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Speaker 3: Good morning, Welcome to Weekends with Luke Grant. Great to
Speaker 3: be with you on two g BE in Sydney, four
Speaker 3: BC in Brisbane and listeners on the app joining us
Speaker 3: all around Australia. May thirty first, today, Saturday morning, the
Speaker 3: final day of autumn, and it happens to be World
Speaker 3: No Tobacco Day today. I noted the New South Wales
Speaker 3: Health Minister Ryan Parker suggesting that the number of people
Speaker 3: in New South Wales who smoke cigarettes has fallen to
Speaker 3: a it's lowest level on record. This is according to
Speaker 3: data published by New South Wales Health. They say around
Speaker 3: eleven percent of adults smoke daily or occasionally, a decline
Speaker 3: from fourteen percent back in twenty fifteen. Is annual lived experience.
Speaker 3: When you look around, you're seeing lets people. Whatever you do,
Speaker 3: don't smoke. What do they call them bangers, lungbusters, darts.
Speaker 3: Not trying to ematicize the concept of smoking. Whatever you do,
Speaker 3: don't smoke, but down to eleven percent. Data from the
Speaker 3: Cancer Institute of New South Wales release today shows people
Speaker 3: in the status seeking support to quit smoking and vaping
Speaker 3: more than twenty seven thousand calls supported by a counseling
Speaker 3: service quitline in the past year. While smoking rates of decline,
Speaker 3: rates of vaping remain high, with people sixteen to twenty
Speaker 3: four years having the highest rate of vaping of any
Speaker 3: age group, about twenty percent. And although there was a
Speaker 3: rapid inn increase in rates amongst this group from twenty eighteen,
Speaker 3: vaping rates have now started to stabilize. I say no
Speaker 3: figures from Queensland this morning, and of course a big
Speaker 3: issue was a black market tobacco which they tell me
Speaker 3: if you buy them as a court of the price
Speaker 3: of the legal product, it must be costing the government
Speaker 3: billions in revenue. We've touched on this story before. I
Speaker 3: say again, whatever you do is the late yul Brenner
Speaker 3: once famously said, don't smoke. Weather today in Sydney mostly
Speaker 3: sunny day, little bit cloudy. As we look out the
Speaker 3: window here slight chance of a shower. Be careful on
Speaker 3: the coast. Surf conditions may be more powerful than they
Speaker 3: appear and are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities
Speaker 3: such as rock fishing and swimming in the city twenty
Speaker 3: at Penrith twenty one nineteen at Paramatter Bond died along
Speaker 3: the coast twenty tomorrow. Mostly sunny in Sydney in twenty
Speaker 3: In Brisbane today a cloudy one with a very high
Speaker 3: channel and some showers becoming less likely late this afternoon
Speaker 3: and tonight. Those light winds be coming southeasterly in the
Speaker 3: middle of the day in Brisbane twenty one, the Airport
Speaker 3: twenty one, Ipswich twenty one, Sunny Coast twenty one and
Speaker 3: the Gold Coast twenty two tomorrow for Brisbane, another word day,
Speaker 3: they say, in a top of twenty three degrees, I'll
Speaker 3: get to James Willis from the Daily Telegraph, the News
Speaker 3: Court Papers in a moment, and then Charles psychologist clear
Speaker 3: Row a couple of I'll tell you what wherever you
Speaker 3: look today there are great stories. So I don't like
Speaker 3: to talk things up here too much, but boy, there's
Speaker 3: some stuff to tell you about this morning. Let me
Speaker 3: start with this and as I say in the classics,
Speaker 3: you be the judge. This is out of the Courier
Speaker 3: Mail today they report that a heavily intoxicated driver who
Speaker 3: sped through a red light at a busy Brisbane intersection,
Speaker 3: leaving a local politician with a traumatic brain injury, will
Speaker 3: serve no time no time in custody. They report the
Speaker 3: former Greens NP Amy McMahon was left comatose with serious injuries,
Speaker 3: including blood clots to her brain and a carotid artery dissection,
Speaker 3: after the horror crash in February twenty twenty four. Despite
Speaker 3: her injuries, doctor McMahon made a generous plea through her
Speaker 3: victim impact statement at the driver's responsibles sentence on Friday
Speaker 3: yesterday not to send them to jail now, The CORPUS
Speaker 3: told Ronie Page Lowry, a twenty seven year old of Maruka,
Speaker 3: had run a red light at the intersection of Main
Speaker 3: Street in Bains Road to Kangaroo Point around six point
Speaker 3: thirty pm while over three times the legal alcohol limit.
Speaker 3: Three times. She'd been driving her mother's uninsured he yund
Speaker 3: Ay I thirty southbound on Main Street more than twenty
Speaker 3: k's over the sixty k limit when she struck doctor
Speaker 3: McMahon's Toyota Prius. The Crown Prosecutor Luke Smoothie told the
Speaker 3: court Lowry had accelerated the speeds of up to ninety
Speaker 3: k's and the seconds prior to the collision, she struck
Speaker 3: the car of doctor McMahon, who had been working in
Speaker 3: a role as an MP that night, at speed of
Speaker 3: eighty three k's an how they say, and CCTV captured
Speaker 3: doctor McMahon's Prius spin one hundred and eighty degrees from
Speaker 3: the impact of the collision, with extensive damage immediately visible
Speaker 3: to both cars. Now Lowry was found to have a
Speaker 3: blood alcohol content of zero point one to eighty six.
Speaker 3: Doctor McMahon was hospitalized for two and a half weeks
Speaker 3: and was in a brain injury rehabilitation unit for half
Speaker 3: that time. The court heard she suffered post traumatic amnesia
Speaker 3: and was unable to form memories for a week. Smoothie said,
Speaker 3: without hospitalization, doctor McMahon would have been at quite serious
Speaker 3: risk of neurological deterioration and that would have led to
Speaker 3: her death unquote. Now the woman pleaded guilty in April
Speaker 3: to dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm
Speaker 3: while adversely affected, and was sentenced yesterday to three years
Speaker 3: jail with immediate parole. Immediate parole. Doctor McMahon did not
Speaker 3: attend the sentence in person, but the judge, David Kent,
Speaker 3: noted the rare compassion she'd shown in her statement, saying,
Speaker 3: very generously, it says towards the start that in some
Speaker 3: ways it has enriched her life. Justice for her is
Speaker 3: Missus Lowry's genuine rehabilitation. If there is support, you need
Speaker 3: to make sure you never ever for the rest of
Speaker 3: your life do something like this again. And you need support,
Speaker 3: I'm willing to help, very generous. Despite doctor McMahon's request,
Speaker 3: mister Smoothie said Lowry should serve up to six months
Speaker 3: in actual custody, considerating considering rather the devastating consequence of
Speaker 3: her actions. At the defense, barrister Jack Kennedy, instructed by
Speaker 3: Bevin Lawyers, said his client stopped driving by choice after
Speaker 3: the crash and had struggled with feelings of remorse and shame.
Speaker 3: He tended a letter of apology that Larry had written
Speaker 3: in response to the victim impact statement. Kennedy said Larry
Speaker 3: had relapsed into alcohol dependency and depression following an unexpected
Speaker 3: death in her family five months prior to the collision.
Speaker 3: He said she wasn't drinking for the thrill of it
Speaker 3: or the excitement, but had been attempting to ease her anxiety.
Speaker 3: He submitted that Lowry's ADHD diagnosis, in combination with the alcohol,
Speaker 3: had also impacted her ability to rationalize. The court heard
Speaker 3: Larry had no criminal or traffic history in Queensland, but
Speaker 3: had been convicted in New South Wales at the age
Speaker 3: of nineteen of driving while suspended and over middle alcohol limit.
Speaker 3: As I said, you be the judge. Judge can't acknowledge
Speaker 3: Larry had a difficult upbringing, said she'd give significant He
Speaker 3: would give significant weight to the victim's views, but he
Speaker 3: said he needed to balance a serious competing factors, including
Speaker 3: the severity of the offending, to determine an appropriate sentence.
Speaker 3: He ultimately sentenced Larry to three years jail with immediate parole.
Speaker 3: Larry's li likesnse automatically disqualified for one year. Now. Victim's
Speaker 3: statements are a must and it's a delicate consideration, but
Speaker 3: aren't their community expectations. I'm not sure they're met here.
Speaker 6: Now.
Speaker 3: I'm not suggesting here to lock the door and toss
Speaker 3: the keys away, not at all. But consequences for actions
Speaker 3: need to inform the next person, next person, rather that
Speaker 3: society expects them to, even in tough times, respect your
Speaker 3: fellow Australian's right to exist safely. I understand about compassion,
Speaker 3: I do, But seriously, in relation to the community expectations,
Speaker 3: I wonder if in your mind, again, you better judge
Speaker 3: this meets appropriate penalty. I'm not sure. The Sydney Harbor
Speaker 3: Bridge tolls on the way up, and Chrisman said he's
Speaker 3: going to build buses in Australia, Well apparently they're rolling
Speaker 3: off a ship from China. You got to laugh, don't you.
Speaker 3: How long does it take a politician to lie? Doesn't
Speaker 3: appear to take all that long. I'll get into the
Speaker 3: meat of this story in a minute, but seriously, if
Speaker 3: you want to see a politician lying, let them say
Speaker 3: something and just wait two hundred and seventy five dollars anyone.
Speaker 7: Now.
Speaker 3: The Men's government is finally cracking down to protect customers
Speaker 3: from the sale of dodgy heat pumps. These are hot
Speaker 3: water systems. I've got one of these at home in
Speaker 3: the house I bought, so it's not something we went
Speaker 3: out to buy. And now knowing about this, I'm kind
Speaker 3: of going, hello, this is great work in the Telegraph
Speaker 3: by James Willis, the beating hard form of beating heart
Speaker 3: of TWOGB. They're launching a compliance splits the government to
Speaker 3: stop the cowboys who run a muck on the government
Speaker 3: subsidized heating scheme. In fact, some are calling this pink
Speaker 3: bats two point zero. Who do you reckon? The government
Speaker 3: says is the architect of this initiative former New South
Speaker 3: Wales Energy Minister Matt kean Elbow's climate zar. As I say,
Speaker 3: the man with the story is James Willis of the
Speaker 3: Daily Telegraph, who joins me on the line. James, good morning,
Speaker 3: my friend. I hope you're well. You've been following this
Speaker 3: story and it's been bizarre to hear you or to
Speaker 3: read you writing about water on powerpoints and the like.
Speaker 3: Just how dangerous is all this stuff?
Speaker 8: Happy Saturday, Luke, and look good morning to you and
Speaker 8: your listeners. Look, this is an issue that two weeks
Speaker 8: ago I knew absolutely nothing about, and I think it's
Speaker 8: pretty clear that, just like you said, most people know
Speaker 8: nothing about hot water systems. They only think about them
Speaker 8: the moment they turn their taps on one day and
Speaker 8: the water doesn't heat up, and they decided to call
Speaker 8: a plumber. But what happened was there was a federal
Speaker 8: scheme that's been running for a long time, and then
Speaker 8: the state government under Matt Kean in early twenty twenty two,
Speaker 8: decided to add two further incentives, which basically allowed these
Speaker 8: hot water systems that generally retail between one thousand dollars
Speaker 8: and five thousand dollars to be so lucrative that all
Speaker 8: of these cowboys came into the market and knocked on
Speaker 8: people's doors, called people, ran letterbox drops all over social media,
Speaker 8: and said we can give you a hot water system
Speaker 8: for free. If you're a business or if you're in
Speaker 8: a household. There's a payment of just thirty three dollars.
Speaker 8: So all of a sudden, people said, hey, do you
Speaker 8: want a free hot water system? Of course, Hey, guess
Speaker 8: what we can give you two. Well, the reason they
Speaker 8: were giving so many away was because the incentives were.
Speaker 6: So lucrative that they were.
Speaker 8: Importing these products from overseas cheap goods, largely from China
Speaker 8: and it created this feeding frenzy where we had behavior
Speaker 8: that was very similar to the pink Bats saga in
Speaker 8: the Kevin Rudd government, where there was dodgy systems, unqualified workers.
Speaker 8: And now the Men's government is finally conceding that we've
Speaker 8: had one hundred and twenty thousand of these systems installed
Speaker 8: in New South Wales, four hundred thousand across Australia and
Speaker 8: most of them are not up to standards, not working
Speaker 8: and in some cases potentially dangerous.
Speaker 3: So the Building Commission's already conducted some order to design
Speaker 3: understand it. What did that uncover?
Speaker 8: Mate, Well, there's been a two audits at the Building
Speaker 8: Commission that we know about. The first one the compliance
Speaker 8: levels were just nine percent in properties and also in
Speaker 8: the businesses that they looked at. The second order it
Speaker 8: was just thirty seven percent. They've now agreed to look
Speaker 8: at this further and do a compliance blitz and Mate
Speaker 8: and look at some properties that they believe are going
Speaker 8: to be a problem. So there's going to be a
Speaker 8: lot more wider looks at this. The Plumbers Association, the
Speaker 8: Master Plumbers have done their own checks.
Speaker 9: They found an.
Speaker 8: Average of four non tradesmen like installations at everything, and
Speaker 8: the Building Commission is very concerned in particular about and
Speaker 8: this is technical, but it's a lack of an RCD,
Speaker 8: which is basically the socket that keeps someone safe from electrocution.
Speaker 8: So but these have been installed everywhere by people that
Speaker 8: weren't up to the job, a lot of them. You
Speaker 8: had to have three different trades that did not exist.
Speaker 8: But the problem is this is a gold medal example
Speaker 8: Luke of where net zero is just this thought bubble
Speaker 8: without guardrails in place. We all want to give people
Speaker 8: a heat pump, and the heat pumps are in theory
Speaker 8: and energy saving appliance instead of an electrical hot water
Speaker 8: system or a gas hot water system. But it was
Speaker 8: brought in by Matt Kean without requiring people to show
Speaker 8: their license details if they were a plumber, without backing
Speaker 8: some of the verified and good quality hot water systems,
Speaker 8: and without requiring them to have a minimum energy performance standard.
Speaker 8: So I mean, it's been an absolute disaster and now
Speaker 8: the Men's government is trying to clean it up. But
Speaker 8: there's a lot more work to do in this space
Speaker 8: because people don't know they got this free system and
Speaker 8: all of a sudden a year later or two years
Speaker 8: later it's not working and they go to call the
Speaker 8: person that actually installed it. That company doesn't exist anymore.
Speaker 8: In some cases they're saying we're not liable and you know,
Speaker 8: you can't get that free hot water system, and a
Speaker 8: lot of people replace, you know, systems that were working
Speaker 8: fine and just said yeah, look we'll take the free one,
Speaker 8: only to realize that they're being done and so they've
Speaker 8: decided to bend door knocking so you can't get the
Speaker 8: knock on the door anymore. And from someone saying here's
Speaker 8: the free system, they'll also bring in a five year warranty,
Speaker 8: which is a good move as well. But the worst
Speaker 8: part about this, Luke, is that we have one of
Speaker 8: the last Australian made manufacturing industries in this space, led
Speaker 8: by Ducks and Rhem and Renei, who actually could have
Speaker 8: done the majority of his work. Instead they allowed the
Speaker 8: cowboys and the foreign goods to flow into.
Speaker 9: The market and that's where we have the problem.
Speaker 3: Excellent reporting and James has got examples of some of
Speaker 3: this stuff gone wrong, including one that stopped working the
Speaker 3: day after installation and another it sounds like it was
Speaker 3: roaring with noise. I mean, you would have been there
Speaker 3: in the shower thinking there was a bloody lion loss
Speaker 3: in the backyard. Great reporting, mate, Thank you so much
Speaker 3: for your time.
Speaker 2: Good to talk to you.
Speaker 9: No worries, glad you mate, Thank you mate.
Speaker 3: James willis there? How about this? Calls for lessons about
Speaker 3: climate change to be deferred to high school because they're
Speaker 3: fueling anxiety and children as young as five. This is
Speaker 3: such a big story. Leading Charles psychologist Claire Rowe has
Speaker 3: released a report. She says that nine year olds are
Speaker 3: crying because they think they're not going to see adulthood
Speaker 3: as the earth will die. Shame on you, and I'm
Speaker 3: talking here to the sector that thinks how sexy it
Speaker 3: is to make a change in the weather, a life
Speaker 3: altering experience. Weather it's been changing for the entirety of
Speaker 3: many of us who have got fifty or sixty years
Speaker 3: on it our lives. It's something that happens. One day
Speaker 3: it's wet, another day's dry. Some days it's hot, other
Speaker 3: days it's cold. You might get an East Coast low,
Speaker 3: then you might not get one for a year. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is disgusting, all trying and many of these people
Speaker 3: are rent seekers with their fingers in the class change
Speaker 3: subsity pie. It's disgusting. And if people like me go
Speaker 3: out and say this stuff, Oh look at you denier. Ah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you're a denier. So what the hell are kids learning
Speaker 3: in schools? To talk us through the research? I'm pleased
Speaker 3: to say that leading charle psychologists ad junk professor at
Speaker 3: the Institute of Public Affairs, Claire Row joins us on
Speaker 3: the line right now. Thanks so much for your time, Claire,
Speaker 3: and for raising this story. What sort of alarmist messaging
Speaker 3: are kids getting about climate change in schools?
Speaker 10: Well, good morning, Luke, thanks for having me on about this. Look,
Speaker 10: this research that we've done now through the IPA is
Speaker 10: pretty clear, and I found out that we are teaching
Speaker 10: climate change to young children in a way that is
Speaker 10: I think completely developmentally inappropriate. I mean, it just doesn't
Speaker 10: match up with the science of what we know about
Speaker 10: six seven eight year olds in their cognitive capacity to
Speaker 10: even think about this stuff, you know, and they're being
Speaker 10: presented with eccidential threats and pretty doomsday heavy information. And
Speaker 10: even if you subscribe, Luke to climate change happening, it
Speaker 10: doesn't inspire or motivate action. What we're doing is just
Speaker 10: completely scaring our kids and overwhelming them. And as you know,
Speaker 10: I run a clinical practice in Sydney and I've been
Speaker 10: seeing this for the last ten years. We've got nine
Speaker 10: year olds coming in, like you said, who are literally
Speaker 10: in tears and they don't think they're going to make
Speaker 10: it to adulthood. I mean, that is abusive. That is
Speaker 10: absolutely awful, and you know, my staff are looking at
Speaker 10: me saying, how do we help these kids? And it's
Speaker 10: really starting what they're learning at school.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, I mean that is you said it
Speaker 3: if that's not an abuse of someone's mental health, because
Speaker 3: the reality is there's a good side to this story
Speaker 3: if it is. In fact. No, of course, the climate
Speaker 3: is changing, but we're really good on planet Earth. We
Speaker 3: can adapt, we can change the way we do things,
Speaker 3: we can find a solution. But the spirit of positivity
Speaker 3: and hope. It's almost like Claire, that's being stolen in
Speaker 3: this whole thing.
Speaker 10: Well, that's exactly it is. We're just paralyzing kids and
Speaker 10: to be kind of you know, as said, anxious and
Speaker 10: have this what we call learned helplessness. And a lot
Speaker 10: of the research up to date has been around climate
Speaker 10: anxiety of mental health as a direct consequence of climate change,
Speaker 10: whereas this IPA research is really about kids are anxious
Speaker 10: not directly because of climate change. They're anxious because of
Speaker 10: the way the curriculum is set up. Most parents don't
Speaker 10: know that sustainability I Climate is what they call a
Speaker 10: cross curriculum priority, and that means it has to be
Speaker 10: in every subject. Like we've got kids in you two
Speaker 10: doing rap songs about climate change in their music lessons,
Speaker 10: So parents have no idea this is going on. It's
Speaker 10: across the board every every day, filtered through, and what
Speaker 10: I'm seeing is the way it's taught. It kind of
Speaker 10: gives this moral pressure to kids that they have to
Speaker 10: do something to save the planet, and of course at
Speaker 10: six or seven years old, they can't. So they're in
Speaker 10: this really stuck position feeling that of course the government's
Speaker 10: not listening to them. They go home to mom and
Speaker 10: dad and they say, we shouldn't be eating red meat,
Speaker 10: or we shouldn't be using the family car as much.
