Live from Springvale. This is Paul Murray live ow Town. Can I as fiddy? Can I sing well? Can I Melbourn? Welcome? Welcome, Welcome, Come on in. We know it's a boat rocker, brewers in distillery. Come on give it da, let's hear it for the rest of the country. So glad we've been here for outdown. We're going a very big night for you here tonight. Well, what an evening we have for you.
We've got some very special friends of Sky News here as well as some very good friends of Paul Murray live in particular, but most importantly, thank you for being here, and thank you in particular Barb, who's been to about eighty five of these now, and I do appreciate it. Our number one fan here in Victoria. Seriously, she's been to almost everyone giver her around. God love you, Bob, We love you Darlin. All right, but as always, let's start with what happened around today. Now I could feel
that you're happy right and feeling good? Okay? Are you feeling all right? Are you feeling all right? Because Daniel Labs is getting a statue, But he's really loved, isn't he? In this state? Okay, he won nineteen elections. But still the point is not everyone in Victoria is all in. As you may have heard on Friday, Daniel Andrews is of course getting one. It will not feature a cyclist, we understand, but it is of course going to just be a reference to him as as a premier who
of course served too many days in office. It'll go in Treasury garden. The reason I'm giving you this tip is just in case you've got a puppy anytime in the next couple of years. Lots of trees around, lots of trees around in that area. All right now, of course, those of us who have seen the downside, those of you who weren't part of the endless reelections of this bloke.
What annoys us about the endless lionization of this bloke was he absolutely failed when it came to really serious things in Victoria, not just a test about whether you get reelected or not you've got a better political machine or the opposition aren't alive. But the point is that when it came to one decision in particular, we all know what the consequences were. Everyone in this room, everyone in this suburb, everyone in this city, everyone in this state spent way too much time at home for a
couple of years. But more importantly even than that, it was the Victorian government decision in and around hotel quarantine, where they of course went for the security guards, not what everyone else did. That the very own inquiry into it concluded seven hundred and eighty six people died as a direct result of that decision. You get a statue, you get a gold medal, just because X number of
days served. No doubt whatsoever about whether this is the guy who we should just give a pluque to technically it's done, or whether we put him up as one of the great legends forever. But the form before we even get to the decision to put Andrews up in a statue is they named one of the tennis courts in and around with the Australian opening his play after John Kane. Now, of course he was the captain of a ship that hit the iceberg three times and sank.
Yet because he's a labor man, history eventually will forgive these people. And then a kid one day says, why is that thing named what it's named? Or nobody asks whatsoever, and it's just as historic as the original founders of the city. Again, I want everyone to remember around the country, what everyone in this room knows is that government is not just about holding on to power. Leadership is not
just about being in charge and winning. It's clearly about whether or not you have been able to improve the collective life of people around you. Standing at seven hundred press conferences wearing the jacket, I don't care. Making decisions
that killed people matters. And on top of the seven hundred and more people who died, ninety nine percent of which because of the hotel quarantine lynks, remember the triplo system just before the last election was so defective in this state that thirty three people died because an ambulance didn't turn up. That's the actual consequences of this man.
And while history is written by the lefties, or in this case, the winners, those of us who remember the true story, the true history, like the people who remember that GoF Whitlam didn't just get taken down by a drunk governor general and a bunch of evil liberals, but actually got the ass at two more elections when the Australian public had the chance to put him back. So to the memory of this bloke should be why is
he worth celebrating now? Amazingly today, when he was asked about it, the Prime Minister blamed Jeff Kennett for it. That's a question for Jeff Kennett really, So you're either cool with it being there or haha. It's a way of poking fun back at Jeff Kennett. But it brings us to two things. One, Mark Knight is awesome and as always one of the great things about the Herald Son, he of course has worked out immediately what most people's reaction to this actually is, which is the only people
celebrating with the pigeons. But I also want to show you something too, which is over there in lefty Land, far Lefty Land, otherwise known as the Turnbull Times because it only exists thanks to the ghost. Well they of course see all of this is yet another example to rub salt into the wounds of the people who didn't vote for him, or the people who suffered as a result of his type of leadership, and they ask a
rather passive aggressive sort of question. As Daniel Andrews gets immortalized in Bronze a year after retiring, will obsessed critics ever get over him because you see, it's not that he did anything wrong. He didn't make any decisions that saw seven hundred people die. He made no decisions saw thirty three people die waiting for an ambulance. He didn't do anything about the debt. You see, it's you who've got the problem if you remember what the consequences of
his decisions were. But also, as always, whenever lefties are really trying to find that little string that's going to pull you undone, what they're really doing is telling you the string that will pull them undone. You see, their assumption is that we are obsessed with Daniel Andrews, which is why we will talk about the reasons why he
doesn't deserve a statue. But if only there was the Internet and I could find stories like this in the Turnbull Times today seem slightly obsessed that Tony Abbott still exists, let alone Scott Morrison, let alone John Howard, and they consider as news stories about the vandalism of the living monuments of trees that have been planted for people like Tony Abbot. You complain about a statue, you're the psycho.
