WEBVTT - Weekends with Luke Grant - Saturday 31 May 0:00:01.040 --> 0:00:07.240 Whoa across Australia. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.320 This is Weekends with Luke Grant. 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:14.360 But you gotta keep your head up then you can 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.720 let your hand up. You gotta keep your head up 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:19.600 then you. 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:20.640 Can let your hand up. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:27.200 I know it's hard, No, it's hard to remember sometimes, but. 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.640 You gotta keep your head. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:35.239 Up then you can let your head downy. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:36.400 Good morning, Welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. Great to 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.320 be with you on two g BE in Sydney, four 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:40.760 BC in Brisbane and listeners on the app joining us 0:00:40.840 --> 0:00:46.080 all around Australia. May thirty first, today, Saturday morning, the 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:49.160 final day of autumn, and it happens to be World 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.760 No Tobacco Day today. I noted the New South Wales 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:56.240 Health Minister Ryan Parker suggesting that the number of people 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.840 in New South Wales who smoke cigarettes has fallen to 0:00:59.920 --> 0:01:02.920 a it's lowest level on record. This is according to 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.280 data published by New South Wales Health. They say around 0:01:06.319 --> 0:01:10.640 eleven percent of adults smoke daily or occasionally, a decline 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:14.520 from fourteen percent back in twenty fifteen. Is annual lived experience. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.560 When you look around, you're seeing lets people. Whatever you do, 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:26.880 don't smoke. What do they call them bangers, lungbusters, darts. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.000 Not trying to ematicize the concept of smoking. Whatever you do, 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:33.880 don't smoke, but down to eleven percent. Data from the 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:36.959 Cancer Institute of New South Wales release today shows people 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.920 in the status seeking support to quit smoking and vaping 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.839 more than twenty seven thousand calls supported by a counseling 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:49.640 service quitline in the past year. While smoking rates of decline, 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.400 rates of vaping remain high, with people sixteen to twenty 0:01:53.440 --> 0:01:56.440 four years having the highest rate of vaping of any 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:59.560 age group, about twenty percent. And although there was a 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.080 rapid inn increase in rates amongst this group from twenty eighteen, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.160 vaping rates have now started to stabilize. I say no 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.560 figures from Queensland this morning, and of course a big 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.480 issue was a black market tobacco which they tell me 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:15.519 if you buy them as a court of the price 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.040 of the legal product, it must be costing the government 0:02:19.080 --> 0:02:22.360 billions in revenue. We've touched on this story before. I 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.360 say again, whatever you do is the late yul Brenner 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:31.799 once famously said, don't smoke. Weather today in Sydney mostly 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:35.120 sunny day, little bit cloudy. As we look out the 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:38.320 window here slight chance of a shower. Be careful on 0:02:38.400 --> 0:02:41.960 the coast. Surf conditions may be more powerful than they 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.519 appear and are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:50.040 such as rock fishing and swimming in the city twenty 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:53.120 at Penrith twenty one nineteen at Paramatter Bond died along 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.120 the coast twenty tomorrow. Mostly sunny in Sydney in twenty 0:02:56.440 --> 0:02:59.720 In Brisbane today a cloudy one with a very high 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.680 channel and some showers becoming less likely late this afternoon 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.040 and tonight. Those light winds be coming southeasterly in the 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:09.359 middle of the day in Brisbane twenty one, the Airport 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.079 twenty one, Ipswich twenty one, Sunny Coast twenty one and 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.799 the Gold Coast twenty two tomorrow for Brisbane, another word day, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:20.880 they say, in a top of twenty three degrees, I'll 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:24.040 get to James Willis from the Daily Telegraph, the News 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:27.720 Court Papers in a moment, and then Charles psychologist clear 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:29.840 Row a couple of I'll tell you what wherever you 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.280 look today there are great stories. So I don't like 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:37.240 to talk things up here too much, but boy, there's 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:41.480 some stuff to tell you about this morning. Let me 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.760 start with this and as I say in the classics, 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.840 you be the judge. This is out of the Courier 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:51.800 Mail today they report that a heavily intoxicated driver who 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.120 sped through a red light at a busy Brisbane intersection, 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:59.040 leaving a local politician with a traumatic brain injury, will 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:04.560 serve no time no time in custody. They report the 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:10.360 former Greens NP Amy McMahon was left comatose with serious injuries, 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:15.240 including blood clots to her brain and a carotid artery dissection, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:19.479 after the horror crash in February twenty twenty four. Despite 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:23.080 her injuries, doctor McMahon made a generous plea through her 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:28.760 victim impact statement at the driver's responsibles sentence on Friday 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.520 yesterday not to send them to jail now, The CORPUS 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.800 told Ronie Page Lowry, a twenty seven year old of Maruka, 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:39.880 had run a red light at the intersection of Main 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.520 Street in Bains Road to Kangaroo Point around six point 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:47.559 thirty pm while over three times the legal alcohol limit. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.799 Three times. She'd been driving her mother's uninsured he yund 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:55.320 Ay I thirty southbound on Main Street more than twenty 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:59.080 k's over the sixty k limit when she struck doctor 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:04.440 McMahon's Toyota Prius. The Crown Prosecutor Luke Smoothie told the 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:07.679 court Lowry had accelerated the speeds of up to ninety 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:11.159 k's and the seconds prior to the collision, she struck 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.800 the car of doctor McMahon, who had been working in 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.919 a role as an MP that night, at speed of 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:20.000 eighty three k's an how they say, and CCTV captured 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.080 doctor McMahon's Prius spin one hundred and eighty degrees from 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:27.880 the impact of the collision, with extensive damage immediately visible 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.599 to both cars. Now Lowry was found to have a 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.400 blood alcohol content of zero point one to eighty six. 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:37.560 Doctor McMahon was hospitalized for two and a half weeks 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.120 and was in a brain injury rehabilitation unit for half 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:45.800 that time. The court heard she suffered post traumatic amnesia 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:52.120 and was unable to form memories for a week. Smoothie said, 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:56.280 without hospitalization, doctor McMahon would have been at quite serious 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:59.880 risk of neurological deterioration and that would have led to 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.520 her death unquote. Now the woman pleaded guilty in April 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.640 to dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:13.400 while adversely affected, and was sentenced yesterday to three years 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:19.440 jail with immediate parole. Immediate parole. Doctor McMahon did not 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.920 attend the sentence in person, but the judge, David Kent, 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:26.919 noted the rare compassion she'd shown in her statement, saying, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.280 very generously, it says towards the start that in some 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:34.520 ways it has enriched her life. Justice for her is 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:38.520 Missus Lowry's genuine rehabilitation. If there is support, you need 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.280 to make sure you never ever for the rest of 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:45.000 your life do something like this again. And you need support, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:50.599 I'm willing to help, very generous. Despite doctor McMahon's request, 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.320 mister Smoothie said Lowry should serve up to six months 0:06:54.320 --> 0:07:00.839 in actual custody, considerating considering rather the devastating consequence of 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:05.640 her actions. At the defense, barrister Jack Kennedy, instructed by 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.640 Bevin Lawyers, said his client stopped driving by choice after 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.880 the crash and had struggled with feelings of remorse and shame. 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.560 He tended a letter of apology that Larry had written 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:21.520 in response to the victim impact statement. Kennedy said Larry 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:26.040 had relapsed into alcohol dependency and depression following an unexpected 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.560 death in her family five months prior to the collision. 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.360 He said she wasn't drinking for the thrill of it 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.880 or the excitement, but had been attempting to ease her anxiety. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:39.920 He submitted that Lowry's ADHD diagnosis, in combination with the alcohol, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.920 had also impacted her ability to rationalize. The court heard 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:49.600 Larry had no criminal or traffic history in Queensland, but 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.200 had been convicted in New South Wales at the age 0:07:53.240 --> 0:08:00.480 of nineteen of driving while suspended and over middle alcohol limit. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:05.640 As I said, you be the judge. Judge can't acknowledge 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:08.920 Larry had a difficult upbringing, said she'd give significant He 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.920 would give significant weight to the victim's views, but he 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.880 said he needed to balance a serious competing factors, including 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:19.400 the severity of the offending, to determine an appropriate sentence. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.440 He ultimately sentenced Larry to three years jail with immediate parole. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.320 Larry's li likesnse automatically disqualified for one year. Now. Victim's 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.160 statements are a must and it's a delicate consideration, but 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.280 aren't their community expectations. I'm not sure they're met here. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:36.280 Now. 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.880 I'm not suggesting here to lock the door and toss 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.640 the keys away, not at all. But consequences for actions 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:45.200 need to inform the next person, next person, rather that 0:08:45.640 --> 0:08:50.559 society expects them to, even in tough times, respect your 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:55.559 fellow Australian's right to exist safely. I understand about compassion, 0:08:56.120 --> 0:09:01.439 I do, But seriously, in relation to the community expectations, 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.000 I wonder if in your mind, again, you better judge 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:11.640 this meets appropriate penalty. I'm not sure. The Sydney Harbor 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.679 Bridge tolls on the way up, and Chrisman said he's 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:21.000 going to build buses in Australia, Well apparently they're rolling 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:26.480 off a ship from China. You got to laugh, don't you. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:32.160 How long does it take a politician to lie? Doesn't 0:09:32.200 --> 0:09:35.200 appear to take all that long. I'll get into the 0:09:35.200 --> 0:09:37.480 meat of this story in a minute, but seriously, if 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.200 you want to see a politician lying, let them say 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:45.000 something and just wait two hundred and seventy five dollars anyone. 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:46.719 Now. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:49.480 The Men's government is finally cracking down to protect customers 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.520 from the sale of dodgy heat pumps. These are hot 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:54.400 water systems. I've got one of these at home in 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:56.800 the house I bought, so it's not something we went 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.880 out to buy. And now knowing about this, I'm kind 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:03.800 of going, hello, this is great work in the Telegraph 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:07.360 by James Willis, the beating hard form of beating heart 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:11.160 of TWOGB. They're launching a compliance splits the government to 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:13.960 stop the cowboys who run a muck on the government 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.480 subsidized heating scheme. In fact, some are calling this pink 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:21.080 bats two point zero. Who do you reckon? The government 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:25.040 says is the architect of this initiative former New South 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:31.280 Wales Energy Minister Matt kean Elbow's climate zar. As I say, 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:33.240 the man with the story is James Willis of the 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.760 Daily Telegraph, who joins me on the line. James, good morning, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.679 my friend. I hope you're well. You've been following this 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:43.440 story and it's been bizarre to hear you or to 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.880 read you writing about water on powerpoints and the like. 0:10:46.960 --> 0:10:48.520 Just how dangerous is all this stuff? 0:10:49.320 --> 0:10:52.600 Happy Saturday, Luke, and look good morning to you and 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:55.839 your listeners. Look, this is an issue that two weeks 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.080 ago I knew absolutely nothing about, and I think it's 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.440 pretty clear that, just like you said, most people know 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:06.719 nothing about hot water systems. They only think about them 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.080 the moment they turn their taps on one day and 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:12.240 the water doesn't heat up, and they decided to call 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.280 a plumber. But what happened was there was a federal 0:11:15.280 --> 0:11:17.520 scheme that's been running for a long time, and then 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.040 the state government under Matt Kean in early twenty twenty two, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:27.400 decided to add two further incentives, which basically allowed these 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:32.360 hot water systems that generally retail between one thousand dollars 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:38.360 and five thousand dollars to be so lucrative that all 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:42.240 of these cowboys came into the market and knocked on 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:47.480 people's doors, called people, ran letterbox drops all over social media, 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:50.200 and said we can give you a hot water system 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.160 for free. If you're a business or if you're in 0:11:53.240 --> 0:11:56.559 a household. There's a payment of just thirty three dollars. 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:58.320 So all of a sudden, people said, hey, do you 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.880 want a free hot water system? Of course, Hey, guess 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:03.559 what we can give you two. Well, the reason they 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:06.760 were giving so many away was because the incentives were. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.680 So lucrative that they were. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.080 Importing these products from overseas cheap goods, largely from China 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:19.360 and it created this feeding frenzy where we had behavior 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.480 that was very similar to the pink Bats saga in 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:27.360 the Kevin Rudd government, where there was dodgy systems, unqualified workers. 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:31.360 And now the Men's government is finally conceding that we've 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.880 had one hundred and twenty thousand of these systems installed 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:39.080 in New South Wales, four hundred thousand across Australia and 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.880 most of them are not up to standards, not working 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:44.040 and in some cases potentially dangerous. 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:47.280 So the Building Commission's already conducted some order to design 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:48.800 understand it. What did that uncover? 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:51.720 Mate, Well, there's been a two audits at the Building 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.439 Commission that we know about. The first one the compliance 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:58.120 levels were just nine percent in properties and also in 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.439 the businesses that they looked at. The second order it 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.840 was just thirty seven percent. They've now agreed to look 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:09.400 at this further and do a compliance blitz and Mate 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:11.480 and look at some properties that they believe are going 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.080 to be a problem. So there's going to be a 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.160 lot more wider looks at this. The Plumbers Association, the 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.720 Master Plumbers have done their own checks. 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:20.360 They found an. 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:26.280 Average of four non tradesmen like installations at everything, and 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.720 the Building Commission is very concerned in particular about and 0:13:29.760 --> 0:13:32.800 this is technical, but it's a lack of an RCD, 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:38.280 which is basically the socket that keeps someone safe from electrocution. 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.800 So but these have been installed everywhere by people that 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:43.720 weren't up to the job, a lot of them. You 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.040 had to have three different trades that did not exist. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:50.360 But the problem is this is a gold medal example 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:55.640 Luke of where net zero is just this thought bubble 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:58.680 without guardrails in place. We all want to give people 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.960 a heat pump, and the heat pumps are in theory 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.160 and energy saving appliance instead of an electrical hot water 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.080 system or a gas hot water system. But it was 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:12.760 brought in by Matt Kean without requiring people to show 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:18.000 their license details if they were a plumber, without backing 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:21.640 some of the verified and good quality hot water systems, 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:26.360 and without requiring them to have a minimum energy performance standard. 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.600 So I mean, it's been an absolute disaster and now 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:32.600 the Men's government is trying to clean it up. But 0:14:32.600 --> 0:14:34.360 there's a lot more work to do in this space 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.080 because people don't know they got this free system and 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.840 all of a sudden a year later or two years 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.760 later it's not working and they go to call the 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:47.760 person that actually installed it. That company doesn't exist anymore. 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:52.560 In some cases they're saying we're not liable and you know, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.440 you can't get that free hot water system, and a 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:58.920 lot of people replace, you know, systems that were working 0:14:59.040 --> 0:15:02.840 fine and just said yeah, look we'll take the free one, 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.960 only to realize that they're being done and so they've 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.440 decided to bend door knocking so you can't get the 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:11.920 knock on the door anymore. And from someone saying here's 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:15.000 the free system, they'll also bring in a five year warranty, 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:17.360 which is a good move as well. But the worst 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.280 part about this, Luke, is that we have one of 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:24.680 the last Australian made manufacturing industries in this space, led 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.120 by Ducks and Rhem and Renei, who actually could have 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:32.320 done the majority of his work. Instead they allowed the 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.800 cowboys and the foreign goods to flow into. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.040 The market and that's where we have the problem. 