Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is sitting now with Clinton.
Speaker 2: Maynard, Wednesday, June eighteen, one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: It is Clinton Maynard here. It is a stunning winter's afternoon,
Speaker 2: and I know there's a lot of woe in the
Speaker 2: world at the moment, but I was walking through Darling
Speaker 2: Harbor a little earlier glorious sunshine, and it just struck me, boy,
Speaker 2: we are really lucky to live in a city like
Speaker 2: this that we can be basically a month in the winter,
Speaker 2: coldest part of the year and just amazing where that
Speaker 2: really makes you appreciate how wonderful our country, our city
Speaker 2: is now on those woes of the world. If you
Speaker 2: are driving at the moment right now, if you see
Speaker 2: petrol cheap bite, the war in the Middle East is
Speaker 2: going to drive up world oil prices. We're already seeing that.
Speaker 2: It's going to lead to petrol prices going up as well.
Speaker 2: I spotted E ten today for a dollar sixty nine liter.
Speaker 2: So if you see petrol around that dollars seventy mine
Speaker 2: buy it. Coming up on the program Power Bills ad
Speaker 2: you to go up on the first July, so two
Speaker 2: weeks away. Reality is the increases in New South Wales
Speaker 2: are more than those in Victoria. It's not fair. There
Speaker 2: is some hope today of reform. We're gonna look at that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna hold an honesty session, Yes, an honesty session.
Speaker 2: I want truth from you. If you catch buses, keep
Speaker 2: listening for that. On Wednesday, our straight Shooter that Lucy
Speaker 2: Zeliz joins us after four thirty Mark guys on the
Speaker 2: program the Preview of State of Origin two. Look, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of fallout from what Billy Slater has said today.
Speaker 2: He's made an apology for the comments that reference to
Speaker 2: late Paul Green, and that was when he was responding
Speaker 2: to the accusation that he's a grub that end up
Speaker 2: may end up firing up the Queenslanders. I think MG
Speaker 2: after five thirty and I will spin the two GB
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Speaker 2: are my eyes and eares when it's happening in Sydney now,
Speaker 2: so text me zero four six, zero eight seven three
Speaker 2: outs seven to three. Have you say one three, one
Speaker 2: eight seven three, Well in Sydney now more details have
Speaker 2: been released about the allegations against four teenagers accused of
Speaker 2: gang raping a seventeen year old girl in Sydney, Southwest
Speaker 2: over the course of six hours. This is difficult for
Speaker 2: us to comprehend. This is difficult to listen to and discussed,
Speaker 2: especially when you cast your mind back to the scaff
Speaker 2: Brother's case many years ago in the early two thousand
Speaker 2: that rocked this city. But the details of this crime,
Speaker 2: these allegations, they need to be told because we as
Speaker 2: a society need to prevent this sort of thing happening.
Speaker 2: Police are revealed today the alleged attack was filmed. The
Speaker 2: four accused rage between fourteen and nineteen. Two of them
Speaker 2: have appeared in court. Josh Bright, our senior reporter, is
Speaker 2: covering this case. Good afternoon, Josh. What's occurred today?
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, Clinton. Yes, that's right. So aside from obviously
Speaker 3: the details being made public, as you say, we had
Speaker 3: the charges laid against two of these four accused in
Speaker 3: this matter, we police revealing that back in December. So
Speaker 3: this alleged incident happened in December of last year, now
Speaker 3: not long after less than a week after the incident
Speaker 3: was reported to police. As sixteen year old and a
Speaker 3: fourteen year old were arrested. They remain bail refused their matter,
Speaker 3: due back in court again in August. Charges now laid
Speaker 3: against an eighteen year old and a nineteen year old
Speaker 3: over this incident as well. The nineteen year old facing
Speaker 3: Liverpool Court today where there was no application for vail
Speaker 3: it was formally refused. Speaking outside his lawyer saying that
Speaker 3: his client maintains his innocent. The eighteen year old faced
Speaker 3: a due to face a children's court today. So the
Speaker 3: whole case, I guess it made public today after the
Speaker 3: charging of those other two, but all up for steal
Speaker 3: with cases before the courts.
Speaker 2: The Sex Crime Commander Jane Dougherty has spoken today and
Speaker 2: it has been revealed there will be an allegation that
Speaker 2: this crime over the course of six hours. Part of
Speaker 2: this was actually filmed.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, so the allegation parts of it were filmed,
Speaker 3: and also that it was during the initial alleged sexual
Speaker 3: assault in the car part of it was there was
Speaker 3: a video call as well. So obviously you know, on
Speaker 3: top of everything else that this seventeen year old is
Speaker 3: dealing with Just as you said at the start and
Speaker 3: as Jane Dougherty said the alleged behavior is heinous and
Speaker 3: that it beggars belief and essentially that men of any aid,
Speaker 3: regardless of the age of these accused, really anyone should
Speaker 3: know that this is not how you treat another human being.
Speaker 2: The allegations are horrific. Thank you, Josh. Thanks Unt Josh Bryant,
Speaker 2: our senior reporter. As Josh explained, they're the four now
Speaker 2: two appeared in court late last year, the youngest two
Speaker 2: before children's court, and then another two who've now been arrested,
Speaker 2: have appeared in court today. All four are in custody
Speaker 2: twelve past three. Now Anthony Aberzi could still meet Donald
Speaker 2: Trump in the next week. Of course, the US President
Speaker 2: flew out of Canada and the G seven meeting without
Speaker 2: meeting mister Alberinisi. He did hold talks with some of
Speaker 2: the world leaders. Mister Alberizi says, Look, it is understandable
Speaker 2: what's occurred, but he's been asked by the reporters on
Speaker 2: the trail today, did he manage to make some sort
Speaker 2: of personal contact with Donald Trump.
Speaker 4: Now it hasn't, but I spoke with key advisers to
Speaker 4: the president. The president has been engaged obviously with the
Speaker 4: circumstances around Iran and Israel. It's perfectly understandable the decision
Speaker 4: that he made that meant that the meetings that were
Speaker 4: scheduled just with myself, but with India, Ukraine including President Zelanski,
Speaker 4: Mexico and other countries didn't go ahead today.
Speaker 2: But we're all mature about that.
Speaker 4: We understand the circumstances which are there, and we have
Speaker 4: agreed through our American friends that will reschedule the meeting.
Speaker 2: He has now left the door open to attending the
Speaker 2: NATO conference, which is next week. Originally the plan was
Speaker 2: for the Deputy Prime Minister, Richard Miles to go along.
Speaker 2: Mister Alberinezi says he is considering a change of plans.
Speaker 2: He has met with the NATO Secretary General, so the
Speaker 2: door is Open'd be embarrassing if the PM then goes
Speaker 2: to NATO next week and misses another meeting. What I
Speaker 2: would recommend to mister ALBINIZI is book those airfares today.
Speaker 2: You know what flight's are like. You leave it too
Speaker 2: late and the airfares go up. So if you want
Speaker 2: to save the tax pays a few dollars, maybe book now.
Speaker 2: If it matters to you.
Speaker 5: You'll hear it here Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard until.
Speaker 2: Six A State of Origin two tonight alive from Opter Stadium.
Speaker 2: You'll hear the full cut which of the continuous call
Speaker 2: with Levy and the boys. But I want to check
Speaker 2: in to my counterpart at six PR Oliver Peterson, because
Speaker 2: I want to get an understanding about does Perth really
Speaker 2: care about rugby league? Now? They should? The Western Bears
Speaker 2: are coming, will they, I should say the Perth Bears.
Speaker 2: They're going to be known as the Perth Bears? Do
Speaker 2: they really care about New South Wales or Queensland? OLLI person,
Speaker 2: thanks for joining.
Speaker 6: Us, Good on your Queenstin, Good afternoon.
Speaker 2: I know you care about rugby league. Will the fans
Speaker 2: it up to stadium tonight care?
Speaker 6: Well, it's a sellout.
Speaker 7: It's officially a sellout, so sixty thousand people are there.
Speaker 7: My calculations are at least two thirds of the stadium
Speaker 7: or West Australian, so we've got about twenty thousand people
Speaker 7: they estimate have flown over from New South Wales or
Speaker 7: Queensland in particular.
Speaker 6: And if you were part.
Speaker 7: Of my program yesterday at the Crown Sports Bar, here
Speaker 7: in Perth.
Speaker 6: Clinton, when mal Ma Ninger arrived.
Speaker 7: There was a standing ovation and a big chant of
Speaker 7: here come the Bears. So the appetites here we're warming up.
Speaker 2: Who will they support tonight queens then on New South Wales.
Speaker 8: Definitely Queensland.
Speaker 7: So really one hundred percent behind them are and that's
Speaker 7: heartbreaking for somebody like myself as you know, who was
Speaker 7: born in Sydney and I'm a.
Speaker 6: New Southwest Australian.
Speaker 7: But there is always the love of that underdog status
Speaker 7: and I think any excuse that Turth can hate Sydney,
Speaker 7: that'll definitely to be supporting Queensland.
Speaker 2: You were at Optor Stadium this morning for an event.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there was the Friends of Rugby League touch football match.
Speaker 6: Big Mel was there and Freddie Fitler was there.
Speaker 7: The WA Premier Roger Cook Andrew Abdough was there. But
Speaker 7: none of us played in the end.
Speaker 6: Clinton because there's a lot of rain around here in person.
Speaker 7: They didn't want to ruin the pitch for tonight's main event,
Speaker 7: but had a good look at the end of Sancton.
Speaker 7: The locker rooms at Opta Stadium are like nothing else
Speaker 7: in this being a queens Land home game, they can
Speaker 7: kit it out as though they're playing up at sun Corpse,
Speaker 7: so there's a few more hurdles to jump, I think
Speaker 7: for the new South Wales team.
Speaker 6: Tonight, which is obviously pretty confidence that should be.
Speaker 7: But when we got out there onto the pitch this morning,
Speaker 7: even though it is a circular stadium.
Speaker 6: Built for AFL, you could feel the atmosphere.
Speaker 7: You're still quite close that the cauldron tonight is just
Speaker 7: going to be electric.
Speaker 2: I think it's fabulous to hear because I think there
Speaker 2: are a lot of Rugby League fans on the East
Speaker 2: Coast who don't really have an appreciation of the Perth
Speaker 2: feeling about our sport well we call houtsport on the
Speaker 2: East Coast. But you will be getting a team, I
Speaker 2: think believe tonight the logo for the Perth Bears is
Speaker 2: going to be released as well.
Speaker 7: That's our understanding, which will be fantastic and I believe
Speaker 7: it will very much honor the tradition of the old
Speaker 7: North Sydney Bears logo, just with a modern twist on that,
Speaker 7: and that's going to build the excitement because I think
Speaker 7: through the COVID years, in particular Clinton, when the game
Speaker 7: was sped up the six again rule. A lot of
Speaker 7: casual observers over here, how exciting is this product?
Speaker 6: Origin has always been big in Perth to be honest.
Speaker 7: That the pubs are always full on a Wednesday night
Speaker 7: for Origin because people like.
Speaker 6: To see the big spectacle of the game.
Speaker 7: It will grow and the natural excitement around Origin this week.
Speaker 7: And don't forget we've got the Knights and the Dolphins
Speaker 7: here in Perth on Saturday and Isaiah Otowa is obviously
Speaker 7: playing one of the most.
Speaker 6: Form footballers in the league, so there's a bit more
Speaker 6: buzz around.
Speaker 7: We need a bit of help though from the other
Speaker 7: media organizations to get behind and let people know and
Speaker 7: they pick up the daily paper their Origins actually on
Speaker 7: tonight because the next no mention of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's certainly had a lot of coverage of this.
Speaker 2: And quick tip from you New.
Speaker 7: South Wales by about thirty because they've never lost.
Speaker 8: At up to Stadium.
Speaker 2: Good to hear, Thank you Ellie anytime. Clinton Oli Peterson
Speaker 2: from six pr Mark leaving the continuous call team on
Speaker 2: air live from up to Stadium, Perth from seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: So you tell me are you happy that Origin's being
Speaker 2: played in Perth? Now? I actually think it is wise
Speaker 2: to have one of the three games in neutral venue.
Speaker 2: That's the fairest way to do it. But up until
Speaker 2: recent years, well it was twenty seventeen, it wasn't like that. Often.
Speaker 2: It was usually Brisbane or Sydney would host two games
Speaker 2: and then every few years to be one played in
Speaker 2: a state. During COVID they're all played in Queensland or
Speaker 2: we should get some back for that. Now I think
Speaker 2: it's only fair to have one game played at the
Speaker 2: neutral venue. Perth makes sense because the Perth Bears have
Speaker 2: been announced in the last month or so. The mcg's
Speaker 2: host of games Adelaie Where to next Hobart if that
Speaker 2: stadium has ever built? New Zealand. Maybe there is a
Speaker 2: push one three one eight seven three there's been a
Speaker 2: suggestion origin overseas. Do you want to see that? Where
Speaker 2: should the next origin venue be? Let me know if
Speaker 2: you could like to send a text message zero fors
Speaker 2: zero eight seven three out seven three. This is Sydney
Speaker 2: now seventeen degrees in the coast sixteen Campbelltown. All your
Speaker 2: feedback on where the next State of Origin venue should be.
Speaker 2: In just a moment, police have confirmed they've arrested wait
Speaker 2: for this, a fifteen year old boy after a car
Speaker 2: was stolen and crashed this morning and resulted in firearms
Speaker 2: being discovered. Police have told us that a stolen suv
Speaker 2: hit a tree. The driver and passengers then fled the
Speaker 2: scene from Flood Avenue in Riesby. Police investigated throughout the day.
Speaker 2: Following reports of suspicious activity, Officers returned to Flood Avenue
Speaker 2: in Risby where they discovered another car, a Twurter Corolla
Speaker 2: that had been stolen from a Rivesten home so not
Speaker 2: too far away. Using the police helicopter Air and the
Speaker 2: dog Unit, police have then tracked two youths. They've arrested
Speaker 2: a fifteen year old boy. They've located and seized a
Speaker 2: rifle from the home. However, there is another teenage boy
Speaker 2: the police are looking for. He's been described as Maori
Speaker 2: Pacific Islander an appearance. He was last seeing a black
Speaker 2: hooded jumper and black pants.
Speaker 5: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 5: Now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To GB twenty three past three. Some feedback on mister
Speaker 2: Albenese's plan to potentially meet with Donald Trump at NATO
Speaker 2: if mister Trump will grant him a meeting, Rodney says,
Speaker 2: why would Donald Trump meet with Albow and his hopeless
Speaker 2: ambassador Kay Rudd. Both have openly criticized mister Trump previously
Speaker 2: Australia's name paying the cost of having these two pelicans
Speaker 2: in control. Sharon says, mister Alberenesi is looking like a
Speaker 2: Trump stalker following him around the world. Here we have
Speaker 2: one leader whose sports supports Israel and another leader who
Speaker 2: is not looking strong your feedback on state of origin.
Speaker 2: So seven o'clock tonight coverage with a con you was
Speaker 2: called team Live from Perth, and Perth is embracing origin.
Speaker 2: The match ad Optor stadium is a sellout. Where should
Speaker 2: the next game be? Hello, Hans, where would you like
Speaker 2: to see the next game?
Speaker 9: Vegs?
Speaker 2: I think I heard you say Las Vegas. There, did
Speaker 2: your hands well? Given how successful the opening round of
Speaker 2: the NRL's been there, it might work U and it
Speaker 2: had mean both both teams that have the same distance
Speaker 2: to travel. I have to let you go their hands.