But what an the guy who just cut down the thing of Tony Abbott, Or what about the person who who vandalized the busts of John Howard and Tony Abbott in Ballarat? Who's the one that's obsessed here? Never fall for what they call you, because, let's be honest, it's what they out themselves to be. And of course, one of the dark artists who was part of putting Victoria in the financial hole that it exists in today that future generations will have to try to climb their way
out of. Is Tim Pallace now to give you an idea about Victoria's finances. Victoria in order to find some money down the back of someone's couch somewhere during hard rubbish day see Sydney, person would have said council cleanup, but I've learned it's hard rubbish here on a hard rubbish day trying to find money down the back of the couch. This bloke is selling off ppe from the hospital system today to help plug the holes in his budget that your kids and grandkids will have to pay.
So obviously this bloke's about saving money. Oh unless, of course it's you paying for him to go for not one, but two weeks to Europe, because that's what's he doing. Right now, does he deserve a little statue next to the other statue. I think if Trump would be there, say he can build the statue, but he'll have to pay for it. Now. Of course, in the past few days there's been this bizarre scenario of the government setting
itself on fire in and around negative gearing. Why because all labor ideas they live forever even if they lose elections. But of course that reality is any conservative government that loses, or opposition that loses, they must dump everything they've ever believed in. But as you know, the real consum with Australians right now is that a third of Australia is trying to pay off a house. A third of Australia has paid off a house, a third of Australia is renting.
So two thirds of the country is very much watching how much they're having to pay off their mortgage right now. The ABS shows you that in twenty nineteen, the average monthly repayment on a house before this bloke became Prime minister two and three hundred dollars. Today four four hundred dollars. The overall amount of money that people pay back each and every month has increased by sixty one percent under this mob sixty one percent. Oh, but we're doing this
on Tafan, we're doing this. No, what you have done is you have increased by virtually a couple of thousand dollars there the average person's ability to pay for their own life, and the fear that kicks in as you start to talk about whether or not you'll be able to have not even your dream house, but just your house. Well, as you know, the negative gearing conversation was a deliberate link, deliberate leak, I should say to the Channel nine newspapers.
They dutifuly front paged it. They had all of the data, they had all of the information. Here it goes the front page news we were often running. Now political people were aghasped at. This story was even around last week, because of course it was all about the fake inflation numbers. I say fake because we all know they're fiddling with
energy prices and everything else is going up. Well. At the time, the greatest minister of all time had this to say about a front page story saying his government was planning to do what Bill Shorten's opposition got its ass handed to for doing it.
Will you rule out changes to the hearing in property taxes this two more east.
Well, what we're doing is doing the legislation that we had before the Senate. So I talk about what we're doing, not what we're not doing. And what we're doing is trying to get through that legislation. Fills you with a lot of confidence, doesn't it, spring Vale. You know, I want to go where he's going because if he's flying the plane, it's going to hit a mountain sometimes so and sadly we're going to have to pay for it. Now on the other side of things, same day, when
it's all around. Remember our bog has done this multiple times before. But he turned around and said, oh, I can't possibly talk to the Treasurer about it because he's on a plane, as if Wi Fi doesn't exist, and it's nineteen forty two. But anyway, this is the same guy who, of course remember didn't remember that boat arrivals had happened because oh, I've been in the car all d Yes, Pal, your phone works there too, although in regional Australia there are lots of black spots, but you
don't care because those people just both national. Right now, the thing is Jim Chams he came forward and he sort of denied, didn't deny, But this is what he said towards the end of last week about the negative gearing stuff that ruined a week where they thought they were going to be talking about a fake good inflation number.
Our policy is to boost supply. Our policy is to invest thirty two billion dollars in that effort. And these changes, which we get advice on from time to time because they're in the public domain or they're in the Parliament, out of our policy.
So it wasn't my idea. I'm not the treasurer. I'm not the one who picked up the phone. Well, look, we've got lots of things that we're looking at. But guess what Grimjim actually did. He finally admitted he was the one who asked them to start looking at the policy.
So does that mean if I could be Inspector Clouseau for a moment here, that perhaps somebody close to Jim might have told a reporter who may able to put it into the newspaper that happened to magically turn up on the day where they were supposed to be talking about inflation. But when he knew he was buggering off to China. It'd be a slight problem for the Prime Minister, who of course wouldn't know his hat from his elbow.
Right now here is Grimjim actually turning around and admitting that what became a major problem for the Prime Minister was all of his doing.
