Speaker 1: Welcome to the ben Fordham Podcast.
Speaker 2: Hi there, Welcome to Wednesday, June eleven. Coming up on
Speaker 2: the podcast today, the Greens accused of racism and the
Speaker 2: accusations are coming from within. A leaked report from the
Speaker 2: former Green senator Derinda Cox telling everyone what it's really
Speaker 2: like inside the Greens. Also, ten killed in a school
Speaker 2: shooting in Austria. You'll hear the moment the gunment open
Speaker 2: fire and kids were hiding under their school desks. In
Speaker 2: the United States, tensions rises. More troops are sent to
Speaker 2: stop the protests in Los Angeles and they're not just riding,
Speaker 2: they're looting. A major milestone for Western Sydney's new airport.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to one of the workers, twenty year old
Speaker 2: Emma Tran. Why does Google have a Fox problem? Adam
Speaker 2: Gilchris will solve that from the UK and kids on
Speaker 2: dirt bikes causing chaos on suburban streets will have a
Speaker 2: look at that, and a whole a lot more. The
Speaker 2: show starts now.
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Speaker 2: We start this morning with a horrific incident in Austria.
Speaker 2: At least ten people have been killed dozens are injured
Speaker 2: after a school shooting. A former student is understood to
Speaker 2: be responsible for the attack in Austria. It's happened at
Speaker 2: a secondary school. Police believe the twenty one year old
Speaker 2: shootor was operating alone when he entered the school with
Speaker 2: two guns. Other students were recording on their mobile phones
Speaker 2: while hiding under their desks. The sound of gunshots rang
Speaker 2: through the corridors of the secondary school. Students were running
Speaker 2: for their lives. Seven girls have been killed and three
Speaker 2: boys are dead. The death toll may rise. More than
Speaker 2: three hundred police have been called to the area. Ambulance
Speaker 2: has arrived within minutes and following the rampage, the shooter
Speaker 2: took his own life. His body was found in a bathroom.
Speaker 2: Police have no information about a motive. The shooter wasn't
Speaker 2: previously known to police. He attended the school in the past,
Speaker 2: but he did not graduate. The Austrian Chancellor, Christian Stoker,
Speaker 2: has labeled it a dark day in the history of
Speaker 2: the country. He says there are no words for the
Speaker 2: pain and grief that we are feeling right now. He
Speaker 2: says this is a national tragedy that has deeply shaken
Speaker 2: our entire country.
Speaker 3: Lingis has been Fordhamlife for Sydney's Best Breakfast on t
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Speaker 2: There is a story breaking right now about Derinda Cox,
Speaker 2: who until recently was a Green Senator and then she
Speaker 2: sensationally defected to the Labor Party, holding that news conference
Speaker 2: with Anthony Albanisi in Western Australia and it took everyone
Speaker 2: by surprise. And this is the same Dorinda Cox who
Speaker 2: had previously been accused of bullying the living daylights out
Speaker 2: of people when she was in the Greens. Well now
Speaker 2: as story Lands. This morning, Dorinda Cox accuses the Greens
Speaker 2: of racism in a scathing resignation letter and this has
Speaker 2: been leaked to the ABC. In a fiery resignation letter,
Speaker 2: ex Green Senator Dirnda Cox has accused her former party
Speaker 2: of racism and ignoring serious claims she raised, including disputed
Speaker 2: allegations of an assault at Perth Airport by a party member.
Speaker 2: The senator also denied in her letter ever bullying others.
Speaker 2: Senator Cox spectacularly defected to Labor after sitting as a
Speaker 2: Green Senator for the past four years. The Greens revoked
Speaker 2: Senator Cox's membership last week after her announcement. In a
Speaker 2: formal resignation letter, Dirinda Cox said she was no longer
Speaker 2: bound by confidentialality obligations and could put on the record
Speaker 2: how the Greens had fled. She says, in my experience,
Speaker 2: the Greens tolerated culture that permits violence against First Nations women.
Speaker 2: In this respect, the party is deeply racist. So that's
Speaker 2: Direnda Cox talking about the Greens deeply racist. She says,
Speaker 2: my reports to the party in parliamentary workplace services range
Speaker 2: from being assaulted at Perth Airport by a party member,
Speaker 2: which was ignored, and then she also says that she
Speaker 2: was advised not to report that matter to police and
Speaker 2: the Greens have disputed that account. The Senator is also
Speaker 2: named incidents of rumors being shared within the Greens networks
Speaker 2: as examples of toxic culture. She says the Greens failed
Speaker 2: in their duty of care for my staff and me
Speaker 2: and they disregarded the reported and obvious impact of what
Speaker 2: was occurring. The focus was solely on winning seats. So
Speaker 2: that's the statement that has found its way into the
Speaker 2: media this morning from Dirinda Cox. It's her resignation letter
Speaker 2: from the Greens, and that's her way of saying see
Speaker 2: you later.
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Speaker 2: Have you come across as Sydney super Rats. There's a
Speaker 2: new genetic mutation of black rats, which are the most
Speaker 2: common type in Australia. New research shows they're harder to
Speaker 2: get rid of because they've developed a resistance to rat poison. Great,
Speaker 2: that's just what we need, super rats. The environmental toxicologist
Speaker 2: Alisia Gorbald has tested hundreds of rats across Australia. What
Speaker 2: a job. In Sydney, forty six percent of black rats
Speaker 2: have been found to have the genetic mutation. Experts say
Speaker 2: the findings are alarming because rat poison is already lethal
Speaker 2: for native birds, frogs and reptiles, so if it's not
Speaker 2: working to kill the rats, then it's killing something else instead.
Speaker 2: The researcher says, if you're using one of the baits
Speaker 2: that don't work, people will probably try to use more
Speaker 2: and more and more, and it's feeding back into the
Speaker 2: cycle of increasing the rates of resistance in the population.
Speaker 2: She's told The Sydney Morning Herald we're ending up essentially
Speaker 2: with a public health issue because we've got these rats
Speaker 2: that can't be controlled, so be careful, Sydney. The super
Speaker 2: rats are taking over. It is June eleven, and on
Speaker 2: this day some very special people arrived down Under. Now
Speaker 2: this is a bit of a confusing hint. Yes, we've
Speaker 2: made this our toughest hint yet. I think the year
Speaker 2: was nineteen sixty four. And the boys, well there were
Speaker 2: four of them, but they're unrelated to this music. It
Speaker 2: happened on this day and the answer is coming up
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Speaker 2: There's an update today on an issue we've spoken about
Speaker 2: before and we hate to say we told you so,
Speaker 2: but we did say in March that this was an
Speaker 2: issue that wasn't going to go away, and we did
Speaker 2: say back then that Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi should step
Speaker 2: in and just deal with it. Three months later, we
Speaker 2: read this today in The Australian from Dennis Shanahan and
Speaker 2: Jeff Chambers. Anthony Albanesi has been asked to personally intervene
Speaker 2: in a four hundred million dollar compensation claim for Australian
Speaker 2: and American citizens as part of an upcoming deal with
Speaker 2: Donald Trump on trade tariffs. As the Prime Minister prepares
Speaker 2: to meet the President on the sidelines of the G seven,
Speaker 2: trade representatives in Washington, DC are seeking a resolution to
Speaker 2: the compensation claim arising from the New South Wales government's
Speaker 2: confiscation of mining leases back in twenty fourteen. US trade
Speaker 2: representatives have repeatedly raised the lack of compensation for US
Speaker 2: investors as a breach of the US Australia Free Trade Agreement.
Speaker 2: The US has listed the disagreement as an official investment
Speaker 2: barrier in its annual Foreign Trade report released in March.
Speaker 2: American and Australian representatives of Mum and Dad shareholders have
Speaker 2: appealed to mister Albineasy to provide compensation. So that's in
Speaker 2: the Australian today. And as we said back in March,
Speaker 2: when America is slapping US with tariffs, Australia has the
Speaker 2: chance to do a deal here with Donald Trump. Seven
Speaker 2: hundred thousand Americans were left with a bad taste in
Speaker 2: their mouth about Australia all because of this new coal disaster.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump wants to get a win for them. The
Speaker 2: PM should take a leaf out of the Trump playbook
Speaker 2: and do a deal. That's what we said back in March.
Speaker 2: So the American investors in New Coal, just like the
Speaker 2: Aussie ones, had no way of knowing that a corrupt
Speaker 2: New South Wales minister had granted a coal license, and
Speaker 2: the Independent Commission against Corruption made it clear that the
Speaker 2: company and its shareholders were innocent parties and were never
Speaker 2: accused of wrongdoing. So mum and Dad investors lost everything.
Speaker 2: Seventy percent of them are Australians and seven hundred thousand Americans.
Speaker 2: Their only crime buying shares in an Aussie coal company.
Speaker 2: Australian now has the chance to make good on this
Speaker 2: injustice and just so we're clear on something, because whenever
Speaker 2: we mention new coal, we do receive feedback along these lines.
Speaker 2: This is not a case of an investment going south,
Speaker 2: because that's all part of the risk of investing. Sometimes
Speaker 2: they go up, sometimes they go down. That's not what
Speaker 2: this is about. In this case, the vent yesters essentially
Speaker 2: had their assets confiscated. The New South Wales government canceled
Speaker 2: the license and they took away New Coal's ability to
Speaker 2: seek compensation, and nobody anywhere says that it was fair.
Speaker 2: The PM needs to bring something to the negotiating table
Speaker 2: with Donald Trump and Washington. DC is saying loud and clear,
Speaker 2: this issue needs to be fixed.
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Speaker 2: A paramedic is raising concerns about confusing signs at Gosford
Speaker 2: Hospital on the New South Wales central coast. On the signs,
Speaker 2: Indigenous language is used to describe the area of the
Speaker 2: hospital or what the room is used for, and then
Speaker 2: in smaller writing below there's an English translation. For example,
Speaker 2: one of the signs says badge al barrong. Under it
Speaker 2: it's translate to sick cave. What does sick cave mean?
Speaker 2: Well below the main sign is another one saying emergency department.
Speaker 2: Oh so badgel barong means sick cave and sick cave
Speaker 2: means emergency department. Can you imagine if you're a busy
Speaker 2: ambo looking for the ed. There's another sign which says
Speaker 2: manna gallering boga. It's translated to bring back. What does
Speaker 2: bring back mean? Well below the main sign is another
Speaker 2: one saying resuscitation, bays so maner gallering. Boga means bring back,
Speaker 2: and bring back means resuscitation, bays Rod Roberts. He is
Speaker 2: the independent upper House MP. He's seen these signs as well,
Speaker 2: and he wants to have his say, and he's on
Speaker 2: the line, Rod, good morning to you.
Speaker 4: Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 2: How confusing do they want to make it?
Speaker 4: Well, it's very confusing, Ben, But not any is a confusing, Mate.
Speaker 4: I like to think it's danger if you were to
Speaker 4: rush in there as a parent with a sick child,
Speaker 4: or you're coming into yourself with an injury, blood spurting
Speaker 4: out of you. For example, Mate, you're not looking for
Speaker 4: Budjong bar wrong. You want the biggest sign that shows
Speaker 4: you where the emergency department is so you can get
Speaker 4: treated as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: I think we've become accustomed to indigenous names being put
Speaker 2: up on various signs around the place, but this is
Speaker 2: actually given center stage. So the main sign at the top.
