Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is Sydney now with Clinton.
Speaker 2: Wednesday, June twenty five. It is Clinton Maynard here. Yes,
Speaker 2: it is still windy. It is still pretty windy across Sydney.
Speaker 2: Let me know where you are, if it's still really windy,
Speaker 2: whether what's suburb you're in, Let me know how bad
Speaker 2: the windy is. One three one eight seventy three old.
Speaker 2: Check in with the weather bureau.
Speaker 1: Just a moment.
Speaker 2: But the whole city has been lashed all day and
Speaker 2: I was outside the studios just half an hour ago
Speaker 2: and it's still really windy in the inner city. Much
Speaker 2: of the South Coast, the Blue Mountains of Southern Highlands,
Speaker 2: the Golden Region, the Hunter Valley, northern New South Wales
Speaker 2: all affected. But this is the definition of mad. Quite frankly,
Speaker 2: start raising crazy. People have been doing the bridge climb today.
Speaker 2: I've been watching footage from the nine helicopter of some
Speaker 2: very brave souls climbing the Sydney Harbor Bridge. Now, yeah,
Speaker 2: when you do the bridge climb, you are connected via
Speaker 2: the little chain that clip the rope to the railing,
Speaker 2: so you're well in place, you are secure. It is safe.
Speaker 2: But come on, some friends of mine were driving across
Speaker 2: the bridge this morning. We're concerned about the wind while
Speaker 2: they were driving, let alone climbing the bridge. Coming up
Speaker 2: on the show, the ceasefire now appears to be taking
Speaker 2: hold in the Middle East after US President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: started throwing around.
Speaker 1: The F bomb.
Speaker 2: Look, hopefully there will be peace to the Middle East,
Speaker 2: but the reality is we've been living with the tension
Speaker 2: for decades, generations. What's the impact going to be here?
Speaker 2: Should we be worried about the threat of terrorism here
Speaker 2: as a result of what's happening in the Middle East.
Speaker 2: We'll find out Aldi is still the cheapest supermarket chain
Speaker 2: in the country, but the gap between Aldi, Coles and
Speaker 2: Wolves is actually narrowing. We'll talk about that. Lucy Zeliz
Speaker 2: joins me after four point thirty. Susan Lee has made
Speaker 2: her first major presentation to the National Press Club since
Speaker 2: becoming the Liberal leader. We'll talk to Lucy about that
Speaker 2: Mark guy with the sport, and I'll tell you what
Speaker 2: what we'll do today. We are going to play two
Speaker 2: GB's Winter Wheel to spin it with MG, because I
Speaker 2: think MG can be a lucky charm. Your chance to
Speaker 2: win in forty thousand dollars worth of cash and prizes
Speaker 2: on the program, and we've been giving a lot of
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Speaker 2: help us out the wheel a little later in the program.
Speaker 2: You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in
Speaker 2: Sydney now, so text me zero fourth x zero eight
Speaker 2: seven three eight seven three. Have you say one three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. Well in Sydney now, it's windy.
Speaker 2: It's very windy. Miriam Bradbury is from the Weather Bureau.
Speaker 2: Is this wind going to stick around for long? Miriam?
Speaker 2: Good afternoon, Good.
Speaker 3: Afternoon, and look, the forecast is that we'll see the
Speaker 3: wind sticking around for the rest of today, at least
Speaker 3: as you've just been telling your listeners. We do still
Speaker 3: have that view weather warning current. It does cover the
Speaker 3: southern suburbs of Sydney close to the coast and stretches
Speaker 3: down to Illawara two. But that warning does certainly include
Speaker 3: the Blue Mountains as well. With those very strong westerly
Speaker 3: winds barreling over the hills, we're seeing pretty gusty conditions
Speaker 3: right across the city. But the risk of damaging wing
Speaker 3: us which is wind gusts above ninety ks an hour.
Speaker 3: It's the winds of that strength that really have that
Speaker 3: capacity to bring down trees, tree limbs and so on.
Speaker 3: That's most likely about the coast. So just looking around
Speaker 3: the city area today, we've had a ninety six kilometer
Speaker 3: in our august at Kernal, We've had ninety three kilometer
Speaker 3: in August at Sydney Airport. But look, the expectation is
Speaker 3: we should see these winds easing into this evening.
Speaker 2: I'm just having a look at the data from the
Speaker 2: Bureau at the moment and so observatory. Hell, the wind
Speaker 2: has been running its a west nor westerly direction forty
Speaker 2: one kilometers now with the gusts of say twenty two,
Speaker 2: so much lower than what it would have been a
Speaker 2: kernel earlier.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right, those wind stats that I read
Speaker 3: out just before, mainly from around sort of that sort
Speaker 3: of eight nine ten o'clock period this morning, So from
Speaker 3: earlier on looking at the wing gusts from the last
Speaker 3: little while, it's sort of been maxing out at that's
Speaker 3: sort of thirty to fifty kilometer an hour mark. So
Speaker 3: that said, Sydney Airport's still seen a sixty one k
Speaker 3: and our gust in the last ten minutes or so,
Speaker 3: so it's definitely still blowy and the if you hadn't
Speaker 3: noticed it, the wheather observations are supporting that too.
Speaker 2: And what about tomorrow, So.
Speaker 3: Going into tomorrow, we are expecting much improved conditions where
Speaker 3: the winds are concerned. That said, it is still going
Speaker 3: to be pretty blowy out on the water. So for
Speaker 3: anyone who is thinking about heating out to the beach,
Speaker 3: don't get lulled into a false sense of security just
Speaker 3: because the sun may be shining and it won't be
Speaker 3: as windy as today. We do have a hazardous surf
Speaker 3: warning current for the Sydney Coast, but as well for
Speaker 3: the Hunter Coast with gale warnings anticipated. So blowy out
Speaker 3: on the water and about the coastal fringe, but across
Speaker 3: the city area it should ease back below those warning
Speaker 3: thresholds and be a little bit more of a pleasant day.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the information, Thank you, Miriam. Not a problem,
Speaker 2: Miriam Bradbury from the Weather Bureau. This information just in
Speaker 2: from the sees. They have confirmed illwarra south coast. This
Speaker 2: is the area hardest hit. They've responded to three hundred
Speaker 2: eighty four calls for help across the Sydney Metropolitan area.
Speaker 2: It's ninety so still reasonably significant. A large number of
Speaker 2: fallen trees and power lines. According to the sees this afternoon, schools,
Speaker 2: businesses and homes have all sustained damage, mostly on the
Speaker 2: South coast, mostly around Woollongong. A little further south, the
Speaker 2: most damaging winds have actually been recorded in the Lambie.
Speaker 2: In the Woollongong region, five hundred and ninety eight incidents
Speaker 2: in total been recorded by the sees. Let me know
Speaker 2: where you are and what it's like. One three, one
Speaker 2: eight seven three our number.
Speaker 4: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 4: Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 2: On to gb The wild brawl outside of the Mertant
Speaker 2: construction site in Castle Hill has now resulted in police
Speaker 2: making several arrests. You would have seen the video by now.
Speaker 2: Mark Leevy broke this story yesterday. Dozens of tradees fighting
Speaker 2: wearing high vis well. Two people have now been arrested.
Speaker 2: Detective Superintendentnomi Moore joins me from the Hills District Police Command.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your time, no problem. Thank Quinn, You've
Speaker 2: made a breakthrough this investigation today. You've arrested two people
Speaker 2: we have yet, and they're the ringleaders, I believe.
Speaker 5: Well, I believe that they are. They were the instigators
Speaker 5: on the Monday and then returned again yesterday for that
Speaker 5: melee that we've all seen the footage of.
Speaker 2: So what happened on the Monday.
Speaker 5: Look on the Monday, those two individuals attended there after
Speaker 5: having been terminated on the Friday, in their subcontractors' roles.
Speaker 5: They attended there with some hammers. Thankfully, they put those
Speaker 5: hammers down before they engaged in a fifth fight with
Speaker 5: two of the contractors who sustained very minor injuries. And
Speaker 5: then they fled before police arrived. And we've been investigating
Speaker 5: this matter since Monday, and obviously it escalated quite significantly
Speaker 5: on Tuesday morning.
Speaker 2: I believe the twenty two year old and the forty
Speaker 2: four year old are related.
Speaker 5: We believed, yes, they are father and son.
Speaker 2: Okay, so they lost their contract terminated on earlier in
Speaker 2: the week. They tried to resolve it effectively, but they
Speaker 2: thought they'd resolve it with hammers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure if it's a good way to resolve anything, Clinton,
Speaker 5: but they did certainly, whether it was to resolve it
Speaker 5: or for other means, were yet to work that out.
Speaker 2: The video shows it's dozens of men who were fighting.
Speaker 2: Are you still looking for others involved in this? Look?
Speaker 5: We are, and you mentioned dozens of men. Quite frankly,
Speaker 5: we're appalled this mob mentality behavior and the quiet streets
Speaker 5: of Castle Hill. You know, it's a family street, good
Speaker 5: people there and they've all been impacted by this. And yes,
Speaker 5: it is our mission Foreshore to identify and take necessary
Speaker 5: action against those that didn't participate actively in that incident yesterday.
Speaker 5: So what we're looking at Clinton is in the next
Speaker 5: couple of hours, I hope that we will be able
Speaker 5: to share on our Facebook as Police Force Facebook page
Speaker 5: some images of some people that we are hoping can
Speaker 5: assist with our inquiries and urge anyone who are either
Speaker 5: themselves or anyone who recognizes those people to contact either
Speaker 5: Castle Hill Police or crime Stoppers and assist us in
Speaker 5: continuing this investigation.
Speaker 2: We'll certainly assist you with that, will broadcast that on
Speaker 2: our Facebook and our social media sight as well. Thank you, Nami.
Speaker 5: Thanks Centain.
Speaker 2: Detective is Superinatednomi warned she's heading up the investigation into
Speaker 2: the brawler Castle Hills. So we've had a father and
Speaker 2: son have been arrested, twenty two and forty year old Van.
Speaker 2: They are believed with the ring leaders in this brawl.
Speaker 2: After they lost their contract, they were terminated, but the
Speaker 2: police are still looking to hunt down eleven other people involved.
Speaker 2: They now have the video that will be released in
Speaker 2: the next couple of hours. Will put it up on
Speaker 2: our website to GB dot com.
Speaker 1: Sidney Now on to GB.
Speaker 2: Well, there's fresh hope of an interest rate cut as
Speaker 2: soon as next month. With a release of inflation figures today.
Speaker 2: The monthly inflation figure has fallen from two point four
Speaker 2: percent to two point one percent. That is the lowest
Speaker 2: level since the middle of the pandemic. It's also down
Speaker 2: from this time last year. Last May it was four
Speaker 2: point one percent. Annual inflation to the twelve months to
Speaker 2: May is two point four percent, which is down from
Speaker 2: two point eight percent. So this is well within the
Speaker 2: Reserve Bank's target range now of two to three percent.
Speaker 2: That's a good thing because rates can come down when
Speaker 2: you're within that target range. The Good Doctor dot to
Speaker 2: Jim Charmers the Treasure very happy about this.
Speaker 6: It's the lowest headline inflation since the beginning of twenty
Speaker 6: twenty one. It's the lowest underlying inflation since the end
Speaker 6: of twenty twenty one, and also means, for the first
Speaker 6: time since these monthly records have been kept that we
Speaker 6: have seen six consecutive months now of inflation within the
Speaker 6: Reserve Bank's target range. This means that the progress we're
Speaker 6: making together on inflation is substantial, and it means that
Speaker 6: it's sustained and these are very welcome developments. These numbers
Speaker 6: today are very encouraging because they illustrate the progress that
Speaker 6: Australians have made together when it comes to getting on
Speaker 6: top of this inflation challenge that we have had in
Speaker 6: our economy for some time now.
Speaker 2: So Treasurer doctor Jim Chalmers claims the medicine he has
Speaker 2: administered to us has been successful. Yes, it's all the
Speaker 2: cause of the government. So what's driving inflation? What is
Speaker 2: bringing down the inflation rate? Apparently it's fruit. Fruit is
Speaker 2: cheaper at the moment. Vice of fruit has fallen by
Speaker 2: two point seven percent. The cost amandarins down, oranges down,
Speaker 2: apples and avocados. Plenty of things that we buy are
Speaker 2: going up. In particular, coffee is increasing in price, coffee, tea,
Speaker 2: coca prices up by eight point three percent over twelve months.
Speaker 2: The ABS stats released today claim electricity prices have fallen
Speaker 2: by five point nine percent in the last twelve months,
Speaker 2: so down six percent. That is because of government rebates.
Speaker 2: Well that doesn't yet take into account what's going to
Speaker 2: happen next week, because, as you know we've been discussing this,
Speaker 2: your electricity bill is going to go up next week.
Speaker 2: Thanks to mister Bowen. Rents rose by four and a
Speaker 2: half percent in the twelve months to May one, three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. Have you noticed, in particular that
Speaker 2: fruit when you go to a supermarket, when you go
Speaker 2: to the fruit and veggie stores, is fruit really cheaper?
Speaker 2: Particularly avocado? Let me know. You can send me a
Speaker 2: text message zero force zero eight seven three eight seven three.
Speaker 2: This is Sydney now. It is Chile in Sydney this afternoon.
Speaker 2: Sixteen degrees on the coast. It's also sixteen degrees of
Speaker 2: most of the western suburbs fifty zen points seven at
Speaker 2: the moment. In Penrith, six kids, and I say kids,
Speaker 2: they're teenagers aged between fourteen and sixteen, remain in hospital
Speaker 2: this afternoon. They're in the John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle.
Speaker 2: As police continue to investigate a pursuit and a crash
Speaker 2: near Raymond Terrace this morning. It's four o'clock in the morning.
Speaker 2: The police are called to a unit in East Maitland
Speaker 2: following reports of a break and enter. At the scene,
Speaker 2: the police are told Honda Jazz has been stolen from
Speaker 2: the property. Fifteen minutes later, some other police are patrolling
Speaker 2: Miller's Forest. They cite the Honda there. It is well.
Speaker 2: The driver didn't stop. Eventually there was a pursuit continued
Speaker 2: only for about a minute. The car left the road.
Speaker 2: It crashed five k's north of Hexham. Officers then rendered
Speaker 2: assistance to those inside the vehicle. There were six people
Speaker 2: inside the vehicle and this is what's staggering, although we
Speaker 2: talk about this too often, four boys fourteen, two fifteen
Speaker 2: year olds and a sixteen year old. Two girls fourteen
Speaker 2: and fifteen a car that had allegedly been stolen in
Speaker 2: a break and enter at East Maitland at four o'clock
Speaker 2: in the morning. They were taken to hospital. They are
Speaker 2: still in hospital. Police have been advised the injuries are
Speaker 2: not life threatening. A crime scene has been established and
Speaker 2: it is being processed by the Crash Investigation Unit. No
Speaker 2: charge has been laid on that one, and too often,
Speaker 2: too often, we are talking about teenagers as young as fourteen,
Speaker 2: sometimes twelve and thirteen being involved in these police pursuits.
Speaker 2: It is windy out there, Scott says on the text
Speaker 2: line of the blow a dog off its lead here
Speaker 2: in Engodeen. It was certainly very windy in angerdein this morning. Scott,
Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. Rob says, it's quite drafty here
Speaker 2: in Boukham Hills. It might be time to get out
Speaker 2: the kite.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: A bit of fishing Western suburbs fly fishing. You'd be
Speaker 2: flying away if you are trying to fish today. I
Speaker 2: was driving past in Devor Sports High School this morning
Speaker 2: in the Southern Shire, and there were and obviously, as
Speaker 2: the name suggests, that's where the best young athletes in
Speaker 2: the neighborhood go, and there were a group of girls
Speaker 2: doing their sprint training in the wind. Might have been
Speaker 2: a strong tail window. I guess they were wind assisted
Speaker 2: in their sprint one three, one eight seven three. So
Speaker 2: inflation's coming down, and based on what the ABS is
Speaker 2: telling us, it's because fruit prices are falling, in particular mandarins,
Speaker 2: oranges and avocados. Mario though, who's observed one particular fruit
Speaker 2: is not so cheap? Hello Mario, Hello, Hello you what's
Speaker 2: not cheap Maria?
