --> 1:41:48.439 Crowded House as well, So Tim Finn actually, don't forget 1:41:48.760 --> 1:41:51.200 while we're talking music, did you hear Chris Mins this 1:41:51.240 --> 1:41:54.360 morning with Ben Fordham. We brought you this story a 1:41:54.360 --> 1:41:56.840 couple of months ago that Jeremy Buckingham, who is the 1:41:57.000 --> 1:41:59.519 member for the Smoke Wall Cannabis Party in the Upper House, 1:41:59.560 --> 1:42:03.599 suggest that we need a memorial in Sydney for ac DC. Well, 1:42:03.680 --> 1:42:05.160 Chris Mitten's Todd Ben Fordham. 1:42:05.240 --> 1:42:08.120 This is a chance potentially in Birdwood or maybe around 1:42:08.240 --> 1:42:10.799 King Street, closer to the city where they used to rehearse, 1:42:10.920 --> 1:42:13.760 and we're looking at it. I think that's a good initiative. 1:42:14.160 --> 1:42:17.200 Jeremy makes the point that it could be a pilgrimage 1:42:17.240 --> 1:42:19.519 site for people that love the ac DC, something to 1:42:19.520 --> 1:42:23.200 do when you're traveling through Sydney and it's our it's 1:42:23.240 --> 1:42:26.679 their hometown. I mean most of the band's time, particularly 1:42:26.720 --> 1:42:29.599 the Young Brothers, was spent in Sydney. The band formed here, 1:42:30.320 --> 1:42:31.560 it rehearsed here. 1:42:31.800 --> 1:42:34.160 Which is why it's kind of crazy that there's nothing here. 1:42:34.200 --> 1:42:38.080 I mean, other states in Australia have things honoring ac DC. 1:42:38.240 --> 1:42:40.960 We've got nothing here, So you'd like to make something right. 1:42:40.880 --> 1:42:43.240 Yes, So we're looking at an ac DC memorial. 1:42:43.320 --> 1:42:46.400 I reckon it should happen and no wonder Chris Mins 1:42:46.400 --> 1:42:49.080 wants to see it. This is actually Chris Min's playing Thunderstruck. 1:42:49.400 --> 1:42:51.320 It was during the election campaign a couple of years ago. 1:42:51.400 --> 1:42:52.920 He's actually a pretty good guitar player. 1:42:53.800 --> 1:42:55.639 Time to expose your minds. 1:42:56.280 --> 1:42:58.320 You may begin your questioning on. 1:42:58.200 --> 1:43:01.240 Sydney Now's question Origen's questions. 1:43:01.320 --> 1:43:03.479 That's important to pay atention. I know how sway you 1:43:03.520 --> 1:43:07.280 are and answer a question. Clinton's quick quick, Okay, let's 1:43:07.280 --> 1:43:09.479 play the quiz. We've got a five hundred dollars Winston 1:43:09.520 --> 1:43:11.920 with a Wye Blinds voucher to give away Winston dot 1:43:11.920 --> 1:43:16.679 com Dot are you? Joseph sin Pennania, Hello Joseph, Hello Clinton? 1:43:16.680 --> 1:43:17.040 How are you? 1:43:17.240 --> 1:43:20.320 I'm good, my friend? And Josh is in Holsworthy. Josh, 1:43:21.920 --> 1:43:23.840 you are going to go first, Josh? Or thirty second 1:43:23.880 --> 1:43:31.160 starts now? What is the capital of Norway or hush Oslo? 1:43:31.520 --> 1:43:34.639 Which animal lays the largest eggs the emu or an 1:43:34.640 --> 1:43:39.479 Ostrich Ostridge? Correct, You're on one. It's still rock and 1:43:39.560 --> 1:43:41.719 roll to me is a song by which American musician 1:43:44.560 --> 1:43:49.760 Let's still look Billy Billy Joel Billy. Correct, correct. What 1:43:49.880 --> 1:43:54.360 is the color of the Statue of Liberty have a grack? 