Paul Murray Our Town: Joondalup

Live from joodle Up. That This is Paul Murray Live our town.

Get I Australia from Western Australia and beautiful jodal Up here.

Hello everyone, I love you to see you. Hi Mum and dad, Hi mummy and dad.

Shout out to have.

Your boy Josh. All right.

We are here in the nearly renovated Kangaroo Arms, which is part of the beautiful resort here injodle Up. And I've got to say congratulations to Roger and his team here who've done such an incredible job.

It has been magnificent to be here for the past a couple of days.

Alas I don't play golf, but if you have the chance, you've got to come here and come here very soon now. Of course tonight we're going to be here in jodle Up, which is in the suburb of Perth, and we are going to celebrate not just this area, but this city, this state.

There is so much to see and do here. You've got to come not.

Just for a weekend, but come for a whole lot longer than that. It is a magical part of Australia. As you know, we're in port Headland just a couple of days ago, where the sunsets were magnificent. Here in the West they are tremendous. Wherever you happen to be, everyone's welcome in Western Australia, unless, of course, you're a cargo ship driver and you want to knock something over in Fremantle.

Blah blah bly not amazing.

Like there's this like proper toil ship, this beautiful, wonderful. Everyone's chipped in a dollar of their own money and some persons come in and gone borm boom and knocked it over. Anyway, we'll see what happens there. And also Rotnest Island. One of the great thrills to be in this part of the world and to be in Australia.

And yes, ladies and gentlemen.

There's quackers on the teery now before we get into the news, the show and everything else. Happy Father's Day. All the dad's in the room, give them a round of applaud Well.

Done dad, well done dad, well done dad, How good are you?

Also a shout out to all of our team who have been here making the most of their time in Wa but obviously their kids are back at home. To everyone who's not with their kids or hasn't seen them in a while. Strength and love all of you to everyone who doesn't have a dad who's with them anymore.

Laugh all the time.

To Asher and Zadi, I love you, and anytime you want to go to time zone, it's on me as much as you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. And yes, you can have whatever you want to drink and we won't tell mum.

Now.

One of the other things that is central to this day, this celebration of the dads in our lives, well there's the old dad joke.

Now we all know what.

I'm talking about, but it's an excuse to place I'm on television.

My ex girlfriend said I was too pretentious.

Brilliant, brilliant, like everything's in that gag. Like Okay, when I was twenty five, it wasn't weird enough, but I like that joke now now, of course, dad jokes they don't always have to be little odd sometimes they can be odd but awesome. Again an excuse just to play them on television.

I went to the ear doctor the other day.

He said, I'm going death.

It was really hard to hear this is your captain speaking, and this is your county shouting. What did the parents say when he turned edie? I maybe? How good?

So all right in that spirit, there's also some news that apparently dad jokes are good for your health. Right, we all knew this, but finally science has come forward. Thankfully, the trillions of dollars that have been put into the higher education system finally produces something other than some left wing idiot now attentional fathers never stopped telling dad jokes

So a dad joke from me?

How many stormtroopers does it take to change your light globe none because they're all.

On the dark side.

I just saved the life. I just saved the life. I saved the life just then, and I made.

Sure that kids are okay into the future. All right, real stuff.

So everyone in the southeast of the country, well you know whether there's been rather crappy this weekend. Let's start in Tasmania, where there's been particularly some flash flooding. The SEES has been responding to that all weekend. Again, to the professional people who go and do it, you're amazing. The volunteers who go and do it, you are even more amazing. Here's part of what the Tazzy SEES wants you to know tonight ahead of potential flash flooding.

It's going to be a really dangerous period we're coming up to over the next twenty four hours. We really ask people that continue to monitor the condition and make good decisions. We ask the community to prepare their homes for high winds, secure outdoor items and be aware of down trees and downpower lines.

A little further up in Victoria again, massive problems there. The wind seems to have been quite an issue.

Now.

The best part of six hundred homes needed to be repaired and something like thirty thousand or even a little more have lost power. No that's not because of renewables, but because of what's actually been happening. When it comes to the winds and rain again, an authority in Victoria with what you should know there.

It is likely that the destructive, destructive and damaging winds are going to result in a lot more trees down, more houses without power, building damage, road closures and possibly network possibly impacts on the transport networks.