Speaker 2: The lines not great. I've got another, Dimitri says on
Speaker 2: the text line, yes it should be in Vegas, but
Speaker 2: Dave points out on the text Lin where they've already
Speaker 2: had state of origin in La They did in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven, Dave, but it was an exhibition game. It
Speaker 2: actually didn't count. Now, that was the match. If you
Speaker 2: watch the footy show over the years, the old footage show,
Speaker 2: they used to take the piss out of sterl all
Speaker 2: the time because he played in that game. He was
Speaker 2: half back from New South Wales and they had a
Speaker 2: giant banner and Sterlough went to crash through the banner,
Speaker 2: run through the ban and he couldn't actually get through.
Speaker 2: Was quite a battle for him.
Speaker 10: Hello Ian, Yeah, Hi Clinton.
Speaker 11: I was just thinking about the mascots for the new
Speaker 11: per so I thought Humphrey Billy there a good choice
Speaker 11: for them.
Speaker 2: They'll be unveiling the logo on the mascot tonight.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 11: Well you'd have to wear a pair of pants, but
Speaker 11: you know, fit him out in the Jersey. Saint George
Speaker 11: used to have the yas Saint George Bank Dragon. It'd
Speaker 11: be a good match.
Speaker 2: I think that was the big problem with Humphrey. He
Speaker 2: didn't have those pants, whereas fat Cat did have the pants.
Speaker 2: Thank you. In one three one eight seven to three
Speaker 2: just on Sport, Warwick cap has been in a lot
Speaker 2: of trouble in the past twenty four hours. He's been
Speaker 2: banned from the AFL for five years. Well, he's responded.
Speaker 2: We'll talk about that with Peter Ford. Next. Just confirmation
Speaker 2: Gore Hill Freeway. All lanes have now reopened at Willoughby
Speaker 2: following that fatal crash involving the motorcycle rider who sadly
Speaker 2: has died and a ute today. The bike hit the
Speaker 2: back of the ute. Happened with the northbound lanes that
Speaker 2: have been closed for much of the day. Those lanes
Speaker 2: have now reopened. They had been closed between Brook Street
Speaker 2: and Reserve Road. You need to give yourself some extra
Speaker 2: time though, if you are traveling towards through that area,
Speaker 2: give yourself extra time because they're going to be delayed,
Speaker 2: probably for the rest of the peak out. But those
Speaker 2: lanes are now open once again. Let's check out news headlines.
Speaker 13: Katie Puller, Good afternoon.
Speaker 14: Clinton Police say they haven't received any reports of similar
Speaker 14: attacks after four teenagers were charged with sexually assaulting a
Speaker 14: seventeen year old girl in a six hour ordeal. A
Speaker 14: sixteen year old boy allegedly attacked the girl in a
Speaker 14: car at a Liverpool shopping center before being joined by
Speaker 14: three other males in a park. All lanes have reopened
Speaker 14: on the Gore Hill Freeway at Willoughby after a fatal collision.
Speaker 14: A motorcyclist was killed when his bike crashed into the
Speaker 14: back of a ute. The Prime Minister says progress is
Speaker 14: being made on a free trade deal between Australia and Europe.
Speaker 14: There's a push on both sides to reach an agreement
Speaker 14: in a bid to combat tariffs being imposed by the US,
Speaker 14: and research suggests daily walking produces the risk of chronic
Speaker 14: lower back pain. Norwegian scientists have found one hundred minutes
Speaker 14: of walking per day can help curb long term pain.
Speaker 14: In sport, the Blues are tipping Jerome Leuei to thrive
Speaker 14: after being recalled for tonight's second State of Origin clash
Speaker 14: against the Morons, replacing the injured Mitchell Moses at five
Speaker 14: eighth Luai will partner with his old Panthers teammate Nathan
Speaker 14: Cleary in the halves Clinton More News at four.
Speaker 2: Kkat seventeen degrees in the coast seventeen of Bankstown. One
Speaker 2: of your favorite ministers, the Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, has
Speaker 2: released a plan today to try to contain electricity price
Speaker 2: rises in New South Wales because bills go up more
Speaker 2: in New South Wales than they do in Victoria. And
Speaker 2: I'll bring you some details about that a little later
Speaker 2: in the program. But on the email two GB dot com,
Speaker 2: Phil Listens in the Hunter Valley says, if fuel prices
Speaker 2: go up, which is likely because of world oil prices
Speaker 2: and electricity prices go up, every single thing that we
Speaker 2: buy in price and why it's going to get even harder.
Speaker 2: In the Hunter Valley. Our rate rise has just increased.
Speaker 2: Rates are going up by thirty three percent. And then
Speaker 2: what decision was made by the North Sydney Council last night. Yes,
Speaker 2: rates are going up across the North by twenty five
Speaker 2: percent in Sydney peter Ford. In just a moment, still
Speaker 2: some feedback on where the next State of Origin game
Speaker 2: should be played, if you'd like to see me a
Speaker 2: text message on this one zero four zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight seven to three. Dan says, they definitely need
Speaker 2: to take State of Origin New Zealand next. How good
Speaker 2: would that be? I think that'll be the next destination.
Speaker 2: I think given the Yaukland Warriors or the New Zealand
Speaker 2: Warriors as they are called. They sell out every home
Speaker 2: game now they've set a record for the number of
Speaker 2: home games they've sold out. I think they'll play a
Speaker 2: game at Eden Stadium or Eden Park in Auckland, and
Speaker 2: Nick says, why not an Origin game in p and G.
Speaker 2: I don't know if they'll have the infrastructure. Yes, they're
Speaker 2: going to have an NFL team there in a few
Speaker 2: years time. I don't think they've got a ground that's
Speaker 2: big enough to cater for it now where at Kappa
Speaker 2: is in a lot of trouble. He has been banned
Speaker 2: from attending a F games and he's a Sydney Swan's
Speaker 2: legend for five years because of his behavior towards women.
Speaker 2: But he has responded to this today. Is it too severe?
Speaker 2: Peter Ford joins this good afternoon.
Speaker 15: Peter, Well, look, I think it's a good debate. What
Speaker 15: happened or what did happen or didn't happen, was all
Speaker 15: on the Grand Final Day last year, the AFL Grand
Speaker 15: Final Day. And as you say, he's now been banned
Speaker 15: for five years, not just from any AFL games, but
Speaker 15: he's banned from all AFL venues, including the MCG and
Speaker 15: that's not just for AFL football, that's for concerts, that's
Speaker 15: for cricket, everything. For five years he cannot enter the MCG.
Speaker 15: Now he released a statement this morning to Sunrise. A
Speaker 15: lot of the headlines have been saying that he was
Speaker 15: behaving in a disgusting and a vile manner, but nobody
Speaker 15: seems to be able to pinpoint what exactly the violent
Speaker 15: and disgusting things were, apart from one comment that he
Speaker 15: made to a waitress who was serving and he said
Speaker 15: to the effect and I don't, as far as I
Speaker 15: understand it, the waitress didn't hear it. Not that that
Speaker 15: necessarily matters. He said, I'd like to give her a
Speaker 15: job in my brothel. He runs a brothel in Melbourne.
Speaker 15: Now he's released this statement to day to Sunrise, where
Speaker 15: he said some friends and I were in a small,
Speaker 15: private corporate box at the AFL Grand Final eight months ago.
Speaker 15: I made a comment to people in my party that
Speaker 15: was overheard by waightstaff, who became offended. I happened to
Speaker 15: think working in a brothel is a great way to
Speaker 15: earn a living, as it is a legitimate industry. So
Speaker 15: I think he raises an interesting point there. I mean,
Speaker 15: we have to accept the brothels are legal, you know,
Speaker 15: if they're run correctly, etc. And the right licensing which
Speaker 15: he's got, it is a legitimate workplace in industry. Would
Speaker 15: we be offended if he said if he owned a restaurant,
Speaker 15: so I'd love to give her a job in one
Speaker 15: of my restaurants. So are we being moralistic? We get
Speaker 15: outraged by that. I wouldn't say it, and I wouldn't
Speaker 15: like someone saying it to my daughter or sister. But nonetheless,
Speaker 15: I think it's five years, I must say, sounds pretty
Speaker 15: heavy handed when you hear about the pretty questionable behavior
Speaker 15: of AFL players and teams and staff. And I've never
Speaker 15: heard of a five year band before.
Speaker 2: And just to clarify that, Pep, he was speaking to
Speaker 2: other He wasn't speaking to the person, the intended brothe worker.
Speaker 2: He was speaking to his friends. And it was overheard
Speaker 2: there obviously.
Speaker 15: But I certainly the people I've spoken to I know Warwick,
Speaker 15: I know I don't know him well. I think other
Speaker 15: people who know him well, such as Sam Newman, and
Speaker 15: some of those were there and they said the comment
Speaker 15: was not directed to her and they don't believe she
Speaker 15: even heard it. Other staff who were serving on the
Speaker 15: day did and that's that's how the complaints started.
Speaker 2: And that penalty it's you know you mentioned it's at
Speaker 2: the MCG and it's not just AFL games. I would
Speaker 2: imagine it as as well as he no doubt makes
Speaker 2: a very good income from running a brothel. I'm not
Speaker 2: quite sure how much you make for running a brothel,
Speaker 2: but I would also suspect that that Warrick Kappa makes
Speaker 2: a bit of money on the speaking scene, given he's
Speaker 2: an AFL legend and so out there as a character.
Speaker 2: He would have speaking engagements at AFL matches at various
Speaker 2: venues where the AFL has played. He probably makes a
Speaker 2: bit of coin from.
Speaker 15: Yeah, I think most of those sort of functions probably
Speaker 15: take place in like the team's rooms or headquarters or
Speaker 15: function rooms, not necessarily at AFL brands. But I mean,
Speaker 15: you know, Warwick is an idiot, and he's been a
Speaker 15: professional idiot now for forty years, and we cheered him
Speaker 15: on for being that, you know, we encouraged it, we did.
Speaker 15: You know, that was the eighties and things that were
Speaker 15: acceptable and even funny back in the eighties are now
Speaker 15: no longer acceptable. And I don't think Warick has kind
Speaker 15: of moved with the times, and he's not exactly the
Speaker 15: sharpest tool in the shed anyway, but I still do
Speaker 15: think five years is pretty heavy handed.
Speaker 2: That's the credit of the day. Warwick is an idiot,
Speaker 2: but should he be care answered is the question. Tom
Speaker 2: Cruise and Dolly Parton have won Oscars.
Speaker 15: Yeah, well, this is a nice thing because they every
Speaker 15: year they give out a few honorary Oscars. This year
Speaker 15: they're giving out four. One of them is going to
Speaker 15: Tom Cruise, and that's for his body of work. And
Speaker 15: there is no doubt that he is one of the
Speaker 15: great movie stars of our lifetime, you know, since that
Speaker 15: Golden Years of Hollywood ended, that new brigade of people
Speaker 15: who emerged in the seventies and eighties, you know, he's
Speaker 15: right up there. Oddly enough, has never been given the
Speaker 15: American Film Institute Award, which is really disgraceful. But anyway,
Speaker 15: the Oscars are going to give him one, and they
Speaker 15: have cited his work in the stunt world as well,
Speaker 15: with so many things that he's done on screen are
Speaker 15: quite remarkable. But the other one I think is also
Speaker 15: not up for debate, and that's Dolly Parton. Now she's
Speaker 15: not getting it for her movie work. She's getting the
Speaker 15: gene her Shalt Award, and that is the award that's
Speaker 15: given for people who have worked in movies of fame
Speaker 15: as a result of movies. Hers of course goes beyond that,
Speaker 15: but they then go and do great work in the world.
Speaker 15: And in her case, there's so many things. You know,
Speaker 15: her work with literacy, getting millions of books into schools
Speaker 15: and libraries for kids that she personally funds, you know,
Speaker 15: getting out of check book and writing a million dollar
Speaker 15: check when someone said they needed some money for a
Speaker 15: COVID vaccine. She's always doing those sort of great things.
Speaker 15: So she's getting that gene her shoulder wards. They're not
Speaker 15: given out on the Oscar Night, a special event held
Speaker 15: in November.
Speaker 2: Just one last question about Tom Cruise Peet. I've always
Speaker 2: been intrigued that I think a lot of Ozzie don't
Speaker 2: like him because he's split up with Nicole Kidman. Do
Speaker 2: they still have a civil relationship or do they on
Speaker 2: no talkie basis.
Speaker 15: Pretty much a no talking basis, And I think that
Speaker 15: may be connected to the breakup and the fact that
Speaker 15: Tom is a scientologist. You know, we know they had
Speaker 15: two kids, and it's all very complicated story, but I
Speaker 15: think there is an agreement that they don't discuss each other.
Speaker 15: They have made passing references to each other, even in
Speaker 15: quite recent times, but always on quite a positive note,
Speaker 15: and certainly in the case that Tom is a very
Speaker 15: peculiar person, but he is incredibly devoted to the art
Speaker 15: of making movies, and certainly I think he is absolutely
Speaker 15: due that Oscar.
Speaker 2: We will talk tomorrow. Thank you, Peter, Thanks Clinton. Peter
Speaker 2: Ford on entertainment at this time every day, I've got messages,
Speaker 2: lots of messages coming in about Warre Kapper. So the
Speaker 2: quota of the day goes to Peter Ford. Quote, Warre
Speaker 2: Kapper is an idiot, But should he be canceled for
Speaker 2: being an idiot for saying something that we think he
Speaker 2: said in private that's been overheard about, suggesting that one
Speaker 2: of the white staff should work his brothel. Greg says
Speaker 2: good on Warreck Kapper. I wish more people would give
Speaker 2: the middle finger to the Pitchfork beread. But this one
Speaker 2: from Smoky it's about Tom Warwick Kapper grew up. The
Speaker 2: bloke is an embarrassment. If you've got a view on
Speaker 2: that one three one eight seven three beautiful afternoon across Sydney.
Speaker 2: Optus has now agreed to pay a one hundred million
Speaker 2: dollar fine after they admitted they were targeting customers with
Speaker 2: mobile phone deals that they couldn't actually afford and did
Speaker 2: not need. The a Triple C took court action against
Speaker 2: Optus and they accused the company of unconscionable conduct in
Speaker 2: the way it was selling products to hundreds of customers. Now,
Speaker 2: these were generally customers who had diminished cognitive capacity, perhaps
Speaker 2: they had limited financial literacy. English may well have been
Speaker 2: their second language, and they were sold things mobile phone
Speaker 2: pans for instance, that they couldn't use or they didn't need,
Speaker 2: and in summer cases, they then built up a debt
Speaker 2: because they couldn't afford them either. So the telcow is
Speaker 2: now admitted to this behavior. They've agreed to compensate those
Speaker 2: affected and they'll pay a one hundred million dollar fine.
Speaker 2: That fine still needs to be approved by the federal court.
Speaker 2: It's a Court of the Four. Still messages coming in
Speaker 2: about where the next State of Origin match should be
Speaker 2: played Tonight's Perth Opti Stadium, and I think one venue
Speaker 2: every year should be neutral, one Sydney match, one Brisbon
Speaker 2: match and one interstate as it has been, but what
Speaker 2: about overseas? Glenn says, everything the New Zealand Warriors did
Speaker 2: during COVID, they deserve it. We should be playing it
Speaker 2: in New Zealand as a thank you. Bev says, though,
Speaker 2: why so much height for Vegas lost ma Las Vegas matches.
