Perth Live with Oliver Peterson - Full Show - Wednesday June 25 2025

Humday, Wednesday. Welcome along to Birthlive. It is great to have your company today. Jason Featherby will be here after one thirty, the director of lew And Wealth. So if you'd like to have a chat to our money man, give him a call just after one thirty today. Jason Featherbee joining us in the six PR studios, Yuko Ostowich. He'll be motoring on by the studios after two thirty this afternoon to answer any and all of the questions you have about Perth's road network. One double, three eighth

You're listening to Birthlive with Oliver Peterson call now and have yours say on one double three eighty two.

A couple of things already coming through. Brad wants to just point out that it's hilarious with the Polly's coming out saying they didn't want the pay rise, that they could do without it, Well maybe they should donate it to charity. As if they would, they will just tell poorkeypyes all the time. Thank you. Brad and I own a high volume collision repair business and Oliver like you to discuss the potential i AG takeover of ra AC and the concerns of similar businesses as mine how the

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Many people, including motorsports enthusiasts, commented that they were concerned about the Burswould location and suggested the fund should be instead be spent on upgrading Wanneroo Raceway and other regional venues. Other ideas were to plant more native trees and plants to protect wildlife and water birds, and establishing a botanic garden of diverse and endemic plants to connect existing wetlands.

Of the year.

Give me a break. It is the thin end of the wedge. The precinct should be like South Bank in Brisbane, a very successful green belt walk along the river, high density residential living around the area, with many more thousand residents yet to come. We should be embracing our green spaces and keeping them for future residents. It should be about proper town planning, planned by professionals. That's how the Burrs Would Park twenty year Vision plan came about and

Get Aoli, Hey, haven't I listened to a great talkback? The Birds would pre think to me, Yeah, it's beautiful, but we've got Kings Park and we've got a few other places, so you know this, it's a fifty to fifty. It'll do good for Perth and I'll also upset other people in Perth. Well, they said.

They've overcooked this one a little bit, though, Steve, the same Birds with Park Alliance reeconds eighty five percent of people oppose the Burrs would raise strack it on. It might be a little less than eighty five percent.

Yeah, I haven't seen the statistics, but looking at it, it could work if it's every now and again, I don't think we should have it as a modiplex we've got one of them. But for special events and fundraisers, yeah, they can make money out of it, and they can also give the whole of Perth, the Mexicolity area something to go and see. Because I haven't been one of real I've always wanted to go, but I'd be more likely to go to the birds. Wouldn't watch it a class event.

Yeah, and I think with that backdrop and being closer to the city, you might get a few more people taking a peek than would head up to want to root of the raceway one, double, three, eighth E two if you'd like to have your say. David thinks the rac should allow vote by its members so that will retain its insurance business. I anticipate the members would overwhelmingly vote no. As for the Burrs with car racetrack, it would be a good attraction being a central location with

Okay, I was just at sixteen Victoria AB in the city and all these cop cars raced in with their lights on. Also people from the army jumped out of their vehicles with carrying machine guns and battering rams to smash doors in and they've all raced into twelve Victoria AB. So obviously something something's going on in one of the apartments in that building.

So confirm police and the TG entered that apartment building where Jake Patrick, our chief of news, found himself for a good portion of yesterday afternoon as a man has been charged. Jake, good afternoon, one of the details.

Yeah, good afternoon to you, Ollie. What a sight that was yesterday the TRG officers walking out of all sweets Perth on Victoria AB with their machine guns, battering rams and all the kit they needed to get into an apartment yesterday. It was quite the scene in Perth. As years old of that a man in his twenties early twenties has been charged. He's facing three charges hasn't faced court yet. He's doing court this afternoon, so we'll bring

All right, we'll see what happens there in the courts. And I see Jake that the Triple C is launching an investigation into how the Floria killer Mark bom Bara was able to hold that firearms license. That's correct.

