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Yeah, with Phill O'Neill.
Morning.
How are you?
David said, Hey, Phil, be careful with giving advice to someone about the spinal problems.
Now.
As I said to David, as I was saying to people like on the phone, Rob, I said, I am no medical professional, so I'm not giving you any advice on what to do. I said, go to a physiotherapist. But based on what I did, as I said to Rock, what I did was I went to a physio. They worked on things for me, including the glutons and the glutons I don't know that doesn't sound right, the buttocks anyway, and also the and also the hips and everything like that.
So yeah, David appreciate that. And by the way, David, if you've got this experience too, maybe we can get you to come on and also give us some advice for what we can do with backpain. So I appreciate your texts that came through a moment ago. We're going to get to Jonathan Cursley in just a moment to find out what's going on with your overnight news and
especially what's happening in America. But let's get to the front page of the newspapers first, and the Australian has this story that Jim Charmers has taken taxes on death and the family home off the reform agenda at August's Productivity Roundtable, while playing down any suggestion that the meeting will be a repeat of the union dominated Jobs and Skills Summit of twenty twenty two. Thank you for that.
Let's get to the Age, and the story in the Age is Victoria is grappling with its highest youth crime rate since electronic records began, with new records and figures laying down and bearing really obviously this surge and offending but forced the state government to strengthen the bail laws. Police are making two hundred and eight arrests a day alongside the unprecedented seizure of edged records, marking what could
be the highest figures in the force's history. That's the front page of the Age, front page of the Herald Sun. A woman's been left to die while waiting for up to five hours for an ambulance due to emergency services having a standoff. Paramedics were called late on Tuesday requesting police assistance because the woman had been violent with emergency service workers in the past, but police refused to attend without evidence of violence. This is the Financial Review front page.
Higher taxes on family trusts and electronic electric vehicle drivers are expected to be proposed by the Treasury as the options for Jim Chalmers to meet his objective on raising revenue to pay for income tax cuts and bolster the federal budget. The Sidney Mording Herald people are leaving Australia in the highest numbers since the pandemic, easing population growth and signaling the end of a two year migrant boom overseen by the Albanesi government despite its pledgures to curb immigration.
The front page of the Courier Mail tech giants resisting Australia's world first laws to ban under sixteens from social media will now have no excuse after an age verification trial determined it would be private, robust and effective. The preliminary findings of the Age Assurance Technology trial will be
unveiled this afternoon. The world first legislation to raise the minimum age of social media to use to sixteen came after the Courier Mails Let Them Be Kids campaign and also on the front page of the year, Caurier mail, We're just getting started, Captain Cam's warning to the Blues. Oh come on, guys, you only won one game. Here's your Canberra Times front page. The Canberra Liberals Peter Kain has resigned from shadow cabinet, declaring that he can no
longer support the opposition's leadership team. And let's wrap this up with the front page of the Daily Telegraph, and again going back to the story that Australia has been given the green light to use age verification to implement a world leading social media ban for under sixteens after the first technological trial determined it would be private, robust and effective. That's your front page of the newspapers. Let's go to Jonathan Cursley, who's on the phone, the Channel
nine US correspondent from Los Angeles. Good morning, mate. I find it really interesting, Jonathan. The breaking news of the morning, Donald Trump saying that he will make a decision on Iran in two weeks. That's a long time to wait.
Will it?
Well?
Two weeks that's the words out of the mouths of the President. Caroline Leave at the Press Secretary delivering a statement from him in the White House Press briefing or of just moments ago. Essentially yes, as you said, saying that because of what he says is the substantial chances of negotiations with the Iranian regime of a nuclear deal, that he will then make a decision in two weeks on whether or not to strike Iran. Now, there's obviously
little clarity around what that could actually mean. What he's looking for in a nuclear deal, according to the White House Press secretary, is essentially no enrichment, no chance of having a nuclear weapon, and she then reiterated claims that Iran is very close to having a nuclear weapon, lines we have heard from Israel for quite some time. Now. What is interesting I think with this, Phil is that Donald Trump has a history of giving two week deadlines.
He's given Vladimir Putin two week deadlines on Ukraine repeatedly over the course of this year. Those deadlines come and those deadlines pass. The big question I've got now listening to this and looking at the President's history over these negotiations, is what if this two week deadline actually going to mean. We have seen a significant rift among Naga circles over the possibility that he could launch military action in Iran, given the factor campaigns so heavily on being a president
of peace and somebody who wouldn't start war. Was clearly that is weighing on his mind. Yesterday we saw reporting from the Wall Street Journal initially that he had approved plans but was going to wait until the final moment, essentially, and he himself said he likes to make a decision at the very last second. So it seems as though that very last second is going to be two weeks
away from now. In the meantime, the war between Iran and Israel with these retaliatory strikes is now seven days in the making and shows no sign of easing, So it'll be twenty one days by the time we get to that point three weeks. So set your deadline, sets your clock, sets your timers, set whatever it is you want to do. Two weeks from now, will we have a decision from the United States President on whether the US gets involved in this war. We're just gonna have to wait and say.
Well, that's right. And in the meantime, the two are going to pound the crap out of each other with missiles, which is certainly something that's the people that are living there are having to live with that too, unless, of course they can find some kind of agreement. But at the moment, nobody's making any agreements with each other. But you're right, it is interesting that he did bring in this two week period. And I was talking to Dr Keith Suitter about this earlier on and he floated the idea.
