Speaker 1: Onto GV.
Speaker 2: This is sitting now with Clinton.
Speaker 3: Friday, June thirteenth. Clinton mainae with you one three, one
Speaker 3: eight seven three hang on. I actually didn't realize it
Speaker 3: was Friday the thirteenth today. I'm not superstitious, but let
Speaker 3: me tell I'm glad my football team played last night
Speaker 3: rather than tonight. A trend has actually emerged in recent years.
Speaker 3: I was reading that tattoo parlors all over the world
Speaker 3: they now have a policy of closing on Friday the thirteenth.
Speaker 3: So if you want to get a tattoo this afternoon,
Speaker 3: you're probably out of luck. Plenty coming up on a
Speaker 3: pack program for you. The state's Treasurer, Daniel Mookie will
Speaker 3: be on the program. Have you been in the studio
Speaker 3: after four o'clock now? He's finalizing the budget, will hand
Speaker 3: it down in a couple of weeks time. And I
Speaker 3: use this on an opportunity to give you the chance
Speaker 3: to ask him questions. If there is something you believe
Speaker 3: our government, the state government should be spending money on.
Speaker 3: Let me know if there's some areas you believe when
Speaker 3: need to cut back because the government is actually in
Speaker 3: deficit at the moment, send me a text message zero
Speaker 3: force like zero eight seven three out seven three two
Speaker 3: gb dot comfur emails and we'll put some of those
Speaker 3: questions to the treasurer. After four o'clock, Mark Guyre on
Speaker 3: the program. After five thirty we'll go through our NRL tips.
Speaker 3: A real legend of music is on the show today.
Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to this. Tim Finn, the founder of
Speaker 3: Split Ends, and of course he was in credit House
Speaker 3: for a couple of albums with his brother as well.
Speaker 3: Tim Finn after four point thirty at a fabulous prize
Speaker 3: to give away a one hundred dollars about you to
Speaker 3: spend at Bankstown Sports Club. You are my eyes and
Speaker 3: ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so send me
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Speaker 3: eight seven three our number one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 3: Well in Sydney now. Two men are in custody, police
Speaker 3: custody after they've been charged over a significant cocaine syndicate
Speaker 3: that there is a real twist to this story. Detective
Speaker 3: Superintendent Peter Foe, the commander of the State Crime in
Speaker 3: Commands Organized Crime Squad, joins me. This is quite a
Speaker 3: curious story. What's happened here?
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks Clinton for having me. Yeah, you're right, it
Speaker 4: is very interesting and a little bit out of the norm.
Speaker 4: But essentially, we've got a number of Colombians who have
Speaker 4: come here to Sydney during the month of May, over
Speaker 4: different days, and we've been monitoring those people, believing they
Speaker 4: are here to sell large pointies of cocaine. We executed
Speaker 4: a search on on Wednesday, and during the search RN
Speaker 4: we found ten blocks of white compressed powder that appeared
Speaker 4: to be cocaine, and further analysis of that powder indicated
Speaker 4: it actually wasn't cocaine. So these people were here selling
Speaker 4: to a number of different organized crime networks white powder
Speaker 4: which they were purporting to be cocaine and actually wasn't.
Speaker 4: So essentially they're frauding these organized crime groups.
Speaker 3: Now, not to say that those who consume cocaine are
Speaker 3: doing anything good for their health, but if somebody was
Speaker 3: to buy this what they thought was cocaine but is
Speaker 3: actually another white powder, would this potentially pose a significant
Speaker 3: health risk as well.
Speaker 4: Look, i'd suggest it wouldn't be good for you, but
Speaker 4: it's predominantly just normal white powders and crystals that you
Speaker 4: can buy from the shelf, So you know, they're not lethal.
Speaker 4: It's not a lethal combination by no means, so that's
Speaker 4: not a risk in relation to that. But I mean
Speaker 4: the biggest risk around this is to the people buying
Speaker 4: this thinking it's cocaine and then on selling it and
Speaker 4: it's actually not cocaine. It creates in the minds of
Speaker 4: the people purchasing it they've been essentially ripped off by
Speaker 4: an organized crime group, which creates the conflict. And that's
Speaker 4: our biggest concern, and that's the success of this story
Speaker 4: is stopping the conflict around what would have occurred out
Speaker 4: of these people, you know, the drug rips and the
Speaker 4: confrontation around that.
Speaker 3: Well, so much of what a Task Force Falcon is
Speaker 3: now investigating is about just that these game wars that
Speaker 3: we've seen break out in the streets see the Often
Speaker 3: it's about turf, but it's also about these conflicts between
Speaker 3: these groups.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think there's any hiding that that most
Speaker 4: of the conflict and the violence on the streets is
Speaker 4: around in terms of the organized crime conflict is drug related.
Speaker 4: So this essentially is exactly that these people have come
Speaker 4: here and they've obviously seen an opportunity to make very
Speaker 4: large amounts of money and sell this inner powder purporting
Speaker 4: to be cocaine and to these groups who then on
Speaker 4: sell it thinking it's cocaine, and then the conflict flows
Speaker 4: from that.
Speaker 3: A sixty one year old man charged along with a
Speaker 3: twenty seven year old Congratulations, excellent detective work.
Speaker 4: Thank you, no problems.
Speaker 3: Thanks m Detective Superintendent Pedofo.
Speaker 2: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 2: Now with Clinton Man on t.
Speaker 3: GB eleven past three. Australia is calling on a diplomatic
Speaker 3: solution to the impending war, and that's what's shaping between
Speaker 3: Israel and Iran. Explosions. Have you been following throughout the
Speaker 3: day of course of rung out across the capital Tyran,
Speaker 3: Israel is targeting military facilities. Now is Iralian State TV
Speaker 3: is reporting the chief of the Revolutionary Guard has been
Speaker 3: killed in the strike that hit the headquarters of the
Speaker 3: branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. The Israelid leader Benjamin Etna,
Speaker 3: who says he is protecting his country but also the
Speaker 3: broader world.
Speaker 5: Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation
Speaker 5: to develop the means to achieve that goal. Tonight, Israel
Speaker 5: backs those words with action. We struck at the heart
Speaker 5: of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart
Speaker 5: of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment
Speaker 5: facility in Atans. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working
Speaker 5: on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart
Speaker 5: of Iran's ballistic missile program. Last year, Iran fired three
Speaker 5: hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. Each of these missiles carries
Speaker 5: a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds
Speaker 5: of people. Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload,
Speaker 5: threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions. Iran
Speaker 5: is gearing up to produce ten thousands of those ballistic
Speaker 5: missiles within three years.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 5: Just imagine imagine ten thousand tons of TNT landing on
Speaker 5: a country the size of New Jersey. This is an
Speaker 5: intolerable threat. It too must be stopped. Iran is now
Speaker 5: working on what it caused, the new plan to destroy Israel.
Speaker 3: Benjamin Netanya, who our foreign mister Penny Wong, has responded.
Speaker 6: These risks further destabilizing a region that is already volatile.
Speaker 6: We call on all parties to a refrain from actions
Speaker 6: and rhetoric and will further would further exacerbate tensions, and
Speaker 6: we urge the parties to prioritize dialogue and diplomacy. We
Speaker 6: all understand the threat of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile
Speaker 6: program presents a threat to the international to international peace
Speaker 6: and security.
Speaker 3: Penny Wong now, Iran has promised a harsh response that
Speaker 3: hasn't occurred yet. They say they may well restrict oil
Speaker 3: to the rest of the world. Our Prime Minister Anthony
Speaker 3: Abernizi has arrived in Fiji in the past hour. He
Speaker 3: has been greeted by a Fijian honor guard. He has
Speaker 3: inspected the military. This is as part of his travel
Speaker 3: to the G seven. So he is on his way
Speaker 3: to the United States, but he's visiting three countries on
Speaker 3: this trip. He is about to hold talks with the
Speaker 3: Fijian leader. Said of Any Ram Booker and mister Albinizi says,
Speaker 3: it's vital that we show commitment to the Pacific. Years
Speaker 3: highlighted various trade deals and security ties that we have
Speaker 3: in the region. But what is critical about this trip
Speaker 3: is not so much the whistle stop tour of Fiji.
Speaker 3: It's what's going to happen in the United States. As
Speaker 3: of now, he still has not been un of confirm
Speaker 3: that he will hold a meeting with Donald Trump. And
Speaker 3: given the orcus situation of the past forty eight hours,
Speaker 3: a meeting with mister Trump is crucial.
Speaker 2: This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 2: call now one three one seven three.
Speaker 3: Well in Sydney. This weekend NEIDER, the National Institute of
Speaker 3: Dramatic Art, has its Open Day. Incredible alumni have been
Speaker 3: celebrated in the world stage. This week. Alumni of NIDER,
Speaker 3: Sarah Snook won the Tony Award for her performance in
Speaker 3: the Picture of Dorian Gray and Differ. You've seen Sarah
Speaker 3: Snook in succession over the years. You know she's a brilliant,
Speaker 3: brilliant actor. Baz Luhrmann was made a Companion of the
Speaker 3: Order of Australian the King's Birthday Honors List. Of course,
Speaker 3: he is a graduate of NIDER. NIDER really is the
Speaker 3: place for budding creatives in Sydney, really from all over
Speaker 3: the country. Liz Hughes is the CEO of NIDER. Thank
Speaker 3: you for joining us, Liz.
Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Clinton lovely to be here.
Speaker 3: Timely that your open day is this weekend, given that
Speaker 3: the news about both Baz and Sarah this week.
Speaker 7: Absolutely and there's a couple others as well. So there's
Speaker 7: another Tony Award for Dane Laffrey for design for another musical,
Speaker 7: and two other alumni were awarded, Katherine Martin and Jim Sharmon,
Speaker 7: famous actually for the Rocky Horror Picture Shows some years ago.
Speaker 3: So Nider covers obviously actors, but you mentioned Katherine Martin
Speaker 3: there Baslum's partner. She's a designer. So you do train
Speaker 3: people across a range of creatives.
Speaker 7: That's right. We train the whole suite of creative production roles.
Speaker 7: So we have design, we have costume making, props making,
Speaker 7: cnic construction technologies, technical theater and stage management specialists, makeup
Speaker 7: writers and directors, so we've got the whole, the whole
Speaker 7: suite of roles and then lots of ways we train
Speaker 7: the really the trades people of the arts. So you
Speaker 7: know very much about practice based training that's very industry relevant,
Speaker 7: great job outcomes, so wonderful courses that have been training
Speaker 7: people and have had who've had successful careers for you know,
Speaker 7: sixty sixty years. We've had a good formula. It works,
Speaker 7: and we're really keen to meet the next generation of
Speaker 7: creative individuals who have potential to come here.
Speaker 3: And you've had so many wonderful graduate services. Correct me
Speaker 3: from wrong, mil Gibson was a graduate.
Speaker 7: Well, Gibson's a graduate. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3: So the open day start from tomorrow. What can we expect?
Speaker 7: So we start from nine thirty in the morning and
Speaker 7: we go through to three point thirty pm. There's a
Speaker 7: whole range of experiences. There's alumni panels where we have
Speaker 7: previous alumni from all the disciplines coming and showing their experiences.
Speaker 7: People can see are production. Then they can then go
Speaker 7: behind the scenes and find out how the production's actually made.
Speaker 7: There's demonstrations on makeup and lighting, costume making, props making
Speaker 7: yet sort to the course leaders. We've got great scholarships
Speaker 7: on offer as well, so it's good to find out
Speaker 7: about them. We've just announced one from Netflix for makeup,
Speaker 7: and we've also got another from YouTube as an example.
Speaker 7: And there's also those surprises that happened Clinton on the day.
Speaker 7: So I don't want to be too coy, but there's
Speaker 7: the odd flash mobs that might happen as well. So
Speaker 7: it's a fun, interactive experience that we really keen to
Speaker 7: meet people that are passionate about the industry. So yes,
Speaker 7: performance making, screenmaking, live events, extended reality gaming, all of
Speaker 7: those disciplines we train for.
Speaker 3: Okay, we can check the details on your website. Your
Speaker 3: open days tomorrow in Roundwick. Thank you for your time, Liz,
Speaker 3: Thank you so much. Liz Hughes, who's the CEO of
Speaker 3: Night of the open day begins tomorrow morning one three
Speaker 3: one eight seven three. If you've got a question for
Speaker 3: Daniel lookie, you can send those to me now. He'll
Speaker 3: be with me in about an hour's time. Email via
Speaker 3: the website two GB dot com. If you'd like to
Speaker 3: have you say, send me a text message zero fourth
Speaker 3: zero eight seven three eight seven three. This is Sydney now.
Speaker 3: It's fourteen degrees on the coast, fifteen degrees in Penrith
Speaker 3: at the moment. There is the chance of a couple
Speaker 3: of showers to start the weekend tomorrow, but Sunday should
Speaker 3: be driving a little bit cloudy on Sunday. Now. There
Speaker 3: will be decision at four point thirty from the Fair
Speaker 3: Work Commission about the dispute the ongoing to speak between
Speaker 3: the unions and the state government on Sydney's train network.
Speaker 3: Now when I say this is an ongoing dispute between
Speaker 3: the rail unions, well, the Rail, Tram and BUST union
Speaker 3: has agreed to the deal that's been put to them
Speaker 3: by the state government through the Fair Work Commission for
Speaker 3: a pay rise, a twelve percent pay rise over three years.
Speaker 3: It's more than the state government wanted to pay, but
Speaker 3: it's a lot less than the unions originally seeking. The
Speaker 3: problem they've got is the ETU, which only makes up
Speaker 3: about eight hundred odd workers on the Sydney network, is
Speaker 3: holding out. Not so much over the pay, that's part
Speaker 3: of it, but there's basically a demarcation dispute between the
Speaker 3: two unions and it's about job titles of different workers.
Speaker 3: What both the RTBU and Sydney Trains they're now on
Speaker 3: the same side. They want the Fair Work Commission to
Speaker 3: make an order at four point thirty this afternoon that
Speaker 3: all the union members and there are about nine thousand
Speaker 3: of them in total, vote on whether to accept this
Speaker 3: deal or not. Don't just leave it up to the
Speaker 3: union management. Because the RTBU, they have aut eight thousand
Speaker 3: members THETU about eight hundred members. So the confidence is
Speaker 3: if the Fair Work Commission says put it to a
Speaker 3: vote of the workers, it'll be successful that I'll wan
Speaker 3: the deal go through and perhaps once we can forget
Speaker 3: about industrial action for just a little while on Sydney's trains,
Speaker 3: wouldn't that be good? Unfortunately, the commuters of Sydney don't
Speaker 3: get a vote. I reckon we probably should.
Speaker 2: Be a part of Sydney. Now with Clinton, Maynard called
Speaker 2: one three one.
Speaker 3: Eight twenty four past three. Did you hear about the
Speaker 3: arrest of motorbike rider who used social media to brag
Speaker 3: about what he was doing. This is a motorbike rider
Speaker 3: who has been charged by the police over several pursuits
Speaker 3: from Woollongong. He's been before the courts today and I
Speaker 3: actually think what this shows is what the federal government
Speaker 3: is trying to do with restricting kids accessing social media
Speaker 3: is a step in the right direction. Now, I actually
Speaker 3: don't think as the father of three teenagers, I don't
Speaker 3: think this is the ultimate solution to protecting our kids
Speaker 3: from social media. They'll still get around it. But hear
Speaker 3: me out why I think this is an example of
Speaker 3: why this is necessary. This bloke is thirty three. It's
Speaker 3: alleged he was involved in several high speed pursuits with
Speaker 3: police this week on his motorbike around Woollongong and the
Speaker 3: South Coast. He's accused of filming using a camera on
Speaker 3: his helmet while he's been chased by the cops and
Speaker 3: then posting the footage on social media. Clearly the sharpest
Speaker 3: tool in the shed. I mean, if you think about it,
Speaker 3: you don't want to get in trouble with the police,
Speaker 3: so you're allegedly speeding away from them, but you put
Speaker 3: the video on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought that
Speaker 3: was too smart. Nevertheless, that will play out in the courts.
