Speaker 1: Humday, Wednesday. Welcome along to Birthlive. It is great to
Speaker 1: have your company today. Jason Featherby will be here after
Speaker 1: one thirty, the director of lew And Wealth. So if
Speaker 1: you'd like to have a chat to our money man,
Speaker 1: give him a call just after one thirty today. Jason
Speaker 1: Featherbee joining us in the six PR studios, Yuko Ostowich.
Speaker 1: He'll be motoring on by the studios after two thirty
Speaker 1: this afternoon to answer any and all of the questions
Speaker 1: you have about Perth's road network. One double, three eighth
Speaker 1: eighty two. If you'd like to join the conversation, let's
Speaker 1: get the phones ringing this Wednesday. Brad Pettitt, the Greens leader,
Speaker 1: he had a chat today Property Council breakfast this morning
Speaker 1: and he's calling on the state government to build apartments
Speaker 1: around every train station on the Fremantle line. Should there
Speaker 1: be apartments built around every train station on the Fremantle
Speaker 1: Railway line. We had the approved of the Station Streets
Speaker 1: two story complex last week in Cotterslow, which maybe too
Speaker 1: high some locals and the council believe will this lead
Speaker 1: towards the sinking of the Fremantle Railway line from Subiaco
Speaker 1: to Port Beach because that land is very, very valuable.
Speaker 1: It'll probably be cost neutral in the end by the
Speaker 1: time you go underground, sink the railway line and build
Speaker 1: above its. We'll have a chat to Brad Pettit about that.
Speaker 1: But what do you think should the state government build
Speaker 1: departments around every train station on the Fremantle train line.
Speaker 1: One double three eight eighty two And I don't like
Speaker 1: this one. A warning from Consumer Protection today. You've got
Speaker 1: dodgy doorknockers back and they're targeting homes, including an elderly
Speaker 1: Hillman couple who paid more than eighteen thousand dollars for
Speaker 1: some unfinished minor roof restoration work. A warning heading away
Speaker 1: from the Commissioner of Consumer Protection at Trish Blake. And
Speaker 1: we're going to meet bell from Beauty and the Beast
Speaker 1: the musical. It is coming to Crown Theater in about
Speaker 1: a month's time, playing for about three months, and Belle
Speaker 1: will be dropping on by the studios a little bit
Speaker 1: later today. One double three eight eighty two is the
Speaker 1: talkback number. Pick up the phone and have you say
Speaker 1: because I'd love to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: You're listening to Birthlive with Oliver Peterson call now and
Speaker 2: have yours say on one double three eighty two.
Speaker 1: A couple of things already coming through. Brad wants to
Speaker 1: just point out that it's hilarious with the Polly's coming
Speaker 1: out saying they didn't want the pay rise, that they
Speaker 1: could do without it, Well maybe they should donate it
Speaker 1: to charity. As if they would, they will just tell
Speaker 1: poorkeypyes all the time. Thank you. Brad and I own
Speaker 1: a high volume collision repair business and Oliver like you
Speaker 1: to discuss the potential i AG takeover of ra AC
Speaker 1: and the concerns of similar businesses as mine how the
Speaker 1: consumer will be affected. It's timely because it's currently under
Speaker 1: consideration the takeover of Insurance Australia Group Limited's ability to
Speaker 1: acquire hundred percent of the shares in RAC Insurance from
Speaker 1: the r AC. It wants to enter it into a
Speaker 1: twenty year agreement for RAC to exclusively distribute insurance products
Speaker 1: underwritten by IOG and the r A C brands. Now,
Speaker 1: submissions are currently invited from interested parties to the A
Speaker 1: Triple C. So the Consumer Watchdog is looking at this
Speaker 1: as we speak, and you've got en till the second
Speaker 1: of July to make a submission now IAG. It obviously
Speaker 1: provides a number of personal and commercial insurance products under
Speaker 1: the brands like nrm A, Sworn Insurance, Rolling Lumly Special Vehicles,
Speaker 1: so it's already in the market. It's got a big
Speaker 1: share of the market. But the informal reviews started back
Speaker 1: on the eighteenth of June. The closing date of submissions
Speaker 1: is July two, and we should hear from the A
Speaker 1: Triple C an announcement of its findings by September. Are
Speaker 1: you concerned about the RAC insurance being swallowed up by
Speaker 1: IAG And look, maybe you have recently had another motor
Speaker 1: vehicle renewal slip pop into your inbox or you collected
Speaker 1: it from your letterbox. Still getting stung, still getting a
Speaker 1: big whack from your insurer. I know when we talk
Speaker 1: about this from time to time, people indicate twenty percent hikes,
Speaker 1: even up to fifty percent hikes, and that old saying
Speaker 1: is shop around, look to see if there's another insurance
Speaker 1: agency that's going to offer you a better deal a
Speaker 1: one double three audity too. Have you got a bit
Speaker 1: of bill shocked recently from the motor vehicle insurers and
Speaker 1: or are you as concerns that IAG Limited wants to
Speaker 1: completely take over r ac insurance thirteen after one. The
Speaker 1: Save Burswood Park Alliance has revealed today that eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of people oppose the burz Would racetrack. They continue
Speaker 1: to argue that this development is in the wrong location
Speaker 1: for what the area is, saying that the community wants
Speaker 1: more green spaces and less noise. According to the Save
Speaker 1: Burswould Park Alliance, recent feedback on the government's proposal of
Speaker 1: the burz Would via Supercars racetrack shows that eighty five
Speaker 1: percent of respondents are strongly opposed to the projects. The
Speaker 1: co chair of the Save Burswood Park Alliance, Sue Quinn,
Speaker 1: said that negative comments vastly outnumbered those in favor, both
Speaker 1: at the government drop in sessions and on its consultation platform.
Speaker 1: She said, quote when a community instinctively and immediately opposes developments,
Speaker 1: it usually means the development is wrong for the area.
Speaker 1: In view of this, it's hard to understand why the
Speaker 1: government is so set on proceeding with it, she said.
Speaker 1: It's unclear if the motorsport industry would make any financial
Speaker 1: contribution to the racetrack, So if the industry which has
Speaker 1: made up of very rich people won't support it. Why
Speaker 1: should taxpayers who oppose it have to do so.
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Many people, including motorsports enthusiasts, commented that they were concerned
Speaker 1: about the Burswould location and suggested the fund should be
Speaker 1: instead be spent on upgrading Wanneroo Raceway and other regional venues.
Speaker 1: Other ideas were to plant more native trees and plants
Speaker 1: to protect wildlife and water birds, and establishing a botanic
Speaker 1: garden of diverse and endemic plants to connect existing wetlands.
Speaker 1: A popular comment, according to the Save burrs Would Park Alliance,
Speaker 1: was to implement the burrs Would Park twenty year Master
Speaker 1: Precinct Plan instead, a project that had previously involved extensive
Speaker 1: consultation which had wide community supports. Future planning should also
Speaker 1: honor and protect Mungar cultural connections. She said. We need
Speaker 1: more green spaces and less noise, and many people believe
Speaker 1: that motorsports are outdated when the world is focused on
Speaker 1: reducing carbon emissions and are not aligned with the WA
Speaker 1: government's electric vehicle strategy. Some also warned that pass venues
Speaker 1: for supercars, including Newcastle, canber and Hamilton and New Zealand,
Speaker 1: offered cautionary tales of the negative impact the social, the
Speaker 1: economic declining popularity of V eight super cars events. Now,
Speaker 1: if it is to move, do you think there might
Speaker 1: be a renaissance for supercars if you left the Wanneroo
Speaker 1: Raceway and brought it into Burrswood. Might you go and
Speaker 1: take a look? Might you have a peak? Might it encourage,
Speaker 1: say the very large motorsports population of Singapore to jump
Speaker 1: on a plane and head down to Perth and provide
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tourism boom one double three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two. Do you think that might be over egged?
Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of people oppose the burs would racetrack.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to be that high
Speaker 1: one double three eight eighty two. Courtney reckons we don't
Speaker 1: need any more apartments on the Frio line. There are
Speaker 1: plenty of the molly. You can see them on the line.
Speaker 1: I live in one close to the Freemantle line in
Speaker 1: West Leadable. I have seen apartments in other areas of
Speaker 1: the Frio line at City West, West Leadiville, Claermont, victoriaus
Speaker 1: Treated Mosman Park and you can also find them in
Speaker 1: North Frio and Eileen says, I think building around railway
Speaker 1: stations is basically a good idea. Claimont's been pretty successful,
Speaker 1: but I think thinking the railway is a far better idea.
Speaker 1: And yes it would free up more land. Wouldn't happen overnight,
Speaker 1: but then neither did metro nets. We need visionary, forward
Speaker 1: looking plans, not just catch up projects. One double three
Speaker 1: eighth two. If you'd like to join Perth Live this afternoon,
Speaker 1: you agree with the BURS would Park Alliance that eighty
Speaker 1: five percent of people opposed the BURS would race track.
Speaker 1: Should that go back to the drawing board from the
Speaker 1: state governments? What about Brad Pettit's suggestion that we should
Speaker 1: be building even more apartments around Western Suburbs train stations.
Speaker 1: He wants to stay governor to build them around every
Speaker 1: train station on the Fremantle train line. And the IAG
Speaker 1: limited takeover of RC insurance currently open to submissions by
Speaker 1: the A Triple C should it go ahead. You had
Speaker 1: a bit of bill shocked recently from your motor vehicle
Speaker 1: insurer one double three eight eighty two the talk back
Speaker 1: number Andrew Reckins Nowayali, there would be nobody coming from
Speaker 1: Singapore to watch the vight supercars. That there's lots of
Speaker 1: Singaporeans who are very keen on the v eights. They
Speaker 1: might make little trek down if it were to be
Speaker 1: moved to Burswood. Maybe they wouldn't, but they're very keen
Speaker 1: on the vights. Regarding the multiplex proposal, says Frank, what
Speaker 1: racing for just one weekend.
Speaker 3: Of the year.
Speaker 1: Give me a break. It is the thin end of
Speaker 1: the wedge. The precinct should be like South Bank in Brisbane,
Speaker 1: a very successful green belt walk along the river, high
Speaker 1: density residential living around the area, with many more thousand
Speaker 1: residents yet to come. We should be embracing our green
Speaker 1: spaces and keeping them for future residents. It should be
Speaker 1: about proper town planning, planned by professionals. That's how the
Speaker 1: Burrs Would Park twenty year Vision plan came about and
Speaker 1: the government needs to grab a brain. We looked at it, though, Frank.
Speaker 1: Would we have ever constructed the stadium where it is?
Speaker 1: Would it have just been left there as well? Was
Speaker 1: a great golf course, but as it revitalized, a bit
Speaker 1: of burswould and into the inner east of our city.
Speaker 1: One double three eight eighty two. Michael wants to know
Speaker 1: what's wrong with these people, the supercars will be just
Speaker 1: a weekend of the year burning hell. Shut the hell up.
Speaker 1: That's a bit strong, he says. If people didn't want this,
Speaker 1: why did you vote for the current governments? And Tony
Speaker 1: says these apartments along the railway line should have been
Speaker 1: done twenty years ago. Olie, we are still a white
Speaker 1: pick at fence Society. It does not work anymore. Let's
Speaker 1: face it. Anything past Thomas Road South and anything past
Speaker 1: Hodges Drive North is regions. It's no longer the metrop
Speaker 1: an area. Our mind set needs to change one double
Speaker 1: three eight eighty two if you'd like to have your say,
Speaker 1: And Jim says. The first ever special General Meeting of
Speaker 1: the RAC was held on Monday nights. At that meeting,
Speaker 1: the fifteen members of the Management Council effectively voted themselves
Speaker 1: out of a job. The vote, which was carried fifty
Speaker 1: to twelve, is supposed to modernize the governance of one
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty year old organization, and it remains to
Speaker 1: be seen whether this move will result in a better
Speaker 1: RAC or end up being a sh one t sandwich.
Speaker 1: My question is will the replacement council of management look
Speaker 1: after the interests of the members as well as they
Speaker 1: have been for the last one hundred and twenty years. Now,
Speaker 1: this speel sounds like a script from a bank that
Speaker 1: closes branches in the pursuit of better customer outcomes. That's
Speaker 1: from Jim, who sent me an email one double three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two. If you'd like to have you say hi, Steve.
Speaker 4: Get Aoli, Hey, haven't I listened to a great talkback?
Speaker 4: The Birds would pre think to me, Yeah, it's beautiful,
Speaker 4: but we've got Kings Park and we've got a few
Speaker 4: other places, so you know this, it's a fifty to fifty.
Speaker 4: It'll do good for Perth and I'll also upset other
Speaker 4: people in Perth. Well, they said.
Speaker 1: They've overcooked this one a little bit, though, Steve, the
Speaker 1: same Birds with Park Alliance reeconds eighty five percent of
Speaker 1: people oppose the Burrs would raise strack it on. It
Speaker 1: might be a little less than eighty five percent.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I haven't seen the statistics, but looking at it,
Speaker 4: it could work if it's every now and again, I
Speaker 4: don't think we should have it as a modiplex we've
Speaker 4: got one of them. But for special events and fundraisers, yeah,
Speaker 4: they can make money out of it, and they can
Speaker 4: also give the whole of Perth, the Mexicolity area something
Speaker 4: to go and see. Because I haven't been one of
Speaker 4: real I've always wanted to go, but I'd be more
Speaker 4: likely to go to the birds. Wouldn't watch it a
Speaker 4: class event.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think with that backdrop and being closer
Speaker 1: to the city, you might get a few more people
Speaker 1: taking a peek than would head up to want to
Speaker 1: root of the raceway one, double, three, eighth E two
Speaker 1: if you'd like to have your say. David thinks the
Speaker 1: rac should allow vote by its members so that will
Speaker 1: retain its insurance business. I anticipate the members would overwhelmingly
Speaker 1: vote no. As for the Burrs with car racetrack, it
Speaker 1: would be a good attraction being a central location with
Speaker 1: accommodation nearby for tourists. It wouldn't just be for those
Speaker 1: V eight supercars either. Plus it would help attract the
Speaker 1: bids and nab the Moto GP from Phillip Islands and
Speaker 1: Kyler Frio says, all of your apartments are built on
Speaker 1: destroyed swampland you're trying to protect, so you're all being hypocritical.
Speaker 1: If you ask Kyle one double three eight eighty two
Speaker 1: if you'd like to have your say. Twenty four hours
Speaker 1: ago now, Darren called through with this news tip in
Speaker 1: Perth lives word on the streets.
Speaker 5: Okay, I was just at sixteen Victoria AB in the
Speaker 5: city and all these cop cars raced in with their
Speaker 5: lights on. Also people from the army jumped out of
Speaker 5: their vehicles with carrying machine guns and battering rams to
Speaker 5: smash doors in and they've all raced into twelve Victoria AB.
Speaker 5: So obviously something something's going on in one of the
Speaker 5: apartments in that building.
Speaker 1: So confirm police and the TG entered that apartment building
Speaker 1: where Jake Patrick, our chief of news, found himself for
Speaker 1: a good portion of yesterday afternoon as a man has
Speaker 1: been charged. Jake, good afternoon, one of the details.
Speaker 6: Yeah, good afternoon to you, Ollie. What a sight that
Speaker 6: was yesterday the TRG officers walking out of all sweets
Speaker 6: Perth on Victoria AB with their machine guns, battering rams
Speaker 6: and all the kit they needed to get into an
Speaker 6: apartment yesterday. It was quite the scene in Perth. As
Speaker 6: years old of that a man in his twenties early
Speaker 6: twenties has been charged. He's facing three charges hasn't faced
Speaker 6: court yet. He's doing court this afternoon, so we'll bring
Speaker 6: you those details when this individual face is caught. But
Speaker 6: the three charges he's facing his possession of a prohibited
Speaker 6: drug with intent to sell or supply mainly methamphetamine, possession
Speaker 6: of a stolen or unlawfully obtained property, and carried or
Speaker 6: possessed a prohibited weapon. And that was what sparked this
Speaker 6: alleged incident yesterday. Was a firearm, was president or what
Speaker 6: looked to be a firearm. It's now been revealed that
Speaker 6: it was a fake gun allegedly that sparked this whole
Speaker 6: operation yesterday. So yeah, a lot of drama in the
Speaker 6: city yesterday. And we'll wait until this man, who we
Speaker 6: can't name yet, he hasn't faced court yet, faces caught
Speaker 6: this afternoon on those three charges. One alleged drug offence,
Speaker 6: one alleged stolen or obtain property offense, and a possessing
Speaker 6: prohibited weapon offense as well.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll see what happens there in the courts.
Speaker 1: And I see Jake that the Triple C is launching
Speaker 1: an investigation into how the Floria killer Mark bom Bara
Speaker 1: was able to hold that firearms license. That's correct.
Speaker 6: So listeners might remember that shocking incident in Floria last
Speaker 6: year where Mark Bombarro murdered Gretel Patelchick and Jennifer Pateelchick
Speaker 6: in May last year. Well, the Triple C has announced
Speaker 6: today that they're launching their own investigation into just how
Speaker 6: Mark Bombarro was able to have thirteen guns. We're about
Speaker 6: to hear any moment now from Police Commissioner Cole Blanch
Speaker 6: she'll be standing out the front of police headquarters commenting
Speaker 6: on that movement from the Triple C. Today, we'll bring
Speaker 6: you his response to their investigation that they're about to
Speaker 6: launch into how Mark Bombarro was able to have thirteen
Speaker 6: guns and there was any police misconduct in that investigation
Speaker 6: as well. So we'll bring you all that throughout the
Speaker 6: afternoon here on six PR.
Speaker 1: Good on you, Jake, we'll come back to you with
Speaker 1: any updates. That's our chief of News, Jake Batrick here
Speaker 1: at six PR. Luke says the Moto GP never have
Speaker 1: and never will race on a street circuit. Olie, it
Speaker 1: is too dangerous. There is no runoff around the corners.
Speaker 1: The only place to have motorcycle racing on a street
Speaker 1: circuit is the isle of Man T T. And I
Speaker 1: think the racetrack will be great, says David. Look at
Speaker 1: city tracks in Singapore, Vegas, Monaco. We could be on
Speaker 1: the world stage one day, Jacko saying he's lived in
Speaker 1: Burzwood now for thirty one years. We still have signs
Speaker 1: around saying Volk Green stop the motorplex, go on, just
Speaker 1: build its money man. Jason Featherby has arrived. He's about
Speaker 1: to step into the studios to answer edy at all
Speaker 1: of your personal finance questions. He's very popular. I suggest
Speaker 1: you call him now and he could talk to him
Speaker 1: in just a moment. That number is one, double three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two, and he's looking very official today. He's
Speaker 1: got the jacket on. Hello Jason, Hello Oliver Ben he
Speaker 1: caught today.