Speaker 10: And it's just awful to see some of the state
Speaker 10: that these kids are in. And of course, you know,
Speaker 10: it is really about activism through our schools and creating
Speaker 10: young activists. Of course, when they turn out the other end.
Speaker 3: Couldn't agree with you more. The report is the IPA Report,
Speaker 3: Climate Change, Anxiety in pre Adolescent Children and Neuroscientific and
Speaker 3: Psychological Perspective. Well worth a look at the IPA's website.
Speaker 3: Great to talk to you, Claire, Thanks so much.
Speaker 10: Thanks Luke, had a good weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah you too, Claire Row. She's a beauty, isn't she
Speaker 3: just a ripper? That's such a big story and of
Speaker 3: course just swept away. Ah, look at that another denier
Speaker 3: give us a break. Gosh, Dennis Shanahan coming up shortly.
Speaker 3: Fascinating story today. The voter turnout in the federal election,
Speaker 3: at ninety point sixty seven is the second lowest in
Speaker 3: one hundred years. The only federal election with a lower
Speaker 3: voter turnout since the introduction of compulsory voting in nineteen
Speaker 3: twenty five was a COVID effect at twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: election that was eighty nine point eight percent of eligible
Speaker 3: voters casting a ballot. After ten this morning, an update
Speaker 3: on the murder of Rachel Childs. The police today announcing
Speaker 3: a higher reward for information. Pauline Hanson will join me
Speaker 3: after ten. One Nation doubling its Senate representation. Looking forward
Speaker 3: to chatting with Pauline economist from Macro Business. Leef van
Speaker 3: Ansalen joining me after eleven Surprise, surprise, federalman talking about
Speaker 3: an East Coast gas reservation policy idea. It's being floated.
Speaker 3: I wonder where they got that idea from. Ask a
Speaker 3: trade with Simon Stevenson at ten thirty. We'll get to him.
Speaker 3: We've got Craig Bennett joining me later on. Here look
Speaker 3: at the life and times of Clint Eastwood. He'll also
Speaker 3: reflect on the life of Loretta Swit Hot lips Hulahan
Speaker 3: from mash who's passed away overnight. Yeah, that was on
Speaker 3: Channel ten wasn't it six o'clock at night or something
Speaker 3: like that? Look when I was a kid anyway, that's sad.
Speaker 3: Used to love Hot lips Hulahan. Alice Stole from Domain
Speaker 3: A deep into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney.
Speaker 3: Of course, I quiz your calls, texts and emails order
Speaker 3: those breaking using Inframtior to help you get around town
Speaker 3: with a minimum of Farsit Saturday May thirty one, thirteen
Speaker 3: degrees in Sydney, seventeen in Brisbane. And this is weekends
Speaker 3: with Luke Grant on two GB and four BC. We
Speaker 3: better check the roads with the Great Catherine Hines today
Speaker 3: just on this buses made in Australia but actually made
Speaker 3: in China story I see the New South bos opposition
Speaker 3: leader Mark Speakman saying today Chris Means promised one hundred
Speaker 3: and twenty six buses would be built in Nara. Instead
Speaker 3: they were being built in Beijing, paraded in a delivery
Speaker 3: ceremony by a Chinese manufacturer, quietly shipped into Port Kembler,
Speaker 3: fully built and draped in red ribbons. He says, this
Speaker 3: is the latest conjob from a government addicted to spin.
Speaker 3: In twenty twenty two, the then labor leaders to with
Speaker 3: unions and launched the built in New South Wales campaign.
Speaker 3: He made made in New South Wales one of his
Speaker 3: slogans of his campaign. Now we know it was never real.
Speaker 3: These buses were never going to be built here. The
Speaker 3: narrow facility Chris Means promised remains a mirage. All that's
Speaker 3: happening locally is the bolting in of seats and installation
Speaker 3: of card readers, not manufacturing, not jobs, and not what
Speaker 3: the premier told the people of New South Wales. Any
Speaker 3: reasonable person would say this doesn't pass the pub test. Well,
Speaker 3: we try and be reasonable here, so allow me to
Speaker 3: say this doesn't pass the pub test.
Speaker 1: Prime and Stuff The Central Politics with Dennis Shanahan, National
Speaker 1: Editor of The Australian.
Speaker 3: Dennis Shanahan, good morning, Good lud. Nice day in Camper.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it is, my.
Speaker 11: Friend, it's a very nice day. And on down the
Speaker 11: coast it's even nicer.
Speaker 3: Of course you are, or you're probably not far from
Speaker 3: that bus manufacturing planted Narra.
Speaker 11: But we well, I was listening to that. I'm a
Speaker 11: little bit further south, okay.
Speaker 9: But it's beautiful on my cap.
Speaker 3: Sure it is lost to talk about here. The Trump
Speaker 3: administration's asked Australia to lift its defense spending. The Deputy
Speaker 3: Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles says we're up
Speaker 3: for the conversation. The PM's not so convinced, is he.
Speaker 11: No, he's not. Look, we knew this request was going
Speaker 11: to come. Ever since Donald Trump was elected president. He's
Speaker 11: been saying he wants all the allies to spend more.
Speaker 11: He's asked the Europeans to spend five percent of their GDP,
Speaker 11: the figure that the US has pointed to Australia is
Speaker 11: about three percent now. During the election campaign or before
Speaker 11: the election campaign, Labor committed to a two percent going
Speaker 11: to two point three in eight year years time. Now,
Speaker 11: that's well short of what the US administration has now
Speaker 11: asked Richard Miles for in Singapore, and Richard Miles I said, yeah,
Speaker 11: we're up for this conversation. I love this term that
Speaker 11: we're up for the conversation. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister this
Speaker 11: week has been bagging out think tank for saying that
Speaker 11: we needed to spend more and say no, we don't
Speaker 11: at all the rest. So it looks like Richard Miles
Speaker 11: and Anthony A. Lbernozi are going to have to have
Speaker 11: one of those conversations about increasing spending now. Peter Dutton
Speaker 11: committed during the campaign to increase defense spending to three percent.
Speaker 11: Now the Prime Minister indicated that he would spend more
Speaker 11: if necessary. The question now is does he think it's
Speaker 11: necessary that the US is saying yes, we need to
Speaker 11: put in an estimated extra twenty eight billion dollars into
Speaker 11: the defense budget.
Speaker 3: Goodness me. The coalition finally back together. A new team
Speaker 3: looks to be a product of the factions and payback
Speaker 3: as well being very inexperienced, making the future potentially harder.
Speaker 3: In opposition, people like Jane Hume, who obviously screwed things
Speaker 3: up at a ridiculous level with that work from home idea,
Speaker 3: even though it was for the public service. It was
Speaker 3: so easy for the government to twist that. But she's
Speaker 3: mia to center. Price looks like she's been demoted. What
Speaker 3: do you make of it?
Speaker 11: Well, look the Jacinta Novinjimpa Price is a typical example here.
Speaker 11: She defected from the NATS after the Country Liberal Party
Speaker 11: to be precise to the Liberal Party and joined them
Speaker 11: and said she'd be in their party room. The expectation
Speaker 11: was that she would be rewarded with this and that
Speaker 11: she would likely be Indigenous affairs spokesman for the Liberals.
Speaker 11: Now it turns out Karen Little a very good by
Speaker 11: the way, you know, she's very good and I've got
Speaker 11: no problem. In fact, I think it's a very good appointment.
Speaker 11: But it is clear that some of the expectations from
Speaker 11: Susan Lee's decisions on who she put wear have fallen
Speaker 11: well short. Certainly Jane Hume has suffered her from working
Speaker 11: from hum problem, but she was one of the better
Speaker 11: performers for the coalition in opposition. She was a good
Speaker 11: financed spokesman and so I think that she's really suffered,
Speaker 11: probably too much of a demotion then more than she deserved.
Speaker 11: We saw Angus Taylor shifted to foreign affairs. Now he
Speaker 11: had not really hit the government hard enough on the
Speaker 11: economy when he should have, but his foreign affairs isn't
Speaker 11: so much of a demotion. It's a bit of a
Speaker 11: sideway shift. But there are other promotions and emotions which
Speaker 11: indicate Susan Lee and David Little Proud are rewarding people
Speaker 11: who voted for them in close leadership ballots. This is
Speaker 11: always a recipe for disaster, and what we've seen, particularly
Speaker 11: in the appointments in New South Wales is what everyone feared,
Speaker 11: and that is the continuation of the factional fighting, which
Speaker 11: in the New South Wales branch is particularly bad. It's
Speaker 11: not real flash elsewhere, I have to admit, but it
Speaker 11: does indicate that the Susan Lee David a Little Proud team.
Speaker 11: While they are a coalition of short on experience, some
Speaker 11: people have been favored above others because of backing and
Speaker 11: factional support, and I don't think this is good for
Speaker 11: the long term, which for a fairly inexperienced group to
Speaker 11: take on what is now a very confident government.
Speaker 3: Yeah confident. They certainly are all right. Dentists just hold
Speaker 3: their a sect. My friend will take a break, come
Speaker 3: back and talk more. We've got carbon emission reduction targets,
Speaker 3: so we're going to get there. I'm not so sure.
Speaker 3: We will back with Dennis on that and plenty more
Speaker 3: after this. Just before I get back to Dennis, a
Speaker 3: couple of things quickly.
Speaker 12: No.
Speaker 3: L four Westmead and Carlingford Line light rail services are
Speaker 3: running between West Meat and Paramatta Square. There are urgent
Speaker 3: tram repairs that the Children's hospital We've just been told this,
Speaker 3: and replacement buses have been requested but are yet to
Speaker 3: start running. More details upcoming. And the woman accused of
Speaker 3: the murder of her three year old daughter near Bunderberg
Speaker 3: earlier this week has been found unresponsive in her cell
Speaker 3: at Queensland Police saying detectives from the Corrective Services Investigation
Speaker 3: Unit instating after a thirty two year old woman was
Speaker 3: located unresponsive violent custody at Brisbane Women's Correctional Center yesterday.
Speaker 3: There's no further information. Lauren Ingrid Funnigan thirty two, allegedly
Speaker 3: stabbed her daughter so Sofia multiple times on the front
Speaker 3: law lawn of their home at Moore Park Beach on Monday.
Speaker 3: Again we'll get further info. Miss Funnigan's been transferred. I'm
Speaker 3: told to hospital. One three one eight seven three is
Speaker 3: a number. On a Saturday morning, we chapped to Dennis Shanahan,
Speaker 3: the national editor of The Oars and Dennis failing carbon
Speaker 3: emission reduction targets and rising electricity prices putting new pressure
Speaker 3: on the government's renewable energy policies.
Speaker 11: Ah. Yes, look, Luke, the government got you know, it's
Speaker 11: set a big mandate for its renewable energies policy from
Speaker 11: the election campaign. But now we've got a few problems
Speaker 11: starting to appear. For a start, on the sort of
Speaker 11: the environmental climate change side, it is clear now the
Speaker 11: government is not going to reach it's twenty thirty emissions targets.
Speaker 11: It is not going to do it. The latest figures
Speaker 11: show that carbon emissions are increasing and as the Green said,
Speaker 11: they're actually higher than they were under Scott Morrison. That's
Speaker 11: partly because the COVID impact on manufacturing. But what we've
Speaker 11: actually seen is an increase in carbon emissions, particularly from
Speaker 11: the power sector. And so what we've actually got is
Speaker 11: the government suffering from increased its promises and targets being
Speaker 11: broken because of the increased use of coal fiede power stations,
Speaker 11: extending the life of coal five power stations. We need
Speaker 11: this for the electricity, but it means that the emissions
Speaker 11: are going up. And not only that, in addition, the
Speaker 11: renewable rollout of all the windmills and the offshore wind production,
Speaker 11: the big solar are all falling behind Hydro, the snowy
Speaker 11: Hydro falling behind, going behind schedule, so they're just not
Speaker 11: going to reach these targets. And on the other side,
Speaker 11: on the consumer side, electricity prices are going to go
Speaker 11: up on the East Coast from July one by ten percent.
Speaker 11: So we all remember that promise of the cut in
Speaker 11: our electricity prices of two hundred and seventy five dollars
Speaker 11: the election before. So what the government is now seeing
Speaker 11: is after the election, in the cold heart light of day,
Speaker 11: is what we're seeing increased power prices, increase carbon emissions,
Speaker 11: and both of them are hurting them in different parts
Speaker 11: of the electric.
Speaker 3: Yeah, unraveling like many people said it would and it
Speaker 3: will continue, and I'll just say, oh, we need to
Speaker 3: get more solar and more wind, and I'll just make
Speaker 3: it worse. Do you think there'll be another interest rate
Speaker 3: cut in July?
Speaker 11: Well, look, I think that the figures certainly suggest that would.
Speaker 11: I didn't think the Reserve Bank would go as it
Speaker 11: did at the last meeting. That they did, and that
Speaker 11: was shown this week to have been the right decision
Speaker 11: because what we've seen inflation has been steady, but retail
Speaker 11: sales are down. This is the first time in several
Speaker 11: years that retail sales on a month to month basis
Speaker 11: have actually gone down, and we've also had a collapse
Speaker 11: in private investment for business. These are big problems for
Speaker 11: the government. We've got all of the employer groups, all
Speaker 11: of the business groups, all the industry groups saying we're
Speaker 11: in a real botta now productivity and we're seeing increased
Speaker 11: industrial action, increased demands for higher wages, and the private
Speaker 11: sector is saying we're not going to invest while we've
Speaker 11: got all of these problems. This was the biggest drop
Speaker 11: in private investment for years, and it has really come
Speaker 11: as a surprise to both the Treasury and business. So
Speaker 11: I think that the economy is starting to get into
Speaker 11: that sort of delayed reaction where people are pulling back
Speaker 11: from spending money and business is saying we're not going
Speaker 11: to invest. These are longer term problems the government is
Speaker 11: really going to have to face, and I think the
Speaker 11: Reserve Bank will probably have to cut rates again in July.
Speaker 3: Have a nice time down on the South coast, mate,
Speaker 3: always good to chat to you. Look after yourself and
Speaker 3: I'll talk to you in a week's time, thankfully. Dennis Shanahan,
Speaker 3: National editor of the Australian newspaper. It all looks. It's
Speaker 3: incredible the speed with which political news, financial news and
Speaker 3: the like revolves, and how things can quickly turn, and
Speaker 3: how you know you need to have a steady hand,
Speaker 3: and that electing a government is not the best three
Speaker 3: word slogan that's on offer. I'm not saying anything necessarily
Speaker 3: about Jimbo or Albow or any of the other Bow's
Speaker 3: ability to deal with things here, but to think that
Speaker 3: you know we're on fire, we're heading in the right
Speaker 3: direction and let's go again baby is sometimes. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can you can think that way and hope that way,
Speaker 3: but it really ends up being that simple, doesn't it
Speaker 3: always the case? Nine to ten. Thank you for listening
Speaker 3: on this Saturday morning. It's five to ten. From the
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Speaker 3: Ian says I had a call from someone offering me
Speaker 3: a free hot water heater. When I inquired as to
Speaker 3: what the standards were that at META, if it met
Speaker 3: Australian standards, they hung up. Thank you. Ian Brad says,
Speaker 3: I asked my plumber about electric heat pump hot water
Speaker 3: systems six months ago. He said no, he wouldn't install
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Speaker 3: He wouldn't do that to a loyal customer. Michelle says
Speaker 3: Matt Kean should be charged. If Bobo Bowen was involved,
Speaker 3: he should also be charged. Wow, thanks for getting in touch.
Speaker 3: Josh on the smoking decreasing rates, says that data is rubbish.
Speaker 3: They're not picking up all the smokers buying illegal cigarettes.
Speaker 3: Tony says the government gets its stats from cigarette sales.
Speaker 3: From what I see, forty percent of cigarette sold are
Speaker 3: the illegal ones. Rod says, can they count the illegal
Speaker 3: cigarettes being brought? I think possibly not. Steve says, as
Speaker 3: a smoker, I can't believe there's not an instant medication
Speaker 3: to stop. That's a very interesting point. Thank you, Steve. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I teg you. It was a busy day. Hang on
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Speaker 3: to affect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Australian
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Speaker 2: Across Australia. It's back to weekends. We'll look grat.
Speaker 3: Good morning. Thank you for tuning in Saturday. It's the
Speaker 3: thirty first day of May, the last day of autumn
Speaker 3: winter tomorrow, who's going to get cold? I don't want
Speaker 3: to scare you about the climate, but yes, here we
Speaker 3: are on a Saturday morning. I hope things are good
Speaker 3: wherever you might be. A wet one in Brisbane, not
Speaker 3: so wet in Sydney. The Son's trying to do its
Speaker 3: best from what we can see. One three one eight
Speaker 3: seventy three. That is our open line number. Plenty of calls,
Speaker 3: plenty of texts and asquillion emails that I get too shortly. Apparently,
Speaker 3: the Prime Minister's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions is
Speaker 3: on life support, according to Greg Brown and Perry Williams
Speaker 3: in the OS after new data showed australianan's carbon footprint
Speaker 3: rose last year, driven by a two point two percent
Speaker 3: increase in the electricity sector, Energy experts declared the Albanesi
Speaker 3: government was set to fail its international commitment to lower
Speaker 3: emissions by forty three percent of five levels by the
Speaker 3: end of the decade, complicating Labour's plan of adopting new
Speaker 3: and more ambitious twenty thirty five target ahead of a
Speaker 3: climate change conference in November. Figures released by the Climate
Speaker 3: Change Department show CO two emissions rose by zero point
Speaker 3: zero five percent in twenty twenty four, equivalent to a
Speaker 3: twenty seven percent lower than two thousand and five, and
Speaker 3: it needs to be forty three according to the government.
Speaker 3: Energy expert Bruce Mountain said he didn't think there was
Speaker 3: a chance the federal government would meet its twenty thirty commitment.
Speaker 3: As I said earlier, the problem with that is that they'll,
Speaker 3: you know, then they'll go on steroids to do the quick.
Speaker 3: I'm sure wind farm quick and we know how that
Speaker 3: ends up. I note this also ABC's Laura Tingle has
Speaker 3: unleashed on the newly reunited Liberal and Nationals parties in
Speaker 3: one of her last appearances in her current role, calling
Speaker 3: the current state of the coalition a clown show. Appearing
Speaker 3: on the ABC's Party Room podcast for the last time
Speaker 3: with fellow journalists Patricia Cavellis and fran Kelly, Tingle said
Speaker 3: the opposition's current policy positions were broadly irrelevant. She says,
Speaker 3: I can say this because I'm going but I don't care.
Speaker 3: These people are irrelevant for the next little while. There
Speaker 3: is side show. They're a clown show. See. I think
Speaker 3: it's great to have an opinion, great to own your opinion,
Speaker 3: but not when the tax payer is paying for it.
