Speaker 1: On two GDV. This is Sydney Now.
Speaker 2: With Clinton Tuesday May twenty seven. It is Clinton Maynard
Speaker 2: here one three one eight seven three. I am looking
Speaker 2: outside the window here from our studios in Pimont. I
Speaker 2: can actually see there is no dust haze across the city.
Speaker 2: Is all that. There's some bright sunny skies, a little
Speaker 2: bit of cloud, but the dust has vanished. Have you
Speaker 2: experienced dust like that. It's in the last few years.
Speaker 2: I certainly have. Visibility was down to about three hundred leaders.
Speaker 2: We'll find out about what's caused that in a few moments.
Speaker 2: So this is the good news. Dust does have a
Speaker 2: way of slowing down trains. I understand that they actually
Speaker 2: can slow down the trains. So if it's at all
Speaker 2: possible that Sydney Trains management can figure out some way
Speaker 2: to maybe dust off the rails, if they can try
Speaker 2: to prevent dust entering the air conditioningsvictims of the trains,
Speaker 2: please do that, because and after there's a way that
Speaker 2: Sydney trains can actually be derailed and slow down. We'll
Speaker 2: find a way in this city. What a debarkay yesterday
Speaker 2: afternoon was coming up on the program the future of
Speaker 2: Rosehill Racecourse is to be decided within the next few minutes.
Speaker 2: The ATC chair Peter mcgarrian will be on the show
Speaker 2: a little later, and we're also hoping to speak with
Speaker 2: Gay Waterhouse. The flood recovery is continuing on the mid
Speaker 2: North Coast and in the Hunter Valley and around Tai
Speaker 2: where I was yesterday. The Prime Minister has been there
Speaker 2: over the past few hours. Now. I think it's critical
Speaker 2: that we address the long term issues that affect the
Speaker 2: Mid North Coast and the North Coast in particular, and
Speaker 2: that concerns insurance. We'll be talking with the Insurance Council
Speaker 2: and the program our straight shooters for a Tuesday join
Speaker 2: us after four thirty. Susan Temperaman and Holly Hughes and
Speaker 2: Mark Geyer is back and MG has had some dramas
Speaker 2: he's been on a charity walk and his feet aren't
Speaker 2: fearing too well. You are my eyes and ears when
Speaker 2: it's happening in Sydney now, so semi a text message
Speaker 2: zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three
Speaker 2: have you say one three one eight seven three nine
Speaker 2: past three in Sydney now, the skies a bright. The
Speaker 2: dust seems to have disappeared, but what was happening this morning?
Speaker 2: Miriam Bradbury joins me. She's a meteorologist with the Bureau.
Speaker 2: What was going on this morning, Miriam.
Speaker 3: Well, essentially it' starned quite some ways away from Sydney.
Speaker 3: This dust originated in South Australia. Actually, it was picked
Speaker 3: up by these very very strong winds associated with the
Speaker 3: cold front that moved through. The winds were strong both
Speaker 3: ahead of and behind the front, and they were westerlies,
Speaker 3: which means they were coming from the west and pushing
Speaker 3: to east. So they picked up all at dust across
Speaker 3: South Australia where it's been very dry and very dusty.
Speaker 3: They brought it through those southwestern parts of New South
Speaker 3: Wales yesterday afternoon, then kept bringing it eastwards, affecting much
Speaker 3: of the River Arena, pushing all the way to Camber
Speaker 3: early this morning and eventually reaching the Metro area through
Speaker 3: those early hours of this morning. So we actually did
Speaker 3: see some very low visibility as this dust came through.
Speaker 3: Camden had visibility down to only a few hundred meters
Speaker 3: between about six and eight o'clock in the morning, most
Speaker 3: areas experiencing more of this dust haze in the air
Speaker 3: for quite some time.
Speaker 2: Now looking outside my windows Chief Mount Studios in Piermont,
Speaker 2: and it looks it looks very clear. So is all
Speaker 2: the dust now blown away? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Pretty much so. These westerly winds are continuing, which means
Speaker 3: all that dust is now being blown or way out
Speaker 3: to sea. And in fact, for anyone listening who's interested,
Speaker 3: if you jump on and take a look at the
Speaker 3: satellite imagery, you can actually see these areas of brown
Speaker 3: moving out over the water away from the New South
Speaker 3: Wales coast. That's the dust that's been affecting us this morning,
Speaker 3: now moving well offshore, leaving us with much clearer air
Speaker 3: in its wake.
Speaker 2: Is this quite rare for Sydney.
Speaker 3: Yeah, look, it's reasonably rare. We need the dust to
Speaker 3: come from these areas where it's very dry and very dusty,
Speaker 3: as you can imagine, so that is South Australia or
Speaker 3: possibly western parts of New South Wales. To get all
Speaker 3: the way to the east coast, though, you need very
Speaker 3: strong winds to push it all that distance and also
Speaker 3: make it across the ranges. So it just so happened
Speaker 3: that this cold front moving through had these very very
Speaker 3: strong winds associated with it, persisting for a long time,
Speaker 3: which really just enabled this dust to be moved practically
Speaker 3: a whole state across to reach us in the Sydney area.
Speaker 2: Is it possible that there could be more dust later
Speaker 2: in the week.
Speaker 3: Or is this it look it's unlikely. The winny conditions
Speaker 3: are likely to persist through today. We actually have a
Speaker 3: severe weather warning out for parts of the state, including
Speaker 3: the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, and it
Speaker 3: could be fairly gusty through this afternoon, but these winds
Speaker 3: should ease back later today and as we move into
Speaker 3: tomorrow and Thursday, we are looking at much more moderate
Speaker 3: winds coming through and they're changing direction as well. They're
Speaker 3: coming from more of a southerly direction, so they're coming
Speaker 3: from the south. Unlikely to bring any more of that
Speaker 3: dust our way.
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you for the information. Thank you Miriam Bradby
Speaker 2: from the Weather Bureau. Now Jack Hahn from the Today
Speaker 2: Show has just sent me message and some vision of
Speaker 2: the flight radar around Sydney Airport and because of westerly winds,
Speaker 2: it appears that Sydney Airport is currently operating on one
Speaker 2: runway as one way and I'm just having a look
Speaker 2: at the the flight radar and that does seem to
Speaker 2: be the case. We'll check it out with Sidney Airport
Speaker 2: about where there's going to be need delays for flights
Speaker 2: this afternoon. But it would appear that Sydney Airport at
Speaker 2: the moment is operating on one runway because of the
Speaker 2: westerly winds.
Speaker 4: You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney. Stay tune
Speaker 4: to Sydney Now with Quinton.
Speaker 2: Lay On to gmb Okay. Right now, the members of
Speaker 2: the ATC are at Royal Randwick voting on the future
Speaker 2: of rose Hill Racecourse. I actually would have thought it
Speaker 2: would be more appropriate to hold the EGM today at
Speaker 2: rose Hill. Nevertheless, there are eleven to twelve thousand members
Speaker 2: of the ATC and they are deciding whether rose Hill
Speaker 2: will be sold off for five billion dollars to the
Speaker 2: state government. That money would be paid over the course
Speaker 2: of ten years. As we've been discussing now for several months,
Speaker 2: and in fact this issue has been around since late
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. The racetrack would be redeveloped for twenty
Speaker 2: five one thousand new homes with a metro station. Now
Speaker 2: the vote is happening right now. Most of the votes
Speaker 2: have actually come in via proxy electronically, so there will
Speaker 2: be a result quite quickly. From what I've been hearing
Speaker 2: throughout the day, the No vote is virtually one hundred
Speaker 2: percent over the line. It looks that way now that
Speaker 2: that could change and we don't have these figures through yet,
Speaker 2: but mainfow is that the No campaign was very confident
Speaker 2: they would have enough votes to win, but it would
Speaker 2: be closer than a lot of people were expecting. Peter
Speaker 2: McGowan is the chair of the ATC. Now I'm not
Speaker 2: in the meeting at the moment obviously, but I've just
Speaker 2: had a few people send me messages that apparently mister
Speaker 2: mcguran has not had a wonderful reception. There's been some
Speaker 2: booze for the chair of Peter mcgarran. And bear in
Speaker 2: mind the board itself of the ATC is split. So
Speaker 2: Peter mcgaran, of the chair, obviously wants to see this happen.
Speaker 2: Racing New South Wales, which is led by Peter Velandi's
Speaker 2: wants to see this happen. The state government wants to
Speaker 2: see this happen. But every time I talk about this
Speaker 2: in the radio, you don't want to see it happen,
Speaker 2: but it's up to the eight TC members. There is
Speaker 2: going to be the question if the vote is not successful,
Speaker 2: then what if the ATC is in the belief that
Speaker 2: they need this funding five billion dollars over ten years
Speaker 2: to secure its future and to scue the future of
Speaker 2: racing in New South Wales. Where do they then get
Speaker 2: the money from? Would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury? Well,
Speaker 2: Peter mcgodi'll ask answer those questions for us after five
Speaker 2: o'clock when he joins me. But as we speak there
Speaker 2: is not a result that's been released yet. But I'm
Speaker 2: getting some pretty good mail. And this has been the
Speaker 2: case for several weeks, but it's certainly built up today
Speaker 2: that the no vote will be successful.
Speaker 4: Be your part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 4: one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Well, yesterday we were broadcasting the program from Tarre, and
Speaker 2: today the Prime Minister has toured both Tarre but also
Speaker 2: surrounding areas of the Mid North Coast. The Defense Force
Speaker 2: is now on the ground. They have seventy personnel who
Speaker 2: are assisting now with the recovery effort. Eight hundred homes
Speaker 2: have been written off insurance claims. Lodge There are already
Speaker 2: thousands of assurance claims that have been put forward. The
Speaker 2: SEES has conducted five thousand assessments so far. Damage assessments.
Speaker 2: They have deemed it seven hundred and ninety four houses
Speaker 2: on the mid North Coast, but also parts of the
Speaker 2: Hunter Valley are unfit to live in. There's going to
Speaker 2: be a question of how these people recover. The Prime
Speaker 2: Minister says they will not be forgotten about. He says
Speaker 2: the disaster has been far worse than what's been experienced
Speaker 2: in this particular region ever before.
Speaker 5: People have spoken about the twenty twenty one floods and
Speaker 5: how that had a devastating impact, but they thought that
Speaker 5: would be the peak. Well, this flood has been far
Speaker 5: worse and the impact has been far more severe. I
Speaker 5: spoke with Linn at Wingham when we visited there. Linn's
Speaker 5: eighty years old and has lived in this area for
Speaker 5: her entire life there in Wingham, and she has never
Speaker 5: seen anything like it in her lifetime, as did other
Speaker 5: people in Willam who we spoke to firsthand. There is
Speaker 5: nothing like coming to an area and seeing people firsthand
Speaker 5: and engaging with them.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister is also spilt out what sort of
Speaker 2: financial assistance is now available.
Speaker 5: We are activating the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment in
Speaker 5: nine local government areas. This payment helps people who have
Speaker 5: suffered the most serious impacts, including a major damage to
Speaker 5: their home or serious injury or loss of a loved
Speaker 5: one as a result of severe weather. It's a one
Speaker 5: off payment of one thousand dollars for eligible adults and
Speaker 5: four hundred dollars for eligible childs. It will be available
Speaker 5: from two pm tomorrow. We're also extending the Disaster Recovery Allowance.
Speaker 5: This is providing for up to thirteen weeks of income
Speaker 5: support for people who can't attend their workers, employees or
Speaker 5: people who are self employed and are unable to earn
Speaker 5: an income. This involves as well comes on top of
Speaker 5: the support that is already rolling out, including personal hardship
Speaker 5: payments one hundred and eighty dollars for eligible adults and
Speaker 5: up to nine hundred dollars per family in the nineteen
Speaker 5: affected local government areas. The Community Recovery Support Fund that
Speaker 5: provides a million dollars for all of the impacted counsels
Speaker 5: just to help with the costs of cleaning up and
Speaker 5: repairing damage and as well the primary producers and small
Speaker 5: businesses support.
Speaker 1: This provides for concessional.
Speaker 5: Rate loans as well as freight sub seeds to help
Speaker 5: transport livestock and fodder. All of these supports where icknowledge
Speaker 5: is going to be more needed here.
Speaker 2: The prime is to detailing all of the financial assistance
Speaker 2: that's available and that covers it there. Now, that's not
Speaker 2: going to do a lot for businesses that I witnessed
Speaker 2: yesterday that have been wiped out, such as the motel.
Speaker 2: I visited the oyster farm and there are loans that
Speaker 2: are available, but those loans also need to be paid back.
Speaker 2: The question is raised that should really be the responsibility
Speaker 2: of a government to bail out homeowners maybe who don't
Speaker 2: have insurance, to bail out businesses. There are thousands of
Speaker 2: insurance claims that have been lodged already, but I think
Speaker 2: there's a deep issue that's going to need to be addressed,
Speaker 2: and that's the affordability of insurance going forward. Now you
Speaker 2: know from how much your basic home insurance premium has
Speaker 2: gone up in suburbs in Sydney that are not affected
Speaker 2: by natural disasters. You might not be in a bushfire area,
Speaker 2: you may not well, be in a flood prone area.
Speaker 2: Your premium has gone up, hasn't it in the past
Speaker 2: twelve months? Well, think about what it's like for people
Speaker 2: in those areas where they do have floods from time
Speaker 2: to time. It's on a whole new level, completely unaffordable.
Speaker 2: And it's easy for us to say we'll move away,
Speaker 2: it's not easy in practice to actually do that. I
Speaker 2: will be talking with the insurance council after five. If
Speaker 2: you got an idea about how we actually get around
Speaker 2: this issue. Do we need to return to a government
Speaker 2: insurance off remember that one the goio. What are your
Speaker 2: thoughts one three one eight seven three. If there's something
Speaker 2: you see on the streets that we know need to
Speaker 2: know about, send you a text message zero force like
Speaker 2: zero eight seven three eight seven three, and that is
Speaker 2: our word on the street. Things to temper, Temper, a
Speaker 2: great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is temper.
Speaker 2: And in barrel, this is a word on the street
Speaker 2: in barrel, Jason, what can you tell us what's going
Speaker 2: on in barrel this afternoon?
Speaker 6: A power outage down here?
Speaker 7: It's the wind has been blowing like a gale, as
Speaker 7: it has over most parts of these other whales and
Speaker 7: whilst it's good to see the that dirt go out
Speaker 7: the sea and'd certainly taken the power out with it here.
Speaker 2: So you've had no power for how long?
Speaker 8: Going up to an hour and a half.
Speaker 7: Now Endeavor Energy, you supplies the electricity is say, probably.
Speaker 9: Not till nine pm tonight.
Speaker 2: Ooh before it's restored. Okay, we've just had some confirmation
Speaker 2: off air Jason, You're right, so Endeavor Energy says there
Speaker 2: are currently eighty four outages, so homes and businesses in Barrel.
Speaker 2: It's because the tree damage that's been caused by the
Speaker 2: gusty wins. The estimated time that the power is going
Speaker 2: to be back on his nine o'clock formerly from in
Speaker 2: Dever Energy. I hope you can get through JSON on batteries.
Speaker 2: Sydney Airport's now confirmed with us they are running just
Speaker 2: one runway due to the wind. I'm getting some more
Speaker 2: information that's coming out of the meeting at Royal Ramwick
Speaker 2: on the future of Rose Hill and apparently it's very fiery.