Speaker 7: Ten dollars fifty for tomatoes?
Speaker 2: Akuilo? Yeah, ridiculous, isn't it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is ridiculous because we've noticed the price of
Speaker 7: fruit fluctuate over the last few weeks. But it just
Speaker 7: seems to be going up.
Speaker 8: I don't know where they get.
Speaker 7: Their figures from.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, it's seasonal and it depends on the
Speaker 2: flood situation in North what the Queensland has been through
Speaker 2: as well. But to not align Mario unspotting the expensive tomatoes,
Speaker 2: Greg says, one large tomato three dollars. That's not very
Speaker 2: fruit you this one, well, this is more than ten fifty.
Speaker 2: John says he's found in his local area tomatoes are
Speaker 2: an averager fifteen dollars a kilogram. It's only going up.
Speaker 2: I've actually taken to buying the cherry tomatoes lately. I
Speaker 2: find that the punnets of cherry tomatoes are generally cheaper
Speaker 2: than EurOMA tomatoes or the vine tomatoes. And it's going
Speaker 2: to taste the same, but you use them in a
Speaker 2: different way. Well, just talking about food, and we're going
Speaker 2: to have a close look at this with Choice magazine
Speaker 2: a little later this hour. They're for releast their comparison
Speaker 2: of supermarkets today, and again Aldi is the cheapest. What
Speaker 2: stands out about this research release today is that Coles
Speaker 2: and Woolves have actually narrowed the price gap to Aldi.
Speaker 1: Does that have.
Speaker 2: Anything to do with all the publicity over the past
Speaker 2: year about supermarkets ripping us off? Surely not. Have they
Speaker 2: responded by cutting their prices? Coals Woods Suddenly their prices
Speaker 2: are closer to Aldi. Very funny, that, isn't it. The
Speaker 2: second thing that jumps out with the figures that have
Speaker 2: been released today shows just how far away IgA are
Speaker 2: from being competitive. And that's a real shame, because if
Speaker 2: we're going to have a truly competitive supermarket industry, we
Speaker 2: need a third player, a strong third player up against
Speaker 2: Coles and Wars. Aldi's not it, I GA is not
Speaker 2: it either. So based on the comparison of a basket
Speaker 2: of goods purchased from one hundred and four stores in
Speaker 2: twenty seven locations, this basket of easy to find groceries
Speaker 2: costs fifty five dollars thirty five cents at ALDI, will
Speaker 2: worths fifty eight dollars ninety two, So what three or
Speaker 2: so dollars more Cole's fifty nine to ninety two, but
Speaker 2: Aldi fifty five thirty five compared to IgA sixty nine
Speaker 2: sixty four now IgA independent grosses Australia. They can't compete
Speaker 2: on price, and they're independent retailers who are brought together
Speaker 2: under a buying umbrella. Some of the companies, like Richie's
Speaker 2: for instance, own a whole bunch, but others maybe only
Speaker 2: one or two, and they can't compete on the price.
Speaker 2: They just don't have the buying power compared to Woolworths
Speaker 2: or Coals and then Aldi completely different business model. They're
Speaker 2: selling so much of their own brands, so it's not
Speaker 2: really a fair comparison. It's not a fair fight. Woolworths
Speaker 2: has one one and twenty four supermarkets across the country.
Speaker 2: Aldi has about six hundred. What we need is a
Speaker 2: third player. Now how we develop that in this country,
Speaker 2: Goodness knows how. We've had inquiry after inquiry and they're
Speaker 2: just tork fests in the end. But if we're going
Speaker 2: to put real price pressure on Coals and Woolies, it's
Speaker 2: great that Aldi's there and they offer what they do offer,
Speaker 2: and it's good that IgA has some availability, but they're
Speaker 2: not real competitors. We need a really strong third competitor.
Speaker 2: You tell me one three, one eight seventy three. Have
Speaker 2: you noticed that Woolworths and Coals have actually cut their
Speaker 2: prices in recent times? Clearly not when it comes tomatoes.
Speaker 2: One three one eight seveny three the number. Just before
Speaker 2: we get a news update, I just went to cross
Speaker 2: to Michael, who's come across a big drama on Pennant
Speaker 2: Hills Road. What have you seen, Michael?
Speaker 8: There's a power plane leaning over on the American side.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so it's how tall woul that cromeber you reckon?
Speaker 8: I'm fairly tall, but it's leaning over about or twenty degrees?
Speaker 2: Oh okay, So this is the meriton. It would be
Speaker 2: a home unit construction side on Penne Hills Road, is it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just down from Marsden Road and towards Paramatta.
Speaker 2: Okay, thanks for letting us now about that. That obviously
Speaker 2: is caused by the wind. At the moment. We'll talk
Speaker 2: to the police and emergency services off there and find
Speaker 2: out what's happening in there. So it's Pennant Hills Road
Speaker 2: there's a towel that is leaning about fifteen to twenty
Speaker 2: degrees in direction of paramounts. It takes some care if
Speaker 2: you're driving through there. We'll get some details off air.
Speaker 2: Let's check out his headlines and with the latest Katie.
Speaker 9: Fuller, Good afternoon, Clinton. A father and son are being
Speaker 9: questioned by police over a brawl involving up to fifty
Speaker 9: workers at Castle Hill. Officers alleged they went back to
Speaker 9: the site to assault two workers who had terminated their contracts,
Speaker 9: before returning the next day with a large group. A
Speaker 9: nineteen year old man will remain behind bars after facing
Speaker 9: court charged over a two vehicle crash which killed a
Speaker 9: woman and an unborn child in Newcastle. The Federal government
Speaker 9: is keeping Air Force planes stationed in the Middle East
Speaker 9: in case they're needed for further evacuations. One hundred and
Speaker 9: eighteen Australians have been flown out of Israel as a
Speaker 9: shaky ceasefire with Iran appears to be holding and a
Speaker 9: severe wind warning remains in place for Sydney, the Illawarra
Speaker 9: Hunter and Great Dividing Rangers. About eleven thousand properties around
Speaker 9: the Illawarra and South Coast are without power, while some
Speaker 9: flights in and out of Sydney have been delayed. In Sport,
Speaker 9: there's been a remarkable result at the FIFA's Club World Cup,
Speaker 9: amateur team Auckland City scoring a one old draw with
Speaker 9: the South American powerhouse Boca Juniors. A part time school
Speaker 9: teacher scoring the equalizer for the kiwis Clinton more News
Speaker 9: at four.
Speaker 2: Thank you Katie. It's sixteen degrees in the city. Fifteen
Speaker 2: degrees at Holdsworthy so Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford, there was
Speaker 2: a crane. It is tipping. It certainly hasn't fallen over
Speaker 2: at this point, but it's tipping about fifteen degrees tweaty degrees.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the emergency services are going to be on there
Speaker 2: seeing quickly. And this is all because of the wind
Speaker 2: across Sydney. There is very strong gusts, particularly to the south. Still,
Speaker 2: the wind within the city itself in Carlingford Paramatta District
Speaker 2: is strong, but it's much much stronger in the south
Speaker 2: at the moment, so take some care out there. The
Speaker 2: SEES has already responded across the state to more than
Speaker 2: five hundred calls for help. Peter Ford coming up in
Speaker 2: just about the moment, but the ABS figures that have
Speaker 2: been released today show that inflation is coming down because
Speaker 2: fruit is apparently cheaper, in particular Mandarin's oranges and avocados. Well,
Speaker 2: Harry says, certainly not tomatoes. Heirloom tomatoes the moment, seventeen
Speaker 2: dollars a kidlogram, seventeen bucks a kilo for heirloom tomatoes. Now,
Speaker 2: I know that the trusts are tomatoes, and the roma
Speaker 2: tomatoes that I usually buy there around ten to eleven
Speaker 2: at the moment, So maybe you need to find an alternative.
Speaker 2: Antoinette Latoufe today has had a big vict in court,
Speaker 2: a seventy thousand dollars payout following her dismissal from the ABC.
Speaker 2: Peter Ford, our entertainment reporter, has been across this issue
Speaker 2: for months.
Speaker 10: Gude Peter Well, seventy grand won't go for too long,
Speaker 10: will it. She'll run through that pretty quickly. But it
Speaker 10: was a win, and I can't help but feel this
Speaker 10: was very much something that she felt she had to
Speaker 10: see through as a matter of principle, and a lot
Speaker 10: of people who agreed with her, and she's got an apology,
Speaker 10: which I suspect is probably equally important as any monetary
Speaker 10: handover and she got that from the managing director, Hugh Marx.
Speaker 10: Interesting to it would be very interesting to know, obviously
Speaker 10: that was a pre prepared statement and apology from Hugh
Speaker 10: mars whether the outcome had landed differently, if that would
Speaker 10: have still gone out as an apology to her or not.
Speaker 10: So she's fought a good fight, you know, it's been
Speaker 10: eighteen months and being embroiled in ongoing legal battles like that.
Speaker 10: When you are kind of a David taking on Goliath
Speaker 10: as she was, that you lose a lot of sleep.
Speaker 10: There's a lot of sleep when you put yourself through that.
Speaker 10: So I hope she feels good about it. I don't
Speaker 10: know where it'll take her career wise. I mean, she
Speaker 10: may be a kind of a martyr today, but I'm
Speaker 10: not sure you can make much of a career out
Speaker 10: of being a martyr. So I hope good things do
Speaker 10: happen for her eventually and she gets back in the business,
Speaker 10: whether it's going to be mainstream media or not unless certain.
Speaker 10: And I think the ABC also have to have a
Speaker 10: look themselves and really work out, you know, should they
Speaker 10: have pursued that in the way they have and run
Speaker 10: up a million dollar legal bill.
Speaker 2: Over in the end, what was an employment contract that
Speaker 2: lasted a week?
Speaker 10: I know, I mean, you know, that's a one week
Speaker 10: casual employment gig and it's ended up with this sarga
Speaker 10: that's gone on for eighteen months.
Speaker 2: Look, I think mainstream media outlets may not jump on her,
Speaker 2: but there's probably some fringe more and well, you know,
Speaker 2: the way media has diversified and reason us, there's probably
Speaker 2: some fringe outlets that will be interested.
Speaker 11: Yeah, well I hope.
Speaker 10: So you know, she's clever, she's smart, and she certainly is.
Speaker 10: She's so on last day to m Marn's a very
Speaker 10: determined woman. So good luck to him.
Speaker 2: The death of the seventies heart from Bobby Sherman has
Speaker 2: passed away.
Speaker 10: Well, you may not hit the mark with you, Clinton,
Speaker 10: because you're a bloke and you probably weren't interested, and secondly,
Speaker 10: you may not be in the right age group for
Speaker 10: a certain group of people. Today's a very sad day
Speaker 10: because Bobby Sherman was a kind of a heart throb
Speaker 10: or a pinup boys were used to call them back
Speaker 10: in the day. And this is in the era of
Speaker 10: your Donnie Osmond's and your Leis Garrett's. You know and
Speaker 10: David Cassidy and his brother Sean Cassidy, and probably just
Speaker 10: a couple of years before they hit they were kind
Speaker 10: of more like seventy three seventy four. Back in nineteen
Speaker 10: seventy seventy one was Bobby Sherman, Too good looking for
Speaker 10: his own good, had a lot of big, catchy pop
Speaker 10: hits that you're still here today. In fact, here is
Speaker 10: one of them.
Speaker 2: Well, he obviously had a bit of a thing for
Speaker 2: Julie back in the day. Too good looking for his
Speaker 2: own good? Peter, Ye, well, wouldn't we.
Speaker 10: All wish to have that curse? But yeah, easy come,
Speaker 10: easy go, cried like a baby. I mean, he really
Speaker 10: was big time, and he kept that career going when
Speaker 10: he sort of faded a bit as a pop idol.
Speaker 10: He became quite a success, successful TV actor, and then
Speaker 10: basically when that stopped, he thought, I've got to find
Speaker 10: a new life for myself. So he went away and
Speaker 10: studied and became a paramedic, and for the last thirty
Speaker 10: years or so, up and until the last four or
Speaker 10: five years when he's got older and he was sick,
Speaker 10: he was working as a paramedic, literally saving lives every day.
Speaker 10: So yeah, really good story. And you know one of those.
Speaker 10: A lot of those pop stars who hit big then fade,
Speaker 10: they end up as very sad stories. But Bobby Sherman
Speaker 10: certainly wasn't.
Speaker 2: I loved his stories about stars, whether it's a singer
Speaker 2: or an actor or an actress who ends up doing a
Speaker 2: normal job down the track. But to hear that he
Speaker 2: became a paramedic, was actually involved in helping people every day.
Speaker 2: That's wonderful.
Speaker 10: Absolutely good on your Peter.
Speaker 2: We'll talk tomorrow, Thanks Clinton, Peter Ford.
Speaker 1: Until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 4: Call now one three one hey seven three.
Speaker 2: Let me know what it's like around your neck of
Speaker 2: the woods with the wind at the moment. One three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. Ernie is in a Denza park. Halo, Ernie.
Speaker 12: Oh it's tiny, Clinton, not Ernie.
Speaker 2: How you doing, Tony?
Speaker 12: I'm all right.
Speaker 13: I just told Tom I was chasing on me bins
Speaker 13: stick on the street.
Speaker 7: They lost the wind just picked them up and.
Speaker 2: Your counsel bins, the rubbish bins are gone flying, have
Speaker 2: they yeah? Okay? Were they four?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 15: One of them was.
Speaker 2: So there's rubbish all down the road, is there?
Speaker 16: Oh?
Speaker 12: I'm just I've just been out there with a sweeper
Speaker 12: and what's that moon to.
Speaker 7: Pick it all up?
Speaker 2: Good on you, Tony, Good on you for picking up
Speaker 2: your rubbish or the wind beneath the rubbish. If you're
Speaker 2: wondering why I'm playing a bit middler win beneath my wings.
Speaker 2: It's funny how nicknames come about. In high school, I
Speaker 2: had quite a few nicknames, you know what. One of
Speaker 2: them was Bit. One of my nicknames was Bit. Do
Speaker 2: you know why? I'll tell you next seven three It
Speaker 2: is called A four. We've been in contact with New
Speaker 2: South Wales Police about this leaning crane that's in Carlingford
Speaker 2: penne Hills Road. They tell us they're on their way
Speaker 2: right at the moment, and it's clearly this is because
Speaker 2: of the gusty winds right across Sydney at the moment.
Speaker 2: So it's near Shirley Street, penne Hills Road. I'm looking
Speaker 2: at some vision at the moment courtesy of the Channel
Speaker 2: nine helicopter. So it's at a major Merriton apartment's construction site.
Speaker 2: And this construction site it's only in the relatively early
Speaker 2: stages of buildings, so they're working on the underground sections
Speaker 2: the foundations and the underground car parking of this particular building.
Speaker 2: And there's a whole series of tower cranes there at
Speaker 2: the site that b probably four of them I can see,
Speaker 2: and one of them, and I suspect it's probably looks
Speaker 2: about forty to fifty meters high. The main tower part
Speaker 2: of the crane is leaning back. It's been pushed back
Speaker 2: maybe fifteen degrees or so. Maria is in Carlingford.
Speaker 17: Hello, Maria, Hello, I've just left Carlingford. I was going
Speaker 17: down Pennett Hills Road when I saw the police putting
Speaker 17: the games across Pennet Hills Road and I thought, oh,
Speaker 17: it's peak our traffic here.
Speaker 18: It's going to be chaos.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and they're going to heap to keep that section
Speaker 2: of the road closed for some time. I think.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 17: There was like numerous police cars stopping all over Pennett
Speaker 17: Hills Road and I thought, thank god, I.
Speaker 13: Would be stuck.
Speaker 2: Lucky you, Maria, thank you. Yes, I'm looking at more
Speaker 2: vision now. So they're closing that part of Pennett Hills
Speaker 2: Road off. This is Carlingford near Shirley Street. There are
Speaker 2: I can see three fire trucks there at the moment.
