Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is Sitney now with Clinton.
Speaker 2: Maynard bride a May three one eight seven three. It
Speaker 2: is Clinton Maynard here. The weekend has almost arrived. It's
Speaker 2: been a beautiful day. Some clouds are rolled in over
Speaker 2: the past couple of hours, but this time last week
Speaker 2: it was pouring. Well, it's completely dry across Sydney and
Speaker 2: that's great because it means the trains should run on
Speaker 2: time this afternoon. Now you know me, I'm a very
Speaker 2: positive person. I have got great confidence. This afternoon, for
Speaker 2: the first time in a week, I will not be
Speaker 2: telling you about train delays. Nope, I'm very confident the
Speaker 2: Sydney Trains management. They have it under control. You're all
Speaker 2: going to get home on time on the trains, I
Speaker 2: promise you. No, I won't guarantee it the roads. That
Speaker 2: could be another matter. Will keep you up to date
Speaker 2: for your trip home. Coming up on the program. The
Speaker 2: Fine and Rescue Commissioner joined me. It is getting cold
Speaker 2: across Sydney and that's already resulting in house fires. One
Speaker 2: this morning at Bonnie rit where smoke alarms were turned
Speaker 2: off because the residents do like to cook. It's more
Speaker 2: common than you realize as well. I'll bring you the
Speaker 2: latest on Penrith Council's threats to find one of our
Speaker 2: listeners who had the cheek to use a bobcat to
Speaker 2: clean out a stormwater drain that if he didn't, his
Speaker 2: neighbor's house would have been flooded. A staggering response from
Speaker 2: the council. Today, Lego Master's back on the TV this weekend.
Speaker 2: The brickman joins me, how do you get that job?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: That'd be a good job. And mark guy with his
Speaker 2: footy tips. I'm thinking of just copying MG from now on.
Speaker 2: You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in
Speaker 2: Sydney now, so text me zero four zero eight seven
Speaker 2: three eight seven three have you say one three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three? Well in Sydney right now. There's been
Speaker 2: some hazardous serf hitting Sydney's eastern beaches. In particular today
Speaker 2: two people have been rescued at Cudgee Beach. They became
Speaker 2: stuck on rocks. Fortunately neither a serious injured arrescue helicopter
Speaker 2: had to be called in. And look, there's dangerous surf
Speaker 2: right up and down the coast. This comes with the
Speaker 2: hazardous surf warning it's been put in place for today,
Speaker 2: but also the entire coastline up and down New South
Speaker 2: Wales until Sunday. Brett Menini is with surf life risk.
Speaker 2: You get a Brett, tell me how about it is
Speaker 2: out there?
Speaker 4: Maybe it's certain, say the swell pickup, and we're expecting
Speaker 4: that to increase into Saturday, where we're going to see
Speaker 4: this long range and long period swell impact from pretty
Speaker 4: much Aid and up to Byron for the course of
Speaker 4: the weekend.
Speaker 2: How big is this swell in Sydney.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're approaching sort of that six to seven foot mark,
Speaker 4: but that will be expected to rise potentially up to
Speaker 4: sort of that two to three meter mark across the weekend.
Speaker 4: And it's a long period nature of the swell that
Speaker 4: has this probably concerned, particularly for rock fishermen. When we
Speaker 4: have these types of long period swells have more energy,
Speaker 4: they travel faster, and they're more well defined and powerful
Speaker 4: waves that impact the coastline.
Speaker 2: The fear yesterday was that the two waves would come
Speaker 2: quite close together, they'd say a fifteen second gap, which
Speaker 2: is different to the way the surf usually operates. Is
Speaker 2: that's what happened today.
Speaker 4: Yeah, basically that's what we find in the period as
Speaker 4: well as is people head down, they jump on a
Speaker 4: rock shelf or platform in between the gaps in the
Speaker 4: waves and then find themselves caught out when these bigger,
Speaker 4: more powerful waves impact those rock platforms.
Speaker 2: Two people rescued from Kulji today. Look, it looks like
Speaker 2: they're going to be okay, but that's just an example
Speaker 2: of the danger that exists.
Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent, Clint. We've seen across as when
Speaker 4: we had a similar sort of swell impacted coastline, how
Speaker 4: many incidents we saw and unfortunately those fatalities as well.
Speaker 4: So really hoping people heed the warnings this weekend if
Speaker 4: you then down to the coastline and surely you've taken
Speaker 4: a proper safety of precautions and if you're rock fishing,
Speaker 4: make sure you're observing those conditions and also ensuring at
Speaker 4: the very least you have a life jacket with de.
Speaker 2: Good luck this weekend. Thank you, Brent, Thanks Glenn, Brent
Speaker 2: Manieri from Surf Life Saving New South Wales. So look,
Speaker 2: it is pretty spectacular and a lot of people as
Speaker 2: going down the beach to have a look and take
Speaker 2: some photos. If you are an experienced surfer, best of
Speaker 2: luck to you. If you like to go rock fishing,
Speaker 2: maybe don't do it. This weekend eleven past three, there
Speaker 2: is a warning from the Sees to stay informed if
Speaker 2: you live around the Tempe Bridge in the Inner South,
Speaker 2: around the Cooks River, there is predictably some minor flooding.
Speaker 2: This will only be minor because fortunately it's not raining
Speaker 2: this afternoon, but the high tide is expected to bring
Speaker 2: some minor flooding to the Cooks River around the Tempe Bridge.
Speaker 2: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here.
Speaker 1: Sydney now with Clinton Maynard until six.
Speaker 2: The task Force which is investigating Sydney's gang war, that
Speaker 2: is Task Force Falcon, has now made its fir arrest.
Speaker 2: And this arrest is in connection to a car that
Speaker 2: police fear was going to be used potentially going to
Speaker 2: be used in a gangland hit. And this is the
Speaker 2: way these gangs operate. They hire people to conduct the
Speaker 2: very serious crimes. These people will steal a car potentially
Speaker 2: months before the job that they then undertake, and then
Speaker 2: the car is fitted out with what's necessary to complete
Speaker 2: an underworld hit. Well, a sixteen year old boy has
Speaker 2: been taken into custody. He's now been charged the task
Speaker 2: Force Task Force Falcon Police officers from that task force
Speaker 2: discovered the car in Guildford. This was a mestolea Mercedes
Speaker 2: Benz inside the vehicle, a semi automatic rifle, a handgun,
Speaker 2: a jerrycan full of fuel, face coverings, ammunition. Now all
Speaker 2: that subject in our forensic investigation. Police have been searching
Speaker 2: a home also in Guildford. Their sea's closed and mobile phones.
Speaker 2: Sixteen year old in custody. He has been charged with
Speaker 2: multiple offenses, including driving and disposing of a stole car.
Speaker 2: The head of the task force is Detective Superintendent Jason Box.
Speaker 5: And the repercussions are enormous for them. It's not just
Speaker 5: a matter of driving a car to this location and
Speaker 5: leaving it there. It's just a matter of assisting these
Speaker 5: people to carry out these offenses. They will be dealt
Speaker 5: with and in most cases with the sustain of offense
Speaker 5: that the main offenders will be charged with.
Speaker 2: So the sixteen year old will before the courts and
Speaker 2: police will obviously lead to This is only a minor player,
Speaker 2: but it's one part of a much more complicated jigsaw puzzle.
Speaker 2: Good news for customers of the Commonwealth Bank. The Commonwealth
Speaker 2: Bank has fixed their app. There was an issue this
Speaker 2: afternoon over the past couple of hours that Commonwealth Bank
Speaker 2: customers could not trans money transfer money from account to
Speaker 2: account when using their app. Well, the comm Bank has
Speaker 2: now fixed that. They've just given us a statement. An
Speaker 2: issue affecting some transfers from combak accounts has been fixed.
Speaker 2: You can now make transfers between your accounts and pay
Speaker 2: someone using PAYID or BSB an account number in net
Speaker 2: bank and the Combank app did affect our desktop computers
Speaker 2: and their website as well. Making payments using your cards
Speaker 2: using ATMs was not affected. The Comwealth Bank says we
Speaker 2: are sorry for the inconvenience and we thank you for
Speaker 2: your patients. Well, the Australian Electoral Commission is continuing to count.
Speaker 2: They're continuing their recount in the seat of Bradfield. Now
Speaker 2: the gap between Gizl Captiri and the Liberal and Nicolett
Speaker 2: Buller the teal has narrowed yet again. Miscapteriian is in
Speaker 2: front by one vote the AEC, so there's nothing in this.
Speaker 2: The AAC says it will not be until mid to
Speaker 2: late next week until they have a result. Thank goodness.
Speaker 2: It actually wasn't a quick election. Imagine if the election
Speaker 2: came down to this one seat to Bradfield and the Tiles,
Speaker 2: if it was going to be Nicolett Buller winning this seat,
Speaker 2: the Teals would have had enormous power in a minority government.
Speaker 2: But we wouldn't know, We may not know who the
Speaker 2: prime Minister is going to be. Thankfully we're not going
Speaker 2: to be a minority government. I don't think minority government
Speaker 2: would have been good for any of us. I think
Speaker 2: we're best with the majority government the AAC. You don't
Speaker 2: want to rush the AAC. They need to take care
Speaker 2: with these things. Meanwhile, still on politics, the staffter doing
Speaker 2: The fallout from Susan Lee's decision about who to include
Speaker 2: and who to exclude from her shadow cabinet is intensifying.
Speaker 2: Jane Hume. Of course, she was the shadow Finance Minister,
Speaker 2: had a big profile before the election. She has spoken
Speaker 2: out after she was dumped. She's not part of the
Speaker 2: cabinet or even the out of ministry. She was asked
Speaker 2: on Sunrise if she thinks she's been punished for her
Speaker 2: bungled work from home policy.
Speaker 6: If you're asking me whether I've been I feel hurt
Speaker 6: or slighted by this move from Susan Well, of course
Speaker 6: it hurts, you know, it hurts professionally because I was
Speaker 6: such a hard working and prolific and high profile member
Speaker 6: of the front bench in the previous in the previous opposition.
Speaker 6: And it hurts personally too because you know Susan and
Speaker 6: I are friends. But isn't this the point now? This
Speaker 6: isn't the playground, this is the Parliament. I'm not here
Speaker 6: to make friends.
Speaker 2: Not here to make friends. And she's probably out on
Speaker 2: the outer now with Susan Lee, and there's probably no
Speaker 2: going high tis in Parliament Houses cafe in the near
Speaker 2: huwe if you've got a view on the Liberals one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three. We've got plenty coming up
Speaker 2: in the program today, including MG with his tips after
Speaker 2: five point thirty. If you'd like to have you say
Speaker 2: semi a text message zero force zero eight seven three
Speaker 2: eight seven three. This is Sydney now. Health Scope has
Speaker 2: had a reprieve of sorts. Health Scope is the operator
Speaker 2: of thirty seven private hospitals around the country, but also
Speaker 2: the Northern Beaches Hospital, which is in part a public
Speaker 2: hospital including public emergency. This week, the company's owners confirmed
Speaker 2: they've gone into receivership Well news today that they have
Speaker 2: reached a deal with the many of the public hub
Speaker 2: the buildings. Physically they trade out of the private hospitals
Speaker 2: to defer rent payments on eleven of those particular hospitals,
Speaker 2: So they don't physically own those eleven hospitals. They operate
Speaker 2: hospitals there, but the landlords have agreed to defer their rent.
Speaker 2: That means that outstanding rent for March and April will
Speaker 2: be paid, but then they won't need to pay any
Speaker 2: more rent until August. The CEO of health Scope, Tina Lespina,
Speaker 2: has indicated that there should be a new owner by
Speaker 2: me August, and he is confident that there's a lot
Speaker 2: of interest in purchasing health Scope. One three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three is our number. Yesterday I brought to you
Speaker 2: the story about one of our listeners, Andrew, and I
Speaker 2: think this is just staggering and it is such a
Speaker 2: typical example of the way councils operate around Sydney. Andrews
Speaker 2: to listen to the program. He's a veteran of the
Speaker 2: Defense Force. He used a Bobcat to save his neighbours
Speaker 2: home roughly this time last week in Londondery from flooding
Speaker 2: during last week's down for it. His neighbor's home has
Speaker 2: flooded before. Stormwater drain was all blocked up, was full
Speaker 2: of debris. So wisely Andrew did the right thing by
Speaker 2: his neighbor and cleaned out the stormwater drain with his bobcat.
Speaker 7: Walk down and observed the drain that we've had plenty
Speaker 7: of history. Risen would notify cancel on numerous occasions they've
Speaker 7: come out and inspected it. I went down and had
Speaker 7: to look at it and it was just backing up.
Speaker 8: It was blocked with debris and dirt, and I ran
Speaker 8: back up in mcgumboots because of the flight of the
Speaker 8: road was flooding and you know, there were minutes to
Speaker 8: spare before again the water.
Speaker 7: Inundated my neighbor's home. So I started the Bobcat up,
Speaker 7: drove down and used the Bobcat to remove the debris
Speaker 7: in a safe manner. I placed the debris off to
Speaker 7: the side of the road and I unblocked the drain
Speaker 7: effective immediately the water started running properly, and the great
Speaker 7: news was our neighbor's place for the first time didn't
Speaker 7: flood after a storm event like that. Unfortunately, I returned
Speaker 7: and our house had flooded.
Speaker 2: So his hazard flooded a lot of flash flooding around
Speaker 2: that area at this time last week. But his neighbor
Speaker 2: had names has was saved because he did the right
Speaker 2: thing and he unblocked the drain well. Penris City Council
Speaker 2: weren't happy.
Speaker 7: I was literally pulling out the carpet. The next day,
Speaker 7: Friday morning, I had underlay and you know, pulling out
Speaker 7: the bleak carpet, and council arrived on our doorstep and
Speaker 7: stated basically that they were waiting for windsor police to
Speaker 7: attend the scene, that I was going to be charged
Speaker 7: with operating bobcat that wasn't registered on a public road.
Speaker 7: And I said, so maybe if that was the case,
Speaker 7: this was an emergency situation. I had minutes to react.
Speaker 7: I acted in a safe manner and achieve the mission
Speaker 7: which I had to.
Speaker 9: They help the bloody neighbor, and if.
Speaker 10: They feel that way, go ahead and do it. I
Speaker 10: really don't care.
Speaker 7: I'd do it in a heartbeat again tomorrow if it
Speaker 7: means helping out our neighbors or protecting life called property.
Speaker 2: Andrew, so late in the program, you might have missed this.
Speaker 2: So I'll read this to you. Late in the program,
Speaker 2: the council provided us with a statement counsel takes all
Speaker 2: flooding complates seriously and as a regular maintenance program to
Speaker 2: serve as storm water and rural drains. Counselors aware of
Speaker 2: localized flooding in the area. However, the drains were responding
Speaker 2: as designed during the rain event. Well not in this case,
Speaker 2: because homes were flooded. They say, we're continuing to investigate
Speaker 2: the matter further. When inappropriate and unauthorized works are carried out,
Speaker 2: compliance action may be taken. This is for the safety
Speaker 2: of all in our community. So when inappropriate or unauthorized
Speaker 2: works are carried out, those unauthorized works would be Andrew
Speaker 2: cleaning out the block drain that they're responsible for to
Speaker 2: save his neighbors. Well, rightly, we wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: the mayor today. The mayor is Todd Carney. No, not
Speaker 2: that Todd Carney. The mayor is Todd Carney, who's been
Speaker 2: in charge of Penricity Council now for a couple of years.
