Speaker 1: Onto the GV. This is sitting now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 2: Tuesday, June twenty four, one three one eight seven three
Speaker 2: our number. It is Clinton Maynard here. A little over
Speaker 2: an hour has now passed since the ceasefire between Israel
Speaker 2: and Iran was meant to kick in. Donald Trump announced it.
Speaker 2: Of course, that will be phased in over twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Two o'clock our time was the indication we were given.
Speaker 2: The Iranians initially said that they hadn't entered into an agreement,
Speaker 2: and then Iranian State TV would have been about an
Speaker 2: hour and a half ago they said yes, the ceasefire
Speaker 2: will take place, but were now receiving reports and these
Speaker 2: are still unconfirmed around the world that there has been
Speaker 2: a sixth round of missiles fired at Israel and that
Speaker 2: those rounds have actually been fired post the ceasefire time.
Speaker 2: So we'll keep you up to date throughout the program
Speaker 2: on that. A lot coming up from the show. We're
Speaker 2: going to try and make some sense of today's date budget.
Speaker 2: There is a lot of focus on housing and the
Speaker 2: billion dollar plan for the government to become Garran Tau
Speaker 2: to encourage developers of big housing projects. But this has
Speaker 2: jumped out at me and it's the future of the
Speaker 2: sixty dollars toll cap and it's not promising more on
Speaker 2: that in a moment. There's been a slow down in
Speaker 2: the sale of electric vehicles despite there being more variety
Speaker 2: on the market. Now they are cheap than they've ever been.
Speaker 2: Why a lot of it has to do with servicing.
Speaker 2: We're going to look at that. Holy Hughes joins me
Speaker 2: in studio for straight Shooters today. She's now left Parliament.
Speaker 2: I might have found something for her to do in retirement.
Speaker 2: Keep listening for that Mark guy with all the sport,
Speaker 2: and I'm going to spin two GB's winter wheel. This
Speaker 2: is the chance for you to win hundreds. In fact,
Speaker 2: this is the chance to win thousands. We have a
Speaker 2: very good record on this program of giving away a
Speaker 2: lot of money. So you've got to keep listening for
Speaker 2: me to spin the wheel a little later. You are
Speaker 2: our eyes and ears when it's happening in Sydney. Now,
Speaker 2: if you see something we need to know about, send
Speaker 2: me a text message zero force zero eight seven three
Speaker 2: eight seven three and then have you say one three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. Well in Sydney. Now, Merreton has
Speaker 2: just put a statement out in regards the wild brawl
Speaker 2: that took place at castle Hill. Now, Mark Leevey broke
Speaker 2: the story this morning. Go to our website. If you
Speaker 2: haven't seen this video two gb dot com and there
Speaker 2: is video of it. Would be twenty thirty maybe even more.
Speaker 2: Tradees all dressed there in high viz fighting with each other. Well,
Speaker 2: Mereton has put out a statement because it was outside
Speaker 2: a Mereton work site secton Avenue in Castle Hill, and
Speaker 2: their statement says Mereton promotes safety and does not condone
Speaker 2: any violent or threatening behavior on its job sites, whether employees,
Speaker 2: subcontractors or visitors. No direct Meriton employees were involved in
Speaker 2: this incident that took place on the street outside the
Speaker 2: Castle Hill construction site. Appropriately, the local police were called,
Speaker 2: who have since intervened, and we have ascertained there were
Speaker 2: no serious injuries. Two people were treated by paramedics, but
Speaker 2: Merriton says not seriously industries, the contractors involved in the
Speaker 2: fight have been terminated immediately. I want to bring in
Speaker 2: James Wilson from nine News. He's been on the scene
Speaker 2: throughout the day. James, do we have any idea what
Speaker 2: sparked all of this?
Speaker 3: Good Clinton, Yeah, I popped my head down there a
Speaker 3: few hours ago and spoke to a few of the
Speaker 3: tradees who witnesses brawl, and you're right, this thing was huge.
Speaker 3: There were like twenty or thirty workers having a huge
Speaker 3: go around seven am this morning on Sexton Avenue. Now,
Speaker 3: how did this brawl start. I'm hearing a few different things.
Speaker 3: One of the lines of inquiries that I've been told
Speaker 3: is potentially a pay dispute. I know that it did
Speaker 3: start between two people or two men originally when they
Speaker 3: kicked off all their other colleagues and all the other
Speaker 3: boys jumped in these I've been told that.
Speaker 4: These are the form workers.
Speaker 3: So there are certain crew that works on this site
Speaker 3: doing form work and as you just mentioned, they've all
Speaker 3: now been blacklisted and booted off the site not to return.
Speaker 3: I tell you who else is looking for them as well,
Speaker 3: Clinton the police. They all scattered and got out of
Speaker 3: there before the cops rocked up, so some serious questions
Speaker 3: to be asked of them. And yeah, there were two
Speaker 3: people that were actually taken to hospital. And if you
Speaker 3: look at this vision which you mentioned is on the
Speaker 3: two GB website, one man gets booted in the head
Speaker 3: with a steel cap boot and then other people are
Speaker 3: getting bashed on the head with hard hats, crazy and
Speaker 3: crazy stuff.
Speaker 2: Indeed, the video and you'll play it on nine years tonight,
Speaker 2: you see some of these guys and the two men
Speaker 2: that were injured forty three and fifty five year old.
Speaker 2: So a lot of these men are middle aged. And
Speaker 2: there's one bloke he rips off his white hard hat
Speaker 2: and he goes along, and then there's sumps another bloke
Speaker 2: in their head who doesn't have a hard hat on,
Speaker 2: and they're all wearing the high visit. I don't know
Speaker 2: if this is an accurate description, James, but it looked
Speaker 2: like on the surface it was fluo yellows versus flu
Speaker 2: or orange.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're trying to figure out if that means anything.
Speaker 3: If any traders out there no different high viz means
Speaker 3: anything on the job site, maybe they could point us
Speaker 3: in the right direction. But certainly that line of inquiry
Speaker 3: a potential pay dispute. Maybe that does divide this brawl
Speaker 3: and bring in those numbers where you've got the workers
Speaker 3: against management and all the rest of it. But of
Speaker 3: course police need to ask questions. A lot of the
Speaker 3: people down on that site talking to the cops, and
Speaker 3: obviously those that dispersed are now being looked for. But
Speaker 3: he's a serious charges and we're dealing with genuine assault
Speaker 3: cases here and in the vision. It's clear that there
Speaker 3: are a lot of people involved. So this isn't the
Speaker 3: last we're going to hear this story, Clinton, This is
Speaker 3: going to keep going for some days.
Speaker 2: We'll see your reports tonight on nine. Thank you, James.
Speaker 2: Thank you James Wilson from nine News. And have a
Speaker 2: look at our website. Mark Leevey broke the story this
Speaker 2: morning to GB dot com. You'll see the footage. We
Speaker 2: often see footage of a few people involved in fights
Speaker 2: and brawls. This is about twenty or thirty of them,
Speaker 2: and they're basically all dressed in the same clothes, but
Speaker 2: some are in orange ivis, others in yellow.
Speaker 5: If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Speaker 5: Now with Clinton May on.
Speaker 2: To GB twelve pass through. The state's treasurer Daniel Mookie
Speaker 2: has now handed down his third budget and it is
Speaker 2: in deficit, which was fully expected. So the deficit for
Speaker 2: this financial year is five point seven billion dollars. That's
Speaker 2: a five billion dollar improvement since twenty twenty three. Twenty
Speaker 2: twenty four, it forecasts the budget papers forecasts a surplus
Speaker 2: by twenty seven to twenty eight of one point one
Speaker 2: billion dollars. Now that's just a forecast, doesn't mean it
Speaker 2: will happen. But there is a plan though to get
Speaker 2: back in the black, which is encouraging. Key part of
Speaker 2: this budget is a massive billion dollar housing plan and
Speaker 2: this is something that hasn't been done, we're told in
Speaker 2: this country before. Josh Bryan, our senior reporter, was in
Speaker 2: the budget lock up today and has been following this
Speaker 2: at Parliament.
Speaker 6: Hello, Josh, good afternoon, Quinton.
Speaker 2: The billion dollar housing plan. So it's a guarantee the
Speaker 2: state governor is going to provide for some major projects.
Speaker 2: How's this going to work?
Speaker 6: Yes, that's right, the pre sale finance guarantee and as
Speaker 6: you said, they're brooking it to something that's an Australia
Speaker 6: first ever been done by a state government before. Essentially,
Speaker 6: what this means is, you know you'd see developers that
Speaker 6: sell off the plan and they might have sold say
Speaker 6: fifty percent of the properties, but if, for example, the
Speaker 6: bank needed them to have sold eighty percent of the
Speaker 6: properties before they'll give them the finance. So they can
Speaker 6: start the construction right. The government's saying in these select circumstances,
Speaker 6: they'll be strict criteria. They'll gain guarantee that thirty percent
Speaker 6: say that they're missing, so that the bank will give
Speaker 6: the finance. Work can start, and then the developer will
Speaker 6: continue selling the homes and then if it gets to
Speaker 6: a point where those homes aren't sold, then they can
Speaker 6: call the guarantee. The government will purchase the dwellings at
Speaker 6: a discount rate and they'll then either be sold from
Speaker 6: there or turned into affordable or social housing. So essentially
Speaker 6: it's just designed to I guess, speed up that gap
Speaker 6: so that when these developments are underway they can get
Speaker 6: the finance in quicker, which means starting the project quicker.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So it's to encourage more risk effectively by reducing
Speaker 2: the risk of the developers. The other major plank of
Speaker 2: the budget, and there's a lot of detail obviously in
Speaker 2: the budge that's going to cover a lot of areas
Speaker 2: of government work. But the other big highlight is one
Speaker 2: point two billion dollars on a child protection package and
Speaker 2: this is to increase the number of staff who work
Speaker 2: in this area. It's a very sensitive area of government
Speaker 2: but in particular to ensure that kids who may need
Speaker 2: foster care, children who have been left behind by the
Speaker 2: system are not living unbelievably this happens, are not living
Speaker 2: and kept in hotel and motel rooms.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Absolutely, and this is something the state government has said
Speaker 6: that you know, as soon as they took off that
Speaker 6: sort of emergency care inner motel or similar with something,
Speaker 6: they well, they say they have now effectively no longer
Speaker 6: that no longer happens due to reforms that have been made.
Speaker 6: But then this funding one point two billion dollars, a
Speaker 6: large proportion of that to go towards reforming the out
Speaker 6: of home care system. There's also close to two hundred
Speaker 6: million dollars to recruit new case workers. And as you
Speaker 6: touched on foster cares as well, for the first time
Speaker 6: in twenty years, they're going to get a major increase
Speaker 6: to the foster care allowance, going up by twenty percent,
Speaker 6: so a not insignificant increase, particularly given how long it's
Speaker 6: been since that allowance has increased, So hopefully making it
Speaker 6: easier for those people who do make that decision to
Speaker 6: be foster care as they have a little bit more
Speaker 6: financial support when they do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We certainly can't have kids living in motel rooms.
Speaker 2: Josh will be covering this right throughout the program. Thank
Speaker 2: you for your information. Thanks Clinton OW Senior reporter Josh Bryant,
Speaker 2: who was in the lock up this morning one three
Speaker 2: one eight seventy three. I'm getting some feedback about what
Speaker 2: occurred on outside this Merriton building site in Castle Hill.
Speaker 2: I'll come to that in a moment. But the unfolding
Speaker 2: situation in the Middle East, Okay, So the latest information
Speaker 2: we had was that Israeli Israeli State had agreed to
Speaker 2: the ceasefire, and then Iranian state television had announced, and
Speaker 2: this was several hours later, that they'd also agreed to
Speaker 2: the ceasefire, after initially saying that they hadn't if that
Speaker 2: was supposed to kick in now more than an hour
Speaker 2: ago two o'clock our time. Since then, there have been
Speaker 2: reports of more air strikes that have been launched, more
Speaker 2: missile strikes from the Iranians. Now there's no confirmation at
Speaker 2: the moment of damage caused by those strikes. The Israeli
Speaker 2: Defense Force released on social media. This was after the ceasefire.
Speaker 2: They released a message sirens are sounding in Israel due
Speaker 2: to a missile launch from Iran, so the Israelis were
Speaker 2: expecting this to occur. So we don't have confirmation yet
Speaker 2: that the ceasefire on the twelfth day of this war
Speaker 2: has actually taken hold. Anthony Abernezi, the Prime Minister, has
Speaker 2: been asked about the ceasefire on Sky today.
Speaker 8: What we want to see is the ceasefire announced by
Speaker 8: President Trump implemented. We think that we do want to
Speaker 8: see dialogue and diplomacy replace any escalation.
Speaker 2: I somehow suspect the Iranians and these rallies won't be
Speaker 2: listening too closely with what Albo has to say. Nevertheless,
Speaker 2: that was his statement today to Sky News. Should there
Speaker 2: be developments over the coming hours, will certainly bring those
Speaker 2: to you plenty coming up on the program today, I'd
Speaker 2: like to hear from you a number one three one
Speaker 2: eight seven three. This is Sydney now, twenty one degrees
Speaker 2: in Sydney, in Bankstown, twenty two degrees, lovely afternoon. The
Speaker 2: judge in the mushroom murder trial in Victoria is spending
Speaker 2: the afternoon instructing jurors. So at the moment, Justice Christopher
Speaker 2: Biale is going through the case but also highlighting various
Speaker 2: aspects that the jurors need to take care with during
Speaker 2: their deliberations. Of course, Aaron Patterson is being tried on
Speaker 2: three counts of murder and one count of attempt to murder.
Speaker 2: She is pleading not guilty. Now the judge has told
Speaker 2: the jury that this is not their responsibility and not
Speaker 2: his responsibility to decide the verdict. The verdict must be unanimous.
Speaker 2: They're the only ones who've been in the court the
Speaker 2: whole time who can make a decision on the facts.
Speaker 2: He says. The jury must make a decision solely on
Speaker 2: evidence and ignore feelings of prejudice. This is probably going
Speaker 2: to be the most anticipated court decision this year. If
Speaker 2: you have a look at podcast download numbers right around
Speaker 2: the country with podcasts that have been produced on this
Speaker 2: particular case, they are through the roof. There is so
Speaker 2: much interest. Of course, she claims that no, this was
Speaker 2: completely an accident, that yes, she cooked the mushrooms, but
Speaker 2: she was not responsible for the deaths of her loved
Speaker 2: ones and the others involved in this case will continue
Speaker 2: to watch that with interest.
Speaker 1: Sittney, Now on.
Speaker 2: To twenty three past three. Now, I'm getting some messages
Speaker 2: that are being sent to me about what's occurred at
Speaker 2: Cartelehill today. The video that Mark Leevy broke this morning
Speaker 2: and you can see it on our website, that shows twenty,
Speaker 2: maybe upwards of thirty construction workers involved in this wild
Speaker 2: brawl from one of our listeners, and this is all
Speaker 2: subject now to a police investigation about what sparked it.
Speaker 2: One of our listeners says, I do have information about this.
Speaker 2: The fight had to do with two crews of form work.