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:41.520 Excellent reporting and James has got examples of some of 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:45.000 this stuff gone wrong, including one that stopped working the 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:48.440 day after installation and another it sounds like it was 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:50.760 roaring with noise. I mean, you would have been there 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:52.920 in the shower thinking there was a bloody lion loss 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:56.800 in the backyard. Great reporting, mate, Thank you so much 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:57.240 for your time. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:57.880 Good to talk to you. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:15:59.960 No worries, glad you mate, Thank you mate. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:03.680 James willis there? How about this? Calls for lessons about 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:07.160 climate change to be deferred to high school because they're 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:11.360 fueling anxiety and children as young as five. This is 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.600 such a big story. Leading Charles psychologist Claire Rowe has 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.560 released a report. She says that nine year olds are 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.360 crying because they think they're not going to see adulthood 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.400 as the earth will die. Shame on you, and I'm 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.320 talking here to the sector that thinks how sexy it 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.680 is to make a change in the weather, a life 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:36.360 altering experience. Weather it's been changing for the entirety of 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:39.080 many of us who have got fifty or sixty years 0:16:39.080 --> 0:16:43.320 on it our lives. It's something that happens. One day 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.920 it's wet, another day's dry. Some days it's hot, other 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.520 days it's cold. You might get an East Coast low, 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:52.560 then you might not get one for a year. I mean, 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:56.640 this is disgusting, all trying and many of these people 0:16:56.640 --> 0:17:00.560 are rent seekers with their fingers in the class change 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.359 subsity pie. It's disgusting. And if people like me go 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.520 out and say this stuff, Oh look at you denier. Ah, yeah, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.320 you're a denier. So what the hell are kids learning 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.080 in schools? To talk us through the research? I'm pleased 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.240 to say that leading charle psychologists ad junk professor at 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.520 the Institute of Public Affairs, Claire Row joins us on 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:23.800 the line right now. Thanks so much for your time, Claire, 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.720 and for raising this story. What sort of alarmist messaging 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:30.360 are kids getting about climate change in schools? 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.680 Well, good morning, Luke, thanks for having me on about this. Look, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:37.159 this research that we've done now through the IPA is 0:17:37.200 --> 0:17:41.200 pretty clear, and I found out that we are teaching 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:44.399 climate change to young children in a way that is 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:48.480 I think completely developmentally inappropriate. I mean, it just doesn't 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.960 match up with the science of what we know about 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:54.280 six seven eight year olds in their cognitive capacity to 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.840 even think about this stuff, you know, and they're being 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:04.639 presented with eccidential threats and pretty doomsday heavy information. And 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:09.600 even if you subscribe, Luke to climate change happening, it 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:13.119 doesn't inspire or motivate action. What we're doing is just 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.680 completely scaring our kids and overwhelming them. And as you know, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:20.760 I run a clinical practice in Sydney and I've been 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.840 seeing this for the last ten years. We've got nine 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:26.200 year olds coming in, like you said, who are literally 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.000 in tears and they don't think they're going to make 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.639 it to adulthood. I mean, that is abusive. That is 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:35.119 absolutely awful, and you know, my staff are looking at 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:37.600 me saying, how do we help these kids? And it's 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.320 really starting what they're learning at school. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.000 Yeah, it is, I mean that is you said it 0:18:44.200 --> 0:18:47.880 if that's not an abuse of someone's mental health, because 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:51.040 the reality is there's a good side to this story 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:53.240 if it is. In fact. No, of course, the climate 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.200 is changing, but we're really good on planet Earth. We 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:00.280 can adapt, we can change the way we do things, 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:04.600 we can find a solution. But the spirit of positivity 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.800 and hope. It's almost like Claire, that's being stolen in 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:09.560 this whole thing. 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:14.080 Well, that's exactly it is. We're just paralyzing kids and 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:17.080 to be kind of you know, as said, anxious and 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.280 have this what we call learned helplessness. And a lot 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.680 of the research up to date has been around climate 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:28.399 anxiety of mental health as a direct consequence of climate change, 0:19:28.760 --> 0:19:32.480 whereas this IPA research is really about kids are anxious 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:36.000 not directly because of climate change. They're anxious because of 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:39.639 the way the curriculum is set up. Most parents don't 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:44.399 know that sustainability I Climate is what they call a 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:48.359 cross curriculum priority, and that means it has to be 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.360 in every subject. Like we've got kids in you two 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:54.440 doing rap songs about climate change in their music lessons, 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:58.879 So parents have no idea this is going on. It's 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:02.719 across the board every every day, filtered through, and what 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.240 I'm seeing is the way it's taught. It kind of 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:09.800 gives this moral pressure to kids that they have to 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.360 do something to save the planet, and of course at 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:16.240 six or seven years old, they can't. So they're in 0:20:16.240 --> 0:20:20.280 this really stuck position feeling that of course the government's 0:20:20.320 --> 0:20:23.159 not listening to them. They go home to mom and 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:25.760 dad and they say, we shouldn't be eating red meat, 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.400 or we shouldn't be using the family car as much. 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:31.240 And it's just awful to see some of the state 0:20:31.320 --> 0:20:33.800 that these kids are in. And of course, you know, 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:38.639 it is really about activism through our schools and creating 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.400 young activists. Of course, when they turn out the other end. 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.840 Couldn't agree with you more. The report is the IPA Report, 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:50.160 Climate Change, Anxiety in pre Adolescent Children and Neuroscientific and 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:54.320 Psychological Perspective. Well worth a look at the IPA's website. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.120 Great to talk to you, Claire, Thanks so much. 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:57.800 Thanks Luke, had a good weekend. 0:20:57.920 --> 0:21:00.320 Yeah you too, Claire Row. She's a beauty, isn't she 0:21:00.560 --> 0:21:03.359 just a ripper? That's such a big story and of 0:21:03.400 --> 0:21:06.600 course just swept away. Ah, look at that another denier 0:21:07.119 --> 0:21:11.960 give us a break. Gosh, Dennis Shanahan coming up shortly. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.919 Fascinating story today. The voter turnout in the federal election, 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:19.600 at ninety point sixty seven is the second lowest in 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:23.560 one hundred years. The only federal election with a lower 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.600 voter turnout since the introduction of compulsory voting in nineteen 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.080 twenty five was a COVID effect at twenty twenty two 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.280 election that was eighty nine point eight percent of eligible 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:37.760 voters casting a ballot. After ten this morning, an update 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:42.560 on the murder of Rachel Childs. The police today announcing 0:21:42.560 --> 0:21:45.800 a higher reward for information. Pauline Hanson will join me 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:50.760 after ten. One Nation doubling its Senate representation. Looking forward 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.920 to chatting with Pauline economist from Macro Business. Leef van 0:21:54.960 --> 0:22:01.040 Ansalen joining me after eleven Surprise, surprise, federalman talking about 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:06.440 an East Coast gas reservation policy idea. It's being floated. 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.520 I wonder where they got that idea from. Ask a 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.520 trade with Simon Stevenson at ten thirty. We'll get to him. 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:15.840 We've got Craig Bennett joining me later on. Here look 0:22:15.880 --> 0:22:19.040 at the life and times of Clint Eastwood. He'll also 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:24.639 reflect on the life of Loretta Swit Hot lips Hulahan 0:22:24.840 --> 0:22:49.960 from mash who's passed away overnight. Yeah, that was on 0:22:50.040 --> 0:22:52.399 Channel ten wasn't it six o'clock at night or something 0:22:52.440 --> 0:22:55.879 like that? Look when I was a kid anyway, that's sad. 0:22:56.200 --> 0:22:59.520 Used to love Hot lips Hulahan. Alice Stole from Domain 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:02.400 A deep into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney. 0:23:02.720 --> 0:23:05.520 Of course, I quiz your calls, texts and emails order 0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:09.000 those breaking using Inframtior to help you get around town 0:23:09.040 --> 0:23:12.560 with a minimum of Farsit Saturday May thirty one, thirteen 0:23:12.600 --> 0:23:16.800 degrees in Sydney, seventeen in Brisbane. And this is weekends 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:25.280 with Luke Grant on two GB and four BC. We 0:23:25.400 --> 0:23:28.040 better check the roads with the Great Catherine Hines today 0:23:28.760 --> 0:23:32.040 just on this buses made in Australia but actually made 0:23:32.080 --> 0:23:35.480 in China story I see the New South bos opposition 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.240 leader Mark Speakman saying today Chris Means promised one hundred 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:42.520 and twenty six buses would be built in Nara. Instead 0:23:42.560 --> 0:23:46.080 they were being built in Beijing, paraded in a delivery 0:23:46.119 --> 0:23:50.480 ceremony by a Chinese manufacturer, quietly shipped into Port Kembler, 0:23:50.880 --> 0:23:54.480 fully built and draped in red ribbons. He says, this 0:23:54.600 --> 0:23:57.119 is the latest conjob from a government addicted to spin. 0:23:57.760 --> 0:24:00.280 In twenty twenty two, the then labor leaders to with 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:03.639 unions and launched the built in New South Wales campaign. 0:24:04.320 --> 0:24:06.359 He made made in New South Wales one of his 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:09.600 slogans of his campaign. Now we know it was never real. 0:24:10.520 --> 0:24:13.600 These buses were never going to be built here. The 0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:17.960 narrow facility Chris Means promised remains a mirage. All that's 0:24:18.000 --> 0:24:22.760 happening locally is the bolting in of seats and installation 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:27.399 of card readers, not manufacturing, not jobs, and not what 0:24:27.480 --> 0:24:30.720 the premier told the people of New South Wales. Any 0:24:30.840 --> 0:24:35.640 reasonable person would say this doesn't pass the pub test. Well, 0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.040 we try and be reasonable here, so allow me to 0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:40.720 say this doesn't pass the pub test. 0:24:40.960 --> 0:24:49.520 Prime and Stuff The Central Politics with Dennis Shanahan, National 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:50.800 Editor of The Australian. 0:24:50.880 --> 0:24:54.920 Dennis Shanahan, good morning, Good lud. Nice day in Camper. 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:55.880 I'm sure it is, my. 0:24:55.840 --> 0:24:58.560 Friend, it's a very nice day. And on down the 0:24:58.600 --> 0:24:59.760 coast it's even nicer. 0:25:00.160 --> 0:25:02.160 Of course you are, or you're probably not far from 0:25:02.160 --> 0:25:04.120 that bus manufacturing planted Narra. 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:07.919 But we well, I was listening to that. I'm a 0:25:07.960 --> 0:25:11.720 little bit further south, okay. 0:25:11.040 --> 0:25:12.240 But it's beautiful on my cap. 0:25:13.160 --> 0:25:15.400 Sure it is lost to talk about here. The Trump 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:19.760 administration's asked Australia to lift its defense spending. The Deputy 0:25:19.760 --> 0:25:22.879 Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles says we're up 0:25:22.880 --> 0:25:26.240 for the conversation. The PM's not so convinced, is he. 0:25:27.200 --> 0:25:31.400 No, he's not. Look, we knew this request was going 0:25:31.440 --> 0:25:36.600 to come. Ever since Donald Trump was elected president. He's 0:25:36.640 --> 0:25:40.280 been saying he wants all the allies to spend more. 0:25:40.920 --> 0:25:45.040 He's asked the Europeans to spend five percent of their GDP, 0:25:45.960 --> 0:25:49.159 the figure that the US has pointed to Australia is 0:25:49.160 --> 0:25:53.959 about three percent now. During the election campaign or before 0:25:54.000 --> 0:25:58.119 the election campaign, Labor committed to a two percent going 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:01.160 to two point three in eight year years time. Now, 0:26:01.400 --> 0:26:06.280 that's well short of what the US administration has now 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:11.200 asked Richard Miles for in Singapore, and Richard Miles I said, yeah, 0:26:11.280 --> 0:26:13.840 we're up for this conversation. I love this term that 0:26:14.200 --> 0:26:17.719 we're up for the conversation. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister this 0:26:17.760 --> 0:26:22.800 week has been bagging out think tank for saying that 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:26.280 we needed to spend more and say no, we don't 0:26:26.840 --> 0:26:30.400 at all the rest. So it looks like Richard Miles 0:26:30.440 --> 0:26:32.600 and Anthony A. Lbernozi are going to have to have 0:26:33.240 --> 0:26:37.919 one of those conversations about increasing spending now. Peter Dutton 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:42.720 committed during the campaign to increase defense spending to three percent. 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:47.560 Now the Prime Minister indicated that he would spend more 0:26:47.640 --> 0:26:50.840 if necessary. The question now is does he think it's 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:54.639 necessary that the US is saying yes, we need to 0:26:54.680 --> 0:26:59.480 put in an estimated extra twenty eight billion dollars into 0:26:59.480 --> 0:27:00.600 the defense budget. 0:27:01.040 --> 0:27:05.399 Goodness me. The coalition finally back together. A new team 0:27:05.760 --> 0:27:09.320 looks to be a product of the factions and payback 0:27:09.359 --> 0:27:13.719 as well being very inexperienced, making the future potentially harder. 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:18.119 In opposition, people like Jane Hume, who obviously screwed things 0:27:18.200 --> 0:27:23.000 up at a ridiculous level with that work from home idea, 0:27:23.280 --> 0:27:25.119 even though it was for the public service. It was 0:27:25.160 --> 0:27:27.840 so easy for the government to twist that. But she's 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:33.840 mia to center. Price looks like she's been demoted. What 0:27:33.880 --> 0:27:34.600 do you make of it? 0:27:35.119 --> 0:27:42.600 Well, look the Jacinta Novinjimpa Price is a typical example here. 0:27:43.320 --> 0:27:47.760 She defected from the NATS after the Country Liberal Party 0:27:47.800 --> 0:27:52.160 to be precise to the Liberal Party and joined them 0:27:52.240 --> 0:27:55.400 and said she'd be in their party room. The expectation 0:27:55.800 --> 0:27:59.160 was that she would be rewarded with this and that 0:27:59.280 --> 0:28:04.119 she would likely be Indigenous affairs spokesman for the Liberals. 0:28:04.480 --> 0:28:08.160 Now it turns out Karen Little a very good by 0:28:08.200 --> 0:28:12.520 the way, you know, she's very good and I've got 0:28:12.560 --> 0:28:15.520 no problem. In fact, I think it's a very good appointment. 0:28:15.600 --> 0:28:20.000 But it is clear that some of the expectations from 0:28:20.119 --> 0:28:24.359 Susan Lee's decisions on who she put wear have fallen 0:28:24.400 --> 0:28:28.800 well short. Certainly Jane Hume has suffered her from working 0:28:28.840 --> 0:28:35.119 from hum problem, but she was one of the better 0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:39.720 performers for the coalition in opposition. She was a good 0:28:39.760 --> 0:28:44.880 financed spokesman and so I think that she's really suffered, 0:28:45.120 --> 0:28:48.840 probably too much of a demotion then more than she deserved. 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:55.240 We saw Angus Taylor shifted to foreign affairs. Now he 0:28:55.360 --> 0:28:58.920 had not really hit the government hard enough on the 0:28:59.000 --> 0:29:03.520 economy when he should have, but his foreign affairs isn't 0:29:03.560 --> 0:29:06.600 so much of a demotion. It's a bit of a 0:29:06.720 --> 0:29:11.840 sideway shift. But there are other promotions and emotions which 0:29:11.920 --> 0:29:17.400 indicate Susan Lee and David Little Proud are rewarding people 0:29:17.440 --> 0:29:22.160 who voted for them in close leadership ballots. This is 0:29:22.360 --> 0:29:27.120 always a recipe for disaster, and what we've seen, particularly 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:31.800 in the appointments in New South Wales is what everyone feared, 0:29:32.120 --> 0:29:36.000 and that is the continuation of the factional fighting, which 0:29:36.040 --> 0:29:39.800 in the New South Wales branch is particularly bad. It's 0:29:39.840 --> 0:29:42.760 not real flash elsewhere, I have to admit, but it 0:29:42.920 --> 0:29:47.160 does indicate that the Susan Lee David a Little Proud team. 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:52.200 While they are a coalition of short on experience, some 0:29:52.240 --> 0:29:55.880 people have been favored above others because of backing and 0:29:56.120 --> 0:29:59.200 factional support, and I don't think this is good for 0:29:59.240 --> 0:30:05.840 the long term, which for a fairly inexperienced group to 0:30:06.000 --> 0:30:08.720 take on what is now a very confident government. 0:30:09.200 --> 0:30:12.480 Yeah confident. They certainly are all right. Dentists just hold 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.320 their a sect. My friend will take a break, come 0:30:14.360 --> 0:30:18.560 back and talk more. We've got carbon emission reduction targets, 0:30:18.560 --> 0:30:21.520 so we're going to get there. I'm not so sure. 0:30:21.560 --> 0:30:23.840 We will back with Dennis on that and plenty more 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:26.640 after this. Just before I get back to Dennis, a 0:30:26.680 --> 0:30:27.520 couple of things quickly. 0:30:27.920 --> 0:30:28.000 No. 0:30:28.280 --> 0:30:32.560 L four Westmead and Carlingford Line light rail services are 0:30:32.600 --> 0:30:35.880 running between West Meat and Paramatta Square. There are urgent 0:30:35.920 --> 0:30:39.840 tram repairs that the Children's hospital We've just been told this, 0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:43.280 and replacement buses have been requested but are yet to 0:30:43.520 --> 0:30:47.360 start running. More details upcoming. And the woman accused of 0:30:47.400 --> 0:30:49.760 the murder of her three year old daughter near Bunderberg 0:30:49.800 --> 0:30:53.560 earlier this week has been found unresponsive in her cell 0:30:54.440 --> 0:30:59.120 at Queensland Police saying detectives from the Corrective Services Investigation 0:30:59.320 --> 0:31:02.600 Unit instating after a thirty two year old woman was 0:31:02.640 --> 0:31:09.480 located unresponsive violent custody at Brisbane Women's Correctional Center yesterday. 0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:15.360 There's no further information. Lauren Ingrid Funnigan thirty two, allegedly 0:31:15.360 --> 0:31:19.000 stabbed her daughter so Sofia multiple times on the front 0:31:19.080 --> 0:31:22.800 law lawn of their home at Moore Park Beach on Monday. 0:31:24.480 --> 0:31:28.200 Again we'll get further info. Miss Funnigan's been transferred. I'm 0:31:28.240 --> 0:31:31.800 told to hospital. One three one eight seven three is 0:31:31.840 --> 0:31:35.400 a number. On a Saturday morning, we chapped to Dennis Shanahan, 0:31:35.480 --> 0:31:38.520 the national editor of The Oars and Dennis failing carbon 0:31:38.560 --> 0:31:43.880 emission reduction targets and rising electricity prices putting new pressure 0:31:44.480 --> 0:31:47.720 on the government's renewable energy policies. 0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:52.800 Ah. Yes, look, Luke, the government got you know, it's 0:31:52.800 --> 0:31:56.560 set a big mandate for its renewable energies policy from 0:31:56.600 --> 0:32:01.160 the election campaign. But now we've got a few problems 0:32:01.160 --> 0:32:05.040 starting to appear. For a start, on the sort of 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:10.040 the environmental climate change side, it is clear now the 0:32:10.080 --> 0:32:16.120 government is not going to reach it's twenty thirty emissions targets. 0:32:16.920 --> 0:32:19.440 It is not going to do it. The latest figures 0:32:19.440 --> 0:32:23.760 show that carbon emissions are increasing and as the Green said, 0:32:24.040 --> 0:32:27.720 they're actually higher than they were under Scott Morrison. That's 0:32:27.800 --> 0:32:32.040 partly because the COVID impact on manufacturing. But what we've 0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:36.960 actually seen is an increase in carbon emissions, particularly from 0:32:37.000 --> 0:32:40.320 the power sector. And so what we've actually got is 0:32:40.360 --> 0:32:46.080 the government suffering from increased its promises and targets being 0:32:46.120 --> 0:32:51.920 broken because of the increased use of coal fiede power stations, 0:32:51.960 --> 0:32:55.960 extending the life of coal five power stations. We need 0:32:55.960 --> 0:32:59.440 this for the electricity, but it means that the emissions 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:04.120 are going up. And not only that, in addition, the 0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:10.520 renewable rollout of all the windmills and the offshore wind production, 0:33:11.760 --> 0:33:17.560 the big solar are all falling behind Hydro, the snowy 0:33:17.640 --> 0:33:21.520 Hydro falling behind, going behind schedule, so they're just not 0:33:21.600 --> 0:33:24.520 going to reach these targets. And on the other side, 0:33:24.680 --> 0:33:28.440 on the consumer side, electricity prices are going to go 0:33:28.560 --> 0:33:32.400 up on the East Coast from July one by ten percent. 0:33:33.080 --> 0:33:36.280 So we all remember that promise of the cut in 0:33:36.320 --> 0:33:39.080 our electricity prices of two hundred and seventy five dollars 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:43.479 the election before. So what the government is now seeing 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:48.520 is after the election, in the cold heart light of day, 0:33:49.200 --> 0:33:54.600 is what we're seeing increased power prices, increase carbon emissions, 0:33:54.920 --> 0:33:58.200 and both of them are hurting them in different parts 0:33:58.280 --> 0:33:59.360 of the electric. 0:33:59.280 --> 0:34:03.080 Yeah, unraveling like many people said it would and it 0:34:03.120 --> 0:34:05.280 will continue, and I'll just say, oh, we need to 0:34:05.280 --> 0:34:08.120 get more solar and more wind, and I'll just make 0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:10.440 it worse. Do you think there'll be another interest rate 0:34:10.440 --> 0:34:11.040 cut in July? 0:34:11.920 --> 0:34:15.479 Well, look, I think that the figures certainly suggest that would. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:19.640 I didn't think the Reserve Bank would go as it 0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:23.160 did at the last meeting. That they did, and that 0:34:23.960 --> 0:34:26.680 was shown this week to have been the right decision 0:34:27.080 --> 0:34:32.800 because what we've seen inflation has been steady, but retail 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:35.920 sales are down. This is the first time in several 0:34:36.000 --> 0:34:39.280 years that retail sales on a month to month basis 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:43.160 have actually gone down, and we've also had a collapse 0:34:43.680 --> 0:34:48.920 in private investment for business. These are big problems for 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.880 the government. We've got all of the employer groups, all 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.799 of the business groups, all the industry groups saying we're 0:34:54.800 --> 0:34:58.839 in a real botta now productivity and we're seeing increased 0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:04.280 industrial action, increased demands for higher wages, and the private 0:35:04.360 --> 0:35:07.640 sector is saying we're not going to invest while we've 0:35:07.640 --> 0:35:10.440 got all of these problems. This was the biggest drop 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:14.879 in private investment for years, and it has really come 0:35:14.880 --> 0:35:18.480 as a surprise to both the Treasury and business. So 0:35:18.640 --> 0:35:22.120 I think that the economy is starting to get into 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:26.359 that sort of delayed reaction where people are pulling back 0:35:26.360 --> 0:35:29.920 from spending money and business is saying we're not going 0:35:29.960 --> 0:35:34.239 to invest. These are longer term problems the government is 0:35:34.280 --> 0:35:36.279 really going to have to face, and I think the 0:35:36.320 --> 0:35:40.680 Reserve Bank will probably have to cut rates again in July. 0:35:42.400 --> 0:35:44.359 Have a nice time down on the South coast, mate, 0:35:44.360 --> 0:35:46.239 always good to chat to you. Look after yourself and 0:35:46.239 --> 0:35:49.480 I'll talk to you in a week's time, thankfully. Dennis Shanahan, 0:35:49.600 --> 0:35:54.799 National editor of the Australian newspaper. It all looks. It's 0:35:54.840 --> 0:36:00.480 incredible the speed with which political news, financial news and 0:36:00.520 --> 0:36:04.359 the like revolves, and how things can quickly turn, and 0:36:04.360 --> 0:36:07.760 how you know you need to have a steady hand, 0:36:07.840 --> 0:36:10.839 and that electing a government is not the best three 0:36:10.880 --> 0:36:15.000 word slogan that's on offer. I'm not saying anything necessarily 0:36:15.040 --> 0:36:17.960 about Jimbo or Albow or any of the other Bow's 0:36:18.400 --> 0:36:21.200 ability to deal with things here, but to think that 0:36:21.280 --> 0:36:23.600 you know we're on fire, we're heading in the right 0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:28.960 direction and let's go again baby is sometimes. I mean, 0:36:29.040 --> 0:36:31.399 you can you can think that way and hope that way, 0:36:31.440 --> 0:36:33.640 but it really ends up being that simple, doesn't it 0:36:33.719 --> 0:36:37.200 always the case? Nine to ten. Thank you for listening 0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:39.839 on this Saturday morning. It's five to ten. From the 0:36:39.920 --> 0:36:44.240 text line zero four six zero seven three eight seven three. 0:36:45.000 --> 0:36:47.040 Ian says I had a call from someone offering me 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:49.160 a free hot water heater. When I inquired as to 0:36:49.200 --> 0:36:52.600 what the standards were that at META, if it met 0:36:52.640 --> 0:36:56.520 Australian standards, they hung up. Thank you. Ian Brad says, 0:36:56.719 --> 0:36:59.239 I asked my plumber about electric heat pump hot water 0:36:59.320 --> 0:37:03.000 systems six months ago. He said no, he wouldn't install 0:37:03.040 --> 0:37:06.040 any of them as a break not long after installing. 0:37:06.040 --> 0:37:08.759 He wouldn't do that to a loyal customer. Michelle says 0:37:08.800 --> 0:37:12.719 Matt Kean should be charged. If Bobo Bowen was involved, 0:37:13.080 --> 0:37:16.959 he should also be charged. Wow, thanks for getting in touch. 0:37:17.760 --> 0:37:21.800 Josh on the smoking decreasing rates, says that data is rubbish. 0:37:22.239 --> 0:37:25.040 They're not picking up all the smokers buying illegal cigarettes. 0:37:25.880 --> 0:37:28.720 Tony says the government gets its stats from cigarette sales. 0:37:29.040 --> 0:37:31.319 From what I see, forty percent of cigarette sold are 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:35.000 the illegal ones. Rod says, can they count the illegal 0:37:35.000 --> 0:37:38.839 cigarettes being brought? I think possibly not. Steve says, as 0:37:38.880 --> 0:37:41.240 a smoker, I can't believe there's not an instant medication 0:37:41.360 --> 0:37:44.799 to stop. That's a very interesting point. Thank you, Steve. Yeah, 0:37:44.800 --> 0:37:46.360 I teg you. It was a busy day. Hang on 0:37:46.400 --> 0:37:49.799 to your hats. US President Donald Trump says he will 0:37:49.880 --> 0:37:55.480 double US tariffs on steel imports to fifty percent, likely 0:37:55.520 --> 0:37:58.040 to affect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Australian 0:37:58.080 --> 0:38:02.960 metal exports. Open to our newsroom, Don Ferrell, the Minister 0:38:03.040 --> 0:38:07.879 says Australia's positions being consistent and clear. These tariffs are 0:38:07.960 --> 0:38:12.600 unjustified and not the act of a friend. Breaking news 0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:14.200 news is next. 0:38:21.800 --> 0:38:26.440 Across Australia. It's back to weekends. We'll look grat. 0:38:36.200 --> 0:38:39.239 Good morning. Thank you for tuning in Saturday. It's the 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.720 thirty first day of May, the last day of autumn 0:38:41.760 --> 0:38:44.960 winter tomorrow, who's going to get cold? I don't want 0:38:45.000 --> 0:38:47.279 to scare you about the climate, but yes, here we 0:38:47.320 --> 0:38:48.960 are on a Saturday morning. I hope things are good 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:51.839 wherever you might be. A wet one in Brisbane, not 0:38:51.880 --> 0:38:54.080 so wet in Sydney. The Son's trying to do its 0:38:54.120 --> 0:38:56.680 best from what we can see. One three one eight 0:38:56.760 --> 0:39:00.920 seventy three. That is our open line number. Plenty of calls, 0:39:01.000 --> 0:39:06.880 plenty of texts and asquillion emails that I get too shortly. Apparently, 0:39:06.920 --> 0:39:10.000 the Prime Minister's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions is 0:39:10.000 --> 0:39:13.720 on life support, according to Greg Brown and Perry Williams 0:39:13.719 --> 0:39:18.520 in the OS after new data showed australianan's carbon footprint 0:39:18.719 --> 0:39:21.960 rose last year, driven by a two point two percent 0:39:22.000 --> 0:39:27.160 increase in the electricity sector, Energy experts declared the Albanesi 0:39:27.239 --> 0:39:30.520 government was set to fail its international commitment to lower 0:39:30.560 --> 0:39:34.040 emissions by forty three percent of five levels by the 0:39:34.120 --> 0:39:38.200 end of the decade, complicating Labour's plan of adopting new 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:42.319 and more ambitious twenty thirty five target ahead of a 0:39:42.400 --> 0:39:46.760 climate change conference in November. Figures released by the Climate 0:39:46.840 --> 0:39:50.640 Change Department show CO two emissions rose by zero point 0:39:50.719 --> 0:39:54.800 zero five percent in twenty twenty four, equivalent to a 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:58.759 twenty seven percent lower than two thousand and five, and 0:39:58.840 --> 0:40:02.120 it needs to be forty three according to the government. 0:40:02.760 --> 0:40:05.759 Energy expert Bruce Mountain said he didn't think there was 0:40:05.800 --> 0:40:09.640 a chance the federal government would meet its twenty thirty commitment. 0:40:11.000 --> 0:40:13.000 As I said earlier, the problem with that is that they'll, 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:17.200 you know, then they'll go on steroids to do the quick. 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:22.480 I'm sure wind farm quick and we know how that 0:40:22.560 --> 0:40:28.719 ends up. I note this also ABC's Laura Tingle has 0:40:28.840 --> 0:40:32.080 unleashed on the newly reunited Liberal and Nationals parties in 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:35.720 one of her last appearances in her current role, calling 0:40:35.760 --> 0:40:40.000 the current state of the coalition a clown show. Appearing 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:43.319 on the ABC's Party Room podcast for the last time 0:40:43.320 --> 0:40:48.879 with fellow journalists Patricia Cavellis and fran Kelly, Tingle said 0:40:48.920 --> 0:40:53.759 the opposition's current policy positions were broadly irrelevant. She says, 0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:56.359 I can say this because I'm going but I don't care. 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.839 These people are irrelevant for the next little while. There 0:40:59.880 --> 0:41:03.160 is side show. They're a clown show. See. I think 0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:06.720 it's great to have an opinion, great to own your opinion, 0:41:06.760 --> 0:41:08.560 but not when the tax payer is paying for it. 0:41:08.600 --> 0:41:11.680 That's the problem, Laura. And it's okay to believe in 0:41:11.719 --> 0:41:15.319 stuff and you, it appears to me from my observations, 0:41:15.320 --> 0:41:19.200 you're a fan of the left of politics or progressive politics, 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:21.960 I called. And that's a matter entirely for you. But 0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:25.399 you don't get to express that on our dime. Join 0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:28.400 the ranks of commercial media, where you have to compete 0:41:28.400 --> 0:41:30.560 with other stations, and if you do okay, then you 0:41:31.040 --> 0:41:33.360 might get another crack at it next time around. But 0:41:34.040 --> 0:41:37.279 that's the problem, always been the problem, not the fact 0:41:37.320 --> 0:41:41.440 that you're not entitled to an opinion. You are good, ay, youna, oh, 0:41:41.520 --> 0:41:42.480 good morning morning. 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:43.920 How are you? 0:41:44.040 --> 0:41:47.120 I'm well? How are you? I am the same, lovely 0:41:47.360 --> 0:41:50.879 nice to hear. Yes, what would you like to say 0:41:50.880 --> 0:41:51.080 to me? 0:41:52.000 --> 0:41:54.360 Well, I'm going to tell you about a young relative 0:41:54.440 --> 0:42:00.040 of mine who covered from addiction to smoking. Yes, I 0:42:00.040 --> 0:42:04.319 had a new baby in the house and the doctor said, 0:42:05.000 --> 0:42:07.400 it's not good for this child to be in a 0:42:07.480 --> 0:42:09.959 smoke soaked that this fear. 0:42:10.320 --> 0:42:10.600 Yep. 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:13.359 If you were going to remain a smoker, don't ever 0:42:13.400 --> 0:42:16.040 smoke in the house with him or in the car yep. 0:42:16.600 --> 0:42:19.120 Always smoke well away from him, and don't put him 0:42:19.120 --> 0:42:20.320 against your clothes. 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:22.600 Yep, you auficeh smoked soaked. 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:23.200 Yep. 0:42:23.680 --> 0:42:25.880 So he went off and had hyptotherapy. 0:42:26.280 --> 0:42:27.040 Did that work? 0:42:27.480 --> 0:42:27.560 It? 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:28.000 Did? 0:42:28.280 --> 0:42:31.759 He needed to do it more than once, yes, so 0:42:31.920 --> 0:42:35.359 definitely twice, maybe a third time, right, But he did 0:42:35.400 --> 0:42:39.200 give up smoking and he's never smoked since. And both 0:42:39.239 --> 0:42:42.040 he and his son are a little bit prone to 0:42:42.160 --> 0:42:44.520 bron kite see things. They're supposed to carry a. 0:42:44.440 --> 0:42:48.160 Puffer, right and how long? How long has he been 0:42:48.160 --> 0:42:48.960 off the cigarettes? 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:51.760 For over thirty years? 0:42:51.840 --> 0:42:54.680 Oh wow, Well even if you have three goes at it, 0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:59.080 you know, I mean, it's worked. And you know, talking 0:42:59.080 --> 0:43:02.920 about the effects on his son probably helped as well. 0:43:03.080 --> 0:43:07.680 Oh that's a great story. Thank you, Youna. Really appreciate 0:43:07.719 --> 0:43:09.640 the core. Thank you for listening to our show too. 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:15.000 Nice to have you on board. One eight seven three 0:43:15.280 --> 0:43:18.439 is the happen line number. Now a story that we've 0:43:18.440 --> 0:43:22.840 been talking about for a little while. Here is the 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:27.960 investigations into the murder of Rachel Or. Rachelle Chiles, a 0:43:28.000 --> 0:43:31.040 twenty three year old, was last scene leaving work in Camden, 0:43:31.120 --> 0:43:34.359 southwest of Sydney in two thousand and one in her 0:43:34.400 --> 0:43:38.239 prize holden commodore. Nine hours later, her burnt and half 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:42.920 naked body was found one hundred kilometers away in GIRoA. 0:43:44.080 --> 0:43:47.239 There's currently a reward in place for information. When we 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:51.440 spoke to Rachelle Or Rachel's sister Christy earlier in the year, 0:43:51.480 --> 0:43:54.360 we discovered that the family had written to the police 0:43:54.400 --> 0:43:58.480 Minister Yasmin Katley about increasing the reward from two hundred 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.040 to five hundred thousand dollars and I think at the 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:04.319 time I hadn't heard back. But since the launch of 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:09.880 the Dear rachel podcast and subsequent reporting, very good reporting 0:44:09.880 --> 0:44:12.400 in the news, court papers, and application has been submitted 0:44:12.440 --> 0:44:16.840 by police to have the reward increased. That would be 0:44:16.880 --> 0:44:19.040 partly due to the excellent work of the former New 0:44:19.080 --> 0:44:23.239 South Wales detective Sergeant Damien Loon, who's been in and 0:44:23.280 --> 0:44:25.680 around this case and we spoke to him a little 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:28.399 while back as well, a very good man who I'm 0:44:28.400 --> 0:44:30.160 delighted to say is on the line. 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:34.320 How are you, Damien, Good morning Lerk and to your listeners, 0:44:34.560 --> 0:44:35.920 I'm great, thank you, good on you. 0:44:36.160 --> 0:44:39.360 What is its application for a reward increase mean? Is 0:44:39.400 --> 0:44:40.680 it likely that we'll see one? 0:44:42.160 --> 0:44:44.400 Look, hopefully we do it. We'll go before a panel 0:44:44.520 --> 0:44:47.320 to consider the amount of money that should be offered 0:44:47.880 --> 0:44:51.120 and look, what much do you pay on someone's life? Really, 0:44:51.160 --> 0:44:54.400 it's I think it needs to be a life changing 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:57.560 amount to elicit that information to come from someone to 0:44:57.600 --> 0:44:59.799 come forward to the authorities and tell them what. 0:44:59.719 --> 0:45:04.000 They When we spoke with you and Rachelle's sister Christy, 0:45:04.120 --> 0:45:08.520 and we learned that the Police Minister was very slow 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:12.680 or not even prepared to acknowledge the communication. Doesn't this 0:45:12.960 --> 0:45:16.399 prove that, whether it's say a cold case or something else, 0:45:16.920 --> 0:45:19.280 if you get enough people and you get enough pressure, 0:45:19.400 --> 0:45:21.600 you get I mean, it shouldn't be like this, but 0:45:21.680 --> 0:45:22.800 you end up with a result. 0:45:23.960 --> 0:45:26.719 Oh that's true too, and so thankful for lot to 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:29.360 two GBO as well on the Dear Rochelle podcast and 0:45:29.440 --> 0:45:32.799 news Court. It's very important that we show as a 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.520 community that we care about this young lady that was 0:45:35.600 --> 0:45:37.520 murdered in a prime of a life. And it's a 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:40.560 week away from the twenty fourth anniversary. And remember she 0:45:40.640 --> 0:45:42.680 was only twenty three when she died, so she's been 0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:47.479 dead longer than the whole scenario. It's terrible after twenty 0:45:47.560 --> 0:45:50.760 four years. And I just think it's you know, peer pressure. 0:45:51.160 --> 0:45:53.719 As a community, we care, and we're getting that message out. 0:45:53.640 --> 0:45:57.319 To the government and we're saying here that look, you 0:45:57.440 --> 0:46:01.520 know stuff. So I mean in relation to this case 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.640 and how these cases work. So are you with the 0:46:04.760 --> 0:46:08.480 view that people do know something and this just might 0:46:08.560 --> 0:46:09.760 encourage and we come forward. 0:46:10.600 --> 0:46:13.759 Oh look, absolutely, I do believe. So I think, as 0:46:13.800 --> 0:46:16.360 we say over time and we've talked about this before 0:46:16.600 --> 0:46:19.560 some stage that people may be in the relationship and 0:46:19.600 --> 0:46:23.160 they're intimidated to say something, but over time that relationship 0:46:23.360 --> 0:46:26.759 may break up or separated. And now that they can 0:46:26.800 --> 0:46:29.200 see now that they can say something worthwhile that they 0:46:29.280 --> 0:46:32.080 may know and it just might be a simple word 0:46:32.160 --> 0:46:34.560 or a sentence or something that they may have seen 0:46:34.880 --> 0:46:38.000 or overheard that may be the piece of the jigsaw 0:46:38.040 --> 0:46:39.200 puzzle or put it all together. 0:46:39.440 --> 0:46:43.640 What's the most significant breakthrough you've witnessed as a result 0:46:43.680 --> 0:46:46.360 of the podcast and the reporting. Has there been something? 0:46:47.480 --> 0:46:50.080 Look, there is only you know, I can't go any 0:46:50.120 --> 0:46:52.799 further than say what yesterday that I received a phone 0:46:52.800 --> 0:46:57.120 call that'll be up in the next forthcoming episodes through 0:46:57.160 --> 0:47:00.200 the Dear Roselle podcast. But some people are coming forward 0:47:00.280 --> 0:47:03.160 and the community are reaching out to the reducer, Ashley 0:47:03.200 --> 0:47:06.439 Hanson for questions and asking questions. And I think it's 0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:09.200 wonderful because it seems to me that's generated a lot 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:11.560 of interest and this is what we need to have 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:14.240 for this matter to be solved, and I do believe 0:47:14.280 --> 0:47:14.920 it's solvable. 0:47:15.120 --> 0:47:18.399 Yeah. Great. The podcast is Dear Raschild. You can hear 0:47:18.440 --> 0:47:21.080 that wherever you get your podcasts, and the reporting is 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:23.839 in the news Court papers. Good to talk Damien, thanks so. 0:47:23.840 --> 0:47:26.000 Much mate, Thanks Leuch all the best to. 0:47:26.040 --> 0:47:29.000 You, Damien Lun Pauline Hanson next, yeah, I guess so 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:31.800 quick night through from police. They're searching for two people 0:47:31.840 --> 0:47:35.960 after three men were injured in Dubbo this morning. Emergency 0:47:36.000 --> 0:47:39.719 services called to Dubbo shortly after three am. They found 0:47:39.719 --> 0:47:43.920 three men suffering stab wounds. They were reportedly attacked on 0:47:43.920 --> 0:47:46.920 the footpath by two other men. Twenty one year old 0:47:46.960 --> 0:47:49.759 man's been treated for stab wounds to his head, back 0:47:49.800 --> 0:47:54.760 and lower body. Two men, both twenty nine they received 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.560 stab wounds to their upper body. All three men take 0:47:57.600 --> 0:48:03.240 into Dubbo Base Hospital in a stable condition. A crime 0:48:03.280 --> 0:48:07.239 scene has been established, inquiries have commenced. Police are now 0:48:07.280 --> 0:48:12.520 searching for two men they believe can assist in initial 0:48:12.560 --> 0:48:15.680 inquiries I say indicate at least three of the men 0:48:15.680 --> 0:48:18.600 are known to each other and Patsengers traveling from the 0:48:18.600 --> 0:48:21.680 city on the tight airport in South Line are advised 0:48:21.680 --> 0:48:24.800 to allow extra travel time due to urgent train repairs 0:48:25.239 --> 0:48:29.919 near the domestic airport in Sydney. Trains from the city 0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:33.120 are not stopping at Green Square, Mascot Domestic Airport or 0:48:33.280 --> 0:48:37.640 International airport trains to the city are not affected. What 0:48:37.719 --> 0:48:39.799 if you're about to fly out, you thought, I'll leave 0:48:39.800 --> 0:48:42.960 the car at home and get the Juju train. Whoops. 0:48:43.239 --> 0:48:46.279 We'll keep you updated on that now. Pauline Hanson's One 0:48:46.400 --> 0:48:49.879 Nation has doubled its presence in the Senate. They've picked 0:48:49.960 --> 0:48:52.879 up two new senators. They've now got a total of four, 0:48:52.960 --> 0:48:55.080 the same number as the Nationals if you don't mind. 0:48:55.760 --> 0:48:59.240 One of the new senators Warwick Stacey from New South Wales, 0:49:00.040 --> 0:49:03.920 British and Australian Army veteran. Part of his service included 0:49:04.000 --> 0:49:09.120 spending time advising on ransom, kidnapp and crisis events, so 0:49:09.280 --> 0:49:13.400 he's definitely not from the camera bubble. But while Pauline 0:49:13.400 --> 0:49:15.640 and the One Nation team are no doubt popping the 0:49:15.760 --> 0:49:20.239 Champagne corks, it'll be Labor and the Greens dominating the 0:49:20.320 --> 0:49:23.520 new look Upper House. So I wonder what an increase 0:49:23.560 --> 0:49:27.200 to One Nation presence means to the Senate. And I 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:31.440 wonder what Pauline Hansen makes of the minds of voters 0:49:31.480 --> 0:49:34.719 that they've now given One Nation the equal number of 0:49:34.800 --> 0:49:38.760 senators as they've given the Nationals. Let's find out, because 0:49:38.800 --> 0:49:42.560 Pauline Hanson. I'm delighted to say one nation leader is 0:49:43.080 --> 0:49:45.560 on the line. Great to talk to you. I hope 0:49:45.600 --> 0:49:47.680 you're will and you must be delighted with that news 0:49:47.680 --> 0:49:49.920 when it came through yesterday, Pauline. 0:49:49.920 --> 0:49:53.040 Oh, I was when I heard it. I was so excited. 0:49:53.120 --> 0:49:54.960 And when I heard the news, I knew there was 0:49:55.000 --> 0:49:56.759 a chance there and out for a chance, but to 0:49:56.800 --> 0:49:59.480 actually get the news of it, it was just so exciting, Luke, 0:49:59.520 --> 0:50:02.040 and thank you. Yes we do have four senators, Yes 0:50:02.080 --> 0:50:04.600 we won't have control of the Senate, but the fact 0:50:04.719 --> 0:50:09.279 is that it's a start. And what Warwick will bring 0:50:09.320 --> 0:50:12.840 to the Senators. He's experienced and knowledge and capabilities to 0:50:12.880 --> 0:50:16.680 deal with defense, and I don't believe there's anyone else 0:50:16.680 --> 0:50:19.560 in that Senate who really has their head across the 0:50:19.680 --> 0:50:23.400 defense portfolio. So it's like Malcolm Roberts snow and can 0:50:23.440 --> 0:50:26.319 debate him on the climate issues, any Cannazy issues and 0:50:26.360 --> 0:50:29.359 speak about it and hold them to account. Same thing 0:50:29.400 --> 0:50:32.840 can be said for Warwick because of his background in defense, 0:50:32.880 --> 0:50:34.719 and he's been very passionate about it. When I was 0:50:34.760 --> 0:50:37.080 spoken to him, this is one of the things why 0:50:37.320 --> 0:50:39.960 you know he was selected to be head the Senate ticket, 0:50:40.480 --> 0:50:43.480 and he's been a businessman and consultant, so I think 0:50:43.520 --> 0:50:45.800 he's got a lot off the Parliament. It's about holding 0:50:45.840 --> 0:50:49.560 them account to account and also pushed the coalition along 0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:52.160 as well. Last time they just sat there lick their wounds. 0:50:52.480 --> 0:50:55.120 They were so, you know, couldn't get over the fact 0:50:55.160 --> 0:50:57.120 that they lost the election. To the extent they did. 0:50:57.160 --> 0:51:00.440 It be worse this time. So it's like we're going 0:51:00.520 --> 0:51:03.200 to hold everyone to accounts, you know, the coalition as well, 0:51:03.280 --> 0:51:07.239 do your job, stop in the opposition and call out 0:51:07.280 --> 0:51:09.040 the Labor Party in the Greens for what they're trying 0:51:09.040 --> 0:51:09.840 to tell the Parliament. 0:51:10.000 --> 0:51:12.520 And you know, the good thing here is that and 0:51:12.760 --> 0:51:14.640 we all call for it. I think many of us 0:51:14.640 --> 0:51:18.600 are sick of political staffers who become MPs. I'm sure 0:51:18.600 --> 0:51:20.840 there are very good ones, but we want people with 0:51:20.960 --> 0:51:23.320 real life experience, people who've lived a bit, who have 0:51:23.400 --> 0:51:26.840 done some stuff, maybe run a business, and what Borrock's 0:51:26.880 --> 0:51:31.359 done is next level. But the lived experience is that 0:51:31.400 --> 0:51:34.520 he will bring to the Parliament much like yourself and others. 0:51:34.840 --> 0:51:38.359 That lived experience is vital because it better represents us, 0:51:38.400 --> 0:51:39.879 doesn't it. 0:51:39.880 --> 0:51:41.920 It does lurk And that's what I was looking for 0:51:42.000 --> 0:51:44.880 and they can now. Tyrone Wishen, who actually got elected 0:51:44.880 --> 0:51:47.840 in Western Australia, he started a few years ago his 0:51:47.960 --> 0:51:53.400 business in the concrete civil construction industry. Now with him, 0:51:53.440 --> 0:51:55.800 Andy's brothers start a business. They went on to employ 0:51:55.840 --> 0:51:58.520 a thousand people. He started to his brother a couple 0:51:58.560 --> 0:52:02.600 of years ago. He's moved on. He's doing some superintendent 0:52:02.640 --> 0:52:05.080 work that he's doing at the moment, advisory work, I 0:52:05.120 --> 0:52:05.600 should say. 0:52:06.400 --> 0:52:06.440 So. 0:52:06.520 --> 0:52:10.120 Anyway, he's got that experience in business, big business because 0:52:10.120 --> 0:52:12.520 they travel, made to dealt with the mining industry and 0:52:12.640 --> 0:52:17.280 other organizations. So it's the people with that background experience 0:52:17.320 --> 0:52:19.680 that I was looking for that we can actually spread 0:52:19.719 --> 0:52:24.480 out our portfolios. Like I'm very passionate about Aboriginal affairs, immigration, 0:52:25.080 --> 0:52:27.600 a family law and the type thing. Malcolm very much 0:52:27.640 --> 0:52:30.760 in the banking sector, and also to do with climate 0:52:30.880 --> 0:52:34.360 change and all those issues environmental issues. So I'm trying 0:52:34.400 --> 0:52:37.480 to get an array of people with that background knowledge 0:52:37.520 --> 0:52:39.720 and experience because a lot of per senators and members 0:52:39.760 --> 0:52:42.040 of Florida Parliament have no idea what they're hell they're 0:52:42.040 --> 0:52:44.200 talking about. They all just follow the league when the 0:52:44.280 --> 0:52:46.879 bells ring, they just follow the party and they don't 0:52:47.120 --> 0:52:48.880 you know, they can't really debate a lot of the 0:52:48.960 --> 0:52:52.320 subjects although what they're talking about. So to get that debate, 0:52:52.480 --> 0:52:54.680 to get good government, you have to have good opposition. 0:52:55.080 --> 0:52:57.320 You have to challenge their way of thinking. You have 0:52:57.440 --> 0:53:00.120 to inform the public or what is the truth, and 0:53:00.239 --> 0:53:04.560 not just pass legislation for sake of Okay, let's go through. 