Live from Calcooley.
This is Paul Murray live out town.
Can I say you welcome to Westerners straight to cal Gooley.
Can I how are we?
We've been Hi?
Love it.
Cold country has been awesome to us this weekend and we are having.
The best time of our lives.
We've had an awesome time here. I continue. Our experience in Cawgooley has.
Been one that has taken us to all different places. Lots of fun tourist stuff to see around the place. The countryside is phenomenal. With that bloke is the best tourism guide I've seen in all the years we've done it. He's rock and roll and we'll get to all in a moment or two's time. Like al legend Kevin Bloody Wilson my friends KBW.
Got on your ripping ow gooy Native.
He's on the show tonight. Looking forward to this.
We'll get the celebrating Kowgooley, which is a magnificent part of the world. Honestly, you've got to come and visit. It doesn't matter when the weather will be fine. The people are fantastic and there is so much to see. This was the sunset that was here a bit earlier. Tonight it is absolutely ripping, okay mate, And anytime you get outside and have a chance to go a little
further out, amazing, stargazing, just beautiful country. All right, let us talk about politics, because you may notice we have an election. By this time next week we will know who has either been re elected for the next three years or a new broom. Are you looking forward to a reelection or a new broom? Room boo ons, they're saying, Albert boo Earns. All right, well, correct, there are just six days until the federal election, and an extraordinary number
of people have already voted. It is almost three million people who have already voted. Early voting again kicks up again tomorrow. There's about two point four million people who have already cast their votes. I say go and do it tomorrow. Why, because no one's going to change your mind. So let's try to change the country with your vote. And remember what you do with your preferences really matters. Five hundred thousand postal votes have already been returned. There's
another two and a half million outstanding right now. The latest polls they show that maybe things a bottomed out when it comes to the Liberal Party slide. But if the polls are right, there will be a reelection of the Albanezi government in just a few days time. The news pole which is dropped in the Australian newspaper will be front page news tomorrow. But I can tell you tonight that it is going to be most likely a
hung parliament, but not by much. They're closing in on a potential majority of seventy six seats the Labor Party fifty two to the coalition's forty eight. Worth noting here the one nation vote and I've talked about this how many days, how many weeks, how many months, and now how many years. It is now at eight percent. Paul And in fact was here in Koguli over the weekend. She was at the Nullaboar muster, which was four hours
up the road. I can tell you that is one of the reasons why maybe the pubs were slightly quiet a last night, because lots of people were there.
And having a good time.
Well, the Pauline Hanson Party is now eight percent now they were five percent of the last election, three points up and with her being very clear about preferencing that if you vote one nation preference, the LNP that is what could be the game changer and the game savor from the coalition, not just in terms of whether they keep the seats they have, whether they go backwards, but
where they are able to go forwards. Now that national number is going to be different in Western Australia where the Upper House has got a one nation member, in South Australia where the Upper House has a one nation member, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, all of those factors slightly higher, slightly lower. But you can't help but see the Labor Party is two points higher than where they were at the last federal election. The LMP is about where it
was at the last election. And here's the bit that if you're a hardcore team Blue supporter is not going to fill you with much confidence. But you know we don't do happy talk. I'll tell you what's going on, so nobody wakes up.
Surprised.
News Poll did a survey of people about whether the government deserves to be re elected or whether the opposition is ready to govern. Just thirty nine percent of people in Australia believe the government deserves to be re elected, but sixty two percent are unconvinced that the opposition is ready to govern. As for the bookies, the numbers get tighter now. So if you think there is an upset
in the offering, better responsibly. But six dollars is what the Coalition is paying in and around six dollars on sportsback, lab Brokes and at the tab. For his part, Peter Dutton seems to have turned a corner and decided, bug.
Of this, I'm going all in now.
Yes, a significant number of people have already voted, more people have not. There is apparently about twenty percent of people that will make their decisions in the last few days. And Peter Dutton says, like we say on this show, nothing is inevitable.
In fact, you're going to decide, not the media.
We are in the fight of our lives the course of the next six days. I have no doubt in my mind that we can win this election. Forget about what you've been told by the ABC and the Guardian and the other hate media.
Forget about that.
How Good's ripping into the Guardian the Turnbull Times. Oh didn't they dislike that good? Bug of them? All right? Now, As for the Prime Minister, he thinks that this tougher tone from Pety Dutton, of course, means cue the Uga booga music.
A choice between building Australia's future or a darker, meaner, nastier reboot of the past, A choice between going forwards or getting dragged backwards.
