WEBVTT - Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard – Full Show May 30th 0:00:12.200 --> 0:00:17.560 Onto GV. This is Sitney now with Clinton. 0:00:17.239 --> 0:00:19.840 Maynard bride a May three one eight seven three. It 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:22.840 is Clinton Maynard here. The weekend has almost arrived. It's 0:00:22.840 --> 0:00:25.520 been a beautiful day. Some clouds are rolled in over 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:28.000 the past couple of hours, but this time last week 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:31.120 it was pouring. Well, it's completely dry across Sydney and 0:00:31.160 --> 0:00:33.879 that's great because it means the trains should run on 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.160 time this afternoon. Now you know me, I'm a very 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.960 positive person. I have got great confidence. This afternoon, for 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:43.400 the first time in a week, I will not be 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.360 telling you about train delays. Nope, I'm very confident the 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.239 Sydney Trains management. They have it under control. You're all 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.040 going to get home on time on the trains, I 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.160 promise you. No, I won't guarantee it the roads. That 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.080 could be another matter. Will keep you up to date 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:58.920 for your trip home. Coming up on the program. The 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.280 Fine and Rescue Commissioner joined me. It is getting cold 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.319 across Sydney and that's already resulting in house fires. One 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.640 this morning at Bonnie rit where smoke alarms were turned 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:09.679 off because the residents do like to cook. It's more 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.400 common than you realize as well. I'll bring you the 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:14.320 latest on Penrith Council's threats to find one of our 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.319 listeners who had the cheek to use a bobcat to 0:01:17.319 --> 0:01:20.480 clean out a stormwater drain that if he didn't, his 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:23.440 neighbor's house would have been flooded. A staggering response from 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.720 the council. Today, Lego Master's back on the TV this weekend. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:28.680 The brickman joins me, how do you get that job? 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:29.119 Now? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.160 That'd be a good job. And mark guy with his 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.760 footy tips. I'm thinking of just copying MG from now on. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.680 You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:38.360 Sydney now, so text me zero four zero eight seven 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:40.440 three eight seven three have you say one three one 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:51.160 eight seven three? Well in Sydney right now. There's been 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.720 some hazardous serf hitting Sydney's eastern beaches. In particular today 0:01:54.840 --> 0:01:57.600 two people have been rescued at Cudgee Beach. They became 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:01.560 stuck on rocks. Fortunately neither a serious injured arrescue helicopter 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.480 had to be called in. And look, there's dangerous surf 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.560 right up and down the coast. This comes with the 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.120 hazardous surf warning it's been put in place for today, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.720 but also the entire coastline up and down New South 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:15.359 Wales until Sunday. Brett Menini is with surf life risk. 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:20.360 You get a Brett, tell me how about it is 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:20.800 out there? 0:02:21.880 --> 0:02:25.720 Maybe it's certain, say the swell pickup, and we're expecting 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.919 that to increase into Saturday, where we're going to see 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:33.000 this long range and long period swell impact from pretty 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.920 much Aid and up to Byron for the course of 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:36.440 the weekend. 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.040 How big is this swell in Sydney. 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.320 Yeah, we're approaching sort of that six to seven foot mark, 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:45.680 but that will be expected to rise potentially up to 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.720 sort of that two to three meter mark across the weekend. 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.720 And it's a long period nature of the swell that 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.800 has this probably concerned, particularly for rock fishermen. When we 0:02:56.880 --> 0:03:01.120 have these types of long period swells have more energy, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:05.160 they travel faster, and they're more well defined and powerful 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.040 waves that impact the coastline. 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.880 The fear yesterday was that the two waves would come 0:03:09.960 --> 0:03:13.320 quite close together, they'd say a fifteen second gap, which 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:15.960 is different to the way the surf usually operates. Is 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.120 that's what happened today. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:21.760 Yeah, basically that's what we find in the period as 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:24.440 well as is people head down, they jump on a 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:29.000 rock shelf or platform in between the gaps in the 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:33.640 waves and then find themselves caught out when these bigger, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.160 more powerful waves impact those rock platforms. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.080 Two people rescued from Kulji today. Look, it looks like 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:42.320 they're going to be okay, but that's just an example 0:03:42.320 --> 0:03:43.440 of the danger that exists. 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:47.960 Yeah, one hundred percent, Clint. We've seen across as when 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.560 we had a similar sort of swell impacted coastline, how 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:55.480 many incidents we saw and unfortunately those fatalities as well. 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:59.640 So really hoping people heed the warnings this weekend if 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.560 you then down to the coastline and surely you've taken 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:05.120 a proper safety of precautions and if you're rock fishing, 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.760 make sure you're observing those conditions and also ensuring at 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.560 the very least you have a life jacket with de. 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:15.880 Good luck this weekend. Thank you, Brent, Thanks Glenn, Brent 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:18.520 Manieri from Surf Life Saving New South Wales. So look, 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:20.359 it is pretty spectacular and a lot of people as 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:21.880 going down the beach to have a look and take 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:25.160 some photos. If you are an experienced surfer, best of 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:27.200 luck to you. If you like to go rock fishing, 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:30.280 maybe don't do it. This weekend eleven past three, there 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.480 is a warning from the Sees to stay informed if 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:36.239 you live around the Tempe Bridge in the Inner South, 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:39.200 around the Cooks River, there is predictably some minor flooding. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.640 This will only be minor because fortunately it's not raining 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.200 this afternoon, but the high tide is expected to bring 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:48.440 some minor flooding to the Cooks River around the Tempe Bridge. 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.920 If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.080 Sydney now with Clinton Maynard until six. 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.359 The task Force which is investigating Sydney's gang war, that 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.599 is Task Force Falcon, has now made its fir arrest. 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.680 And this arrest is in connection to a car that 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.279 police fear was going to be used potentially going to 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:09.680 be used in a gangland hit. And this is the 0:05:09.720 --> 0:05:13.839 way these gangs operate. They hire people to conduct the 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.600 very serious crimes. These people will steal a car potentially 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.240 months before the job that they then undertake, and then 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:25.560 the car is fitted out with what's necessary to complete 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:28.920 an underworld hit. Well, a sixteen year old boy has 0:05:28.960 --> 0:05:32.200 been taken into custody. He's now been charged the task 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.600 Force Task Force Falcon Police officers from that task force 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.480 discovered the car in Guildford. This was a mestolea Mercedes 0:05:39.520 --> 0:05:43.880 Benz inside the vehicle, a semi automatic rifle, a handgun, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.400 a jerrycan full of fuel, face coverings, ammunition. Now all 0:05:48.440 --> 0:05:51.680 that subject in our forensic investigation. Police have been searching 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:54.640 a home also in Guildford. Their sea's closed and mobile phones. 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:56.880 Sixteen year old in custody. He has been charged with 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:00.320 multiple offenses, including driving and disposing of a stole car. 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.080 The head of the task force is Detective Superintendent Jason Box. 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.440 And the repercussions are enormous for them. It's not just 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:10.240 a matter of driving a car to this location and 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.279 leaving it there. It's just a matter of assisting these 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.880 people to carry out these offenses. They will be dealt 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.120 with and in most cases with the sustain of offense 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:21.680 that the main offenders will be charged with. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:23.680 So the sixteen year old will before the courts and 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.440 police will obviously lead to This is only a minor player, 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:30.200 but it's one part of a much more complicated jigsaw puzzle. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.280 Good news for customers of the Commonwealth Bank. The Commonwealth 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.719 Bank has fixed their app. There was an issue this 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.200 afternoon over the past couple of hours that Commonwealth Bank 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.880 customers could not trans money transfer money from account to 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:46.480 account when using their app. Well, the comm Bank has 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:48.680 now fixed that. They've just given us a statement. An 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:52.000 issue affecting some transfers from combak accounts has been fixed. 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.720 You can now make transfers between your accounts and pay 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.160 someone using PAYID or BSB an account number in net 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:01.600 bank and the Combank app did affect our desktop computers 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.600 and their website as well. Making payments using your cards 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.880 using ATMs was not affected. The Comwealth Bank says we 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:10.440 are sorry for the inconvenience and we thank you for 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:14.320 your patients. Well, the Australian Electoral Commission is continuing to count. 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.800 They're continuing their recount in the seat of Bradfield. Now 0:07:17.800 --> 0:07:20.600 the gap between Gizl Captiri and the Liberal and Nicolett 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.760 Buller the teal has narrowed yet again. Miscapteriian is in 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.160 front by one vote the AEC, so there's nothing in this. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:29.760 The AAC says it will not be until mid to 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.680 late next week until they have a result. Thank goodness. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:35.760 It actually wasn't a quick election. Imagine if the election 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.920 came down to this one seat to Bradfield and the Tiles, 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.320 if it was going to be Nicolett Buller winning this seat, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.800 the Teals would have had enormous power in a minority government. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.480 But we wouldn't know, We may not know who the 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.680 prime Minister is going to be. Thankfully we're not going 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:52.480 to be a minority government. I don't think minority government 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:53.960 would have been good for any of us. I think 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.040 we're best with the majority government the AAC. You don't 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:58.840 want to rush the AAC. They need to take care 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:02.160 with these things. Meanwhile, still on politics, the staffter doing 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.920 The fallout from Susan Lee's decision about who to include 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.880 and who to exclude from her shadow cabinet is intensifying. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.840 Jane Hume. Of course, she was the shadow Finance Minister, 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.000 had a big profile before the election. She has spoken 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:15.960 out after she was dumped. She's not part of the 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.600 cabinet or even the out of ministry. She was asked 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.400 on Sunrise if she thinks she's been punished for her 0:08:21.480 --> 0:08:23.360 bungled work from home policy. 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:27.200 If you're asking me whether I've been I feel hurt 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.880 or slighted by this move from Susan Well, of course 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.079 it hurts, you know, it hurts professionally because I was 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:36.440 such a hard working and prolific and high profile member 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.079 of the front bench in the previous in the previous opposition. 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:43.960 And it hurts personally too because you know Susan and 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.320 I are friends. But isn't this the point now? This 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.280 isn't the playground, this is the Parliament. I'm not here 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.719 to make friends. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.400 Not here to make friends. And she's probably out on 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.560 the outer now with Susan Lee, and there's probably no 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.679 going high tis in Parliament Houses cafe in the near 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:01.920 huwe if you've got a view on the Liberals one 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:04.080 three one eight seven three. We've got plenty coming up 0:09:04.120 --> 0:09:06.760 in the program today, including MG with his tips after 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:08.600 five point thirty. If you'd like to have you say 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:11.240 semi a text message zero force zero eight seven three 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:14.439 eight seven three. This is Sydney now. Health Scope has 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:17.200 had a reprieve of sorts. Health Scope is the operator 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.680 of thirty seven private hospitals around the country, but also 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.480 the Northern Beaches Hospital, which is in part a public 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:27.120 hospital including public emergency. This week, the company's owners confirmed 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.360 they've gone into receivership Well news today that they have 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.720 reached a deal with the many of the public hub 0:09:33.960 --> 0:09:37.000 the buildings. Physically they trade out of the private hospitals 0:09:37.040 --> 0:09:40.240 to defer rent payments on eleven of those particular hospitals, 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:43.040 So they don't physically own those eleven hospitals. They operate 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:46.720 hospitals there, but the landlords have agreed to defer their rent. 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.920 That means that outstanding rent for March and April will 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:52.719 be paid, but then they won't need to pay any 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:57.000 more rent until August. The CEO of health Scope, Tina Lespina, 0:09:57.360 --> 0:09:59.679 has indicated that there should be a new owner by 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:03.600 me August, and he is confident that there's a lot 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.480 of interest in purchasing health Scope. One three one eight 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.320 seven three is our number. Yesterday I brought to you 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.760 the story about one of our listeners, Andrew, and I 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.080 think this is just staggering and it is such a 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:21.240 typical example of the way councils operate around Sydney. Andrews 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:22.839 to listen to the program. He's a veteran of the 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:27.040 Defense Force. He used a Bobcat to save his neighbours 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:30.040 home roughly this time last week in Londondery from flooding 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.200 during last week's down for it. His neighbor's home has 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:35.360 flooded before. Stormwater drain was all blocked up, was full 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:39.160 of debris. So wisely Andrew did the right thing by 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.400 his neighbor and cleaned out the stormwater drain with his bobcat. 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.400 Walk down and observed the drain that we've had plenty 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.560 of history. Risen would notify cancel on numerous occasions they've 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.760 come out and inspected it. I went down and had 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:52.480 to look at it and it was just backing up. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.560 It was blocked with debris and dirt, and I ran 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:58.200 back up in mcgumboots because of the flight of the 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:01.000 road was flooding and you know, there were minutes to 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:03.120 spare before again the water. