Speaker 1: Onto GV. This is Sitney Now with Clinton Mayne.
Speaker 2: Thursday June twelve, one three one eight seven three. It
Speaker 2: is Clinton Mainee with you. A little cloudy across Sydney
Speaker 2: this afternoon actually feels warmer than it is at sixteen
Speaker 2: degrees in the city. If you're on the road at
Speaker 2: the moment, I want you to have a look around.
Speaker 2: You can you spot buses? Probably can in the traffic.
Speaker 2: Is it an electric bus? I reckon it probably isn't.
Speaker 2: Because despot all the fuss about the state government making
Speaker 2: a transition to an electric bus flip. The plan's not
Speaker 2: going too well. Thanks to our listeners, I've uncovered the
Speaker 2: truth about what's going on with ev electric buses in
Speaker 2: our city and it's not great. Stay tuned. Coming up
Speaker 2: in the program Proof those who are regulating the tobacco
Speaker 2: industry really have no idea. This is startling. Former Policemanister
Speaker 2: David Elliott is my straight shooter for a Thursday, we'll
Speaker 2: look at youth crime. We'll also talk about the legacy
Speaker 2: of Brian Wilson. You cannot overstate his importance when it
Speaker 2: comes to twentieth century music. He was a genius and
Speaker 2: Mark Guy's on the show after five point thirty. Mitch
Speaker 2: Moses has been ruled out of the New South Wales
Speaker 2: state of origin side. Jerome Leway has been brought in.
Speaker 2: We'll talk to MG about that. You are my eyes
Speaker 2: and ears when it's happening in Sydney. Now, if you
Speaker 2: see something we need to know about, send me a
Speaker 2: text message zero force like zero eight seven three eight
Speaker 2: seven three and have you say one three one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. Well in Sydney. Now there are three men
Speaker 2: in custody after a house in Maryland's this morning was
Speaker 2: shot at. Now this is significant because there's a twist
Speaker 2: to this story. It was about quarter past nine this morning.
Speaker 2: House is peppered with bullets. Shortly afterwards, burned house Porsche
Speaker 2: was discovered. But the twist is the house reportedly belongs
Speaker 2: to the Boss, one of the key figures within the
Speaker 2: Alabadeine crime gang, and this particular man was actually on
Speaker 2: his way to Paramount, a local court to see a
Speaker 2: variation in his bail conditions. The head of Task Force Falcon,
Speaker 2: Detective Superintendent Jason Box joins a stick you for your time,
Speaker 2: no problems. It was at quarter past nine this morning.
Speaker 2: What happened to Maryland's.
Speaker 3: Porsche stopped out the front of those premises and a
Speaker 3: number of shots were fired into those premises. The vehicle
Speaker 3: was tracked to chester Hill. It was burnt out. They've
Speaker 3: jumped into another vehicle being a Hi Yundai that was
Speaker 3: followed by poll Air and police stopped that went to
Speaker 3: stop that vehicle. The three occupants ran from the vehicle.
Speaker 3: The apprehended a short time later, and they're all in
Speaker 3: custody and there being and spoke and ear by investigators
Speaker 3: at this moment.
Speaker 2: So the reports today are that the one of the
Speaker 2: heads of the Alamedin crime family lives in that house
Speaker 2: and he was actually on his way to Paramount, a
Speaker 2: local court to seek a variation in his bail conditions.
Speaker 2: That apparently he had been concerned for his safety by
Speaker 2: living in that house, and the bail conditions stated that
Speaker 2: he needed to be there. Do you have much information
Speaker 2: about that aspect.
Speaker 3: I can't comment who lives in that amuses, but there
Speaker 3: was a bile variation sought by a member of the
Speaker 3: alameddinacn occurring today.
Speaker 2: The fact that the claim is that he had feared
Speaker 2: for his security. Now I know the way that you
Speaker 2: and your officers work when you're investigating these major crime gangs.
Speaker 2: At times police actually do warn figures from this world
Speaker 2: that their security may be at risk had that happened.
Speaker 2: In this case.
Speaker 3: There's been many persons attached to these organized crime networks
Speaker 3: recently by a task force for our can end previously
Speaker 3: warned about any information or intelligence that we get here,
Speaker 3: we do make sure that we pass that on. We
Speaker 3: do make them aware of what intelligence we have, what information,
Speaker 3: and we pass it on accordingly to people as we
Speaker 3: receive it.
Speaker 2: The task force that you're now in charge of bringing
Speaker 2: to you, those thirteen strikeforces, has made several arrests. We
Speaker 2: spoke to you last week on the program about Jason
Speaker 2: is do you believe that this particular incident is potentially
Speaker 2: linked to us that you've already been investigating.
Speaker 3: Potentially You know, they've been well documented and discussed that
Speaker 3: there's internal conflict amongst these organized crime networks. This may
Speaker 3: well be attributed to that. You know, it was a
Speaker 3: genuine attempt, you know, there's no doubt you know, to
Speaker 3: injure or potentially kill the occupants of those premises.
Speaker 2: And I guess the concern that you would have is
Speaker 2: I think most Sydney siders would have If those who
Speaker 2: are behind these shootings get the address wrong, innocent people
Speaker 2: could be in danger here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right. That's why I essentially Taskhaals fac and
Speaker 3: has we stood up. We suppressed all this violence. You know,
Speaker 3: we're arresting these people who've got three more today and
Speaker 3: that was due to police being in the area and saturating.
Speaker 3: There's been cars taken off the streets with firearms. There's
Speaker 3: been numerous cars that have been located that we're going
Speaker 3: to be used in serious criminal offenses. Are up to
Speaker 3: fourteen now that have had petrol and or you know,
Speaker 3: fake registration plates and being positioned to commit offense. So
Speaker 3: we're taking that opportunity away or identifying the right people.
Speaker 3: We're saturating. You know, we've got fifty police out in
Speaker 3: the field that are targeting all these locations and speaking
Speaker 3: of these people. So you know, we hope today's another
Speaker 3: step forward and reducing any risk for the public.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's important work. Thank you for your time.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 2: Protective Inspector Jason Box, he's the head of Task Force
Speaker 2: Falcon which is investigating these series of crimes.
Speaker 1: You want to know what's happening in Sydney. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: to Sydney Out with Clinton on June It's.
Speaker 2: Twelve past three if the Order the General has today
Speaker 2: released a report into the regulation of poker machines in
Speaker 2: our state. It has found the state government lacks any
Speaker 2: meaningful monitoring of poker machines and it doesn't collect enough
Speaker 2: data about problem gambling. As you know, this was an
Speaker 2: issue before the last state election, but Dominic Pereitet's plan
Speaker 2: for a cashlest gaming card that was thrown out Green's
Speaker 2: Uphouse MP Kate Feman has looked at this report. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your time, Kate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, pleasure Clinton.
Speaker 2: Are you concerned by what it's found.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Look, basically, the government has a responsibility under the Gaming
Speaker 4: Machine Act right to give due regard to gambling harm reduction.
Speaker 4: What the Order to General has found is, in fact
Speaker 4: it's not doing that at all. It's tinkering around the edges.
Speaker 4: Here in New South Wales, we have seen an increase
Speaker 4: in the number of poker machines under this government. We've
Speaker 4: seen an increase in harm, We've seen an increase in losses,
Speaker 4: so much so that here in New South Wales people
Speaker 4: are losing twenty three million dollars a day to the pokies.
Speaker 2: So the number of pokies has increased. We almost a
Speaker 2: thousand in two years since since Labor came to power.
Speaker 2: I just want you to listen cake to what the
Speaker 2: Premieer has said about this today. This is Chris Mints.
Speaker 5: Everything from signs out, the signage at the front of
Speaker 5: pubs and clubs having to be removed, to the introduction
Speaker 5: of problem gambling individuals on staff who are responsible for
Speaker 5: those that might be not gambling responsibly.
Speaker 2: So that's what the Premier says the government is doing.
Speaker 2: Doesn't see what it goes far enough.
Speaker 4: To me personally look it certainly isn't the order to
Speaker 4: General found in fact that in relation to even looking
Speaker 4: at responsible gambling in venues, he referred to staff having
Speaker 4: to be responsible, that they're more concerned about complying with
Speaker 4: the regulation than actually looking at the behavior of people
Speaker 4: in you know, if they're experiencing harm, if they should
Speaker 4: take a step away from the poker machines, plus things
Speaker 4: like venue culture. There's actually one of the big things
Speaker 4: is that there's a heap of venues out there that
Speaker 4: got conditions imposed, say twenty years ago, that allowed them
Speaker 4: to have these exemptions to operating between not sorry, closing
Speaker 4: between four am and ten am. So there's a heap
Speaker 4: of venues that have poker machines operating, which is a
Speaker 4: very harmful time, and their conditions haven't been assessed for
Speaker 4: like twenty years. So the Independent Liquor and Gaming Authority,
Speaker 4: which is the organization that looks at this basically, isn't
Speaker 4: keeping up with making sure that you know, harm is reduced,
Speaker 4: and to be honest, the Men's government isn't doing anywhere
Speaker 4: near enough.
Speaker 2: David Harris, the Minister, points out that the report in
Speaker 2: the main looks at the time when the coalition was
Speaker 2: in power. What it changes do you want to see?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Look, I mean almost everybody other than the Men's Government
Speaker 4: is saying that we do need cashless gambling cards. Of
Speaker 4: course the industry itself is pushing back a bit with that.
Speaker 4: But look, I've got a stat here that says calls
Speaker 4: to the gambler where helpline increase by eight and a
Speaker 4: half percent in twenty twenty three to twenty four. I
Speaker 4: don't believe that what the Minister said is true. This
Speaker 4: order to this order report did look at statistics and
Speaker 4: data that came in when the government was in power.
Speaker 4: And one last thing with this, the Independent Panel on
Speaker 4: Gaming Reform gave its recommendations to the Government in November
Speaker 4: last year and the Government said it was looking at that.
Speaker 4: It will respond in due course. It's now June and
Speaker 4: we've seen nothing.
Speaker 2: We'll continue to follow this certainly.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Kate, Thanks Clinton.
Speaker 2: Kate Fairman, Upper House Greens MP. On this issue, the
Speaker 2: Government says it is still considering further recommendations and the
Speaker 2: Independent Panel on Gaming Reform, but I can assure you
Speaker 2: they won't be going down the path of cashless gaming.
Speaker 2: Sixteen past three. The former Prime Minister Scott Morrison has
Speaker 2: today played down concerns the Orchest submarine deal with the
Speaker 2: United States is under threat. The Trump administration has revealed
Speaker 2: that it's examining the plan to ensure it meets the
Speaker 2: America First priorities that President Trump is introducing so effectively
Speaker 2: the three hundred and sixty eight billion dollar pact is
Speaker 2: in some doubt. But Scott Morrison has been asked on
Speaker 2: Sky Today whether he's concerned.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not.
Speaker 7: It's totally within their remit. As I've said that the
Speaker 7: incoming governments do reviews. Kiss Darmer so Keiths Starmer did
Speaker 7: a review and that resulted in the UK government being
Speaker 7: even more committed to aucas as a.
Speaker 1: Result of that.
Speaker 7: The issues being raised actually very well known. It's been
Speaker 7: driven out of the Department of Defense by the Undersecretary
Speaker 7: and who has made clear his concerns in the past
Speaker 7: about the production rate of US submarines and that's what
Speaker 7: their primary focus is. And that issue has been known
Speaker 7: for some time, which is why under the Orcast Agreement,
Speaker 7: Australia actually funds the support of the US industrial base.
Speaker 7: So this is a known issue that definitely needs to
Speaker 7: be addressed. It's a very important issue for the US
Speaker 7: government in particular, and it's one that President Trump promised
Speaker 7: it fix and so if he fixes that problem, well
Speaker 7: then there shouldn't be any issue.
Speaker 2: Scott Morrison and today expectedly Malcolm term but also the
Speaker 2: form of Minister Bob Carr have pointed the finger at
Speaker 2: mister Morrison, coming up why the transition to electric buses
Speaker 2: in our city is failing? One three, one eight seven
Speaker 2: three is our number. This is Sydney now seventeen degrees
Speaker 2: in the coast, at sixteen degrees in Penrith at the
Speaker 2: moment thanks to you message, Tim, I like to be positive.
Speaker 2: So we've had this news this afternoon that Mitchell Moses
Speaker 2: has suffered a calf injury during the training camp for
Speaker 2: the New South Wales State of Origin side that match
Speaker 2: to next Wednesday night in Perth. As a result Mitch
Speaker 2: Moses and really disappointing for Miss Moses, he's had to
Speaker 2: pull out. Jerome Lewy has been brought in and we'll
Speaker 2: talk to Mark Guyre about this after five point thirty.
Speaker 2: I actually think the Blues may well be better off.
Speaker 2: I know that might be controversial. I think the Blues
Speaker 2: are going to be better off with a combination in
Speaker 2: the halves of Nathan Cleary and Jerome Mark Guyre after
Speaker 2: five point.
Speaker 1: Thirty until six. This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard
Speaker 1: on two GB. You call now one to three, one eighty.
Speaker 2: Seven three twenty two past three. I received a tip
Speaker 2: off late last week about Ish use more issues with
Speaker 2: electric buses at a particular depot in Sydney. I can
Speaker 2: reveal this afternoon we have a major problem with the
Speaker 2: electric bus fleet in Sydney. I've confirmed that dozens do
Speaker 2: not work. Simple as that my initial contact told me
Speaker 2: there are sixteen buses at the Speed and Grange depot
Speaker 2: in the Southwest, sixteen electric buses that are not being used,
Speaker 2: that have been sitting there at the depot for some time.
Speaker 2: That depot is operated by Transit Systems. Now my contact
Speaker 2: works on buses and they tell me they've been sitting
Speaker 2: idle and they were concerned that the axles themselves have
Speaker 2: seized up. Well, I alluded to this a couple of
Speaker 2: days ago, and as a result, I've been sent lots
Speaker 2: of correspondence by you, our listeners, telling me about more
Speaker 2: problems within the industry, telling me about problems specifically with
Speaker 2: electric buses, and just from the outset. Let me make
Speaker 2: this clear, forget issues about climate change. I actually think
Speaker 2: the transition to electric buses, if it makes financial sense,
Speaker 2: may well be a good thing in the long term.
