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You gotta keep your head up and lets your hand up. I know it's hard, No, it's hard. Sometimes you gotta keep your head up. Thank you, let your head downy.
Good morning, Welcome to weekends with Luke Grant. Great to be with you on two GB in Sydney, four being sitting in Brisbane and listeners on our apps joining us all around Australia. It's June twenty first Saturday morning in the greatest country on Earth and what I bitterly call start of the day today minus one at Camden in Sydney, zero ward Richmond in Sydney, minus seven point six in Canberra,
minus Kenneth Goldban in Queensland. Zero at ok It's about the coldest I could see Stanthorpe, where it's normally near or below zero. Currently nine six at Winton in out back Queensland. One at Charleville near zero at Roma, six at Amblee, rug Up I Cantinllue. Today in Australia is the shortest day of the year quote unquote, as the Southern hemisphere experiences the winter solstice. Now, the exact moment the Southern hemisphere is at its furthest tilt from the
sun is at twelve forty two pm. We'll be on air then. I feel like we should mark the occasion. I don't know how we do that, but we've got some time to think about it. While the winter solstice is referred to as the shortest day and longest night of the year, it actually just means it's the day with the least amount of daylight hours, and that's because it's when the Southern hemisphere is at its furthest to tilt away from the sun, meaning we get less sunlight.
At the same time, Unsurprisingly, the northern hemisphere will be experiencing the summer solstice, which is often regarded as the longest day of the year. We have our summer solstice on December twenty second. For those playing along at home, today's forecast in Sydney a Sunday day tops of nineteen in the city nineteen and Penrith nineteen. Parramatta and a bond dine along the coast to top of eighteen. Tomorrow
is sunny day again nineteen. Brisbane today partly cloudy, a medium chance of showers, most likely late morning and early afternoon in the city twenty two Airport twenty two. I's which twenty three Sunny Coast, twenty two Gold Coast twenty three Tomorrow in Brisbane A shower or two and it should get to twenty three degrees. Now, so much to tell you about today. Let's start in the Middle East.
The New York Times reporting the President Trump has dismissed a European diplomatic effort seeking to keep the war between Israel and Iran from spiraling into a broader conflict. He told reporters Iran didn't want to speak to Europe. They want to speak to US. As Israel and Iran pummeled each other with their strikes and missile attacks for the eighth consecutive day, representatives of Iran and Europe held three hours of talks in Geneva that ended with no signs
of a breakthrough. The foreign ministers of Britain, France, and Germany emerged discussing the need to continue speaking with Iran, hoping the talks will offer an off ramp for Iran and forestall a decision by Trump to thrust the US into hostilities now, a day after backing away from threats that raised the specter of an imminent US strike and creating a two week window for diplomacy, Trump said he still wanted to be a peacemaker, but he suggested that
only direct talks between the US and Iran would produce a way out of the war. He said, Europe is not going to be able to help now. The Europeans urged Iran to resume direct nuclear talks with the US, but Iran's top diplomat, Abbess Arakchi, said Iran would consider re engaging in diplomacy only quote once the aggressor was held accountable for the crimes committed unquote. Trump suggested there was little he could do to get Israel to stop
its bombing. He said, Israel's doing well in terms of war. I think he'd had to say Iran is doing less well. It's a little hard to get someone to stop. Now. In the second hour, we'll go to Israel and I'll speak to someone there. Police updates this morning in Queensland, an eighteen year old man has been charged to one man who's in hospital. This follows a brawl at a
Autitude Valley pub early today now. Emergency services were called on the corner of Brunswick and Robertson Streets around twelve to thirty five am reports of a fight involving a large group of people. It'll be alleged an eighteen year old man armed himself with a piece of furniture and assaulted multiple people following an argument. A man in his thirties taken to Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital a serious but
stable condition. An eighteen year old Churmside Westman taken into custody, charged with three counts of assaults occasioning bodily harm whilst armed in company and one count of refray. He'll be at Brisbane Magistrate's Court on July thirty one. Anyone who witnessed the incident, Police would like to hear from you now. This happened like yesterday. At Lismore in New South Wales, the driver of a truck has died in a single
vehicle crash. Reports that a truck had veered off Bangalow Road at Kloon's, fifteen kilometers northeast of Lismore into a tree. Paramedics treated the forty six year old mail driver, but sadly he died at the scene. How about this one? Five senior New South Wales government staffers could face arrest after failing to appear at an inquiry into an explosive laden caravan found on Sydney's outskirts. Remember this now in
a dramatic escalation of an otherwise routine inquiry. The process to arrest high ranking staff and the officers of Premier Chris Mins and Police Minister Catley was set in motion yesterday after the group declined to appear, The committee chair and Independent MP rod Roberts conducted a role calls for the Premier's chief of Staff James Cullen and four other staffers, before approaching Upper House President Ben Franklin to seek arrest warrants.
Roberts said the President was noncommit when asked to go to the Supreme Court for the warrants, but Franklin had a quote very important and very crucial decision unquote. He says, all along labors tried to stonewall, delay and ridicule this important inquiry. Those words from John Ruddick agreeing to pursue the warrants could come with a personal awkwardness for Franklin, given he's a godfather of the premier's second child, or who cares if they've done the wrong thing and that
leads to arrest warrants. Hello, for the rest of society, we can from what I understand, we're not in a position where we can say I don't want to turn up, well, I don't want to be there. I mean, if you're compelled to go, you should go. Well see where all that goes? Extraordinary, isn't it? How about this one today? Extraordinary? Have I said that enough yet? Let me say it again. Extraordinary. Patients are waiting up to a year up to a
year to receive a cancer diagnosis at Sydney Hospitals. At least twenty one patients have had to wait up to three hundred and sixty three days due to massive demand for endoscopies at Westmead. This is a letter that was
sent to the hospital management late last week. The letter warned these cases, which included a man in his sixties diagnosed with esophageal cancer two hundred and fifty two days after his first referral, were quote likely a significant underestimation of the problem unquote, because thousands of patients were waiting
longer than recommended for the procedure. There were just over thirty three hundred patients on the endoscopy waitlisted Westmead as of last month, abid half of which were Category one cases needing the procedure within thirty days. Now, about twenty five hundred patients did not have a date for their procedure.
No patient had their cancer diagnosed within the thirty days recommended by the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program, and many exceeded the one hundred and twenty day maximum wade time recommended by the Cancer Council, according to The Herald. The letter says these significant delays are largely because Westmead has significantly fewer anesthetic lists than equivalent sized peer hospitals. Now we all remember not that long ago a bloke wanted to be Prime Minister getting up on stage with a
Medicare card. Hello, that's extraordinary, And this from Queensland. A female journalist has spoken out about the hostility she faced while covering CFMU protests in Brisbane, where she was labeled a media b. Channel seven reporter Georgia Chumbley was yelled at by the union members who also threatened to disrupt Brisbane's Olympic Games build during a second day of action in Bowen Hills, Miss Chumbley told the ABC the verbal
abuse was shocking. She says they were yelling at us pretty much verbally abusing us, yelling at us, tell the truth, Tell the truth. It was all female reporters there this morning. We were surrounded by a majority grown men screaming in this while we were trying to do our job. I also got called an abusive term. I know another journalist
was sworn at. Things did really heat up. Now, given us the the fundraising arm of the Labor Party, can someone from the left call out this misogynistic behavior and find out who was responsible and deal with them, maybe remove their membership. Well it's okay, it's a union protest, is it. I mean it is breathtaking some of the hypocrisy and here we go again. Senator Lydia Thorpe has sparked controversy after sharing photos of herself standing outside Buckingham
Palace making a rude gesture. The Independent senator, who made international headlines after gate crashing an event during the King's visit to Australia and yelling you're not my King, was in London this week to attend a conference why the hell would you go to London. During her trip, she donned a black Sovereign Movement shirt and was pictured outside the gates of Buckingham Palace holding an Aboriginal flag, making a rude gesture with her middle finger and standing with
her hands on her hips. Goodness me, Senator Lydia Thorpe brackets kindergarten student. What a thing to do? Ah, turn up at the palace, flip the bird, wave the flag, look at my unbelievable. On the show today, Dennis Shanahan from The Oars joined me for the latest in federal politics. Albo and the Trumpster will have to wait a little longer for that first handshake, after the PM's office indicated that Albo won't attend the NATO meeting this week. What
should albou do? I mean, it's not like there's anything happening with our alliance, tariffs orcus anyone. Maybe if he had a decent ambassador on the ground, someone that didn't refer to the US President as a village idiot, you know, might have just got access. What an absolute mess, What an absolute mess. We'll get to Dennis soon after ten this morning. I'll talk to someone on the ground in Israel,
not far from Tel Aviv. Now, night after night, day after day, bombs fired by the nuclear fixated Iranian regime rained down on the city. Citizens are bunker down, listing out for sirens warning of incoming bombs, and locked in bunkers or shelters, hoping that they'll get out alive. So I wanted to give you a peek behind the curtain to what daily life currently looks like in Tel Aviv.
I've been chatting with an antimum and lawyer living in Israel, Lisa Segalov, since just after October seven, twenty twenty three, and I've been unceasingly amazed at her intelligence, of bravery and her good humor amidst what's been an extraordinarily difficult few years. We'll speak again this morning. Don't miss it economists from macrobusiness dot com, dot au and weekends regularly Fan Onslan. He'll join me after eleven today. He'll walk
us through the latest population data. I was looking at those numbers yesterday. He might have heard me speak with and Maynard on his program. And there's a bit of a furfee. And the furfee is this, there's a bunch of people leaving Australia for whatever reason, and we talk about net overseas migration. The number improves the more people that leave. Well, more people are leaving now. I thought when we went to the last election we had an undertaken from both major parties to reduce the number of
people coming here. Not because we're racist or we don't subscribe to certain cultures or religions, not at all. It's purely a matter of mathematics. So you bring in, let's say, or you increase population by more than three hundred thousand, which we did by the end of last year, and you're only building one hundred and thirty thousand new homes. Again, do the mathematics. It's just dumb. We'll do that with Leith. He's got an economic champion this week, two weeks in
a row. This is outstanding. We also have an economic clown, but we've gone, you know, we give it up. We'll leave it up to him pick a champion or a clown second champion. It's a US energy expert who testified before Congress. Is written for the Wall Street Journal, dropping truth bombs on Australia's net zero fantasy. He described it as madness and reckless. Ask a trade this morning with Simon Stevenson at ten thirty love it. When Simon's in here,
we'll talk about window tinting your home. Can you make a real difference to your homes temperature with a bit of tinting? And do you need a trade to do it? Or can you doy window tint I reckon, if I had a crack of that, I'd have I'd tint my arms, my hands, my face, my hair. There'd be a little bit on the window. Hopeless of that stuff. We'll talk to Simon after ten thirty. We'll take your DIY calls
as well. Craig Bennetting Star Strugg looks at the life of Judy Garland, who we lost fifty six years ago. This weekend Alice stoles from them with a deep dive into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney. Of course, I quiz your calls, texts, emails, all the breaking, use all the information to help you get around in town with a minimum of fuss. It's Saturday, June twenty one, nine degrees in Sydney. They say it feels like five
fifteen degrees. In Brisbane, they say that feels like fifteen. This is Weekends with Luke Grant on two GBN four BC and Dennis Lee. He's got his eye on the traffic today now plenty of texts this morning. Thank you, Steve says good. I look, how does someone determine what the temperature feels like? Does someone stick their head out the window and say feels like five when it's actually eight? Well,
I think it's a combination of wind and humidity. I don't know if someone licks their finger and holds that outside and oh my finger's cold, but that's how they work it out, Sieve. I think it's a humidity and wind. Good. Hey, Luke love the show. Are we building one hundred and thirty thousand new homes a year or are we knocking down one hundred thousand and replacing them with new so we aren't building many new homes as such, Peter, that's not an unfair point. Thank you for making it good,
Luke read Lydia Thorpe, this is from Molina. Is that how you represent Australia and Australian's politicians that do the wrong thing by our country and people. Assies should have her sacked or you get elected as a Green then you carry on like a well, let's call it a two bob watch. Then you leave that party and then you get six years at whatever, many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thank you. Molina Dave says Lydia needs to be thor petered out of Parliament. To Shay, Luke, isn't
Lydia Thorpe seventy percent Scottish? I don't know, I don't know. And if she is, what seventy percent of her is Scottish? Luke, Lydia on business class five star hotels. We're all paying for it. Yeah, thank you, Steve. I wonder if she'll meet and negotiate the return of the settlers. Thank you. Good morning, Luke. Love the show on the weekend. On my drive to Sydney from the Hunt of Valley, we paid Lydia Thorpe over two hundred grand a year to
sprout that rubbish. You should be immediately removed from parliament. Ashley from the Hunter of Valley, have a great morning you too, Ashally. Thanks a lot for listening to our show. And if you're wondering why we're talking about Lydia Thorpe, it's because Lydia Thorpe has gone out the front of Buckingham Palace, holding the Aboriginal flag and flipping the bird, thinking that that was one of the great things an Australian politician can do. I assume there are people she represents.