0:53:04.880 --> 0:53:07.719 Yeah, let me ask you this. For a long time, 0:53:07.840 --> 0:53:10.640 you and I both know that the left saw One 0:53:10.760 --> 0:53:15.000 Nation almost as a party ridicule and that's not been matched, 0:53:15.200 --> 0:53:18.359 has it by the general public? And I think even 0:53:18.440 --> 0:53:21.840 now many within the body politic see you as a 0:53:21.920 --> 0:53:25.840 political force and your party is a political force and 0:53:26.120 --> 0:53:28.520 one to be taken seriously. It feels like that, does 0:53:28.560 --> 0:53:28.880 it for you? 0:53:30.360 --> 0:53:33.959 Look, it's starting to get that traction that it's taken 0:53:33.960 --> 0:53:35.160 me a long time, long time. 0:53:36.040 --> 0:53:36.640 Yes, it has. 0:53:37.280 --> 0:53:41.200 The labor still regard me as that threat to them. 0:53:41.480 --> 0:53:43.759 That's why they always put my nation lass and so 0:53:43.920 --> 0:53:46.640 as the Greens for no reason whatsoever. So they just 0:53:46.760 --> 0:53:49.440 do it purely to keep us out. And when Howard 0:53:49.560 --> 0:53:52.200 changed the voting system in nineteen ninety eight, up we've 0:53:52.200 --> 0:53:55.120 got eleven seats in Queensland. That was purely when they 0:53:55.239 --> 0:54:00.319 all preference this last, Labor, Greens, Nationals, Democrats, everyone one 0:54:00.400 --> 0:54:02.560 nation last. Although we've got the votes and should have 0:54:02.640 --> 0:54:05.279 translated into seats, he didn't because we didn't get the 0:54:05.280 --> 0:54:08.040 flow preferences. So we've had this going on for years. 0:54:08.160 --> 0:54:14.680 Even Morrison in nineteen twenty nineteen he didn't even give 0:54:14.760 --> 0:54:18.200 us preferences in some states so refused to Maurice Payne 0:54:18.280 --> 0:54:22.720 in New South Wales, Simon Birmingham in South Australia. Even 0:54:23.080 --> 0:54:25.560 there was Dan Smith in westn Australia and Linda Reynolds. 0:54:25.600 --> 0:54:29.040 They all refused to give one nation preferences at all 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:32.800 and so therefore they locked and bolted the door because 0:54:32.800 --> 0:54:35.840 they didn't want us to be competition. Your only competition 0:54:35.960 --> 0:54:38.120 when they're not doing their job, Luke, and that's why 0:54:38.200 --> 0:54:40.520 people looking for someone else to vote for. But if 0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:43.320 we're standing by the Conservative principles and values and what 0:54:43.400 --> 0:54:45.879 we're finding for the Australian way of life and standard living, 0:54:46.320 --> 0:54:48.359 you know, that's because they've failed their job. And that's 0:54:48.400 --> 0:54:50.600 why a lot of people now are drifted away from 0:54:50.680 --> 0:54:53.759 Coalition because they've been taken over by the moderates. And 0:54:53.880 --> 0:54:56.200 this is going to continue to happen. So that's why 0:54:56.280 --> 0:54:58.279 you've seen a lot of people come across even that 0:54:58.480 --> 0:55:01.439 are failing those in the book, and they're not dealing 0:55:01.480 --> 0:55:03.480 with the real issues to do with the farming sector. 0:55:03.719 --> 0:55:03.919 Yeah. 0:55:04.000 --> 0:55:05.600 Well, and the other point I think that needs to 0:55:05.640 --> 0:55:09.400 be made, apart from the suggestion that the Liberals have 0:55:09.480 --> 0:55:13.680 stopped being a truly conservative party largely or they've got 0:55:13.760 --> 0:55:17.799 factions within them that are very much progressive, I think 0:55:17.840 --> 0:55:19.719 the other point to make is, and you made this 0:55:19.880 --> 0:55:23.560 point yourself, is that it now appears in hindsight that 0:55:23.680 --> 0:55:26.280 for much of the three years, if they weren't licking 0:55:26.400 --> 0:55:31.279 their wounds post Morrison, they weren't able to develop well, 0:55:31.360 --> 0:55:34.040 they developed policies, but they didn't develop a way to 0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:38.040 properly sell them. And you know they've they've they've left 0:55:38.080 --> 0:55:40.719 a lot of people. That really did let a lot 0:55:40.760 --> 0:55:41.319 of people down. 0:55:41.360 --> 0:55:44.560 I reckon a lot of people wanted to change the government. 0:55:44.560 --> 0:55:46.600 They didn't want labor. Now, Labor only got elected on 0:55:46.760 --> 0:55:49.120 thirty five percent of the boat. Yes they got ninety 0:55:49.120 --> 0:55:51.520 four seats, and yes they've got control of parliaments, but 0:55:51.640 --> 0:55:54.359 I don't think it's unwinnable of the coalition to come 0:55:54.440 --> 0:55:56.600 back at the next selection if they put the hard 0:55:56.640 --> 0:55:59.360 work and effort into it and had decent policies. So 0:55:59.520 --> 0:56:02.959 we put our good, strong core policies and was helping 0:56:03.000 --> 0:56:05.840 the pinches and veterans be able to work without effecting 0:56:05.880 --> 0:56:10.560 their pensions, income splitting, helping self kind of retirees. Ours 0:56:10.640 --> 0:56:13.480 was the fuel tax, exercise relief, also getting rid of 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:17.240 the alcohol tax in hospitality industry to give them a boost, 0:56:17.800 --> 0:56:20.319 and cutting your power bills by twenty percent, which could 0:56:20.320 --> 0:56:23.400 be done straight immediately if we've went back to common 0:56:23.480 --> 0:56:27.760 sense qualified power stations running twenty four seven instead stopping 0:56:27.920 --> 0:56:31.279 starting them. So these things can be done that you've 0:56:31.320 --> 0:56:33.439 got to have the will and one of it's lacking 0:56:33.480 --> 0:56:36.400 in the Parliament is a vision for the future and 0:56:36.520 --> 0:56:39.400 the spirit clear policies see news Self Wales are basically 0:56:39.520 --> 0:56:42.480 taken over by the moderates. In New South Welsh. 0:56:42.960 --> 0:56:45.719 COVID check correct and they. 0:56:45.360 --> 0:56:48.080 Ouse to Holly Shoes, So you've got a real problem 0:56:48.160 --> 0:56:48.759 New South Wales. 0:56:49.360 --> 0:56:51.719 Now I'm want to. 0:56:51.760 --> 0:56:55.080 Apologize for excuse me, to New South Wales because we've 0:56:55.120 --> 0:56:57.960 had some of our members walk away. Tanya Mahalekan and 0:56:58.600 --> 0:57:01.920 cause Mark lath And and that's in the state, and 0:57:02.040 --> 0:57:05.640 that's in the state. But that was because I would 0:57:05.680 --> 0:57:08.000 not be bullied and I won't be held ransom and 0:57:08.120 --> 0:57:11.880 I won't be told you know, I'm threatened. And now 0:57:11.960 --> 0:57:13.680 I've got a good team. I've got a good team 0:57:13.719 --> 0:57:16.440 in Warwick Stacy and this is to rebuild, to move 0:57:16.520 --> 0:57:19.480 forward as a party, to give people a voice and 0:57:19.640 --> 0:57:22.640 for a Parliament without fear of favor. And that's where 0:57:22.680 --> 0:57:24.680 I'm strong what I do. Yes, I take the few 0:57:24.760 --> 0:57:27.680 knocks long away, but sometimes you have to because thise 0:57:27.720 --> 0:57:29.960 people will stand over you and think just because I 0:57:30.040 --> 0:57:32.000 remember Parliament, they can say and do whatever they want 0:57:32.040 --> 0:57:35.440 to do. It's a team effort here, it's team effort. 0:57:36.040 --> 0:57:38.360 If I allow that, then they'll do whatever and say 0:57:38.360 --> 0:57:40.240 whatever and threaten me. That's not going to happen. 0:57:40.360 --> 0:57:42.520 Yeah, good on you. Two quick things. I spoke to 0:57:42.600 --> 0:57:45.200 a very impressive woman just prior to the election, your 0:57:45.280 --> 0:57:49.440 daughter Lee. I'm disappointed that she didn't take a Senate position. 0:57:49.560 --> 0:57:52.520 I hope, I hope. This doesn't mean she won't run again. 0:57:52.600 --> 0:57:54.320 Do you think you could encourage her to run again? 0:57:55.160 --> 0:57:57.920 No, she's running, she said. I'm you'veouthed already out there 0:57:57.960 --> 0:58:01.160 telling people I'm running agains. She stuff always saying, Oh, 0:58:01.520 --> 0:58:04.200 it's great to hear you're running again. She said, thanks, mum. 0:58:06.040 --> 0:58:09.280 Isn't that fantastic. She was a very impressive woman. I 0:58:09.400 --> 0:58:12.000 have to say in my audience loved hearing from her. 0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:13.640 I really I'm. 0:58:13.520 --> 0:58:17.080 Glad to hear that she's going to be involved with it. 0:58:17.200 --> 0:58:20.400 She's going to keep working for Tassy and get around 0:58:20.440 --> 0:58:23.280 there and keep involved in politics and the type of thing. 0:58:23.360 --> 0:58:23.480 Now. 0:58:23.760 --> 0:58:25.720 She has a lot to offer. Look, get her on 0:58:25.800 --> 0:58:28.400 the program. She expect you about some of the issues 0:58:28.440 --> 0:58:31.640 to do with HR and education and the people like 0:58:31.720 --> 0:58:33.400 to listen to her. She's got a lot to offer, 0:58:33.920 --> 0:58:38.160 and so anyway, I'm going to keep her involved. She 0:58:38.280 --> 0:58:41.400 wants to. I'm not pushing her. She wants to do 0:58:41.440 --> 0:58:43.160 it because Mom, she said, Now I see what you've 0:58:43.160 --> 0:58:45.760 been doing. She said, I never realized how tough you've 0:58:45.800 --> 0:58:48.160 had it all these years. My god, she said, I've 0:58:48.200 --> 0:58:51.000 had one loss. She said, I know what you must 0:58:51.040 --> 0:58:53.240 have felt like all these years. Every time you get 0:58:53.320 --> 0:58:56.160 knocked down and you get back up again. She said, No, 0:58:56.400 --> 0:58:57.560 she's she's. 0:58:57.400 --> 0:59:01.000 A good kid, excellent. Well, when you speak to her next, 0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:03.400 tell your doctor in for a spot on the show 0:59:03.480 --> 0:59:05.280 every so often, and we'll be in touch with her 0:59:05.400 --> 0:59:07.840 and it's love to hear your voice. Well done and 0:59:08.240 --> 0:59:09.120 take care of yourself. 0:59:10.120 --> 0:59:12.280 Thanks for having me on and to all the people 0:59:12.320 --> 0:59:14.120 in your suppose. Thank you from the bottom of my 0:59:14.200 --> 0:59:16.720 heart to voting One Nation giving us that opportunity to 0:59:16.800 --> 0:59:17.320 represent you. 0:59:17.680 --> 0:59:21.920 Fantastic, fantastic, Pauline Hanson, Leader of One Nation. Now, if 0:59:21.920 --> 0:59:24.120 you've got a question for Simon Stevenson, now is the 0:59:24.200 --> 0:59:27.040 time to hit the lines one three one eight seven 0:59:27.200 --> 0:59:32.360 three on our way to Simon Amy. Good morning, Hi, Hi, 0:59:32.680 --> 0:59:33.640 Hi Amy, how are you? 0:59:34.120 --> 0:59:35.520 Oh good? 0:59:35.640 --> 0:59:35.920 Thank you. 0:59:36.360 --> 0:59:39.800 I'd just like to say thank you for that interview 0:59:39.880 --> 0:59:43.160 with Pauline Hanson that was so richly informative. I don't 0:59:43.240 --> 0:59:46.720 know a lot about politics. I'm just getting really interested now. 0:59:47.000 --> 0:59:50.360 A victim became an adult all of a sudden, and 0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:54.280 I just found her so informative and I actually had 0:59:54.280 --> 0:59:58.080 a lot of confidence and hopeful, you know, her future 0:59:58.360 --> 1:00:03.720 and for our future. She's an amazing speaker and even 1:00:04.080 --> 1:00:04.439 her daughter. 1:00:04.480 --> 1:00:05.800 I'm looking forward to see what they do. 1:00:05.960 --> 1:00:07.880 So thank you for that really reaching interview. 1:00:08.440 --> 1:00:10.720 Thank you Amy for calling and saying that I really 1:00:10.800 --> 1:00:12.800 appreciate it. Well, she's a you know what, she's a 1:00:12.840 --> 1:00:16.240 plane talker. There's not spin, there's not bs, there's not 1:00:17.400 --> 1:00:19.400 you know. I refer to my answer the other day. 1:00:19.440 --> 1:00:21.520 It's just I don't want to say it hits you 1:00:21.600 --> 1:00:23.520 in the eye, but it's kind of you know, It's 1:00:24.040 --> 1:00:26.800 how you and I would speak. Here's a question, he's 1:00:26.800 --> 1:00:29.160 an answer, not this other rubbish that serves itself up 1:00:29.200 --> 1:00:32.000 as a political commentary. Thanks Amy so much. 1:00:32.880 --> 1:00:36.800 Now on weekends as good training thanks to not Be 1:00:36.960 --> 1:00:41.280 Kitchens since nineteen thirty nine and with Sydney's largest kitchen 1:00:41.360 --> 1:00:44.120 showrooms and free in home design servers. 1:00:44.240 --> 1:00:47.560 Simon Stephenson is in the house, don't forget. You can 1:00:47.600 --> 1:00:50.240 see his work on his website, Simon's House dot com 1:00:50.280 --> 1:00:52.880 dot are you. You can communicate with Simon via his 1:00:53.000 --> 1:00:55.640 website as well, But if you want to speak to 1:00:55.720 --> 1:00:57.840 him right now, the lines are open one three one 1:00:58.280 --> 1:01:01.360 eight seven three one three one age seven three do 1:01:01.600 --> 1:01:04.360 give us a call. No job too big or too small. 1:01:04.720 --> 1:01:07.600 There's no silly ques skin here, not a one. So 1:01:07.640 --> 1:01:10.080 I'm in Stevenson, good morning, Good morning mate, how are you? 1:01:10.600 --> 1:01:12.640 I'm well? Lovely to see you as I was saying 1:01:12.680 --> 1:01:17.120 to you off air and nor Glass advertise here. I'm 1:01:17.720 --> 1:01:21.120 a very bad painter, but nor Glass I had to 1:01:21.200 --> 1:01:26.320 do some timber trim and I thought I did a 1:01:26.600 --> 1:01:30.720 half decent job. I was careful, but typically for me 1:01:30.800 --> 1:01:34.000 that would leave a little bits aren't quite And it 1:01:34.280 --> 1:01:36.920 just looks so good. And it's not me, it's the product. 1:01:36.960 --> 1:01:40.240 It just saves people like me who might otherwise think 1:01:40.520 --> 1:01:43.880 our paintings are snack yep. It Actually they're so good 1:01:44.160 --> 1:01:45.680 that they're pretty hard to stuff them up. 1:01:45.760 --> 1:01:45.960 Mate. 1:01:46.040 --> 1:01:46.760 It's look. 1:01:46.920 --> 1:01:49.800 That's why I love the product so much, and I've 1:01:49.920 --> 1:01:52.480 been raving about it for years, is because not only 1:01:52.520 --> 1:01:54.920 are they a small Australian company, but just they make 1:01:55.240 --> 1:01:59.240 just the most amazing products, absolutely top notch. It's hard 1:01:59.280 --> 1:02:00.560 to find these days, it really is. 1:02:00.880 --> 1:02:01.040 Yes. 1:02:01.120 --> 1:02:04.320 I mean I use certain products from different paint companies 1:02:04.360 --> 1:02:07.000 because they've got some good products and some really bad ones. 1:02:07.120 --> 1:02:11.760 Yeah where nor Glass, I've gone through many of their products. 1:02:12.240 --> 1:02:14.200 Every one of them is second to none. 1:02:14.360 --> 1:02:17.600 Yeah, yeah, outstanding one three, one eight seven three is 1:02:17.600 --> 1:02:19.640 the number. We've got callers to get to. But before 1:02:19.680 --> 1:02:23.440 we do that, let's talk about paint. Sheene. What is 1:02:23.880 --> 1:02:27.919 I guess we see therese lo sheine high sheen semiglass. 1:02:28.960 --> 1:02:30.720 There used to be flat when I was growing up. 1:02:30.760 --> 1:02:34.920 We don't every still is. There's certainly, matt, what's the difference? 1:02:35.240 --> 1:02:38.320 Look, it's really important to know the difference and use 1:02:38.400 --> 1:02:40.360 them in the right spot. I mean, I was working 1:02:40.440 --> 1:02:43.080 on a heritage listed house this week with a big 1:02:43.240 --> 1:02:46.640 long hallway right and big set of doors down a 1:02:46.680 --> 1:02:48.440 far end of the hallway which let a lot of 1:02:48.600 --> 1:02:52.240 light shine right down that hallway. We painted the walls, 1:02:52.840 --> 1:02:55.800 thought we're doing in lowchine to start with, because we thought, okay, 1:02:55.960 --> 1:02:58.960 make them nice and washable, because low sheinees more washable 1:02:59.240 --> 1:03:01.880 than a flat or even a mat, and the mats 1:03:01.880 --> 1:03:06.280 are pretty good. But it's shown up every little tiny 1:03:06.440 --> 1:03:09.920 hump and bumping, you know, in the walls. And without 1:03:10.080 --> 1:03:13.560 completely skimming the entire wall and then sanding it, which 1:03:13.600 --> 1:03:16.000 would have been a huge amount of work, we just 1:03:16.160 --> 1:03:18.560 changed the machine level. We went to a mate finish, 1:03:18.760 --> 1:03:22.120 a little bit less schene. The difference was incredible, and 1:03:22.200 --> 1:03:24.640 I just thought it might be important to let people 1:03:24.760 --> 1:03:27.560 know that, you know, like using that right sheen to 1:03:27.680 --> 1:03:29.920 get the right finish you're after. So if you've got 1:03:30.200 --> 1:03:32.840 you know, timberwork that might be just a little bit 1:03:33.040 --> 1:03:36.320 you know, old and imperfection. Go to a semigloss. Don't 1:03:36.400 --> 1:03:39.480 use a full gloss because you really need top notch 1:03:39.680 --> 1:03:44.640 quality stuff when you're dealing with glosses bathrooms, make sure 1:03:44.680 --> 1:03:47.080 you use a kitchen a bathroom paint or at least 1:03:47.160 --> 1:03:50.400 a low sheene. And that's because of steam. I can't 1:03:50.400 --> 1:03:52.360 see you the amount of times I go into bathrooms 1:03:52.600 --> 1:03:55.400 they're moldy and they've been painted in a flat paint 1:03:55.600 --> 1:03:58.600 which is porous and just going to trap all that 1:03:59.120 --> 1:04:02.200 mold and all that, and that's why they go moldy. 1:04:02.560 --> 1:04:05.840 So really important that that is such an interesting observation. 1:04:06.280 --> 1:04:09.320 I think many people would say, oh, lo, sheine would 1:04:09.360 --> 1:04:11.920 be the same as Matt or a flat finish. 1:04:12.280 --> 1:04:14.920 Obviously it's not absolutely not. Look you don't want to 1:04:15.040 --> 1:04:19.680 really use flats on walls. Matt is really good. It's 1:04:19.760 --> 1:04:22.560 that next step up. So there's a percentage and look, 1:04:22.680 --> 1:04:26.360 even different paint companies will have different sheen levels and 1:04:26.440 --> 1:04:28.160 different percentage of sheen. 1:04:28.560 --> 1:04:29.880 So have a look at it when you go in. 1:04:30.120 --> 1:04:32.440 Ask the question how much sheene do I get with this? 1:04:33.000 --> 1:04:34.480 And you can sort of work out what's the best 1:04:34.520 --> 1:04:34.680 for you. 1:04:34.920 --> 1:04:35.800 What's eggshell? 1:04:36.120 --> 1:04:41.360 Eggshell is in between the mat and then the low sheene. 1:04:41.800 --> 1:04:44.080 So you think about an egg and you look at it, 1:04:44.200 --> 1:04:46.920 you think, Okay, there's no shine there, But there is. 1:04:47.040 --> 1:04:48.880 It's a little bit more of a washable thing. 1:04:50.200 --> 1:04:52.080 Can you tell the difference when you're looking at a wall? 1:04:52.400 --> 1:04:52.560 Oh? 1:04:52.640 --> 1:04:54.960 Yeah, yeah, Like you try to look down the edge 1:04:55.000 --> 1:04:56.400 of a wall and sort of get a bit of 1:04:56.440 --> 1:04:58.720 an idea of what sort of sheen level it is. Yeah, 1:04:59.040 --> 1:05:01.760 But like I say, and generally when you put lo 1:05:01.960 --> 1:05:04.680 sheine paint on a wall or something like that, it 1:05:04.720 --> 1:05:07.640 will be shinier when you first put it on. It 1:05:07.800 --> 1:05:10.520 will dull down. Over a period of time, like a 1:05:10.600 --> 1:05:12.600 week or two, it'll start to lose a little bit 1:05:12.640 --> 1:05:13.160 of that sheen. 1:05:13.360 --> 1:05:17.160 Yeah. Okay, great information. One, three, one, eight, seven, and three. 1:05:17.240 --> 1:05:18.760 Good morning Ray? How can we help? 1:05:19.800 --> 1:05:24.440 Hello? Good morning morning Ray. I have I had a 1:05:24.600 --> 1:05:29.080 water leak underneath the kitchen sink and it's ruined all 1:05:29.120 --> 1:05:32.280 the cupboards. So I want to know who do I 1:05:32.600 --> 1:05:35.120 get in to try and fix that up. I don't 1:05:35.120 --> 1:05:36.960 want to replace the whole kitchen. I just want to 1:05:37.520 --> 1:05:41.760 fix up those bank of cupboards that have suffered from 1:05:41.760 --> 1:05:42.600 the water damage. 1:05:42.960 --> 1:05:44.920 Look, I don't know whether you're going to find a 1:05:45.040 --> 1:05:48.400 kitchen company to do that. It's probably quite a small job. 1:05:49.360 --> 1:05:51.840 A handy man might be able to. He might be 1:05:51.920 --> 1:05:54.800 able to remove parts of a cupboard and then build 1:05:54.880 --> 1:05:55.880 you one to match. 1:05:56.960 --> 1:05:59.360 That would probably be where I would go, As. 1:05:59.440 --> 1:06:01.800 You know, a good handyman it should be able to 1:06:01.880 --> 1:06:04.800 do that sort of work, or a carpenter. You don't 1:06:04.800 --> 1:06:08.200 need to build it, definitely not. Some of the smaller 1:06:08.280 --> 1:06:10.560 kitchen companies might do it, but I think you might 1:06:10.640 --> 1:06:11.760 be better off with a handyman. 1:06:12.120 --> 1:06:14.840 The trouble is, I don't know if this is your issue, Ray, 1:06:14.960 --> 1:06:18.800 but you're seeing even in bathroom vanities that you might 1:06:18.880 --> 1:06:21.960 buy them, and they've got particle board and some water 1:06:22.080 --> 1:06:24.520 gets in and all of a sudden it breaks it down. 1:06:24.560 --> 1:06:25.880 What happened to you is that like that? 1:06:26.120 --> 1:06:27.000 Ray? Yeah? 1:06:27.080 --> 1:06:30.120 Yeah, Yeah, So that the climbing sprung a leak and 1:06:30.240 --> 1:06:32.840 it was spraying water inside the cup and I didn't 1:06:32.880 --> 1:06:35.880 realize it was until the water started leaking out the 1:06:35.920 --> 1:06:38.680 front of the car. And when I'm inside the whole 1:06:38.880 --> 1:06:42.440 particle board or whatever it is, it's all swelled up 1:06:42.520 --> 1:06:43.720 and deteriorating. 1:06:43.960 --> 1:06:46.240 Yeah, I don't know why kitchen companies, and I know 1:06:46.320 --> 1:06:48.760 there are different grades of cupboards you can get when 1:06:48.800 --> 1:06:51.640 you order through a kitchen company, but I don't understand 1:06:51.800 --> 1:06:56.400 why kitchen companies, especially for under sinks. Yes, don't use 1:06:56.480 --> 1:06:59.520 something that's one hundred percent waterproof, you know, I mean 1:06:59.560 --> 1:07:02.440 it's Doesn't it make common sense to say, right, that 1:07:02.600 --> 1:07:05.200 area could spring a leak. Yeah, let's put something in 1:07:05.280 --> 1:07:07.680 there that doesn't get affected by it, you know. 1:07:07.960 --> 1:07:08.160 Yeah. 1:07:08.480 --> 1:07:11.160 Hello, a lot of rocket knock knock knock. Hey guys, 1:07:12.000 --> 1:07:14.800 thank you, Ray, Paul, good morning. How can we help you? Mate? 1:07:16.240 --> 1:07:21.439 Good morning, morning, Simon. Thanks, So we have My question 1:07:21.560 --> 1:07:25.400 relates to a timber deck. It's a large timber deck 1:07:25.440 --> 1:07:28.400 at the back of our house. It's painted, it's painted. 1:07:28.720 --> 1:07:31.800 We want to change the color to a timber look. 1:07:32.000 --> 1:07:32.280 Okay. 1:07:32.360 --> 1:07:36.600 So my question is would you recommend stripping it all back, 1:07:37.000 --> 1:07:39.360 which has got a problem with the paint in between 1:07:39.440 --> 1:07:43.160 the timber planks, or just repainting over it to get 1:07:43.240 --> 1:07:44.120 that timber look. 1:07:44.280 --> 1:07:44.560 Okay. 1:07:44.680 --> 1:07:47.640 So when you say paint, it's a solid paint finish correct? 1:07:48.560 --> 1:07:48.880 Correct? 1:07:49.080 --> 1:07:52.600 Okay? And has it got nails or screws in the timber? 1:07:54.200 --> 1:07:55.080 Good question it's. 1:07:55.000 --> 1:07:57.320 Got screws, screws, a lot of. 1:07:57.320 --> 1:08:00.440 Screws, okay, a lot of screws. Look, you can get 1:08:00.480 --> 1:08:03.640 companies to come in and you know, they do floor sanding. 1:08:04.200 --> 1:08:06.680 My floor sander does this and I've got him about. 1:08:06.480 --> 1:08:07.360 To do a deck for me. 1:08:07.880 --> 1:08:10.280 But it's big wide boards, so it's the one forty 1:08:10.360 --> 1:08:14.640 wide boards and it is screwed down. Hopefully the screws 1:08:14.680 --> 1:08:17.519 are below the timber, the surface of the timber, because 1:08:17.520 --> 1:08:19.640 otherwise you've got to set the you know, pull the 1:08:19.680 --> 1:08:21.960 screws out, put them back, you know, countersink them so 1:08:22.000 --> 1:08:24.320 they go a little bit lower. But you can get 1:08:24.360 --> 1:08:27.519 those decks sanded and then start to oil them again 1:08:28.439 --> 1:08:30.880 if that's what you'd like to go. Just remember, if 1:08:30.920 --> 1:08:33.759 you are going to oil timber, it is a constant 1:08:33.920 --> 1:08:37.200 maintenance thing where paint work will last you a lot 1:08:37.280 --> 1:08:40.200 longer than an oil finish, So you really need to 1:08:40.280 --> 1:08:43.559 weigh up the options of that if you do want 1:08:43.600 --> 1:08:46.120 to go down the paint road. I have used a 1:08:46.320 --> 1:08:50.639 Cabot's deck paint, so not a Cabot's deck oil. 1:08:51.000 --> 1:08:52.720 That's been really good, really good. 1:08:52.800 --> 1:08:55.320 It's probably one of the best paints I've seen because 1:08:55.320 --> 1:08:57.879 you've got to. You can't go using something like Dulux 1:08:57.960 --> 1:09:02.439 weather Shield on a deck to because it's too soft 1:09:02.600 --> 1:09:05.040 and you cannot walk on it. It's sticky, and it's 1:09:05.200 --> 1:09:07.880 just it'll end up making a mess. You need something 1:09:07.880 --> 1:09:10.520 a little bit harder wearing, so the cabin. 1:09:10.320 --> 1:09:12.960 Seins from a cost perspective, doesn't it And also I 1:09:13.000 --> 1:09:15.840 don't have to stand down the deck as well. 1:09:16.080 --> 1:09:18.840 Absolutely, and look, give it a really good pressure wash 1:09:19.080 --> 1:09:21.200 and then you know, I think use that Cabot's deck 1:09:21.280 --> 1:09:23.800 stuff down works really really well. I'm a big fan 1:09:23.920 --> 1:09:26.439 of it. And pick a timber color, something that's sort 1:09:26.479 --> 1:09:28.639 of natural to the bush, something that goes real well. 1:09:28.880 --> 1:09:30.120 I think you'd be really happy with it. 1:09:30.360 --> 1:09:32.439 Thank you, Paul, best of luck. And in terms of 1:09:32.560 --> 1:09:35.439 oiling a deck, you you and I have spoken about 1:09:35.439 --> 1:09:37.320 it is at a water based oil, which. 1:09:37.360 --> 1:09:41.000 Yeah, look, look there's a few out there now. I've 1:09:41.160 --> 1:09:43.280 used one called Spa and Deck, which I'm a big 1:09:43.360 --> 1:09:46.240 fan of. It's a water based product and you actually 1:09:46.360 --> 1:09:48.680 wet the timber if it's bare timber, you wet the 1:09:48.760 --> 1:09:52.599 timber first before applying the coat. So it's really crazy 1:09:52.840 --> 1:09:54.960 and you can do three or four coats in one day. 1:09:55.400 --> 1:09:57.800 Oh that's me. Yeah, it's all over it. That's me. 1:09:58.920 --> 1:10:01.360 I'm glady come in here. Thanks to help our listeners 1:10:01.640 --> 1:10:04.599 and more than occasionally me, I have to say back 1:10:04.640 --> 1:10:07.160 with callers in just a sec. Now guests for Sydney 1:10:07.240 --> 1:10:10.760 listeners tat airport and South Line trains from the city 1:10:11.360 --> 1:10:14.519 stopping again. I'm told now Green Square, Mascot, domestic Airport 1:10:15.000 --> 1:10:19.760 and International Airport. That was not happening due to urgent 1:10:19.800 --> 1:10:22.960 train repairs near the domestic airport. Now we've got callers 1:10:23.000 --> 1:10:25.800 to get to in times getting away. So Pam, how 1:10:25.840 --> 1:10:27.439 can we help you this morning? Good morning? 1:10:29.160 --> 1:10:31.679 He said, Good morning, Pam. 1:10:32.560 --> 1:10:37.160 Oh, good morning guys. I've been told I need underpinning. 