WEBVTT - Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard – Full Show May 27th 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.080 On two GDV. This is Sydney Now. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:18.720 With Clinton Tuesday May twenty seven. It is Clinton Maynard 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:20.799 here one three one eight seven three. I am looking 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.000 outside the window here from our studios in Pimont. I 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:27.200 can actually see there is no dust haze across the city. 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:29.320 Is all that. There's some bright sunny skies, a little 0:00:29.360 --> 0:00:32.519 bit of cloud, but the dust has vanished. Have you 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:34.800 experienced dust like that. It's in the last few years. 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.200 I certainly have. Visibility was down to about three hundred leaders. 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:41.159 We'll find out about what's caused that in a few moments. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.159 So this is the good news. Dust does have a 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.960 way of slowing down trains. I understand that they actually 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:50.640 can slow down the trains. So if it's at all 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:54.400 possible that Sydney Trains management can figure out some way 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.640 to maybe dust off the rails, if they can try 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.840 to prevent dust entering the air conditioningsvictims of the trains, 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:03.440 please do that, because and after there's a way that 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.920 Sydney trains can actually be derailed and slow down. We'll 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:09.600 find a way in this city. What a debarkay yesterday 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:11.720 afternoon was coming up on the program the future of 0:01:11.760 --> 0:01:15.840 Rosehill Racecourse is to be decided within the next few minutes. 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:18.319 The ATC chair Peter mcgarrian will be on the show 0:01:18.360 --> 0:01:20.640 a little later, and we're also hoping to speak with 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:23.640 Gay Waterhouse. The flood recovery is continuing on the mid 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.839 North Coast and in the Hunter Valley and around Tai 0:01:27.040 --> 0:01:29.319 where I was yesterday. The Prime Minister has been there 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.400 over the past few hours. Now. I think it's critical 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.840 that we address the long term issues that affect the 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.200 Mid North Coast and the North Coast in particular, and 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.880 that concerns insurance. We'll be talking with the Insurance Council 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.600 and the program our straight shooters for a Tuesday join 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.000 us after four thirty. Susan Temperaman and Holly Hughes and 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.560 Mark Geyer is back and MG has had some dramas 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.200 he's been on a charity walk and his feet aren't 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.360 fearing too well. You are my eyes and ears when 0:01:53.360 --> 0:01:55.800 it's happening in Sydney now, so semi a text message 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.280 zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:10.200 have you say one three one eight seven three nine 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:13.200 past three in Sydney now, the skies a bright. The 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:16.800 dust seems to have disappeared, but what was happening this morning? 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.280 Miriam Bradbury joins me. She's a meteorologist with the Bureau. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.720 What was going on this morning, Miriam. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:26.880 Well, essentially it' starned quite some ways away from Sydney. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.680 This dust originated in South Australia. Actually, it was picked 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.200 up by these very very strong winds associated with the 0:02:33.200 --> 0:02:35.959 cold front that moved through. The winds were strong both 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.680 ahead of and behind the front, and they were westerlies, 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.680 which means they were coming from the west and pushing 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:43.000 to east. So they picked up all at dust across 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.560 South Australia where it's been very dry and very dusty. 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:48.560 They brought it through those southwestern parts of New South 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:53.040 Wales yesterday afternoon, then kept bringing it eastwards, affecting much 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:55.359 of the River Arena, pushing all the way to Camber 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.720 early this morning and eventually reaching the Metro area through 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.079 those early hours of this morning. So we actually did 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:04.520 see some very low visibility as this dust came through. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.360 Camden had visibility down to only a few hundred meters 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:10.840 between about six and eight o'clock in the morning, most 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.440 areas experiencing more of this dust haze in the air 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:15.720 for quite some time. 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:18.639 Now looking outside my windows Chief Mount Studios in Piermont, 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:20.600 and it looks it looks very clear. So is all 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:22.520 the dust now blown away? Yeah? 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.440 Pretty much so. These westerly winds are continuing, which means 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.519 all that dust is now being blown or way out 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.000 to sea. And in fact, for anyone listening who's interested, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:31.400 if you jump on and take a look at the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:34.520 satellite imagery, you can actually see these areas of brown 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:37.920 moving out over the water away from the New South 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.760 Wales coast. That's the dust that's been affecting us this morning, 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.120 now moving well offshore, leaving us with much clearer air 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:45.680 in its wake. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:47.240 Is this quite rare for Sydney. 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.520 Yeah, look, it's reasonably rare. We need the dust to 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.280 come from these areas where it's very dry and very dusty, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.960 as you can imagine, so that is South Australia or 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:58.600 possibly western parts of New South Wales. To get all 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.839 the way to the east coast, though, you need very 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.160 strong winds to push it all that distance and also 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.840 make it across the ranges. So it just so happened 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.320 that this cold front moving through had these very very 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.760 strong winds associated with it, persisting for a long time, 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.640 which really just enabled this dust to be moved practically 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.080 a whole state across to reach us in the Sydney area. 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.080 Is it possible that there could be more dust later 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:21.599 in the week. 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:25.520 Or is this it look it's unlikely. The winny conditions 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.560 are likely to persist through today. We actually have a 0:04:27.560 --> 0:04:30.040 severe weather warning out for parts of the state, including 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.359 the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, and it 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.360 could be fairly gusty through this afternoon, but these winds 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.720 should ease back later today and as we move into 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.560 tomorrow and Thursday, we are looking at much more moderate 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.279 winds coming through and they're changing direction as well. They're 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.680 coming from more of a southerly direction, so they're coming 0:04:46.680 --> 0:04:49.120 from the south. Unlikely to bring any more of that 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:49.920 dust our way. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.080 Okay, thank you for the information. Thank you Miriam Bradby 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:55.440 from the Weather Bureau. Now Jack Hahn from the Today 0:04:55.480 --> 0:04:58.440 Show has just sent me message and some vision of 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.279 the flight radar around Sydney Airport and because of westerly winds, 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.479 it appears that Sydney Airport is currently operating on one 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.200 runway as one way and I'm just having a look 0:05:08.200 --> 0:05:11.000 at the the flight radar and that does seem to 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:12.600 be the case. We'll check it out with Sidney Airport 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.720 about where there's going to be need delays for flights 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.800 this afternoon. But it would appear that Sydney Airport at 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.000 the moment is operating on one runway because of the 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:20.719 westerly winds. 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.080 You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney. Stay tune 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.440 to Sydney Now with Quinton. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:32.000 Lay On to gmb Okay. Right now, the members of 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.560 the ATC are at Royal Randwick voting on the future 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.480 of rose Hill Racecourse. I actually would have thought it 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.360 would be more appropriate to hold the EGM today at 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.760 rose Hill. Nevertheless, there are eleven to twelve thousand members 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.760 of the ATC and they are deciding whether rose Hill 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.680 will be sold off for five billion dollars to the 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.880 state government. That money would be paid over the course 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:54.360 of ten years. As we've been discussing now for several months, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.520 and in fact this issue has been around since late 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:59.680 twenty twenty three. The racetrack would be redeveloped for twenty 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.119 five one thousand new homes with a metro station. Now 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.160 the vote is happening right now. Most of the votes 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.320 have actually come in via proxy electronically, so there will 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:11.920 be a result quite quickly. From what I've been hearing 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:16.599 throughout the day, the No vote is virtually one hundred 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:19.760 percent over the line. It looks that way now that 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.360 that could change and we don't have these figures through yet, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.040 but mainfow is that the No campaign was very confident 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.640 they would have enough votes to win, but it would 0:06:28.680 --> 0:06:31.440 be closer than a lot of people were expecting. Peter 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:35.479 McGowan is the chair of the ATC. Now I'm not 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:37.159 in the meeting at the moment obviously, but I've just 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.000 had a few people send me messages that apparently mister 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:42.360 mcguran has not had a wonderful reception. There's been some 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:45.120 booze for the chair of Peter mcgarran. And bear in 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.880 mind the board itself of the ATC is split. So 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.080 Peter mcgaran, of the chair, obviously wants to see this happen. 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.400 Racing New South Wales, which is led by Peter Velandi's 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.200 wants to see this happen. The state government wants to 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.000 see this happen. But every time I talk about this 0:06:57.040 --> 0:06:59.119 in the radio, you don't want to see it happen, 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.600 but it's up to the eight TC members. There is 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.960 going to be the question if the vote is not successful, 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:08.599 then what if the ATC is in the belief that 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:11.080 they need this funding five billion dollars over ten years 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.080 to secure its future and to scue the future of 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.160 racing in New South Wales. Where do they then get 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:19.680 the money from? Would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury? Well, 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:22.240 Peter mcgodi'll ask answer those questions for us after five 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.680 o'clock when he joins me. But as we speak there 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:29.160 is not a result that's been released yet. But I'm 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.360 getting some pretty good mail. And this has been the 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.560 case for several weeks, but it's certainly built up today 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:36.040 that the no vote will be successful. 0:07:36.640 --> 0:07:40.239 Be your part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.480 one three one eight seven three. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.680 Well, yesterday we were broadcasting the program from Tarre, and 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.600 today the Prime Minister has toured both Tarre but also 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:51.240 surrounding areas of the Mid North Coast. The Defense Force 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.600 is now on the ground. They have seventy personnel who 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:57.040 are assisting now with the recovery effort. Eight hundred homes 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.960 have been written off insurance claims. Lodge There are already 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.640 thousands of assurance claims that have been put forward. The 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:09.640 SEES has conducted five thousand assessments so far. Damage assessments. 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.480 They have deemed it seven hundred and ninety four houses 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.520 on the mid North Coast, but also parts of the 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.680 Hunter Valley are unfit to live in. There's going to 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:21.240 be a question of how these people recover. The Prime 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:24.160 Minister says they will not be forgotten about. He says 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:26.920 the disaster has been far worse than what's been experienced 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:28.840 in this particular region ever before. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:33.520 People have spoken about the twenty twenty one floods and 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:37.240 how that had a devastating impact, but they thought that 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.640 would be the peak. Well, this flood has been far 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:44.680 worse and the impact has been far more severe. I 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:49.720 spoke with Linn at Wingham when we visited there. Linn's 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.880 eighty years old and has lived in this area for 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:59.360 her entire life there in Wingham, and she has never 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.880 seen anything like it in her lifetime, as did other 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:08.920 people in Willam who we spoke to firsthand. There is 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:13.920 nothing like coming to an area and seeing people firsthand 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:15.200 and engaging with them. 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.720 The Prime Minister is also spilt out what sort of 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:19.599 financial assistance is now available. 0:09:19.840 --> 0:09:25.080 We are activating the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment in 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.920 nine local government areas. This payment helps people who have 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.760 suffered the most serious impacts, including a major damage to 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.840 their home or serious injury or loss of a loved 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.160 one as a result of severe weather. It's a one 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.680 off payment of one thousand dollars for eligible adults and 0:09:44.840 --> 0:09:48.280 four hundred dollars for eligible childs. It will be available 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:54.240 from two pm tomorrow. We're also extending the Disaster Recovery Allowance. 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.920 This is providing for up to thirteen weeks of income 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:02.720 support for people who can't attend their workers, employees or 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:07.920 people who are self employed and are unable to earn 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:11.960 an income. This involves as well comes on top of 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:16.920 the support that is already rolling out, including personal hardship 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.440 payments one hundred and eighty dollars for eligible adults and 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.840 up to nine hundred dollars per family in the nineteen 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:28.200 affected local government areas. The Community Recovery Support Fund that 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.320 provides a million dollars for all of the impacted counsels 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.960 just to help with the costs of cleaning up and 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.800 repairing damage and as well the primary producers and small 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.000 businesses support. 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.760 This provides for concessional. 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:44.920 Rate loans as well as freight sub seeds to help 0:10:45.320 --> 0:10:50.400 transport livestock and fodder. All of these supports where icknowledge 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.240 is going to be more needed here. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.800 The prime is to detailing all of the financial assistance 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.520 that's available and that covers it there. Now, that's not 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.840 going to do a lot for businesses that I witnessed 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.439 yesterday that have been wiped out, such as the motel. 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.319 I visited the oyster farm and there are loans that 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.040 are available, but those loans also need to be paid back. 