Speaker 2: The scene The police are on the scene now directing
Speaker 2: traffic at the set of lights away from this scene
Speaker 2: because at that intersections where this Meriton massive Meriton construction
Speaker 2: site is with at least four of these cranes. Now
Speaker 2: three of the cranes look fine, Three of the cranes
Speaker 2: look fine, and the lean on the tower of this
Speaker 2: particular crane I'd estimate maybe fifteen degrees. So they'll be
Speaker 2: be bringing crews in there desperately to secure that as possible,
Speaker 2: but obviously that they'll need to prevent it from falling,
Speaker 2: and that's why there is certainly no cars being permitted
Speaker 2: to travel down that road at the moment until six.
Speaker 4: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 4: call now one three one seven three.
Speaker 2: Last week in the program, we're following closely the plight
Speaker 2: of the five state government staff members who are being
Speaker 2: threatened with arrest because they wouldn't give evidence to an
Speaker 2: Upper House committee that's investigating the circumstances surrounding the caravan
Speaker 2: discovered in Dural with explosives. Well Ben broke the news
Speaker 2: this morning that they now have agreed to appear before
Speaker 2: this inquiry on Friday, so that'll be Friday morning. The
Speaker 2: three staff members of chris Min's and two of Asman Cantley,
Speaker 2: the Police Minister, will give evidence and will be questioned.
Speaker 2: So they had been threatened with arrest and how that
Speaker 2: was going to transpire most confusing Ben Franklin, the head
Speaker 2: of the Upper House, the President was seeking legal advice
Speaker 2: because this has never happened before in New South Wales politics. Well,
Speaker 2: the Premier today has spoken about it and he says
Speaker 2: their potential arrest and the threat to arrest is potentially
Speaker 2: a dangerous precedent. He says this could be in fact
Speaker 2: a dangerous move for what may transpire in the future
Speaker 2: for Upper House inquiries.
Speaker 19: Effectively, they're unleashing the extraordinary powers of police or the
Speaker 19: courts or the judiciary in the service of a star chamber,
Speaker 19: in the service of what would be close to.
Speaker 2: A kangaroo court. Chrismans the Premier, so that includes the
Speaker 2: closest advisor of Chrismians. His chief of staff is senior
Speaker 2: communications advisor as well. They will give evidence on Friday morning.
Speaker 2: Seven three. We are talking about supermarkets after Choice released
Speaker 2: their now regular three monthly update on prices and it
Speaker 2: does find that coals and woos beginning to catch up
Speaker 2: to Aldi, but Aldi is still the cheapest. Ashley de
Speaker 2: Silver is the CEO of choice. Thank you for joining us, Ashley.
Speaker 2: Thanks Clinton, you are now regularly doing this, so on
Speaker 2: behalf of the government every three months. Again you found
Speaker 2: Audi is the cheapest.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 14: So yeah, this is the start of year two for us,
Speaker 14: but consistent with the first year, Aldi's the cheapest basket
Speaker 14: whether you look at that wind specials or without. But
Speaker 14: as you said, the gap between Woolworths and Coals and
Speaker 14: Aldi is as much more narrow this time around.
Speaker 2: Fifty five dollars thirty five for the basket of goods
Speaker 2: at Aldi fifty eight ninety two at Wooers. When you're
Speaker 2: comparing groceries, are you comparing the Aldi home brands with
Speaker 2: the mainstream brands that the other supermarkets are selling.
Speaker 14: In some instances we are. So what we do is
Speaker 14: we kind of focus more on is the product that
Speaker 14: we're comparing like for like and comparable. So in some
Speaker 14: instances we're able to buy a house like a national
Speaker 14: brand that even Aldi stocks. So chocolate drinking chocolate's a
Speaker 14: good example of that. We bought the same one at
Speaker 14: all Stawes. But in some instances, you know, because we're
Speaker 14: shopping at Aldie and IgA, not all stores have the
Speaker 14: same stuff. And when that happens, what we look for
Speaker 14: is what's comparable, and we look at things like the
Speaker 14: size of the product, the country of origin, sometimes even
Speaker 14: the nutritional information. In some cases that is another house
Speaker 14: brand product, but sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2: Why do you think it is the fact based on
Speaker 2: these statistics that wool works in particular, but Coles and
Speaker 2: Woos are catching up to Aldie or narrowing the gap.
Speaker 14: Well, it's a different basket. So we ran with the
Speaker 14: same fourteen products for the first year, but as we
Speaker 14: move into a second year, we wanted to reflect some
Speaker 14: of the feedback that shop has had, which was a
Speaker 14: more for us to focus more on some of the
Speaker 14: fresh fruit and produce, which we've done with this basket
Speaker 14: in quite a different way.
Speaker 1: Of the first year.
Speaker 14: So what we've got, we've still got. We're still shopping
Speaker 14: at one hundred and fourth stores. We're still shopping for
Speaker 14: fourteen items, but half of the basket will continue to
Speaker 14: shop that same half all of this year, but the
Speaker 14: other half will mix up and change.
Speaker 1: To think each season, I.
Speaker 2: Look at the IDA figures, it's sixty nine dollars sixty four.
Speaker 2: It's it's a long way off any of their three competitors.
Speaker 2: Is that simply because they have a very different business
Speaker 2: model in the fact that their independent retailers under a
Speaker 2: one buying group umbrella.
Speaker 14: Yeah, and we do focus on the fact that IDA
Speaker 14: is quite different business model, as you say, independently franchised,
Speaker 14: which means that there's more variation in the product ranges,
Speaker 14: pricing and even store formats. Though we have worked with
Speaker 14: ij to make sure that where we can, we're shopping
Speaker 14: at stores that are more comparable in terms of their
Speaker 14: size and range to things.
Speaker 1: Regality will worse and coals.
Speaker 2: You know, I've as many of our listeners will have
Speaker 2: then spent some time in the UK and you look
Speaker 2: at the different supermarkets and the major change they have
Speaker 2: bigger population of course, but to me it seems pretty
Speaker 2: clear that until we have a really strong third major player,
Speaker 2: we're going to continue to battle this issue.
Speaker 14: Well, I think that that's that's true. You know, more
Speaker 14: competition obviously to your point around you know, potentially better
Speaker 14: outcomes for consumers. And it's interesting, you know Aldie's price
Speaker 14: proposition you know, and how consistently they're pricing and able
Speaker 14: to offer something different. But each model is different, right,
Speaker 14: Coals and Woolies offer services at Aldie don't. Convenience is
Speaker 14: still huge for people, so we often hear people saying, well,
Speaker 14: that's good that they're cheaper, but actually I want either
Speaker 14: national brands or I want these other services and I
Speaker 14: can't get that at Aldi. So I think there's no
Speaker 14: one version of a supermarket that fits everyone, but more offering,
Speaker 14: more variety is a good thing.
Speaker 2: Thanks for the information, Ashley, Thanks Linton Ashley de Silver,
Speaker 2: who's the CEO of choice. I've got so much feedback
Speaker 2: on this particular issue. Steve on the text line says
Speaker 2: IgA doesn't sit out to compete on price. They pitch
Speaker 2: their prices to capture as much of the casual customer
Speaker 2: as much as the casual customer can tolerate. And certainly
Speaker 2: the way their stores are set up is very different
Speaker 2: to the mainstream supermarkets. Anthony on the text line says
Speaker 2: Coals and Woolies are slipping in a lot more home
Speaker 2: brands that don't look like home brands. That's right, they're
Speaker 2: fairly clever with their labeling these days. Seven three. If
Speaker 2: you want to have your say on this. I'm still
Speaker 2: getting messages as well about tomatoes and the fact that tomatoes.
Speaker 2: Despite the fact that the ABS is today found that
Speaker 2: inflation is coming down because fruit prices are coming down,
Speaker 2: tomatoes are bucking that trend. Well. Annie makes a great point.
Speaker 2: Tomatoes are expensive because they're not in season. We aren't
Speaker 2: meant to eat fresh tomatoes in winter. That's a fair point. Annie,
Speaker 2: and I think we've become accustomed to eating fresh fruit
Speaker 2: all year round, and then therefore we do end up
Speaker 2: paying the price. In regards to cherry tomatoes appearing cheaper,
Speaker 2: have a look at the price per kilogram in comparison.
Speaker 2: You'll find it's maybe similar, maybe even more expensive than
Speaker 2: truss and roma tomatoes. If you'd like to have your
Speaker 2: say one three one eight seven three four to four.
Speaker 2: Traffic is now a nightmare Pennant Hills Road, Carlingford because
Speaker 2: cruiser on the scene and they've had to block off
Speaker 2: part of Pennant Hills Road near Cumberland Highway and also
Speaker 2: Shirley Street because there is a crane that is tipping
Speaker 2: in the wind.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 2: Emergency services are there on the scene trying to secure
Speaker 2: this crane. It's at the Meriton site. The main tower
Speaker 2: of the crane, the vertical tower is leaning back. It
Speaker 2: looks to me about fifteen degrees. Now there's a whole
Speaker 2: series of cranes. That's a really big construction site. The
Speaker 2: other three cranes there look fine, but this crane in
Speaker 2: the middle is the one that is tipping, that is
Speaker 2: now causing major problems on the roads. We will talk
Speaker 2: to Adam Dewbrey from Fine and Rescue New South Wales
Speaker 2: after four he will be on the scene. Lots of
Speaker 2: text messages here about supermarket prices, if you'd like to
Speaker 2: send me a message zero four six zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight to seven three. Elizabeth says, I actually stopped
Speaker 2: shopping at Coals years ago. I switched most of my
Speaker 2: shopping to Aldi. Neil makes a great point here. There
Speaker 2: is a certain type of biscuit, it's a digestive. I
Speaker 2: get it from my local Asian supermarket. The normal price
Speaker 2: is a dollar eighty. The same brand was on special
Speaker 2: at Coal's for two dollars a packet. The normal price,
Speaker 2: according to Coals was three dollars fifty. If the Asian
Speaker 2: supermarket can sell them for that price, and make a profit.
Speaker 2: It shows how much profit the big supermarkets are actually
Speaker 2: making at the moment. Great point. If you see something
Speaker 2: around Sydney that we need to know about, that's a
Speaker 2: word on the street. You can email me to gb
Speaker 2: dot com if you'd like to investigate us to investigate
Speaker 2: an issue for you, or if you would like to
Speaker 2: tip us off to something, send me a text message
Speaker 2: zero for six zero eight seven three eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Word on the street is thanks to Temper, a great
Speaker 2: night's sleep night after night. The difference is Temper. And
Speaker 2: I brought you the news yesterday that there'll be a
Speaker 2: meeting of Westmead Hospital staff on Thursday night. This is
Speaker 2: going to be a meeting led by senior specialists, including gastroentrologists.
Speaker 2: They are so alarmed about the state of resourcing, the
Speaker 2: state of staffing at Westmead Hospital. They believe it's now
Speaker 2: the time to have a vote of no confidence in
Speaker 2: the CEO, in the boss of Westmead Hospital, which is
Speaker 2: a big step to take. I've now been sent some
Speaker 2: further information about more problems at Westmead Hospital. It's my
Speaker 2: understanding and we are seeking clarification that as many as
Speaker 2: ten interventional radiologists have resigned in just the last week now.
Speaker 2: These are essential specialists in a hospital. Very difficult called
Speaker 2: to run your hospital without the right number of radiologists.
Speaker 2: They are needed. But my information is that ten have
Speaker 2: resigned in just the last week now. We're seeking official
Speaker 2: clarification from the local area Health District. But given there's
Speaker 2: going to be a vote of no confidence tomorrow night
Speaker 2: at Westmead Hospital, it just adds to the issues that
Speaker 2: are being suffered at that hospital.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on TGB
Speaker 4: cong Now one three one, page seven three.
Speaker 2: A little earlier, I had an odd nickname in high school.
Speaker 2: Some friends of mine started calling me Bet. Started in
Speaker 2: about year eight when I was in school. I couldn't
Speaker 2: figure out why. Apparently I looked like Bette Midler. Growing
Speaker 2: up as a teenage boy, I resembled Bette Midler. I
Speaker 2: had very curly hair, very long, curly hair, and it
Speaker 2: was quite high, a little bit like Kramer, which would
Speaker 2: have been a better nickname than they thought. Now you
Speaker 2: look like Bette Midler's that was nickname in high school.
Speaker 2: Bit coming up after the news will cross to Callingford
Speaker 2: with the latest on the crane.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney now with Clinton on to GMB.
Speaker 2: It is a very windy and busy afternoon across Sydney.
Speaker 2: When you see something around our city, let me know
Speaker 2: about it. One three one eight seven three And Simon
Speaker 2: has come across a big drama on the spit. Simon,
Speaker 2: what have you found?
Speaker 20: Good day, Clinton. Yeah, I was just driving up the
Speaker 20: skid hill and there was a semi trailer taking up
Speaker 20: two lanes, that was walking two lanes just at the
Speaker 20: second turn, heading towards the heading towards the city.
Speaker 2: Gee, that's going to be a night around and that's.
Speaker 20: Going to be a nightmare.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, okay, And once a semi trailers broken down,
Speaker 2: it takes a long time to get them moving again.
Speaker 11: That's right.
Speaker 20: The old mate drive of a pretty upset. I think
Speaker 20: he might have been. He was laying out all these reflectors.
Speaker 20: So morning, everybody coming around the hill up there.
Speaker 2: Thanks for letting us know about that. So please avoid
Speaker 2: the spit for the next couple of hours if you can.
Speaker 2: We'll bring more details in our traffic reports throughout the afternoon.
Speaker 2: Rick think if your message, Ri's just letting me know
Speaker 2: Heathcote Road. So This is between the Lucas Heights area
Speaker 2: and Heathcote, about a k before you get to new
Speaker 2: Elaworra Road. Okay, eastbound, there is a cover that's fallen off,
Speaker 2: a ute torn o cover, a tarp. It is sitting
Speaker 2: on the fast lane of one of the lanes eastbounds.
Speaker 2: So that is going to cause some problems if you
Speaker 2: run over the top of it, so steer clear of that.
Speaker 2: Some good news about Heathcaree Road. It's closed every night
Speaker 2: at the moment for critical upgrades. The service New South
Speaker 2: Wales Transport new SO officials confirmed to us this morning
Speaker 2: they're going to keep it open this weekend. You know,
Speaker 2: usually Heathcote Road is completely closed across the weekend. It
Speaker 2: will be open this weekend.
Speaker 1: Sitting now on t G.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's go straight out to Carlingford where there is
Speaker 2: a crane at a Meriton construction site on Pennant Hills
Speaker 2: Road that has been threatening to topple over the last
Speaker 2: hour or so. Adam Duberry is now on the scene
Speaker 2: from Fine and Rest in New South Wales. Adam, can
Speaker 2: you see the crane?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I can. Clinton does have a bit of a
Speaker 11: lien on the precarious lien, so there is a concern
Speaker 11: that this could collapse. Kenned Hills Road is closed in
Speaker 11: both directions because his crane could topple either way, so
Speaker 11: massive impacts, so people avoid the area if possible. We're
Speaker 11: also initiated evacuations down off Pennet Hills rate at the
Speaker 11: rear around Shirley, some residential apartments and some retail outlets
Speaker 11: as well. But we've got a number of fire rescue
Speaker 11: resources here, rescue trucks, technical rescue trucks will have specialists here.
Speaker 11: We're also being supported by ployee Highlight Patrol Command who
Speaker 11: are also working. The traffic ambulance are on standby. So
Speaker 11: it's a pretty big operation. Although stable at the moment.
Speaker 11: We've got no injuries reported, but this crane, but these
Speaker 11: winds that is gusting pretty high up here, could come down.
Speaker 11: I believe a couple of the anchor bolts have failed,
Speaker 11: which has helped to cause this crane to lean in
Speaker 11: a precarious position.