And I think, as you did there too, that Donald Trump also has to appeal to his base, and he's promised his base that he's not going to as this president, he's going to not get involved in wars that are not anything to do with him. So do you think maybe that's got a little bit something to do with it. He's getting pulled from both signs.
He's being pulled in a million different directions. I mean, I don't use that figure literally, He's been pulled in a number of different directions. Clearly there's a view from the Israelis that they want the United States involved in
this war. Benjaminettnan, who is clearly looking to the US president, even though he's saying today that they tell Donald Trump what to do, they want America's involvement because essentially and ideally they want America to use the so called bunker busters to attack the Podo Nuclear facility site that so much of it is underground, and the Israelis essentially say they don't have the equipment to be able to do that, and their goal is to essentially remove the entire Iranian
nuclear program altogether. In order to do that, you have to strike this facility. Now, it's been reported that President Trump had asked his people inside the situation room, his advisors, whether or not there was confidence that the bunker busters might actually work, and the Pentagon officials, the military officials
certainly seem to think so. But yes, there is a big element of Donald Trump having to try and work out not only is he going to try and side with Israel on this, is he going to try and be the person he said he was going to be, and that is somebody who wants peace and it doesn't end to foreign wars. And exactly as you said, how does he walk this very fine line with his mag
support base that essentially is splintering over this. You have somebody like Taka Carlson, a very staunched Donald Trump mega supporter who is vehumanly against launching strikes on Iran. He then goes and interviews Senator Ted Cruz, who is a huge MAGA Trump supporter and a huge protector of Israel and wants to strike Iran. So there is this split within MAGA circles, and Donald Trump is now trying to unify this group. But he himself is the one that's
going to have to make the decision. Now, if he chooses to strike, that's not going to win over everybody by any stretch of the imagination. So he's buying himself some time here. He's buying himself some time to see if negotiations can work. Even though yesterday he said his patients had run out, he seems to be wanting to
give himself a window. Remember too, Tomorrow, phil the European foreign ministers are going to be meeting with the Iranian foreign ministers to try and have some sort of pathway to cease fire in the Iran Israel war. But ultimately the decision on what happens is going to be in the hands of the United States President. And he knows this.
He craves the attention, he craves the power, and right now he's got it, and essentially he's got the fate of the Middle East, potentially the world sitting right in the palm of his hand.
I wonder if you hit the nail on the head though when you say, perhaps there's all of this at the moment, the bunker buster seems to be the savior of everything. But maybe you've hit the nail on their head. Maybe they've thought because I looked up a little bit about the bunker Buster, because we're all talking about it now, as though you know, we are sort of familiar with
what it is and what it does. But the thing is, and I read this article, the exact size of the ford O fuel enrichment plant is unclear, so it said that the halls are estimated to be eighty to ninety meters underground. But according to a UK based think tank called the Royal United Services Institute, they said that according to a recent report, they would likely have to be multiple impacts at the same aiming point to have a
good chance of actually penetrating the facility. Maybe somebody's suddenly got to hang on a second, it's not actually going to do the job unless you've got lots of them to drop. I wonder if that's perhaps something that's going on in this sort of equation on this decision.
Well, you've got to remember, Donald Trump's going to have a lot of people shouting at him at the moment, figuratively putting forward their beliefs, their ideas. And clearly, if that report about him raising the ideas of having confidence in the bunker busters is accurate, then clearly there are
people talking to him that are raising these concerns with him. Now, oh, to be a fly on the wall of the Oval office and the situation room as these discussions are unfolding, because Donald Trump knows exactly how much power he yields. But carrying out an operation to drop a bunker buster is an incredibly huge operation. To launch the B two's the stealth aircraft from the United States of America. They are kept here because they are so incredibly expensive and lucrative.
They essentially fly silently, they disappear from radars. They're going to have to refuel on the way to get into Iran. That refueling is going to have to take place mid air, and then they're going to have to drop these bunker busters, probably more than one if you were to imagine the sort of operation they would want to carry out, and then fly all the way back. So it's some thirty
thirty six hour round trip. It is a huge operation, and the fallout from that is obviously part of what the president, a huge part of what the president has to consider as well, because what are Iranian stocks left going to do? They've already indicated that the Hoothy should launch strikes on ships in the waters in and around the Middle East. Now, that could disrupt shipping routes, shipping lanes, it could disrupt oil transfer from the Middle East to
other parts of the country. We've already seen oil prices increase over the course of the last week. Then you have to look at the Arab nations. How are they going to respond to this. Iran is already indicating that they would likely have some support. President Putin in Russia is watching this closely too, and there's been reports that
China has been senting in supply aircraft. So there is a huge amount of global geopolitics going on right now in positioning over what is essentially two countries, Iran and Israel, and one man, and that man is Donald Trump. And the problem is the entire world the political leaders do not know what he is going to do. They are preparing for a worst case scenario as you would expect
them to do. They are preparing as you would expect them to do for him to attack, but they would also be preparing for something not to happen, because any political leader with their wits about them, is going to make sure they have as many bases covered. But the problem is, right now they're all sitting there looking at each other wondering what on earth is going to have up and next they try to predict the entirely unpredictable.
That's right.
