Speaker 1: Whoa across Australia. This is Weekends with Luke Grant. But
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Speaker 2: You calects your hand up. You gotta keep your head
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Speaker 2: it's hard to remember sometimes, but you gotta keep your
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Speaker 2: Hey, good morning, welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. Great
Speaker 2: to be with you on two G Bean Sydney, four
Speaker 2: BC in Brisbane and listeners on the app joining us
Speaker 2: all around Australia. It's June seventh, Saturday morning in the
Speaker 2: greatest country on Earth. Hey. Sorry, Hey, your clothes dryer
Speaker 2: is having a birthday today. The clothes dryer. It was
Speaker 2: patented by George T. Sampson on this day in eighteen
Speaker 2: ninety two. Eh, what do you get a clothes dry
Speaker 2: for its birthday? Well, whatever you want, but make sure
Speaker 2: it's a sie's bigger, to anticipate shrinkage, and just to
Speaker 2: make it feel a lit more, a little bit more
Speaker 2: at home. Just ensure there's just a touch of lint
Speaker 2: on it. It makes that whole experience that little bit
Speaker 2: more familiar. As I say, happy birthday, clothes drives everywhere
Speaker 2: long weekend in New South Wales, the Act, the territory,
Speaker 2: Northern One, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria. But not I repeat,
Speaker 2: not in Queensland. So for many listeners it's a case
Speaker 2: of how good. But in the Sunshine State I can
Speaker 2: say Queensland Day was observed yesterday, so it's not all bad.
Speaker 2: Queensland Days a celebration of who Queenslanders are and what
Speaker 2: they've come from, a data honor everything that made Queensland
Speaker 2: and makes Queensland great. The sixth of June it marks
Speaker 2: Independence Day in Queensland, the anniversary of Queensland's official separation
Speaker 2: from New South Wales in eighteen fifty nine. So if
Speaker 2: you go back far enough, every Queenslander might just have
Speaker 2: might just have what we'd like to call here in
Speaker 2: New South Wales roots, and we thought everywhere was in Queensland.
Speaker 2: Perhaps once everything was in New South Wales. AnyWho, enough
Speaker 2: of that? Weatherwise today in Sydney, mostly sunny tops of
Speaker 2: nineteen in the city, nineteen at Penrith eighteen paramatter bondyron
Speaker 2: along the coast nineteen Tomorrow partner cloudy with a chance
Speaker 2: of a shower just sixteen Brisbane today and a big
Speaker 2: day of racing at Eagle Farm. Good luck to everyone
Speaker 2: with an interest after last week's wash out cloud clearing.
Speaker 2: They to me top temps in the city twenty five, airport,
Speaker 2: twenty four ipswitched twenty five, the Sunny Coast twenty four
Speaker 2: Gold Coast twenty four tomorrow and Brisbane sunny and twenty
Speaker 2: three degrees. Sounds good right now. The latest on the
Speaker 2: American Bros to Foes omni shambles. I wanted to use
Speaker 2: the word starting with cluster, but I was expect you
Speaker 2: way too much. The New York Times reports that President
Speaker 2: Trump is blaming Elon Musk's behavior on drug use, as
Speaker 2: the acrimonious blow up of their partnership left both men,
Speaker 2: who lobbed online insults and threats at each other on
Speaker 2: Thursday in the US, with a lot at risk.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Trump's been telling associates over the last day that mister
Speaker 2: Musk's crazy behavior is linked to his drugs. That's according
Speaker 2: to two people who've spoken to The New York Times
Speaker 2: who prefer anonymity. Mister Trump's also considering selling his Tesla.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, someone very clever. Paul says Luke, wouldn't you
Speaker 2: give you clothes to write? This is on the text
Speaker 2: A box of linked chocolates. Ah, poor text of the day.
Speaker 2: Have we got a prize? No we don't. What about
Speaker 2: some of those two GB sunglasses? I've seen them around
Speaker 2: the place. Can we go and pinch a few from
Speaker 2: Luke Davis's office? Yeah, we're going to do that. Hey,
Speaker 2: Luke when you come to work. Yeah, we're going to
Speaker 2: be down a couple of sonnies because they're off to Paul.
Speaker 2: Well done, Paul Link chocolate. I love it. Where was I? Oh? Yeah.
Speaker 2: Trump's also considering selling his tesla. According to a White
Speaker 2: House official, I said to Clinton Maino yesterday, Trump supporters
Speaker 2: in America are so peed off with Elon that they're
Speaker 2: keeping their own tesla. Now, shouldn't say that, administration officials said.
Speaker 2: Mister Trump showed little interest in engaging with Musk, even
Speaker 2: after the billionaire signaled he'd be opened to de escalating
Speaker 2: the fight. Late on Thursday, Musk backed off a threat
Speaker 2: to immediately decommission SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft, which transports NASA astronauts
Speaker 2: and suppliers to and from the International Space Station. A
Speaker 2: short time later, When Bill Ackman, the hedge fund billionaire,
Speaker 2: posted on social media that the two men quote should
Speaker 2: make peace for the benefit of our great country, mister
Speaker 2: Musk responded, you're not wrong now for Mask, a prolonged
Speaker 2: feud with Trump could be hugely expensive. His companies, including SpaceX,
Speaker 2: have benefited from billions of dollars in government contracts and
Speaker 2: were positioned to receive billions more. Trump threatened to end
Speaker 2: those contracts on Thursday. It's risky for Trump as well,
Speaker 2: Musk well. He donated around two hundred and seventy five
Speaker 2: million dollars to help elect Trump in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: It promised another one hundred million to groups controlled by
Speaker 2: the president's team before the midterms. Those funds have yet
Speaker 2: to be delivered. One imagines they won't be delivered, so
Speaker 2: look a long way off being sorted out. It needs
Speaker 2: to be sorted out for the betterment of our fellow
Speaker 2: humans in the United States of America. I think the
Speaker 2: best thing I've seen so far is this. Dmitri Medvedev,
Speaker 2: a former Russian president deputy chairman of the Kremlin Security Council,
Speaker 2: who on social media said the Russians are ready to
Speaker 2: facilitate the conclusion of a peace deal between Donald and
Speaker 2: Elon d and E from reasonable fee and to accept
Speaker 2: STARLINGK shares as payment. There you go, right now, the
Speaker 2: story I feared would get worse. To be serious here,
Speaker 2: like many of you did, I'm talking about here the
Speaker 2: alleged murder of Queensland teenager Phoebe Bishop. The Courier MAU
Speaker 2: says today human remains have been found during a search
Speaker 2: for Phoebe on the same day her two accused killer's
Speaker 2: face court for the first time. Police said the remains
Speaker 2: were found by specialist units about two thirty pm near
Speaker 2: the good Night Scrub National Park, an area previously searched.
Speaker 2: I'm told after a further investigations on Friday, the remains
Speaker 2: I'm told this morning are yet to be formally identified.
Speaker 2: We'll get an update on this in just a moment
Speaker 2: or two. Phoebe's housemaids, James Wood thirty four and Tanika
Speaker 2: Bromley thirty three, appeared before Bunderberg Magistrates Court yesterday charged
Speaker 2: with murdering the teen. The teen had been living with them.
Speaker 2: They've also been charged with two counts of interfering with
Speaker 2: a corpse. With police still searching to find the team.
Speaker 2: So look, let's get the very latest on this and
Speaker 2: joining me from nine News in Queensland is Hatteya Gripsky,
Speaker 2: who I think is in Bunderberg. Hataya, thank you so
Speaker 2: much for your time. This is such a distressing story
Speaker 2: for so many people, not the least which is the
Speaker 2: family of Phoebe. Can you give us the very latest?
Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning. Yeah, it's a really really tough time
Speaker 4: for everyone in this community, especially Phoebe's family. The sense
Speaker 4: in this community is just absolute heartbreak after this news,
Speaker 4: especially after such a long day yesterday where we did
Speaker 4: see Phoebe's housemates Tanika Bromley and James Wood charged with
Speaker 4: Phoebe's murder. They went through court yesterday they were reminded
Speaker 4: in custody until August. But yeah, just a really really
Speaker 4: awful feeling out here, especially with that development last night
Speaker 4: that those human remainers were discovered, as you said, yet
Speaker 4: to be formally identified, but police do have a strong
Speaker 4: feeling at this early stage that they are of seventeen
Speaker 4: year old Phoebe Bishop. So we're just waiting to see
Speaker 4: what they find out there. That area is still a
Speaker 4: crime scene today.
Speaker 2: Yeah, her mother Kylie has been obviously so distressed in
Speaker 2: the appearances she's made to please for help, obviously, so
Speaker 2: I assume she's now got to as best she can
Speaker 2: make the Well, it seems to me unbelievable, unbelievably difficult
Speaker 2: task of identification, if that's to be the case. Do
Speaker 2: we know if that is to be the case? On
Speaker 2: the next day or two of the forensic people still
Speaker 2: working what's the latest, say Yeah.
Speaker 4: The forensic Peak forensic officers are still out there at
Speaker 4: good Night Scrub National Park. They're just working through all
Speaker 4: of that evidence. We went out there last night. They
Speaker 4: were just setting up their policeman and all of their
Speaker 4: equipment that they need to sort out what's going on
Speaker 4: out there. I would assume that Kylie would be the
Speaker 4: one to go out there informally identify if that is
Speaker 4: a phoebe, But we also don't know what state these
Speaker 4: remains are in, and given how long she's been out
Speaker 4: there for, as well as heartbreaking as that is, she
Speaker 4: has spoken on social media. She shared the news with
Speaker 4: her followers on social media, saying that I didn't think
Speaker 4: that my heart could break any more than it did
Speaker 4: when you went missing or when the charges were laid.
Speaker 4: But this is ripping me apart, as it absolutely would. So, yeah,
Speaker 4: very very heartbreaking.
Speaker 2: In the community here, we've been watching from afar, not
Speaker 2: you obviously, we're given you are and look, I don't
Speaker 2: know if there was a rumor or discussion about these
Speaker 2: alleged killers. Is perhaps I should ask it this way.
Speaker 2: Is there a surprise amongst the community the way this
Speaker 2: has ended up today or was it simply a case
Speaker 2: that people just accepted that you went missing. What's your
Speaker 2: read on the mood of the locals.
Speaker 4: I don't think that there is surprise. I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people had speculated that this would be the
Speaker 4: case that her housemates would be charged with her disappearance.
Speaker 4: When we were standing out here doing our live crosses,
Speaker 4: people are seeing us in the community reporting on this.
Speaker 4: We have people drive by shouting out justice to Phoebe.
Speaker 4: That's the sort of feeling that's here at the moment.
Speaker 4: They are pretty angry and disgusted about what's happened and
Speaker 4: given you know how horrific that is to know that
Speaker 4: you know, these people have allegedly murdered you know, the
Speaker 4: woman that was living with them, is just terrific.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, Hataya Grivsky from nine News in Queensland. Thanks
Speaker 2: so much for your time and we'll see your reports
Speaker 2: on nine News tonight. Thank you all right, appreciate that
Speaker 2: very much. Indeed, now again, do you I've taken you
Speaker 2: some places this morning, somewhere completely different because today marks
Speaker 2: the start of the new South Wales snow season. But
Speaker 2: is there snow? I think they're predicting quite some in
Speaker 2: the next period of time, but let's get to the
Speaker 2: services director of Perisher Resort, Andrew King. Andrew, good mate.
Speaker 2: I saw some snow on the live feed earlier, but
Speaker 2: I'm told there's plenty more in coming days. I guess
Speaker 2: we should say welcome to the snow season. What's it
Speaker 2: look like down there?
Speaker 5: Yeah, good morning from snow and Perisher. Yeah, we've had
Speaker 5: a bit of snow over night, about six centimotors, but
Speaker 5: our snowmakers have done a terrific job overnight as well.
Speaker 5: We've had a great week of snow making as well.
Speaker 5: We fired up our first lifts at eight thirty this morning,
Speaker 5: so I'm looking out on a very happy group of
Speaker 5: people that are having their first scheep of season twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five.
Speaker 2: Outstanding, am I right? I'm sure I saw a forecast
Speaker 2: saying that there is quite a bit of snow expected.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly right. We're hoping, but looking at the forecast,
Speaker 5: the snow is supposed to get heavier today and for
Speaker 5: the rest of the weekend, so by Monday we're hoping
Speaker 5: to see maybe forty fifty centimeters, maybe even more. So
Speaker 5: great to see, great timing, and we're looking forward to
Speaker 5: more opening of terrain and lifts over the coming weeks.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed. Now, of course we've got to make the
Speaker 2: point again. This is the day one of the season,
Speaker 2: so it gets a whole lot better. Is there a
Speaker 2: peak weekend in your mind, Andrew where people should book
Speaker 2: and head to the snow because it's always good point
Speaker 2: And if you want to save a dollar, because we've
Speaker 2: got hello cost of living crisis, what's the best time
Speaker 2: to head down to Perisha.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, we've had a challenging couple of seasons so this
Speaker 5: time last year we certainly we only had minor lists
Speaker 5: open for the last two years, but June's looking strong. Generally,
Speaker 5: the ubust is our peak, especially on weekends, and generally
Speaker 5: we're guaranteed to have.
Speaker 7: A lot more snow cover and a lot more.
Speaker 5: Terrain open, so we're always ready for the July school
Speaker 5: holidays and then September there's generally a lot more you know,
Speaker 5: lower cost alternatives for accommodation, for lift tickets and so forth.
Speaker 5: The weather it's a bit, you know, a bit a
Speaker 5: bit warmer and things like that, so you know, we've
Speaker 5: got four months for people to choose from. So anytimes
Speaker 5: a good time to be in the snow from my perspective, yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. Andrew, have a great day, mate, Thanks
Speaker 2: he loo for jumping on board. Awesome, Thanks, thank you,
Speaker 2: Andrew King, Perisher Resorts Services Director, forty centimeters. I saw
Speaker 2: that forecast over the next day or two. If you're
Speaker 2: a snow bunny or whatever the other gender's equivalent is,
Speaker 2: get down there and have some fun. Right on the
Speaker 2: show today, Tennis Shanahan from the AIS will join me
Speaker 2: shortly for the latest in federal politics, No doubt, will
Speaker 2: discuss Labour's planned at tax, unrealized gains and the super
Speaker 2: of people who've had to go and got to go now.
Speaker 2: The latest in the Ods today is that the former
Speaker 2: Reserve Bank board members Donald mcgecky and Roger Corbett major
Speaker 2: Liberal Party donors have implored the Coalition to state the
Speaker 2: negotiating table with Labor on the super tax proposal, declaring
Speaker 2: a deal would be a lesser evil than allowing the
Speaker 2: introduction of an unrealized gains tax. Now. I know there
Speaker 2: are plenty saying, oh, the Liberals have to stand for
Speaker 2: something and they shouldn't be compromising here. But the alternative
Speaker 2: is a deal with the Greens. What do you think
Speaker 2: might be better? So I'm with these former Reserve Bank
Speaker 2: board members and think stay at the table and talk
Speaker 2: about it. It's all right to beat your chest and
Speaker 2: say I can even you know a lot of people
Speaker 2: voted for you. You don't like it fair enough. But I
Speaker 2: think the idea to just walk away and say Jim's
Speaker 2: nasty is you know, I'm probably going to guarantee you
Speaker 2: even longer in opposition. Please. Now, Jim Chalmers has slammed
Speaker 2: the door on the cooperation with the Coalition, but earlier
Speaker 2: Albo said, well, you know, maybe we should talk. I
Speaker 2: don't know. I know it's poorted out that the liberal
Speaker 2: Tim Wilson, who won that extremely tight race and the
Speaker 2: seat of Goldstein in Melbourne, he did campaign against unrealized
Speaker 2: capital gains, saying once people understood it was a tax
Speaker 2: on money people didn't have. It became a powerful argument.
Speaker 2: Denis Shatahan on that and plenty more. Coming up shortly
Speaker 2: after ten this morning, long range weather forecaster Hayden Walker.
Speaker 2: Each season change we speak to Hayden. I know lots
Speaker 2: of you love him because we're inundated, all right. We're
Speaker 2: regularly asked to get him back on. He hails from
Speaker 2: a long line of weather forecasters who've been in the
Speaker 2: business since the late eighteen hundreds. He uses a different
Speaker 2: method of forecasting. He monitors solar flares, he analyzes historical
Speaker 2: data and observes planetaried relationships and orbital patterns. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to hear his thoughts on the Aussie winter. Economists
Speaker 2: for Macro Business and Weekends regular lead Van Onslin here
Speaker 2: after eleven today you'll tell us about the policy whiplash
Speaker 2: we should be feeling after a couple of weeks of
Speaker 2: the newly returned government and an unsurprising choice of economic
Speaker 2: clown of the week. Ask a trade with Simon Stephenson
Speaker 2: at ten thirty. We'll talk about people using the wrong
Speaker 2: kind of fillers when working around the home. Amongst other things,
Speaker 2: and we'll take a diy call. Craig Bennett in Starstruck
Speaker 2: looks at the life of the outstanding Tom Jones to
Speaker 2: celebrate the birthday today. So many songs to remember, even
Speaker 2: outrageously wonderful tunes like this, sacks Bom.
Speaker 8: Sacks Bomb, You're my sacks bomb.
Speaker 2: You can give it to me when on you you
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Speaker 9: Bo, You're my sack bomb.
Speaker 3: You can turn me on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just hoping there's a really timid, innocent meaning
Speaker 2: behind all of that. But anyway, Yeah, the great Tom Jones,
Speaker 2: I love him. Alice Stoles from Domain with a deep
Speaker 2: dive into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney.
Speaker 2: Of course, our quiz, your calls, texts, emails or the
Speaker 2: latest break can use all infra matthion you need to
Speaker 2: help you get around with a minimum of fuss. Why
Speaker 2: do I just occasionally defer to the French because my
Speaker 2: parents spent a lot of money sending me to a
Speaker 2: private school during which I learnt French for six years,
Speaker 2: and I cannot see that money go to waste. It's Saturday,
Speaker 2: June seventh, fourteen degrees in Sydney seventeen. In Brisbane, this
Speaker 2: is weekends with Luke Grant on two GB and four
Speaker 2: BC and Dennis Lee as he on the traffic for
Speaker 2: US today and it's twenty nine after nine o'clock.
Speaker 1: The Labor Party now the Central Politics with Dennis Shanahan.
Speaker 2: Each weekend. I'm honored, delighted to talk to Dennis Shanahan,
Speaker 2: national editor of the Australian newspaper, who I'm delighted to
Speaker 2: say is on the line. Dennis, maybe unkindly it was
Speaker 2: suggested a week or two back to maybe even longer
Speaker 2: than that, that many can Beerans when they get given
Speaker 2: the chance of a long weekend head to New South Wales,
Speaker 2: particularly the South coast. I know there are times where
Speaker 2: you end up on the South coast of New South Wales,
Speaker 2: but I'm almost intrigued to know how things are in
Speaker 2: Canberra this morning. So tell me where you are and
Speaker 2: tell me what it's like.
Speaker 10: My friend, Well, I am in Canberra. I do go
Speaker 10: to the coast, yes, to the Canberra Beach, yes. And
Speaker 10: it is winter right.
Speaker 9: I'm looking out.
Speaker 10: The wind is blowing, there is rain and the last
Speaker 10: few leaves are falling, So you know, I'm a great
Speaker 10: advocate of Canberra. I love Camebra, but I have to
Speaker 10: admit when it's twinter.
