Weekends with Luke Grant - Saturday 31 May

data published by New South Wales Health. They say around eleven percent of adults smoke daily or occasionally, a decline from fourteen percent back in twenty fifteen. Is annual lived experience. When you look around, you're seeing lets people. Whatever you do, don't smoke. What do they call them bangers, lungbusters, darts. Not trying to ematicize the concept of smoking. Whatever you do,

don't smoke, but down to eleven percent. Data from the Cancer Institute of New South Wales release today shows people in the status seeking support to quit smoking and vaping more than twenty seven thousand calls supported by a counseling service quitline in the past year. While smoking rates of decline, rates of vaping remain high, with people sixteen to twenty four years having the highest rate of vaping of any

age group, about twenty percent. And although there was a rapid inn increase in rates amongst this group from twenty eighteen, vaping rates have now started to stabilize. I say no figures from Queensland this morning, and of course a big issue was a black market tobacco which they tell me if you buy them as a court of the price of the legal product, it must be costing the government billions in revenue. We've touched on this story before. I say again, whatever you do is the late yul Brenner

once famously said, don't smoke. Weather today in Sydney mostly sunny day, little bit cloudy. As we look out the window here slight chance of a shower. Be careful on the coast. Surf conditions may be more powerful than they appear and are expected to be hazardous for coastal activities such as rock fishing and swimming in the city twenty at Penrith twenty one nineteen at Paramatter Bond died along

the coast twenty tomorrow. Mostly sunny in Sydney in twenty In Brisbane today a cloudy one with a very high channel and some showers becoming less likely late this afternoon

and tonight. Those light winds be coming southeasterly in the middle of the day in Brisbane twenty one, the Airport twenty one, Ipswich twenty one, Sunny Coast twenty one and the Gold Coast twenty two tomorrow for Brisbane, another word day, they say, in a top of twenty three degrees, I'll get to James Willis from the Daily Telegraph, the News Court Papers in a moment, and then Charles psychologist clear Row a couple of I'll tell you what wherever you

look today there are great stories. So I don't like to talk things up here too much, but boy, there's some stuff to tell you about this morning. Let me start with this and as I say in the classics, you be the judge. This is out of the Courier Mail today they report that a heavily intoxicated driver who sped through a red light at a busy Brisbane intersection, leaving a local politician with a traumatic brain injury, will

serve no time no time in custody. They report the former Greens NP Amy McMahon was left comatose with serious injuries, including blood clots to her brain and a carotid artery dissection,

after the horror crash in February twenty twenty four. Despite her injuries, doctor McMahon made a generous plea through her victim impact statement at the driver's responsibles sentence on Friday yesterday not to send them to jail now, The CORPUS told Ronie Page Lowry, a twenty seven year old of Maruka, had run a red light at the intersection of Main Street in Bains Road to Kangaroo Point around six point thirty pm while over three times the legal alcohol limit.

Three times. She'd been driving her mother's uninsured he yund Ay I thirty southbound on Main Street more than twenty k's over the sixty k limit when she struck doctor

McMahon's Toyota Prius. The Crown Prosecutor Luke Smoothie told the court Lowry had accelerated the speeds of up to ninety k's and the seconds prior to the collision, she struck the car of doctor McMahon, who had been working in a role as an MP that night, at speed of eighty three k's an how they say, and CCTV captured doctor McMahon's Prius spin one hundred and eighty degrees from the impact of the collision, with extensive damage immediately visible

to both cars. Now Lowry was found to have a blood alcohol content of zero point one to eighty six. Doctor McMahon was hospitalized for two and a half weeks and was in a brain injury rehabilitation unit for half that time. The court heard she suffered post traumatic amnesia and was unable to form memories for a week. Smoothie said, without hospitalization, doctor McMahon would have been at quite serious risk of neurological deterioration and that would have led to

her death unquote. Now the woman pleaded guilty in April to dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm while adversely affected, and was sentenced yesterday to three years jail with immediate parole. Immediate parole. Doctor McMahon did not attend the sentence in person, but the judge, David Kent, noted the rare compassion she'd shown in her statement, saying, very generously, it says towards the start that in some ways it has enriched her life. Justice for her is

Missus Lowry's genuine rehabilitation. If there is support, you need to make sure you never ever for the rest of your life do something like this again. And you need support, I'm willing to help, very generous. Despite doctor McMahon's request, mister Smoothie said Lowry should serve up to six months in actual custody, considerating considering rather the devastating consequence of

her actions. At the defense, barrister Jack Kennedy, instructed by Bevin Lawyers, said his client stopped driving by choice after the crash and had struggled with feelings of remorse and shame. He tended a letter of apology that Larry had written in response to the victim impact statement. Kennedy said Larry had relapsed into alcohol dependency and depression following an unexpected death in her family five months prior to the collision.

He said she wasn't drinking for the thrill of it or the excitement, but had been attempting to ease her anxiety. He submitted that Lowry's ADHD diagnosis, in combination with the alcohol, had also impacted her ability to rationalize. The court heard Larry had no criminal or traffic history in Queensland, but had been convicted in New South Wales at the age of nineteen of driving while suspended and over middle alcohol limit.

As I said, you be the judge. Judge can't acknowledge Larry had a difficult upbringing, said she'd give significant He would give significant weight to the victim's views, but he said he needed to balance a serious competing factors, including the severity of the offending, to determine an appropriate sentence. He ultimately sentenced Larry to three years jail with immediate parole.

Larry's li likesnse automatically disqualified for one year. Now. Victim's statements are a must and it's a delicate consideration, but aren't their community expectations. I'm not sure they're met here.

this meets appropriate penalty. I'm not sure. The Sydney Harbor Bridge tolls on the way up, and Chrisman said he's going to build buses in Australia, Well apparently they're rolling off a ship from China. You got to laugh, don't you. How long does it take a politician to lie? Doesn't appear to take all that long. I'll get into the meat of this story in a minute, but seriously, if you want to see a politician lying, let them say something and just wait two hundred and seventy five dollars anyone.

subsidized heating scheme. In fact, some are calling this pink bats two point zero. Who do you reckon? The government says is the architect of this initiative former New South Wales Energy Minister Matt kean Elbow's climate zar. As I say, the man with the story is James Willis of the Daily Telegraph, who joins me on the line. James, good morning,

my friend. I hope you're well. You've been following this story and it's been bizarre to hear you or to read you writing about water on powerpoints and the like. Just how dangerous is all this stuff?

a plumber. But what happened was there was a federal scheme that's been running for a long time, and then the state government under Matt Kean in early twenty twenty two, decided to add two further incentives, which basically allowed these hot water systems that generally retail between one thousand dollars and five thousand dollars to be so lucrative that all of these cowboys came into the market and knocked on people's doors, called people, ran letterbox drops all over social media,

and said we can give you a hot water system for free. If you're a business or if you're in a household. There's a payment of just thirty three dollars. So all of a sudden, people said, hey, do you want a free hot water system? Of course, Hey, guess what we can give you two. Well, the reason they were giving so many away was because the incentives were.

And now the Men's government is finally conceding that we've had one hundred and twenty thousand of these systems installed in New South Wales, four hundred thousand across Australia and most of them are not up to standards, not working and in some cases potentially dangerous.

lot more wider looks at this. The Plumbers Association, the Master Plumbers have done their own checks.