Speaker 2: They're quite in traffic. You're not stuck behind a bus
Speaker 2: that's spewing out diesel from its tail pipe, so it
Speaker 2: does make some sense. But it's pretty clear from what
Speaker 2: I've discovered today, the government has rushed into this over
Speaker 2: the last couple of years and they're not getting it right.
Speaker 2: So what I've found out I've confirmed this now from
Speaker 2: Transport for New South Wales is the problem that was
Speaker 2: identified by my contact is actually much worse than they thought.
Speaker 2: The departments told me. In twenty twenty two, an order
Speaker 2: was placed for seventy two Element I electric buses from
Speaker 2: a local manufacturer, Custom Denning. They're based in some areas.
Speaker 2: I've actually been to their premises during the rollout. A
Speaker 2: number of reliability issues were identified. The cause of several
Speaker 2: performance and reliability issues has been attributed to the batteries
Speaker 2: they use. The element IE buses require new batteries to
Speaker 2: be installed. So that's seventy two buses that are being
Speaker 2: ordered from Custom Denning. They all need near batteries already.
Speaker 2: That's far beyond the sixteen I was initially told about.
Speaker 2: All seventy two need new batteries. Transport for New South
Speaker 2: Wales tells me Custom Denning is undertaking a retrofit program
Speaker 2: directify the buses. We expect these buses will be returned
Speaker 2: to service progressively into early twenty twenty six, so next year.
Speaker 2: The seventy two buses that are ordered back in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty two will not be in service until next year
Speaker 2: in full because they've got problems with the batteries. Transport
Speaker 2: for New South Wales tells me there are currently seventeen
Speaker 2: element IE buses on the network. Two have had the
Speaker 2: retrofit completed, so two have new batteries custom denning Element
Speaker 2: one electric buses not in service are either in the
Speaker 2: process of being retrofitted so that means fixed or in
Speaker 2: storage awaiting retrofitting. Eleven are currently stored at the Transport
Speaker 2: for New South Wales holding yard at Smeaton Grange. So
Speaker 2: the buses I told you about, so seventy two electric
Speaker 2: buses we order. Two are fully working. There are two
Speaker 2: that have had the new butteries installed. That's all. And
Speaker 2: electric buses are worth in the vicinity of a million dollars.
Speaker 8: Now.
Speaker 2: I've had further correspondence from our listeners this week, some
Speaker 2: who work as bus drivers, others who work in the industry.
Speaker 2: I won't name them because they value their jobs and
Speaker 2: I appreciate their confidential information. This is regarding the smeat
Speaker 2: And Grange depot. My listener says there are approximately twenty
Speaker 2: five buses there. They've been out of action for six months.
Speaker 2: They need major repairs before they can go back into service.
Speaker 2: These buses have been plagued by problems ever since they're
Speaker 2: delivery to Transport for New South Wales. There are a
Speaker 2: large number of ev buses parked at the Sydney Bus Museum,
Speaker 2: which is behind the Leichhardt Bus Depot. They've been paid
Speaker 2: for by the Transport Department, so Transport for New South Wales.
Speaker 2: They've never gone into service. That's from a bus driver.
Speaker 2: Another contact of mine tells me there are at least
Speaker 2: three electric buses operated by Transit Systems part near an
Speaker 2: ROMs Road emergency vehicle and tow truck facility at Arndil Park.
Speaker 2: It's near the intersection of the Great Western Highway Reservoir Road,
Speaker 2: just down from the bunnings. You can see them. They're
Speaker 2: sitting there in a grassy area. They're not hooked up
Speaker 2: to power or anything. Now this information from a bus driver.
Speaker 2: He drives an electric bus and it's actually quite disturbing.
Speaker 2: He tells me. There have been many issues with these
Speaker 2: buses simply not working. They stop, the bus will stop
Speaker 2: and you have to reset it. It can happen in traffic.
Speaker 2: It has a bus stops of traffic lights. If this occurs,
Speaker 2: the buses need to be completely shut down for two
Speaker 2: to three minutes in the traffic. This causes to stress
Speaker 2: to bus drivers and passengers and other road users. Also,
Speaker 2: with the batteries in these buses, they're on the roof
Speaker 2: of the bus. They're top heavy. If any of these
Speaker 2: buses ever caught fire, the occupant's not going to have
Speaker 2: long to get out of the bus. This is a
Speaker 2: driver of electric buses, he says. I purse believe these
Speaker 2: buses should not be on the roads until they're being
Speaker 2: charged one hundred percent from renewables. Now that raises the
Speaker 2: issue that I'd brought you a couple of months ago.
Speaker 2: We were sent photos of diesel generators diesel generators that
Speaker 2: electric buses have been plugged into, and Transport for New
Speaker 2: South Wales did confirm that to me a couple of
Speaker 2: months ago, that they are charging some buses with diesel generators.
Speaker 2: Completely misses the point, doesn't it. One of my listeners writes,
Speaker 2: we have some of these buses that are made in St. Mary's.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, straight off the bat, most of
Speaker 2: these electric buses in Sydney, because there are on the road.
Speaker 2: Most of these buses do not charge via renewables. It's
Speaker 2: straight off the grid. Now, I don't think the concept
Speaker 2: of electric buses is all that bad. I don't think
Speaker 2: any of us like to be behind a diesel bus
Speaker 2: that's spewing out smoke. And some of them are great
Speaker 2: Lord of ma Bart. But quite simply, the industry is
Speaker 2: not ready for electric buses in Sydney. The charging infrastructure
Speaker 2: is poor. They're either plugged into the grid or worse
Speaker 2: DEAs all generators, so pointless from an environmental point of view,
Speaker 2: but even worse as the fact that taxpayers us We
Speaker 2: have ordered seventy two of these buses and they've got
Speaker 2: forty batteries. Only two of them have been fixed so far,
Speaker 2: and the rest in full won't be in service until
Speaker 2: next year. And as now, drivers have told me they're
Speaker 2: concerned about the safety risk. When the dam buses just
Speaker 2: stopped for no reason at a set of lights and
Speaker 2: it needs three minutes for a restart.
Speaker 1: It's not good enough.
Speaker 2: We are living out this ev fantasy before the city
Speaker 2: is ready. And why well, it's so we can tick
Speaker 2: a box and bureaucrats and people in the department that
Speaker 2: make themselves feel good that they're being environmentally friendly and
Speaker 2: they're saving the planet. It ain't working. Peter Ford coming
Speaker 2: up in a moment, we'll talk about the passing of
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. You would have heard
Speaker 2: in Steve Carhen's traffic report there's been a crash involving
Speaker 2: a motorcycle and a car on the M seven motorway.
Speaker 2: It's just approaching Old Walgo Road Eastern Creek. The Ambulance
Speaker 2: Service has now told us the motorcycle ride has been
Speaker 2: taken to Westmead Hospital. He has a shoulder injury. He
Speaker 2: isn't stable condition. They've assessed the other OCYPI to the car.
Speaker 2: They seem to be okay. The northbound traffic is still affected,
Speaker 2: so that is the M seven just approaching Old Walgrove
Speaker 2: Road in Eastern Creek.
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Speaker 9: Good afternoon, Clinton. Three men are being questioned by police
Speaker 9: after a brazen daylight shooting in Marylands. It's understood the
Speaker 9: home of the head of the Alamandine crime network was
Speaker 9: hit with bullets just moments after he left the house.
Speaker 9: A Sydney man is facing life in prison accused of
Speaker 9: importing forty eight kilograms of illicit drugs into the country
Speaker 9: as part of a US based operation. The federal government
Speaker 9: is being urged to consider increasing defense spending in a
Speaker 9: bid to keep the US on board with the Orchist
Speaker 9: Military Pact. The White House has announced a review of
Speaker 9: the three hundred and sixty eight billion dollar program, and
Speaker 9: a dining chair is being recalled. The Dimy chair from
Speaker 9: Fantastic Furniture has a manufacturing defect, with warnings the legs
Speaker 9: may break during use. In Sport, Giants Captain Toby Green
Speaker 9: is in dubt for Saturday's clash with AFL premiers the
Speaker 9: Brisbane Lions. Green is struggling with a deep cork to
Speaker 9: his buttocks after copying an accidental knee last weekend. Clinton
Speaker 9: More News at four K.
Speaker 2: Katie's sixteen degrees in the Coast. It's fifteen degrees in
Speaker 2: Campbelltown at the moment. Our Hearts go out to the
Speaker 2: form Miss Australia and the Neighbors actor Aaron McNaught. She's
Speaker 2: revealed today on social media via Instagram that her son
Speaker 2: is suffering a baby a brain tumor. He's only one
Speaker 2: year old, Obi and Aaron says he's been having problems eating,
Speaker 2: sleeping and most recently keeping his head straight. So they
Speaker 2: took their little boy, Aaron McNaughton her husband for an
Speaker 2: Mrry and that Mr Rai has confirmed his suffering a
Speaker 2: large brain tumor on the right side of his brain.
Speaker 2: McNaught says, we're absolutely shattered. His last days have been
Speaker 2: our hardest days. The team that the children's hostel in
Speaker 2: queens and have been incredible. We remain hopeful that we
Speaker 2: can remove the mass and get Obi healthy and happy,
Speaker 2: pending the results. Our hearts out to Erin McNaught, little
Speaker 2: Obie and the family twenty five to four just on
Speaker 2: the buses. So the plan is for all eight thousand
Speaker 2: buses in New South Wales to eventually be running on
Speaker 2: electric power. So at the moment there are diesel buses,
Speaker 2: there are some electric buses and natural gas buses, but
Speaker 2: clearly the transition is hitting hurdles. David says on the
Speaker 2: text line Shanghai, China has thousands of electric buses. Someone
Speaker 2: from Transport for New South Wales. You go to Shanghai,
Speaker 2: have look how they manage their fleet well. Our bringing
Speaker 2: in some packed buses that have been constructed in Naura
Speaker 2: from China. Ben says, the Element I buses you mentioned,
Speaker 2: they're a complete waste of money and the Element twos
Speaker 2: aren't much better. The Jung Volvo electrics of beautiful busses
Speaker 2: to drive the three minutes shutdown restart process has actually
Speaker 2: been in place before the electric buses have been a consideration.
Speaker 2: It resets the electrics. It's part of the process, but
Speaker 2: that is causing some concern. That process, when particularly in
Speaker 2: heavy traffic, is causing some concern for some of the
Speaker 2: bus drivers who listened to this show.
Speaker 1: Because John be.
Speaker 10: Grand Father.
Speaker 2: Round Well news early this morning the passing of musical
Speaker 2: genius Brian Wilson of Beach Boys Fate. He was the
Speaker 2: genius behind the Beach Boys. He has passed away at
Speaker 2: the age of eighty two. We talk entertainment with Peter Forden.
Speaker 2: He was a genius. Peter good afternoon.
Speaker 6: Yeah, although I would suggest probably a torture genius. You know,
Speaker 6: he had a lot of mental health issues going on
Speaker 6: which were probably not helped by his drive usage through
Speaker 6: the years. Had an abusive father, one of the constant
Speaker 6: things throughout his life. He kept hearing voices and then
Speaker 6: in more recent times they became hallucinations, and in the
Speaker 6: last two years he was diagnosed with dementia and his
Speaker 6: wife died at the beginning of last year. So as
Speaker 6: a result of that, she really did take care of him.
Speaker 6: So the family had to get a conservative ship put
Speaker 6: over him so that he wouldn't make any rash decisions
Speaker 6: financially or otherwise. But prior to say, the last two
Speaker 6: years he was going along pretty well. Was always a
Speaker 6: bit of a rollercoaster life because of the mental health
Speaker 6: issues and going in and out of institutions. But that
Speaker 6: music that he created, and of course, not to forget
Speaker 6: his brothers who predeceased him, who were also original members
Speaker 6: of the band You know well, Karl died in nineteen
Speaker 6: ninety seven and Dennis died in nineteen eighty three. He
Speaker 6: sort of ironically he drowned, So he's known great sadness
Speaker 6: in life. But when you look at the music, and
Speaker 6: that music takes you back to another time and place,
Speaker 6: and the people who've been putting out messages today like
Speaker 6: Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan all looked to him as
Speaker 6: being a great mentor and inspiration.
Speaker 2: He certainly was. And there's the story, and I know
Speaker 2: that it's well reported now that in the nineteen sixties
Speaker 2: when the Beatles heard pet Sounds, which is considered the
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson masterpiece, when they heard pet Sounds, they thought, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, this is going to take a lot to top.
Speaker 2: They then recorded Sergeant Pepper's in response.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Look, it was a great time of
Speaker 6: music creativity, but there was such a unique sound that
Speaker 6: they had created. There's a couple of interesting things that
Speaker 6: he did that sort of went under the radar. About
Speaker 6: fifteen years ago, he did an album of all the
Speaker 6: Disney classics Disney Classic tunes and gave them a kind
Speaker 6: of a beach boys vibe. He also did the same
Speaker 6: thing with Gershwin music. So he really was open to
Speaker 6: different styles of music, but then interpreted interpreted in his
Speaker 6: own way. But there's a couple of things I would
Speaker 6: point you towards. And one is a great documentary which
Speaker 6: was called Long Promised Road, which is only done about
Speaker 6: eighteen months ago. And to be honest, that dementia had
Speaker 6: set in and he wasn't very effusive, kind of talent anyway,
Speaker 6: he wasn't overly articulate. His gift was writing music. But
Speaker 6: in this he does talk a lot and it's a
Speaker 6: great insight into and his memory was still great looking back.
Speaker 6: It wasn't so good about last week, but looking back
Speaker 6: to the sixties, his memory was really good. Long Promised
Speaker 6: road that's called if you want to try and track
Speaker 6: it down.
Speaker 2: So, as you mentioned, the Wilson Brothers long since past,
Speaker 2: and the Beach Boys over the years have had many
Speaker 2: different members. Is there actually still an act using the
Speaker 2: name the Beach Boys.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there is, and Mike Love has god it. I'm
Speaker 6: assuming he's bought the right right somehow. You know, that
Speaker 6: whole concept of buying rights to the names of band
Speaker 6: is a very complicated thing. You know, no better example
Speaker 6: of that than a Little riverband and what happened there.