Speaker 2: And we know the way the human mind works, in
Speaker 2: the way our eyes work. If you've got a sign
Speaker 2: at the top and a sign at the bottom, we
Speaker 2: go to the top first, and the first sign says
Speaker 2: bagel bar rang. Then you see sick cave, then you
Speaker 2: see emergency department. Shouldn't it say emergency department at the.
Speaker 5: Top, of course it should.
Speaker 4: I remember most a long time since I went to school, Ben,
Speaker 4: But I remember you learned to read from the top
Speaker 4: of the page and work your way down. So the
Speaker 4: first thing you look at is for the very top,
Speaker 4: have emergency at the top in big print, and if
Speaker 4: you want to do something else, put it below. But Ben,
Speaker 4: once I found out about this stuff, I need a
Speaker 4: bit of research. So the last census the Central Coast
Speaker 4: Local Government Area where Gosford Hospital is only four point
Speaker 4: nine percent of the population identifies Indigenous four point nine percent.
Speaker 4: If you want to put something up, put it up,
Speaker 4: put it in small printment, make sure the word emergency
Speaker 4: is the big highlighted word.
Speaker 2: The other issue you have, of course, is is there
Speaker 2: are so many different Indigenous languages. So you might have
Speaker 2: someone coming from Campsy in New South Wales who might
Speaker 2: be Indigenous and they're not going to understand what manner
Speaker 2: garling vulgar necessarily means.
Speaker 4: Well, exactly, we know there's different mobs all around the place,
Speaker 4: and all these different mobs have different languages, so it's
Speaker 4: not going to assist anybody there. Then these hospitals are
Speaker 4: going to get back to their core role, and their
Speaker 4: core basics is attending, comforting and treating injured people, not
Speaker 4: making wow political ideology statements. And I've had another look
Speaker 4: at this Central Coast hospital too, being so the last
Speaker 4: lot of stats that came out from the Bureau of
Speaker 4: Health Information in the Central Coast Gosford Hospital, only fifty
Speaker 4: three percent, sorry, fifty five percent of the people start
Speaker 4: their treatment on time. In the ed there's a benchmark
Speaker 4: time and only fifty five percent of them start treatment
Speaker 4: on its time. And why on hospital which is part
Speaker 4: of the same local health district, only forty seven percent
Speaker 4: of people start treatment on time. These hospitals got to
Speaker 4: get back to doing the basics. And again in this
Speaker 4: Mornings Telegraph you have seen it ben big story on
Speaker 4: how the waiting times are blown out. Concentrate on their
Speaker 4: core business, the business of attending to people, not making
Speaker 4: political statements.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I'm also having a look here at one of these signs.
Speaker 2: I think it's quite insulting to Indigenous people when you
Speaker 2: call a room the bring back room instead of resuscitation base.
Speaker 2: What are they suggesting that Indigenous people don't know what
Speaker 2: a resuscitation bay is.
Speaker 4: Well, exactly, it's a bit of an insult. As I
Speaker 4: say four point nine percent of the population is Indigenous
Speaker 4: in the Central Coast area. They can obviously all speak
Speaker 4: English men because they all completed the census. I think
Speaker 4: it is an insult to them.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I know you're usually going into bout on behalf of
Speaker 2: coppers as a former police officer, but on this occasion
Speaker 2: you'll be supporting the paramedics who are saying, can we
Speaker 2: just have plain English to let us know where the
Speaker 2: ED is.
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, the hard working paramedics and of course the nurses
Speaker 4: who are on the frontline would be copping the brun
Speaker 4: of it from people that are confused, upset, not knowing
Speaker 4: their way around the building. Just have it in plain English.
Speaker 4: We're not talking about some airy faery area here, Ben,
Speaker 4: We're talking about an emergency department in a hospital.
Speaker 2: We're talking to Rod Roberts, the police officer turned independent
Speaker 2: Upper House MP. While we've got you, Karen Webbers wrapped
Speaker 2: up her time as the new So That Wales Police Commissioner.
Speaker 2: She's now been appointed the state government's Special Advisor on
Speaker 2: Domestic violence. But as we read in the Daily Telegraph today,
Speaker 2: under Karen Webb's Watcher's Commissioner, incidents of domestic and family
Speaker 2: violence increased and the number of checks on AVOs went down.
Speaker 2: So the questions being asked today is she the right
Speaker 2: person for this role?
Speaker 4: Well, I don't particularly think so, Ben. I mean, if
Speaker 4: she's got all these great strategies to reduce domestic violence,
Speaker 4: what has she done over the last three years while
Speaker 4: she's been commissioned the police? Why is she saving it
Speaker 4: until she's gone into some role with Jodie Harrison, the
Speaker 4: Minister for Women. I just I don't think that there's
Speaker 4: anything there, and I think this is some sort of
Speaker 4: political payback for Karen being pushed out the door.
Speaker 2: Have you got any word on who the next commission
Speaker 2: is going to be?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Ben, that's way above my pay gradet, way above my
Speaker 4: But I'll tell you what, whoever it is, we'll have
Speaker 4: a hard job in front of them, but they'll have
Speaker 4: my full support because we've got to turn this police
Speaker 4: force back around.
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time, ride good on your Ben, Thanks
Speaker 2: very much. Rod Roberts, the Upper House MP in New
Speaker 2: South Wales Parliament, and just going back to Gosford Hospital
Speaker 2: and my thanks to the ambo who sent this through.
Speaker 2: They don't want to be identified for obvious reasons. I mean,
Speaker 2: how confusing do you want to make it if you're
Speaker 2: a paramedic pushing her patient through a hospital and look,
Speaker 2: a lot of the time maybe you know where the
Speaker 2: ED is, but you never know. You might have someone else,
Speaker 2: a trainee who's coming along and they're looking for the
Speaker 2: emergency department and instead you've got bad jewel bar ung
Speaker 2: sick cave and then down below emergency department. Well, shouldn't
Speaker 2: it be emergency department at the top, shouldn't we say?
Speaker 2: Look in this kind of setting a little bit like
Speaker 2: when you've got signs on the road or at an
Speaker 2: airport and people are just trying to get from A
Speaker 2: to B. Let's not worry about going woke. Let's just
Speaker 2: make it easy for people. Just have emergency department. And
Speaker 2: how insulting to Indigenous people that you call resuscitation bays
Speaker 2: bring back rooms as in bring them back to life
Speaker 2: manner gal raung baga bring back and then below you
Speaker 2: find out that means resuscitation bays. How difficult do you
Speaker 2: want to make it?
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Speaker 2: The Health Minister Ryan Parker, he says, Ben, leave that
Speaker 2: with me. My priority is for staff, patients and visitors
Speaker 2: to know where they are going and how they can
Speaker 2: get access the most appropriate way when they're inside a hospital.
Speaker 2: So that's from the Health Minister Ryan park He's already
Speaker 2: responded to that conversation we just had with Rod Roberts
Speaker 2: saying leave it with me. He's looking into it right now.
Speaker 2: Tim says I've seen these indigenous signs at Maxville Hospital too.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth says, give us a break. English is the universal language.
Speaker 2: Jim says, I wonder how many people who identifies indigenous
Speaker 2: in Gosford would understand what the signs mean. Anyway, Joe says,
Speaker 2: Gosford Hospital what a total joke. Jack says, why are
Speaker 2: we catering to four percent of the population. keV says
Speaker 2: sick Cave sounds like a place that Batman has to
Speaker 2: attend when he gets sick. And this is a good
Speaker 2: point too. Jamie says, on the signs in the hospital
Speaker 2: confusing enough for non Aboriginals, how confusing do you reckon
Speaker 2: it is for people of ethnic origins. Well, that's true
Speaker 2: as well. You have people from all different parts of
Speaker 2: the world who call Australia home and it would have
Speaker 2: been challenging enough for them to work out English for
Speaker 2: some of them who don't come from English speaking parts
Speaker 2: of the world, and then they're confronted with manor gallarung
Speaker 2: Bulga bring back and bad jul barung sick cave. Just
Speaker 2: call it the emergency department and call it the Resuscitation.
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Speaker 2: in just a moment. David has got some happy news
Speaker 2: to share. Good morning to you.
Speaker 7: David, Good morning, Ben, How are you good.
Speaker 2: It involves your parents, Peter and Pat.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Peter and Pat from Beverly Hill celebrating their seventieth
Speaker 8: seven to oh wedding anniversary today.
Speaker 2: Well what are they doing to celebrate?
Speaker 8: Well, we're all going to extended families heading down the
Speaker 8: Berrima for the weekend.
Speaker 2: How did they stay married for so long? Is there
Speaker 2: a secret that they can share?
Speaker 8: I'm not sure, but the family still together as a rule.
Speaker 8: I've actually got three of their great grandkids.
Speaker 5: You wish to say happy anniversaries.
Speaker 2: They may, oh, yeah, that's fine. Who are the grandkids?
Speaker 2: Who's going to yell out?
Speaker 6: Ella? Brody and Mason?
Speaker 4: Here they go happy.
Speaker 2: That is so sweet. Thank you very much, David, and
Speaker 2: we hope you have a great day today, Peter and
Speaker 2: Pat from the whole family, including the grandkids. One three
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Speaker 2: Now this is good news and it's probably only a
Speaker 2: matter of time before we see this happen in New
Speaker 2: South Wales. The Queensland government is making Jack's Law even tougher.
Speaker 2: Police in Queensland will soon have unprecedented powers to search
Speaker 2: people for knives in public places. Officers will no longer
Speaker 2: need a warrant or reasonable suspicion to conduct the searchers.
Speaker 2: They'll only need permission from a senior officer to wand
Speaker 2: people in some public places. It's an expansion on the
Speaker 2: existing wanding laws which on a seventeen year old Jack
Speaker 2: Beasley he was fatally stabbed during a night out on
Speaker 2: the Gold Coast in twenty nineteen. The legislation currently gives
Speaker 2: police the ability to search people in specific locations, including
Speaker 2: nightlife precincts and public transport. But the beefed up legislation
Speaker 2: is due to pass Parliament today and it will give
Speaker 2: police even more powers. It follows the initial success of
Speaker 2: Jack's Law in Queensland. The Queensland Police Minister Dan Purdy
Speaker 2: says in twenty twenty five, to date, one hundred and
Speaker 2: seventy seven weapons have been located and seized. The items
Speaker 2: located include knives, machetes, flick knives, a handsaw, knuckle dusters, screwdrivers, nunchucks,
Speaker 2: a star knife, an acts and raisers. He's told The
Speaker 2: Australian we can never know how many lives have already
Speaker 2: been saved. So we followed Jack's Law in New South Wales.
Speaker 2: And by the way, that was only because Jack's dad
Speaker 2: came on this program and the New South Wales government
Speaker 2: heard it and said, maybe we need Jack's Law in
Speaker 2: New South Wales. And already they've seized lots of knives
Speaker 2: in New South Wales. So will we follow the lead
Speaker 2: of Queensland and beef up Jack's Law to make it
Speaker 2: even tougher news you.
Speaker 1: Can trust opinions that matter now. Ben Fordham comments.
Speaker 2: The energy giant AGL is being accused of stealing power
Speaker 2: and allegation the company denies her. Customer alleges he's caught
Speaker 2: the company red handed draining his home battery at peak time,
Speaker 2: and that's the moment when people with batteries are supposed
Speaker 2: to be using their own stored power. It's when electricity
Speaker 2: is most expensive, but instead AGL is accused of taking
Speaker 2: that power for itself. And once the household battery is
Speaker 2: flat well, people are forced to buy electricity back from
Speaker 2: the grid at the highest price of the day. So
Speaker 2: the bloke involved here is the Sydney side of Peter Anderson.