Speaker 2: I'm having a look at some pictures right now. The crane,
Speaker 2: so it's probably about forty meters high and it's the
Speaker 2: main vertical part of the crane which is just leaning
Speaker 2: back probably about fifteen degrees or so, I'd say.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right. It's one of those residential construction crane
Speaker 11: you see all over Sydney. It's like a teepeece so
Speaker 11: it's got the counterweight at one end and it's got
Speaker 11: the front boom where the layer gets lifted and it
Speaker 11: is leaning towards the rear where that counterweight is. But
Speaker 11: look the situation stable. Unfortunately, Pennant Pills Rate has to
Speaker 11: be closed to the safety of the motorists and evacuations
Speaker 11: occurring in and around the local area. So no injuries,
Speaker 11: but unfortunately it's going to be very inconvenient for a
Speaker 11: lot of motorist this afternoon and the residents that have
Speaker 11: been evacuated as well.
Speaker 2: Thank you for the information, Adam. We'll check back in
Speaker 2: later in the program for the latest. Superintendent Adam Deubrey
Speaker 2: from Fire and Risking New South Wales. So just repuating.
Speaker 2: Bills Road is actually closed completely both directions, just near
Speaker 2: Shirley Street. This is also aundy of the Cumberland Highway,
Speaker 2: so the intersection with the Cumberland Highway is really busy
Speaker 2: at the moment and it's going to be closed for
Speaker 2: some time because it's going to take a while to
Speaker 2: ensure this crane is secure. They are working there at
Speaker 2: the moment. It seems that some of those anchor bolts though,
Speaker 2: have come loose with this particular crane. There are four
Speaker 2: cranes on the construction site. It's a huge construction site.
Speaker 2: It's a big merriton site and they're only at the
Speaker 2: early stages of the development, so they've been working. It
Speaker 2: looks like they're working on the underground car parking areas
Speaker 2: of what will do this huge residential development on Pennell
Speaker 2: Hills Road. So it's going to take a little bit
Speaker 2: of time to secure the crane. That'll mean that Pennehills
Speaker 2: Road will be shut for a few hours. The wind
Speaker 2: is causing damage right across the state. The SEES so
Speaker 2: far is responded to more than six hundred calls for help.
Speaker 2: There've been businesses that have been damaged, homes, schools as well,
Speaker 2: mostly fallen trees and power lines. So so far in
Speaker 2: Sydney about ninety calls for help. The illawar on the
Speaker 2: south coast is where most of the damage is being recorded.
Speaker 2: The SEES respond to three hundred and eighty four calls
Speaker 2: for help.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 21: If it's happening in your city, you'll hear it on
Speaker 21: Sydney Now to GenB Well.
Speaker 2: Over the past few hours, the cease far in the
Speaker 2: Middle East appears to be holding, which is good news,
Speaker 2: but there's going to be an ongoing concern about even
Speaker 2: if there is peace in the Middle East that has
Speaker 2: brought over the coming weeks, even if tensions do start
Speaker 2: to ease in the Middle East, I think there is
Speaker 2: going to be deep concern about what the effect is
Speaker 2: going to be on potential terrorism around the world. It's
Speaker 2: been revealed today that Sydney commuters are going to be
Speaker 2: urged to report any signs of terrorism on our train network,
Speaker 2: and this is a campaign that is backed by the
Speaker 2: federal government. The Home Affairsman is to Tony Burke has
Speaker 2: lent his support to a Transport for the New South
Speaker 2: Wales campaign that's going to be rolled out on trains
Speaker 2: in particular, which is going to boost awareness of terrorism
Speaker 2: and foreign interference. There will be announcements on public transport
Speaker 2: for the next few months that will point commune to
Speaker 2: the National Security Hotline. Sort of reminds me of the
Speaker 2: days when John Howard was Prime Minister be alert but
Speaker 2: not alarmed. I want to talk to Michael Schubridge about this.
Speaker 2: Michael Schubridge is from Tastegic Analysis Australia. He is an
Speaker 2: expert on these issues and joins us KA.
Speaker 13: Michael, Hey, Clinton, how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm good. Just firstly, broadly, given that we do have
Speaker 2: appears the early stages of a ceasefire, should we be
Speaker 2: concerned that there could still be terrorist acts around the
Speaker 2: world and in our country? Well?
Speaker 13: Absolutely, and I think the government, the federal government knows
Speaker 13: that that's the case. And remember, yes, this looks like
Speaker 13: a shaky ceasefire that's holding between Israel and Iran, but
Speaker 13: the conflict in data is still going on. And also
Speaker 13: the ripples from the hostilities we've just seen are still
Speaker 13: bouncing all over the planet.
Speaker 2: So the announcement that's main made today that there'll be
Speaker 2: a campaign on on Sydney's transport network where passengers will
Speaker 2: be urged to report anything to the National Security hotline.
Speaker 2: Is that an overreaction or is that wise?
Speaker 13: Well? I think it's wise because we know that war
Speaker 13: creates a whole lot of tensions and angst and grievance,
Speaker 13: and so many Australians have views about what's happening in
Speaker 13: the Middle East and what has just happened, and it's
Speaker 13: brought in a whole bunch of different people, the Iranian
Speaker 13: diaspora in our society. We already knew how much community
Speaker 13: anger there was about the conflict around Israel and Gaza,
Speaker 13: so this adds more grievance and anger into that. The
Speaker 13: odd thing here, though, is why is it a good
Speaker 13: idea to tell Australians who happen to be on Sydney trains,
Speaker 13: but it's not a good idea to tell any of
Speaker 13: the rest of us.
Speaker 2: It's a very fair point now, given that Tony Burke,
Speaker 2: the Home Affairs Minister, the federal Home Affairs Minister, is
Speaker 2: supporting this transport from your Southwest campaign, think you'd be
Speaker 2: speaking to the authorities in Melbourne, Queensland or Wa.
Speaker 13: Well, how about the whole country? How about hearing something
Speaker 13: from the Prime Minister and the Home Affairs Minister. Nothing
Speaker 13: particularly alarming, you know, I think your John Howard of
Speaker 13: reference was pretty much spot on. But just look, we
Speaker 13: know there's been a lot of community tens in and
Speaker 13: anger already because of the conflict in.
Speaker 11: The Middle East.
Speaker 13: The fact that the US has just done some pretty
Speaker 13: intense military action with the bombing, plus the Israeli Iranian
Speaker 13: exchange of missiles and casualties on both sides, we know
Speaker 13: that will have disturbed different parts of our community. They
Speaker 13: could call for calm and cohesion, but say, if you
Speaker 13: see something, report.
Speaker 2: It and providing even a small amount of information, that
Speaker 2: you're sitting on a train, you're going home from your
Speaker 2: office and you're spot something suspicious, just providing a little
Speaker 2: piece of information can be critical, can't it?
Speaker 13: Absolutely? And that's why if you take time to look
Speaker 13: at the government websites, it explains this stuff. But people
Speaker 13: aren't spending their time looking at obscure government websites. They
Speaker 13: need to hear simple, clear information from our government authorities.
Speaker 2: Do you think even though Iran is going to be
Speaker 2: weakened substantially by the military action that's taken place and
Speaker 2: to varying degrees, do you think terrorist cells around the
Speaker 2: world that may well have been funded by the Iranians
Speaker 2: over recent times, will it also go to those cells
Speaker 2: being weakened, those organizations being weakened.
Speaker 13: Well, I think Iran's capacity to fund all of its
Speaker 13: global network is reduced because they're trying to they're probably
Speaker 13: already struggling to fund Homas and has Bolla closer to home.
Speaker 13: So yes, but remember everythm is as much now about
Speaker 13: some individual looking at all this stuff online and making
Speaker 13: their own decisions. They're sort of encouraged by the environment,
Speaker 13: but they don't have to be directed by the Iranians
Speaker 13: or has polar yep.
Speaker 2: And the way information moves around the world in these
Speaker 2: circles is very different to what it was twenty years ago,
Speaker 2: and that the days of nine to eleven. Thank you
Speaker 2: if your information and you're inside, Michael, Thanks very much.
Speaker 2: Michael Schubridge, who is the Director of Strategic Analysis Australia.
Speaker 2: He's an expert in this issue. So you may well
Speaker 2: be traveling on Sydney trains and buses in the next
Speaker 2: couple of weeks and you may hear an announcement, you
Speaker 2: may see a poster a sign saying if you see something,
Speaker 2: let the National Security Hotline know. Now I've got a
Speaker 2: few messages here about the position of Anthony Albernezi and
Speaker 2: Michael's making the point there that why isn't the Prime
Speaker 2: Minister out here on the front foot not just directing
Speaker 2: a message through Tony Burke to New South Wales commuters.
Speaker 2: But why isn't the PM out there saying we need
Speaker 2: you to all help us. Richard makes the point once
Speaker 2: again Anthony Alberizi is missing an action. We don't know
Speaker 2: where he is, don't know what he's doing, but the
Speaker 2: rest of us are just struggling to get by. Well.
Speaker 2: He has made some comments today. We've had news that
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighteen Australians now have been flown out
Speaker 2: of Israel, and there are some Australians also still stuck
Speaker 2: in Iran. They'll have to wait longer to get help.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister has spoken about this today and he
Speaker 2: says the Australian government's doing what it can.
Speaker 22: The situation is obviously very volatile there. Our hope is
Speaker 22: that Australians are kept safe. So at the moment there
Speaker 22: are of course not flights out of Iran. We will
Speaker 22: always prioritize the safety of Australians.
Speaker 2: But the prime is it does seem to take a
Speaker 2: few days before commenting on issues like this.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 21: If it's happening in your city, you'll hear it on
Speaker 21: Sydney now to.
Speaker 2: Gb Lucy Zelich is our strength shooter for a Wednesday afternoon.
Speaker 2: She's coming up and we're going to talk about the
Speaker 2: address that Susan Lee has made to the National Press
Speaker 2: Club today.
Speaker 23: Let's be honest and upfront about last month's selection. We
Speaker 23: didn't just lose, we got smashed, totally smashed.
Speaker 1: What we as the.
Speaker 23: Liberal Party presented to the Australian people was comprehensive, Lee.
Speaker 2: Rejected Susan Lee. Lucy's Elis was one of the few
Speaker 2: to actually watch the speech in full. She'll provide some
Speaker 2: analysis later this hour twenty two past four, a man
Speaker 2: remains in hospital. He is critical in Royal North Shore
Speaker 2: after an accident on an ET scooter. The man was
Speaker 2: riding along May Road d why and this was last
Speaker 2: night and he fell off the east scooter it appears,
Speaker 2: and police are still looking at the exact circumstances around
Speaker 2: what happened. It appears he hit a pothole and he
Speaker 2: was at speed. Now I should just point out these scooters,
Speaker 2: as the law stands right now, are illegal to use
Speaker 2: on roads. These scooters, as the law stands right now,
Speaker 2: are illegal to use on foot paths. The state government's
Speaker 2: indicated they are looking to change the rules. But I'm
Speaker 2: not defending having potholes in the roads. You know how
Speaker 2: I feel about that. It would appear, and this is
Speaker 2: also subject to this investigation. The man was doing something
Speaker 2: illegal writing his ees scooter at night may do white. Nevertheless,
Speaker 2: he's in hospital at the moment and hopefully he's going
Speaker 2: to be okay. He's in a critical condition. About sixty
Speaker 2: odd as well, was enjoying the ride in the est scooter.
Speaker 2: But it appears that he was thrown off the estcooter
Speaker 2: and landed very heavily on the motorway.
Speaker 1: Sydney.
Speaker 2: Now onto GV Okay, we've been talking about supermarkets and
Speaker 2: also the inflation figures that have been released today that
Speaker 2: shows inflations now to at a slowest level since November
Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and it's likely to lead to the
Speaker 2: Reserve Bank cutting interest rates probably next month. Evan says,
Speaker 2: you're still banging on against about interest rates again, Clinton,
Speaker 2: but a tub of butter costs almost eight dollars. Inflation
Speaker 2: is still rampant. It seems to be selective, doesn't it. Evan. Now,
Speaker 2: I think it's important to talk about interest rates because
Speaker 2: it affects so much of us, And yes, it also
Speaker 2: affects people who are living on their investments and their
Speaker 2: retirement savings. But a lot of people are also paying mortgages.
Speaker 2: And even if you're not paying a mortgage, it has
Speaker 2: a flow and effect through small business, medium sized businesses,
Speaker 2: and big businesses. What they're paying, and we end up
Speaker 2: paying for it through what we buy at the supermarket,
Speaker 2: what we buy in shops, what we pay for services.
Speaker 2: That's why it's important. But you're right, the cost of butter.
Speaker 2: I've noticed butter butter has been increasing quite dramatically in
Speaker 2: recent times, Chris says about colds and wo Wars and
Speaker 2: the fact that the latest choice information shows that the
Speaker 2: gap between the prices you pay at Aldi, Coles and
Speaker 2: Woos is actually narrowing. Chris makes the point just remember
Speaker 2: you're most likely a shareholder of Coals and Wars through
Speaker 2: your superinnuation. But then if you go to Aldi, you're
Speaker 2: taking your money off shore, So why support them? Sao
Speaker 2: calling us about supermarkets? Hello, sal Yeah, Hi.
Speaker 16: Clinton, love your program and I like the way you
Speaker 16: You're very professional, the way you do it. One quick,
Speaker 16: one Macona coffee. I think it's about four hundred grams.
Speaker 24: It's the large jar for quite a while.
Speaker 16: Aldi has had it for nineteen forty nine wooes and
Speaker 16: Cole's thirty two dollars.
Speaker 2: That bigger difference, That bigger difference.
Speaker 16: I'll keep looking at that any time I go to Cole's,
Speaker 16: Not that it's very often, but they've got a couple
Speaker 16: of products that I'd rather get there because Aldi haven't
Speaker 16: got it.
Speaker 11: But that much difference.
Speaker 16: All the time Aldi's got at their shop and I
Speaker 16: haven't got shares in Aldi, by the way.
Speaker 19: But.
Speaker 1: It is.
Speaker 2: It's the same mcona coffee.
Speaker 16: Exactly the same coffee, the same jar, the same love labeling.
Speaker 16: It's in a glass jar.
Speaker 20: It's the biggest one they make actually for.
Speaker 25: Domestic purposes.
Speaker 2: Goodness, I don't drink coffee. Sow well. The information that's
Speaker 2: been released by the ABS to that inflation shows one
Speaker 2: of the items that is going up dramatically and has
Speaker 2: done in the past year is actually coffee, coffee, coco
Speaker 2: and also tea. So so thanks for letting me know
Speaker 2: about that. But what the AVS has found doesn't explain
Speaker 2: the difference between the prices you paid Aldi and the
Speaker 2: prices you pay Cole's or Woolies. Okay. Tomorrow morning, nine o'clock,
Speaker 2: tickets go on sale for the ac DC concert in Sydney. Now,
Speaker 2: there may well be a second concert, but given the
Speaker 2: age of the members ac DC, it can't be assured.
Speaker 2: I think there will be. I think they'll only play two.
Speaker 2: So if you want to go along to the ACDC concept,
Speaker 2: you're going to need to get onto the ticket tech
Speaker 2: website tomorrow. The ticket prices start one hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: two dollars forty five for B reserve seating, so very
Speaker 2: high in a core stadium. The best tickets you can
Speaker 2: buy the ultimate A reserve is four hundred and seven
Speaker 2: seventy that's a seated position as well, if you want
Speaker 2: to stand up, and if you want to stand up
Speaker 2: near the front, three hundred and five dollars seventy five. Now,
Speaker 2: ticket Tech has made some warnings about what you need
Speaker 2: to do to be ready for tomorrow. Firstly, make sure
Speaker 2: you've got a ticketech account. So if you haven't brought
Speaker 2: through ticketech before and you want tickets to this event,
Speaker 2: sign up to ticketech tonight because it will be a
Speaker 2: nightmare to try to do it tomorrow morning. They suggest
Speaker 2: using the ticketech app. But also they they say you
Speaker 2: need to take some care with your your VPN. If
Speaker 2: you use what's called a virtual private network at home
Speaker 2: or an IP masking tool, you've got to disable that.
