Speaker 1: This onto GB for b C and network stations. This
Speaker 1: is wake Up Oustrod.
Speaker 2: Yeah, with Phill O'Neill.
Speaker 3: Morning.
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 5: David said, Hey, Phil, be careful with giving advice to
Speaker 5: someone about the spinal problems.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 5: As I said to David, as I was saying to
Speaker 5: people like on the phone, Rob, I said, I am
Speaker 5: no medical professional, so I'm not giving you any advice
Speaker 5: on what to do. I said, go to a physiotherapist.
Speaker 5: But based on what I did, as I said to Rock,
Speaker 5: what I did was I went to a physio. They
Speaker 5: worked on things for me, including the glutons and the
Speaker 5: glutons I don't know that doesn't sound right, the buttocks anyway,
Speaker 5: and also the and also the hips and everything like that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, David appreciate that. And by the way, David,
Speaker 5: if you've got this experience too, maybe we can get
Speaker 5: you to come on and also give us some advice
Speaker 5: for what we can do with backpain. So I appreciate
Speaker 5: your texts that came through a moment ago. We're going
Speaker 5: to get to Jonathan Cursley in just a moment to
Speaker 5: find out what's going on with your overnight news and
Speaker 5: especially what's happening in America. But let's get to the
Speaker 5: front page of the newspapers first, and the Australian has
Speaker 5: this story that Jim Charmers has taken taxes on death
Speaker 5: and the family home off the reform agenda at August's
Speaker 5: Productivity Roundtable, while playing down any suggestion that the meeting
Speaker 5: will be a repeat of the union dominated Jobs and
Speaker 5: Skills Summit of twenty twenty two. Thank you for that.
Speaker 5: Let's get to the Age, and the story in the
Speaker 5: Age is Victoria is grappling with its highest youth crime
Speaker 5: rate since electronic records began, with new records and figures
Speaker 5: laying down and bearing really obviously this surge and offending
Speaker 5: but forced the state government to strengthen the bail laws.
Speaker 5: Police are making two hundred and eight arrests a day
Speaker 5: alongside the unprecedented seizure of edged records, marking what could
Speaker 5: be the highest figures in the force's history. That's the
Speaker 5: front page of the Age, front page of the Herald Sun.
Speaker 5: A woman's been left to die while waiting for up
Speaker 5: to five hours for an ambulance due to emergency services
Speaker 5: having a standoff. Paramedics were called late on Tuesday requesting
Speaker 5: police assistance because the woman had been violent with emergency
Speaker 5: service workers in the past, but police refused to attend
Speaker 5: without evidence of violence. This is the Financial Review front page.
Speaker 5: Higher taxes on family trusts and electronic electric vehicle drivers
Speaker 5: are expected to be proposed by the Treasury as the
Speaker 5: options for Jim Chalmers to meet his objective on raising
Speaker 5: revenue to pay for income tax cuts and bolster the
Speaker 5: federal budget. The Sidney Mording Herald people are leaving Australia
Speaker 5: in the highest numbers since the pandemic, easing population growth
Speaker 5: and signaling the end of a two year migrant boom
Speaker 5: overseen by the Albanesi government despite its pledgures to curb immigration.
Speaker 5: The front page of the Courier Mail tech giants resisting
Speaker 5: Australia's world first laws to ban under sixteens from social
Speaker 5: media will now have no excuse after an age verification
Speaker 5: trial determined it would be private, robust and effective. The
Speaker 5: preliminary findings of the Age Assurance Technology trial will be
Speaker 5: unveiled this afternoon. The world first legislation to raise the
Speaker 5: minimum age of social media to use to sixteen came
Speaker 5: after the Courier Mails Let Them Be Kids campaign and
Speaker 5: also on the front page of the year, Caurier mail,
Speaker 5: We're just getting started, Captain Cam's warning to the Blues.
Speaker 5: Oh come on, guys, you only won one game. Here's
Speaker 5: your Canberra Times front page. The Canberra Liberals Peter Kain
Speaker 5: has resigned from shadow cabinet, declaring that he can no
Speaker 5: longer support the opposition's leadership team. And let's wrap this
Speaker 5: up with the front page of the Daily Telegraph, and
Speaker 5: again going back to the story that Australia has been
Speaker 5: given the green light to use age verification to implement
Speaker 5: a world leading social media ban for under sixteens after
Speaker 5: the first technological trial determined it would be private, robust
Speaker 5: and effective. That's your front page of the newspapers. Let's
Speaker 5: go to Jonathan Cursley, who's on the phone, the Channel
Speaker 5: nine US correspondent from Los Angeles. Good morning, mate. I
Speaker 5: find it really interesting, Jonathan. The breaking news of the morning,
Speaker 5: Donald Trump saying that he will make a decision on
Speaker 5: Iran in two weeks. That's a long time to wait.
Speaker 7: Will it?
Speaker 8: Well?
Speaker 9: Two weeks that's the words out of the mouths of
Speaker 9: the President. Caroline Leave at the Press Secretary delivering a
Speaker 9: statement from him in the White House Press briefing or
Speaker 9: of just moments ago. Essentially yes, as you said, saying
Speaker 9: that because of what he says is the substantial chances
Speaker 9: of negotiations with the Iranian regime of a nuclear deal,
Speaker 9: that he will then make a decision in two weeks
Speaker 9: on whether or not to strike Iran. Now, there's obviously
Speaker 9: little clarity around what that could actually mean. What he's
Speaker 9: looking for in a nuclear deal, according to the White
Speaker 9: House Press secretary, is essentially no enrichment, no chance of
Speaker 9: having a nuclear weapon, and she then reiterated claims that
Speaker 9: Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, lines
Speaker 9: we have heard from Israel for quite some time. Now.
Speaker 9: What is interesting I think with this, Phil is that
Speaker 9: Donald Trump has a history of giving two week deadlines.
Speaker 9: He's given Vladimir Putin two week deadlines on Ukraine repeatedly
Speaker 9: over the course of this year. Those deadlines come and
Speaker 9: those deadlines pass. The big question I've got now listening
Speaker 9: to this and looking at the President's history over these negotiations,
Speaker 9: is what if this two week deadline actually going to mean.
Speaker 9: We have seen a significant rift among Naga circles over
Speaker 9: the possibility that he could launch military action in Iran,
Speaker 9: given the factor campaigns so heavily on being a president
Speaker 9: of peace and somebody who wouldn't start war. Was clearly
Speaker 9: that is weighing on his mind. Yesterday we saw reporting
Speaker 9: from the Wall Street Journal initially that he had approved
Speaker 9: plans but was going to wait until the final moment, essentially,
Speaker 9: and he himself said he likes to make a decision
Speaker 9: at the very last second. So it seems as though
Speaker 9: that very last second is going to be two weeks
Speaker 9: away from now. In the meantime, the war between Iran
Speaker 9: and Israel with these retaliatory strikes is now seven days
Speaker 9: in the making and shows no sign of easing, So
Speaker 9: it'll be twenty one days by the time we get
Speaker 9: to that point three weeks. So set your deadline, sets
Speaker 9: your clock, sets your timers, set whatever it is you
Speaker 9: want to do. Two weeks from now, will we have
Speaker 9: a decision from the United States President on whether the
Speaker 9: US gets involved in this war. We're just gonna have
Speaker 9: to wait and say.
Speaker 5: Well, that's right. And in the meantime, the two are
Speaker 5: going to pound the crap out of each other with missiles,
Speaker 5: which is certainly something that's the people that are living
Speaker 5: there are having to live with that too, unless, of
Speaker 5: course they can find some kind of agreement. But at
Speaker 5: the moment, nobody's making any agreements with each other. But
Speaker 5: you're right, it is interesting that he did bring in
Speaker 5: this two week period. And I was talking to Dr
Speaker 5: Keith Suitter about this earlier on and he floated the idea.