But the problem is this is a gold medal example Luke of where net zero is just this thought bubble without guardrails in place. We all want to give people a heat pump, and the heat pumps are in theory and energy saving appliance instead of an electrical hot water

system or a gas hot water system. But it was brought in by Matt Kean without requiring people to show their license details if they were a plumber, without backing some of the verified and good quality hot water systems, and without requiring them to have a minimum energy performance standard. So I mean, it's been an absolute disaster and now

the Men's government is trying to clean it up. But there's a lot more work to do in this space because people don't know they got this free system and all of a sudden a year later or two years later it's not working and they go to call the person that actually installed it. That company doesn't exist anymore.

In some cases they're saying we're not liable and you know, you can't get that free hot water system, and a lot of people replace, you know, systems that were working fine and just said yeah, look we'll take the free one, only to realize that they're being done and so they've decided to bend door knocking so you can't get the knock on the door anymore. And from someone saying here's the free system, they'll also bring in a five year warranty,

which is a good move as well. But the worst part about this, Luke, is that we have one of the last Australian made manufacturing industries in this space, led by Ducks and Rhem and Renei, who actually could have done the majority of his work. Instead they allowed the cowboys and the foreign goods to flow into.

altering experience. Weather it's been changing for the entirety of many of us who have got fifty or sixty years on it our lives. It's something that happens. One day it's wet, another day's dry. Some days it's hot, other days it's cold. You might get an East Coast low, then you might not get one for a year. I mean, this is disgusting, all trying and many of these people are rent seekers with their fingers in the class change subsity pie. It's disgusting. And if people like me go

out and say this stuff, Oh look at you denier. Ah, yeah, you're a denier. So what the hell are kids learning in schools? To talk us through the research? I'm pleased to say that leading charle psychologists ad junk professor at the Institute of Public Affairs, Claire Row joins us on the line right now. Thanks so much for your time, Claire, and for raising this story. What sort of alarmist messaging are kids getting about climate change in schools?

presented with eccidential threats and pretty doomsday heavy information. And even if you subscribe, Luke to climate change happening, it doesn't inspire or motivate action. What we're doing is just completely scaring our kids and overwhelming them. And as you know, I run a clinical practice in Sydney and I've been seeing this for the last ten years. We've got nine year olds coming in, like you said, who are literally in tears and they don't think they're going to make

it to adulthood. I mean, that is abusive. That is absolutely awful, and you know, my staff are looking at me saying, how do we help these kids? And it's really starting what they're learning at school.

the way the curriculum is set up. Most parents don't know that sustainability I Climate is what they call a cross curriculum priority, and that means it has to be in every subject. Like we've got kids in you two doing rap songs about climate change in their music lessons, So parents have no idea this is going on. It's across the board every every day, filtered through, and what

I'm seeing is the way it's taught. It kind of gives this moral pressure to kids that they have to do something to save the planet, and of course at six or seven years old, they can't. So they're in this really stuck position feeling that of course the government's not listening to them. They go home to mom and dad and they say, we shouldn't be eating red meat, or we shouldn't be using the family car as much. And it's just awful to see some of the state

that these kids are in. And of course, you know, it is really about activism through our schools and creating young activists. Of course, when they turn out the other end.

one hundred years. The only federal election with a lower voter turnout since the introduction of compulsory voting in nineteen twenty five was a COVID effect at twenty twenty two election that was eighty nine point eight percent of eligible voters casting a ballot. After ten this morning, an update on the murder of Rachel Childs. The police today announcing a higher reward for information. Pauline Hanson will join me after ten. One Nation doubling its Senate representation. Looking forward

to chatting with Pauline economist from Macro Business. Leef van Ansalen joining me after eleven Surprise, surprise, federalman talking about an East Coast gas reservation policy idea. It's being floated. I wonder where they got that idea from. Ask a trade with Simon Stevenson at ten thirty. We'll get to him. We've got Craig Bennett joining me later on. Here look at the life and times of Clint Eastwood. He'll also reflect on the life of Loretta Swit Hot lips Hulahan

from mash who's passed away overnight. Yeah, that was on Channel ten wasn't it six o'clock at night or something like that? Look when I was a kid anyway, that's sad. Used to love Hot lips Hulahan. Alice Stole from Domain A deep into the real estate markets of Brisbane and Sydney. Of course, I quiz your calls, texts and emails order those breaking using Inframtior to help you get around town with a minimum of Farsit Saturday May thirty one, thirteen

degrees in Sydney, seventeen in Brisbane. And this is weekends with Luke Grant on two GB and four BC. We better check the roads with the Great Catherine Hines today just on this buses made in Australia but actually made in China story I see the New South bos opposition leader Mark Speakman saying today Chris Means promised one hundred

and twenty six buses would be built in Nara. Instead they were being built in Beijing, paraded in a delivery ceremony by a Chinese manufacturer, quietly shipped into Port Kembler, fully built and draped in red ribbons. He says, this is the latest conjob from a government addicted to spin. In twenty twenty two, the then labor leaders to with unions and launched the built in New South Wales campaign. He made made in New South Wales one of his slogans of his campaign. Now we know it was never real.

These buses were never going to be built here. The narrow facility Chris Means promised remains a mirage. All that's happening locally is the bolting in of seats and installation of card readers, not manufacturing, not jobs, and not what the premier told the people of New South Wales. Any reasonable person would say this doesn't pass the pub test. Well, we try and be reasonable here, so allow me to say this doesn't pass the pub test.

to two point three in eight year years time. Now, that's well short of what the US administration has now asked Richard Miles for in Singapore, and Richard Miles I said, yeah, we're up for this conversation. I love this term that we're up for the conversation. Unfortunately, the Prime Minister this week has been bagging out think tank for saying that we needed to spend more and say no, we don't at all the rest. So it looks like Richard Miles and Anthony A. Lbernozi are going to have to have

one of those conversations about increasing spending now. Peter Dutton committed during the campaign to increase defense spending to three percent. Now the Prime Minister indicated that he would spend more if necessary. The question now is does he think it's necessary that the US is saying yes, we need to put in an estimated extra twenty eight billion dollars into the defense budget.

But it is clear that some of the expectations from Susan Lee's decisions on who she put wear have fallen well short. Certainly Jane Hume has suffered her from working from hum problem, but she was one of the better performers for the coalition in opposition. She was a good financed spokesman and so I think that she's really suffered, probably too much of a demotion then more than she deserved.

We saw Angus Taylor shifted to foreign affairs. Now he had not really hit the government hard enough on the economy when he should have, but his foreign affairs isn't so much of a demotion. It's a bit of a sideway shift. But there are other promotions and emotions which indicate Susan Lee and David Little Proud are rewarding people

who voted for them in close leadership ballots. This is always a recipe for disaster, and what we've seen, particularly in the appointments in New South Wales is what everyone feared, and that is the continuation of the factional fighting, which in the New South Wales branch is particularly bad. It's not real flash elsewhere, I have to admit, but it does indicate that the Susan Lee David a Little Proud team.

While they are a coalition of short on experience, some people have been favored above others because of backing and factional support, and I don't think this is good for the long term, which for a fairly inexperienced group to take on what is now a very confident government.

start running. More details upcoming. And the woman accused of the murder of her three year old daughter near Bunderberg earlier this week has been found unresponsive in her cell at Queensland Police saying detectives from the Corrective Services Investigation Unit instating after a thirty two year old woman was located unresponsive violent custody at Brisbane Women's Correctional Center yesterday.