Speaker 2: There are some leading members who are actually walking out
Speaker 2: of the meeting in disgust. So we are going to
Speaker 2: talk with both Peter mcgourren and we believe gay Waterhouse
Speaker 2: will be on the program a little later. Now, we
Speaker 2: don't have any confirmation yet of how the vote has gone,
Speaker 2: but my information is there was very little chance the
Speaker 2: yes vote would be successful. Now, also bear in mind
Speaker 2: this is for a deal that the government has actually
Speaker 2: not formally signed off on. It would be the state
Speaker 2: government spending five billion dollars to buy rose Hill over
Speaker 2: ten years, and that's not a formality either. Yes, Chris
Speaker 2: Mins wants this to happen, but the deal actually has
Speaker 2: not been done with the government itself. We'll bring you
Speaker 2: that result as soon as it comes to hand one
Speaker 2: three one seven to three. On the issues of insurance
Speaker 2: in disaster areas going forward, areas that are prone to bushfires,
Speaker 2: those that have a history of flooding, Neville says, what
Speaker 2: we need is a National Disaster Fund. Good idea, dan
Speaker 2: Neville Daniel says insurance for flood prone areas like medicare
Speaker 2: private health insurance. The government should cover a portion, say
Speaker 2: forty percent of the value, and the rest is from
Speaker 2: an insurance company. I will be talking to the Insurance
Speaker 2: Council a little later on the program coming up. I'm
Speaker 2: going to talk to Peter Ford about the relationship between
Speaker 2: the French president and his wife. It certainly took a
Speaker 2: turn today. Pauline Hansen's daughter has been unsuccessful today in
Speaker 2: her bid to join her mother in the Senate. She
Speaker 2: has missed out on the Senate seat for Tasmani. She
Speaker 2: came quite close though, so Jackie Lamby has retained her
Speaker 2: seat and at one point it was looking like Miss
Speaker 2: Lamby may well miss out, but the AEC has now
Speaker 2: confirmed the six Tasmanian senators and that will include Lamby.
Speaker 2: And just remember the way our democracy works. Tasmania has
Speaker 2: the same number of senates as we do in New
Speaker 2: South Wales, which seems a little ridiculous. Just some confirmation
Speaker 2: of Mindeva energy for our listeners in the Southern Highlands.
Speaker 2: We have plenty via the app. It looks like it's
Speaker 2: going to be nine o'clock before the power is restored
Speaker 2: to some areas around Barrel. About eighty four properties at
Speaker 2: the moment are without power. There's been some damage to
Speaker 2: power lines caused by a tree in these winds. Let's
Speaker 2: check out your headlines and good after and Josh Bryce.
Speaker 10: Good afternoon, Clinton. The fate of rose Hill Racecourse is
Speaker 10: expected to be known soon as members have been voting
Speaker 10: on whether location will be sold off to the state
Speaker 10: government to be turned into twenty five thousand new homes.
Speaker 10: More than one hundred specialists police are being deployed. It's
Speaker 10: part of a task force designed to help bring an
Speaker 10: end to growing gang violence on the streets of Sydney.
Speaker 10: Key Labour backbencher at Hu six urging the federal government
Speaker 10: to push for greater action against Israel, arguing the country
Speaker 10: should be punished after restricting food and medical supplies in
Speaker 10: war torn Gaza At Australia's Queen Mary and her husband
Speaker 10: have been upstaged by the family dog King Frederick, was
Speaker 10: greeting crowds on the palace for his fifty seventh birthday,
Speaker 10: the one of the family's border colleagues, made a surprise appearance.
Speaker 10: Is believed to be the first time that's happened. In sport,
Speaker 10: Blues coach Laurie Daly says he's quietly confident that sent
Speaker 10: to Stephen Crichton will be fit to play in the
Speaker 10: State of Origin opener after leaving training with a corked
Speaker 10: thigh yesterday. We'll have more news and sport.
Speaker 2: It for thank you Josh eighteen degrees in the city.
Speaker 2: It is seventeen degrees in Campbelltown at the moment, one
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three is our number. The big
Speaker 2: issue in Sydney today, no doubt, is gang violence. Violent criminals,
Speaker 2: drug gangs who are now willing to shoot not just
Speaker 2: each other, but innocent victims. Now this has moved to
Speaker 2: a whole new level. And we've witnessed gun crime and
Speaker 2: drug crime in this city for decades, but it's no
Speaker 2: longer just the lives of criminals that are in danger.
Speaker 2: We are seeing innocent people killed, cases of mistaken identity,
Speaker 2: which takes this drug war and it's all about drugs
Speaker 2: and illegal tobacco as well, to a whole new level.
Speaker 2: What we saw in Granville Sunday afternoon, innocent bystanders, their
Speaker 2: lives were put at risk. We saw just a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks ago the murder of a forty five year
Speaker 2: old mother who was abducted from her home her child
Speaker 2: whack with a baseball back. This was in Bankstown. She's stripped,
Speaker 2: tied up and then killed. Police believe she had no
Speaker 2: idea that her husband was involved in the drug trade.
Speaker 2: Last week, the murder of a twenty three year old
Speaker 2: in a driveway over home at Condell Park. He had
Speaker 2: just come home in his ute, worked for his dad
Speaker 2: as a plumber. Apparently a case of mistaken identity because
Speaker 2: there was a crime figure living in the street. There's
Speaker 2: a theory doing the rounds that members of these criminal
Speaker 2: gangs in Sydney have changed their stance, that they're now
Speaker 2: willing to kill innocent people. They don't seem to care
Speaker 2: and that they're criminals in the end because if anything, okay,
Speaker 2: if they maybe kill the wrong person here and there,
Speaker 2: it still sends a message to their rivals that they're
Speaker 2: more than willing to kill. The police and the government
Speaker 2: today have set up Task Force Falcon. It's made up
Speaker 2: of one hundred and fifty officers and another ninety staff.
Speaker 2: The Police Minister Usiasmin Catley.
Speaker 11: We will not tolerate these lawless thugs getting out there
Speaker 11: with their vendebtors against each other and putting in danger
Speaker 11: innocent victims in our community. Let me tell you, if
Speaker 11: you intend to become a part of these organized gangs,
Speaker 11: you are either going to end up in a small
Speaker 11: cell for the rest of your life or indeed at
Speaker 11: the Morgue we take this very very seriously.
Speaker 2: The police minister Yasmin Cattley, now Dave Hudson, the Deputy
Speaker 2: commissioner's heading up all this and he's a very serious
Speaker 2: police officer, is the deputy commissioner. I wonder though, whether
Speaker 2: the criminals in the Alabideine crime gang and listening to
Speaker 2: Yasmin Catley this apening, thinking we're worried that nothing worries them.
Speaker 2: The only thing they're worried about is their payday. It's
Speaker 2: all about greed. I'm going to talk with a former
Speaker 2: police officer who can give us an insight into what's
Speaker 2: happening in the underworld at the moment. Laid this half
Speaker 2: hour and I know a lot of people respond by saying,
Speaker 2: who cares if crooks kill crooks as few of them
Speaker 2: on the streets. The problem is they're not just killing
Speaker 2: crooks now, they're killing innocent people as well.
Speaker 4: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 4: now with Quenton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To GB Well, hasn't Emmanuel mccron and his wife made
Speaker 2: headlines today? This is quite extraordinary, this slap on board
Speaker 2: the plane. Peter Ford joins us. What do you make
Speaker 2: of it, Pete, I'm still not sure.
Speaker 12: I'm still I think it's odd, that's for sure. And
Speaker 12: I know, and let's be really clear, you know where
Speaker 12: everyone knows that domestic violence is not a laughing matter,
Speaker 12: but this would seem to not be that. Certainly. President
Speaker 12: Macron is insistent that it wasn't that his offers are
Speaker 12: saying it wasn't that. It was just a bit of
Speaker 12: horseplay and high jinks and they were messing around, and
Speaker 12: which is hard to meet a fully swallow because you know,
Speaker 12: these are very experienced people. He's been in that position
Speaker 12: now for eight years, and I'm sure there's many times
Speaker 12: he's arrived on the jet in a new country and
Speaker 12: he knows perfectly well, that's the moment when the doors
Speaker 12: open and all the media are waiting to get that
Speaker 12: shot as you walk up and walk out of the
Speaker 12: plane and down the stairs. So it would seem to
Speaker 12: be very strange timing to be indulging in hijinks. But
Speaker 12: that's what they say it was.
Speaker 2: Well, he has defended himself. This is little what he's
Speaker 2: had to say.
Speaker 13: We were squabbling and I was joking with my wife,
Speaker 13: and I'm surprised by it, and it becomes some sort
Speaker 13: of geoplanetary catastrophe and everybody needs to calm down and
Speaker 13: should really focus on actual news.
Speaker 2: A geoplanetary catastrophe.
Speaker 12: Well, yes, look, I mean I think it buys into
Speaker 12: a lot of the theories that go around about this marriage,
Speaker 12: and I'm not going to indulge in those because some
Speaker 12: of them are pretty wild and pretty out.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 2: They did meet in school and she was the.
Speaker 12: Teacher exactly, so what we do know, even just the
Speaker 12: facts that we know, it's not ever been a conventional relationship.
Speaker 12: You know, there's a twenty five year age different there.
Speaker 12: She was a school drama teacher. He was fifteen years old,
Speaker 12: so you're getting into sort of questionable areas there. Anyway,
Speaker 12: So it's always been a little bit odd. So I
Speaker 12: don't know, is the honest answer. But it certainly got
Speaker 12: people talking and guessing, and I guess anything that happens
Speaker 12: in the next few days people are going to jump
Speaker 12: on and say that's more.
Speaker 2: Evidence the romance of Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley
Speaker 2: has moved to a new stage.
Speaker 12: Yes, every day we get something that's new. You know,
Speaker 12: yesterday we had the first ever red carpet appearance by
Speaker 12: the two of them, so that was quite something. Then
Speaker 12: today he's put up a post onto his social media
Speaker 12: she has as well, actually from this event they went
Speaker 12: to together in Rome, and in it he actually calls her
Speaker 12: my beautiful girlfriend, so he has used the G word girlfriend.
Speaker 12: So we haven't actually had the use of the L
Speaker 12: word yet, but that's got to be soon, I reckon.
Speaker 12: And the is now that they've both gone back to
Speaker 12: England together and she's going to be there and he's
Speaker 12: joining her simply to spend time meeting her family and friends.
Speaker 12: So there's no doubt this is a serious thing. Whether
Speaker 12: it's going to last the distance or not is another question.
Speaker 12: But I mean she certainly if you look at her
Speaker 12: through the years, she's got very very eclectic tastes in
Speaker 12: men still all different types of people through the years,
Speaker 12: and of course the most recent one being our own
Speaker 12: Shane Warn But good luck to them, you know, I
Speaker 12: hope they make it work.
Speaker 2: Does he still have the mullet Billy Ryan, Yeah he has.
Speaker 12: Look, he's got a kind of slightly dishevelled country singer.
Speaker 12: Look you know about him. But yeah, they say opposite
Speaker 12: to track, don't they I mean, she has said the
Speaker 12: thing that drew them together, and it didn't happen instantaneously.
Speaker 12: They made a movie together a couple of years ago,
Speaker 12: and there was no suggestion there that any love or
Speaker 12: any real close friendship evolved from that. But it was
Speaker 12: twelve months later when she contacted him and suddenly that's
Speaker 12: when it's all blossomed from there.
Speaker 2: Good luck to them, Happy for them. We'll talk tomorrow.
Speaker 12: Thanks Clenton.
Speaker 2: We have lots of text messages about the future of
Speaker 2: rose Hill Gardens Racecourse and Peter mcgarren and Gay Waterhouse
Speaker 2: will both join me later in the program. I'm expecting
Speaker 2: a result within the next half an hour. Paul says
Speaker 2: Peter mcgoan will need to resign. His position of chair
Speaker 2: is untenable. The members don't trust him. And this one
Speaker 2: from Misty, where's the money coming from? Why should taxpayers
Speaker 2: prop up the racing industry? This is even before considering
Speaker 2: the traffic issues that a housing estate is going to
Speaker 2: bring to the rose Hill Racecourse. Well, in regards to
Speaker 2: the five billion dollars, that's where we're very light on
Speaker 2: detail at the moment because the government certainly hasn't outlined
Speaker 2: their role in the plant other than they do want
Speaker 2: to see twenty five thousand new homes built at Rosehill.
Speaker 2: But there's never been a formal document put on the
Speaker 2: table for any of us to look at to say, Okay,
Speaker 2: the government will spend X number of dollars per year
Speaker 2: over the decade. So it's not just money to prop
Speaker 2: up the ATC. You got to make that clear. The
Speaker 2: idea is to housing and there would be profit involved
Speaker 2: as well, whether it's for the government or developers whoever.
Speaker 2: And it's to address the problem of the shortage of
Speaker 2: housing that we have in Sydney. But there's just there's
Speaker 2: no formality about this that this is actually what the
Speaker 2: government has agreed to. Word on the street for Tempa
Speaker 2: a great night's sleep night after night. The difference is Tempa.
Speaker 2: Debbie is in Gladesville and has a word on the street.
Speaker 2: Your line is really bad, Debbie. But so you're telling
Speaker 2: me that there's an accident on Victoria Road near Charles Street.
Speaker 2: So it's at right, is it, Debbie? Yep, it's at right.
Speaker 2: It's heading westbound, so apologies there. Debbie's line is very poor,
Speaker 2: but there are two cars in the footpath there. Thanks
Speaker 2: for letting us know about that. Police investigations also under
Speaker 2: way about an incident in our Tarman lunchtime today in
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Street, and just having a look at some of
Speaker 2: the photos that I mentioned with Michael McLaren a little
Speaker 2: earlier this afternoon, an elderly driver has somehow managed to
Speaker 2: fling her car, a red Honda h it's a red
Speaker 2: Honda Suv and somehow she's managed to mount apart car
Speaker 2: that's at the side of Elizabeth Street and she's ended
Speaker 2: up on two wheels and she's lucky that she hasn't
Speaker 2: been badly injured. Now, neighbors helped her get out of
Speaker 2: the car, and then the police arrived in a tow
Speaker 2: truck driver and very delicately they were able to remove
Speaker 2: the suv from the top of a park or Black
Speaker 2: too had a camera. It looks like it's a peplay
Speaker 2: driver there. Fortunately nobody has been seriously injured, but the
Speaker 2: driver looks like she's had a very lucky escape.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two
Speaker 4: gb Com now one three to one, page seven three.
Speaker 2: It's a quarter to the four. As I mentioned, the
Speaker 2: state government and the police today have announced a major
Speaker 2: task force. It is called Task Force Falcon and its
Speaker 2: job is to bring together thirteen different strike forces. So
Speaker 2: strike forces are set up to investigate individual crimes, but
Speaker 2: there would appear to be links between many of these crimes.
Speaker 2: It appears to be linked to a gang war to
Speaker 2: Sydney's underworld War. What's occurring now though, is innocent people
Speaker 2: are being killed. As I mentioned, there was a forty
Speaker 2: five year old woman who was abducted from her Bankstown
Speaker 2: home a couple of weeks ago. Now police believe her
Speaker 2: husband was involved in the drug trade, but they also
Speaker 2: believe she had zero idea of her husband's second life.
Speaker 2: She was abducted, she was stripped naked, she was tied up.
Speaker 2: Now allegedly, then efforts were made to contact the husband.
Speaker 2: The criminals couldn't get through to the husband, so they
Speaker 2: killed her. No one's been charged with her murder yet.
Speaker 2: Last week, twenty three year old executed in his driveway
Speaker 2: when he arrived home in Condeal Park. Police are of
Speaker 2: the belief that most likely a case of mistaken identity,
Speaker 2: that there had been a crime figure living in the street.
Speaker 2: And this appears to be the change that where we've
Speaker 2: had members of these underworld drug gangs willing to kill
Speaker 2: each other, you might think, fine, they now appear to
Speaker 2: be willing to kill other people as well. Glenn Gorick
Speaker 2: is a retired police sergeant and has a lot of
Speaker 2: experience in investigation. Glenn, thanks for your time.
Speaker 15: Yeah, thanks for having me on K good to talk
Speaker 15: with you.