Speaker 3: On Wednesday, he's accused of leading police on a pursuit
Speaker 3: in Albion Park, SO in the Wollongong region, reaching speeds
Speaker 3: of up to two hundred kilometers. An hour later, he
Speaker 3: was accused of leading police on another chase. He was
Speaker 3: then arrested at Killaney Heights, SO in Sydney. Police seized cocaine,
Speaker 3: They raided his home, they seized more evidence. Police alleging
Speaker 3: court during one of the pursuits, he used a helmet
Speaker 3: camera to film the chase, reaching speeds of wait for it,
Speaker 3: two hundred and ninety nine kilometers an hour. Okay, so
Speaker 3: this bloke is thirty three years of age. Part of
Speaker 3: the issue with social media is idiots using the platform
Speaker 3: to gain notoriety, to gain clicks and likes. It's the
Speaker 3: same as kids as as young as twelve, for instance,
Speaker 3: in towns like Mare in the West, breaking into homes
Speaker 3: while people are asleep inside, stealing their keys, then taking
Speaker 3: their cars, and there's evidence and this is also plaid
Speaker 3: out in the courts as well in the last couple
Speaker 3: of months of these kids filming their crimes and then
Speaker 3: posting it on social media. It's the same with teenagers
Speaker 3: who jump on the roof of a train or they
Speaker 3: cling onto the back of a train carriage. It's called buffering.
Speaker 3: Why are they doing it because they're filming it, posting
Speaker 3: it on Snapchat, posting it on Instagram, one of the
Speaker 3: social media platforms. Why do they do it to get likes,
Speaker 3: to get notoriety. It's part of this motivation to becomes
Speaker 3: some sort of social media celebrity by doing crazy things.
Speaker 3: Now the government reducing the age that kids can access
Speaker 3: social media, it's not going to stop it all plenty
Speaker 3: of kids are still going to access these things because
Speaker 3: they're smarter than governments and smarter than the law. But
Speaker 3: this is a start, I reckon. I think it's going
Speaker 3: to help parents at least have that conversation with kids
Speaker 3: that they can't legally be doing this stuff, and then
Speaker 3: that may have the impact of discouraging some of these
Speaker 3: children from performing crazy stunts on social media, and then
Speaker 3: maybe as they grow up and they reach their thirties,
Speaker 3: for instance, they won't think, Hey, I've got a great idea.
Speaker 3: I'm going to jump on my motorbike speed away from
Speaker 3: the cops at two hundred and ninety nine k's an
Speaker 3: hour and film it not too smart. Messages coming through
Speaker 3: about social media and crazy stunts and from one of
Speaker 3: my listeners, we were doing crazy stunts without social media.
Speaker 3: Why is social media the problem? Well, I'll tell you why,
Speaker 3: because the number of people. I'll just take the train
Speaker 3: network for instance, the police have confirmed there's been a
Speaker 3: massive increase in the last five years about the number
Speaker 3: of teenagers they're finding jumping onto the back of train
Speaker 3: carriages hanging on.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: I know this did happen when I was a kid
Speaker 3: as well, but it's not in the numbers. It's happening
Speaker 3: at the moment and they're doing it because they're trying
Speaker 3: to get likes on social media. Well, Linda says, why
Speaker 3: don't the authorities just confiscate the mobile phones of lunatics
Speaker 3: who film themselves and broadcast their dangerous criminal activities. Well,
Speaker 3: there is new legislation that was introduced by the state
Speaker 3: government about six months ago to actually make it a
Speaker 3: crime to film such stunts on social media, so they
Speaker 3: can be charged over it, and confiscation could be a
Speaker 3: decision for the courts. Peter Ford coming up in a moment,
Speaker 3: mel Brooks making a comeback to the screen at the
Speaker 3: age of ninety nine. But firstly, let's check in his headlines,
Speaker 3: and we've got the latest. Good afternoon, Katie.
Speaker 8: Fourer, Good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 9: Two men have been charged and police say more arrests
Speaker 9: maybe on the way as they investigate the sale of
Speaker 9: fake cocaine in Sydney. It's alleged as South American syndicate
Speaker 9: sold sugar, caffeine and other powders disguised as the drug
Speaker 9: for about ninety thousand dollars a kilogram. A review of
Speaker 9: last year's Deadly's Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has sparked several changes.
Speaker 9: The Cruising Yacht Club says there will be stricter qualification protocols,
Speaker 9: better education and improved racing updates. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi
Speaker 9: has arrived in Fiji, where he'll soon hold economic and
Speaker 9: security talks with his counterpart, and the Australian National University
Speaker 9: will trial a jug which could be used to fight
Speaker 9: several different cancers. It targets a specific protein linked to
Speaker 9: the development of different forms of the disease, including blood,
Speaker 9: breast and prostate cancer. In sport, the Knights have re
Speaker 9: signed exciting rookie Fletcher Hunt to a new two year deal.
Speaker 9: The Flying winger will remain at the club until the
Speaker 9: end of the twenty twenty seven NRL season. Clinton More
Speaker 9: News at four Think Katie.
Speaker 3: Good news about Fletcher Hunt. He probably has maybe the
Speaker 3: best mullet in rugby league. He competes with his teammate
Speaker 3: Fletcher Sharp in the mullet stakes. Oil prices have increased
Speaker 3: by almost ten percent. The Australian dollar is also weaker
Speaker 3: as a result of what's occurring between Israel and Iran.
Speaker 3: Local currencies buying just under sixty five US cents. But
Speaker 3: the concern is going to be what's going to happen
Speaker 3: with our petrol prices. As you know, the service stations
Speaker 3: seem to pass on those world oil price increases fairly quickly,
Speaker 3: not necessarily. When they go down, is jumping by ten percent,
Speaker 3: will no doubt mean that bowser prices will rise in
Speaker 3: the next couple of days.
Speaker 1: If it matters to.
Speaker 2: You, you'll hear it here and Sydney now with Clinton
Speaker 2: Maynard until six.
Speaker 3: Neil Brooks is making a comeback to movies. Peter Ford
Speaker 3: with all the details. Good afternoon, Peter, hell a Clinton.
Speaker 10: Well, I'll tell you what this hope for us all
Speaker 10: because at the age of well, he's almost ninety nine.
Speaker 10: He's going to be appearing in space Balls too, and
Speaker 10: it's forty years ago since the first one. It was
Speaker 10: very much a stend up of the Star Wars hit
Speaker 10: movie of the time. And this is now going into
Speaker 10: full production. A Mel's not going to direct it. I
Speaker 10: think he's going to co write it. But by the
Speaker 10: time they start filming it, he'll be ninety nine. By
Speaker 10: the time it comes out, he will be one hundred
Speaker 10: years old and they put out a video of this
Speaker 10: morning at tea. What he looks great. He looks so
Speaker 10: sharp and funny still and I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Speaker 11: But he doesn't.
Speaker 10: That's no kind of record. I might add, there was
Speaker 10: a woman called Jeane Calmet appeared in the film when
Speaker 10: she was one hundred and four team years, so top
Speaker 10: that one.
Speaker 3: Now, well, he must be doing pretty well. But it
Speaker 3: might not be a record with age there for for
Speaker 3: an actor. But in terms of the amount of time
Speaker 3: between a sequel and the original forty years, you don't
Speaker 3: usually get a forty year gap.
Speaker 10: And no, you won't be accused of rushing back too
Speaker 10: soon to the well, would you? But good luck to them.
Speaker 10: I mean, it's often sequels, of course disastrous. But let's
Speaker 10: hope this one isn't. Let's hope it's a great way.
Speaker 10: Presumably it may be Mel's last ever movie, but who knows.
Speaker 10: For people who know Mel's work, it's it's kind of
Speaker 10: funny because one of his most famous sketches, which you
Speaker 10: can watch on YouTube back in the old days, was
Speaker 10: a sketch called the two thousand year Old Man, in
Speaker 10: which he played a two thousand year old man. Well,
Speaker 10: he's got a way to go, but at least he's.
Speaker 1: On the way.
Speaker 3: Good on him as Spaceballs too coming to cinemas near you.
Speaker 3: Mike Love has played a beautiful tribute to Brian Wilson.
Speaker 3: They found with the tee.
Speaker 10: We've just seen some extraordinary I can't think of another
Speaker 10: death where so many famous legy people have made a
Speaker 10: point of wanting to go out and pay tribute to someone.
Speaker 10: And recurring theme has almost been the inspiration that Brian
Speaker 10: was and also the fact that the music that he
Speaker 10: created was so unique. But Mike Love has posted now
Speaker 10: Mike Love of course one of the original Beach Boys,
Speaker 10: and he still goes out on the road as a
Speaker 10: group called the Beach Boys, even though he's obviously the
Speaker 10: only original one. But they did have a very fractured relationship,
Speaker 10: very much so, I think more so from Brian's point
Speaker 10: of view, but without wanting to be mean. When you
Speaker 10: do have friendships or relationsships with people who have mental
Speaker 10: health issues, it can be very difficult. They can be
Speaker 10: very challenging, they can turn on you, all that kind
Speaker 10: of thing, And it did seem to me that the
Speaker 10: agro was much more from Brian towards Mike than reverse.
Speaker 10: But he wrote quite a lengthy piece. But this is
Speaker 10: at the very end of it, which I thought was
Speaker 10: so sweet. At the very end, he says, thank you
Speaker 10: for the harmonies, the memories and the love. Death leaves
Speaker 10: a heartache, no one can heal. Love leaves a memory,
Speaker 10: no one can steal. I miss you forever, my beloved cousin.
Speaker 1: Mike.
Speaker 3: Oh, that's really beautiful, Peter, really nice.
Speaker 10: Yeah, lovely words, aren't they.
Speaker 3: Pete will talk next week. See that entertained report of
Speaker 3: Peter Ford become.
Speaker 2: John be.
Speaker 12: My grandfathery Brown dear got into a five.
Speaker 13: Well, that fear is so both. I want to go.
Speaker 3: These days, the success of music's very much measured by
Speaker 3: Spotify plays. Could you imagine when Spotify releases the statistics
Speaker 3: probably the next couple of weeks on the number of
Speaker 3: Beach Boys tracks each These songs that have been listened
Speaker 3: to over the last twenty four hours maywell set some
Speaker 3: new records. Now talking about music later in the program,
Speaker 3: really excited about this, and about now is time I'm
Speaker 3: going to speak with Tim Finn. Tim Finn, the founder
Speaker 3: have split ends and have very successful He's had a
Speaker 3: very successful solo career as well. It's forty years since
Speaker 3: he released his deboo solo album, which featured hits like Fractions,
Speaker 3: Too Much Friction on It and of course a big
Speaker 3: part over the years of Crowded House with his brother
Speaker 3: as well. Neil so Tim Finn my special guest. After
Speaker 3: four point thirty this afternoon, it's eighteen to six four.
Speaker 3: A man in his forties is still being treated in
Speaker 3: Liverpool Hospital after a mining accident this morning in Appen.
Speaker 3: Paramedics were called to the GM three app And West
Speaker 3: Colliery in Douglas Park. The miner underground. He's in his
Speaker 3: forties had been injured, so understood. He suffered what they
Speaker 3: call crushing injuries and it took quite a little while
Speaker 3: to extricate him and to bring him to the service.
Speaker 3: And he was brought to the service not by the
Speaker 3: paramedics but by other workers. He has suffered back and
Speaker 3: neck injuries. He's now in Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition.
Speaker 3: Word on the street thanks to Temper a great night's
Speaker 3: sleep night after night. The difference is Temper. If there's
Speaker 3: something you'd like us to investigate, send me a message
Speaker 3: via email over the weekend and we can have a
Speaker 3: look at it next week. Go to two GB dot
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Speaker 3: force zero eight seven three eight seven three. The revelations
Speaker 3: we made yesterday about electric buses in Sydney came from
Speaker 3: a tip off via word on the street, and that
Speaker 3: was the confirmation from Transport for New South Wales that
Speaker 3: more than seventy buses that have been manufactured in Saint
Speaker 3: Mary's by Custom Denning have been off the road because
Speaker 3: their batteries aren't working properly, so they need a replacement battery.
Speaker 3: That the batteries are from Europe, they're having to source
Speaker 3: new ones, so there's only two that have been fixed
Speaker 3: so far. So all these buses are either in storage
Speaker 3: in depots or at the Saint Mary's workshop. I have
Speaker 3: been contacted by another manufacturer at next Port and they
Speaker 3: tell me they've managed to supply Transport for New South
Speaker 3: Wales sixty electric buses. They're now based in Leichhart and
Speaker 3: they've since traveled million of kilometers trouble free and they've
Speaker 3: found that passengers have been very happy with a surface.
Speaker 3: So the buses that I've been talking about refer to
Speaker 3: one particular manufacturer who is now trying to fix with
Speaker 3: different batteries that are sourced overseas. There are other supplies,
Speaker 3: but the numbers of buses that are being supplied by
Speaker 3: the Australian manufacturers is overall quite small. Transport from New
Speaker 3: South Wales is seeking to convert a fleet of four
Speaker 3: thousand buses, so Nextport, for instance, only supplied sixty. So
Speaker 3: it's a drop in the ocean essentially. But the bus
Speaker 3: manufacturers are telling me that the problem is the government's
Speaker 3: not putting up money up front for orders. So the
Speaker 3: government suggests that the scale doesn't exist. But it's sort
Speaker 3: of a chicken and the egg quite problem. They need
Speaker 3: governments in the first place if they want to go
Speaker 3: ahead with this plan to convert the entire fleet to electric,
Speaker 3: to be upfront with the money.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two
Speaker 2: gb com now one three one.
Speaker 3: Eight seven three. Give me a call if you live
Speaker 3: in the Ride area. I'll be keen to hear from
Speaker 3: you on this. For years, the Council has been locked
Speaker 3: in a dispute over the future of tg MIL in
Speaker 3: the field at Massfield. I know last year Chris looked
Speaker 3: at this particular issue. Well it's popped up again this
Speaker 3: week because there has been a decision and this may
Speaker 3: well be a final decision on the future of tg
Speaker 3: MIL inn the field. There's effectively been approval for the
Speaker 3: field to be sold off redeveloped for housing. Whether this
Speaker 3: is the solution to the housing crisis is probably not
Speaker 3: going to be enough, but the local council is not happy.
Speaker 3: The City of Ride Mayor Trenton Brown joins us, so
Speaker 3: thank you for your time, Mayor. So just to give
Speaker 3: a bit a little bit of background, we did cover
Speaker 3: this on this program last year. But the tg MIL
Speaker 3: in the field, it's been used for club rugby By
Speaker 3: Eastward for years, but it is controlled by North Ryde Council.
Speaker 14: Isn't it.
Speaker 10: Aminity club on the site yes, so purchased about seven
Speaker 10: years ago.
Speaker 3: So they want to redevelop it for housing. You though,
Speaker 3: as the councilor been opposed, We certainly are.
Speaker 10: We think there is a very strong demand already and
Speaker 10: a growing demand from a growing population for open space
Speaker 10: and recreational space and active open space as well, so
Speaker 10: this is critical this six point two hectare site.
Speaker 3: But what's happened this week is a separate panel the
Speaker 3: North Sydney Planning Panel, and I know that you have
Speaker 3: members of the council part of that panel. They've actually
Speaker 3: approved the redevelopment.
Speaker 10: Unfortunately they have the same panel rejected the same application
Speaker 10: two years ago, which is odd. So I must say
Speaker 10: it's a shock decision that this is the third attempt
Speaker 10: and on the third attempt the RSL proponents have been
Speaker 10: given approval at gateway to proceed further through the gateway.
Speaker 3: So how did it just work for those that understand
Speaker 3: the planning process, how does it work with final approval?
Speaker 3: It goes over your head as the local council just
Speaker 3: to this panel.
Speaker 1: Yes it does.
Speaker 10: I mean we've been in discussions for compulsory acquisition of
Speaker 10: this site for a number of months. The previous same
Speaker 10: proposal was rejected by the independent Sydney North Planning Panel
Speaker 10: two years ago. The new submission was approved to then
Speaker 10: proceed to the next step, which is through the gateway
Speaker 10: for further approval and further submissions to be made to
Speaker 10: the state government. So this Planning Panel will become the
Speaker 10: approval authority, unless, of course, this decision only days ago
Speaker 10: is rejected by the Planning Minister. And I think the
Speaker 10: Planning Minister has unfortunately been misinformed by his own department
Speaker 10: and therefore this has led to a very bad outcome
Speaker 10: for our community. Through this approval just days ago, the.
Speaker 3: Club wants to develop about one hundred and thirty homes
Speaker 3: for seniors. All the councils across Sydney under a lot
Speaker 3: of pressure from the Planning Minister, Paul Scully to approve developments.
Speaker 3: If you don't, if you keep opposing, this isn't the
Speaker 3: state government that it's going to turn to you and say, well,
Speaker 3: you're going to have to find another oval that we redevelop.