Do you think that's what the opposition is pushing in this election, a darker, meaner version of the past. Or they just want to get rid of a government that hasn't done great in the past three years? Right, correct? Take the pain away, all right? I like a good cowgolly crowd. I was promised to a fire up and I want to get it. And if you're not allowed enough, we're going into the gold bar. And I know a you're going to are up in there. That's the joint you go to at the very end of the night.
I've been here for a couple of nights and I know that. And they've got sticky feet to prove it. All right, it's said sticky shoe anyway, You get the point. One of the things that has changed during this election, and we know it has changed polling wise during the election is the question of cost of living. Cost of living number one issue, But who has the better solution to it? Have look at this This is the News
poll and some of the data behind it. It shows that in the past month or so, massive swing towards the Labor Party, and you can see that they're back to where they were at the start of the voice here in February twenty twenty three. Now, my Labor friends, and believe it or not, there is one or two who still talk to me. They just don't believe that the swing is this big because, put simply, why would you think one thing for two years and then magically change your.
View in just a few weeks.
So obviously, if we're sitting here next week and that's what all the numbers are, well, then yet all of that was right.
But those huge spikes may be an area.
Worth talking about if again you're trying to work out why one team seems to be going forward while another has either stagnated or has gone back in the past few months. The most popular policy at this election, according to the News poll, is the halving of the fuel tax. I think in a place like Kalgoula, you'd like to have the fuel tax, right, especially when bugger flying to Perth, I'll drive six hours.
Right, That's going to matter, Okay, particularly in big areas.
But have a look here where you can see huge number of people. This is the blue or the light blue that shows support for a policy. Darker the colors, the less support there has that forty nine plus twenty seven is the most popular policy in the election. But you can see the new killer and once you start
to get into that, people start to fire up. Let's compare that to where the Labour Party is and because basically all of their policies are firing money canonate people, they don't have the same negatives to all of them. Hence why the job for the opposition and Peter Duttan is on our show Tuesday night, don't forget ask me anything, and we've got questions from all.
Over the country.
We're going to see plenty of wonderful, smiling faces of the Sky News audience being able to do one of the biggest shows we've ever done in our election coverages over all of those years, will be here on Tuesday night. Is they've got lots of questions, and they've got lots of questions that really are not focused on where the governments tried to change your conversation for the past couple
of weeks. So again the election comes down to has Labor been able to change the conversation in the past few weeks or are Australians where they have been for the.
Past couple of years.
Over on Channel seven, the final leader's debate has just finished off and as always, there are five things that I have to tell you about an election debate. Now, I don't just say this because I like the People's Forum where Sky News and obviously we're not seven, we're not nine. But my goodness, it's not a freaking game show. Okay, I get it. Detail is boring, the grains of sand on the beaches at times a little bit complicated, but the idea of basically grunts or cuddles being the way.
That you should argue for the future of the country.
You had an hour of television tread it more sea Seriously, I say that because they decided when they speakers were talking.
They often have.
Only about a minute and like any of us can say anything mildly complicated about what our plans are for the next month, let alone our actual ideas for the country and the multifaceted way they work to do it in a month. But as the minute was closing down, not only is the clock there, so eventually your eye starts not paying attention to what's being said on either side. But they had music underneath it to make it seem like a game show.
This is what I'm talking about.
Look, massive spending has led to inflation staying higher for longer and under this government, if they're re elected with the Greens, more spending will mean higher interest rates and that will be devastating for homeowners to right across the economy.
Now you our Australian values and will build Australia's future. And we know the impact that that has on the Australian people.
Is to fix up the energy crisis because that's what's driven up the cost of food by thirty percent.
It's driven up the.
Cost of everything across the economy and that has to be.
The real I think, when you think about it, that's really annoying. And obviously the leaders had it in their head as well. So think about this all right, as a person who is lucky enough I can't claim can't dance, is able to think on the top of my head about all sorts of complicated pieces of information. Again my only superpower, right, But if you started to introduce somebody talking in my ear, which sometimes happens, or you introduce music, you're going to start to you start to pay attention
to the clock. So I understand that for a lot of people that don't pay as much attention as you guys do in the room and people watching at home. But surely there's a midpoint between me banging on for thirty five.
Minutes about the little data that.
Comes here and there all the sixty seconds music playing up stuff.
I thought it was quite strange, all right. Number two Dutton turned up.
Peter Dutton clearly won the debate, and this will not be one of those fifty to fifty calls.
Okay.
The only people that are going to say that Albo won the debate are people who are going to already thought that he won the debate before it took place. Now, you could be a labor supporter, but you cannot watch the past hour of television and conclude that Dutton didn't come prepared and he hit very hard. Now that will of course be interpreted by the love media or the hate.
