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Speaker 1: Right now we celebrate premier Mark McGowan joining us. We

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Speaker 1: haven't seen you for ages. Hello studio.

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Speaker 2: You don't ask me in enough I do you.

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Speaker 1: Have a standing invitation? We know that.

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Speaker 3: Lots of chats on the phone, but it's it's not me,

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Speaker 3: it's you. We both heard that before. But it's nice

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Speaker 3: to see you in three.

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Speaker 2: It's not you, it's me exactly, it's not me. I've

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Speaker 2: turned it around.

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Speaker 3: Well done, nice slip.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about high voltage this weekend. That's

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Speaker 1: such a proponent.

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Speaker 2: So what happened back at the start of twenty twenty Now,

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Speaker 2: it was with this great event called Highway to Hell.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't believe that highway.

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Speaker 2: And we did it just just before yeah yeah, And

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Speaker 2: it was just before it all started, and we held

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Speaker 2: this event. It was one hundred and twenty or so

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Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty thousand people on the highway and

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Speaker 2: they all people flew in from all over Australia to

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Speaker 2: be part of it. Who love ACDC. I think some

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Speaker 2: people came from around the world, so big tourism thing.

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Speaker 2: And I thought to myself, this is great. It's raids

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Speaker 2: Bond scott Western Australia. We've got to do it again.

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Speaker 2: So we're going to do it in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: Obviously we could, so we've reconfigured it. It'll be in

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Speaker 2: Fremantle this time. There'll be seven bands on trucks leaving

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Speaker 2: Free Metal Oval. There'll be hubs with lots of bands. Cool.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that was.

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Speaker 2: They'll be doing a circuit around Fremantle. So if you

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Speaker 2: get into free Meantal on public transport especially, there will

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Speaker 2: be Freemantal Oval. There will be the Esplant, you know,

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Speaker 2: the park on the Esplant. Absolutely, it will be South

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Speaker 2: Beach and there'll be hubs with bands, and then there'll

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Speaker 2: be the trucks driving around. There's actually fifty six acts

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Speaker 2: or something and they'll be they'll be predominantly I think,

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Speaker 2: you know doing ACDC, which is great. So go down,

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Speaker 2: have a great day, all three have a wonderful time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. That day on Kenny Day, Kenny Highway was unreal.

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Speaker 3: It was incredible. I was walking up and down and

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Speaker 3: it felt like half a million people.

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Speaker 1: To be honestly, it really turned out to be practically

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Speaker 1: the weekend that divided us from before COVID and after

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Speaker 1: a B C and a C yeah, d C, d C.

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Speaker 3: I'm trying to work out that's before COVID, after point

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Speaker 3: in time DC in the that's something like that.

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Speaker 2: It was a moment in time and it was wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So we've recreated in Fremantle starts at one with the

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Speaker 2: band's heading off at too, so only events sort of

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Speaker 2: start at one, so get there sometimes between one and two,

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Speaker 2: goes through it all six.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be here, very good. The coronation of

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Speaker 1: King Charles is this weekend. You're not heading over the

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Speaker 1: governor is Chris Dawson. Do we send a gift? Is

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Speaker 1: that a thing?

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Speaker 3: Is?

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Speaker 1: Is there a Hallmark card for congratulations on your coronation?

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Speaker 3: What do you do? Yeah? I tucked into Mayra.

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Speaker 1: Did they have a registrant?

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Speaker 3: Got him in their fry new wet pack.

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Speaker 2: I don't even air.

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Speaker 3: Fry's taking it over lovely.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and I'm sure Charles will love it. I just wondered,

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Speaker 2: you know, no, I did the other day.

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Speaker 3: I got it.

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Speaker 2: He's got play a bit of extra and the luggage.

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Speaker 3: But it was a lovely thing. What a gesture.

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Speaker 2: They have to get some sort of adapter there in

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Speaker 2: but of course you're read adapter yeah, but I've done

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Speaker 2: my bent. No, I think, I think, I think we

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Speaker 2: just we send the governor as a rap. So he

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Speaker 2: got an invite. Apparently when the Queen was coronated back

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Speaker 2: in nineteen fifty three, you know, they had an event

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Speaker 2: of six thousand people and every man his dog from

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Speaker 2: Western Australia, Australia went. These days, it's much more cut down.

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Speaker 1: It's different.

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Speaker 3: It's very different.

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Speaker 1: It's a very different time.

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Speaker 3: Definitely limited numbers. What he likes that there front the

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Speaker 3: previous chip and commit camilla a chip food. It is

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Speaker 3: a national food. It is curry. Yeah, and they'll have

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Speaker 3: it together. The warm beer mark. The federal budgets, the

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Speaker 3: federal it's funny. We've got a couple of serious questions.

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Speaker 2: Send him that you have a drink it, give it

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Speaker 2: to him hot, some like it.