Speaker 2: Majority of supporters are battler's and that and then excludes
Speaker 2: them from going to the games. Fairpoint Beverly one three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three is our number. I want to
Speaker 2: draw your attention to an issue and I've been hearing
Speaker 2: about this from some of our listeners over the past
Speaker 2: couple of weeks, warries they have about the safety of
Speaker 2: Sydney's light rail network. Now the Guardians actually published a
Speaker 2: story about this today, but I've been hearing warries from
Speaker 2: some of you in emails you send me via twogb
Speaker 2: dot com. Just a couple of weeks ago there was
Speaker 2: a death in the city Surrey Hills when a man
Speaker 2: was killed by a tram. There was another two years
Speaker 2: ago a teenager and that was on George Street. Drivers
Speaker 2: are saying current safety systems aren't working, that emergency senses
Speaker 2: have failed, that cameras you to help with safety are
Speaker 2: too slow, and they're being told to stay quiet, don't
Speaker 2: go public. Well, I receive a lot of correspondence from
Speaker 2: bus drivers and we're going to talk about that a
Speaker 2: little later on them as well, train drivers and also
Speaker 2: light rail operators, and I do keep their identities. I
Speaker 2: keep those on any it's confidential because I don't want
Speaker 2: them to lose their jobs. But elicite meme from the
Speaker 2: operator trans Dev has warned staff not to talk about
Speaker 2: these incidents even amongst themselves. Well, the RTBU, the rail,
Speaker 2: tram and Bus union, says that's not good enough and
Speaker 2: they want some change before another life is lost. David
Speaker 2: Babineu is the secretary of the RTBU. He looks after
Speaker 2: the buses and the light rail network. Kiddo, David, Gooday, Clinton,
Speaker 2: how are you so, I've been hearing about this through
Speaker 2: a little while. What are your members telling you about
Speaker 2: their safety concerns.
Speaker 8: Well, it all comes down to time, it really does.
Speaker 16: It all comes down to know that operators contracted to
Speaker 16: deliver services with a certain amount of time, and everything
Speaker 16: is a casualty to that. So you raise the point
Speaker 16: about the cameras they were put in to observe the
Speaker 16: coupling point between the two trams and actors sort of
Speaker 16: some sort of measure to reduce the hazard. Now they're
Speaker 16: activated when the doors are closed. The screen doesn't come
Speaker 16: on straight away. It takes a couple seconds for it
Speaker 16: to come on. A couple of seconds becomes a few seconds,
Speaker 16: becomes ten seconds, becomes twenty seconds, becomes half a minute.
Speaker 16: There was no accommodation made for the timing of it.
Speaker 16: It was just, hey, we better do something, we better
Speaker 16: be seen to be doing something. And so this is
Speaker 16: how it's gone. If there's going to be a lasting
Speaker 16: change here, and there has to be. We've got two
Speaker 16: people dead, and to be fair, Transport can call it
Speaker 16: misadventure all they want, it doesn't lessen the fact that
Speaker 16: we've got two people who have lost their lives and
Speaker 16: countless impacted by that. We need these coupling points inclosed.
Speaker 16: I'm not an engineer, can't tell you how to do it.
Speaker 16: There looks to be multiple ways, but it really needs
Speaker 16: to be. We cannot seriously have this kind of structure
Speaker 16: exposed to people where they're you know, in this case,
Speaker 16: losing their lives.
Speaker 2: So that those coupling points you mentioned David just to
Speaker 2: clarify overseas and there are similar in these trains. All
Speaker 2: these light rail I think of made in Spain, aren't
Speaker 2: they do? They have that technology overseas well.
Speaker 16: There's no reason why you couldn't close them. You just
Speaker 16: you can build a housing around them. There'd be a
Speaker 16: certain amount of movement needed depending on where they go.
Speaker 16: There's you know, there's some relatively sharp corners, but there's
Speaker 16: no reason why you couldn't accommodate a certain amount of movement,
Speaker 16: you know, within that joint.
Speaker 2: In the same way we do with modern trains.
Speaker 16: It's eminently doable. It comes down to, like everything comes
Speaker 16: down to expense. And this is why I say transport
Speaker 16: needs to step in because they need to stop hiding
Speaker 16: behind well it's the operator's fold or there's a contract.
Speaker 16: People are losing their lives. We don't care who's to blame.
Speaker 16: It needs to be fixed.
Speaker 2: And I think the issue here is is that Sydney
Speaker 2: side is even though we've had the light raph what
Speaker 2: five or six years now, a lot of Sydney Siders
Speaker 2: aren't used to it because as we went decades and
Speaker 2: decades without having trams running up and down George Street
Speaker 2: and other streets in Sydney and the Inner West and
Speaker 2: the Eastern suburbs. So I think a lot of it's
Speaker 2: the food of the pedestrian, But I don't think we're
Speaker 2: used to it.
Speaker 8: Look to a degree, you're right.
Speaker 16: I mean, you know about ninety percent of Line two
Speaker 16: and three is shared space with pedestrians. And you stand
Speaker 16: there of a peak hour and you watch what goes
Speaker 16: on along George Street for example. Oh yeah, it's and
Speaker 16: the slow speed to a degree encourages the stupid.
Speaker 2: And once you've got your ear phones in, really, once
Speaker 2: you've gotten out of the way, once you're listening to
Speaker 2: this radio station on the app or something, you know,
Speaker 2: people get distracted.
Speaker 8: It's they do, they really do.
Speaker 16: I mean we've had reports, you know, from members and
Speaker 16: from the general public about like you know, people writing
Speaker 16: on the coupling points and stuff like that. There's you know,
Speaker 16: it's the system was put in, you know, without a
Speaker 16: lot of adequate safety measures. Me now there's talk about oh,
Speaker 16: well you know there's a line, there should be lines
Speaker 16: on the platforms. Well, you go to town hall, the
Speaker 16: lines are literally the edge of the platform and if
Speaker 16: the line is there to tell you where you shouldn't
Speaker 16: go past. Well, it's no wonder people are getting bumped
Speaker 16: occasionally as they lean in on their phones and stuff
Speaker 16: like that. There really needs to be a consistent and
Speaker 16: holistic approach to safety on this network. It's a good service,
Speaker 16: it really is, but it can absolutely be safe and
Speaker 16: Transport needs to step up and make that happen.
Speaker 2: Look, I do receive anonymous tip offs about what's happening
Speaker 2: on the network, and I receive it, as you know,
Speaker 2: a lot from bus drivers as well that issues in
Speaker 2: the bus network. But what do you make of this
Speaker 2: revelation that trans dev has actually sent a memo and
Speaker 2: they're telling their stuff not to even talk to each
Speaker 2: other about this.
Speaker 16: Look, firstly, thank you for that confidence, because it is
Speaker 16: absolutely the case that regardless of whether the you know,
Speaker 16: what part of transport you're working in, you speak out,
Speaker 16: you tend to get hit with it, you know. So
Speaker 16: you know, I do do respect the fact that you
Speaker 16: do that for our members and just for you operators
Speaker 16: in general. But look, if you're talking about and this
Speaker 16: is the problem, there was no clarity to it. If
Speaker 16: you're saying that you shouldn't talk about it because we've
Speaker 16: got a guy who's coming back to work, who doesn't.
Speaker 8: Really want to relive it in the meal room.
Speaker 16: We've got people who responded on the day who may
Speaker 16: not want to, you know, trying to sort of deal
Speaker 16: with it themselves. We don't need, you know, we don't
Speaker 16: need the gossip going around, that's one thing. But if
Speaker 16: you're telling people they just can't talk about it because
Speaker 16: it's a reputational issue or something like that, not in
Speaker 16: a million years would we support that.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Transparency is critical because that's how we fixed things in society.
Speaker 2: Thank you, David. Absolutely, David Babinow that this is an
Speaker 2: issue I think we do need to address because for
Speaker 2: a lot of Sydney sider is he don't going to
Speaker 2: the city often, you may be only going to the
Speaker 2: city once l twice a year. You're not going to
Speaker 2: know how to deal with it. And it's often the
Speaker 2: pedestrian's fault, don't get me wrong, But that doesn't mean
Speaker 2: we shouldn't do something to protect them a little bit better.
Speaker 2: It's nine to four, it's five to four. Lots of
Speaker 2: feedback coming in about Warrack Kappa. So he's been described
Speaker 2: by our entertainment reporter as an idiot for the comments
Speaker 2: that he's made about a waiter at the MCG, he's
Speaker 2: been banned for five years by the AFL, and some
Speaker 2: mixed views from our listeners. Michael says I always thought
Speaker 2: Waura Kappa had no brain. His latest incident just confirms
Speaker 2: my thoughts. But Ben says this is typical of the AFL.
Speaker 2: They'd be better concentrating their efforts on junior AFL in
Speaker 2: New South Wales where they're drastically lackling, rather than canceling
Speaker 2: one of their greats that they actually cash in on. Hello, Gavin,
Speaker 2: what's your view mate?
Speaker 17: Well, what's not highlighted is Warick Kappa has a claim
Speaker 17: against the AFL with a number ninety nine players for
Speaker 17: brain injury sustained during.
Speaker 8: His professional career.
Speaker 12: So I think it's fairly radical to go five years
Speaker 12: not defending his words he's used, and I think he
Speaker 12: may be being penalized a little more than some for
Speaker 12: some reason.
Speaker 2: And I appreciate you coming, Gavin that there could well
Speaker 2: be a link there. The AFL would certainly say no,
Speaker 2: there's not a link there at all. Some information following
Speaker 2: Steve Carlin's traffic report about the dramas at Forrest Way
Speaker 2: Adams Street, French's Forester. We've just spoken to the paramedics
Speaker 2: off there. They tell us some pedestrians been hit by
Speaker 2: a vehicle. They're on the scene assessing that pedestrian at
Speaker 2: the moment managed in his thirties. He is in a
Speaker 2: stable condition. One of three northbound lanes remains closed. So
Speaker 2: which brings us to this issue we're talking about with
Speaker 2: light rail. As I said, I think some of the
Speaker 2: instance we're seeing, and it's not just the two fatalities
Speaker 2: that occurred in the last couple of years, that there
Speaker 2: are numerous instants involving the light rail network in the CBD,
Speaker 2: involving pedestrians, and often it is the fault of the pedestrian,
Speaker 2: don't get me wrong. And a lot of it comes
Speaker 2: down to the distraction of pedestrians. People just walk a
Speaker 2: nice seat all the time, They walk straight across George
Speaker 2: Street with earbuds listening to something and they don't think
Speaker 2: that there's a trem there. But I think a lot
Speaker 2: of Sydney size because they might not go to the
Speaker 2: city all that much, just don't have that appreciation that
Speaker 2: we have trams in the city these days.
Speaker 18: Hello Helen oh Hi Glendon how are you good?
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
Speaker 16: Thank you.
Speaker 18: So after your conversation. And I do go to this
Speaker 18: city not on a regular basis, and I don't get
Speaker 18: the metro or the light trail and I wait, you
Speaker 18: know where I need to wait, and I see people
Speaker 18: crossing and I'm thinking, guys, you know the metro is
Speaker 18: just coming. The train, the train is coming, and all
Speaker 18: they're doing they're looking at their phone. They try and
Speaker 18: bid the trend. I actually feel more sorry for the
Speaker 18: drivers when something happens, because it's not their fault, and
Speaker 18: yet it's something that they will always you know, they
Speaker 18: will have to try.
Speaker 2: And why I raise this is because it's been published
Speaker 2: in the Guardian today, but I've been in contact with
Speaker 2: some drivers over the past couple of weeks as well
Speaker 2: who are concerned about this because it has an impact
Speaker 2: on them. So my argument is, if we could take
Speaker 2: some action to improve the actual safety of the trams themselves,
Speaker 2: if if it was affordable, if it wasn't too excessive
Speaker 2: in taking trams off the rail, surely that's a good
Speaker 2: idea because reality is hell a lot of pedestrians are stupid.
Speaker 18: And I mean, can I tell you about six or
Speaker 18: some months ago, I was in the gin. I was
Speaker 18: wading in the city and I was reading to cross
Speaker 18: a street and the person next to me, a young lady,
Speaker 18: was on her and she started crossing the road. I
Speaker 18: saw the car coming. I actually had to pull her back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, distraction. Distraction is a massive issue. Thank you,
Speaker 2: Helen Trevor. This is an interesting one on the text line.
Speaker 2: I actually was employed by the company during the planning
Speaker 2: and the build and the opening of the light rail
Speaker 2: lines the two and L three. The Work Health Safety
Speaker 2: report had what they believed probable and acceptable pedestrian deaths
Speaker 2: of one per year, so two deaths in five years
Speaker 2: probably comes under the case of acceptable. Now, recall last weekend,
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Speaker 2: it was none registered winner, somebody who bought a ticket
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Speaker 1: There, says Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To GB Temperatures falling across Sydney but still beautiful sunny
Speaker 2: blue skies. There's a reason the skies are blue this
Speaker 2: afternoon because New South Wales is going to win Origin
Speaker 2: two in Perth. The weather in Perth a little bit dubious.
Speaker 2: There's been a bit of rain around the WA capital today.
Speaker 2: Full coverage of the Continuous Call team from seven o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: More is emerging about sam Jin Azari. This is the
Speaker 2: twenty six year old who was shot at the kebab
Speaker 2: shop in Auburn on Monday. The man who currently should
Speaker 2: be in jail, but he's out on bail because we
Speaker 2: have a justice system that does not prioritize public safety.
Speaker 2: The lady who was shot twice at the brother's kebab
Speaker 2: shop would not be in hospital where she still listed
Speaker 2: in a critical condition. She's been shot twice in the stomach.
Speaker 2: She wouldn't be there if the Paramount of Local Court
Speaker 2: had accepted what the police prosecution case was, their argument
Speaker 2: that Asari was quote at the Eppi center of Sydney's
Speaker 2: gang will. As we reported in the program yesterday, there
Speaker 2: have been four assassination attempts. They keep missing because hired assassins,
Speaker 2: it appears, aren't very good shots. They keep missing people
Speaker 2: and then they hit innocent people. But it's now been
Speaker 2: revealed part of the reasons of why a Tzari's enemies
Speaker 2: want him dead. You see, he's accused of being the
Speaker 2: mastermind behind the attempted ripoff theft of four and a
Speaker 2: half million dollars worth of illegal tobacco from another crime
Speaker 2: gang in court documents that have been tended to the
Speaker 2: court case of one of his gang mates. The court
Speaker 2: documents show that police alleged they were called to the
Speaker 2: illegal tobacco theft at a warehouse in Condell Park and
Speaker 2: it was this theft and the plan to steal this
Speaker 2: tobacco is at the center of the reasons of why
Speaker 2: so many people in the underworld want this bloke dead.
Speaker 2: This is exactly what I've been warning about for months
Speaker 2: now with the growth of illegal tobacco, the cheap illegal stuff.
Speaker 2: It's the supply of this by the criminal gangs that
Speaker 2: previously we're spending most of their time fighting over cocaine
Speaker 2: and cocaine turf, but they're now bringing tobacco into the mix.
