WEBVTT - We Manifested ANTHONY ALBANESE!! 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:03.160 Here at Two Good Sports, we would like to acknowledge 0:00:03.160 --> 0:00:05.440 the traditional owners of the land on which we record 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:06.119 this podcast. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.160 The were innerie people. 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.360 This land was never seated, always was, always will be. 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:19.480 Greetings and grand salutations. You have caught Jelmy and I 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:24.600 practicing our curtsies, dear listener, because on this week's episode 0:00:24.600 --> 0:00:27.000 of Two Good Sports, things are. 0:00:26.920 --> 0:00:28.240 Going a little bit differently. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:30.120 I'm Georgie Tanny, and I'm happy. 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:32.159 To tell me and Georgie, you know, usually we do 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.640 good sport bad sport. Now we ask each other about 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:36.879 our weeks. You tell me about the celebrity you've interviewed. 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:39.920 The Prime Minister is coming in to talk to us. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:45.360 Anthony Albanezi is coming into the studio. He is a 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.320 fan of this podcast, a huge good sport. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:51.440 He is a good sport and also the leader of 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:51.880 the nation. 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:54.959 So we have so many questions and this has been 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.280 born from the most Two Good Sports way that we 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.760 could possibly ever secure an interview with. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:02.280 I don't know the Prime Minister. 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:03.000 The Prime Minister. 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:08.880 Yes, I slid into his DM but and it wasn't unsolicited. 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:12.240 Albow followed me. Okay, I wasn't even following albo at 0:01:12.280 --> 0:01:14.440 the time, and I will apologize. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.280 For that, but it was. 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:17.520 It was a lead up to an election, a very 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.319 pointy election that you'll all remember that was as one 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.560 sided as a Grand Final between Richmond and GWS. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:25.200 But it's a. 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:26.200 Tailor as old as time. 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.119 It was about a month before the election. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.400 He was in full campaign mode and I've looked at 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.080 my Insta feed and it said one follow Albow PM, 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:37.000 blue tick, blue tick because this wasn't and I've just 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:39.080 I'd be like, what fan account is this? 0:01:39.319 --> 0:01:42.240 And then Jelmy's like, I think it's the actual Prime Minister. 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.399 I screenshot it and of course sent it to our 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:45.080 Two Good Sports. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:49.920 What's happened? When thoughts anyone thoughts do we do? We think, yes, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:53.520 that we could get him on the pod. So I 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.160 went with hey, elbow, smiley fast. 0:01:57.080 --> 0:01:57.600 That's the bit. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:01.080 That's the bit that made it so legit, so legit. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.080 Thanks for the follow, love that you're keeping up with 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:07.160 all things sports. I want to float something past you 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.520 that I think you'd be perfect for. I co host 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.919 a podcast called Two Good Sports with Georgia Tunney. It's 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.240 all about shaking up trucial sports media, La la la, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:16.560 but essentially that's the pitch, and it ends up with 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:21.560 hope we speak soon, another smiley face. 0:02:21.639 --> 0:02:23.120 You got it because I'm a woman and that's how 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:23.960 I write an email. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.440 Any ellipses in there. You got to you gotta take 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:28.120 big swings, Joel. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.000 We've got to take big swings, and this was arguably 0:02:31.360 --> 0:02:32.600 the biggest swing. 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.360 On two good sports that we've ever taken. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:39.840 Our Prime Minister replies with, let's get this done. The 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:45.960 emoji with sunglasses, good bye emoji, and I throw my 0:02:46.040 --> 0:02:48.040 phone across the room and at this point I'm going 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:51.800 suitable response this this could actually I just had a 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:53.000 fe this is gonna happen. 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.240 Yeah, this is actually gonna happen. 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:55.680 Lo and behold. 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.280 He then becomes a very very busy man, and there's 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:01.200 also a media blackout when he's in Melbourne because the 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.399 dear Pope passes away and it just wouldn't have been 0:03:03.440 --> 0:03:05.720 in good taste for him to be doing a sports 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:06.720 podcast in that time. 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:08.560 You know, he might look back on that and be like, oh, 0:03:08.639 --> 0:03:09.840 I wish I could have been here sooner. 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.919 The election comes and goes Georgie and we think, dah, 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:14.000 it was all a ploy. 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:16.160 One of the votes of the two of us see 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:19.200 the two. That's the way that he's clearly, clearly going 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:19.519 about this. 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:22.000 It's a small play from him, but I see, I 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:22.880 see where he's going. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.960 He has followed up and he's coming in. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:26.280 He's coming in, He's coming in. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.040 How are your nerves? I'm genuinely I'm a bit nervous. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.600 I'm very excited because one thing that we all know 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.200 about Albo. Yes he's the PM, but he is also 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:37.880 the number one ticket holder for the South Sydney Rabbit 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:38.440 o's he's. 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:38.920 One of mine. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.640 He is a league he says rugby league, not rugby league. 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:43.880 I think that I'm going to be able to claim 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:47.640 him as AFL. 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.160 We can't be fighting in front of the Prime minister. 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.040 Do you think he could settle the debate? 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:53.680 Oh? 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:55.840 Good? But again yes, yes. 0:03:55.920 --> 0:03:59.920 Our good sport is the Prime Minister who's up there. 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:16.520 What they say, politics and sport should not mix. But 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.320 as you're very well aware, dear listeners, we do things 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.160 pretty differently on this podcast. 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.920 As such, we argue that two are inextricable. 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:28.600 The politics of sport can be more convoluted than explaining 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.680 soccer's off side rule to your friend who doesn't really 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:33.920 follow the game, but does remember Jonathan Reese Meyer's eyelashes 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.800 in bend it. Like Beckham, the sport of politics can 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.799 be more cutthroat than Queensland coach Billy slader Zax falling 0:04:41.839 --> 0:04:44.839 on Moron's captain daily Cherry Evans this week, But someone 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.479 who knows all too well the wildness of both is 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:51.920 our guest today. His passion for the nation is second 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.760 only to his passion for the South Sydney Rabbitos, which 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.000 is apt because you could say if the club had 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.320 to be a politician, it would look a lot like 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.480 Anthony Alban Just like the Rabbits. Albow came from humble beginnings, 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:06.160 raised by a single mum and Housing Commission. The same 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.200 working class heart that beats in South Sydney beats in 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.919 him too. Albow didn't grow up with privilege, but he 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.280 made it to Parliament House in the mid nineties, wearing 0:05:14.320 --> 0:05:17.400 his beliefs on his sleeve like a red and green jersey. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:21.920 Perhaps not as flashy as English, but certainly as fierce 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:24.839 as Latrelle Mitchell, specifically in round ten this year against 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:27.120 the Broncos, which was impressive, but I took it as 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:30.600 a rude personal attack from Redfern to the lodge, to 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:34.400 our studio. Would you please welcome the Prime Minister of Australia, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:39.040 Anthony Albernezi to do good sports. 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.120 What an introduction. 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:45.760 Just stop then, it's been great to have you, thank you, 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:47.560 thank you so much and that's all we have time 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:48.360 for today. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.000 No, in all seriousness, PM, thank you so much for 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:51.479 joining us. 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:52.800 Absolute pleasures. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.360 It's wonderful to have you here. 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.120 We can look at your background in your history and 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.000 understand where South Sydney came from. 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:01.560 Why the Hawks, Yeah. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.760 Because there's a relationship between the two things really right. 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.320 So as a kid growing up, I used to play 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:12.640 football in the South Sydney comp and then the Eastern 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:19.159 Suburbs Comp and I'd go to my uncle's who lived 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:23.320 in Melbourne for a while in the afternoon and watch 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.120 the I think every game began at ten past one, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:29.960 the match of the day of the VFL, and you 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:35.520 couldn't go for the Pies because there was Western Suburbs Magpies, 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:42.200 Richmond Tigers here in Richmond, Balmont Tiger's, Saint Kilda Saints 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.960 Saint George the Animal Alignment game now were the only 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.760 team that had no connection. Because I'm after all, who 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:57.640 would pick brown and gold was the Hawks and this 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:02.039 was as well showing my age here. The seventies was 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:07.479 an amazing era. So if you're a kid pro the 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.920 Swan's coming to Sydney, South Melbourne moving up and I 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:15.880 loved watching AFL. I played rugby League, but I love 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:19.600 watching AFL. My son played AFL for the Newtown Swans. 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.200 I made my AFL debut in the Community Cup reclink 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:27.400 that takes place here at vic Park handsOn. My advice 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.840 to listeners is, if you're going to make your AFL debut, 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:35.120 make it before the age of fifty, not after. You 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.280 can see here an extra little joint on my little 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:42.880 finger from a broken that happened. That happened Hanson Park 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:44.440 last minute. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:45.680 With his body on the line. 