Speaker 2: There was one crew mostly made up of trades people
Speaker 2: of Middle Eastern descent and a supervisor. The other crew
Speaker 2: is made up of Islanders. Now you can see in
Speaker 2: the video it does appear to be a fight between
Speaker 2: trades people of Middle Eastern descent, and there's trades people
Speaker 2: have a descent there as well. An argument kicked off
Speaker 2: between the form work supervisor and the boss of the
Speaker 2: other group who haven't been paid, and James Wilson, our
Speaker 2: reporter from night had indicated that there are issues here
Speaker 2: about payment. The rest then joined in to back each
Speaker 2: other up. The actual Fluo colors themselves don't have anything
Speaker 2: to do with it now, Max is a trade might
Speaker 2: have a bit of information about this, so I Max,
Speaker 2: Hey mate.
Speaker 7: How are you cleaning that good?
Speaker 2: Max?
Speaker 9: Yeah, there's no color codes for the shirts mates, just
Speaker 9: whatever company you work for. Like I'm a plumb on
Speaker 9: myself and we have to wear orange and blue. But
Speaker 9: there is a color code with the helmets. I'd say
Speaker 9: it's all the difference with safety officers, yeah and so on.
Speaker 9: So yeah, with the shirts, mate, it's just whatever the
Speaker 9: company policy is.
Speaker 2: It looks to me like though, that you've got one
Speaker 2: group who's wearing orange, the other group's wearing yellow, So
Speaker 2: they would be these two different form work contractors. Mostly
Speaker 2: via the video, they're all using the white helmets. Max,
Speaker 2: What did the white helmets signify?
Speaker 9: That's just the standard helmet to come on to a
Speaker 9: construction site.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, hey, thanks to that information. Max. If you
Speaker 2: know anything more about what's occurred at Castle Hill, let
Speaker 2: us know one three, one eight seven three. When the
Speaker 2: Labor Party campaigned at the last stut election twenty twenty three,
Speaker 2: central to their campaign was their promise, if they were
Speaker 2: elected they would reduce the burden of tolls motorway tolls
Speaker 2: on US Sydney's drivers, that they would make tolls fairer.
Speaker 2: They've now been in power for more than two years,
Speaker 2: two and a half years now, and what's changed with
Speaker 2: toll raids? Just have a think about it. They've increased
Speaker 2: the toll on the Sydney Harbor Bridge twice, hadn't been
Speaker 2: increased for years, and of course we paid it off
Speaker 2: years ago. What else did they do? They introduced the
Speaker 2: sixty dollars a week toll cap, so dollar that you
Speaker 2: spend on a motorway toll over the course of a
Speaker 2: week above sixty dollars, you're entitled to a refund. You've
Speaker 2: got to put an application in and it's worth tens
Speaker 2: of millions of dollars. And when I've reminded listeners about
Speaker 2: you can do it every three months. When I've reminded
Speaker 2: you to do it, I've had people get in contact
Speaker 2: with me telling me they didn't realize and they've been
Speaker 2: owed thousands of dollars and they've had refunds worth thousands.
Speaker 1: Great.
Speaker 2: Well, the budget that's been handed down today, guess what,
Speaker 2: there is no money, none whatsoever for the sixty dollars
Speaker 2: toll cap to continue past the end of this calendar year. Now.
Speaker 2: It was only meant to be temporary, but that was
Speaker 2: on the basis of a complete overhaul the way tolls
Speaker 2: are charged in Sydney, a fairer system. What's happening at
Speaker 2: the moment is there are negotiations going on between the
Speaker 2: government and Transurban and the fact that we're not hearing
Speaker 2: anything about this issue and now quietly in the budget
Speaker 2: funding for the sixty dollars cap is not continuing. That
Speaker 2: raises my suspicion. That raises my suspicions. The negotiations between
Speaker 2: the state government and Transurban aren't going too well. And
Speaker 2: you can't actually blame Transurban here. They have contracts that
Speaker 2: last for decades to run Sydney's toll network and they're
Speaker 2: not going to accept less revenue. They're not going to
Speaker 2: accept less money, and to be honest, nor should they.
Speaker 2: They entered those contracts in good faith. But the government
Speaker 2: also went to the election promising to help us the
Speaker 2: drivers by having a fair assystem by reducing the load.
Speaker 2: And what's happened well, other than the sixty dollars toll
Speaker 2: cap and two increases on the Harbor Bridge, there's been
Speaker 2: no change. And now the budget today confirms the sixty
Speaker 2: dollars toll cap will not continue beyond this. Beyond this year,
Speaker 2: and the initial plan was until the end of twenty
Speaker 2: twenty five. Fine, but that was going to be on
Speaker 2: the basis of major reforms to the rest of the
Speaker 2: toll network and it hasn't happened yet. Alan Fels has
Speaker 2: completed a very detailed report and made recommendations and there
Speaker 2: are negotiations going on behind the scenes right now with Transurbent,
Speaker 2: but at the moment we have no details about what's
Speaker 2: going to happen. And given the toll cap ends now
Speaker 2: thirty one December, there should be a system in place
Speaker 2: on the first of January where it completely changes the
Speaker 2: way you pay tolls on the road. And what are
Speaker 2: we hearing from the government silence, crickets, nothing.
Speaker 1: Sydney. Now on to GV.
Speaker 2: They always an explanation and it needs to come now
Speaker 2: in the next month or so because we're now heading
Speaker 2: into the back half of the year, so we need
Speaker 2: to know how we're going to be paying for tolls
Speaker 2: into the future. I should point out in the budget
Speaker 2: it does say that toll revenue will increase from one
Speaker 2: hundred and fifty nine million dollars to two hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty three million dollars. That would be the extra money
Speaker 2: there generating on the Harbor Bridge and the Harbor Tunnel.
Speaker 2: Would you be willing to pay three thousand dollars to
Speaker 2: see Julia Gillard as a hologram alongside Hillary Clinton. There's
Speaker 2: a big summit coming up, and you, if you've got
Speaker 2: that sort of money to spend, you could actually spend
Speaker 2: that on a Julia Gillard hologram speech. Peter Ford'll have
Speaker 2: all the details shortly. Let's check out news headlines. Good afternoon,
Speaker 2: thirty four.
Speaker 10: Good afternoon. Clinton workers involved in a fight on a
Speaker 10: building site at Castle Hill have had their contracts terminated.
Speaker 10: Merriton says none of its staff was involved in the
Speaker 10: early morning brawl. That action has been taken against the
Speaker 10: contractors who took part. The IDF Szaran has launched another
Speaker 10: missile attack on Israel despite his ceasepire coming into effect.
Speaker 10: It's now the sixth wave of missile's launch today. More
Speaker 10: than five and a half billion dollars who's been set
Speaker 10: aside in the state budget for road projects in Sydney's West.
Speaker 10: The Menion's Government's third financial blueprint includes funding for the
Speaker 10: fifteenth Avenue upgrade between Liverpool and the New Western Sydney
Speaker 10: Airport and Mona Vaiale Road West and the E Safety Commissioner,
Speaker 10: who has raised concerns about YouTube's exemption from the planned
Speaker 10: Under sixteen social media ban, arguing forty percent of Australian
Speaker 10: children have been exposed to harmful content on the website.
Speaker 10: In Sport, former Melbourne storminger Marcus Buyer has been named
Speaker 10: on the inaugural board for the NRL's new pup When
Speaker 10: You're Guinea franchise born and raised MPNG buy one a
Speaker 10: premiership with the Storm in nineteen ninety nine, Clinton warning
Speaker 10: us four.
Speaker 2: Thanking Coaty twenty one degrees in the city, twenty one
Speaker 2: degrees in Penrith at the moment on the emails, if
Speaker 2: you'd like to send an email, go to our website
Speaker 2: to gb dot com. On tolls, Michael says, what you
Speaker 2: need to do if you can't beat them, join them
Speaker 2: when it comes to paying tolls. Transurban. I bought Transurban
Speaker 2: shares and they've gone up in value substantially. Now we're
Speaker 2: not providing any financial advice, but it's the same time
Speaker 2: when we complain about bank fees, one of the best
Speaker 2: ways of dealing with that is actually buy some bank shares.
Speaker 2: Steve on the text line says, why do my taxes
Speaker 2: have to go to pay someone's tolls. I don't want
Speaker 2: to pay the toll and don't use the toll ride.
Speaker 2: Living in an area and having to use tolls is
Speaker 2: a lifestyle choice. Well, if you live in Penrith, Steve,
Speaker 2: and you work in the city and you have to
Speaker 2: use the M four every day and then the West connects,
Speaker 2: you're paying an absolute fortune. Now that might not be
Speaker 2: a lifestyle choice. You might not be able to find
Speaker 2: work that's actually closer to Penrith. Chris is asking the
Speaker 2: question regarding the budget. Has the state government received their
Speaker 2: one hundred and five million dollars from the Queensland government
Speaker 2: for their COVID hotel stays revenue? New South Wales should
Speaker 2: be involved. Treat it like a big parking fine. No,
Speaker 2: they've not been paid back the money.
Speaker 1: If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney
Speaker 1: Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 2: Until said there's going to be a significant federal court
Speaker 2: decision announced tomorrow, a decision made on Antoinette Latouf and
Speaker 2: her issues with the ABC. Peter Ford, we cross all
Speaker 2: the details, Hi.
Speaker 11: Peter, Yes, Clinton Finally it's coming to her head tomorrow
Speaker 11: morning at about ten o'clock in the morning. Obviously Mark
Speaker 11: Wiby across it on this station as it happens. But
Speaker 11: it's going to be interesting because it's gone on for
Speaker 11: a long time. Now, long story short, This is the
Speaker 11: story of Antoinette Latouf who, as a journalist, she was
Speaker 11: employed on a one week casual engagement to work on
Speaker 11: ABC Radio. She only got to do three days and
Speaker 11: her services were terminated because of tweeting and retweeting that
Speaker 11: she'd done on the issue of gars. Now, there was
Speaker 11: great outrage about how she was treated, certainly from her
Speaker 11: point of view there was, and eventually, of course what
Speaker 11: we have seen is the inner workings of ABC management
Speaker 11: exposed and what has gone on, and some will say
Speaker 11: that she was treated very unfairly. Now it is in
Speaker 11: many ways it's quite odd that this pretty simple thing
Speaker 11: of a casual one week contract has ended up in
Speaker 11: this major kind of case which will to a large
Speaker 11: degree determine the rights and the responsibilities of employees in
Speaker 11: the media. And certainly, if you are employed on a
Speaker 11: casual basis, what you are entitled to do or not do,
Speaker 11: what are your freedoms? And what are your responsibilities? And
Speaker 11: is retweeting something endorsing it? All of those questions have
Speaker 11: been a part of this story. So tomorrow morning we'll
Speaker 11: get some sort of answer. Now, the union which covers
Speaker 11: journalists who work in the media is MEBA, and they've
Speaker 11: asked their members to turn up at nine point thirty
Speaker 11: in the morning at the Federal Court in Phillips Street
Speaker 11: to cheer Antelette as she walks in to face that
Speaker 11: judgment being handed down.
Speaker 2: What is the chances and once the judgment's handed down,
Speaker 2: once the legal proceedings are done with that, another media
Speaker 2: company is ever going to employ her?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 11: I think she always knew that was the risk that
Speaker 11: she was taking, but I think she felt that she
Speaker 11: didn't have a choice. She had to pursue this. You know,
Speaker 11: many people say she's wanted to be a martyr. Let's
Speaker 11: see how it all plays out. But it is quite
Speaker 11: a fascinating case, and you know, I wish her well.
Speaker 11: She's actually a very talented journalist. But you're right, she's
Speaker 11: kind of got herself into this situation now where she
Speaker 11: may have become untouchable for mainstream media employment.
Speaker 2: Now, plead if I save up all my pennies over
Speaker 2: the next couple of months, and I put together three
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, will it be worth my time to hand
Speaker 2: over that check to go and see Julie Gillard as
Speaker 2: a hologram?
Speaker 11: I wouldn't have thought so, nor would I, but I
Speaker 11: don't think they want either of us. This is very
Speaker 11: much a summit meeting which is being held for women.
Speaker 11: It's the Women Unlimited Leadership Summit, and it's being held
Speaker 11: the end of September at the High Regency Hotel in
Speaker 11: Sussex Street, and it is a very expensive event to
Speaker 11: go to, a two day official event and then some
Speaker 11: post seminars about it all various speakers involved. The two
Speaker 11: high profile ones or three high profile ones actually are
Speaker 11: Hillary Clinton and Julia Gillard and Lee Sales. Now in Sydney,
Speaker 11: at least if you are going and you are forking
Speaker 11: out that approximately three thousand dollars, you will get to
Speaker 11: actually hear and see Hillary Clinton in the flesh. But
Speaker 11: in the other parts of Australia she's not going to
Speaker 11: be there at all. Now, Julia Gillard is not going
Speaker 11: to be there anywhere. She is going to be there
Speaker 11: as a hologram. Now, don't ask me because I don't.
Speaker 7: Know how that works.
Speaker 11: Well, I know is about the Abba Holograms in London,
Speaker 11: but she's not going to be there. Lee Sales is
Speaker 11: not going to be on in every city where the
Speaker 11: Leadership Summit being held. So look, it's it's I'm sure
Speaker 11: it's going to be very much about empowerment to networking
Speaker 11: and I'm sure there's going to be great tips. But Gie,
Speaker 11: you'd have to be traveling pretty nicely anyway to have
Speaker 11: the three thousand dollars to hand over to go to it.
Speaker 2: I'm not a massive Abba fan, but I think I
Speaker 2: prefer to spend the money on Abba in.
Speaker 1: The Holograms exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can on your Pedib'll talk tomorrow, thanks, Quentin.
Speaker 2: Peter Ford. Well, the prices have now been released for
Speaker 2: ac DC's tour, so these tickets will go on sale
Speaker 2: on Thursday for their show in Sydney which is in November.
Speaker 2: And look, it's not cheap, but it probably could have
Speaker 2: been a lot more expensive. You can buy b reserve
Speaker 2: seating for the ac DC show and this is at
Speaker 2: the Course Stadium for one hundred and thirty two dollars
Speaker 2: and forty five cents. Now that's very high up in
Speaker 2: the stands of a core stadium. A reserve seating is
Speaker 2: two hundred and three dollars and eighty cents, and they'll
Speaker 2: be booking fees on top of that unlimited a reserve seating,
Speaker 2: So that's the really good one. Four hundred and seven
Speaker 2: dollars and seventy cents. If you want to go along
Speaker 2: to cac DC and you want to stand, and usually
Speaker 2: if I go to one of those big concerts, I
Speaker 2: like to stand. If you want to be at the front,
Speaker 2: three hundred and five dollars seventy five general admission for
Speaker 2: the rear. They will divide the field basically in two
Speaker 2: parts two hundred and three dollars and eighty cents. So look,
Speaker 2: it's a lot of money, but I've got to say
Speaker 2: it's probably on the reasonable side. Now I'm going along
Speaker 2: to c Oasis in it's around the same time you'd
Speaker 2: see the October November, so it's late year. It must
Speaker 2: be around within a couple of weeks, and I think
Speaker 2: I've paid. I've just a single seat in the stands.