Rather now, as you know, we're in Perth tonight, beautiful Western Australia. It is always too long between drinks here when we get to visit, but every time we do, our minds are blown by how beautiful and amazing this place is. The people are always absolutely delightful, even a couple who look the other way when you get yourself bogged on a beach. But Brendan and his beautiful partner who did help me out at port Headland.

Sorry for tomorrow night, thank you very much. But from page of.

The newspaper to day The Sunday Times is a perfect reminder about the number one issue no matter where you are in the country, it is, of course the cost of living situation. This is a situation where they say that sick West Australians and our battling to pay cost of living crunches and are increasingly facing the choice between paying the private medical billshen we talked about that in some detail last week and if you have to give it up, meaning you have to give up sometimes on

She was told she would have to wait five.

Months before she would be able to get a colonoscopy. Sorry, Kelly Hunter, my apologies. That was alarming, As she says, my body was telling me I needed.

Access to this.

Well, she was able to get a colonoscopy because she found a way around the system and because she didn't have to wait till December. They found thirty three polyps and the surgeon said they would have been cancerous by the end of the year. So she was in a moment where if she had had the test when she wanted the test, because her body said I need the test, no cancer. If she had waited till the system says sorry, love,

We've seen this when it.

Comes to people who are measuring out their dosages, when it comes to medicines, and none of this is acceptable. This should be the lead story every night, but because the media has the attention span of the.

Media, they don't.

We remain focused on it because it's where Australians are. New poll out of the Financial Review it again says number one issue that the people of this country want the federal government to deal with is cost of living, then healthcare, then housing, affordability, energy down at twenty three. Although we know how important that is, but think about how much time is spent talking about it. But today

Around the country. He's put off his wedding.

According to staffers, the Prime Minister and his fiance had planned to hold their wins and now we'll do so after the.

Next election to avoid a distraction. What about this paragraph?

Though only a canbra boot liquor would even think about this right The timing defy speculation of the wedding would precede the election to give Labor an electoral boost. Who is you know what, I'm really pissed off about those two little too late tax cuts. He's getting married, Well,

So spooky and different. They write a whole thing about how his PUNEs are landing and his.

Politics of division. Ac't you like when you just hold people accountable? That's division. But anyway, and also you may all have noticed on television here in Western Australia that there's a bunch of ads the Labor Party have launched trying to again all goog with scar scare scare that there's going to be a change to the GST carve out when it comes to Peter Dutton. I won't show you the ad with any words, but they're pulling quotes

Come on showing remarkable strength. A bandaged baby pushes past his pain for a cuddle with mum. Positive steps, just two days after the pair's picnic in a public park turned to horror.

Please to say, while again it's a difficult, it's a very long road. We don't know if it's a whole world of skin grafts, but this was Mum talking.

He seems like his happy self again, which is really nice to see because the last few days have been.

Really, really good and how good are Australians Rather than just sitting back and being annoyed at their television or getting cranky at the radio. A whole bunch of people have given a football stadium's worth of money to this family and make sure I put the links up on our socials.

At the end of the show, the tiny victim will face multiple surgeries, but it's still unclear what scars he may be left with for life. More than fifty thousand dollars has been raised to aid his recovery.

It's restored my faith in the community and that there is kindness out there.

All right, couple, Before we hop on the ferry and make our way toward Rotnest, island and celebrate everything here in Western Australia. As you know, it's great to see Australia versus India in the cricket. The crowds are magnificent, supporting both sides and that is what we are finally getting this summer, some good cricket worth watching here. Of course you'll see it all on Fox Sports. Huh, subtle plug.

Have a couple of cannapeys, little chitty chat.

Oh yeah, and we apparently spent twenty thousand dollars flying a bloke over to play the digitido.

Twenty thousand dollars.

So all you people who've been teaching your kids how to play guitar bug at that pick up the ditch twenty thousand dollars.

Seriously, that is ridiculous, all right.

And when it comes to Kamala Harris and is my mate to send me a text message before the interview? Wise everyon's sitting around pretending this is the moon landing. A very good point because everyone was waiting for the first interview. Now I could sit here and as you know, I would like to do show you this bit and that that bit news bit of data, because sometimes I

Thank you so much for doing this. I appreciated, Senator. So you guys seem to be struggling a little bit with how to approach the new dynamic and Vice President Governor Wells, thank you so much for sitting down with me and bringing the bus. The bus store is well underway here in Georgia. If you are elected, what would you do on day one? In the White town Kamala Harris has two step children. Pete Bootage and his husband have adopted twins. Do you recognize them as parents and

Bro from my mouth a little bit. Seriously.