1:10:37.320 --> 1:10:39.960 I have this crack from one end of the wall 1:10:40.040 --> 1:10:43.400 in the land room. Only that one wall from one 1:10:43.520 --> 1:10:48.760 end right across, not in a straight line, just coming down. 1:10:49.080 --> 1:10:51.840 I did bring one place, they said, oh no, I 1:10:51.960 --> 1:10:54.439 ranged someone else. They did come out. They said, yes, 1:10:54.479 --> 1:10:57.599 you need underpinning. We'll send you the form. Never heard 1:10:57.640 --> 1:11:00.559 from them again. Ran a few times, you know who else? 1:11:00.600 --> 1:11:00.800 To me? 1:11:01.080 --> 1:11:02.640 All right, Pam, what area are you in? 1:11:03.600 --> 1:11:03.840 I mean? 1:11:04.720 --> 1:11:08.280 And Russell Lee okay, And they're all oldest homes here yeah, look, 1:11:08.280 --> 1:11:10.519 can you do me a favor? Send me an email 1:11:10.640 --> 1:11:14.680 if you can, Simon at Simon's House dot com dot 1:11:14.800 --> 1:11:17.639 au and I'll see if I can sort this out. 1:11:17.560 --> 1:11:21.040 For you and Pam. Don't hang up, kitty. We'll talk 1:11:21.120 --> 1:11:23.080 to you off here to make sure you can do that. 1:11:23.280 --> 1:11:25.080 We'll find a way for you to do that, so 1:11:25.320 --> 1:11:29.800 don't hang up to stay right there. Gooday, Bob, Hi mate, 1:11:30.840 --> 1:11:31.360 can we help it? 1:11:31.400 --> 1:11:33.559 Bob. We've got a. 1:11:35.439 --> 1:11:39.200 Bathroom that was painted in December twenty three and it 1:11:39.360 --> 1:11:43.360 was painted with Taurman's I think a water paint specifically 1:11:43.479 --> 1:11:46.200 for bathrooms. Now there's spots of mold coming in at 1:11:46.280 --> 1:11:47.240 what's the best thing. 1:11:47.080 --> 1:11:47.640 To coin it with? 1:11:47.840 --> 1:11:48.720 That's what I'd like to know. 1:11:49.120 --> 1:11:53.120 Eighty percent vinegar and twenty percent water. That will kill 1:11:53.240 --> 1:11:55.679 the spores of the mold and stop it coming back. 1:11:56.040 --> 1:11:58.280 So just make a mixture of that up and just 1:11:58.520 --> 1:12:00.840 wash that over the walls and then leave it sit 1:12:00.920 --> 1:12:02.960 for about fifteen minutes and then give it a rinse. 1:12:03.400 --> 1:12:06.520 That will solve the problem completely. It'll kill those spores. 1:12:06.439 --> 1:12:11.040 All right, Thank you? Morning, Pat. 1:12:11.120 --> 1:12:15.559 How can we assist yes, Good morning, Simon morning. Look, Hi, 1:12:16.960 --> 1:12:19.840 I've got a concrete patio out the back that's got 1:12:20.000 --> 1:12:22.720 cracks in it that the water seeps away through. And 1:12:22.840 --> 1:12:24.720 I was wondering what I could seal it with. 1:12:26.720 --> 1:12:30.360 Look, you need to paint it probably, and there is 1:12:30.439 --> 1:12:34.960 a product called sports coat. Now it is a waterproof membrane, 1:12:35.439 --> 1:12:37.040 but you're able to walk over it. 1:12:37.479 --> 1:12:37.759 Okay. 1:12:38.080 --> 1:12:40.640 So it's a really thick rubberized sort of painting and 1:12:40.680 --> 1:12:45.040 they paint and they use it for like tennis courts 1:12:45.080 --> 1:12:47.960 and things like that. But it'll stretch and it'll be 1:12:48.080 --> 1:12:51.240 able to give you seal that. So it is something 1:12:51.320 --> 1:12:53.559 you're going to have to paint in a color all right. 1:12:53.920 --> 1:12:58.000 There's a company called color Maker Industries. They're the ones 1:12:58.040 --> 1:13:01.400 that make it. But it's absolutely brilliant and it is walkable. 1:13:01.760 --> 1:13:04.680 So you just roll roll that on the surface and 1:13:04.800 --> 1:13:07.479 it'll fill up all those cracks and it'll stop water 1:13:07.560 --> 1:13:08.360 getting in as well. 1:13:09.400 --> 1:13:12.439 Yes, because they're up to six millimeters wide some of them. 1:13:12.560 --> 1:13:14.200 Oh that's quite wid. 1:13:15.479 --> 1:13:18.680 Yes, That's why I was wondering there anything I could 1:13:18.720 --> 1:13:19.599 put in the crack. 1:13:19.760 --> 1:13:22.639 Okay, Well, if they're that wide, you might need something else. 1:13:23.640 --> 1:13:26.200 You're probably going to need some sort of concrete filler 1:13:26.280 --> 1:13:29.800 for that. Now I know that if Bunnings do carry 1:13:29.920 --> 1:13:33.839 some in bottles that you can fill cracks in concrete. 1:13:34.280 --> 1:13:38.720 So it's in the waterproofing section of Bunnings, and I'm 1:13:38.760 --> 1:13:41.800 pretty sure that the company that makes it is better 1:13:42.080 --> 1:13:45.040 B E. T. T. A. I don't remember the name 1:13:45.120 --> 1:13:46.960 of the product, but if you go there, it's in 1:13:47.080 --> 1:13:50.240 little bottles, almost like a tomato sauce bottle with a 1:13:50.320 --> 1:13:52.439 little nozzle out of it and you can just squeeze 1:13:52.520 --> 1:13:54.040 that into the crack and it will fill it. 1:13:54.360 --> 1:13:57.439 Excellent. That sports the best of luck, Pats. 1:13:57.479 --> 1:13:57.720 Thank you. 1:13:58.320 --> 1:14:02.519 That sports code sounds like a good product, you know, 1:14:02.600 --> 1:14:04.320 if you buy it in white, if they give you 1:14:04.400 --> 1:14:09.320 a pink carnation, I've been waiting all day for that. Christina, 1:14:09.360 --> 1:14:11.759 how can we assist Christina? 1:14:12.600 --> 1:14:17.080 Good morning, good morning, good morning morning, good morning. 1:14:17.200 --> 1:14:18.000 This is Christina. 1:14:19.240 --> 1:14:21.000 I have a problem with my windows. 1:14:21.400 --> 1:14:25.120 The rubber at the bottom of the window falling through 1:14:26.000 --> 1:14:28.880 from the brick work and there's a big gap. Now, 1:14:30.800 --> 1:14:31.760 how do I fix that? 1:14:32.400 --> 1:14:35.840 Are you talking about aluminium windows? Yes, so you'll have 1:14:35.920 --> 1:14:37.800 a flashing at the bottom of the window. Is that 1:14:37.920 --> 1:14:40.679 what you're talking about where it goes on to the concrete. Okay, 1:14:41.880 --> 1:14:45.320 so that's probably torn at the bottom. You may need 1:14:45.439 --> 1:14:48.599 to try and find the brand of window. I don't 1:14:48.680 --> 1:14:52.760 know whether something like Clark Rubber might be able to 1:14:52.840 --> 1:14:55.200 supply you with something like that, and I know that 1:14:55.320 --> 1:14:58.439 the Bunnings now are carrying a big range of different 1:14:58.560 --> 1:14:59.920 rubbers supplies down there. 1:15:00.280 --> 1:15:01.880 Yeah, intersection, I just. 1:15:01.880 --> 1:15:04.200 Bought some from the bottom of a garage door. So 1:15:04.720 --> 1:15:07.680 try Bunnings first, have a look there. They may be 1:15:07.760 --> 1:15:10.320 able to replace it or go to Clark Rubber, and 1:15:10.400 --> 1:15:11.840 if not, you're going to have to get a window 1:15:11.880 --> 1:15:13.240 manufacturer and see what they. 1:15:13.360 --> 1:15:16.479 Win up with. Yeah, Christina, best of luck. Thank you 1:15:16.600 --> 1:15:19.200 so much for calling. Gee. We're being all over the 1:15:19.280 --> 1:15:21.400 joint today, have great questions. Thank you. 1:15:21.760 --> 1:15:22.280 Thanks mate. 1:15:22.280 --> 1:15:25.400 Listeners. Is there a difference between cleaning vinegar and actual 1:15:25.479 --> 1:15:28.560 vinegar when it comes to killing mold? Asks Matt, No, 1:15:28.880 --> 1:15:29.680 not that I know of. 1:15:30.720 --> 1:15:33.280 I don't know whether cleaning vinegar might be a little 1:15:33.320 --> 1:15:36.680 bit stronger. But the recipe I was given by a 1:15:36.840 --> 1:15:39.599 mold expert many years ago was the eighty percent white 1:15:39.680 --> 1:15:42.360 vinegar and twenty percent water and I've used it and 1:15:42.479 --> 1:15:43.640 it works fantastic in. 1:15:43.720 --> 1:15:46.519 Ten seconds or less. What treatment to a wooden outdoor 1:15:46.600 --> 1:15:50.920 furniture going moldy during due to high humidity in Bunderberg. 1:15:51.000 --> 1:15:53.560 Okay, So I would clean the surface down with a 1:15:53.680 --> 1:15:57.479 timber reviver first, and then you can put oh things 1:15:57.520 --> 1:16:00.240 like waxes or oils on the timber as well and 1:16:00.320 --> 1:16:02.120 that'll stop it from going mold You want to stop 1:16:02.200 --> 1:16:04.280 that moisture getting into the timber. 1:16:04.680 --> 1:16:07.200 Simon's house dot com dot are you see you next week? 1:16:07.280 --> 1:16:10.120 Thanks mate, Simon Stephenson. News coming up in a moment 1:16:10.240 --> 1:16:14.720 or two, Lee Fanontalon after the news. Just depending that 1:16:14.800 --> 1:16:17.880 news we brought you a little a little earlier, which 1:16:17.960 --> 1:16:22.760 is the US President Donald Trump says he'll double US 1:16:22.880 --> 1:16:28.320 Carolson steel imports to fifty percent. Challenging times, aren't they. 1:16:28.439 --> 1:16:29.120 News Next. 1:16:40.439 --> 1:16:46.200 Across Australia, it's back to weekends with look Grant, good morning. 1:16:46.240 --> 1:16:49.479 I hope you're well. Saturday today, the thirty first day 1:16:49.520 --> 1:16:51.960 of May one three one eight seven three the open 1:16:52.000 --> 1:16:55.400 line number. It's a little brighter in Sydney right now. 1:16:55.560 --> 1:16:59.400 Not the case in Brisbane, but you know, across everything. 1:16:59.439 --> 1:17:02.240 It's amazing to me with all the rain we've had 1:17:03.080 --> 1:17:06.240 along the coast, it's not amazing. I learned this when 1:17:06.240 --> 1:17:08.880 I was broadcasting in the bush that you know you'll 1:17:08.920 --> 1:17:11.280 get some clowns say, oh I wish the rain had 1:17:11.320 --> 1:17:15.360 stopped and you're sitting in a drought and we can't 1:17:15.400 --> 1:17:20.559 forget that. Whilst coastal New South Wales remains wet, part 1:17:20.640 --> 1:17:23.760 of Queensland and enjoying if that's what you're doing. The 1:17:23.840 --> 1:17:27.719 wet today, mid north coast of New South Wales record 1:17:27.800 --> 1:17:31.839 breaking falls just last week. The Department of Primary Industries 1:17:31.880 --> 1:17:35.639 and New South Wales Drought Indicator Map updated this week 1:17:35.720 --> 1:17:39.520 shows nineteen point three percent of New South Wales's drought affected, 1:17:40.760 --> 1:17:43.400 while one point eight percent is officially in drought, with 1:17:43.520 --> 1:17:46.280 the dry spell worst in the Murray and River Arena 1:17:46.600 --> 1:17:49.040 regions where you hope you get some of this where 1:17:49.080 --> 1:17:51.360 you are. Earlier on the show, I had a chat 1:17:51.439 --> 1:17:54.680 to James Willis from the Telegraph who was telling us 1:17:54.680 --> 1:17:59.000 about this I think really important story. There's a compliance 1:17:59.360 --> 1:18:05.120 blitz that's now unraveling. This is in New South Wales 1:18:05.160 --> 1:18:09.479 and it follows what the government is saying. An utter 1:18:09.560 --> 1:18:14.480 mess created by former Energy Minister Matt Keane now elbows 1:18:15.479 --> 1:18:21.600 Climate Zar. The Telegraph uncovered shocking examples of dangerous installations, 1:18:22.120 --> 1:18:26.559 poor quality products and aggressive sales techniques, a situation one 1:18:26.640 --> 1:18:30.320 expert described as pink bats two point zero. These are 1:18:30.960 --> 1:18:34.840 heat pump water heaters. It's a water system that uses 1:18:35.439 --> 1:18:39.880 a refrigeration cycle to extract heat from the surrounding air 1:18:40.800 --> 1:18:45.080 transferred to water in a storage tank, rather than directly 1:18:45.200 --> 1:18:49.400 heating the water with an electric element. The process apparently 1:18:49.520 --> 1:18:53.639 is more energy efficient than traditional electric water heaters, typically 1:18:54.360 --> 1:19:01.200 requiring more than sixty percent or less electricity. This refrigerant 1:19:01.280 --> 1:19:05.880 cycle that absorbs heat from the air, turning it into gas. 1:19:07.000 --> 1:19:10.120 Then a compressor increases the temperature and pressure of the gas. 1:19:11.400 --> 1:19:14.600 The hot gas passes through a heat exchanger and that 1:19:14.760 --> 1:19:18.679 transfers the heat to the water in the storage tank. See. 1:19:19.920 --> 1:19:21.559 I don't know what that means either. I just read 1:19:21.600 --> 1:19:23.599 it on a bit of paper, But didn't it sound impressive. 1:19:24.439 --> 1:19:27.200 So the installation and the rush of it, and it 1:19:27.320 --> 1:19:31.200 appears inferior products. Matt Kean, some of your fine us 1:19:31.280 --> 1:19:34.280 work there. Well, perhaps you'll come out today and defend 1:19:34.280 --> 1:19:38.200 the policy. Interesting to see what happens there on three 1:19:38.640 --> 1:19:41.639 seventy three, Stephanie, what a delight to hear. 1:19:41.520 --> 1:19:44.400 From you or you well, very well, a delight to 1:19:44.479 --> 1:19:47.960 hear your show as always, Luke, and indeed an even 1:19:48.120 --> 1:19:52.040 greater delight to hear Paul Enhance. And she just gives 1:19:52.160 --> 1:19:55.200 one heart, you know, when, by golly, we need some 1:19:55.320 --> 1:19:57.479 heart in this country when you look at the mob 1:19:57.640 --> 1:20:01.919 leading us, and she is formidable, undiminished in her courage, 1:20:01.960 --> 1:20:05.080 and a fight really for this country, nobody else, for 1:20:05.160 --> 1:20:09.360 the good and decent values. She mentioned, of course, that 1:20:10.240 --> 1:20:12.920 there are those in the Liberal Party, of course, who 1:20:13.360 --> 1:20:15.400 would rather be shot dead than note to her, like 1:20:15.560 --> 1:20:19.040 Maurice Paine and Linda Reynolds. There are a whole bunch 1:20:19.160 --> 1:20:22.360 of people in the Liberal Party that come under the 1:20:22.560 --> 1:20:27.280 thumb of Michael Photius and his gang. Nick Cater wrote 1:20:27.439 --> 1:20:29.800 very tellingly about this in The Australian a couple of 1:20:29.880 --> 1:20:34.120 weeks ago, and even more forcefully from Peter Kredlin his 1:20:34.400 --> 1:20:39.360 Thursday in the Australian. You've probably read that Luke, indeed 1:20:39.439 --> 1:20:45.200 the whole mission of the Photious gang, this Vengali puppet master, 1:20:45.400 --> 1:20:48.960 pulling the strings of the green and left in the 1:20:49.040 --> 1:20:51.759 Liberal Party. They're not labor like. This is labor heavy, 1:20:51.880 --> 1:20:55.080 this mob and their main mission in life, and they've 1:20:55.160 --> 1:20:59.080 succeeded to a greater or larger degree is to break 1:20:59.200 --> 1:21:03.040 down and just the conservative elements of the Liberal Party. 1:21:03.760 --> 1:21:07.240 And indeed, to that extent, when so many of us 1:21:07.280 --> 1:21:10.400 could see the sharp lived Tanterne this lot had taken 1:21:10.479 --> 1:21:12.680 a couple of years ago, we slammed the door of 1:21:12.760 --> 1:21:15.960 the Liberal Party. We've gone, and Pauline should know that 1:21:16.120 --> 1:21:19.840 a whole heap of is out here, all voted for you. Pauline, 1:21:20.240 --> 1:21:22.160 you ever need a hand down here in this neck 1:21:22.240 --> 1:21:24.360 of the words, just get in touch. We're all here 1:21:24.840 --> 1:21:28.160 wishing you the very best. And as for Susan Lee 1:21:28.320 --> 1:21:34.559 lie Lay, her public humiliation of one of the most 1:21:35.280 --> 1:21:39.439 valuable women in this country just center non for gender price. 1:21:39.680 --> 1:21:43.000 This was a public slap in the face as well 1:21:43.120 --> 1:21:46.840 as Sir Jane Hume, the conservative will women of the 1:21:46.920 --> 1:21:51.160 Liberal Party. Susan Lee lae Lay was telling them just 1:21:51.360 --> 1:21:55.120 where to go. She was doing her sisterhood stuff for 1:21:55.240 --> 1:21:59.320 Michael Fodius. So, Pauline, give us a ring, non for 1:21:59.400 --> 1:22:00.720 giner price. It's the same to you. 1:22:01.040 --> 1:22:01.800 We're out here. 1:22:02.120 --> 1:22:04.000 Give us a call, but we're gone. 1:22:04.400 --> 1:22:07.720 So I hope the Andrew Braggs and the Michael Soothius 1:22:07.920 --> 1:22:10.720 is in the Liberal Party. I hope you're going to 1:22:10.880 --> 1:22:14.000 enjoy the desert that you've created, because you're not coming 1:22:14.080 --> 1:22:15.679 out of it anytime soon. 1:22:15.840 --> 1:22:17.599 We've gone brilliant, brilliant. 1:22:18.000 --> 1:22:20.519 Love that to hear your voice. Look after yourself, Stephanie, 1:22:20.600 --> 1:22:24.080 thank you for calling. Wow. It leaves you in no 1:22:24.240 --> 1:22:26.519 doubt about the way she thinks. Thank goodness. A bit 1:22:26.680 --> 1:22:30.080 like Paulin is a straight talker. A lots of people say, 1:22:30.120 --> 1:22:33.280 where Stephanie gone? Well, there she is, she's there right there. 1:22:33.479 --> 1:22:35.800 Nice to hear from her again. One three one eight 1:22:35.920 --> 1:22:40.240 seven three. That's the open line number here. Now this 1:22:40.400 --> 1:22:43.640 is going to be really good chatting to Leaf Vannsalom 1:22:43.680 --> 1:22:46.720 because there's so much going on in our economy and 1:22:46.760 --> 1:22:50.520 around the place. As you know, he is from macrobusiness, 1:22:50.560 --> 1:22:52.200 dot com, dot are you. It's where we go every 1:22:52.280 --> 1:22:57.280 day for our financial and monitoring news and other matters 1:22:57.320 --> 1:23:00.280 around our economy. He's also the chief Economy to the 1:23:00.400 --> 1:23:03.160 NB funded mbcper. He's on the line the Treasury of 1:23:03.240 --> 1:23:08.559 Common Sense lead Van Onsolin. How am I friend? Traveling? 1:23:08.600 --> 1:23:08.720 Well? 1:23:08.760 --> 1:23:09.400 Mate? How about you? 1:23:10.240 --> 1:23:10.439 Yeah? 1:23:10.479 --> 1:23:12.559 Pretty good mate. It's a little bit cooler down here today, 1:23:12.640 --> 1:23:13.880 but yeah, pretty good. 1:23:14.200 --> 1:23:17.880 Well I can't believe it, but there's been some discussion, 1:23:18.000 --> 1:23:21.400 has there from government about East Coast gas reservation. I 1:23:21.439 --> 1:23:25.360 wonder where they got that idea from. And this is extraordinary, 1:23:25.400 --> 1:23:25.680 isn't it. 1:23:26.720 --> 1:23:29.200 Yeah yeah, I mean certainly you know that it's not 1:23:29.280 --> 1:23:32.080 a slam dunk, but there are some hopeful signs here. 1:23:32.160 --> 1:23:34.639 So just to recap, East Coast Australia is the only 1:23:34.720 --> 1:23:37.759 gas exporting jurisdiction in the world that has no policy 1:23:38.439 --> 1:23:42.040 to require gas companies to supply Australians first, and as 1:23:42.040 --> 1:23:44.840 a result, East Coast Australia has the highest gas prices 1:23:44.880 --> 1:23:49.000 of the world amongst gas exporting jurisdictions. Now, as we know, 1:23:49.080 --> 1:23:51.560 the Coalition took a really good gas policy to the 1:23:51.600 --> 1:23:53.920 federal election, a promise to implement an East Coast gas 1:23:54.000 --> 1:23:58.919 reservation policy via basically imposing export levies on on contracted 1:23:58.960 --> 1:24:05.640 gas companies. We're trying to export uncontracted, uncontracted gas rather 1:24:05.720 --> 1:24:08.400 than supply it into the spot market domestically they would 1:24:08.400 --> 1:24:11.320 they'd be slog to tacks. And the Coalition promised to 1:24:11.439 --> 1:24:13.920 lower the East Coast gas price to blow ten dollars 1:24:13.960 --> 1:24:17.639 a gigadel, which is currently floats around twelve twelve dollars 1:24:17.720 --> 1:24:20.920 plus Now, the counterfactur of this look is that if 1:24:20.960 --> 1:24:25.240 we don't reserve gas imports but East Coast Australia, despite 1:24:25.280 --> 1:24:27.599 the fact that we export nearly three quarters of our gas, 1:24:27.680 --> 1:24:30.759 most that goes to China, we're slated to start importing 1:24:30.840 --> 1:24:34.800 gas down in the Southern States late this year or 1:24:34.840 --> 1:24:37.599 early next and once we do that, the East Coast 1:24:37.600 --> 1:24:39.559 gas price is going to rock it because we will 1:24:39.600 --> 1:24:41.680 be paying import parity prices. So at the moment, we're 1:24:41.720 --> 1:24:45.439 effectively paying export parity prices, which is the cost that 1:24:45.520 --> 1:24:51.200 we charge exports less the cost of liquifying those exports 1:24:51.240 --> 1:24:53.280 and then transporting it. But if we start importing it, 1:24:53.320 --> 1:24:55.960 we're going to be paying the cost of liquefaction plus 1:24:56.880 --> 1:25:01.040 transport then degap converting it back into gas. Now, just 1:25:01.120 --> 1:25:03.760 to show you how good the coalition's policy was, Shell 1:25:03.840 --> 1:25:08.800 Australia's chair Cecil Wake admitted during the election campaign that 1:25:08.880 --> 1:25:13.439 the coalition's gas reservation policy would reduce costs and that 1:25:13.960 --> 1:25:17.320 person I said that, you know, it'll potentially push more 1:25:17.320 --> 1:25:20.080 supply into the market than there is demand, and when 1:25:20.120 --> 1:25:23.599 that happens, it'll have the potential of driving prices even 1:25:23.640 --> 1:25:26.280 lower than ten dollars a giggle. Now that's almost a 1:25:26.280 --> 1:25:30.759 direct quote I'm paraphrasing, but that there is proof positive 1:25:30.760 --> 1:25:32.240 that the policy was going to be good if you've 1:25:32.240 --> 1:25:34.720 got one of the major energy companies going to force 1:25:34.760 --> 1:25:38.080 down the cost of gas. Now, the coalition also pleased 1:25:38.120 --> 1:25:41.080 to invest about a billion dollars in expanding the North 1:25:41.120 --> 1:25:43.120 South Pipeline which runs some Queensland all the way down 1:25:43.200 --> 1:25:46.040 of Victoria, as well as to expand storage down south. 1:25:46.120 --> 1:25:48.920 And why that's important is that in the North South 1:25:49.000 --> 1:25:52.320 pipeline has excess capacity most of the year, but just 1:25:52.439 --> 1:25:54.879 in the cold months of winter it operates a capacity. 1:25:55.000 --> 1:25:57.559 So we need to expand that and also expand storage. 1:25:58.360 --> 1:26:02.600 Now it is telling. That's Resource Minister Madeline King. She 1:26:02.840 --> 1:26:05.960 during the election campaign she dismissed the coalition's gas policy 1:26:06.120 --> 1:26:09.640 as quote a thought bubble, right, and most of us 1:26:09.680 --> 1:26:13.280 thought that meant that Labor wasn't going to do reservation 1:26:13.479 --> 1:26:17.439 if they got elected. Thankfully. The AFR reported this week 1:26:17.479 --> 1:26:21.519 that the Albany's government's considering imposing the East Coast Gas 1:26:21.600 --> 1:26:24.559 Reservation Policy is part of its review of the country's 1:26:24.640 --> 1:26:25.200 energy system. 1:26:25.760 --> 1:26:29.400 Now, you know, obviously you can't believe all this stuff, 1:26:29.479 --> 1:26:32.000 can you accept it's just playing it out before our 1:26:32.160 --> 1:26:32.960 very own eyes. 1:26:33.840 --> 1:26:36.519 That's right. Look, it's an absolute no brainer. Like the 1:26:36.680 --> 1:26:40.680 entire manufacturing industry, that Gas Uses Association, the Energy Use Association, 1:26:41.000 --> 1:26:44.920 wants gas reservation. It's incredibly important because gas also is 1:26:45.040 --> 1:26:47.320 one of the marginal price that is of electricity in 1:26:47.320 --> 1:26:49.920 the wholesale market. So if we've got expensive gas, electricity 1:26:49.960 --> 1:26:52.960 prices go up as well because gas is used for firming. 1:26:53.040 --> 1:26:55.040 So whenever there's not enough wind or solo, they're going 1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:56.960 to chuck on a gas turbine to quickly fill up 1:26:57.000 --> 1:27:00.479 the gap, and then that pushes up the price. Now 1:27:00.920 --> 1:27:03.639 this is even more important because this week the Queensland 1:27:03.680 --> 1:27:06.679 state government announced that it's going to open up nine 1:27:06.760 --> 1:27:10.000 new areas of the state for gas exploration, and they 1:27:10.080 --> 1:27:12.599 claim that by doing this they're going to increase supply 1:27:12.800 --> 1:27:17.040 and push down prices and etc. Now, I'll say fron 1:27:17.040 --> 1:27:21.240 that that I fully support more gas exploration and more drill, 1:27:21.280 --> 1:27:28.320 baby drill, Ye, but it is largely futile if it's 1:27:28.360 --> 1:27:31.120 not a company by a reservation scheme that requires a 1:27:31.240 --> 1:27:33.879 significant share of that gas to be supplied domestically. 1:27:33.960 --> 1:27:34.200 First. 1:27:34.840 --> 1:27:38.840 And the reason why you know this won't necessarily lower prices. 1:27:38.960 --> 1:27:40.240 Is because we just have to look at the last 1:27:40.280 --> 1:27:43.080 ten years. So since we started exporting gas out of 1:27:43.200 --> 1:27:46.920 Lansdon in twenty fifteen, we've literally doubled the volume of 1:27:47.040 --> 1:27:50.960 gas the production of gas in the East Coast of Australia, 1:27:51.640 --> 1:27:54.400 but we've actually supplied the domestic market with twenty five 1:27:54.439 --> 1:27:57.519 percent less gas. That's because we've just pushed it all off, 1:27:57.880 --> 1:28:01.840 pushed most of it off, you know, we've basically exported it, right, 1:28:01.960 --> 1:28:06.000 so we've doubled the supply, but we've reduced doubled the 1:28:06.000 --> 1:28:08.280 supply domestically, but we've actually supplied the domestic market with 1:28:08.320 --> 1:28:09.800 twenty five percent less and as a result of a 1:28:09.920 --> 1:28:14.160 tripling and gas process. Right, So if we if Queensland 1:28:14.200 --> 1:28:16.720 opens up all these gas fields, yes the Queensland will 1:28:16.760 --> 1:28:20.559 get some extra gas royalties for the state budget, which 1:28:20.560 --> 1:28:23.160 is a good thing, but it's not going to necessarily 1:28:23.240 --> 1:28:27.719 lower prices and it's not going to imports. If that gas, 1:28:28.040 --> 1:28:29.720 at least it's a different portion of it is not 1:28:29.840 --> 1:28:33.320 pushed into the domestic market. So this, this policy from 1:28:33.439 --> 1:28:37.880 labor is absolutely essential to ensure that we do get 1:28:37.920 --> 1:28:39.760 more supply. All the have to do is copy the 1:28:39.800 --> 1:28:42.879 coalition's policy or if not, just look across the Western Australia. 1:28:43.479 --> 1:28:46.640 Australia's done yeah, you know, and that was that was 1:28:46.680 --> 1:28:49.360 a labor government did that. So you know, if they're 1:28:49.520 --> 1:28:53.080 a bit precious about copying what the coalition proposed and 1:28:53.240 --> 1:28:55.800 just you know, take a copy of what they're doing 1:28:55.880 --> 1:28:57.839 in the West, because it's not it's not that difficult. 1:28:58.160 --> 1:29:01.599 Can I move on to productivity growth? Because people don't 1:29:01.680 --> 1:29:04.599 really know this, but in Australia, where we'd like to say, 1:29:04.920 --> 1:29:08.360 how good is it? Our productivity growth has been among 1:29:08.640 --> 1:29:12.880 the poorest in the advanced world, not just for three years, 1:29:12.960 --> 1:29:15.080 but for the past decade. Isn't that right? 1:29:15.800 --> 1:29:16.280 Absolutely? 1:29:16.520 --> 1:29:20.840 Our productivity absolutely stinks. And a whole bunch of economists, 1:29:21.120 --> 1:29:25.320 including former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry this month, former RBA 1:29:25.400 --> 1:29:30.519 Governor fel Low, there's also some other RBA economists and 1:29:30.960 --> 1:29:33.080 a whole bunch of others, have all said that the 1:29:34.080 --> 1:29:37.120 one of the main drivers of Australia's poor productivity is 1:29:37.160 --> 1:29:39.760 that we haven't increased the nation's capital stocks. I'm talking 1:29:39.760 --> 1:29:45.640 about new machinery, new tools, new infrastructure, et cetera to 1:29:45.760 --> 1:29:48.160 keep up with the massive growth in the population and 1:29:48.240 --> 1:29:51.040 as a result we've gotten productivity growth. Now I've used 1:29:51.040 --> 1:29:54.080 this example previously just to explain this in a stylized example. 1:29:54.080 --> 1:29:55.920 If you run a cafe and you've got a coffee 1:29:55.960 --> 1:29:58.519 machine shared by two workers, and you can make one 1:29:58.600 --> 1:30:00.719 hundred coffees. And now if you double the number workers 1:30:00.760 --> 1:30:02.760 to foe, you're not going to be able to double 1:30:02.800 --> 1:30:05.479 your output because you're still working off one machine. They'll 1:30:05.520 --> 1:30:07.240 have to wait for each other, there's congestion, all that 1:30:07.280 --> 1:30:09.760 sort of stuff. So you know, although you double the 1:30:09.880 --> 1:30:12.920 number of people, you don't double your Actually your productivity 1:30:12.920 --> 1:30:15.479 actually goes down because you can't make as many you 1:30:15.520 --> 1:30:17.519 can't double the amount you need two machines. 1:30:17.560 --> 1:30:18.360 It's machine. 