Media, as he says, as the nasty turn to the past.
I think people just want to see some fight, right, because we're tired of the PMBs, We're tired of the media trying to change the subject. So sometimes you've got to go a little bit loud, to go up and over the top of the gatekeepers. Remember, majority of people have not voted. The polls say one thing. The book he say one thing. If that's the case, then their science works. But it's up to you to have the conversations with your family members. It's up to you to
decide how this election goes. Not do what he is expected or what you imagine your neighbor to be doing. Remember, you get the chance to decide whether it's three more years of the same or the joint change's course. As for the Prime Minister, surprise, surprise, same old scares of everything from work from home to cutting public servants. But let's get to the number four. In the things that I've noticed here in the debate, many of the questions were more so sort of empty statements than any kind
of tight or hard question. In fact, this is a little example of what was being asked of the leaders.
What will you do from Sunday to make their lives easier? What does the Australian dream look like today? For an average Australian in the property market. Mister Dutton, you're promising nuclear energy in ten years. Mister Albanezy, you're back in green energy. Why do you think your plan is best? To keep the lights on, mister Dutton.
But it did start to get specific and the specific question that was asked by Mark Riley and up the moment of the debate and potentially a turning point in the election. I know that means I'm putting a lot of weight on it, but this was the question and Cargooley, if you have an opinion, feel free to cheerboo or say what you think after this question.
Mister Dutton as Prime minister, we know you won't stand in front of the indigenous flag. Will you have Welcome to country ceremonies where you have smoking ceremonies? Will you acknowledge the traditional owners at your official events?
Do you think that's a big election issue?
Yeah, well, guess what Peter Dutton decided to use the moment where she firstly explained that the fakeness of that question that you refused this none. I'm going to stay in front of the Australian flag because of the Australian flag is the.
One symbol for all people. And then he went there.
He went there and said that there have been too many ceremonies when it comes to welcome to country, that it's something that should only be kept for speed occasions, not the opening of an envelope, not the start of a meeting, not the start of a football game. You agree or you like an I apologize we didn't open tonight's program with that.
I know my crowd. Though I know my crowd.
This will be a big part of the news and a little later, if I get the chance, I'll show you. Otherwise this will be the talking point of the next few days. So those are the five things. All right, Politics done, Let's celebrate Calgoley. We're happy to be here and there's lots to tell you about this incredible part
of Australia. Look, if you're happen to be driving from Perth across the country, you'll be at six hour drive, otherwise about an hour in and it is a magical part of Australia, one that is famous for its goal. It's the heart and soul for Australia's gold mining industry. The super Pit is a phenomenal It's this massive gold mine where the trucks take an hour to get from the top of the bottom. It's like four k's across and five k's wide.
It is amazing. We're going to have a look at that in a second.
As for beautiful Cowgooley, there's twenty nine thousand, three hundred and six people who live here, and occasional topless waitresses about another two hundred and fifty, but we don't count them in the census thirty four. I'm just getting the haircut.
Thirty four very specific local reference.
Thirty four is the media range here and the most frequent country of birth outside of Australia is New Zealand. Any kiwis in the room tonight, Cura all right? As did I get it right?
Loose? Good? She's like our live in New Zealand here all right.
Well, we had an opportunity to be able to look around, to see things from the air, but also to introduce you to Alan.
Alan is a tour guide.
This bloke, like I know, there's a mayor and MPs and we're going to get them all on. But this guy find a way to make this bloke citizen in the year every year, because not only was he a great tour guide. I reckon he's a great TV talent as well. Our boss is paying attention. Let's give him a show once a week.
More. In a second, here we go. Cagooley's on the edge of the desert. That's the outback of Australia.
And one of the highlights of Calgooley is something that has made a lot of people a lot of money over a long time. Gold Baby. This is gold country and this is the super pit. Kilometers this way, kilometers that way, and it's got at least another twenty years of life in it. It takes what about an hour to drive one of these trucks from the top to the bottom. And the bloke is going to show us around this joint is a guy called Alan. He's the best tour guide I've.
Ever ever seen.
Sixty three million ounces.
Of gold twice as much to come out, and the already taken out all right.
To your match.
It's about five thousand ounce now, yeah, not always, and.
At what it does cost them. It costs them one thousand, six hundred and forty dollars an ounce to put it into gold bar right, work that out, So they're making lots.
Of money they're supposed to be hired by now, but no, no, he loves a joint so much.
Yeah, he's going to tell you everything he knows. Let's start here right.