1:43:55.680 --> 1:44:00.120 It's gray. What I'm going to go green? You know gray, 1:44:00.600 --> 1:44:02.479 I'm gonna go green. So you're on too, Josh, you've 1:44:02.479 --> 1:44:05.320 got a fair chance. Okay, Joseph, your thirty second starts. Now. 1:44:05.720 --> 1:44:10.760 What is the name of Mickey Mouse's girlfriend Mini? Correct? 1:44:10.800 --> 1:44:13.479 Which NRL side is currently first on the ladder? 1:44:15.520 --> 1:44:16.080 The Bulldog? 1:44:16.240 --> 1:44:23.880 Correct? What is the official language of Brazil Brazil Spanish? No, 1:44:23.920 --> 1:44:27.639 it's Portuguese. When was the euro introduced the euro currency 1:44:27.760 --> 1:44:33.599 nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and two? Two thousand 1:44:33.640 --> 1:44:37.880 and two incorrect. Okay, we've got a tie, so we're 1:44:37.920 --> 1:44:40.679 on too. We'll play the tie broke up, Josh and Joseph. 1:44:40.840 --> 1:44:44.120 I'm going to ask you a question. Whoever answers correctly, 1:44:44.320 --> 1:44:45.800 just shout out your name and you'll be able to 1:44:45.800 --> 1:44:48.880 answer it. Okay, So the question is, what is the 1:44:49.000 --> 1:44:54.479 name of a baby kangaroo? Joseph, Joseph, what's the name 1:44:54.520 --> 1:44:55.400 of baby kangaroo? 1:44:57.000 --> 1:44:57.240 Share? 1:44:57.280 --> 1:45:01.680 We correct? Well done, Thank you, well done, Joseph. We're 1:45:01.680 --> 1:45:03.479 going to send you out a five hundred dollars Winston 1:45:03.560 --> 1:45:07.160 with the widelines voucher. Get twenty five percent off Murtorized Blinds, 1:45:07.240 --> 1:45:10.000 Curtains and Awnings. Book now Winston dot com, dot are. 1:45:09.920 --> 1:45:15.800 You and now a preview of what's coming up on 1:45:16.000 --> 1:45:19.799 Wide World of Sports for the Sirato successor the Turbo 1:45:19.920 --> 1:45:22.400 charged Kia K four, Kia's all. 1:45:22.280 --> 1:45:24.960 News small sedan GT Line veryant. 1:45:24.640 --> 1:45:28.120 Available now find out more about Kia's latest small car. 1:45:28.280 --> 1:45:30.680 Adam Hawes hosting Wildwood of Sports from six o'clock to 1:45:30.800 --> 1:45:32.920 night's and the team was Tuesday Hawsey. 1:45:32.680 --> 1:45:36.280 Yeah, Clinton, plenty of big names coming back Reese while 1:45:36.360 --> 1:45:38.160 she's back for the Baker Man. 1:45:38.640 --> 1:45:40.439 While she here we go way back Man, while she 1:45:40.760 --> 1:45:43.519 check out social media folks. Reese, Walsh and Hawsey love 1:45:43.520 --> 1:45:43.920 each other. 1:45:44.040 --> 1:45:46.479 Yeah yeah, re sent me at Cheerio today. Rees, thanks 1:45:46.479 --> 1:45:49.280 for listening in mate. We've got Freddie Fitler coming on. 1:45:49.360 --> 1:45:52.280 He'll be talking about the Lachlan Galvenus at the Bulldogs. 1:45:52.280 --> 1:45:54.679 He's been naming that twenty two man squad. Connor Tracy 1:45:54.720 --> 1:45:56.640 from the Dogs will join us. Also, he's playing his 1:45:56.680 --> 1:45:59.120 one hundredth game against the Egels. That should be a 1:45:59.120 --> 1:46:01.080 blockbuster on So surely. 1:46:00.840 --> 1:46:02.639 They're going to play Galvin if he's in the twenty 1:46:02.680 --> 1:46:04.320 two man squad. Well, here come off the bench. 1:46:04.600 --> 1:46:06.519 I think he'll come off the bench. Jack Buckley's going 1:46:06.560 --> 1:46:09.240 to join us Clinton from the GWS Giants big game 1:46:09.280 --> 1:46:10.120 against Port Adelaide. 1:46:10.240 --> 1:46:12.719 Make sure you're listening to Hawsey tonight. 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