Speaker 3: That's the problem, Laura. And it's okay to believe in
Speaker 3: stuff and you, it appears to me from my observations,
Speaker 3: you're a fan of the left of politics or progressive politics,
Speaker 3: I called. And that's a matter entirely for you. But
Speaker 3: you don't get to express that on our dime. Join
Speaker 3: the ranks of commercial media, where you have to compete
Speaker 3: with other stations, and if you do okay, then you
Speaker 3: might get another crack at it next time around. But
Speaker 3: that's the problem, always been the problem, not the fact
Speaker 3: that you're not entitled to an opinion. You are good, ay, youna, oh,
Speaker 3: good morning morning.
Speaker 13: How are you?
Speaker 3: I'm well? How are you? I am the same, lovely
Speaker 3: nice to hear. Yes, what would you like to say
Speaker 3: to me?
Speaker 13: Well, I'm going to tell you about a young relative
Speaker 13: of mine who covered from addiction to smoking. Yes, I
Speaker 13: had a new baby in the house and the doctor said,
Speaker 13: it's not good for this child to be in a
Speaker 13: smoke soaked that this fear.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 13: If you were going to remain a smoker, don't ever
Speaker 13: smoke in the house with him or in the car yep.
Speaker 13: Always smoke well away from him, and don't put him
Speaker 13: against your clothes.
Speaker 11: Yep, you auficeh smoked soaked.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 13: So he went off and had hyptotherapy.
Speaker 3: Did that work?
Speaker 12: It?
Speaker 9: Did?
Speaker 13: He needed to do it more than once, yes, so
Speaker 13: definitely twice, maybe a third time, right, But he did
Speaker 13: give up smoking and he's never smoked since. And both
Speaker 13: he and his son are a little bit prone to
Speaker 13: bron kite see things. They're supposed to carry a.
Speaker 3: Puffer, right and how long? How long has he been
Speaker 3: off the cigarettes?
Speaker 13: For over thirty years?
Speaker 3: Oh wow, Well even if you have three goes at it,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, it's worked. And you know, talking
Speaker 3: about the effects on his son probably helped as well.
Speaker 3: Oh that's a great story. Thank you, Youna. Really appreciate
Speaker 3: the core. Thank you for listening to our show too.
Speaker 3: Nice to have you on board. One eight seven three
Speaker 3: is the happen line number. Now a story that we've
Speaker 3: been talking about for a little while. Here is the
Speaker 3: investigations into the murder of Rachel Or. Rachelle Chiles, a
Speaker 3: twenty three year old, was last scene leaving work in Camden,
Speaker 3: southwest of Sydney in two thousand and one in her
Speaker 3: prize holden commodore. Nine hours later, her burnt and half
Speaker 3: naked body was found one hundred kilometers away in GIRoA.
Speaker 3: There's currently a reward in place for information. When we
Speaker 3: spoke to Rachelle Or Rachel's sister Christy earlier in the year,
Speaker 3: we discovered that the family had written to the police
Speaker 3: Minister Yasmin Katley about increasing the reward from two hundred
Speaker 3: to five hundred thousand dollars and I think at the
Speaker 3: time I hadn't heard back. But since the launch of
Speaker 3: the Dear rachel podcast and subsequent reporting, very good reporting
Speaker 3: in the news, court papers, and application has been submitted
Speaker 3: by police to have the reward increased. That would be
Speaker 3: partly due to the excellent work of the former New
Speaker 3: South Wales detective Sergeant Damien Loon, who's been in and
Speaker 3: around this case and we spoke to him a little
Speaker 3: while back as well, a very good man who I'm
Speaker 3: delighted to say is on the line.
Speaker 6: How are you, Damien, Good morning Lerk and to your listeners,
Speaker 6: I'm great, thank you, good on you.
Speaker 3: What is its application for a reward increase mean? Is
Speaker 3: it likely that we'll see one?
Speaker 6: Look, hopefully we do it. We'll go before a panel
Speaker 6: to consider the amount of money that should be offered
Speaker 6: and look, what much do you pay on someone's life? Really,
Speaker 6: it's I think it needs to be a life changing
Speaker 6: amount to elicit that information to come from someone to
Speaker 6: come forward to the authorities and tell them what.
Speaker 3: They When we spoke with you and Rachelle's sister Christy,
Speaker 3: and we learned that the Police Minister was very slow
Speaker 3: or not even prepared to acknowledge the communication. Doesn't this
Speaker 3: prove that, whether it's say a cold case or something else,
Speaker 3: if you get enough people and you get enough pressure,
Speaker 3: you get I mean, it shouldn't be like this, but
Speaker 3: you end up with a result.
Speaker 6: Oh that's true too, and so thankful for lot to
Speaker 6: two GBO as well on the Dear Rochelle podcast and
Speaker 6: news Court. It's very important that we show as a
Speaker 6: community that we care about this young lady that was
Speaker 6: murdered in a prime of a life. And it's a
Speaker 6: week away from the twenty fourth anniversary. And remember she
Speaker 6: was only twenty three when she died, so she's been
Speaker 6: dead longer than the whole scenario. It's terrible after twenty
Speaker 6: four years. And I just think it's you know, peer pressure.
Speaker 6: As a community, we care, and we're getting that message out.
Speaker 3: To the government and we're saying here that look, you
Speaker 3: know stuff. So I mean in relation to this case
Speaker 3: and how these cases work. So are you with the
Speaker 3: view that people do know something and this just might
Speaker 3: encourage and we come forward.
Speaker 6: Oh look, absolutely, I do believe. So I think, as
Speaker 6: we say over time and we've talked about this before
Speaker 6: some stage that people may be in the relationship and
Speaker 6: they're intimidated to say something, but over time that relationship
Speaker 6: may break up or separated. And now that they can
Speaker 6: see now that they can say something worthwhile that they
Speaker 6: may know and it just might be a simple word
Speaker 6: or a sentence or something that they may have seen
Speaker 6: or overheard that may be the piece of the jigsaw
Speaker 6: puzzle or put it all together.
Speaker 3: What's the most significant breakthrough you've witnessed as a result
Speaker 3: of the podcast and the reporting. Has there been something?
Speaker 6: Look, there is only you know, I can't go any
Speaker 6: further than say what yesterday that I received a phone
Speaker 6: call that'll be up in the next forthcoming episodes through
Speaker 6: the Dear Roselle podcast. But some people are coming forward
Speaker 6: and the community are reaching out to the reducer, Ashley
Speaker 6: Hanson for questions and asking questions. And I think it's
Speaker 6: wonderful because it seems to me that's generated a lot
Speaker 6: of interest and this is what we need to have
Speaker 6: for this matter to be solved, and I do believe
Speaker 6: it's solvable.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Great. The podcast is Dear Raschild. You can hear
Speaker 3: that wherever you get your podcasts, and the reporting is
Speaker 3: in the news Court papers. Good to talk Damien, thanks so.
Speaker 6: Much mate, Thanks Leuch all the best to.
Speaker 3: You, Damien Lun Pauline Hanson next, yeah, I guess so
Speaker 3: quick night through from police. They're searching for two people
Speaker 3: after three men were injured in Dubbo this morning. Emergency
Speaker 3: services called to Dubbo shortly after three am. They found
Speaker 3: three men suffering stab wounds. They were reportedly attacked on
Speaker 3: the footpath by two other men. Twenty one year old
Speaker 3: man's been treated for stab wounds to his head, back
Speaker 3: and lower body. Two men, both twenty nine they received
Speaker 3: stab wounds to their upper body. All three men take
Speaker 3: into Dubbo Base Hospital in a stable condition. A crime
Speaker 3: scene has been established, inquiries have commenced. Police are now
Speaker 3: searching for two men they believe can assist in initial
Speaker 3: inquiries I say indicate at least three of the men
Speaker 3: are known to each other and Patsengers traveling from the
Speaker 3: city on the tight airport in South Line are advised
Speaker 3: to allow extra travel time due to urgent train repairs
Speaker 3: near the domestic airport in Sydney. Trains from the city
Speaker 3: are not stopping at Green Square, Mascot Domestic Airport or
Speaker 3: International airport trains to the city are not affected. What
Speaker 3: if you're about to fly out, you thought, I'll leave
Speaker 3: the car at home and get the Juju train. Whoops.
Speaker 3: We'll keep you updated on that now. Pauline Hanson's One
Speaker 3: Nation has doubled its presence in the Senate. They've picked
Speaker 3: up two new senators. They've now got a total of four,
Speaker 3: the same number as the Nationals if you don't mind.
Speaker 3: One of the new senators Warwick Stacey from New South Wales,
Speaker 3: British and Australian Army veteran. Part of his service included
Speaker 3: spending time advising on ransom, kidnapp and crisis events, so
Speaker 3: he's definitely not from the camera bubble. But while Pauline
Speaker 3: and the One Nation team are no doubt popping the
Speaker 3: Champagne corks, it'll be Labor and the Greens dominating the
Speaker 3: new look Upper House. So I wonder what an increase
Speaker 3: to One Nation presence means to the Senate. And I
Speaker 3: wonder what Pauline Hansen makes of the minds of voters
Speaker 3: that they've now given One Nation the equal number of
Speaker 3: senators as they've given the Nationals. Let's find out, because
Speaker 3: Pauline Hanson. I'm delighted to say one nation leader is
Speaker 3: on the line. Great to talk to you. I hope
Speaker 3: you're will and you must be delighted with that news
Speaker 3: when it came through yesterday, Pauline.
Speaker 7: Oh, I was when I heard it. I was so excited.
Speaker 7: And when I heard the news, I knew there was
Speaker 7: a chance there and out for a chance, but to
Speaker 7: actually get the news of it, it was just so exciting, Luke,
Speaker 7: and thank you. Yes we do have four senators, Yes
Speaker 7: we won't have control of the Senate, but the fact
Speaker 7: is that it's a start. And what Warwick will bring
Speaker 7: to the Senators. He's experienced and knowledge and capabilities to
Speaker 7: deal with defense, and I don't believe there's anyone else
Speaker 7: in that Senate who really has their head across the
Speaker 7: defense portfolio. So it's like Malcolm Roberts snow and can
Speaker 7: debate him on the climate issues, any Cannazy issues and
Speaker 7: speak about it and hold them to account. Same thing
Speaker 7: can be said for Warwick because of his background in defense,
Speaker 7: and he's been very passionate about it. When I was
Speaker 7: spoken to him, this is one of the things why
Speaker 7: you know he was selected to be head the Senate ticket,
Speaker 7: and he's been a businessman and consultant, so I think
Speaker 7: he's got a lot off the Parliament. It's about holding
Speaker 7: them account to account and also pushed the coalition along
Speaker 7: as well. Last time they just sat there lick their wounds.
Speaker 7: They were so, you know, couldn't get over the fact
Speaker 7: that they lost the election. To the extent they did.
Speaker 7: It be worse this time. So it's like we're going
Speaker 7: to hold everyone to accounts, you know, the coalition as well,
Speaker 7: do your job, stop in the opposition and call out
Speaker 7: the Labor Party in the Greens for what they're trying
Speaker 7: to tell the Parliament.
Speaker 3: And you know, the good thing here is that and
Speaker 3: we all call for it. I think many of us
Speaker 3: are sick of political staffers who become MPs. I'm sure
Speaker 3: there are very good ones, but we want people with
Speaker 3: real life experience, people who've lived a bit, who have
Speaker 3: done some stuff, maybe run a business, and what Borrock's
Speaker 3: done is next level. But the lived experience is that
Speaker 3: he will bring to the Parliament much like yourself and others.
Speaker 3: That lived experience is vital because it better represents us,
Speaker 3: doesn't it.
Speaker 7: It does lurk And that's what I was looking for
Speaker 7: and they can now. Tyrone Wishen, who actually got elected
Speaker 7: in Western Australia, he started a few years ago his
Speaker 7: business in the concrete civil construction industry. Now with him,
Speaker 7: Andy's brothers start a business. They went on to employ
Speaker 7: a thousand people. He started to his brother a couple
Speaker 7: of years ago. He's moved on. He's doing some superintendent
Speaker 7: work that he's doing at the moment, advisory work, I
Speaker 7: should say.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 7: Anyway, he's got that experience in business, big business because
Speaker 7: they travel, made to dealt with the mining industry and
Speaker 7: other organizations. So it's the people with that background experience
Speaker 7: that I was looking for that we can actually spread
Speaker 7: out our portfolios. Like I'm very passionate about Aboriginal affairs, immigration,
Speaker 7: a family law and the type thing. Malcolm very much
Speaker 7: in the banking sector, and also to do with climate
Speaker 7: change and all those issues environmental issues. So I'm trying
Speaker 7: to get an array of people with that background knowledge
Speaker 7: and experience because a lot of per senators and members
Speaker 7: of Florida Parliament have no idea what they're hell they're
Speaker 7: talking about. They all just follow the league when the
Speaker 7: bells ring, they just follow the party and they don't
Speaker 7: you know, they can't really debate a lot of the
Speaker 7: subjects although what they're talking about. So to get that debate,
Speaker 7: to get good government, you have to have good opposition.
Speaker 7: You have to challenge their way of thinking. You have
Speaker 7: to inform the public or what is the truth, and
Speaker 7: not just pass legislation for sake of Okay, let's go through.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me ask you this. For a long time,
Speaker 3: you and I both know that the left saw One
Speaker 3: Nation almost as a party ridicule and that's not been matched,
Speaker 3: has it by the general public? And I think even
Speaker 3: now many within the body politic see you as a
Speaker 3: political force and your party is a political force and
Speaker 3: one to be taken seriously. It feels like that, does
Speaker 3: it for you?
Speaker 7: Look, it's starting to get that traction that it's taken
Speaker 7: me a long time, long time.
Speaker 5: Yes, it has.
Speaker 7: The labor still regard me as that threat to them.
Speaker 7: That's why they always put my nation lass and so
Speaker 7: as the Greens for no reason whatsoever. So they just
Speaker 7: do it purely to keep us out. And when Howard
Speaker 7: changed the voting system in nineteen ninety eight, up we've
Speaker 7: got eleven seats in Queensland. That was purely when they
Speaker 7: all preference this last, Labor, Greens, Nationals, Democrats, everyone one
Speaker 7: nation last. Although we've got the votes and should have
Speaker 7: translated into seats, he didn't because we didn't get the
Speaker 7: flow preferences. So we've had this going on for years.
Speaker 7: Even Morrison in nineteen twenty nineteen he didn't even give
Speaker 7: us preferences in some states so refused to Maurice Payne
Speaker 7: in New South Wales, Simon Birmingham in South Australia. Even
Speaker 7: there was Dan Smith in westn Australia and Linda Reynolds.
Speaker 7: They all refused to give one nation preferences at all
Speaker 7: and so therefore they locked and bolted the door because
Speaker 7: they didn't want us to be competition. Your only competition
Speaker 7: when they're not doing their job, Luke, and that's why
Speaker 7: people looking for someone else to vote for. But if
Speaker 7: we're standing by the Conservative principles and values and what
Speaker 7: we're finding for the Australian way of life and standard living,
Speaker 7: you know, that's because they've failed their job. And that's
Speaker 7: why a lot of people now are drifted away from
Speaker 7: Coalition because they've been taken over by the moderates. And
Speaker 7: this is going to continue to happen. So that's why
Speaker 7: you've seen a lot of people come across even that
Speaker 7: are failing those in the book, and they're not dealing
Speaker 7: with the real issues to do with the farming sector.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, and the other point I think that needs to
Speaker 3: be made, apart from the suggestion that the Liberals have
Speaker 3: stopped being a truly conservative party largely or they've got
Speaker 3: factions within them that are very much progressive, I think
Speaker 3: the other point to make is, and you made this
Speaker 3: point yourself, is that it now appears in hindsight that
Speaker 3: for much of the three years, if they weren't licking
Speaker 3: their wounds post Morrison, they weren't able to develop well,
Speaker 3: they developed policies, but they didn't develop a way to
Speaker 3: properly sell them. And you know they've they've they've left
Speaker 3: a lot of people. That really did let a lot
Speaker 3: of people down.
Speaker 7: I reckon a lot of people wanted to change the government.
Speaker 7: They didn't want labor. Now, Labor only got elected on
Speaker 7: thirty five percent of the boat. Yes they got ninety
Speaker 7: four seats, and yes they've got control of parliaments, but
Speaker 7: I don't think it's unwinnable of the coalition to come
Speaker 7: back at the next selection if they put the hard
Speaker 7: work and effort into it and had decent policies. So
Speaker 7: we put our good, strong core policies and was helping
Speaker 7: the pinches and veterans be able to work without effecting
Speaker 7: their pensions, income splitting, helping self kind of retirees. Ours
Speaker 7: was the fuel tax, exercise relief, also getting rid of
Speaker 7: the alcohol tax in hospitality industry to give them a boost,
Speaker 7: and cutting your power bills by twenty percent, which could
Speaker 7: be done straight immediately if we've went back to common
Speaker 7: sense qualified power stations running twenty four seven instead stopping
Speaker 7: starting them. So these things can be done that you've
Speaker 7: got to have the will and one of it's lacking
Speaker 7: in the Parliament is a vision for the future and
Speaker 7: the spirit clear policies see news Self Wales are basically
Speaker 7: taken over by the moderates. In New South Welsh.
Speaker 5: COVID check correct and they.
Speaker 7: Ouse to Holly Shoes, So you've got a real problem
Speaker 7: New South Wales.
Speaker 5: Now I'm want to.
Speaker 7: Apologize for excuse me, to New South Wales because we've
Speaker 7: had some of our members walk away. Tanya Mahalekan and
Speaker 7: cause Mark lath And and that's in the state, and
Speaker 7: that's in the state. But that was because I would
Speaker 7: not be bullied and I won't be held ransom and
Speaker 7: I won't be told you know, I'm threatened. And now
Speaker 7: I've got a good team. I've got a good team
Speaker 7: in Warwick Stacy and this is to rebuild, to move
Speaker 7: forward as a party, to give people a voice and
Speaker 7: for a Parliament without fear of favor. And that's where
Speaker 7: I'm strong what I do. Yes, I take the few
Speaker 7: knocks long away, but sometimes you have to because thise
Speaker 7: people will stand over you and think just because I
Speaker 7: remember Parliament, they can say and do whatever they want
Speaker 7: to do. It's a team effort here, it's team effort.
Speaker 7: If I allow that, then they'll do whatever and say
Speaker 7: whatever and threaten me. That's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good on you. Two quick things. I spoke to
Speaker 3: a very impressive woman just prior to the election, your
Speaker 3: daughter Lee. I'm disappointed that she didn't take a Senate position.
Speaker 3: I hope, I hope. This doesn't mean she won't run again.
Speaker 3: Do you think you could encourage her to run again?
Speaker 7: No, she's running, she said. I'm you'veouthed already out there
Speaker 7: telling people I'm running agains. She stuff always saying, Oh,
Speaker 7: it's great to hear you're running again. She said, thanks, mum.
Speaker 3: Isn't that fantastic. She was a very impressive woman. I
Speaker 3: have to say in my audience loved hearing from her.
Speaker 3: I really I'm.
Speaker 6: Glad to hear that she's going to be involved with it.
Speaker 7: She's going to keep working for Tassy and get around
Speaker 7: there and keep involved in politics and the type of thing.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 7: She has a lot to offer. Look, get her on
Speaker 7: the program. She expect you about some of the issues
Speaker 7: to do with HR and education and the people like
Speaker 7: to listen to her. She's got a lot to offer,
Speaker 7: and so anyway, I'm going to keep her involved. She
Speaker 7: wants to. I'm not pushing her. She wants to do
Speaker 7: it because Mom, she said, Now I see what you've
Speaker 7: been doing. She said, I never realized how tough you've
Speaker 7: had it all these years. My god, she said, I've
Speaker 7: had one loss. She said, I know what you must
Speaker 7: have felt like all these years. Every time you get
Speaker 7: knocked down and you get back up again. She said, No,
Speaker 7: she's she's.