Speaker 5: And I think, as you did there too, that Donald
Speaker 5: Trump also has to appeal to his base, and he's
Speaker 5: promised his base that he's not going to as this president,
Speaker 5: he's going to not get involved in wars that are
Speaker 5: not anything to do with him. So do you think
Speaker 5: maybe that's got a little bit something to do with it.
Speaker 5: He's getting pulled from both signs.
Speaker 9: He's being pulled in a million different directions. I mean,
Speaker 9: I don't use that figure literally, He's been pulled in
Speaker 9: a number of different directions. Clearly there's a view from
Speaker 9: the Israelis that they want the United States involved in
Speaker 9: this war. Benjaminettnan, who is clearly looking to the US president,
Speaker 9: even though he's saying today that they tell Donald Trump
Speaker 9: what to do, they want America's involvement because essentially and
Speaker 9: ideally they want America to use the so called bunker
Speaker 9: busters to attack the Podo Nuclear facility site that so
Speaker 9: much of it is underground, and the Israelis essentially say
Speaker 9: they don't have the equipment to be able to do that,
Speaker 9: and their goal is to essentially remove the entire Iranian
Speaker 9: nuclear program altogether. In order to do that, you have
Speaker 9: to strike this facility. Now, it's been reported that President
Speaker 9: Trump had asked his people inside the situation room, his advisors,
Speaker 9: whether or not there was confidence that the bunker busters
Speaker 9: might actually work, and the Pentagon officials, the military officials
Speaker 9: certainly seem to think so. But yes, there is a
Speaker 9: big element of Donald Trump having to try and work
Speaker 9: out not only is he going to try and side
Speaker 9: with Israel on this, is he going to try and
Speaker 9: be the person he said he was going to be,
Speaker 9: and that is somebody who wants peace and it doesn't
Speaker 9: end to foreign wars. And exactly as you said, how
Speaker 9: does he walk this very fine line with his mag
Speaker 9: support base that essentially is splintering over this. You have
Speaker 9: somebody like Taka Carlson, a very staunched Donald Trump mega
Speaker 9: supporter who is vehumanly against launching strikes on Iran. He
Speaker 9: then goes and interviews Senator Ted Cruz, who is a
Speaker 9: huge MAGA Trump supporter and a huge protector of Israel
Speaker 9: and wants to strike Iran. So there is this split
Speaker 9: within MAGA circles, and Donald Trump is now trying to
Speaker 9: unify this group. But he himself is the one that's
Speaker 9: going to have to make the decision. Now, if he
Speaker 9: chooses to strike, that's not going to win over everybody
Speaker 9: by any stretch of the imagination. So he's buying himself
Speaker 9: some time here. He's buying himself some time to see
Speaker 9: if negotiations can work. Even though yesterday he said his
Speaker 9: patients had run out, he seems to be wanting to
Speaker 9: give himself a window. Remember too, Tomorrow, phil the European
Speaker 9: foreign ministers are going to be meeting with the Iranian
Speaker 9: foreign ministers to try and have some sort of pathway
Speaker 9: to cease fire in the Iran Israel war. But ultimately
Speaker 9: the decision on what happens is going to be in
Speaker 9: the hands of the United States President. And he knows this.
Speaker 9: He craves the attention, he craves the power, and right
Speaker 9: now he's got it, and essentially he's got the fate
Speaker 9: of the Middle East, potentially the world sitting right in
Speaker 9: the palm of his hand.
Speaker 5: I wonder if you hit the nail on the head
Speaker 5: though when you say, perhaps there's all of this at
Speaker 5: the moment, the bunker buster seems to be the savior
Speaker 5: of everything. But maybe you've hit the nail on their head.
Speaker 5: Maybe they've thought because I looked up a little bit
Speaker 5: about the bunker Buster, because we're all talking about it now,
Speaker 5: as though you know, we are sort of familiar with
Speaker 5: what it is and what it does. But the thing is,
Speaker 5: and I read this article, the exact size of the
Speaker 5: ford O fuel enrichment plant is unclear, so it said
Speaker 5: that the halls are estimated to be eighty to ninety
Speaker 5: meters underground. But according to a UK based think tank
Speaker 5: called the Royal United Services Institute, they said that according
Speaker 5: to a recent report, they would likely have to be
Speaker 5: multiple impacts at the same aiming point to have a
Speaker 5: good chance of actually penetrating the facility. Maybe somebody's suddenly
Speaker 5: got to hang on a second, it's not actually going
Speaker 5: to do the job unless you've got lots of them
Speaker 5: to drop. I wonder if that's perhaps something that's going
Speaker 5: on in this sort of equation on this decision.
Speaker 9: Well, you've got to remember, Donald Trump's going to have
Speaker 9: a lot of people shouting at him at the moment,
Speaker 9: figuratively putting forward their beliefs, their ideas. And clearly, if
Speaker 9: that report about him raising the ideas of having confidence
Speaker 9: in the bunker busters is accurate, then clearly there are
Speaker 9: people talking to him that are raising these concerns with him. Now, oh,
Speaker 9: to be a fly on the wall of the Oval
Speaker 9: office and the situation room as these discussions are unfolding,
Speaker 9: because Donald Trump knows exactly how much power he yields.
Speaker 9: But carrying out an operation to drop a bunker buster
Speaker 9: is an incredibly huge operation. To launch the B two's
Speaker 9: the stealth aircraft from the United States of America. They
Speaker 9: are kept here because they are so incredibly expensive and lucrative.
Speaker 9: They essentially fly silently, they disappear from radars. They're going
Speaker 9: to have to refuel on the way to get into Iran.
Speaker 9: That refueling is going to have to take place mid air,
Speaker 9: and then they're going to have to drop these bunker busters,
Speaker 9: probably more than one if you were to imagine the
Speaker 9: sort of operation they would want to carry out, and
Speaker 9: then fly all the way back. So it's some thirty
Speaker 9: thirty six hour round trip. It is a huge operation,
Speaker 9: and the fallout from that is obviously part of what
Speaker 9: the president, a huge part of what the president has
Speaker 9: to consider as well, because what are Iranian stocks left
Speaker 9: going to do? They've already indicated that the Hoothy should
Speaker 9: launch strikes on ships in the waters in and around
Speaker 9: the Middle East. Now, that could disrupt shipping routes, shipping lanes,
Speaker 9: it could disrupt oil transfer from the Middle East to
Speaker 9: other parts of the country. We've already seen oil prices
Speaker 9: increase over the course of the last week. Then you
Speaker 9: have to look at the Arab nations. How are they
Speaker 9: going to respond to this. Iran is already indicating that
Speaker 9: they would likely have some support. President Putin in Russia
Speaker 9: is watching this closely too, and there's been reports that
Speaker 9: China has been senting in supply aircraft. So there is
Speaker 9: a huge amount of global geopolitics going on right now
Speaker 9: in positioning over what is essentially two countries, Iran and Israel,
Speaker 9: and one man, and that man is Donald Trump. And
Speaker 9: the problem is the entire world the political leaders do
Speaker 9: not know what he is going to do. They are
Speaker 9: preparing for a worst case scenario as you would expect
Speaker 9: them to do. They are preparing as you would expect
Speaker 9: them to do for him to attack, but they would
Speaker 9: also be preparing for something not to happen, because any
Speaker 9: political leader with their wits about them, is going to
Speaker 9: make sure they have as many bases covered. But the
Speaker 9: problem is, right now they're all sitting there looking at
Speaker 9: each other wondering what on earth is going to have
Speaker 9: up and next they try to predict the entirely unpredictable.
Speaker 10: That's right.
Speaker 5: You brought up a really interesting point to I wonder
Speaker 5: how much that would actually cost that operation. When you
Speaker 5: say the B fifty two, the B two do you have?
Speaker 3: Would you would you.
Speaker 5: Want to have a guess at the bullpark figure of
Speaker 5: that with everything included in the package.