Speaker 2: Firstly, and I asked you about your insight into this
Speaker 2: ongoing gang or and maybe the way it's being changed
Speaker 2: in the moment. But first of what the Governor's announced
Speaker 2: today was Dave Hudson. It is a task force, Task
Speaker 2: Force Falcon. It'll bring together one hundred and fifty officers
Speaker 2: and ninety other staff. When police respond in this way,
Speaker 2: bringing together thirteen strikeforces under the umbrella of one group.
Speaker 2: What does that tell you about their concern.
Speaker 15: It tells you that you're in trouble. Really, you have
Speaker 15: a big problem in Sydney. When you're going to pull
Speaker 15: all these police off one group of investigations and move
Speaker 15: them all over into and focus purely on this, there's
Speaker 15: going to be a lot of work to come to
Speaker 15: a halt and a lot of new work brought up.
Speaker 15: So it tells me that they're extremely concerned about the
Speaker 15: circumstances that are going.
Speaker 12: On now, and you know, you only have to look.
Speaker 9: We've had this run of drive by shootings.
Speaker 15: We've had this run of innocent people being shot back Queen.
Speaker 15: This goes back four decades that I remember of certain
Speaker 15: families in Sydney. Four decades. You would think that it
Speaker 15: would have stopped, and it hasn't. And it's this tit
Speaker 15: for tat continuance of oh, we'll take that person out
Speaker 15: and thinking that that will end it.
Speaker 2: When it doesn't.
Speaker 6: What it does it escalates.
Speaker 15: It because then the other side start planning their retaliatory behavior.
Speaker 2: I went along to a press conference with the Senior
Speaker 2: Police probably about eighteen months ago, and they'd made some
Speaker 2: more arrests members alleged members of the Alamadeen family crime gang.
Speaker 2: And for years they are at all with the Hams.
Speaker 2: You think most of the Hamses are in jail. And
Speaker 2: they made a declaration at this press conference Glenn that
Speaker 2: they believed they'd effectively broken up the Alamedines. But today
Speaker 2: we're hearing, we have over the past couple of weeks
Speaker 2: that some of these crimes again, including what transpired Sunday
Speaker 2: in Granville, Parramatta, is again linked to the Alamedines.
Speaker 15: Yeah, there's a remote link to that. I believe it's
Speaker 15: alleged that the person that was seriously injured in that
Speaker 15: one is linked to the Alamadeen. Obviously the lawyer was
Speaker 15: there with them. He's the lawyers are all linked to
Speaker 15: them anyway in some shape or form, because they're defending
Speaker 15: them and the Alamadean family.
Speaker 1: Look, I remember when I.
Speaker 15: Was in crime team, and I go back to the
Speaker 15: eighties and there was all sorts of problems with the right.
Speaker 15: Back then, they were all causing trouble. They were young,
Speaker 15: you know, and again they've grown up that we thought
Speaker 15: they would outgrow it, and the Alamadean family has just
Speaker 15: continued on generation to generation with this kind of problem.
Speaker 15: That's it's Razors said. We have the alleged Rezark family,
Speaker 15: the dib family. It's just analyses prime families coming from
Speaker 15: that southwestern corner, and they seem to involve themselves in
Speaker 15: this serious crime. And as you know, innocent people are
Speaker 15: getting hurt. Bob Knight shooting back at two thousand and nine.
Speaker 15: Two thousand and nine, Bob Knight was shot in the
Speaker 15: neck by his trade bullet from a shootout.
Speaker 2: So Bob Bob Knight was a truck drive, wasn't he truck.
Speaker 15: Driver sitting at an intersection driving his truck going to
Speaker 15: work and he gets shot and he's and the family
Speaker 15: are left with that mess. And that was a stray
Speaker 15: bullet from one of these driby.
Speaker 2: So that is literally in the crossfire. That's actually what happened.
Speaker 2: But has there been a change in your observations of
Speaker 2: some of these crimes this year? Has there been a
Speaker 2: change in the way these gangs are operating that they're
Speaker 2: willing to kill innocent people such as the forty five
Speaker 2: year old wife of somebody connected to the drug dealer
Speaker 2: who didn't even know her husband was involved in this,
Speaker 2: or the kid last week who police believe simple case
Speaker 2: a mistaken identity.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has changed.
Speaker 15: Look the difference you go back to the old school
Speaker 15: days of the Christovadal Flannery.
Speaker 16: They would have bring the third party in right and.
Speaker 15: They would conduct surveillance and go and do the execution
Speaker 15: or whatever. It narrowed down to family members on family
Speaker 15: members for a long time. That has now gone back
Speaker 15: to third parties where they are using a young males
Speaker 15: that are running around involved in some form of time.
Speaker 15: They grabbed them onside, they paint them a lot of money,
Speaker 15: and then they give them the job to do.
Speaker 17: And that's what's happening here.
Speaker 15: And hence why there is a lot of mistakes being made.
Speaker 15: It's third parties who aren't up to the job that
Speaker 15: they take it on because they want the money and
Speaker 15: make it nund for themselves.
Speaker 2: So they're not, let's be blunt, they're not very good
Speaker 2: at being an assassin.
Speaker 1: No, they're not at all.
Speaker 6: They're terrible.
Speaker 15: They're absolutely hopeless. And as you're seeing the wrong things
Speaker 15: are getting done and look, you know, it's just a
Speaker 15: complete mess. And the proactive policing approach to it is
Speaker 15: going to be the only anste They're going to have
Speaker 15: to saturate that southwestern area with proactive police looking for
Speaker 15: these people running around in the planning phases of these
Speaker 15: things and try and intervene before they execute their plan.
Speaker 2: Yes, So, just in conclusion, Gwen, is that the answer
Speaker 2: having more cops on the street actually targeting these dugs.
Speaker 17: It has to be.
Speaker 15: There's no other way you can combat it. There's absolutely
Speaker 15: no way you can combat people running around that are
Speaker 15: going to carry out a murder on an execution. All
Speaker 15: those crime gangs are trying to do is send a
Speaker 15: message to the game. They're making a statement, and the
Speaker 15: problem with it is it just goes round and round
Speaker 15: in circles and innocent people are getting killed. And look,
Speaker 15: the people of Sydney don't deserve this. There's lots of
Speaker 15: good people out in that south for us to Sydney.
Speaker 1: That live every night in fear of a.
Speaker 15: Drive by coming down the street. It needs to be
Speaker 15: cleaned up. And I believe Dave Hudson would be the
Speaker 15: best man for the job because he has forty years
Speaker 15: in the police force, mostly in investigations, and he was
Speaker 15: a great detictive when in his younger days. I think
Speaker 15: he's the greatest guy to head this up and do
Speaker 15: something about it.
Speaker 2: He's heading this up and he may well be the
Speaker 2: commissioner by the end of the year. Thank you for your Tom, Glenn.
Speaker 15: Thank you Clinton.
Speaker 9: It's always good to talk with you.
Speaker 2: Retired police Sergeant Glenn Gorick. Now, I know, you know
Speaker 2: some people don't care about people who are crooks shooting
Speaker 2: each other, but and I know people have also been
Speaker 2: caught in the crossfire for years. But the story last
Speaker 2: week of the twenty three year old who's arriving home
Speaker 2: at work at ten point thirty reversing his car up
Speaker 2: the driveway and someone completely covered in black get away car.
Speaker 2: They're waiting for him, and the neighbors heard someone out
Speaker 2: saying no, no, no, don't do it. And it wasn't
Speaker 2: even anyone involved based on what the police investigation show
Speaker 2: involved in the drug trader or crime. The god I'd
Speaker 2: had one traffic infringement that was the only thing on
Speaker 2: his record. That is terrifying and that's what we've got
Speaker 2: to do everything we can as a community to stamp
Speaker 2: that sort of behavior out and once these people are
Speaker 2: before the courts, get them in jail and keep them there.
Speaker 2: The New South Wales government has been criticized today by
Speaker 2: the Lock the Gates Alliance. What is the Lock the
Speaker 2: Gate Alliance. They're one of the fairly radical environmental groups.
Speaker 2: They're angry that the government has approved its sixth coal
Speaker 2: mine expansions since they came to power, and the Lock
Speaker 2: the Gate Alliance is using the Mid North Coast floods
Speaker 2: as an example about why these particular coal mines should
Speaker 2: not be expanded, because they are suggesting that the floods
Speaker 2: on the Mid North coast in the Hunts Valley have
Speaker 2: been caused by climate change, and now the government is
Speaker 2: making it worse by approving the expansion of a coal
Speaker 2: mine in Tarmor, which is twenty five kilometers from Campbelltown.
Speaker 2: It is the first fourth coal mine approval since the
Speaker 2: New South Wales Net Zero Commission warned in New South
Speaker 2: Wales that we are not on track to meet our
Speaker 2: emissions reduction targets for twenty thirty or twenty thirty five.
Speaker 2: I somehow don't think the expansion of one coal mine
Speaker 2: or native This is actually the sixth since the New
Speaker 2: South Wales Labor Buddy came to power. I don't think
Speaker 2: the expansion of that coal mine was going to prevent
Speaker 2: the mid North Coast floods.
Speaker 3: She's Antella kid and he's a Natella kid.
Speaker 2: Hey kid, aren't you lucky Natella for anternoon? Do your
Speaker 2: kids eat Natella or your grandkids? I've never been into it.
Speaker 2: I've never been into it, but I was reading this
Speaker 2: week that Australians eat an average each year of fifteen
Speaker 2: million kilograms of Natella, which is the chocolate hates nutspread
Speaker 2: that's been a round top. It was around when I
Speaker 2: was a kid, but just something I never really had,
Speaker 2: and we don't have jars of it sitting in our
Speaker 2: kitchen cupboard. I don't think it's that great for.
Speaker 9: You, was it?
Speaker 2: Natella. Nevertheless, it's been rated the number one spread in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four based on sales
Speaker 2: dart up because we eat fifteen million kilograms. But it
Speaker 2: is facing a challenge. I read this week it is
Speaker 2: facing a challenge from Biskoff. Have you had Biscoff now?
Speaker 2: Biskoff is increasingly popular. Based on Google Trends search data,
Speaker 2: more people have searched for Biscoff than they have Natella
Speaker 2: over the past few years. Natella is still beating it
Speaker 2: in the sales race. Biscoff is a caramel cinnamon spice
Speaker 2: biscuit and spread, and a lot of the big food
Speaker 2: retailers doing deals with the Biscoff manufacturer, Lotus Bakeries to
Speaker 2: have biscoss favorite fluid biscos on to tell it better,
Speaker 2: I think I probably go for Veggie Mine.
Speaker 1: The Sydney Now with Clinton on.
Speaker 2: To gb Well, the votes are being tally right now,
Speaker 2: votes that will decide the future rose Hill Gardens racecourse.
Speaker 2: The EGM has concluded at roy Ramick this afternoon of
Speaker 2: the ATC. There's been a bigger turnout than was expected
Speaker 2: and as a result of this, it's likely to be
Speaker 2: a closer vote. I don't yet have a result, but
Speaker 2: what I've been hearing is the no vote is going
Speaker 2: to be successful. Later in the program, I'm going to
Speaker 2: speak with the ATC's chair, Peter mcgorren, but also I'm
Speaker 2: going to speak with Gay Waterhow Gay Waterhouse has been
Speaker 2: in my program several times in the last couple of
Speaker 2: weeks has been staunchly in the No camp. The deal,
Speaker 2: of course, to sell Rose Hill to the state government,
Speaker 2: who would then develop it with property developers five billion
Speaker 2: dollars over ten years, and that would create space for
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand new homes. Now most of those would
Speaker 2: be apartments. There would also be a new metro train station.
Speaker 2: This is a divisive issue. It is passionate. I received
Speaker 2: so many listeners' messages telling me don't sell Rose Hill.
Speaker 2: But in the end it comes down to a democratic
Speaker 2: decision from the ATC. Chrispin's the Premier, wants this to happen,
Speaker 2: but he has repeatedly said he won't acquire the land.
Speaker 2: I heard one rumor today that if this sale is
Speaker 2: not successful, if the vote is not successful, that the
Speaker 2: premier would acquire the land. He has consistently ruled that out.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to be doing that, as
Speaker 2: has been now reported over the last couple of days.
Speaker 2: This is the one chance. There are some property experts
Speaker 2: who say that if the members of the ATC don't
Speaker 2: take up this deal now, it won't be there on
Speaker 2: the table in say three or four years time, or
Speaker 2: the valuation will change. The five billion dollars won't be there.
Speaker 2: Many prominent people have taken part in this meeting this afternoon,
Speaker 2: including John Singleton form my owner this radio station. He
Speaker 2: has spoken to reporters on his way out.
Speaker 18: Five billion dollars for a bit of rotten land at
Speaker 18: I don't even like going at all. If you've asked
Speaker 18: the people to send up who went to rose Hill
Speaker 18: the last five years improve a point, So you're disappointed, Yeah,
Speaker 18: I thought we'd have some fireworks and some yeah people
Speaker 18: getting stuck into one. That's all big, that five and
Speaker 18: polite and very disappointing.
Speaker 2: I heard the bit of angst in there, but as
Speaker 2: Singo says that everybody was very polite towards one another.
Speaker 2: So Singo appears to be a fan of the idea
Speaker 2: to sell rose Hill. Now he's pointing out he said,
Speaker 2: you stand up if you actually don't go to the
Speaker 2: rose Hill races. Now, I'm not a racegoer, Okay, someone
Speaker 2: coming at this issue independently, But certainly what Peter mcgouran
Speaker 2: has told me is that consistently the attendance figures at
Speaker 2: rose Hill have been going down. Ranwick has been more
Speaker 2: successful in attracting the punters. But it's a democratic decision
Speaker 2: for the members of the ATC and certainly when I
Speaker 2: get that information through about the success of the vote,
Speaker 2: I'll bring that to you. My understanding is no will
Speaker 2: be successful, but it's going to be tight.
Speaker 1: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney
Speaker 1: now with Clinton Maynard until sex Well.
Speaker 2: The flood recovery effort continues on the mid North Coast.
Speaker 2: We were broadcasting the program from there yesterday, but also
Speaker 2: the Hunter Valley. There are about eight hundred homes that
Speaker 2: have been declared so far uninhabitable. They'll have to be
Speaker 2: knocked down. Now. Reality is some of the families in
Speaker 2: those houses aren't insured, and there's a lot of pressure
Speaker 2: now in the insurance industry. Firstly for those that do
Speaker 2: have insurance to respond quickly to process claims quickly. But
Speaker 2: there's also the question of what is going to happen
Speaker 2: long term on the mid North Coast and the same
Speaker 2: question for the North Coast that of course suffered the
Speaker 2: floods around Lismore. There's then businesses, businesses for instance, that
Speaker 2: may have been operating in a particular area around Tai
Speaker 2: for decades and decades that insurance has become so expensive
Speaker 2: they simply can't afford to a new premiums that they
Speaker 2: drop out. What happens to them. Yesterday on the program,
Speaker 2: the Premiere was with me and I asked him what
Speaker 2: is going to be done about insurance reforms long term?
Speaker 2: Does the government need to play a greater role in
Speaker 2: providing insurance for properties that are deemed to be uninsurable.
Speaker 19: The government's announced and intention to pursue reform in that area,
Speaker 19: to be honest with you, because we're going to have
Speaker 19: more of these in the future, not less, we have
Speaker 19: to think about ways of reducing the amount insurance insurance
Speaker 19: people pay and hopefully in certain areas, making it affordable
Speaker 19: for the first time, or at.
Speaker 16: Least the policy being offered.
Speaker 19: I don't have you know, I try to be really blunt.
Speaker 9: In these circumstances because people have got.
Speaker 19: To have straight information from the government. I don't have
Speaker 19: an easy answer.
Speaker 16: I wish I did.
Speaker 19: If we did, we would have implemented it before the
Speaker 19: storm hit Port Macquarie and Kempsey. But we have to
Speaker 19: start working on it because we need a longer term solution.