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Speaker 3: The federal budget comeing. How are we feeling about that

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Speaker 3: from a state perspective? Were you expecting any trinkets or

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Speaker 3: treats in the federal budget?

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Speaker 2: Well, our budget comes down next Thursday. There's this next Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: It's always about making sure that we get support for

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Speaker 2: some of our infrastructure programs. So that's what we'll be

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Speaker 2: watching carefully because we have a massive infrastructure budget, as

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Speaker 2: you know, with railroad, hospitals, and so forth around the states.

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Speaker 2: So that's what we'll be looking at all.

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Speaker 1: Right. Something that was announced this week, this is such

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Speaker 1: a serious thing in this town at the moment. The

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Speaker 1: state government is injecting over half a billion dollars into

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Speaker 1: social housing. How quickly do we hope that we might

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Speaker 1: see some positive effects of that?

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Speaker 2: Well, that means over the last two years we've added

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Speaker 2: two point seven billion, So this is on top of

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Speaker 2: the two two So that means we're building or buying

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Speaker 2: four thousand new properties and putting maintenance effort into thousands more.

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Speaker 2: But it's I think I can't remember these act figures,

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Speaker 2: but I think the last year or so there's been

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Speaker 2: about a thousand we've are quite or built. But the

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Speaker 2: plan is to do it as quickly as we can.

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Speaker 2: But we put in place new construction techniques. So the

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Speaker 2: other day I went to one of our social homes.

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Speaker 2: It's got timber frame. Basically it means you can build

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Speaker 2: a home in about six months.

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Speaker 1: Because I've been you are subject to the same building

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Speaker 1: problems as everyone else is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's a problem for householders. It's a problem

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Speaker 2: for everyone. We understand that it's all over the world.

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Speaker 2: So we're trying to get them done as quickly as

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Speaker 2: we can, and we'll roll it out as quickly as

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Speaker 2: we can the resent.

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Speaker 1: That's all we can do. I as quickly as you can.

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Speaker 1: You are subject to the same things, shortages and problems

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Speaker 1: that everyone is. I like the idea about doing other

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Speaker 1: stuff up, that's already there too.

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Speaker 2: Labor shortages. We've timber frames. We're doing modular homes, so

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Speaker 2: I've been actually seeing them and they come up, we

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Speaker 2: get them out of the ground, quicker, labor shortages. We've

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Speaker 2: actually done a program to provide funding for visas for

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Speaker 2: traders to come here. Ten thousand dollars meet the cost

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Speaker 2: of their visa and get traders from US into Western Australia.

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Speaker 3: Some people, unfortunately, we wait you three or four years

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Speaker 3: to their houses to be finished. A very fairly quick

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Speaker 3: trip to China. Mark, what about the future? A question

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Speaker 3: from the boss. He wants to know about the future

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Speaker 3: of iron ore and the Chinese demand.

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Speaker 2: It's all there. Iron ore is one of the staples

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Speaker 2: of our economy. Getting on with China is important for

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Speaker 2: security reasons. But also for economic reasons.

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Speaker 3: They are our.

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Speaker 2: Biggest trading partner. We basically sell them twenty times as

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Speaker 2: much as we buy from them, so we have a

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Speaker 2: massive trade surplus with them. So that means there's about

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Speaker 2: two hundred to three hundred thousand West Australian jobs that's

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Speaker 2: dependent on that relationship, which is a huge number of people.

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Speaker 2: And so having a good relationship also helps with security.

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Speaker 2: You don't want to have a hostile relationship with a

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Speaker 2: nuclear armed superpower region. Maybe not, and so I just

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Speaker 2: think having a good relationship works for all of us.

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Speaker 2: So I did a whole range of meetings encouraged you know,

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Speaker 2: the removal of any trade barriers, the reinstatement of students

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Speaker 2: and tourism, all those sorts of things. So I think

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Speaker 2: it was it was very positive when I was up there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, a lot of positive things happening in the

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Speaker 1: state at the moment. We know you're very busy and

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Speaker 1: you can't stay for long, but you know it's all.

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Speaker 1: But not the Exmouth eclipse. I mean it's not the

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Speaker 1: Exmouth eclipse, but the eclipse that was seen from Exmouth

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Speaker 1: that was awesome. If you can organize another one of

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Speaker 1: those really sooner rather than later, that'd be good.

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Speaker 3: It was.

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Speaker 2: It happened when I was in China. My son actually

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Speaker 2: drove up there on his own and did he really

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Speaker 2: car But the big thing is this Sunday, come down

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Speaker 2: a free amount of Yeah starts speaking event sometimes between

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Speaker 2: one and two. Okay, Cat's public transport would be great, fine,

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Speaker 2: thank you.

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Speaker 3: Premier just down on Hay Street, Premier, there's some EA

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Speaker 3: scooters if you want to grab one of those. I

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Speaker 3: thank you.