Speaker 2: They fight over the areas where they can sell it,
Speaker 2: and then in this case, they attempt to rip each
Speaker 2: other off. They are criminals after all. Now, I completely
Speaker 2: understand why a smoker who has been smoking for decades
Speaker 2: and simply can't afford forty to fifty to sixty dollars
Speaker 2: a packet. Completely understand why you may well buy the
Speaker 2: illegal stuff because it is everywhere. There're a tobaccoo saw
Speaker 2: almost every street corner where you can buy it. You
Speaker 2: can buy it in some service stations, you can bite
Speaker 2: in fruit and vegetable shops. But the smokes you buy
Speaker 2: if it's you, and I understand why you're doing it.
Speaker 2: But those cigarettes are fueling this gang worn now and
Speaker 2: the result is innocent people like the kebab shop lady
Speaker 2: are being caught in the crossfire. Now, the biggest issue
Speaker 2: here is, no doubt, the failure by the courts to
Speaker 2: a accept the police argument to keep people like this
Speaker 2: in jail, to refuse them bail. That's the biggest issue here.
Speaker 2: But the other failure is the responsibility of governments because
Speaker 2: they're failing all of us when it comes to the
Speaker 2: way the illegal tobacco market has been allowed to flourish.
Speaker 2: They've basically encourage good law abiding citizens who are smokers
Speaker 2: to go and buy the illegal stuff by making the
Speaker 2: legal cigarettes so expensive through their ridiculous taxes. They think
Speaker 2: they're doing the right thing, the regulators, the governments, but
Speaker 2: indirectly it's actually government policy that's now in part responsible
Speaker 2: for this gang war. This gang war that is seeing
Speaker 2: innocent people being shot. It seriously makes me really cranky
Speaker 2: because I've been talking about this on my programs for
Speaker 2: probably about two years now, all these tobacconists that have
Speaker 2: opened up. You know, I mentioned it probably eighteen months
Speaker 2: ago that in my suburb. I know a lot of
Speaker 2: people now talk about it, but I mentioned eighteen months
Speaker 2: ago that we had a tobacconist in Angadeine probably forty years.
Speaker 2: There's four of them there. Now we know what they're selling. Now,
Speaker 2: who are they supplied by. They're supplied by illegal criminal gangs,
Speaker 2: and this is the way they operate. They all hate
Speaker 2: each other, so they're trying to rip each other off,
Speaker 2: as is the police allegations against Azari. That's why Azari
Speaker 2: has now been the victim of four assassination attempts. And fine,
Speaker 2: if Azari is killed at some point, I'm sure his
Speaker 2: family's gonna be upset. I know you won't be. But
Speaker 2: the problem is the innocent people who end up being
Speaker 2: killed in the consequence, like the bloke, and that this
Speaker 2: is still a lot subject to investigation. But the young
Speaker 2: guy who arrived home at Condell Park a few weeks
Speaker 2: back in his ute is reversed up the driveway. He
Speaker 2: works for his dad, He gets out of the ute
Speaker 2: and the government comes up covered in black and shoots
Speaker 2: him dead. Now we don't know why, other than police
Speaker 2: believe it's a case mistaken identity. We don't know what
Speaker 2: the gang wore their way. Most of it in Sydney's
Speaker 2: over cocaine, but increasingly it's over illegal tobacco. And it's
Speaker 2: the government that's let this grow out of control over
Speaker 2: the past couple of years. And we're going to see
Speaker 2: more people, innocent people who were caught up in it.
Speaker 1: And it is just so wrong Sydney now with Clinton Maynard.
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Speaker 2: favorite minister in the Federal government, the one on Ninty,
Speaker 2: Chris Bowen, has made a speech in Melbourne today and
Speaker 2: he has conceded the current system that in part governs
Speaker 2: the way we pay power bills and electricity bills is
Speaker 2: not working. It's not serving bill pay as well and
Speaker 2: it needs to change. The reason for this is that
Speaker 2: over the last few years there's been a difference in
Speaker 2: price increases for what we pay here in New South
Speaker 2: Wales for our power bills and what our friends in
Speaker 2: Victoria pay. So the biggest annual bill increase in New
Speaker 2: South Wales in recent times is it's been more than
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars. In Victoria it's only been one hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: It's a big difference. So in Victoria they have the
Speaker 2: Essential Services Commission which sets the maximum bill that retailers
Speaker 2: can charge. But then in the other states there is
Speaker 2: the Australian Energy Regulator and they factor in various different
Speaker 2: issues such as competition between electricity prices. Well, Chris Bowen
Speaker 2: has made a speech at the Australian Energy Week conference.
Speaker 2: That'd be exciting to go on. I'll too, wouldn't it.
Speaker 2: I missed it so sadly anyway, mister Barnes made a
Speaker 2: speech there and he says I don't think it's working
Speaker 2: in the way it's intended to, so reform is needed.
Speaker 2: He admits that the reform pricing mechanism the plan is
Speaker 2: to bring new South Wales, Queensland and South Australia closer
Speaker 2: in line to what happens in Victoria where there have
Speaker 2: been smaller bill increases. Reality is so these reforms, it's good.
Speaker 2: It's on the agenda. So let's hope that Chris Bowen
Speaker 2: can actually achieve some change here. What we do know
Speaker 2: is power prices are going to go up on the
Speaker 2: first July. Sally Tindler's Canstar's director of research and public Relations,
Speaker 2: and through Canstar they look at all the different supplies
Speaker 2: of electricity and try to find the best and most
Speaker 2: efficient deals. Hello Sally, Hello Clinton, how are you? I'm good?
Speaker 2: And I've known obviously, we talk about it all the time,
Speaker 2: the way our electricity prices arising. I didn't realize that
Speaker 2: the increases in Victoria are actually so much less than ours.
Speaker 10: It's really interesting to see even just looking at the
Speaker 10: default offers, which most people aren't on. Most people are
Speaker 10: on a market office, which tend to be lower than
Speaker 10: in Victoria. The Essential Services Commission have across the five
Speaker 10: networks in Victoria, I think the biggest increase is ninety
Speaker 10: dollars for the next year for the average household, but
Speaker 10: one of them, one of the next works is actually
Speaker 10: going down by twenty six dollars, and all the other
Speaker 10: ones in between are a lot smaller than what we're
Speaker 10: seeing in New South Wales, with osgrit to the average
Speaker 10: household going up by one hundred and fifty five dollars
Speaker 10: endeavor and the year one hundred and eighty eight dollars
Speaker 10: for the average household, and the Essential Energy Network which
Speaker 10: is in regional New South Wales two hundred and twenty
Speaker 10: eight dollars, which is a massive hit to the back.
Speaker 2: Pop that's going to be the most is does it
Speaker 2: come down to the different ways electricity is generated in
Speaker 2: the States or is it simply down to the way
Speaker 2: it's regulated.
Speaker 10: I think it's a big mix of different factors. Certainly, yes,
Speaker 10: rising network costs. It's no surprise that the essential energy
Speaker 10: network is seeing the biggest rises because they've got such
Speaker 10: a vast area to maintain. But also there's rising wholesale
Speaker 10: electricity costs which have been hindered by cold power station
Speaker 10: averages and weather events, and even lower than expected renewables
Speaker 10: output in New South Wales. Rising operating costs as well,
Speaker 10: which is like the cost of doing business running call centers,
Speaker 10: acquiring new customers and all the rest of it. Now,
Speaker 10: Minister Bowen today says he flagged that they would strip
Speaker 10: out the competition allowance that's baked into the Astralian Energy
Speaker 10: regulators default pricing. That's the regulator that governs New South Wales,
Speaker 10: Queensland and South Australia Southeast Queensland that is. But interestingly enough,
Speaker 10: in these default prices that are coming through on the
Speaker 10: first of January, they didn't apply the competition allowance. They've
Speaker 10: got this thing where if inflation is higher than the
Speaker 10: RBA's target band in a sustainable way, they don't apply
Speaker 10: the competition allowance. So even without that competition allowance applied
Speaker 10: in New South Wales, the default prices are going up
Speaker 10: by a lot more than Victoria and certainly now that.
Speaker 10: So what happens is the regulators announce the default prices
Speaker 10: and then all the retailers set their own prices and
Speaker 10: they tend to move in line with the default prices.
Speaker 18: But we've got the.
Speaker 10: Origin prices have come through, the AGL prices have come through.
Speaker 10: We haven't seen Energy Australia prices come through, but AGL
Speaker 10: has some customers on overage. Actually in New South Wales
Speaker 10: they're going up for small business and residential by thirteen
Speaker 10: point five percent more default.
Speaker 2: So just just to clarify it, because I know some
Speaker 2: of the jargon goes at the top of our heads.
Speaker 2: So the default market offer is is that the maximum
Speaker 2: price that the increase can be. But you just mentioned
Speaker 2: AGLs going up on more than that.
Speaker 10: Sorry, so the price rise is more than it, but
Speaker 10: the cost is not likely to be for market plans,
Speaker 10: if that helps. So the default offers tend to be
Speaker 10: the price that electricity retailer is charged for customers on
Speaker 10: default contracts, and they are a safety net for those
Speaker 10: customers that don't shop around or who can't shop around.
Speaker 10: Those default prices also act as a benchmark to help
Speaker 10: you and I compare our market plan more effectively. So
Speaker 10: when you go on to outside or a lot of
Speaker 10: other sites Energy made Easy wherever, you will see your
Speaker 10: electricity plan price in relation to the reference price, and
Speaker 10: you want to be as low as possible. So you know,
Speaker 10: say in New South Wales in Sydney, the average plan,
Speaker 10: the average market plan on our database in Sydney is
Speaker 10: seven percent lower than the reference price, right or the
Speaker 10: default price, but the highest discount you can find is
Speaker 10: twenty three percent lower. That's the kind of target you
Speaker 10: should be aiming for when you're shopping around for a
Speaker 10: good dealth.
Speaker 2: So the message is to shop around. So look, I'll
Speaker 2: admit I've been really silly selly for years. I've just
Speaker 2: I'm just with the one that was assigned to my house,
Speaker 2: my street. It's Energy Australia. I did look at it,
Speaker 2: I must admit I looked at it about two years
Speaker 2: ago and I found it confusing and didn't follow it up.
Speaker 2: So does that mean that for somebody like me and
Speaker 2: I reckon a lot of our listeners will be in
Speaker 2: that category you're on the default offer.
Speaker 19: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Quite possibly, And really switching around isn't as hard as
Speaker 10: you might think. We've done some research the average time
Speaker 10: with the provider, So you're not alone here eight point
Speaker 10: eight years. Forty one percent of people we surveyed had
Speaker 10: been with their provider for twenty or more years. There
Speaker 10: was one gentleman that we had serve eight that have
Speaker 10: been with their same provider since the nineteen seventies. So
Speaker 10: a lot of people don't shop around because they look
Speaker 10: at that bill and they go, this is gobblety group.
Speaker 2: I do not understand it whatsoever. And you know, only
Speaker 2: other problems are I can sell is because you get
Speaker 2: phone calls from people from unlisted numbers offering your deals,
Speaker 2: and a lot of us NET has hang up on
Speaker 2: those worried it some sort of scam.
Speaker 18: Well, absolutely, and you probably should.
Speaker 10: But you can take the bulls by the horns and
Speaker 10: do it yourself. So you jump onto Canst Blue or
Speaker 10: Energy Made Easy. There's a couple of different ways you
Speaker 10: can do it. On our site. You can upload your bill.
Speaker 10: You know, the robots in the background will read it
Speaker 10: for you and spit out some more competitive offers. You
Speaker 10: can go onto our list of different plans and see
Speaker 10: where your plan sits according to the reference price. That's
Speaker 10: another way to do it. Or on Energy Made Easy.
Speaker 10: You go and find your NIM NMI National Metering identifier.
Speaker 10: That's a number that is unique to your property. You
Speaker 10: plug that into Energy Made Easy and again it will
Speaker 10: spit out cheaper plans if they're available. These are all
Speaker 10: great resources. They can be done really quickly. And once
Speaker 10: you've decided on someone to switch to a provider to
Speaker 10: switch to, the rest is like child's play. You fill
Speaker 10: out a form on their website. I give them some
Speaker 10: details and they do the hard part for you, which
Speaker 10: is break up with your old electricity provider. And basically
Speaker 10: it all happens in the background without you having to
Speaker 10: do much more.
Speaker 2: It'd be smart. Thank you, Tally. Thanks Sally Tindall. So
Speaker 2: Sally's tindle some cansday. You can go on the Canser website.
Speaker 2: You can go onto the Energy Made Easy website as well.
Speaker 2: You need that NIM that number, but I should do it,
Speaker 2: and I reckon A lot of us are exactly the
Speaker 2: same boat word on the street for tempoo a great
Speaker 2: night's sleep, night after night. The difference is temper. When
Speaker 2: you see something around Sydney, let me know about it.
Speaker 2: Gregory's done just that via the text line thank you mate.
Speaker 2: The M four M five M four m eight tunnel
Speaker 2: is still a crawl from Ashfield, so it's west bound
Speaker 2: and he's been touching on that in the traffic wards
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Thanks for letting us to know about that,
Speaker 2: Greg So M four M eight tunnel is still a mess.
Speaker 2: One three, one eight seven three is my number. Well,
Speaker 2: he might be coming back Josh Friedenburg. Now, of course
Speaker 2: he did not contest the last election after he'd lost
Speaker 2: a few years back. He didn't nominate for the seat
Speaker 2: of Couyong, which he held for many years and has
Speaker 2: been retained by the til Monique Ryan or developments. This
Speaker 2: week there's been a vote in his particular electorate and
Speaker 2: members have voted in some new office holders in the
Speaker 2: electorate and the executive there understood to be quote Josh loyalists.
Speaker 2: So what this means is that the branches in that
Speaker 2: particular electorate in Melbourne, which is quite a well to
Speaker 2: do area, if Josh Friedenberg decides that he does want
Speaker 2: to make a comeback, they'll vote for him. It'll clear
Speaker 2: the path. Reality is, look, there's not enough talent in
Speaker 2: the front bench the Liberal Party as it is. If
Speaker 2: Josh Berg says, you know, what Baby, I want to
Speaker 2: come back. They'll move heaven and high water to get
Speaker 2: him in the gig again. This is confirmation that the
Speaker 2: locals in ku Yong do want him back. A quick
Speaker 2: fact about that song, sure you love it, Baby, come
Speaker 2: back from player if he was listening to nineteen nineteen
Speaker 2: seventies the bass player in that band, Ron Moss. You
Speaker 2: recognize that name, Ron Loss, one of the big stars
Speaker 2: of Bold and the Beautiful, But he was a bass
Speaker 2: player before he was a music star. One three, one
Speaker 2: eight seven three is out number. Lots of messages here
Speaker 2: about power prices and switching. Chris says, I did compare
Speaker 2: and I actually switched today. I've now made a saving
Speaker 2: him one hundred and sixty eight dollars per quarter. But
Speaker 2: Angela says, look, it is too hard to change. To
Speaker 2: work out what's cheaper. Anthony says on the text line
Speaker 2: energy switching is a joke. You need to wait to
Speaker 2: the first July to use the Energy Made Easy website.
Speaker 2: You can't actually lock in the prices before the increase.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. Good question from Ian on the text line
Speaker 2: what time is kickoff tonight for state of origin two?
Speaker 2: As it's in Perth and they're two hours behind. Well,
Speaker 2: it's eight oh five. No, no, no, no, no, that
Speaker 2: does not mean it's ten oh five Sydney time. You
Speaker 2: don't have to wait up until ten o'clock tonight. It's
Speaker 2: eight h five Sydney times, so it'll be six oh
Speaker 2: five precisely in Perth, full coverage with a continuous call
Speaker 2: team from seven o'clock tonight our time. Let's check out
Speaker 2: his headlines.