Speaker 2: He got solar panels in twenty nineteen. He added a
Speaker 2: battery in twenty twenty two and AGL offered him a
Speaker 2: one thousand dollars discount if they could tap into his
Speaker 2: battery as part of their virtual power plant. So he
Speaker 2: signed up and at first he didn't notice anything, Peter says,
Speaker 2: for the first year, I don't think they even touched
Speaker 2: the battery. But then things changed. Peter says, AGL started
Speaker 2: draining power from his battery, and they did it at
Speaker 2: the same time electricity prices were highest Peter says, they
Speaker 2: drained the battery and left me having to buy expensive
Speaker 2: power from the grid. That drove up my bill even higher.
Speaker 2: So Peter did everything right. He spent the money, he
Speaker 2: made the investment in renewables, but his battery has been
Speaker 2: raided by AGL. He's told the ABC they just sucked
Speaker 2: the thing down. You could see it every time market
Speaker 2: prices jumped. They were pulling energy from my battery. Peter
Speaker 2: has now left the program and he's warning others about it.
Speaker 2: He says it's not what they promised. Now. AGL denies
Speaker 2: doing anything wrong. They say they always leave at least
Speaker 2: twenty percent of charge in people's batteries. But Peter says
Speaker 2: if that was the case, he wouldn't have been caught
Speaker 2: short and forced to buy electricity at the higher price.
Speaker 2: Why did his bill shoed up right after AGL drained
Speaker 2: his battery. That's the question. And Peter's warning has come
Speaker 2: at the perfect time because today the new Soft Wales
Speaker 2: government is launching a new push to get more households
Speaker 2: to join virtual power plants. The Sydney Morning Herald reports
Speaker 2: the government is doubling the payments to encourage solar households
Speaker 2: to sign up to virtual power plants. The virtual power
Speaker 2: plant is a group of solar powered batteries owned by
Speaker 2: people who have consented for excess stored power to be
Speaker 2: sold to the grid. Well that's fine in theory, but
Speaker 2: Peter's experience shows it wasn't just excess power that was
Speaker 2: being taken from his battery. AGL left him short on
Speaker 2: power and having to buy more. So, by all means,
Speaker 2: sign up to the virtual power plant, but you might
Speaker 2: want to get some guarantees in place that they're not
Speaker 2: going to be pinching your power when you still need
Speaker 2: some and then you're forced to buy other power at
Speaker 2: a higher price.
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Speaker 2: The ABC is pulling the plug on one of its
Speaker 2: longest running shows. The Public Broadcaster is set to acts
Speaker 2: Q and A. The Current Affairs show has been running
Speaker 2: for seventeen seasons. More than five hundred episodes have gone
Speaker 2: to wear since two thousand and eight, and apparently it's
Speaker 2: about to get the chop, just like Channel ten's the
Speaker 2: Project that was pulled after almost sixteen years to make
Speaker 2: way for a new news program On Channel ten. We're
Speaker 2: standing by for an announcement pretty soon from the ABC
Speaker 2: about the future of Q and A, and our entertainment
Speaker 2: editor Peter Ford is on the line right now. Good
Speaker 2: morning to you, Pete Gooda.
Speaker 5: Ben yis. According to the Guardian, that announcement has happened
Speaker 5: this morning, actually as part of the announcement of various
Speaker 5: cost cutting measures and changes at the ABC. But various
Speaker 5: outlets are reporting that Q and A is gone, and
Speaker 5: it's right. It's odd, and as you pointed out there,
Speaker 5: with the project going just forty eight hours ago, it's
Speaker 5: odd to have two significant TV actings midyear. But in
Speaker 5: a way, I think they actually have the same problem.
Speaker 5: Both of those shows I think had a perception problem,
Speaker 5: and that perception was that it had a very leftope
Speaker 5: agenda and anybody with conservative point of view really wasn't
Speaker 5: welcome or they could be part of the discussion but
Speaker 5: would be mocked and killed. So it's odd that I
Speaker 5: think both those shows suffered because of that. Now that
Speaker 5: might be very wrong, those perceptions might be wrong, but
Speaker 5: I think during the time of Stan Grant, particularly when
Speaker 5: he was hosting Q and A, people just really began
Speaker 5: to get very disenchanted with what they saw as being
Speaker 5: very unfair editorial.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look back to when Tony Jones was the host,
Speaker 2: the original host, and look, we hadn't really seen a
Speaker 2: program like that on our screens before. I know they've
Speaker 2: got one in the UK that they call Question Time,
Speaker 2: But I think when it first came along it was
Speaker 2: quite revolutionary and after a few years people just got
Speaker 2: sick of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and look at it always would vary on what
Speaker 5: hot topics for around, It would always vary as to
Speaker 5: what guests they had. But it was also being seen
Speaker 5: increasingly that they didn't want conservative voices to be a
Speaker 5: part of it, and a lot of people just simply
Speaker 5: never got asked to be on it. Were you ever
Speaker 5: asked to be on a bent?
Speaker 2: I was asked to go on Q and A a
Speaker 2: couple of times, and I was busy on those particular nights. Peace,
Speaker 2: I just decided, I think, like your observation, I thought, look,
Speaker 2: why would I go on there. I would be on
Speaker 2: a hiding to nothing and I'd be a lone conservative
Speaker 2: voice on a left leaning program. And I also thought
Speaker 2: to myself, what if people want to listen to my thoughts,
Speaker 2: they can tune in on two GB, I don't need
Speaker 2: to go on the ABC.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that's fair enough too. But look, we'll wait
Speaker 5: and see whether this announcement coming through today. I mean,
Speaker 5: there's no thrill in any TV show getting the shot,
Speaker 5: and you would think of all places there would be
Speaker 5: something a place for a discussion debate program like that
Speaker 5: on the ABC. I mean you referenced the show's early beginnings.
Speaker 5: I'm old enough to remember, for you need to be
Speaker 5: so way back in the day called Monday Conference and
Speaker 5: they would tackle really sorts of controversial issues and people
Speaker 5: would get very angry and storm out, and they had
Speaker 5: a lot of theater attached to it. But I think
Speaker 5: increasingly Q and A also became a lot more orchestrated
Speaker 5: even as to who they allowed to be in the
Speaker 5: audience and what questions were going to be asked, So
Speaker 5: it really lost I think a lot of impact through it.
Speaker 2: I think also too many politicians. When you have politicians
Speaker 2: all the way across from the left hand side of
Speaker 2: the screen to the right hand side of the screen,
Speaker 2: I think we have enough of politicians in our everyday life.
Speaker 2: We don't need to hear them when we're trying to
Speaker 2: get a little bit of information and entertainment at nighttime.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it has to be that blend. And they did
Speaker 5: choose some very unusual and very often incredibly dull people
Speaker 5: to be a part of a debate program.
Speaker 2: Good on your Pete, We appreciate your expertise. Thanks man
Speaker 2: Peter Ford joining us our entertainment editor and in the
Speaker 2: Sydney Morning Herald because to be fair to them, they
Speaker 2: broke this story through their reporters Cindy Yin and Chris Hook.
Speaker 2: They run through a number of the controversies that happened
Speaker 2: on the show over the years, including in twenty fifteen
Speaker 2: where the then Prime Minister Tony Abbott banned his ministers
Speaker 2: from appearing on the program, and that followed an appearance
Speaker 2: of a former terror suspect, Zachi Muller, who appeared live
Speaker 2: in the studio audience to ask a question and famously
Speaker 2: Malcolm Turnbull then said no, I'll go on Q and A.
Speaker 2: And he ditched the suit and wore a leather jacket
Speaker 2: because it was the cool and funky Malcolm Turble trying
Speaker 2: to appeal to the younger audience on the ABC SO
Speaker 2: ABC TV, refusing to confirm the story as yet I've
Speaker 2: sent a question through to one of their executives this
Speaker 2: morning saying is QNA being acts. They haven't answered the question,
Speaker 2: but according to the Guardian, the announcement is coming today.
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Speaker 2: All eyes remain on Aaron Patterson, the accused triple murderer,
Speaker 2: has endured her sixth day now in the witness box,
Speaker 2: and the Crown prosecutor has suggested that Aaron deliberately faked
Speaker 2: being sick after the fatal lunch to downplay any suspicion.
Speaker 2: Aaron told health workers and her family she was suffering
Speaker 2: from nausea after the meal. She's told the court she
Speaker 2: stands by those comments. She's also been accused of making
Speaker 2: up the story she told the jury about a secret
Speaker 2: weight loss surgery. Aaron previously claims she wanted her family
Speaker 2: to believe she was unwell and had to undergo surgery
Speaker 2: related to cancer. She says this was a cover story
Speaker 2: so she could have weight loss surgery. The prosecution has
Speaker 2: attempted to blow a hole in that story. Nannette Rogers
Speaker 2: at Sea has told the court the clinic erin claims
Speaker 2: to have booked surgery at does not offer gastric banding surgery.
Speaker 2: The accused triple murderer has told the court, I'm a
Speaker 2: bit puzzled. I had an appointment with them, and that's
Speaker 2: what's in my memory that the appointment was for. It
Speaker 2: would have been related to weight loss surgery, she told
Speaker 2: the court. Aaron Patterson is accused of killing her in
Speaker 2: laws Don and Gail Patterson, and Gail's sister, Heather Wilkinson.
Speaker 2: She's also accused of attempting to kill Heather's husband, Ian,
Speaker 2: who was the only guest to survive the lunch. Aaron
Speaker 2: Patterson has pleaded not guilty to the chargers and the
Speaker 2: trial continues.
Speaker 1: Sydney's Best Breakfast g.
Speaker 2: Q and A getting the acts today apparently. Sandy says,
Speaker 2: I say good riddance to Q and A. It's as
Speaker 2: irrelevant as the project. I gave up on both of
Speaker 2: them years ago when they became so one sided. Bob
Speaker 2: says Q and A should not be asked. It's a
Speaker 2: great show. I'm certainly not a lefty, but I've been
Speaker 2: on Q and A asking a question from the audience
Speaker 2: four times. One of my questions set the panel talking
Speaker 2: for twenty minutes. He would be a tragedy if it ended.
Speaker 2: It's a great forum for encouraging debate on current issues.
Speaker 2: Ian says, thank god those left wing shows Q and
Speaker 2: A and The Project are going. They're a waste of
Speaker 2: time and money. Look, I think they all have a
Speaker 2: time and place. I think when the Project came along,
Speaker 2: I think it had a place. What do they say,
Speaker 2: news done differently and t'm going to explain news stories
Speaker 2: to younger viewers. And I think when it came along
Speaker 2: it was quite revolutionary. But then after a while, Ok,
Speaker 2: we've seen that now, and we know that people have
Speaker 2: changing tastes, and they after a while. I think it's
Speaker 2: when the one sided element comes in that then they think,
Speaker 2: all right, well, I'm a bit over this now because
Speaker 2: you're only catering to a certain section of the audience.
Speaker 2: And same with Q and A. When it first arrived,
Speaker 2: it was all shiny and brand new, and people thought,
Speaker 2: I haven't seen a show like this illustrator anymore or before,
Speaker 2: and then it just became a constant argument. I think
Speaker 2: when it was politicians arguing with each other, we see
Speaker 2: enough of that during the real question time. We don't
Speaker 2: need to see it on a Monday night on the ABC,
Speaker 2: so there's some feedback to Q and A getting the
Speaker 2: chop which we believe is happening today. It's nineteen minutes
Speaker 2: to nine o'clock Sydney's weather sunny with light winds, sixty
Speaker 2: nine percent humidity right now ten degrees on the coast,
Speaker 2: seven degrees in Sydney's West, a top of eighteen.
