WEBVTT - Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard – Full Show June 24th 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:16.680 Onto the GV. This is sitting now with Clinton Maynard. 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:19.440 Tuesday, June twenty four, one three one eight seven three 0:00:19.560 --> 0:00:21.920 our number. It is Clinton Maynard here. A little over 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:24.919 an hour has now passed since the ceasefire between Israel 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.680 and Iran was meant to kick in. Donald Trump announced it. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:29.960 Of course, that will be phased in over twenty four hours. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.959 Two o'clock our time was the indication we were given. 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.960 The Iranians initially said that they hadn't entered into an agreement, 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.720 and then Iranian State TV would have been about an 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.080 hour and a half ago they said yes, the ceasefire 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.320 will take place, but were now receiving reports and these 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.639 are still unconfirmed around the world that there has been 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:51.479 a sixth round of missiles fired at Israel and that 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.720 those rounds have actually been fired post the ceasefire time. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.600 So we'll keep you up to date throughout the program 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:58.200 on that. A lot coming up from the show. We're 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:00.720 going to try and make some sense of today's date budget. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:02.560 There is a lot of focus on housing and the 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.960 billion dollar plan for the government to become Garran Tau 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.960 to encourage developers of big housing projects. But this has 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.039 jumped out at me and it's the future of the 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.560 sixty dollars toll cap and it's not promising more on 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.480 that in a moment. There's been a slow down in 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:19.920 the sale of electric vehicles despite there being more variety 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.920 on the market. Now they are cheap than they've ever been. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.600 Why a lot of it has to do with servicing. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.760 We're going to look at that. Holy Hughes joins me 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.440 in studio for straight Shooters today. She's now left Parliament. 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.240 I might have found something for her to do in retirement. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.720 Keep listening for that Mark guy with all the sport, 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:37.480 and I'm going to spin two GB's winter wheel. This 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.920 is the chance for you to win hundreds. In fact, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.160 this is the chance to win thousands. We have a 0:01:42.240 --> 0:01:44.600 very good record on this program of giving away a 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:46.319 lot of money. So you've got to keep listening for 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.120 me to spin the wheel a little later. You are 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.160 our eyes and ears when it's happening in Sydney. Now, 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:52.080 if you see something we need to know about, send 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:54.760 me a text message zero force zero eight seven three 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.720 eight seven three and then have you say one three 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:08.679 one eight seven three. Well in Sydney. Now, Merreton has 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.200 just put a statement out in regards the wild brawl 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.919 that took place at castle Hill. Now, Mark Leevey broke 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.080 the story this morning. Go to our website. If you 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.520 haven't seen this video two gb dot com and there 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:24.000 is video of it. Would be twenty thirty maybe even more. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:29.480 Tradees all dressed there in high viz fighting with each other. Well, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.680 Mereton has put out a statement because it was outside 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.000 a Mereton work site secton Avenue in Castle Hill, and 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:38.040 their statement says Mereton promotes safety and does not condone 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.080 any violent or threatening behavior on its job sites, whether employees, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.600 subcontractors or visitors. No direct Meriton employees were involved in 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.360 this incident that took place on the street outside the 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:52.160 Castle Hill construction site. Appropriately, the local police were called, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.600 who have since intervened, and we have ascertained there were 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:58.560 no serious injuries. Two people were treated by paramedics, but 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:02.440 Merriton says not seriously industries, the contractors involved in the 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.239 fight have been terminated immediately. I want to bring in 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:07.480 James Wilson from nine News. He's been on the scene 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:10.280 throughout the day. James, do we have any idea what 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:11.160 sparked all of this? 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.600 Good Clinton, Yeah, I popped my head down there a 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.160 few hours ago and spoke to a few of the 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.919 tradees who witnesses brawl, and you're right, this thing was huge. 0:03:18.960 --> 0:03:23.160 There were like twenty or thirty workers having a huge 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:26.839 go around seven am this morning on Sexton Avenue. Now, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.680 how did this brawl start. I'm hearing a few different things. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.320 One of the lines of inquiries that I've been told 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.600 is potentially a pay dispute. I know that it did 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.160 start between two people or two men originally when they 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:41.800 kicked off all their other colleagues and all the other 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.120 boys jumped in these I've been told that. 0:03:44.080 --> 0:03:45.320 These are the form workers. 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:48.040 So there are certain crew that works on this site 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.040 doing form work and as you just mentioned, they've all 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:55.040 now been blacklisted and booted off the site not to return. 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:56.920 I tell you who else is looking for them as well, 0:03:56.960 --> 0:03:59.560 Clinton the police. They all scattered and got out of 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.560 there before the cops rocked up, so some serious questions 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.240 to be asked of them. And yeah, there were two 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.760 people that were actually taken to hospital. And if you 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:09.680 look at this vision which you mentioned is on the 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:13.119 two GB website, one man gets booted in the head 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.400 with a steel cap boot and then other people are 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.760 getting bashed on the head with hard hats, crazy and 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:19.520 crazy stuff. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:21.760 Indeed, the video and you'll play it on nine years tonight, 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.520 you see some of these guys and the two men 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.880 that were injured forty three and fifty five year old. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.159 So a lot of these men are middle aged. And 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.159 there's one bloke he rips off his white hard hat 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.080 and he goes along, and then there's sumps another bloke 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:35.440 in their head who doesn't have a hard hat on, 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:37.479 and they're all wearing the high visit. I don't know 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.640 if this is an accurate description, James, but it looked 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.600 like on the surface it was fluo yellows versus flu 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:45.080 or orange. 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:48.320 Yeah, we're trying to figure out if that means anything. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.200 If any traders out there no different high viz means 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.560 anything on the job site, maybe they could point us 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.599 in the right direction. But certainly that line of inquiry 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:01.560 a potential pay dispute. Maybe that does divide this brawl 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.960 and bring in those numbers where you've got the workers 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.040 against management and all the rest of it. But of 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.240 course police need to ask questions. A lot of the 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.919 people down on that site talking to the cops, and 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.919 obviously those that dispersed are now being looked for. But 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:17.080 he's a serious charges and we're dealing with genuine assault 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.240 cases here and in the vision. It's clear that there 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:21.080 are a lot of people involved. So this isn't the 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:23.040 last we're going to hear this story, Clinton, This is 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.320 going to keep going for some days. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.479 We'll see your reports tonight on nine. Thank you, James. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:28.760 Thank you James Wilson from nine News. And have a 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:30.760 look at our website. Mark Leevey broke the story this 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.840 morning to GB dot com. You'll see the footage. We 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:36.640 often see footage of a few people involved in fights 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.760 and brawls. This is about twenty or thirty of them, 0:05:39.040 --> 0:05:41.719 and they're basically all dressed in the same clothes, but 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.279 some are in orange ivis, others in yellow. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.880 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.120 Now with Clinton May on. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.120 To GB twelve pass through. The state's treasurer Daniel Mookie 0:05:54.120 --> 0:05:56.720 has now handed down his third budget and it is 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.800 in deficit, which was fully expected. So the deficit for 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.599 this financial year is five point seven billion dollars. That's 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.919 a five billion dollar improvement since twenty twenty three. Twenty 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.720 twenty four, it forecasts the budget papers forecasts a surplus 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.240 by twenty seven to twenty eight of one point one 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.760 billion dollars. Now that's just a forecast, doesn't mean it 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 will happen. But there is a plan though to get 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.240 back in the black, which is encouraging. Key part of 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:25.760 this budget is a massive billion dollar housing plan and 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:27.839 this is something that hasn't been done, we're told in 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.719 this country before. Josh Bryan, our senior reporter, was in 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.479 the budget lock up today and has been following this 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:32.920 at Parliament. 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.120 Hello, Josh, good afternoon, Quinton. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.720 The billion dollar housing plan. So it's a guarantee the 0:06:37.760 --> 0:06:41.120 state governor is going to provide for some major projects. 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.080 How's this going to work? 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.480 Yes, that's right, the pre sale finance guarantee and as 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.360 you said, they're brooking it to something that's an Australia 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.800 first ever been done by a state government before. Essentially, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:55.960 what this means is, you know you'd see developers that 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.920 sell off the plan and they might have sold say 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.120 fifty percent of the properties, but if, for example, the 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:05.760 bank needed them to have sold eighty percent of the 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.440 properties before they'll give them the finance. So they can 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:12.440 start the construction right. The government's saying in these select circumstances, 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:17.360 they'll be strict criteria. They'll gain guarantee that thirty percent 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:20.640 say that they're missing, so that the bank will give 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:24.440 the finance. Work can start, and then the developer will 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.920 continue selling the homes and then if it gets to 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:32.480 a point where those homes aren't sold, then they can 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.400 call the guarantee. The government will purchase the dwellings at 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.280 a discount rate and they'll then either be sold from 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.120 there or turned into affordable or social housing. So essentially 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:46.440 it's just designed to I guess, speed up that gap 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.520 so that when these developments are underway they can get 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.400 the finance in quicker, which means starting the project quicker. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.000 Yeah, So it's to encourage more risk effectively by reducing 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.080 the risk of the developers. The other major plank of 0:07:58.120 --> 0:07:59.680 the budget, and there's a lot of detail obviously in 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:01.720 the budge that's going to cover a lot of areas 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.960 of government work. But the other big highlight is one 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:08.880 point two billion dollars on a child protection package and 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:12.040 this is to increase the number of staff who work 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.040 in this area. It's a very sensitive area of government 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:18.280 but in particular to ensure that kids who may need 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:21.720 foster care, children who have been left behind by the 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.720 system are not living unbelievably this happens, are not living 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:27.520 and kept in hotel and motel rooms. 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:28.760 Yeah. 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.760 Absolutely, and this is something the state government has said 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.679 that you know, as soon as they took off that 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:38.319 sort of emergency care inner motel or similar with something, 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:43.680 they well, they say they have now effectively no longer 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.080 that no longer happens due to reforms that have been made. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:49.280 But then this funding one point two billion dollars, a 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.280 large proportion of that to go towards reforming the out 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.240 of home care system. There's also close to two hundred 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:59.360 million dollars to recruit new case workers. And as you 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.440 touched on foster cares as well, for the first time 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.160 in twenty years, they're going to get a major increase 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.800 to the foster care allowance, going up by twenty percent, 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.640 so a not insignificant increase, particularly given how long it's 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.520 been since that allowance has increased, So hopefully making it 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.480 easier for those people who do make that decision to 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.720 be foster care as they have a little bit more 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:24.240 financial support when they do. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.920 Yeah, We certainly can't have kids living in motel rooms. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:28.880 Josh will be covering this right throughout the program. Thank 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:32.319 you for your information. Thanks Clinton OW Senior reporter Josh Bryant, 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.520 who was in the lock up this morning one three 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:38.040 one eight seventy three. I'm getting some feedback about what 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.440 occurred on outside this Merriton building site in Castle Hill. 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.440 I'll come to that in a moment. But the unfolding 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.160 situation in the Middle East, Okay, So the latest information 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:50.960 we had was that Israeli Israeli State had agreed to 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.199 the ceasefire, and then Iranian state television had announced, and 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.640 this was several hours later, that they'd also agreed to 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:00.200 the ceasefire, after initially saying that they hadn't if that 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:02.719 was supposed to kick in now more than an hour 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.320 ago two o'clock our time. Since then, there have been 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:08.880 reports of more air strikes that have been launched, more 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:13.480 missile strikes from the Iranians. Now there's no confirmation at 0:10:13.520 --> 0:10:18.040 the moment of damage caused by those strikes. The Israeli 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:21.760 Defense Force released on social media. This was after the ceasefire. 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.079 They released a message sirens are sounding in Israel due 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:29.520 to a missile launch from Iran, so the Israelis were 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:33.880 expecting this to occur. So we don't have confirmation yet 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.800 that the ceasefire on the twelfth day of this war 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:40.480 has actually taken hold. Anthony Abernezi, the Prime Minister, has 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:42.520 been asked about the ceasefire on Sky today. 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.480 What we want to see is the ceasefire announced by 0:10:46.640 --> 0:10:52.040 President Trump implemented. We think that we do want to 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:57.199 see dialogue and diplomacy replace any escalation. 