This is the bucket off the big shovel at the scoop seventy ton of one scoop yep. It's worth one point two million dollars and it loads a dump truck every four minutes. The diger has cost about one eighteen point five million dollars just for the digger. So that operates in the pit fall day, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, non stop.
Everything's big in Western Australia.
This superpt is owned by Norman Star. There's twelve hundred workers here and you must reside in Calgildy to work here. They don't like fly and fly out. As keeps the town going, keeps it together. And it's about forty three dump trucks going up and down the present in the pet by twenty twenty seven that it should be about seventy.
Okay, up, we've spent the day with the Gold Country under our faith. What does it look like from the sky?
So the supplicated itself right now is about six hundred meters seven hundred meters deep in the ground. At the moment, we are about five hundred and fifty meters above in the air.
So the hole in the ground is deeper than we are above in right now. Yes, we are half we are we're half okay in the sky and.
This is more than half a kay into the dirt.
Yeah, and we were just down there where alf. You have to do this.
You have to see the colors, you have to feel the sky, you have to see forever. This is a spectacular way, the best way to see at back Australia.
Seven the sky.
Who are flying us?
I thought it was interesting that most of the telemetry showed the plane was flying like this for most of the time while I was sitting on the back. But there he goes you eventually was able to constantly get it back a nice and level because she had some brother large cargo. All right, Three people who know this place like the back of their hand and have been chosen by the locals to represent it. Let's introduce you to Rick Wilson is the local federal MP for O'Connor.
Kirsty Dellu's the Dippitty mayor here in Calgooley and Glenn Wilson is the mayor one and all.
Hello, we love it to be here.
Now, Glenn, I swore there was a bloke who looked very close to you that was singing across the road.
You know, no moonlighting last night.
You didn't put on a special mask, because I swear that was you belting out their hits, probably about.
Twelve years ago, not so much in recent time.
Yeah.
Right, that's a good good gear here, all right, this area.
Is a place to represent.
The wonderful thing is they've got a wonderful BS detector and they're all straight shooters, so nobody's going to hold back, and they're all going to tell you what they think. What do you think they're most proud of about.
I think it's our resilience and the way that we go about things here in Calgarli Boulder, and I notice that you haven't mentioned Boulder too much. Boulder is also part of Kowgouli, So I just want to throw as well, thank you.
There.
You get the good points there, We go to that. But it's also I'm not running for enda. I'm trying to explain to the rest of it, you know, Kagoli Boulder Bolder.
It's the way that people treat each other.
It's the way that I guess anyone in the community who's feeling things a little bit tough, they get their arms wrapped around them by the rest of the community. We're very resilient, we look after each other and we've got a really strong makeshif here.
So Rick, when you go to Canberra, you've got all sorts of people who have all sorts of opinions about things like mining, but also they're in very different settings.
I mean this area Cagouli Boulder is very different, very.
Sparse, but also you know it has has all of the metropolitan facilities that any regional center does. But it must be fun to come up against some of these in the city MPs who are winging that they've got to go. Oh the traffic, it's twenty minutes.
Just how big is your electric It's one point one million square Alongnor's Paul.
But Kagoley is a very special part of it.
And we do produce across the gold fields around fifteen billion dollars worth of wealth for this nation. And I'm very proud to represent the people that work here. And as Glenn said, they're very resilient, very tough, and there certainly no bs out here.
Now obviously you're in the middle of an election right now and we hear MPs or Canada's talking about door knocking when you've got people with big blocks of land, are you literally just choppering from one.
Joint to another to knock on the door?
No choppers, But yeah, I spend a favot of time on the road. But it's the communities are very very supportive, and it's they're very discreet. So you turn up in a community, they know you there, they appreciate you turning up. And certainly Cawgoli is one of the place so I enjoy spending a lot of.
Time And Kirsty, what's it like again the honesty of the people. And you've got the people that have been here their whole lives or people that have just starting a new version of their life here. How do you personally try to balance all of those different interests at times?
There's so much to do in Kalgarley, Paul. The diversity here is just amazing. I myself came here twenty seven years ago, so I'm still not considered local.
I love that I love that everywhere.
It doesn't matter whether it's Lonnie or whether it's Cans people or say the same thing.
Yeah, and I was embraced back all those years ago and still now today. I'm involved in hockey, football, golf, all of the sporting places and the business community around town also now on council, So the community there to support you. They really do let you know that you're either doing a great job and they also let you know when things are not going how they should.
We are a week out from an election. But also this is an area that produces so much wealth for the rest of the country and so much product for the rest of the world. What do you need.
What's sort of stuff that Perth and Camber needs to pay just a little bit more attention.