Speaker 1: Sydney's Best Breakfast too.
Speaker 2: Well. Locals on the mid North Coast to getting back
Speaker 2: on their feet following recent flooding. It's reminded us about
Speaker 2: the devastation a few years ago across the Northern Rivers
Speaker 2: when liz Moore was inundated by floodwaters in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: water levels reached more than fourteen meters high and during
Speaker 2: the disaster we caught up with some Lizmore locals, including
Speaker 2: Grant Smith from Two Mates Brewing and he was giving
Speaker 2: us updates on what was happening on the ground. And
Speaker 2: in another blow, Two Mates Brewing has copped it again.
Speaker 2: The recent flooding has smashed their property. It reached just
Speaker 2: one meter shy of the record levels recorded in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two, so Grand and the team were forced to
Speaker 2: quickly move everything and they couldn't return to the brewery
Speaker 2: for nearly a week. But in true Ozzy spirit, they
Speaker 2: are back in business and they've got a beer that's
Speaker 2: up the grabs at the moment for all of us
Speaker 2: who like a cold beer. Grant Smith's on the line,
Speaker 2: one of the founders of Two Mates Brewing, Get a.
Speaker 6: Grant, Get a ben.
Speaker 2: How are you mate, good mate, you just won't rest,
Speaker 2: no mate.
Speaker 9: No sun's out up here. So it's a good day,
Speaker 9: all right.
Speaker 2: So the brewery is back up and running again.
Speaker 9: It is, mate. Yeah, we've been up probably since since
Speaker 9: six weeks after twenty two, but been a hell of
Speaker 9: a journey. Had many challenges along the way, but you
Speaker 9: know it's all going pretty well.
Speaker 2: Okay. So you've got a beer that's available at the moment,
Speaker 2: and if we buy the beer, it's going to help
Speaker 2: you boys, Is that right?
Speaker 9: Absolutely?
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
Speaker 9: We created a beer for mid strength market. It's basically
Speaker 9: Northern Rivers three and a half. It's called the Lager.
Speaker 9: We've done that basically for the region. Represents the region,
Speaker 9: probably the legacy for the region. Get the communities caught
Speaker 9: behind it.
Speaker 2: Okay, So you just go to two mates Brewing dot
Speaker 2: com do au.
Speaker 9: That's it, Mate, straight to there. There's a link in
Speaker 9: there to the online store. We're also stocking it through
Speaker 9: a lot of local bottle shops regionally through Southeast Queensland,
Speaker 9: northern New South Wales and nationally, so.
Speaker 2: It's northern rivers, low carb lager. What does the case
Speaker 2: set you back?
Speaker 9: Have fifty bucks mate for a box of thirty, which
Speaker 9: is pretty competitive in this market nowadays.
Speaker 2: Very competitive in this market. Fifty bucks for a case
Speaker 2: of thirty? And what does it taste like? Mate? I
Speaker 2: know that you're going to tell us the truth.
Speaker 9: Absolutely, Mate, tastes like heaven.
Speaker 2: Oh Mate, I'm glad to know that you guys survive,
Speaker 2: because I must admit, when we spoke to you in
Speaker 2: the height of the twenty twenty two floods, I know
Speaker 2: you said you were going to come back, but when
Speaker 2: we said goodbye to you after that first interview, we
Speaker 2: kind of looked at each other here in the studio
Speaker 2: and thought, I don't think those boys are going to
Speaker 2: be back. So Mate, we shouldn't have doubted you.
Speaker 9: It's definitely been a journey, obviously, as I said, a
Speaker 9: lot of trials and tribulations, along the way. But yeah,
Speaker 9: we're still here, mate, We're still producing really quick, good
Speaker 9: quality beer and people are enjoying it, which is the
Speaker 9: main thing.
Speaker 2: I'll be ordering a case today, mate, So thank you
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 9: Good on your ben Thanks for your time, mate.
Speaker 2: Grant Smith, and I'll be getting on their website after
Speaker 2: the show. Two mates Brewing, that's the word. Two two
Speaker 2: two matesbrewing dot com dot au and a pretty good
Speaker 2: deal fifty bucks for thirty beers.
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Speaker 2: Now. We've told you recently about a growing issue which
Speaker 2: is playing out on the streets of Sydney. Kids on
Speaker 2: dirt bikes and mopeeds causing chaos for locals, and we've
Speaker 2: received some footage from Susie who lives in Grandville. It's
Speaker 2: a beautiful sound, isn't it. Every afternoon outside Susie's place,
Speaker 2: she says, guys on dirt bikes and mopeds are terrorizing
Speaker 2: our street. Someone's going to get killed. I've repeatedly contacted
Speaker 2: Granville Police about it, and I've been advised to call
Speaker 2: Triple zero. The boys perform wheelies and burnouts. They have
Speaker 2: young kids on the back of their bikes. They have
Speaker 2: no helmets, no number plates, and they swerve in and
Speaker 2: out of traffic. I nearly had an accident coming home recently.
Speaker 2: Triple zero told me over five hours earlier that they'd
Speaker 2: acknowledge the job. And nothing's been done since it's terrifying
Speaker 2: and it's dangerous and somebody is going to be killed.
Speaker 2: Susie's on the line for us right now. Good morning
Speaker 2: to you, Susie.
Speaker 10: Good morning, Ben.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing you're sick of hearing that noise.
Speaker 11: I am here.
Speaker 10: It's unbearable, it is.
Speaker 2: Yes, How long have you been trying to get something
Speaker 2: done about it?
Speaker 10: Well, this has been going on for like several months,
Speaker 10: close to a year, close to a year now, so
Speaker 10: I've made several attempts to contact police and then nothing
Speaker 10: at all.
Speaker 2: And what happens when you call the police, they advise
Speaker 2: you to call who, So.
Speaker 10: Generally they'll say they're putting a job on it. Most
Speaker 10: recently it was pretty bad and in the final call
Speaker 10: they had with them, they said to call Triple zero.
Speaker 2: Right, but you haven't had a local car come around
Speaker 2: and investigate or talk to the kids involved, Not a
Speaker 2: single one, right, This is just across the road from
Speaker 2: a school. Is there a school nearby?
Speaker 10: That's correct? Yeah, high school directly across the road and
Speaker 10: a pedestrian crossing.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and you say that. Sometimes you can see
Speaker 2: the students on the motorbikes no helmets, driving around, kids
Speaker 2: hanging on the front, kids hang on the back, and
Speaker 2: you can see teachers from the school leaving school and
Speaker 2: viewing all of this, and they don't do anything about
Speaker 2: it either.
Speaker 10: That's exactly right. There's sometimes a teacher that stands at
Speaker 10: the back fence for school pickup and again they see
Speaker 10: their students hop on the back for a joy ride
Speaker 10: and not a word. They don't say a word.
Speaker 2: What would you like to say to the local police
Speaker 2: this morning, Susie, have a little.
Speaker 10: Bit of presence, put something, you know, it's an issue
Speaker 10: in the area, so yeah, get out here like it's
Speaker 10: very dangerous and they're putting a people in danger.
Speaker 2: We'll pass your details along to the local police and
Speaker 2: see whether they would like to pay a visit next time,
Speaker 2: and maybe you can have them on speed dial next
Speaker 2: time so that they can turn up when you need them.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Susie.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you're wel comdend thank you.
Speaker 2: Now we've had a police source get in contact since
Speaker 2: we mentioned we were going to be talking to Susie
Speaker 2: and they say, I see that you're doing a story
Speaker 2: on the out of controlled trail bike situation in and
Speaker 2: around Sydney and New South Wales and the allegation that
Speaker 2: police don't care. I can assure you then we do
Speaker 2: care and we're affected by it personally. So this comes
Speaker 2: from a senior police source in New South Wales. They
Speaker 2: say the problem is that enforcement is very difficult and
Speaker 2: puts the individual police personally responsible if someone is injured
Speaker 2: when we try to apprehend them. I have two colleagues
Speaker 2: before the courts charged after motorcycles they were trying to
Speaker 2: stop ran into the police vehicles, resulting in the rider
Speaker 2: being injured. Furthermore, the hierarchy, in their wisdom, decided to
Speaker 2: get of the very effective trail bike section of the
Speaker 2: highway patrol some years ago. They said there were too
Speaker 2: many injuries to officers. This dramatically reduced our ability to
Speaker 2: stop and catch these offenders. Just last weekend we had
Speaker 2: these trail bikes, mostly ridden by juveniles with their faces covered,
Speaker 2: driving up to marked highway patrol vehicles, giving us the
Speaker 2: middle finger and then speeding off through traffic with us
Speaker 2: unable to do anything about it. The bikes are unregistered
Speaker 2: and with no plates. This is the reason why police
Speaker 2: can do nothing. Police don't get paid enough to have
Speaker 2: to go through this. The job is getting too hard,
Speaker 2: with excuses always being found for the offender and not
Speaker 2: the officer who's just trying to do the job the
Speaker 2: public expects of them. The High Court recently held the
Speaker 2: judges cannot be held personally accountable for bad decisions they make,
Speaker 2: even if in bad faith. Maybe the same should apply
Speaker 2: it to police. You may find that they will have
Speaker 2: a go and they would only do this if they
Speaker 2: knew the state would back them. So that's according to
Speaker 2: a senior police source in New South Wales. They're saying
Speaker 2: the reason they're not doing anything about it is because
Speaker 2: they fear that they will be put through the ringer
Speaker 2: if an accident happens, they will be held responsible for
Speaker 2: the injuries suffered by the kid on the dirt bike.
Speaker 2: So the message from police don't blame the officers on
Speaker 2: the beat, blame the hierarchy.
Speaker 1: Sydney's Best Breakfast too.
Speaker 2: And next time we talk to police. I'll ask them
Speaker 2: about the trail bike section of the highway patrol that
Speaker 2: was closed down some years ago, because when you think
Speaker 2: about it, that's an effective way of being able to
Speaker 2: monitor people, catch up with people and arrest people if
Speaker 2: you're on a bike.
Speaker 6: Two.
Speaker 2: But as it currently stands, we don't have a trail
Speaker 2: bike section of highway patrol, so these kids are able
Speaker 2: to ride up in the middle of traffic to a
Speaker 2: marked highway patrol vehicle, flip them the bird and then
Speaker 2: drive away. Now we've been contacted by a councilor at
Speaker 2: Cumberland Council, and that's Joseph Rami who has told us
Speaker 2: about some of his encounters with the local police to
Speaker 2: tackle this issue, and the council is on the line
Speaker 2: right now. Joseph, good morning to you.
Speaker 6: Good morning Ben, how are you good.
Speaker 2: So you held a community meeting to discuss this and
Speaker 2: the motorbike riders turned up.
Speaker 12: Yes, so late last year. As a lifelong resident and
Speaker 12: as a four term counselor, I thought I'd do the
Speaker 12: right thing and organize a community meeting that was represented
Speaker 12: by a council staff council as the mayor the head
Speaker 12: of the local area command and community leaders, and at
Speaker 12: the start of the meeting, we were surprised and blown
Speaker 12: away that the perpetrators, the young perpetrators, actually turned up
Speaker 12: to cause a complete mockery of the meeting, to patronize
Speaker 12: all the attendees, and to basically laugh in the face
Speaker 12: of the local area commander and show a complete lack
Speaker 12: of disrespect to every single attendee.