1:30:18.920 --> 1:30:21.439 So that's effectively what Australia's economy has done. We've grown 1:30:21.479 --> 1:30:24.120 the population like a science experiment, eight point seven million 1:30:24.160 --> 1:30:28.680 people this century so far, incredible, and we haven't grown infrastructure, 1:30:28.720 --> 1:30:31.640 the amount of investment everything to go along with that, 1:30:32.360 --> 1:30:35.080 and as a result, the capital to labor ratios what 1:30:35.160 --> 1:30:40.080 economists call it, has been free form. And the Productivity 1:30:40.080 --> 1:30:43.880 Commission released a report this week on Australias productivity and 1:30:44.000 --> 1:30:46.400 actually pointed this fact out and it said that if 1:30:46.560 --> 1:30:49.800 this low rate of investment persists, it will contribute to 1:30:49.840 --> 1:30:52.760 longer term productivity slow down. Now, the reason why most 1:30:52.760 --> 1:30:56.519 important is on Thursday, the Australian Bureau Statistics released its 1:30:56.560 --> 1:30:59.720 first quarter twenty twenty five CAPEX survey. So for the 1:31:00.040 --> 1:31:02.479 much quarter, and what I showed is that total volume 1:31:02.520 --> 1:31:05.479 of investment into equipment, plant machinery actually fell by one 1:31:05.520 --> 1:31:07.840 point three percent of the quarter. It's down by nearly 1:31:07.880 --> 1:31:10.160 two percent over the year. And this comes at the 1:31:10.200 --> 1:31:13.960 same time as Australias population continues to expand aggressively. And 1:31:14.280 --> 1:31:17.240 all this means is that we're going to have less 1:31:17.840 --> 1:31:21.040 capital equipment per worker because population is growing and we're 1:31:21.080 --> 1:31:22.680 not building the capital stock to keep up with it. 1:31:23.320 --> 1:31:26.920 And the long term outlooked work is very poor because 1:31:27.720 --> 1:31:30.400 the federal government predicts an extra thirteen point five million 1:31:30.479 --> 1:31:34.639 people come into the country in the next forty years, 1:31:35.960 --> 1:31:40.320 and that's like adding another Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane currently 1:31:40.520 --> 1:31:43.080 to Australias popular You need all the infrastructure, all the 1:31:43.120 --> 1:31:46.519 houses that in those cities, all the energy everything, all 1:31:46.560 --> 1:31:49.439 the business investment, everything, they keep up with that, and 1:31:49.600 --> 1:31:51.000 I just can't see a way we're going to do it. 1:31:51.040 --> 1:31:53.400 We haven't done. In the last twenty years, our protimuity 1:31:53.520 --> 1:31:56.160 growth has suffered. So if we keep just growing the 1:31:56.200 --> 1:31:58.680 population like the science experiment, when we can't keep up 1:31:58.720 --> 1:32:02.879 with that, whether it's housing, infrastructure, business investment, a prodecuty, 1:32:03.000 --> 1:32:04.680 growth is going to stink and our living stands are 1:32:04.680 --> 1:32:05.320 going to stay made. 1:32:05.439 --> 1:32:08.559 Yeah. Now, each week I'm going to put to Leith's 1:32:08.600 --> 1:32:11.160 the question do we have a clown or the week 1:32:11.240 --> 1:32:13.680 or a champion of the week, so it can be 1:32:13.760 --> 1:32:16.320 good news and bad news. And I understand this week, 1:32:21.320 --> 1:32:23.800 This week, mate, you've got a clown or the week? 1:32:23.880 --> 1:32:24.080 Do you? 1:32:25.080 --> 1:32:25.280 I do? 1:32:25.600 --> 1:32:30.400 It's actually the Victorian government, which is which the New 1:32:30.439 --> 1:32:33.280 Southalan and Queensland listeners will love this. So the Victoria 1:32:33.400 --> 1:32:35.479 is basically leaching up New South Wales and Queensland. So 1:32:36.280 --> 1:32:39.320 you know the Victorian government and I'll live in Victoria, right, 1:32:39.439 --> 1:32:41.680 I'll be very clean and clear about that. We are 1:32:41.880 --> 1:32:44.720 the most poorly run state in the country and we 1:32:44.920 --> 1:32:48.360 have a state government that is a state that is 1:32:48.479 --> 1:32:53.080 absolutely grounding in debt. Right, So per capita debt is 1:32:53.240 --> 1:32:57.120 so much ahead of New South Wales and Queensland. So 1:32:57.280 --> 1:33:00.280 per person we are twenty two thousand and nine hundred 1:33:01.120 --> 1:33:04.400 per person in net debt versus fifteen thousand in fifteen thousand, 1:33:04.400 --> 1:33:07.479 two hundred in New South Wales at about nine three hundred. 1:33:07.520 --> 1:33:12.719 Queensland right and with all overfrastructure projects have been massively 1:33:12.760 --> 1:33:15.520 over time and over budget. We've got we're drowning in bureaucrats. 1:33:15.560 --> 1:33:17.400 They've spent heaps on all this public service and all 1:33:17.880 --> 1:33:20.759 this rubbish. Right and the federal government has effectively bailed 1:33:20.760 --> 1:33:24.880 out Victoria by handing it it's arded in competence, by 1:33:25.000 --> 1:33:28.360 handed handing at seven point five billion dollars of additional 1:33:28.640 --> 1:33:31.560 extra GST revenue over two years. I'm talking about the 1:33:31.560 --> 1:33:33.880 current year in now and for next year where in 1:33:33.960 --> 1:33:35.679 New South Wales is then going to receive one point 1:33:35.720 --> 1:33:38.720 one billion and Queensland's actually going to lose two point 1:33:38.760 --> 1:33:39.439 eight billion dollars. 1:33:39.479 --> 1:33:40.320 Oh my god. 1:33:41.040 --> 1:33:44.639 So effectively, because the Victoria's incompetence, the federal governments effetively 1:33:44.680 --> 1:33:46.759 give it a bailout, giving it all this GST revenue. 1:33:47.040 --> 1:33:48.760 As a result, Victory is now going to receive a 1:33:48.840 --> 1:33:52.360 dollar dollar and seven cents in GST for every dollar raise. 1:33:52.840 --> 1:33:55.040 New South Wales has have fallen to eighty five cents 1:33:55.400 --> 1:34:00.920 per dollar raise in Queensland. Queensland's sorry, Queensland's eighty five 1:34:00.960 --> 1:34:04.559 cents in News Southwell's eighty six cents. So the reality 1:34:04.800 --> 1:34:08.759 is that Australian taxpayers are bearing the burden of Victorian 1:34:08.800 --> 1:34:12.879 government's financial incompetence. So we've got, you know, massively wasteful 1:34:12.920 --> 1:34:18.160 product projects, massively drowning bureaucrats. And to make matters worth 1:34:18.840 --> 1:34:22.040 these gas projects that Queensland has approved or is looking 1:34:22.080 --> 1:34:25.160 to approve. As their royalty revenues go up because they're 1:34:25.479 --> 1:34:29.639 improving gas, their gest take will go down right Whereas 1:34:29.720 --> 1:34:34.439 Victoria has banned new gas projects, which means that we're 1:34:34.479 --> 1:34:36.320 not going to get these royalties that we could have got, 1:34:36.840 --> 1:34:40.719 but we're going to get rewarded for being for basically 1:34:40.800 --> 1:34:43.320 stopping investment with extra GST revenue. 1:34:43.439 --> 1:34:48.439 Well, they've they've converted the GST revenue into a participation medal. 1:34:48.560 --> 1:34:51.320 Everyone is a winner here, even if you're stuffed things 1:34:51.360 --> 1:34:53.760 up royally, we'll still find a way to make you 1:34:53.800 --> 1:34:56.280 a winner. We'll just tip into the pockets of people 1:34:56.320 --> 1:34:59.040 in other states, and you know, then all it is 1:34:59.280 --> 1:35:01.120 is just turned up up and you get the prize 1:35:01.200 --> 1:35:05.000 and we cover over the cracks. It's a bloody joke, isn't. 1:35:04.800 --> 1:35:07.719 It, mate, It's an absolute joke. And you know, again 1:35:07.920 --> 1:35:12.080 the genest allocation rewards incompetence. Victoria stuffs things up, It 1:35:12.240 --> 1:35:15.240 runs itself poorly, It blows money left, right and center. 1:35:15.479 --> 1:35:18.880 It refuses to do new gas exploration or you know, 1:35:19.360 --> 1:35:23.320 open up new resource, new ways to raise revenue as well, 1:35:24.120 --> 1:35:26.400 and it gets rewarded, whereas Queensland is going to get 1:35:26.439 --> 1:35:28.760 penalized from improving new gas fields because it's going to 1:35:28.800 --> 1:35:31.920 get ex royalties from it. And New South Wales receives 1:35:31.960 --> 1:35:34.360 the most migrants in the country. Right, You're the biggest 1:35:34.360 --> 1:35:37.360 state and you need to be able to provide funding 1:35:37.439 --> 1:35:40.799 for infrastructure services for those for the massive influxing migrants 1:35:40.840 --> 1:35:44.240 that you have. But you've been hamstrung because effectively your 1:35:44.360 --> 1:35:46.479 your GST take is a lot less than should be 1:35:46.880 --> 1:35:48.439 and it's been siphoned off to Victoria. 1:35:49.120 --> 1:35:52.360 Is an absolute clown clown show, right mate, Thank you 1:35:52.520 --> 1:35:56.559 talking next week. Cheese excellent late van ontol and macro 1:35:56.720 --> 1:35:59.560 business dot com dot you I like that clown or 1:35:59.640 --> 1:36:02.160 champion of the week. But you're in government. Well done 1:36:02.200 --> 1:36:06.439 our initial our inaugural clown. It's coming up to twenty 1:36:06.479 --> 1:36:09.559 six after eleven o'clock twenty nine to two mid date 1:36:09.760 --> 1:36:12.479 is well. We've been spoiled with rugby league through the 1:36:12.520 --> 1:36:17.120 week of course, with both origins. How good was Wednesday night? Sorry? 1:36:18.640 --> 1:36:21.439 But four BC listeners, how good was Thursday night? Sea 1:36:21.520 --> 1:36:24.320 did that? And there's plenty of footy happening today and 1:36:24.360 --> 1:36:26.960 across the weekend, and some Group one racing as well 1:36:27.000 --> 1:36:30.320 in Queensland with the Kingswood Smith Cup. I think that's 1:36:30.360 --> 1:36:32.560 on today, So let's have a look at all the 1:36:32.680 --> 1:36:36.960 market action. Glen Moundseay from Ladbrokes, who's on the line Monday. 1:36:37.000 --> 1:36:38.599 Are you doing very good? 1:36:38.680 --> 1:36:40.760 Thank you? Look you've got a job in diplomacy there 1:36:40.800 --> 1:36:43.760 after that's you know what you know what that's called 1:36:43.800 --> 1:36:45.120 what it's called each way betting. 1:36:45.600 --> 1:36:47.320 That's right, Yes, that's right. 1:36:47.520 --> 1:36:49.520 You're applicated both sides. 1:36:49.240 --> 1:36:51.559 Of the argument there, very very nicely. 1:36:51.840 --> 1:36:54.920 Thank you mate, the storm clear favorite day and tagging 1:36:54.960 --> 1:36:55.639 on the Titans. 1:36:56.200 --> 1:36:58.840 Yeah, that'll be our first game in this afternoon. From 1:36:59.160 --> 1:37:02.040 Rablina clock where the Gold Coast they're on the drift 1:37:02.160 --> 1:37:05.080 three seventy out to four dollars and twenty five cents. 1:37:05.479 --> 1:37:08.559 Melbourne firming up now. Harry Grant and Correo's are out 1:37:08.920 --> 1:37:11.080 of the side from Origin on Wednesday night. They're one 1:37:11.160 --> 1:37:14.400 twenty eight into one twenty two. We've got a thirteen 1:37:14.479 --> 1:37:16.960 and a half point line and the over under at 1:37:17.000 --> 1:37:19.519 fifty one and a half. Melbourne have won the last 1:37:20.320 --> 1:37:23.080 nineteen of the last twenty three matches against the Gold 1:37:23.160 --> 1:37:26.240 Coast and both sides are in average form at the moment, 1:37:26.280 --> 1:37:28.160 the Gold Coast only winning one of their last five 1:37:28.280 --> 1:37:31.360 matches and Melbourne have only won two of their last five, 1:37:31.680 --> 1:37:33.519 which is a rarity for the Melbourne Storm. 1:37:33.600 --> 1:37:35.880 Yeah, you're not wrong. What about the Cowboys and the 1:37:35.960 --> 1:37:36.639 Tigers mate? 1:37:37.280 --> 1:37:39.519 Yeah, that's up at tenns Mill at five thirty where 1:37:39.560 --> 1:37:43.120 the Cowboys into one p thirty six from one forty two. 1:37:43.560 --> 1:37:46.000 The West Tiger's no Lockey Galvan, he's gone to the Dogs. 1:37:46.080 --> 1:37:49.080 They're two ninety five out the three ten nine and 1:37:49.120 --> 1:37:51.320 a half the line, they're forty nine and a half 1:37:51.439 --> 1:37:54.679 the over under now. Sixteen of the last thirty seven 1:37:54.800 --> 1:37:58.040 matches between the last two sides there's been fifty. 1:37:57.760 --> 1:37:59.800 Points or more scored in the match. 1:38:00.000 --> 1:38:02.040 I expect plenty of points in that match. 1:38:02.120 --> 1:38:05.760 This afternoon at five absolutely and then Manly they're at 1:38:05.760 --> 1:38:06.760 home to the Broncos. 1:38:07.479 --> 1:38:09.120 Well, what about this. This is the first time that 1:38:09.240 --> 1:38:12.120 Brisbane have been to Four Pines or Brookvale over in 1:38:12.200 --> 1:38:14.200 eleven years. The last time they went there the bus 1:38:14.320 --> 1:38:20.599 driver used at Gregory's. Now they'reeen Manly. Brisbane are one 1:38:20.680 --> 1:38:24.040 dollar seventy favorites three and a half the line there 1:38:24.080 --> 1:38:26.559 to the home side Manly. Now they've lost their last 1:38:26.640 --> 1:38:30.080 three at home Manly. But the last time Brisbane albert 1:38:30.120 --> 1:38:31.880 they haven't been there in eleven years. The last time 1:38:31.920 --> 1:38:34.320 they've won at Brookie was back in two thy and 1:38:34.520 --> 1:38:37.679 ten and they've lost five of their last six overall, 1:38:37.760 --> 1:38:41.040 brisbanees a tidy there for seven point thirty tonight. 1:38:41.400 --> 1:38:45.000 Now tomorrow your bunnies they've got the Warriors, haven't they. 1:38:45.600 --> 1:38:46.200 Yeah, that's right. 1:38:46.240 --> 1:38:51.200 At a Corps homebush two o'clock. Wayne Bennett's nine hundred 1:38:51.280 --> 1:38:55.000 and fiftieth match in rugby league as a coach, which 1:38:55.080 --> 1:38:55.599 is nearly. 1:38:55.400 --> 1:38:56.639 As many shows as you have done. 1:38:56.840 --> 1:39:00.160 Yes, South, they're two five out to two twenty our 1:39:00.240 --> 1:39:02.679 doubts over Latrell Mitchell. He was spotted with a nice 1:39:03.040 --> 1:39:05.439 pack on his knee after origin on Wednesday night, so 1:39:05.760 --> 1:39:08.000 that market is going to be very, very heavily influenced 1:39:08.000 --> 1:39:10.160 whether Latrell Mitchell plays or not. But they're out to 1:39:10.200 --> 1:39:13.360 two twenty Souths the Warriors one seventy into one sixty 1:39:13.400 --> 1:39:15.599 eight two and a half the line to South's forty 1:39:15.640 --> 1:39:18.040 four and a half the over under Then at five 1:39:18.200 --> 1:39:21.559 past four at Combank Well, both sides are sharing Combat 1:39:21.640 --> 1:39:24.639 Stadium this year and who would have thought that it's 1:39:24.720 --> 1:39:29.720 the seventeenth placed Penrith up against the fifteenth placed Paramatta 1:39:30.160 --> 1:39:33.280 and Penrith are one sixty favorites Paramatter at two thirty 1:39:33.360 --> 1:39:35.479 five four and a half the line in that one, 1:39:35.840 --> 1:39:37.800 and then the tightest match of the round comes at 1:39:37.840 --> 1:39:41.439 six fifteen tomorrow night at Alion's where the Roosters are 1:39:41.600 --> 1:39:45.920 outsiders two dollars outsiders Canbra, who technically are on top 1:39:46.000 --> 1:39:48.160 of the comp because they haven't had a buy yet 1:39:48.760 --> 1:39:52.240 and the Dogs, for example, have had two the Dolphin 1:39:52.360 --> 1:39:54.320 and they've got the buy this week, that's their second buy. 1:39:54.439 --> 1:39:58.000 Now Canbra haven't had a buy so far, so technically 1:39:58.040 --> 1:39:59.599 they are on top of the comp. They're one eighty 1:39:59.640 --> 1:40:01.760 two favorites one and a half the line of the 1:40:01.880 --> 1:40:04.679 Chuckster's there forty seven and a half the over Runder 1:40:05.000 --> 1:40:09.000 Melbourne Premiership favorite to two to eighty over Canterbory at 1:40:09.000 --> 1:40:11.560 four fifty, Cronulla at eight, Camber at eleven, and the 1:40:11.640 --> 1:40:14.880 market's up already on origin for June eighteen at Alpta 1:40:14.960 --> 1:40:18.439 Stadium in Perth, the Blues one forty six, Queensland two 1:40:18.479 --> 1:40:20.880 to seventy five and six and a half the line 1:40:20.920 --> 1:40:23.519 there you'll catch all of the rugby league action with 1:40:23.680 --> 1:40:26.200 a team of reprobates that won't be too far from 1:40:26.280 --> 1:40:29.960 you where you're sitting in the in the interactive studio 1:40:30.120 --> 1:40:33.080 this afternoon for all the fanfare, fun and frivolity, with 1:40:33.160 --> 1:40:34.120 the continuous call to. 1:40:34.280 --> 1:40:38.479 Indeed mate well said and Group one racing in Queensland today, 1:40:38.560 --> 1:40:41.559 Can you give us an idea of the action there? 1:40:41.640 --> 1:40:43.000 There is something. I'm sure there's plenty. 1:40:43.160 --> 1:40:45.519 Yeah, be very very careful at the moment. Now the 1:40:45.640 --> 1:40:48.479 rains arrived in Brisbane. They started on a soft six, 1:40:48.560 --> 1:40:50.920 it's already been downgraded to a soft seven and it 1:40:51.080 --> 1:40:52.080 is raining today. 1:40:52.680 --> 1:40:55.439 So we've got the Ladbrokes. 1:40:54.960 --> 1:40:58.280 Queensland Derby where Statuario is the favorite there. It was 1:40:58.360 --> 1:41:00.400 runner up in the South Australian Derby, the Group one 1:41:00.520 --> 1:41:03.800 Kingsford Smith where jolly star James McDonald looks for I 1:41:03.920 --> 1:41:06.160 think it's a round of Eddies twenty fifth Group one 1:41:06.280 --> 1:41:10.120 win this season in Australia and overseas, and the Group 1:41:10.160 --> 1:41:14.040 two BRC size Gallo nero the favorite there. So all 1:41:14.080 --> 1:41:17.439 of that racing action from Eagle Farm nowhere near as 1:41:17.560 --> 1:41:19.799 nice a day in Brisbane as it is in Sydney, 1:41:20.040 --> 1:41:24.200 which is absolutely sensational a day to day after the 1:41:24.240 --> 1:41:26.400 weather I've had last week. If you want to catch 1:41:26.479 --> 1:41:28.599 any of the sporting action or any of the racing action, 1:41:28.760 --> 1:41:32.640 download the Ladbrokes App and you'll have all of that 1:41:32.880 --> 1:41:35.200 in the palm of your hand, ready to attack. 1:41:35.600 --> 1:41:38.400 Beautifully done. Thank you Glenn. Talk to you soon, mate, 1:41:38.960 --> 1:41:40.240 right o w in a couple of hours you take 1:41:40.280 --> 1:41:41.880 the rest of the day off. I well, thank you. 1:41:41.880 --> 1:41:42.719 It wasn't he nice. 1:41:43.040 --> 1:41:45.799 The Ladbrokes app is loaded with the best racing features. 1:41:46.000 --> 1:41:48.559 Take on the fun and download the Ladbrokes app today. 1:41:48.920 --> 1:41:52.160 You win some, you lose more For free and confidential 1:41:52.240 --> 1:41:55.080 support mister Gambling help online dot org dot au. 1:41:55.439 --> 1:41:57.840 Now we'll get to Ali stoles at domain in just 1:41:57.920 --> 1:42:00.400 a moment. But a couple of notes through from from 1:42:00.520 --> 1:42:03.640 police in Queensland that I haven't got to yet. A 1:42:03.720 --> 1:42:07.360 man has died following a single vehicle traffic crash in 1:42:07.600 --> 1:42:10.600 rows Neath at Townsville in the early hours of this 1:42:10.760 --> 1:42:15.200 morning one am. An electric screuter crashed on the Flinders Highway. 1:42:15.680 --> 1:42:19.599 Eighteen year old rider subbured significant injuries as a result 1:42:19.680 --> 1:42:23.240 of the crash. Transport at a hospital critical condition. He 1:42:23.400 --> 1:42:27.439 since died. The forensic crash Unit is investigating. If you 1:42:27.479 --> 1:42:31.960 can assist, police would love to hear from you. A 1:42:32.080 --> 1:42:35.000 man will appear before court today. This is in Sydney 1:42:35.200 --> 1:42:42.200 with allegedly graffitiing multiple Nazi swastikers and attempting to assault 1:42:42.240 --> 1:42:45.880 a police officer in Sydney's West yesterday about three pm. 1:42:46.479 --> 1:42:49.960 This is a unit block on Darby Street, Penrith opposite 1:42:50.040 --> 1:42:54.519 attached to Nepeine Police Area Command located. When they arrived, 1:42:54.560 --> 1:43:00.200 several Nazi swastikas and offensive phrases graffeited on footpaths, on 1:43:00.360 --> 1:43:04.000 fences and car spaces near the unit block. Police are 1:43:04.040 --> 1:43:06.960 arrested a fifty one year old man in the unit block. 1:43:07.400 --> 1:43:10.479 He was off to the police station. He allegedly attempted 1:43:10.520 --> 1:43:15.960 to assault an overser multiple times before being restrained. He's 1:43:16.040 --> 1:43:18.559 off to paramount a local court today and we'll update 1:43:19.560 --> 1:43:22.040 you on how he fared when we get some information. 1:43:26.520 --> 1:43:30.320 And now the real estate show thanks to Domain, Australia's 1:43:30.400 --> 1:43:32.000 trusted property marketplace. 1:43:32.560 --> 1:43:34.320 Yeah, it's time now to find out what's happening on 1:43:34.400 --> 1:43:36.800 the property market in Sydney and Brisbane thanks to our 1:43:36.880 --> 1:43:40.799 mates at Domain. I'm pleased to say that the national 1:43:40.880 --> 1:43:44.840 property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles, is on the line 1:43:44.880 --> 1:43:47.679 and joins me again this weekend. 1:43:47.840 --> 1:43:50.800 Hi, Alis, good morning, Great to be with you. 1:43:51.080 --> 1:43:54.000 I hope things are good with you. Let's kick off 1:43:54.160 --> 1:43:56.519 with where we normally do with the auction numbers and 1:43:56.920 --> 1:43:58.040 how are they looking today? 1:43:59.520 --> 1:44:02.200 Things are good, Luke, and Sydney buyers have a lot 1:44:02.240 --> 1:44:05.360 of choice today. Nine hundred and sixty five houses are 1:44:05.400 --> 1:44:07.679 going under the hammer and this is the biggest weekend 1:44:08.120 --> 1:44:12.000 Sydney's had this month, so pretty pretty spoiled for choice. 1:44:12.000 --> 1:44:15.240 I guess we could say Brisbane had a bit of 1:44:15.280 --> 1:44:17.920 a drop in auction numbers. That's down to seventy four 1:44:18.000 --> 1:44:21.320 auctions going under the hammer today, so probably better conditions 1:44:21.400 --> 1:44:22.080 for sellers. 1:44:22.200 --> 1:44:24.200 Dare I say that there's not as much choice that 1:44:24.320 --> 1:44:25.120 buyers kind of. 1:44:25.439 --> 1:44:28.479 Get corraled into buying whatever's on the market today. 1:44:28.520 --> 1:44:31.679 It sounds like, yeah, so how do we end up here? 1:44:31.880 --> 1:44:36.200 Because I think you might have even flagged this last week, 1:44:36.280 --> 1:44:39.400 big numbers in Sydney not so in Brisbane. I mean 1:44:39.439 --> 1:44:42.519 they're both beautiful cities in Australia. What's the difference, do 1:44:42.600 --> 1:44:42.880 you think? 1:44:43.760 --> 1:44:43.960 Yeah? 1:44:43.960 --> 1:44:47.320 Well, a lot of it's because obviously interest rates sort 1:44:47.320 --> 1:44:49.360 of play a part in this, but these are obviously 1:44:49.439 --> 1:44:52.200 being booked in these campaigns thatt of five six weeks ago. 1:44:52.640 --> 1:44:54.680 And I think we know that the seasonality of the 1:44:54.720 --> 1:44:57.240 Brisbane market is quite different from the Sydney market. 1:44:57.360 --> 1:44:58.960 Auctions basically start the year. 1:44:59.000 --> 1:45:02.280 They're quite quickly and quite early in January, whereas the 1:45:02.320 --> 1:45:05.439 Sydney market a bit more Laxidasians that it takes a 1:45:05.479 --> 1:45:08.200 while to warm up, shall we say, and auctions really 1:45:08.280 --> 1:45:09.479 kick off there in February. 1:45:09.600 --> 1:45:11.639 So what we find is it into the winter month. 1:45:11.720 --> 1:45:13.640 Sydney kind of lasts a little bit longer before it 1:45:13.760 --> 1:45:16.960 tapers down into that winter hiatus, but Brisbane's pretty much 1:45:16.960 --> 1:45:19.160 already into that lower gear, it seems. 1:45:19.040 --> 1:45:21.280 Gotcha all right? Clearance raked from last week. 1:45:22.160 --> 1:45:23.880 Yeah. Well, look, Sydney had a big weekend and it 1:45:23.960 --> 1:45:25.439 came in at seventy percent. 1:45:25.720 --> 1:45:27.519 And I mean, I'm not sure if you and the 1:45:27.600 --> 1:45:28.360 listeners looked. 1:45:28.200 --> 1:45:31.400 Around town, but we saw lots of bitting at auction Luke, 1:45:31.479 --> 1:45:34.400 and I really think we noticed that sort of I 1:45:34.439 --> 1:45:36.880 guess a bit more confidence from buyers to sort of 1:45:37.000 --> 1:45:40.000 stretch a little bit further. And I'm not talking about crazy, 1:45:40.520 --> 1:45:43.519 crazy amounts, but I just saw quite a few options 1:45:43.560 --> 1:45:45.160 whether that competition. 1:45:44.840 --> 1:45:46.640 Remained very tight to the very end. 1:45:46.720 --> 1:45:49.200 So I think the Sydney market seems to be responding 1:45:49.280 --> 1:45:52.800 very well to that interest rate cut. Brisbane's clearance rate 1:45:52.840 --> 1:45:56.120 coming at forty three percent, which was consistent week on week. 1:45:56.200 --> 1:46:00.800 Obviously a less auction centric market, but interesting watching that 1:46:00.920 --> 1:46:03.240 market in Brisbane just kind of get their head around 1:46:03.280 --> 1:46:05.280 auctions a bit more, and we're seeing more and more 1:46:05.360 --> 1:46:09.320 I guess sellers choose that method of saleh. 1:46:08.960 --> 1:46:12.400 Alright, our expensive buyers from last week in Brisbane at 1:46:12.520 --> 1:46:15.040 sunny Bank in Sydney, Elizabeth Bay. 1:46:16.360 --> 1:46:18.960 Yeah, it was a home in sunny Bank that sold 1:46:19.040 --> 1:46:21.800 for one point eight five million dollars in Brisbane, a 1:46:21.880 --> 1:46:24.400 five bedroom home with a granny flat now We know 1:46:24.520 --> 1:46:26.080 how much value granny flats add. 1:46:26.120 --> 1:46:27.400 People love the thought of them. 1:46:27.320 --> 1:46:29.720 Whether it's for their home office, whether they left it 1:46:29.760 --> 1:46:32.960 out for short term accommodation or put a kid adult in, 1:46:33.080 --> 1:46:36.360 it always strikes a lot of desirability with people. 1:46:36.479 --> 1:46:38.640 And in Sydney it was Elizabeth Bay. 1:46:38.680 --> 1:46:41.759 An apartment there sold for six point four five million 1:46:41.880 --> 1:46:45.160 dollars with beautiful views over the harbor and all the 1:46:45.200 --> 1:46:48.080 bells and whistles that one can imagine from a property 1:46:48.120 --> 1:46:50.080 that sort of manages to get a figure like that 1:46:50.240 --> 1:46:50.960 six point four. 1:46:50.800 --> 1:46:51.760 To five minute not bad? 1:46:51.880 --> 1:46:55.200 Is it not bad? Three bedrooms, had two bathrooms and 1:46:55.280 --> 1:46:57.800 a car space and apartment Elizabeth Bay six and a 1:46:57.840 --> 1:47:00.559 half million if you don't mind what about value there 1:47:00.640 --> 1:47:04.400 was that seems extraordinary value at Paddington in Sydney. 1:47:05.400 --> 1:47:06.559 Yeah, I love his story. 1:47:06.640 --> 1:47:09.360 So it's a little studio flat that's sold in glen 1:47:09.520 --> 1:47:12.080 View Street, Paddington that's sold for four hundred and seventy 1:47:12.160 --> 1:47:14.720 nine thousand dollars. Now, as I said, it is just 1:47:14.800 --> 1:47:17.760 a studio, so it's not even a standalone one bedroom unit. 1:47:18.240 --> 1:47:20.599 But it does have parking on site, but you can't 1:47:20.680 --> 1:47:22.479 let it out, so it's not attached to the title, 1:47:22.520 --> 1:47:25.040 but there is parking for residents. And I thought, what 1:47:25.120 --> 1:47:27.400 a wonderful story that we're on the sty sort of 1:47:27.479 --> 1:47:32.120 second floor deco style brick apartment sold for sort of 1:47:32.160 --> 1:47:34.920 a figure that is kind of, you know, imaginable for 1:47:35.000 --> 1:47:37.360 some first time buys in particular, and I think it's 1:47:37.400 --> 1:47:39.479 a good example of ways that people can get onto 1:47:39.560 --> 1:47:41.519 the market. And maybe they won't live in that place 1:47:41.640 --> 1:47:43.880 forever locally, they're probably going to outgrow it if they 1:47:43.920 --> 1:47:45.920 have a family or want some more space in the future, 1:47:45.960 --> 1:47:48.000 but it could be a good little investment for someone 1:47:48.040 --> 1:47:50.200 to think about options like that, given it was under 1:47:50.240 --> 1:47:53.160 five hundred thousand dollars, which is well and truly below 1:47:53.400 --> 1:47:54.680 the meeting in Sydney. 1:47:55.439 --> 1:47:59.240 And had Paddington on your on your business card. I 1:47:59.320 --> 1:48:01.360 live in padding You don't have to tell them anything 1:48:01.400 --> 1:48:04.559 else yet. You were going to tell me about Brisbane, Yeah, 1:48:04.680 --> 1:48:04.920 it was. 1:48:05.280 --> 1:48:07.680 We had a house I went to market in Pekember 1:48:08.040 --> 1:48:10.720 now this five bedroom house so for seven hundred and 1:48:10.880 --> 1:48:14.439 forty thousand dollars. So what we're really seeing is that 1:48:14.560 --> 1:48:19.000 affordability in Brisbane that people are I guess just going 1:48:19.160 --> 1:48:21.920 further out to get bang for their buck because really 1:48:22.200 --> 1:48:24.080 in most of these in Australia wouldn't find a five 1:48:24.160 --> 1:48:27.360 bedroom house for that price. So clearly people driven by 1:48:27.479 --> 1:48:30.280 price primarily are going that little bit further out and 1:48:30.320 --> 1:48:31.880 they're getting what they want. And in this case it 1:48:31.960 --> 1:48:35.160 was a five bedroom, two bar, four car house for 1:48:35.240 --> 1:48:35.880 seven hundred and. 1:48:35.880 --> 1:48:36.799 Forty thousand dollars. 