Speaker 2: Well, the Prime Minister today, who was being tar to
Speaker 2: his credit, was also asked about the future of insurance
Speaker 2: in areas like the Mid North Coast and the Far
Speaker 2: North Coast.
Speaker 5: Well, we expect insurance companies to do right by their
Speaker 5: customers and swiftly process claims.
Speaker 1: They've set up an.
Speaker 5: Office here so that they can be dealt with swiftly.
Speaker 5: Our focus now is on the cleanup and recovery from
Speaker 5: this event. That's our focus, the immediate needs. That's what
Speaker 5: people here expect us to do. Yes, there are longer
Speaker 5: term issues that.
Speaker 20: Need to be looked at.
Speaker 5: What we need to do at this point in time, though,
Speaker 5: is make sure that people's immediate needs are looked after.
Speaker 2: In the end, you didn't answer the question about what's
Speaker 2: going to happen with insurance long term. Andrew Hall is
Speaker 2: the CEO of the Insurance Counsel and is in Tari
Speaker 2: at the moment. Thank you for joining me, Andrew, Thank
Speaker 2: you for having me quin Firstly, the situation right at
Speaker 2: the moment in terms of processing claims and assessing the damage.
Speaker 2: We often hear in times of these natural disasters it
Speaker 2: simply takes insurance companies too long to carry out those assessments.
Speaker 2: So are you able to give us an assurance that
Speaker 2: that's not the case this time around?
Speaker 21: Well our full flood event this year, So insurance companies
Speaker 21: have been working since January when the floods started up
Speaker 21: in far North Queensland and we had ten thousand odd
Speaker 21: claims in that region. Moved down to Tropical Cyclone Alfred
Speaker 21: and the flooding that occurred in Harvey Bay and then
Speaker 21: Dwan to Lismore, out to western Queensland and now here
Speaker 21: on the mid North coast. Since twenty twenty two, insurers
Speaker 21: have massively expanded their workforces, so we've got really an
Speaker 21: army of people that are moving at the moment down
Speaker 21: the coast and into the areas here on the mid North.
Speaker 22: Coast to get the assessments done.
Speaker 21: As the Prime Minister mentioned there, we've opened an insurance
Speaker 21: hub here in tai People can come in without a booking.
Speaker 21: They can see their insurance company and have a conversation
Speaker 21: with them face to face to get their claim organized.
Speaker 21: So there's a whole raft of initiatives that have started
Speaker 21: since the biggest event we went through, which was twenty
Speaker 21: twenty two.
Speaker 2: What's and credite for doing that? What is now during
Speaker 2: a natural disaster? What would the average weight time be
Speaker 2: between the time and assessments conducted, the claim lodged and
Speaker 2: a payout is made.
Speaker 21: So for us, we're trying not to make payouts insurance
Speaker 21: replaces like for like, we try to rebuild and restore.
Speaker 21: What's there payouts happen when the persons some insured is
Speaker 21: not going to cover what they want to do to
Speaker 21: their property. And this is part of the problem with flood.
Speaker 21: One of the issues with flood if you think about
Speaker 21: what happens when a bushfire goes through or a cyclone
Speaker 21: goes through, we have homes are often completely destroyed. They're
Speaker 21: then built back to a bushfire proofed or in Queensland.
Speaker 21: They're built back to a category three or above standard
Speaker 21: for cyclone. We have no standards for flood. We we
Speaker 21: are expected to build back the exact saying property in
Speaker 21: the exact same location, with the assumption that it's not
Speaker 21: going to happen again.
Speaker 2: And standing and.
Speaker 21: Here in Taris, you would have seen all these other
Speaker 21: towns that I've been to today and spoken to people
Speaker 21: that happened to them in twenty twenty one. It's twenty
Speaker 21: twenty five. It will happen again. These are areas that
Speaker 21: in the old world were known as one and twenty
Speaker 21: one and ten year flood zones. These days we call
Speaker 21: them a two or a five percent chance of flooding
Speaker 21: every year.
Speaker 9: They're the ones we've.
Speaker 21: Got to deal with.
Speaker 2: I spoke to numerous Brisoness owners and residents in particular
Speaker 2: yesterday in tari and they told me that premiums had
Speaker 2: jumped up dramatically after twenty one twenty two, in some
Speaker 2: cases twenty five thousand dollars, so completely unaffordable. How can
Speaker 2: that be justified?
Speaker 21: So flood is our biggest problem. And where I see
Speaker 21: twenty five thousand dollar premiums and I investigate it, it's
Speaker 21: always related to that properties flood risk. Now, why is
Speaker 21: flood the problem. Flood is a problem because it is
Speaker 21: a predictable and known risk. We know that that building
Speaker 21: where it stands, is likely to flood, how often, we
Speaker 21: know how often it's likely to flood, the depth of frequency,
Speaker 21: All of those factors are very well known. Insurance is
Speaker 21: designed to protect you from unexpected so the accidental fire,
Speaker 21: the hailstorm, the bad storm that comes. But with flood
Speaker 21: it's been a very different set of challenges and we're
Speaker 21: not alone in Australia. Every other insurance market in the
Speaker 21: world has the same problem. If an insurance company takes
Speaker 21: on a house, like a couple of the homes that
Speaker 21: I've seen today here that have flooded three times since
Speaker 21: twenty twenty one, they're trying to price the cost of
Speaker 21: restoring or rebuilding that property completely every three years, and
Speaker 21: that's how you end up with prices of twenty five
Speaker 21: thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 2: There's been some headlines. Now, whether you can clarifyse to me,
Speaker 2: is you sis an over the top headline that much
Speaker 2: of the mid North Coast will now be uninsurable? Is
Speaker 2: that unfair?
Speaker 21: That is unfair? Most of the mid North Coast is insurable,
Speaker 21: and we've looked at the insurance rates up here and
Speaker 21: they pretty well match insurance rates across the state of
Speaker 21: New South Wales. But there are very concentrated areas of
Speaker 21: homes and businesses that in very high risk locations. They're
Speaker 21: the ones with the high prints.
Speaker 2: What is there a way that you can work with
Speaker 2: the government whereby perhaps a property owner in one of
Speaker 2: these areas who may well have been there their whole life,
Speaker 2: and they know that it's floodponed, and perhaps they haven't
Speaker 2: been through a flood as bad as what they have
Speaker 2: experienced in the last week, whereby there can be a
Speaker 2: combination of the government and private insurance companies coming together
Speaker 2: to at least be able to offer some sort of
Speaker 2: affordable policy. Because I asked that I was an oyster
Speaker 2: farm yesday can oster farmers on the river. But the
Speaker 2: particular rest farmer I was speaking to has been there
Speaker 2: is whole life, and yes, floods do occur. A flood
Speaker 2: occurred in twenty twenty one, but he's never been through
Speaker 2: a flood like this one before.
Speaker 21: And Clinton wants devastating for the oyster farmers. We know
Speaker 21: is that it can knock out production for up to
Speaker 21: three years. Look, there is a solution there. It's going
Speaker 21: to be a public private partnership between government and insurance.
Speaker 21: We have already provided all of our peril data to
Speaker 21: the federal government. That's all the information we use around
Speaker 21: the flood peril free example. What we've said to government,
Speaker 21: and we've had long conversations with them. We put out
Speaker 21: a policy ahead of the last federal election that was
Speaker 21: just held where we've priced the de risking of twenty
Speaker 21: four catchments on the East Coast over a period of
Speaker 21: ten years.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 21: It's about thirty billion dollars. It's expensive and there is
Speaker 21: no easy silvable because ultimately to get the price of
Speaker 21: insurance down you've got to reduce the risk. If you
Speaker 21: don't reduce the risk, someone ends up paying. If we
Speaker 21: go and spread that cost across everyone's policies. I get
Speaker 21: people who live in non flood zones tell me they
Speaker 21: don't want to be subsidizing those people in flood zones.
Speaker 21: So we're saying to government, we've got to work with
Speaker 21: you on this. We know here are the facts. There
Speaker 21: are two hundred and twenty thousand homes on the East
Speaker 21: coast of Australia that are sitting in a two or
Speaker 21: a five percent chance of flooding every year. Within that cohort,
Speaker 21: about a third of those people live on less than fifty.
Speaker 9: Six thousand dollars a year.
Speaker 21: These are people who can lease forward this sort.
Speaker 2: Of rig which is where we need government intervention. I've
Speaker 2: got one more question for you, Andrew, but i just
Speaker 2: need to break into this for the moment. Rose Hill
Speaker 2: Racecourse will not be sold. Breaking news. The no vote
Speaker 2: has been successful. Fifty six forty four The ATC members
Speaker 2: have voted against the sale of Rose Hill Gardens fifty
Speaker 2: six forty four. Will bring you more details in just
Speaker 2: a moment. Just back to Andrew Hall, who's the CEO
Speaker 2: of the Insurance Council, because I do have one more
Speaker 2: critical question that affects all of us listening in Sydney.
Speaker 2: There'll be many of our listeners, Andrew, who don't live
Speaker 2: in a flood zone, who don't live in an area
Speaker 2: that's under threat from bushfires, but have experienced dramatic increases
Speaker 2: in their home insurance premiums in particular in last year.
Speaker 2: Is the flood emergency at the moment, is it going
Speaker 2: to affect the premiums of other people this year.
Speaker 21: It's literally too early to tell. The reality is a
Speaker 21: lot of these floods that are occurring have already been
Speaker 21: catered for in the reserves.
Speaker 9: That insurers have.
Speaker 21: The battle that ensurers are facing, it's the same as
Speaker 21: everybody else. Building inflation has gone through the roof over
Speaker 21: the last three years. So the cost of restoring or
Speaker 21: rebuilding your property has risen by forty percent in three years.
Speaker 21: What we say to people is you need to look
Speaker 21: carefully at your sum insure. These days, people often think
Speaker 21: to themselves, look, it will only cost half a million
Speaker 21: dollars to rebuild this house if I need to. That's
Speaker 21: not the case anymore. And this is what we're really
Speaker 21: concerned about moving forward, is at the level of not
Speaker 21: non insurance, but actually under insurance.
Speaker 2: And I can understan why there's under insurance in my policy.
Speaker 2: In my listeners, numb it jumped almost fifteen hundred dollars
Speaker 2: in one year, and so I basically had a reassessment
Speaker 2: that many of our listeners have been in the same position.
Speaker 2: I've got to move on, Andrew, but I do appreciate
Speaker 2: your insights and being there on the mid North Coast.
Speaker 2: Thank you Andrew. Thanks quin Andrew Hall, CEO of the
Speaker 2: Insurance Council. There's no easy solution to the people who
Speaker 2: do live in flood zones, but there needs to be
Speaker 2: some sort of arrangement between both the insurance industry and
Speaker 2: the government. Okay, just repeating breaking news. Rose Hill Race
Speaker 2: Course will not be sold off. The ATC members have
Speaker 2: voted against the sale fifty six forty four that's the percentage,
Speaker 2: fifty six percent, forty four percent. There are roughly twelve
Speaker 2: thousand ATC members. The turnout of the EGM that's been
Speaker 2: conducted at Royal Ramwick has been bigger than had been anticipated.
Speaker 2: There were mostly proxy votes that have been talied up digitally.
Speaker 2: But what it means is the members have voted against
Speaker 2: the sale. Well, Peter mcgorran will join me after five o'clock.
Speaker 2: He is the chair of the ATC and the big
Speaker 2: question is going to be, well, what now if the
Speaker 2: ATC believed that they would benefit from the five billion dollars,
Speaker 2: If that money is not going to come into the coffers,
Speaker 2: what does the ATC do going forward for the racing
Speaker 2: industry in New South Wales? Is there going to be
Speaker 2: a plan to sell off other assets Warwick Farm, Canterbury.
Speaker 2: Would that be a possibility or is there another way
Speaker 2: around this? Is this actually over or will there be
Speaker 2: another way of trying to get this deal done. We're
Speaker 2: going to find out after five o'clock twenty one past four,
Speaker 2: Hey with the latest, Josh Bryant.
Speaker 10: Good afternoon, Clinton, Rose Hill racecourses you were just saying
Speaker 10: will not be sold off after a majority of Australian
Speaker 10: Turf Club members voted not to proceed with the sales
Speaker 10: of the state government as part of a plan to
Speaker 10: turn the site into twenty five thousand new homes. Police
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Speaker 10: The Prime Minister has met with Farmers, Defense and SEES
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Speaker 2: Sixteen degrees in the coast fourteen degrees in the western suburbs.
Speaker 2: Pete mcgo on, the chair of the ATC, has confirmed
Speaker 2: the sale of rose Hill Gardens is not going ahead.
Speaker 23: The ATC members today voted not to sell rose Hill Gardens.
Speaker 23: That means it's finished, taken off the table, will not
Speaker 23: proceed in any shape or form into the future. I
Speaker 23: personally am disappointed, as are forty four percent of members.
Speaker 1: Who voted in support.
Speaker 23: It's a relatively narrow result, but the members vote is supreme,
Speaker 23: it's binding and I respect it and the club now has.
Speaker 2: To look to the future. Gay Waterhouse has been the
Speaker 2: biggest name in Australian racing for years and has been
Speaker 2: opposed to the sale. She joins us, So Gay, thank
Speaker 2: you for your time. Are you happy about this?
Speaker 24: Oh?
Speaker 25: Delirious? And the reason is it gives the people of Liverpool.
Speaker 25: It gives not only racing, but it gives the people
Speaker 25: of Liverpool a wonderful Outlest you know who wants the
Speaker 25: twenty five thousand extra people living there. You know, it'll
Speaker 25: just make it. It would have made it just horrendous.
Speaker 25: If I was a resident of Liverpool, I would have
Speaker 25: been voting no. As a member of the ATC. You
Speaker 25: couldn't think of selling it. It's our premier track. It's
Speaker 25: a one track we own. And they've made the right decision.
Speaker 25: You know, they're not fools of members and they were
Speaker 25: trying to be deluded by the ATC, which were very
Speaker 25: wrong the way they handled the sale. But that's past
Speaker 25: the decisions being made. The hammer's down.
Speaker 2: The vote was fifty six percent against forty four percent
Speaker 2: four As a result of that, do you believe Peter
Speaker 2: mcgarren should stain his job as chairman?
Speaker 25: I do. I think he should resign because he handled
Speaker 25: the whole process disgracefully. They were bribing the members by
Speaker 25: you know, cheek jack. You can have one thousand dollars
Speaker 25: worth of the you know, free drink, and you can
Speaker 25: have you know, the no membership payments. You can't do
Speaker 25: that when you're at clubs. When you're a club, you've
Speaker 25: got to be totally unbiased and say, look, these are
Speaker 25: the two views. You are the members, you choose.
Speaker 2: Now tell me gay if there are financial issues within
Speaker 2: the ATC. They obviously decided they needed a lot of money.
Speaker 2: Do you think they'll now turn to other assets that
Speaker 2: they and what would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury for instance.
Speaker 25: Well, they shouldn't be selling any of them. You know,
Speaker 25: you're not asking to sell the st STGC or the
Speaker 25: cricket ground or any of those sporting resorts. We need
Speaker 25: our sporting resorts and each racetrack looks after the demographic
Speaker 25: of that area. The people that Liverpool don't want to
Speaker 25: go to Randwick. They might for one big day, but
Speaker 25: the rest of the time they'll go to their local
Speaker 25: tracks or they'll support them. What should happen is the
Speaker 25: track should go back to managing themselves as they do
Speaker 25: in Melbourne, and just and the Racing New South Wales
Speaker 25: for just the overseer. But at present all the moneies
Speaker 25: go to Racing New South Wales and they're handed out
Speaker 25: gingerly to the club.
