Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is Sydney Now with Clinton.
Speaker 2: Maynard, Thursday May twenty nine, Clinton Maynar here one three
Speaker 2: one eighty seven three is our number. If you've given
Speaker 2: up catching the train, because let's be honest, they are
Speaker 2: so unreliable in Sydney. You're better off walking. Maybe you
Speaker 2: think we'll go won't walk to work, won't walk to school,
Speaker 2: won't walk to the shops. I'll drive the car. Good,
Speaker 2: good idea. That's what I've done for the past week,
Speaker 2: although I have risked the train today. How do you
Speaker 2: find parking at the other end. We're going to talk
Speaker 2: a bit about parking on the show today because the
Speaker 2: behavior of some Sydney drivers needs to be called out.
Speaker 2: I reckon there's a lot more people on the roads
Speaker 2: this week because of the train dramas, but it doesn't
Speaker 2: help when other motorists do the wrong thing when it
Speaker 2: comes to parking. Parking is so expensive in our city.
Speaker 2: There's not enough spots. The drivers actually aren't helping. More
Speaker 2: on that throughout the program. Also on the show, more
Speaker 2: dramas for the Northern Beaches Hospital, this time with security.
Speaker 2: I'll speak with the Health services unit about that. Magda
Speaker 2: Zebanski as we've heard has been diagnosed with cancer, a
Speaker 2: rare form of lymphoma, very aggressive.
Speaker 1: As well.
Speaker 2: One of our best love comedians, Peter Ford, will bring
Speaker 2: us the latest this hour straight should to. David Elliott
Speaker 2: joins me after four thirty. The fallaut from the decision
Speaker 2: not to sell off rose Hill Gardens Racecourse. Well, David
Speaker 2: has a good option of how we can increase housing
Speaker 2: in this city and that's selling off Sydney's Long Bay Jail.
Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense. Mark guy with the
Speaker 2: wash up from Origin one as well. Great victory for
Speaker 2: the Blues. You are my eyes and ears when it's
Speaker 2: happening in Sydney now, so text me zero force zero
Speaker 2: eight seven three eight seven three have you say one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three, Well in Sydney now, this
Speaker 2: is just broken. In the last hour or so in
Speaker 2: the courts in the Supreme Court, a taekwondo instructor has
Speaker 2: admitted to killing a man and a woman, a couple
Speaker 2: and their boy in Sydney's West. You may will have
Speaker 2: recalled this horrific crime. It occurred in February last year
Speaker 2: in North Paramatta and Boukham Hills. Well today, fifty year
Speaker 2: old Kwang kuu H, who was charged back in February
Speaker 2: of last year with murdering his seven year old student
Speaker 2: and the boy's parents. Today in court, he has pleaded
Speaker 2: guilty to three counts of murder. The victim's families broke
Speaker 2: down in the court. The taekwondo instructor only spoke very
Speaker 2: briefly via a video link. He responded yes sir and
Speaker 2: bowed his head when the magistrate confirmed his guilty.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 2: The bodies of that little boy and his mother were
Speaker 2: found inside a taekwondo's studio in North Paramatta back in
Speaker 2: February of last year, and then two hours later, the
Speaker 2: boy's father was found dead in a townhouse in Watkins
Speaker 2: Road in Boukham Hills. Police allege the strangled the mother
Speaker 2: and his son sometime between five point thirty and six
Speaker 2: thirty on the nineteenth of February. He then left their
Speaker 2: bodies inside the taekwondo studio. He then drove the woman's
Speaker 2: BMW to the family's home at Boukham Hills and then
Speaker 2: he stabbed the father to death. Well, he has pleaded guilty,
Speaker 2: so we can say that now he's stabbed the father
Speaker 2: to death. The following morning, he presented himself to hospital
Speaker 2: with stab wounds himself. So he has pleaded guilty to
Speaker 2: all those crimes. So those three murders, and it means
Speaker 2: that the family of the victim won't have to sit
Speaker 2: through a long and painful trial. So what happens now
Speaker 2: The matter proceeds to the Supreme Court for arrangement. The
Speaker 2: guilty please will be formally entered into and then a
Speaker 2: sentencing date will be said. It's ten past three. You
Speaker 2: might look out the windows this afternoon and think the
Speaker 2: weather's not too bad. It's quite overcast in Sydney. Well,
Speaker 2: it looks like the waterways of Sydney will be quite
Speaker 2: hazardous over the next couple of days. In right across
Speaker 2: the New South Wales coast from the Byron Coast, the
Speaker 2: Coft Coast, the mcquarie Coast, Hunter Coast, Sydney Coast, Illawarra Coast,
Speaker 2: Bateman's Needen, there's now a hazard as surf warning. Surf
Speaker 2: Life savers are particularly worried about rock fishes because there
Speaker 2: are massive swells coming over the next couple of days.
Speaker 2: Steve Piece is the CEO of Surf Life Saving New
Speaker 2: South Wales. Thanks for joining us. Steve what's it like
Speaker 2: out there at the moment.
Speaker 3: Afternoon, Clinton, Well, I'm just on my wife's satirical surf
Speaker 3: club of this beach. But in Sydney we've got swell
Speaker 3: building that's around two meters along the Sydney beaches at
Speaker 3: the moment, and that is starting to get pretty hazardous
Speaker 3: for people that aren't experienced. But as you said, it's
Speaker 3: the warning that's going to be over the next Friday
Speaker 3: and Saturday with swell you know, up to around three meters.
Speaker 3: But for the first time in many years, the term
Speaker 3: deceptively powerful swell has been used by the Bureau and
Speaker 3: we're just about to put out our warnings because as
Speaker 3: you said, this is really dangerous conditions for inexperienced rock
Speaker 3: fishers or anyone going on rock platforms this weekend.
Speaker 2: We often do read these warnings from the Weather Bureau
Speaker 2: about has it to serve? So what is the what
Speaker 2: is the difference this time?
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, starting again, The difference this time is apart
Speaker 3: from it's still a really large swell, it's it's the
Speaker 3: timing between the swell. So this swell it's a hazard
Speaker 3: as swell, but it's time that fifteen seconds between swells
Speaker 3: and what that means is if a rock fisher is
Speaker 3: out on the on the on the rocks fishing, they
Speaker 3: see a large swell coming, you know, they will probably
Speaker 3: try and do some fancy footwork to evade us well
Speaker 3: and get back into safety. Then they'll go back and
Speaker 3: maybe turn their back, but unbeknownst to them, fifteen seconds later,
Speaker 3: another really large swell will come through. And this is
Speaker 3: where we see so many people getting swept off rocks,
Speaker 3: and you know, really tragically. You know, we've we've seen
Speaker 3: seven rock fishers have lost their lives this year, and
Speaker 3: you know, the Easter period is still scarred within the
Speaker 3: psyche of many of our life service about how many
Speaker 3: fatalities they had to attend over that period.
Speaker 2: So effectively, the two swells are quite close together, and
Speaker 2: the potential for those second ways to catch people.
Speaker 3: Out it is so you know, people will think the
Speaker 3: swell has gone when the wave comes up, but unbeknownst
Speaker 3: to them, in another fifteen seconds, another large swell will
Speaker 3: come through, so you know, they may turn their back
Speaker 3: on the water, they may go back out into that
Speaker 3: dangerous position for those that aren't wearing life jackets and
Speaker 3: our warnings when we put it out later today or
Speaker 3: tomorrow morning, will be really emphasizing the importance of life
Speaker 3: jackets for rockfishers. It's just, you know, it's just a
Speaker 3: period of time where with these conditions it will present
Speaker 3: some really significant dangers to people venturing out on the
Speaker 3: rock platforms and rock fishing over the weekend.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the warning, Thank you, Steve.
Speaker 3: Thanks Clinton for broadcasting it.
Speaker 2: Stu Peace from Surf Life Saving you South Wales. So
Speaker 2: not so much this afternoon, but it's going to be
Speaker 2: over the next days. Would be a really big swell.
Speaker 2: But it's the fact that these ways will come so
Speaker 2: close together it could really catch people out, particularly if
Speaker 2: you do enjoy rock fishing.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 4: If it's happening and you're sitting you'll hear it on
Speaker 4: Sydney Now to.
Speaker 2: GB The recount continues in the seat of Bradfield. The
Speaker 2: gap has now narrowed yet again between the Liberal Gazelle
Speaker 2: Capteriian and the till niko Let Bullet. It is now
Speaker 2: down to two votes that we are still days and
Speaker 2: days away from knowing a final result for this particular seat.
Speaker 2: Despite the fact Jeselle Capteriian has been named the assistant
Speaker 2: Shadow Minister for Communications, but still in a coalition. I
Speaker 2: actually think I think you've got to hender for Jisinda Price.
Speaker 2: Whatever you think about her, at least she says what
Speaker 2: she thinks. And too many politicians are shackled by trying
Speaker 2: to play the political game, of the party game, but
Speaker 2: she has been She has doubled down today on comments
Speaker 2: that she is disappointed about missing out on a prime
Speaker 2: position within the Liberal shadow cabinet after switching from the
Speaker 2: Nationals to Live She thought she was up for a
Speaker 2: prominent position. We all know she wanted the dep leadership.
Speaker 2: She didn't have support for that, so she backed out
Speaker 2: of a vote. But she's been effectively demoted to the
Speaker 2: outer ministry, the shadow Defense Industries Minister, and she has
Speaker 2: now doubled down on her disappointment. Speaking with our sister
Speaker 2: station for BC.
Speaker 5: I am absolutely disappointed that you know, some fierce, hard working,
Speaker 5: some of the toughest women that I know, who are
Speaker 5: capable of fighting on behalf of Australians, who are are
Speaker 5: also very intelligent in terms of that they bring about
Speaker 5: can construct policy, have been sidelined with this approach.
Speaker 6: Is that is very.
Speaker 5: Disappointing, and I think I made it very clear you
Speaker 5: and I will be honest about that position. From a
Speaker 5: position where we have to be encouraging women into politics,
Speaker 5: supporting women into politics, that some of our bravest, hard
Speaker 5: working and significant fighters aren't going to be sitting in
Speaker 5: shadow cabinet to take up the fire is a huge
Speaker 5: disappointment and a huge life I think to the coalition.
Speaker 2: So she's talking about conservative female MPs like Jane Hume,
Speaker 2: but she's also referring to herself there, so she's not happy.
Speaker 2: Look rightly or wrongly, whether you're a fan of the
Speaker 2: Senate that I actually think it's a good thing when
Speaker 2: we hear politicians speak from the heart, and she does
Speaker 2: do that. Whether you agree with her positions on various issues,
Speaker 2: whether you agree with her politics or not, she's saying
Speaker 2: what she thinks. Now, if she was in shadow cabinet,
Speaker 2: well she wouldn't be able to do that. There's cabinet solidarity.
Speaker 2: But she's part of the outer ministry now, so we
Speaker 2: may actually hear a fair bit from just Center Price
Speaker 2: in the coming months. Fourteens due to face court over
Speaker 2: an incident when police were called to a service station
Speaker 2: in camera. So in the Central West now we talk
Speaker 2: about these incidents on an almost daily basis, and yes,
Speaker 2: this is another one that involves an alleged breach of bail.
Speaker 2: Police are called to the service station reports that the
Speaker 2: driver of a car did not pay. The police arrive
Speaker 2: at the survey they find a black Mercedes be Wins
Speaker 2: that have alleged to be stolen from my home in
Speaker 2: Cawrap over the weekend. The vehicle's then abandoned in the
Speaker 2: bush well. Police begin investigating. They've arrested a seventeen year
Speaker 2: old boy, but they've also arrested a fourteen year old
Speaker 2: boy along with a fifteen year old two fifteen year olds.
Speaker 2: Now they're all before the courts, now the fourteen year
Speaker 2: old boy, and they're all facing a range of quite
Speaker 2: serious charges. But the fourteen year old boy, who's been
Speaker 2: charged with committing an indictible desfense goods I personal custody,
Speaker 2: destroying damage property worth more than five thousand dollars, is
Speaker 2: also charged with a breach of bail fourteen, the seventeen
Speaker 2: year old is also charged with the breach of bail.
Speaker 2: This happens time and time again. A breach of bail
Speaker 2: and now the government's telling us, oh no, we are
Speaker 2: getting very very tough on our bail laws.
Speaker 4: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 4: now with pointon man on to GB.
Speaker 2: A recall has been issued for a particular brand of
Speaker 2: electric bike, the Santa Cruz Heckler nine E bikes, which
Speaker 2: have interchance changeable seven hundred and twenty what lithium ion batteries.
Speaker 2: Santa Cruz is a very popular brand, particularly of skateboards,
Speaker 2: but they do make some electric bikes. Now. The reason
Speaker 2: the bike is being recall is a warning today from
Speaker 2: the product safety officials that the battery may short circuit
Speaker 2: and cause a fire. There is a risk of injuries,
Speaker 2: there is a risk of damage to properties. We've seen
Speaker 2: the number of house fires that have been caused not
Speaker 2: just by e bikes but by batteries over particularly over
Speaker 2: the past twelve months, Santa Cruz Bicycles has received four
Speaker 2: reports of fires, including some property damage. So far, no
Speaker 2: injuries have been reported. So if you do have one
Speaker 2: of these bikes, or if your kid has one of
Speaker 2: these bikes, it's a Santa Cruz Heckler nine E bike,
Speaker 2: we are being urged to immediately disconnect the battery from
Speaker 2: the e bike and the charger, then go to the
Speaker 2: product safety website product safety dot gov dot AU. That's
Speaker 2: where all the formal recall details are. But given that
Speaker 2: Santa Cruz, the manufacturer BikeE themselves say there's been four
Speaker 2: reports of fires caused by this particular e bipe, it's
Speaker 2: certainly a problem now related to that. I did read
Speaker 2: some quotes from the Saint Vincent's Hospital emergency specialist Dr
Speaker 2: Tom Crofts in The Herald this afternoon about the dangers
Speaker 2: of e bikes. Now this is still related to the
Speaker 2: same products, but not fires. This is about the dangers
Speaker 2: to the riders of accidents. Dr Croft has told the
Speaker 2: Herald today there's been a huge spike in the number
Speaker 2: of presentations i e. People turning up to hospital injured
Speaker 2: relating to e bike accidents, particularly over the past twelve months.
Speaker 2: He says they've just increased in numbers, increased in availability
Speaker 2: across city, particularly in the Eastern Soubers in their city,
Speaker 2: and they're dotted around other places. He says he often
Speaker 2: treats patients with lacerated spleens or livers from hand or
Speaker 2: bars going into the abdomen, traumatic brain injuries from head
Speaker 2: hitting the ground and broken bones. Now, the problem he
Speaker 2: has identified is the trend that too many bike riders
Speaker 2: are mixing alcohol while they're riding their e bike. They
Speaker 2: choose using an ee bike as an easy way to
Speaker 2: get home, for instance, after a night out now, particularly
Speaker 2: the ones that you can rent around the city and
Speaker 2: then instead of maybe getting a cab, and thankfully people
Speaker 2: aren't driving, they're riding the rent bikes back home, but
Speaker 2: they're then crashing, falling over the handlebars, sufferating lacerated livers
Speaker 2: and spleens.
Speaker 4: You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney, Stay tuned
Speaker 4: to Sydney Out with Clinton Laynard on to.
Speaker 2: Jimb We spoke to the police about their hunt for
Speaker 2: a man who was wanted over the house fire in
Speaker 2: Croydon of early yesterday. That fire and fortunately led to
Speaker 2: the death of eighty year old Ted Grantham, who we've
Speaker 2: now heard a little bit about. He was a very
Speaker 2: well respected member of the community, a music teacher. Well,
Speaker 2: his son has now faced court. His son Christopher was
Speaker 2: arrested on the Central Coast last night. It's been a
Speaker 2: very brief court appearance today in Gosford, and he is
Speaker 2: not yet a plea. He's a fifty year old man
Speaker 2: and he was discovered police alleged with a machete. His lawyer,
Speaker 2: Alliance to Boodley, says, at the moment it's too early
Speaker 2: to determine whether he'll actually enter a plea of guilty
Speaker 2: or not guilty.
Speaker 7: I'm still far too early to make those kinds of decisions.