You brought up a really interesting point to I wonder how much that would actually cost that operation. When you say the B fifty two, the B two do you have?
Would you would you.
Want to have a guess at the bullpark figure of that with everything included in the package.
Well you'd have to be looking at millions, millions, millions of dollars and look at the value of these aircraft who they are hugely expensive and hugely valuable to the
American military assets. So what they are doing is taking, if they do strike, is taking a big political gamble, a taking a big regional global conflict gamble, because if Donald Trump decides to go that way, that may be the only option he wants to do drop a couple of bunker bosss and then leave and be out and be done and not do anything so that he can appease his megabase and not get involved in long, lengthy
wars far away. But if he does something like that, there may well be repercussions and consequences from the Middle East that could drag the United States in. So he's having to walk this very fine line himself of trying to work out if he does take Option A to strike, which he seems to be leaning towards, what is the fallout going to be. He's moved a lot of American
military assets into the region. There are aircraft carriers that have gone there, There are aircraft that have moved into the region, all posturing in case something may need to be done. But the question then is you move so many personnel into the region, and Iran has already raised the prospect of the who he's attacking American ships, Well, then you have the prospects that American personnel are at risk.
And the President has made it clear if Iran attacks any American personnel, be they civilian on military, there is going to be a problem. So this is a huge roll of the dice for whatever move he makes. Right now as we sit here today, seven days into this conflict, he is buying himself some time to avoid a very difficult decision, and that is to launch a military strike on Iran that will have consequences right around the world.
Jonathan Kursley, always a pleasure to talk to you. Thank you so much for your time. Jonathan Cursley there from Los Angeles, the Channel Line US correspondent, twenty three minutes past four, twenty six minutes past four. Ben Fordham on Sydney's two GB at five point thirty, John Laws the legend of broadcasting on the show today. Mike Leevy follows that at nine in Brisbane four BC, it's Peter Figan. We're going to get to your news booths in just a moment too in Sydney and in Melbourne to see
what's going on. Then we'll catch up with Brendan O'Neil, who's in the UK, to find out what stories are happening in the UK, including the temperature thirty two degrees it's pretty warm there. Every Friday we wrap up the week with rhiannon Down, who's on the phone. The political reporter for The Australian. Good morning to you. This is the week that was in camera. Let's get it started with, well, where do you want to start?
Yeg meeting didn't end up happening.
We had the long awaited G seven summit where Albernezi, our Prime Minister, was due to have his first meeting with Donald Trump face to face to discuss tariffs and orcurse. But despite being highly anticipated in the media for months or weeks, I should say, it didn't end up happening.
Donald Trump canceled at the minute and left him hanging because of the Middle East conflict, which I imagine was very disappointing for the Prime Minister and the government because they were very keen to negotiate an exception from those tariffs that have been causing them so much grief. Apparently he didn't receive he did not receive a call from Trump
personally afterwards, which some leaders did, which is unfortunate. However, Athne Albernizi's now considering going to a NATO summit in the Netherlands soon to meet Trump in person, so he's certainly keen to make up for that lost meeting. He sees it as very critically important as a way of assuring the nation that he's a capable economic manager and able to negotiate.
An exemption those tariffs.
However, there were some successes for Anthony Albernizi in terms of he did meet with some EU officials to discuss a new Security and Defense Pact, which is something that's on the table, so certainly some closer ties with Europe emerging out of that G seven summit.
Jim Chalmers went to the National Press Club. How did he go?
Just a week after Anthony Alberzi gave his own presentation at the National Press Club, which I'm sure he was very keen to get him first. The Treasurer, Jim Chalmers has now done his He did that on Wednesday and it was really I mean, he talked up his achievements after his first term as Treasurer and sort of talked about the mandate in the next three years ahead.
So there was certainly, you know, very like it was a bit of a victory life, I'd say for the treasure He.
Sort of talked about the government's track record of bringing down inflation while making sure that unemployment didn't rise, so certainly the government's had some successes.
He also sort of tried to temper.
This with this idea of you know, there's a lot of global volatility, there's tariffs, there's all over the world now. And he also talked up this productivity roundtable that's coming up in August where they're going to bring all these prominentusiness leaders and economic leaders and so of discussed how to get the nation's productivity sort of out of adultrums that it's in. So certainly it was a well received speech for Jim Chalmers. He did also make a few
interesting admissions. He said that the budget as it is is not sustainable. We've got spending sort of falling short of all the big ticket items the government needs to fund, like the care economy, that's age care, health indies, all those things.
Defense is another big one at the moment.
And he talked about this idea of tax reform, which is very interesting. Labor certainly steered clear of tax reforms early in the first term.
And he sort of flagged.
This suggestion that you know, everything should be left on the table, the possibility of looking at GST.
But he also talked about this idea of consensus.
He said that failures to get productivity out of the gutters or reform the economy won't.
Be because of a lack of courage. It'll be because of a.
Lack of consensus, and consensus will be the key thing here.
He talked a lot about this topic.
We've got already, we've got the coalition, James Pattison, the Finance Minister, coming out saying that this is sort of code for labor saying they want to raise So we'll see how that goes, this idea of tax reform.
And this has been this Week in Camera.
Good to talk to you, Thanks so much. Rihanna down there with this Week in Camera, a political report for the Australian. There it's four thirty okay, let's get to the newsrooms and find out what we've got going on around Australia. First League starting in Sydney to GV.