So listeners might remember that shocking incident in Floria last year where Mark Bombarro murdered Gretel Patelchick and Jennifer Pateelchick in May last year. Well, the Triple C has announced today that they're launching their own investigation into just how

Good on you, Jake, we'll come back to you with any updates. That's our chief of News, Jake Batrick here at six PR. Luke says the Moto GP never have and never will race on a street circuit. Olie, it is too dangerous. There is no runoff around the corners. The only place to have motorcycle racing on a street circuit is the isle of Man T T. And I think the racetrack will be great, says David. Look at

No, but it is sixteen degrees outside.

No sweater, just scarne, the jacket, just the jacket.

Today I went to breakfast with a couple of important gentlemen.

There you go.

Yes, so that's why I wore the jacket.

But we were saying in the preview, you don't call him anymore, you don't take him to breakfast anymore. I don't have dinners, don't have lunches, some guessing he wasn't who you were with this morning.

No, no, no.

But in my defense, as I walked out last week, Simon as I walked in, actually Simon said to me, I need to call you. Yes, I will call you next week, and he has it.

I need to buy a car. I need some advice. I will call you. Has he called you?

I check my phone every couple of hours and nothing, nothing, Simon.

Simon, Just call him six two eighty five one two three four. Even Simon's called the talkback lines now and you can have your conversation about the car. Then.

Does that sounds he hasn't called me?

No?

Does that upset you a little bit?

No? Not not much.

If he called wonder, but if it's on, it's on him.

All right, let's get a tapping because Johann has got a question for you today. By the way, if you want to talk to Jason one double three two, Hi, Yohart, Well just.

A quick one. Jason got a super anuation. I suppose fund with Gaesby. No, we all know Gaesby.

It's got it.

I suppose benefits to be by a Gasby. But someone has recently mentioned super Sorry master wrap accounts to me and suggested the potentially considering moving your super anuation to a master wrap account. Can you explain a little bit more about the benefits of a master rap.

Okay, yeah, I can.

Yes, we used master wraps, and they call them wrap accounts because they they wrap all your investments up into one place and provide the administration for you. So Gaesby, I guess, to go back to your original point, Gaesby

As well as Gesby is that they do have.

Their own bank account, which sounds really weird, but within the super fund. There's a cash account and all your contributions going to the bank account, and if you ever pay expenses or insurance premiums, or you're taking a pension, that money comes out of the bank account, and so you're running a like a working account within your super fund,

Thank you. That makes perfect sense.

Thanks you ahan, I'm glad.

That's good, isn't it? Good starts today makes perfect sense.

That always nervous when you walk in, but off to a good start.

One double three eight atty two to put it in all of your questions to Jason Featherby, the director of Lewin Wealth, John says he's miscalculated his salary sacrifice. He's overpaid his concessional super contributions for his tax year by about fifteen hundred dollars over the thirty thousand dollars allowed. What are my options?

It's not a huge disas, so the tax office will have a look at you. If you haven't used your thirty thousand dollars cap in prior years, and you your balance was under five hundred thousand dollars in soup as at June thirty, June last year, then there's no issue.

You can just use that to catch up. So that's a cool new rule, or relatively good rule.

If you have used your caps every year and you go over, the tax office are right to you, and essentially you'll just pay marginal tax on the amount above above the cap. So not a huge disaster, no worse off than you probably would have been.

Just that you've just gone over and it happens a lot.

One, double three at only to keep those questions coming through to Jason Featherby. Today we're going to talk about helping the kids into a home and what you need to consider, because of course we all are living amongst a massive real estate boom here in Estralia, particularly in Wa of the last couple of years, so more and more parents have to assist their children to get into the property markets. Sounds like an easy thing to do, Jason, but isn't always the case.

I don't think so.

And you do need to be a little careful before throwing money at your kids. So, and I've brought this up for two reasons. I think our medium price is a million dollars now national nationally, which is yeah, nationally, which is unbelievable considering where we were three or four years ago.

And more and more it's harder to get into the property market.