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.000 The question is raised that should really be the responsibility 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:16.440 of a government to bail out homeowners maybe who don't 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:19.400 have insurance, to bail out businesses. There are thousands of 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:21.840 insurance claims that have been lodged already, but I think 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:23.800 there's a deep issue that's going to need to be addressed, 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:26.640 and that's the affordability of insurance going forward. Now you 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.080 know from how much your basic home insurance premium has 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.480 gone up in suburbs in Sydney that are not affected 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:35.560 by natural disasters. You might not be in a bushfire area, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.559 you may not well, be in a flood prone area. 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.280 Your premium has gone up, hasn't it in the past 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.960 twelve months? Well, think about what it's like for people 0:11:42.960 --> 0:11:45.079 in those areas where they do have floods from time 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:47.880 to time. It's on a whole new level, completely unaffordable. 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.480 And it's easy for us to say we'll move away, 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.079 it's not easy in practice to actually do that. I 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.480 will be talking with the insurance council after five. If 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.280 you got an idea about how we actually get around 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.280 this issue. Do we need to return to a government 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.520 insurance off remember that one the goio. What are your 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:05.000 thoughts one three one eight seven three. If there's something 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.840 you see on the streets that we know need to 0:12:06.840 --> 0:12:09.079 know about, send you a text message zero force like 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.520 zero eight seven three eight seven three, and that is 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:13.840 our word on the street. Things to temper, Temper, a 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.000 great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is temper. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.559 And in barrel, this is a word on the street 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:21.640 in barrel, Jason, what can you tell us what's going 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:22.760 on in barrel this afternoon? 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:24.679 A power outage down here? 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.120 It's the wind has been blowing like a gale, as 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:29.400 it has over most parts of these other whales and 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:31.800 whilst it's good to see the that dirt go out 0:12:31.840 --> 0:12:34.160 the sea and'd certainly taken the power out with it here. 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:36.400 So you've had no power for how long? 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:38.600 Going up to an hour and a half. 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:43.880 Now Endeavor Energy, you supplies the electricity is say, probably. 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:44.720 Not till nine pm tonight. 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:48.240 Ooh before it's restored. Okay, we've just had some confirmation 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.600 off air Jason, You're right, so Endeavor Energy says there 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.040 are currently eighty four outages, so homes and businesses in Barrel. 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:57.160 It's because the tree damage that's been caused by the 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.400 gusty wins. The estimated time that the power is going 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.640 to be back on his nine o'clock formerly from in 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.520 Dever Energy. I hope you can get through JSON on batteries. 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.440 Sydney Airport's now confirmed with us they are running just 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:10.040 one runway due to the wind. I'm getting some more 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.440 information that's coming out of the meeting at Royal Ramwick 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:16.920 on the future of Rose Hill and apparently it's very fiery. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.920 There are some leading members who are actually walking out 0:13:19.920 --> 0:13:22.760 of the meeting in disgust. So we are going to 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.679 talk with both Peter mcgourren and we believe gay Waterhouse 0:13:26.720 --> 0:13:29.520 will be on the program a little later. Now, we 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.920 don't have any confirmation yet of how the vote has gone, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:36.000 but my information is there was very little chance the 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:40.280 yes vote would be successful. Now, also bear in mind 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.520 this is for a deal that the government has actually 0:13:42.559 --> 0:13:44.880 not formally signed off on. It would be the state 0:13:44.960 --> 0:13:48.600 government spending five billion dollars to buy rose Hill over 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:52.280 ten years, and that's not a formality either. Yes, Chris 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.880 Mins wants this to happen, but the deal actually has 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.680 not been done with the government itself. We'll bring you 0:13:57.679 --> 0:13:59.400 that result as soon as it comes to hand one 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:02.199 three one seven to three. On the issues of insurance 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:05.760 in disaster areas going forward, areas that are prone to bushfires, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.240 those that have a history of flooding, Neville says, what 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:12.160 we need is a National Disaster Fund. Good idea, dan 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.600 Neville Daniel says insurance for flood prone areas like medicare 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.680 private health insurance. The government should cover a portion, say 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.440 forty percent of the value, and the rest is from 0:14:21.480 --> 0:14:23.640 an insurance company. I will be talking to the Insurance 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:26.520 Council a little later on the program coming up. I'm 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:30.040 going to talk to Peter Ford about the relationship between 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.440 the French president and his wife. It certainly took a 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:37.880 turn today. Pauline Hansen's daughter has been unsuccessful today in 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.560 her bid to join her mother in the Senate. She 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.640 has missed out on the Senate seat for Tasmani. She 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.000 came quite close though, so Jackie Lamby has retained her 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.160 seat and at one point it was looking like Miss 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.480 Lamby may well miss out, but the AEC has now 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:55.240 confirmed the six Tasmanian senators and that will include Lamby. 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.800 And just remember the way our democracy works. Tasmania has 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:01.960 the same number of senates as we do in New 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:05.040 South Wales, which seems a little ridiculous. Just some confirmation 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.760 of Mindeva energy for our listeners in the Southern Highlands. 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.960 We have plenty via the app. It looks like it's 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.160 going to be nine o'clock before the power is restored 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.600 to some areas around Barrel. About eighty four properties at 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:17.880 the moment are without power. There's been some damage to 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.600 power lines caused by a tree in these winds. Let's 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:26.479 check out your headlines and good after and Josh Bryce. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.240 Good afternoon, Clinton. The fate of rose Hill Racecourse is 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.280 expected to be known soon as members have been voting 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:34.400 on whether location will be sold off to the state 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.360 government to be turned into twenty five thousand new homes. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.440 More than one hundred specialists police are being deployed. It's 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.480 part of a task force designed to help bring an 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.120 end to growing gang violence on the streets of Sydney. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:48.280 Key Labour backbencher at Hu six urging the federal government 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:51.000 to push for greater action against Israel, arguing the country 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.200 should be punished after restricting food and medical supplies in 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.560 war torn Gaza At Australia's Queen Mary and her husband 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.120 have been upstaged by the family dog King Frederick, was 0:16:01.160 --> 0:16:04.200 greeting crowds on the palace for his fifty seventh birthday, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.160 the one of the family's border colleagues, made a surprise appearance. 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.840 Is believed to be the first time that's happened. In sport, 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.680 Blues coach Laurie Daly says he's quietly confident that sent 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.880 to Stephen Crichton will be fit to play in the 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.760 State of Origin opener after leaving training with a corked 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:19.760 thigh yesterday. We'll have more news and sport. 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:21.840 It for thank you Josh eighteen degrees in the city. 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.560 It is seventeen degrees in Campbelltown at the moment, one 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.520 three one eight seven three is our number. The big 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:32.280 issue in Sydney today, no doubt, is gang violence. Violent criminals, 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.200 drug gangs who are now willing to shoot not just 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:39.440 each other, but innocent victims. Now this has moved to 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.600 a whole new level. And we've witnessed gun crime and 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:44.480 drug crime in this city for decades, but it's no 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.840 longer just the lives of criminals that are in danger. 0:16:47.400 --> 0:16:51.359 We are seeing innocent people killed, cases of mistaken identity, 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.480 which takes this drug war and it's all about drugs 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:57.360 and illegal tobacco as well, to a whole new level. 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:02.120 What we saw in Granville Sunday afternoon, innocent bystanders, their 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:04.920 lives were put at risk. We saw just a couple 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.760 of weeks ago the murder of a forty five year 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:10.679 old mother who was abducted from her home her child 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.840 whack with a baseball back. This was in Bankstown. She's stripped, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.000 tied up and then killed. Police believe she had no 0:17:18.080 --> 0:17:20.800 idea that her husband was involved in the drug trade. 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.560 Last week, the murder of a twenty three year old 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.199 in a driveway over home at Condell Park. He had 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.640 just come home in his ute, worked for his dad 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.200 as a plumber. Apparently a case of mistaken identity because 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.920 there was a crime figure living in the street. There's 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:36.680 a theory doing the rounds that members of these criminal 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:39.920 gangs in Sydney have changed their stance, that they're now 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.280 willing to kill innocent people. They don't seem to care 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.560 and that they're criminals in the end because if anything, okay, 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.280 if they maybe kill the wrong person here and there, 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:49.560 it still sends a message to their rivals that they're 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.240 more than willing to kill. The police and the government 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.359 today have set up Task Force Falcon. It's made up 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.600 of one hundred and fifty officers and another ninety staff. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:59.000 The Police Minister Usiasmin Catley. 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:03.679 We will not tolerate these lawless thugs getting out there 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.560 with their vendebtors against each other and putting in danger 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:13.640 innocent victims in our community. Let me tell you, if 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:17.320 you intend to become a part of these organized gangs, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.879 you are either going to end up in a small 0:18:20.920 --> 0:18:23.760 cell for the rest of your life or indeed at 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.639 the Morgue we take this very very seriously. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.359 The police minister Yasmin Cattley, now Dave Hudson, the Deputy 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:32.720 commissioner's heading up all this and he's a very serious 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.480 police officer, is the deputy commissioner. I wonder though, whether 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.920 the criminals in the Alabideine crime gang and listening to 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.520 Yasmin Catley this apening, thinking we're worried that nothing worries them. 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.160 The only thing they're worried about is their payday. It's 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:46.800 all about greed. I'm going to talk with a former 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:49.560 police officer who can give us an insight into what's 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.320 happening in the underworld at the moment. Laid this half 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:54.600 hour and I know a lot of people respond by saying, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:56.800 who cares if crooks kill crooks as few of them 0:18:56.840 --> 0:18:58.800 on the streets. The problem is they're not just killing 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.080 crooks now, they're killing innocent people as well. 0:19:01.320 --> 0:19:04.440 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.440 now with Quenton Maynard on. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.040 To GB Well, hasn't Emmanuel mccron and his wife made 0:19:11.080 --> 0:19:15.800 headlines today? This is quite extraordinary, this slap on board 0:19:15.920 --> 0:19:18.200 the plane. Peter Ford joins us. What do you make 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.760 of it, Pete, I'm still not sure. 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.359 I'm still I think it's odd, that's for sure. And 0:19:23.440 --> 0:19:25.960 I know, and let's be really clear, you know where 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.040 everyone knows that domestic violence is not a laughing matter, 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.440 but this would seem to not be that. Certainly. President 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:38.000 Macron is insistent that it wasn't that his offers are 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:40.440 saying it wasn't that. It was just a bit of 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.280 horseplay and high jinks and they were messing around, and 0:19:43.960 --> 0:19:48.040 which is hard to meet a fully swallow because you know, 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:51.200 these are very experienced people. He's been in that position 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:54.760 now for eight years, and I'm sure there's many times 0:19:54.760 --> 0:19:57.600 he's arrived on the jet in a new country and 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.439 he knows perfectly well, that's the moment when the doors 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:02.919 open and all the media are waiting to get that 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:05.159 shot as you walk up and walk out of the 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:08.240 plane and down the stairs. So it would seem to 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:13.080 be very strange timing to be indulging in hijinks. But 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:14.600 that's what they say it was. 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.160 Well, he has defended himself. This is little what he's 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.240 had to say. 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.520 We were squabbling and I was joking with my wife, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:27.520 and I'm surprised by it, and it becomes some sort 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:33.440 of geoplanetary catastrophe and everybody needs to calm down and 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.399 should really focus on actual news. 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:38.119 A geoplanetary catastrophe. 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:42.280 Well, yes, look, I mean I think it buys into 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.400 a lot of the theories that go around about this marriage, 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:47.879 and I'm not going to indulge in those because some 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:49.480 of them are pretty wild and pretty out. 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:49.720 Well. 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:51.440 They did meet in school and she was the. 0:20:51.400 --> 0:20:54.199 Teacher exactly, so what we do know, even just the 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:58.119 facts that we know, it's not ever been a conventional relationship. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.359 You know, there's a twenty five year age different there. 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:04.080 She was a school drama teacher. He was fifteen years old, 0:21:04.480 --> 0:21:07.320 so you're getting into sort of questionable areas there. Anyway, 0:21:07.720 --> 0:21:11.159 So it's always been a little bit odd. So I 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:13.840 don't know, is the honest answer. But it certainly got 0:21:13.880 --> 0:21:17.879 people talking and guessing, and I guess anything that happens 0:21:17.880 --> 0:21:19.680 in the next few days people are going to jump 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:21.520 on and say that's more. 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:26.080 Evidence the romance of Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley 0:21:26.080 --> 0:21:27.440 has moved to a new stage. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.280 Yes, every day we get something that's new. You know, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:34.120 yesterday we had the first ever red carpet appearance by 0:21:34.160 --> 0:21:36.760 the two of them, so that was quite something. Then 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:40.000 today he's put up a post onto his social media 0:21:40.200 --> 0:21:42.800 she has as well, actually from this event they went 0:21:42.840 --> 0:21:47.000 to together in Rome, and in it he actually calls her 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:52.520 my beautiful girlfriend, so he has used the G word girlfriend. 0:21:53.240 --> 0:21:55.920 So we haven't actually had the use of the L 0:21:56.000 --> 0:21:59.160 word yet, but that's got to be soon, I reckon. 0:21:59.200 --> 0:22:02.159 And the is now that they've both gone back to 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.960 England together and she's going to be there and he's 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:10.280 joining her simply to spend time meeting her family and friends. 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:12.840 So there's no doubt this is a serious thing. Whether 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:15.399 it's going to last the distance or not is another question. 