Perhaps Lydia should just come home and represent the people, but as we know, it's all too often about her and just quickly here. A teenage boy was found with serious leg injuries in the early hours of this morning following an alleged hit and run in Sydney's East. This was is a Beecham Road or bow Champ Road. It depends where you're brought up. I guess Marubra. Around four am reports a person who had been hit by a car. Police rushed to the scene found a teenage boy believed
to be sixteen, with serious leg injuries. It was treated by paramedics taken to Sydney Children's Hospital. A crime scene's been established. Police will remain on the scene, canvassing the area for evidence if you can assist one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero. It appears several pieces of evidence have been left behind, including items of clothing and empty beer bottles. While the entrance to a unit block has
been taped off by police. It says he tapped off one eight hundred triple three triple zero Prime Minister the Labor Party Ventral politics with Dennis Shanahan. And sadly, Dennis and I will be talking for the last time for quite a few weeks because I'm about to have a bit of a break he pooh. And Dennis is having his regular winter break, and when I come back, he won't be here. But when he does come back, I will be here, but that might be a few weeks off.
So good morning, my friend. I look forward to resuming activities in a few weeks. In the meantime, How is it in the Nation's capital? I think I read it was minus seven point six earlier today.
Yeah, look at I tell you though, the weather is beautifully that there's no wind. You know you talk about windchill factor and no wind at all. It is just perfectly sunny, clear.
But it is cold.
This morning, as I was preparing for my little chat with you, I washed a big pied turrelong come in. He comes in every day to land on the on the bird bath, have a drink and a bit of a bath, and then he flies off. This morning he went down and slipped straight across.
The board, fell off the other side.
It was solid ice.
I've never seen a turrelong with surprised look on his face. It was col The bird bath is solid ice.
Wow. Fancy that now, Dennis A PM's trip to Canada is over and ended with a whimper as Donald Trump ducked out of the G seven and didn't even give Albow a sorry, I can't make it. There's no rush to NATO. In fact, I think that's been ruled out now, little prospect of a face to face meeting for some time. As I joke before, it's not like there's, you know, anything significant happening with our relationship potentially not if you
count orcus and tariffs as things that a serious. What's going on here?
Well, look I think that, yes, Donald Trump left the seventh early. He didn't meet a number of other leaders, but Anthony Alberinase he was listed as the second last on the agenda. I don't know if actually who was last. When Donald Trump said I'm leaving early, he rang other leaders and said, oh, look I'm sorry, we can meet up later.
Whatever.
Anthony Albinas didn't even get a call, and so what we're seeing is that the failure of Anthony Albinas to try and establish an early relationship with Donald Trump, despite the political differences and all the rest. The Prime Minister said on another a number of occasions, doesn't matter who's president, who's promenist, we need this relationship. Well it's not happening. The Prime Minister had gone to Canada with a whole series of ideas about critical minerals that were going to
use as a bargaining chip to get lower tariffs. There was going to be discussion of ORCUS while there was a review on in the US, and nothing happened. The Prime Minister met some trade officials that Kevin rad as Ambassador to Washington, had already met. So what we've seen is a failure early on for the Prime Minister to try and establish that key personal contact with President Trump.
He did consider going to the Netherlands to get the NATO meeting on the off chance of getting a sideline meeting, but in the end has decided no, he's not going to do that. The likelihood is that he was good
go over there, not going to meeting anyway. So this has been a failure as far as a trip goes where the Prime Minister had hoped to meet and discuss and negotiate issues of tariffs, which are still very I boughtant for US and of course UCAS to try and talk to the President about August before the US review is completed. Now looks like there'll be no meeting until probably New York in September.
At the UN Joe Hockey as a massive to play golf with Trump. Kevin Rudd referred to him as a really jdiot. Can you can you shoot any of the blame to Kevin Rudd? I mean, they're not going to take him seriously, are they?
Look I think that actually Kevin Rudd's done quite a good job as far as ambassad on the ground's concerns is kept open. All the negotiations on tariff almost escaped the full brunt of tariff. But there was a political interference there. Certainly what Kevin Rudd had said previously about President Trump wouldn't help. But look, the the issue here is about leaders face to face and that relationship. This
is what Donald Trump operates on. And we saw the success of their care starmer, a UK prime minister who went early to see Donald Trump and put up the UK spending on defense very quickly. It is clear that Donald Trump talks to people who are prepared to talk to him and act.
You know, I reckon the PM's office would be, wouldn't they very concerned that if he went to Washington there would be a you know what show if the meeting was in the Oval office. It's not like Trump has spared any other leader from embarrassing them or at least calling them out. There's no doubt in my mind that if Albo and the Trumpster sat together and the cameras were rolling, Trump would have some difficult questions, wouldn't.
He He would indeed, And look I've mentioned before on the program. I've been there in that room. It was Scott Morrison, who is Prime Minister, and Donald Trump and that was very warm and friendly and a little bit off a wall. But in any case, there would be no doubt that a trip to Washington would have to mean that appearance in what is now become a star chamber where the Prime the President is prepared to rip strips off people, so is the Vice president, and it
would be extremely embarrassing. The advantage of a so called meeting in the sidelines is that it's not televised and there isn't that whole feeling of being interrogated. I think that the Prime Minister would prefer to go to New York and meet President Trump again in the sidelines of the UN meeting.
What about orcus mate? There's concern here, isn't there? The US wanted us to spend more on our defense. Richard Miles is going to have to come up with more than just words here, isn't he?
We certainly is.
And of course, apart from tariff which went nowhere, UCUS was the other big issue that Australia had to address with President Trump in Canada. That didn't happen, and now it is clear that the Prime Minister has made it clear he is not going to the Netherlands. They thought about it and then thought, no, we wouldn't do it.
This means that Richard Miles, as Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, has to go to the NATO meeting and there defend Australia's decision not to increase defense spending to three point five percent, which the US wants us to do. That's much less than what the US wants our NATO allies to He wants them to go to five percent of GDP on defense. We can see what's happening in Israel, we can see what's happening in the Ukraine. There is
a worldwide pressure pressure to actually increase defense spending. It's not happening in Australia. Richard Mars is going to have to try and explain this to the US. The Prime Minister has not been able to talk to Donald Trump while and we've already paid eight hundred million dollars by the way, on the nuclear submarines, and we can't even get to talk about it while the US is reviewing it.
Our only hope has been a starmer of the UK who managed to get the present to nod to nod at the joint press conference when he said yes, that was still going ed with August. This is how tenuous it is. It is a key issue, and as we discussed last week, the Australian government, the current own government, still refuses to put forward a very strong justification to the Aucust project, and it looks as if somehow it's actually not committed to it.
Yeah, all right, Dennis, So we'll take a break before we do. Elizabeth has called through from Brisbane with a traffic drama. Elizabeth, thank you for this. What can you tell me?
There's a like a car's gone into a real estate on Logan Road at Mancrovit and and there's a car behind it smashed as well, and tree lanes are blocked all the way to Garden City.
And do we have emergency services on the scene, Elizabeth, there is, yes, there is, Okay, Am I right in saying this is a corner of Logan Road and Selborne Street.
That's the one.
Okay, Thank you so much for calling and allowing us to share that news with people on the roads in Brisbane. Thanks Elizabeth A. Carr and theer A real estate agency blocked the corner of Logan Road in Silborne Street at Mount Gravat back in a moment. It's a quarter to ten and we're of course Dennis Shanahan Dennis Jim Chalmers has considered the budget is unsustainable, promised not to shoot down any ideas on tax reform, as the Productivity Commission
suggests changes to the GST would help. I don't know if he's open to every suggestion, do you.
No, he's not. Look, it was a very important speek. Squy the Treasurer at the Press Club in Cambera this week. While all the concentration was on what the Prime Minister was doing Israel and Ukraine and all the other defense issues, the economy continues to be a grave concern and the treasure of this week actually said without change, the budget is unsustainable.
Now, this would have been nice to have heard about a little while earlier.
You and I have been talking about productivity for as long as we've been on the show to get us and of course it is the big issue. The treasure has now come out and said, yes, it is the big issue. That's why the budget's not sustainable. We have to have tax reform and we have to actually increase productivity. Now how he goes about that is going to be
the big issue. And can he continue to try and lift productivity while continuing to spend government spending is getting out of control and can he do it without introducing new taxes? Now, the Productivity Commission Commissioner has said today in Australian well, look we could look at the GST, actually increasing the GST and increasing the coverage of the GST as well as how we distribute it to the states.
So this is a big issue. The Productivity Commission said we should look at The Treasurer also said, oh, look, he was going to stand by the tax, the capital gains tax on unrealized capital gains tax for people with superannulation, and that he said, no, no, we're not going to touch that.
This is the idea that I hear.
All things are on the table. He also, though obviously concerned about the fact that people are arguing that this unrealized superannuation tax, which is not indexed, will over ten years increase its grad to eight billion dollars as one estimate from today. And what we've seen already is fears that the capital gains tax could be applied to a family home or some inheritance tax. Now Jim Chalmers has said no, we're not going to touch a family home.
We're not going to touch in inheritance or death tax. But he's leaving open the whole idea of family trusts and the continuing pressure on superannuation funds. At the moment, over three million is when you start paying the tax on unrealized capital gains and that that will just grow. So what we're seeing, on the one hand, the treasure is saying and trying to make a very bold statement, and it's about time somebody did it, to say that debt is deficit and lack of productivity means the budget
is unsustainable. We're facing a decade of deficits. He says, something has to be done. He try and pull together a group of business leaders and union leaders and so on to try and do something about productivity. But the issue remains that there are still no go zones as far as he is concerned, while others are saying you're going to have to do much more than just put a tax on unrealized capital gains for superannuation. I think the Treasurer has been courageous here at the courageous in
opening up the issue. He has admitted it's not sustainable. But what is he going to do and what can he do? These are big issues for the economy and for the new the newly elected labor government.
Yeah, and with those taxes, it's it's not work starts, it's it's where it finishes. And that's that's the real concern. Are you are you heading away to your weekender on the Mediterranean?
Not just yet, but I will be away and I'm very sorry to hear that today is our last night on Chat for a while, but I'll be I'll be around for a bit long yet before I head off right to the Apennines and the Italian Alps.
Yeah, you're lucky, lucky thing. Well, mate, I'll miss you for the four or five or six weeks for you don't get to talk. But of course I really enjoy talking to you, know that, Dennis. But we'll catch you when I'm back and you'll be on with Trent next week. Stay well, my friend.
Stay well the week and have a good holiday.
Yeah, thanks so much mate, And when you get to have on you too, Dennis Shanahan one three one eight seven three. That is the open line number you can text me. Lots of people have done that zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three. We might get to some of that feedback after we take this break at ten to ten. It's six to ten, get a jesse.
Hi, yall?
Are you it really well? You got something going on in the Brisbane area today, do you?
Yeah?
Absolutely so. At the Animal Welfare League Queen Bank, we've got a community back kind of in davy Hill where we're offering three vaccinations to jogs under two years old today?
What time is it? All day? Half the day?
Yeah, so we're here till four o'clock and we're doing free vaccinations to annie dog under two years old as long as that owner lived in either Woodridge, Kingston, Inala, Collingwood Parks, Goodner or Red Blank Planes.
Okay, and whereabouts is it happening?
So it's our daisy Hill Community that clinic which is ten Old Chatwood Roads, just near Tender Disposals.
Okay, Well, thank you Jesse for getting in touch and the fact we can help out some of our four BC listeners who might have a doggie is a great thing. Have a wonderful day. Thank you for getting in touch. And there'll be people listening to this show today at daisy Hill Community ve Clinics, the venue that wake up this morning and think, oh I wonder what I'll get from listening to Luky today. There'll be people with dogs under two going. You know what I got out of
that today? Relieve aside the compelling humor and incisive political commentary, free vaccination. It's a gift from us to you. You're welcome. That's the kind of stuff we do here. Okay, five to ten now, it's a minute to ten o'clock after the news. Apart from speaking to a couple of listeners, I will speak with Lisa Seglov, the Ouzzie mum and lawyer living in Israel right now and asking her what
it's like. We've been speaking to Lisa regularly since twenty twenty three October seventh, just after so we'll get to herm hope that she's keeping well. Simon's here too, Simon Stephenson. Amongst other things, we'll talk about window tinting and should you do it yourself, we'll get someone to do it for you, and does it make a difference. This is not your car but your home. So Simon will be
here also take your DIY calls as well. On the text, Richard says Luke further to Dennis and the fibbing Treasurer, who knew Australia's budget problems before the third of May twenty twenty five federal election. He certainly did I mean to come out this week and say, oh, you know, the budget's under pressure. The voters bribe of seventeen million dollars of taxpayers money to students owing hex cut immigration to seventy thousand for ten years. That'll cut taxpayer costs.