Speaker 7: No, but it is sixteen degrees outside.
Speaker 1: No sweater, just scarne, the jacket, just the jacket.
Speaker 2: Today I went to breakfast with a couple of important gentlemen.
Speaker 8: There you go.
Speaker 7: Yes, so that's why I wore the jacket.
Speaker 1: But we were saying in the preview, you don't call
Speaker 1: him anymore, you don't take him to breakfast anymore. I
Speaker 1: don't have dinners, don't have lunches, some guessing he wasn't
Speaker 1: who you were with this morning.
Speaker 3: No, no, no.
Speaker 2: But in my defense, as I walked out last week,
Speaker 2: Simon as I walked in, actually Simon said to me,
Speaker 2: I need to call you. Yes, I will call you
Speaker 2: next week, and he has it.
Speaker 7: I need to buy a car. I need some advice.
Speaker 7: I will call you. Has he called you?
Speaker 2: I check my phone every couple of hours and nothing, nothing, Simon.
Speaker 1: Simon, Just call him six two eighty five one two
Speaker 1: three four. Even Simon's called the talkback lines now and
Speaker 1: you can have your conversation about the car. Then.
Speaker 7: Does that sounds he hasn't called me?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Does that upset you a little bit?
Speaker 7: No? Not not much.
Speaker 2: If he called wonder, but if it's on, it's on him.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get a tapping because Johann has got
Speaker 1: a question for you today. By the way, if you
Speaker 1: want to talk to Jason one double three two, Hi, Yohart,
Speaker 1: Well just.
Speaker 9: A quick one. Jason got a super anuation. I suppose
Speaker 9: fund with Gaesby. No, we all know Gaesby.
Speaker 10: It's got it.
Speaker 9: I suppose benefits to be by a Gasby. But someone
Speaker 9: has recently mentioned super Sorry master wrap accounts to me
Speaker 9: and suggested the potentially considering moving your super anuation to
Speaker 9: a master wrap account. Can you explain a little bit
Speaker 9: more about the benefits of a master rap.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I can.
Speaker 2: Yes, we used master wraps, and they call them wrap
Speaker 2: accounts because they they wrap all your investments up into
Speaker 2: one place and provide the administration for you. So Gaesby,
Speaker 2: I guess, to go back to your original point, Gaesby
Speaker 2: does have all the old Gaesby. West State does have
Speaker 2: one particular advantage over all other super funds as long
Speaker 2: as you're still working for the state government, and that
Speaker 2: is it doesn't have the normal concessional caps that we
Speaker 2: all have, So the thirty thousand dollars cap that we
Speaker 2: have each year, that's not such a thing at Gesby.
Speaker 2: So for that reason, if you are working for the
Speaker 2: government and you do have an old Gaesbee account, it's
Speaker 2: very unwise to close it down altogether, so you can
Speaker 2: use them in conjunction with a master wrap type super
Speaker 2: fund your hand. And the advantages master wraps have over
Speaker 2: all industry funds, but.
Speaker 7: As well as Gesby is that they do have.
Speaker 2: Their own bank account, which sounds really weird, but within
Speaker 2: the super fund. There's a cash account and all your
Speaker 2: contributions going to the bank account, and if you ever
Speaker 2: pay expenses or insurance premiums, or you're taking a pension,
Speaker 2: that money comes out of the bank account, and so
Speaker 2: you're running a like a working account within your super fund,
Speaker 2: where industry fund's like Gesbie. Whenever you pay for something,
Speaker 2: whenever you take a pension out, they have to sell
Speaker 2: shares in the investment option that you've got, and it's
Speaker 2: not always a good time to sell shares. So the
Speaker 2: cash accounts an advantage. And the other thing that wrap
Speaker 2: type super funds allow is that they allow direct investment
Speaker 2: into blue chip shares and things like that, so that
Speaker 2: saves you on management fees, but they also have significant
Speaker 2: tax benefits. So that's why your advisor or whoever you
Speaker 2: sought advice from, was heading down that path. The benefit
Speaker 2: of having a Gasbee fund is that you don't have
Speaker 2: to get rid of it to have a wrap account.
Speaker 2: You can run both and we often do so. Put
Speaker 2: all your contributions into Gesbie every year or two you
Speaker 2: can get you can roll over into your wrap account
Speaker 2: and have the best of both worlds.
Speaker 9: Thank you. That makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: Thanks you ahan, I'm glad.
Speaker 1: That's good, isn't it? Good starts today makes perfect sense.
Speaker 3: That always nervous when you walk in, but off to
Speaker 3: a good start.
Speaker 1: One double three eight atty two to put it in
Speaker 1: all of your questions to Jason Featherby, the director of
Speaker 1: Lewin Wealth, John says he's miscalculated his salary sacrifice. He's
Speaker 1: overpaid his concessional super contributions for his tax year by
Speaker 1: about fifteen hundred dollars over the thirty thousand dollars allowed.
Speaker 1: What are my options?
Speaker 2: It's not a huge disas, so the tax office will
Speaker 2: have a look at you. If you haven't used your
Speaker 2: thirty thousand dollars cap in prior years, and you your
Speaker 2: balance was under five hundred thousand dollars in soup as
Speaker 2: at June thirty, June last year, then there's no issue.
Speaker 7: You can just use that to catch up. So that's
Speaker 7: a cool new rule, or relatively good rule.
Speaker 2: If you have used your caps every year and you
Speaker 2: go over, the tax office are right to you, and
Speaker 2: essentially you'll just pay marginal tax on the amount above
Speaker 2: above the cap. So not a huge disaster, no worse
Speaker 2: off than you probably would have been.
Speaker 7: Just that you've just gone over and it happens a lot.
Speaker 1: One, double three at only to keep those questions coming
Speaker 1: through to Jason Featherby. Today we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: helping the kids into a home and what you need
Speaker 1: to consider, because of course we all are living amongst
Speaker 1: a massive real estate boom here in Estralia, particularly in
Speaker 1: Wa of the last couple of years, so more and
Speaker 1: more parents have to assist their children to get into
Speaker 1: the property markets. Sounds like an easy thing to do, Jason,
Speaker 1: but isn't always the case.
Speaker 7: I don't think so.
Speaker 2: And you do need to be a little careful before
Speaker 2: throwing money at your kids. So, and I've brought this
Speaker 2: up for two reasons. I think our medium price is
Speaker 2: a million dollars now national nationally, which is yeah, nationally,
Speaker 2: which is unbelievable considering where we were three or four
Speaker 2: years ago.
Speaker 7: And more and more it's harder to get into the
Speaker 7: property market.
Speaker 2: More and more parents now have wealth in their own
Speaker 2: homes and getting towards retirement, so it's a common question
Speaker 2: should you help. My overarching thought is yes, absolutely, you
Speaker 2: should help if you can afford to. Yes, So you
Speaker 2: must be in a decent position financially yourself and helping
Speaker 2: your kids must not well, in my opinion, derail your
Speaker 2: own retirement plans.
Speaker 7: Otherwise, think twice.
Speaker 2: I mean, you've all been through it, you've done it tough,
Speaker 2: you've saved money, you've found your own house, and you've
Speaker 2: found your own way. And most kids will do they
Speaker 2: need the help? If you ask them, do they want it?
Speaker 2: Probably in a lot of case no, not to your
Speaker 2: own detriment. But if you're in a good financial position,
Speaker 2: then my thinking is yes. And then you go to
Speaker 2: the next phase of questioning in why can't your kids
Speaker 2: own their own home? If they're just useless with money,
Speaker 2: Throwing money at them will probably not help them at all.
Speaker 2: And if they're living on the edge and you burden
Speaker 2: them or sell them with a big mortgage, then will
Speaker 2: it just pile pain on them financially.
Speaker 7: So you sort of need to attack it from two fronts.
Speaker 1: Sure, so birth prices are up nearly eighty percent since
Speaker 1: the onset of COVID. That is ristic staggering figure in
Speaker 1: what five or six years, So let's go to that.
Speaker 1: What financial position should you be in before you are
Speaker 1: able to provide a little bit of help?
Speaker 7: If you are well.
Speaker 2: I reckon you should be able to at a minimum,
Speaker 2: you should make sure you've got enough for a rainy
Speaker 2: day yourself, so you know if something goes wrong, be
Speaker 2: financially comfortable before helping your kids. I think you should
Speaker 2: have your own house paid off, a bit of financially independent,
Speaker 2: and this you know your income comes from other sources,
Speaker 2: so you're not just relying on your own wage. We've
Speaker 2: got other investment, super investment properties, share portfolios, so be
Speaker 2: pretty well independent yourself and be able to afford to
Speaker 2: live if something goes wrong as well. So in terms
Speaker 2: of your own position, almost be at retirement, have your
Speaker 2: GEBT paid off, have a pretty good super fund, have
Speaker 2: a bit of money set aside, and then you can
Speaker 2: start thinking about helping the kids.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to talk in a moment about
Speaker 1: how to determine how you should provide the funds. But
Speaker 1: on the subject, Chris is just phoning through. Good afternoon,
Speaker 1: Good after the guys.
Speaker 11: Yeah, just a couple of questions have been help us out.
Speaker 11: I've got a daughter in Canada and she wants to
Speaker 11: put a down payment on the house over there. Can't
Speaker 11: afford the down payment, can't afford the mortgage if I
Speaker 11: help her out with the down payment. I've also got
Speaker 11: a son in one of my houses here that I'm
Speaker 11: currently subdividing, and I was going to subdivide the back
Speaker 11: block and use that money to help her out with
Speaker 11: But the only thing is can I gift money from
Speaker 11: my super? And how will that affect me later on
Speaker 11: if I do ever need a pension and they're in
Speaker 11: taxes involved.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: No, they're good questions. So my immediate thinking is that
Speaker 2: you've got two kids. You've already helped one out by
Speaker 2: letting them live in a house that you own. The
Speaker 2: one lives in Canada. I assume she wants to say
Speaker 2: there permanently, and I don't know the Canadian house purchasing rules,
Speaker 2: but assuming you can buy one for her and that
Speaker 2: she can get a debt, then that's not a bad
Speaker 2: way to help.
Speaker 7: In terms of your own situation.
Speaker 2: You've got to be able to access SUPER, so be
Speaker 2: sixty and above or sixty five and retire to take
Speaker 2: money out of Super and gift her the deposit for
Speaker 2: a house. That gift is accessible by sentiling for five years.
Speaker 2: If you're going to go down the age pension path,
Speaker 2: it's a whole mind field of stuff, Chris. But ultimately,
Speaker 2: if your daughter can just afford a mortgage, then is
Speaker 2: it a simple and you're comfortable gifting her money? Do
Speaker 2: you give a simple gift whereas that money will disappear
Speaker 2: with her if she gets into financial trouble or finds
Speaker 2: the wrong partner. It's just a minefield of stuff that
Speaker 2: you do need to tiptoe through, probably with advice. But
Speaker 2: in terms of attacking you souper to help, yeah, I'd
Speaker 2: think twice. You'd have to be in a really comfortable.
Speaker 11: Position, right, yeah, Okay, So is there a value on
Speaker 11: the affecting central link? Like if I give my son
Speaker 11: that house and then I give my daughter the down deposit?
Speaker 11: Is there a value on the five year gift?
Speaker 2: No, whether you're allowed you're allowed ten thousand dollars each
Speaker 2: year to gift, which isn't a lot, or thirty thousand
Speaker 2: over five anything above that. There's no limit, but it's
Speaker 2: assessed as an asset for five years. So if you're
Speaker 2: hell bent on doing this, the best time to do
Speaker 2: it is about, you know, sixty one or sixty two
Speaker 2: years of age. So by the time you get to
Speaker 2: age pension age, that gift has served.
Speaker 7: It's I guess it's intents, and it's no longer an
Speaker 7: asset from centraling's point of view. It was gifted five
Speaker 7: years ago.
Speaker 2: So if you want, if you're hell bent on doing it,
Speaker 2: if you're sixty one or two, and you want to
Speaker 2: make that gift now, and you're going to make it anyway, now,
Speaker 2: it's the time to do it, because by the time
Speaker 2: you get to penchionates, Chris, it is no longer assessed
Speaker 2: as an asset and that money has disappeared.
Speaker 11: Right, Okay, And is there any tax I'm gifting that money?
Speaker 12: Do I have?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 7: There's no tax on gifts. There's no tax for them,
Speaker 7: there's no tax for you.
Speaker 2: There's probably some capital gains on the sale and subdivision
Speaker 2: of that property, which you'll need to get some advice on,
Speaker 2: but all together a complex situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris, don't give Jim Charmers any ideas. He'd love
Speaker 1: to tax gifts, wouldn't he'd love to tax?
Speaker 7: Don't keep asking, no, no, no, Helen a gag on
Speaker 7: a minute, Why don't we tax gifts?
Speaker 3: It's good, isn't it?
Speaker 2: Imagine getting taxed on the little are your birthday cards?
Speaker 2: For your kids each year.
Speaker 1: That's right, ten dollars for the sun and twenty dollars
Speaker 1: for gym.
Speaker 3: Get stuffed. Well, you learn to pay tax early, that's true.
Speaker 1: One double three out of two. To talk to Jason
Speaker 1: will talk about helping your kids out into a home
Speaker 1: and if it's not a gift, there are some other options.
Speaker 1: Next with Jason Veatherby in the studios this afternoon, Pizza
Speaker 1: in Riverton needs a bit of help. Good afternoon, Good afternoon.
Speaker 14: Yes, I'm not really financially minded. I'm sixty six this
Speaker 14: year and I need to start thinking about my retirement options.
Speaker 14: And I'm just wondering what my first steps should really be.
Speaker 14: I've had a few different opinions from people I've been
Speaker 14: with a divine benefit from since nineteen eighty nine with
Speaker 14: local government. But yeah, I'm just sort of wondering where
Speaker 14: I should If I should go to the company, the companies,
Speaker 14: the two companies that I'm with initially, or go to
Speaker 14: a financial planner.
Speaker 2: I'm a bit It's a good question, and it's high
Speaker 2: time Peter to get some advice. No matter where you go, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you will get some I guess some decent information from
Speaker 2: the two funds that you're with, but not you know,
Speaker 2: particularly complicated or tailored, tailored advice. That's a better word,
Speaker 2: so tailored advice. So go and see your financial advisor.
Speaker 2: Go and see a couple and see what you think,
Speaker 2: get what, get an idea, what things cost and what
Speaker 2: you can do. I mean immediately when I hear sixty six,
Speaker 2: I think, well, you should have started a pension at
Speaker 2: sixty five, and are you still working? And if you're not,
Speaker 2: you define benefits probably converted to a like a cash
Speaker 2: type fund, and why is it doing that? So you're
Speaker 2: hie time. So you know, you do need to get
Speaker 2: some advice when you're sixty six. You want to be
Speaker 2: working out what you're going to need to spend in retirement.
Speaker 2: If there's any debt, pay it off, if you have
Speaker 2: super which you do, start an account based pension because
Speaker 2: it turns your tax rate from fifteen percent on earnings
Speaker 2: to zero. All those types of things need to be considered, all.
Speaker 1: Right, speak, Maybe you can give Jason a call off
Speaker 1: Air six to eight five one two three four. I
Speaker 1: said it not.
Speaker 7: Jason after Simon is he called I don't have a
Speaker 7: looks he called you yet?
Speaker 15: No?
Speaker 7: No, still still know it's.
Speaker 1: Been a week and the phone hasn't called sixty eight
Speaker 1: five one two three four. If you want to call
Speaker 1: Jason Winnies not here between one point thirty and two
Speaker 1: o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon on six PR Brian get a.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Ilian, Jason. Yeah. Look, I've self employed and I've
Speaker 16: had a life insurance policy and I've been paying quite
Speaker 16: a few years and the policy is starting to add up,
Speaker 16: and I'm just looking for advice and whether the pros
Speaker 16: and cons of ensuring through my superfund.
Speaker 7: Well, I guess the pro Brian is that the super
Speaker 7: fund pays for it.
Speaker 2: You don't pay for it personally, which is cool, and
Speaker 2: which is why a lot of people do take out
Speaker 2: those life insurance policies in Super.
Speaker 7: Initially.
Speaker 2: The other thing that super has going for it when
Speaker 2: it owns your life insurance is that it can claim
Speaker 2: a tax reduction for the premiums. It will be it
Speaker 2: at fifteen percent, but it is a fifteen percent discount,
Speaker 2: so it's often a good idea to hold it in
Speaker 2: Super for that purpose. Anyway, Ultimately, if you did leave us,
Speaker 2: then the money would end up in the hands of
Speaker 2: your dependence, tax free anyway, So that bit's okay.
Speaker 3: In terms of do you need it and you're paying
Speaker 3: for it?
Speaker 2: And insurance does get expensive, and over time the need
Speaker 2: for insurance does diminish. The kids get older, the debt reduces,
Speaker 2: your other assets are that your own increase in value?
Speaker 2: So again, just worth getting it looked at every year
Speaker 2: or two to see, well do I really need this?
Speaker 7: What would happen to my wife or family if I
Speaker 7: was to pass away?
Speaker 2: And if the answers, you know, they'd be sad for
Speaker 2: a little while, but financially they'd be okay.
Speaker 7: Then you probably don't need it anymore. You certainly don't
Speaker 7: need as much.
Speaker 1: Got on your Brian thanks to the call one double
Speaker 1: three added each of your questions to Jason Featherbee. Let's
Speaker 1: go back to talking about helping the kids into a
Speaker 1: home and what you need to consider. The gift option
Speaker 1: was mentioned.
Speaker 3: What about a loan?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I like the loan idea.
Speaker 2: I know it's a little bit more complicated, but a
Speaker 2: gift is gone. So I make a gift to my
Speaker 2: son or daughter they get into financial difficulty or they
Speaker 2: you know, they use it to buy a house, but
Speaker 2: then they sell the house and use it to buy ferrari,
Speaker 2: or they get into a bad relationship, that money that
Speaker 2: I've worked hard for, that I've gifted to them can disappear.
Speaker 7: So a loan sort of helps protect that little bit.
Speaker 2: So you lend that money instead of gifting it, and
Speaker 2: then in the event that's something untoward happens, you've got
Speaker 2: a documented loan that sort.
Speaker 7: Of you can claim that money back.
Speaker 2: It doesn't stop you from relending it to that same child,
Speaker 2: but it might just stop that money or a big
Speaker 2: chunk of it walking away with a lousy partner or
Speaker 2: someone they own money to.
Speaker 1: What about an interest rate to your child or you
Speaker 1: let that one go.