Speaker 13: And we all lates, Katie four Good afternoon.
Speaker 14: Clinton firefighters are urging everyone to check their smoke alarms
Speaker 14: after a woman in her sixties was killed in a
Speaker 14: unit fire on Sydney's North Shore. There were no working
Speaker 14: smoke alarms in the townhouse at Cremorn. Paramedics are treating
Speaker 14: a man in his thirties who's been hit by a
Speaker 14: car or on Forest Way at French's Forest. He's in
Speaker 14: a stable can Flights to and from Bali have been
Speaker 14: grounded after a volcano erupted in eastern Indonesia. Some Australian
Speaker 14: travelers are being affected, and Lifeblood is making major changes
Speaker 14: to blood and plasma donation rules from the fourteenth of July.
Speaker 14: Sexual activity weight times for plasma donations will be removed,
Speaker 14: including for gay and bisexual men in sport. The Wallabies
Speaker 14: squad for the opening test of the year against Fiji
Speaker 14: will be named tomorrow the side we'll go into camp
Speaker 14: in Newcastle they begin building up for the series against
Speaker 14: the British and Irish Lions. Clinton More News at five k.
Speaker 2: Katie, fifteen degrees in the CBD. It's fifteen degrees at
Speaker 2: Bankstown in the moment. I just want to quickly cross
Speaker 2: out to Daniel with some dramas on the M four.
Speaker 20: Hello Daniel, Yeah, goodin We've got an old couple left
Speaker 20: down M four about Homebush where the new entry point
Speaker 20: meets the old entry point heading west. It looks like
Speaker 20: they've walked up from Parramatta Ride and got very confused.
Speaker 20: They're getting in between the two directions of traffic where
Speaker 20: they merge, looking at the signs, looking very very confused.
Speaker 20: So just at fall out that they've got a big
Speaker 20: say coming through.
Speaker 2: To oh g Ge they need to we need to
Speaker 2: help them get off the road. I think it'd be
Speaker 2: nice starting with a place. Okay, well, hopefully the emergency
Speaker 2: services can get there, So just just repeating that location
Speaker 2: for us, Daniel.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's that's on the M four homebook where the
Speaker 20: new entry point means the old entry point.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, thanks letting to know about that. Hopefully the
Speaker 2: police will be on the scene quite quickly there, because
Speaker 2: you certainly don't want them walking around that particular part
Speaker 2: of the M four. On power price increases, this one
Speaker 2: from Mark. I got the letter from Origin Energy. Not
Speaker 2: only is my bill increasing, they're reducing the solar feed
Speaker 2: in price from five cents to three cents, and they're
Speaker 2: increasing the surcharge when paying by credit card. It is
Speaker 2: an absolute route, says our listener. If you'd like to
Speaker 2: send me a text message, it's really simple. Zero four
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Speaker 1: Now you can't handle the truth the streaks.
Speaker 2: Lucy's Elix joins me every Wednesday after Now I know
Speaker 2: for many years, Lucy, this was a favorite song of.
Speaker 21: Him bos what do you know?
Speaker 22: My gosh, you finally got it.
Speaker 2: I'm playing that today from a legendary band player featuring
Speaker 2: Ron Moss on bass because there's this speculation that's about
Speaker 2: that Josh Friedenberg might make a comeback. I've got a
Speaker 2: question here that I'm hoping you can answer. Peter on
Speaker 2: the text line says, what did Josh achieve?
Speaker 22: It's a fabulous question, and then off air I posed
Speaker 22: the question to you. Well, it is interesting, and why
Speaker 22: are they so desperate for him to come back? On
Speaker 22: the balance of that, I mean in terms of his achievements,
Speaker 22: which we're struggling to rack our minds about. Why is
Speaker 22: there such an insistence that Josh come back? Is it
Speaker 22: changed for change? For change sake? Do they genuinely believe
Speaker 22: that he can come in there and fix the problem?
Speaker 2: Well, Amelia Haymer ran for the seat of Couyong at
Speaker 2: the May election. She didn't win, despite the fact Menique Ryan,
Speaker 2: I think it's fair to say what to she achieve
Speaker 2: as a teal, not a lot. What she did achieve,
Speaker 2: she churned through a few staff. She made headlines for
Speaker 2: falling out with the chief of staff. There's a bit
Speaker 2: of negative publicity.
Speaker 21: About her husband ripping off.
Speaker 2: So was that so you would have thought that of
Speaker 2: all the teer seats, and it was Tim Wilson who
Speaker 2: won back a tell seat from Zoey Daniel the Cuyong seat,
Speaker 2: you would have thought, Sorry Goldstein Young, is that the
Speaker 2: frightened big seat? You would have thought of the seat
Speaker 2: that could go back to the Tills, it was probably
Speaker 2: the Menique Ryan.
Speaker 22: I agree, and I think that with all of that
Speaker 22: negative publicity, in the face of all of that, that
Speaker 22: if there was going to be a swing, it would
Speaker 22: have been in that particular seat. I mean, look, let's
Speaker 22: not forget that at this particular election, the Albanezi the
Speaker 22: Labor government were able to successfully be re elected in
Speaker 22: such an emphatic and historic way. Despite the fact that
Speaker 22: they'd had the failure of you know, the Voice, They'd
Speaker 22: had a cost of living crisis, energy crisis, immigration issues,
Speaker 22: and all of these things behind them, they were still
Speaker 22: able to win successfully. So I'm not necessarily sure what
Speaker 22: the secret is to winning these days, but I certainly
Speaker 22: know from the Conservatives it's not to become more left leaning,
Speaker 22: that's for damn sure.
Speaker 2: Now, just before we get to a topic that we're
Speaker 2: going to discuss today, and of course we can take
Speaker 2: your cause and your feedback for Lucy's ellixis half our
Speaker 2: one three, one eight seven three. Anthony Albernzi has missed
Speaker 2: out on his meeting with Donald Trump. We understand why
Speaker 2: because mister Trump's returning to Washington to deal with the
Speaker 2: Middle East crisis. However, mister Alberzi has today indicated he
Speaker 2: now may consider going to the NATO conference next week
Speaker 2: because mister Trump's going to be there, and perhaps you
Speaker 2: could then jag a meeting with Donald Trump. Then I
Speaker 2: had one of our listeners suggesting, oh, hang on, hang on,
Speaker 2: this is Albert can to become Donald Trump's talker, the
Speaker 2: way he's go chase him all over the world. Do
Speaker 2: you think maybe you'd be better if we just did this.
Speaker 2: We could just get out of the back on the plane,
Speaker 2: come back home. It's not going to work. Whenever you're
Speaker 2: not going to see mister Trump.
Speaker 22: Whenever I think of that song before I get onto
Speaker 22: the Trump stuff with Anthony Albanezy, I just think of
Speaker 22: Ron moss right, who played.
Speaker 21: Ridge in Bold and the Beauty.
Speaker 22: Yes, and I grew up on and I wonder if
Speaker 22: any of our listeners did as well. My mother and sister,
Speaker 22: they worshiped Bold and the Beautiful.
Speaker 21: In fact, still watch it. The series is still going today?
Speaker 2: Is it still airing on Network ten just before the
Speaker 2: five o'clock news, Because I honestly can say I've not
Speaker 2: watched a full episode of Bold and Beautiful, but when
Speaker 2: I didn't work these hours, I'd be at home waiting
Speaker 2: for ten years to start. And they show those those
Speaker 2: lovely slow motion shots, very moving stuff. It's oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's rights.
Speaker 22: It's gripping television, isn't it. Yes, Well was Ron Moss?
Speaker 22: To my understanding. I mean, I haven't watched an episode
Speaker 22: in a very very long time, but I think that
Speaker 22: that particular character in that it was played by Ron
Speaker 22: Moss has been moved on now it's been assumed by
Speaker 22: somebody else.
Speaker 2: We have taken a tangent though, So whether mister as
Speaker 2: he comes back here or goes to Tonado, what do
Speaker 2: you think he should do?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 22: Look, I think he's really got to get that meeting.
Speaker 22: I do think there was a little bit of a
Speaker 22: beat up. I mean, I'll be the first to say
Speaker 22: I'm not Anthony Albanize.
Speaker 1: He's biggest fan.
Speaker 21: I think he's a decent enough bloke. Yeah, he's shocked
Speaker 21: by that.
Speaker 22: But I think in this particular instance, the fact that
Speaker 22: Trump wasn't able to carry out that meeting with him,
Speaker 22: regardless of whether it was Anthony Alberize or any other
Speaker 22: leaders right at the G seven, I know that he
Speaker 22: was able to meet with Sir Kis Starmer, but with
Speaker 22: what's going on in the Middle East at the moment,
Speaker 22: and with Israel's cries for the US to intervene, this
Speaker 22: was a situation that really warranted Donald Trump leaving to
Speaker 22: go into the situation room back in DC in Washington
Speaker 22: and to really start to hash out these discussions because
Speaker 22: we're not there yet, thankfully, but we are staring down
Speaker 22: the barrel of what could potentially be a World War
Speaker 22: three conflict if this is not resolved. And I think
Speaker 22: that for so many of us, regardless of which side
Speaker 22: of the fence you sit on, I mean, we are
Speaker 22: so sick and tired of the death and the death
Speaker 22: of civilians and what is going on in the Middle
Speaker 22: East at the moment.
Speaker 21: We need peace, We need a resolution.
Speaker 22: But I don't know that I'm that concerned that he
Speaker 22: wasn't able to jag a meeting with him off the
Speaker 22: back of the G seven or during the G seven summit,
Speaker 22: and Trump himself had said I felt as though I
Speaker 22: did everything I needed to do there, which is why
Speaker 22: I went. Is that a slap in the face to Alberineasy, Yes,
Speaker 22: but we know that he along with his buddy Kevin
Speaker 22: Rudd had been very critical of Donald Trump over the years,
Speaker 22: so we'd be foolish to think that that potentially didn't
Speaker 22: play into how Trump receives and perceives them.
Speaker 2: I've been talking about power prices. Alan says in the
Speaker 2: text line, I'd like to thank all those people who
Speaker 2: voted Albow back in and thank them for the gift
Speaker 2: of another power price rise.
Speaker 21: July one.
Speaker 2: Here we come this message from SIEV regarding Bolden and Beautiful.
Speaker 2: We are dealing with the big ishues today. Why on
Speaker 2: earth did they spend the last two minutes of every
Speaker 2: show staring at each other and being silent? What was
Speaker 2: it all about?
Speaker 1: Dramatic effect?
Speaker 22: It's really about drawing you in and understanding the gravity
Speaker 22: of the situation, about the fact that potentially the fashion
Speaker 22: empire is crumbling for the forest family or forest family
Speaker 22: part of me, or that you know someone's having an affair.
Speaker 22: It's really to draw emphasis to.
Speaker 2: That moment Diana and Textline says that Josh Frodenberg actually
Speaker 2: did manage to balance the budget. He actually managed to
Speaker 2: clear some of Labour's previous debt in twenty nineteen, just
Speaker 2: before COVID hit protected hundreds of thousands of dollars jobs
Speaker 2: by going back into debt as well.
Speaker 21: And he was a straight shooter, and that's fine, that's
Speaker 21: absolutely fine.
Speaker 22: But ultimately, in the grand scheme of things, why there
Speaker 22: is such a grand I guess cry for him to
Speaker 22: come back into the position, I'm not entirely convinced.
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we're going to talk about mental health issues.
Speaker 2: Lucy Zelich out straight shooter for a Wednesday Afternoon Mark
Speaker 2: Guy coming up with an origin preview after five thirty. Lucy,
Speaker 2: you wanted to raise issues about mental health today because
Speaker 2: a lot of people are falling through the cracks.
Speaker 22: They are, And there was this particular piece by a
Speaker 22: psychiatrist by the name of Patrick mcgory who wrote in
Speaker 22: the Herald Sun yesterday where he said, and I quote,
Speaker 22: there has been a dramatic rise in the number of
Speaker 22: people who need mental health care falling through the crack. Meanwhile,
Speaker 22: more people with the genuine need are consuming mental health resources.
Speaker 22: He also said that proportion of health and medical research
Speaker 22: budgets to mental health remains stuck at around seven percent,
Speaker 22: which also very tragically appears to be the exact same
Speaker 22: as it.
Speaker 21: Was thirty years ago.
Speaker 22: So whilst we have made immense strides in the way
Speaker 22: that we talk around mental health and the dedication that
Speaker 22: exists now towards improving it and raising awareness around it.
Speaker 22: I guess for me, the greatest issue that I had
Speaker 22: when I read the article was that those who are
Speaker 22: in genuine need of mental health assistance aren't getting it,
Speaker 22: But those who are perhaps taking advantage of it, who
Speaker 22: are perhaps using it as a shield to deflect accountability
Speaker 22: or perhaps to show up when they're needed the most,
Speaker 22: whether that be at work or wherever else, are choking
Speaker 22: up the system. And we know that it is so broken,
Speaker 22: and it's so choked up at the moment, particularly across
Speaker 22: New South Wales, and I know that our colleague Mark
Speaker 22: Levy has been very strong on this issue. I have
Speaker 22: people who are very close to me who are experiencing
Speaker 22: mental health issues who find it very difficult to, at
Speaker 22: the very bare minimum, clinton put their hand up and
Speaker 22: say I need help. But if they are putting their
Speaker 22: hand up and saying I need help, they're encountering a
Speaker 22: system that is very broken and that's unable to afford
Speaker 22: them an extended period of care. They get a certain
Speaker 22: allowance for it, and then they're cast back out into
Speaker 22: the world, and unfortunately they feel very isolated and alone
Speaker 22: because they can't navigate this on their own.
Speaker 2: What is really tricky, and a lot of us have
Speaker 2: personal connections to this, is that firstly, it can be
Speaker 2: very expensive, and that's part of medicine. But if you
Speaker 2: get a broken if you break your leg, you go forward.
Speaker 2: It's quite straightforward to get fixed. If you've got a
Speaker 2: mental health issue, what is critical is that the person
Speaker 2: suffering the mental health problem has a connection with the
Speaker 2: person who's helping them, and that can be very hard
Speaker 2: to find, very challenging, and particularly in the public system.
Speaker 2: You good luck because what you get, that's where it's
Speaker 2: so different from somebody who's going to repair your knee
Speaker 2: to somebody who's trying to help with what's going inside
Speaker 2: your head.
Speaker 21: That's right.
Speaker 2: If you don't make a connection, you might not the
Speaker 2: person may not open up in the way they need
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 22: And I have actually myself, I've been to a counselor.
Speaker 22: I'd lost someone whom I worked with that I was
Speaker 22: quite close to Les Murray many years ago, the broadcaster,
Speaker 22: and I found it difficult to process his death. But
Speaker 22: also my mother who was going through her own cancer
Speaker 22: diagnosis and having to process that as her daughter who
Speaker 22: was watching her go through this in six months of chemotherapy.
Speaker 22: So I lent on really good, solid counseling that was
Speaker 22: provided to me at the time, and that was through
Speaker 22: my employment. But it's absolutely critical, as you said there,
Speaker 22: to find a person who you resonate with, who you
Speaker 22: connect with, and that's really critical in whether or not
Speaker 22: you are going to proceed with that particular person. But
Speaker 22: also and I remember I spoke recently with the domestic
Speaker 22: violence Prevention Minister, Robin Cahill, and she said to me
Speaker 22: that particularly a lot of the issues that are going
Speaker 22: on in the territory with young kids and men around
Speaker 22: domestic violence. She said, we can place them in courses,
Speaker 22: and this speaks to your point that you made. We
Speaker 22: can place them in courses or give them these tools
Speaker 22: that last only for about say, sixteen week period, and
Speaker 22: in so many instances that's not enough.