Australians need to protest to every MP in march in the streets. Richard, thank you for getting in touch. It's almost ten years. Next Cross Australia. It's back to weekends with look grat good morning. I hope you're warming up a little bit on this very cold start of the day on Saturday one three one eight seven three. The open line number the text is zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three And of course you can email me via two GB dot com or four
BC dot com dot ayo. All you got to do is click on the feedback icon. Just some news through A man's been charged with allegedly trying to possess thirty kilograms of cocaine after a wild police raid. This is a double bay. A footage showed a forty year old man being escorted away from a home on Holt Street a double bay Friday afternoon by undercover police dressed up as tradees. He's since been charged with attempting to possess
a commercial quantity of unlawfully imported border controlled drugs. Police will allegend court he was the intended recipient of thirty kilos of cocaine imported by a criminal criminal syndicate offshore, and had traveled to a quote unquote dead drop in Alexandria on Friday to collect what he believed to be the drugs. Dead drops are a secret location where items such as cash and illicit drugs are left for other
people to collect. The police had intercepted the delivery and replaced the alleged cocaine with an inert substance, according to the AFP. The AFP will allege the man removed a sports bar containing the thirty kilos of the substitute material and then returned to his home in Double Bay. Wild footage has shown undercover officers raiding the multi million dollar home. Number of cars pulled up on a hurry. Bunch of
undercover cops dressed as trade's jumped out. A neighbors said some crew and substantial gear were basically just belting on the door, ramming it trying to get access. As his situation developed, the neighbors said the street became a hub of police activity. Sounds like one of those cop shows, doesn't it. Anyway? They got their person. One three one eight seven three is the open line number. David says good ay, Luke. I normally listened to you from Shanghai,
but today I'm listening to you from Taiwan. Well, David, I know you listened from Shanghai because I look forward to communicates. Thank you for tuning in wherever you are. Good day, Luke. Politicians lighter us every opportunity. They sit out the front of the church whenever the opportunity arises. Very good point. Thank you, Joy says good day, Luke. I listen to you every Saturday. You're my favorite. Oh thank you. You keep me company while my husband's playing golf.
Today I'm baking two hundred fundraising cookies for our Bunning Sausage Sizzler, Castle Hill on Sunday, July sixth. Would love a shout out. It just got one. It's for a very good cause, Breastfeeding Advocacy Australia. We're volunteers who give our time freely to all mums and bubbs who need advocacy and support b double aus dot org. B double aus dot org. And you can get hold of Joy's bookies on July July six at Tartlehill Bunnies. Thank you Joy very much indeed for listening.
Good a Colin Luke, love your show mate, Thank you mate.
Well, the wife and I three years ago had the privilege to go over to will A tour to willpeen A Pound in South Australia too. There's a little village there, a motel, absolutely spot on beautiful, run by the Aboriginals. And also they gave us a speech in the middle of this football ground and they said the first thing he said, now, you don't do we don't do any of that's making. So that's something that oh well his
name escapes me. Now that had the TV show does it on the TV only board that in a few you're.
Talking about Ernie Ernie Dingo.
Then he said, that's our flag, not the one that's hanging over the harbor bridge. There was a green flag if some sort it had a bit of age to it, okay, And I thought that with the Lydia thought one the other day. I thought, you know, I couldn't do anything but recommend this place for people to go. There's toores out of there and that's unbelievable.
So it's called Willpina.
The way things really are.
So what's it called will Pena Now, yeah, Colin, can't hear me, I heard you, mate, clear as a bell, but for some reason you couldn't hear me. I think it was Can we just check the name of that Will Peena. It is Willpina w I l pe n a. Thank you Colin, and thank you for listening. Stephanie, good morning.
Good morning, Luke. It has been said Lerk that when factions dealing in fictions, if they do that, they will suffer from frictions and break into fractions. And thus it is with the Liberal Party, whether it's New South Wales or Victoria predominantly, and they so expertly have demonstrated, certainly from Victoria of the last day or so, how they can shoot themselves in one foot and then two feet
and then blow their heads off. So with the issue down in Victoria, with pursuito, that very little dishonorable man, I must say, pursuito or the pursuito or ham of politics, Chaddie's bacon saved by the Liberal Party members who've kept in the money to get this man out of hock, the hock of his own doing, because he was found to have defamed a good and decent and honorable woman by portraying her as a Nazi sympathizer. Could anything worse
be said about anybody? And yet this individual, this little pipsqueak of nobody, has refused to apologize to her, would not meet any of her very generous offers initially before they went to court, and has relied on his mates like Jeff Kennet and the rest of them to back
him up, and they did to the hills. So if I were a Liberal Party member down in Victoria, I'd be pretty ropeable that my money was going to this man, this little individual, who wouldn't in the honorable way mortgage's house to get himself out of his own debt, but relies on other people to do it. So is it any wonder that the Liberal Party is breaking apart when
you see this happened. They put that woman at PURSUITO and Kennett and the rest of the mob through two years of in tolerable stress, completely Laura Deeming and her family, and it is absolutely insupportable that the Liberal Party can
exist under those conditions. So they're breaking into fractions. Then you look at New South Wales and there was a illustrating this brilliantly Warren Mundy and had a peace in the fin Review a couple of weeks ago, and he reminded that in it that he'd been in the Labor Party for decades, including as its national president, but then joined the Libs in something like twenty nineteen, and he said, while he was in the Labor Party, we all knew
and everyone else did. The factional brawling there is absolutely brutal. But he said I never saw factions actively undermine each other, so the point of losing a seat or members portraying their own faction with no consequence, but said, I've seen
and experienced both in the Liberal Party. And he tells us then about the relentless pursuit and undermining of federal leaders, the ill discipline, the distrust to the point of paranoia, and the liberate sabotage and sometimes just plaid in competence. You'll remember, I'm sure as everyone else will, but the Liberal Party executive New South Wales somehow a while back couldn't even organize the nomination paperwork for one hundred and forty
endorsed car so call government. There are plenty who would say it wasn't just in competence carefully related to do that, so they couldn't get a Conservative candidate up there. He finishes his piece by saying that receptor quote screw up.
Administrators were appointed and at least two federal elections now we've seen inexplicably delayed pre selections, well not inexplicable my view, and candidates selected or replaced at the last minute, so he said, and left the Liberal Party can stand up and have the courage to stand up for what you believe and take your authentic message to voters. Forget it, you're done and you're gone. And I would totally agree
with that. You've got Susan lay now with the woke green left in the Liberal Party and just going back to Warren, they refused pre select this outstanding man and put their preferred woke green left woman Gisel something or another in there, and the same they did the same thing to Jim Moland. That extraordinary to see Liberal Party. Well, it entered the Liberal and if they think the Conservatives are coming back to vote for you ever again, then
you know you've blown your head off. No brains, you can't think you don't know what you're doing, but you're just a hears rabbel and pursuito. You are the prime example of what is wrong with the Liberal Party.
Yeah, yeah, look and look beautiful youth. I've got to say, Stephanie of hock pursuto' ham and Bacon, You're on a roll. I was wondering what cut was coming next. I couldn't agree with you more. I could not agree with you more. And I've got plenty of grief about referring to the Liberal Party of New South Wales as the clown show. And as Stephanie says, it is a factions lead to fractions,
brilliant words. Not even a third of Australians could bring themselves to put the Liberal Party first on a ballot paper. After winning so many of the previous elections federally, they have almost not quite almost become irrelevant. There's a lot of work to do and whether they can win people back is still very much up in the air. Great call, Stephanie. Love it to chat to you. It's eighteen after ten. This is Weekends with Luke Grant. Thank you for your company.
I want to get to Israel now and just near the city of Tel Aviv now. As you know, Tel Aviv can be one of the safest and most picturetque spots in the Middle East, renowned for its vibrancy, modernity and coastal charm, but now, of course, residents are living in fear. Night after night, bombs fired by the nuclear
fixated Iranian regime rained down on the city. Now you might know for some time, I've been chatting with an Aussie mum and lawyer living in Israel, Lisa Segalov, since just after October seven, twenty twenty three, and I've been unceasingly amazed at her intelligence, of bravery and her good humor amidst what's been a very difficult few years. Find out what life looks like in Tel Aviv or need to it right now, I'm delighted to say that Lisa Segalov is on the line. Lisa, thank you for your time.
I hope you're okay.
Thanks, Luke.
Yeah, it's been pretty scary days, the last eight days of this fourth.
So how close has the action been to you.
Lisa, I It's relatively close. I live like thirty k's from Tel Aviv, and.
Actually I worked in Tel Aviv.
Yees today I received it was Thursday I received morning. I noticed not to come to work because the fallout from one of the missiles had hit our buildings, so the top three floors, all the windows have blown out and glasses everywhere. So we were told to stay home and not to come near the building.
So it's pretty close.
Somen get closer than that, really.
No, you're right, Are the attacks all the time? Have they only adnired during the day? When does this most often occur?
Well, it's really any time. There's been at all hours, either early.
In the morning during the day, five o'clock, eight o'clock in the.
Evening, and quite a lot at night. There were some lights where we had three or four times where we had to go to the shelter, which, of course you don't get very much sleep.
So for about a week we didn't get a lot of sleep.
Last night was the first night that we actually got straight seven hours in the center of the country. Sometimes the warnings go to the north or the south, and so those areas only have to run too shelters, and sometimes it's the whole country, and sometimes it's just the center. And when we get a warning, now.
We've got up to ten minutes, we get a warning on.
Our phone that said miss also been launched from run and then at ninety seconds in the center of the country, there is a siren.
And you run to your safe room.
If you don't have a safe room in your home, you have to run down. If you're in an apartment building, it's usually on the basement floor, and if you don't have one in your apartment's building, then you can run to a public shelter. Train stations and underground car parks have been converted into places where you can seek shelter, and lots of people have set up mattresses there with sheeps so their children can.
Spend the night there. So it's a real thing.
What does a shelter typically look like it Is it just a bare below ground concrete enforced room. Is that what it is?
Well, for instance, we've got one in our house because all houses that were built up in nineteen ninety two have to have a shelter in the house. So it's a reinforced concrete room with the door that you can close and seal, and many people use it for different things. Most people use it for an extra bedroom, and so most people that have one in their home have set it up so that with mattresses on the floor and you know, water and things like that, so that they
can stay there. Most kids are sleeping in their shelters, so at least the kids are sort of getting a full night sleep because they don't really know when the
siren's golf purse there asleep. But more than as I said, more than fifty percent of people don't have shelters in their home, so they're all running there, running downstairs of an apartment building to get to a basement where there is a shelter, or they're staying in a in a space like the light rail stations or underground car parks where they can seek shelter.
Right, what about the thoughts of the people understanding, of course that Iran has made it clear that they want to see the end of Israel, and the fact that they were enriching uranium nuclear fuel is a great concern. So the argument is that unless the Israelis did this, then they'd have to do with much worse consequences. Is that have you most of you share and do you support what the government's done?
Yes, I think equivocally the majority of Israelis are for the current actions. You know, there's no doubt that Iran is one of the most dangerous regimes in the world, and giving them one of the most dangerous weapons. A nuclear bomb for Israel is an exerc a total threat to his existence. There is no doubt that they want to wipe Israel off the face of the map.
And there is.
Also no doubt that they have reached the point of enrichment where they can enrich the uranium and turn it now into the coin production. I turned it into a nuclear bomb.
So it's very.
Important that we stop this process. And indeed we've made a very big dent in the process as well, as they're eliminating a lot of their ballistic missulets and other missiles that they have which they can use and are using against us.
So do you imagine that America will join with Israel? And is that the view of people around you that in fact, the US will get involved or do you think once again Israel will do the heavy lifting on its own.
I'm not sure about that one. Not sure.
President Donald Trump is unpredictable.
We do not know that what he will do.
There are wider consequences of American actions. It is very clear that the Iranian current regime is not only anti Israel, it's anti American, anti democratic democracy, and I you know, President Trump knows that, but to be involved he has to consider wider consequences. I have no doubt that he will support Israel and is supporting Israel in every action that they are taking against Iran at the moment. But
whether he will be involved, I don't know. It's a continuing story that's been revealed every.
Day you and I over the several years now we've been talking. You've shared with us the fact that you've got three adult children who, at various times observed in the defense forces. Of those people, have they been called up, so to speak, or are they away from having to serve right now?
They're at home now and lots of reserve forces have been called up. Fortunately they haven't been called up at the moment, don't know when they will be. And my daughter, who's the youngest, is currently doing her three year national service, so she's still in the army.
Goodness goodness, me must be difficult to cope with. Or do you get used to it?
I don't think you.
Ever really get used to it.
It's just it's something we live with. But you don't get used to it.
You're always worried about them.
Yeah, when when we spoke originally following the horrific her mass attacks, that was a different kind of concern. The whole world, with the exception of a few predictable types, widely condemned what was perpetrated amongst all those beautiful, innocent Israelis. And of course we knew that there were continuing efforts by Hamas to destroy Israel. Does it feel more or less safe now with the Iranian conflict?
The Iranian conflict is totally different from what happened on October the seventh. It's a very scary thing to be inside what you a concrete room, a concrete shelter, probably what you would describe as a concrete manker, and here massive booms go above you.
You know, which you think are above.
You, but they could be twenty thirty miles away from you, and there's just you don't know what's going to happen. You don't know if they've been intercepted. The majority are intercepted, but you know, unfortunately there are some that do get through.
And there have been twenty four people killed in the last eight days from missile attacks, and another six thousand have been homeless from damage to their property, their home so that they cannot return and we've had about a thousand people that have been wounded, most of them slightly, not critically. So it's a serious thing and it's a very scary thing. October seventh was a totally different experience.