Speaker 7: This matter still has to be fully fleshed out, and
Speaker 7: in time it will crystallize and we will deal with
Speaker 7: it appropriately. It's just about moving forward with the process
Speaker 7: and letting it all, as I said, flesh out, and
Speaker 7: once the evidence is all served, then we'll clearly deal
Speaker 7: with it appropriately.
Speaker 2: He remains in custody. Pauline Hanson's daughter Lee has promised
Speaker 2: she'll make a political comeback. Lee Hanson contested the Senate
Speaker 2: in Tasmani, but she missed out on one of the
Speaker 2: six seats to Jackie Lamby, and she actually had a
Speaker 2: fairly good chance. She pled quite well and she's the
Speaker 2: first time she's entered politics. But she has told News
Speaker 2: Today that because she's had so much support, she will
Speaker 2: make another attempt down the track was interesting listening to
Speaker 2: Pauline Hanson during the election campaign. She insisted that putting
Speaker 2: her daughter up as a candidate for one nation was
Speaker 2: not a case of nepotism, and she said the proof
Speaker 2: in the pudding was that she was in no way
Speaker 2: would she put her sons up as a candidate for
Speaker 2: one nation because she said there's nowhere need they'd be
Speaker 2: capable of doing something like that. Well, the Godfather has spoken.
Speaker 2: Don Farrell. I call him the Dawn. He's our trade minister,
Speaker 2: and I call him the Don because he actually thinks
Speaker 2: he's from the cast of the Godfather, because he when
Speaker 2: he was questioned about US tariffs about a month or
Speaker 2: so ago, he said he'd give Donald Trump an offer
Speaker 2: he couldn't refuse. Mister Trump's not too worried about that. Well,
Speaker 2: there's been significant change in the United States today. The
Speaker 2: US Federal Court has actually made a decision which will
Speaker 2: for the moment stop Donald Trump's so called Liberation Day tarifs. Well,
Speaker 2: mister Farrell has today responded to this. He says the
Speaker 2: outBut an easy Governor's being the constant view that these
Speaker 2: tariffs on Australian ports are unjustified. We will continue to
Speaker 2: engage and strongly advocate for the removal of taris. The
Speaker 2: alban Easy government will always stand up for Australia's national interests,
Speaker 2: including Australian jobs and Australian industries. I'm sure mister Trump
Speaker 2: is shaking in his boots. Let's check our news headlines
Speaker 2: and good afternoon, Josh Bryance.
Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Clinton. Comedian Magna Szabanski says she's receiving world
Speaker 8: class treatment in Melbourne as she reveals she's battling blood cancer.
Speaker 8: Taekwondo instructor Kwang Kyong Yu has pleaded guilty to three
Speaker 8: counts of murder for killing a couple and a boy
Speaker 8: in Sydney's West in February last year. The Prime Minister
Speaker 8: has rubbish new analysis which claims Australia is not spending
Speaker 8: enough on defense, and the Vatican has released a new
Speaker 8: series of stamps featuring Pope Leo the fourteenth. In sport,
Speaker 8: former Australian rugby seven star Nathan Lawson will make his
Speaker 8: NRL debut for the Dragons tomorrow night against the Knights.
Speaker 8: The two time Olympian will line up on the wing.
Speaker 8: We'll have more news and sport.
Speaker 2: It for Thank you, Josh, seventeen degrees in the CBD
Speaker 2: at the moment in eeny planes, it's eighteen Let's get
Speaker 2: straight to Peter Ford. This big story in the entertainment
Speaker 2: world this afternoon that Magda Zibanski has confirmed via social
Speaker 2: media that she is suffering cancer, a fairly aggressive form
Speaker 2: of leukemia. What's the latest, Pete.
Speaker 6: Well, it's not obviously, most people are hearing about it
Speaker 6: in the last hour or two, but people who know
Speaker 6: Magna have known for several weeks. You may have noticed
Speaker 6: if you follow her on social media she hasn't been
Speaker 6: doing much for quite a while. I think she's just
Speaker 6: needed to come to terms with as herself, and she's
Speaker 6: at a point now where she wanted to put it
Speaker 6: out there. She was aware that various members of the
Speaker 6: press knew and probably we're going to go and write it,
Speaker 6: and I think she wanted to take control of the
Speaker 6: narrative and announce it herself. So what she does have
Speaker 6: is called stage four mantle cell lymphoma. Now I'm not
Speaker 6: going to obviously pretend to be any kind of expert
Speaker 6: in this, but it's very serious and it's fast moving,
Speaker 6: and she is still very positive. So here's a little
Speaker 6: she did a piece to camera. Now. It was a
Speaker 6: bit confronting when you first see it, because she's actually
Speaker 6: chosen to shave her head now in advance of probably
Speaker 6: losing it in the weeks and months to come. But
Speaker 6: here's a little of what Magna announced.
Speaker 9: Hello, my lovelies, A head is shaved in anticipation of
Speaker 9: it all falling out in a couple of weeks. Because
Speaker 9: I have just been diagnosed with a very rare, very aggressive,
Speaker 9: very serious lymphoma. It is one of the nasty ones, unfortunately,
Speaker 9: but the good thing is I'm surrounded by beautiful friends
Speaker 9: and family and an incredible medical support team. It's pretty confronting,
Speaker 9: but new treatments keep coming down the pipeline all the time.
Speaker 9: So I just got a.
Speaker 1: What do you get to do?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Anyway?
Speaker 2: Love is all by Magna. When I first heard the
Speaker 2: audio before seeing the vision, Pete, I was wondering, is
Speaker 2: was she breaking down there? No, she's actually laughing there,
Speaker 2: Yeah she is.
Speaker 6: So that in itself is a good side. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 6: sure anybody who's dealing with a serious illness and ongoing treatment,
Speaker 6: one of the things you can have on your side
Speaker 6: that will really help you get through it is humor,
Speaker 6: and Maga's got that in bucket loads. So she so loved.
Speaker 6: You know, whenever they did those Q scores of the
Speaker 6: most Loved and Trusted celebrities, she's always up there in
Speaker 6: the top ten. And she gets involved in a whole
Speaker 6: lot of different community causes and political causes. I don't
Speaker 6: always agree with her, but I've never once doubted her
Speaker 6: heart's in the right place. So if you're thinking about her,
Speaker 6: get a bit proactive, you know, go on to her
Speaker 6: Instagram or to her Twitter, drop her a line and
Speaker 6: say I'm thinking of you. Just in the space you'll
Speaker 6: be in a crowded room, though, because just in the
Speaker 6: space of two hours, I think she's already got about
Speaker 6: six thousand messages not exaggerating about six thousand messages on
Speaker 6: her Instagram already.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's times on this we put politics to one style,
Speaker 2: people's political opinions to one side, and she's had such
Speaker 2: a wonderful career entertaining us, making us laugh for decades.
Speaker 2: She'll have all of our.
Speaker 1: Support, exactly.
Speaker 2: Hugh Jackman has responded to Debraly Furnace's statement yes, So.
Speaker 6: Yesterday we spoke about that statement, which, as I said
Speaker 6: to you yesterday, I thought it was actually quite a
Speaker 6: calm considered statement. But the grenade was the use of
Speaker 6: the word betrayal. And of course that did become the
Speaker 6: headline as we knew it would. But I thought what
Speaker 6: Hugh did a few hours after that was really beneath him.
Speaker 6: I would like to think someone else is looking after
Speaker 6: his socials and he didn't do it or approve of it.
Speaker 6: But what he did he took some vision of him
Speaker 6: on stage a few nights ago, the show he's doing
Speaker 6: at Radio City Musical which he does this routine with
Speaker 6: a skipping rope. Pretty incredible what he's doing, and it's
Speaker 6: to the song Bye Bye Bye by in sync and
Speaker 6: he just put that up and I thought thought that
Speaker 6: was pretty to be honest, tacky and really quite beneath
Speaker 6: him to do that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he's probably better than that.
Speaker 1: People.
Speaker 2: We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 6: Thanks Clenden Well.
Speaker 4: Street on Sydney now word on the Street.
Speaker 2: Thanks to Temper, A great nights sleep night after not
Speaker 2: the difference is Temper. If you see something around the
Speaker 2: city that we need to know about it, you can
Speaker 2: send me a message zero force zero eight seven three
Speaker 2: out seven three. If there is something you would like
Speaker 2: us to investigate, best to email me with the details.
Speaker 2: Go to our website to gb dot com. Now I
Speaker 2: won't name our listener here, but you'll recall would have
Speaker 2: been about two months ago. We spent a fair bit
Speaker 2: of time talking about buses, particularly on the North side
Speaker 2: of Sydney, and the way they're being managed by the
Speaker 2: private operators in particular bus ways, and a lot of
Speaker 2: drivers who've simply had enough and they're leaving their jobs
Speaker 2: because of the two tier wager system, because of the
Speaker 2: standard of the work conditions. Well, this is another one
Speaker 2: that just when I read this email that one of
Speaker 2: our listeners sent to me this week, just disgusted me.
Speaker 2: I'll read part of it. Our listener wants to raise
Speaker 2: serious concerns about health and safety that they'd encountered during
Speaker 2: a shift, and this is a shift just this week.
Speaker 2: She says. During this shift, I was assigned to operate
Speaker 2: a bus that had a very strong, unpleasant smell of urine.
Speaker 2: Despite my immediate concerns, I informed my line manager about
Speaker 2: the issue. I was instructed to keep driving the bus
Speaker 2: even though the relief driver refused to take the vehicle either,
Speaker 2: and the relief driver was given a fresh bus. I
Speaker 2: had to proceed past the relief point and complete the
Speaker 2: trip in this contaminated bus. The smell was so overwhelming
Speaker 2: I became physically sick. I was gagging. I was forced
Speaker 2: to endure this situation of unacceptable discomfort. The smell was
Speaker 2: so bad I began to smell urine myself. It's distressing
Speaker 2: and it's unacceptable from a health and a safety perspective,
Speaker 2: this incident represents a significant workplace health and safety concern.
Speaker 2: No employee should be subjected to such conditions, and I
Speaker 2: believe it's imperative that the company which is Busways reviews
Speaker 2: and improves their procedures to ensure that vehicles are properly
Speaker 2: maintained and sanitized before assigned to drivers. And I'll keep
Speaker 2: our listener anonymous. At this point, that's disgusting. I mean,
Speaker 2: how a bus gets to that point where it stinks
Speaker 2: of urine, Well, I'll leave it up to your imagination.
Speaker 2: And the passengers who are responsible for that, well they
Speaker 2: should hang their heads in chain. But the company itself, well,
Speaker 2: they should have a program with the buses cleaned before
Speaker 2: another driver takes over. We've spoken to Busways off there
Speaker 2: that provided us with a statement. They've said, thank you
Speaker 2: for highlighting this. We absolutely recognize the impact anxious odor
Speaker 2: and a bus can have on the driver and others
Speaker 2: on board, and we take these matters seriously. This is
Speaker 2: covered in our protocol, these sharps and biohazardous material handling procedure.
Speaker 2: Drivers are trained to call the operational Control Center via
Speaker 2: their two way radios if they have a concern of
Speaker 2: a noxious over or a bio has it or otherwise.
Speaker 2: Our OCC team then checks in, immediately assesses the severity
Speaker 2: of the situation, and if the vehicle is deemed unfit
Speaker 2: for service, a change of a bus is dispatched. The
Speaker 2: driver also has complete discretion to determine whether it is
Speaker 2: safe to proceed to a change the location based on
Speaker 2: the severity of the situation. Busways takes this very seriously
Speaker 2: and will investigate this matter. Well, I'm glad they'll investigate
Speaker 2: this matter because they say the driver also has this
Speaker 2: complete discretion whether it's safe to proceed. Well, no, in
Speaker 2: this case, the manager told the driver keep driving the
Speaker 2: stinky bus now. Look, I might seem minor. But just
Speaker 2: imagine being trapped in a bus that smells like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, firstly, the passengers who do that sort of
Speaker 2: thing feed in. Can we this is twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: We're supposedly a modern society. But bus ways themselves they
Speaker 2: should also do better. And yep, I appreciate that they're
Speaker 2: going to investigate this particular incident. But it's all well
Speaker 2: and good having the shops and bio hazardous material handling
Speaker 2: procede Johanna book. But just the reality is that the
Speaker 2: bus drop rings says, hey, this bus has got to
Speaker 2: be cleaned and clean now just do something about it.
Speaker 2: This just in from the Weather Bureau. They have issued
Speaker 2: a warning for minor flooding along the Warrior River. Now
Speaker 2: this could occur late tonight Warrenor a bridge. You know,
Speaker 2: Warrenor is obviously very low lying. The Bureau tells us
Speaker 2: the river at Warrenora Bridge it's currently at zero point
Speaker 2: two two meters and falling with the tide, but it
Speaker 2: may reach the minor flood level on high tide, which
Speaker 2: is late this evening. So some lovely homes down there
Speaker 2: at Wronora these days, right on lit river. I had
Speaker 2: friends who actually lived on the river back when I
Speaker 2: was in school and we went to Janelle Boys which
Speaker 2: is just up from Warronora, and they actually had to
Speaker 2: use boats to get out there to get the bus.
Speaker 2: You may need a boat late tonight. Look only minor
Speaker 2: flooding at this stage, but just be warned that could
Speaker 2: be an issued late tonight. Seven three. We often talk
Speaker 2: about bad councils and silly decisions they make on this show,
Speaker 2: and rightly so, because there are too many of them.
Speaker 2: I think there are too many councils. I think we'd
Speaker 2: be better off, and I've said this before with two
Speaker 2: levels of government. Have the state government just take over
Speaker 2: the responsibilities of local councils. Now, it'll never happen because
Speaker 2: you remember the hullabaloo when Mike Baird merged councils years ago.
Speaker 2: Now that was a complete and utter stuff up. But
Speaker 2: as a result we've got a lot of incompetent local councils.
Speaker 2: This may well be another one Penrith Council. I had
Speaker 2: an email as part of our word on the Streets
Speaker 2: segment from Andrew and of course you can tip me
Speaker 2: off to issues via our website to gb dot com.
Speaker 2: Andrew says. I'm a resident in Londonderry and on Thursday
Speaker 2: just gone. So last week I took action to unblock
Speaker 2: a rural council drain on our road, which was eighty
Speaker 2: percent blocked. Penrick City Council came out on Friday and
Speaker 2: they told me they'll be sending me a bill for
Speaker 2: the cleanup of debris that I removed from their drain
Speaker 2: to allow stormwater the flow. They also said New South
Speaker 2: Wales Police might charge me with operating my bobcat on
Speaker 2: a public road. Our road was flooded inundated one of
Speaker 2: the residents' homes on three occasions. Seeing the road was
Speaker 2: being submerged on Thursday, I tried to do what I
Speaker 2: could to save properties and do the work the council
Speaker 2: was responsible for. So just just cast your mind back
Speaker 2: to late last week. Of course we had the flooding
Speaker 2: on the mid North Coast and the Hunter Valley, but
Speaker 2: the rain here Thursday to Friday was absolutely horrendous. So
Speaker 2: you know, all over Sydney there were stormwater drains completely overflowing,
Speaker 2: packed with garbage. Because we have authorities who don't seem
Speaker 2: to be able to manage stormwater drains well, this was
Speaker 2: another case in Penrith. So Andrew's trying to do the
Speaker 2: right thing and help the people living in street because
Speaker 2: he happens to own a Bobcat. Andrew wrote, I'm a
Speaker 2: retired Army officer with years of experience in protecting life
Speaker 2: and property. I did what I thought was required. Well,
Speaker 2: we put this to Penrith City Council today they say
Speaker 2: they're going to get back to us. Andrew joins us. Andrew, firstly,
Speaker 2: good on you for thinking about your neighbors.
Speaker 10: Hi clanking, Good afternoon, mate.
Speaker 1: That's what we do out here, you know.
Speaker 10: We help our davis out in time of trouble. And
Speaker 10: this poor resident across the road. Her place has been
Speaker 10: inundated by stormwater three time. In fact, one occasion was
Speaker 10: she literally replaced the carpet that afternoon. The carpet layer
Speaker 10: hadn't even backed out of the driveway and her place
Speaker 10: was inundated again that afternoon. I mean shooting tears. It's
Speaker 10: not fair.