More and more parents now have wealth in their own homes and getting towards retirement, so it's a common question should you help. My overarching thought is yes, absolutely, you should help if you can afford to. Yes, So you must be in a decent position financially yourself and helping your kids must not well, in my opinion, derail your own retirement plans.

Otherwise, think twice.

I mean, you've all been through it, you've done it tough, you've saved money, you've found your own house, and you've found your own way. And most kids will do they need the help? If you ask them, do they want it? Probably in a lot of case no, not to your own detriment. But if you're in a good financial position, then my thinking is yes. And then you go to the next phase of questioning in why can't your kids

So you sort of need to attack it from two fronts.

Sure, so birth prices are up nearly eighty percent since the onset of COVID. That is ristic staggering figure in what five or six years, So let's go to that. What financial position should you be in before you are able to provide a little bit of help?

If you are well.

I reckon you should be able to at a minimum, you should make sure you've got enough for a rainy day yourself, so you know if something goes wrong, be financially comfortable before helping your kids. I think you should have your own house paid off, a bit of financially independent, and this you know your income comes from other sources,

All right, we're going to talk in a moment about how to determine how you should provide the funds. But on the subject, Chris is just phoning through. Good afternoon, Good after the guys.

Yeah, just a couple of questions have been help us out. I've got a daughter in Canada and she wants to put a down payment on the house over there. Can't afford the down payment, can't afford the mortgage if I help her out with the down payment. I've also got a son in one of my houses here that I'm currently subdividing, and I was going to subdivide the back block and use that money to help her out with But the only thing is can I gift money from

Yeah?

No, they're good questions. So my immediate thinking is that you've got two kids. You've already helped one out by letting them live in a house that you own. The one lives in Canada. I assume she wants to say there permanently, and I don't know the Canadian house purchasing rules, but assuming you can buy one for her and that she can get a debt, then that's not a bad way to help.

In terms of your own situation.

You've got to be able to access SUPER, so be sixty and above or sixty five and retire to take money out of Super and gift her the deposit for a house. That gift is accessible by sentiling for five years. If you're going to go down the age pension path, it's a whole mind field of stuff, Chris. But ultimately, if your daughter can just afford a mortgage, then is

Position, right, yeah, Okay, So is there a value on the affecting central link? Like if I give my son that house and then I give my daughter the down deposit? Is there a value on the five year gift?

No, whether you're allowed you're allowed ten thousand dollars each year to gift, which isn't a lot, or thirty thousand over five anything above that. There's no limit, but it's assessed as an asset for five years. So if you're hell bent on doing this, the best time to do it is about, you know, sixty one or sixty two years of age. So by the time you get to age pension age, that gift has served.

It's I guess it's intents, and it's no longer an asset from centraling's point of view. It was gifted five years ago.

So if you want, if you're hell bent on doing it, if you're sixty one or two, and you want to make that gift now, and you're going to make it anyway, now, it's the time to do it, because by the time you get to penchionates, Chris, it is no longer assessed as an asset and that money has disappeared.

Right, Okay, And is there any tax I'm gifting that money?

Do I have?

No?

There's no tax on gifts. There's no tax for them, there's no tax for you.

There's probably some capital gains on the sale and subdivision of that property, which you'll need to get some advice on, but all together a complex situation.

Yeah, Chris, don't give Jim Charmers any ideas. He'd love to tax gifts, wouldn't he'd love to tax?

Don't keep asking, no, no, no, Helen a gag on a minute, Why don't we tax gifts?

It's good, isn't it?

Imagine getting taxed on the little are your birthday cards? For your kids each year.

That's right, ten dollars for the sun and twenty dollars for gym.

Get stuffed. Well, you learn to pay tax early, that's true.

One double three out of two. To talk to Jason will talk about helping your kids out into a home and if it's not a gift, there are some other options. Next with Jason Veatherby in the studios this afternoon, Pizza in Riverton needs a bit of help. Good afternoon, Good afternoon.