Speaker 2: He's a Deesel mechanic, probably understands Bobcats very well. He's
Speaker 2: a good man. Todd. I've spoken to Todd on this
Speaker 2: program on numerous occasions over the past couple of years.
Speaker 2: But we can't talk to Todd. No, we can't talk
Speaker 2: to the mayor. The council's PR officer has written to
Speaker 2: us and says I'll read you the whole email. Availability
Speaker 2: isn't an issue for Todd, but as the matter is
Speaker 2: still under an investigation, it's not appropriate to discuss through
Speaker 2: the media. Really, availability is not an issue, so he
Speaker 2: can talk to us, but he can't talk to us
Speaker 2: on the media because it's subject to investigation. Why not, seriously,
Speaker 2: why not discuss it? What is there to investigate? Andrew
Speaker 2: admits he used a bobcat for about I think eight
Speaker 2: minutes to one block a drain that the council is
Speaker 2: responsible for and should have kept unblocked. What sort of
Speaker 2: investigation do we need, like a royal commission? Should we
Speaker 2: call a royal commission into this one? We've just been
Speaker 2: through the pandemic. Do we bring in the UNHCR to
Speaker 2: order an investigation in It's like what caused COVID? Was
Speaker 2: it the lab in Wuhan? Is this an investigation on
Speaker 2: the scale of IKAC investigating Gladysbury Jiclian's relationship with Darren Maguire.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be that thorough. Are we going to have
Speaker 2: public hearings? Will the full bench of the Federal Court
Speaker 2: be involved. Andrew's not hiding anything. He used his bobcat
Speaker 2: to clean out a drain that you Penrith Council are
Speaker 2: responsible for and hadn't cleaned out, and that was threatening
Speaker 2: to flood his neighbor's home, which has flooded in the past.
Speaker 2: That's all. And then you have the hide to threaten
Speaker 2: to bill him to remove the debris that he removed
Speaker 2: from the drain and then say the police also might
Speaker 2: lay charges and find you and the mayor can't talk
Speaker 2: because it's subject to an investigation. Seriously, what utter garbage?
Speaker 2: That is complete and utter garbage. That's a good reason
Speaker 2: to actually get rid of councils papers leaking.
Speaker 11: Okay, I'll be right back. Emergency emergency summonsored and needs
Speaker 11: your help. Rescue team, Rescue team, come help us.
Speaker 2: That's baby Bus, very popular cartoon with kids. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: we should get them to actually help in the streets
Speaker 2: of Penrith and Londondry when the pipes have burst or
Speaker 2: when there's a full water main when the stormwater drain
Speaker 2: isn't working as intended, because they'll actually respond to an emergency,
Speaker 2: unlike the Council and.
Speaker 12: Good Josh Bright, Good afternoon Clinton. US Defense Secretary Pete
Speaker 12: Hegseth says the relationship with Australia is as strong as ever,
Speaker 12: as he met with Richard Miles on the sidelines of
Speaker 12: a security conference in Singapore. Building approvals are at a
Speaker 12: nine month low, according to the latest figures from the
Speaker 12: Bureau of Statistics. Fewer apartments we're giving the green light.
Speaker 12: In April, Pauline Hanson says she's elated with one Nation's
Speaker 12: performance at the federal election, with a minor party doubling
Speaker 12: its number of senators. Adamn has been extradited from New
Speaker 12: Zealand and charged in relation to a twenty sixteen armed
Speaker 12: robbery in Perth. It's alleged he continued to taunt investigators
Speaker 12: by phoning from New Zealand and saying catch me if
Speaker 12: you can. In Sport, tomorrow night's NRL class at Brookvale
Speaker 12: Oval between the Seagles and the Broncos has been declared
Speaker 12: to sell out manly trying to avoid a fourth straight
Speaker 12: defeat at home we'll have more news and sported for thanks.
Speaker 2: Josh twenty degrees in the CBD twenty one degrees in
Speaker 2: Campbelltown at the moment. Coming up later in the program,
Speaker 2: I'm going to talk to one of the business owners
Speaker 2: that we spoke to when we were hosting the show
Speaker 2: from Tare on Monday about how the week has progressed
Speaker 2: with the cleanup following the floods and whether she's satisfied
Speaker 2: with what the government's offering in terms of financial support.
Speaker 2: The King and Queen Camilla have released a statement today
Speaker 2: to pass on their concerns about the flood. Statement reads,
Speaker 2: My wife and I have been so greatly concerned to
Speaker 2: hear of the widespread and devastating flooding across the Hunter
Speaker 2: in the mid North Coast. Only say that our thoughts
Speaker 2: are very much with all those people who've been affected
Speaker 2: so badly, especially the family and friends of the five
Speaker 2: people who tragically lost their lives. We send our special
Speaker 2: prayers and our deepest possible sympathy sympathy to all those
Speaker 2: who mourn them. That's a message from King Charles and
Speaker 2: Queen Camilla. Twenty eight to four will cross to peter
Speaker 2: Ford in just a moment, but the lines are gone
Speaker 2: in the meltdown on the feedback line, zero force like
Speaker 2: zero eight seven three out seven three about the behavior
Speaker 2: of Penrith Council, their threat to issue fines and to
Speaker 2: even bill one of our listeners, Andrew, who had the
Speaker 2: temerity to use his bobcat to unblock a drain that
Speaker 2: they're responsible for and to protect his neighbors from a flood.
Speaker 2: Scott says, if anything, old mate and his Bobcat should
Speaker 2: be billing the council for doing their job. It should
Speaker 2: be given the Citizen of the Year award. Zach says,
Speaker 2: good on him for helping the neighbor. That is so counsels.
Speaker 2: Mick says, seriously, the response from Penwrith Council shows how
Speaker 2: pathetic they are because the mayor, Todd Carney, who's a
Speaker 2: good man, didn't play much football. Different Todd Carney. I've
Speaker 2: spoken to him on the show before, but the pr
Speaker 2: hacks that the council won't let him come on because
Speaker 2: they say it's subject to investigation. Roz is in mos VWL.
Speaker 2: Hello ros Oh Hi Klinton.
Speaker 13: I'm just wondering how they can be taking it seriously
Speaker 13: After the councilor you spoke to yesterday, raised this very
Speaker 13: issue about this very drained and the very neighbor last
Speaker 13: year who's been flooded two minutes after she laid a
Speaker 13: new carpet after previously.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a plan to spend seven million dollars
Speaker 2: and it would have been his money. It's rate payers
Speaker 2: money to spend that money to upgrade the storm water
Speaker 2: drain system. And the government didn't or that the counsel
Speaker 2: didn't approve it.
Speaker 4: Ridiculous, ridiculously ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Keep on it, thanks, ros. We certainly will. And look,
Speaker 2: I beg to speak Todd Carney. Maybe he'll change his
Speaker 2: mind and he'll come on the program later the day
Speaker 2: because he's a good fella. He's a diesel mechanic. He
Speaker 2: understands bobcats. Does he have a Bobcat LICENSEE? Maybe we'll
Speaker 2: get him a Bobcat license, we'll organize it. Maybe he
Speaker 2: can go out there with his Bobcat himself. But Andrew's
Speaker 2: got one, Andrew knows how to use it, and he's
Speaker 2: doing a lot of good around the community to help
Speaker 2: other people.
Speaker 1: You're listening to sit now with Clinton Maynard on TGB
Speaker 1: cool Now one three one eight.
Speaker 2: Seven three, Let's talk to me at detainment. Channel seven
Speaker 2: is changing their afternoon programming lineup. Peter Ford, good afternoon.
Speaker 9: Good afternoon to you Clinton. Yeah, an interesting move today
Speaker 9: announced by seven. In amongst various changes, one of the
Speaker 9: more significant was the current seven Sydney news director Sean Power,
Speaker 9: is relocating to Melbourne and he looks bag on a
Speaker 9: variety of different duties, but one of them will to
Speaker 9: be overseeing the putting together a brand new national show.
Speaker 9: Now they haven't specified it's an afternoon show, but certainly
Speaker 9: there's been a lot of buzz around for the last
Speaker 9: couple of weeks that seven are planning to do a
Speaker 9: probably three o'clock in the afternoon show. We don't know
Speaker 9: whether that would be an advatorial based program or whether
Speaker 9: it's strictly news program. I guess with Sean envolved, probably
Speaker 9: you'd be leaning more towards it not being advertorial based,
Speaker 9: but an interesting program. Bean decision for them. As you know,
Speaker 9: the afternoon goes on, it becomes more and more important
Speaker 9: for them to grab viewers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was at Channel seven very briefly, had a
Speaker 2: very brief television career. Peet. They decided to get rid
Speaker 2: of me, which is fair enough. But about it was
Speaker 2: at the time of the Iraq War, around maybe two
Speaker 2: thousand and three, two thousand and four, and at that
Speaker 2: point everything in news was about the six pm news
Speaker 2: and this is before the days obviously of well the
Speaker 2: Sky News exist in then, but the streaming services weren't
Speaker 2: around them, and the boss at the time he decided
Speaker 2: to introduce a four thirty news bought and the reason
Speaker 2: for that was because of the war, and once it
Speaker 2: started it was popular, people watched it, so they kept
Speaker 2: it ever since.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 9: Yeah, interesting how sometimes things can just evolve like that.
Speaker 9: There's been a little bit of buzz around that Alex
Speaker 9: Cullen might stage you come back and be fronting this
Speaker 9: new program.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 9: Alex of course was with The Today Show till a
Speaker 9: couple of months ago, and that all was very messy
Speaker 9: and unfortunate, so this would be a good gig for him.
Speaker 9: It'd opt to relocate with his family to Melbourne. But yeah,
Speaker 9: we'll get more information as the weeks go on.
Speaker 2: Mag there is being swamped with messages of support, but
Speaker 2: also probably understandably interview requests.
Speaker 9: Yeah, a lot of interview requests. All the obvious suspects
Speaker 9: have come out to say, will you come on our show?
Speaker 9: Can we do an interview with you? She's saying no
Speaker 9: to everything, which perhaps either indicates that she basically has
Speaker 9: said what she wants to say for now, or it
Speaker 9: might mean that she already has secured a magazine deal,
Speaker 9: a paid deal, or a TV deal, in which case
Speaker 9: obviously she can't say anymore until that commitment has been fulfilled.
Speaker 9: But incredible number of messages on social media, and this
Speaker 9: really is when you do see social media at its best,
Speaker 9: and people from Kylie Mino to Sam Neil, Terry Irwin,
Speaker 9: Danny Minou, Dave Views, Natalie and Brilliant or getting on
Speaker 9: there and sending her love and support, as well as
Speaker 9: about fourteen thousand other regular people just felt the need
Speaker 9: and the desire to do the exact same thing. So
Speaker 9: she certainly does have a lot of good will behind
Speaker 9: her on this journey.
Speaker 2: One of our listeners got in contact with me late
Speaker 2: yesterday and her mother was diagnosed with the same condition
Speaker 2: now many years ago, and her mum was given six
Speaker 2: months to live. Twenty years later, she's still here, So this.
Speaker 9: Wow, that's fantastic. Yeah, And even in that space of
Speaker 9: twenty years. I'm sure that the treatments available are probably
Speaker 9: vastly improved as well. So yeah, she has great confidence.
Speaker 9: I exchanged messages with her last night and she's getting swamps,
Speaker 9: so that it was only a brief message back, but yeah,
Speaker 9: you just get a She's certainly been buoyed by the
Speaker 9: great number of people who've come forward and said good
Speaker 9: on you.
Speaker 2: Oh good well. Peter passed on the thoughts of all
Speaker 2: the listeners to this program in this station, everyone, no
Speaker 2: matter what their political opinions are or what entertainment they enjoy.
Speaker 2: I think everyone has some time for and the best
Speaker 2: wishes are.
Speaker 10: With her one percent.
Speaker 9: Thanks perthin.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to Peter Ford next week.
Speaker 1: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear and on Sydney
Speaker 1: now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To gb There has been a fall in the number
Speaker 2: of new buildings approved homes, apartments and also free standing housing.
Speaker 2: Figures from the Australian Bureau Statistics have been released today
Speaker 2: that show the number of dwellings approved has fallen by
Speaker 2: five point seven percent in April to fourteen thy six
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty three. Now, this is across the whole
Speaker 2: country in New South Wales, there's actually been an increase,
Speaker 2: which is good because it's needed. An increase of seven
Speaker 2: point three percent. No doubt Chris Mens will be happy
Speaker 2: to read those figures given what happened with Rocil Racecourse
Speaker 2: this week. If you see something on the roads or
Speaker 2: even the public transport network that we need to know
Speaker 2: about this afternoon, send me a text message zero four
Speaker 2: six zero eight seven three eight seven three. Steve told
Speaker 2: us about that accident that's occurred on the M two.
Speaker 2: It's involving three vehicles. It is westbound just past the
Speaker 2: Lane Cove Road exit. Now there's a lot of traffic
Speaker 2: in the area. There are no emergency services there yet.
Speaker 2: Hopefully they're going to get there pretty quickly because that
Speaker 2: is going to cause traffic chaos. One three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. Tell me when was the last time you
Speaker 2: checked your smoke alarm. This is an important reminder because
Speaker 2: winter begins on Sunday and continuously we see year after
Speaker 2: you're in winter and increase in house fires. There's been
Speaker 2: a couple in the last forty eight hours. There was
Speaker 2: a house fire and Bonnie Rig this morning and the
Speaker 2: residents admit they've admitted to Fire and Rescue that they
Speaker 2: had actually switched off the smoke alarms. They disconnected the
Speaker 2: smoke alarms, reason being they apparently cook a lot. It's
Speaker 2: probably not a real good reason to turn off your
Speaker 2: smoke alarm. Jeremy Futrell is the Commissioner of Fire and Rescue,
Speaker 2: New South Wales and joins a steaker for your time,
Speaker 2: Commissioner kay clean good to be with you. This is
Speaker 2: an important reminder because winter starts on Monday. On Sunday
Speaker 2: it is.
Speaker 15: And it's the time of the year when we see
Speaker 15: the greatest number of fires in people's homes, and it's
Speaker 15: the time of the year unfortunately we see a rise
Speaker 15: in the number of injuries and fatalities from fires, and
Speaker 15: a lot of that is due to people not having
Speaker 15: a working smoke alarm.
Speaker 2: We've been hammering the smoke alarm message, that would seem
Speaker 2: Jeremy for twenty odd years now. And it's when you
Speaker 2: build house obviously you need smoke alarms in there. So
Speaker 2: why do you think some many people do don't have
Speaker 2: the more have working alarms.
Speaker 15: Well, smoke alarms have been required in New South Wales
Speaker 15: for almost twenty years now. People I think have got
Speaker 15: a little bit complacent. They're the thing on the ceiling
Speaker 15: that we hope we never ever need. But when you
Speaker 15: need it, you need it more than anything. And the
Speaker 15: biggest single thing that people can do to make sure
Speaker 15: that they and their families stay safe is to have
Speaker 15: working smoke alarms in their homes. And so Fire and
Speaker 15: Rescue are recommending everyone to take a bit of time
Speaker 15: tomorrow on Sunday to spend a few minutes to check
Speaker 15: their smoke alarm because people will often tell us, oh, yeah,
Speaker 15: we've got a smoke alarm, but when we actually check
Speaker 15: it or when we see it, it's not working. And
Speaker 15: we know that that's in about almost fifty percent of
Speaker 15: the homes that we go into. So there's a big
Speaker 15: risk out there for people. And we also see the
Speaker 15: people that do die or get seriously injured in fires,
Speaker 15: a very great proportion of them don't have working smoke alarms.