Speaker 2: So you happened to own a Bobcat. You've worked in
Speaker 2: the Army, so you know how to use equipment like that.
Speaker 10: My parents owned the Bobcat. I'm fully licensed to drive
Speaker 10: and operate the vehicle, and they could be a paint
Speaker 10: in the butt. Sometimes you'll bobcats.
Speaker 6: Because they were quite a lot of maintenance, but they're.
Speaker 10: Very effective when you need them to move large amounts
Speaker 10: of debris or dirt or whatever it is you go
Speaker 10: to do.
Speaker 2: So what did you do?
Speaker 10: But I basically I walked down and observed the drain
Speaker 10: that we've had plenty of history with and we've notified
Speaker 10: Cancel on numerous occasions they've come out and inspected it.
Speaker 10: I went down and had to look at it, and
Speaker 10: it was just backing up. It was blocked with debris
Speaker 10: and dirt, and I ran back up in the gum
Speaker 10: boots because the flight of the road was flooding and
Speaker 10: there were minutes to spare before again water inundated my
Speaker 10: neighbor's home. So I started the Bobcat up, drove down
Speaker 10: and used the Bobcat to remove the debris in a
Speaker 10: safe manner. I placed the debris off to the side
Speaker 10: of the road and I unblocked the drain effective immediately
Speaker 10: the water started running properly, and the great news was
Speaker 10: our neighbor's place for the first time didn't flood after
Speaker 10: a storm event like that. Unfortunately, I returned and our
Speaker 10: house had flooded.
Speaker 2: Sorry to hear that, Andrew, and.
Speaker 10: The first time in thirty six years.
Speaker 2: Is bad damage for you.
Speaker 10: At the moment. I think the initial assessment yesterday from
Speaker 10: the assessor from the insurance was at around about forty
Speaker 10: five to fie. So all the plasta has got to
Speaker 10: be cut out of devastating.
Speaker 2: So you're helping a neighbors, So then tell me what
Speaker 2: happened with Penrith counsel.
Speaker 10: Well, I was ritually pulling out the carpet. The next day,
Speaker 10: Friday morning, I had underlay and you know, pulling out
Speaker 10: the bleak carpet, and council arrived on our doorstep and
Speaker 10: stated basically that they were waiting for wingsor police to
Speaker 10: attend the scene, that I was going to be charged
Speaker 10: with operating the bob pat that wasn't registered on a
Speaker 10: public road. And I said so, but maybe that was
Speaker 10: the case. This was an emergency situation. I had minutes
Speaker 10: to react. I acted in a safe manner and achieved
Speaker 10: the mission which I had to to help the bloody neighbor.
Speaker 10: And if they feel that way, go ahead and do it.
Speaker 10: I really don't care. I'd do it in a heartbeat
Speaker 10: again tomorrow if it means helping out our neighbors or
Speaker 10: protecting lifeful properties.
Speaker 2: At this point, have you been issued with charges?
Speaker 10: I haven't. No. The funny thing was I guess that
Speaker 10: the police obviously have common sense paracity. Council's executive team don't.
Speaker 10: And this fellow that come down said that we're also
Speaker 10: going to send you the cleanup bill for the dirt debris.
Speaker 10: I mean, let's be reminded, this was council's drained. It
Speaker 10: was their obligation and they're in charge of it. So
Speaker 10: if anyone has not done their job, it's bloody council.
Speaker 10: So don't point the finger at me. That's not fair.
Speaker 2: Now you don't have the bill for that yet, do
Speaker 2: you not yet?
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for it.
Speaker 10: I mean I've been sitting here waiting for the last
Speaker 10: few days anticipating are the police going to turn up
Speaker 10: all this strength?
Speaker 2: Andrew, You're not paying a bill. You are not paying
Speaker 2: a bill. We are in contact with Penrith City Council offair.
Speaker 2: They're investigating the case. But let me assure you if
Speaker 2: you get that bill, don't pay. And we will lead
Speaker 2: a campaign because all of our listeners will be on
Speaker 2: your side. This is outrageous because we know what it
Speaker 2: was like all around Sydney last week with that heavy
Speaker 2: rain on Friday morning, the rain on Thursday. Half of
Speaker 2: the reason we've got these drains that overflow and can't
Speaker 2: cope with a sudden downpour is because these councils don't
Speaker 2: do their job and keep these drains clear.
Speaker 10: And Clinton, it wasn't as though we didn't have warning
Speaker 10: with this one.
Speaker 2: I mean we talked about the rain all week before it.
Speaker 2: Actually I felt like I felt like I was being
Speaker 2: silly talking about all we're gonna get heavy rain. I
Speaker 2: kept saying it day after day. The rain didn't arrive.
Speaker 2: It finally did late week.
Speaker 10: I remember hearing that Mate on your show, and it
Speaker 10: was like, you know, was anticipating it, so there's plenty
Speaker 10: of time for them to conduct a quick sweep. It
Speaker 10: took me eight minutes to clear the day, to clear
Speaker 10: the drain that afternoon, eight minutes.
Speaker 2: Well, Andrews, look, can you keep in contact with us
Speaker 2: if you get this bill, please contact me straight away.
Speaker 2: We are talking to Penrith council affair. I would be
Speaker 2: stunned if they don't back down from this and we
Speaker 2: will public shame them if they don't. Andrew, thank you
Speaker 2: for letting me know about that, because it is outrageous.
Speaker 2: I always whenever there's deep rain, I often will say
Speaker 2: during my programs, Sydney doesn't cope with wet weather. That's
Speaker 2: the reason. That's part of the reason, because we have
Speaker 2: a stormwater drain that firstly is not well maintained, and
Speaker 2: it's often the local councils that have that maintenance issue.
Speaker 2: But we also have a very old network that's crumbling.
Speaker 2: And then that's why we have flash flooding in our
Speaker 2: streets on major roads because the councils and the other
Speaker 2: authorities aren't doing the right thing. And then to think,
Speaker 2: you've got this council that they want to find him
Speaker 2: for removing the rubbish from the drain and then putting
Speaker 2: on the side of the road so they should then
Speaker 2: be able to kick pick it up. They want to
Speaker 2: find him for that and then threaten to bring the
Speaker 2: cops around because he was driving a bobcat for ten
Speaker 2: minutes or so. Seriously, as Mark says on the text line,
Speaker 2: here old mate is Andrew, he should be giving Penrith
Speaker 2: counsel of the bill for what he did. Now last night,
Speaker 2: I had no idea this happened. You know, like most
Speaker 2: of us at the moment, there's a lot of wet,
Speaker 2: damp property around. So I arrived home, I would have
Speaker 2: been just after seven o'clock and I noticed there are
Speaker 2: all these emergency crews outside the front of my house.
Speaker 2: Now I think they were Sydney Water, or maybe they
Speaker 2: were contractors for Sydney Water, and there was there was
Speaker 2: this huge spurt of water near my letterbox. Well, it
Speaker 2: turns out they'd been there all afternoon. An old drain,
Speaker 2: an old pipe in my next door neighbor's front yard
Speaker 2: or just out sectually in the council strip had burst.
Speaker 2: So of course the burst, big burst water mate, and
Speaker 2: there's water flying right down the street through our front yard,
Speaker 2: no dramas, And these fellows had a chat to them.
Speaker 2: They'd been working there for hours trying to secure the
Speaker 2: property next door. They're going to be without water for
Speaker 2: something like six weeks. And I said to my dear,
Speaker 2: I hope you're going to get home for origin. And
Speaker 2: they wrapped up just about quarter past seven. But that
Speaker 2: was an example of where we have a really old
Speaker 2: pipe network that's not coping well doesn't then cope well
Speaker 2: with heavy rain. So there's an argument that we in
Speaker 2: Sydney Water put an application into IPART to dramatically increase
Speaker 2: water rates so they could embark on a program of
Speaker 2: upgrading pipes. Now water rates will be going up by
Speaker 2: more than inflation, but IPART, the regulator, has not approved
Speaker 2: the same increase that they actually wanted. But hopefully that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean the pipes won't be upgraded. We need upgraded pipes.
Speaker 2: But it's another matter entirely when we have local councils
Speaker 2: and the other authorities that are responsible for our drains
Speaker 2: not cleaning them out properly. If you've had that experience
Speaker 2: in your neighborhood with burst water mains, with drains that
Speaker 2: are overflowing, let us know about it and let's shame
Speaker 2: those local councils. As we're hearing the M four is
Speaker 2: a mess, Dave the bus driver says, join the M
Speaker 2: four at Homebush because it is a car park. With
Speaker 2: this help, Michael Schumacher's Ferrari from two thousand and one
Speaker 2: has sold at an auction the Southeby's Auction for twenty
Speaker 2: four point eight five million dollars. It has broken the
Speaker 2: previous record for a Shoemaker F one car, which a
Speaker 2: two thousand and three edition. So this is his Ferrari
Speaker 2: that he won the Monaco Grand Prix back in two
Speaker 2: thousand and one fifteen million, nine hundred and eighty euro
Speaker 2: which is worth twenty four point eighty five million. It
Speaker 2: won't help if you're on the M four. It is
Speaker 2: not going to help you. You've got a Ferrari, You're
Speaker 2: not going to get anywhere fast enough. I've got a
Speaker 2: stack of complaints here about local councils and burst water
Speaker 2: mains and blocked up drains. Davis in ingerte and get
Speaker 2: a Dave.
Speaker 11: Hey, gooday mate, I love your show.
Speaker 2: Thanks one.
Speaker 11: Look, I was walking the dog just up on Port
Speaker 11: Hacking Road just by chance. Was I think three thirty
Speaker 11: one or three point thirty three something like that. It
Speaker 11: was back in April. I took there's this program by
Speaker 11: Sidney Water says snap and shoot or snap and send,
Speaker 11: so you take a snapshot out send it for their thing.
Speaker 3: It had been.
Speaker 11: Reported like seven days before. Apparently they said it normally
Speaker 11: takes three to seven business days to repair. About six
Speaker 11: weeks later, I'm still looking at the same bloody gallons
Speaker 11: and gallons a second going down the Garta. My heart
Speaker 11: just broke after six weeks and no attention to it
Speaker 11: at all, and I just thought, you know what, these
Speaker 11: guys aren't serious about fixing waterweeks.
Speaker 12: Surely look in.
Speaker 2: The end, these local councils probably don't have enough money
Speaker 2: to fix despite their rates, to fix these waterlinks. But
Speaker 2: it's a flood risk. It's a danger in our streets.
Speaker 2: Sorry to hear that, Dave and the shy Danielle, Hello Danielle.
Speaker 13: Hi Clinton? How are you good? How dare sorry really cranky?
Speaker 13: How dare counsel try to intimidate this wonderful man who's
Speaker 13: like helped save his neighbor native home. Do you get
Speaker 13: a good d Maybe we should start sending councilor bills
Speaker 13: every time we move the nature strip on our brother.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, as some of our listeners have said on the
Speaker 2: text line, he should be the one sending them the
Speaker 2: bill for the cleanup. It is outrageous. Well, we've put
Speaker 2: this to Penrith City Council. We are going to demand
Speaker 2: a response tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney Now with Clinton man.
Speaker 2: On to g seven past four, Little dark and gloomy
Speaker 2: across Sydney Sobs this afternoon. There is the slight chance
Speaker 2: of a shower thisce evening. Good by tomorrow morning it
Speaker 2: should be sunny and at this stage, at this early stage,
Speaker 2: if we can trust the weather Bureau, it should be
Speaker 2: a fine and sunny weekend, which is looking good.
Speaker 10: No good.
Speaker 2: If you're on the M four at the moment, very
Speaker 2: very slow, particularly around James Frew's Drive. Vehicles are only
Speaker 2: doing about twelve kilometers at the moment. A truck has
Speaker 2: run over a ladder in Kingswood on the fourth that
Speaker 2: the truck's being moved to the breakdown lane. There are
Speaker 2: no injuries, but the traffic is just horrendous. Now I've
Speaker 2: got the latest information from the AEC in the recount
Speaker 2: and Bradfield Gazel capteriian up against Nicolett Bullet. I actually
Speaker 2: reckon what they should do job share? Why don't they
Speaker 2: just call it today? Think? Look, you know what we
Speaker 2: only wanted to want to work part time anyway. I
Speaker 2: know Gizelle's got the big news. Shadow Assistant Ministry rolled
Speaker 2: down there with the Libs. Job share call a draw.
Speaker 2: I reckon they'll both do a good job anyway. Gzel Capteririum.
Speaker 2: Based on the current re figures and there I think
Speaker 2: they're about halfway through through now she is two votes
Speaker 2: ahead of the Teal nicolete Bullet. I don't think they
Speaker 2: can call another recount if this doesn't go in favor
Speaker 2: of one of the two. Thank goodness, the AEC didn't
Speaker 2: have any role in state of origin last night. Imagine
Speaker 2: if the AEC was working in the bunker making rulings.
Speaker 2: We'll be there forever. Look, I think what's going on
Speaker 2: actually in Bradfield's a bit laughable because what the scrutiny
Speaker 2: is on the ground are dealing with is a lot
Speaker 2: of informal votes. And this has been a trend to
Speaker 2: cross much of the country. There's been a big spike
Speaker 2: in the number of people voting informally. Now for some
Speaker 2: of those people that would have been a deliberate act,
Speaker 2: but for many it's a complete accident. I'm hearing in
Speaker 2: this seat in particular, there are significant votes and this
Speaker 2: is for both these candidates, where the person who intends
Speaker 2: to vote for either Nicolette Bullet or Gisel Capteririan hasn't
Speaker 2: numbered every box, maybe most of them, but not one
Speaker 2: or two. At the bottom and then that vote is
Speaker 2: formally can't be counted. It's not part of it.
Speaker 14: Now.
Speaker 2: They're the rules, that's they're the rules that we play by,
Speaker 2: and we do need to respect our democratic rule. But
Speaker 2: isn't it time to change that? Isn't it time to
Speaker 2: change the way we run preferential voting. I'm actually not
Speaker 2: saying get rid of preferential voting, but what we should
Speaker 2: do is have an optional system that if somebody wants
Speaker 2: to number just three of the boxes that that's okay.
Speaker 2: In New South Wales, you can just put a one
Speaker 2: in the box for the person you want to vote
Speaker 2: for it. That's the way it should be at a
Speaker 2: federal and a state level. What it would do is
Speaker 2: it would avoid confusion between both levels of government. And
Speaker 2: maybe that's part of why there's been a massive jump
Speaker 2: in the number of informal votes because we only had
Speaker 2: a state election a couple of years ago. Since the
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two federal election, the number of informal votes
Speaker 2: has tripled. There's been a massive jump, and The Herald's
Speaker 2: been reporting on this one throughout the week. In informal
Speaker 2: votes from hospitals and age care homes in the seat
Speaker 2: of Barra so near Bradfield. One hospital team recorded a
Speaker 2: seventy percent increase in informal votes and that can make
Speaker 2: a difference. That can make a difference in a seat
Speaker 2: like Bradfield. Now, when I voted back at the start
Speaker 2: of the May, there was a lady standing next to
Speaker 2: me and she actually asked me for some help because
Speaker 2: she wasn't sure I directed her and what she actually
Speaker 2: need to do. But we can fix it. It's not that hard.
Speaker 2: Can't we just make voting as simple as possible. I mean,
Speaker 2: there's an argument that you don't understand what the system
Speaker 2: is too bad and fine, but given there's been this
Speaker 2: massive increase in informal votes, surely the most democratic way
Speaker 2: to run this system would be to have of preferential
Speaker 2: voting but optional optional. If you just want to put
Speaker 2: a one in the box, that's fine, and you know what,
Speaker 2: allow a tick or a cross as well? Why not
Speaker 2: if it's clear who the person is voting for, why
Speaker 2: not allow it? And then maybe we wouldn't go through
Speaker 2: this long drawn out process with the AEC trying to
Speaker 2: figure out who's actually won this damn seat. We're just
Speaker 2: fortunate we haven't had other seats that this close as well,
Speaker 2: or we probably wouldn't even have a prime minister at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 4: call now one.