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.640 Inundated my neighbor's home. So I started the Bobcat up, 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:09.000 drove down and used the Bobcat to remove the debris 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:12.080 in a safe manner. I placed the debris off to 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.400 the side of the road and I unblocked the drain 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.240 effective immediately the water started running properly, and the great 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:21.760 news was our neighbor's place for the first time didn't 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:25.720 flood after a storm event like that. Unfortunately, I returned 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:27.479 and our house had flooded. 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.480 So his hazard flooded a lot of flash flooding around 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:31.640 that area at this time last week. But his neighbor 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.600 had names has was saved because he did the right 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.920 thing and he unblocked the drain well. Penris City Council 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:37.480 weren't happy. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.880 I was literally pulling out the carpet. The next day, 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.160 Friday morning, I had underlay and you know, pulling out 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:46.640 the bleak carpet, and council arrived on our doorstep and 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.680 stated basically that they were waiting for windsor police to 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:52.360 attend the scene, that I was going to be charged 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:55.640 with operating bobcat that wasn't registered on a public road. 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.160 And I said, so maybe if that was the case, 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.480 this was an emergency situation. I had minutes to react. 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:05.160 I acted in a safe manner and achieve the mission 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:05.640 which I had to. 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.920 They help the bloody neighbor, and if. 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.440 They feel that way, go ahead and do it. I 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:10.199 really don't care. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.920 I'd do it in a heartbeat again tomorrow if it 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.840 means helping out our neighbors or protecting life called property. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.720 Andrew, so late in the program, you might have missed this. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.840 So I'll read this to you. Late in the program, 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.520 the council provided us with a statement counsel takes all 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.760 flooding complates seriously and as a regular maintenance program to 0:12:26.760 --> 0:12:29.880 serve as storm water and rural drains. Counselors aware of 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.520 localized flooding in the area. However, the drains were responding 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.760 as designed during the rain event. Well not in this case, 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.680 because homes were flooded. They say, we're continuing to investigate 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.720 the matter further. When inappropriate and unauthorized works are carried out, 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.400 compliance action may be taken. This is for the safety 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.080 of all in our community. So when inappropriate or unauthorized 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:50.200 works are carried out, those unauthorized works would be Andrew 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:53.520 cleaning out the block drain that they're responsible for to 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.880 save his neighbors. Well, rightly, we wanted to talk to 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.760 the mayor today. The mayor is Todd Carney. No, not 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.520 that Todd Carney. The mayor is Todd Carney, who's been 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:05.040 in charge of Penricity Council now for a couple of years. 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:08.280 He's a Deesel mechanic, probably understands Bobcats very well. He's 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:10.080 a good man. Todd. I've spoken to Todd on this 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.640 program on numerous occasions over the past couple of years. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.720 But we can't talk to Todd. No, we can't talk 0:13:16.760 --> 0:13:20.000 to the mayor. The council's PR officer has written to 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.920 us and says I'll read you the whole email. Availability 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.120 isn't an issue for Todd, but as the matter is 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.439 still under an investigation, it's not appropriate to discuss through 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:35.240 the media. Really, availability is not an issue, so he 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:38.240 can talk to us, but he can't talk to us 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.160 on the media because it's subject to investigation. Why not, seriously, 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:47.560 why not discuss it? What is there to investigate? Andrew 0:13:47.640 --> 0:13:51.000 admits he used a bobcat for about I think eight 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.120 minutes to one block a drain that the council is 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.959 responsible for and should have kept unblocked. What sort of 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.200 investigation do we need, like a royal commission? Should we 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.240 call a royal commission into this one? We've just been 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.959 through the pandemic. Do we bring in the UNHCR to 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.280 order an investigation in It's like what caused COVID? Was 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.960 it the lab in Wuhan? Is this an investigation on 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.560 the scale of IKAC investigating Gladysbury Jiclian's relationship with Darren Maguire. 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:22.560 It's gonna be that thorough. Are we going to have 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:25.720 public hearings? Will the full bench of the Federal Court 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.920 be involved. Andrew's not hiding anything. He used his bobcat 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:32.880 to clean out a drain that you Penrith Council are 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:36.280 responsible for and hadn't cleaned out, and that was threatening 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.960 to flood his neighbor's home, which has flooded in the past. 0:14:39.640 --> 0:14:43.320 That's all. And then you have the hide to threaten 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.680 to bill him to remove the debris that he removed 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.000 from the drain and then say the police also might 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.000 lay charges and find you and the mayor can't talk 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:58.000 because it's subject to an investigation. Seriously, what utter garbage? 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:02.200 That is complete and utter garbage. That's a good reason 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.640 to actually get rid of councils papers leaking. 0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:15.360 Okay, I'll be right back. Emergency emergency summonsored and needs 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.880 your help. Rescue team, Rescue team, come help us. 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.440 That's baby Bus, very popular cartoon with kids. Maybe maybe 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.400 we should get them to actually help in the streets 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:28.080 of Penrith and Londondry when the pipes have burst or 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.760 when there's a full water main when the stormwater drain 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:34.960 isn't working as intended, because they'll actually respond to an emergency, 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.400 unlike the Council and. 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:44.000 Good Josh Bright, Good afternoon Clinton. US Defense Secretary Pete 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:47.680 Hegseth says the relationship with Australia is as strong as ever, 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:50.040 as he met with Richard Miles on the sidelines of 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:53.520 a security conference in Singapore. Building approvals are at a 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:55.800 nine month low, according to the latest figures from the 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.680 Bureau of Statistics. Fewer apartments we're giving the green light. 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.280 In April, Pauline Hanson says she's elated with one Nation's 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.120 performance at the federal election, with a minor party doubling 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:08.400 its number of senators. Adamn has been extradited from New 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.400 Zealand and charged in relation to a twenty sixteen armed 0:16:11.480 --> 0:16:15.440 robbery in Perth. It's alleged he continued to taunt investigators 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:18.200 by phoning from New Zealand and saying catch me if 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.400 you can. In Sport, tomorrow night's NRL class at Brookvale 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.840 Oval between the Seagles and the Broncos has been declared 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.520 to sell out manly trying to avoid a fourth straight 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.480 defeat at home we'll have more news and sported for thanks. 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.840 Josh twenty degrees in the CBD twenty one degrees in 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.920 Campbelltown at the moment. Coming up later in the program, 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:35.640 I'm going to talk to one of the business owners 0:16:35.680 --> 0:16:37.640 that we spoke to when we were hosting the show 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:41.160 from Tare on Monday about how the week has progressed 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.400 with the cleanup following the floods and whether she's satisfied 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:46.160 with what the government's offering in terms of financial support. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.520 The King and Queen Camilla have released a statement today 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:53.160 to pass on their concerns about the flood. Statement reads, 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.320 My wife and I have been so greatly concerned to 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.240 hear of the widespread and devastating flooding across the Hunter 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.960 in the mid North Coast. Only say that our thoughts 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.000 are very much with all those people who've been affected 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.400 so badly, especially the family and friends of the five 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.080 people who tragically lost their lives. We send our special 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:11.520 prayers and our deepest possible sympathy sympathy to all those 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:14.119 who mourn them. That's a message from King Charles and 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.640 Queen Camilla. Twenty eight to four will cross to peter 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.840 Ford in just a moment, but the lines are gone 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:21.520 in the meltdown on the feedback line, zero force like 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.080 zero eight seven three out seven three about the behavior 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:28.199 of Penrith Council, their threat to issue fines and to 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:30.840 even bill one of our listeners, Andrew, who had the 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.520 temerity to use his bobcat to unblock a drain that 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.960 they're responsible for and to protect his neighbors from a flood. 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.119 Scott says, if anything, old mate and his Bobcat should 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.840 be billing the council for doing their job. It should 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.879 be given the Citizen of the Year award. Zach says, 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:48.840 good on him for helping the neighbor. That is so counsels. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:52.280 Mick says, seriously, the response from Penwrith Council shows how 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.680 pathetic they are because the mayor, Todd Carney, who's a 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.400 good man, didn't play much football. Different Todd Carney. I've 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.439 spoken to him on the show before, but the pr 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:03.640 hacks that the council won't let him come on because 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.000 they say it's subject to investigation. Roz is in mos VWL. 0:18:07.000 --> 0:18:09.199 Hello ros Oh Hi Klinton. 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:11.760 I'm just wondering how they can be taking it seriously 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.480 After the councilor you spoke to yesterday, raised this very 0:18:15.520 --> 0:18:18.960 issue about this very drained and the very neighbor last 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.199 year who's been flooded two minutes after she laid a 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:23.800 new carpet after previously. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.160 Yeah, he had a plan to spend seven million dollars 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:27.800 and it would have been his money. It's rate payers 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:29.960 money to spend that money to upgrade the storm water 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:32.520 drain system. And the government didn't or that the counsel 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:33.800 didn't approve it. 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:36.160 Ridiculous, ridiculously ridiculous. 0:18:36.280 --> 0:18:38.280 Keep on it, thanks, ros. We certainly will. And look, 0:18:38.440 --> 0:18:40.679 I beg to speak Todd Carney. Maybe he'll change his 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.439 mind and he'll come on the program later the day 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:45.040 because he's a good fella. He's a diesel mechanic. He 0:18:45.119 --> 0:18:49.399 understands bobcats. Does he have a Bobcat LICENSEE? Maybe we'll 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:51.240 get him a Bobcat license, we'll organize it. Maybe he 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:53.600 can go out there with his Bobcat himself. But Andrew's 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.840 got one, Andrew knows how to use it, and he's 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.520 doing a lot of good around the community to help 0:18:57.560 --> 0:18:58.160 other people. 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.919 You're listening to sit now with Clinton Maynard on TGB 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:05.159 cool Now one three one eight. 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.439 Seven three, Let's talk to me at detainment. Channel seven 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:12.080 is changing their afternoon programming lineup. Peter Ford, good afternoon. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.000 Good afternoon to you Clinton. Yeah, an interesting move today 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:18.320 announced by seven. In amongst various changes, one of the 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:23.000 more significant was the current seven Sydney news director Sean Power, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.159 is relocating to Melbourne and he looks bag on a 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:28.600 variety of different duties, but one of them will to 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:34.160 be overseeing the putting together a brand new national show. 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:38.560 Now they haven't specified it's an afternoon show, but certainly 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:40.440 there's been a lot of buzz around for the last 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.520 couple of weeks that seven are planning to do a 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.479 probably three o'clock in the afternoon show. We don't know 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.440 whether that would be an advatorial based program or whether 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:54.240 it's strictly news program. I guess with Sean envolved, probably 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.040 you'd be leaning more towards it not being advertorial based, 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:01.679 but an interesting program. Bean decision for them. As you know, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:04.880 the afternoon goes on, it becomes more and more important 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:05.879 for them to grab viewers. 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.639 Yeah, I was at Channel seven very briefly, had a 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:11.239 very brief television career. Peet. They decided to get rid 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.159 of me, which is fair enough. But about it was 0:20:13.200 --> 0:20:16.640 at the time of the Iraq War, around maybe two 0:20:16.640 --> 0:20:19.639 thousand and three, two thousand and four, and at that 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.560 point everything in news was about the six pm news 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.280 and this is before the days obviously of well the 0:20:25.359 --> 0:20:27.760 Sky News exist in then, but the streaming services weren't 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.600 around them, and the boss at the time he decided 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.159 to introduce a four thirty news bought and the reason 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.520 for that was because of the war, and once it 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:37.680 started it was popular, people watched it, so they kept 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:38.240 it ever since. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:39.040 Yeah. 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:42.600 Yeah, interesting how sometimes things can just evolve like that. 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.159 There's been a little bit of buzz around that Alex 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.399 Cullen might stage you come back and be fronting this 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:49.480 new program. 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:49.920 Now. 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:51.920 Alex of course was with The Today Show till a 0:20:51.960 --> 0:20:55.040 couple of months ago, and that all was very messy 0:20:55.080 --> 0:20:58.320 and unfortunate, so this would be a good gig for him. 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.320 It'd opt to relocate with his family to Melbourne. But yeah, 0:21:02.480 --> 0:21:04.520 we'll get more information as the weeks go on. 0:21:05.040 --> 0:21:07.760 Mag there is being swamped with messages of support, but 0:21:07.840 --> 0:21:10.960 also probably understandably interview requests. 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.399 Yeah, a lot of interview requests. All the obvious suspects 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.720 have come out to say, will you come on our show? 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.199 Can we do an interview with you? She's saying no 0:21:19.400 --> 0:21:24.000 to everything, which perhaps either indicates that she basically has 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:26.960 said what she wants to say for now, or it 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:30.320 might mean that she already has secured a magazine deal, 0:21:30.359 --> 0:21:33.640 a paid deal, or a TV deal, in which case 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:38.119 obviously she can't say anymore until that commitment has been fulfilled. 