Speaker 2: And yes, there are two main styles of smoke alarms,
Speaker 2: the ones that are the hardwired into your home and
Speaker 2: ones you might as buy hardware store buntings or something
Speaker 2: like that on batteries. Is there really a difference between
Speaker 2: the two. Should you have the hard wire one over
Speaker 2: the battery ones.
Speaker 15: No, people may have a hard wire one if their
Speaker 15: house has been built in more recent times, but either
Speaker 15: of those options, they're all designed to comply with appropriate
Speaker 15: Australian standard and that means that they'll operate and work
Speaker 15: in the same way. The hardwired ones will often have
Speaker 15: the advantage of being interconnected, so that means if one
Speaker 15: goes off, any other alarms in the house will go
Speaker 15: off at the same time. But you can even get
Speaker 15: battery ones that you install manually that have that functionality
Speaker 15: now with that sort of Bluetooth Wi Fi type connection skills.
Speaker 16: So there's a.
Speaker 15: Range of options, but the bottom line is there's not
Speaker 15: really any excuse for fifteen or twenty dollars. You can
Speaker 15: get a smoke alarm that's going to provide invaluable protection
Speaker 15: for you and your family, to give you the early
Speaker 15: notice to be able to get out quickly. And what
Speaker 15: we're seeing now, particularly in more recent years with things
Speaker 15: from liftium ion battery fires, just how quickly the fires
Speaker 15: are developing, and so having that early notice is really
Speaker 15: the best protection that people can have to become alert
Speaker 15: of a problem and then take action to get out safely.
Speaker 2: And just on those batteries. Jeremy, we've spoken, we spoken
Speaker 2: on this program before with you about the electric bikes.
Speaker 2: But you might not have an electric bike, but most
Speaker 2: of us, you know, in a garage these days, have
Speaker 2: some sort of battery device because so many appliances are
Speaker 2: using them.
Speaker 15: Now, yeah, that's right, And just you know, through the
Speaker 15: course of the last week, we've had a number of
Speaker 15: fires involving litium ion batteries. Some of them were bike
Speaker 15: batteries that others were batteries in other devices as well.
Speaker 15: The one thing that they all have in common is
Speaker 15: when they fail, they fail really quickly and so suddenly
Speaker 15: people will have a very intense fire developing inside their
Speaker 15: home when one of these batteries fail.
Speaker 2: Just so you've got you've got some garden tools, and
Speaker 2: they use one of those battery packs that you use
Speaker 2: on different tools. If you haven't brought it off the
Speaker 2: internet from some dodgy website, you've brought it from a
Speaker 2: hardware store. Is it safe to leave those on charging
Speaker 2: overnight or should you are your best to turn them off?
Speaker 15: The best thing is to turn them off and take
Speaker 15: them out of the charger once they're we charged, So
Speaker 15: put it on you know, maybe finish mo on the
Speaker 15: lawn or doing the edges or whatever you're doing. Put
Speaker 15: it onto charge, you know, go and get cleaned up
Speaker 15: from working in the yard, watch the football at the
Speaker 15: end of the football game, go down and take it off,
Speaker 15: you know, give it that time that it needs to
Speaker 15: charge up. But certainly not leaving it on overnight. That's
Speaker 15: the times when people are overcharging things. Well, they might
Speaker 15: leave it on for days and days, and you know
Speaker 15: that's where people are at a greater risk or something
Speaker 15: not going right.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Just just lastly, Jeremy, the reason I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to you is one because you have the smoke alb
Speaker 2: action down Sunday. But secondly, I heard about the fire
Speaker 2: this morning at Bonnie Rick. Unfortunately not nobody was harmed,
Speaker 2: but your officers obviously had to attend to it. The
Speaker 2: resident has admitted to your teams that they turn the
Speaker 2: smoke alarms off because they cook a lot. Just you know,
Speaker 2: you might cook a lot, but it's not a reason
Speaker 2: to turn alarm off, is it.
Speaker 17: No.
Speaker 15: And the big thing is putting smoke alarms inappropriate location
Speaker 15: so you don't necessarily need it in the kitchen or
Speaker 15: near the kitchen because that is going to cause that annoyance,
Speaker 15: and that's when we do see people, you know, disconnecting
Speaker 15: the smoke alarms or covering them up. So you know,
Speaker 15: if that's the case, talk to your electrician. If it's
Speaker 15: a hardwired one and get them to reposition them for you,
Speaker 15: or if it is just a battery one that you
Speaker 15: can install or remove, you know, take it down and
Speaker 15: put it in a better spot. The space where we
Speaker 15: really want them is particularly close to the bedroom so
Speaker 15: that when people are asleep at night, they don't smell
Speaker 15: the smoke, and that's the smoke alarm that will detect
Speaker 15: the smoke and give them the alarm and wake them
Speaker 15: up to get out.
Speaker 2: Actually, just finally you mentioned the electrician there. If we
Speaker 2: have some maybe some elderly people listening who aren't quite
Speaker 2: sure what to do, can they drop into a fire station,
Speaker 2: just ask you guys.
Speaker 15: Oh, I definitely, And they don't even have to drop
Speaker 15: in if they want to, just call their local fire
Speaker 15: station or they can get online at fire dot NSW,
Speaker 15: dot gov dot au. But either way they can ask
Speaker 15: for the firefighters to come out and check their smoke alarms.
Speaker 15: If people don't have smoke alarms, we'll put them in
Speaker 15: and make sure that they're safe and the batteries if
Speaker 15: they've made new batteries, will check them they're working and
Speaker 15: replace any batteries. Particularly for the elderly people in our
Speaker 15: community or those that are vulnerable in any way, please
Speaker 15: reach out to the fire stations. Your crews are always
Speaker 15: happy to come out and check and to make sure
Speaker 15: people are safe in their own homes.
Speaker 2: Good on your Jeremy for doing that because I know
Speaker 2: some people just don't understand how these things work and
Speaker 2: could do with that help. Thank you, Commissioner. Thanks very much,
Speaker 2: Commissioner Jeremy fair Trail from Fine Rescue, New South Wales.
Speaker 2: So Sunday is the day because it's the first day
Speaker 2: of winter. Just that reminder to check your smoke alarms.
Speaker 2: Look a lot. Probably more people than you think turn
Speaker 2: them off because you're in the kitchen, you're cooking the
Speaker 2: sausages and they give it smoking. The smoke alarm starts
Speaker 2: going off and you they're waving a broomstick trying to
Speaker 2: bash away the smoke. But think about where that smoke
Speaker 2: alarm is. There can be better locations of where you
Speaker 2: could have it in your home. Plenty of dramas on
Speaker 2: the roads. If you see something, let me know one
Speaker 2: three one eight seventy three from one of our listeners,
Speaker 2: there's a car accident Withers Road, Rouse Hill at the moment,
Speaker 2: really heavy traffic there and the emergency services are not
Speaker 2: there yet. Just one car involved. It's blocking one of
Speaker 2: the lanes. No one appears to be hurt. It's six
Speaker 2: to four Fresh Food Friday. Thanks to our great mates
Speaker 2: at Harris farm Markets. They have partners of our program,
Speaker 2: Harris farm Markets. They're opening up all over Sydney. I
Speaker 2: think they're going to open up one in my place.
Speaker 2: I can't wait for that to happen. Let's find out
Speaker 2: what's good at the moment. Carlos Cerevello is the head
Speaker 2: of fresh buying at Harris farm Markets.
Speaker 10: Get I Carlo, Hey, good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 3: How we going.
Speaker 2: I'm good. I'm looking forward to some nice fruit this weekend,
Speaker 2: just given we're now heading into winter. What's good right now?
Speaker 3: Well, there's putting a good stuff in for it this week.
Speaker 3: We got it's we're in the middle of apple and
Speaker 3: pear season, so they're all right on point. At the moment.
Speaker 3: We actually have our imperfect PACKMS on in all thors
Speaker 3: at a really good price. Strangely enough, Clinton, I know
Speaker 3: it's not the right weather for it, but seedless melanie
Speaker 3: is really really good value and amazing quality. At this
Speaker 3: time of year. We draw it out of the territory
Speaker 3: in Queensland. It's unfortunate the weather doesn't really sue, but
Speaker 3: it just eating so well. It's nice, hard and crunchy
Speaker 3: and super sweet. But I suppose it's the price which
Speaker 3: is keeping those prices down. But customers don't be afraid
Speaker 3: to get in it and try the seedlers. No one
Speaker 3: is amazing eating this week.
Speaker 2: What about vegetables.
Speaker 3: Vegetable markets quite stable and there's a lot of good
Speaker 3: values throughout vegetables. There's a couple of noted exceptions to that, Clinton,
Speaker 3: which I'd like to let everyone know that tomatoes are
Speaker 3: about as expensive as they get. They hit one hundred
Speaker 3: bucks in the wholesale markets this week, which is obscene.
Speaker 3: And beans we are in what we call a planting gap,
Speaker 3: and that is, you know, when it rains, obviously farmers
Speaker 3: can't access their grounds to plant because it's not too
Speaker 3: wet and unsuitable for equipment to go over, So we
Speaker 3: get what we call a planting gap, and that's what
Speaker 3: we're in. But lest assured that this is done a
Speaker 3: short term phenomenon. We expect it to change pretty quickly
Speaker 3: in the next week or so. So that but they
Speaker 3: are extremely expensive this week. But we don't want to
Speaker 3: we don't want to panic or we have it the
Speaker 3: next reason for an interest rate rider like that, it's
Speaker 3: a short term phenomenon.
Speaker 2: I know, the inflation rate. When they came out with
Speaker 2: the inflation rate figures at the ABS this week, they
Speaker 2: actually blamed eggs. Seriously. They said part of it the
Speaker 2: high egg prices because of inflation run us through the
Speaker 2: weekend specials at Harris Farm Markets.
Speaker 3: This week, well, we've got some fantastic stuff. We've got
Speaker 3: snow white cup mushrooms on at eight ninety ninety k
Speaker 3: saving about four or five bucks and they are superb
Speaker 3: Banana's on this weekend at two ninety nine, which was
Speaker 3: a couple of dollars saving, and they are tremendous eating
Speaker 3: Charlotte's ninety nine cents a bunch. You would be hard
Speaker 3: pressed to find cheaper Shalotts in Sydney and at ninety
Speaker 3: nine cents a bunch and Klee for all the exercise
Speaker 3: breaks out there at two bunches for two bucks fifty.
Speaker 3: They are mostly Sydney based and grown so support the
Speaker 3: local growers and they are also fantastic quality.
Speaker 2: This week, now, I mentioned the start there that you've
Speaker 2: got Sydney stores everywhere these days, but you have that
Speaker 2: a busy week because you've just opened your store in Merrickville.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we kicked off Marrickville last Thursday and it
Speaker 3: was obviously the weather wasn't really great weather open the stop.
Speaker 3: But it's settled down nicely there in Marrackville and no,
Speaker 3: it's traveling really really well. We're coming out to your
Speaker 3: where we're going into the Shire and in a few
Speaker 3: months we'll be in Miranda.
Speaker 2: We've been waiting Miranda.
Speaker 3: So it'll be a fantastic shop and it's only I
Speaker 3: think you'll see that around September and it'll be an
Speaker 3: amazing store.
Speaker 2: Excellent. I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 10: Good on you, Carlo, have a great weekend.
Speaker 2: You two, mate. Carlo Siravolo, who's the head of fresh
Speaker 2: buying at Harris Farmer Markets. Harris farm Markets fifty years
Speaker 2: of providing the fresher fruits, veggies and meats. They're still
Speaker 2: family owned. Find you need restore Harrisfarm dot com, dot you.
Speaker 2: They have opened the Numeric full store and yes they're
Speaker 2: opening at Miranda later this year. This is Sydney. Now
Speaker 2: we've clinton on to gin b Well. I promised to
Speaker 2: be no delays on the trains this afternoon. I did
Speaker 2: not promise there be no problems in the roads and
Speaker 2: certainly there are dramas all over the place. Hearing about
Speaker 2: some significant delays now on both the M four and
Speaker 2: the M five. Gree thank you for sending that message
Speaker 2: at in Croydon, the Croydon area westbound M four and
Speaker 2: then the M eight. Thank you Gregory. Now we've brought
Speaker 2: you that news. Just before the news, there's been an
Speaker 2: accident involving a police car in Wentworthville. It's occurred on
Speaker 2: the Cumberland Highway just near railway overpassed so Dacey Road.
Speaker 2: Occurred three forty five. Now we've just spoken with the
Speaker 2: police about this. They've confirmed there was a crash involving
Speaker 2: another vehicle. Our listeners tell us it was a Mercedes Benz.
Speaker 2: It was driven by a woman we believe who looks
Speaker 2: like she's okay. One of our listeners saw her sitting
Speaker 2: by the side of the road that she looks like
Speaker 2: she's okay, probably in shock. Three police vehicles have rushed
Speaker 2: to the scene. In the traffic the northbound lanes are
Speaker 2: now banked up. The ambulance is also heading there to
Speaker 2: check that everyone's all right. The police are telling us
Speaker 2: they're unsure of any injuries now. Our witnesses tell us
Speaker 2: it looked like the police are okay, but we don't
Speaker 2: have that confirmed yet from the paramedics. But that is
Speaker 2: an accident involving one police car. Also, a Mercedes Benz
Speaker 2: has been a t bone. It's just near the railway
Speaker 2: overpass in Wentworthville on the Cumberland Highway, so if you're
Speaker 2: driving through that area, please take some care.
Speaker 1: We are part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 1: one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Coming up after five o'clock. I'll be talking to one
Speaker 2: of the business owners that we spoke to when we
Speaker 2: were in Tarare early this week about how she's now
Speaker 2: coping almost a week on from the floods. The Premier
Speaker 2: has been there this week, the Prime Minister's been there
Speaker 2: this week. They've announced various packages of financial assist and
Speaker 2: so I don't think they're going to make a huge
Speaker 2: amount of difference. It's a start, but both the Premier
Speaker 2: and the Prime Minister says there will be more help
Speaker 2: on the way, and I think that's necessary. What is
Speaker 2: critical for those that have gone through this flood is
Speaker 2: that changes are made to how insurance operates in these
Speaker 2: areas that are commonly flooded. And Tari unfortunately was flooded
Speaker 2: also in twenty twenty one, which effectively means the insurance
Speaker 2: companies and I spoke with the Insurance Council and they
Speaker 2: say that the suggestion that the whole of the mid
Speaker 2: North Coast won't be able to be ensured, that's not correct.
Speaker 2: But there will be areas around Tari when there already
Speaker 2: are where it's completely unaffordable to ensure your house because
Speaker 2: insurance premiums per year can be twenty twenty five even
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars a year. There needs to be a
Speaker 2: long term solution because it's not easy just to say
Speaker 2: to somebody if they've lived in a spot their whole life,
Speaker 2: and if their business operates there as well, just believe
Speaker 2: I'll look at that again after five o'clock. But need
Speaker 2: is today that a fourth man has been charged over
Speaker 2: looting looting in Tari. This was a bloke who was
Speaker 2: on a bike pushbike. The police stopped him in Crescent
Speaker 2: Avenue in Tari. They searched his bags. The police say
Speaker 2: they found items suspected of being stolen, including credit card,
Speaker 2: business records, jewelry and watchers. Thirty seven year old man
Speaker 2: take it to Tari police station, charged with various offenses,
Speaker 2: including six counts of goods in personal custody, but also
Speaker 2: not wearing a bike helmet. I'm sure that's the one
Speaker 2: he's worried about. That he is appearing before the courts.