Speaker 2: Yes. Indeed, now both sides of politics seem divided over
Speaker 2: this proposal to include text on unrealized capital gains for
Speaker 2: some super innovation funds, with Jim Chalmers wanting to forge
Speaker 2: your head with what's becoming an increasingly difficult political position.
Speaker 2: Now through the week, mate, I saw the Prime Minister saying, oh,
Speaker 2: you know, this has been out in about for two years.
Speaker 2: But the problem for the Prime Minister is you can
Speaker 2: get it across the line. Now it's likely to be
Speaker 2: across the line somehow, So it is a real thing.
Speaker 2: So excuse our interest in it. But taxing people on
Speaker 2: gains that haven't realized, and I don't care what the
Speaker 2: government says in defense of this. Once they do it
Speaker 2: in one asset class, who's to say. And the Greens,
Speaker 2: you know they're going to have to support the government
Speaker 2: to get this through and they want negative gearing looked at.
Speaker 2: Who's to say that the Greens won't say, right out,
Speaker 2: let's do this on another asset class like your second
Speaker 2: or third rental property. This has got absolute hair or
Speaker 2: over it. Doesn't it.
Speaker 6: It does.
Speaker 10: It's a big brown dog and the things.
Speaker 11: What we've got here is.
Speaker 10: Something that, as the Prime Minister has said, has been
Speaker 10: around for two years. This was around long before the election.
Speaker 10: The government got a huge mandate or a huge majority
Speaker 10: in any case at the election. You know they control
Speaker 10: the Upper House with no problem at all. They can argue,
Speaker 10: as Jim Charms is arguing, we've had it out there
Speaker 10: all the time on these unrealized tax on superannuation also
Speaker 10: not indexed by the way, and only on self managed
Speaker 10: funds with totals of more than three million. But that,
Speaker 10: as you're saying, the principle involved here of taxing something
Speaker 10: on unrealized gains, that is, you pay tax on paper games.
Speaker 10: So someone says, oh, your property is now worth four
Speaker 10: million more, you've got to pay tax on four million
Speaker 10: although you haven't got it. You have to end up
Speaker 10: sending selling a property to get the money to pay
Speaker 10: the tax on the earnings you haven't earned. Really is
Speaker 10: a nonsense. But what we're seeing politically here, I think
Speaker 10: is a lot of confusion and a lack of people
Speaker 10: to grasp reality. Now when the Prime Minister said this
Speaker 10: week I'm prepared to deal with the Coalition on a
Speaker 10: range of issues, including superannuation. He meant it because he
Speaker 10: knows that the reason that this superannuation tax in any
Speaker 10: form hasn't gone through in the past two years is
Speaker 10: because the government didn't control the Senate. And guess what,
Speaker 10: they still don't control the Senate, so this still has
Speaker 10: to be negotiated. People who are saying, oh, look, you
Speaker 10: know they've got this huge majority, just stand aside.
Speaker 11: Let them know.
Speaker 6: It doesn't work like that.
Speaker 10: The Senate is still there as a break on the
Speaker 10: House of Representatives and Anthony Albanezy knows this.
Speaker 9: He also is in his.
Speaker 10: Second term starting to say, well, you know, we're going
Speaker 10: to have to get some things through here, and he
Speaker 10: is signaled to the Coalition, I'm prepared to work with you,
Speaker 10: and he actually said rather than the Grooms, he doesn't
Speaker 10: want to do with the Greens. Now, what we then
Speaker 10: had was Jim Chalmers coming out the next day say oh, no,
Speaker 10: I don't think the coalition's faired income because Ted O'Brien,
Speaker 10: the Shadow Treasurer, had said he was prepared to negotiate
Speaker 10: on this. So then the treasure said no, not faired income.
Speaker 10: Then a whole lot of people in the coalition came
Speaker 10: out and said no, we're not going to cop this either.
Speaker 10: So we've got Jim Charmers and a whole lot of
Speaker 10: people on the coalition side saying no, no deal. And
Speaker 10: then the Coalition came down set no. Our position is
Speaker 10: against unrealized capital games tax and against and for indexation.
Speaker 10: So the positions are clear. What we don't have is
Speaker 10: somebody saying, well, hold on just a minute. If this
Speaker 10: has to pass and there is a mandate to pass it,
Speaker 10: there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 11: It is better.
Speaker 10: And this is what former governors of the Reserve Bank,
Speaker 10: former tax secretaries of the Treasures Department, former in fact
Speaker 10: still huge liberal donors, and former liberal politicians all saying
Speaker 10: to the coalition passed in a better form. They're literally
Speaker 10: saying the lesser of two evils, wake up, smell the coffee.
Speaker 10: The government has a huge majority in the House. They
Speaker 10: can deal purely with the Greens in the Senate and
Speaker 10: get things through. This is an issue where the Coalition
Speaker 10: needs to stand up and say we will try and
Speaker 10: regain some credibility and bargain for the best result on
Speaker 10: superannuation and increase tax there is a mandate for increased
Speaker 10: tax on some superannuation, but you can do it better.
Speaker 10: This is the same thing that happened with the super
Speaker 10: profits tax on mining. The government pushed it through and
Speaker 10: by the way, Jim Chalmers was working.
Speaker 2: For Wayne WAYNEFN that's right.
Speaker 3: They tried to push it through.
Speaker 10: It was a complete disaster. It was a badly formed
Speaker 10: because it hadn't involved the industry, and then in the
Speaker 10: end they had to just dump it completely and change
Speaker 10: it completely. You know how much it gets about ten
Speaker 10: thousand dollars a year. It was meant to get ten
Speaker 10: billion dollars a year. So what we're looking at here,
Speaker 10: I think is a moment where Australian politicians need to
Speaker 10: grasp the reality. And this is particularly the Treasurer and
Speaker 10: some of those in the Coalition who don't seem to
Speaker 10: realize things have changed. Labor is in power for three years,
Speaker 10: the Greens have sole balance of power in the Senate,
Speaker 10: and the two major parties need to regain some credibility.
Speaker 10: Yes we need revenue, Yes there is a mandate to
Speaker 10: get it. It should be done in the best way.
Speaker 2: So the coalition could simply say we're going to try
Speaker 2: and get a better deal. We sometimes in life you've
Speaker 2: got to hold your nose and do something you don't
Speaker 2: like doing. We're going to hold our nose, nome We've
Speaker 2: got a slightly better deal. But I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2: In three years, these things Gonski and people go fair
Speaker 2: enough whereas had but this on again, off again. Oh no,
Speaker 2: we're not going to do a deal. They've got no
Speaker 2: they've got no cloud, they've got absolutely nothing. They've had
Speaker 2: their pants pulled down and they're acting like they're tough guys.
Speaker 2: Give me a break exactly.
Speaker 10: I mean, they have no embarrassment at all this.
Speaker 6: And the point here is that.
Speaker 10: Ten O'Brien has said we won't shift on taxing unrealized
Speaker 10: capital gains.
Speaker 8: That is a.
Speaker 3: Perfectly good principle.
Speaker 10: There are a lot of people in the Labor Party
Speaker 10: you don't believe in it. And as you pointed out, Luke,
Speaker 10: this is the sort of thing that will spread like
Speaker 10: cancer through the tax system. All of a sudden, people's
Speaker 10: properties will be involved. There'll be more general capital gains,
Speaker 10: tax on unrealized capital gains. This is what this will
Speaker 10: be the beginning of it. It will have a bad
Speaker 10: effect on superannuation not to mention farmers and businesses and
Speaker 10: small businesses and investors. Yes, the government says, only affecting
Speaker 10: a few people, but without indexation, and with this principle
Speaker 10: of unrealized capital gains, an estimated number of people affected
Speaker 10: at the moment would be eighty to one hundred thousand,
Speaker 10: maybe one hundred and fifty thousand, but it goes to
Speaker 10: hundreds of thousands over a few years because it's not
Speaker 10: index And let's face it, everyone thinks, oh, three million dollars,
Speaker 10: that's a big that's a lot of superannuation. Well, no,
Speaker 10: it won't be in teen years time.
Speaker 9: It'll be average.
Speaker 10: The cost of the average house at the moment.
Speaker 7: Yes, you're in Australia is a million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ex excellent points, excellent pointy. No, No,
Speaker 2: that's that's where that's where he says. It's not where
Speaker 2: it starts where it's where it ends up. And that's
Speaker 2: the excellent point you've made. Now I'm going to have
Speaker 2: to take a break, Donnis, because I think you and
Speaker 2: I have a bit to talk about two words, Donald
Speaker 2: Trump after this eighteen to ten Dennis Shanahan with me,
Speaker 2: is he is every Saturday morning Dennis, we'll talk about
Speaker 2: Donald Trump and Albow in a moment, But I give
Speaker 2: me interested as I'm sure, well you might even well
Speaker 2: know this, but I'm sure my listeners would as well,
Speaker 2: that there's been some contribution into the Trump Musk fiasco
Speaker 2: by a lawyer, David Showen, a criminal defense lawyer who
Speaker 2: represented Epstein before he died in police custody in twenty nineteen. Now,
Speaker 2: of course, what has happened is Musk has gone on
Speaker 2: Twitter or x and he's made mention that in the
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Epstein files, as mentioned of Donald Trump. I think
Speaker 2: Musk referred to this as time to drop the really
Speaker 2: big bomb. He said, the real reason the Epstein files
Speaker 2: haven't been released is because I named Trump. And then
Speaker 2: we get today from this David Showen, I can authoritatively,
Speaker 2: unequivocally and definitively say that Epstein had had no information
Speaker 2: to hurt President Trump. I specifically asked him. So that's
Speaker 2: from the lawyer working with Epstein before he died. Anyway,
Speaker 2: that's part of this side show. I mean, good luck
Speaker 2: Albo dealing with that. If he was in the room
Speaker 2: and there's cameras, who knows what Donald Trump will throw
Speaker 2: at the feet of our Prime minister. But tariffs will
Speaker 2: be back at top of the agenda with next week's
Speaker 2: meeting in Canada, mate with steel and beef topping that list.
Speaker 10: They certainly will be. And look, that is a I
Speaker 10: have been in a press conference in the White House
Speaker 10: with an Australian Prime Minister, Scott Morrison. We went in
Speaker 10: was just meant to be a quick photo shoot and
Speaker 10: Donald Trump talked for half an hour. This is the
Speaker 10: danger for leaders now appearing with the President of the
Speaker 10: United States. Ask President Zelenski, it doesn't matter who's there.
Speaker 10: He will say anything. He could get things wrong. He
Speaker 10: says things wrong. And this is an exact point on
Speaker 10: the tariffs.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 10: Originally, when the tariff first came up, Donald Trump specifically
Speaker 10: mentioned Australian beef producers and said Australia was not allowing
Speaker 10: as US beef into Australia because of tariffs, and that
Speaker 10: they were responding. Now that wasn't true. We have allowed
Speaker 10: the import of American beef if they can prove the
Speaker 10: biosecurity standards that they demand of Australian beef, and that
Speaker 10: is that you can after mad cow disease and a
Speaker 10: range of other diseases, that you can prove that your
Speaker 10: cattle that you are exporting, whether you killed or alive,
Speaker 10: have been where you can actually say the farm they've
Speaker 10: come from. Now, in the US they can't do that.
Speaker 10: Even if it's butchered, it may have come from Mexico,
Speaker 10: it may have come from Canada, and there is still
Speaker 10: a danger of mad cow disease in both Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 10: And so if we are going to accept US beef,
Speaker 10: then they have to demonstrate that it's a biosecurity issue
Speaker 10: and that it's safe and that comes from the US,
Speaker 10: not from Mexico or Canada. If they can't guarantee that,
Speaker 10: we won't let that in.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 10: This became an issue this week as tariffs raised again
Speaker 10: and Donald Trump put up steel tariffs again, and at
Speaker 10: first there was a big outcry from farmers. Anthony Albinezu
Speaker 10: responded quickly and said, look, we are not going to
Speaker 10: give in on biosecurity. We're not going to give on
Speaker 10: the beef. That is not a tariff issue. We're not
Speaker 10: giving in on it. And so he realized the danger
Speaker 10: there and worked very quickly. However, next week, in the
Speaker 10: so called sidelines of the G seven meeting, the Prime
Speaker 10: Minister is due to meet Donald Trump and have a discussion.
Speaker 10: Tariffs will be part of that, a big part of that,
Speaker 10: and Australia has been trying for some time now since
Speaker 10: the introduction of the first tariff, which included tariff's on
Speaker 10: penguins in Macquarie Island. We're trying to get a better
Speaker 10: deal on Australian steel and generally for Australia, but we're
Speaker 10: using minerals, critical minerals as a bargaining chip that we're
Speaker 10: saying we won't give way on our pharmaceutical schemes, we
Speaker 10: won't give way that's going to increase the cost of
Speaker 10: medicines on our PBS, and we won't give way on beef.
Speaker 10: So there's two areas there where the Prime Minister's already
Speaker 10: said we're not shifting. And there are a whole range
Speaker 10: of other areas where the US, sorry UK and the
Speaker 10: US have come to agreements. Canada has had an agreement.
Speaker 10: So there are a few countries and this week the
Speaker 10: US sent out a letter saying come to us with
Speaker 10: your best deal. The deadlines now, so next week we
Speaker 10: will see exactly what the Prime Minister can get out
Speaker 10: of Donald Trump, if anything, using our store of mineral
Speaker 10: of critical minerals. Now, Interestingly, Donald Trump said during the
Speaker 10: week that critical minerals were already a key issue in
Speaker 10: Ukraine because the Ukraine has critical minerals, and that was
Speaker 10: also part of his discussion with Jijiping of China. So
Speaker 10: critical minerals are the key that we can use to
Speaker 10: get some room. But we shouldn't give way on beef,
Speaker 10: and which is a biosecurity issue.
Speaker 13: Not a terrifistu.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course we've made mining the enemy so well,
Speaker 2: of a sudden, we've got a backflip again this time
Speaker 2: around critical It's it's madness I think made I actually
Speaker 2: think in the office or elsewhere that the Trump wild
Speaker 2: card is to say to Albo, hey, listen, mate, any
Speaker 2: chance he could pull your weight in defense, any chance
Speaker 2: he could do something, because I'm not sending our young
Speaker 2: men and women and you'll beck and cry, You've got
Speaker 2: to do your own heavy lifting. I think we're very vulnerable,
Speaker 2: there are we?
Speaker 11: Oh?
Speaker 3: We are?
Speaker 10: Now this is a big question. This is a second
Speaker 10: big question for Anthony alban Asi. Now the US at
Speaker 10: the Singapore Dialogue actually asked Richard Mayle Miles face to
Speaker 10: face for an increase in defense spending a three point
Speaker 10: five percent of GDP. Now, the Prime Minister and Richard
Speaker 10: Miles as Defense Minister, said where we are up for
Speaker 10: this conversation. He didn't confirm the three point five percent
Speaker 10: figure that came out of the US. But what we've
Speaker 10: actually got is clearly the US saying to us, and
Speaker 10: they've been saying to us all along and all their
Speaker 10: other allies, particularly in Europe, that we have to pull
Speaker 10: our own weight. We've had the US warning that there's
Speaker 10: possibility of a Chinese mainland China invasion of Taiwan being
Speaker 10: imminent and that this could occur before twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 10: and so there is huge pressure in the region on this.
Speaker 10: The Prime Minister has been to Indonesia and talked about
Speaker 10: defence Singapore likewise, Now I think what we have to do,
Speaker 10: and I think this is what the Prime Minister could
Speaker 10: be doing. He could be waiting till he sees Donald Trump.
Speaker 10: And then because Donald Trump's very keen about talking about
Speaker 10: not having any aces or any cards or any Trumps,
Speaker 10: then the Prime Minister can say, well, as a matter
Speaker 10: of fact, we're looking at doing this ourselves and not
Speaker 10: being seen to be doing at the behest of Donald Trump,
Speaker 10: because he's very keen not to be seen to be
Speaker 10: doing that. But he's keeping his powder dry. People who say, oh,
Speaker 10: he hasn't you know is rejected. No, he hasn't rejected
Speaker 10: the calls. He has kept his powder dry, and when
Speaker 10: the moment comes, he can then see whether it'll be enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, mate, have a great weekend. Love that
Speaker 2: a chat. Stay well, See you, Luke, see Dennis Shanahan
Speaker 2: back next week. It's nine to ten, almost five to ten.
Speaker 2: From the text line zero four six zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight seven three, Molena says, re super politicians also
Speaker 2: need to pay the super tax. Add this to the fight. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that defined super scheme is a yeah, sticks out like
Speaker 2: a sore thumb around this debate, doesn't it. Malena. I agree,
Speaker 2: Ron says Luke. I'm an ideas. Man If Albanesi government's
Speaker 2: tax on unrealized capital gains in super funds is enacted
Speaker 2: paid with unrealized income. Hey, I like that. There's my
Speaker 2: unrealized gain. Here's my unrealized income payment. Nice Garrett says.
Speaker 2: When Don chiplet capital gains tax pass, he said it
Speaker 2: would only raise a million a year. In the first
Speaker 2: year it raised nearly six hundred million. But where politicians
Speaker 2: and the thin end of the wedge, Wayne says the
Speaker 2: average super balance from men forty five to forty nine
Speaker 2: is two hundred and thirty three grand. I think it'll
Speaker 2: be a while before the vast majority of OLTI workers
Speaker 2: have to worry about the proposed super changes. But Wayne,
Speaker 2: I know you've got faith in government, but I think
Speaker 2: it starts with super. It goes to investment properties and
Speaker 2: all other investment classes, particularly when you've got a government
Speaker 2: that can't help itself but to spend and then tax
Speaker 2: its way out of the trouble it itself creates. Thanks
Speaker 2: for getting in touch, all right? One hour down, three
Speaker 2: more to go after the news Mark Bosnich on the
Speaker 2: sacking of Ange Posta Cogloo from Tottenham Hospital. Overnight, Hayden Walker,
Speaker 2: long range weather forecaster, and Simon Stephenson will be here
Speaker 2: asked a TRADEE can give Simon a call with anyy
Speaker 2: questions on one three one eight seven three. It's Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: It's the seventh day of June Long weekend in New
Speaker 2: South Wales and the Act but not so much in Queensland,
Speaker 2: so we'll just have to deal with all of that
Speaker 2: after the news, which is next.
Speaker 1: Across Australia, it's back to weekends with look grat.
Speaker 2: Hello there, thank you for joining you. It's seeing Sydney
Speaker 2: on two TB, in Brisbane on four BC and around
Speaker 2: Australia on the app one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: The open line number the text is zero four six
Speaker 2: zero eight seven three eight seven three and you can
Speaker 2: email me by going to the two GB or four
Speaker 2: BC website. There is a story in the Daily Telegraph
Speaker 2: in Sydney today and this is where I mean I
Speaker 2: support the premier. Chris means, oh no, Lukey supports a
Speaker 2: labor premier. Yeah, I do. I think he does a
Speaker 2: pretty good job. I think he's operating very much in
Speaker 2: his own because I think he's surrounded by at times
Speaker 2: inept ministers. But this is just I mean, this is
Speaker 2: just a no brainer. The Teley report today motors have
Speaker 2: been slugged more than one point nine million in fees
Speaker 2: that the government promised to cut. It comes after Transport
Speaker 2: Minister John Graham walk away from a pre election pledge
Speaker 2: to scrap quote unquote sneaky admin charges for drivers without ETags,
Speaker 2: and the Telegraph reveals the government's raised more than two
Speaker 2: million in admin fees on the Harbor Bridge and Tunnel
Speaker 2: in the past year, despite the Premier vowing from opposition
Speaker 2: to ditch the tolls on tolls. Well, I've just received
Speaker 2: a release from said Minister John Graham, and of course
Speaker 2: it's just all about not me. After twelve years of
Speaker 2: forming the governments of the former government's obsession with privatization,
Speaker 2: Sydney's been left with toll mania and we're trying to
Speaker 2: clean up the mess. And he says, we promise to
Speaker 2: make all toll road operators issue consolidated toll notices to
Speaker 2: stop gouging motorists. This election commitment will be fulfilled before
Speaker 2: the next election. What the hell are you doing sitting
Speaker 2: on your bloody hand saying, oh look at me, I'm
Speaker 2: a minister. This is why your government could be in trouble.