Speaker 21: They need more time.
Speaker 22: And I guess part of my frustration is also around
Speaker 22: how it's being dealt with at the adolescent level, because
Speaker 22: there are so many children who genuinely need this help.
Speaker 21: But then on the flip.
Speaker 22: Side of that coin, I had a really interesting conversation
Speaker 22: earlier today with the well being officer who works very
Speaker 22: closely as a trained counselor, but works very closely in
Speaker 22: elite sporting environments with adolescents, but also schools, and he
Speaker 22: said one of the issues that I'm encountering with young
Speaker 22: children is that, he said, when they are experiencing issues
Speaker 22: like anxiety because they have to give a speech or
Speaker 22: something like that, we're losing that element of hey, come on,
Speaker 22: We're just going to push you that little bit more
Speaker 22: and get you into that space. Because what they're being
Speaker 22: slapped with is a tag of oh, you've got anxiety
Speaker 22: or you've got to depression, and we need to either
Speaker 22: medicalize you or we need to keep you from going
Speaker 22: down that path. And he used this brilliant analogy Clinton
Speaker 22: where he said, when I get asked to go and
Speaker 22: speak to schools and deliver, you know, talks around resilience,
Speaker 22: he said sometimes I kind of laughed to myself a
Speaker 22: little bit because he said, with the way that we're
Speaker 22: raising our youth now, we're so afraid, especially when that
Speaker 22: mental health card gets raised, we're so afraid that if
Speaker 22: we don't act, there could be dire consequences. But he said,
Speaker 22: on the flip side, we've lost that ability to kind
Speaker 22: of encourage them to push through. So he said, it's
Speaker 22: no good me introducing you to a gym if you
Speaker 22: want to get strong, but you're not allowed to use
Speaker 22: the equipment. And I thought that was really powerful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really good point. Our number one three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. Lucy'szelich our straight Shooter on a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Lucy's Elich is with me as she is every Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: I'm get your views on Warwick Kappap in just a moment,
Speaker 2: because we've been talking about that throughout the program. But firstly,
Speaker 2: I've got to play it again because Gary's just sent
Speaker 2: me your message, and Gary says, go and have a
Speaker 2: look the baby come that video on YouTube. Ron Moss
Speaker 2: is in an orange jumpsuit or something like that. It
Speaker 2: actually looks like he's escaped from prison. I don't think
Speaker 2: the orange jumpsuit is going to come back in.
Speaker 21: How many more times do you reckon?
Speaker 22: You're going to play this five time the program finishes?
Speaker 22: Where else can you squeeze that?
Speaker 21: And a discussion around fat boy bikes.
Speaker 2: I don't think I'm going to be listening to the
Speaker 2: State of origin coverage tonight, I'm going to be listening.
Speaker 22: To what's your tip, mate, what's your tip for tonight?
Speaker 2: New Southwales should win. But I think there's been so
Speaker 2: much controversy in the past twenty four hours with the
Speaker 2: comments that Billy Slater made about and he's now issued
Speaker 2: in apology because he brought him the former coach Paul
Speaker 2: Green and his.
Speaker 22: I didn't like that, I didn't like that he went
Speaker 22: from start.
Speaker 2: And I didn't like that he was called a grub
Speaker 2: in the first place, But then the response took Can
Speaker 2: I just make a little bit the word grub?
Speaker 21: I know, but I've grown up in sport right.
Speaker 22: Both of my brothers represented Australia, very lucky and fortunate
Speaker 22: to have great respective careers in their own right. My
Speaker 22: husband is an ex Australia international as well. What I
Speaker 22: will say is this the stuff that gets exchanged on
Speaker 22: a football I'm not saying that that's okay, but for
Speaker 22: goodness sake, and then to reference the previous one that
Speaker 22: shouldn't have happened. No, it shouldn't have. You picked up
Speaker 22: a bit, Billy boy.
Speaker 2: But I think there's now so much focus on that
Speaker 2: and the fact that the queens stands down one Niel.
Speaker 2: I think there might be so much momentum behind Queensland
Speaker 2: to well it.
Speaker 22: It can have the opposite effect to it can serve
Speaker 22: as a distraction, and unfortunately, I think that that's what
Speaker 22: this exchange has done. I think the Billy would have
Speaker 22: been better off just letting it slide.
Speaker 2: We've been speaking throughout the program about Wara Kappa, who's
Speaker 2: been banned for five years by the AFL, and Peter
Speaker 2: Ford has described him as a quote idiot. But Peter
Speaker 2: Ford's also questioning whether a five year band is a
Speaker 2: little bit over the top. When he was having a conversation,
Speaker 2: I didn't realize this, but he does run a broth
Speaker 2: or apparently very successful. He made a suggesting that somebody
Speaker 2: who was serving drinks would be a good worker, and
Speaker 2: he was overheard in the conversation. Is it over the
Speaker 2: top the five year band?
Speaker 22: Of course it's over the top. I love Peter Ford,
Speaker 22: by the way. I think he's great. I'm not going
Speaker 22: to reference his term and call Kapper an idiot. That's
Speaker 22: his right if he chooses to call him that, but
Speaker 22: I think he is absolutely correct in his assertion that
Speaker 22: it is well over the top. I mean, we literally
Speaker 22: have elected officials who are calling for more regulatory support
Speaker 22: for sex workers.
Speaker 21: It is a legal industry.
Speaker 22: And depending which state you're in, they kind of vary
Speaker 22: in terms of their classifications. But Alex Greenwich, who is
Speaker 22: a Sydney MP, he was calling for more protections and
Speaker 22: the decriminalization of it.
Speaker 21: The Greens have a.
Speaker 22: Sex Work is Work initiative, which is a two page
Speaker 22: document on their website which talks about protecting sex workers'
Speaker 22: rights over in South Australia.
Speaker 21: Green's leader. This was just in April.
Speaker 22: Green's leader Tammy Franks put forward a bill in the
Speaker 22: Upper House to decriminalize sex work, with certain elements of
Speaker 22: the bill permitting infants up to the age of eighteen months.
Speaker 22: This is legitimate to be within a brothel because it
Speaker 22: could support working mothers. I mean, this stuff is absolutely insane.
Speaker 22: I don't agree with any of it. I think it's
Speaker 22: a joke and I do not support decriminalizing sex work.
Speaker 22: I don't think that any situation that provides women the
Speaker 22: only pathway of sex work being a viable job, I
Speaker 22: don't think that that's something that we should endorse or
Speaker 22: encourage but our politicians.
Speaker 21: Are doing that right. So the AFL's.
Speaker 22: Decision to bankap of for five years over a comment
Speaker 22: he alleges he made in private at which someone overheard
Speaker 22: about a legal industry in this country is just embarrassing.
Speaker 22: I mean, and this coming from the mob. They're now
Speaker 22: the morality police, are they? They've got a three strikes
Speaker 22: policy where a player can get caught doing drugs and
Speaker 22: all they're going to do is slap out suspensions. This
Speaker 22: from the group that actually kind of, you know, hid
Speaker 22: the fact that about are AFL players last year received
Speaker 22: secret immunity from the codes three strikes drug policy, according
Speaker 22: to club medical officials. This from them all of a sudden,
Speaker 22: they've got a moral compass about this. Give me a
Speaker 22: break five years, that's a joke.
Speaker 2: We're almost at a time there's been some new research
Speaker 2: that's been released suggesting addiction to gaming and smartphones is
Speaker 2: starting earlier than we thought.
Speaker 22: Oh, it's really quite devastating. Actually, So this was quite
Speaker 22: concerning because we've always assumed that this is something that
Speaker 22: only kids kind of in the teenage years have access to,
Speaker 22: but a report from Aquara University revealed that children are
Speaker 22: spending up to nine hours on their screens nine hours
Speaker 22: a day, and the study surveyed two thousand kids from
Speaker 22: ranging from year four to eight right, and four percent
Speaker 22: of these kids showed signs of clinical or subclinical internet
Speaker 22: gaming disorder. Young that young Clinton, I mean, come on,
Speaker 22: we don't need big Daddy government to tell us that
Speaker 22: social media is harming our children. We know this for
Speaker 22: a fact, So I didn't need Anthony Alberanezi to say, right,
Speaker 22: we're going to ban under sixteen year olds from accessing
Speaker 22: social media or the internet in certain instances.
Speaker 21: We know it's doing harm. Parents.
Speaker 22: Please, I'm telling you now, get your kids off their
Speaker 22: screens and away from social media.
Speaker 2: Is up to us to govern that as well, because
Speaker 2: kids are smart and they'll get around the government rules
Speaker 2: when they do. Come in. Lucy, It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 21: Thank you so much. Clinton.
Speaker 2: W PLA this one last time.
Speaker 21: I'll be back next Wednesday.
Speaker 2: Lucy returns every Wednesday afternoon. Frustrated Shooters news is next.
Speaker 1: This Sydney now with Clinton on.
Speaker 2: To GB seven past five one three one eight seven
Speaker 2: three is our number. There is a lot of news
Speaker 2: breaking right now. The Daily Telegraph is providing an update
Speaker 2: of one of the victims of the Auban kebab shop
Speaker 2: shooting this week. Now this is a twenty five year old.
Speaker 2: His name is Carlie Tassini. He was the man it's
Speaker 2: alleged was effectively the bodyguard of Samang and Azara. Now
Speaker 2: Azara is the twenty six year old who has now
Speaker 2: had four attempts on his life, the Telegraph is saying,
Speaker 2: And this is a bloke who's now been shot in
Speaker 2: the face. The Telegraph is reporting that he may never
Speaker 2: walk again. Doctors are still treating him in hospital. Shrapnel
Speaker 2: has traveled through his spine. It's caused significant damage. He
Speaker 2: may well be in a wheelchair for life. That's the
Speaker 2: twenty five year old. Now Azara's injuries are not as extreme.
Speaker 2: He was struck in the shoulder. Now he is the
Speaker 2: one where there's been four attempts on his life in
Speaker 2: recent months. And then there is the shop employee who
Speaker 2: was just doing her job, just working inside that kebab shop.
Speaker 2: The forty seven year old lady. Well, she remains in
Speaker 2: a medically induced coma. She was shot twice in the stomach.
Speaker 2: She's now undergone two rounds of surgery. According to the Telegraph,
Speaker 2: to remove bullet particles from her She is in a
Speaker 2: stable condition. She is expected now to make a full recovery. However,
Speaker 2: she is she is a medically induced coma. One three one,
Speaker 2: eight seven three. It's eight past five now there's been
Speaker 2: a massive drama in Melbourne. A shopping center in the
Speaker 2: suburb of Preston Preston Is in the northeast has been
Speaker 2: placed in the complete lockdown. A car has smashed through
Speaker 2: the shopping center. This afternoon. A lady named Tanya has
Speaker 2: called into My Colleagues program on three MW our sister
Speaker 2: station Jackie Felgate, who hosts this program on three aw
Speaker 2: from the Kmart inside the Northland shopping Center, and she's
Speaker 2: described what's happened.
Speaker 13: Who need to go to Tanya.
Speaker 23: Now we're getting a lot of calls and get a
Speaker 23: lot of messages on my social about this. Tanya, I
Speaker 23: understand you're at Northland. What's happened?
Speaker 9: Yes, we're in lockdown in Kmart. Apparently a car on
Speaker 9: through the shopping center.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, can you see, Tanya?
Speaker 9: I can't see. We're just we're all barricaded in here.
Speaker 13: Have they locked the doors?
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've locked the doors. Everyone ols of sirens going.
Speaker 9: I think there must be police. I don't know what's
Speaker 9: happening out there.
Speaker 13: How many of you are inside?
Speaker 9: Good sixty seventy people in.
Speaker 13: Here, okay, and did you hear anything before?
Speaker 9: No, it sounded like gunshots. It was a car obviously,
Speaker 9: some girls in here saw it and then they quickly
Speaker 9: all the managers like would be the gates down straight away.
Speaker 2: That is just a short time ago. Tanya're calling my
Speaker 2: colleague Jackie Felgate on three LW So a car has
Speaker 2: driven into the Northland Shopping Center straight through into the kmart.
Speaker 2: Sounded like bullets were being fired, but it's the car.
Speaker 2: We don't have much further detail other than the Northland
Speaker 2: Shopping Center which is in Murray Road in Preston, which
Speaker 2: is in the northeast of Melbourne. It is just in
Speaker 2: complete lockdown at the moment.
Speaker 5: You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tuned
Speaker 5: to Sydney now with Clinton Laynard on to GMV.
Speaker 2: Well, that's in Melbourne. In Sydney, the city has been
Speaker 2: shocked by the revelations that have been made by the
Speaker 2: police today that four teenage boys age from fourteen and
Speaker 2: nineteen have been charged over a horrific sexual assault of
Speaker 2: a seventeen year old girl. Now, this occurred in December
Speaker 2: of last year where the seventeen year old was approached
Speaker 2: by a mail that she did not know at a
Speaker 2: shopping center in Liverpool. The mail allegedly followed the girl
Speaker 2: to her car and reluctantly and this is all going
Speaker 2: to now it's before the courts. She was allowed inside
Speaker 2: the car and the sexual assault began. It's alleged the
Speaker 2: assault which went on for six hours. And this is
Speaker 2: it's difficult to talk about, but it's something that we
Speaker 2: have to talk about because for many of you that
Speaker 2: I know have long memories. We can recall what happened
Speaker 2: nearly two thousands in this city with the scaff Brothers
Speaker 2: gang rape. And this will all be playing out before
Speaker 2: the courts. But we need to talk about this because
Speaker 2: we need to make sure this stuff doesn't happen again.
Speaker 2: The rape, the sexual assault went on for six hours
Speaker 2: now and we're only finding out about this today. In December,
Speaker 2: two teenagers were arrested, fourteen year old boy and a
Speaker 2: sixteen year old boy and they've been before the courts
Speaker 2: as we now know. In December and they were remarded
Speaker 2: in custody. Well, in the past twenty four hours, another
Speaker 2: two teenagers have been arrested, an eighteen year old and
Speaker 2: a nineteen year old. Now those two have been before
Speaker 2: the courts today. This is prompted a statement that's just
Speaker 2: been really from the acting Police Commissioner, Peter Thirtill, and
Speaker 2: I'll read you the statement. Statement says, and alleged horrific
Speaker 2: crime of this nature drives our investigators to be meticulous
Speaker 2: in gathering evidence in order to get an irrefutable conviction.
Speaker 2: Our thoughts with the victim and her family, who will
Speaker 2: undoubtedly have to live with this alleged sickening attack for
Speaker 2: the rest of their lives. Detectives worked tirelessly and have
Speaker 2: done an outstanding job bringing these people before the courts.
Speaker 2: COVID strategies to identify the roles of each offender were
Speaker 2: put in place. Both physical and electronic surveillance was used extensively.
Speaker 2: The moment officers knew they could throw the book at them,
Speaker 2: arrests were made. So he is referring to the fact
Speaker 2: that this crime took place in December last year. The
Speaker 2: two very young teenagers were arrested in December of last year,
Speaker 2: but now in the last twenty four hours, two older
Speaker 2: teenagers have been arrested. The acting Commissioner says, if there
Speaker 2: is anyone who is a champion of public and community
Speaker 2: safety in this regard, it is the head of the
Speaker 2: Six Crimes Squad, Detective Superintendent Jane Dougherty and her team,
Speaker 2: and the Detective Superintendent has also spoken today.