When it comes to negative gearing changes, it is not unusual at all for governments or for treasurers to get advice on contentious issues which are in the public domain, including in the Parliament.
All right, a couple of quick things before we jump into the rest of the world's news, and of course before we start to celebrate everything here in spring Vale, White and Melbourne. Here as part of our town, and there's always ourtown. It's about celebrating times when they are normal, not just turning up when there's natural disasters, job losses or all the rest of it. Here now, of course, some are in Victoria. I understand it happens, but still
apparently some are does happen in Victoria. They're ready to boot me out if they didn't like me. If I was someone from the ABC, they'd be booing. They go, all right, Paul, we like you for most of the time, but don't do this anymore anyway, As you know the Black Saturday fires back of two thousand and nine, the Commission of Inquiry that looked into wall of that ultimately ruled that power line's bashing together was the chief reason why things started to take off when it came to
those fires, and of course people sadly died. Well, there was an interesting conversation that is happening this week in the Sunday Herald Sun, which is what is going to happen this sun when more power lines have been placed in more places in the bush, where presumably at Amband's going to tell us that climate change will blow harder winds and have higher temperatures and therefore mean we're going
to end up having more fires. Well, not to mention the wires, but what about the wind farms that occasionally just set themselves on fire. Now, of course they don't grow out of the grand they're made by slave labor in China, but still they have the capacity to set
off a fire themselves. Now, before you think this is some sort of right wing carrying on in the middle of the night, here's a local captain in the CFA, John Martin, said it was almost always impossible for crews to get close to wind turbines, meaning the bush fires could spread pretty quickly. If you give a fire like that and a particular landscape ahead start, the front's going
to get bigger and badder. But that's all right. Only crazy people think there's a problem with more power lines and poorly built technology which may well start fires that in the past have killed people. But who cares seven hundred and other lives versus the statue, so they know in the end they'll eventually get celebrated. Twenty seven days to go until the giggle goes off the face of Stephen Miles in Queensland, this is going to be finned.
We learn that that bloody awful and patiential future leader of that bloody awful health Minister Shannon Fentermen Poling says she might lose her seat. Meantime, I want to show you about why youth crime is the big issue before, of course, the turmu time starts saying no, it's okay, they're not stealing your car. They're just aggressively borrowing, all right, which is have a look at these seats, okay, now, in the seats of the seats up on the screen here now guys where you will be able to see
that the seats that have certain margins. Look at the crime numbers that go with this as well. Okay, so in some states, some seats in and around Townsville, it's up fifty one percent since the government came to power. That's why they may well end up losing the election. Another couple of examples as well. Those are up by thirty eight percent in three different seats, and it's up by twenty three or twenty two percent in another whole
collection of seats. So plenty more between now and when all of that takes place a little later in the month, of course, we'll be right across it now. How can I not finish up by talking about Trump? How many Trump people we got in the room. I can't believe all of those people sounded like Andrew Bolt. I mean he's really a Trump. Yeah, he's all in there like he's maggot and the core. Well, a couple of quick things I need to tell you between now and when
we next meet about where the race stands. The best part of now under forty days. According to the bookies, Harris is leading, but only just now. She went way in front in the past week. She's come back in the past week. In the polls nationally Quinnipiac, CNN, Rasmusen, Reuter's and Morning Consult, they all show a tie or Harris winning. Before you get too upset, Andrew, the margin of error is one thing. But the poles that have just shown you that's what the roles ault's going to be.
They were wrong four years ago. Quinnipiac was wrong by six and a half points. That's the one that says it's a tie. It was too generous to Joe Biden CNN seven and a half points, where again they now say that Harris has a lead of one percent. It goes on where Rasmusen was wrong by three and a half, ruts two and a half, three and a half. So it doesn't mean Trump's going to win, but it means when you see the other person one in front, look at their form and they were really wrong four years ago.
So we'll all find out what happens together. But finally, you know how Donald Trump often, in fact, when he first came down the escalator, he said this about illegal immigrants and the world when boom, he said this, when Mexico sends its people they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you.
They're sending people that have a lots.