Speaker 3: A good kid, excellent. Well, when you speak to her next,
Speaker 3: tell your doctor in for a spot on the show
Speaker 3: every so often, and we'll be in touch with her
Speaker 3: and it's love to hear your voice. Well done and
Speaker 3: take care of yourself.
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me on and to all the people
Speaker 7: in your suppose. Thank you from the bottom of my
Speaker 7: heart to voting One Nation giving us that opportunity to
Speaker 7: represent you.
Speaker 3: Fantastic, fantastic, Pauline Hanson, Leader of One Nation. Now, if
Speaker 3: you've got a question for Simon Stevenson, now is the
Speaker 3: time to hit the lines one three one eight seven
Speaker 3: three on our way to Simon Amy. Good morning, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 3: Hi Amy, how are you?
Speaker 14: Oh good?
Speaker 15: Thank you.
Speaker 14: I'd just like to say thank you for that interview
Speaker 14: with Pauline Hanson that was so richly informative. I don't
Speaker 14: know a lot about politics. I'm just getting really interested now.
Speaker 14: A victim became an adult all of a sudden, and
Speaker 14: I just found her so informative and I actually had
Speaker 14: a lot of confidence and hopeful, you know, her future
Speaker 14: and for our future. She's an amazing speaker and even
Speaker 14: her daughter.
Speaker 15: I'm looking forward to see what they do.
Speaker 16: So thank you for that really reaching interview.
Speaker 3: Thank you Amy for calling and saying that I really
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Well, she's a you know what, she's a
Speaker 3: plane talker. There's not spin, there's not bs, there's not
Speaker 3: you know. I refer to my answer the other day.
Speaker 3: It's just I don't want to say it hits you
Speaker 3: in the eye, but it's kind of you know, It's
Speaker 3: how you and I would speak. Here's a question, he's
Speaker 3: an answer, not this other rubbish that serves itself up
Speaker 3: as a political commentary. Thanks Amy so much.
Speaker 1: Now on weekends as good training thanks to not Be
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Speaker 3: Simon Stephenson is in the house, don't forget. You can
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Speaker 3: him right now, the lines are open one three one
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Speaker 3: give us a call. No job too big or too small.
Speaker 3: There's no silly ques skin here, not a one. So
Speaker 3: I'm in Stevenson, good morning, Good morning mate, how are you?
Speaker 3: I'm well? Lovely to see you as I was saying
Speaker 3: to you off air and nor Glass advertise here. I'm
Speaker 3: a very bad painter, but nor Glass I had to
Speaker 3: do some timber trim and I thought I did a
Speaker 3: half decent job. I was careful, but typically for me
Speaker 3: that would leave a little bits aren't quite And it
Speaker 3: just looks so good. And it's not me, it's the product.
Speaker 3: It just saves people like me who might otherwise think
Speaker 3: our paintings are snack yep. It Actually they're so good
Speaker 3: that they're pretty hard to stuff them up.
Speaker 11: Mate.
Speaker 3: It's look.
Speaker 4: That's why I love the product so much, and I've
Speaker 4: been raving about it for years, is because not only
Speaker 4: are they a small Australian company, but just they make
Speaker 4: just the most amazing products, absolutely top notch. It's hard
Speaker 4: to find these days, it really is.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 4: I mean I use certain products from different paint companies
Speaker 4: because they've got some good products and some really bad ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah where nor Glass, I've gone through many of their products.
Speaker 4: Every one of them is second to none.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, outstanding one three, one eight seven three is
Speaker 3: the number. We've got callers to get to. But before
Speaker 3: we do that, let's talk about paint. Sheene. What is
Speaker 3: I guess we see therese lo sheine high sheen semiglass.
Speaker 3: There used to be flat when I was growing up.
Speaker 3: We don't every still is. There's certainly, matt, what's the difference?
Speaker 4: Look, it's really important to know the difference and use
Speaker 4: them in the right spot. I mean, I was working
Speaker 4: on a heritage listed house this week with a big
Speaker 4: long hallway right and big set of doors down a
Speaker 4: far end of the hallway which let a lot of
Speaker 4: light shine right down that hallway. We painted the walls,
Speaker 4: thought we're doing in lowchine to start with, because we thought, okay,
Speaker 4: make them nice and washable, because low sheinees more washable
Speaker 4: than a flat or even a mat, and the mats
Speaker 4: are pretty good. But it's shown up every little tiny
Speaker 4: hump and bumping, you know, in the walls. And without
Speaker 4: completely skimming the entire wall and then sanding it, which
Speaker 4: would have been a huge amount of work, we just
Speaker 4: changed the machine level. We went to a mate finish,
Speaker 4: a little bit less schene. The difference was incredible, and
Speaker 4: I just thought it might be important to let people
Speaker 4: know that, you know, like using that right sheen to
Speaker 4: get the right finish you're after. So if you've got
Speaker 4: you know, timberwork that might be just a little bit
Speaker 4: you know, old and imperfection. Go to a semigloss. Don't
Speaker 4: use a full gloss because you really need top notch
Speaker 4: quality stuff when you're dealing with glosses bathrooms, make sure
Speaker 4: you use a kitchen a bathroom paint or at least
Speaker 4: a low sheene. And that's because of steam. I can't
Speaker 4: see you the amount of times I go into bathrooms
Speaker 4: they're moldy and they've been painted in a flat paint
Speaker 4: which is porous and just going to trap all that
Speaker 4: mold and all that, and that's why they go moldy.
Speaker 3: So really important that that is such an interesting observation.
Speaker 3: I think many people would say, oh, lo, sheine would
Speaker 3: be the same as Matt or a flat finish.
Speaker 4: Obviously it's not absolutely not. Look you don't want to
Speaker 4: really use flats on walls. Matt is really good. It's
Speaker 4: that next step up. So there's a percentage and look,
Speaker 4: even different paint companies will have different sheen levels and
Speaker 4: different percentage of sheen.
Speaker 3: So have a look at it when you go in.
Speaker 4: Ask the question how much sheene do I get with this?
Speaker 4: And you can sort of work out what's the best
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 3: What's eggshell?
Speaker 4: Eggshell is in between the mat and then the low sheene.
Speaker 4: So you think about an egg and you look at it,
Speaker 4: you think, Okay, there's no shine there, But there is.
Speaker 4: It's a little bit more of a washable thing.
Speaker 3: Can you tell the difference when you're looking at a wall?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, Like you try to look down the edge
Speaker 4: of a wall and sort of get a bit of
Speaker 4: an idea of what sort of sheen level it is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: But like I say, and generally when you put lo
Speaker 4: sheine paint on a wall or something like that, it
Speaker 4: will be shinier when you first put it on. It
Speaker 4: will dull down. Over a period of time, like a
Speaker 4: week or two, it'll start to lose a little bit
Speaker 4: of that sheen.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay, great information. One, three, one, eight, seven, and three.
Speaker 3: Good morning Ray? How can we help?
Speaker 16: Hello? Good morning morning Ray. I have I had a
Speaker 16: water leak underneath the kitchen sink and it's ruined all
Speaker 16: the cupboards. So I want to know who do I
Speaker 16: get in to try and fix that up. I don't
Speaker 16: want to replace the whole kitchen. I just want to
Speaker 16: fix up those bank of cupboards that have suffered from
Speaker 16: the water damage.
Speaker 4: Look, I don't know whether you're going to find a
Speaker 4: kitchen company to do that. It's probably quite a small job.
Speaker 4: A handy man might be able to. He might be
Speaker 4: able to remove parts of a cupboard and then build
Speaker 4: you one to match.
Speaker 3: That would probably be where I would go, As.
Speaker 4: You know, a good handyman it should be able to
Speaker 4: do that sort of work, or a carpenter. You don't
Speaker 4: need to build it, definitely not. Some of the smaller
Speaker 4: kitchen companies might do it, but I think you might
Speaker 4: be better off with a handyman.
Speaker 3: The trouble is, I don't know if this is your issue, Ray,
Speaker 3: but you're seeing even in bathroom vanities that you might
Speaker 3: buy them, and they've got particle board and some water
Speaker 3: gets in and all of a sudden it breaks it down.
Speaker 3: What happened to you is that like that?
Speaker 17: Ray? Yeah?
Speaker 16: Yeah, Yeah, So that the climbing sprung a leak and
Speaker 16: it was spraying water inside the cup and I didn't
Speaker 16: realize it was until the water started leaking out the
Speaker 16: front of the car. And when I'm inside the whole
Speaker 16: particle board or whatever it is, it's all swelled up
Speaker 16: and deteriorating.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know why kitchen companies, and I know
Speaker 4: there are different grades of cupboards you can get when
Speaker 4: you order through a kitchen company, but I don't understand
Speaker 4: why kitchen companies, especially for under sinks. Yes, don't use
Speaker 4: something that's one hundred percent waterproof, you know, I mean
Speaker 4: it's Doesn't it make common sense to say, right, that
Speaker 4: area could spring a leak. Yeah, let's put something in
Speaker 4: there that doesn't get affected by it, you know.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Hello, a lot of rocket knock knock knock. Hey guys,
Speaker 3: thank you, Ray, Paul, good morning. How can we help you? Mate?
Speaker 18: Good morning, morning, Simon. Thanks, So we have My question
Speaker 18: relates to a timber deck. It's a large timber deck
Speaker 18: at the back of our house. It's painted, it's painted.
Speaker 18: We want to change the color to a timber look.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 18: So my question is would you recommend stripping it all back,
Speaker 18: which has got a problem with the paint in between
Speaker 18: the timber planks, or just repainting over it to get
Speaker 18: that timber look.
Speaker 6: Okay.
Speaker 4: So when you say paint, it's a solid paint finish correct?
Speaker 6: Correct?
Speaker 4: Okay? And has it got nails or screws in the timber?
Speaker 11: Good question it's.
Speaker 19: Got screws, screws, a lot of.
Speaker 4: Screws, okay, a lot of screws. Look, you can get
Speaker 4: companies to come in and you know, they do floor sanding.
Speaker 4: My floor sander does this and I've got him about.
Speaker 3: To do a deck for me.
Speaker 4: But it's big wide boards, so it's the one forty
Speaker 4: wide boards and it is screwed down. Hopefully the screws
Speaker 4: are below the timber, the surface of the timber, because
Speaker 4: otherwise you've got to set the you know, pull the
Speaker 4: screws out, put them back, you know, countersink them so
Speaker 4: they go a little bit lower. But you can get
Speaker 4: those decks sanded and then start to oil them again
Speaker 4: if that's what you'd like to go. Just remember, if
Speaker 4: you are going to oil timber, it is a constant
Speaker 4: maintenance thing where paint work will last you a lot
Speaker 4: longer than an oil finish, So you really need to
Speaker 4: weigh up the options of that if you do want
Speaker 4: to go down the paint road. I have used a
Speaker 4: Cabot's deck paint, so not a Cabot's deck oil.
Speaker 3: That's been really good, really good.
Speaker 4: It's probably one of the best paints I've seen because
Speaker 4: you've got to. You can't go using something like Dulux
Speaker 4: weather Shield on a deck to because it's too soft
Speaker 4: and you cannot walk on it. It's sticky, and it's
Speaker 4: just it'll end up making a mess. You need something
Speaker 4: a little bit harder wearing, so the cabin.
Speaker 18: Seins from a cost perspective, doesn't it And also I
Speaker 18: don't have to stand down the deck as well.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and look, give it a really good pressure wash
Speaker 4: and then you know, I think use that Cabot's deck
Speaker 4: stuff down works really really well. I'm a big fan
Speaker 4: of it. And pick a timber color, something that's sort
Speaker 4: of natural to the bush, something that goes real well.
Speaker 4: I think you'd be really happy with it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Paul, best of luck. And in terms of
Speaker 3: oiling a deck, you you and I have spoken about
Speaker 3: it is at a water based oil, which.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, look there's a few out there now. I've
Speaker 4: used one called Spa and Deck, which I'm a big
Speaker 4: fan of. It's a water based product and you actually
Speaker 4: wet the timber if it's bare timber, you wet the
Speaker 4: timber first before applying the coat. So it's really crazy
Speaker 4: and you can do three or four coats in one day.
Speaker 3: Oh that's me. Yeah, it's all over it. That's me.
Speaker 3: I'm glady come in here. Thanks to help our listeners
Speaker 3: and more than occasionally me, I have to say back
Speaker 3: with callers in just a sec. Now guests for Sydney
Speaker 3: listeners tat airport and South Line trains from the city
Speaker 3: stopping again. I'm told now Green Square, Mascot, domestic Airport
Speaker 3: and International Airport. That was not happening due to urgent
Speaker 3: train repairs near the domestic airport. Now we've got callers
Speaker 3: to get to in times getting away. So Pam, how
Speaker 3: can we help you this morning? Good morning?
Speaker 4: He said, Good morning, Pam.
Speaker 15: Oh, good morning guys. I've been told I need underpinning.
Speaker 15: I have this crack from one end of the wall
Speaker 15: in the land room. Only that one wall from one
Speaker 15: end right across, not in a straight line, just coming down.
Speaker 15: I did bring one place, they said, oh no, I
Speaker 15: ranged someone else. They did come out. They said, yes,
Speaker 15: you need underpinning. We'll send you the form. Never heard
Speaker 15: from them again. Ran a few times, you know who else?
Speaker 12: To me?
Speaker 3: All right, Pam, what area are you in?
Speaker 6: I mean?
Speaker 4: And Russell Lee okay, And they're all oldest homes here yeah, look,
Speaker 4: can you do me a favor? Send me an email
Speaker 4: if you can, Simon at Simon's House dot com dot
Speaker 4: au and I'll see if I can sort this out.
Speaker 3: For you and Pam. Don't hang up, kitty. We'll talk
Speaker 3: to you off here to make sure you can do that.
Speaker 3: We'll find a way for you to do that, so
Speaker 3: don't hang up to stay right there. Gooday, Bob, Hi mate,
Speaker 3: can we help it?
Speaker 6: Bob. We've got a.
Speaker 19: Bathroom that was painted in December twenty three and it
Speaker 19: was painted with Taurman's I think a water paint specifically
Speaker 19: for bathrooms. Now there's spots of mold coming in at
Speaker 19: what's the best thing.
Speaker 6: To coin it with?
Speaker 19: That's what I'd like to know.
Speaker 4: Eighty percent vinegar and twenty percent water. That will kill
Speaker 4: the spores of the mold and stop it coming back.
Speaker 4: So just make a mixture of that up and just
Speaker 4: wash that over the walls and then leave it sit
Speaker 4: for about fifteen minutes and then give it a rinse.
Speaker 4: That will solve the problem completely. It'll kill those spores.
Speaker 3: All right, Thank you? Morning, Pat.
Speaker 5: How can we assist yes, Good morning, Simon morning. Look, Hi,
Speaker 5: I've got a concrete patio out the back that's got
Speaker 5: cracks in it that the water seeps away through. And
Speaker 5: I was wondering what I could seal it with.
Speaker 4: Look, you need to paint it probably, and there is
Speaker 4: a product called sports coat. Now it is a waterproof membrane,
Speaker 4: but you're able to walk over it.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 4: So it's a really thick rubberized sort of painting and
Speaker 4: they paint and they use it for like tennis courts
Speaker 4: and things like that. But it'll stretch and it'll be
Speaker 4: able to give you seal that. So it is something
Speaker 4: you're going to have to paint in a color all right.
Speaker 4: There's a company called color Maker Industries. They're the ones
Speaker 4: that make it. But it's absolutely brilliant and it is walkable.
Speaker 4: So you just roll roll that on the surface and
Speaker 4: it'll fill up all those cracks and it'll stop water
Speaker 4: getting in as well.
Speaker 5: Yes, because they're up to six millimeters wide some of them.
Speaker 4: Oh that's quite wid.
Speaker 5: Yes, That's why I was wondering there anything I could
Speaker 5: put in the crack.
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, if they're that wide, you might need something else.
Speaker 4: You're probably going to need some sort of concrete filler
Speaker 4: for that. Now I know that if Bunnings do carry
Speaker 4: some in bottles that you can fill cracks in concrete.
Speaker 4: So it's in the waterproofing section of Bunnings, and I'm
Speaker 4: pretty sure that the company that makes it is better
Speaker 4: B E. T. T. A. I don't remember the name
Speaker 4: of the product, but if you go there, it's in
Speaker 4: little bottles, almost like a tomato sauce bottle with a
Speaker 4: little nozzle out of it and you can just squeeze
Speaker 4: that into the crack and it will fill it.
Speaker 3: Excellent. That sports the best of luck, Pats.
Speaker 20: Thank you.
Speaker 3: That sports code sounds like a good product, you know,
Speaker 3: if you buy it in white, if they give you
Speaker 3: a pink carnation, I've been waiting all day for that. Christina,
Speaker 3: how can we assist Christina?
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning morning, good morning.
Speaker 5: This is Christina.
Speaker 15: I have a problem with my windows.
Speaker 7: The rubber at the bottom of the window falling through
Speaker 7: from the brick work and there's a big gap. Now,
Speaker 7: how do I fix that?
Speaker 4: Are you talking about aluminium windows? Yes, so you'll have
Speaker 4: a flashing at the bottom of the window. Is that
Speaker 4: what you're talking about where it goes on to the concrete. Okay,
Speaker 4: so that's probably torn at the bottom. You may need
Speaker 4: to try and find the brand of window. I don't
Speaker 4: know whether something like Clark Rubber might be able to
Speaker 4: supply you with something like that, and I know that
Speaker 4: the Bunnings now are carrying a big range of different
Speaker 4: rubbers supplies down there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, intersection, I just.
Speaker 4: Bought some from the bottom of a garage door. So
Speaker 4: try Bunnings first, have a look there. They may be
Speaker 4: able to replace it or go to Clark Rubber, and
Speaker 4: if not, you're going to have to get a window
Speaker 4: manufacturer and see what they.
Speaker 3: Win up with. Yeah, Christina, best of luck. Thank you
Speaker 3: so much for calling. Gee. We're being all over the
Speaker 3: joint today, have great questions. Thank you.
Speaker 4: Thanks mate.
Speaker 3: Listeners. Is there a difference between cleaning vinegar and actual
Speaker 3: vinegar when it comes to killing mold? Asks Matt, No,
Speaker 3: not that I know of.
Speaker 4: I don't know whether cleaning vinegar might be a little
Speaker 4: bit stronger. But the recipe I was given by a
Speaker 4: mold expert many years ago was the eighty percent white
Speaker 4: vinegar and twenty percent water and I've used it and
Speaker 4: it works fantastic in.
Speaker 3: Ten seconds or less. What treatment to a wooden outdoor
Speaker 3: furniture going moldy during due to high humidity in Bunderberg.
Speaker 4: Okay, So I would clean the surface down with a
Speaker 4: timber reviver first, and then you can put oh things
Speaker 4: like waxes or oils on the timber as well and
Speaker 4: that'll stop it from going mold You want to stop
Speaker 4: that moisture getting into the timber.
Speaker 3: Simon's house dot com dot are you see you next week?
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, Simon Stephenson. News coming up in a moment
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Speaker 21: Across Australia, it's back to weekends with look Grant, good morning.
Speaker 3: I hope you're well. Saturday today, the thirty first day
Speaker 3: of May one three one eight seven three the open
Speaker 3: line number. It's a little brighter in Sydney right now.
Speaker 3: Not the case in Brisbane, but you know, across everything.