There's no further information. Lauren Ingrid Funnigan thirty two, allegedly stabbed her daughter so Sofia multiple times on the front law lawn of their home at Moore Park Beach on Monday. Again we'll get further info. Miss Funnigan's been transferred. I'm told to hospital. One three one eight seven three is

a number. On a Saturday morning, we chapped to Dennis Shanahan, the national editor of The Oars and Dennis failing carbon emission reduction targets and rising electricity prices putting new pressure on the government's renewable energy policies.

they're actually higher than they were under Scott Morrison. That's partly because the COVID impact on manufacturing. But what we've actually seen is an increase in carbon emissions, particularly from the power sector. And so what we've actually got is the government suffering from increased its promises and targets being broken because of the increased use of coal fiede power stations,

extending the life of coal five power stations. We need this for the electricity, but it means that the emissions are going up. And not only that, in addition, the renewable rollout of all the windmills and the offshore wind production, the big solar are all falling behind Hydro, the snowy Hydro falling behind, going behind schedule, so they're just not

going to reach these targets. And on the other side, on the consumer side, electricity prices are going to go up on the East Coast from July one by ten percent. So we all remember that promise of the cut in our electricity prices of two hundred and seventy five dollars

the election before. So what the government is now seeing is after the election, in the cold heart light of day, is what we're seeing increased power prices, increase carbon emissions, and both of them are hurting them in different parts of the electric.

the government. We've got all of the employer groups, all of the business groups, all the industry groups saying we're in a real botta now productivity and we're seeing increased industrial action, increased demands for higher wages, and the private sector is saying we're not going to invest while we've got all of these problems. This was the biggest drop in private investment for years, and it has really come

as a surprise to both the Treasury and business. So I think that the economy is starting to get into that sort of delayed reaction where people are pulling back from spending money and business is saying we're not going to invest. These are longer term problems the government is really going to have to face, and I think the Reserve Bank will probably have to cut rates again in July.

word slogan that's on offer. I'm not saying anything necessarily about Jimbo or Albow or any of the other Bow's ability to deal with things here, but to think that you know we're on fire, we're heading in the right direction and let's go again baby is sometimes. I mean, you can you can think that way and hope that way, but it really ends up being that simple, doesn't it always the case? Nine to ten. Thank you for listening

on this Saturday morning. It's five to ten. From the text line zero four six zero seven three eight seven three. Ian says I had a call from someone offering me a free hot water heater. When I inquired as to what the standards were that at META, if it met Australian standards, they hung up. Thank you. Ian Brad says, I asked my plumber about electric heat pump hot water systems six months ago. He said no, he wouldn't install any of them as a break not long after installing.

He wouldn't do that to a loyal customer. Michelle says Matt Kean should be charged. If Bobo Bowen was involved, he should also be charged. Wow, thanks for getting in touch. Josh on the smoking decreasing rates, says that data is rubbish. They're not picking up all the smokers buying illegal cigarettes. Tony says the government gets its stats from cigarette sales. From what I see, forty percent of cigarette sold are the illegal ones. Rod says, can they count the illegal

cigarettes being brought? I think possibly not. Steve says, as a smoker, I can't believe there's not an instant medication to stop. That's a very interesting point. Thank you, Steve. Yeah, I teg you. It was a busy day. Hang on to your hats. US President Donald Trump says he will double US tariffs on steel imports to fifty percent, likely to affect hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Australian metal exports. Open to our newsroom, Don Ferrell, the Minister

says Australia's positions being consistent and clear. These tariffs are unjustified and not the act of a friend. Breaking news news is next.

plenty of texts and asquillion emails that I get too shortly. Apparently, the Prime Minister's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions is on life support, according to Greg Brown and Perry Williams in the OS after new data showed australianan's carbon footprint rose last year, driven by a two point two percent increase in the electricity sector, Energy experts declared the Albanesi government was set to fail its international commitment to lower

emissions by forty three percent of five levels by the end of the decade, complicating Labour's plan of adopting new and more ambitious twenty thirty five target ahead of a climate change conference in November. Figures released by the Climate Change Department show CO two emissions rose by zero point zero five percent in twenty twenty four, equivalent to a twenty seven percent lower than two thousand and five, and it needs to be forty three according to the government.

Energy expert Bruce Mountain said he didn't think there was a chance the federal government would meet its twenty thirty commitment. As I said earlier, the problem with that is that they'll, you know, then they'll go on steroids to do the quick. I'm sure wind farm quick and we know how that ends up. I note this also ABC's Laura Tingle has unleashed on the newly reunited Liberal and Nationals parties in one of her last appearances in her current role, calling

the current state of the coalition a clown show. Appearing on the ABC's Party Room podcast for the last time with fellow journalists Patricia Cavellis and fran Kelly, Tingle said the opposition's current policy positions were broadly irrelevant. She says, I can say this because I'm going but I don't care. These people are irrelevant for the next little while. There

is side show. They're a clown show. See. I think it's great to have an opinion, great to own your opinion, but not when the tax payer is paying for it. That's the problem, Laura. And it's okay to believe in stuff and you, it appears to me from my observations, you're a fan of the left of politics or progressive politics, I called. And that's a matter entirely for you. But

you don't get to express that on our dime. Join the ranks of commercial media, where you have to compete with other stations, and if you do okay, then you might get another crack at it next time around. But that's the problem, always been the problem, not the fact that you're not entitled to an opinion. You are good, ay, youna, oh, good morning morning.

investigations into the murder of Rachel Or. Rachelle Chiles, a twenty three year old, was last scene leaving work in Camden, southwest of Sydney in two thousand and one in her prize holden commodore. Nine hours later, her burnt and half naked body was found one hundred kilometers away in GIRoA.

There's currently a reward in place for information. When we spoke to Rachelle Or Rachel's sister Christy earlier in the year, we discovered that the family had written to the police Minister Yasmin Katley about increasing the reward from two hundred to five hundred thousand dollars and I think at the time I hadn't heard back. But since the launch of the Dear rachel podcast and subsequent reporting, very good reporting in the news, court papers, and application has been submitted

by police to have the reward increased. That would be partly due to the excellent work of the former New South Wales detective Sergeant Damien Loon, who's been in and around this case and we spoke to him a little while back as well, a very good man who I'm delighted to say is on the line.

As a community, we care, and we're getting that message out.

may break up or separated. And now that they can see now that they can say something worthwhile that they may know and it just might be a simple word or a sentence or something that they may have seen or overheard that may be the piece of the jigsaw puzzle or put it all together.

Hanson for questions and asking questions. And I think it's wonderful because it seems to me that's generated a lot of interest and this is what we need to have for this matter to be solved, and I do believe it's solvable.

stab wounds to their upper body. All three men take into Dubbo Base Hospital in a stable condition. A crime scene has been established, inquiries have commenced. Police are now searching for two men they believe can assist in initial inquiries I say indicate at least three of the men are known to each other and Patsengers traveling from the city on the tight airport in South Line are advised to allow extra travel time due to urgent train repairs

near the domestic airport in Sydney. Trains from the city are not stopping at Green Square, Mascot Domestic Airport or International airport trains to the city are not affected. What if you're about to fly out, you thought, I'll leave the car at home and get the Juju train. Whoops. We'll keep you updated on that now. Pauline Hanson's One Nation has doubled its presence in the Senate. They've picked

up two new senators. They've now got a total of four, the same number as the Nationals if you don't mind. One of the new senators Warwick Stacey from New South Wales, British and Australian Army veteran. Part of his service included spending time advising on ransom, kidnapp and crisis events, so he's definitely not from the camera bubble. But while Pauline and the One Nation team are no doubt popping the Champagne corks, it'll be Labor and the Greens dominating the

new look Upper House. So I wonder what an increase to One Nation presence means to the Senate. And I wonder what Pauline Hansen makes of the minds of voters that they've now given One Nation the equal number of senators as they've given the Nationals. Let's find out, because Pauline Hanson. I'm delighted to say one nation leader is on the line. Great to talk to you. I hope you're will and you must be delighted with that news when it came through yesterday, Pauline.

to the Senators. He's experienced and knowledge and capabilities to deal with defense, and I don't believe there's anyone else in that Senate who really has their head across the defense portfolio. So it's like Malcolm Roberts snow and can debate him on the climate issues, any Cannazy issues and speak about it and hold them to account. Same thing can be said for Warwick because of his background in defense,

and he's been very passionate about it. When I was spoken to him, this is one of the things why you know he was selected to be head the Senate ticket, and he's been a businessman and consultant, so I think he's got a lot off the Parliament. It's about holding them account to account and also pushed the coalition along as well. Last time they just sat there lick their wounds. They were so, you know, couldn't get over the fact that they lost the election. To the extent they did.