Speaker 10: Well, look, I think what the state government need to
Speaker 10: do is understand that they need to step into the
Speaker 10: conversation and strike the right balance between not just an
Speaker 10: uplift in housing, but an upload in additional employment facilities
Speaker 10: and civic infrastructure like open space and parks and gardens
Speaker 10: and playing fields and additional school and hospital investments. Now
Speaker 10: they haven't done that. The City of Riode has outperformed
Speaker 10: our housing targets previously. We are highly confident of outperforming
Speaker 10: by building and approving more housing than the current period permits.
Speaker 10: We have twenty two thousand dwellings currently in the planning
Speaker 10: portal being assisted and the new housing reforms provide for
Speaker 10: an additional fifteen thousand. Now that's a total of thirty
Speaker 10: seven thousand dwellings coming in close proximity to the TG
Speaker 10: Milner fields and that makes for a very compelling proposition,
Speaker 10: which is why the argument on strategic merit was rejected
Speaker 10: just two years ago. And that's why I don't understand
Speaker 10: the most recent decision because the strategic merit case for
Speaker 10: planning approval is even more compelling today for the rejection
Speaker 10: than it was two years ago.
Speaker 3: But on the flip side, and OTG Milner has been
Speaker 3: the home of Eastwood Rugby Club fifty years. The owner's
Speaker 3: northright RSL so by selling this off similar concept to
Speaker 3: what happened with Rose Hilbert didn't go ahead. This is
Speaker 3: going to secure the Eastwood Rugby Club financially for years
Speaker 3: to come and surely that's a good thing.
Speaker 10: Well, look, the future of the Eastwood Rugby Club is
Speaker 10: completely independent of this deal whatsoever. Ride Council has made
Speaker 10: it very clear that we wish to move through compulsory acquisition.
Speaker 10: We have more than adequate funding available to purchase this
Speaker 10: site and I think the sadness is that the Uthwood
Speaker 10: Rugby Club didn't come to the Ride Council seven years
Speaker 10: ago because I think they would have already been paid
Speaker 10: for the grounds, they would have moved already and this
Speaker 10: long drawn our process could have been avoided. This is
Speaker 10: a critical site for our community and we certainly won't
Speaker 10: be changing our view or backing down in any way
Speaker 10: in our resolve to keep this as important critical open
Speaker 10: space for a booming community.
Speaker 3: Okay, where to from here? Do you seek a minister
Speaker 3: a meeting with the Minister?
Speaker 10: Well, I certainly do. I do, honestly believe the Minister
Speaker 10: has been misinformed because there's a couple of aspects to
Speaker 10: the open space and the significant housing growth in Macquarie
Speaker 10: Park and the surrounds that the Minister isn't aware of.
Speaker 10: Just days ago we were given a briefing by the
Speaker 10: Woolworth's Corporation about not taking up the incentives for open
Speaker 10: space gifted by the Planning Department, but instead they want
Speaker 10: to build a distribution center at the old Peterbord High School. Now,
Speaker 10: the Minister for Planning and the Department of Planning, I
Speaker 10: think that is potential open space for a growing community.
Speaker 10: It certainly is not. There are other areas within the
Speaker 10: Lachlands Line Precinct and mccroe Park Precinct such as the
Speaker 10: Linear Park, and other financial incentives to the private sector
Speaker 10: landowners that are simply not being taken up. So the
Speaker 10: great problem we have is will continue to outperform in
Speaker 10: housing growth, but we won't get the commensurate uplift in
Speaker 10: open space, green space and active recreation.
Speaker 3: And that trend. That is critical because if we're going
Speaker 3: to gem more people into units, doesn't matter if it's
Speaker 3: in your district, the Rod District or other parts of Sydney.
Speaker 3: We still need areas, particularly for kids to play into
Speaker 3: play sport. Thank you if you sign Mayor Clinton, the
Speaker 3: Mayor of Right Council, Trenton Brown, let me know if
Speaker 3: you live in that area, what's it like. Do you
Speaker 3: care if the oval disappearsance converted to housing and if
Speaker 3: there are other parts of Sydney where you see a
Speaker 3: similar thing happening, let me know. One three, one eight
Speaker 3: seven three. I just want to quickly cross to Marco
Speaker 3: who's just been through the airport Tunnel's some serious traffic
Speaker 3: dramas there market what's happened?
Speaker 15: Yeah, there's a five nose to tail pile up in
Speaker 15: the far right lane, but also a lot of the
Speaker 15: debris has fallen into the next lane, so both lanes,
Speaker 15: both the right hand lanes are out of action.
Speaker 3: So is that southbound?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 15: Southbound?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 3: Goodness? So yeah, it has to be southbound on a
Speaker 3: Friday afternoon, doesn't it.
Speaker 11: Definitely?
Speaker 15: By the way, I love your show.
Speaker 3: Buddy, good on your marke. I appreciate your support. So
Speaker 3: there you go, General Homes Drive. I'm driving home, General
Speaker 3: Hans Drive the night fantastic five car pile up is
Speaker 3: southbound in the Airport tunnel and the debris is actually
Speaker 3: going over several lanes, so hopefully the authorities can get
Speaker 3: in there quickly. And it's Clinton Maynard here. The weekend
Speaker 3: is almost here as well. Just recapping five car accident
Speaker 3: in the airport tunnel. So General Homes Drive, this is southbound,
Speaker 3: the worst time of the week for this to happen.
Speaker 3: There's debris across most of the lanes there through the tunnel.
Speaker 3: The emergency services are not there yet, they should be
Speaker 3: there shortly. It's fresh Food Friday thanks to our mates
Speaker 3: at Harris farm Markets and they are a proud partner
Speaker 3: of this program. Let's find out what you should be
Speaker 3: eating what's fresh this weekend? Carlos Siravollo is the head
Speaker 3: of fresh buying at Harris Farm Markets.
Speaker 16: Hello, Carlo, Hey, good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 10: How a we're going?
Speaker 3: I'm a little cold, It's I'm just saving. Look at
Speaker 3: the temperature now where I am. It's fourteen degrees where
Speaker 3: I am in the western suburbs, thirteen degrees in some
Speaker 3: suburbs where we grow our produce, probably even colder. Is
Speaker 3: that affecting what we can buy at Harris Farm this weekend?
Speaker 16: Yes, Unfortunately the cooler where the particularly in Queensland, which
Speaker 16: is where which is the food bowl for Australia at this.
Speaker 3: Time of the year.
Speaker 16: It hasn't been particularly cold and has slowed down production
Speaker 16: a bit. But just rest assured everyone, if we look
Speaker 16: to the sky, we're on a full moon cycle which
Speaker 16: is normally assigned with those extra daylight hours, that we
Speaker 16: are not far off from extra volumes.
Speaker 10: Coming in the market. So on the back of that moon.
Speaker 16: I suspect that we'll see some price relief.
Speaker 3: In the words to come good. What's good in fruit
Speaker 3: this weekend?
Speaker 16: Look, if we're talking for it this week strawberries, there
Speaker 16: are a number one line. They are still a little
Speaker 16: bit on the xy side, but we anticipate they'll come
Speaker 16: back as the weeks goes on and as those warmer
Speaker 16: days come through. We've got crimson seedless grapes which are
Speaker 16: magnificent eating. There's probably the only grape you consider eating
Speaker 16: it this late in the season. Bananas are great. The
Speaker 16: Australian apple season as well and truly in the full
Speaker 16: swing and you can virtually hit any apple and there'll
Speaker 16: be fantastic. The Osi citrus season is also in full swing,
Speaker 16: and navels are a master. They're sweet and juicy and
Speaker 16: you know what, they're great value.
Speaker 3: What about veggies, Veggi, you can't go past red caps.
Speaker 16: They are amazing value and quality. This week in all stores,
Speaker 16: we've got Continental Passi rhubarb, the old fashioned rhubarbs, an
Speaker 16: old favorite Jack pumpkin. The packaged potatoes are all great
Speaker 16: value this week, as is jack pumpkin, and our imperfect
Speaker 16: comerange is on at a great price.
Speaker 3: Run us through a couple of specials for us as well.
Speaker 16: Alrighty for the specials for this weekend, we have cup
Speaker 16: mushrooms on at seven ninety nine. There's been plenty of
Speaker 16: mushrooms around and they are fantastic at seven ninety nine,
Speaker 16: are about five dollars a kilo off what they normally
Speaker 16: said at We've got one kilo cocktail potatoes that's three
Speaker 16: ninety nine, which is two to three dollars less than
Speaker 16: what they normally are. Red Radish, another old favorite, two
Speaker 16: bunches for three bucks, so that's great value. We've got
Speaker 16: our imperfect eggplant at two ninety nine, which is less
Speaker 16: than half the price of the premium fruit. And our
Speaker 16: avocado farmers all need a hand. There is a there
Speaker 16: is a deal of avocados around on the markets at
Speaker 16: the moment, and we've got our imperfect range at two
Speaker 16: forty nine a kilo, which will be less than probably
Speaker 16: sixty or seventy cents a peace, So plenty of value
Speaker 16: in that.
Speaker 3: And the imperfect stuff still tastes good, doesn't it. Thanks mate,
Speaker 3: Thank you, have a great weekend. Carlos Cerravello, who's the
Speaker 3: head of fresh buying at Harris Farm Markets. Harris Farm
Speaker 3: Markets where everything's fresh, at local and a little bit special.
Speaker 3: Find your flavor today at harrisfarm dot com dot au.
Speaker 3: The Liberal Party is still to make a decision of
Speaker 3: whether they're going to seek a challenge in the Court
Speaker 3: of Disputed Returns over the result in the electorate of
Speaker 3: Bradfield where the Independent the Tell Nicolette Buller has been
Speaker 3: declared the winner. It's twenty six votes, so there's nothing
Speaker 3: in it now. The fact that the Liberal candidate Jizel
Speaker 3: Captirian was initially in front, they may try to use
Speaker 3: that as grounds. Susan Lee has spoken about this today
Speaker 3: and she told the Today's Show, well, no decision has
Speaker 3: been made yet.
Speaker 17: We'll wait for a process to take its place. Obviously
Speaker 17: it's been declared not for us, and we'll see what
Speaker 17: happens next. But I do want to give a shout
Speaker 17: out to the amazing Giselle Captarian who is our candidate there.
Speaker 17: She's got a great future as an incredible woman in
Speaker 17: the Liberal Party.
Speaker 3: Susan Lee, that decision hopefully will come in the next
Speaker 3: week or so. Thanks the message poorly poorly telling me
Speaker 3: about the pile up in the airport tunnel. So it
Speaker 3: involves four cars and a truck, so a truck is
Speaker 3: also involved in this, so it might take a little
Speaker 3: longer to clear. I mentioned on Friday the thirteenth often
Speaker 3: tattoo parlors around the world close, such as today. Anna says,
Speaker 3: no sash tattoo in Sydney's been operating for thirty two
Speaker 3: years and it's still opened. Coming up alfter the news,
Speaker 3: the Treasurer Daniel Mookie.
Speaker 18: There is Sydney. Now we've clinton on.
Speaker 3: To GenB seven past four confirmation. Now Iran has begun
Speaker 3: its retaliation action against Israel with drone strikes. Iran has
Speaker 3: launched more than one hundred drones at Israel in recent hours.
Speaker 3: Israeli Defense Force Brigadier has confirmed that Israeli forces are
Speaker 3: working actively to intercept the drones and their shield has
Speaker 3: actually been quite quite effective in recent years. The drones
Speaker 3: launched from Indian Iranian territory are expected to take several
Speaker 3: hours to reach their targets. The Times of Israel expects
Speaker 3: some Iranian missiles to get through, according to Israeli official,
Speaker 3: but their shield system has proved quite effective in the
Speaker 3: past seven past four. Just repeating that drama in the
Speaker 3: airport tunnel, general homes drive at the moments southbound. There
Speaker 3: are massive delays because there's been a pile up involving
Speaker 3: four cars and a truck. There is debris all over
Speaker 3: the road and it's going to take a little while
Speaker 3: to actually clear that. So if you're heading south down
Speaker 3: Southern Cross Drive, if you're driving along General Homes Drive,
Speaker 3: bear that in mind. If you can take another route
Speaker 3: at all, mate, you can go the old Botany Road route,
Speaker 3: do that, because it is going to be a nightmare
Speaker 3: trying to get home over the next couple of hours.
Speaker 18: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here.
Speaker 2: Sydney now Wood Quinton Maynard until six.
Speaker 3: The state's budget for the next year will be handed
Speaker 3: down in a couple of weeks time. And just like
Speaker 3: most of us, the government's under extreme financial pressure. The
Speaker 3: half Yaly Review was released a few months ago, back
Speaker 3: in December, and the deficit has grown to five billion dollars.
Speaker 3: So the government is spending more money than it receives
Speaker 3: in tax in other revenue, and that must mean I
Speaker 3: would assure that the treasurre A Daniel Mookie is going
Speaker 3: to have to make some cutbacks or put up tax. Well,
Speaker 3: let's find out. Daniel Lookie joins me in studio. Hello Treasurer,
Speaker 3: Hello Clinton, thank you for having me in. We're going
Speaker 3: to take some questions from our listeners as well, So
Speaker 3: if you've got a question for the Treasurer, and bear
Speaker 3: in mind he doesn't come armed with reams of paperwork,
Speaker 3: so he'll be using his brain here if you do
Speaker 3: have questions one three one eight seven three. And I've
Speaker 3: got a few questions that have been sent to us
Speaker 3: as well, But this is your opportunity. If there's a
Speaker 3: particular question about government spending, if there's something you want
Speaker 3: to see in the budget, an area of spending that
Speaker 3: you believe is essential for our city, give me a
Speaker 3: call out one three one eight seven three. You can
Speaker 3: send messages zero force zero eight seven three eight seven three. Okay,
Speaker 3: deficit you revealed in December, it's five billion dollars a
Speaker 3: couple of weeks until your hand down the budget. Will
Speaker 3: it come down, Well, you'll have.
Speaker 19: To wait and see for budget Day, but I can
Speaker 19: definitely make the point that, yeah, you're right, the budget
Speaker 19: is under pressure. When I became Treasurer, I inherited a
Speaker 19: budget deficit of roughly fifteen billion dollars last year in
Speaker 19: New South Wales. I also had twelve point six billion
Speaker 19: dollars of GST income taken off us for the next
Speaker 19: four years, so we're under pressure and we have to
Speaker 19: be very careful with every single dollar that we're spending,
Speaker 19: and that's not changed in this particular budget. Every single
Speaker 19: dollar that we are collecting from people through taxes or
Speaker 19: we're getting from the commonwealth, we have to make sure
Speaker 19: that it's getting a good return for the public.
Speaker 3: Are you going to have to make some cuts.
Speaker 19: There's no broad cuts coming in the budget. We have
Speaker 19: been very disciplined in our spending since we got here
Speaker 19: and formed government now nearly two years ago.
Speaker 3: Can we keep that on tape? A treasurer has said
Speaker 3: there will be no broad cuts in this budget.
Speaker 19: No, of course, there's not any broadcuts coming. What we
Speaker 19: are absolutely doing, though, is we are making sure that
Speaker 19: every dollar is being well spent. If we think a
Speaker 19: program is not returning, we are absolutely clear about the
Speaker 19: fact that we will move the money. If we think
Speaker 19: that a money could be put to a better use,
Speaker 19: we absolutely will put it to a better use. Absolutely,
Speaker 19: I want to be very clear about that, Clinton, and
Speaker 19: that's what you would expect me to do. On behalf
Speaker 19: of the people of New South Wales. I will say
Speaker 19: when I came to power, I inherited from my predecessor
Speaker 19: experence growth that was about twenty four percent per year.
Speaker 19: That was Matt Keane's last budget. It's come down quite
Speaker 19: significantly like that. We made it very clear at the
Speaker 19: time that it's going to take time to repair the
Speaker 19: state's budget position. But I'm confident when people see the numbers,
Speaker 19: they'll see that we've been very careful. We've been very disciplined.
Speaker 19: Our debt numbers are stable. The budget is under pressure.
Speaker 19: The budgets particularly under pressure right now for two reasons,
Speaker 19: workers comp and disasters, And that will be clear on
Speaker 19: budget Day.