Speaker 6: But yeah, they still go around with Michael and obviously
Speaker 6: the others are all younger musicians. Al Jardine is still
Speaker 6: out there performing as well. He has a kind of
Speaker 6: a band that specializes in doing the Beach Boys music
Speaker 6: but doesn't have the rights to use the Beach Boys' names.
Speaker 2: An absolute legend. Thank you, Peter, Thanks Clinton, Peter Ford,
Speaker 2: our music correspondent.
Speaker 11: Knows now.
Speaker 2: This may be a big call to make. I would
Speaker 2: go as far to say that God only knows. He
Speaker 2: is in the top three songs ever composed. I had
Speaker 2: that music fame my wedding, and it was before it
Speaker 2: was so popular with love actually, but of course it
Speaker 2: was a massive hit from Petstounds, from the from the Mids.
Speaker 2: I honestly believe that he's one of the greatest songs
Speaker 2: ever recorded. He was a legend, and yes, for many
Speaker 2: years he was drug effected. He became a hermit. At
Speaker 2: one point he had fallings out with his brothers. But
Speaker 2: music has lost a legend today. And I will quote
Speaker 2: Sean Lennon, son of John Says on social media today.
Speaker 2: He was always very kind and generous. He was our
Speaker 2: American Mozart are one of a kind, genius from another world.
Speaker 10: She's coming up after five o'clock.
Speaker 2: I will speak to an expert in the matter. I'll
Speaker 2: be speaking to a musician from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Speaker 2: This is Sydney. A man has been questioned at Wogga
Speaker 2: Wogga Police station following the fatal shooting of another man
Speaker 2: in the River Areenda Town earlier this week. This occurred
Speaker 2: on Monday afternoon. The police were called to Ashmont, which
Speaker 2: is near Wagga Wogga reports a man had been shot
Speaker 2: during a fight of some sort. Well, today, a thirty
Speaker 2: five year old man's been arrested at a home at Norandra,
Speaker 2: which is in the Riverina not too far from Wagga Wogga.
Speaker 2: Police have searched a home they've located and see several
Speaker 2: items are closing for forensic examination. The man is still
Speaker 2: to be charged, but he is being questioned by Wagga
Speaker 2: Wogga police.
Speaker 1: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney
Speaker 1: Now with Clinton Maynard until.
Speaker 2: It's fortunately to four lots of messages here about Brian Wilson.
Speaker 2: Kim says, I absolutely agree. He is a legend, a
Speaker 2: legend of a songwriter. Kathy says, God Only Knows is
Speaker 2: one of the best songs ever. Tony, you're a Beach
Speaker 2: Boys fan? Yes, my word, what do you make of
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson?
Speaker 12: Oh Aton look fantastic program. And I just got to
Speaker 12: congratulate you on your fine judgement because you've just described
Speaker 12: God Only Knows as one of the greatest songs of
Speaker 12: the modern era, and We've played at your wedding. Paul McCartney,
Speaker 12: on numerous occasions, has described that song as the greatest
Speaker 12: piece of pop music ever written. You've got good judgment.
Speaker 2: It's hard to disagree with, sir Paul, isn't it. It's
Speaker 2: you know what it is about, Toney familiar.
Speaker 13: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm in my late forties now, so I born in
Speaker 2: the mid seventies, grew up in the eighties. So my
Speaker 2: father was a fan of sixties music, and he'd always
Speaker 2: have lots of sixty music playing in the house, whether
Speaker 2: it was Australian music. He loved the BG's of the sixties, Beatles,
Speaker 2: Beach Boys, Herman's, Hermit's a lot right. Even though that
Speaker 2: music isn't actually of my era, I grew up with it.
Speaker 2: And so when you hear about the passing of somebody
Speaker 2: like Brian Wilson, even for somebody of my generation, it
Speaker 2: feels like the end of something.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's timeless music. Though it sounds as good now.
Speaker 12: It stands up as well now as it did forty
Speaker 12: years ago, fifty years ago.
Speaker 2: Yep, certainly does good on your tony think if you
Speaker 2: call one three one eight seventy three. As I meant,
Speaker 2: we will speak a little bit more about Brian Wilson
Speaker 2: in the final hour of the program.
Speaker 1: Listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two gb
Speaker 1: com now one three one eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Have you ever been ghosted? Not by a partner, by
Speaker 2: about a potential employer? Now, what ghosted means. It means
Speaker 2: not to receive a call or even a text message
Speaker 2: to end a relationship. And this is a very modern way. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: sometimes relationships end. New data from Indeed reveals nine in
Speaker 2: ten Australians have been ghosted by a prospective employer. It's
Speaker 2: twelve and a half million workers. So I know job
Speaker 2: seeking is frustrating, particularly if you're in your fifties and
Speaker 2: you are looking for employment. It can be enormously frustrating
Speaker 2: because there's a lot of ageism out there. But I've
Speaker 2: heard from people about this before that they get so
Speaker 2: frustrated that they'll apply for dozens and dozens of jobs.
Speaker 2: They will do it electronically via LinkedIn these days, and
Speaker 2: they'll never hear anything back. Well, that's what ghosts in
Speaker 2: the employment market is all about. Selling mckibbon is a
Speaker 2: career expert and indeed and joins us. Hello, Sally, Hi Clinton,
Speaker 2: how are you? I'm good? Why is ghosting happening in
Speaker 2: the employment market?
Speaker 14: Well, look, sometimes it's due to things like poor hiring practices.
Speaker 14: It can be lack of communication systems or employers either
Speaker 14: being overwhelmed with high volumes of applications or high volume
Speaker 14: of roles that they're actually managing and looking. In other cases,
Speaker 14: it can be that you know, hiring gets canceled altogether
Speaker 14: and people just don't get informed.
Speaker 2: What are the common reasons? What do you think the
Speaker 2: common reasons are that employers ghost Is it because it's
Speaker 2: simply they receive too many.
Speaker 14: Look, I think in a lot of instances it is
Speaker 14: that that overwhelming number of applications. A lot of businesses
Speaker 14: are using AI now to measure who is the most
Speaker 14: relevant for the job, and in other instances, you know,
Speaker 14: they just can't get through the sheer volume of people
Speaker 14: applying for a certain position.
Speaker 2: If we're using modern tech like AI, surely there'd be
Speaker 2: a way we could get the autumn of the artificial
Speaker 2: intelligence to reply to somebody who's had the god of
Speaker 2: the effort to apply for a job.
Speaker 14: You would absolutely hope so, but it is definitely not
Speaker 14: built in every single practice out there.
Speaker 2: You know what I fear, Sally, I reckon this then
Speaker 2: has an effect on somebody's mental health. I think it'll
Speaker 2: have an effect on their ambition, their desire to try
Speaker 2: to find a job.
Speaker 14: Yeah, it absolutely can be disheartening and damaging to people's confidence,
Speaker 14: particularly in young people or even as you mentioned, you know,
Speaker 14: people that are facing things like ageism, minority groups and
Speaker 14: things like that. It often leads people questioning their abilities
Speaker 14: when in reality the silence is often more about the
Speaker 14: internal employer process rather than them as a person or
Speaker 14: their ability to do the job.
Speaker 2: Just lastly, Sally, is there something the person who's applying
Speaker 2: for the job can do about it? Do you recommend,
Speaker 2: for instance, they're get in contact with the potential employer,
Speaker 2: doesn't have hurt.
Speaker 14: To send a follow up email or even you know,
Speaker 14: the old fashioned way of picking up the phone and
Speaker 14: sometimes giving somebody a call. And potentially you can also
Speaker 14: give it time. Hiring can be longer than a little
Speaker 14: bit than expected in some instances, and then you know,
Speaker 14: just keep keep practicing because whilst it can shake your confidence,
Speaker 14: you know there is the right job out there.
Speaker 1: For you.
Speaker 2: Hey, just lastly, Sally, have you ever been ghosted?
Speaker 14: I have, and it's even worse. It was one of
Speaker 14: my first jobs that I keep thinking about. I went
Speaker 14: for a trial and that I never heard from them
Speaker 14: ever again.
Speaker 2: Oh, so you're actually doing the job on trial?
Speaker 14: Went for a trial, Ronnie. Ronnie is back in the day,
Speaker 14: a similar vintage of your Cleante.
Speaker 2: There was a fashion retailer, wasn't it Ronnie's.
Speaker 14: Never it was like a discount store. And yeah, they
Speaker 14: never called me back, Sally.
Speaker 2: You would have been good at Ronnie's. It would have
Speaker 2: been outstanding. Hey, thanks, Sally, thanks so much for your time.
Speaker 2: Jellie McKinnon, who's from Indeed, so they've conducted the research
Speaker 2: that's found nine out of ten people who apply for
Speaker 2: a job have been ghosted, so they never hear back.
Speaker 2: Have you been in that situation? Now? I know it's
Speaker 2: particularly frustrating for people when they enter the middle age
Speaker 2: years trying to find a job. You're trying to deal
Speaker 2: with modern technology like LinkedIn, like the automated systems that
Speaker 2: we all have to now get our heads around. But
Speaker 2: when the perspective employer doesn't even have the courtesy to
Speaker 2: respond to your application. Do you get in contact with them?
Speaker 2: How do you deal with it? Has it happened to you?
Speaker 2: Let me know three one eight seven three. It's closing
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Speaker 2: And if you'd like us to investigate something, if you've
Speaker 2: got a news tip, that's also a word on the street.
Speaker 2: And that's where this information came to me first about
Speaker 2: what's going with electric buses in Sydney, the fact that
Speaker 2: so many are now off the road because they have
Speaker 2: faulty batteries. I'll talk to Howard Colinson, Transport for New
Speaker 2: South Wales after the news about that. Lots of messages
Speaker 2: still coming in about the Beach Boys and the tragic
Speaker 2: passing of Brian Wilson. Mitch agrees with me that God
Speaker 2: Only Knows is one of the top five best songs
Speaker 2: ever composed. Bonnie says, I agree with you about that song.
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful, wonderful tune. Three to four one, three,
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. Have you ever been ghosted by
Speaker 2: a prospective employer, so when you've applied for a job,
Speaker 2: they haven't had the couragey to get back to you. Michael,
Speaker 2: have you been in that situation?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 15: Okay mate, yeah I have. Actually, mine's a very unique
Speaker 15: sort of story because, after all, recently I was happily
Speaker 15: semi retired of just working a couple of days here
Speaker 15: and there, and out of the blue, a coworker, a
Speaker 15: friend rang me where I used to work and said
Speaker 15: what was I doing? And I said, oh, not much,
Speaker 15: you know, just just doing bitter this bit of that.
Speaker 15: He said, would you be interested in coming back to
Speaker 15: work for us? So I thought about it for a
Speaker 15: few days because I was sort of going to go
Speaker 15: back to full time work coming off semi retirement. And
Speaker 15: I thought, yeah, i'll do That was a good place
Speaker 15: to work. So I went in and saw them, and
Speaker 15: I saw the manager who I knew quite well, and
Speaker 15: we had a chat and he stood there and he
Speaker 15: shook me hand and he said it's going to be
Speaker 15: great to have you back. And I said, look, I'm
Speaker 15: going overseas for on for two weeks holiday. And I
Speaker 15: said I'd like to start when I get back. He said,
Speaker 15: we'll have it all organized when you get back. You'll
Speaker 15: be starting back at work, and I said sweet. Anyway,
Speaker 15: I went on the when I overseas, and I had
Speaker 15: some correspondence through email because I had to have an
Speaker 15: interview with the HR department just out of pad of
Speaker 15: like you know.
Speaker 8: Yeah, process. That was it.
Speaker 15: Anyway, I thought it went pretty good. Anyway, I got
Speaker 15: a message to say that they weren't going to proceed
Speaker 15: with the employment and I couldn't understand why. And so
Speaker 15: when I got back to Australia, I rang the manager
Speaker 15: to see what was going on, and he wouldn't take
Speaker 15: the call. And I send the messages and everything to
Speaker 15: him and he never returned them. So I went from
Speaker 15: being basically employed as by his word, who not employed,
Speaker 15: and I'd already given notice where I was working.
Speaker 2: That is disgusting, Michael. I mean that that's even the
Speaker 2: worst category. That you've actually been given the job and
Speaker 2: quit your job as a result. I'm sorry to hear
Speaker 2: that you've been in that position.
Speaker 1: Michael.
Speaker 2: I'm getting lots of messages about this, and I'm not
Speaker 2: going to get to all of your responses on this
Speaker 2: but Andrew makes a good point. Let's call it for
Speaker 2: what it is. It's not ghosting. Ghosting is just another
Speaker 2: word for being unprofessional and rude. Tracy says, funny, bring
Speaker 2: this up today. I applied via indeed with Telstra in April.
Speaker 2: No reply. I actually emailed them for the fourth time
Speaker 2: to day, expressing the lack of respect and manners and
Speaker 2: how disgraceful it was from such a large company. Haven't
Speaker 2: heard back from.
Speaker 1: Them this Sidney now whip Clinton on.
Speaker 2: To gb This news just in why killer Chris Dawson's
Speaker 2: legal challenge has effectively ended. This news has just been
Speaker 2: revealed that he has been denied special leave to appeal
Speaker 2: to the High Court against his murder conviction for killing
Speaker 2: his wife, Lynnette, and effectively this closed the case. He
Speaker 2: has run out of legal avenues. This was his last
Speaker 2: ditch bid for freedom. It has been rejected by the
Speaker 2: nation's highest court. A very brief judgment has been published
Speaker 2: online today and this now means that Dawson will spend
Speaker 2: the rest of his life in jail as he should.
Speaker 2: The judgment says the application the applicant requires an extension
Speaker 2: of time within which to seek special leave to appeal
Speaker 2: from the whole judgment of the Court Criminal Appeal of
Speaker 2: New South Wales. The applicant appealed against his conviction to
Speaker 2: the Court Criminal Appeal, which found error on the part
Speaker 2: of the trial judge, but dismissed the appeal on the
Speaker 2: basis that no substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred. There
Speaker 2: is no reason to doubt the correctness of the decision
Speaker 2: of the Quarter Criminal Appeal, including its dismissal of the appeal,
Speaker 2: notwithstanding the trial judge's errors. Accordingly, it will be futile
Speaker 2: to grant an extension of time. Special leave to appeal
Speaker 2: is refused. Good it means Chris Dawson will die in jail.