Speaker 2: He is now on bail. He's actually been refused bail,
Speaker 2: so well done to the magistrate in the Tari Local Court.
Speaker 2: He'll reappear in court on Tuesday. Three other men have
Speaker 2: also been charged with looting, a twenty year old, a
Speaker 2: twenty nine year old and a forty four year old.
Speaker 2: One of those men is accused of stealing a defibrillator.
Speaker 2: That's right, stealing something that saves people's lives. Ten past four.
Speaker 2: I've still got so much feedback here about the story.
Speaker 2: We spoke to one of our listeners about yesterday and
Speaker 2: also touched on the first hour Andrew who lives in Londonderry,
Speaker 2: who is a veteran, and he's a kind hearted veella.
Speaker 2: He's got a Bobcat and he helped his next door
Speaker 2: neighbor from their home being flooded by unblocking a drain.
Speaker 2: And he did this because he has the skills and
Speaker 2: because the council didn't. The council is responsible for stormwater
Speaker 2: drains in Londonderry and the situation was that the home
Speaker 2: next door to our listener Andrew has been flooded previously
Speaker 2: and the drain was so clogged up. He was deeply
Speaker 2: concerned that that home had be flooded again, so he
Speaker 2: did the right thing and unblocked it. And I've got
Speaker 2: some messages here because Penrith Council is threatening to issue
Speaker 2: him with a bill to clean up the debris that
Speaker 2: he uses Bobcat to remove from the drain, and then
Speaker 2: they've said the police may consider charging him as well.
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous. He should be given the Citizen of the
Speaker 2: Year award, but no, he could be copying a fine.
Speaker 2: Absolutely crazy. Now I asked to speak with the mayor today,
Speaker 2: Todd Carney, and we've been formally told availability isn't an issue.
Speaker 2: The matter is still under investigation, so it's not appropriate
Speaker 2: to discuss through the media. Why not what sort of
Speaker 2: investigation they running? They need to run a Royal Commission,
Speaker 2: special Commission of inquiry. What do we need to bring
Speaker 2: in a former Supreme Court judge to examine why he
Speaker 2: used his bobcat to unblock a drain faired income from
Speaker 2: Sara on the text line, oh my goodness, I am
Speaker 2: sick of counsels and their bully boy attitude. It is
Speaker 2: just pathetic. Another one of our listeners, can you sue
Speaker 2: a council for failure to keep drains clear of debris
Speaker 2: if your house gets flooded? We should get rid of
Speaker 2: local council was one hundred percent. Look, I want to
Speaker 2: actually have a look at this broader issue from somebody
Speaker 2: who actually understands the state of our stormwater system and
Speaker 2: drainage systems. We know we have a fairly old pipe
Speaker 2: network and that's the reality of the age of our city,
Speaker 2: but what can be done to improve it? What can
Speaker 2: be done to prevent stormwater drains from bursting and causing
Speaker 2: floods in our neighborhood. Nathaniel Smith is the CEO of
Speaker 2: the Master Plumbers Association and joins me. Thank you for
Speaker 2: your time.
Speaker 18: Nathaniel, Yeah, good thee here from mc clinton.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to talk about the bigger picture to
Speaker 2: start with the Sydney's stormwater drain system at the moment,
Speaker 2: is it up to scratch.
Speaker 18: Well, it would be penned from council to council. Many
Speaker 18: councils run a pretty good maintenance system. They look after
Speaker 18: their streets, they make sure that the stormwater is flowing.
Speaker 18: They regularly cleaned. Others may not, So it depend on
Speaker 18: the council and the financial position of the council. How
Speaker 18: it's ran the culture of the unseil. Do they have
Speaker 18: their own works team? Do they subcontract the whole range
Speaker 18: of things like that?
Speaker 2: And is that how it works across the whole of
Speaker 2: Sydney and greater New South Wales. The councils are completely
Speaker 2: responsible or is there an element where Sydney Water has
Speaker 2: responsibility for stormwater.
Speaker 18: Sydney Water is mainly responsible for the sewer and water
Speaker 18: and obviously water in New South Wales. Water in New
Speaker 18: South Wales sort of runs the obviously dams and the network.
Speaker 18: But then in regional areas that they're in charge of,
Speaker 18: say the sewer and the water and the storm water
Speaker 18: as well. So for instance, I live in Wig your
Speaker 18: Carriby Shyke Council and they look after all three.
Speaker 2: Because on the surface, and I know you've been involved
Speaker 2: in government as well, you're part of the previous state government.
Speaker 2: I know that whenever we get a lot of rain
Speaker 2: in Sydney and it's sudden rain, it would appear anecdotally
Speaker 2: that our stormwater system doesn't really cope. Well, we have
Speaker 2: flash flooding all over Sydney.
Speaker 18: Well that's right, because it's very old infrastructure and we're
Speaker 18: going up and up, up, and we're building up and up,
Speaker 18: and there's less screen space for water to basically dissolve
Speaker 18: into the ground. And when you've got old infrastructure that
Speaker 18: wasn't used to that population, say thirty forty years ago,
Speaker 18: you're going to get it's going to back up.
Speaker 2: So how do you get around it? Do we need
Speaker 2: to replace all the pipes? Do we need to expand
Speaker 2: the system dramatically?
Speaker 18: You need to obviously expand the pipes. Is there's ways
Speaker 18: they can do that now, some new technologies where they
Speaker 18: pipe blasting. It's called there's a couple of companies that
Speaker 18: do that where they can expand the size of the
Speaker 18: pipework under the ground. That's one way, but obviously it's
Speaker 18: really studying these areas and that's why those do flood
Speaker 18: studies regularly and a lot of council areas, and that's
Speaker 18: why some people can't build in certain places.
Speaker 2: The cost of be extraordinary, wouldn't it.
Speaker 18: It is extraordinary. Yeah, The infrastructure for stormwater is very
Speaker 18: expensive because you're taught looking in some areas, you know,
Speaker 18: five hundred pipes, concrete, civil pipes. Its heavy civil work,
Speaker 18: and you know you're talking about easements where you take
Speaker 18: opening up whole roads. So it's very expensive. One way
Speaker 18: to try and keep as much water on the property
Speaker 18: as by people having rain water tanks in their backyard
Speaker 18: or under their house if they can, if they can
Speaker 18: do it, that would take pressure off the stormwater system.
Speaker 18: But that's one that's one tiny solution. But really it's
Speaker 18: just preventive maintenance.
Speaker 2: You've heard our story about you've heard our story and
Speaker 2: I thank you about our listener who has been threatened
Speaker 2: with fines that the council says they are going to
Speaker 2: send him a bill because he removed debris from their
Speaker 2: still more to drain, and now they've got to remove
Speaker 2: the rest of the debris. You think it shows a
Speaker 2: lack of understanding from the council that they're taking that
Speaker 2: action against this fella.
Speaker 18: That's absolutely outrageous. The council should be obviously maintaining these streets,
Speaker 18: and the debris has obviously come from trees that aren't
Speaker 18: probably obviously in that person's property. And really, I think
Speaker 18: local government should be focusing other things and running investigations.
Speaker 18: They should be focusing on maintaining their streets, their pathways
Speaker 18: and their drains.
Speaker 2: I know there's a thorough investigation. Looks like bring the
Speaker 2: full bench to the federal courting to run it as well. Andrew,
Speaker 2: this fella, Andrew, he had a bobcat. He used it
Speaker 2: for eight minutes or so to unblock the drain and
Speaker 2: it was actually effective. What do you think about Andrew.
Speaker 18: Oh, Andrew, it sounds like an absolute legend. He should
Speaker 18: be getting a Citizen of the Year, not looking at
Speaker 18: getting a fine from counsel. He was doing their work
Speaker 18: for them, and unfortunately you'll have this with local government
Speaker 18: areas state government pure cats. They don't like to be
Speaker 18: shown up. They do not like to be shown up.
Speaker 18: They never like to admit that they're wrong because then
Speaker 18: everyone would second guess them. But I think it's outrageous
Speaker 18: that he's been investigated. I think they should drop it
Speaker 18: right now because he's doing good community service.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely appreciate your insight. Thank you, Nathaniel, No problem
Speaker 2: Doneiel Smith. He's the CEO of the Master Plumbers Association.
Speaker 2: So it's not an easy situation to fix across the
Speaker 2: city because we have aging infrastructure, we have a growing population.
Speaker 2: We know about the challenges that that brings, so it's
Speaker 2: not easy just to replace the entire pipe network. The
Speaker 2: councils firstly have an obligation to maintain their systems, and
Speaker 2: then when somebody does the right thing by their neighbors,
Speaker 2: the council should respond by saying, oh gee, thanks mate,
Speaker 2: we really appreciate your helping us out there. Yet yeah,
Speaker 2: we were the ones who actually have stuffed up by
Speaker 2: not clearing out the drain soon enough. You've actually helped people.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. You know what will bring you
Speaker 2: along to our next big council meeting and will award
Speaker 2: you the Citizen of Londonderry award. How about that. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 2: Penrith Council. They just want to find him. They just
Speaker 2: want to bring the police in and then the mayor. No,
Speaker 2: no mayor confront up because part of a formal investigation.
Speaker 11: Complainer's leaking. Okay, I'll be right back. Emergency emergency, someone
Speaker 11: sort and needs your help. Rescue team, rescue team, come
Speaker 11: help us.
Speaker 2: Well, Penrith Council won't come help us.
Speaker 10: No way.
Speaker 2: You got a view on that one three one, eight, seven, three,
Speaker 2: twenty two past forty your calls and your feedback on
Speaker 2: Penrith Council in just a moment. Susan Lee has today
Speaker 2: laid her mother to rest, Angela Mary Braybrooks, passed away
Speaker 2: during the leadership battle. She was ninety three years of age.
Speaker 2: There's been a touching ceremony in her hometown of Aubrey
Speaker 2: today at Saint Matthew's Church, and Susan Lee has delivered
Speaker 2: an extraordinary eulogy and she was actually joined by some
Speaker 2: of her coalition colleagues. And this is actually what what
Speaker 2: I should make note of. Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack
Speaker 2: both at the service. Now Barnaby Joyce and Michael McCormack,
Speaker 2: and you might call them elders now the National Party.
Speaker 2: They missed out on spots in the front bench. Now
Speaker 2: that actually isn't the call of Susan Lee. Effectively, that's
Speaker 2: David Little Prowd's call. But for them to obviously they
Speaker 2: are disappointed and they've made public comment about that. They're
Speaker 2: disappointed to not be part of the coalition front benchmen.
Speaker 2: Both are former Deputy Prime ministers. I think that says
Speaker 2: a lot about their character. For those two National Party
Speaker 2: MPs to attend the funeral service of Susan Lee's mother.
Speaker 2: She gave the eulogy and she obviously was very emotional
Speaker 2: during that, and she spoke of the loss that she
Speaker 2: felt following the death of both her parents. She thanked
Speaker 2: her mother for lessons in resilience and tenacity, she told
Speaker 2: the service. When you've lost both of your parents, it
Speaker 2: feels as if the roof has lifted off your world,
Speaker 2: she told the congregation. As I sat quietly last weekend
Speaker 2: in a precious window of time, going through my mother's papers,
Speaker 2: letters and photographs, I had a deep sense of gratitude
Speaker 2: for the things she taught meatience, persistence and self reliance,
Speaker 2: how to lift your eyes and without fear take on
Speaker 2: the world well. Susan Lee is certainly going to take
Speaker 2: on a lot in the coming months and coming years
Speaker 2: as the first female leader of the Federal Liberal Party
Speaker 2: and the Opposition. It's twenty four past four one one
Speaker 2: eight seven three is our number on Penrith Council. Sue,
Speaker 2: are you a constituent of Penrith Council?
Speaker 14: I am.
Speaker 16: I am a resident in Penrith Council with an open drain,
Speaker 16: and our drain I maintain it's it's it's like.
Speaker 13: A lovely lawn.
Speaker 16: But either side of me, this open drain is unmaintained.
Speaker 16: And what happens every time we get a big rain event,
Speaker 16: this strain to fill up and backs up because it
Speaker 16: can't get away. I have been onto this drain with
Speaker 16: council for many years and I've sent a whole heap
Speaker 16: more emails and phone call since since again since about January,
Speaker 16: and have yet to be replied to. We's also been
Speaker 16: to council meetings and about having all the drains in
Speaker 16: the area cleared, and Penriss don't want to put the
Speaker 16: extra money towards it. They just want to spend one
Speaker 16: hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a report, and there
Speaker 16: is the last time they we went in, they said,
Speaker 16: oh no, we needed to report for another area of
Speaker 16: Penris Council first.
Speaker 2: Well, so can I ask you to me a favor? Yes,
Speaker 2: I don't want you to ask your neighbors for any help,
Speaker 2: because if you ask your neighbors for help to clean
Speaker 2: out that train, you know what's going to happen.
Speaker 16: Ah, Well, they don't.
Speaker 2: They'll be like, They'll be like Andrew, They'll copp a
Speaker 2: fine from the council. They'll probably send the police around
Speaker 2: there to make arrests. Your counsel's behavior is outrageous, suit,
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you what, We're not going to drop
Speaker 2: this one. And I know Todd Carney, as I said,
Speaker 2: he's come on this program previously about other issues. He
Speaker 2: seems like a really decent bloke. But I don't know
Speaker 2: who is getting advice from because he could actually fix
Speaker 2: this really quickly. And yes, there's the greater issue of
Speaker 2: how Penrith's wastewater system is properly maintained, but he could
Speaker 2: fix the issues of neighbors who help other neighbors. Then
Speaker 2: getting into trouble by saying that's ridiculous and rip up
Speaker 2: the plan. I'm sorry to hear you going through that zoom.
Speaker 2: We're not going to stop on this one, Grant says
Speaker 2: our hero. Bobcat driver in Penrith took eight minutes to
Speaker 2: fix a problem that probably would have needed ten council
Speaker 2: workers a week. Mark says councilors should clean up the
Speaker 2: creeks and get rid of the shopping trolleys that are
Speaker 2: often dumped in creeks and are overgrown. Spot on seven
Speaker 2: three is our number. I told you about that crash
Speaker 2: wh a little earlier Cumberland Highway which is just near
Speaker 2: the railway Overplass in Wentwethfield. It is involved a police
Speaker 2: car and a Mercedes. There's been a t bone accident there.
Speaker 2: Now we've just had some more information from the paramedics.
Speaker 2: They are treating two of the police officers. It appears
Speaker 2: that they've suffered some we hope minor head injuries. They
Speaker 2: have some bleeding from the head. The paramedics are now
Speaker 2: unseen and there treating those police officers. No one else
Speaker 2: has been injured, so it's our information. There was a
Speaker 2: female driver of the Mercedes. She is I think in shock,
Speaker 2: but she hasn't been injured. Two of the northbound lanes.
Speaker 2: There are six northbound lanes there on the Cumberland Highway.
Speaker 2: Two of those lanes are closed. The southbound lanes are
Speaker 2: though open and that's flowing okay. Obviously traffic there on
Speaker 2: the Cumberland Highway at Wentworthville near the railway overpass is
Speaker 2: very heavy at the moment, so the emergency services are
Speaker 2: still there on the scene. The police officers are being treated.
Speaker 2: Two of them are being treated at the moment for
Speaker 2: head injury. Some bleeding from the head. Will provide you
Speaker 2: more details as it comes to hand on Penrith Council.
Speaker 2: There is multiple suggestions of this. When it comes to
Speaker 2: Penwrith Council.
Speaker 11: There's got to be an investigation into this.