Speaker 24: Beggar's belief that in this day and age that men
Speaker 24: would think to act this way towards a girl, and
Speaker 24: to act not just instantaneously, but over a six hour period,
Speaker 24: continuing to act together and encourage each other and degrade
Speaker 24: the victim in the way that they did. This is
Speaker 24: the offending at the highest level that you can think of.
Speaker 24: And these are yes, they're young men, but even at
Speaker 24: that young age, they would know that they should know
Speaker 24: that this is not the way that you could treat
Speaker 24: another human being.
Speaker 2: So those allegations have alleged sexual assault over the course
Speaker 2: of six hours will now be tested in court.
Speaker 13: You need to go to Tanya.
Speaker 23: Now we're getting a lot of calls and get a
Speaker 23: lot of messages on my social about this.
Speaker 13: Tanya. I understand you're at North lad What's happened.
Speaker 9: Yes, we're in lockdown in kmart. Apparently a carved on
Speaker 9: through the shopping center.
Speaker 13: Oh my god, what can you see, Tanya?
Speaker 9: I can't see. We're just look, we're all barricaded in here.
Speaker 13: Have they locked the doors?
Speaker 9: Yeah, they've locked the doors. Everyone saw the alat of
Speaker 9: sirens going. I think there must be police. I don't
Speaker 9: know what's happening out there.
Speaker 13: How many of you are inside?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 9: Sixty seventy people in here?
Speaker 13: Okay, And did you hear anything before?
Speaker 9: No, it sounded like gunshots. It was a car. Obviously
Speaker 9: some girls in here saw and then they quickly all
Speaker 9: the managers would be a gates down straight away.
Speaker 2: That is Tanya A called to my colleague Jackie Felgate
Speaker 2: on three rw She is in the kmart at the moment. Now.
Speaker 2: The latest information we have is the Northland Shopping Center,
Speaker 2: which is in Preston's in northeast of Melbourne at the
Speaker 2: moment is in complete lockdown. We are confident the emergency
Speaker 2: services there are on the scene right now. We're just
Speaker 2: getting some clarification through about whether the driver of this
Speaker 2: car has actually been arrested at this point, but there
Speaker 2: are sixty seventy odd people inside. This came up right
Speaker 2: at the moment and they are terrified about what has occurred.
Speaker 2: It is not clear what the motive for this is.
Speaker 2: It seems a little deeper than just a simple car
Speaker 2: accident because the car has ran right through its shopping center.
Speaker 2: Now the Herald's Son in Melbourne, their News Limited press
Speaker 2: is now reported the car is stolen, so we now
Speaker 2: have some more detail just coming through. This is a
Speaker 2: stolen car. It's not clear though what the motive of
Speaker 2: this incident is. I'll bring you some more information in
Speaker 2: the next couple of minutes. It's sixteen past five. Some
Speaker 2: more details now coming through from the Northland Shopping Center,
Speaker 2: which is in Preston's in Melbourne, which has been placed
Speaker 2: in lockdown after this vehicle has crashed straight through the
Speaker 2: shopping center. The information I'm now receiving is it was
Speaker 2: a tot Land Cruiser. It was a stolen toyter Land Cruiser.
Speaker 2: Officers tried to block in the full will drive outside
Speaker 2: the complex, but the Land Cruiser, one bloke on board,
Speaker 2: has driven away and then gone straight through the shopping center. Now,
Speaker 2: fortunately no one's been injured. One woman has been tread
Speaker 2: for shock and they've had to lock down the shopping
Speaker 2: center because the bloke is on the run. There's not
Speaker 2: a suggestion obviously, when you hear things like this, we
Speaker 2: do think the worst these days that there isn't the
Speaker 2: suggestion fortunately from Victoria Police that this is in any
Speaker 2: sort of terrorist attack. But the man who was behind
Speaker 2: the wheel of the land cruiser is now on the run.
Speaker 2: This is the same shopping center where less than a
Speaker 2: month ago there was a machete incident and this was
Speaker 2: very scary because there was a confrontation between two gangs
Speaker 2: involving about ten people who runed with machetes and actually
Speaker 2: had to lock down the shopping center. So if there's
Speaker 2: a development that I'll let you know about that shortly.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. If it's happening and you're
Speaker 1: sitting you'll hear it on Sydney Now. To GB this is.
Speaker 2: An indication that more of us are doing a tough
Speaker 2: Research has been released today that shows more than half
Speaker 2: of all office workers are using short term financial tools.
Speaker 2: So what's a short term financial tool? A payday loan?
Speaker 2: So people living from payday to payday getting into debt,
Speaker 2: needing alone earned wage access by now pay later services,
Speaker 2: which are very popular. This research has been commissioned by Deal.
Speaker 2: They are a payroll management company and Sharon Shannon character
Speaker 2: is from Deal. Hello Shannon, thank you for your time,
Speaker 2: thank you, thank you for having me. This shows that
Speaker 2: a lot of people are actually doing it tough if
Speaker 2: they're effectively living from payday to payday.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 25: The report showed that are strains, especially younger Australians want
Speaker 25: more flexibility and personal choice and benefits and faster access
Speaker 25: to the wages that they have earned.
Speaker 8: The monthly paypacket is now out of fashion.
Speaker 2: So I've been paid fortnightly my whole career, so more
Speaker 2: than twenty odd years, a lot of people still paid monthly, a.
Speaker 8: Lot of people still paid monthly.
Speaker 25: Not The research indicates that more over a third of
Speaker 25: those employees want to be paid sooner than their full
Speaker 25: nightly or monthly cycle, and that flexibility is becoming more
Speaker 25: important to those workers.
Speaker 2: Now, your research has shown that a lot of people
Speaker 2: are seeking cash advances on credit cards, they're seeking short
Speaker 2: term loans, They're seeking the early deposit of their wages
Speaker 2: from their from their bosses. Why are they doing that?
Speaker 25: I think customization is boosting employee satisfaction or attention, but
Speaker 25: there is also some serious financial vulnerability amongst employees and
Speaker 25: arising demands for higher wages and financial stability and diversified
Speaker 25: income streams.
Speaker 2: Is it from an employer's point of view? Are they
Speaker 2: when their employees come to them and say, look, we'd
Speaker 2: like to get basic in an advance on our on
Speaker 2: our wages. Are they showing more flexibility with that? Are
Speaker 2: they able to do that?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 25: Some employees are many many organizations are exploring concepts like
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Speaker 8: You earn it as an option to attract and retain talent.
Speaker 2: Another indication of the research that you've released showing that
Speaker 2: a lot of people are doing it tough is the
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Speaker 25: Yeah, we're seeing the cost of living crisis is reshaping
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Speaker 8: Roughly fifty six percent.
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Speaker 14: Fuller, Good afternoon Clinton. A Melbourne shopping center has been
Speaker 14: plunged into lockdown. A stolen white suv has careered at
Speaker 14: the speed through the Northland Mall, sending shoppers running for
Speaker 14: cover and screaming. Acting Police Commissioner Peter Thurtel says his
Speaker 14: thoughts are with this seventeen year old girl who was
Speaker 14: a victim of an alleged terrific sexual assault. For males
Speaker 14: aged fourteen to nineteen are in custody over the attack
Speaker 14: which took place at Liverpool. A Sydney plumber is among
Speaker 14: three men in custody in Bali, accused of shooting two
Speaker 14: men at a luxury villa. An Australian man was killed
Speaker 14: in the attack, and there's been a seven hundred percent
Speaker 14: increase in children injecting ozempic to manage diabetes over the
Speaker 14: past three years. Figures from the TGA showed children as
Speaker 14: young as twelve being prescribed the drug to control weight
Speaker 14: in sport, crowds are already pouring into OPTAs Stadium in Perth,
Speaker 14: getting ready for the Blues and Marons to do battle
Speaker 14: in State of Origin too. Clinton More news at six.
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Speaker 21: Hello to you Clinton.
Speaker 27: All that talk of the cold temperatures, I have not
Speaker 27: been able to get warm today.
Speaker 13: Not once I was.
Speaker 2: Walking through Darling Harbor, would have been about ten o'clock
Speaker 2: this morning, went for a walk. The weather was stunning
Speaker 2: this morning. The blue sky is beautiful because the pick
Speaker 2: of the Blues win tonight. But I actually found the
Speaker 2: temperature wasn't too bad. Maybe it's with Darling Harbor because
Speaker 2: you've got that enclosed space you.
Speaker 21: Can find some shelter from the wind.
Speaker 27: You're laughing at a nice sunny spot, but anything shady
Speaker 27: and anything with a bit of a bruise, it's just
Speaker 27: really cold.
Speaker 2: How did the market's fed today?
Speaker 27: The markets are a little bit uncertain today. It's all
Speaker 27: that uncertainty about what's happening in the Middle East with
Speaker 27: Iran and with Israel. That's really playing on the markets.
Speaker 27: And we did see some ups and downs. But in
Speaker 27: the end, the ASEX two hundred finish lower down point
Speaker 27: one percent, ten points lower to eighty five hundred and
Speaker 27: thirty one. Tech stocks are a bit higher, but offset
Speaker 27: by big losses in materials and the dollar, the currency.
Speaker 27: It's come back a bit from yesterday as well. It's
Speaker 27: currently buying sixty five point one against the greenback.
Speaker 2: We won't hear your program live on TWOGB tonight. You'll
Speaker 2: be across our other network stations because we're broadcasting the
Speaker 2: state of origin. We can download the podcast though, but
Speaker 2: you are going to look at what's called footy nomics, Yes.
Speaker 27: The economics of sport, which I'll be speaking to Professor
Speaker 27: Tim Harcourt, who's a well regarded economist.
Speaker 21: He's got a new.
Speaker 27: TV series in fact, looking at how much money is
Speaker 27: driven into the economy through not just fans of sport,
Speaker 27: but the fact that you travel for big rounds like
Speaker 27: the gather Around in the AFL and with the State
Speaker 27: of Origin happening in Perth, a lot of fans go
Speaker 27: to cities to watch games and it's generating a lot
Speaker 27: of dollars. So it's also soft diplomacy. The p ANDNG
Speaker 27: new team for the NRL is all about trying to
Speaker 27: beat the rise of China.
Speaker 21: In the region.
Speaker 27: So yeah, it's just an interesting look that it's not
Speaker 27: just about the game, but there's a lot more to it.
Speaker 27: The dollars and cents that are spent bring a lot
Speaker 27: of money to the economy.
Speaker 2: Sure do You're also going to talk about skin influences.
Speaker 27: Yes, skinfluences, Well, this is it Like the rise of
Speaker 27: influencers has meant that there's a whole new market in
Speaker 27: the beauty sector, the beauty and cosmetic sector. And these
Speaker 27: are usually kids who are under ten and my young
Speaker 27: daughter who's nine, she loves skin products beauty products as well,
Speaker 27: and it's all being driven by people watching on YouTube,
Speaker 27: others applying makeup, applying skin care and it's a massive,
Speaker 27: growing booming industry, and a lot of people are buying
Speaker 27: beauty products, not necessarily for themselves. It's probably better for
Speaker 27: older skins, but you've got more and more kids doing it.
Speaker 27: So yeah, just some startling information which I'll share on
Speaker 27: how much a ten year old skinfluencer who does YouTube tutorials,
Speaker 27: how much she has in products, and how much she's
Speaker 27: wanting and encouraging others to buy.
Speaker 21: It's quite terrifying.
Speaker 2: What's the shop in the city, Mecca, Meccha, Flora, all
Speaker 2: across this stuff. But I know my fourteen year old
Speaker 2: she wanted Mecca vouchers last Christmas.
Speaker 27: Normally it's the Barbie Doll, but now it's the Mecca vouchers.
Speaker 27: That's the under the Christmas tree wish list.
Speaker 2: Deb. We can download your podcast tonight. You certainly can
Speaker 2: Debnight with Money News. Make sure we listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1: On Sydney now.
Speaker 5: A weather update will be here to help in unexpected weather.
Speaker 1: NRIM insurance, a health company.
Speaker 2: Okay, it should remain dry in Sydney dece evening. Maybe
Speaker 2: not the state of origin. Two. We'll checking with MG
Speaker 2: in a moment about the weather conditions in Perth's been
Speaker 2: a little bit of rain about Perth today right now
Speaker 2: in the city twelve degrees, nine degrees in the western suburbs.
Speaker 2: Right tomorrow mostly sunny eighteen degrees, little cloudy and frosty
Speaker 2: in the morning, but it should be sunny by the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Friday should be a sunny day seventeen degrees, the cloud
Speaker 2: clearing on Saturday, with eighteen partly cloudy on Sunday, sunny
Speaker 2: by Monday of next week. Where is Sydney that's sick,
Speaker 2: we flat, Sulma Fiji that's sick, que flat.
Speaker 1: Where is Balaville that's flat.
Speaker 2: Queens So the question is where is Perth? I reckon
Speaker 2: The Queenslanders are going to claim Perth tonight. Our own
Speaker 2: Mark Guyra is in Perth for the Continuous Call team.
Speaker 2: Hello MG, Hello Clinton.
Speaker 19: They can try and claim it, mate, but I don't
Speaker 19: think it's going to work because I can see a
Speaker 19: lot more blue at the ground now that we've arrived
Speaker 19: at Opta Stadium than I can see Maron out the
Speaker 19: front of this fantastic stadium that honestly, it looks like
Speaker 19: a little bit like Noah's Ark from the outside, but
Speaker 19: once you come into the to the building proper up
Speaker 19: it is majestic or the I'm in the corporate boxes
Speaker 19: now will be broadcasting from tonight and there's plenty of room.
Speaker 19: It's fantastic accommodating and the crowd are starting the trickling
Speaker 19: as we speak. Is it's bizarre because there's only three
Speaker 19: thirty seven here at the moment, so it's kind of
Speaker 19: the calm before the storm.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 2: I know they have played Origin at that ground previously,
Speaker 2: but as from where you're sitting at the moment, the
Speaker 2: fact it's an oval rather than a rectangle, is that
Speaker 2: going to affect the game? Do you think? Well, I've
Speaker 2: been here before.
Speaker 19: I was here in twenty nineteen as a commentator and
Speaker 19: I was here in twenty twenty two as just a spectator.
Speaker 19: And the buzz once these guys run out tonight is
Speaker 19: un bloody believable because it is an AFL field, but
Speaker 19: it's all in closed. Usually you know, if you go
Speaker 19: to the MCG, it's you know, you're a lot further
Speaker 19: back from the action than we are here tonight. It's
Speaker 19: bizarre how it's the configuration of the field is because
Speaker 19: we're really closed. It's kind of like being at paramount
Speaker 19: of stadium. It's that close to the action. But the
Speaker 19: ground is this all the seats are up really high
Speaker 19: and close to the ground. So this you know, at
Speaker 19: eight o'clock tonight, this roof, if it had a refinement stable.
Speaker 19: We lifted up a bit of a weather updatein It's
Speaker 19: at about thirty mils of rain Clinton in the last
Speaker 19: twenty four hours here. Who that helps, I don't know.
Speaker 2: We'll soon see.
Speaker 19: But there is expected rain tonight as well, off and on,
Speaker 19: but not too much. The drizzle is going to stick around,
Speaker 19: but they reckon up to maybe another five meal before
Speaker 19: kickoff and then maybe another five million of rain.