Speaker 9: Well you'd have to be looking at millions, millions, millions
Speaker 9: of dollars and look at the value of these aircraft
Speaker 9: who they are hugely expensive and hugely valuable to the
Speaker 9: American military assets. So what they are doing is taking,
Speaker 9: if they do strike, is taking a big political gamble,
Speaker 9: a taking a big regional global conflict gamble, because if
Speaker 9: Donald Trump decides to go that way, that may be
Speaker 9: the only option he wants to do drop a couple
Speaker 9: of bunker bosss and then leave and be out and
Speaker 9: be done and not do anything so that he can
Speaker 9: appease his megabase and not get involved in long, lengthy
Speaker 9: wars far away. But if he does something like that,
Speaker 9: there may well be repercussions and consequences from the Middle
Speaker 9: East that could drag the United States in. So he's
Speaker 9: having to walk this very fine line himself of trying
Speaker 9: to work out if he does take Option A to strike,
Speaker 9: which he seems to be leaning towards, what is the
Speaker 9: fallout going to be. He's moved a lot of American
Speaker 9: military assets into the region. There are aircraft carriers that
Speaker 9: have gone there, There are aircraft that have moved into
Speaker 9: the region, all posturing in case something may need to
Speaker 9: be done. But the question then is you move so
Speaker 9: many personnel into the region, and Iran has already raised
Speaker 9: the prospect of the who he's attacking American ships, Well,
Speaker 9: then you have the prospects that American personnel are at risk.
Speaker 9: And the President has made it clear if Iran attacks
Speaker 9: any American personnel, be they civilian on military, there is
Speaker 9: going to be a problem. So this is a huge
Speaker 9: roll of the dice for whatever move he makes. Right
Speaker 9: now as we sit here today, seven days into this conflict,
Speaker 9: he is buying himself some time to avoid a very
Speaker 9: difficult decision, and that is to launch a military strike
Speaker 9: on Iran that will have consequences right around the world.
Speaker 5: Jonathan Kursley, always a pleasure to talk to you. Thank
Speaker 5: you so much for your time. Jonathan Cursley there from
Speaker 5: Los Angeles, the Channel Line US correspondent, twenty three minutes
Speaker 5: past four, twenty six minutes past four. Ben Fordham on
Speaker 5: Sydney's two GB at five point thirty, John Laws the
Speaker 5: legend of broadcasting on the show today. Mike Leevy follows
Speaker 5: that at nine in Brisbane four BC, it's Peter Figan.
Speaker 5: We're going to get to your news booths in just
Speaker 5: a moment too in Sydney and in Melbourne to see
Speaker 5: what's going on. Then we'll catch up with Brendan O'Neil,
Speaker 5: who's in the UK, to find out what stories are
Speaker 5: happening in the UK, including the temperature thirty two degrees
Speaker 5: it's pretty warm there. Every Friday we wrap up the
Speaker 5: week with rhiannon Down, who's on the phone. The political
Speaker 5: reporter for The Australian. Good morning to you. This is
Speaker 5: the week that was in camera. Let's get it started with, well,
Speaker 5: where do you want to start?
Speaker 2: Yeg meeting didn't end up happening.
Speaker 11: We had the long awaited G seven summit where Albernezi,
Speaker 11: our Prime Minister, was due to have his first meeting
Speaker 11: with Donald Trump face to face to discuss tariffs and orcurse.
Speaker 11: But despite being highly anticipated in the media for months
Speaker 11: or weeks, I should say, it didn't end up happening.
Speaker 11: Donald Trump canceled at the minute and left him hanging
Speaker 11: because of the Middle East conflict, which I imagine was very
Speaker 11: disappointing for the Prime Minister and the government because they
Speaker 11: were very keen to negotiate an exception from those tariffs
Speaker 11: that have been causing them so much grief. Apparently he
Speaker 11: didn't receive he did not receive a call from Trump
Speaker 11: personally afterwards, which some leaders did, which is unfortunate. However,
Speaker 11: Athne Albernizi's now considering going to a NATO summit in
Speaker 11: the Netherlands soon to meet Trump in person, so he's
Speaker 11: certainly keen to make up for that lost meeting. He
Speaker 11: sees it as very critically important as a way of
Speaker 11: assuring the nation that he's a capable economic manager and
Speaker 11: able to negotiate.
Speaker 2: An exemption those tariffs.
Speaker 11: However, there were some successes for Anthony Albernizi in terms
Speaker 11: of he did meet with some EU officials to discuss
Speaker 11: a new Security and Defense Pact, which is something that's
Speaker 11: on the table, so certainly some closer ties with Europe
Speaker 11: emerging out of that G seven summit.
Speaker 5: Jim Chalmers went to the National Press Club. How did
Speaker 5: he go?
Speaker 11: Just a week after Anthony Alberzi gave his own presentation
Speaker 11: at the National Press Club, which I'm sure he was
Speaker 11: very keen to get him first. The Treasurer, Jim Chalmers
Speaker 11: has now done his He did that on Wednesday and
Speaker 11: it was really I mean, he talked up his achievements
Speaker 11: after his first term as Treasurer and sort of talked
Speaker 11: about the mandate in the next three years ahead.
Speaker 2: So there was certainly, you know, very like it was
Speaker 2: a bit of a victory life, I'd say for the
Speaker 2: treasure He.
Speaker 11: Sort of talked about the government's track record of bringing
Speaker 11: down inflation while making sure that unemployment didn't rise, so
Speaker 11: certainly the government's had some successes.
Speaker 2: He also sort of tried to temper.
Speaker 11: This with this idea of you know, there's a lot
Speaker 11: of global volatility, there's tariffs, there's all over the world now.
Speaker 11: And he also talked up this productivity roundtable that's coming
Speaker 11: up in August where they're going to bring all these
Speaker 11: prominentusiness leaders and economic leaders and so of discussed how
Speaker 11: to get the nation's productivity sort of out of adultrums
Speaker 11: that it's in. So certainly it was a well received
Speaker 11: speech for Jim Chalmers. He did also make a few
Speaker 11: interesting admissions. He said that the budget as it is
Speaker 11: is not sustainable. We've got spending sort of falling short
Speaker 11: of all the big ticket items the government needs to fund,
Speaker 11: like the care economy, that's age care, health indies, all
Speaker 11: those things.
Speaker 2: Defense is another big one at the moment.
Speaker 11: And he talked about this idea of tax reform, which
Speaker 11: is very interesting. Labor certainly steered clear of tax reforms
Speaker 11: early in the first term.
Speaker 2: And he sort of flagged.
Speaker 11: This suggestion that you know, everything should be left on
Speaker 11: the table, the possibility of looking at GST.
Speaker 2: But he also talked about this idea of consensus.
Speaker 11: He said that failures to get productivity out of the
Speaker 11: gutters or reform the economy won't.
Speaker 2: Be because of a lack of courage. It'll be because
Speaker 2: of a.
Speaker 11: Lack of consensus, and consensus will be the key thing here.
Speaker 2: He talked a lot about this topic.
Speaker 11: We've got already, we've got the coalition, James Pattison, the
Speaker 11: Finance Minister, coming out saying that this is sort of
Speaker 11: code for labor saying they want to raise So we'll
Speaker 11: see how that goes, this idea of tax reform.
Speaker 2: And this has been this Week in Camera.
Speaker 5: Good to talk to you, Thanks so much. Rihanna down
Speaker 5: there with this Week in Camera, a political report for
Speaker 5: the Australian. There it's four thirty okay, let's get to
Speaker 5: the newsrooms and find out what we've got going on
Speaker 5: around Australia. First League starting in Sydney to GV.
Speaker 1: And now on Wake Up Australia News.
Speaker 5: Today with Sasha Foot. Good morning Sasha, what have we got?