Speaker 3: It's amazing to me with all the rain we've had
Speaker 3: along the coast, it's not amazing. I learned this when
Speaker 3: I was broadcasting in the bush that you know you'll
Speaker 3: get some clowns say, oh I wish the rain had
Speaker 3: stopped and you're sitting in a drought and we can't
Speaker 3: forget that. Whilst coastal New South Wales remains wet, part
Speaker 3: of Queensland and enjoying if that's what you're doing. The
Speaker 3: wet today, mid north coast of New South Wales record
Speaker 3: breaking falls just last week. The Department of Primary Industries
Speaker 3: and New South Wales Drought Indicator Map updated this week
Speaker 3: shows nineteen point three percent of New South Wales's drought affected,
Speaker 3: while one point eight percent is officially in drought, with
Speaker 3: the dry spell worst in the Murray and River Arena
Speaker 3: regions where you hope you get some of this where
Speaker 3: you are. Earlier on the show, I had a chat
Speaker 3: to James Willis from the Telegraph who was telling us
Speaker 3: about this I think really important story. There's a compliance
Speaker 3: blitz that's now unraveling. This is in New South Wales
Speaker 3: and it follows what the government is saying. An utter
Speaker 3: mess created by former Energy Minister Matt Keane now elbows
Speaker 3: Climate Zar. The Telegraph uncovered shocking examples of dangerous installations,
Speaker 3: poor quality products and aggressive sales techniques, a situation one
Speaker 3: expert described as pink bats two point zero. These are
Speaker 3: heat pump water heaters. It's a water system that uses
Speaker 3: a refrigeration cycle to extract heat from the surrounding air
Speaker 3: transferred to water in a storage tank, rather than directly
Speaker 3: heating the water with an electric element. The process apparently
Speaker 3: is more energy efficient than traditional electric water heaters, typically
Speaker 3: requiring more than sixty percent or less electricity. This refrigerant
Speaker 3: cycle that absorbs heat from the air, turning it into gas.
Speaker 3: Then a compressor increases the temperature and pressure of the gas.
Speaker 3: The hot gas passes through a heat exchanger and that
Speaker 3: transfers the heat to the water in the storage tank. See.
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means either. I just read
Speaker 3: it on a bit of paper, But didn't it sound impressive.
Speaker 3: So the installation and the rush of it, and it
Speaker 3: appears inferior products. Matt Kean, some of your fine us
Speaker 3: work there. Well, perhaps you'll come out today and defend
Speaker 3: the policy. Interesting to see what happens there on three
Speaker 3: seventy three, Stephanie, what a delight to hear.
Speaker 12: From you or you well, very well, a delight to
Speaker 12: hear your show as always, Luke, and indeed an even
Speaker 12: greater delight to hear Paul Enhance. And she just gives
Speaker 12: one heart, you know, when, by golly, we need some
Speaker 12: heart in this country when you look at the mob
Speaker 12: leading us, and she is formidable, undiminished in her courage,
Speaker 12: and a fight really for this country, nobody else, for
Speaker 12: the good and decent values. She mentioned, of course, that
Speaker 12: there are those in the Liberal Party, of course, who
Speaker 12: would rather be shot dead than note to her, like
Speaker 12: Maurice Paine and Linda Reynolds. There are a whole bunch
Speaker 12: of people in the Liberal Party that come under the
Speaker 12: thumb of Michael Photius and his gang. Nick Cater wrote
Speaker 12: very tellingly about this in The Australian a couple of
Speaker 12: weeks ago, and even more forcefully from Peter Kredlin his
Speaker 12: Thursday in the Australian. You've probably read that Luke, indeed
Speaker 12: the whole mission of the Photious gang, this Vengali puppet master,
Speaker 12: pulling the strings of the green and left in the
Speaker 12: Liberal Party. They're not labor like. This is labor heavy,
Speaker 12: this mob and their main mission in life, and they've
Speaker 12: succeeded to a greater or larger degree is to break
Speaker 12: down and just the conservative elements of the Liberal Party.
Speaker 12: And indeed, to that extent, when so many of us
Speaker 12: could see the sharp lived Tanterne this lot had taken
Speaker 12: a couple of years ago, we slammed the door of
Speaker 12: the Liberal Party. We've gone, and Pauline should know that
Speaker 12: a whole heap of is out here, all voted for you. Pauline,
Speaker 12: you ever need a hand down here in this neck
Speaker 12: of the words, just get in touch. We're all here
Speaker 12: wishing you the very best. And as for Susan Lee
Speaker 12: lie Lay, her public humiliation of one of the most
Speaker 12: valuable women in this country just center non for gender price.
Speaker 12: This was a public slap in the face as well
Speaker 12: as Sir Jane Hume, the conservative will women of the
Speaker 12: Liberal Party. Susan Lee lae Lay was telling them just
Speaker 12: where to go. She was doing her sisterhood stuff for
Speaker 12: Michael Fodius. So, Pauline, give us a ring, non for
Speaker 12: giner price. It's the same to you.
Speaker 15: We're out here.
Speaker 18: Give us a call, but we're gone.
Speaker 12: So I hope the Andrew Braggs and the Michael Soothius
Speaker 12: is in the Liberal Party. I hope you're going to
Speaker 12: enjoy the desert that you've created, because you're not coming
Speaker 12: out of it anytime soon.
Speaker 2: We've gone brilliant, brilliant.
Speaker 3: Love that to hear your voice. Look after yourself, Stephanie,
Speaker 3: thank you for calling. Wow. It leaves you in no
Speaker 3: doubt about the way she thinks. Thank goodness. A bit
Speaker 3: like Paulin is a straight talker. A lots of people say,
Speaker 3: where Stephanie gone? Well, there she is, she's there right there.
Speaker 3: Nice to hear from her again. One three one eight
Speaker 3: seven three. That's the open line number here. Now this
Speaker 3: is going to be really good chatting to Leaf Vannsalom
Speaker 3: because there's so much going on in our economy and
Speaker 3: around the place. As you know, he is from macrobusiness,
Speaker 3: dot com, dot are you. It's where we go every
Speaker 3: day for our financial and monitoring news and other matters
Speaker 3: around our economy. He's also the chief Economy to the
Speaker 3: NB funded mbcper. He's on the line the Treasury of
Speaker 3: Common Sense lead Van Onsolin. How am I friend? Traveling?
Speaker 20: Well?
Speaker 3: Mate? How about you?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Pretty good mate. It's a little bit cooler down here today,
Speaker 9: but yeah, pretty good.
Speaker 3: Well I can't believe it, but there's been some discussion,
Speaker 3: has there from government about East Coast gas reservation. I
Speaker 3: wonder where they got that idea from. And this is extraordinary,
Speaker 3: isn't it.
Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, I mean certainly you know that it's not
Speaker 9: a slam dunk, but there are some hopeful signs here.
Speaker 9: So just to recap, East Coast Australia is the only
Speaker 9: gas exporting jurisdiction in the world that has no policy
Speaker 9: to require gas companies to supply Australians first, and as
Speaker 9: a result, East Coast Australia has the highest gas prices
Speaker 9: of the world amongst gas exporting jurisdictions. Now, as we know,
Speaker 9: the Coalition took a really good gas policy to the
Speaker 9: federal election, a promise to implement an East Coast gas
Speaker 9: reservation policy via basically imposing export levies on on contracted
Speaker 9: gas companies. We're trying to export uncontracted, uncontracted gas rather
Speaker 9: than supply it into the spot market domestically they would
Speaker 9: they'd be slog to tacks. And the Coalition promised to
Speaker 9: lower the East Coast gas price to blow ten dollars
Speaker 9: a gigadel, which is currently floats around twelve twelve dollars
Speaker 9: plus Now, the counterfactur of this look is that if
Speaker 9: we don't reserve gas imports but East Coast Australia, despite
Speaker 9: the fact that we export nearly three quarters of our gas,
Speaker 9: most that goes to China, we're slated to start importing
Speaker 9: gas down in the Southern States late this year or
Speaker 9: early next and once we do that, the East Coast
Speaker 9: gas price is going to rock it because we will
Speaker 9: be paying import parity prices. So at the moment, we're
Speaker 9: effectively paying export parity prices, which is the cost that
Speaker 9: we charge exports less the cost of liquifying those exports
Speaker 9: and then transporting it. But if we start importing it,
Speaker 9: we're going to be paying the cost of liquefaction plus
Speaker 9: transport then degap converting it back into gas. Now, just
Speaker 9: to show you how good the coalition's policy was, Shell
Speaker 9: Australia's chair Cecil Wake admitted during the election campaign that
Speaker 9: the coalition's gas reservation policy would reduce costs and that
Speaker 9: person I said that, you know, it'll potentially push more
Speaker 9: supply into the market than there is demand, and when
Speaker 9: that happens, it'll have the potential of driving prices even
Speaker 9: lower than ten dollars a giggle. Now that's almost a
Speaker 9: direct quote I'm paraphrasing, but that there is proof positive
Speaker 9: that the policy was going to be good if you've
Speaker 9: got one of the major energy companies going to force
Speaker 9: down the cost of gas. Now, the coalition also pleased
Speaker 9: to invest about a billion dollars in expanding the North
Speaker 9: South Pipeline which runs some Queensland all the way down
Speaker 9: of Victoria, as well as to expand storage down south.
Speaker 9: And why that's important is that in the North South
Speaker 9: pipeline has excess capacity most of the year, but just
Speaker 9: in the cold months of winter it operates a capacity.
Speaker 9: So we need to expand that and also expand storage.
Speaker 9: Now it is telling. That's Resource Minister Madeline King. She
Speaker 9: during the election campaign she dismissed the coalition's gas policy
Speaker 9: as quote a thought bubble, right, and most of us
Speaker 9: thought that meant that Labor wasn't going to do reservation
Speaker 9: if they got elected. Thankfully. The AFR reported this week
Speaker 9: that the Albany's government's considering imposing the East Coast Gas
Speaker 9: Reservation Policy is part of its review of the country's
Speaker 9: energy system.
Speaker 3: Now, you know, obviously you can't believe all this stuff,
Speaker 3: can you accept it's just playing it out before our
Speaker 3: very own eyes.
Speaker 9: That's right. Look, it's an absolute no brainer. Like the
Speaker 9: entire manufacturing industry, that Gas Uses Association, the Energy Use Association,
Speaker 9: wants gas reservation. It's incredibly important because gas also is
Speaker 9: one of the marginal price that is of electricity in
Speaker 9: the wholesale market. So if we've got expensive gas, electricity
Speaker 9: prices go up as well because gas is used for firming.
Speaker 9: So whenever there's not enough wind or solo, they're going
Speaker 9: to chuck on a gas turbine to quickly fill up
Speaker 9: the gap, and then that pushes up the price. Now
Speaker 9: this is even more important because this week the Queensland
Speaker 9: state government announced that it's going to open up nine
Speaker 9: new areas of the state for gas exploration, and they
Speaker 9: claim that by doing this they're going to increase supply
Speaker 9: and push down prices and etc. Now, I'll say fron
Speaker 9: that that I fully support more gas exploration and more drill,
Speaker 9: baby drill, Ye, but it is largely futile if it's
Speaker 9: not a company by a reservation scheme that requires a
Speaker 9: significant share of that gas to be supplied domestically.
Speaker 11: First.
Speaker 9: And the reason why you know this won't necessarily lower prices.
Speaker 9: Is because we just have to look at the last
Speaker 9: ten years. So since we started exporting gas out of
Speaker 9: Lansdon in twenty fifteen, we've literally doubled the volume of
Speaker 9: gas the production of gas in the East Coast of Australia,
Speaker 9: but we've actually supplied the domestic market with twenty five
Speaker 9: percent less gas. That's because we've just pushed it all off,
Speaker 9: pushed most of it off, you know, we've basically exported it, right,
Speaker 9: so we've doubled the supply, but we've reduced doubled the
Speaker 9: supply domestically, but we've actually supplied the domestic market with
Speaker 9: twenty five percent less and as a result of a
Speaker 9: tripling and gas process. Right, So if we if Queensland
Speaker 9: opens up all these gas fields, yes the Queensland will
Speaker 9: get some extra gas royalties for the state budget, which
Speaker 9: is a good thing, but it's not going to necessarily
Speaker 9: lower prices and it's not going to imports. If that gas,
Speaker 9: at least it's a different portion of it is not
Speaker 9: pushed into the domestic market. So this, this policy from
Speaker 9: labor is absolutely essential to ensure that we do get
Speaker 9: more supply. All the have to do is copy the
Speaker 9: coalition's policy or if not, just look across the Western Australia.
Speaker 3: Australia's done yeah, you know, and that was that was
Speaker 3: a labor government did that. So you know, if they're
Speaker 3: a bit precious about copying what the coalition proposed and
Speaker 3: just you know, take a copy of what they're doing
Speaker 3: in the West, because it's not it's not that difficult.
Speaker 3: Can I move on to productivity growth? Because people don't
Speaker 3: really know this, but in Australia, where we'd like to say,
Speaker 3: how good is it? Our productivity growth has been among
Speaker 3: the poorest in the advanced world, not just for three years,
Speaker 3: but for the past decade. Isn't that right?
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 9: Our productivity absolutely stinks. And a whole bunch of economists,
Speaker 9: including former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry this month, former RBA
Speaker 9: Governor fel Low, there's also some other RBA economists and
Speaker 9: a whole bunch of others, have all said that the
Speaker 9: one of the main drivers of Australia's poor productivity is
Speaker 9: that we haven't increased the nation's capital stocks. I'm talking
Speaker 9: about new machinery, new tools, new infrastructure, et cetera to
Speaker 9: keep up with the massive growth in the population and
Speaker 9: as a result we've gotten productivity growth. Now I've used
Speaker 9: this example previously just to explain this in a stylized example.
Speaker 9: If you run a cafe and you've got a coffee
Speaker 9: machine shared by two workers, and you can make one
Speaker 9: hundred coffees. And now if you double the number workers
Speaker 9: to foe, you're not going to be able to double
Speaker 9: your output because you're still working off one machine. They'll
Speaker 9: have to wait for each other, there's congestion, all that
Speaker 9: sort of stuff. So you know, although you double the
Speaker 9: number of people, you don't double your Actually your productivity
Speaker 9: actually goes down because you can't make as many you
Speaker 9: can't double the amount you need two machines.
Speaker 6: It's machine.
Speaker 9: So that's effectively what Australia's economy has done. We've grown
Speaker 9: the population like a science experiment, eight point seven million
Speaker 9: people this century so far, incredible, and we haven't grown infrastructure,
Speaker 9: the amount of investment everything to go along with that,
Speaker 9: and as a result, the capital to labor ratios what
Speaker 9: economists call it, has been free form. And the Productivity
Speaker 9: Commission released a report this week on Australias productivity and
Speaker 9: actually pointed this fact out and it said that if
Speaker 9: this low rate of investment persists, it will contribute to
Speaker 9: longer term productivity slow down. Now, the reason why most
Speaker 9: important is on Thursday, the Australian Bureau Statistics released its
Speaker 9: first quarter twenty twenty five CAPEX survey. So for the
Speaker 9: much quarter, and what I showed is that total volume
Speaker 9: of investment into equipment, plant machinery actually fell by one
Speaker 9: point three percent of the quarter. It's down by nearly
Speaker 9: two percent over the year. And this comes at the
Speaker 9: same time as Australias population continues to expand aggressively. And
Speaker 9: all this means is that we're going to have less
Speaker 9: capital equipment per worker because population is growing and we're
Speaker 9: not building the capital stock to keep up with it.
Speaker 9: And the long term outlooked work is very poor because
Speaker 9: the federal government predicts an extra thirteen point five million
Speaker 9: people come into the country in the next forty years,
Speaker 9: and that's like adding another Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane currently
Speaker 9: to Australias popular You need all the infrastructure, all the
Speaker 9: houses that in those cities, all the energy everything, all
Speaker 9: the business investment, everything, they keep up with that, and
Speaker 9: I just can't see a way we're going to do it.
Speaker 9: We haven't done. In the last twenty years, our protimuity
Speaker 9: growth has suffered. So if we keep just growing the
Speaker 9: population like the science experiment, when we can't keep up
Speaker 9: with that, whether it's housing, infrastructure, business investment, a prodecuty,
Speaker 9: growth is going to stink and our living stands are
Speaker 9: going to stay made.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, each week I'm going to put to Leith's
Speaker 3: the question do we have a clown or the week
Speaker 3: or a champion of the week, so it can be
Speaker 3: good news and bad news. And I understand this week,
Speaker 3: This week, mate, you've got a clown or the week?
Speaker 14: Do you?
Speaker 15: I do?
Speaker 9: It's actually the Victorian government, which is which the New
Speaker 9: Southalan and Queensland listeners will love this. So the Victoria
Speaker 9: is basically leaching up New South Wales and Queensland. So
Speaker 9: you know the Victorian government and I'll live in Victoria, right,
Speaker 9: I'll be very clean and clear about that. We are
Speaker 9: the most poorly run state in the country and we
Speaker 9: have a state government that is a state that is
Speaker 9: absolutely grounding in debt. Right, So per capita debt is
Speaker 9: so much ahead of New South Wales and Queensland. So
Speaker 9: per person we are twenty two thousand and nine hundred
Speaker 9: per person in net debt versus fifteen thousand in fifteen thousand,
Speaker 9: two hundred in New South Wales at about nine three hundred.
Speaker 9: Queensland right and with all overfrastructure projects have been massively
Speaker 9: over time and over budget. We've got we're drowning in bureaucrats.
Speaker 9: They've spent heaps on all this public service and all
Speaker 9: this rubbish. Right and the federal government has effectively bailed
Speaker 9: out Victoria by handing it it's arded in competence, by
Speaker 9: handed handing at seven point five billion dollars of additional
Speaker 9: extra GST revenue over two years. I'm talking about the
Speaker 9: current year in now and for next year where in
Speaker 9: New South Wales is then going to receive one point
Speaker 9: one billion and Queensland's actually going to lose two point
Speaker 9: eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 9: So effectively, because the Victoria's incompetence, the federal governments effetively
Speaker 9: give it a bailout, giving it all this GST revenue.
Speaker 9: As a result, Victory is now going to receive a
Speaker 9: dollar dollar and seven cents in GST for every dollar raise.
Speaker 9: New South Wales has have fallen to eighty five cents
Speaker 9: per dollar raise in Queensland. Queensland's sorry, Queensland's eighty five
Speaker 9: cents in News Southwell's eighty six cents. So the reality
Speaker 9: is that Australian taxpayers are bearing the burden of Victorian
Speaker 9: government's financial incompetence. So we've got, you know, massively wasteful
Speaker 9: product projects, massively drowning bureaucrats. And to make matters worth
Speaker 9: these gas projects that Queensland has approved or is looking
Speaker 9: to approve. As their royalty revenues go up because they're
Speaker 9: improving gas, their gest take will go down right Whereas
Speaker 9: Victoria has banned new gas projects, which means that we're
Speaker 9: not going to get these royalties that we could have got,
Speaker 9: but we're going to get rewarded for being for basically
Speaker 9: stopping investment with extra GST revenue.
Speaker 3: Well, they've they've converted the GST revenue into a participation medal.
Speaker 3: Everyone is a winner here, even if you're stuffed things
Speaker 3: up royally, we'll still find a way to make you
Speaker 3: a winner. We'll just tip into the pockets of people
Speaker 3: in other states, and you know, then all it is
Speaker 3: is just turned up up and you get the prize
Speaker 3: and we cover over the cracks. It's a bloody joke, isn't.
Speaker 9: It, mate, It's an absolute joke. And you know, again
Speaker 9: the genest allocation rewards incompetence. Victoria stuffs things up, It
Speaker 9: runs itself poorly, It blows money left, right and center.