Speaker 1: To three, one seven three.
Speaker 2: Do you got a view on that? You can send
Speaker 2: me a text message zero four six zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight seven three. And I know usually when I
Speaker 2: mentioned this, so many people say to me, you know what,
Speaker 2: let's just get rid of preferential voting first past the
Speaker 2: post and in our country, preferential voting probably does favor
Speaker 2: the left wing parties, but over things can change over time.
Speaker 2: In the UK, a lot of Conservative voters because they
Speaker 2: have first passed the post and because Nigel Faraja's party
Speaker 2: did very well at the last election, a lot of
Speaker 2: Conservative voters are calling for preferential voting there because they
Speaker 2: feel they would have done better in the last election.
Speaker 2: So things do change over time. If you've got a
Speaker 2: view on that, let me know one three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. Look, as you know, I think it is
Speaker 2: ridiculous that a private company operates the public facilities of
Speaker 2: a hospital. And I'm referring to health Scope, which has
Speaker 2: become an embarrassment in the way they've been operating the
Speaker 2: Northern Beaches Hospital. Now, as you know, Healthscope this week
Speaker 2: placed in receivership. We know the government is moving to
Speaker 2: ensure this doesn't happen again. They are in negotiations with
Speaker 2: health Scope to take control of the public aspects of
Speaker 2: the Northern Beaches Hospital. But we're finding more examples on
Speaker 2: a daily basis of how this has just been a
Speaker 2: complete stuffer. Now there is a parliamentary inquiry into how
Speaker 2: this hospital has been run and in evidence that's been
Speaker 2: tended to the inquiry from the HSU, the Health Services Union,
Speaker 2: more startling revelations about how this hospital has been running.
Speaker 2: Jared Hayes is the boss of the HSU. Today Jared,
Speaker 2: I'm just I was going to say I was going
Speaker 2: to be disturbed by this, but nothing is now surprising
Speaker 2: me about the way Healthscope has been running this hospital.
Speaker 2: Revelations that they have effectively downgraded security well compared with
Speaker 2: public hospitals and as a result staff at the hospital
Speaker 2: have not been secure little and the patients absolutely.
Speaker 15: We can see this in many different aspects and the
Speaker 15: fundamentally goes to the point that private public partnerships may
Speaker 15: work in some areas, they don't work in health. Whether
Speaker 15: there's a competing interest between service delivery and profit margins,
Speaker 15: and we just see consistently, whether it's security, cleaning, a
Speaker 15: high range of other clinical services are cut back or
Speaker 15: contracted to the point that it's quite dangerous.
Speaker 2: There's been forty serious security incidents in just six months,
Speaker 2: and this followed the decision by the hospital management to
Speaker 2: reduce total security numbers.
Speaker 15: That's right, and we all know in this day and
Speaker 15: age that society is becoming sadly more volatile. So you
Speaker 15: see a hospital or hospital like this is a microcosm
Speaker 15: of the community. And our response to that is actually,
Speaker 15: we will decrease our safety measures and decrease our security
Speaker 15: measures and hope for the best. And unfortunately now it's
Speaker 15: in the receivership coming.
Speaker 2: You represent so many staff who work in hospitals, beyond
Speaker 2: just the doctors and the nurses, all the other staff,
Speaker 2: the cleaners, the security guards, the orderlies. They are and
Speaker 2: this I think is a sad reflection on society. They
Speaker 2: do put themselves at risk. We're dealing with patients. It
Speaker 2: doesn't help it. The hospital itself doesn't protect.
Speaker 15: Them absolutely true, and security members and also our awards people,
Speaker 15: and we've had people shot, stabbed and spat at consistently.
Speaker 15: These matters have been highlighted over and over again. We've
Speaker 15: had the Andersen renu now probably about five years ago,
Speaker 15: and to get to the point of where we're just
Speaker 15: going to cut back just doesn't even make sense. But
Speaker 15: it does make sense when you're drowning financially, that business
Speaker 15: isn't working and it's actually not being able to deliver
Speaker 15: what the people in New South Wales need in terms
Speaker 15: of healthcare.
Speaker 2: It's good that this is now making it's in the
Speaker 2: public spotlight and really think to the masses and the
Speaker 2: tragedy they've suffered. But when you have in the last
Speaker 2: eighteen months, when you have spoken to hospital management about
Speaker 2: cutbacks to security, what has their response been to you, Oh.
Speaker 15: It's just like talking to a brick wall. It's while
Speaker 15: we're doing everything we can with what we have, we're satisfied,
Speaker 15: we're in the reason of opposition. Well may not know.
Speaker 15: You have a look at it. They're renting some of
Speaker 15: their materney areas out to a film company as an
Speaker 15: incomes train, so not utilizing it for the Materney Needs.
Speaker 15: We'll use it as a backdrop for a movie, and
Speaker 15: that just shows the desperation in my view of about
Speaker 15: how they're trying to make any dollar that they can.
Speaker 2: Look, we know the government is now in negotiations with
Speaker 2: health Scope and they're obviously in receivership now, but this
Speaker 2: still may the negotiation may drag out months, if not
Speaker 2: a year. How do we get through, say the next
Speaker 2: year of health stare continuing to operate this hospital.
Speaker 15: This is going to be a very very significant issue,
Speaker 15: and I don't think the committee understands is well enough
Speaker 15: at the moment. So the private setting is very important
Speaker 15: for people who can afford. That takes pressure off the
Speaker 15: public hospital system. Now, if they can't get buyers or
Speaker 15: they can't get the right buyers to not only the
Speaker 15: Northern Beaches Hospital but a range of other big facilities
Speaker 15: and regional facilities, this could then push private patients into
Speaker 15: public hospitals as well. So the crisis in health becomes
Speaker 15: two fild threefold due to the fact that the private
Speaker 15: sector can't pull its way.
Speaker 2: So on the one hand, you've got the news southwise
Speaker 2: government negotiating with health Scope. What's left a Healthscope on
Speaker 2: the public facilities, but the fact that given healthscopes in receivership,
Speaker 2: all the private facilities, which is say half of the
Speaker 2: Northern Major's Hospital and all the other hospitals they operate
Speaker 2: around the country, they're at risk.
Speaker 15: Very much, so very much, and I would think without
Speaker 15: being able to sort of preempt anything, receivers would be
Speaker 15: looking at finding buyers, of which there are not a
Speaker 15: lot of big private private hospital facilities around and so
Speaker 15: it gets to the point of if if some hospitals
Speaker 15: aren't profitable and if they're not big enough, well maybe
Speaker 15: it's going to be taken and that I think would
Speaker 15: be really reflective in regional areas of this South Wales.
Speaker 2: I think we're learning a lot of lessons out of
Speaker 2: this whole bungle deal over the last few years. But
Speaker 2: what we've got to do is ensure that it doesn't
Speaker 2: happen again. I know the government's got the legislation before
Speaker 2: Parliament that needs to pass, but we need to make
Speaker 2: sure we get through the next couple of years on
Speaker 2: this one. Thank you, Jared, Thanks very much, Jared Hayes
Speaker 2: from the HSU until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 4: call now one to three one seven three.
Speaker 2: Personally, I think it's really simple. The private sector has
Speaker 2: a big role in our health network. Absolutely, private hospitals,
Speaker 2: and I had elective surgery late last year, fortunately in
Speaker 2: a private hospital because I have private insurance. But when
Speaker 2: it comes to emergency facilities, it should be the responsibility
Speaker 2: of the government. Now, David, think if your message David says,
Speaker 2: how does the transfer of Northern Beaches Hospital the governor
Speaker 2: Omanship necessarily improve our comes Orange hospitals overall capacity? We
Speaker 2: wore hospital closes overnight, Blacktown Campbelltown have had problems.
Speaker 15: Yeah.
Speaker 2: No, and that's a fair point, David. I appreciate that.
Speaker 2: But the bottom line for any private business is to
Speaker 2: make profit to maximize shareholder value, So they're always going
Speaker 2: to look for the cheapest way to do things, no question.
Speaker 2: And yes, governments aren't very good at running things and
Speaker 2: managing money either. But when it comes down to emergency services,
Speaker 2: part of the issue within the Northern Beaches Hospital, for instance,
Speaker 2: is they bought the cheapest possible computer network the software
Speaker 2: system that's led to problems when it comes to triache
Speaker 2: in the emergency department. Now, if the government's running that
Speaker 2: a good government shouldn't be trying to do that work
Speaker 2: at the cheapest possible cost. And in my opinion, that's
Speaker 2: why when it comes to emergency, that's where the government
Speaker 2: us as a society should be funding that and funding
Speaker 2: that properly. Now, I agree we need improvement at Orange Hospital.
Speaker 2: We wore shouldn't be closing overnight, Blacktown and Campbelltown hospitals
Speaker 2: yet they've got problems. But while ever, you've got a
Speaker 2: rivate business operating these services, they're going to try and
Speaker 2: do the right thing by their shareholders. That's their primary responsibility.
Speaker 2: Their primary responsibility is actually not the patient, it's their shareholders.
Speaker 2: And whileever that's the motivation, you're going to see Corners
Speaker 2: cut positive day on the share market. The ASX two
Speaker 2: hundred is closed up twelve point nine points eighty four
Speaker 2: hundred and nine. The Comnwealth Today Bank Today has announced
Speaker 2: they're cutting their fixed interest rates. So already following the
Speaker 2: RBA decision, variable rates are changing, but fixed rates from
Speaker 2: tomorrow will be cut by point four of one percent
Speaker 2: across all fixed terms. As a result of the change
Speaker 2: is the Combank's new lowest fixed rate for a home
Speaker 2: loan for three years will be five point four to
Speaker 2: nine percent. Now that's an indication that they believe the
Speaker 2: RBA will be cutting their variable rates again in the
Speaker 2: next couple of months.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two
Speaker 4: GB col now one three to one, page seven three.
Speaker 2: Word on the street for temper, A great night's sleep,
Speaker 2: night after night. The difference is temper. This one from Vincent.
Speaker 2: The text line the extraction fans on the exits heading
Speaker 2: northbound to Dremoine doesn't look like they're working. The tunnel's
Speaker 2: become quite smoky. We've just been in contract with trans Urban.
Speaker 2: Transurban obviously operates the motorway. They're going to look into
Speaker 2: it for us right now. But obviously if there's some
Speaker 2: smoke and some pollution inside the tunnel because the extraction
Speaker 2: fans not working, well, that ain't good. So trans Urban
Speaker 2: is going to have a look into that. Preferential voting. Now,
Speaker 2: I know many of you think we should just have
Speaker 2: first past the post, but I think at a minimum,
Speaker 2: at least an optional system is the way to go.
Speaker 16: What do you think, Nick, Yes, Sir Clinton, we should
Speaker 16: definitely have optional preferential but I now will get it
Speaker 16: especially in the federal sphere because the ALP desperately need
Speaker 16: all those preferences from the Greens and other parties to
Speaker 16: keep the new power, so they.
Speaker 17: Definitely won't agree to it. And if you recall that
Speaker 17: actually happened, what happened in Queensland. They I think up
Speaker 17: until Palachet got in in twenty fifteen they had optional
Speaker 17: preferential and then she changed it back to full preferential.
Speaker 2: That's right, But the reality is though political trends do
Speaker 2: change over time, and as I was explaining in the UK,
Speaker 2: the Conservatives believe they missed out on votes because Nigel
Speaker 2: Faraja's party became so popular, so things could change for
Speaker 2: the left at some time as well. Hey, thanks for
Speaker 2: your curl Nick. This one from Daniel. Now, what we
Speaker 2: need is an education program, but you're not going to
Speaker 2: get any help from the government on education when it
Speaker 2: comes to voting because it's not in their best interests.
Speaker 2: I need your opinion on this one. I've been doing
Speaker 2: a bit of thinking about transporting New South Wales this
Speaker 2: week because the trains, as we've been reporting on almost daily,
Speaker 2: have been an absolute mess. I can report good news.
Speaker 2: It doesn't look like there are significant delays in the
Speaker 2: train lines this afternoon. But don't fret. It's only twenty
Speaker 2: six past fourth. There's still plenty of time for everything
Speaker 2: to go wrong, and we'll tell you about it. But
Speaker 2: at the moment, the trains are running on time. It's
Speaker 2: all good that that control is in control. But the
Speaker 2: reality is a lot of people this week have decided
Speaker 2: they're going to drive instead of user train. I've done that.
Speaker 2: I caught the train the day, but that's the first
Speaker 2: time I caught the train this week because I didn't
Speaker 2: have the guts to catch the train. And then when
Speaker 2: you drive, you've got the problem of finding parking at
Speaker 2: your destination, and we have fewer parking spots in our city.
Speaker 2: If you are in the CBD, it's expensive. Well, let's
Speaker 2: be honest. There are so many areas now that charge
Speaker 2: significant amounts for parking. It's a problem. But we also
Speaker 2: have a problem I reckon with the way other motorists
Speaker 2: abuse parking spots. Now, if you come across this, I'd
Speaker 2: lot to hear from you. One three one eight seventy
Speaker 2: three parking in your street? Do you find cars taking
Speaker 2: up two spots deliberately taking up two spots? My producer
Speaker 2: Emily has had this dilemma. Someone parked their car outside
Speaker 2: of a house and they put a full sale sign
Speaker 2: on it, but they parked across two spots, in between
Speaker 2: two homes, between two driveways, so there one vehicle takes
Speaker 2: up a spot where you could easily fit too. Now
Speaker 2: it's not considerate, is it. It's a crowded space. Across
Speaker 2: most of his subjurbs are very crowded, the spots are scarce.
Speaker 2: Emily actually sent the driver a text message because they're
Speaker 2: selling the car, so the number is on the windscreen,
Speaker 2: and ask them could they just maybe kindly move, not
Speaker 2: taking the car away for their little sale, No moving
Speaker 2: the car forward or backward so another vehicle can fit there.
Speaker 2: And the seller replied, oh, quote, I'm aware the car
Speaker 2: is parked on a public road with no restrictions, which
Speaker 2: means it's available to everyone, first come, first serve. Public
Speaker 2: space isn't reserved seating. I appreciate your understanding. That's from
Speaker 2: the driver of the car who's selling the car, but
Speaker 2: that's not Emily's point. The point is drivers should be
Speaker 2: considered to each other when parking, because we are so
Speaker 2: short of parking in the city So if there's a
Speaker 2: spot that fits two cars, don't park right in the
Speaker 2: middle of it. Do you come across that situation in
Speaker 2: your suburit let me know, one seven three. Maybe you
Speaker 2: think the seller's right that there is no restriction there,
Speaker 2: that the person can park wherever they want. Now Northern
Speaker 2: Beach's council have been contact with him about the four sails.
Speaker 2: Should I say, yep, that's the lad You can park
Speaker 2: a full sail, put a car with a four sile
Speaker 2: sign on it anyway you like. Basically, but parking in
Speaker 2: two spots when you ruin it doesn't pass the pub test.
Speaker 2: But when we're gonna have more people because we can't
Speaker 2: rely on trains, trying to park in the streets, it's
Speaker 2: just wrong and all it takes is just a bit
Speaker 2: of common courtesy.
Speaker 8: Hey, you're doing my space, George.
Speaker 1: Wait, you don't know who this guy is.
Speaker 5: People kill for a parking space in this city.
Speaker 2: He's not getting away with George. I think I'm parking
Speaker 2: my car.
Speaker 1: You can't do that. You can't just sneak in from
Speaker 1: the back like that. I'm not sneaking. I hadn't even
Speaker 1: know you were parking. You were just sitting there three
Speaker 1: spaces off.
Speaker 2: What if you didn't think I was parking, why did you.
Speaker 18: Put it in head first?
Speaker 1: Well, that's the way I park anyway.
Speaker 8: You didn't stop backing until I called in.
Speaker 1: I was in the middle of a conversation.
Speaker 10: Hey, buddy, what can I tell you?
Speaker 1: The point is I was here first. I was closer
Speaker 1: to this.
Speaker 10: Space than you were.
Speaker 2: But I'm backing and you can't put it in head first.
Speaker 1: I can't if I.
Speaker 2: I know in Seinfeld, you're opening up a Pandora's box
Speaker 2: by talking about parking. But I want to hear your experience.