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.399 But I mean she certainly if you look at her 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.520 through the years, she's got very very eclectic tastes in 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:25.600 men still all different types of people through the years, 0:22:25.880 --> 0:22:28.240 and of course the most recent one being our own 0:22:28.320 --> 0:22:30.959 Shane Warn But good luck to them, you know, I 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:32.639 hope they make it work. 0:22:32.840 --> 0:22:35.880 Does he still have the mullet Billy Ryan, Yeah he has. 0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.399 Look, he's got a kind of slightly dishevelled country singer. 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.840 Look you know about him. But yeah, they say opposite 0:22:43.880 --> 0:22:46.199 to track, don't they I mean, she has said the 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:49.760 thing that drew them together, and it didn't happen instantaneously. 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.440 They made a movie together a couple of years ago, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.760 and there was no suggestion there that any love or 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:59.560 any real close friendship evolved from that. But it was 0:22:59.600 --> 0:23:04.320 twelve months later when she contacted him and suddenly that's 0:23:04.359 --> 0:23:05.840 when it's all blossomed from there. 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.560 Good luck to them, Happy for them. We'll talk tomorrow. 0:23:08.840 --> 0:23:09.480 Thanks Clenton. 0:23:09.520 --> 0:23:11.200 We have lots of text messages about the future of 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.160 rose Hill Gardens Racecourse and Peter mcgarren and Gay Waterhouse 0:23:14.160 --> 0:23:16.320 will both join me later in the program. I'm expecting 0:23:16.320 --> 0:23:18.840 a result within the next half an hour. Paul says 0:23:18.960 --> 0:23:21.400 Peter mcgoan will need to resign. His position of chair 0:23:21.520 --> 0:23:25.800 is untenable. The members don't trust him. And this one 0:23:25.800 --> 0:23:28.879 from Misty, where's the money coming from? Why should taxpayers 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:31.800 prop up the racing industry? This is even before considering 0:23:31.840 --> 0:23:34.159 the traffic issues that a housing estate is going to 0:23:34.160 --> 0:23:36.520 bring to the rose Hill Racecourse. Well, in regards to 0:23:36.520 --> 0:23:38.480 the five billion dollars, that's where we're very light on 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:41.119 detail at the moment because the government certainly hasn't outlined 0:23:41.320 --> 0:23:43.280 their role in the plant other than they do want 0:23:43.320 --> 0:23:45.560 to see twenty five thousand new homes built at Rosehill. 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:48.000 But there's never been a formal document put on the 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:50.280 table for any of us to look at to say, Okay, 0:23:50.359 --> 0:23:53.320 the government will spend X number of dollars per year 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.480 over the decade. So it's not just money to prop 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.159 up the ATC. You got to make that clear. The 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:01.879 idea is to housing and there would be profit involved 0:24:01.920 --> 0:24:04.119 as well, whether it's for the government or developers whoever. 0:24:04.920 --> 0:24:06.960 And it's to address the problem of the shortage of 0:24:06.960 --> 0:24:09.400 housing that we have in Sydney. But there's just there's 0:24:09.440 --> 0:24:12.080 no formality about this that this is actually what the 0:24:12.119 --> 0:24:15.720 government has agreed to. Word on the street for Tempa 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:18.399 a great night's sleep night after night. The difference is Tempa. 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:20.879 Debbie is in Gladesville and has a word on the street. 0:24:20.920 --> 0:24:23.200 Your line is really bad, Debbie. But so you're telling 0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:27.520 me that there's an accident on Victoria Road near Charles Street. 0:24:27.600 --> 0:24:29.760 So it's at right, is it, Debbie? Yep, it's at right. 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.840 It's heading westbound, so apologies there. Debbie's line is very poor, 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:35.680 but there are two cars in the footpath there. Thanks 0:24:35.720 --> 0:24:38.360 for letting us know about that. Police investigations also under 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:41.720 way about an incident in our Tarman lunchtime today in 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.359 Elizabeth Street, and just having a look at some of 0:24:44.400 --> 0:24:46.240 the photos that I mentioned with Michael McLaren a little 0:24:46.240 --> 0:24:50.560 earlier this afternoon, an elderly driver has somehow managed to 0:24:51.440 --> 0:24:55.400 fling her car, a red Honda h it's a red 0:24:55.400 --> 0:25:00.560 Honda Suv and somehow she's managed to mount apart car 0:25:01.560 --> 0:25:04.520 that's at the side of Elizabeth Street and she's ended 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:07.119 up on two wheels and she's lucky that she hasn't 0:25:07.119 --> 0:25:09.879 been badly injured. Now, neighbors helped her get out of 0:25:09.880 --> 0:25:11.880 the car, and then the police arrived in a tow 0:25:11.880 --> 0:25:15.560 truck driver and very delicately they were able to remove 0:25:15.600 --> 0:25:18.320 the suv from the top of a park or Black 0:25:18.320 --> 0:25:20.040 too had a camera. It looks like it's a peplay 0:25:20.160 --> 0:25:23.680 driver there. Fortunately nobody has been seriously injured, but the 0:25:23.760 --> 0:25:25.840 driver looks like she's had a very lucky escape. 0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.760 You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two 0:25:29.920 --> 0:25:33.040 gb Com now one three to one, page seven three. 0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:34.600 It's a quarter to the four. As I mentioned, the 0:25:34.640 --> 0:25:37.160 state government and the police today have announced a major 0:25:37.240 --> 0:25:40.640 task force. It is called Task Force Falcon and its 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:44.080 job is to bring together thirteen different strike forces. So 0:25:44.119 --> 0:25:47.320 strike forces are set up to investigate individual crimes, but 0:25:47.800 --> 0:25:50.360 there would appear to be links between many of these crimes. 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.439 It appears to be linked to a gang war to 0:25:53.480 --> 0:25:58.520 Sydney's underworld War. What's occurring now though, is innocent people 0:25:58.560 --> 0:26:01.119 are being killed. As I mentioned, there was a forty 0:26:01.119 --> 0:26:03.320 five year old woman who was abducted from her Bankstown 0:26:03.359 --> 0:26:06.119 home a couple of weeks ago. Now police believe her 0:26:06.160 --> 0:26:09.160 husband was involved in the drug trade, but they also 0:26:09.240 --> 0:26:14.720 believe she had zero idea of her husband's second life. 0:26:14.840 --> 0:26:18.120 She was abducted, she was stripped naked, she was tied up. 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:22.040 Now allegedly, then efforts were made to contact the husband. 0:26:22.480 --> 0:26:25.439 The criminals couldn't get through to the husband, so they 0:26:25.520 --> 0:26:29.680 killed her. No one's been charged with her murder yet. 0:26:30.280 --> 0:26:35.000 Last week, twenty three year old executed in his driveway 0:26:35.000 --> 0:26:38.199 when he arrived home in Condeal Park. Police are of 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:41.400 the belief that most likely a case of mistaken identity, 0:26:41.400 --> 0:26:44.040 that there had been a crime figure living in the street. 0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.680 And this appears to be the change that where we've 0:26:47.680 --> 0:26:50.560 had members of these underworld drug gangs willing to kill 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.600 each other, you might think, fine, they now appear to 0:26:53.600 --> 0:26:56.439 be willing to kill other people as well. Glenn Gorick 0:26:56.600 --> 0:26:59.000 is a retired police sergeant and has a lot of 0:26:59.000 --> 0:27:01.800 experience in investigation. Glenn, thanks for your time. 0:27:02.640 --> 0:27:04.400 Yeah, thanks for having me on K good to talk 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:04.639 with you. 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:07.080 Firstly, and I asked you about your insight into this 0:27:07.440 --> 0:27:09.800 ongoing gang or and maybe the way it's being changed 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:12.000 in the moment. But first of what the Governor's announced 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:15.320 today was Dave Hudson. It is a task force, Task 0:27:15.359 --> 0:27:17.800 Force Falcon. It'll bring together one hundred and fifty officers 0:27:17.800 --> 0:27:21.400 and ninety other staff. When police respond in this way, 0:27:21.440 --> 0:27:25.520 bringing together thirteen strikeforces under the umbrella of one group. 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:28.000 What does that tell you about their concern. 0:27:29.320 --> 0:27:32.639 It tells you that you're in trouble. Really, you have 0:27:32.720 --> 0:27:34.880 a big problem in Sydney. When you're going to pull 0:27:34.920 --> 0:27:38.840 all these police off one group of investigations and move 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:41.720 them all over into and focus purely on this, there's 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.800 going to be a lot of work to come to 0:27:44.840 --> 0:27:46.760 a halt and a lot of new work brought up. 0:27:46.800 --> 0:27:50.520 So it tells me that they're extremely concerned about the 0:27:50.520 --> 0:27:51.920 circumstances that are going. 0:27:51.760 --> 0:27:54.000 On now, and you know, you only have to look. 0:27:54.040 --> 0:27:56.440 We've had this run of drive by shootings. 0:27:56.480 --> 0:28:00.840 We've had this run of innocent people being shot back Queen. 0:28:00.960 --> 0:28:04.159 This goes back four decades that I remember of certain 0:28:04.200 --> 0:28:07.240 families in Sydney. Four decades. You would think that it 0:28:07.280 --> 0:28:10.280 would have stopped, and it hasn't. And it's this tit 0:28:10.600 --> 0:28:14.800 for tat continuance of oh, we'll take that person out 0:28:15.160 --> 0:28:16.639 and thinking that that will end it. 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:17.560 When it doesn't. 0:28:17.560 --> 0:28:19.280 What it does it escalates. 0:28:18.840 --> 0:28:22.680 It because then the other side start planning their retaliatory behavior. 0:28:22.840 --> 0:28:25.000 I went along to a press conference with the Senior 0:28:25.040 --> 0:28:27.959 Police probably about eighteen months ago, and they'd made some 0:28:28.000 --> 0:28:31.880 more arrests members alleged members of the Alamadeen family crime gang. 0:28:31.920 --> 0:28:33.359 And for years they are at all with the Hams. 0:28:33.400 --> 0:28:35.600 You think most of the Hamses are in jail. And 0:28:35.640 --> 0:28:37.919 they made a declaration at this press conference Glenn that 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:41.800 they believed they'd effectively broken up the Alamedines. But today 0:28:41.840 --> 0:28:43.520 we're hearing, we have over the past couple of weeks 0:28:43.520 --> 0:28:47.080 that some of these crimes again, including what transpired Sunday 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.200 in Granville, Parramatta, is again linked to the Alamedines. 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:54.880 Yeah, there's a remote link to that. I believe it's 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:58.320 alleged that the person that was seriously injured in that 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:02.200 one is linked to the Alamadeen. Obviously the lawyer was 0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:04.920 there with them. He's the lawyers are all linked to 0:29:04.960 --> 0:29:08.040 them anyway in some shape or form, because they're defending 0:29:08.080 --> 0:29:10.320 them and the Alamadean family. 0:29:10.400 --> 0:29:11.160 Look, I remember when I. 0:29:11.160 --> 0:29:12.920 Was in crime team, and I go back to the 0:29:12.920 --> 0:29:16.320 eighties and there was all sorts of problems with the right. 0:29:16.360 --> 0:29:19.920 Back then, they were all causing trouble. They were young, 0:29:20.120 --> 0:29:23.280 you know, and again they've grown up that we thought 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:25.560 they would outgrow it, and the Alamadean family has just 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:29.720 continued on generation to generation with this kind of problem. 0:29:29.760 --> 0:29:34.080 That's it's Razors said. We have the alleged Rezark family, 0:29:34.160 --> 0:29:37.440 the dib family. It's just analyses prime families coming from 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:40.640 that southwestern corner, and they seem to involve themselves in 0:29:40.640 --> 0:29:43.120 this serious crime. And as you know, innocent people are 0:29:43.160 --> 0:29:48.080 getting hurt. Bob Knight shooting back at two thousand and nine. 0:29:48.480 --> 0:29:50.360 Two thousand and nine, Bob Knight was shot in the 0:29:50.440 --> 0:29:52.400 neck by his trade bullet from a shootout. 0:29:52.480 --> 0:29:54.680 So Bob Bob Knight was a truck drive, wasn't he truck. 0:29:54.560 --> 0:29:58.240 Driver sitting at an intersection driving his truck going to 0:29:58.280 --> 0:30:00.720 work and he gets shot and he's and the family 0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:02.960 are left with that mess. And that was a stray 0:30:03.000 --> 0:30:04.600 bullet from one of these driby. 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:07.160 So that is literally in the crossfire. That's actually what happened. 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.800 But has there been a change in your observations of 0:30:09.840 --> 0:30:11.800 some of these crimes this year? Has there been a 0:30:11.880 --> 0:30:13.680 change in the way these gangs are operating that they're 0:30:13.680 --> 0:30:17.000 willing to kill innocent people such as the forty five 0:30:17.080 --> 0:30:19.280 year old wife of somebody connected to the drug dealer 0:30:19.320 --> 0:30:21.360 who didn't even know her husband was involved in this, 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:24.680 or the kid last week who police believe simple case 0:30:24.720 --> 0:30:25.680 a mistaken identity. 0:30:26.760 --> 0:30:27.840 Yeah, it has changed. 0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.200 Look the difference you go back to the old school 0:30:30.240 --> 0:30:32.040 days of the Christovadal Flannery. 0:30:31.640 --> 0:30:33.520 They would have bring the third party in right and. 0:30:33.440 --> 0:30:36.400 They would conduct surveillance and go and do the execution 0:30:36.480 --> 0:30:39.840 or whatever. It narrowed down to family members on family 0:30:39.840 --> 0:30:42.480 members for a long time. That has now gone back 0:30:42.520 --> 0:30:46.720 to third parties where they are using a young males 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:50.160 that are running around involved in some form of time. 0:30:50.240 --> 0:30:52.280 They grabbed them onside, they paint them a lot of money, 0:30:52.320 --> 0:30:53.560 and then they give them the job to do. 0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:55.040 And that's what's happening here. 0:30:54.880 --> 0:30:58.200 And hence why there is a lot of mistakes being made. 0:30:58.200 --> 0:31:01.480 It's third parties who aren't up to the job that 0:31:01.480 --> 0:31:03.320 they take it on because they want the money and 0:31:03.360 --> 0:31:04.400 make it nund for themselves. 0:31:04.440 --> 0:31:06.640 So they're not, let's be blunt, they're not very good 0:31:06.640 --> 0:31:07.480 at being an assassin. 0:31:08.160 --> 0:31:08.920 No, they're not at all. 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:09.440 They're terrible. 0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:12.360 They're absolutely hopeless. And as you're seeing the wrong things 0:31:12.400 --> 0:31:15.680 are getting done and look, you know, it's just a 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:18.680 complete mess. And the proactive policing approach to it is 0:31:18.720 --> 0:31:20.120 going to be the only anste They're going to have 0:31:20.160 --> 0:31:24.600 to saturate that southwestern area with proactive police looking for 0:31:24.840 --> 0:31:27.440 these people running around in the planning phases of these 0:31:27.480 --> 0:31:29.760 things and try and intervene before they execute their plan. 0:31:29.920 --> 0:31:33.000 Yes, So, just in conclusion, Gwen, is that the answer 0:31:33.080 --> 0:31:36.240 having more cops on the street actually targeting these dugs. 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:37.440 It has to be. 0:31:37.480 --> 0:31:39.920 There's no other way you can combat it. There's absolutely 0:31:39.960 --> 0:31:42.880 no way you can combat people running around that are 0:31:42.880 --> 0:31:46.040 going to carry out a murder on an execution. All 0:31:46.080 --> 0:31:47.680 those crime gangs are trying to do is send a 0:31:47.720 --> 0:31:51.240 message to the game. They're making a statement, and the 0:31:51.280 --> 0:31:54.000 problem with it is it just goes round and round 0:31:54.080 --> 0:31:56.640 in circles and innocent people are getting killed. And look, 0:31:56.680 --> 0:31:59.000 the people of Sydney don't deserve this. There's lots of 0:31:59.040 --> 0:32:01.080 good people out in that south for us to Sydney. 0:32:00.720 --> 0:32:03.080 That live every night in fear of a. 0:32:03.120 --> 0:32:05.720 Drive by coming down the street. It needs to be 0:32:05.840 --> 0:32:08.880 cleaned up. And I believe Dave Hudson would be the 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:11.160 best man for the job because he has forty years 0:32:11.200 --> 0:32:14.040 in the police force, mostly in investigations, and he was 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:16.360 a great detictive when in his younger days. I think 0:32:16.360 --> 0:32:18.440 he's the greatest guy to head this up and do 0:32:18.520 --> 0:32:19.120 something about it. 0:32:19.160 --> 0:32:20.320 He's heading this up and he may well be the 0:32:20.320 --> 0:32:22.320 commissioner by the end of the year. Thank you for your Tom, Glenn. 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:23.400 Thank you Clinton. 0:32:23.400 --> 0:32:24.479 It's always good to talk with you. 0:32:24.560 --> 0:32:28.080 Retired police Sergeant Glenn Gorick. Now, I know, you know 0:32:28.160 --> 0:32:31.600 some people don't care about people who are crooks shooting 0:32:31.640 --> 0:32:33.959 each other, but and I know people have also been 0:32:33.960 --> 0:32:37.440 caught in the crossfire for years. But the story last 0:32:37.480 --> 0:32:40.520 week of the twenty three year old who's arriving home 0:32:40.560 --> 0:32:43.120 at work at ten point thirty reversing his car up 0:32:43.160 --> 0:32:47.440 the driveway and someone completely covered in black get away car. 0:32:47.480 --> 0:32:51.160 They're waiting for him, and the neighbors heard someone out 0:32:51.160 --> 0:32:54.520 saying no, no, no, don't do it. And it wasn't 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:57.200 even anyone involved based on what the police investigation show 0:32:57.840 --> 0:33:00.240 involved in the drug trader or crime. The god I'd 0:33:00.240 --> 0:33:02.800 had one traffic infringement that was the only thing on 0:33:02.840 --> 0:33:06.040 his record. That is terrifying and that's what we've got 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:08.560 to do everything we can as a community to stamp 0:33:08.560 --> 0:33:11.120 that sort of behavior out and once these people are 0:33:11.120 --> 0:33:13.920 before the courts, get them in jail and keep them there. 0:33:14.320 --> 0:33:17.360 The New South Wales government has been criticized today by 0:33:17.360 --> 0:33:19.920 the Lock the Gates Alliance. What is the Lock the 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:23.080 Gate Alliance. They're one of the fairly radical environmental groups. 0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:26.240 They're angry that the government has approved its sixth coal 0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:30.360 mine expansions since they came to power, and the Lock 0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:33.080 the Gate Alliance is using the Mid North Coast floods 0:33:33.120 --> 0:33:35.880 as an example about why these particular coal mines should 0:33:35.880 --> 0:33:38.160 not be expanded, because they are suggesting that the floods 0:33:38.160 --> 0:33:40.040 on the Mid North coast in the Hunts Valley have 0:33:40.160 --> 0:33:42.840 been caused by climate change, and now the government is 0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:46.560 making it worse by approving the expansion of a coal 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:50.920 mine in Tarmor, which is twenty five kilometers from Campbelltown. 0:33:51.120 --> 0:33:53.320 It is the first fourth coal mine approval since the 0:33:53.320 --> 0:33:55.720 New South Wales Net Zero Commission warned in New South 0:33:55.720 --> 0:33:57.959 Wales that we are not on track to meet our 0:33:57.960 --> 0:34:01.440 emissions reduction targets for twenty thirty or twenty thirty five. 0:34:02.320 --> 0:34:05.280 I somehow don't think the expansion of one coal mine 0:34:05.480 --> 0:34:07.320 or native This is actually the sixth since the New 0:34:07.360 --> 0:34:09.600 South Wales Labor Buddy came to power. I don't think 0:34:09.680 --> 0:34:12.040 the expansion of that coal mine was going to prevent 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:13.760 the mid North Coast floods. 0:34:13.920 --> 0:34:16.920 She's Antella kid and he's a Natella kid. 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:21.120 Hey kid, aren't you lucky Natella for anternoon? Do your 0:34:21.160 --> 0:34:24.560 kids eat Natella or your grandkids? I've never been into it. 0:34:24.640 --> 0:34:26.239 I've never been into it, but I was reading this 0:34:26.280 --> 0:34:29.840 week that Australians eat an average each year of fifteen 0:34:30.000 --> 0:34:34.480 million kilograms of Natella, which is the chocolate hates nutspread 0:34:34.520 --> 0:34:36.200 that's been a round top. It was around when I 0:34:36.239 --> 0:34:38.040 was a kid, but just something I never really had, 0:34:38.520 --> 0:34:41.000 and we don't have jars of it sitting in our 0:34:41.080 --> 0:34:42.560 kitchen cupboard. I don't think it's that great for. 0:34:42.520 --> 0:34:42.799 You, was it? 0:34:42.880 --> 0:34:45.759 Natella. Nevertheless, it's been rated the number one spread in 0:34:45.800 --> 0:34:48.480 twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four based on sales 0:34:48.520 --> 0:34:51.200 dart up because we eat fifteen million kilograms. But it 0:34:51.280 --> 0:34:54.000 is facing a challenge. I read this week it is 0:34:54.040 --> 0:34:58.640 facing a challenge from Biskoff. Have you had Biscoff now? 0:34:58.800 --> 0:35:03.840 Biskoff is increasingly popular. Based on Google Trends search data, 0:35:04.680 --> 0:35:07.520 more people have searched for Biscoff than they have Natella 0:35:08.080 --> 0:35:10.360 over the past few years. Natella is still beating it 0:35:10.400 --> 0:35:13.880 in the sales race. Biscoff is a caramel cinnamon spice 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:16.279 biscuit and spread, and a lot of the big food 0:35:16.320 --> 0:35:19.640 retailers doing deals with the Biscoff manufacturer, Lotus Bakeries to 0:35:19.960 --> 0:35:22.840 have biscoss favorite fluid biscos on to tell it better, 0:35:23.520 --> 0:35:25.240 I think I probably go for Veggie Mine. 0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:31.720 The Sydney Now with Clinton on. 0:35:31.600 --> 0:35:34.120 To gb Well, the votes are being tally right now, 0:35:34.320 --> 0:35:37.279 votes that will decide the future rose Hill Gardens racecourse. 