Both of them tragic, both of them quite scary, both of them ex estential threats to Israel, but in a very different way.
Yeah, I've got to let you go. But before I do, you've heard no doubt and seen some world leaders talk about moderation and de escalation and the like. It seems to me that their words don't resonate certainly with the people in Iran or the Iran Iranian leadership. It seems like, I guess words used to fill the vacuum. What's going to happen here? How does this resolve itself?
If it can, well you have to have a parenty that comes to the table and to say that, yes, Israel can exist, I'm not going to wipe you out, and America can exist. And we do recognize the countries and their principles and they're moral values.
Let's talk.
If you're saying that, I'm going you know, our aim is.
To wipe out Israel. The story is ral completely and.
Whatever Americans we can come after in the process, we will get that.
Then there's no way.
That we can have a dialogue until is a change. And I believe that there will be a change in the major already of countries and we will see greater peace between a lot of the countries. But until Iran, in the regime in Iran, makes that change, I'm not sure that they can do that with the current leadership. In fact, I don't think they can do it with the current leadership. Then we don't have a choice in
what we're doing. We started talking after October seventh, and at that time there were almost two hundred hostages that Hamas had taken. Today we still have fifty three Israeli hostages in Gaza, twenty one of which we believe are alive, and we.
Need to have them back.
Yeah, obvious thing to say. Stay safe, Locks of love, We'll talk again, Lisa.
Thanks, Luke, same to you.
Ye Ray It's twenty two to eleven. Just a couple of text messages, Angela says, thanks for the wonderful educational interview. Thank you Angela very much. Indeed, Luke sending Lisa Sidney's Jewish Communities prayers and best wishes. Thank you, Dorothy and Maria. Please stop with the Israeli propaganda. Why don't you get subject matter experts on? Well, she's living there, Maria, I mean, really, what sort of a half would say get an expert? What get someone from a local university or speak to
someone and tell Aviv you do the mathematics. Please give me a break. And Emily, thank you for your note. We're thinking of your morning, Luke. My husband's in Israel visiting family. Just sent me a message. They're in a bomb shelter now at Rishon. Not to you back for a few weeks, but hoping it'll be over by then. Well,
we're thinking of Cindy. Thank you for getting in touch now on weekends, ask a training thanks to nob Kitchens since nineteen thirty nine and with Sydney's blongest kitchen showrooms and free in home design service. You got some work that needs to be done, questions that need answering, Well, this is the premiere destination for all of that. Simon Stephenson's in the studio. You can ask a question on one three one eight seven three call right now, Hello am my friend.
Hello mate, you're well I'm well, thank you good.
Yeah, not too bad at all. We wanted to start off by talking about window tinting. I nearly said, tindo winting. I don't know why, but I nearly did. Can I make a real difference to the temperature on the house. It gets you if we've got full sun and you don't want it.
You know what, do you know what's amazing. We get our cars window tinted, don't we. Yeah, and we do that for temperature and a little bit of privacy too, and it's the same with your home.
I had a house years ago.
I had windows facing directly east and in the morning, that land room used to get so hot. I had window tinting done and I ended up taking all the blinds down, and it was amazing because we had a bit of a view and we were able to take the blinds down because the blinds were there to try and stop the heat coming into the room. And it just made a massive difference. I reckon at least ten degrees difference in the mornings in that lound room, so
my air conditioner didn't have to work so hard. And you know the other thing is there's so many different tints now from almost completely clear tint. So if you do have a view, the clear tint is there and it's designed you know, obviously it's not going to put a darkness on the windows. But what it does is it stops the UV coming through the glass, and the amounts of UV that comes through from the sun can damage things like carpet, timber, flooring, furniture, even curtains themselves.
If you have curtains up for many years, they will break down from the UV where they'll just tend to fall apart. So thinking about getting your windows tinted can make a huge, huge difference to your home.
Is it something you can do yourself or should you get an expert or trading or someone to do it for you.
There are tints available at hardware stores that you can get yourself, but truly, I've tried to do it. It's not as easy as it looks, okay, like really, because.
It is a thin film, isn't it. You've got to be and it's full of glue.
So it's a thin film, yes, so you know you've got to be able to cut it to size.
Your glass has.
To be perfectly clean as well, so you've got to make sure that you run over the glass with a blade to clean any sort of imperfections off. You know, it's quite time consuming and to watch the professionals do it.
It's one of those jobs where you know, there's a few.
Jobs tiling rendering, obviously electrical and plumbing, but also window tinting, which I think are one of those ones to leave the professionals, definitely, but definitely worth looking at. And if you do have old window tint and you want to get it off, if it's starting to break down, because it does have a lifespan, put newspaper onto the glass internally,
because window tints always apply from inside. Put newspaper on the glass and then spray it with water and keep it wet for a good while, an hour or so, and then that that tint will just peel right off you. Is that right, That's a simple solution to get it, Okay?
I didn't know that, all right? One three one eight seven three Grace, good morning. How can we help you?
Oh, good morning, Luke and Simon morning. Problem in the shower recess one tile, the one that you tend to step on to getting in, is losing its surface ceramic and revealing the terra cotta color of the tile underneath.
Okay, that's unusual.
I mean the tiles are usually they got a glaze or something on them, and they shouldn't normally lose that.
And I don't know why one one tile would.
Have you tried giving it a really good clean to make sure that it is definitely losing its sheen.
Just yes, yes, you can pick up a little flivver of it.
All right, So it's obviously breaking down.
And look, whether you can get a tiler to come in and replace one tile, it may be a little bit difficult.
The other option would.
Be maybe to paint that tile, and you need to use a two pack of POxy.
Something from an r glass or something.
You could fill it and then paint it so it could match the tiles that are already there.
So that is another option to think about.
Oh do golly? So, yes, it wouldn't be a good idea to try and remove one tile, would Look.
The problem you've got is if you're removing a floor tile that you're stepping on, you're then compromising the waterproof membrane underneath. So you're better off trying to repair it if possible.
Okay, good luck, Grace, thank you for calling. On the text Gdeluke and Simon. A few weeks ago, Simon spoke about a sealer for putting in small cracks on concrete driveway. Simon, could you please mention the product name again, Dug on the Gold Coast.
Okay, Doug.
It was called ePIE Res one two three, so ep i r z epi Res one two three. And it comes in like a tomato sauce bottle with a little tube, you know, and you just squirt it into that crack. It seeps the way down and what you do is you keep going back and forth to the crack till it will not accept anymore.
It does then foam up.
A little bit and fill that crack up, and it will then give it full strength back to normal.
And does it when it foams up, does it go outside of the crack? Do you end up having it sound? Yeah?
Look, we did, we did it.
We did a garage floor where we did end up sanding that because we ended up putting a coating over the top of the garage floor afterwards. And that depends on the size of the crack too. That is designed for hairline cracks or bigger just a little bit bigger. You're not going to do something ten mils wide with.
That, Okay? And what's it called again?
EPI res one two?
Okay, Simon, I have an outdoor table that's stained and sealed. I want to paint it. What prep is required? And can I use water based paint?
Okay?
Yes, you can use a water based paint if it is stained and sealed. I would use an oil based primer on their first, So sand the coating. Make sure that you have got a solid surface to work from. Then use something you can use either the nor Glass Universal Primer their primer, or you can use something like Zinza. Cover stain is another product you could use, and then you can go over wa the water base. I would
go with a water based enamel. It's going to be a little bit harder wearing than just something like a du lux weather shield, because when you put plates and cups and things down, you want it to be a little bit harder wearing.
Okay, good on your David, Hope that helps. Now give us a gore one three one eight seven three. You can text if you like zero forseig zero eight seven three eight seven three, But we like talking to you, so call us one three one eight seven three back with more Simon after this. All right, it's ten to eleven o'clock. Patricia, Good morning to you. How can we assist to you?
Good morning, Simon and Luke. I'd like to ask how what to do to the surface of tinted windows that have already have a Marx on them. But there's been a painter in and there are marks from the painter and there's just a mars on the tinted surface. It's been there a few years.
And I don't want to remove it.
Okay, Simon, do you know if it is a water based paint that he's got on there, or if it is an oil based paint. Do you know that whether he's got what's on the surface of the tint.
Yes, it's the water based paint.
Okay, well, no it's no, it's not no, No, the windows were done with oil based the window frame.
Yeah.
Unfortunately, if it's on the tint, there's nothing you can do to get it off. There's there's no remover that's going to take that off that won't damage the tint. So unfortunately, I think you're going to have to get the windows reach inted again. If it was water based, I could definitely help you there, but oil based no way.
Can you tell me what if it's water based from the plastering that's done earlier and not the other because there's been both tradesmen here. What would I do if before the water.
Based paint, if you can get to a Mito ten store or an Inspiration paints or something, get a product.
Called lift Off and it.
Has got an acrylic paint remover and try spraying some one a cloth and rubbing it on the surface. Just try an inconspicuous area first, just to you know, just so it doesn't checked, it doesn't damage the tent, but it should work.
Okay. What's that called lift So lift.
Off and it is the acrylic paint remover of it, so it works.
Really really well now this night from Lisa. Thank you Lisa. We were hoping to lay laminade floorboards over our existing timber floor, the original ones when we bought the house. But the floor isn't level so the new boards won't be flush and the installers can't give a guarantee on them. What options do we have other than ripping up the existing boards and replacing them. We have the option of tiling. How does that work on existing flawing? Is that easier with regards to our leveling issue?
Okay, so you can't tile over floorboards. It has to be like a cement sheet to get tile over. Otherwise those those tiles will crack when it comes to your floorboards that you're putting over the top. There are self leveling products, but I don't know how that's going to go sticking to the floorboards either. So land Co make a self leveling product. I would contact land Co themselves. It's available at the hardware stores and ask them if
you can put that over a timber floor. And what you do is you mix up at a bucket and pour it. It's self levels over that surface. So that's what they use for leveling. Your other option is maybe try a vinyl People forget about vinyl. Vinyl is amazing option and you can get it.
That looks like timber.
Yeah, I love it.
It's warm under the feet, it's a bit softer than timber. Before you can spill a bucket of water and it's not going to be affected. I really think people, you know.
Just forget about vinyl all the time. It's not like the sixties.
No, I showed you those hybrid square hybrid vinyl granite looking flooring I put on in the in the laundry, and you are so right, and you think vinyl vinyl I'm not going to put liner doesn't have to be that at all.
It's nothing like what it was in the sixties. I mean, there is ones that look that you and I were around in the sixties. Absolutely, that's only going on what people tell us.
Absolutely, all right, So vinyl is an option and land cover is it L A n C O to get right?
Yeah?
All right, Peter, good morning.
Good morning.
How are you going?
Good?
Good good, Yeah, thanks for taking a call. Look, there's there's this year I've got with some walls in you know, get it. So there were some al pierce of the roof because water water was coming down the walls. Yep, that's been repaired. It's been painted through the insurance. But now when we look at the wall, there seems to be it looks like water marks still down the wall. Okay, even though it's been painted, yep, but it doesn't seem to be wet.
All right.
I'm just wondering when you say water marks is when you say water marks is like a brown light brown stain coming through something like that brown.
What you what it looks like. It looks like it's streaking. It's like a lighter color.
Okay, So what what I'd say is happening is you're getting something bleeding through that paint. They've probably just gone straight over with an acrylic paint. You need to prime that surface with a stained seiler something like the Zinza.
Bin b I N.
That's completely going to solve that issue. And then you go over with the acrylic paint. So whoever did the paint hasn't done the job properly. They haven't solved the stain issue first, Okay, if you've got to go back and do that, go back. Yeah, So I'd contact the insurance company. And so listen, that's this is not right.
It needs to be fixed properly.
Okay, right, see how you go with that, Peter. Now, unfortunately, I'm not going to get time to get to our other callers and I'm not having a crack at anyone, but ring early. We've got plenty of time, and we get to this point where we run out of time. So sorry about that. And there's there's one or two text messages which will pass on to Simon. You can always go to Simon's website. We see examples of his brilliant work. Simon's House dot com dot are you Simon's
house dot com dot are you good? To see him? Mate? It I'll be away for a few weeks, but I'll be back and I looking forward or ready to see him again.
You too, mate, I hope you have a really fantastic time, buddy.
It'll be a beauty. I'm sure of it. Simon Stevenson, don't forget Simon's House dot com dot are you Okay? We're about to hit the halfway mark here. Coming up after the News League, van onsel and chief economist at Macro Business and the MB Fund. He's got an economic champion, a bloke a feller from the US this week as well. In our Next hour, Alice Stole's National property editor at Domain, a regular look into the Sydney and Brisbane real estate markets.
Glenn Munsey from Ladd Bruggs here to have a chat about some of the odds around sport and racing for this weekend. After Midday, Craig Bennett on Starstruck, we look at the life and times of Judy Garland. We lost her this weekend about fifty six years ago. But before all that, the news is next at eleven across Australia. It's back to weekends with Luke Grant. Good morning, thank you for listening. It's good to be with you on this twenty first day of June. Cold one seven three
is the number to call here. A cold wheather never gets called out, only hot temperatures. They get a run, don't they. We notice that if you've got an eye on what's happening on planet Earth. As an in drinking story in the other I want to get to it in a moment or two. But we try to help listeners as best we can. And I've got a listener online who's ringing from Sydney, who I won't identify because it's it's best to keep these issues private. But thank
you for calling through. Your mum is at the border in Iran. Is Is that right.