We need power, We need water to critical pieces of infrastructure that will better facilitate bigger developments here in the city and for the greater goldfields.
At the same.
Time, our pipeline from Perth can only take so much. We're relying on an umbilical cord of five hundred and six hundred kilometers for our power. We need that resilience in our region and we also need to have that to build capability within our city and to grow it. At the same time, as a local government, we went down a path to enable rare Earth's processing here in
the city of Calgary Bold. We need some better investment in that moving forward to be able to facilitate better opportunities for our community.
So, in terms of again arguing these questions in Cambra, how do you do it? How do you make sure that I'd imagine there is a collaborative relationship between state and federal government because the reality is if this place doesn't have that sort of resources, then what it sends back and sends over.
To the rest of the world changes. Well.
Glenn mentioned the our umbilical cord six hundred klmeter transmission line that runs to Collie, which is another town in.
My electric which has been in the news and.
Last year we had a seven day power outage which was devastating for the community of course, but also the local industry as well. So we need to, I think, to secure the future of Cawgooli and the resource sector, have a power generation source based here in the golfers there, whether that be gas or.
Six days ago, we knows how a fire pick crowd well done.
I'm going to give you the thirty second spiel. Why should people come and visit this beautiful part of Australia.
It is the heartbeat of Australia, it really is. We are the heart of the goldfields here and why not come here. We've got everything that you need right here on your doorstep on a big red platter.
Bluddy.
Oh, thank you guys, loving to see you and love you to meet you. Thank you for having us here in this beautiful part of Australia.
All right, quick break back with.
More believe it or not, Candy out the connects to you.
An American president and Keaven Bloody Wells is on the show tonight.
Brought a second.
And welcome back here to Caldooley. Hello.
Now I have got to explain here about the beautiful Palace hotel. This mirror, which is extraordinary, was a gift from a US president who had spent some time in his early twenties in the gold industry here and Herbert Hoover, Yes, the Hoover Dam apparently had formed quite a connection to a local bar mate. So, being a rich bloke who wanted to show off, he decided to send a president one that she couldn't take home one that she could only leave in the hotel, of which he enjoyed very much.
So if you get the chance to be here, you can read the love note.
And just outside the pub there's a lovely mural as to the beautiful lady who book a President's heart. All right now, we know that the wonderful people of Harvey Norman who we cannot go around the country without the support they support incredible organizations like Zephyr Education and what Ability. Here's part of how they help people, not just here but right around regional Australia. There are so many beautiful organizations doing wonderful things across this great country, but one
that is so special to me is what Ability. They create fun and meaningful community experiences for those living with the disability.
And we've been.
Lucky enough to get to know them so well over the years, and I think they are all types of laws.
Just because someone has a disability doesn't mean they can't or they don't want to. And the sooner that we're embracing give them the opportunity. There happy the world's going to be.
None of this is possible without our mates at Harvey Norman who've been proud partners of this amazing organization for three years now.
Having a partner like Harvey Norman on board is massive for a company like what Ability. Leveraging off their brand condition in the Australian society and how much impact that they already have helps amplify that message about making a more inclusive world for us.
The little things.
That they do with our families and participants, whether it's our back to school program by donating equipment to help our participants get back into the community and live a more joyful life, or if it's in our camps where they've donated soda stream pizza ovens are making our camps really special. Having that partnership is pretty cool.
We go fishing.
The activities I do with Utability like fun and they like help you socialize and stuff and like connect better with other people that have don't know much.
Fun and happiness comes first at what whether it's a trip to the beach or a game of footage, temping bowling.
For today, visiting the ArKade.
What is the.
What Ability has been amazing to us. They've invited the whole family.
Two events.
I've been to the Cricket with Reese and what ability twice where they do jet ski days where they include the family with the social workers that come out and get him on the weekends and on the school holidays. Gives us a little bit of a break, but also gives him social skills out in the public to with learning new people and meeting new people.
Reese has been on quite a few of our camps. He absolutely loves our camps.
He's always fishing.
He loves his fishing. Basically, we get five or six participants in a big, beautiful ab and b all together. We create beautiful friendships and relationships between support workers and other participants, showing them that there's other people out there like them, that they can have just as much fun, but also growing their independence and going through those challenges of life.
There are so many more organizations dedicated to supporting families across the country. Just like another one of Harvey Norman's great partners, Zephya Education.
We are dedicated to helping children who have been affected by domestic violence begin a new life at a new school by providing everything that they need to continue their education.
Education is so important for these kids who live in crisis because it can restore their confidence and it gives them a sense of belonging that they may be missing elsewhere. Zephyr Education helps kids get back to school as fast as possible. They provide things like school uniforms, bags, stationary shoes. And while the volunteers don't get to see the faces of the kids or the parents that receive these wonderful school packs, Nikola wanted to share a special message with them.