0:35:37.480 --> 0:35:40.960 The EGM has concluded at roy Ramick this afternoon of 0:35:41.040 --> 0:35:43.840 the ATC. There's been a bigger turnout than was expected 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:47.400 and as a result of this, it's likely to be 0:35:47.480 --> 0:35:49.920 a closer vote. I don't yet have a result, but 0:35:50.680 --> 0:35:53.440 what I've been hearing is the no vote is going 0:35:53.480 --> 0:35:56.000 to be successful. Later in the program, I'm going to 0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:58.960 speak with the ATC's chair, Peter mcgorren, but also I'm 0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:01.040 going to speak with Gay Waterhow Gay Waterhouse has been 0:36:01.080 --> 0:36:02.920 in my program several times in the last couple of 0:36:02.960 --> 0:36:05.359 weeks has been staunchly in the No camp. The deal, 0:36:05.360 --> 0:36:08.640 of course, to sell Rose Hill to the state government, 0:36:08.640 --> 0:36:11.800 who would then develop it with property developers five billion 0:36:11.800 --> 0:36:15.719 dollars over ten years, and that would create space for 0:36:15.800 --> 0:36:18.279 twenty five thousand new homes. Now most of those would 0:36:18.280 --> 0:36:21.360 be apartments. There would also be a new metro train station. 0:36:21.520 --> 0:36:25.320 This is a divisive issue. It is passionate. I received 0:36:25.400 --> 0:36:29.440 so many listeners' messages telling me don't sell Rose Hill. 0:36:29.520 --> 0:36:31.400 But in the end it comes down to a democratic 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:35.080 decision from the ATC. Chrispin's the Premier, wants this to happen, 0:36:35.200 --> 0:36:38.239 but he has repeatedly said he won't acquire the land. 0:36:38.400 --> 0:36:41.880 I heard one rumor today that if this sale is 0:36:41.880 --> 0:36:44.560 not successful, if the vote is not successful, that the 0:36:44.600 --> 0:36:47.640 premier would acquire the land. He has consistently ruled that out. 0:36:48.239 --> 0:36:50.680 I don't think he's going to be doing that, as 0:36:50.680 --> 0:36:52.959 has been now reported over the last couple of days. 0:36:52.960 --> 0:36:55.240 This is the one chance. There are some property experts 0:36:55.280 --> 0:36:57.560 who say that if the members of the ATC don't 0:36:57.600 --> 0:37:00.120 take up this deal now, it won't be there on 0:37:00.160 --> 0:37:02.000 the table in say three or four years time, or 0:37:02.040 --> 0:37:05.239 the valuation will change. The five billion dollars won't be there. 0:37:06.000 --> 0:37:08.759 Many prominent people have taken part in this meeting this afternoon, 0:37:09.160 --> 0:37:11.719 including John Singleton form my owner this radio station. He 0:37:11.760 --> 0:37:14.000 has spoken to reporters on his way out. 0:37:14.080 --> 0:37:16.319 Five billion dollars for a bit of rotten land at 0:37:17.719 --> 0:37:20.560 I don't even like going at all. If you've asked 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:22.520 the people to send up who went to rose Hill 0:37:22.520 --> 0:37:27.600 the last five years improve a point, So you're disappointed, Yeah, 0:37:27.640 --> 0:37:30.480 I thought we'd have some fireworks and some yeah people 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:32.279 getting stuck into one. That's all big, that five and 0:37:32.320 --> 0:37:34.320 polite and very disappointing. 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:36.480 I heard the bit of angst in there, but as 0:37:36.480 --> 0:37:39.239 Singo says that everybody was very polite towards one another. 0:37:39.280 --> 0:37:41.000 So Singo appears to be a fan of the idea 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:44.080 to sell rose Hill. Now he's pointing out he said, 0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:46.360 you stand up if you actually don't go to the 0:37:46.440 --> 0:37:48.919 rose Hill races. Now, I'm not a racegoer, Okay, someone 0:37:48.960 --> 0:37:52.920 coming at this issue independently, But certainly what Peter mcgouran 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:56.239 has told me is that consistently the attendance figures at 0:37:56.280 --> 0:37:59.839 rose Hill have been going down. Ranwick has been more 0:38:00.280 --> 0:38:04.360 successful in attracting the punters. But it's a democratic decision 0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:06.880 for the members of the ATC and certainly when I 0:38:06.920 --> 0:38:08.879 get that information through about the success of the vote, 0:38:08.920 --> 0:38:11.160 I'll bring that to you. My understanding is no will 0:38:11.200 --> 0:38:12.880 be successful, but it's going to be tight. 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:16.280 If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney 0:38:16.320 --> 0:38:19.000 now with Clinton Maynard until sex Well. 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:21.319 The flood recovery effort continues on the mid North Coast. 0:38:21.400 --> 0:38:23.600 We were broadcasting the program from there yesterday, but also 0:38:23.760 --> 0:38:27.400 the Hunter Valley. There are about eight hundred homes that 0:38:27.440 --> 0:38:29.960 have been declared so far uninhabitable. They'll have to be 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:33.080 knocked down. Now. Reality is some of the families in 0:38:33.120 --> 0:38:36.000 those houses aren't insured, and there's a lot of pressure 0:38:36.000 --> 0:38:38.359 now in the insurance industry. Firstly for those that do 0:38:38.400 --> 0:38:42.719 have insurance to respond quickly to process claims quickly. But 0:38:42.760 --> 0:38:44.640 there's also the question of what is going to happen 0:38:44.680 --> 0:38:47.080 long term on the mid North Coast and the same 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:49.200 question for the North Coast that of course suffered the 0:38:49.239 --> 0:38:54.080 floods around Lismore. There's then businesses, businesses for instance, that 0:38:54.160 --> 0:38:56.960 may have been operating in a particular area around Tai 0:38:57.080 --> 0:39:00.560 for decades and decades that insurance has become so expensive 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:02.880 they simply can't afford to a new premiums that they 0:39:02.960 --> 0:39:06.360 drop out. What happens to them. Yesterday on the program, 0:39:06.560 --> 0:39:09.200 the Premiere was with me and I asked him what 0:39:09.360 --> 0:39:11.799 is going to be done about insurance reforms long term? 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:13.880 Does the government need to play a greater role in 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:17.840 providing insurance for properties that are deemed to be uninsurable. 0:39:18.120 --> 0:39:21.240 The government's announced and intention to pursue reform in that area, 0:39:21.360 --> 0:39:23.120 to be honest with you, because we're going to have 0:39:23.200 --> 0:39:25.400 more of these in the future, not less, we have 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:29.160 to think about ways of reducing the amount insurance insurance 0:39:29.200 --> 0:39:33.160 people pay and hopefully in certain areas, making it affordable 0:39:33.200 --> 0:39:34.120 for the first time, or at. 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:35.520 Least the policy being offered. 0:39:35.880 --> 0:39:38.560 I don't have you know, I try to be really blunt. 0:39:38.320 --> 0:39:40.240 In these circumstances because people have got. 0:39:40.160 --> 0:39:42.480 To have straight information from the government. I don't have 0:39:42.520 --> 0:39:43.280 an easy answer. 0:39:43.360 --> 0:39:44.120 I wish I did. 0:39:44.200 --> 0:39:46.000 If we did, we would have implemented it before the 0:39:46.040 --> 0:39:48.480 storm hit Port Macquarie and Kempsey. But we have to 0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:51.000 start working on it because we need a longer term solution. 0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:53.480 Well, the Prime Minister today, who was being tar to 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:56.480 his credit, was also asked about the future of insurance 0:39:56.520 --> 0:39:58.480 in areas like the Mid North Coast and the Far 0:39:58.520 --> 0:39:59.040 North Coast. 0:39:59.200 --> 0:40:02.719 Well, we expect insurance companies to do right by their 0:40:02.719 --> 0:40:04.960 customers and swiftly process claims. 0:40:04.960 --> 0:40:05.799 They've set up an. 0:40:05.680 --> 0:40:11.600 Office here so that they can be dealt with swiftly. 0:40:13.000 --> 0:40:15.960 Our focus now is on the cleanup and recovery from 0:40:16.120 --> 0:40:19.359 this event. That's our focus, the immediate needs. That's what 0:40:19.400 --> 0:40:22.560 people here expect us to do. Yes, there are longer 0:40:22.680 --> 0:40:23.600 term issues that. 0:40:23.719 --> 0:40:24.680 Need to be looked at. 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:28.160 What we need to do at this point in time, though, 0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.760 is make sure that people's immediate needs are looked after. 0:40:32.200 --> 0:40:33.799 In the end, you didn't answer the question about what's 0:40:33.800 --> 0:40:36.200 going to happen with insurance long term. Andrew Hall is 0:40:36.239 --> 0:40:39.160 the CEO of the Insurance Counsel and is in Tari 0:40:39.239 --> 0:40:41.640 at the moment. Thank you for joining me, Andrew, Thank 0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:45.160 you for having me quin Firstly, the situation right at 0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:48.640 the moment in terms of processing claims and assessing the damage. 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:51.480 We often hear in times of these natural disasters it 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:54.520 simply takes insurance companies too long to carry out those assessments. 0:40:54.560 --> 0:40:56.680 So are you able to give us an assurance that 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:57.920 that's not the case this time around? 0:40:59.000 --> 0:41:02.920 Well our full flood event this year, So insurance companies 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:06.160 have been working since January when the floods started up 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:09.080 in far North Queensland and we had ten thousand odd 0:41:09.080 --> 0:41:13.680 claims in that region. Moved down to Tropical Cyclone Alfred 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:16.239 and the flooding that occurred in Harvey Bay and then 0:41:16.280 --> 0:41:19.319 Dwan to Lismore, out to western Queensland and now here 0:41:19.360 --> 0:41:22.840 on the mid North coast. Since twenty twenty two, insurers 0:41:22.880 --> 0:41:26.839 have massively expanded their workforces, so we've got really an 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:29.040 army of people that are moving at the moment down 0:41:29.120 --> 0:41:32.120 the coast and into the areas here on the mid North. 0:41:32.000 --> 0:41:34.239 Coast to get the assessments done. 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:37.600 As the Prime Minister mentioned there, we've opened an insurance 0:41:37.680 --> 0:41:41.960 hub here in tai People can come in without a booking. 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:45.400 They can see their insurance company and have a conversation 0:41:45.440 --> 0:41:48.320 with them face to face to get their claim organized. 0:41:48.400 --> 0:41:51.240 So there's a whole raft of initiatives that have started 0:41:51.280 --> 0:41:54.680 since the biggest event we went through, which was twenty 0:41:54.719 --> 0:41:55.200 twenty two. 0:41:55.560 --> 0:41:58.799 What's and credite for doing that? What is now during 0:41:58.800 --> 0:42:01.120 a natural disaster? What would the average weight time be 0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.759 between the time and assessments conducted, the claim lodged and 0:42:04.800 --> 0:42:06.719 a payout is made. 0:42:07.080 --> 0:42:10.360 So for us, we're trying not to make payouts insurance 0:42:10.400 --> 0:42:13.080 replaces like for like, we try to rebuild and restore. 0:42:13.120 --> 0:42:18.000 What's there payouts happen when the persons some insured is 0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:19.520 not going to cover what they want to do to 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:22.239 their property. And this is part of the problem with flood. 0:42:22.560 --> 0:42:24.359 One of the issues with flood if you think about 0:42:24.360 --> 0:42:27.040 what happens when a bushfire goes through or a cyclone 0:42:27.080 --> 0:42:31.960 goes through, we have homes are often completely destroyed. They're 0:42:32.000 --> 0:42:36.880 then built back to a bushfire proofed or in Queensland. 0:42:36.920 --> 0:42:39.960 They're built back to a category three or above standard 0:42:40.000 --> 0:42:43.200 for cyclone. We have no standards for flood. We we 0:42:43.440 --> 0:42:46.640 are expected to build back the exact saying property in 0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:49.480 the exact same location, with the assumption that it's not 0:42:49.520 --> 0:42:50.320 going to happen again. 0:42:50.400 --> 0:42:52.600 And standing and. 0:42:52.640 --> 0:42:55.640 Here in Taris, you would have seen all these other 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:57.760 towns that I've been to today and spoken to people 0:42:58.200 --> 0:43:00.480 that happened to them in twenty twenty one. It's twenty 0:43:00.480 --> 0:43:04.279 twenty five. It will happen again. These are areas that 0:43:04.360 --> 0:43:07.240 in the old world were known as one and twenty 0:43:07.760 --> 0:43:11.000 one and ten year flood zones. These days we call 0:43:11.040 --> 0:43:13.480 them a two or a five percent chance of flooding 0:43:13.520 --> 0:43:14.040 every year. 0:43:14.239 --> 0:43:15.160 They're the ones we've. 0:43:15.000 --> 0:43:15.680 Got to deal with. 0:43:16.440 --> 0:43:19.720 I spoke to numerous Brisoness owners and residents in particular 0:43:19.840 --> 0:43:23.239 yesterday in tari and they told me that premiums had 0:43:23.360 --> 0:43:26.200 jumped up dramatically after twenty one twenty two, in some 0:43:26.280 --> 0:43:29.600 cases twenty five thousand dollars, so completely unaffordable. How can 0:43:29.640 --> 0:43:30.440 that be justified? 0:43:31.600 --> 0:43:34.359 So flood is our biggest problem. And where I see 0:43:34.360 --> 0:43:37.839 twenty five thousand dollar premiums and I investigate it, it's 0:43:37.920 --> 0:43:41.520 always related to that properties flood risk. Now, why is 0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:44.120 flood the problem. Flood is a problem because it is 0:43:44.160 --> 0:43:47.400 a predictable and known risk. We know that that building 0:43:47.400 --> 0:43:50.000 where it stands, is likely to flood, how often, we 0:43:50.040 --> 0:43:53.480 know how often it's likely to flood, the depth of frequency, 0:43:54.320 --> 0:43:57.840 All of those factors are very well known. Insurance is 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:02.160 designed to protect you from unexpected so the accidental fire, 0:44:02.880 --> 0:44:07.160 the hailstorm, the bad storm that comes. But with flood 0:44:07.200 --> 0:44:09.799 it's been a very different set of challenges and we're 0:44:09.800 --> 0:44:12.920 not alone in Australia. Every other insurance market in the 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:16.640 world has the same problem. If an insurance company takes 0:44:16.640 --> 0:44:19.160 on a house, like a couple of the homes that 0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:21.799 I've seen today here that have flooded three times since 0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:25.879 twenty twenty one, they're trying to price the cost of 0:44:26.000 --> 0:44:30.040 restoring or rebuilding that property completely every three years, and 0:44:30.040 --> 0:44:33.640 that's how you end up with prices of twenty five 0:44:34.120 --> 0:44:35.200 thirty thousand dollars. 0:44:35.680 --> 0:44:37.880 There's been some headlines. Now, whether you can clarifyse to me, 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:40.560 is you sis an over the top headline that much 0:44:40.560 --> 0:44:43.200 of the mid North Coast will now be uninsurable? Is 0:44:43.200 --> 0:44:43.880 that unfair? 0:44:44.760 --> 0:44:47.680 That is unfair? Most of the mid North Coast is insurable, 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:50.399 and we've looked at the insurance rates up here and 0:44:50.719 --> 0:44:53.799 they pretty well match insurance rates across the state of 0:44:53.920 --> 0:44:58.520 New South Wales. But there are very concentrated areas of 0:44:58.640 --> 0:45:02.399 homes and businesses that in very high risk locations. They're 0:45:02.400 --> 0:45:03.520 the ones with the high prints. 0:45:04.080 --> 0:45:05.799 What is there a way that you can work with 0:45:05.840 --> 0:45:09.640 the government whereby perhaps a property owner in one of 0:45:09.680 --> 0:45:12.000 these areas who may well have been there their whole life, 0:45:12.080 --> 0:45:14.520 and they know that it's floodponed, and perhaps they haven't 0:45:14.520 --> 0:45:16.200 been through a flood as bad as what they have 0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.960 experienced in the last week, whereby there can be a 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:23.000 combination of the government and private insurance companies coming together 0:45:23.000 --> 0:45:24.600 to at least be able to offer some sort of 0:45:24.600 --> 0:45:27.279 affordable policy. Because I asked that I was an oyster 0:45:27.320 --> 0:45:30.719 farm yesday can oster farmers on the river. But the 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:32.520 particular rest farmer I was speaking to has been there 0:45:32.560 --> 0:45:35.440 is whole life, and yes, floods do occur. A flood 0:45:35.440 --> 0:45:37.200 occurred in twenty twenty one, but he's never been through 0:45:37.200 --> 0:45:38.400 a flood like this one before. 0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:42.440 And Clinton wants devastating for the oyster farmers. We know 0:45:42.680 --> 0:45:45.040 is that it can knock out production for up to 0:45:45.120 --> 0:45:49.200 three years. Look, there is a solution there. It's going 0:45:49.280 --> 0:45:52.320 to be a public private partnership between government and insurance. 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:54.840 We have already provided all of our peril data to 0:45:54.880 --> 0:45:58.840 the federal government. That's all the information we use around 0:45:59.000 --> 0:46:02.120 the flood peril free example. What we've said to government, 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:04.560 and we've had long conversations with them. We put out 0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:07.680 a policy ahead of the last federal election that was 0:46:07.760 --> 0:46:12.760 just held where we've priced the de risking of twenty 0:46:12.760 --> 0:46:15.960 four catchments on the East Coast over a period of 0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:16.640 ten years. 0:46:16.960 --> 0:46:17.120 Now. 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:21.360 It's about thirty billion dollars. It's expensive and there is 0:46:21.440 --> 0:46:25.080 no easy silvable because ultimately to get the price of 0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:28.200 insurance down you've got to reduce the risk. If you 0:46:28.239 --> 0:46:31.000 don't reduce the risk, someone ends up paying. If we 0:46:31.080 --> 0:46:33.879 go and spread that cost across everyone's policies. I get 0:46:33.880 --> 0:46:36.560 people who live in non flood zones tell me they 0:46:36.560 --> 0:46:39.080 don't want to be subsidizing those people in flood zones. 0:46:39.680 --> 0:46:42.560 So we're saying to government, we've got to work with 0:46:42.600 --> 0:46:45.319 you on this. We know here are the facts. There 0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:48.040 are two hundred and twenty thousand homes on the East 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:50.600 coast of Australia that are sitting in a two or 0:46:50.640 --> 0:46:54.520 a five percent chance of flooding every year. Within that cohort, 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:57.279 about a third of those people live on less than fifty. 0:46:57.040 --> 0:46:58.279 Six thousand dollars a year. 0:46:58.560 --> 0:47:01.480 These are people who can lease forward this sort. 0:47:01.280 --> 0:47:03.239 Of rig which is where we need government intervention. I've 0:47:03.239 --> 0:47:05.040 got one more question for you, Andrew, but i just 0:47:05.080 --> 0:47:07.839 need to break into this for the moment. Rose Hill 0:47:07.920 --> 0:47:12.359 Racecourse will not be sold. Breaking news. The no vote 0:47:12.400 --> 0:47:17.440 has been successful. Fifty six forty four The ATC members 0:47:18.000 --> 0:47:21.480 have voted against the sale of Rose Hill Gardens fifty 0:47:21.520 --> 0:47:24.719 six forty four. Will bring you more details in just 0:47:24.760 --> 0:47:27.080 a moment. Just back to Andrew Hall, who's the CEO 0:47:27.120 --> 0:47:28.640 of the Insurance Council, because I do have one more 0:47:28.640 --> 0:47:31.480 critical question that affects all of us listening in Sydney. 0:47:31.480 --> 0:47:33.759 There'll be many of our listeners, Andrew, who don't live 0:47:33.760 --> 0:47:36.560 in a flood zone, who don't live in an area 0:47:36.560 --> 0:47:39.560 that's under threat from bushfires, but have experienced dramatic increases 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:41.919 in their home insurance premiums in particular in last year. 0:47:42.320 --> 0:47:44.680 Is the flood emergency at the moment, is it going 0:47:44.719 --> 0:47:47.000 to affect the premiums of other people this year. 0:47:49.840 --> 0:47:52.400 It's literally too early to tell. The reality is a 0:47:52.440 --> 0:47:54.480 lot of these floods that are occurring have already been 0:47:54.480 --> 0:47:56.160 catered for in the reserves. 0:47:55.719 --> 0:47:56.480 That insurers have. 0:47:57.560 --> 0:47:59.759 The battle that ensurers are facing, it's the same as 0:47:59.800 --> 0:48:02.960 everybody else. Building inflation has gone through the roof over 0:48:02.960 --> 0:48:06.600 the last three years. So the cost of restoring or 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:10.520 rebuilding your property has risen by forty percent in three years. 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:13.120 What we say to people is you need to look 0:48:13.160 --> 0:48:16.520 carefully at your sum insure. These days, people often think 0:48:16.560 --> 0:48:19.120 to themselves, look, it will only cost half a million 0:48:19.160 --> 0:48:22.600 dollars to rebuild this house if I need to. That's 0:48:22.680 --> 0:48:24.880 not the case anymore. And this is what we're really 0:48:25.120 --> 0:48:27.640 concerned about moving forward, is at the level of not 0:48:28.239 --> 0:48:30.680 non insurance, but actually under insurance. 