Speaker 2: I think I've paid one hundred and seventy five or
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty, So ACDC is probably roughly in
Speaker 2: line with that may be a little bit cheaper because
Speaker 2: the standing tickets for Oasis were all sold out by
Speaker 2: the time I logged on, and I think there are
Speaker 2: a lot more than three hundred and five or two
Speaker 2: hundred and three. So that's how much you'll pay. You
Speaker 2: want to see Acadaca later this year, if he's been
Speaker 2: to one of those big concerts just in the last
Speaker 2: couple of years, how much have you paid? Intrigued to know,
Speaker 2: because obviously it's nothing like it was even say pre COVID.
Speaker 2: The prices have gone up for big ticket entertainment acts
Speaker 2: massively in the last two or three years. But if
Speaker 2: you went along to Paul McCartney at Alley Unstadium a
Speaker 2: couple of years ago, if you saw maybe Taylor Swift,
Speaker 2: if you're into Taylor Swift, what do you pay for
Speaker 2: the big stadium gigs? At the moment, I think it's
Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy five I paid for Oasis, but
Speaker 2: maybe it's to be expected. B reserve one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirty two forty five. It's a quarter the four. If
Speaker 2: you live on the Central Coast, you live at Long Jetty,
Speaker 2: you might have noticed a string of broken windows on
Speaker 2: shop fronts on the entrance road Long Jedty over the weekend,
Speaker 2: middle of the night, very very early Saturday morning. Someone's
Speaker 2: gone along and they've broken at least the windows of
Speaker 2: seven of the shops there. Well. Police have arrested a man.
Speaker 2: They've now charged a thirty two year old. He is
Speaker 2: facing eight counts of destroy or damage property. He's due
Speaker 2: to appear in court later next month.
Speaker 1: Sitting now on to GB.
Speaker 2: One seventy three, I've got so much feedback here about
Speaker 2: how much you pay for concert tickets. Rochelle on the
Speaker 2: text line says, we paid two hundred and fifty dollars
Speaker 2: a ticket for Lady Gaga in December. We had Level
Speaker 2: six at the Core Stadium, so basically nose bleed, So
Speaker 2: two fifty for nose bleed. So I see DC is
Speaker 2: a fair bit cheaper than that, Sue, Sue, you went
Speaker 2: and saw Paul McCartney.
Speaker 12: I did, Clinton, How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good? How much four.
Speaker 12: Hundred and ten dollars each? Now all I went on
Speaker 12: my own?
Speaker 2: Yeah, whereabouts were you in the in the stadium?
Speaker 1: Gold coat?
Speaker 6: In the gold coat? Do you know whatever the stadium's called?
Speaker 12: And I already bought them like a week before. And
Speaker 12: I don't know whether you know this little chip, but
Speaker 12: when you go on your own, it's very easy to
Speaker 12: get last in the tickets because one.
Speaker 2: Seat that makes sense. Well, I'm going along to Oasis
Speaker 2: on my own because none of my friends and family
Speaker 2: liked them. Really, that's that's my life. But the whole
Speaker 2: stay sold out pretty quickly anyway. Actually, yeah, everybody here
Speaker 2: in the office. When I said that, Sue's laughing at
Speaker 2: me because I'm going by myself. I like to go
Speaker 2: to those sort of things by myself.
Speaker 12: Clinton, I'm seventy four and we're not on my own.
Speaker 2: And you love it as well. Love it nothing wrong
Speaker 2: to go and see a concept by yourself. Good on you.
Speaker 2: Sue Zach on the text line says, I went to
Speaker 2: see ac DC. Last time they played at Sydney Pickpark
Speaker 2: was a few years back. My tickets were free, we
Speaker 2: were standing, and it was an absolutely crazy concept. Stephen
Speaker 2: Newport says Mark Knopfler twenty nineteen in la at the
Speaker 2: Greek Theater three hundred and twenty us. My wife never asked, well,
Speaker 2: if you want the top tickets, the top ticket is
Speaker 2: four hundred and seven dollars seventy, I reckon. There's probably
Speaker 2: also some special like VIP packages. They called them VIP packages,
Speaker 2: but it's usually just a reason to charge you a
Speaker 2: lot more. So the tickets are going to go on
Speaker 2: sale on Thursday morning. That's just for one Sydney concert,
Speaker 2: I reckon. They'll end up announcing a few more of them.
Speaker 2: It's thirteen to four. Look a lot more people, whether
Speaker 2: you're a fan of them or not, are thinking about
Speaker 2: buying an electric vehicle. There are more evs on the market,
Speaker 2: and the prices have been coming down that there's a
Speaker 2: lot of choice. But there's been some information released today
Speaker 2: which shows that there are still serious concerns about battery
Speaker 2: longevity and the overall cost of ownership of an electric vehicle,
Speaker 2: particularly around issues of service, warranty, repairs and if you
Speaker 2: have an accident. My Car Mobility Index has been released
Speaker 2: and I'm joined in the program by Adele Coswilow, who's
Speaker 2: the chief customer officer with my Car.
Speaker 13: Hello Adel, good afternoon, Clinton, and it's great to be here.
Speaker 2: Look really good topic that you've raised today, and you
Speaker 2: have released this information through my Car. It has found
Speaker 2: that a lot of Australiers are still worried about batteries.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's all right. I mean it's not only battery life,
Speaker 13: it's ownership, COSS and resale value them. In some of
Speaker 13: the comments you mentioned as I was just tuning in,
Speaker 13: now tell.
Speaker 2: Me you and this is what my car is all about.
Speaker 2: They do run service centers across the country. I've heard
Speaker 2: there's a significant issue with having people trained to actually
Speaker 2: repair evs at your chain. Are you repairing evs now
Speaker 2: and servicing them?
Speaker 13: Yeah, we absolutely are.
Speaker 14: We actually have.
Speaker 13: An existing relationship with BYD which began in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 13: and so we ensure that our technicians received specialized training
Speaker 13: to service those BYD vehicles. And we actually have forty
Speaker 13: three EV stores already, so those EV vehicles, of course,
Speaker 13: I'm more than welcome to come and visit us at
Speaker 13: a MICR store, and we are in a position to service.
Speaker 2: So it is possible to service them. Is it right
Speaker 2: that evs generally need less servicing than a standard ice engine.
Speaker 13: Yeah, that is certainly correct, But there are similarities between
Speaker 13: servicing of a current ICE vehicle and of course an EV.
Speaker 13: And never forget tie, no matter what, we'll always need
Speaker 13: to change tires on whether it's an ice vehicle or
Speaker 13: an EV.
Speaker 2: How long can you expect an electric vehicle battery to last?
Speaker 2: Because that is what people are worried about.
Speaker 13: Yeah, and look, I think that's really up to the
Speaker 13: different manufacturers and so I think as time goes on,
Speaker 13: we'll learn more and more about that. But the Mobility Index,
Speaker 13: really that was just kind of showing us just the
Speaker 13: sentiment towards electric vehicles. And as you would have noticed,
Speaker 13: you know, in the research, it showed that the same
Speaker 13: question that we've asked year on year around how Australian's
Speaker 13: feeling around transitioning to evs, we did see that come
Speaker 13: down twelve points from last year. So there's still certainly
Speaker 13: interest is growing, but there's certainly more questions now. And
Speaker 13: I think it's not that people are against the idea,
Speaker 13: it's just more about uncertain So.
Speaker 2: What are the concerns that people have other than batteries.
Speaker 13: Well, as we mentioned, it's really just still around the
Speaker 13: ownership costs and resale value. I think that for us,
Speaker 13: you know, there's we really need to be clear. We
Speaker 13: need to provide probably jug and free information to those
Speaker 13: EV owners around how to care for their battery solutions.
Speaker 13: But I think it's not just that there's obviously charging
Speaker 13: networks and how we can prioritize innovation to build on
Speaker 13: those tech advancements. It's just more around the education and
Speaker 13: how we can bring that to life and have people
Speaker 13: feel more confident about driving evs and understanding their vehicles.
Speaker 2: And I think some of that's going to take time
Speaker 2: once they're and now more electric vehicles on the resale
Speaker 2: market as well. Thank you if you're time, Adel No,
Speaker 2: thank you Del Coswilow, who's the chief customer officer of
Speaker 2: my Car. Now my car they are servicing evs now
Speaker 2: that they service mostly internal combustion engine cars. I think
Speaker 2: the biggest issue with giving people confidence in buying electric
Speaker 2: car is going to be what happens on the second
Speaker 2: hand market. Yes, of course you can now buy electric
Speaker 2: vehicles on the second hand market, but you don't see
Speaker 2: a lot of say, eight year old nine year old Teslas.
Speaker 2: Is that going to give you confidence buying a Tesla
Speaker 2: that has a battery that's eight or nine years old.
Speaker 2: The servicing costs because they're effectively fewer moving parts in
Speaker 2: an EV over those initial years that you have an
Speaker 2: electric vehicle. They should be lower than a petrol driven
Speaker 2: car or a diesel driven car. The problem is going
Speaker 2: to be what happens when they say reach nine ten
Speaker 2: years of age. I drive a thirteen year old car
Speaker 2: and quite you know, I had a big service last week.
Speaker 2: Cost a lot to keep your thirteen year old car
Speaker 2: on the road, But it's going to cost a lot
Speaker 2: more when you need to get a new battery after
Speaker 2: eight years. If you've got a bit of experience, I'd
Speaker 2: love to hear from you. If you've got an older
Speaker 2: electric vehicle or even a too out of hybrid that
Speaker 2: you've had to put a new battery in, how much
Speaker 2: did it actually cost you? Let me know? One three
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. We were reporting in the news
Speaker 2: yesterday the death of a little boy at a Port
Speaker 2: Stephen's home in the afternoon. Well the Telegraph is now
Speaker 2: reporting the two year old's death is not suspicious, but
Speaker 2: they're reporting how the little boy has died and this
Speaker 2: is just horrible. They've confirmed with the police that he
Speaker 2: died of misadventure, his clothing tightened around his neck. Here's
Speaker 2: this two year old was wearing a hoodie, a hooded
Speaker 2: jumper and that hooded jumper has become caught on a
Speaker 2: curtain rod and tragically the boy has died. His distraught
Speaker 2: mother called Tripolo and paramedics were fairly quick to the scene.
Speaker 2: They commenced CPR. CareFlight doctors arrived there as well, but
Speaker 2: the little boy couldn't be saved. Just a horrible, horrible story.
Speaker 2: Word on the street thinks to temper a great night's sleep,
Speaker 2: night after night. The difference is temper. Yesterday we brought
Speaker 2: you the story about what's happening in the neonatal Intensive
Speaker 2: care ward unit at Westmead Hospital where the nurses and
Speaker 2: midwives are pulling their hair out because of under resourced
Speaker 2: department where they don't have simply enough room for all
Speaker 2: the babies they need to treat well. A word on
Speaker 2: the street for temper and this has come to my
Speaker 2: attention from a senior gastro interoller at Westmead. They are
Speaker 2: going to have an extraordinary meeting of the Medical Council
Speaker 2: on Thursday at five point thirty. There will be a
Speaker 2: vote of no confidence in the chief executive of the hospital.
Speaker 2: They're asking all the specialists to attend. So this is
Speaker 2: far just beyond the nurses of Westmead hospital. This is
Speaker 2: from a specialist, a gastro enterologist, and this is separate
Speaker 2: from what we were talking about yesterday with the neonatal unit,
Speaker 2: but it does demonstrate the problems that are now within
Speaker 2: Westmead Hospital. There will be a vote of no confidence
Speaker 2: in the Chief Executive, and not just from the staff,
Speaker 2: the nurses, the orderlies. This will involve a meeting of
Speaker 2: the Medical Staff Council, which includes some of the most
Speaker 2: senior doctors within that hospital, including specialists.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 5: If it's happening in your city, you'll hear it on
Speaker 5: Sydney Now to gb SO.
Speaker 2: Research release today shows that people are still concerned about
Speaker 2: buying evs because of the law longevity of a battery. Paul,
Speaker 2: would you buy an electric vehicle?
Speaker 7: I'll never buy an electric vehicle.
Speaker 9: I just I don't like him.
Speaker 7: My son's thirteen.
Speaker 15: We've got a BS Commodore that's a project carf.
Speaker 7: In him, which will be all good to go when
Speaker 7: he's sixteen.
Speaker 9: Nice izie car with.
Speaker 7: A big, nice engine in it.
Speaker 9: So I'm one of those I'll just never touch on.
Speaker 2: And if you do it up nicely, it might be
Speaker 2: worth a lot of money. One day being a hold
Speaker 2: and good on your Paul. This one from Ross. I
Speaker 2: drive a b YD now I charge my car until
Speaker 2: it's full. Tells me I have four hundred and eighty
Speaker 2: k's around the town. I'll probably get maybe four twenty
Speaker 2: before I need to recharge. If I take it on
Speaker 2: the open road, I only get two hundred two hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty kilometer, so it means that every two hours
Speaker 2: I'm having to stop to charge, and it's for fifty minutes.
Speaker 2: So I recently went to Melbourne. Should have taken me
Speaker 2: eight hours to drive to Melbourne. It took me twelve.
Speaker 2: And unfortunately they don't tell you that in the brochure.
Speaker 2: I'll look hopefully you get some other benefits, maybe from
Speaker 2: driving around the city in the buyd Some of those
Speaker 2: Blueoyd's are pretty good looking cars. I've just received the
Speaker 2: text message zero fors x zero eight seven three eight
Speaker 2: seven three from one Mark Levy says two and a
Speaker 2: half thousand dollars baby, yeeha. I'll be spitting the winter
Speaker 2: wheel a little later.
Speaker 1: There is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on.
Speaker 2: To GB Beautiful winters afternoon across Sydney one eight seveny
Speaker 2: three is our number of the US President Donald Trump
Speaker 2: has now used his own social media service Truth Social
Speaker 2: to issue a statement about the ceasefire between Israel and Iran,
Speaker 2: and he writes in capital letters, the ceasefire is now
Speaker 2: in effect, please do not violate it. Now there's very
Speaker 2: little confirmation coming out of either Iran or Israel other
Speaker 2: than Iranian state TV. And this was before two o'clock
Speaker 2: our time. Had accepted that there would be a ceasefire,
Speaker 2: but there were six missile strikes and very little information
Speaker 2: about about damage. But the Israeli Defense Force had issued
Speaker 2: a statement by their social media to warn their citizens
Speaker 2: that there were missiles on the way, and that was
Speaker 2: after two o'clock our time. But Donald Trump says, the
Speaker 2: ceasefire is now in effect, please do not violate it.
Speaker 2: The impact on US has been with flights. Now this
Speaker 2: morning there were two quarters flights that were flying over
Speaker 2: the region, and this had come after there had been
Speaker 2: attack on US space in Kata. Now as a result
Speaker 2: of that, Quotas had to take action with their two
Speaker 2: flights QF nine, which is Perth to London Heathrow had
Speaker 2: to be diverted to Singapore. One hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 2: customers on board passengers fourteen crew as well. QF thirty
Speaker 2: three is Perth to Paris Charles de Gore Airport. It
Speaker 2: was first forced to turn around completely and travel back
Speaker 2: to Perth that two hundred and sixteen passengers on board
Speaker 2: with fourteen crew. Virgin Australia's just released a statement and
Speaker 2: Virgin says now just bear in mind they are now
Speaker 2: in partnership with Katar. Virgin Australia's scheduled services to Doha
Speaker 2: operated by Qatar Airways are expected to operate today with
Speaker 2: delays following the reopening of Qatar airspace. These services are
Speaker 2: operated for guests traveling to Doha only, with more than
Speaker 2: twenty five thousand impacted passengers currently in Doha. The immediate
Speaker 2: priority is clearing the significant backlog of these passengers and
Speaker 2: flying them to their final destination. Now, Virgin says we're
Speaker 2: offering free booking changes or cancelations to guests who are
Speaker 2: booked on Virgin Australia's Doha services with onward connections in
Speaker 2: the coming days and up until and including the thirtieth
Speaker 2: of June. So if you do have a Virgin flight
Speaker 2: booked via Katar and you don't want to fly anymore
Speaker 2: up until the end of this month. You can cancel it.