Speaker 8: Good morning Phil. The White House says US President Donald
Speaker 8: Trump will make a decision on whether to attack Iran
Speaker 8: within two weeks. Negotiations to find a diplomatic solution are
Speaker 8: expected to continue, with mister Trump confirming he wants to
Speaker 8: pursue diplomacy, but he is unafraid to use strength. A
Speaker 8: man is fighting for life in hospital after being shot
Speaker 8: by police in Sydney's Southwest. Officers say they shot at
Speaker 8: the fifty two year old when he brandished a knife
Speaker 8: in a cabinet. Elderly and a major review will get
Speaker 8: underway into Queensland's Parole Board investigate failures in governance and oversights.
Speaker 8: The Borders faced criticism for backlog in decisions and not
Speaker 8: being transparent with families about decisions. Made Phil more News
Speaker 8: at the top of the hour.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Sasha. Let's get to Melbourne the three AW
Speaker 5: news room, Dennis O'Keane okain and Keen I'm sure to
Speaker 5: give us the update how he does.
Speaker 6: Good Morning Phil. A stand up between police and the
Speaker 6: ambulance has reportedly led to a woman left to die here.
Speaker 6: The woman suffered a suspected prescription medication overdose early Wednesday
Speaker 6: morning at her home near the Gambi, which is north
Speaker 6: of Melbourne. Well Herald soners are reporting paramedics were called
Speaker 6: late on Tuesday and requested the assistance of police because
Speaker 6: the forty four year old had a history of violence.
Speaker 6: Involving emergency service workers, but apparently the police refused to
Speaker 6: attend without evidence and paramedics were eventually sent to the
Speaker 6: women's when the woman's partner reported her dead about five
Speaker 6: hours after first phoning Triple zero. So no doubt there
Speaker 6: will be a full investigation into that, and especially between
Speaker 6: the cooperation between the police and the ablet's former state
Speaker 6: opposition Lyer. John Persudo's political career has been saved and
Speaker 6: the Liberal Party spared a by election in his marginal
Speaker 6: seat of Werabien Inn of Melbourne because the party's administrative
Speaker 6: committee voted last night to loan him one and a
Speaker 6: half million dollars and it means mister Persudo can now
Speaker 6: pay colleague more a deeming the two point three million
Speaker 6: dollars in legal costs he owes her affording bankruptcy of course,
Speaker 6: that would have seen him ineligible to sit in Parliament.
Speaker 6: And a mansion has gone up in flames in Turac
Speaker 6: overnight now and at home at the time the double
Speaker 6: story house was under going renovations. Still trying to find
Speaker 6: out though phil who actually owns it, but we are
Speaker 6: told it's one of those big t Irak mansions. And
Speaker 6: in the AFL a forty one point win for Fremantle
Speaker 6: over Essendon. More in the news top.
Speaker 9: Of the hour.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Dennis. Yeah, if it's gone up in two
Speaker 5: Rek and Melbourne then yeah, you're right, it's a mansion.
Speaker 5: It would cost a bit of money actually, update from
Speaker 5: the news. So the weather, as far as Brisbane's concerned,
Speaker 5: it is twelve degrees at the moment, but it feels
Speaker 5: like ten in Brisbane. You've got a little bit of
Speaker 5: sunshine today, but rain thirty five degrees, back to ray
Speaker 5: sunshine on Sunday, then back to rain on Monday. In
Speaker 5: Sydney at the moment six degrees, but it feels like three.
Speaker 5: It's been getting a colder and colder in Sydney today,
Speaker 5: a top of seventeen degrees and a bit of sunshine
Speaker 5: around for the weekend in Sydney. We'll go and get
Speaker 5: more of an accurate idea about what we've got coming
Speaker 5: up in the next three days in Sydney and Brisbane
Speaker 5: and also in the snow fields. When we give you
Speaker 5: a little something for the weekend in about another forty
Speaker 5: five minutes time. But now at twenty seven minutes to five,
Speaker 5: let's get to Brendan O'Neill in the UK after this
Speaker 5: twenty three minutes to five, Bruce said on the text
Speaker 5: Anthony Albanizi is not a good economic manager. Jim Chalmers
Speaker 5: just wants to tax us more and that's not economic reform.
Speaker 5: Peter says, remember isays the West has just made the
Speaker 5: leader Siria's president. According to Trump, he's a great guy.
Speaker 5: All the Western leaders of fawning over him. It was
Speaker 5: all along the creation of the West against the Site.
Speaker 5: That was what Peter said on the text, and Wayne said,
Speaker 5: just regarding Donald Trump, have a look at the email
Speaker 5: I sent just after midnight. Well, I'll have to go
Speaker 5: back and have a look at that. And also that
Speaker 5: this one from Peter who says Israel has to be
Speaker 5: protected from Iran. Imagine being Trump. He's the leader of
Speaker 5: the free world and radical Islam must not be allowed
Speaker 5: to prosper Text number is zero four six zero eight
Speaker 5: seven three eight seven three. Let's take a trip to
Speaker 5: the UK.
Speaker 1: And now on Wake Up Australia does of common sense
Speaker 1: man sense from the other side of the world with
Speaker 1: Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online.
Speaker 5: Hello mate, how are you this morning?
Speaker 12: This morning?
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm not too bad.
Speaker 9: Thank you good.
Speaker 5: I see you're using that app that we've got you
Speaker 5: using that It never seems to work properly, But that's okay.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's talk about what's going on first with
Speaker 5: the Israel Iran war. With the Israeli Iran war.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty scary what's happening in the Middle East
Speaker 4: right now, and I think it's unpredictable as to what
Speaker 4: the outcome will be. It's unclear, particularly whether the US
Speaker 4: and the UK will get involved. I think both Donald
Speaker 4: Trump and Kissed Arma are reluctant to get involved. They're
Speaker 4: willing to help Israel, but they're not really willing to
Speaker 4: put any of their own bombs or feet on the
Speaker 4: ground just yet. Although there is talk about Trump potentially
Speaker 4: using that huge buster bomb to get rid of the
Speaker 4: nuclear facility that's buried in a mountain. So at the moment,
Speaker 4: it's slightly up in the air. It's kind of not
Speaker 4: clear where it's going to go, whether it's going to
Speaker 4: become one of those big, all consuming wars that we've
Speaker 4: seen over the past few years, or whether it might
Speaker 4: be something quite swift and surgical. So it feels quite unpredictable.
Speaker 4: I think to many people.
Speaker 5: The other thing that's going on is the latest on
Speaker 5: the grooming gangs in the UK. Can you give us
Speaker 5: some idea what's happening there?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's ongoing. It's as you say, this is just
Speaker 4: it's coming back again. It's an issue that just will
Speaker 4: never go away, and for good reason, because it is
Speaker 4: an issue which the government here and officialdom here has
Speaker 4: failed to get to grips with again and again and again.
Speaker 4: What's happened this week is that Baroness Casey, a well
Speaker 4: known peer here in the UK, she has published a
Speaker 4: report saying there needs to be a national inquiry and
Speaker 4: the report says that things were worse than even people
Speaker 4: like she thought they were. So it's now confirmed that
Speaker 4: a majority of these gangs were made up of men
Speaker 4: from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds. A majority of their victims were
Speaker 4: girls from the white working class. There was a really
Speaker 4: powerful racial and religious dynamic to this horrendous abuse that
Speaker 4: was carried out over decades against thousands of girls. And
Speaker 4: she says that officialdom, politicians, the media, academics, basically the
Speaker 4: entire British establishment too often turned a blind eye and
Speaker 4: so Starma is now under huge pressure to get this
Speaker 4: national inquiry up and running. I think it's going to
Speaker 4: be the most serious reckoning Britain has had with itself
Speaker 4: in one hundred years. This is a scandal that has
Speaker 4: scarred this country and it's really about time we got
Speaker 4: to grips with it, of course.