Hi, luk Yah. Yes, she's seventy years old, she's alone and she's been in the She's an Australian citizen. She's been a nurse a midwife for forty years in Sydney and for the last she's been an educator of facilitated teaching nurses in universities in the hospitals across Sydney and now she needs help.
So what in relation to what defact are doing? And I can't imagine the significance or how difficult this would be. I mean, you're not going to go to the border and find a NAUSI they're here to help. Let's get you out of here. It must be very difficult. So what has she been told she should do and what kind of help has been for bying?
What's been what's been said? You know the crisis line in Sydney, we thought this is great. You know, for a week we've registered her there and put all the details as they requested and we've been telling them, look, she's got it's a six hour, six hour journey for her to make it to that border. It's the closest line. It's the one that the Australian Ambssy used to get
out of. It's the one that's been saying. They've been telling people to go to Australian citizens and you know with ten leaders of Petrol, you know they've been giving them lining up from the morning till night to get ten leaders the petrol and I don't even know how this woman has done it, and she's she's gotten herself there. She can't have there's no way back, and then there's
not no way forward. What we understood was that the government and the MBSC were on the other side of the border and they were facilitating the process as her you know, the media here and they're telling her you need authorization from the Australian government. So on the cross crisis line they know what is required. But I don't
know where the breakdown is here. I mean the idea was we gave them, you know, a few days notice, and we've been continually telling them this old woman he's coming through, please, you know, make it clear for her it's some kind of authorization to cross. But she's been turned away. So for the last twelve hours, I don't even know where she is, what she's doing.
How do you how do you communicate with her?
There's been a blackout, so internet blackout, as he probably knows that she couldn't use her WhatsApp, We couldn't get in contact with her. She's been trying to use other people's mobiles. Her own, you know, Australian mobile doesn't work. Even though it's got global roaming, she's had patchy reception through other people's mobiles. You know, sometimes strangers to just leave a message and we just get the message saying, you know, I'm at this point, I'm headed to this point.
When she got close to the border, we're now able to She's got some more access. It is again patchy, but again internet, so we can communicate via WhatsApp messages every now and again. It's not easy, but it's possible.
I'm trying to understand she was directed to this particular border. Was she directed there because she'd be met by people from DEFAT or they would give her her paperwork or what was meant to happen before she crossed.
Yeah, so apparently the Australian embassy and Tehran, which was closed down because of the attack. Yes, they got those people out to that border, they crossed them, and they are supposed to be sitting on the other side facilitating this in the process with the crisis Center here in Australia, and they're supposed to be the support there that when you get there, they facilitate the crossing. I mean, we're
not asking for you know what's been advertised. You know, the Defense Force is getting you know there and so forth. I'll forget about that. We're not asking for a flight, We're not asking for them to help to get to the border or even help after the border. All we're saying is there's citizens there at the border. Give them access, give them the access to cross, yeah, to get into safety so that they can then make their way home.
Yeah. Well look, that's that's entirely reasonable, and you must be so concerned. As I mentioned before, I won't do anything other than do our best to assist you off air. So my producers, who are two very intelligent, hardworking, decent people, will do what we can to reach out to the
department and somehow facilitate a conversation. But to think you're here in Sydney and your seventy year old mum has against the elements, found a way to the border and get to that border, the border that she was directed to, and then you know, there's seemingly nothing on offer. That's not what Australians want to hear. So we'll go I will send you back to Kitty and will continue the conversation.
So media release from Penny Wong released yesterday the Australian governments directed the departure of all Australian officials, dependents and suspended operations at our embassy based on advice. Australia's ambassador to Iran will remain in the region to support the Australian government's response. De FAT is deploying consular staff Azerbaijan, including its border crossing, to support Australians supporting departing rather Iran. We arege Australians who are able to leave Iran to
do so now it is safe. Those who are unable to or don't want to leave, or advice to shelter in place. We're continuing to support Australians seeking to depart Iran. We remain in close contact with other partner countries. At this stage, our ability to provide consul of services is extremely limited. The airspace remains closed. And there you are.
So yeah, a few pieces of that puzzle are seemingly missing, and we'll off air, we'll have a conversation and we'll see what we can bring you on air before we're done today. Very concerning for that listener. Now we'll take a break, after which I'll speak to Leith van Onsolin from Macrobusiness dot Com dot Au nineteen minutes after eleven o'clock. Shane, you've got some car dramas, do you, mate?
Yeah, might on the corner Kissing Point Ride and Silver Water Ride. The turn off there at gun Dust there's a car broken down the left line.
Mate.
Okay, well mate, Thank you for letting us know about that and helping people travel around safely. Car breakdown Kissing Point Road, Silver Water Road. You know that place left lane, dundas, be careful. Thank you again, Shane, appreciate that call. Twenty two year old banks Here Beach woman has been charged with multiple offenses following reports of vehicles and properties stolen
in Zillmere. Around three o'clock this morning, the offender entered a residence at Zilmeir, taking keys to a nineteen seventy nine white Volvo Hope. They had a hat nine eighteen this morning. The allegedly stolen Volvo was located on McGhee Street at three point fifteen. On Sunday, June fifteen, a white toy aut a Yarras was stolen from Zilmir as well. Around four am on the same morning, patrolling police located the Yarras in an undercover garage and a unicomplex at Zilmere.
Police observed a woman enter the allegedly stolen carrent attempt to started with the keys. She was arrested. Police located alleged stolen property in the vehicle. The dale alleged been stolen a short time before Femeni Suzu Dmax Utility Park nearby. Police will further alleged the woman was in possession of implements used for breaking and entering, a clip seal back containing dangerous drugs and keys to the previously stolen and
located Volvo two four five. Twenty two year old BankSA Beach Woman's been charged with two counts of enterpremises, commit and diedable fence offences and will be at Brisbane Magistrate's Court on June twenty third. On Monday each week, we love our chats with Leith van Onsalin, chief economist at the NB funded mb super one of the key brains at macrobusiness dot com dot au, wh is where we get our economic news each day. An excellent place ahead
and Leith's on the line. Sorry to keep you waiting, made things so much I hope you.
Well, yeah, okay, look here I'm fine, thanks.
Good on you. Housing crisis it continues to be a thing here. Obviously didn't affect the election result. But we've had population data I saw I think come through on Thursday, and I think there's a bit of I don't want to say it's not fudging of the figures, but the government's got lucky here because more people are leaving Australia from what I could see.
Yeah, yeah, So Thistramioatistics release the official population data for the fourth quarter of twenty twenty four and it showed that both immigration and population growth continue to ease back from their post pandemic extreme levels. So over the year, so this is twenty twenty four, austraight as population grew by about four hundred and forty six thousand. So it's basically a camera. So we added a camera in one year and that was driven by net overseas migration of
about three hundred and forty one thousand. Now this is obviously down from about five hundred and fifty odd quite a lot net overseas migration, but just to keep it in the perspective before the pandemic hit, Australia's single biggest year for net overseas migration was just under three hundred and sixteen thousand in two thousand and eight, so three hundred and forty one thousand still very high historically.
And just to put some.
Numbers around you stuff, I was in Queensland. City sales grew by one hundred and eight thousand last year and that was driven almost one hundred percent by net overseas migration of just under one hundred and seven thousand. So New South Wales lost about twenty eight thousand people to either states, primarily because you've got expensive housing up there, and that loss of residents to other states basically offset
in your net births. Queensland grew by one hundred and just under one hundred and three thousand last year, and that was driven by NED overseas migration about fifty seven thousand. You received about twenty six thousand from other states, and you had net verths about twenty thousand. So you know, population growth still remains very high, although it is coming
down now. This is obviously, you know, very good news if you're worried about the housing market, because if you've got less people coming in, it means less pressure on
rents and house prizes and that sort of stuff. And obviously housing is incredibly expensive, both the purchased and rent at the moment, so near historical record highs Now, the Federal Budget's forecast that immigration is going to ease back to its pre pandemic level by twenty twenty seven, and it then forecasts that we're going to have two hundred and thirty five thousand NETO of seas migration for the next four decades. Now they'll come out and say, look, look,
see we've halved immigration. But the problem, Luke, is that two hundred and thirty five thousand projected net overseas migration is still incredibly high and it's going to ensure that Australia remains in a permanent housing crisis. And we only need to look at the last twenty years of data to show why that's the case. So Australia's population growth surged after the Big Australia Policy came in and twenty years ago, and Australia's netto sas migration more than doubled
after two thousand and five. So in the sixty years following World War Two, Australia's net overseas migration averaged ninety thousand per year, and there's only three of those years in that sixty years following World War Two that we
exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand. We didn't exceed it by much, but in the last twenty years, and this includes the pandemic, Australia's net overseas migrations average two hundred and thirty one thousand, so that's one hundred and fifty six percent increase on the sixty year average post World
War Two. And as a result, Australi's population has grown by eight point seven million people this century, so since the year two thousand, that's that's forty six percent growth and that is the strongest growth in the advanced world. So this extreme population growth is why we have not been able to build enough housing or infrastructure. We've not kept up with demand and as a result we've got this housing crisis across all the major cities and declining
libability in our major cities. So I've built nothing infrastructure. Everything's getting more crushloaded now. The problem is the housing shorty, immigrations coming down, and based on the budget forecast, it's still projected to worsen. So recently, Ampchief Economy Shane Oliver estimated that Australia's current housing shortages is somewhere between two
hundred and three hundred thousand homes. And last month, the federal government's own advisory council, the National Housing Supply and Affordability Council, released their later State of the Housing Report, and it forecast that Australia's shortage is going to worsen by another seventy nine thousand over the.
Next five years.
And what they did was they based their population forecast on the Treasury's own forecasts. They just basically grabbed the Center for Populations forecasts are based the Budget and inter Generational Report, et cetera. And then they worked out what's a realistic level of ability and it said we're going to come up for seventy nine thousand homes short the
next five years. So that means our cumulative housing shorge is going to increase from where it already is somewhere between two hundred and two hundred thousand by another seventy nine thousand. But here's a rebblue. The National has in Supply and Affordability councils own now sensitivity noalys.
At the end of the.
Report, they said that if we cut population growth by just fifteen percent, or population growth is fifteen percent less than what the government.
Forecasts, instead of having a shortage.
Of seventy nine thousand homes over five years, we'd actually have a surplus of forty thousand homes.
That's cutting in by just fifteen percent.
Fifteen percent, mate, And what that tells you is that the primary solution if you want to solve this mess is to cut at NAT overseas migration. Obviously you bring less people in that they need less housing for them.
But sadly, Luke, the federal.
Government has no genuine intention to solve the housing crisis because it wants to keep running this big Australia policy. And in fact, the Center for Population's own projections, and these were released in December twenty twenty four, so they're, you know, as current as we've got that's run out of the Australian Treasury. They said that we're going to grow the population by thirty and a half million people
in the next forty years. So put that into perspective, and that follows obviously eight point seven million so far this century. That is equivalent to adding another Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane to the current population.
So think of all the houses.
And infrastructure and everything that are in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane right now, we'd have to replicate that in forty years.
It's not going to happen.
And it took Australia one hundred.
And eighty five years to reach a population.
Of thirteen point five million in nineteen seventy three. We're supposed to add that same amount in just forty years. So this just proves that the primary solution to the housing crisis is to merely cut immigration back to pre two thousand and five historical levels that we had in
the sixty years post World War Two. And if we did that, we would be able to catch up and supply of both housing and infrastructure, and we'd have more livable cities and I'd our yourso better economy, a more diverse by better economy, and everything else that the government
says around supply and everything, it's all window dressing. The number one solution is to stop adding to the problem every year but adding hundreds of thousands of extra people that meet housing the infrastruy for It's very simple.
It is very simple. We say that often when you and I talk at this time, and you know we did get the hope at the election that perhaps something might happen, because it's just a no brainer. And even if you go back, if you want to be generous and go back to before the pandemic, if if you believe supply is the issue, you go back before the pandemic. The targets that the government are published now it's one
point two million homes over five years. I think it is they would have to that would have to be building homes at a rate we've never built homes in the history of Australia. Whilst they say at the same time there's a labor shortage and the cost of building has gone through the roof? Is it is a fantasy? Or you could cut net overseas migration by fifteen percent? Hello, now mate, do we have a Do we have a champion or a clown? This week?
It's a champion?
Well, stand by, stand by. This is very very very good news because you know, we'd like to point out the wrongs, but we also like to reward the excellence. So who's a champion? Mate?
Okay, So this week's champion is US energy expert Robert Bryce So he's a US energy expert who's testified before the US Congress and then done energy. He wrote for the Wall Street Journal. And you know, Robert Bryce is visited Australia and he's dropped some truth bombs in Australia's and net zero fantasy, which he described as quote madness and reckless. So Bryce told two GB's own ben Forden fact that Australia is a quote energy superpower, but we act like a quote energy weekly Now he liked me.
Questioned why Australia exports He says seven times more coal than it consumes, yet we are blowing up our coal plants.