Yes, I'm not really financially minded. I'm sixty six this year and I need to start thinking about my retirement options. And I'm just wondering what my first steps should really be. I've had a few different opinions from people I've been with a divine benefit from since nineteen eighty nine with local government. But yeah, I'm just sort of wondering where I should If I should go to the company, the companies, the two companies that I'm with initially, or go to a financial planner.

I'm a bit It's a good question, and it's high time Peter to get some advice. No matter where you go, Yeah, you will get some I guess some decent information from the two funds that you're with, but not you know, particularly complicated or tailored, tailored advice. That's a better word, so tailored advice. So go and see your financial advisor. Go and see a couple and see what you think, get what, get an idea, what things cost and what

Right, speak, Maybe you can give Jason a call off Air six to eight five one two three four. I said it not.

Jason after Simon is he called I don't have a looks he called you yet?

No?

No, still still know it's.

Been a week and the phone hasn't called sixty eight five one two three four. If you want to call Jason Winnies not here between one point thirty and two o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon on six PR Brian get a.

Yeah, Ilian, Jason. Yeah. Look, I've self employed and I've had a life insurance policy and I've been paying quite a few years and the policy is starting to add up, and I'm just looking for advice and whether the pros and cons of ensuring through my superfund.

Well, I guess the pro Brian is that the super fund pays for it.

You don't pay for it personally, which is cool, and which is why a lot of people do take out those life insurance policies in Super.

Initially.

The other thing that super has going for it when it owns your life insurance is that it can claim a tax reduction for the premiums. It will be it at fifteen percent, but it is a fifteen percent discount, so it's often a good idea to hold it in Super for that purpose. Anyway, Ultimately, if you did leave us, then the money would end up in the hands of your dependence, tax free anyway, So that bit's okay.

In terms of do you need it and you're paying for it?

And insurance does get expensive, and over time the need for insurance does diminish. The kids get older, the debt reduces, your other assets are that your own increase in value? So again, just worth getting it looked at every year or two to see, well do I really need this?

What would happen to my wife or family if I was to pass away?

And if the answers, you know, they'd be sad for a little while, but financially they'd be okay.

Then you probably don't need it anymore. You certainly don't need as much.

Got on your Brian thanks to the call one double three added each of your questions to Jason Featherbee. Let's go back to talking about helping the kids into a home and what you need to consider. The gift option was mentioned.

What about a loan?

Yeah, I like the loan idea.

I know it's a little bit more complicated, but a gift is gone. So I make a gift to my son or daughter they get into financial difficulty or they you know, they use it to buy a house, but then they sell the house and use it to buy ferrari, or they get into a bad relationship, that money that I've worked hard for, that I've gifted to them can disappear.

So a loan sort of helps protect that little bit.

So you lend that money instead of gifting it, and then in the event that's something untoward happens, you've got a documented loan that sort.

Of you can claim that money back.

It doesn't stop you from relending it to that same child, but it might just stop that money or a big chunk of it walking away with a lousy partner or someone they own money to.

What about an interest rate to your child or you let that one go.

I think I'd let that one Okay, Yeah, you can have a no interest loan. You can even have a gift. I think that's it's called a contingent gift that.

Well, it includes like a prenup or something.

Yeah, it sort of gets.

Triggered on certain events, so bankruptcy or the divorce or the sale of that property that money gets, you're allowed to claim that money back. So I like the idea of having some sort of paperwork around a gift. If it's five or ten thousand dollars, probably not worth it. If it's two hundred thousand dollars, then yeah, protect your own money as well.

What about being a guaranteel?

No, I don't last resort for me.

You know, it is another way to help, but you're on the hook for the debt that you're kids have and before you go guarante or you need to understand that. And you don't want their own financial distress causing your you distress in retirement.

So guarantee for me not a great idea.

And if you're going to go down that path to get some advice with your kids, yeah, go and sit down with them with an advisor and say, well, what position are they in? Are they stable, do they have income protection insurance? What sort of relationship are they in? Before you head down that path.

Would you prefer to go and buy it together? Say son and father or mother and daughter.