Speaker 2: And just to clarify that, the probably Warwick Farm is
Speaker 2: closer to Liverpool than rose Hill. But how should the
Speaker 2: industry now go about trying to attract more punters, more
Speaker 2: fans to rose Hill? Because Peter mcgourrin argued that the
Speaker 2: numbers going to the track rose Hill in particular have
Speaker 2: been going down.
Speaker 25: Well, they haven't put a penny into it for the
Speaker 25: last ten years and if you don't put any money
Speaker 25: into your asset, it devalues. You know, if they were
Speaker 25: to put the money into it, they put in Durandrick
Speaker 25: or stop buying all these silly properties. Racing New South
Speaker 25: Wales has been buying all over New South Wales. That
Speaker 25: money should be going into our premier race tracks and
Speaker 25: there are four of them. The money should go into
Speaker 25: them to increase, to improve the tracks, the facilities for
Speaker 25: the horses and also for the members and the people
Speaker 25: who go racing.
Speaker 2: Well, Gay, your site has been successful, so hopefully the
Speaker 2: next meeting we see at rose Hill we're attracted, big crowd.
Speaker 2: Congratulations go, thank you for your time.
Speaker 25: That's okay, thank you brother.
Speaker 2: Gay Waterhouse's leading horse trainer, probably the biggest name in
Speaker 2: Australian racing over the past thirty forty years. And just
Speaker 2: to clarify, yes, and I've getting lots of messages. Gay
Speaker 2: mentioned Liverpool on several occasions there Warwick Farm, to be fair,
Speaker 2: is closer to the Liverpool area than rose Hill is.
Speaker 2: But point remains that many people who are passionate about
Speaker 2: racing did not want to see rose Hill sold. Now
Speaker 2: the government's now got an issue. The government's got a
Speaker 2: problem because they were banking on building twenty five thousand
Speaker 2: homes through developers there. But there's also issues for the ATC.
Speaker 2: That five billion dollars that was going to come into
Speaker 2: the coffers, well that money is not going to come
Speaker 2: into New South Wales racing anymore. So how does New
Speaker 2: South Wales Racing push forward? I'll talk with Peter mcgorran
Speaker 2: after the five o'clock news and he's still conducting his
Speaker 2: press conference because there's a lot of questions to ask
Speaker 2: about that. But a lot of feedback coming in on
Speaker 2: the text line in the phones one three one eight
Speaker 2: seventy three. Richard, you were inside the meeting, good, I Richard.
Speaker 2: I think Richard's decided to go back inside the meeting.
Speaker 2: Bill Hello, I Bill, Yeah, Clinton? Is this a good
Speaker 2: call or not?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 22: Common sense provailed him. I strongly did You've got a
Speaker 22: rach calls and staff right, and I allus training. Once
Speaker 22: someone said you're a silladors. He said, a good tradesman
Speaker 22: never sold these tools. And the same applies to your assets.
Speaker 22: You don't sell your assets because you know the part
Speaker 22: and partially what happened.
Speaker 2: But Bill, when was when was the last time you
Speaker 2: went to Rise Hill?
Speaker 22: Oh, I live in buch I used to be remember,
Speaker 22: but you know I let it slip because I never
Speaker 22: used to.
Speaker 2: Go yeah, fair enough, fair enough, well, I mean clearly
Speaker 2: much the members didn't want to say it solid off.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bill, Richard diet I mat.
Speaker 16: Did I Clinton here at Randwick? The weather was fine
Speaker 16: and the track is good.
Speaker 2: Interesting the meeting was actually held at Randwick. You were
Speaker 2: inside the meeting. What was the mood like?
Speaker 16: Yes, it was overwhelmingly no. In fact, when our chairman
Speaker 16: mentioned it was fifty six and and calling that a
Speaker 16: close vote. We remember back with the original proposal just
Speaker 16: a couple of months ago, we were told that the
Speaker 16: no vote was around seventy percent. So you know, the
Speaker 16: change there is probably down to what we now call
Speaker 16: the bride.
Speaker 21: Now.
Speaker 16: My light bulb moment was when I heard on your
Speaker 16: program that correct me if I'm wrong, but you said
Speaker 16: that the CEO of the Metro says that you can
Speaker 16: put a station in after the line has been put
Speaker 16: through it.
Speaker 2: That was from one of our listeners who claimed that
Speaker 2: the CEO of the Metro said that in a parliamentary inquiry.
Speaker 2: But I've had a closer look at that. Technically it's possible,
Speaker 2: but the cost of it makes it impossible. It'll never
Speaker 2: happen because the cost will make a prehbitive.
Speaker 16: Yeah, I think you were saying that the average perlor
Speaker 16: somebody was saying that the average per station cost is
Speaker 16: about two billion. That the existing Metro apparently costs twenty
Speaker 16: two billion. But I don't think that putting an incremental
Speaker 16: station in when the line is already there is actually
Speaker 16: going to be actually two million dollars, but two billions.
Speaker 16: But for me personally, I would go to rose Hill
Speaker 16: far more often if there was a Metro. And what
Speaker 16: would happen to the attendance is if the Metro stop
Speaker 16: was put in there. I believe that'd skyline.
Speaker 2: No no doubt about that. But the problem for the
Speaker 2: government is putting a Metro station there to service a
Speaker 2: race course. The numbers donate up there because the racecourse
Speaker 2: is being used so every second weekend and then some
Speaker 2: events in between. That that doesn't create the passenger base
Speaker 2: to justify the station. What creates The justification for the
Speaker 2: station is twenty five thousand homes and potentially say eighty
Speaker 2: to one hundred thousand residents. That's what creates the traffic
Speaker 2: every day needed for the metro station, which would cost
Speaker 2: a minimum of a billion dollars. Straight shooters with Susan
Speaker 2: Temperman coming up in a moment and Holly Hughes. But firstly,
Speaker 2: I've got so much response here on the decision by
Speaker 2: the ATC to reject this deal to sell off rose
Speaker 2: Hill Racecourse rose Hill Gardens. The percentage of votes for
Speaker 2: was forty four percent against fear fifty six percent. The Premier,
Speaker 2: Chris Mins has just responded to this.
Speaker 26: I think it's an opportunity that Sydney's missed out on.
Speaker 26: It feels like a goal and opportunity that slip through
Speaker 26: our fingers. Very disappointed by that, but I accept the
Speaker 26: decision of ATC members. I want to thank the leadership
Speaker 26: of the ATC for pursuing this bold reform.
Speaker 2: Frank Carboni, the mayor of Fairfield in the Western Suburbs,
Speaker 2: has called in about this. Kiday, Frank good I good
Speaker 2: decision or bad decision?
Speaker 27: Well, I think ultimately the members have made that decision
Speaker 27: and everyone needs to respect that. It's no different that
Speaker 27: the end of the day, the vote's been done. But
Speaker 27: I think what we need to look at here and
Speaker 27: I think it was a proposal. It didn't go through,
Speaker 27: but let's look at let's turn it into an opportunity.
Speaker 17: And as the Premier has always said.
Speaker 27: It's about providing housing, and I respect that that's what
Speaker 27: he was trying to do, but that doesn't mean that
Speaker 27: he can't get that five billion dollars now and maybe
Speaker 27: look at putting it elsewhere.
Speaker 2: And the five billion dollars was to then sell it
Speaker 2: back to property developers and build houses. It's not just
Speaker 2: five billion dollars sitting there.
Speaker 15: No I know that.
Speaker 27: But the East West corridor from the airport to Westmeat
Speaker 27: that is aren't not done. You have the opportunity to
Speaker 27: have a lot of uplift, both private and public. There's
Speaker 27: a lot of public and private land just then fair
Speaker 27: for the Loan one area loans twenty five thousand homes.
Speaker 27: So if you put that investment, it would be a
Speaker 27: long term investment for Sydney. Connecting Sydney, have a real
Speaker 27: metro that runs East West and the government would still
Speaker 27: be able to uplift a lot of their properties that
Speaker 27: they own a lot along that corridor. But I would
Speaker 27: argue that you'd get a lot more than twenty five
Speaker 27: thousand homes.
Speaker 2: And if you build the metro Look, I'm with you, Frank,
Speaker 2: that we need more metros in Sydney and it is
Speaker 2: a way and the metro line at the moment they
Speaker 2: do have obviously, as you know from being a local
Speaker 2: government mayor, they have those various proposals to develop near
Speaker 2: metro stations. So if they're to build more metro lines,
Speaker 2: it would go to planet be to reason that they'd
Speaker 2: be able to develop more housing in those areas. I
Speaker 2: just as you well know, they're not keen on spending
Speaker 2: the money on more metro lines. Daniel's asking the quest
Speaker 2: and on the text line, can the government make a
Speaker 2: compulsory acquisition of Rosehill Racecourse like they do with private properties. Well,
Speaker 2: the Premier has said he will not do that. He's
Speaker 2: made it very clear that he won't do that because
Speaker 2: he wanted to ensure it was a democratic process through
Speaker 2: the ATC on Sydney.
Speaker 4: Now you can't handle the true the straight shint.
Speaker 2: Our straight tutors on a Tuesday afternoon, Susan Templeman, the
Speaker 2: member for hawk Scree and the outgoing Liberal Senator in
Speaker 2: Camball Phit, New South Wales. Holy Hughes, Hello, Holy, Hello Susan.
Speaker 2: As members in Sydney, I both want to get your
Speaker 2: perspectives on this. I'll start with you, Susan, as a
Speaker 2: Western Sydney MP. The plan that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: The rose Hill racecourse will not be sold off. Do
Speaker 2: you think this is a good thing or a bad thing.
Speaker 14: I'm with the Premier.
Speaker 28: I think it's a missed opportunity, a lost opportunity for
Speaker 28: Sydney and for housing and for young people who may be,
Speaker 28: you know, hanging out to governments for really fine places
Speaker 28: to build. But it is a decision by the ATC.
Speaker 28: They're the landowners and we have to respect that decision.
Speaker 2: Holly, what's your view.
Speaker 29: Well, I'm a member of the ATC, so I've been
Speaker 29: a member for a while and go to the races,
Speaker 29: both at Ramwick and rose Hill, and there was certainly
Speaker 29: a very strong sentiment within the trainers, within a lot
Speaker 29: of the membership that it wasn't ultimately a deal that
Speaker 29: they felt was going to be beneficial to the club.
Speaker 17: I mean, I know that sort of been put in
Speaker 17: terms of five million dollars, but it was.
Speaker 29: It was over a very extended period of time. I
Speaker 29: think it's fifteen, so you know, there was there was
Speaker 29: feelings within the membership and the communication around it.
Speaker 17: You know, I've had a flurry of communication in.
Speaker 29: The last couple of weeks for me spoke because the
Speaker 29: vote was previously postponed, trying to get more support for it.
Speaker 29: There was certainly a lot of sweetness being offered two members.
Speaker 29: But you know, when you've got trainers like Gay Waterhouse
Speaker 29: and some of the others coming out so strongly against it,
Speaker 29: you know you've got a respects what the membership and
Speaker 29: the racing fraternity have voted for. I think Frank Carboni
Speaker 29: is right when he says that there are other opportunities
Speaker 29: that perhaps the government should look at, and there's so
Speaker 29: much red tape involved with housing developments, you know, it
Speaker 29: might be more of an opportunity.
Speaker 17: For the premiere to have a good look at those that.
Speaker 29: Are currently trying to be developed but are bogged down
Speaker 29: in red tape.
Speaker 2: For so many text messages about this, Tim says, all
Speaker 2: the no votes, I bet they haven't been to rose
Speaker 2: Hill for the past twenty years and says a golden
Speaker 2: opportunity lost a gym, twenty six thousand homes into an
Speaker 2: already full area that doesn't have enough infrastructure. And look,
Speaker 2: that is an issue Susan, that there isn't enough infrastructure
Speaker 2: in Sydney's western suburbs.
Speaker 28: Well, this will always been this is sort of something
Speaker 28: Sydney's had for decades. Is what comes first the infrastructure,
Speaker 28: But it was really clear there was going to be
Speaker 28: new public transport there. We have a big issue in
Speaker 28: Sydney around housing.
Speaker 25: You know, we have a lots of people who don't.
Speaker 28: Want it in their backyard, who don't want it near them,
Speaker 28: and that's what the state government has to navigate.
Speaker 25: Along with councils.
Speaker 28: They have to get really put their sort of kick
Speaker 28: this along. Because we're investing in housing at a federal level,
Speaker 28: we're incentivizing the states to do it. And this is
Speaker 28: really the first time since we were lasting government that
Speaker 28: we've had a federal government actively involved saying okay, guys,
Speaker 28: we want to help you make this happen. But ultimately
Speaker 28: it is the states that has to do the.
Speaker 2: Hard yard Ian's asking the question on the text line,
Speaker 2: why doesn't the government build a metro station at Rosehill anyway,
Speaker 2: future proof for development in the meantime be utilized by
Speaker 2: raceco as workers and residents the area. I think the
Speaker 2: problem is the government would need minimum billion dollars to
Speaker 2: build that extra station. It doesn't want to spend the money. Now.
Speaker 2: Fortunately this vote count has cancluded quite quickly, so the
Speaker 2: meeting was at two o'clock. We had a result just
Speaker 2: after three point three. Fortunately the AEC has had nothing
Speaker 2: to do with the count, which is a good thing
Speaker 2: because they like to take their time. The AEC. We've
Speaker 2: had that news in the past twenty four hours. There
Speaker 2: will be a partial recount in Goldstein. The request was
Speaker 2: made by the Teal Independent Zoe Daniel. There will be
Speaker 2: a full recount as well in Bradfield because there was
Speaker 2: a few of the one hundred votes that were the
Speaker 2: difference between the Teal candidate and the Liberal candidate. Does
Speaker 2: the AEC do you think Susan maybe need to review
Speaker 2: how it conducts the count because to take a long time.
Speaker 28: Well, I've been on the receiving end of a long vote,
Speaker 28: a long count. It took sixteen days for me in
Speaker 28: twenty nineteen to count vote. But then of course they
Speaker 28: do a recount in terms of checking the distribution of
Speaker 28: preferences because they want the final data to be accurate.
Speaker 28: So we should be really grateful that we've got a
Speaker 28: thorough process. And I was in the Erskine Park counting
Speaker 28: place with the AEC on Friday because my seat was
Speaker 28: declared and I was declared the successful candidate. And you know,
Speaker 28: it's quite extraordinary to see ordinary of this, just your
Speaker 28: average person there who puts the hand up to go
Speaker 28: and be part of this extraordinary democratic process. So I
Speaker 28: think we should be really proud of it. Yes, there'll
Speaker 28: be a lot of humans involved in time involved that
Speaker 28: that gives us a result that we can trust, and
Speaker 28: that's really key, Holly.
Speaker 2: And we do have a strong democratic system. But could
Speaker 2: we maybe employer for few more people with the AAC
Speaker 2: to get these vote counts completed faster?
Speaker 29: Well, well, I mean it does take a long period
Speaker 29: of time, and that is with the compulsory preferential voting
Speaker 29: that everyone's got to fill out every single ballot square
Speaker 29: on the ballot papers, so you know, getting the result right,
Speaker 29: I mean, then Bradfield, the difference is eight votes, I mean,
Speaker 29: it's extraordinary when you think of seats with one hundred
Speaker 29: and thirty thousand voters in them and it comes down
Speaker 29: to eight votes, and it is important that each one's
Speaker 29: checked and you know, maybe more people might be the answer,
Speaker 29: but then they're all double checked as well, and they're counted,
Speaker 29: you know, as we know on election night, you know,
Speaker 29: they're counted at each boost.
Speaker 17: Then they all go in centrally and it's making.
Speaker 6: Sure that that.
Speaker 17: Process is as smooth as possible.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister is detailed flood recovery payments for people
Speaker 2: affected by the natural disaster from the Mid North Coast
Speaker 2: the Hunter Valley today. So one off payment of one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars per eligible adult, four hundred dollars per child.