It be worse this time. So it's like we're going to hold everyone to accounts, you know, the coalition as well, do your job, stop in the opposition and call out the Labor Party in the Greens for what they're trying to tell the Parliament.

change and all those issues environmental issues. So I'm trying to get an array of people with that background knowledge and experience because a lot of per senators and members of Florida Parliament have no idea what they're hell they're talking about. They all just follow the league when the bells ring, they just follow the party and they don't you know, they can't really debate a lot of the

subjects although what they're talking about. So to get that debate, to get good government, you have to have good opposition. You have to challenge their way of thinking. You have to inform the public or what is the truth, and not just pass legislation for sake of Okay, let's go through.

nation last. Although we've got the votes and should have translated into seats, he didn't because we didn't get the flow preferences. So we've had this going on for years. Even Morrison in nineteen twenty nineteen he didn't even give us preferences in some states so refused to Maurice Payne in New South Wales, Simon Birmingham in South Australia. Even there was Dan Smith in westn Australia and Linda Reynolds.

They all refused to give one nation preferences at all and so therefore they locked and bolted the door because they didn't want us to be competition. Your only competition when they're not doing their job, Luke, and that's why people looking for someone else to vote for. But if we're standing by the Conservative principles and values and what we're finding for the Australian way of life and standard living,

you know, that's because they've failed their job. And that's why a lot of people now are drifted away from Coalition because they've been taken over by the moderates. And this is going to continue to happen. So that's why you've seen a lot of people come across even that are failing those in the book, and they're not dealing with the real issues to do with the farming sector.

they developed policies, but they didn't develop a way to properly sell them. And you know they've they've they've left a lot of people. That really did let a lot of people down.

their pensions, income splitting, helping self kind of retirees. Ours was the fuel tax, exercise relief, also getting rid of the alcohol tax in hospitality industry to give them a boost, and cutting your power bills by twenty percent, which could be done straight immediately if we've went back to common sense qualified power stations running twenty four seven instead stopping

starting them. So these things can be done that you've got to have the will and one of it's lacking in the Parliament is a vision for the future and the spirit clear policies see news Self Wales are basically taken over by the moderates. In New South Welsh.

for a Parliament without fear of favor. And that's where I'm strong what I do. Yes, I take the few knocks long away, but sometimes you have to because thise people will stand over you and think just because I remember Parliament, they can say and do whatever they want to do. It's a team effort here, it's team effort. If I allow that, then they'll do whatever and say whatever and threaten me. That's not going to happen.

have felt like all these years. Every time you get knocked down and you get back up again. She said, No, she's she's.

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are pretty good. But it's shown up every little tiny hump and bumping, you know, in the walls. And without completely skimming the entire wall and then sanding it, which would have been a huge amount of work, we just changed the machine level. We went to a mate finish, a little bit less schene. The difference was incredible, and I just thought it might be important to let people know that, you know, like using that right sheen to

get the right finish you're after. So if you've got you know, timberwork that might be just a little bit you know, old and imperfection. Go to a semigloss. Don't use a full gloss because you really need top notch quality stuff when you're dealing with glosses bathrooms, make sure you use a kitchen a bathroom paint or at least

a low sheene. And that's because of steam. I can't see you the amount of times I go into bathrooms they're moldy and they've been painted in a flat paint which is porous and just going to trap all that mold and all that, and that's why they go moldy.

if that's what you'd like to go. Just remember, if you are going to oil timber, it is a constant maintenance thing where paint work will last you a lot longer than an oil finish, So you really need to weigh up the options of that if you do want to go down the paint road. I have used a Cabot's deck paint, so not a Cabot's deck oil.

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So you just roll roll that on the surface and it'll fill up all those cracks and it'll stop water getting in as well.

So it's in the waterproofing section of Bunnings, and I'm pretty sure that the company that makes it is better B E. T. T. A. I don't remember the name of the product, but if you go there, it's in little bottles, almost like a tomato sauce bottle with a little nozzle out of it and you can just squeeze that into the crack and it will fill it.

forget that. Whilst coastal New South Wales remains wet, part of Queensland and enjoying if that's what you're doing. The wet today, mid north coast of New South Wales record

breaking falls just last week. The Department of Primary Industries and New South Wales Drought Indicator Map updated this week shows nineteen point three percent of New South Wales's drought affected, while one point eight percent is officially in drought, with the dry spell worst in the Murray and River Arena regions where you hope you get some of this where you are. Earlier on the show, I had a chat to James Willis from the Telegraph who was telling us

about this I think really important story. There's a compliance blitz that's now unraveling. This is in New South Wales and it follows what the government is saying. An utter mess created by former Energy Minister Matt Keane now elbows Climate Zar. The Telegraph uncovered shocking examples of dangerous installations, poor quality products and aggressive sales techniques, a situation one expert described as pink bats two point zero. These are

heat pump water heaters. It's a water system that uses a refrigeration cycle to extract heat from the surrounding air transferred to water in a storage tank, rather than directly heating the water with an electric element. The process apparently is more energy efficient than traditional electric water heaters, typically requiring more than sixty percent or less electricity. This refrigerant cycle that absorbs heat from the air, turning it into gas.

Then a compressor increases the temperature and pressure of the gas. The hot gas passes through a heat exchanger and that transfers the heat to the water in the storage tank. See. I don't know what that means either. I just read it on a bit of paper, But didn't it sound impressive. So the installation and the rush of it, and it appears inferior products. Matt Kean, some of your fine us work there. Well, perhaps you'll come out today and defend

the policy. Interesting to see what happens there on three seventy three, Stephanie, what a delight to hear.

the good and decent values. She mentioned, of course, that there are those in the Liberal Party, of course, who would rather be shot dead than note to her, like Maurice Paine and Linda Reynolds. There are a whole bunch of people in the Liberal Party that come under the thumb of Michael Photius and his gang. Nick Cater wrote very tellingly about this in The Australian a couple of weeks ago, and even more forcefully from Peter Kredlin his

Thursday in the Australian. You've probably read that Luke, indeed the whole mission of the Photious gang, this Vengali puppet master, pulling the strings of the green and left in the Liberal Party. They're not labor like. This is labor heavy, this mob and their main mission in life, and they've succeeded to a greater or larger degree is to break down and just the conservative elements of the Liberal Party.

And indeed, to that extent, when so many of us could see the sharp lived Tanterne this lot had taken a couple of years ago, we slammed the door of the Liberal Party. We've gone, and Pauline should know that a whole heap of is out here, all voted for you. Pauline, you ever need a hand down here in this neck of the words, just get in touch. We're all here

wishing you the very best. And as for Susan Lee lie Lay, her public humiliation of one of the most valuable women in this country just center non for gender price. This was a public slap in the face as well as Sir Jane Hume, the conservative will women of the Liberal Party. Susan Lee lae Lay was telling them just where to go. She was doing her sisterhood stuff for Michael Fodius. So, Pauline, give us a ring, non for giner price. It's the same to you.