Speaker 1: This has to be accountable for this.
Speaker 2: They ain't. They're not accountable. Let's check our news headlines. Hello,
Speaker 2: Josh Bryant, Good afternoon, Clinton.
Speaker 12: A police car is one of two vehicles involved in
Speaker 12: a crash of Wedworth Feel in Sydney's West. Two officers
Speaker 12: understood to be being treated for injuries at the scene.
Speaker 12: Polis a warning criminal groups are using young people to
Speaker 12: help carry out serious offenses. In Sydney, a sixteen year
Speaker 12: old has been charged with multiple offenses, accused of driving
Speaker 12: a so called kill car to a location in Sydney's West.
Speaker 2: A fourth man.
Speaker 12: Has now been charged with looting on the flood affected
Speaker 12: Mid North Coast of New South Wales, and Commonwealth Bank
Speaker 12: customers are being assured after earlier issues transferring money online,
Speaker 12: they have now been resolved. In sport, Australian basketballer Johnny
Speaker 12: Furphy's enjoyed a rare cameo for the New York Knicks
Speaker 12: in the NBA. He was on court for sixty seconds
Speaker 12: as the next scored a seventeen point win over the
Speaker 12: Indiana Pacers. Well, I have more news and sport at.
Speaker 2: Five, Thank you, Josh. Eighteen degrees in the city. It's
Speaker 2: nineteen degrees in Penrith at the moment. Word on the
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Speaker 15: Look.
Speaker 2: I got this email last night from VICKI thank you
Speaker 2: Vicky for this warning. Vicky tried to apply for an
Speaker 2: ABM for her small business and she searched on Google
Speaker 2: and saw ABN registration. Now she thought this was legitimate,
Speaker 2: and she says, can you please warn your listeners about this?
Speaker 2: They charged ninety nine dollars and Vicky since discovered that
Speaker 2: an ABN is free through Service New South Wales, but
Speaker 2: it was too late. She already paid. She's trying to
Speaker 2: get her money back. She's canceled her card, she's notified
Speaker 2: fair Trade. It's inconvenient. I had to look into this
Speaker 2: today and yes, you don't pay for an ABM. You
Speaker 2: can get an ABN through the federal government. There's a
Speaker 2: federal government website ABR dot gov dot AU and you
Speaker 2: go through that process for an ABN. You can also
Speaker 2: go through Service New South Wales. But if you google,
Speaker 2: if you want if you need an ABN, and many
Speaker 2: of us do, if you google ABN payment, they'll often
Speaker 2: be sponsored posts on Google and they're various organizations and
Speaker 2: that they're offering a service to provide you with an ABM,
Speaker 2: but there is a charge. At times they can be
Speaker 2: ninety nine dollars, some of them fifty. It's a variety
Speaker 2: of them. Now they may actually offer some other benefits
Speaker 2: as well as physically providing the APN, and that's how
Speaker 2: they justify the charge. But just bear that in mind.
Speaker 2: If you want to open a small business, if for
Speaker 2: some reason you need an ABN, you don't have to
Speaker 2: pay for it. You can go to Service New South
Speaker 2: Wales or you can go to the federal government's website.
Speaker 1: ABR dot gov dot au. You'll want to know what's
Speaker 1: happening in Sydney. Stay tuned to s Now with Quinton
Speaker 1: and on to gb.
Speaker 2: The French have always been known as a very free race,
Speaker 2: a free and open society. They have announced today that
Speaker 2: they are moving to ban smoking in public places where
Speaker 2: children spend time, including beaches, parks and outside schools. It's
Speaker 2: going to come into force in July. It'll be enforced
Speaker 2: by the police. Their Health minister says the aim is
Speaker 2: to get rid of cigarettes from all places frequented by children.
Speaker 2: She says the freedom to smoke must end where the
Speaker 2: freedom to children to breathe begins. Smokers who breach the
Speaker 2: rules be find the equivalent of two hundred and thirty
Speaker 2: seven dollars. The ban will be enforced by regular police,
Speaker 2: but the Minister says she hopes people show self regulation.
Speaker 2: Just a surprise. If you've ever been to Paris, you'll
Speaker 2: know that pretty much. It's quite extraordinary. Pretty much every
Speaker 2: second person smokes, everyone does it. It's very different to
Speaker 2: the way things happen here, so it's quite surprising they've
Speaker 2: decided to take that decision. Seventy three. Vivid is continuing
Speaker 2: the evening. I went to a Vivid concert last week. Look,
Speaker 2: it was a concert by one of my favorite performers,
Speaker 2: and they dressed it up as a Vivid concert because
Speaker 2: they're from Iceland and they're touring the country and they
Speaker 2: were playing at the Opera House in the first night
Speaker 2: a Vivid. You might not have heard of them. Their
Speaker 2: name is Cigar Roos. Probably not the sort of music
Speaker 2: well usually play on this program, but I've liked them
Speaker 2: for years and years. Anyway, they were playing with the
Speaker 2: Sydney Symphony Orchestra at the Opera House, and yes, so
Speaker 2: I decided i'd be quite cultural last Friday night. Now,
Speaker 2: I must admit it's been a long time since I've
Speaker 2: been to a concert at the Opera House. It usually
Speaker 2: I usually have different tastes, and this was. This concert
Speaker 2: was magnificent. Let me tell you, I'm not afraid to
Speaker 2: admit it. I had tears welling in my eyes throughout
Speaker 2: the performance. I'm not kidding you, but this is what
Speaker 2: really jumped out of me. You know, during the performance.
Speaker 2: It wasn't until their final song, which is sort of
Speaker 2: the we might describe be a hit song. Did anybody
Speaker 2: pull the mobile phone out? Now, I go to concerts
Speaker 2: and gigs from time to time, and most of the
Speaker 2: bility the audience pull out a phone to take a
Speaker 2: photo to video it. During this no one would, and
Speaker 2: I must admit the times I even was tempted to
Speaker 2: take a photo, but no, there's no way I was
Speaker 2: going to pull out the phone because no one else was.
Speaker 2: Now is that the dumb thing when you go to
Speaker 2: a to see an orchestra, if you go to the
Speaker 2: opera house? Is that the way you do things at
Speaker 2: the opera House? I think it was magnificent. Actually think
Speaker 2: I really felt the music and felt the performance because
Speaker 2: I didn't have a phone in my hand, and I'm
Speaker 2: usually pretty good like that. I didn't go to a
Speaker 2: gig and film the whole damn thing. But I thought
Speaker 2: it was so refreshing that people were there just to
Speaker 2: enjoy the music. And right at the end, yes, at
Speaker 2: the end people did take out their phones. Not everybody,
Speaker 2: but people were using their phones to take a photo,
Speaker 2: particularly when the band and the orchestra were taking the
Speaker 2: applause and bowing to the audience there. But it was
Speaker 2: just so different that people who were not using their
Speaker 2: phone at a big concert. I just thought it was wonderful.
Speaker 2: You might need to give me a lesson in culture.
Speaker 2: Is that just that the done thing when you go
Speaker 2: along to the opera, when you go to the ballet,
Speaker 2: when you go to the Sydney Opera house. Let me know.
Speaker 2: Seven three Lego Masses returns to TV this Sunday night
Speaker 2: on nine. I'm talking to the Brickman after five o'clock,
Speaker 2: looking forward to that. Just the latest from the crash
Speaker 2: scene Cumberland Highway, Wentworthfield near the railway overpass. Emergency services
Speaker 2: are still on the scene there. There's been a crash.
Speaker 2: If you're just tuning in involving a police car and
Speaker 2: a Mercedes Benz a t bone. The driver of the
Speaker 2: Mercedes looks like she's okay, but paramedics have been treated
Speaker 2: to police officers. It appears their injuries are fairly minor,
Speaker 2: but they have been treated for some bleeding to their head.
Speaker 2: Eighteen to five Figures released by the Australian Bureau of
Speaker 2: Statistics today don't paid a positive light for the economy.
Speaker 2: Operating profits of Australian businesses as a whole have fallen
Speaker 2: by eight point six percent in the financial year twenty
Speaker 2: twenty three to twenty twenty four. The ABS says the
Speaker 2: dropping profitability of Australian companies reflects an economy responding to
Speaker 2: inflationary pressure, higher interest rates and lower global demand. Another
Speaker 2: problem for the Albaneze government to fix text messages about
Speaker 2: using mobile phones at concerts. As I've said, I went
Speaker 2: to the Opera House, first time I been to the
Speaker 2: Opera House for a concert in decades, on Friday night,
Speaker 2: and nobody touched their mobile phone until the second last
Speaker 2: song of the concert. Was a two hour concert, and
Speaker 2: I thought I tactually thought it was great and because
Speaker 2: nobody else touched their phone, I wasn't tempted to do
Speaker 2: the same thing, and then I really felt the music.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed the experience. Ian says on the text
Speaker 2: line Eu Moss Mossi from Cold Chisel, he has banned
Speaker 2: people from using their phones to video when he's on
Speaker 2: the next two A. Yeah, that was a big story
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago, wasn't it. Sharon says, not long ago.
Speaker 2: I saw tom Odell at the Opera House with an
Speaker 2: orchestra and had the same experience as you. People were spellbound.
Speaker 2: They forgot they had a phone. Actually, Sharon, that's what
Speaker 2: it was like. I was so engrossed in the music
Speaker 2: that you didn't really think about once you realize that
Speaker 2: other people weren't doing it. You didn't think about using
Speaker 2: your phone and you just enjoyed the music.
Speaker 1: You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tuned
Speaker 1: to Sydney Out with Clinton lay onto GB.
Speaker 2: The Commonwealth Bank's app and website is now back up
Speaker 2: and running. They had a problem over the course of
Speaker 2: the afternoon where their customers weren't able to transfer money
Speaker 2: between accounts using the app and the website. Comnwalth banker
Speaker 2: confirmed to US it is operating properly once again. And
Speaker 2: it can be frustrating if you're dealing with a Conwealth
Speaker 2: bank or any of our big corporations when you've got
Speaker 2: issues with them and you try to get in contact
Speaker 2: with them to try to fix them, particularly with say
Speaker 2: a company like Telstra. I wanted to talk to Luke
Speaker 2: Grant about this because Luke's had an issue with this
Speaker 2: problem lately.
Speaker 10: Hello, Luke good a Clinton. Hope things are good mate.
Speaker 2: How's Telstra doing for you? Mate?
Speaker 17: Well?
Speaker 10: First off, how was that Nanimous Skoury concert? Did you
Speaker 10: enjoy it?
Speaker 2: I went to see Cigar Roos. I know you're a
Speaker 2: big fan. You've got all their albums, haven't you what
Speaker 2: Cigar Roofs?
Speaker 10: I thought you just put me on hold? Is that
Speaker 10: actually music?
Speaker 2: It's not on hold music? So let me give you
Speaker 2: some education. Leaks all right. They've been around about twenty
Speaker 2: five years. Okay, they're from Iceland.
Speaker 10: I haven't heard I haven't heard of the Wow.
Speaker 2: The lead singer is a fellow by the name of Johncey. Okay, yes,
Speaker 2: he sings in Icelandic, but he also sings in another
Speaker 2: language that he made up himself.
Speaker 10: Okay, so I did how many of those free tickets
Speaker 10: singer en up getting?
Speaker 2: Mate, I played one hundred and seventy bucks in my ticket.
Speaker 2: I don't worry about that.
Speaker 10: Wow, you need help.
Speaker 2: I didn't understand a word he's talking about you.
Speaker 10: No, No, I'm amazed you didn't look at your phone.
Speaker 2: I've got to brush up on its landing. I should
Speaker 2: have had that Google that interprets.
Speaker 10: Yeah, you should have. You should So I we've got
Speaker 10: in some parts of the new place where we call
Speaker 10: home now we've got not great internet. So I was
Speaker 10: talking to my mate, Stephen Fennick about it last week
Speaker 10: and he said, mate, got to get yourself a mesh
Speaker 10: Wi Fi system.
Speaker 2: YEP.
Speaker 10: I said, are the easy to put together? It said,
Speaker 10: Ye're not too bad. So I pick one up and
Speaker 10: I come home and I look at the reviews. Oh,
Speaker 10: it's so easy to connect. I'm thinking this will be
Speaker 10: a This will be a snack for a technical whiz
Speaker 10: like me. Anyway, four hours later, I'm going, okay, probably
Speaker 10: time to ring someone. So I rang tell Stra and
Speaker 10: then I got the you know you'll be on hole
Speaker 10: for a while. So I saw a bug of that
Speaker 10: hung up and you've got this opportunity now to chat
Speaker 10: with them, and it generally happens a lot quicker, but
Speaker 10: they're probably chatting to I don't know. It doesn't people
Speaker 10: at the same time. So I'll answer your question and
Speaker 10: then go to then EG. So my first my first
Speaker 10: helper was a bot. Then I got referred to a
Speaker 10: human and the human said, hey, you need to talk
Speaker 10: to someone else. We'll come back to you three hours later.
Speaker 10: And I'm asleep by now. They'd say, when you're ready,
Speaker 10: just contact us again. So the first thing the next
Speaker 10: morning I read of a chat, I get the bot.
Speaker 10: The bot asked me, what's wrong. I tell her this,
Speaker 10: you need to speak to a human. I'm going to
Speaker 10: here we go. So I end up with a human
Speaker 10: an hour later, and I simply want to know some
Speaker 10: users settings and where I plug this mesh. The first
Speaker 10: mesh unit in. They tell me to stick it in
Speaker 10: the NBN modem. Anyway I do that, it doesn't work.
Speaker 10: So about an hour later I work out hang on
Speaker 10: the NBN modem's only got one line coming in and
Speaker 10: the telster outs on the same hang that won't work,
Speaker 10: and she said, ah, you find get it. What I'll
Speaker 10: finally get it anyway, three o'clock in the afternoon, I
Speaker 10: give up on them. Then I go to the Then
Speaker 10: I go to the Mesh company and they say, you've
Speaker 10: got to talk to Telstra. So I go back to Telstra,
Speaker 10: same thing in the chat and they say, oh no,
Speaker 10: you've got to talk to the Mesh company. So you know,
Speaker 10: it's down seven o'clock at night and I'm reasonably in control,
Speaker 10: but pretty set up with the whole thing. So I
Speaker 10: did what I should have done, because like a bloke,
Speaker 10: I can do anything. I don't need any help. I'm right,
Speaker 10: I'll sort it out. You know, I know a little
Speaker 10: bit about tech and we used to read ads for
Speaker 10: gigs digs to you. So I go on their website.
Speaker 10: Within ten minutes I've gotten a point. But the next
Speaker 10: day at lunchtime, it's going to be one hundred and
Speaker 10: fifty bucks something. I'll put a day and a half
Speaker 10: into this, all made it. Arrives, loves him a dog,
Speaker 10: They have a cuddle. He goes into the office. He says,
Speaker 10: oh yeah. Twenty minutes later, it's up and running and
Speaker 10: I'm saying, mate, why would they tell me to stick
Speaker 10: it in here? And he said, of course, everything's a
Speaker 10: fifty to fifty proposition, and they're hoping that you were
Speaker 10: one of the fifty fifties of work in your favor.
Speaker 10: And you'll be laughing. Mate, I'll tell you what. I'm
Speaker 10: not doing it ever again. When I buy technology or
Speaker 10: anything else, when it says would you like to install
Speaker 10: it for you, I'm going to say, please do whenever
Speaker 10: you're ready, come on around. I know it's a first
Speaker 10: world problem and I should be angry about far more
Speaker 10: significant things, but bloody hell, what a punish the customer
Speaker 10: service on the telephone and the lack of it on
Speaker 10: the chat line. Mate, I'm over it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I was just first question for you, though, Luke,
Speaker 2: before you got into talking to the bot who I'm
Speaker 2: sure you become very good friends with very good friends.