Speaker 2: You need to contact Virgin Australia's guest contact center. Their
Speaker 2: number is thirteen sixty seven eighty nine. Flight VA one
Speaker 2: did take off from Sydney this afternoon just after three o'clock,
Speaker 2: was about twenty past three. We saw some vision courtesy
Speaker 2: of nine of that plane actually taking off from Kingsford
Speaker 2: Smith So the airspace is now open. Obviously, the airlines
Speaker 2: around the world and the Authority is becoming a very
Speaker 2: close site on exactly what's occurring. Well, Daniel Mookie is
Speaker 2: the man who controls our money at a state level,
Speaker 2: the State Treasurer. Today he's handed down his third budget.
Speaker 2: He's presented a deficit for this financial year of five
Speaker 2: point seven billion dollars. So we're in the red five
Speaker 2: point seven billion dollars this financial year. It isn't improved
Speaker 2: since twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four of five billion,
Speaker 2: so there was a deficit of more than ten billion.
Speaker 2: But remember those late years of the former coalition government.
Speaker 2: This isn't a defense of the Coalition, but I think
Speaker 2: it's important to note that that was coming off the
Speaker 2: back of COVID, where all governments of every political persuasion
Speaker 2: around the world had to spend unprecedented amounts of money.
Speaker 2: But the reality is we are now facing years of
Speaker 2: deficit as a hangover of that, let alone debt based
Speaker 2: on what the budget papers say, there is a forecast
Speaker 2: for a budget surplus of one point one billion dollars
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven twenty twenty eight, so it's a
Speaker 2: few years away and that's that's simply a forecast that's
Speaker 2: not locked in. What's also important is the state of
Speaker 2: our debt. So New South Wales government debt by June
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six will be one hundred and seventy eight
Speaker 2: point eight billion dollars. Now, that will be an improvement
Speaker 2: of nine point four billion compared with the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: three pre election budget when they did forecast one hundred
Speaker 2: and eighty eight So what do's actually mean, Well, what
Speaker 2: Daniel Mookie is saying is what that means. And it's
Speaker 2: not great that we have so much debt, but it's
Speaker 2: a reality of the way governments have been run lately.
Speaker 2: We will save, according to Daniel Mookie, four hundred million
Speaker 2: dollars every year in interest payments. Now that's a good thing,
Speaker 2: and interest rates are coming down as well, so that
Speaker 2: should mean there is four hundred million dollars to the
Speaker 2: government to spend on other things. They will be spending
Speaker 2: more money on housing. They have released what they say
Speaker 2: is an Australian First Plan. This is a what they're
Speaker 2: calling their pre Sale Finance Guarantee. It's where the government
Speaker 2: will guarantee resident central pre sales for up to a
Speaker 2: billion dollars worth of housing projects five to fifty million
Speaker 2: dollars in a pre sale guarantee. The state is going
Speaker 2: to go guarrant taur for fifty percent of approved housing projects.
Speaker 2: So it's a means of encouraging big developers and developers
Speaker 2: of home unit buildings to take the risk and have
Speaker 2: more security in being able to apply for loans through
Speaker 2: a bank because they're going to have the government guarrant tour.
Speaker 2: So if, for instance, they don't sell all the apartments,
Speaker 2: there'll then be a mechanism for the government themselves to
Speaker 2: buy some of those apartments and then the government can
Speaker 2: resell them or the government could use them for social
Speaker 2: housing and rent them out. Tom Forrest is the chief
Speaker 2: executive of the Urban Task Force and joints us Get
Speaker 2: a tom, what do you think of this plan?
Speaker 16: It's really it's a really big surprise and it's a
Speaker 16: positive surprise that's come out of the budget today. One
Speaker 16: of the big constraints has been difficulty is associated with
Speaker 16: securing pre sale off the plan, off the plan purchase
Speaker 16: commitment from buyers, with uncertainty associated with interest rates, with
Speaker 16: concerns associated with making such a big commitment. This is
Speaker 16: the common This is the state government coming in and
Speaker 16: backing what the Colon Wharf have done.
Speaker 7: Taking a similar approach.
Speaker 16: The Colon Wolf backed the buyer by underwriting their deposits
Speaker 16: for first home buyers.
Speaker 1: The State government.
Speaker 16: Has backed the supply of housing by doing effectively the
Speaker 16: same thing, underwriting the developer and the builders who are
Speaker 16: building the supply.
Speaker 7: So you've got the Colon Worth supporting the buyer.
Speaker 16: The State government supported in the seller. Both of those
Speaker 16: things together make for a more positive environment for housing
Speaker 16: supply and that's what we need.
Speaker 2: The state government has done a fair bit with changing
Speaker 2: planning laws and putting more pressure on local councils to
Speaker 2: approve developments fast, but not all it's actually happened in
Speaker 2: terms of boosting housing numbers. Do you think this is
Speaker 2: going to what's make the change?
Speaker 7: This is going to make a big difference.
Speaker 1: Clinton.
Speaker 16: It's been a real problem that we've had where where
Speaker 16: interest rates have been starting to come off now, but
Speaker 16: still when you're a developer, the sort of the sort
Speaker 16: of interest rates that you're being charged somewhere between eight
Speaker 16: and thirteen percent, sometimes even higher from non bank lenders.
Speaker 16: And one of the things the banks who charge the
Speaker 16: lesser the lesser end of that range, what they requires
Speaker 16: is lots of pre sale, pre sale sign offs from purchases,
Speaker 16: so you've got your off the plan purchases and they've
Speaker 16: all been signed off. What this does is it steps
Speaker 16: in and rather than having to have sixty percent of
Speaker 16: your entire development pre sold via off the plan purchases,
Speaker 16: you might only have to get ten or fifteen percent
Speaker 16: and the rest will you're covered by this guarantee. That's
Speaker 16: that means you can get the cheaper interest rates, which
Speaker 16: flows on then the cheaper house price sales at the
Speaker 16: end of construction.
Speaker 7: News for everyone.
Speaker 2: Involved, hopefully works. Thanks for your time to thank you,
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 7: Glyndon.
Speaker 2: Tom Forres is the chief executive of the Urban Task force.
Speaker 2: There'll be a lot of analysis needed for this particular policy,
Speaker 2: and the opposition says there are holes in it already.
Speaker 2: At least it's something creative. At least it's going thinking
Speaker 2: a little bit outside the box. Now, what's happening on
Speaker 2: our roads. I told you at the start of the
Speaker 2: program about the future of the sixty dollars toll cap.
Speaker 2: This budget confirms that it will not continue beyond the
Speaker 2: end of this year. There is no funding in it
Speaker 2: for next year, but there is obviously a fair bit
Speaker 2: of capital expenditure for roads. Seven and a half billion
Speaker 2: dollars will be spent. Hopefully that's going to fix some potholes.
Speaker 2: Peter Kouris from the NROMA, are you happy with this plan?
Speaker 1: Well, seven and a.
Speaker 15: Half billion, good afternoon, isn't as high as nine point
Speaker 15: one billion, which is what it was last year. So
Speaker 15: we've actually seen a fall in road funding this year.
Speaker 15: And I mean seven and a half billion can fix
Speaker 15: a lot of potholes. But what we also know is
Speaker 15: there's a huge between what councils are getting to maintain
Speaker 15: our roads to a safe standard and what they need.
Speaker 15: And unfortunately all of this is happening at the same
Speaker 15: time that the road tile is going up already one
Speaker 15: hundred and seventy nine depths this year. That's twenty six
Speaker 15: more than the same time last year.
Speaker 9: And so.
Speaker 15: What we want to be doing is investing in our
Speaker 15: road infrastructure, and we have seen is a drop this year.
Speaker 2: So there has been a drop, but I do know
Speaker 2: you've pointed out there's going to be an increase in
Speaker 2: the amount generated through traffic fines.
Speaker 15: Yeah, so traffic fines will go up about nine percent
Speaker 15: this year on last year, and then it will go
Speaker 15: up again next year. Slide increase next year based on
Speaker 15: the government's own forecasting, though obviously we're going to be
Speaker 15: looking at that really closely because there'll be more cameras
Speaker 15: rolled out in that time. We also know that their
Speaker 15: cameras catching people not wearing seat belts, which is very important.
Speaker 15: People should be wearing seatbelts. But all of that means
Speaker 15: that the revenue final will be go up, will be
Speaker 15: going up, and it also means that we'll be spending
Speaker 15: more on tolls over the next few years as well.
Speaker 15: In fact, a significant increase in collect money collected from tolls.
Speaker 15: That the government run.
Speaker 2: The toll collection so that it'd be the Harbard Tunnel.
Speaker 2: That'll also be that the bridge will go out from
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty nine million back in twenty five
Speaker 2: twenty six, so this financial year to two hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty three million by twenty eight twenty nine. As I
Speaker 2: was mentioning Peter that the sixty dollars toll cap and
Speaker 2: this has been foreshadow but this is confirmation it's going
Speaker 2: to come to an end at the end of this
Speaker 2: calendar year. There is no money in the budget next year,
Speaker 2: but there's also no detail of what the planned toll
Speaker 2: reform is going to be. The government's going to need
Speaker 2: to come out and say something on this quite soon.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 15: So look, the rebate was you know, we welcome that,
Speaker 15: and I know that there's still one hundred and something
Speaker 15: million dollars left to be claimed. So if you've got
Speaker 15: access to that, it's really easy to claim. So please
Speaker 15: go and claim the money back because you've spent it
Speaker 15: and it's yours and get it back. So that's the
Speaker 15: first thing. The second thing is we're not surprised that
Speaker 15: there wasn't longevity in that approach, which what we wanted
Speaker 15: to see, however, is as you said, there's been a
Speaker 15: long time coming, this Toile review and the reforms into
Speaker 15: the tolling system in New South Wales. Then I may
Speaker 15: play a big part in that. We did our submissions.
Speaker 15: We're part of the community consultation processes. We've been meeting
Speaker 15: with government.
Speaker 9: You know.
Speaker 15: I think it's more important that we land that because
Speaker 15: if we do that, if we can come out of
Speaker 15: this with a fair and more equitable system, and we
Speaker 15: believe at the end I made the way to do
Speaker 15: that is to have consistent tolling.
Speaker 9: Right across the network.
Speaker 15: So if you're using tolls, you're paying the same amount
Speaker 15: per kilometer, no matter where you are, who you are,
Speaker 15: where you live, what suburb you foment, and what you're
Speaker 15: driving on. So we think that's the way forward. You
Speaker 15: do that, and I think that provides transpariency and fairness
Speaker 15: in the system. Our members will use tole roads if
Speaker 15: they feel like they're getting value for money to get
Speaker 15: some home quicker. We don't have a problem with toll roads.
Speaker 15: We need them to reduce congestion. But what this system
Speaker 15: was meant to do, what this review was meant to do,
Speaker 15: was get us to a place of fairness and equity.
Speaker 15: It has been going on for a long time now
Speaker 15: we need solution.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, thank you, Peter. Peter Couri from the NRMA
Speaker 2: other major plank of the budget, there's a lot of
Speaker 2: detail that needs to be analyzed in this is a
Speaker 2: one point two billion dollar foot child protection package. What
Speaker 2: this is going to do is fill two hundred vacant
Speaker 2: positions in the child protection area. It's going to encourage
Speaker 2: more families to become foster parents. It's going to give
Speaker 2: a pay rise to twenty one hundred and twenty six
Speaker 2: case workers. But this is what it's going to We're
Speaker 2: told prevent kids living in motels. So when children are
Speaker 2: in need of foster care and when they're between families,
Speaker 2: and these are kids who who don't have parents. These
Speaker 2: are kids whose parents are in jail, These are kids
Speaker 2: whose parents have abused them sadly in the past. These
Speaker 2: are children who've been living in hotels and motels unaccredited accommodation.
Speaker 2: Just a couple of years ago, twenty twenty three, one
Speaker 2: hundred we're living in motels. This funding is designed to
Speaker 2: prevent that. It's nineteen past four, twenty three past four
Speaker 2: New Zealand Foreign Minister, the very colorful he's been around
Speaker 2: for a long time. Now Winston Peters has signaled the
Speaker 2: country is going to crack down on migration. He says
Speaker 2: we do not need more uber drivers or chefs, as
Speaker 2: if we're going to eat our way to wealth like
Speaker 2: Hansel and Gretel. He's the leader of the New Zealand
Speaker 2: First Party, but he's in coalition with the now Conservative government.
Speaker 2: He says the country must prioritize migration for the benefit
Speaker 2: of New Zealanders. He says, we have the most irresponsible
Speaker 2: immigration system. We need to bring people in to help
Speaker 2: New Zealand, not those that need us. We do not
Speaker 2: need more uber drivers or chefs, as if we're going
Speaker 2: to eat our way to wealth like Hansel and Gretel.
Speaker 2: There has been a drop in immigration numbers up year
Speaker 2: on year because sweeping these reforms have actually been introduced
Speaker 2: over the ditch. Sitting now on to Gie eight seven
Speaker 2: three is our number. On the issue of toll roads, John,
Speaker 2: how do you cope with toll roads?
Speaker 17: Well, I'd like what Peter said. You know, people could
Speaker 17: be used toll roads, you know, if they're getting value
Speaker 17: for money. Pentirely go on the northern beaches and we
Speaker 17: haven't got an option. We're going to be told on
Speaker 17: the bridge now both ways and we.
Speaker 7: Haven't got an option. We've got to pay a toll,
Speaker 7: you know, and that.
Speaker 2: Hasn't been confirmed by the state government yet, but it
Speaker 2: will happen. There will be a toll in both directions
Speaker 2: of the bridge.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but we don't have an option, correct, No, So
Speaker 9: so how's that fair?
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. Well, the way the system will probably change,
Speaker 2: it'll be towards more of a distance based user pays system,
Speaker 2: but it will have some caveas because the government doesn't
Speaker 2: want people who live in the far western suburbs to
Speaker 2: be paying distance based. It'll be a sliding scale. But
Speaker 2: what we need, we need the detail of what this
Speaker 2: is going to be because time is now running out.
Speaker 2: Labour came to power in twenty twenty three promising to
Speaker 2: do something about tolls, so they gave us the sixty
Speaker 2: dollars toll cap that this budget released today confirms the
Speaker 2: toll cap ends this year. There is no funding for
Speaker 2: next year whatsoever, so it can't continue. Talking about electric
Speaker 2: vehicles and we were speaking about the fact that a
Speaker 2: lot of Australians are still dubious because of battery life
Speaker 2: from one of our listeners on the text line, I've
Speaker 2: got the latest gts V eight Commodore, one of the
Speaker 2: last ones, so I'll never buy electric car. The car
Speaker 2: will be left to my son when I pass on.