Speaker 2: There'll be for those who are without employment because of
Speaker 2: the flood, thirteen weeks of payments. There will be some
Speaker 2: interest free or low interest loans. Do you think that,
Speaker 2: both both ladies, and I'll start with you, Susan, something
Speaker 2: needs to be done more in the long term about
Speaker 2: how we operate insurance in these areas.
Speaker 28: Yeah, there's at I heard you talking to the Insurance
Speaker 28: Council Andrew Hall, and I've spent years working on this
Speaker 28: issue because I got one of these payments back in
Speaker 28: twenty thirteen when my house burnt down, and it is
Speaker 28: a simple emergency payment that just.
Speaker 16: Buys you.
Speaker 28: For that first you know, you've got nothing. You need unders,
Speaker 28: you need, toothpaste, you need, you need more than one
Speaker 28: pair of shoes. The clothes that you're wearing smell of smoke.
Speaker 28: Now in floods, they're going to need so much just
Speaker 28: to get through the next few days, let alone the
Speaker 28: next few weeks or months.
Speaker 25: The real issue is.
Speaker 28: The mix between what government and taxpayers funds in disasters
Speaker 28: and how we make insurance affordable so that the insurance
Speaker 28: can then kick in as it did, as it did
Speaker 28: for me after the fires. Eventually, you know, a week later,
Speaker 28: my insurance got cleared and I had access to the
Speaker 28: funds that I needed, certainly to be for the immediate term.
Speaker 28: The whole underinsurance issue of rebuildings just a totally other
Speaker 28: complex issue. But this is unfinished business to me. We
Speaker 28: started the work in our first term government. I was
Speaker 28: part of an inquiry into the twenty twenty two floods
Speaker 28: that looked at the behavior of the insurers. I hope
Speaker 28: they've learned a lot from our inquiry and from the
Speaker 28: experience they had where they did let people down in
Speaker 28: twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two in how they
Speaker 28: deal with people or are insured. But the other issue
Speaker 28: is the thousands of people who are not.
Speaker 25: In short and that's a problem not just.
Speaker 28: For them but for all of us studies. They are
Speaker 28: our fellow Australian.
Speaker 2: And in the end we often end up bailing those
Speaker 2: people out. So there needs to be a better long
Speaker 2: term solution. We are out of time. Thank you, Holly,
Speaker 2: Thank you, Susan, Thank you Holly Hughes and Susan Temperman
Speaker 2: our straight shooters for a Tuesday afternoon. This is just
Speaker 2: coming to hand where finding out exactly what's happened off air.
Speaker 2: But there's been a brawl at a school in Sydney's southwest.
Speaker 2: Will have all the details coming up after the five
Speaker 2: o'clock news. But there has been some sort of violent
Speaker 2: incident in a school in Sydney. Full details coming up
Speaker 2: after five o'clock.
Speaker 10: Shag, you say that you are ma, I'll.
Speaker 6: Be here till the end of the time.
Speaker 11: So you've got to let me know.
Speaker 30: Should I or should argue?
Speaker 2: Now it seems the Nationals very confused about whether they
Speaker 2: should stay or should they go from the coalition. Talks
Speaker 2: have been continuing this week about the future of the
Speaker 2: Liberal and National Party marriage, and we don't actually have
Speaker 2: a formal coalition agreement yet. David Little Proud, the leader
Speaker 2: of the Nats, has made the suggestion that well, you know,
Speaker 2: if we're not happy with what the Libs respond to
Speaker 2: in terms of our four key policies, maybe we'll change
Speaker 2: our mind yet again. Surely, if the coalition is going
Speaker 2: to have any hope going forward, both those parties they
Speaker 2: will stay together for the next election. This is sit
Speaker 2: now we've clinton on to GBUS seven past five flood
Speaker 2: assessments have continued on the Mid North Coast, have focused
Speaker 2: on Tari and surrounding districts. Today the Prime Minister has
Speaker 2: been in the region, but this news just to hand.
Speaker 2: Police have confirmed with us they've now charged a third
Speaker 2: person with looting. This person has been arrested in Wingham,
Speaker 2: which is not far from Tari and Wingham has been
Speaker 2: devastated by these floods. Police discovered a man they alleged
Speaker 2: was placing items from the street into the rear of
Speaker 2: a hatchback. They then searched the vehicle. They have found tools, paintings,
Speaker 2: a lamp, tires, various personal items including family photos, DVDs
Speaker 2: and a fish tank. I'm not sure whether the accused
Speaker 2: actually has a DVD player, because many people don't have
Speaker 2: DVD players anymore. Nevertheless, the man is accused, who was
Speaker 2: forty four, of stealing DVD's from somebody who suffered flood
Speaker 2: damage had a fish tank. Not sure if the fish
Speaker 2: tank was full of water and fish as well. Yesterday,
Speaker 2: one of the men who was arrested was accused of
Speaker 2: stealing a defibrillator. Unbelievable that man is now before the
Speaker 2: courts one eight seven three. Word on the street. It
Speaker 2: is thanks to temper, a great night's sleep night after night.
Speaker 2: The difference is temper. I've received this tip from Denise
Speaker 2: the South Afternoon. If you want to send me news tips,
Speaker 2: go to our website two GB dot com and you
Speaker 2: can send me the information via our website. Denise has
Speaker 2: told us about a brawl that's occurred at the Thomas
Speaker 2: Riddell School in Ambervale in the southwestern subers today. Now,
Speaker 2: Denise has described this as racially motivated. Apparently, race has
Speaker 2: been a factor in this brawl. We've been in contact
Speaker 2: with the police. The police can confirm to us at
Speaker 2: about twelve forty five today, police were called to the
Speaker 2: school in Woodhouse Drive, Ambervale following reports of a brawl.
Speaker 2: Officers from Campbelltown Police Station were told two students were
Speaker 2: involved in an altercation. It was a minor altercation. There
Speaker 2: were no reports of injuries. There is no further police action. However,
Speaker 2: the Department of Education confirms to us that this did
Speaker 2: go ahead, and they say this type of behavior is
Speaker 2: completely unacceptable. Any student involved in this incident will face
Speaker 2: the appropriate discipline reaction. Our schools should be safe places
Speaker 2: for staff and students. Support is available for any staff
Speaker 2: member or any student impacted by this incident. The Department
Speaker 2: has confirmed there was an altercation and involved several students.
Speaker 2: The school was actually put into lockdown as a precaution.
Speaker 2: So even though the police have said there's no further
Speaker 2: action and there were no injuries and it was minor,
Speaker 2: the Department of Education has confirmed to us that the
Speaker 2: Thomas Riddell School in Ambervale was placed into lockdown. Now
Speaker 2: we are still investigating the details of the brawl and
Speaker 2: what prompted the brawl, but our listeners tell us that
Speaker 2: race was involved. If you know more, let me know
Speaker 2: three one eight seven three.
Speaker 4: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 4: now with Clinton manor on.
Speaker 2: To gb Well this time yesterday we had major delays
Speaker 2: on the T one North Shore train line. Now it's
Speaker 2: the turn of the Metro. There are problems on the
Speaker 2: Metro line this afternoon. Howard Collins is the Transport for
Speaker 2: New South Wales Coordinator General. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 2: What's happened on the Metro.
Speaker 14: There is a train at Barangaru station which has basically
Speaker 14: got starck. What we're doing is where moving trains onto
Speaker 14: the other platform. So there are services which will get
Speaker 14: you from the south to Barangaroo. You come off that train,
Speaker 14: you wait on the platform and then another one comes
Speaker 14: in and takes you north again. But our avice at
Speaker 14: the moment, because it's pretty busy down there, is if
Speaker 14: you can use a Sydney trains as far as Epping
Speaker 14: or Chatswood, you stand a better chance if you're going
Speaker 14: further north from that. But at the moment the technician
Speaker 14: is on his way to look at this train. It
Speaker 14: appears to be no power for some reason. Metro Trains Sydney,
Speaker 14: you're working on that now, but there is a sort
Speaker 14: of through service, but you've got to get out at
Speaker 14: Barangaroo and then wait for the other train which is
Speaker 14: coming from Taliwan to Barragaroo and then back again.
Speaker 2: So if you want to if you wanted to catch
Speaker 2: the Metro Howard from Martin Place through the city, that
Speaker 2: would be possible.
Speaker 14: Go to Barangaroo. Ye, get off that train because it's
Speaker 14: only going normally as far as Bragoro. Some are going
Speaker 14: through but most of them are not. And then just
Speaker 14: make sure you've got a train which has the death
Speaker 14: Taliwong on it. It's called a carousel, but it's a
Speaker 14: very good way. They can use both platforms on Metro.
Speaker 14: The one on the other platform is stuck at the moment.
Speaker 14: Technicians are on it. We're just waiting, but it is
Speaker 14: getting busy, quite crowded. So what we're saying, if you're
Speaker 14: at Central or Martin Place, you may want to get
Speaker 14: onto Sydney Traditional Sydney trains. That seems to be running
Speaker 14: okay at the moment. We had a few late running
Speaker 14: freight trains. As we recover all the freight from the north,
Speaker 14: but that seems to be running quite well to epping
Speaker 14: hand Chatswood and then hop back onto Metro. If you're
Speaker 14: going further north on the Metro, how.
Speaker 2: Long would you expect that train today to be stuck there?
Speaker 2: How long is it going to take the move?
Speaker 16: Well, in my.
Speaker 14: Forty eight years, I've always said it's as long as
Speaker 14: a piece of string. Blind, but I think the technicians
Speaker 14: are on board normally, once they get there, they find
Speaker 14: the fault and re energize the train. It's got both
Speaker 14: the pantographs down, so it may take a while longer.
Speaker 14: So my view is always choose a first alternative rather
Speaker 14: than think you're going to get on the Metro. And
Speaker 14: it's pretty crowded, so there are options for most people.
Speaker 2: Happily can be repaired quickly, and we don't see a
Speaker 2: repeat of what happened last week. But that's unlikely because
Speaker 2: it's a completely different style of system.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think so, And we're getting past the train.
Speaker 14: There's no one stuck on a train, no one stuck
Speaker 14: outside the platform. We're going through.
Speaker 2: This is obviously a terrible time of the day to happen,
Speaker 2: just after five o'clock.
Speaker 14: Absolutely and normally Metro pre reliable, but this train seems
Speaker 14: to have a problem and we'll let people know as
Speaker 14: soon as we've got it moving again. It will settle
Speaker 14: down pretty quickly and Metro recovers very quickly.
Speaker 2: And just to confirm, Howard, you really love your job,
Speaker 2: don't you.
Speaker 14: I'd tell you I feel like the bringer of bad
Speaker 14: news all the time, but that's my job. I just
Speaker 14: want to make sure people have the right information and
Speaker 14: get that out through your listeners.
Speaker 2: Thanks letting us know. So that is at Barangaroo at
Speaker 2: the moment. There's going to be delays on the Metro
Speaker 2: and it's going to take a while to move it.
Speaker 2: We won't see a repeat of what happened on the
Speaker 2: heavy rail network either last night because it was a
Speaker 2: mess on the T one or last week. But that
Speaker 2: is a problem right now on the Metro Barangaroo.
Speaker 16: Okay.
Speaker 2: The big news of the day is the decision by
Speaker 2: the members of the ATC to vote against the deal
Speaker 2: to sell off rose Hill Gardens racecourse. This would have
Speaker 2: seen the state government spend five billion dollars over the
Speaker 2: course of about ten years to redevelop the land for
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand homes. The vote has been unsuccessful, so
Speaker 2: fifty six percent voted no, forty four percent voted yes,
Speaker 2: and there were more people at the meeting that had
Speaker 2: been expected. The chairman of the ATCs, Peter mcgorran, thank
Speaker 2: you for joining us, Peter at pleasure. Clinton, are you
Speaker 2: disappointed this afternoon?
Speaker 6: Yes, of course, I believe it was the best thing
Speaker 6: for the club, for racing and for the community.
Speaker 2: That being the case, and you were looking to generate
Speaker 2: five billion dollars is the future the financial future Racing
Speaker 2: New South Wales now in jeopardy because you won't have
Speaker 2: that five billion dollars cash injection.
Speaker 6: Certainly the ATC is I can't speak for Racing New
Speaker 6: South Wales.
Speaker 2: That's Peter Valandi's so just interrupt the ITCS in financial jeopardy.
Speaker 6: Oh no, no, we'll always be viable, Clinton, But we've
Speaker 6: only ever got our nose above water. And oh no,
Speaker 6: we run a great club, as anyone who's intended Randwig
Speaker 6: or rose Hill would know, but we're never going to
Speaker 6: be able to upgrade our facilities what members and public.
Speaker 9: Enjoy.
Speaker 6: At the moment we've been doing it in twenty years.
Speaker 6: We have no funding, which requires hundreds of millions of
Speaker 6: dollars given we own four racetracks, three training centers to upgrade.
Speaker 6: So that's the challenge that what is already quickly becoming
Speaker 6: a niche sport will become an even smaller sport because
Speaker 6: we don't offer a modern value offering to members or
Speaker 6: general public. We've lost twenty five percent of our membership
Speaker 6: since twenty nineteen and rose Hill has lost a half
Speaker 6: of its attendances over ten years.
Speaker 2: That's a fairly dire prospect then. So that being the case,
Speaker 2: is this completely off the agenda or is there another
Speaker 2: way you could revisit the plan to sell rose Hill?
Speaker 6: No, it's off the agenda. It was an all or
Speaker 6: nothing offer. Because the two drills digging the metro begin
Speaker 6: to hit at rose Hill Gardens in the next few weeks,
Speaker 6: so the opportunity for a Metro to construct a metro
Speaker 6: station is lost. You can't put in a metro station
Speaker 6: once the line is completed.
Speaker 2: But the government still could develop twenty fast thousand homes
Speaker 2: without a metro in the future. It's not good, but
Speaker 2: they could do it.
Speaker 6: It would have to acquire the land and Chris Mins
Speaker 6: and I believe and will never do that he said
Speaker 6: up privately and publicly. So long as he's premier, there
Speaker 6: will not be a compulsory acquisition oka.
Speaker 2: To show up the finances of the ATC and the
Speaker 2: strength of racing going forward in your South welles. Could
Speaker 2: you sell off other assets? Could you sell off Warwick Farm?
Speaker 2: For instance?
Speaker 13: No?
Speaker 16: What Warwick Farm?
Speaker 6: Because it's one of our training centers with some eight
Speaker 6: hundred and fifty horses. We couldn't do that. Canterbury Canterbury
Speaker 6: is a possibility, but planning is complex there that it's
Speaker 6: not a sympathetic or involved counsel to put it mildly,
Speaker 6: and the return whilst a few hundred million dollars not
Speaker 6: to be sneezed at would be welcome, that's basically a
Speaker 6: band aid. We needed significant funding to completely reinvigorate and
Speaker 6: revitalize all of our major assets.
Speaker 2: But if you need that, Peter, and this has been
Speaker 2: knocked over and selling off Canterbury's is to bandaid. What
Speaker 2: are you going to do to reinvigorate racing?
Speaker 6: Well? Canterbury is a possibility and through the process Clinton
Speaker 6: a lot of members who are opposed to the sale
Speaker 6: of rose Hill are not opposed to the sale of Canterbury,
Speaker 6: but that could be a long process. Council have a
Speaker 6: very different concept for that area. They want lower buildings,
Speaker 6: they want more open space. You're not going to gain
Speaker 6: what you really need, but sure if you're really desperate.
Speaker 2: But you could look at it. You could look at
Speaker 2: it now, you could look at it. I spoke with
Speaker 2: Gay Waterhouse and obviously she's been an opponent of this
Speaker 2: campaign for some time. She says, you should resign. Will
Speaker 2: you stay in your position?
Speaker 6: Yes, I'm not going to resign for a couple of reasons. First,
Speaker 6: I would have been in breach of my phidutionary responsibilities
Speaker 6: if I had not brought this proposal to members. It
Speaker 6: wasn't for me to say, oh, I've decided it's Rose
Speaker 6: Hills too sentimental, it's of too much value to the
Speaker 6: racing participants. I'm not even going to put this proposal.