Speaker 2: One three one eight seventy three and we're the latest
Speaker 2: Jock Fright. Good afternoon, Clinton.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Seventeen degrees in the city. It's fifteen
Speaker 2: degrees in Campbelltown. David Elliott coming up with straight shooters
Speaker 2: in a few minutes. Sharon, on the issue of parking, says,
Speaker 2: a family home in our street is now rented to
Speaker 2: five tradees and some backpackers as well. There can be
Speaker 2: six to seven cars and trucks and they don't seem
Speaker 2: to give a rats about anyone or any other people
Speaker 2: in the street of longtime residents. Let's come to some
Speaker 2: calls about parking issues. Irene Hallow, Irene.
Speaker 19: Good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 2: Do you have dramas in your street?
Speaker 19: Yes, I have all we're all villas, so each between
Speaker 19: needs to drive away of the villas. You've got room
Speaker 19: for two cars. We got sick and tired of everyone
Speaker 19: parking in the middle. So we went out one night
Speaker 19: and we've put a white line out to the width
Speaker 19: of a car. Okay, and you know they all park
Speaker 19: on both sides now, But.
Speaker 2: That makes sense.
Speaker 19: I don't know why the council can't do us come
Speaker 19: along and put all the white lines out. We've been
Speaker 19: asked by other people, would we do it? Well we haven't.
Speaker 2: That's smart. I just I hope the council, given our
Speaker 2: experience with Penrith Council and neighbors who do the right
Speaker 2: thing by their fellow neighbors, I hope the council doesn't
Speaker 2: come around and maybe rub the lines off. Hek good
Speaker 2: idea Irene. Sean is listening to us in sinn Dives.
Speaker 2: Hello Sean, Hi Clinton here going good my friend.
Speaker 20: I've just got a cheeky response for him and with craps. Yes,
Speaker 20: she could get one of her friends that range a
Speaker 20: test drive and then she could go and park her car.
Speaker 20: Then when they come back to the car park, are
Speaker 20: we taken again? Cheacky on over?
Speaker 2: Very smart. She could even just arrange a test drive
Speaker 2: and move the car forward maybe two meters. It's not
Speaker 2: even the issue of a car being placed there for sale.
Speaker 2: It's the fact it's over to parking spots. It just
Speaker 2: shows a complete disregard for other people. Grant's in Robertson, Hello, Grant,
Speaker 2: are you going Clinton. I'm good, my friend, that's good.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's disrespectful what you said. But there's an easy
Speaker 21: solution for Is it your colleague who's parked.
Speaker 2: Outside her house, Emily?
Speaker 22: Yes.
Speaker 21: All you got to do is put a Facebook marketplace
Speaker 21: that up, take a picture of the car outside her house, yep,
Speaker 21: phone number very visible, and put free free car per serve.
Speaker 21: And after they get bombarded with thousands of messages, he's
Speaker 21: going to come and move the car and you can
Speaker 21: take the ad down.
Speaker 2: Good idea, Grant, think eavianly, I'll probably do that. This
Speaker 2: one from Rod regarding the parking, Look what I find
Speaker 2: it's a combination of humanity and situational awareness, similar to
Speaker 2: slamming car doors at six o'clock on a Sunday morning
Speaker 2: or eating a pasta at mass Ah. Yes, mister Bowen
Speaker 2: talking about that. We'll look at that issue when David
Speaker 2: Elliott joins me in a couple of minutes. There is
Speaker 2: a bit of tension in mcquarie Street right now in
Speaker 2: the Upper House. The leader of the Government in the
Speaker 2: Upper House, Penny Sharp, has been formally censured this afternoon.
Speaker 2: There has been a vote and it's gone against miss
Speaker 2: Sharp twenty yes, fourteen No's in favor of a censure motion. Now,
Speaker 2: this is over an order for papers from the Premier's
Speaker 2: office and a failure to comply with this order apparently
Speaker 2: related to local small Commitments allocation. So it's about grants
Speaker 2: and look effectively, what happens in parliament there are various
Speaker 2: the opposition parties, the cross Bench, they put forward it's
Speaker 2: called an fifty two and it's seeking paperwork on various
Speaker 2: controversial issues, and there is a responsibility to the government
Speaker 2: to provide in the public service provide that paperwork. Well,
Speaker 2: apparently when it comes to the local small Commitments allocation,
Speaker 2: the Opposition isn't satisfied that the government's complied with this
Speaker 2: order for papers. So as a result they have then
Speaker 2: launched a CeNSE emotion and the government has lost that.
Speaker 2: So Penny Sharp has been formally censured in the Upper House.
Speaker 4: On Sydney, Now, you can't handle the truth the straight sts.
Speaker 2: Well, if I'm a member of Stay partment, of course
Speaker 2: is mustracts here on Thursday afternoon day. But Ellie, hello,
Speaker 2: David pat does a sense emotion actually really mean anything?
Speaker 2: And it comes down to it, that's embarrassing.
Speaker 23: But SA fifty two are the opposition's best warfare. And
Speaker 23: I mean I had them every day I then I
Speaker 23: had I had my own my own locker down there
Speaker 23: at the SA fifty two processing plan. I was getting
Speaker 23: them so often. But it's been embarrassing and that, of
Speaker 23: course they can use that to then springboard other discipline
Speaker 23: reaction against Penny Sharp.
Speaker 2: But it's a bit of a slap on a risk though,
Speaker 2: isn't a sense of motion?
Speaker 23: Yeah, it's like a motion and no confidence amenda. She
Speaker 23: doesn't have to resign or anything, but not unless she
Speaker 23: was the premier. But it does highlight the fact that
Speaker 23: the concerns that were floating around Macquarie Street twelve months
Speaker 23: ago that Ben Franklin going to the presidency would mean
Speaker 23: that they couldn't get any sense of motions ORLA fifty
Speaker 23: two through. That's obviously not correct and it's clear that
Speaker 23: the Cross benches are not going to necessarily play ball
Speaker 23: with the government.
Speaker 2: Well, it's quite a clear vote there. It's twenty in
Speaker 2: favor of fourteen against of course the government doesn't hold
Speaker 2: the numbers in the upper house.
Speaker 23: That's right, and it would be and Penny would be
Speaker 23: furious that the Greens have sided with the Liberal Party
Speaker 23: over that one. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 2: And this is where you don't have a premier censured
Speaker 2: will be very rare because what they do have for
Speaker 2: a minority in the lower House, but they have the
Speaker 2: support of the Independence.
Speaker 23: So that's right and that only really, I mean a
Speaker 23: central motion is embarrassing in the Premier would probably have
Speaker 23: to explain to the governor why he's has confidence in
Speaker 23: the house if had happened to Chris Mins. But I
Speaker 23: don't think that's going to happen.
Speaker 2: No, No, it looks the big political issue of the
Speaker 2: weekend in state politics has been the failure of the
Speaker 2: ATC to sell off rose Hill attract majority support. And
Speaker 2: we thought this was going to happen. But it's not
Speaker 2: great for Chris Mins because he'd been very much a
Speaker 2: support of this plan.
Speaker 23: He has and it's back to the drawing board. But
Speaker 23: he always gave himself a little I felt he always
Speaker 23: gave himself a little bit of wiggle room. I know
Speaker 23: my side of Politics thinks that it's humiliating for him,
Speaker 23: but I think.
Speaker 2: He gave himself.
Speaker 23: But it's just as he said, he's got a plan
Speaker 23: being he needs to go to that plan. Being as
Speaker 23: I said when I was Minister for Corrections, I don't
Speaker 23: know why there are prisoners living at Long Bay Jail.
Speaker 23: I don't know why people convicted felons are at waterfront
Speaker 23: real estate. So if he wants to look anywhere, and
Speaker 23: I saw some dribble today in the media about oh,
Speaker 23: but there's no other site within twenty kilometers of Sydney,
Speaker 23: Well there is. It's called Long Bay Jail, and Bob
Speaker 23: Carr looked at getting rid of it when he was
Speaker 23: premier and they were going to give it over to
Speaker 23: the Disney Corporation, which I thought would have been great.
Speaker 23: But there's been a little bit of work done by
Speaker 23: Corrections to look at Long bea Jalen. I think with
Speaker 23: a light rald extension down there, it would be magnificent.
Speaker 23: Now Michael Day is completely opposed to it. He's worried
Speaker 23: too many tories or move into his constituency. But I
Speaker 23: think if we get the balance right, we could probably
Speaker 23: start working there.
Speaker 2: Now I'm really glad you've raised this idea, because I
Speaker 2: haven't heard this idea for years yet it's popped up
Speaker 2: in the past. But the suggestion in some of the
Speaker 2: papers this morning was there could be parts of Homebush
Speaker 2: Sydney Lypy Park that could be developed for twenty thousand
Speaker 2: homes and there'll be a metro station there and Glee
Speaker 2: Island's been discussed for new housing. But this is a cracker,
Speaker 2: So everyone just think about this. We've got the state's
Speaker 2: worst of the worst living in waterfront property at Long Bay. Okay,
Speaker 2: when you're in your cell, you don't look out the
Speaker 2: window and cast your eyes over the ocean. But this
Speaker 2: is absolute prime real estate. And I see no reason
Speaker 2: why we couldn't invest in building a massive prison out
Speaker 2: in the back of Burke, ship them all out there
Speaker 2: and then sell off the land.
Speaker 23: Absolutely, it's a no brain. And I mean, I guess
Speaker 23: there's some heritage facilities considerations around the Long Bar, but
Speaker 23: you'd include that in the development the prisoners and you're right,
Speaker 23: I mean, the prisoners can go in the Peri urban districts,
Speaker 23: or they could go out to expand Baptist Jail or
Speaker 23: expand Lithgo Jail. And it's creates jobs in regional areas.
Speaker 23: And it is a no brainer. And I would very
Speaker 23: much encourage Chrismians and Mark Speakman to consider go back
Speaker 23: to go back to those plans that we had drafted
Speaker 23: up over long Ba Jail and stop spending money on
Speaker 23: what is essentially a piecemeal prison it's and spend some
Speaker 23: money on something that is going to give them a
Speaker 23: significant value for value to And of course, when you're
Speaker 23: building new jail, you build it for the modern criminal,
Speaker 23: the modern criminal rehabilitation, and Long Bay doesn't have all
Speaker 23: those facilities.
Speaker 2: It's an absolute no brainer and I can't believe it
Speaker 2: hasn't been on the agenda. Just think about it. You've
Speaker 2: got how many people who be in Long Bay? How
Speaker 2: many prison a couple of hours one thousand, I'd say, okay,
Speaker 2: so you got a thousand, You got a thousand living
Speaker 2: in prime Sydney real estate. Is the argument against doing
Speaker 2: it that the families of the prisoners would have a
Speaker 2: long way to travel to go and visit.
Speaker 23: The more you do have that, But you know, but
Speaker 23: when they place a prisoner, they don't necessarily think about
Speaker 23: where mum's coming from to come on Saturday afternoon to
Speaker 23: bring a cake with a file in it. I mean,
Speaker 23: it's where we it's where the prison, the prison officers live,
Speaker 23: and when I've been down there when I was a
Speaker 23: prison's I spent a lot of time at Long Bay Jail.
Speaker 23: But I interviewed the prison officers when I had this
Speaker 23: in the back of my mind, and most of them
Speaker 23: were commuting from Woollongong, commuting from Campbelltown. So if you
Speaker 23: said to them, you know, we're going to put it in,
Speaker 23: you know on the outskirts of Sydney that nobody had
Speaker 23: complained about it.
Speaker 2: And that's a pretty big area there. You could build
Speaker 2: a lot.
Speaker 23: Of units there and it's and just extend the light rail.
Speaker 2: Which is a lot cheaper than an underground metrorail, a.
Speaker 23: Lot cheaper than a metro.
Speaker 2: Stewart Airs came out today, You're former colleague in his
Speaker 2: new capacity and he said, look, we made a mistake
Speaker 2: by not having a metro station between Sydney Big Park
Speaker 2: and Parramatta. What is your view.
Speaker 23: I'm not accepting that because when we made that consideration,
Speaker 23: we didn't think that Rose Hill would be developed. It
Speaker 23: wasn't a mistake at the time. In hindsight, if rose
Speaker 23: Hill was going to go ahead, well, then we could say, yeah,
Speaker 23: we made a mistake. We probably should have put this
Speaker 23: on the radar in the beginning, but it was never
Speaker 23: a consideration when we were dropping the stations on that metro.
Speaker 2: The issue that's really got you angry this week is
Speaker 2: Chris Bowen eating during Mass.
Speaker 23: And I'm not Catholic, but I got that photo on
Speaker 23: Saturday Sunday night from people that were there, and my
Speaker 23: blood boiled. I thought that was the most disrespectful thing
Speaker 23: anybody could do. He would not do it in a mosque,
Speaker 23: and he certainly wouldn't do it in a temple, or
Speaker 23: he certainly wouldn't do it in a synagogue, but he
Speaker 23: feels that he can do it in front of the
Speaker 23: Catholic community in his own electorate, who I'm pretty sure
Speaker 23: won't let him forget about it now. I've seen that
Speaker 23: invitation that he received. It clearly says eleven am Mass.
Speaker 23: At twelve o'clock, there'll be there'll be light refreshment. So
Speaker 23: if he was hungry, he could have been, like everybody
Speaker 23: or the rest of us, just wait until after the
Speaker 23: search service was finished.
Speaker 2: I've got the invitation here in front of me Club Marconi.
Speaker 2: Remember eating Italian Republic Day eleven am commemorative Mass, twelve
Speaker 2: pm opening sereny followed by light refreshments. And it's not
Speaker 2: like the event was being held. The mass was being
Speaker 2: held at meal time.
Speaker 23: No, that's exactly right.
Speaker 2: I mean, maybe he's used a very early lunch at
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock.
Speaker 23: But this is the Hubris that you and I spoke
Speaker 23: about on the election night, and Chris Bowen is going
Speaker 23: to be I don't know him, I've never met him.
Speaker 23: I'm in the Jason Clair faction of the Labor Party.
Speaker 23: When it comes to Southwestern Sydney. I think he's the
Speaker 23: one that should be given the tough jobs. But I
Speaker 23: just feel that what Chris has done and his lame
Speaker 23: excuse that he didn't know that was a mass, well
Speaker 23: you were sitting there in front of a priest. And
Speaker 23: again I'm not jumping on the high horse because I'm
Speaker 23: not a Catholic, but I do have enough respect for
Speaker 23: people's faith to think that a member of parliamentic minister
Speaker 23: of the Crown not less, would not only treat his
Speaker 23: constituents like that, but then try to lie about it,
Speaker 23: which I thought was disgraceful.
Speaker 2: We spoke about Hubrit's on election that this was the
Speaker 2: big danger. That's one example. I'll just play you this.
Speaker 2: You may not have heard this. This is another example
Speaker 2: I think of Hubris.
Speaker 22: Just a fun fact that's been Drawdan to my attention
Speaker 22: is that there are more women whose name begins with
Speaker 22: A in the Labor Party caucus in the House of Representatives.
Speaker 22: Ten Then there will be nine coalition women on the
Speaker 22: floor of the House of Representatives, in the Liberal Party
Speaker 22: and the National Party combined with Anika Here, Anna Lee,
Speaker 22: Ailey France, who's here, Alisha Payne, Alice Jordan Baird, ash
Speaker 22: Amberjapaha and Stanley, Alison Burns, Anne Urkhart and Amanda Rishworth.
Speaker 2: That's an example of humorous Yeah, well, I been.
Speaker 23: The lovies for Labor are going to stand up and say,
Speaker 23: isn't this fantastic? You know, we've got more women than
Speaker 23: the opposition have got at twice as many, but they've
Speaker 23: also got more than twice the number of seats that
Speaker 23: the coalition's got. So let's marry it all up. And
Speaker 23: I think, I mean the proof's going to be in
Speaker 23: the putting for a lot of those new MPs. And
Speaker 23: new ministers. I wouldn't be playing the gender card too
Speaker 23: close because I think that he's going to find that
Speaker 23: some of those people embarrassing.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of feedback here to the idea,
Speaker 2: to the proposal to sell and it's not actually on
Speaker 2: the agenda at the moment. We're just raising it this afternoon,
Speaker 2: but to redevelop Longbow Jail for housing Michelle and the
Speaker 2: Textlan says, I do have a family member that is incarcerated.