0:48:30.840 --> 0:48:32.960 And I can understan why there's under insurance in my policy. 0:48:32.960 --> 0:48:35.600 In my listeners, numb it jumped almost fifteen hundred dollars 0:48:35.640 --> 0:48:38.640 in one year, and so I basically had a reassessment 0:48:38.680 --> 0:48:40.680 that many of our listeners have been in the same position. 0:48:40.800 --> 0:48:42.440 I've got to move on, Andrew, but I do appreciate 0:48:42.480 --> 0:48:44.839 your insights and being there on the mid North Coast. 0:48:44.880 --> 0:48:47.640 Thank you Andrew. Thanks quin Andrew Hall, CEO of the 0:48:47.680 --> 0:48:50.239 Insurance Council. There's no easy solution to the people who 0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:52.400 do live in flood zones, but there needs to be 0:48:52.440 --> 0:48:56.040 some sort of arrangement between both the insurance industry and 0:48:56.200 --> 0:49:01.759 the government. Okay, just repeating breaking news. Rose Hill Race 0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:05.560 Course will not be sold off. The ATC members have 0:49:05.640 --> 0:49:10.520 voted against the sale fifty six forty four that's the percentage, 0:49:10.600 --> 0:49:13.880 fifty six percent, forty four percent. There are roughly twelve 0:49:13.920 --> 0:49:17.520 thousand ATC members. The turnout of the EGM that's been 0:49:17.520 --> 0:49:20.560 conducted at Royal Ramwick has been bigger than had been anticipated. 0:49:21.440 --> 0:49:25.200 There were mostly proxy votes that have been talied up digitally. 0:49:25.760 --> 0:49:28.600 But what it means is the members have voted against 0:49:28.640 --> 0:49:31.760 the sale. Well, Peter mcgorran will join me after five o'clock. 0:49:31.760 --> 0:49:34.799 He is the chair of the ATC and the big 0:49:34.880 --> 0:49:37.000 question is going to be, well, what now if the 0:49:37.000 --> 0:49:40.520 ATC believed that they would benefit from the five billion dollars, 0:49:40.560 --> 0:49:43.400 If that money is not going to come into the coffers, 0:49:43.840 --> 0:49:47.600 what does the ATC do going forward for the racing 0:49:47.640 --> 0:49:50.520 industry in New South Wales? Is there going to be 0:49:50.560 --> 0:49:54.080 a plan to sell off other assets Warwick Farm, Canterbury. 0:49:54.400 --> 0:49:57.640 Would that be a possibility or is there another way 0:49:57.640 --> 0:50:01.520 around this? Is this actually over or will there be 0:50:01.719 --> 0:50:03.920 another way of trying to get this deal done. We're 0:50:03.960 --> 0:50:06.439 going to find out after five o'clock twenty one past four, 0:50:09.960 --> 0:50:11.760 Hey with the latest, Josh Bryant. 0:50:11.560 --> 0:50:14.720 Good afternoon, Clinton, Rose Hill racecourses you were just saying 0:50:14.760 --> 0:50:17.600 will not be sold off after a majority of Australian 0:50:17.640 --> 0:50:20.120 Turf Club members voted not to proceed with the sales 0:50:20.120 --> 0:50:22.120 of the state government as part of a plan to 0:50:22.160 --> 0:50:25.600 turn the site into twenty five thousand new homes. Police 0:50:25.719 --> 0:50:28.560 have now confirmed a man who was shot in Granville 0:50:28.640 --> 0:50:32.200 over the weekend has died as a result of his injuries. 0:50:32.400 --> 0:50:35.480 The Prime Minister has met with Farmers, Defense and SEES 0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.040 personnel who are dealing with the flood crisis on the 0:50:38.080 --> 0:50:41.920 Mid North Coast. The cleanup operation ongoing as emergency disaster 0:50:42.000 --> 0:50:45.840 payments start rolling out and afresh warning on body image 0:50:45.880 --> 0:50:49.080 issues among young people, a survey by the Butterfly Foundation 0:50:49.440 --> 0:50:52.840 finding of those age between twelve and eighteen, almost half 0:50:53.040 --> 0:50:56.520 rarely feel comfortable with their body. In sport, Women's Surfing 0:50:56.560 --> 0:50:59.720 World number one. Gabriella Bryant has won back to back titles, 0:51:00.000 --> 0:51:02.080 but the Margaret river Price will have more news and 0:51:02.080 --> 0:51:03.040 supported five. 0:51:02.880 --> 0:51:06.120 Sixteen degrees in the coast fourteen degrees in the western suburbs. 0:51:06.120 --> 0:51:08.880 Pete mcgo on, the chair of the ATC, has confirmed 0:51:08.920 --> 0:51:11.640 the sale of rose Hill Gardens is not going ahead. 0:51:11.880 --> 0:51:16.560 The ATC members today voted not to sell rose Hill Gardens. 0:51:17.040 --> 0:51:21.160 That means it's finished, taken off the table, will not 0:51:21.239 --> 0:51:24.839 proceed in any shape or form into the future. I 0:51:25.000 --> 0:51:29.560 personally am disappointed, as are forty four percent of members. 0:51:29.320 --> 0:51:30.520 Who voted in support. 0:51:30.760 --> 0:51:35.680 It's a relatively narrow result, but the members vote is supreme, 0:51:36.080 --> 0:51:40.320 it's binding and I respect it and the club now has. 0:51:40.200 --> 0:51:42.440 To look to the future. Gay Waterhouse has been the 0:51:42.440 --> 0:51:44.759 biggest name in Australian racing for years and has been 0:51:44.800 --> 0:51:47.040 opposed to the sale. She joins us, So Gay, thank 0:51:47.080 --> 0:51:48.560 you for your time. Are you happy about this? 0:51:49.760 --> 0:51:49.920 Oh? 0:51:50.000 --> 0:51:53.440 Delirious? And the reason is it gives the people of Liverpool. 0:51:53.640 --> 0:51:56.760 It gives not only racing, but it gives the people 0:51:56.800 --> 0:52:00.520 of Liverpool a wonderful Outlest you know who wants the 0:52:00.600 --> 0:52:06.280 twenty five thousand extra people living there. You know, it'll 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:08.839 just make it. It would have made it just horrendous. 0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:11.440 If I was a resident of Liverpool, I would have 0:52:11.440 --> 0:52:15.600 been voting no. As a member of the ATC. You 0:52:16.200 --> 0:52:19.000 couldn't think of selling it. It's our premier track. It's 0:52:19.000 --> 0:52:21.960 a one track we own. And they've made the right decision. 0:52:22.280 --> 0:52:24.960 You know, they're not fools of members and they were 0:52:24.960 --> 0:52:28.200 trying to be deluded by the ATC, which were very 0:52:28.239 --> 0:52:31.600 wrong the way they handled the sale. But that's past 0:52:31.880 --> 0:52:34.200 the decisions being made. The hammer's down. 0:52:35.280 --> 0:52:38.320 The vote was fifty six percent against forty four percent 0:52:38.920 --> 0:52:41.520 four As a result of that, do you believe Peter 0:52:41.640 --> 0:52:43.960 mcgarren should stain his job as chairman? 0:52:45.000 --> 0:52:47.600 I do. I think he should resign because he handled 0:52:47.600 --> 0:52:52.040 the whole process disgracefully. They were bribing the members by 0:52:52.360 --> 0:52:54.800 you know, cheek jack. You can have one thousand dollars 0:52:54.840 --> 0:52:58.120 worth of the you know, free drink, and you can 0:52:58.160 --> 0:53:02.400 have you know, the no membership payments. You can't do 0:53:02.520 --> 0:53:04.560 that when you're at clubs. When you're a club, you've 0:53:04.560 --> 0:53:07.400 got to be totally unbiased and say, look, these are 0:53:07.400 --> 0:53:10.040 the two views. You are the members, you choose. 0:53:10.800 --> 0:53:13.680 Now tell me gay if there are financial issues within 0:53:13.719 --> 0:53:16.720 the ATC. They obviously decided they needed a lot of money. 0:53:16.880 --> 0:53:18.840 Do you think they'll now turn to other assets that 0:53:18.880 --> 0:53:21.560 they and what would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury for instance. 0:53:23.040 --> 0:53:25.759 Well, they shouldn't be selling any of them. You know, 0:53:25.800 --> 0:53:31.040 you're not asking to sell the st STGC or the 0:53:31.160 --> 0:53:35.120 cricket ground or any of those sporting resorts. We need 0:53:35.160 --> 0:53:40.600 our sporting resorts and each racetrack looks after the demographic 0:53:40.640 --> 0:53:44.480 of that area. The people that Liverpool don't want to 0:53:44.480 --> 0:53:47.480 go to Randwick. They might for one big day, but 0:53:47.560 --> 0:53:49.400 the rest of the time they'll go to their local 0:53:49.480 --> 0:53:52.480 tracks or they'll support them. What should happen is the 0:53:52.560 --> 0:53:55.360 track should go back to managing themselves as they do 0:53:55.440 --> 0:53:59.560 in Melbourne, and just and the Racing New South Wales 0:53:59.600 --> 0:54:02.560 for just the overseer. But at present all the moneies 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:05.719 go to Racing New South Wales and they're handed out 0:54:06.040 --> 0:54:07.240 gingerly to the club. 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:10.200 And just to clarify that, the probably Warwick Farm is 0:54:10.200 --> 0:54:13.440 closer to Liverpool than rose Hill. But how should the 0:54:13.560 --> 0:54:16.440 industry now go about trying to attract more punters, more 0:54:16.480 --> 0:54:18.920 fans to rose Hill? Because Peter mcgourrin argued that the 0:54:19.040 --> 0:54:21.600 numbers going to the track rose Hill in particular have 0:54:21.640 --> 0:54:22.320 been going down. 0:54:23.480 --> 0:54:25.160 Well, they haven't put a penny into it for the 0:54:25.280 --> 0:54:28.120 last ten years and if you don't put any money 0:54:28.160 --> 0:54:31.680 into your asset, it devalues. You know, if they were 0:54:31.680 --> 0:54:34.080 to put the money into it, they put in Durandrick 0:54:34.400 --> 0:54:37.680 or stop buying all these silly properties. Racing New South 0:54:37.680 --> 0:54:40.799 Wales has been buying all over New South Wales. That 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:43.200 money should be going into our premier race tracks and 0:54:43.239 --> 0:54:45.439 there are four of them. The money should go into 0:54:45.480 --> 0:54:48.920 them to increase, to improve the tracks, the facilities for 0:54:48.960 --> 0:54:52.720 the horses and also for the members and the people 0:54:52.719 --> 0:54:53.520 who go racing. 0:54:53.719 --> 0:54:56.360 Well, Gay, your site has been successful, so hopefully the 0:54:56.640 --> 0:54:59.160 next meeting we see at rose Hill we're attracted, big crowd. 0:54:59.200 --> 0:55:00.799 Congratulations go, thank you for your time. 0:55:01.840 --> 0:55:03.120 That's okay, thank you brother. 0:55:03.320 --> 0:55:06.320 Gay Waterhouse's leading horse trainer, probably the biggest name in 0:55:06.360 --> 0:55:09.319 Australian racing over the past thirty forty years. And just 0:55:09.360 --> 0:55:11.719 to clarify, yes, and I've getting lots of messages. Gay 0:55:11.960 --> 0:55:15.359 mentioned Liverpool on several occasions there Warwick Farm, to be fair, 0:55:15.440 --> 0:55:19.279 is closer to the Liverpool area than rose Hill is. 0:55:19.760 --> 0:55:23.000 But point remains that many people who are passionate about 0:55:23.080 --> 0:55:25.480 racing did not want to see rose Hill sold. Now 0:55:25.480 --> 0:55:27.360 the government's now got an issue. The government's got a 0:55:27.360 --> 0:55:29.800 problem because they were banking on building twenty five thousand 0:55:29.800 --> 0:55:32.680 homes through developers there. But there's also issues for the ATC. 0:55:33.000 --> 0:55:34.960 That five billion dollars that was going to come into 0:55:35.000 --> 0:55:36.880 the coffers, well that money is not going to come 0:55:36.880 --> 0:55:39.759 into New South Wales racing anymore. So how does New 0:55:39.800 --> 0:55:42.680 South Wales Racing push forward? I'll talk with Peter mcgorran 0:55:43.200 --> 0:55:45.320 after the five o'clock news and he's still conducting his 0:55:45.360 --> 0:55:47.600 press conference because there's a lot of questions to ask 0:55:47.640 --> 0:55:49.239 about that. But a lot of feedback coming in on 0:55:49.239 --> 0:55:50.799 the text line in the phones one three one eight 0:55:50.800 --> 0:55:56.480 seventy three. Richard, you were inside the meeting, good, I Richard. 0:55:57.480 --> 0:55:59.520 I think Richard's decided to go back inside the meeting. 0:55:59.680 --> 0:56:04.279 Bill Hello, I Bill, Yeah, Clinton? Is this a good 0:56:04.320 --> 0:56:04.759 call or not? 0:56:06.000 --> 0:56:06.160 Oh? 0:56:06.239 --> 0:56:08.360 Common sense provailed him. I strongly did You've got a 0:56:08.520 --> 0:56:12.560 rach calls and staff right, and I allus training. Once 0:56:13.280 --> 0:56:15.480 someone said you're a silladors. He said, a good tradesman 0:56:15.560 --> 0:56:18.880 never sold these tools. And the same applies to your assets. 0:56:18.880 --> 0:56:21.799 You don't sell your assets because you know the part 0:56:21.840 --> 0:56:24.560 and partially what happened. 0:56:24.600 --> 0:56:26.040 But Bill, when was when was the last time you 0:56:26.080 --> 0:56:28.440 went to Rise Hill? 0:56:28.600 --> 0:56:30.920 Oh, I live in buch I used to be remember, 0:56:31.000 --> 0:56:33.279 but you know I let it slip because I never 0:56:33.400 --> 0:56:33.719 used to. 0:56:33.680 --> 0:56:36.680 Go yeah, fair enough, fair enough, well, I mean clearly 0:56:36.760 --> 0:56:38.239 much the members didn't want to say it solid off. 0:56:38.280 --> 0:56:39.799 Thank you, Bill, Richard diet I mat. 0:56:41.520 --> 0:56:44.440 Did I Clinton here at Randwick? The weather was fine 0:56:44.440 --> 0:56:45.799 and the track is good. 0:56:46.440 --> 0:56:48.440 Interesting the meeting was actually held at Randwick. You were 0:56:48.440 --> 0:56:50.200 inside the meeting. What was the mood like? 0:56:51.320 --> 0:56:56.320 Yes, it was overwhelmingly no. In fact, when our chairman 0:56:56.880 --> 0:57:01.640 mentioned it was fifty six and and calling that a 0:57:01.760 --> 0:57:06.960 close vote. We remember back with the original proposal just 0:57:07.000 --> 0:57:09.840 a couple of months ago, we were told that the 0:57:09.960 --> 0:57:13.719 no vote was around seventy percent. So you know, the 0:57:13.840 --> 0:57:16.760 change there is probably down to what we now call 0:57:16.840 --> 0:57:17.480 the bride. 0:57:17.600 --> 0:57:17.840 Now. 0:57:18.080 --> 0:57:20.360 My light bulb moment was when I heard on your 0:57:20.400 --> 0:57:24.560 program that correct me if I'm wrong, but you said 0:57:24.560 --> 0:57:27.240 that the CEO of the Metro says that you can 0:57:27.320 --> 0:57:29.640 put a station in after the line has been put 0:57:29.680 --> 0:57:29.880 through it. 0:57:30.400 --> 0:57:32.280 That was from one of our listeners who claimed that 0:57:32.280 --> 0:57:35.000 the CEO of the Metro said that in a parliamentary inquiry. 0:57:35.040 --> 0:57:38.000 But I've had a closer look at that. Technically it's possible, 0:57:38.040 --> 0:57:41.520 but the cost of it makes it impossible. It'll never 0:57:41.600 --> 0:57:43.640 happen because the cost will make a prehbitive. 0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:47.600 Yeah, I think you were saying that the average perlor 0:57:47.600 --> 0:57:49.960 somebody was saying that the average per station cost is 0:57:50.000 --> 0:57:54.000 about two billion. That the existing Metro apparently costs twenty 0:57:54.040 --> 0:57:56.720 two billion. But I don't think that putting an incremental 0:57:56.760 --> 0:57:59.480 station in when the line is already there is actually 0:57:59.480 --> 0:58:02.360 going to be actually two million dollars, but two billions. 0:58:02.560 --> 0:58:05.120 But for me personally, I would go to rose Hill 0:58:05.160 --> 0:58:07.440 far more often if there was a Metro. And what 0:58:07.480 --> 0:58:10.320 would happen to the attendance is if the Metro stop 0:58:10.560 --> 0:58:12.800 was put in there. I believe that'd skyline. 0:58:12.320 --> 0:58:13.880 No no doubt about that. But the problem for the 0:58:13.880 --> 0:58:16.520 government is putting a Metro station there to service a 0:58:16.600 --> 0:58:19.720 race course. The numbers donate up there because the racecourse 0:58:19.800 --> 0:58:22.040 is being used so every second weekend and then some 0:58:22.080 --> 0:58:26.800 events in between. That that doesn't create the passenger base 0:58:26.920 --> 0:58:30.120 to justify the station. What creates The justification for the 0:58:30.160 --> 0:58:35.280 station is twenty five thousand homes and potentially say eighty 0:58:35.320 --> 0:58:38.000 to one hundred thousand residents. That's what creates the traffic 0:58:38.000 --> 0:58:40.160 every day needed for the metro station, which would cost 0:58:40.480 --> 0:58:44.120 a minimum of a billion dollars. Straight shooters with Susan 0:58:44.120 --> 0:58:47.040 Temperman coming up in a moment and Holly Hughes. But firstly, 0:58:47.160 --> 0:58:49.960 I've got so much response here on the decision by 0:58:49.960 --> 0:58:53.120 the ATC to reject this deal to sell off rose 0:58:53.160 --> 0:58:57.120 Hill Racecourse rose Hill Gardens. The percentage of votes for 0:58:58.040 --> 0:59:01.520 was forty four percent against fear fifty six percent. The Premier, 0:59:01.600 --> 0:59:03.400 Chris Mins has just responded to this. 0:59:04.040 --> 0:59:07.040 I think it's an opportunity that Sydney's missed out on. 0:59:07.120 --> 0:59:09.240 It feels like a goal and opportunity that slip through 0:59:09.240 --> 0:59:12.280 our fingers. Very disappointed by that, but I accept the 0:59:12.280 --> 0:59:16.040 decision of ATC members. I want to thank the leadership 0:59:16.040 --> 0:59:19.520 of the ATC for pursuing this bold reform. 0:59:19.920 --> 0:59:22.200 Frank Carboni, the mayor of Fairfield in the Western Suburbs, 0:59:22.240 --> 0:59:26.040 has called in about this. Kiday, Frank good I good 0:59:26.040 --> 0:59:27.040 decision or bad decision? 0:59:28.480 --> 0:59:30.600 Well, I think ultimately the members have made that decision 0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:32.600 and everyone needs to respect that. It's no different that 0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:34.360 the end of the day, the vote's been done. But 0:59:34.440 --> 0:59:36.240 I think what we need to look at here and 0:59:36.920 --> 0:59:39.439 I think it was a proposal. It didn't go through, 0:59:39.520 --> 0:59:42.080 but let's look at let's turn it into an opportunity. 0:59:42.120 --> 0:59:43.920 And as the Premier has always said. 0:59:43.760 --> 0:59:45.960 It's about providing housing, and I respect that that's what 0:59:46.000 --> 0:59:48.280 he was trying to do, but that doesn't mean that 0:59:48.320 --> 0:59:51.760 he can't get that five billion dollars now and maybe 0:59:51.760 --> 0:59:53.040 look at putting it elsewhere. 0:59:53.400 --> 0:59:56.120 And the five billion dollars was to then sell it 0:59:56.160 --> 0:59:58.240 back to property developers and build houses. It's not just 0:59:58.280 --> 0:59:59.520 five billion dollars sitting there. 1:00:00.160 --> 1:00:00.920 No I know that. 1:00:01.080 --> 1:00:04.800 But the East West corridor from the airport to Westmeat 1:00:04.880 --> 1:00:08.080 that is aren't not done. You have the opportunity to 1:00:08.160 --> 1:00:11.000 have a lot of uplift, both private and public. There's 1:00:11.000 --> 1:00:13.400 a lot of public and private land just then fair 1:00:13.400 --> 1:00:15.760 for the Loan one area loans twenty five thousand homes. 1:00:15.800 --> 1:00:18.280 So if you put that investment, it would be a 1:00:18.280 --> 1:00:21.880 long term investment for Sydney. Connecting Sydney, have a real 1:00:21.920 --> 1:00:24.760 metro that runs East West and the government would still 1:00:24.800 --> 1:00:27.120 be able to uplift a lot of their properties that 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:29.880 they own a lot along that corridor. But I would 1:00:30.000 --> 1:00:32.120 argue that you'd get a lot more than twenty five 1:00:32.120 --> 1:00:32.840 thousand homes. 1:00:33.840 --> 1:00:36.800 And if you build the metro Look, I'm with you, Frank, 1:00:36.840 --> 1:00:38.720 that we need more metros in Sydney and it is 1:00:38.720 --> 1:00:41.880 a way and the metro line at the moment they 1:00:41.920 --> 1:00:43.920 do have obviously, as you know from being a local 1:00:44.320 --> 1:00:47.480 government mayor, they have those various proposals to develop near 1:00:47.520 --> 1:00:49.760 metro stations. So if they're to build more metro lines, 1:00:49.880 --> 1:00:52.439 it would go to planet be to reason that they'd 1:00:52.440 --> 1:00:54.840 be able to develop more housing in those areas. I 1:00:54.960 --> 1:00:57.080 just as you well know, they're not keen on spending 1:00:57.080 --> 1:01:00.000 the money on more metro lines. Daniel's asking the quest 1:01:00.040 --> 1:01:02.120 and on the text line, can the government make a 1:01:02.120 --> 1:01:06.680 compulsory acquisition of Rosehill Racecourse like they do with private properties. Well, 1:01:06.760 --> 1:01:09.320 the Premier has said he will not do that. He's 1:01:09.320 --> 1:01:12.040 made it very clear that he won't do that because 1:01:12.080 --> 1:01:14.440 he wanted to ensure it was a democratic process through 1:01:14.440 --> 1:01:17.240 the ATC on Sydney. 1:01:17.280 --> 1:01:22.720 Now you can't handle the true the straight shint. 1:01:23.600 --> 1:01:27.160 Our straight tutors on a Tuesday afternoon, Susan Templeman, the 1:01:27.280 --> 1:01:30.560 member for hawk Scree and the outgoing Liberal Senator in 1:01:30.640 --> 1:01:36.000 Camball Phit, New South Wales. Holy Hughes, Hello, Holy, Hello Susan. 1:01:36.560 --> 1:01:39.080 As members in Sydney, I both want to get your 1:01:39.920 --> 1:01:41.800 perspectives on this. I'll start with you, Susan, as a 1:01:42.760 --> 1:01:46.200 Western Sydney MP. The plan that's not going to happen. 1:01:46.240 --> 1:01:48.880 The rose Hill racecourse will not be sold off. Do 1:01:48.880 --> 1:01:50.240 you think this is a good thing or a bad thing. 1:01:51.960 --> 1:01:52.840 I'm with the Premier. 1:01:52.880 --> 1:01:56.040 I think it's a missed opportunity, a lost opportunity for 1:01:56.080 --> 1:02:00.600 Sydney and for housing and for young people who may be, 1:02:00.800 --> 1:02:04.360 you know, hanging out to governments for really fine places 1:02:04.360 --> 1:02:06.680 to build. But it is a decision by the ATC. 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:10.000 They're the landowners and we have to respect that decision. 1:02:10.200 --> 1:02:11.080 Holly, what's your view. 1:02:11.880 --> 1:02:15.800 Well, I'm a member of the ATC, so I've been 1:02:15.800 --> 1:02:18.560 a member for a while and go to the races, 1:02:18.560 --> 1:02:21.680 both at Ramwick and rose Hill, and there was certainly 1:02:21.760 --> 1:02:26.840 a very strong sentiment within the trainers, within a lot 1:02:26.840 --> 1:02:31.280 of the membership that it wasn't ultimately a deal that 1:02:32.360 --> 1:02:34.560 they felt was going to be beneficial to the club. 1:02:34.640 --> 1:02:36.240 I mean, I know that sort of been put in 1:02:36.360 --> 1:02:38.200 terms of five million dollars, but it was. 1:02:38.320 --> 1:02:41.800 It was over a very extended period of time. I 1:02:41.800 --> 1:02:45.720 think it's fifteen, so you know, there was there was 1:02:45.760 --> 1:02:49.640 feelings within the membership and the communication around it. 1:02:49.720 --> 1:02:51.920 You know, I've had a flurry of communication in. 1:02:52.040 --> 1:02:54.480 The last couple of weeks for me spoke because the 1:02:54.560 --> 1:02:58.680 vote was previously postponed, trying to get more support for it. 1:02:59.400 --> 1:03:02.080 There was certainly a lot of sweetness being offered two members. 