Speaker 9: It refuses to do new gas exploration or you know,
Speaker 9: open up new resource, new ways to raise revenue as well,
Speaker 9: and it gets rewarded, whereas Queensland is going to get
Speaker 9: penalized from improving new gas fields because it's going to
Speaker 9: get ex royalties from it. And New South Wales receives
Speaker 9: the most migrants in the country. Right, You're the biggest
Speaker 9: state and you need to be able to provide funding
Speaker 9: for infrastructure services for those for the massive influxing migrants
Speaker 9: that you have. But you've been hamstrung because effectively your
Speaker 9: your GST take is a lot less than should be
Speaker 9: and it's been siphoned off to Victoria.
Speaker 3: Is an absolute clown clown show, right mate, Thank you
Speaker 3: talking next week. Cheese excellent late van ontol and macro
Speaker 3: business dot com dot you I like that clown or
Speaker 3: champion of the week. But you're in government. Well done
Speaker 3: our initial our inaugural clown. It's coming up to twenty
Speaker 3: six after eleven o'clock twenty nine to two mid date
Speaker 3: is well. We've been spoiled with rugby league through the
Speaker 3: week of course, with both origins. How good was Wednesday night? Sorry?
Speaker 3: But four BC listeners, how good was Thursday night? Sea
Speaker 3: did that? And there's plenty of footy happening today and
Speaker 3: across the weekend, and some Group one racing as well
Speaker 3: in Queensland with the Kingswood Smith Cup. I think that's
Speaker 3: on today, So let's have a look at all the
Speaker 3: market action. Glen Moundseay from Ladbrokes, who's on the line Monday.
Speaker 3: Are you doing very good?
Speaker 20: Thank you? Look you've got a job in diplomacy there
Speaker 20: after that's you know what you know what that's called
Speaker 20: what it's called each way betting.
Speaker 3: That's right, Yes, that's right.
Speaker 20: You're applicated both sides.
Speaker 9: Of the argument there, very very nicely.
Speaker 3: Thank you mate, the storm clear favorite day and tagging
Speaker 3: on the Titans.
Speaker 20: Yeah, that'll be our first game in this afternoon. From
Speaker 20: Rablina clock where the Gold Coast they're on the drift
Speaker 20: three seventy out to four dollars and twenty five cents.
Speaker 20: Melbourne firming up now. Harry Grant and Correo's are out
Speaker 20: of the side from Origin on Wednesday night. They're one
Speaker 20: twenty eight into one twenty two. We've got a thirteen
Speaker 20: and a half point line and the over under at
Speaker 20: fifty one and a half. Melbourne have won the last
Speaker 20: nineteen of the last twenty three matches against the Gold
Speaker 20: Coast and both sides are in average form at the moment,
Speaker 20: the Gold Coast only winning one of their last five
Speaker 20: matches and Melbourne have only won two of their last five,
Speaker 20: which is a rarity for the Melbourne Storm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're not wrong. What about the Cowboys and the
Speaker 3: Tigers mate?
Speaker 20: Yeah, that's up at tenns Mill at five thirty where
Speaker 20: the Cowboys into one p thirty six from one forty two.
Speaker 20: The West Tiger's no Lockey Galvan, he's gone to the Dogs.
Speaker 20: They're two ninety five out the three ten nine and
Speaker 20: a half the line, they're forty nine and a half
Speaker 20: the over under now. Sixteen of the last thirty seven
Speaker 20: matches between the last two sides there's been fifty.
Speaker 9: Points or more scored in the match.
Speaker 20: I expect plenty of points in that match.
Speaker 3: This afternoon at five absolutely and then Manly they're at
Speaker 3: home to the Broncos.
Speaker 20: Well, what about this. This is the first time that
Speaker 20: Brisbane have been to Four Pines or Brookvale over in
Speaker 20: eleven years. The last time they went there the bus
Speaker 20: driver used at Gregory's. Now they'reeen Manly. Brisbane are one
Speaker 20: dollar seventy favorites three and a half the line there
Speaker 20: to the home side Manly. Now they've lost their last
Speaker 20: three at home Manly. But the last time Brisbane albert
Speaker 20: they haven't been there in eleven years. The last time
Speaker 20: they've won at Brookie was back in two thy and
Speaker 20: ten and they've lost five of their last six overall,
Speaker 20: brisbanees a tidy there for seven point thirty tonight.
Speaker 3: Now tomorrow your bunnies they've got the Warriors, haven't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 20: At a Corps homebush two o'clock. Wayne Bennett's nine hundred
Speaker 20: and fiftieth match in rugby league as a coach, which
Speaker 20: is nearly.
Speaker 9: As many shows as you have done.
Speaker 20: Yes, South, they're two five out to two twenty our
Speaker 20: doubts over Latrell Mitchell. He was spotted with a nice
Speaker 20: pack on his knee after origin on Wednesday night, so
Speaker 20: that market is going to be very, very heavily influenced
Speaker 20: whether Latrell Mitchell plays or not. But they're out to
Speaker 20: two twenty Souths the Warriors one seventy into one sixty
Speaker 20: eight two and a half the line to South's forty
Speaker 20: four and a half the over under Then at five
Speaker 20: past four at Combank Well, both sides are sharing Combat
Speaker 20: Stadium this year and who would have thought that it's
Speaker 20: the seventeenth placed Penrith up against the fifteenth placed Paramatta
Speaker 20: and Penrith are one sixty favorites Paramatter at two thirty
Speaker 20: five four and a half the line in that one,
Speaker 20: and then the tightest match of the round comes at
Speaker 20: six fifteen tomorrow night at Alion's where the Roosters are
Speaker 20: outsiders two dollars outsiders Canbra, who technically are on top
Speaker 20: of the comp because they haven't had a buy yet
Speaker 20: and the Dogs, for example, have had two the Dolphin
Speaker 20: and they've got the buy this week, that's their second buy.
Speaker 20: Now Canbra haven't had a buy so far, so technically
Speaker 20: they are on top of the comp. They're one eighty
Speaker 20: two favorites one and a half the line of the
Speaker 20: Chuckster's there forty seven and a half the over Runder
Speaker 20: Melbourne Premiership favorite to two to eighty over Canterbory at
Speaker 20: four fifty, Cronulla at eight, Camber at eleven, and the
Speaker 20: market's up already on origin for June eighteen at Alpta
Speaker 20: Stadium in Perth, the Blues one forty six, Queensland two
Speaker 20: to seventy five and six and a half the line
Speaker 20: there you'll catch all of the rugby league action with
Speaker 20: a team of reprobates that won't be too far from
Speaker 20: you where you're sitting in the in the interactive studio
Speaker 20: this afternoon for all the fanfare, fun and frivolity, with
Speaker 20: the continuous call to.
Speaker 3: Indeed mate well said and Group one racing in Queensland today,
Speaker 3: Can you give us an idea of the action there?
Speaker 3: There is something. I'm sure there's plenty.
Speaker 20: Yeah, be very very careful at the moment. Now the
Speaker 20: rains arrived in Brisbane. They started on a soft six,
Speaker 20: it's already been downgraded to a soft seven and it
Speaker 20: is raining today.
Speaker 2: So we've got the Ladbrokes.
Speaker 20: Queensland Derby where Statuario is the favorite there. It was
Speaker 20: runner up in the South Australian Derby, the Group one
Speaker 20: Kingsford Smith where jolly star James McDonald looks for I
Speaker 20: think it's a round of Eddies twenty fifth Group one
Speaker 20: win this season in Australia and overseas, and the Group
Speaker 20: two BRC size Gallo nero the favorite there. So all
Speaker 20: of that racing action from Eagle Farm nowhere near as
Speaker 20: nice a day in Brisbane as it is in Sydney,
Speaker 20: which is absolutely sensational a day to day after the
Speaker 20: weather I've had last week. If you want to catch
Speaker 20: any of the sporting action or any of the racing action,
Speaker 20: download the Ladbrokes App and you'll have all of that
Speaker 20: in the palm of your hand, ready to attack.
Speaker 3: Beautifully done. Thank you Glenn. Talk to you soon, mate,
Speaker 3: right o w in a couple of hours you take
Speaker 3: the rest of the day off. I well, thank you.
Speaker 3: It wasn't he nice.
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Speaker 3: Now we'll get to Ali stoles at domain in just
Speaker 3: a moment. But a couple of notes through from from
Speaker 3: police in Queensland that I haven't got to yet. A
Speaker 3: man has died following a single vehicle traffic crash in
Speaker 3: rows Neath at Townsville in the early hours of this
Speaker 3: morning one am. An electric screuter crashed on the Flinders Highway.
Speaker 3: Eighteen year old rider subbured significant injuries as a result
Speaker 3: of the crash. Transport at a hospital critical condition. He
Speaker 3: since died. The forensic crash Unit is investigating. If you
Speaker 3: can assist, police would love to hear from you. A
Speaker 3: man will appear before court today. This is in Sydney
Speaker 3: with allegedly graffitiing multiple Nazi swastikers and attempting to assault
Speaker 3: a police officer in Sydney's West yesterday about three pm.
Speaker 3: This is a unit block on Darby Street, Penrith opposite
Speaker 3: attached to Nepeine Police Area Command located. When they arrived,
Speaker 3: several Nazi swastikas and offensive phrases graffeited on footpaths, on
Speaker 3: fences and car spaces near the unit block. Police are
Speaker 3: arrested a fifty one year old man in the unit block.
Speaker 3: He was off to the police station. He allegedly attempted
Speaker 3: to assault an overser multiple times before being restrained. He's
Speaker 3: off to paramount a local court today and we'll update
Speaker 3: you on how he fared when we get some information.
Speaker 21: And now the real estate show thanks to Domain, Australia's
Speaker 21: trusted property marketplace.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time now to find out what's happening on
Speaker 3: the property market in Sydney and Brisbane thanks to our
Speaker 3: mates at Domain. I'm pleased to say that the national
Speaker 3: property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles, is on the line
Speaker 3: and joins me again this weekend.
Speaker 22: Hi, Alis, good morning, Great to be with you.
Speaker 3: I hope things are good with you. Let's kick off
Speaker 3: with where we normally do with the auction numbers and
Speaker 3: how are they looking today?
Speaker 23: Things are good, Luke, and Sydney buyers have a lot
Speaker 23: of choice today. Nine hundred and sixty five houses are
Speaker 23: going under the hammer and this is the biggest weekend
Speaker 23: Sydney's had this month, so pretty pretty spoiled for choice.
Speaker 23: I guess we could say Brisbane had a bit of
Speaker 23: a drop in auction numbers. That's down to seventy four
Speaker 23: auctions going under the hammer today, so probably better conditions
Speaker 23: for sellers.
Speaker 22: Dare I say that there's not as much choice that
Speaker 22: buyers kind of.
Speaker 23: Get corraled into buying whatever's on the market today.
Speaker 3: It sounds like, yeah, so how do we end up here?
Speaker 3: Because I think you might have even flagged this last week,
Speaker 3: big numbers in Sydney not so in Brisbane. I mean
Speaker 3: they're both beautiful cities in Australia. What's the difference, do
Speaker 3: you think?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 23: Well, a lot of it's because obviously interest rates sort
Speaker 23: of play a part in this, but these are obviously
Speaker 23: being booked in these campaigns thatt of five six weeks ago.
Speaker 23: And I think we know that the seasonality of the
Speaker 23: Brisbane market is quite different from the Sydney market.
Speaker 22: Auctions basically start the year.
Speaker 23: They're quite quickly and quite early in January, whereas the
Speaker 23: Sydney market a bit more Laxidasians that it takes a
Speaker 23: while to warm up, shall we say, and auctions really
Speaker 23: kick off there in February.
Speaker 22: So what we find is it into the winter month.
Speaker 23: Sydney kind of lasts a little bit longer before it
Speaker 23: tapers down into that winter hiatus, but Brisbane's pretty much
Speaker 23: already into that lower gear, it seems.
Speaker 3: Gotcha all right? Clearance raked from last week.
Speaker 23: Yeah. Well, look, Sydney had a big weekend and it
Speaker 23: came in at seventy percent.
Speaker 22: And I mean, I'm not sure if you and the
Speaker 22: listeners looked.
Speaker 23: Around town, but we saw lots of bitting at auction Luke,
Speaker 23: and I really think we noticed that sort of I
Speaker 23: guess a bit more confidence from buyers to sort of
Speaker 23: stretch a little bit further. And I'm not talking about crazy,
Speaker 23: crazy amounts, but I just saw quite a few options
Speaker 23: whether that competition.
Speaker 22: Remained very tight to the very end.
Speaker 23: So I think the Sydney market seems to be responding
Speaker 23: very well to that interest rate cut. Brisbane's clearance rate
Speaker 23: coming at forty three percent, which was consistent week on week.
Speaker 23: Obviously a less auction centric market, but interesting watching that
Speaker 23: market in Brisbane just kind of get their head around
Speaker 23: auctions a bit more, and we're seeing more and more
Speaker 23: I guess sellers choose that method of saleh.
Speaker 3: Alright, our expensive buyers from last week in Brisbane at
Speaker 3: sunny Bank in Sydney, Elizabeth Bay.
Speaker 23: Yeah, it was a home in sunny Bank that sold
Speaker 23: for one point eight five million dollars in Brisbane, a
Speaker 23: five bedroom home with a granny flat now We know
Speaker 23: how much value granny flats add.
Speaker 22: People love the thought of them.
Speaker 23: Whether it's for their home office, whether they left it
Speaker 23: out for short term accommodation or put a kid adult in,
Speaker 23: it always strikes a lot of desirability with people.
Speaker 22: And in Sydney it was Elizabeth Bay.
Speaker 23: An apartment there sold for six point four five million
Speaker 23: dollars with beautiful views over the harbor and all the
Speaker 23: bells and whistles that one can imagine from a property
Speaker 23: that sort of manages to get a figure like that
Speaker 23: six point four.
Speaker 22: To five minute not bad?
Speaker 3: Is it not bad? Three bedrooms, had two bathrooms and
Speaker 3: a car space and apartment Elizabeth Bay six and a
Speaker 3: half million if you don't mind what about value there
Speaker 3: was that seems extraordinary value at Paddington in Sydney.
Speaker 22: Yeah, I love his story.
Speaker 23: So it's a little studio flat that's sold in glen
Speaker 23: View Street, Paddington that's sold for four hundred and seventy
Speaker 23: nine thousand dollars. Now, as I said, it is just
Speaker 23: a studio, so it's not even a standalone one bedroom unit.
Speaker 23: But it does have parking on site, but you can't
Speaker 23: let it out, so it's not attached to the title,
Speaker 23: but there is parking for residents. And I thought, what
Speaker 23: a wonderful story that we're on the sty sort of
Speaker 23: second floor deco style brick apartment sold for sort of
Speaker 23: a figure that is kind of, you know, imaginable for
Speaker 23: some first time buys in particular, and I think it's
Speaker 23: a good example of ways that people can get onto
Speaker 23: the market. And maybe they won't live in that place
Speaker 23: forever locally, they're probably going to outgrow it if they
Speaker 23: have a family or want some more space in the future,
Speaker 23: but it could be a good little investment for someone
Speaker 23: to think about options like that, given it was under
Speaker 23: five hundred thousand dollars, which is well and truly below
Speaker 23: the meeting in Sydney.
Speaker 3: And had Paddington on your on your business card. I
Speaker 3: live in padding You don't have to tell them anything
Speaker 3: else yet. You were going to tell me about Brisbane, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was.
Speaker 23: We had a house I went to market in Pekember
Speaker 23: now this five bedroom house so for seven hundred and
Speaker 23: forty thousand dollars. So what we're really seeing is that
Speaker 23: affordability in Brisbane that people are I guess just going
Speaker 23: further out to get bang for their buck because really
Speaker 23: in most of these in Australia wouldn't find a five
Speaker 23: bedroom house for that price. So clearly people driven by
Speaker 23: price primarily are going that little bit further out and
Speaker 23: they're getting what they want. And in this case it
Speaker 23: was a five bedroom, two bar, four car house for
Speaker 23: seven hundred and.
Speaker 22: Forty thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: Jeez, Now tell me about Domain Sustainability and Property report,
Speaker 3: it's revealed that energy efficient homes are not only fetching
Speaker 3: premium prices, but and how high on the wish list.
Speaker 3: I guess the cost of living is so crippling for
Speaker 3: many that if you can get a place where you
Speaker 3: don't have to spend almost a mortgagey payment on your
Speaker 3: power bills, then it's a big tick.
Speaker 23: Yes, I think energy efficient homes are sort of the
Speaker 23: if that keeps on giving in that you can reduce
Speaker 23: your power bills. But what we are also seeing in
Speaker 23: the data is that when it comes to selling it,
Speaker 23: you will make a premium on it. In Sydney alone,
Speaker 23: energy efficient houses so for twelve and a half percent
Speaker 23: on average more than non energy efficient homes, and that's
Speaker 23: around one hundred and eighty thousand dollars extra. Now in Brisbane,
Speaker 23: it wasn't as extreme as that they're selling for fourteen
Speaker 23: point one percent more one hundred and twenty k more
Speaker 23: than non energy efficient houses. But what we're seeing is
Speaker 23: I think this, you know, what did appear a very
Speaker 23: niche thing, sustainable housing and energy efficiency. And remember when
Speaker 23: solar panels were kind of rare and now increasingly becoming
Speaker 23: sort of a compulsory feature for many people when it
Speaker 23: comes to buying their house, and they want it for
Speaker 23: the saving that they get through those energy bills, and
Speaker 23: they're also wanting i think, to obviously help the planet,
Speaker 23: but also knowing they're going to make that money back
Speaker 23: when it comes time to selling. So you know, for
Speaker 23: a lot of people, it is that initial outcost of
Speaker 23: whether it's double glazing the windows, you know, changing the
Speaker 23: orientation of a house when you're designing it, if you
Speaker 23: are doing it from scratch to have a northern orientation,
Speaker 23: making really energy efficient heating choices, they can obviously cost
Speaker 23: more in the beginning, but it seems the rewards are
Speaker 23: well and truly being met as the house grows in
Speaker 23: value down the track.
Speaker 3: Now we can buy an island. Is that what you're suggesting?
Speaker 23: I mean, how often do I get to say that
Speaker 23: there is an island for sale off Northern Queensland. It's
Speaker 23: three k's off Cape Palmerson National Park, which is sixty
Speaker 23: k southeast of Mackay. Now, this is a forty nine
Speaker 23: point seven hectare island, and on this island is a
Speaker 23: three bedroom house. Now the house is owned by two
Speaker 23: families and one of the families are selling out their
Speaker 23: share and with that house you get the island. It's
Speaker 23: quite extraordinary. And this is the only house on the island,
Speaker 23: and it's got a little air strip so you can
Speaker 23: ride it on your own little private private plane if
Speaker 23: you don't mind, or a ten minute boat. A ten
Speaker 23: minute boat trip from the coast. Now, this is apparently
Speaker 23: absolutely spectacular. You can go snort cling around those beautiful waters,
Speaker 23: the coral reefs are there, and just and pristine bushland
Speaker 23: to explore.
Speaker 22: But it's on the market for six hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 23: Oh wow, I just think I'm sort of watching if
Speaker 23: other than media around the world picked this story up, because,
Speaker 23: as someone mentioned, it's the fraction of a car. It's
Speaker 23: basically what you pay for a parking spot in Sydney.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, yes, you can do you know if uber eads deliver?
Speaker 23: I don't know, But funny you should ask that, Luke,
Speaker 23: because I had to laugh at the listing. It's said
Speaker 23: that the island does have coverage for Optus and tell
Speaker 23: us your mobile phones, and I just thought that's such
Speaker 23: a sign of the times, isn't it could be stuck
Speaker 23: with you Uber eats or a door dash.