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:41.280 But incredible number of messages on social media, and this 0:21:41.400 --> 0:21:44.399 really is when you do see social media at its best, 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:49.440 and people from Kylie Mino to Sam Neil, Terry Irwin, 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:53.480 Danny Minou, Dave Views, Natalie and Brilliant or getting on 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:56.320 there and sending her love and support, as well as 0:21:56.359 --> 0:22:00.920 about fourteen thousand other regular people just felt the need 0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:03.760 and the desire to do the exact same thing. So 0:22:04.240 --> 0:22:07.080 she certainly does have a lot of good will behind 0:22:07.119 --> 0:22:07.960 her on this journey. 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:09.960 One of our listeners got in contact with me late 0:22:10.040 --> 0:22:13.639 yesterday and her mother was diagnosed with the same condition 0:22:13.720 --> 0:22:16.160 now many years ago, and her mum was given six 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:19.280 months to live. Twenty years later, she's still here, So this. 0:22:19.280 --> 0:22:22.720 Wow, that's fantastic. Yeah, And even in that space of 0:22:23.040 --> 0:22:27.000 twenty years. I'm sure that the treatments available are probably 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.360 vastly improved as well. So yeah, she has great confidence. 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.920 I exchanged messages with her last night and she's getting swamps, 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:36.280 so that it was only a brief message back, but yeah, 0:22:36.320 --> 0:22:39.280 you just get a She's certainly been buoyed by the 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:42.360 great number of people who've come forward and said good 0:22:42.359 --> 0:22:42.680 on you. 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:45.439 Oh good well. Peter passed on the thoughts of all 0:22:45.440 --> 0:22:48.199 the listeners to this program in this station, everyone, no 0:22:48.200 --> 0:22:51.360 matter what their political opinions are or what entertainment they enjoy. 0:22:51.359 --> 0:22:53.400 I think everyone has some time for and the best 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:53.960 wishes are. 0:22:53.840 --> 0:22:55.520 With her one percent. 0:22:55.560 --> 0:22:56.159 Thanks perthin. 0:22:56.240 --> 0:22:57.680 We'll talk to Peter Ford next week. 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:00.920 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear and on Sydney 0:23:00.960 --> 0:23:03.080 now with Clinton Maynard on. 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:06.160 To gb There has been a fall in the number 0:23:06.160 --> 0:23:11.640 of new buildings approved homes, apartments and also free standing housing. 0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.159 Figures from the Australian Bureau Statistics have been released today 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:18.720 that show the number of dwellings approved has fallen by 0:23:18.760 --> 0:23:21.320 five point seven percent in April to fourteen thy six 0:23:21.400 --> 0:23:23.240 hundred and thirty three. Now, this is across the whole 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:25.760 country in New South Wales, there's actually been an increase, 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:28.840 which is good because it's needed. An increase of seven 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:31.760 point three percent. No doubt Chris Mens will be happy 0:23:31.760 --> 0:23:34.280 to read those figures given what happened with Rocil Racecourse 0:23:34.320 --> 0:23:36.000 this week. If you see something on the roads or 0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:37.879 even the public transport network that we need to know 0:23:37.920 --> 0:23:40.439 about this afternoon, send me a text message zero four 0:23:40.520 --> 0:23:43.320 six zero eight seven three eight seven three. Steve told 0:23:43.400 --> 0:23:45.480 us about that accident that's occurred on the M two. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.280 It's involving three vehicles. It is westbound just past the 0:23:49.400 --> 0:23:51.960 Lane Cove Road exit. Now there's a lot of traffic 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.399 in the area. There are no emergency services there yet. 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:56.679 Hopefully they're going to get there pretty quickly because that 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:58.760 is going to cause traffic chaos. One three one eight 0:23:58.840 --> 0:24:01.440 seven three. Tell me when was the last time you 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:05.040 checked your smoke alarm. This is an important reminder because 0:24:05.160 --> 0:24:08.800 winter begins on Sunday and continuously we see year after 0:24:08.840 --> 0:24:12.040 you're in winter and increase in house fires. There's been 0:24:12.080 --> 0:24:13.720 a couple in the last forty eight hours. There was 0:24:13.760 --> 0:24:17.199 a house fire and Bonnie Rig this morning and the 0:24:17.240 --> 0:24:19.920 residents admit they've admitted to Fire and Rescue that they 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:22.399 had actually switched off the smoke alarms. They disconnected the 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:26.520 smoke alarms, reason being they apparently cook a lot. It's 0:24:26.520 --> 0:24:28.199 probably not a real good reason to turn off your 0:24:28.240 --> 0:24:31.560 smoke alarm. Jeremy Futrell is the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue, 0:24:31.600 --> 0:24:33.399 New South Wales and joins a steaker for your time, 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.000 Commissioner kay clean good to be with you. This is 0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.680 an important reminder because winter starts on Monday. On Sunday 0:24:39.800 --> 0:24:40.120 it is. 0:24:40.080 --> 0:24:41.880 And it's the time of the year when we see 0:24:41.880 --> 0:24:44.960 the greatest number of fires in people's homes, and it's 0:24:44.960 --> 0:24:47.800 the time of the year unfortunately we see a rise 0:24:47.840 --> 0:24:50.399 in the number of injuries and fatalities from fires, and 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.280 a lot of that is due to people not having 0:24:52.280 --> 0:24:53.240 a working smoke alarm. 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.240 We've been hammering the smoke alarm message, that would seem 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:59.600 Jeremy for twenty odd years now. And it's when you 0:24:59.600 --> 0:25:01.800 build house obviously you need smoke alarms in there. So 0:25:02.080 --> 0:25:03.679 why do you think some many people do don't have 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:05.040 the more have working alarms. 0:25:06.240 --> 0:25:08.440 Well, smoke alarms have been required in New South Wales 0:25:08.480 --> 0:25:14.119 for almost twenty years now. People I think have got 0:25:14.160 --> 0:25:16.959 a little bit complacent. They're the thing on the ceiling 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.280 that we hope we never ever need. But when you 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:21.119 need it, you need it more than anything. And the 0:25:21.160 --> 0:25:23.920 biggest single thing that people can do to make sure 0:25:23.920 --> 0:25:26.399 that they and their families stay safe is to have 0:25:26.480 --> 0:25:29.760 working smoke alarms in their homes. And so Fire and 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:32.159 Rescue are recommending everyone to take a bit of time 0:25:32.400 --> 0:25:36.520 tomorrow on Sunday to spend a few minutes to check 0:25:36.560 --> 0:25:39.160 their smoke alarm because people will often tell us, oh, yeah, 0:25:39.200 --> 0:25:42.040 we've got a smoke alarm, but when we actually check 0:25:42.080 --> 0:25:43.960 it or when we see it, it's not working. And 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.639 we know that that's in about almost fifty percent of 0:25:46.640 --> 0:25:49.800 the homes that we go into. So there's a big 0:25:50.000 --> 0:25:52.919 risk out there for people. And we also see the 0:25:52.960 --> 0:25:55.640 people that do die or get seriously injured in fires, 0:25:56.080 --> 0:25:59.159 a very great proportion of them don't have working smoke alarms. 0:25:59.359 --> 0:26:01.960 And yes, there are two main styles of smoke alarms, 0:26:02.000 --> 0:26:04.359 the ones that are the hardwired into your home and 0:26:04.520 --> 0:26:06.640 ones you might as buy hardware store buntings or something 0:26:06.640 --> 0:26:09.120 like that on batteries. Is there really a difference between 0:26:09.160 --> 0:26:11.640 the two. Should you have the hard wire one over 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:12.399 the battery ones. 0:26:14.000 --> 0:26:16.800 No, people may have a hard wire one if their 0:26:16.800 --> 0:26:20.480 house has been built in more recent times, but either 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:24.360 of those options, they're all designed to comply with appropriate 0:26:24.400 --> 0:26:27.360 Australian standard and that means that they'll operate and work 0:26:27.400 --> 0:26:31.000 in the same way. The hardwired ones will often have 0:26:31.040 --> 0:26:34.000 the advantage of being interconnected, so that means if one 0:26:34.080 --> 0:26:36.679 goes off, any other alarms in the house will go 0:26:36.720 --> 0:26:39.480 off at the same time. But you can even get 0:26:41.000 --> 0:26:43.840 battery ones that you install manually that have that functionality 0:26:43.840 --> 0:26:47.720 now with that sort of Bluetooth Wi Fi type connection skills. 0:26:47.760 --> 0:26:49.919 So there's a. 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.600 Range of options, but the bottom line is there's not 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:55.520 really any excuse for fifteen or twenty dollars. You can 0:26:55.600 --> 0:26:59.840 get a smoke alarm that's going to provide invaluable protection 0:27:00.040 --> 0:27:02.200 for you and your family, to give you the early 0:27:02.280 --> 0:27:04.479 notice to be able to get out quickly. And what 0:27:04.520 --> 0:27:07.800 we're seeing now, particularly in more recent years with things 0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:11.080 from liftium ion battery fires, just how quickly the fires 0:27:11.119 --> 0:27:14.359 are developing, and so having that early notice is really 0:27:14.359 --> 0:27:16.719 the best protection that people can have to become alert 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.320 of a problem and then take action to get out safely. 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:21.640 And just on those batteries. Jeremy, we've spoken, we spoken 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:23.959 on this program before with you about the electric bikes. 0:27:23.960 --> 0:27:26.360 But you might not have an electric bike, but most 0:27:26.400 --> 0:27:28.000 of us, you know, in a garage these days, have 0:27:28.040 --> 0:27:30.359 some sort of battery device because so many appliances are 0:27:30.400 --> 0:27:30.760 using them. 0:27:30.760 --> 0:27:34.359 Now, yeah, that's right, And just you know, through the 0:27:34.359 --> 0:27:36.040 course of the last week, we've had a number of 0:27:36.040 --> 0:27:38.760 fires involving litium ion batteries. Some of them were bike 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:42.160 batteries that others were batteries in other devices as well. 0:27:42.520 --> 0:27:44.280 The one thing that they all have in common is 0:27:44.280 --> 0:27:48.040 when they fail, they fail really quickly and so suddenly 0:27:48.040 --> 0:27:51.520 people will have a very intense fire developing inside their 0:27:51.520 --> 0:27:53.520 home when one of these batteries fail. 0:27:53.800 --> 0:27:56.439 Just so you've got you've got some garden tools, and 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:58.239 they use one of those battery packs that you use 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:01.159 on different tools. If you haven't brought it off the 0:28:01.200 --> 0:28:03.080 internet from some dodgy website, you've brought it from a 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:06.040 hardware store. Is it safe to leave those on charging 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.440 overnight or should you are your best to turn them off? 0:28:09.520 --> 0:28:10.960 The best thing is to turn them off and take 0:28:11.000 --> 0:28:13.479 them out of the charger once they're we charged, So 0:28:13.800 --> 0:28:16.040 put it on you know, maybe finish mo on the 0:28:16.080 --> 0:28:19.040 lawn or doing the edges or whatever you're doing. Put 0:28:19.080 --> 0:28:21.560 it onto charge, you know, go and get cleaned up 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:23.320 from working in the yard, watch the football at the 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.200 end of the football game, go down and take it off, 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:27.040 you know, give it that time that it needs to 0:28:27.119 --> 0:28:30.520 charge up. But certainly not leaving it on overnight. That's 0:28:30.600 --> 0:28:33.480 the times when people are overcharging things. Well, they might 0:28:33.560 --> 0:28:35.760 leave it on for days and days, and you know 0:28:35.800 --> 0:28:37.560 that's where people are at a greater risk or something 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:38.280 not going right. 0:28:38.360 --> 0:28:38.560 Yeah. 0:28:38.680 --> 0:28:40.320 Just just lastly, Jeremy, the reason I wanted to talk 0:28:40.320 --> 0:28:42.000 to you is one because you have the smoke alb 0:28:42.000 --> 0:28:44.080 action down Sunday. But secondly, I heard about the fire 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:47.160 this morning at Bonnie Rick. Unfortunately not nobody was harmed, 0:28:47.160 --> 0:28:49.920 but your officers obviously had to attend to it. The 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:52.880 resident has admitted to your teams that they turn the 0:28:52.880 --> 0:28:55.640 smoke alarms off because they cook a lot. Just you know, 0:28:55.800 --> 0:28:57.120 you might cook a lot, but it's not a reason 0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:58.000 to turn alarm off, is it. 0:28:58.880 --> 0:28:59.080 No. 0:28:59.200 --> 0:29:02.560 And the big thing is putting smoke alarms inappropriate location 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.320 so you don't necessarily need it in the kitchen or 0:29:05.360 --> 0:29:07.680 near the kitchen because that is going to cause that annoyance, 0:29:07.680 --> 0:29:10.840 and that's when we do see people, you know, disconnecting 0:29:10.840 --> 0:29:13.080 the smoke alarms or covering them up. So you know, 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:15.400 if that's the case, talk to your electrician. If it's 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:18.080 a hardwired one and get them to reposition them for you, 0:29:18.560 --> 0:29:20.280 or if it is just a battery one that you 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:22.320 can install or remove, you know, take it down and 0:29:22.320 --> 0:29:24.640 put it in a better spot. The space where we 0:29:24.720 --> 0:29:27.560 really want them is particularly close to the bedroom so 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:29.720 that when people are asleep at night, they don't smell 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:32.160 the smoke, and that's the smoke alarm that will detect 0:29:32.200 --> 0:29:34.200 the smoke and give them the alarm and wake them 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:34.800 up to get out. 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:37.560 Actually, just finally you mentioned the electrician there. If we 0:29:37.640 --> 0:29:40.240 have some maybe some elderly people listening who aren't quite 0:29:40.280 --> 0:29:42.720 sure what to do, can they drop into a fire station, 0:29:42.760 --> 0:29:43.560 just ask you guys. 0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:45.720 Oh, I definitely, And they don't even have to drop 0:29:45.720 --> 0:29:47.600 in if they want to, just call their local fire 0:29:47.680 --> 0:29:51.160 station or they can get online at fire dot NSW, 0:29:51.280 --> 0:29:53.680 dot gov dot au. But either way they can ask 0:29:53.720 --> 0:29:56.720 for the firefighters to come out and check their smoke alarms. 0:29:56.760 --> 0:29:59.480 If people don't have smoke alarms, we'll put them in 0:29:59.520 --> 0:30:02.680 and make sure that they're safe and the batteries if 0:30:02.680 --> 0:30:05.400 they've made new batteries, will check them they're working and 0:30:05.760 --> 0:30:09.040 replace any batteries. Particularly for the elderly people in our 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:12.160 community or those that are vulnerable in any way, please 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.520 reach out to the fire stations. Your crews are always 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:16.520 happy to come out and check and to make sure 0:30:16.560 --> 0:30:17.880 people are safe in their own homes. 0:30:18.160 --> 0:30:20.160 Good on your Jeremy for doing that because I know 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:22.040 some people just don't understand how these things work and 0:30:22.080 --> 0:30:24.920 could do with that help. Thank you, Commissioner. Thanks very much, 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:27.440 Commissioner Jeremy fair Trail from Fine Rescue, New South Wales. 0:30:27.520 --> 0:30:30.120 So Sunday is the day because it's the first day 0:30:30.120 --> 0:30:32.520 of winter. Just that reminder to check your smoke alarms. 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.120 Look a lot. Probably more people than you think turn 0:30:35.160 --> 0:30:37.680 them off because you're in the kitchen, you're cooking the 0:30:37.720 --> 0:30:40.040 sausages and they give it smoking. The smoke alarm starts 0:30:40.120 --> 0:30:42.520 going off and you they're waving a broomstick trying to 0:30:43.080 --> 0:30:46.120 bash away the smoke. But think about where that smoke 0:30:46.160 --> 0:30:48.240 alarm is. There can be better locations of where you 0:30:48.280 --> 0:30:50.160 could have it in your home. Plenty of dramas on 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:51.760 the roads. If you see something, let me know one 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:53.520 three one eight seventy three from one of our listeners, 0:30:53.560 --> 0:30:56.480 there's a car accident Withers Road, Rouse Hill at the moment, 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:59.080 really heavy traffic there and the emergency services are not 0:30:59.200 --> 0:31:02.000 there yet. Just one car involved. It's blocking one of 0:31:02.000 --> 0:31:04.600 the lanes. No one appears to be hurt. It's six 0:31:04.680 --> 0:31:07.800 to four Fresh Food Friday. Thanks to our great mates 0:31:07.800 --> 0:31:10.640 at Harris farm Markets. They have partners of our program, 0:31:10.880 --> 0:31:13.400 Harris farm Markets. They're opening up all over Sydney. I 0:31:13.400 --> 0:31:15.080 think they're going to open up one in my place. 0:31:15.560 --> 0:31:17.320 I can't wait for that to happen. Let's find out 0:31:17.360 --> 0:31:20.000 what's good at the moment. Carlos Cerevello is the head 0:31:20.000 --> 0:31:22.040 of fresh buying at Harris farm Markets. 0:31:22.080 --> 0:31:24.640 Get I Carlo, Hey, good afternoon, Clinton. 0:31:24.640 --> 0:31:25.040 How we going. 0:31:25.160 --> 0:31:27.560 I'm good. I'm looking forward to some nice fruit this weekend, 0:31:27.640 --> 0:31:30.360 just given we're now heading into winter. What's good right now? 0:31:31.680 --> 0:31:33.760 Well, there's putting a good stuff in for it this week. 0:31:34.000 --> 0:31:35.600 We got it's we're in the middle of apple and 0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:38.000 pear season, so they're all right on point. At the moment. 0:31:38.440 --> 0:31:41.800 We actually have our imperfect PACKMS on in all thors 0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:45.520 at a really good price. Strangely enough, Clinton, I know 0:31:45.600 --> 0:31:48.400 it's not the right weather for it, but seedless melanie 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:52.280 is really really good value and amazing quality. At this 0:31:52.400 --> 0:31:54.520 time of year. We draw it out of the territory 0:31:54.560 --> 0:31:58.280 in Queensland. It's unfortunate the weather doesn't really sue, but 0:31:59.400 --> 0:32:02.120 it just eating so well. It's nice, hard and crunchy 0:32:02.200 --> 0:32:04.760 and super sweet. But I suppose it's the price which 0:32:04.800 --> 0:32:08.240 is keeping those prices down. But customers don't be afraid 0:32:08.240 --> 0:32:09.880 to get in it and try the seedlers. No one 0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:11.240 is amazing eating this week. 0:32:11.360 --> 0:32:13.800 What about vegetables. 0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:16.520 Vegetable markets quite stable and there's a lot of good 0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:20.360 values throughout vegetables. There's a couple of noted exceptions to that, Clinton, 0:32:20.400 --> 0:32:22.720 which I'd like to let everyone know that tomatoes are 0:32:23.040 --> 0:32:26.120 about as expensive as they get. They hit one hundred 0:32:26.160 --> 0:32:29.160 bucks in the wholesale markets this week, which is obscene. 0:32:29.960 --> 0:32:33.400 And beans we are in what we call a planting gap, 0:32:33.440 --> 0:32:36.160 and that is, you know, when it rains, obviously farmers 0:32:36.160 --> 0:32:40.280 can't access their grounds to plant because it's not too 0:32:40.280 --> 0:32:43.160 wet and unsuitable for equipment to go over, So we 0:32:43.240 --> 0:32:44.920 get what we call a planting gap, and that's what 0:32:44.920 --> 0:32:48.760 we're in. But lest assured that this is done a 0:32:48.800 --> 0:32:51.200 short term phenomenon. We expect it to change pretty quickly 0:32:51.200 --> 0:32:52.719 in the next week or so. So that but they 0:32:52.720 --> 0:32:55.480 are extremely expensive this week. But we don't want to 0:32:56.000 --> 0:32:58.040 we don't want to panic or we have it the 0:32:58.080 --> 0:33:00.720 next reason for an interest rate rider like that, it's 0:33:00.720 --> 0:33:01.920 a short term phenomenon. 0:33:02.120 --> 0:33:04.320 I know, the inflation rate. When they came out with 0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:06.280 the inflation rate figures at the ABS this week, they 0:33:06.280 --> 0:33:08.840 actually blamed eggs. Seriously. They said part of it the 0:33:08.920 --> 0:33:11.840 high egg prices because of inflation run us through the 0:33:11.840 --> 0:33:14.080 weekend specials at Harris Farm Markets. 