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of the world amongst gas exporting jurisdictions. Now, as we know, the Coalition took a really good gas policy to the federal election, a promise to implement an East Coast gas reservation policy via basically imposing export levies on on contracted gas companies. We're trying to export uncontracted, uncontracted gas rather than supply it into the spot market domestically they would

they'd be slog to tacks. And the Coalition promised to lower the East Coast gas price to blow ten dollars a gigadel, which is currently floats around twelve twelve dollars plus Now, the counterfactur of this look is that if we don't reserve gas imports but East Coast Australia, despite the fact that we export nearly three quarters of our gas, most that goes to China, we're slated to start importing gas down in the Southern States late this year or early next and once we do that, the East Coast

gas price is going to rock it because we will be paying import parity prices. So at the moment, we're effectively paying export parity prices, which is the cost that we charge exports less the cost of liquifying those exports and then transporting it. But if we start importing it, we're going to be paying the cost of liquefaction plus

transport then degap converting it back into gas. Now, just to show you how good the coalition's policy was, Shell Australia's chair Cecil Wake admitted during the election campaign that the coalition's gas reservation policy would reduce costs and that person I said that, you know, it'll potentially push more supply into the market than there is demand, and when that happens, it'll have the potential of driving prices even

lower than ten dollars a giggle. Now that's almost a direct quote I'm paraphrasing, but that there is proof positive that the policy was going to be good if you've got one of the major energy companies going to force down the cost of gas. Now, the coalition also pleased to invest about a billion dollars in expanding the North South Pipeline which runs some Queensland all the way down of Victoria, as well as to expand storage down south.

And why that's important is that in the North South pipeline has excess capacity most of the year, but just in the cold months of winter it operates a capacity. So we need to expand that and also expand storage. Now it is telling. That's Resource Minister Madeline King. She during the election campaign she dismissed the coalition's gas policy as quote a thought bubble, right, and most of us thought that meant that Labor wasn't going to do reservation

if they got elected. Thankfully. The AFR reported this week that the Albany's government's considering imposing the East Coast Gas Reservation Policy is part of its review of the country's energy system.

the gap, and then that pushes up the price. Now this is even more important because this week the Queensland state government announced that it's going to open up nine new areas of the state for gas exploration, and they claim that by doing this they're going to increase supply and push down prices and etc. Now, I'll say fron that that I fully support more gas exploration and more drill, baby drill, Ye, but it is largely futile if it's not a company by a reservation scheme that requires a

significant share of that gas to be supplied domestically.

percent less gas. That's because we've just pushed it all off, pushed most of it off, you know, we've basically exported it, right, so we've doubled the supply, but we've reduced doubled the supply domestically, but we've actually supplied the domestic market with twenty five percent less and as a result of a

tripling and gas process. Right, So if we if Queensland opens up all these gas fields, yes the Queensland will get some extra gas royalties for the state budget, which is a good thing, but it's not going to necessarily lower prices and it's not going to imports. If that gas, at least it's a different portion of it is not pushed into the domestic market. So this, this policy from labor is absolutely essential to ensure that we do get

more supply. All the have to do is copy the coalition's policy or if not, just look across the Western Australia.

how good is it? Our productivity growth has been among the poorest in the advanced world, not just for three years, but for the past decade. Isn't that right?

as a result we've gotten productivity growth. Now I've used this example previously just to explain this in a stylized example. If you run a cafe and you've got a coffee machine shared by two workers, and you can make one hundred coffees. And now if you double the number workers to foe, you're not going to be able to double your output because you're still working off one machine. They'll have to wait for each other, there's congestion, all that

sort of stuff. So you know, although you double the number of people, you don't double your Actually your productivity actually goes down because you can't make as many you can't double the amount you need two machines.

economists call it, has been free form. And the Productivity Commission released a report this week on Australias productivity and actually pointed this fact out and it said that if this low rate of investment persists, it will contribute to longer term productivity slow down. Now, the reason why most important is on Thursday, the Australian Bureau Statistics released its

first quarter twenty twenty five CAPEX survey. So for the much quarter, and what I showed is that total volume of investment into equipment, plant machinery actually fell by one point three percent of the quarter. It's down by nearly two percent over the year. And this comes at the

same time as Australias population continues to expand aggressively. And all this means is that we're going to have less capital equipment per worker because population is growing and we're not building the capital stock to keep up with it.

And the long term outlooked work is very poor because the federal government predicts an extra thirteen point five million people come into the country in the next forty years, and that's like adding another Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane currently to Australias popular You need all the infrastructure, all the houses that in those cities, all the energy everything, all the business investment, everything, they keep up with that, and I just can't see a way we're going to do it.

We haven't done. In the last twenty years, our protimuity growth has suffered. So if we keep just growing the population like the science experiment, when we can't keep up with that, whether it's housing, infrastructure, business investment, a prodecuty, growth is going to stink and our living stands are going to stay made.

so much ahead of New South Wales and Queensland. So per person we are twenty two thousand and nine hundred per person in net debt versus fifteen thousand in fifteen thousand, two hundred in New South Wales at about nine three hundred. Queensland right and with all overfrastructure projects have been massively over time and over budget. We've got we're drowning in bureaucrats. They've spent heaps on all this public service and all

this rubbish. Right and the federal government has effectively bailed out Victoria by handing it it's arded in competence, by handed handing at seven point five billion dollars of additional extra GST revenue over two years. I'm talking about the current year in now and for next year where in New South Wales is then going to receive one point one billion and Queensland's actually going to lose two point eight billion dollars.

government's financial incompetence. So we've got, you know, massively wasteful product projects, massively drowning bureaucrats. And to make matters worth these gas projects that Queensland has approved or is looking

to approve. As their royalty revenues go up because they're improving gas, their gest take will go down right Whereas Victoria has banned new gas projects, which means that we're not going to get these royalties that we could have got, but we're going to get rewarded for being for basically stopping investment with extra GST revenue.

the most migrants in the country. Right, You're the biggest state and you need to be able to provide funding for infrastructure services for those for the massive influxing migrants that you have. But you've been hamstrung because effectively your your GST take is a lot less than should be and it's been siphoned off to Victoria.

But four BC listeners, how good was Thursday night? Sea did that? And there's plenty of footy happening today and across the weekend, and some Group one racing as well in Queensland with the Kingswood Smith Cup. I think that's on today, So let's have a look at all the market action. Glen Moundseay from Ladbrokes, who's on the line Monday. Are you doing very good?

fifty one and a half. Melbourne have won the last nineteen of the last twenty three matches against the Gold Coast and both sides are in average form at the moment, the Gold Coast only winning one of their last five matches and Melbourne have only won two of their last five, which is a rarity for the Melbourne Storm.

they haven't been there in eleven years. The last time they've won at Brookie was back in two thy and ten and they've lost five of their last six overall, brisbanees a tidy there for seven point thirty tonight.

whether Latrell Mitchell plays or not. But they're out to two twenty Souths the Warriors one seventy into one sixty eight two and a half the line to South's forty four and a half the over under Then at five past four at Combank Well, both sides are sharing Combat Stadium this year and who would have thought that it's the seventeenth placed Penrith up against the fifteenth placed Paramatta and Penrith are one sixty favorites Paramatter at two thirty five four and a half the line in that one,

and then the tightest match of the round comes at six fifteen tomorrow night at Alion's where the Roosters are outsiders two dollars outsiders Canbra, who technically are on top of the comp because they haven't had a buy yet and the Dogs, for example, have had two the Dolphin and they've got the buy this week, that's their second buy. Now Canbra haven't had a buy so far, so technically

they are on top of the comp. They're one eighty two favorites one and a half the line of the Chuckster's there forty seven and a half the over Runder Melbourne Premiership favorite to two to eighty over Canterbory at four fifty, Cronulla at eight, Camber at eleven, and the market's up already on origin for June eighteen at Alpta Stadium in Perth, the Blues one forty six, Queensland two to seventy five and six and a half the line there you'll catch all of the rugby league action with

a team of reprobates that won't be too far from you where you're sitting in the in the interactive studio this afternoon for all the fanfare, fun and frivolity, with the continuous call to.