Speaker 2: Did you turn it on and off again the motive?
Speaker 10: Now, listen, I've turned everything and look I nearly turned
Speaker 10: the micro point on. I've got to turn things on
Speaker 10: and off so many bloody times, I reckon in one day.
Speaker 10: The motive must have thought, what is this flake up to? Ah?
Speaker 2: But no, Look, it's such a good point you're raising,
Speaker 2: particularly when it comes to modems and NBN modems and
Speaker 2: so forth. Because everything we have now runs through that
Speaker 2: damn device. You know, my TV, all my TV now
Speaker 2: comes in by the internet, because unfortunately, I'm a Foxtel subscriber.
Speaker 2: They kind of cut off our cable service years ago
Speaker 2: and switched us to the internet, so that comes in
Speaker 2: by the TV. It turns out that I watched channel
Speaker 2: nine and Channel seven and Channel ten. That's all coming
Speaker 2: through the internet. Now, Yeah, all your computers. My fridge
Speaker 2: is connected to the damn thing.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know exactly. I've got a similar
Speaker 10: home with all that stuff as well. But this bloke
Speaker 10: who was so good, great service, He's on his phone,
Speaker 10: who's got this device? He's saying, oh look there's lit by, Fine,
Speaker 10: there's a block next door, and oh look there's your fridge,
Speaker 10: and oh that must be your television. I'm going, wow,
Speaker 10: I wonder I couldn't sort this thing out. It's very
Speaker 10: complicated anyway. If you're if you're on the other side
Speaker 10: of sixty and you think I'll be out of nail
Speaker 10: this barger in a couple of minutes. Unless you're a genius,
Speaker 10: it ain't going to happen. Ain't going to happen.
Speaker 2: Get a real person and what's coming up on the
Speaker 2: show tomorrow mate.
Speaker 10: We're going to have a chat to Pauline Hanson. After
Speaker 10: the success she's had in the Senate today with those
Speaker 10: final declarations, it'll be just thing to know more about
Speaker 10: her new senators, one of which is I think a
Speaker 10: former hostage negotiator, So that'll be good sing. We'll talk
Speaker 10: to Pauline about that and what she seeds in the
Speaker 10: next next three years ahead. Look, I don't know. I
Speaker 10: mean the importance of the crossbench in the Senate that's
Speaker 10: now gone, mate, hasn't it. You got the government, the
Speaker 10: Greens get together, they get everything through. In a lower house,
Speaker 10: the government just gets whatever it wants through. So while
Speaker 10: it's not a minority government in the Senate, it'll be
Speaker 10: interesting and that's where the Greens will do some dealing.
Speaker 10: But we'll talk to Pauline Hanson. We'll get an update
Speaker 10: and that fascinating case the murder of Rachel Child's with
Speaker 10: Detective Damien Lhn. I'll get a rundown of the best
Speaker 10: shows to stream with Terry Pontikos from the AFR. Dennis
Speaker 10: Shanahan will be here, Jim Haynes looking at old Ossie movies,
Speaker 10: Craig Bennett is with me as well, Simon Stevenson and
Speaker 10: the regular array of very impressive people. And I saw
Speaker 10: it through it today in the New York Times about
Speaker 10: the transient ischemic attack, which is best described as a
Speaker 10: mini stroke and just how d angelus it can be.
Speaker 10: Maybe not enough to get you to take proper to
Speaker 10: get proper care and have it investigated. Lots of people don't,
Speaker 10: but it can lead to serious consequences down the track.
Speaker 10: So we'll look at that as well, my friend. And
Speaker 10: please tell me you tip Canbra, Please tell me you
Speaker 10: tip Canbra.
Speaker 2: I can't remember. Well, you know that I'm coming stone
Speaker 2: motherless last tipped zero from five last week. I've given up.
Speaker 10: Yeah, well you Kip Kanalla.
Speaker 2: You know we haven't spoken about that. I try to
Speaker 2: help people, can't be Oh my goodness. Hey, look I've
Speaker 2: got to leave you. I'll leave you with this, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll leave you with this. Yeah, have you trade turning
Speaker 2: it off and on again. We'll be listening nine o'clock tomorrow,
Speaker 2: Bluke Krant. You'll hear them on Saturday and Sunday from
Speaker 2: nine Traffic Dramas Galore, Phil just letting us know about
Speaker 2: a truck breakdown Castlereat Road, Penrith. It's opposite Tempey Tires.
Speaker 2: It is closed one of the lanes that's heading towards Richmond.
Speaker 2: The traffic is horrendous. Phil's told me so. That's Penrith
Speaker 2: Castlerey Road, just opposite tempe Tires. Some bad traffic there
Speaker 2: as well. Seven to five. The sun has gone down
Speaker 2: across the city. But it looks like it's going to
Speaker 2: be quite a nice fine weekend the top of twenty tomorrow,
Speaker 2: twenty on Sunday as well. Perhaps a shower tomorrow, but
Speaker 2: it should be mostly drying. It's clear and sunny. On Sunday.
Speaker 2: The Australian electorc Commissioners updated their vote count. This is
Speaker 2: the recount in the seat of Bradfield. I think they're
Speaker 2: about to knock off for the day. We'll come on
Speaker 2: public service. They wouldn't next hang on public serves on
Speaker 2: a Friday. Just no, they have knocked off. So the
Speaker 2: recount Giselle cap She has now extended her lead over
Speaker 2: the till Nicolett Bullet. She is in front by three votes.
Speaker 2: Three votes in the recount is painstaking, isn't it so?
Speaker 2: The on a series now the AAEC says they're likely
Speaker 2: to finalize the vote recount by around mid next week
Speaker 2: or late next week. We brought you a story earlier
Speaker 2: in the week about ARPRAH is the Australian Health Practitioner
Speaker 2: Regulation Agency. Now they are the regulators for nurses and
Speaker 2: when nurses work in hospitals and other facilities, they need
Speaker 2: to have their regulations and their registration approved by AARPRA
Speaker 2: and then they have to renew that. Now usually by
Speaker 2: the thirty first of May, but because of various problems
Speaker 2: that ARPERA is dealing with, that's been delayed until June.
Speaker 2: There are problems with the website now. Our listeners and
Speaker 2: we've received so many messages about this particular website and
Speaker 2: this experience. One of our listeners shared her experience trying
Speaker 2: to reregister her nursing qualifications. AARPRA told us they would
Speaker 2: help her sort it out well. We followed this one
Speaker 2: up off air. She's now told us she's received two
Speaker 2: phone calls from ARPRA, which is a start, because usually
Speaker 2: you can't even get through on the phone to this
Speaker 2: mob She's only been told now that she has to
Speaker 2: start the entire process all over again. She has to
Speaker 2: pay another five hundred dollars. She's already been through this process,
Speaker 2: but she's got to start from scratch. She's almost seventy
Speaker 2: and because of this whole mess, she's decided to call
Speaker 2: it quits. She's not going to be a nurse anymore.
Speaker 2: That's just completely unacceptable. We have a shortage of nurses
Speaker 2: in New South Wales. They're involved in an industrial dispute
Speaker 2: with the state government. At the moment, there's no resolution
Speaker 2: to that. It's before the IIC. We have nurses who
Speaker 2: I've now confirmed this from not just unions but multiple
Speaker 2: sources are leaving New South Wales and going to queens
Speaker 2: and because they're paid more than them. So we've got
Speaker 2: a shortage. Yet we have a regulator who can't sort
Speaker 2: their crap out and actually develop a website in a
Speaker 2: system which means nurses can just reregister. It is ridiculous,
Speaker 2: absolutely crazy when we are desperate for nurses. Coming up
Speaker 2: in the next hour of the show, Mark Guyer with
Speaker 2: his weekend footy.
Speaker 1: Tips is now we've clinton on.
Speaker 2: To Gin seven past five. The weekend is almost here,
Speaker 2: but we've had some significant dramas on the roads over
Speaker 2: the past couple of hours. Now the latest from the
Speaker 2: crash scene of the Cumberland Highway in Wentworthville where a
Speaker 2: police car has been involved in a crash with a
Speaker 2: Mercedes Benz. It's happened near the railway overpass there in
Speaker 2: Wentworthville and several of the police officers have actually been injured.
Speaker 2: Now fortunately they've been treated on the scene for some
Speaker 2: bleeding to their heads. We don't believe they have serious
Speaker 2: head injuries, so that's good. Three people have now been
Speaker 2: taken to Westmeat Hospital and two of those police officers
Speaker 2: but they are in a stable condition, so that's great.
Speaker 2: But there has been one other person as well now
Speaker 2: taken to hospital. We believe that the was a female
Speaker 2: driver of that Mercedes Benz. The crash happened just before
Speaker 2: four o'clock and caused quite a traffic problem there on
Speaker 2: the Cumberland Highway. The traffic is now moving once again.
Speaker 2: Two of the northbound lanes were actually closed for some time.
Speaker 2: Southbound's been open reopened the whole time it's been operating
Speaker 2: that the Cumberland Highway for you can still see the
Speaker 2: emergency services there near that railway overpass bridge that you
Speaker 2: probably know in Wentworthville. That's the reason. But they're now
Speaker 2: clearing away the crash site. The police officers along with
Speaker 2: one other person have been taken to hospital in a
Speaker 2: stable condition. Think if your message Amelia. Amelia has just
Speaker 2: told me about she's been at Central Station on the bus.
Speaker 2: She's just driven past Central Station and she has spotted
Speaker 2: six ambulances and also police scattered around and she's seen
Speaker 2: them then driving down past down Pam Paramounta Road. So
Speaker 2: this is Central Station in the city. Amelia says there
Speaker 2: were five more emergency vehicles driving past. We will try
Speaker 2: and find out from the police exactly what's occurred there.
Speaker 2: So Central Station just probably need that bus stop there
Speaker 2: before Paramounta Road, So southern tip of the CBD six
Speaker 2: ambulances and police. We will speak to the police now
Speaker 2: and see what we can find out about what's occurred there.
Speaker 9: Until six.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney now with Clinton Mayna on two GB
Speaker 1: You call now one three one eighty seven three.
Speaker 2: There is a minor flood warning for the Tempe Bridge
Speaker 2: in the southern part of Sydney Cook's River. The SEES
Speaker 2: has issued this warning today. It is a stay informed alert,
Speaker 2: so the prospect is for some minor flooding, potentially tonight.
Speaker 2: The Tempe River is likely to peak again tonight with
Speaker 2: the high tides, so just take some care the low
Speaker 2: lying streets in the park. Sometimes they are flooded, but
Speaker 2: property shouldn't be impacted at all. Now that is certainly
Speaker 2: not the case. On the New South Wales, Mid North
Speaker 2: Coast and Hunter Valley. There have been thousands and thousands
Speaker 2: of properties affected by the flooding of last week. Now
Speaker 2: the recovery effort is in full swing, but this is
Speaker 2: going to take a long time. As you know, I
Speaker 2: hosted the show from Tai on Monday, and as I
Speaker 2: walk through some of the areas that have been affected,
Speaker 2: and you see these things on TV and sometimes it
Speaker 2: just brushes over you. I've got to say, when I
Speaker 2: was actually walking around, particularly through a motel just on
Speaker 2: the outskirts of town, it really hit me how the
Speaker 2: people who operate that hotel, Teresa is one of the owners,
Speaker 2: how her life is just going to be turned upside down,
Speaker 2: not for the next week while she clears out the mud,
Speaker 2: for the next six months. And while I was talking
Speaker 2: to her, she was taking calls on a mobile phone
Speaker 2: and they were customers of hers travelers who had bookings
Speaker 2: for later in the year and they were canceling those bookings,
Speaker 2: and some of the bookings were for months and months away.
Speaker 2: So even when she manages to repair the damage, even
Speaker 2: when she cleans up the mess, the likelihood is that
Speaker 2: a lot of people who would usually stay in Tare
Speaker 2: and maybe they're headed towards other parts of the northern
Speaker 2: New South Wales coast, they've canceled their bookings and her
Speaker 2: business takes a further hit. The ses says they've now
Speaker 2: conducted eleven four hundred damage assessments. They've completed those and
Speaker 2: at this point there are more than a thousand properties
Speaker 2: that have been deemed uninhabitable. The damage assessment process is continuing.
Speaker 2: The ADF has been on the ground over the last
Speaker 2: couple of days, the Prime Minister has been in the
Speaker 2: region and the Premier has been in the region. But
Speaker 2: what I fear is that once the focus moves on
Speaker 2: to other dramas that we are facing, that people in
Speaker 2: Sydney and critically the people who actually run the show
Speaker 2: in government may well forget the people of mid North Coast.
Speaker 2: Now we spoke with May May is the owner of
Speaker 2: a lovely arcade in Tari in central Tari, and some
Speaker 2: of the shops in that arcade have been damaged, and
Speaker 2: I wanted to talk to May again today.
Speaker 14: Hello May, Hi Clinton, How are you look?
Speaker 2: I'm okay, but how are you?
Speaker 14: Ah look? I honestly can't tell you how I feel
Speaker 14: because adrenaline, I think, was keeping me upbeat to begin with,
Speaker 14: because I thought, I'm okay, we can do this. But honestly,
Speaker 14: the magnitude of everything around us and within the arcade
Speaker 14: has really hit us hard. We went through a big
Speaker 14: battle getting the arcade up and running after twenty twenty one.
Speaker 14: We were battered and bruised, financially broken, but we were
Speaker 14: determined to get it back and rebuilt and try and
Speaker 14: attract our tenants back in. That's a plus. We were
Speaker 14: going through COVID at the time, which caused significant delays
Speaker 14: in us getting supplies to replace Wolves do flooring. You know,
Speaker 14: everything was considerably slow and it took us eight months.
Speaker 14: Now a lot of those businesses couldn't wait that length
Speaker 14: of time. We did not get some of the businesses back.
Speaker 3: Now we've.
Speaker 14: Really our hearts are broken by the fact that now
Speaker 14: a lot of the tenets that did come back can't.
Speaker 14: I don't think they can come and face this happening
Speaker 14: to them again. I mean, we're devastated, they're devastated, and
Speaker 14: it's really a government and counsel are listening. We need
Speaker 14: their support to do something in the town to assure
Speaker 14: the business community that they can have confidence in investing
Speaker 14: in a business and restarting because at the moment, everyone
Speaker 14: is feeling defeated, and I know that there's a lot
Speaker 14: of people who have lost businesses and their homes and
Speaker 14: that just breaks my heart.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister, May and the Premiere and I personally,
Speaker 2: the Premier takes this issue very seriously. He was on
Speaker 2: my program on Monday.
Speaker 14: We came and saw us at the Ark and we
Speaker 14: spoke to him and he was genuinely, you know, feeling
Speaker 14: for us. But as we as you pointed out, let's
Speaker 14: not let this be forgotten. You know, right now the
Speaker 14: focus for the last week has been on Tari, but
Speaker 14: when the next news item breaks, then Tari might get
Speaker 14: forgotten and we can't afford to let that happen.