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:00.720 I somehow suspect the Iranians and these rallies won't be 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.520 listening too closely with what Albo has to say. Nevertheless, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.840 that was his statement today to Sky News. Should there 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.120 be developments over the coming hours, will certainly bring those 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.120 to you plenty coming up on the program today, I'd 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.839 like to hear from you a number one three one 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:14.880 eight seven three. This is Sydney now, twenty one degrees 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:18.280 in Sydney, in Bankstown, twenty two degrees, lovely afternoon. The 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:21.680 judge in the mushroom murder trial in Victoria is spending 0:11:21.720 --> 0:11:26.200 the afternoon instructing jurors. So at the moment, Justice Christopher 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:30.200 Biale is going through the case but also highlighting various 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.080 aspects that the jurors need to take care with during 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:36.840 their deliberations. Of course, Aaron Patterson is being tried on 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.840 three counts of murder and one count of attempt to murder. 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.160 She is pleading not guilty. Now the judge has told 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:47.000 the jury that this is not their responsibility and not 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:51.199 his responsibility to decide the verdict. The verdict must be unanimous. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.640 They're the only ones who've been in the court the 0:11:53.679 --> 0:11:56.040 whole time who can make a decision on the facts. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:58.520 He says. The jury must make a decision solely on 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:02.960 evidence and ignore feelings of prejudice. This is probably going 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.480 to be the most anticipated court decision this year. If 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.200 you have a look at podcast download numbers right around 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:11.720 the country with podcasts that have been produced on this 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:14.240 particular case, they are through the roof. There is so 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:19.280 much interest. Of course, she claims that no, this was 0:12:19.320 --> 0:12:23.240 completely an accident, that yes, she cooked the mushrooms, but 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.240 she was not responsible for the deaths of her loved 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:30.080 ones and the others involved in this case will continue 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.000 to watch that with interest. 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:34.280 Sittney, Now on. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.000 To twenty three past three. Now, I'm getting some messages 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.880 that are being sent to me about what's occurred at 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:43.319 Cartelehill today. The video that Mark Leevy broke this morning 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.720 and you can see it on our website, that shows twenty, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.480 maybe upwards of thirty construction workers involved in this wild 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.199 brawl from one of our listeners, and this is all 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:53.920 subject now to a police investigation about what sparked it. 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.800 One of our listeners says, I do have information about this. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.600 The fight had to do with two crews of form work. 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.800 There was one crew mostly made up of trades people 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:08.000 of Middle Eastern descent and a supervisor. The other crew 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.880 is made up of Islanders. Now you can see in 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.560 the video it does appear to be a fight between 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.440 trades people of Middle Eastern descent, and there's trades people 0:13:15.440 --> 0:13:19.600 have a descent there as well. An argument kicked off 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.800 between the form work supervisor and the boss of the 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.560 other group who haven't been paid, and James Wilson, our 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.800 reporter from night had indicated that there are issues here 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:30.560 about payment. The rest then joined in to back each 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.880 other up. The actual Fluo colors themselves don't have anything 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.160 to do with it now, Max is a trade might 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:37.920 have a bit of information about this, so I Max, 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:39.240 Hey mate. 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:39.880 How are you cleaning that good? 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:40.199 Max? 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.560 Yeah, there's no color codes for the shirts mates, just 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.240 whatever company you work for. Like I'm a plumb on 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:51.240 myself and we have to wear orange and blue. But 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.520 there is a color code with the helmets. I'd say 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:58.920 it's all the difference with safety officers, yeah and so on. 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.840 So yeah, with the shirts, mate, it's just whatever the 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:02.840 company policy is. 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:05.360 It looks to me like though, that you've got one 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.000 group who's wearing orange, the other group's wearing yellow, So 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.720 they would be these two different form work contractors. Mostly 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:15.680 via the video, they're all using the white helmets. Max, 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:17.160 What did the white helmets signify? 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.120 That's just the standard helmet to come on to a 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:21.080 construction site. 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.520 Okay, okay, hey, thanks to that information. Max. If you 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.360 know anything more about what's occurred at Castle Hill, let 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.160 us know one three, one eight seven three. When the 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:31.240 Labor Party campaigned at the last stut election twenty twenty three, 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.320 central to their campaign was their promise, if they were 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:38.800 elected they would reduce the burden of tolls motorway tolls 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:42.160 on US Sydney's drivers, that they would make tolls fairer. 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:44.320 They've now been in power for more than two years, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.560 two and a half years now, and what's changed with 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.040 toll raids? Just have a think about it. They've increased 0:14:50.080 --> 0:14:53.160 the toll on the Sydney Harbor Bridge twice, hadn't been 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.880 increased for years, and of course we paid it off 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:58.240 years ago. What else did they do? They introduced the 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.600 sixty dollars a week toll cap, so dollar that you 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.880 spend on a motorway toll over the course of a 0:15:02.920 --> 0:15:05.400 week above sixty dollars, you're entitled to a refund. You've 0:15:05.400 --> 0:15:07.360 got to put an application in and it's worth tens 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:10.240 of millions of dollars. And when I've reminded listeners about 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.640 you can do it every three months. When I've reminded 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:14.640 you to do it, I've had people get in contact 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.360 with me telling me they didn't realize and they've been 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.240 owed thousands of dollars and they've had refunds worth thousands. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:19.560 Great. 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.960 Well, the budget that's been handed down today, guess what, 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.440 there is no money, none whatsoever for the sixty dollars 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.520 toll cap to continue past the end of this calendar year. Now. 0:15:31.520 --> 0:15:34.680 It was only meant to be temporary, but that was 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.320 on the basis of a complete overhaul the way tolls 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:42.000 are charged in Sydney, a fairer system. What's happening at 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.560 the moment is there are negotiations going on between the 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.560 government and Transurban and the fact that we're not hearing 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:51.960 anything about this issue and now quietly in the budget 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.840 funding for the sixty dollars cap is not continuing. That 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.640 raises my suspicion. That raises my suspicions. The negotiations between 0:15:59.680 --> 0:16:02.400 the state government and Transurban aren't going too well. And 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.000 you can't actually blame Transurban here. They have contracts that 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:08.360 last for decades to run Sydney's toll network and they're 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:10.160 not going to accept less revenue. They're not going to 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.400 accept less money, and to be honest, nor should they. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.360 They entered those contracts in good faith. But the government 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:19.000 also went to the election promising to help us the 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:22.840 drivers by having a fair assystem by reducing the load. 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.880 And what's happened well, other than the sixty dollars toll 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.800 cap and two increases on the Harbor Bridge, there's been 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:32.240 no change. And now the budget today confirms the sixty 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:35.120 dollars toll cap will not continue beyond this. Beyond this year, 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.440 and the initial plan was until the end of twenty 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.200 twenty five. Fine, but that was going to be on 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.840 the basis of major reforms to the rest of the 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:46.200 toll network and it hasn't happened yet. Alan Fels has 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.640 completed a very detailed report and made recommendations and there 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:53.440 are negotiations going on behind the scenes right now with Transurbent, 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.520 but at the moment we have no details about what's 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.680 going to happen. And given the toll cap ends now 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.960 thirty one December, there should be a system in place 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.560 on the first of January where it completely changes the 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.800 way you pay tolls on the road. And what are 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:11.720 we hearing from the government silence, crickets, nothing. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.600 Sydney. Now on to GV. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.359 They always an explanation and it needs to come now 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:20.840 in the next month or so because we're now heading 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:22.760 into the back half of the year, so we need 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:24.600 to know how we're going to be paying for tolls 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.200 into the future. I should point out in the budget 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.960 it does say that toll revenue will increase from one 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:33.320 hundred and fifty nine million dollars to two hundred and 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.920 eighty three million dollars. That would be the extra money 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.439 there generating on the Harbor Bridge and the Harbor Tunnel. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:41.359 Would you be willing to pay three thousand dollars to 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:46.320 see Julia Gillard as a hologram alongside Hillary Clinton. There's 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.000 a big summit coming up, and you, if you've got 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:51.040 that sort of money to spend, you could actually spend 0:17:51.080 --> 0:17:54.199 that on a Julia Gillard hologram speech. Peter Ford'll have 0:17:54.200 --> 0:18:00.639 all the details shortly. Let's check out news headlines. Good afternoon, 0:18:00.720 --> 0:18:01.360 thirty four. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.760 Good afternoon. Clinton workers involved in a fight on a 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:08.280 building site at Castle Hill have had their contracts terminated. 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.359 Merriton says none of its staff was involved in the 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:14.639 early morning brawl. That action has been taken against the 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.960 contractors who took part. The IDF Szaran has launched another 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:22.880 missile attack on Israel despite his ceasepire coming into effect. 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.440 It's now the sixth wave of missile's launch today. More 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:28.920 than five and a half billion dollars who's been set 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.600 aside in the state budget for road projects in Sydney's West. 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.639 The Menion's Government's third financial blueprint includes funding for the 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:40.560 fifteenth Avenue upgrade between Liverpool and the New Western Sydney 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:44.640 Airport and Mona Vaiale Road West and the E Safety Commissioner, 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.320 who has raised concerns about YouTube's exemption from the planned 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.639 Under sixteen social media ban, arguing forty percent of Australian 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.520 children have been exposed to harmful content on the website. 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.359 In Sport, former Melbourne storminger Marcus Buyer has been named 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:02.879 on the inaugural board for the NRL's new pup When 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.639 You're Guinea franchise born and raised MPNG buy one a 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.280 premiership with the Storm in nineteen ninety nine, Clinton warning 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:11.240 us four. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.160 Thanking Coaty twenty one degrees in the city, twenty one 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.399 degrees in Penrith at the moment on the emails, if 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.080 you'd like to send an email, go to our website 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:20.239 to gb dot com. On tolls, Michael says, what you 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.200 need to do if you can't beat them, join them 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:27.200 when it comes to paying tolls. Transurban. I bought Transurban 0:19:27.320 --> 0:19:30.280 shares and they've gone up in value substantially. Now we're 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:32.560 not providing any financial advice, but it's the same time 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:34.480 when we complain about bank fees, one of the best 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:36.919 ways of dealing with that is actually buy some bank shares. 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.240 Steve on the text line says, why do my taxes 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.600 have to go to pay someone's tolls. I don't want 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.480 to pay the toll and don't use the toll ride. 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:45.600 Living in an area and having to use tolls is 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:49.040 a lifestyle choice. Well, if you live in Penrith, Steve, 0:19:49.160 --> 0:19:51.240 and you work in the city and you have to 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.760 use the M four every day and then the West connects, 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:56.480 you're paying an absolute fortune. Now that might not be 0:19:56.480 --> 0:19:58.280 a lifestyle choice. You might not be able to find 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:01.560 work that's actually closer to Penrith. Chris is asking the 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.119 question regarding the budget. Has the state government received their 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.919 one hundred and five million dollars from the Queensland government 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.640 for their COVID hotel stays revenue? New South Wales should 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:12.600 be involved. Treat it like a big parking fine. No, 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.080 they've not been paid back the money. 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.360 If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney 0:20:17.400 --> 0:20:19.400 Now with Clinton Maynard. 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.520 Until said there's going to be a significant federal court 0:20:21.560 --> 0:20:25.399 decision announced tomorrow, a decision made on Antoinette Latouf and 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.719 her issues with the ABC. Peter Ford, we cross all 0:20:28.720 --> 0:20:29.360 the details, Hi. 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:32.840 Peter, Yes, Clinton Finally it's coming to her head tomorrow 0:20:32.920 --> 0:20:35.800 morning at about ten o'clock in the morning. Obviously Mark 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.359 Wiby across it on this station as it happens. But 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:40.600 it's going to be interesting because it's gone on for 0:20:40.640 --> 0:20:43.320 a long time. Now, long story short, This is the 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:45.919 story of Antoinette Latouf who, as a journalist, she was 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:50.439 employed on a one week casual engagement to work on 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:53.320 ABC Radio. She only got to do three days and 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.919 her services were terminated because of tweeting and retweeting that 0:20:58.000 --> 0:21:01.159 she'd done on the issue of gars. Now, there was 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:04.399 great outrage about how she was treated, certainly from her 0:21:04.440 --> 0:21:07.239 point of view there was, and eventually, of course what 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:11.000 we have seen is the inner workings of ABC management 0:21:11.119 --> 0:21:14.440 exposed and what has gone on, and some will say 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:18.199 that she was treated very unfairly. Now it is in 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.800 many ways it's quite odd that this pretty simple thing 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:24.080 of a casual one week contract has ended up in 0:21:24.119 --> 0:21:27.440 this major kind of case which will to a large 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.919 degree determine the rights and the responsibilities of employees in 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.760 the media. And certainly, if you are employed on a 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:39.040 casual basis, what you are entitled to do or not do, 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.879 what are your freedoms? And what are your responsibilities? And 0:21:43.040 --> 0:21:47.000 is retweeting something endorsing it? All of those questions have 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:50.040 been a part of this story. So tomorrow morning we'll 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:52.560 get some sort of answer. Now, the union which covers 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.080 journalists who work in the media is MEBA, and they've 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:58.800 asked their members to turn up at nine point thirty 0:21:58.800 --> 0:22:01.719 in the morning at the Federal Court in Phillips Street 0:22:01.760 --> 0:22:05.399 to cheer Antelette as she walks in to face that 0:22:05.720 --> 0:22:06.960 judgment being handed down. 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.360 What is the chances and once the judgment's handed down, 0:22:09.400 --> 0:22:12.119 once the legal proceedings are done with that, another media 0:22:12.200 --> 0:22:14.360 company is ever going to employ her? 0:22:14.840 --> 0:22:15.199 Yeah. 0:22:15.320 --> 0:22:17.600 I think she always knew that was the risk that 0:22:17.680 --> 0:22:20.679 she was taking, but I think she felt that she 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:23.960 didn't have a choice. She had to pursue this. You know, 0:22:24.119 --> 0:22:26.880 many people say she's wanted to be a martyr. Let's 0:22:26.920 --> 0:22:29.800 see how it all plays out. But it is quite 0:22:29.800 --> 0:22:33.040 a fascinating case, and you know, I wish her well. 0:22:33.080 --> 0:22:36.040 She's actually a very talented journalist. But you're right, she's 0:22:36.119 --> 0:22:38.960 kind of got herself into this situation now where she 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:42.160 may have become untouchable for mainstream media employment. 