A very good question. We also question why we.
Export many times more gas. So it's about four times more gas than we use locally, but we deny ourselves
access to cheap and abundant gas. He also said that Australia's position on nuclear power is completely contradictory, and that we are logical to say yes to net zero and no to nuclear power when Australia holds nearly a third of the world's uranium reserves, and he likened Australia's energy policy stands to Saudi Arabia refusing to use its own oil, and he described us as the Saudi Arabia the southern hemisphere, and he said, you know, could you imagine a situation
whereby the Saudis deny themselves the use of their own oil while they exported to the.
Rest of the world, which is effectively.
What we're doing with coal and gas. And he also said that Australias and zero ambitions are futile and won't make any difference to the global climate, but are going to come at a very high cost to our.
Own regis residence.
So he said that Australian emissions have gone down from about one and a half percent to one percent of the global total emissions. Meanwhile, China and India have gone to about forty percent of the total emissions and their emissions are skyrocketing. So he basically said Australia should quote stop doing stupid things such as shutting down coal plans prematurely, and that our power prices are skyrocking you to the
detriment of the poor and working class. And of course, you know, everyone knows that these views obviously mirror my own, so that's why I obviously support it. But my constant ramblings are that Australia should give itself cheap and reliable energy by book burning more of its coal at home and exporting a bit less. Same with gas yep. And that's what the global quim would be. No worse yep and worse off, but we'd have cheap and abuton energy. It's just common sense.
It's just common sense. Great stuff, mate, Stay well. I'm happy in a couple of weeks break, but I'll talk to you on my return. And thanks for jumping on each week. We love your work mate, Stay well. Lead than ontol and macrobusiness dot com dot a you twenty four to midday it is time to check out all the sport or the racing this weekend. We do that with Glenn Munsey from Ladbrogs, who joins us on the line. How are you going.
I'm fantastic, Luke and yourself.
Just fine, my friend, just fine. We've got plenty of NRL action today. Penrith outside is against the Warriors and I understand why Ivan Cleary and I think that one Warriors player on fronting today to fly from Perth back to all the way back to New Zealand after the origin and it's a long way to go, isn't it.
Yeah.
I don't think you'll find any of the Penrith Origin players are going to take part for Penrith today. That's why there's such massive outsiders to the Warriors. This match at three o'clock in Auckland, the Warriors won twenty two Penrith at four dollars and forty cents thirteen and a half the line going to Penrith there forty five and a half the over. Under this stage, Warriors third on the premiership table in Penrith. For still a lot of people saying if they make the eight, they're going to
be competitive because they're too good. We'll have one of the last four competitions, so don't write them off at all.
That's at three o'clock.
At five thirty we're back in Perth again. So Perth men are very very busy. We had the Origin their Wednesday night, we had the AFL Thursday night and we've got the Dolphins playing Newcastle night.
Carlin Ponger is.
Very very happy he didn't have to leave person to come home. The Dolphins here won twenty five. They scored nearly one hundred and sixty points in their last three matches the Dolphins there one twenty five favorites over in Newcastle who were four dollars outsiders, twelve and a half the line there and forty seven and a half the over under. Then at seven thirty to night at Homebush South's take on Melbourne and Craig Bellamy takes this incredible record,
having defeated Wayne Bennett. I think it's the last fourteen or so times they've coached against each other South Southsiders here latrelle is backing up for Souths and Keyon Kalamatangi because they had with a fractured eye socket last week, is definitely playing for Souths. Don't say they haven't got carriage. These footballers four ten outside of Souths. Melbourne favorites at one twenty four, twelve and a half the line there
and forty eight and a half the over under. Of course, the Continuous Call team covering all these matches as well as the Sunday games, Brisbane favorite over Cronulla. We've got the Roosters favorite over the Cowboys and Paramatta outsiders.
To the Gold Coast there.
Canterbury, Manly and the Saint George Lawa Dragons all having to buy and the market up already for Origin three July eleven at home Bush, New South Wales one forty two Queensland two ninety seven and a half the line there and it's down to being a decider and it should be a packed house at homebook.
You know what made that's south Ford Kalamatangi folk said that right. Yeah for me, he's he's got to be handed a Blues jersey before game three, don't you think?
Well, the way that.
He's since wayn' been. Now the difference here in rugby league in twenty twenty five, you're not a front rower or a second rower or a lock forward. You're either a middle forward, an edge forward or a back. And he's moved from the edge where he played wide, so you know, getting the ball two passes off the ruck now he's getting the ball from the dummy half and he's in the middle of the field. And he's been exceptional for South over the last three games having moved
back into the middle there. He already has represented New South Wales a couple of seasons ago. Key On kaloa mctangney, former Mascot junior the Mascot Jets near the Mighty mascot Jets who I've played for all the way back in nineteen sixty seven.
Yere they still talk about you. What about racing today?
Well racing and they're just about to go here in the second race at Randwick, although we could have a late scratching here at the moment.
With the Civic saxes.
The feature race here at Roandwick, which is race nine this afternoon Headley Grange. The two dollars seventy favorite and the biggest part of the year. Party of the year in Queensland is Ipswich Cup Day which is today. It's race seven the Ipswitch Cup. Diablo Bolt the favorite there. The eyeliner is race eight. Unwarning the favorite there and acute ost to my good mate Alan Hat sakan and now resident.
Of Hong Kong.
He said, Warning should be suited at Ipswich because it's a turning track.
Ah, that's brilliant. Thank you Mins. Have a wonderful weekend mate you once again, yes, smash it out of the park. The Ladbrokes app is loaded with the best racing features. Take on the fun and download the Ladbrokes app today. What are you really gambling with?
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All right, we'll turn our attention to real estate after this. It's nineteen to midday. Look stacks of text messages. Thank you for them. We'll share them with you after midday because we're a little busy up until then doing things like this and now the real estate show thanks to Domain, Australia's trusted property marketplace. So thanks to Domain. The national Property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles, is with us again this morning.
Get a Alice, good morning.
We're great to be with you.
Nice to talk to you again. So much to get through today. I guess we should begin where we normally do, with a look at what's happening in both Sydney and Brisbane in terms of auctions. Big numbers are they.
Indeed, well a little bit of a dip today in Sydney six hundred and sixty nine houses are going under the hammer, a bit of a dip from last week. And in Brisbane we're saying eighty seven auctions today, so
not bad options for Brisbane. And when we look at what happened last week, Luke, you know we talked about those huge numbers in Sydney last week and the clearance rate came in at sixty nine percent in Sydney last week, and that was with all that volume, nearly seventy percent of stock was actually cleared, so pretty yet again an
encouraging result for sellers in Sydney. Now, Brisbane came in at forty five percent last weekend, which which is pretty much in the in the realm of what they often see week to week in the Brisbane market.
So let's have a look at the expensive sales and the best buyers from last weekend. We can start with Sydney. If you like an East Lindfield.
Yeah, lovely, beautifully renovation house in East Lynnfield sold at auctions for fiveero point three million dollars. Now, this is a great example here. It's got five bed, four bath but it's just that sort of turn key home. Look, can you kind of look at it? And I'm sure these buyers thought nothing to do here except workout what side of the you know what side of the bathroom
cabinet I'll put my toothbrush. And we increasingly see many buyers just wanting that desirabiloship of product that's ready to go. Clearly that worked in the favor of that vendor last weekend and in Annelie in Brisbane. A lovely sort of quite a period old house, but it's kind of a lovely old Queenslander style sold at.
Auction last weekend in the Brisbane market.
And came in at one point eight eight five million dollars.
Gee, you know that interesting. When we bought our place, we thought we were buying something we'd have to do nothing too, until we've spent a fortnight there and then thought, you know what, a very it's a great sentiment, and you're prepared to pay a bit more because you have to do nothing, or so you think, until you're there for couple of weeks ago, you know what. Anyway, just an observation from me.
No, but that's so true, Luke, and I think it's a good anxiety. It's a good thing for buyers to be aware of, Like, don't be too lured by or dazzled by, you know, lovely, freshly painted homes where there it actually is sort of under the surface things that they're doing.
I guess that's also why.
I'm not saying you didn't, but you should do your due diligence and have a building inspection done. That sort of thing just to ensure this is just not a vanity sort of spacelift and it is actually sort of structurally in sound as well.
Yes, spot on best buyers from last week.
Yeah, look in Sydney an interesting one. It was a townhouse in Preston's Now this sold for This was three bedrooms and it sold for eight hundred and five thousand dollars. Now, I think it's fair to say we very rarely have a three bedroom property in Sydney go for eight hundred and five thousand, but that did indeed take place last weekend,
a little townhouse. And again the desirability of these at the prices, particularly for first home buyers, remains quite high at the moment given where house prices are going, which we can talk.
In a bit.
And in Brisbane there was a house in Logan Reserves. It sold for eight hundred thousand dollars for bed property and that was the best buy there. So yet again that Brisbane market basically on par with Sydney last week compared to the most affordable property for sale there.
Now. This week Domain release gives price forecast report predicting what the property market would look like in the next year. What were the findings.
Yeah, look, it's it's pretty eigh watering stuff, particularly if you're a first time buyer. The news is not great. Property prices are expected to grow around seven percent in the Sydney market over the year ahead and five percent in the Brisbane market. Now again there's this sort of contrarian situation here, because it's great news if you're a homeowner, they'll be delight should no doubt with seeing more growth
realized in their neighborhood. However, again that challenge for first home buyers because what it means is in Sydney we may well crack one point eight three million dollars for the medium the average past price in the Sydney market. The markets likely just to sort of just touch one
point one million dollars. So it's an interesting conundrum because, as I said, for some people it's going to be very welcome news, but for others it just makes that so much more challenging than ability to get into the market.
Yeah, gosh, wow. Now, I always like these conversations talking here about tree change towns, and we hear from time to time suggestions of you know, what the hot tree change places are, And there's some interesting work from domain tell me about this.
Yeah, Look, tree changes obviously a hugely hot topic a few years ago when people were sort of taking them during the COVID period. And what we've seen though is we saw really sort of turbocharged rises take place during those years and then many of them drop back again. But what we've done is actually look at the ones who have kind of sort of remain managed to last the distance. I guess they weren't kind of one hit wonders now. Leading that is of no surprise to probably
many people was Byron Bay. Now, you know in March twenty twenty that was around nine hundred and thirty thousand dollars and now in March twenty twenty five hit one point six million dollars, So it's a seventy percent rise in that region. They're similar for Kyamara in your South Wales up sixty nine percent, and again and Queensland. We saw it happen in NUSA, you know in March. This
is hard to imagine. In March twenty twenty, look, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars was a meeting house price in NUSA. Now it's one point two seven five million dollars. So nuts just how long hoirable those areas have remained.
And that's it, the desirable did you say lifestyle locations.
That's what it is.
And part of the appeal of them is because it has this, I guess, the best of both words. You've got a lovely sort of it feels a bit like you're sort of regional, but you have usually a sort of wonderful community there, a very beautiful area if you want to rent it out, it's very highly desirable. So it also makes a good investment spot and you can have you know, chances, I've got a great neighborhood there.
You've got your mates that you might have had from the city years ago were also living there now as well. So people have managed to sort of hit that sweet spot, I guess from happening as I said, like the best of both worlds, rather than having to give up something for the other.
And that's what we call a classic lifestyle area.
And they're the areas that continue to be in very high demands.
Yeah, fascinating, all right, Else, we'll take a break here, come back and look at the unique properties of the week where in Sydney we're off to the rocks and we're off to Port Douglas if you don't mind after this. Now every year, Domain is trusted by millions of Australians to buy, rent and sell their home. Domain has access to the most current, comprehensive and unique housing data in Australia, helping you to navigate the market make informed decisions on
matters that impact your home and property. You can see everything we talk about today at Domain dot com dot a U. Alice stoles with us as she is each Saturday, and Alice, we're about to go to the unique properties of the week. We might start at the Rocks in Sydney.
Okay, we're going up market today. Luke a triple level penthouse. Now, it's called the sky House. It's in the Harry Seidler Design Cove building down by the Rocks.
And this is like nothing I've ever seen before.
It's got five supersized bedrooms, seven bathrooms and it's spread over nearly seven hundred square meters.
So when they.
Say this is an apartment, I mean this is kind of like a sort of a super sized apartment.
I guess. It has a private internnel lift across all three floors.
In case you're worried about how many steps you're going to clock up throughout the day, a self contained little wing for nanny or a guest ring with its own private entrance, goneway, kitchen, butler's pantry, and this incredible rooftop terrace that was inspired by a super yacht.
Would you believe?
Now?
If this is all sounding pretty good, have to have water caution.
The price guide for it is thirty million.
Dollars right, you had me up until it Isn't It just nuts though?
To think just how expensive decent the places are.
I mean, it's just mind boggling.
But I guess it shows the strength of the Australian property market that those these places do turn over, would you believe? But a bit something a little bit different also import Douglas today.
This is now, I've got the pictures of this place in front of me, and this is this also.