Or you see this a bit and I think it does help, but it can cause problems if you know, it's certainly a capital gains issue for the mum or dad. If the house or the property was ever sold, you might run into liquidit issues down the track and you want to sell, but the kids aren't in a position to or vice versa. Again, think twice before jumping in.

Okay, anything else needs to be considered.

No, not really.

Just make sure that you are aware of your own financial situation. You understand why you're kids can't afford a house, and you make sure that they've got insurance, they've got wills. Everything's sort of tickty boo before you throw a heap of money at it.

Are you having a big party next Monday night?

When is it a first of July?

Is it?

Well, it's the thirtieth journe so into financially you're having a big party.

Yeah.

Look, I feel like it's been a particular I think in Perth. I don't know what you think, but we seem to be doing okay economically and there's a lot of people contributing extra money into souper this year, more so than from recent memory anyway than I can remember.

All right, so it's pretty cool from a Western Australian point of view.

See your next financial year, Yes, can't wait, look forward to it.

Thank you.

Jason. That is the director of Lewenwealth, Jason Featherbe. You can call him six two eight five one two three four anytime goes straight to his mobile phone. We are fast approaching the two o'clock news here on six PR as the first WAGPS to independently diagnose and manage ADHD. We'll start providing this care in early twenty twenty six. The Royal Australian College of GPS Whchair and National Vice Presidents Ramia Raman to join us live out of the

Have the.

Motor racing track scrapped altogether, saying it's in the wrong location and arguing today that eighty five percent of people oppose the race track. The community wants small green space, less noise. The development is wrong for the area, it says, and reckons it must be the same bunch that were dead against Elizabeth Key when it was announced and thank god we don't have any of them trying to get WAU of this Dullsville status that we keep finding ourselves in.

Well?

Thank you?

Well, thank you.

Is this a good move that some gps will be able to diagnose ADHD and prescribe medication to cope with its.

Certainly onlie on behalf of the ROCGP. This commitment is very welcome and it's fantastic to see this move from the WA government after many discussions and also the support that they have thrown for our patients to be able to access ADHD care. As a GP, we see a lot of these conditions in the community and at the current time, like right now GPS, when GP specialists are not able to diagnose ADHD and prescribing, there are a

So's the pediatricians in the psychiatrists at the moment who are able to diagnose ADHD.

Doctor Ramin, Yes, currently patients. Current patients currently need to actually see a psychiatrist or a pediatrician to receive a diagnosis of ADHD. And certainly as a GP, I've got a lot of patients who've got the condition or who are currently in the waitlist for an assessment and a diagnosis.

One double three. I did I tell you waiting for your child to get an ADHD assessment or maybe for yourself? And how long have you had to waits? One double three attity tas have been taking a while because we know some of the backlogs to see a pediatrician it can extend into two or three years these days after Rahmen, So.

The program is the commitment has just come through, so that's really great. We need to get the balls rolling in terms of trying to get everything running so that we can meet the commitment of having a certain number of gps expected to be trained by the end of

So you're looking for training up about sixty five gps. How are you going to be able to or who's going to be assessing who gets selected if say six hundred and fifty gps put up their hands.

Yeah, So initially the key thing is I had already mentioned not all the gps would be interested in this space or you know, so it's about the initial number of GPS who put their hand up to get the wheels rolling, and we're confident that we would be able to review this program. The modules are developed by ORACGP, and we're working closely with other stakeholders in this space so that they have input into reviewing this and ensuring that appropriate training occurs as well.

And that training is going to take as you said, up until the end of twenty twenty six. That's obviously some quite detailed training. It's not like you're just going to sit down to a course for five minutes and you can do it.

No, So the key thing is, you know, we've as GPS, we've done a medical degree and then we hold a fellowship in general practice and we are practicing in the community. But this is certainly an area that we want to

WI has been at the forefront of this, haven't we for a little while. We're a little bit more forward looking than some of the other states and territories, Doctor Rabin, We have been, and.