Now, if you think that's just something happens there, what about here in Australia. You may well be reading headlines like this in the Turnbull Times that Harris is tapping into a near record level of enthusiasm. Yay may the empty pants to be the next president of the United States. Well, you may well have also not seen this headline. Trump is back as the favorite to be the president, not just in the betting markets, but also Nate Silva has got in there at fifty five percent of winning the.

Electoral College over Harris.

Why because the states I always talk about, Pennsylvania and Nevada are now swinging back into his column.

Trump fans in the room, I notice, fight, fight fight.

Let's go all right now we even well, we had a lot of time in Rodest Island yesterday.

It was amazing.

It is one of those great places bucket lists stuff to be able to hang out with the Quakers. But there's so much more to do on the island as we did yesterday. Welcome to beautiful Rodnest Island otherwise known as Rodda the locals. This is a magnificent part of Australia. You have to come here now. As you know, whenever we are around the country, we go on everything from.

A camel to a plane, to a.

Bike, a trike, all the rest of it. But here the segue where you will see the immense power of a slightly overweight man leaning forward and back for your amusement. I've never seen anything like this, and we've been everywhere in the country.

Now.

Normally when people go around the country, it's lots of rock and roll music.

And fast edits.

Let's just have a ten second holiday, enjoy this rottenest.

Wow, Oh my gosh.

Now on, Ronnie, you can stay here, you can work here, but the most important resident here is the Quaker. Now, I'm not going to go all David attenbron you and know my history. Apart from the say hello, buddy, how are you.

Now?

The coucker is in charge here, not allowed to feed them, not allowed to touch them. But I'm going to try to say.

Hello, how are you mate? Hello buddy?

Hi?

Now who do you like? Do you like Trump? Or do you like Kamala Albo or Dutton? Busy?

Hello?

Are you going to try and eat me? You are? Hello? Buddy? You didn't like it too much fun? That was an amazing experience. Thank you, justin You're most welcome. Thank you so much. You've got the best office in Western Australia.

It's not bad is that you've had a bit look at my bad of one.

An incredible thing.

I mean also, you know the nature is so obvious, but there's such a human story here as well, like a prison where indigenous people have been very poorly treated for a long time.

You are so.

Sensitive to telling everyone about the full story of the island.

Absolutely.

Yeah, So we want to get here and we want to.

Bridge that gap and bring everyone together. This is islands for everyone.

Yeah, rutt, this island watch them up place to be very cool.

Now.

Of course you can come here, you can stay here, you can visit here, but if, like us, the fairy is about to go, you have to leave here right now, right now there.

Thank you so much.

Bye, Thank you to everyone, and writing justin to thank you for taking care of us. Toop likes to represent ectididities, bereutifully keep it going, Basil Zempus.

Of course nonether than the mirror of Perth.

And a like on they're here in pole up a Sundon Albert dacb Gentlemen's us all all right, let's start with the super local.

Then we'll get the city wide perspective.

Tell us about this part of per and the country and why it's such a pleasure to represent it.

Great thanks Paulin, Thanks for visiting. The city of Journaler.

One of the largest local government areas in Wa, so about one hundred and sixty five thousand people, but it's also one of the newest. So this is twenty two suburbs along the beautiful Indian Ocean that developed in the last forty or fifty years. Nearly half our population here have come in from somewhere else overseas, so really high level of migrants, but mainly from South Africa, from UK, Ireland, New Zealand, and then increasingly in recent years, from all.

Over the world.

So you've got these brand new communities that have formed in recent decades and an exciting place to be in. It's a prosperous place because we're here in Wa. We're close to Perth, but we're also near the beach and we're still creating an identity for ours elves.

This feels like the microcosm of the biggest city, which again is the same this story of people many got on there, he got in the south, but again house Perth doing.

Obviously under your mayorship.

You'll say better than ever, but give me an idea of the seats of how Yeah, you're.

Quite right, Paul Betan.

We did bounce back out of Covid better than any other capital city, partly because our lockdowns were so few compared to other capital cities. Number one for office occupancy, Six of the top ten ASX listed companies headquartered right in the heart of our city. And we're on the same times on a sixty percent of the world's population. So we're in a good spot in a very prosperous state.

We haven't had that in the heart of our city.

That's ten thousand people added to the daily population of our city in it eighteen months time. So the shape of our city is changing as well. A lot more residents, a lot of student accommodation, huge vibrancy, great free events program.