Speaker 2: And the reason you need to disable your VPN if
Speaker 2: you use one to access the Internet is because they
Speaker 2: have bot detection equipment and they simply won't allow you
Speaker 2: to get in the queue because they may fear you're
Speaker 2: a robot. And this is the way sales of big
Speaker 2: events happen these days. There are robots out there controlled
Speaker 2: by criminal gangs who'll be buying up tickets to scalp
Speaker 2: them effectively. So disconnect your VPM. They recommend joining the
Speaker 2: ticketech lounge now. The Ticketech lounge will open one hour
Speaker 2: before the sale, so from eight o'clock tomorrow morning, they say,
Speaker 2: don't refresh or close your bows browser. So if you
Speaker 2: do manage to get in the queue tomorrow morning from
Speaker 2: nine o'clock and you're frustrated by how long it's taking,
Speaker 2: don't keep pressing refreshed. I know it's very tempting to
Speaker 2: do so, because if you do that, you then go
Speaker 2: to the back of the queue. They say, only use
Speaker 2: one device because they have this bot detection technology. So
Speaker 2: if you say, got four computers, don't try to log
Speaker 2: they're saying, don't try to log on a Ticketech all
Speaker 2: at the one time, because they'll be able to teck that.
Speaker 2: They say, avoid using multiple tabs. Keep your phone handy
Speaker 2: because there'll be a verification code once you get through
Speaker 2: to the front of the queue and be ready to
Speaker 2: check out with all your bank details or get your
Speaker 2: credit card details. How are you going to pay for
Speaker 2: your tickets? So that's from nine o'clock tomorrow morning. If
Speaker 2: you do want to, my advice is you're probably gonna
Speaker 2: and this is not sponsored by ticketech, but I know
Speaker 2: a lot of you are very keen for the ac
Speaker 2: DC tickets tomorrow. Download the ticket tech website app to
Speaker 2: ap the app tonight or sign up to the account.
Speaker 2: Do that tonight and then tomorrow log on from eight
Speaker 2: o'clock because you can then take part in the Ticketech lounge.
Speaker 2: But that's going to give you the best chance of
Speaker 2: being towards the front of the queue for ac DC tomorrow.
Speaker 2: You couldn't have imagine paying as much ac DC as
Speaker 2: we have on the program this week. Maybe ten years ago,
Speaker 2: give US an Angus Young's seventy and lead singer Brian
Speaker 2: Johnson's seventy eight. I think it's now appropriate. John Stanley
Speaker 2: will be on air from eight o'clock to night. But
Speaker 2: he's just coming to the building and I've had to
Speaker 2: pass him the box of tissues because he's wiping tears
Speaker 2: away from his eyes. He's he's bawling this afternoon because
Speaker 2: news is just broken that the longest serving player from
Speaker 2: Saint Georgia, Laura Jack Debllen, he's going to quit the club.
Speaker 2: He's going to join Paramatta. He's joining Paramatta where Zach
Speaker 2: Lomax went as well. So I mean John's just worried
Speaker 2: about the rest of them now going to Paramatter as well.
Speaker 2: Because every second In George player doesn't want to play
Speaker 2: at the Dragons, it would seen once to go to
Speaker 2: the Eels. We'll have some more details when MG joins
Speaker 2: us after five point thirty. Let's check out news headlines
Speaker 2: and we walk late as Katie.
Speaker 9: Fourer, Good afternoon, Clinton. Pennett Hills Road is closed in
Speaker 9: both directions. At Cullingford U crane is leaning backwards and
Speaker 9: threatening to collapse in the wind. All emergency services are
Speaker 9: on set. A sixty two year old man has been
Speaker 9: attacked with a metal bat and stabbed in the leg
Speaker 9: in Sydney's West in what police say was a case
Speaker 9: of mistaken identity. Task Force falcon has charged a fifteen
Speaker 9: year old boy and twenty two year old man over
Speaker 9: the attack. At Guilford. Police have increased a reward to
Speaker 9: five hundred thousand dollars in the hope of finding the
Speaker 9: remains of Peter Falconio, the British backpacker was shot dead
Speaker 9: in the Northern Territory in two thousand and one. His killer,
Speaker 9: Bradley John Murdoch, is believed to be close to death
Speaker 9: and the NRL has launched the ninth annual Beanie for
Speaker 9: Brain Cats around raising awareness and funds for brain cancer research.
Speaker 9: In Sport, Goutgaut has announced himself on the world stage,
Speaker 9: setting a national record in the two hundred meters in
Speaker 9: his first professional meet in Europe. Clinton more news at
Speaker 9: five fak you Katie.
Speaker 2: Only fifteen degrees in the city. Now in Penrith it's
Speaker 2: under fifteen degree still very strong win right across the
Speaker 2: city and much as southern New South Wales as well,
Speaker 2: particularly around Wollongong. In the south coast. The wind should
Speaker 2: ease tonight, so it won't be too windy tomorrow. The
Speaker 2: biggest concern we have with the heavy wind is what
Speaker 2: is unfolding in Carlingford at the moment. So as you've
Speaker 2: heard there with Katie Pennant Hills Road near Shirley Street
Speaker 2: and also Cumberland Highway is closed in both directions. There's
Speaker 2: one of four cranes. It's at the Meriton construction site. There.
Speaker 2: There's a massive development, a massive unit development under construction.
Speaker 2: It's only in the early stages, but there are four
Speaker 2: cranes there. One of those cranes, the main vertical part
Speaker 2: of the crane there will be about forty fifty meters high,
Speaker 2: is leaning backwards. It's been pushed back in the wind.
Speaker 2: Now at the moment, the emergency services that are on
Speaker 2: the scene that they're fairly confident the crane is secure,
Speaker 2: but they're going to need to bring in some experts
Speaker 2: to make sure that crane does not tip over. And
Speaker 2: for that reason they've had to ensure that the traffic
Speaker 2: does not move through that region.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now onto GV.
Speaker 2: Now a little later in the program, we are going
Speaker 2: to spin two GB's and I'm looking forward to this.
Speaker 2: Don't call yet, We're gonna do it later because MG
Speaker 2: is going to spin the wheel today and we've got
Speaker 2: great prizes, including your chance to win two and a
Speaker 2: half thousand dollars. But I also have the go to
Speaker 2: Genter Genie Prize pack and this is fabulous because it
Speaker 2: also comes to two hundred and fifty dollars. But I've
Speaker 2: just been given a look at what's in the prize pack.
Speaker 2: It includes a Sonic Cleaner. Now, if you haven't come
Speaker 2: across a Sonic cleaner before, little device and if you've
Speaker 2: got say retainers, if you've got a mouthguard or dentures,
Speaker 2: you put the dentures in the Sonic Cleaner cleans them,
Speaker 2: sanitizes them really quickly. You can actually clean your jewelry
Speaker 2: Street Corner Chip for you. So if you can take
Speaker 2: you take a ring off or a necklace, you can
Speaker 2: actually put the ring in the Sonic Cleaner from Denti
Speaker 2: Genie cleans it for you. Now I've got I've only
Speaker 2: got one piece of jewelry. It's a ring. It is
Speaker 2: my wedding ring. It hasn't come off my finger in
Speaker 2: twenty years. You'll have to chop it off. So if
Speaker 2: I've ever headed for the divorce courts, Seriously, if I've
Speaker 2: got a divorce, I would have to have my finger amputated.
Speaker 2: But if the ring, it's pretty dirty, so you could
Speaker 2: clean it if they chop my finger off. Also in
Speaker 2: here this is fabulous. You've got the go to Denti
Speaker 2: Genie water flosser, so instead of using floss, the traditional
Speaker 2: string floss, you can use a water floss. So we're
Speaker 2: gonna spin the wheel a little later in the program
Speaker 2: when MG joins us. So after five point thirty, this
Speaker 2: is not your cue to Q to court yet. We've
Speaker 2: got a lot of money on the wheel today, but
Speaker 2: we do have our go to Genti Genie prize pack
Speaker 2: for your chance to win. Keep listening on Sydney Now
Speaker 2: you can't handle the true The straight Shooters Straight Shooter
Speaker 2: for a Wednesday afternoon is the fabulous Lucy Zelochello Lucy.
Speaker 26: Hello Clinton. I'm very intrigued by this very touching bit
Speaker 26: of information that you've never taken your ring off in
Speaker 26: twenty years.
Speaker 2: No, no, so, I'm I'm quite anti jewelry, so there's
Speaker 2: no I have a fit bit. That's the first watch
Speaker 2: I've worn in twenty odd years. I don't have any necklaces,
Speaker 2: don't have any ear rings anymore, don't have a belly ring,
Speaker 2: I don't have any other rings on my fingers. But
Speaker 2: when I got married, which is now twenty years ago, yes,
Speaker 2: I got the wedding ring and I've never taken it off,
Speaker 2: and it is I'm tugging it at now. It is
Speaker 2: impossible to take off now.
Speaker 26: So if I've got a bottle of olive oil out
Speaker 26: and it's splashed it across your finger, you don't think we.
Speaker 2: Could get that off, no way. So when I've had
Speaker 2: been in the hospital a couple of times, they just
Speaker 2: tape it up. They don't take it off. You can't
Speaker 2: get off. So and certain this is not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Love my wife very much. We're going on a cruise
Speaker 2: to mark our twentieth wedding.
Speaker 26: Adversis congratulations either way because it's worth commending that.
Speaker 2: Thank you Lucy Cass's work in the moment. So she's
Speaker 2: not listening, so I can say this. If we did
Speaker 2: get divorced and it's not going to happen, they'd have
Speaker 2: to chop my finger off. You could not be able
Speaker 2: to well, I guess you could cut through the ring
Speaker 2: with an angle grinder or something.
Speaker 26: You would you would clearly have other options before amputating
Speaker 26: the finger.
Speaker 2: I know a lot of men don't wear a wedding
Speaker 2: ring no, because it can you know, if you work
Speaker 2: in construction, for instance.
Speaker 26: Well my father that's how my father lost is not
Speaker 26: long after in fact.
Speaker 2: First and I'd never worn rings. Well, when I first
Speaker 2: got it, it was such a pain, like even doing something
Speaker 2: basically like mowing the lawn. I just felt it banging
Speaker 2: against the handle of the lawmar all the time when
Speaker 2: I was driving the car. You're changing the gears.
Speaker 26: Now, you'd be very used to it, right, It's.
Speaker 2: Just part of me now. But as I said, you'd
Speaker 2: have to chop my finger off now. Today you paid
Speaker 2: very close attention to Susan Lee's first ever address to
Speaker 2: the National Press Club as Liberal leader.
Speaker 26: I was really intrigued because I think we've all been
Speaker 26: waiting to hear from Susan in a more meaningful way.
Speaker 26: Of course, it's the first time that we've had a
Speaker 26: Liberal leader address the National Press Club since February twenty
Speaker 26: twenty two, which was the then Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Speaker 26: Who was under a lot of pressure at the time
Speaker 26: over the COVID vaccine mandates. In fact, that that very
Speaker 26: dress he had a whole host of anti vaccine mandate
Speaker 26: protest as swarming the building. He was having to field
Speaker 26: a lot of questions around his very disastrous decision to
Speaker 26: go to Hawaii during the bushfires, the rising cost of
Speaker 26: bills petrol as well, and then surely not long after
Speaker 26: he was voted out and Anthony Alberanze's Labor government was
Speaker 26: voted in. So I was very intrigued to hear what
Speaker 26: Susan had to say. Of course, the sentiments of defeat,
Speaker 26: I guess are very much sort of the same three
Speaker 26: years down the line within the Liberal Party because we've
Speaker 26: just come off this historic belting at the election, and
Speaker 26: Susan made it very clear in her speech that they
Speaker 26: recognized that they had been smashed, and we know that
Speaker 26: because of the figures, right. I thought her speech overall
Speaker 26: was very safe, and I know that a lot of
Speaker 26: people have reacted to it already and said that they
Speaker 26: felt very uninspired, and you know, particularly this issue of
Speaker 26: quotas and more women in Parliament. She acknowledged that that
Speaker 26: is something that they need to do more within the
Speaker 26: Liberal Party.
Speaker 2: Well, this is exactly what she had to say.
Speaker 23: If some state divisions choose to implement quotas, that's fine.
Speaker 23: If others don't, that's also fine. But what is not
Speaker 23: fine is not having enough women.
Speaker 2: So just to clarify that, she's not advocating, she's not
Speaker 2: saying there will be quotas, but she says if the
Speaker 2: states want quotas, that's okay. But if another state doesn't
Speaker 2: want quote as, that's okay. It's all okay.
Speaker 26: It just you know what I didn't like again, and
Speaker 26: it was very safe, and I think in these early
Speaker 26: stages of them committing to this review, which she referenced
Speaker 26: and spoke about in the aftermath of this historic loss,
Speaker 26: you know, she didn't come out as strongly on a
Speaker 26: lot of issues, of course, but it's the straddling of
Speaker 26: the fence in this instance. You know, you're saying that
Speaker 26: you need more women to come into the Liberal Party
Speaker 26: to solve this so called women problem. You want to
Speaker 26: see more women aspiring to be within the Liberal Party
Speaker 26: and to pursue a life in politics. But what are
Speaker 26: you going to do to address that?
Speaker 2: And I certainly.
Speaker 26: Don't know what the pathway is going forward. I don't
Speaker 26: have all the answers. I don't agree with quotas because
Speaker 26: I think it should be the best person for the
Speaker 26: job that we prioritize. To insinuate that the party lost
Speaker 26: of this election because they didn't have a woman as
Speaker 26: a leader, or because they didn't have more women within
Speaker 26: the Liberal Party, I think is very foolish.
Speaker 2: Was there anything within the speech that you thought, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I agree with that me a future direction of the
Speaker 2: Liberal Party?
Speaker 13: Hmm?
Speaker 1: Not really?
Speaker 26: Wow, if I'm being brutally honest, And again that's because
Speaker 26: she played it so safe. The thing that really stuck
Speaker 26: out to me the most, and I think is going
Speaker 26: to be a great source of tension between the Liberal
Speaker 26: Party and the Nationals themselves, is this issue of net
Speaker 26: zero because she did allude to it, she did reference it,
Speaker 26: and I think from based on her comments, it's sounding
Speaker 26: very much like she wants to stay committed to the
Speaker 26: net zero pathway, but we know the Nats don't want to.
Speaker 2: Now is not the time to play it safe. Reality is,
Speaker 2: the Liberals the Coalition have only got a tiny chance
Speaker 2: winning the next election. They're so far behind, So isn't
Speaker 2: now the time to actually take some risk as a party,
Speaker 2: try to make some noise. You mentioned inspire. We kept
Speaker 2: everyone kept commenting during the election campaign how all of
Speaker 2: our leaders were uninspiring. Isn't now the time to go,
Speaker 2: you know what, let's throw the rule book out and
Speaker 2: let's just be a bit out there.
Speaker 26: Absolutely, But as I said, to be fair to them,
Speaker 26: I think in the aftermath of this loss and the
Speaker 26: fact that they have committed to this inquiry, they have
Speaker 26: to first go through the post mortem analysis of what
Speaker 26: it is that they determined to be the greatest fault
Speaker 26: of the party and the campaign. You know, I've spoken
Speaker 26: to some big wigs within the party myself, you know,
Speaker 26: and they certainly had sentiments where they felt like everything
Speaker 26: was going well for Peter Dutton up until February, and
Speaker 26: they felt quite positively about how he was tracking in
Speaker 26: the polls. And when I sort of mentioned to them,
Speaker 26: you know, this idea of well, was it the working
Speaker 26: from home policy that seemed to be an issue for them,
Speaker 26: they didn't bite that. They didn't believe that, and some
Speaker 26: of them in fact even insinuated that they believe that
Speaker 26: Jane Hume was set up right, that that was all
Speaker 26: by design. And that was an intention to get her
Speaker 26: out internally. So there are still a lot of issues
Speaker 26: that are permeating within the Liberal Party. And it pains
Speaker 26: me to say it because I've been very transparent as always. Clinton.
Speaker 26: A lot of our regular listeners know that I've always
Speaker 26: been a big fan of the Liberal Party, always voted conservative,
Speaker 26: but this was the first time at this election that
Speaker 26: I didn't because a lot of people are feeling disenfranchised.
Speaker 26: We need more conviction.
Speaker 2: Susan Lee's speech, what do you think of it? Let
Speaker 2: us know and do you support quotas one three, one
Speaker 2: eight seven three. We are getting lots of messages about
Speaker 2: men and their wedding rings. We'll come to those next.