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since died. The forensic crash Unit is investigating. If you can assist, police would love to hear from you. A man will appear before court today. This is in Sydney with allegedly graffitiing multiple Nazi swastikers and attempting to assault a police officer in Sydney's West yesterday about three pm. This is a unit block on Darby Street, Penrith opposite attached to Nepeine Police Area Command located. When they arrived, several Nazi swastikas and offensive phrases graffeited on footpaths, on

fences and car spaces near the unit block. Police are arrested a fifty one year old man in the unit block. He was off to the police station. He allegedly attempted to assault an overser multiple times before being restrained. He's off to paramount a local court today and we'll update you on how he fared when we get some information.

but there is parking for residents. And I thought, what a wonderful story that we're on the sty sort of second floor deco style brick apartment sold for sort of a figure that is kind of, you know, imaginable for some first time buys in particular, and I think it's a good example of ways that people can get onto

the market. And maybe they won't live in that place forever locally, they're probably going to outgrow it if they have a family or want some more space in the future, but it could be a good little investment for someone to think about options like that, given it was under five hundred thousand dollars, which is well and truly below the meeting in Sydney.

they're getting what they want. And in this case it was a five bedroom, two bar, four car house for seven hundred and.

around one hundred and eighty thousand dollars extra. Now in Brisbane, it wasn't as extreme as that they're selling for fourteen point one percent more one hundred and twenty k more than non energy efficient houses. But what we're seeing is I think this, you know, what did appear a very

niche thing, sustainable housing and energy efficiency. And remember when solar panels were kind of rare and now increasingly becoming sort of a compulsory feature for many people when it comes to buying their house, and they want it for the saving that they get through those energy bills, and they're also wanting i think, to obviously help the planet, but also knowing they're going to make that money back

when it comes time to selling. So you know, for a lot of people, it is that initial outcost of whether it's double glazing the windows, you know, changing the orientation of a house when you're designing it, if you are doing it from scratch to have a northern orientation, making really energy efficient heating choices, they can obviously cost more in the beginning, but it seems the rewards are well and truly being met as the house grows in value down the track.

quite extraordinary. And this is the only house on the island, and it's got a little air strip so you can ride it on your own little private private plane if you don't mind, or a ten minute boat. A ten minute boat trip from the coast. Now, this is apparently absolutely spectacular. You can go snort cling around those beautiful waters, the coral reefs are there, and just and pristine bushland to explore.

Now the benefit is homeowners can also have bespoke called truly sort of custom designed houses and have kind of quite clever and ingenious design and have that individuality to a house that often people obviously enjoy, particularly in Australia, and do all that in record time. Now it also usually can come in at a cheaper cost because materials are used so much more effectively, there's no wastage, and there's also no delays to weather, but just in terms

of how quickly they arrive. I was reading an article and I always laugh at this, and I've seen it happen myself. But literally you'll see a neighbor will go off to work as a blank piece of land, they come back and there's a house on it. Now, all the groundwork has been done for months prior. I'm not saying it just click your fingers and it's delivered that evening.

But that's how quickly it's construction constructed on site because everything is done off site and then it's literally just trucked in and ascendble and it's basically almost ready to go at that point.

after the News. I know because I saw a video of him interviewing Loretta Switt hot Lips Hulahan from Mash who very sadly has passed away of a night, so ill asking him about that. He will also run his eye over Clint Eastwood when we get Starstruck with Craig in the next hour catch up with Mark Levy. I see voicing commercials in the next studio preview the footy later on today. All that ahead, it's almost midday.

The big man is here? Is Galin today? No gal today? I know you gave me a bit of paper with everything that's happening when I put that somewhere? Where did I put that? Not like me to lose a bit of paper right? Seven three is the number. Craig Bennett coming up shortly here. Supermarkets they're saying should be banned from selling cigarettes. According to the Lung Foundation of Australia, No Tobacco Day today. The Foundation has floated the ban as a means to stop smokers being tempted to buy

a pack or a pouch alongside their groceries. Well, I don't give anyone ideas, I really don't, but I think that I think the horse has bolted to some extent because the supermarkets, from what I'm told, and I have no experience here, but the supermarkets is where you buy the full price cigarettes, and it's elsewhere where many people buy the much cheaper cigarettes. So banning them in a supermarket introduces more people to cheaper cigarettes, if you know.

It just appears to me that that would be the logic in that. I mean, there's got to be noise or no tobacco day. I understand that, and I am making it clear that what if you do don't smoke, But I mean that's the again, the lived experience. Yeah, galleys in Gal big Man and Mark Levy after one o'clock. We'll have a chat to Mark before we before we go today. Three one eight seven three is our open

line number. Anthony Albanese's twenty thirty target to reduce emissions is on life support, we're told after a new data showed Australian's carbon footprints rose slightly last year, driven by a two point two percent increase in the electricity sector. You know, I heard something through the week. I don't know if I heard it on TV or radio or Reddit. Summer.

This is how bad my memory is becoming. Late in the show, early on, it's magnificent that if we stopped, if we stopped all our CO two emissions, if we stopped them all, it would take China sixteen days to produce the same in a year. So we stopped the

year's emissions. That's China in sixteen and people jump up and down about our emissions here and I heard someone, it might have been Paul Murray on Sky say well, you know, have a look at the address of the Chinese embassy in your city and maybe gohead and stand outside there with a placard saying stop at getting really hot. Energy experts declared the Albanese government was set to fail its international commitment. Now it's commitment. What didn't they make

it legislated. I'm pretty sure they did forty three percent of five levels by the end of the decade. Now they just stayed impossible to get there. In fact, figures released by the Climate Change Department show carbon dioxide emissions rose by zero up on zero five percent in twenty twenty four. That's equivalent to twenty seven percent lower than

in two thousand and five. I mentioned before the energy expert Bruce Mountain said he did not think there was a chance the Albanese he got government could meet its twenty to thirty commitment. And I made this point and this is what worries me, that what government typically would do. And Chris Bowen is probably the main offender here. They'll just put everything on steroids. You think things are already expensive and at times unreliable, they're the predictions. So it

gets worse, not better. The Means government dramatically declared its new electric buses would be built on New South Wales soil. But the Saturday Telegraph is uncovered the stock being rolled out from a factory in Beijing. Extraordinary photographs shared from the headquarters of the Chinese company Photon. That's the issue. They show a delivery ceremony in Beijing with workers posing on a stage with a sign reading batch delivery ceremony

one twenty six electric buses of the Australian market. Mister Means has pre He said the offshoring of public transport by the former government was a complete disaster, which is why we're building these buses here in New South Wales, creating local jobs and public transport that works. The Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union New South BOST Secretary Bradley Pigeon says the overseas construction quote is against the very labor platform unquote.