Speaker 2: So, hang on, did they turn up and walk into
Speaker 2: the meeting or were they doing burnouts outside?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 12: No, they sat in the meeting. The perpetrators, like you know,
Speaker 12: ranging from thirteen to twenty years old, turned up to
Speaker 12: the meeting and sat in the meeting, and at certain
Speaker 12: times of the meeting we're just trying to you know,
Speaker 12: intimidate and patronize the attendees and you know, cause a
Speaker 12: complete mockery of the meeting.
Speaker 2: Well, they're obviously not too concerned about the law if
Speaker 2: they're turning up and laughing during the meeting.
Speaker 12: It totally blew me away, like I never expected it
Speaker 12: in my wildest dreams that they turn up.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you letting us know about it, Joseph. So
Speaker 2: that's Council of Joseph Ramy from Cumberland Council and we'll
Speaker 2: get on to New South Wales Police and see if
Speaker 2: they want to join us tomorrow and if they've got
Speaker 2: any solutions for these residents from all over Sydney saying
Speaker 2: enough is enough.
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Speaker 2: Greta Thunberg has been sent packing. Israel has officially deported
Speaker 2: the Swedish climate activist. Greta and eleven other protesters had
Speaker 2: been intercepted by the Israeli Defense Force. They were trying
Speaker 2: to sail to the Gaza Strip to end the blockade.
Speaker 2: That's what they were saying. They've been taken into custody
Speaker 2: by Israeli authorities and now Greta is on her way
Speaker 2: back home. She's touchdown in Paris while en route to Sweden.
Speaker 2: The climate activist has described the ordealers chaotic. She says
Speaker 2: the conditions she faced are absolutely nothing compared to what
Speaker 2: people are going through in Gaza and Greta has confirmed
Speaker 2: some of her crewmates remain in Israel. It's understood eight
Speaker 2: other passengers have refused deportation. They remain in detention while
Speaker 2: waiting for their case to be heard by Israeli authorities.
Speaker 2: Greta says the aim was to get to Gaza to
Speaker 2: be able to distribute aid, and she says she hasn't
Speaker 2: given up on that mission, but it's interesting she's decided
Speaker 2: to jump on a plane and head to Europe instead
Speaker 2: of sticking around. Others said we're not leaving. Greta said,
Speaker 2: I'm a celebrity. Get me out of here.
Speaker 1: Sydney's Best breakfast.
Speaker 2: Messages about dirt bikes. They're coming from all over Sydney.
Speaker 2: Michael says motorbikes are terrorizing us in Mattreville too. I
Speaker 2: told them to get off the road last week and
Speaker 2: they chased me and then threw sticks at my car
Speaker 2: with my young daughter inside. Nick's on the line from
Speaker 2: cranebrook A Nick good Ay ben mate.
Speaker 13: I almost hit three of them about five six pm
Speaker 13: at night. They had their lives off both number place,
Speaker 13: know nothing, driving down the street in the long direction.
Speaker 13: I contacted the lack. I contacted our local member. I
Speaker 13: had a bloke that knew where they lived, and they
Speaker 13: actually gave them the address and the coppers went there
Speaker 13: and said there's nothing we can do about Nick. We
Speaker 13: go outside and the bus have gone by the time
Speaker 13: we get there, so you know it's a non and
Speaker 13: it's a no win situation being you just can't beat them.
Speaker 2: They're riding around with no headlights.
Speaker 13: On, no headlights, no helmets, no nothing.
Speaker 5: They're riding on the footpath in pain.
Speaker 13: But where we're in Waterside there's past at the end
Speaker 13: around lake areas. Now they ride those pasts at fifty
Speaker 13: sixty k's an hour like there's no tomorrow, and they
Speaker 13: don't care where they hit anyone. And it's old people.
Speaker 13: There's people with their kids, people with walking their dogs.
Speaker 13: They don't kid a bet and their rat bags as
Speaker 13: far as I'm concerned, and I hope the police will
Speaker 13: get the powers one day to do something about it.
Speaker 2: Good on your Nick mix Ses. The dirt bike issue
Speaker 2: is also happening in my area in Horningsea Park. They
Speaker 2: just don't care for public safety. Brian's on the line
Speaker 2: in Ingleburn. Hi, Brian, good morning here going good. You've
Speaker 2: got the same thing.
Speaker 8: There, worse we got it around. We got it nightly
Speaker 8: most most week nights, I'm not going to exaggerate, between
Speaker 8: anywhere between two to four am two two to four am,
Speaker 8: so they're waking up the whole neighborhood and they're just
Speaker 8: doing laps of the whole suburb, driving around on the
Speaker 8: concrete pathways, on the creeks and things like that. Here
Speaker 8: is same thing you're in the coppers and there's no
Speaker 8: resolves And this has been going on for years.
Speaker 2: We now have some understanding from police as to why
Speaker 2: they feel like their hands are tied, Brian, because they're
Speaker 2: saying that they have been told that they need to
Speaker 2: be careful when dealing with these situations, and of course
Speaker 2: some of their colleagues are before the authorities over the
Speaker 2: way they've handled these situations. Because if a kid comes
Speaker 2: off the bike, who do you reckon? Gets blamed? Do
Speaker 2: you reckon? Anyone's saying it's the kid's fault. Who was
Speaker 2: riding around with a mate on the back and a
Speaker 2: mate on the front, no one in helmets, weaving in
Speaker 2: and out of cars. Do they blame the kid or
Speaker 2: do they blame the cops? I think we know the
Speaker 2: answer to that.
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Speaker 2: A man is on the run this morning after allegedly
Speaker 2: robbing a jewelry store. This took place just before five
Speaker 2: o'clock yesterday afternoon in Sydney, CBD, police were called to
Speaker 2: Silver and Goldie on Pitt Street. They say a man
Speaker 2: threatened staff and force them to open a safe before
Speaker 2: pinching jewelry. Police have established a crime scene, they've commenced
Speaker 2: an investigation and they're asking anyone with information to contact
Speaker 2: crime Stoppers on one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. There are a lot of people
Speaker 2: from different parts of Sydney complaining about dirt bikes. Edward says,
Speaker 2: I had a similar problem here in chester Hill. I
Speaker 2: took a video to the police station. They told me
Speaker 2: to complain to the council. Mark says we must give
Speaker 2: police more power to do their jobs against these trail
Speaker 2: bike riders. Surely the answer is confiscation like they do
Speaker 2: with streetcars. Roger says, change the law. Make it that
Speaker 2: if a motorbike writer crashes, the writing offender is at fault,
Speaker 2: not the police. Why are we even talking about this,
Speaker 2: Make the laws tougher. Now we've been contacted by a
Speaker 2: councilor at Cumberland Council, and that's Joseph Rami who has
Speaker 2: told us about some of his encounters with the local
Speaker 2: police to tackle this issue, and the council is on
Speaker 2: the line right now, Joseph, Good morning to you.
Speaker 12: Good morning Ben.
Speaker 2: How are you good? So you held a community meeting
Speaker 2: to discuss this and the motorbike riders turned up.
Speaker 12: Yes, so late last year. As a lifelong resident and
Speaker 12: as a four term counselor, I thought I'd do the
Speaker 12: right thing and organize a community meeting that was represented
Speaker 12: by a council staff, councilors, the mayor, the head of
Speaker 12: the local area command, and community leaders. And at the
Speaker 12: start of the meeting we were surprised and blown away
Speaker 12: that the perpetrators, the young perpetrators, actually turned up to
Speaker 12: cause a complete mockery of the meeting, to patronize all
Speaker 12: the attendees, and to basically laugh in the face of
Speaker 12: the local area commander and show a complete lack of
Speaker 12: disrespect to every single attendee.
Speaker 2: So hang on, did they turn up and walk into
Speaker 2: the meeting or were they doing burnouts outside?
Speaker 12: No? No, they sat in the meeting. The perpetrators, like
Speaker 12: you know, ranging from thirteen to twenty years old, turned
Speaker 12: up to the meeting and sat in the meeting, and
Speaker 12: at certain times of the meeting. We're just trying to
Speaker 12: you know, intimidate and patronize the attendees and you know,
Speaker 12: cause a complete mockery of the meeting.
Speaker 2: Well, they're obviously not too concerned about the law. If
Speaker 2: they're turning up and laughing during the meeting.
Speaker 12: It totally blew me away, like I never expected it
Speaker 12: in my wildest dreams that they turn up.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you letting us know about it, Joseph. So
Speaker 2: that's Council of Joseph Ramy from Cumberland Council and we'll
Speaker 2: get on to New South Wales Police and see if
Speaker 2: they want to join us tomorrow and if they've got
Speaker 2: any solutions for these residents from all over Sydney saying
Speaker 2: enough is enough.
Speaker 1: Sydney's Best Breakfast GGV.
Speaker 2: The Los Angeles Police Department has launched an investigation after
Speaker 2: an ASSIETV reporter was shot with a rubber bullet. Channel
Speaker 2: nine reporter Lauren to Marsi was covering the anti deportation
Speaker 2: protests in LA when she was struck.
Speaker 14: The hours of sounding off this situation has now rapidly deteriorated.
Speaker 14: The LAPD moving in on horseback, firing rubber.
Speaker 15: Bullets at protesters moving them on through the heart of la.
Speaker 2: That was the moment Lauren was hit with a rubber bullet.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister Anthony Albanizi has commented on the attack,
Speaker 2: saying we've already raised these issues with the US administration.
Speaker 2: We don't find it acceptable that it occurred, and we
Speaker 2: think the role of the media is particularly important. Mister
Speaker 2: Albanezi has been asked if he would raise the issue
Speaker 2: with President Donald Trump. He says, discussions I have with
Speaker 2: the President, discussions between myself and the president. The PM says,
Speaker 2: Lauren to Marci was clearly identified as a representative of
Speaker 2: the media.
Speaker 16: It is not unreasonable to think that she could go
Speaker 16: about her coverage clearly as people can see the footage
Speaker 16: clearly identified as media. She was clearly identified, was clearly identified.
Speaker 16: You know, there was no ambiguity. She wasn't wearing a trackie.
Speaker 16: She's wearing a helmet and something I identified her as media.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure what footage the PM was watching, because
Speaker 2: Lauren didn't have any media signage that I could see,
Speaker 2: and she certainly wasn't wearing a helmet. What helmet was
Speaker 2: he talking about? The PM says she was clearly identified
Speaker 2: as media. She was wearing a helmet and something that
Speaker 2: identified her as media. Well, he's got himself very confused
Speaker 2: on that front because the footage does not support the
Speaker 2: PM's comments. Mind you, the real giveaway was the microphone
Speaker 2: in her hand and the TV cameraman filming her. I
Speaker 2: mean that would have been enough of a hint that
Speaker 2: this is not a protester, this is a reporter. And
Speaker 2: it wasn't just a stray bullet. The officer pointed his
Speaker 2: weapon at her and fired.
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Speaker 2: Now. Just on price increases, I mentioned that power companies
Speaker 2: are sending out their increased prices right now, including Red Energy,
Speaker 2: who advertise with US. And it's not just power companies.