Of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, their rappers, and I remember the being the collective outrage was, oh, that's BS. Well
guess what. Multiple years later, ICE, which is their version of the Department of Homeland Security or say a Border security organization, Well, a Republican congressman wrote to that organization and said, Hey, can we actually get some proper government issued stats about how many people with criminal records have crossed over the border illegally and are amongst us? The
answer is frightening. Of those that were caught and detained, ten thousand are convicted criminals, four thousand were charged with a crime, Those that have been let go, four hundred and twenty five thousand people with criminal convictions, two hundred and twenty two thousand of people who've been charged with a crime. Let's go through the crimes. Sixty two thousand guilty of assault, fifteen thousand guilty of sexual assault, thirteen thousand people have killed people. It was one hundred and
fifty in Australia and the minister got sacked. Harris is going for a promotion and robbery ten thousand. The overall numbers are frightened. And guess what, it won't surprise you. Certainly not. The man with the maga hat. Trump was right, because he's always right. I say that just to piss off every lefty anywhere in the country, because you might
get what you want in a few weeks time. All right, let's get into celebrating everything to do with this part of Australia, but also celebrating, of course past to twenty four hours or so. Swan's fans and he Swan's fans in the room, Lions fans for the day. Yeah, because it wasn't Sydney, I get it. Anyway, he was some of the reactions out in front of the mcgs as the Swan's got their backside handed to absolutely amazing. I
can't believe we got here. After the latest season started there was this phenomenon zero and three.
The bar he's the sort premiers baby. I wanted to ask you about Chris Fagan from the outside.
I think in the neutral fans we all love him.
What are the Brisbane Lines fans thick at Chris Fagan here.
Is God's gets the football.
No, he's good.
He's turned the season around, and obviously we didn't have a great start to the season. So whatever he did, he made it work well.
High flying Kite, Yeah, high flying ki. You know, it's just so real to think where we've come from. It's very small tea on and to be on the big stage, biggest stage EVA in AFL.
And to play like he did today was just I was just out of the world thirteenth on.
The latter halfway through the year. Did you feel like this.
Team had it in him?
I was actually quite confident we did. We were playing really well. I was confident. And how good was it? Fantastic gay Lions and a man who couldn't care less what happened in the Grand Fire because he's a Richmond fan, Ladies and gentlemen, Sky News legend, our dear friend. You can read him in the hereld some bit more importantly, you can see him here Andrew Bolt. Hello, mate, welcome, welcome, thank you, take your seat, love you to see you.
How are you take a seat? Related lovely? Relax everyone, thank you you good man. Now obviously we're able to tempt you here on some promise of whiskey somewhere, although I don't know.
It's thank you to that guy over there for giving me.
Did you pay for it? Oh, that's lovely, that's lovely. You can pay for mine later. No joking is that the so as a man who's who's been able to see Melbourne at its best and that it's worst. I was listening to Sam Newman and Sam Newman on his podcast. I won't repeat the exact language, but he'd been up the coast for a few months and he'd just recently returned to Melbourne, and that the fresh eyes he had
for Melbourne were not particularly complimentary. As a man who loves Victoria and loves Melbourne, you don't quite live in the heart of it anymore.
Due I don't like Melbourn anymore. I came here, I loved it before. I had two uncles in Australia, one lived in Melbourne. I love coming here. I love the greenery and all that kind of stuff. But I don't know Dan Andrews really killed Melbourne. There's a sense of gloom in the center of the city.
No, I moved out. I moved out.
So for people who it was a great state, but gee, what they're done to it?
Well, so, how do you feel before we get into everything else, how do you feel about the statue thing? Are they rubbing? Well, it's interesting, you make a good point.
I was thinking, what as it apart from winning three elections?
Right?
What do you do? What do you do?
And I had a look, I just maybe I'm getting Alzheimer's. So I looked at Wikipedia and they said major achievements of Dani Andrew's number one, the big bill that I'm thinking, the big bill, almost nothing's finished. It's all costling ten times more than they thought. The depth the state has been left with. And one of the big bill things is this suburban rail. It will never get done. It's a linking suburbs. You don't want to go to to
other suburbs. They thought of going, and they think it's going to make money.
It won't.
I just think if that's his biggest thing, what the heck?
But then let's focus on the positive, which is the people. Right, people are amazing, and even the ones that, let's be honest, we're going to what shows like ours, probably not the ones that voted for him. They're very proud of victory, very proud of Melbourne. They keep a resilience up.
Though, mate, well resilience. I mean there's a tolerance what they shouldn't tolerate. So, I mean, how could you lock down this state and this particularly this city for so long? Of course, so much damage, including to kids, right, a lot of kids, particularly of families that weren't doing too well, bit dysfunctional maybe away from school, away from socialization. You're seeing that turn up now and problem children who haven't
re engaged. When you've done all that and people said, like the cut of your Jim will vote you in again?
Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you? Yeah? I mean what is that? It is?
It is fask I mean, what what has Daniel Andrews done this positive?
Think about?
I can't think of anything? He resigned? Resigned was seriously seriously.
Everyone's you think everyone's got you know, they're not all bad and they're not all good, because.
There's some honestly can't think of anything good. Yeah, neither can I. So let's talk about let's talk about you as a foodie. Okay, you are a man who is famous for whoever comes over to your place for dinner. It's quite the production. Give people an idea that if you were, say, cooking me big dinner, how long does it start in advance? Because I'll be honest, I'll be you bring before you're to come over. But give us
an idea of just half far out. Andrew Bolt is thinking about it, and he's in the kitchen doing the.