1:03:02.240 --> 1:03:04.840 But you know, when you've got trainers like Gay Waterhouse 1:03:04.880 --> 1:03:07.479 and some of the others coming out so strongly against it, 1:03:08.840 --> 1:03:11.360 you know you've got a respects what the membership and 1:03:11.400 --> 1:03:14.880 the racing fraternity have voted for. I think Frank Carboni 1:03:14.960 --> 1:03:18.320 is right when he says that there are other opportunities 1:03:18.360 --> 1:03:21.720 that perhaps the government should look at, and there's so 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:26.840 much red tape involved with housing developments, you know, it 1:03:26.920 --> 1:03:29.160 might be more of an opportunity. 1:03:28.600 --> 1:03:30.400 For the premiere to have a good look at those that. 1:03:30.400 --> 1:03:34.480 Are currently trying to be developed but are bogged down 1:03:34.560 --> 1:03:35.360 in red tape. 1:03:35.560 --> 1:03:38.400 For so many text messages about this, Tim says, all 1:03:38.400 --> 1:03:40.120 the no votes, I bet they haven't been to rose 1:03:40.200 --> 1:03:43.240 Hill for the past twenty years and says a golden 1:03:43.240 --> 1:03:45.800 opportunity lost a gym, twenty six thousand homes into an 1:03:45.800 --> 1:03:48.680 already full area that doesn't have enough infrastructure. And look, 1:03:48.720 --> 1:03:51.240 that is an issue Susan, that there isn't enough infrastructure 1:03:51.280 --> 1:03:53.480 in Sydney's western suburbs. 1:03:53.800 --> 1:03:56.000 Well, this will always been this is sort of something 1:03:56.040 --> 1:03:59.560 Sydney's had for decades. Is what comes first the infrastructure, 1:03:59.560 --> 1:04:02.720 But it was really clear there was going to be 1:04:03.000 --> 1:04:07.360 new public transport there. We have a big issue in 1:04:07.400 --> 1:04:08.520 Sydney around housing. 1:04:08.760 --> 1:04:11.920 You know, we have a lots of people who don't. 1:04:11.760 --> 1:04:14.640 Want it in their backyard, who don't want it near them, 1:04:14.800 --> 1:04:18.080 and that's what the state government has to navigate. 1:04:18.320 --> 1:04:19.400 Along with councils. 1:04:19.440 --> 1:04:24.080 They have to get really put their sort of kick 1:04:24.160 --> 1:04:27.280 this along. Because we're investing in housing at a federal level, 1:04:27.280 --> 1:04:31.080 we're incentivizing the states to do it. And this is 1:04:31.120 --> 1:04:34.520 really the first time since we were lasting government that 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:38.200 we've had a federal government actively involved saying okay, guys, 1:04:38.280 --> 1:04:40.720 we want to help you make this happen. But ultimately 1:04:40.760 --> 1:04:42.360 it is the states that has to do the. 1:04:42.320 --> 1:04:44.800 Hard yard Ian's asking the question on the text line, 1:04:44.800 --> 1:04:47.360 why doesn't the government build a metro station at Rosehill anyway, 1:04:47.400 --> 1:04:50.000 future proof for development in the meantime be utilized by 1:04:50.040 --> 1:04:51.960 raceco as workers and residents the area. I think the 1:04:51.960 --> 1:04:54.640 problem is the government would need minimum billion dollars to 1:04:54.680 --> 1:04:57.480 build that extra station. It doesn't want to spend the money. Now. 1:04:57.520 --> 1:05:01.160 Fortunately this vote count has cancluded quite quickly, so the 1:05:01.200 --> 1:05:02.960 meeting was at two o'clock. We had a result just 1:05:03.040 --> 1:05:06.320 after three point three. Fortunately the AEC has had nothing 1:05:06.360 --> 1:05:08.520 to do with the count, which is a good thing 1:05:08.600 --> 1:05:11.200 because they like to take their time. The AEC. We've 1:05:11.240 --> 1:05:12.920 had that news in the past twenty four hours. There 1:05:12.920 --> 1:05:16.440 will be a partial recount in Goldstein. The request was 1:05:16.440 --> 1:05:18.480 made by the Teal Independent Zoe Daniel. There will be 1:05:18.520 --> 1:05:21.000 a full recount as well in Bradfield because there was 1:05:21.040 --> 1:05:23.440 a few of the one hundred votes that were the 1:05:23.520 --> 1:05:27.200 difference between the Teal candidate and the Liberal candidate. Does 1:05:27.200 --> 1:05:29.520 the AEC do you think Susan maybe need to review 1:05:29.520 --> 1:05:32.240 how it conducts the count because to take a long time. 1:05:33.440 --> 1:05:35.840 Well, I've been on the receiving end of a long vote, 1:05:35.920 --> 1:05:39.040 a long count. It took sixteen days for me in 1:05:39.080 --> 1:05:42.080 twenty nineteen to count vote. But then of course they 1:05:42.640 --> 1:05:46.360 do a recount in terms of checking the distribution of 1:05:46.440 --> 1:05:49.880 preferences because they want the final data to be accurate. 1:05:50.040 --> 1:05:53.040 So we should be really grateful that we've got a 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:56.720 thorough process. And I was in the Erskine Park counting 1:05:57.960 --> 1:06:01.240 place with the AEC on Friday because my seat was 1:06:01.280 --> 1:06:06.320 declared and I was declared the successful candidate. And you know, 1:06:06.360 --> 1:06:09.800 it's quite extraordinary to see ordinary of this, just your 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:13.320 average person there who puts the hand up to go 1:06:13.360 --> 1:06:17.320 and be part of this extraordinary democratic process. So I 1:06:17.320 --> 1:06:20.280 think we should be really proud of it. Yes, there'll 1:06:20.320 --> 1:06:23.720 be a lot of humans involved in time involved that 1:06:23.720 --> 1:06:26.680 that gives us a result that we can trust, and 1:06:26.760 --> 1:06:28.360 that's really key, Holly. 1:06:28.400 --> 1:06:30.800 And we do have a strong democratic system. But could 1:06:30.840 --> 1:06:33.000 we maybe employer for few more people with the AAC 1:06:33.240 --> 1:06:35.320 to get these vote counts completed faster? 1:06:36.200 --> 1:06:38.840 Well, well, I mean it does take a long period 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:41.960 of time, and that is with the compulsory preferential voting 1:06:42.000 --> 1:06:46.200 that everyone's got to fill out every single ballot square 1:06:46.240 --> 1:06:49.280 on the ballot papers, so you know, getting the result right, 1:06:49.360 --> 1:06:52.400 I mean, then Bradfield, the difference is eight votes, I mean, 1:06:52.440 --> 1:06:55.520 it's extraordinary when you think of seats with one hundred 1:06:55.560 --> 1:06:57.800 and thirty thousand voters in them and it comes down 1:06:57.840 --> 1:07:01.600 to eight votes, and it is important that each one's 1:07:01.680 --> 1:07:05.560 checked and you know, maybe more people might be the answer, 1:07:05.640 --> 1:07:08.600 but then they're all double checked as well, and they're counted, 1:07:08.680 --> 1:07:11.080 you know, as we know on election night, you know, 1:07:11.120 --> 1:07:12.400 they're counted at each boost. 1:07:12.480 --> 1:07:15.200 Then they all go in centrally and it's making. 1:07:14.920 --> 1:07:15.440 Sure that that. 1:07:17.000 --> 1:07:19.200 Process is as smooth as possible. 1:07:19.320 --> 1:07:22.080 The Prime Minister is detailed flood recovery payments for people 1:07:22.080 --> 1:07:24.000 affected by the natural disaster from the Mid North Coast 1:07:24.040 --> 1:07:26.000 the Hunter Valley today. So one off payment of one 1:07:26.000 --> 1:07:29.680 thousand dollars per eligible adult, four hundred dollars per child. 1:07:29.800 --> 1:07:33.640 There'll be for those who are without employment because of 1:07:33.640 --> 1:07:35.880 the flood, thirteen weeks of payments. There will be some 1:07:36.280 --> 1:07:39.440 interest free or low interest loans. Do you think that, 1:07:39.520 --> 1:07:42.440 both both ladies, and I'll start with you, Susan, something 1:07:42.440 --> 1:07:44.280 needs to be done more in the long term about 1:07:44.280 --> 1:07:46.080 how we operate insurance in these areas. 1:07:47.240 --> 1:07:50.040 Yeah, there's at I heard you talking to the Insurance 1:07:50.040 --> 1:07:53.120 Council Andrew Hall, and I've spent years working on this 1:07:53.280 --> 1:07:56.640 issue because I got one of these payments back in 1:07:56.720 --> 1:08:00.520 twenty thirteen when my house burnt down, and it is 1:08:00.760 --> 1:08:03.000 a simple emergency payment that just. 1:08:03.080 --> 1:08:03.800 Buys you. 1:08:05.440 --> 1:08:09.080 For that first you know, you've got nothing. You need unders, 1:08:09.120 --> 1:08:11.880 you need, toothpaste, you need, you need more than one 1:08:11.880 --> 1:08:14.920 pair of shoes. The clothes that you're wearing smell of smoke. 1:08:15.400 --> 1:08:18.519 Now in floods, they're going to need so much just 1:08:18.600 --> 1:08:21.800 to get through the next few days, let alone the 1:08:21.800 --> 1:08:23.240 next few weeks or months. 1:08:23.439 --> 1:08:25.040 The real issue is. 1:08:25.360 --> 1:08:29.320 The mix between what government and taxpayers funds in disasters 1:08:29.840 --> 1:08:33.560 and how we make insurance affordable so that the insurance 1:08:33.600 --> 1:08:36.120 can then kick in as it did, as it did 1:08:36.160 --> 1:08:39.840 for me after the fires. Eventually, you know, a week later, 1:08:39.920 --> 1:08:43.800 my insurance got cleared and I had access to the 1:08:43.840 --> 1:08:48.519 funds that I needed, certainly to be for the immediate term. 1:08:49.680 --> 1:08:53.040 The whole underinsurance issue of rebuildings just a totally other 1:08:54.200 --> 1:08:57.960 complex issue. But this is unfinished business to me. We 1:08:58.120 --> 1:09:00.680 started the work in our first term government. I was 1:09:00.720 --> 1:09:03.719 part of an inquiry into the twenty twenty two floods 1:09:03.720 --> 1:09:06.719 that looked at the behavior of the insurers. I hope 1:09:06.760 --> 1:09:10.200 they've learned a lot from our inquiry and from the 1:09:10.280 --> 1:09:13.160 experience they had where they did let people down in 1:09:13.240 --> 1:09:16.479 twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two in how they 1:09:16.520 --> 1:09:19.559 deal with people or are insured. But the other issue 1:09:19.600 --> 1:09:21.920 is the thousands of people who are not. 1:09:22.080 --> 1:09:24.680 In short and that's a problem not just. 1:09:24.680 --> 1:09:26.840 For them but for all of us studies. They are 1:09:26.960 --> 1:09:28.640 our fellow Australian. 1:09:28.280 --> 1:09:30.200 And in the end we often end up bailing those 1:09:30.200 --> 1:09:31.599 people out. So there needs to be a better long 1:09:31.680 --> 1:09:33.439 term solution. We are out of time. Thank you, Holly, 1:09:33.439 --> 1:09:37.200 Thank you, Susan, Thank you Holly Hughes and Susan Temperman 1:09:37.240 --> 1:09:39.680 our straight shooters for a Tuesday afternoon. This is just 1:09:39.720 --> 1:09:42.840 coming to hand where finding out exactly what's happened off air. 1:09:42.880 --> 1:09:45.320 But there's been a brawl at a school in Sydney's southwest. 1:09:45.320 --> 1:09:47.519 Will have all the details coming up after the five 1:09:47.560 --> 1:09:49.679 o'clock news. But there has been some sort of violent 1:09:49.720 --> 1:09:52.400 incident in a school in Sydney. Full details coming up 1:09:52.400 --> 1:09:53.200 after five o'clock. 1:09:53.400 --> 1:10:02.040 Shag, you say that you are ma, I'll. 1:10:01.880 --> 1:10:05.680 Be here till the end of the time. 1:10:05.880 --> 1:10:07.880 So you've got to let me know. 1:10:10.360 --> 1:10:12.080 Should I or should argue? 1:10:12.280 --> 1:10:14.920 Now it seems the Nationals very confused about whether they 1:10:14.920 --> 1:10:17.719 should stay or should they go from the coalition. Talks 1:10:17.760 --> 1:10:19.960 have been continuing this week about the future of the 1:10:19.960 --> 1:10:22.640 Liberal and National Party marriage, and we don't actually have 1:10:22.680 --> 1:10:26.479 a formal coalition agreement yet. David Little Proud, the leader 1:10:26.520 --> 1:10:28.920 of the Nats, has made the suggestion that well, you know, 1:10:29.160 --> 1:10:32.640 if we're not happy with what the Libs respond to 1:10:32.720 --> 1:10:35.719 in terms of our four key policies, maybe we'll change 1:10:35.760 --> 1:10:39.479 our mind yet again. Surely, if the coalition is going 1:10:39.520 --> 1:10:42.639 to have any hope going forward, both those parties they 1:10:42.680 --> 1:10:48.040 will stay together for the next election. This is sit 1:10:48.400 --> 1:10:53.120 now we've clinton on to GBUS seven past five flood 1:10:53.120 --> 1:10:55.759 assessments have continued on the Mid North Coast, have focused 1:10:55.800 --> 1:10:58.800 on Tari and surrounding districts. Today the Prime Minister has 1:10:58.840 --> 1:11:01.479 been in the region, but this news just to hand. 1:11:01.479 --> 1:11:04.240 Police have confirmed with us they've now charged a third 1:11:04.280 --> 1:11:08.599 person with looting. This person has been arrested in Wingham, 1:11:08.600 --> 1:11:11.040 which is not far from Tari and Wingham has been 1:11:11.080 --> 1:11:15.759 devastated by these floods. Police discovered a man they alleged 1:11:15.840 --> 1:11:19.000 was placing items from the street into the rear of 1:11:19.000 --> 1:11:24.320 a hatchback. They then searched the vehicle. They have found tools, paintings, 1:11:25.200 --> 1:11:31.960 a lamp, tires, various personal items including family photos, DVDs 1:11:32.880 --> 1:11:36.200 and a fish tank. I'm not sure whether the accused 1:11:36.200 --> 1:11:38.680 actually has a DVD player, because many people don't have 1:11:38.800 --> 1:11:41.560 DVD players anymore. Nevertheless, the man is accused, who was 1:11:41.600 --> 1:11:45.559 forty four, of stealing DVD's from somebody who suffered flood 1:11:45.600 --> 1:11:48.439 damage had a fish tank. Not sure if the fish 1:11:48.439 --> 1:11:51.680 tank was full of water and fish as well. Yesterday, 1:11:51.720 --> 1:11:54.000 one of the men who was arrested was accused of 1:11:54.200 --> 1:11:59.120 stealing a defibrillator. Unbelievable that man is now before the 1:11:59.160 --> 1:12:01.720 courts one eight seven three. Word on the street. It 1:12:01.760 --> 1:12:03.840 is thanks to temper, a great night's sleep night after night. 1:12:03.880 --> 1:12:07.160 The difference is temper. I've received this tip from Denise 1:12:07.400 --> 1:12:09.719 the South Afternoon. If you want to send me news tips, 1:12:09.800 --> 1:12:13.000 go to our website two GB dot com and you 1:12:13.040 --> 1:12:15.880 can send me the information via our website. Denise has 1:12:15.920 --> 1:12:17.800 told us about a brawl that's occurred at the Thomas 1:12:17.880 --> 1:12:20.720 Riddell School in Ambervale in the southwestern subers today. Now, 1:12:20.880 --> 1:12:24.680 Denise has described this as racially motivated. Apparently, race has 1:12:24.720 --> 1:12:27.200 been a factor in this brawl. We've been in contact 1:12:27.240 --> 1:12:29.760 with the police. The police can confirm to us at 1:12:29.800 --> 1:12:32.200 about twelve forty five today, police were called to the 1:12:32.200 --> 1:12:35.559 school in Woodhouse Drive, Ambervale following reports of a brawl. 1:12:36.080 --> 1:12:39.080 Officers from Campbelltown Police Station were told two students were 1:12:39.080 --> 1:12:41.280 involved in an altercation. It was a minor altercation. There 1:12:41.280 --> 1:12:45.320 were no reports of injuries. There is no further police action. However, 1:12:46.040 --> 1:12:49.320 the Department of Education confirms to us that this did 1:12:49.360 --> 1:12:52.040 go ahead, and they say this type of behavior is 1:12:52.040 --> 1:12:55.720 completely unacceptable. Any student involved in this incident will face 1:12:55.760 --> 1:12:58.879 the appropriate discipline reaction. Our schools should be safe places 1:12:58.880 --> 1:13:01.759 for staff and students. Support is available for any staff 1:13:01.760 --> 1:13:05.320 member or any student impacted by this incident. The Department 1:13:05.320 --> 1:13:08.320 has confirmed there was an altercation and involved several students. 1:13:08.360 --> 1:13:10.479 The school was actually put into lockdown as a precaution. 1:13:11.320 --> 1:13:13.240 So even though the police have said there's no further 1:13:13.280 --> 1:13:15.040 action and there were no injuries and it was minor, 1:13:15.200 --> 1:13:18.000 the Department of Education has confirmed to us that the 1:13:18.040 --> 1:13:21.679 Thomas Riddell School in Ambervale was placed into lockdown. Now 1:13:21.760 --> 1:13:26.920 we are still investigating the details of the brawl and 1:13:26.960 --> 1:13:29.600 what prompted the brawl, but our listeners tell us that 1:13:29.800 --> 1:13:32.360 race was involved. If you know more, let me know 1:13:32.760 --> 1:13:33.880 three one eight seven three. 1:13:34.000 --> 1:13:37.080 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 1:13:37.120 --> 1:13:39.160 now with Clinton manor on. 1:13:39.240 --> 1:13:42.320 To gb Well this time yesterday we had major delays 1:13:42.320 --> 1:13:44.479 on the T one North Shore train line. Now it's 1:13:44.520 --> 1:13:46.559 the turn of the Metro. There are problems on the 1:13:46.560 --> 1:13:49.400 Metro line this afternoon. Howard Collins is the Transport for 1:13:49.479 --> 1:13:51.599 New South Wales Coordinator General. Thank you for your time. 1:13:52.000 --> 1:13:53.040 What's happened on the Metro. 1:13:53.880 --> 1:13:58.000 There is a train at Barangaru station which has basically 1:13:58.040 --> 1:14:01.559 got starck. What we're doing is where moving trains onto 1:14:01.600 --> 1:14:04.760 the other platform. So there are services which will get 1:14:04.840 --> 1:14:08.679 you from the south to Barangaroo. You come off that train, 1:14:08.760 --> 1:14:10.920 you wait on the platform and then another one comes 1:14:10.960 --> 1:14:14.400 in and takes you north again. But our avice at 1:14:14.400 --> 1:14:17.160 the moment, because it's pretty busy down there, is if 1:14:17.160 --> 1:14:20.120 you can use a Sydney trains as far as Epping 1:14:20.400 --> 1:14:23.200 or Chatswood, you stand a better chance if you're going 1:14:23.360 --> 1:14:26.880 further north from that. But at the moment the technician 1:14:27.000 --> 1:14:30.200 is on his way to look at this train. It 1:14:30.320 --> 1:14:34.679 appears to be no power for some reason. Metro Trains Sydney, 1:14:34.680 --> 1:14:36.400 you're working on that now, but there is a sort 1:14:36.400 --> 1:14:39.280 of through service, but you've got to get out at 1:14:39.320 --> 1:14:42.000 Barangaroo and then wait for the other train which is 1:14:42.040 --> 1:14:44.679 coming from Taliwan to Barragaroo and then back again. 1:14:44.760 --> 1:14:46.160 So if you want to if you wanted to catch 1:14:46.160 --> 1:14:49.080 the Metro Howard from Martin Place through the city, that 1:14:49.120 --> 1:14:50.320 would be possible. 1:14:50.439 --> 1:14:53.240 Go to Barangaroo. Ye, get off that train because it's 1:14:53.240 --> 1:14:56.080 only going normally as far as Bragoro. Some are going 1:14:56.080 --> 1:14:58.040 through but most of them are not. And then just 1:14:58.080 --> 1:14:59.880 make sure you've got a train which has the death 1:15:00.720 --> 1:15:04.840 Taliwong on it. It's called a carousel, but it's a 1:15:04.920 --> 1:15:08.519 very good way. They can use both platforms on Metro. 1:15:09.000 --> 1:15:11.320 The one on the other platform is stuck at the moment. 1:15:11.479 --> 1:15:14.360 Technicians are on it. We're just waiting, but it is 1:15:14.400 --> 1:15:18.120 getting busy, quite crowded. So what we're saying, if you're 1:15:18.160 --> 1:15:20.439 at Central or Martin Place, you may want to get 1:15:20.479 --> 1:15:24.280 onto Sydney Traditional Sydney trains. That seems to be running 1:15:24.400 --> 1:15:26.719 okay at the moment. We had a few late running 1:15:26.760 --> 1:15:29.880 freight trains. As we recover all the freight from the north, 1:15:30.320 --> 1:15:32.559 but that seems to be running quite well to epping 1:15:32.760 --> 1:15:35.640 hand Chatswood and then hop back onto Metro. If you're 1:15:35.680 --> 1:15:38.599 going further north on the Metro, how. 1:15:38.520 --> 1:15:40.599 Long would you expect that train today to be stuck there? 1:15:40.600 --> 1:15:41.599 How long is it going to take the move? 1:15:41.680 --> 1:15:42.360 Well, in my. 1:15:42.400 --> 1:15:44.599 Forty eight years, I've always said it's as long as 1:15:44.600 --> 1:15:48.160 a piece of string. Blind, but I think the technicians 1:15:48.200 --> 1:15:51.759 are on board normally, once they get there, they find 1:15:51.800 --> 1:15:54.880 the fault and re energize the train. It's got both 1:15:54.920 --> 1:15:58.519 the pantographs down, so it may take a while longer. 1:15:58.640 --> 1:16:02.759 So my view is always choose a first alternative rather 1:16:02.840 --> 1:16:04.320 than think you're going to get on the Metro. And 1:16:04.400 --> 1:16:07.000 it's pretty crowded, so there are options for most people. 1:16:07.080 --> 1:16:09.120 Happily can be repaired quickly, and we don't see a 1:16:09.120 --> 1:16:11.240 repeat of what happened last week. But that's unlikely because 1:16:11.240 --> 1:16:12.679 it's a completely different style of system. 1:16:12.840 --> 1:16:15.040 Yeah, I think so, And we're getting past the train. 1:16:15.080 --> 1:16:17.920 There's no one stuck on a train, no one stuck 1:16:17.920 --> 1:16:19.639 outside the platform. We're going through. 1:16:19.880 --> 1:16:22.280 This is obviously a terrible time of the day to happen, 1:16:22.320 --> 1:16:23.240 just after five o'clock. 1:16:23.680 --> 1:16:27.360 Absolutely and normally Metro pre reliable, but this train seems 1:16:27.400 --> 1:16:29.479 to have a problem and we'll let people know as 1:16:29.520 --> 1:16:31.880 soon as we've got it moving again. It will settle 1:16:31.920 --> 1:16:34.280 down pretty quickly and Metro recovers very quickly. 1:16:34.439 --> 1:16:36.400 And just to confirm, Howard, you really love your job, 1:16:36.439 --> 1:16:36.760 don't you. 1:16:37.560 --> 1:16:39.679 I'd tell you I feel like the bringer of bad 1:16:39.720 --> 1:16:42.200 news all the time, but that's my job. I just 1:16:42.280 --> 1:16:45.280 want to make sure people have the right information and 1:16:45.320 --> 1:16:46.519 get that out through your listeners. 1:16:46.520 --> 1:16:48.760 Thanks letting us know. So that is at Barangaroo at 1:16:48.800 --> 1:16:50.439 the moment. There's going to be delays on the Metro 1:16:50.520 --> 1:16:51.800 and it's going to take a while to move it. 1:16:51.840 --> 1:16:54.200 We won't see a repeat of what happened on the 1:16:54.280 --> 1:16:56.439 heavy rail network either last night because it was a 1:16:56.479 --> 1:16:58.880 mess on the T one or last week. But that 1:16:59.080 --> 1:17:01.680 is a problem right now on the Metro Barangaroo. 1:17:07.360 --> 1:17:07.639 Okay. 1:17:07.640 --> 1:17:09.240 The big news of the day is the decision by 1:17:09.240 --> 1:17:12.080 the members of the ATC to vote against the deal 1:17:12.200 --> 1:17:14.600 to sell off rose Hill Gardens racecourse. This would have 1:17:14.600 --> 1:17:16.960 seen the state government spend five billion dollars over the 1:17:16.960 --> 1:17:19.040 course of about ten years to redevelop the land for 1:17:19.080 --> 1:17:22.800 twenty five thousand homes. The vote has been unsuccessful, so 1:17:22.880 --> 1:17:27.519 fifty six percent voted no, forty four percent voted yes, 1:17:27.880 --> 1:17:30.200 and there were more people at the meeting that had 1:17:30.240 --> 1:17:33.320 been expected. The chairman of the ATCs, Peter mcgorran, thank 1:17:33.320 --> 1:17:36.040 you for joining us, Peter at pleasure. Clinton, are you 1:17:36.080 --> 1:17:37.240 disappointed this afternoon? 1:17:37.880 --> 1:17:41.400 Yes, of course, I believe it was the best thing 1:17:41.800 --> 1:17:45.280 for the club, for racing and for the community. 1:17:45.600 --> 1:17:48.759 That being the case, and you were looking to generate 1:17:48.800 --> 1:17:52.320 five billion dollars is the future the financial future Racing 1:17:52.360 --> 1:17:54.479 New South Wales now in jeopardy because you won't have 1:17:54.560 --> 1:17:56.080 that five billion dollars cash injection. 1:17:57.360 --> 1:18:01.040 Certainly the ATC is I can't speak for Racing New 1:18:01.080 --> 1:18:01.599 South Wales. 