Speaker 2: We've got this one as well that's just been sent
Speaker 2: to us. KAO, the sports streaming service. Their prices are
Speaker 2: going up from the first of July. The pricing of
Speaker 2: Ko's standard will increase by five dollars a month. You'll
Speaker 2: see this change on your next bill. If you're currently
Speaker 2: on an offer, the change will take effect after your
Speaker 2: offer ends. So Ko's going up. And now I've got
Speaker 2: a note about NBN as well or Votaphone. Reese is
Speaker 2: on the line.
Speaker 17: Hello Reese, Yeah, Hi Ben, Yeah, yesterday I've got an
Speaker 17: email from Voteraphone saying that my Home Essential MBM plan
Speaker 17: is going to be increasing by ten dollars a month,
Speaker 17: coming into effect on the twentieth of July.
Speaker 2: Right, so you've got to find an extra one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty bucks a year.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, exactly, as if it was expensive enough to
Speaker 17: liver as it is.
Speaker 2: And I'm guessing you've already checked around and chopped around.
Speaker 2: Have you worked out whether there's a better deal out there?
Speaker 6: I haven't yet.
Speaker 17: That's on the bucket list this week.
Speaker 2: Good on you, mate, Thank you very much for getting
Speaker 2: in touch. I'll tell you what we'll do for you, Reese,
Speaker 2: because you've helped us out with a bit of information.
Speaker 2: We'll send you a voucher for Chemist Warehouse, because it's
Speaker 2: always good to save some money. We'll send you one
Speaker 2: hundred bucks to spend at Chemist Warehouse, where you get
Speaker 2: the lowest prices every single day. And look, it doesn't
Speaker 2: matter whether you do business with KO or Vodaphone or
Speaker 2: Red Energy. If you can find a better deal, go
Speaker 2: for it. That's the bottom line. If you can find
Speaker 2: a better deal, go for it, use it, save some money.
Speaker 2: Three one eight seven three the open line number. New
Speaker 2: data from the Bureau of Health Information shows the number
Speaker 2: of people waiting for surgery has skyrocketed. The Health Minister
Speaker 2: Ryan Park isn't going to like the sound of this.
Speaker 2: So the Bureau of Health Information is the group that
Speaker 2: publishes independent reports about the performance of the healthcare system.
Speaker 2: In the first three months of this year, more than
Speaker 2: eighty five hundred patients were left waiting for surgery longer
Speaker 2: than recommended. That's up more than one hundred and fifty
Speaker 2: percent compared to the same period last year. Kelly Sloan
Speaker 2: is the Shadow Health Ministry in New South Wales. He's
Speaker 2: on the line. Good morning to you, Kelly, good morning.
Speaker 2: Then that's a big jump.
Speaker 14: It's a huge jump, and it's telling us what the
Speaker 14: clinicians have been talking about for a while now. In
Speaker 14: the system is overstretched, it's under resource and patients are
Speaker 14: paying the price. So we have one hundred thousand, six
Speaker 14: hundred and seventy eight patients on the waiting list. Now
Speaker 14: that's pick COVID levels. We've had people waiting for longer
Speaker 14: than clinically recommended. So the people that need semi urgent
Speaker 14: surgery is nineteen and a half thousand people. There are
Speaker 14: eight and a half thousand people waiting on the list
Speaker 14: longer than clinically recommended. That's up about five thousand on
Speaker 14: the same time last year. So, Ben, this isn't just
Speaker 14: a blowout in wait times. It is a breakdown in
Speaker 14: patient care. And behind every one of those patients is
Speaker 14: all one of those numbers is a patient that is sick,
Speaker 14: that is in pain or waiting for diagnosis.
Speaker 2: Ryan Park has just released a statement saying the Men's
Speaker 2: government will invest twenty three million dollars to reduce the
Speaker 2: number of planned surgeries waiting longer than clinically recommended. This
Speaker 2: additional funding is expected to enable an additional three thousand,
Speaker 2: five hundred surgeries it can be completed over the next year.
Speaker 14: Yeah, well, look that's a start, but it's a bit
Speaker 14: like putting a band aid on a broken arm. It's
Speaker 14: not going to fix the problem.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 14: We are seeing these weightless spiral out of control now
Speaker 14: in a system that's overstretched, and we've had whistleblower surgeons
Speaker 14: telling us about the pressure on them to hide these
Speaker 14: numbers to distort them by downgrading cancer surgeries. This is
Speaker 14: a wake up call for the minister and he needs
Speaker 14: to take action. And in his press release Bend today,
Speaker 14: he's continuing to blame the former government and I raise
Speaker 14: this because they are completely disingenuous in their attacks. They're
Speaker 14: saying that there were fourteen thousand cases under the coalition.
Speaker 14: They were COVID cases which we paid to fix. We
Speaker 14: invested money four hundred and eight million in the last
Speaker 14: budget to reduce those numbers and they are reduced to
Speaker 14: around a level of two thousand, but they have skyrocketed
Speaker 14: since because this government is not planning properly. They're not investing.
Speaker 11: We've seen.
Speaker 14: Two budgets in a row where the health budget has
Speaker 14: been cut. We've had industrial action under this government that's
Speaker 14: spiraling out of control as well. So they need to
Speaker 14: plan properly, they need to invest properly, and they need
Speaker 14: to let the public know what they're doing to address it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the numbers aren't good and they're even worse when
Speaker 2: you have a look at what's happening in the bush
Speaker 2: at the moment. We appreciate you jumping on the line
Speaker 2: for us.
Speaker 1: Kelly thank you.
Speaker 2: Ben Kelly Sloan, the shadow health minister in New South Wales.
Speaker 2: Her message to Ryan Park You're in charge now mate,
Speaker 2: not us. It's your problem and you've got to fix it.
Speaker 3: This is ben Fordham Live, What Sidney's Best Breakfast onto
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Speaker 2: The music legend sly Stone has died at the age
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Speaker 2: A number of pedestrians have been hit in Sydney Southwest.
Speaker 2: This one happened just after eight o'clock. Emergency services were
Speaker 2: called to the scene in Belmore. Police a ute struck
Speaker 2: several people. Paramedics treated a twenty four year old woman
Speaker 2: and a twenty eight year old man. They've been transported
Speaker 2: to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and their conditions are listed
Speaker 2: as stable and we're told that a two year old
Speaker 2: girl was also hit. However, she managed to escape any injuries.
Speaker 2: Police say the driver is assisting with their inquiries. An
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Speaker 3: Listening to Sydney's Best Breakfast, then Fortum Live and now.
Speaker 1: The US report.
Speaker 2: Wild scenes in Los Angeles. The riot mob has gone
Speaker 2: from fighting to looting. Harley Kahns is on the line.
Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Holley.
Speaker 6: Good morning. Yeah. This has been predicted because the longer
Speaker 6: it goes on, the worse it gets. Nobody is expecting
Speaker 6: it to get better right away unless they turned the
Speaker 6: National Guard hoose and tell them to clear the streets,
Speaker 6: which they have not done yet. It's you know, they
Speaker 6: raided some of these people raided an Apple store, they
Speaker 6: raided an Adidas store. They've gone into restaurants and sent people,
Speaker 6: you know, rushing out, stealing the money, food, whatever. It's
Speaker 6: just not a good situation to me. There were windows
Speaker 6: that were being broken, people were trying to get out
Speaker 6: of buildings. People were getting into buildings wearing their hoodies
Speaker 6: and their masks and stuff. It's just it's not real good,
Speaker 6: you know. And the idea that it's going to stop
Speaker 6: because you know, the people just don't want I to
Speaker 6: be there, that's not going to work.
Speaker 2: Well, clearly, it's not just about sticking up the people
Speaker 2: who are being deported. If you're writing Nike shops and
Speaker 2: Sushi shops and Apple stores and pinching as many things
Speaker 2: as you possibly can and Holly. President Trump has now
Speaker 2: deployed extra troops.
Speaker 6: Yeah, another two thousand National Guard troops. That's about forty
Speaker 6: one hundred National Guard plus he's sending seven hundred Marines
Speaker 6: in there. Now. The Marines are pre stressed for action,
Speaker 6: dramatic action. Their rules of engagement here have to be
Speaker 6: very unusual, and I would think very uncomfortable for them,
Speaker 6: because they're usually given and effective. They're the sharp end
Speaker 6: of the sphere, the point of the spear, so to speak.
Speaker 6: And they go in and they they take property. Now,
Speaker 6: if the Marines are cuts on this crowd, the riot
Speaker 6: will be over in no time. But there it'll be expensive,
Speaker 6: it'll be hurtful, there will be people in the streets,
Speaker 6: there will be blood. So we don't know if what
Speaker 6: the Marines rules and engagement are. We have to assume
Speaker 6: that it'll be. They're asking Marines like they are National Guard,
Speaker 6: to stand there and just take it. Let them call
Speaker 6: you names, let them spit at you, let them push,
Speaker 6: let them do everything but put their hands on you,
Speaker 6: and we'll see where it all goes. But the promise
Speaker 6: I think here is that it's gonna get worse.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna get worse before it gets better. Holly,
Speaker 2: we'll talk to.
Speaker 6: You tomorrow, all right, Thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Harley on the lawn from the United States at twenty
Speaker 2: two minutes past six it's full time in so the
Speaker 2: Sokka Rus are off to the World Cup. Australia has
Speaker 2: defeated Saudi Arabia two one. All we needed to do
Speaker 2: was avoid a five gold defeat to secure a spot
Speaker 2: at the twenty twenty six feet a World Cup, and
Speaker 2: we manage to do better than that and get the win.
Speaker 2: And this is the moment the full time whistle blew and.
Speaker 13: The full time whistle goes and they've done.
Speaker 2: It's the soccer Us are off to the World Cup. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was Simon hill On paramount plus. So congratulations to
Speaker 2: the Sokkaros and their coach Tony Popovic. They booked their
Speaker 2: spot in the World Cup next year in the United States,
Speaker 2: Mexico and Canada.
Speaker 3: This is been FORTAM Live What Sydney's Best Breakfast on
Speaker 3: to GV Cemetery.
Speaker 2: It's going to be a big day for Sydney's newest airport.
Speaker 2: Major construction works across Western Sydney International Airport and how
Speaker 2: complete and today after more than five years, the state
Speaker 2: of the art terminal will be officially unveiled. The Prime
Speaker 2: Minister will be there along with the Transport Minister and
Speaker 2: twenty year old Emma Tran will be there too. Emma
Speaker 2: is a third year carpentry apprentice with Multiplex. She's been
Speaker 2: part of the construction team and has helped bring the
Speaker 2: new Western Sydney Airport to life. Emma's on the line
Speaker 2: for us right now. Emma, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 11: How are you?
Speaker 2: Congratulations, You've done it, Thank you, thank you. So you
Speaker 2: started working on this project when it was just dirt.
Speaker 18: Yes, so when I joined it was still dirt.
Speaker 7: And no roof.
Speaker 2: And what's it like now having a look at it complete?
Speaker 11: Oh, it looks like an airport. It has all the wars.
Speaker 11: It's beautiful.
Speaker 18: It's really something that's going to create.
Speaker 2: His true And what are you going to be doing today?
Speaker 2: Are you going to be there with the Prime Minister?
Speaker 18: Yes, I will be this morning year.
Speaker 2: And what will you be showing Anthony Albanezy Just.
Speaker 18: The terminal itself, show him the baggage chaining system and everything,
Speaker 18: and just like kind of I think it's more of
Speaker 18: what he's going to be talking about. And I'm just there.
Speaker 2: In the background, right Are you able when you walk
Speaker 2: around the new airport, around the terminal, are you able
Speaker 2: to see things? Do you think you know? I did that?