Dry rubs, the recipe of first few several days, the shopping the day before, just to get a start if it's a mutaka the night before, or do the egg plant because that takes a long time all day?
How how much time it is it takes exactly that? Do you have to kiss the cook apron? Or what's that gives the comedy aprons?
What have you got, don't I'm sort of not quite a man of the people here are going to last into opera?
Sorry that that goes, But got a lascala thing? Oh, so are you up for a bit of a Pavarotti in singing? While there? I like it. This is the thing. So then, of course, again as we know the idea, and again there is so much that I am in awe of your good self, Peter Credl and Chris getting all of our friends right. Hen you're able to get the bosses to say, you know what, I want to end the week by getting pissed on the air. I love the idea that it's just like I'll have the paper.
Do you know, like I have tried to go, let's do a show in black and white to pretend we can smoke on television. No, that's not allowed. How did you get them to it booze on television?
Well, you know, I think I've started with our good friend Angelos was running the court, and I think his concern for broadcasting laws was not as.
So it's been grandfather. Apparently you're not supposed to drink on air? Did you know that? I don't know.
I haven't inquired because I want to be able to plead ignorance.
All right. So the last one I want to put here too, is for those of us that may not be as advances to good self in the kitchen and we are trying to work out the combination of booze to food. Okay, any simple tips for beginners, those of us that are the bogans going geese? What color goes with?
No? No, I always like people choosing exactly what they want, So I usually have a range of dishes. They can choose which one look and a range of wines.
I can choose which one. I'm I'm not fascinating. It's brought one for everyone tonight. How do they What good is that?
I want to mention something to you? Yes, there's something I noticed a couple of days ago. You're doing that hurrican? Yes, in in Florida. It's Florida, right. Did you see what the warning was that the governor gain?
No, no, what was it? He said?
If you've got an electric car, take that car and find some really high place and park it there, because mix seawater with the battery.
Boom, you can get something really ugly. Can you imagine that? Of all the things you got.
To think about when you're preparing your home to be hit by a big hurrican. You're bringing in the pets, you're trying to calm your family, settle your kids down, make sure the windows are all done, and by the way, take the car, try to find some high ground and then walk all the way back in the wind and rain.
You wouldn't have thought that, would you?
Well?
Now, so okay, so look, if you didn't vote to hell and you live in a te your seat can you put your sprinkler on for the rest of your life and let's see what happens. That's extraordinary, absolutely, But that's that's weird that you've actually got a bomb in the driveway. Yeah, correct, Take care of your pets. Make sure Nana's okay.
Yeah, because if it goes off, it will burn for days and days and we toxic. You won't be able to come back in the house. Who has that?
But are you here? I'm with they didn't tell you that, Andrew Bolt. Ladies and gentlemen, give it up. I love your brother. Thank you all ago. How good is you all right? After the blake? We've got plenty to talk about it, includy, of course, have your friends of Harvey Mormon and their support for the females of the AFL. Thank you very much talking about rockers and swing bail with you email. But I'm here to celebrate everything, not just about this area, but of course the city in general.
The only way we are able to go and hang out with the people who make the channel possible and support us as beautifully as you do. And again, thank you from everyone who's who's that Sky News is thanks to the good people of Harvey Mormon. I am so thankful for their support, but also I love their particular support of female sports. It means that people like my little girls get to have the opportunity to watch future
athletes like I did as a kid. Thankfully, they're coordinated, so they may will actually have more hope than I did as a kid. For the first time in nearly twenty years, this year's AFL Grand Finals saw two non Victorian teams battle it out for the game's ultimate plops. It just shows how truly national this sport has become.
Now.
While Sydney were the ones that were out there on the big stage, they're not the only club from New South Wales which has gone from strength to strength in recent years. The Greater Western Sydney Giants had been to a Grand Final, but this year it was not for them. They came up a goal short two games in a row during the finals, but it was another very strong year for the AFL's newest club. Thanks to the support of our mates at Harvey Norman, the Giants have been
in seven of the past thirty final series. Now that's important because the club has only been around for thirteen years and what a season. Twenty twenty four days.
Who Giants are in France.
Joys who not pay tonight. The Giant success is really noticed in Sydney. It is something that you feel, particularly when you talk to their fields.
As you can say today pre game, we've got kids, we've got parents, we've got families, we've got fans from all over Western Sydney coming along to support us. And they've been supporting us ever since the day. And I guess the port of thing is three tough times they start, I guess solid and today they're hearing out the glory, the glory of finals once again. Get involved because we're authentic and partners such as Harvey Norman, everyone that gets involved.
We love to run programs that puts more ups.