That's been really great because you know, I'm just really pleased that we're actually leading the work and we're leading the work from the RCGPWA in this space. So this is good news. It's actually the nation first to announce the training program and the support for the training program as well, so we're hoping that other states are potentially going to be considering this with regards to our su GP offering that training in other states.

Questions just come through from Cameron. He says it sounds like there's a large increase of people being diagnosed with ADHD ADHD Doctor Rahman, is it because it's becoming financially beneficial to do this? Is it erowt what's going on? He wants to know.

So.

ADHD is a type of condition which falls under the category of neurodiversity. Neurodivers conditions tend to affect people in their day to day living, and we have come to know more and more about it, and you know, there are still some questions about, you know, diagnosis and what are some of the other comorbid conditions and hence the wrap around care that we are doing to ensure that there is a training program ensued with this particular condition.

Being made interesting doctor Rahma, I really appreciate your time today.

Thank you, thank you, thanks for having me on.

My pleasure Royal Australian College of GP's whair. She's also the national vice president. Have you been waiting or maybe your child has been waiting for an ad HD assessments? And how long did that take? Is it taking one double three a totty two? I know we covered earlier in this year on the program of a Firth family who had to fly over the Eastern States to get an appointment there with a pediatrician for that exact reason

Dr Cook?

That's a very little interesting link. Thank you for sharing, Brian. Steve of Kinross was advised some time ago now that it took his daughter seven years to be able to get grand or assessed and cost six thousand dollars up front six grand seven years going to get the grand

I agree with the condemnation by In Campbell of the Nedlands Council and I have to say this, never have I seen a council conduct themselves with so little integrity. Are all common sense into such an important project? And if you have not heard the interview by Oli Peterson on six PR and his interview of the mayor, then I would encourage you because it is diabolically one of the worst responses or public responses I've seen of an

Now, just how.

Flippant about a hospice. And this is why I bring this question. The mayor should be condemned. If she had any honor integrity, she would resign her conduct and the conduct of that council for this whole process has been bizarre, outrageous, but ultimately a demonstration of their integrity that they did not approach this seriously with what the outcome was intended.

There is the Lands Minister John Carey be indicating that Fyoda Argall, the Mayor of Nedlands, should resign one double three p. Eight eighty two. That was in question Time a little bit earlier. Today, Jodie reckons it seems that something like fifty or sixty percent of parents are now

It is looking stunning and we have a string of days like this ahead of us now. It was pretty chilly this morning, even cooler than it was yesterday. It got down to four point two if you were in or around Gandercotta got down to two point three degrees, so we are nearing those almost freezing points. Given that we're heading, we're very close to July, which is the coldest month of the year for us here in Perth.

Ely good stuff, Shery Lee. We'll see you at four and six o'clock, Thank you very much. Nine News Weather presenter Sherry Lee big Zileen does not often agree with John Carey, but in this instance it's hard to argue with him regarding the conduct of the Netherlands Council and Mayor Fiona our goal, particularly in that conversation she had with you. Good to see his laser intensity focused positively to support the hospice. But Richard says, well, what's John

Pumps, absolutely mate. And that song, mate, it's just I don't know, it just energizes me. As soon as I hear it. I'm like, yeah, it's go time with Dollie.

It is go time. Indeed, let's go to Rockingham because Craig needs a bit of help. He's first and foremost.

Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Jerko. I've got a question for you. The Myrie intersection of Normal Road crossing over Marmion Street. They've made it into a designated right hand turn on both sides entering the intersection, and I'm wondering what the reasoning was because it's caused more traffic jams there now than what there ever was, and it's just it seems to be a crazy decision. Any idea why they did that?

Sorry, what direction are you going?

You said, So you're on on Norma crossing over Marmion Street. So whether you're going north or south, each heading each way, there's a designated right and turn only lane.

Now, yeah, not uncommon.

When they're left open as it was so previously you would have had the left lane where you can go through and left, and the right lane where you can go through and right. What you've just described is that through is taken away from the right turn or the median lane. There are quite a lot of benefits to that. It means that people know what lane in what direction that car is going to take, obviously being constricted or restricted.