0:33:13.720 --> 0:33:15.840 This week, well, we've got some fantastic stuff. We've got 0:33:15.920 --> 0:33:18.280 snow white cup mushrooms on at eight ninety ninety k 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:21.240 saving about four or five bucks and they are superb 0:33:21.920 --> 0:33:24.280 Banana's on this weekend at two ninety nine, which was 0:33:24.360 --> 0:33:26.600 a couple of dollars saving, and they are tremendous eating 0:33:27.360 --> 0:33:29.720 Charlotte's ninety nine cents a bunch. You would be hard 0:33:29.720 --> 0:33:32.080 pressed to find cheaper Shalotts in Sydney and at ninety 0:33:32.120 --> 0:33:35.320 nine cents a bunch and Klee for all the exercise 0:33:35.360 --> 0:33:37.640 breaks out there at two bunches for two bucks fifty. 0:33:38.400 --> 0:33:41.920 They are mostly Sydney based and grown so support the 0:33:41.960 --> 0:33:44.360 local growers and they are also fantastic quality. 0:33:44.360 --> 0:33:47.000 This week, now, I mentioned the start there that you've 0:33:47.120 --> 0:33:49.480 got Sydney stores everywhere these days, but you have that 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:51.920 a busy week because you've just opened your store in Merrickville. 0:33:52.560 --> 0:33:56.120 Yeah, so we kicked off Marrickville last Thursday and it 0:33:56.240 --> 0:34:01.320 was obviously the weather wasn't really great weather open the stop. 0:34:01.320 --> 0:34:04.800 But it's settled down nicely there in Marrackville and no, 0:34:04.920 --> 0:34:08.359 it's traveling really really well. We're coming out to your 0:34:08.560 --> 0:34:11.160 where we're going into the Shire and in a few 0:34:11.160 --> 0:34:12.600 months we'll be in Miranda. 0:34:12.800 --> 0:34:14.800 We've been waiting Miranda. 0:34:14.880 --> 0:34:17.759 So it'll be a fantastic shop and it's only I 0:34:17.760 --> 0:34:20.000 think you'll see that around September and it'll be an 0:34:20.040 --> 0:34:20.800 amazing store. 0:34:20.960 --> 0:34:22.040 Excellent. I'm glad to hear that. 0:34:22.040 --> 0:34:24.720 Good on you, Carlo, have a great weekend. 0:34:24.400 --> 0:34:26.640 You two, mate. Carlo Siravolo, who's the head of fresh 0:34:26.680 --> 0:34:29.719 buying at Harris Farmer Markets. Harris farm Markets fifty years 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:32.960 of providing the fresher fruits, veggies and meats. They're still 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:36.200 family owned. Find you need restore Harrisfarm dot com, dot you. 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.439 They have opened the Numeric full store and yes they're 0:34:38.480 --> 0:34:44.080 opening at Miranda later this year. This is Sydney. Now 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:48.000 we've clinton on to gin b Well. I promised to 0:34:48.080 --> 0:34:50.399 be no delays on the trains this afternoon. I did 0:34:50.440 --> 0:34:52.200 not promise there be no problems in the roads and 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:54.960 certainly there are dramas all over the place. Hearing about 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:58.719 some significant delays now on both the M four and 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:01.920 the M five. Gree thank you for sending that message 0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:05.400 at in Croydon, the Croydon area westbound M four and 0:35:05.440 --> 0:35:08.399 then the M eight. Thank you Gregory. Now we've brought 0:35:08.400 --> 0:35:09.960 you that news. Just before the news, there's been an 0:35:09.960 --> 0:35:12.719 accident involving a police car in Wentworthville. It's occurred on 0:35:12.760 --> 0:35:16.960 the Cumberland Highway just near railway overpassed so Dacey Road. 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:20.319 Occurred three forty five. Now we've just spoken with the 0:35:20.360 --> 0:35:23.960 police about this. They've confirmed there was a crash involving 0:35:24.000 --> 0:35:27.440 another vehicle. Our listeners tell us it was a Mercedes Benz. 0:35:27.480 --> 0:35:29.680 It was driven by a woman we believe who looks 0:35:29.719 --> 0:35:32.600 like she's okay. One of our listeners saw her sitting 0:35:32.640 --> 0:35:34.400 by the side of the road that she looks like 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.560 she's okay, probably in shock. Three police vehicles have rushed 0:35:37.600 --> 0:35:41.040 to the scene. In the traffic the northbound lanes are 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:43.719 now banked up. The ambulance is also heading there to 0:35:43.800 --> 0:35:46.520 check that everyone's all right. The police are telling us 0:35:46.560 --> 0:35:49.839 they're unsure of any injuries now. Our witnesses tell us 0:35:49.880 --> 0:35:52.719 it looked like the police are okay, but we don't 0:35:52.719 --> 0:35:55.480 have that confirmed yet from the paramedics. But that is 0:35:55.520 --> 0:35:58.680 an accident involving one police car. Also, a Mercedes Benz 0:35:58.719 --> 0:36:01.800 has been a t bone. It's just near the railway 0:36:01.840 --> 0:36:05.279 overpass in Wentworthville on the Cumberland Highway, so if you're 0:36:05.320 --> 0:36:06.959 driving through that area, please take some care. 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:11.200 We are part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called 0:36:11.200 --> 0:36:13.160 one three one eight seven three. 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.000 Coming up after five o'clock. I'll be talking to one 0:36:15.040 --> 0:36:16.799 of the business owners that we spoke to when we 0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:19.480 were in Tarare early this week about how she's now 0:36:19.520 --> 0:36:22.360 coping almost a week on from the floods. The Premier 0:36:22.440 --> 0:36:24.440 has been there this week, the Prime Minister's been there 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:27.640 this week. They've announced various packages of financial assist and 0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:29.600 so I don't think they're going to make a huge 0:36:29.640 --> 0:36:32.560 amount of difference. It's a start, but both the Premier 0:36:32.600 --> 0:36:34.480 and the Prime Minister says there will be more help 0:36:34.520 --> 0:36:36.600 on the way, and I think that's necessary. What is 0:36:36.640 --> 0:36:39.360 critical for those that have gone through this flood is 0:36:39.400 --> 0:36:42.560 that changes are made to how insurance operates in these 0:36:42.600 --> 0:36:47.320 areas that are commonly flooded. And Tari unfortunately was flooded 0:36:47.320 --> 0:36:50.320 also in twenty twenty one, which effectively means the insurance 0:36:50.360 --> 0:36:52.440 companies and I spoke with the Insurance Council and they 0:36:52.480 --> 0:36:54.879 say that the suggestion that the whole of the mid 0:36:54.880 --> 0:36:57.680 North Coast won't be able to be ensured, that's not correct. 0:36:57.719 --> 0:37:00.560 But there will be areas around Tari when there already 0:37:00.600 --> 0:37:04.080 are where it's completely unaffordable to ensure your house because 0:37:04.120 --> 0:37:07.399 insurance premiums per year can be twenty twenty five even 0:37:07.440 --> 0:37:09.160 thirty thousand dollars a year. There needs to be a 0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:11.799 long term solution because it's not easy just to say 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:14.040 to somebody if they've lived in a spot their whole life, 0:37:14.040 --> 0:37:16.800 and if their business operates there as well, just believe 0:37:17.080 --> 0:37:19.879 I'll look at that again after five o'clock. But need 0:37:19.880 --> 0:37:23.560 is today that a fourth man has been charged over 0:37:23.640 --> 0:37:27.759 looting looting in Tari. This was a bloke who was 0:37:27.800 --> 0:37:31.920 on a bike pushbike. The police stopped him in Crescent 0:37:31.960 --> 0:37:35.439 Avenue in Tari. They searched his bags. The police say 0:37:35.520 --> 0:37:38.680 they found items suspected of being stolen, including credit card, 0:37:38.719 --> 0:37:41.879 business records, jewelry and watchers. Thirty seven year old man 0:37:41.920 --> 0:37:45.320 take it to Tari police station, charged with various offenses, 0:37:45.320 --> 0:37:48.880 including six counts of goods in personal custody, but also 0:37:49.120 --> 0:37:51.640 not wearing a bike helmet. I'm sure that's the one 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:54.160 he's worried about. That he is appearing before the courts. 0:37:54.160 --> 0:37:56.520 He is now on bail. He's actually been refused bail, 0:37:56.800 --> 0:37:58.879 so well done to the magistrate in the Tari Local Court. 0:37:58.920 --> 0:38:02.560 He'll reappear in court on Tuesday. Three other men have 0:38:02.680 --> 0:38:05.120 also been charged with looting, a twenty year old, a 0:38:05.160 --> 0:38:07.480 twenty nine year old and a forty four year old. 0:38:07.680 --> 0:38:11.040 One of those men is accused of stealing a defibrillator. 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:16.080 That's right, stealing something that saves people's lives. Ten past four. 0:38:16.239 --> 0:38:19.040 I've still got so much feedback here about the story. 0:38:19.040 --> 0:38:21.480 We spoke to one of our listeners about yesterday and 0:38:21.480 --> 0:38:24.799 also touched on the first hour Andrew who lives in Londonderry, 0:38:25.360 --> 0:38:28.239 who is a veteran, and he's a kind hearted veella. 0:38:28.680 --> 0:38:31.279 He's got a Bobcat and he helped his next door 0:38:31.320 --> 0:38:35.080 neighbor from their home being flooded by unblocking a drain. 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:38.960 And he did this because he has the skills and 0:38:39.000 --> 0:38:43.840 because the council didn't. The council is responsible for stormwater 0:38:43.920 --> 0:38:48.200 drains in Londonderry and the situation was that the home 0:38:48.400 --> 0:38:51.000 next door to our listener Andrew has been flooded previously 0:38:52.000 --> 0:38:54.200 and the drain was so clogged up. He was deeply 0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:56.799 concerned that that home had be flooded again, so he 0:38:56.840 --> 0:38:59.719 did the right thing and unblocked it. And I've got 0:38:59.719 --> 0:39:03.680 some messages here because Penrith Council is threatening to issue 0:39:03.719 --> 0:39:05.640 him with a bill to clean up the debris that 0:39:05.680 --> 0:39:09.839 he uses Bobcat to remove from the drain, and then 0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.160 they've said the police may consider charging him as well. 0:39:12.160 --> 0:39:14.279 It's ridiculous. He should be given the Citizen of the 0:39:14.320 --> 0:39:16.760 Year award, but no, he could be copying a fine. 0:39:17.480 --> 0:39:19.920 Absolutely crazy. Now I asked to speak with the mayor today, 0:39:20.200 --> 0:39:25.360 Todd Carney, and we've been formally told availability isn't an issue. 0:39:25.480 --> 0:39:28.040 The matter is still under investigation, so it's not appropriate 0:39:28.080 --> 0:39:30.920 to discuss through the media. Why not what sort of 0:39:30.920 --> 0:39:34.240 investigation they running? They need to run a Royal Commission, 0:39:34.400 --> 0:39:37.520 special Commission of inquiry. What do we need to bring 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:40.120 in a former Supreme Court judge to examine why he 0:39:40.239 --> 0:39:45.080 used his bobcat to unblock a drain faired income from 0:39:45.200 --> 0:39:47.359 Sara on the text line, oh my goodness, I am 0:39:47.400 --> 0:39:49.719 sick of counsels and their bully boy attitude. It is 0:39:49.920 --> 0:39:54.040 just pathetic. Another one of our listeners, can you sue 0:39:54.040 --> 0:39:56.840 a council for failure to keep drains clear of debris 0:39:56.880 --> 0:39:59.400 if your house gets flooded? We should get rid of 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:02.600 local council was one hundred percent. Look, I want to 0:40:02.600 --> 0:40:05.560 actually have a look at this broader issue from somebody 0:40:05.560 --> 0:40:07.840 who actually understands the state of our stormwater system and 0:40:07.960 --> 0:40:11.120 drainage systems. We know we have a fairly old pipe 0:40:11.120 --> 0:40:14.600 network and that's the reality of the age of our city, 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:16.799 but what can be done to improve it? What can 0:40:16.840 --> 0:40:21.080 be done to prevent stormwater drains from bursting and causing 0:40:21.080 --> 0:40:23.600 floods in our neighborhood. Nathaniel Smith is the CEO of 0:40:23.600 --> 0:40:26.560 the Master Plumbers Association and joins me. Thank you for 0:40:26.560 --> 0:40:26.880 your time. 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:29.680 Nathaniel, Yeah, good thee here from mc clinton. 0:40:29.719 --> 0:40:31.080 I just wanted to talk about the bigger picture to 0:40:31.120 --> 0:40:34.120 start with the Sydney's stormwater drain system at the moment, 0:40:34.680 --> 0:40:36.600 is it up to scratch. 0:40:37.640 --> 0:40:42.520 Well, it would be penned from council to council. Many 0:40:42.560 --> 0:40:46.719 councils run a pretty good maintenance system. They look after 0:40:46.760 --> 0:40:51.480 their streets, they make sure that the stormwater is flowing. 0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:55.440 They regularly cleaned. Others may not, So it depend on 0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:58.440 the council and the financial position of the council. How 0:40:58.440 --> 0:41:01.520 it's ran the culture of the unseil. Do they have 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.879 their own works team? Do they subcontract the whole range 0:41:04.880 --> 0:41:05.640 of things like that? 0:41:05.800 --> 0:41:07.239 And is that how it works across the whole of 0:41:07.239 --> 0:41:09.600 Sydney and greater New South Wales. The councils are completely 0:41:09.640 --> 0:41:11.839 responsible or is there an element where Sydney Water has 0:41:11.880 --> 0:41:13.080 responsibility for stormwater. 0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:17.680 Sydney Water is mainly responsible for the sewer and water 0:41:17.760 --> 0:41:22.239 and obviously water in New South Wales. Water in New 0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:25.840 South Wales sort of runs the obviously dams and the network. 0:41:26.880 --> 0:41:30.480 But then in regional areas that they're in charge of, 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:33.640 say the sewer and the water and the storm water 0:41:33.680 --> 0:41:35.680 as well. So for instance, I live in Wig your 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:39.680 Carriby Shyke Council and they look after all three. 0:41:39.960 --> 0:41:42.080 Because on the surface, and I know you've been involved 0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:44.640 in government as well, you're part of the previous state government. 0:41:45.280 --> 0:41:47.200 I know that whenever we get a lot of rain 0:41:47.239 --> 0:41:51.080 in Sydney and it's sudden rain, it would appear anecdotally 0:41:51.080 --> 0:41:54.000 that our stormwater system doesn't really cope. Well, we have 0:41:54.040 --> 0:41:55.480 flash flooding all over Sydney. 0:41:56.200 --> 0:41:59.279 Well that's right, because it's very old infrastructure and we're 0:41:59.320 --> 0:42:01.440 going up and up, up, and we're building up and up, 0:42:01.480 --> 0:42:05.560 and there's less screen space for water to basically dissolve 0:42:05.600 --> 0:42:10.279 into the ground. And when you've got old infrastructure that 0:42:10.960 --> 0:42:14.200 wasn't used to that population, say thirty forty years ago, 0:42:14.640 --> 0:42:16.359 you're going to get it's going to back up. 0:42:16.560 --> 0:42:17.879 So how do you get around it? Do we need 0:42:17.920 --> 0:42:20.160 to replace all the pipes? Do we need to expand 0:42:20.200 --> 0:42:21.160 the system dramatically? 0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:25.320 You need to obviously expand the pipes. Is there's ways 0:42:25.320 --> 0:42:28.480 they can do that now, some new technologies where they 0:42:29.080 --> 0:42:31.960 pipe blasting. It's called there's a couple of companies that 0:42:32.040 --> 0:42:34.400 do that where they can expand the size of the 0:42:34.400 --> 0:42:41.080 pipework under the ground. That's one way, but obviously it's 0:42:41.320 --> 0:42:45.680 really studying these areas and that's why those do flood 0:42:45.719 --> 0:42:48.279 studies regularly and a lot of council areas, and that's 0:42:48.280 --> 0:42:51.760 why some people can't build in certain places. 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:54.720 The cost of be extraordinary, wouldn't it. 0:42:54.040 --> 0:42:58.960 It is extraordinary. Yeah, The infrastructure for stormwater is very 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:01.680 expensive because you're taught looking in some areas, you know, 0:43:01.760 --> 0:43:06.919 five hundred pipes, concrete, civil pipes. Its heavy civil work, 0:43:08.080 --> 0:43:11.279 and you know you're talking about easements where you take 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:15.160 opening up whole roads. So it's very expensive. One way 0:43:15.239 --> 0:43:18.720 to try and keep as much water on the property 0:43:18.719 --> 0:43:21.960 as by people having rain water tanks in their backyard 0:43:22.040 --> 0:43:23.920 or under their house if they can, if they can 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:27.480 do it, that would take pressure off the stormwater system. 0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:32.279 But that's one that's one tiny solution. But really it's 0:43:32.320 --> 0:43:33.680 just preventive maintenance. 0:43:34.040 --> 0:43:35.960 You've heard our story about you've heard our story and 0:43:35.960 --> 0:43:38.720 I thank you about our listener who has been threatened 0:43:38.719 --> 0:43:41.640 with fines that the council says they are going to 0:43:41.640 --> 0:43:43.960 send him a bill because he removed debris from their 0:43:43.960 --> 0:43:45.520 still more to drain, and now they've got to remove 0:43:45.520 --> 0:43:47.320 the rest of the debris. You think it shows a 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:49.799 lack of understanding from the council that they're taking that 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:50.680 action against this fella. 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:56.440 That's absolutely outrageous. The council should be obviously maintaining these streets, 0:43:57.160 --> 0:44:00.400 and the debris has obviously come from trees that aren't 0:44:00.400 --> 0:44:05.040 probably obviously in that person's property. And really, I think 0:44:05.120 --> 0:44:08.239 local government should be focusing other things and running investigations. 0:44:08.480 --> 0:44:12.640 They should be focusing on maintaining their streets, their pathways 0:44:12.960 --> 0:44:13.760 and their drains. 0:44:14.160 --> 0:44:16.160 I know there's a thorough investigation. Looks like bring the 0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:18.800 full bench to the federal courting to run it as well. Andrew, 0:44:19.120 --> 0:44:23.239 this fella, Andrew, he had a bobcat. He used it 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:25.600 for eight minutes or so to unblock the drain and 0:44:25.600 --> 0:44:27.919 it was actually effective. What do you think about Andrew. 0:44:28.080 --> 0:44:30.600 Oh, Andrew, it sounds like an absolute legend. He should 0:44:30.600 --> 0:44:34.120 be getting a Citizen of the Year, not looking at 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:36.160 getting a fine from counsel. He was doing their work 0:44:36.200 --> 0:44:39.920 for them, and unfortunately you'll have this with local government 0:44:39.960 --> 0:44:42.200 areas state government pure cats. They don't like to be 0:44:42.200 --> 0:44:45.080 shown up. They do not like to be shown up. 0:44:45.080 --> 0:44:47.040 They never like to admit that they're wrong because then 0:44:47.080 --> 0:44:50.880 everyone would second guess them. But I think it's outrageous 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:53.080 that he's been investigated. I think they should drop it 0:44:53.160 --> 0:44:56.040 right now because he's doing good community service. 0:44:56.160 --> 0:45:01.040 Absolutely, absolutely appreciate your insight. Thank you, Nathaniel, No problem 0:45:01.360 --> 0:45:03.840 Doneiel Smith. He's the CEO of the Master Plumbers Association. 0:45:03.960 --> 0:45:07.360 So it's not an easy situation to fix across the 0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:11.239 city because we have aging infrastructure, we have a growing population. 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:14.279 We know about the challenges that that brings, so it's 0:45:14.280 --> 0:45:17.879 not easy just to replace the entire pipe network. The 0:45:17.880 --> 0:45:21.880 councils firstly have an obligation to maintain their systems, and 0:45:21.920 --> 0:45:24.920 then when somebody does the right thing by their neighbors, 0:45:25.800 --> 0:45:28.839 the council should respond by saying, oh gee, thanks mate, 0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:31.919 we really appreciate your helping us out there. Yet yeah, 0:45:32.040 --> 0:45:34.040 we were the ones who actually have stuffed up by 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.880 not clearing out the drain soon enough. You've actually helped people. 0:45:36.920 --> 0:45:39.319 Thank you so much. You know what will bring you 0:45:39.360 --> 0:45:42.080 along to our next big council meeting and will award 0:45:42.160 --> 0:45:46.120 you the Citizen of Londonderry award. How about that. No, no, no, no, no, 0:45:46.280 --> 0:45:48.799 Penrith Council. They just want to find him. They just 0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:51.800 want to bring the police in and then the mayor. No, 0:45:51.440 --> 0:45:55.200 no mayor confront up because part of a formal investigation. 0:45:55.680 --> 0:46:05.720 Complainer's leaking. Okay, I'll be right back. Emergency emergency, someone 0:46:05.800 --> 0:46:09.279 sort and needs your help. Rescue team, rescue team, come 0:46:09.440 --> 0:46:10.080 help us. 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:12.359 Well, Penrith Council won't come help us. 0:46:12.680 --> 0:46:13.319 No way. 0:46:13.600 --> 0:46:16.480 You got a view on that one three one, eight, seven, three, 0:46:16.920 --> 0:46:19.080 twenty two past forty your calls and your feedback on 0:46:19.120 --> 0:46:21.960 Penrith Council in just a moment. Susan Lee has today 0:46:22.320 --> 0:46:26.400 laid her mother to rest, Angela Mary Braybrooks, passed away 0:46:27.040 --> 0:46:31.280 during the leadership battle. She was ninety three years of age. 0:46:31.440 --> 0:46:34.600 There's been a touching ceremony in her hometown of Aubrey 0:46:34.760 --> 0:46:41.280 today at Saint Matthew's Church, and Susan Lee has delivered 0:46:41.400 --> 0:46:44.759 an extraordinary eulogy and she was actually joined by some 0:46:44.800 --> 0:46:48.360 of her coalition colleagues. And this is actually what what 0:46:48.400 --> 0:46:51.560 I should make note of. Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack 0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:56.200 both at the service. Now Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack, 0:46:56.480 --> 0:46:59.000 and you might call them elders now the National Party. 0:46:59.200 --> 0:47:01.239 They missed out on spots in the front bench. Now 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:04.040 that actually isn't the call of Susan Lee. Effectively, that's 0:47:04.160 --> 0:47:08.520 David Little Prowd's call. But for them to obviously they 0:47:08.520 --> 0:47:11.120 are disappointed and they've made public comment about that. They're 0:47:11.120 --> 0:47:13.680 disappointed to not be part of the coalition front benchmen. 0:47:13.719 --> 0:47:17.359 Both are former Deputy Prime ministers. I think that says 0:47:17.400 --> 0:47:20.480 a lot about their character. For those two National Party 0:47:20.560 --> 0:47:24.840 MPs to attend the funeral service of Susan Lee's mother. 0:47:26.520 --> 0:47:29.759 She gave the eulogy and she obviously was very emotional 0:47:30.120 --> 0:47:32.040 during that, and she spoke of the loss that she 0:47:32.160 --> 0:47:35.360 felt following the death of both her parents. She thanked 0:47:35.360 --> 0:47:39.120 her mother for lessons in resilience and tenacity, she told 0:47:39.160 --> 0:47:42.359 the service. When you've lost both of your parents, it 0:47:42.400 --> 0:47:44.760 feels as if the roof has lifted off your world, 0:47:46.400 --> 0:47:49.480 she told the congregation. As I sat quietly last weekend 0:47:50.160 --> 0:47:53.280 in a precious window of time, going through my mother's papers, 0:47:53.360 --> 0:47:58.200 letters and photographs, I had a deep sense of gratitude 0:47:58.239 --> 0:48:03.280 for the things she taught meatience, persistence and self reliance, 0:48:04.000 --> 0:48:07.319 how to lift your eyes and without fear take on 0:48:07.360 --> 0:48:10.160 the world well. Susan Lee is certainly going to take 0:48:10.200 --> 0:48:13.120 on a lot in the coming months and coming years 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:16.640 as the first female leader of the Federal Liberal Party 0:48:17.120 --> 0:48:27.359 and the Opposition. It's twenty four past four one one 0:48:27.480 --> 0:48:30.960 eight seven three is our number on Penrith Council. Sue, 0:48:31.120 --> 0:48:33.120 are you a constituent of Penrith Council? 0:48:34.280 --> 0:48:34.719 I am. 0:48:35.000 --> 0:48:39.960 I am a resident in Penrith Council with an open drain, 0:48:41.000 --> 0:48:46.480 and our drain I maintain it's it's it's like. 0:48:46.440 --> 0:48:47.280 A lovely lawn. 0:48:47.960 --> 0:48:53.520 But either side of me, this open drain is unmaintained. 0:48:54.200 --> 0:48:57.520 And what happens every time we get a big rain event, 0:48:57.880 --> 0:49:03.480 this strain to fill up and backs up because it 0:49:03.600 --> 0:49:09.040 can't get away. I have been onto this drain with 0:49:09.239 --> 0:49:13.479 council for many years and I've sent a whole heap 0:49:13.560 --> 0:49:19.600 more emails and phone call since since again since about January, 0:49:19.719 --> 0:49:23.719 and have yet to be replied to. We's also been 0:49:23.719 --> 0:49:28.520 to council meetings and about having all the drains in 0:49:28.600 --> 0:49:32.680 the area cleared, and Penriss don't want to put the 0:49:32.719 --> 0:49:35.880 extra money towards it. They just want to spend one 0:49:35.920 --> 0:49:40.600 hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a report, and there 0:49:40.719 --> 0:49:43.279 is the last time they we went in, they said, 0:49:43.320 --> 0:49:46.799 oh no, we needed to report for another area of 0:49:46.920 --> 0:49:48.240 Penris Council first. 0:49:48.760 --> 0:49:52.200 Well, so can I ask you to me a favor? Yes, 0:49:52.760 --> 0:49:54.879 I don't want you to ask your neighbors for any help, 0:49:55.560 --> 0:49:57.520 because if you ask your neighbors for help to clean 0:49:57.560 --> 0:49:58.920 out that train, you know what's going to happen. 0:50:01.120 --> 0:50:02.160 Ah, Well, they don't. 0:50:02.480 --> 0:50:04.560 They'll be like, They'll be like Andrew, They'll copp a 0:50:04.600 --> 0:50:07.160 fine from the council. They'll probably send the police around 0:50:07.160 --> 0:50:11.200 there to make arrests. Your counsel's behavior is outrageous, suit, 0:50:11.239 --> 0:50:13.399 And I'll tell you what, We're not going to drop 0:50:13.440 --> 0:50:16.359 this one. And I know Todd Carney, as I said, 0:50:16.360 --> 0:50:18.520 he's come on this program previously about other issues. He 0:50:18.520 --> 0:50:21.000 seems like a really decent bloke. But I don't know 0:50:21.040 --> 0:50:24.640 who is getting advice from because he could actually fix 0:50:24.680 --> 0:50:27.640 this really quickly. And yes, there's the greater issue of 0:50:27.680 --> 0:50:31.919 how Penrith's wastewater system is properly maintained, but he could 0:50:31.960 --> 0:50:34.880 fix the issues of neighbors who help other neighbors. Then 0:50:34.920 --> 0:50:37.319 getting into trouble by saying that's ridiculous and rip up 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:39.160 the plan. I'm sorry to hear you going through that zoom. 0:50:39.200 --> 0:50:41.359 We're not going to stop on this one, Grant says 0:50:41.400 --> 0:50:44.080 our hero. Bobcat driver in Penrith took eight minutes to 0:50:44.120 --> 0:50:46.120 fix a problem that probably would have needed ten council 0:50:46.160 --> 0:50:50.000 workers a week. Mark says councilors should clean up the 0:50:50.040 --> 0:50:52.600 creeks and get rid of the shopping trolleys that are 0:50:52.600 --> 0:50:57.920 often dumped in creeks and are overgrown. Spot on seven 0:50:57.960 --> 0:51:00.000 three is our number. I told you about that crash 0:51:00.000 --> 0:51:02.920 wh a little earlier Cumberland Highway which is just near 0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:06.000 the railway Overplass in Wentwethfield. It is involved a police 0:51:06.040 --> 0:51:08.680 car and a Mercedes. There's been a t bone accident there. 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:11.480 Now we've just had some more information from the paramedics. 0:51:11.480 --> 0:51:14.680 They are treating two of the police officers. It appears 0:51:14.719 --> 0:51:18.399 that they've suffered some we hope minor head injuries. They 0:51:18.560 --> 0:51:21.799 have some bleeding from the head. The paramedics are now 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:24.319 unseen and there treating those police officers. No one else 0:51:24.360 --> 0:51:26.799 has been injured, so it's our information. There was a 0:51:26.840 --> 0:51:30.040 female driver of the Mercedes. She is I think in shock, 0:51:30.120 --> 0:51:33.000 but she hasn't been injured. Two of the northbound lanes. 0:51:33.040 --> 0:51:35.600 There are six northbound lanes there on the Cumberland Highway. 0:51:35.640 --> 0:51:39.040 Two of those lanes are closed. The southbound lanes are 0:51:39.040 --> 0:51:41.279 though open and that's flowing okay. Obviously traffic there on 0:51:41.320 --> 0:51:44.560 the Cumberland Highway at Wentworthville near the railway overpass is 0:51:44.640 --> 0:51:47.040 very heavy at the moment, so the emergency services are 0:51:47.040 --> 0:51:49.640 still there on the scene. The police officers are being treated. 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:51.440 Two of them are being treated at the moment for 0:51:51.719 --> 0:51:54.160 head injury. Some bleeding from the head. Will provide you 0:51:54.160 --> 0:51:57.200 more details as it comes to hand on Penrith Council. 0:51:57.400 --> 0:52:00.560 There is multiple suggestions of this. When it comes to 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:01.320 Penwrith Council. 0:52:01.640 --> 0:52:03.520 There's got to be an investigation into this. 0:52:03.520 --> 0:52:05.919 This has to be accountable for this. 0:52:07.200 --> 0:52:13.839 They ain't. They're not accountable. Let's check our news headlines. Hello, 0:52:13.960 --> 0:52:16.040 Josh Bryant, Good afternoon, Clinton. 0:52:16.120 --> 0:52:18.759 A police car is one of two vehicles involved in 0:52:18.800 --> 0:52:21.880 a crash of Wedworth Feel in Sydney's West. Two officers 0:52:21.960 --> 0:52:24.600 understood to be being treated for injuries at the scene. 0:52:24.719 --> 0:52:27.560 Polis a warning criminal groups are using young people to 0:52:27.600 --> 0:52:31.279 help carry out serious offenses. In Sydney, a sixteen year 0:52:31.280 --> 0:52:34.600 old has been charged with multiple offenses, accused of driving 0:52:34.680 --> 0:52:38.080 a so called kill car to a location in Sydney's West. 0:52:38.400 --> 0:52:39.160 A fourth man. 0:52:39.080 --> 0:52:41.520 Has now been charged with looting on the flood affected 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:44.680 Mid North Coast of New South Wales, and Commonwealth Bank 0:52:44.719 --> 0:52:48.960 customers are being assured after earlier issues transferring money online, 0:52:49.040 --> 0:52:52.600 they have now been resolved. In sport, Australian basketballer Johnny 0:52:52.600 --> 0:52:54.960 Furphy's enjoyed a rare cameo for the New York Knicks 0:52:54.960 --> 0:52:57.400 in the NBA. He was on court for sixty seconds 0:52:57.440 --> 0:52:59.680 as the next scored a seventeen point win over the 0:52:59.719 --> 0:53:02.560 Indiana Pacers. Well, I have more news and sport at. 0:53:02.440 --> 0:53:04.480 Five, Thank you, Josh. 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But just bear that in mind. 0:54:43.280 --> 0:54:45.600 If you want to open a small business, if for 0:54:45.640 --> 0:54:48.520 some reason you need an ABN, you don't have to 0:54:48.520 --> 0:54:50.759 pay for it. You can go to Service New South 0:54:50.760 --> 0:54:53.240 Wales or you can go to the federal government's website. 0:54:52.960 --> 0:54:57.240 ABR dot gov dot au. You'll want to know what's 0:54:57.280 --> 0:55:01.240 happening in Sydney. Stay tuned to s Now with Quinton 0:55:01.800 --> 0:55:03.560 and on to gb. 0:55:03.600 --> 0:55:06.080 The French have always been known as a very free race, 0:55:06.120 --> 0:55:09.239 a free and open society. They have announced today that 0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:12.960 they are moving to ban smoking in public places where 0:55:13.040 --> 0:55:17.480 children spend time, including beaches, parks and outside schools. It's 0:55:17.480 --> 0:55:20.640 going to come into force in July. It'll be enforced 0:55:20.640 --> 0:55:24.320 by the police. Their Health minister says the aim is 0:55:24.360 --> 0:55:27.200 to get rid of cigarettes from all places frequented by children. 0:55:27.600 --> 0:55:30.040 She says the freedom to smoke must end where the 0:55:30.080 --> 0:55:34.080 freedom to children to breathe begins. Smokers who breach the 0:55:34.120 --> 0:55:36.719 rules be find the equivalent of two hundred and thirty 0:55:36.719 --> 0:55:39.840 seven dollars. The ban will be enforced by regular police, 0:55:39.880 --> 0:55:42.520 but the Minister says she hopes people show self regulation. 0:55:42.800 --> 0:55:45.399 Just a surprise. If you've ever been to Paris, you'll 0:55:45.440 --> 0:55:47.960 know that pretty much. It's quite extraordinary. Pretty much every 0:55:47.960 --> 0:55:52.400 second person smokes, everyone does it. It's very different to 0:55:52.640 --> 0:55:55.439 the way things happen here, so it's quite surprising they've 0:55:55.440 --> 0:55:59.719 decided to take that decision. Seventy three. Vivid is continuing 0:55:59.760 --> 0:56:03.160 the evening. I went to a Vivid concert last week. Look, 0:56:03.320 --> 0:56:07.440 it was a concert by one of my favorite performers, 0:56:08.040 --> 0:56:10.799 and they dressed it up as a Vivid concert because 0:56:10.800 --> 0:56:14.400 they're from Iceland and they're touring the country and they 0:56:14.400 --> 0:56:15.920 were playing at the Opera House in the first night 0:56:16.000 --> 0:56:18.680 a Vivid. You might not have heard of them. Their 0:56:18.719 --> 0:56:27.600 name is Cigar Roos. Probably not the sort of music 0:56:27.600 --> 0:56:30.640 well usually play on this program, but I've liked them 0:56:30.640 --> 0:56:32.759 for years and years. Anyway, they were playing with the 0:56:32.800 --> 0:56:35.320 Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, and yes, so 0:56:35.360 --> 0:56:38.879 I decided i'd be quite cultural last Friday night. Now, 0:56:38.960 --> 0:56:40.759 I must admit it's been a long time since I've 0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:43.120 been to a concert at the Opera House. It usually 0:56:43.160 --> 0:56:45.840 I usually have different tastes, and this was. This concert 0:56:45.880 --> 0:56:48.840 was magnificent. Let me tell you, I'm not afraid to 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:50.919 admit it. I had tears welling in my eyes throughout 0:56:50.920 --> 0:56:53.640 the performance. I'm not kidding you, but this is what 0:56:53.719 --> 0:56:56.520 really jumped out of me. You know, during the performance. 0:56:56.600 --> 0:56:59.880 It wasn't until their final song, which is sort of 0:56:59.880 --> 0:57:03.239 the we might describe be a hit song. Did anybody 0:57:03.280 --> 0:57:06.320 pull the mobile phone out? Now, I go to concerts 0:57:06.360 --> 0:57:08.680 and gigs from time to time, and most of the 0:57:08.719 --> 0:57:10.680 bility the audience pull out a phone to take a 0:57:10.680 --> 0:57:15.160 photo to video it. During this no one would, and 0:57:15.200 --> 0:57:17.480 I must admit the times I even was tempted to 0:57:17.560 --> 0:57:19.520 take a photo, but no, there's no way I was 0:57:19.560 --> 0:57:21.760 going to pull out the phone because no one else was. 0:57:21.800 --> 0:57:24.240 Now is that the dumb thing when you go to 0:57:24.360 --> 0:57:26.160 a to see an orchestra, if you go to the 0:57:26.200 --> 0:57:28.280 opera house? Is that the way you do things at 0:57:28.320 --> 0:57:30.560 the opera House? I think it was magnificent. Actually think 0:57:31.720 --> 0:57:34.880 I really felt the music and felt the performance because 0:57:34.920 --> 0:57:36.360 I didn't have a phone in my hand, and I'm 0:57:36.440 --> 0:57:38.120 usually pretty good like that. I didn't go to a 0:57:38.160 --> 0:57:41.000 gig and film the whole damn thing. But I thought 0:57:41.040 --> 0:57:43.520 it was so refreshing that people were there just to 0:57:43.640 --> 0:57:46.880 enjoy the music. And right at the end, yes, at 0:57:46.880 --> 0:57:49.000 the end people did take out their phones. Not everybody, 0:57:49.040 --> 0:57:51.080 but people were using their phones to take a photo, 0:57:51.120 --> 0:57:54.360 particularly when the band and the orchestra were taking the 0:57:54.400 --> 0:57:57.880 applause and bowing to the audience there. But it was 0:57:58.080 --> 0:58:01.120 just so different that people who were not using their 0:58:01.120 --> 0:58:03.600 phone at a big concert. I just thought it was wonderful. 0:58:19.640 --> 0:58:21.280 You might need to give me a lesson in culture. 0:58:21.360 --> 0:58:23.240 Is that just that the done thing when you go 0:58:23.280 --> 0:58:24.880 along to the opera, when you go to the ballet, 0:58:24.920 --> 0:58:27.040 when you go to the Sydney Opera house. Let me know. 0:58:27.880 --> 0:58:31.040 Seven three Lego Masses returns to TV this Sunday night 0:58:31.080 --> 0:58:33.680 on nine. I'm talking to the Brickman after five o'clock, 0:58:33.720 --> 0:58:36.120 looking forward to that. Just the latest from the crash 0:58:36.120 --> 0:58:40.440 scene Cumberland Highway, Wentworthfield near the railway overpass. Emergency services 0:58:40.440 --> 0:58:42.360 are still on the scene there. There's been a crash. 0:58:42.400 --> 0:58:44.640 If you're just tuning in involving a police car and 0:58:44.680 --> 0:58:47.520 a Mercedes Benz a t bone. The driver of the 0:58:47.520 --> 0:58:50.360 Mercedes looks like she's okay, but paramedics have been treated 0:58:50.400 --> 0:58:54.080 to police officers. It appears their injuries are fairly minor, 0:58:54.400 --> 0:58:56.600 but they have been treated for some bleeding to their head. 0:58:56.960 --> 0:59:00.360 Eighteen to five Figures released by the Australian Bureau of 0:59:00.360 --> 0:59:03.640 Statistics today don't paid a positive light for the economy. 0:59:03.720 --> 0:59:07.600 Operating profits of Australian businesses as a whole have fallen 0:59:07.680 --> 0:59:10.800 by eight point six percent in the financial year twenty 0:59:10.840 --> 0:59:14.960 twenty three to twenty twenty four. The ABS says the 0:59:15.040 --> 0:59:18.840 dropping profitability of Australian companies reflects an economy responding to 0:59:18.920 --> 0:59:23.560 inflationary pressure, higher interest rates and lower global demand. Another 0:59:23.600 --> 0:59:26.640 problem for the Albaneze government to fix text messages about 0:59:26.720 --> 0:59:29.720 using mobile phones at concerts. As I've said, I went 0:59:29.760 --> 0:59:31.120 to the Opera House, first time I been to the 0:59:31.160 --> 0:59:34.600 Opera House for a concert in decades, on Friday night, 0:59:35.080 --> 0:59:39.080 and nobody touched their mobile phone until the second last 0:59:39.080 --> 0:59:41.520 song of the concert. Was a two hour concert, and 0:59:41.560 --> 0:59:44.400 I thought I tactually thought it was great and because 0:59:44.440 --> 0:59:47.160 nobody else touched their phone, I wasn't tempted to do 0:59:47.440 --> 0:59:49.720 the same thing, and then I really felt the music. 0:59:49.760 --> 0:59:52.840 I really enjoyed the experience. Ian says on the text 0:59:52.840 --> 0:59:56.120 line Eu Moss Mossi from Cold Chisel, he has banned 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:58.480 people from using their phones to video when he's on 0:59:58.520 --> 0:59:59.959 the next two A. Yeah, that was a big story 1:00:00.000 --> 1:00:02.120 couple of weeks ago, wasn't it. Sharon says, not long ago. 1:00:02.160 --> 1:00:04.000 I saw tom Odell at the Opera House with an 1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:07.680 orchestra and had the same experience as you. People were spellbound. 1:00:08.160 --> 1:00:11.240 They forgot they had a phone. Actually, Sharon, that's what 1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:14.120 it was like. I was so engrossed in the music 1:00:14.640 --> 1:00:17.560 that you didn't really think about once you realize that 1:00:18.040 --> 1:00:20.520 other people weren't doing it. You didn't think about using 1:00:20.520 --> 1:00:22.680 your phone and you just enjoyed the music. 1:00:23.480 --> 1:00:26.880 You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tuned 1:00:27.000 --> 1:00:30.400 to Sydney Out with Clinton lay onto GB. 1:00:30.680 --> 1:00:33.120 The Commonwealth Bank's app and website is now back up 1:00:33.120 --> 1:00:35.000 and running. They had a problem over the course of 1:00:35.000 --> 1:00:37.960 the afternoon where their customers weren't able to transfer money 1:00:37.960 --> 1:00:40.520 between accounts using the app and the website. Comnwalth banker 1:00:40.560 --> 1:00:44.120 confirmed to US it is operating properly once again. And 1:00:44.200 --> 1:00:46.280 it can be frustrating if you're dealing with a Conwealth 1:00:46.280 --> 1:00:49.400 bank or any of our big corporations when you've got 1:00:49.400 --> 1:00:51.040 issues with them and you try to get in contact 1:00:51.080 --> 1:00:53.800 with them to try to fix them, particularly with say 1:00:54.000 --> 1:00:57.040 a company like Telstra. I wanted to talk to Luke 1:00:57.040 --> 1:01:00.560 Grant about this because Luke's had an issue with this 1:01:00.800 --> 1:01:01.520 problem lately. 1:01:01.520 --> 1:01:04.880 Hello, Luke good a Clinton. Hope things are good mate. 1:01:05.360 --> 1:01:07.080 How's Telstra doing for you? Mate? 1:01:07.720 --> 1:01:07.959 Well? 1:01:08.040 --> 1:01:10.800 First off, how was that Nanimous Skoury concert? Did you 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:11.320 enjoy it? 1:01:11.880 --> 1:01:13.640 I went to see Cigar Roos. I know you're a 1:01:13.640 --> 1:01:19.400 big fan. You've got all their albums, haven't you what 1:01:20.040 --> 1:01:20.640 Cigar Roofs? 1:01:21.360 --> 1:01:23.120 I thought you just put me on hold? Is that 1:01:23.160 --> 1:01:23.880 actually music? 1:01:23.920 --> 1:01:26.880 It's not on hold music? So let me give you 1:01:26.960 --> 1:01:29.840 some education. Leaks all right. They've been around about twenty 1:01:29.840 --> 1:01:31.680 five years. Okay, they're from Iceland. 1:01:31.760 --> 1:01:33.760 I haven't heard I haven't heard of the Wow. 1:01:33.960 --> 1:01:38.440 The lead singer is a fellow by the name of Johncey. Okay, yes, 1:01:38.760 --> 1:01:42.240 he sings in Icelandic, but he also sings in another 1:01:42.280 --> 1:01:44.160 language that he made up himself. 1:01:44.520 --> 1:01:47.520 Okay, so I did how many of those free tickets 1:01:47.520 --> 1:01:48.400 singer en up getting? 1:01:48.680 --> 1:01:50.600 Mate, I played one hundred and seventy bucks in my ticket. 1:01:50.640 --> 1:01:51.520 I don't worry about that. 1:01:51.840 --> 1:01:52.880 Wow, you need help. 1:01:53.640 --> 1:01:56.360 I didn't understand a word he's talking about you. 1:01:56.440 --> 1:01:59.840 No, No, I'm amazed you didn't look at your phone. 1:02:00.240 --> 1:02:03.320 I've got to brush up on its landing. I should 1:02:03.320 --> 1:02:05.680 have had that Google that interprets. 1:02:05.280 --> 1:02:09.800 Yeah, you should have. You should So I we've got 1:02:09.920 --> 1:02:13.200 in some parts of the new place where we call 1:02:13.240 --> 1:02:16.080 home now we've got not great internet. So I was 1:02:16.080 --> 1:02:18.400 talking to my mate, Stephen Fennick about it last week 1:02:18.480 --> 1:02:21.000 and he said, mate, got to get yourself a mesh 1:02:21.120 --> 1:02:22.160 Wi Fi system. 1:02:22.400 --> 1:02:22.600 YEP. 1:02:22.800 --> 1:02:24.560 I said, are the easy to put together? It said, 1:02:24.600 --> 1:02:27.800 Ye're not too bad. So I pick one up and 1:02:28.160 --> 1:02:30.600 I come home and I look at the reviews. Oh, 1:02:30.640 --> 1:02:32.680 it's so easy to connect. I'm thinking this will be 1:02:32.720 --> 1:02:34.760 a This will be a snack for a technical whiz 1:02:34.800 --> 1:02:39.840 like me. Anyway, four hours later, I'm going, okay, probably 1:02:39.920 --> 1:02:43.680 time to ring someone. So I rang tell Stra and 1:02:43.680 --> 1:02:45.280 then I got the you know you'll be on hole 1:02:45.360 --> 1:02:46.560 for a while. So I saw a bug of that 1:02:46.680 --> 1:02:50.360 hung up and you've got this opportunity now to chat 1:02:50.400 --> 1:02:53.720 with them, and it generally happens a lot quicker, but 1:02:54.280 --> 1:02:57.120 they're probably chatting to I don't know. It doesn't people 1:02:57.120 --> 1:02:59.320 at the same time. So I'll answer your question and 1:02:59.240 --> 1:03:03.320 then go to then EG. So my first my first 1:03:03.640 --> 1:03:06.920 helper was a bot. Then I got referred to a 1:03:07.000 --> 1:03:09.760 human and the human said, hey, you need to talk 1:03:09.800 --> 1:03:13.200 to someone else. We'll come back to you three hours later. 