And now on Wake Up Australia News.
Today with Sasha Foot. Good morning Sasha, what have we got?
Good morning Phil. The White House says US President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether to attack Iran within two weeks. Negotiations to find a diplomatic solution are expected to continue, with mister Trump confirming he wants to pursue diplomacy, but he is unafraid to use strength. A man is fighting for life in hospital after being shot by police in Sydney's Southwest. Officers say they shot at the fifty two year old when he brandished a knife
in a cabinet. Elderly and a major review will get underway into Queensland's Parole Board investigate failures in governance and oversights. The Borders faced criticism for backlog in decisions and not being transparent with families about decisions. Made Phil more News at the top of the hour.
Thank you, Sasha. Let's get to Melbourne the three AW news room, Dennis O'Keane okain and Keen I'm sure to give us the update how he does.
Good Morning Phil. A stand up between police and the ambulance has reportedly led to a woman left to die here. The woman suffered a suspected prescription medication overdose early Wednesday morning at her home near the Gambi, which is north of Melbourne. Well Herald soners are reporting paramedics were called late on Tuesday and requested the assistance of police because the forty four year old had a history of violence.
Involving emergency service workers, but apparently the police refused to attend without evidence and paramedics were eventually sent to the women's when the woman's partner reported her dead about five hours after first phoning Triple zero. So no doubt there will be a full investigation into that, and especially between the cooperation between the police and the ablet's former state
opposition Lyer. John Persudo's political career has been saved and the Liberal Party spared a by election in his marginal seat of Werabien Inn of Melbourne because the party's administrative committee voted last night to loan him one and a half million dollars and it means mister Persudo can now pay colleague more a deeming the two point three million dollars in legal costs he owes her affording bankruptcy of course, that would have seen him ineligible to sit in Parliament.
And a mansion has gone up in flames in Turac overnight now and at home at the time the double story house was under going renovations. Still trying to find out though phil who actually owns it, but we are told it's one of those big t Irak mansions. And in the AFL a forty one point win for Fremantle over Essendon. More in the news top.
Of the hour.
Thank you, Dennis. Yeah, if it's gone up in two Rek and Melbourne then yeah, you're right, it's a mansion. It would cost a bit of money actually, update from the news. So the weather, as far as Brisbane's concerned, it is twelve degrees at the moment, but it feels like ten in Brisbane. You've got a little bit of sunshine today, but rain thirty five degrees, back to ray sunshine on Sunday, then back to rain on Monday. In Sydney at the moment six degrees, but it feels like three.
It's been getting a colder and colder in Sydney today, a top of seventeen degrees and a bit of sunshine around for the weekend in Sydney. We'll go and get more of an accurate idea about what we've got coming up in the next three days in Sydney and Brisbane and also in the snow fields. When we give you a little something for the weekend in about another forty
five minutes time. But now at twenty seven minutes to five, let's get to Brendan O'Neill in the UK after this twenty three minutes to five, Bruce said on the text Anthony Albanizi is not a good economic manager. Jim Chalmers just wants to tax us more and that's not economic reform. Peter says, remember isays the West has just made the leader Siria's president. According to Trump, he's a great guy.
All the Western leaders of fawning over him. It was all along the creation of the West against the Site. That was what Peter said on the text, and Wayne said, just regarding Donald Trump, have a look at the email I sent just after midnight. Well, I'll have to go back and have a look at that. And also that this one from Peter who says Israel has to be
protected from Iran. Imagine being Trump. He's the leader of the free world and radical Islam must not be allowed to prosper Text number is zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three. Let's take a trip to the UK.
And now on Wake Up Australia does of common sense man sense from the other side of the world with Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online.
Hello mate, how are you this morning?
This morning?
Hey, I'm not too bad.
Thank you good.
I see you're using that app that we've got you using that It never seems to work properly, But that's okay. All right, Let's talk about what's going on first with the Israel Iran war. With the Israeli Iran war.
Yeah, it's pretty scary what's happening in the Middle East right now, and I think it's unpredictable as to what the outcome will be. It's unclear, particularly whether the US and the UK will get involved. I think both Donald Trump and Kissed Arma are reluctant to get involved. They're willing to help Israel, but they're not really willing to put any of their own bombs or feet on the ground just yet. Although there is talk about Trump potentially using that huge buster bomb to get rid of the
nuclear facility that's buried in a mountain. So at the moment, it's slightly up in the air. It's kind of not clear where it's going to go, whether it's going to become one of those big, all consuming wars that we've seen over the past few years, or whether it might be something quite swift and surgical. So it feels quite unpredictable. I think to many people.
The other thing that's going on is the latest on the grooming gangs in the UK. Can you give us some idea what's happening there?
Yeah, it's ongoing. It's as you say, this is just it's coming back again. It's an issue that just will never go away, and for good reason, because it is an issue which the government here and officialdom here has failed to get to grips with again and again and again. What's happened this week is that Baroness Casey, a well known peer here in the UK, she has published a report saying there needs to be a national inquiry and the report says that things were worse than even people
like she thought they were. So it's now confirmed that a majority of these gangs were made up of men from Pakistani Muslim backgrounds. A majority of their victims were girls from the white working class. There was a really powerful racial and religious dynamic to this horrendous abuse that
was carried out over decades against thousands of girls. And she says that officialdom, politicians, the media, academics, basically the entire British establishment too often turned a blind eye and so Starma is now under huge pressure to get this national inquiry up and running. I think it's going to be the most serious reckoning Britain has had with itself in one hundred years. This is a scandal that has scarred this country and it's really about time we got to grips with it, of course.