To the right turn.

It also allows for additional sight lines, so when the northbound and southbound person on normal road is actually approaching each other, they actually know that both of those vehicles are going to turn right. Therefore they only have to give way to one stream of oncoming traffic, so there's safety gains there. One small disk benefit might be that if a pedestrian is crossing north or north south on either the east or west side, there might be a

Thank you Craig for you call. Let's head to kilm Scott Barry.

Good afternoon to you, Good afternoons.

I was just asked him for a query on the junction at Armadale, the Safewash Highway Albany Highway junction there on it gets cluttered with all these road trains that go through there. I thought the road trains weren't allowed in the in the metro area. They go down there and they're they're fully loaded, so they struggle to take off at the traffic lights and there's a bit of an incline where they go and it's you're lucky to get one of them over.

Yeah.

Look, I definitely appreciate. So there's a lot to unpack there. The first one being are they allowed, Yes, they are larger, larger vehicles or restricted access vehicles ravs.

Are allowed on you'd pick up on them.

They are allowed on certain parts of the network, and yes, you're dead right. They're they're fully ladened and they are very slow to accelerate. Tonkin Highway Extension will go some way to alleviating and moving some of those heavy movements from the intersection, but they are allowed to use it. But notwithstanding, they are permitted. Also, you know, the tonnage dependent on number of axles, et cetera. But I won't geek out on that too much.

You geek out as much as you want. I love it when you geek out.

There's a whole mapping system. I'm going to bring them in for listeners.

You won't be able to see it, but a loossary of bringing the heavy vehicle configurations.

There are so many it's just mind boggling.

But I'm sure if you Google or just put it in your web browser heavy vehicle's main roads WA combinations, you should get a nice page of them. But I'll definitely bring them in for OLI next segment. You should set up a website yu co dot com. I was got to say, it's the main roads we just set up.

You just set up here on the website with all this, you know, the glossary, the terms. You can go and get yourself a wheel that you know, measuring wheel, all those things.

Which is hats I don't know, oli it it sounds like a seguey to Friday afternoon. You know, somewhere either before or after the pub talk. Maybe I don't know, yaking with Yerko.

Yakking with Yurko. If Nick's ever away for the pub test, we could bring in yaking with Yuko. It's not a bad idea.

It sounds like a plan.

Now, John wanted to know when you were last here whether there were any plans in the pipeline to upgrade the intersection of welsh Pool Road East and Lewis Road. What can you tell John about this one, Yuko?

Yeah, the City of Kalamanda has this intersection covered John, as they are progressing with detailed design for a roundabout in twenty twenty five twenty six, with anticipated service relocations in twenty six twenty seven and then construction of the roundabout in twenty seven twenty eight.

But that is subject to funding.

Let's head to Monster get a rick.

Hey are you going?

We good? Rekak and Yuko help you.

I've got a couple of things, just wondering if if there's any expected start date to the Rally Road extension.

Quanana Freeway to Rockingham.

Road to start in twenty six twenty.

Seven, twenty seven.

All right, yeah, cool?

And is there anything in the pipeline to upgrade Russell Road to a dual carriageway from Hammond Road to Rockingham Road.

Well, it's that precincts, It's yeah.

I can't. I just can't put my finger on exactly what's happening there. I'd need to sit down with.

The team and go through it and have a bit more of a look at the map. I know there are LGA roads, but for some reason, I think it was connected with some heavy vehicle movements.

But let me do some homework on that one.

We'll come back to you Rick on that. Jody called in a couple of weeks ago about congestion at the intersection of Nicholson Road and Rally Road. Do you council have any plans to upgrade this one?

UK? Yes, Ollie. Good news for Jody and or users of these intersections.

As a City of Armadel, in conjunction with the City of Serpentine Jaredale, have an approved twenty stage sorry a stage black spot project.

To convert the existing t junctions to a roundabout.