Speaker 1: Be a part of Sydney. Now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 1: one three one eight.
Speaker 2: Sixteen past four. I've brought you the story this afternoon
Speaker 2: about the transition for our electric bus fleet from traditional
Speaker 2: diesel buses gas buses to electric and it's not going well.
Speaker 2: Confirmed with me from Transport for New South Wales after
Speaker 2: a tip off from one of our listeners who's a
Speaker 2: bus driver, that all seventy two buses that have been
Speaker 2: ordered from Custom Denning. Custom Denning is a Sydney based manufacturer.
Speaker 2: So great that we have Australian manufacturing, but all seventy
Speaker 2: two buses need your back. Tes Howard Collins is the
Speaker 2: Transport for New South Wales Director General. Thanks for joining me, Howard,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Kinton, this sounds like a complete
Speaker 2: stuff up.
Speaker 16: Well, I think we've got to look at the industry
Speaker 16: and say, look, Custen Denning doing a great job. Our
Speaker 16: only real Australian manufacturer from ground upwards put their industry
Speaker 16: and chose a battery made in Europe. Unfortunately, this battery
Speaker 16: has proved very unreliable, so we have agreed with them
Speaker 16: we removed all seventy two.
Speaker 1: The good news.
Speaker 16: Though, is they have finally dealt with and agreed with
Speaker 16: the manufacturer of this battery to have a new type
Speaker 16: that's been sorted in the factory. Now they're probably a
Speaker 16: dozen vehicles being retrofitted. It takes a while for that
Speaker 16: to be done. There are vehicles already out and yes
Speaker 16: they're probably fifteen vehicles still waiting to be changed out.
Speaker 16: This can't be done overnight. It's not just a plug in.
Speaker 16: New battery goes in a bit like you know, you're
Speaker 16: your video recorder or something. Like that. It is really
Speaker 16: something which has got to be But are good on
Speaker 16: custom denning. You know, they're one of few Australian true
Speaker 16: Australian manufacturers. We are buying other vehicles from other states.
Speaker 16: We are We're not rushing this. We are behind the
Speaker 16: rest of the world. And to be honest, you know,
Speaker 16: every day I walk out the front door of Elizabeth Street,
Speaker 16: I hear the smooth quietness of dozens of electric buses.
Speaker 2: So those electric buses, how that you hear that are running?
Speaker 2: Where are they from? Are they're the ones from China?
Speaker 2: Are they from Europe?
Speaker 16: They are all sorts of different manufacturers. It is true
Speaker 16: that to get ourselves moving, this is a long journey,
Speaker 16: over a ten year program to replace four thousand vehicles.
Speaker 16: The first seventeen hundred are on their way, probably about
Speaker 16: three to five hundred a year. Some of them have
Speaker 16: direct manufacturing from abroad. But we are working with those
Speaker 16: manufacturers to gradually remove the content which comes from from
Speaker 16: other countries and set up fatteries to start to assemble
Speaker 16: and then manufacture custom denning. It's a bit like David
Speaker 16: versus Goliath. They have worked very hard to get an
Speaker 16: all Australian product apart from German gearboxes and what was
Speaker 16: a French battery. But that comes with what we call
Speaker 16: infant mortalities and challenges. You know, when other countries are
Speaker 16: building seventy seven thousand a year, they've had plenty of
Speaker 16: chance to get the reliability up. It's a bit like
Speaker 16: a Toyota, you know. They're the most reliable vehicles, I think,
Speaker 16: in the world because they've made millions of them.
Speaker 2: So the batteries were from France. These are the batteries
Speaker 2: that were installed in the seventy two buses, so they're
Speaker 2: now being replaced. My information from your stuff yesterday was
Speaker 2: that only two replacement buses are on the road.
Speaker 16: They're literally on the road with the companies. But what
Speaker 16: we're doing is there are dozens in the fattery at
Speaker 16: Custom Denning inside the sin Marri's alongside the Element to vehicles,
Speaker 16: which are the new version of this vehicle, which is
Speaker 16: a significant sort of improvement and certainly a lot of
Speaker 16: lessons learn. The issue we have here is the battery
Speaker 16: company and Custom Denning needed to have a great conversation
Speaker 16: about who's responsible, where's the warranty. That conversation took place
Speaker 16: it meant that for a while the vehicles had to
Speaker 16: sit in storage because we didn't want unreliable vehicles breaking down.
Speaker 16: But there again they needed to sort out with their supplier,
Speaker 16: who is accountable. That's now happened. New versions of the
Speaker 16: batteries are coming in, they're being supplied, they're in the
Speaker 16: factory and workers are changing those out.
Speaker 2: So when will the whole seventy two fleet be on
Speaker 2: the road?
Speaker 16: I reckon in the next few months we will see
Speaker 16: them all back in service. We are also introducing lots
Speaker 16: of other vehicles, the Element too's vehicles from other manufacturers,
Speaker 16: so we'll start to see more and more vehicles in
Speaker 16: Sydney starting to become electric.
Speaker 2: I've had drivers of these particular buses get in contact
Speaker 2: would be saying they were seriously concerned for the safety
Speaker 2: of the bus and the passages because they would stop
Speaker 2: at a set of traffic lights and the bus wouldn't
Speaker 2: start up again.
Speaker 16: I think there was that, and I think that's why
Speaker 16: we took the decision several months ago to say, look,
Speaker 16: we cannot accept this reliability issue and safety risks, so
Speaker 16: they were withdrawn from service. That hasn't put pressure on
Speaker 16: the bus companies because obviously they lost a lot of vehicles.
Speaker 16: But now the story is, and it's a clear story.
Speaker 16: They are less in storage, more in production. They've got
Speaker 16: a new battery fitted. We're going through a rigorous testing
Speaker 16: process before it gets to the bus operator and we've
Speaker 16: got good support from Custom Denny. It will take time.
Speaker 16: But like all brand new things which start from nothing,
Speaker 16: and sometimes you buy a component it doesn't work, you
Speaker 16: have to say, let's have.
Speaker 2: A different one, because you know, on the surface, I've
Speaker 2: got to say how and it just looks like to me.
Speaker 2: And I've been to that factory in some areas and
Speaker 2: it was announcement made by the previous coalition government, but
Speaker 2: it seems to me that there's so much rush to
Speaker 2: get electric vehicles on the roads. We're doing it before
Speaker 2: we're ready. And this was again confirmed by transporting yourself.
Speaker 2: I was a few months ago. We confirmed that diesel
Speaker 2: generators were being used to power it up the buses,
Speaker 2: which sort of defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
Speaker 2: Not all the buses, mind youself.
Speaker 16: Understand that, but look, the most important thing is we
Speaker 16: want to and this government wants to support local manufactory.
Speaker 16: But you're starting from a fledgling organization is working very
Speaker 16: hard to catch up. You know, we could have done,
Speaker 16: like many people do, you know, buy a load of
Speaker 16: off the shelf figure you know, entirely from another country
Speaker 16: which they made hundreds of thousands of vehicles. That is
Speaker 16: not the policy. We want to work through that. Yes,
Speaker 16: we've got to buy some imported vehicles, but over time
Speaker 16: we do see the opportunity for local manifest attering like
Speaker 16: it used to be where a lot of company's got
Speaker 16: involved in building great buses made in Australia, if not
Speaker 16: New South Wales. And that's what we're going to see
Speaker 16: over the next three to four years, seventeen hundred vehicles
Speaker 16: will be here. The other thing, Plon is not only
Speaker 16: as you say, buying the electric buses. We're opening our
Speaker 16: first major conversion of a bus electrification charging in Brookvale
Speaker 16: very soon. In the next couple of months. We're starting
Speaker 16: to see other bus depots being converted. It's a long
Speaker 16: game though, you can't do this overnight. This is like
Speaker 16: going from steam trains to diesel. It takes time.
Speaker 2: We've got to get it right though. Thank you, Howitt,
Speaker 2: thank you very much. Indeed, Howard Collins, who is the
Speaker 2: Transport for New South Wales Coordinator General. So there are
Speaker 2: the facts. All seventy two buses need new batteries, so
Speaker 2: they're in the factory at some areas at the moment.
Speaker 2: They're also being stored in storage facilities. There are depots
Speaker 2: not being used to them because they need new batteries.
Speaker 2: They ain't on the roads past four. Significant day for
Speaker 2: Virgin Australia. They've started their long tauted flight partnership with
Speaker 2: Qatar Airways. Now this will put more pressure on Quartus.
Speaker 2: It certainly steps up competition. Hopefully what it does for
Speaker 2: US is bring down some prices. So a daily Sydney
Speaker 2: Doha connection on Quitar planes is underway. That's now in service.
Speaker 2: That we followed by flights from Brisbane and Perth later
Speaker 2: in the month and then from Melbourne in December. Australia's
Speaker 2: second biggest airline has announced this is all underway. They
Speaker 2: have a what's called a wet lease arrangement, so Qatar
Speaker 2: provides aircraft and crew and maintenance to operate the roots,
Speaker 2: but they're then sold as Virgin flight. So you think
Speaker 2: you're buying well, you're on a Virgin website, you book
Speaker 2: yourself particularly you think you're jumping on a virgin plane.
Speaker 2: Probably not, It's probably a Quitar Airlines plane. What if
Speaker 2: you think about the merit of NAT, what the plan is,
Speaker 2: What hopefully happens is it puts pressure on the market
Speaker 2: as a whole and it brings down our prices. Mark
Speaker 2: Guy coming up after five point thirty. There is a
Speaker 2: lot of rugby league news today, particularly given that Mitchell
Speaker 2: Moses has been forced to pull out of the New
Speaker 2: South Wales State of Origin side. He has a calf
Speaker 2: injury suffered in the Blue Mountains the training camp. He's
Speaker 2: been replaced by Jerome Lewy. But this story broke breaking
Speaker 2: this afternoon. Sam Walker, who was meant to make a
Speaker 2: comeback to the Sydney Roosters, he's been out with an
Speaker 2: acl anterior cruciate ligament knee injury. He was to play
Speaker 2: against Newcastle on Saturday. He's been forced to pull out.
Speaker 2: So he's suffered a thumb injury. Apparently he's got a
Speaker 2: sore thumb. Actually it's a broken thumb and for a
Speaker 2: football who needs be able to catch the ball, that
Speaker 2: ain't great. So unfortunately Sam Walker has been ruled out
Speaker 2: of the Sydney Rooster's side to play Newcastle. It is
Speaker 2: hope that he won't be out for too long and
Speaker 2: certainly will be back in time for the Roosters to
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Speaker 9: Good afternoon. Clinton Police are treating the deaths of a
Speaker 9: man and woman on Sydney Northern Beaches as suspicious. The
Speaker 9: pair was found with lacerations inside a granny flat at Forestville,
Speaker 9: days after they were last seen by neighbors. Seventy two buses,
Speaker 9: which are part of the city's new electric fleet, already
Speaker 9: need new batteries. Transport for New South Wales says the
Speaker 9: vehicles are being retrofitted with better working batteries. An investigation
Speaker 9: has found no corruption in the federal government's controversial payout
Speaker 9: to former Liberal staff of Britney Higgins. Miss Higgins was
Speaker 9: paid two point four million dollars in compensation after alleging
Speaker 9: she was raped at Parliament House, and Disney and Universal
Speaker 9: have launched a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI image generator
Speaker 9: mid Journey for using images of its famous cartoon characters.
Speaker 9: It's the first major legal battle between Hollywood Studios and
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Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. If it's happening in your sitting,
Speaker 1: you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB.
Speaker 2: Sure to people are always the butt of all the jokes.
Speaker 4: What have my groom to be?
Speaker 1: Lord Farquat? What's he late?
Speaker 10: Well?
Speaker 1: Let me put it this way, Prince Alice, Men of
Speaker 1: far Quard stats are in short supply.
Speaker 17: Oh no, check, there are those who think little of him.
Speaker 2: From shit and now confirmation confirmation. A study at the
Speaker 2: ACU has confirmed short Man's syndrome is real. The study
Speaker 2: has findings showing that shorter men are more likely to
Speaker 2: exhibit feelings of jealousy, envy, and competitiveness than taller men.
Speaker 2: Psychological perceptions of heights significantly influence social dynamics and behaviors.
Speaker 2: While the study is revealed that shorter men are more
Speaker 2: likely to display jealousy and competitiveness than taller men, it's
Speaker 2: also revealed that men and women who are satisfied with
Speaker 2: their height are less likely to exhibit these qualities and
Speaker 2: be disconnected from how tall they are, so that is
Speaker 2: now proof based on a study that's been conducted at
Speaker 2: the ACU, the Australian Catholic Unity confirmation that short Man
Speaker 2: syndrome is actually real. The big political issue of the
Speaker 2: day has been the future of the Orcas pack with
Speaker 2: the UK and the United States, and in particular what
Speaker 2: happens with our submarine deal with the United States. It's
Speaker 2: formally under review by the Trump administration. Now, whether this
Speaker 2: is a surprise or not, you tell me. But confirmation
Speaker 2: today that the PM and the Prime Minister is traveling
Speaker 2: to the G seven conference. Confirmation today that he's actually
Speaker 2: yet to secure a formal sit down meeting with Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: So we had been given the indication that mister Albineasy
Speaker 2: would meet with mister Trump on what they call the
Speaker 2: sidelines of the conference and would have a one on
Speaker 2: one discussion with him, and he then had the opportunity
Speaker 2: to say, mister Trump, don't forget our submarines. Don't forget
Speaker 2: the submarines. Will'll be worth a lot of money to
Speaker 2: the United States. But it would help for the PM
Speaker 2: to actually be able to face mister Trump and say,
Speaker 2: I know we've got all the dramas of the tariffs
Speaker 2: you love our Hamburgers. Let's sort out the beef. But
Speaker 2: can we get this Orchest deal done? But confirmation now
Speaker 2: that as it stands right now a meeting is not
Speaker 2: actually locked in. Lots of text messages here about our
Speaker 2: electric buses. Mark says, you just have to look at
Speaker 2: the bus depet BROOKVA. You'll see they have a huge
Speaker 2: diesel generator operating there going green. It's a load of rubbish.