Perth is in great shape.

Now you can both as locals, can answer this question, what is something that is uniquely awesome about being a Western Australian. What is the thing that is different about the way people interact compared to people who might be used to the grunts of Sydney and Melbourne. Yes, and laid back in Brisbane. But Basil, what's that thing that is only.

A Perth Yeah, I'm happy to go.

Look, there's always been a great confidence that Western Australians and Perth people have enjoyed. We always knew growing up that Sydney and Melbourne were the big cities, but never ever felt inferior. We always had our own thing going on. We had a great entrepreneurial streak, a great confidence. Maybe it was the isolation that gave us that. So there was always a profound sense of let's just get on

I think you're right, the sense of pride we have in the economy that we've built. You can never underestimate how deeply proud our local communities of the resource industry in Wa and I think the East Coast misses that a lot. We're proud of our mining industry, We're proud of our all in gas industry. We're proud that we economically prop up the rest of this country, especially proud that we've done it with such a tiny population in

Now, well, Basil might be Phil here is jap City Center launching.

Look at this when he was there as the celebrity guest.

That haircut, that's.

Not a regulation haircut. No mayor should have a haircut like that, or a tie like that one for that matter.

Well, it's we're compulsory in the nineties.

But it's good to have you back again. Thank you.

It's great to be back in jin like. That's Carmen Lawrence, the former premier, former first female Premier of Western Australia think in fact, the first female premiere in Australia and labor Premier of Western Australia.

So let's talk about what the state needs, what the East Coast needs to change, either its perceptions or more importantly, what you want out of Canberra. You, obviously, as a local government officials have got the chance to bind together in a state, but also travel over with our mate Linda Scott to be along with many other mayors around the joint.

What do you think that you'd like as a change in attitude of Canberra either towards.

This bit specifically or Perth generally. Apart from more money please.

It's always more money please, But you know what, just please don't stuff it up for us, don't get in the way, don't overregulate, particularly environmentally, some of the recent moves in Aboriginal heritage on the East Coast. You're going to make way very nervous. We're proud of what we've built and having CAMBU bureaucrats trying to regulate what happens here in Western Australia is going to be a death knell for that industry that props up our country and leave the live sheep alone.

By the way, you've heard it before.

When mining does well, Western Australia does well, and Australia certainly does well, and Albert's absolutely spot on, get out of the way, assist, but don't get in the way. Let those big projects and our big miners get on with adding to the prosperity of our nation.

That's what they were Donia boys, Thank you for representing more than the way you do.

All the best.

Happy Father's say, Happy father trick, break back with more here on poor Murray life.

Welcome back here to yougle up in Perth. We will up in Perth now.

Also, look, you know it goes without saying, but today's weird day Father's Day. Of course, my little boy Leo isn't with us. I mentioned before about how there's people who would love to be here who aren't here anymore, which means we should really be honest about what that feeling is like and how to deal with things like grief. And as tough as that may sound, we will go through it. We all have to engage with it in

Absolutely so, it is a day at a time, or an hour at a time, or a minute at a time. And I was widowed in twenty eighteen, so it really was back then one minute at a time or one hour at a time. So days that Father's Day can be an event day can be really tricky and challenging. If you're anyone that's experiencing.

Grief, Well, it's that thing where and whether that grief comes out of tragedy, illness, natural life circumstances. Once you start to see the posters having other's day, Happy Father's, Happy Mother's Day, Happy Valentine's, what there's this It's not just the day, it's the sort of echoes around it. For some of the people that'll just be April fourth. Whatever those things are, the change of seasons and footy starting or forty five. There's all these things that remind

Tell me what this is about.

So my experience of grief was that I didn't know what to do or say. It was such a shock. And then also my dad died about eighteen months ago, and again my mum's now we don't or I had to find out what to do and say to support her. And I found that during my own experience a lot of people around me wanted to help, and they had good intentions, but they didn't know what to say or

So the idea is that because at some point we're all going to have to face it. At some point we're all going to have to deal with it, or maybe even we're back processing what's happened here. Obviously we'll put up all the details on our socials and tell people how to get this stuff. My assumption is that any money raised helps fund.