Wow, it's beautiful, isn't it, Luke? And I mean this location, how lucky we in Australia have spots like this. It's basically on that island point of flag Stuff Hill and it's this beautiful architectural home, a saltwater pool with year round temperature control, and this incredibly modern house inside and
it's had a complete revamp. The owners have obviously gone all out and have thrown a lot of Italian marble and Morano chandeliers at it, so it kind of almost is reflective of the bright colors of the Great beerrier inside this house.
But I've got to say I'd just be happy in that garden there.
Apparently it's got some three thousand newly planted orchids in the garden, with these beautiful tropical.
Flowers all over that estate.
Now that one's on the market for six million dollars, So I mean, I'm not really bringing much to the affordability today.
But perhaps next week I will.
But I do think it's important to sort of have a bit of inspiration every now and then of just thinking, gosh, we live in a pretty spectacular country.
We do get an expensive one some porus point.
Yeah, So there's two thousand square meters, three levels, indeed, and it's six million plus and you've got the all round heated pool and all the other things, or an apartment.
I'm going it.
Walked to that four mile beach, which I just think you can getting up there each day and toodling on down there, and.
Got a bit of a dip in the morning there.
You know, without being critical, it's a shame that the pictures of the Port Douglas property aren't a little more warm than just the white timberfore tile. Look, you know, even the bookshelves put some bloody books in them.
It's so interestingly because I mean, people obviously try to appeal to a broader pull the buys, and I agree with you personally that when people add that little bit of character and uniqueness to a property, it makes you I think it's easier to sort of understand living in a place like that.
Yes, you can picture yourself there, can't you.
That's right. But but meant more and more people are offering very homogenized homes, so I always encourage people to sort of.
Stand out in a gentle way.
To sort of make it look like a warm, emotionally kind of charged house that you're going to have a lovely life potentially.
Yeah. Absolutely, all right, Alice, have a wonderful weekend. Great to chat to you again. That was terrific Today. I'm having a couple of weeks off, but I'll I'll write heume our conversations. They'll continue on the show, but we'll talk again. In a few weeks. Stay well.
Thank you, Luke Likewise.
National property editor at Domain, Alice Stoles. Yeah. I mean we love chatting to Alice each week. But I don't know anyone that says, hey, let's get let's get ten or twelve or fifteen bookshelves, paint them white and leave them empty. I don't want to be critical, but you want to almost have some idea of what your stuff might look like. Or I don't know, maybe maybe I'm what I'm sounding like the old blog on the radio again, damn it not right? One three one eight seven three
is the open line number. We're getting close to midday. After the midday news, Craig Bennett will be here the life and times of Judy Garland, who we lost on this weekend fifty six years ago. I want to play some super Tramp. We always like to play a song on the on the show, so we'll do that and we'll check him with the continuous call team. Mark leaves in the house. All that. After the news across Australia,
it's back to weekends. We'll look grand, good afternoon. Great to be with you on this Saturday, the twenty first of June. I always during our midday news during the footy season, I like to go looking for the big man. I can tell you he's here. He's in great form, and he'll be part of the continuous call team along with Goo Fergo and Mark Lee. After our next news break. We'll check in with Mark a little later on in
the hour. And look, don't forget this is a significant hour today, not that it's not on other days, but it's even more significant today because, as we mentioned earlier in the program, winter solstice, So this is the day where the tilt has us in the Southern hemisphere as far as we ever are from the sun. So they, I think, often refer to this as the shortest day of the year, not that it's less than twenty four hours, but it's the lowest level or the lowest amount of sunlight.
The exact moment the Southern hemisphere is at furthest tilt or what I and other solstice a scholars refer to as the solstice tilt is twelve forty two. Twelve forty two, So that's this our eighteen to one o'clock, and we want to celebrate that together. I'm just I don't know if I'll be at that time talking to Craig I probably will be, and I don't want to necessarily interrupt him.
I want to come up with a sound that enables us to let everyone know that, you know, it's that time went to a solstice as us in the saltless business. I like to call it. That's we can get the Has anyone seen the studio goat? I'm going away this weekend, and who's going to look after that when I'm not here? We need someone with plenty of time in their hands. There, It is right. I shouldn't have done this on air. I should have found it off here and spoken to it. Look,
studio Goat, while you're there, we need someone. We need someone to look after you while I'm away. So I'll give you the choice of Now, let's think about this, and we don't want to get ourselves offside with anyone. We need people with plenty of time in their hands. So I'm thinking Liam McGuire, ben zp. Tom Malone, Managing director of nine Radio. Okay, apparently it won't be trom alone fair enough? Anyone else? What about Clinton? Clinton Maynard
who told me yesterday? Okay, Clinton's okay, great? Clinton told me yesterday when I spoke to him, he was displeased with his daughters because they wash their clothing every day, so they were it on the day. Then they put it out to wash, and he said that was overdoing it. And he says, you should be able to get a couple of days out of your clothing. Who thinks that's okay. I'm worried that he might just not treat the studio
gat with the respected sew. Anyway, that's what's happening. That started with me saying, what are we going to do to let you know it's winter solstice time. I'll just sit on that for a moment. Not on the studio go that would be completely wrong, but on that thought, and we'll get back to it. Wow, I was wondering how i'd feel that six minutes there you go, this is somewhat recent in fact that it was published, and thank you for telling me about this. He goes back,
only a day or two back. Maritime experts believe they've finally and I only say that because I thought this was solved some time back. Maritime experts believe they're finally pinpointed the exact resting place of Captain James Cook's legendary ship just off the coast of a US New England resort town. A report about HMS Endeavor was published by
the Australian National Maritime Museum on June three. In s venteen seventy eight, the British intentionally sank the ship off the coast of Newport, Rhode Island, in a strategic move to block French and American attacks. While it's long been known that the eighteenth century vessel lies off the coast of that state, its exact location has eluded marine historians.
But now experts are sure that a Rhode Island State Archaeological site named ri I two three nine four is a final resting place of the ship, and they have decades of research to back it up. They've identified Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavor off Newport, also known as the Kerry Site. The shipwreck is between thirty nine and forty
three feet underwater. The site includes a linear stone ballast pile, the eastern periphery of which features a line of partially exposed frame ends that are closely spaced and of substantial size. According to a report, four iron cannons are also present on the site. Two are largely exposed above the seabed and lie immediately adjacent to one another on the western side of the site. The site also features remnants of floors, a staunchon and a thing called well, I'll spell it
because I don't know how to say it. F U double t ocks? Would that be buttocks? With a F it would be? Wouldn't it? Are they really bad buttocks? See what it did there? By twenty nineteen, Careful Service investigation of wuship wrecks located within the limited study area determined that RI two three ninety four most likely candidate for the x HMS Endeavor. It meets ten criteria that experts previously agreed upon, and there's a whole range of
things there. The report concluded, RI two three ninety four is the largest shipwreck site with the survey area and exhibits and attributes that fulfill the criteria. Consequently, the preponderance of evidence supports this shipwreck site identification as HMS Endeavor, and at the same time discounts any of the other investigators shipwreck sites as that of James Cook's renowned ship of Exploration. So they're saying we found a baby. Officially,
as a result, of all of that. One three one eight seven three is the app of night number Craig Bennett coming up in a moment or two. But this is super tramp for the dreamers out there on a Saturday, Super tramp dreamer. Eighteen after midday one three, one eight seven three is our number here, Craig Bennett coming up in a moment or two. But again I reinforced to listeners. At twelve forty two. That is this hour. It's the exact moment the southern hemisphere has at its furthest tilt
from the sun. Significant moment in all our lives. It's the winter solstice. In terms of what happens at twelve forty two, absolutely nothing, But isn't it wonderful to be alive and sharing this moment? So many people have come up with ideas about a sound effect that we need to make it twelve forty two. Some of them are worthy of mentioned, most of them aren't. You're naughty listeners,
but we'll have something for you. And if that's not worth hanging around four, then you know, there's that Craig Bennett thing coming up. Euh, it's eighteen after midday. Craig's next Yeah, just on the text line, Greg says Luke quote absolutely nothing happens at twelve forty two one quote you're so self deprecating about your show. Thank you, Greg thing Oh, Brian, now mate Brian Wilson from three, aw
your soul'stice sound effect. What about the the bloke in Hobart the sound he made when he jumped in for the nude swim event this morning? Well, I haven't heard that, and thankfully I haven't seen it. Thank you, Brian. We'll do some work on that. I think Trent should look after the studio go I think Trend's too busy to be looking after the studio Goaden to be frank, he is a bit difficult to deal with at times, and I wouldn't I wouldn't put that at the feet of
Trend to me, wouldn't be fair. One three, one eight seven three is our open line number. Now it's time for gramb the smelling Souls industrial strength if you have them, and don't forget the pickle juice, because it's time for Starstruck with Craig Bennett. Now today we look at one of the most fascinating yet tragic stories from Hollywood's golden years. We're talking today about the life of Judy Garland.
They shook hands away.
Hellolu get happy about the.
Judgment day sna shining.
Come on, get happy.
The lot is when to take your hair shah hallelujah. Come on, get happy. We're gonna be Gland into the promise.
Man, all because of the Man that God world.
No call.
To me in Saint Louis, Louis, and I heard yea.
From her early days as a child, start to her years of Hollywood stardom and her trumphant returned to the concert state. Judy Garland captivated audiences like no other. Hello, Craig Bennett.
And Luke Grant, Hello to you. Yes, the unmistakable tones of Judy Garland. And we're chadding Judy today because this weekend, in fact actually tomorrow, Luke fifty six years since she left us. June twenty two, nineteen six nine, it was, and she was found dead by her husband and fifth husband in the bathroom of a home they were renting in London, only forty seven. And you think about her life, She's lived the equivalent of maybe ten hundred regular lives,
hasn't she? Because she seemed to cram so much into those forty seven years, so much drama. And you know, Judy, like Marilyn and Elvis, doesn't need a surname. The legend that just simply doesn't dim with time showed this phenomenon. We know she made a singing debu when she was two and a half. The fascinating story actually how she went from Frances Gum, which was the name she was born with, to Judy Garland. And you think of the
stats on this. By seventeen, she was a star. By twenty seven, a bona fide legend, and forty seven, of course she's gone thirty four movies, The Wizard of Oz I guess being one of the most revered of Hollywood classics. She dazzled in The Harvey Girls. There was what was some others Easter Parade with Fred Astaire. She did three Andy Hardy movies with Micky Rooney. In fact, they were quite the screen team because they did ten movies all together.
She was in A Star Is Born, the version with James Mason in the fifties Judgment at Nuremberg Till the Clouds Roll By. That was with Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, and her last movie was I could go on singing with Jack Klugman nineteen sixty three. Now, interesting, look, there were four big movies she was signed on the star and in fact the cameras had started rolling, but due to lateness or issues with medicational boohs or whatever it might be, she was fired and she was replaced by some really
big stars. In fact, those movies turned their careers around. So I'll tell you about that. She won a special
Oscar in nineteen forty. She got two further nominations. So we're talking somebody here who had terrific acting chops two Grammy Awards on the mantle for a music and you think some of the songs, you heard some of them there, but you know the other zing went the strings of my heart, you made me love you, there's the wonderful trolley song on the Atchison, to peek around the Santa Fe And all that talent, immeasurable talent on screen, on stage, wherever it might be. She had her own TV show,
The Judy Garland Show. But with all of that, you flip it over and the private life was tumultuous. The five husbands, two of whom were gay.
I've got a bit of a chapra about that too.
That concerns Peter Allen. You'll need smelling salts. And if you've got the pearl, Tandy, start clutching now or I'll warm into it. Chorrus stories of abuse that she suffered at the hands of two husbands, the pills that look, we've kind of heard it all. You mentioned at the get Go that tea word tragedy. I've interviewed Judy's daughter, Laurna lop wonderful Broadway star and sensational singer who refused that. And I've got a bit of Laurna coming up later,
Luke to tell you why Judy Garland wasn't tragic. And then you think, look the array of books and movies on Judy Garland's like Judy Davis. How Judy Davis was excellent in the TV mini few years ago based on Lorna has booked Me and My Shadows, And of course, more recently, renez el Wager played Judy Garland in a movie about Judy Garland. Obviously, look as Al Jolson once famously equipped, you ain't heard nothing yet, so I would pull your car over.
I would sit.
Down now if you're standing up this is a rocket ride, but we are told not tragic, but certainly tinged with tremendous highs and boyo boys, some absolutely crushing loads.
And you mentioned pearls before. What is it we need to do? Yes with the pearls, clutch them?
Is that what you said, we clutched them?
I think that's the old expression, clutch the pearls.
Yeah, the pearls.
Don't know where it came from, but it's just something that's lingered in the back of my mind. And yeah, I thought, well, while we're talking Judy galland no more appropriate time to drag him out perhaps.
And if you if you don't have pearls, you might just have some amethyst or something else. You just clutch that as well as this only something to do with you could.
Clutch the cubic xicaronia. You know, you don't need to be fancy fancy about it.
That's our style, all right, mate, back with more from Craig right after this, and just before I hand back to Craig, don't forget today it exactly twelve forty two that will be the exact moment here in the Southern Hemisphere that we will be at our fullest or furthest tilt from the sun during this winter solstice at twelve forty two, and we will be I won't be wanting to interrupt, Craig, but if I have to, I will, and I'll be just reminding you that that's a moment,
a significant moment in time, has no impact on your life at all. But you know, we just like to, We just like to make you aware of this gear winter Solstice exactly twelve forty two, and we'll be paying homage to other people like me, people I like to refer to a Solstice enthusiasts on the show today at twelve forty two. In the meantime, more important than all of that life and times of Judy Garland, Craig.