0:22:42.240 --> 0:22:44.080 Now, plead if I save up all my pennies over 0:22:44.119 --> 0:22:46.000 the next couple of months, and I put together three 0:22:46.000 --> 0:22:48.720 thousand dollars, will it be worth my time to hand 0:22:48.760 --> 0:22:51.080 over that check to go and see Julie Gillard as 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:52.080 a hologram? 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:54.960 I wouldn't have thought so, nor would I, but I 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:57.200 don't think they want either of us. This is very 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:00.520 much a summit meeting which is being held for women. 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.960 It's the Women Unlimited Leadership Summit, and it's being held 0:23:05.000 --> 0:23:08.200 the end of September at the High Regency Hotel in 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:12.000 Sussex Street, and it is a very expensive event to 0:23:12.040 --> 0:23:14.760 go to, a two day official event and then some 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:19.520 post seminars about it all various speakers involved. The two 0:23:19.880 --> 0:23:23.200 high profile ones or three high profile ones actually are 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:28.480 Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard and Lee Sales. Now in Sydney, 0:23:28.560 --> 0:23:31.080 at least if you are going and you are forking 0:23:31.119 --> 0:23:35.119 out that approximately three thousand dollars, you will get to 0:23:35.160 --> 0:23:39.159 actually hear and see Hillary Clinton in the flesh. But 0:23:39.320 --> 0:23:41.960 in the other parts of Australia she's not going to 0:23:41.960 --> 0:23:44.560 be there at all. Now, Julia Gillard is not going 0:23:44.560 --> 0:23:47.040 to be there anywhere. She is going to be there 0:23:47.080 --> 0:23:49.760 as a hologram. Now, don't ask me because I don't. 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:50.920 Know how that works. 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.280 Well, I know is about the Abba Holograms in London, 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:56.679 but she's not going to be there. Lee Sales is 0:23:56.720 --> 0:23:59.080 not going to be on in every city where the 0:23:59.200 --> 0:24:02.960 Leadership Summit being held. So look, it's it's I'm sure 0:24:02.960 --> 0:24:06.560 it's going to be very much about empowerment to networking 0:24:06.560 --> 0:24:08.960 and I'm sure there's going to be great tips. But Gie, 0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.280 you'd have to be traveling pretty nicely anyway to have 0:24:11.359 --> 0:24:13.520 the three thousand dollars to hand over to go to it. 0:24:13.880 --> 0:24:15.359 I'm not a massive Abba fan, but I think I 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:17.000 prefer to spend the money on Abba in. 0:24:16.880 --> 0:24:18.120 The Holograms exactly. 0:24:18.200 --> 0:24:20.679 Yeah, you can on your Pedib'll talk tomorrow, thanks, Quentin. 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:30.199 Peter Ford. Well, the prices have now been released for 0:24:30.200 --> 0:24:33.200 ac DC's tour, so these tickets will go on sale 0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:36.760 on Thursday for their show in Sydney which is in November. 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:40.280 And look, it's not cheap, but it probably could have 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.280 been a lot more expensive. You can buy b reserve 0:24:43.359 --> 0:24:45.359 seating for the ac DC show and this is at 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:47.720 the Course Stadium for one hundred and thirty two dollars 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:50.720 and forty five cents. Now that's very high up in 0:24:50.760 --> 0:24:54.399 the stands of a core stadium. A reserve seating is 0:24:54.440 --> 0:24:56.440 two hundred and three dollars and eighty cents, and they'll 0:24:56.440 --> 0:24:59.959 be booking fees on top of that unlimited a reserve seating, 0:25:00.480 --> 0:25:02.680 So that's the really good one. Four hundred and seven 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.320 dollars and seventy cents. If you want to go along 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:09.040 to cac DC and you want to stand, and usually 0:25:09.040 --> 0:25:10.679 if I go to one of those big concerts, I 0:25:10.840 --> 0:25:14.280 like to stand. If you want to be at the front, 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.879 three hundred and five dollars seventy five general admission for 0:25:17.920 --> 0:25:20.600 the rear. They will divide the field basically in two 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:25.240 parts two hundred and three dollars and eighty cents. So look, 0:25:25.240 --> 0:25:27.440 it's a lot of money, but I've got to say 0:25:27.960 --> 0:25:31.680 it's probably on the reasonable side. Now I'm going along 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.720 to c Oasis in it's around the same time you'd 0:25:34.720 --> 0:25:36.800 see the October November, so it's late year. It must 0:25:36.840 --> 0:25:39.680 be around within a couple of weeks, and I think 0:25:39.720 --> 0:25:43.000 I've paid. I've just a single seat in the stands. 0:25:43.000 --> 0:25:45.080 I think I've paid one hundred and seventy five or 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:48.639 one hundred and eighty, So ACDC is probably roughly in 0:25:48.680 --> 0:25:50.639 line with that may be a little bit cheaper because 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:53.560 the standing tickets for Oasis were all sold out by 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:55.879 the time I logged on, and I think there are 0:25:55.920 --> 0:25:57.679 a lot more than three hundred and five or two 0:25:57.800 --> 0:26:00.119 hundred and three. So that's how much you'll pay. You 0:26:00.119 --> 0:26:02.239 want to see Acadaca later this year, if he's been 0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:03.720 to one of those big concerts just in the last 0:26:03.720 --> 0:26:06.600 couple of years, how much have you paid? Intrigued to know, 0:26:06.840 --> 0:26:09.760 because obviously it's nothing like it was even say pre COVID. 0:26:09.920 --> 0:26:13.119 The prices have gone up for big ticket entertainment acts 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.800 massively in the last two or three years. But if 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:18.320 you went along to Paul McCartney at Alley Unstadium a 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:21.480 couple of years ago, if you saw maybe Taylor Swift, 0:26:21.520 --> 0:26:23.320 if you're into Taylor Swift, what do you pay for 0:26:23.359 --> 0:26:26.360 the big stadium gigs? At the moment, I think it's 0:26:26.359 --> 0:26:28.399 one hundred and seventy five I paid for Oasis, but 0:26:29.000 --> 0:26:31.919 maybe it's to be expected. B reserve one hundred and 0:26:31.920 --> 0:26:34.600 thirty two forty five. It's a quarter the four. If 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:36.960 you live on the Central Coast, you live at Long Jetty, 0:26:37.119 --> 0:26:39.600 you might have noticed a string of broken windows on 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:42.880 shop fronts on the entrance road Long Jedty over the weekend, 0:26:42.960 --> 0:26:45.920 middle of the night, very very early Saturday morning. Someone's 0:26:45.960 --> 0:26:48.480 gone along and they've broken at least the windows of 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.440 seven of the shops there. Well. Police have arrested a man. 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:53.600 They've now charged a thirty two year old. He is 0:26:53.640 --> 0:26:57.239 facing eight counts of destroy or damage property. He's due 0:26:57.240 --> 0:26:59.440 to appear in court later next month. 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:02.880 Sitting now on to GB. 0:27:02.840 --> 0:27:05.560 One seventy three, I've got so much feedback here about 0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:08.000 how much you pay for concert tickets. Rochelle on the 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:10.280 text line says, we paid two hundred and fifty dollars 0:27:10.359 --> 0:27:13.480 a ticket for Lady Gaga in December. We had Level 0:27:13.520 --> 0:27:16.000 six at the Core Stadium, so basically nose bleed, So 0:27:16.080 --> 0:27:18.879 two fifty for nose bleed. So I see DC is 0:27:18.920 --> 0:27:22.400 a fair bit cheaper than that, Sue, Sue, you went 0:27:22.440 --> 0:27:23.520 and saw Paul McCartney. 0:27:24.240 --> 0:27:25.840 I did, Clinton, How are you? 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:28.280 I'm good? How much four. 0:27:28.240 --> 0:27:31.959 Hundred and ten dollars each? Now all I went on 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:32.440 my own? 0:27:32.960 --> 0:27:35.360 Yeah, whereabouts were you in the in the stadium? 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:35.840 Gold coat? 0:27:36.000 --> 0:27:38.960 In the gold coat? Do you know whatever the stadium's called? 0:27:40.040 --> 0:27:42.199 And I already bought them like a week before. And 0:27:42.240 --> 0:27:43.840 I don't know whether you know this little chip, but 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.520 when you go on your own, it's very easy to 0:27:46.560 --> 0:27:50.040 get last in the tickets because one. 0:27:49.920 --> 0:27:53.520 Seat that makes sense. Well, I'm going along to Oasis 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:55.200 on my own because none of my friends and family 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:59.720 liked them. Really, that's that's my life. But the whole 0:27:59.720 --> 0:28:03.840 stay sold out pretty quickly anyway. Actually, yeah, everybody here 0:28:03.880 --> 0:28:06.040 in the office. When I said that, Sue's laughing at 0:28:06.040 --> 0:28:08.399 me because I'm going by myself. I like to go 0:28:08.480 --> 0:28:09.760 to those sort of things by myself. 0:28:11.119 --> 0:28:15.639 Clinton, I'm seventy four and we're not on my own. 0:28:15.720 --> 0:28:18.680 And you love it as well. Love it nothing wrong 0:28:18.720 --> 0:28:20.840 to go and see a concept by yourself. Good on you. 0:28:21.000 --> 0:28:23.240 Sue Zach on the text line says, I went to 0:28:23.240 --> 0:28:26.040 see ac DC. Last time they played at Sydney Pickpark 0:28:26.119 --> 0:28:28.639 was a few years back. My tickets were free, we 0:28:28.640 --> 0:28:32.440 were standing, and it was an absolutely crazy concept. Stephen 0:28:32.480 --> 0:28:36.119 Newport says Mark Knopfler twenty nineteen in la at the 0:28:36.160 --> 0:28:46.200 Greek Theater three hundred and twenty us. My wife never asked, well, 0:28:46.200 --> 0:28:48.080 if you want the top tickets, the top ticket is 0:28:48.280 --> 0:28:50.640 four hundred and seven dollars seventy, I reckon. There's probably 0:28:50.680 --> 0:28:54.920 also some special like VIP packages. They called them VIP packages, 0:28:54.960 --> 0:28:56.960 but it's usually just a reason to charge you a 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:58.720 lot more. So the tickets are going to go on 0:28:58.800 --> 0:29:01.720 sale on Thursday morning. That's just for one Sydney concert, 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:04.200 I reckon. They'll end up announcing a few more of them. 0:29:04.520 --> 0:29:08.120 It's thirteen to four. Look a lot more people, whether 0:29:08.200 --> 0:29:10.120 you're a fan of them or not, are thinking about 0:29:10.120 --> 0:29:12.880 buying an electric vehicle. There are more evs on the market, 0:29:13.000 --> 0:29:14.920 and the prices have been coming down that there's a 0:29:14.920 --> 0:29:18.160 lot of choice. But there's been some information released today 0:29:18.200 --> 0:29:21.560 which shows that there are still serious concerns about battery 0:29:21.600 --> 0:29:25.160 longevity and the overall cost of ownership of an electric vehicle, 0:29:25.200 --> 0:29:30.440 particularly around issues of service, warranty, repairs and if you 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:34.080 have an accident. My Car Mobility Index has been released 0:29:34.360 --> 0:29:37.000 and I'm joined in the program by Adele Coswilow, who's 0:29:37.040 --> 0:29:39.080 the chief customer officer with my Car. 0:29:39.120 --> 0:29:43.120 Hello Adel, good afternoon, Clinton, and it's great to be here. 0:29:43.480 --> 0:29:45.520 Look really good topic that you've raised today, and you 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:49.160 have released this information through my Car. It has found 0:29:49.200 --> 0:29:51.600 that a lot of Australiers are still worried about batteries. 0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:56.400 Yeah, that's all right. I mean it's not only battery life, 0:29:56.440 --> 0:29:59.160 it's ownership, COSS and resale value them. In some of 0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:02.520 the comments you mentioned as I was just tuning in, 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:04.480 now tell. 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:06.960 Me you and this is what my car is all about. 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:10.040 They do run service centers across the country. I've heard 0:30:10.080 --> 0:30:12.800 there's a significant issue with having people trained to actually 0:30:12.840 --> 0:30:16.440 repair evs at your chain. Are you repairing evs now 0:30:16.440 --> 0:30:17.400 and servicing them? 0:30:17.760 --> 0:30:18.920 Yeah, we absolutely are. 0:30:18.960 --> 0:30:19.680 We actually have. 0:30:19.680 --> 0:30:24.400 An existing relationship with BYD which began in twenty twenty one, 0:30:24.480 --> 0:30:28.760 and so we ensure that our technicians received specialized training 0:30:28.960 --> 0:30:32.360 to service those BYD vehicles. And we actually have forty 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:36.560 three EV stores already, so those EV vehicles, of course, 0:30:36.560 --> 0:30:38.360 I'm more than welcome to come and visit us at 0:30:38.400 --> 0:30:41.320 a MICR store, and we are in a position to service. 0:30:41.120 --> 0:30:42.920 So it is possible to service them. Is it right 0:30:43.040 --> 0:30:48.640 that evs generally need less servicing than a standard ice engine. 0:30:48.880 --> 0:30:52.880 Yeah, that is certainly correct, But there are similarities between 0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:58.600 servicing of a current ICE vehicle and of course an EV. 0:30:58.760 --> 0:31:01.400 And never forget tie, no matter what, we'll always need 0:31:01.440 --> 0:31:04.000 to change tires on whether it's an ice vehicle or 0:31:04.080 --> 0:31:04.520 an EV. 0:31:05.080 --> 0:31:07.560 How long can you expect an electric vehicle battery to last? 0:31:07.880 --> 0:31:09.360 Because that is what people are worried about. 0:31:09.920 --> 0:31:12.560 Yeah, and look, I think that's really up to the 0:31:12.640 --> 0:31:16.000 different manufacturers and so I think as time goes on, 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:19.200 we'll learn more and more about that. But the Mobility Index, 0:31:19.280 --> 0:31:22.360 really that was just kind of showing us just the 0:31:22.400 --> 0:31:26.360 sentiment towards electric vehicles. And as you would have noticed, 0:31:26.360 --> 0:31:28.520 you know, in the research, it showed that the same 0:31:28.600 --> 0:31:31.720 question that we've asked year on year around how Australian's 0:31:31.760 --> 0:31:34.960 feeling around transitioning to evs, we did see that come 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:38.600 down twelve points from last year. So there's still certainly 0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:42.600 interest is growing, but there's certainly more questions now. And 0:31:42.640 --> 0:31:45.080 I think it's not that people are against the idea, 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:46.960 it's just more about uncertain So. 0:31:47.280 --> 0:31:49.440 What are the concerns that people have other than batteries. 0:31:50.400 --> 0:31:52.720 Well, as we mentioned, it's really just still around the 0:31:52.760 --> 0:31:57.440 ownership costs and resale value. I think that for us, 0:31:57.680 --> 0:32:00.160 you know, there's we really need to be clear. We 0:32:00.200 --> 0:32:03.520 need to provide probably jug and free information to those 0:32:03.600 --> 0:32:07.720 EV owners around how to care for their battery solutions. 0:32:08.720 --> 0:32:11.360 But I think it's not just that there's obviously charging 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:14.880 networks and how we can prioritize innovation to build on 0:32:14.960 --> 0:32:18.440 those tech advancements. It's just more around the education and 0:32:18.480 --> 0:32:21.040 how we can bring that to life and have people 0:32:21.080 --> 0:32:24.760 feel more confident about driving evs and understanding their vehicles. 0:32:24.880 --> 0:32:26.240 And I think some of that's going to take time 0:32:26.280 --> 0:32:28.360 once they're and now more electric vehicles on the resale 0:32:28.360 --> 0:32:30.400 market as well. Thank you if you're time, Adel No, 0:32:30.560 --> 0:32:33.640 thank you Del Coswilow, who's the chief customer officer of 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:36.000 my Car. Now my car they are servicing evs now 0:32:36.040 --> 0:32:39.840 that they service mostly internal combustion engine cars. I think 0:32:39.880 --> 0:32:43.720 the biggest issue with giving people confidence in buying electric 0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:45.680 car is going to be what happens on the second 0:32:45.680 --> 0:32:48.040 hand market. Yes, of course you can now buy electric 0:32:48.080 --> 0:32:50.560 vehicles on the second hand market, but you don't see 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:53.080 a lot of say, eight year old nine year old Teslas. 0:32:53.600 --> 0:32:55.760 Is that going to give you confidence buying a Tesla 0:32:55.800 --> 0:32:57.880 that has a battery that's eight or nine years old. 0:32:58.240 --> 0:33:02.280 The servicing costs because they're effectively fewer moving parts in 0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:04.920 an EV over those initial years that you have an 0:33:04.920 --> 0:33:09.160 electric vehicle. They should be lower than a petrol driven 0:33:09.200 --> 0:33:11.560 car or a diesel driven car. The problem is going 0:33:11.640 --> 0:33:13.600 to be what happens when they say reach nine ten 0:33:13.680 --> 0:33:15.560 years of age. I drive a thirteen year old car 0:33:15.680 --> 0:33:17.360 and quite you know, I had a big service last week. 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:19.120 Cost a lot to keep your thirteen year old car 0:33:19.120 --> 0:33:21.280 on the road, But it's going to cost a lot 0:33:21.320 --> 0:33:23.520 more when you need to get a new battery after 0:33:23.560 --> 0:33:25.280 eight years. If you've got a bit of experience, I'd 0:33:25.280 --> 0:33:26.680 love to hear from you. If you've got an older 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:29.680 electric vehicle or even a too out of hybrid that 0:33:29.680 --> 0:33:31.560 you've had to put a new battery in, how much 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:33.760 did it actually cost you? Let me know? One three 0:33:33.840 --> 0:33:36.120 one eight seven three. We were reporting in the news 0:33:36.240 --> 0:33:39.040 yesterday the death of a little boy at a Port 0:33:39.120 --> 0:33:42.920 Stephen's home in the afternoon. Well the Telegraph is now 0:33:42.960 --> 0:33:45.920 reporting the two year old's death is not suspicious, but 0:33:46.120 --> 0:33:48.600 they're reporting how the little boy has died and this 0:33:48.760 --> 0:33:55.600 is just horrible. They've confirmed with the police that he 0:33:55.720 --> 0:34:00.320 died of misadventure, his clothing tightened around his neck. Here's 0:34:00.760 --> 0:34:03.720 this two year old was wearing a hoodie, a hooded 0:34:03.760 --> 0:34:07.880 jumper and that hooded jumper has become caught on a 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:12.480 curtain rod and tragically the boy has died. His distraught 0:34:12.480 --> 0:34:17.080 mother called Tripolo and paramedics were fairly quick to the scene. 0:34:17.719 --> 0:34:23.000 They commenced CPR. CareFlight doctors arrived there as well, but 0:34:23.080 --> 0:34:28.960 the little boy couldn't be saved. Just a horrible, horrible story. 0:34:32.160 --> 0:34:34.200 Word on the street thinks to temper a great night's sleep, 0:34:34.280 --> 0:34:36.960 night after night. The difference is temper. Yesterday we brought 0:34:37.000 --> 0:34:40.480 you the story about what's happening in the neonatal Intensive 0:34:40.640 --> 0:34:45.120 care ward unit at Westmead Hospital where the nurses and 0:34:45.160 --> 0:34:48.280 midwives are pulling their hair out because of under resourced 0:34:49.120 --> 0:34:52.279 department where they don't have simply enough room for all 0:34:52.280 --> 0:34:55.000 the babies they need to treat well. A word on 0:34:55.040 --> 0:34:57.480 the street for temper and this has come to my 0:34:57.560 --> 0:35:03.040 attention from a senior gastro interoller at Westmead. They are 0:35:03.080 --> 0:35:05.800 going to have an extraordinary meeting of the Medical Council 0:35:06.200 --> 0:35:09.640 on Thursday at five point thirty. There will be a 0:35:09.719 --> 0:35:12.800 vote of no confidence in the chief executive of the hospital. 0:35:12.880 --> 0:35:15.520 They're asking all the specialists to attend. So this is 0:35:15.600 --> 0:35:19.200 far just beyond the nurses of Westmead hospital. This is 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:22.400 from a specialist, a gastro enterologist, and this is separate 0:35:22.400 --> 0:35:25.120 from what we were talking about yesterday with the neonatal unit, 0:35:25.480 --> 0:35:28.000 but it does demonstrate the problems that are now within 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:31.640 Westmead Hospital. There will be a vote of no confidence 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:35.800 in the Chief Executive, and not just from the staff, 0:35:36.360 --> 0:35:40.400 the nurses, the orderlies. This will involve a meeting of 0:35:40.440 --> 0:35:43.160 the Medical Staff Council, which includes some of the most 0:35:43.160 --> 0:35:46.759 senior doctors within that hospital, including specialists. 0:35:47.719 --> 0:35:49.800 Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. 0:35:50.080 --> 0:35:52.680 If it's happening in your city, you'll hear it on 0:35:52.840 --> 0:35:55.759 Sydney Now to gb SO. 0:35:55.920 --> 0:35:58.600 Research release today shows that people are still concerned about 0:35:58.600 --> 0:36:01.839 buying evs because of the law longevity of a battery. Paul, 0:36:01.880 --> 0:36:03.240 would you buy an electric vehicle? 0:36:04.040 --> 0:36:05.880 I'll never buy an electric vehicle. 0:36:06.040 --> 0:36:08.319 I just I don't like him. 0:36:08.920 --> 0:36:10.320 My son's thirteen. 0:36:10.360 --> 0:36:12.680 We've got a BS Commodore that's a project carf. 0:36:12.520 --> 0:36:14.640 In him, which will be all good to go when 0:36:14.680 --> 0:36:15.719 he's sixteen. 0:36:15.840 --> 0:36:16.879 Nice izie car with. 0:36:16.760 --> 0:36:17.880 A big, nice engine in it. 0:36:18.000 --> 0:36:20.680 So I'm one of those I'll just never touch on. 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:22.759 And if you do it up nicely, it might be 0:36:22.800 --> 0:36:24.439 worth a lot of money. One day being a hold 0:36:24.440 --> 0:36:26.360 and good on your Paul. This one from Ross. I 0:36:26.480 --> 0:36:29.319 drive a b YD now I charge my car until 0:36:29.320 --> 0:36:31.160 it's full. Tells me I have four hundred and eighty 0:36:31.239 --> 0:36:33.840 k's around the town. I'll probably get maybe four twenty 0:36:33.880 --> 0:36:36.160 before I need to recharge. If I take it on 0:36:36.200 --> 0:36:38.520 the open road, I only get two hundred two hundred 0:36:38.520 --> 0:36:40.479 and twenty kilometer, so it means that every two hours 0:36:40.520 --> 0:36:43.040 I'm having to stop to charge, and it's for fifty minutes. 