Speaker 2: Lucy's elich with me. Lucy's elich is with me one three,
Speaker 2: one eight seven three for straight shooters. Now, I'm getting
Speaker 2: quite a few messages here, Lucy about the wedding ring
Speaker 2: that hasn't come off my finger in twenty years. Patricia
Speaker 2: has an idea. They can cut the ring off, they
Speaker 2: can resize it and then clean it.
Speaker 26: Would you be interested in that, Clinton, Well.
Speaker 2: Look, it isn't looking all that flash these days.
Speaker 26: It could do with the Clanton I clean mine quite regularly.
Speaker 2: Well, that's why I want the DENTI Jennie Prize to
Speaker 2: go off, because I want to clean my ring. Noel says, here,
Speaker 2: have you thought about losing some weight Clinton to get
Speaker 2: the ring off?
Speaker 26: I think you're slim enough. Let's leave him alone.
Speaker 2: I've decided after the cruise, I am starting a proper diet.
Speaker 26: No then, what's going to be left of your Clinton?
Speaker 2: So much? It is starting after the cruise.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: Wally watched Susan Lee's address. Hello, Wally, Yes, Lucy, how
Speaker 2: are you good.
Speaker 27: I had the opportunity need to be at National Press
Speaker 27: Con today and I thought her speech and the way
Speaker 27: she presented was aspiring something that would have but I
Speaker 27: think it was good to have a female leader being
Speaker 27: little party there and she talked about lot of I think,
Speaker 27: apart from the summer things about Zerah and I think
Speaker 27: the issues about women's but women are faced with domestic.
Speaker 24: Violence, how women work in the.
Speaker 27: Workplace, the issues about that women face every day came
Speaker 27: across quite well. And the women that were on my
Speaker 27: table as she clapped, and I thought that was a
Speaker 27: good indication that obviously it's resignating. Now, how that goes
Speaker 27: to social media. How does go with Maine media. I'm
Speaker 27: not sure there was no killer punch from many of
Speaker 27: the media questions. So I think the thing is, if
Speaker 27: you gave her out of ten a seven, she came
Speaker 27: across not far better than Dunton or Morrison or even Termal.
Speaker 27: She just had the time to talk about women's women.
Speaker 27: And I think that's the biggest problem that we're Basically
Speaker 27: we've had male leaders that don't really understand what women
Speaker 27: are faced with. So inspiring about aspect.
Speaker 26: I think they're fair points Wally, but here's the issue
Speaker 26: that I have. It's very easy for our politicians to
Speaker 26: stand up and to make these inspiring comments about we
Speaker 26: need to see more women in parliament, we need to
Speaker 26: protect women and girls from domestic violence and these abusive situations,
Speaker 26: and we need to do more to support them. What
Speaker 26: does that look like in policy form? And these are
Speaker 26: the things Clinton that that I want people to start
Speaker 26: really thinking about more critically, move past the gender, move
Speaker 26: past all of those other issues, and start to think
Speaker 26: about what these ambitions look like in policy.
Speaker 27: What do you think, well, we I feel they agree
Speaker 27: and I don't think a little party have a policy,
Speaker 27: they have a policy that went took the election.
Speaker 2: So there are a lot of people.
Speaker 27: I mean, if you ask people what they need, the
Speaker 27: policy was no one could do. So I asked a
Speaker 27: little party person, what's your policy?
Speaker 25: Good jobby?
Speaker 2: There are money, Yeah, and that's their problem. I just
Speaker 2: want to break into this discuss going across the Stanton
Speaker 2: in Surrey Hills where there's a fire Stanton. What have
Speaker 2: you seen, mate Clinton?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the big file, the stigmative floor of the City Mission.
Speaker 11: Find pleaser here now it's trying.
Speaker 2: To okay, So it's the City Mission building in Surrey Hills.
Speaker 2: We'll get some details about that off air. We just
Speaker 2: need to find out the location of that City Mission building.
Speaker 2: It is on fire at the moment. Fire and rescue
Speaker 2: is on the way at the moment. We'll bring you
Speaker 2: some more details in just a moment. Just a reminder,
Speaker 2: major traffic problems Pennet Hills Road at the moment right
Speaker 2: throughout Carlingford, particularly around Shirley Street. That's where the crane
Speaker 2: the Merriton building site is on a lean. So they've
Speaker 2: had to close Pennant Hills Road both directions Carlingford at
Speaker 2: Shirley Street while the emergency crews attend to the crane
Speaker 2: that's been pushed during the wind. John in dun Dass,
Speaker 2: what were your impressions of Susan Lee today.
Speaker 8: Look, I didn't.
Speaker 28: Actually see her speaks, but however I've seen a lot
Speaker 28: of what she talks about. And Lucy's lh fantastic. Absolutely
Speaker 28: need someone like her, if not her, that that speaks
Speaker 28: non populist politics, you know what I mean. Lots of
Speaker 28: bells and whistles, but no steam as what I see
Speaker 28: in the current liberal party, the left that infiltrated them.
Speaker 13: And I'm not happy.
Speaker 28: We're not happy. We're still it's like a dead ends,
Speaker 28: the same old stuff over and over again.
Speaker 2: And they talk.
Speaker 26: About thank you for your com words, by the way,
Speaker 26: But the issue that I have is that they talk
Speaker 26: about being an alternative government. What are your alternatives to
Speaker 26: the existing government. I mean, a lot of us feel
Speaker 26: like they're on this labor light diet and they're not
Speaker 26: willing to give it up.
Speaker 2: And tell us now, don't wait until the next election.
Speaker 2: Now a little birdie has told me you are a
Speaker 2: closet lover of reality television. AHH.
Speaker 26: I'm really glad we're talking about this because there's a
Speaker 26: lot of shame and stigma that surrounds reality television. And
Speaker 26: I have to say the reason I do have a
Speaker 26: pension for it is because we operate in some pretty
Speaker 26: serious news cycles, right Clinton, and I think we've all
Speaker 26: been very fatigued by what's occurring in the Middle East
Speaker 26: and has done for you know, close to two years now.
Speaker 26: But also in the world of politics, it can all
Speaker 26: be very dry. I's spent a lot of my nights
Speaker 26: in bed with my kids, watching Question Time and listening
Speaker 26: to press club addresses and all of these things. So
Speaker 26: I need an outlet, something mindless where I don't have
Speaker 26: to think, and I can observe a circus of a
Speaker 26: different kind. And it happens to be the Real Housewives franchise.
Speaker 26: Please don't hate me.
Speaker 2: For it, would you Okay, would you put your hand up?
Speaker 2: You are a very proud housewife, right, would you put
Speaker 2: your hand up to appear in the Real Housewives of Sydney.
Speaker 24: Oh?
Speaker 26: No, I enjoy watching other people behave toxically. I don't
Speaker 26: want to be part of that particular circus myself.
Speaker 2: Just an update on the Mission Australia fire. So there's
Speaker 2: a fire that's broken out. The mission Australia building which
Speaker 2: is in Surrey Hills the corner of Denham Street Campbell Street.
Speaker 2: Stand told us about that a little earlier. I've just
Speaker 2: been sent some vision. So there is a fire on
Speaker 2: the fourth floor of the building. There are flames and
Speaker 2: smoke actually pouring out of one of the windows on
Speaker 2: the fourth floor. There are thirty six firefighters on the scene.
Speaker 2: They do have water on the fire. Hopefully they can
Speaker 2: actually contain that fire from spreading throughout the rest of
Speaker 2: the building.
Speaker 26: Can I also say, driving in this afternoon on the
Speaker 26: M two, that felt a bit like an extreme sport
Speaker 26: in the current wins and you know a lot of
Speaker 26: the cars these days, modern cars are equipped with all
Speaker 26: of the sensors and the wind was carrying me to
Speaker 26: the point where the sensors started to go off on
Speaker 26: either side. So just be careful out on the roads,
Speaker 26: particularly the motorways.
Speaker 2: Just before we wrap up, I want your thoughts on
Speaker 2: this as a sporting commentator, and you've spent a lot
Speaker 2: of time calling big sport. There has been a World
Speaker 2: Championship Athletics event that's taking place in the Czech Republic
Speaker 2: at the moment. Chris Robinson is one of the best
Speaker 2: hurdlers in the world. He won the four hundred meters
Speaker 2: hurdle overnight, but he did suffer a wardrobe malfunction while running.
Speaker 9: Chris Robinson absolutely flying down the backstreet, just stopping to
Speaker 9: adjust their shorts halfway through the race, and.
Speaker 26: That Chris Robinson strides into that hurd or what concentration
Speaker 26: to keep himself going?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 1: Chris Robinson with just a few.
Speaker 2: Flights left to go with it, so he went on
Speaker 2: and won the race. Lucy now as the excellent commentator there,
Speaker 2: says he's trying to adjust his I'll leave it up
Speaker 2: to imagination of why he needed to adjust his shorts
Speaker 2: as he was running. He actually had one hand destan
Speaker 2: trying to keep the shorts in place. How would you
Speaker 2: handle that?
Speaker 26: Exactly how this commentator has handled it. I thought she
Speaker 26: did brilliantly to disguise obviously something that was quite confronting
Speaker 26: for a lot of viewers to witness. But it's always
Speaker 26: very challenging in live sport because you're having to react
Speaker 26: to some pretty hilarious but also serious moments too. So
Speaker 26: well done to her.
Speaker 2: Lucy' zelich Hosting Michael McLaren's program next week.
Speaker 26: Oh, I wish me luck made us start on Friday.
Speaker 2: Coming up after the news the latest on the Carlingford crane.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney now with Clinton on to Ginba.
Speaker 2: It has been a wild afternoon across Sydney. Heavy wind
Speaker 2: still lashing much of the city. I'll bring you the
Speaker 2: latest on the Carlingford crane in just a moment, but
Speaker 2: I just want to bring in Superintendent Adam Dwbrey, who
Speaker 2: can give us the latest on the fire in Surrey Hills.
Speaker 2: A fire within the Mission Australia building on the corner
Speaker 2: of Denham Street and Campbell Street. What's the layest, Adam.
Speaker 11: Oh, Clinton, Yes, we do have the fire extinguish. It
Speaker 11: is on the fourth level, which is the top level.
Speaker 11: We've got about thirty six firefighters off twelve different trucks
Speaker 11: on scene. We're just now going through making sure that
Speaker 11: everyone is accounted for about thirty evacuations. But the fire
Speaker 11: has been extinguished.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's great news. I was just having a look
Speaker 2: at some video that was sent to me just before
Speaker 2: the news and it showed a lot of flame activity
Speaker 2: pouring out of one of the windows on that fourth floor.
Speaker 2: So it was quite a big fire within that building.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's right, and that's the modern furnishings we have
Speaker 11: in not in our homes and our offices. Those fires
Speaker 11: take hold quickly and can rip through buildings. But fortunately
Speaker 11: Fire Rescue New South Wales who were fast response. The
Speaker 11: firefighters climbed the stairs, got to the top and have
Speaker 11: contained that fire.
Speaker 2: Okay, good stuff, thank you, Adam. Superintendent Adam Debry from
Speaker 2: Fine Rescuing New South Wales. The fire is beyond the
Speaker 2: scene there Denham Street, Campbellstree, Eat Surrey Hills for some
Speaker 2: time as they just mop up with the good news
Speaker 2: is that fire is now out. Now let's switch our
Speaker 2: focus to Carlingford. Pennant Hills Road remains closed near Shirley Street,
Speaker 2: just near the intersection with Cumberland Highway. The traffic in
Speaker 2: the region is an absolute nightmare. The road is closed
Speaker 2: in both directions and this is because these powerful winds
Speaker 2: that have lashed Sydney throughout the day have actually affected
Speaker 2: one of the cranes. So there are four cranes at
Speaker 2: the construction site, the big Merriton construction site. I've just
Speaker 2: been handed a statement from the Meriton group. It says
Speaker 2: Meriton is working to resolve the issue as a matter
Speaker 2: of priority. We have experts working at the moment to
Speaker 2: stabilize the crane. Meretans notified Safe Work New South Wales.
Speaker 2: They're working closely with New South Wales Police and New
Speaker 2: South Wales Fire and Rescue. So just to paint a picture,
Speaker 2: this is a massive housing development, a really big unit
Speaker 2: development in Carlingford. It seems to span several blocks and
Speaker 2: there are four cranes there that would be probably between
Speaker 2: forty and fifty meters tall, big white crane, and one
Speaker 2: of those cranes in the middle of the four its
Speaker 2: vertical mount is actually leaning back about fifteen twenty degrees.
Speaker 2: So it's an issue with the effectively the foundations of
Speaker 2: that crane at the moment, and as Merton says, they're
Speaker 2: bringing those experts in to ensure that he's secured. Now
Speaker 2: it hasn't and we've been reporting on this now over
Speaker 2: the past two hours, it hasn't tipped further from when
Speaker 2: we first started reporting on this. Some of the anchor
Speaker 2: bolts at the base of that crane have failed, so
Speaker 2: the Meritan crews are working on that right now and
Speaker 2: they won't be able to reopen the road there for
Speaker 2: some time. Because of it. Ray is actually in Carling.
Speaker 2: Are you stuck in the traffic?
Speaker 21: Ray?
Speaker 24: No, mate, I'm sitting in a car park watching all
Speaker 24: the traffic go by and all block up.
Speaker 11: Mate.
Speaker 2: You can't even get onto the road.
Speaker 24: I'm sitting in the school car park mate, because I
Speaker 24: work here at night and all the little streets around
Speaker 24: here are chokker jiden. No matter what you do, if
Speaker 24: you get off mars.
Speaker 8: And Road at Mob's Hill or whatever, all those.
Speaker 24: Little streets and then you've got a main drag which
Speaker 24: they all lead back on either penn And Hill's Road
Speaker 24: or Carling for great.
Speaker 2: Can you actually see the crane this construction site from
Speaker 2: where you are?
Speaker 24: No, I'm just over the hill mate, the schools on
Speaker 24: mars And Hill. I can walk up there and have
Speaker 24: a look and tell you if you want.
Speaker 2: No that I've seen some vision in the last couple
Speaker 2: of minutes. Anyway, So thanks letting us know about that. Ray. Look,
Speaker 2: this is going to cause problems for the rest of
Speaker 2: the peak and into the evening. So it's it's right
Speaker 2: around the Carling for the area road, so that the
Speaker 2: focus is on Pennet Hills Road. New Shirley Street also
Speaker 2: Cumberland Highway, but all the local roads, ASRAE has rightly
Speaker 2: just informed us, are all affected.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two
Speaker 4: GB col now one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Fierce wind should begin easing tonight, but it's been very
Speaker 2: damaging throughout the day. The SEES has now responded to
Speaker 2: more than six hundred corps for help. Most of those
Speaker 2: are on the south around Wollongong and the Illawarra. Wind
Speaker 2: gusts of more than ninety kilometers now have been recorded
Speaker 2: at Kernel. It's the southern part of Sydney that's been
Speaker 2: the most effective, but most of Sydney's certainly experienced that.
Speaker 2: You've probably experienced it throughout the day. If you come
Speaker 2: across damage around the roads around the suburbs, let us
Speaker 2: know about it. You can give me a call one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three. It's eleven past five. A
Speaker 2: major operation has been conducted in recent months on the roads,
Speaker 2: targeting heavy vehicles and truck drivers. In particular, it's been
Speaker 2: conducted by the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator Operation AMEIGA two
Speaker 2: and what this is focused on is drive for tea
Speaker 2: drive for tigue involving the drivers of big trucks. Paul
Speaker 2: Savati is the chief operating officer and joins us. So
Speaker 2: thank you for your time, Paul, thank you for having
Speaker 2: me quentin significant operation you've been involved in. You've pulled
Speaker 2: over three thousand trucks.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's correct. We ran this operation initially over the
Speaker 7: Christmas period when there's a lot of light vehicles on
Speaker 7: the road. Given what we saw, then we thoughtould repeat
Speaker 7: it over Easter and it did see some good results,
Speaker 7: but also some concerning results.
Speaker 2: What concerned you about the results.