1:03:14.240 --> 1:03:18.960 And I'm asleep by now. They'd say, when you're ready, 1:03:19.440 --> 1:03:22.120 just contact us again. So the first thing the next 1:03:22.120 --> 1:03:26.920 morning I read of a chat, I get the bot. 1:03:27.320 --> 1:03:29.600 The bot asked me, what's wrong. I tell her this, 1:03:29.840 --> 1:03:31.600 you need to speak to a human. I'm going to 1:03:31.600 --> 1:03:34.000 here we go. So I end up with a human 1:03:34.000 --> 1:03:37.400 an hour later, and I simply want to know some 1:03:37.520 --> 1:03:41.920 users settings and where I plug this mesh. The first 1:03:42.040 --> 1:03:44.720 mesh unit in. They tell me to stick it in 1:03:44.760 --> 1:03:48.840 the NBN modem. Anyway I do that, it doesn't work. 1:03:49.640 --> 1:03:51.760 So about an hour later I work out hang on 1:03:51.880 --> 1:03:54.800 the NBN modem's only got one line coming in and 1:03:54.840 --> 1:03:57.720 the telster outs on the same hang that won't work, 1:03:58.400 --> 1:04:03.000 and she said, ah, you find get it. What I'll 1:04:03.040 --> 1:04:06.640 finally get it anyway, three o'clock in the afternoon, I 1:04:06.760 --> 1:04:08.600 give up on them. Then I go to the Then 1:04:08.600 --> 1:04:11.120 I go to the Mesh company and they say, you've 1:04:11.120 --> 1:04:13.360 got to talk to Telstra. So I go back to Telstra, 1:04:13.600 --> 1:04:16.040 same thing in the chat and they say, oh no, 1:04:16.120 --> 1:04:18.640 you've got to talk to the Mesh company. So you know, 1:04:18.680 --> 1:04:23.040 it's down seven o'clock at night and I'm reasonably in control, 1:04:23.120 --> 1:04:26.200 but pretty set up with the whole thing. So I 1:04:26.280 --> 1:04:28.920 did what I should have done, because like a bloke, 1:04:29.160 --> 1:04:32.040 I can do anything. I don't need any help. I'm right, 1:04:32.240 --> 1:04:34.360 I'll sort it out. You know, I know a little 1:04:34.400 --> 1:04:37.040 bit about tech and we used to read ads for 1:04:37.120 --> 1:04:41.320 gigs digs to you. So I go on their website. 1:04:41.960 --> 1:04:44.440 Within ten minutes I've gotten a point. But the next 1:04:44.520 --> 1:04:47.480 day at lunchtime, it's going to be one hundred and 1:04:47.480 --> 1:04:49.479 fifty bucks something. I'll put a day and a half 1:04:49.480 --> 1:04:53.200 into this, all made it. Arrives, loves him a dog, 1:04:53.440 --> 1:04:56.720 They have a cuddle. He goes into the office. He says, 1:04:56.760 --> 1:05:00.480 oh yeah. Twenty minutes later, it's up and running and 1:05:00.520 --> 1:05:02.840 I'm saying, mate, why would they tell me to stick 1:05:02.840 --> 1:05:05.920 it in here? And he said, of course, everything's a 1:05:06.000 --> 1:05:08.960 fifty to fifty proposition, and they're hoping that you were 1:05:09.240 --> 1:05:11.480 one of the fifty fifties of work in your favor. 1:05:11.560 --> 1:05:14.520 And you'll be laughing. Mate, I'll tell you what. I'm 1:05:14.520 --> 1:05:18.040 not doing it ever again. When I buy technology or 1:05:18.080 --> 1:05:20.960 anything else, when it says would you like to install 1:05:21.000 --> 1:05:24.560 it for you, I'm going to say, please do whenever 1:05:24.600 --> 1:05:27.880 you're ready, come on around. I know it's a first 1:05:27.920 --> 1:05:30.560 world problem and I should be angry about far more 1:05:30.560 --> 1:05:35.520 significant things, but bloody hell, what a punish the customer 1:05:35.600 --> 1:05:38.640 service on the telephone and the lack of it on 1:05:38.680 --> 1:05:40.760 the chat line. Mate, I'm over it. 1:05:40.840 --> 1:05:43.360 Yeah. I was just first question for you, though, Luke, 1:05:43.880 --> 1:05:46.280 before you got into talking to the bot who I'm 1:05:46.280 --> 1:05:48.680 sure you become very good friends with very good friends. 1:05:48.880 --> 1:05:51.720 Did you turn it on and off again the motive? 1:05:52.880 --> 1:05:56.720 Now, listen, I've turned everything and look I nearly turned 1:05:56.720 --> 1:06:00.880 the micro point on. I've got to turn things on 1:06:00.960 --> 1:06:04.120 and off so many bloody times, I reckon in one day. 1:06:04.280 --> 1:06:08.720 The motive must have thought, what is this flake up to? Ah? 1:06:08.760 --> 1:06:10.880 But no, Look, it's such a good point you're raising, 1:06:11.000 --> 1:06:14.120 particularly when it comes to modems and NBN modems and 1:06:14.160 --> 1:06:16.760 so forth. Because everything we have now runs through that 1:06:16.840 --> 1:06:21.280 damn device. You know, my TV, all my TV now 1:06:21.320 --> 1:06:25.000 comes in by the internet, because unfortunately, I'm a Foxtel subscriber. 1:06:25.280 --> 1:06:27.400 They kind of cut off our cable service years ago 1:06:27.400 --> 1:06:29.440 and switched us to the internet, so that comes in 1:06:29.440 --> 1:06:31.760 by the TV. It turns out that I watched channel 1:06:31.800 --> 1:06:33.680 nine and Channel seven and Channel ten. That's all coming 1:06:33.680 --> 1:06:37.200 through the internet. Now, Yeah, all your computers. My fridge 1:06:37.240 --> 1:06:38.320 is connected to the damn thing. 1:06:38.720 --> 1:06:40.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know exactly. I've got a similar 1:06:40.880 --> 1:06:43.560 home with all that stuff as well. But this bloke 1:06:44.160 --> 1:06:48.600 who was so good, great service, He's on his phone, 1:06:48.600 --> 1:06:51.200 who's got this device? He's saying, oh look there's lit by, Fine, 1:06:51.240 --> 1:06:54.000 there's a block next door, and oh look there's your fridge, 1:06:54.000 --> 1:06:57.680 and oh that must be your television. I'm going, wow, 1:06:58.240 --> 1:07:00.520 I wonder I couldn't sort this thing out. It's very 1:07:00.560 --> 1:07:03.560 complicated anyway. If you're if you're on the other side 1:07:03.560 --> 1:07:05.400 of sixty and you think I'll be out of nail 1:07:05.440 --> 1:07:09.160 this barger in a couple of minutes. Unless you're a genius, 1:07:09.200 --> 1:07:11.000 it ain't going to happen. Ain't going to happen. 1:07:11.120 --> 1:07:12.680 Get a real person and what's coming up on the 1:07:12.720 --> 1:07:14.080 show tomorrow mate. 1:07:14.440 --> 1:07:17.320 We're going to have a chat to Pauline Hanson. After 1:07:17.360 --> 1:07:20.280 the success she's had in the Senate today with those 1:07:20.320 --> 1:07:23.320 final declarations, it'll be just thing to know more about 1:07:23.320 --> 1:07:26.440 her new senators, one of which is I think a 1:07:26.560 --> 1:07:30.120 former hostage negotiator, So that'll be good sing. We'll talk 1:07:30.160 --> 1:07:32.760 to Pauline about that and what she seeds in the 1:07:32.800 --> 1:07:36.440 next next three years ahead. Look, I don't know. I 1:07:36.440 --> 1:07:39.120 mean the importance of the crossbench in the Senate that's 1:07:39.160 --> 1:07:41.160 now gone, mate, hasn't it. You got the government, the 1:07:41.200 --> 1:07:44.320 Greens get together, they get everything through. In a lower house, 1:07:44.720 --> 1:07:48.600 the government just gets whatever it wants through. So while 1:07:48.600 --> 1:07:51.320 it's not a minority government in the Senate, it'll be 1:07:51.360 --> 1:07:53.280 interesting and that's where the Greens will do some dealing. 1:07:53.360 --> 1:07:55.840 But we'll talk to Pauline Hanson. We'll get an update 1:07:55.880 --> 1:07:59.280 and that fascinating case the murder of Rachel Child's with 1:07:59.480 --> 1:08:02.840 Detective Damien Lhn. I'll get a rundown of the best 1:08:02.840 --> 1:08:07.640 shows to stream with Terry Pontikos from the AFR. Dennis 1:08:07.680 --> 1:08:10.760 Shanahan will be here, Jim Haynes looking at old Ossie movies, 1:08:11.440 --> 1:08:14.920 Craig Bennett is with me as well, Simon Stevenson and 1:08:14.960 --> 1:08:18.720 the regular array of very impressive people. And I saw 1:08:18.800 --> 1:08:21.360 it through it today in the New York Times about 1:08:21.840 --> 1:08:26.840 the transient ischemic attack, which is best described as a 1:08:26.880 --> 1:08:30.280 mini stroke and just how d angelus it can be. 1:08:30.680 --> 1:08:33.640 Maybe not enough to get you to take proper to 1:08:34.000 --> 1:08:37.400 get proper care and have it investigated. Lots of people don't, 1:08:37.760 --> 1:08:40.519 but it can lead to serious consequences down the track. 1:08:40.600 --> 1:08:42.760 So we'll look at that as well, my friend. And 1:08:42.840 --> 1:08:45.080 please tell me you tip Canbra, Please tell me you 1:08:45.160 --> 1:08:45.799 tip Canbra. 1:08:46.720 --> 1:08:49.200 I can't remember. Well, you know that I'm coming stone 1:08:49.240 --> 1:08:52.760 motherless last tipped zero from five last week. I've given up. 1:08:53.479 --> 1:08:54.599 Yeah, well you Kip Kanalla. 1:08:54.960 --> 1:08:59.080 You know we haven't spoken about that. I try to 1:08:59.160 --> 1:09:02.080 help people, can't be Oh my goodness. Hey, look I've 1:09:02.080 --> 1:09:03.439 got to leave you. I'll leave you with this, Okay, 1:09:03.479 --> 1:09:06.599 I'll leave you with this. Yeah, have you trade turning 1:09:06.640 --> 1:09:11.120 it off and on again. We'll be listening nine o'clock tomorrow, 1:09:12.080 --> 1:09:14.559 Bluke Krant. You'll hear them on Saturday and Sunday from 1:09:14.800 --> 1:09:17.719 nine Traffic Dramas Galore, Phil just letting us know about 1:09:17.720 --> 1:09:21.360 a truck breakdown Castlereat Road, Penrith. It's opposite Tempey Tires. 1:09:21.520 --> 1:09:24.280 It is closed one of the lanes that's heading towards Richmond. 1:09:24.280 --> 1:09:27.599 The traffic is horrendous. Phil's told me so. That's Penrith 1:09:27.680 --> 1:09:31.880 Castlerey Road, just opposite tempe Tires. Some bad traffic there 1:09:31.920 --> 1:09:34.160 as well. Seven to five. The sun has gone down 1:09:34.160 --> 1:09:35.680 across the city. But it looks like it's going to 1:09:35.720 --> 1:09:38.200 be quite a nice fine weekend the top of twenty tomorrow, 1:09:38.280 --> 1:09:41.880 twenty on Sunday as well. Perhaps a shower tomorrow, but 1:09:41.920 --> 1:09:44.799 it should be mostly drying. It's clear and sunny. On Sunday. 1:09:44.880 --> 1:09:48.320 The Australian electorc Commissioners updated their vote count. This is 1:09:48.360 --> 1:09:50.360 the recount in the seat of Bradfield. I think they're 1:09:50.400 --> 1:09:52.000 about to knock off for the day. We'll come on 1:09:52.000 --> 1:09:54.920 public service. They wouldn't next hang on public serves on 1:09:54.960 --> 1:09:58.360 a Friday. Just no, they have knocked off. So the 1:09:58.439 --> 1:10:02.000 recount Giselle cap She has now extended her lead over 1:10:02.000 --> 1:10:04.679 the till Nicolett Bullet. She is in front by three votes. 1:10:05.400 --> 1:10:09.040 Three votes in the recount is painstaking, isn't it so? 1:10:09.080 --> 1:10:11.760 The on a series now the AAEC says they're likely 1:10:11.800 --> 1:10:14.639 to finalize the vote recount by around mid next week 1:10:15.160 --> 1:10:18.080 or late next week. We brought you a story earlier 1:10:18.120 --> 1:10:21.320 in the week about ARPRAH is the Australian Health Practitioner 1:10:21.360 --> 1:10:25.760 Regulation Agency. Now they are the regulators for nurses and 1:10:25.960 --> 1:10:28.960 when nurses work in hospitals and other facilities, they need 1:10:29.000 --> 1:10:32.639 to have their regulations and their registration approved by AARPRA 1:10:32.880 --> 1:10:34.880 and then they have to renew that. Now usually by 1:10:34.920 --> 1:10:37.400 the thirty first of May, but because of various problems 1:10:37.439 --> 1:10:40.360 that ARPERA is dealing with, that's been delayed until June. 1:10:41.120 --> 1:10:43.680 There are problems with the website now. Our listeners and 1:10:43.720 --> 1:10:46.479 we've received so many messages about this particular website and 1:10:46.479 --> 1:10:49.040 this experience. One of our listeners shared her experience trying 1:10:49.040 --> 1:10:52.719 to reregister her nursing qualifications. AARPRA told us they would 1:10:52.760 --> 1:10:55.320 help her sort it out well. We followed this one 1:10:55.400 --> 1:10:58.400 up off air. She's now told us she's received two 1:10:58.479 --> 1:11:00.920 phone calls from ARPRA, which is a start, because usually 1:11:00.920 --> 1:11:02.320 you can't even get through on the phone to this 1:11:02.400 --> 1:11:05.720 mob She's only been told now that she has to 1:11:05.760 --> 1:11:08.880 start the entire process all over again. She has to 1:11:08.880 --> 1:11:12.599 pay another five hundred dollars. She's already been through this process, 1:11:12.600 --> 1:11:15.479 but she's got to start from scratch. She's almost seventy 1:11:16.200 --> 1:11:18.639 and because of this whole mess, she's decided to call 1:11:18.680 --> 1:11:21.240 it quits. She's not going to be a nurse anymore. 1:11:21.720 --> 1:11:25.799 That's just completely unacceptable. We have a shortage of nurses 1:11:25.800 --> 1:11:28.799 in New South Wales. They're involved in an industrial dispute 1:11:28.800 --> 1:11:31.200 with the state government. At the moment, there's no resolution 1:11:31.280 --> 1:11:34.680 to that. It's before the IIC. We have nurses who 1:11:34.760 --> 1:11:37.719 I've now confirmed this from not just unions but multiple 1:11:37.720 --> 1:11:39.720 sources are leaving New South Wales and going to queens 1:11:39.760 --> 1:11:41.880 and because they're paid more than them. So we've got 1:11:41.880 --> 1:11:44.960 a shortage. Yet we have a regulator who can't sort 1:11:45.000 --> 1:11:47.960 their crap out and actually develop a website in a 1:11:48.000 --> 1:11:51.880 system which means nurses can just reregister. It is ridiculous, 1:11:52.720 --> 1:11:56.479 absolutely crazy when we are desperate for nurses. Coming up 1:11:56.479 --> 1:11:58.160 in the next hour of the show, Mark Guyer with 1:11:58.240 --> 1:11:59.360 his weekend footy. 1:11:59.080 --> 1:12:06.120 Tips is now we've clinton on. 1:12:06.040 --> 1:12:09.040 To Gin seven past five. The weekend is almost here, 1:12:09.040 --> 1:12:11.200 but we've had some significant dramas on the roads over 1:12:11.200 --> 1:12:13.479 the past couple of hours. Now the latest from the 1:12:13.479 --> 1:12:16.519 crash scene of the Cumberland Highway in Wentworthville where a 1:12:16.560 --> 1:12:18.479 police car has been involved in a crash with a 1:12:18.520 --> 1:12:22.320 Mercedes Benz. It's happened near the railway overpass there in 1:12:22.400 --> 1:12:26.439 Wentworthville and several of the police officers have actually been injured. 1:12:26.680 --> 1:12:29.840 Now fortunately they've been treated on the scene for some 1:12:30.280 --> 1:12:33.880 bleeding to their heads. We don't believe they have serious 1:12:33.920 --> 1:12:37.280 head injuries, so that's good. Three people have now been 1:12:37.320 --> 1:12:40.479 taken to Westmeat Hospital and two of those police officers 1:12:40.520 --> 1:12:43.160 but they are in a stable condition, so that's great. 1:12:43.160 --> 1:12:44.880 But there has been one other person as well now 1:12:44.920 --> 1:12:48.240 taken to hospital. We believe that the was a female 1:12:48.320 --> 1:12:51.200 driver of that Mercedes Benz. The crash happened just before 1:12:51.280 --> 1:12:54.280 four o'clock and caused quite a traffic problem there on 1:12:54.280 --> 1:12:57.639 the Cumberland Highway. The traffic is now moving once again. 1:12:57.680 --> 1:13:00.280 Two of the northbound lanes were actually closed for some time. 1:13:00.479 --> 1:13:03.400 Southbound's been open reopened the whole time it's been operating 1:13:03.400 --> 1:13:05.320 that the Cumberland Highway for you can still see the 1:13:05.320 --> 1:13:08.519 emergency services there near that railway overpass bridge that you 1:13:08.560 --> 1:13:11.479 probably know in Wentworthville. That's the reason. But they're now 1:13:11.520 --> 1:13:14.160 clearing away the crash site. The police officers along with 1:13:14.200 --> 1:13:16.560 one other person have been taken to hospital in a 1:13:16.600 --> 1:13:20.559 stable condition. Think if your message Amelia. Amelia has just 1:13:20.600 --> 1:13:23.759 told me about she's been at Central Station on the bus. 1:13:23.800 --> 1:13:26.919 She's just driven past Central Station and she has spotted 1:13:26.960 --> 1:13:31.679 six ambulances and also police scattered around and she's seen 1:13:31.720 --> 1:13:34.840 them then driving down past down Pam Paramounta Road. So 1:13:34.880 --> 1:13:38.080 this is Central Station in the city. Amelia says there 1:13:38.080 --> 1:13:41.120 were five more emergency vehicles driving past. We will try 1:13:41.160 --> 1:13:43.320 and find out from the police exactly what's occurred there. 1:13:43.400 --> 1:13:47.160 So Central Station just probably need that bus stop there 1:13:47.200 --> 1:13:50.759 before Paramounta Road, So southern tip of the CBD six 1:13:50.840 --> 1:13:53.519 ambulances and police. We will speak to the police now 1:13:53.840 --> 1:13:55.840 and see what we can find out about what's occurred there. 1:13:56.640 --> 1:13:57.320 Until six. 1:13:57.640 --> 1:14:00.960 This is Sydney now with Clinton Mayna on two GB 1:14:01.320 --> 1:14:05.080 You call now one three one eighty seven three. 1:14:05.120 --> 1:14:07.599 There is a minor flood warning for the Tempe Bridge 1:14:07.640 --> 1:14:10.479 in the southern part of Sydney Cook's River. The SEES 1:14:10.640 --> 1:14:14.439 has issued this warning today. It is a stay informed alert, 1:14:14.520 --> 1:14:18.479 so the prospect is for some minor flooding, potentially tonight. 1:14:18.600 --> 1:14:21.800 The Tempe River is likely to peak again tonight with 1:14:21.840 --> 1:14:24.280 the high tides, so just take some care the low 1:14:24.360 --> 1:14:26.920 lying streets in the park. Sometimes they are flooded, but 1:14:27.160 --> 1:14:29.920 property shouldn't be impacted at all. Now that is certainly 1:14:29.960 --> 1:14:32.360 not the case. On the New South Wales, Mid North 1:14:32.360 --> 1:14:35.960 Coast and Hunter Valley. There have been thousands and thousands 1:14:35.960 --> 1:14:39.599 of properties affected by the flooding of last week. Now 1:14:39.920 --> 1:14:42.600 the recovery effort is in full swing, but this is 1:14:42.640 --> 1:14:44.800 going to take a long time. As you know, I 1:14:44.960 --> 1:14:49.240 hosted the show from Tai on Monday, and as I 1:14:49.280 --> 1:14:51.839 walk through some of the areas that have been affected, 1:14:52.160 --> 1:14:55.360 and you see these things on TV and sometimes it 1:14:55.400 --> 1:14:58.200 just brushes over you. I've got to say, when I 1:14:58.240 --> 1:15:01.400 was actually walking around, particularly through a motel just on 1:15:01.439 --> 1:15:05.479 the outskirts of town, it really hit me how the 1:15:05.560 --> 1:15:09.559 people who operate that hotel, Teresa is one of the owners, 1:15:10.280 --> 1:15:12.160 how her life is just going to be turned upside down, 1:15:12.520 --> 1:15:15.360 not for the next week while she clears out the mud, 1:15:15.880 --> 1:15:18.559 for the next six months. And while I was talking 1:15:18.600 --> 1:15:22.680 to her, she was taking calls on a mobile phone 1:15:22.880 --> 1:15:26.200 and they were customers of hers travelers who had bookings 1:15:26.200 --> 1:15:28.519 for later in the year and they were canceling those bookings, 1:15:28.560 --> 1:15:31.240 and some of the bookings were for months and months away. 1:15:31.400 --> 1:15:35.639 So even when she manages to repair the damage, even 1:15:35.640 --> 1:15:38.920 when she cleans up the mess, the likelihood is that 1:15:38.960 --> 1:15:40.800 a lot of people who would usually stay in Tare 1:15:40.920 --> 1:15:43.040 and maybe they're headed towards other parts of the northern 1:15:43.080 --> 1:15:47.320 New South Wales coast, they've canceled their bookings and her 1:15:47.400 --> 1:15:50.680 business takes a further hit. The ses says they've now 1:15:50.720 --> 1:15:56.320 conducted eleven four hundred damage assessments. They've completed those and 1:15:56.800 --> 1:15:59.320 at this point there are more than a thousand properties 1:15:59.360 --> 1:16:05.120 that have been deemed uninhabitable. The damage assessment process is continuing. 1:16:05.600 --> 1:16:08.519 The ADF has been on the ground over the last 1:16:08.520 --> 1:16:10.320 couple of days, the Prime Minister has been in the 1:16:10.400 --> 1:16:13.320 region and the Premier has been in the region. But 1:16:13.360 --> 1:16:16.400 what I fear is that once the focus moves on 1:16:16.479 --> 1:16:19.800 to other dramas that we are facing, that people in 1:16:19.840 --> 1:16:23.240 Sydney and critically the people who actually run the show 1:16:23.280 --> 1:16:26.280 in government may well forget the people of mid North Coast. 1:16:26.280 --> 1:16:29.400 Now we spoke with May May is the owner of 1:16:29.479 --> 1:16:34.040 a lovely arcade in Tari in central Tari, and some 1:16:34.080 --> 1:16:35.880 of the shops in that arcade have been damaged, and 1:16:35.920 --> 1:16:37.280 I wanted to talk to May again today. 1:16:37.320 --> 1:16:41.000 Hello May, Hi Clinton, How are you look? 1:16:41.000 --> 1:16:42.080 I'm okay, but how are you? 1:16:44.000 --> 1:16:49.080 Ah look? I honestly can't tell you how I feel 1:16:49.160 --> 1:16:55.479 because adrenaline, I think, was keeping me upbeat to begin with, 1:16:56.040 --> 1:17:01.960 because I thought, I'm okay, we can do this. But honestly, 1:17:02.080 --> 1:17:07.280 the magnitude of everything around us and within the arcade 1:17:08.200 --> 1:17:13.639 has really hit us hard. We went through a big 1:17:13.720 --> 1:17:18.559 battle getting the arcade up and running after twenty twenty one. 1:17:19.479 --> 1:17:26.840 We were battered and bruised, financially broken, but we were 1:17:26.920 --> 1:17:30.960 determined to get it back and rebuilt and try and 1:17:31.080 --> 1:17:36.479 attract our tenants back in. That's a plus. We were 1:17:36.520 --> 1:17:41.080 going through COVID at the time, which caused significant delays 1:17:41.080 --> 1:17:46.519 in us getting supplies to replace Wolves do flooring. You know, 1:17:46.640 --> 1:17:55.120 everything was considerably slow and it took us eight months. 1:17:55.720 --> 1:17:59.080 Now a lot of those businesses couldn't wait that length 1:17:59.120 --> 1:18:03.519 of time. We did not get some of the businesses back. 1:18:04.800 --> 1:18:05.680 Now we've. 1:18:07.240 --> 1:18:12.120 Really our hearts are broken by the fact that now 1:18:13.000 --> 1:18:16.919 a lot of the tenets that did come back can't. 1:18:17.400 --> 1:18:21.919 I don't think they can come and face this happening 1:18:22.000 --> 1:18:28.920 to them again. I mean, we're devastated, they're devastated, and 1:18:28.960 --> 1:18:37.280 it's really a government and counsel are listening. We need 1:18:37.320 --> 1:18:44.280 their support to do something in the town to assure 1:18:44.320 --> 1:18:50.160 the business community that they can have confidence in investing 1:18:50.200 --> 1:18:55.320 in a business and restarting because at the moment, everyone 1:18:55.439 --> 1:19:02.599 is feeling defeated, and I know that there's a lot 1:19:02.640 --> 1:19:07.320 of people who have lost businesses and their homes and 1:19:08.400 --> 1:19:11.479 that just breaks my heart. 1:19:13.760 --> 1:19:17.519 The Prime Minister, May and the Premiere and I personally, 1:19:17.560 --> 1:19:19.559 the Premier takes this issue very seriously. He was on 1:19:19.600 --> 1:19:21.040 my program on Monday. 