And oh, it seems like I'm able to actually talk back to you now. I couldn't talk to you before without hearing ourselves back. So that's good we were able to to continue going forward in a conversational Star And I want to ask you about this, the issue with and perhaps the deal that Kiss Starmer has managed to do with Donald Trump, as far as the trade is concerned. Is that making much news.
It's kind of been drowned out by all the other stuff, you know, It's been drowned out by war in the Middle East, the grooming gang scandal here at home, and other things as well.
But it has made a trickle.
I think people generally feel that Kiss for all his faults, is handling Donald Trump pretty well. I mean, it's well known and I'm sure Donald Trump knows this himself, that Kiss Starmer and his cabinet are not fans of Donald Trump. You know, virtually all of them have said really quite
shocking things about him in the past. So David Lammy, our foreign secretary, once called Donald Trump a Nazi and the KKK supporter, So it's always very awkward a and our foreign secretary has to go to Washington and talk
to the officials there. But even with all that, I think Starmer is actually doing a pretty good balancing act between pushing back against Trump on certain issues but really welcoming him into a better trade situation where we're not as punished by tariffs as other countries are.
And we mentioned before I wanted to talk aback with you with the Israel Iran warb and I had a little bit of technical problem there too, So now we're able to actually have a bit of more of a chat about this. What is the feeling in the UK about the way this is going?
Well, you know, it's a very strange discussion we're having in the UK about this, because some people are in favor of Britain and America getting involved, not many, but some, but the general feeling is that we shouldn't get involved in you know what, I just feel like there is so much gaslighting on this conflict, because if you listen to left wing voices and anti war voices and a lot of the broad cheap media and the mainstream media, the way they taught, you would think that Israel was
the criminal aggressor and Iran was its poor little victim. And to my mind is that just turns the truth completely on its head. You know, this war started more than six hundred days ago when one of Iran's proxies, I e Hamas, invaded Israel. It sent an army of six thousand men into Israel where they carried out mass slaughter. As everyone knows. Of course, Hezbollah, another Iran proxy, has been dropping bombs on northern Israel more than five thousand
over the past two years as well. And Israel itself has fired missile Sorry, Iran itself has fired missiles at Israel, hundreds of them over the past year. So the idea that Israel is just out of the blue launching an illegal war of aggression against Iran, it just doesn't stack up.
So the gas lighting part of the discussion is driving me slightly mad, and I want to just grab people by the scruff of the neck and say, listen, this war's been going on for nearly two years, and it wasn't Israel that started it.
Right, don't go grabbing anybody by any scruff of the neck, given the fact that that will require you to to probably sweat, and I imagine you're doing that right now as the temperature pass is thirty two degrees And how many times have you had a heat wave like this in the UK?
Well, can I just say, what a brilliant segue that was from the scruff of.
The neck into hot weather.
I know, I know.
That's what they pay you the big bucks.
You know what I was doing. I was doing the weeks.
You're absolutely right, I am. I don't want to give too much information and gross out your listeners, but I am sweating as we speak. It is very very hot in the UK right now. It's now half seven in the evening. Well it's quarter to eight actually, and it's still very hot. The sun is glaring through my window. It was thirty two degrees today. Now I know to Ozzie's they're going to think, what a bunch of WIMPs.
That's not that hot.
But that is hot for that is hot, very hard for Britain, even by our standards. Thirty two degrees. In fact, it's twenty seven degrees at the moment in London. You've come to the right guy. Twenty seven degrees at the moment in London, but it feels like twenty nine, so you have every reason to get hot, mate, And yeah, that's right, lovely.
I did earlier today. It was early if it was even hotter than that. But you know, what's so interesting to me about this is that we have this tendency to pathologize the weather these days and to see heat waves as a terrible, terrible thing. Now, of course, they can be dangerous for vulnerable people, and we don't have very good air conditioning facilities in this country, and older people, we should keep an eye on them, make sure they're
hydrated and they're eating. Well, that's a given. But you know, I think thirty years ago, when there was weather like this, there would have been front page pictures of people on the beach and kids having fun, and people would have said, go outside, put on your son's screen, have some ice cream. Now it's very much about climate change, the end of the world. What does this heat wave tell us about,
you know, the coming heat depth of the planet. It's all a bit depressing and I just want to say sometimes, look it's hot, that doesn't happen very often. Let's enjoy it.
Well, there you go. That's a good positive way to start the weekend. Made it a way. Is good to talk to you. Thanks so much, Brendan O'Neil. Here in the UK, it's fourteen minutes to five, eleven minutes to five ben Fordham, two GB Sydney this morning with the legend of broadcasting John Laws on the show, Peter Vegan on four BC. That's on the way, Gabes. Thank you so much for a really lovely text that you just sent me. I really appreciated that. Let's get our artist of the day.
And now on Wake Up Australia. Artist in the Spotlight today.
The artist in the Spotlight is David Bowie because he recorded Space Oddity in nineteen sixty nine. What a song, his first hit single, inspired by Stanley Kubrick's film two thousand and one Space Oddity. And I had a chat with Gail Ann Dorsey, who was David Bowie's bass guitar player. I wanted to know about how Bowie wrote his songs and the genius of David Bowie. Here's what she had to say about that he would.