1:48:37.000 --> 1:48:40.320 Jeez, Now tell me about Domain Sustainability and Property report, 1:48:40.479 --> 1:48:44.400 it's revealed that energy efficient homes are not only fetching 1:48:44.479 --> 1:48:47.280 premium prices, but and how high on the wish list. 1:48:47.360 --> 1:48:50.240 I guess the cost of living is so crippling for 1:48:50.360 --> 1:48:52.320 many that if you can get a place where you 1:48:52.400 --> 1:48:54.920 don't have to spend almost a mortgagey payment on your 1:48:54.960 --> 1:48:56.639 power bills, then it's a big tick. 1:48:57.960 --> 1:48:59.880 Yes, I think energy efficient homes are sort of the 1:49:00.040 --> 1:49:02.160 if that keeps on giving in that you can reduce 1:49:02.200 --> 1:49:04.560 your power bills. But what we are also seeing in 1:49:04.640 --> 1:49:06.479 the data is that when it comes to selling it, 1:49:06.600 --> 1:49:09.839 you will make a premium on it. In Sydney alone, 1:49:10.280 --> 1:49:12.920 energy efficient houses so for twelve and a half percent 1:49:13.000 --> 1:49:15.519 on average more than non energy efficient homes, and that's 1:49:15.560 --> 1:49:18.960 around one hundred and eighty thousand dollars extra. Now in Brisbane, 1:49:19.000 --> 1:49:22.679 it wasn't as extreme as that they're selling for fourteen 1:49:22.720 --> 1:49:24.720 point one percent more one hundred and twenty k more 1:49:25.080 --> 1:49:27.960 than non energy efficient houses. But what we're seeing is 1:49:28.040 --> 1:49:30.920 I think this, you know, what did appear a very 1:49:31.080 --> 1:49:35.720 niche thing, sustainable housing and energy efficiency. And remember when 1:49:35.760 --> 1:49:39.479 solar panels were kind of rare and now increasingly becoming 1:49:40.680 --> 1:49:43.600 sort of a compulsory feature for many people when it 1:49:43.640 --> 1:49:45.680 comes to buying their house, and they want it for 1:49:45.760 --> 1:49:47.400 the saving that they get through those energy bills, and 1:49:47.439 --> 1:49:50.080 they're also wanting i think, to obviously help the planet, 1:49:50.479 --> 1:49:52.559 but also knowing they're going to make that money back 1:49:52.600 --> 1:49:54.920 when it comes time to selling. So you know, for 1:49:55.000 --> 1:49:57.160 a lot of people, it is that initial outcost of 1:49:57.800 --> 1:50:01.360 whether it's double glazing the windows, you know, changing the 1:50:01.360 --> 1:50:03.479 orientation of a house when you're designing it, if you 1:50:03.520 --> 1:50:05.640 are doing it from scratch to have a northern orientation, 1:50:06.439 --> 1:50:09.920 making really energy efficient heating choices, they can obviously cost 1:50:10.040 --> 1:50:12.760 more in the beginning, but it seems the rewards are 1:50:12.920 --> 1:50:15.720 well and truly being met as the house grows in 1:50:15.800 --> 1:50:16.639 value down the track. 1:50:17.240 --> 1:50:19.959 Now we can buy an island. Is that what you're suggesting? 1:50:20.880 --> 1:50:22.400 I mean, how often do I get to say that 1:50:22.960 --> 1:50:26.280 there is an island for sale off Northern Queensland. It's 1:50:26.320 --> 1:50:30.160 three k's off Cape Palmerson National Park, which is sixty 1:50:30.240 --> 1:50:32.920 k southeast of Mackay. Now, this is a forty nine 1:50:32.960 --> 1:50:35.280 point seven hectare island, and on this island is a 1:50:35.320 --> 1:50:38.360 three bedroom house. Now the house is owned by two 1:50:38.479 --> 1:50:41.200 families and one of the families are selling out their 1:50:41.280 --> 1:50:44.880 share and with that house you get the island. It's 1:50:45.040 --> 1:50:47.920 quite extraordinary. And this is the only house on the island, 1:50:48.920 --> 1:50:51.240 and it's got a little air strip so you can 1:50:51.320 --> 1:50:53.400 ride it on your own little private private plane if 1:50:53.439 --> 1:50:55.800 you don't mind, or a ten minute boat. A ten 1:50:55.840 --> 1:50:58.960 minute boat trip from the coast. Now, this is apparently 1:50:59.000 --> 1:51:03.200 absolutely spectacular. You can go snort cling around those beautiful waters, 1:51:03.600 --> 1:51:07.480 the coral reefs are there, and just and pristine bushland 1:51:07.520 --> 1:51:08.120 to explore. 1:51:08.400 --> 1:51:11.400 But it's on the market for six hundred thousand dollars. 1:51:11.439 --> 1:51:14.880 Oh wow, I just think I'm sort of watching if 1:51:14.880 --> 1:51:17.200 other than media around the world picked this story up, because, 1:51:17.200 --> 1:51:19.639 as someone mentioned, it's the fraction of a car. It's 1:51:19.680 --> 1:51:21.759 basically what you pay for a parking spot in Sydney. 1:51:21.840 --> 1:51:25.880 Sometimes, yes, you can do you know if uber eads deliver? 1:51:27.280 --> 1:51:29.320 I don't know, But funny you should ask that, Luke, 1:51:29.360 --> 1:51:31.240 because I had to laugh at the listing. It's said 1:51:31.280 --> 1:51:33.840 that the island does have coverage for Optus and tell 1:51:33.880 --> 1:51:36.320 us your mobile phones, and I just thought that's such 1:51:36.360 --> 1:51:39.040 a sign of the times, isn't it could be stuck 1:51:39.080 --> 1:51:40.320 with you Uber eats or a door dash. 1:51:40.320 --> 1:51:41.840 I'm not sure you're going to get milk delivered on 1:51:41.880 --> 1:51:42.479 your doorsteps. 1:51:43.040 --> 1:51:45.360 I think I think you have a lot of probably 1:51:45.680 --> 1:51:48.559 fishing to do, and you know, a lot of seafood 1:51:48.600 --> 1:51:50.800 to live off. Pretty happy there, I don't think you'd be. 1:51:51.000 --> 1:51:53.000 I don't think you'd be many complaints coming from you 1:51:53.080 --> 1:51:53.720 on a place like that. 1:51:53.840 --> 1:51:56.160 I think you're right. I think you're right. How wonderful 1:51:56.280 --> 1:51:58.240 is that? All right? We'll take a break back with 1:51:58.360 --> 1:52:02.040 more from Alison just today, and we are joined by 1:52:02.240 --> 1:52:06.439 Alice Stoles from Domain, the National Property editor. Alice the 1:52:06.600 --> 1:52:10.960 rise of prefab homes. This is interesting, isn't it? Could 1:52:11.000 --> 1:52:15.880 prefab homes be a large solution to our large housing crisis? 1:52:15.960 --> 1:52:16.479 What do you think? 1:52:17.960 --> 1:52:18.160 Look? 1:52:18.240 --> 1:52:19.040 Look, I'm a real. 1:52:18.960 --> 1:52:21.759 Fan of this notion of prefab homes and it's because 1:52:22.080 --> 1:52:25.919 Basically they can deliver houses much faster than the traditional 1:52:26.000 --> 1:52:29.400 methods of construction, which we know we've experienced over the 1:52:29.439 --> 1:52:33.240 past few years in particular incredible challenges around that. It 1:52:33.360 --> 1:52:36.280 also means that there's no delays attributed to weather because 1:52:36.360 --> 1:52:38.600 basically all the hard worker building the home is on 1:52:38.720 --> 1:52:41.920 in a factory, then that house sort of slubs of 1:52:41.960 --> 1:52:44.479 it are put on trucks and trucks around the country. 1:52:45.000 --> 1:52:48.639 Now the benefit is homeowners can also have bespoke called 1:52:48.800 --> 1:52:52.479 truly sort of custom designed houses and have kind of 1:52:52.560 --> 1:52:56.280 quite clever and ingenious design and have that individuality to 1:52:56.360 --> 1:52:59.879 a house that often people obviously enjoy, particularly in Australia, 1:53:00.360 --> 1:53:03.599 and do all that in record time. Now it also 1:53:03.920 --> 1:53:07.000 usually can come in at a cheaper cost because materials 1:53:07.040 --> 1:53:10.479 are used so much more effectively, there's no wastage, and 1:53:10.520 --> 1:53:14.400 there's also no delays to weather, but just in terms 1:53:14.400 --> 1:53:16.960 of how quickly they arrive. I was reading an article 1:53:17.160 --> 1:53:18.800 and I always laugh at this, and I've seen it 1:53:18.960 --> 1:53:22.600 happen myself. But literally you'll see a neighbor will go 1:53:22.720 --> 1:53:25.559 off to work as a blank piece of land, they 1:53:25.640 --> 1:53:28.240 come back and there's a house on it. Now, all 1:53:28.280 --> 1:53:30.600 the groundwork has been done for months prior. I'm not 1:53:30.640 --> 1:53:32.960 saying it just click your fingers and it's delivered that evening. 1:53:33.400 --> 1:53:37.080 But that's how quickly it's construction constructed on site because 1:53:37.160 --> 1:53:39.040 everything is done off site and then it's literally just 1:53:39.200 --> 1:53:43.040 trucked in and ascendble and it's basically almost ready to 1:53:43.120 --> 1:53:43.880 go at that point. 1:53:44.120 --> 1:53:47.280 Yeah, it's amazing. Now Properties of interest which I haven't 1:53:47.400 --> 1:53:50.360 have time for, I'm sorry, one at North Bridge and 1:53:50.560 --> 1:53:54.320 one at Cadanga Creek in Queensland. In Queensland, it's an 1:53:54.680 --> 1:53:58.479 a better if you don't mind, will put links to 1:53:58.800 --> 1:54:04.440 the on the podcast. To those listings. There's three living spaces, 1:54:04.960 --> 1:54:08.679 eight bedrooms, the one in queensand properties of Interest. Thanks Alice, 1:54:08.720 --> 1:54:11.240 I'll talk to you next week. That's Alice Stoles from 1:54:11.280 --> 1:54:14.479 Domain News coming up. I will get to Craig Bennett 1:54:14.520 --> 1:54:16.920 after the News. I know because I saw a video 1:54:17.000 --> 1:54:21.320 of him interviewing Loretta Switt hot Lips Hulahan from Mash 1:54:22.000 --> 1:54:24.280 who very sadly has passed away of a night, so 1:54:24.320 --> 1:54:27.120 ill asking him about that. He will also run his 1:54:27.520 --> 1:54:32.400 eye over Clint Eastwood when we get Starstruck with Craig 1:54:32.520 --> 1:54:34.400 in the next hour catch up with Mark Levy. I 1:54:34.480 --> 1:54:38.880 see voicing commercials in the next studio preview the footy 1:54:39.000 --> 1:54:41.600 later on today. All that ahead, it's almost midday. 1:54:56.320 --> 1:55:00.960 Low Cross Australia. It's back to weekends with little grand. 1:55:03.200 --> 1:55:06.000 Good afternoon, hope you're well. Nice to be with you 1:55:06.120 --> 1:55:10.080 on this Saturday afternoon, thirty first day of May today, 1:55:10.320 --> 1:55:14.360 winter tomorrow and plenty of rugby league action. The boys 1:55:14.400 --> 1:55:16.480 will be here, well I shouldn't say boys, of course. 1:55:16.800 --> 1:55:20.760 Alana Ferguson's in with the team today, or Fergo as 1:55:20.800 --> 1:55:23.320 they refer to her. I think it's fantastic doing the 1:55:23.360 --> 1:55:26.480 commentary for the women's origin through the week. Anyway, they'll 1:55:26.480 --> 1:55:30.240 be here with with Mark Marky, Mark Mark Leaby's here. 1:55:30.960 --> 1:55:36.160 The big man is here? Is Galin today? No gal today? 1:55:36.880 --> 1:55:38.280 I know you gave me a bit of paper with 1:55:38.360 --> 1:55:41.440 everything that's happening when I put that somewhere? Where did 1:55:41.520 --> 1:55:44.160 I put that? Not like me to lose a bit 1:55:44.240 --> 1:55:48.960 of paper right? Seven three is the number. Craig Bennett 1:55:48.960 --> 1:55:54.720 coming up shortly here. Supermarkets they're saying should be banned 1:55:54.720 --> 1:55:59.240 from selling cigarettes. According to the Lung Foundation of Australia, 1:56:00.120 --> 1:56:04.000 No Tobacco Day today. The Foundation has floated the ban 1:56:04.080 --> 1:56:06.560 as a means to stop smokers being tempted to buy 1:56:06.640 --> 1:56:12.280 a pack or a pouch alongside their groceries. Well, I 1:56:12.320 --> 1:56:17.880 don't give anyone ideas, I really don't, but I think 1:56:17.960 --> 1:56:20.360 that I think the horse has bolted to some extent 1:56:20.480 --> 1:56:24.480 because the supermarkets, from what I'm told, and I have 1:56:24.600 --> 1:56:27.920 no experience here, but the supermarkets is where you buy 1:56:28.760 --> 1:56:33.160 the full price cigarettes, and it's elsewhere where many people 1:56:33.280 --> 1:56:37.240 buy the much cheaper cigarettes. So banning them in a 1:56:37.680 --> 1:56:42.920 supermarket introduces more people to cheaper cigarettes, if you know. 1:56:43.040 --> 1:56:45.040 It just appears to me that that would be the 1:56:45.120 --> 1:56:48.080 logic in that. I mean, there's got to be noise 1:56:48.160 --> 1:56:50.520 or no tobacco day. I understand that, and I am 1:56:50.560 --> 1:56:53.880 making it clear that what if you do don't smoke, 1:56:53.960 --> 1:56:58.160 But I mean that's the again, the lived experience. Yeah, 1:56:58.240 --> 1:57:04.800 galleys in Gal big Man and Mark Levy after one o'clock. 1:57:04.840 --> 1:57:07.160 We'll have a chat to Mark before we before we 1:57:07.280 --> 1:57:11.240 go today. Three one eight seven three is our open 1:57:11.520 --> 1:57:16.879 line number. Anthony Albanese's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions 1:57:17.000 --> 1:57:19.400 is on life support, we're told after a new data 1:57:19.480 --> 1:57:25.400 showed Australian's carbon footprints rose slightly last year, driven by 1:57:25.440 --> 1:57:29.120 a two point two percent increase in the electricity sector. 1:57:29.360 --> 1:57:31.440 You know, I heard something through the week. I don't 1:57:31.480 --> 1:57:35.640 know if I heard it on TV or radio or Reddit. Summer. 1:57:35.720 --> 1:57:38.320 This is how bad my memory is becoming. Late in 1:57:38.400 --> 1:57:42.920 the show, early on, it's magnificent that if we stopped, 1:57:43.280 --> 1:57:47.480 if we stopped all our CO two emissions, if we 1:57:47.560 --> 1:57:53.960 stopped them all, it would take China sixteen days to 1:57:54.120 --> 1:57:56.960 produce the same in a year. So we stopped the 1:57:57.120 --> 1:58:01.040 year's emissions. That's China in sixteen and people jump up 1:58:01.080 --> 1:58:03.680 and down about our emissions here and I heard someone, 1:58:03.720 --> 1:58:05.680 it might have been Paul Murray on Sky say well, 1:58:06.120 --> 1:58:08.480 you know, have a look at the address of the 1:58:08.600 --> 1:58:11.840 Chinese embassy in your city and maybe gohead and stand 1:58:11.920 --> 1:58:16.440 outside there with a placard saying stop at getting really hot. 1:58:19.680 --> 1:58:23.560 Energy experts declared the Albanese government was set to fail 1:58:23.680 --> 1:58:26.600 its international commitment. Now it's commitment. What didn't they make 1:58:26.640 --> 1:58:29.960 it legislated. I'm pretty sure they did forty three percent 1:58:30.040 --> 1:58:34.000 of five levels by the end of the decade. Now 1:58:34.440 --> 1:58:39.800 they just stayed impossible to get there. In fact, figures 1:58:39.880 --> 1:58:43.800 released by the Climate Change Department show carbon dioxide emissions 1:58:43.960 --> 1:58:48.160 rose by zero up on zero five percent in twenty 1:58:48.360 --> 1:58:52.520 twenty four. That's equivalent to twenty seven percent lower than 1:58:52.560 --> 1:58:55.800 in two thousand and five. I mentioned before the energy 1:58:55.880 --> 1:58:58.160 expert Bruce Mountain said he did not think there was 1:58:58.200 --> 1:59:01.600 a chance the Albanese he got government could meet its 1:59:01.680 --> 1:59:04.680 twenty to thirty commitment. And I made this point and 1:59:04.760 --> 1:59:11.320 this is what worries me, that what government typically would do. 1:59:11.760 --> 1:59:16.000 And Chris Bowen is probably the main offender here. They'll 1:59:16.160 --> 1:59:20.200 just put everything on steroids. You think things are already 1:59:20.320 --> 1:59:24.920 expensive and at times unreliable, they're the predictions. So it 1:59:25.040 --> 1:59:29.120 gets worse, not better. The Means government dramatically declared its 1:59:29.320 --> 1:59:32.960 new electric buses would be built on New South Wales soil. 1:59:33.040 --> 1:59:35.880 But the Saturday Telegraph is uncovered the stock being rolled 1:59:35.920 --> 1:59:41.120 out from a factory in Beijing. Extraordinary photographs shared from 1:59:41.120 --> 1:59:45.160 the headquarters of the Chinese company Photon. That's the issue. 1:59:45.600 --> 1:59:50.480 They show a delivery ceremony in Beijing with workers posing 1:59:50.560 --> 1:59:54.360 on a stage with a sign reading batch delivery ceremony 1:59:54.480 --> 1:59:59.200 one twenty six electric buses of the Australian market. Mister 1:59:59.320 --> 2:00:01.960 Means has pre He said the offshoring of public transport 2:00:02.040 --> 2:00:05.040 by the former government was a complete disaster, which is 2:00:05.120 --> 2:00:07.680 why we're building these buses here in New South Wales, 2:00:08.320 --> 2:00:12.360 creating local jobs and public transport that works. The Australian 2:00:12.440 --> 2:00:16.680 Manufacturing Workers' Union New South BOST Secretary Bradley Pigeon says 2:00:17.440 --> 2:00:21.640 the overseas construction quote is against the very labor platform unquote. 2:00:22.040 --> 2:00:24.960 The Premier had campaigned on we're sick of the lives 2:00:25.000 --> 2:00:27.480 and hired the truth. I wonder if you'd be prepared 2:00:27.520 --> 2:00:31.400 to say that just before an election hashtag just wondering. 2:00:34.000 --> 2:00:37.400 Transport Minister John Graham defended his foreign built buses, saying 2:00:37.440 --> 2:00:40.040 the first fifteen were rapidly built overseas and a bit 2:00:40.080 --> 2:00:42.840 to meet a shortfall in Sydney. We're working to do 2:00:43.000 --> 2:00:46.840 premier better on local content, says the Premier. The first 2:00:46.880 --> 2:00:50.120 twenty five buses are heading to Nara where locals will 2:00:50.200 --> 2:00:55.040 build in the seats. Hey, how good can you just 2:00:55.200 --> 2:00:59.440 leave the seats off CCTV someone gets to put a 2:00:59.480 --> 2:01:05.120 camera wiring an installation of the opal readers. Probably better 2:01:05.200 --> 2:01:07.280 to do that here than stick them in the mail 2:01:08.680 --> 2:01:13.000 and the telematics. I mean, you don't want to say fraudulent. 2:01:14.640 --> 2:01:17.000 Plenty of emails and plenty of feedback. Thank you for that, 2:01:17.120 --> 2:01:19.600 and Max says on the text, Hey, Louke, honesty, I 2:01:19.680 --> 2:01:22.640 give up. Every weekend I see trail bikes riding all 2:01:22.720 --> 2:01:26.000 around South Marubra and in particular around Coral Sea Park. 2:01:26.600 --> 2:01:28.760 There's even one dad on a mini trail bike with 2:01:28.840 --> 2:01:31.280 his two or three year old that rides around the 2:01:31.400 --> 2:01:34.280 Coral Seapark even when there are hundreds of kids and parents. 2:01:35.320 --> 2:01:39.120 I actually just saw him buying his smokes, riding away 2:01:39.200 --> 2:01:40.880 with his two year old or three year old on 2:01:40.960 --> 2:01:42.920 his lap and a smoke at his mouth. I've called 2:01:42.960 --> 2:01:46.640 the police five times over the past few months. Just 2:01:46.800 --> 2:01:50.360 keeps happening. A young man was killed last year. Time 2:01:50.400 --> 2:01:55.200 to give up. Wow, that's amazing. I was in a 2:01:55.280 --> 2:01:57.400 seven to eleven the other day. They had their cigarette 2:01:57.440 --> 2:02:01.280 prices on the screen behind the counter. One packet of 2:02:01.320 --> 2:02:05.320 Marlborough twenty five seventy five ninety nine, I can buy 2:02:05.480 --> 2:02:08.480 ten packets of twenties of illegal cigarettes for one hundred 2:02:08.480 --> 2:02:11.880 and ten bucks. I'll never go back to buying the 2:02:12.880 --> 2:02:15.400 legal stuff. Whatever you do, don't smoke. Thank you Ash 2:02:15.480 --> 2:02:21.440 for getting in touch. Luke China's just reached the stage 2:02:21.480 --> 2:02:24.960 of starting to reduce emissions thanks to the rapid installations 2:02:25.000 --> 2:02:31.440 of alternative energy. That's despite a big increase in energy usage. 2:02:31.440 --> 2:02:33.400 I don't accept that, John, I'd love you to email 2:02:33.440 --> 2:02:35.120 me a link that proves that to be the case, 2:02:35.560 --> 2:02:42.640 not some piece of Chinese Communist Party propaganda. And they're 2:02:42.680 --> 2:02:45.280 building more nuclear maybe John, that's it, do you think, 2:02:46.800 --> 2:02:50.480 because they're building hundreds of coal fired power stations every year. 2:02:52.200 --> 2:02:54.440 So if you'd like to email me or send me 2:02:55.280 --> 2:02:58.400 something that justifies that, or supports that, or proves that, 2:02:58.720 --> 2:03:04.880 I'm happy to make that clear to the audience. Good a, Luke. 2:03:04.920 --> 2:03:06.840 The official first day of winter was the twenty first 2:03:06.880 --> 2:03:11.480 of June. Please stop giving out misinformation. Smiley face, smiley face, 2:03:11.560 --> 2:03:14.040 have a wonderful day, a Will, Pamela, thank you for 2:03:14.120 --> 2:03:18.640 getting in touch. We're looking into an incident at a 2:03:18.760 --> 2:03:23.200 Coles supermarket in the Eastern suburbs. Thank you, Sharon. We'll 2:03:23.240 --> 2:03:26.280 get more information on that. If there's more to report, 2:03:26.400 --> 2:03:35.520 we will. Okay, has Mark locked the studio door while 2:03:35.600 --> 2:03:40.000 recording voiceovers to stop MG coming in. I don't think so. 2:03:40.200 --> 2:03:43.480 MG's not here today, but that's obviously a thing of 2:03:43.560 --> 2:03:46.720 which I'm not aware. Thank you for your texts. Zero 2:03:46.840 --> 2:03:50.400 force zero eight seven eight seven three. You might remember 2:03:50.960 --> 2:03:53.880 Fiegel or fergul Sharky. I think it is fergul Sharky. 2:03:53.920 --> 2:03:58.560 He was a performer, a music well. I guess heavyweight. 2:03:58.640 --> 2:04:02.560 I had a couple of hits of the eighties, and 2:04:02.840 --> 2:04:06.600 he made it clear through the last week or so 2:04:07.520 --> 2:04:11.000 that he'd been battling prostate cancer. I wasn't aware of that. 2:04:11.120 --> 2:04:13.560 He's also an environmentalist. I'll play you want to the 2:04:13.640 --> 2:04:15.440 songs in the moment fergul Shaki. 2:04:15.920 --> 2:04:17.960 About a year and a half ago, I randomly went 2:04:18.000 --> 2:04:19.960 to see my GP with a sore throat. Now I've 2:04:19.960 --> 2:04:21.680 known him long enough, but he goes, no, no, you 2:04:21.800 --> 2:04:23.480 that book us to sing. So if you're telling me 2:04:23.520 --> 2:04:26.040 you've got a sore throat, there's something going on. So 2:04:26.960 --> 2:04:30.400 my doctor, been the beautiful, wonderful, awkward, contankerous old man 2:04:30.480 --> 2:04:32.920 that he is, went oh, Fregol, by the way, you're 2:04:32.920 --> 2:04:35.800 sixty five, I'm going to run the full battery of tests. 2:04:36.320 --> 2:04:39.200 Two days later, turns out I began a journey which 2:04:39.280 --> 2:04:41.160 led their prognosis of prostate cancer. 2:04:41.800 --> 2:04:45.560 Thankfully, that's all now been resolved. A year ago, but 2:04:45.840 --> 2:04:46.400 here we are. 2:04:46.560 --> 2:04:48.680 Had it not been for that random visit to my 2:04:48.800 --> 2:04:51.960 local GP, I would have never have known that I 2:04:52.240 --> 2:04:54.760 was at that point carrying prostate cancer. And if it 2:04:54.840 --> 2:04:56.680 had not been seen to you, it could have been 2:04:56.760 --> 2:04:58.720 a very different ending in a very different wad come 2:04:58.760 --> 2:05:01.120 to my life. So reason I'm very happy to talk 2:05:01.120 --> 2:05:03.400 about it. If there's one monitor right now over there 2:05:03.440 --> 2:05:05.520 to forty five, go and see your GP. You're gonna 2:05:05.520 --> 2:05:06.160 get blood test on. 2:05:06.680 --> 2:05:06.880 Yeah. 2:05:07.000 --> 2:05:13.160 That's Fergul Sharky Obe a singer and an environmentalist from 2:05:13.200 --> 2:05:15.440 Northern Ireland. He's very keen on river health. He's a 2:05:15.520 --> 2:05:18.280 fly fisher. Did you know that anyway? You got through 2:05:18.320 --> 2:05:21.520 that battle? And he's reminding all blokes everywhere to take 2:05:21.560 --> 2:05:25.160 your head out of the sand. Fergl Sharky a good heart. 2:05:25.320 --> 2:05:30.400 On weekends you a lot of story. Do you remember 2:05:30.440 --> 2:05:34.320 that from the eighties. That's Fergl Sharky. That's a good 2:05:34.400 --> 2:05:38.480 heart revealing this week he's stared down prostate cancer and 2:05:38.560 --> 2:05:44.080 telling blokes OI, get serious, get tested, get some emails quickly. 2:05:44.560 --> 2:05:49.200 El listening in North queens Angerdeel we worry about that zero. 2:05:49.360 --> 2:05:53.040 Why aren't the same people worrying about net plastics. This morning, 2:05:53.120 --> 2:05:55.120 I took out the trash, put a new plastic bag 2:05:55.160 --> 2:05:57.640 in the bin. Then the first three things I happened 2:05:57.680 --> 2:06:02.480 for our family breakfast, A plastic bag of clothorn, the 2:06:02.520 --> 2:06:06.240 plastic fed of cheese packet, and then the sliced plastic rappers. 2:06:06.640 --> 2:06:10.080 Goodness me, let's stop all it's rot about net zero. 2:06:10.600 --> 2:06:13.680 It's sending us broke. Get on with life. Thank you 2:06:13.760 --> 2:06:16.200 well and Phil, says Luke. Eighty three years ago today 2:06:16.840 --> 2:06:21.680 the Imperial Japanese Navy visited US, killed twenty one on 2:06:21.720 --> 2:06:26.400 the cutterable of firing a torpedo at USS Chicago. Not 2:06:26.520 --> 2:06:30.480 sure if you got to this as shamefully I missed 2:06:30.480 --> 2:06:32.680 a bit of your show. I apologize. So that was 2:06:32.760 --> 2:06:35.160 very kind of you, Phil, And it wasn't for your email, 2:06:35.200 --> 2:06:37.920 I wouldn't have mentioned that. So thank you Phil. We'll 2:06:37.960 --> 2:06:40.960 take a break. Craig Bennett's next. Thank you Adam for 2:06:41.000 --> 2:06:44.880 your text, Luke. All the roads from Heathcote through Ingerdeen, 2:06:44.960 --> 2:06:49.400 Loft of Sutherland, bangor Meni, etc. A dog's breakfast, bumper 2:06:49.400 --> 2:06:52.200 and a bumper due to the closure of Heathcote Road. 2:06:52.360 --> 2:06:56.280 Thanks Adam. Joy Jeez, Luky, haven't heard that song for 2:06:56.320 --> 2:06:58.600 a while you did it again, but a good song. 2:06:58.680 --> 2:07:02.400 Heeh figel or fer Sharky, who revealed through the week 2:07:02.440 --> 2:07:05.400 he's prostate cancer battle, which he appears to be on 2:07:05.560 --> 2:07:08.160 top of. Clay, says Luke. He started in the seventies 2:07:08.240 --> 2:07:13.400 band The Undertones, my perfect cousin their biggest hit. I'll 2:07:13.440 --> 2:07:16.480 have a listen to that, Thank you, Clay. Grab the smelling. 2:07:16.200 --> 2:07:19.000 Souls, industry or strength if you have them, and. 2:07:19.120 --> 2:07:23.200 Don't forget the pickle juice, because it's time for Starstruck 2:07:23.440 --> 2:07:24.520 with Craig Bennett. 2:07:29.720 --> 2:07:31.680 Now we've got a busy time with Craig today. Of 2:07:31.720 --> 2:07:35.800 course there's plenty to talk about. Yeah, grab the appropriate 2:07:37.640 --> 2:07:42.320 support mechanism, be that a drink or something firm, as 2:07:42.400 --> 2:07:45.120 we often refer to here. If you want to go 2:07:45.240 --> 2:07:47.400 to the extreme and just have yourself, you know, well 2:07:47.440 --> 2:07:51.560 and truly prepared, we always suggest just a port glass, 2:07:51.640 --> 2:07:54.920 not too much of pickled juice. Had that need to 2:07:55.040 --> 2:07:57.320 you if you will. We're going to be talking about 2:07:57.360 --> 2:08:01.560 Clint Eastwood, who's ninety five today, And as I say, Craig, 2:08:01.640 --> 2:08:05.680 good afternoon to you, I can't help because I saw 2:08:05.880 --> 2:08:09.440 a clip online of you and the wonderful the great 2:08:09.560 --> 2:08:14.440 Loretta suit Emmy Award winning actress who was I think 2:08:14.760 --> 2:08:19.280 for with the exception of eleven episodes, was in every 2:08:19.480 --> 2:08:25.560 episode of Mash, that wonderful program, and she has sadly 2:08:25.720 --> 2:08:26.640 passed away over night. 2:08:27.400 --> 2:08:30.480 You are absolutely right, Luke, Yes, good afternoon to you. 2:08:30.680 --> 2:08:36.560 And she's gone so loved as Major Margaret Hulahan hot 2:08:36.640 --> 2:08:39.360 lips of course from the Telly series Mash, And you're right. 