Just because the men are done for the year doesn't mean footy is gone. In fact, it's time to turn their attention to the women of the game. The Giants AFL W team are halfway through their season and just took on their crosstown rivals the Swans on Sunday. This is the eighth season for the Giants women's team, so we caught up with one of their stars, Nicola Barr, to talk about what the AFL W means to future generations of AFL fans.
Even if they play different sports. You know, all of a sudden they've got no AFW play there and they get to understand what the sport's all about. And I think a lot of them are here at games, and again like more and more numbers coming to games are so amazing. We love hanging out with the girls once we've finished playing and getting an opportunity to interact and say hi. And I think the more games we have here in Sydney, the more it's going to grow.
The Giants have a vision to turn Western Sydney into an AFL heartland and it is happening every year thanks to the support of our dear friends at Harvey Norman and a legion of fans who love their footing.
We love them.
But the Giants about the media in this game, and now speaking of for the AFEL regards that he's playing in it, there is one man who you will always see on the biggest day in September. There is nowhere in Australia that I would rather be in the last Saturday in September that here in Melbourne. The AFL Grand Final is the Saturday there's a public holiday, thank you Daniel Andrews the day before, and of course there's our
town right now, but you're already watching it. But of course, in and around a sport that has so much history, there is a particular tradition which is forty five years old this year. I think we all know this song off by heart. In nineteen seventy nine, Mike Brady has been performing the song that he wrote and made world famous, well at least football world famous. Up there because aile the story of a plucky young lad going as hard
as he possibly can. It's been sung from clubs to ballrooms to the MCG and let's be honest, you're humming it right now, Mike, thank you so much for talking to us today. There's very few things that last in culture. The fact that this song has lasted but also remains as prominent as it does from functions to pubs to the MCG. What's its cultural staying power? Why do you think that it's not just something dads remember?
Well, it's got to do with dads and mums, because I think when I did it all those years ago, nineteen forty five, I think dads loved us and it was one demographic really probably you know, twenty five year old dads as so were younger in those days sociologically speaking, but they pass it on to their sons, who've now passed it onto their sons. So it's become like a hand me down, so hand me down because it's been
passed down the line. And my biggest thriller is like at the Grand Final parade, there's all these young kids, the little kids going eighty and that stuff, and I mean they're like five and six years old and they're there with their dads.
And I remember some of them.
The first time I did it was twenty five years ago, not even forty five. So it's just one of those things that the public kind of taken an ownership in it, and I'm very proud of that.
But also I love that literally this year, Katy Perry previously Kiss Meat Life, whatever, But you're there each and every years as the sport tries to sort of always add that extra element. Have showed me is all the rest of them to have somebody who has the tradition. Have you seen have you seen things change over the years about the se up where you know, what used to be sort of our microphone and the phystem is now actual concert.
It was pretty agricultural the first year I did it with John Farnham, I was sort of afterthought because he is booked to do it, and that.
Was in seventy nine.
As I said, but the change technologically it's amazing. I mean the science, but you know what, it breaks down more there are more technical problems because there's more technology.
Movie. That's right exactly.
It's like getting I won't mention a brand, but certain brands you have to be a car enthusiast to buy a new one. It's like that with production. The crowds have changed. They're more confident the crowds they were. They're always out going and very warm towards me. But we've come a long way this city and you know Sydney and around Australia. Our people are more confident now than they were forty years ago. And I know you're a bit of a student of that stuff because I watch it.
But it's a wonderful thing and for me it's just a really warm feeling to be known, you know, even if it is for only one song.
Who cares? Who cares? And just finally is it thousands of times you've performed. Do you have any sense of how many times you've actually belted it out? Well, I tried to do that.
I know how many times I've done it this year, and it's about seven hundred times.
And you've got to count.
Rehearsals in that, so I reckon that puts it up at about twenty thousand. So I almost know the words. But you know, I've just done a show in here and I.
Got the words wrong. I got the words around the wrong way. I still do it, but hopefully if the grown's loud enough, you can you can fluff it and go over the top exactly. And they're my words. I can play to right myself correct correct, you have to play yourself royalties wrong? New song love you see? How come with that? What a lovely man. I'm glad you're watching, Mike.
That's is for doing stuff again. One of the things that is beautiful about the city is that it does have a very big heart, and sadly due to a whole bunch of issues, there's a whole bunch of people who benefit from that big heart. A Messing is a man who I'm very proud to say we've had on the show before, and I want to give him a huge amount of applause because he's the president of Turbans for Australia. Give it up for this very beautiful man. And I love you to see and to see honestly
love you to see love and to see Tank. You see THG you see. So we've talked before about how the terrible part about a charity like yours is that you're busier than you've ever been. Since last week spoke, no doubt it has gotten busier. How busy is it for you, guys?
Right?
Very busy?