We are here and we do care for you. Our aim is to make your life easier, to enable your children to have a smooth start at their new school.
Such a beautiful organization and I'm very pleased to announce tonight. I'm really pleased.
To announce tonight that Harvey Norman are going to donate another sixty thousand dollars to Zephyr Education Australia.
So give them a round applause for that effort.
So break donates and and they're great people, will make sure that they can help people doing small things, and those small things together lead up to something pretty big and amazing. And also when we've been traveling around the country, locals get to go into their local Harvey Norman store to nominate people who they think are running organizations that deserve a nice and chunky giftout from Harvey Norman to
be able to continue going to new heights. And I'm pleased to say that here in Calgooley, the North Calgooley Cricket Club, along with the Lisa Ashley Caretaker in Calgooley and the North Calgooley Primary.
School are all going to be the beneficiary.
So I heard the collapse for the cricket club, what about everything else?
Let's go two thousand bucks.
Two thousand bucks and all my heart Norman people in the room, thank you so much.
You are awesome to see at the store yesterday. And Harvey Norman who take us around the country, thank you very much. Now a man who is world famous. World famous is Kevin Bloody Wilson and he is crom And.
Calls and lot's how Gooley kV W.
I'm sorry you're not.
With us here in the palace, but I'm sure you've got plenty of tales of the pubs around this part of Australia.
I've been trying to have that place many a time.
I called Bloody Bar. Were good to see you, made so good to see you. Tell us what Calgooley means to you and how it.
Is this little part of you, big part of you that you take around the world with you. How does Cawgooley ground you as such a massively and well known blow.
Well, firstly, I wasn't born in Calbiley. I was actually born in Sydney. I only ever lived in Calberley. I arrived there as a young musician. I was almost twenty and started playing for ten days at the Foundry Hotel in nineteen sixty seven, and that ten days blew out to fourteen years and I came away fourteen years later pretty skilled in most of the things that I'd attempted, certainly the music side of it. With radio announcing both
on the ABC and six KG in Calgoley. I also managed to score a five year at old apprenticeship with the Nicol smelter as an electrician. I was not very good at that and came away fourteen years later with the wife and two beautiful children. So yeah, that Colbill is my hometown, without a doubt, my hometown.
This is it.
It's such a lovely place and the people that people do genuinely support each other. But also what I love, and I say this with a compliment about both Calgoley and Boulder, which is they'll give you a solid kick in the ass if you need one too.
Well, I've got a few of those along the way as well, particularly as a single blow.
Let's talk about you know this, this generations of audiences that have seen you live, that bought the tapes, that bought the DVDs, that still see you live, and that literally you're about to go back out on the road again. Tell us about the writing process. Has that changed over the years, that what was you know, the way you came up with a song decades ago was no different than what you'll do now, not at all.
Well, well, sort of loaded question. Certainly.
A lot of the songs that I started out with were former mates about the mates, and I'll give you an example like Mick the Master Farta that was a story about Yes, there's there's so many of them, so many of them. I think there's at least half a dozen songs that I've recorded that feature Calbilly in them, and I always talk about it no matter where I am around the world. I always talk about my background in calbilly and how we got started decomposing other people's
songs in the in the pubs. Had a little band happening, and you'd get tired of doing the same songs night after night. So I changed the words a little bit and so again, and I heavily relied on the mates too to be the I guess the art's end of it all. So I wrote the song about my mates.
As I say former.
Mates, collaborators, you quite correctly say your mates, which is exactly true. Why do you think the staying power is there? Because again, you are doing hundreds of dates a year. Nothing's nothing slowing down here. Why do you think you're still going strong in twenty twenty five?
I love what I do, Paul, as as simple as that. What would I retire to music? Spent my life and I never learned to fish in Calberley, so fishing wasn't an option. We didn't have a decent golf course. The golf was never an option. So everything that I've been able to do all stems from my background and as a foundation in Calberley.
And I'll just google his.
Name, no correct, google his name, Kevin Bloody Wilson, find the website, find the tour dates, go and support him, introduce him to the next generation. I know that certainly any chance I've had to be on the route around the country.
You are on the playlist.
It doesn't matter whether it was to take the CD Spotify or me just singing about the bloke with a double joint at ass.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Kevin Bloody Wlson.
Back there I'm doing.
How really love me?
Thank you kV W. How goodness is more than a second You of a Pullbury life from tow girlby Welcome back to.