Speaker 22: I'm not sure you're going to get milk delivered on
Speaker 22: your doorsteps.
Speaker 23: I think I think you have a lot of probably
Speaker 23: fishing to do, and you know, a lot of seafood
Speaker 23: to live off. Pretty happy there, I don't think you'd be.
Speaker 23: I don't think you'd be many complaints coming from you
Speaker 23: on a place like that.
Speaker 3: I think you're right. I think you're right. How wonderful
Speaker 3: is that? All right? We'll take a break back with
Speaker 3: more from Alison just today, and we are joined by
Speaker 3: Alice Stoles from Domain, the National Property editor. Alice the
Speaker 3: rise of prefab homes. This is interesting, isn't it? Could
Speaker 3: prefab homes be a large solution to our large housing crisis?
Speaker 3: What do you think?
Speaker 12: Look?
Speaker 22: Look, I'm a real.
Speaker 23: Fan of this notion of prefab homes and it's because
Speaker 23: Basically they can deliver houses much faster than the traditional
Speaker 23: methods of construction, which we know we've experienced over the
Speaker 23: past few years in particular incredible challenges around that. It
Speaker 23: also means that there's no delays attributed to weather because
Speaker 23: basically all the hard worker building the home is on
Speaker 23: in a factory, then that house sort of slubs of
Speaker 23: it are put on trucks and trucks around the country.
Speaker 23: Now the benefit is homeowners can also have bespoke called
Speaker 23: truly sort of custom designed houses and have kind of
Speaker 23: quite clever and ingenious design and have that individuality to
Speaker 23: a house that often people obviously enjoy, particularly in Australia,
Speaker 23: and do all that in record time. Now it also
Speaker 23: usually can come in at a cheaper cost because materials
Speaker 23: are used so much more effectively, there's no wastage, and
Speaker 23: there's also no delays to weather, but just in terms
Speaker 23: of how quickly they arrive. I was reading an article
Speaker 23: and I always laugh at this, and I've seen it
Speaker 23: happen myself. But literally you'll see a neighbor will go
Speaker 23: off to work as a blank piece of land, they
Speaker 23: come back and there's a house on it. Now, all
Speaker 23: the groundwork has been done for months prior. I'm not
Speaker 23: saying it just click your fingers and it's delivered that evening.
Speaker 23: But that's how quickly it's construction constructed on site because
Speaker 23: everything is done off site and then it's literally just
Speaker 23: trucked in and ascendble and it's basically almost ready to
Speaker 23: go at that point.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's amazing. Now Properties of interest which I haven't
Speaker 3: have time for, I'm sorry, one at North Bridge and
Speaker 3: one at Cadanga Creek in Queensland. In Queensland, it's an
Speaker 3: a better if you don't mind, will put links to
Speaker 3: the on the podcast. To those listings. There's three living spaces,
Speaker 3: eight bedrooms, the one in queensand properties of Interest. Thanks Alice,
Speaker 3: I'll talk to you next week. That's Alice Stoles from
Speaker 3: Domain News coming up. I will get to Craig Bennett
Speaker 3: after the News. I know because I saw a video
Speaker 3: of him interviewing Loretta Switt hot Lips Hulahan from Mash
Speaker 3: who very sadly has passed away of a night, so
Speaker 3: ill asking him about that. He will also run his
Speaker 3: eye over Clint Eastwood when we get Starstruck with Craig
Speaker 3: in the next hour catch up with Mark Levy. I
Speaker 3: see voicing commercials in the next studio preview the footy
Speaker 3: later on today. All that ahead, it's almost midday.
Speaker 21: Low Cross Australia. It's back to weekends with little grand.
Speaker 3: Good afternoon, hope you're well. Nice to be with you
Speaker 3: on this Saturday afternoon, thirty first day of May today,
Speaker 3: winter tomorrow and plenty of rugby league action. The boys
Speaker 3: will be here, well I shouldn't say boys, of course.
Speaker 3: Alana Ferguson's in with the team today, or Fergo as
Speaker 3: they refer to her. I think it's fantastic doing the
Speaker 3: commentary for the women's origin through the week. Anyway, they'll
Speaker 3: be here with with Mark Marky, Mark Mark Leaby's here.
Speaker 3: The big man is here? Is Galin today? No gal today?
Speaker 3: I know you gave me a bit of paper with
Speaker 3: everything that's happening when I put that somewhere? Where did
Speaker 3: I put that? Not like me to lose a bit
Speaker 3: of paper right? Seven three is the number. Craig Bennett
Speaker 3: coming up shortly here. Supermarkets they're saying should be banned
Speaker 3: from selling cigarettes. According to the Lung Foundation of Australia,
Speaker 3: No Tobacco Day today. The Foundation has floated the ban
Speaker 3: as a means to stop smokers being tempted to buy
Speaker 3: a pack or a pouch alongside their groceries. Well, I
Speaker 3: don't give anyone ideas, I really don't, but I think
Speaker 3: that I think the horse has bolted to some extent
Speaker 3: because the supermarkets, from what I'm told, and I have
Speaker 3: no experience here, but the supermarkets is where you buy
Speaker 3: the full price cigarettes, and it's elsewhere where many people
Speaker 3: buy the much cheaper cigarettes. So banning them in a
Speaker 3: supermarket introduces more people to cheaper cigarettes, if you know.
Speaker 3: It just appears to me that that would be the
Speaker 3: logic in that. I mean, there's got to be noise
Speaker 3: or no tobacco day. I understand that, and I am
Speaker 3: making it clear that what if you do don't smoke,
Speaker 3: But I mean that's the again, the lived experience. Yeah,
Speaker 3: galleys in Gal big Man and Mark Levy after one o'clock.
Speaker 3: We'll have a chat to Mark before we before we
Speaker 3: go today. Three one eight seven three is our open
Speaker 3: line number. Anthony Albanese's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions
Speaker 3: is on life support, we're told after a new data
Speaker 3: showed Australian's carbon footprints rose slightly last year, driven by
Speaker 3: a two point two percent increase in the electricity sector.
Speaker 3: You know, I heard something through the week. I don't
Speaker 3: know if I heard it on TV or radio or Reddit. Summer.
Speaker 3: This is how bad my memory is becoming. Late in
Speaker 3: the show, early on, it's magnificent that if we stopped,
Speaker 3: if we stopped all our CO two emissions, if we
Speaker 3: stopped them all, it would take China sixteen days to
Speaker 3: produce the same in a year. So we stopped the
Speaker 3: year's emissions. That's China in sixteen and people jump up
Speaker 3: and down about our emissions here and I heard someone,
Speaker 3: it might have been Paul Murray on Sky say well,
Speaker 3: you know, have a look at the address of the
Speaker 3: Chinese embassy in your city and maybe gohead and stand
Speaker 3: outside there with a placard saying stop at getting really hot.
Speaker 3: Energy experts declared the Albanese government was set to fail
Speaker 3: its international commitment. Now it's commitment. What didn't they make
Speaker 3: it legislated. I'm pretty sure they did forty three percent
Speaker 3: of five levels by the end of the decade. Now
Speaker 3: they just stayed impossible to get there. In fact, figures
Speaker 3: released by the Climate Change Department show carbon dioxide emissions
Speaker 3: rose by zero up on zero five percent in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four. That's equivalent to twenty seven percent lower than
Speaker 3: in two thousand and five. I mentioned before the energy
Speaker 3: expert Bruce Mountain said he did not think there was
Speaker 3: a chance the Albanese he got government could meet its
Speaker 3: twenty to thirty commitment. And I made this point and
Speaker 3: this is what worries me, that what government typically would do.
Speaker 3: And Chris Bowen is probably the main offender here. They'll
Speaker 3: just put everything on steroids. You think things are already
Speaker 3: expensive and at times unreliable, they're the predictions. So it
Speaker 3: gets worse, not better. The Means government dramatically declared its
Speaker 3: new electric buses would be built on New South Wales soil.
Speaker 3: But the Saturday Telegraph is uncovered the stock being rolled
Speaker 3: out from a factory in Beijing. Extraordinary photographs shared from
Speaker 3: the headquarters of the Chinese company Photon. That's the issue.
Speaker 3: They show a delivery ceremony in Beijing with workers posing
Speaker 3: on a stage with a sign reading batch delivery ceremony
Speaker 3: one twenty six electric buses of the Australian market. Mister
Speaker 3: Means has pre He said the offshoring of public transport
Speaker 3: by the former government was a complete disaster, which is
Speaker 3: why we're building these buses here in New South Wales,
Speaker 3: creating local jobs and public transport that works. The Australian
Speaker 3: Manufacturing Workers' Union New South BOST Secretary Bradley Pigeon says
Speaker 3: the overseas construction quote is against the very labor platform unquote.
Speaker 3: The Premier had campaigned on we're sick of the lives
Speaker 3: and hired the truth. I wonder if you'd be prepared
Speaker 3: to say that just before an election hashtag just wondering.
Speaker 3: Transport Minister John Graham defended his foreign built buses, saying
Speaker 3: the first fifteen were rapidly built overseas and a bit
Speaker 3: to meet a shortfall in Sydney. We're working to do
Speaker 3: premier better on local content, says the Premier. The first
Speaker 3: twenty five buses are heading to Nara where locals will
Speaker 3: build in the seats. Hey, how good can you just
Speaker 3: leave the seats off CCTV someone gets to put a
Speaker 3: camera wiring an installation of the opal readers. Probably better
Speaker 3: to do that here than stick them in the mail
Speaker 3: and the telematics. I mean, you don't want to say fraudulent.
Speaker 3: Plenty of emails and plenty of feedback. Thank you for that,
Speaker 3: and Max says on the text, Hey, Louke, honesty, I
Speaker 3: give up. Every weekend I see trail bikes riding all
Speaker 3: around South Marubra and in particular around Coral Sea Park.
Speaker 3: There's even one dad on a mini trail bike with
Speaker 3: his two or three year old that rides around the
Speaker 3: Coral Seapark even when there are hundreds of kids and parents.
Speaker 3: I actually just saw him buying his smokes, riding away
Speaker 3: with his two year old or three year old on
Speaker 3: his lap and a smoke at his mouth. I've called
Speaker 3: the police five times over the past few months. Just
Speaker 3: keeps happening. A young man was killed last year. Time
Speaker 3: to give up. Wow, that's amazing. I was in a
Speaker 3: seven to eleven the other day. They had their cigarette
Speaker 3: prices on the screen behind the counter. One packet of
Speaker 3: Marlborough twenty five seventy five ninety nine, I can buy
Speaker 3: ten packets of twenties of illegal cigarettes for one hundred
Speaker 3: and ten bucks. I'll never go back to buying the
Speaker 3: legal stuff. Whatever you do, don't smoke. Thank you Ash
Speaker 3: for getting in touch. Luke China's just reached the stage
Speaker 3: of starting to reduce emissions thanks to the rapid installations
Speaker 3: of alternative energy. That's despite a big increase in energy usage.
Speaker 3: I don't accept that, John, I'd love you to email
Speaker 3: me a link that proves that to be the case,
Speaker 3: not some piece of Chinese Communist Party propaganda. And they're
Speaker 3: building more nuclear maybe John, that's it, do you think,
Speaker 3: because they're building hundreds of coal fired power stations every year.
Speaker 3: So if you'd like to email me or send me
Speaker 3: something that justifies that, or supports that, or proves that,
Speaker 3: I'm happy to make that clear to the audience. Good a, Luke.
Speaker 3: The official first day of winter was the twenty first
Speaker 3: of June. Please stop giving out misinformation. Smiley face, smiley face,
Speaker 3: have a wonderful day, a Will, Pamela, thank you for
Speaker 3: getting in touch. We're looking into an incident at a
Speaker 3: Coles supermarket in the Eastern suburbs. Thank you, Sharon. We'll
Speaker 3: get more information on that. If there's more to report,
Speaker 3: we will. Okay, has Mark locked the studio door while
Speaker 3: recording voiceovers to stop MG coming in. I don't think so.
Speaker 3: MG's not here today, but that's obviously a thing of
Speaker 3: which I'm not aware. Thank you for your texts. Zero
Speaker 3: force zero eight seven eight seven three. You might remember
Speaker 3: Fiegel or fergul Sharky. I think it is fergul Sharky.
Speaker 3: He was a performer, a music well. I guess heavyweight.
Speaker 3: I had a couple of hits of the eighties, and
Speaker 3: he made it clear through the last week or so
Speaker 3: that he'd been battling prostate cancer. I wasn't aware of that.
Speaker 3: He's also an environmentalist. I'll play you want to the
Speaker 3: songs in the moment fergul Shaki.
Speaker 17: About a year and a half ago, I randomly went
Speaker 17: to see my GP with a sore throat. Now I've
Speaker 17: known him long enough, but he goes, no, no, you
Speaker 17: that book us to sing. So if you're telling me
Speaker 17: you've got a sore throat, there's something going on. So
Speaker 17: my doctor, been the beautiful, wonderful, awkward, contankerous old man
Speaker 17: that he is, went oh, Fregol, by the way, you're
Speaker 17: sixty five, I'm going to run the full battery of tests.
Speaker 17: Two days later, turns out I began a journey which
Speaker 17: led their prognosis of prostate cancer.
Speaker 4: Thankfully, that's all now been resolved. A year ago, but
Speaker 4: here we are.
Speaker 17: Had it not been for that random visit to my
Speaker 17: local GP, I would have never have known that I
Speaker 17: was at that point carrying prostate cancer. And if it
Speaker 17: had not been seen to you, it could have been
Speaker 17: a very different ending in a very different wad come
Speaker 17: to my life. So reason I'm very happy to talk
Speaker 17: about it. If there's one monitor right now over there
Speaker 17: to forty five, go and see your GP. You're gonna
Speaker 17: get blood test on.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's Fergul Sharky Obe a singer and an environmentalist from
Speaker 3: Northern Ireland. He's very keen on river health. He's a
Speaker 3: fly fisher. Did you know that anyway? You got through
Speaker 3: that battle? And he's reminding all blokes everywhere to take
Speaker 3: your head out of the sand. Fergl Sharky a good heart.
Speaker 3: On weekends you a lot of story. Do you remember
Speaker 3: that from the eighties. That's Fergl Sharky. That's a good
Speaker 3: heart revealing this week he's stared down prostate cancer and
Speaker 3: telling blokes OI, get serious, get tested, get some emails quickly.
Speaker 3: El listening in North queens Angerdeel we worry about that zero.
Speaker 3: Why aren't the same people worrying about net plastics. This morning,
Speaker 3: I took out the trash, put a new plastic bag
Speaker 3: in the bin. Then the first three things I happened
Speaker 3: for our family breakfast, A plastic bag of clothorn, the
Speaker 3: plastic fed of cheese packet, and then the sliced plastic rappers.
Speaker 3: Goodness me, let's stop all it's rot about net zero.
Speaker 3: It's sending us broke. Get on with life. Thank you
Speaker 3: well and Phil, says Luke. Eighty three years ago today
Speaker 3: the Imperial Japanese Navy visited US, killed twenty one on
Speaker 3: the cutterable of firing a torpedo at USS Chicago. Not
Speaker 3: sure if you got to this as shamefully I missed
Speaker 3: a bit of your show. I apologize. So that was
Speaker 3: very kind of you, Phil, And it wasn't for your email,
Speaker 3: I wouldn't have mentioned that. So thank you Phil. We'll
Speaker 3: take a break. Craig Bennett's next. Thank you Adam for
Speaker 3: your text, Luke. All the roads from Heathcote through Ingerdeen,
Speaker 3: Loft of Sutherland, bangor Meni, etc. A dog's breakfast, bumper
Speaker 3: and a bumper due to the closure of Heathcote Road.
Speaker 3: Thanks Adam. Joy Jeez, Luky, haven't heard that song for
Speaker 3: a while you did it again, but a good song.
Speaker 3: Heeh figel or fer Sharky, who revealed through the week
Speaker 3: he's prostate cancer battle, which he appears to be on
Speaker 3: top of. Clay, says Luke. He started in the seventies
Speaker 3: band The Undertones, my perfect cousin their biggest hit. I'll
Speaker 3: have a listen to that, Thank you, Clay. Grab the smelling.
Speaker 2: Souls, industry or strength if you have them, and.
Speaker 1: Don't forget the pickle juice, because it's time for Starstruck
Speaker 1: with Craig Bennett.
Speaker 3: Now we've got a busy time with Craig today. Of
Speaker 3: course there's plenty to talk about. Yeah, grab the appropriate
Speaker 3: support mechanism, be that a drink or something firm, as
Speaker 3: we often refer to here. If you want to go
Speaker 3: to the extreme and just have yourself, you know, well
Speaker 3: and truly prepared, we always suggest just a port glass,
Speaker 3: not too much of pickled juice. Had that need to
Speaker 3: you if you will. We're going to be talking about
Speaker 3: Clint Eastwood, who's ninety five today, And as I say, Craig,
Speaker 3: good afternoon to you, I can't help because I saw
Speaker 3: a clip online of you and the wonderful the great
Speaker 3: Loretta suit Emmy Award winning actress who was I think
Speaker 3: for with the exception of eleven episodes, was in every
Speaker 3: episode of Mash, that wonderful program, and she has sadly
Speaker 3: passed away over night.
Speaker 24: You are absolutely right, Luke, Yes, good afternoon to you.
Speaker 24: And she's gone so loved as Major Margaret Hulahan hot
Speaker 24: lips of course from the Telly series Mash, And you're right.
Speaker 24: She was in two hundred and forty five episodes across
Speaker 24: eleven seasons, only missing eleven of them. A fascinating showbiz life.
Speaker 24: She wish she'd been in acting since the sixties. She
Speaker 24: kicked off on stage in New York and was also
Speaker 24: a beautiful singer, But of course, I guess it was
Speaker 24: her role on Mash that really captivated the world. Came
Speaker 24: along in nineteen seventy two. She was married once. In fact,
Speaker 24: it was to an actor who appeared briefly on MASH.
Speaker 24: They had no kids, but look, she was a devoted
Speaker 24: animal activist, so dogs were her kids. She told me,
Speaker 24: I did have the joy of chatting with Loretta about oh,
Speaker 24: four years ago, I think it was maybe five. For
Speaker 24: Studio ten. She was at that point living in New York.
Speaker 24: She'd been living in Los Angeles for years but had
Speaker 24: moved to New York and it was teed up.
Speaker 6: To be a zoom interview.
Speaker 24: And the thing is, Loretta had never done a zoom
Speaker 24: alone before her assistant had gone home because of the
Speaker 24: time difference between Australia and New York. It was sort
Speaker 24: of in the evening for her. So in this desperate
Speaker 24: bit to get it happening because she just couldn't make
Speaker 24: it work. You could see it and there was no sound,
Speaker 24: and you could hear of a vision and all of that.
Speaker 24: This was recorded, obviously not life. Poor darly. She was
Speaker 24: running up and down these stairs to the dorman in
Speaker 24: the foyer and he eventually got it happening. It looks
Speaker 24: she was fun She was funny. She was very sharing
Speaker 24: with her honesty, the great stories, the triumphs of her career.
Speaker 24: You know, she was in Hawaii five Oh. I think
Speaker 24: it was her first Telly appearance back in the sixties.
Speaker 24: But anyway, what happened was and it was also sudden.
Speaker 24: I was interviewing Jamie Fahr the other day and we
Speaker 24: were talking obviously about Loretta, and oh, she's in great health,
Speaker 24: and we're going off to do something in a couple
Speaker 24: of months, one of those big fan convention things. And
Speaker 24: she loved all of that. So she was chatting last
Speaker 24: night with her very close friend and publicist on the phone,
Speaker 24: was in great form. He regaled midday today in New
Speaker 24: York time, which is about two a in our time,
Speaker 24: she was found dead in her apartment by her maid
Speaker 24: eighty seven. So there she was last night having a
Speaker 24: great old chin wag on the phone and in seemingly
Speaker 24: fabulous spirits and dead the next day early today our time.