Speaker 2: Dave says, my favorite driver is an HQV eight Premiere.
Speaker 2: See me in another twenty years with the byds and
Speaker 2: the Testlas have been replaced three times and the HQ
Speaker 2: just keeps on keep being on. Good on your Dave, Now,
Speaker 2: Rod's good a question here, he says, Look, I wouldn't
Speaker 2: go near an eight or nine year old v EV
Speaker 2: because it's going to be more expensive to ensure. Comprehensive
Speaker 2: insurance is more expensive for EV says, there's no question
Speaker 2: about that. Now Comprehensive insurance for every vehicle has gone up.
Speaker 2: I know because I paid mine on Saturday. It doesn't
Speaker 2: matter what you're driving at the moment. You're paying through
Speaker 2: the roof for comprehensive insurance. But it is more for evs.
Speaker 2: Chris says, why are you asking the NRMA about RHADS. Well,
Speaker 2: for very good reason That NRMA stands for the National
Speaker 2: Roads and Motoris Association, so there when it comes to
Speaker 2: representing the interest of drivers, that's what they're Therefore, Chris says,
Speaker 2: why not ask them about reducing insurance premiums rather than
Speaker 2: ripping off Australians. Well, Chris, I should point out the NRMA,
Speaker 2: the Roads and Motors Association, is actually completely different to
Speaker 2: NRMA Insurance. They use the same branding. NRMA Insurance is
Speaker 2: a company known as IAG Insurance Australia Group and they
Speaker 2: own a lot of the brands that offer insurance. Nmay,
Speaker 2: who we just spoke to there, Peter Courri is not
Speaker 2: NRMA Insurance, two completely different companies. You can send me
Speaker 2: text messages zero four six zero eight seven three eight
Speaker 2: seven three. Gary says, I think the New South Wales
Speaker 2: labor government are getting away with broken pole promises like tolls,
Speaker 2: because Chris Means is a good bloke. I think it
Speaker 2: is all smoke and mirrors. They haven't broken the promise yet,
Speaker 2: but unless they announce a plan this year that will
Speaker 2: start on January one, they will have because as of
Speaker 2: January one, the toll CAP's gone and as things stand
Speaker 2: at the Roment there's no change to tolls. So the
Speaker 2: negotiations are going on. We understand right now with Transurban,
Speaker 2: but Transurban's under no obligation to accept less revenue less money.
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of pressure on the government through
Speaker 2: John Graham, who's still handling this even though he's not
Speaker 2: the roads mister anymore, to get this right. Let's check
Speaker 2: out news headlines and with all the latest God authnon
Speaker 2: Katie Puller.
Speaker 10: Good afternoon, Clinton. Thousands of passengers are still stranded around
Speaker 10: the world following the closure of airspace in the Middle East.
Speaker 10: Cut Our Airways has resumed operating services, but the airline
Speaker 10: is only taking passengers heading directly to Doha due to
Speaker 10: a significant backlog at the airport. This state budget is
Speaker 10: forecast to return to surplus in three years. Treasurer Daniel
Speaker 10: Bookie says the state is already back in a cash surplus,
Speaker 10: meaning we don't have to borrow for day to day expenses.
Speaker 10: The judge presiding over Aaron Patterson's triple murder trial has
Speaker 10: instructed the jury not to let sympathy for her alleged victims'
Speaker 10: families cloud their judgment. Christopher Bill also directed members to
Speaker 10: not let the unprecedented media attention surrounding the case influence them,
Speaker 10: and a person's education level could indicate their life expectancy.
Speaker 10: Wannash University researchers have found men and women who completed
Speaker 10: a degree, I'm more likely to live longer than those
Speaker 10: who finished school in year eleven or below. In sport.
Speaker 10: In cricket, Josh English is still waiting to find out
Speaker 10: where he'll bat in Australia's lineup, just two days out
Speaker 10: from the first Test against the West Indies in Barbados,
Speaker 10: Clinton More News at five.
Speaker 2: Kcating nineteen degrees in the coast. It's eighteen degrees in
Speaker 2: Terry Hills one three one eight seven three. Where's you've
Speaker 2: come across a traffic drama? What have you seen?
Speaker 15: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Mate, just on the corner of Green Valley Road and
Speaker 4: Cow Pasture Road out at lone. I want to read
Speaker 4: you call that hitch your brook Yep, there's a semi
Speaker 4: trailer break broken down outside the Shell station on the
Speaker 4: southbound lanes.
Speaker 9: He's scores an O.
Speaker 4: He's caused it a bit of a traffe jam. He's
Speaker 4: right in the sen lane. Cars are diving around.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's a.
Speaker 4: Traffic jam anyway right down the other end. I just
Speaker 4: come up from West Sumpton and it's banked all the
Speaker 4: way right through virtually through to.
Speaker 9: Off the park.
Speaker 4: Mate, it's just a bank up a mile.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, hopefully they can move that truck quickly, but
Speaker 2: sometimes when those big trucks break down, it takes a
Speaker 2: while to get the cruise out there. So called a
Speaker 2: green Valley cow pass roads southbound and that's in the
Speaker 2: Hinchenbrug area. Thanks letting us know about that wezne scam.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 2: Also in the budget there is a forty million dollar
Speaker 2: allocation for the Metro. I repeat forty million dollars. It's
Speaker 2: not going to get you much when it comes to
Speaker 2: metro lines. What this money is for. It's to develop
Speaker 2: a business case for a potential future metro rail line
Speaker 2: between Talowong and Saint Mary's. So why would a metro
Speaker 2: be important between Talowang and Sat Mary's Because there will
Speaker 2: an airport metro between the new Western Sydney Airport the
Speaker 2: Western Sydney National Airport. We hosted the show from there
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago and Samari's train station. But
Speaker 2: Sameri's train station is the old fashioned heavy rail, so
Speaker 2: really what's needed is metro that takes you all the
Speaker 2: way to the new airport. To do that they need
Speaker 2: to link Talolong to Saint Mary's and again there's no
Speaker 2: money for it. But in the budget, well, there is
Speaker 2: an allocation of forty million doors to put together a
Speaker 2: business plan.
Speaker 1: Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Speaker 5: If it's happening and you're sitting you'll hear it on
Speaker 5: Sydney Now to.
Speaker 2: Gb we have been reporting in depth about the ongoing
Speaker 2: situation in the Middle East and as things stand at
Speaker 2: the moment, both Israel and Iran have agreed to the ceasefire.
Speaker 2: Donald Trump has issued a statement in the past hour saying,
Speaker 2: please do not break the ceasefire. Actually I don't think
Speaker 2: you use the word please. But the tensions in the
Speaker 2: Middle East aren't going to disappear quickly. This is a
Speaker 2: reality of the Middle East and we've experienced our whole lives.
Speaker 2: Now it's going to affect oil prices. And we spoke
Speaker 2: yesterday about making sure you fill up your pet car now,
Speaker 2: and I did that last night. I got petrol well
Speaker 2: I US ninety eight, So it was a dollar radiator leader.
Speaker 2: But how's it going to affect other investments? How's it
Speaker 2: going to affect the share market? How's it going to
Speaker 2: affect the residential property market, and given that sixty percent
Speaker 2: of all Australia's wealth is tied up in residential property,
Speaker 2: it's an important question to ask. I wanted to check
Speaker 2: with our sponsors Freedom Property Investors and Scott Kuu, friend
Speaker 2: of the program, joins BGIDE Scott lincin Gooday with what's
Speaker 2: happening in the Middle East of the moment. Do you
Speaker 2: think this is going to have an impact on property prices?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I could very say.
Speaker 7: What's going on.
Speaker 18: Prayers for all the people there in terms of ours
Speaker 18: and property prices. Look, it's all about oil and our
Speaker 18: biggest trading partner, China, is getting oil from there, so
Speaker 18: there can be some shocks there if the oil supply
Speaker 18: is affected. Here's the thing though, whether it's affected or
Speaker 18: not affected, interest rates are going to drive our economy here.
Speaker 18: So if we do see some shocks in the global economy,
Speaker 18: if we see some shocks in terms of China and
Speaker 18: the trade there, we can always lower our interest rates
Speaker 18: a bit quicker than probably what the IBA would have
Speaker 18: originally planned. So that's one big lever. The other thing,
Speaker 18: we've still got this systemic structural supply and demand problem.
Speaker 18: Now we are hearing news about elbow and the government,
Speaker 18: you know, reducing immigration and all of this, but that
Speaker 18: is not a reduction in permanent migration or permanent population growth.
Speaker 18: So we're still going to have that. But the biggest
Speaker 18: problem we haven't overcome, and post election we're not really
Speaker 18: talking about it, is the supply constraints that's actually getting worse,
Speaker 18: not better. The rental crisis is still ongoing. That has
Speaker 18: not been solved. So when I look at interest rates, Yep,
Speaker 18: things happen overseas, things go wrong. We can adjust those
Speaker 18: interest rates that will protect the economy. We've still got
Speaker 18: a population issue, We've still got a supply issue, so
Speaker 18: property prices will continue to grow.
Speaker 2: What do you think about the outlook for the next
Speaker 2: twelve months, eighteen months?
Speaker 18: Look, I think nationally we're probably looking at somewhere between
Speaker 18: six to nine percent growth, depending on what capital city
Speaker 18: you're in. But look, we've now got a capital city
Speaker 18: median house price.
Speaker 7: Believe it or not.
Speaker 18: Clinton, when we grew up in the nineties, you never
Speaker 18: would have believed it that the median house price now
Speaker 18: is a million dollars across all capital cities.
Speaker 2: All the whole country.
Speaker 7: It's nuts.
Speaker 18: Who would have fought.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so.
Speaker 18: Look we're going to see six to nine percent growth
Speaker 18: depending on what capital city. The key city investors should
Speaker 18: be looking at right now is Melbourne. Melbourne has had
Speaker 18: pretty much no growth since twenty twenty two. Purpose taken off,
Speaker 18: Brisbane has taken off, Adelaide has taken off, gone through
Speaker 18: the charts. Melbourne has had no growth. So the next
Speaker 18: area to pop will be Melbourne.
Speaker 2: Okay, Melbourne, not Sydney. Melbourne. If people want to think
Speaker 2: about investing now, and you are proud sponsors of our program,
Speaker 2: is now a good time? With all the uncertain it's around,
Speaker 2: not quite knowing when the interest rate's going to be
Speaker 2: cut again, is now a good time to think about it?
Speaker 18: It's probably the best time ever. And the reason I
Speaker 18: say that is a lot of things are actually happening
Speaker 18: and don't have time to unpack it right now. There's
Speaker 18: a lot of things happening in Australia's favor, so we
Speaker 18: are well positioned for the next five, ten to fifteen years.
Speaker 18: But if you look at the population growth, the wealth
Speaker 18: of our country, our natural resources, all the growth still
Speaker 18: going around the world, I know there's a lot of
Speaker 18: doom and gloom in the media, but we are well positioned.
Speaker 18: We're cushioned against all of these shocks going on around
Speaker 18: the world. We've still got a strong partnership with the US.
Speaker 18: Our local economy is great. Ossie's are great, We're working hard,
Speaker 18: business is great, unemployment's low, and we've got a shortage
Speaker 18: of property. No matter what happens with AI and technology
Speaker 18: and all of this, we're always going to need somewhere
Speaker 18: to live, and our cremation is growing.
Speaker 7: True.
Speaker 2: Yep, good on your Scott, Thanks for joining us today.
Speaker 2: Cheers mate, Scott Kuru who's from Freedom Property Investors and
Speaker 2: are sponsors of our program. But I wanted to talk
Speaker 2: to Scott given what's been unfolding the Middle East over
Speaker 2: the past week and whether it's going to have an impact.
Speaker 2: It's certainly going to have an impact economically on it,
Speaker 2: but does it have an impact on property investment. It's
Speaker 2: twenty five, It's seventeen to five. Don't forget. I'm still
Speaker 2: to spin Twogb's winter wheel. It is coming. Don't call yet.
Speaker 2: And yes, we did give away fifteen hundred dollars yesterday.
Speaker 2: We've got a knack in giving away a lot of
Speaker 2: money on this prag I've got some great prices as well,
Speaker 2: so don't call yet. Keep listening before I spin Twogb's Winter.
Speaker 1: Wheel on Sydney. Now you can't handle the true the
Speaker 1: straight shot?
Speaker 2: How straight shrao to this afternoon? Is the outgoing liberal
Speaker 2: center that Holly Hughes and I wanted to get Holly
Speaker 2: in studio today because this is her last time on
Speaker 2: the station as a politician, well for now, so you know,
Speaker 2: to know.
Speaker 19: I'm thinking this is when the last time as a politician.
Speaker 2: So it's formally your Senate term is going to come
Speaker 2: to an end at the end of this week next
Speaker 2: week a Monday, Jean, how do you feel? How do
Speaker 2: you feel about that?
Speaker 19: Look, I'm actually really looking forward to it. It's been
Speaker 19: a difficult time in the sense that I knew I
Speaker 19: was leaving for a good sort of thirteen months, so
Speaker 19: it's given me plenty of time to have a think
Speaker 19: about what's next. I still don't one hundred percent know,
Speaker 19: but it certainly give me plenty of time to get
Speaker 19: ready for it. So it's amazing when you start to
Speaker 19: see the big blue sky and then you experience a
Speaker 19: little bit of the Canberra winter and realize you're not
Speaker 19: having to go back to that, you start to see
Speaker 19: the upshot, and then couple that with the election result.
Speaker 19: I think I may have dodged.
Speaker 2: A bullet quite potentially. What I certainly admired in you
Speaker 2: after the election result, and perhaps it was easy for
Speaker 2: you to do this was you were very much and
Speaker 2: you really always have been on this. But you're very
Speaker 2: much willing to speak your mind. You're public about why
Speaker 2: the election, but you're very public about why the campaign failed.
Speaker 20: Yeah.
Speaker 19: Well, and I think you've got to be honest with people,
Speaker 19: and I think that's really important and it's probably important
Speaker 19: more politicians do do that. I mean, it's extraordinary the
Speaker 19: people that I know and like how they have a
Speaker 19: very rigid persona in the media, but they're actually really
Speaker 19: quite good fun if you go out for dinner with them,
Speaker 19: and can be quite entertaining. And I think too many
Speaker 19: people think as a politician being serious means you have
Speaker 19: to come across as boring or dar and I don't
Speaker 19: think that's the case.
Speaker 2: Both sides of politics. In your experience, who was the
Speaker 2: most fun politician to go out to dinner.
Speaker 19: With, without a doubt, Milton Dick, the Speaker. We have
Speaker 19: been really close mate since two thousand and four we
Speaker 19: did a young political leader's trip to the US and
Speaker 19: we bonded on that trip. It was actually straight after
Speaker 19: Latham lost the Medicare Gold election and we were over
Speaker 19: there for the US presidential election of George W. Bush
Speaker 19: and John Kerry and became great mates. And he is
Speaker 19: still one of the most fun people in my life,
Speaker 19: full stop, end of story. So certainly we'll be looking
Speaker 19: forward to some more long dinners with him.