1:19:21.400 --> 1:19:24.800 We came and saw us at the Ark and we 1:19:24.920 --> 1:19:30.160 spoke to him and he was genuinely, you know, feeling 1:19:30.320 --> 1:19:36.360 for us. But as we as you pointed out, let's 1:19:36.400 --> 1:19:40.240 not let this be forgotten. You know, right now the 1:19:40.320 --> 1:19:43.960 focus for the last week has been on Tari, but 1:19:44.680 --> 1:19:49.280 when the next news item breaks, then Tari might get 1:19:49.320 --> 1:19:52.719 forgotten and we can't afford to let that happen. 1:19:52.920 --> 1:19:57.400 Absolutely that they've announced, they've announced their various disaster recovery 1:19:57.439 --> 1:20:01.760 payments and for individual it's one hundred and eighty dollars, 1:20:01.800 --> 1:20:04.120 which isn't going to do much now. There are other 1:20:04.160 --> 1:20:07.559 payments that are available for businesses. If somebody has lost 1:20:07.560 --> 1:20:10.200 their income, there's thirteen weeks of income support, and then 1:20:10.200 --> 1:20:14.000 there's one off payments as well. But what concerns me, 1:20:14.080 --> 1:20:16.679 mate is what happens in the long term. And I'm 1:20:16.720 --> 1:20:21.080 sure that victims would appreciate the immediate help, but particularly 1:20:21.080 --> 1:20:23.760 with costs in the long term, with insurance policies that 1:20:23.800 --> 1:20:24.760 have become unaffordable. 1:20:24.840 --> 1:20:30.840 Oh well, insurance was impossible. We fought our insurer for 1:20:30.960 --> 1:20:36.360 three years after twenty twenty one, and that's another thing 1:20:36.479 --> 1:20:41.720 we could not take out as flood insurance. It was 1:20:41.760 --> 1:20:46.840 impossible if we and for small businesses, they were asked 1:20:46.880 --> 1:20:50.000 to pay twenty five to thirty hoursand for flood insurance. 1:20:50.680 --> 1:20:56.160 No small business has that sort of money to throw 1:20:56.200 --> 1:21:00.960 in insurance that's on top of their stock and fittings, 1:21:01.000 --> 1:21:07.000 et cetera. For us, as a property owner, it could 1:21:07.000 --> 1:21:10.320 have been anywhere in the hundred thousand type of figure. 1:21:10.840 --> 1:21:12.400 It was completely one. 1:21:12.360 --> 1:21:14.479 Hundred thousand dollars for. 1:21:14.720 --> 1:21:16.760 Oh goodness of flood insurance. 1:21:16.960 --> 1:21:19.080 Because the. 1:21:20.640 --> 1:21:26.120 Town has not got a flood levee. We have not 1:21:26.400 --> 1:21:34.280 had our counsel willing to. They did a feasibility study 1:21:35.120 --> 1:21:39.320 back in after twenty twenty one. The report came back 1:21:40.240 --> 1:21:44.800 and said something of the type of thing to say 1:21:44.800 --> 1:21:50.639 that it was a non viable expense for the small 1:21:50.760 --> 1:21:54.560 amount of people that it would benefit. 1:21:55.320 --> 1:21:57.720 And what so, you don't matter, look like a. 1:21:57.720 --> 1:21:58.679 Slap in the faith. 1:21:59.600 --> 1:22:07.600 Okay, This flood has probably increased the number of businesses 1:22:07.720 --> 1:22:12.680 first of all, increased the number of homes and farmers 1:22:13.200 --> 1:22:22.240 and areas around Tari Wingham Olbar, even Harrington and little 1:22:22.280 --> 1:22:26.920 towns that you probably don't know of. But the fact 1:22:27.000 --> 1:22:31.559 that there's been a significant increase this time because they're 1:22:31.600 --> 1:22:36.040 calling this a one in five hundred flood, I don't 1:22:36.080 --> 1:22:40.559 know whether this will shake up government and council to 1:22:40.720 --> 1:22:45.080 actually do something for our town. We can't let our 1:22:45.160 --> 1:22:46.719 town die, No, they can't. 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:50.040 And walking through your town, I was I've got to 1:22:50.040 --> 1:22:51.680 tell you, may I was alarmed, and I haven't been 1:22:51.720 --> 1:22:53.680 to Tari probably for about three years before that. I 1:22:53.720 --> 1:22:55.599 was alarmed by the number of shops that just won't open, 1:22:55.600 --> 1:22:58.000 the number of empty shops throughout the central business district. 1:22:58.280 --> 1:23:01.559 You're clearly doing it tough. We won't forget about you 1:23:01.600 --> 1:23:04.320 on this program, but will continue to pressure the government. 1:23:04.320 --> 1:23:07.920 They've appointed Dave Owen's very well regarded former senior police 1:23:07.920 --> 1:23:10.120 officers well to head up this and we will keep 1:23:10.160 --> 1:23:11.759 on it and we'll talk to you again in the future. 1:23:11.800 --> 1:23:16.240 Thank you, May, Thank you, Thanks for the opportunity to 1:23:16.680 --> 1:23:19.400 have a little cry and a winge. But as I say, 1:23:20.000 --> 1:23:20.960 let's keep on it. 1:23:21.080 --> 1:23:23.800 Thank you, Cinton, stay strong, May May and Bor who 1:23:23.840 --> 1:23:26.800 is the owner of a nice arcade in Tari. But 1:23:26.840 --> 1:23:28.920 she's doing it tough and we spoke to her at 1:23:28.960 --> 1:23:30.800 the start of the week and to be honest, she's 1:23:30.800 --> 1:23:33.400 sounded far more upbeat on Monday. It's probably now the 1:23:33.439 --> 1:23:36.639 reality of what she's facing has started to sink in. 1:23:37.600 --> 1:23:38.320 Until six. 1:23:38.600 --> 1:23:41.920 This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB 1:23:42.320 --> 1:23:44.840 You call now one three one ay seventy three. 1:23:46.160 --> 1:23:49.160 This is huge breaking news. There has been a resolution 1:23:49.479 --> 1:23:51.719 in the long running dispute between the New South Wales 1:23:51.800 --> 1:23:55.720 government and the Combined Rail Unions, the industrial dispute that 1:23:55.760 --> 1:23:58.439 has brought Sydney to its knees over the past at 1:23:58.520 --> 1:24:02.120 least twelve months. It would appear the industrial action is over. 1:24:02.240 --> 1:24:05.760 The dispute has been settled. I've just been handled some 1:24:05.800 --> 1:24:09.080 information that says an agreement has been reached between the 1:24:09.120 --> 1:24:12.040 state government and the combined rail unions in the Fair 1:24:12.040 --> 1:24:16.000 Work Commission. This brings the end of the industrial dispute 1:24:16.000 --> 1:24:18.559 that's caused so much disruption over the past twelve months. 1:24:19.400 --> 1:24:22.240 There is a proposed enterprise agreement. It has been facilitated 1:24:22.280 --> 1:24:25.160 by the Fair Work Commission, and it will provide rail 1:24:25.200 --> 1:24:28.639 workers with a twelve percent increase over three years plus 1:24:28.680 --> 1:24:30.800 back pay. And I should point out that's much much 1:24:30.840 --> 1:24:35.240 lower than what the railway workers were after. This will 1:24:35.280 --> 1:24:39.040 deliver apparently a number of technology based solutions to improve 1:24:39.240 --> 1:24:42.439 recovery times when there are incidents on the tracks to 1:24:42.479 --> 1:24:45.719 bring the system to a halt. For example, train crews 1:24:45.720 --> 1:24:49.120 will support the introduction of a new digital disruption management system. 1:24:49.520 --> 1:24:51.439 There will end the current practice that relies on a 1:24:51.479 --> 1:24:55.000 manual system of phone calls and paper based instructions during 1:24:55.000 --> 1:24:57.920 the recovery from incident. So as well as the pay, 1:24:57.960 --> 1:25:00.800 they're basically the unions have agreed that they will move 1:25:00.840 --> 1:25:04.800 into the twenty first century and actually use new technology 1:25:04.800 --> 1:25:08.559 to help resolve to problems on the rail network when 1:25:08.680 --> 1:25:12.439 the aging infrastructure fails. Well, that's a good thing. So 1:25:13.120 --> 1:25:15.920 there had been a ban on industrial action up until 1:25:16.240 --> 1:25:18.720 it was the end of June, so time was running out. 1:25:18.760 --> 1:25:22.519 Given dunes on Sunday, jim begins on Sunday, so this 1:25:22.560 --> 1:25:25.840 is a massive breakthrough. Finally it would appear there's an 1:25:25.960 --> 1:25:29.040 end to the dispute. The Minister for Transport, John Graham 1:25:29.080 --> 1:25:31.479 says the agreement will bring relief to the disruption from 1:25:31.600 --> 1:25:34.160 industrial action that around a million people a day have 1:25:34.240 --> 1:25:37.439 been forced to endure. The process has been strained, the 1:25:37.479 --> 1:25:42.679 patience of trained commuters is we're thinking the much needed 1:25:42.720 --> 1:25:45.600 reset allows us to implement improvements from passengers with the 1:25:45.640 --> 1:25:49.519 full support of the rail workforce and unions. The Treasure 1:25:49.520 --> 1:25:51.519 of Daniel Mookie says this is a positive result for 1:25:51.600 --> 1:25:54.920 rail workers and for commuters. Rail workers will be better 1:25:54.960 --> 1:25:58.320 off with a fair wage increase, commuters will have greater certainty, 1:25:58.400 --> 1:26:01.720 the city will be better off. So just repeating the 1:26:01.760 --> 1:26:04.640 long running dispute between the combined rail unions headed up 1:26:04.680 --> 1:26:08.280 by the RTBU and the state government is over. There 1:26:08.280 --> 1:26:10.519 will be a twelve percent pay rise over three years 1:26:11.200 --> 1:26:13.479 and there'll be no more strikes. So just repeating the 1:26:13.479 --> 1:26:15.679 long running train dispuit between the new South Wales government. 1:26:15.720 --> 1:26:18.320 The combined Rail unions has now been settled. They have 1:26:18.400 --> 1:26:21.479 agreed to a twelve percent pay rise over three years 1:26:21.520 --> 1:26:23.840 with back pay as well, I should add, so it 1:26:23.880 --> 1:26:26.639 means there will be no more industrial action for now. 1:26:26.760 --> 1:26:29.080 I mentioned that Amelia had been in contact with me. 1:26:29.240 --> 1:26:31.280 She'd just been on a bus at Central Station. She 1:26:31.320 --> 1:26:34.800 saw six ambulances and police in the area. We've just 1:26:34.920 --> 1:26:37.559 confirmed somebody that's had a medical episode in Belmore Park. 1:26:37.640 --> 1:26:41.280 So Bellmore Park is the park often protests there just 1:26:41.360 --> 1:26:44.160 in front of Central Station, so the emergency services were 1:26:44.160 --> 1:26:47.280 there for that reason. Twenty five past five this weekend, 1:26:47.720 --> 1:26:50.599 a much love TV show is back on your screens. 1:26:51.160 --> 1:26:55.000 It is Lego Masters, Lego Masters Australia and this is 1:26:55.160 --> 1:26:58.280 an addition of Lego Masters with a twist, the Grand 1:26:58.320 --> 1:27:02.639 Masters of the Galaxy. Fun fact for you. A single brick, 1:27:02.720 --> 1:27:06.240 a single Lego brick can support the weight of three 1:27:06.320 --> 1:27:09.160 hundred and seventy five thousand other bricks before it breaks. 1:27:09.560 --> 1:27:12.320 My goodness, there's an estimated one hundred and two Lego 1:27:12.360 --> 1:27:16.320 bricks for every single person in the world. The Brickman, 1:27:16.600 --> 1:27:19.000 Ryan McNaught is the star of the show. You'll see 1:27:19.040 --> 1:27:20.479 him on Sunday night, he joins us. 1:27:20.600 --> 1:27:23.720 Hello, Brickman, I don't know if I've counted all of 1:27:23.760 --> 1:27:27.080 those personally. I'm sorry. I'll have to take your word 1:27:27.120 --> 1:27:27.719 for that number. 1:27:27.920 --> 1:27:30.360 One hundred and two times the number of people in 1:27:30.400 --> 1:27:30.880 the world. 1:27:32.040 --> 1:27:33.240 It's a lot of Lego, isn't it. 1:27:33.520 --> 1:27:35.880 I mean, I know you've told your story before, Ryan, 1:27:35.960 --> 1:27:38.639 but yeah, were you a kid when you discovered Lego? 1:27:39.600 --> 1:27:39.960 I was. 1:27:40.040 --> 1:27:43.680 My grandmother, Hazel Smith, God bless her, bought me my 1:27:43.720 --> 1:27:46.160 first Lego set when I was three, and you're ready first, 1:27:46.160 --> 1:27:47.880 it cost twenty nine cents. 1:27:47.600 --> 1:27:50.840 At cold Can you remember what the set was there? 1:27:50.840 --> 1:27:53.040 It was a little blue boat actually, and I bought 1:27:53.080 --> 1:27:55.040 it a few years ago. I managed to find one 1:27:55.280 --> 1:27:58.280 and I had a custom over fifty bucks, so inflation 1:27:58.400 --> 1:27:58.920 got me there. 1:27:59.600 --> 1:28:01.439 You know what I love about Lego? I mean, I'm 1:28:02.200 --> 1:28:04.760 in my late forties now, and so I had Lego 1:28:04.800 --> 1:28:06.920 as a kid, obviously, but I actually love the fact 1:28:06.960 --> 1:28:10.080 that adults are now buying Lego and there's specific plenty 1:28:10.280 --> 1:28:12.200 of specific adult kids. 1:28:13.200 --> 1:28:15.760 Yeah, definitely. It's funny. How I don't know whether it 1:28:15.800 --> 1:28:18.640 was the whole lockdown thing that really kind of resonated 1:28:18.680 --> 1:28:21.240 with people that it's fun to play, you know, to 1:28:21.280 --> 1:28:24.800 be creative and have and play and so basically Lego 1:28:24.840 --> 1:28:26.320 we're really smart and they came up with all these 1:28:26.360 --> 1:28:27.559 Lego sets which kind. 1:28:27.439 --> 1:28:29.760 Of I'm not going to say they're. 1:28:29.360 --> 1:28:31.320 Too difficult to kids. They are hard to kids, but 1:28:31.360 --> 1:28:33.479 they're more aimed at adults. And it's really hit a 1:28:33.520 --> 1:28:34.000 home run. 1:28:34.200 --> 1:28:35.920 Well, I'm actually in the middle of building. Look, i 1:28:35.960 --> 1:28:38.240 must admit I've been taking my time, but I've got 1:28:38.280 --> 1:28:42.160 the the at and Cinna McLaren Formula One car from 1:28:42.240 --> 1:28:44.400 late I think nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine was 1:28:44.400 --> 1:28:47.200 when he was winning in this car, and it's it's 1:28:47.240 --> 1:28:49.640 a brilliant kit. A money sort of through two of 1:28:49.680 --> 1:28:51.479 the bags. It will probably take me another six months 1:28:51.479 --> 1:28:52.000 to build it. 1:28:52.600 --> 1:28:55.880 Well, unfortunately for you, they've got the matching Williams of 1:28:55.960 --> 1:28:58.120 Nigel mantles or races against. 1:28:57.880 --> 1:28:59.040 So you're going to have to buy those. 1:29:00.160 --> 1:29:02.800 I saw I've got the little McLaren for Osco Pyastree 1:29:03.080 --> 1:29:05.000 and so I'm going to collect the little ones, but 1:29:05.200 --> 1:29:06.519 I'll have to ask my wife to buy me the 1:29:06.520 --> 1:29:08.640 big one for my birthday. So tell me about the 1:29:08.680 --> 1:29:11.759 show on Sunday night. It's called Grand Masters of the Galaxy. 1:29:12.720 --> 1:29:15.519 Yeah, it's much like the Misty Universe competition in that 1:29:15.600 --> 1:29:18.759 it doesn't have people from other planets performing funnily enough, 1:29:19.040 --> 1:29:22.559 but we've basically got winners from every other Lego Masters 1:29:22.640 --> 1:29:26.240 around the world, So the United States, Canada, China up 1:29:26.240 --> 1:29:28.240 against the winners here from Australia. 1:29:28.880 --> 1:29:29.040 Yeah. 1:29:29.320 --> 1:29:31.920 And I've been watching a few years and kids get 1:29:31.960 --> 1:29:33.760 addicted to it. But to have a twist light that 1:29:33.800 --> 1:29:34.559 I think would be fun. 1:29:35.479 --> 1:29:38.559 Yeah, and it's funny. Whilst Lego bricks are the same, 1:29:38.840 --> 1:29:40.760 you know, all around the world, a humble brick is 1:29:40.800 --> 1:29:43.519 a humble brick, but people are different, you know, creative 1:29:43.520 --> 1:29:45.960 processes and techniques. So it's very very interesting. 1:29:46.520 --> 1:29:48.680 So you know the big Lego shop that's in the 1:29:48.680 --> 1:29:50.360 city now in Sydney CB. You do, I know you're 1:29:50.360 --> 1:29:52.320 based in Melbourne. In the CB, you would have been there. 1:29:52.320 --> 1:29:56.240 I think there's a some of the Sydney landmarks inside bridge. 1:29:56.840 --> 1:30:00.400 When those are put together, you don't have instructions to follow, 1:30:00.439 --> 1:30:02.000 so do you have to design those sort of things 1:30:02.000 --> 1:30:02.559 from scratch? 1:30:03.320 --> 1:30:05.639 Yeah, So when we build those a couple of years back, 1:30:06.400 --> 1:30:08.600 they took the best part at about eight weeks for 1:30:08.680 --> 1:30:11.559 us to build that. And so we basically sit down 1:30:11.600 --> 1:30:14.280 with a real architect as opposed to a Lego architect 1:30:14.320 --> 1:30:16.120 and look at the layout of the store and the 1:30:16.160 --> 1:30:18.400 floor plan and that kind of stuff and do some 1:30:18.520 --> 1:30:20.320 drawings and get going from there. And now the big 1:30:20.320 --> 1:30:22.120 Sydney Harbor bridge that we've got in there, so the 1:30:22.200 --> 1:30:25.080 one that's had a construction, it weighs just on two tons, 1:30:25.760 --> 1:30:28.400 So there's a lot of real life engineering that has 1:30:28.439 --> 1:30:30.920 to go into it before we can actually start building Lego. 1:30:31.040 --> 1:30:32.439 Yeah, so it's not a matter you're just sitting down 1:30:32.439 --> 1:30:34.360 there with the blocks to start with and going one 1:30:34.400 --> 1:30:35.799 by one, you actually got a planet. 1:30:36.240 --> 1:30:38.720 Yeah, pretty much. And you know the sheer volume of 1:30:38.720 --> 1:30:41.240 bricks as an example, that's a shipping container full of 1:30:41.320 --> 1:30:43.840 Lego for those for those models in that store. So 1:30:44.120 --> 1:30:46.160 we're talking about Lego to the next degree. 1:30:46.960 --> 1:30:48.479 I can't wait to start watch you on Sunday night. 1:30:48.520 --> 1:30:51.160 Good on you Ryan. See is thank you Ryan the 1:30:51.160 --> 1:30:53.680 brickman rhyme ignored And that's actually a true story. I 1:30:53.760 --> 1:30:56.800 went out. I went to Target because this was late 1:30:56.880 --> 1:30:58.519 last year. It was the only shop I could find 1:30:58.560 --> 1:31:00.840 in Sydney that was selling this particular model and I'm 1:31:00.880 --> 1:31:02.600 not a Lego fanatic, Bundy means, but you know, I 1:31:02.680 --> 1:31:04.720 like my Formula one and I went there early on 1:31:04.760 --> 1:31:06.920 a Saturday morning and they had one kit left. You 1:31:06.920 --> 1:31:09.280 can buy it everywhere now, but I was desperate for it, 1:31:09.280 --> 1:31:11.360 so I had to buy it last year. But I've 1:31:11.400 --> 1:31:14.800 only made two bags of it so far. I've got 1:31:14.800 --> 1:31:17.160 to get back into it. You'll see Lego Masters Australia 1:31:17.240 --> 1:31:20.200 Sunday night on Channel nine. It's into its seventh season 1:31:20.240 --> 1:31:23.240 as well. This season is called Grand Masters of the Galaxy. 1:31:23.560 --> 1:31:25.360 Coming up in a moment, We're going to talk to 1:31:25.400 --> 1:31:28.280 the Transportist to John Graham following the resolution of the 1:31:28.280 --> 1:31:34.280 long running Sydney Trains dispute, and we've got the latest 1:31:34.320 --> 1:31:34.920 Josh Bryant. 1:31:35.000 --> 1:31:38.200 Good afternoon again, Clinton. A deal has been struck between 1:31:38.240 --> 1:31:41.040 the state government and rail unions to bring an end 1:31:41.120 --> 1:31:43.280 to the long running at pay fight, which has at 1:31:43.320 --> 1:31:47.920 times crippled Sydney's train network. Three people, including two police officers, 1:31:47.960 --> 1:31:50.360 have been taken to hospital in stable conditions after a 1:31:50.400 --> 1:31:53.560 crash involving a police car and another vehicle at Wentworthville. 1:31:53.800 --> 1:31:57.519 Challenges facing the Indo Pacific region have dominated a meeting 1:31:57.560 --> 1:31:59.760 between Australia and the US on the sidelines of a 1:31:59.800 --> 1:32:02.800 six security conference in Singapore. And the winner has been 1:32:02.840 --> 1:32:05.519 crowned in the famous Script's National Spelling Bee in the 1:32:05.640 --> 1:32:08.320 United States, a thirteen year old winning the title by 1:32:08.479 --> 1:32:12.679 correctly spelling iklesism. In sport, the West Tigers have confirmed 1:32:12.680 --> 1:32:15.960 their release Lockie Galvin from his contract, effective immediately. The 1:32:16.120 --> 1:32:18.879 playmaker spotted in a private training session with the Bulldogs 1:32:18.880 --> 1:32:21.120 earlier today. We'll have more news and sport at six. 1:32:21.160 --> 1:32:23.679 Thank you, Josh. Sixteen degrees in the cost fourteen degrees 1:32:23.720 --> 1:32:25.800 in Penrith at the moment where the breaking news of 1:32:25.840 --> 1:32:29.200 the past half hour has been confirmation. Finally a deal 1:32:29.240 --> 1:32:32.200 has been released by between the state government and the Rail, 1:32:32.240 --> 1:32:34.879 Tram and Bust union as well as the combined rail unions. 1:32:35.040 --> 1:32:38.200 This means the long running dispute is over. The Transit 1:32:38.240 --> 1:32:40.559 Minister as John Graham, thanks to your time, lad and 1:32:40.560 --> 1:32:41.639 the Friday Minister. 1:32:42.560 --> 1:32:43.639 Good afternoon Clinton. 1:32:43.720 --> 1:32:46.120 It's been a long time coming, well it. 1:32:46.040 --> 1:32:48.200 Really has been, and this is the news that commuters 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:51.439 have been waiting for. The deal's been reached. This means 1:32:51.439 --> 1:32:56.200 an end to disruption and we're able to pay rail 1:32:56.240 --> 1:32:59.360 workers of fair wage that we're seeing that as an 1:32:59.400 --> 1:33:02.559 investment in reliability. This really gives us a chance to 1:33:02.600 --> 1:33:04.719 improve reliability on our roal network. 1:33:05.040 --> 1:33:06.960 You just said it an end to disruption, but that 1:33:07.000 --> 1:33:09.160 doesn't mean we won't have disruption caused by other issues 1:33:09.160 --> 1:33:09.920 on the round network. 1:33:10.680 --> 1:33:13.479 Well exactly, but we're investing. Of course, the thing that 1:33:13.520 --> 1:33:16.719 would make it easier is agreement with our workforce. Agreement 1:33:16.720 --> 1:33:19.080 with the unions that represent them will make it a 1:33:19.120 --> 1:33:22.040 lot easier to roll out those investments. There is big 1:33:22.040 --> 1:33:24.960 money going into repairing our rail system, but of course 1:33:25.000 --> 1:33:27.639 the disruption has made that harder. There's no getting around that. 1:33:27.680 --> 1:33:30.759 Well that ends now as we've reached an in principal 1:33:30.760 --> 1:33:34.400 agreement with the combined Rail unions. That's really welcome. There's 1:33:34.400 --> 1:33:36.400 some details to work through, but this is a big, 1:33:36.439 --> 1:33:39.559 big step forward. It means if you're trying to catch 1:33:39.560 --> 1:33:43.120 a train, you know that actually the workforce and the 1:33:43.120 --> 1:33:45.519 government are working together now to make sure that train's 1:33:45.560 --> 1:33:46.280 more reliable. 1:33:46.479 --> 1:33:48.880 So the increase is twelve percent over three years, so 1:33:49.000 --> 1:33:52.320 four percent a year. That's more than initially you're offering. 1:33:52.439 --> 1:33:54.920 Where does the money come from. 1:33:54.560 --> 1:33:56.880 Well, that's exactly right. The unions that asked for eight 1:33:56.880 --> 1:33:59.760 percent a year. We're paying four percent a year. And 1:34:00.160 --> 1:34:03.360 just to be clear, we've added that final percent on 1:34:03.960 --> 1:34:06.559 to get a deal here that unions had asked for. 1:34:06.640 --> 1:34:10.120 That's got us a deal. We see though. That's well worthwhile. 1:34:10.160 --> 1:34:12.840 If you're trying to catch a train, there's no question 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:14.680 you want an end to this disruption. 