Just come up with things all the time.
I saw a documentary of him doing this thing once where he was writing songs and he would cut up sentences, put them in a hat, and then pull out just various words and make a song out of it. I mean, that's genius.
Yeah, that was the outside album was done that way. That was the first tour I did with him. I wasn't involved with the recording, but it was something that he'd done with Eno. I think Brian Eno that this technique of doing that. But I remember him explaining to me how the words and characters and stuff all from that record. Most of it was drawn from a hat and then they put all these phrases together and they
just write these lyrics. But he also used to laugh at the fact that sometimes would listen to his lyrics will take them so literally like there was something amazing, and to him it was a joke.
What a genius. That's Gail and Dorsey there talking about the genius of David Bowie and he wrote this song about the plight of Major Tom. Here he was talking about his ideas about the character.
I can quitely imagine how it must feel to be isolated. So I have often put myself in circumstances and positions where I am isolated, just so that I can write about so.
Recording this song back in nineteen sixty nine was a breakthrough moment for David Bowie, who tried and tried over and over again to get a record deal. He had several bands, several record deals, both solo and in the band. All of it failed. All of it was just didn't work. Unbelievable. Could have given up at any stage along the way and we would never have had David Bowie. Isn't that incredible?
He just kept going though because he just believed in himself, and that is why David Bowie is our artist in the day of the Spotlight. This song from nineteen sixty.
One rounds control to ma It's on ground control to Major It's on take your rotine bills and put your helmets on ground control to Maids.
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Though, when you think about all of the uncertainty in the world at the moment, at least we can say we lived in the same age as David Bye. That's our artist of the day. David Baie recorded that song on this day in nineteen sixty nine. If you want to talk about the vision and how much of a visionary he was. The United States Apollo eleven mission would launch five days later and became the first manned moon landing and it was all I think inspired by that
David Bowie song. And if you weren't humming along to that, then have a look at yourself, because I don't think you're alive. Four minutes the five. It's a good day to be alive, isn't it. Friday morning, nice and chilly, but we're going to head towards the weekend. Let's get the news then we'll look at your overnight news.
This is this onto GB, four BC and network stations. This is Wake Up Australia with Phill O'Neil.
I don't know about you, but I think I might be the happiest person in Australia knowing that the weekend is definitely on the way and we've got a little something for the weekend for you. In just a moment, Danny just got your text that came through for Ben
Fordham and i'll pass it on to Ben. By the way, Ben Fordham this morning has the legendary broadcaster John Laws on the show, Peter Figan on four BC also on the way in about twenty three minutes time, and the great man Mirk Levy after nine ont GB text number is zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three and one three one eight seven three. It's the
phone number. Got another text that came into from Harry who said, Phil, my father rang me from Turkey and he said a dogan brings up Donald Trump and talks, but Anthony Albanezi sparrator waiting to talk. I do like the word desperator. I don't know if it's in the actual dictionary, but I'm going to be using that. It's across the weekend as my word of the weekend. Here's your overnight news. This is what's been happening while you've been asleep, tucked up in bed, but your wish you
was still there. The White House says the US President Donald Trump will make a decision on whether the US will join the Israel Iran conflict in the next two weeks. That flies in the face of what he said earlier on in the evening.
I like to make a final decision one second before and still, you know, because things change, I mean, especially with the war.
Things changing with the war, it can go from one.
Extreme to the other.
Some people are saying the reason why is because Donald Trump got elected on the basis that he wouldn't get involved in any overseas wars, and the hardcore magas and the Make America Great side of the Republican Party aren't happy with the way that's going. Israel's Defense Minister Katz said that eliminating Iran's supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Kamini is
one of the country's war goals. The prospect of a US strike against Iran has exposed divisions, as I said, among the coalitions of supporters that brought Donald Trump into power, some of his base urging him not to get the country involved in a new Middle East war. Some of Trump's most prominent Republican allies, including the top Lieutenant Steve Bannon, have found themselves in the unusual position of being at odds with the president, who largely shares their isolationist tendencies.
Here's another newscrab for you from the Iranian foreign minister who says he has evidence of US supports in attacks, as has Thatamore.
In our opinion, these rarely regimes agree against Iran could never have happened without the agreement and support of the United States. We have solid evidence that shows the support of American forces and basis in the region for attacks by the Zionist regime's military forces.
Elon Musk, you thought he was back, but no he's not. And he had a bit of a disaster with the SpaceX massive starship spacecraft that exploded into a dramatic fireball during testing in Texas yesterday, the latest in a series of setbacks for the billionaire and his Mars rocket program. The explosion occurred about eleven pm local time while starship was on a test stand in Brownsville, Texas. And here's what happened. The commentators were talking about it, and the audio of it is quite dramatic.
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Oh my god, it appears there has been a thirty six ers blew up.
So there you go. Elon Musk can't catch a break at the moment. Kenny, A little bit locally, more closer to home. Jim Charmers at the Press Club, responding to the Channel miind reporter Andrew Probin on the future of GST reform. What attitude would you bring to this roundtable when it comes to extending the breadth of the GST and the rate of the GST.