Speaker 3: I'll ask you about workers competent in particular in a moment,
Speaker 3: because it's some significant action next week in that. But
Speaker 3: whenever I talk about the public service and we discuss
Speaker 3: pay rise as a fair bit, because your government has
Speaker 3: been involved in dispute after dispute with different arms of
Speaker 3: the public service, I keep hearing from our listeners saying,
Speaker 3: why can't the nurses get a decent pay rise? Now,
Speaker 3: I know this is before the indust Relations Commission, but
Speaker 3: will there be some joy in the budget for nurses?
Speaker 19: Well, already we are rolling out things like safe staffing
Speaker 19: levels for our nurses, which was our key election commitment.
Speaker 19: And was working closely with the nurses union. And when
Speaker 19: it comes to nurses pay, we already have delivered nurses
Speaker 19: the biggest pay rise they've received in more than a decade.
Speaker 3: But they're telling me the Nurses Midwaf's Association says that
Speaker 3: those in Queens that have paid I think seventeen percent
Speaker 3: more and that nurses are leaving New South Wales to
Speaker 3: move to Brisbane.
Speaker 19: Yeah, but I'd also just point out the stats, which
Speaker 19: is we are seeing that nurse recruitment and retention levels
Speaker 19: are now higher than there were pre COVID and we've
Speaker 19: recovered a large part of our attention issues. And equally
Speaker 19: we are record enrollments in nurses joining New South Wales Health.
Speaker 19: We very much respect the Nurses Association, We very much
Speaker 19: respect the state's nurses. But I'd also just point out
Speaker 19: we brought back an independent umpire for our nurses. We
Speaker 19: didn't say to our nurses that you have to agree
Speaker 19: with us. Unlike the previous government which had used the
Speaker 19: force of law to restrain nurses' wages for a decade,
Speaker 19: we have brought back an independent umpire and our nurses
Speaker 19: and the Nurses Union is using it. So from our perspective.
Speaker 19: Yet we'll always look to see what more we can
Speaker 19: do with the nurses, but we're not going to hide
Speaker 19: the fact that, of course it remains an issue in dispute.
Speaker 19: Just final point, Clinton, you're making the point about the
Speaker 19: broader workforce. We have reached agreement now with pretty much
Speaker 19: the rest of the public sector, and we are obviously
Speaker 19: waiting to see some further decisions today from Fair Work
Speaker 19: about the rail dispute. But if that's now largely resolved,
Speaker 19: people will see that the investment we have been making
Speaker 19: in essential services does mean that we are investing more
Speaker 19: in our central workers, and that is leading to lower
Speaker 19: class and cancelations, more police signing up at the academy,
Speaker 19: and better public services for the community.
Speaker 3: The one sector of the workforce that people keep saying
Speaker 3: to this program that they want helped is the nurses.
Speaker 3: So for why is it You've managed big increases for teachers,
Speaker 3: big increases for police officers. And I'm not suggesting particularly
Speaker 3: with the police officers, because it's a centially you had
Speaker 3: a recruitment problem there, it's essentially you address that. But
Speaker 3: why is it the nurses? If you can just explain
Speaker 3: it simply, why can't the nurses get an increase of
Speaker 3: the same size as the teachers and the police.
Speaker 19: Well, with the teachers and police, we negotiated hard bargains.
Speaker 19: We did find abundance of resources that allowed us to
Speaker 19: be redirected towards their pay, which is also the reasons
Speaker 19: why we'd be able to sign up more teachers and
Speaker 19: more police, which is leading to more kids having teachers
Speaker 19: and more cops in our stations. When it comes to
Speaker 19: the nurses, though, I can't duck the fact that we
Speaker 19: worked with the Nurses Association pretty tightly on their number
Speaker 19: one priority, which was safe staffing levels, and we've been
Speaker 19: rolling that out and we absolutely have made a critical
Speaker 19: investment in safe staffing levels as well as nurses wages
Speaker 19: as well. Of course, the nurses union is doing their
Speaker 19: job of always arguing for more. We remain determined to
Speaker 19: see whether we can narrow the differences with the Nurses' union.
Speaker 19: But at the same token, we're being pretty upfront. That's
Speaker 19: why we brought back an indpend an umpire.
Speaker 3: Some questions from our listeners now on this particular issue.
Speaker 3: Anthony says, you've got plans for the new Rouse Hill
Speaker 3: Hospital minimum eight hundred staff if they want operate the
Speaker 3: use the two hundred beds and operate twenty four to seven.
Speaker 3: Since he doesn't want to pay the nurses a wage,
Speaker 3: how's that going to.
Speaker 19: Work rowse Hill Hospital, Well, at ourse Hill Hospital, we're
Speaker 19: putting more money into the rouse Hill Hospital project in
Speaker 19: this particular party, So you're going to have.
Speaker 3: The nurses to start it. No, No, Banks, you made
Speaker 3: an announcement this week and think about Banks ten.
Speaker 19: Yeah, we also made a big investment in Bankstown Hospital.
Speaker 19: And look, I just simply point out the facts. We
Speaker 19: are enrolling a record a number of nurses that are
Speaker 19: joining the new South Wales Health Service. Equally, at the
Speaker 19: same time we are retaining our nurses as is, and
Speaker 19: that's a good thing. And so and when it comes
Speaker 19: to places like rowse Hill Hospital, we're really pleased that
Speaker 19: we're making a critical investment in that hospital, particularly because
Speaker 19: the community of rowse Hill has promised that hospital at
Speaker 19: three separate elections under our predecessors, they're entitled to say, well,
Speaker 19: we want to see it being built, and in this
Speaker 19: particular budget that community will see real progress and real
Speaker 19: dollars being put behind the project.
Speaker 3: To detail in this question from Sandratte something she's passionate about.
Speaker 3: Could we ask, mister Mooky, is it possibly in increase
Speaker 3: funding to the Adoption Information Unit. It's part of the
Speaker 3: Department of Communities and Justice, so that all birth mothers
Speaker 3: affected by forced adoption can receive information in regards to
Speaker 3: adopted children. Is that an area that you might be
Speaker 3: able to find money for.
Speaker 19: Yeah, well again, I'm well and truly across the fact
Speaker 19: that lots of people are wanting to see that service improve.
Speaker 19: I am working with the Minister to see what we
Speaker 19: can do there to ensure that people can get access
Speaker 19: to those records. Quicker, I haven't got an announcement for
Speaker 19: you today on that, Clinton, but you're right to say
Speaker 19: that this is something that's on our radar and we
Speaker 19: are looking at it.
Speaker 3: Michael asked a question here, should the Federal government, so
Speaker 3: you might be able to flick this down to Canberra?
Speaker 3: Should the Federal government fund the revitalization of Cockatoo Island
Speaker 3: given its naval history.
Speaker 19: Well, when it comes to money from Canberra, I'm never
Speaker 19: going to say no.
Speaker 3: So that's a yes.
Speaker 19: I welcome Commonwealth contributions to lots of our different projects,
Speaker 19: but I'll simply say when it comes to cutting money
Speaker 19: from Canberra, I'm always going to accept money for the
Speaker 19: people in New South Wales.
Speaker 3: Now, we've been covering extensively the last couple of weeks
Speaker 3: the workers compensation fight on the station through our programs.
Speaker 3: Mark Speaton was on my show on the day that
Speaker 3: he voted for an inquiry, teamed up with the Greens
Speaker 3: to do that. The inquiry is next week. Now, I
Speaker 3: understand you have had some meetings with MP's taking part
Speaker 3: in that inquiry in the last twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 19: I have the opportunity to provide a briefing to that committee.
Speaker 19: Of course, it's a private briefing, so i won't go
Speaker 19: into the particular details, but I'm looking forward to appearing
Speaker 19: in that committee as well next week. My message to
Speaker 19: the Liberal Party is this is not an issue in
Speaker 19: which we should be playing politics. I mean, they made
Speaker 19: a choice to team up with the Greens. They're going
Speaker 19: to need to explain that decision to the three hundred
Speaker 19: and forty thousand odd small businesses that are facing the
Speaker 19: prospects of a thirty six percent increase in premiums over
Speaker 19: the next three year. And that's if those businesses have
Speaker 19: no claims this system is not working for injured workers,
Speaker 19: it's not working for small businesses, and it's not working
Speaker 19: for the stage.
Speaker 3: And this isn't something new, And I've seen data about
Speaker 3: the historic funding ratios and back to leaven the days.
Speaker 3: I think when Dominic Perrote was.
Speaker 19: The treasurer, it does clinton. When I came into Parliament,
Speaker 19: the private sector insurance scheme had a dollar thirty two
Speaker 19: in assets for every dollar they have in liabilities. It's
Speaker 19: now at eighty two cents. The scheme now has eighty two.
Speaker 19: So does that mean the scheme is broke? The scheme
Speaker 19: is in a deficit. The scheme is in a deficit.
Speaker 19: The scheme is going backwards five million dollars a day,
Speaker 19: and it's not helping people get back to work. It's
Speaker 19: not helping people get back to health. And the people
Speaker 19: who are paying the price for it are the people
Speaker 19: who are paying premiums, which is overwhelmingly small business.
Speaker 3: And it's going to mean premiums go up. So hopefully
Speaker 3: the Coalition will do the right thing by their constituents.
Speaker 3: At some point, I want to get to a quick
Speaker 3: call from Christian about nursing. Hello, Christian, Hi, it's Kirstin,
Speaker 3: Hello chist.
Speaker 7: Just a quick question with nursing.
Speaker 15: First of all, yes or no?
Speaker 20: Are they going to get a pay rise?
Speaker 21: Yes or no?
Speaker 10: And second of all, we're going to find all the
Speaker 10: nurses to feel leak the new banks Down Hospital, all
Speaker 10: these sort of things.
Speaker 7: They're not interested in working in these as wells anymore.
Speaker 19: So, as I've said, we have given nurses a pay rise.
Speaker 19: We've given the nurses the best, the best payerrise have
Speaker 19: had more than a decade, and they deserve absolutely every cent.
Speaker 19: And when it comes to making sure the hospitals be
Speaker 19: at Lidcomb, Bankstown, be at Rouse Hill, we are signing
Speaker 19: up a record number of nurses each year and we
Speaker 19: are retaining them.
Speaker 3: So it's now up to the Industrial Relations Commission what
Speaker 3: the payrolls is going to be.
Speaker 19: Well, the Industrial Relations Commission is arbitrating, which is why
Speaker 19: we brought back an independent umpire. And it's important point
Speaker 19: to make here Clinton. For twelve years, nurses didn't even
Speaker 19: have the right for arbitration.
Speaker 3: I've got more messages about versing in particular, and Kathy's
Speaker 3: making the point. Imagine if teachers had to pay for
Speaker 3: parking at schools like nurses have to at hospitals. Now,
Speaker 3: I know that's anichue for the health Miss Ryan Park,
Speaker 3: but it does seem and I know there was special
Speaker 3: rules drink ovid, but it does seem harsh.
Speaker 19: Yeah, but at the same token, we do provide other
Speaker 19: benefits for our healthcare workers, not just nurses as well,
Speaker 19: and you're not going to hear from me anything other
Speaker 19: than respect for our healthcare workers. We understand how much
Speaker 19: pressure people are under right now, and we are looking
Speaker 19: to see what everything we can do to make sure
Speaker 19: that people are being respected at work. And that does
Speaker 19: mean and continuing to engage with the nurses union, which
Speaker 19: we will do, but we're not going to Clinton. I
Speaker 19: can't pretend that this is an easy issue to resolve.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 3: I appreciate you coming in the studio. You've left your office.
Speaker 3: You've been preparing the budget now for weeks. I understand
Speaker 3: you listen to a fair bit of music while preparing
Speaker 3: the budget. So I would have assumed it was aDNA,
Speaker 3: but apparently it's not advert Apparently it's this fellow.
Speaker 18: Card need homost dog.
Speaker 3: This life goes on baby. So that's Kendrick Lamar, your
Speaker 3: staff telling me that you listen to Kendrick Lamar while
Speaker 3: doing the numbers.
Speaker 19: I do he's a well I mean he just did
Speaker 19: the super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Like, can only play part of that song there because
Speaker 3: it does go into some graphic detail a little later.
Speaker 18: Yeah, we look Clinton.
Speaker 19: I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm a
Speaker 19: hip hop fan. My first two budgets I also have
Speaker 19: quite the hip hop soundtrack. We will reveal the soundtrack
Speaker 19: of this budget closer to Budget day. But Kendrick Lamar
Speaker 19: is coming to Sydney. He's coming to Australia. He's one
Speaker 19: of the world's biggest stars. He led the super Bowl
Speaker 19: Bridge super Bowl halftime show, which I'd strongly recommend all
Speaker 19: your listeners if they're interested, to have a look at.
Speaker 19: So from our perspective, yes, I've been listening to quite
Speaker 19: a lot of Kendrick Lamar.
Speaker 3: You got me there, Daniel Rookie, thank you. Hopefully you
Speaker 3: can help the nurses out in the budget. Thanks Lintin
Speaker 3: the Treasurer at Daniel Lookie twenty four Pass four. The
Speaker 3: Fair Work Commission is due to hand down a decision
Speaker 3: at about five to six minutes on the Sydney train dispute.
Speaker 3: So what the government and now the Rail, Trim and
Speaker 3: Bus Union is seeking is an order for this issue
Speaker 3: to go to the members, so the members will actually
Speaker 3: vote on whether to accept this pay deal. The ETU
Speaker 3: has been opposed to that. Emergency services say it's actually
Speaker 3: really fortunate that only two people suffered injuries after this
Speaker 3: gas explosion blew out a wall of a unit block
Speaker 3: in the Western Suburbs this morning. You would have heard
Speaker 3: about this today. Seven people are assessed on the scene
Speaker 3: after this explosion in Lidkem was at six point thirty
Speaker 3: this morning. One of them was knocked unconscious, another person
Speaker 3: suffered minor burns, somebody suffered smoke in elation. Fifty people
Speaker 3: had to be evacuated. The acting ambulance Superintendent elicit Honworths
Speaker 3: says it could have been much, much worse.
Speaker 22: It always has the potential with any explosion to have
Speaker 22: some significant injuries and fatality.
Speaker 18: So we've been extremely lucky here today to only have
Speaker 18: two patients in.
Speaker 8: A stable condition.
Speaker 3: That's the paramedic Illicit con Worth. That very fortunate. It's
Speaker 3: only two people who suffered injuries there one, three, one,
Speaker 3: eight seven three, Hello Wayne, how you going Clinton?
Speaker 23: Good?
Speaker 14: Wayne, that's good.
Speaker 21: I was just going to comment on the treasurer assertion
Speaker 21: that the people paying the price for workplace injuries are
Speaker 21: the people paying the insurance premium. Do they understand what
Speaker 21: the worker's compensation scheme is there for.
Speaker 3: Well, it's primarily there to assist the workers who bit injured.
Speaker 21: That's exactly right. I mean, you know, if I was
Speaker 21: an injured worker, well, I'm sure as hell wouldn't be saying,
Speaker 21: oh my poor employers that didn't have proper, faked precautions
Speaker 21: in place.
Speaker 3: The problem that we've got, though, Wayne, is that the
Speaker 3: blowout in this scheme is not so much caused by
Speaker 3: what you would term physical injuries. A lot of this
Speaker 3: is because of mental health issues.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: It's not to downplay that this is not a significant
Speaker 3: problem in the workforce now, but there's there's clearly some change,
Speaker 3: he wain, in the way that the mental health problems
Speaker 3: are treated in the workforce, because that's fueling the blowout
Speaker 3: and the costs.
Speaker 21: H Yeah, I get that, Clinton, But we're talking about
Speaker 21: an insensitive comment here by the treasurer, a labor treasurer,
Speaker 21: you know, and you know, I mean we have here
Speaker 21: a labor government that seems to hate nurses, and now
Speaker 21: is making comments as though they hate all workers.
Speaker 3: And I appreciate you perspective on that way, because certainly
Speaker 3: he has very much lost the support on this issue
Speaker 3: of the unions. The problem he's got is the systems broke,
Speaker 3: and to fund it, it's either going to take a
Speaker 3: lot more taxpayers money to cover it, or business is
Speaker 3: going to have to pay a lot more, which is
Speaker 3: going to then transfer to all the costs that we pay.
Speaker 3: So they've hit a Star Mart, they've hit a brick wall.