Speaker 7: Look for New South Wales. What we saw was we
Speaker 7: saw about ninety seven point one percent of heavy vehicle
Speaker 7: drivers complying with fatigue regulations, which is fantastic, but that
Speaker 7: still means about two to three percent warrant and that's
Speaker 7: about two percent high than what we're for over Christmas.
Speaker 7: What that looks like Clinton for us, is some really
Speaker 7: serious things. So we found thirteen drivers who had what
Speaker 7: we call critical fatigue breaches. They were significantly driving longer
Speaker 7: than that should of and that puts everyone's lives at risk.
Speaker 2: So you found that one hundred and thirty one drivers
Speaker 2: were non compliant with fatigue requirements. Now, I would think
Speaker 2: and I can only speak from experience as a motorus
Speaker 2: car driver port it's very difficult to measure fatigue. You
Speaker 2: mentioned those fatigue requirements.
Speaker 7: What are those under the Heavy Vehicle National Law? If
Speaker 7: you're driving heavy vehicle over a certain weight, you have
Speaker 7: restrictions on how long you can drive without taking a break, right,
Speaker 7: and those laws designed to make sure we don't have
Speaker 7: drivers driving those very big heavy vehicles falling asleep and
Speaker 7: causing road from to a number of other motorists. So
Speaker 7: limits how many hours you can drive, so you can
Speaker 7: drive five and a quarter hours and a five and
Speaker 7: a half hour period for example, you can drive in
Speaker 7: a day it dictates Holling you can drive in a
Speaker 7: seven day period of dictates and all those laws cleansing
Speaker 7: a desioned to try and keep motorists safe.
Speaker 2: How do you police that though? Is it a simple
Speaker 2: matter of people filling out the drivers filling out a
Speaker 2: log book or is there now a more sophisticated way
Speaker 2: of doing it.
Speaker 7: It's a bit of both. We still have a written
Speaker 7: work doory, so logbook drivers can fill out. We also
Speaker 7: have a number of providers. You have an electronic work
Speaker 7: doory which actually automates a lot of the record keeping
Speaker 7: for the driver and makes it easier spend the compliance
Speaker 7: fatigue requirements. So there really is a couple of ways
Speaker 7: and which drivers can track their hours to make sure
Speaker 7: they are getting the brakes they need to not drive fatigued.
Speaker 2: And I see that already this year, and this is
Speaker 2: what is so concerning. There have been sixty fatal crashes
Speaker 2: involving trucks around the country and fatigue would be part
Speaker 2: of some of those.
Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely, Look, fatigue is definitely one of the most
Speaker 7: serious safety risks in the heavy vehicle industry. It's a
Speaker 7: known contributor to road trauma, and the safety ball drivers
Speaker 7: in the community is our priority. And Clinton what really
Speaker 7: concerned us, Whilst there were so many drivers doing the
Speaker 7: right thing, we saw twenty two instances with a driver
Speaker 7: knowingly made boalse of misleading entries in their work diary. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's a huge concern to us. Those people are intentionally
Speaker 7: those drivers intentionally breaching fatigued rules and putting people's lives
Speaker 7: at risk.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, a lot of those drivers be pressured
Speaker 2: by their companies to meet their deadline. So there's some
Speaker 2: treasure on the transport companies themselves to do the right
Speaker 2: thing here there is.
Speaker 7: This industry has full with some really professional and really
Speaker 7: safe operations, but there are some organizations who do pressure
Speaker 7: their drivers. And we always tell drivers, if you feel
Speaker 7: pressured to drive when you're fatigued, caller or heavy beer,
Speaker 7: call Confidential Reporting Hotline one eight hundred and ninety three
Speaker 7: one seven five and let us know and we can
Speaker 7: come and help.
Speaker 2: Thanks your time today, Paul, Thank you very much. Paul's
Speaker 2: about who's the COO of the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator.
Speaker 2: It's important stuff and it is very difficult to measure
Speaker 2: for TEA, particularly with US car drivers. But there are
Speaker 2: other logbook systems. There are some more sophisticated ways of
Speaker 2: doing it, and it's important that those rules were enforced.
Speaker 1: Sidney. Now on to gb.
Speaker 2: Now, I brought you the information a little earlier about
Speaker 2: what's happening at Westmead Hospital. I've been informed that as
Speaker 2: many as ten interventional radiologists have quit their jobs in
Speaker 2: the past week. Now this comes on top of the
Speaker 2: revelations we brought yesterday that there will be a special
Speaker 2: meeting of staff tomorrow night. It'll be Led'll be around
Speaker 2: this time tomorrow. It'll be led by senior specialists who
Speaker 2: work at Westmead Hospital. They'll be conducting a vote, a
Speaker 2: vote and no confidence in the management of Westmead Hospital.
Speaker 2: It's pretty serious stuff. That comes on top of the
Speaker 2: revelations made this week that there are problems within the
Speaker 2: Neonatal Intensive unit as well within Westmead Hospital. Claims that
Speaker 2: babies have been treated in corridors, babies have been treated
Speaker 2: in storerooms. Now the government denies they're being treated in
Speaker 2: the storeroom, but I've been told by midwife that well,
Speaker 2: it is a room that was used as a storeroom
Speaker 2: has now effectively been retro fitted. The resources aren't good
Speaker 2: enough clearly. Now. The Western Sydney Local Area Health District
Speaker 2: has just been in contact with us to talk about
Speaker 2: the radiologists and they say the interventional radiologists are are
Speaker 2: highly specialized medical profession providing a critical service of patients
Speaker 2: requiring minimally invasive procedures under a medical image in guidance.
Speaker 2: The Interventional Radiology Service in Western Sydney supports the diagnosis
Speaker 2: and treatment of ranger conditions, including patients presenting with cardiac
Speaker 2: complications so heart problems. The service remains fully staffed and
Speaker 2: operational well. I can only take their word off it.
Speaker 2: That's good, but based on my information that ten have
Speaker 2: resigned in the last week, they must have found replacements
Speaker 2: very very quickly. Seventeen past five, police are still looking
Speaker 2: for up to eleven men who were involved in that
Speaker 2: brawl on the Merit and it's another Meritan construction site
Speaker 2: was actually outside in Castle Hill yesterday and we brought
Speaker 2: you that news through Mark Leevy. The video that was
Speaker 2: released that shows all these tradees dressed up in yellow
Speaker 2: and orange fluorescent attacking each other. Well, today two men
Speaker 2: have been arrested, twenty two year old forty four year old,
Speaker 2: their father and son and actually handed themselves into the police.
Speaker 2: They're alleged to be the ringleaders of what happened, and
Speaker 2: I spoke with the police elder in the program. They
Speaker 2: are contractors. They'd been terminated from their role on Friday
Speaker 2: and then they turned up back to the site to
Speaker 2: quote resolve their issues. But they turned up with hammers
Speaker 2: and they weren't planning on hammering any nails at the
Speaker 2: scene forget Mond Drift. Anyway, The police have arrested those
Speaker 2: two men and they're going to be facing charges. But
Speaker 2: there are still eleven others that they're looking for and
Speaker 2: they're releasing some video imaging to track them down. Word
Speaker 2: on the street Things to ten for a great night sleep,
Speaker 2: night after night. The difference is James won our pillows
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, so every week we give
Speaker 2: away two Temper Primate cooling pillows worth six hundred dollars
Speaker 2: and it takes a few weeks for those temper pillows
Speaker 2: to be sent out. They'll be on their way soon, James.
Speaker 2: But James told us about all this rubbish that have
Speaker 2: been left at Henry Lawson Drive, Padstow Heights, and then
Speaker 2: there were heavy vehicles that were parked along the road
Speaker 2: and they were effectively hiding the rubbish and the local
Speaker 2: council hadn't done anything about this rubbish that had been dumped.
Speaker 2: And James had sent me some photos including was an
Speaker 2: old piano there and some mattresses and a whole lot
Speaker 2: of building materials as well. James has just been in
Speaker 2: contact with me again. I've just driven past that site,
Speaker 2: Henry laws And Drive. None of the rubbish has been
Speaker 2: picked up yet, so there's people there who are servicing
Speaker 2: trucks there on the side of the road and nothing
Speaker 2: is being done about the rubbish. Something needs to be
Speaker 2: done about that. The wind is expected to calm down
Speaker 2: this evening, it should ease, but boy, it's been a
Speaker 2: windy day across Sydney. We're dealing with the problems in
Speaker 2: Carlingford at the moment. A lot of trees have come
Speaker 2: down across Sydney. Take care on the roads. There's some
Speaker 2: debris about. If you see something in the roads and
Speaker 2: a drama caused by the wind, let me know one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three Mark, you're still caught up
Speaker 2: in the drama because of the crane at Carlingford. Good
Speaker 2: a Mark, Oh.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I've just come off them. Four like them for
Speaker 18: is like a stand still and now on James Bruce
Speaker 18: Dry which leads up Penhill's ride and it's just a
Speaker 18: par part so everything leading up fore.
Speaker 2: It's just a mess right throughout the carling For district
Speaker 2: because of the crane. Thanks for letting us know about
Speaker 2: that market. It doesn't matter really where you are around
Speaker 2: Pennet Hills Road and all the roads that connect into
Speaker 2: Penning Hills Road at Carlingford because we've had part of
Speaker 2: it closed and it's going to be closed now for
Speaker 2: a couple more hours because we've got the Merriton crews
Speaker 2: on the scene trying to secure this crane. There's going
Speaker 2: to be traffic dramas there for dramas. Rita is also
Speaker 2: in Carlingford. Hello, Rita, Hi Clinton.
Speaker 29: Yes, mag I just had to go and get my
Speaker 29: daughter from work that she never actually got to start
Speaker 29: at Carlington Court because they've actually closed and evacuated the
Speaker 29: shopping center. So not only is Pennant Hills Road a bottleneck,
Speaker 29: but all the roads around carling for Court Marsden Road
Speaker 29: it's a shocker and down at North Rox Road so
Speaker 29: it's extended towards the end two as well. So if
Speaker 29: you can avoid the area, just avoid it.
Speaker 2: So have you been given any explanation about why Carlingford
Speaker 2: Court shopping center itself has been evacuated?
Speaker 29: Well, I think they were very manic when we got there,
Speaker 29: and one of the ladies new works in the center
Speaker 29: said that they're worried about a gas explosion and I
Speaker 29: have no how that would work with the crane being
Speaker 29: about five hundred meters away. But yes, so they've just
Speaker 29: closed the shopping center. But my sword got sent home.
Speaker 11: OK.
Speaker 2: Getting there, we'll try and find out what's going on
Speaker 2: with Carlingford Court shopping center at the moment. So it is,
Speaker 2: as you mentioned, about five hundred meters or so away
Speaker 2: from this construction site. So if you don't know the
Speaker 2: Carlingford area, well, this is a massive mirrit in development
Speaker 2: that runs. It looks like it's effectively a couple of
Speaker 2: blocks and it's going to be some unit towers and
Speaker 2: the stage of development. At the moment of construction, they're
Speaker 2: just doing effectively the foundations and all the underground work
Speaker 2: what will be the underground car parks. So it's still
Speaker 2: in that early stage. Now. The theory is that the
Speaker 2: crane could topple, but since we've started reporting on this
Speaker 2: over the past or two and a half hours or so,
Speaker 2: the crane hasn't moved. So the authorities on the scene
Speaker 2: are fairly confident they've got it secured. But they actually
Speaker 2: need to rectify the situation. So the anchor bolts at
Speaker 2: the bottom of the crane have loosened up, so they
Speaker 2: need to work on that. But I find it curious
Speaker 2: that the fact we had to, based on what Rita's
Speaker 2: told us, evacuate part of Carlingford Court. I will try
Speaker 2: to find out exactly what's going on. It's twenty six
Speaker 2: past five. An update on the crane that's threatening to topple,
Speaker 2: which it's on Pennant Hills Road. Carling for Justney Shirley Street,
Speaker 2: Merriton has just provided us with some more information. They
Speaker 2: say our engineers and experts are currently on site. They've
Speaker 2: assured us now the risk is low to moderate. We're
Speaker 2: working with the experts around the clock to stabilize the crane.
Speaker 2: So Pennant Hills Road itself will not reopen just yet,
Speaker 2: but that's good news from what Mereton's telling us. The
Speaker 2: risk of it actually falling down, it would potentially fall
Speaker 2: down onto the road is low to moderate, so they're
Speaker 2: on the site right now. Just for our news headlines,
Speaker 2: we were talking about drive fatigue with those who are
Speaker 2: driving trucks and heavy vehicles. Charlotte, you've got experience as
Speaker 2: a bus driver.
Speaker 15: Yeah, Look, I don't know how serious they really are
Speaker 15: about this fatigue management isness. There are drivers in Sydney
Speaker 15: bus drivers that drive the equivalent ours Sydney to Brisbane
Speaker 15: every day and some days they are lucky if they
Speaker 15: get a thirty minute meal break, so you.
Speaker 2: Know they're not enforcing it very well. Then those drive
Speaker 2: fatigue management rules.
Speaker 15: Well, you know they're doing this day after day and
Speaker 15: they get fatigued and they get the press.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well they wouldn't just get depressed though, it's potentially
Speaker 2: putting their life in danger, the life of passengers in danger,
Speaker 2: and those the other drivers. We might have a closer
Speaker 2: look at that. Thank you for letting us know about that, Charlotte.
Speaker 2: That's not good enough. Let's check our news headlines and
Speaker 2: we've got the latest. Katie Foller.
Speaker 9: Good afternoon, Clinton. Strong winds are starting to ease across Sydney,
Speaker 9: but a crane is still close to toppling over at Carlingford.
Speaker 9: Traffic is heavy on the stretch of Pannet Hills Road,
Speaker 9: which has been closed. The local shopping center has been evacuated.
Speaker 9: Firefighters have managed to knock down a blaze which has
Speaker 9: taken hold of the top floor of a Mission Australia
Speaker 9: building in Surrey Hills. Nearby complexes were evacuated. A teenager
Speaker 9: has been arrested over a stabbing at Mount Dru at Westfield.
Speaker 9: The eighteen year old is being questioned by police after
Speaker 9: a seventeen year old boy and twenty two year old
Speaker 9: man were knifed during a brawl, and Liberal leader Susan
Speaker 9: Lee says she'll be a zealot for getting more women
Speaker 9: into the party in the wake of its election defeat.
Speaker 9: Miss Lee has given her first major address since taking
Speaker 9: over the role in Sport. Australia will tonight play its
Speaker 9: first men's cricket Test match in the Caribbean in ten years.
Speaker 9: They'll take on the West Indies in the first Test
Speaker 9: at Bridgetown, Barbados, Clinton More news at six.
Speaker 2: Fourteen degrees in the city. It's only ten degrees in
Speaker 2: Campbelltown at the moment and the wind is still fairly strong,
Speaker 2: particularly in the southern parts of the Sydney. It should
Speaker 2: ease this evening. We're going to spin the winter wheel shortly.
Speaker 2: Listen for your Quter call. Don't call yet. I just
Speaker 2: want to cross to Graham now. Graham is in Carlingford
Speaker 2: and has had to be evacuated because of the crane
Speaker 2: that's threatening to topple. Whereabouts are you, Graham?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 30: Well, I'm driving at the moment. I'm just going driving
Speaker 30: to my daughter's place. So I didn't you know, I
Speaker 30: didn't need to go to Carlingford Court.
Speaker 8: So suggested.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you are in part of where you live
Speaker 2: is where the evacuation zone is.
Speaker 20: Yeah, right across and was evacuated.
Speaker 2: Okay. And so Carlingford Court itself. Do you know why
Speaker 2: they've told the shop is there they need to leave
Speaker 2: because it's it's not quite underware that the crane would fall.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 30: No, it's nowhere near it. And I don't know why
Speaker 30: that would have been evacuated very early in the place,
Speaker 30: So I can't help you there. In fact that when
Speaker 30: I was evacuated from the unit, the police said, oh,
Speaker 30: you can go up for Carlingford Court.
Speaker 11: They'll sort of look after.
Speaker 30: They'll look after you up there.
Speaker 25: I didn't need to because I'm headed in the other direction.