Speaker 7: I think I'd let that one Okay, Yeah, you can
Speaker 7: have a no interest loan. You can even have a gift.
Speaker 7: I think that's it's called a contingent gift that.
Speaker 1: Well, it includes like a prenup or something.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it sort of gets.
Speaker 2: Triggered on certain events, so bankruptcy or the divorce or
Speaker 2: the sale of that property that money gets, you're allowed
Speaker 2: to claim that money back. So I like the idea
Speaker 2: of having some sort of paperwork around a gift. If
Speaker 2: it's five or ten thousand dollars, probably not worth it.
Speaker 2: If it's two hundred thousand dollars, then yeah, protect your
Speaker 2: own money as well.
Speaker 1: What about being a guaranteel?
Speaker 3: No, I don't last resort for me.
Speaker 2: You know, it is another way to help, but you're
Speaker 2: on the hook for the debt that you're kids have
Speaker 2: and before you go guarante or you need to understand that.
Speaker 2: And you don't want their own financial distress causing your
Speaker 2: you distress in retirement.
Speaker 7: So guarantee for me not a great idea.
Speaker 2: And if you're going to go down that path to
Speaker 2: get some advice with your kids, yeah, go and sit
Speaker 2: down with them with an advisor and say, well, what
Speaker 2: position are they in? Are they stable, do they have
Speaker 2: income protection insurance? What sort of relationship are they in?
Speaker 2: Before you head down that path.
Speaker 1: Would you prefer to go and buy it together? Say
Speaker 1: son and father or mother and daughter.
Speaker 2: Or you see this a bit and I think it
Speaker 2: does help, but it can cause problems if you know,
Speaker 2: it's certainly a capital gains issue for the mum or dad.
Speaker 2: If the house or the property was ever sold, you
Speaker 2: might run into liquidit issues down the track and you
Speaker 2: want to sell, but the kids aren't in a position
Speaker 2: to or vice versa. Again, think twice before jumping in.
Speaker 1: Okay, anything else needs to be considered.
Speaker 3: No, not really.
Speaker 2: Just make sure that you are aware of your own
Speaker 2: financial situation. You understand why you're kids can't afford a house,
Speaker 2: and you make sure that they've got insurance, they've got wills.
Speaker 2: Everything's sort of tickty boo before you throw a heap
Speaker 2: of money at it.
Speaker 1: Are you having a big party next Monday night?
Speaker 7: When is it a first of July?
Speaker 15: Is it?
Speaker 1: Well, it's the thirtieth journe so into financially you're having
Speaker 1: a big party.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Look, I feel like it's been a particular I think
Speaker 2: in Perth. I don't know what you think, but we
Speaker 2: seem to be doing okay economically and there's a lot
Speaker 2: of people contributing extra money into souper this year, more
Speaker 2: so than from recent memory anyway than I can remember.
Speaker 7: All right, so it's pretty cool from a Western Australian
Speaker 7: point of view.
Speaker 1: See your next financial year, Yes, can't wait, look forward
Speaker 1: to it.
Speaker 15: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: The state government today has released some details for gps
Speaker 1: to be able to diagnose ADYHD and provide prescriptions. It's
Speaker 1: not available to every single GP, but is this a
Speaker 1: step in the right direction to help people who might
Speaker 1: be on a backlog confirm or otherwise an ADHD diagnosis
Speaker 1: one double three eight eighty two. Rummia Ramen is the
Speaker 1: Royal Australian College of GP's chair and she's the national
Speaker 1: Vice president. Good afternoon, Hello Alie, how are you? I'm
Speaker 1: all right? How are you today? Doctor?
Speaker 18: Well?
Speaker 19: Thank you?
Speaker 20: Well, thank you.
Speaker 1: Is this a good move that some gps will be
Speaker 1: able to diagnose ADHD and prescribe medication to cope with its.
Speaker 20: Certainly onlie on behalf of the ROCGP. This commitment is
Speaker 20: very welcome and it's fantastic to see this move from
Speaker 20: the WA government after many discussions and also the support
Speaker 20: that they have thrown for our patients to be able
Speaker 20: to access ADHD care. As a GP, we see a
Speaker 20: lot of these conditions in the community and at the
Speaker 20: current time, like right now GPS, when GP specialists are
Speaker 20: not able to diagnose ADHD and prescribing, there are a
Speaker 20: lot of restrictions around that. And this doesn't mean that
Speaker 20: everyone can do it, and not all gps will have
Speaker 20: the interest to do it either, But the idea of
Speaker 20: doing this training program and the support from the government
Speaker 20: for this training program is very welcomed because it means
Speaker 20: that GPS can get upskilled in this area. They can
Speaker 20: learn a little bit more with the online training modules
Speaker 20: as well as a period of co management and mentorship
Speaker 20: from IRACGP colleagues as well as non GP specialists like
Speaker 20: pediatricians and psychiatrists.
Speaker 1: So's the pediatricians in the psychiatrists at the moment who
Speaker 1: are able to diagnose ADHD.
Speaker 20: Doctor Ramin, Yes, currently patients. Current patients currently need to
Speaker 20: actually see a psychiatrist or a pediatrician to receive a
Speaker 20: diagnosis of ADHD. And certainly as a GP, I've got
Speaker 20: a lot of patients who've got the condition or who
Speaker 20: are currently in the waitlist for an assessment and a diagnosis.
Speaker 20: And what this means that if a GP takes up
Speaker 20: the training program and initially this support has come forward
Speaker 20: from the government for sixty five gps, it means that
Speaker 20: there are supports to upskill in that area learn more
Speaker 20: about it and also be able to refer to pediatricians
Speaker 20: and psychiatrists when they need arises or be able to
Speaker 20: do combined care, which goes a long way for patients
Speaker 20: being able to see their GP to access this off assessment.
Speaker 1: One double three. I did I tell you waiting for
Speaker 1: your child to get an ADHD assessment or maybe for yourself?
Speaker 1: And how long have you had to waits? One double
Speaker 1: three attity tas have been taking a while because we
Speaker 1: know some of the backlogs to see a pediatrician it
Speaker 1: can extend into two or three years these days after Rahmen, So.
Speaker 20: The program is the commitment has just come through, so
Speaker 20: that's really great. We need to get the balls rolling
Speaker 20: in terms of trying to get everything running so that
Speaker 20: we can meet the commitment of having a certain number
Speaker 20: of gps expected to be trained by the end of
Speaker 20: twenty twenty six. So it's not something that's going to
Speaker 20: turn around immediately, but it's certainly a step in the
Speaker 20: right direction and having the support from the government is
Speaker 20: very welcomed in this space so that we can support
Speaker 20: our patient.
Speaker 1: So you're looking for training up about sixty five gps.
Speaker 1: How are you going to be able to or who's
Speaker 1: going to be assessing who gets selected if say six
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty gps put up their hands.
Speaker 20: Yeah, So initially the key thing is I had already
Speaker 20: mentioned not all the gps would be interested in this
Speaker 20: space or you know, so it's about the initial number
Speaker 20: of GPS who put their hand up to get the
Speaker 20: wheels rolling, and we're confident that we would be able
Speaker 20: to review this program. The modules are developed by ORACGP,
Speaker 20: and we're working closely with other stakeholders in this space
Speaker 20: so that they have input into reviewing this and ensuring
Speaker 20: that appropriate training occurs as well.
Speaker 1: And that training is going to take as you said,
Speaker 1: up until the end of twenty twenty six. That's obviously
Speaker 1: some quite detailed training. It's not like you're just going
Speaker 1: to sit down to a course for five minutes and
Speaker 1: you can do it.
Speaker 20: No, So the key thing is, you know, we've as GPS,
Speaker 20: we've done a medical degree and then we hold a
Speaker 20: fellowship in general practice and we are practicing in the community.
Speaker 20: But this is certainly an area that we want to
Speaker 20: ensure that quality care is delivered to patients. It's got
Speaker 20: to be the right care and to ensure that we
Speaker 20: need to make sure that the appropriate training is there
Speaker 20: and being able to understand what differential diagnosis means, so
Speaker 20: if there are other comorbid conditions, then we may need
Speaker 20: to be involving a pediatrician or psychiatrist very early on
Speaker 20: in their care, and as GPS, we've trained to do that.
Speaker 20: So all of that is embedded in this so that
Speaker 20: the right care and the right diagnosis and treatment can
Speaker 20: be offered for patients in conjunction with non GP specialists.
Speaker 1: WI has been at the forefront of this, haven't we
Speaker 1: for a little while. We're a little bit more forward
Speaker 1: looking than some of the other states and territories, Doctor Rabin,
Speaker 1: We have been, and.
Speaker 20: That's been really great because you know, I'm just really
Speaker 20: pleased that we're actually leading the work and we're leading
Speaker 20: the work from the RCGPWA in this space. So this
Speaker 20: is good news. It's actually the nation first to announce
Speaker 20: the training program and the support for the training program
Speaker 20: as well, so we're hoping that other states are potentially
Speaker 20: going to be considering this with regards to our su
Speaker 20: GP offering that training in other states.
Speaker 1: Questions just come through from Cameron. He says it sounds
Speaker 1: like there's a large increase of people being diagnosed with
Speaker 1: ADHD ADHD Doctor Rahman, is it because it's becoming financially
Speaker 1: beneficial to do this? Is it erowt what's going on?
Speaker 1: He wants to know.
Speaker 19: So.
Speaker 20: ADHD is a type of condition which falls under the
Speaker 20: category of neurodiversity. Neurodivers conditions tend to affect people in
Speaker 20: their day to day living, and we have come to
Speaker 20: know more and more about it, and you know, there
Speaker 20: are still some questions about, you know, diagnosis and what
Speaker 20: are some of the other comorbid conditions and hence the
Speaker 20: wrap around care that we are doing to ensure that
Speaker 20: there is a training program ensued with this particular condition.
Speaker 20: So certainly there is more information and more knowledge about it,
Speaker 20: not just amongst medical professionals, but also amongst patients. So
Speaker 20: diagnosis in itself is quite complex, so it's not something
Speaker 20: that would occur immediately with a GP as well who
Speaker 20: has done the training program. The consultations are going to
Speaker 20: be much longer than a regular GP consultation to ensure
Speaker 20: that appropriate steps are taken. Are they more diagnoses being made?
Speaker 20: Certainly there's more information about it. We hear a lot
Speaker 20: more about it. It would be hard to just say
Speaker 20: that there are more diagnoses per se.
Speaker 1: Being made interesting doctor Rahma, I really appreciate your time today.
Speaker 20: Thank you, thank you, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: My pleasure Royal Australian College of GP's whair. She's also
Speaker 1: the national vice president. Have you been waiting or maybe
Speaker 1: your child has been waiting for an ad HD assessments?
Speaker 1: And how long did that take? Is it taking one
Speaker 1: double three a totty two? I know we covered earlier
Speaker 1: in this year on the program of a Firth family
Speaker 1: who had to fly over the Eastern States to get
Speaker 1: an appointment there with a pediatrician for that exact reason
Speaker 1: to go and get a diagnosis. The delay there was
Speaker 1: about six months and here though I told it was
Speaker 1: going to take up to two and a half three years.
Speaker 1: But are you waiting for your child to get an
Speaker 1: ADHD assessment? Maybe you've had to wait a certain period
Speaker 1: of time to have that confirmation. How long does it
Speaker 1: take to get disappointments? And will now the appointments of
Speaker 1: about sixty five odd gps undertaking that further training. Will
Speaker 1: that alleviate the stress that is currently caused in the
Speaker 1: backlog and the waiting periods one double three A to
Speaker 1: two tea that reckons we all need to get off
Speaker 1: the grass because every child in the fifties, the sixties
Speaker 1: and the seventies had HDHD assume that's a little similar
Speaker 1: to ADHD. It's a great way for plenty of people
Speaker 1: to get on the ndis and they're massively over pay.
Speaker 1: There's so much money in it already. One double three
Speaker 1: eighty two. If you'd like to have you say, if
Speaker 1: you've been waiting for an assessment as a child of
Speaker 1: yours or maybe grandchild of yours been waiting for an assessment,
Speaker 1: how long have you been on the wait list, or
Speaker 1: maybe it took you a little while to get that appointments?
Speaker 1: Will this help? One double three atty two. Who are
Speaker 1: you waiting for ADHD assessments? And how long have you
Speaker 1: been waiting or maybe it's taking you a little while
Speaker 1: to secure that particular appointments One double three at eighty two.
Speaker 1: David says, after waiting almost two years to get in
Speaker 1: the c a pediatrician for an ADHD diagnosis, we were
Speaker 1: charged eighteen hundred dollars for the initial consults. I was
Speaker 1: so angry, Oli, but what can you do? It is
Speaker 1: just price gouging based on supply and demands. Will that
Speaker 1: come down? With the sixty five specialist g GPS to
Speaker 1: be trained up in diagnosing ADHD, will this help? Will
Speaker 1: it bring down those prices? And would you be happy
Speaker 1: to go and see a specialist GP instead of the
Speaker 1: pediatrician or the psychiatrist to make that assessment that evaluation
Speaker 1: one double three eight eighty two. Brian says, it's very
Speaker 1: interesting Olie Roger Cook's father, doctor Hugh Cook, established the
Speaker 1: Royal College of GPS in Wa did he that's from
Speaker 1: Brian in leaving he's worked alongside Dr Cook. Yes, he
Speaker 1: was the head of the child psychiatric unit. Wasn't he
Speaker 1: a Princess Margaret Hospital?
Speaker 3: Dr Cook?
Speaker 1: That's a very little interesting link. Thank you for sharing, Brian.
Speaker 1: Steve of Kinross was advised some time ago now that
Speaker 1: it took his daughter seven years to be able to
Speaker 1: get grand or assessed and cost six thousand dollars up
Speaker 1: front six grand seven years going to get the grand
Speaker 1: daughter assessed. It's a long wait, isn't it. These are
Speaker 1: really important appointments in the development of a child's life
Speaker 1: because they might be trying to get disappointment at age four, five, six,
Speaker 1: seven and These are really crucial years as they're putting
Speaker 1: in the groundwork of their lives. So hopefully with an
Speaker 1: extra sixty five odd specialist GPS being able to provide
Speaker 1: an assessment or a diagnosis for eighty HD, it will help.
Speaker 1: Jeffer forest Field had to wait over twelve months for
Speaker 1: our son to be diagnosed for ADHD, Olie. How could
Speaker 1: the situation be left by the Department of Health for
Speaker 1: so long? Now there is such a shortage of specialist
Speaker 1: GPS allowed them to gourge enormously again, will the prices
Speaker 1: come down? Brian in Greenwood says it's a good move
Speaker 1: for GPS to cover ADHD. It's ridiculous to have to
Speaker 1: see a pediatrician to get a new prescription for a
Speaker 1: child already diagnosed. It's not like their ADHD just goes away.
Speaker 1: As for diagnosing it, if the GPS are trained right, well,
Speaker 1: then why nots and the first appointment over eight hundred bucks?
Speaker 1: He's the ADHD epidemic unique to Australia or is this
Speaker 1: becoming a worldwide phenomena. It does appear as though you
Speaker 1: hear about more and more people who have been diagnosed
Speaker 1: with ADHD, and not just children. A one double three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two. If you'd like to join the conversation,
Speaker 1: I would love to hear your voice. Twenty six after two.
Speaker 1: John Kerry, the Lands Minister, has been asked about the
Speaker 1: children's hospice in Nedlands during question time just a short
Speaker 1: time ago. He referred to an interview that I did
Speaker 1: with the City of Nedlands Mayor Fiona Argyle and he
Speaker 1: has not missed. The Honorable Mayor Fiona Argyle.
Speaker 21: I agree with the condemnation by In Campbell of the
Speaker 21: Nedlands Council and I have to say this, never have
Speaker 21: I seen a council conduct themselves with so little integrity.
Speaker 21: Are all common sense into such an important project? And
Speaker 21: if you have not heard the interview by Oli Peterson
Speaker 21: on six PR and his interview of the mayor, then
Speaker 21: I would encourage you because it is diabolically one of
Speaker 21: the worst responses or public responses I've seen of an
Speaker 21: elected official on such a serious matter. And I do
Speaker 21: want to say this Mayor Fiona Argol talked about and
Speaker 21: this is about a hospice, not a community fair. She said,
Speaker 21: the Mayal dog is going to come in. Hopefully we
Speaker 21: can get invited to the opening. I'm going to deflee
Speaker 21: him and wash him.
Speaker 8: Now, just how.
Speaker 21: Flippant about a hospice. And this is why I bring
Speaker 21: this question. The mayor should be condemned. If she had
Speaker 21: any honor integrity, she would resign her conduct and the
Speaker 21: conduct of that council for this whole process has been bizarre, outrageous,
Speaker 21: but ultimately a demonstration of their integrity that they did
Speaker 21: not approach this seriously with what the outcome was intended.
Speaker 1: There is the Lands Minister John Carey be indicating that
Speaker 1: Fyoda Argall, the Mayor of Nedlands, should resign one double
Speaker 1: three p. Eight eighty two. That was in question Time
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. Today, Jodie reckons it seems that
Speaker 1: something like fifty or sixty percent of parents are now
Speaker 1: assuming their child has got something wrong with them. They're
Speaker 1: determined to find out what it is, rather than just
Speaker 1: accepting that some kids actually focus better than others, and
Speaker 1: that some do better in school than others than some
Speaker 1: go off and do trades or someone else is good
Speaker 1: at academic work. It is an absolute pile of rubbish
Speaker 1: oie that all of these children need assessing ford HD.
Speaker 1: For goodness sake, people need to let their kids be kids.
Speaker 1: George wonders if since the COVID years there have been
Speaker 1: more people who have been diagnosed with adhds, So maybe
Speaker 1: you got George and Jodia touching on. There is a
Speaker 1: little bit of pressure from mum and dad that if
Speaker 1: you sound on your daughter struggles to concentrate a little,
Speaker 1: that if you sound all, your daughter is maybe not
Speaker 1: as bright as the person that they might sit next
Speaker 1: to in class. That you want to know what's wrong.
Speaker 1: Maybe just maybe that's who your son of your daughter
Speaker 1: is well one double three I do at E two
Speaker 1: if you'd like to have your say. Sherry Lee Biggs,
Speaker 1: how are we looking out there? Good afternoon, Ollie.
Speaker 22: It is looking stunning and we have a string of
Speaker 22: days like this ahead of us now. It was pretty
Speaker 22: chilly this morning, even cooler than it was yesterday. It
Speaker 22: got down to four point two if you were in
Speaker 22: or around Gandercotta got down to two point three degrees,
Speaker 22: so we are nearing those almost freezing points. Given that
Speaker 22: we're heading, we're very close to July, which is the
Speaker 22: coldest month of the year for us here in Perth.