0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:45.000 So I recently went to Melbourne. Should have taken me 0:36:45.040 --> 0:36:47.600 eight hours to drive to Melbourne. It took me twelve. 0:36:48.120 --> 0:36:50.480 And unfortunately they don't tell you that in the brochure. 0:36:50.560 --> 0:36:52.440 I'll look hopefully you get some other benefits, maybe from 0:36:52.520 --> 0:36:54.120 driving around the city in the buyd Some of those 0:36:54.160 --> 0:36:56.680 Blueoyd's are pretty good looking cars. I've just received the 0:36:56.680 --> 0:36:58.880 text message zero fors x zero eight seven three eight 0:36:58.920 --> 0:37:01.360 seven three from one Mark Levy says two and a 0:37:01.360 --> 0:37:04.600 half thousand dollars baby, yeeha. I'll be spitting the winter 0:37:04.600 --> 0:37:05.439 wheel a little later. 0:37:08.440 --> 0:37:12.400 There is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on. 0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:16.000 To GB Beautiful winters afternoon across Sydney one eight seveny 0:37:16.000 --> 0:37:18.040 three is our number of the US President Donald Trump 0:37:18.120 --> 0:37:20.920 has now used his own social media service Truth Social 0:37:21.000 --> 0:37:25.320 to issue a statement about the ceasefire between Israel and Iran, 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:29.120 and he writes in capital letters, the ceasefire is now 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:34.560 in effect, please do not violate it. Now there's very 0:37:34.560 --> 0:37:37.879 little confirmation coming out of either Iran or Israel other 0:37:37.920 --> 0:37:41.080 than Iranian state TV. And this was before two o'clock 0:37:41.120 --> 0:37:43.960 our time. Had accepted that there would be a ceasefire, 0:37:45.040 --> 0:37:48.560 but there were six missile strikes and very little information 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:52.920 about about damage. But the Israeli Defense Force had issued 0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.719 a statement by their social media to warn their citizens 0:37:55.719 --> 0:37:57.719 that there were missiles on the way, and that was 0:37:57.760 --> 0:38:01.200 after two o'clock our time. But Donald Trump says, the 0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:04.000 ceasefire is now in effect, please do not violate it. 0:38:04.080 --> 0:38:06.600 The impact on US has been with flights. Now this 0:38:06.680 --> 0:38:10.040 morning there were two quarters flights that were flying over 0:38:10.080 --> 0:38:13.719 the region, and this had come after there had been 0:38:13.760 --> 0:38:17.840 attack on US space in Kata. Now as a result 0:38:17.880 --> 0:38:20.399 of that, Quotas had to take action with their two 0:38:20.440 --> 0:38:25.440 flights QF nine, which is Perth to London Heathrow had 0:38:25.440 --> 0:38:27.600 to be diverted to Singapore. One hundred and ninety nine 0:38:27.600 --> 0:38:32.480 customers on board passengers fourteen crew as well. QF thirty 0:38:32.560 --> 0:38:36.440 three is Perth to Paris Charles de Gore Airport. It 0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:39.719 was first forced to turn around completely and travel back 0:38:39.760 --> 0:38:42.360 to Perth that two hundred and sixteen passengers on board 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:46.560 with fourteen crew. Virgin Australia's just released a statement and 0:38:46.680 --> 0:38:49.320 Virgin says now just bear in mind they are now 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:53.800 in partnership with Katar. Virgin Australia's scheduled services to Doha 0:38:53.960 --> 0:38:56.920 operated by Qatar Airways are expected to operate today with 0:38:57.080 --> 0:39:01.000 delays following the reopening of Qatar airspace. These services are 0:39:01.040 --> 0:39:04.440 operated for guests traveling to Doha only, with more than 0:39:04.440 --> 0:39:07.480 twenty five thousand impacted passengers currently in Doha. The immediate 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:10.239 priority is clearing the significant backlog of these passengers and 0:39:10.239 --> 0:39:14.040 flying them to their final destination. Now, Virgin says we're 0:39:14.080 --> 0:39:17.319 offering free booking changes or cancelations to guests who are 0:39:17.320 --> 0:39:20.920 booked on Virgin Australia's Doha services with onward connections in 0:39:20.960 --> 0:39:23.880 the coming days and up until and including the thirtieth 0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:26.439 of June. So if you do have a Virgin flight 0:39:26.480 --> 0:39:29.560 booked via Katar and you don't want to fly anymore 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:31.319 up until the end of this month. You can cancel it. 0:39:32.280 --> 0:39:35.319 You need to contact Virgin Australia's guest contact center. Their 0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:39.600 number is thirteen sixty seven eighty nine. Flight VA one 0:39:39.920 --> 0:39:43.480 did take off from Sydney this afternoon just after three o'clock, 0:39:43.560 --> 0:39:46.400 was about twenty past three. We saw some vision courtesy 0:39:46.400 --> 0:39:49.000 of nine of that plane actually taking off from Kingsford 0:39:49.040 --> 0:39:54.640 Smith So the airspace is now open. Obviously, the airlines 0:39:54.680 --> 0:39:56.480 around the world and the Authority is becoming a very 0:39:56.480 --> 0:40:13.640 close site on exactly what's occurring. Well, Daniel Mookie is 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:16.120 the man who controls our money at a state level, 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:19.520 the State Treasurer. Today he's handed down his third budget. 0:40:19.800 --> 0:40:22.600 He's presented a deficit for this financial year of five 0:40:22.600 --> 0:40:25.560 point seven billion dollars. So we're in the red five 0:40:25.560 --> 0:40:28.440 point seven billion dollars this financial year. It isn't improved 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:31.640 since twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four of five billion, 0:40:31.760 --> 0:40:33.600 so there was a deficit of more than ten billion. 0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:36.680 But remember those late years of the former coalition government. 0:40:36.680 --> 0:40:38.920 This isn't a defense of the Coalition, but I think 0:40:38.960 --> 0:40:40.960 it's important to note that that was coming off the 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.080 back of COVID, where all governments of every political persuasion 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:46.680 around the world had to spend unprecedented amounts of money. 0:40:47.040 --> 0:40:49.440 But the reality is we are now facing years of 0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:53.880 deficit as a hangover of that, let alone debt based 0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:56.320 on what the budget papers say, there is a forecast 0:40:56.320 --> 0:40:58.880 for a budget surplus of one point one billion dollars 0:40:58.880 --> 0:41:01.560 in twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight, so it's a 0:41:01.560 --> 0:41:04.960 few years away and that's that's simply a forecast that's 0:41:05.000 --> 0:41:08.080 not locked in. What's also important is the state of 0:41:08.120 --> 0:41:12.200 our debt. So New South Wales government debt by June 0:41:12.239 --> 0:41:14.960 twenty twenty six will be one hundred and seventy eight 0:41:15.000 --> 0:41:18.040 point eight billion dollars. Now, that will be an improvement 0:41:18.080 --> 0:41:21.720 of nine point four billion compared with the twenty twenty 0:41:21.719 --> 0:41:24.560 three pre election budget when they did forecast one hundred 0:41:24.560 --> 0:41:26.759 and eighty eight So what do's actually mean, Well, what 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:29.320 Daniel Mookie is saying is what that means. And it's 0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:30.680 not great that we have so much debt, but it's 0:41:30.680 --> 0:41:32.840 a reality of the way governments have been run lately. 0:41:34.400 --> 0:41:37.080 We will save, according to Daniel Mookie, four hundred million 0:41:37.120 --> 0:41:39.560 dollars every year in interest payments. Now that's a good thing, 0:41:39.840 --> 0:41:41.640 and interest rates are coming down as well, so that 0:41:41.719 --> 0:41:43.840 should mean there is four hundred million dollars to the 0:41:43.880 --> 0:41:47.480 government to spend on other things. They will be spending 0:41:47.520 --> 0:41:50.560 more money on housing. They have released what they say 0:41:51.320 --> 0:41:54.439 is an Australian First Plan. This is a what they're 0:41:54.440 --> 0:41:58.920 calling their pre Sale Finance Guarantee. It's where the government 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.719 will guarantee resident central pre sales for up to a 0:42:01.760 --> 0:42:05.440 billion dollars worth of housing projects five to fifty million 0:42:05.480 --> 0:42:08.160 dollars in a pre sale guarantee. The state is going 0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.799 to go guarrant taur for fifty percent of approved housing projects. 0:42:11.880 --> 0:42:16.440 So it's a means of encouraging big developers and developers 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:20.640 of home unit buildings to take the risk and have 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:22.719 more security in being able to apply for loans through 0:42:22.760 --> 0:42:25.239 a bank because they're going to have the government guarrant tour. 0:42:25.960 --> 0:42:29.040 So if, for instance, they don't sell all the apartments, 0:42:29.320 --> 0:42:31.719 there'll then be a mechanism for the government themselves to 0:42:31.719 --> 0:42:34.719 buy some of those apartments and then the government can 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:37.280 resell them or the government could use them for social 0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:40.000 housing and rent them out. Tom Forrest is the chief 0:42:40.040 --> 0:42:42.160 executive of the Urban Task Force and joints us Get 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:43.560 a tom, what do you think of this plan? 0:42:45.320 --> 0:42:47.560 It's really it's a really big surprise and it's a 0:42:47.600 --> 0:42:51.399 positive surprise that's come out of the budget today. One 0:42:51.400 --> 0:42:55.200 of the big constraints has been difficulty is associated with 0:42:55.280 --> 0:42:59.400 securing pre sale off the plan, off the plan purchase 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:06.279 commitment from buyers, with uncertainty associated with interest rates, with 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.480 concerns associated with making such a big commitment. This is 0:43:10.520 --> 0:43:13.040 the common This is the state government coming in and 0:43:13.120 --> 0:43:15.080 backing what the Colon Wharf have done. 0:43:15.280 --> 0:43:16.400 Taking a similar approach. 0:43:16.480 --> 0:43:20.480 The Colon Wolf backed the buyer by underwriting their deposits 0:43:20.480 --> 0:43:21.520 for first home buyers. 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:23.360 The State government. 0:43:23.000 --> 0:43:27.120 Has backed the supply of housing by doing effectively the 0:43:27.160 --> 0:43:31.799 same thing, underwriting the developer and the builders who are 0:43:31.800 --> 0:43:32.560 building the supply. 0:43:32.640 --> 0:43:35.000 So you've got the Colon Worth supporting the buyer. 0:43:36.000 --> 0:43:38.480 The State government supported in the seller. Both of those 0:43:38.520 --> 0:43:41.760 things together make for a more positive environment for housing 0:43:41.800 --> 0:43:43.120 supply and that's what we need. 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.400 The state government has done a fair bit with changing 0:43:45.440 --> 0:43:48.360 planning laws and putting more pressure on local councils to 0:43:48.400 --> 0:43:51.080 approve developments fast, but not all it's actually happened in 0:43:51.160 --> 0:43:53.680 terms of boosting housing numbers. Do you think this is 0:43:53.719 --> 0:43:54.880 going to what's make the change? 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:57.680 This is going to make a big difference. 0:43:57.719 --> 0:43:58.120 Clinton. 0:43:58.680 --> 0:44:01.720 It's been a real problem that we've had where where 0:44:01.880 --> 0:44:05.080 interest rates have been starting to come off now, but 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:07.799 still when you're a developer, the sort of the sort 0:44:07.800 --> 0:44:11.239 of interest rates that you're being charged somewhere between eight 0:44:11.360 --> 0:44:15.440 and thirteen percent, sometimes even higher from non bank lenders. 0:44:15.880 --> 0:44:18.600 And one of the things the banks who charge the 0:44:18.680 --> 0:44:22.640 lesser the lesser end of that range, what they requires 0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:28.480 is lots of pre sale, pre sale sign offs from purchases, 0:44:28.520 --> 0:44:30.600 so you've got your off the plan purchases and they've 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:33.920 all been signed off. What this does is it steps 0:44:33.960 --> 0:44:37.480 in and rather than having to have sixty percent of 0:44:37.520 --> 0:44:42.080 your entire development pre sold via off the plan purchases, 0:44:42.360 --> 0:44:44.480 you might only have to get ten or fifteen percent 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:47.560 and the rest will you're covered by this guarantee. That's 0:44:48.000 --> 0:44:50.959 that means you can get the cheaper interest rates, which 0:44:51.080 --> 0:44:55.160 flows on then the cheaper house price sales at the 0:44:55.280 --> 0:44:56.120 end of construction. 0:44:56.960 --> 0:44:57.960 News for everyone. 0:44:57.680 --> 0:45:00.839 Involved, hopefully works. Thanks for your time to thank you, 0:45:00.920 --> 0:45:01.239 Thank you. 0:45:01.239 --> 0:45:01.600 Glyndon. 0:45:01.600 --> 0:45:04.400 Tom Forres is the chief executive of the Urban Task force. 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:08.200 There'll be a lot of analysis needed for this particular policy, 0:45:08.280 --> 0:45:10.880 and the opposition says there are holes in it already. 0:45:11.440 --> 0:45:14.600 At least it's something creative. At least it's going thinking 0:45:14.600 --> 0:45:17.640 a little bit outside the box. Now, what's happening on 0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:19.759 our roads. I told you at the start of the 0:45:19.800 --> 0:45:22.399 program about the future of the sixty dollars toll cap. 0:45:22.640 --> 0:45:25.360 This budget confirms that it will not continue beyond the 0:45:25.440 --> 0:45:27.239 end of this year. There is no funding in it 0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:30.640 for next year, but there is obviously a fair bit 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:33.920 of capital expenditure for roads. Seven and a half billion 0:45:33.960 --> 0:45:36.520 dollars will be spent. Hopefully that's going to fix some potholes. 0:45:36.520 --> 0:45:39.920 Peter Kouris from the NROMA, are you happy with this plan? 0:45:41.360 --> 0:45:42.200 Well, seven and a. 0:45:42.200 --> 0:45:46.760 Half billion, good afternoon, isn't as high as nine point 0:45:47.040 --> 0:45:49.480 one billion, which is what it was last year. So 0:45:49.480 --> 0:45:53.560 we've actually seen a fall in road funding this year. 0:45:53.840 --> 0:45:57.000 And I mean seven and a half billion can fix 0:45:57.040 --> 0:45:59.120 a lot of potholes. But what we also know is 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:02.760 there's a huge between what councils are getting to maintain 0:46:02.800 --> 0:46:06.520 our roads to a safe standard and what they need. 0:46:07.040 --> 0:46:09.439 And unfortunately all of this is happening at the same 0:46:09.480 --> 0:46:12.440 time that the road tile is going up already one 0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.799 hundred and seventy nine depths this year. That's twenty six 0:46:14.840 --> 0:46:16.359 more than the same time last year. 0:46:17.360 --> 0:46:18.000 And so. 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:21.719 What we want to be doing is investing in our 0:46:21.800 --> 0:46:27.319 road infrastructure, and we have seen is a drop this year. 0:46:27.560 --> 0:46:29.520 So there has been a drop, but I do know 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:31.680 you've pointed out there's going to be an increase in 0:46:31.719 --> 0:46:34.120 the amount generated through traffic fines. 0:46:35.280 --> 0:46:39.040 Yeah, so traffic fines will go up about nine percent 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:40.840 this year on last year, and then it will go 0:46:40.960 --> 0:46:44.160 up again next year. Slide increase next year based on 0:46:44.200 --> 0:46:46.600 the government's own forecasting, though obviously we're going to be 0:46:46.600 --> 0:46:49.160 looking at that really closely because there'll be more cameras 0:46:49.520 --> 0:46:51.680 rolled out in that time. We also know that their 0:46:51.760 --> 0:46:55.520 cameras catching people not wearing seat belts, which is very important. 0:46:55.560 --> 0:46:57.640 People should be wearing seatbelts. But all of that means 0:46:57.680 --> 0:46:59.840 that the revenue final will be go up, will be 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:01.760 going up, and it also means that we'll be spending 0:47:01.800 --> 0:47:03.480 more on tolls over the next few years as well. 0:47:03.520 --> 0:47:08.240 In fact, a significant increase in collect money collected from tolls. 0:47:08.719 --> 0:47:09.760 That the government run. 0:47:09.760 --> 0:47:11.920 The toll collection so that it'd be the Harbard Tunnel. 0:47:11.960 --> 0:47:13.759 That'll also be that the bridge will go out from 0:47:13.760 --> 0:47:16.120 one hundred and fifty nine million back in twenty five 0:47:16.239 --> 0:47:18.320 twenty six, so this financial year to two hundred and 0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:20.759 eighty three million by twenty eight twenty nine. As I 0:47:20.800 --> 0:47:22.920 was mentioning Peter that the sixty dollars toll cap and 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:25.640 this has been foreshadow but this is confirmation it's going 0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:27.440 to come to an end at the end of this 0:47:27.520 --> 0:47:29.839 calendar year. There is no money in the budget next year, 0:47:30.200 --> 0:47:33.120 but there's also no detail of what the planned toll 0:47:33.200 --> 0:47:35.279 reform is going to be. The government's going to need 0:47:35.320 --> 0:47:37.279 to come out and say something on this quite soon. 0:47:38.480 --> 0:47:38.719 Yeah. 0:47:38.800 --> 0:47:43.040 So look, the rebate was you know, we welcome that, 0:47:43.360 --> 0:47:45.279 and I know that there's still one hundred and something 0:47:45.320 --> 0:47:48.480 million dollars left to be claimed. So if you've got 0:47:48.560 --> 0:47:51.160 access to that, it's really easy to claim. So please 0:47:51.200 --> 0:47:53.480 go and claim the money back because you've spent it 0:47:53.520 --> 0:47:55.360 and it's yours and get it back. So that's the 0:47:55.400 --> 0:47:57.880 first thing. The second thing is we're not surprised that 0:47:57.880 --> 0:48:00.680 there wasn't longevity in that approach, which what we wanted 0:48:00.680 --> 0:48:03.080 to see, however, is as you said, there's been a 0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:08.319 long time coming, this Toile review and the reforms into 0:48:08.320 --> 0:48:10.719 the tolling system in New South Wales. Then I may 0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:13.040 play a big part in that. We did our submissions. 0:48:13.040 --> 0:48:15.839 We're part of the community consultation processes. We've been meeting 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:16.400 with government. 0:48:17.160 --> 0:48:17.320 You know. 0:48:17.480 --> 0:48:20.120 I think it's more important that we land that because 0:48:20.160 --> 0:48:22.200 if we do that, if we can come out of 0:48:22.239 --> 0:48:25.000 this with a fair and more equitable system, and we 0:48:25.040 --> 0:48:26.520 believe at the end I made the way to do 0:48:26.560 --> 0:48:28.600 that is to have consistent tolling. 0:48:28.320 --> 0:48:29.280 Right across the network. 0:48:29.400 --> 0:48:32.040 So if you're using tolls, you're paying the same amount 0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:34.560 per kilometer, no matter where you are, who you are, 0:48:34.640 --> 0:48:36.719 where you live, what suburb you foment, and what you're 0:48:36.800 --> 0:48:39.560 driving on. So we think that's the way forward. You 0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:42.760 do that, and I think that provides transpariency and fairness 0:48:42.760 --> 0:48:45.719 in the system. Our members will use tole roads if 0:48:45.760 --> 0:48:47.719 they feel like they're getting value for money to get 0:48:47.719 --> 0:48:50.040 some home quicker. We don't have a problem with toll roads. 0:48:50.120 --> 0:48:53.480 We need them to reduce congestion. But what this system 0:48:53.560 --> 0:48:55.520 was meant to do, what this review was meant to do, 0:48:55.719 --> 0:48:57.840 was get us to a place of fairness and equity. 0:48:57.880 --> 0:48:59.319 It has been going on for a long time now 0:48:59.640 --> 0:49:00.440 we need solution. 0:49:00.600 --> 0:49:03.920 Yeah, absolutely, thank you, Peter. Peter Couri from the NRMA 0:49:04.080 --> 0:49:05.719 other major plank of the budget, there's a lot of 0:49:05.719 --> 0:49:07.880 detail that needs to be analyzed in this is a 0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.359 one point two billion dollar foot child protection package. What 0:49:11.400 --> 0:49:14.640 this is going to do is fill two hundred vacant 0:49:14.680 --> 0:49:18.160 positions in the child protection area. It's going to encourage 0:49:18.160 --> 0:49:21.040 more families to become foster parents. It's going to give 0:49:21.040 --> 0:49:23.399 a pay rise to twenty one hundred and twenty six 0:49:23.480 --> 0:49:26.439 case workers. But this is what it's going to We're 0:49:26.440 --> 0:49:32.319 told prevent kids living in motels. So when children are 0:49:32.360 --> 0:49:36.160 in need of foster care and when they're between families, 0:49:36.160 --> 0:49:38.520 and these are kids who who don't have parents. These 0:49:38.560 --> 0:49:41.120 are kids whose parents are in jail, These are kids 0:49:41.160 --> 0:49:45.799 whose parents have abused them sadly in the past. These 0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:49.680 are children who've been living in hotels and motels unaccredited accommodation. 0:49:50.440 --> 0:49:52.160 Just a couple of years ago, twenty twenty three, one 0:49:52.320 --> 0:49:56.000 hundred we're living in motels. This funding is designed to 0:49:56.040 --> 0:49:59.400 prevent that. It's nineteen past four, twenty three past four 0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:02.439 New Zealand Foreign Minister, the very colorful he's been around 0:50:02.440 --> 0:50:05.200 for a long time. Now Winston Peters has signaled the 0:50:05.280 --> 0:50:08.640 country is going to crack down on migration. He says 0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:11.879 we do not need more uber drivers or chefs, as 0:50:11.920 --> 0:50:13.600 if we're going to eat our way to wealth like 0:50:13.680 --> 0:50:16.200 Hansel and Gretel. He's the leader of the New Zealand 0:50:16.239 --> 0:50:20.040 First Party, but he's in coalition with the now Conservative government. 0:50:20.360 --> 0:50:24.080 He says the country must prioritize migration for the benefit 0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:27.520 of New Zealanders. He says, we have the most irresponsible 0:50:27.520 --> 0:50:30.919 immigration system. We need to bring people in to help 0:50:30.960 --> 0:50:34.160 New Zealand, not those that need us. We do not 0:50:34.320 --> 0:50:37.200 need more uber drivers or chefs, as if we're going 0:50:37.239 --> 0:50:39.800 to eat our way to wealth like Hansel and Gretel. 0:50:40.400 --> 0:50:43.000 There has been a drop in immigration numbers up year 0:50:43.040 --> 0:50:46.440 on year because sweeping these reforms have actually been introduced 0:50:46.440 --> 0:50:51.799 over the ditch. Sitting now on to Gie eight seven 0:50:51.840 --> 0:50:54.440 three is our number. On the issue of toll roads, John, 0:50:54.600 --> 0:50:55.880 how do you cope with toll roads? 