Speaker 2: Is Alba fun?
Speaker 21: Do you know?
Speaker 19: I don't know him very well. I never saw that
Speaker 19: side of you, never saw that. I really only met
Speaker 19: him a couple of times, and neither time was I
Speaker 19: particularly enamored. Neither time did I think he was particularly warm,
Speaker 19: And I certainly didn't see a fun side. But you know,
Speaker 19: then again, maybe that's not for me to see.
Speaker 2: Is it hard for a career politician, and let's be honest,
Speaker 2: Albo's a career politician. Is it hard for a career
Speaker 2: politician to be and show the qualities of a real person.
Speaker 19: Well, some of them, I'm not sure still maintain those qualities.
Speaker 19: They've kept them hidden for so long. I think they've
Speaker 19: almost forgotten what being a real person is about and
Speaker 19: whether Elbow has done that or not, that'll be a
Speaker 19: matter for him. But I think he's been in the
Speaker 19: game for so long the ability to turn it off,
Speaker 19: you know, may not be there anymore. But look, I
Speaker 19: think more people need to be authentic, They need to
Speaker 19: be their real selves because for every one of your
Speaker 19: listeners sitting in their car driving home, cost of living
Speaker 19: pressures are still so very, very real for many families
Speaker 19: at the moment. We need to be honest and you know,
Speaker 19: politicians experience the same sorts of challenges that everybody else faces,
Speaker 19: and sometimes more in a different way. You know, I've
Speaker 19: had to juggle being away for you know, a lot
Speaker 19: of time each year with three children that we're going
Speaker 19: through school. So you know, it does come with a price.
Speaker 19: It's a price that we're prepared to pay. But our
Speaker 19: families at the end of the day are conscripts and
Speaker 19: we need to be mindful of that.
Speaker 2: You see. I think there's a real desire and maybe
Speaker 2: this is just the way that because we've been exposed
Speaker 2: out a reality TV and social media, there's more desire
Speaker 2: than ever for the voters to see the reality in
Speaker 2: politicians what they actually really like. Yeah, but politicians themselves,
Speaker 2: more than ever don't want to take any risk now.
Speaker 2: And I guess that's because you can easily be exposed
Speaker 2: on social media.
Speaker 19: Well, and I think it's a twenty four to seven
Speaker 19: media cycle. I mean, you know yourself, Clinton and your producers,
Speaker 19: what are you going to talk about? What's happening today?
Speaker 19: There's a constant for the news. You're constantly under scrutiny,
Speaker 19: and it's not necessarily accepting of politicians being human. There
Speaker 19: almost seems to be a thought that they're able to
Speaker 19: operate at a level other than that, and that's just
Speaker 19: not the case.
Speaker 2: Yeah. The developing story this afternoon is the ceasefire in
Speaker 2: the Middle East, and Donald Trump has issued a social
Speaker 2: media statement on his own Truth social service and it reads,
Speaker 2: in capital letters, the ceasefire is now in effect. Please
Speaker 2: do not violate it now. I can see you're wearing
Speaker 2: a lapel pin which features and flag of Israel and
Speaker 2: a flag of Australia. How do you think the next
Speaker 2: twenty four hours are going to proceed.
Speaker 19: I think it's really important that this ceasefire hold. I
Speaker 19: think what Trump did was extraordinary. I think it's peace
Speaker 19: via strength. You're going to hear that term, I think
Speaker 19: a lot. But what Israel has done and now with
Speaker 19: the US coming in, I think there's a potential change
Speaker 19: across the Middle East landscape. And we know that Iran
Speaker 19: has been the head of the snake. It's funding the hoodies,
Speaker 19: it's funding has Belah, it's been funding Hamas and so
Speaker 19: by the weakening of Iran, everybody agrees. I mean even
Speaker 19: Albanesi and Woe could manage to bring up themselves to
Speaker 19: say Iran can't have nuclear weapons. Hopefully, this is what
Speaker 19: we see is a reshaping of the Middle East, a
Speaker 19: Middle East that's more driven by the Abraham Accords, where
Speaker 19: we see peace across Saudi's, the UAE and a lot
Speaker 19: of the other Middle Eastern countries with Israel. And this
Speaker 19: an end to the calling for the destruction of Israel,
Speaker 19: which was being driven primarily by Iran and its proxies.
Speaker 2: The Prime Minister has spoken again today and he spoke yesterday.
Speaker 2: But did you take you more than twenty four hours
Speaker 2: to actually publicly comment The statement was released on the weekend,
Speaker 2: but that state was not attributed to anyone or even
Speaker 2: in office. Did it take him too long?
Speaker 19: Yeah, Look, it was appalling and I mean the fact
Speaker 19: they put out this limp wristed commentary from Tanya Plipasek
Speaker 19: and then Pennywong and out to the Albaniezi would know
Speaker 19: where to be seen. Think what, we're not a key
Speaker 19: player when it comes to the negotiation wards in Iran,
Speaker 19: Israel and the US. But what we are is a
Speaker 19: longtime ally and friend of the United States. And I
Speaker 19: think this in action is constantcyting on the fence that
Speaker 19: Albini has been so weak when it comes to his
Speaker 19: support for Israel, let alone everything coupled up with Trump.
Speaker 19: I think that in action, that lack of response is
Speaker 19: going to be echoing very loudly through the halls of Washington.
Speaker 19: And that's where I think it's important.
Speaker 2: What do you think that drives this? Because before the
Speaker 2: election there was the line that labor politicians were sitting
Speaker 2: on the fence and some of these issues because they
Speaker 2: were so worried about the various independent Muslim groups that
Speaker 2: would run in Sydney's West. They don't have to worry
Speaker 2: that anymore. They've got a thumping majority. Is this just
Speaker 2: to the core of the PM that when he was
Speaker 2: a young radical running around the university yard. This was
Speaker 2: his belief that he.
Speaker 19: Was and that's what I think sometimes when you look
Speaker 19: at the way they're conducting themselves, it is like university politics,
Speaker 19: city is still embracing these old left wing causes that
Speaker 19: I don't think in any way the same shape or
Speaker 19: form that they were when he was at university. Now,
Speaker 19: I could get in trouble with this. I'm going to
Speaker 19: say about forty years ago. It probably around you know,
Speaker 19: forty years ago, and you know, things have changed and
Speaker 19: moved on. But I'm not quite sure that old socialist
Speaker 19: left wing that they can ever really let go of
Speaker 19: those old hatreds, reds under the bed, you know, all
Speaker 19: of those old things that were floating around. I think
Speaker 19: they probably still still have a little bit of a
Speaker 19: red center.
Speaker 2: Now, just on mister Alban easy news has broken today
Speaker 2: that the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister is the
Speaker 2: one who decides this, has told the Opposition it will
Speaker 2: need to cut twenty staffing roles, sixteen senior advisor positions
Speaker 2: will go within the coalition and it is that's a
Speaker 2: decision for the PM. From your experience of working as
Speaker 2: a senior member of the coalition, is that too harsh?
Speaker 19: I think it's vindictive. I think it's nasty. I actually
Speaker 19: think it's it's almost transparent in his unwillingness to have
Speaker 19: a strong opposition that's able to call the government out
Speaker 19: to account staff as salaries, particularly staff is in Sydney.
Speaker 19: You got to remember politicians and staff federally get paid
Speaker 19: exactly the same if you live in Lonceston or if
Speaker 19: you live in Sydney. There's no scale of travel allowance things.
Speaker 2: Sorry, is there a travel allowance for them?
Speaker 19: There is a travel allowance for them when they go
Speaker 19: to camp or when they travel, but their salaries for
Speaker 19: their experience don't often reflect what they could be earning
Speaker 19: in the corporate sector. So a lot of these staff
Speaker 19: do it out of a sense of public duty, in
Speaker 19: a sense of serving a government or an opposition to
Speaker 19: make the country better. And by having to cut so
Speaker 19: many senior staff, it'll be interesting whether or not many
Speaker 19: of them will be able to afford to stay, because
Speaker 19: it will mean and a lot of these people have
Speaker 19: families themselves.
Speaker 2: And that is actually going to affect the way government operates. Well,
Speaker 2: that's going the way parliament operates.
Speaker 19: It affects everything, and a good government relies on a
Speaker 19: strong and effective opposition and that's just the reality.
Speaker 2: And if you don't have the staff, you don't have
Speaker 2: the people to actually research issues. And then on the
Speaker 2: flip side, ministers and government in peace they have access
Speaker 2: not just to their personal stuff, they have access to
Speaker 2: the public service, the.
Speaker 19: Entire departments at their beck and call, and the opposition
Speaker 19: has nowhere near the resources.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 19: One of the things that I was very vocal about,
Speaker 19: and we have done a handover to the incoming Shadow
Speaker 19: Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Zoe McKenzie. We
Speaker 19: had seven policies that we had written, that we had
Speaker 19: had costed, that we'd put together that disappeared into the
Speaker 19: policy vortex in the previous opposition. So we've handed those
Speaker 19: over and I would hope that every single shadow minister
Speaker 19: within the opposition is going to whomever used to be
Speaker 19: the shadow in that area, because a lot of people
Speaker 19: have claimed the same. I actually meant to bring them
Speaker 19: with me because I could show you the seven bits
Speaker 19: of documents that I have, the cluster of documents on
Speaker 19: each of those policies. But every single shadow minister who
Speaker 19: didn't get policies through that didn't get feedback on them
Speaker 19: that disappeared into this vortex. They really need to be
Speaker 19: passing those on to make sure that hopefully we did
Speaker 19: an awful lot of work. So hopefully with reduce staff,
Speaker 19: they've got a lot of work already done.
Speaker 2: I'm always out of time. But you mentioned you weren't
Speaker 2: sure what's next in your career. I think I found
Speaker 2: something used today that a woman has quit her corporate lifestyle,
Speaker 2: her corporate grind, to live on a cruise ship full
Speaker 2: time and she's paying about three hundred dollars a week.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: It's some sort of a cruise ship that features a
Speaker 2: lot of gambling on board, but she's our manager for
Speaker 2: about three hundred dolls a week. Would you consider living
Speaker 2: on a cruise ship?
Speaker 19: I got to say, no, it doesn't really.
Speaker 2: Sorry to use this people people would have these days.
Speaker 19: Yeah, look, I don't know. It's one way to get
Speaker 19: away from the kids. I suppose you know, if you're
Speaker 19: on the other side of the world, they can't just
Speaker 19: pop over. It gets you out of babysitting and school pickups.
Speaker 19: But yeah, I don't know. But that love boat just
Speaker 19: my mum, God rest her soul. But when I was
Speaker 19: little she used to let me stay up to watch
Speaker 19: the Love Boat with her, so that brings back lots
Speaker 19: and lots of memories.
Speaker 2: I've never been on a cruise. I'm going on a
Speaker 2: very short three day one.
Speaker 19: I've never been on one either.
Speaker 2: Two weeks time love. Yeah, I'm a little bit worried.
Speaker 2: Hey Holly, Thanks, Thanks Gleanton. We'll talk again soon straight shoot,
Speaker 2: Holy Years.
Speaker 1: This Sydney now with Clinton Maynor on to.
Speaker 2: GB seven past five. Great, have your company this Tuesday
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Speaker 2: Don't call yet, but just listen out. We are going
Speaker 2: to spin the wheel shortly now. I brought you the
Speaker 2: story a little earlier that there will be an extraordinary
Speaker 2: meeting of Medical Staff Council on Thursday evening the Medical
Speaker 2: Staff Council of Westmead Hospital. Things have become so dire
Speaker 2: at Westmeat Hospital that specialists have called this meeting for
Speaker 2: a vote of no confidence in the Chief executive. Now,
Speaker 2: yesterday in the program, we spoke about the neonatal unit
Speaker 2: and there were reports that babies were being treated in storerooms,
Speaker 2: that babies were being treated in corridors. And I spoke
Speaker 2: to my contacts within the government. They said, no, that's
Speaker 2: not the case, but they conceded that there were resources
Speaker 2: issues at Westmead Hospital and Ryan Park. The Health Minister
Speaker 2: has made a vow that he will visit Westmead to
Speaker 2: meet with those midwives, nurses and the executive of the
Speaker 2: hospital this week. Well, based on the information that's come
Speaker 2: to me, and this has come from a senior gastro enterologist,
Speaker 2: so a specialist, an extraordinary meeting a medical staff has
Speaker 2: been called for Thursday five point thirty a vote of
Speaker 2: no confidence in the chief executive. If you've got your
Speaker 2: top doctors and the top specialists in a hospital who
Speaker 2: don't want the boss to stay in that position, very
Speaker 2: hard to remain in that position. Well, we now have
Speaker 2: a statement, a formal statement from the Western Sydney Local
Speaker 2: Health District and they say Western Sydney Local Health District
Speaker 2: management have not been advised of a meeting of the
Speaker 2: Westmead Medical Staff Council or topics for discussion. Western Sydney
Speaker 2: Local Health Death Strict sincerely apologizes to patients who've been
Speaker 2: impacted by delays to access care provided by Westmead Hospital's
Speaker 2: gastro Andoology department and it is a gastro enterroologist who's
Speaker 2: raised these concerns today. During an initial assessment of the
Speaker 2: hospital's outpatient service, it was identified that there were significant
Speaker 2: number of overdue appointments that required assessment. An independent senior
Speaker 2: commission has reviewed identities of patients underway to prioritize outpatient appointments.
Speaker 2: Patients will be contacted and provided with an update to
Speaker 2: confirm their appointment. So this is just one part of
Speaker 2: the hospital. But obviously there is such concern within Westmead
Speaker 2: Hospital at the moment that gastro enterologists and other senior
Speaker 2: physicians other specialists have called this meeting for Thursday night.
Speaker 2: And I'm probably not surprised that the Western Sydney Local
Speaker 2: Area Health District management has not been advised because they're
Speaker 2: probably not invited because it's going to be a vote
Speaker 2: against the way they're managing their hospital.
Speaker 1: Be a part of Sydney. Now with Clinton Maynard called
Speaker 1: one three one.
Speaker 2: Eight, the state budget has been handed down today by
Speaker 2: the Treasurer Daniel Mookie. Now a core part of the
Speaker 2: budget is housing and quite an out of the box
Speaker 2: plan that will see the government act as a guarranteur
Speaker 2: for major projects. Now not every major project. These will
Speaker 2: be big residential unit developments for instance, And what the
Speaker 2: government has found is that there is some apprehension for
Speaker 2: developers to go ahead and seek finance and develop property
Speaker 2: because they're concerned about their return. They're concern they won't
Speaker 2: get the finance take on that risk. So what the
Speaker 2: government is going to do with this is a billion
Speaker 2: dollar plan. They will provide guarantees and if, for instance,
Speaker 2: units don't sell off the plan, the government may actually
Speaker 2: step in to actually purchase some of those units and
Speaker 2: then use them for social housing down the track. This
Speaker 2: is the treasure of Daniel Mookie.
Speaker 22: Telling the people in New South Wales that a housing
Speaker 22: crisis that took decades to develop will take time to solve.
Speaker 22: But each budget we're making progress on why people feel
Speaker 22: like they're under such pressure.
Speaker 2: But the Opposition leader Mark Speakman has also spoken about
Speaker 2: this now and he says he can see holes in
Speaker 2: the plan.