We're chasing around tail Sadly, cost of living crisis is driving average Australians to the brink off now food and long term health implications as well. We are getting more and more people reaching out to us weekly because I we need food help or when's the next hamper drive? And especially coming around to Christmas, people don't have toys to put on the tree for their family or loved ones.
Well, it's this thing where and also the types of people who are reaching out to services like you. It has changed. Where people may have in the past had a caricature of the type of person who needs help. It could be somebody who's pretty well dressed, who's going to go after a job later that day, isn't it. I mean it is all types of people in Melbourne and Victoria pretty.
Much, from young couples working full time, a part time or even two jobs try you know, put food on the table, to average pensioners and homeless people and others. So everyone in the society is suffering at the moment due to this rising cost of living. We've had a gentleman park a campra event outside where our Sydney warehouse is and he was there for from nearly three months, living out of a camper vent.
So this is the reality.
And you see every now and then at a different service station people parked there who the people to be living out of the car because they've got bed sheets of towels hanging on the windows and the people are there end to end. This is really scary.
So something that I want to do is I want the people who are watching us at home and when times are relatively normal and I get it, everyone's being pulled a little bit further. Everyone in this room is to help you out, because if we can help you, you help those people out. So give us an idea because the run between now and Christmas is like that. How can we help? Look, we need donations. We're textaductible charity.
The money that you donate to us goes directly into buying supplies, so we can give out every struggling Australians a free hamper that last them for a couple of days to a week, because people are struggling and we have women infect about domestic violence, young families with kids, elderly people who can't afford their medicines and they go, hey, if it wasn't for your hamper, we would be able
to buy medicine. So there's all of those different courts of society and I encourage everyone if you have in a capacity, please donate because all of your moneys go directly back into us buying the stuff so we can provide to people in need.
So, whether somebody's watching us in charter As Towers right now or just up the road, financial support through the website or do you take donations, what's the best way to help both?
So we can take financial donations for members of the public. But if you're a business looking to donate, and if you've got both supplies, we have two ugly looking warehouses.
You're going to fill off of stuff, ugly emuses filling the room because.
You know all of that stuff might end up in landfill. But we still value food and commodities. They can go back to people. So we share our spill with a lot of different charities community groups. Though when you donate to us, we have our own charity trucks as well. We can pick stuff off from you and repurpose it so it can help somebody you know doing tough times.
Amma. Thank you. Turbans for Australia, Facebook online all the rest of it. Will make sure it's all up on ours. The main website though at WWWT four a dot oig dot a you or.
If you just Google, turbans will come up.
Good night. Thank you, thank you, Thank you for what you do. Appreciate it. Quick break back with more. A very good friend of Paul Murray Live next year, en, welcome back to screen Vale here in Victoria. That's on the fringes of Melbourne. Ladies and gentlemen, the Lord Mayor of Melbourne has been on Paul Murray Live. Nicholas Races here.
We love them.
How now we know that the everyone here has agreed with every word you've ever said the whole time you've been on here. But no, congrats on not just being allowed mouth like me who's talked about how the world should run. You're getting involved in doing it. You're in the middle of the election right now. How does it feel to be the mayor of Melbourne? Do you get like some special parking pass? Like, what's what's the one thing about being mayor that you didn't think would happen?
Look, it's the absolute honor of my life and you know me very well to be in this role as Lord Mayor of the city city I love best and fairest city in the world, as we like to say in footy parlance. And I'm doing everything I can to make it better and fairer for MELBOURNI And how.
Do you take it to the next level? What's some of the big tickets? What do you want to do next?
Well, one thing I did do was get the scooters off the foot paths of Melbourne.
You know, you know, as lord mayor is a counselor.
I can't walk past a piece of litter on the street and not feel like I need to pick it up. And I just got picking up the scooters scattered all over the footpath, light litter, creating a tripping hazard, colliding with people, no one following the rules, no helmet's double dinking, and so it's time to say, you know what, the foot paths of this town are for pedestrians, are for people, and so limee near on, you're out of here and we're giving them back to the people. So it went down pretty well.
I think.
I think it's not everyone's supported, but absolutely the right thing to do. Now into an election campaign talking about what's next, So promising a rates freeze for people to give residents and businesses a break. Also putting in some policy to get the city cleaner and safer. So we've got it.
You'll love this one, paul A.
You spray you pay policy good, Yeah, I.
Love it.
The idea being that, you know, if you're court defacing a wall, we'll guess what, we'll go after court orders and you can come and clean it up and pay for the cost of doing so. Also bringing in what I'm calling city safety officers just to put a presence, a visible safety presence on the street. And yeah, doing a bunch of things to make the Melbourne city be and fairer and tonight.