0:50:57.360 --> 0:51:01.000 Well, I'd like what Peter said. You know, people could 0:51:01.000 --> 0:51:03.440 be used toll roads, you know, if they're getting value 0:51:03.480 --> 0:51:06.279 for money. Pentirely go on the northern beaches and we 0:51:06.400 --> 0:51:08.520 haven't got an option. We're going to be told on 0:51:08.560 --> 0:51:10.640 the bridge now both ways and we. 0:51:10.600 --> 0:51:12.359 Haven't got an option. We've got to pay a toll, 0:51:12.960 --> 0:51:13.680 you know, and that. 0:51:13.640 --> 0:51:15.560 Hasn't been confirmed by the state government yet, but it 0:51:15.640 --> 0:51:17.560 will happen. There will be a toll in both directions 0:51:17.600 --> 0:51:18.240 of the bridge. 0:51:18.840 --> 0:51:21.279 Yeah, but we don't have an option, correct, No, So 0:51:21.880 --> 0:51:23.320 so how's that fair? 0:51:23.640 --> 0:51:26.839 Yeah, good point. Well, the way the system will probably change, 0:51:26.840 --> 0:51:31.080 it'll be towards more of a distance based user pays system, 0:51:31.719 --> 0:51:34.359 but it will have some caveas because the government doesn't 0:51:34.360 --> 0:51:36.719 want people who live in the far western suburbs to 0:51:36.760 --> 0:51:40.080 be paying distance based. It'll be a sliding scale. But 0:51:40.160 --> 0:51:41.719 what we need, we need the detail of what this 0:51:41.800 --> 0:51:43.960 is going to be because time is now running out. 0:51:44.280 --> 0:51:46.840 Labour came to power in twenty twenty three promising to 0:51:46.880 --> 0:51:49.640 do something about tolls, so they gave us the sixty 0:51:49.640 --> 0:51:52.719 dollars toll cap that this budget released today confirms the 0:51:52.760 --> 0:51:55.400 toll cap ends this year. There is no funding for 0:51:55.480 --> 0:51:59.040 next year whatsoever, so it can't continue. Talking about electric 0:51:59.200 --> 0:52:01.520 vehicles and we were speaking about the fact that a 0:52:01.560 --> 0:52:03.920 lot of Australians are still dubious because of battery life 0:52:04.640 --> 0:52:06.759 from one of our listeners on the text line, I've 0:52:06.760 --> 0:52:09.120 got the latest gts V eight Commodore, one of the 0:52:09.200 --> 0:52:11.279 last ones, so I'll never buy electric car. The car 0:52:11.320 --> 0:52:14.279 will be left to my son when I pass on. 0:52:14.760 --> 0:52:17.920 Dave says, my favorite driver is an HQV eight Premiere. 0:52:18.239 --> 0:52:20.520 See me in another twenty years with the byds and 0:52:20.560 --> 0:52:23.359 the Testlas have been replaced three times and the HQ 0:52:23.680 --> 0:52:26.399 just keeps on keep being on. Good on your Dave, Now, 0:52:26.520 --> 0:52:29.360 Rod's good a question here, he says, Look, I wouldn't 0:52:29.400 --> 0:52:31.240 go near an eight or nine year old v EV 0:52:31.440 --> 0:52:34.600 because it's going to be more expensive to ensure. Comprehensive 0:52:34.640 --> 0:52:37.279 insurance is more expensive for EV says, there's no question 0:52:37.320 --> 0:52:40.799 about that. Now Comprehensive insurance for every vehicle has gone up. 0:52:40.840 --> 0:52:43.960 I know because I paid mine on Saturday. It doesn't 0:52:44.000 --> 0:52:45.799 matter what you're driving at the moment. You're paying through 0:52:45.840 --> 0:52:48.800 the roof for comprehensive insurance. But it is more for evs. 0:52:49.360 --> 0:52:53.319 Chris says, why are you asking the NRMA about RHADS. Well, 0:52:53.360 --> 0:52:55.759 for very good reason That NRMA stands for the National 0:52:55.800 --> 0:52:58.200 Roads and Motoris Association, so there when it comes to 0:52:58.239 --> 0:53:01.160 representing the interest of drivers, that's what they're Therefore, Chris says, 0:53:01.160 --> 0:53:03.840 why not ask them about reducing insurance premiums rather than 0:53:03.920 --> 0:53:07.719 ripping off Australians. Well, Chris, I should point out the NRMA, 0:53:08.160 --> 0:53:11.680 the Roads and Motors Association, is actually completely different to 0:53:11.800 --> 0:53:15.719 NRMA Insurance. They use the same branding. NRMA Insurance is 0:53:15.719 --> 0:53:19.960 a company known as IAG Insurance Australia Group and they 0:53:20.000 --> 0:53:23.280 own a lot of the brands that offer insurance. Nmay, 0:53:23.760 --> 0:53:25.920 who we just spoke to there, Peter Courri is not 0:53:26.160 --> 0:53:30.600 NRMA Insurance, two completely different companies. You can send me 0:53:30.640 --> 0:53:33.080 text messages zero four six zero eight seven three eight 0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:35.359 seven three. Gary says, I think the New South Wales 0:53:35.400 --> 0:53:38.760 labor government are getting away with broken pole promises like tolls, 0:53:38.800 --> 0:53:40.839 because Chris Means is a good bloke. I think it 0:53:40.880 --> 0:53:44.440 is all smoke and mirrors. They haven't broken the promise yet, 0:53:45.080 --> 0:53:47.600 but unless they announce a plan this year that will 0:53:47.640 --> 0:53:51.120 start on January one, they will have because as of 0:53:51.200 --> 0:53:55.120 January one, the toll CAP's gone and as things stand 0:53:55.160 --> 0:53:57.520 at the Roment there's no change to tolls. So the 0:53:57.520 --> 0:54:00.920 negotiations are going on. We understand right now with Transurban, 0:54:01.040 --> 0:54:05.000 but Transurban's under no obligation to accept less revenue less money. 0:54:05.560 --> 0:54:07.399 So there's a lot of pressure on the government through 0:54:07.480 --> 0:54:09.400 John Graham, who's still handling this even though he's not 0:54:09.400 --> 0:54:12.319 the roads mister anymore, to get this right. Let's check 0:54:12.320 --> 0:54:17.720 out news headlines and with all the latest God authnon 0:54:17.800 --> 0:54:18.560 Katie Puller. 0:54:18.480 --> 0:54:22.440 Good afternoon, Clinton. Thousands of passengers are still stranded around 0:54:22.480 --> 0:54:25.440 the world following the closure of airspace in the Middle East. 0:54:25.680 --> 0:54:29.320 Cut Our Airways has resumed operating services, but the airline 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:32.960 is only taking passengers heading directly to Doha due to 0:54:33.000 --> 0:54:36.799 a significant backlog at the airport. This state budget is 0:54:36.840 --> 0:54:40.880 forecast to return to surplus in three years. Treasurer Daniel 0:54:40.880 --> 0:54:44.280 Bookie says the state is already back in a cash surplus, 0:54:44.640 --> 0:54:47.600 meaning we don't have to borrow for day to day expenses. 0:54:48.120 --> 0:54:51.879 The judge presiding over Aaron Patterson's triple murder trial has 0:54:51.960 --> 0:54:55.520 instructed the jury not to let sympathy for her alleged victims' 0:54:55.560 --> 0:55:00.200 families cloud their judgment. Christopher Bill also directed members to 0:55:00.239 --> 0:55:04.759 not let the unprecedented media attention surrounding the case influence them, 0:55:05.200 --> 0:55:09.000 and a person's education level could indicate their life expectancy. 0:55:09.280 --> 0:55:13.200 Wannash University researchers have found men and women who completed 0:55:13.239 --> 0:55:15.919 a degree, I'm more likely to live longer than those 0:55:15.920 --> 0:55:19.560 who finished school in year eleven or below. In sport. 0:55:19.600 --> 0:55:22.160 In cricket, Josh English is still waiting to find out 0:55:22.200 --> 0:55:25.399 where he'll bat in Australia's lineup, just two days out 0:55:25.400 --> 0:55:28.239 from the first Test against the West Indies in Barbados, 0:55:28.440 --> 0:55:30.040 Clinton More News at five. 0:55:30.120 --> 0:55:32.800 Kcating nineteen degrees in the coast. It's eighteen degrees in 0:55:32.920 --> 0:55:35.600 Terry Hills one three one eight seven three. Where's you've 0:55:35.600 --> 0:55:37.360 come across a traffic drama? What have you seen? 0:55:38.760 --> 0:55:38.960 Yeah? 0:55:39.040 --> 0:55:42.960 Mate, just on the corner of Green Valley Road and 0:55:43.120 --> 0:55:46.160 Cow Pasture Road out at lone. I want to read 0:55:46.239 --> 0:55:49.600 you call that hitch your brook Yep, there's a semi 0:55:49.640 --> 0:55:53.279 trailer break broken down outside the Shell station on the 0:55:53.320 --> 0:55:54.200 southbound lanes. 0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:54.840 He's scores an O. 0:55:55.560 --> 0:55:57.279 He's caused it a bit of a traffe jam. He's 0:55:57.360 --> 0:55:59.480 right in the sen lane. Cars are diving around. 0:56:01.760 --> 0:56:02.600 Yeah, and it's a. 0:56:02.560 --> 0:56:05.319 Traffic jam anyway right down the other end. I just 0:56:05.360 --> 0:56:08.320 come up from West Sumpton and it's banked all the 0:56:08.360 --> 0:56:10.920 way right through virtually through to. 0:56:13.320 --> 0:56:13.919 Off the park. 0:56:14.000 --> 0:56:15.359 Mate, it's just a bank up a mile. 0:56:15.640 --> 0:56:18.120 Okay, okay, hopefully they can move that truck quickly, but 0:56:18.160 --> 0:56:20.080 sometimes when those big trucks break down, it takes a 0:56:20.120 --> 0:56:21.719 while to get the cruise out there. So called a 0:56:21.800 --> 0:56:24.560 green Valley cow pass roads southbound and that's in the 0:56:24.600 --> 0:56:30.960 Hinchenbrug area. Thanks letting us know about that wezne scam. 0:56:37.560 --> 0:56:37.719 Now. 0:56:37.760 --> 0:56:40.160 Also in the budget there is a forty million dollar 0:56:40.200 --> 0:56:44.879 allocation for the Metro. I repeat forty million dollars. It's 0:56:44.880 --> 0:56:46.319 not going to get you much when it comes to 0:56:46.560 --> 0:56:49.080 metro lines. What this money is for. It's to develop 0:56:49.080 --> 0:56:52.800 a business case for a potential future metro rail line 0:56:53.120 --> 0:56:56.560 between Talowong and Saint Mary's. So why would a metro 0:56:56.640 --> 0:57:00.080 be important between Talowang and Sat Mary's Because there will 0:57:00.160 --> 0:57:02.680 an airport metro between the new Western Sydney Airport the 0:57:02.719 --> 0:57:05.160 Western Sydney National Airport. We hosted the show from there 0:57:05.160 --> 0:57:07.880 a couple of weeks ago and Samari's train station. But 0:57:07.920 --> 0:57:11.400 Sameri's train station is the old fashioned heavy rail, so 0:57:11.520 --> 0:57:13.680 really what's needed is metro that takes you all the 0:57:13.680 --> 0:57:16.120 way to the new airport. To do that they need 0:57:16.120 --> 0:57:18.960 to link Talolong to Saint Mary's and again there's no 0:57:19.080 --> 0:57:21.840 money for it. But in the budget, well, there is 0:57:21.840 --> 0:57:24.920 an allocation of forty million doors to put together a 0:57:24.920 --> 0:57:25.560 business plan. 0:57:26.560 --> 0:57:28.640 Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard. 0:57:28.880 --> 0:57:31.560 If it's happening and you're sitting you'll hear it on 0:57:31.680 --> 0:57:32.920 Sydney Now to. 0:57:33.080 --> 0:57:36.640 Gb we have been reporting in depth about the ongoing 0:57:36.640 --> 0:57:39.600 situation in the Middle East and as things stand at 0:57:39.640 --> 0:57:43.480 the moment, both Israel and Iran have agreed to the ceasefire. 0:57:44.200 --> 0:57:47.120 Donald Trump has issued a statement in the past hour saying, 0:57:47.200 --> 0:57:50.120 please do not break the ceasefire. Actually I don't think 0:57:50.120 --> 0:57:52.640 you use the word please. But the tensions in the 0:57:52.640 --> 0:57:55.400 Middle East aren't going to disappear quickly. This is a 0:57:55.400 --> 0:57:59.040 reality of the Middle East and we've experienced our whole lives. 0:58:00.000 --> 0:58:02.880 Now it's going to affect oil prices. And we spoke 0:58:03.000 --> 0:58:05.680 yesterday about making sure you fill up your pet car now, 0:58:05.760 --> 0:58:07.840 and I did that last night. I got petrol well 0:58:08.120 --> 0:58:09.880 I US ninety eight, So it was a dollar radiator leader. 0:58:10.840 --> 0:58:13.200 But how's it going to affect other investments? How's it 0:58:13.200 --> 0:58:15.160 going to affect the share market? How's it going to 0:58:15.200 --> 0:58:18.440 affect the residential property market, and given that sixty percent 0:58:18.480 --> 0:58:20.760 of all Australia's wealth is tied up in residential property, 0:58:20.760 --> 0:58:23.160 it's an important question to ask. I wanted to check 0:58:23.200 --> 0:58:27.000 with our sponsors Freedom Property Investors and Scott Kuu, friend 0:58:27.040 --> 0:58:31.160 of the program, joins BGIDE Scott lincin Gooday with what's 0:58:31.160 --> 0:58:33.240 happening in the Middle East of the moment. Do you 0:58:33.240 --> 0:58:36.000 think this is going to have an impact on property prices? 0:58:36.760 --> 0:58:37.640 Yeah, I could very say. 0:58:37.720 --> 0:58:38.400 What's going on. 0:58:38.760 --> 0:58:40.800 Prayers for all the people there in terms of ours 0:58:40.800 --> 0:58:44.840 and property prices. Look, it's all about oil and our 0:58:44.880 --> 0:58:47.480 biggest trading partner, China, is getting oil from there, so 0:58:47.520 --> 0:58:49.640 there can be some shocks there if the oil supply 0:58:50.440 --> 0:58:53.720 is affected. Here's the thing though, whether it's affected or 0:58:53.760 --> 0:58:57.919 not affected, interest rates are going to drive our economy here. 0:58:58.000 --> 0:59:00.840 So if we do see some shocks in the global economy, 0:59:00.880 --> 0:59:03.760 if we see some shocks in terms of China and 0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:07.400 the trade there, we can always lower our interest rates 0:59:07.560 --> 0:59:10.840 a bit quicker than probably what the IBA would have 0:59:10.880 --> 0:59:15.240 originally planned. So that's one big lever. The other thing, 0:59:15.480 --> 0:59:21.280 we've still got this systemic structural supply and demand problem. 0:59:21.320 --> 0:59:24.840 Now we are hearing news about elbow and the government, 0:59:24.880 --> 0:59:27.440 you know, reducing immigration and all of this, but that 0:59:27.600 --> 0:59:32.080 is not a reduction in permanent migration or permanent population growth. 0:59:32.360 --> 0:59:34.920 So we're still going to have that. But the biggest 0:59:35.040 --> 0:59:38.240 problem we haven't overcome, and post election we're not really 0:59:38.240 --> 0:59:42.040 talking about it, is the supply constraints that's actually getting worse, 0:59:42.280 --> 0:59:45.840 not better. The rental crisis is still ongoing. That has 0:59:45.880 --> 0:59:49.160 not been solved. So when I look at interest rates, Yep, 0:59:49.280 --> 0:59:52.480 things happen overseas, things go wrong. We can adjust those 0:59:52.520 --> 0:59:55.880 interest rates that will protect the economy. We've still got 0:59:55.880 --> 0:59:59.000 a population issue, We've still got a supply issue, so 0:59:59.040 --> 1:00:01.080 property prices will continue to grow. 1:00:01.280 --> 1:00:02.760 What do you think about the outlook for the next 1:00:02.760 --> 1:00:04.320 twelve months, eighteen months? 1:00:05.160 --> 1:00:08.600 Look, I think nationally we're probably looking at somewhere between 1:00:08.760 --> 1:00:11.600 six to nine percent growth, depending on what capital city 1:00:11.640 --> 1:00:15.320 you're in. But look, we've now got a capital city 1:00:15.760 --> 1:00:16.920 median house price. 1:00:17.000 --> 1:00:17.640 Believe it or not. 1:00:17.640 --> 1:00:20.040 Clinton, when we grew up in the nineties, you never 1:00:20.080 --> 1:00:22.600 would have believed it that the median house price now 1:00:22.640 --> 1:00:24.720 is a million dollars across all capital cities. 1:00:24.480 --> 1:00:26.280 All the whole country. 1:00:26.360 --> 1:00:27.200 It's nuts. 1:00:27.200 --> 1:00:28.160 Who would have fought. 1:00:28.280 --> 1:00:28.960 Yeah, so. 1:00:30.440 --> 1:00:32.439 Look we're going to see six to nine percent growth 1:00:32.440 --> 1:00:36.280 depending on what capital city. The key city investors should 1:00:36.320 --> 1:00:39.200 be looking at right now is Melbourne. Melbourne has had 1:00:39.200 --> 1:00:42.880 pretty much no growth since twenty twenty two. Purpose taken off, 1:00:42.920 --> 1:00:46.640 Brisbane has taken off, Adelaide has taken off, gone through 1:00:46.680 --> 1:00:49.520 the charts. Melbourne has had no growth. So the next 1:00:49.680 --> 1:00:51.480 area to pop will be Melbourne. 1:00:51.520 --> 1:00:55.560 Okay, Melbourne, not Sydney. Melbourne. If people want to think 1:00:55.560 --> 1:00:58.800 about investing now, and you are proud sponsors of our program, 1:00:59.280 --> 1:01:01.960 is now a good time? With all the uncertain it's around, 1:01:02.000 --> 1:01:03.960 not quite knowing when the interest rate's going to be 1:01:03.960 --> 1:01:06.560 cut again, is now a good time to think about it? 1:01:06.560 --> 1:01:10.840 It's probably the best time ever. And the reason I 1:01:10.920 --> 1:01:13.480 say that is a lot of things are actually happening 1:01:13.520 --> 1:01:15.520 and don't have time to unpack it right now. There's 1:01:15.560 --> 1:01:18.400 a lot of things happening in Australia's favor, so we 1:01:18.520 --> 1:01:21.720 are well positioned for the next five, ten to fifteen years. 1:01:22.000 --> 1:01:24.320 But if you look at the population growth, the wealth 1:01:24.360 --> 1:01:27.000 of our country, our natural resources, all the growth still 1:01:27.040 --> 1:01:28.360 going around the world, I know there's a lot of 1:01:28.400 --> 1:01:31.400 doom and gloom in the media, but we are well positioned. 1:01:31.440 --> 1:01:33.720 We're cushioned against all of these shocks going on around 1:01:33.720 --> 1:01:36.040 the world. We've still got a strong partnership with the US. 1:01:36.480 --> 1:01:39.520 Our local economy is great. Ossie's are great, We're working hard, 1:01:39.600 --> 1:01:43.320 business is great, unemployment's low, and we've got a shortage 1:01:43.720 --> 1:01:47.120 of property. No matter what happens with AI and technology 1:01:47.120 --> 1:01:49.480 and all of this, we're always going to need somewhere 1:01:49.520 --> 1:01:51.040 to live, and our cremation is growing. 1:01:51.080 --> 1:01:51.280 True. 1:01:51.360 --> 1:01:53.280 Yep, good on your Scott, Thanks for joining us today. 1:01:53.880 --> 1:01:56.680 Cheers mate, Scott Kuru who's from Freedom Property Investors and 1:01:56.720 --> 1:01:58.600 are sponsors of our program. But I wanted to talk 1:01:58.600 --> 1:02:00.640 to Scott given what's been unfolding the Middle East over 1:02:00.640 --> 1:02:03.040 the past week and whether it's going to have an impact. 1:02:03.080 --> 1:02:05.440 It's certainly going to have an impact economically on it, 1:02:05.480 --> 1:02:08.640 but does it have an impact on property investment. It's 1:02:08.680 --> 1:02:12.800 twenty five, It's seventeen to five. Don't forget. I'm still 1:02:12.840 --> 1:02:16.560 to spin Twogb's winter wheel. It is coming. Don't call yet. 1:02:16.920 --> 1:02:20.080 And yes, we did give away fifteen hundred dollars yesterday. 1:02:20.200 --> 1:02:22.440 We've got a knack in giving away a lot of 1:02:22.440 --> 1:02:24.360 money on this prag I've got some great prices as well, 1:02:24.400 --> 1:02:28.000 so don't call yet. Keep listening before I spin Twogb's Winter. 1:02:27.840 --> 1:02:34.480 Wheel on Sydney. Now you can't handle the true the 1:02:34.840 --> 1:02:35.560 straight shot? 1:02:36.560 --> 1:02:39.480 How straight shrao to this afternoon? Is the outgoing liberal 1:02:39.560 --> 1:02:42.560 center that Holly Hughes and I wanted to get Holly 1:02:42.600 --> 1:02:47.040 in studio today because this is her last time on 1:02:47.200 --> 1:02:52.160 the station as a politician, well for now, so you know, 1:02:52.320 --> 1:02:52.600 to know. 1:02:52.880 --> 1:02:55.560 I'm thinking this is when the last time as a politician. 1:02:55.080 --> 1:02:56.760 So it's formally your Senate term is going to come 1:02:56.800 --> 1:02:58.120 to an end at the end of this week next 1:02:58.120 --> 1:03:00.840 week a Monday, Jean, how do you feel? How do 1:03:00.880 --> 1:03:01.440 you feel about that? 1:03:01.760 --> 1:03:05.000 Look, I'm actually really looking forward to it. It's been 1:03:05.040 --> 1:03:08.560 a difficult time in the sense that I knew I 1:03:08.600 --> 1:03:11.360 was leaving for a good sort of thirteen months, so 1:03:12.200 --> 1:03:13.920 it's given me plenty of time to have a think 1:03:13.920 --> 1:03:16.520 about what's next. I still don't one hundred percent know, 1:03:16.720 --> 1:03:18.960 but it certainly give me plenty of time to get 1:03:19.000 --> 1:03:21.920 ready for it. So it's amazing when you start to 1:03:21.920 --> 1:03:24.960 see the big blue sky and then you experience a 1:03:25.000 --> 1:03:27.160 little bit of the Canberra winter and realize you're not 1:03:27.200 --> 1:03:29.280 having to go back to that, you start to see 1:03:29.320 --> 1:03:32.400 the upshot, and then couple that with the election result. 1:03:32.640 --> 1:03:34.080 I think I may have dodged. 1:03:33.760 --> 1:03:37.320 A bullet quite potentially. What I certainly admired in you 1:03:37.600 --> 1:03:40.280 after the election result, and perhaps it was easy for 1:03:40.320 --> 1:03:42.560 you to do this was you were very much and 1:03:42.560 --> 1:03:43.840 you really always have been on this. But you're very 1:03:43.880 --> 1:03:46.720 much willing to speak your mind. You're public about why 1:03:46.720 --> 1:03:50.760 the election, but you're very public about why the campaign failed. 1:03:51.440 --> 1:03:51.720 Yeah. 1:03:51.760 --> 1:03:53.439 Well, and I think you've got to be honest with people, 1:03:53.480 --> 1:03:55.880 and I think that's really important and it's probably important 1:03:55.920 --> 1:03:58.520 more politicians do do that. I mean, it's extraordinary the 1:03:58.520 --> 1:04:01.840 people that I know and like how they have a 1:04:02.000 --> 1:04:05.800 very rigid persona in the media, but they're actually really 1:04:05.880 --> 1:04:07.800 quite good fun if you go out for dinner with them, 1:04:07.840 --> 1:04:10.280 and can be quite entertaining. And I think too many 1:04:10.320 --> 1:04:15.360 people think as a politician being serious means you have 1:04:15.400 --> 1:04:18.360 to come across as boring or dar and I don't 1:04:18.400 --> 1:04:19.680 think that's the case. 1:04:19.960 --> 1:04:22.280 Both sides of politics. In your experience, who was the 1:04:22.320 --> 1:04:24.920 most fun politician to go out to dinner. 1:04:24.680 --> 1:04:29.439 With, without a doubt, Milton Dick, the Speaker. We have 1:04:29.480 --> 1:04:32.520 been really close mate since two thousand and four we 1:04:32.560 --> 1:04:36.200 did a young political leader's trip to the US and 1:04:36.240 --> 1:04:38.880 we bonded on that trip. It was actually straight after 1:04:39.000 --> 1:04:44.080 Latham lost the Medicare Gold election and we were over 1:04:44.120 --> 1:04:46.959 there for the US presidential election of George W. Bush 1:04:47.000 --> 1:04:50.200 and John Kerry and became great mates. And he is 1:04:50.240 --> 1:04:53.920 still one of the most fun people in my life, 1:04:54.000 --> 1:04:57.320 full stop, end of story. So certainly we'll be looking 1:04:57.360 --> 1:04:59.080 forward to some more long dinners with him. 1:04:59.520 --> 1:05:00.440 Is Alba fun? 1:05:01.040 --> 1:05:01.280 Do you know? 1:05:01.360 --> 1:05:04.600 I don't know him very well. I never saw that 1:05:04.640 --> 1:05:06.960 side of you, never saw that. I really only met 1:05:07.040 --> 1:05:09.840 him a couple of times, and neither time was I 1:05:09.880 --> 1:05:13.200 particularly enamored. Neither time did I think he was particularly warm, 1:05:13.840 --> 1:05:16.200 And I certainly didn't see a fun side. But you know, 1:05:16.280 --> 1:05:18.760 then again, maybe that's not for me to see. 1:05:19.200 --> 1:05:21.880 Is it hard for a career politician, and let's be honest, 1:05:21.920 --> 1:05:24.640 Albo's a career politician. Is it hard for a career 1:05:24.680 --> 1:05:28.840 politician to be and show the qualities of a real person. 1:05:29.480 --> 1:05:32.800 Well, some of them, I'm not sure still maintain those qualities. 1:05:32.840 --> 1:05:34.880 They've kept them hidden for so long. I think they've 1:05:34.880 --> 1:05:38.800 almost forgotten what being a real person is about and 1:05:38.840 --> 1:05:41.280 whether Elbow has done that or not, that'll be a 1:05:41.280 --> 1:05:43.400 matter for him. But I think he's been in the 1:05:43.480 --> 1:05:46.640 game for so long the ability to turn it off, 1:05:47.760 --> 1:05:50.920 you know, may not be there anymore. But look, I 1:05:50.920 --> 1:05:53.160 think more people need to be authentic, They need to 1:05:53.160 --> 1:05:55.440 be their real selves because for every one of your 1:05:55.520 --> 1:05:58.840 listeners sitting in their car driving home, cost of living 1:05:58.880 --> 1:06:02.320 pressures are still so very, very real for many families 1:06:02.360 --> 1:06:05.400 at the moment. We need to be honest and you know, 1:06:05.760 --> 1:06:12.080 politicians experience the same sorts of challenges that everybody else faces, 1:06:12.360 --> 1:06:14.880 and sometimes more in a different way. You know, I've 1:06:14.880 --> 1:06:18.520 had to juggle being away for you know, a lot 1:06:18.560 --> 1:06:21.600 of time each year with three children that we're going 1:06:21.600 --> 1:06:25.560 through school. So you know, it does come with a price. 