Speaker 22: Beautiful days ahead, nice and sunny. We're heading for a
Speaker 22: top of twenty tomorrow, a couple of days of twenty one,
Speaker 22: and it looks like that cold front has pushed back
Speaker 22: a little bit, so we do have a nice clear weekend,
Speaker 22: a possible shower on Monday, and then we'll see have
Speaker 22: quite a wet day midweek next week, possibly up to
Speaker 22: fifteen millimeters in perfect is a little too early to
Speaker 22: tell exactly how much we can expect, but we'll keep
Speaker 22: a close eye on that system. But it means we
Speaker 22: won't make our July rainfall June rainfall. Sorry as we
Speaker 22: get into July, but we are pretty close, so it's
Speaker 22: not too bad this year.
Speaker 1: Ely good stuff, Shery Lee. We'll see you at four
Speaker 1: and six o'clock, Thank you very much. Nine News Weather
Speaker 1: presenter Sherry Lee big Zileen does not often agree with
Speaker 1: John Carey, but in this instance it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: with him regarding the conduct of the Netherlands Council and
Speaker 1: Mayor Fiona our goal, particularly in that conversation she had
Speaker 1: with you. Good to see his laser intensity focused positively
Speaker 1: to support the hospice. But Richard says, well, what's John
Speaker 1: Kerrey going to do about it? He's the minister, not
Speaker 1: a commentator. He is all talk one double three, eight
Speaker 1: to eighty two. If you want to talk to Yuko Ostowage.
Speaker 1: Mister main Roads has arrived in the building and he's
Speaker 1: about the voter into the studios to answer any and
Speaker 1: all of your questions about Perth's main roads network. Ac
Speaker 1: DC is coming back to Perth later this year, and
Speaker 1: yerko Ostoage, mister main Roads, you're up and about your.
Speaker 3: Pumps, absolutely mate. And that song, mate, it's just I
Speaker 3: don't know, it just energizes me. As soon as I
Speaker 3: hear it. I'm like, yeah, it's go time with Dollie.
Speaker 1: It is go time. Indeed, let's go to Rockingham because
Speaker 1: Craig needs a bit of help. He's first and foremost.
Speaker 19: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Jerko. I've got a question for you.
Speaker 19: The Myrie intersection of Normal Road crossing over Marmion Street.
Speaker 19: They've made it into a designated right hand turn on
Speaker 19: both sides entering the intersection, and I'm wondering what the
Speaker 19: reasoning was because it's caused more traffic jams there now
Speaker 19: than what there ever was, and it's just it seems
Speaker 19: to be a crazy decision. Any idea why they did that?
Speaker 3: Sorry, what direction are you going?
Speaker 19: You said, So you're on on Norma crossing over Marmion Street.
Speaker 19: So whether you're going north or south, each heading each way,
Speaker 19: there's a designated right and turn only lane.
Speaker 3: Now, yeah, not uncommon.
Speaker 23: When they're left open as it was so previously you
Speaker 23: would have had the left lane where you can go
Speaker 23: through and left, and the right lane where you can
Speaker 23: go through and right. What you've just described is that
Speaker 23: through is taken away from the right turn or the
Speaker 23: median lane. There are quite a lot of benefits to that.
Speaker 23: It means that people know what lane in what direction
Speaker 23: that car is going to take, obviously being constricted or restricted.
Speaker 3: To the right turn.
Speaker 23: It also allows for additional sight lines, so when the
Speaker 23: northbound and southbound person on normal road is actually approaching
Speaker 23: each other, they actually know that both of those vehicles
Speaker 23: are going to turn right. Therefore they only have to
Speaker 23: give way to one stream of oncoming traffic, so there's
Speaker 23: safety gains there. One small disk benefit might be that
Speaker 23: if a pedestrian is crossing north or north south on
Speaker 23: either the east or west side, there might be a
Speaker 23: slight delay in releasing that turning traffic. That's generally around
Speaker 23: three to six seconds, but there's certainly a lot of
Speaker 23: gains in terms of efficiency and safety.
Speaker 1: Thank you Craig for you call. Let's head to kilm
Speaker 1: Scott Barry.
Speaker 16: Good afternoon to you, Good afternoons.
Speaker 18: I was just asked him for a query on the
Speaker 18: junction at Armadale, the Safewash Highway Albany Highway junction there
Speaker 18: on it gets cluttered with all these road trains that
Speaker 18: go through there. I thought the road trains weren't allowed
Speaker 18: in the in the metro area. They go down there
Speaker 18: and they're they're fully loaded, so they struggle to take
Speaker 18: off at the traffic lights and there's a bit of
Speaker 18: an incline where they go and it's you're lucky to
Speaker 18: get one of them over.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 23: Look, I definitely appreciate. So there's a lot to unpack there.
Speaker 23: The first one being are they allowed, Yes, they are larger,
Speaker 23: larger vehicles or restricted access vehicles ravs.
Speaker 3: Are allowed on you'd pick up on them.
Speaker 23: They are allowed on certain parts of the network, and yes,
Speaker 23: you're dead right. They're they're fully ladened and they are
Speaker 23: very slow to accelerate. Tonkin Highway Extension will go some
Speaker 23: way to alleviating and moving some of those heavy movements
Speaker 23: from the intersection, but they are allowed to use it.
Speaker 23: But notwithstanding, they are permitted. Also, you know, the tonnage
Speaker 23: dependent on number of axles, et cetera. But I won't
Speaker 23: geek out on that too much.
Speaker 1: You geek out as much as you want. I love
Speaker 1: it when you geek out.
Speaker 3: There's a whole mapping system. I'm going to bring them
Speaker 3: in for listeners.
Speaker 23: You won't be able to see it, but a loossary
Speaker 23: of bringing the heavy vehicle configurations.
Speaker 3: There are so many it's just mind boggling.
Speaker 23: But I'm sure if you Google or just put it
Speaker 23: in your web browser heavy vehicle's main roads WA combinations,
Speaker 23: you should get a nice page of them. But I'll
Speaker 23: definitely bring them in for OLI next segment. You should
Speaker 23: set up a website yu co dot com. I was
Speaker 23: got to say, it's the main roads we just set up.
Speaker 1: You just set up here on the website with all this,
Speaker 1: you know, the glossary, the terms. You can go and
Speaker 1: get yourself a wheel that you know, measuring wheel, all
Speaker 1: those things.
Speaker 23: Which is hats I don't know, oli it it sounds
Speaker 23: like a seguey to Friday afternoon. You know, somewhere either
Speaker 23: before or after the pub talk. Maybe I don't know,
Speaker 23: yaking with Yerko.
Speaker 1: Yakking with Yurko. If Nick's ever away for the pub test,
Speaker 1: we could bring in yaking with Yuko. It's not a
Speaker 1: bad idea.
Speaker 3: It sounds like a plan.
Speaker 1: Now, John wanted to know when you were last here
Speaker 1: whether there were any plans in the pipeline to upgrade
Speaker 1: the intersection of welsh Pool Road East and Lewis Road.
Speaker 1: What can you tell John about this one, Yuko?
Speaker 23: Yeah, the City of Kalamanda has this intersection covered John,
Speaker 23: as they are progressing with detailed design for a roundabout
Speaker 23: in twenty twenty five twenty six, with anticipated service relocations
Speaker 23: in twenty six twenty seven and then construction of the
Speaker 23: roundabout in twenty seven twenty eight.
Speaker 3: But that is subject to funding.
Speaker 1: Let's head to Monster get a rick.
Speaker 12: Hey are you going?
Speaker 1: We good? Rekak and Yuko help you.
Speaker 24: I've got a couple of things, just wondering if if
Speaker 24: there's any expected start date to the Rally Road extension.
Speaker 25: Quanana Freeway to Rockingham.
Speaker 3: Road to start in twenty six twenty.
Speaker 25: Seven, twenty seven.
Speaker 11: All right, yeah, cool?
Speaker 24: And is there anything in the pipeline to upgrade Russell
Speaker 24: Road to a dual carriageway from Hammond Road to Rockingham Road.
Speaker 7: Well, it's that precincts, It's yeah.
Speaker 3: I can't. I just can't put my finger on exactly
Speaker 3: what's happening there. I'd need to sit down with.
Speaker 23: The team and go through it and have a bit
Speaker 23: more of a look at the map. I know there
Speaker 23: are LGA roads, but for some reason, I think it
Speaker 23: was connected with some heavy vehicle movements.
Speaker 3: But let me do some homework on that one.
Speaker 1: We'll come back to you Rick on that. Jody called
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks ago about congestion at the
Speaker 1: intersection of Nicholson Road and Rally Road. Do you council
Speaker 1: have any plans to upgrade this one?
Speaker 3: UK? Yes, Ollie. Good news for Jody and or users
Speaker 3: of these intersections.
Speaker 23: As a City of Armadel, in conjunction with the City
Speaker 23: of Serpentine Jaredale, have an approved twenty stage sorry a
Speaker 23: stage black spot project.
Speaker 3: To convert the existing t junctions to a roundabout.
Speaker 23: The project is currently at the eighty fifth percent design stage,
Speaker 23: with construction set to commit twenty five twenty six, So
Speaker 23: listeners keep an eye out for the upcoming works or
Speaker 23: reach out to Serpentine Jaredale for an update.
Speaker 1: Yes, and some good pictures included here where obviously things
Speaker 1: are going to happen here.
Speaker 23: Yeah, a bit of a stagger just to show you
Speaker 23: the actual intersection layout in case you wanted to pick
Speaker 23: up on those staggered teas. Maybe another one for I
Speaker 23: don't know, Yuko dot com dot au.
Speaker 1: It's a good idea. Steve's in thorn Lee, Good afternoon.
Speaker 18: How going guys?
Speaker 1: We good mate.
Speaker 26: I range a couple of things.
Speaker 10: I range it a month ago regarding Thornley Am an
Speaker 10: amount of traffic on it and how dangerous it.
Speaker 26: Is outside our house.
Speaker 10: We're opposite the park and once a fortnite there's an
Speaker 10: excellent and every couple of days there's so many near missers.
Speaker 10: It's got amount of traffic coming off Timwick Link into
Speaker 10: firmly now. I was told someone would contact me, but
Speaker 10: never unfortually, no.
Speaker 26: One ever contacted me. So that's one thing. And second
Speaker 26: I've got a place down down south in aunt Barker
Speaker 26: and the road Colviny Highway is of disgrace. It's so dangerous.
Speaker 26: I can understand why so many people will get killed on.
Speaker 10: That road because it's you know, there's potholes and there's.
Speaker 26: You know, depressions where the trucks have made the you
Speaker 26: know resources in the car.
Speaker 23: Yeah, look, Steve, we did investigate Thorn they have some
Speaker 23: time ago. This is ringing a bell. I'm not sure
Speaker 23: if you're you own a business and you reverse a
Speaker 23: trailer off Thorn the avenue and that's creating the issue
Speaker 23: because I could understand that that is quite difficult. I
Speaker 23: will reiterate, and I believe the main roads if even
Speaker 23: if it's not you, the main roads advice was at
Speaker 23: the time. You know, I only do it when safe
Speaker 23: to do so. But also that's under council's care and control.
Speaker 23: In relation to those potholes. Look, it happens every year
Speaker 23: when you know, you get a couple of heavy downpaurs,
Speaker 23: you know, the larger vehicles, they start to you know,
Speaker 23: start to compact that road.
Speaker 3: Yeap Olie's laughing at me.
Speaker 1: Well, no, I'm not just that there's been lots of
Speaker 1: potholes the last weeks. We've had so much rain and
Speaker 1: that's what happens.
Speaker 23: The beach then patting the sand, the water comes to
Speaker 23: the surface, it does that to the road. It goes
Speaker 23: in between you know, the compacted limestone or whatever's underneath
Speaker 23: and the actual seal itself, and it lives and as
Speaker 23: you know, the pothole gets bigger. I again, give us
Speaker 23: as much information as you can in terms of the
Speaker 23: road sections, crossroads where you know the worst sections are.
Speaker 3: Will try and prioritize those. Give us a call anytime
Speaker 3: you know twenty four seven one three one three eight, go.
Speaker 1: On your Steve. Good to hear from you there, mate, Jen.
Speaker 1: We'll get to you next if you want to talk
Speaker 1: to Yuko ostowitche mister main roads one double three at
Speaker 1: two with the yuko Ostowage today, Jen, Good afternoon.
Speaker 27: Good afternoon allie.
Speaker 1: How can Yuko help you?
Speaker 10: The lights on.
Speaker 27: Marmin and Rome Road, Melville, coming Fromon going towards through Mantle,
Speaker 27: there's always been an arrow there to turn right, but
Speaker 27: when there's no traffic coming, the arrow has gone off
Speaker 27: so that you can make a right turn. And now
Speaker 27: the arrow isn't going off even at eight o'clock, nine
Speaker 27: o'clock at night.
Speaker 23: Well, definitely sounds like a fault that arrow coming from
Speaker 23: a Rome Road, But that'll generally be held on red
Speaker 23: for a short period of time to enable pedestrians to cross.
Speaker 23: It might be the old chewing gum in the in
Speaker 23: the pedestrian button. Not sure, but let's get a crew
Speaker 23: down there to have a look at it.
Speaker 1: Good on your Jan, you coll provide an update in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. And when you see things like that,
Speaker 1: you know red arrow lights that don't change. Cole Main
Speaker 1: Roads twenty four seven one eight one three eight to
Speaker 1: report those faults. But Jan Yuko will have an answer
Speaker 1: for you in two weeks. Let's sad to KEILM Scott Hi.
Speaker 28: David Oi Oi, ohyko?
Speaker 1: Are we we good? Mate? How can you go help you?
Speaker 28: North north of say the airport, going north up north
Speaker 28: or south on Tonkin Highway? All the street lighting is
Speaker 28: that main roads?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 28: Yes? Why is it that? For the last eighteen months
Speaker 28: there's like one two kilometer stretchers of lights. It just
Speaker 28: don't work.
Speaker 1: This is coming up regularly at the moment on the
Speaker 1: main roads networking, Okay, what's going on?
Speaker 23: It's it's I just don't have a solution and if
Speaker 23: anyone does, please let us know. We've got covert surveillance
Speaker 23: out there. We've reached out to West Australia Police. It's
Speaker 23: very hard to basically catch these people that are.
Speaker 1: Still the theft.
Speaker 3: Still there, still the theft.
Speaker 1: It's just pinching it all the time everywhere.
Speaker 3: Rip open a bit, you know, I'm not sure, tied off.
Speaker 23: I don't know how they do it, pull it through,
Speaker 23: but somehow they're getting the copper and you know they're
Speaker 23: selling it.
Speaker 3: It's obviously profitable. But yeah, you can imagine the backlog big.
Speaker 23: Time, not only new works but existing work where you know,
Speaker 23: unfortunately listeners and road users they just don't have that
Speaker 23: added level of safety of the street lighting.
Speaker 3: Sorry, David.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we're hearing it more and more. Gabby called up
Speaker 1: last time you were here for an update on the
Speaker 1: Orange Highway.
Speaker 7: What can you tell them?
Speaker 23: Yeah, I got this one wrong, Gabby. I bundled it
Speaker 23: into the Gray Eastern Highway bypass project. So to clarify it,
Speaker 23: the Orange Route is actually known as the East Link Project,
Speaker 23: next to each other, but completely different names. It's a
Speaker 23: planned eighty kilometer stretch of road that will run from
Speaker 23: Read Highway through to northm update is. Over the past
Speaker 23: few years we've undertaken a large amount of planning and
Speaker 23: development for the project, including community and stakeholder engagement. The
Speaker 23: next steps include finalizing the design and initiating a land
Speaker 23: protection process for the land required outside of the existing
Speaker 23: road reserve, and then finally creating a business case for
Speaker 23: funding to enable construction.
Speaker 1: All right, little way to go in that one?
Speaker 25: Hey, Mark, nice, Aman James, Sorry.
Speaker 1: We're good Mark, How can you co help you?
Speaker 13: Okay, I'm the Kanana Freeway heading into the city. The
Speaker 13: illuminated lights over the freeway, there's a little sign that
Speaker 13: says when blank, you can travel at eighty kilometers an out.
Speaker 13: But the same ones on the Mitchell freewa are heading
Speaker 13: to the city say that when blank you can trouble.
Speaker 10: One hundred kilometers in how And it's gonny to know
Speaker 10: what was the difference.
Speaker 1: Because when the northern suburbs are bit of drivers than
Speaker 1: people in the southern suburbs, isn't it Yerko.
Speaker 3: I'm just not even going there, but.
Speaker 23: Listeners, maybe once I get off air you can just
Speaker 23: go to town on that statement. But my understanding is
Speaker 23: there's actually a breakdown lane for motorists coming southbound.
Speaker 3: So Mitchell Freeway has a breakdown lane.
Speaker 23: We don't actually have that for northbound so we kept
Speaker 23: it at eighty kilometers right, So basically a design constraint.
Speaker 23: That's why there's a lot of extra signage for those
Speaker 23: emergency stopping bays and obviously the lums, the lane use
Speaker 23: management signs that are overhead. That's I threw it out there.
Speaker 23: We're creating a list for you.
Speaker 7: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see it.
Speaker 7: It's for Christmas, when every road project in w A
Speaker 7: will be finished.
Speaker 3: Yes, but I'm not owning the year.
Speaker 23: So in all seriousness, that's my understanding in terms of
Speaker 23: that eighty but well spotted. I don't think there's many
Speaker 23: motorists that would have actually, you know, actually seen that.
Speaker 3: That's subtle difference. Very good, Mark, Very good, Mark.
Speaker 1: Keep your wits about you now. Jackson wanted to know
Speaker 1: whether you've got any plans to upgrade the intersection of
Speaker 1: Thomas Road and Johnson Street in Quanana last time you
Speaker 1: were here.
Speaker 23: No plans to upgrade, Jackson, but the delays you experienced
Speaker 23: may have been due to detective faults at the nearby
Speaker 23: Quanana Freeway and Thomas Road interchange. Johnson Street signals are
Speaker 23: coordinated with the interchange signals during peak periods so that faults,
Speaker 23: so faults at one location can impact the performance of
Speaker 23: another because of that miscommunication.
Speaker 1: Vicki's in q Dale, Good afternoon. How can you co
Speaker 1: help you?
Speaker 29: Yes, I live on Right Street between QO Young Road
Speaker 29: and Armadale Roads. There's a roundabout on each of those roads,
Speaker 29: but the traffic still flies along there like even a
Speaker 29: school bus. The other day, I reckon it must have
Speaker 29: been going eighty ks an hour, you know. So I'm
Speaker 29: just wondering if there's any speed bumps or anything that
Speaker 29: like that that may be put into space.