Speaker 2: To now, Graham, have they given you any indication when
Speaker 2: you can go back home?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 30: No, no, no, it was too early to t all.
Speaker 2: Okay, Graham, hopefully it's not too long. Thanks for letting
Speaker 2: us know. So there have been some evacuations around Pennin Hills,
Speaker 2: right around Carlingford. Carlingford Court itself, we have been told
Speaker 2: it was evacuated as well because the fears of problem
Speaker 2: with the gas that could be triggered by the crane
Speaker 2: it's about five hundred meters away from the construction zone.
Speaker 2: I've had a few people ask me questions on the
Speaker 2: text line. Is this the same merit and construction site
Speaker 2: where there was the brawl earlier in the week. No,
Speaker 2: it's not so the brawl that occurred between all the
Speaker 2: trades in the high Viz that actually occurred in Castle Hill.
Speaker 2: So it's not the same site. But two men have
Speaker 2: now I've been arrested over that. One Finance update, Scott
Speaker 2: Hayward is presenting Money News from seven o'clock tonight. Hello
Speaker 2: Scott Clinton, how are you going?
Speaker 31: Whilst the wind may be swinging in the cranes looking
Speaker 31: being a bit more dangerous, I can tell you what's
Speaker 31: not dangerous tonight, and that is inflation numbers. The headline
Speaker 31: inflation number dropped for the twelve months to May to
Speaker 31: just two point one percent, down from the headline two
Speaker 31: point four percent the month before. And that's in the
Speaker 31: preferred space that the RBA wants. With the April number,
Speaker 31: as I said, dropping from two point eight to two
Speaker 31: point four, the price of fruit and vegeted rise two
Speaker 31: point eight percent, but here you go, it was six
Speaker 31: point one percent. So this may that Jim Chalmers could
Speaker 31: press the button and be very pleased with himself. Is
Speaker 31: if Michelle Buller does cut rates on the eighth of July,
Speaker 31: which I think will be almost a certainty.
Speaker 2: Now we heard from Jim Chalmers a little earlier. He's
Speaker 2: already very pleased. He had a big smile on his
Speaker 2: face today.
Speaker 31: Well, look, I don't think it fundamentally has anything to
Speaker 31: do with him.
Speaker 2: I don't think he believes that he believes it's him.
Speaker 31: The amount of people under financial pressure is still very significant,
Speaker 31: and we're going to talk as well about the cost
Speaker 31: of living benefit that may mean with a potential rate cut,
Speaker 31: and what it might also mean for people who are
Speaker 31: retired renters or homeowners with the mortgage, about what the
Speaker 31: next six to twelve months may look like. That's all
Speaker 31: going to be with amp's deputy chief economist, Yana Messina.
Speaker 2: We spoke with Choice Little in the program about their
Speaker 2: supermarket analysis for the past three months. They have found
Speaker 2: that the price gap between Aldi Allies and Colts is
Speaker 2: actually narrowing a little. From your experience as a shopper, Scott,
Speaker 2: as well as what you do as an analyst, have
Speaker 2: you found that the prices have been going down in
Speaker 2: willars and cups.
Speaker 31: Well, I think Audi when they came to Australia and
Speaker 31: I haven't got the date, but it was about fifteen
Speaker 31: twenty years ago. They basically came with the home brand product.
Speaker 31: It was no frills, no branding, you know, no Campbell soups.
Speaker 31: It was their own soup, you know, their own peanut butter,
Speaker 31: no vegemite. They basically just had their own brands, which
Speaker 31: means they saved a lot on cost. And of course
Speaker 31: they also meant that they can just put whatever they
Speaker 31: want in the shells rather than maybe paying for shelf space,
Speaker 31: which I knew, do know has occurred in certain supermarkets.
Speaker 31: But the agbill see report this year denied misconduct of
Speaker 31: price gouging. Well, I did admit the grocery chains are
Speaker 31: the most profitable in the world. But yeah, look, if
Speaker 31: you find an Aldi and you want to just have
Speaker 31: that limited amount of supply, which again that the survey
Speaker 31: was done from choice on milk, carrot, chicken, breast, strawberries,
Speaker 31: drinking chocolate, brown onions and garlic, don't have them all
Speaker 31: at once. It was cheaper than woolies and cheaper than goals.
Speaker 31: So yes, you're right. Choice it did report that.
Speaker 2: I don't know many people who drink their chocolate milk
Speaker 2: while onion taking it a garlic at the same top
Speaker 2: that each of.
Speaker 1: Their own Clinton.
Speaker 31: But yeah, that was the other news today. And of
Speaker 31: course it is now only three business days before June thirty,
Speaker 31: and that's important because there's things you can and can't do,
Speaker 31: So you don't want to miss our special segment tonight
Speaker 31: on what to do before June thirty. Do not wait
Speaker 31: until Monday. There's only three trading days left and that
Speaker 31: has an implication on you. And that's right off the
Speaker 31: top of the show. At seven o'clock tonight, we'll.
Speaker 2: Be listening Scott Hayward presenting Money News from seven.
Speaker 4: Thank you Scott, Connie Clinton on Sydney Now a weather
Speaker 4: update will be here to help in unexpected weather.
Speaker 1: Nrima Insurance a help company.
Speaker 2: In one word, wind has been an astonishing the windy
Speaker 2: day across the city, but particularly parts of the state's
Speaker 2: south right down towards the Act Canberra, much of the
Speaker 2: south coast, also the Hunter Valley and then inland towards
Speaker 2: the north all the way to the Queensland border. Very
Speaker 2: windy today. Win gus in kernel of up to ninety kilometers.
Speaker 2: Now the wind should ease this evening, which is good news.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow the weather it's looking a little bit better in
Speaker 2: terms of wind, but it will become cloudy mostly in
Speaker 2: the morning, potentially a shower on the coast, a top
Speaker 2: of just sixteen degrees for Friday, a possible shower cloudy
Speaker 2: seventeen at this stage on the weekend, a shower too
Speaker 2: on Saturday, and a shower two on Sunday.
Speaker 1: Wow, gvs Winter Wheel.
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Speaker 1: MG.
Speaker 2: Yeah is going to spin the wheel today? Hello, my friend?
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Speaker 12: A tongue cleaner. I've never heard of a tongue cleaner.
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Speaker 2: All right, Okay, we're going to take the fourth caller.
Speaker 2: But let's talk a bit of sport. MG.
Speaker 12: That's buddy. Let's just look big news in the NRL,
Speaker 12: Paramatta have signed Jack de Bellen from the Saint George
Speaker 12: Lauri Dragons as of next year for a two year deal.
Speaker 12: The Bellin has played two undred and forty two games
Speaker 12: for the Red v and he's thirty four years of age,
Speaker 12: but of course missed a couple of years with a
Speaker 12: pretty pretty lengthy court case that went on. But he
Speaker 12: is now back and playing for the Earls. I suppose
Speaker 12: he's a relationship with Jason Rowles has tipped that over,
Speaker 12: so yeah, didn't see it coming, but yeah, Jake devellon.
Speaker 2: John Stanley's wearing his dragon's cap received he is right,
Speaker 2: and I think he's concerned about now in Exodus of
Speaker 2: Dragons to the Yeels because Zach Lomax and Zach Claimax.
Speaker 2: Now we've got Jack de Bellen. My understanding is one
Speaker 2: of his favorite players is King Tongya yep. I f
Speaker 2: I understanding there has been initial talks that's true, just
Speaker 2: initial talk that's true because he's been dropped from this
Speaker 2: week's side, yep. And the talk is maybe he's on
Speaker 2: his way to Paramatta. I think you'll find that Clint
Speaker 2: Guthuson might go back to play off the bench, kap
Speaker 2: Flandagan will pro y in that they might take Shane
Speaker 2: as well, just anyone with the Dragons Jersey.
Speaker 12: And Shane Flaining might go back and last couple something
Speaker 12: who knows.
Speaker 2: Now there's been calls today Daly m the call the
Speaker 2: Daly Yem Awards off because it's already won.
Speaker 12: Yep. Well. Voting went behind closed doors after round twelve
Speaker 12: with Warriors playmaker Luke Metcalf. He was leading on thirty
Speaker 12: one points, next with Sharks Will Kennedy on twenty nine,
Speaker 12: and then James Tedesco was on twenty eight. But I
Speaker 12: think what Nichol, which is Nichol loose overs writing.
Speaker 2: He's saying, Chris Nicholas.
Speaker 12: Christian is a good writer. I kind of agree with
Speaker 12: him because I think that I think it's his to lose.
Speaker 12: I think he's probably got twelve points out of the
Speaker 12: last two weeks because you get three. I'm a Dalim judge,
Speaker 12: and I give three to two one. In another game
Speaker 12: someone else will give three to one.
Speaker 2: As well, and you can't give anything away because it's
Speaker 2: gone behind closed doors now, so.
Speaker 12: I would know. Yeah, no, round twelve I went behind
Speaker 12: close yeah.
Speaker 2: Now Will Kennedy was leading it at one point our
Speaker 2: player the Sharks four. Yes, but look the Sharks are
Speaker 2: in terrible form, so he wouldn't have picked up many
Speaker 2: points of late. Metcalf has played a little injured, Yeah,
Speaker 2: of late, that might affect him well.
Speaker 12: Round fifteen the Knights. Sorry, the Roosters beat the Knights
Speaker 12: twelve eight, and then they won against the Cowboys last
Speaker 12: week where he did get the CCT Continuous Call Team's
Speaker 12: Man of the match. So yeah, look he's in the
Speaker 12: fine form. And look I was bumninger. I'll be knocking
Speaker 12: on his door and saying, hey, come.
Speaker 2: West, absolutely, come West now. The First Cricket Test begins
Speaker 2: to night versus Australia versus the West Indies in Barbados,
Speaker 2: Pat Cummins has put Cameron Green number three.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he had first first time in ten years. Australia
Speaker 12: traveled to the Caribbean for a three Test away series
Speaker 12: against West Indies. Tonight starts at midnight at Barbados. Openers
Speaker 12: Sam Constance and Kawaja Green is number three, English number four.
Speaker 12: A pretty We haven't seen that kind of line up
Speaker 12: for a long time with Australian cricket team. So it's
Speaker 12: a line up we haven't seen. But Sam concerts. I'm
Speaker 12: glad he's got his chance. Cam Green he's got to
Speaker 12: shose some runs.
Speaker 2: But you're very happy because Lava Shane's been dropped.
Speaker 12: Well, you're the one who keeps saying you're the one.
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Speaker 2: Were campaigning over summer Mate.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to spin the wheel Okay, I'm spinning.
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Speaker 12: I couldn't believe. I couldn't believe it.
Speaker 2: And I know that Ruth has just sent me a
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of two GB Sydney Now listeners who
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Speaker 12: I'm going to spin the wheel.
Speaker 2: Okay, seventh round numbers Winter Wheel. We are going to
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Speaker 31: MG?
Speaker 2: I'm ready ready to Okay, John is joining us? And
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Speaker 12: I'm feeling lucky for your brother good.
Speaker 25: A plant and then got AMG your legend?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 12: I'm good, buddy. I hope I can spin you up
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Speaker 2: Now, what's going to happen here?
Speaker 1: John?
Speaker 2: You know there's great prizes here National Tiles Dan to
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Speaker 2: To clarify I'm an old front roll mate. Come on,
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Speaker 12: We go three to one. Good luck, Johnny, Good.
Speaker 2: On, mate, it's slowing down, slowing down.
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Speaker 2: What's doing MG? Fifteen hundred dollars.
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Speaker 25: I've got dental bills from a week ago, and I've
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Speaker 2: Congratulations, John, well done, my friend, you are a winner.
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Speaker 12: You Clinton.
Speaker 2: MG will be co hosting with Adam Hares Wild. We're
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 1: Time to expose your minds. Do you may begin your
Speaker 1: questioning on.
Speaker 31: Sydney Now as questions questions patent, I know you are
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Speaker 2: Get right, Clinton's Quick Quiz and the winning continues on
Speaker 2: the program this afternoon. We've now got a great double
Speaker 2: pass to give away to go along to the ensemble
Speaker 2: Feta incurability to see the play. Primary Trust was driving
Speaker 2: to work today. I drove today. I didn't catch the
Speaker 2: train because it was so windy, and I was just
Speaker 2: driving through Piermont and there was a sign on one
Speaker 2: of the power poles that was actually advertising Primary Trust.
Speaker 2: Apparently it's great, Apparently, very funny. We've got double passes
Speaker 2: to give away all week. In the quiz, Kate joins
Speaker 2: us from Orangeville.
Speaker 13: Hello Kate, Hello Clinton, How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good, my friend. Are you feeling clever?
Speaker 15: Well, let's go with yes again.
Speaker 2: Excellent Kate, and you're gonna be up against Andrew and
Speaker 2: s Mary's Hello Andrew.
Speaker 16: Good day there.
Speaker 13: How are you going?
Speaker 2: I'm good? You can go first to k Andrew. Okay,
Speaker 2: your thirty second starts now. What is the day after
Speaker 2: Christmas Day?
Speaker 13: Called Boxing Day?
Speaker 2: Correct? True or false? Parts of the Matrix were filmed
Speaker 2: in Sydney, True correct, Who Sang Space, Oddity, David Bowie,
Speaker 2: Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar and Cat all
Speaker 2: musicals by Who Andrew Correct, in which New South Wales
Speaker 2: Mountain range. Would you find three sisters mountains?
Speaker 1: Correct?
Speaker 2: Andrew strong performance?
Speaker 21: Just one?
Speaker 2: Wrong, You've got four? Okay, Kate, no pressure, you've got
Speaker 2: to beat four four? Okay, thirty second starts now. What
Speaker 2: is the largest organ in the human body?
Speaker 27: Are the.
Speaker 1: Skin?
Speaker 21: Correct?
Speaker 13: In what year?
Speaker 2: In what year was the Aussie baby bonus introduced two
Speaker 2: thousand and four? Two thousand and nine, Oh.
Speaker 5: My gosh, let's go two thousand and four.
Speaker 2: Correct? The song TimewARP comes from which film I'm my
Speaker 2: momm of the Rookie Horror Show. Correct? What was the
Speaker 2: first animal to be cloned? Oh, come on, shape, we've
Speaker 2: got to draw. We've got four four? Or okay, Kate
Speaker 2: and Andrew. The way the tiebreaker works, I'm going to
Speaker 2: ask a question. Whoever throw our shouts out their name first,
Speaker 2: can answer the question. Okay, here we go. Which British
Speaker 2: Prime minister does Gary Oldman play in the Darkest Hour?
Speaker 2: Maybe just shout out a moment? Anyone? Anyone? Ok you
Speaker 2: can answer it then, because Hendrew's got no idea very famous,
Speaker 2: a very famous British prime minister. Maybe the famous to
Speaker 2: them all was in the Dark Plant Churchill. Correct, we
Speaker 2: had two brilliant contestants there who kept getting answers correct
Speaker 2: in the opening round, but then you couldn't answer the tiebreaker.
Speaker 2: Hey Kate, congratulations. We're going to go and send you
Speaker 2: off to the Ensemble Theater in Kiribilly to go and
Speaker 2: see Primary Trust. It's his great playoffs and lots of
Speaker 2: ads now for it Ensemble dot com dot au if
Speaker 2: you'd like to book tickets. An update from Carlingford so
Speaker 2: Pennett Hills Road remains closed. It is closed in both
Speaker 2: directions right at the moment near Shirley Street, but it
Speaker 2: also affects the Cumberland Highway and as we've been hearing
Speaker 2: from you throughout the afternoon, this is affecting roads including
Speaker 2: the M four. Effectively, everything in the region is impacted
Speaker 2: by what's happening with the crane. The crane is secure
Speaker 2: at the moment, but there are engineers from Merton who
Speaker 2: are on site. They say the risk of it actually
Speaker 2: toppling is low to moderate. We've been in contact with
Speaker 2: the police back Carlingford Court. It's been set up as
Speaker 2: an evacuation center, so it may well be the management
Speaker 2: has told Carlingford Court management to tell the shoppers to
Speaker 2: leave so they can create space for the evacuees from
Speaker 2: nearby housing.
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