1:06:25.640 --> 1:06:28.040 It's a price that we're prepared to pay. But our 1:06:28.080 --> 1:06:30.200 families at the end of the day are conscripts and 1:06:30.680 --> 1:06:31.800 we need to be mindful of that. 1:06:31.840 --> 1:06:33.960 You see. I think there's a real desire and maybe 1:06:33.960 --> 1:06:36.320 this is just the way that because we've been exposed 1:06:36.360 --> 1:06:39.440 out a reality TV and social media, there's more desire 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:43.080 than ever for the voters to see the reality in 1:06:43.120 --> 1:06:46.680 politicians what they actually really like. Yeah, but politicians themselves, 1:06:47.280 --> 1:06:49.040 more than ever don't want to take any risk now. 1:06:49.120 --> 1:06:51.160 And I guess that's because you can easily be exposed 1:06:51.360 --> 1:06:52.080 on social media. 1:06:52.080 --> 1:06:53.560 Well, and I think it's a twenty four to seven 1:06:53.600 --> 1:06:56.800 media cycle. I mean, you know yourself, Clinton and your producers, 1:06:56.800 --> 1:06:58.720 what are you going to talk about? What's happening today? 1:06:59.040 --> 1:07:03.400 There's a constant for the news. You're constantly under scrutiny, 1:07:03.840 --> 1:07:09.320 and it's not necessarily accepting of politicians being human. There 1:07:09.360 --> 1:07:12.160 almost seems to be a thought that they're able to 1:07:12.200 --> 1:07:14.760 operate at a level other than that, and that's just 1:07:14.800 --> 1:07:15.360 not the case. 1:07:15.600 --> 1:07:18.880 Yeah. The developing story this afternoon is the ceasefire in 1:07:18.920 --> 1:07:21.720 the Middle East, and Donald Trump has issued a social 1:07:21.800 --> 1:07:26.040 media statement on his own Truth social service and it reads, 1:07:26.040 --> 1:07:28.960 in capital letters, the ceasefire is now in effect. Please 1:07:29.000 --> 1:07:31.840 do not violate it now. I can see you're wearing 1:07:31.960 --> 1:07:35.960 a lapel pin which features and flag of Israel and 1:07:35.960 --> 1:07:39.200 a flag of Australia. How do you think the next 1:07:39.320 --> 1:07:40.760 twenty four hours are going to proceed. 1:07:40.920 --> 1:07:43.520 I think it's really important that this ceasefire hold. I 1:07:43.560 --> 1:07:47.280 think what Trump did was extraordinary. I think it's peace 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:50.000 via strength. You're going to hear that term, I think 1:07:50.040 --> 1:07:52.960 a lot. But what Israel has done and now with 1:07:53.000 --> 1:07:55.880 the US coming in, I think there's a potential change 1:07:56.400 --> 1:07:59.720 across the Middle East landscape. And we know that Iran 1:08:00.160 --> 1:08:02.600 has been the head of the snake. It's funding the hoodies, 1:08:02.640 --> 1:08:06.760 it's funding has Belah, it's been funding Hamas and so 1:08:07.280 --> 1:08:11.840 by the weakening of Iran, everybody agrees. I mean even 1:08:12.040 --> 1:08:14.800 Albanesi and Woe could manage to bring up themselves to 1:08:14.840 --> 1:08:18.439 say Iran can't have nuclear weapons. Hopefully, this is what 1:08:18.479 --> 1:08:21.120 we see is a reshaping of the Middle East, a 1:08:21.200 --> 1:08:24.559 Middle East that's more driven by the Abraham Accords, where 1:08:24.560 --> 1:08:28.920 we see peace across Saudi's, the UAE and a lot 1:08:28.920 --> 1:08:31.760 of the other Middle Eastern countries with Israel. And this 1:08:32.600 --> 1:08:35.519 an end to the calling for the destruction of Israel, 1:08:35.560 --> 1:08:38.479 which was being driven primarily by Iran and its proxies. 1:08:38.760 --> 1:08:42.080 The Prime Minister has spoken again today and he spoke yesterday. 1:08:42.120 --> 1:08:43.679 But did you take you more than twenty four hours 1:08:43.720 --> 1:08:46.759 to actually publicly comment The statement was released on the weekend, 1:08:46.800 --> 1:08:48.760 but that state was not attributed to anyone or even 1:08:48.800 --> 1:08:50.360 in office. Did it take him too long? 1:08:50.520 --> 1:08:52.400 Yeah, Look, it was appalling and I mean the fact 1:08:52.400 --> 1:08:55.680 they put out this limp wristed commentary from Tanya Plipasek 1:08:56.479 --> 1:08:58.519 and then Pennywong and out to the Albaniezi would know 1:08:58.520 --> 1:09:02.000 where to be seen. Think what, we're not a key 1:09:02.040 --> 1:09:04.439 player when it comes to the negotiation wards in Iran, 1:09:04.600 --> 1:09:08.000 Israel and the US. But what we are is a 1:09:08.040 --> 1:09:11.080 longtime ally and friend of the United States. And I 1:09:11.120 --> 1:09:14.479 think this in action is constantcyting on the fence that 1:09:14.880 --> 1:09:18.120 Albini has been so weak when it comes to his 1:09:18.160 --> 1:09:21.559 support for Israel, let alone everything coupled up with Trump. 1:09:22.000 --> 1:09:26.439 I think that in action, that lack of response is 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:30.120 going to be echoing very loudly through the halls of Washington. 1:09:30.200 --> 1:09:31.719 And that's where I think it's important. 1:09:31.720 --> 1:09:33.840 What do you think that drives this? Because before the 1:09:33.840 --> 1:09:37.000 election there was the line that labor politicians were sitting 1:09:37.000 --> 1:09:38.479 on the fence and some of these issues because they 1:09:38.520 --> 1:09:42.120 were so worried about the various independent Muslim groups that 1:09:42.160 --> 1:09:44.120 would run in Sydney's West. They don't have to worry 1:09:44.240 --> 1:09:47.040 that anymore. They've got a thumping majority. Is this just 1:09:47.560 --> 1:09:49.200 to the core of the PM that when he was 1:09:49.240 --> 1:09:52.240 a young radical running around the university yard. This was 1:09:52.280 --> 1:09:53.080 his belief that he. 1:09:53.120 --> 1:09:55.960 Was and that's what I think sometimes when you look 1:09:55.960 --> 1:10:00.000 at the way they're conducting themselves, it is like university politics, 1:10:00.080 --> 1:10:04.160 city is still embracing these old left wing causes that 1:10:04.240 --> 1:10:07.400 I don't think in any way the same shape or 1:10:07.400 --> 1:10:09.400 form that they were when he was at university. Now, 1:10:09.439 --> 1:10:10.800 I could get in trouble with this. I'm going to 1:10:10.800 --> 1:10:15.200 say about forty years ago. It probably around you know, 1:10:15.280 --> 1:10:17.880 forty years ago, and you know, things have changed and 1:10:17.960 --> 1:10:21.640 moved on. But I'm not quite sure that old socialist 1:10:21.800 --> 1:10:25.360 left wing that they can ever really let go of 1:10:25.360 --> 1:10:28.840 those old hatreds, reds under the bed, you know, all 1:10:28.880 --> 1:10:31.400 of those old things that were floating around. I think 1:10:31.439 --> 1:10:33.640 they probably still still have a little bit of a 1:10:33.680 --> 1:10:34.280 red center. 1:10:34.560 --> 1:10:37.519 Now, just on mister Alban easy news has broken today 1:10:37.600 --> 1:10:39.400 that the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister is the 1:10:39.439 --> 1:10:41.880 one who decides this, has told the Opposition it will 1:10:41.920 --> 1:10:45.759 need to cut twenty staffing roles, sixteen senior advisor positions 1:10:45.760 --> 1:10:48.439 will go within the coalition and it is that's a 1:10:48.479 --> 1:10:52.160 decision for the PM. From your experience of working as 1:10:52.160 --> 1:10:54.679 a senior member of the coalition, is that too harsh? 1:10:55.080 --> 1:10:58.360 I think it's vindictive. I think it's nasty. I actually 1:10:58.439 --> 1:11:06.120 think it's it's almost transparent in his unwillingness to have 1:11:06.160 --> 1:11:09.280 a strong opposition that's able to call the government out 1:11:09.320 --> 1:11:13.719 to account staff as salaries, particularly staff is in Sydney. 1:11:13.720 --> 1:11:17.160 You got to remember politicians and staff federally get paid 1:11:17.360 --> 1:11:19.760 exactly the same if you live in Lonceston or if 1:11:19.800 --> 1:11:23.880 you live in Sydney. There's no scale of travel allowance things. 1:11:24.120 --> 1:11:25.920 Sorry, is there a travel allowance for them? 1:11:26.040 --> 1:11:28.519 There is a travel allowance for them when they go 1:11:28.560 --> 1:11:33.880 to camp or when they travel, but their salaries for 1:11:33.960 --> 1:11:38.120 their experience don't often reflect what they could be earning 1:11:38.120 --> 1:11:40.280 in the corporate sector. So a lot of these staff 1:11:40.360 --> 1:11:42.000 do it out of a sense of public duty, in 1:11:42.040 --> 1:11:46.479 a sense of serving a government or an opposition to 1:11:46.520 --> 1:11:49.519 make the country better. And by having to cut so 1:11:49.600 --> 1:11:53.240 many senior staff, it'll be interesting whether or not many 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:55.479 of them will be able to afford to stay, because 1:11:55.479 --> 1:11:57.400 it will mean and a lot of these people have 1:11:57.439 --> 1:11:58.880 families themselves. 1:11:58.400 --> 1:12:00.960 And that is actually going to affect the way government operates. Well, 1:12:00.960 --> 1:12:02.439 that's going the way parliament operates. 1:12:02.520 --> 1:12:06.160 It affects everything, and a good government relies on a 1:12:06.200 --> 1:12:08.719 strong and effective opposition and that's just the reality. 1:12:08.800 --> 1:12:10.320 And if you don't have the staff, you don't have 1:12:10.320 --> 1:12:12.680 the people to actually research issues. And then on the 1:12:12.680 --> 1:12:16.519 flip side, ministers and government in peace they have access 1:12:16.560 --> 1:12:18.320 not just to their personal stuff, they have access to 1:12:18.360 --> 1:12:19.600 the public service, the. 1:12:19.800 --> 1:12:22.560 Entire departments at their beck and call, and the opposition 1:12:22.640 --> 1:12:24.040 has nowhere near the resources. 1:12:24.040 --> 1:12:24.240 Now. 1:12:24.320 --> 1:12:26.400 One of the things that I was very vocal about, 1:12:26.479 --> 1:12:30.200 and we have done a handover to the incoming Shadow 1:12:30.240 --> 1:12:34.960 Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Zoe McKenzie. We 1:12:35.040 --> 1:12:37.840 had seven policies that we had written, that we had 1:12:37.880 --> 1:12:41.240 had costed, that we'd put together that disappeared into the 1:12:41.280 --> 1:12:44.960 policy vortex in the previous opposition. So we've handed those 1:12:45.040 --> 1:12:49.040 over and I would hope that every single shadow minister 1:12:49.360 --> 1:12:52.600 within the opposition is going to whomever used to be 1:12:52.720 --> 1:12:54.679 the shadow in that area, because a lot of people 1:12:54.680 --> 1:12:57.360 have claimed the same. I actually meant to bring them 1:12:57.360 --> 1:12:59.960 with me because I could show you the seven bits 1:13:00.160 --> 1:13:03.920 of documents that I have, the cluster of documents on 1:13:03.920 --> 1:13:06.920 each of those policies. But every single shadow minister who 1:13:06.920 --> 1:13:09.360 didn't get policies through that didn't get feedback on them 1:13:09.360 --> 1:13:11.880 that disappeared into this vortex. They really need to be 1:13:11.920 --> 1:13:15.000 passing those on to make sure that hopefully we did 1:13:15.000 --> 1:13:17.280 an awful lot of work. So hopefully with reduce staff, 1:13:17.320 --> 1:13:18.679 they've got a lot of work already done. 1:13:18.720 --> 1:13:20.360 I'm always out of time. But you mentioned you weren't 1:13:20.400 --> 1:13:22.200 sure what's next in your career. I think I found 1:13:22.200 --> 1:13:30.200 something used today that a woman has quit her corporate lifestyle, 1:13:30.280 --> 1:13:33.160 her corporate grind, to live on a cruise ship full 1:13:33.200 --> 1:13:36.000 time and she's paying about three hundred dollars a week. 1:13:36.000 --> 1:13:36.120 Now. 1:13:36.120 --> 1:13:37.880 It's some sort of a cruise ship that features a 1:13:37.880 --> 1:13:39.760 lot of gambling on board, but she's our manager for 1:13:39.760 --> 1:13:41.639 about three hundred dolls a week. Would you consider living 1:13:41.680 --> 1:13:42.360 on a cruise ship? 1:13:43.280 --> 1:13:45.599 I got to say, no, it doesn't really. 1:13:46.360 --> 1:13:49.120 Sorry to use this people people would have these days. 1:13:49.200 --> 1:13:51.599 Yeah, look, I don't know. It's one way to get 1:13:51.640 --> 1:13:53.720 away from the kids. I suppose you know, if you're 1:13:53.760 --> 1:13:55.400 on the other side of the world, they can't just 1:13:55.479 --> 1:13:58.400 pop over. It gets you out of babysitting and school pickups. 1:13:58.439 --> 1:14:01.760 But yeah, I don't know. But that love boat just 1:14:02.160 --> 1:14:04.960 my mum, God rest her soul. But when I was 1:14:05.040 --> 1:14:07.080 little she used to let me stay up to watch 1:14:07.120 --> 1:14:09.479 the Love Boat with her, so that brings back lots 1:14:09.479 --> 1:14:10.400 and lots of memories. 1:14:10.520 --> 1:14:12.479 I've never been on a cruise. I'm going on a 1:14:12.560 --> 1:14:13.479 very short three day one. 1:14:13.720 --> 1:14:14.800 I've never been on one either. 1:14:14.920 --> 1:14:17.400 Two weeks time love. Yeah, I'm a little bit worried. 1:14:17.439 --> 1:14:20.200 Hey Holly, Thanks, Thanks Gleanton. We'll talk again soon straight shoot, 1:14:20.320 --> 1:14:21.800 Holy Years. 1:14:23.040 --> 1:14:27.000 This Sydney now with Clinton Maynor on to. 1:14:27.240 --> 1:14:30.559 GB seven past five. Great, have your company this Tuesday 1:14:30.600 --> 1:14:32.840 evening one three one eight seven three is my number. 1:14:32.840 --> 1:14:35.640 Don't call yet, but just listen out. We are going 1:14:35.680 --> 1:14:38.000 to spin the wheel shortly now. I brought you the 1:14:38.040 --> 1:14:41.160 story a little earlier that there will be an extraordinary 1:14:41.240 --> 1:14:46.679 meeting of Medical Staff Council on Thursday evening the Medical 1:14:46.680 --> 1:14:50.519 Staff Council of Westmead Hospital. Things have become so dire 1:14:50.600 --> 1:14:54.680 at Westmeat Hospital that specialists have called this meeting for 1:14:54.720 --> 1:14:56.760 a vote of no confidence in the Chief executive. Now, 1:14:56.840 --> 1:14:59.880 yesterday in the program, we spoke about the neonatal unit 1:15:00.320 --> 1:15:03.760 and there were reports that babies were being treated in storerooms, 1:15:04.080 --> 1:15:06.639 that babies were being treated in corridors. And I spoke 1:15:06.680 --> 1:15:08.960 to my contacts within the government. They said, no, that's 1:15:09.000 --> 1:15:11.759 not the case, but they conceded that there were resources 1:15:11.800 --> 1:15:14.920 issues at Westmead Hospital and Ryan Park. The Health Minister 1:15:15.280 --> 1:15:17.360 has made a vow that he will visit Westmead to 1:15:17.400 --> 1:15:20.200 meet with those midwives, nurses and the executive of the 1:15:20.280 --> 1:15:24.280 hospital this week. Well, based on the information that's come 1:15:24.320 --> 1:15:27.520 to me, and this has come from a senior gastro enterologist, 1:15:28.200 --> 1:15:31.200 so a specialist, an extraordinary meeting a medical staff has 1:15:31.240 --> 1:15:33.479 been called for Thursday five point thirty a vote of 1:15:33.520 --> 1:15:36.360 no confidence in the chief executive. If you've got your 1:15:36.400 --> 1:15:39.120 top doctors and the top specialists in a hospital who 1:15:39.160 --> 1:15:42.000 don't want the boss to stay in that position, very 1:15:42.000 --> 1:15:44.519 hard to remain in that position. Well, we now have 1:15:44.600 --> 1:15:47.080 a statement, a formal statement from the Western Sydney Local 1:15:47.080 --> 1:15:51.240 Health District and they say Western Sydney Local Health District 1:15:51.280 --> 1:15:54.120 management have not been advised of a meeting of the 1:15:54.400 --> 1:15:59.439 Westmead Medical Staff Council or topics for discussion. Western Sydney 1:15:59.439 --> 1:16:02.599 Local Health Death Strict sincerely apologizes to patients who've been 1:16:02.640 --> 1:16:06.839 impacted by delays to access care provided by Westmead Hospital's 1:16:07.040 --> 1:16:10.120 gastro Andoology department and it is a gastro enterroologist who's 1:16:10.160 --> 1:16:13.160 raised these concerns today. During an initial assessment of the 1:16:13.160 --> 1:16:16.519 hospital's outpatient service, it was identified that there were significant 1:16:16.600 --> 1:16:20.519 number of overdue appointments that required assessment. An independent senior 1:16:20.520 --> 1:16:25.200 commission has reviewed identities of patients underway to prioritize outpatient appointments. 1:16:25.680 --> 1:16:28.400 Patients will be contacted and provided with an update to 1:16:28.479 --> 1:16:31.400 confirm their appointment. So this is just one part of 1:16:31.400 --> 1:16:34.439 the hospital. But obviously there is such concern within Westmead 1:16:34.520 --> 1:16:38.120 Hospital at the moment that gastro enterologists and other senior 1:16:38.120 --> 1:16:42.760 physicians other specialists have called this meeting for Thursday night. 1:16:42.800 --> 1:16:44.720 And I'm probably not surprised that the Western Sydney Local 1:16:44.720 --> 1:16:46.720 Area Health District management has not been advised because they're 1:16:46.720 --> 1:16:50.479 probably not invited because it's going to be a vote 1:16:50.600 --> 1:16:53.040 against the way they're managing their hospital. 1:16:53.040 --> 1:16:56.639 Be a part of Sydney. Now with Clinton Maynard called 1:16:56.640 --> 1:16:57.559 one three one. 1:16:57.640 --> 1:17:00.559 Eight, the state budget has been handed down today by 1:17:00.560 --> 1:17:03.519 the Treasurer Daniel Mookie. Now a core part of the 1:17:03.520 --> 1:17:08.000 budget is housing and quite an out of the box 1:17:08.080 --> 1:17:10.680 plan that will see the government act as a guarranteur 1:17:10.840 --> 1:17:13.800 for major projects. Now not every major project. These will 1:17:13.800 --> 1:17:17.920 be big residential unit developments for instance, And what the 1:17:17.960 --> 1:17:20.439 government has found is that there is some apprehension for 1:17:20.479 --> 1:17:23.959 developers to go ahead and seek finance and develop property 1:17:24.360 --> 1:17:26.840 because they're concerned about their return. They're concern they won't 1:17:26.840 --> 1:17:29.880 get the finance take on that risk. So what the 1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:32.160 government is going to do with this is a billion 1:17:32.200 --> 1:17:37.400 dollar plan. They will provide guarantees and if, for instance, 1:17:38.400 --> 1:17:41.120 units don't sell off the plan, the government may actually 1:17:41.120 --> 1:17:45.000 step in to actually purchase some of those units and 1:17:45.040 --> 1:17:47.840 then use them for social housing down the track. This 1:17:47.880 --> 1:17:49.400 is the treasure of Daniel Mookie. 1:17:49.240 --> 1:17:51.799 Telling the people in New South Wales that a housing 1:17:51.840 --> 1:17:55.599 crisis that took decades to develop will take time to solve. 1:17:56.080 --> 1:17:59.639 But each budget we're making progress on why people feel 1:17:59.640 --> 1:18:00.960 like they're under such pressure. 1:18:01.360 --> 1:18:04.280 But the Opposition leader Mark Speakman has also spoken about 1:18:04.280 --> 1:18:06.439 this now and he says he can see holes in 1:18:06.439 --> 1:18:06.800 the plan. 1:18:07.040 --> 1:18:09.040 Who are the winners and who are the losers? Who 1:18:09.040 --> 1:18:12.280 gets to choose the winners and losers? What are the 1:18:12.320 --> 1:18:15.240 protections against any corruption risk? And at the end of 1:18:15.240 --> 1:18:17.800 the day, it's a very very modest proposal. 1:18:18.400 --> 1:18:21.120 Okay, So that's one aspect of the budget and more 1:18:21.160 --> 1:18:23.280 needs to be known about the details of how this 1:18:23.400 --> 1:18:26.080 guarantee plan is going to work. There is two point 1:18:26.120 --> 1:18:29.320 six billion dollars in funding for schools. That's down slightly 1:18:29.400 --> 1:18:32.799 from last year, as we heard from the NRIMA. Funding 1:18:32.840 --> 1:18:35.439 for Rhodes is still more than eight billion dollars, but 1:18:35.479 --> 1:18:37.840 it was more than nine billion dollars last year, so 1:18:37.880 --> 1:18:40.000 there is a reduction in and this is for capital 1:18:40.040 --> 1:18:42.840 works projects. There is a reduction there. There's a one 1:18:42.840 --> 1:18:45.959 point two billion dollar child protection package, and this is important. 1:18:45.960 --> 1:18:48.280 This is going to fund pay rises for case workers, 1:18:48.600 --> 1:18:52.240 but also fill two hundred vacant positions, so kids who 1:18:53.000 --> 1:18:57.280 have parents who can't look after their own children, kids 1:18:57.280 --> 1:19:01.000 whose parents are in jail who should be in foster 1:19:01.080 --> 1:19:04.920 care and they can't find foster pearance for them. Kids 1:19:04.960 --> 1:19:09.160 have ended up being looked after by caseworkers in motels. 1:19:10.400 --> 1:19:13.559 This is a plan to stop that happening, so they're 1:19:13.600 --> 1:19:16.880 not held in a motel room, which is quite astonishing 1:19:16.920 --> 1:19:20.120 to think that's actually been happening in recent times. That's 1:19:20.120 --> 1:19:23.639 a one point two billion dollar package. A key part 1:19:23.640 --> 1:19:27.280 of the budget is spending on health. It's the biggest 1:19:27.280 --> 1:19:29.920 part of spending effectively is on our health system. The 1:19:29.920 --> 1:19:33.080 President of the New South Wales AMA is doctor Catherine Austen. 1:19:33.280 --> 1:19:34.280 Thank you for joining us. 1:19:34.280 --> 1:19:37.200 Doctor, Thanks very much, Clenta, nice to talk. 1:19:37.280 --> 1:19:39.320 Are you happy with what's been announced in the health 1:19:39.320 --> 1:19:40.000 area today? 1:19:41.240 --> 1:19:41.439 Look? 1:19:41.520 --> 1:19:47.000 Unfortunately, no, Unfortunately, this healthcare budget really hasn't set any 1:19:47.080 --> 1:19:49.880 plan or direction for the future of health care and 1:19:50.040 --> 1:19:52.160 we really think that the patience of New South Wales 1:19:52.200 --> 1:19:52.840 deserve better. 1:19:53.960 --> 1:19:55.120 What's the main problem here? 1:19:56.200 --> 1:19:59.360 Look, one of the biggest challenges is that a large 1:20:00.320 --> 1:20:04.519 number of the announcements have really looked at big spends 1:20:04.560 --> 1:20:08.439 on infrastructure. One of the big problems about infrastructure is 1:20:08.439 --> 1:20:11.880 that infrastructure doesn't look after patients. And we know that 1:20:12.360 --> 1:20:15.600 what we really needed was an investment into the workforce, 1:20:15.840 --> 1:20:20.679 so our frontline doctors, nurses, allied healthcare staff that actually 1:20:20.720 --> 1:20:23.680 deliver that care to patients. And I think we just 1:20:23.800 --> 1:20:28.120 haven't seen that real investment in our workforce in any 1:20:28.160 --> 1:20:28.880 meaningful way. 1:20:29.200 --> 1:20:31.400 This budget doesn't address the issues for instance, and I 1:20:31.439 --> 1:20:34.160 know you're with the AMA, you're representing doctors not nurses, 1:20:34.200 --> 1:20:37.120 but it doesn't address the nurses pay issue. It doesn't 1:20:37.120 --> 1:20:39.439 address the issue with psychiatrists either. 