2:08:39.440 --> 2:08:42.920 She was in two hundred and forty five episodes across 2:08:42.960 --> 2:08:47.440 eleven seasons, only missing eleven of them. A fascinating showbiz life. 2:08:47.640 --> 2:08:49.920 She wish she'd been in acting since the sixties. She 2:08:50.480 --> 2:08:52.880 kicked off on stage in New York and was also 2:08:53.120 --> 2:08:55.920 a beautiful singer, But of course, I guess it was 2:08:55.960 --> 2:09:00.240 her role on Mash that really captivated the world. Came 2:09:00.280 --> 2:09:04.840 along in nineteen seventy two. She was married once. In fact, 2:09:04.920 --> 2:09:06.960 it was to an actor who appeared briefly on MASH. 2:09:07.640 --> 2:09:10.560 They had no kids, but look, she was a devoted 2:09:10.600 --> 2:09:14.600 animal activist, so dogs were her kids. She told me, 2:09:14.760 --> 2:09:17.720 I did have the joy of chatting with Loretta about oh, 2:09:18.000 --> 2:09:20.160 four years ago, I think it was maybe five. For 2:09:20.280 --> 2:09:23.040 Studio ten. She was at that point living in New York. 2:09:23.080 --> 2:09:25.440 She'd been living in Los Angeles for years but had 2:09:25.520 --> 2:09:28.640 moved to New York and it was teed up. 2:09:28.640 --> 2:09:29.760 To be a zoom interview. 2:09:30.600 --> 2:09:32.840 And the thing is, Loretta had never done a zoom 2:09:33.000 --> 2:09:36.160 alone before her assistant had gone home because of the 2:09:36.240 --> 2:09:38.720 time difference between Australia and New York. It was sort 2:09:38.720 --> 2:09:41.600 of in the evening for her. So in this desperate 2:09:41.640 --> 2:09:44.000 bit to get it happening because she just couldn't make 2:09:44.080 --> 2:09:47.040 it work. You could see it and there was no sound, 2:09:47.080 --> 2:09:50.160 and you could hear of a vision and all of that. 2:09:50.280 --> 2:09:53.520 This was recorded, obviously not life. Poor darly. She was 2:09:53.600 --> 2:09:55.960 running up and down these stairs to the dorman in 2:09:56.040 --> 2:10:00.720 the foyer and he eventually got it happening. It looks 2:10:00.760 --> 2:10:03.960 she was fun She was funny. She was very sharing 2:10:04.320 --> 2:10:08.800 with her honesty, the great stories, the triumphs of her career. 2:10:08.880 --> 2:10:11.440 You know, she was in Hawaii five Oh. I think 2:10:11.440 --> 2:10:14.240 it was her first Telly appearance back in the sixties. 2:10:14.800 --> 2:10:18.040 But anyway, what happened was and it was also sudden. 2:10:18.080 --> 2:10:21.240 I was interviewing Jamie Fahr the other day and we 2:10:21.320 --> 2:10:24.760 were talking obviously about Loretta, and oh, she's in great health, 2:10:24.760 --> 2:10:26.400 and we're going off to do something in a couple 2:10:26.440 --> 2:10:28.800 of months, one of those big fan convention things. And 2:10:29.280 --> 2:10:32.440 she loved all of that. So she was chatting last 2:10:32.560 --> 2:10:35.280 night with her very close friend and publicist on the phone, 2:10:36.000 --> 2:10:40.400 was in great form. He regaled midday today in New 2:10:40.520 --> 2:10:42.600 York time, which is about two a in our time, 2:10:43.240 --> 2:10:45.560 she was found dead in her apartment by her maid 2:10:46.240 --> 2:10:48.840 eighty seven. So there she was last night having a 2:10:48.880 --> 2:10:51.080 great old chin wag on the phone and in seemingly 2:10:51.160 --> 2:10:55.760 fabulous spirits and dead the next day early today our time. 2:10:55.840 --> 2:11:00.200 And you know, Luke, that means we've lost another mash 2:11:00.280 --> 2:11:03.480 great but who obviously is still with us today so 2:11:03.720 --> 2:11:06.320 far as is the great Jamie Farr, of course, always 2:11:06.360 --> 2:11:11.480 loved this Klinger Alan old Mike Farrell who was honeycut, 2:11:11.840 --> 2:11:16.360 and Gary Berghoff who was a raidar. And anyway, many 2:11:16.440 --> 2:11:19.360 memories of Loretta sweet, I know everybody will have one. 2:11:19.520 --> 2:11:22.120 She was just so adored, so loved, And I just 2:11:22.240 --> 2:11:24.959 want to tell you if you thought she was gorgeous 2:11:25.000 --> 2:11:28.680 and sweet and wonderful, interesting, aerodite in articulate, you are 2:11:28.760 --> 2:11:30.960 absolutely not wrong on any of those cows. 2:11:31.040 --> 2:11:33.160 And you mentioned the fact that she was a beautiful singer. 2:11:33.200 --> 2:11:38.960 I wasn't aware of that until I found this this morning. Yeah, 2:11:39.040 --> 2:11:44.320 there she is Loretta Switt sorely missed in a wonderful talent. 2:11:44.800 --> 2:11:47.400 Thank you for doing that. Mate. We are talking as 2:11:47.440 --> 2:11:50.240 I mentioned about Clint Eastwood today. 2:11:51.320 --> 2:11:54.280 Yes, that's right, Clint Eastwood, who it's a happy birthday. 2:11:54.360 --> 2:11:56.640 I mean, if we had the cake in front of us, 2:11:56.680 --> 2:11:59.640 we'd be blowing out ninety five candles on his behalf. 2:12:00.320 --> 2:12:00.520 Look. 2:12:00.560 --> 2:12:02.400 I mean, as well as being a four time Oscar 2:12:02.440 --> 2:12:05.080 winning movie star director and way back in the fifties, 2:12:05.160 --> 2:12:07.960 of course, let's via the television where he was on 2:12:08.080 --> 2:12:13.080 that great Western series Rawhider's Rowdy Yates. He was also 2:12:13.200 --> 2:12:15.800 a wonderful singer, and not a lot of people know that. 2:12:15.880 --> 2:12:19.120 I guess, much like Lord Retta Sweet, people don't realize 2:12:19.200 --> 2:12:22.200 that Clint was a fabulous singer. And in fact, I think, 2:12:22.800 --> 2:12:26.120 if my psychic vibe is right, Luke Grant, you might 2:12:26.200 --> 2:12:28.200 have just a little of Clint Eastwood singing, and I'm 2:12:28.200 --> 2:12:31.320 sure people are going to be thinking that's not Clint Eastwood. 2:12:32.160 --> 2:12:35.400 Hey, I want to sing de Lafine and get a raised. 2:12:36.960 --> 2:12:41.240 Can I be the first to say that's not Clint Eastwood. 2:12:41.600 --> 2:12:45.080 Yes, you're just listening then to a big bulk of 2:12:45.360 --> 2:12:49.640 roses that was from Clint Eastwood sing's Cowboy Favorites. Absolutely, 2:12:49.720 --> 2:12:52.440 I promise you that the first the first song you 2:12:52.560 --> 2:12:55.520 heard was a duet with the late great Merle Haggard, 2:12:56.120 --> 2:12:58.840 and that was a song called Barroom Buddies, which was 2:12:59.040 --> 2:13:02.240 a number one hit around the world in nineteen eighty 2:13:02.280 --> 2:13:06.080 and of course it featured in Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy 2:13:06.240 --> 2:13:09.360 movie that he started with one of his girlfriends or wife, 2:13:09.400 --> 2:13:11.560 Sondra Locke, will talk about all of that in a minute, 2:13:11.600 --> 2:13:14.400 but yes, I mean he recorded a whole bunch of 2:13:14.480 --> 2:13:18.640 albums as an actor, of course, away from the microphone, 2:13:19.080 --> 2:13:22.880 enjoyed a and continues to do so. Seventy year Hollywood career, 2:13:22.880 --> 2:13:24.880 which kicked off in nineteen fifty five. In fact, his 2:13:24.960 --> 2:13:27.160 first movie role. I know he's going to shock your 2:13:27.200 --> 2:13:30.840 socks off. So far he's starting what sixty five movies, 2:13:30.880 --> 2:13:35.640 including those very famous Sergiolion and spaghetti westerns like A 2:13:35.720 --> 2:13:38.160 Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugliest. 2:13:38.480 --> 2:13:42.280 Of course, he was Harry Callahan in five Dirty Harry movies. 2:13:42.480 --> 2:13:45.680 He sang opposite Lee Marvin in a musical called Paint 2:13:45.760 --> 2:13:48.520 Your Wagon. He was in things like Escape from Alcatraz 2:13:48.600 --> 2:13:52.240 and the Bridges of Madison County. Play Misty for Me 2:13:53.440 --> 2:13:58.160 was the start of his sensational directing. I've absolutely loved 2:13:58.200 --> 2:14:01.760 that movie, just a fabulous and of course you being 2:14:01.800 --> 2:14:05.880 in radio, I'm sure it holds a a poignant thought 2:14:06.000 --> 2:14:09.600 for you. So he's directed so far what forty one movies, 2:14:09.680 --> 2:14:14.000 including Jay Edgar, There was Sully, there was Jersey Boys. 2:14:14.280 --> 2:14:17.200 You see the incredible variety in what this man does. 2:14:17.560 --> 2:14:20.560 His most recent was During Number two, which came out 2:14:20.640 --> 2:14:22.680 last year, which you've not seen, Luke. If you've not 2:14:22.760 --> 2:14:26.160 seen it, you should hunt it up. It's a masterpiece. 2:14:26.840 --> 2:14:30.480 That's really quite. It's a court room thrill. Right, And 2:14:30.600 --> 2:14:32.480 here we are at ninety five. He is still working 2:14:32.560 --> 2:14:36.600 looking at scripts for his next project. Also a very accomplished, 2:14:36.840 --> 2:14:42.760 accompanied accomplished pianist and a composer, and you often hear 2:14:42.840 --> 2:14:46.600 his jazzy scores in his movies. To his private life. 2:14:46.680 --> 2:14:49.720 Not visa will cover this, but hourly Dooley, you'll need 2:14:49.800 --> 2:14:51.120 the heart paddles. 2:14:52.200 --> 2:14:52.520 Stand. 2:14:52.640 --> 2:14:56.080 Oh yes, look, there's been two marriages, two very messy divorces, 2:14:56.480 --> 2:15:02.640 cheating scandals up the wazoo, fathered eight kids. I say 2:15:03.000 --> 2:15:05.800 that we know of because his biographer, the great Patrick 2:15:05.880 --> 2:15:09.320 McGilligan claims there may be more kid jenneficant I know 2:15:09.360 --> 2:15:12.520 because Clint's very private about his private life. Doesn't discuss it. 2:15:13.000 --> 2:15:15.280 No flies on Clint though in his love life, because 2:15:15.360 --> 2:15:18.520 last year, very sadly, his girlfriend of ten years died 2:15:18.560 --> 2:15:21.920 of a heart attack. Only sixty one months later, bingo, 2:15:22.040 --> 2:15:24.720 there he is in the company of another younger woman. 2:15:24.920 --> 2:15:27.720 And let's not forget amongst all the movie star stuff 2:15:28.040 --> 2:15:31.720 and you know, singing and whatever. Great director. He was 2:15:31.800 --> 2:15:36.440 also the mayor of Carmel for two years in the eighties. Carmel, 2:15:36.520 --> 2:15:40.280 of course, the wonderful seaside town south of San Francisco, 2:15:40.400 --> 2:15:43.839 home to Doris Day before she left us twenty nineteen. 2:15:43.920 --> 2:15:46.200 But a bit of trivia about that. When Clint was 2:15:46.480 --> 2:15:49.360 mayor of Carmel, first thing he did was overturned that 2:15:49.480 --> 2:15:52.200 the rather silly no ice cream cone rule. And it 2:15:52.320 --> 2:15:55.600 was a very odd law that stated there should be 2:15:55.720 --> 2:15:58.560 no ice cream parlors in Carmel, because you see, on 2:15:59.040 --> 2:16:01.440 the odd occasion a hot day, or if you were 2:16:01.480 --> 2:16:04.480 butter fingers, ice cream would fall out of their cones 2:16:04.520 --> 2:16:06.959 and go all sticky and horrible and gowey on the footpath, 2:16:07.120 --> 2:16:11.320 bringing ants theious. They made a law again. Yes, anyway, 2:16:12.120 --> 2:16:16.120 it's a wild story, including voodoo and one of these 2:16:16.200 --> 2:16:19.440 ex's road a very unflattering blek. It's all coming your 2:16:19.480 --> 2:16:21.840 way in a tick as I don't even think holding 2:16:21.880 --> 2:16:23.480 onto something firm is going to help. 2:16:23.600 --> 2:16:27.200 No, no, look well it sounds to me like it is. 2:16:27.560 --> 2:16:31.080 This has got heart tattles written all over it. Back 2:16:31.120 --> 2:16:33.040 with Craig in a sec we're looking at the life 2:16:33.080 --> 2:16:35.640 and times of Clint Eastwood, who's ninety five today, and 2:16:35.800 --> 2:16:39.120 Craig Simon says, look, I learn every time I listened 2:16:39.160 --> 2:16:41.920 to you too. Today I learned Clint Eastwood made the 2:16:42.040 --> 2:16:47.320 right decision to pursue acting and not singing. People be 2:16:47.480 --> 2:16:49.440 so unkind. 2:16:50.680 --> 2:16:54.000 Yeah, it's the paraphrase kamal, Why are people so uncover? 2:16:54.320 --> 2:16:56.080 Indeed? Anyway, my friend over to you. 2:16:56.680 --> 2:16:56.880 Yep. 2:16:57.000 --> 2:17:00.320 San Francisco is where Clinton Eastwood was born ninety five 2:17:00.440 --> 2:17:03.160 years ago. Today. Had a younger sister, Jeanie, who's still 2:17:03.240 --> 2:17:06.160 with us somewhere. Look, their mom worked as a secretary. 2:17:06.560 --> 2:17:10.520 Dad was in the paper pulp industry, and Clent bounced 2:17:10.560 --> 2:17:13.840 into the world an enormous baby, five point two kilos. 2:17:13.959 --> 2:17:17.360 Ask anyone any lady who's had above weighed five point 2:17:17.400 --> 2:17:20.480 two kilos and they'll let you know. The nurses were 2:17:20.560 --> 2:17:24.920 right when they nicknamed him Samson. Look when he finished 2:17:24.959 --> 2:17:27.640 at school and acting kind of wasn't on his radar 2:17:27.720 --> 2:17:29.160 at all. He went on, in fact, to become a 2:17:29.240 --> 2:17:32.240 firefighter and a lifeguard. He was a golf caddy for 2:17:32.320 --> 2:17:34.640 a bit and then he was drafted into the war 2:17:34.959 --> 2:17:39.160 nineteen fifty one. But he avoided service in career because 2:17:39.280 --> 2:17:41.160 at the time he was romancing the daughter of the 2:17:41.280 --> 2:17:45.240 officer whose job it was to assign personnel overseas, you see, 2:17:45.280 --> 2:17:49.680 and so didn't get assigned overseas. However, close scrape with death, 2:17:49.760 --> 2:17:52.320 and this is the early fifties. He was returning from 2:17:52.400 --> 2:17:56.119 Seattle in a DA bomber aircraft when the true story 2:17:56.320 --> 2:17:59.560 ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near 2:17:59.640 --> 2:18:05.280 Point Ray's, California. He escaped the sinking aircraft paddled on 2:18:05.360 --> 2:18:09.280 a life ra up three kilometers to land. Absolutely incredible story. 2:18:09.400 --> 2:18:11.720 Look to he showed you start he was a strapping 2:18:11.800 --> 2:18:13.800 six foot on the old scale, six foot four on 2:18:13.840 --> 2:18:16.960 the old scale, very handsome, so it look long story short, 2:18:17.040 --> 2:18:20.440 someone suggested, what about acting make a lot of money, 2:18:20.600 --> 2:18:25.240 so he auditioned for Universal Studios. He was considered very stiff, 2:18:25.920 --> 2:18:27.920 in fact, so wooden' he could have been a smagas 2:18:27.959 --> 2:18:31.280 board for termites. And the director noted that he kind 2:18:31.320 --> 2:18:34.160 of hissed his lines through clenched teeth, and he squinted 2:18:34.240 --> 2:18:37.960 far too much. Still, he had that certain something luke, 2:18:38.040 --> 2:18:41.400 and so off to drama classes he trotted, and he 2:18:41.520 --> 2:18:43.960 was into a one hundred dollars a week contract. His 2:18:44.080 --> 2:18:46.560 very first movie was a little bit in a horrorforic 2:18:46.720 --> 2:18:50.680 called Revenge of the Creature in nineteen fifty five, So 2:18:50.800 --> 2:18:54.760 there was Clinton Eastwood's movie debut. He was twenty five 2:18:54.840 --> 2:18:57.160 at the time. It was in fact a sequel that 2:18:57.320 --> 2:19:00.200 movie to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then 2:19:00.240 --> 2:19:03.000 he had a role in a similar creature feature flick 2:19:03.040 --> 2:19:06.680 called Tarantula. And then he then along Bounced raw Hide 2:19:06.720 --> 2:19:09.200 in nineteen fifty nine, and he stayed with that show 2:19:09.280 --> 2:19:12.160 for seven seasons, made him a household name. He quit, 2:19:12.560 --> 2:19:16.879 claiming the character was stupid and Clottish. Then came those 2:19:16.920 --> 2:19:19.520 spaghetti western so called because of course they were shocked, 2:19:19.840 --> 2:19:23.279 usually on the chief, usually in Italy. And Clint Eastwood's 2:19:23.320 --> 2:19:26.120 career is off and it is running. Look to his 2:19:26.240 --> 2:19:31.560 very messy private life. Biographers, ex wives, partners of branded 2:19:31.640 --> 2:19:36.359 Clint a solid gold, good time boy, a serial philander 2:19:37.280 --> 2:19:41.720 in an unkind of way. His first wife, a beautiful 2:19:41.760 --> 2:19:44.880 blonde who was a secretary named Maggie. They met on 2:19:45.000 --> 2:19:47.560 a blind date, married in nineteen fifty three. He was 2:19:47.640 --> 2:19:50.800 twenty three then, but the cheating started from the get go. 2:19:51.560 --> 2:19:55.040 It turns out while he was wooing Maggie again, fact 2:19:55.080 --> 2:19:58.800 god an actress pregnant. So along comes Clint's first daughter, Laurie, 2:19:58.840 --> 2:20:01.280 who was venadoff about the whole thing was hush hush, 2:20:01.360 --> 2:20:05.840 nobody knew. Clinton Laurie then reconnected. Years later, nineteen sixty four, 2:20:06.280 --> 2:20:09.840 he had another daughter, not with his wife. Kimber is 2:20:09.959 --> 2:20:12.880 the name of his second daughter, the result of a 2:20:12.959 --> 2:20:15.119 long affair he was having with a stunt woman while 2:20:15.160 --> 2:20:17.800 he was married to wife number one. Clint then had 2:20:17.879 --> 2:20:21.280 two kids with his wife, Kyle, a son who's a 2:20:21.320 --> 2:20:24.959 jazz museo, and Alison, who's an actress and a fashion designer. 2:20:25.320 --> 2:20:28.760 Now his indiscretions were kept an absolute secret. People had 2:20:28.840 --> 2:20:31.200 no idea, Oh, isn't that lovely's marriage? He's got two kids. 2:20:31.560 --> 2:20:34.600 But then, of course along comes the National inquirer, who'd 2:20:34.640 --> 2:20:37.760 gotten wind of all of this, exposed Clints too well, 2:20:37.800 --> 2:20:40.720 as they called them back then, love child scandals. And 2:20:40.800 --> 2:20:43.280 that was it for Maggie Wife number one. She split 2:20:43.400 --> 2:20:47.160 from Clint and eventually divorced him in nineteen eighty four, 2:20:47.280 --> 2:20:50.360 romping off with a twenty five million dollar payer. Thank 2:20:50.400 --> 2:20:53.240 you very much, don't mind if I do so look 2:20:53.280 --> 2:20:57.160 for those keeping count one wife, two kids, an array 2:20:57.200 --> 2:20:59.880 of affairs resulting in two more kids, so four kids 2:21:00.040 --> 2:21:00.360 all up. 2:21:00.400 --> 2:21:00.520 Now. 2:21:00.800 --> 2:21:04.040 In the mid seventies, while still married to Maggie, he 2:21:04.080 --> 2:21:07.000 fell mad in love with the actress Sondra Locked. They 2:21:07.040 --> 2:21:09.480 made a movie together called The Outlaw of Josie Whale. 2:21:10.160 --> 2:21:14.160 Sondra and Clint moved in together. Very complicated because take 2:21:14.280 --> 2:21:16.760 notes of this, please, Luke. Sondra was married to a 2:21:16.840 --> 2:21:17.480 gay man. 2:21:17.360 --> 2:21:18.560 Who wore elf shoes. 2:21:18.840 --> 2:21:20.080 Oh yeah, who hasn't done that? 2:21:20.760 --> 2:21:23.879 And had psychic flashes. Well, I just think that's one 2:21:24.000 --> 2:21:28.200 hell of a combination anyway, Clint was so enamored with 2:21:28.360 --> 2:21:33.000 Sondra heaven bought a house for her gay hubby and 2:21:33.160 --> 2:21:35.959 his husband and no doubt their collection of elf shoes 2:21:36.560 --> 2:21:40.080 or quite interesting. Clinton Sondra made six movies together, including 2:21:40.120 --> 2:21:43.520 The Gauntlet, Every which Way but Loose. But it wasn't 2:21:43.560 --> 2:21:46.240 till last Sondra was away making a movie, came home 2:21:46.280 --> 2:21:49.680 to find that Clint had actually changed the locks. And 2:21:49.840 --> 2:21:53.800 so along comes nineteen ninety seven and Sondra, obviously still 2:21:53.840 --> 2:21:58.080 smarting from this, understandably wrote a blistering teller book titled 2:21:58.120 --> 2:22:01.640 The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, and she 2:22:01.800 --> 2:22:04.000 painted him as being not the Clint East would we 2:22:04.040 --> 2:22:07.520 see on the screen. She reckons, he destroyed her career, 2:22:07.640 --> 2:22:12.280 tapped to phone masterminded all sorts of very peculiar skullduggery. Now, 2:22:12.440 --> 2:22:15.680 during his romance with Sondra, Clint had two more kids 2:22:15.920 --> 2:22:19.480 with a very beautiful flight attendant named Jocelyn. So they 2:22:19.520 --> 2:22:23.400 were Scott, who is now a famous actor, and Catherine. Again, 2:22:24.240 --> 2:22:26.080 it was one of the scandal sheets that was on 2:22:26.240 --> 2:22:29.600 the case and exposed Clint's cheating and as I say, 2:22:29.640 --> 2:22:32.200 they called it back then, loved children. Next up came 2:22:32.240 --> 2:22:34.800 an affair with the actress Francis Fisher. You might remember 2:22:34.840 --> 2:22:39.800 if you saw the Leo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio movie Titanic. 2:22:40.480 --> 2:22:43.959 Francis Fisher, wonderful actress. She played Kate Winslet, snooty mum 2:22:44.040 --> 2:22:46.920 in that movie. Well, Clinton Francis met when they're making 2:22:47.000 --> 2:22:50.760 the Pink Cadillac movie. This was in the eighties. They 2:22:50.800 --> 2:22:53.840 had a daughter, Francesca. So for those who have completely 2:22:53.959 --> 2:22:57.039 lost cap let me see one to seven kids so far. 2:22:57.680 --> 2:23:01.320 While Clint was romancing Francis, he begins a sly affair 2:23:01.400 --> 2:23:04.080 with a TV reported by the name of Dina Ruis. Now. 2:23:04.600 --> 2:23:08.240 They met nineteen ninety three. She came over to interview 2:23:08.320 --> 2:23:10.760 him about his you know, Stella career and all of that. 2:23:11.280 --> 2:23:13.720 Then was sixty three, she was twenty eight. They had 2:23:13.760 --> 2:23:16.800 a daughter together, so that's eight kids so far. They 2:23:16.959 --> 2:23:20.520 remained Clinton Diana married wife number two for fourteen years, 2:23:21.040 --> 2:23:24.160 but it hit the skids when Bringo you guessed that 2:23:24.320 --> 2:23:28.000 he was caught out apparently having his wicked way with 2:23:28.120 --> 2:23:32.720 some beauty again. She divorced him twenty fourteen, but told 2:23:32.800 --> 2:23:36.400 all to the National Inquiry. I think it was for 2:23:36.560 --> 2:23:40.360 maximum embarrassment. You see Luke saying that she had to 2:23:40.560 --> 2:23:44.320 use voodoo to cleanse her life of Clint Easa twenty 2:23:44.400 --> 2:23:47.360 four As you do, you'd be mad. Twenty fourteen, he 2:23:47.720 --> 2:23:51.680 starts dating a beautiful blonde named Christina Sandera, who was 2:23:51.840 --> 2:23:54.920 in fact a hostess at his mission in in Carmel 2:23:55.320 --> 2:23:58.400 restaurant he had there. Sadly, she died last year, only 2:23:58.480 --> 2:24:01.200 sixty one. He of course was nine, So he's now 2:24:01.320 --> 2:24:04.880 ninety five today apparently dating again, although we don't know 2:24:05.000 --> 2:24:09.720 the identity of his latest paramore. Look, he's around worth 2:24:09.800 --> 2:24:14.560 around five hundred million, stays fit, doing pilates, doesn't smoke, barely, drinks, 2:24:14.560 --> 2:24:18.880 stabbles in transcendental meditation, and as I say when we 2:24:19.040 --> 2:24:22.440 began our chat, not done yet. Should his health remain aokay? 2:24:23.040 --> 2:24:25.800 Looking to make another movie later this year? I mean, 2:24:25.840 --> 2:24:28.320 good lord, considering the life he's led, and I just 2:24:28.440 --> 2:24:30.400 touched on it, it's a wonder he wasn't worn out 2:24:30.480 --> 2:24:31.360 in the bedroom years. 2:24:31.520 --> 2:24:34.920 Oh well, I think that's a very fair observation. Look, 2:24:35.000 --> 2:24:39.039 you've been so generous with your time today. You've amazed 2:24:39.120 --> 2:24:41.960 us with all that information about Clint eastfood. None of 2:24:42.000 --> 2:24:44.440 that on you. I mean, next time I look at 2:24:44.440 --> 2:24:48.080 the unforgiven, well I look at it differently and. 2:24:48.200 --> 2:24:50.640 You'll realize why. That's what he's That's what he's. 2:24:50.600 --> 2:24:52.360 Very hard to say. 2:24:52.440 --> 2:24:54.000 You are under and forgiven. 2:24:54.600 --> 2:24:55.000 That's it. 2:24:55.280 --> 2:24:56.560 Thanks mate, every great weekend. 2:24:57.080 --> 2:24:57.400 That's it. 2:24:57.520 --> 2:24:57.920 Next week. 2:24:58.040 --> 2:25:00.520 Okay, see that's Craig Bennett. Have a chet to Mark 2:25:00.600 --> 2:25:02.240 Levy in a second. All right, we've got a spinal 2:25:02.280 --> 2:25:04.520 Le's pillow up for grabs here one three, one eight 2:25:04.640 --> 2:25:07.280 seven three for the quiz, I reckon, you'll nail it today. 2:25:07.360 --> 2:25:10.280 One three, one eight seven three. Mark's up next on 2:25:10.360 --> 2:25:15.000 the continuous Call team, with a likely bunch of suspects 2:25:15.200 --> 2:25:19.880 alongside him today, including Fergo, Big Marn make my day 2:25:20.240 --> 2:25:26.160 go ahead, and gals and yescuse here today, he storm, 2:25:26.200 --> 2:25:28.400 you're not going to cover that. No, we'll keep some school. 2:25:29.040 --> 2:25:30.000 I don't really care about that. 2:25:30.600 --> 2:25:33.080 Cowboys and West Tigers. Oh this one I'm in. Yeah, 2:25:33.160 --> 2:25:36.200 I reckon. I got I got to work this morning. 2:25:36.240 --> 2:25:37.520 I thought I've got to call the footing. 2:25:37.840 --> 2:25:39.920 I had last night off Luke and good. I went 2:25:39.959 --> 2:25:41.400 to have a drink. Well, I went at a couple 2:25:41.440 --> 2:25:43.640 of beers last night. Right, So I'm a little wounded today. 2:25:43.680 --> 2:25:44.880 But I don't get a chance to go out and 2:25:44.879 --> 2:25:45.400 see my mate. 2:25:45.400 --> 2:25:48.039 Did you have them in a schooner glass? I had 2:25:48.080 --> 2:25:48.520 a scoon of. 2:25:48.520 --> 2:25:50.200 Glass and then they got to a shorter glass with 2:25:50.320 --> 2:25:52.920 some bourbon and cake. Look at this, which I think 2:25:53.000 --> 2:25:54.000 gave me the headache this morning. 2:25:54.120 --> 2:25:55.120 I'm sure it wouldn't it. 2:25:56.000 --> 2:25:58.120 Going to celebrate New South Wales victory. And yeah I 2:25:58.160 --> 2:26:00.560 got a crack calling some Origin on Wednesday, which was fun. 2:26:00.600 --> 2:26:01.480 I bet it was fun. 2:26:03.320 --> 2:26:03.360 You. 2:26:04.680 --> 2:26:07.040 How did you feel any how about Brisbane? 2:26:08.280 --> 2:26:08.680 Still here? 2:26:09.080 --> 2:26:12.320 I was booping myself. Yeah, and you didn't do that 2:26:12.600 --> 2:26:15.080 your front well, not that we could tell. 2:26:15.160 --> 2:26:18.160 Listening well up in the Western grandstand at the very top, 2:26:18.240 --> 2:26:21.160 there's no toilet. No toilet, bit of an issue, especially 2:26:21.200 --> 2:26:22.280 when you get the half time and you need. 2:26:22.200 --> 2:26:25.640 To go to the toilet. Is that a good ground 2:26:25.680 --> 2:26:26.119 to call from? 2:26:26.240 --> 2:26:26.280 No? 2:26:26.440 --> 2:26:30.240 Terrible, terrible, it's it's it's such a magnificent stadium to 2:26:30.280 --> 2:26:33.600 go and watch from all reports play footy. But as 2:26:33.680 --> 2:26:37.320 far as see, Thirsty and Rayue told me that the 2:26:37.600 --> 2:26:40.000 radio boxes at Sun Corporate and afterthought when they built 2:26:40.040 --> 2:26:43.960 the stadium, the television boxes are beautiful, luxurious. We're up 2:26:43.959 --> 2:26:47.160 on the same level as the alicopters. Right anyway, first 2:26:47.240 --> 2:26:47.800 right problems? 2:26:47.800 --> 2:26:50.320 I know I we'll hear you soon. You want to 2:26:50.360 --> 2:26:51.480 see I am you look well? 2:26:51.520 --> 2:26:53.120 Like you like me? 2:26:53.360 --> 2:26:55.440 Just warm? Yeah? It is for would you like it? 2:26:56.120 --> 2:27:02.160 I don't think it had fit? Bye? Comets, got nothing 2:27:02.200 --> 2:27:05.920 to say to you. Bye? See you mate? Now who 2:27:05.959 --> 2:27:07.800 we got to play with today? Click? Someone tell me? 2:27:08.040 --> 2:27:12.920 Is it right? It's Rod from Picnic Point Good a Rod? Yeah, 2:27:12.959 --> 2:27:17.279 good mate. Coalition back together after the split. A frontbencher 2:27:17.440 --> 2:27:22.879 was dropped. Was it Jane Hume or John Howard? Correct? 2:27:23.280 --> 2:27:26.840 Princess Ingred Alexandria of Norway's an Now she's moving to 2:27:26.959 --> 2:27:30.480 Australia to study at Sydney. Union is the capital of Norway, 2:27:30.680 --> 2:27:36.240 Oslo or Mexico City, New South Wales. One. The origin 2:27:37.040 --> 2:27:44.400 was the first try scored by Zach Lomax or Elana Ferguson. Lomax, 2:27:46.200 --> 2:27:50.280 Thank you, thank you, thank you Rod. That's all she 2:27:50.400 --> 2:27:54.360 wrote you in Now I must leave you, but we're 2:27:54.400 --> 2:27:56.959 back tomorrow at nine o'clock. And Dave the bus driver 2:27:57.000 --> 2:28:00.320 who's written me this note, luky take care driving home please? 2:28:00.400 --> 2:28:05.080 Isn't that sweet? We have got reports of emergency vehicles 2:28:05.120 --> 2:28:08.720 on Woodville Road and Guilford Police responding to a car 2:28:08.879 --> 2:28:12.160 reported car accident there. We'll bring you more information as 2:28:12.200 --> 2:28:15.200 we get it here. Conservative commentator Will Kingston on the 2:28:15.240 --> 2:28:19.120 show tomorrow from the UK workplaces letting down case of 2:28:19.240 --> 2:28:23.480 passion patients. I'll speak to a remarkable Australian, Sue Wardell, 2:28:23.560 --> 2:28:25.200 on that catch you tomorrow. Bye bye