What you do right, absolutely, So, Grief Connects services are grief and bereavement specific support services. So within that there is specialized grief and bereavement counseling that is online. There is the Grief Connect Young Widow Support Group and the Grief Connect over fifty five Widow Support Group that are online peer support groups where people can it's online support but also meet face to face across it might be at a farm post, it might be at a coffee

Can I just say strength and love to you and this is tough, yeah, And the way that you've been able to channel what happened to you into something that helps somebody else is the best possible legacy you can build for the people that you love.

Absolutely, and I'm so proud of you, and I just bet you to know before I really thinking appreciated.

And there's congratulations on the Rural Women's Award, because again, this is not just something that happens in suburban Perth or central Perth. But as this state is as big and wide and you know, third of the country that it is, there are these things can become those little tools that mean when you are over for a cup of tea, if you're having a beer, just sending emails and texts.

It helps you out. What's the website? How do people get this stuff?

Griefconnect dot com dot au pre sale discount is happening through LinkedIn and Facebook, so head there for the pre sale for the cards, for the Connect cards, but for all services, please head to my website.

All right, well, I'm going to buy a hundred of them.

Literally, I'm going to buy a hundred of them and you hand them out to whoever you think needs them.

Okay, I really appreciate that.

Love you, honestly, thank you, Michelle.

I beg you to Harvey Norman who support Michelle and the effort, Shine Awards and so much more. Without half a normal we don't get to travel around the country. We don't get to meet special people like you, and it is the absolute professional honor of my life. So quick break back with more here from wa in a set here this Sunday night, wherever you happen to be, holl orry last, thank you very much for what team

Well done.

Never's a long time viewer.

Thank you for coming on, mate, Thank you for coming on the show. Good man, Thank you all right, So let's talk about what you do. First to you, which is again the are you okay?

Stuff?

And supporting people. How important is it that people in this part of Australia get the support from their mates as well as all the big big welfare sister as well.

Know there are many RSLs around the country. About six years ago now the Junlo b RSL decided to set up a focal point and call it a bit from Supports Center and we did this in Heathridge and the mayor who has disappeared, they gave us the premises all right and we're at the moment we're still there. So it's a focal point for veterans who can come in and we have a team of advocates there who can do the get the process going to get their claims

Love it and love it. Yes, people talk yes.

And if I'll do the au O caves in a minute at the coffee and bullshits, the guys will come along there and first time they win't say buggarow So I'll just look around, sit around and see who's who's here. Next time they come in, they might say a couple of things and all of a sudden they think these guys are the same as me. These guys have the same problems I do. Out it comes and the stories keep coming out. Sometimes they repeat and they repeat. And

Yes, don't worry. If you get in trouble, they can call me now. Back at the Vet Center.

The Vet Center is used by the advocates to interview people who the veterans who want to lodge the acclaims with DVA. So we have a system set up called the IOAK Course and it's simply a four good ladies. There's Debbie, Judy, Aida and Sophie the ladies and they they call. We have monthly calls and there's about one hundred and twenty on that list, and obviously don't get called on the same.

Day or whatever, but it's spread over.

Then we have fortnightly calls and there's about twenty show on that one and weekly course and obviously if you need want a weekly call, you're sitting at home and you want to talk to somebody. And this is where we get a lot of our work from because we

Easy, but I love that.

Again, what you've created is this place where by walking off the street or thinking about walking off the street, eventually getting there begins a process that gets you to that help.

So congratulations on all of that. It's the spectator. Really well up. Thank you. I want to get cat to a couple of you. Just tell me about what you do.

Look, I'm a trauma specialist social worker and have been working in this community, so welcome to jo love It for nearly thirty years as a community worker. And during the last few years two of my programs have just gone a little bit crazy.

Just too much demand, too.

Much demand, So I run the Kindness Challenge, and that's teaching children and young people the mental health benefits of compassion and dad jokes apparently and dad jokes, yeah, have you got another day joke?

I researched the.

One before, not television, because those are the ones you tell other dads.

And we're living in a world where two out of five Australian kids are struggling to.

Their mental health.

And I talk about this all the time, right, and occasionally I'll get some cranky email going, oh why, it's like the kids aren't all right at the moment for whatever reason, and we can all have our view as to what it is, but the evidence keeps coming back.

It's getting worse.

So we've got to do it.

Now.

How am I going to be a guinea pig for you? I understand you are.

Look so I mean basically, when I go into schools and I'm in twenty eight schools here in Perth now, and we basically try to teach them to touch, taste, feel it so that they know the good hormones that go through your body because a lot of us are stressed and full of cortisol, and so when those hormones go through you start to clear out that stress. And so I try to teach them by them actually getting to experience it. And I thought i'd give you a go to.