Speaker 3: Were so part of these reforms, and it's part of
Speaker 3: the reforms is changing the way mental health is dealt with,
Speaker 3: and it does need to be reviewed because yes, not everybody,
Speaker 3: but there's a lot of routing when it comes to
Speaker 3: psychological injury. Twenty seven past four, Friday afternoon GE. There's
Speaker 3: dramas with the airport tunnel at the moment. If you
Speaker 3: Southern Cross drive, General homes drive, you're going to be
Speaker 3: delayed getting home because there's been a pile up involving
Speaker 3: four cars and a truck. They're moving to clear the
Speaker 3: lanes of the moment, this is affecting the southbound lanes
Speaker 3: General homes drive in the tunnel. There's been debris left everywhere.
Speaker 3: Quite a serious accident. We're just hoping that everybody who's
Speaker 3: been involved in the crash is okay. The police have
Speaker 3: just been talking to us off air about what's happening
Speaker 3: here and they're telling us that at the moment, the TMC,
Speaker 3: they're the Transport Management officials there on the scene right
Speaker 3: at the moment trying to deal with the situation. Four vehicles,
Speaker 3: there are four cars, there's a truck. But it's going
Speaker 3: to take a while to clear this up, so you
Speaker 3: will be delayed heading home. Canny's Headlines with the latest
Speaker 3: Katie Fuller.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon. Clinton.
Speaker 9: Australia is urging both sides to de escalate after Israel
Speaker 9: launched major militious military strikes on Iran. The Jewish state
Speaker 9: says Tehran was close to building a nuclear weapon and
Speaker 9: that couldn't be allowed. Paramedics says it's lucky no one
Speaker 9: was more seriously heard in a suspected gas explosion at
Speaker 9: an apartment block in leedkemb two manor in hospital. The
Speaker 9: Premier is ruling out legislative change which would allow poker
Speaker 9: machines at Crown Barangaroo. There are reports the casino operator
Speaker 9: has been lobbying to have a band lifted, and experts
Speaker 9: is scrambling to figure out what's behind the first fatal
Speaker 9: crash of a Boeing Dreamliner in India as seven eight
Speaker 9: seven went down shortly after takeoff, killing at least two
Speaker 9: hundred and sixty people. In Sport, the first Super Rugby
Speaker 9: Pacific semi final kicks off next hour in christ Church.
Speaker 9: The Crusaders are hosting defending champions the Blues. Clinton More
Speaker 9: News at five.
Speaker 3: K kat thirteen degrees in the coast. It's twelve degrees
Speaker 3: in Terry Hills. At the moment. The Australian Prime Minister
Speaker 3: is meeting with the Fijian Prime Minister Setelini Rambuka. This
Speaker 3: is at the first stop on his three country tour
Speaker 3: that he's embarked on what we met.
Speaker 24: As partners and friends that we can rely on who
Speaker 24: are trusted and here, my friend, are trusted partner and
Speaker 24: friend of Australia.
Speaker 3: Now, there are a lot of Australians actually in Fiji,
Speaker 3: yes on holidays, but certainly there's a fair population of
Speaker 3: expats that are living in Fiji as well. And the
Speaker 3: Prime Minister says, you'll have to take that into consideration
Speaker 3: at the next election.
Speaker 24: I must say here in the hotel, so far one
Speaker 24: hundred percent of people I have met have been Australian.
Speaker 13: In the next election campaign.
Speaker 24: I think I'll dawn off here in Fiji in order
Speaker 24: to make people from right across Australia who have come
Speaker 24: here to enjoy the warm weather and importantly the hospitality
Speaker 24: of your wonderful people.
Speaker 3: So that may be an indication that mister Albanezi is
Speaker 3: planning to run again at the next election in three
Speaker 3: years time, but he'll be campaigning in the Pacific, not
Speaker 3: in his electorate in inner Sydney.
Speaker 2: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney
Speaker 2: now with Clinton Maynard until.
Speaker 3: Six This is not an exaggeration. I'm joined today on
Speaker 3: the program by Music Royalty. We have all grown up
Speaker 3: by music written and performed. Momo yesterday.
Speaker 18: Too much fiction, that's a faction much fiction.
Speaker 3: My guest today is the legendary Tim Finn, the founder
Speaker 3: of Split Ends, of course, collaborated with his brother Near
Speaker 3: with Crowded House and solo performer. It's forty years since
Speaker 3: his first solo album was released, Escapade, and he's going
Speaker 3: to be touring the country in a few months time,
Speaker 3: and he joins me on the program. Welcome Tim, nice
Speaker 3: to be here. I'm seeing you on the video at
Speaker 3: the moment. It's a video call, and I could I
Speaker 3: could hear listening to some of your your legendary tracks
Speaker 3: there when you say recorded with split ends six months
Speaker 3: in the leaky boat, and you're there and you're you're
Speaker 3: in the mixing studio and it's it's the final mix
Speaker 3: is done. Do you sit back and think we've got
Speaker 3: a good one here?
Speaker 1: I mean you do?
Speaker 13: You get excited, like you know, you work on them
Speaker 13: so hard though, that's the thing.
Speaker 22: He's been hundreds of hours, you know, if you combine
Speaker 22: the writing, rehearsing and then recording, and.
Speaker 13: So you are a bit kind of worn out with
Speaker 13: it by the time against the mixed stage.
Speaker 22: But then for some really good mechs and Eddie Rayner,
Speaker 22: our keyboard played quite a big part in this mex.
Speaker 22: Usually the band would sit back and let the engineer
Speaker 22: producer do most of the work. But Eddie got rolled
Speaker 22: up his sleeves and got involved, and so I remember
Speaker 22: the jubilant feeling that he was having and it sort
Speaker 22: of spread. It was very infectious, and I had to admit, Yeah,
Speaker 22: it was a rush this song, and kind of the
Speaker 22: speed of it surprised me because I wrote it as.
Speaker 13: A kind of mid tempo song and it just took
Speaker 13: off in the studio.
Speaker 22: Wanted to be faster, you know, and so it had
Speaker 22: a lot of a lot of excitement in it by
Speaker 22: the time we finished.
Speaker 3: What does the song mean?
Speaker 18: That song?
Speaker 22: Well, you know, I was reading a book about the pioneers,
Speaker 22: the early days of people coming out and ships and
Speaker 22: boats from Europe to Australia and New Zealand.
Speaker 13: Really those boats were stinky and smelly and horrible. They
Speaker 13: were crowded, there was no sanitation, and so I just
Speaker 13: kind of got into that because the band was going through.
Speaker 22: Quite a good time internally, but myself personally, I was
Speaker 22: my life was kind of falling apart a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 22: I was having having a rough time. A long term
Speaker 22: relationship was ending, and I felt very fragile and exposed.
Speaker 22: So the band was my kind of safe place really,
Speaker 22: and so it's a song about that feeling of having
Speaker 22: your mates alongside you, supporting you, you know, a difficult time.
Speaker 3: Tim I was only I was only a little kid
Speaker 3: in the early nineteen eighties, and I was born in
Speaker 3: the mid late seventies and my mom was a key
Speaker 3: with though, so a lot of oddies feel affection for Kiwis.
Speaker 3: Of course, what was the theatrical side of Split Ends?
Speaker 3: What was the driver of that?
Speaker 13: Well, to be honest, I mean we were very influenced
Speaker 13: by sixties bands, particularly the Beatles. You think about the Beatles,
Speaker 13: every time they kind of came out, they had a
Speaker 13: different look.
Speaker 22: Man, Yeah it's Sargeant Pepers though I were wearing those
Speaker 22: really brightly colored suits. It just seemed normal to us
Speaker 22: to kind of dress up and put on a show,
Speaker 22: you know. And we've adopted these personas because they just
Speaker 22: felt right.
Speaker 3: Become a bit of a trademark, very different to the
Speaker 3: olds pub roxy of those days.
Speaker 13: Yeah, well that's right.
Speaker 22: In nineteen seventy five, we were playing the pubs around Alburn,
Speaker 22: particularly because we were signed to Mushroom Records at the time.
Speaker 13: Mark Gonenski and Frank Stabaala and all those.
Speaker 22: Guys were putting us into the pubs, and you know,
Speaker 22: we had a following of about six people. They came
Speaker 22: to every show and the rest of them were standing
Speaker 22: at the back of the room kind of scratched it.
Speaker 3: There, what's going on here?
Speaker 13: But you know they didn't forget us. I guess, you know,
Speaker 13: if they weren't sure, they still remembered us.
Speaker 3: I have read books about Split Ends and yourself and
Speaker 3: your brother. But how did Neil join the band?
Speaker 13: Well, we were looking for a guitar player.
Speaker 22: This was in nineteen seventy seven and the other founding
Speaker 22: member of the band, Philip Judd, had left the band
Speaker 22: and so we needed a guitar player. He had supported
Speaker 22: spind Ends when he was about sixteen through New Zealand,
Speaker 22: and we just knew he was a good singer, good songwriter.
Speaker 22: He never played electric guitar, but we figured he could
Speaker 22: pick it up pretty quickly when he was a little
Speaker 22: boys to encourage him with his piano lessons, so stepped
Speaker 22: in a lot of musical knowledge and very good singer.
Speaker 13: So you know, it was a no brainer when we
Speaker 13: finally clicked on it.
Speaker 3: You know, fast forward to your time the Crowded House,
Speaker 3: and certainly I've heard the stories that it was you
Speaker 3: and Neil writing songs together that would have been a
Speaker 3: Finn Brothers album. Effectively, when you put wood face together
Speaker 3: and you end up joining Crowded House. Did you want
Speaker 3: that stuff to be work with just you and your
Speaker 3: brother or were you're happy to sort of bring it
Speaker 3: into crowded House.
Speaker 22: Well, we wrote it as a brother's project, and we
Speaker 22: just set out distinctly to write harmony styles and so
Speaker 22: we were right weather with you and it's only natural,
Speaker 22: and they were all sort of fitting into this framework
Speaker 22: of the blood harmonies, you know, the two brothers singing together.
Speaker 25: It was because of the fact that Neil was stuck
Speaker 25: between because he had started this Crowded House record already
Speaker 25: already recorded for the two Feet a few of the
Speaker 25: other songs, handed it into the label and they said, no,
Speaker 25: we don't hear a single.
Speaker 13: So then we did our project. And then he was
Speaker 13: going through the agony of God, you know, because the
Speaker 13: worst thing you ever want to do is listen to
Speaker 13: the record company. But you can't help it, you know,
Speaker 13: they get in your head. And so he was a
Speaker 13: bit taught because we had all these other really good songs.
Speaker 13: They just fitted perfectly in the end. But it was
Speaker 13: a bit of a switch. But I think you know,
Speaker 13: by Nick and Paul particularly, I'm not sure you know,
Speaker 13: they handled it very well.
Speaker 22: They were very gracious. In fact, they were kind of
Speaker 22: excited to get into those songs as well. But you know,
Speaker 22: having two fins in the band was.
Speaker 1: A bit much.
Speaker 13: Probably it was a bit of a power block.
Speaker 22: I suppose we didn't intend it to be, you know,
Speaker 22: but it just skewed the band a little bit. But
Speaker 22: it was a fantastic time. We had an amazing touring.
Speaker 22: The record stands, you know, the test of time.
Speaker 3: So I was going to mention that tim because I'm
Speaker 3: thinking back to the days when I was in it.
Speaker 3: I was late teen, early twenties, and I think your music,
Speaker 3: that's probably when you suck up. I reckon most of
Speaker 3: your music, and breathing stays you for life. And so
Speaker 3: that era of grunge out of Seattle, and then there
Speaker 3: was you know, the hip hop stuff happening at the
Speaker 3: same time, would face I Reckon stand the test of time.
Speaker 3: Even all these years later, there are song It's only Natural,
Speaker 3: I think, is such a beautiful song still.
Speaker 13: Yeah, thank you?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 22: Well I love playing that live and Neil does too,
Speaker 22: you know, so he's got his crowdit his latest incarnation
Speaker 22: of crowded house.
Speaker 13: They play that song. I go out and play when
Speaker 13: I'm doing a solo show.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 22: I had my daughter singing with me in Adelaide the
Speaker 22: other night. She's twenty two years of age now. The
Speaker 22: beautiful boys, so having that blood harmony.
Speaker 13: Again, me and my daughter, Me and Neil, Neil and Liam.
Speaker 22: You know, it just works and it's a beautiful song
Speaker 22: to do live, people just clicking.
Speaker 3: Well, it's a stunning song.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: The two that you'll be embarking on in Australia later
Speaker 3: this year in August is to mark forty years since Escapade.
Speaker 3: So your first solo album, what is that? That album? Media?
Speaker 1: Well, it was it was.
Speaker 22: It was a very joyous kind of you know, because
Speaker 22: the band decides for the decided to decide to take
Speaker 22: six six weeks off, which don't sounds like we've been
Speaker 22: touring our asses.
Speaker 13: Off, you know for years, and so six weeks seem
Speaker 13: like a really nice time. It ended up being about
Speaker 13: three months, I think, But I just started writing.
Speaker 22: I had my piano there in the house, and you know,
Speaker 22: I'm always trying to write a song, so it seemed
Speaker 22: to me that the most fun I could have was
Speaker 22: to make a record. And then I met Rooky Fota
Speaker 22: because I heard him play drums on a Renee Gaer track,
Speaker 22: and I just thought, who the hell is that? You know,
Speaker 22: it was one of the best drum grooves I'd ever heard,
Speaker 22: and got to know Ricky and got Mark Moffert.
Speaker 13: You know, they co produced the record. Mate a whole
Speaker 13: lot of musicians through them. I mean, Vanetta feels I'm
Speaker 13: doing backing vocals. You know, she taught me so much.
Speaker 22: She came from a long, obviously long tradition of gospel
Speaker 22: and American R and B and soul music, so she
Speaker 22: brought some of that into the record. Richard t dropped
Speaker 22: in one night to play piano. He was on two
Speaker 22: Paul Simon. It was a liberation for me after ten
Speaker 22: years of being in.
Speaker 3: The band and again and that album is roughly a
Speaker 3: decade before would face and there are still songs, so
Speaker 3: I made my day. Everyone still recognized that song all
Speaker 3: these years later, you know.
Speaker 22: Yeah, it's one of the finger pointing sign like when
Speaker 22: you start doing it, you hit that chorus of the crowd.
Speaker 13: It's a good feeling.
Speaker 3: You'll be touring in August State Theater here in Sydney
Speaker 3: on the ninth of August and Leaders Theater in Thrule
Speaker 3: it's Northern Subur's Will and Gong. I saw a band
Speaker 3: you might know from the tea party last year and
Speaker 3: in Needer's Theater if you have if you haven't been there,
Speaker 3: it's a really beautiful historic building. It's a great little
Speaker 3: venue throughout August. Yeah, it's it's really great. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
Speaker 3: It has been a pleasure to speak to you. Thank
Speaker 3: you so much for your time, Tim, Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: Tim Finn. One of the crackers from Split ends six
Speaker 3: months in a Leaky Boat, written by Tim Finn. If
Speaker 3: you want to go and see it's a few months
Speaker 3: out from when Tim Finn is touring. He's touring his
Speaker 3: first solo album, which was Escapator. You'll be playing all
Speaker 3: the hits August nine State Theater. The tickets are available
Speaker 3: via Ticketmaster. As Steve has been reporting our traffic reports,
Speaker 3: there is still traffic chaos heading south General Homes drive
Speaker 3: south cross Dry through the Airport tunnel. Now this accident
Speaker 3: has now been cleared, so it'd involved four cars and
Speaker 3: a truck. Thankfully it does not appear that anyone's been
Speaker 3: seriously injured. But it's now being cleared away, but the
Speaker 3: traffic is still a nightmare and it's going to be
Speaker 3: a mess probably for the rest of the peak.
Speaker 2: We a part of Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 2: one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 3: I brought your news yesterday during the program about the
Speaker 3: Order of the General's report into the way the government
Speaker 3: is regulating poker machines in New South Wales and the
Speaker 3: Order of the General has found there's not enough monitoring. Essentially,
Speaker 3: not enough is being done to help problem gambling and
Speaker 3: prevent problem gambling. As you know that the Labour Party
Speaker 3: is very much opposed to cashless gambling. I don't really
Speaker 3: understand why. Yes, there are significant lobby groups at play,
Speaker 3: but I suspect if there was actually cashless gambling that
Speaker 3: actually might help. It's the industry. Most people don't use
Speaker 3: cash these days. Nevertheless, there's been a development in this
Speaker 3: this afternoon. The Premier Chris Mins has ruled out allowing
Speaker 3: Crown to have poker machines at the brang Guru Casina.