Speaker 2: He is in Grafton, which is a six hour drive.
Speaker 2: If you want to visit an inmate, you will travel.
Speaker 2: That's right, okay. Harry is a former Ranwick counselor diet
Speaker 2: I Harry, good day.
Speaker 1: How are you going good?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's good. Look back in twenty thirteen, I raised
Speaker 12: this issue in council and we wrote to Greg Smith
Speaker 12: at the time, who was the Attorney General here in
Speaker 12: New South Wales, and I mentioned to him that this
Speaker 12: would be a very very good idea. We're talking about
Speaker 12: ninety acres of prime real estate right in the heart
Speaker 12: of or very close to the city center. And you know,
Speaker 12: I mean, I agree wholeheartedly with what David raised. I
Speaker 12: raised these issues earlier that you know, why would you
Speaker 12: give them prim real estate? Why would you Why wouldn't
Speaker 12: you relocate the jail into regional areas and create more
Speaker 12: jobs out there, you know, I mean, I think it's
Speaker 12: a no brainer. You know, we're talking about you know
Speaker 12: a lot of heritage buildings there which could be preserved.
Speaker 12: You don't necessarily have to go massive high rise there.
Speaker 12: I mean, I don't understand why Labor got rid of
Speaker 12: Prince Henry. You know, why would you get rid of
Speaker 12: a hospital that's been used primarily by everybody and not
Speaker 12: get rid of the jail.
Speaker 2: So a long long time ago Prince Harry disappeared.
Speaker 23: But I'm agree, yeah, Well Harry's right, And the political
Speaker 23: problem that Chris had was that Chris Men's had everybody
Speaker 23: loved rose Hill, which in Western Sydney a lot of
Speaker 23: people do. Nobody loves the prison, nobody, So he's not
Speaker 23: going to have any He's not going to be facing.
Speaker 2: Well, the prison's way be given a vote, will but no,
Speaker 2: that won't be given.
Speaker 14: A vote on it.
Speaker 23: With the exemption of Michael Day, who loves it being
Speaker 23: there for various reasons. Nobody is going to be changed
Speaker 23: themselves to the front gates. Of Long Bay Jail saying
Speaker 23: let's let's save the jail.
Speaker 2: Fair point here from Angela. On the text line, Angelo says,
Speaker 2: I'm a prison officer. We can't get staff to go
Speaker 2: out west, but pict In would be a good vistue.
Speaker 23: If because they do they can do the long shifts
Speaker 23: and they, you know, and I mean most prison officers
Speaker 23: that I work with are very, very dedicated to their
Speaker 23: job and if they get posted somewhere which is a
Speaker 23: little bit longer to commute, they'll do it because they
Speaker 23: are you know, they're company people.
Speaker 2: The Shadow Ministry announced yesterday by Susan Lee. What are
Speaker 2: your impressions.
Speaker 23: Listen, I mean it's early days, bumby start. I did
Speaker 23: take offense to the fact that Michael McCormack was removed.
Speaker 23: I thought that he had a three percent swing to
Speaker 23: him at a time when people were having double digit
Speaker 23: swings against them. But I got to say, as a
Speaker 23: proud Westy, giving a millionaire, middle class senator like Andrew
Speaker 23: Bragg who has the homelessness portfolio doesn't sit comfortably with me.
Speaker 23: And this is the guy that campaigned on quotas for
Speaker 23: women in Parliament and then knife Holly Hughes to get
Speaker 23: his sum back into the Senate. I'm not comfortable with it.
Speaker 23: I'm hoping that I'm going to be wrong, but you know,
Speaker 23: horses for courses here. But you know, I think having
Speaker 23: I think Andrew Hasting and Home Affairs is good. Love
Speaker 23: seeing Alex Hawk back. If they listened to him a
Speaker 23: little bit more during the campaign, we wouldn't have lost
Speaker 23: as many seats and vote in Western Sydney. And of
Speaker 23: course I think you know Susan has proven herself to
Speaker 23: be a very even keeled candidate for the Prime ministership.
Speaker 2: We're almost at a time tomorrow your column the Telegraph
Speaker 2: will feature the best country towns.
Speaker 23: Best Country Towns tomorrow. I've been English once. I've spoken
Speaker 23: as Steve Camper, who's given me permission to quote him.
Speaker 23: And we're going to spend the long weekend next weekend
Speaker 23: in regional New South Wales. And I've got a saucy
Speaker 23: little story about Tamworth when I went there.
Speaker 2: And saucy story, A little saucy story.
Speaker 23: Because I went out there to Tamworth with Kevin Anderson
Speaker 23: once and it was at a function that started mouth
Speaker 23: and off and boasting about I had a teenage romance
Speaker 23: in Tamworth and I loved coming to Tamworth with those memories.
Speaker 23: And it turned out it was old mates, missus since
Speaker 23: since i'd since i'd lost communication with that young teenage lady,
Speaker 23: she'd married the bloke I was boasting about. So just
Speaker 23: goes to show up. My mother said, never talk about sex, politics,
Speaker 23: or religion, and we've done all three of them today.
Speaker 2: Mates, we'll read about it tomorrow and the Telly David
Speaker 2: Elliott our straight shit it for a Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 1: The point is I was here first.
Speaker 2: I was closer to this space than you were. But
Speaker 2: I'm backing and you can't put it in head first.
Speaker 1: I can if I have room, Are you going to
Speaker 1: move the car? No, I'm not going to move the car.
Speaker 2: Sure, we've been talking parking dramas on the show. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to share a story, zero four x zero
Speaker 2: eight seven three out seven to three, Sabrina's done just that.
Speaker 2: Cars taking up two spots happens every day outside my place.
Speaker 2: It always seems to be the young drivers who are
Speaker 2: lazy and considerate, disrespectful, discourteous and don't know how to drive.
Speaker 2: You approach them, you ask them to be more respectful.
Speaker 2: And they look at you as if you've got two heads.
Speaker 2: Most of the younger generation and think they're entitled. The
Speaker 2: older drivers are much much better. Thank you, Sabrina. If
Speaker 2: you've got a parking story, share at one three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three coming up after the news. If you
Speaker 2: suffer arthriters, AI could be to the rescue.
Speaker 1: There is Sydney. Now we've Clinton Mayna on to ginb.
Speaker 2: It's seven past five. Some very fat sad news today
Speaker 2: about Magnus Events, probably one of our best loved comedians.
Speaker 2: She has confirmed today via social media that she has
Speaker 2: been diagnosed with cancer. Now she has been fighting this
Speaker 2: for a little while. It is a form of lymphoma
Speaker 2: called mantle cell lymphoma, and it is at stage four.
Speaker 2: It's quite a rare blood cancer and mag is only
Speaker 2: sixty four. And she has posted this video on social media.
Speaker 1: Hello, my love lies.
Speaker 9: A head is shaved in anticipation of it all falling
Speaker 9: out in a couple of weeks, because I have just
Speaker 9: been diagnosed with a very rare, very aggressive rue is lymphoma.
Speaker 9: It is one of the nasty ones, unfortunately. But the
Speaker 9: good thing is I'm surrounded by beautiful friends and family
Speaker 9: and an incredible medical support team. It's pretty confronting, but
Speaker 9: new treatments keep coming down the pipeline all the time.
Speaker 9: So I just got a.
Speaker 1: What do you get to do?
Speaker 2: What do you do?
Speaker 1: What are you going to do?
Speaker 2: Anyway, love is all by Magna. Now. She didn't break
Speaker 2: down there, she was actually laughing. The best way sometimes
Speaker 2: to deal with with horrible news is with some humor,
Speaker 2: and that's the attitude she's taking. So she's only sixty four,
Speaker 2: the star of so many wonderful comedies over the years.
Speaker 2: It would have been fast forward back in the day
Speaker 2: where I first saw them, and fast forward and then
Speaker 2: it became full frontal. But probably her best name program
Speaker 2: was Kath and Kim. So all of our love this
Speaker 2: afternoon to Magna Sevanski until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Main on two GB
Speaker 4: call now one three one three.
Speaker 2: Fifty year old Christopher David Grantham has appeared on his
Speaker 2: Central Coast court today, charged over the death of his father.
Speaker 2: At this time yesterday we were trying to assist the
Speaker 2: police in searching for this man. He has been accused
Speaker 2: of lighting the fire in the Croydon Park home that
Speaker 2: he shared with his father and his mother. His dad, Ted,
Speaker 2: who was quite a well known local music teacher, died
Speaker 2: in that fire. Grantham has been charged with domestic violence,
Speaker 2: murder and a range of other offenses. He did not
Speaker 2: apply for bail, only a very short mention in the
Speaker 2: court today. His lawyer says he's only had limited time
Speaker 2: to have a conversation with his client.
Speaker 7: I'm still far too early to make those kinds of decisions.
Speaker 7: This matter still has to be fully fleshed out, and
Speaker 7: in time it will crystallize and we will deal with
Speaker 7: it appropriately. It's just about moving forward with the process
Speaker 7: and lending it all, as I said, flesh out and
Speaker 7: once the ebdans is all served, then we'll clearly deal
Speaker 7: with that appropriately.
Speaker 2: There's also been another significant court appearance today and that
Speaker 2: is our fifty year old Kwang q Yung. This is
Speaker 2: the man who was charged with murdering an entire family
Speaker 2: in Sydney's West last year. It was February of last year. Now.
Speaker 2: Ku is a taekwon Do instructor and he is accused
Speaker 2: of murdering a mother, a father, and their seven year
Speaker 2: old boy. Little boy was a taekwon do student.
Speaker 10: Well.
Speaker 2: Today he has appeared briefly in court and he has
Speaker 2: pleaded guilty to all three counts of murder. And for
Speaker 2: the family of the victims, that's a good thing because
Speaker 2: it now means they don't have to go through the
Speaker 2: pain of a long and exhaustive trial. He was only
Speaker 2: in court briefly and it was via a video link,
Speaker 2: and he responded yes sir and bowed his head when
Speaker 2: the magistrate confirmed his guilty.
Speaker 1: Please.
Speaker 2: The bodies of that little boy and his mother were
Speaker 2: found inside a taekwondo student in North Paramatta back in
Speaker 2: February of twenty twenty four, and then two hours after that,
Speaker 2: Stephen Choe, the father of that little boy, was found
Speaker 2: dead in a townhouse in Boukham Hills. The man's accused
Speaker 2: of strangling the mum and the son his student, leaving
Speaker 2: their bodies in the taekwondos studio. He then drove the
Speaker 2: woman's BMW to the family home in Boukham Hills and
Speaker 2: he stabbed the father to death. He remains in custody.
Speaker 2: He'll be sentenced later this year. Hello, my lovely, if
Speaker 2: you like to send a text message at zero fourth
Speaker 2: x zero eight seven three eight seven three if you
Speaker 2: suffer from arth writers. AI may be able to help you.
Speaker 2: Clara is a new AI powered app and it's helping
Speaker 2: arthritis patients and this is absolutely revolutionary. It's a world first.
Speaker 2: It is designed by the Arthritis Movement and it provides
Speaker 2: twenty four to seven access. The best part it's actually
Speaker 2: free down load tell us more. Alex Green is the
Speaker 2: CEO of Arthritis Movement. Thank you for your time, Alex.
Speaker 2: Tell me about the app well.
Speaker 24: Clara is a free digital companion built by the Arthritis
Speaker 24: Movement to support people living with arthritis. There's over a
Speaker 24: million of us in New South Wales, so this is
Speaker 24: much needed. As you said, it uses artificial intelligence to
Speaker 24: help users find relevant answers to their question, to track
Speaker 24: their well being and to connect with trusted events, content
Speaker 24: and support.
Speaker 2: A lot of us are quite worried about AI that's
Speaker 2: going to replace the need for a human being. So
Speaker 2: in terms of somebody who is suffering arthriters, how does
Speaker 2: it assist where a doctor would usually help.
Speaker 24: Yeah, so Clara doesn't give diagnosed or give medical instructions.
Speaker 24: Is there to support people with information, confidence and everyday guidance.
Speaker 24: So you can think of it as a trusted companion,
Speaker 24: not a replacement for doctor, and in fact it complements
Speaker 24: the work of healthcare professionals, but it exists in your pocket.
Speaker 24: You don't have to wait to see them, and you
Speaker 24: have to pay anything to access its advice.
Speaker 2: So if I have arthritis and say, wake up in
Speaker 2: the morning and I'm terribly, terribly stiff and sore and
Speaker 2: literally have trouble getting out of bit, as so many
Speaker 2: arthritis patients do, how would the app assist?
Speaker 6: So a couple of ways.
Speaker 24: Firstly, you can ask any questions you might app so
Speaker 24: in that situation you describe Clinton, you might ask about
Speaker 24: pain management techniques and you'll get the answers straight away.
Speaker 24: But also Clara will help with lifestyle changes that will
Speaker 24: help manage pain in the longer term as well. So
Speaker 24: that might be changing your sleep pats, your diet, and
Speaker 24: your exercise regimes so that you can stay well and
Speaker 24: minimize symptoms like pain.
Speaker 2: And simple to use, Yeah.
Speaker 24: Fantastic, fantastically is as you So we designed this with
Speaker 24: consumer use in mind and not expecting a high level
Speaker 24: of health literacy or digital literacy. So anyone can jump
Speaker 24: on the website or use this app and they'll find
Speaker 24: it very user friendly.
Speaker 2: So because why I ask that question is that obviously
Speaker 2: arthritis affix mostly older people. Younger people can suffer it
Speaker 2: as well, and older people may not be terribly affaie
Speaker 2: with the use of apps, and our artificial intelligence might
Speaker 2: be something that frightens them a little bit.
Speaker 24: Yeah, understandable. So trust and reliability were some of the
Speaker 24: kind of non negotiables for us. So privacy of data
Speaker 24: and reliability of the advice and content that Clara revives
Speaker 24: is absolutely imperative to how we design this. In terms
Speaker 24: of usibility, We've considered that it might be older people,
Speaker 24: and so accessibility in terms of font sizes and how
Speaker 24: the app works has really been in front of mind.
Speaker 2: How do we get hold of it if we do
Speaker 2: suffer arthritis?
Speaker 24: The way you can download Clara for free from the
Speaker 24: App Store or Google Play, or there's a website where
Speaker 24: you can play with the question and answer answer function
Speaker 24: that's called ask Clara dot com dot au.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for the information.
Speaker 24: Alex gony Klington.
Speaker 2: Thanks Alex Green, who's the CEO of Arthritis Movement. And
Speaker 2: Ben makes a good point here on the text line.
Speaker 2: I know people who suffer thriders who can barely use
Speaker 2: a fund. So that's a fair point, and that's why
Speaker 2: I asked Alex about how difficult it was to use.
Speaker 2: And a lot of older people are very apprehensive about technology,
Speaker 2: but particularly look, I'm apprehensive that AI to be honest,
Speaker 2: so I can appreciate that. But anything to provide more
Speaker 2: help and assistance in the end has got to be
Speaker 2: a positive thing. Seventy three. This just a hand from
Speaker 2: New South Wales Police. A fourth teenage boy has now
Speaker 2: been charged following a brawl in a park in the
Speaker 2: Northern suburbs earlier this month. This was the fireworks that
Speaker 2: was being held at Salis Bay Road, Northbridge a little
Speaker 2: early this month. Officers were told at the time a
Speaker 2: seventeen year old boy had been assaulted by a group
Speaker 2: of teenagers and he was treated for a range of injuries,
Speaker 2: including facial injuries at raw Northshaw Hospital. Three teenagers have
Speaker 2: been charged since they remained before the courts. More inquiries
Speaker 2: have been conducted. Today a fourteen year old has attended
Speaker 2: Chatswood Police station. The fourteen year old has been charged
Speaker 2: with the fray and common assault. He has been granted bail.
Speaker 2: He is due to appear before the Children's Court next month.