Speaker 20: Who are the winners and who are the losers? Who
Speaker 20: gets to choose the winners and losers? What are the
Speaker 20: protections against any corruption risk? And at the end of
Speaker 20: the day, it's a very very modest proposal.
Speaker 2: Okay, So that's one aspect of the budget and more
Speaker 2: needs to be known about the details of how this
Speaker 2: guarantee plan is going to work. There is two point
Speaker 2: six billion dollars in funding for schools. That's down slightly
Speaker 2: from last year, as we heard from the NRIMA. Funding
Speaker 2: for Rhodes is still more than eight billion dollars, but
Speaker 2: it was more than nine billion dollars last year, so
Speaker 2: there is a reduction in and this is for capital
Speaker 2: works projects. There is a reduction there. There's a one
Speaker 2: point two billion dollar child protection package, and this is important.
Speaker 2: This is going to fund pay rises for case workers,
Speaker 2: but also fill two hundred vacant positions, so kids who
Speaker 2: have parents who can't look after their own children, kids
Speaker 2: whose parents are in jail who should be in foster
Speaker 2: care and they can't find foster pearance for them. Kids
Speaker 2: have ended up being looked after by caseworkers in motels.
Speaker 2: This is a plan to stop that happening, so they're
Speaker 2: not held in a motel room, which is quite astonishing
Speaker 2: to think that's actually been happening in recent times. That's
Speaker 2: a one point two billion dollar package. A key part
Speaker 2: of the budget is spending on health. It's the biggest
Speaker 2: part of spending effectively is on our health system. The
Speaker 2: President of the New South Wales AMA is doctor Catherine Austen.
Speaker 2: Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 14: Doctor, Thanks very much, Clenta, nice to talk.
Speaker 2: Are you happy with what's been announced in the health
Speaker 2: area today?
Speaker 6: Look?
Speaker 14: Unfortunately, no, Unfortunately, this healthcare budget really hasn't set any
Speaker 14: plan or direction for the future of health care and
Speaker 14: we really think that the patience of New South Wales
Speaker 14: deserve better.
Speaker 2: What's the main problem here?
Speaker 14: Look, one of the biggest challenges is that a large
Speaker 14: number of the announcements have really looked at big spends
Speaker 14: on infrastructure. One of the big problems about infrastructure is
Speaker 14: that infrastructure doesn't look after patients. And we know that
Speaker 14: what we really needed was an investment into the workforce,
Speaker 14: so our frontline doctors, nurses, allied healthcare staff that actually
Speaker 14: deliver that care to patients. And I think we just
Speaker 14: haven't seen that real investment in our workforce in any
Speaker 14: meaningful way.
Speaker 2: This budget doesn't address the issues for instance, and I
Speaker 2: know you're with the AMA, you're representing doctors not nurses,
Speaker 2: but it doesn't address the nurses pay issue. It doesn't
Speaker 2: address the issue with psychiatrists either.
Speaker 14: No, And unfortunately, out of all of this Obviously industrial
Speaker 14: relations is one complexity of this, but I think what
Speaker 14: we're seeing is that we know there are more and
Speaker 14: more acutely unwell patients and they've got increasingly complex health
Speaker 14: care needs, and the funding component to this just addressed
Speaker 14: it as part of workforce, but also we need to
Speaker 14: look at things like the complexities within the system being
Speaker 14: driven and led by doctors who can actually tell our
Speaker 14: patients when and how they need that surgery done, and
Speaker 14: we need that investment to be able to then perform
Speaker 14: the surgeries, look after the elective surgical waiting list so
Speaker 14: that there aren't more and more people increasing We've seen
Speaker 14: one hundred thousand patients waiting for elective surgery, which was
Speaker 14: close to the record during the pandemics when elective surgery
Speaker 14: was canceled, and more than that. You know, these people
Speaker 14: are these are all of us. These are mothers and
Speaker 14: fathers and neighbors, and all of those people need the
Speaker 14: surgery to alleviate their pain or regain quality of life
Speaker 14: or independence. And we know that healthcare is the corners
Speaker 14: of our son, and we really just need to make
Speaker 14: sure that is actually proposited.
Speaker 2: Doctor. We've been told today that there will be a
Speaker 2: vote held on Thursday evening there will be a meeting
Speaker 2: of the Medical Staff councilor West men Hospital where will
Speaker 2: be a vote of nokom and it's in the chief executive.
Speaker 2: Now the local area Health District management's told us that
Speaker 2: they have not been advised at this particular meeting or
Speaker 2: what's going to be discussed. What's your information on this one?
Speaker 14: Yeah, Look, we know that unfortunately these struggles that are
Speaker 14: really reflected in the budget from our healthcare staff, so
Speaker 14: our doctors in this setting, but also nurses and our
Speaker 14: light health staff are increasingly frustrated that we're seeing the
Speaker 14: complexity of our patients rising, We're seeing that there needs
Speaker 14: to be that investment in how to deliver these services,
Speaker 14: and the frontline people who then need to deliver these
Speaker 14: services are really not being heard at the higher levels
Speaker 14: of the hospitals. And unfortunately, in this case with Westmead,
Speaker 14: we believe that the chief executive that they have the
Speaker 14: vote of no confidence. But again we know that despite
Speaker 14: increasingly calling for improvements in these areas, they're just simply
Speaker 14: not being addressed. After years and years of correspondence and.
Speaker 2: It's been going and it's been happening under both levels
Speaker 2: of government. Thank you for your time, doctor, Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for chatting Doctor Catherine Austin, who's the president
Speaker 2: of the AM New South Wales. So they're not happy
Speaker 2: what's in the budget in the area of health. Now,
Speaker 2: yesterday on the program, we spoke to May May owns
Speaker 2: an arcade in Tarre and she was part of a
Speaker 2: major rally in Tarre involving three thousand people that was
Speaker 2: protesting out the lack of government assistance following the floods
Speaker 2: on the Mid North Coast. There is within the budget
Speaker 2: a three hundred and fifty eight million dollar allocation for
Speaker 2: disaster recovery and relief measures directly related to the floods
Speaker 2: of last month. Now I'm still seeking the actual finer details.
Speaker 2: My understanding is that's not going to increase the grants
Speaker 2: from the twenty five thousand which some farmers and primary
Speaker 2: producers are now able to apply for, to the seventy
Speaker 2: five thousand that they would have if they were class
Speaker 2: Category D. But I'll seek some more information. But there
Speaker 2: is three hundred and fifty eight million dollars in disaster
Speaker 2: recovery and relief measures in the budget to.
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Speaker 23: Hello Jane, good to be with you Clinton.
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Speaker 23: Look, your listeners will recall that you know, we finished
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Speaker 2: for temper on the better night's sleep night after night.
Speaker 2: The difference is temper. And we brought you this story
Speaker 2: about Westmead Hospital based on a tip we've had via
Speaker 2: our Word on the Streets segment, and that is that
Speaker 2: there will be a vote of no confidence held in
Speaker 2: the chief executive of Westmeat Hospital on Thursday night. We've
Speaker 2: also been discussing what's been happening with neonatal care in
Speaker 2: Westmead and listeners just sent me a text message and
Speaker 2: I'm not going to identify the listener, but they say
Speaker 2: I do not work at Westmead Hospital. But I saw
Speaker 2: with my own eyes today two babies in a storeroom
Speaker 2: area of the NICU, so the report saying otherwise is incorrect.
Speaker 2: Now the Midwifi I spoke to yesterday said they are
Speaker 2: caring for babies in what was certainly known as the
Speaker 2: store room. Previously therev changed the name of it, so
Speaker 2: that maybe where the government is saying it's not a
Speaker 2: storeroom as such, but certainly in the past has been
Speaker 2: used as a storeroom. Let's check in news headlines, Hey
Speaker 2: with the latest, Katie Fuller.
Speaker 10: Good afternoon, Clinton. Israel has now formally agreed to the
Speaker 10: US president's proposal for a ceasefire, with Iran saying it's
Speaker 10: achieved the objectives of its attacks. Western Sydney's local Health
Speaker 10: District says it has not been advised about a vote
Speaker 10: of no confidence in the chief executive of Westmead Hospital.
Speaker 10: Medical staff are due to meet on Thursday evening amid
Speaker 10: reports of understaffing and underresourcing in the neonatal care ward.
Speaker 10: A new scheme guaranteeing pre sale for pre sales for
Speaker 10: housing developments has been unveiled in the state budget. It's
Speaker 10: designed to help low to medium level developers secure finance
Speaker 10: from banks to get projects underway sooner and it's severe
Speaker 10: weather warning has been issued for damaging winds extending from
Speaker 10: the South Coast up to the mid North Coast. Pete
Speaker 10: gusts ab up to one hundred and twenty kilometers an
Speaker 10: hour are possible in alpine areas in Sport, a double
Speaker 10: boost for South Sydney in the NRL Star Jo Cody
Speaker 10: Walker and Cavell Graham have been named to return from
Speaker 10: injury in Saturday nights clash with the Dolphins. Clinton More
Speaker 10: News ad SI.
Speaker 2: Spaking Katie eighteen degrees in the city. It's also eighteen
Speaker 2: degrees in the West. I mentioned little earlier that there
Speaker 2: is a lady who has quit her corporate career to
Speaker 2: live on a cruise liner. It's costing her about three
Speaker 2: hundred dollars a week. It's a good deal somehow she's got.
Speaker 2: But I've actually come across quite a few people in
Speaker 2: my travels who effectively live on cruise liners. They spend
Speaker 2: most of the year on a cruise line. I don't
Speaker 2: think i'd like that personally. I'm going on my first
Speaker 2: cruise in about two weeks time. Luke Barner will be
Speaker 2: fillinging for me for a couple of weeks. It's only
Speaker 2: a three day cruise. I'm quite apprehensive about it because
Speaker 2: I've never been on a cruise before. My wife has
Speaker 2: convinced me to go. Mary says, I think if you're
Speaker 2: email Mary to gb dot com. Mary says, I would
Speaker 2: love to live on a cruise liner, wouldn't be able
Speaker 2: to afford it. And Louise says, I've actually been on
Speaker 2: ten cruisers in the past five years. From Jay Wiz,
Speaker 2: you certainly love it, Louise.
Speaker 1: A Finance update.
Speaker 2: Let's get the latest finance news tom story from our
Speaker 2: Money News program deb Night hosting Money News from seven
Speaker 2: o'clock tonight. Tello, Tom Halo Clinton.
Speaker 21: I'm not sure if we're going to take that advice
Speaker 21: on Money News to live on a cruise ship, but
Speaker 21: it'd certainly want to look into if you want to
Speaker 21: save a dollar.
Speaker 2: After COVID, when they started operating cruise lines again, one
Speaker 2: of the big cruise lining companies, I was probably Carnival.
Speaker 2: A p and O invited the whole bunch of journalists
Speaker 2: to visit and go on board the first cruise ship
Speaker 2: that came back through their heads, and I was one
Speaker 2: of them, and I met this lovely couple who had retired,
Speaker 2: and they had retired to a life of cruising. They
Speaker 2: don't live on the one ship, but they go from
Speaker 2: ship to ship, and they would spend literally ten months
Speaker 2: out of a twelve month year on a cruise liner.
Speaker 21: Wow, and the cost seems pretty reasonable.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, I guess if you're superannuation payout, maybe
Speaker 2: if you sell your Sydney house you'll be doing okay.
Speaker 2: Ceasefire in the Middle East it appears to have been
Speaker 2: good for the markets.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 21: Well, if you're talking about superannuation accounts, they will be
Speaker 21: reliant on what's happening on the markets, and it was
Speaker 21: much better news today. The ceasefire saw the oil price
Speaker 21: drop back under seventy dollars US barrel. I just checked
Speaker 21: it before it's even going under sixty eight US dollars
Speaker 21: a barrel.
Speaker 2: The ASX was flying.
Speaker 21: It took its lead off Wall Street overnight, closing up
Speaker 21: one percent or eighty points higher to eighty five hundred
Speaker 21: and fifty five. It was financial and material stocks that
Speaker 21: were doing the best. Their BHP was up two point
Speaker 21: four percent, forour to SKU was up four point eight percent.
Speaker 21: Rio Tinto was three percent higher. And the banks were
Speaker 21: also stronger. Combank up two point one percent, NAB up
Speaker 21: two point two percent, Westpac two point six percent higher,
Speaker 21: A and Z also up one point four percent. So
Speaker 21: a much better day on the markets. And it's all
Speaker 21: due to that ceasefire.
Speaker 2: So the dollars back over sixty five US cents yees fact,
Speaker 2: because there's just more confidence in the international economy.
Speaker 21: Yeah, there's strength in the US dollars. So generally what
Speaker 21: they say is that the Aussie dollar is what you
Speaker 21: look for when times are good. Investors pile in through
Speaker 21: it when it looks like things are going to be
Speaker 21: going well, so if not, they tend to pile back
Speaker 21: into the US dollar, which makes that a bit stronger. Obviously, yesterday,
Speaker 21: when things were looking like World War II could be
Speaker 21: on the brink, we saw investors pile back into the
Speaker 21: US and that hurt the Aussie dollar.
Speaker 2: Today it's a completely.
Speaker 21: Different story, which saw it push back over sixty five
Speaker 21: US cents.
Speaker 2: I filled up my car last night because the NMA
Speaker 2: advised is yesterday to fill it within twenty four hours.
Speaker 2: Is this Do you think this is going to have
Speaker 2: an effect on world or processes in a positive way? Yeah.
Speaker 21: Now, the LAG's usually a couple of weeks or a
Speaker 21: month or so until it comes through. At eighty dollars
Speaker 21: a barrel, we were looking at an average price across
Speaker 21: the country of around two dollars a liter for what
Speaker 21: we pay at the petrol pump, but giving us back
Speaker 21: down to sixty eight dollars, now that's about what we
Speaker 21: were two weeks ago. So the prices that we've been
Speaker 21: seeing in the last month or so, it's probably due
Speaker 21: to repeat when we look ahead to the next month
Speaker 21: or so. For motorist, which is great news, not so
Speaker 21: good if you're an energy investor. Though Woodside share price
Speaker 21: was down six point five percent today, so it all
Speaker 21: depends on perspective in the markets.
Speaker 2: The other big market news today is the relisting of Virgin.
Speaker 2: Virgin a stroke of the airline. Yeah.
Speaker 21: Now Virgin people will remember that it went into voluntary
Speaker 21: administration due to COVID and Bang Capital. They're a private
Speaker 21: equity firm. They came in and picked up the pieces
Speaker 21: and they settled in a three point five billion dollar deal. Now,
Speaker 21: private equity firms they come in, they restructure companies and
Speaker 21: they look to sell them off, usually at a better price.
Speaker 2: But the plan for.
Speaker 21: Virgin looked like it was always going to relist on
Speaker 21: the ax. It opened up today at midday. Now, initially
Speaker 21: its IPO price was two dollars ninety. Investors looked at
Speaker 21: that and thought, wow, that's that's a deal we've got
Speaker 21: to get in on. It eventually closed up more than
Speaker 21: eleven percent to three dollars twenty three. So it looks
Speaker 21: like there's a bit more competition in the airline space now,
Speaker 21: which is something that's good for Australia.