Speaker 1: Once the game is on.
Speaker 2: The focus of the past twenty four hours has been
Speaker 2: on Billy Slater and what he said yesterday. Today he's
Speaker 2: issued an apology. Now this is in response to what
Speaker 2: Aaron Woods said, calling Billy Slater a grub, and then
Speaker 2: Billy responded by unfortunately bringing Paul Green, the late Paul Green,
Speaker 2: into the discussion. This is what Billy Slater has said today.
Speaker 28: Yesterday, I wrongly made the link between Paul Green's death
Speaker 28: and the stress and the pressures of coaching, which wasn't
Speaker 28: accurate nor was it appropriate.
Speaker 2: I feel terrible about what.
Speaker 28: I said, and I spoke to Amanda Green this morning
Speaker 28: and apologized for any.
Speaker 13: Hurt that it may have caused her.
Speaker 2: And her family.
Speaker 28: I just want to say this, Paul had CTE. That's
Speaker 28: a different disease to to.
Speaker 2: What I was referring to.
Speaker 28: Once again, I'm deeply and genuinely sorry.
Speaker 2: MG. Billy Slater there.
Speaker 19: You know what, Clinton, It's been bizarre. It's been it's
Speaker 19: it's left the kind of a nikky taste in my
Speaker 19: mouth this whole week.
Speaker 2: It's been very spiteful.
Speaker 19: A lot of people say, oh, it's good for the
Speaker 19: game and we're talking about it, but I don't think
Speaker 19: it is. I think I think it's it's kind of
Speaker 19: gone to the next level in this week. You know.
Speaker 19: Obviously Woodsy the timeline Wouldsie said that Billy was a grub.
Speaker 19: Billy responds, and unfortunately he uses poor Green. I actually
Speaker 19: thought that Billy must have already spoken to Paul Green's wife,
Speaker 19: because the way that he went on, I thought he
Speaker 19: must have said something too. Of course, I hope she
Speaker 19: doesn't find out this way. Woods You then responds and
Speaker 19: then Billy apologizes. I mean, that's it's been a bit
Speaker 19: dicky to be honest, I found it not in the
Speaker 19: spirit of the game, the way that this is unfolded.
Speaker 19: It's not pumping every anyone up.
Speaker 28: Well.
Speaker 19: I think both both Woodsy and Billy would probably reflect
Speaker 19: on this week and go, you know what, maybe we
Speaker 19: could have handled it a little bit better if given
Speaker 19: that opportunity. But it's done now. All we've got now
Speaker 19: is the game. And once the game is done and dusted,
Speaker 19: Clinton only one of these guys will be able to
Speaker 19: put a smile on their dial because it's it's South
Speaker 19: Wales win, the series is ours and if coinsland when
Speaker 19: we go back to Sydney for the this sider.
Speaker 2: Kick off eighth five our time, six oh five perth time.
Speaker 2: If you were to nominate a couple of dangerous players,
Speaker 2: who would they be?
Speaker 19: As a News Earth Welshman, I'm very worried about Cameron
Speaker 19: Munster being named captain. I'm very worried about their foward
Speaker 19: pack underperforming in the first game, because you just know
Speaker 19: they're going to come back this game. Jerome Lowe, the
Speaker 19: new South Wales I want to keep my eye on him.
Speaker 19: I think he's in for a big night. I even
Speaker 19: think he might get mad of the match tonight on
Speaker 19: the back of him being recalled when he thought that
Speaker 19: maybe his origin career was over. So Jerome for the
Speaker 19: man of the Match tonight, and I think it's going
Speaker 19: to be one of them clashes. Maybe we mightn't see
Speaker 19: over forty points. It might be like eighteen sixteen, eighteen fourteen,
Speaker 19: But I think New South Wales will prevail Clinton and
Speaker 19: they'll bring the shield, will contain, retain the shield and
Speaker 19: bring the dead rubber back to a Corse stadium in
Speaker 19: a couple of weeks time.
Speaker 2: Now, MG, you know I'm a bit quirky when it
Speaker 2: comes to my football. Okay, looksucky kind of guy. A
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, the Blues played there and they
Speaker 2: wore Navy jerseys and I thought it was an outrage
Speaker 2: because the Blues should be sky blue. They were wearing navy,
Speaker 2: which you associate with Victoria. Now I've just seen a
Speaker 2: shot of Jowie John's part of the Channel nine preparation
Speaker 2: right now as we speak, he's holding up Jowey is
Speaker 2: holding up eight sky blue jersey. So it appeared to
Speaker 2: me the Blues will be wearing the proper jersey tonight.
Speaker 19: Hallelujah. How loo a you I think it's the right thing.
Speaker 19: I'm with you, Clinton, with you one hundred percent. When
Speaker 19: I think of New South Wales Origin, I think of
Speaker 19: the sky blue, not the Navy blue.
Speaker 3: And I think.
Speaker 19: It's more Victoria than we are and tonight, Yet Joey
Speaker 19: Johns is in the middle of up to stadium right
Speaker 19: now with that jersey, so he must be telling the
Speaker 19: Channel nine audience that this is the jersey in the
Speaker 19: New South Wales Blues will be playing in tonight.
Speaker 2: I am wearing. I am wearing. I'll just put a
Speaker 2: plump it on my head. I am wearing a Navy
Speaker 2: blue official New South Wales State of Origin retro cap
Speaker 2: that mind you. Hey, just one last one for MG.
Speaker 2: We were talking a little bit earler in the program
Speaker 2: about where future Origin matches should be played. Whether we
Speaker 2: go to New Zealand Hobar when the stadium's finally built there.
Speaker 2: Where would you like to see Origin played in the future.
Speaker 19: Look the way that rugby league is skyrocketing in New Zealand. Look,
Speaker 19: I think that the twentieth team will eventually be on
Speaker 19: the South Island and New Zealand, and I think one day,
Speaker 19: give it fifteen twenty years, we're going to see them
Speaker 19: to the North and the South Island have a similar
Speaker 19: concept introduced to their country, which we like a state
Speaker 19: of origin will be the North Island stayed on the
Speaker 19: South Island. So I'd love to take one to Eden
Speaker 19: Park or somewhere somewhere in New Zealand which could accommodate
Speaker 19: the origin. I reckon would go through the roof. But
Speaker 19: the poor Kiwee's, thank god, this is a bit different
Speaker 19: because the game starts two hours earlier over here, so
Speaker 19: they'll get it in a decent time. But most origins,
Speaker 19: the poor Kiwe's are not getting it until ten pm
Speaker 19: at night, so let's give them a game. I think
Speaker 19: it'd be fantastic to see a game in New Zealand.
Speaker 2: Agreed. Good on you, MG. We're going to hear you
Speaker 2: on the Continuous Call Team led by Levy tonight from
Speaker 2: seven o'clock.
Speaker 19: Thanks buddy, talk soon.
Speaker 2: Make sure you're listening tonight seven o'clock. The Continuous Call
Speaker 2: Team will be an action word on the street for Temper.
Speaker 2: If you see something around Sydney, if you want us
Speaker 2: to investigate something that is word on the street Temper
Speaker 2: A great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is
Speaker 2: temper message from John Lidlurly about power outages in Caringbar.
Speaker 2: We've just been in contact with Osgrid. At the moment
Speaker 2: there are no power outages. The electricity is working at
Speaker 2: the moment in caringbahself may well have been there was
Speaker 2: an outage, but it's now been restored, so that's the
Speaker 2: good news. You will be able to State of Origin tonight.
Speaker 2: You'll be able to listen to it on two GB
Speaker 2: without any problems with the power. Now talking about Origin,
Speaker 2: and I've got a couple of tickets to give away
Speaker 2: to the Professional bull Riding Origin Series. Now, if you'd
Speaker 2: like to win, all you have to do is play
Speaker 2: the quiz this afternoon one three, one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: It's very simple. I need two contestants. Whoever can answer
Speaker 2: the most questions in their thirty seconds will win a
Speaker 2: double pass to the PBR Professional bull Riding Origin event
Speaker 2: which is coming to Sydney in July. So if you
Speaker 2: want to play one three, one eight seven three eleven
Speaker 2: to six. The Treasurer, Doctor Jim Chalmers, addressed the National
Speaker 2: Press Club this afternoon and he confirmed there will be
Speaker 2: a round table summit on productivity. There will be a
Speaker 2: three day Well, it's not a talk fest. He's not
Speaker 2: calling it a talk fest. He's calling a productivity summit.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't be very productive if it was just about talking.
Speaker 2: But it'll be held in August and there will be
Speaker 2: a select number of people who will be invited, including
Speaker 2: the Prime Minister. Has not confirmed that Susan Lee is
Speaker 2: come along. She's expressed some desired to attend the shouldn't
Speaker 2: say talkfest three day productivity summit, but he's also indicated
Speaker 2: he may open the door for tax cuts if tax
Speaker 2: cut is recommended in the summit, it could be a possibility. Well,
Speaker 2: it's Sunday's birthday. It appears we've only just discovered that Liam,
Speaker 2: who is our technical producer the program, is celebrating his
Speaker 2: eighteenth birthday to day. So Liam, happy birthday, my friend.
Speaker 2: It's great to have you on board as part of
Speaker 2: the show.
Speaker 29: You're an absolute lenchend and happy birthday to Liam.
Speaker 2: He reckons he's twenty five. No, he's not a day
Speaker 2: over eighteen hour.
Speaker 5: Liam be a part of Sydney Now with Clinton. Maynard
Speaker 5: called one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: An ad to doing Tonight as part of the State
Speaker 2: of Origin coverage and you add for Kia, and they've
Speaker 2: invited all the celebrities as part of the advertisement, lots
Speaker 2: of sports stars, including Jeff Tuvy and Jeff t V.
Speaker 2: In the ad. Is going to play a plumber and
Speaker 2: he is going to what are these words?
Speaker 1: There's got to be an investigation into this. Someone's going
Speaker 1: to be accountable for this.
Speaker 2: Seriously, he's going to use those words as a plumber.
Speaker 2: But what I don't understand is Jeff Tuv is not
Speaker 2: just a highly regarded football critic and former coach the
Speaker 2: manly sequels. Jeff tu V is a very well regarded accountant.
Speaker 2: Now I don't think he does a lot of it anymore.
Speaker 2: He is used to conducting financial investigations.
Speaker 1: There's got to be an investigation into this. Someone's going
Speaker 1: to be accountable for this.
Speaker 2: He is an accountant, I assure you. So they didn't
Speaker 2: need to pretend that Tubbs was a plumber. He could
Speaker 2: have just played the role of it as an accountant.
Speaker 1: Time to expose your minds.
Speaker 21: You may begin your questioning.
Speaker 24: Sidney now as questions questions informing patentiy.
Speaker 1: I know how you are, and that's a question. Get right.
Speaker 1: Linton's quick quiz.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's play the quiz for a Wednesday afternoon. We've
Speaker 2: got two contestants online. Hello Daniel, Hey, how you go?
Speaker 2: I'm good? And Lazarre sin Campbetown.
Speaker 11: Hello, good a Clinton?
Speaker 9: How are we?
Speaker 2: I'm good? My friend? Hey, who's gonna beIN origin?
Speaker 9: Who got the blue?
Speaker 2: The Blues? I'll tell you what, because you're a Blue supporter,
Speaker 2: you can go first. Your thirty second stouts now. Ziggy
Speaker 2: Stardust was a fictional character created by which songwriter David Bowie.
Speaker 2: True or false? Munich is the capital of Germany? False,
Speaker 2: it's Berlin. What is the mobile phone named after a robot?
Speaker 2: The mobile phone model named after a robot? Seem android?
Speaker 2: Which year? I'm going to ask you one more question,
Speaker 2: because you're a good fellow. Which year did the Sydney
Speaker 2: Opera House open?
Speaker 8: Ah before?
Speaker 5: Nah?
Speaker 2: Not seventy four but seventy three. Unfortunately I've given you
Speaker 2: extra time. You have finished with zero. You're not out
Speaker 2: of it. We've actually had a tiebreaker with zero previously. Now, Daniel,
Speaker 2: you've got to get one right. Okay, you reckon, you
Speaker 2: can do that.
Speaker 8: Hopefully, give me an easier question than these one. Steeve okay.
Speaker 2: Former Beetle Ringo Star was the first storyteller for which
Speaker 2: children's TV show us Thomas the Team Engine. How many
Speaker 2: siblings did Ned Kelly have? Eight or ten? Eight? Correct?
Speaker 29: Guess what You're the winnerdie, Well done, Daniel. Congratulations, We're
Speaker 29: going to send you out a double pass to PBR
Speaker 29: Australia's Origin three.
Speaker 2: That's professional bull riding. You can get tickets online PBR
Speaker 2: Australia dot com dot au. They are contesting Origin three
Speaker 2: the fifth of July. Congratulations Daniel, bad luck Zaris zero
Speaker 2: not probably your finest performance. We'll play again tomorrow. Layers
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Speaker 2: Origin two coming up tonight kick off his eight point
Speaker 2: five continuous Call team on air from seven o'clock. Before that,
Speaker 2: Whitewater Sports with Hawsey.
Speaker 1: Get a Clinton Yew.
Speaker 2: I've been left behind with you.
Speaker 9: I didn't.
Speaker 30: I didn't trust myself to head out with MG checking
Speaker 30: out the night spots of Perth. So I'm just going
Speaker 30: to stay here and hold the fort, have a barbecue
Speaker 30: at home. MG will be car hosting from up to stadium.
Speaker 30: Peter Hlandy's boss of the Auroral Commission, You'll be dropping
Speaker 30: in for a chat as well.
Speaker 2: Oh good stuff. Where do you think future Origin games?
Speaker 2: And I know it's now tradition to play one into
Speaker 2: state or at a neutral venue. Do you think we could
Speaker 2: take it overseas well?
Speaker 30: I think the early place would be Auckland. I think
Speaker 30: it should stay in the heartlands, mate, that's where state
Speaker 30: of origin belongs. I don't mind it going occasionally in
Speaker 30: the state, but Auckland for me would be the end
Speaker 30: of it. But then there's a time zone issue there,
Speaker 30: so I think I think that's about it.
Speaker 2: Darren's actually made just that point in the text line
Speaker 2: because you'd end up having if it was going to
Speaker 2: be played at the same time. Here it's a ten
Speaker 2: p ten o'clock. It's just not gonna work. We actually
Speaker 2: have to play it on Sunday. I reckon it might
Speaker 2: be have to be a outdake.
Speaker 30: So many questions, mate, but let's just embrace Perth for
Speaker 30: the time being. Around sixty thousand there. It's been a
Speaker 30: bit of a wet day, but hopefully it's going to
Speaker 30: be a hot game. And Danika Mason also will drop
Speaker 30: in for a chat from nine to preview the big game.
Speaker 30: You tip Blues always Blues Blues by ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think that the Blues should be too good.
Speaker 2: I just worry whether the Morons will galvanized with all
Speaker 2: this drama and the Sharks reverse. I think I've got
Speaker 2: my Blues Blues Cappy. I think it'll be the Blues.
Speaker 2: Thanks Hawsey wild Water Sport's coming up from six o'clock tonight.
Speaker 2: Continuous Call team on air from seven with Levy and
Speaker 2: the Boys before John Stanley. Lad it's not don't forget
Speaker 2: the Winter Wheel will be back on Sydney Now tomorrow.
Speaker 2: That's Sydney Now,