Speaker 5: And oh, it seems like I'm able to actually talk
Speaker 5: back to you now. I couldn't talk to you before
Speaker 5: without hearing ourselves back. So that's good we were able
Speaker 5: to to continue going forward in a conversational Star And
Speaker 5: I want to ask you about this, the issue with
Speaker 5: and perhaps the deal that Kiss Starmer has managed to
Speaker 5: do with Donald Trump, as far as the trade is concerned.
Speaker 5: Is that making much news.
Speaker 4: It's kind of been drowned out by all the other stuff,
Speaker 4: you know, It's been drowned out by war in the
Speaker 4: Middle East, the grooming gang scandal here at home, and
Speaker 4: other things as well.
Speaker 9: But it has made a trickle.
Speaker 4: I think people generally feel that Kiss for all his faults,
Speaker 4: is handling Donald Trump pretty well. I mean, it's well
Speaker 4: known and I'm sure Donald Trump knows this himself, that
Speaker 4: Kiss Starmer and his cabinet are not fans of Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: You know, virtually all of them have said really quite
Speaker 4: shocking things about him in the past. So David Lammy,
Speaker 4: our foreign secretary, once called Donald Trump a Nazi and
Speaker 4: the KKK supporter, So it's always very awkward a and
Speaker 4: our foreign secretary has to go to Washington and talk
Speaker 4: to the officials there. But even with all that, I
Speaker 4: think Starmer is actually doing a pretty good balancing act
Speaker 4: between pushing back against Trump on certain issues but really
Speaker 4: welcoming him into a better trade situation where we're not
Speaker 4: as punished by tariffs as other countries are.
Speaker 5: And we mentioned before I wanted to talk aback with
Speaker 5: you with the Israel Iran warb and I had a
Speaker 5: little bit of technical problem there too, So now we're
Speaker 5: able to actually have a bit of more of a
Speaker 5: chat about this. What is the feeling in the UK
Speaker 5: about the way this is going?
Speaker 4: Well, you know, it's a very strange discussion we're having
Speaker 4: in the UK about this, because some people are in
Speaker 4: favor of Britain and America getting involved, not many, but some,
Speaker 4: but the general feeling is that we shouldn't get involved
Speaker 4: in you know what, I just feel like there is
Speaker 4: so much gaslighting on this conflict, because if you listen
Speaker 4: to left wing voices and anti war voices and a
Speaker 4: lot of the broad cheap media and the mainstream media,
Speaker 4: the way they taught, you would think that Israel was
Speaker 4: the criminal aggressor and Iran was its poor little victim.
Speaker 4: And to my mind is that just turns the truth
Speaker 4: completely on its head. You know, this war started more
Speaker 4: than six hundred days ago when one of Iran's proxies,
Speaker 4: I e Hamas, invaded Israel. It sent an army of
Speaker 4: six thousand men into Israel where they carried out mass slaughter.
Speaker 4: As everyone knows. Of course, Hezbollah, another Iran proxy, has
Speaker 4: been dropping bombs on northern Israel more than five thousand
Speaker 4: over the past two years as well. And Israel itself
Speaker 4: has fired missile Sorry, Iran itself has fired missiles at Israel,
Speaker 4: hundreds of them over the past year. So the idea
Speaker 4: that Israel is just out of the blue launching an
Speaker 4: illegal war of aggression against Iran, it just doesn't stack up.
Speaker 4: So the gas lighting part of the discussion is driving
Speaker 4: me slightly mad, and I want to just grab people
Speaker 4: by the scruff of the neck and say, listen, this
Speaker 4: war's been going on for nearly two years, and it
Speaker 4: wasn't Israel that started it.
Speaker 5: Right, don't go grabbing anybody by any scruff of the neck,
Speaker 5: given the fact that that will require you to to
Speaker 5: probably sweat, and I imagine you're doing that right now
Speaker 5: as the temperature pass is thirty two degrees And how
Speaker 5: many times have you had a heat wave like this
Speaker 5: in the UK?
Speaker 4: Well, can I just say, what a brilliant segue that
Speaker 4: was from the scruff of.
Speaker 2: The neck into hot weather.
Speaker 5: I know, I know.
Speaker 4: That's what they pay you the big bucks.
Speaker 5: You know what I was doing. I was doing the weeks.
Speaker 4: You're absolutely right, I am. I don't want to give
Speaker 4: too much information and gross out your listeners, but I
Speaker 4: am sweating as we speak. It is very very hot
Speaker 4: in the UK right now. It's now half seven in
Speaker 4: the evening. Well it's quarter to eight actually, and it's
Speaker 4: still very hot. The sun is glaring through my window.
Speaker 4: It was thirty two degrees today. Now I know to
Speaker 4: Ozzie's they're going to think, what a bunch of WIMPs.
Speaker 9: That's not that hot.
Speaker 5: But that is hot for that is hot, very hard
Speaker 5: for Britain, even by our standards. Thirty two degrees. In fact,
Speaker 5: it's twenty seven degrees at the moment in London. You've
Speaker 5: come to the right guy. Twenty seven degrees at the
Speaker 5: moment in London, but it feels like twenty nine, so
Speaker 5: you have every reason to get hot, mate, And yeah,
Speaker 5: that's right, lovely.
Speaker 4: I did earlier today. It was early if it was
Speaker 4: even hotter than that. But you know, what's so interesting
Speaker 4: to me about this is that we have this tendency
Speaker 4: to pathologize the weather these days and to see heat
Speaker 4: waves as a terrible, terrible thing. Now, of course, they
Speaker 4: can be dangerous for vulnerable people, and we don't have
Speaker 4: very good air conditioning facilities in this country, and older people,
Speaker 4: we should keep an eye on them, make sure they're
Speaker 4: hydrated and they're eating. Well, that's a given. But you know,
Speaker 4: I think thirty years ago, when there was weather like this,
Speaker 4: there would have been front page pictures of people on
Speaker 4: the beach and kids having fun, and people would have said,
Speaker 4: go outside, put on your son's screen, have some ice cream.
Speaker 4: Now it's very much about climate change, the end of
Speaker 4: the world. What does this heat wave tell us about,
Speaker 4: you know, the coming heat depth of the planet. It's
Speaker 4: all a bit depressing and I just want to say sometimes,
Speaker 4: look it's hot, that doesn't happen very often. Let's enjoy it.
Speaker 5: Well, there you go. That's a good positive way to
Speaker 5: start the weekend. Made it a way. Is good to
Speaker 5: talk to you. Thanks so much, Brendan O'Neil. Here in
Speaker 5: the UK, it's fourteen minutes to five, eleven minutes to
Speaker 5: five ben Fordham, two GB Sydney this morning with the
Speaker 5: legend of broadcasting John Laws on the show, Peter Vegan
Speaker 5: on four BC. That's on the way, Gabes. Thank you
Speaker 5: so much for a really lovely text that you just
Speaker 5: sent me. I really appreciated that. Let's get our artist
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 1: And now on Wake Up Australia. Artist in the Spotlight today.
Speaker 5: The artist in the Spotlight is David Bowie because he
Speaker 5: recorded Space Oddity in nineteen sixty nine. What a song,
Speaker 5: his first hit single, inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film two
Speaker 5: thousand and one Space Oddity. And I had a chat
Speaker 5: with Gail Ann Dorsey, who was David Bowie's bass guitar player.
Speaker 5: I wanted to know about how Bowie wrote his songs
Speaker 5: and the genius of David Bowie. Here's what she had
Speaker 5: to say about that he would.
Speaker 13: Just come up with things all the time.
Speaker 5: I saw a documentary of him doing this thing once
Speaker 5: where he was writing songs and he would cut up sentences,
Speaker 5: put them in a hat, and then pull out just
Speaker 5: various words and make a song out of it. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's genius.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that was the outside album was done that way.