Speaker 2: Another Mark has contacted me. This is typical of manufacturing
Speaker 2: when it comes to governments. I've been in manufacturing for
Speaker 2: thirty years. Governs never make one as a prototype first
Speaker 2: and then test it and then modify it for it
Speaker 2: to keep on happening. And that's why we end up
Speaker 2: having some of these problems.
Speaker 1: On Sydney Now. You can't handle the truth the streets
Speaker 1: too well.
Speaker 2: As luck would have it, our straight shooter on a
Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon is none other than the former Transport lister
Speaker 2: David Elliott. And David Elliott was in the chair when
Speaker 2: these deals were done. So just to recap what's occurred here,
Speaker 2: we've had confirmation now from Howard Collins Transport from New
Speaker 2: South Wales that the seventy two buses that have been
Speaker 2: ordered from Custom Denning based in Saint Mary's have problems
Speaker 2: with their patricks. In fact, entire fleet to seventy two
Speaker 2: needs new batteries. Most of them are either being held
Speaker 2: in storage at the moment. There are two that have
Speaker 2: been repaired that are on the roads. The rest arey
Speaker 2: that at St. Mary is now being fitted with some
Speaker 2: a different type of battery. The others are up on blocks. Basically,
Speaker 2: you would not have been aware of these issues when
Speaker 2: you sign the deal.
Speaker 18: No clet I mean there's always a risk when you
Speaker 18: go into new technology like that. There's always a risk,
Speaker 18: whether it's government or the private sector.
Speaker 10: It's a shame.
Speaker 18: Custom Dennings when I dealt with them, were first class
Speaker 18: in Western Sydney. I was a little bit worried about
Speaker 18: economies of scale because compared to some of the other manufacturers,
Speaker 18: our order and their ability to meet our demands were
Speaker 18: somewhat limited. The idea of electric buses has its pros
Speaker 18: and cons. I was always in favor of it. You know,
Speaker 18: I'm thinking about an electric bus going down the Church Street. Paramatter,
Speaker 18: you'd prefer to have an electric bus and diesel coming
Speaker 18: into your pasta and your pizzas when you're having dinner
Speaker 18: al fresco there at Paramatus.
Speaker 2: That was a good idea. And see that's where I
Speaker 2: think if you put the issues of climate change just
Speaker 2: to one side, and I know you've got your opinions
Speaker 2: on that, but just put that to one side. I'm
Speaker 2: actually not opposed the idea of electric buses because diesel buses.
Speaker 2: I've had different views here from our listeners, but they
Speaker 2: can be spewing out that thick, toxic smoke and if
Speaker 2: you are around them, it's not exactly pleasant. The electric
Speaker 2: I've been on the electric buses, they're pleasant, They're quiet.
Speaker 2: And then in regards to charging, if you've got the
Speaker 2: charging infrastructure in place, because they run on a timetable,
Speaker 2: you should be able to develop a timetable whether it
Speaker 2: enything's not going to run out of power at some point.
Speaker 2: But it seems to me this transition is just it's
Speaker 2: not working.
Speaker 18: So and it depends on where you are. As I
Speaker 18: used to have a unity ticket with Matt Kean on
Speaker 18: some of these matters. I used to say to them,
Speaker 18: we should be good custodians of the earth, but let's
Speaker 18: not wreck the economy. And I think what we're seeing here.
Speaker 18: With the electric buses they had, they were great to
Speaker 18: travel in, they were very quiet, they were pleasant to
Speaker 18: be a passenger in. We've had hybrid cars at home
Speaker 18: and I hate them because I can never work out
Speaker 18: when Nichole is driving up the driveway and you know,
Speaker 18: when I have to put the cigar out and put
Speaker 18: the put the wine away, because you don't know that
Speaker 18: it's very quiet. But I think that we and and
Speaker 18: of course, you know, let's face it, solar panels have
Speaker 18: been good for the economy, good for families. But I
Speaker 18: also there's there's a sidebar to the story too. With
Speaker 18: electric buses, they're much heavier, and as I've said on
Speaker 18: this program before, you know, I worry the work that
Speaker 18: I do with the Institute of Public Works. I don't
Speaker 18: think people are prepared for what the damage they're going
Speaker 18: to do to the roads, particularly the electric buses. And
Speaker 18: of course I'm worried about all those wooden bridges that
Speaker 18: are around regional New South Wales. But there's still a
Speaker 18: few in the peri urban areas. So it's it is
Speaker 18: going to be a transition, and this is a hiccup.
Speaker 18: I'll tell you one thing though, If there was one
Speaker 18: person in this country that I would trust to be
Speaker 18: able to manage this through where that's Howard Collins. He
Speaker 18: was a second best appointment Gladys purroject Land ever made
Speaker 18: what was the first well modesty for.
Speaker 2: Biers, the police minister, the transfermittis. But just finally on
Speaker 2: this electric buses issue, and you mentioned the economies of scale,
Speaker 2: Gladys biogically and famously said, and I was standing there
Speaker 2: at the press conference when she said it. She said
Speaker 2: it out at Sydney Olympic Park during a COVID press
Speaker 2: conference when we were questioned about I think it was
Speaker 2: the local ferries at the time local transmit instructure. She did,
Speaker 2: We're not good at it and Labour's had a field
Speaker 2: day with that for years. But do you think maybe
Speaker 2: the Labor government now they have to manage this situation
Speaker 2: is realizing because they are bringing flat pack busses in
Speaker 2: from China that they have to be put together down
Speaker 2: in the era. Well she knows, you know, it's not
Speaker 2: eatually flat packed. They're fully completed buses. They're just having
Speaker 2: the open card readers put inside them. Are they now
Speaker 2: realizing it? It's all and good to say, Yet we
Speaker 2: want Australian manufacturing. It ain't that easy to do.
Speaker 18: We've all said it in opposition, you know, we've all
Speaker 18: been protecting us in opposition because we think that it's
Speaker 18: the best way of placating the electric But yep, Gladys
Speaker 18: was right, and she was penalized for saying the truth.
Speaker 18: And there are things that much better made overseas, just
Speaker 18: like there are things that are better made in Australia,
Speaker 18: particularly food stuffs and agriculture. And but yeah, you're right.
Speaker 18: I mean I think I think Chris Mins and John
Speaker 18: Graham are learning the hard way with this one.
Speaker 2: Yeahn three, I wouldn't mind you calls on this one
Speaker 2: if you've got an opinion on how we're dealing with
Speaker 2: issues with youth crime. It's been highlighted throughout the day
Speaker 2: a mother who is of the belief that her son
Speaker 2: actually needs some tough love by the cops.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 18: Well, I mean Clinton, I said this as police minister.
Speaker 18: I said, if my sons were over at risk of
Speaker 18: breaking the law, I would expect the police to search
Speaker 18: them because I would prefer them to be fined for
Speaker 18: having something illegal on them, then jailed for committing a crime.
Speaker 18: After the event, and I think what we've seen into
Speaker 18: the front page of the Telegraph today James Willis's story
Speaker 18: is the next step in that. I mean tough love
Speaker 18: is important. When I was corrected when I was Minister
Speaker 18: Responsible for Juvenile Justice, I said there are three things
Speaker 18: that a kid needs. They needed three square meals a day,
Speaker 18: a healthy diet, they need plenty of organized activities, and
Speaker 18: they need someone to love them enough to say no.
Speaker 18: And if you say no to a child, that means
Speaker 18: that you care for them, and they understand that they're parameters.
Speaker 18: And I think what this poor woman has said, and
Speaker 18: I'm told the kid is a really decent kid, he's
Speaker 18: good at school, but he's just in with the wrong crowd.
Speaker 18: And it does take a police officer. And Mick Fuller
Speaker 18: got criticized because he said, I think it's not a
Speaker 18: bad it's not a bad situation when kids fear the
Speaker 18: police because the risk of punishment is part of making
Speaker 18: sure our teenagers stay on the straight and narrow.
Speaker 2: If you're a view on that, send me a text
Speaker 2: message zero force e eight seven three seven three. Have
Speaker 2: you been in a situation when you've been bringing up
Speaker 2: your kids and you realize they maybe are going off
Speaker 2: the rails where you'd actually be grateful for some police action.
Speaker 2: Let us know, send me a text message zero force
Speaker 2: zero eight seven three eight seven three. David Elliott's with
Speaker 2: me our straight Shooter for a Thursday, just some messages
Speaker 2: on the sh of youth crime. Rich it as a suggestion,
Speaker 2: he says, why don't we change the legislation as it
Speaker 2: was in the nineteen sixties underage youth crime recidivism. They
Speaker 2: could be sent to farm camps, send them out bush.
Speaker 18: Maybe, yeah, and it's happened a lot, but unfortunately it
Speaker 18: can be pretty expensive and you'll have somebody coming and saying,
Speaker 18: of course, you know we've put them all in the army. Well,
Speaker 18: that's the last thing we need to do, because most
Speaker 18: of these kids, you don't want to tell a professional
Speaker 18: soldier that that you know their their their vocation is
Speaker 18: so disrespected that only the dregs of society can go
Speaker 18: to them. And if they if they want to be there,
Speaker 18: they they're going to. You're going to You're going to
Speaker 18: be a complete distraction. But I think there's no doubt
Speaker 18: that those organized activities that we used to put in
Speaker 18: for juvenile justice worked, and there were kids that you
Speaker 18: know would deliberately commit an offense the week before Christmas
Speaker 18: because they prefer to be in juvenile detention and be
Speaker 18: at home for Christmas. And I went out there a
Speaker 18: couple of times on Christmas Eve, and Nicole and I
Speaker 18: went up to one juvenile justice place on Christmas Eve
Speaker 18: and it was just so sad because you could tell
Speaker 18: these kids this was their safe place, was it, you know,
Speaker 18: the Central Case Juvenile Justice facility.
Speaker 2: Kel says in the text line look forget our kids. Personally,
Speaker 2: I was always scared, slash respected the police during my life.
Speaker 2: Otherwise I'm sure I would have pushed the limits.
Speaker 18: Yeah, and I mean it's it's a healthy thing for
Speaker 18: austraints to make sure that their police are you know,
Speaker 18: reflective of our values. And but yeah, that's what Mick
Speaker 18: Fuller said, you know, make sure that there's if there
Speaker 18: is not, there's nothing wrong with a little bit of fear.
Speaker 18: But on the flip side, that's why, you know, things
Speaker 18: like the blue light discos are always so good. That's
Speaker 18: why police Citizens Youth clubs. You and I used to
Speaker 18: call them police boys clubs, But that's why the police
Speaker 18: Citizens Youth clubs are all fantastic because they can give
Speaker 18: the children that direction. And you know, I'm a great
Speaker 18: believer of the it takes a village to raise a child.
Speaker 18: I haven't been the perfect father. Nobody has been a
Speaker 18: perfect father, but you know, I've always had friends and
Speaker 18: relatives and in laws and the like that have being
Speaker 18: there to assist me in raising my two boys. And
Speaker 18: the fact that they are where they are these days
Speaker 18: suggest that it was a good formula.
Speaker 2: Daniel Mookie will be one of my guests tomorrow on
Speaker 2: the program. The State's treasure will be talking about what's
Speaker 2: coming up in the budget. It's going to be handed
Speaker 2: down that mister Boki's going to hand down in a
Speaker 2: couple of weeks. But we'll also touch on the issue
Speaker 2: of workers' compensation. And even though you're from the other
Speaker 2: side of politics, you have some admiration for Daniel in
Speaker 2: this area.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: And I've seen Chris Mins and Daniel Mookie a couple
Speaker 18: of times in the last week as they sell their
Speaker 18: government's reforms, and I've got to say I'm very very
Speaker 18: impressed that they took on the unions in this way.
Speaker 18: I'm very concerned that the opposition want to play political
Speaker 18: football with it, and I've made my views cleared. A
Speaker 18: number of shadow ministers, Daniel Lookie and Chris Mins, are
Speaker 18: trying to stop the business world from having to cop
Speaker 18: up to thirty seven percent increase in workers' compensation premiums
Speaker 18: because I've just been roughted to the extent that I've got.
Speaker 18: There's one hotel that I'm aware of in Sydney and
Speaker 18: the CBD that's paying one point three million dollars in
Speaker 18: a premium just for workers compensation. That can't go on.
Speaker 18: We're all going to pay for it. You talk about inflation,
Speaker 18: this is inflation. And I'm very disappointed that the Coalition
Speaker 18: wants to play political football. I tell you why, Clinton,
Speaker 18: because in nineteen ninety nine, Peter Collins, as Opposition leader,
Speaker 18: told Bob Carr he would give him support to reform
Speaker 18: and privatize electricity. When Peter got rolled, the base of
Speaker 18: the Liberal Party thanked the Liberal Party for walking away
Speaker 18: from that policy by relieving them of twenty seats. By
Speaker 18: relieving them of twenty seats, so if we walk away
Speaker 18: from the business community here and Men's has done a
Speaker 18: great job in wedging the Liberal Party from the business community.
Speaker 18: On Tuesday, there was a breakfast three hundred business leaders
Speaker 18: were basically rapparable that the coalition was making them delay this.
Speaker 2: We've spoken about the LA rights throughout the week and
Speaker 2: the incidents that Australian journalists, including some who we regularly
Speaker 2: speak to on this program. Lawrence to Marsi, you've been
Speaker 2: at the center at you worked with the peacekeeping mission
Speaker 2: some years ago, but your job was actually the liaise
Speaker 2: with media.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 18: So my job, as when I was peacekeeping in Bogainville,
Speaker 18: was primarily to provide liaison civil authorities, but also to
Speaker 18: host journalists that came into the area of operations. So
Speaker 18: any journalists that came into Bogainville, that was my job
Speaker 18: to keep them safe. And I learned a very very
Speaker 18: important lesson there, and that is without journalists, we have
Speaker 18: no accountability. Can you imagine if there was no journalists
Speaker 18: on October seven, if there was no journalists in the Ukraine,
Speaker 18: if there were no journalists in LA. Now, setting aside
Speaker 18: the extreme views of what's going on in Los Angeles,
Speaker 18: there is a cause for concern in Western democracies when
Speaker 18: journalists get prohibited from doing their job. And it was
Speaker 18: a very important role in my mind when you're in
Speaker 18: the military and you're hosting the media because that's how
Speaker 18: the truth gets out, and there's nobody held accountable if
Speaker 18: there's no journalists.
