1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:03,320 Speaker 1: And Amanda jam Nation. 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,400 Speaker 2: How did you feel when you heard the news yesterday. 3 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:08,280 Speaker 2: I just don't want that Victoria Melbourne and or regional 4 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:11,120 Speaker 2: Victoria and therefore Australia was pulling out of Como of Games. 5 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: Whenever Dan Andrews gets up at elect and always instantly 6 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: just think of Darth Vader's Imperial marchom Dum Doom. He's 7 00:00:18,520 --> 00:00:21,000 Speaker 1: one of those guys. He just loves delivering bad news. 8 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:22,639 Speaker 2: Well, he's had to deliver a lot of bad. 9 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:25,880 Speaker 1: But some people relish and delivering the bad news. If 10 00:00:25,880 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 1: I was premier, if I had to get up and 11 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:30,880 Speaker 1: do bad news, I'd caredicate it with something I'd Hey, 12 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:34,960 Speaker 1: by the way, we're looking at this new I don't 13 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,760 Speaker 1: know card tap on tap off system. Oh yeah, and 14 00:00:37,760 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: also we're gonna have to cancel the common Games. 15 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,879 Speaker 2: But answer the questionry, just answer the questions. How do 16 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: you feel that the Commonwealth Games are under threat and 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 2: chances are well they're not going to be looks like 18 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:49,000 Speaker 2: they won't be hosted in Australia. 19 00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: I'm not a I don't really care about the Commonwealth Games? 20 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:52,800 Speaker 1: Does that make me onun Australia? 21 00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:54,200 Speaker 2: You don't care that much about the Olympic. 22 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: I'm not a sport guy. I can't help that. I'm sorry. 23 00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:58,680 Speaker 1: I'm in a country that loves sport, and I'm not 24 00:00:58,720 --> 00:00:59,240 Speaker 1: a sport guy. 25 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,880 Speaker 2: College. I just wonder if you have a sense of 26 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:03,600 Speaker 2: I feel that a deal. 27 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: Has made, though a promise made is a promise to 28 00:01:05,560 --> 00:01:08,280 Speaker 1: live in. And he was he pushed pretty hard to 29 00:01:08,319 --> 00:01:10,399 Speaker 1: have these common worth games. And I feel for little 30 00:01:10,440 --> 00:01:13,000 Speaker 1: kids going up for a little pole volers and little 31 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:15,319 Speaker 1: athletes and all that sort of stuff that are working 32 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:17,320 Speaker 1: to go into the komav Games and they're not going 33 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:18,640 Speaker 1: to have a vehicle for it. 34 00:01:18,720 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 2: A couple of sides to this aren't there. He was 35 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,320 Speaker 2: saying that it's become so prohibitively expensive. He said, when 36 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,839 Speaker 2: they signed on to host the games, it was far less. 37 00:01:27,840 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 2: It was like two point six billion was budgeted, whereas 38 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 2: in fact it's going to be six billion and maybe 39 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 2: seven billion. 40 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: Well that's quite a blood wou it is. 41 00:01:34,080 --> 00:01:36,360 Speaker 2: And they're wondering why it's so much, because the Commov 42 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,360 Speaker 2: Games Committee themselves are saying, I don't know where you've 43 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:41,240 Speaker 2: got those figures from. I saw a tweet here from 44 00:01:41,959 --> 00:01:45,400 Speaker 2: the Sky News Journal Laura Jays who said Why is 45 00:01:45,440 --> 00:01:47,480 Speaker 2: it going to cost that much? The swimming pools made 46 00:01:47,480 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 2: of gold in Birmingham in twenty twenty two it costs 47 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:54,120 Speaker 2: England just one point five billion. This does not add up. 48 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 2: The Hockey Australia has said this is really a watershed 49 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 2: moment for grassroots sport in this country. The future health 50 00:02:01,680 --> 00:02:03,960 Speaker 2: of our kids is in jeopardy. We are a sport. 51 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: We as a sport amongst the world's best. Yet we 52 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:09,760 Speaker 2: struggle every year to support the thousands of kids who 53 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,440 Speaker 2: want to play. Not just sport for Australia, that's Hockey Australia. 54 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,680 Speaker 2: So I'm sure a lot of sporting bodies are saying 55 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:19,679 Speaker 2: what's going on. The sporting journo Anthony Sharwood said yesterday 56 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 2: the Komov Games have been a redundant concept for years. 57 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 2: The world changes, not least the sporting world. Where once 58 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: we celebrated Matilda the Kangaroo at the Brisbane nineteen eighty 59 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,519 Speaker 2: two Games, we now salute the Matilda's as we host 60 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,280 Speaker 2: a FIFA World Cup, a much more relevant and worthy event. 61 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: The world has moved on, well it has for us, 62 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 2: but what about for athletes? As you said, what happens then. 63 00:02:42,560 --> 00:02:46,040 Speaker 1: In They used to do the country origin, remember that 64 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:48,600 Speaker 1: state of origin, and then they have the country African 65 00:02:48,639 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 1: what it was even called? And no one cares that 66 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: that's gone. 67 00:02:51,360 --> 00:02:55,080 Speaker 2: Now this is a big deal though, variety of sports. 68 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,079 Speaker 1: Maybe with that point about the Matilda's soccer, that's where 69 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,000 Speaker 1: we're going to. That's what we're heading through. This is evolutionary. 70 00:03:01,040 --> 00:03:06,720 Speaker 2: It's so expensive. How can individual countries do this? I 71 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 2: hod on the news last night. I think I'm right 72 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 2: that only England and Australian broadcast come of games. Canada 73 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 2: doesn't bother, I don't think. I don't know if New 74 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 2: Zealand does so. South Africa doesn't. So where a big 75 00:03:18,800 --> 00:03:22,639 Speaker 2: sporting nation that this matters to. But it's become so expensive. 76 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:24,840 Speaker 2: We might put this to the pub test the com 77 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 2: of Games at the time to let them go. 78 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:28,640 Speaker 1: Maybe put it to MINSI as well. We could do 79 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,800 Speaker 1: it here. We got the stadiums, we've got the stuff, he. 80 00:03:30,919 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: Chris min said yesterday. We won't. He's not going to 81 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 2: enter the thought for that, but we will be on 82 00:03:35,560 --> 00:03:37,880 Speaker 2: our show today. It looks like the christ Church mayor 83 00:03:38,200 --> 00:03:40,040 Speaker 2: in New Zealand has said that they might push in 84 00:03:40,040 --> 00:03:42,640 Speaker 2: and host the event. It's only three years away. I mean, 85 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:45,040 Speaker 2: that's what's hard. Whether you support this decision or not. 86 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 2: I wish this he could have made this decision a 87 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,200 Speaker 2: while ago. Why do it now and leave someone else 88 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:51,680 Speaker 2: in the lurch. 89 00:03:51,840 --> 00:03:53,280 Speaker 1: That's our lowns to be mine. 90 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 2: Well, we're all going to put our hands up, take 91 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:58,000 Speaker 2: in billets, have events in our backyards. We're going to 92 00:03:58,040 --> 00:03:58,600 Speaker 2: have to do it.