Speaker 2: The Premier is a standout. The rest of you are
Speaker 2: a joke. Premier, deal with these morons and it takes
Speaker 2: a front page in the Telegraph to get you on song?
Speaker 2: Does it really? Yeah, it's just an embarrassment, inept police minister.
Speaker 2: I could go on and on as for the environment, well,
Speaker 2: we'll just say that for another day.
Speaker 8: Good a, John, good mind, Look money, long story shot. Yes,
Speaker 8: three years ago we bought an apartment for two hundred
Speaker 8: and twenty four thousand dollars and the pension then was
Speaker 8: about six hundred y part tension from a wife and
Speaker 8: I now every year since then, they've been reassessing the
Speaker 8: value of this apartment and they have no value at
Speaker 8: four hundred and seventy five thousand, and they've cut my
Speaker 8: pension twice since then, so this tax is already here.
Speaker 2: Well, that's intriguing. So the value of your property, Gee,
Speaker 2: that doesn't sound like two twenty four going up to
Speaker 2: four hundred. I mean, I'm not doubting you, but you're
Speaker 2: seeing an unrealized gain coming into the assets test. I guess,
Speaker 2: so in a way it is there that's intriguing. John,
Speaker 2: just haven't chatted on my producers off there, so I
Speaker 2: can just get some further detail. I'd like to look
Speaker 2: into that and get a better understanding. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: One three, one eight seven three. I can't believe this.
Speaker 2: Maybe I should Ossie ange Pasta. Conglo has been sacked
Speaker 2: as manager of Tottenham Hotspur despite winning the EUAFA Europa
Speaker 2: League titled just a couple of weeks back, remember that
Speaker 2: how good was that? The fact he gave the lily
Speaker 2: Whites their first silverware in seventeen years wasn't enough to
Speaker 2: stop the club from terminating Ange. He's not just loved
Speaker 2: he Whitely in Australia. He's captured the hearts and minds
Speaker 2: of people everywhere, including Robbie Williams, who rejigged the lyrics
Speaker 2: of his song Angels for Big Ange.
Speaker 14: Play the way we want you with big Edge past
Speaker 14: the corblue.
Speaker 15: Will all ride all wrong.
Speaker 6: It's Big Gange fall.
Speaker 2: Case everywhere we go.
Speaker 16: I'm loving Big Gange instead.
Speaker 2: Amazing Soccero's legend goalkeeper for many of the great Premier
Speaker 2: League clothes, including man You Chelsea. Mark bosnich Is on
Speaker 2: the line Boss before I ask you about Ange. When
Speaker 2: you appeared on Freddy in the eighth with Brad Fittler
Speaker 2: and Andrew Johns almost one of my favorite things to
Speaker 2: watch each week. I thought you were brilliant, mate. I
Speaker 2: guess we need to know people watch this stuff and
Speaker 2: I absolutely loved it. And anyway, enough of that and
Speaker 2: got punted. He just wanted a trophy. What's doing here?
Speaker 17: Yeah, well, good morning to you, Luke, and thank you
Speaker 17: for that, for that lovely compliment.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it.
Speaker 6: What's going on here?
Speaker 17: Look, it's a surprise in one way, but in another
Speaker 17: way it's not. So like you just mentioned. They won
Speaker 17: their first major trophy in seventeen years, the second tier
Speaker 17: European competition in the Europa League. They won a couple
Speaker 17: of weeks ago in fine style against Manchester United, which
Speaker 17: allowed them to qualify for next year's top tier competition,
Speaker 17: the Champions League. Now there's been a lot of words,
Speaker 17: including from a lot of contacts I've had for quite
Speaker 17: some time, that it didn't matter whether or not he
Speaker 17: won it or not, which I found astounding at the time.
Speaker 17: But they unfortunate free and for all Austraine soccer supporters,
Speaker 17: you have to say they proved to be correct.
Speaker 6: Look what the guy.
Speaker 17: Explained to me, my contact explained to me when I
Speaker 17: sort of questioned him three weeks ago before the final, say, look,
Speaker 17: surely if you wins, he deserves the rights to take
Speaker 17: Topham into the you know, into his third season, and
Speaker 17: to take them into the Champions League next season. Was
Speaker 17: that basically that they lost twenty two games in the
Speaker 17: Premier League and they finished just one place above the
Speaker 17: relegation zone, and that that basically caught them thought that
Speaker 17: that wasn't good enough for them, which is I can
Speaker 17: understand that from one perspective, but from the other perspective
Speaker 17: as well, there have been some extenuating circumstances this season.
Speaker 17: There's not excuses.
Speaker 3: They have had a horrible injury toll.
Speaker 17: The other thing that must be said that soon as
Speaker 17: and had decided to focus on this competition to qualify
Speaker 17: for the Champions League. I wouldn't say they let the
Speaker 17: league go completely, but their eyes was off the ball.
Speaker 17: But the other thing that my friend explained to me
Speaker 17: was this, and he said this, and he put this
Speaker 17: so simply.
Speaker 6: We may never know.
Speaker 17: But something may have gone on behind closed doors between
Speaker 17: the chairman the boss, and that we may never know
Speaker 17: because if and when they pay him out, more than
Speaker 17: likely there'll be a non disclosure agreement. Now, like a
Speaker 17: lot of my friends or CEOs have said, if something
Speaker 17: has gone on one on one where it's been a
Speaker 17: bit inappropriate, let's let's put it that way. One of
Speaker 17: my old chairmen who's passed away now Deadly Doug Ellis,
Speaker 17: the third Deadly Doug Ellis. He was a chairman of
Speaker 17: mine at Aston Villa. He always used to tell me
Speaker 17: and some of the young boys. We used to listen
Speaker 17: to him intently and learn a lot that ninety nine
Speaker 17: percent of the time when the player has a fallout
Speaker 17: with the manager astro coach, the manager falls out. But
Speaker 17: he used to point to himself, he goes, but one
Speaker 17: hundred percent of the time if a manager falls out
Speaker 17: with me, the chairman, there's only going to be one winner,
Speaker 17: and that's the chairman. Unfortunately, that seems how it's panned
Speaker 17: out for Ange. But he can hold his head up
Speaker 17: very very high and hopefully he'll bounce back.
Speaker 3: Very very soon.
Speaker 2: Any idea where he might bounce back what he it
Speaker 2: have to be? I mean, everything said done, he still
Speaker 2: won this trophy, he'd be he'd be be did very
Speaker 2: well in Scotland. He'd be appealing, wouldn't he, Oh very much.
Speaker 17: So there's no doubt about that. I mean, I think
Speaker 17: another Premier League club will be taken. Clubs will be
Speaker 17: taking a close look at him, the very very top tier,
Speaker 17: like you you know, the real Madrids, the Barcelona, They
Speaker 17: might want to have a you know, like, you know,
Speaker 17: another look at him, just to see how thing's gone,
Speaker 17: because there have been instances this season where he hasn't
Speaker 17: done himself favors in press conferences and so forth. But
Speaker 17: the bottom line is he's produced in a very very
Speaker 17: difficult season, and obviously around Europe because you know, winning
Speaker 17: that trophy would have resonated with people all around Europe.
Speaker 17: And of course the style of football that he plays
Speaker 17: is a very appealing style for any manager. So I mean,
Speaker 17: he'll I'm sure he'll take his time unless he's got
Speaker 17: something else lined up. We don't know about that. I'm
Speaker 17: going to send him a texta this morning, just after
Speaker 17: I get the phone off of you, just just to
Speaker 17: say to him, you know, you won. At the end
Speaker 17: of the day, you won a trophy. But Thomas Sukel,
Speaker 17: who used to manage Chelsea, won the champions They get
Speaker 17: Chelsea and literally twelve months later was sacked as well.
Speaker 17: He put out it, and he's now England's manager. He
Speaker 17: put out a really good statement to say. It just
Speaker 17: goes to show that, you know, sometimes if your connection
Speaker 17: is not strong and the trust is not there with
Speaker 17: the people that are above you, at a club, winning
Speaker 17: trophies means nothing and unfortunately that seems to be a case.
Speaker 17: But I think, like I said, especially after that euphoria
Speaker 17: of winning that trophy, I actually think Topenham as a
Speaker 17: club have not done themselves any favors here whatsoever.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating two listeners text one from Shane Bob is
Speaker 2: an absolute legend. He's got the best love in Australia,
Speaker 2: even better than Jonathan Thurston. And this one made your
Speaker 2: love from Colin he says. Informed sources tell me he's
Speaker 2: off the lead to United.
Speaker 17: Well, the Leeds have been promoted from the Championship, which
Speaker 17: is division below the Premier League to the Premier League
Speaker 17: and their managers a chap called Daniel Fark. But the
Speaker 17: funny thing is if that occurred, I think there'll be
Speaker 17: a lot of Lead supporters and people around the world
Speaker 17: sort of saying, well, he's just got you promoted and
Speaker 17: now you've let him go. The only thing I will
Speaker 17: say for this in terms of what he's saying, the
Speaker 17: last two seasons straight, the three teams that have been
Speaker 17: promoted from the Championship have gone straight back down. So
Speaker 17: there are clubs now looking thinking do we need to
Speaker 17: do something a little bit different to make sure that
Speaker 17: we stay in the Premier League. So you never know.
Speaker 17: In our sort, I mean they say, are week's a
Speaker 17: long time in politics, in our sport, in football a
Speaker 17: days a very long time.
Speaker 2: Love your work, Boz, good to talk you mate, Thanks
Speaker 2: so much, care Lucie, thank you too, all the best
Speaker 2: youre Mark Bosnich And of course he can see I
Speaker 2: should say you can see Boza on Stan part of
Speaker 2: nine of which we're part obviously. Yeah, one, three, one,
Speaker 2: eight seven three in a moment or two. Hayden Walker
Speaker 2: long range weather forecaster. Yeah, it's twenty one after ten o'clock.
Speaker 2: Just on the text line morning. Luke Gange Pasta Cooglu
Speaker 2: is an AFL fan. He actually supports the Blues. He'll
Speaker 2: be soon back in Melbourne coaching Carlton. Thank you, Tony.
Speaker 2: Listening in Sydney, I heard that ant Posta Coglu is
Speaker 2: about to coach Queensland in Origin if things don't turn
Speaker 2: around quickly. And I'm also told that ant Posta Coglu
Speaker 2: could well be appointed to run Doze with Donald Trump
Speaker 2: after the fallout with you see, everyone's got sources and
Speaker 2: John you've obviously done this text via Siri and I'll
Speaker 2: read it to you exactly as it comes through. Buzza
Speaker 2: is a champion surces full stop. Tell me he's off
Speaker 2: to Athens full stop. Send yes, Ah, that's fantastic, fantastic,
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for all the notes. At the start
Speaker 2: of every new season, we'd love to have a chat
Speaker 2: to the long range weather forecaster, Hayden Walker. Plenty of
Speaker 2: you enjoy what we have to what we hear from
Speaker 2: Hayden and encourage us to keep talking. Well, you don't
Speaker 2: have to encourage us. We'll continue to talk to. Hayden
Speaker 2: is a very good man and we like what he
Speaker 2: does with weather. He doesn't mince about he says it
Speaker 2: like it is, and his methods of predicting are very
Speaker 2: much different to what we're normally served up with, often wrong,
Speaker 2: not his what we're served up with. He monitors the
Speaker 2: sun solar flares. Historical data goes back well over one
Speaker 2: hundred years, and for the most part we've found his
Speaker 2: predictions to be more reliable as to many of his clients.
Speaker 2: Now the bomb that's the Bureau are saying day and
Speaker 2: night temperatures will be warmer than average across Australia. This
Speaker 2: winter and rain four will be within the typical winter range.
Speaker 2: Let's see what Hayden has to say about that. Hayden
Speaker 2: Walker of Hayden Walker's Weather is on.
Speaker 6: The line of you will yesler than yourself.
Speaker 2: Very very mate. Talk to you again and thank you
Speaker 2: once again for your time. So I was looking at
Speaker 2: the bureaus seasonal forecast, and again, you know, they say
Speaker 2: things will be slightly warmer, and there might be a
Speaker 2: little bit more rain here, but generally within the typical
Speaker 2: winter range. Does that match with what you're thinking?
Speaker 9: Not completely. No, the temperatures will be around the average,
Speaker 9: with a sort of a plus or minus or one
Speaker 9: or two degrees, but certainly sadden. You'll get down into
Speaker 9: the low digits, and when you go out further west,
Speaker 9: it'll be getting into the negative down to negative three
Speaker 9: and down on the southern tableland and so forth down
Speaker 9: to negative six and lower. But the fact of the
Speaker 9: matter is that we want to be cautious about the
Speaker 9: chill factor from the wind. The temperatures might be reasonable,
Speaker 9: so to speak, but the chill factor from the wind,
Speaker 9: that's the one that makes it very cold. And that's
Speaker 9: with these frontal systems coming through New south Wales, So
Speaker 9: that will be the chilling effect the temperatures, I believe, well,
Speaker 9: you know, we can probably handle those and that respect,
Speaker 9: we'll get down to the lower digits for the coast.
Speaker 9: But at the same time, as you go to the
Speaker 9: west in the Camra and the southern table ends and
Speaker 9: so forth, you'll start getting down to the minuses. But
Speaker 9: the crux of the matter will be that chill factor
Speaker 9: from the southwest at least, coming probably from the snow
Speaker 9: and so forth, and that will have an effect on
Speaker 9: the coolness and the coldness right temperatures.
Speaker 2: A lot of us still, mate, and you know this,
Speaker 2: we've got the words of Tim Flannery rattling around our heads.
Speaker 2: It will never rain enough to fill a dam. And
Speaker 2: of course it's some time on, but we see the
Speaker 2: dams up around ninety percent, no doubt there'll be a
Speaker 2: point where they're a lot lower than that. But the
Speaker 2: idea that was never going to rain again to that
Speaker 2: extent is purely fiction. There's no other word fraud. It's
Speaker 2: just fictional. Yet this man continues to belauded in the
Speaker 2: right circles. I'm sure he's done some very good work.
Speaker 2: But just on that prediction, he's failed alive, I would
Speaker 2: say my listeners would agree. I'm sure miserably. What do
Speaker 2: you say about rain over winter?
Speaker 9: Well, the rainfall over winter, Well, there's certainly more for winter.
Speaker 9: There's certainly more for winter, and especially to the eastern
Speaker 9: half of the state, there's some reasonably good to good falls,
Speaker 9: especially to the coast during June, and then when we
Speaker 9: get into July there will be further rain and go
Speaker 9: further further out west. And then also in August, we
Speaker 9: need to be careful. Probably on the cusp of end
Speaker 9: of July, beginning of August, there's rainfall into the central
Speaker 9: southern interior and that'll extend onto the coast and there
Speaker 9: may be some further flooding. I know that word flooding.
Speaker 9: We've had enough of it. But at the same time,
Speaker 9: it looks like it's moving to the south, and i'd
Speaker 9: say it along that south coast may be a problem
Speaker 9: in relation to some good to heavy falls. So yeah, look,
Speaker 9: winter rain, there is winter rainfall. There. There's some good,
Speaker 9: some good falls in parts, especially to the eastern half,
Speaker 9: ranging from you know, a couple of inches through into
Speaker 9: the heavier falls disgusted with that August period. So look,
Speaker 9: there is rainfall ahead and there will be above average
Speaker 9: for some areas.
Speaker 2: What about those grad effected areas, Mike, do you see
Speaker 2: them getting some relief on the outskirts.
Speaker 9: Yes, there is some relief, but way further out west
Speaker 9: there may be difficult still. But you know in July
Speaker 9: probably the month that it would be a better month
Speaker 9: in relation to rainfall for the outer areas, and also
Speaker 9: partner and also in August. But yes, so there's some
Speaker 9: some areas there right on the way out that's going
Speaker 9: to be difficult for them.
Speaker 2: We've seen some pretty heavy rain as you well know
Speaker 2: parts of New South Wales along the coast, and we
Speaker 2: shouldn't forget in parts of Queensland as well. Did you
Speaker 2: did you foresee that when you were looking at the
Speaker 2: previous season.
Speaker 9: Yes, I did, Yes, Yes, I said there'd be heavy
Speaker 9: falls along the coastline of New South Wales from the
Speaker 9: beginning of the year right through. There'll be situations where
Speaker 9: there'll be there'll be heavy rain on the coast.
Speaker 2: So yes, Nina, Nina, because I've actaid that before and
Speaker 2: you have a firm view here, please share it.
Speaker 9: Yes, it's based on sunspot activity in solar flare so
Speaker 9: I'll live off the sun, so that if there's a
Speaker 9: change in the extreme conditions from the Sun, it'll change
Speaker 9: our weather conditions. So the sun's going through our solar maximum,
Speaker 9: which means the sun becomes alive, and therefore it has
Speaker 9: a bearing on our weather and therefore we get extreme
Speaker 9: weather conditions in relation to floods and extreme temperatures and
Speaker 9: so forth, heavy rain. So when the sun goes back
Speaker 9: into a dormant stage, it quietens down, we get the
Speaker 9: drought conditions. So the sun currently is at a peak
Speaker 9: condition at our solo maximum, and this is why we're
Speaker 9: receiving so much rain for them, so much extremes.
Speaker 2: When does it what period of time is it a
Speaker 2: pattern where it becomes dormant. How long a way is that?
Speaker 9: Well, it runs an eleven year cycle, and therefore we're
Speaker 9: right at the peak now. So over the next two
Speaker 9: years three years will start to slow down, but certainly
Speaker 9: we have further rainfall at the end of the year,
Speaker 9: and then next year there's further rainfall, but not every month,
Speaker 9: it'll be particular months, so it'll start to wane. It'll
Speaker 9: start to head down into its solar minimum, and then
Speaker 9: we'll get those drought conditions. So at the moment we're
Speaker 9: at the peak, and there's further there's some further heavy
Speaker 9: rains next year, so at the beginning, so it'll still linger,
Speaker 9: but it'll start to weanhe in the next say three
Speaker 9: or four years. But at that stage there are circumstances
Speaker 9: where it can sort of live, not for a short period,
Speaker 9: and then as it goes down goes down, there's a
Speaker 9: couple of glimpses where it'll it'll live. But at the moment,
Speaker 9: last year and this year is the peak.
Speaker 2: I know some questions I ask you each time we chat,
Speaker 2: but I'm conscious that we have new listeners hearing perhaps
Speaker 2: you for the first or only the second time. Now.
Speaker 2: The Bureau, I think their records go back to the
Speaker 2: nineteen twenties, go back a lot longer than that. Your
Speaker 2: records are your records, and the viaus some would say homoginized.
Speaker 2: Just talk to me about the records you rely on.