Speaker 2: Absolutely that they've announced, they've announced their various disaster recovery
Speaker 2: payments and for individual it's one hundred and eighty dollars,
Speaker 2: which isn't going to do much now. There are other
Speaker 2: payments that are available for businesses. If somebody has lost
Speaker 2: their income, there's thirteen weeks of income support, and then
Speaker 2: there's one off payments as well. But what concerns me,
Speaker 2: mate is what happens in the long term. And I'm
Speaker 2: sure that victims would appreciate the immediate help, but particularly
Speaker 2: with costs in the long term, with insurance policies that
Speaker 2: have become unaffordable.
Speaker 14: Oh well, insurance was impossible. We fought our insurer for
Speaker 14: three years after twenty twenty one, and that's another thing
Speaker 14: we could not take out as flood insurance. It was
Speaker 14: impossible if we and for small businesses, they were asked
Speaker 14: to pay twenty five to thirty hoursand for flood insurance.
Speaker 14: No small business has that sort of money to throw
Speaker 14: in insurance that's on top of their stock and fittings,
Speaker 14: et cetera. For us, as a property owner, it could
Speaker 14: have been anywhere in the hundred thousand type of figure.
Speaker 14: It was completely one.
Speaker 2: Hundred thousand dollars for.
Speaker 14: Oh goodness of flood insurance.
Speaker 13: Because the.
Speaker 14: Town has not got a flood levee. We have not
Speaker 14: had our counsel willing to. They did a feasibility study
Speaker 14: back in after twenty twenty one. The report came back
Speaker 14: and said something of the type of thing to say
Speaker 14: that it was a non viable expense for the small
Speaker 14: amount of people that it would benefit.
Speaker 2: And what so, you don't matter, look like a.
Speaker 3: Slap in the faith.
Speaker 14: Okay, This flood has probably increased the number of businesses
Speaker 14: first of all, increased the number of homes and farmers
Speaker 14: and areas around Tari Wingham Olbar, even Harrington and little
Speaker 14: towns that you probably don't know of. But the fact
Speaker 14: that there's been a significant increase this time because they're
Speaker 14: calling this a one in five hundred flood, I don't
Speaker 14: know whether this will shake up government and council to
Speaker 14: actually do something for our town. We can't let our
Speaker 14: town die, No, they can't.
Speaker 2: And walking through your town, I was I've got to
Speaker 2: tell you, may I was alarmed, and I haven't been
Speaker 2: to Tari probably for about three years before that. I
Speaker 2: was alarmed by the number of shops that just won't open,
Speaker 2: the number of empty shops throughout the central business district.
Speaker 2: You're clearly doing it tough. We won't forget about you
Speaker 2: on this program, but will continue to pressure the government.
Speaker 2: They've appointed Dave Owen's very well regarded former senior police
Speaker 2: officers well to head up this and we will keep
Speaker 2: on it and we'll talk to you again in the future.
Speaker 14: Thank you, May, Thank you, Thanks for the opportunity to
Speaker 14: have a little cry and a winge. But as I say,
Speaker 14: let's keep on it.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Cinton, stay strong, May May and Bor who
Speaker 2: is the owner of a nice arcade in Tari. But
Speaker 2: she's doing it tough and we spoke to her at
Speaker 2: the start of the week and to be honest, she's
Speaker 2: sounded far more upbeat on Monday. It's probably now the
Speaker 2: reality of what she's facing has started to sink in.
Speaker 10: Until six.
Speaker 1: This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
Speaker 1: You call now one three one ay seventy three.
Speaker 2: This is huge breaking news. There has been a resolution
Speaker 2: in the long running dispute between the New South Wales
Speaker 2: government and the Combined Rail Unions, the industrial dispute that
Speaker 2: has brought Sydney to its knees over the past at
Speaker 2: least twelve months. It would appear the industrial action is over.
Speaker 2: The dispute has been settled. I've just been handled some
Speaker 2: information that says an agreement has been reached between the
Speaker 2: state government and the combined rail unions in the Fair
Speaker 2: Work Commission. This brings the end of the industrial dispute
Speaker 2: that's caused so much disruption over the past twelve months.
Speaker 2: There is a proposed enterprise agreement. It has been facilitated
Speaker 2: by the Fair Work Commission, and it will provide rail
Speaker 2: workers with a twelve percent increase over three years plus
Speaker 2: back pay. And I should point out that's much much
Speaker 2: lower than what the railway workers were after. This will
Speaker 2: deliver apparently a number of technology based solutions to improve
Speaker 2: recovery times when there are incidents on the tracks to
Speaker 2: bring the system to a halt. For example, train crews
Speaker 2: will support the introduction of a new digital disruption management system.
Speaker 2: There will end the current practice that relies on a
Speaker 2: manual system of phone calls and paper based instructions during
Speaker 2: the recovery from incident. So as well as the pay,
Speaker 2: they're basically the unions have agreed that they will move
Speaker 2: into the twenty first century and actually use new technology
Speaker 2: to help resolve to problems on the rail network when
Speaker 2: the aging infrastructure fails. Well, that's a good thing. So
Speaker 2: there had been a ban on industrial action up until
Speaker 2: it was the end of June, so time was running out.
Speaker 2: Given dunes on Sunday, jim begins on Sunday, so this
Speaker 2: is a massive breakthrough. Finally it would appear there's an
Speaker 2: end to the dispute. The Minister for Transport, John Graham
Speaker 2: says the agreement will bring relief to the disruption from
Speaker 2: industrial action that around a million people a day have
Speaker 2: been forced to endure. The process has been strained, the
Speaker 2: patience of trained commuters is we're thinking the much needed
Speaker 2: reset allows us to implement improvements from passengers with the
Speaker 2: full support of the rail workforce and unions. The Treasure
Speaker 2: of Daniel Mookie says this is a positive result for
Speaker 2: rail workers and for commuters. Rail workers will be better
Speaker 2: off with a fair wage increase, commuters will have greater certainty,
Speaker 2: the city will be better off. So just repeating the
Speaker 2: long running dispute between the combined rail unions headed up
Speaker 2: by the RTBU and the state government is over. There
Speaker 2: will be a twelve percent pay rise over three years
Speaker 2: and there'll be no more strikes. So just repeating the
Speaker 2: long running train dispuit between the new South Wales government.
Speaker 2: The combined Rail unions has now been settled. They have
Speaker 2: agreed to a twelve percent pay rise over three years
Speaker 2: with back pay as well, I should add, so it
Speaker 2: means there will be no more industrial action for now.
Speaker 2: I mentioned that Amelia had been in contact with me.
Speaker 2: She'd just been on a bus at Central Station. She
Speaker 2: saw six ambulances and police in the area. We've just
Speaker 2: confirmed somebody that's had a medical episode in Belmore Park.
Speaker 2: So Bellmore Park is the park often protests there just
Speaker 2: in front of Central Station, so the emergency services were
Speaker 2: there for that reason. Twenty five past five this weekend,
Speaker 2: a much love TV show is back on your screens.
Speaker 2: It is Lego Masters, Lego Masters Australia and this is
Speaker 2: an addition of Lego Masters with a twist, the Grand
Speaker 2: Masters of the Galaxy. Fun fact for you. A single brick,
Speaker 2: a single Lego brick can support the weight of three
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five thousand other bricks before it breaks.
Speaker 2: My goodness, there's an estimated one hundred and two Lego
Speaker 2: bricks for every single person in the world. The Brickman,
Speaker 2: Ryan McNaught is the star of the show. You'll see
Speaker 2: him on Sunday night, he joins us.
Speaker 19: Hello, Brickman, I don't know if I've counted all of
Speaker 19: those personally. I'm sorry. I'll have to take your word
Speaker 19: for that number.
Speaker 2: One hundred and two times the number of people in
Speaker 2: the world.
Speaker 19: It's a lot of Lego, isn't it.
Speaker 2: I mean, I know you've told your story before, Ryan,
Speaker 2: but yeah, were you a kid when you discovered Lego?
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 19: My grandmother, Hazel Smith, God bless her, bought me my
Speaker 19: first Lego set when I was three, and you're ready first,
Speaker 19: it cost twenty nine cents.
Speaker 2: At cold Can you remember what the set was there?
Speaker 19: It was a little blue boat actually, and I bought
Speaker 19: it a few years ago. I managed to find one
Speaker 19: and I had a custom over fifty bucks, so inflation
Speaker 19: got me there.
Speaker 2: You know what I love about Lego? I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: in my late forties now, and so I had Lego
Speaker 2: as a kid, obviously, but I actually love the fact
Speaker 2: that adults are now buying Lego and there's specific plenty
Speaker 2: of specific adult kids.
Speaker 19: Yeah, definitely. It's funny. How I don't know whether it
Speaker 19: was the whole lockdown thing that really kind of resonated
Speaker 19: with people that it's fun to play, you know, to
Speaker 19: be creative and have and play and so basically Lego
Speaker 19: we're really smart and they came up with all these
Speaker 19: Lego sets which kind.
Speaker 9: Of I'm not going to say they're.
Speaker 19: Too difficult to kids. They are hard to kids, but
Speaker 19: they're more aimed at adults. And it's really hit a
Speaker 19: home run.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm actually in the middle of building. Look, i
Speaker 2: must admit I've been taking my time, but I've got
Speaker 2: the the at and Cinna McLaren Formula One car from
Speaker 2: late I think nineteen eighty eight, nineteen eighty nine was
Speaker 2: when he was winning in this car, and it's it's
Speaker 2: a brilliant kit. A money sort of through two of
Speaker 2: the bags. It will probably take me another six months
Speaker 2: to build it.
Speaker 19: Well, unfortunately for you, they've got the matching Williams of
Speaker 19: Nigel mantles or races against.
Speaker 9: So you're going to have to buy those.
Speaker 2: I saw I've got the little McLaren for Osco Pyastree
Speaker 2: and so I'm going to collect the little ones, but
Speaker 2: I'll have to ask my wife to buy me the
Speaker 2: big one for my birthday. So tell me about the
Speaker 2: show on Sunday night. It's called Grand Masters of the Galaxy.
Speaker 19: Yeah, it's much like the Misty Universe competition in that
Speaker 19: it doesn't have people from other planets performing funnily enough,
Speaker 19: but we've basically got winners from every other Lego Masters
Speaker 19: around the world, So the United States, Canada, China up
Speaker 19: against the winners here from Australia.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I've been watching a few years and kids get
Speaker 2: addicted to it. But to have a twist light that
Speaker 2: I think would be fun.
Speaker 19: Yeah, and it's funny. Whilst Lego bricks are the same,
Speaker 19: you know, all around the world, a humble brick is
Speaker 19: a humble brick, but people are different, you know, creative
Speaker 19: processes and techniques. So it's very very interesting.
Speaker 2: So you know the big Lego shop that's in the
Speaker 2: city now in Sydney CB. You do, I know you're
Speaker 2: based in Melbourne. In the CB, you would have been there.
Speaker 2: I think there's a some of the Sydney landmarks inside bridge.
Speaker 2: When those are put together, you don't have instructions to follow,
Speaker 2: so do you have to design those sort of things
Speaker 2: from scratch?
Speaker 19: Yeah, So when we build those a couple of years back,
Speaker 19: they took the best part at about eight weeks for
Speaker 19: us to build that. And so we basically sit down
Speaker 19: with a real architect as opposed to a Lego architect
Speaker 19: and look at the layout of the store and the
Speaker 19: floor plan and that kind of stuff and do some
Speaker 19: drawings and get going from there. And now the big
Speaker 19: Sydney Harbor bridge that we've got in there, so the
Speaker 19: one that's had a construction, it weighs just on two tons,
Speaker 19: So there's a lot of real life engineering that has
Speaker 19: to go into it before we can actually start building Lego.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's not a matter you're just sitting down
Speaker 2: there with the blocks to start with and going one
Speaker 2: by one, you actually got a planet.
Speaker 19: Yeah, pretty much. And you know the sheer volume of
Speaker 19: bricks as an example, that's a shipping container full of
Speaker 19: Lego for those for those models in that store. So
Speaker 19: we're talking about Lego to the next degree.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to start watch you on Sunday night.
Speaker 2: Good on you Ryan. See is thank you Ryan the
Speaker 2: brickman rhyme ignored And that's actually a true story. I
Speaker 2: went out. I went to Target because this was late
Speaker 2: last year. It was the only shop I could find
Speaker 2: in Sydney that was selling this particular model and I'm
Speaker 2: not a Lego fanatic, Bundy means, but you know, I
Speaker 2: like my Formula one and I went there early on
Speaker 2: a Saturday morning and they had one kit left. You
Speaker 2: can buy it everywhere now, but I was desperate for it,
Speaker 2: so I had to buy it last year. But I've
Speaker 2: only made two bags of it so far. I've got
Speaker 2: to get back into it. You'll see Lego Masters Australia
Speaker 2: Sunday night on Channel nine. It's into its seventh season
Speaker 2: as well. This season is called Grand Masters of the Galaxy.
Speaker 2: Coming up in a moment, We're going to talk to
Speaker 2: the Transportist to John Graham following the resolution of the
Speaker 2: long running Sydney Trains dispute, and we've got the latest
Speaker 2: Josh Bryant.
Speaker 12: Good afternoon again, Clinton. A deal has been struck between
Speaker 12: the state government and rail unions to bring an end
Speaker 12: to the long running at pay fight, which has at
Speaker 12: times crippled Sydney's train network. Three people, including two police officers,
Speaker 12: have been taken to hospital in stable conditions after a
Speaker 12: crash involving a police car and another vehicle at Wentworthville.
Speaker 12: Challenges facing the Indo Pacific region have dominated a meeting
Speaker 12: between Australia and the US on the sidelines of a
Speaker 12: six security conference in Singapore. And the winner has been
Speaker 12: crowned in the famous Script's National Spelling Bee in the
Speaker 12: United States, a thirteen year old winning the title by
Speaker 12: correctly spelling iklesism. In sport, the West Tigers have confirmed
Speaker 12: their release Lockie Galvin from his contract, effective immediately. The
Speaker 12: playmaker spotted in a private training session with the Bulldogs
Speaker 12: earlier today. We'll have more news and sport at six.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Sixteen degrees in the cost fourteen degrees
Speaker 2: in Penrith at the moment where the breaking news of
Speaker 2: the past half hour has been confirmation. Finally a deal
Speaker 2: has been released by between the state government and the Rail,
Speaker 2: Tram and Bust union as well as the combined rail unions.
Speaker 2: This means the long running dispute is over. The Transit
Speaker 2: Minister as John Graham, thanks to your time, lad and
Speaker 2: the Friday Minister.
Speaker 17: Good afternoon Clinton.
Speaker 2: It's been a long time coming, well it.
Speaker 17: Really has been, and this is the news that commuters
Speaker 17: have been waiting for. The deal's been reached. This means
Speaker 17: an end to disruption and we're able to pay rail
Speaker 17: workers of fair wage that we're seeing that as an
Speaker 17: investment in reliability. This really gives us a chance to
Speaker 17: improve reliability on our roal network.
Speaker 2: You just said it an end to disruption, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean we won't have disruption caused by other issues
Speaker 2: on the round network.
Speaker 17: Well exactly, but we're investing. Of course, the thing that
Speaker 17: would make it easier is agreement with our workforce. Agreement
Speaker 17: with the unions that represent them will make it a
Speaker 17: lot easier to roll out those investments. There is big
Speaker 17: money going into repairing our rail system, but of course
Speaker 17: the disruption has made that harder. There's no getting around that.
Speaker 17: Well that ends now as we've reached an in principal
Speaker 17: agreement with the combined Rail unions. That's really welcome. There's
Speaker 17: some details to work through, but this is a big,
Speaker 17: big step forward. It means if you're trying to catch
Speaker 17: a train, you know that actually the workforce and the
Speaker 17: government are working together now to make sure that train's
Speaker 17: more reliable.