It's not of you that I've been attracted to historically, but I'm going to try not to get in the process of shooting ideas between now and the roundtable.
So there you go. That's the update two weeks grace according to Donald Trump. At this stage, the weather Brisbane twelve degrees at the moment feels like ten, Sydney six, but it feels like three. Definitely another really chilly morning for Sydney. We'll get to the Bureau of Meteorology after this and get a little something for the weekend, and also we'll have a look at your finance report. There's a few good films on on the telly and on at the cinema. A bit of a gig guide coming
up for you as well. That's coming up at nearly thirteen minutes past five. Give yourself a pat on the back. You've managed to get towards the end of the week. Just a little bit further to go and then you can do whatever you want on the weekend. Quarter past five. Ben Fordham on the way on Sydney's two GB at five point thirty this morning with John Laws on the show, Peter Vegan on four BC in Brisbane and mirke Levy
after nine on two GB. So let's talk about the weekend and let's give you a little something for the weekend. Let's see how much money you're going to have in your pocket. Firstly, morning to shame. Oliver, the finance and chief economist from the AMP good.
A fel Yeah, it's been an interesting one, obviously dominated by the events in the Middle East. Interestingly, markets haven't really changed that much. We saw that initial reaction Friday a week ago where Israel started to tax on Iran. The initial reac action market fell a little bit bit. More globally all prices shot up. But since then markets have just been bouncing around, including the Ausie share market, trying to work out what's going to happen.
Obviously, lots of issues on that front.
The US gets involved, now, how significantly they get involved, how long it goes for.
But the bottom line is what it means for oil prices.
If oil supply out of the Middle As is disrupted, bad news for everyone. Obviously, the whole thing is bad news from a humanitarian point of view, but from a market point of view, the big issue is what happens to oil prices, and on that front, it seems to be all over the place at the moment.
Anyone's guess. And even Donald Trump has been.
Saying in relation to whether he's going to bomb Iran on no, he says, I may or I may not. But of course, locally, we've also had a bit of da We've got some jobs data for May. We've showed employment down, but the good news is that unemployment remains pretty low.
It was four point one percent.
I know a lot of people are going to be thinking, well, maybe that means there's bank won't cut interest rates because unemployment is so low. I don't really think so. I think the RBA would say, yeah, the jobs market is still but we've got other indicators there which support lower interest rates, like falling inflation and pretty soft economic growth, and lots of threats to the outlook from Trump's tariffs
and the situation in the Middle East. We did get some an ongoing debate in the US between the Fed. They left interest rates on hold, that's their central bank, and then of course Donald Trump's out there saying a couple of weeks ago he said they should cut by one percent. Now he's saying they should cut by two percent or maybe two and.
A half percent.
I guess he can say whatever he wants, but it looks like the Feds just staying on hold at the moment, waiting to see what there'll be, what impact will be from his tariffs on US inflation. And then just finally in Australia, we've got some good news from the Treasurer who said that tax reform.
Looks to be on the agenda.
I think the bad news was that he's saying that he probably doesn't want to change the GST, which it's going to make it a bit hard to get tax racks down unless you change the gs So so a bit of confusion about what tax reform will actually mean in Australia.
But obviously we've got.
A productivity summit coming up next month. So overall interesting week, lots of noise that of course, most of it's been focused on what's going on in the Middle East.
Of course, good to talk to you, Thank you, Shane Olivit, chief Economists from the AMP. So we've got a bit of money in our pocket, let's spend it. Want to go and see some live music. Sam's got your gig guy, and I think that you'll find that Brisbane definitely beat Sydney hands down with the entertainment in Brisbane. Have a listen to this Sam with a Gig Guide.
Thanks Phil.
Let's start with Brisbane and on Friday you can watch Jimmy Barnes playing the Fortitude Music Hall, the Sleeper, Jesus at the Crowbar, nineteen twenty seven at the Briby Island Hotel, or Tony Childs at the Tivoli. On Saturday, Pete Murray is playing at the Lyric Theater, Jimmy Barnes is on at the Fortitude Music Hall, James Rain at the Tivoli and nineteen twenty seven at Mansfield. But don't worry if you miss them then you can see them on Sunday at the Kings Beach Tavern.
Now on to Sydney and on Friday.
Night it's the Beautiful Girls at the Oxoford Art Factory or Cloud Control at the n War Theater. Saturday you've got the Bad Loves at the Brass Monkey or Anthony Clear at the Evan Theater. And on Sunday that legend Randy Hauser is on at the Harden Pavilion.
Shane Bassett now with your TV and Entertainment Guide and Jaws. It's the fiftieth anniversary of that.
Yeah, officially this week to the day almost Jaws was released, I mean before my time, but I can't remember how many times I've seen this film, and it was the movie that coined the phrase blockbuster that didn't apparently exist, but this was the movie that got people lining up around the street corners to see the film. And then, of course Star Wars was released a year or so later, But.
Jaws never gets old.
There's watches, there's chocolates, there's all sorts of things coming out to celebrate Jaws. There's a documentary that we'll talk about together Phil in a couple of weeks is getting released on Disney, plus a very in depth documentary on the making of it and where people are now and stuff. So it changed the way cinema was, honestly, and now you know there's a shark movie genre.
Who would have thought it would end up in a shark in a Tornado?
I hate Shark Nader, Please don't bring it up.