Speaker 9: Well, the records I have right back to when Captain
Speaker 9: Cook first arrive and therefore the late seventeen hundreds, and
Speaker 9: it also extends into the eighteen hundred, so I have
Speaker 9: records that go right back to that situation. Whereby you know,
Speaker 9: we had certain floods, the hawks, buros, thirty five fifty feet,
Speaker 9: et cetera, et cetera. So we have all those records
Speaker 9: or throughout Australia, and I'm able to go back onto
Speaker 9: those records and look at those records and forecast the
Speaker 9: future based on records based on the past, and I
Speaker 9: tie that in with what's happening on the Sun's surface. So,
Speaker 9: say twelve months ago, if someone phoned me instead of
Speaker 9: got near the forecast or what's happening in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 9: I'd go back to certain records, certain cycles, and I'll
Speaker 9: have a look. Then I project it forward to twenty
Speaker 9: twenty five, and that's how I come up with my
Speaker 9: forecast in that respect. So that's why I've been able
Speaker 9: to predict a heavy rain and so forth. I'm monark
Speaker 9: in the sun every day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, gotcha. One of my listeners wants me to ask
Speaker 2: you when you think winter begins. Of course we go
Speaker 2: by the first of June, but what do you count
Speaker 2: as the official beginning of winter?
Speaker 9: Look at the beginning of winter. It starts to shape
Speaker 9: at the end of May. I believe in relation to
Speaker 9: how the cycles and how the highs and loads are situated.
Speaker 9: So I believe that, you know, at the end of
Speaker 9: May we're starting to look at how it's shaping, and
Speaker 9: then sometimes it's a late start for winter, so therefore
Speaker 9: it may extend into a September period. And that's what
Speaker 9: I'm looking at for the snow season. I think we
Speaker 9: discussed that last time. I said there'd be a good
Speaker 9: snow season, there'd be some heavy falls. It'll be a
Speaker 9: late one particularly, it'll probably start to really ramp ramp
Speaker 9: up at the end of the June beginning of July,
Speaker 9: and it'll extend through into September, so there'll be some
Speaker 9: pretty good falls.
Speaker 2: Yeah, excellent, all right mate. If people want to know
Speaker 2: more about your excellent work, we send them to your website.
Speaker 9: Which is Hayden Walker's weather Okay dot com. You so, yes,
Speaker 9: you've build information there and that anyone can bring me
Speaker 9: any time and so forth email me at the same time.
Speaker 2: Brilliant Thank you every time. I'd always good to talk
Speaker 2: to you.
Speaker 6: Great, Thanks Luke, thank you, yeah.
Speaker 2: You too, Hayden Walker. Now it's coming up to twenty
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Speaker 2: North Hobar June three. Last night, they were found dead
Speaker 2: near a crashed vehicle in northeast Tasmania by police officers.
Speaker 2: Police Inspector Luke Manhood said police found the car in
Speaker 2: water at five point thirty. The pair were found near
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Speaker 2: it appears they were traveling over a bridge when the
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Speaker 2: reno questions. There's no job that's either too big or
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Speaker 2: you one three one eight seven three for doing some
Speaker 2: stuff around the house and you're not sure on what
Speaker 2: to do next or where to go. We'll tell you
Speaker 2: where to go. Simon sitting next to me, how are
Speaker 2: you doing? Good? May yourself very well? Indeed, that's good.
Speaker 2: We're talking about fillers today. Yes, and I had a
Speaker 2: jip rock wall I had to repair and gosh, I'm
Speaker 2: hopeless at that. I am just hopeless. I put too
Speaker 2: much filler in. I'm frightened to stand it in case
Speaker 2: I strip it all out. I'm just hopeless. But does
Speaker 2: it come down to the right filler? Look? It does?
Speaker 14: I mean there's a lot of different fillers and making
Speaker 14: sure you use the correct one for your job. But
Speaker 14: you know, like you just said, I come across so
Speaker 14: many people doing it that put too much filler on. Yeah,
Speaker 14: so they're wasting product. They're also then have to send
Speaker 14: all that product back, so they're just taking way much
Speaker 14: too much time. They're going to cause too much dust.
Speaker 14: So if you are filling nail holes jip rock areas,
Speaker 14: two tight skims, you know, just put enough filler on
Speaker 14: that you need without going too much. We had six
Speaker 14: thousand nail holes.
Speaker 2: To fill this week. Thousand.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I calculated it by measuring one row and then
Speaker 14: it worked out. So we had a roughly roughly about
Speaker 14: six thousand nail holes to fill this week. You've got
Speaker 14: the you know, the the chippies there with their nail
Speaker 14: guns going going berserk. It's not like the days with
Speaker 14: the old hammer where they don't want to hammer too
Speaker 14: many in there, the guns going back back, back back back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, painter's nightmare. So escape skim.
Speaker 14: So we used a filler, and it was a gloss filler,
Speaker 14: so it's designed for small holes los filler yeah, so
Speaker 14: it sort of stops too much bleeding through the paint.
Speaker 2: Sort of things. It's something you mix up. No, no,
Speaker 2: it comes in a container.
Speaker 14: It's a poly filler product we used, and it's it's
Speaker 14: a great product. It's designed for water, you know, water outside,
Speaker 14: use it inside as well.
Speaker 2: Try as fast.
Speaker 14: But the thing is, I said to the guys, make
Speaker 14: sure you do a really tight skim. We use a
Speaker 14: flexible blade. Make sure you do a tight skim because
Speaker 14: there's going to be less sanding. Plastic blade, steel blade,
Speaker 14: just really flexible one. And I said, virtually fill the
Speaker 14: hole and then just wipe all excess off. It's going
Speaker 14: to save us a lot of work of sandy, even
Speaker 14: though we're using sanders to do the job. But you know,
Speaker 14: it's just going to it's just going to take a
Speaker 14: lot less time when it comes down to sort of
Speaker 14: fixing it. And I thought it'd be a really good
Speaker 14: time to just explain to people with that because i've
Speaker 14: you know, even the guy on the job. The carpenters
Speaker 14: were doing a bit of filling and he said to
Speaker 14: the carpenters, may leave that to the pain as we
Speaker 14: stop right now because where they did fill was looking
Speaker 14: pretty ugly.
Speaker 2: So I end up with not quite well, a mound
Speaker 2: that's clearly visible off the wall, and I sand it
Speaker 2: and sand it and to get smooth, and then I
Speaker 2: paint it and it's still it's still prominent. The idea
Speaker 2: is to not have that prominence and meant to look
Speaker 2: like the wall.
Speaker 14: You're better off putting multiple coats of filler on right, right,
Speaker 14: and thinner coats. You think about that too. It's going
Speaker 14: to dry faster being a thinner coats and pill. It's
Speaker 14: not going to shrink. Sometimes if you put too much
Speaker 14: fill on, they can then when they when they're drying,
Speaker 14: they'll shrink and they'll actually crack. So, yeah, you're better
Speaker 14: off multiple coats, drying faster and less sanding.
Speaker 2: Yeah, much better job. Just don't want to let Mitch
Speaker 2: know we're not talking about the filler that your well
Speaker 2: as you refer to her, your ex wife might have used.
Speaker 2: This is feeling.
Speaker 14: This is for timber and for jip rock, not for
Speaker 14: facial products.
Speaker 2: How dare you turn this show into that, Steve? How
Speaker 2: can we help you?
Speaker 18: Well?
Speaker 12: Good morning, So i'monkin, Good morning, look a wonderful segment
Speaker 12: you've got here, and thank if it's take.
Speaker 6: My call, thank you, I've got so I.
Speaker 12: Have a problem. I've got a pool that was used
Speaker 12: in Pebble Crute and it's got a beach front entryway
Speaker 12: to it, and on the on the beach, the beach
Speaker 12: front part under Pebble Crute was there's no chance in
Speaker 12: the world you could slip over. There wouldn't matter how
Speaker 12: much graham or whatever was there. I've recoded it in
Speaker 12: the Duels for pools glass breeding product.
Speaker 6: And it is absolutely beautiful.
Speaker 12: But it doesn't matter how clean I make the beachfront.
Speaker 6: Entryway, it is still slippery.
Speaker 12: As you know what. So and I contacted an R.
Speaker 6: Glass about this.
Speaker 12: I mean, I've been of I listened to this program
Speaker 12: every week and before you before you're breaking, after your return,
Speaker 12: and a nor Glass has meant the greatest thing on earth.
Speaker 8: But they replied to.
Speaker 12: Me to the extent of they didn't they couldn't provide
Speaker 12: me with an.
Speaker 6: Answer as to what to do it.
Speaker 12: So I simply dump the water, you know, cleaning the
Speaker 12: boot front entryway, and you know it's a bit something,
Speaker 12: a bit of grit on it, so when you're getting
Speaker 12: out of the pool, you don't go bum up. And
Speaker 12: that's what I'm that's the problem, because someone could actually
Speaker 12: really hurt themselves or you know, if someone's there at
Speaker 12: my place on their own, you know, they could bang
Speaker 12: their head and go.
Speaker 6: They could be the end of them. I know.
Speaker 14: I look, I know all about banging heads because I
Speaker 14: did it this week on the concrete. So not real
Speaker 14: good mate, to be honest with you, I think that
Speaker 14: is this area you're talking about, is it going to
Speaker 14: be underwater where you're slipping?
Speaker 12: It's always underwater? Okay, Okay, so it's only a gradual slope, right,
Speaker 12: but the gradual slope is it can get slippery yep,
Speaker 12: and like and when I walk up trab walk up
Speaker 12: there and you just walk out standing up?
Speaker 14: You know again, So are you saying the pebble crete?
Speaker 12: See I've now got the duels for pool. Okay, so
Speaker 12: the glass booted product. I need to put something on
Speaker 12: top of that product so you've got a bit of
Speaker 12: purchase when you're trying to get out.
Speaker 14: All right, So what I have done I have painted
Speaker 14: a few swimming pools previously, and when i've painted them,
Speaker 14: when I've done steps, and I learned this from a
Speaker 14: pool painter. We coated the swimming pool and when we
Speaker 14: did the steps, we actually got coarse salt, and we
Speaker 14: dropped the salt into the paint while it was wet,
Speaker 14: and it would make little holes.
Speaker 2: In the paint work.
Speaker 14: And then when you filled the swimming pool up, the
Speaker 14: salt would disappear and leave a grit and leave a
Speaker 14: little bit of a rough surface.
Speaker 2: And it was fantastic. It worked really really well.
Speaker 14: Now, whether you can do something like that with this area,
Speaker 14: you need to put another coat of something down, You
Speaker 14: need some sort of aggregate in there. But whether this
Speaker 14: pools I don't know the product you've used, but whether
Speaker 14: it's something you can coat on put some of that
Speaker 14: rough salt in it and create a bit of a
Speaker 14: rough area.
Speaker 2: You mean, like rock salt, the biggest sauce.
Speaker 14: Absolutely so, yeah, some core salt, you know. It sat
Speaker 14: in there and then once you filled the water up,
Speaker 14: the salt disappeared and left these.
Speaker 2: Little craters and it worked. N real work done, real.
Speaker 2: So I just don't know.
Speaker 14: Maybe you can send me some information via email a
Speaker 14: little bit more and maybe we're going to discuss it
Speaker 14: a little bit more.
Speaker 2: Excellent, Steve, stay there, mate, and Kitty will give you
Speaker 2: the way to contact Simon with more information. That's amazing.
Speaker 14: Oh, look, the things you learned from tradings, you know,
Speaker 14: from other trades that I learned.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just great. You know you have some information
Speaker 2: on that to do something. Good morning, Serena.
Speaker 19: Oh, good morning, Simon. We have a problem with the
Speaker 19: discoloring of roof tiles and the riches I think need
Speaker 19: re cementing. Do you have anybody that's reliable? And you know,
Speaker 19: I'm a bit scared. We're you know, we're not young,
Speaker 19: and you know, we don't want to just get somebody
Speaker 19: from the paper.
Speaker 14: And look, I totally understand where you're coming from. Can
Speaker 14: you tell me what area you're from? What suburb Kellyville? Key, Look,
Speaker 14: I don't have anybody in Kellyville, the Kellyville area. What
Speaker 14: I can suggest is possibly go to a roofing company,
Speaker 14: somebody that supplies roof tiles. It is roof tiles you're
Speaker 14: dealing with. I guess you know, maybe one of the companies,
Speaker 14: the smaller companies that supply because they will supply to tradesmen, right,
Speaker 14: they will supply the roof tiles. And if you go
Speaker 14: there and say, listen, do you do you any one
Speaker 14: you can recommend, because see they get the tilers to
Speaker 14: come in They usually have a pretty good idea. Who's good,
Speaker 14: who's not?
Speaker 2: You know, who's a bit dodgy? You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: I've done that myself.
Speaker 14: If I've needed a trades person, I'll go into a
Speaker 14: company and we're not talking about Bunnings. We're talking about,
Speaker 14: you know, a small roofing company and ask them that
Speaker 14: way and that sometimes it works.
Speaker 6: Well.
Speaker 2: I've done that, mysilf.
Speaker 14: I've done it with tilers. I've gone to a tile
Speaker 14: shop yeah and said can I have six recommendations?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And you get them. Absolutely. There you go, Serena
Speaker 2: Best of Black. Thank you for your call. It's coming
Speaker 2: up to thirteen to eleven. We better say get eate
Speaker 2: a gill or sorry Jill, hi, Jill, Now I am
Speaker 2: good mate, yourself?
Speaker 6: Good, good listen.
Speaker 20: I've seen in the last week some bubbling of the
Speaker 20: paint down the bottom of the wall near the skirting board.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 20: And I just wonder whether I should scrape that back
Speaker 20: and let it breathe or what should I do?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I would do that. What's the other side of
Speaker 14: that wall? Is it a bathroom or a kitchen?
Speaker 2: Neither?
Speaker 20: It's double brick, Okay, so it's an outside wall. No, No,
Speaker 20: it's internal. So on the other side I've got it's
Speaker 20: kind of in between a bathroom and a bedroom.
Speaker 14: Okay, so the wall the other side of the wall
Speaker 14: that you're talking about could be the bathroom.
Speaker 20: Is that what you're saying, could be the bathroom or
Speaker 20: half half, But it's the bathroom door. It's not the plumbing.
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, but there might be some plumbing through there.
Speaker 14: There could be some water issue on the floor getting
Speaker 14: leaking through. I would say that there's an issue in
Speaker 14: the bathroom with a waterproof membrane. Somewhere there's water getting
Speaker 14: into that wall and it's it's actually soaking into the
Speaker 14: double brick and then it's causing the bubble bubbling of
Speaker 14: the paint. So you need to find out what's causing it.
Speaker 14: What I would do is turn all the taps off
Speaker 14: at home and go and look at your water meter.
Speaker 14: That's the first thing to check, because if you've got
Speaker 14: a leak behind the wall that's not due to a
Speaker 14: tap washer, which is possibly that could be a leak
Speaker 14: behind a wall, you know, That's what I'd be checking.
Speaker 14: And also what I find is in showers where the
Speaker 14: taps are sometimes where the cover plate is that covers
Speaker 14: the spin. Water can get behind those and get into
Speaker 14: the holes where the tap screw in and it can
Speaker 14: leak down the back of the wall. So that's another issue.
Speaker 2: Right, how do you you can there is a device
Speaker 2: with which you can measure moisture, isn't there?
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Yeah? But do they work? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Absolutely they do. I've got one so they you know,
Speaker 14: you'll put two prongs onto it and it'll give you
Speaker 14: a percentage of how much moisture. But we know there's
Speaker 14: moisture there because there's bubbling paint. Paint doesn't bubble for
Speaker 14: no reason. It's usually moisture that's causing it. So it's
Speaker 14: a matter of now finding why the water is getting
Speaker 14: in there, whether it's a membrane, breakdown, a pipe or
Speaker 14: leaking in from somewhere else.
Speaker 2: All right, one three one eight seven three to have
Speaker 2: a chat to Simon. We'll take a break back after this.
Speaker 2: It's eleven to eleven, eight to eleven times getting away.
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Smith is CEO of Master Plumbers Association of New
Speaker 2: South Wales. Is called through Simon Nathaniel, good to chat
Speaker 2: again and you can help us out with where we
Speaker 2: should send people that want licensed plumbers.
Speaker 21: Mate, Yes, lute, thank you, Simon.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 9: Important that you use license plumber if.
Speaker 21: You have any plumbing issues. And the best way to
Speaker 21: do that is to go to master plumbers dot com
Speaker 21: dot au and search for find a plumber and in
Speaker 21: that segment of the website you just put your postcode
Speaker 21: and you'll find a local licensed plumber. All about plumbers
Speaker 21: are licensed, they've got company licenses and they follow a
Speaker 21: code of ethics.
Speaker 14: Yeahtin, excellent, fantastic mate. I really appreciate that. And as
Speaker 14: you said, you know, don't do plumbing yourself. Yeh, Absolutely,
Speaker 14: you need a license plumber. It's not something you're allowed
Speaker 14: to do yourself. Yeah, it is something you have to
Speaker 14: have a plumber to do.
Speaker 2: So thanks Saneel good to chat mate Bob online one.
Speaker 2: We have to be quick with callers with apologies.
Speaker 6: Bob.
Speaker 2: How can we help you, mate?
Speaker 22: Yeah, I had a branch on the tree fall down
Speaker 22: onto the roof and crack the tile and with all
Speaker 22: the ryan came through and it's blended on the earling
Speaker 22: came through the insulation bat yep, and there's a big
Speaker 22: stain on the seling. I was just wondering do I
Speaker 22: have to replace that, or can you?
Speaker 14: As long as long as there's no bowing to the ceiling,
Speaker 14: you know, as long as it hasn't collapsed at all,
Speaker 14: and it's only a stain itself, you need to put
Speaker 14: a stained seiler on there. I use something called zinsa
Speaker 14: bin b I N. It's a red and white label,
Speaker 14: so it's a methylated spirits based paint and it will
Speaker 14: hold back those stains. So that's what you use to
Speaker 14: hold the stain back, and then you can put on
Speaker 14: a ceiling paint over the top.
Speaker 2: All right, best of like Bob Bros. How can we
Speaker 2: help you this morning?
Speaker 23: Yes, good morning, Simon Luke.
Speaker 2: Good one.
Speaker 23: I have very slippery tiles in both my bathrooms and
Speaker 23: I use a rubber mats in the show, but I'm
Speaker 23: still terrified I'm going to fall. Is there anything I
Speaker 23: can put on the tiles other than ripping them up
Speaker 23: that would make them less slippery?
Speaker 14: Look, you can try a product called d T a
Speaker 14: anti slip of available at a tile shops, sometimes at
Speaker 14: Bunnings or might a ten might carry it as well.
Speaker 2: So it's the three letters d T a anti slip.
Speaker 14: And what you do is you actually put that onto
Speaker 14: the surface. Let it sit for fifteen minutes, and it
Speaker 14: microscopically etches the surface of your tiles. It says in
Speaker 14: the directions to do an inconspicuous area. So if you've
Speaker 14: got a spare tile, first try it out, Okay, before
Speaker 14: you go doing the whole bathroom.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's at DTA anti slip yep ros. I've got
Speaker 2: the same problem in Fears and I'll be doing that
Speaker 2: in the next week. And thank you so much for
Speaker 2: calling Margaret. Don't hang up to stay there. I'm sure
Speaker 2: Simon'll chat to you briefly on the way out. Good
Speaker 2: to see you, mate. Good to see you mate. I
Speaker 2: think glad you survived the four you told us about that.
Speaker 2: People got to be careful, don't you.
Speaker 18: Well.
Speaker 14: Look, I've contacted the ladder company. I found a little
Speaker 14: bit of a design fault in the ladder which I
Speaker 14: think needs to be changed. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2: We'll maybe talk about this next week. See you mate.