Speaker 4: Be your part of Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 4: one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: One of our listeners told us a little earlier in
Speaker 2: the program about some problems with the exhaust fans, the
Speaker 2: extraction fans in the M eight and there was a
Speaker 2: lot of smoke in the tunnel. We've been in contact
Speaker 2: with transurb and they have confirmed that a vehicle went
Speaker 2: through the tunnel at the time which created a lot
Speaker 2: of smoke. The ventilation though, in response, was ramped up
Speaker 2: and the tunnel is completely clear now. Thanks letting us
Speaker 2: know about that. If you see something on the roads
Speaker 2: in particular that we need to know about, you can
Speaker 2: send me a text message zero force zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight seven three. Thanks for joining me this Thursday afternoon.
Speaker 2: Just a couple of questions coming in on the text line.
Speaker 2: Thanks for your query, Helen. About the arth writers app.
Speaker 2: It's called Clara now that is spilt if you are
Speaker 2: interested in it, c LA RA so it is designed
Speaker 2: by the Arthritis movement. It is free to use and
Speaker 2: it is it's available twenty four hours a day, seven
Speaker 2: days a week. The app is called Clara c LA
Speaker 2: A twenty past five. You would have heard Steve mention
Speaker 2: this in the last traffic report. There's been a two
Speaker 2: car crash of the Hume Highway in Yaguna. One westbound
Speaker 2: lane is still closed. The paramedics are treating two patients
Speaker 2: on the scene. Auden believed the agent her twenties has
Speaker 2: been taken a Bankstown hospital in a stable condition. Police
Speaker 2: have just confirmed this with us. They have now charged
Speaker 2: Amand in relation to the cold case that we were
Speaker 2: reporting this morning. Back in of this now many years
Speaker 2: ago twenty twenty two, a special strike force was established
Speaker 2: into the disappearance in nineteen ninety three a forty nine
Speaker 2: year old Pauline Soury. Now there's been a coronal in
Speaker 2: quest that has been conducted over the years and Pauline's
Speaker 2: never been found. She is presumed murdered as a result
Speaker 2: of the coronial in quest and there's no sign of
Speaker 2: a body. They did make a finding of a presumed murder.
Speaker 2: There was an unconfirmed sighting in nineteen ninety four. Well
Speaker 2: last year police announced a five hundred thousand dollars reward
Speaker 2: for information and that has resulted in the arrest of
Speaker 2: a man today and arrest of a sixty four year
Speaker 2: old man who has been questioned throughout the day at
Speaker 2: Woollongong Police Station. Well, that sixty four year old has
Speaker 2: now been charged. Police are confirmed to us that the
Speaker 2: man has been charged with being accessory after the fact
Speaker 2: to murder and concealing a serious indictable offense. He is
Speaker 2: due to appear in the Wollongong Local Court tomorrow until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 4: call now one three one three.
Speaker 2: Gee, hasn't this one got you fired up? The stuff
Speaker 2: the moon. It's the story about Penrith resident Andrew who
Speaker 2: lives in the Penrith LGA, lives in Londonderry. And Andrew's
Speaker 2: really good to his neighbors and with all the rain
Speaker 2: that occurred last week in his neighbour's street, looked like
Speaker 2: some of the properties nearby were starting to flood because
Speaker 2: the drains were overflowing the waste drains. The wastewater was
Speaker 2: clogged up. So what Andrew did. He as a bobcat.
Speaker 2: He used to be the Army, so he's trained to
Speaker 2: use a Bobcat's got a bobcat license. So he used
Speaker 2: his bobcat to clear out one of the drains stormwater
Speaker 2: drains and it saved his property, his neighbor's property from flooding. Well,
Speaker 2: what did Penrith City Council do in return? They threatened
Speaker 2: to send bill, threat to send Andrew a bill for
Speaker 2: the cleanup because he or the garbage that he used
Speaker 2: the bobcat to remove from the stormwater drain. He's then
Speaker 2: put it up on a council strip and Penrith City
Speaker 2: Council's discovered that and they then said, well you've done
Speaker 2: the wrong thing. We're going to send you a bill.
Speaker 2: Police even made charge him for using a bobcat on
Speaker 2: the road. Well, Penrith Councilor Glenn Gardner has been in
Speaker 2: touch with us. In June last year he tried to
Speaker 2: move a motion to provide seven point one million dollars
Speaker 2: in funding for stormwater repairs in Londonderry and surrounds. The
Speaker 2: motion failed. Here's what Councilor Gardener said last year.
Speaker 25: On one occasion, the carpet was later a It was
Speaker 25: flood at the game at three pm on the same
Speaker 25: day on Purcell Road, Londonderry. In twenty twenty two, I
Speaker 25: raised concerns about the volume of water running down Purcell Road.
Speaker 25: Action was not taken and now two years later, Purcell
Speaker 25: Road has been narrowed by about two meters at one location.
Speaker 25: That's a result of erosion due to inadequate roadside drainage.
Speaker 2: So this is almost a year ago. He urged counsel
Speaker 2: to do something about it a year ago because of
Speaker 2: blocks stormwater pipes and drainage.
Speaker 25: Our level of stormwater management in the rural areas of
Speaker 25: our city is grotesquely inadequate, and we are failing in
Speaker 25: our core responsibilities. Whilst ever we walk past this inadequacy,
Speaker 25: our urge of our councilor colleagues to vote in favor.
Speaker 2: Of this motion, and they didn't, so the money was
Speaker 2: not spent to fix stormwater drains and all the pipes. Well,
Speaker 2: we are in contact with Penry Citi's council off air
Speaker 2: and hopefully they will join us on the program tomorrow
Speaker 2: because this is ridiculous. Not only is it ridiculous that
Speaker 2: they're not maintaining the stormwater system, but to think Andrew
Speaker 2: has done the right thing. He's used his Bobcat to
Speaker 2: remove the mess that's clocking up the drain and he
Speaker 2: is then threatened with a fine, He is then threatened
Speaker 2: with charges. It's ridiculous. They should be thinking him ge.
Speaker 2: Penrith Council cover themselves in glory, don't they. Michael on
Speaker 2: the text line says, why does this not surprise me?
Speaker 2: From Penrith Counsel. They are not a progressive counsel. They
Speaker 2: do not support their residents. All they're interested in doing
Speaker 2: is making money and finding people. Andrew should be sending
Speaker 2: them the bill. Yes, Andrew cleaned out the drain, Andrew
Speaker 2: saved his neighbors from flooding, and Penrith Counsel want to
Speaker 2: issue him with a fine. The news today that Magna
Speaker 2: Zebanski is suffering a rare form of cancer. It is
Speaker 2: called mantle sell lymphoma and it is at stage four. Well,
Speaker 2: this is a heartening message from Kate. Kate says, my
Speaker 2: mum had limphomer blood cancer. She was given nine months
Speaker 2: to live. My mum is still alive to this day.
Speaker 2: She took apricot kernels eight per day, crushed with a fork.
Speaker 2: She was eating them with fruit, for instance Kiwi fruit.
Speaker 2: It's a natural sinide that attacks the cancer only. Well,
Speaker 2: I'm sure Magner is in the best of care and
Speaker 2: hopefully she still has many years ahead of her. Celebrating
Speaker 2: a birthday he would have been celebrating a birthday to day,
Speaker 2: but I know his family is marking today. Stanza Marnik
Speaker 2: stan was without question one of my favorite radio presenters
Speaker 2: and I knew him pretty well. I had the pleasure
Speaker 2: of working with him for several years. Unfortunately, Sam passed
Speaker 2: away from cancer at the age of only sixty in
Speaker 2: two thousand and seven, but his wife, Marcella, I'm still
Speaker 2: in contact with. I received a lovely message from Marcella.
Speaker 2: She's a regular listener yesterday and she's celebrating her radioth
Speaker 2: birthday later in the year. Well, stan would have been
Speaker 2: seventy eight today. He was born on this day in
Speaker 2: nineteen forty seven. Stanza Manic one of the true legends
Speaker 2: of Sydney radio.
Speaker 26: Bim Hello, Hello, Man's very good, Jim, Can you really
Speaker 26: care how I am?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 25: Are you well?
Speaker 27: I just like it is the next thing you interview
Speaker 27: Wally Lewis. He seemed to like to crawl up him
Speaker 27: here please to call him a socialist criminal and I
Speaker 27: think you might get you a shirt front or up
Speaker 27: and mate, if you've got the gap to the talker
Speaker 27: to or the people who regard it for.
Speaker 26: You, a socialist criminal.
Speaker 21: I am made and you're proud of it.
Speaker 1: Blood Are you love.
Speaker 26: Wearing the badge of being a socialist criminal?
Speaker 27: Oh?
Speaker 26: Yeah, man, that's fantastic. Well that's the sort of blake
Speaker 26: that we want in this place. That's somebody who's proud
Speaker 26: to be a socialist criminal. I would never have thought
Speaker 26: I would have ever had anybody in this radio program
Speaker 26: who is proud to be a socialist criminal. And I'm
Speaker 26: pleased to him that you've called up, because then people
Speaker 26: can hear what an imbecile you are.
Speaker 1: Like you no, I.
Speaker 26: There's no prize for second best, tim and that's always
Speaker 26: going to happen in your life, isn't it. You're always
Speaker 26: going to be second best because you haven't got a
Speaker 26: creative idea in your head. You haven't got you haven't
Speaker 26: got an independent thought in your brain, and you're always
Speaker 26: going to follow everybody else. You're a poor excuse for.
Speaker 1: A human being.
Speaker 26: Go and have a good night and have a happy life,
Speaker 26: because you're probably but by yourself.
Speaker 2: The legend Stanza Manik, what do you reckon he make
Speaker 2: of the Albernisi government? If Stair was still with us
Speaker 2: these days after the last election, what would he make
Speaker 2: of that, Let's check out his headlines. Hey, look the latest,
Speaker 2: Josh Bryant. Good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 8: A man has been charged with being an accessory after
Speaker 8: the factor murder and concealing a serious indebtable offense. Following
Speaker 8: the disappearance of a woman more than thirty years ago.
Speaker 8: Magna Shabanski says she's undergoing the best treatment available after
Speaker 8: revealing she's been diagnosed with a fast moving, aggressive blood
Speaker 8: cancer stage four mental cell lymphoma. The Electoral Commission has
Speaker 8: now declared the Senate spots for Queensland and Western Australia
Speaker 8: to Liberal and two Labour candidates winning positions in each state.
Speaker 8: The Wildlife Sanctuary says it's been left for hairing fences,
Speaker 8: rebuilding enclosures and restoring habitats after the flooding forced the
Speaker 8: relocation of Tasmanian Devils and Eastern Quolls. In Sport, coach
Speaker 8: Dan mckella says the Warritors are embracing the top first
Speaker 8: challenge of their Super Rugby Pacific season. The Warritas master
Speaker 8: beat the Blues in Auckland to stay in finals contention,
Speaker 8: but they haven't won at Eden Park in sixteen years.
Speaker 8: We'll have more news and Sport at.
Speaker 2: Six Speaking Josh a little earlier, I was reading a
Speaker 2: commercial for Harvey Norman telling you about the security cameras
Speaker 2: they sell at Harvey Norman. Tell you what my experience
Speaker 2: last night shows why they're actually a good idea. So
Speaker 2: I i'd watched Date of Origin and we've got a
Speaker 2: two story house, and I went upstairs and I would
Speaker 2: have been about ten thirty. So I went upstairs in
Speaker 2: my room to go to bed. My wife was still
Speaker 2: downstairs watching something else. Anyway, I heard this really big bang,
Speaker 2: really big shutter and bang. I thought, is that our
Speaker 2: place is out at the front of our house, and
Speaker 2: then I heard all this noise. It sounded like a
Speaker 2: bunch of teenagers yelling and screaming. Anyway, so I've gone downstairs,
Speaker 2: gone out in the front driveway, and my neighbor the
Speaker 2: neighborhood had the problems of the water main that was bursting.
Speaker 2: He'd come out in the front as well. We both
Speaker 2: heard whatever's going on, but there was no one around. Anyway,
Speaker 2: I've gone back inside. I've said to cast my wife,
Speaker 2: did you hear that really be?
Speaker 14: Bang?
Speaker 2: Said, yeah, Well we do have one of those security
Speaker 2: cameras now at the front.
Speaker 1: Of our house.
Speaker 2: So the way it works is it records everything constantly.
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't know how long it keeps
Speaker 2: it for. But Cas has got a nap on a
Speaker 2: phone and she can go straight to the security camera.
Speaker 2: So she went back, say two minutes, and she could
Speaker 2: see it was in the dark. But there's this bunch
Speaker 2: of i'd say teenagers for some reason. They'd run onto
Speaker 2: our driveway and they must have thrown something or given
Speaker 2: our garage door. It's roll down garage door, really big whack.
Speaker 2: And then we could hear them and they said, oh,
Speaker 2: look out, look out, look out. They've got security cameras,
Speaker 2: and then they ran away. Now, teenagers play silly buggers
Speaker 2: in the suburbs, so goodness knows what they're up to.
Speaker 2: And I don't think they were they had a clue
Speaker 2: who I was, or you know, whether they're friends, my
Speaker 2: kids or whatever. I've got no idea. But the fact
Speaker 2: that they had the camera there, they knew the cameras there.
Speaker 2: They could see a little red flashing light when the
Speaker 2: camera's activated. They said, oh, there's a camera, and they
Speaker 2: ran away, So they're actually not a bad eye.
Speaker 1: Finance update deb.
Speaker 2: Knight is presenting nine News tonight, but she will also
Speaker 2: be hosting a shortened edition of Money News because we
Speaker 2: will be featuring the third and final Women's State of
Speaker 2: Origin game line from McDonald Jones Stadium this evening, so
Speaker 2: we'll cover that game from seven to thirty. So deb
Speaker 2: Knight on from seven. But she's presenting nine News, so
Speaker 2: she's not with me at the moment. Positive day on
Speaker 2: the stock market. The All Ordinaries has finished the day
Speaker 2: up just zero point one five percent eight thy six
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty seven. The ASX two hundred trading up
Speaker 2: by zero point one five percent. Eighty four hundred and
Speaker 2: nine points one Australian dollar is buying sixty four US sense. Now,
Speaker 2: this is an indication. This is an indication that interest
Speaker 2: rates are going to start coming down again. The Commonwealth
Speaker 2: Bank today has announced their fixed rates as of tomorrow
Speaker 2: will come down again, so variable rates obviously they made
Speaker 2: a move and last week when the RBA made their decision,
Speaker 2: but their fixed rates will also come down tomorrow and
Speaker 2: that's appointed. The Commonwealth Bank believes that the Road Reserve
Speaker 2: Bank will also move the variable cash rates soon.
Speaker 4: On Sydney now, a weather update will be here to
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Speaker 2: The chance of a few showers this evening, but it
Speaker 2: should be mostly dry across the city Tomorrow though a
Speaker 2: mostly sunny day for Friday or top of twenty degrees.
Speaker 2: Looking ahead to the weekend, looks like a pretty good weekend.
Speaker 2: Little chili this weekend, but mostly sunny on Saturday with
Speaker 2: twenty and mostly sunny on Sunday and twenty and then
Speaker 2: into next week. The cloud and the showers will return
Speaker 2: Monday and Tuesday. But the good news is this weekend
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Speaker 2: They've announced tomorrow they're going to give away free donuts.
Speaker 2: Reason being they want to make it up to the
Speaker 2: traveling public for putting up with all the train delays
Speaker 2: over the past week. So they've confirmed that if you
Speaker 2: go into a Hungry Jackson you buy a coffee at
Speaker 2: the Jack's Cafe, just for tomorrow, they're going to offer
Speaker 2: you a free Krispy Kreme donut. The CEO Scott Baird
Speaker 2: says this Friday, we're turning the morning commute into something
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Speaker 1: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney
Speaker 1: Now with Quinton Maynard until set.
Speaker 2: I wonder if my next guest has a sore head. Hello,
Speaker 2: Mark Guyer, good.
Speaker 14: Morning, Good morning. House on my head is? I thought
Speaker 14: it was morning?
Speaker 2: Now See I'm asking if you've got a seal head
Speaker 2: because I'm just wondering if you've you had a few
Speaker 2: celebratory drinks after the continuous call to and coverage of
Speaker 2: Origin one last night and it seems sorry that's the case.