Speaker 13: That was the first tour I did with him. I
Speaker 13: wasn't involved with the recording, but it was something that
Speaker 13: he'd done with Eno. I think Brian Eno that this
Speaker 13: technique of doing that. But I remember him explaining to
Speaker 13: me how the words and characters and stuff all from
Speaker 13: that record. Most of it was drawn from a hat
Speaker 13: and then they put all these phrases together and they
Speaker 13: just write these lyrics. But he also used to laugh
Speaker 13: at the fact that sometimes would listen to his lyrics
Speaker 13: will take them so literally like there was something amazing,
Speaker 13: and to him it was a joke.
Speaker 5: What a genius. That's Gail and Dorsey there talking about
Speaker 5: the genius of David Bowie and he wrote this song
Speaker 5: about the plight of Major Tom. Here he was talking
Speaker 5: about his ideas about the character.
Speaker 12: I can quitely imagine how it must feel to be isolated.
Speaker 12: So I have often put myself in circumstances and positions
Speaker 12: where I am isolated, just so that I can write
Speaker 12: about so.
Speaker 5: Recording this song back in nineteen sixty nine was a
Speaker 5: breakthrough moment for David Bowie, who tried and tried over
Speaker 5: and over again to get a record deal. He had
Speaker 5: several bands, several record deals, both solo and in the band.
Speaker 5: All of it failed. All of it was just didn't work. Unbelievable.
Speaker 5: Could have given up at any stage along the way
Speaker 5: and we would never have had David Bowie. Isn't that incredible?
Speaker 5: He just kept going though because he just believed in himself,
Speaker 5: and that is why David Bowie is our artist in
Speaker 5: the day of the Spotlight. This song from nineteen sixty.
Speaker 12: One rounds control to ma It's on ground control to
Speaker 12: Major It's on take your rotine bills and put your
Speaker 12: helmets on ground control to Maids.
Speaker 1: It's a.
Speaker 12: Six commencing countdown engines on to check ignition and make.
Speaker 10: God's love be with you. This is ground Console to
Speaker 10: Major Town.
Speaker 14: You've really made the gray.
Speaker 15: And the papers want to know you shirt away.
Speaker 16: Now it's time to meet the capsule mba day.
Speaker 12: This is majors to ground control.
Speaker 3: I'm stamping the door.
Speaker 16: And nonvolating in the most begumly away.
Speaker 5: And the stars are very difference to time forging my sitting.
Speaker 11: In a tent.
Speaker 10: About the world.
Speaker 16: One at school and there's nothing like going.
Speaker 14: Oh one, that's one eye, that's my I'm feeling embarrassing.
Speaker 16: I'm nothing my sake, no shich.
Speaker 14: Way to go.
Speaker 8: Tell my wife I.
Speaker 14: Very money.
Speaker 16: Grounds controlled to major to r son gets said that something.
Speaker 14: Brom can you heal them dage?
Speaker 16: And something can you hear me?
Speaker 14: Age?
Speaker 1: It's all can you heal them?
Speaker 14: Age? It's a can you.
Speaker 5: My pjiclgy.
Speaker 16: When in school and there's something I can't do?
Speaker 6: Do you know what?
Speaker 5: Though, when you think about all of the uncertainty in
Speaker 5: the world at the moment, at least we can say
Speaker 5: we lived in the same age as David Bye. That's
Speaker 5: our artist of the day. David Baie recorded that song
Speaker 5: on this day in nineteen sixty nine. If you want
Speaker 5: to talk about the vision and how much of a
Speaker 5: visionary he was. The United States Apollo eleven mission would
Speaker 5: launch five days later and became the first manned moon
Speaker 5: landing and it was all I think inspired by that
Speaker 5: David Bowie song. And if you weren't humming along to that,
Speaker 5: then have a look at yourself, because I don't think
Speaker 5: you're alive. Four minutes the five. It's a good day
Speaker 5: to be alive, isn't it. Friday morning, nice and chilly,
Speaker 5: but we're going to head towards the weekend. Let's get
Speaker 5: the news then we'll look at your overnight news.
Speaker 1: This is this onto GB, four BC and network stations.
Speaker 1: This is Wake Up Australia with Phill O'Neil.
Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I think I might
Speaker 5: be the happiest person in Australia knowing that the weekend
Speaker 5: is definitely on the way and we've got a little
Speaker 5: something for the weekend for you. In just a moment,
Speaker 5: Danny just got your text that came through for Ben
Speaker 5: Fordham and i'll pass it on to Ben. By the way,
Speaker 5: Ben Fordham this morning has the legendary broadcaster John Laws
Speaker 5: on the show, Peter Figan on four BC also on
Speaker 5: the way in about twenty three minutes time, and the
Speaker 5: great man Mirk Levy after nine ont GB text number
Speaker 5: is zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven
Speaker 5: three and one three one eight seven three. It's the
Speaker 5: phone number. Got another text that came into from Harry
Speaker 5: who said, Phil, my father rang me from Turkey and
Speaker 5: he said a dogan brings up Donald Trump and talks,
Speaker 5: but Anthony Albanezi sparrator waiting to talk. I do like
Speaker 5: the word desperator. I don't know if it's in the
Speaker 5: actual dictionary, but I'm going to be using that. It's
Speaker 5: across the weekend as my word of the weekend. Here's
Speaker 5: your overnight news. This is what's been happening while you've
Speaker 5: been asleep, tucked up in bed, but your wish you
Speaker 5: was still there. The White House says the US President
Speaker 5: Donald Trump will make a decision on whether the US
Speaker 5: will join the Israel Iran conflict in the next two weeks.
Speaker 5: That flies in the face of what he said earlier
Speaker 5: on in the evening.
Speaker 17: I like to make a final decision one second before
Speaker 17: and still, you know, because things change, I mean, especially
Speaker 17: with the war.
Speaker 2: Things changing with the war, it can go from one.
Speaker 3: Extreme to the other.
Speaker 5: Some people are saying the reason why is because Donald
Speaker 5: Trump got elected on the basis that he wouldn't get
Speaker 5: involved in any overseas wars, and the hardcore magas and
Speaker 5: the Make America Great side of the Republican Party aren't
Speaker 5: happy with the way that's going. Israel's Defense Minister Katz
Speaker 5: said that eliminating Iran's supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Kamini is
Speaker 5: one of the country's war goals. The prospect of a
Speaker 5: US strike against Iran has exposed divisions, as I said,
Speaker 5: among the coalitions of supporters that brought Donald Trump into power,
Speaker 5: some of his base urging him not to get the
Speaker 5: country involved in a new Middle East war. Some of
Speaker 5: Trump's most prominent Republican allies, including the top Lieutenant Steve Bannon,
Speaker 5: have found themselves in the unusual position of being at
Speaker 5: odds with the president, who largely shares their isolationist tendencies.
Speaker 5: Here's another newscrab for you from the Iranian foreign minister
Speaker 5: who says he has evidence of US supports in attacks,
Speaker 5: as has Thatamore.
Speaker 15: In our opinion, these rarely regimes agree against Iran could
Speaker 15: never have happened without the agreement and support of the
Speaker 15: United States. We have solid evidence that shows the support
Speaker 15: of American forces and basis in the region for attacks
Speaker 15: by the Zionist regime's military forces.
Speaker 5: Elon Musk, you thought he was back, but no he's not.
Speaker 5: And he had a bit of a disaster with the
Speaker 5: SpaceX massive starship spacecraft that exploded into a dramatic fireball
Speaker 5: during testing in Texas yesterday, the latest in a series
Speaker 5: of setbacks for the billionaire and his Mars rocket program.
Speaker 5: The explosion occurred about eleven pm local time while starship
Speaker 5: was on a test stand in Brownsville, Texas. And here's
Speaker 5: what happened. The commentators were talking about it, and the
Speaker 5: audio of it is quite dramatic.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably. I mean even the other day when.
Speaker 7: They whoa, whoa, what.
Speaker 5: Wo So there you go, that's the spaceship, not to
Speaker 5: exactly sounding like it should unless backfiring was part of it.