All right, so let us imagine I am at my mental age, which is year eleven. All right, I'm sitting back year eleven. I laugh at all the same jokes and the same thing.

All right, So what do we do?

Okay?

So I want you to think of somebody here in this room now that you think deserves an act of kindness.

Right now, I think I know exactly who, and.

I'm going to ask you to do that active kindness. And I'm going to actually ask you to ask how they feel, so they see what happens to their body if they flush, and feel what happens to you, because once it's to make notice stuff, it actually changes their mental health.

All right? So am I allowed to get up and ask?

Yeah?

Yeah, let me just give you a present.

You know it's going to be you, all right? Here we go, all right, all right, okay, we pulled everything off. Thank you, good good dress setting boys. All right, there's your gift, thank you? All right, A little box of happiness which.

Is a little local company here and job as well.

So okay, follow me, you're going to see other people moment. Dad, Hi, how are you? Hi? Hi? I just want to say hi, Hi.

Here's my active kindness to you, all right, I love you and Hi Josh. As soon as they saw the active I know they take it well. They're beautiful and their friends from Josh, thank you for what you do. I do appreciate it.

And just whoever put this table together, you're fine. We'll see in a moment here. Thanks, thank you.

Can I just say as well, shout out to everyone from the periscope crew who was part of what Catherine does as well. Now they have put together a movie of film that's about young people with disabilities. Now it I understands, well they did documentary. Sorry I should say about the World Transplant Games. That's now been selected and he is now going to start to be seen in lots of different places. There's even a chance at a

It's been awesome. Ladies. Love you to see you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you absolutely so. Teresa, I'll start with you. Tell us about fostering Hope again. Another example of good things happening for people who desperately need it in this part of town.

Well, we're a.

Non for profit organization based in Mangara, so you probably would know. It's not far from here. Actually it's probably a ten minute drive. We look after cares, faster cares, grandparent cares, teenage kids, anyone that really needs help, any faster cares that come in.

We've got a big store now in Mangara.

They cares will come in sometimes they'll bring their children in with them and they can get toys, shoes, clothes, nappies, wipes, prams, cots, everything you can think of from a baby right up to teens.

So have you seen, like other people have been saying tonight, a greater demand.

Oh, I definitely do, definitely, Yeah, it's a huge demand.

Yeah, So do you think that's because when we know everything's costing a lot more?

But is it because also the support.

Network that we assume is there be a government or thing to some degree for some people is breaking down.

I just think people just don't have the money anymore too, you know, yes, their care is we get a subsidy. We don't get a salary. You know, it's very very low. We're just we're just you know, the shelter and the food for that child that comes into your care. You could get a child in I could get a child and tonight at twelve o'clock and they come with a plastic bag. But that's not fair for the child. You know, that's not fair.

They deserve a lot more. Absolutely, you know it's so hard.

There's over five thousand kids in double Way alone in care.

So can I ask you what might say the silly question, but I'm going to ask it anyway. Why is there such a gulf? Do you think between what we tell ourselves our society is what government tells us is the amount of support that they have for everyone in the reality that they could be a kid tonight, it's going to turn over the plastic bag.

No one just seems to know about it.

You know.

People are very inspired when they come in and talk to us, or we do talk to you know, other organizations about what we do. People don't actually understand. So I could have three extra kids tonight in my home, you know, and.

It could be a couple of toddler's boy toddlers and then a teenager as well. So to have all the clothes, the car seat, the prams, the twin prams. There's been times to where Teresa has had two three kids of the same age and they need it. Not just a twin pram three.

I've had four children, five children under five, and just just keep overloading it. And oh it is Trey, so she'll take another child. Let's give her a call.

Well, you know, And.

That's the thing too, right, So in your experience of it, the relentlessness of it, how do you maintain focus during the relentlessness of it?

How do you find time and find a way.

We're just there for the children really at the end of the day. And that's the thing I really love about fostering Hope is we're We've got so many volunteers. Everyone is a volunteer. We've got no paid people, so every cent donated goes back to the organization and to the children. And we've got such a great support network of volunteers as well.

People really get.

On and we've got elderly people, widows we were talking about grief before. We've got people coming in that may be a little bit lonely as well, and they just need some way to connect with people and do something good for the community. And it's something local as well that people can join in and as little or as much as they want to TOASA.