1:20:40.680 --> 1:20:44.000 No, And unfortunately, out of all of this Obviously industrial 1:20:45.240 --> 1:20:48.800 relations is one complexity of this, but I think what 1:20:48.840 --> 1:20:51.439 we're seeing is that we know there are more and 1:20:51.560 --> 1:20:55.519 more acutely unwell patients and they've got increasingly complex health 1:20:55.560 --> 1:21:00.400 care needs, and the funding component to this just addressed 1:21:00.400 --> 1:21:03.000 it as part of workforce, but also we need to 1:21:03.000 --> 1:21:06.800 look at things like the complexities within the system being 1:21:06.880 --> 1:21:10.920 driven and led by doctors who can actually tell our 1:21:11.040 --> 1:21:14.120 patients when and how they need that surgery done, and 1:21:14.200 --> 1:21:17.080 we need that investment to be able to then perform 1:21:17.120 --> 1:21:20.400 the surgeries, look after the elective surgical waiting list so 1:21:20.439 --> 1:21:23.760 that there aren't more and more people increasing We've seen 1:21:23.880 --> 1:21:27.519 one hundred thousand patients waiting for elective surgery, which was 1:21:27.600 --> 1:21:30.559 close to the record during the pandemics when elective surgery 1:21:30.640 --> 1:21:33.960 was canceled, and more than that. You know, these people 1:21:34.040 --> 1:21:36.360 are these are all of us. These are mothers and 1:21:36.400 --> 1:21:39.519 fathers and neighbors, and all of those people need the 1:21:39.560 --> 1:21:43.280 surgery to alleviate their pain or regain quality of life 1:21:43.360 --> 1:21:46.280 or independence. And we know that healthcare is the corners 1:21:46.400 --> 1:21:49.160 of our son, and we really just need to make 1:21:49.160 --> 1:21:50.640 sure that is actually proposited. 1:21:51.200 --> 1:21:53.519 Doctor. We've been told today that there will be a 1:21:53.600 --> 1:21:56.439 vote held on Thursday evening there will be a meeting 1:21:56.600 --> 1:21:59.200 of the Medical Staff councilor West men Hospital where will 1:21:59.200 --> 1:22:01.200 be a vote of nokom and it's in the chief executive. 1:22:01.320 --> 1:22:04.400 Now the local area Health District management's told us that 1:22:04.439 --> 1:22:06.600 they have not been advised at this particular meeting or 1:22:06.600 --> 1:22:09.400 what's going to be discussed. What's your information on this one? 1:22:10.400 --> 1:22:14.160 Yeah, Look, we know that unfortunately these struggles that are 1:22:14.160 --> 1:22:17.240 really reflected in the budget from our healthcare staff, so 1:22:17.280 --> 1:22:19.840 our doctors in this setting, but also nurses and our 1:22:19.920 --> 1:22:24.040 light health staff are increasingly frustrated that we're seeing the 1:22:24.120 --> 1:22:27.759 complexity of our patients rising, We're seeing that there needs 1:22:27.760 --> 1:22:30.480 to be that investment in how to deliver these services, 1:22:30.960 --> 1:22:33.920 and the frontline people who then need to deliver these 1:22:33.920 --> 1:22:37.439 services are really not being heard at the higher levels 1:22:37.439 --> 1:22:40.559 of the hospitals. And unfortunately, in this case with Westmead, 1:22:40.880 --> 1:22:43.800 we believe that the chief executive that they have the 1:22:43.880 --> 1:22:47.240 vote of no confidence. But again we know that despite 1:22:47.400 --> 1:22:51.240 increasingly calling for improvements in these areas, they're just simply 1:22:51.280 --> 1:22:54.360 not being addressed. After years and years of correspondence and. 1:22:54.320 --> 1:22:57.840 It's been going and it's been happening under both levels 1:22:57.880 --> 1:23:00.680 of government. Thank you for your time, doctor, Thank you 1:23:00.720 --> 1:23:03.280 so much for chatting Doctor Catherine Austin, who's the president 1:23:03.320 --> 1:23:05.679 of the AM New South Wales. So they're not happy 1:23:05.720 --> 1:23:07.920 what's in the budget in the area of health. Now, 1:23:08.000 --> 1:23:11.200 yesterday on the program, we spoke to May May owns 1:23:11.240 --> 1:23:13.559 an arcade in Tarre and she was part of a 1:23:13.560 --> 1:23:17.600 major rally in Tarre involving three thousand people that was 1:23:17.640 --> 1:23:20.439 protesting out the lack of government assistance following the floods 1:23:20.479 --> 1:23:22.799 on the Mid North Coast. There is within the budget 1:23:22.840 --> 1:23:25.720 a three hundred and fifty eight million dollar allocation for 1:23:25.880 --> 1:23:30.519 disaster recovery and relief measures directly related to the floods 1:23:30.840 --> 1:23:34.040 of last month. Now I'm still seeking the actual finer details. 1:23:34.400 --> 1:23:36.639 My understanding is that's not going to increase the grants 1:23:36.640 --> 1:23:39.240 from the twenty five thousand which some farmers and primary 1:23:39.240 --> 1:23:41.439 producers are now able to apply for, to the seventy 1:23:41.479 --> 1:23:43.960 five thousand that they would have if they were class 1:23:43.960 --> 1:23:46.439 Category D. But I'll seek some more information. But there 1:23:46.520 --> 1:23:49.280 is three hundred and fifty eight million dollars in disaster 1:23:49.400 --> 1:23:54.120 recovery and relief measures in the budget to. 1:23:54.200 --> 1:23:59.880 The genvs the winter wheel. 1:23:58.400 --> 1:24:01.240 Points some money. I have to win some great prizes. 1:24:01.439 --> 1:24:04.040 I have the wheel next to me. I'm about to 1:24:04.160 --> 1:24:06.679 spin it, but you need to call me. Okay, We're 1:24:06.680 --> 1:24:11.040 looking for the fourth caller. One three hundred seven double 1:24:11.040 --> 1:24:13.960 two eight seven to three. That's the competition line. One 1:24:14.040 --> 1:24:18.000 three hundred seven double two eight seven to three Your 1:24:18.120 --> 1:24:20.840 chance to spin two Gib's Winter Wheel. We have up 1:24:20.880 --> 1:24:23.840 to forty thousand dollars worth of cash and prizes to 1:24:23.880 --> 1:24:27.920 be won. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnya, who is 1:24:27.960 --> 1:24:31.680 now formally agreed and confirmed that he has agreed to 1:24:31.720 --> 1:24:36.160 the ceasefire with Iran in coordination with US President Donald Trump. 1:24:36.640 --> 1:24:39.519 He says he reported to Israel's security cabinet on Monday 1:24:39.600 --> 1:24:42.000 night that Israel had achieved all of its war goals 1:24:42.040 --> 1:24:45.280 in the twelve day operation against Iran, including removing the 1:24:45.280 --> 1:24:49.519 threat of their nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Israel also 1:24:49.720 --> 1:24:53.280 damaged Iran's military leadership and several government sites, and achieved 1:24:53.280 --> 1:24:57.839 control over Tehran's skies. Netna Who says he says Israeli 1:24:57.920 --> 1:25:01.120 respond forcefully to any violation of the ceasefire. 1:25:02.600 --> 1:25:05.360 Two GBS Winter a Wheel. 1:25:06.640 --> 1:25:08.760 Let's Spin, Let's see if we can give away some 1:25:08.800 --> 1:25:12.439 great prizes and cash this afternoon and let's find a winner. Hello, 1:25:12.520 --> 1:25:16.240 Wayne hikes Clinton. Here you go, mate, man, I'm fantastic, 1:25:16.240 --> 1:25:17.680 but I reckon you're going to be even better in 1:25:17.720 --> 1:25:18.080 a moment. 1:25:19.280 --> 1:25:19.840 I hope, sir. 1:25:20.400 --> 1:25:22.120 I've got a wheel next to me. I'm going to 1:25:22.160 --> 1:25:27.720 spin it on your behalf. It has the chocolate wheel. No, no, 1:25:27.840 --> 1:25:30.800 this is this is the spectacular two GB wheel that 1:25:30.880 --> 1:25:34.200 I think it was developed in nineteen ninety six in 1:25:34.240 --> 1:25:36.280 the old Sussex Street headquarters. But it's got a little 1:25:36.280 --> 1:25:38.559 bit of age on it, but it's lovely, very modern prizes. 1:25:39.000 --> 1:25:41.240 We've got a great price from National Tiles. We've got 1:25:41.240 --> 1:25:43.280 one thousand dollars. We've got five hundred dollars, we've got 1:25:43.280 --> 1:25:45.360 seven hundred and fifty dollars. We've got a lot of 1:25:45.360 --> 1:25:49.360 money on this wheel. I shall spin now, Wayne, thanks mate. 1:25:49.439 --> 1:25:51.160 I'm going to go. I'm going to go clockwise because 1:25:51.160 --> 1:25:52.720 it's a lot better clockwise. We had a lot of 1:25:52.800 --> 1:25:55.160 luck going clockwise. Here we go, one, two, three spin. 1:25:56.600 --> 1:25:59.800 It's spinning, spinning, spinning, zipping past the seven hundred and 1:25:59.800 --> 1:26:02.479 fifth dollar mark. It's just gone past one thousand, slowing down, 1:26:02.560 --> 1:26:06.200 slowing down, it's slowing down. Seven hundred and fifty dollars. 1:26:06.479 --> 1:26:09.680 Oh mate, thank you, thank you, thank Clinton, Thank you 1:26:09.800 --> 1:26:10.200 very much. 1:26:10.280 --> 1:26:10.639 Mate. 1:26:10.760 --> 1:26:12.880 Hey Wayne, what does seven hundred and fifty dollars mean 1:26:12.960 --> 1:26:15.040 to you? 1:26:15.400 --> 1:26:16.639 A lot, a lot of the moment. 1:26:16.720 --> 1:26:18.320 Yeah, so I've got to give it to the wife 1:26:18.320 --> 1:26:20.400 and happy wife, happy life. 1:26:21.040 --> 1:26:23.320 Tell me about it now, tell me though, will she 1:26:23.400 --> 1:26:25.439 spend a little bit of it on you? You're not 1:26:25.479 --> 1:26:26.680 just going to pay a year. 1:26:27.680 --> 1:26:30.080 Yeah, we're going to pay some bills, mate, electricity bills 1:26:30.080 --> 1:26:31.400 thanks to alb mousy. 1:26:32.920 --> 1:26:36.240 What about maybe maybe pay off the electricity bill and hey, 1:26:36.280 --> 1:26:37.920 seven fifty that's going to cover most of your called 1:26:37.960 --> 1:26:40.920 electricity bill, lope and then go out to dinner, go 1:26:40.960 --> 1:26:41.840 out to dinner somewhere. 1:26:42.560 --> 1:26:45.200 Well, yeah, we'll probably do that Clinton, Thanks mate, good. 1:26:45.040 --> 1:26:47.200 On your Wayne. We're going to keep spinning the wheel 1:26:47.240 --> 1:26:49.879 all week long. So tomorrow morning, Ben Forden in breakfast 1:26:49.960 --> 1:26:52.519 is going to spin the wheel. Leave in mornings. Very 1:26:52.600 --> 1:26:54.960 chuffed was our Mark Levy this morning because he gave 1:26:55.000 --> 1:26:58.160 away two and a half thousand dollars Mick MacMichael McLaren 1:26:58.280 --> 1:27:00.360 in the afternoon, fragum, and we will spin it again 1:27:00.400 --> 1:27:03.200 here on Sydney Now tomorrow afternoon. It will be at a 1:27:03.280 --> 1:27:05.760 different time tomorrow, so you're going to have to listen 1:27:05.840 --> 1:27:06.439 very closely. 1:27:06.600 --> 1:27:09.719 If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney 1:27:09.760 --> 1:27:10.719 Now with Clinton. 1:27:10.840 --> 1:27:13.519 Men on to GB if you'd like to send me 1:27:13.520 --> 1:27:16.240 a text message zero force zero eight seven three eight 1:27:16.320 --> 1:27:20.960 seven three. There are new exhilarrated NBN plans coming in September. 1:27:21.080 --> 1:27:23.160 It can be hard to keep up with all the 1:27:23.280 --> 1:27:25.960 changes with the way the Internet works and with the 1:27:26.040 --> 1:27:28.439 upgrades the NBN has been rolling out. But at the 1:27:28.520 --> 1:27:31.040 end of the day, what do we want? Reliable internet, 1:27:31.360 --> 1:27:33.559 fast Internet. I just want to check in with our 1:27:33.560 --> 1:27:37.160 sponsors NBN. Jane McNamara is with the NBN and joins us. 1:27:37.160 --> 1:27:39.280 Hello Jane, good to be with you Clinton. 1:27:39.400 --> 1:27:41.880 It does get a little bit confusing with all the 1:27:41.880 --> 1:27:44.720 different options there are now and the upgrades that you 1:27:44.760 --> 1:27:47.160 guys have been rolling out. You have upgraded and you're 1:27:47.240 --> 1:27:50.200 rolling out full fiber to the premises. What does full 1:27:50.240 --> 1:27:51.519 fiber to the premises mean? 1:27:52.479 --> 1:27:53.080 Absolutely? 1:27:53.400 --> 1:27:56.360 Look, your listeners will recall that you know, we finished 1:27:56.360 --> 1:28:00.240 that initial roll out back in twenty nineteen, twenty twentyting 1:28:00.280 --> 1:28:02.880 every home and business across the country to NBN and 1:28:03.320 --> 1:28:05.400 to keep pace with that demand that we have on 1:28:05.439 --> 1:28:07.800 the NBN and our love to be online and need 1:28:07.840 --> 1:28:10.559 to be online, we've been rolling out upgrades across the 1:28:10.600 --> 1:28:14.799 country ever since. And nothing beats full fiber. That's fiber 1:28:14.840 --> 1:28:17.920 optic cable all the way from the street to your 1:28:17.960 --> 1:28:22.480 front door, so lightning fastbroadband. You can't get more reliable 1:28:22.560 --> 1:28:26.200 and faster anywhere anywhere in the world. So you know, 1:28:26.360 --> 1:28:30.639 for one point four million homes and businesses across New 1:28:30.720 --> 1:28:34.920 South Wales, you know this fiber upgrade, full fiber to 1:28:34.960 --> 1:28:38.480 the home is now available and we've got these amazing 1:28:38.720 --> 1:28:42.960 accelerated speeds coming from the fourteenth of September, and we 1:28:43.160 --> 1:28:45.840 don't want anyone to miss out on the opportunity to 1:28:46.320 --> 1:28:48.800 get that upgrade. 1:28:48.080 --> 1:28:51.800 In practice, in practice, what does the fiber upgrade actually mean? 1:28:51.880 --> 1:28:54.040 To join everyday Sydney family. 1:28:55.280 --> 1:28:58.720 So really what it means is we we want our 1:28:58.800 --> 1:29:02.479 listeners to see to think about the plan that they're 1:29:02.479 --> 1:29:06.360 currently on, and we know most Australians are on a 1:29:06.400 --> 1:29:10.040 mid pier plan. And what we know is with all 1:29:10.080 --> 1:29:13.080 those connected devices that we love to use, about twenty 1:29:13.080 --> 1:29:15.200 five at the moment, going to grow to more than forty. 1:29:15.760 --> 1:29:18.280 Usually that mid sized plan, with the number of people 1:29:18.600 --> 1:29:20.840 in the home all on those devices at the one 1:29:20.920 --> 1:29:24.280 time this evening, you might notice that it's not performing 1:29:24.520 --> 1:29:26.759 how you think it should. And that's the perfect sign 1:29:27.560 --> 1:29:31.720 an increased speed plan. So going up one plan and 1:29:31.840 --> 1:29:34.800 getting that fib or upgrade is the perfect solution to 1:29:34.840 --> 1:29:37.360 make sure it's ready for today and you know ten 1:29:37.439 --> 1:29:38.240 years from now. 1:29:38.720 --> 1:29:41.120 I live in the sutherland Shire and I've been fortunate, 1:29:41.120 --> 1:29:43.200 we've been connected. We're an angeting. We've been connected to 1:29:43.200 --> 1:29:45.400 the NBN probably for about five years now, and I 1:29:45.439 --> 1:29:47.320 must have been I'm on that mid plan. I'm not 1:29:47.360 --> 1:29:48.840 on the top plane and on the mid plane, but 1:29:48.880 --> 1:29:51.120 I was reading about somebody who lives not far from me, 1:29:51.320 --> 1:29:54.880 Robin Kronulla, and they upgraded the top plan that the 1:29:54.920 --> 1:29:57.599 one hundred megabi per second, and the difference it made 1:29:57.640 --> 1:29:59.160 to them was significant. 1:29:59.479 --> 1:30:01.799 Absolutely, and you know it was funny. 1:30:02.280 --> 1:30:05.200 I read this story as well, and. 1:30:05.479 --> 1:30:08.840 You know, Rob really noticed that the technology he is 1:30:08.880 --> 1:30:11.920 on it was part fiber but part copper. And so 1:30:11.960 --> 1:30:14.599 what we're doing with these upgrades is we're removing that copper. 1:30:14.800 --> 1:30:17.240 So you've got none of that degrading copper in the mix, 1:30:17.400 --> 1:30:19.439 making sure that you've got fiber all the way to 1:30:19.439 --> 1:30:21.519 the home. And it was really simple for Rob. He 1:30:21.600 --> 1:30:25.640 actually just contacted his phone in internet provider, had a conversation, 1:30:25.800 --> 1:30:29.000 said what's available for me because this plan's not working 1:30:29.040 --> 1:30:33.080 anymore for my family, noting noticing buffering and dropouts in 1:30:33.120 --> 1:30:36.080 the evening, and you know I want better, and you know, 1:30:36.120 --> 1:30:38.759 the phone in internet providers of course sell the plans 1:30:38.800 --> 1:30:41.719 to you, me and our listeners. And he was advised 1:30:41.720 --> 1:30:45.599 that he could get an upgrade to full fiber placing 1:30:45.680 --> 1:30:48.920 the order going up one of those speed tier plans 1:30:48.960 --> 1:30:52.200 to the hundred plan, and there's no that triggers the 1:30:52.280 --> 1:30:55.400 upgrade for free, so you don't pay for the fiber grade. 1:30:56.000 --> 1:30:58.400 You might have a couple of dollars different in your plan, 1:30:58.640 --> 1:31:00.800 or maybe not, because you know, there's a lot of 1:31:00.800 --> 1:31:03.880 competition with one hundred and fifty retail service providers, so 1:31:04.280 --> 1:31:06.840 you might actually get a better deal and save some 1:31:07.000 --> 1:31:10.880 dollars by triggering this upgrade. But talking to your phone 1:31:10.880 --> 1:31:13.480 and internet provider to see if one of these upgrades 1:31:13.800 --> 1:31:16.599 you know is available to you is absolutely the first. 1:31:16.360 --> 1:31:18.760 Step and Joane just lastly talking about saving dolls. It's 1:31:18.760 --> 1:31:21.240 into financial year and so many retailers have inter yew 1:31:21.280 --> 1:31:23.000 financial year sales, and I know a lot of the 1:31:23.000 --> 1:31:26.439 providers and the resellers of internet services also do. 1:31:27.439 --> 1:31:30.000 Super competitive time. And you know, if you haven't checked 1:31:30.000 --> 1:31:31.240 your plan in a while. 1:31:31.320 --> 1:31:31.680 Do it. 1:31:31.920 --> 1:31:35.280 Do it now, because we know that the phone and 1:31:35.360 --> 1:31:38.439 internet providers want your business. You know, talk to them 1:31:38.439 --> 1:31:41.519 about doing you a deal. They're even bundling some of 1:31:41.560 --> 1:31:43.720 their services as well, so you might be able to 1:31:43.720 --> 1:31:46.240 get your NBN, you might be able to get your 1:31:46.240 --> 1:31:49.080 mobile and some of those streaming services all bundled up 1:31:49.080 --> 1:31:52.280 for a really competitive price. So you know, do your research, 1:31:52.400 --> 1:31:54.360 talk to friends and family, talk to your phone and 1:31:54.439 --> 1:31:57.320 internet provider, and maybe go to some of those independent 1:31:57.360 --> 1:31:58.360 websites that do all. 1:31:58.280 --> 1:31:59.439 The hard work for you. 1:31:59.479 --> 1:32:03.040 Good on, thank you, Thank you j mcmaarra from the NBN. 1:32:03.040 --> 1:32:04.599 You can go on to the NBM website and actually 1:32:04.640 --> 1:32:06.400 just type your addressing and see what's available for you 1:32:06.479 --> 1:32:09.040 in terms of upgrades. Great things are happening every minute 1:32:09.120 --> 1:32:11.559 on NBN. To find out more, visit that website. It 1:32:11.640 --> 1:32:15.080 is NBN dot com dot au. Word on the street 1:32:15.080 --> 1:32:17.559 for temper on the better night's sleep night after night. 1:32:17.640 --> 1:32:20.120 The difference is temper. And we brought you this story 1:32:20.120 --> 1:32:23.360 about Westmead Hospital based on a tip we've had via 1:32:23.760 --> 1:32:25.680 our Word on the Streets segment, and that is that 1:32:25.720 --> 1:32:27.600 there will be a vote of no confidence held in 1:32:27.640 --> 1:32:31.040 the chief executive of Westmeat Hospital on Thursday night. We've 1:32:31.040 --> 1:32:33.720 also been discussing what's been happening with neonatal care in 1:32:33.800 --> 1:32:37.240 Westmead and listeners just sent me a text message and 1:32:37.400 --> 1:32:40.080 I'm not going to identify the listener, but they say 1:32:40.120 --> 1:32:43.000 I do not work at Westmead Hospital. But I saw 1:32:43.040 --> 1:32:48.160 with my own eyes today two babies in a storeroom 1:32:48.200 --> 1:32:52.400 area of the NICU, so the report saying otherwise is incorrect. 1:32:53.280 --> 1:32:55.880 Now the Midwifi I spoke to yesterday said they are 1:32:55.960 --> 1:32:58.720 caring for babies in what was certainly known as the 1:32:58.760 --> 1:33:01.920 store room. Previously therev changed the name of it, so 1:33:01.960 --> 1:33:03.760 that maybe where the government is saying it's not a 1:33:03.880 --> 1:33:06.559 storeroom as such, but certainly in the past has been 1:33:06.640 --> 1:33:13.320 used as a storeroom. Let's check in news headlines, Hey 1:33:13.320 --> 1:33:14.640 with the latest, Katie Fuller. 1:33:14.560 --> 1:33:17.920 Good afternoon, Clinton. Israel has now formally agreed to the 1:33:18.040 --> 1:33:21.840 US president's proposal for a ceasefire, with Iran saying it's 1:33:21.920 --> 1:33:26.360 achieved the objectives of its attacks. Western Sydney's local Health 1:33:26.400 --> 1:33:29.200 District says it has not been advised about a vote 1:33:29.200 --> 1:33:32.639 of no confidence in the chief executive of Westmead Hospital. 1:33:33.120 --> 1:33:36.120 Medical staff are due to meet on Thursday evening amid 1:33:36.160 --> 1:33:40.040 reports of understaffing and underresourcing in the neonatal care ward. 1:33:40.560 --> 1:33:44.160 A new scheme guaranteeing pre sale for pre sales for 1:33:44.200 --> 1:33:47.920 housing developments has been unveiled in the state budget. It's 1:33:48.000 --> 1:33:51.559 designed to help low to medium level developers secure finance 1:33:51.600 --> 1:33:55.120 from banks to get projects underway sooner and it's severe 1:33:55.120 --> 1:33:58.280 weather warning has been issued for damaging winds extending from 1:33:58.320 --> 1:34:01.080 the South Coast up to the mid North Coast. Pete 1:34:01.120 --> 1:34:03.680 gusts ab up to one hundred and twenty kilometers an 1:34:03.720 --> 1:34:07.559 hour are possible in alpine areas in Sport, a double 1:34:07.600 --> 1:34:10.960 boost for South Sydney in the NRL Star Jo Cody 1:34:10.960 --> 1:34:13.559 Walker and Cavell Graham have been named to return from 1:34:13.640 --> 1:34:17.439 injury in Saturday nights clash with the Dolphins. Clinton More 1:34:17.439 --> 1:34:18.280 News ad SI. 1:34:18.320 --> 1:34:20.960 Spaking Katie eighteen degrees in the city. It's also eighteen 1:34:21.000 --> 1:34:30.320 degrees in the West. I mentioned little earlier that there 1:34:30.400 --> 1:34:34.120 is a lady who has quit her corporate career to 1:34:34.200 --> 1:34:36.479 live on a cruise liner. It's costing her about three 1:34:36.560 --> 1:34:39.439 hundred dollars a week. It's a good deal somehow she's got. 1:34:39.560 --> 1:34:41.320 But I've actually come across quite a few people in 1:34:41.400 --> 1:34:44.760 my travels who effectively live on cruise liners. They spend 1:34:44.800 --> 1:34:47.160 most of the year on a cruise line. I don't 1:34:47.160 --> 1:34:49.160 think i'd like that personally. I'm going on my first 1:34:49.240 --> 1:34:51.320 cruise in about two weeks time. Luke Barner will be 1:34:51.360 --> 1:34:53.599 fillinging for me for a couple of weeks. It's only 1:34:53.640 --> 1:34:56.280 a three day cruise. I'm quite apprehensive about it because 1:34:56.280 --> 1:34:57.840 I've never been on a cruise before. My wife has 1:34:57.880 --> 1:35:00.479 convinced me to go. Mary says, I think if you're 1:35:00.479 --> 1:35:02.920 email Mary to gb dot com. Mary says, I would 1:35:03.000 --> 1:35:05.040 love to live on a cruise liner, wouldn't be able 1:35:05.040 --> 1:35:08.240 to afford it. And Louise says, I've actually been on 1:35:08.479 --> 1:35:12.120 ten cruisers in the past five years. From Jay Wiz, 1:35:12.320 --> 1:35:13.519 you certainly love it, Louise. 1:35:15.080 --> 1:35:16.720 A Finance update. 1:35:17.360 --> 1:35:19.720 Let's get the latest finance news tom story from our 1:35:19.760 --> 1:35:22.679 Money News program deb Night hosting Money News from seven 1:35:22.720 --> 1:35:24.679 o'clock tonight. Tello, Tom Halo Clinton. 1:35:24.720 --> 1:35:26.120 I'm not sure if we're going to take that advice 1:35:26.120 --> 1:35:27.720 on Money News to live on a cruise ship, but 1:35:27.680 --> 1:35:29.120 it'd certainly want to look into if you want to 1:35:29.120 --> 1:35:29.759 save a dollar. 1:35:29.960 --> 1:35:34.160 After COVID, when they started operating cruise lines again, one 1:35:34.200 --> 1:35:35.960 of the big cruise lining companies, I was probably Carnival. 1:35:36.000 --> 1:35:38.520 A p and O invited the whole bunch of journalists 1:35:38.320 --> 1:35:41.200 to visit and go on board the first cruise ship 1:35:41.200 --> 1:35:42.720 that came back through their heads, and I was one 1:35:42.760 --> 1:35:46.080 of them, and I met this lovely couple who had retired, 1:35:46.479 --> 1:35:49.120 and they had retired to a life of cruising. They 1:35:49.160 --> 1:35:51.400 don't live on the one ship, but they go from 1:35:51.439 --> 1:35:54.120 ship to ship, and they would spend literally ten months 1:35:54.120 --> 1:35:56.040 out of a twelve month year on a cruise liner. 1:35:56.080 --> 1:35:57.759 Wow, and the cost seems pretty reasonable. 1:35:57.920 --> 1:36:01.400 Well, you know, I guess if you're superannuation payout, maybe 1:36:01.400 --> 1:36:03.759 if you sell your Sydney house you'll be doing okay. 1:36:04.080 --> 1:36:06.280 Ceasefire in the Middle East it appears to have been 1:36:06.280 --> 1:36:06.960 good for the markets. 1:36:07.080 --> 1:36:07.280 Yeah. 1:36:07.280 --> 1:36:09.600 Well, if you're talking about superannuation accounts, they will be 1:36:09.680 --> 1:36:11.560 reliant on what's happening on the markets, and it was 1:36:11.640 --> 1:36:14.479 much better news today. The ceasefire saw the oil price 1:36:14.520 --> 1:36:16.760 drop back under seventy dollars US barrel. I just checked 1:36:16.760 --> 1:36:19.120 it before it's even going under sixty eight US dollars 1:36:19.160 --> 1:36:19.559 a barrel. 