Speaker 23: Yeah, great question, Vicky, and Ali's going to love it
Speaker 23: because I'm going to geek out again those speed bumps
Speaker 23: or as we call them now, raise safety platforms.
Speaker 3: Peace Council Roads Council need to initiate it.
Speaker 23: But the great news is Main Roads has something called
Speaker 23: the Low Cost Urban Road Safety Program. Councils like to
Speaker 23: abbrevia that abbreviate that to LCURSP. It's fully funded by
Speaker 23: Main Roads. Local government have to undertake the initial initial
Speaker 23: community consultation and then pre and post measurements to see
Speaker 23: if speeds have.
Speaker 3: Been reduction reduced.
Speaker 23: Sorry, but one hundred percent funded by Main Roads, So
Speaker 23: Vicky get on to the City of Belmont and see
Speaker 23: if they've got any plans to use the low cost
Speaker 23: urban road safety program like that.
Speaker 1: Any roadworks we need to know about this fortnite, Yuko.
Speaker 23: They're sure is Oli night works at the intersection of
Speaker 23: Canning Highway and Queen Victoria Street are continuing with lane
Speaker 23: closures and reduce speeds in place between eight pm and
Speaker 23: five am until next Monday.
Speaker 3: Thirtieth of June.
Speaker 23: Tomorrow night, Mitchell Freeway southbound will be closed between Warwick
Speaker 23: Road and Read Highway from nine pm to four am.
Speaker 23: Warwick Road on ramp to Mitchell Southbound will also be
Speaker 23: closed from eight pm to four am.
Speaker 3: During the closure.
Speaker 23: Motorists can use Warwick Road to access Marmi and Avenue
Speaker 23: or Erindale Road to continue south and then reconnect with
Speaker 23: the Mitchell Freeway southbound via Reed Highway. And Lastly, listeners,
Speaker 23: if you are interested in finding out more on the
Speaker 23: Tonkin Highway extension project, we still have one further community
Speaker 23: information session at the Farmers' Markets at two Preston Street
Speaker 23: in Mundajong on Saturday, the fifth of July. We'll have
Speaker 23: the team they're ready to answer your questions between nine
Speaker 23: am and eleven as. For further on works or events
Speaker 23: that may impact your journey, please visit the travel map
Speaker 23: on the Main Roads website.
Speaker 1: And look out for Uko's blue clipboard. We'll see in
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks.
Speaker 3: See you.
Speaker 7: Then you're listening to Perth Live with Oliver Peterson on
Speaker 7: Perth six PR.
Speaker 1: Yeah, fast approaching. At the three o'clock news, Susan Lee,
Speaker 1: the Liberal leader, has just delivered today her first big speech.
Speaker 1: She said they got smashed, absolutely smashed at the federal election.
Speaker 1: Always a good hood hit out, always a bit of
Speaker 1: fun there with yukas stowage from Main Roads. And he'll
Speaker 1: be back with us again in two weeks, so I
Speaker 1: look forward to his return. We got a duel for
Speaker 1: Feld the daye hundred bucks up for grabs in the
Speaker 1: jackpot thanks to Deffar commercial, so we'll play that before
Speaker 1: five o'clock and of course at any stage right throughout
Speaker 1: the afternoon. If you're witness and breaking news or you've
Speaker 1: heard a whisper and you want to try and win
Speaker 1: yourself ten thousand dollars for WA assets. What is your
Speaker 1: word on the streets? Steve from Canning Mills says to
Speaker 1: be honest. Oli. The federal election campaign for me featured
Speaker 1: Albow parroting over and over again about his Medicare cards,
Speaker 1: saying that's all you need. It's rubbish. Also, the Libs
Speaker 1: nuclear cost six hundred billion rubbish, all this without declaring
Speaker 1: the cost of the renewable costs. Albow won't be easy
Speaker 1: under Alban easy. Well, what's the job now. Susan Lee,
Speaker 1: the new federal opposition leader and leader of the Liberal Party,
Speaker 1: has delivered her first major address since the Liberals were
Speaker 1: absolutely smashed at the federal election. This is a little
Speaker 1: of what she had to say to the National Press
Speaker 1: Club earlier today.
Speaker 30: So let's be honest and upfront about last month's election.
Speaker 30: We didn't just lose, we got smashed, totally smashed. What
Speaker 30: we as the Liberal Party presented to the Australian people
Speaker 30: was comprehensively rejected. The scale of that defeat, its size
Speaker 30: and significance, is not lost on me nor any one
Speaker 30: of my parliamentary team sitting here today. It was devastating
Speaker 30: for our parliamentary colleagues, our party members, our supporters and
Speaker 30: voters across the country. Over two elections, the Coalition has
Speaker 30: lost thirty three seats in the House of Representatives, We've
Speaker 30: lost eight seats in the Senate. Our primary vote has
Speaker 30: fallen by more than nine percent in the House, our
Speaker 30: two party preferred vote is down more than six percent,
Speaker 30: and we hold now just two of forty three inner
Speaker 30: Metro seats and seven of forty five Outer Metro seats.
Speaker 30: These numbers reflect a deep and growing disconnect.
Speaker 1: So what do you put down to that deep and
Speaker 1: growing disconnect between the Liberal Party and the Australian electorate?
Speaker 1: One double, three eight eighty two. Before that speech, Susan
Speaker 1: Lee performed an acknowledgment of country, which signals really a
Speaker 1: different tone, doesn't it for the Liberal Party, because that
Speaker 1: breaks the position from the former leader Peter Dutton. Now,
Speaker 1: mister Dutton moved away from recognition of the Aboriginal Australian
Speaker 1: community at public events. Susan Lee has embraced a different stance,
Speaker 1: and she said at the Press Club this morning, quite
Speaker 1: I'd like to begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of
Speaker 1: the land in which we meet today, and that decision
Speaker 1: to formally recognize Indigenous people at the high profile event.
Speaker 1: It draws a stark contrast to that of Peter Dutton
Speaker 1: because the former Opposition leader had repeatedly argued that welcomed
Speaker 1: a country and acknowledgment of country ceremonies had become overdone.
Speaker 1: And he also stated he would not stand in front
Speaker 1: of the Abort Digital and Torres Strait Islander flags if
Speaker 1: he was elected as Prime minister. Now, that position obviously
Speaker 1: attracted criticism as being emblematic of a cultural war approach
Speaker 1: that intensified under his leadership. But in that address, Susan
Speaker 1: Lee in decad of the Liberal Party would undergo a
Speaker 1: period of deep reflection after the wipeout last month, one
Speaker 1: double three eight eighty two, where is the disconnection that
Speaker 1: you would identify between the Liberal Party and the Australian electorate.
Speaker 1: And it's obvious that he three seats lost, as Susan
Speaker 1: Lee said, they're eight in the Senate. The primary wrote
Speaker 1: down nine percent, the two party vote down six percents.
Speaker 1: What can the Liberal Party do to once again woo
Speaker 1: the Australian electorate. You're like the moves being made already
Speaker 1: by Susan Lee a break from Peter Dutton by performing
Speaker 1: acknowledgement of country one double three eights eighty two. The
Speaker 1: talk back number.
Speaker 7: Let's talk.
Speaker 1: Twelve after three. While you're thinking about that. Police today
Speaker 1: have announced a half a million dollar reward in a
Speaker 1: bid to locate British backpacker Peter Falconio's body. The Northern
Speaker 1: Territory Police announced that this morning the reward for new
Speaker 1: information that leads the discovery of the remains. He was
Speaker 1: shot in the head. Peter Falconio on a remote stretch
Speaker 1: of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek, around three hundred
Speaker 1: kilometers north of Alice Springs back in July of two
Speaker 1: thousand and one. A twenty eight year old British backpacker
Speaker 1: at the time was traveling around Australia with his girlfriend
Speaker 1: joe Anne Lees. Bradley John Murdoch of course convicted of
Speaker 1: murdering mister Falconi in two thousand and five, but he's
Speaker 1: never revealed the location of his body. There's been plenty
Speaker 1: of police searchers and they've all failed to locate the remains.
Speaker 1: Murdoch was also convicted of the attempted kidnapp and as
Speaker 1: soldom his leees who managed to escape and hiding bush land,
Speaker 1: and he's currently serving a life sentence at the Alice
Speaker 1: Springs prison with a non parole period of twenty eight years.
Speaker 1: The Acting Commander Mark Greeb says the Northern Territory Police
Speaker 1: still hold out hope that someone could provide information that
Speaker 1: leads the discovery of mister Falconio's body.
Speaker 31: The body of Peter has never been located, despite continued
Speaker 31: efforts by the NT Police to do so by investigating
Speaker 31: any viable information or leads that have been received throughout
Speaker 31: the years since. The NT Police still hold out hope
Speaker 31: that someone may be able to provide some vital information
Speaker 31: to assist in this search, and as such, a fresh
Speaker 31: reward for information is now on offer of up to
Speaker 31: five hundred thousand dollars for information that leads to discovery
Speaker 31: of Peter's body. We've made numerous approaches to mister Murdoch
Speaker 31: over the years that have passed up until very recently
Speaker 31: being this week. Unfortunately, the outcome of those conversations rest
Speaker 31: with mister murder. On all occasions he's chosen not to
Speaker 31: positively engage with police.
Speaker 1: That he's Acting Commander Mark Greave of the Northern Territory
Speaker 1: Police Force let it a leaming mark. Where did it
Speaker 1: all go wrong for the Liberal Party at the federal election.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Olie.
Speaker 15: Personally, I mean I watched all three of the the
Speaker 15: leader's debates and it was one of those I thought
Speaker 15: Alban easy actually answering the questions he.
Speaker 9: Was supposed but but done.
Speaker 32: It felt like he was back in high school again
Speaker 32: with the bullying.
Speaker 15: Tactics and the talk down his opposition instead of actually
Speaker 15: talking about what his party was going to be keen
Speaker 15: and keep doing. And quite frankly, if politics can't be
Speaker 15: solved by actually saying what your policy is, how you're
Speaker 15: going to enforce it, and how you're going to make
Speaker 15: it all happen, and you just resort to literal high school,
Speaker 15: primary school tactics, just try and get your way, then
Speaker 15: no brain of.
Speaker 1: So Mark for you. It was about the negativity, about
Speaker 1: the criticism of the government as opposed to putting out
Speaker 1: an alternative plan and policies and to try and worthy
Speaker 1: Australian people with some new ideas.
Speaker 9: Exactly exactly the Elie.
Speaker 1: Thank you mate, appreciate your call. Where do you think
Speaker 1: it all went wrong for the Liberal Party? Susan Lee
Speaker 1: in her first major addresses the new opposition leader, indicating
Speaker 1: there will be a period now of deep reflection and
Speaker 1: not sugar coating the results that the opposition achieved last month.
Speaker 1: Obi says, I find it amazing that Yuko Ostowitch, the
Speaker 1: representative from Main Roads, comes onto your program every other week,
Speaker 1: and when he's asked about projects, there's always years of
Speaker 1: planning and consultation being undertaken. When you look at the
Speaker 1: Burswood motor racing circuit, the Premier and deputy Premier come
Speaker 1: out and make an election announcement and it is all
Speaker 1: go with very little planning and with no prior consultation.
Speaker 1: I find it shameful, says Obi. And the Save Burswood
Speaker 1: Park Alliance today argue eighty five percent of people oppose
Speaker 1: what is being planned for Burswood Park. Would you agree
Speaker 1: with the Burzwood Park Alliance? What do you think those
Speaker 1: figures might be a little inflated? One double three eighty two.
Speaker 1: George Wrights. The reason Albou was reelected was because he
Speaker 1: told porky pies to the voters over and over again.
Speaker 1: Voters believed him. Remember that power prices were coming down
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy five dollars and this indicates the
Speaker 1: lives are completely bankrupt of any fresh thinking and talent.
Speaker 1: Australians are fed up with the culture wars launched by
Speaker 1: the Liberal Party. It's time they grew up and they
Speaker 1: started representing the people, and Kyle says policies that are
Speaker 1: legitimate and immediate, not thirty years away, tangible and affordable,
Speaker 1: policies that actually have a positive effect on society. Three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two the talkback number. It is seventeen after three.
Speaker 1: WA's anti corruption watchdog, the Corruption and Crime Commission, has
Speaker 1: launched an investigation into how the floriate killer Mark Bombarrow
Speaker 1: was able to own thirteen guns. There's a review now
Speaker 1: into whether there was police misconducts. A report was tabled
Speaker 1: to the Parliament a little earlier today, and the Triple
Speaker 1: C said it's actively reviewed the police's internal investigation into
Speaker 1: the deaths of Jennifer and Gretel Back in May twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, finding the probe was impartial following an allegation
Speaker 1: officers had failed to assess Bombara's suitability to hold a
Speaker 1: firearms license. The Triple C has advised WA Police that
Speaker 1: it would review an investigation into gun ownership. It's told
Speaker 1: that the matter would be included in the one report
Speaker 1: Police Commissioner Cole Blanche has held a price conference just
Speaker 1: outside the police headquarters about ninety minutes ago.
Speaker 33: Now, firstly, can I thank the Triple C. Their job
Speaker 33: is to have an oversight function of WA Police, and
Speaker 33: the report does state that our investigation, our internal investigation,
Speaker 33: has been found to be impartial and reasonable. Their investigation
Speaker 33: of the improper or the firearms licensing issues is probably
Speaker 33: a question for the Triple C. We will obviously support
Speaker 33: them as best we can through the investigation's actually four
Speaker 33: reviews with an overarching statement, particularly for the coroner. So
Speaker 33: there's the coronial inquest investigation as we would ordinarily do
Speaker 33: the circumstances leading to the three deaths. There is an
Speaker 33: internal investigation which I have already released publicly. There is
Speaker 33: an investigation into what's called the death in police presence
Speaker 33: that was a suicide by Mark Bombarra as police were
Speaker 33: arriving at the premises, which is part of our process
Speaker 33: that we must do. And there is also an investigation
Speaker 33: that WA Police have conducted and are conducting into the
Speaker 33: circumstances of Mark boon Barro's firearms license for some forty
Speaker 33: four years. So there are four investigations and each one
Speaker 33: will be provided.
Speaker 1: To the company that is cole Blanche. Speaking to the
Speaker 1: media a little bit earlier this afternoon, Dave writes Oli
Speaker 1: Albo is good at saying whatever people want to hear.
Speaker 1: We saw all of this in the election and he's
Speaker 1: hoodwinked the younger voters, which predominantly live in city areas.
Speaker 1: They're so easy to greenwash with wonderful ideas that don't
Speaker 1: even make much sense. That is what happened. He also
Speaker 1: wants wa to dig up things so Australia gets money back.
Speaker 1: It's a scam for the Labor Party and may all
Speaker 1: have to fall into line. Russ reckons that Susan Penelope
Speaker 1: is totally wrong direction for the Liberals. She might as
Speaker 1: well just join the Labor Party. She's way too far
Speaker 1: to the left and the Libs definitely need better election advisors.
Speaker 3: So what do they do?
Speaker 1: Where's it all gone wrong? Where was the disconnect? Spoken
Speaker 1: about by Susan Lee at the Press Club in Canberra today?
Speaker 1: One double three eight eighty two the talkback number. We'll
Speaker 1: hear from the Treasurer Jim Chalmers on today's inflation figures.
Speaker 1: He just a moment great, have you a company humph
Speaker 1: Day Wednesday here on six PR If you'd like to
Speaker 1: join the conversation, I'd love to hear your voice one
Speaker 1: double three eight eighty two. Sam from Saint James believes
Speaker 1: Susan Lee is moving the Liberal Party further to the
Speaker 1: left and it will result in further poor results for
Speaker 1: the Libs. The party needs to look at what Trump
Speaker 1: and the Reform Party in the UK are doing. It
Speaker 1: is simple, low or no immigration, stop overseas citizens from
Speaker 1: owning Australian and houses, to address the housing crisis, a
Speaker 1: baby bonus or tax relief for couples to have three
Speaker 1: or more kids, incentives to bring manufacturing back to Australia
Speaker 1: and reform the ndis to address fraud. Now, that would
Speaker 1: be a start and be a distinct difference with the
Speaker 1: other political parties. Just like in the United States and
Speaker 1: the United Kingdom, there is a silent majority in Australia
Speaker 1: who want change. Great cho alie, says Sam from Saint James.
Speaker 1: So he's just articulated a few ideas for the Liberal Party,
Speaker 1: which Susan Lee confirms has been smashed, and he's disconnected
Speaker 1: from the Australian electorre Do you think Sam's on the
Speaker 1: money by cutting migration numbers banning overseas buyers from purchasing
Speaker 1: Australian properties as a start, or is there more the
Speaker 1: Liberal Party sh do to woo back voters one double
Speaker 1: three eight eighty two. Stuart reckons they've become very arrogant,
Speaker 1: the Liberals, both in the state and the federal elections,
Speaker 1: and that's why he didn't vote for them. I didn't
Speaker 1: hear all the conversation, but my thoughts are that very
Speaker 1: traditional Liberal voters are looking for an alternative because their
Speaker 1: policies were weak and just playing tipfits out with Labor,
Speaker 1: who got a lot of votes by defaults the Libs
Speaker 1: have amounted to climb and going extreme right wing would
Speaker 1: not be the answer. And I was arrested on LMP
Speaker 1: voter oli until Scott Morrison sold us out with COVID
Speaker 1: and he backed mart McGowan and the rest of the
Speaker 1: state premier crooks in their baseless tyranny. That was a
Speaker 1: clear overreach of governments. I'd already sworn I would never
Speaker 1: vote for them again, and I won't, but putting Susan
Speaker 1: Lee in place will be the death of the party.
Speaker 1: In good riddance, these people betrayed their base. They'll now pay.
Speaker 1: The Labor Party will hang themselves too eventually, as people
Speaker 1: realize are no longer serving the public but are mostly
Speaker 1: lining their own pockets and artificially propping up the economy
Speaker 1: with immigration. I hope we can survive them. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: I've lost all respect for any of them, and I'm
Speaker 1: cleaning not alone one double three, eight eighty two. Where's
Speaker 1: it all gone wrong for the Libs? And what else
Speaker 1: could be done to woo back Australian voters twenty seven
Speaker 1: after three. Inflation is eased back more than expected last month,
Speaker 1: with consumer prices rising two point one percent over the
Speaker 1: year to May, and that's down from two point four
Speaker 1: percents in April. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics,
Speaker 1: the monthly consumer price index was at its lowest levels
Speaker 1: since October twenty twenty four. And it's all down to
Speaker 1: the good work of Jim Charmers. That's what the Treasurer
Speaker 1: would like to claim, and tried to do so a
Speaker 1: bit earlier.