I think it's a beautiful announcement of yours that the Lord Mayor says. If you watch Paul Murray life free Parking now gets that. How's that? Well on? Everyone? Free parking Now. I try that one with you, but it's not going to happen. Also about revitalizing the city. I mean nighttime economy is something that Melbourne does have over the rest of the country. How do you keep it ticking? How do you get people back?
Yeah, I mean think about Grand Final, This Grand Final weekend that you're in tann for. It's an amazing time of the year, but it starts six months of incredible times for Melbourne.
You know.
We go from the Grand Final into Spring Carnival, we go from Spring Final into Christmas, then we have New Year's e then we have the Australian Open, then you have Momber, then you have the Grand Prix. Like it just keeps going and going and going, and so the next six months are just the sweetest time of year
here in the city. For us at the City of Melbourne, it's all about keeping that major events program going and also making sure that all the economic activity is not just at the racetrack or the tennis courts, but spills over into the cash registers of the small business around the sea. So we do a lot of promotional work to give those spillover benefits for all the local business.
See all that time that Brahma bishop has rubbed off on you. I like it all right, Give it up for Nicholas Reese, the Lord Mayor Melbourne. Our pick is well, good luck how Nick for Melbourne, Nick the Melbourne nick La Melbourne. Find it online as well. Thank you brother, you see very flue and good luck quick breakback. We're
were going to play some pub trivia. Can you believe that we have been to all these pubs and distilleries and wonderful places around Australia, but we've never done pub trivia? Who wants to play some pub trivia tonight here in spring Bar before we're done? Julie, Louie and Jane are the ones that are here now. I want full crawd participation if you know the answers scream it out. Okay, it's very simple. We're not keeping score all right, So Julie, we start with you. Who won this year's Oscar for
Best Picture? What movie. You won this year's Oscar for Best Picture. Call a friend, You've got a few? Anyone? Does anyone know? Does anyone know?
Sorry?
Openhamon, correct Oppenheimer? Well done? All right, Louis. For a bit of a Paul's pub trivia here Kathy Freeman won Golden what event? And you'll have to ask my wife. She knows everything. You just got a shout out on Telly though the four hundred? Well one hundred? All right? Okay, what was the last time there were no teams from Victoria in the AFL Grand Fine, I'll give you bloody oath, middle stump, Well done. I like this, this is good. I like it.
I like it.
Okay, now what do you win? Cuddle from me? It will be a cuddle from me. That's yeah. I'll take that. Whatever you think that's worth. Cut off from me. You see that barrel? Yeah, I was going to see see Louis went, oh, well, I'm out, didn't see you later. Goodbye? All right? Now, okay, uh who was the straightest first prime minist Martin Martin Budden, No, Edmund Barton, But we'll take it anyway, all right, Louis, which of these is not a Michael Jackson album, Michael Jackson, what not a
Michael Jackson album? Okay, off the wall, bad, Purple Rain, purple Rain, there was Prince Yes, well done. I like this all right, okay, Michael, yeh? Which country? Okay? This, this one's for you, Jane. Which country has the most number of other countries around? I'll give you a tip that Donald says it perfectly. China, China, China. Well done. I look forward to the TV review and the guardian of this show. It's it started with a ramch about after the album, then Andrew bolts and now yes, I'm
glad you enjoy your all right. Now here we go. What is okay? First in we'll win the prize. Cuddle of a hug with me? Okay, what's the first element in the periodic table of elements? You win the hug? Congratulations, a group group paper, everyone's a winner. Well done, guys, Thank you, Thank you, more pointless pause pub trivia when we come around the country again, Thank you, guys. Look at him just soaking it up. I love this. I
love this all right now. Also a little shout out to an organization which is just up the road from here, is my dear friends at Erebus Motorsport now Eras Motorsport will be competing in the Baptist one thousand, which is not next weekend but weekend after full coverage over on Fox Sports tomorrow night. On the show, I'll show you some of the behind the scenes with our very dear friend Barry Ryan. To everyone here in Springvale, thank you very much for joining us. Thank you for being part
of it. I look forward to hanging out with you all after the show. Are particularly outside because I can stretch, stretch, come on Internet. I wasn't saying anything else. I wasn't saying anything else. Thank you very much for a very good friends of Harvey Norman who make all of this possible. Thank you a little of the chick seams who make it amazing. Well, see you again tomorrow night for another edition of Paul Murray Live. You're going to see me
An email Paul. It's guy News dot com dot are you, but from all of us here in spring Vale as part of Melbourne. Thank you very much for being part of it. Thank you for everyone who is always part of our ourtown family. And of course we will see you again later in the month. And yes, bab will be coming back to Victoria as well. Before we are done, the Royal Report is next. I'll see you tomorrow on the Telly. But don't forget, of course, it all starts
with Chris. You see Peter, you see Andrew, you see Sharry, you see me, See you later.