Speaker 3: And this is really significant because the store he broke
Speaker 3: that there was a proposal for at least five hundred
Speaker 3: pokeing machines as a trial at the casino. The whole
Speaker 3: reason that casino was developed in the first place. It
Speaker 3: was supposed to be for high rollers and that Star
Speaker 3: wouldn't have the competition in the same way as you know,
Speaker 3: Star is a financial basket case. I want to bring
Speaker 3: Luke Grant in on this, and of course he'll be
Speaker 3: presenting the Weekend Morning program tomorrow.
Speaker 14: Hello Luke good a Clinton good a bit to bring
Speaker 14: me in on a punting story, Thank you mate?
Speaker 3: Or what do you think do you think Crown should
Speaker 3: be allowed to have Pokeys?
Speaker 14: Well, look, the deal was done a decade ago. Things
Speaker 14: were a bit different back then, so you can understand.
Speaker 14: And look, they know their business model and they think
Speaker 14: they can probably do better with five hundred pokem machines.
Speaker 14: But you've got to look at the deal as it
Speaker 14: was put and the deal is apparently they be those
Speaker 14: cashless machines and they'd remove five hundred from other venues
Speaker 14: so they could put five hundred at Barangaroots, so there
Speaker 14: would be no net increase in the number of pokem machines.
Speaker 14: What I didn't though, was that in New South Wales
Speaker 14: there's eighty seven thousand, seven hundred and forty nine poker machines.
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 14: They generate a profit of just under eight and a
Speaker 14: half billion, and the government takes about two billion in
Speaker 14: tax back to the proposal. So they're here, We've got
Speaker 14: half of Austraateer's machines in New South Wales and I
Speaker 14: think Chris Means is right to say he inherited this
Speaker 14: and you know he can't get it fixed if getting
Speaker 14: it fixed means reducing the numbers of machines, and that's
Speaker 14: obviously what the Order to General is getting at. But
Speaker 14: what gets me is that someone in government has actually
Speaker 14: said to the people of Crown, hey, look, your idea
Speaker 14: is not a bad one. So there's going to be
Speaker 14: no net increase in machines and they're going to be
Speaker 14: cashless but made. If you read the political tea leaves
Speaker 14: there is no leader liberal or labor, no leader who
Speaker 14: can tip off and adding five hundred machines to a
Speaker 14: venue as a matter that the deal was done ten
Speaker 14: years ago. The mood is not there for the people
Speaker 14: to say, hey, you're beauty, so the Premier had to
Speaker 14: do what he did.
Speaker 3: In my view, they just generally on podcast sins Luke. Look,
Speaker 3: I've never really been attracted to them. I reckon if
Speaker 3: you can afford it, and you know a problem. You
Speaker 3: want to play them go your hardest? Do you play them?
Speaker 18: Do you like them?
Speaker 14: Look twenty years ago I did. I'd play them every week,
Speaker 14: but mate, I haven't. Or the other day went out
Speaker 14: for dinner and we let we let a pineapple run around.
Speaker 14: But other than that, maybe once or twice a year.
Speaker 14: And look, I'll consider myself lucky. You are too. You know,
Speaker 14: I don't see one thing could give me a hundred bucks.
Speaker 14: You got to feed that thing. But there are people
Speaker 14: that can't do that, that you know, have that addiction,
Speaker 14: and you know you've just got it. As a society,
Speaker 14: we've got to account for those people. Obviously, whatever they've
Speaker 14: done hasn't been enough. And I think it's now what
Speaker 14: about twelve hundred dollars per person we lose in New
Speaker 14: South Wales the individual machines each year.
Speaker 3: That's astonishing, it's astronomical. What's coming up on the show tomorrow.
Speaker 14: We'll get to Dennis Shanahan and have a chat about
Speaker 14: the week it was politically, Boy, isn't there some stuff there?
Speaker 14: Elbow has gone to see Trump, we hope, I mean
Speaker 14: he's stopped off a three G fair enough he's got
Speaker 14: to keep sweet with our neighbors. But you would have
Speaker 14: think with the rumored unraveling of Orcus that you know what,
Speaker 14: we'll just make We'll just make a breeline to the
Speaker 14: US and just have a chat to someone that knows
Speaker 14: what's going on. At least look like you're half interested.
Speaker 14: So we'll talk to Dennis about that and the political
Speaker 14: fallout all around that as well. This fascinating trial of
Speaker 14: Aaron Patterson in Victoria, called by many of the Mushroom trial,
Speaker 14: Say Grace is a podcast done by nine Penelope Lersh
Speaker 14: and her colleagues do a brittant job in this. There's
Speaker 14: not much we can talk about because of the restriction
Speaker 14: on what we can and can't say, but we can
Speaker 14: certainly tell you about the town that the trial's happening
Speaker 14: in and the locals who are turning up to watch
Speaker 14: what's going on, and just how they do with reporting
Speaker 14: this trial.
Speaker 1: I mean true crime.
Speaker 14: As you know, Mate is a real thing. Ossie is
Speaker 14: love it, don't they well?
Speaker 3: Particularly on podcasts and books as well.
Speaker 14: Craig Bennett will look at the life and times of
Speaker 14: Brian Wilson. Michael Schubridge talking of aucas from strategic analysis
Speaker 14: of Australia. He'll tell us about what we should do
Speaker 14: to please the Yanks. Our remarkable Ossie, are remarkable the
Speaker 14: former Deputy Commissioner of the New South Pest Police and
Speaker 14: has done so much more. Nick Calvis will have a
Speaker 14: chat to him on Sunday as well. Mate, all that
Speaker 14: coming up of the weekend from nine both days, please
Speaker 14: tell me your tip Newcastle, no Ah.
Speaker 3: And tip Newcastle. I'm coming last. Still, I'm still coming last. Hey,
Speaker 3: we'll be listening tomorrow morning.
Speaker 14: Thanks Buddy, Luke Grant.
Speaker 3: Saturday and Sunday from nine o'clock there is Sydney Now
Speaker 3: with Clinton Maynard on to gb Friday afternoon. The weekend
Speaker 3: is almost here, but there is a lot of breaking
Speaker 3: news right at the moment. This has just come through
Speaker 3: from the Fair Work Commission. The Fair Work Commission has
Speaker 3: ruled in favor of Sydney Trains and the ongoing dispute
Speaker 3: with the Combined Rail Union. So what this means, and
Speaker 3: the RTBU I should point out, is actually on the
Speaker 3: side in this particular issue with Sydney Trains. What this
Speaker 3: means is the union members themselves who work on the
Speaker 3: network will vote on whether accept the new pay deal.
Speaker 3: The ETU was the union that represents about eight hundred
Speaker 3: odd workers. They were the ones holding out. Well, the
Speaker 3: Fairwork Commission's basically decided enough is enough. Let's put it
Speaker 3: to the members. So there'll be a vote of the
Speaker 3: members whether they'll accept the deal. It's a twelve percent
Speaker 3: pay rise over three years, so four percent a year.
Speaker 3: It's less than what the unions, it's more than what
Speaker 3: the state government wanted to pay. That will go to
Speaker 3: a vote. I would suggest that it will be voted
Speaker 3: in favor of because the ART which has eight thousand members,
Speaker 3: actually more than eight thousand members, is very much in
Speaker 3: support of this. So I think you will find that
Speaker 3: this will result in this deal being approved and hopefully
Speaker 3: that means an end to industrial action, we hope. Now
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister has begun his international tour. He is
Speaker 3: visiting three countries. He will be at the G seven
Speaker 3: with the United States. He is seeking a meeting with
Speaker 3: President Trump. They will be discussing orcast now that yet
Speaker 3: has not been confirmed. He hasn't confirmed that he will
Speaker 3: be meeting with President Trump. However, he has stopped on
Speaker 3: the way in Fiji. He is meeting City Rambuka right
Speaker 3: at the moment, and he has been asked about the
Speaker 3: ongoing situation, the developing situation between Israel and Iran. Now
Speaker 3: the latest on that is Iran has deployed dozens and
Speaker 3: dozens of drones and they are in the process. The
Speaker 3: Israeli military is in the process of intercepting those drones.
Speaker 3: This is what Anthony Albernizi has had to say just
Speaker 3: a short time ago.
Speaker 24: We are very aware of what has occurred and it
Speaker 24: is earning any escalation in the region. My message to
Speaker 24: Australians is that the Department of Foreign Affairs in trade
Speaker 24: are upgrading very soon, the messages to Australians about warning
Speaker 24: about travel to the region. We want to see a dialogue.
Speaker 24: We of course are very conscious of the threat that
Speaker 24: Iran becoming a nuclear state would represent to peace and
Speaker 24: security in the region as well.
Speaker 3: We want to see these issues resolve through.
Speaker 24: Dialogue and the United States has been playing an important
Speaker 24: role there.
Speaker 3: Anthony Albernezi, echoing what his Foreign Minister Pennywong had to
Speaker 3: say a little ear in the day, that dialogue is
Speaker 3: necessary here to be honest. After hearing what Benjaminettenya, who
Speaker 3: has had to say and what the Uranians about to say.
Speaker 3: I can't imagine there's going to be much dialogue in
Speaker 3: the next twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney.
Speaker 18: Stay true to Sydney Now with on to gymb.
Speaker 3: Eight seven three is our number on Sydney Now Table.
Speaker 3: It is the Friday Round Table. Let's have a bit
Speaker 3: of fun for a Friday afternoon in the studio with
Speaker 3: me this afternoon. Amanda Rose Hello, Hello, Hello, and also
Speaker 3: special guest, first time he's making his debut on the
Speaker 3: Friday Round Table. He's got a bit of experience in
Speaker 3: this game. John Stanley, Hello, John, Hello, How are you mate?
Speaker 3: How are you feeling after last night? Just before we
Speaker 3: get into the issues of the day.
Speaker 18: We had a good show last night. It was terrific,
Speaker 18: lots of calls, lots of variety. Was a very good show.
Speaker 18: So yeah, feeling quite good. And I've come up the
Speaker 18: mid North coast. What what are you referring to? Which
Speaker 18: part of the program are.
Speaker 3: You talk There was a football game last wen, Well,
Speaker 3: I was too busy watch.
Speaker 1: We're doing my show.
Speaker 26: He was too busy working Clinton.
Speaker 18: What was the what was a football game?
Speaker 3: I think I think the Crown of Sharks defeated this
Speaker 3: and George of Laura Dragons from memory they.
Speaker 18: They played last night. Okay, I'll look it up. We'll
Speaker 18: have a look and see if I can check the score.
Speaker 3: Was that actually waiting for my phone to ring at
Speaker 3: about ten o'clock last night because I thought I did
Speaker 3: getting your phone.
Speaker 18: I'll tell you what was interesting. I'll tell you what
Speaker 18: was interesting. Clinton's there's a couple of people who love
Speaker 18: essentially you know, those little kids that run around school
Speaker 18: yards gain Nan and so I got a couple of
Speaker 18: text messages from a couple of Narks early in the game,
Speaker 18: and then and then they shut up until halftime. Nothing
Speaker 18: I and I actually and I said he, I said, listen,
Speaker 18: this is going to turn around. So you Blake's who's
Speaker 18: making out that your phones are broken? I'm waiting for it.
Speaker 18: And of course they started again. It's just so childish,
Speaker 18: isn't it. Really? It's childish. You're having hot shots at
Speaker 18: people over their football teams, and particularly.
Speaker 26: To Australia.
Speaker 18: It's ridiculous. It's childish.
Speaker 3: Are you a passionate sports fan, Amanda, No, I'm not.
Speaker 3: It is a very estrange thing.
Speaker 27: Look it is Look the whole pettiness with John was saying,
Speaker 27: it's very real in Australia, not just sporting, it's in
Speaker 27: business too, syndrome.
Speaker 3: Have you seen my shark SOPs? Look?
Speaker 27: I like the commitment people have to our sporting teams.
Speaker 27: I draw the line when you cry over them.
Speaker 3: Now, new data has been released. New data has been
Speaker 3: released by the software company at Lassion. It's found that
Speaker 3: sixty one percent of gen Z workers are more likely
Speaker 3: to read a message, so a text message that includes
Speaker 3: an emoji. You work a lot with business, as Amanda,
Speaker 3: do you find this is the way that people within
Speaker 3: business communicate via emojis, little symbols.
Speaker 26: Look, let me tell you a story.
Speaker 27: I remember I hired a particular gen Z to work
Speaker 27: with me and I was responding with okay, good, sounds great,
Speaker 27: and then I got the are you angry at me?
Speaker 27: Because I was so efficient with my responses, And then
Speaker 27: I realized, oh, I need to throw in an emoji
Speaker 27: and it's all good and a smiley face. And so
Speaker 27: really what it is it's more of an emotional check
Speaker 27: are you okay? Because when you think about it, like
Speaker 27: back in the day, we had face to face conversations.
Speaker 26: We could read people's emotions.
Speaker 27: We can understand if they're angry or happy. So we've
Speaker 27: got a very sensitive generation that aren't quite sure. So
Speaker 27: that is why I say, when you work with someone,
Speaker 27: you should sit down and say, how do we communicate?
Speaker 26: What is your language? Do you like email? Do you
Speaker 26: like texts?
Speaker 27: What is the best way to do this? But when
Speaker 27: you go too far with you emojis, it's usually a
Speaker 27: red flag.
Speaker 3: I'm just going through my text messages on my phone
Speaker 3: at the moment, so I don't really I think I
Speaker 3: sometimes use the thumbs up. I don't see.
Speaker 27: That's a tricky one because thumbs up can also mean
Speaker 27: good and also mean get stuffed.
Speaker 3: Oh right, well, I'm just looking through my text message
Speaker 3: file from John Stanley. There is not one emoji that
Speaker 3: John has exchanged me. So you don't use emojis?
Speaker 18: John, Why don't you emojis?
Speaker 16: Now?
Speaker 18: You can just use words, can't you? What would you
Speaker 18: use emojis? Or I like to actually send pictures sometimes
Speaker 18: I've got.
Speaker 27: Lots of pictures in this I've sent you emojis in
Speaker 27: our text Clinton. See I'm listening to Marley face. I
Speaker 27: can see a miss shocked face.
Speaker 3: There's a string of emoji. See that a politician has said.
Speaker 3: I won't name this particular politician.
Speaker 16: You know.
Speaker 18: The thing about this is it's all because these days
Speaker 18: no one answers their phone. They use text and the
Speaker 18: idea of someone actually tried to ring me today and said,
Speaker 18: your message bank's for so well, I never listen to
Speaker 18: a message bank. No one, I mean, does anyone actually
Speaker 18: leave messages and use the message bank? No one uses that.
Speaker 18: But I wonder, because the emoji thing, this will change
Speaker 18: really quickly. Five years from now, there'll be something else. Yes,
Speaker 18: everything's changing really really quickly, and you've got to be
Speaker 18: up with it. Clinton, You've got to get onto this.
Speaker 3: No, I think it's generational because I've just received a
Speaker 3: text message from one of our colleagues, Mark Levy, and
Speaker 3: I'm looking through the file of Mark Levy messages that
Speaker 3: he sent me over the last few months. There's no
Speaker 3: emoji from Mark. I should read this text message though, Amanda.
Speaker 3: All right, it does say does this count as the
Speaker 3: fifth day of work for John? Because of course he
Speaker 3: doesn't work on Fridays. Mark works six days a week,
Speaker 3: sometimes seven, he does.
Speaker 18: What about what about Michael McLaren. He sends letters still,
Speaker 18: he'll see if he wants to tell you something. I
Speaker 18: like what you them in your show last night, He'll
Speaker 18: actually write, He'll post you a letter.
Speaker 16: I love that.
Speaker 27: I actually have my own set with my name on
Speaker 27: it and a seal, a wax letters. I've got a
Speaker 27: wax seal so a friend actually got that for me
Speaker 27: for my birthday and it says from the desk of
Speaker 27: Amanda Rose and it's a bunch of you know, paper
Speaker 27: with envelopes with a wax seal.
Speaker 3: Seven three is the number. Let us know. Do you
Speaker 3: use emoji? So I've been sending a text message from
Speaker 3: Dave the bus driver. He says, Clinton thumbs up. There's
Speaker 3: a picture of bus. There's a smiley face, there's a
Speaker 3: heart beat beat, there's a picture of a hamburger.
Speaker 18: A beer a.
Speaker 3: People think I'm obsessed with trains. I'm just frustrated by them.
Speaker 3: As a smiley face, I.
Speaker 26: Like the burger.
Speaker 3: Seven three emojis. Now it's Friday the thirteenth, so I
Speaker 3: actually didn't realize it was Friday, the thursdayth until I
Speaker 3: physically read the date at the start of the program.