Speaker 14: Well we say that wedn't get back to our hotel.
Speaker 14: It's about eleven and I might have had a couple
Speaker 14: of glasses of red wine before we was the bed.
Speaker 14: Think extreme, No, nothing extreme, it's well emphatic wing wasn't
Speaker 14: an eighteen points to six. I look, I think the
Speaker 14: score line, to be honest, flattered Queensland Clinton last night,
Speaker 14: being there live and watching all the extra curricul or
Speaker 14: activity that goes on in the rugby league field, they
Speaker 14: didn't look like scoring Queensland. They just didn't look like
Speaker 14: they had anything in them. A couple of times I
Speaker 14: went wide and Pomer got involved, but Sleephen Crichton's defense
Speaker 14: was just on shot last night.
Speaker 1: It was on one point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, I thought Crichton was absolutely outstanding last night.
Speaker 14: Well it could have been one of five players. Get
Speaker 14: me at the match last night for you. South Wales
Speaker 14: paying half Zach Limax was excellent. I thought I was
Speaker 14: aa with his first captaincy role. Was fantastic and set
Speaker 14: that turn in the first half. But yeah, look for
Speaker 14: Collings when they missed fifty four tackles last night. They
Speaker 14: had a perfect opportunity in about the twenty third twenty
Speaker 14: fourth minute mark when Spencer leen You ran onto the
Speaker 14: field and all this talk about they were going to
Speaker 14: get there, going out to get him and start and
Speaker 14: they look and they had heard a lot. He was
Speaker 14: back at the back fence and they could have kicked
Speaker 14: off to him, but they didn't.
Speaker 1: They went the other way.
Speaker 14: And I thought that was a poignant part of the
Speaker 14: game because I think they kicked a Spencer Leene who
Speaker 14: has been their antagonists for a while, and obviously Jonathan
Speaker 14: Thurston's antagonists. Well, they could have sorted some stuff out
Speaker 14: right there and then, but they didn't. They helped it
Speaker 14: to go the other way, and I think they missed
Speaker 14: the golden opportunity.
Speaker 2: Tell me though, and obviously you're a Blue and of
Speaker 2: forming New South last playout, if you were in charge
Speaker 2: of Queensland, your Billy Slater, would you make some changes
Speaker 2: to the team.
Speaker 14: I think they've got to. I think they've got to.
Speaker 14: I think I heard a stat today that eight of
Speaker 14: the last ten tries that Queensland have scored against r
Speaker 14: Wales have been against twelve men. So they've obviously got
Speaker 14: an attacking problem. I think Tom didn't when he came
Speaker 14: on last night was good. I thought he kind of
Speaker 14: straightened the attack up. And look, it's very hard to
Speaker 14: drop a captain and that's kind of where that's where
Speaker 14: the narrative has been today about DC and you know,
Speaker 14: I just go, I go further. Quinn I think this.
Speaker 14: We've been speaking all year about, you know, his announcement
Speaker 14: when he quite Eagles at the start of the year,
Speaker 14: and and then he's in limbo. But he said that
Speaker 14: he was going to he's been clogging to the Dolphins.
Speaker 14: He said he was speaking to the Rusters. But then
Speaker 14: he kind of backtracked out and said I shouldn't have
Speaker 14: said anything. So I just wonder where his headspace is
Speaker 14: at the moment, as far as not just playing rugby
Speaker 14: league or Start of Origin, but you know just where
Speaker 14: it is, because he seems confused at the moment DC
Speaker 14: and it's affecting his play.
Speaker 2: Look, he wasn't he wasn't terrible last night by any means,
Speaker 2: but it provided zero spark. And if I were the
Speaker 2: Sydney Roosters, I'd be looking at that and thinking, Hello,
Speaker 2: they've got two halves there at the moment Walker's still
Speaker 2: had injured. Their two halves are doing an outstanding job.
Speaker 14: Oh, they've been fantastic. The Roosters have been one of
Speaker 14: the teams of the competitions. You know, they've been sublime.
Speaker 14: And I look, obviously he's a he's a grad final
Speaker 14: winning Start of Origin captain player who just could not,
Speaker 14: you know, not back if he wanted to come to
Speaker 14: a club. But look, look I think I need some
Speaker 14: I think coeens Land without giving them too much ammunition
Speaker 14: against the Blues, I think they need some forwards and
Speaker 14: forwards like you know Jaden Sewer from the Dragons and
Speaker 14: maybe Corey Hawesbrough dry Arrow a little bit more Mongrel
Speaker 14: because I think our forward's watching it last night Clinton
Speaker 14: every time while I was around the ball, they kind
Speaker 14: of punched through that line. They didn't get tackled. You know,
Speaker 14: they've got there at the old footy terminology gays on
Speaker 14: your knees and on elows and they got up at
Speaker 14: they make the ground. So yeah, look emphatic was very
Speaker 14: quiet after the half the game last night, and very
Speaker 14: quiet on the way home with the big Man Darryl
Speaker 14: Browman obviously nursing his pride because he is an out
Speaker 14: and out Queenslander. I just want to say on Big
Speaker 14: d he gets absolutely mobbed in Queensland. I've known him
Speaker 14: like we played he played in his last year nine
Speaker 14: and at exceven that was my first year and we
Speaker 14: played in peder winning Green Final together. But when you
Speaker 14: go up to Brisbane and he's just like Will in
Speaker 14: the wall. This is the king obviously, but I'll tell
Speaker 14: you what. Daryl Brahman is the Prince. He's right up here.
Speaker 14: They love him, the big cuddly bear.
Speaker 2: Hey, just before we move off foraging. And now this
Speaker 2: is a controversial question, okay, but if you were Laurie Daily,
Speaker 2: would you make any changes to the Blues side? And
Speaker 2: I just say that because Queens then didn't play well.
Speaker 2: We've got to be careful not to fall into any complacency.
Speaker 2: Do you think he got the side right? Would you
Speaker 2: make a change?
Speaker 14: I wouldn't. I wouldn't know when you win what that not?
Speaker 14: When you win? So like it's our goal kickers on tonight.
Speaker 14: On last night we win, which is fair enough.
Speaker 2: That's fair. Look, I'd probably make some changes, but that's
Speaker 2: that's a bit. Look, they all played well. I'm not
Speaker 2: to be honest, I'm not convinced by Rhese Robson. I
Speaker 2: know he makes a lot of tackles, but I would
Speaker 2: actually prefer to see more of an attacking hooker there.
Speaker 2: I'd probably play out abby chorus out there, to be honest,
Speaker 2: but I would have put him there in the first place.
Speaker 2: Not to say Robson played badly, but he's one of
Speaker 2: those tackling hookers that doesn't do much. But you know,
Speaker 2: I think I think they got most of the selections, right,
Speaker 2: I guess. I still and I got to tell you this, MG,
Speaker 2: and you're the expert, not me. I still don't think
Speaker 2: there's room for two half backs in the team. I
Speaker 2: think Mitchell Moses played a role, but I think Jerome
Speaker 2: Lewell would play a better role in number six.
Speaker 14: You look, look at you. You're looking for a spot
Speaker 14: on the continuous call team. You are. You are controversial tonight.
Speaker 14: How can you change your winning bloody team? Mister Clinton Maynard?
Speaker 14: How can you go out and tell Laurie Daily You've
Speaker 14: got to change your team? But just kick quin But
Speaker 14: I'm just saying home deck for the first time since
Speaker 14: nineteen ninety seven.
Speaker 2: Mitchell Moses is half back and he had to try
Speaker 2: to fill a role that he's not used to and
Speaker 2: I think he did that. Okay, I think Jerome Lewite
Speaker 2: does that role better.
Speaker 14: Well, it's called the silent ryle And when if he
Speaker 14: was needed last night, Mitchell Moses, he would have been
Speaker 14: called upon.
Speaker 2: He was needed to kick the goals.
Speaker 14: Well, yeah, I suppose they did, but just quickly another
Speaker 14: in nur Land, Tommy Hazelton is facing up the twelve
Speaker 14: weeks on the sideline after undergoing surgery for a colarbin injury.
Speaker 14: Say we've sent our best, the big Big Tommy Hazelton
Speaker 14: is a cult figure and as far as players backing
Speaker 14: up with Origin over the weekend, I think Watrell is
Speaker 14: in a bit of doubt with a knee injury. Crichton
Speaker 14: has given a positive update saying he's all good. Tina's
Speaker 14: endowed with a badly bruins and cut face but insists
Speaker 14: he'll be back at ill back up and Brian Toyre
Speaker 14: has had ice on his ribs last night after the game,
Speaker 14: but he should be okay.
Speaker 2: So we've never been sent to the SCE In beneither
Speaker 2: Hey Women's Origin match tonight. We are covering the game
Speaker 2: this evening from seven point thirty. The kickoff is seven
Speaker 2: forty five from McDonald Jones Stadium in Newcastle. Chris Warren,
Speaker 2: Jamie Soud, Sienna Williams.
Speaker 14: Yes, New South Wales had their sights on a historic
Speaker 14: three Neil whitewash in the women's state of Origin tonight.
Speaker 14: Look New South Wales unchanged from the last two games.
Speaker 14: Queensland had to make a couple of changes, in particular
Speaker 14: that probably one of the best players in the world
Speaker 14: at the moment, Tamika Upton, their fullback, is out bricking
Speaker 14: Sure goes to Locke with Lauren Brown going at halfback.
Speaker 14: The odds are Queensland five fifty, Newsuth Wales one dollar seventeen.
Speaker 14: That's because Tamika Upton is out and New South Wales
Speaker 14: the queens Queen select to clean sweep the Queen's Landers
Speaker 14: tonight at Newcastle Quinton.
Speaker 2: Go the Blues MG we'll see when studio tomorrow. Oh wait,
Speaker 2: buddy Mark, go back tomorrow afternoon. Okay, it's quiz time.
Speaker 2: I need two contestants to play. I've got a double
Speaker 2: pass to go and see the Lover and the Dumb
Speaker 2: Waiter at the Ensemble Theater. One three, one eight seven
Speaker 2: three is my number. If you want to play the quiz,
Speaker 2: give me a call now, Okay, one three, one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. I've got a double pass to give away
Speaker 2: to see the Lover and the Dumb Waiters. So hungry
Speaker 2: Jacks with Krispy Kreme donuts. They're giving away some free
Speaker 2: donuts tomorrow. And the reason for this is they want
Speaker 2: to try and make your ride to work a little easier,
Speaker 2: or your commute or your drive because of all the
Speaker 2: suffering it's been caused over the last week on the
Speaker 2: train lines. Well, this information is just coming through, believe
Speaker 2: it or not. There's a drama on the train lines.
Speaker 2: There is a train that's suffering a mechanical problem at Paramatta.
Speaker 2: Trains on Platform two heading towards the Looe Mountains are
Speaker 2: now running twenty minutes late because of urgent train repairs
Speaker 2: at Paramatter. Please allow extra time. So, yes, it's happening again. Folks,
Speaker 2: if you're traveling west to the Loue Mountains, give yourself
Speaker 2: an extra twenty minutes. We've been talking about stormwater drains,
Speaker 2: particularly in London Derry because Andrew, one of our listeners,
Speaker 2: did the right thing by his neighbors who were being
Speaker 2: threatened by a flood last week, used his bobcat to
Speaker 2: clear out a stormwater drain and now Penrith City Council
Speaker 2: is threatening him with a fine. Well, Penrith City Council
Speaker 2: has now responded to us. They've sent me a statement
Speaker 2: council takes all flooding complaints seriously and has a regular
Speaker 2: maintenance program to serve as stormwater and rule trains. Councilors
Speaker 2: areware of localized flooding in the area. However, the drains
Speaker 2: were responding as designed during the rain event. We continue
Speaker 2: to investigate this matter further. When inappropriate and unauthorized works
Speaker 2: are carried out, compliance action may be taken. This is
Speaker 2: for the safety of our community. Well, it's not inappropriate
Speaker 2: when a neighbor unclogs a drain so their house doesn't flood.
Speaker 2: I'd suggest to Penris City Council they do not issue
Speaker 2: Andrew with a fine celebrating your birthday today. Is the
Speaker 2: songwriter behind that song and the singer Noel Gallaghan of
Speaker 2: Oasis and Yes Oasis are reforming. He is fifty eighth today.
Speaker 2: Now here's a random fact for you that, along with
Speaker 2: wonder Wall, their biggest single, and Noel wrote all the songs,
Speaker 2: and of course Liam was the singer. But no I
Speaker 2: had a feeling that was going to be a hit.
Speaker 2: So he said to Liam, look, I'm going to sing
Speaker 2: one of these songs, you can sing the other one.
Speaker 2: Which one do you want? Liam picked Wonderwall.
Speaker 1: Ye tell him to expand your mind.
Speaker 8: You may begin your questioning Sidney now.
Speaker 20: As questions questions important, patent, I know you aren't answer
Speaker 20: the question right.
Speaker 1: Clinton's Quick Quiz.
Speaker 2: Okay, it's time for the quiz today. We've got to
Speaker 2: double pass to give away to go and see the
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Speaker 2: or you could win this afternoon. David is in Penrith. Hello, David,
Speaker 2: I'm good mate. I hope you're feeling smart and clever
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Jimmy in Karinga.
Speaker 1: Alright, hello Jimmy, Hey Clinton, how are you tonight?
Speaker 14: Mate?
Speaker 2: I'm good, my friend. You can go first. Your thirty
Speaker 2: second starts now. Wicket, bowler and duck are associated with
Speaker 2: which sport?
Speaker 15: Cricket?
Speaker 2: Correct? What movie came first? Pulp Fiction or The Great Escape?
Speaker 15: The Greatest Scope?
Speaker 2: Correct? Buenos Aires is the capital of which country?
Speaker 10: Riad?
Speaker 14: Geneero?
Speaker 2: No, that's a city, Argentina. Who is the current Who's
Speaker 2: the current Australian Trade Minister? Give you a clue? The Godfather.
Speaker 1: Still path?
Speaker 2: Don Farrell's his name? You're on two. You're on two. Okay,
Speaker 2: let's go to David. David, your thirty second starts. Now.
Speaker 2: Who is the captain of the Queensland Morons? Correct for now?
Speaker 2: What's the name of the twisty dance move that originated
Speaker 2: in the nineteen sixties, the twist? What is the chemical
Speaker 2: symbol for water? What's the scene before two?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: John, Paul, George and Ringo were members of which group?
Speaker 2: My tongue, It's gonna be close there, I reckon, you're close.
Speaker 2: Come on, I reckon, you've run out of time. It's
Speaker 2: actually the Beatles, quite a well known little pop group
Speaker 2: back in the nine and sixties. Hey, Jimmy, you're our winner.
Speaker 24: Thanks Clinton, thank you very much.
Speaker 2: We'll send you out to the Lover and the Dumb Way.
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Speaker 2: Pawsey hosting World Will of Sports after six someone made Clinton.
Speaker 18: What a lovely night that was at sun Corp Stadium.
Speaker 18: My only complaint is the Blue should have won by
Speaker 18: thirty to six. Is that of eighteen to six, but
Speaker 18: the gulking boots were left at home by Nathan will
Speaker 18: I was a nervous He said, there's a bit of
Speaker 18: a wind around and you reckon the last one. He
Speaker 18: just kicker, yeah, normally and there Zach Lamack's.
Speaker 2: Got the gear.
Speaker 18: It's the easy one. But anyway, we won, so I'm
Speaker 18: not complaining. Jamie Soud will join me in the studio
Speaker 18: to chat about that great win by the Blues. Marley
Speaker 18: Silver will preview the women's State of Origin match tonight
Speaker 18: in Newcastle, which the Continuous Call team will have for
Speaker 18: you as well from seven thirty and James Robottom from
Speaker 18: the Swan's will preview their clash with Adelaide.
Speaker 2: Hausey with Whitewater Sports after the news. Don't forget full
Speaker 2: coverage tonight of the women's State of Origin match with
Speaker 2: Chris Warren, Jamie Souden, Sienna Williams from seven point thirty.
Speaker 2: FIEK if you're company over the past few hours, that's
Speaker 2: Sydney now.