Speaker 18: Oh my god, it appears there has been a thirty
Speaker 18: six ers blew up.
Speaker 5: So there you go. Elon Musk can't catch a break
Speaker 5: at the moment. Kenny, A little bit locally, more closer
Speaker 5: to home. Jim Charmers at the Press Club, responding to
Speaker 5: the Channel miind reporter Andrew Probin on the future of
Speaker 5: GST reform. What attitude would you bring to this roundtable
Speaker 5: when it comes to extending the breadth of the GST
Speaker 5: and the rate of the GST.
Speaker 9: It's not of you that I've been attracted to historically,
Speaker 9: but I'm going to try not to get in the
Speaker 9: process of shooting ideas between now and the roundtable.
Speaker 5: So there you go. That's the update two weeks grace
Speaker 5: according to Donald Trump. At this stage, the weather Brisbane
Speaker 5: twelve degrees at the moment feels like ten, Sydney six,
Speaker 5: but it feels like three. Definitely another really chilly morning
Speaker 5: for Sydney. We'll get to the Bureau of Meteorology after
Speaker 5: this and get a little something for the weekend, and
Speaker 5: also we'll have a look at your finance report. There's
Speaker 5: a few good films on on the telly and on
Speaker 5: at the cinema. A bit of a gig guide coming
Speaker 5: up for you as well. That's coming up at nearly
Speaker 5: thirteen minutes past five. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Speaker 5: You've managed to get towards the end of the week.
Speaker 5: Just a little bit further to go and then you
Speaker 5: can do whatever you want on the weekend. Quarter past five.
Speaker 5: Ben Fordham on the way on Sydney's two GB at
Speaker 5: five point thirty this morning with John Laws on the show,
Speaker 5: Peter Vegan on four BC in Brisbane and mirke Levy
Speaker 5: after nine on two GB. So let's talk about the
Speaker 5: weekend and let's give you a little something for the weekend.
Speaker 5: Let's see how much money you're going to have in
Speaker 5: your pocket. Firstly, morning to shame. Oliver, the finance and
Speaker 5: chief economist from the AMP good.
Speaker 7: A fel Yeah, it's been an interesting one, obviously dominated
Speaker 7: by the events in the Middle East. Interestingly, markets haven't
Speaker 7: really changed that much. We saw that initial reaction Friday
Speaker 7: a week ago where Israel started to tax on Iran.
Speaker 7: The initial reac action market fell a little bit bit.
Speaker 7: More globally all prices shot up. But since then markets
Speaker 7: have just been bouncing around, including the Ausie share market,
Speaker 7: trying to work out what's going to happen.
Speaker 3: Obviously, lots of issues on that front.
Speaker 7: The US gets involved, now, how significantly they get involved,
Speaker 7: how long it goes for.
Speaker 3: But the bottom line is what it means for oil prices.
Speaker 7: If oil supply out of the Middle As is disrupted,
Speaker 7: bad news for everyone. Obviously, the whole thing is bad
Speaker 7: news from a humanitarian point of view, but from a
Speaker 7: market point of view, the big issue is what happens
Speaker 7: to oil prices, and on that front, it seems to
Speaker 7: be all over the place at the moment.
Speaker 3: Anyone's guess. And even Donald Trump has been.
Speaker 7: Saying in relation to whether he's going to bomb Iran
Speaker 7: on no, he says, I may or I may not.
Speaker 7: But of course, locally, we've also had a bit of
Speaker 7: da We've got some jobs data for May. We've showed
Speaker 7: employment down, but the good news is that unemployment remains
Speaker 7: pretty low.
Speaker 3: It was four point one percent.
Speaker 7: I know a lot of people are going to be thinking, well,
Speaker 7: maybe that means there's bank won't cut interest rates because
Speaker 7: unemployment is so low. I don't really think so. I
Speaker 7: think the RBA would say, yeah, the jobs market is
Speaker 7: still but we've got other indicators there which support lower
Speaker 7: interest rates, like falling inflation and pretty soft economic growth,
Speaker 7: and lots of threats to the outlook from Trump's tariffs
Speaker 7: and the situation in the Middle East. We did get
Speaker 7: some an ongoing debate in the US between the Fed.
Speaker 7: They left interest rates on hold, that's their central bank,
Speaker 7: and then of course Donald Trump's out there saying a
Speaker 7: couple of weeks ago he said they should cut by
Speaker 7: one percent. Now he's saying they should cut by two
Speaker 7: percent or maybe two and.
Speaker 3: A half percent.
Speaker 7: I guess he can say whatever he wants, but it
Speaker 7: looks like the Feds just staying on hold at the moment,
Speaker 7: waiting to see what there'll be, what impact will be
Speaker 7: from his tariffs on US inflation. And then just finally
Speaker 7: in Australia, we've got some good news from the Treasurer
Speaker 7: who said that tax reform.
Speaker 3: Looks to be on the agenda.
Speaker 7: I think the bad news was that he's saying that
Speaker 7: he probably doesn't want to change the GST, which it's
Speaker 7: going to make it a bit hard to get tax
Speaker 7: racks down unless you change the gs So so a
Speaker 7: bit of confusion about what tax reform will actually mean
Speaker 7: in Australia.
Speaker 3: But obviously we've got.
Speaker 7: A productivity summit coming up next month. So overall interesting week,
Speaker 7: lots of noise that of course, most of it's been
Speaker 7: focused on what's going on in the Middle East.
Speaker 5: Of course, good to talk to you, Thank you, Shane Olivit,
Speaker 5: chief Economists from the AMP. So we've got a bit
Speaker 5: of money in our pocket, let's spend it. Want to
Speaker 5: go and see some live music. Sam's got your gig guy,
Speaker 5: and I think that you'll find that Brisbane definitely beat
Speaker 5: Sydney hands down with the entertainment in Brisbane. Have a
Speaker 5: listen to this Sam with a Gig Guide.
Speaker 2: Thanks Phil.
Speaker 19: Let's start with Brisbane and on Friday you can watch
Speaker 19: Jimmy Barnes playing the Fortitude Music Hall, the Sleeper, Jesus
Speaker 19: at the Crowbar, nineteen twenty seven at the Briby Island Hotel,
Speaker 19: or Tony Childs at the Tivoli. On Saturday, Pete Murray
Speaker 19: is playing at the Lyric Theater, Jimmy Barnes is on
Speaker 19: at the Fortitude Music Hall, James Rain at the Tivoli
Speaker 19: and nineteen twenty seven at Mansfield. But don't worry if
Speaker 19: you miss them then you can see them on Sunday
Speaker 19: at the Kings Beach Tavern.
Speaker 2: Now on to Sydney and on Friday.
Speaker 19: Night it's the Beautiful Girls at the Oxoford Art Factory
Speaker 19: or Cloud Control at the n War Theater. Saturday you've
Speaker 19: got the Bad Loves at the Brass Monkey or Anthony
Speaker 19: Clear at the Evan Theater. And on Sunday that legend
Speaker 19: Randy Hauser is on at the Harden Pavilion.
Speaker 5: Shane Bassett now with your TV and Entertainment Guide and Jaws.
Speaker 5: It's the fiftieth anniversary of that.
Speaker 20: Yeah, officially this week to the day almost Jaws was released,
Speaker 20: I mean before my time, but I can't remember how
Speaker 20: many times I've seen this film, and it was the
Speaker 20: movie that coined the phrase blockbuster that didn't apparently exist,
Speaker 20: but this was the movie that got people lining up
Speaker 20: around the street corners to see the film. And then,
Speaker 20: of course Star Wars was released a year or so later, But.
Speaker 3: Jaws never gets old.
Speaker 21: There's watches, there's chocolates, there's all sorts of things coming
Speaker 21: out to celebrate Jaws. There's a documentary that we'll talk
Speaker 21: about together Phil in a couple of weeks is getting
Speaker 21: released on Disney, plus a very in depth documentary on
Speaker 21: the making of it and where people are now and stuff.