Speaker 2: A good point. Just coinally, tomorrow, Telegraph, your column will
Speaker 2: be the best excuses we can use.
Speaker 18: Ben English must have been lied to for one one
Speaker 18: time too many last week, because he's tasked me with
Speaker 18: finding the best excuses I've ever heard, and excuses for
Speaker 18: having a little bit too much to drink, excuses for
Speaker 18: being home laid, excuses for having lipstick on your collar.
Speaker 18: There so nothing that you and I have ever been
Speaker 18: concerned about that, but I have heard others who got
Speaker 18: in trouble for that say yes, it's it's it's It's
Speaker 18: very much a handbook for suburban dads.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow, it's important. Best excuses.
Speaker 18: Excuses are like excuse they like tissues. You should only
Speaker 18: use them once.
Speaker 2: Doesn't work a second time around. He thanks David, Thank
Speaker 2: you Clinton. How straight shooter On a Thursday, David Elliott.
Speaker 1: On GV, this is sitting now.
Speaker 2: We've questioned me seven past five. There's been dramas on
Speaker 2: the roads, as they usually is at this time of
Speaker 2: the days. You've heard with Steve this afternoon. A car's
Speaker 2: on fire Hugh Motorway southbound the off ramp in the
Speaker 2: Reland Road in Campbelltown. We've just been speaking with Adam
Speaker 2: Newbury from Fine Rescue off air. He tells us that
Speaker 2: one truck is currently on the scene. The crews have
Speaker 2: now extinguished the fire, but it has spread to the grass.
Speaker 2: It looks like it looks like it's now been extinguished. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I'm just getting some information through at the moment. The
Speaker 2: grass fire is now out. Police are expected to be
Speaker 2: on the scene shortly because they've got to conduct some
Speaker 2: traffic management there. The TMC is also at the scene.
Speaker 2: Listeners have now told us off air the traffic is
Speaker 2: an absolute car park, so one of two southbound lanes
Speaker 2: remains closed. So it's the Hume southbound off ramped in
Speaker 2: the Relan Road in Campbelltown. Please take some care there.
Speaker 1: Sitney now with Clinton Maynard. If it's happening in your city,
Speaker 1: you'll hear it on Sydney Now to gb Well, you follow.
Speaker 2: This with Mark Levy this morning. The shooting just after
Speaker 2: nine o'clock in Maryland's and you'll see the vision on
Speaker 2: the news tonight. There was a home where gunmen have
Speaker 2: opened fire on it just after about quarter past nine
Speaker 2: this morning in Earl Street. There was no one in
Speaker 2: the house at the time. Short time later police have
Speaker 2: discovered a burnt out Porsche and it's suspected that vehicle
Speaker 2: was linked to the shooting. But the significant twist in
Speaker 2: this the house is home to the head of the
Speaker 2: Alameddine crime network. This is a man who's currently before
Speaker 2: the courts. He has charged with some very serious drug
Speaker 2: offenses and it turns out he wasn't home at the time.
Speaker 2: Why because he was actually driving to the paramounta local court,
Speaker 2: and he was making an application to the court about
Speaker 2: potentially being able to move house. Because when you're given bail,
Speaker 2: you are required to live at a particular event. It
Speaker 2: is address, it's spelled out in the documents, your bail documents. Well,
Speaker 2: this bloke didn't want to keep living there because he
Speaker 2: was worried about his safety. I spoke with Detective Superintendent
Speaker 2: Jason Box, who is the commander of the new Task
Speaker 2: Force Falcon about what occurred started the program.
Speaker 3: Porsche stopped out the front of those premises and a
Speaker 3: number of shots were fired into those premises. The vehicle
Speaker 3: was tracked to Chester Hill. It was burnt out. They've
Speaker 3: jumped into another vehicle being a Hyundai that was followed
Speaker 3: by poll Air and police stopped that went to stop
Speaker 3: that vehicle. The three occupants ran from the vehicle. They
Speaker 3: apprehended a short time later, and they're all in custody
Speaker 3: and there being spoke and every by investigators at this moment.
Speaker 2: So those three are still being interviewed at the moment.
Speaker 2: But I asked Jason about the Alamedan head hon show
Speaker 2: and the fact that he was on his way to
Speaker 2: court at the time.
Speaker 3: I can't comment who lives in that premises, but there
Speaker 3: was a bile variation sought by a member of the
Speaker 3: alamedin ACN occurring today.
Speaker 2: Well, that man was it would appear to be the
Speaker 2: target of this gangland shooting. And that's why Task Force
Speaker 2: Falcon has been formed because unfortunately, some of these crooks
Speaker 2: involved in this gang lan warre actually not very good
Speaker 2: at their jobs, and they have been known to get
Speaker 2: the wrong address. Sometimes they punch an address into their
Speaker 2: Sat nave into their iPhone, they don't get the right place,
Speaker 2: and they've been known to shoot up houses where their
Speaker 2: intended target actually isn't so this likely was the intended target,
Speaker 2: this boss of the Alabadin crime gang. Problem would be
Speaker 2: if they maybe get the wrong house and end up
Speaker 2: shooting somebody who's simply an innocent person sleeping in their
Speaker 2: bed at the time one through one, eight seven three.
Speaker 2: Now police have been at the scene of a home
Speaker 2: in Forestville throughout the day. You would have heard been
Speaker 2: discussed this this morning, the bodies of a man and
Speaker 2: woman found inside a grainy flat at a home in
Speaker 2: Cannons Parade, Forestville. Now, the bodies are still to be
Speaker 2: formally identified and police are still investigating exactly what's transpired here.
Speaker 2: The man is aged in his forties, the woman is
Speaker 2: a in his early fifties. Superintendent John Duncan hasn't ruled
Speaker 2: out the possibility of a murder suicide at.
Speaker 19: This point in time. It's still being processed. All I
Speaker 19: can say is there are two bodies in there. They
Speaker 19: have got lacerations to them. I can't give you any
Speaker 19: more details about what their cause of death thought, the
Speaker 19: level of injuries because it's still being processed by our
Speaker 19: crime scene and so at this point police are not
Speaker 19: revealing any further information. There is some speculation. The bodies
Speaker 19: may well have been that grainy flat for several weeks.
Speaker 1: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 1: now with Clinton Maynard on to gb in.
Speaker 2: Order the General's report has been released today into the
Speaker 2: way the government is managing poke machines in New South
Speaker 2: Wales and it's been quite critical. Now. The government came
Speaker 2: to power in twenty twenty three with an opposing view
Speaker 2: of how poke machines should be regulated to the Coalition.
Speaker 2: As you know, the former Premier Dominic Perrote wanted to
Speaker 2: introduce cashless gaming and the Labour Party is very much
Speaker 2: opposed to that. Well, the Order of the General has
Speaker 2: found that not in is being done effectively to monitor
Speaker 2: gambling and particularly to follow up problem gamblers. The Premier
Speaker 2: Chrismins though he has spoken about this today and he
Speaker 2: says the government is pursuing a range of measures.
Speaker 5: Everything from signs out the signage at the front of
Speaker 5: pubs and clubs having to be removed, to the introduction
Speaker 5: of problem gambling individuals on staff who are responsible for
Speaker 5: those that might be not gambling responsibly.
Speaker 2: I spoke with the greens Kate family earlier in the program.
Speaker 2: The opposition is also spoken about this today and they're
Speaker 2: all still pushing for a cashless gaming plan. Reality is
Speaker 2: that Labor Party is not interested in that. Twelve past
Speaker 2: five coming up, we're going to do a deep dive
Speaker 2: into the man being hailed as America's Mozart, Brian Wilson,
Speaker 2: who's passed away at the age of two thirteen past five.
Speaker 2: From the first to July, like many things, the price
Speaker 2: of your internet service could go up. Now we know
Speaker 2: insurance policies are going up, your energy bills will be
Speaker 2: going up. The likelihood is telecommunications costs are also going
Speaker 2: to rise. I wanted to check in with our partners
Speaker 2: at the NBN, and the NBN do advertise with us,
Speaker 2: but I wanted to have a look at what effect
Speaker 2: this price rise is going to have on you in
Speaker 2: the coming weeks and months. Jane McNamara is from NBN
Speaker 2: and joins us.
Speaker 1: Hello, Jane, good to be really.
Speaker 20: Clinton looked, like so.
Speaker 2: Many people in business and utilities and retailers, you are
Speaker 2: having to put some prices.
Speaker 20: Up on July one, That's right, So look from the
Speaker 20: first of July, there will be changes to the wholesale prices.
Speaker 20: That's the prices that NBN charge the phone and internet providers.
Speaker 20: And look, on average, those wholesale prices will be adjusted
Speaker 20: by just under the annual percentage change in the consumer
Speaker 20: pricing depths. So what that actually equates to is on
Speaker 20: our most popular residential plans across technologies and that fixed
Speaker 20: line network, that fiber technology base, the average wholesale price
Speaker 20: will increase between zero dollars and a dollar seventy one
Speaker 20: per month. And look, I think it's a good reminder
Speaker 20: that internet retailers set the retail price. So we charge
Speaker 20: the phone in internet providers the wholesale price, and then
Speaker 20: the internet retailers you know, charge you, me and our
Speaker 20: listeners a plan price depending on what plan you choose
Speaker 20: with them.
Speaker 2: And so it might have been that the retailer increases
Speaker 2: the price by more than that wholesale price will look
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Speaker 20: Quite possibly that's right, And so I think it's a
Speaker 20: really important reminder for our listeners that if they haven't
Speaker 20: already heard from their phone in internet provider, we know
Speaker 20: a lot of them have actually already communicated with their
Speaker 20: customers about you know, price changes. If you haven't, maybe
Speaker 20: checking with them and you know, I think always it's
Speaker 20: a good annual thing to do. Check what plan you're on.
Speaker 20: You know, are you still on the right plan? Do
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Speaker 20: depending on how much you know you need the NBN,
Speaker 20: how many connected devices you have, Chat to your phone
Speaker 20: an internet provider and ask the question which is the
Speaker 20: right plan?
Speaker 2: Which is important because you as the wholesale the NBA
Speaker 2: is the provider. You are releasing new technology and regularly
Speaker 2: you have Accelerate Great, which is being released I think
Speaker 2: in September, So then that would mean that there would
Speaker 2: be some changes to plans.
Speaker 20: Exactly right, And you know, do check in with your provider,
Speaker 20: you know today and say Accelerate Great, which we're launching
Speaker 20: on the fourteenth of September, where we're going to have
Speaker 20: you know, super fast speeds on the NBN, the fastest
Speaker 20: speeds that you know we've offered consumers and customers you know,
Speaker 20: we're going to provide that up to ten to so
Speaker 20: five to ten times faster than the plans that people
Speaker 20: are currently on. So we want to make sure people
Speaker 20: check in with their phone and internet provider to see
Speaker 20: how they can get one of those plans. And what
Speaker 20: they might need to do now to get ready for
Speaker 20: that come September fourteen.
Speaker 2: And should they consider bundling it with other services.
Speaker 20: I think that, you know, I think that's a great opportunity,
Speaker 20: you know, because lots of the phone and internet providers
Speaker 20: want your business. There's so much competition. There's more than
Speaker 20: one hundred and twenty fine in internet providers, so they're
Speaker 20: starting to do things, you know, to really peak our interest,
Speaker 20: bundling in entertainment services with you know, your mobile plan
Speaker 20: and then your home broadband plan. So it is a
Speaker 20: really good way to, you know, ask for a better deal,
Speaker 20: try and save some money, and maybe if your provider
Speaker 20: can't do that for you, have a look at what
Speaker 20: other providers are around and might best meet your needs
Speaker 20: and your budget.
Speaker 2: Shop around. Good advice. Thank you, Jane, Thanks so much,
Speaker 2: Jane mcdamara from NBN. Thanks to NBN. Look, they are
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Speaker 2: dot com dot you. But I wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: Jane today because there's been some stories in the papers
Speaker 2: you would have read this morning about all the various
Speaker 2: different services that are going up in price, and that
Speaker 2: does include Internet. So the wholesale Internet NBN charge is
Speaker 2: going to go up by up to a dollars seventy
Speaker 2: one per month. It'll then be up to your provider
Speaker 2: how they pass that on. The message is just shop
Speaker 2: around because you might then be able to find yourself
Speaker 2: a better deal. Coming up next, a deep dive into
Speaker 2: the Life of Brian Wilson twenty one past five. If
Speaker 2: you'd like to send text messages zero four six, zero
Speaker 2: eight seven three eighty seven three. Film makes the point
Speaker 2: on the Internet costs going up and NBN's ULSAE price
Speaker 2: will increase by up to a dollars seventy five. Phil says, well, yeah,
Speaker 2: op just will just add five dollars extra and that's
Speaker 2: where it's going to count. To shop around because there
Speaker 2: are so many different providers. I think there's actually something
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty providers on problem gambling and the
Speaker 2: report that's been realised by the Order of the General Today,
Speaker 2: one of our listeners says, I'm a social Pokey's user,
Speaker 2: but what I've also noticed in some place is that
Speaker 2: i can order a beer while I'm playing and they'll
Speaker 2: bring it to you and then they pay for it
Speaker 2: when they take your order. If this wasn't available, I'd
Speaker 2: actually have to get up and then go to the bar,
Speaker 2: and so then I might change my mind on still
Speaker 2: playing the Pokeys. So effectively they're almost encouraging me to
Speaker 2: play the Pokeys.
Speaker 11: Wesh sad news today.
Speaker 2: In the world of music, the passing of Brian Wilson,
Speaker 2: the genius behind the Beach Boys, eighty two years of age.
Speaker 2: His music shaped the sound of the sixties. He turned
Speaker 2: surf music into an art. He gave us absolute classics.
Speaker 1: She's getting a bargain.
