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Speaker 1: The Waday Festival is on this weekend at Burswood Park.

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Speaker 1: There is a lot on so a lot of information

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Speaker 1: about it at WA at celebratewa dot com dot au

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Speaker 1: and joining us to talk about it is Roger Cook.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Premiere, Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Premier, Good good morning guys. How's it going good?

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Speaker 1: So this festival again moved from June due to the

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Speaker 1: poor weather expected at that time of the year. We

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Speaker 1: are expecting a couple of showers, but anyway, not as

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Speaker 1: bad as it is in June.

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Speaker 2: Your wellies.

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Speaker 3: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: This is why, isn't it? This is going to become

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Speaker 1: an actual and permanent date change for WA Day, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: That's right. Under the changes that we announced earlier this year,

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Speaker 2: WA Day will be permanently moved to the spring second

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Speaker 2: second weekend in November. We think it's a better time

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Speaker 2: for everyone to get out and about and celebrate what

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Speaker 2: a great state this is.

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Speaker 1: With was a WA Day? Wasn't the date?

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Speaker 3: Because that was foundation that was foundation data. I'm just wondering,

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Speaker 3: is there's still going to be an event, even a

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Speaker 3: nice tea party at Government House back in June? Is

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Speaker 3: there is it going to be anything to mark the

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Speaker 3: you know, obviously the historic nature of the original Foundation

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Speaker 3: Day which was around it till only about fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's tried, and the actual public holiday was decoupled

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Speaker 2: from Foundation Day by one of my predecessors, Colin Barnett.

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Speaker 2: So we obviously you know, acknowledging our great history in

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Speaker 2: Western Australia. But we think it's a better opportunity to

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Speaker 2: celebrate this great state and to be no better way

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Speaker 2: than going down to Burswood Park on the weekend. We'll

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Speaker 2: have the ashes going on at the same time, so

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Speaker 2: there'll be amazing atmosphere spilling out from up the stadium,

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Speaker 2: but there will also just be an incredible opportunity to

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Speaker 2: head down there with your family celebrate what a great

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Speaker 2: state we are. You know, it doesn't matter if you're

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Speaker 2: looking to take the kids on the rides or make

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Speaker 2: your way down Eat Street. I must confess that's something

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Speaker 2: that I'm looking for to do. It's a great family

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Speaker 2: day out.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be free. It is free, well outside

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Speaker 3: of the stadium it will be anyway, it's going to

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Speaker 3: be very busy. Was it a conscious decision to have

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Speaker 3: the two events overlap or that was just coincidence.

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Speaker 2: We had this experience I think it was last year

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Speaker 2: and the year before where we had an Indian Test

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Speaker 2: match on at the same time as the Australian the

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Speaker 2: w A Day Festival, and it actually works really well

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Speaker 2: because it brings the whole peninsula alive and we obviously

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Speaker 2: we'll have extra public transport because the first two days

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Speaker 2: of the Ashes are already sold out. It's hugely it's

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Speaker 2: a huge event, so it's going to be an incredibly

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Speaker 2: exciting weekend and Western Australians are going to have the

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Speaker 2: opportunity to celebrate it in style.

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Speaker 1: It's also sort of a timely tourist at too, because

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Speaker 1: absolutely there will be a lot of you know, English

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Speaker 1: tourists around.

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Speaker 3: Do you want the Barbie Army? You want the Barbie

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Speaker 3: Army going back saying telling good things about you want

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Speaker 3: Tom on a ride?

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Speaker 2: The Barney Army will be in town and when we're

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Speaker 2: not taking it up to him and doing a bit

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Speaker 2: of trash talk over the Ashes, there's an opportunity for

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Speaker 2: them to see what a great state we are. So

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Speaker 2: one of the things I love about these big sporting

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Speaker 2: events is that it brings in the fans from overseas

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Speaker 2: and over East. They come to Western Australia, they feel

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Speaker 2: our pubs, our clubs, our cafes, but they also go

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Speaker 2: back home, say what an awesome place Western Australia is.

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Speaker 2: We should go back there one day with the family

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Speaker 2: and really spend some time visiting. So these are great

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Speaker 2: sporting competitions, but they're also great for Western Australia as

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Speaker 2: part of the tourism competition.

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Speaker 3: Outside shots of the cricket ground that they obviously always

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Speaker 3: do when they do the when they do the Cricketelecus,

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Speaker 3: if there's a whole lot of stuff going on outside

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Speaker 3: as well, that's going to get bean all the way

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Speaker 3: back to England. So that'd be a good effort.

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Speaker 2: And look, let's not forget that. You know, over the

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Speaker 2: course of the weekend, thousands of people have been in

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Speaker 2: Floyd had been brought on by venues by the venue

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Speaker 2: operator at Optus to really just make to cater for

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Speaker 2: the huge crowds that are coming. So it's not only

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Speaker 2: a great time to celebrate, it's not only good for

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Speaker 2: the economy, but it's great for local jobs. So I'm

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Speaker 2: really excited about the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Are you on the road with the Prime Minister today.

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Speaker 2: Oh god, I'm going to pop down and say good

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Speaker 2: ay to the to the Federal Cabinet, as is my want. Yes,

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Speaker 2: when you're in town, I always always take the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to say gooday to them and tell them what an

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Speaker 2: important role that we w A played in the national economy.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely are you? Are you driving down today?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm driving down, stopping off of.

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Speaker 3: The crooked Carrot on the way chop milk, love.

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Speaker 2: The crooked carrot.

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Speaker 1: I'm a convert from the Miami bakehouse. Pop up to

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Speaker 1: the crooked carrot, for sure.

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Speaker 2: We always like to top up our caffeine levels on

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Speaker 2: the way down. Yo, and yeah and not. Obviously, it's

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Speaker 2: a other opportunity in the middle of our GST campaign

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Speaker 2: on the East Coast at the moment, to remind the

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Speaker 2: federal government that w as fair share of the GST

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Speaker 2: is good for the national economy. We drive the national

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Speaker 2: economy resources to continue to keep the fund coming to WAW.

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Speaker 2: The Prime Minister and the treasure are fully on board

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Speaker 2: with that campaign, but we're going to make sure that

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Speaker 2: we really take that message home.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely well. Enjoy safe trip down and we will see

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Speaker 1: you at the festival. On the weekend.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be big look forward to have a

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Speaker 3: safe drive down there. There's the Premier Roger Cook