1:36:19.800 --> 1:36:21.240 The ASX was flying. 1:36:21.640 --> 1:36:24.000 It took its lead off Wall Street overnight, closing up 1:36:24.040 --> 1:36:27.120 one percent or eighty points higher to eighty five hundred 1:36:27.120 --> 1:36:30.000 and fifty five. It was financial and material stocks that 1:36:30.040 --> 1:36:32.519 were doing the best. Their BHP was up two point 1:36:32.520 --> 1:36:34.840 four percent, forour to SKU was up four point eight percent. 1:36:34.920 --> 1:36:37.720 Rio Tinto was three percent higher. And the banks were 1:36:37.720 --> 1:36:40.280 also stronger. Combank up two point one percent, NAB up 1:36:40.320 --> 1:36:43.240 two point two percent, Westpac two point six percent higher, 1:36:43.320 --> 1:36:45.360 A and Z also up one point four percent. So 1:36:45.680 --> 1:36:47.519 a much better day on the markets. And it's all 1:36:47.600 --> 1:36:48.560 due to that ceasefire. 1:36:48.720 --> 1:36:51.679 So the dollars back over sixty five US cents yees fact, 1:36:51.760 --> 1:36:54.160 because there's just more confidence in the international economy. 1:36:54.240 --> 1:36:56.800 Yeah, there's strength in the US dollars. So generally what 1:36:56.840 --> 1:36:58.559 they say is that the Aussie dollar is what you 1:36:58.640 --> 1:37:01.400 look for when times are good. Investors pile in through 1:37:01.439 --> 1:37:02.760 it when it looks like things are going to be 1:37:02.760 --> 1:37:05.240 going well, so if not, they tend to pile back 1:37:05.280 --> 1:37:08.599 into the US dollar, which makes that a bit stronger. Obviously, yesterday, 1:37:08.600 --> 1:37:10.519 when things were looking like World War II could be 1:37:10.560 --> 1:37:13.040 on the brink, we saw investors pile back into the 1:37:13.120 --> 1:37:14.479 US and that hurt the Aussie dollar. 1:37:14.680 --> 1:37:16.160 Today it's a completely. 1:37:15.800 --> 1:37:18.000 Different story, which saw it push back over sixty five 1:37:18.120 --> 1:37:18.599 US cents. 1:37:18.760 --> 1:37:21.080 I filled up my car last night because the NMA 1:37:21.120 --> 1:37:23.960 advised is yesterday to fill it within twenty four hours. 1:37:24.560 --> 1:37:25.600 Is this Do you think this is going to have 1:37:25.640 --> 1:37:27.679 an effect on world or processes in a positive way? Yeah. 1:37:27.720 --> 1:37:29.840 Now, the LAG's usually a couple of weeks or a 1:37:29.840 --> 1:37:32.360 month or so until it comes through. At eighty dollars 1:37:32.400 --> 1:37:34.479 a barrel, we were looking at an average price across 1:37:34.479 --> 1:37:37.120 the country of around two dollars a liter for what 1:37:37.200 --> 1:37:39.320 we pay at the petrol pump, but giving us back 1:37:39.320 --> 1:37:41.840 down to sixty eight dollars, now that's about what we 1:37:41.840 --> 1:37:43.880 were two weeks ago. So the prices that we've been 1:37:43.920 --> 1:37:46.439 seeing in the last month or so, it's probably due 1:37:46.439 --> 1:37:48.559 to repeat when we look ahead to the next month 1:37:48.640 --> 1:37:50.680 or so. For motorist, which is great news, not so 1:37:50.760 --> 1:37:53.360 good if you're an energy investor. Though Woodside share price 1:37:53.439 --> 1:37:55.880 was down six point five percent today, so it all 1:37:55.920 --> 1:37:57.479 depends on perspective in the markets. 1:37:57.640 --> 1:38:00.360 The other big market news today is the relisting of Virgin. 1:38:00.400 --> 1:38:01.760 Virgin a stroke of the airline. Yeah. 1:38:01.800 --> 1:38:04.519 Now Virgin people will remember that it went into voluntary 1:38:04.560 --> 1:38:07.679 administration due to COVID and Bang Capital. They're a private 1:38:07.680 --> 1:38:10.280 equity firm. They came in and picked up the pieces 1:38:10.320 --> 1:38:13.200 and they settled in a three point five billion dollar deal. Now, 1:38:13.439 --> 1:38:16.680 private equity firms they come in, they restructure companies and 1:38:16.720 --> 1:38:19.000 they look to sell them off, usually at a better price. 1:38:19.000 --> 1:38:19.639 But the plan for. 1:38:19.640 --> 1:38:21.720 Virgin looked like it was always going to relist on 1:38:21.760 --> 1:38:25.560 the ax. It opened up today at midday. Now, initially 1:38:25.680 --> 1:38:28.880 its IPO price was two dollars ninety. Investors looked at 1:38:28.920 --> 1:38:30.880 that and thought, wow, that's that's a deal we've got 1:38:30.880 --> 1:38:33.240 to get in on. It eventually closed up more than 1:38:33.280 --> 1:38:35.880 eleven percent to three dollars twenty three. So it looks 1:38:35.920 --> 1:38:38.080 like there's a bit more competition in the airline space now, 1:38:38.080 --> 1:38:39.760 which is something that's good for Australia. 1:38:40.120 --> 1:38:41.840 Will be hosting Money News from seven to two. Will 1:38:42.120 --> 1:38:46.000 thank you Tom. Tom's story from our Money news program Sitney. 1:38:46.080 --> 1:38:48.120 Now on to GBA. 1:38:48.280 --> 1:38:51.719 I'm getting lots of messages now about cruise lining. Steve says, 1:38:51.720 --> 1:38:53.360 when you go on the cruise, enjoy the gas. Stro 1:38:53.479 --> 1:38:56.360 don't sew that cruise, don't say that. Steve Noe Elizabeth 1:38:56.400 --> 1:38:58.360 says there were lots of people who live on cruise 1:38:58.360 --> 1:39:02.439 ships full time, mostly Americans, because cruisers can actually be 1:39:02.439 --> 1:39:04.400 fairly cheap on Sydney. 1:39:04.439 --> 1:39:07.519 Now a weather update will be here to help in 1:39:07.760 --> 1:39:12.000 unexpected weather. Nrima Insurance a help company look at it. 1:39:12.040 --> 1:39:14.479 Murky earlier today, but so the weather clean uppers up 1:39:14.520 --> 1:39:16.640 and when it was a quite a nice afternoon in 1:39:16.720 --> 1:39:19.280 the end, it should remain dry this evening that there 1:39:19.320 --> 1:39:20.960 is the chance of a shower to right now in 1:39:20.960 --> 1:39:23.360 the city eighteen degrees eighteen degrees in the west. 1:39:23.360 --> 1:39:26.479 The forecast for tomorrow are partly cloudy day mostly Sunday 1:39:26.479 --> 1:39:28.599 in the morning, the slight chance of a shower later 1:39:28.600 --> 1:39:30.839 in the day, with the top of seventeen on Thursday 1:39:30.840 --> 1:39:33.960 becoming cloudy and sixteen mostly Sunday to start the day, 1:39:34.160 --> 1:39:36.519 a shower or too on Friday. At this stage across 1:39:36.560 --> 1:39:39.120 the weekend, it looks like we'll have a few showers. 1:39:39.720 --> 1:39:41.919 You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney. 1:39:42.360 --> 1:39:46.639 Stay tune to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on to GMB. 1:39:47.040 --> 1:39:50.519 It is the NRL's teamless Tuesday. Mark Geyer has all 1:39:50.600 --> 1:39:53.960 the goss on the ins and out. Hello MG, Hello Flinn, 1:39:53.960 --> 1:39:56.280 how are you my friend? Well? You know what I'm 1:39:56.280 --> 1:39:59.639 wondering about the Tigers. See, I've been tipping the Tiger 1:39:59.680 --> 1:40:02.200 throughout the whole year, and maybe that explains why I'm 1:40:02.240 --> 1:40:04.160 at the bottom the ladder of the TGB tipping comp. 1:40:04.520 --> 1:40:06.559 I see that they've got They've got a really big 1:40:06.600 --> 1:40:07.320 out this week. 1:40:08.040 --> 1:40:10.200 Yeah, let's go for the Apps first in would you? 1:40:10.400 --> 1:40:13.360 Can you believe that? It's around seventeen in the NRL 1:40:13.400 --> 1:40:17.639 already During Buller, the sensational fullback, has been ruled out 1:40:17.680 --> 1:40:23.000 for a month with a hamstring tegg or something wrong 1:40:23.080 --> 1:40:26.040 his hemmy, something really bad with the hammick. That means 1:40:26.040 --> 1:40:29.439 Young La too Feinu. We'll be starting at number seven 1:40:29.479 --> 1:40:32.320 this week and number six will be Duram Lay also 1:40:32.479 --> 1:40:35.960 out Hudson Young He's being arrested. Let's a shark. Can 1:40:36.000 --> 1:40:38.720 you believe this? He has ruptured, He's spleen and he's 1:40:38.720 --> 1:40:42.280 also done some kidney damage for that time against the 1:40:42.320 --> 1:40:46.760 Dolphins in Perth. He still remains in Perth so his family. Yeah, yeah, 1:40:47.120 --> 1:40:48.920 the poor bike from there. He's a good player too, 1:40:50.000 --> 1:40:50.479 like him a lot. 1:40:50.640 --> 1:40:52.559 He's got a bad haircut, like I think you need 1:40:52.600 --> 1:40:53.920 to have a good look at himself in the mirror. 1:40:54.560 --> 1:40:57.200 But no, he's a good bad haircut, good player. 1:40:57.840 --> 1:41:02.599 Okay, yeah, we'll agree on that because young Jack boss sock. 1:41:02.640 --> 1:41:05.640 Also he's out the season with an ACL rupture. Some 1:41:05.680 --> 1:41:09.040 bad news there, but some good news in the inns department. 1:41:09.080 --> 1:41:13.320 We see the Panthers' origins five return. We see Burton 1:41:13.360 --> 1:41:17.960 and Sexter named number six and seven respectively. Lucky Galvin 1:41:18.240 --> 1:41:22.000 reverts to the inter James bench. Tommy Turbot been named 1:41:22.040 --> 1:41:24.160 in the centers. That's going to cause a little bit 1:41:24.160 --> 1:41:27.080 of controversy, I would imagine for the Rabbit as Campbell 1:41:27.120 --> 1:41:30.559 Graham and Cody Walker both returned and Dylan Brown is 1:41:30.600 --> 1:41:32.960 back for the ParaMed at eels. 1:41:33.080 --> 1:41:35.639 Okay, good news for parrot. Now big the NURL news 1:41:35.680 --> 1:41:37.560 today with the P and G franchise. 1:41:38.640 --> 1:41:42.000 Yeah right, dere ex bulldog head Honcho has been named 1:41:42.000 --> 1:41:46.559 the chair of the P and NRL franchise. He will 1:41:46.600 --> 1:41:49.479 head the board of seven. One of the board members 1:41:49.760 --> 1:41:52.720 will be familiar with those who love their rugby league 1:41:52.760 --> 1:41:55.920 because his name is Marcus buy who is to play 1:41:56.200 --> 1:41:58.680 a Melbourne Storm legend. He will be one of the 1:41:58.720 --> 1:42:03.240 board members, along with Laurna McPherson, Richard Pegham, Stanley Joyce, 1:42:03.320 --> 1:42:07.679 Wapoo Song and Ian Tartuia. So good work for they're 1:42:07.720 --> 1:42:09.439 starting to be a little bit proactive. We hadn't heard 1:42:09.520 --> 1:42:11.599 much of the P and G boys lately. We spoke 1:42:11.640 --> 1:42:14.640 about them on the weekend on the continuous course in 1:42:14.640 --> 1:42:18.400 Clinton and they are leaning towards the P and G 1:42:18.640 --> 1:42:22.040 Angels because of the Fuzzy Wise he's back in the day, 1:42:22.320 --> 1:42:23.920 so I think that's a fantastic thing. 1:42:24.680 --> 1:42:26.679 I don't mind that name as well, Fuzzy Wise the Angels. 1:42:26.720 --> 1:42:28.680 As Ben was saying this morning, it might sound a 1:42:28.680 --> 1:42:31.400 bit soft having the Fuzzy in there, but at the Angels, 1:42:31.400 --> 1:42:33.680 I reckon might work quite well with Ray Dib. So 1:42:33.760 --> 1:42:36.080 Ray Dib former Bulldog's chair, so he's the champer of 1:42:36.160 --> 1:42:38.400 the PNG. So does that mean he moves to P 1:42:38.479 --> 1:42:39.400 and G or just goes over there? 1:42:39.439 --> 1:42:41.200 A fair bit well, we. 1:42:41.240 --> 1:42:45.240 Still don't know much about the whole franchise because we 1:42:45.240 --> 1:42:48.080 don't know where they're going to be operating out of cans. 1:42:48.960 --> 1:42:53.440 They're thinking about building a multi purpose inverted Comma's compound 1:42:54.000 --> 1:42:56.519 for all those players that want to go up there. Well, 1:42:56.920 --> 1:43:02.360 it's a real safe face apparently to live. You know, obviously, 1:43:02.400 --> 1:43:05.559 the lure of a good tax break and those guys 1:43:05.560 --> 1:43:08.800 maybe nearing their end of their career instead of going 1:43:08.800 --> 1:43:11.080 over sitting with Super League, this might be more attractive 1:43:11.120 --> 1:43:15.000 to go to the PNG franchise. But yeah, look that's 1:43:15.040 --> 1:43:17.160 not one thing. They haven't announced their coach yet. They 1:43:17.160 --> 1:43:21.040 haven't announced much else except for their Their chairman of 1:43:21.080 --> 1:43:22.080 the board will be Raad Deal. 1:43:22.120 --> 1:43:22.240 Well. 1:43:22.280 --> 1:43:25.719 Just also some breaking news in Rugby League. The Dragons 1:43:25.720 --> 1:43:29.240 have given young fullback le winger Terrell Sloan permission to 1:43:29.240 --> 1:43:32.920 look elsewhere as they chase, as they chase. I think 1:43:33.520 --> 1:43:36.120 sell On Cobbo. But the latest on sell On Cobbo 1:43:36.200 --> 1:43:38.200 and this is a this is this is all breaking 1:43:38.240 --> 1:43:40.920 this afternoon. He's out of the favorite with the Broncos. 1:43:41.120 --> 1:43:43.240 The Broncos have only got about three hdred grand to 1:43:43.640 --> 1:43:48.320 pay him for an extension, so they've signed his replacement 1:43:48.360 --> 1:43:51.439 for a two U deal. The Dragons won him before 1:43:51.479 --> 1:43:54.120 June thirty and are prepared to pay him six hundred 1:43:54.160 --> 1:43:57.080 thousand per a year. But now the North Quinsland Cowboys 1:43:57.120 --> 1:43:59.000 have jumped in on the front and they also want 1:43:59.439 --> 1:44:03.080 selln Cob before June thirty because of their injury plague 1:44:03.120 --> 1:44:05.799 to their outside back. So stay tuned because the selling 1:44:06.160 --> 1:44:08.880 Como saga has not finished yet. 1:44:09.080 --> 1:44:11.320 Look if the Broncos are having trouble with their salary 1:44:11.320 --> 1:44:13.519 cap and can't fit selling Cobo and I've got a 1:44:13.560 --> 1:44:17.719 solution for them. Yep, they could lend us rees Welsh 1:44:18.880 --> 1:44:19.760 just like for the rest of it. 1:44:20.840 --> 1:44:21.919 What about paining hearts. 1:44:22.000 --> 1:44:24.880 Your bad Dabby nice as well? Actually know what? Adam 1:44:24.880 --> 1:44:26.719 Reynolds wouldn't go astray for the sharks of the moment. 1:44:26.800 --> 1:44:30.719 Hey MG, have you ever been on a cruise? 1:44:31.960 --> 1:44:32.920 No? And I never would. 1:44:34.320 --> 1:44:34.760 Why not? 1:44:35.560 --> 1:44:39.080 No, I'm pastrophobic and the fact of being on somewhere 1:44:39.120 --> 1:44:41.880 for so for a start, I couldn't sleep at night 1:44:42.040 --> 1:44:43.320 thinking that we're going to tip over. 1:44:44.600 --> 1:44:47.240 And get a tip over. They're big boats. 1:44:47.560 --> 1:44:50.479 Sometimes when I go to a parbor or a climbing 1:44:50.520 --> 1:44:53.400 on holidays, go back to my I go back to 1:44:53.400 --> 1:44:56.240 my hotel and not be you know, bothered by some 1:44:56.800 --> 1:44:58.679 person who wants to have a few drinks of people 1:44:59.080 --> 1:44:59.880 on a cruise's note. 1:45:00.720 --> 1:45:02.680 So that's the exact reason I've never wanted to go 1:45:02.680 --> 1:45:04.200 on a cruise, because I figure if I don't like it, 1:45:04.240 --> 1:45:06.640 I can't get off. But my wife's convinced me. My 1:45:06.680 --> 1:45:08.639 wife's convinced me. We're going in two weeks. 1:45:09.040 --> 1:45:09.559 You're going. 1:45:10.240 --> 1:45:11.840 It's only three days, very quick. 1:45:11.920 --> 1:45:15.840 Oh no, no, no, no, oh. You know what, a 1:45:15.880 --> 1:45:17.680 lot of people swear by them. A lot of my 1:45:17.800 --> 1:45:19.639 mates have you know, some people live on them. 1:45:19.720 --> 1:45:22.920 Because exactly now what I think. I think you should 1:45:22.920 --> 1:45:25.200 buy your parents a cruise for their wedding anniversary. 1:45:26.080 --> 1:45:30.280 Well, it is today, fifty eighth wedding anniversary today. My 1:45:30.439 --> 1:45:34.360 mum Maxine and my father Ace, well Kevin, but he 1:45:34.520 --> 1:45:35.880 likes het in caurt Ace. He made up his own 1:45:35.920 --> 1:45:40.040 nickname because he was good at cards. Yeah, they celebrate 1:45:40.080 --> 1:45:42.360 their fifty eighth wedding anniversary today, moment and dad, it'd 1:45:42.360 --> 1:45:46.080 be listening right now, high Maxine, Hello Kevin, and we're 1:45:46.080 --> 1:45:47.479 going up there on the weekend to have a bit 1:45:47.520 --> 1:45:48.479 of a dinner with him. 1:45:48.520 --> 1:45:49.360 So well, done. 1:45:49.840 --> 1:45:52.000 Yeah, so what I Mum and Dad, we love you lots, 1:45:52.040 --> 1:45:53.959 and let's have another fifty. 1:45:53.760 --> 1:45:57.439 Eight A congratulations Maxine and Ace for fifty eight fabulous years. 1:45:57.479 --> 1:46:01.679 And look what you've produced. MG, it's been a couple 1:46:01.680 --> 1:46:02.720 of other hoighlights as well. 1:46:02.920 --> 1:46:06.759 Look at you, look at him, look as you created. 1:46:07.479 --> 1:46:08.439 We will talk tomorrow. 1:46:08.960 --> 1:46:10.960 I'll see you a studio buddy, Bye bye. 1:46:10.840 --> 1:46:19.840 Ma Guyer. Let's play the quiz one three, one eight 1:46:19.960 --> 1:46:21.880 seven three. I've got to have a double pass to 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:24.719 give away to a fantastic play that's not the ensemble 1:46:24.800 --> 1:46:28.160 theater in Curabilly. It's called Primary Trust. It's a comedy, 1:46:28.360 --> 1:46:31.360 really uplifting. It's about second chances. It's about quite courage 1:46:31.640 --> 1:46:33.600 ensemble dot com dot are you? If you want to 1:46:33.600 --> 1:46:35.559 play the quiz, give me a call out. One three, 1:46:35.600 --> 1:46:38.680 one eight seven three. It's nine to six treasure. Jim 1:46:38.760 --> 1:46:42.040 Chalmers is talking tough tonight. He is putting petrol stations 1:46:42.080 --> 1:46:47.040 on notice, telling them they can't dud motorists with unjustifiably 1:46:47.280 --> 1:46:50.519 higher bowers of prices because of the Middle East conflict. 1:46:50.520 --> 1:46:52.800 Now the price of oil. We just give them what's 1:46:52.840 --> 1:46:55.080 happened this afternoon with a cease fight. It's very unknown 1:46:55.120 --> 1:46:57.600 what's the direction of the price of a barrel of 1:46:57.600 --> 1:46:59.120 oil is going to be in the next couple of weeks. 1:46:59.400 --> 1:47:01.679 But Jim Arms has written to the a Triable Sea 1:47:02.240 --> 1:47:04.759 requesting the watchdog be on the lookout for petrol stations 1:47:04.760 --> 1:47:07.560 attempting to quote do the wrong thing by Australian motors. 1:47:07.680 --> 1:47:09.360 I probably would have thought that Jim Chalmers should have 1:47:09.360 --> 1:47:11.400 written to someone else other than the Atriable Sea, because 1:47:11.400 --> 1:47:14.519 I think they've proven and serially, no one's gonna argue 1:47:14.520 --> 1:47:16.880 me here. I think the Atriable CEA has proven for 1:47:16.920 --> 1:47:19.080 many years they're a complete toothless title when it comes 1:47:19.120 --> 1:47:22.960 to petrol prices. Congratulations, Elizabeth. Elizabeth just told me the 1:47:22.960 --> 1:47:26.840 text line. It's her thirty seventh wedding anniversary tomorrow. So 1:47:27.000 --> 1:47:30.080 MG's mom and dad is their fifty eighth wedding anniversary today. 1:47:30.400 --> 1:47:33.479 Elizabeth married thirty seven years ago. Tomorrow. 1:47:34.560 --> 1:47:36.440 Time to expand your minds. 1:47:36.920 --> 1:47:38.400 Do you may begin your questioning. 1:47:38.680 --> 1:47:40.879 I'm Sydney now asks questions. 1:47:40.960 --> 1:47:44.360 Lincoln's questions were informing your patent. I know you are 1:47:44.520 --> 1:47:47.800 asked a question. Get it right, Clinton's quick quick, Let's 1:47:47.800 --> 1:47:48.679 play the quick quiz. 1:47:48.720 --> 1:47:50.719 I've got a double pass to go and see Primary 1:47:50.800 --> 1:47:53.599 Trust at the ensemble Theater Ensemble dot com dot au 1:47:53.640 --> 1:47:57.760 if you'd like to go along, Hello, Kevin, here you go. 1:47:57.960 --> 1:47:59.760 I'm good, my friend. I hope you're feeling clever the 1:47:59.800 --> 1:48:01.280 Saron and Rob's in Kolara? 1:48:01.320 --> 1:48:01.599 Gooday? 1:48:01.680 --> 1:48:01.840 Rob? 1:48:03.000 --> 1:48:03.479 Hey, Greenton? 1:48:03.520 --> 1:48:03.920 How are you? 1:48:04.000 --> 1:48:06.840 I'm good? You can go first. Your thirty second starts now? 1:48:06.920 --> 1:48:10.160 In the nursery rhyme? What did Jack and Jill got 1:48:10.200 --> 1:48:10.760 the hill for? 1:48:12.400 --> 1:48:13.240 Setch your palor water? 1:48:13.320 --> 1:48:17.519 Correct? The national anthem the national animal of France is 1:48:17.560 --> 1:48:18.880 a snailer a rooster. 1:48:20.400 --> 1:48:20.759 Ruster? 1:48:21.080 --> 1:48:24.240 Correct? Sir Sidney Nolan was famous for doing what. 1:48:26.640 --> 1:48:27.240 Poetry? 1:48:27.439 --> 1:48:27.479 No? 1:48:27.560 --> 1:48:30.559 Who's a painter? Bob Marley and the Whalers were from 1:48:30.600 --> 1:48:32.520 which country? 1:48:32.600 --> 1:48:33.240 Jamaica? 1:48:33.320 --> 1:48:37.000 Correct? The Shakespeare players called I'll finish it Romeo and. 1:48:38.720 --> 1:48:39.360 Juliette. 1:48:39.400 --> 1:48:42.800 Correct? All right, now, just bear in mind I didn't 1:48:42.800 --> 1:48:45.759 write the questions today. Adam did so. Kevin. Your thirty 1:48:45.760 --> 1:48:52.760 second starts now. Spell the word budget, thanks budget? Correct? 1:48:53.200 --> 1:48:56.040 In what galaxy is our solar system located? 1:48:57.000 --> 1:48:57.519 Milk? A? 1:48:57.800 --> 1:49:00.720 Correct? Who wrote to kill a mocking bird? 1:49:02.280 --> 1:49:02.759 Pass? 1:49:02.960 --> 1:49:09.160 Happily? How long is a cricket pitch? Here? 1:49:09.280 --> 1:49:09.719 Pass? 1:49:09.920 --> 1:49:13.080 Twenty two yards of twenty meters. AFL stands for. 1:49:13.040 --> 1:49:17.240 What Australian Football League. 1:49:17.439 --> 1:49:21.479 Correct. Well, you've finished on three, which means Rob, you're 1:49:21.479 --> 1:49:23.200 the winner today, get a Rob, well. 1:49:23.040 --> 1:49:26.000 Done, Thank you, it's awesome. 1:49:26.360 --> 1:49:28.360 Congratulations mate. We're going to send you along to go 1:49:28.400 --> 1:49:30.599 and see a great play at the Ensemble Theater. It's 1:49:30.600 --> 1:49:33.639 called Primary Trust. You can book now Ensemble dot com 1:49:33.680 --> 1:49:34.440 dot au. 1:49:37.000 --> 1:49:40.240 And now a preview of what's coming up on wide 1:49:40.320 --> 1:49:41.440 World of Sports. 1:49:41.560 --> 1:49:43.559 With six hundred and four kilometers of. 1:49:43.640 --> 1:49:46.960 Range, the Kia EV three is your twenty twenty five 1:49:47.160 --> 1:49:47.920 World Car. 1:49:47.880 --> 1:49:48.400 Of the Year. 1:49:48.840 --> 1:49:52.360 Visit your nearest Kia showroom to test drive yours today. 1:49:52.439 --> 1:49:54.960 Adam hares hosting wild Wood Sports from six o'clock tonight, 1:49:55.000 --> 1:49:57.240 and the teams are out for this weekend's NRL games. 1:49:57.280 --> 1:49:59.360 Yeah, they sure are. Clinton Nathan clearly a lot of 1:49:59.400 --> 1:50:01.839 interest in him. He has been named by the Panthers. 1:50:01.880 --> 1:50:04.679 But will he play? That is the question. Ivan Cleary, 1:50:04.920 --> 1:50:08.759 His dad and coach certainly didn't sound too confident earlier 1:50:08.760 --> 1:50:11.559 in the afternoon. I believe he's got to finish training 1:50:11.560 --> 1:50:12.440 today unscathed. 1:50:12.479 --> 1:50:14.760 Who they playing Panthers this weekend? The Bulldogs it's a 1:50:14.800 --> 1:50:16.920 pretty good jeez, yeah, pretty big game. 1:50:16.960 --> 1:50:18.840 And then if he doesn't play, the question is should 1:50:18.840 --> 1:50:20.360 he be picked for State of Orison three? Would you 1:50:20.400 --> 1:50:21.919 take him in? Is that a big gamble? 1:50:22.360 --> 1:50:23.880 What do you think you take him in? Because Matt 1:50:23.880 --> 1:50:26.599 Burton's eighteenth man, so you've got that there, that luxury. 1:50:27.120 --> 1:50:28.160 So anyway, we'll talk about that. 1:50:28.160 --> 1:50:30.120 Michael Chammers from the Herald of nine, he will join 1:50:30.160 --> 1:50:32.960 me with all the latest, including the Selwyn Cobbo gossip. 1:50:33.160 --> 1:50:34.920 Paul Gallon will come on the show to talk about 1:50:34.960 --> 1:50:36.800 his fight with Sonny Bill Williams and also chat with 1:50:36.840 --> 1:50:39.400 Julie Fitzgerald from the Giants netball Side. 1:50:39.200 --> 1:50:42.360 Pawsey coming up with Whitewater Sports. After the six o'clock news, 1:50:42.360 --> 1:50:44.920 dead Night will be presenting Money News from seven, John 1:50:45.000 --> 1:50:48.040 Stanley taking him through the night, Fiddle O'Neill overnight. Don't forget, 1:50:48.080 --> 1:50:50.240 We're spitting the wheel all day long tomorrow with Ben 1:50:50.320 --> 1:50:53.240 in breakfast, Levy in mornings, Mick mackin afternoons, and I 1:50:53.320 --> 1:50:56.439 will be spending the Winter Wheel different time tomorrow, so 1:50:56.439 --> 1:50:58.559 you're gonna have to listen carefully. Thanks to your company. 1:50:58.560 --> 1:51:00.599 Over the past couple of hours, Sydney now