Speaker 2: She's just an amazing composition and as I said at
Speaker 2: the start of the show, a song I rank in
Speaker 2: at least the top three of all.
Speaker 1: Time good.
Speaker 2: God Only Knows from pet Sounds. Paul McCartney once said,
Speaker 2: God Only Knows is one of the few songs that
Speaker 2: reduces him to tears every time he hears it. He
Speaker 2: called it one of the greatest songs ever written. Let's
Speaker 2: bring in doctor J. D. O Reagan. Now she's from
Speaker 2: the Sydney Conservatory of Music. Her PhD focused on the
Speaker 2: Beach Boys. She is an expert when it comes to
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson. Jadie, thanks for joining us.
Speaker 21: Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2: Jade. How do you feel today after hearing the news
Speaker 2: that Brian Wilson has died.
Speaker 21: Well, it's funny when you mentioned that quote about Paul McCartney.
Speaker 21: We've got only no sort of bringing him to tears.
Speaker 21: I was really feeling them just listening to that on
Speaker 21: the phone just before. But yeah, I mean, it's a
Speaker 21: really sad day, but it's also a really great day
Speaker 21: to celebrate his beautiful music and the fact that we
Speaker 21: had him in our lives for so long against such
Speaker 21: you know, strong odds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, God only knows. And you mentioned strong odds because
Speaker 2: he was a challenged man. He went through years of
Speaker 2: drug abuse, he lived at a hermit. At one point
Speaker 2: he and Lady's had dementia. But in the nineteen sixties,
Speaker 2: in his peak when he recorded Pet Sounds, what made
Speaker 2: that And you're an expert when it comes to this,
Speaker 2: what made Pets Sound so special?
Speaker 21: I mean, it's not such a huge question, and I
Speaker 21: think there's probably a lot of things that make that
Speaker 21: record particularly special and particularly resonant, because I think what
Speaker 21: Brian Wilson was uniquely able to do was to do
Speaker 21: things that were incredibly musically adventurous and playful, while also
Speaker 21: being very accessible and relatable. And so I think in
Speaker 21: Brian Wilson's music on pet Sounds, which is a kind
Speaker 21: of a concept album about sort of loss of innocence,
Speaker 21: it's him sort of farewelling the beach and then wondering
Speaker 21: what life may be like kind of as an adult,
Speaker 21: And I just think that's a very human experience, and
Speaker 21: the vulnerability on that record in particular, I think he's
Speaker 21: just so deeply resonant to many people, myself included, because.
Speaker 2: He went through struggles. As I mentioned, he had his
Speaker 2: drug addictions, he had mental health.
Speaker 21: Issues, Yeah, he really did, and he had a really
Speaker 21: difficult life, you know. You know, his home life was
Speaker 21: particularly difficult. He had quite an abusive father. He had
Speaker 21: suffered from anxiety and stage fright, which meant that he,
Speaker 21: you know, performing was really difficult. He tussled with record
Speaker 21: labels who didn't really understand his music. And yeah, and
Speaker 21: like addiction, mental health issues which were not treated at
Speaker 21: the time, weren't really understood at the time, and yet
Speaker 21: he still managed to do all of these beautiful songs. Yeah,
Speaker 21: it's remarkable.
Speaker 2: Jadie, what about his influence on other artists. So I
Speaker 2: mentioned what Paul McCartney said, but he had a significant
Speaker 2: influence on the Beatles in the mid sixties. Was also
Speaker 2: the Stones, the Rolling Stones.
Speaker 21: Yeah, totally. And I think I mean particularly the Beatles
Speaker 21: and the Beach Or had this kind of like a
Speaker 21: loving rivalry between each other, you know, like it's sort
Speaker 21: of rubber soul, you know, inspired Brian to get to
Speaker 21: pet sounds and pet sounds, you know, the Beatles to
Speaker 21: get to Sudge and Pepper, and they were sort of Yeah,
Speaker 21: there's mis sort of funny arms race of you know,
Speaker 21: expanding musical ideas and so but I mean so far
Speaker 21: beyond pop music, you know. That's like I'm sure you've
Speaker 21: seen today just the amount of the sheer amount of
Speaker 21: artists who have commented on his loss is just it's
Speaker 21: so it's so far from just nineteen sixties pop music.
Speaker 21: It's it's all music over the last six decade.
Speaker 2: Oh, We've had reaction from Keith Richards, from the Stones,
Speaker 2: Elton John, but this is the one that really made
Speaker 2: an impact on me. It's a social media post from
Speaker 2: Sean Lennon, Yoko and John's son, and it says anyone
Speaker 2: who knows me knows how heartbrockohom about bron Wilson's passing.
Speaker 2: Not many people influenced me as much as he did.
Speaker 2: I feel very lucky I was able to meet him
Speaker 2: spend time with him. He was always very kind of generous.
Speaker 2: And this is this is the quote he was our
Speaker 2: American Mozart, a kind of genius for another world.
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's really beautiful. It's a really beautiful quote. And
Speaker 21: I think one that that's heard quite a lot about
Speaker 21: Brian referred to as a genius or a Bootsart or
Speaker 21: like our beat Hoven. That's that's been thrown around two
Speaker 21: and yeah, and I think it's just because he had
Speaker 21: such ambition, such a musical ambition, but also again such relevance.
Speaker 2: Jadie, thank you so much for the chat. Just before
Speaker 2: you go, your favorite Beatles Beach Boys.
Speaker 21: Song, Look it's so tough. I mean, you mentioned God
Speaker 21: only knows, but wouldn't it be nice? Has a really
Speaker 21: special spot in my heart. I just think it's one
Speaker 21: of the most joyous songs about the future and how
Speaker 21: wonderful it can be. And so yeah, definitely favorite one today.
Speaker 2: It's a cunning song. Becky Jadis doctor j D. O Reagan.
Speaker 2: Now she has a doctorate in the Beach Boys in
Speaker 2: Brian Wilson. Wouldn't it be.
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Speaker 9: And Good Afternoon Clinton. Chris Dawson has lost his final
Speaker 9: attempt to overturn his conviction for murdering his wife Lynette.
Speaker 9: The High Court has refused him special leave to appeal
Speaker 9: after the new South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal last
Speaker 9: year upheld the guilty verdict. Three men who have been
Speaker 9: arrested after the home of an alleged crime boss was
Speaker 9: sprayed with bullets in Sydney's West. Police chase the alleged
Speaker 9: defenders three backyards in Yagoona after finding a burnt out
Speaker 9: getaway car. Australian women are bearing the burden of the
Speaker 9: country's cost of living crisis. Survey shows women are less
Speaker 9: confident in how prepared they are for retirement than men,
Speaker 9: and a young humpback whale has been freed from shark
Speaker 9: nets on the Gold Coast. SeaWorld crews performed a three
Speaker 9: hour rescue mission in Sport. Australia is hunting early wickets
Speaker 9: when Day two resumes in the World Test Championship final
Speaker 9: against South Africa in London. South Africa is four for
Speaker 9: forty three in their first innings, still trailing by one
Speaker 9: hundred and sixty nine runs. Clinton More news at six.
Speaker 2: Yan KKD fourteen degrees in the city, eleven degrees in
Speaker 2: the West at the moment.
Speaker 1: Finance update deab night tonight.
Speaker 2: With Money News, Good evening, dead cold Clinton. We say
Speaker 2: good evening at twenty seven minutes to six.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I rackon, it sounds a formal too good evening
Speaker 22: too Clinton.
Speaker 2: I think once the sun goes down there, once the
Speaker 2: sun goes down, it's colder than it has been. Yeah, evening,
Speaker 2: that's for sure. It's been cold. What's the share market
Speaker 2: doing this week?
Speaker 22: Well, it looked like we're on track for another record today,
Speaker 22: but fall through the afternoon, including right up to the
Speaker 22: closing bells, saw the SX two hundred lowse point three percent,
Speaker 22: down twenty seven points to eight thousand, five hundred and
Speaker 22: sixty five. And it's all to do yet again with
Speaker 22: Donald Trump and his tariffs, because he's said today that
Speaker 22: he intends to contact trading partners of the US Australia
Speaker 22: included with this July nine deadline fast approaching pretty much
Speaker 22: saying we're going to send letters out and you can
Speaker 22: take it or leave it with the deals, and that
Speaker 22: sent futures markets down. That sent our market down, even
Speaker 22: though things are looking pretty good for a trade deal.
Speaker 22: That happen between the US and China did put the
Speaker 22: jitters into the market again, but the trade talk it
Speaker 22: stopped the slump of the Aussie dollar. At least it's
Speaker 22: sitting steady around sixty five US.
Speaker 2: We've had two interest rate cuts so far. It means
Speaker 2: we're now feeling more upbeat about our budget.
Speaker 22: A little bit now. The latest Combank household spending data
Speaker 22: is out and we'll go into further detail on that
Speaker 22: on Money News tonight, but it's effectively showing some green
Speaker 22: shoots with spending. So households with mortgages have got a
Speaker 22: bit of extra money to splurge, which is happening on
Speaker 22: some of life luxuries, hospitality, seeing people eating out a
Speaker 22: little bit more. But the rate of spinning recovery is
Speaker 22: still slower than had been expected, so we're still not
Speaker 22: quite there. To Shirley Bassi hay big spender days, but
Speaker 22: we're seeing a little bit more of the purse strings
Speaker 22: opening up.
Speaker 10: Now.
Speaker 2: We don't offer investment advice on this program. No, you
Speaker 2: to see your financial crewary accounting for that. But the
Speaker 2: powerball is on the night and it's a big jackpot.
Speaker 22: Yes, and you if the odds of winning, let me
Speaker 22: put it this way, are not great because there's half
Speaker 22: of all adult Australians expected to get a ticket in
Speaker 22: this one.
Speaker 2: This is the one hundred million dollars, just as the.
Speaker 22: Biggest lottery prize being offered of the year one hundred
Speaker 22: million dollars. So that means you've got a one in
Speaker 22: one hundred and thirty four million chants of winning this thing.
Speaker 22: And only six people have ever won a powerball prize
Speaker 22: of over one hundred million dollars, so you'd be in
Speaker 22: rare company if you were to do it. And as
Speaker 22: they say, you've got to be in it to win it.
Speaker 22: And that may rules me out because I have not
Speaker 22: got myself a ticket.
Speaker 2: Now, I haven't bought a ticket ether so you did
Speaker 2: buy a ticket though, deb you win the one hundred million,
Speaker 2: what do you do do you quit?
Speaker 8: Your job.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, what.
Speaker 1: Are you crazy?
Speaker 22: I love I love the whole crips of like would
Speaker 22: you turn up to work?
Speaker 1: I would be.
Speaker 22: Out the door in a heartbeat. Get one hundred million dollars.
Speaker 2: I'll make this vow to you. If I win one
Speaker 2: hundred million dollars tonight, you would not.
Speaker 22: Be in tomorrow.
Speaker 2: I will be here tomorrow.
Speaker 22: Would not I would be disappointed.
Speaker 2: You'd be out.
Speaker 10: I will be here yourself.
Speaker 2: The program may slightly change to a three day week program.
Speaker 22: Yes, there would be changes that would be made.
Speaker 2: I'll be buying the Coronella Sharks. That's what I'm thinking about,
Speaker 2: old station.
Speaker 22: If you want a hundred million dollars, look out.
Speaker 2: Dev will be listening from seven o'clock to night. Thank you,
Speaker 2: deb night with Money News.
Speaker 1: You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tuned
Speaker 1: to sit me out with gw on to GBLY.
Speaker 2: I'll just go and buy the Sharks. Lots of messages
Speaker 2: here about the beach boys, Gary, says Brian Wilson. I
Speaker 2: agree with you. God only knows is right at the top.
Speaker 2: Good vibrations as well, not to mention in my room
Speaker 2: and Caroline. Brian Wilson musical genius. This email from Ian
Speaker 2: it was a privilege to see my favorite musicians, the
Speaker 2: Beach Boys, on four occasions. I sit in my lounger
Speaker 2: in thinking help me wander. Wouldn't it be nice, Barbaraan,
Speaker 2: you could join me in my room and help me
Speaker 2: keep Brian's memory alive and fresh. I don't like to
Speaker 2: wipe out the good vibrations the music. The concert's the
Speaker 2: wonderful group. God only knows the thrill they gave, and
Speaker 2: I wish I could do it again. What a legend.
Speaker 2: Thank you, mister Brian Wilson. We salute you.
Speaker 1: On Sydney. Now. A weather update will be here to
Speaker 1: help in unexpected weather. NRIM Insurance a help company.
Speaker 2: There is the risk of a shower or two developing
Speaker 2: this evening. Hopefully you can mostly drive cross most of
Speaker 2: the city fourteen degrees and the taste of the moment
Speaker 2: eleven degrees in the west Tomorrow. The forecast for Friday
Speaker 2: is for a shower all too with the top of
Speaker 2: sixteen degrees at this stage. On the weekend Saturday, the
Speaker 2: medium chances showers were seventeen. Sunday partly cloudy in eighteen
Speaker 2: but it should be dry Monday, sunny, nineteen.
Speaker 1: Degrees until six. This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard
Speaker 1: on two GBS. You call now one three one a
Speaker 1: seventy three.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what. There is so much Rugby
Speaker 2: League news this evening because the countdown to State of
Speaker 2: Origin is on and it's a disruptive preparation for the Blues.
Speaker 8: Hello Mark Guyer, Yeah, good morning, good morning, Good evening. Clinton.
Speaker 8: I'm thinking about that one hundred million dollars that you
Speaker 8: were just talking to with Devi and I'm just I'm
Speaker 8: off in Pixie Ay and thinking about what I'll do
Speaker 8: with it. But look, Mitch Moses. Devastating news for Mitch Moses,
Speaker 8: who was fantastic in Game one of the State of Origin.
Speaker 8: He's been ruled out of Origin two with a calf injury.
Speaker 8: About twenty minutes into today's field session, he felt something
Speaker 8: in his calf. Go confirmation is he'll be out of
Speaker 8: the game. Jerome Leui has been recalled to partners. He's Batman,
Speaker 8: He's Robin. They have a ninety percent winning percentage when
Speaker 8: they play alongside each other. Those Young Cleary, Nathan Cleary
Speaker 8: and Jerome lewis so unlucky for Mitch Moses. I really
Speaker 8: feel sad for him because he was so good in
Speaker 8: Game one, but opportunity beckons now for Jerome.