Speaker 2: Will be hosting Money News from seven to two. Will
Speaker 2: thank you Tom. Tom's story from our Money news program Sitney.
Speaker 1: Now on to GBA.
Speaker 2: I'm getting lots of messages now about cruise lining. Steve says,
Speaker 2: when you go on the cruise, enjoy the gas. Stro
Speaker 2: don't sew that cruise, don't say that. Steve Noe Elizabeth
Speaker 2: says there were lots of people who live on cruise
Speaker 2: ships full time, mostly Americans, because cruisers can actually be
Speaker 2: fairly cheap on Sydney.
Speaker 5: Now a weather update will be here to help in
Speaker 5: unexpected weather. Nrima Insurance a help company look at it.
Speaker 24: Murky earlier today, but so the weather clean uppers up
Speaker 24: and when it was a quite a nice afternoon in
Speaker 24: the end, it should remain dry this evening that there
Speaker 24: is the chance of a shower to right now in
Speaker 24: the city eighteen degrees eighteen degrees in the west.
Speaker 2: The forecast for tomorrow are partly cloudy day mostly Sunday
Speaker 2: in the morning, the slight chance of a shower later
Speaker 2: in the day, with the top of seventeen on Thursday
Speaker 2: becoming cloudy and sixteen mostly Sunday to start the day,
Speaker 2: a shower or too on Friday. At this stage across
Speaker 2: the weekend, it looks like we'll have a few showers.
Speaker 1: You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney.
Speaker 5: Stay tune to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on to GMB.
Speaker 2: It is the NRL's teamless Tuesday. Mark Geyer has all
Speaker 2: the goss on the ins and out. Hello MG, Hello Flinn,
Speaker 2: how are you my friend? Well? You know what I'm
Speaker 2: wondering about the Tigers. See, I've been tipping the Tiger
Speaker 2: throughout the whole year, and maybe that explains why I'm
Speaker 2: at the bottom the ladder of the TGB tipping comp.
Speaker 2: I see that they've got They've got a really big
Speaker 2: out this week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, let's go for the Apps first in would you?
Speaker 7: Can you believe that? It's around seventeen in the NRL
Speaker 7: already During Buller, the sensational fullback, has been ruled out
Speaker 7: for a month with a hamstring tegg or something wrong
Speaker 7: his hemmy, something really bad with the hammick. That means
Speaker 7: Young La too Feinu. We'll be starting at number seven
Speaker 7: this week and number six will be Duram Lay also
Speaker 7: out Hudson Young He's being arrested. Let's a shark. Can
Speaker 7: you believe this? He has ruptured, He's spleen and he's
Speaker 7: also done some kidney damage for that time against the
Speaker 7: Dolphins in Perth. He still remains in Perth so his family. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: the poor bike from there. He's a good player too,
Speaker 7: like him a lot.
Speaker 2: He's got a bad haircut, like I think you need
Speaker 2: to have a good look at himself in the mirror.
Speaker 2: But no, he's a good bad haircut, good player.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, we'll agree on that because young Jack boss sock.
Speaker 7: Also he's out the season with an ACL rupture. Some
Speaker 7: bad news there, but some good news in the inns department.
Speaker 7: We see the Panthers' origins five return. We see Burton
Speaker 7: and Sexter named number six and seven respectively. Lucky Galvin
Speaker 7: reverts to the inter James bench. Tommy Turbot been named
Speaker 7: in the centers. That's going to cause a little bit
Speaker 7: of controversy, I would imagine for the Rabbit as Campbell
Speaker 7: Graham and Cody Walker both returned and Dylan Brown is
Speaker 7: back for the ParaMed at eels.
Speaker 2: Okay, good news for parrot. Now big the NURL news
Speaker 2: today with the P and G franchise.
Speaker 7: Yeah right, dere ex bulldog head Honcho has been named
Speaker 7: the chair of the P and NRL franchise. He will
Speaker 7: head the board of seven. One of the board members
Speaker 7: will be familiar with those who love their rugby league
Speaker 7: because his name is Marcus buy who is to play
Speaker 7: a Melbourne Storm legend. He will be one of the
Speaker 7: board members, along with Laurna McPherson, Richard Pegham, Stanley Joyce,
Speaker 7: Wapoo Song and Ian Tartuia. So good work for they're
Speaker 7: starting to be a little bit proactive. We hadn't heard
Speaker 7: much of the P and G boys lately. We spoke
Speaker 7: about them on the weekend on the continuous course in
Speaker 7: Clinton and they are leaning towards the P and G
Speaker 7: Angels because of the Fuzzy Wise he's back in the day,
Speaker 7: so I think that's a fantastic thing.
Speaker 2: I don't mind that name as well, Fuzzy Wise the Angels.
Speaker 2: As Ben was saying this morning, it might sound a
Speaker 2: bit soft having the Fuzzy in there, but at the Angels,
Speaker 2: I reckon might work quite well with Ray Dib. So
Speaker 2: Ray Dib former Bulldog's chair, so he's the champer of
Speaker 2: the PNG. So does that mean he moves to P
Speaker 2: and G or just goes over there?
Speaker 1: A fair bit well, we.
Speaker 7: Still don't know much about the whole franchise because we
Speaker 7: don't know where they're going to be operating out of cans.
Speaker 7: They're thinking about building a multi purpose inverted Comma's compound
Speaker 7: for all those players that want to go up there. Well,
Speaker 7: it's a real safe face apparently to live. You know, obviously,
Speaker 7: the lure of a good tax break and those guys
Speaker 7: maybe nearing their end of their career instead of going
Speaker 7: over sitting with Super League, this might be more attractive
Speaker 7: to go to the PNG franchise. But yeah, look that's
Speaker 7: not one thing. They haven't announced their coach yet. They
Speaker 7: haven't announced much else except for their Their chairman of
Speaker 7: the board will be Raad Deal.
Speaker 17: Well.
Speaker 7: Just also some breaking news in Rugby League. The Dragons
Speaker 7: have given young fullback le winger Terrell Sloan permission to
Speaker 7: look elsewhere as they chase, as they chase. I think
Speaker 7: sell On Cobbo. But the latest on sell On Cobbo
Speaker 7: and this is a this is this is all breaking
Speaker 7: this afternoon. He's out of the favorite with the Broncos.
Speaker 7: The Broncos have only got about three hdred grand to
Speaker 7: pay him for an extension, so they've signed his replacement
Speaker 7: for a two U deal. The Dragons won him before
Speaker 7: June thirty and are prepared to pay him six hundred
Speaker 7: thousand per a year. But now the North Quinsland Cowboys
Speaker 7: have jumped in on the front and they also want
Speaker 7: selln Cob before June thirty because of their injury plague
Speaker 7: to their outside back. So stay tuned because the selling
Speaker 7: Como saga has not finished yet.
Speaker 2: Look if the Broncos are having trouble with their salary
Speaker 2: cap and can't fit selling Cobo and I've got a
Speaker 2: solution for them. Yep, they could lend us rees Welsh
Speaker 2: just like for the rest of it.
Speaker 7: What about paining hearts.
Speaker 2: Your bad Dabby nice as well? Actually know what? Adam
Speaker 2: Reynolds wouldn't go astray for the sharks of the moment.
Speaker 2: Hey MG, have you ever been on a cruise?
Speaker 7: No? And I never would.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 7: No, I'm pastrophobic and the fact of being on somewhere
Speaker 7: for so for a start, I couldn't sleep at night
Speaker 7: thinking that we're going to tip over.
Speaker 2: And get a tip over. They're big boats.
Speaker 7: Sometimes when I go to a parbor or a climbing
Speaker 7: on holidays, go back to my I go back to
Speaker 7: my hotel and not be you know, bothered by some
Speaker 7: person who wants to have a few drinks of people
Speaker 7: on a cruise's note.
Speaker 2: So that's the exact reason I've never wanted to go
Speaker 2: on a cruise, because I figure if I don't like it,
Speaker 2: I can't get off. But my wife's convinced me. My
Speaker 2: wife's convinced me. We're going in two weeks.
Speaker 7: You're going.
Speaker 2: It's only three days, very quick.
Speaker 7: Oh no, no, no, no, oh. You know what, a
Speaker 7: lot of people swear by them. A lot of my
Speaker 7: mates have you know, some people live on them.
Speaker 2: Because exactly now what I think. I think you should
Speaker 2: buy your parents a cruise for their wedding anniversary.
Speaker 7: Well, it is today, fifty eighth wedding anniversary today. My
Speaker 7: mum Maxine and my father Ace, well Kevin, but he
Speaker 7: likes het in caurt Ace. He made up his own
Speaker 7: nickname because he was good at cards. Yeah, they celebrate
Speaker 7: their fifty eighth wedding anniversary today, moment and dad, it'd
Speaker 7: be listening right now, high Maxine, Hello Kevin, and we're
Speaker 7: going up there on the weekend to have a bit
Speaker 7: of a dinner with him.
Speaker 2: So well, done.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so what I Mum and Dad, we love you lots,
Speaker 7: and let's have another fifty.
Speaker 2: Eight A congratulations Maxine and Ace for fifty eight fabulous years.
Speaker 2: And look what you've produced. MG, it's been a couple
Speaker 2: of other hoighlights as well.
Speaker 7: Look at you, look at him, look as you created.
Speaker 2: We will talk tomorrow.
Speaker 7: I'll see you a studio buddy, Bye bye.
Speaker 2: Ma Guyer. Let's play the quiz one three, one eight
Speaker 2: seven three. I've got to have a double pass to
Speaker 2: give away to a fantastic play that's not the ensemble
Speaker 2: theater in Curabilly. It's called Primary Trust. It's a comedy,
Speaker 2: really uplifting. It's about second chances. It's about quite courage
Speaker 2: ensemble dot com dot are you? If you want to
Speaker 2: play the quiz, give me a call out. One three,
Speaker 2: one eight seven three. It's nine to six treasure. Jim
Speaker 2: Chalmers is talking tough tonight. He is putting petrol stations
Speaker 2: on notice, telling them they can't dud motorists with unjustifiably
Speaker 2: higher bowers of prices because of the Middle East conflict.
Speaker 2: Now the price of oil. We just give them what's
Speaker 2: happened this afternoon with a cease fight. It's very unknown
Speaker 2: what's the direction of the price of a barrel of
Speaker 2: oil is going to be in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: But Jim Arms has written to the a Triable Sea
Speaker 2: requesting the watchdog be on the lookout for petrol stations
Speaker 2: attempting to quote do the wrong thing by Australian motors.
Speaker 2: I probably would have thought that Jim Chalmers should have
Speaker 2: written to someone else other than the Atriable Sea, because
Speaker 2: I think they've proven and serially, no one's gonna argue
Speaker 2: me here. I think the Atriable CEA has proven for
Speaker 2: many years they're a complete toothless title when it comes
Speaker 2: to petrol prices. Congratulations, Elizabeth. Elizabeth just told me the
Speaker 2: text line. It's her thirty seventh wedding anniversary tomorrow. So
Speaker 2: MG's mom and dad is their fifty eighth wedding anniversary today.
Speaker 2: Elizabeth married thirty seven years ago. Tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Time to expand your minds.
Speaker 12: Do you may begin your questioning.
Speaker 19: I'm Sydney now asks questions.
Speaker 1: Lincoln's questions were informing your patent. I know you are
Speaker 1: asked a question. Get it right, Clinton's quick quick, Let's
Speaker 1: play the quick quiz.
Speaker 2: I've got a double pass to go and see Primary
Speaker 2: Trust at the ensemble Theater Ensemble dot com dot au
Speaker 2: if you'd like to go along, Hello, Kevin, here you go.
Speaker 2: I'm good, my friend. I hope you're feeling clever the
Speaker 2: Saron and Rob's in Kolara?
Speaker 1: Gooday?
Speaker 2: Rob?
Speaker 4: Hey, Greenton?
Speaker 7: How are you?
Speaker 2: I'm good? You can go first. Your thirty second starts now?
Speaker 2: In the nursery rhyme? What did Jack and Jill got
Speaker 2: the hill for?
Speaker 4: Setch your palor water?
Speaker 2: Correct? The national anthem the national animal of France is
Speaker 2: a snailer a rooster.
Speaker 9: Ruster?
Speaker 2: Correct? Sir Sidney Nolan was famous for doing what.
Speaker 7: Poetry?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 2: Who's a painter? Bob Marley and the Whalers were from
Speaker 2: which country?
Speaker 4: Jamaica?
Speaker 2: Correct? The Shakespeare players called I'll finish it Romeo and.
Speaker 4: Juliette.
Speaker 2: Correct? All right, now, just bear in mind I didn't
Speaker 2: write the questions today. Adam did so. Kevin. Your thirty
Speaker 2: second starts now. Spell the word budget, thanks budget? Correct?
Speaker 2: In what galaxy is our solar system located?
Speaker 7: Milk? A?
Speaker 2: Correct? Who wrote to kill a mocking bird?
Speaker 7: Pass?
Speaker 2: Happily? How long is a cricket pitch? Here?
Speaker 9: Pass?
Speaker 2: Twenty two yards of twenty meters. AFL stands for.
Speaker 7: What Australian Football League.
Speaker 2: Correct. Well, you've finished on three, which means Rob, you're
Speaker 2: the winner today, get a Rob, well.
Speaker 7: Done, Thank you, it's awesome.
Speaker 2: Congratulations mate. We're going to send you along to go
Speaker 2: and see a great play at the Ensemble Theater. It's
Speaker 2: called Primary Trust. You can book now Ensemble dot com
Speaker 2: dot au.
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Speaker 2: Adam hares hosting wild Wood Sports from six o'clock tonight,
Speaker 2: and the teams are out for this weekend's NRL games.
Speaker 25: Yeah, they sure are. Clinton Nathan clearly a lot of
Speaker 25: interest in him. He has been named by the Panthers.
Speaker 25: But will he play? That is the question. Ivan Cleary,
Speaker 25: His dad and coach certainly didn't sound too confident earlier
Speaker 25: in the afternoon. I believe he's got to finish training
Speaker 25: today unscathed.
Speaker 2: Who they playing Panthers this weekend? The Bulldogs it's a
Speaker 2: pretty good jeez, yeah, pretty big game.
Speaker 25: And then if he doesn't play, the question is should
Speaker 25: he be picked for State of Orison three? Would you
Speaker 25: take him in? Is that a big gamble?
Speaker 2: What do you think you take him in? Because Matt
Speaker 2: Burton's eighteenth man, so you've got that there, that luxury.
Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll talk about that.
Speaker 25: Michael Chammers from the Herald of nine, he will join
Speaker 25: me with all the latest, including the Selwyn Cobbo gossip.
Speaker 25: Paul Gallon will come on the show to talk about
Speaker 25: his fight with Sonny Bill Williams and also chat with
Speaker 25: Julie Fitzgerald from the Giants netball Side.
Speaker 2: Pawsey coming up with Whitewater Sports. After the six o'clock news,
Speaker 2: dead Night will be presenting Money News from seven, John
Speaker 2: Stanley taking him through the night, Fiddle O'Neill overnight. Don't forget,
Speaker 2: We're spitting the wheel all day long tomorrow with Ben
Speaker 2: in breakfast, Levy in mornings, Mick mackin afternoons, and I
Speaker 2: will be spending the Winter Wheel different time tomorrow, so
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