Speaker 6: All seven directors voted when they were first told about
Speaker 6: this in December twenty twenty three to put a proposal
Speaker 6: to members. Now recently four of the seven directors supported
Speaker 6: the actual proposal that was voted on and the resolution
Speaker 6: by members. So I'm a servant of the board. The
Speaker 6: board might replace me, but I'm not going to stand aside.
Speaker 2: So those proposals for free membership for the lifetime members,
Speaker 2: free membership for five years, the thousand dollars behind the
Speaker 2: bar and at restaurants and food out let's per year
Speaker 2: for five years all off the table.
Speaker 6: Now, yep, it's off the table. And the renovation of
Speaker 6: the members' facilities at Randwick and Warwick Farm are off
Speaker 6: the table. The upgrade of the stables at Warwick Farm
Speaker 6: and at Randwick are off the table. Look, I can't
Speaker 6: hide my disappointment. Clinton. This was a chance once in
Speaker 6: a lifetime because of a metro station that will now evaporate,
Speaker 6: to revolutionize in a way every other race club in
Speaker 6: the world would give their right arm to.
Speaker 16: Be able to do.
Speaker 2: I know you're the public face. This is the chairman
Speaker 2: of the ATC, but as you know, the leader of
Speaker 2: the Racing New South Wales organization, Peter Vland's very effective.
Speaker 2: He usually wins in the end. Do you think there's
Speaker 2: a way that mister van and he was very supportive
Speaker 2: of this proposal. Do you think there is a way
Speaker 2: that mister Vilandi's can get his way through another means no.
Speaker 6: He accepts the members vote as I do. There's no
Speaker 6: legal way to do it because remember the ATC is
Speaker 6: governed by the Registered Clubs Act and that requires a
Speaker 6: vote of members for the dispersal of land. So it's
Speaker 6: the status quo and all the challenges that brings.
Speaker 2: That is going to bring challenges for sure. Thank you
Speaker 2: for your time, Peter, Thanks Clinton, Peter McGown, who's the
Speaker 2: chairman of the ATC. So there we have it. It's over.
Speaker 2: We are now told it's over. Chris Minn says there
Speaker 2: will be no compulsory acquisition of rose Hill Gardens, so
Speaker 2: there'll be no twenty five thousand homes at rose Hill.
Speaker 2: But it looks like Stephen Crichton is likely going to
Speaker 2: miss playing State of Origin one sun Corps Stadium, Brisbane.
Speaker 2: Of course you'll hear it here on the Continuous Call
Speaker 2: team tomorrow night. They're going to give him until tomorrow
Speaker 2: to prove his fitness. But it's looking pretty shaky, Campbell Graham,
Speaker 2: looks like you're playing the set is Mark Guy joins
Speaker 2: me after five point thirty to talk everything in sport
Speaker 2: and rugby league. Today, the new South Wales government, along
Speaker 2: with the police, have announced the creation of Task Force
Speaker 2: Falcon now, Task Force Falcon is going to bring together
Speaker 2: thirteen different police strike forces that have been investigating various
Speaker 2: gangland shootings over the past couple of months. It's been
Speaker 2: prompted by what occurred in Granville Woodville Road on Sunday evening.
Speaker 2: It was around this time on Sunday evening the emergency
Speaker 2: services were called to Woodville Road following reports that three
Speaker 2: people in a Toyter High Lucks have been shot at
Speaker 2: by a bunch of people in a Mercedes. Well confirmation
Speaker 2: now that one of the men who was in that
Speaker 2: car has died in hospital. His name is Darwood Zakira.
Speaker 2: He is allegedly or was allegedly an Alamedine associate. The
Speaker 2: Alamedines are a notorious Sydney crime family at the center
Speaker 2: of much of the drug dispute in our city. He
Speaker 2: has died in hospital now. There are still two other
Speaker 2: people were injured, including a lawyer who's acted for some
Speaker 2: of these these alleged criminals in the past and another
Speaker 2: man who is now facing charges. Police are still looking
Speaker 2: for those who are responsible for the shooting.
Speaker 4: Until six, This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on
Speaker 4: two GB Call now on three.
Speaker 2: So the plan to sell off rose Hill Gardens is
Speaker 2: done and dusted and look, Peter mcgorran, chairman, very clear
Speaker 2: there it's not going to happen. I'm gonna say I
Speaker 2: still wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the
Speaker 2: future it does. Peter Landi is very effective at usually
Speaker 2: getting what he wants and he's been a big supporter
Speaker 2: of this, and I know he hasn't spoken publicly much
Speaker 2: about this because it's been a decision for the ATC,
Speaker 2: but I still wonder if down the track there'll be
Speaker 2: some way that this happens. Chris Mins is disappointed by
Speaker 2: this decision and the Premier says, moving on from rose Hill,
Speaker 2: we still need to look at out of the box
Speaker 2: thinking when it comes to addressing the housing shortage New
Speaker 2: South Wales.
Speaker 26: This shouldn't take the wind out of the sales when
Speaker 26: it comes to bold ideas for housing in New South Wales.
Speaker 26: I don't take from this result that we should shut
Speaker 26: up shop stop with major initiatives for housing proposals in
Speaker 26: the state.
Speaker 2: I think we should go the other way.
Speaker 26: We should be taking more risks when it comes to
Speaker 26: major housing proposals in the second most expensive city on Earth.
Speaker 26: We've been far too timid for far too long and
Speaker 26: it's resulted in young people fleeing Sydney at an alarming rate.
Speaker 26: And the truth of the matter is more proposals like
Speaker 26: this aren't needed to break the back of the housing
Speaker 26: crisis that we have in the state.
Speaker 2: So what's the next proposal going to be? I suggested
Speaker 2: to Peter mcgore and they sell off Randwick ll maybe Canterbury,
Speaker 2: but it won't generate as much money for the ATC.
Speaker 2: The ATC doesn't own Randwick, that's actually Crown Land, so
Speaker 2: it's owned by the state government. I don't think the
Speaker 2: Premieer is going to advocate settling off Randwick. Paul has
Speaker 2: been a member for twenty years. Get I Paul.
Speaker 20: Twenty years and just to be clear before a start,
Speaker 20: I miss out on my lifetime free membership.
Speaker 2: Now that was the plan.
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'll tell you why.
Speaker 22: I I didn't know.
Speaker 20: It was that interview with the and was an embarrassment.
Speaker 20: He says that this came in twenty twenty two. It's
Speaker 20: taken them this long to at best cobble together a
Speaker 20: slapdash proposal, which had to be pulled back in April
Speaker 20: because apparently more information was needed. Between April and now,
Speaker 20: they cobbled together what we're calling the bribe to put
Speaker 20: to members and they still lost. I honestly believe if
Speaker 20: we had had a competent board, they probably could have
Speaker 20: got it through.
Speaker 2: The other aspect and the other aspect of the way
Speaker 2: it has been put together. And I've taken a middle
Speaker 2: a position now, in the middle because I'm not a
Speaker 2: member of the ATC. I'm not a big racing fan,
Speaker 2: so I'll rely on people with greater knowledge of the
Speaker 2: industry than I have. But the state government, even though
Speaker 2: Chris Means wanted this to happen, they actually didn't put
Speaker 2: a proposal in writing to the public.
Speaker 20: And this is the problem is that we're on balance.
Speaker 20: What were we left with as members? We were less
Speaker 20: with a proposal that we might do a deal, and
Speaker 20: the condition a possible deal, not a deal. It wasn't done.
Speaker 20: It was a possible deal going forward. And this chairman
Speaker 20: and this board have got to go for their incompetence
Speaker 20: that they've put us all through.
Speaker 2: Well, he says he's not going to go, but it
Speaker 2: will be a decision by the Board of the future.
Speaker 2: Good on your port one three one eight seven three
Speaker 2: the number. It was a fair free day on Sydney's
Speaker 2: trains Metro system yesterday and of course there was a
Speaker 2: meltdown on the T one. You have to pay for
Speaker 2: the affairs today. But guess what, there's another meltdown. This
Speaker 2: time it's at the Metro. As Howard Collins told us,
Speaker 2: there is a train stationery at Barragaroo station. Neil breen
Speaker 2: Breenie is actually stuck on the metro system today. Bernie,
Speaker 2: where are you, mate, man, I'm.
Speaker 8: At Barrangaroo with I mean thousands of people.
Speaker 6: Oh mate, Howard Collins is a dribbler.
Speaker 8: He didn't know what he was talking about. You can't
Speaker 8: get further south than Barrangaroo and the trains come into
Speaker 8: Barrangaroo from the north and go straight back to Talawan
Speaker 8: and so no one So at the moment at Martin
Speaker 8: Place and Gadigall and Central would be just I mean,
Speaker 8: if Brangaroo is this chaotic, those three would be totally
Speaker 8: cowardy because there's not trains moving.
Speaker 2: Because so what Howard told us was that you could
Speaker 2: you can know through trains, So you can't catch a
Speaker 2: train from North Sydney, for instance, through Barangaro to Martin
Speaker 2: Place and into Sydney. But he said you'd be able
Speaker 2: to catch one from Barrangru to sydneym.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but what's happening is that train's not coming. So
Speaker 8: that train was like we were there for ten minutes
Speaker 8: and then they finally said it's going to be another
Speaker 8: fifteen or twenty until the train that comes in and
Speaker 8: takes people's south. So there's just people, I mean, just
Speaker 8: like Brown's cows everywhere.
Speaker 2: And this is the Metro line, which is actually a
Speaker 2: lot more reliable than the standard train.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and the poor buggers, the poor buggers who the staff,
Speaker 8: they don't know what's going on are there. So the
Speaker 8: trains are coming in from Tallawong and everyone is coming
Speaker 8: from North Sydney's pouring out of Barragaroo and then it
Speaker 8: just leaves empty.
Speaker 3: To go north.
Speaker 2: I've got This is the official statement that has been
Speaker 2: released Fromdney Metro. Just after four pm, Metro train was
Speaker 2: held at Barreranguru station due to the pantograph issue which
Speaker 2: is part of the overhead wirings. That's four pm, that's
Speaker 2: an hour and a half ago. Announcements are being made
Speaker 2: on board and on platforms very limited services running between
Speaker 2: Sydnam and Barangaru. Services are operating with delays between Barranga
Speaker 2: and Taliwan. So that's not right, Brien. It's not operating
Speaker 2: between Barrangero and Sydnem No.
Speaker 8: Yeah, very limited. When they say very limited, so i'd
Speaker 8: say very very limited.
Speaker 2: Okay, you know what I mean.
Speaker 8: And so so people sort of aren't moving between those
Speaker 8: two and then when the train comes.
Speaker 2: There's too many people are the statement here Brinie says
Speaker 2: a technician is now on site to resolve the issue
Speaker 2: and move the train. God suggests maybe more than one
Speaker 2: technician is needed with this one. Maybe they could push
Speaker 2: the train out of the way.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 8: I'm walking the circular key to get the three three three.
Speaker 2: Good on your Brenie. With everyone else, Neil Breen, you'll
Speaker 2: see an exclusive investigation and a current affair about the
Speaker 2: mess that is the now Metro system, joining the mess
Speaker 2: that is Sydney's heavy run network and with all the
Speaker 2: latest Josh Bryant, Good afternoon.
Speaker 10: Clinton, the Premier says a vote on the future of
Speaker 10: rose Hill Gardens racecourse will not deter the state government
Speaker 10: from pursuing other bold housing plans after members rejected the
Speaker 10: plan to turn the site into a mini city with
Speaker 10: twenty five thousand homes. A third person has now been
Speaker 10: charged with looting in flood hit areas of the Mid
Speaker 10: North Coast. A thirty two year old man, one of
Speaker 10: two men shot at Granville over the weekend, has now
Speaker 10: died as the result of his injuries, and data shows
Speaker 10: Sydney house prizes have grown one hundred and seventy one
Speaker 10: percent over the last twenty years. In sport, Lachlan Galvin
Speaker 10: may have played his final game for the West Tigers.
Speaker 10: He's been left out of the team to face the
Speaker 10: Cowboys on Saturday night as he negotiates a deal with
Speaker 10: the Bulldogs. We'll have more news and sport at six.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Josh. Fourteen degrees in the City, thirteen degrees
Speaker 2: in the West.
Speaker 1: A Finance Update dead.
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Speaker 31: since mid February. The tech stocks were really performing the strongest.
Speaker 31: The Aussie dollar, though it's come back a little bit.
Speaker 31: It's slightly weaker, back under sixty five years cents.
Speaker 2: There is a theme park war that's broken out in
Speaker 2: the United States.
Speaker 31: Yeah, so theme parks are big business, not just in
Speaker 31: the US but all around the world. And Universal is
Speaker 31: the latest to launch a brand new theme park. It's
Speaker 31: the first theme park that's open in twenty five years
Speaker 31: in America. It's called Epic Universe. It's in Florida. Seven
Speaker 31: billion dollars is what they pumped into this theme park.
Speaker 2: It's one theme park with seven one theme park.
Speaker 31: It's about seven times the size of the existing theme
Speaker 31: parks that Universal already our owns, and it's got fifty attractions.
Speaker 31: Harry Potter and Nintendo's Mario Kart are the kind of
Speaker 31: key iconic Hollywood legends that the rides have been based on.
Speaker 31: Everything about it is meant to be immersive, So the architecture,
Speaker 31: the sounds, even the food is meant to make you
Speaker 31: blend into the backstory of the ride, so you don't
Speaker 31: just get on a roller coaster and go off. You're
Speaker 31: part of the Harry Potter universe as part of this ride.
Speaker 31: And the aim of it is to basically take on
Speaker 31: Disney and it's big dominance of theme parks in America
Speaker 31: and all around the world.
Speaker 2: But if you're a Universal Studios and you're spending seven
Speaker 2: billion dollars developing a theme park, can you imagine what
Speaker 2: the entry fee is?
Speaker 31: Well, this has been the big complaint about Disney and
Speaker 31: the Disneyland theme parks for families. It's you know, it's unaffordable,
Speaker 31: it's very very expensive, but they're promising an amazing experience
Speaker 31: for the dollars that you spend. So it's new, it's
Speaker 31: whiz bang, it's got Ai being incorporated into it all,
Speaker 31: so you know, people will go along and have a
Speaker 31: bit of a gander.
Speaker 2: I suppose a little arder in the program. And sorry,
Speaker 2: we've been put off for course by what's been happening
Speaker 2: with rose Hill. But I raised the issue of the
Speaker 2: growing success of Biscoff up against Natella Australian's eight. Last year,
Speaker 2: fifteen million kilograms of Natella.
Speaker 4: My children have.
Speaker 31: Consumed probably yet three quarters of that.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about that because I've had
Speaker 2: all these messages that I haven't been able to get to.
Speaker 2: Grahams says Nattella's also when ice cream, I don't really
Speaker 2: eat either of it. Jen says. Biscoff is amazing, lovely
Speaker 2: caramel flavor, great little treat with the coffee. So in
Speaker 2: your house in the night, household Biscoff or Natella Natella.
Speaker 31: We get the biggest tubs known to mankind of Natella,
Speaker 31: and my kids love it on crumpets. We used to
Speaker 31: have people visiting us who would come from Amsterdam and
Speaker 31: other countries where it's considered you know, you have it
Speaker 31: on to.
Speaker 2: It veggiemight there is breakfast.
Speaker 31: Yes, So my kid's got a taste for it and
Speaker 31: they love the stuff. We try and sort of ration
Speaker 31: it out. In fact, I've never had the Biscoff, but
Speaker 31: the Natella I can definitely testify a Google.