1:18:01.640 --> 1:18:05.599 That's Peter Valandi's so just interrupt the ITCS in financial jeopardy. 1:18:06.080 --> 1:18:09.000 Oh no, no, we'll always be viable, Clinton, But we've 1:18:09.040 --> 1:18:12.760 only ever got our nose above water. And oh no, 1:18:12.880 --> 1:18:16.240 we run a great club, as anyone who's intended Randwig 1:18:16.280 --> 1:18:20.360 or rose Hill would know, but we're never going to 1:18:20.400 --> 1:18:26.880 be able to upgrade our facilities what members and public. 1:18:28.000 --> 1:18:28.280 Enjoy. 1:18:28.400 --> 1:18:30.320 At the moment we've been doing it in twenty years. 1:18:30.360 --> 1:18:34.240 We have no funding, which requires hundreds of millions of 1:18:34.280 --> 1:18:39.200 dollars given we own four racetracks, three training centers to upgrade. 1:18:39.400 --> 1:18:43.280 So that's the challenge that what is already quickly becoming 1:18:43.320 --> 1:18:47.160 a niche sport will become an even smaller sport because 1:18:47.200 --> 1:18:52.400 we don't offer a modern value offering to members or 1:18:52.479 --> 1:18:56.520 general public. We've lost twenty five percent of our membership 1:18:56.640 --> 1:19:01.599 since twenty nineteen and rose Hill has lost a half 1:19:01.920 --> 1:19:04.240 of its attendances over ten years. 1:19:04.960 --> 1:19:08.280 That's a fairly dire prospect then. So that being the case, 1:19:09.000 --> 1:19:11.280 is this completely off the agenda or is there another 1:19:11.320 --> 1:19:13.680 way you could revisit the plan to sell rose Hill? 1:19:14.400 --> 1:19:18.000 No, it's off the agenda. It was an all or 1:19:18.040 --> 1:19:24.360 nothing offer. Because the two drills digging the metro begin 1:19:24.520 --> 1:19:28.439 to hit at rose Hill Gardens in the next few weeks, 1:19:28.520 --> 1:19:32.040 so the opportunity for a Metro to construct a metro 1:19:32.160 --> 1:19:35.040 station is lost. You can't put in a metro station 1:19:35.200 --> 1:19:36.600 once the line is completed. 1:19:36.920 --> 1:19:40.320 But the government still could develop twenty fast thousand homes 1:19:40.320 --> 1:19:43.320 without a metro in the future. It's not good, but 1:19:43.360 --> 1:19:44.280 they could do it. 1:19:44.280 --> 1:19:47.759 It would have to acquire the land and Chris Mins 1:19:47.760 --> 1:19:49.880 and I believe and will never do that he said 1:19:49.920 --> 1:19:53.000 up privately and publicly. So long as he's premier, there 1:19:53.040 --> 1:19:54.960 will not be a compulsory acquisition oka. 1:19:55.080 --> 1:19:57.200 To show up the finances of the ATC and the 1:19:57.200 --> 1:19:59.280 strength of racing going forward in your South welles. Could 1:19:59.360 --> 1:20:01.519 you sell off other assets? Could you sell off Warwick Farm? 1:20:01.560 --> 1:20:02.080 For instance? 1:20:03.840 --> 1:20:03.880 No? 1:20:05.240 --> 1:20:06.080 What Warwick Farm? 1:20:06.120 --> 1:20:10.040 Because it's one of our training centers with some eight 1:20:10.240 --> 1:20:14.240 hundred and fifty horses. We couldn't do that. Canterbury Canterbury 1:20:14.240 --> 1:20:18.360 is a possibility, but planning is complex there that it's 1:20:18.400 --> 1:20:22.599 not a sympathetic or involved counsel to put it mildly, 1:20:23.280 --> 1:20:28.080 and the return whilst a few hundred million dollars not 1:20:28.080 --> 1:20:32.240 to be sneezed at would be welcome, that's basically a 1:20:32.280 --> 1:20:38.439 band aid. We needed significant funding to completely reinvigorate and 1:20:38.520 --> 1:20:41.400 revitalize all of our major assets. 1:20:41.400 --> 1:20:43.559 But if you need that, Peter, and this has been 1:20:43.600 --> 1:20:46.559 knocked over and selling off Canterbury's is to bandaid. What 1:20:46.560 --> 1:20:48.080 are you going to do to reinvigorate racing? 1:20:49.160 --> 1:20:53.160 Well? Canterbury is a possibility and through the process Clinton 1:20:53.479 --> 1:20:55.400 a lot of members who are opposed to the sale 1:20:55.439 --> 1:20:58.040 of rose Hill are not opposed to the sale of Canterbury, 1:20:58.280 --> 1:21:02.160 but that could be a long process. Council have a 1:21:02.360 --> 1:21:06.440 very different concept for that area. They want lower buildings, 1:21:06.479 --> 1:21:09.400 they want more open space. You're not going to gain 1:21:09.479 --> 1:21:13.160 what you really need, but sure if you're really desperate. 1:21:12.920 --> 1:21:14.000 But you could look at it. You could look at 1:21:14.000 --> 1:21:16.840 it now, you could look at it. I spoke with 1:21:16.880 --> 1:21:19.960 Gay Waterhouse and obviously she's been an opponent of this 1:21:20.040 --> 1:21:23.720 campaign for some time. She says, you should resign. Will 1:21:23.720 --> 1:21:24.599 you stay in your position? 1:21:25.640 --> 1:21:28.960 Yes, I'm not going to resign for a couple of reasons. First, 1:21:29.200 --> 1:21:32.000 I would have been in breach of my phidutionary responsibilities 1:21:32.240 --> 1:21:34.680 if I had not brought this proposal to members. It 1:21:34.760 --> 1:21:38.599 wasn't for me to say, oh, I've decided it's Rose 1:21:38.640 --> 1:21:42.800 Hills too sentimental, it's of too much value to the 1:21:42.920 --> 1:21:46.120 racing participants. I'm not even going to put this proposal. 1:21:46.400 --> 1:21:50.320 All seven directors voted when they were first told about 1:21:50.360 --> 1:21:53.880 this in December twenty twenty three to put a proposal 1:21:53.920 --> 1:21:58.680 to members. Now recently four of the seven directors supported 1:21:58.720 --> 1:22:03.120 the actual proposal that was voted on and the resolution 1:22:03.240 --> 1:22:05.400 by members. So I'm a servant of the board. The 1:22:05.400 --> 1:22:08.600 board might replace me, but I'm not going to stand aside. 1:22:08.880 --> 1:22:12.839 So those proposals for free membership for the lifetime members, 1:22:13.080 --> 1:22:15.920 free membership for five years, the thousand dollars behind the 1:22:15.960 --> 1:22:18.800 bar and at restaurants and food out let's per year 1:22:18.840 --> 1:22:20.599 for five years all off the table. 1:22:20.640 --> 1:22:23.640 Now, yep, it's off the table. And the renovation of 1:22:23.680 --> 1:22:27.040 the members' facilities at Randwick and Warwick Farm are off 1:22:27.080 --> 1:22:30.639 the table. The upgrade of the stables at Warwick Farm 1:22:30.800 --> 1:22:34.400 and at Randwick are off the table. Look, I can't 1:22:34.479 --> 1:22:37.920 hide my disappointment. Clinton. This was a chance once in 1:22:37.960 --> 1:22:41.160 a lifetime because of a metro station that will now evaporate, 1:22:42.120 --> 1:22:47.320 to revolutionize in a way every other race club in 1:22:47.360 --> 1:22:50.559 the world would give their right arm to. 1:22:50.560 --> 1:22:51.880 Be able to do. 1:22:52.040 --> 1:22:53.679 I know you're the public face. This is the chairman 1:22:53.720 --> 1:22:57.400 of the ATC, but as you know, the leader of 1:22:57.400 --> 1:23:01.040 the Racing New South Wales organization, Peter Vland's very effective. 1:23:01.240 --> 1:23:04.200 He usually wins in the end. Do you think there's 1:23:04.200 --> 1:23:05.879 a way that mister van and he was very supportive 1:23:05.880 --> 1:23:07.200 of this proposal. Do you think there is a way 1:23:07.200 --> 1:23:10.960 that mister Vilandi's can get his way through another means no. 1:23:11.080 --> 1:23:13.720 He accepts the members vote as I do. There's no 1:23:13.840 --> 1:23:17.559 legal way to do it because remember the ATC is 1:23:17.600 --> 1:23:21.479 governed by the Registered Clubs Act and that requires a 1:23:21.520 --> 1:23:26.240 vote of members for the dispersal of land. So it's 1:23:26.240 --> 1:23:29.639 the status quo and all the challenges that brings. 1:23:29.760 --> 1:23:31.320 That is going to bring challenges for sure. Thank you 1:23:31.360 --> 1:23:33.640 for your time, Peter, Thanks Clinton, Peter McGown, who's the 1:23:33.680 --> 1:23:35.960 chairman of the ATC. So there we have it. It's over. 1:23:36.439 --> 1:23:39.160 We are now told it's over. Chris Minn says there 1:23:39.160 --> 1:23:42.639 will be no compulsory acquisition of rose Hill Gardens, so 1:23:42.720 --> 1:23:45.559 there'll be no twenty five thousand homes at rose Hill. 1:23:45.720 --> 1:23:48.840 But it looks like Stephen Crichton is likely going to 1:23:48.840 --> 1:23:52.080 miss playing State of Origin one sun Corps Stadium, Brisbane. 1:23:52.080 --> 1:23:53.679 Of course you'll hear it here on the Continuous Call 1:23:53.720 --> 1:23:56.719 team tomorrow night. They're going to give him until tomorrow 1:23:56.760 --> 1:24:00.000 to prove his fitness. But it's looking pretty shaky, Campbell Graham, 1:24:00.000 --> 1:24:02.120 looks like you're playing the set is Mark Guy joins 1:24:02.160 --> 1:24:04.120 me after five point thirty to talk everything in sport 1:24:04.160 --> 1:24:07.080 and rugby league. Today, the new South Wales government, along 1:24:07.080 --> 1:24:09.800 with the police, have announced the creation of Task Force 1:24:09.880 --> 1:24:13.000 Falcon now, Task Force Falcon is going to bring together 1:24:13.080 --> 1:24:16.280 thirteen different police strike forces that have been investigating various 1:24:16.320 --> 1:24:19.120 gangland shootings over the past couple of months. It's been 1:24:19.240 --> 1:24:22.920 prompted by what occurred in Granville Woodville Road on Sunday evening. 1:24:23.000 --> 1:24:26.040 It was around this time on Sunday evening the emergency 1:24:26.040 --> 1:24:29.160 services were called to Woodville Road following reports that three 1:24:29.200 --> 1:24:31.240 people in a Toyter High Lucks have been shot at 1:24:31.280 --> 1:24:34.440 by a bunch of people in a Mercedes. Well confirmation 1:24:34.600 --> 1:24:36.640 now that one of the men who was in that 1:24:36.760 --> 1:24:41.720 car has died in hospital. His name is Darwood Zakira. 1:24:42.560 --> 1:24:47.240 He is allegedly or was allegedly an Alamedine associate. The 1:24:47.280 --> 1:24:50.639 Alamedines are a notorious Sydney crime family at the center 1:24:50.680 --> 1:24:54.360 of much of the drug dispute in our city. He 1:24:54.439 --> 1:24:57.200 has died in hospital now. There are still two other 1:24:57.200 --> 1:24:59.559 people were injured, including a lawyer who's acted for some 1:24:59.640 --> 1:25:03.679 of these these alleged criminals in the past and another 1:25:03.760 --> 1:25:06.559 man who is now facing charges. Police are still looking 1:25:06.560 --> 1:25:08.439 for those who are responsible for the shooting. 1:25:09.320 --> 1:25:12.920 Until six, This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on 1:25:13.040 --> 1:25:15.200 two GB Call now on three. 1:25:17.120 --> 1:25:19.040 So the plan to sell off rose Hill Gardens is 1:25:19.080 --> 1:25:22.040 done and dusted and look, Peter mcgorran, chairman, very clear 1:25:22.080 --> 1:25:24.120 there it's not going to happen. I'm gonna say I 1:25:24.320 --> 1:25:26.120 still wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the 1:25:26.120 --> 1:25:29.400 future it does. Peter Landi is very effective at usually 1:25:29.439 --> 1:25:31.360 getting what he wants and he's been a big supporter 1:25:31.400 --> 1:25:33.559 of this, and I know he hasn't spoken publicly much 1:25:33.560 --> 1:25:35.559 about this because it's been a decision for the ATC, 1:25:35.760 --> 1:25:38.120 but I still wonder if down the track there'll be 1:25:38.160 --> 1:25:41.080 some way that this happens. Chris Mins is disappointed by 1:25:41.120 --> 1:25:45.200 this decision and the Premier says, moving on from rose Hill, 1:25:45.800 --> 1:25:47.559 we still need to look at out of the box 1:25:47.600 --> 1:25:50.080 thinking when it comes to addressing the housing shortage New 1:25:50.120 --> 1:25:50.679 South Wales. 1:25:50.840 --> 1:25:53.240 This shouldn't take the wind out of the sales when 1:25:53.280 --> 1:25:56.439 it comes to bold ideas for housing in New South Wales. 1:25:56.479 --> 1:25:59.080 I don't take from this result that we should shut 1:25:59.160 --> 1:26:03.160 up shop stop with major initiatives for housing proposals in 1:26:03.200 --> 1:26:03.479 the state. 1:26:03.560 --> 1:26:04.760 I think we should go the other way. 1:26:04.960 --> 1:26:07.120 We should be taking more risks when it comes to 1:26:07.240 --> 1:26:11.360 major housing proposals in the second most expensive city on Earth. 1:26:11.600 --> 1:26:14.840 We've been far too timid for far too long and 1:26:14.920 --> 1:26:18.639 it's resulted in young people fleeing Sydney at an alarming rate. 1:26:18.760 --> 1:26:21.880 And the truth of the matter is more proposals like 1:26:21.920 --> 1:26:25.080 this aren't needed to break the back of the housing 1:26:25.120 --> 1:26:27.040 crisis that we have in the state. 1:26:27.240 --> 1:26:29.200 So what's the next proposal going to be? I suggested 1:26:29.240 --> 1:26:32.200 to Peter mcgore and they sell off Randwick ll maybe Canterbury, 1:26:32.240 --> 1:26:34.479 but it won't generate as much money for the ATC. 1:26:35.200 --> 1:26:38.080 The ATC doesn't own Randwick, that's actually Crown Land, so 1:26:38.080 --> 1:26:39.960 it's owned by the state government. I don't think the 1:26:40.000 --> 1:26:43.720 Premieer is going to advocate settling off Randwick. Paul has 1:26:43.760 --> 1:26:46.360 been a member for twenty years. Get I Paul. 1:26:47.360 --> 1:26:49.920 Twenty years and just to be clear before a start, 1:26:50.080 --> 1:26:52.840 I miss out on my lifetime free membership. 1:26:52.880 --> 1:26:55.000 Now that was the plan. 1:26:56.000 --> 1:26:56.960 Yeah, I'll tell you why. 1:26:57.000 --> 1:26:57.640 I I didn't know. 1:26:58.360 --> 1:27:01.360 It was that interview with the and was an embarrassment. 1:27:02.400 --> 1:27:05.599 He says that this came in twenty twenty two. It's 1:27:05.680 --> 1:27:09.400 taken them this long to at best cobble together a 1:27:09.520 --> 1:27:13.439 slapdash proposal, which had to be pulled back in April 1:27:13.520 --> 1:27:18.880 because apparently more information was needed. Between April and now, 1:27:19.080 --> 1:27:22.320 they cobbled together what we're calling the bribe to put 1:27:22.360 --> 1:27:26.320 to members and they still lost. I honestly believe if 1:27:26.320 --> 1:27:29.000 we had had a competent board, they probably could have 1:27:29.040 --> 1:27:29.679 got it through. 1:27:31.160 --> 1:27:33.120 The other aspect and the other aspect of the way 1:27:33.160 --> 1:27:35.439 it has been put together. And I've taken a middle 1:27:35.640 --> 1:27:37.000 a position now, in the middle because I'm not a 1:27:37.000 --> 1:27:39.400 member of the ATC. I'm not a big racing fan, 1:27:39.640 --> 1:27:41.479 so I'll rely on people with greater knowledge of the 1:27:41.479 --> 1:27:44.680 industry than I have. But the state government, even though 1:27:44.720 --> 1:27:46.760 Chris Means wanted this to happen, they actually didn't put 1:27:46.800 --> 1:27:49.799 a proposal in writing to the public. 1:27:49.960 --> 1:27:53.839 And this is the problem is that we're on balance. 1:27:53.920 --> 1:27:56.679 What were we left with as members? We were less 1:27:56.800 --> 1:27:59.439 with a proposal that we might do a deal, and 1:27:59.479 --> 1:28:03.679 the condition a possible deal, not a deal. It wasn't done. 1:28:04.040 --> 1:28:07.519 It was a possible deal going forward. And this chairman 1:28:07.600 --> 1:28:10.520 and this board have got to go for their incompetence 1:28:10.560 --> 1:28:11.800 that they've put us all through. 1:28:12.080 --> 1:28:13.720 Well, he says he's not going to go, but it 1:28:13.760 --> 1:28:15.719 will be a decision by the Board of the future. 1:28:15.880 --> 1:28:17.519 Good on your port one three one eight seven three 1:28:17.560 --> 1:28:19.519 the number. It was a fair free day on Sydney's 1:28:19.520 --> 1:28:22.040 trains Metro system yesterday and of course there was a 1:28:22.080 --> 1:28:24.080 meltdown on the T one. You have to pay for 1:28:24.120 --> 1:28:27.240 the affairs today. But guess what, there's another meltdown. This 1:28:27.320 --> 1:28:29.680 time it's at the Metro. As Howard Collins told us, 1:28:29.680 --> 1:28:32.679 there is a train stationery at Barragaroo station. Neil breen 1:28:32.760 --> 1:28:35.639 Breenie is actually stuck on the metro system today. Bernie, 1:28:35.640 --> 1:28:37.439 where are you, mate, man, I'm. 1:28:37.320 --> 1:28:40.280 At Barrangaroo with I mean thousands of people. 1:28:40.320 --> 1:28:42.799 Oh mate, Howard Collins is a dribbler. 1:28:43.400 --> 1:28:46.080 He didn't know what he was talking about. You can't 1:28:46.120 --> 1:28:50.280 get further south than Barrangaroo and the trains come into 1:28:50.360 --> 1:28:53.040 Barrangaroo from the north and go straight back to Talawan 1:28:53.520 --> 1:28:57.400 and so no one So at the moment at Martin 1:28:57.479 --> 1:29:02.000 Place and Gadigall and Central would be just I mean, 1:29:02.320 --> 1:29:06.320 if Brangaroo is this chaotic, those three would be totally 1:29:06.400 --> 1:29:08.160 cowardy because there's not trains moving. 1:29:08.640 --> 1:29:11.040 Because so what Howard told us was that you could 1:29:11.640 --> 1:29:14.000 you can know through trains, So you can't catch a 1:29:14.040 --> 1:29:17.040 train from North Sydney, for instance, through Barangaro to Martin 1:29:17.080 --> 1:29:18.639 Place and into Sydney. But he said you'd be able 1:29:18.640 --> 1:29:21.240 to catch one from Barrangru to sydneym. 1:29:20.880 --> 1:29:24.360 Yeah, but what's happening is that train's not coming. So 1:29:24.400 --> 1:29:28.200 that train was like we were there for ten minutes 1:29:28.240 --> 1:29:29.800 and then they finally said it's going to be another 1:29:29.840 --> 1:29:32.519 fifteen or twenty until the train that comes in and 1:29:32.560 --> 1:29:37.400 takes people's south. So there's just people, I mean, just 1:29:37.520 --> 1:29:39.760 like Brown's cows everywhere. 1:29:40.200 --> 1:29:41.800 And this is the Metro line, which is actually a 1:29:41.840 --> 1:29:43.200 lot more reliable than the standard train. 1:29:43.320 --> 1:29:46.519 Yeah, and the poor buggers, the poor buggers who the staff, 1:29:46.560 --> 1:29:49.640 they don't know what's going on are there. So the 1:29:49.680 --> 1:29:52.800 trains are coming in from Tallawong and everyone is coming 1:29:52.800 --> 1:29:55.360 from North Sydney's pouring out of Barragaroo and then it 1:29:55.439 --> 1:29:56.640 just leaves empty. 1:29:56.439 --> 1:29:57.080 To go north. 1:29:57.479 --> 1:29:59.439 I've got This is the official statement that has been 1:29:59.479 --> 1:30:02.120 released Fromdney Metro. Just after four pm, Metro train was 1:30:02.160 --> 1:30:05.400 held at Barreranguru station due to the pantograph issue which 1:30:05.439 --> 1:30:07.720 is part of the overhead wirings. That's four pm, that's 1:30:07.720 --> 1:30:10.000 an hour and a half ago. Announcements are being made 1:30:10.040 --> 1:30:12.719 on board and on platforms very limited services running between 1:30:12.760 --> 1:30:16.599 Sydnam and Barangaru. Services are operating with delays between Barranga 1:30:16.600 --> 1:30:19.320 and Taliwan. So that's not right, Brien. It's not operating 1:30:19.320 --> 1:30:21.439 between Barrangero and Sydnem No. 1:30:21.520 --> 1:30:26.639 Yeah, very limited. When they say very limited, so i'd 1:30:26.640 --> 1:30:27.960 say very very limited. 1:30:28.520 --> 1:30:30.240 Okay, you know what I mean. 1:30:30.439 --> 1:30:33.679 And so so people sort of aren't moving between those 1:30:33.680 --> 1:30:35.360 two and then when the train comes. 1:30:35.200 --> 1:30:38.040 There's too many people are the statement here Brinie says 1:30:38.080 --> 1:30:40.360 a technician is now on site to resolve the issue 1:30:40.360 --> 1:30:42.360 and move the train. God suggests maybe more than one 1:30:42.400 --> 1:30:44.240 technician is needed with this one. Maybe they could push 1:30:44.320 --> 1:30:45.240 the train out of the way. 1:30:47.160 --> 1:30:47.599 I don't know. 1:30:47.880 --> 1:30:50.439 I'm walking the circular key to get the three three three. 1:30:51.080 --> 1:30:53.960 Good on your Brenie. With everyone else, Neil Breen, you'll 1:30:53.960 --> 1:30:56.400 see an exclusive investigation and a current affair about the 1:30:56.439 --> 1:30:58.599 mess that is the now Metro system, joining the mess 1:30:58.600 --> 1:31:04.800 that is Sydney's heavy run network and with all the 1:31:04.840 --> 1:31:06.679 latest Josh Bryant, Good afternoon. 1:31:06.680 --> 1:31:08.920 Clinton, the Premier says a vote on the future of 1:31:09.080 --> 1:31:12.360 rose Hill Gardens racecourse will not deter the state government 1:31:12.400 --> 1:31:16.280 from pursuing other bold housing plans after members rejected the 1:31:16.320 --> 1:31:19.120 plan to turn the site into a mini city with 1:31:19.200 --> 1:31:22.200 twenty five thousand homes. A third person has now been 1:31:22.320 --> 1:31:25.120 charged with looting in flood hit areas of the Mid 1:31:25.120 --> 1:31:27.640 North Coast. A thirty two year old man, one of 1:31:27.720 --> 1:31:30.760 two men shot at Granville over the weekend, has now 1:31:30.880 --> 1:31:34.040 died as the result of his injuries, and data shows 1:31:34.120 --> 1:31:37.439 Sydney house prizes have grown one hundred and seventy one 1:31:37.479 --> 1:31:41.320 percent over the last twenty years. In sport, Lachlan Galvin 1:31:41.360 --> 1:31:43.519 may have played his final game for the West Tigers. 1:31:43.560 --> 1:31:45.200 He's been left out of the team to face the 1:31:45.200 --> 1:31:47.880 Cowboys on Saturday night as he negotiates a deal with 1:31:47.920 --> 1:31:50.040 the Bulldogs. We'll have more news and sport at six. 1:31:50.120 --> 1:31:52.400 Thank you, Josh. Fourteen degrees in the City, thirteen degrees 1:31:52.439 --> 1:31:52.920 in the West. 1:31:54.520 --> 1:31:56.799 A Finance Update dead. 1:31:56.680 --> 1:31:59.040 Night presenting Money News Tonight from seven o'clock. Hoor deb 1:31:59.160 --> 1:32:02.000 Hello to you. The Australian share market. What's looking like today? 1:32:02.240 --> 1:32:06.680 Done really well today? There was a rally around well 1:32:06.720 --> 1:32:09.519 after midday on the ASEX two hundred and even though 1:32:09.560 --> 1:32:12.719 the Wall Street is closed because of the Memorial Day holiday, 1:32:12.760 --> 1:32:15.040 it didn't stop our markets from doing really well. It 1:32:15.200 --> 1:32:18.120 ended up closinger point six percent the ASEX two hundred 1:32:18.200 --> 1:32:20.679 or forty six points higher, the best finish we've seen 1:32:21.000 --> 1:32:24.680 since mid February. The tech stocks were really performing the strongest. 1:32:24.880 --> 1:32:26.720 The Aussie dollar, though it's come back a little bit. 1:32:26.840 --> 1:32:29.599 It's slightly weaker, back under sixty five years cents. 1:32:29.680 --> 1:32:32.280 There is a theme park war that's broken out in 1:32:32.280 --> 1:32:33.040 the United States. 1:32:33.120 --> 1:32:36.479 Yeah, so theme parks are big business, not just in 1:32:36.479 --> 1:32:39.600 the US but all around the world. And Universal is 1:32:39.920 --> 1:32:43.280 the latest to launch a brand new theme park. It's 1:32:43.280 --> 1:32:45.879 the first theme park that's open in twenty five years 1:32:46.080 --> 1:32:50.000 in America. It's called Epic Universe. It's in Florida. Seven 1:32:50.080 --> 1:32:52.920 billion dollars is what they pumped into this theme park. 1:32:52.920 --> 1:32:55.479 It's one theme park with seven one theme park. 1:32:55.520 --> 1:32:58.639 It's about seven times the size of the existing theme 1:32:58.680 --> 1:33:02.240 parks that Universal already our owns, and it's got fifty attractions. 