Speaker 34: This is the lowest that inflation has been four years.
Speaker 34: It's the lowest headline inflation since the beginning of twenty
Speaker 34: twenty one. It's the lowest underlying inflation since the end
Speaker 34: of twenty twenty one, and also means, for the first
Speaker 34: time since these monthly records have been kept that we
Speaker 34: have seen six consecutive months now of inflation within the
Speaker 34: Reserve Bank's target range. This means that the progress we're
Speaker 34: making together on inflation is substantial, and it means that
Speaker 34: it's sustained and these are very welcome developments. These numbers
Speaker 34: today are very encouraging because they illustrate the progress that
Speaker 34: Australians have made together when it comes to getting on
Speaker 34: top of this inflation challenge that we have had in
Speaker 34: our economy for some time now.
Speaker 1: Jim Charmer's the Federal Treasurer, none those inflation figures a
Speaker 1: liarlier today. Do you feel as though things have started
Speaker 1: to call with what you need to pay for what
Speaker 1: you buying? Do you feel as though inflations starting to
Speaker 1: get back into the bottle? One? Double three eight eighty two.
Speaker 1: May that mean there'll be an interest rate cut again
Speaker 1: in July? Because more of the major banks, including the Commonwealth,
Speaker 1: today indicating that is its belief that the Reserve Bank
Speaker 1: will meet next month to consider interest rates in fact,
Speaker 1: it's in about two weeks now. While food and non
Speaker 1: alcoholic beverages are the biggest contributed to the headline CPI,
Speaker 1: they rose two point nine percent over the year, down
Speaker 1: three point one percent in April. Fruit and veggiees two
Speaker 1: point eight percent of the year, so may down significantly
Speaker 1: the six point one percent recorded a month earlier. While
Speaker 1: fruit prices actually fell down last month two point seven percent.
Speaker 1: The lower prices for mandarins, oranges, avocados and apples. Go
Speaker 1: a mandarin right now? One double three, eight eighty two.
Speaker 1: Do you feel as though the price of fruit he's
Speaker 1: starting to fall? There is no Money News preview this
Speaker 1: afternoon with deb Night, but she will join you at
Speaker 1: seven o'clock as she does Monday to Wednesday. Right here
Speaker 1: on at six pr Cameron reckons that Jim Chalmers likes
Speaker 1: to talk when things go well, but isn't it strange
Speaker 1: that he doesn't talk about the very low productivity in
Speaker 1: Australia which seems to be causing the demands being made
Speaker 1: there by the unions. Robin wants to know if we
Speaker 1: need a reform party like we do in the UK.
Speaker 1: Do we need a true conservative party? Is that what
Speaker 1: the Liberals should be Is that who the Liberals should
Speaker 1: be representing? Because I think Susan Lee wants to take
Speaker 1: it in a bit of a different direction. And Eddie says,
Speaker 1: if those voters want left wing parties to vote for,
Speaker 1: then we're spoilt for choice. The Libs need to offer
Speaker 1: a strong, fearless conservative alternative rather than becoming labor lights.
Speaker 1: Greg says having more women and are welcome to country
Speaker 1: ceremony will not get them re elected. Only good policies
Speaker 1: that are different from government will do that, and they
Speaker 1: need a strong leader, which unfortunately Susan is not one
Speaker 1: double three eight eighty two. If you'd like to have
Speaker 1: your say, you're going to meet Bell in a moment
Speaker 1: from Beauty and the Beast, Jody wants to know how
Speaker 1: would you get people in and out of Burswood to
Speaker 1: watch a car race. It's chaos getting in and out
Speaker 1: of that Cassento set up. What do they think they're
Speaker 1: going to do when there's a car race on fly
Speaker 1: everyone in in helicopters. It's ridiculous. The course should be
Speaker 1: built well out of the city area. We get sixty
Speaker 1: thousand people into the stadium, same area, so I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'll just walk across the Mattagarrett Bridge, or maybe use
Speaker 1: the buses that come in, or maybe use the train
Speaker 1: station that's nearby, or walk up the Crown and get
Speaker 1: in and out of that way. Already do it, don't.
Speaker 1: We don't think we're going to have that many more people?
Speaker 1: Would we bound around the race course when it's constructed.
Speaker 1: Tom in Chili chittering likey I said it that way said,
Speaker 1: except for maybe the Nationals, all the other major parties
Speaker 1: are hopeless. The best policies. Don't worry and be happy.
Speaker 1: Why waste mental energy now on our pollyes Greg agrees,
Speaker 1: we don't want labor light. If Susan Lee thinks that
Speaker 1: she's the answer, she's wrong. My vote's going to go
Speaker 1: to one nation and we will need Andrew Hasty as
Speaker 1: the leader. So as Andrew Hasty need to break away
Speaker 1: and form some sort of reform party like you had
Speaker 1: over there in the UK. Kyle says, what if all
Speaker 1: the primary producers such as gas, oil, mineral stockpiled for
Speaker 1: a year, the whole world will be busting down our
Speaker 1: door next year and happy to pay double Set it up, Holly,
Speaker 1: because we will cope and Patrick grickins at. Susan Lee's
Speaker 1: speech suggests she wants to rebrand the Liberals as labor
Speaker 1: b Everything she says she wants is already available with Labours,
Speaker 1: so it offers no alternative to the lift, and she
Speaker 1: is guaranteed that she will never be the Prime Minister herself.
Speaker 1: That's a bit of feedback from Patrick one double three
Speaker 1: add two. If you'd like to have your say, I'd
Speaker 1: love to hear from you at twenty three two four.
Speaker 3: B oh, guest, be our guest, put our service to
Speaker 3: the test.
Speaker 35: Tie your napkin around your next sherry and we provide
Speaker 35: the rest soup.
Speaker 1: Do you a hot order?
Speaker 3: Why we only live to serve? Try the gray stuff.
Speaker 8: It's delicious.
Speaker 26: Don't believe me.
Speaker 3: Ask the dishes.
Speaker 8: They can't seen that they can dance.
Speaker 16: After all, Miss, this is friends and at dinner here
Speaker 16: is never a second best.
Speaker 3: Go on and fold your man. You'll take a glance
Speaker 3: and then you'll be our guest. We are gest be
Speaker 3: our girls.
Speaker 1: Well, we are spoiled for choice. We get some of
Speaker 1: the best musicals in the world coming to Perth and
Speaker 1: starting in just over one month's time, is the Fabulous
Speaker 1: Beauty and the Beast of course by Disney, and I
Speaker 1: please to say joining me in the studio today is
Speaker 1: shub Sree Candia who plays Bell. Shubstree. It's lovely to
Speaker 1: meet you.
Speaker 36: Thank you, thank you so much for.
Speaker 1: Having me my pleasure. You have the best role in
Speaker 1: one of the best musicals of all time, I really do.
Speaker 36: It is such a much loved classic and it's just
Speaker 36: a beautiful role to play. I think she's a beautiful
Speaker 36: character and it's an honor to be in this production.
Speaker 1: You've been traveling Australia playing Bells. Perth the last stop
Speaker 1: on the national tour.
Speaker 36: It is the last Australian stop. So I think if
Speaker 36: you haven't seen the show and you've been wanting to,
Speaker 36: now's the time because it is the last place we
Speaker 36: will be.
Speaker 1: And it's good for you because you're back where you
Speaker 1: grew up in wa Yeah.
Speaker 36: I think you know it's been such a long wait
Speaker 36: to come here. The Perth tour was announced so long
Speaker 36: ago that it's like, oh, it's finally here. So yeah,
Speaker 36: I'm very much looking forward to it.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you are. You've been in Perth now for
Speaker 1: a little while on this stints and you had a
Speaker 1: little involvement with state of origin.
Speaker 36: Yes, I'm actually we're in Adelaide with the show at
Speaker 36: the moment, but it was really wonderful to kind of
Speaker 36: pop down to Perth just ahead of the actual tour
Speaker 36: and yeah, perform the national anthem for the origin.
Speaker 1: How's that when you get to that call, I've in
Speaker 1: front of sixty thousand people, adopt the stadium and I
Speaker 1: you've done it before. But what's that like seeing the
Speaker 1: national anthem in front of in front of a packed house?
Speaker 36: I mean, it's kind of one of those ones where
Speaker 36: you know, you're like, don't muck up the words to
Speaker 36: the national anthem. I think that's the biggest pressure. But
Speaker 36: it's I think, so different from performing on stage, you know,
Speaker 36: like the audience is very much there to watch the sport,
Speaker 36: and so different from like you know, now performances when
Speaker 36: they're very much there to watch us.
Speaker 1: I would imagine that you still think, is it we
Speaker 1: are one and free or we are young and free?
Speaker 1: Because we all grew up with it, you know, the
Speaker 1: old version of how it's one and free, And I
Speaker 1: think sometimes people say the wrong thing.
Speaker 36: I think so, but I really love the new version.
Speaker 36: I think that lyric change is great and it always
Speaker 36: sticks in.
Speaker 3: My Yeah, it is good. It is good.
Speaker 1: But you go from the extremes, right, you got a
Speaker 1: State of Origin rugby league crowd to performing Disney's Beauty
Speaker 1: in the Beast and some of the best theaters in
Speaker 1: Australia and you're gonna be doing that in Crown in
Speaker 1: a month's time. That's awesome. There's nothing quite like live
Speaker 1: musical theater. There really isn't.
Speaker 36: I think, you know why so many people keep coming
Speaker 36: back to the show, It's just because, you know, I
Speaker 36: think the nature of live theater is that it's different
Speaker 36: every day and we have you know, sometimes people with
Speaker 36: illness and we'll have a cover on and so like
Speaker 36: you always like there's a different version of the show
Speaker 36: every day, always saying true to like what it is.
Speaker 36: But I think that's the joy of watching something live.
Speaker 1: And you have a really talented cast that is performing
Speaker 1: with you in Disney's Beauty in the Beast. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: developing some good friendships along the way as well.
Speaker 19: Yeah.
Speaker 36: I mean it's been two years, so it's been a
Speaker 36: long time of kind of finding our rhythm with each other,
Speaker 36: and I think we have the most incredible cast. I
Speaker 36: remember from day dot thinking in the rehearsal room, Wow,
Speaker 36: they've really cast the best people for the roles in
Speaker 36: this so it's really an honor to be a part
Speaker 36: of it.
Speaker 1: Do you ever get sick of anybody you're with you're
Speaker 1: looking forward to a wrapping up set, I have to
Speaker 1: see them again for a little while.
Speaker 36: No, I think everybody's pretty great on this one.
Speaker 1: It's been a good time. Do you have any idiosyncrasies
Speaker 1: of your own that before a performance you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, put like your left shoe on before you
Speaker 1: right shoe or anything like that.
Speaker 36: Yes, I think there are like little things that I'm like,
Speaker 36: I have to do this now just because it's part
Speaker 36: of my plot. But I think that's also fun. You know,
Speaker 36: you have a little backstage things with the crew as well,
Speaker 36: like we'll high five before this particular scene, and you
Speaker 36: know that's all part of the fun.
Speaker 1: You attracted towards Disney productions, and I know you've been
Speaker 1: Cinderella on a couple of occasions. I believe she'll tree.
Speaker 36: Yes, that actually wasn't with Disney. That was a Rogers
Speaker 36: and Hammerstein's version of Cinderella. And then I did into
Speaker 36: the Woods as Cinderella as well. But my last Disney
Speaker 36: show was Aladdin and I played Princess Jasmine, and that
Speaker 36: was the last time I performed in Perth, so it's
Speaker 36: really nice to be back.
Speaker 1: Well do you prefer Bell or Princess Jasmine? You get
Speaker 1: some pretty good roles, I really do.
Speaker 36: I think they're both very different, and I've kind of
Speaker 36: loved being both of them, I think, and Aladdin it
Speaker 36: was a really lovely introduction to being a lead in
Speaker 36: a production because I think the responsibility of the show
Speaker 36: wasn't so much on me, you know. I was a lead,
Speaker 36: but very much a supporting lead, whereas this show I
Speaker 36: feel like I'm on stage pretty much the whole time,
Speaker 36: and it's hugely demanding.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny that we're talking today because yesterday afternoon
Speaker 1: my son had turned on the Disney streaming service and
Speaker 1: actually found the musical version of Frozen. Oh yeah, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the way that it's also now streaming,
Speaker 1: you go, hold on it, ma, this is like you're
Speaker 1: actually there. What was able to happen with what you're
Speaker 1: doing in the stage shows now music when there is
Speaker 1: nothing quite like live theater, but the difference between what
Speaker 1: is live theater or a musical versus what you might
Speaker 1: have seen in a movie. I mean, they're just as
Speaker 1: powerful as each other, and what you're able to do
Speaker 1: on a stage is incredible, It really is.
Speaker 36: I think also just growing up with that animated film,
Speaker 36: what I've kind of loved about this version of the
Speaker 36: show is the kind of incorporation of.
Speaker 29: Kind of.
Speaker 36: Animation in the in the show, which I haven't loved
Speaker 36: on any other show that I have seen or been
Speaker 36: a part of, but I think because there was the
Speaker 36: animated version, I think the incorporation of how they've done
Speaker 36: with this one is just really beautiful and it kind
Speaker 36: of is nostalgic in that way.
Speaker 1: That's a beautiful music score, Beauty and the Beast. You
Speaker 1: must be just the hairs on the back of your
Speaker 1: neck must be standing out when you're singing some of
Speaker 1: those absolute classics there. It really is.
Speaker 36: And I think, you know, it's always special to have
Speaker 36: a different orchestra in each city, so like I cannot
Speaker 36: wait to hear our Perth orchestra play that music.
Speaker 1: Gee, it's exciting, all right. If you want to get tickets,
Speaker 1: head along to Beautyanthebeast musical dot com dot au first
Speaker 1: performance here in Perth is in just a month's time, Thursday,
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth of July. I bet you can't wait
Speaker 1: to get your feet back on the ground here in Perth.
Speaker 1: Is there anywhere when you're a return to Perth that
Speaker 1: you must visit? Is there some place or a particular
Speaker 1: cafe or restaurant that you go I must go to
Speaker 1: when I'm back in Perth.
Speaker 36: I think I haven't lived here for such a long time,
Speaker 36: so much is new to me, so I really just
Speaker 36: can't wait to explore again.
Speaker 1: Well, fair enough, get up to King's Park and get
Speaker 1: out to codders Low Beach and just enjoy the fresh
Speaker 1: air of Western Australia. It's so good to have you
Speaker 1: in the studio. Is today good luck?
Speaker 12: Thank you.
Speaker 1: We'll go off to the UK in just to chick with.
Speaker 1: End of Brady Lancelin needs a racetrack Ollie on the
Speaker 1: foreshore to stop the erosion, and to say the Lanceln
Speaker 1: Hotel Ollie. It may be a spurious comparison, but perhaps
Speaker 1: the Libs could take a look at the disaster of
Speaker 1: the Conservatives in the UK. You've been and learned from
Speaker 1: their mistakes. They've had at least three leaders since Boris
Speaker 1: and from what I hear, they have all been very,
Speaker 1: very ineffective. We'll look at the polls, look at our
Speaker 1: well Nigel Faras is doing these days. The Conservatives barely
Speaker 1: rate a mention in the UK. So oh, Susan Lee
Speaker 1: wants to have a refreshed start. She had an acknowledgment
Speaker 1: of Country today breaking away with what the former Liberal
Speaker 1: leader Peter Dutton was doing. Is that the part to
Speaker 1: take the Liberal parties which got smashed, which are disconnected
Speaker 1: from the Australian electried or do you want a stronger
Speaker 1: alternative Conservative party? One double three eight eighty two, And
Speaker 1: Joe says, go and see that story about the three
Speaker 1: moron's betting to death the pigeon with the golf club
Speaker 1: on that mind sight in wa and we should also
Speaker 1: name the company is this isn't only a worker's culture
Speaker 1: but a company culture too, reckons Joe one double three,
Speaker 1: eight eighty two. If you'd like to join Perth live
Speaker 1: and he's still in the middle of a heat wave
Speaker 1: over your side of the world. Good afternoon, No that's.
Speaker 35: Changed, Ohlie, Actually it was a lot cooler in London
Speaker 35: yesterday Oxfordshire. Today it's even cooler. Still a lot of
Speaker 35: cload cover. Heat wave has gone away for now. Heat
Speaker 35: waving inverted comments obviously by your standards.
Speaker 1: Yes, indeed you've probably still got a sweater on when
Speaker 1: it's twenty two degrees in you're on Switchem. Yeah, he can't.
Speaker 1: He's bringing forward Trump's state visit to September.
Speaker 35: So Keer Starmer right now is in the Netherlands for
Speaker 35: this NATO summit two days. President Trump has just turned
Speaker 35: up and Starmer will be delivering some very good news
Speaker 35: because President Trump wants his second state visit as quickly
Speaker 35: as possible. However, the Prime Minister is going against the
Speaker 35: King on this because Charles's view was that yeah, Trump
Speaker 35: could come, but come initially and go to Scotland for
Speaker 35: lunch and have a chat and they could plan the
Speaker 35: trip together. Now, I was initially told that this state
Speaker 35: visit would happen mid twenty six, if not early twenty seven,
Speaker 35: and Starmer is in such a rush to curry favor
Speaker 35: with the Trump administration. That's the news he will be
Speaker 35: delivering in person to President Trump in the next hour
Speaker 35: or so. You're coming in September Starmer bending over backwards
Speaker 35: at the expense of his relationship with the King to
Speaker 35: keep President trum Pabi.
Speaker 1: The UK is going to buy fier jets capable of
Speaker 1: carrying nuclear weapons in that.
Speaker 35: This is a big, big story breaking this morning here.
Speaker 35: So obviously all eyes on defense and NATO and spending
Speaker 35: and Starmer has just let it be known that they
Speaker 35: will be buying a dozen F thirty five fighter jets
Speaker 35: from an American company. And this is a new development
Speaker 35: for the UK's arsenal of weaponry. They will be able
Speaker 35: to carry nuclear weapons now Britain has never been able
Speaker 35: to launch them from jets before. Britain's never launched one
Speaker 35: obviously ever, but if they had to do it right now,
Speaker 35: they can only do it from a submarine. So they're
Speaker 35: going to spend a significant amount of money buying F
Speaker 35: thirty five jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons. And I
Speaker 35: think it's just a little more flexing of the biceps
Speaker 35: towards Russia and Yuka.