Which one shark Nader one, two, three, four, five, six or seven talked about coining the phrase blockbuster. It also coined the phrase we need a bigger boat.
Yeah, oh yeah, some great lines, right.
And it was a movie that Steven Spielberg, he was so young, he hadn't had a real huge hit on his hands before making it. And the shark that they used and they called Bruce, kept sinking and.
That's why some of the scenes you can.
Only see, like they put some harpoons into it, with some barrels that are floating on the water.
They have to do that because the shark itself kept thinking.
Twenty eight days later, twenty eight weeks later, they're both streaming. This is in anticipation of twenty eight years later. I'm going to go see that this weekend to be heard if it's any good.
Oh, I've seen it. It drops in cinemas today.
I saw it yesterday actually, and I've got to say I rewatched the originals because if you don't, you might struggle. Actually, it's not a real good standalone movie, so that's why I'm suggesting you go back watch These early two thousands British made thrillers about a virus, a lot of zombie action, but they's very well done and they're written by Alex Garland an award winning writer who really gets in depth with characters and storylines. So this new one you won't disappointed.
It's got refines in it. Twenty eight years later, but it's been a long time between drinks between the other two.
So twenty eight years think, well, no, not quite. I'm a big fan of Alex Garland. I will go back and watch twenty eight days later and twenty eight weeks later, both streaming before I go and see twenty eight years later at the Cinema Supernova. Sydney's on this weekend. Who's in town?
Yeah, I'll be there on the Saturday, potentially the Sunday as well. It's at Olympic Park. It's the pop culture movie convention that you know pretty much comes around every year, goes to different states, Sydney. This year we've got guests such as.
Billy Zane, the Great Billy Zane, Evangeline Lily who was in Lost and Lord of the Rings, Marina Owen from once Worth Warriors and she's been in some Star Wars movies too, Brendan Wayne, who happens to be the grandson of the great John Wayne.
Right, Okay, yeah, yeah, he's there because he's been in movies recently, and Tia Carrera as well, who played Cassandra in Wain's World.
Oh yeah, right, We're not worthy. Well that's fantastic, that's well worth going to. Let's talk about a movie on Netflix, The Edge. What's this about?
Look?
This is really inspirational and a great movie even if you don't like sport, because it revolves around three women, young ladies who are striving to be the best in their elective sports. One's a sprinter, one's the first nation's powerlifter, and another one's at Paralympic swimmer from Japan.
And it's more less the.
Struggles that they try to get to be the best and behind the scenes, not just through their sport abilities but being female and the hurdles that they get.
Now.
It's written and directed by Jane Larkin, who is a former professional sports person herself swimming and athletics, so she sort of put a little bit of her own I guess, plotline and experiences into the movie itself. But it's one of those feel good, uplifting, you can do anything kind of movies and it's Australian made. So yeah, The Edge on Netflix terrific show. I hope Jane Larkin gets to do some more movies in the future.
Absolutely good to talk to you. Shane Bassett there, the TV and entertainment correspondent from Sky News. So that leaves us with the weekend weather dean from the Bureau of Meteorology. What can we look forward to? Starting off with Sydney.
These cool days and mornings are going to continue. We're going to see how are some frosty starts out for our outer suburbs away from the coastline. Sydney itself looking at probably seven or eight when wake up on both Saturday and Sunday morning. But the good news is this time of year, when you get these cold, trusty mornings, we do get those beautiful sunny days. So have you got some outdoor plans around Sydney anywhere in the basin? Looking great tomorrow?
Sorry on the weekend.
Eighteen degrees on Saturday, nineteen degrees on Sunday with lots of sunshine and light winds.
What about anybody heading to the ski fields in New South Wales? How are they looking?
Yeah, I You're heading out to the ski field as well. Pretty similar conditions obviously, just st fair, bit colder, there's no big weather systems to bring snow over the weekend, so we're looking at those beautiful bluebird conditions.
As they call it.
Up there.
It's very cold in the morning minus four and minus six's both Friday and Saturday and Sunday morning, but then the days of we unfortunately above zero, so you could get a bit the snows get a bit flushy during the days as well, not good news. A bit breezy as well, disgusting orderly winds, but there's still lots of sunshine and it should be good to hit the slopes this weekend. But the good news is it looks like we should see some possibly moderates even heavy snowfall as
we get into the middle of next week. What about Brisbane's weather, So heading up in southeast Queensland around Brisbane, im looking too bad up there as well, cool mornings but not too cold at fourteen or fifteen as we
wake Saturday and Sunday morning. Maybe it's a possible shower about particularly those coastal areas if you heading out to the islands Saturday and Sunday, But generally across the weekend, partly cloudy conditions and temperatures in the low twenties, around twenty two or twenty three degrees.
Brilliant.
That about covers everything that we need for the weekend. Thank you, deeing the senior meteorologists from the Bureau of Meteorology and wighing on the text minus two degrees in Wagga, wogga, it's pretty cold. Five twenty five. That's it. Sticker fork in me. I'm done.
Wow.
It's a nice way to get into the weekend knowing that you know, we've got a couple of weeks grace. If nothing else, it has been the week that was right. But now we're getting into the weekend. But before that, Peter Vegan, four BC, Brisbane after nine this morning, get ready for on TWOGB marke Levy, but the great Man Ben Forden has John Laws on the two GB Breakfast Show next. Have a great weekend.