Luke, I've got my eyes set firmly on my watch twelve forty two. She wasn't born Judy Garland. She was born Francis Gumm in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. And you realize, had she's still been with us, she'd have turned one hundred and three earlier this month. But it wasn't to be. Dad was a singer, and look, this is the start of a recurring theme in her life because her father was secretly gay one was a concert pianist who pushed
her three daughters into showbiz. So you've got Judy's older sisters, Mary, Jane and Dorothy. They formed this group called the Gum Sisters. And it was when Judy was two and a half she sang jingle bells with her sisters, and so I guess you'd say the die was cast. In fact, it was Luke Showbiz Store with the Great George Jess, a wonderful comedian, among her a lot of other things. He suggested the name change, and he did so when an announcer introducing her Gum Sisters got it wrong and called
them a no introducing the Glum sister. So George saides to move away from mc gum, the glum whatever it is, and he came up with the name Garland. So the Glum Sister rather the Gum Sisters became the Garland Sisters. And as for Francis becoming Judy, it was an homage your beautiful word there at homage to the Hogy Carmichael song Judy so well up. Judy Garland is born. Look. The Gum family moved to Los Angeles in nineteen twenty six.
Duty was only four and The real reason was because of a brewing scandal with their dad, Frank Gum, who'd gotten involved with a young man. Don't know the details, but that's why they kind of packed up everything and scadaddled right out of town. Now, Judy made her movie debut nineteen thirty six of the Maths on that as she was fourteen. It was a short feature at MGM
called Every Sunday with the Beautiful Deanna Durban. Now this, I know it sounds like it's not, but this is an absolutely true story as to how Louiebye made The MGM boss signed up Judy Garland after she made her debut in that movie I just told you about Every Sunday. He barked to some lackey, go sign up the flat one. Back then Deanna Durban if he could believe it. Apparently couldn't hit a note because she went on to become one of the great movie singers. But the lackey thought
he said, go sign up the fat one. And back then Judy was a little on the chubby side, so it was a mistake of sorts, if you can believe it. Look a big break at MGM came in the Broadway Broadway Melody Movie of nineteen thirty eight, where she sang, in fact, to a photo of Clark Gable, you made Me Love You Now, such an iconic song. She was fifteen.
When she was sixteen, on went the Gingham dress, and she made the Wizard of Oz playing Dorothy the Yellow Brick road Tote, the flying Monkeys, and all that, the Munchkins and the rest, as they say, is history. It was in fact during this time that Judy was put on this very strict regime. She was only allowed to eat chicken broth and cottage cheese in a bid to keep her figure from becoming wayward, and the doctors at MGM recommended all sorts of pills. There were sleeping pills
to ensure she got plenty of beauty sleep. There was uppers to give her energy and vim there were down as to counter the uppers so that you didn't have too much. I know all that, and you see the thing is luke. It was all highly addicted. But understand they didn't know back then, and Judy was not on drugs like heroin or cocaine. They were pills prescribed by the doctors, and so of course she just took them. And became majorly addicted. And here's how all that played out.
You see, after the Wizard of Oz she was a major star, and with the triumphs came the disappointments. For instance, she was signed up to Stone a movie called The Barkleys a Broadway, but she was dump for being zonked out on pills. Ginger Rogers replaced her, and that just fomented, you know, a fortified Ginger's stratosphere in Hollywood. She became a great star. She was cast as a duty to play Annie Oakley in Annie Getcha Gun. Same troubles, plus
she was erratic and a nervous wreck. Incomes Betty Hutton. You think of Annie Oakley and you think of Betty Hutton in that movie. Then there was a glossy role in the Valley of the Dolls, similar trouble. So Judy's out, Susan Haywood replaced her, etc.
Look.
Her five marriages were drama filled, to say the least. Hubby. Number one was a British composer, David Rose was his name. They wed in the early forties forty one, so she was nineteen, he was thirty one. Barely lasted three years, during which time she fell pregnant, but her mum, who did not appreciate or approve of this marriage, forced Judy to have an abortion. She met her second husband, Vincent Manelli, on the set of Meet Me in Saint Louis St.
Lewis.
He was a director. They wed in nineteen forty five. It was had a daughter, Liza together Liza the Neelle, but it wasn't to last, as Judy would come home to find him, perhaps in a dallyance with a gardener or a pool boy or something or other. During their marriage, she suffered severe depression, became a nervous wreck. She tried to take a life on an array of occasions, was admitted to psychiatric clinics. Judy had an affair during their marriage. In fact, it was with Sid Luft, who would go
on to become her third husband. So they went in the early fifties, had two kids together, sing a lorn A Luft and a son, Joey Luft. Sid got Judy's career up and firing again, but it wasn't the last. They divorced in the mid fifties at thirteen years though her longest marriage. But Judy claimed that Sid was an alcoholic who beat her and stole her fortune. So you had all that going on. Straight after divorcing Sid, she wed actor and tour promoter Mark Heron. Now they were
in this very splashy ceremony in love, I guess. But it didn't last. And there's a reason for that because Mark was gay.
So what's going on here?
What? I ask you the same questions, No wonder. I told you to grab those pearls and give them a good old clutch. Yeah, here is a stunning revelation. There are reports that claim that Judy's daughter Liza found Mark, Judy's husband, in bed with Liza's then husband Peter Allen. I mean, come on, well, I can remember Liza.
In fact, Liza said.
Recently in her documentary, she said, I learnt one day never to come home early from work because you're never going to go You're never going to know what you're going to find. I mean, as they say in the classics, girl, honk the horn loudly if you're arriving home earlier.
Way listen, we're about to get the Palster's.
Time twelve forty two.
Yeah, yeah, in about twenty five seconds. And I just if you don't mind, I said to my listeners earlier that I would i'd make a noise and play some effects. Yeah. Well, in fact, I've had my because I'm an exponent of the recorder, I've had my recorder broad into the studio and I just wait there, mate, here we go, Here we go. Oh, I'd like to think I give a bit for this show. In fact, I give my all
for this show. And I only I've learned that during the news at one o'clock it was a little bit scratchy, but total eclips of the heart on Winter Saucers Day. That's what we're prepared to do for you, dear listener, and you my dear friend Craig. Sorry to interrupt you. Where were we?
No, that's okay. I can hear Carnegie Hall calling you on the other line. Oh really, here is yeah, ring, ring ring. We want Brant and his recorder for Carnegie Hall.
Yes, how do you?
Jackman's tickets aren't selling that well? Looking for replacement?
Good for you?
Wow?
Yeah, look I've lost track. But anyway, the hobby number four that's right, was apparently secretly go. Hobby number five was a musician, Mickey Deans, who was a nightclub manager. He was significantly younger than I think fifteen years sixty nine May, where she seemed to glow with happiness, telling Vanity Fair magazine Wohoo, I finally found real love. Drag out the recorders the last Three months Later, he found her in the bathroom of their home in London. She'd
been there doing a series of concerts. They had some blistering row the night before she went screaming into the street in the nightgown or something. He went to bed. When he woke up, she wasn't beside him. He had to break the bathroom door down and there she was forty seven.
Look.
The final years had been tumultuous. The pills, the vodka not a good mixed. Her life was full of turmoil. Hardly had any money too. Incredibly surprising considering the career. She came to Australia in nineteen sixty four. Look. In Sydney she staggered around, but in Melbourne was booed off the stage. And you mentioned Judy Garland and invariably the word tragedy is used to describe her. I've interviewed Lorna left her daughter several times, and she refutes that. She
says her Mum absolutely wasn't tragic. If you got a sec here's a little bit of a grab of that.
She had a wicked sense of humor, and she was really funny and for all the people who didn't know her, when people would say to me, oh, you know, the tragic, and she hated that because she wasn't. And she's used to say, I had tragedies of my life, but I wasn't tragic. But she was funny, and she was kind, and she was generous. She was complicated. But again, all of the things that I had to find out about her career I had to learn. You know, she never she never sat down and talked to us. She just
did it. And I remember I went into the office and I looked down and there was a great, big, red leather picture book and I started going through it and there were just dreadful things in it, just awful events, tornadoes and hurricanes and all these things. And she happened to come in and I said, Mama, what is this And she said, oh, Darling, that's my tragedy book. I said what, and she said, oh, my tragedy book said whenever I think I have a problem, I can open
this book. And say you think I have it bad, Look what happened to these people? Like she said, Oh, people don't want a happy Judy Gore London. I said, well why and she'd say, oh, it doesn't make for good print or something she'd say.
But she knew that.
Jeez, incredible, I know. Look, she died of an overdose. Loop to wrap here quickly. Her funeral in New York was absolutely massive, something like twenty two thousand people filed past her casket that was glass top, so that was open. She was buried wearing one of her wedding dresses and originally buried in New York, and then twenty seventeen her remains were exhumed and she was reburied in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery with spots next to her for her kids,
Lisa and Lorna, who you just heard from there. And Joey left an extraordinary story and you know, you go back and look at those movies and they really are timeless, and he just had something that so few have.
You know what, Sometimes sometimes you hear these names and you if you were perhaps not born at the time, and think, oh, yeah, they reckon go back and have a look as Craig says, and just understand the magic that they brought to the screen, these people that died tragically so young and have their addictions and battles as they make their way through stardom in very different times. We kind of sometimes focus on that and not the excellent body of work, which could be a lot wider.
But sadly we're robbed of that great work from you, mate. I'm away for a couple of weeks, but I look forward to chatting to you on our return. One of our listeners wants us to do something on Dick van Dijk.
Oh, of course, I know in another Susan Haywood and Elizabeth Taylor. So the requests are rolling. Oh my god, I know where you're off to. It's Carnegie Hall with your record exactly right. Don't hide it from us.
We know these things.
I'm a bit modest and shy, you know.
I know you are, I know.
But when you've got those dancing girls behind you and you're blowing away, be a sensation.
I'll be sure to have my pearls with me. Bye bye, See Craig Bennett. Eight minutes to one, It's Quick's time as Spinally's pillow up for grabs. Suffering from headaches, a sore neck or snoring. The solution could be the world's best premium supportive pillow spinalise pillow water. Now it's spinaleasyd dot com dot au and to win the quiz you need to get three questions correct. I'd remember two places? Where are you? Canada and Queensland?
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It's only a two hour time difference, but it feels like you're on another planet.
But I really like Perth. You did. Yeah, apparently there's a common Ara parkway at Waronga a fire. But if fire has started, there's no immediate danger starting. Okay, great, do you get those warnings? It's and good is what it is? By the fire is the h.
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I was out there before and the Big Man kept saying that he asks too many questions and it's been seen as a negative, he said, particularly by you tell me can you walk me through these? Well?
I had the unfortunate pleasure of sharing a ride share car to off the stadium with him on Wednesday and I went back to the hotel, had a little snooze. Good morning shot and when you're just waking up, the last thing you want is four thousand quest questions and like, I'm not from Perth. Where are we going? How are we getting there? How are we going to get? What time we which game we're going to go to? Daryl questions? Just just follow the letter, br That's what I'm doing.
Yeah, no question, Yes, did you actually? They sit there in silence, don't talk.
Well, it wore me down a little bit.
I dared to bring it up on Wednesday night and he's cracked.
You know what? Oh, he to be getting a under that will there be fireworks after one of their will.
And there will also be a new host of the Continuous Call Team because I vowed last week to to leave gall in charge for half an hour, because he maintains that anyone can do my job. So I'm going to I'm going to put him in charge for half an hour and see how he handles live radio, looking after callers, emails, text messages, playing information, break structure, timing and.
Timing, make light and shade, and he realizes how easy our job is as a host of its try and.
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Yeah, what about give Fergo she'd be terrific. I see her on the eighth of Mortal with Joey the.
Podcast, and she started doing some hosting on Channel nine as well on the foot. But see Fergo. She loves the roles he's playing on the Continuous Till team. It's Paul that he can and run the show. We're beginning with p Yes, I was going to say something else. Primes with stick.
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Fifty seven years today?
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Smartphones.
Yeah, fighter question for the wind State of Origin TiO was played on Wednesday night in Perth. Do you know who won Queenslan? Yeah, I agree with you. Well, look, happy anniversary. I have to say Richard, happy anniversary. And you've got the spinally's pillow and can I say to you after fifty seven years, I don't think it's too much to share the pillow. It brings you close together. It'll really if you've got any pain, you'll both be relieved of that pain by the pillow, and most important,
you might have a wonderful time with your wife. Thank you so much for listening to our show. Well done you and I got to say happy birthday, Don Rob's dad good O'dona I met you. I hope you're good in good health, and thanks so much for listening. Now we're back in the morning at nine o'clock. There's a story we'll be covering that is essentially how heading a soccer ball can change your brain. All very interesting and the history of driving cinemas and Adam Crichden from the
IPA he'll be with us as well. So much to do tomorrow at nine until then stay well and happy bye bye m