The Premier had campaigned on we're sick of the lives and hired the truth. I wonder if you'd be prepared to say that just before an election hashtag just wondering. Transport Minister John Graham defended his foreign built buses, saying the first fifteen were rapidly built overseas and a bit to meet a shortfall in Sydney. We're working to do premier better on local content, says the Premier. The first twenty five buses are heading to Nara where locals will

build in the seats. Hey, how good can you just leave the seats off CCTV someone gets to put a camera wiring an installation of the opal readers. Probably better to do that here than stick them in the mail and the telematics. I mean, you don't want to say fraudulent. Plenty of emails and plenty of feedback. Thank you for that, and Max says on the text, Hey, Louke, honesty, I give up. Every weekend I see trail bikes riding all around South Marubra and in particular around Coral Sea Park.

There's even one dad on a mini trail bike with his two or three year old that rides around the Coral Seapark even when there are hundreds of kids and parents. I actually just saw him buying his smokes, riding away with his two year old or three year old on his lap and a smoke at his mouth. I've called the police five times over the past few months. Just keeps happening. A young man was killed last year. Time to give up. Wow, that's amazing. I was in a

seven to eleven the other day. They had their cigarette prices on the screen behind the counter. One packet of Marlborough twenty five seventy five ninety nine, I can buy ten packets of twenties of illegal cigarettes for one hundred and ten bucks. I'll never go back to buying the legal stuff. Whatever you do, don't smoke. Thank you Ash for getting in touch. Luke China's just reached the stage of starting to reduce emissions thanks to the rapid installations

of alternative energy. That's despite a big increase in energy usage. I don't accept that, John, I'd love you to email me a link that proves that to be the case, not some piece of Chinese Communist Party propaganda. And they're building more nuclear maybe John, that's it, do you think, because they're building hundreds of coal fired power stations every year. So if you'd like to email me or send me something that justifies that, or supports that, or proves that,

I'm happy to make that clear to the audience. Good a, Luke. The official first day of winter was the twenty first of June. Please stop giving out misinformation. Smiley face, smiley face, have a wonderful day, a Will, Pamela, thank you for getting in touch. We're looking into an incident at a Coles supermarket in the Eastern suburbs. Thank you, Sharon. We'll get more information on that. If there's more to report, we will. Okay, has Mark locked the studio door while

recording voiceovers to stop MG coming in. I don't think so. MG's not here today, but that's obviously a thing of which I'm not aware. Thank you for your texts. Zero force zero eight seven eight seven three. You might remember Fiegel or fergul Sharky. I think it is fergul Sharky. He was a performer, a music well. I guess heavyweight. I had a couple of hits of the eighties, and he made it clear through the last week or so that he'd been battling prostate cancer. I wasn't aware of that.

He's also an environmentalist. I'll play you want to the songs in the moment fergul Shaki.

Two days later, turns out I began a journey which led their prognosis of prostate cancer.

that from the eighties. That's Fergl Sharky. That's a good heart revealing this week he's stared down prostate cancer and telling blokes OI, get serious, get tested, get some emails quickly. El listening in North queens Angerdeel we worry about that zero. Why aren't the same people worrying about net plastics. This morning, I took out the trash, put a new plastic bag

in the bin. Then the first three things I happened for our family breakfast, A plastic bag of clothorn, the plastic fed of cheese packet, and then the sliced plastic rappers. Goodness me, let's stop all it's rot about net zero. It's sending us broke. Get on with life. Thank you well and Phil, says Luke. Eighty three years ago today the Imperial Japanese Navy visited US, killed twenty one on the cutterable of firing a torpedo at USS Chicago. Not sure if you got to this as shamefully I missed

a bit of your show. I apologize. So that was very kind of you, Phil, And it wasn't for your email, I wouldn't have mentioned that. So thank you Phil. We'll take a break. Craig Bennett's next. Thank you Adam for your text, Luke. All the roads from Heathcote through Ingerdeen, Loft of Sutherland, bangor Meni, etc. A dog's breakfast, bumper and a bumper due to the closure of Heathcote Road. Thanks Adam. Joy Jeez, Luky, haven't heard that song for a while you did it again, but a good song.

Heeh figel or fer Sharky, who revealed through the week he's prostate cancer battle, which he appears to be on top of. Clay, says Luke. He started in the seventies band The Undertones, my perfect cousin their biggest hit. I'll have a listen to that, Thank you, Clay. Grab the smelling.

you if you will. We're going to be talking about Clint Eastwood, who's ninety five today, And as I say, Craig, good afternoon to you, I can't help because I saw a clip online of you and the wonderful the great Loretta suit Emmy Award winning actress who was I think for with the exception of eleven episodes, was in every episode of Mash, that wonderful program, and she has sadly passed away over night.

her role on Mash that really captivated the world. Came along in nineteen seventy two. She was married once. In fact, it was to an actor who appeared briefly on MASH. They had no kids, but look, she was a devoted animal activist, so dogs were her kids. She told me, I did have the joy of chatting with Loretta about oh, four years ago, I think it was maybe five. For Studio ten. She was at that point living in New York.

She'd been living in Los Angeles for years but had moved to New York and it was teed up.

the foyer and he eventually got it happening. It looks she was fun She was funny. She was very sharing with her honesty, the great stories, the triumphs of her career. You know, she was in Hawaii five Oh. I think it was her first Telly appearance back in the sixties. But anyway, what happened was and it was also sudden. I was interviewing Jamie Fahr the other day and we were talking obviously about Loretta, and oh, she's in great health, and we're going off to do something in a couple

of months, one of those big fan convention things. And she loved all of that. So she was chatting last night with her very close friend and publicist on the phone, was in great form. He regaled midday today in New York time, which is about two a in our time, she was found dead in her apartment by her maid eighty seven. So there she was last night having a great old chin wag on the phone and in seemingly fabulous spirits and dead the next day early today our time.

And you know, Luke, that means we've lost another mash great but who obviously is still with us today so far as is the great Jamie Farr, of course, always loved this Klinger Alan old Mike Farrell who was honeycut, and Gary Berghoff who was a raidar. And anyway, many memories of Loretta sweet, I know everybody will have one.

She was just so adored, so loved, And I just want to tell you if you thought she was gorgeous and sweet and wonderful, interesting, aerodite in articulate, you are absolutely not wrong on any of those cows.

that Clint was a fabulous singer. And in fact, I think, if my psychic vibe is right, Luke Grant, you might have just a little of Clint Eastwood singing, and I'm sure people are going to be thinking that's not Clint Eastwood.

roses that was from Clint Eastwood sing's Cowboy Favorites. Absolutely, I promise you that the first the first song you heard was a duet with the late great Merle Haggard, and that was a song called Barroom Buddies, which was a number one hit around the world in nineteen eighty and of course it featured in Clint Eastwood's Bronco Billy movie that he started with one of his girlfriends or wife, Sondra Locke, will talk about all of that in a minute, but yes, I mean he recorded a whole bunch of

albums as an actor, of course, away from the microphone, enjoyed a and continues to do so. Seventy year Hollywood career, which kicked off in nineteen fifty five. In fact, his first movie role. I know he's going to shock your socks off. So far he's starting what sixty five movies, including those very famous Sergiolion and spaghetti westerns like A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad, and the Ugliest. Of course, he was Harry Callahan in five Dirty Harry movies.