1:34:14.840 --> 1:34:16.960 Worthwhile. But they've had a gun to all of our 1:34:17.000 --> 1:34:17.920 heads for the last year. 1:34:18.680 --> 1:34:21.479 Well, there's real improvements in reliability here. We're rolling out 1:34:21.520 --> 1:34:25.280 train technology that will really mean a smoother ride for customers. 1:34:25.360 --> 1:34:28.280 It will improve reliability on the network. There's no question 1:34:28.360 --> 1:34:31.240 we need that. That's why the government has recommended this deal. 1:34:31.400 --> 1:34:33.479 Okay, so it's a three year deal. Is this a 1:34:33.520 --> 1:34:36.840 guarantee that there won't be industrial action over those three years? 1:34:37.800 --> 1:34:40.880 Yeah, we've the fact we've reached an agreement will mean 1:34:40.920 --> 1:34:44.479 that the industrial action that protected industrial action that was 1:34:44.520 --> 1:34:49.200 taking place will now no longer be required. That's the 1:34:49.320 --> 1:34:51.920 nature of this agreement. We're keen to go to a vote. Obviously, 1:34:51.960 --> 1:34:54.640 it's up to union members with accept this. This is 1:34:54.640 --> 1:34:56.599 a good deal, it'll be recommended to them. 1:34:57.360 --> 1:34:57.639 Now. 1:34:57.880 --> 1:35:00.880 The majority of those unions are saying, look on board. 1:35:01.600 --> 1:35:02.160 We're good to go. 1:35:02.560 --> 1:35:04.559 But if I go back to the previous government when 1:35:04.600 --> 1:35:06.720 they had the issues with the union over the NIFT 1:35:06.840 --> 1:35:11.400 into SISI fleet, they triggered in dust reaction that affected 1:35:11.439 --> 1:35:13.599 the Sydney network because they were having that dispute over 1:35:13.600 --> 1:35:15.880 the NIFT. Is there the prospect in this three years 1:35:15.880 --> 1:35:18.759 that they can still call indust reaction over issues beyond 1:35:18.800 --> 1:35:19.920 this pay dispute. 1:35:20.680 --> 1:35:24.120 Well, obviously if there's safety issues that unions have concerns about, 1:35:24.120 --> 1:35:26.679 they'll be raising those strongly. So they've got the normal 1:35:26.760 --> 1:35:30.000 rights they had. But this is a big step forward. 1:35:30.120 --> 1:35:33.560 It resolves are the wage dispute that brought Sydney to 1:35:33.600 --> 1:35:37.839 a hold. It supports the introduction of the new Regional 1:35:37.920 --> 1:35:41.360 rail fleet very explicitly, so on that a sort of 1:35:41.400 --> 1:35:43.920 issue that you're raising. No, this is a big step forward. 1:35:44.520 --> 1:35:46.600 This will make a big difference to commuters. This is 1:35:46.680 --> 1:35:49.479 great news if you're trying to catch a trim hahm, which. 1:35:49.240 --> 1:35:51.000 I'll be doing in about half an hour. Thank you, minister, 1:35:51.880 --> 1:35:54.680 very good, Thank you the Transmitister John Graham. So the 1:35:54.800 --> 1:35:57.880 dispute is settled, so they won't be taking strikes over pay. 1:35:58.000 --> 1:36:00.360 But just bear in mind it doesn't mean they can't 1:36:00.360 --> 1:36:02.559 take in dust relection over other issues. 1:36:02.720 --> 1:36:12.599 Well on Sydney, Nowlie Brown for Harvey Norman half yearly 1:36:12.680 --> 1:36:15.720 clearance up to twenty percent off mobile phones and up 1:36:15.720 --> 1:36:19.280 to thirty percent off Windows eleven computers. Go Harvey Norman 1:36:19.439 --> 1:36:20.880 first prices guarantees. 1:36:20.960 --> 1:36:23.840 Now, how about this, so do it yourself program for 1:36:23.960 --> 1:36:27.320 Apple iPads. How's this going to work? From what information? 1:36:27.520 --> 1:36:29.800 Charlie Brown, of course, host of Life and Tech Today. 1:36:29.880 --> 1:36:33.400 Charlie hallqen, how's this going to work? You can fix 1:36:33.400 --> 1:36:34.800 your an eyeprag when it goes bum? 1:36:35.479 --> 1:36:39.479 Well, they I has this program for iPhone in thirty 1:36:39.479 --> 1:36:41.800 three different countries around the world. They haven't launched it 1:36:41.840 --> 1:36:45.360 in Australia yet, but they've added as of announced this 1:36:45.439 --> 1:36:50.040 week iPad to that program for selected models, albeit the 1:36:50.040 --> 1:36:52.880 most recent ones that they put out. And the reason 1:36:52.920 --> 1:36:55.559 they do that is because if you've got a modern 1:36:55.560 --> 1:36:58.879 iPhone or modern iPad and you try and self repair 1:36:58.960 --> 1:37:03.719 it and you're not using genuine Apple parts, the device 1:37:03.760 --> 1:37:07.280 will recognize that those parts aren't genuine and it will 1:37:07.320 --> 1:37:10.559 start flagging issues in the operation of the device to 1:37:10.680 --> 1:37:11.519 you as the user. 1:37:11.640 --> 1:37:11.840 Right. 1:37:11.880 --> 1:37:14.320 And so what Apple did was they said Okay, we're 1:37:14.320 --> 1:37:16.720 going to have this. We're gonna do one or two things. 1:37:16.720 --> 1:37:18.519 We're going to give these parts, will give access to 1:37:18.560 --> 1:37:21.840 these parts to repair centers that are going to register 1:37:21.880 --> 1:37:23.439 with us. They've already done that and you can do 1:37:23.479 --> 1:37:26.880 that in Australia now, so repair centers are already. 1:37:26.160 --> 1:37:26.559 Part of that. 1:37:27.000 --> 1:37:31.000 But secondly to that, we're also going to allow those 1:37:31.120 --> 1:37:33.920 people who are confident, all of these believers as they are, 1:37:34.240 --> 1:37:36.600 they will be able to order these parts online. And 1:37:36.600 --> 1:37:38.679 they've done that in thirty three countries. Apple have said 1:37:38.680 --> 1:37:40.920 that they will do this in Australia. They're just not 1:37:41.000 --> 1:37:42.559 doing it yet. So if you know how to repair 1:37:42.600 --> 1:37:45.280 your own iPad or your own iPhone, this will come 1:37:45.320 --> 1:37:46.360 to Australia soon. 1:37:46.479 --> 1:37:48.639 We'll hear all about it on Life and Technology tomorrow morning. 1:37:48.680 --> 1:37:50.160 Thanks Charlie, Thanks Plean. 1:37:50.240 --> 1:37:50.840 Having a great weekend. 1:37:50.960 --> 1:37:53.160 Charlie Brown hosting Life in Tech from eight o'clock tomorrow 1:37:53.160 --> 1:37:54.639 morning on Sydney. 1:37:54.680 --> 1:37:54.960 Now. 1:37:55.200 --> 1:37:58.720 A weather update will be here to help in unexpected 1:37:58.720 --> 1:38:01.799 weather in our remain Insurance a help company. 1:38:01.920 --> 1:38:04.200 It should remain dry this evening. Sixteen degrees in the 1:38:04.200 --> 1:38:06.639 coast at the moment, fourteen degrees in the western suburbs. 1:38:06.680 --> 1:38:09.840 Tomorrow mostly sunny day, so good because all the sport 1:38:09.960 --> 1:38:11.800 was washed out for the kids last weekend, so you 1:38:11.800 --> 1:38:13.400 should be able to take your kids along the Saturday 1:38:13.439 --> 1:38:16.040 morning sport mostly sunny day, a little bit of cloud 1:38:16.080 --> 1:38:19.280 around twenty degrees the top on Sunday mostly sunny and 1:38:19.360 --> 1:38:21.759 twenty Monday partly cloudy and nineteen degrees. 1:38:21.840 --> 1:38:24.919 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 1:38:24.960 --> 1:38:27.160 Now with Clinton May on. 1:38:27.080 --> 1:38:29.519 To GB Well, it will will be happening after seven 1:38:29.520 --> 1:38:32.640 o'clock with a continuous call team Mark Guy are featuring 1:38:32.760 --> 1:38:35.559 tonight on the coverage. Hello MG, Hello Clinton, Happy Friday, 1:38:35.640 --> 1:38:37.559 my friend. How are you're happy back in Sydney after 1:38:37.640 --> 1:38:38.160 Origin one? 1:38:38.280 --> 1:38:41.400 Yes, i am. It's been a big week, been a 1:38:41.439 --> 1:38:42.920 big week. We had the great Walk at the start 1:38:42.920 --> 1:38:44.760 of the week and then Origin Wednesday night. 1:38:44.880 --> 1:38:47.960 Because you've walked in here right now. Yes, I like 1:38:48.000 --> 1:38:51.479 to set standards for the program, and dress standards are critical. 1:38:51.479 --> 1:38:53.200 You often see that I'm here in a suit and tie. 1:38:53.320 --> 1:38:56.400 You are You've turned up in thongs. Yes, I can't 1:38:56.439 --> 1:38:58.479 put shoes on at the moment. What's going on? 1:38:58.680 --> 1:38:59.040 I will? 1:38:59.360 --> 1:39:00.639 You know I've got a in Penrith. 1:39:00.720 --> 1:39:01.120 That's right. 1:39:01.160 --> 1:39:04.439 I worked out this morning in sliders with socks were 1:39:04.439 --> 1:39:05.040 they pulled up? 1:39:05.160 --> 1:39:07.759 Yeah, having my tracks effe because of all the blisters 1:39:07.760 --> 1:39:08.200 from your walk. 1:39:08.360 --> 1:39:10.760 Oh yes, it's just on that just quickly. The Great 1:39:10.760 --> 1:39:14.240 Walk Foundation ends today with a big welcome home at 1:39:14.240 --> 1:39:15.120 the Lapston Hotel. 1:39:15.160 --> 1:39:15.439 Tonight. 1:39:15.479 --> 1:39:18.080 Over one hundred thousand dollars was raised this raised this 1:39:18.160 --> 1:39:20.960 week going to the boys from the Bush and Mentor 1:39:21.240 --> 1:39:25.320 mentorship program, west Care and brain cancer research for one 1:39:25.320 --> 1:39:29.759 of our walkers, Davy Crossman, passed away last this December 1:39:30.320 --> 1:39:31.000 from brain cancer. 1:39:31.000 --> 1:39:32.479 So you had a website that people can donate to. 1:39:32.479 --> 1:39:35.320 Great Great Walk Foundation dot com dot you good, thank 1:39:35.320 --> 1:39:35.799 you mate. 1:39:35.960 --> 1:39:38.120 The Women's state of origin last night, so this is 1:39:38.120 --> 1:39:41.200 what I've done. We scored under the posts yep out 1:39:41.200 --> 1:39:43.000 of dummy half and I was really tired last night 1:39:43.000 --> 1:39:43.599 so I went to bed. 1:39:43.720 --> 1:39:48.080 Oh yeah, well Queensland one, they come back. They won 1:39:48.160 --> 1:39:51.120 eighteen fourteen and guess what, there's twenty two thousand in 1:39:51.200 --> 1:39:55.400 Newcastle last night for inverted Comma is dead Rubber. So 1:39:55.439 --> 1:39:57.479 the girls game is going through the roof. But yet 1:39:58.080 --> 1:40:00.240 New South Wales couldn't get the out of three newk cleaning. 1:40:00.280 --> 1:40:03.360 Sweet Queensland came back and to one. They won in 1:40:03.400 --> 1:40:03.880 the end. 1:40:03.840 --> 1:40:06.439 And Newcastle is a great place to stage red football 1:40:06.439 --> 1:40:09.000 because they just love the game up there. The West 1:40:09.000 --> 1:40:12.040 Tigers today have put out an official statement that they've 1:40:12.040 --> 1:40:14.840 released Luckie Galvin. I'm really glad they've done that. Wow, 1:40:15.040 --> 1:40:17.519 really because he's been seating the Canterbury shirt. 1:40:17.680 --> 1:40:23.439 Oh my lanter, look at this this saga. Yeah, apparently 1:40:23.479 --> 1:40:26.639 he was pictured today. It's gone across social media. He's 1:40:26.640 --> 1:40:30.360 in his bulldog's jersey. You're not allowed to be yet 1:40:30.400 --> 1:40:32.720 because there was an incident earlier in the year or 1:40:32.760 --> 1:40:35.600 last year when the young boy called Volkman did the 1:40:35.640 --> 1:40:37.840 same type of thing in the NRL said give us 1:40:37.840 --> 1:40:40.040 a please, explained you've got to throw You're gonna go 1:40:40.080 --> 1:40:43.000 through the right protocol. At the moment, I don't give 1:40:43.000 --> 1:40:44.400 a damn about it. I just want this thing to, 1:40:44.800 --> 1:40:46.920 the whole thing to be over, I really do. It's 1:40:46.920 --> 1:40:47.479 a pain in the. 1:40:47.400 --> 1:40:50.240 Butt, you know what. I No, I don't feel for 1:40:50.320 --> 1:40:52.559 him because he's a growing up. He brought on himself. 1:40:52.600 --> 1:40:54.760 But there's a lot of pressure on him now, like 1:40:54.960 --> 1:40:56.439 of course there is. I know he's going to be 1:40:56.439 --> 1:40:57.960 on less money than he could have been on the Tigers. 1:40:58.000 --> 1:41:01.840 But if he doesn't perform, I won't say poor kid, 1:41:01.840 --> 1:41:03.439 because this is his business. He can make a lot 1:41:03.439 --> 1:41:05.919 of money. But if he's not quite the next absolute, 1:41:06.080 --> 1:41:08.120 you know, Brad Fiddler, people are going to be gone 1:41:08.160 --> 1:41:08.559 blowing up. 1:41:08.680 --> 1:41:10.639 Well, you've got guys who have been doing the job 1:41:10.680 --> 1:41:14.599 there like Sexton and especially young Tracy at fullback. Cord 1:41:14.640 --> 1:41:18.000 of Tracy. These guys aren't, you know, surplus the needs 1:41:18.040 --> 1:41:20.920 because they've been going, they're winning the competition. Then all 1:41:20.920 --> 1:41:22.840 of a sudden, you throw a kid in who's known 1:41:22.920 --> 1:41:25.280 Andy's of age, coming from a club that's coming second last, 1:41:25.760 --> 1:41:29.200 to make your team better. It doesn't make sense they like. 1:41:29.160 --> 1:41:30.960 To play them off the bench or something, won't they. 1:41:31.439 --> 1:41:34.160 I think maybe someone like maybe Matt Burton might at 1:41:34.160 --> 1:41:37.400 a lock forward or center to accommodate him for this year. 1:41:37.720 --> 1:41:39.519 So you put Matt Burton the center, What do you say, 1:41:39.520 --> 1:41:42.160 Stephen Krichton, Bronson Cherry. 1:41:41.960 --> 1:41:44.240 Yeah no, so that's the thing, that's that's the pickle. 1:41:44.439 --> 1:41:46.160 So we could do with some outside back to the moment. 1:41:46.200 --> 1:41:49.360 Maybe Bronson Cherry go to the Sharkys go home. I 1:41:49.360 --> 1:41:50.519 don't think that's going to be happening. 1:41:50.560 --> 1:41:51.439 No, I don't think so either. 1:41:51.720 --> 1:41:54.600 Tonight you'll be calling the match between the Dragons and 1:41:54.640 --> 1:41:55.479 the Knights at Conra. 1:41:55.640 --> 1:41:58.800 Yeah, a good game. Dragons have won there only one 1:41:58.840 --> 1:42:01.160 one of their fast pop last sorry, only won one 1:42:01.160 --> 1:42:03.360 of their last four at Cogra. Knights have won four 1:42:03.400 --> 1:42:06.839 of their past six games against the Dragons and Valentine 1:42:06.880 --> 1:42:09.639 Holmes and Calen Pine will be backing up from. 1:42:09.520 --> 1:42:11.240 State of Origin. Well, let's run through your tips. You're 1:42:11.240 --> 1:42:13.519 on forty six points in the two GB tipping comp. 1:42:13.560 --> 1:42:17.080 Matt Thompson is fifty four. You're on forty six. I'm 1:42:17.080 --> 1:42:19.040 on forty one. Last. 1:42:19.479 --> 1:42:21.479 Well, you're kind of I'm calling you the penrith of 1:42:21.520 --> 1:42:25.800 the tipping comp. You're you're coming last, but you're not 1:42:25.800 --> 1:42:27.320 that far out of the eight that you you might 1:42:27.320 --> 1:42:29.800 make a lot. You could make a late charge. 1:42:29.880 --> 1:42:32.240 There's one difference. I didn't win the last four premiership. 1:42:32.280 --> 1:42:35.200 So you're tipping the Dragons tonight, I'm tipping the Dragons 1:42:35.200 --> 1:42:37.040 to Okay, I'll back the Dragons as well. Yeah, because 1:42:37.040 --> 1:42:38.639 I'm just going to copy you from now on. Okay, 1:42:39.040 --> 1:42:40.519 what the games tomorrow? 1:42:40.560 --> 1:42:43.120 Harry Grant is out Xavier coachs is out for this. 1:42:43.080 --> 1:42:44.920 Game against So this is the Storm. 1:42:45.000 --> 1:42:46.519 Yep, Storm, who's Storm playing? 1:42:46.560 --> 1:42:49.479 The Storm are playing? The Titans can't beat time with 1:42:49.520 --> 1:42:50.799 a stick. They're hopeless. 1:42:50.880 --> 1:42:54.240 Yeah, Storm, Although the Big Man has gone Knights and 1:42:54.240 --> 1:42:55.360 Titans and he's coming second. 1:42:55.439 --> 1:42:57.400 You know Big Nan doesn't know what he's talking about. Okay, 1:42:57.560 --> 1:42:59.439 You've then got the Cowboys and the Tigers. You'll hear this. 1:42:59.479 --> 1:43:01.160 One of the continue has called him at five thirty 1:43:01.200 --> 1:43:04.320 are Cowboys? Yep, I'm going the Cowboys seven thirty five. 1:43:04.360 --> 1:43:06.400 You'll hear this one with us as well. Manly up 1:43:06.400 --> 1:43:09.559 against the Broncos, isn't. 1:43:09.360 --> 1:43:12.040 It look I know in the two GB tips I've 1:43:12.040 --> 1:43:15.439 taken mainly but without the Turbo boys in Tuckyahau, I 1:43:15.560 --> 1:43:17.720 think the I think the Broncos will win. I can't 1:43:17.760 --> 1:43:19.479 change my tip now, but if I could, I would. 1:43:19.560 --> 1:43:22.560 Okay, Sunday South up against New Zealand. 1:43:24.080 --> 1:43:26.040 Latrell again, I've picked the rabbit As here on the 1:43:26.040 --> 1:43:27.519 back of the trail. But if Latrell's out, you've got 1:43:27.600 --> 1:43:28.240 to say the Warriors. 1:43:28.360 --> 1:43:30.680 I'll go rabbit As as well. Four oh five. You'll 1:43:30.680 --> 1:43:32.680 hear this in the continuous call team the Panthers up 1:43:32.720 --> 1:43:33.320 against the Yels. 1:43:33.400 --> 1:43:35.879 Yeah, Battle of the West Penrith home game at Combat Stadium, 1:43:35.880 --> 1:43:38.640 game figure figure Panthers. 1:43:38.240 --> 1:43:39.840 That's part of all this is. Of course it is, 1:43:39.880 --> 1:43:40.760 it is, of course it is. 1:43:40.800 --> 1:43:42.280 They're traveling Wolbury's. 1:43:41.880 --> 1:43:43.800 I'm going Panthers as well. And the final game of 1:43:43.800 --> 1:43:46.360 the round is the Roosters up against the Raiders on Sunday. 1:43:46.479 --> 1:43:48.519 I like what I'm seeing from this Rooster's outfit. They 1:43:48.560 --> 1:43:51.120 are just tenacious, they're dogged and they're enterprising. 1:43:51.400 --> 1:43:54.840 Yep, and Cronulla takes on the by let's go. 1:43:55.520 --> 1:43:57.040 Are you sure you're not backing the bye? 1:43:57.760 --> 1:43:57.920 Well? 1:43:57.920 --> 1:44:00.000 I made the mistake of tipping Kronella last weekend. Look 1:44:00.040 --> 1:44:00.599 what happened? 1:44:01.200 --> 1:44:03.720 My daughter's listening shirts. Eh birthday tomorrow. We're having a 1:44:04.280 --> 1:44:05.599 party at my gym tomorrow night. 1:44:05.760 --> 1:44:09.320 Oh fantastic. I'm just chin ups and everything. No, that's a. 1:44:10.920 --> 1:44:13.160 Prey a s P I re s it was it. 1:44:13.240 --> 1:44:16.559 That's pro a pray pray pray. What's a pro ski party? 1:44:16.840 --> 1:44:17.400 What's the prey? 1:44:17.720 --> 1:44:21.120 I don't know before like that's what might. 1:44:20.960 --> 1:44:22.559 Producer call me a boom And I'm not actually a 1:44:22.560 --> 1:44:25.680 baby boomer. The same boomer boomer. But you don't know 1:44:25.720 --> 1:44:26.200 this stuff. 1:44:26.640 --> 1:44:28.080 Raffity have fun doing. 1:44:28.360 --> 1:44:30.519 I'll be security and it's Patty who's working on the show. 1:44:30.560 --> 1:44:32.599 He's twenty one this week, so he was yesterday, same 1:44:32.800 --> 1:44:33.080 he does. 1:44:33.320 --> 1:44:35.120 Yeah, birthdays everywhere, mate, he's got his. 1:44:35.680 --> 1:44:37.920 He's got a birthday this weekend. He was at a 1:44:37.960 --> 1:44:40.679 pub last night and you know you like the thongs. Yes, 1:44:40.800 --> 1:44:42.800 there were people dressed up in well I don't think 1:44:42.800 --> 1:44:44.479 they had any feet. They didn't have any shoes on 1:44:44.520 --> 1:44:51.040 any feet, feet less bright that's Friday. I don't like 1:44:51.080 --> 1:44:52.120 that beer foot of the pub. 1:44:52.160 --> 1:44:53.240 I don't mind if you're on the beach. 1:44:54.280 --> 1:44:56.760 Okay. When we were going out in those days, I 1:44:56.760 --> 1:44:59.000 had to wear a cold shirt. Yeah, you always had 1:44:59.000 --> 1:45:01.280 to have a cold shirt. And you'll get Blake's walking 1:45:01.320 --> 1:45:03.080 around singlets. These days you. 1:45:03.080 --> 1:45:04.880 Wouldn't get a night club without a cold shirt. 1:45:05.000 --> 1:45:05.160 Yeah. 1:45:05.720 --> 1:45:08.439 And if you're on a beach side suburb, I don't mind. 1:45:08.439 --> 1:45:11.280 You were in beach, no shoes to the the shop 1:45:11.280 --> 1:45:11.639 and stuff. 1:45:11.640 --> 1:45:15.240 But MG, will you have a great weeknd Clinton continuous 1:45:15.240 --> 1:45:16.560 call to him coming up at seven. 1:45:17.240 --> 1:45:19.080 Time to expand your minds? 1:45:19.640 --> 1:45:22.520 Do you maybe agin your questioning on Sydney. 1:45:22.120 --> 1:45:25.400 Now questions, questions, Lincoln's questions important? 1:45:26.120 --> 1:45:28.479 I know you are answer a question right? 1:45:28.840 --> 1:45:32.240 Clinton's quick quiz Okay, quiz time. We've got to double 1:45:32.240 --> 1:45:33.760 pass to give away to the lover and the dumb 1:45:33.800 --> 1:45:36.920 waiter at the ensemble theater ensemble dot com dot are you? 1:45:36.960 --> 1:45:41.759 Our first contestant is Mills? Hello, Mills. Your thirty second 1:45:41.760 --> 1:45:44.480 starts now? Does win to start tomorrow or Sunday. 1:45:46.880 --> 1:45:47.040 Day? 1:45:47.240 --> 1:45:53.760 Correct? Who played Maverick in Top Gun? Correct? Who was 1:45:53.800 --> 1:46:00.719 the first president of the United States? Do you George Washington? 1:46:00.880 --> 1:46:03.280 Port Adelaide's associated with what sport. 1:46:05.040 --> 1:46:05.519 AFL? 1:46:05.880 --> 1:46:08.280 Correct? What Asian country invented t. 1:46:10.840 --> 1:46:11.160 China? 1:46:11.479 --> 1:46:11.839 Correct? 1:46:11.880 --> 1:46:12.439 You're on four? 1:46:12.520 --> 1:46:16.120 Well done. Let's try Mike. Mike, your thirty second starts now. 1:46:18.080 --> 1:46:21.080 How many balls on the table in the standard pool game? 1:46:25.400 --> 1:46:31.080 I like fifteen sixteen? Fifteen sixteen? Which billionaire left Donald 1:46:31.120 --> 1:46:36.800 Trump's administration this week? Us evil musk. What town is 1:46:36.840 --> 1:46:43.160 closest to the CBD of Sydney Goldyn or Dubbo gold Correct? 1:46:43.400 --> 1:46:46.000 Who won the women's State of Origin series. 1:46:47.840 --> 1:46:48.679 New South Wales? 1:46:48.880 --> 1:46:51.360 It was New South Wales. Correct, But you're the loser today, 1:46:51.439 --> 1:46:54.000 unfortunately meals congratulations. We're going to send you to Lover 1:46:54.080 --> 1:46:56.760 and the Dumb Waiter at the Ensemble Theater, Ensemble dot 1:46:56.760 --> 1:46:57.320 com dot. 1:46:57.160 --> 1:47:02.840 Au and now a preview of what's coming up on 1:47:03.080 --> 1:47:06.839 Wide World of Sports for the Serrato successor, the turbo 1:47:07.000 --> 1:47:10.719 charged Kia K four. Kia's all new small sedan GT 1:47:10.920 --> 1:47:14.599 Line veryant available now find out more about Kia's latest 1:47:14.640 --> 1:47:15.240 small car. 1:47:15.400 --> 1:47:18.559 Pusey hosting Wildwater Sports after six o'clock, Big Show Massive. 1:47:18.600 --> 1:47:21.040 We've got Joey Johns to preview the Nights Dragons, Dan 1:47:21.120 --> 1:47:23.880 mckeller from the tars Mark Bosnich to preview the UFA 1:47:23.960 --> 1:47:26.559 Champions League, plus the Matilda's and Willie me Sieux will 1:47:26.560 --> 1:47:28.960 wrap up the French Open. We also have four tickets 1:47:28.960 --> 1:47:33.320 to give away to the Eels Panthers Blockbuster on Sundays. 1:47:32.920 --> 1:47:35.360 Michael Darby at the Yells Home Ground. Bits of Panda 1:47:35.400 --> 1:47:37.439 zung Ger. Indeed is that work? Hey? Thanks? Hauy will 1:47:37.439 --> 1:47:39.960 be listening after six o'clock. Thank you to Emily and Patty, 1:47:40.360 --> 1:47:42.679 Ben and Liam and Hannah as well for their work 1:47:42.720 --> 1:47:45.200 this week. Thank you for listening to the show throughout 1:47:45.200 --> 1:47:47.160 the last couple of days. We've had a big one. 1:47:47.439 --> 1:47:49.320 Enjoy the weekend. That's Sydney now.