Speaker 2: Thanks great stuff.
Speaker 24: Thank you.
Speaker 2: By Simon Stevenson. Our new's not far Away man has
Speaker 2: died after a single vehicle crash in the Riverina region.
Speaker 2: This is Sebastopol today two thirty fifteen k south of Tumora.
Speaker 2: The driver of the car, man in his twenties, was
Speaker 2: treated by paramedics, but he could not be revived and
Speaker 2: died at the scene. He's yet to be formally identified.
Speaker 2: There was a passenger to an eighteen year old man
Speaker 2: that was not injured. He's off to Wogga Wogga Base Hospital.
Speaker 2: Be careful on the roads across Australia. It's back to
Speaker 2: weekends with Luke Grant. Hello there, I hope things are
Speaker 2: good for you on this Saturday. It's the seventh of
Speaker 2: June for those playing along at home, and wonderful to
Speaker 2: have you with us. Tom Jones's birthday today and we'll
Speaker 2: make mention of that, along with a whole bunch of
Speaker 2: Tom Jones trivia when we get to Craig Bennett after
Speaker 2: midday leaf fan Onslin coming up shortly. We'll get a
Speaker 2: market update with Glenn Munsey at a lad break Sala
Speaker 2: Stoles from Domain with the Real Estate News, speaking of
Speaker 2: which I was through the week doing some work on
Speaker 2: one or two issues that we are doing some work on.
Speaker 2: Queenslanders need to earn around one hundred thousand dollars more
Speaker 2: a year to afford a typical home than before the
Speaker 2: pandemic boom. According to new analysis, one hundred thousand more year.
Speaker 2: The staggering pay rise places Brisbane just behind Sydney in
Speaker 2: terms of the extra income required per household since COVID nineteen.
Speaker 2: This is analysis from Canstar. It shows the minimum annual
Speaker 2: household income necessary to avoid mortgage stress when purchasing at
Speaker 2: the median unit or house price. An income of one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one thousand was needed for a median
Speaker 2: priced house in Greater Brisbane in May twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: compared to seventy two thousand in March twenty twenty huh
Speaker 2: for units one hundred and twenty thousand dollars required today
Speaker 2: pre pandemic fifty two thousand. This is astonishing. ABS figures
Speaker 2: put median weekly earnings in Queensland at a one thousand,
Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty in August twenty twenty four, or
Speaker 2: seventy thousand a year, about one hundred and forty thousand
Speaker 2: per household. The wage increase was only greater in Sydney,
Speaker 2: where householders or households now need a massive two hundred
Speaker 2: and seventy two thousand, up from one hundred and forty
Speaker 2: five thousand and twenty twenty at a suburb level. Canstar's
Speaker 2: research revealed nearly fifty Queensland locations where the difference in
Speaker 2: household income had ballooned by two hundred grand or more.
Speaker 2: Coastal and inner city hotspots led with buyers and surfers
Speaker 2: paradise needing a whipping four hundred and eighty one thousand
Speaker 2: dollars more per household. I mean, look this, and partly
Speaker 2: it's a generational debate, isn't it. I remember back in
Speaker 2: the day when interest rates were twenty percent. Me too,
Speaker 2: I certainly do. But the multiple of incomes per house
Speaker 2: value I think is rather instructive. I'll tell you what's not.
Speaker 2: That was the debate I saw through the week about
Speaker 2: our baby boomers had their there they talk about buying
Speaker 2: a home when they were younger, all this age stuff. Look,
Speaker 2: I know, and I've said it a million times, ages
Speaker 2: them is the acceptable ism you can get away with that.
Speaker 2: I think that's well, for me, highly offensive, But surely
Speaker 2: the debate can run a bit deeper than that. You know,
Speaker 2: hashtag just saying it should it really should. But what
Speaker 2: qualifies its political debate in Australia is how do I
Speaker 2: say it? Depressing? That's how I say it. Each week
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Speaker 3: The weather's turned pretty miserable down here in Melbourn. Unfortunately
Speaker 3: we had an absolute fools paradise spring whereby I reckon
Speaker 3: about four weeks ago. Is that's the swimming at the
Speaker 3: beach which you never do in Melbourn?
Speaker 6: Yeah, this time of year.
Speaker 3: But suddenly it's just hit us like a punch, punch
Speaker 3: in the nose. So unfortunately, mate, it's going to be
Speaker 3: a bit wet and a bit cold, so I'll probably
Speaker 3: just stay in doors and do some other stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, nothing wrong with that, now you you say that
Speaker 2: the government in return for now a couple of weeks
Speaker 2: already we should be getting policy whiplash. Why do you
Speaker 2: say that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: So this week, well, earlier this week, I should say,
Speaker 3: it looked like the Albanese government was going to make
Speaker 3: some sort of sensible policy compromises in a bunch of areas,
Speaker 3: but later in the week they pretty much have done
Speaker 3: a one eighty degree turn it seems, and have fumbled
Speaker 3: the balls. So you know, the first area is gas, right,
Speaker 3: So you discussed in detail last week it appeared that
Speaker 3: Labor was open to establish an East Coast gas reservation policy,
Speaker 3: effectively emulating the excellent policy that the Coalition took to
Speaker 3: the election. Now I'll just give a very quick refresher say,
Speaker 3: in case you missed last week, the Rod Guillay government
Speaker 3: in the early twenty tens made the disastrous decision to
Speaker 3: improve l G exports out of Gladstone, Queensland without requiring
Speaker 3: gas producers to supply the domestic market first. And because
Speaker 3: this effectively made East Coast Australia the only place in
Speaker 3: the world, the only export gas exporting jurisdiction that doesn't
Speaker 3: require companies to supply their own residents first, So domestic
Speaker 3: reservation policy. And since then, you know, since they these
Speaker 3: export terminals poot it up about a decade ago, we've
Speaker 3: literally doubled the production of gas in these case, but
Speaker 3: we've actually supplied twenty five percent less gas the domestic market,
Speaker 3: so just haartened it of off shore right and as
Speaker 3: a result these case gas price is roughly tripled. And
Speaker 3: the Coalition promised during the election to implement an East
Speaker 3: Coase reservation policy by imposing export levies and uncontracted gas,
Speaker 3: so effectively gas does not only contract, which goes into
Speaker 3: what's called the spot market, which is actually what sets
Speaker 3: the help set the electricity price. They were going to
Speaker 3: force that gas to be supplied domestically rather than export,
Speaker 3: and they're going to do it by basically charging an
Speaker 3: export levy on that gas to make it more cost
Speaker 3: prohibitive to export. So it was excellent policy and the
Speaker 3: Coalition promised to lie with the East case gas price
Speaker 3: to blow ten dollars in gigduls. They currently it's around twelve,
Speaker 3: you know, floats around twelve goes up a bit whatever.
Speaker 3: But the counterfacture of not doing this, look is because
Speaker 3: we've got these gas shortages, these artificial shortages. We're actually
Speaker 3: looking at importing gas in New South Wales and Victoria,
Speaker 3: potentially South Australia. So these ELLERGI import terminals, if they
Speaker 3: come online, they're going to push up the price of
Speaker 3: gas on the East Coast of possibly twenty dollars a
Speaker 3: gigadel from twelve currently because we'll be paying import parity prices,
Speaker 3: so that's the espectually the price we paid the moments
Speaker 3: basedally export parity prices, which is before you liquify, which
Speaker 3: uses tons of energy and is expensive, the cost of
Speaker 3: transport and then converting it back into gas at the
Speaker 3: other end, so we'd be basically paying that extra cost.
Speaker 3: And so the Coalition promised to implement a reservation policy. Now,
Speaker 3: Labour's Resource Minister Madeline King during the election dismissed Coalish's
Speaker 3: policy as a quote thought bubble and so that basically
Speaker 3: they they factually opposed it. But last week the AFAR
Speaker 3: reported that the Albini's government was considering imposing the East
Speaker 3: Coast the reservation policy. So that basically got me pretty
Speaker 3: pretty excited. I thought, I here we go that Labour's
Speaker 3: ben knee and coming back to common sense. Yes, But
Speaker 3: then late this week from Minister Anthony Albanese distanced himself
Speaker 3: from the notion of reservation and despite the fact that
Speaker 3: he publicly praised Western Australia's gas reservation policy. So West
Speaker 3: Australias is a separate gas market's not linked by pipeline.
Speaker 3: They've had a reservation policy since the early two thousands
Speaker 3: that's brought down the cost of gas and electricity in
Speaker 3: West Australia's worked excellently. So Albany said, Wa, this is
Speaker 3: a quote WA. Frankly showed good vision going forward when
Speaker 3: they put in the reservation, so you know, he said
Speaker 3: it's a good thing. But then he said that the
Speaker 3: coalition's policy had been plucked out of a Cocoa pops
Speaker 3: packet and said that labor already has the power the
Speaker 3: force produces to sell the local market. Well, if you do,
Speaker 3: why it exactly so you know, Unfortunately this is a
Speaker 3: sort of whiplash. It looked like coolish is an excellent policy.
Speaker 3: It got Lambassa during the election for political reasons. It
Speaker 3: looked like last week lay was going to bend the
Speaker 3: knee and potentially do a similar policy. Now album Elbows
Speaker 3: come out attacking the coalition's policy or reservation saying it
Speaker 3: looks plucked out of the Cocoa pops tacket. So the
Speaker 3: upshot is that if we don't do this work, if
Speaker 3: Labour doesn't fix their stuff up from under the rud
Speaker 3: Gillard government. When they improve these projects without reservation, we're
Speaker 3: facing the very real prospect of having to import energy,
Speaker 3: which is going to send the gas price through the roof.
Speaker 3: It's going to send electricity prices high, it's going to
Speaker 3: push up inflation, it's going to lead the higher cost
Speaker 3: of living concerns, and it's obviously going to push more
Speaker 3: on manufacturing off shore because we won't be able to
Speaker 3: make stuff as nearly cheaply because energy is arguably the
Speaker 3: key input if you're a manufacturer, and if we make
Speaker 3: that energy expensive we send our manufacturing. I'm sure we
Speaker 3: get a less diversified and industrialized economy and the manufacturing
Speaker 3: end up just going to China, which is where we
Speaker 3: sell a large chunk of our colon gas anyway. So
Speaker 3: it's just crazy stuff mate.
Speaker 2: So what about superannuation whish whiplash again?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it does. So under Labour's proposed super reforms, they
Speaker 3: want to effectively increase the earnings tax on large super balances,
Speaker 3: so that's balances over three million, and I don't personally
Speaker 3: have a problem with that necessarily provides index. But the
Speaker 3: real controversial area here is they want to change the
Speaker 3: rules so at the moment, there's a fifteen percent supertax
Speaker 3: on earnings within super bunds. That's like dividends and interest payments,
Speaker 3: and if you've got a commercial property rent, et cetera,
Speaker 3: and they want to increase that for thirty percent, which
Speaker 3: for large balances is fine. I don't really have a
Speaker 3: problem with that. But the problem is they want to
Speaker 3: start applying it to unrealized paper profits, which is crazy.
Speaker 3: So what that means is that if you've got a
Speaker 3: share port folio and the share port follower arises in
Speaker 3: the year, they want to start taxing that before you've
Speaker 3: even sold it. And it's a real problem, particularly if
Speaker 3: you hold unlisted assets. So if you hold assets that
Speaker 3: are not traded on a share market, for example, you know,
Speaker 3: commercial property or whatever, how do you value that? So
Speaker 3: they need to basically get a private valuer in that's
Speaker 3: all rubbery evaluations anyway, and then you need to need
Speaker 3: to pay tax every single year on whatever. This person
Speaker 3: themes that it went up before you've actually sold it,
Speaker 3: and then if you don't agree with that, you're probably
Speaker 3: going to spend thousands of dollars for an alternative assessment.
Speaker 3: It's just a whole bunch of complexity that we don't need.
Speaker 3: And the Prime Minster Anthony Albany, suggested early in the
Speaker 3: week that Labor would negotiate with the coalition instead of
Speaker 3: the Greens and raise the prospect that it would abandon
Speaker 3: its unrealized capital gains component. But instead, good old Treasure
Speaker 3: of Jim Charmers on Wednesday came out and then slammed
Speaker 3: the door on that, saying, no, I no know. Labour's
Speaker 3: going to negotiate with the Greens. We're going to keep
Speaker 3: the unrealized tax on that and we're going to basically
Speaker 3: keep the existing policy which is subject to balances of
Speaker 3: three million dollars, but it doesn't it's not indexed. That's
Speaker 3: what that means is that in say twenty five or
Speaker 3: so years, if you've got inflation at two and a
Speaker 3: half percent, that three million balance in twenty five years
Speaker 3: will be equivalent to say one and a half million
Speaker 3: in today value. So it's going to suck more and
Speaker 3: more people into that net. So you know, for Stars,
Speaker 3: it should be indexed and they should get rid of
Speaker 3: the unrealized component. And I think if they did that,
Speaker 3: we probably have a good, good policy because the reality
Speaker 3: is the superinotion concessions are ridiculously generous, and they do
Speaker 3: cost a budget about sixty billion dollars currently, so this
Speaker 3: is very expensive that they're forecast grow to cost the
Speaker 3: budget more than the age pension in several decades. So
Speaker 3: we should really raise a bit more money out of
Speaker 3: that stuff. But it should be done properly. And the
Speaker 3: way you do it is you just simply double the
Speaker 3: tax for large balances, you index it. What we could
Speaker 3: also do is we could change the way concessions attack.
Speaker 3: So at the moment when you contribute to your super
Speaker 3: fund you get you do it at a flat fifteen
Speaker 3: percent tax. Now there are some carb apps if you
Speaker 3: earn over two hundred and fifty k, but for most
Speaker 3: people it's fifteen percent flat tax on supercontributions instead of that.
Speaker 3: What that does that that means that if you're if
Speaker 3: you're on a higher income, you get a bigger concession.
Speaker 3: So for example, if your income's two hundred and twenty thousand,
Speaker 3: your margin tax rate forty seven percent, but if you
Speaker 3: pay fifteen percent contribution effecively getting the tax benefit thirty percent.
Speaker 3: Whereas if at the lower end you don't get as
Speaker 3: bigger benefit because your martyr tax rates lower. So instead
Speaker 3: of if you want to make that more more against
Speaker 3: sustainable and also fair, just follow the Henry Tax Reviews recommendation,
Speaker 3: which is basically give a fifteen percent flight production. So
Speaker 3: for any supremoation, you paid it at your marginal tax
Speaker 3: rate minus fifteen percent. And that way you'd be giving
Speaker 3: a bigger benefit, well effectively a bigger benefit to lower
Speaker 3: income earners, so then they currently get but you wouldn't
Speaker 3: be given as a bigger benefit to high in commerners.
Speaker 3: And ultimately, the superde Lays system should be about relieving
Speaker 3: pressure on the AH pension. And the way you do
Speaker 3: that is instead of giving teas of concessions to people
Speaker 3: who will never go on the pension anyway, you should
Speaker 3: skew that to the lower end. And if you do
Speaker 3: those two things that the government would say doings and
Speaker 3: dollars in more revenue would be a fairer system and
Speaker 3: we have more money to cut income taxes and do
Speaker 3: other stuff. But get rid of this unrealized games.
Speaker 6: It's ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. I had a listener say earlier, if you
Speaker 2: if you have an unrealized gain, you should pay the
Speaker 2: tax with unrealized income, which I thought was a nice
Speaker 2: way of dealing with it. And now do we have
Speaker 2: a clown or hero? I think at the clown this week?
Speaker 2: Is that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, unfortunately I'd love to do a hero.
Speaker 2: But okay, well play the get sent me play the
Speaker 2: music first round mate, Clown of the week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, as I said, mate, I'd love to do it hero,
Speaker 3: and I will one day. But unfortunately we've got another clown,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately it's none other than Treasure Jim Charmers. So
Speaker 3: this week we got the Q one National Accounts, so
Speaker 3: the March Courter National Accounts releasing the ABS and there's
Speaker 3: another absolute chacka. Right, so we're back in the per
Speaker 3: capita acession. Economic growth once you subtract population growth fell
Speaker 3: by one point two percent, right, so we went backwards again.
Speaker 3: This represents the ninth decline in eleven quarters. So this
Speaker 3: is the longest stretch of per capitaal declines in modern history.
Speaker 9: It's not the deepest.
Speaker 3: It was deeper in the early nineties and the mid
Speaker 3: eighties recessions, but it's the longest we've had. So we've
Speaker 3: just been at this slow grind. So nine out of
Speaker 3: out of eleven quarters, we've gone backwards. We were suffered
Speaker 3: at a per cap of GDP decline in one point
Speaker 3: seven percent over that period. Also, the total economic growth
Speaker 3: in the March quarters point two percent. That's with population growth,
Speaker 3: but that was less than half of what the ABA
Speaker 3: projected in last month's Statement of Monetary Policy. They projected
Speaker 3: point four to five percent. So that's a really weak result.
Speaker 3: And you know, good old Treasury Jim Charmer's put lipstick
Speaker 3: on a pig. He did a meter release saying that
Speaker 3: the private sector recovery we had planned for is gradually
Speaker 3: taken hold. The Australian economy remains quote one of the
Speaker 3: strongest in the world. Now everything that is that is
Speaker 3: private sector recovery, public demand, so that's basically public spending
Speaker 3: is a share of GDP is basically at a highest
Speaker 3: level ever of nearly twenty nine percent, and about sixty
Speaker 3: percent of the nation's growth in the year to March
Speaker 3: was from public spending. So we've basically got an economy
Speaker 3: here where the private sector is dead. It's been propped
Speaker 3: up by high population growth, high public spending, and then
Speaker 3: Treasure gym charmers are saying that we've got one of
Speaker 3: the strongest economies in the world, et cetera. So you know,
Speaker 3: it's very hard to take him seriously when per capita GDP,
Speaker 3: so everyone's slice of the economy pie that's fallen from
Speaker 3: nine out of the past eleven quarters. And we've also
Speaker 3: experienced a household spending has also declined for seven consecutive
Speaker 3: quarters on an annual basis, is down about two and
Speaker 3: a half percent from its peak. So households are spending
Speaker 3: less as well. And we all live in the household economy.
Speaker 3: So there's three parts of the You've got household, businesses
Speaker 3: and government. We care about the household sector and that
Speaker 3: sector particularly has been hit very hard, and we care
Speaker 3: about that because that's the sector that we all living.
Speaker 3: Everyone listenally, this is part of the household sector. We're
Speaker 3: not part of government, not part of business, and that
Speaker 3: sector has been hit really hard. We're all coming back
Speaker 3: on spending. We've got a per capita recession and Jim
Speaker 3: Charmer's the same of you out there with IM media
Speaker 3: rely SA in Australis economy range one of the strongest
Speaker 3: in the world. Yeah, kind of ridiculous.
Speaker 2: It is all right, mate, have a great weekend. I'll
Speaker 2: talk to you next week.
Speaker 3: Cheers, Luke.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Leith van Ontolin. Just to support what Leith
Speaker 2: was saying about the private sector, I found this astonishing.
Speaker 2: I really did. The Don Watson Group, which look after
Speaker 2: transportation and cold stores, they've decided to shut their doors. Now,
Speaker 2: this is a highly regarded company. It's a refrigerated logistics
Speaker 2: operation which sends around the country frozen and cold goods. Now,
Speaker 2: you would think given the distance that they would have
Speaker 2: great demand for their services. Well, it started back in
Speaker 2: nineteen forty eight. The founder, Don Watson, would service markets
Speaker 2: with a few Army Surplus K series Austin's. He passed
Speaker 2: away in seventy Three's son took over and they launched
Speaker 2: the refrigerated division in nineteen eighty four. And there's there's
Speaker 2: a third generation owner now where they're shutting up shop.