The Irish pub here in the Palace Hotel in Towgooley. What a magnificent spot this is in Western Australia. As you can see around this joint is absolutely decked out. You're not support for choice when it comes to hotels and pubs around here, but this is this is absolutely spectacular. This beautiful room which yeah again please come and visit. You can also upstairs. Lots of great options to stay
around here and hang out with the locals. Now, obviously this weekend was Antac Day on Friday and because of the travel, we did our show in Perth on Thursday night and got up before sunrise to go to a service at Collerslow Beach in Perth. We then had a bit more fun once we got to Calgooli. Anzac Day is the day where we honor the bravery and sacrifice of everyone who served to defend our nation. This year we did something we've never done. We went to Collislow
Beach in Perth. This place is magnificent on any day, but on this day it had extra meaning. You see, the local surf clubs were doing what they did ten years ago for the one hundredth anniversary of the Gallipoli landings. They came boat by boat in from the ocean to the sands, just as our boys did in nineteen fifteen. After honoring the fallen in a uniquely wa way, like every one year of mine, in the afternoon starts to
turn to two up. But unlike most people that played two up on Ansac Day in Kolgooli, you can play it all year round.
One thirdreta.
There's a lot more pressure on this than you think, right Like I'm telling it's all this serious, serious money.
This has been since signed in fifty eight as a signed. Dad was in the Second a War.
He fought up in Timor and there.
Was only four hundred either of them.
They were like four runners to the sas and they survived against fifteen thousand, and they used to play too up take their mind off things. And people look forward to coming out Sunday afternoons and playing, you know, and yeah it is it's there is.
A lot of spirit here, you know, from a lot of characters over the years, and you can feel sometimes you can you can feel that you know, you come out of here.
You don't want tail. I noticed it's on a slight slag ye for what purpose?
Well, they're probably a bit cleverer than what you think. In the early days when they back to that story, the copery was in charge at the time called dad in one he said, mind blakes got better things than have been chasing you around the bush everywhere.
So this site was like agreed upon.
So like it's far enough away from town, so you sort of want to make your conscious decision.
To come and play. And the angle.
Of it sort of like adds excitement to the pennies running.
Ah.
Yes, and also if it rains the water runs away.
A good time had by it all, and a lot more bent by other people than me, I promised Darling. Now, Ossie Gold Hunters, it's a great show which you can find on Foxtel, lots of other platforms I think seven plus gives that are run as well. This is a show that I've watched for years, and in fact, my little girl Asher and I have bonded watching this show over the years. And every time somebody you know does well, she does the little gold Hutters dance because that's the
feeling it's like to strike gold. And Paul mackiw is a man who is part of that scene and you can see him on Ossie Gold Hunters.
Love it to see you, mate, Thank you very much for being here. Thanks so good to see you. All right, So the gold business, when did you get into it?
Oh Jesus grew up with it?
Basically, yeah, getting dragged out bush with the old man and swinging a metal detector. And once you've found your first goal nugget, there's no going back.
So give me an idea because again, you know, I mean TV, you know, surprise, surprise, a little bit of magic here and there.
But give me an idea about those early years.
How do you keep up the patients for it because obviously it can be hidden miss and it's all well and good than in a one hour show, you.
Know why, But you could go days without anything.
It's faced and famine, and you've got the weather to contend with as well, so as many times you can get out the bush and just keep chasing that dream. But yeah, it's definitely a long, long wind, long time between wins.
And then as you as you start to build a team and the operations get get bigger and more complicated, is that more headaches.
Or more reward?
It's both.
The monetary factor is a huge headache, especially the price of DSER. When you're running your own equipment, everything comes out of your back pocket and you've got to find that goal to put it back in and to keep on keep that dream alive.
I always think that that one of the many reasons I like the show is again when I'm sitting there talking with Asha and Zati, of course, where you've got to mention both trying to explain to them that it's a little microcosm of the risk reward of mining, right, which is obviously you've got to look for it, you've got to pay for it to find it, and then you've got to extract it all the rest of it, right, and that can be just one man band, two person band,
But then obviously up into the much bigger operations. I've got to say that this show in particular, which has been going for a long time, has really familiarized people, I think, with mining, and it's a credit obviously to the producers, but the participants yourself. Is that part of why you want to do it, why you keep doing it, because it spreads a certain word about what you do.
It's about teaching the average guy and the average family and kids, you know that you can actually get out there and do it yourself. It's not just big mining companies that have the joy in finding gold and claiming it. You know, anyone can do it so and I love the fact that I can teach them how to process it to find it.
It's not just metal detectors.
There's a whole range of.