Speaker 3: Do you have superstitions Amanda.
Speaker 26: Absolutely not, But I do like to torment people that do.
Speaker 18: John well. For instance, I've got it well when I'm
Speaker 18: watching because I follow the Dragons and I follow the
Speaker 18: Giants and follow a couple of other teams and other sports.
Speaker 18: But so what I'll do is I'll wear my always
Speaker 18: wear my jumper while the game's on, even if I'm
Speaker 18: watching it at home or in the studio. I had
Speaker 18: it on under my jumper last night. If they win,
Speaker 18: I don't wash the jumper, so I could go actually
Speaker 18: win a couple of weeks without washing, but I washed
Speaker 18: straight after. So it's got to be washed after a defeat.
Speaker 18: Washes out the defeat, and you have to be wearing
Speaker 18: the jumper. So I brought my Giants jumper up to
Speaker 18: watch tomorrow. They lost last week, so I'm hoping that
Speaker 18: we'll be okay. I've had that jump or washed. And
Speaker 18: in fact, I went to watch the Giants play Richmond
Speaker 18: out at Home Bush and I was in a function room,
Speaker 18: but I have my jumper with me, and the first
Speaker 18: three quarters they're playing terribly hang on, so I put
Speaker 18: the jumper back on and they won. They won right
Speaker 18: at the death, So I think that's a superstition, but I.
Speaker 1: Believe in it.
Speaker 3: I'm not superstitious. But last night I didn't go to
Speaker 3: the game because I thought that would be bad karma,
Speaker 3: because I went to the last Sharks game and they
Speaker 3: were flogged. So I didn't go to the game last night.
Speaker 3: But I stood there in the wardrobe, John, I've got
Speaker 3: one of those walking wardrobes, and I've got all the
Speaker 3: Sharks jerseys lined up. I put a great deal of
Speaker 3: thought into which one that i'd wear. Everyone does, so
Speaker 3: I deliberately wore a Shark's jersey from about three years
Speaker 3: ago where we played a preseason game at Cogra Oval,
Speaker 3: your home ground, and we won. I thought that'd be
Speaker 3: good karma.
Speaker 18: Good.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 18: When I really need a lot of help, I wear
Speaker 18: the twenty ten jumper, which has been signed by Wayne Bennett.
Speaker 26: But you got to say that signed by Wayne Bennett,
Speaker 26: and then I like it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, if you've got qride a the thirteenth superstitions,
Speaker 3: let us knact our number one three one eight seven
Speaker 3: three back to the roundtable. In a moment, the transformittist
Speaker 3: to John Graham has just released a statement after the
Speaker 3: Fair Work Commission made a ruling that a direction is
Speaker 3: made that all the members of all the combined rail
Speaker 3: unions they get to vote. It's a democracy, they'll get
Speaker 3: to decide whether they'll accept this new pay deal from
Speaker 3: the state government. Mister Graham says the new South Wales
Speaker 3: government welcomes the Fair Work Commission's order to put in
Speaker 3: principal agreement to a ballot. This is another critical step
Speaker 3: in ending disruption from a million rail commuters. It is
Speaker 3: time to let the workforce decide. The government's viewers that
Speaker 3: this is a good deal for the rail workers. It
Speaker 3: will pass. I've been in contact with the Rail, Tram
Speaker 3: and Bus union management. They are supportive of it. Now
Speaker 3: they have eight thousand members. That's more than a majority,
Speaker 3: is only eight hundred e to ye members, so the
Speaker 3: deal will pass. It means they get a twelve percent
Speaker 3: pay rise over three years. Hopefully it means there's no
Speaker 3: more industrial action. An expanded edition of the Roundtable This afternoon,
Speaker 3: we have John Stanley who is broadcasting from the mid
Speaker 3: North Coast. Amanda Rose now Mark Leave He's joined us
Speaker 3: as well.
Speaker 23: Hello team, how are you going? Hello John part time.
Speaker 23: Very well mate, I'm looking forward to filling in for
Speaker 23: you and not calling them football from seven o'clock. I've
Speaker 23: been listening to Clinton on the way in and I
Speaker 23: just I just thought i'd pop in and ask a question.
Speaker 23: So I get a lot of messages from like, I'll
Speaker 23: range of people from different walks of life, and when
Speaker 23: I'm busy, I just do the thumbs up emoji.
Speaker 18: Is that rude?
Speaker 3: Oh, when you're busy? Yeah, to acknowledge that it's a
Speaker 3: yes if you.
Speaker 26: Have a history with them and they know that's what
Speaker 26: you mean.
Speaker 27: Like, that's okay, because it could be you know, the
Speaker 27: two fingers together, okay, but thumbs up yet, that's good.
Speaker 26: If you're known for that. But if you don't use
Speaker 26: it often and then all of a sudden you get
Speaker 26: thumbs up, it actually means well, I.
Speaker 23: Didn't realize I was going through my phone just to
Speaker 23: have a look at who I've given the thumbs up to. You, Regia, Well,
Speaker 23: without wanting to lam drop, I gave the thumb up
Speaker 23: to the Prime Minister. He texted me during the floods
Speaker 23: and I gave him a thumbs up, and I thought
Speaker 23: that's a bit rude.
Speaker 22: Good.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I won't tell you what the next time.
Speaker 3: But my wife has just sent me a text message.
Speaker 3: It starts with a sad face and then there's a
Speaker 3: thumbs up at the end.
Speaker 23: Has the round table become marriage counselor how are you John?
Speaker 18: I'm not too actually, Michael McLaren rang the switch to
Speaker 18: say he's got some strong words about my suggestion. He
Speaker 18: soule fashion. He writes letters I should get I should
Speaker 18: get those words in the post delivery on Monday. He
Speaker 18: managed to get him into the He's taking. He raced
Speaker 18: up and posted it just before six o'clock. He reckons
Speaker 18: it'll get in on Monday.
Speaker 3: Seven threes and number Ian has a view on the emergence.
Speaker 1: Hello William, Hey, go on guys enjoying the program?
Speaker 3: Do you use the emergenes?
Speaker 16: Look?
Speaker 7: I do, I do.
Speaker 11: I know some people to overdo them, but I think
Speaker 11: emojis to have a place because text messages can be
Speaker 11: very bland, and they can be interpreted in terms of
Speaker 11: its tone or context sometimes so you know, and particularly
Speaker 11: you're talking about something that's more emotive, particular between the
Speaker 11: male and the female sexers, and it can be interpreted
Speaker 11: in different ways. I think sometimes the emoji just adds
Speaker 11: another little layer of expression as to what the intention
Speaker 11: of the of the messages, So.
Speaker 26: Hang on manipulation.
Speaker 3: The one I've just been, the one I've just been
Speaker 3: said from cast my wife is a sad face.
Speaker 23: That's not exactly good?
Speaker 24: Is it.
Speaker 11: Okay? But like in certain industries, right, like in industries,
Speaker 11: say heavy industry or aviation, thumbs up is a very
Speaker 11: important signal because that be could that means could, that
Speaker 11: means means definitely yes, or you know, definitely you're safe
Speaker 11: or definitely whatever, So that you know, like an emoji sometimes.
Speaker 3: And some people means old was thumbs up? Fine, good
Speaker 3: on you?
Speaker 18: What I just maybe maybe Musk sent Trump thumbs up
Speaker 18: a mojor.
Speaker 26: Trump thumbs down in return.
Speaker 3: One last quick topic for us because we're almost out,
Speaker 3: but I want you all your views on this one.
Speaker 23: Hey, you've got an NRL player listening to us. You
Speaker 23: just said, can you ask Clinton what the eggplant means?
Speaker 23: I said, no, it's too early for that.
Speaker 3: Thanks for you, mate.
Speaker 26: It means lasagna has been cooked.
Speaker 24: Well.
Speaker 3: The certain NRL player might have a view on this issue.
Speaker 3: Was published in the Australian Financial Review Today excellent journal
Speaker 3: that it is A report has found that twenty two
Speaker 3: percent of employees report often or rarely, rarely use the
Speaker 3: toilet their workplace because they're concerned about embarrassing. There is
Speaker 3: issues of cleanliness, but there's a concern that some people
Speaker 3: don't want to do certain things in the tour.
Speaker 23: Kind of a program. Are you running here? It's a
Speaker 23: poole driving home on a Friday night, ready for a
Speaker 23: big weekend. They've worked all week and you bring it
Speaker 23: up toilets at workplaces.
Speaker 3: This is the Australian Financial Review, which our company does own.
Speaker 3: It's probably the most respected in the short on content
Speaker 3: this week. Right, Okay, so do you have concerns that
Speaker 3: you go?
Speaker 1: First? John?
Speaker 18: I can, Well, it's not a problem for me. I'll
Speaker 18: just say I'll just say two quick ones. Can I
Speaker 18: First of all, over the years now that there have
Speaker 18: been people who've been suspected of doing it because it
Speaker 18: saves money at home. The second thing, though, is that
Speaker 18: I think it's concerning. No, I think I think the
Speaker 18: concern might be that you may leave, You may leave
Speaker 18: some something in that. Yeah, you may poison the atmosphere
Speaker 18: in the bathroom. Easy. The easy answer to that is
Speaker 18: as you're walking out and someone walks back in, you go, oh, leave.
Speaker 18: He's been here about five minutes.
Speaker 23: Would you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have to tell the story previously. But there
Speaker 3: wasn't incident in the toilets at Parliament House.
Speaker 23: Oh hang on a second, finish that story. You'd be
Speaker 23: bringing up being Adeen macatt.
Speaker 3: A politician in the cubicle and I wasn't in the
Speaker 3: cubicles section and he was on the phone. I could
Speaker 3: overhear a conversation he was happy about very sensitive political.
Speaker 26: Which just proves.
Speaker 27: Look, let me tell you I work in a lot
Speaker 27: of male dominated industries and none of them have ever
Speaker 27: had a problem with going at work.
Speaker 26: I can tell you right now.
Speaker 1: Got to go.
Speaker 23: You've got to go, and don't they jam. There was
Speaker 23: a toilet paper thief here at t GB.
Speaker 3: Flad was it before bring the lockdowns?
Speaker 23: Well, I'm not prepared to name names, but it no
Speaker 23: longer works here and I once day sprung him walking
Speaker 23: out with a couple of rolls of toilet paper.
Speaker 26: Times are tough, buddy, tough cost.
Speaker 23: Of living crisis at the old joint, that John noa rap.
Speaker 3: There was a very well known personality who was filling
Speaker 3: in who is going to open the book? Put reams
Speaker 3: of Baker in there? Now, Yeah, that is the most
Speaker 3: entertaining Friday roundtable we've had yet.
Speaker 18: Levy's going to get flooded with messages. Now, come on,
Speaker 18: who was it was? Toilet?
Speaker 26: Just think it thumbs up?
Speaker 23: Put a students in initial. Well, he works four days
Speaker 23: a week at the moment.
Speaker 3: Put it that way, John Stanley, Amanda Rose, Mark Levy
Speaker 3: that here's the Friday round table and late's Cape Coller.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 9: The long running industrial dispute for Sydney rail workers is
Speaker 9: a step closer to resolution. The Fair Work Commission has
Speaker 9: ordered a ballot beheld to see if workers support the
Speaker 9: in principal deal reached between the combined rail unions and
Speaker 9: state government. Foreign Affairs is now urging Australians not to
Speaker 9: travel to Israel, and anyone in Iran is being told
Speaker 9: to shelter in place. Iran is vowing to respond to
Speaker 9: Israeli strikes on the country. A teenager has been charged
Speaker 9: with hitting a police officer with a motorbike. The nineteen
Speaker 9: year old man is accused of driving his bike at
Speaker 9: the constable in Koffs Harbor, leaving him with leg injuries.
Speaker 9: And residents of a Lidkem apartment block have been forced
Speaker 9: to find alternative accommodation after a war was blown out
Speaker 9: in a suspected gas explosion in Sport. Round fifteen of
Speaker 9: the NRL can use tonight on the Gold Coast. This
Speaker 9: Eagles can break back into the top eight with a
Speaker 9: victory over the bottom placed Titans.
Speaker 8: Clinton War News at six.
Speaker 3: S kkati twelve degrees in the coast, fourteen degrees in
Speaker 3: the western suburbs. Mark Guy are coming up and we'll
Speaker 3: have a look at our tips in the NRL for
Speaker 3: this weekend on Sydney Now Chilie Brown Now.
Speaker 2: At Harvey Norman save up to thirty percent plus get
Speaker 2: ten percent in bonus gift cards on Windows eleven computers
Speaker 2: over five hundred dollars. Buffer and Sunday.
Speaker 3: The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference has been held this week
Speaker 3: in Apple's released a new software with phones that if,
Speaker 3: for instance, you ring a utility or a company and
Speaker 3: you're left on hold, the phone is going to be
Speaker 3: so smart. The software in the phone is gonna be
Speaker 3: so smart you actually won't have to stay on hold.
Speaker 3: The phone will let you know when they're ready to
Speaker 3: talk to you. Charlie Brown abe talking about all this
Speaker 3: stuff on Life and Technology tomorrow morning. Hello, Charlie. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty impressed with what apples come up with you.
Speaker 28: Yeah, it's Google, Apple. I've both been working on this
Speaker 28: idea of let's make the phones work for us. And
Speaker 28: when it's kind of like.
Speaker 18: The reverse call robot. Right, You've got robots that are.
Speaker 28: Used by big call centers and big companies banks, telco's,
Speaker 28: insurance companies, and they ring you and they don't have
Speaker 28: a human on the end until you've been on the
Speaker 28: phone for a few seconds.
Speaker 18: Going hello Hello.
Speaker 28: This is about reversing that and giving you more control
Speaker 28: one over who is ringing you and whether you're going
Speaker 28: to sit there on the phone answering it, or whether
Speaker 28: you're going to want the phone to answer for you,
Speaker 28: identify who they are, what they're calling about, then you
Speaker 28: choose to take the call from there. And also what
Speaker 28: you just described as well, actually having the phone, having
Speaker 28: the person on the other end of the phone on hold,
Speaker 28: giving more information and then you pick up the call.
Speaker 3: It's just remarkable. Was there something the conference that's surprised you.
Speaker 28: I think what's interesting is that iPad is finally going
Speaker 28: to have a user experience that is more closely aligned
Speaker 28: with the Windows based user experience the way we use
Speaker 28: Windows in a PC, and we have multiple windows for
Speaker 28: multiple things, and we position them around the screen. Apple
Speaker 28: iPad's going to have that from about September when they
Speaker 28: bring out that software update for selected iPads, mainly the
Speaker 28: newer ones. And I think people who use iPad who
Speaker 28: have been asking about this only since there actually has
Speaker 28: been an iPad, I think people are going to get
Speaker 28: a lot of value.
Speaker 1: Out of that.
Speaker 3: So I'm addicted to my iPad. But what I've and
Speaker 3: this may be part of what Apple's finding. My iPad
Speaker 3: might be as old as ten years old now and
Speaker 3: it's still I've got to reboot it a fair bit,
Speaker 3: but it still works pretty well. I suspect you won't
Speaker 3: be able to update the software on that because I
Speaker 3: can't even find I need a new cover for it.
Speaker 3: I can't even find a new cover online for it.
Speaker 28: Yeah, these kinds of sort of read ourrectional features that
Speaker 28: they bring out often there maybe the last three or
Speaker 28: four years the device is that old, are coming out
Speaker 28: with the iPhone features that we talked about, with the
Speaker 28: call screening feature that's going to be back to about
Speaker 28: iPhone eleven that that will go to. So you know
Speaker 28: you've got iPhone sixteen at the moment, so back to eleven.
Speaker 28: That's not too bad, that's pretty good. But some people
Speaker 28: do miss out with the older hardware and that's just
Speaker 28: part and parcel. People do complain about it every year
Speaker 28: that I'd rather have I want that feature too. It's
Speaker 28: because they're trying to match the software experience to that
Speaker 28: hardware capability of the device. And that's part and parcel
Speaker 28: with what we experience with technology. What's coming up on
Speaker 28: the program tomorrow more about worldwide develop a conference with
Speaker 28: our Mac expert Mike Boyd. We're gonna have a chat
Speaker 28: to him. Also, why all of a sudden people are
Speaker 28: buying regular cameras once again? Certain models or cameras sold
Speaker 28: out in stores.
Speaker 18: Will go through.
Speaker 28: What is going on tomorrow when we chat to Canon.
Speaker 3: Will be listening from eight to clock. Thank you, Charlie.