Speaker 6: Part.
Speaker 2: I did this part.
Speaker 18: Yes, yes, there are a few things where I did
Speaker 18: take a part of it, and I will be able
Speaker 18: to show my family once it open. So I know
Speaker 18: I always shut up about it.
Speaker 2: I love that. And you're only twenty years of age,
Speaker 2: and I'm being told by some of your colleagues you
Speaker 2: were the Multiplex Apprentice of the Year in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 2: and you were awarded Bunning's Apprentice of the Year in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 18: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: Yes, at twenty Yes.
Speaker 11: Massive achievement.
Speaker 18: I didn't think i'd get this far.
Speaker 2: But yes, well, congratulations to you, Emma. And we'll probably
Speaker 2: see you on the news tonight with the PM.
Speaker 18: Yes, yes, you probably will.
Speaker 19: Yes.
Speaker 2: Can you just tell me? Apparently i've met your dad before?
Speaker 2: Where did I meet your dad?
Speaker 18: My dad a cancelled Foxelf for you around two years ago.
Speaker 2: You have he installed the Fox Tell at my place.
Speaker 18: Yes, that's right.
Speaker 2: Oh well, isn't it funny two years later where chatting
Speaker 2: and you're going to be front and center today You're
Speaker 2: an award winner And congratulations Emmitran, thank.
Speaker 18: You so much. And I just want to say my
Speaker 18: dad he has listened to your station for years and years.
Speaker 2: What's that He's okay? Well, we want to say good
Speaker 2: morning to him as well and thank you for listening.
Speaker 2: And I know that he'll be very proud of his
Speaker 2: daughter Emma.
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Speaker 2: Australia's top business leaders are gearing up to meet with
Speaker 2: the PM. They're going to have a round table, a
Speaker 2: round table. I got to admit Peter Switzer from Switzer
Speaker 2: dot com dot AU. Whenever I hear about a business
Speaker 2: round table, I roll my eyes. Good morning to you.
Speaker 20: Yeah, you think talk fast, don't you, Ben Well, business leaders,
Speaker 20: they'll be asking for holistic TASH reform and cuts to
Speaker 20: red tape and importantly faster approvals for major projects. The
Speaker 20: government will promise cuts to red tape or governments do,
Speaker 20: but they never do. The Prime Minis yesterday said I'm
Speaker 20: going to want to I want to help private sector activity,
Speaker 20: in private sector investment. That's a really good goal. Economists
Speaker 20: don't want tax reform.
Speaker 15: Startup businesses will want the end of this unrealized gain
Speaker 15: super tax because that will stop money going into new businesses.
Speaker 15: And the unions will say that they're committed to helping,
Speaker 15: but they don't want pay cuts and they want no
Speaker 15: change to business conditions. Ben I recently talked to a
Speaker 15: very successful small business owner, and in all these roundtables,
Speaker 15: small business people are never considered. She said to me,
Speaker 15: I've been jaded since COVID lockdown's thirteen interest rate rise.
Speaker 15: Is persistent inflation, higher energy and transport costs, people wanting
Speaker 15: to work from home, and she said, and even if
Speaker 15: I try to say to an employee, this is the
Speaker 15: way I want you to do it, she said, I
Speaker 15: fear of being accused of harassment. I get workers on
Speaker 15: stress leave, and she said, all want to work from home.
Speaker 15: It's really really challenging being in business like never before.
Speaker 15: And this I hope gets a run at the round table,
Speaker 15: someone representing small business and seeing the government do something
Speaker 15: to help small business.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just get the impression whenever they say we're going
Speaker 2: to have a business roundtable, that the business leaders repeat
Speaker 2: all of the gripes that they've had for years, and
Speaker 2: they're all of the arguments that have been ignored for years.
Speaker 2: What are the markets doing.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Dow up one hundred and five. Our market's expected
Speaker 15: to be up thirty one points at the start. Ausie
Speaker 15: dollar up sixty five point two four. You been Apparently
Speaker 15: Donald Trump and China are having some pretty good trade
Speaker 15: talks and that's why the market is pretty positive.
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Speaker 2: We just spoke to the twenty year old third year apprentice,
Speaker 2: Emma Tran, who's been working on the brand new Western
Speaker 2: Sydney International Airport since day one and today they have
Speaker 2: the unveiling of the new terminal. This from Claudine Emma
Speaker 2: Tran is so impressive. You can hear her sense of
Speaker 2: pride in both her work and in her dad, so refreshing.
Speaker 2: Well done, mister Tran, your daughter is outstanding. You've done
Speaker 2: a good job.
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Speaker 2: Are you Fifteen police officers have been injured following riots
Speaker 2: in northern Ireland and Adam Gilchrist has got the details
Speaker 2: for us. Good morning to you, Adam, yeah, Good morning Ben.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 19: This began as a peaceful protest than they all and
Speaker 19: then violence broke out. As the police have described it,
Speaker 19: racist thuggery, pure and simple. So what happened was that
Speaker 19: people reacted badly to two teenage boys appearing in court
Speaker 19: charged and indeed accused of sexually assaulting a teenage girl.
Speaker 19: This is in Ballymena in Countyantrum in northern Ireland. The
Speaker 19: two teenage boys happened to be a Romanian heritage and
Speaker 19: when they appeared in court they only spoke Romanian. Therefore
Speaker 19: there was an interpreter there and this has triggered, frankly,
Speaker 19: an awful anti Romanian, anti Eastern European, anti ethnic immigration
Speaker 19: kind of reaction. And so the police absolutely talk about
Speaker 19: how violence broke out, targeting ethnic minorities in particular people
Speaker 19: from Eastern Europe, but also the police force as well,
Speaker 19: hence the fifteen officers being injured. It does not speak
Speaker 19: well of us that somehow, because two Romanian kids are
Speaker 19: in court that suddenly the whole community is tarred with
Speaker 19: the same brush. But there we are that's the kind
Speaker 19: of place we're in at the moment.
Speaker 2: Yeah, collective punishments never good, but they certainly a mood
Speaker 2: out there at the moment where people feel unsettled with
Speaker 2: that kind of crime happening in a community. And why
Speaker 2: does Google have a fox problem?
Speaker 19: Yes, well, Google's new headquarters in close to the Barbicane
Speaker 19: in sort of centralist London, extremely expensive offices they don't
Speaker 19: think still have opened yet, or a least they haven't
Speaker 19: completely opened. An eleven story, one billion pound headquarters for
Speaker 19: Google in London, and they have a problem with foxes.
Speaker 19: Now I'm kind of thinking, well, I'm going to do
Speaker 19: see quite a lot of foxes around in London, and
Speaker 19: they're off an urban foxes and they look a bit
Speaker 19: mangy and gray and far from sort of cute cuddly
Speaker 19: things from a Disney cartoon. But for some reason they've
Speaker 19: taken to this new building's eleventh story garden. So this
Speaker 19: is a rooftop garden for the Google headquarters. How the
Speaker 19: foxes got up there, But they've been spotted all over
Speaker 19: the building apparently fox pooh all over the building, And
Speaker 19: now they're sort of hiding up there in the vegetation.
Speaker 19: You think, are they using the lifts that they're using
Speaker 19: the stairwells. I mean, this is really urbanization of Foxes
Speaker 19: and then some so I can imagine quite a lot
Speaker 19: of people when they finally move into the Google HQ,
Speaker 19: will be thinking, oh, for fox sake.
Speaker 2: Oh, I was worried where that was hited? Thank you
Speaker 2: very much, one of your best Adam Gilchrist, talk to
Speaker 2: you lighter. Then we were getting ready to hit the
Speaker 2: dump button, but it was yes for Fox psike. Now
Speaker 2: to the Beatles, you say the line and hello they
Speaker 2: arrived down Under on the stay in nine eineteen sixty four,
Speaker 2: or kay, you were there.
Speaker 21: I was at the airport, ben Yeah, I went. I
Speaker 21: actually went with TV presented Jimmy Hennon. He was he
Speaker 21: was annountainer from the Channel nine truck. And I've got
Speaker 21: a bird's eye view of the Beatles heads in the
Speaker 21: pouring rain and the wind. And yeah, I saw their
Speaker 21: heads from the Channel nine outside broadcast truck.
Speaker 2: And were you screaming?
Speaker 21: I was screaming. I was in I was in shock.
Speaker 21: It was freezing cold, I was soaking wet. And then
Speaker 21: and then I went to the stadium and sat up
Speaker 21: in the bleachers and probably saw them sing ten songs
Speaker 21: and heard nothing.
Speaker 2: Well, the screaming was so loud. Good on you, Thank you, Cheryl.
Speaker 2: You saw the Beatles when they.
Speaker 9: Were here the morning Burn.
Speaker 11: Yes, I did, my girlfriend and if it was sixteen,
Speaker 11: we were in love. I was in love with Ringo
Speaker 11: and was fantastic. We went to the up in the
Speaker 11: bleachers at the stadium, just singing along, screaming.
Speaker 4: I think I was screaming Ringo the whole time.
Speaker 11: It was fun and poor Johnny Devlin was on with them,
Speaker 11: and I don't think I don't think anyone listened to him.
Speaker 4: Must think anybody was building him off the stage.
Speaker 5: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: I'm still trying to work out how you fell in
Speaker 2: love with Ringo. I've never heard of anyone falling Ringo before.
Speaker 11: He was cute. He was cute, and he was a
Speaker 11: drummer and I love drummers.
Speaker 2: Fantastic Cheryl, thank you, Dawn, good morning.
Speaker 11: Hi, Hi there Ben.
Speaker 2: You saw them live.
Speaker 11: Phisney Stadium, Sydney Stadium. Yeh, and it was I remember
Speaker 11: it was so exciting and everyone was Someone said, what
Speaker 11: would they like us? I can't remember. We just screamed
Speaker 11: and and but the night I was there, Ringo wasn't there.
Speaker 11: They said he was sick, so he must have had
Speaker 11: They must have had more than one concert. Yeah, there
Speaker 11: was someone else playing the drum.
Speaker 2: He might have been out with our mate Bob Rogers
Speaker 2: somewhere because he was called the fifth Beatle during their tour.
Speaker 2: Good on you, Thank you very much for the memories.
Speaker 2: And what about that Ringo being the crush for one
Speaker 2: of our listeners. I thought it was always about Paul
Speaker 2: or John.
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Speaker 2: Russia and Ukraine have commenced the biggest prisoner of war
Speaker 2: exchange yet. It follows an agreement that was reached to
Speaker 2: the second round of direct talks between the two countries.
Speaker 2: They've agreed the exchange will include soldiers under the age
Speaker 2: of twenty five and those who are severely ill. Thousands
Speaker 2: of bodies of fallen soldiers will also be repatriated as
Speaker 2: part of this agreement. It comes nearly three and a
Speaker 2: half years after Russia began the full scale invasion into Ukraine.