Speaker 2: So the increase is twelve percent over three years, so
Speaker 2: four percent a year. That's more than initially you're offering.
Speaker 2: Where does the money come from.
Speaker 17: Well, that's exactly right. The unions that asked for eight
Speaker 17: percent a year. We're paying four percent a year. And
Speaker 17: just to be clear, we've added that final percent on
Speaker 17: to get a deal here that unions had asked for.
Speaker 17: That's got us a deal. We see though. That's well worthwhile.
Speaker 17: If you're trying to catch a train, there's no question
Speaker 17: you want an end to this disruption.
Speaker 2: Worthwhile. But they've had a gun to all of our
Speaker 2: heads for the last year.
Speaker 17: Well, there's real improvements in reliability here. We're rolling out
Speaker 17: train technology that will really mean a smoother ride for customers.
Speaker 17: It will improve reliability on the network. There's no question
Speaker 17: we need that. That's why the government has recommended this deal.
Speaker 2: Okay, so it's a three year deal. Is this a
Speaker 2: guarantee that there won't be industrial action over those three years?
Speaker 17: Yeah, we've the fact we've reached an agreement will mean
Speaker 17: that the industrial action that protected industrial action that was
Speaker 17: taking place will now no longer be required. That's the
Speaker 17: nature of this agreement. We're keen to go to a vote. Obviously,
Speaker 17: it's up to union members with accept this. This is
Speaker 17: a good deal, it'll be recommended to them.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 17: The majority of those unions are saying, look on board.
Speaker 4: We're good to go.
Speaker 2: But if I go back to the previous government when
Speaker 2: they had the issues with the union over the NIFT
Speaker 2: into SISI fleet, they triggered in dust reaction that affected
Speaker 2: the Sydney network because they were having that dispute over
Speaker 2: the NIFT. Is there the prospect in this three years
Speaker 2: that they can still call indust reaction over issues beyond
Speaker 2: this pay dispute.
Speaker 17: Well, obviously if there's safety issues that unions have concerns about,
Speaker 17: they'll be raising those strongly. So they've got the normal
Speaker 17: rights they had. But this is a big step forward.
Speaker 17: It resolves are the wage dispute that brought Sydney to
Speaker 17: a hold. It supports the introduction of the new Regional
Speaker 17: rail fleet very explicitly, so on that a sort of
Speaker 17: issue that you're raising. No, this is a big step forward.
Speaker 17: This will make a big difference to commuters. This is
Speaker 17: great news if you're trying to catch a trim hahm, which.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing in about half an hour. Thank you, minister,
Speaker 2: very good, Thank you the Transmitister John Graham. So the
Speaker 2: dispute is settled, so they won't be taking strikes over pay.
Speaker 2: But just bear in mind it doesn't mean they can't
Speaker 2: take in dust relection over other issues.
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Speaker 2: Charlie Brown, of course, host of Life and Tech Today.
Speaker 2: Charlie hallqen, how's this going to work? You can fix
Speaker 2: your an eyeprag when it goes bum?
Speaker 20: Well, they I has this program for iPhone in thirty
Speaker 20: three different countries around the world. They haven't launched it
Speaker 20: in Australia yet, but they've added as of announced this
Speaker 20: week iPad to that program for selected models, albeit the
Speaker 20: most recent ones that they put out. And the reason
Speaker 20: they do that is because if you've got a modern
Speaker 20: iPhone or modern iPad and you try and self repair
Speaker 20: it and you're not using genuine Apple parts, the device
Speaker 20: will recognize that those parts aren't genuine and it will
Speaker 20: start flagging issues in the operation of the device to
Speaker 20: you as the user.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 20: And so what Apple did was they said Okay, we're
Speaker 20: going to have this. We're gonna do one or two things.
Speaker 20: We're going to give these parts, will give access to
Speaker 20: these parts to repair centers that are going to register
Speaker 20: with us. They've already done that and you can do
Speaker 20: that in Australia now, so repair centers are already.
Speaker 10: Part of that.
Speaker 20: But secondly to that, we're also going to allow those
Speaker 20: people who are confident, all of these believers as they are,
Speaker 20: they will be able to order these parts online. And
Speaker 20: they've done that in thirty three countries. Apple have said
Speaker 20: that they will do this in Australia. They're just not
Speaker 20: doing it yet. So if you know how to repair
Speaker 20: your own iPad or your own iPhone, this will come
Speaker 20: to Australia soon.
Speaker 2: We'll hear all about it on Life and Technology tomorrow morning.
Speaker 2: Thanks Charlie, Thanks Plean.
Speaker 20: Having a great weekend.
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown hosting Life in Tech from eight o'clock tomorrow
Speaker 2: morning on Sydney.
Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 2: It should remain dry this evening. Sixteen degrees in the
Speaker 2: coast at the moment, fourteen degrees in the western suburbs.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow mostly sunny day, so good because all the sport
Speaker 2: was washed out for the kids last weekend, so you
Speaker 2: should be able to take your kids along the Saturday
Speaker 2: morning sport mostly sunny day, a little bit of cloud
Speaker 2: around twenty degrees the top on Sunday mostly sunny and
Speaker 2: twenty Monday partly cloudy and nineteen degrees.
Speaker 1: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 1: Now with Clinton May on.
Speaker 2: To GB Well, it will will be happening after seven
Speaker 2: o'clock with a continuous call team Mark Guy are featuring
Speaker 2: tonight on the coverage. Hello MG, Hello Clinton, Happy Friday,
Speaker 2: my friend. How are you're happy back in Sydney after
Speaker 2: Origin one?
Speaker 21: Yes, i am. It's been a big week, been a
Speaker 21: big week. We had the great Walk at the start
Speaker 21: of the week and then Origin Wednesday night.
Speaker 2: Because you've walked in here right now. Yes, I like
Speaker 2: to set standards for the program, and dress standards are critical.
Speaker 2: You often see that I'm here in a suit and tie.
Speaker 2: You are You've turned up in thongs. Yes, I can't
Speaker 2: put shoes on at the moment. What's going on?
Speaker 10: I will?
Speaker 21: You know I've got a in Penrith.
Speaker 2: That's right.
Speaker 21: I worked out this morning in sliders with socks were
Speaker 21: they pulled up?
Speaker 2: Yeah, having my tracks effe because of all the blisters
Speaker 2: from your walk.
Speaker 21: Oh yes, it's just on that just quickly. The Great
Speaker 21: Walk Foundation ends today with a big welcome home at
Speaker 21: the Lapston Hotel.
Speaker 2: Tonight.
Speaker 21: Over one hundred thousand dollars was raised this raised this
Speaker 21: week going to the boys from the Bush and Mentor
Speaker 21: mentorship program, west Care and brain cancer research for one
Speaker 21: of our walkers, Davy Crossman, passed away last this December
Speaker 21: from brain cancer.
Speaker 2: So you had a website that people can donate to.
Speaker 21: Great Great Walk Foundation dot com dot you good, thank
Speaker 21: you mate.
Speaker 2: The Women's state of origin last night, so this is
Speaker 2: what I've done. We scored under the posts yep out
Speaker 2: of dummy half and I was really tired last night
Speaker 2: so I went to bed.
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, well Queensland one, they come back. They won
Speaker 21: eighteen fourteen and guess what, there's twenty two thousand in
Speaker 21: Newcastle last night for inverted Comma is dead Rubber. So
Speaker 21: the girls game is going through the roof. But yet
Speaker 21: New South Wales couldn't get the out of three newk cleaning.
Speaker 21: Sweet Queensland came back and to one. They won in
Speaker 21: the end.
Speaker 2: And Newcastle is a great place to stage red football
Speaker 2: because they just love the game up there. The West
Speaker 2: Tigers today have put out an official statement that they've
Speaker 2: released Luckie Galvin. I'm really glad they've done that. Wow,
Speaker 2: really because he's been seating the Canterbury shirt.
Speaker 21: Oh my lanter, look at this this saga. Yeah, apparently
Speaker 21: he was pictured today. It's gone across social media. He's
Speaker 21: in his bulldog's jersey. You're not allowed to be yet
Speaker 21: because there was an incident earlier in the year or
Speaker 21: last year when the young boy called Volkman did the
Speaker 21: same type of thing in the NRL said give us
Speaker 21: a please, explained you've got to throw You're gonna go
Speaker 21: through the right protocol. At the moment, I don't give
Speaker 21: a damn about it. I just want this thing to,
Speaker 21: the whole thing to be over, I really do. It's
Speaker 21: a pain in the.
Speaker 2: Butt, you know what. I No, I don't feel for
Speaker 2: him because he's a growing up. He brought on himself.
Speaker 2: But there's a lot of pressure on him now, like
Speaker 2: of course there is. I know he's going to be
Speaker 2: on less money than he could have been on the Tigers.
Speaker 2: But if he doesn't perform, I won't say poor kid,
Speaker 2: because this is his business. He can make a lot
Speaker 2: of money. But if he's not quite the next absolute,
Speaker 2: you know, Brad Fiddler, people are going to be gone
Speaker 2: blowing up.
Speaker 21: Well, you've got guys who have been doing the job
Speaker 21: there like Sexton and especially young Tracy at fullback. Cord
Speaker 21: of Tracy. These guys aren't, you know, surplus the needs
Speaker 21: because they've been going, they're winning the competition. Then all
Speaker 21: of a sudden, you throw a kid in who's known
Speaker 21: Andy's of age, coming from a club that's coming second last,
Speaker 21: to make your team better. It doesn't make sense they like.
Speaker 2: To play them off the bench or something, won't they.
Speaker 21: I think maybe someone like maybe Matt Burton might at
Speaker 21: a lock forward or center to accommodate him for this year.
Speaker 2: So you put Matt Burton the center, What do you say,
Speaker 2: Stephen Krichton, Bronson Cherry.
Speaker 21: Yeah no, so that's the thing, that's that's the pickle.
Speaker 2: So we could do with some outside back to the moment.
Speaker 2: Maybe Bronson Cherry go to the Sharkys go home. I
Speaker 2: don't think that's going to be happening.
Speaker 21: No, I don't think so either.
Speaker 2: Tonight you'll be calling the match between the Dragons and
Speaker 2: the Knights at Conra.
Speaker 21: Yeah, a good game. Dragons have won there only one
Speaker 21: one of their fast pop last sorry, only won one
Speaker 21: of their last four at Cogra. Knights have won four
Speaker 21: of their past six games against the Dragons and Valentine
Speaker 21: Holmes and Calen Pine will be backing up from.
Speaker 2: State of Origin. Well, let's run through your tips. You're
Speaker 2: on forty six points in the two GB tipping comp.
Speaker 2: Matt Thompson is fifty four. You're on forty six. I'm
Speaker 2: on forty one. Last.
Speaker 21: Well, you're kind of I'm calling you the penrith of
Speaker 21: the tipping comp. You're you're coming last, but you're not
Speaker 21: that far out of the eight that you you might
Speaker 21: make a lot. You could make a late charge.
Speaker 2: There's one difference. I didn't win the last four premiership.
Speaker 2: So you're tipping the Dragons tonight, I'm tipping the Dragons
Speaker 2: to Okay, I'll back the Dragons as well. Yeah, because
Speaker 2: I'm just going to copy you from now on. Okay,
Speaker 2: what the games tomorrow?
Speaker 21: Harry Grant is out Xavier coachs is out for this.
Speaker 2: Game against So this is the Storm.
Speaker 21: Yep, Storm, who's Storm playing?
Speaker 2: The Storm are playing? The Titans can't beat time with
Speaker 2: a stick. They're hopeless.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Storm, Although the Big Man has gone Knights and
Speaker 21: Titans and he's coming second.
Speaker 2: You know Big Nan doesn't know what he's talking about. Okay,
Speaker 2: You've then got the Cowboys and the Tigers. You'll hear this.
Speaker 2: One of the continue has called him at five thirty
Speaker 2: are Cowboys? Yep, I'm going the Cowboys seven thirty five.
Speaker 2: You'll hear this one with us as well. Manly up
Speaker 2: against the Broncos, isn't.
Speaker 21: It look I know in the two GB tips I've
Speaker 21: taken mainly but without the Turbo boys in Tuckyahau, I
Speaker 21: think the I think the Broncos will win. I can't
Speaker 21: change my tip now, but if I could, I would.
Speaker 2: Okay, Sunday South up against New Zealand.
Speaker 21: Latrell again, I've picked the rabbit As here on the
Speaker 21: back of the trail. But if Latrell's out, you've got
Speaker 21: to say the Warriors.
Speaker 2: I'll go rabbit As as well. Four oh five. You'll
Speaker 2: hear this in the continuous call team the Panthers up
Speaker 2: against the Yels.
Speaker 21: Yeah, Battle of the West Penrith home game at Combat Stadium,
Speaker 21: game figure figure Panthers.
Speaker 2: That's part of all this is. Of course it is,
Speaker 2: it is, of course it is.
Speaker 21: They're traveling Wolbury's.
Speaker 2: I'm going Panthers as well. And the final game of
Speaker 2: the round is the Roosters up against the Raiders on Sunday.
Speaker 21: I like what I'm seeing from this Rooster's outfit. They
Speaker 21: are just tenacious, they're dogged and they're enterprising.
Speaker 2: Yep, and Cronulla takes on the by let's go.
Speaker 21: Are you sure you're not backing the bye?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: I made the mistake of tipping Kronella last weekend. Look
Speaker 2: what happened?
Speaker 21: My daughter's listening shirts. Eh birthday tomorrow. We're having a
Speaker 21: party at my gym tomorrow night.
Speaker 2: Oh fantastic. I'm just chin ups and everything. No, that's a.
Speaker 21: Prey a s P I re s it was it.
Speaker 2: That's pro a pray pray pray. What's a pro ski party?
Speaker 2: What's the prey?
Speaker 21: I don't know before like that's what might.
Speaker 2: Producer call me a boom And I'm not actually a
Speaker 2: baby boomer. The same boomer boomer. But you don't know
Speaker 2: this stuff.
Speaker 21: Raffity have fun doing.
Speaker 2: I'll be security and it's Patty who's working on the show.
Speaker 2: He's twenty one this week, so he was yesterday, same
Speaker 2: he does.
Speaker 21: Yeah, birthdays everywhere, mate, he's got his.
Speaker 2: He's got a birthday this weekend. He was at a
Speaker 2: pub last night and you know you like the thongs. Yes,
Speaker 2: there were people dressed up in well I don't think
Speaker 2: they had any feet. They didn't have any shoes on
Speaker 2: any feet, feet less bright that's Friday. I don't like
Speaker 2: that beer foot of the pub.
Speaker 21: I don't mind if you're on the beach.
Speaker 2: Okay. When we were going out in those days, I
Speaker 2: had to wear a cold shirt. Yeah, you always had
Speaker 2: to have a cold shirt. And you'll get Blake's walking
Speaker 2: around singlets. These days you.
Speaker 21: Wouldn't get a night club without a cold shirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 21: And if you're on a beach side suburb, I don't mind.
Speaker 21: You were in beach, no shoes to the the shop
Speaker 21: and stuff.
Speaker 2: But MG, will you have a great weeknd Clinton continuous
Speaker 2: call to him coming up at seven.
Speaker 14: Time to expand your minds?
Speaker 11: Do you maybe agin your questioning on Sydney.
Speaker 14: Now questions, questions, Lincoln's questions important?
Speaker 7: I know you are answer a question right?
Speaker 2: Clinton's quick quiz Okay, quiz time. We've got to double
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Speaker 2: Who won the women's State of Origin series.
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