Speaker 3: Thanks cleant Aali Brown Tomorrow, Life and Technology from eight
Speaker 3: o'clock on two GB.
Speaker 18: Finance update.
Speaker 3: Not a great day on the stock market today. The
Speaker 3: All Ordinary is trading down point three per cent eight thousand,
Speaker 3: seven hundred and seventy points. The A six two hundred
Speaker 3: down point two one percent, eight five hundred and forty
Speaker 3: seven one Australian dollar buying sixty four US cents. There
Speaker 3: is going to be a lot of speculation and focus
Speaker 3: on oil prices over the next couple of days, given
Speaker 3: what's occurring in the Middle East. Now Brent crude is
Speaker 3: most relevant to our market. It's gone up today by
Speaker 3: as much as thirteen percent to seventy eight dollars US
Speaker 3: a barrel at one point. It's moderated a little since then,
Speaker 3: it's about seventy four dollars as it stands. But what's
Speaker 3: this going to mean for us when we go to
Speaker 3: fill up our cars. That's the crucial issue. Money News
Speaker 3: producer Tom Story has spoken with the Conwealth Banks for
Speaker 3: Rick Darr about this today.
Speaker 20: If we're talking seventy dollars a barrow, where you know
Speaker 20: we would sive us about a dollar eighty five and
Speaker 20: eighty dollars a barrow would get two about two dollars
Speaker 20: a leader. So for Australian I'd think that the seeming
Speaker 20: to be attention to this is going to be significant
Speaker 20: from that side. But yeah, it's a very fluid situation.
Speaker 3: You can hear the full interview on the effect of
Speaker 3: the attacks on oil prices by downloading the Money News
Speaker 3: podcast every Friday. It's presented by Tom every Friday, available
Speaker 3: with your podcasting app of choice.
Speaker 2: On Sydney Now. A weather update will be here to
Speaker 2: help in unexpected weather. NRIM Insurance a help company.
Speaker 3: It is fairly dry across Sydney. There is the chance
Speaker 3: of a couple of showers later this evening. Right now
Speaker 3: in the city twelve degrees fourteen in the west Tomorrow
Speaker 3: a shower or two so if the kids have sport
Speaker 3: in the morning, could be washed out, or that the
Speaker 3: ground should be okay, so I reckon they'll play top
Speaker 3: A seventeen degrees, partly cloudy day with some showers around
Speaker 3: the middle of the day. On Sunday, a partly cloudy day,
Speaker 3: some fog in the morning. It should be dry, maybe
Speaker 3: the slight chance of a shower, but a mostly dry day.
Speaker 3: Eighteen degrees Monday, of course, because we're going back to
Speaker 3: work Sunday in eighteen sunny on Tuesday, sunny on Wednesday
Speaker 3: and sunny on Thursday.
Speaker 2: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 2: Now with Clinton Man on.
Speaker 3: To gb talking Sport Time with Mark guy. Hello, MG.
Speaker 1: Clinton, How are you, my friend?
Speaker 3: I'm good because finally my team had a win.
Speaker 1: They had a great win. At half time it was
Speaker 1: a little bit suss because they were behind. And second
Speaker 1: half in particular, Adam Kanua, Blake and young Brayley were exceptional.
Speaker 1: Brailey must be knocking on the door for that blue jersey.
Speaker 1: He's playing sensationally. I love the way he plays. Is
Speaker 1: a good kid.
Speaker 3: Oh that's one of the best games I've seen Brayley play.
Speaker 3: Look to be honest, MG, I thought the Sharks are
Speaker 3: pretty shoddy in the first half. I didn't think they
Speaker 3: had enough energy, particularly in sort of the back end,
Speaker 3: and the Dragons were all over. The Dragons were having
Speaker 3: a good for really good first half. But it all
Speaker 3: fell apart for the Dragons in the second half and
Speaker 3: the Sharks. We ride over the top. Now, Mitch Moses,
Speaker 3: there's some we brought your news yesterday. He was out
Speaker 3: of origin too, But there's some big news about him
Speaker 3: this afternoon.
Speaker 1: Skins on the Stars half backs calf injury has revealed
Speaker 1: a bit of blow that both he and the Blues.
Speaker 1: He'll be out for six weeks on the sideline, ruining
Speaker 1: him out of the Origin series basically this one and
Speaker 1: the next one. So bad news for New South Wales,
Speaker 1: bad news especially for Paramatter will be without their marquee
Speaker 1: man for at least six weeks. Clinton.
Speaker 3: There's one very very happy man about it though, And
Speaker 3: we feel for Mitch of the moment Dre Luis John
Speaker 3: Stanley because Paramatter applying St. Georgia law in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks.
Speaker 1: How's he? How's he this one? After his team's capitulation
Speaker 1: last night.
Speaker 3: He's not happy.
Speaker 1: He's not happy, just quickly to have the news. Bad
Speaker 1: neues for the Knights. Young gun Fletcher Sharp has been
Speaker 1: really out of tomorrow's game against the Roosters with a
Speaker 1: calf strain as well son another injury this time You're
Speaker 1: not a calf injurym to be really coped. That common
Speaker 1: these days.
Speaker 3: And I see Fletcher Hunt, the winger has signed a
Speaker 3: new deal with the Knights today. Now Fletcher Sharp, Fletcher Hunt,
Speaker 3: they go to the same barber.
Speaker 1: They are twins.
Speaker 10: Twins that's going on with their haircut?
Speaker 1: Oh they look so they're the wild wild West brother.
Speaker 1: They look like the mullet's just flowing in the wind.
Speaker 1: Can they can play?
Speaker 16: There?
Speaker 3: Would have been this news out of Manly today. Tommy
Speaker 3: Trevoyevich was actually offered the chance to be the eighteenth
Speaker 3: man for New south Wales before Game one of Origin.
Speaker 17: Mmm.
Speaker 1: Now this is a prickly one because a lot of
Speaker 1: people would say, oh, wouldn't you jump in the chance
Speaker 1: to the eighteenth man for New south Wales. But I
Speaker 1: think in Tom's situation it's kind of different because the
Speaker 1: one thing he needs is casing his legs at this
Speaker 1: stage of his career. The more he runs, I think
Speaker 1: the more he thinks it's going to be more beneficial
Speaker 1: for his hamstrings and his lower back. So I think
Speaker 1: sitting on the pine and not having a game pill
Speaker 1: he would have been detrimental or someone like Tom I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think Tom's an eighteenth man. I
Speaker 1: think you've got to have someone like a Burden or
Speaker 1: another young blake who give him a smack. A Galvin
Speaker 1: think Lucky Galvin could be well mate, I'll tell right now.
Speaker 1: If Matt Burton, somehow I didn't want to know, got
Speaker 1: injured or something over the weekend, I would throw Origin
Speaker 1: eighteenth man.
Speaker 3: I've heard it all now. I think if Lockyer Galvin's
Speaker 3: a pointed the next Australian test coach. I can understand
Speaker 3: that if Locky Galvin is going to advise Cameron Serraldo
Speaker 3: from the box. I can understand that if Locky Galvin
Speaker 3: maybe takes over from Andrew Abda and Peter Landy's at
Speaker 3: some point. I can understand that. But origin please have
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 1: Got the Lochlan Galvin bug that everyone's got the moment,
Speaker 1: I just might give myself another cup of saying that.
Speaker 3: Now, let's just quickly look at the tips. We all
Speaker 3: tipped the Sharks last night, and I should point out,
Speaker 3: you know, I cop it for tipping against the Sharks
Speaker 3: a lot, and I tipped the Sharks last night. I'm
Speaker 3: just looking at the tips from last night. John Stanley
Speaker 3: tipped the Sharks over the Dragon.
Speaker 1: The Sharks he did, and he's a lot higher up
Speaker 1: the ladder than we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're at the.
Speaker 1: Bottom, exactly same with me. We're fifty seven, you're fifty one.
Speaker 3: Okay, So tonight and the continuous call in will be
Speaker 3: covering this game from o o' clock. Covering starts at
Speaker 3: seven Gold Coast up against many.
Speaker 14: Manly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm gonna have Seagals with
Speaker 3: that one as well. Then tomorrow afternoon five thirty new
Speaker 3: Castle up against the Roosters.
Speaker 1: I think the Roosters, especially now that Fletcher Shark is out.
Speaker 3: Yep, I've got the Roosters as well. The second game
Speaker 3: you'll hear it on the Continuous Call team. The North
Speaker 3: Queens Down Cowboys up against the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Look, I've taken the Cowboys, but not with any great confidence.
Speaker 1: I like the way that the Dolphins played last week
Speaker 1: and they only they've only got Hamasi out, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and other hand got the four out. So tossing
Speaker 1: a coin, but I'll go Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going to go the Dolphins. But it's in Townsville,
Speaker 3: so you'd think the Cowboys. But just with those origin
Speaker 3: players out, I'll get the Dolphins. And the last game
Speaker 3: of the round Sunday afternoon. It's on the Continuous Call team.
Speaker 3: You'll be part of the coverage on Sunday afternoon as well.
Speaker 3: South's up against the Bulldogs.
Speaker 1: Doggies, mate, I think the Bulldogs will be too strong
Speaker 1: for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Galvin's been named to start the game.
Speaker 3: He's playing half back. I'm tipping first try scorer, last
Speaker 3: try scorer Lockey Galvin middle tri scorer as well. He
Speaker 3: may just get the Dali M based on his one performance,
Speaker 3: just on another.
Speaker 1: That's a pretty special note. I've taken the challenge to
Speaker 1: get a pie thrown at my face? What for PTSD awareness?
Speaker 1: It's some emergency. Basically, if you'd like to throw a
Speaker 1: pie at my face, well it's on until June twenty seven.
Speaker 1: It's all. It's all for emergency service workers who are
Speaker 1: who are three times more likely to experienced psychological distress
Speaker 1: than the general population. And if you make a donation
Speaker 1: about fifty dollars, you go on the draw to be
Speaker 1: one of three lucky people to throw a cream pie
Speaker 1: at my face.
Speaker 3: Well, this is fantastic. Firstly, the cause emergency and this,
Speaker 3: as the name suggests, this is to help emergency services
Speaker 3: workers who suffer PTSD and obviously more than in any
Speaker 3: other section of the population. This is to raise money
Speaker 3: for them. But for everybody who donates fifty dollars to
Speaker 3: this campaign, you go into the draw to throw a
Speaker 3: pie at our man's fast face. Yep, you can't fight
Speaker 3: back or eating, can you culd?
Speaker 1: My hands are tied behind my back. Let's we're trying
Speaker 1: to smash the stigma of emergency service trauma one piot
Speaker 1: of time.
Speaker 3: So just do a Google search mark Geyer, emerge and
Speaker 3: see emerge and see you're a legend. You do so
Speaker 3: much for charity and this is a cracker.
Speaker 1: You're a good man for giving me the platform. Brother,
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 3: Good j MG. We'll see you and we'll hear from
Speaker 3: you on Sunday on the Continuous Call Team.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend.
Speaker 3: Bye guya.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on t
Speaker 2: GB col Now one three to one, eight seven three.
Speaker 3: It is quiz time. I need two contestants to play.
Speaker 3: We've had a great prize this week, a one hundred
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Speaker 3: The number is one three one eight seven three. It's
Speaker 3: ten to six to who is coming up in just
Speaker 3: a moment.
Speaker 18: This is awful.
Speaker 3: An Air India flight from Pouquet in Thailand to New
Speaker 3: Delhi in India has received an onboe bomb threat. It's
Speaker 3: had to make an emergency landing at Pouquet. One hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty six passengers on board flight AI three seventy
Speaker 3: nine Air India, the same airline that it sadly has
Speaker 3: been at the center of this horrible crash that's left
Speaker 3: more than two hundred and forty people dead. So not
Speaker 3: much more details about what's occurred, but the threat has
Speaker 3: been taken seriously to the point that Air India has
Speaker 3: been forced to land the jet in Pouquet. In regards
Speaker 3: to the tragedy in India, that the details and the
Speaker 3: investigation is still continuing. It appears that it was a
Speaker 3: problem with the plane itself, that it lost power and
Speaker 3: they can't yet find an explanation for that. And mind you,
Speaker 3: the Boeing seven eight to seven Dreamliner is the most
Speaker 3: sophisticated Boeing jet in Boeing's fleet, and we operate plenty
Speaker 3: of Boeing seven eight sevens in this country. In fact,
Speaker 3: this very plain was in our country just a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks ago. If you see something on the roads,
Speaker 3: let us know about it. One of our listeners has
Speaker 3: just told me about a car on fire Alfred's Point Road,
Speaker 3: So this will be down Elawong. I was actually a
Speaker 3: pasto side of Alfred's Point Bridge. It is heading towards
Speaker 3: the Shire just after the Almet Road intersection. One of
Speaker 3: two lanes is blocked.
Speaker 13: There time to expose your minds.
Speaker 17: Do you maybe again your questioning on Sydney.
Speaker 8: Now estus questions or Agave's questions.
Speaker 19: That's important to patent stry.
Speaker 2: I know how smart you are and as a question,
Speaker 2: get it right Clinton's quick quiz.
Speaker 3: Let's wrap up the show with the Queen's of the Staffternoon.
Speaker 3: I've got one hundred doll a gift nout to give
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Speaker 3: couple of contestants, so we have Nicole online in mount
Speaker 3: And Hello Nicole, Hi. And Rodney's in the Shire at
Speaker 3: Oyster Bay. Hello Rodney, goodby Quintin. You can go first
Speaker 3: because you're from the Shire. Okay, your thirty second starts now,
Speaker 3: which mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland unicorn?
Speaker 3: What color are the stars on the Australian flag, red
Speaker 3: white and blue white. What number do you call in
Speaker 3: America for the emergency services? No, it's nine to one one.
Speaker 3: What does what does the Roman numeral X stand for? Correct?
Speaker 3: You had to finish at least on one. Rodney, You've
Speaker 3: still got a chance. You're in with a chance. Okay, Nicole,
Speaker 3: Your thirty second starts now? True or false? The Q
Speaker 3: in quotas stands for Queensland. True or false? No, it's true.
Speaker 3: Which country? Which country gave us the steam engine?
Speaker 15: England?
Speaker 3: Correct? Which band had stars including Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan
Speaker 3: and George Harrison. I don't know, traveling Wilbrigs True or false?
Speaker 3: True or false? Today is the only Friday the thirteenth
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Speaker 7: True?
Speaker 19: Correct?
Speaker 18: You are the winner.
Speaker 3: You're on two. I didn't think we were going to
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Speaker 3: Find out more at Kia dot com dot au. Mick
Speaker 3: mack or Michael McLaren is known as the best dressed
Speaker 3: member of the two GB team, but Adam Hawes has
Speaker 3: decided to rival him. You're actually wearing one of his jackets.
Speaker 3: I'm channeling McLaren.
Speaker 23: Yeah, he's a stylish man.
Speaker 19: I've got the vest on.
Speaker 23: What do you think? Lovely nice?
Speaker 1: Ye?
Speaker 23: Well, this is an home note don't want to.
Speaker 3: Talking about but you're the webcam.
Speaker 23: Yeah, I just thought to try something different. Now we've
Speaker 23: got plenty coming up on the show.
Speaker 29: Darren Lockie will join us to talk about the Seagulls
Speaker 29: via the Titans the big game tonight, we'll talk about
Speaker 29: the eighteenth Man debate.
Speaker 23: I've got a little idea on that one. And your
Speaker 23: Sharky's had a win over the the lead.
Speaker 3: They were terrible in the first half, they were good
Speaker 3: in the second.
Speaker 23: Okay, I'm good, they sure did.
Speaker 29: Jaron Rooney will join us to talk about the Australian
Speaker 29: swimming trials in Adelaide and I've tracked down sprint sensation.
Speaker 3: Locke Kennedy is in Italy ah okay, so to him,
Speaker 3: we were the sports of Adam Hawes coming up at
Speaker 3: six o'clock to night, continuous call team. Don't forget they
Speaker 3: will be covering all the footy right across the weekend,
Speaker 3: but leaving the boys from seven o'clock tonight. We've had
Speaker 3: a big week. Thank you for your company, thanks to Emily,
Speaker 3: Ben Patty who's been part of the team this week
Speaker 3: and of course Liam. We've had a great time. We've
Speaker 3: got a big week coming up next week as well.
Speaker 3: Either Davis is going to be on the program. Hope
Speaker 3: you can join us. Have a good weekend. That's Sydney now,