Speaker 2: A new report estimates that Russia has suffered nine hundred
Speaker 2: thousand casualties, including two hundred and fifty thousand deceased. Ukraine's
Speaker 2: losses are also staggering, nearly four hundred thousand casualties with
Speaker 2: up to one hundred thousand killed. We can only hope
Speaker 2: that the bloody, brutal conflict comes to an end soon,
Speaker 2: but it's been going on for three and a half
Speaker 2: long years. Back home, a teenager has been arrested over
Speaker 2: an alleged arson attack on a barber shop. We've told
Speaker 2: you about this incident in western Sydney before it took
Speaker 2: place last month in Marylands. The barbershop has been targeted
Speaker 2: many times, but at four am on Thursday May eighth,
Speaker 2: as sixteen year old boy tried burning the shop and
Speaker 2: in the process he accidentally lit himself on fire. And
Speaker 2: we've described the CCTV footage before. You can see the
Speaker 2: teen smashing the front window of the barbershop before pouring
Speaker 2: petrol inside the store. But as he sets the fuel alight,
Speaker 2: he goes up in flames. Two you can see him
Speaker 2: rolling around in bushes trying to put the fire out.
Speaker 2: Before emergency services arrived, he fled the scene. However, following
Speaker 2: an extensive investigation, police have now caught the culprit. They
Speaker 2: believe they've charged him with several serious offenses. He's been
Speaker 2: refused bail to appear before the children's court, and police
Speaker 2: will allege the teenager is responsible for lighting the fires.
Speaker 2: They also allege the barbershop has links to a high
Speaker 2: profile organized crime network.
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Speaker 2: What's happening Spiro morning?
Speaker 22: Then we're gearing up for basically the Grand Final of
Speaker 22: Test cricket, where the two best teams in the world
Speaker 22: go head to head in a standalone Test match to
Speaker 22: determine a champion. We have Australia, the reigning champs, taking
Speaker 22: on South Africa at Lords which is the home of cricket.
Speaker 22: The first ball to be bowled at seven point thirty
Speaker 22: tonight local time and the site has been named The
Speaker 22: big call. Which has cricket fans talking this morning is
Speaker 22: the decision to name Manus Laboujin at the top of
Speaker 22: the order to open the batting, edging out the up
Speaker 22: and coming tear age of Sam Constas. I guess Constas
Speaker 22: probably lacks the experience thereafter, especially when it comes to
Speaker 22: the conditions in England. Labushaine, on the other hand, normally
Speaker 22: plays pretty well in the Northern Hemisphere. The other changes
Speaker 22: Cameron Green, the all rounder, makes his longer way to
Speaker 22: return from injury, while the fast bowler Josh Hazelwood also
Speaker 22: gets the nod over Scott Bolin. So we'll be keeping
Speaker 22: an eye on this match over the next couple of days.
Speaker 22: I did mention earlier in the program and this match,
Speaker 22: the World Test Championship Final is not on free to AIRTV.
Speaker 22: You can only watch it on Amazon Prime, which is
Speaker 22: a subscription based streaming service. We spoke as well about
Speaker 22: the soccer rus they had that win over Saudi Arabia
Speaker 22: to want to book their spot in the FIFA World
Speaker 22: Cup for next year, and that match wasn't on free
Speaker 22: to AIRTV either, that was on Paramount Plus. So when
Speaker 22: it comes to big sporting events of national interest, I
Speaker 22: think that it has to be on free to air.
Speaker 22: When it comes to World Test Championship Cricket finals and
Speaker 22: World Cup qualifiers, you have to give Ozzie's a chance
Speaker 22: to watch these matches on free to AIRTV because you
Speaker 22: can't subscribe to every service Netflix and Paramount Plus and
Speaker 22: what you.
Speaker 2: Also, can't grow a sport if people can't watch.
Speaker 22: It exactly right, and when it's high quality sport being played,
Speaker 22: it's important for people to be able.
Speaker 2: To watch that. Game two of State of Origin.
Speaker 22: We're just seven days away from the second game of
Speaker 22: the series, Billy Slater. The Morons coaches decided to appoint
Speaker 22: Cameron Munster he's five eighth as the captain of the
Speaker 22: Queensland side, replacing Dally Cherry Evans as skipper. New South
Speaker 22: Wales have basically skipped Sydney. They went straight up the
Speaker 22: M four to the Blue Mountains and later this morning
Speaker 22: they'll hit the training paddock in Wentworth Falls the side.
Speaker 22: We'll spend the next couple of days at the Fairmont
Speaker 22: Resort in Lura before they travel to Perth on Sunday.
Speaker 22: So very exciting State of Origin game two not too
Speaker 22: far away, and I think the Continuous Call team are
Speaker 22: jumping on the plane and heading to Perth as well,
Speaker 22: Mark Levy and Mark Geyer, Daryl Browman and Mark Piggy Riddell.
Speaker 22: So an exciting time for them heading across to wa
Speaker 22: and the.
Speaker 2: Blues are at Fairmont Resorting Lura, where there is a
Speaker 2: beautiful golf course as well, so I'm sure they would
Speaker 2: have packed the golf clubs. We'll talk to you soon, thanks, Ben.
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Speaker 2: Well, this is interesting. At New South Wales Parliament, a
Speaker 2: crop of magic mushrooms has been found growing outside the
Speaker 2: entry to the historic building. The psychedelic drugs have sprung
Speaker 2: up after a recent period of heavy rainfall and they're
Speaker 2: growing under the noses of the state's politicians. Jeremy Buckingham,
Speaker 2: from the Legalized Cannabis Party, was the first person to
Speaker 2: notice the mushrooms. How did you notice them, Jeremy? Anyway,
Speaker 2: he alerted the Daily Telegraph, who then ran tests on
Speaker 2: some of the samples they collected, and the samples from
Speaker 2: Parliament House have tested positive for silacon, which is the
Speaker 2: psycho addictive substance. The Department of Parliamentary Services has jumped
Speaker 2: into action following the bizarre discovery. They're now coming up
Speaker 2: with a management plan. Mark Levy's with us. He'll be
Speaker 2: here on the air after nine. Levy, Good morning to you.
Speaker 7: Good morning, Ben. I wonder what the management plan entails.
Speaker 7: I would have thought you'd just tell someone go and
Speaker 7: rip them out and put them in the bin. You
Speaker 7: used to get all the goss in the bar at
Speaker 7: Parliament House. Maybe you just need to stand outside the
Speaker 7: front door.
Speaker 2: It's just look like any normal mushrooms to me.
Speaker 7: I don't even know what a magic mushroom looks like.
Speaker 2: Do you know what they do?
Speaker 7: Apparently you have a good time. We could do a
Speaker 7: little test with you now. I don't think three hours
Speaker 7: of me on a magic mushroom.
Speaker 2: What we could do is we could do it halfway
Speaker 2: through the program, so you do the first hour and
Speaker 2: a half straight and then you do the last ninety
Speaker 2: minutes on the magic mushrooms.
Speaker 7: I'm sure we'd be breaching some rules, but I'll tell
Speaker 7: you what'd be good radio. The ratings could go up.
Speaker 7: What are you doing after night? I've got Mickwilling coming
Speaker 7: into the studio today. It's thank a first respond to
Speaker 7: day and his name's being mentioned as a potential candidate
Speaker 7: to take over the Rollers police commissioners. So looking forward
Speaker 7: to catching up with Mick, and we'll get the latest
Speaker 7: from the Mayor of Wallandilly Shire. I got word yesterday, Ben,
Speaker 7: you remember the five teenagers that lost their lives in
Speaker 7: that Buxton crash. Heard it and they had the bench
Speaker 7: seats set up for the victims, and some low life's
Speaker 7: gone along and pinched the plarks off those bench seats.
Speaker 7: So we'll get the latest that and the investigation from police.
Speaker 2: And Mick Willing.
Speaker 7: What time is Mick Willing on now, he'll be on
Speaker 7: ten fifteen.
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll be listening a very experienced New South Wales
Speaker 2: police officer who we lost sadly, and if the rumors
Speaker 2: are to be believed, he's putting his hat back in
Speaker 2: the ring potentially to be commissioner. So I'll be listening
Speaker 2: out for that one. And yeah, on the Buckston crash memorial.
Speaker 2: I just couldn't believe that when I heard that. Yes,
Speaker 2: dark I can understand why you were fuming. So we'll
Speaker 2: be listening after nine.
Speaker 7: Good on your body.
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Speaker 2: messages coming in from all over Sydney about dirt bikes.
Speaker 2: After we spoke to one of our listeners saying she's
Speaker 2: been calling the police saying we've got dirt bikes here
Speaker 2: every afternoon and the police don't do anything about it.
Speaker 2: We've also heard from a police source saying there's a
Speaker 2: reason why, and that's because we don't feel like we've
Speaker 2: got the backing of the hierarchy if something goes wrong,
Speaker 2: if a police officer he's chasing one of these dirt
Speaker 2: bikes and the dirt bike has a crash. Adrian says
Speaker 2: I've seen trail bikes on the M seven cycle path.
Speaker 2: Sally says we're having the same issue in the Bankstown area.
Speaker 2: Police have told us they're not allowed to chase them.
Speaker 2: Another one here. We have the same problem where we live.
Speaker 2: The current dirt bike issue is a clear example of
Speaker 2: what the New South Wales government's present management of e
Speaker 2: bikes will become in the future. Susie says. Same in Newcastle.
Speaker 2: Always between two am and four am they read loudly
Speaker 2: outside certain houses. Paul says last week I had three
Speaker 2: stolen motorbikes with two juveniles wearing balaclavas on each. They
Speaker 2: nearly and my dog's over. Michael says in Dubbo the
Speaker 2: illegal dirt bike issue has been going on for years.
Speaker 2: We've noticed a spike in recent times. Well, I'm being
Speaker 2: told that newstud Wales police want to respond to these
Speaker 2: concerns and they may be joining us on the program
Speaker 2: as early as tomorrow, so we look forward to that.
Speaker 2: Another one here from John. We've had the same issue
Speaker 2: with motorbikes and motorized bikes around Kingsgrove and Earlwood. They're
Speaker 2: wearing balaclavas and ruining local parks, terrorizing motorists and pedestrians.
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Speaker 2: Today is the eleventh of June. It was on this
Speaker 2: day in twenty twenty three a horror bus accident took
Speaker 2: place in the Hunter Valley. Ten passengers were killed when
Speaker 2: the bus flipped while driving from a web.
Speaker 1: For joyous daylight.
Speaker 16: That in a beautiful place to end with such terrible
Speaker 16: loss of life and injury is so cruel and so
Speaker 16: sad and so unfair.
Speaker 2: The bus driver, Brett Button, was sentenced to thirty two
Speaker 2: years behind bars. In nineteen twenty seven, the first Darryl
Speaker 2: Lee chocolate shop opened in Australia. In nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 2: the Beatles arrived down under the.
Speaker 24: Welcome of the year in Powering Blinding Rain, A group
Speaker 24: of young Liverpublians who bring with them unprecedented attacks of beetlemania.
Speaker 24: Teenagers and quite a few of their elders screen their adulation.
Speaker 2: Over two weeks, the Beatles performed twenty concerts across the country.
Speaker 2: We'd love to talk to you if you were at
Speaker 2: one of them. In nineteen eighty eight, Freedom Fest was
Speaker 2: held at Wembley Stadium. Artists from around the world came
Speaker 2: together to call for Nelson Mandela's freedom, but.
Speaker 23: The message behind all of it is quite simple, wesolute you,
Speaker 23: Nelson Mandela.
Speaker 2: The artists included Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston. In nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty two, Eat premiered in cinemas et Phone Home Some
Speaker 2: Happy Birthdays Now The Aussie Olympian Jess Fox is thirty
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Speaker 2: Rabs Ray Rabs Warren is eighty two today, Happy birthday, Rabs.
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Speaker 2: In nineteen sixty nine. It all happened on this day,
Speaker 2: the eleventh of June, and that's the podcast for today,
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