Speaker 2: Final collections made tomorrow and then they'll be delivered in
Speaker 2: the following days. The thing is, there's three hundred employees now.
Speaker 2: They'll be paid their entitlements. I've told but it's purely
Speaker 2: down to economic conditions, that's what they say. I'm sure
Speaker 2: they didn't by accident last so long, from the original
Speaker 2: founder to the refrigerated Vision founded in the eighties. I'm
Speaker 2: sure they didn't get through all that by accident. Something's
Speaker 2: going on here and leave this so right for the
Speaker 2: treasurer to say, look at me, how good. Remember we
Speaker 2: had that conversation about lived experience, and then we get
Speaker 2: the fluff and the spin and the statistics that are
Speaker 2: meant to look this way, not that way. This is
Speaker 2: lived experience. I hope all the people working for that
Speaker 2: company are okay. And to think that they've got a
Speaker 2: shut after being founded in nineteen forty eight delivering cold
Speaker 2: stuff in a country outside astonishes me. Next, we mon't
Speaker 2: be able to make things here. Hang on back in
Speaker 2: a moment, just quickly before I take a listener or
Speaker 2: two on the open line. Since nineteen forty eight that
Speaker 2: that refrigerated trucking company has been operating, Don Watson to
Speaker 2: think what it's been through COVID, GFC and everything else.
Speaker 2: It comes to the middle of this year and too
Speaker 2: much I mean, as I say, lived experience with the
Speaker 2: other rubbish we get served up each day to day duty.
Speaker 9: Hi.
Speaker 25: Last time worked for a company also at Saint Mary's
Speaker 25: four years and they went into do credation yesterday, no
Speaker 25: servance pay, no nothing, no holiday pay, no weekly allowance
Speaker 25: pay or anything finished, gone close to shut Yeah four
Speaker 25: and a half years. Yeah, a number pensioner and we
Speaker 25: have had fifty four dollars fifty two dollars rise in
Speaker 25: four and a half years. It's just disgusting. And there's
Speaker 25: no mention of pensioners and how hard.
Speaker 23: We're doing it.
Speaker 2: I don't know. Look, Judy, I'd love to get details
Speaker 2: in that company, just that I can add a bit
Speaker 2: to that story. But but Judy, and it's easy for
Speaker 2: someone you know, working like me. But I don't know
Speaker 2: how you do it. I simply don't. I go into
Speaker 2: the supermarket each week, I fill up my car and
Speaker 2: do all these things, and you remember what they were
Speaker 2: a week ago or a fort night ago, what they
Speaker 2: feel like they were a week or a fort night ago.
Speaker 2: And you know, unless you're winning a quid, how do
Speaker 2: you keep up? I just simply I don't understand. And
Speaker 2: you're right to raise that. Thank you for doing it
Speaker 2: good A Patrick.
Speaker 15: I just want to let you know about a classic accident.
Speaker 15: The fire engines are their place? Are there at Burvengar?
Speaker 8: Are you heading north? And the trafficker is backed up
Speaker 8: to North Lakes.
Speaker 2: Well that's on the highways of Mate, on the.
Speaker 12: Yeah main highway.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and.
Speaker 15: It's they got one lane one and a half lines
Speaker 15: open there, sort of urging two into one on the spot,
Speaker 15: but it's holding up traffic by Jordan below.
Speaker 2: Mate, travel safely. Let's hope everyone's okay, And thank you
Speaker 2: for letting us say about that. The Highway of bourb Gary.
Speaker 2: This is north and it's backed up. The traffic's backed up.
Speaker 2: We'll update that in our our next traffic with Dennis
Speaker 2: just as soon as we can. Plenty of sport, plenty
Speaker 2: of racing this weekend, we've better have a look at
Speaker 2: what's going on. Glenn Munsey from ladd Brokes is on
Speaker 2: the line, Mons, how are you going? You okay, I'm.
Speaker 6: Very good, Thank you.
Speaker 18: I met them those people probably traving north getting ready
Speaker 18: to go on the Bruce Highway pass that very famous
Speaker 18: urb and Gary tavern on the right hand side there.
Speaker 2: I know that, well you know it by the location
Speaker 2: of a drinking place.
Speaker 18: Well, I've covered that Bruce Highway quite a number of times, right, yeah, yes, yeah,
Speaker 18: And the one thing you don't want on the Bruce
Speaker 18: Highway is an accident of any description whatsoever.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because you are stuck.
Speaker 2: Yeah too true, right NRL. I don't know where to
Speaker 2: begin here. Perhaps we should start with the Sharks and
Speaker 2: the Warriors. This'll be a beauty, I reckon.
Speaker 18: It is at five point thirty this afternoon at Cronulla
Speaker 18: as Round fourteen of the National Rugby League continues today.
Speaker 18: It's fifth place Cronulla versus fourth place the Warriors, Cronulla
Speaker 18: one forty eight favorites here, the Warriors coming off that
Speaker 18: winn against South's last week, Cronulla coming off the by
Speaker 18: the Warriors at two sixty five. It's six and a
Speaker 18: half the line in this one forty four and a
Speaker 18: half the over under The Warriors have won the last
Speaker 18: two times they've played at Cronulla, five to six times
Speaker 18: Cronella has been at home, the points have gone under,
Speaker 18: so that's something for you there. And the underdogs have
Speaker 18: covered the line in the last five matches at Cronulla,
Speaker 18: so that gives that six and a half start something
Speaker 18: for you there. Seven point thirty five. Tonight's speaking of
Speaker 18: the Bruce Highway. The opposite side of Brisbane, of course,
Speaker 18: is the M one and isn't it a can be
Speaker 18: a traffic nightmare. Well, it's the Battle of the m
Speaker 18: one tonight at sun Cort Stadium where the Brisbane Broncos
Speaker 18: are running twelfth go up against the Gold Coaster are
Speaker 18: running seventeenth. Now both sides have only won one of
Speaker 18: their last five matches. Brisbane have lost their last four.
Speaker 18: They're in all sorts.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and your man as a Roosters man, As much
Speaker 2: as it hurts me to say this, your man Reno
Speaker 2: who won a premiership at the Bunnies back and I
Speaker 2: think it was twenty fourteen. Forgive me if I got
Speaker 2: that wrong. He's playing number was game number three hundred.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know how much how many years
Speaker 2: that is in radio crosses, but that's almost as many
Speaker 2: as you've done.
Speaker 6: Oh no, that had taken about a year in the
Speaker 6: old days. That now.
Speaker 18: He's got half a tattoo for every game he's played,
Speaker 18: Adam Reynolds, so that takes him to six hundred tattoos.
Speaker 6: He would like.
Speaker 18: He's a very very good bluck, Adam Reynolds and a
Speaker 18: true South Sydney man.
Speaker 6: Although he is playing for the Broncos. Who would have thought.
Speaker 18: Brisbane would be a dollar thirty in a match against anyone,
Speaker 18: but that's what they are today against the Gold Coast
Speaker 18: who are three dollars fifty.
Speaker 6: The line here is out to eleven and a half.
Speaker 18: Now the underdog has won the last seven games that
Speaker 18: Brisb's been involved in, but Brisbane have failed to cover
Speaker 18: the line in their last ten against teams coming off
Speaker 18: a loss, so that eleven and a half start might
Speaker 18: be all right to the Gold Coast fifty one and
Speaker 18: a half the over under there and five of the
Speaker 18: six matches involving Brisbane, five of the last six when
Speaker 18: they've been favorite, that points title has gone under so
Speaker 18: not a lot of points in that one.
Speaker 6: So that's today. Then we go to tomorrow. My boys.
Speaker 18: The Bunnies go down to Canberra at two o'clock at Goo,
Speaker 18: they're two eighty outside of South's the Canberra at.
Speaker 6: One forty four.
Speaker 18: Josh Papalecki, he's three hundred and nineteenth game for the
Speaker 18: canber Raiders. That breaks the all time playing record. There
Speaker 18: seven and a half the line and that were four
Speaker 18: o'clock at Combak it's the West Tigers three thirty five
Speaker 18: outsiders to Penrith who at won thirty three nine and
Speaker 18: a half. The line there and Monday at a court Homebush.
Speaker 18: They're expecting sixty thousand people here and a great initial
Speaker 18: from Canterbury.
Speaker 11: Here.
Speaker 6: You can get a ticket for ten dollars yes, to
Speaker 6: go to the football.
Speaker 18: Now.
Speaker 6: This is turning back the clock when both of us
Speaker 6: had hair and.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, hey, I still have very few worries. I
Speaker 2: still got hair. You know what, You've got more statistics
Speaker 2: than the abs anyway, keep going, Oh well, it's good.
Speaker 6: It's just rather than reading out numbers, it's a little
Speaker 6: bit of.
Speaker 2: History, mate.
Speaker 12: I love it.
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I love.
Speaker 6: Preparation is everything you can know that I do. No
Speaker 6: preparation is everything.
Speaker 18: Canterbury one dollar forty favorites paramatter at two ninety five.
Speaker 18: This is right back to the glory days of the
Speaker 18: eighties one forty two ninety five, seven and a half
Speaker 18: the line in that one Melbourne still remained premiership favorites.
Speaker 18: A big win last night two to seventy five over
Speaker 18: Canterbury four fifty, Kronulla and Camber at eight, the Warriors
Speaker 18: at fifteen and Penrith at twenty one. For the tennis fans,
Speaker 18: tonight on stand it's the women's final at Roland Garross
Speaker 18: at eleven fifteen. It's number one seed Arena Sabolenka up
Speaker 18: against number two seed Coco Golf and Sabalinka there one
Speaker 18: forty two favorite Coco Goth at two eighty five. She's
Speaker 18: two dollars and five to win in straight sets. Now,
Speaker 18: if you look up at the screen, they usually have
Speaker 18: the flag of the country alongside the player. Now, because
Speaker 18: Arena Sabalinka comes from Belarus, they don't recognize the flag,
Speaker 18: so that's why you don't see anything against Arena Sabalinka,
Speaker 18: but you'll see the American flag against Coco Goth. Ten matches,
Speaker 18: all of them between each other. They're five all and
Speaker 18: the last time they met, Sabalinka won in straight cents
Speaker 18: in the Madrid Open and the lead up to the
Speaker 18: French Open there and the Men's tomorrow night. Yannick Sinner
Speaker 18: up against Carlos Alcarez. Alcarez the favorite there for racing fans.
Speaker 6: I'm at Royal Raemick.
Speaker 18: It's a beautiful day out here. It's a little bit chilly,
Speaker 18: but it's a big cool. It's a nice day up
Speaker 18: in Brisbane Super Saturday, they're calling it in Brisbane three
Speaker 18: Group one races. The Kingsford Smith will we raised seven,
Speaker 18: the Oaks will be race eight and the Derby will
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Speaker 6: And everyone have a corp of a day and enjoy
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Speaker 2: You mate, just the best at this. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Well, I've been going at it a fair while.
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Speaker 18: I had plenty of hair, no worries and no kids.
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Speaker 2: It's seventeen minutes to midday and now talking real estate. Yeah,
Speaker 2: let's have a look at what's happening in the property
Speaker 2: market in Sydney and in Brisbane. Thanks to our friends
Speaker 2: at Domain lighted dictall you that the national property editor
Speaker 2: at the Main, Alice Stoles, is with us again this weekend. Greetings,
Speaker 2: hope you well.
Speaker 26: Oh, good morning, look great to bear with you on
Speaker 26: all the listeners.
Speaker 2: Lovely. Let's get straight to the auction numbers and perhaps
Speaker 2: clearance rates from last week.
Speaker 27: What can you tell us, well, a bit of a
Speaker 27: sleepy weekend this weekend, given we've got a long weekend
Speaker 27: in most parts of the country. Sydney today is just
Speaker 27: four hundred and ninety one auctions, almost half of what
Speaker 27: they had last weekend, and Brisbane has eighty six options,
Speaker 27: so I think that they're kind of in the heavy
Speaker 27: lifting this weekend. It seems like out of those two
Speaker 27: states now last weekend, Sydney came in at sixty eight
Speaker 27: percent for that clearance rate. So what we're seeing, Luke,
Speaker 27: you know, we know how high auction numbers were last weekend,
Speaker 27: and what we're seeing is I guess that increased confidence
Speaker 27: from buyers out in market, most likely because of that
Speaker 27: second interest rate cut, is really starting to flow through
Speaker 27: the clearance rate in Brisbane came in at forty percent
Speaker 27: last weekend, so pretty much on average for that market.
Speaker 18: There.
Speaker 2: We'd like to look at the best buyers and the
Speaker 2: expensive buyers too, don't we In Sydney and Brisbane and
Speaker 2: last weekend in Sydney the honors when if that's the
Speaker 2: right way of putting it? To Stratfield in Brisbane a
Speaker 2: Kangaroo Point.
Speaker 27: Yeah, And with this house in Strathfield, it's sold for
Speaker 27: ten point one million dollars. Now it's a six bedroom house,
Speaker 27: I have to concede it does come with a bowling
Speaker 27: alley which is at tribute of a property. And now
Speaker 27: the buyer at this auction, guys, there were two hundred
Speaker 27: people watching it. The buyer viewed the property ten minutes
Speaker 27: before the auction and ended up being the one who
Speaker 27: bought it. There were five registered bidders and four active
Speaker 27: bidders at the auction.
Speaker 26: But isn't that just mind boggling ten point one million?
Speaker 26: And he was a local.
Speaker 27: He was a local resident in Strathfield, bought this place
Speaker 27: clearly as an up great house. Now, the property in
Speaker 27: Brisbane last week that sold for just over four million
Speaker 27: was a three bedroom apartment on Kangaroo Point this epic, beautiful,
Speaker 27: gorgeous sort of one of those really the lamb sexy
Speaker 27: style apartments that we're seeing more and more of now
Speaker 27: that almost look like a huge luxury house, but it
Speaker 27: is actually an apartment just over four million dollars that
Speaker 27: one sold.
Speaker 2: For jeez, and the best buys Lakember and Logan Home.
Speaker 26: Indeed, there was a.
Speaker 27: Two bedroom apartment in la Kember that's off for three
Speaker 27: hundred sorry, one bedroom brother three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Speaker 26: In La Kember.
Speaker 23: Not bad, is it?
Speaker 2: Threred?
Speaker 27: Hey, you know that's unheard of in Sydney most days.
Speaker 27: That would normally be a stop stop press moment, wouldn't it.
Speaker 27: And in Logan Home in Queensland, sorry, a three bedroom
Speaker 27: home there sold for just under six hundred and fifty
Speaker 27: thousand dollars. So again it's interesting to me these sort
Speaker 27: of little green shoots that do pop up every now
Speaker 27: and then to give you a bit of a hope,
Speaker 27: there still are some affordable bargains out there if you
Speaker 27: can really sift through a lot of those listings.
Speaker 2: Now. Through the week we had the domain groups made
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five Market Insights New listings Rose sharply across
Speaker 2: most capitals, didn't They showing sellers and feeling a bit
Speaker 2: more upbeat about the market.
Speaker 27: Indeed, So what we're seeing is those sellers who have
Speaker 27: been sitting on the fence have now kind of moved
Speaker 27: forward after that second interest rate cut, and I suppose
Speaker 27: that slight sort of optimism that there might be further
Speaker 27: rates to come.
Speaker 26: It's certainly pushing a lot of sellers forward.
Speaker 27: So at this stage we're looking at having quite an
Speaker 27: active winter, which is obviously quite unusual for the property market,
Speaker 27: particularly in Sydney, but a lot of that is being
Speaker 27: driven by that confidence in the market with those interest
Speaker 27: rate cuts hopefully continuing to wash through and new supply.
Speaker 2: Isn't that the case it It jumped over the month
Speaker 2: by more than well nearly twenty percent.
Speaker 27: Yeah, So new supply is a really important part of
Speaker 27: this because we know that if there's a new supply
Speaker 27: coming to market, it means that buyers are feeling I guess,
Speaker 27: sort of satisfied that there are enough options out there.
Speaker 26: So new supply is continuing to push through.
Speaker 27: So it's encouraging news for buyers definitely, and also sellers
Speaker 27: makes us a bit more competition on the market.
Speaker 26: But look, in my mind, that's not a bad thing
Speaker 26: for anybody. Really, we need more of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly right. Days on market Is there a trend
Speaker 2: there that we've noticed in either city?
Speaker 26: Yeah, this is really interesting.
Speaker 27: So even though we are seeing a lot of activity
Speaker 27: in the market, the days on market represents how long
Speaker 27: places are taking to sell, so they're basically kind of increasing.
Speaker 27: So in Sydney it's up to sixty three days is
Speaker 27: on average the time it's taking for a property to sell.
Speaker 26: Now, what that means is often if we have a disconnect.
Speaker 27: Between what a seller wants for their house and what
Speaker 27: a buyer is willing to pay, those days on market
Speaker 27: can stretch out. We've also seen those days on market
Speaker 27: increase in Brisbane, but that's still only at forty four days,
Speaker 27: so still considerably faster to selling Brisbane than it is
Speaker 27: in Sydney. And that really is talking to the fact
Speaker 27: that demand in Brisbane remains high while the supply is
Speaker 27: still not yet satisfying that part of the market there.
Speaker 26: But it's an interesting thing and I think it's a
Speaker 26: cautionary note.
Speaker 27: For sellers also to ensure they're pricing correctly because even
Speaker 27: though buyers want to buy, they're not going to overpay
Speaker 27: because most of them are still constrained by affordability.
Speaker 2: Yeah, fascinating stuff. So in Sydney the lowest days on
Speaker 2: market Saint Mary's, Marrickville, Sydenham and Campbelltown. And in Brisbane
Speaker 2: it was the Gap Inaugura, Forest Lake, Oxley, bald Hills,
Speaker 2: Everton Park. Fascinating stuff. Now we'll take a break. I
Speaker 2: want to come back and ask you about the rise
Speaker 2: of stay vests and then we'll get to our unique
Speaker 2: properties of the week. Yes, it's eight to midday every year.
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Speaker 2: things we talk about Domain dot com dot au. And
Speaker 2: we're having a chat with Alice Stoles, who joins us
Speaker 2: each week. Alice, what is a stay vesta?
Speaker 27: Well, look forget rent vestors, investors, Luke, It's now about
Speaker 27: the stay vester. Now many adults are probably scratching their
Speaker 27: head at these adult kids that are living at home
Speaker 27: longer and longer, saying that they're saving up for deposits
Speaker 27: for a house, many which are, but some of them
Speaker 27: are getting to the next level and actually buying a property,
Speaker 27: renting it out while so someone else is paying their
Speaker 27: mortgage and they stay living at home under their parents' roof,
Speaker 27: perhaps enjoying the spoilers of living at home with mum
Speaker 27: and dad a little bit longer. And what it means
Speaker 27: is they can start paying down that mortgage or essentially
Speaker 27: someone else's paying down their mortgage, and gives those adult
Speaker 27: children the chance to build some wealth while not having
Speaker 27: to pay a mortgage at the same time. Now, look,
Speaker 27: what I like about this is that it kind of,
Speaker 27: I guess, turns the idea of the bank of mum
Speaker 27: and Dad around a little bit, because we know that
Speaker 27: a lot of people can't obviously afford to be the
Speaker 27: bank of mum and dad or are able to.