Speaker 1: So United's preparing to make the strakra you Jaffa to
Speaker 1: find of interest from Liverpool and Arsenal.
Speaker 16: So this is the.
Speaker 35: Swedish international Alexander Esak, he has been a revelation since
Speaker 35: he joined Newcastle United. He's scored the second most goals
Speaker 35: in the Premier League last season, behind Mossala of Liverpool
Speaker 35: and the whisper is Liverpool want him to join up
Speaker 35: with Salah and Arsenal are also wanting to sign him,
Speaker 35: So Alexander Esak is in big, big demand. Newcastle United
Speaker 35: clearly are worried about losing him. They want to make
Speaker 35: him the highest paid player in their history. So he
Speaker 35: currently earns about three hundred thousand dollars a week. He
Speaker 35: could be getting close to doubles if he stays. But
Speaker 35: let's see what happens when Liverpool get the check book out,
Speaker 35: because I think we're probably the most attractive club in
Speaker 35: Europe right now to be joining, if I'm honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you would say that though, Oh Wally.
Speaker 28: Do you want to hear some goss j on.
Speaker 35: Guess who fell asleep in the sound of music last
Speaker 35: night in Northbridge?
Speaker 1: No, it's tonight, It hasn't been on yet, it's tonight.
Speaker 35: And oh no, no, no, I heard. I heard a
Speaker 35: friend of ours was in north Bridge last night a
Speaker 35: little preview and got bored. Anyway, I've said too much, likely.
Speaker 1: These days away tonight for the main event, and you
Speaker 1: should have jet it into this, you'd love it.
Speaker 35: My mother loves us. My mother absolutely adores it, so
Speaker 35: do you know what. I've never watched us, but the
Speaker 35: good luck to everyone involved. It's not my kind of
Speaker 35: cup of tea the whole musical world, but my mother
Speaker 35: absolutely adores it. It is a Christmas regular in our house.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what's wrong with you? I mean it's it's sort
Speaker 1: of a rod of passage. Everyone's going to watch the
Speaker 1: sound of music. Something has gone wrong in your life,
Speaker 1: and something's gone wrong in Nick Alvianni's life. You need
Speaker 1: to fix that. Ending you've got to Christmas.
Speaker 35: I'll go with Alviani deal.
Speaker 1: See you night, Chad Tomorrow, Bally and the Brady Love
Speaker 1: and the line from the UK. There's a little word
Speaker 1: on the street for you. Somebody may have been at
Speaker 1: the preview last night and had a little snooze. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they'll stay awake for tonight's main events. It's going
Speaker 1: to be huge sound of music. Carlingington's going to nail
Speaker 1: a few notes. He's going to absolutely love it. It's
Speaker 1: going to be sensational. Now, if you've got a whisper
Speaker 1: to share with me today or if you witness some
Speaker 1: breaking news this afternoon and you'd like to win yourself
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars for WA asset. What have you seen?
Speaker 1: What have you heard? What is your word on the streets?
Speaker 1: Coming up after the news? The Wa Greens leader Brad
Speaker 1: Pettitz he wants the state government to build apartments around
Speaker 1: every train station on the Fremantle train line. Should there
Speaker 1: be more apartments constructed on the Frio line? Does that
Speaker 1: mean the railway needs to be sunk? Because that land
Speaker 1: would be very, very valuable to developers. And while I'll
Speaker 1: be a lot of money up front to sink the
Speaker 1: Fremantle railway line, what you would have to sell the
Speaker 1: land ford to a developer and could do above land?
Speaker 1: It might cancel each other outs. But do we need
Speaker 1: infill in the western suburbs along the railway line. Brad
Speaker 1: Pettit outlined some of his thoughts this morning at a
Speaker 1: property council breakfast and he'll join us live out of
Speaker 1: the news at four o'clock. I'd love to hear what
Speaker 1: you think one double three eight eighty two, because we
Speaker 1: have this obsession, don't we in Perth? We keep going out,
Speaker 1: we keep extending the metropolitan area north, south and east,
Speaker 1: but do we need to hit some of those infield targets.
Speaker 1: Do we need to go up instead of outs, particularly
Speaker 1: through the Freemantle line of the western suburbs. One double
Speaker 1: three eight eighty two, And be aware the Dodgy roof
Speaker 1: restorers are back in business. They're knocking on doors and
Speaker 1: you'll hear about an elderly Perth couple who've been fleecehed
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand dollars by these con men. It's all ahead
Speaker 1: of us. After four o'clock you're at six PR. Come
Speaker 1: and join the conversation. One double three, eight eighty two.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Good have you company? Hump Dale Wednesday, riding
Speaker 1: on six P. Grumpy JB says Oli regarding Entrew in Liverpool.
Speaker 1: You need to remind him Liverpool used the Never Walk
Speaker 1: Alone as their theme song and the tune came from Carousel,
Speaker 1: the musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, not his cup of tea. Indeed,
Speaker 1: he probably has it on his phone as a ring tone.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Grumpy one double three at two If you'd
Speaker 1: like to join Perth Live today. Greens leader Brad Pettits
Speaker 1: has used a Property Council breakfast today to call for
Speaker 1: a thousand people to live at every train station on
Speaker 1: the Fremantle line. He can tell you more. He joins
Speaker 1: his live on six p O this afternoon, Get a
Speaker 1: Brad with you, proposing we tackle the Fremantle Line with
Speaker 1: a bit of infield.
Speaker 32: Well, it's such an opportunity because it's a line where
Speaker 32: people want to live. It's also a line where you've
Speaker 32: got local governments like we see the Fremantle where I
Speaker 32: was mayor, who are really keen to see many more
Speaker 32: people take North mounta train facing amazing opportunity on the beach,
Speaker 32: but no one knew how people ditting around it, but
Speaker 32: all the way up that line were caught as slow
Speaker 32: at Subiaco City West.
Speaker 16: Huge opportunities.
Speaker 1: We have an obsession, don't we at birth to go
Speaker 1: out further, whether it's north, south or east. But we
Speaker 1: don't want to go up Brad.
Speaker 32: Yeah, that's right. Did you know seventy of all new
Speaker 32: houses are built on the free So the longest city
Speaker 32: in the world, we are Ali and it's getting longer
Speaker 32: because that's what we're building over two thirds of our
Speaker 32: new houses. So it's a real opportunity. But this is
Speaker 32: a key point I'm trying to make to the property council.
Speaker 32: Government's got to lead on this, yet you've got to
Speaker 32: have planning. So Subi Centro, which is there's thirty years
Speaker 32: ago now when we're started that a great project, probably
Speaker 32: a bit underbaked in some ways now, yeah, but a
Speaker 32: good project. But we try government sinking the railway line
Speaker 32: enabling that whole area to be redeveloped. Since then, nothing,
Speaker 32: no government's gone and going okay, where else can we
Speaker 32: do this next?
Speaker 1: So we had the Planning Commission last week prove that
Speaker 1: seventeen and fifteen story apartment complex on Station Street and Codders.
Speaker 1: The council obviously doesn't want it. There's a bit of
Speaker 1: community acs because of the infrastructure at the moment with
Speaker 1: the boom gates. Now, isn't this the perfect time, the
Speaker 1: perfect opportunity, Brad, to actually sink the railway line, because
Speaker 1: like you just pointed to with Subi Centro, you do
Speaker 1: that along that corridor. Yes, it'd be a lot of
Speaker 1: money up front, but the value of the land above
Speaker 1: and what you could create with apartments and a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a vibrant sort of cosmopolitan lifestyle, it
Speaker 1: probably cancel out and be sort of cost neutral.
Speaker 25: That's right.
Speaker 32: And this is the kind of projects that would be
Speaker 32: really great to see government invest in. I think much
Speaker 32: better than you as we're part for example, but actually
Speaker 32: you know these are actually city making projects where you
Speaker 32: would you know, create really vibrant centers. But you've got
Speaker 32: at the moment you got thrown at doing that station
Speaker 32: street development is a really good one. I think fully
Speaker 32: support it, but they're kind of sitting by themselves having
Speaker 32: to have that battle rather than actually saying there's a
Speaker 32: precinct here. Government's going to help. It's going to drop
Speaker 32: the drop the train line, or have people to build
Speaker 32: it over it and actually have a whole I mean,
Speaker 32: not just one apartment building, but frankly in that conosso centered,
Speaker 32: there should be be five or ten of them that
Speaker 32: that actually that one can probably hold well many more
Speaker 32: than a thousand people. You think five thousand people living
Speaker 32: in downtown Cottslow wouldn't be a bad thing, would it.
Speaker 1: Be a bad thing? One double three eight eighty two Brad.
Speaker 1: The metro Net projects obviously attached to try to put
Speaker 1: apartment complexes around the stations where the new lines have
Speaker 1: been constructed, Has there been the uptake do you think
Speaker 1: the government was hoping for?
Speaker 37: No?
Speaker 32: Look, there's been a very unenthusiastic uptake, and that looks
Speaker 32: there's good reasons for that. Developers want to make a
Speaker 32: profit as they should and building out there. I mean
Speaker 32: that people who want to live.
Speaker 25: In an apartment don't want to live, you know, in
Speaker 25: some far flung out a suburb on a new train
Speaker 25: line that's not connected to anything.
Speaker 32: The great advantage of density, a good well planned density, is.
Speaker 25: That it's it's it's near amenity, it's it's near existing centers,
Speaker 25: coffee shops, you know, rivers, beaches, all the things that
Speaker 25: actually make our city good. That's where we should be
Speaker 25: putting density, not in these far flung locations. And always
Speaker 25: bizarre that government's kind of literally got it back the
Speaker 25: front we I mean, we need planning to encourage density,
Speaker 25: not just on the Freeman of the line where I
Speaker 25: talked about it's today, but.
Speaker 32: I mean take another example of Bayswater. I mean, the
Speaker 32: town of Bayswater is desperate again for people on their
Speaker 32: main street development down there, but there's no again, there's
Speaker 32: no plan to do it there, but there is further
Speaker 32: further out along out towards Whiteman Park, which is frankly
Speaker 32: where probably nobody really wants to live in an apartment.
Speaker 1: So why are the worst the suburbs always missing from
Speaker 1: this conversation? Why is the Freemantle line ignored?
Speaker 32: Brad Ah, Look, I reckon it's governments don't want to
Speaker 32: have the battle. It's a very well educated community and
Speaker 32: there are look, there are there is some Nimbia element
Speaker 32: down there.
Speaker 25: But I'd also say that I reckon lots of people
Speaker 25: in that community.
Speaker 32: If you sat down with them as them designed their
Speaker 32: city centers and these new transit orientated developments around train
Speaker 32: stations with them, you would.
Speaker 25: Have overwhelming support for this. But that requires government to
Speaker 25: sit down and do the work with the community. But
Speaker 25: I think that's exactly what needs to happen. And if
Speaker 25: we don't do that, all we're going to do is.
Speaker 32: Keep pushing more and more people to the friends rather
Speaker 32: than inviting people to live in the best parts of
Speaker 32: first that that include along along our train lines.
Speaker 1: So we've got this point and use the Cutters example again,
Speaker 1: Yes said last week where it originally went to Council
Speaker 1: of eight Stories, they said no that it went to
Speaker 1: the planning commission. He's now given them fifteen and seventeen.
Speaker 1: So have we gone to the council in the first place,
Speaker 1: they would have just had eight, fifteen or seventeen. Now
Speaker 1: you've been there before, You've been through this, Brad. But
Speaker 1: there seems to be a disconnect between obviously what the
Speaker 1: state government's priorities are with planning and what local governments.
Speaker 1: And every local government is different, of course, but it
Speaker 1: is a system broken. Do we need to try and
Speaker 1: somehow reform the entire system between the collaboration of all
Speaker 1: councils and the state government of the day.
Speaker 32: Yes, And I think, look, it is broken, and it's
Speaker 32: broken now because well there almost isn't planning anymore. What
Speaker 32: you've seen now, unfortunately, is a centralized state government planning
Speaker 32: system where really anything gets approved, whether it's in the planning.
Speaker 25: Scheme or not. It's kind of got very ad hoc. Mean,
Speaker 25: I think almost ned to go back.
Speaker 11: But there also needs to be demand to local governments.
Speaker 32: Local governments need to have density targets that they must meet.
Speaker 32: At the moment, there's only two local governments in the
Speaker 32: Metro area who are meeting.
Speaker 25: The density targets and those are city of those are
Speaker 25: Clermonte and Freemantle.
Speaker 32: No one else is meeting them, but there's also no
Speaker 32: consequence for not or incentive formating them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they're not where they're not meeting them because
Speaker 1: of their planning schemes, or developers are not keen to
Speaker 1: build the apartments and they can't turn the profit brad
Speaker 1: or There's a little bit of both and not much
Speaker 1: of an appetite our council.
Speaker 25: Some of them are outdated of planning schemes that makes
Speaker 25: it very hard to do so.
Speaker 32: Others are simply that developers haven't been encouraged to come
Speaker 32: down there because it's not.
Speaker 25: A holistic plan about where it would go and how
Speaker 25: it fits.
Speaker 32: So we need a proactive approach that brings local governments
Speaker 32: and local communities on the journey. We can do it,
Speaker 32: I mean person, I mean I think our centers would
Speaker 32: benefit from people. Often we're not the mayor of Fremantle.
Speaker 32: I'd always say that all Fremantle needed to be better
Speaker 32: with more people, and I think the same appliers the Midland.
Speaker 32: The same applies to Armadale and the Drin Dealer. Let's
Speaker 32: get more people in our centers. And the way we
Speaker 32: do that is by working with communities and local government
Speaker 32: and ultimately the state government who need to provide infrastructure.
Speaker 25: Altogether, we can actually make our city much better. We
Speaker 25: shouldn't be afraid of density. Actually in the right location,
Speaker 25: lilesially makes.
Speaker 1: Faces better one double three two.
Speaker 3: Take.
Speaker 1: This is a compliment from Tom. He says he may
Speaker 1: have gone mad, Brad, but he sees some sense in
Speaker 1: what you're saying about the Western somebody's pulling their weight
Speaker 1: and allowing infield housing may free up some housing and
Speaker 1: allow people wanting to scale down on their home size.
Speaker 25: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 32: And that's the other key thing is there plenty of
Speaker 32: people want an age in place. You know, someone who
Speaker 32: lives in colors Folds can keep that example going. And
Speaker 32: they're big four x two on the block. They want
Speaker 32: to stay in their community. That's where their friends are.
Speaker 32: But they're rattling around. A couple other kids have gone
Speaker 32: where are the places that they can downsize into?
Speaker 25: And then when they're downside, it.
Speaker 32: Means more people can come in. So everyone wins if
Speaker 32: we've got that right mix of housing. But we shouldn't
Speaker 32: expect people to have to go to a different suburb
Speaker 32: because there's nowhere to nowhere else sit downside too one.
Speaker 1: Double three Adaly two. We'll go to the phones in
Speaker 1: just a moment. I've had the safternoon of the Legislative Council.
Speaker 1: You called on the government to provide an update on
Speaker 1: their progress towards the recommendations of that inquiry into the
Speaker 1: funding of homelessness services in WA and I believe that
Speaker 1: your Housing at Homelessness colleague Tim Clifford, has had a
Speaker 1: bit of a win moving emotion he did.
Speaker 32: Tim did a very good job and actually eventually got
Speaker 32: the government even to support the motion. Look, and it
Speaker 32: calls the government to get serious about ending homelessness. We've
Speaker 32: gone backwards in terms of the amount of rough sleepers,
Speaker 32: the amount of people who are homeless, and of course
Speaker 32: our housing weight lists and government can fix this, but
Speaker 32: it's got a fund it properly. And so we've got
Speaker 32: government now reporting back in September on how they're making
Speaker 32: progress on the homelessess strategy, which would be the first
Speaker 32: time they've done that since the inquiry back in more
Speaker 32: than two years ago in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 1: So when do they have to report back by Brad,
Speaker 1: what have you got to a couple of weeks or
Speaker 1: a month, No, I need to September.
Speaker 32: We originally said August, but they asked for a bit
Speaker 32: more time, but which we agree to. So that got
Speaker 32: everyone over the line in supporting it. And I think
Speaker 32: this is a really key thing because we saw a
Speaker 32: budget that just came down there was only ten million
Speaker 32: dollars more for homelessess services and when we're spending six
Speaker 32: times more than that on a new NRL team. Here
Speaker 32: is it's about priorities if we're serious about any homelesses.
Speaker 32: And I would say government committed made a promise in
Speaker 32: their strategy to end homelesses by tweeny twenty five. Here
Speaker 32: we are in twenty twenty five with more homeless and
Speaker 32: rough people experiencing rough sleeping and homelessness than ever before.
Speaker 1: And those support services, those charities have never been busier, Brad.
Speaker 1: And that's not going to slow for any time soon,
Speaker 1: you know, down to what we've got six degrees today,
Speaker 1: it could be even colder than that. It's it's a
Speaker 1: tough night ahead for a lot of people.
Speaker 25: Yeah, no exactly. And I think, look, I really hope
Speaker 25: what this new parliament where we do now have you
Speaker 25: the balance of power and we've been work across the
Speaker 25: tamber to get better outcomes for those people in the
Speaker 25: community and that's good for everybody.
Speaker 1: Brad Betett, thanks for your time today. Thanks olein the
Speaker 1: WA Green's leader one double three eight eighty two. The
Speaker 1: Greens a win on the homelessness strategy of the government
Speaker 1: and having a report back by September. But what do
Speaker 1: you think should there be apartments built around every train
Speaker 1: station on the Frio line? Should the Frio line be
Speaker 1: now put undergrounds? And do we need to break up
Speaker 1: or reform the councils, that is your local government's planning
Speaker 1: processes to align with what the state government's planning priorities.
Speaker 1: Are we wasting time? It's going back and forward out
Speaker 1: of councils, the jade Apps, planning commissions and the like.
Speaker 1: One double three eight eighty two. Get a Brad.
Speaker 26: Can I here go on?
Speaker 3: I'm good?
Speaker 1: What do you reckon?
Speaker 15: I just.
Speaker 38: Want to talk about this urban density that Brad's gone
Speaker 38: on about. If West Australia was its own country, it
Speaker 38: would be the eleventh biggest country in the world by area.
Speaker 38: Our population there would be one hundred and forty third
Speaker 38: in the world. We have more and people than anybody.
Speaker 39: Else in the world. Only there's a couple of little
Speaker 39: islands that would come in forth on more space.
Speaker 26: That's what we've got.
Speaker 38: What's that big deal about tram and everyone in next
Speaker 38: door to each other?