Different different things that you can do to find gold, and that's what I personally love the most.
So in terms of the things, are you also somebody who.
Occasionally can get a little bit sort of mad scientist about new ways of trying to do things?
Yeah? Yeah.
In the earlier days, for sure, I was always trying to concoct a new method. But at the end of the day, you just go back to what the old times did one hundred years ago. They're proven techniques work, and that's something that we don't have to go to university.
Just study.
Now, I'm going to ask the dumbest question you're going to hear all day. Why is this region so rich with gold?
It comes back to the geology of it. Of course, we're in one of the most oldest, oldest countries on the planet. And what we've been, we've not Mother Nature has given us here is just phenomenal.
And it's a thing where again, what used to be flying rivers now not sediment becomes rock, rock becomes being of it all.
Are you internationally known?
Do you get some strange fan mail from someone in Finland or something saying I love when you go.
Looking for gold?
I do.
I've got a lot of someone said you're Futo, haven't they.
I've got a lot of fun as, But.
I don't actually go on those sides and whatever.
Look at it.
My wife's banned me fair enough.
But you tell me about that thing about being someone on the other side of the world that this is the joy of TV.
But the type of TV that you're involved with, Yeah, it's.
Huge in Eastern Europe. It's over one hundred or twenty different countries around the world. So the biggest thing for me is walking into Bunnings. You just get to stand out everywhere. It doesn't matter what Bunnings you're in. People will always say it. You're like, I know that guy from somewhere, but here what I mean, Cayl Gurley, I just fly under the radar, which is great a.
Nice fellow, isn't it. So give me an idea about where you'd like the operation to be five.
Years from Well, now I've actually got my whole family's and in and out.
Of the business as well.
So I've got the kids working with me now and the wife. So I just want to keep doing that.
How do you avoid blow ups?
Because I know that again on TV thinks In sometimes be a bit more dramatic surprise surprise.
But how do you avoid the blow ups?
Because there is as a business, there is all the stress, let alone fifty degree days.
Oh, the frustration is hectic.
You have equipment breakdown, You've got, as I said, all the costs associated with it as well, and people do get on your bloody nerves. And you've got the flyers and you've got the heat and the whole experience. But at the end of the day, when you're holding that gold bar that you've poured and you found that goal yourself, you've processed it, you've released it from other nature, you're holding it there and it's worth a small fortune, all that drama just goes out the window.
Yeah, that feeling, that euphoria. That again, it comes through on the TV screen again. Just about this area, this region, the people in and around here. Again, the business is what sort of keeps you in and around places like this, But what person only keeps you here? Why do you want this to be the type of place that you bring a family.
It's just the diversity.
Basically, you know a lot of people living in different parts around Australia. They'll go to the beach on the weekends. Most people here, they'll check their dirt bugs on the back of the trailer and they'll head bush and right around on the salt lakes and we'll go prospecting. Just the amount of what you can actually do instead of sitting there in front of the TV or playing on your phones or the computers.
Or whatever it is.
It's about getting out and enjoying during nature itself.
That's what's so lovely and so old school and new school, with that idea about being together but being outside, getting outside, living the way that people have in the past. But again your connection with goal all of those different generations. It's awesome to watch you. It's a thrill to meet you, and all the best for many many more good years of you are okay, thanks, good on your Paul.
Give them a round of a pause. Paul Mackis's name as gold Hummers. It is on Discovery. He's an also favorite over there on the Big Jack. Thank you very much to make quick break back for more here from caw Gooley.
In a second, welcome back here to the Palace Hotel in cal Gooley.
Graham Campbell, give him a round of applause, your former MP, he's here.
Great man, How are you loved to see you?
A legend around these parts and the man who represented it beautifully in the central of Parliament. Marie and her team here at the Palace Hotel. Thank you to you guys who put on a wonderful time for us. Now, normally this has been a bit where I turn around and make some joke about going to the Pokeys.
But in West Australia.
There's no Pokeys, so I'll have to take you all of the two upbring and that's how I'll do my shirt there after the show, we'll just have a dolphin torch.
We'll see what happens, all right.
Thank you very much for joining us here tonight. We're looking forward to getting back on the road and remember Peter Dutton for the Asking Me Anything session which is going to be Tuesday night in the man Cave. Thank you to all of the questions that have come from all over the country. We're looking forward to getting as many faces from as many places on as possible. Remember, as always, you can send me an email with maybe some suggestions about where we should be going.
Around the country.
I'll tell you it'll be Queensland next spiritual home. You send that to Paul. It's go News dot com dot au. From all the team here to everyone at home, thank you very much for watching and can't Rulli Boulder.
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