Speaker 21: So it changed the way cinema was, honestly, and now
Speaker 21: you know there's a shark movie genre.
Speaker 5: Who would have thought it would end up in a
Speaker 5: shark in a Tornado?
Speaker 20: I hate Shark Nader, Please don't bring it up.
Speaker 5: Which one shark Nader one, two, three, four, five, six
Speaker 5: or seven talked about coining the phrase blockbuster. It also
Speaker 5: coined the phrase we need a bigger boat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, some great lines, right.
Speaker 20: And it was a movie that Steven Spielberg, he was
Speaker 20: so young, he hadn't had a real huge hit on
Speaker 20: his hands before making it. And the shark that they
Speaker 20: used and they called Bruce, kept sinking and.
Speaker 21: That's why some of the scenes you can.
Speaker 20: Only see, like they put some harpoons into it, with
Speaker 20: some barrels that are floating on the water.
Speaker 21: They have to do that because the shark itself kept thinking.
Speaker 5: Twenty eight days later, twenty eight weeks later, they're both streaming.
Speaker 5: This is in anticipation of twenty eight years later. I'm
Speaker 5: going to go see that this weekend to be heard
Speaker 5: if it's any good.
Speaker 3: Oh, I've seen it. It drops in cinemas today.
Speaker 20: I saw it yesterday actually, and I've got to say
Speaker 20: I rewatched the originals because if you don't, you might struggle. Actually,
Speaker 20: it's not a real good standalone movie, so that's why
Speaker 20: I'm suggesting you go back watch These early two thousands
Speaker 20: British made thrillers about a virus, a lot of zombie action,
Speaker 20: but they's very well done and they're written by Alex
Speaker 20: Garland an award winning writer who really gets in depth
Speaker 20: with characters and storylines. So this new one you won't disappointed.
Speaker 20: It's got refines in it. Twenty eight years later, but
Speaker 20: it's been a long time between drinks between the other two.
Speaker 5: So twenty eight years think, well, no, not quite. I'm
Speaker 5: a big fan of Alex Garland. I will go back
Speaker 5: and watch twenty eight days later and twenty eight weeks later,
Speaker 5: both streaming before I go and see twenty eight years
Speaker 5: later at the Cinema Supernova. Sydney's on this weekend. Who's
Speaker 5: in town?
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'll be there on the Saturday, potentially the Sunday
Speaker 20: as well. It's at Olympic Park. It's the pop culture
Speaker 20: movie convention that you know pretty much comes around every year,
Speaker 20: goes to different states, Sydney. This year we've got guests
Speaker 20: such as.
Speaker 18: Billy Zane, the Great Billy Zane, Evangeline Lily who was
Speaker 18: in Lost and Lord of the Rings, Marina Owen from
Speaker 18: once Worth Warriors and she's been in some Star Wars
Speaker 18: movies too, Brendan Wayne, who happens to be the grandson
Speaker 18: of the great John Wayne.
Speaker 20: Right, Okay, yeah, yeah, he's there because he's been in
Speaker 20: movies recently, and Tia Carrera as well, who played Cassandra
Speaker 20: in Wain's World.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, right, We're not worthy. Well that's fantastic, that's
Speaker 5: well worth going to. Let's talk about a movie on Netflix,
Speaker 5: The Edge. What's this about?
Speaker 6: Look?
Speaker 20: This is really inspirational and a great movie even if
Speaker 20: you don't like sport, because it revolves around three women,
Speaker 20: young ladies who are striving to be the best in
Speaker 20: their elective sports. One's a sprinter, one's the first nation's powerlifter,
Speaker 20: and another one's at Paralympic swimmer from Japan.
Speaker 2: And it's more less the.
Speaker 20: Struggles that they try to get to be the best
Speaker 20: and behind the scenes, not just through their sport abilities
Speaker 20: but being female and the hurdles that they get.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 20: It's written and directed by Jane Larkin, who is a
Speaker 20: former professional sports person herself swimming and athletics, so she
Speaker 20: sort of put a little bit of her own I guess,
Speaker 20: plotline and experiences into the movie itself. But it's one
Speaker 20: of those feel good, uplifting, you can do anything kind
Speaker 20: of movies and it's Australian made. So yeah, The Edge
Speaker 20: on Netflix terrific show. I hope Jane Larkin gets to
Speaker 20: do some more movies in the future.
Speaker 5: Absolutely good to talk to you. Shane Bassett there, the
Speaker 5: TV and entertainment correspondent from Sky News. So that leaves
Speaker 5: us with the weekend weather dean from the Bureau of Meteorology.
Speaker 5: What can we look forward to? Starting off with Sydney.
Speaker 17: These cool days and mornings are going to continue. We're
Speaker 17: going to see how are some frosty starts out for
Speaker 17: our outer suburbs away from the coastline. Sydney itself looking
Speaker 17: at probably seven or eight when wake up on both
Speaker 17: Saturday and Sunday morning. But the good news is this
Speaker 17: time of year, when you get these cold, trusty mornings,
Speaker 17: we do get those beautiful sunny days. So have you
Speaker 17: got some outdoor plans around Sydney anywhere in the basin?
Speaker 17: Looking great tomorrow?
Speaker 3: Sorry on the weekend.
Speaker 17: Eighteen degrees on Saturday, nineteen degrees on Sunday with lots
Speaker 17: of sunshine and light winds.
Speaker 5: What about anybody heading to the ski fields in New
Speaker 5: South Wales? How are they looking?
Speaker 17: Yeah, I You're heading out to the ski field as well.
Speaker 17: Pretty similar conditions obviously, just st fair, bit colder, there's
Speaker 17: no big weather systems to bring snow over the weekend,
Speaker 17: so we're looking at those beautiful bluebird conditions.
Speaker 9: As they call it.
Speaker 4: Up there.
Speaker 17: It's very cold in the morning minus four and minus
Speaker 17: six's both Friday and Saturday and Sunday morning, but then
Speaker 17: the days of we unfortunately above zero, so you could
Speaker 17: get a bit the snows get a bit flushy during
Speaker 17: the days as well, not good news. A bit breezy
Speaker 17: as well, disgusting orderly winds, but there's still lots of
Speaker 17: sunshine and it should be good to hit the slopes
Speaker 17: this weekend. But the good news is it looks like
Speaker 17: we should see some possibly moderates even heavy snowfall as
Speaker 17: we get into the middle of next week. What about
Speaker 17: Brisbane's weather, So heading up in southeast Queensland around Brisbane,
Speaker 17: im looking too bad up there as well, cool mornings
Speaker 17: but not too cold at fourteen or fifteen as we
Speaker 17: wake Saturday and Sunday morning. Maybe it's a possible shower
Speaker 17: about particularly those coastal areas if you heading out to
Speaker 17: the islands Saturday and Sunday, But generally across the weekend,
Speaker 17: partly cloudy conditions and temperatures in the low twenties, around
Speaker 17: twenty two or twenty three degrees.
Speaker 7: Brilliant.
Speaker 5: That about covers everything that we need for the weekend.
Speaker 5: Thank you, deeing the senior meteorologists from the Bureau of
Speaker 5: Meteorology and wighing on the text minus two degrees in Wagga, wogga,
Speaker 5: it's pretty cold. Five twenty five. That's it. Sticker fork
Speaker 5: in me. I'm done.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 5: It's a nice way to get into the weekend knowing
Speaker 5: that you know, we've got a couple of weeks grace.
Speaker 5: If nothing else, it has been the week that was right.
Speaker 5: But now we're getting into the weekend. But before that,
Speaker 5: Peter Vegan, four BC, Brisbane after nine this morning, get
Speaker 5: ready for on TWOGB marke Levy, but the great Man
Speaker 5: Ben Forden has John Laws on the two GB Breakfast
Speaker 5: Show next. Have a great weekend.