Speaker 1: Because I think it's also about infrastructure. Brand It's about
Speaker 1: the power, it's about the water, it's about the train lines,
Speaker 1: it's about the roads. And you know, you keep going out,
Speaker 1: you keep going right as in you look at the
Speaker 1: map of Australia East and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you've got more infrastructure, got to build more hospitals. Obviously
Speaker 1: you still got to build them. But do we don't
Speaker 1: have the population yet? Do we, Brad, to continue to
Speaker 1: go north southeast?
Speaker 3: I think we do.
Speaker 39: I think it's just the developers that don't want to
Speaker 39: spend the money on the roads and so on, sewers
Speaker 39: and things that are bursting because there's so many people
Speaker 39: in this infield stuff.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of headache, an't there, Brad, when you
Speaker 1: put it into that context, make thank you very much
Speaker 1: for your call. But you know the issue is these
Speaker 1: apartment developers so they can't turn a profit. You're not
Speaker 1: turning the sods. They're not actually getting on with the
Speaker 1: job now one double three eight at he so keep
Speaker 1: the calls coming through. Twenty four after four rob of
Speaker 1: South Perth sears Brad Pettitt hit the nail on the head.
Speaker 1: Richardson Street, South Perth and Preston Street Como, they're right
Speaker 1: next to the Mandra line. They are prime for high density,
Speaker 1: transit oriented developments. Glad this type of planning has been
Speaker 1: put on the agenda for Perth's urban planning. Andrew says, no,
Speaker 1: we don't need the density. Brad and his cronies are peddling.
Speaker 1: The only reason they want to do this so along
Speaker 1: the Western Suburbs train line is to increase the level
Speaker 1: of social housing in these areas and direct the voted
Speaker 1: demographic look at the dammag cheated de frio changing planning
Speaker 1: schemes with more to come along South Street. It's an
Speaker 1: ideological agenda to change our standard life. We have so
Speaker 1: much room between Mandra Yanchep and the hills. Why try
Speaker 1: to be like a country We are not and ready
Speaker 1: to become many many generations barry from Greenmount Reckons. Apartments
Speaker 1: at every railway station are required and undergrounding the Frio
Speaker 1: line is of financial no hoper, Ollie, it would be
Speaker 1: way too expensive. Let's hit the phones one, double three
Speaker 1: at two. Hello, Marny, Hey.
Speaker 32: Olie, are you doing good?
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 39: Oh?
Speaker 37: Look, we are fighting our own fight in the woods.
Speaker 37: We've got developers who are trying to make a profit
Speaker 37: down near the call site, and we've just discovered that
Speaker 37: everything has gone sort of very quietly without proper counsel,
Speaker 37: without any sort of consideration for the community. And we've
Speaker 37: got a potential fifty unit complex for one hundred percent
Speaker 37: social housing because John Kerry basically wants it.
Speaker 1: That way, right, So so bypassing the council and going
Speaker 1: where to the Planning Commission to make the decision?
Speaker 37: Is it Marni, Yep, exactly, it's it's fours under eleven
Speaker 37: B which happened during cod and the you know, twenty
Speaker 37: twenty two. John was happy to say that one hundred
Speaker 37: percent social housing sort of enclaves don't work. Yet he's
Speaker 37: done it to Inglewood twice, and it's happening all over Perth.
Speaker 1: And you get no say in it. You'd like to
Speaker 1: be able to contribute to what's happening.
Speaker 37: We've already been to planning, We've been to council. We
Speaker 37: have been, we have been through every single avenue we can,
Speaker 37: and council get ignored. And it's because the state government
Speaker 37: can do whatever they want.
Speaker 1: So this is the Beaufort Street project. I think a
Speaker 1: Minister Kerry might have put this up on his social
Speaker 1: media accounts earlier this year. Money is that the one
Speaker 1: that's got a couple of pitches hanging about.
Speaker 37: Flu under the over fifty five sort of little sort
Speaker 37: of guys. And I'm ensure our aging population definitely need
Speaker 37: housing and we are so not against social housing. We're
Speaker 37: against one hundred percent social. We wanted mixed tenure. This
Speaker 37: original development had commercial on the ground floor and then
Speaker 37: mixed tenure affordable housing rent to buy with you know,
Speaker 37: the percentage of social. And it's turned into one hundred
Speaker 37: percent social from ground floor up, so not even commercial
Speaker 37: on the ground floor. It is beyond the joke.
Speaker 1: I thought the idea moving forward though, was to integrate
Speaker 1: private social public housing across the metropolitan area, not just
Speaker 1: have one area that's social housing or one area that's
Speaker 1: public housing.
Speaker 37: Absolutely well, that's what we were sort of thinking was
Speaker 37: going to be happening. But well, I mean we made
Speaker 37: a movie an upset in Parliament when we are we
Speaker 37: upset that Apple car but he just he doesn't care
Speaker 37: to listen. And it is more than Inglewood. We know
Speaker 37: this is happening all over us. So we just don't
Speaker 37: understand how this state government can do this to wa
Speaker 37: We're going to end up with Browny powers again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought that's what they were trying to avoid, Marny.
Speaker 1: Thanks for you call, Helen, says. Brad Pitt turned the Frio,
Speaker 1: parks and seed and a homeless refuge to get himself
Speaker 1: elected into parliament. Where's the solutions for freo?
Speaker 3: Brad?
Speaker 1: I'm still waiting for a big spooker and there hasn't
Speaker 1: been much action and yes to density, but if John
Speaker 1: Kerry continues to create one hundred percent social housing ghettos
Speaker 1: like he's doing in Inglewood that Marty just touched on,
Speaker 1: we're going to go backwards quickly, mixed tenure or ace John.
Speaker 1: I'm a business owner and a voice for a safer Inglewood.
Speaker 1: Hi Irene, oh hi Ollie.
Speaker 27: How often is the showground us?
Speaker 9: Why don't we move the show grounds?
Speaker 12: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Where would we take the show you reckon then, Irene,
Speaker 1: where would you like to move the show to?
Speaker 28: Oh, well up.
Speaker 1: Maybe Midland to the hills. That'd be all right, I
Speaker 1: mean that land that'd be very valuab wouldn't it around Clermont?
Speaker 16: It would, yes, But you know it would give a
Speaker 16: lot of home, wouldn't it.
Speaker 1: It would there you go, there's a bit of thinking
Speaker 1: from Irene, you know, sink the ralway line or sell
Speaker 1: the showgrounds, Mick says, in regards to sinking all the
Speaker 1: Freo train line stations, can wa really afford more billions
Speaker 1: added to the bushwinning twelve billion dollars Metro debts? Health
Speaker 1: is much more important if it was cost neutral. Though
Speaker 1: me let's just say for a nice round figure, it
Speaker 1: was going to cost twenty billion dollars to sink the
Speaker 1: railway line. Probably wouldn't be that name. It would the
Speaker 1: land above ground to be worth that, wouldn't it? Bang
Speaker 1: bang done, saltz so, Mick john says. Social housing where
Speaker 1: they shut an a brigade live, God help him, Hi, Frank.
Speaker 12: Hi only listened thirty years ago. They went through the
Speaker 12: metropolitan area. Lockriage took out about or probably sixty or
Speaker 12: seventy townhouses, the two story places. Now you're going back
Speaker 12: to the old problem where the social part of it
Speaker 12: was unacceptable. So now you're building high rise again causing
Speaker 12: the same bloody problem.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, the same bloody problems.
Speaker 3: Frank.
Speaker 1: Can you just see history repeating itself? I mean, look
Speaker 1: at some of the concerns just raised by Marni before
Speaker 1: the government needs to build accommodation instead of buying existing buildings.
Speaker 1: What happened to Frio forty to fifty years ago, bustling
Speaker 1: in the city center. Now he could put a gunshot
Speaker 1: through it. What happened I had to be unfair to Frio.
Speaker 1: We had a big day out there a couple of
Speaker 1: Saturdays ago, just to catch up with a few of
Speaker 1: the school dads, and we enjoyed playing the e darts
Speaker 1: and going down to the Norfolk. Great lunch there and
Speaker 1: the National Hotel to have some rooftop drinks, and then
Speaker 1: it ended up at vin Papooli Great doubt and fre
Speaker 1: think it was packed. A wonderful Saturday afternoon. Long lunch
Speaker 1: turned into dinner, one double, three eight totty, two ways
Speaker 1: drink responsibly, John says, petit rec Frio. Don't let him
Speaker 1: Trump up the rest of us. I think that could
Speaker 1: be a reference to something Donald Trump said overnight, just
Speaker 1: saying he used the word he shouldn't have used, should he,
Speaker 1: But it added to the theater. I suppose let's drop
Speaker 1: our standard living more live on top of each other
Speaker 1: works well in pandemics as Wayno, and we need the
Speaker 1: body corporate issues resolved and better designed, not just shoe
Speaker 1: box two bedroom units, thank you. Ian apartments work out
Speaker 1: expensive with strata fees to pay some of them at
Speaker 1: least six thousand a year or so one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty a week, points out Sue. And it's not that
Speaker 1: Perth people have an obsession with moving further out north,
Speaker 1: south or east, Ollie. It's because all the people can't
Speaker 1: afford to live closer to the city. You see all
Speaker 1: those apartment towers. The average part I can't afford it.
Speaker 1: It's becoming ridiculous. Build more, though well prices come down
Speaker 1: or at least stay the same. Maybe it's an alternative option.
Speaker 1: And Jay reckons Brad Petty is right, but Team Reda
Speaker 1: need to stop spending on pet celebrity projects like fights, wrestling, racing,
Speaker 1: and investing money towards sinking the Frio Railway, finish the
Speaker 1: Frio Bridge, the new Eric Street Bridge, extend the T
Speaker 1: platforms to take eight carriages instead of four like today,
Speaker 1: and investments in other critical infrastructure services to enable sustainable
Speaker 1: Infield A one double three eight eighty two the talkback number.
Speaker 1: Speaking of Donald Trump, he's currently holding a conversation and
Speaker 1: the microphone there at the NATO summit in the Hague,
Speaker 1: and he was asked how he thinks the Israel Iran
Speaker 1: ceasefire is going.
Speaker 8: I think very good. I think very good. Israel came
Speaker 8: back yesterday. I was so proud of them because they
Speaker 8: came back. You know, they went out because they felt
Speaker 8: it was a violation and technically they were right, but
Speaker 8: it just wouldn't have worked out very well. And they
Speaker 8: brought the planes back. They had gone on to another
Speaker 8: journey because there was a little bit of a violation,
Speaker 8: and I said, you got to get him back. And
Speaker 8: they came back and it was a great thing. And
Speaker 8: it's going very well.
Speaker 1: I know it's international relations. But the way that the
Speaker 1: US the president describes things is interesting to say the least.
Speaker 1: James hey Ollie, regarding this train station Infield idea of
Speaker 1: Brad Petee at brad Pettit rather given the current housing shortage.
Speaker 1: I've got a block that I'm wanting to develop for housing.
Speaker 1: It's one hundred meters from the new train station in
Speaker 1: high Wickham. I haven't been able to get started because
Speaker 1: of the government departments Metro need have not yet decided
Speaker 1: on the zoning. Please don't so far, I've been waiting
Speaker 1: six years. This after waiting four years for the train
Speaker 1: line to be completed. No wonder that we have a
Speaker 1: housing shortage. There are three hundred and fifty acres to
Speaker 1: be developed right next to the train line that goes
Speaker 1: under the airport straight into the city. Speaking with the builders,
Speaker 1: many are currently reluctant to do multi story which allows
Speaker 1: the high density. So given these delays, do we have
Speaker 1: to fix this crisis? Irene Goes Bangs says Layton, send
Speaker 1: the show to the city or Belmont Park at Burswood,
Speaker 1: and Mark says Lewin. Barracks in he Frio massively underused.
Speaker 1: Don't think we'd take much to turn barracks into apartments.
Speaker 1: And ultimately, when the port is moved further south towards Quanana,
Speaker 1: there's some development opportunities at the docks one double three
Speaker 1: eight eighty two if you'd like to join the conversation
Speaker 1: in a moment. A warning about some rogue roofie who
Speaker 1: want to rip you off. You don't stop believing Journey
Speaker 1: one of the greatest songs of all time at twenty
Speaker 1: to five. Our warning from Consumer Protection today, we've got
Speaker 1: some roof repair con men back targeting WA homes. Trish
Speaker 1: Blake is the Commissioner at Consumer Protection. Trish is the
Speaker 1: commission and she joins U live on six PR today.
Speaker 1: Good afternoon, It is.
Speaker 17: Good afternoon, Ollie. I think we're going to have to
Speaker 17: have a new name for these con men. We had
Speaker 17: the bitchman bandit, so I'm not sure what we're going
Speaker 17: to call the roof repair cod minute. It doesn't quite
Speaker 17: roll off the tongue in the same way.
Speaker 1: Now it doesn't. We've maybe got some some root, some
Speaker 1: rogue roof repairers. Maybe we could go that way.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, it sounds good to me, but I hate you.
Speaker 1: You know, they're just knocking on people's doors.
Speaker 17: They are, And really the strongest message that I want
Speaker 17: to send out to all your listeners is it's okay
Speaker 17: to close the door on them and say go away,
Speaker 17: I'm not interested. I think sometimes we feel like it's
Speaker 17: rude to close the door in someone's face. These people
Speaker 17: absolutely deserve to have the door closed in their face.
Speaker 17: So what they're doing is they're traveling around Perth at
Speaker 17: the moment, they will come to your home uninvited, unsolicited,
Speaker 17: and they'll offer you they'll tell you your roof needs
Speaker 17: repair work and they'll offer you a quote on the
Speaker 17: spot to do it. There's very high pressure sales tactics
Speaker 17: involved and usually they start the work almost immediately, which
Speaker 17: is an absolute brief the legislation.
Speaker 1: And they've fleeced some elderly West Australians up to about
Speaker 1: eighteen thousand dollars tration at least one example.
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely so one couple unfortunately paid. So at the
Speaker 17: moment we're sort of talking around the Southern Suburbs area
Speaker 17: where we've been seeing them, so Hillman Palmelia Hilton around
Speaker 17: those areas. They've gone to one elderly couple's door, you know,
Speaker 17: told them that they needed some work on their roofs,
Speaker 17: some roof cleaning, some tile tuch pointing. Didn't give them
Speaker 17: a formal quote or even write down what the work
Speaker 17: was but turned up on the weekend allegedly did the work,
Speaker 17: although nothing was done. Then told the couple left them
Speaker 17: just a business name and bank account details top them
Speaker 17: to go to the bank and get a check and
Speaker 17: then to deposit the check into the bank. Now, that's
Speaker 17: all seemed incredibly dodgy, and of course the work was
Speaker 17: incredibly poor quality and barely done.
Speaker 1: Didn't the bank stop the couple?
Speaker 19: Though?
Speaker 1: Too true? Shouldn't wasn't it they a bit of a
Speaker 1: red flag? Or they didn't probably know they're going to
Speaker 1: put out in thousand, six hundred and forty five dollars
Speaker 1: on the blank check.
Speaker 17: No, they didn't, so I know. And again though the
Speaker 17: couple would have said, we've had roofwork done and this
Speaker 17: is a bank check for the roofwork.
Speaker 12: So yeah.
Speaker 17: But unfortunately the next couple were quoted about nineteen just
Speaker 17: over nineteen hundred dollars. But this one, again, this is
Speaker 17: the bit that really concerns me as well, is the
Speaker 17: tradesperson stood over them, why they did the bank transfer
Speaker 17: and actually up to it to twenty one hundred and
Speaker 17: forty five, which they said was GST. But it's that
Speaker 17: intimidation and threatening behavior that really concerns us as well.
Speaker 1: So do you know who these people are? Traditional? Do
Speaker 1: you suspect you know who these as Eileen wants to
Speaker 1: turn them ruffians are?
Speaker 17: Yeah, these ruffians are. We think they're very similar to
Speaker 17: the Bitchmind bandits, so we believe that they are probably
Speaker 17: backpackers that have come over. We're not backpackers because backpackers
Speaker 17: are usually good, honest, hard workers. They're roague people that
Speaker 17: come over from overseas. They come and do a blitz
Speaker 17: in our country under false names, false business names, through
Speaker 17: dodgy work, get as much money as they can out
Speaker 17: of our unsuspecting residents, and then leave the country growgs.
Speaker 1: I want to call them roof rest o waterers. That's
Speaker 1: not a bad one. Trash.
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, there's some good names there. We'll add those
Speaker 17: to the list. Deerfinitely.
Speaker 1: If somebody's coming knock here on your door thinking you
Speaker 1: might need a bit of roof, as you said, slam
Speaker 1: the door, I don't need it. But if you are
Speaker 1: genuinely thinking I need to get a somebody out to
Speaker 1: look at my roof, I might need a legitimate roof
Speaker 1: restoration like you do with everything. Get those quotes, maybe
Speaker 1: get a few people out to the place to quote
Speaker 1: for you, so you're not caught up in these roof borders.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 17: Yeah, Look, if someone is coming to you unsolicited, you
Speaker 17: have to really question their motives in the first instance,
Speaker 17: and they're probably going to over quote an overpriced if
Speaker 17: you think you need work done by all means, you
Speaker 17: can ask these people for a quote, but don't let
Speaker 17: them start any work. So if someone comes to your
Speaker 17: door that without being asked, that's what we call an
Speaker 17: unsolicited consumer agreement. You have a ten day cooling off
Speaker 17: period without fail. They cannot do work in ten days,
Speaker 17: and you can cancel the contract in those ten days.
Speaker 17: What you need to do is then go out and
Speaker 17: get some other quotes. So do your own homework, ask
Speaker 17: people who've had similar work done, or ask your community
Speaker 17: pages on your social media platforms, ask friends, but definitely
Speaker 17: get at least two to three quotes so that you
Speaker 17: know that whether or not you're getting value for money.
Speaker 17: And if these people are trying to bully you into
Speaker 17: doing the work, tell them that you're going to call
Speaker 17: the police straight away, and I'm pretty sure they'll leave
Speaker 17: you alone.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they will when you make these payments. Is
Speaker 1: there a particular payments method that is better than others
Speaker 1: trush to try and protect yours you.
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's a really good question, and definitely credit card
Speaker 17: is the way to pay, and most businesses, legitimate businesses
Speaker 17: will have a capacity for you to pay by credit card.
Speaker 17: The thing being if you pay by credit card and
Speaker 17: there's a dispute about the quality of work or they
Speaker 17: don't do the work, you can go to your bank
Speaker 17: and ask for a charge back. But if you're paying
Speaker 17: by cash or by check or by bank transfer, it's
Speaker 17: almost impossible to get your money back.
Speaker 1: Good on your trash, Appreciate your time.
Speaker 17: Thank you,