1:33:02.520 --> 1:33:05.439 Harry Potter and Nintendo's Mario Kart are the kind of 1:33:05.800 --> 1:33:10.160 key iconic Hollywood legends that the rides have been based on. 1:33:10.640 --> 1:33:13.920 Everything about it is meant to be immersive, So the architecture, 1:33:14.000 --> 1:33:17.200 the sounds, even the food is meant to make you 1:33:17.320 --> 1:33:19.679 blend into the backstory of the ride, so you don't 1:33:19.680 --> 1:33:21.519 just get on a roller coaster and go off. You're 1:33:21.760 --> 1:33:24.280 part of the Harry Potter universe as part of this ride. 1:33:24.400 --> 1:33:27.320 And the aim of it is to basically take on 1:33:27.400 --> 1:33:30.240 Disney and it's big dominance of theme parks in America 1:33:30.280 --> 1:33:31.400 and all around the world. 1:33:31.479 --> 1:33:33.800 But if you're a Universal Studios and you're spending seven 1:33:33.840 --> 1:33:36.040 billion dollars developing a theme park, can you imagine what 1:33:36.040 --> 1:33:36.960 the entry fee is? 1:33:37.320 --> 1:33:39.479 Well, this has been the big complaint about Disney and 1:33:39.760 --> 1:33:43.440 the Disneyland theme parks for families. It's you know, it's unaffordable, 1:33:43.439 --> 1:33:47.880 it's very very expensive, but they're promising an amazing experience 1:33:47.920 --> 1:33:50.360 for the dollars that you spend. So it's new, it's 1:33:50.400 --> 1:33:54.280 whiz bang, it's got Ai being incorporated into it all, 1:33:54.400 --> 1:33:56.519 so you know, people will go along and have a 1:33:56.560 --> 1:33:57.519 bit of a gander. 1:33:57.560 --> 1:33:59.840 I suppose a little arder in the program. And sorry, 1:34:00.000 --> 1:34:03.120 we've been put off for course by what's been happening 1:34:03.160 --> 1:34:06.040 with rose Hill. But I raised the issue of the 1:34:06.120 --> 1:34:11.000 growing success of Biscoff up against Natella Australian's eight. Last year, 1:34:11.000 --> 1:34:12.799 fifteen million kilograms of Natella. 1:34:12.840 --> 1:34:13.439 My children have. 1:34:13.360 --> 1:34:15.040 Consumed probably yet three quarters of that. 1:34:15.040 --> 1:34:16.240 I wanted to ask you about that because I've had 1:34:16.280 --> 1:34:17.760 all these messages that I haven't been able to get to. 1:34:17.840 --> 1:34:20.280 Grahams says Nattella's also when ice cream, I don't really 1:34:20.320 --> 1:34:22.920 eat either of it. Jen says. Biscoff is amazing, lovely 1:34:23.000 --> 1:34:25.840 caramel flavor, great little treat with the coffee. So in 1:34:25.880 --> 1:34:29.439 your house in the night, household Biscoff or Natella Natella. 1:34:29.520 --> 1:34:33.080 We get the biggest tubs known to mankind of Natella, 1:34:33.200 --> 1:34:35.920 and my kids love it on crumpets. We used to 1:34:35.960 --> 1:34:39.040 have people visiting us who would come from Amsterdam and 1:34:39.200 --> 1:34:41.280 other countries where it's considered you know, you have it 1:34:41.320 --> 1:34:41.479 on to. 1:34:41.520 --> 1:34:43.000 It veggiemight there is breakfast. 1:34:43.040 --> 1:34:45.960 Yes, So my kid's got a taste for it and 1:34:46.000 --> 1:34:48.280 they love the stuff. We try and sort of ration 1:34:48.400 --> 1:34:50.800 it out. In fact, I've never had the Biscoff, but 1:34:50.920 --> 1:34:54.000 the Natella I can definitely testify a Google. 1:34:53.720 --> 1:34:56.880 Searches for Biscoff have gone through the roof and they're 1:34:56.880 --> 1:35:00.040 still selling much smaller quantities than Natella. It's Lotuses, the 1:35:00.080 --> 1:35:04.559 company Lotus Bakeries behind Biscoff, but they the food analysts believe, 1:35:04.640 --> 1:35:06.560 the market analysts believe that's going to be Biscoff is 1:35:06.600 --> 1:35:08.519 gonna be the next big thing to take on the tiller. 1:35:08.640 --> 1:35:08.960 I don't know. 1:35:09.040 --> 1:35:11.519 Good luck trying because it's really ingrained. 1:35:11.640 --> 1:35:14.439 My kids love it, kids love it. Deb Night hosting 1:35:14.479 --> 1:35:16.439 Money used tonight from seven o'clock. Thanks dev, Thank you. 1:35:17.960 --> 1:35:20.000 Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. 1:35:20.280 --> 1:35:21.360 I if it's happening in. 1:35:21.280 --> 1:35:24.799 Your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB. 1:35:26.280 --> 1:35:29.120 Well, I didn't speak with MG yesterday because, to be honest, 1:35:29.160 --> 1:35:32.040 I was a little bit embarrassed as I tipped zero 1:35:32.240 --> 1:35:34.400 out of five in the footy tips, so I just 1:35:34.400 --> 1:35:38.519 couldn't front up to talk to MG. I'm feeling okay 1:35:38.560 --> 1:35:40.000 about it now, Hello, make guy. 1:35:40.680 --> 1:35:42.439 Good afternoon, Clinton. How are you, my friend? 1:35:42.800 --> 1:35:45.599 I'm okay. I'm over my terrible tipping performance, mostly because 1:35:45.600 --> 1:35:48.519 half the two GB tipsters actually tipped zero to five 1:35:48.560 --> 1:35:49.000 as well. 1:35:49.840 --> 1:35:53.000 Well. There was a just go back from and we'll 1:35:53.000 --> 1:35:53.920 get to the walk in a second. 1:35:53.960 --> 1:35:56.160 But a young one of the drivers who helped the 1:35:56.240 --> 1:35:59.120 walk that I was on last couple of days, he 1:35:59.200 --> 1:36:01.120 had a little bit of a multi a bet a 1:36:01.160 --> 1:36:05.080 dollar bet on all the away all the teams that 1:36:05.120 --> 1:36:08.440 were not favored paidred. 1:36:08.479 --> 1:36:10.320 They paid one hundred and eighty dollars. 1:36:10.760 --> 1:36:13.280 Oh anyone for one dollar? 1:36:13.360 --> 1:36:15.080 Yes, he one hundred and eighty dollars. He showed us 1:36:15.120 --> 1:36:18.040 all last on Sunday night. So made the tipping is 1:36:18.120 --> 1:36:20.559 very hard. I mean it's even even like with the 1:36:20.600 --> 1:36:23.920 game tomorrow night, everyone's saying New South Wales. But how 1:36:23.920 --> 1:36:26.439 can you honestly say that, like pick who's going to 1:36:26.439 --> 1:36:28.200 win this game when you don't know what's going on 1:36:28.439 --> 1:36:29.280 in the season proper. 1:36:29.280 --> 1:36:32.439 It's just shot you can't. So Team list Tuesday is 1:36:32.439 --> 1:36:35.880 important today because you've got lots of begins announces starting 1:36:35.880 --> 1:36:36.360 with Manly. 1:36:37.080 --> 1:36:40.920 Yeah, Jake and Tom Traboy Bish as well as taki 1:36:41.000 --> 1:36:43.799 Ahau will be out of this game against the Broncos 1:36:43.840 --> 1:36:48.719 on the weekend. Jake still having the hia symptoms. Tommy 1:36:48.760 --> 1:36:52.479 with his cork quite I believe it is. But they 1:36:52.520 --> 1:36:53.639 have got some good news. 1:36:53.680 --> 1:36:56.280 Benjam Boyvitch is back, so that's some good news for Manly. 1:36:56.320 --> 1:37:00.280 But yeah, both Turboys are out, so that's the same 1:37:00.280 --> 1:37:03.080 they're playing. Has moved so on Collo. 1:37:02.920 --> 1:37:05.439 From the fullback spot to the wing where Jesse Arthur's 1:37:05.479 --> 1:37:07.599 will be the new fullback for the Broncos as well. 1:37:08.120 --> 1:37:11.320 Probably the biggest team news today is Locky Galvin being 1:37:11.560 --> 1:37:13.759 actually left out of the West Tigers. So it's probably 1:37:13.760 --> 1:37:15.680 not a shock given he's going to go to the Bulldogs. 1:37:16.160 --> 1:37:18.360 Yeah, that's a shock. Now we've spoke. 1:37:18.360 --> 1:37:21.000 We've spoken that a naws him about Locky gowing over 1:37:21.040 --> 1:37:25.439 the last few months, and I think honestly, once his 1:37:25.600 --> 1:37:27.840 deal was done, we'll probably it will be will be 1:37:27.880 --> 1:37:30.719 a lot more glad for it because it's been a. 1:37:30.600 --> 1:37:32.960 Long time coming. Feel Good gets his man. 1:37:33.560 --> 1:37:35.320 A lot of people have been blowing up about the 1:37:35.320 --> 1:37:37.360 way Gus, but he's doing his job. 1:37:37.800 --> 1:37:40.160 I'll tell you what MG. You know, I broadcast the 1:37:40.200 --> 1:37:42.599 show yesterday from Tari, so had a long drive back 1:37:42.680 --> 1:37:44.800 last night from Tari after the show, so I got 1:37:44.840 --> 1:37:47.519 back home pretty late, was about eleven thirty or something. 1:37:48.080 --> 1:37:51.040 I couldn't go to bed. You know the reason I 1:37:51.080 --> 1:37:53.880 had to watch one hundred percent Footy on nine on 1:37:53.960 --> 1:37:56.559 replay because I'd heard about this massive blow up between 1:37:56.600 --> 1:37:59.599 Michael Chamis, the Cydney Money Herald, Janno and Gus Goold 1:38:00.280 --> 1:38:01.719 and it was worth the price of admission. 1:38:03.760 --> 1:38:08.839 I watched it back today and Michael Chamis basically attacked 1:38:09.320 --> 1:38:13.639 Gus was thrown back back. Well, they did, and that's 1:38:13.720 --> 1:38:18.720 kind of you know, it's yes, it's I don't mind it. 1:38:18.880 --> 1:38:21.160 I think Michael Charles Chamas well done. And Gus said 1:38:21.200 --> 1:38:25.240 the Gus is kind of fucking a twenty half place 1:38:25.280 --> 1:38:28.519 the night because he's the c. Plus he's got a 1:38:28.560 --> 1:38:31.240 prime time job on TV, which you can and I 1:38:31.240 --> 1:38:33.720 think a lot of other CEOs of other Rugby League 1:38:33.760 --> 1:38:35.840 teams are a little bit ending to that because he 1:38:35.880 --> 1:38:38.960 gets a chance to put if you will, with players 1:38:38.960 --> 1:38:39.880 while he's commentating. 1:38:40.240 --> 1:38:41.840 Now he's had he's had a wrap on lookie other 1:38:41.920 --> 1:38:44.200 for a long time now. State of origin one tomorrow night, 1:38:44.280 --> 1:38:45.680 you are heading up to Brizzy. 1:38:45.880 --> 1:38:49.160 Yeste early flight in the morning, going up there to 1:38:49.360 --> 1:38:53.840 face the hostilities of Sun Corps. And I believe that 1:38:54.040 --> 1:38:56.280 even from my cross tomorrow will be in an outside 1:38:56.320 --> 1:38:57.719 broadcast outside the stadium. 1:38:57.720 --> 1:38:58.439 Then I'm going to be doing it. 1:38:58.439 --> 1:39:02.320 Wild water sports were results from six to seven in 1:39:02.520 --> 1:39:03.280 enemy territory? 1:39:03.280 --> 1:39:05.360 Can you imagine how much I Am going to cop it? 1:39:05.880 --> 1:39:07.880 I think this is good. Would you walk down would 1:39:07.920 --> 1:39:10.200 you walk down Caxton Street? Not Starkers or anything, but 1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:12.240 with your blues jersey on from the early nineties. 1:39:12.680 --> 1:39:17.760 No, no, not tomorrow night, not Origin night. Nah nah, because. 1:39:17.479 --> 1:39:21.200 I've made I value my life at the moment, I 1:39:21.200 --> 1:39:23.760 don't want to be I don't wanted to be going down 1:39:23.760 --> 1:39:27.080 there with ten thousand screaming Maron fans who are all 1:39:27.200 --> 1:39:28.600 buying from Blood and they see me. 1:39:29.520 --> 1:39:32.360 Oh my Lanter, no way, man, I couldn't think of 1:39:32.360 --> 1:39:32.880 anything worse. 1:39:32.960 --> 1:39:35.800 Hey, now, MG, you did some great work for charities 1:39:35.960 --> 1:39:38.919 and you have been walking for the Great Walk Foundation 1:39:39.200 --> 1:39:41.439 dot com dot are you and you've embarked on a 1:39:41.520 --> 1:39:42.519 sixty k walk. 1:39:43.280 --> 1:39:44.280 Yeah, thanks you. 1:39:44.760 --> 1:39:47.200 The Great Walk terms eighteen this year Clinton. 1:39:47.200 --> 1:39:49.360 I've been a part of it for maybe ten of those. 1:39:49.200 --> 1:39:52.120 Eighteen years, and I was in the inaugural trek when 1:39:52.160 --> 1:39:53.920 we went from Bathist to Blaxland. 1:39:54.160 --> 1:39:54.479 Sorry. 1:39:54.560 --> 1:39:58.479 And so now it's every year one sixty k's and 1:39:58.520 --> 1:40:01.639 they've raised over two million dollars for local charities from 1:40:01.880 --> 1:40:05.320 or local businessmen who do the track. It's it's an arduous, 1:40:05.800 --> 1:40:09.360 arduous walk because there's a lot of you know, undulating 1:40:10.400 --> 1:40:12.439 roads out in the out the back west there past 1:40:12.479 --> 1:40:14.639 Baptist and you go to Tarana, then you got liftgo. 1:40:14.720 --> 1:40:17.200 It's Lake Lyle is a bit of a hard walk, 1:40:17.280 --> 1:40:22.400 so my feet absolutely can. I've got so my blister's 1:40:22.400 --> 1:40:23.600 in the back of my heel. I don't know how 1:40:23.600 --> 1:40:24.760 I'm going to get a shoring to go on this 1:40:24.800 --> 1:40:28.680 plane tomorrow. So any any remedies for blisters moment? 1:40:28.720 --> 1:40:29.519 What do you think? 1:40:29.760 --> 1:40:29.920 Look? 1:40:29.960 --> 1:40:31.599 I was going to say thongs, but I think songs 1:40:31.600 --> 1:40:33.080 that songs aren't in fashion at the moment, are they? 1:40:33.080 --> 1:40:34.519 You got to wear crocs these days, haven't you? 1:40:35.439 --> 1:40:35.719 Moms? 1:40:35.720 --> 1:40:38.080 I was thinking about wearing loads like the loafers with 1:40:38.160 --> 1:40:39.759 a pair of socks like the slides. 1:40:41.040 --> 1:40:42.479 Would you pull your socks up. 1:40:43.040 --> 1:40:44.559 Over my jeans? 1:40:45.680 --> 1:40:45.840 Good? 1:40:45.920 --> 1:40:48.559 Look here there's Billy bub guy. 1:40:48.760 --> 1:40:49.200 Look at him. 1:40:50.120 --> 1:40:52.320 If you want to donate the Great Walker Great Walk 1:40:52.400 --> 1:40:55.200 Foundation dot com dot you do some great work for charity. MG, 1:40:55.280 --> 1:40:55.639 well done. 1:40:55.640 --> 1:40:56.559 They thank you, Bud. 1:40:56.640 --> 1:40:58.439 In the books you're listening tonight up there and the 1:40:58.520 --> 1:41:00.880 ladies up there at they'll bitter time. I go back 1:41:00.880 --> 1:41:04.559 to bathis kindly what we work, guys, and get through 1:41:04.560 --> 1:41:05.599 to the blacks on Friday. 1:41:05.720 --> 1:41:07.720 We will talk to you tomorrow from Brisbane. 1:41:08.200 --> 1:41:11.120 I'm cool, Quinn, Yeah, happy, happy, birthday brother. 1:41:11.760 --> 1:41:13.719 Thank you, mate. I try to keep that quiet. 1:41:13.760 --> 1:41:16.480 I know you did, mate. Hannah, Hi Hannah. 1:41:17.200 --> 1:41:20.000 Yes it's it's not a significant birthday, but there might 1:41:20.000 --> 1:41:21.280 be one coming out in the next year. 1:41:21.400 --> 1:41:23.400 But it is your birthday, mate. My mum rang me 1:41:23.439 --> 1:41:26.360 earlier today to say forget it's. 1:41:25.800 --> 1:41:31.720 Your mum rang you. Thanks MG, Mom, Thanks MG. He's 1:41:31.760 --> 1:41:35.040 a cracker. Tomorrow night, State of Origin one live with 1:41:35.080 --> 1:41:37.360 a continuous call team on Sydney. 1:41:37.400 --> 1:41:40.479 Now a weather update will be here to help in 1:41:40.720 --> 1:41:41.719 unexpected weather. 1:41:42.080 --> 1:41:44.479 NRMA Insurance a help company. 1:41:44.560 --> 1:41:48.040 Thankfully, the dust has gone away, and he believe the 1:41:48.120 --> 1:41:50.559 dust has gone away. You wouldn't see it because it's 1:41:50.600 --> 1:41:53.080 quite dark across Sydney right at the moment. Fourteen degrees 1:41:53.120 --> 1:41:55.280 in the city, thirteen degrees in the western suburbs. Tomorrow 1:41:55.439 --> 1:41:59.160 mostly sunny day, no dust. Nineteen degrees is the top. Thursday, 1:41:59.200 --> 1:42:02.879 cloudy in nineteen mostly sunny and twenty degrees on Friday. 1:42:02.960 --> 1:42:04.760 I'm getting lots of messages about the dramas with the 1:42:04.760 --> 1:42:07.760 metro line, so Barangaroo station at the moment there is 1:42:08.040 --> 1:42:10.960 a train that's stuck at Barragaroo. What it means is 1:42:11.000 --> 1:42:13.960 that you cannot get a metro train from the northern 1:42:14.000 --> 1:42:16.040 part of the line to the southern part of the line. 1:42:16.080 --> 1:42:19.519 So from Talowong Chatswood, the North Sydney station's like Victoria 1:42:19.560 --> 1:42:21.720 Cross under the Harbor to Barangaroo and then through to 1:42:21.840 --> 1:42:24.080 the city and then Sydney. They're not going all the 1:42:24.080 --> 1:42:26.480 way through, so they're stopping at Barangaro in both directions. 1:42:26.479 --> 1:42:30.519 Now there's a very limited service that goes between sydneym 1:42:30.520 --> 1:42:34.240 and Barangaroo or Tallowong and Brangaro. But when I say limited, 1:42:34.640 --> 1:42:38.120 emphasized that very limited. We spoke to Breeni who was 1:42:38.240 --> 1:42:40.439 actually at Barangaro station. He gave up and said he's 1:42:40.439 --> 1:42:42.800 going to head for the three thirty three bus. Paul 1:42:42.840 --> 1:42:45.679 and Pado says, well, I've done just that. It's a disaster. 1:42:45.800 --> 1:42:48.200 Everyone is now heading for the three thirty three bus. 1:42:48.840 --> 1:42:51.000 Alistairs says it pays to listen to two g being 1:42:51.000 --> 1:42:53.120 good on Brening for the update, because I've disregarded the 1:42:53.160 --> 1:42:56.080 advice now from Transport. I've followed Brine's advice and Bingo, 1:42:56.400 --> 1:42:59.719 I've managed to get on an empty train at Victoria Cross. 1:43:00.240 --> 1:43:02.800 It is an absolute mess, not just on Sydney's trains. 1:43:02.840 --> 1:43:04.840 Each afternoon at the moment. Now the Metro as well. 1:43:11.840 --> 1:43:13.360 Do you want to win some tickets to go and 1:43:13.400 --> 1:43:15.640 see a wonderful playt the Ensemble Theater. I've got a 1:43:15.640 --> 1:43:17.400 double pass to give away. You need to call this 1:43:17.479 --> 1:43:20.639 number one three one, eight seventy three Clinton's Quiz. Yes, 1:43:20.760 --> 1:43:22.880 we've got tickets to the theater give away. We're very 1:43:22.880 --> 1:43:25.360 cultured on this program. The quiz coming up in just 1:43:25.400 --> 1:43:27.840 a moment nine to six. There's been some stories around 1:43:27.880 --> 1:43:30.799 that just Center Price was actually sounded out to run 1:43:30.920 --> 1:43:33.280 in the Lower House, which is critical because yes, she's 1:43:33.320 --> 1:43:35.920 switching to the Liberal Party, but you can't lead a 1:43:35.960 --> 1:43:40.040 party from the upper House. So for her prospects potentially 1:43:40.040 --> 1:43:41.800 one day to be the Prime Minister, she needs to 1:43:41.800 --> 1:43:44.040 move to the lower House. She's released a statement to 1:43:44.040 --> 1:43:48.240 Sky News and she's confirmed I did receive suggestions from 1:43:48.320 --> 1:43:51.360 various individuals, including supporters, colleagues and friends who would have 1:43:51.439 --> 1:43:52.960 liked me to run for a lower House seat. There 1:43:53.000 --> 1:43:55.559 are two seats in the Northern Territory in the lower House. 1:43:55.560 --> 1:43:58.800 They're both Labor Party members. At the moment, she says, 1:43:58.800 --> 1:44:02.160 I remain content with that decision not to run, but 1:44:02.200 --> 1:44:04.000 I look forward to continue the big task that lies 1:44:04.000 --> 1:44:06.120 ahead for the Liberal Party in holding the Albanezy government 1:44:06.160 --> 1:44:10.320 to account. I think you can pretty firmly say that 1:44:10.360 --> 1:44:12.320 she will look at it the next election. I think 1:44:12.439 --> 1:44:15.040 just Into Price has some big ambitions, and I think 1:44:15.080 --> 1:44:17.519 if there's the prospect if the Liberals are looking stronger, 1:44:17.560 --> 1:44:19.680 if there's the prospect of her winning a seat in 1:44:19.720 --> 1:44:22.160 the Northern Territory in the Lower House, I reckon you'll 1:44:22.160 --> 1:44:22.760 see her run. 1:44:23.760 --> 1:44:27.040 Time to expose your minds. Do you may begin your 1:44:27.120 --> 1:44:31.200 questioning Sidney Now? Questions questions or against questions? 1:44:31.600 --> 1:44:31.920 Important? 1:44:32.640 --> 1:44:34.400 I know how s you are? Answer a question? 1:44:34.479 --> 1:44:35.000 Get it right? 1:44:35.360 --> 1:44:36.919 Clinton's Quick Quiz. 1:44:37.000 --> 1:44:38.720 The Lover and the Dumb Waiter is playing at the 1:44:38.800 --> 1:44:42.960 Ensemble Theater Currebilly. Don't miss Howard Pins's double bill late 1:44:43.040 --> 1:44:45.120 no Other The Lover followed by The Dumb Waiter. A 1:44:45.240 --> 1:44:50.280 night of intrigue, wit and comedy tension. Ensemble Theater, Curabillity. 1:44:50.280 --> 1:44:53.360 Get your tickets now, Ensemble dot com dot au. Let's 1:44:53.400 --> 1:44:56.719 find some contestants to the evening Steve's Innately, Hello Steve, 1:44:58.960 --> 1:45:03.360 I'm good, my friend. And in schofield Sallo, Marty, how 1:45:03.400 --> 1:45:05.519 are you? I'm good? You can go First, your thirty 1:45:05.520 --> 1:45:09.000 second starts, Now, how many legs does a fish have? 1:45:11.360 --> 1:45:11.759 None? 1:45:11.880 --> 1:45:15.680 Correct? What year did Facebook launch? Two thousand and one 1:45:15.680 --> 1:45:16.639 and two thousand and four? 1:45:17.800 --> 1:45:19.840 Two thousand and one, No, was four. 1:45:20.320 --> 1:45:22.360 What is the perfect score in a game of ten 1:45:22.400 --> 1:45:30.200 pin bowling? Three hundred? What is the highest grossing holiday 1:45:30.240 --> 1:45:33.400 movie of all time? The Grinch? Or Love Actually. 1:45:35.280 --> 1:45:35.920 Love Actually? 1:45:36.240 --> 1:45:37.920 No, it's actually the Grinch. Now. I think it should 1:45:37.920 --> 1:45:39.840 be Love Actually because despite it being a bit cringe 1:45:39.880 --> 1:45:42.519 at times, it's a brilliant movie. But no, it's the Grinch. 1:45:42.640 --> 1:45:44.519 So you are on one, and let me assure you 1:45:44.760 --> 1:45:47.599 we've had winners finish on one previously. Steve, your thirty 1:45:47.600 --> 1:45:52.320 second starts, Now, which country is the biggest exporter of coffee. 1:45:53.600 --> 1:45:54.280 For Sue? 1:45:54.439 --> 1:46:00.479 Correct? New York Knicks, a team associated with which sport basketball? Correct? 1:46:00.840 --> 1:46:04.240 Finish the sentence A blessing in disculptor good at that one? 1:46:04.960 --> 1:46:05.439 This guy? 1:46:05.720 --> 1:46:08.519 Correct, you're the wain up. You actually won on two anyway, 1:46:08.640 --> 1:46:13.120 So look, apologies for my question asking. I've got a 1:46:13.200 --> 1:46:17.120 very sore thumb. Seriously, I squashed my thumb in between 1:46:17.160 --> 1:46:19.679 some metal just before the show. We had blood spurting 1:46:19.680 --> 1:46:21.840 out across the studio. So if I've been slightly off 1:46:21.840 --> 1:46:24.559 my game today, that is the reason why I've had 1:46:24.600 --> 1:46:26.240 a very sore thumb. We're going to send you out 1:46:26.240 --> 1:46:27.600 a double pass to go and see the Lover and 1:46:27.640 --> 1:46:29.479 the dumb Way that it is playing at the Ensemble 1:46:29.520 --> 1:46:33.240 Theater Ensemble dot com dot Are you you won't believe this? Actually, 1:46:33.320 --> 1:46:35.160 yes you will. There are dramas on the t for 1:46:35.360 --> 1:46:38.680 train line thirty minute delays, an urgent train repair being 1:46:38.680 --> 1:46:41.040 conducted right now at Townhall station. So we have problems 1:46:41.080 --> 1:46:43.000 at Barangaroo with a train stuck there on the Metro 1:46:43.280 --> 1:46:45.960 and now a train broken down a townhill. Paul, give 1:46:45.960 --> 1:46:47.080 yourself extra time. 1:46:49.800 --> 1:46:53.080 And now a preview of what's coming up on Wide 1:46:53.120 --> 1:46:57.000 World of Sports for the Sirato successor, the turbo charged 1:46:57.120 --> 1:47:00.800 Kia K four kias on new small sedan GT line 1:47:00.960 --> 1:47:04.600 veryant available now find out more about Kia's latest. 1:47:04.280 --> 1:47:06.439 Small car Horsey coming up up to six o'clock. 1:47:06.880 --> 1:47:09.599 Yeah, Clinton, Big Benny Elias is signed to whip up 1:47:09.600 --> 1:47:12.000 a bit of origin height because it has been a 1:47:12.040 --> 1:47:14.960 bit flat between both teams blow up and not enough bluffs, 1:47:15.000 --> 1:47:16.599 but all the blofs were in gusts and everyone else. 1:47:16.680 --> 1:47:17.400 Yeah, yeah, so. 1:47:17.360 --> 1:47:19.160 We've got all the injury lates as well. With Steve 1:47:19.200 --> 1:47:21.320 Crichton and Payne Hears, we'll have that covered for you. 1:47:21.400 --> 1:47:23.800 I'm asking the listeners what's your favorite state of orangin 1:47:23.840 --> 1:47:26.120 moment of all time. Jake Riccardi from The Giants will 1:47:26.160 --> 1:47:27.920 join us, also in Craig Gabriel to wrap up the 1:47:27.920 --> 1:47:30.000 French apem MG and Wally Lewis. 1:47:30.000 --> 1:47:32.599 That's mine. Thank you for listening over the past couple 1:47:32.600 --> 1:47:34.800 of hours. We've had a big one. That's Sydney now.