Speaker 26: So what this means is that if you can at
Speaker 26: least give your kids.
Speaker 27: You know, a roof over their head when they're adults
Speaker 27: and that they've actually managing to buy property, it can
Speaker 27: actually sort of give them something that is sort of priceless,
Speaker 27: but doesn't cost you any more money in return, hopefully
Speaker 27: except for the laundry bills that they.
Speaker 2: Might that's right crewing. They're paying Mum and dad decent
Speaker 2: red I have to say unique properties of the week.
Speaker 2: We're going to beautiful Rose Bay in Sydney. First off.
Speaker 27: Yeah, Now with this house, it's five beds, six bath,
Speaker 27: it's in Rose Bay. It is on the market for
Speaker 27: ninety million dollars nine zero. It's on over one thousand
Speaker 27: square meters of land and it is the most spectacular
Speaker 27: view of that gorgeous, beautiful Sydney.
Speaker 26: Harbor, sparkling. The houses able to accommodate up to two
Speaker 26: hundred people for a party at NiFe or something.
Speaker 27: But just the most eye watering figure. But you see,
Speaker 27: if you like that, I guess it kind of makes sense.
Speaker 27: But still just an amazing testament to the strength of
Speaker 27: the strength of the strand property market.
Speaker 2: Does it come with a bowling alley?
Speaker 27: It doesn't come with a bowling alley, I reckon you're
Speaker 27: probably you can probably negotiate that with the age based
Speaker 27: on that asking price.
Speaker 13: YEA.
Speaker 26: And in Britain, yeah, Brisbane is a.
Speaker 27: Great place on the market in BERLINBA. Now, this is
Speaker 27: a house that's five beds, seven bath. It has a
Speaker 27: five meter taj Mahal island bench. The master sweet is
Speaker 27: one hundred and twenty square meters with a boutique style
Speaker 27: walking road, which I think sounds pretty wonderful. It's got
Speaker 27: a wellness studio or a private games room with its
Speaker 27: own roulette table, an eight car garage complete with a
Speaker 27: Ferrari inspired mural. And the house is actually being sold
Speaker 27: fully furnished. Now I can't give you a price for
Speaker 27: that one. You have to contact the agent because Queensland
Speaker 27: law prohibits us talking about price guides if a house
Speaker 27: is being sold for auction or for expressions of interest.
Speaker 27: So sorry, listeners, but call the agent and I'll be
Speaker 27: able to give you a bit more clarity on.
Speaker 26: What that figure is.
Speaker 2: Yes, excellent work by you. Alas Stole's national property editor
Speaker 2: at Domain. Thank you. We'll talk to you next week.
Speaker 26: Thanks Luke, good on you.
Speaker 2: We'll take a break now, it's almost for to midday. Well,
Speaker 2: most time for the news at midday. The boy are
Speaker 2: in today the Continuous Call team, although they're at Cronello
Speaker 2: Sharks Stadium so we won't see them in the Flesh,
Speaker 2: the Sharks and the Warriors at five point thirty, and
Speaker 2: then the Broncos and the Titans. Mattie Thompson's in here
Speaker 2: to call that a little bit later in the afternoon,
Speaker 2: but we'll talk to Mark Levy next hour. Well, it's
Speaker 2: Tom Jones' birthday, Craig Bennett. I just met Jack Hahn
Speaker 2: from the Today Show. You know Jack Hahn. We often
Speaker 2: have a yarn with Hahn on our show many weekends.
Speaker 2: I won't say most, but a lot. He can nearly
Speaker 2: play NBL. He's taller than I. I thought I was
Speaker 2: tall at six three six four. Anyways, No height doesn't matter,
Speaker 2: does it. He's a nice man though. Anyway, we just
Speaker 2: met him in here.
Speaker 6: Australia.
Speaker 2: It's back to weekends. We'll look grand good afternoon. Hope
Speaker 2: things are good with you. If you've part of the
Speaker 2: long weekend thing in New South Wales, the Act and elsewhere,
Speaker 2: good on you. If you enjoyed Queensland Day yesterday, good
Speaker 2: on you. One three, one, eight, seven threes. And I'm
Speaker 2: going to call here. We will get to Craig Bennett.
Speaker 2: It's Tom Jones' birthday. Today. Will relive the life and
Speaker 2: times of the great Tom Jones got a song to play,
Speaker 2: in fact several, but we'll do that shortly. In the meantime,
Speaker 2: lots of people getting in touch on the text and
Speaker 2: via email. Thank you for doing that. Zero forcing zero
Speaker 2: eight seven three eight seven three is the text. Ian says,
Speaker 2: good I look for adult girls still at home, no
Speaker 2: rental bills paid, but they do cook for me, washing
Speaker 2: up and rubbish bins of my job, plus lawns and
Speaker 2: cleaning the house. Is that fair? I think we know
Speaker 2: the answer to that. Ian Ian says, I would not
Speaker 2: have it any other way. Good dad. Cheryl says, I
Speaker 2: just want to say I love your traffic reporters. Thank you, Cheryl.
Speaker 2: Nice to have a specific thing that you like about
Speaker 2: a show, and if it's that, that's a great thing. Luke.
Speaker 2: The Don Watson refrigeration transport closure comes two years after
Speaker 2: the closure of another national refrigeration transport company, Scott's. They
Speaker 2: encountered similar issues. All right, Mark, thank you for getting
Speaker 2: in touch. Good day, Luke. Just listening to that. Lady pensioner,
Speaker 2: we have to drive at home to our kids to
Speaker 2: start setting themselves up for retirement at a very young age.
Speaker 2: If you retire without owning a home and having at
Speaker 2: least half a million in your super you're in trouble.
Speaker 2: Ever been to the Pet's Ridge area, Yes, I have.
Speaker 2: There's thousands of acres of land, a main road leading
Speaker 2: to the m one Mount White railway station. There's no
Speaker 2: station there. There is a Brooklyn and there is a
Speaker 2: Woy Woy twenty minutes to Westfield, forty minutes to the beach.
Speaker 2: Any problem is the local council makes you have at
Speaker 2: least twenty acre blocks. Two wakers would be nice. Look
Speaker 2: at dural Steve. Very interesting. Thank you for getting in touch.
Speaker 28: That is.
Speaker 2: Yeah, very interesting. Let me think about that. One three,
Speaker 2: one eight seven three get a in.
Speaker 6: Yeah, hi, Luke.
Speaker 29: I just wanted to discuss what the earlier ladies said
Speaker 29: before about retires and the cost of living game. Yes mate, yeah, well,
Speaker 29: our the cost of living gap for retirees is actually increasing.
Speaker 29: People that are currently employed, they get an increase in
Speaker 29: their way genuinely, some not all, some not all mate. Yeah,
Speaker 29: but even so, that means that the gap between the
Speaker 29: cost of living and inflation is reduced. That may not
Speaker 29: get rid of it, but it's reduced. A retire really
Speaker 29: our income reducing because interest rates are falling, so term
Speaker 29: deposits and superannuation income has been reduced. In fact, the
Speaker 29: cost of living increases for a retirene.
Speaker 6: And also you're talking.
Speaker 2: Here about a self funded retiree.
Speaker 29: Well it's not even self funded. You could be on
Speaker 29: a part pension as well. And that's that's the next point.
Speaker 7: That I'm coming up with. Jim Chalmers has got the
Speaker 7: deeming race for the pink and under review now increases
Speaker 7: that on a part pension, they're going to find that
Speaker 7: produced in their pension by a.
Speaker 29: Couple of hundred dollars a fortnight. And some of them
Speaker 29: could even lose that part pension, which means I'll also
Speaker 29: lose their colon weal healthcare all the benefits that come
Speaker 29: with that. So the parties had a policy for the
Speaker 29: cost of living for re tyrense. So it's a bit
Speaker 29: did you read Animal Farm when You're at school by
Speaker 29: George Orwell?
Speaker 12: I did.
Speaker 18: Yeah.
Speaker 29: Well it's a bit like the chapter in it about
Speaker 29: the draft horse. When it's too old to pull a
Speaker 29: plow anymore and the knack is vain, it turns to
Speaker 29: take it away. That's what it's not being like as
Speaker 29: a retire in Australia.
Speaker 2: Well, look, and that's that's not an unf that's not
Speaker 2: an unfair point that you make. Not an unfair point
Speaker 2: that you make. And it is a little symbolic of
Speaker 2: the society in which we now find ourselves where you
Speaker 2: get to a certain age. I mean I often talk
Speaker 2: about how ageism are just allowed to flourish and it
Speaker 2: never gets called out. But you try any of the
Speaker 2: other isms and wow, we'll just line you up and
Speaker 2: deal with you. And something about a dignified retirement, and
Speaker 2: that's that's not that's not something that we shugges. Oh
Speaker 2: they're just baby boom boomers or gen X. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's what that's what a thoughtful society should do. That's
Speaker 2: what indigenous societies do. But we've got a completely a
Speaker 2: about I've got a lot to say on this, a lot,
Speaker 2: but I don't want to go off, as I say
Speaker 2: in the classics, half cocked. You've certainly piqued my interest
Speaker 2: in this. I'll continue to talk about it, and I'm
Speaker 2: glad you rang in. I got to keep moving, hi, Paula.
Speaker 2: Look good afternoon, afternoon.
Speaker 28: I have two sons, forty seven and fifty and in
Speaker 28: the last couple of months, they've both been made redundant.
Speaker 2: Goodness, same industry.
Speaker 28: No, no one was in supplying building and developments and things.
Speaker 28: He saw it coming. The orders got less and less
Speaker 28: and less until there were none. But not only making
Speaker 28: them redundant, the company also decided to send the whole
Speaker 28: book keeping department offshore. They were also made redundant. And
Speaker 28: the youngest son drives the great big prime movers the Semis. Yes,
Speaker 28: he does parcels or food deliveries for you know. Well
Speaker 28: that came like a bolt out of the blue, and
Speaker 28: there were eighteen drivers.
Speaker 2: Well do you see you can't. I mean, there's two things.
Speaker 2: You've got a housing crisis. How the hell can anything
Speaker 2: in business apart from something mismanaged, How can any business
Speaker 2: in the construction industry be doing it tough? And we
Speaker 2: live in a country that is large. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: nothing new in this. We've got to transport goods from
Speaker 2: one city to another, or deliver mail or whatever it
Speaker 2: might be. How can that part of industry face closures.
Speaker 2: It's baffling. There's a lot to this storage. It's not
Speaker 2: being told, it seems to me.
Speaker 28: Paula, Oh, well it's hidden. They Neither of my sons
Speaker 28: can do anything essentially because their lives work, so they're
Speaker 28: not even countered as being unemployed.
Speaker 2: You know what, if you're worried, I saw a social
Speaker 2: media post through the week, a lady, probably a well
Speaker 2: meaning lady. I'm sure it was a lady. I don't
Speaker 2: want to say that for the sake of it, but
Speaker 2: I'm just trying to now find the image of the
Speaker 2: person social media whose work I was reading. Let me
Speaker 2: share this with you. You see a lot of people
Speaker 2: think this. Here it is. I'm so grateful for our
Speaker 2: health system here in Australia. My doctor visits a bulk build,
Speaker 2: my flu vax was free, my COVID booster vas today free,
Speaker 2: and I've hit my pharmaceugical safety net and now all
Speaker 2: my meds are free for the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Albow and Labor. You know what that person votes.
Speaker 2: That person votes they think things are free. They're not free,
Speaker 2: you clown. Someone has to work, someone has to generate income,
Speaker 2: pay tax, that's where the money comes from. And if
Speaker 2: I might just make the point, can you specifically direct
Speaker 2: me to the Peter Dutton policy where you wouldn't get
Speaker 2: bulk billing you wouldn't get a free vax for flu
Speaker 2: or COVID or anything else, or whether the PBA safety
Speaker 2: net was going to be reduced. No, and sadly people
Speaker 2: like you vote now. The big issues, the big issues
Speaker 2: are what we're talking about here in the middle of
Speaker 2: a housing crisis, construction companies going to the wall. How
Speaker 2: that work? People starting out in life buying a property,
Speaker 2: but they can't afford to live in it, so they'd
Speaker 2: rent it out and then they go and live with
Speaker 2: mum and dad so I can get a couple of dollars.
Speaker 2: The other story I brought to this morning about earning
Speaker 2: an extra one hundred grand over four or five years
Speaker 2: to buy a property in Brisbane. This is the real world.
Speaker 2: But people like the clown on social media says, I
Speaker 2: get free ductor visit, I get free fleet of vax.
Speaker 2: I get free. But thank you, Albo, you vote. You're
Speaker 2: the biggest danger in Australia. People like you wake up
Speaker 2: to yourselves. Good Dave, oh.
Speaker 6: Good morning afternoon to you. Thank you so much to
Speaker 6: take my calls.
Speaker 13: Good thank you. But before I talk about Linux Walker,
Speaker 13: how good was this weekend? Some decades ago? It was
Speaker 13: par it was par knight, you know fireworks.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, crack of night, yes, cracking night. Did you
Speaker 2: do anything? You don't have to tell me, did you
Speaker 2: did you do anything? You now regret. I can tell
Speaker 2: you what I did. It involved them, It involved a mailbox.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't have done that.
Speaker 13: We used to put cupp debungers under tim keirns and
Speaker 13: they go up about fifty three.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The bon in the park, oh yes, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah.
Speaker 13: And every now and again a skyrocket the milk bottle
Speaker 13: and fall over the skyrocket to be flying around about
Speaker 13: two feet off together, watch it.
Speaker 2: That's right. You just ducked or someone had someone to
Speaker 2: be on the other side of the road with a
Speaker 2: Roman candle and it wasn't dangerous. It was up to
Speaker 2: you to avoid it. Right now, we're still alive.
Speaker 6: Fair dinkhom It kept John yutas it does.
Speaker 2: Yes, indeed, yeah, I want.
Speaker 13: To thought about Lenox Walker, Thank you so much for
Speaker 13: putting that on. A bit of damn common sense prevails
Speaker 13: here and Lenox Walker back in the early part of
Speaker 13: the last century or he would do predictions of the
Speaker 13: weather on what he saw happened before cyclic and the farmers.
Speaker 13: The man on the land predominantly planted his air crops
Speaker 13: depending on what he said, and it was very accurate
Speaker 13: because it wasn't due to a cow passing me thane
Speaker 13: or dogs. It has all got to do with the
Speaker 13: cyclic matter of weather. Now here's the big one. In
Speaker 13: nineteen twenty nine there was a science convention in Canberra
Speaker 13: and Lenox Walker warned them of heat waves for about
Speaker 13: four to five weeks of over one hundred degrees fall night.
Speaker 13: He was the minized and they said, you're an idiot.
Speaker 13: You don't know what you're doing here. Kiss what may happened?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well the interesting part here we had a couple
Speaker 2: of people. Dave asked about Inigo Jones and Lenox Walker
Speaker 2: and then Hayden Walker. Well, as it turns out, Hayden
Speaker 2: Walker's dad is Lenox Walker. Lenox Walker was the assistant
Speaker 2: to Inigo Jones from about nineteen fifty three and he
Speaker 2: continued Inigo jones forecasting service from an observatory in southeast
Speaker 2: Queensland after Jones's death in nineteen fifty four. That's that's
Speaker 2: the tie in. But just like Lenox, I know there
Speaker 2: are people, particularly in rural parts of the country, Mate,
Speaker 2: that that subscribe to Hayden's Hayden's work because in the
Speaker 2: long line begun beginning with Inigo Jones into Lenox, into Hayden,
Speaker 2: a lot of people have have faith, have faith in
Speaker 2: what they say. Thank you, Dave, good to chat to you.
Speaker 2: One three, one eight seven three is a number. We're
Speaker 2: about to take a break and speak about Tom Jones,
Speaker 2: but not before we hear some Tom Jones a little
Speaker 2: different to the Green Green Grass from Home. This is
Speaker 2: a song called sex Bomb, enjoying with Baby you sad.
Speaker 2: You know, sometimes the listener just nails it Walter by
Speaker 2: the way, Tom Jones sex Bomb. Walter says, Luke, sex Bomb.
Speaker 2: Did the Big Man suggest that? Well, I can tell
Speaker 2: you in a Weekend's exclusive, And Tom Jones has said this.
Speaker 2: I'm told many times that he was watching a replay
Speaker 2: of the Big Man playing in Canterby's Grand Final win
Speaker 2: and just saw this behemoth, this force of nature. And
Speaker 2: he's apparently reportedly said, have a look at that. And
Speaker 2: one of his colleagues said, what is that? He said,
Speaker 2: it was rugby league, But have a look at that,
Speaker 2: you like? So what that big thing? He said, No,
Speaker 2: that big sex bomb. And as a result of that song, Walter,
Speaker 2: You've absolutely nailed it. Without people like you, this show
Speaker 2: just is rubbish. Back gonna sec twenty eight minutes after midday.
Speaker 6: Grab the smelling souls industrial strength if you have them, and.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the pickle juiced, because it's time for star
Speaker 1: struck with Craig Bennett.
Speaker 2: Now, very often during this segment I warn you to
Speaker 2: jasper well and Craig, does you know? It's not me.
Speaker 2: It's Craig do it because he knows things that you
Speaker 2: and I don't know, and at times that information is
Speaker 2: well challenging. And you know, we would normally say I
Speaker 2: grab yourself a glass of cooking sherry, or grab onto
Speaker 2: something firm, or maybe you know, dose up on the
Speaker 2: pickle juice. But look, I don't know, because Craig knows
Speaker 2: stuff that we don't know. But I think today perhaps
Speaker 2: we don't have to go that far. We're talking about
Speaker 2: I think everyone's unless you're married to one or related
Speaker 2: to one, everyone's favorite Welshman.
Speaker 1: It's not unuse you wants have been mangling marass.
Speaker 2: Oh what a voice the voice of Tom Jones. Craig better,
Speaker 2: good afternoon, How good is it?
Speaker 11: And how fabulous. Is it to be chatting with you again,
Speaker 11: Luke Grant? Yes, it's happy birthday actually to the Welsh Whaler.
Speaker 11: They call him the one and only Tom Jones, that
Speaker 11: the swivel hipped sex bomb singer who you realize was
Speaker 11: once banned from TV in the UK. And I'll tell
Speaker 11: you why he's eighty five today. Say it ain't so,
Speaker 11: but yes, absolutely indeed he worth he is June seventh,
Speaker 11: nineteen forty is when he was born. Still very busy.
Speaker 11: Is in Fa in the midst of a tour now
Speaker 11: playing dates in the UK and across Europe's to one
Speaker 11: of the coaches on the UK version of that TV
Speaker 11: talent show The Voice. You know, Luke, what a live,
Speaker 11: what a career in years you mentioned about holding onto
Speaker 11: things firm and pickle juice and all of that smelling
Speaker 11: salts alert because he does have a life that has
Speaker 11: bared the brunt of shockers and scandals. Oh no, so,
Speaker 11: I know, I know, I'm sorry to break this news
Speaker 11: to you, but seriously, truly is sixty two years in
Speaker 11: showbiz so far, so you'd imagine there'd be a bit
Speaker 11: of something. Look, forty nine albums so far he's release
Speaker 11: sold over one hundred million records. There's on the mantelpiece
Speaker 11: of Grammy Award a Golden Globe for that was for
Speaker 11: his TV variety series in the seventies of This is
Speaker 11: Tom Jones. And of course he's mega hit songs. We
Speaker 11: just heard of it of Watching New pussy Cat That
Speaker 11: of course was the hal David Bird Bacharac song that
Speaker 11: was the to Woody Allen's wats New pussy Cat movie?