Speaker 24: And you know, Luke, that means we've lost another mash
Speaker 24: great but who obviously is still with us today so
Speaker 24: far as is the great Jamie Farr, of course, always
Speaker 24: loved this Klinger Alan old Mike Farrell who was honeycut,
Speaker 24: and Gary Berghoff who was a raidar. And anyway, many
Speaker 24: memories of Loretta sweet, I know everybody will have one.
Speaker 24: She was just so adored, so loved, And I just
Speaker 24: want to tell you if you thought she was gorgeous
Speaker 24: and sweet and wonderful, interesting, aerodite in articulate, you are
Speaker 24: absolutely not wrong on any of those cows.
Speaker 3: And you mentioned the fact that she was a beautiful singer.
Speaker 3: I wasn't aware of that until I found this this morning. Yeah,
Speaker 3: there she is Loretta Switt sorely missed in a wonderful talent.
Speaker 3: Thank you for doing that. Mate. We are talking as
Speaker 3: I mentioned about Clint Eastwood today.
Speaker 24: Yes, that's right, Clint Eastwood, who it's a happy birthday.
Speaker 24: I mean, if we had the cake in front of us,
Speaker 24: we'd be blowing out ninety five candles on his behalf.
Speaker 6: Look.
Speaker 24: I mean, as well as being a four time Oscar
Speaker 24: winning movie star director and way back in the fifties,
Speaker 24: of course, let's via the television where he was on
Speaker 24: that great Western series Rawhider's Rowdy Yates. He was also
Speaker 24: a wonderful singer, and not a lot of people know that.
Speaker 24: I guess, much like Lord Retta Sweet, people don't realize
Speaker 24: that Clint was a fabulous singer. And in fact, I think,
Speaker 24: if my psychic vibe is right, Luke Grant, you might
Speaker 24: have just a little of Clint Eastwood singing, and I'm
Speaker 24: sure people are going to be thinking that's not Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 3: Hey, I want to sing de Lafine and get a raised.
Speaker 3: Can I be the first to say that's not Clint Eastwood.
Speaker 24: Yes, you're just listening then to a big bulk of
Speaker 24: roses that was from Clint Eastwood sing's Cowboy Favorites. Absolutely,
Speaker 24: I promise you that the first the first song you
Speaker 24: heard was a duet with the late great Merle Haggard,
Speaker 24: and that was a song called Barroom Buddies, which was
Speaker 24: a number one hit around the world in nineteen eighty
Speaker 24: and of course it featured in Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy
Speaker 24: movie that he started with one of his girlfriends or wife,
Speaker 24: Sondra Locke, will talk about all of that in a minute,
Speaker 24: but yes, I mean he recorded a whole bunch of
Speaker 24: albums as an actor, of course, away from the microphone,
Speaker 24: enjoyed a and continues to do so. Seventy year Hollywood career,
Speaker 24: which kicked off in nineteen fifty five. In fact, his
Speaker 24: first movie role. I know he's going to shock your
Speaker 24: socks off. So far he's starting what sixty five movies,
Speaker 24: including those very famous Sergiolion and spaghetti westerns like A
Speaker 24: Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugliest.
Speaker 24: Of course, he was Harry Callahan in five Dirty Harry movies.
Speaker 24: He sang opposite Lee Marvin in a musical called Paint
Speaker 24: Your Wagon. He was in things like Escape from Alcatraz
Speaker 24: and the Bridges of Madison County. Play Misty for Me
Speaker 24: was the start of his sensational directing. I've absolutely loved
Speaker 24: that movie, just a fabulous and of course you being
Speaker 24: in radio, I'm sure it holds a a poignant thought
Speaker 24: for you. So he's directed so far what forty one movies,
Speaker 24: including Jay Edgar, There was Sully, there was Jersey Boys.
Speaker 24: You see the incredible variety in what this man does.
Speaker 24: His most recent was During Number two, which came out
Speaker 24: last year, which you've not seen, Luke. If you've not
Speaker 24: seen it, you should hunt it up. It's a masterpiece.
Speaker 24: That's really quite. It's a court room thrill. Right, And
Speaker 24: here we are at ninety five. He is still working
Speaker 24: looking at scripts for his next project. Also a very accomplished,
Speaker 24: accompanied accomplished pianist and a composer, and you often hear
Speaker 24: his jazzy scores in his movies. To his private life.
Speaker 24: Not visa will cover this, but hourly Dooley, you'll need
Speaker 24: the heart paddles.
Speaker 6: Stand.
Speaker 24: Oh yes, look, there's been two marriages, two very messy divorces,
Speaker 24: cheating scandals up the wazoo, fathered eight kids. I say
Speaker 24: that we know of because his biographer, the great Patrick
Speaker 24: McGilligan claims there may be more kid jenneficant I know
Speaker 24: because Clint's very private about his private life. Doesn't discuss it.
Speaker 24: No flies on Clint though in his love life, because
Speaker 24: last year, very sadly, his girlfriend of ten years died
Speaker 24: of a heart attack. Only sixty one months later, bingo,
Speaker 24: there he is in the company of another younger woman.
Speaker 24: And let's not forget amongst all the movie star stuff
Speaker 24: and you know, singing and whatever. Great director. He was
Speaker 24: also the mayor of Carmel for two years in the eighties. Carmel,
Speaker 24: of course, the wonderful seaside town south of San Francisco,
Speaker 24: home to Doris Day before she left us twenty nineteen.
Speaker 24: But a bit of trivia about that. When Clint was
Speaker 24: mayor of Carmel, first thing he did was overturned that
Speaker 24: the rather silly no ice cream cone rule. And it
Speaker 24: was a very odd law that stated there should be
Speaker 24: no ice cream parlors in Carmel, because you see, on
Speaker 24: the odd occasion a hot day, or if you were
Speaker 24: butter fingers, ice cream would fall out of their cones
Speaker 24: and go all sticky and horrible and gowey on the footpath,
Speaker 24: bringing ants theious. They made a law again. Yes, anyway,
Speaker 24: it's a wild story, including voodoo and one of these
Speaker 24: ex's road a very unflattering blek. It's all coming your
Speaker 24: way in a tick as I don't even think holding
Speaker 24: onto something firm is going to help.
Speaker 3: No, no, look well it sounds to me like it is.
Speaker 3: This has got heart tattles written all over it. Back
Speaker 3: with Craig in a sec we're looking at the life
Speaker 3: and times of Clint Eastwood, who's ninety five today, and
Speaker 3: Craig Simon says, look, I learn every time I listened
Speaker 3: to you too. Today I learned Clint Eastwood made the
Speaker 3: right decision to pursue acting and not singing. People be
Speaker 3: so unkind.
Speaker 24: Yeah, it's the paraphrase kamal, Why are people so uncover?
Speaker 3: Indeed? Anyway, my friend over to you.
Speaker 11: Yep.
Speaker 24: San Francisco is where Clinton Eastwood was born ninety five
Speaker 24: years ago. Today. Had a younger sister, Jeanie, who's still
Speaker 24: with us somewhere. Look, their mom worked as a secretary.
Speaker 24: Dad was in the paper pulp industry, and Clent bounced
Speaker 24: into the world an enormous baby, five point two kilos.
Speaker 24: Ask anyone any lady who's had above weighed five point
Speaker 24: two kilos and they'll let you know. The nurses were
Speaker 24: right when they nicknamed him Samson. Look when he finished
Speaker 24: at school and acting kind of wasn't on his radar
Speaker 24: at all. He went on, in fact, to become a
Speaker 24: firefighter and a lifeguard. He was a golf caddy for
Speaker 24: a bit and then he was drafted into the war
Speaker 24: nineteen fifty one. But he avoided service in career because
Speaker 24: at the time he was romancing the daughter of the
Speaker 24: officer whose job it was to assign personnel overseas, you see,
Speaker 24: and so didn't get assigned overseas. However, close scrape with death,
Speaker 24: and this is the early fifties. He was returning from
Speaker 24: Seattle in a DA bomber aircraft when the true story
Speaker 24: ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near
Speaker 24: Point Ray's, California. He escaped the sinking aircraft paddled on
Speaker 24: a life ra up three kilometers to land. Absolutely incredible story.
Speaker 24: Look to he showed you start he was a strapping
Speaker 24: six foot on the old scale, six foot four on
Speaker 24: the old scale, very handsome, so it look long story short,
Speaker 24: someone suggested, what about acting make a lot of money,
Speaker 24: so he auditioned for Universal Studios. He was considered very stiff,
Speaker 24: in fact, so wooden' he could have been a smagas
Speaker 24: board for termites. And the director noted that he kind
Speaker 24: of hissed his lines through clenched teeth, and he squinted
Speaker 24: far too much. Still, he had that certain something luke,
Speaker 24: and so off to drama classes he trotted, and he
Speaker 24: was into a one hundred dollars a week contract. His
Speaker 24: very first movie was a little bit in a horrorforic
Speaker 24: called Revenge of the Creature in nineteen fifty five, So
Speaker 24: there was Clinton Eastwood's movie debut. He was twenty five
Speaker 24: at the time. It was in fact a sequel that
Speaker 24: movie to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then
Speaker 24: he had a role in a similar creature feature flick
Speaker 24: called Tarantula. And then he then along Bounced raw Hide
Speaker 24: in nineteen fifty nine, and he stayed with that show
Speaker 24: for seven seasons, made him a household name. He quit,
Speaker 24: claiming the character was stupid and Clottish. Then came those
Speaker 24: spaghetti western so called because of course they were shocked,
Speaker 24: usually on the chief, usually in Italy. And Clint Eastwood's
Speaker 24: career is off and it is running. Look to his
Speaker 24: very messy private life. Biographers, ex wives, partners of branded
Speaker 24: Clint a solid gold, good time boy, a serial philander
Speaker 24: in an unkind of way. His first wife, a beautiful
Speaker 24: blonde who was a secretary named Maggie. They met on
Speaker 24: a blind date, married in nineteen fifty three. He was
Speaker 24: twenty three then, but the cheating started from the get go.
Speaker 24: It turns out while he was wooing Maggie again, fact
Speaker 24: god an actress pregnant. So along comes Clint's first daughter, Laurie,
Speaker 24: who was venadoff about the whole thing was hush hush,
Speaker 24: nobody knew. Clinton Laurie then reconnected. Years later, nineteen sixty four,
Speaker 24: he had another daughter, not with his wife. Kimber is
Speaker 24: the name of his second daughter, the result of a
Speaker 24: long affair he was having with a stunt woman while
Speaker 24: he was married to wife number one. Clint then had
Speaker 24: two kids with his wife, Kyle, a son who's a
Speaker 24: jazz museo, and Alison, who's an actress and a fashion designer.
Speaker 24: Now his indiscretions were kept an absolute secret. People had
Speaker 24: no idea, Oh, isn't that lovely's marriage? He's got two kids.
Speaker 24: But then, of course along comes the National inquirer, who'd
Speaker 24: gotten wind of all of this, exposed Clints too well,
Speaker 24: as they called them back then, love child scandals. And
Speaker 24: that was it for Maggie Wife number one. She split
Speaker 24: from Clint and eventually divorced him in nineteen eighty four,
Speaker 24: romping off with a twenty five million dollar payer. Thank
Speaker 24: you very much, don't mind if I do so look
Speaker 24: for those keeping count one wife, two kids, an array
Speaker 24: of affairs resulting in two more kids, so four kids
Speaker 24: all up.
Speaker 11: Now.
Speaker 24: In the mid seventies, while still married to Maggie, he
Speaker 24: fell mad in love with the actress Sondra Locked. They
Speaker 24: made a movie together called The Outlaw of Josie Whale.
Speaker 24: Sondra and Clint moved in together. Very complicated because take
Speaker 24: notes of this, please, Luke. Sondra was married to a
Speaker 24: gay man.
Speaker 9: Who wore elf shoes.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, who hasn't done that?
Speaker 24: And had psychic flashes. Well, I just think that's one
Speaker 24: hell of a combination anyway, Clint was so enamored with
Speaker 24: Sondra heaven bought a house for her gay hubby and
Speaker 24: his husband and no doubt their collection of elf shoes
Speaker 24: or quite interesting. Clinton Sondra made six movies together, including
Speaker 24: The Gauntlet, Every which Way but Loose. But it wasn't
Speaker 24: till last Sondra was away making a movie, came home
Speaker 24: to find that Clint had actually changed the locks. And
Speaker 24: so along comes nineteen ninety seven and Sondra, obviously still
Speaker 24: smarting from this, understandably wrote a blistering teller book titled
Speaker 24: The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, and she
Speaker 24: painted him as being not the Clint East would we
Speaker 24: see on the screen. She reckons, he destroyed her career,
Speaker 24: tapped to phone masterminded all sorts of very peculiar skullduggery. Now,
Speaker 24: during his romance with Sondra, Clint had two more kids
Speaker 24: with a very beautiful flight attendant named Jocelyn. So they
Speaker 24: were Scott, who is now a famous actor, and Catherine. Again,
Speaker 24: it was one of the scandal sheets that was on
Speaker 24: the case and exposed Clint's cheating and as I say,
Speaker 24: they called it back then, loved children. Next up came
Speaker 24: an affair with the actress Francis Fisher. You might remember
Speaker 24: if you saw the Leo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio movie Titanic.
Speaker 24: Francis Fisher, wonderful actress. She played Kate Winslet, snooty mum
Speaker 24: in that movie. Well, Clinton Francis met when they're making
Speaker 24: the Pink Cadillac movie. This was in the eighties. They
Speaker 24: had a daughter, Francesca. So for those who have completely
Speaker 24: lost cap let me see one to seven kids so far.
Speaker 24: While Clint was romancing Francis, he begins a sly affair
Speaker 24: with a TV reported by the name of Dina Ruis. Now.
Speaker 24: They met nineteen ninety three. She came over to interview
Speaker 24: him about his you know, Stella career and all of that.
Speaker 24: Then was sixty three, she was twenty eight. They had
Speaker 24: a daughter together, so that's eight kids so far. They
Speaker 24: remained Clinton Diana married wife number two for fourteen years,
Speaker 24: but it hit the skids when Bringo you guessed that
Speaker 24: he was caught out apparently having his wicked way with
Speaker 24: some beauty again. She divorced him twenty fourteen, but told
Speaker 24: all to the National Inquiry. I think it was for
Speaker 24: maximum embarrassment. You see Luke saying that she had to
Speaker 24: use voodoo to cleanse her life of Clint Easa twenty
Speaker 24: four As you do, you'd be mad. Twenty fourteen, he
Speaker 24: starts dating a beautiful blonde named Christina Sandera, who was
Speaker 24: in fact a hostess at his mission in in Carmel
Speaker 24: restaurant he had there. Sadly, she died last year, only
Speaker 24: sixty one. He of course was nine, So he's now
Speaker 24: ninety five today apparently dating again, although we don't know
Speaker 24: the identity of his latest paramore. Look, he's around worth
Speaker 24: around five hundred million, stays fit, doing pilates, doesn't smoke, barely, drinks,
Speaker 24: stabbles in transcendental meditation, and as I say when we
Speaker 24: began our chat, not done yet. Should his health remain aokay?
Speaker 24: Looking to make another movie later this year? I mean,
Speaker 24: good lord, considering the life he's led, and I just
Speaker 24: touched on it, it's a wonder he wasn't worn out
Speaker 24: in the bedroom years.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I think that's a very fair observation. Look,
Speaker 3: you've been so generous with your time today. You've amazed
Speaker 3: us with all that information about Clint eastfood. None of
Speaker 3: that on you. I mean, next time I look at
Speaker 3: the unforgiven, well I look at it differently and.
Speaker 24: You'll realize why. That's what he's That's what he's.
Speaker 6: Very hard to say.
Speaker 3: You are under and forgiven.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate, every great weekend.
Speaker 6: That's it.
Speaker 9: Next week.
Speaker 3: Okay, see that's Craig Bennett. Have a chet to Mark
Speaker 3: Levy in a second. All right, we've got a spinal
Speaker 3: Le's pillow up for grabs here one three, one eight
Speaker 3: seven three for the quiz, I reckon, you'll nail it today.
Speaker 3: One three, one eight seven three. Mark's up next on
Speaker 3: the continuous Call team, with a likely bunch of suspects
Speaker 3: alongside him today, including Fergo, Big Marn make my day
Speaker 3: go ahead, and gals and yescuse here today, he storm,
Speaker 3: you're not going to cover that. No, we'll keep some school.
Speaker 4: I don't really care about that.
Speaker 3: Cowboys and West Tigers. Oh this one I'm in. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I reckon. I got I got to work this morning.
Speaker 3: I thought I've got to call the footing.
Speaker 25: I had last night off Luke and good. I went
Speaker 25: to have a drink. Well, I went at a couple
Speaker 25: of beers last night. Right, So I'm a little wounded today.
Speaker 25: But I don't get a chance to go out and
Speaker 25: see my mate.
Speaker 3: Did you have them in a schooner glass? I had
Speaker 3: a scoon of.
Speaker 25: Glass and then they got to a shorter glass with
Speaker 25: some bourbon and cake. Look at this, which I think
Speaker 25: gave me the headache this morning.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it wouldn't it.
Speaker 25: Going to celebrate New South Wales victory. And yeah I
Speaker 25: got a crack calling some Origin on Wednesday, which was fun.
Speaker 3: I bet it was fun.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 3: How did you feel any how about Brisbane?
Speaker 2: Still here?
Speaker 3: I was booping myself. Yeah, and you didn't do that
Speaker 3: your front well, not that we could tell.
Speaker 25: Listening well up in the Western grandstand at the very top,
Speaker 25: there's no toilet. No toilet, bit of an issue, especially
Speaker 25: when you get the half time and you need.
Speaker 3: To go to the toilet. Is that a good ground
Speaker 3: to call from?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 25: Terrible, terrible, it's it's it's such a magnificent stadium to
Speaker 25: go and watch from all reports play footy. But as
Speaker 25: far as see, Thirsty and Rayue told me that the
Speaker 25: radio boxes at Sun Corporate and afterthought when they built
Speaker 25: the stadium, the television boxes are beautiful, luxurious. We're up
Speaker 25: on the same level as the alicopters. Right anyway, first
Speaker 25: right problems?
Speaker 3: I know I we'll hear you soon. You want to
Speaker 3: see I am you look well?
Speaker 20: Like you like me?
Speaker 3: Just warm? Yeah? It is for would you like it?
Speaker 3: I don't think it had fit? Bye? Comets, got nothing
Speaker 3: to say to you. Bye? See you mate? Now who
Speaker 3: we got to play with today? Click? Someone tell me?
Speaker 3: Is it right? It's Rod from Picnic Point Good a Rod? Yeah,
Speaker 3: good mate. Coalition back together after the split. A frontbencher
Speaker 3: was dropped. Was it Jane Hume or John Howard? Correct?
Speaker 3: Princess Ingred Alexandria of Norway's an Now she's moving to
Speaker 3: Australia to study at Sydney. Union is the capital of Norway,
Speaker 3: Oslo or Mexico City, New South Wales. One. The origin
Speaker 3: was the first try scored by Zach Lomax or Elana Ferguson. Lomax,
Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you, thank you Rod. That's all she
Speaker 3: wrote you in Now I must leave you, but we're
Speaker 3: back tomorrow at nine o'clock. And Dave the bus driver
Speaker 3: who's written me this note, luky take care driving home please?
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Speaker 3: reported car accident there. We'll bring you more information as
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