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:49.760 We're leading, but I had one KPI which was not 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:53.160 to get injured, and of course me being who I am, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:58.200 bit competitive. Funnily enough, he's got a mouse kind of 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:03.480 how you get to be PM, you know, is we 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:07.160 were up by you know, three or four points, less 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:11.200 than a goal a minute to go and it's flooded 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:15.000 as well. It's a bit loose in Sydney, so it's 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.200 twenty a side, but for the last little bit there's 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.960 forty a side on the field like people just runs 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:28.280 in and so I stupidly through my body on the 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.920 line and make a tackle, my one tackle and came 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.720 out of it with a finger going horizontal rather than 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:36.960 a vertical. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.440 From the GI pop it back in yourself, and I 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:40.200 popped it back in. 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:45.800 I popped it back in. We won, went to the 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:54.520 part as you do, and then went to Bowmon Hospitals. 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.760 A classic sale PM of anyone who goes to do 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:02.040 social sports in their adult life and then they come 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:03.119 out with Achilles. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:07.800 Absolutely, we do talk about social sport and having you 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.600 leading into the Hawks game this weekend, because you're at 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.480 the game on the weekend. You went in the huddle, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.560 you predicted almost to the yes, the margin that the 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.120 Hawks were going to win by, and so we just 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:20.520 believe you're an oracle in this. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.000 Have you got any other predictions? And also we want 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:23.400 to know. 0:09:23.400 --> 0:09:26.160 Sam Mitchell is very keen on me turning up at 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:26.920 every game. 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:27.920 Good luck. 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:30.920 Every time I have turned up, they've won, whether it 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:35.400 was at the g or at Marvel or indeed Aurora. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.000 Are there what's it called now, dann at Lonnie. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:42.679 Yeah, for a bit wherever it was at Lonnie, But 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.160 do you like the character in the game. So for instance, 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.800 in that game, Jack even got a little bit of 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.240 stick for the fact he showed him the. 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:55.160 Ball, so you love it, of course, and the fans 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.679 love it. I got a bit of you know, whether 0:09:58.760 --> 0:10:03.280 it's that or or just to upset one half of 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:11.000 the team here when Latrell from halfway and casually while 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:15.440 the ball was still rising, turned around and casually just 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:20.520 walked back like you know, I had to for the 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:21.480 halfway line. 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.960 Didn't even celebrate. It was the celebration. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:26.960 Gi Arrow jumped on him. 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:27.480 I know. 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:33.640 It was awesome. And after after the game in the 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:37.800 in the sheds, I know Latrell pretty well and he 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:41.400 was congratulating me on the election. It was the week 0:10:41.440 --> 0:10:46.400 after the election. You know, we won by a bit more. 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.960 We didn't need a field goal, I pointed out to 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.520 him at the time. But I mean, he's just so cool. 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.679 He's also the size of a mountain. 0:10:56.520 --> 0:10:58.800 Yeah, I think maybe one of the biggest people I've 0:10:58.800 --> 0:10:59.559 seen in real. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:03.360 Life is very big. When him and Tommy Treborovich were 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:08.560 the centers for New South Wales like these, yeah, they're giants, 0:11:09.320 --> 0:11:12.880 so is so is Greg English as well, who I 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:18.880 think who I love dearly and is a great human being. 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:23.200 And he's doing fantastic things on mental health. Yeah, and 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:28.079 he goes around and particularly in regional areas of New 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.000 South Wales and Quinston speaks about his mental health battles 0:11:31.120 --> 0:11:35.840 and through the Goanna Foundation, he's doing enormously good things 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:36.600 in the community. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:40.640 Just made me remember remember his try celebration go on. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.800 I know that to declar here, I grew up in Perth, 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:46.040 so I'm not an NRL girlie. I essentially get all 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:48.520 my tutoring from Georgia before I'm about to go and 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:50.640 have to talk about it. But if we were to 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:52.520 put to you that you could only watch one code 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:54.400 for the rest of your life, is it legal? 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.439 There's a correct answer, Albert. 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.920 I was born Arabia league. 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.520 Bam, I just say you'd be a hockball man. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:04.680 No, no, you can be both. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.120 But if they're only going to watch one for the 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:07.440 rest of your life, it's rugby league. 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:11.320 But a FL to watch live particularly is so good. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:13.360 The first Grand Final I went to was eighty nine 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:21.240 Hawk's Feed You Long. I was right up literally up 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.960 the back of a stand that doesn't exist anymore, and 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.120 there's a block of Hawks supporters and a block of 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:30.079 Geelong supporters throwing things at each other across. 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:33.439 The much has changed, by the way, that's still the. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:38.760 Corridor, you know, kick nine in a losing side. It 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:42.680 was amazing. It was actually easy to get Grand Final 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.400 tickets in Sydney in those days, and it was in 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.880 Melbourne because the way the allocations happened, and there weren't 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.160 as many fans. 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:53.400 Living in Sydney. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:57.480 Finally, come on, you're going to talk sport al, but 0:12:57.559 --> 0:12:58.120 you've got to be. 0:13:00.120 --> 0:13:00.480 About it. 0:13:00.559 --> 0:13:04.040 On just to hark back to the personality business for 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.000 a second, because oh, yes, I agree with you. We 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.920 love personalities in sport. Do you feel the same way 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.400 about personalities in politics? 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:15.120 No? Not necessarily. You know, do we really need bunter 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:16.760 rejoiced to stop in parliament? 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.400 But really do you like him to a bit of 0:13:21.400 --> 0:13:23.480 a jack in a bit of a not necessary? 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:25.000 No? 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.760 Anything that I said now would insult two people. So 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.600 I'll raise the bat and let the ball hit the keepers. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:39.239 We love a put Well, here's another one that unfortunately 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.080 we're not going to let you. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.640 I do I break the record, by the way, for 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:46.760 most number of sporting puns. On third of third of May, 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:50.000 you're at the MCG, on the ground of the MCG, 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.760 and you know we're kicking with the wind. With time 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.400 on in the fourth quarter, they were kicking out on 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:56.959 the fall. 0:13:58.600 --> 0:14:00.760 No wonder he wanted to come on to We were 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:02.080 chosen to be at the MCD. 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.920 We were taking marks. You know, we're kicking goals. We 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:08.520 needed to keep the momentum. 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:10.320 We've got the bounce. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.920 I was such good fun. 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:15.160 I did say in our intro to this elbow that 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.120 it was the most one sided finished since the twenty 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.320 nineteen Grand did a d We. 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:21.640 Didn't need to get to the last quarter. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.360 That was a bit sad. It was sad, but there've 0:14:24.360 --> 0:14:25.520 been a few blowouts. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.800 I've got to say, we just want to have a contest. 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:29.400 Let's be honest. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.280 But while while we are talking about AFL again, the 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:34.400 politics and sport they always mix, and if we are 0:14:34.440 --> 0:14:36.840 going to talk about the stadium in Tazzi, that seems 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.240 to be this real lynchpin that's been a topic of 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.000 much discussion, the fact that Tasmani are going to yet 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:44.600 another state election. 0:14:45.560 --> 0:14:49.320 We get another to the polls. Again, where do you 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:50.200 stand on this? 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.240 In the AFL demanding that there needs to be a 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.800 stadium in order to allow that nineteenth license, do you 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.520 think that's fair and where do you stand? 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.280 We support a stadium not just because of of what 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.720 it will do for AFL, but for what it will 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:08.520 do in Hobart. In twenty and twelve, as the infrastruction Missleigo, 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.480 the government got fifty million dollars to the Tasmanian government 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:14.680 to do planning for the mcquari Point site. Now, if 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:18.680 you look at all the waterfronts around Australia, industry was 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:23.760 always located around water because you chucked all the rubbish 0:15:23.760 --> 0:15:27.400 in the river or the waterway or the harbor. The 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:34.080 Macquarie Point site is unbelievable. The Derwin is a magnificent river, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.600 with due respect to the Yarra. 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:38.960 You know, Oh, don't you worry, Albot. I've had some 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:39.720 choice words. 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:47.160 Dear respect. The Derwint is magnificent. Hobart's a great city. 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:50.520 It stops and then there's basically what's a rubbish dump 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.640 that has been there for decades. Now you need to 0:15:55.680 --> 0:16:00.520 have a proper urban development project at Macquarie Point, you know, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:05.960 the driver of urban development projects, so as part of 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:13.120 a precinct, sporting, hospitality, residential, the full bit. It will 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:17.160 bring the CBD down to the river and open up 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.680 the city of Hobart. So it's got to be viewed 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:24.200 from that perspective, not from the narrow one that it's 0:16:24.320 --> 0:16:28.400 just somewhere where footy will be played for home games 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:29.120 for the Devils. 0:16:30.200 --> 0:16:33.040 And is that how we go about justifying the cost. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.200 Yeah, absolutely, that's how you get some of the costs 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:41.520 back through private sector development housing. It could be amazing 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:46.240 if it's got right. Yes, and yes, the state government 0:16:46.280 --> 0:16:49.360 down there for a long period time dilly dallied around. 0:16:49.840 --> 0:16:52.280 I went down there about a year ago. Now it 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:54.720 is exactly the same as it was in twenty twelve, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.400 thirteen years later. You literally had to watch where you're 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:03.360 walking because this just not even not even a dirt 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:09.560 road properly and it's an unbelievable pristine site. And just 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:16.720 like Mona for Tasmania was opposed and transformed, it did 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.879 that city. People go there and they go there not 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.879 just for a day, they go there for a period 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.840 of time as well. We when I was Infrastructure Minister 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:32.480 last time, we funded utahz Or Aurora Stadium. It was 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.159 them which is for to that at Lonnie so that 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.080 the AFL games could be played there. So it's being 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:42.719 upgraded as well. There's one hundred and thirty million dollars 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.760 for that. We're putting in half the funds to upgrade 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:48.240 that so that games can be played in the North 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:52.520 as well as the South. But you know, they need 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.280 to just get on with it. And I think that 0:17:55.640 --> 0:18:00.640 truly know a state that's produced you know, to Hudson 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:05.959 just to name one, but so many fantastic. 0:18:06.359 --> 0:18:10.160 The rewolves in the Hall of Fame. 0:18:10.520 --> 0:18:16.640 Yeah, exactly, Richardson, and people want Tasmanians also want their 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.879 kids to stay in Tasmania. So you've got to build 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:24.200 the economy. You've got to and academies change things, and 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.440 it's a it's a great way to do it. So yeah, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.040 it tastes two. I think it's up to two hundred 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:32.680 thousand members or something we did. 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.400 Driving around. It's a real thing. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:38.879 The fact that they almost have the most members in 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:40.919 the league and they don't even have somewhere that they 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:45.040 just bizarre. But it just goes to show the love 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.159 of it all, which is I think why as external. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.639 Obviously we're not in Tasmania, but you look in and 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.959 see how divisive something has been that we can all 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.360 look at and say a stadium should be something that's 0:18:55.359 --> 0:18:58.000 celebrated in the is something that should be celebrated. But 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.720 you have someone like Eddie Maguire out in the last 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.240 forty eight hours saying that if he was appointed chair 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.480 of the AFL, which we know that he hasn't been, 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:08.439 the first thing that he would do, and this is 0:19:08.440 --> 0:19:10.840 a direct quote, is get the Prime Minister in a 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:15.879 headlock and violence against Albo Australia says no, yeah, absolutely, 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:19.040 but he's essentially saying that for the Tasmanian government to 0:19:19.119 --> 0:19:22.280 fund this stadium is unfeasible because of the funds that 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.080 they don't have available to them. That so much funding 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.359 will go to Brisbane because they have an Olympics and 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.080 they need to be building this amazing stadium, that the 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:31.400 federal government needs. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.160 To dip into their pockets for this stadium. 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.920 What say you to that we have dipped in our 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:40.480 share and it's capped. But the Tasmanian government, going back 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:46.439 to mac Point, we go money. Yeah twenty twelve, nothing 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:51.200 happened with it. The Tasmanian government are in the position 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:56.320 to manage the project, to do uplift, to do private 0:19:56.359 --> 0:19:59.680 partnerships with housing, use that money to help fund the 0:19:59.680 --> 0:20:03.919 state him all of that. And so we've made a 0:20:04.080 --> 0:20:09.560 contribution to urban redevelopment there. But we're not an ATM, 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.080 you know, and because if we act like that, what 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:17.280 you'll get is no proper management of the project. And 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:22.240 we're not going to ongoing run the Tazzy Devil's football 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:28.560 team or run state planning and all of those issues, 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:33.920 which is why our contribution is substantial. At the time 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:36.760 we made that contribution, it was opposed by the federal 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:42.399 Liberals and state labor in Tasmania, so it was a 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:46.800 big call by us. I did that cooperatively with Premier 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:53.200 Rockcliffe because I supported the urban redevelopment at macpoint and 0:20:53.359 --> 0:20:57.200 we looked at the case that's there. They just need 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:59.000 to get on with it and get it done. 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.399 What happens, whatever the outcome of this election may be, 0:21:02.760 --> 0:21:04.720 whether it be rock Withefe or not. And if there's 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:06.679 a phone call to you and it says Albow we 0:21:06.800 --> 0:21:07.480 need more help. 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:12.320 Our funding is capped, you know you've got to You've 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.800 got to draw the line and bring some responsibility in 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.760 unless you do that. Same as our funding for the 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:23.399