I think you are going to have an almost perfect answer, because I think it's something that whether you think about it actively, I think you're going to think about it most of the time you're doing what you're doing. If you could look the premiere in the eye of this state, what would you say about not just what you need, but about how we change this sense of there's a whole bunch of people that sort of even the shadows and we don't see them.

What would you say if you could talk to any leader.

I fairly believe the parents need to be helped. You know, they're in and out of prison. A lot of the children I would have had over the last seventeen years. The parents are in it out of prison, you know, drug, alcohol, domestic violence. There's a lot going on in the families that people wouldn't be aware of, you know, and that's why the end of thin care.

What about just that sense of love and support that comes from our community. Do you feel that that outside of you know, your immediate connections, that there you are getting support because obviously everyone in this room's going to love what you're doing, everyone watching until it's going to want to try to give what they can do You do you have that sense or is there a little breakdown that we need to do.

We need volunteers.

Yeah, we really need badly, badly in need of.

In whichever organization you want to volunteer. And it's such a great way to connect with other human beings and to stop being isolated. I think that's part of the problem as well as that sense of isolation that some people and you might be sitting in a family and still feel isolated, but if you can reach out to a local volunteer organization or charity, it's just such a great way to connect.

Yeah, because you look at that sense too where and looking obviously. Tonight we've focused on a whole bunch of organizations, and deliberately so not to tell a downbeat story about a great city and a great suburb, but to talk about how there are so many different ways everyone can help.

All right, there's lots of different ways all the time.

And be it at an RSL to veterans, be it about the kids making the films, about you guys that as you say, volunteering, and that's something that we've also seen. The numbers have gone down over the past little while. Either free time because you're taking care of your own grand teams, you've got to work it.

People just seem to be very busy and you'll come in, they'll fill out all the forms. Oh yeah, we'll come back, and what day I'll ask them. I'm the volunteer manager. I'll say to my what day suits you. We're very flexible. We open from Tuesday to Saturday and it's only from half nine to half one, so they are nice little

Wouldn't it be great if we work playing charities?

Yeah?

Yeah, I mean I bang on about this a lot, right, which is the federal government has a surplus. And again look you know what time your mom, But this isn't about team read. Federal government has a surplus, which means it has more money than knows how to spend. For goodness sake, spend it on charities like right now, take a couple of billion off the top and find.

A way to get it to the people that are doing.

It rather than what I'll never forget that experience again, my mum when she was putting together like a mental health line in the suburb.

We grow up.

So this form, this form, this form, this form miss ten thousands. What about a different system where at this moment when things were on fire, rather than sort of begging the fiber goal.

You just spoke a minute ago about that guyed, I've got twenty thousand for the digit we do a things.

Yeah, that would have gone.

It's such a long way for us. Yes, look at all those homes that would have been filled with stuff for them to take home, natties and wapes and everything, but we just.

Find ways to waste it.

Now, if people want to find out more, where's the website? How do people stay in touch?

What do we do FoST rank Hope Australia dot org dot au. Check us out if you want to volunteer, If you want to donate, We take prams, we take clothes, we take books and toys, anything that you want, and you know you want to know that it goes directly to a child in need, either in Perth or or We support a lot of communities up north as well.

Good stuff. Thank you very much, Thank you for what your move.

Stick where you are, because Josh, you're coming the pie.

I have been winging all show.

You see this wonderful array of sausage rolls. These were all collected. I'm coming too close, I know, I'm just that excited to shove them towards Australia. All right, Please would you like any of the finest pastry and meat that we've got? This is just oh no, please mum, no, we don't want to leave you out anyone else.

Please pass it around the room. Let's go. We know how much I love this stuff. Now.

I would love to put a display on how to eat all of these, but I don't want that video on media watch, so over here you pass them around as well, because we got the pies in the room. All right, all right, can you take the tray and pass it along?

Thank you? All right, okay, thank you very much. Oh the post.

Thank you to everyone here at the Kangaroo Arms as part of the Jodle Up resort.

Thank you to all of our team. Thank you everyone for.

Joining us tonight to support from Purpose to magnificent Western Australia as well. This show is only possible thanks to the great support of the wonderful Harvey Norman. Congratulations to Katie Page, who was in the papers this weekend about her support for both Olympic and Paralympic athletes. Good to see that the Powers are off to a roaring start with us getting five gold medals thus far. We'll talk

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