Speaker 2: Searches for Biscoff have gone through the roof and they're
Speaker 2: still selling much smaller quantities than Natella. It's Lotuses, the
Speaker 2: company Lotus Bakeries behind Biscoff, but they the food analysts believe,
Speaker 2: the market analysts believe that's going to be Biscoff is
Speaker 2: gonna be the next big thing to take on the tiller.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 31: Good luck trying because it's really ingrained.
Speaker 2: My kids love it, kids love it. Deb Night hosting
Speaker 2: Money used tonight from seven o'clock. Thanks dev, Thank you.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 2: I if it's happening in.
Speaker 1: Your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB.
Speaker 2: Well, I didn't speak with MG yesterday because, to be honest,
Speaker 2: I was a little bit embarrassed as I tipped zero
Speaker 2: out of five in the footy tips, so I just
Speaker 2: couldn't front up to talk to MG. I'm feeling okay
Speaker 2: about it now, Hello, make guy.
Speaker 9: Good afternoon, Clinton. How are you, my friend?
Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'm over my terrible tipping performance, mostly because
Speaker 2: half the two GB tipsters actually tipped zero to five
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 9: Well. There was a just go back from and we'll
Speaker 9: get to the walk in a second.
Speaker 24: But a young one of the drivers who helped the
Speaker 24: walk that I was on last couple of days, he
Speaker 24: had a little bit of a multi a bet a
Speaker 24: dollar bet on all the away all the teams that
Speaker 24: were not favored paidred.
Speaker 9: They paid one hundred and eighty dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh anyone for one dollar?
Speaker 24: Yes, he one hundred and eighty dollars. He showed us
Speaker 24: all last on Sunday night. So made the tipping is
Speaker 24: very hard. I mean it's even even like with the
Speaker 24: game tomorrow night, everyone's saying New South Wales. But how
Speaker 24: can you honestly say that, like pick who's going to
Speaker 24: win this game when you don't know what's going on
Speaker 24: in the season proper.
Speaker 2: It's just shot you can't. So Team list Tuesday is
Speaker 2: important today because you've got lots of begins announces starting
Speaker 2: with Manly.
Speaker 24: Yeah, Jake and Tom Traboy Bish as well as taki
Speaker 24: Ahau will be out of this game against the Broncos
Speaker 24: on the weekend. Jake still having the hia symptoms. Tommy
Speaker 24: with his cork quite I believe it is. But they
Speaker 24: have got some good news.
Speaker 9: Benjam Boyvitch is back, so that's some good news for Manly.
Speaker 9: But yeah, both Turboys are out, so that's the same
Speaker 9: they're playing. Has moved so on Collo.
Speaker 24: From the fullback spot to the wing where Jesse Arthur's
Speaker 24: will be the new fullback for the Broncos as well.
Speaker 2: Probably the biggest team news today is Locky Galvin being
Speaker 2: actually left out of the West Tigers. So it's probably
Speaker 2: not a shock given he's going to go to the Bulldogs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's a shock. Now we've spoke.
Speaker 24: We've spoken that a naws him about Locky gowing over
Speaker 24: the last few months, and I think honestly, once his
Speaker 24: deal was done, we'll probably it will be will be
Speaker 24: a lot more glad for it because it's been a.
Speaker 9: Long time coming. Feel Good gets his man.
Speaker 24: A lot of people have been blowing up about the
Speaker 24: way Gus, but he's doing his job.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what MG. You know, I broadcast the
Speaker 2: show yesterday from Tari, so had a long drive back
Speaker 2: last night from Tari after the show, so I got
Speaker 2: back home pretty late, was about eleven thirty or something.
Speaker 2: I couldn't go to bed. You know the reason I
Speaker 2: had to watch one hundred percent Footy on nine on
Speaker 2: replay because I'd heard about this massive blow up between
Speaker 2: Michael Chamis, the Cydney Money Herald, Janno and Gus Goold
Speaker 2: and it was worth the price of admission.
Speaker 24: I watched it back today and Michael Chamis basically attacked
Speaker 24: Gus was thrown back back. Well, they did, and that's
Speaker 24: kind of you know, it's yes, it's I don't mind it.
Speaker 24: I think Michael Charles Chamas well done. And Gus said
Speaker 24: the Gus is kind of fucking a twenty half place
Speaker 24: the night because he's the c. Plus he's got a
Speaker 24: prime time job on TV, which you can and I
Speaker 24: think a lot of other CEOs of other Rugby League
Speaker 24: teams are a little bit ending to that because he
Speaker 24: gets a chance to put if you will, with players
Speaker 24: while he's commentating.
Speaker 2: Now he's had he's had a wrap on lookie other
Speaker 2: for a long time now. State of origin one tomorrow night,
Speaker 2: you are heading up to Brizzy.
Speaker 24: Yeste early flight in the morning, going up there to
Speaker 24: face the hostilities of Sun Corps. And I believe that
Speaker 24: even from my cross tomorrow will be in an outside
Speaker 24: broadcast outside the stadium.
Speaker 9: Then I'm going to be doing it.
Speaker 24: Wild water sports were results from six to seven in
Speaker 24: enemy territory?
Speaker 9: Can you imagine how much I Am going to cop it?
Speaker 2: I think this is good. Would you walk down would
Speaker 2: you walk down Caxton Street? Not Starkers or anything, but
Speaker 2: with your blues jersey on from the early nineties.
Speaker 9: No, no, not tomorrow night, not Origin night. Nah nah, because.
Speaker 24: I've made I value my life at the moment, I
Speaker 24: don't want to be I don't wanted to be going down
Speaker 24: there with ten thousand screaming Maron fans who are all
Speaker 24: buying from Blood and they see me.
Speaker 9: Oh my Lanter, no way, man, I couldn't think of
Speaker 9: anything worse.
Speaker 2: Hey, now, MG, you did some great work for charities
Speaker 2: and you have been walking for the Great Walk Foundation
Speaker 2: dot com dot are you and you've embarked on a
Speaker 2: sixty k walk.
Speaker 9: Yeah, thanks you.
Speaker 24: The Great Walk terms eighteen this year Clinton.
Speaker 9: I've been a part of it for maybe ten of those.
Speaker 24: Eighteen years, and I was in the inaugural trek when
Speaker 24: we went from Bathist to Blaxland.
Speaker 9: Sorry.
Speaker 24: And so now it's every year one sixty k's and
Speaker 24: they've raised over two million dollars for local charities from
Speaker 24: or local businessmen who do the track. It's it's an arduous,
Speaker 24: arduous walk because there's a lot of you know, undulating
Speaker 24: roads out in the out the back west there past
Speaker 24: Baptist and you go to Tarana, then you got liftgo.
Speaker 24: It's Lake Lyle is a bit of a hard walk,
Speaker 24: so my feet absolutely can. I've got so my blister's
Speaker 24: in the back of my heel. I don't know how
Speaker 24: I'm going to get a shoring to go on this
Speaker 24: plane tomorrow. So any any remedies for blisters moment?
Speaker 9: What do you think?
Speaker 7: Look?
Speaker 2: I was going to say thongs, but I think songs
Speaker 2: that songs aren't in fashion at the moment, are they?
Speaker 2: You got to wear crocs these days, haven't you?
Speaker 9: Moms?
Speaker 24: I was thinking about wearing loads like the loafers with
Speaker 24: a pair of socks like the slides.
Speaker 2: Would you pull your socks up.
Speaker 9: Over my jeans?
Speaker 16: Good?
Speaker 9: Look here there's Billy bub guy.
Speaker 16: Look at him.
Speaker 2: If you want to donate the Great Walker Great Walk
Speaker 2: Foundation dot com dot you do some great work for charity. MG,
Speaker 2: well done.
Speaker 9: They thank you, Bud.
Speaker 24: In the books you're listening tonight up there and the
Speaker 24: ladies up there at they'll bitter time. I go back
Speaker 24: to bathis kindly what we work, guys, and get through
Speaker 24: to the blacks on Friday.
Speaker 2: We will talk to you tomorrow from Brisbane.
Speaker 9: I'm cool, Quinn, Yeah, happy, happy, birthday brother.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mate. I try to keep that quiet.
Speaker 9: I know you did, mate. Hannah, Hi Hannah.
Speaker 2: Yes it's it's not a significant birthday, but there might
Speaker 2: be one coming out in the next year.
Speaker 24: But it is your birthday, mate. My mum rang me
Speaker 24: earlier today to say forget it's.
Speaker 2: Your mum rang you. Thanks MG, Mom, Thanks MG. He's
Speaker 2: a cracker. Tomorrow night, State of Origin one live with
Speaker 2: a continuous call team on Sydney.
Speaker 4: Now a weather update will be here to help in
Speaker 4: unexpected weather.
Speaker 1: NRMA Insurance a help company.
Speaker 2: Thankfully, the dust has gone away, and he believe the
Speaker 2: dust has gone away. You wouldn't see it because it's
Speaker 2: quite dark across Sydney right at the moment. Fourteen degrees
Speaker 2: in the city, thirteen degrees in the western suburbs. Tomorrow
Speaker 2: mostly sunny day, no dust. Nineteen degrees is the top. Thursday,
Speaker 2: cloudy in nineteen mostly sunny and twenty degrees on Friday.
Speaker 2: I'm getting lots of messages about the dramas with the
Speaker 2: metro line, so Barangaroo station at the moment there is
Speaker 2: a train that's stuck at Barragaroo. What it means is
Speaker 2: that you cannot get a metro train from the northern
Speaker 2: part of the line to the southern part of the line.
Speaker 2: So from Talowong Chatswood, the North Sydney station's like Victoria
Speaker 2: Cross under the Harbor to Barangaroo and then through to
Speaker 2: the city and then Sydney. They're not going all the
Speaker 2: way through, so they're stopping at Barangaro in both directions.
Speaker 2: Now there's a very limited service that goes between sydneym
Speaker 2: and Barangaroo or Tallowong and Brangaro. But when I say limited,
Speaker 2: emphasized that very limited. We spoke to Breeni who was
Speaker 2: actually at Barangaro station. He gave up and said he's
Speaker 2: going to head for the three thirty three bus. Paul
Speaker 2: and Pado says, well, I've done just that. It's a disaster.
Speaker 2: Everyone is now heading for the three thirty three bus.
Speaker 2: Alistairs says it pays to listen to two g being
Speaker 2: good on Brening for the update, because I've disregarded the
Speaker 2: advice now from Transport. I've followed Brine's advice and Bingo,
Speaker 2: I've managed to get on an empty train at Victoria Cross.
Speaker 2: It is an absolute mess, not just on Sydney's trains.
Speaker 2: Each afternoon at the moment. Now the Metro as well.
Speaker 2: Do you want to win some tickets to go and
Speaker 2: see a wonderful playt the Ensemble Theater. I've got a
Speaker 2: double pass to give away. You need to call this
Speaker 2: number one three one, eight seventy three Clinton's Quiz. Yes,
Speaker 2: we've got tickets to the theater give away. We're very
Speaker 2: cultured on this program. The quiz coming up in just
Speaker 2: a moment nine to six. There's been some stories around
Speaker 2: that just Center Price was actually sounded out to run
Speaker 2: in the Lower House, which is critical because yes, she's
Speaker 2: switching to the Liberal Party, but you can't lead a
Speaker 2: party from the upper House. So for her prospects potentially
Speaker 2: one day to be the Prime Minister, she needs to
Speaker 2: move to the lower House. She's released a statement to
Speaker 2: Sky News and she's confirmed I did receive suggestions from
Speaker 2: various individuals, including supporters, colleagues and friends who would have
Speaker 2: liked me to run for a lower House seat. There
Speaker 2: are two seats in the Northern Territory in the lower House.
Speaker 2: They're both Labor Party members. At the moment, she says,
Speaker 2: I remain content with that decision not to run, but
Speaker 2: I look forward to continue the big task that lies
Speaker 2: ahead for the Liberal Party in holding the Albanezy government
Speaker 2: to account. I think you can pretty firmly say that
Speaker 2: she will look at it the next election. I think
Speaker 2: just Into Price has some big ambitions, and I think
Speaker 2: if there's the prospect if the Liberals are looking stronger,
Speaker 2: if there's the prospect of her winning a seat in
Speaker 2: the Northern Territory in the Lower House, I reckon you'll
Speaker 2: see her run.
Speaker 1: Time to expose your minds. Do you may begin your
Speaker 1: questioning Sidney Now? Questions questions or against questions?
Speaker 2: Important?
Speaker 1: I know how s you are? Answer a question?
Speaker 29: Get it right?
Speaker 1: Clinton's Quick Quiz.
Speaker 2: The Lover and the Dumb Waiter is playing at the
Speaker 2: Ensemble Theater Currebilly. Don't miss Howard Pins's double bill late
Speaker 2: no Other The Lover followed by The Dumb Waiter. A
Speaker 2: night of intrigue, wit and comedy tension. Ensemble Theater, Curabillity.
Speaker 2: Get your tickets now, Ensemble dot com dot au. Let's
Speaker 2: find some contestants to the evening Steve's Innately, Hello Steve,
Speaker 2: I'm good, my friend. And in schofield Sallo, Marty, how
Speaker 2: are you? I'm good? You can go First, your thirty
Speaker 2: second starts, Now, how many legs does a fish have?
Speaker 16: None?
Speaker 2: Correct? What year did Facebook launch? Two thousand and one
Speaker 2: and two thousand and four?
Speaker 22: Two thousand and one, No, was four.
Speaker 2: What is the perfect score in a game of ten
Speaker 2: pin bowling? Three hundred? What is the highest grossing holiday
Speaker 2: movie of all time? The Grinch? Or Love Actually.
Speaker 22: Love Actually?
Speaker 2: No, it's actually the Grinch. Now. I think it should
Speaker 2: be Love Actually because despite it being a bit cringe
Speaker 2: at times, it's a brilliant movie. But no, it's the Grinch.
Speaker 2: So you are on one, and let me assure you
Speaker 2: we've had winners finish on one previously. Steve, your thirty
Speaker 2: second starts, Now, which country is the biggest exporter of coffee.
Speaker 20: For Sue?
Speaker 2: Correct? New York Knicks, a team associated with which sport basketball? Correct?
Speaker 2: Finish the sentence A blessing in disculptor good at that one?
Speaker 6: This guy?
Speaker 2: Correct, you're the wain up. You actually won on two anyway,
Speaker 2: So look, apologies for my question asking. I've got a
Speaker 2: very sore thumb. Seriously, I squashed my thumb in between
Speaker 2: some metal just before the show. We had blood spurting
Speaker 2: out across the studio. So if I've been slightly off
Speaker 2: my game today, that is the reason why I've had
Speaker 2: a very sore thumb. We're going to send you out
Speaker 2: a double pass to go and see the Lover and
Speaker 2: the dumb Way that it is playing at the Ensemble
Speaker 2: Theater Ensemble dot com dot Are you you won't believe this? Actually,
Speaker 2: yes you will. There are dramas on the t for
Speaker 2: train line thirty minute delays, an urgent train repair being
Speaker 2: conducted right now at Townhall station. So we have problems
Speaker 2: at Barangaroo with a train stuck there on the Metro
Speaker 2: and now a train broken down a townhill. Paul, give
Speaker 2: yourself extra time.
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Speaker 30: Yeah, Clinton, Big Benny Elias is signed to whip up
Speaker 30: a bit of origin height because it has been a
Speaker 30: bit flat between both teams blow up and not enough bluffs,
Speaker 30: but all the blofs were in gusts and everyone else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 30: We've got all the injury lates as well. With Steve
Speaker 30: Crichton and Payne Hears, we'll have that covered for you.
Speaker 30: I'm asking the listeners what's your favorite state of orangin
Speaker 30: moment of all time. Jake Riccardi from The Giants will
Speaker 30: join us, also in Craig Gabriel to wrap up the
Speaker 30: French apem MG and Wally Lewis.
Speaker 2: That's mine. Thank you for listening over the past couple
Speaker 2: of hours. We've had a big one. That's Sydney now.