Speaker 2: Look, Mitch Moses is great last year as well, leading
Speaker 2: the team team to victory. But Jerome Leui was by
Speaker 2: his side last year in a winning combination, and I
Speaker 2: don't think he deserve to be dropped in the first place. Leui.
Speaker 8: Yeah, a lot of people for that, Quinton, you know,
Speaker 8: but I think Lourie Daily justified his selections. And because
Speaker 8: his kicking game in Game one, the both kicking game
Speaker 8: is unbelievable. Mitch Moses has probably got the best long
Speaker 8: kicking game in the game. He's the only player I
Speaker 8: think in the NURL who can kick a ball consistently
Speaker 8: sixty meters and there's not much of him. He like
Speaker 8: it for a guy who's probably seventy five eighty Kilosji
Speaker 8: gets hold of ball perfect time. But also in some other.
Speaker 16: News, Roosters fans block your ears.
Speaker 8: Sam Walker has broken his thumb at training, so he's
Speaker 8: come back from an ACL rupture, will now be put
Speaker 8: on ice for up to four to six weeks. Sam
Speaker 8: Walker has got way at least a month back on
Speaker 8: the foot.
Speaker 2: Bad news of Sam Walker. Now, MG, I've got a
Speaker 2: special guest with me in studio. It's a Dragons fan.
Speaker 2: It's a bloke who's wearing a dragon's jersey and a dragons.
Speaker 13: Thanks for the shout out yesterday suggesting that I was
Speaker 13: hanging around when they had ice boxes and no fridges.
Speaker 8: Yeah that was Clinton, mate, that was Clinton?
Speaker 2: Was I roll?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 2: Tonight the Dragons are playing the Sharks, which is why
Speaker 2: Stanley is wearing the dragons jersey.
Speaker 1: Very entertaining.
Speaker 13: So if you want to chune into night from eight o'clock,
Speaker 13: we're going to be going through the poking apart this
Speaker 13: whole issue of aucas and whether we should be going
Speaker 13: about all. This is going to be it's our news out,
Speaker 13: so it's actually quite heavy. We talk about all these
Speaker 13: heavy issues. You're going to be able to see whether
Speaker 13: somebody we know can do two things at once.
Speaker 2: What do you reckon? What do you reckon? Can he
Speaker 2: host a radio program and watch the Dragons at the
Speaker 2: same time?
Speaker 8: He's a multitask here is mister Stanley. We know that,
Speaker 8: and I want to ask John Stanley while we've got him, Johnny,
Speaker 8: what do you think of a guy. Okay, it's intervention.
Speaker 8: It's in an intervention time for mister Clinton Maynard, because
Speaker 8: we just heard that if you won one hundred million
Speaker 8: dollars to night in the lottery, he'd buy his beloved Sharks.
Speaker 8: But I put this to you, John Stanley, he's not
Speaker 8: going tonight. He's not even wearing his jersey in protest
Speaker 8: of his team's horror performance last week. Now I say
Speaker 8: to you, John Stanley, is he a true supporter of.
Speaker 2: The You're not, John, You're not going either. Of course,
Speaker 2: it's not you're not going working.
Speaker 11: He's working to take the day off.
Speaker 13: He's got a lot of an in your leave and
Speaker 13: you're the best part of that's going to be when
Speaker 13: I win one hundred million, and I will use some
Speaker 13: of the money to give it big upgrade to that
Speaker 13: oval there in the middle of our territory, because we'll
Speaker 13: just reclaim our territory like Taiwan will eventually. You know,
Speaker 13: that's what we'll reclaim our territory and we'll use. In fact,
Speaker 13: I don't think it's much good because it's too hard
Speaker 13: to get to.
Speaker 2: I'll bring you some news on that in the moment.
Speaker 2: Stick around, John, So for tonight's game. You're a real fan,
Speaker 2: and admittedly, MG, I'm not going to the game tonight, really,
Speaker 2: and that's because I was pretty upset after last weekend's
Speaker 2: game and I'm a little superstitious, so I reckon Given
Speaker 2: we lost with my presence there last week, I think
Speaker 2: I'm doing the right thing by the club and the
Speaker 2: team because I'm a true supported by not going tonight,
Speaker 2: and I will be watching it on nine. I think
Speaker 2: they can have a better chance of winning without me there.
Speaker 8: That's glass half four instead a glass half MV. Anyway,
Speaker 8: look at a couple of milestones. So no I Mosa
Speaker 8: Sui won fifty games. Brittan Agora won fifty games. Both
Speaker 8: these teams are coming off drubbings. Dragons got beaten fifty
Speaker 8: six to six by the Dolphins last week and the
Speaker 8: Sharkis got beaten forty to ten by the Wires. A
Speaker 8: young kid got tonight. Nick Zugranis will make his debout
Speaker 8: for the Dragons at centers, So doing your Nicky, you work, brother,
Speaker 8: But unfortunately for the Dragons and Johnny Stanley, I think
Speaker 8: that the Sharkings will prevail.
Speaker 2: I'm tipping the Sharks as well.
Speaker 13: MG, boy, it was one of the biggest jigxus in
Speaker 13: the building.
Speaker 2: Thank you MG boys, Mark Guy. You'll hear him on
Speaker 2: the Continuous Call team and across the weekend. Just while
Speaker 2: you're there, John, I want to play you this. So
Speaker 2: I was watching Freddy in the eighth this week, the
Speaker 2: program presented by Brad Fittler, Andrew Johns and Dannik and
Speaker 2: Mason on Channel nine and they had a special guest.
Speaker 2: They had the Premier of New South Wales, Chris Mins,
Speaker 2: and they decided to talk to the Premier about grounds
Speaker 2: in the southern part of Sydney and what's the future
Speaker 2: of namely Shark Park and Cogra Oval. This is Andrew
Speaker 2: John's with the Premier.
Speaker 23: Fell off the rest of the Shark Park, which isn't
Speaker 23: too much, but the big one is you saw that
Speaker 23: whole block at Cogra Oval, and then you build a
Speaker 23: boutique stadium at Brighton l Sands or maybe down at
Speaker 23: Waterfall or in the Shire somewhere.
Speaker 1: Well, and Freddi consorter, you'd have apartment blocks where Cogra
Speaker 1: and huge.
Speaker 23: Yeah, men, you're so for the rest of Shark Park.
Speaker 23: Then you have a little bootique stadium which is sort
Speaker 23: of towards Wollongong Waterfall there the National Park and then
Speaker 23: people from the Shire don't have to travel too far.
Speaker 23: You know what it's like from the Shire.
Speaker 1: They closed the gates. But if it's there, we've got
Speaker 1: the train line there. Ad that's true.
Speaker 16: What do you reckon?
Speaker 1: I like it, well, we would look at it. Probably.
Speaker 5: The big problem with the plan is the Dragons fans
Speaker 5: and the Sharks fairs don't don't tend to want to
Speaker 5: share a stadium.
Speaker 1: You know, the boss mate, you know the Boss.
Speaker 2: I don't get it either of So that was Joey
Speaker 2: John's idea to solve the housing crisis in Sydney because
Speaker 2: rose Hill fell over, still off Cogra Oval for apartments
Speaker 2: and still off Shark Park for apartments.
Speaker 13: It's council wol down the ground.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but as they point out, as they pointed out,
Speaker 2: Chris Means is the boss, now I was it.
Speaker 13: Means did not have but did not have the kahunas
Speaker 13: whatever we call them, to actually resume rose Hill and
Speaker 13: build the twenty five thousand. You know he could have
Speaker 13: done that and you know what, there wouldn't have been
Speaker 13: much of a backlash.
Speaker 2: Come on, you know that I was in.
Speaker 13: Some loud voices against it, but most people would have
Speaker 13: gone well done, good on you.
Speaker 2: I was in contact with the premiere very early this
Speaker 2: morning on this issue and he confirmed to me it
Speaker 2: is not his idea. I don't think he's a plan
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 13: I'm talking about Race Hill.
Speaker 2: He can still do it. That's not gonna happen that,
Speaker 2: thank you, John John Stanley. Tonight from eight o'clock while
Speaker 2: the Dragons and Sharks are playing on.
Speaker 1: Sydney now, a weather update will be here to help
Speaker 1: in unexpected weather. Insurance help come.
Speaker 2: Special war the report from Shark Park tonight because the
Speaker 2: plan to build apartments on Shark Park is not gonna happen.
Speaker 2: It won't happen with Cogre either. So I'm just looking
Speaker 2: at the Raidar at the moment. If you are going
Speaker 2: to go to the football night the Sharks and the Dragons,
Speaker 2: there's no rain currently over Shark Park. It's Quid's time.
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Speaker 2: One three one eight seven three is the number word
Speaker 2: on the street. Things A temper, a great night's sleep
Speaker 2: night after night. The difference is tamper thanks to the
Speaker 2: information Graham Grahame telling me that the M seven northbound
Speaker 2: is still really slow and that's all because of the
Speaker 2: exit from the M four. Now there were dramas earlier
Speaker 2: a little set further south around Campbelltown and the Reland Road,
Speaker 2: the Hume. There was a car fire on the southbound
Speaker 2: off ramped in the rail and road. Now the fire
Speaker 2: has been put out. There was also a grass fire
Speaker 2: as a result. That's all been extinguished, but the problem's
Speaker 2: been in the fly in effect. There's been some dramas
Speaker 2: on the M four and also some delays on the
Speaker 2: M seven. If you see something around Sydney we need
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Speaker 2: The longgoing train dispute between the government and the rail
Speaker 2: unions goes back before the Fair Work Commission. There is
Speaker 2: some quite confidence that hopefully tomorrow we're going to get
Speaker 2: a final result. So the ETU may well be directed
Speaker 2: tomorrow to have a vote of their members whether they'll
Speaker 2: vote in favor of the new deal that's been put
Speaker 2: forward by Sydney Trains at the other rail unionson now
Speaker 2: agreed to. So it'll be a hearing before Fair Work
Speaker 2: Commission tomorrow. I don't have any information about how the
Speaker 2: Commission will rule, but what the hope is and even
Speaker 2: the RTBU is hoping this is the case now, is
Speaker 2: that the ETU will be directed to put the deal
Speaker 2: to their members. They have about eight hundred old members,
Speaker 2: so they can vote on whether the payoffer from the
Speaker 2: new South Wales government will be accepted and then whether
Speaker 2: there'll be no industrial action for the foreseeable future. That's
Speaker 2: what we all want.
Speaker 1: Time to expose your minds. Do you may begin your
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Speaker 2: All right, Nicky's in Offred's point in the show. Hollr Nikki, Hi,
Speaker 2: how are you? You're not far from Bankstown Sports either,
Speaker 2: so hopefully you've got your thirty second starts?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 2: What color is the G in the word Google in
Speaker 2: the logo.
Speaker 20: Red?
Speaker 2: Now it's blue? David Warner plays which sport.
Speaker 1: Cricket?
Speaker 2: Correct? What country has the most natural lakes? Canada or
Speaker 2: the United States?
Speaker 20: Canada?
Speaker 2: Correct? True or false? And octopus has three halfs? Correct?
Speaker 2: What empire was ruled by Julius Caesar?
Speaker 16: Go for it?
Speaker 2: Nikki is.
Speaker 21: Announced it?
Speaker 2: It's not that one another one? You mean it was
Speaker 2: the Roman Empire? Look, you've done pretty well. Three all right, Danny,
Speaker 2: your turn. Your thirty second starts now. Which Australian city
Speaker 2: is known as the City of Churches.
Speaker 10: Adelaide?
Speaker 2: Correct? How many cents are in the dollar? One hundred correct?
Speaker 2: What country is hosting the twenty twenty six Winter Olympics
Speaker 2: La No, and that's the city Italy. What's the official
Speaker 2: language of Brazil? No, It's Portuguese. What is a common
Speaker 2: food that never spoils and also comes from bees honey? Correct? Okay,
Speaker 2: we've got to tie. It's three or the way this works,
Speaker 2: Nicky and Danny, I'm going to ask a question. If
Speaker 2: you've got the right answer, yell out your name. Whoever's
Speaker 2: name is yell old first can answer the question. Okay,
Speaker 2: The question is what kind of creature is a flying fox?
Speaker 20: A nikki?
Speaker 2: Nikki? What is a flying fox?
Speaker 12: Are?
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Speaker 2: Hawsy coming up with Weldwater Sports. What do you think
Speaker 2: of the plan from from Joey to solve the housing crisis?
Speaker 2: Sell off Shark parking cogra oval for apartments.
Speaker 17: Ah, it's a great idea, Joey talking Sands. Let's bulldoze
Speaker 17: shark pack naight, man, I wouldn't go down that path.
Speaker 17: Shark Park what a venue and it'll be well, will
Speaker 17: it be full tonight? I don't think it'll be a
Speaker 17: Look at Michael Darby's struggling.
Speaker 2: It's easy to fill up because you can only twelve
Speaker 2: and a half thousand people there.
Speaker 17: We'll see two battling teams at the moment, that's for sure.
Speaker 17: We're going to preview that game with Peter Psaltis from
Speaker 17: Network nine and wild Water Sports. We'll also look at
Speaker 17: Mitch Moses his withdrawal from the Blues. How many weeks
Speaker 17: are you going to miss for your power of Els?
Speaker 17: I've had text messages all afternoon Stanley, you're playing You're
Speaker 17: playing the Dragons in a Fortnite.
Speaker 2: He's very happy. Four weeks at best, he'll be back.
Speaker 17: Toby Bedford from The Giants will join us Aroon Titmus
Speaker 17: will preview all the swimming action tonight and Mark Allen
Speaker 17: will preview the US Open golf.
Speaker 2: Get on your hawsey, Adam Howes, why would have sports
Speaker 2: coming up after the six o'clock news, Dead night with
Speaker 2: money news, before John Stanley takes you through the evening.
Speaker 2: He will be watching the Dragons at the same time.
Speaker 2: Thank you for your company of the past couple of hours.
Speaker 2: That's Sydney now,