Speaker 11: But I think was Peter Sellers and Ursula andress in
Speaker 11: that he sang the theme song to the Warren Baty
Speaker 11: movie Promise or anything. And of course let's not forget
Speaker 11: he also warbled one of the theme songs to a
Speaker 11: James Bond movie. It was Thunderball with Sean Connery as
Speaker 11: seven Shaking those Martinez. You heard some of those other hits, Delilah,
Speaker 11: It's Not Unusual, which in fact, was the song that
Speaker 11: really launched his career. She's a Lady, Green Green Grass
Speaker 11: of Home. He was a singer, look, not a songwriter.
Speaker 11: So you heard him singing other people's songs private life. Look,
Speaker 11: it's been tumultuous and it has kept the tabloid's churning
Speaker 11: over the decades across the U k. And the US,
Speaker 11: a lot of inks Bilt covering Tom's Shenanigan's tales of
Speaker 11: epic philandering. At one point, he claimed, and this was
Speaker 11: at the height of his career, when women were tossing
Speaker 11: their nickers at him, that he was betting up to
Speaker 11: two hundred and fifty fans and group.
Speaker 10: Is a year.
Speaker 11: And if you're thinking, was he married, yes, Indeed he
Speaker 11: was married to his childhood sweetheart, Linda. I'll tell you
Speaker 11: how she dealt with his cheating. They were married for
Speaker 11: I think it was fifty nine years, fifty nine years
Speaker 11: up until her death in twenty sixteen, which rocked and
Speaker 11: shocked Tom and caused him a great deal of reflection. Look,
Speaker 11: he had affairs with some of the world's most beautiful women.
Speaker 11: Although I'll tell you what Hollywood sex siren Maimie Van
Speaker 11: Duren had to say about betting Tom doesn't matter if you've.
Speaker 6: Never heard of her, she has never heard of her.
Speaker 11: Well, she was this blonde, voluptuous sort of Marilyn Monroe
Speaker 11: esque sex siren of the fifties. If you have a
Speaker 11: look her up on Google, you'll see what I mean.
Speaker 11: Maimi vand and she's still alive. I think she's about
Speaker 11: ninety four or ninety five. She made some shock acclaims
Speaker 11: about where she discovered he was putting a pair of socks.
Speaker 11: There was a born during a three day fleeing with
Speaker 11: a model in the eighties. And that's a very sad
Speaker 11: story in fact, about that son who's been doing it rough,
Speaker 11: living in parks and bus shelters and so forth. And
Speaker 11: then of course he had this horror stretch in his
Speaker 11: life when he was young, twelve or thirteen, and I
Speaker 11: think he was when he was bedridden for two years
Speaker 11: with TV. Plus he's still raging feud with his singing
Speaker 11: rival Engelbert, humping the humper they call him. And Engelbert
Speaker 11: told me that wise and wherefores of that particular feud
Speaker 11: set strap in. Of course it's a wild ride. We
Speaker 11: wouldn't be talking about it unless it was a wild ride.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, and that's a very fair point. It's just
Speaker 2: that I gets conscious that listeners might have been following
Speaker 2: our advice. Now, I was concerned I might have because
Speaker 2: I've indulged in a biting the pickle juice over the journey. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I was concerned I might have because I read
Speaker 2: this on social media and now it's a thing a
Speaker 2: sophag picko laitis, which is a condition you get if
Speaker 2: you have too much pickle juice. And I was hoping
Speaker 2: to get a weekend off it. But there you are.
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as a weekend off it.
Speaker 11: Oh, I didn't realize it came with a medical condition.
Speaker 11: Oh yes, yes to these days, lucases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 11: This segment needs a warning sign.
Speaker 2: I think I think you're right, all right, mate, The
Speaker 2: Tom Jones story after this g just quickly.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 2: I was looking at the races coverage, which is I
Speaker 2: think on channel seven and on the microphone, the foam thing.
Speaker 2: They've got seven plus, which I think is the online
Speaker 2: thing and seven Why don't they just put fourteen on
Speaker 2: the dad and be done with it anyway, Craig, let's
Speaker 2: get the Tom Jones story, mate.
Speaker 11: Absolutely, you bet you be back to the beginning we go, Luke,
Speaker 11: it's always a wonderful journey. Is that he was born
Speaker 11: Thomas Woodward in Pontid in Wales, WHI I said, the
Speaker 11: Welsh whaler is what they called him. And now you
Speaker 11: know why Thomas woodwould become Tom Jones when he started
Speaker 11: singing professionally. That was sixty two sixty three, and it
Speaker 11: was his manager, Gordon Mills who changed his name effectively
Speaker 11: to cash in on the success of an Oscar winning movie.
Speaker 11: Back then, Tom Jones, it was called with Albert Finney
Speaker 11: and Diancealento, the Aussie star who was married to Sean
Speaker 11: Connery for a bit. Tom's dad was a coal miner.
Speaker 11: Mum looked after Tom and his sister Sheila look As
Speaker 11: a kid, he hated school. I guess when you're a
Speaker 11: kid that you kind of do, don't you. He was
Speaker 11: always singing warble away, family gathering's, weddings, funerals. You kind
Speaker 11: of get the drip there. When he was twelve, though,
Speaker 11: and this is where his life really turned around. He
Speaker 11: was bed ridden for two years with tuberculosis, and that's
Speaker 11: where his love of music really ramped up. Because you're
Speaker 11: lying in bed, there's not a lot else to do,
Speaker 11: so he was listening to the radio all day and
Speaker 11: just loving people like Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis,
Speaker 11: and of course later came Elvis, so they were very
Speaker 11: big influences in his singing life. He quit school at
Speaker 11: sixteen a year later married his teenage sweetheart Linda. They
Speaker 11: were both seventeen, and they married because well, she'd gotten pregnant,
Speaker 11: and so shortly after they'd brushed the confetti out of
Speaker 11: their hair, along bounces into the world. Their son Mark,
Speaker 11: who in fact still manages his dad Tom Jones to
Speaker 11: this day. Those early years were kind of tough, luke.
Speaker 11: I mean, he worked in a glove factory. He got
Speaker 11: a job as a laborer, but was a regular in
Speaker 11: line at the doll office. And it's fascinating because in
Speaker 11: twenty twelve, notes from that unemployment office where Tom attended
Speaker 11: were found, a big pile of them in a dumpster.
Speaker 11: They were retrieved and auctioned off, and they painted Tom
Speaker 11: Jones as this werkshi loafing layabout who only wanted to
Speaker 11: sing and become a star, not do shift work. How
Speaker 11: he was obsessed with getting a band together. And the
Speaker 11: notes also claimed that Tom was out on bail for
Speaker 11: breaking and entering, though that story's never been confirmed, but
Speaker 11: that's what the notes from the unemployment office were found
Speaker 11: in a dumpster and later auctioned off or claients. So look,
Speaker 11: he did begin singing professionally nineteen sixty three, became the
Speaker 11: frontman for a band called Tommy Scott and the Senators.
Speaker 11: They signed a record deal with Decker. The first song
Speaker 11: that he released, this is Tom Jones, was a number
Speaker 11: called Chills and Fever, which was not a hit. But
Speaker 11: then his follow up was absolutely massive and that is
Speaker 11: It's Not Unusual, which was nineteen sixty five. That song
Speaker 11: came out massive hit in the UK, number one on
Speaker 11: the charts, number three in the US and I think
Speaker 11: it was number three here in Australia too. And with
Speaker 11: that Tom Jones overhauled his image. In came the type pants,
Speaker 11: I mean very type pants, yppoppingly so, the shirts that
Speaker 11: were unbuttoned almost down to the navel, the chains, the
Speaker 11: hairy chest hanging out. He imitated the sort of Elvis
Speaker 11: thing of gyrating those snake hits suggestively and in fact
Speaker 11: that's why he was banned on Telly in the UK
Speaker 11: for a bit after gyrating around on a variety show.
Speaker 11: Well with a very visible let's put it this way,
Speaker 11: the trousers were very tight and you got to see
Speaker 11: basically everything. They call that now a first trap. I
Speaker 11: think you know where you become very sort of suggestive
Speaker 11: and seductive anyway, Look, he flew over to Las Vegas
Speaker 11: nineteen sixty seven performed his first concert spectaculars there, and
Speaker 11: it's around that time that the ladies in the audience
Speaker 11: started apparently taking off their nickers and tossing them at
Speaker 11: him on stage. Now with regard to the type pants,
Speaker 11: and it goes to show think we cover everything here,
Speaker 11: you know, And he had that kind of alluring all dispose.
Speaker 11: So I mentioned old time Hollywood movies star Mami van Duran, who,
Speaker 11: as I say, still alive. She wrote in her memoir
Speaker 11: how she'd been in New York Tom was concert. She'd
Speaker 11: gone along to see him. He'd slipped her a note.
Speaker 11: They had a drink after Woods, and then after that,
Speaker 11: well she reckoned. She was quivering with delight and anticipation.
Speaker 11: Back to the hotel room. Down went the dubs, and
Speaker 11: things didn't match up. She suggested he was using a
Speaker 11: pair of socks. Wow, things out, I know. Anyway, Look,
Speaker 11: on the flip side, though, he was great friends with
Speaker 11: Elvis Presley. On the flip side of all that, he
Speaker 11: and Engelbert Humpting, as I mentioned, have had this long
Speaker 11: running rather fraud association.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 11: The papers loved to call it a feud. It kind
Speaker 11: of went down this way. Tom's career kicked off first.
Speaker 11: Then his manager, Gordon Mill signed Engelbert, who back in
Speaker 11: the day was a budding UK singer by the name
Speaker 11: of Arnold Dorsey, and the manager changed his name to
Speaker 11: Engelbert Humpendink after a German composer, and the two were
Speaker 11: kind of pitted against one another, which was great for
Speaker 11: record sales and publicity because they both had the same
Speaker 11: kind of look. They had the tight trousers, the whole thing.
Speaker 11: So you got the rivalry, the jealousy, and who had
Speaker 11: the most fans and who had the bigger hits, and
Speaker 11: who bettered the most groupies, and all that stuff was
Speaker 11: going on. Then the snarky comments began appearing in the
Speaker 11: UK papers, which it continues to this day. And Engelbert
Speaker 11: told me it reach. He reached out to Tom when
Speaker 11: Tom's wife Linda died. Didn't hear a word bout nothing,
Speaker 11: nada zip. And Engelbert says in his act, while swiveling
Speaker 11: around on stage, even in his eighties, I saw him
Speaker 11: uppy late last year, was wonderful. Unlike Tom doesn't need
Speaker 11: to pop anything down. The socks stay where they belong
Speaker 11: on the ankles. Look to Tom's love love nineteen fifty seven,
Speaker 11: he married, as I say, teenage sweetheart Linda. The are
Speaker 11: both seventeen. They'd meet up in a phone box in Wales,
Speaker 11: late at night, cover the lamp in the phone box
Speaker 11: that was all blacked out, and enjoy some phone box nookie.
Speaker 11: I guess you'd say. Decades later, Tom bought in that
Speaker 11: phone box. He bought the phone box, had it flown
Speaker 11: into la where it lived in his garden at his
Speaker 11: Beverly Hills home, just a little nostalgic token of their
Speaker 11: early love. Tom has been very candid about his affairs, philandering, cheating,
Speaker 11: and I just told you he boasted about having better
Speaker 11: two hundred and fifty group is a year in his heyday.
Speaker 11: But there were flings with God. We'd be here all afternoon.
Speaker 11: So look Mary Wilson from the Supremes, I think Elvira,
Speaker 11: who was mistress of the darker Sandra Peaterson, former Miss
Speaker 11: World Marjorie Wallace. Now when that news a there Dalion's
Speaker 11: hit the tabloids in the early seventies, I think Marjorie
Speaker 11: was about nineteen at the time. She'd just been crowned
Speaker 11: Miss World I mean Linda, His wife went ballistic, socking
Speaker 11: in one in the jaw. He then had an affair
Speaker 11: with another American beauty queen Charlotte Laws was her name,
Speaker 11: in the late seventies. She was eighteen. She reckoned, He
Speaker 11: loved lounging around in Volua track suit and Kloe. Nineteen
Speaker 11: eighty seven, had this three day fling with an American
Speaker 11: model by the name of Catherine Baccerry, which resulted in
Speaker 11: a son, jul Jonathan, and very sadly, DNA tests were done.
Speaker 11: Jonathan was absolutely Tom's according to the DNA thing. Tom
Speaker 11: has nothing to do with him because he feels that Catherine,
Speaker 11: the last he had three day fling with, deliberately sort
Speaker 11: of trapped him into having a child. Jonathan has done
Speaker 11: the rounds of the tabloids over the years, talking about
Speaker 11: his sad life, busking on street corners in New Jersey,
Speaker 11: sleeping and homeless shelters and essentially begging for his dad
Speaker 11: to please get in touch.
Speaker 28: Now.
Speaker 11: For decades, Tom was able to Tom Cat while on
Speaker 11: tour and have all these affairs because his wife was
Speaker 11: never with him, and then a couple of years before
Speaker 11: her death, all was revealed she had this condition where
Speaker 11: agora phobic. It is where she just really couldn't venture
Speaker 11: outside their Los Angeles mansion and she would sit in
Speaker 11: their chain smoking, sipping champagne. She reckoned. She loved vacuuming
Speaker 11: and eating those English tin steak and kidney pies, and
Speaker 11: that was kind of a lot in life. She died
Speaker 11: in twenty sixteen after a very short but obviously ferocious
Speaker 11: lung cancer fight. They'd been married fifty nine years. He
Speaker 11: was absolutely heartbroken and I must say vended his regrets
Speaker 11: in interviews, heart wrenching interviews, saying he wished he hadn't
Speaker 11: strayed how much he loved Linda. And sometimes people in
Speaker 11: your life you just take for granted always will will
Speaker 11: never marry again. And after Linda's death, he sold up
Speaker 11: their mansion moved to London. This was Linda's wish. It's
Speaker 11: where he lives now in an apartment in London. Linda wanted,
Speaker 11: in fact to return to the UK, but she got
Speaker 11: too sick with the cancer, and Tom says he feels
Speaker 11: his late wife around him all the time. And when
Speaker 11: he left, La basically sold up everything as there was
Speaker 11: just far too many memories that he felt were sure
Speaker 11: to haunt him. Look, he's worth around three hundred million
Speaker 11: US dollars as so busy as can be. It's coming
Speaker 11: up to I think, what coming up to four am
Speaker 11: in London. Now I've just checked my watch quarter to four,
Speaker 11: so he's likely still in bed. But I'm sure in
Speaker 11: the coming days we will hear how he celebrated his
Speaker 11: eighty fifth birthday.
Speaker 2: Luke, I understand he downloads this podcast not for my bit,
Speaker 2: but for your bit. Don't worry, he'll know all about it.
Speaker 2: There was that joke that people used to. My kid
Speaker 2: walks around singing Tom Jones songs. He says to the
Speaker 2: doctor and the doctors, and the doctor says, I know
Speaker 2: what that is. It's Tom Jones syndrome. And the dad says, oh,
Speaker 2: it's a common and the doctor says, oh, it's not unusual.
Speaker 10: You know.
Speaker 11: That's well, I mean, you know, it's nice to have
Speaker 11: a bit of a laugh, isn't it.
Speaker 18: Indeed, you've been an amazing life, Yes, indeed, great.
Speaker 2: Songs, indeed, absolutely outstanding. You've been in again, Craig Bennett,
Speaker 2: talk to you next week, my friend. Thank you so much.
Speaker 2: It's eleven to one. Now we're about to do the
Speaker 2: quiz one three, one, eight seven three three questions. Let's
Speaker 2: see disgusting Abomination twenty six and soccer rus be handed
Speaker 2: and know that for the quiz. Spinales Pillow Spinaleese at
Speaker 2: e dot com dot I go do call now we'll
Speaker 2: do the quiz after I speak to Mark Levy, who's
Speaker 2: out there to watch Cronulla do a battle with the Warriors,
Speaker 2: which kicks off at five point thirty. Full coverage here, Hi,
Speaker 2: Marquis hell.
Speaker 16: I look your home game for majority of the continuous
Speaker 16: call Tame today. It's a little sleep in the day
Speaker 16: mosy on down the road and we're here at Shark Park,
Speaker 16: which is bathed in sunshine at the moment. Not many
Speaker 16: here though, coach don't open for a few hours, but
Speaker 16: looking forward to a big day.
Speaker 2: Well, the elitists at home in the shire, do you
Speaker 2: think the Warriors can get over the Sharks? The elitist
Speaker 2: you are? You sit there in the box, You get
Speaker 2: special food order and you plug it on air and say, ah,
Speaker 2: the boss is here, haygarn mate, thanks a lot for
Speaker 2: the Wugu's steak, and and then and then the goats
Speaker 2: cheese curd and the panel poplar, the oyster flavored panel pipe.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's disgusting us rugby league fans. Give us
Speaker 2: a pie and a beer and leave me alone.
Speaker 16: Well I did pull into the car park and I
Speaker 16: said Mark leave. They said, sorry, your name's not on
Speaker 16: the list. So that was a bit of a problem.
Speaker 16: So not so much an elitis, but anyway I got in.
Speaker 16: That's the main But yeah, we'll be tugging into some
Speaker 16: sort of delicacy. Oh yeah, because we do have the
Speaker 16: premiership winning captain on the on the panel and his
Speaker 16: faces on a wall outside the stadium as well, so
Speaker 16: you can have your mate pies and we'll stick to
Speaker 16: our Chinese feast up here in the box.
Speaker 2: Yeah you want to plug, you want to plug that joint? Now,
Speaker 2: why do you got a chance?
Speaker 16: Yeah, I would, but I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 2: And then we've got Tom calling the Broncos and the Titans.
Speaker 2: They can't lose that, surely, Well.
Speaker 16: A Turtamental's three hundredth and if they can't get up
Speaker 16: for this, I don't know what's going on at Brisbane.
Speaker 16: So they're up against the Titans of Queensland Derby there,
Speaker 16: so yeah, the Broncos should.
Speaker 2: Be within that one, right mate. We look forward to
Speaker 2: hearing you very soon. You and the rest of the team.
Speaker 18: MG.
Speaker 2: Gal big Man and yourself have fun out there. I
Speaker 2: know you will.
Speaker 16: From the elitist Bye bye for now, bye.
Speaker 2: Bye for an hour? Tat half an hour, tat half
Speaker 2: an hour? Hey Robert, Hello, good a. How are you mate?
Speaker 6: Good?
Speaker 9: I'm really good.
Speaker 12: Thanks.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm very well as well, mate. Best of luck to you.
Speaker 2: We're about to do the quiz said, we can give
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Speaker 2: it was a disgusting abomination?
Speaker 9: By disgusting abomba?
Speaker 2: I well done. Nicol Ed Bowler won the federal seat
Speaker 2: of Bradfield. Did she win it by twenty six votes
Speaker 2: or six hundred thousand votes?
Speaker 6: Twenty six?
Speaker 2: Well done you. Australia's men's soccer team pretty much qualified
Speaker 2: for the next World Cup, beating Japan one nil. The
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Speaker 2: that's us today. Thank you Rob for the text. I'm
Speaker 2: glad you enjoyed it. Thank you for listening. And tomorrow
Speaker 2: New South Wales Governor Herez Sly Margaret Beasley I will
Speaker 2: also speak to tar psychologist Claire row Andy Si Shan,
Speaker 2: the Australian born bass player for Billy Joel Chris Marshall
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Speaker 2: Bye bye yah