He sang opposite Lee Marvin in a musical called Paint Your Wagon. He was in things like Escape from Alcatraz and the Bridges of Madison County. Play Misty for Me was the start of his sensational directing. I've absolutely loved that movie, just a fabulous and of course you being in radio, I'm sure it holds a a poignant thought for you. So he's directed so far what forty one movies, including Jay Edgar, There was Sully, there was Jersey Boys. You see the incredible variety in what this man does.

His most recent was During Number two, which came out last year, which you've not seen, Luke. If you've not seen it, you should hunt it up. It's a masterpiece. That's really quite. It's a court room thrill. Right, And here we are at ninety five. He is still working looking at scripts for his next project. Also a very accomplished, accompanied accomplished pianist and a composer, and you often hear his jazzy scores in his movies. To his private life.

Not visa will cover this, but hourly Dooley, you'll need the heart paddles.

of a heart attack. Only sixty one months later, bingo, there he is in the company of another younger woman. And let's not forget amongst all the movie star stuff and you know, singing and whatever. Great director. He was also the mayor of Carmel for two years in the eighties. Carmel, of course, the wonderful seaside town south of San Francisco, home to Doris Day before she left us twenty nineteen.

But a bit of trivia about that. When Clint was mayor of Carmel, first thing he did was overturned that the rather silly no ice cream cone rule. And it was a very odd law that stated there should be no ice cream parlors in Carmel, because you see, on the odd occasion a hot day, or if you were butter fingers, ice cream would fall out of their cones and go all sticky and horrible and gowey on the footpath,

bringing ants theious. They made a law again. Yes, anyway, it's a wild story, including voodoo and one of these ex's road a very unflattering blek. It's all coming your way in a tick as I don't even think holding onto something firm is going to help.

right when they nicknamed him Samson. Look when he finished at school and acting kind of wasn't on his radar at all. He went on, in fact, to become a firefighter and a lifeguard. He was a golf caddy for a bit and then he was drafted into the war nineteen fifty one. But he avoided service in career because at the time he was romancing the daughter of the officer whose job it was to assign personnel overseas, you see, and so didn't get assigned overseas. However, close scrape with death,

and this is the early fifties. He was returning from Seattle in a DA bomber aircraft when the true story ran out of fuel and crashed into the ocean near Point Ray's, California. He escaped the sinking aircraft paddled on a life ra up three kilometers to land. Absolutely incredible story. Look to he showed you start he was a strapping six foot on the old scale, six foot four on the old scale, very handsome, so it look long story short, someone suggested, what about acting make a lot of money,

so he auditioned for Universal Studios. He was considered very stiff, in fact, so wooden' he could have been a smagas board for termites. And the director noted that he kind of hissed his lines through clenched teeth, and he squinted far too much. Still, he had that certain something luke, and so off to drama classes he trotted, and he was into a one hundred dollars a week contract. His very first movie was a little bit in a horrorforic called Revenge of the Creature in nineteen fifty five, So

there was Clinton Eastwood's movie debut. He was twenty five at the time. It was in fact a sequel that movie to The Creature from the Black Lagoon. And then he had a role in a similar creature feature flick called Tarantula. And then he then along Bounced raw Hide in nineteen fifty nine, and he stayed with that show for seven seasons, made him a household name. He quit,

claiming the character was stupid and Clottish. Then came those spaghetti western so called because of course they were shocked, usually on the chief, usually in Italy. And Clint Eastwood's career is off and it is running. Look to his very messy private life. Biographers, ex wives, partners of branded Clint a solid gold, good time boy, a serial philander in an unkind of way. His first wife, a beautiful blonde who was a secretary named Maggie. They met on

a blind date, married in nineteen fifty three. He was twenty three then, but the cheating started from the get go. It turns out while he was wooing Maggie again, fact god an actress pregnant. So along comes Clint's first daughter, Laurie, who was venadoff about the whole thing was hush hush, nobody knew. Clinton Laurie then reconnected. Years later, nineteen sixty four,

he had another daughter, not with his wife. Kimber is the name of his second daughter, the result of a long affair he was having with a stunt woman while he was married to wife number one. Clint then had two kids with his wife, Kyle, a son who's a jazz museo, and Alison, who's an actress and a fashion designer. Now his indiscretions were kept an absolute secret. People had no idea, Oh, isn't that lovely's marriage? He's got two kids.

But then, of course along comes the National inquirer, who'd gotten wind of all of this, exposed Clints too well, as they called them back then, love child scandals. And that was it for Maggie Wife number one. She split from Clint and eventually divorced him in nineteen eighty four, romping off with a twenty five million dollar payer. Thank you very much, don't mind if I do so look for those keeping count one wife, two kids, an array of affairs resulting in two more kids, so four kids all up.

to find that Clint had actually changed the locks. And so along comes nineteen ninety seven and Sondra, obviously still smarting from this, understandably wrote a blistering teller book titled The Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly, and she painted him as being not the Clint East would we see on the screen. She reckons, he destroyed her career, tapped to phone masterminded all sorts of very peculiar skullduggery. Now, during his romance with Sondra, Clint had two more kids

with a very beautiful flight attendant named Jocelyn. So they were Scott, who is now a famous actor, and Catherine. Again, it was one of the scandal sheets that was on the case and exposed Clint's cheating and as I say, they called it back then, loved children. Next up came an affair with the actress Francis Fisher. You might remember if you saw the Leo DiCaprio Leonardo DiCaprio movie Titanic. Francis Fisher, wonderful actress. She played Kate Winslet, snooty mum

in that movie. Well, Clinton Francis met when they're making the Pink Cadillac movie. This was in the eighties. They had a daughter, Francesca. So for those who have completely lost cap let me see one to seven kids so far. While Clint was romancing Francis, he begins a sly affair with a TV reported by the name of Dina Ruis. Now. They met nineteen ninety three. She came over to interview him about his you know, Stella career and all of that. Then was sixty three, she was twenty eight. They had

a daughter together, so that's eight kids so far. They remained Clinton Diana married wife number two for fourteen years, but it hit the skids when Bringo you guessed that he was caught out apparently having his wicked way with some beauty again. She divorced him twenty fourteen, but told all to the National Inquiry. I think it was for maximum embarrassment. You see Luke saying that she had to use voodoo to cleanse her life of Clint Easa twenty

four As you do, you'd be mad. Twenty fourteen, he starts dating a beautiful blonde named Christina Sandera, who was in fact a hostess at his mission in in Carmel restaurant he had there. Sadly, she died last year, only sixty one. He of course was nine, So he's now ninety five today apparently dating again, although we don't know

the identity of his latest paramore. Look, he's around worth around five hundred million, stays fit, doing pilates, doesn't smoke, barely, drinks, stabbles in transcendental meditation, and as I say when we began our chat, not done yet. Should his health remain aokay? Looking to make another movie later this year? I mean, good lord, considering the life he's led, and I just touched on it, it's a wonder he wasn't worn out in the bedroom years.

Oslo or Mexico City, New South Wales. One. The origin was the first try scored by Zach Lomax or Elana Ferguson. Lomax, Thank you, thank you, thank you Rod. That's all she wrote you in Now I must leave you, but we're back tomorrow at nine o'clock. And Dave the bus driver who's written me this note, luky take care driving home please? Isn't that sweet? We have got reports of emergency vehicles on Woodville Road and Guilford Police responding to a car

reported car accident there. We'll bring you more information as we get it here. Conservative commentator Will Kingston on the show tomorrow from the UK workplaces letting down case of passion patients. I'll speak to a remarkable Australian, Sue Wardell, on that catch you tomorrow. Bye bye