The project is currently at the eighty fifth percent design stage, with construction set to commit twenty five twenty six, So listeners keep an eye out for the upcoming works or reach out to Serpentine Jaredale for an update.

Yes, and some good pictures included here where obviously things are going to happen here.

Yeah, a bit of a stagger just to show you the actual intersection layout in case you wanted to pick up on those staggered teas. Maybe another one for I don't know, Yuko dot com dot au.

It's a good idea. Steve's in thorn Lee, Good afternoon.

How going guys?

We good mate.

I range a couple of things.

I range it a month ago regarding Thornley Am an amount of traffic on it and how dangerous it.

Is outside our house.

We're opposite the park and once a fortnite there's an excellent and every couple of days there's so many near missers. It's got amount of traffic coming off Timwick Link into firmly now. I was told someone would contact me, but never unfortually, no.

One ever contacted me. So that's one thing. And second I've got a place down down south in aunt Barker and the road Colviny Highway is of disgrace. It's so dangerous. I can understand why so many people will get killed on.

That road because it's you know, there's potholes and there's.

You know, depressions where the trucks have made the you know resources in the car.

Yeah, look, Steve, we did investigate Thorn they have some time ago. This is ringing a bell. I'm not sure if you're you own a business and you reverse a trailer off Thorn the avenue and that's creating the issue because I could understand that that is quite difficult. I will reiterate, and I believe the main roads if even if it's not you, the main roads advice was at the time. You know, I only do it when safe to do so. But also that's under council's care and control.

Yeap Olie's laughing at me.

Well, no, I'm not just that there's been lots of potholes the last weeks. We've had so much rain and that's what happens.

The beach then patting the sand, the water comes to the surface, it does that to the road. It goes in between you know, the compacted limestone or whatever's underneath and the actual seal itself, and it lives and as you know, the pothole gets bigger. I again, give us as much information as you can in terms of the road sections, crossroads where you know the worst sections are.

Will try and prioritize those. Give us a call anytime you know twenty four seven one three one three eight, go.

On your Steve. Good to hear from you there, mate, Jen. We'll get to you next if you want to talk to Yuko ostowitche mister main roads one double three at two with the yuko Ostowage today, Jen, Good afternoon.

Good afternoon allie.

How can Yuko help you?

The lights on.

Marmin and Rome Road, Melville, coming Fromon going towards through Mantle, there's always been an arrow there to turn right, but when there's no traffic coming, the arrow has gone off so that you can make a right turn. And now the arrow isn't going off even at eight o'clock, nine o'clock at night.

Well, definitely sounds like a fault that arrow coming from a Rome Road, But that'll generally be held on red for a short period of time to enable pedestrians to cross. It might be the old chewing gum in the in the pedestrian button. Not sure, but let's get a crew down there to have a look at it.

Good on your Jan, you coll provide an update in a couple of weeks. And when you see things like that, you know red arrow lights that don't change. Cole Main Roads twenty four seven one eight one three eight to report those faults. But Jan Yuko will have an answer for you in two weeks. Let's sad to KEILM Scott Hi.

David Oi Oi, ohyko?

Are we we good? Mate? How can you go help you?

North north of say the airport, going north up north or south on Tonkin Highway? All the street lighting is that main roads?

Yes?

Yes? Why is it that? For the last eighteen months there's like one two kilometer stretchers of lights. It just don't work.

This is coming up regularly at the moment on the main roads networking, Okay, what's going on?

It's it's I just don't have a solution and if anyone does, please let us know. We've got covert surveillance out there. We've reached out to West Australia Police. It's very hard to basically catch these people that are.

Still the theft.

Still there, still the theft.

It's just pinching it all the time everywhere.

Rip open a bit, you know, I'm not sure, tied off.

I don't know how they do it, pull it through, but somehow they're getting the copper and you know they're selling it.

It's obviously profitable. But yeah, you can imagine the backlog big.

Time, not only new works but existing work where you know, unfortunately listeners and road users they just don't have that added level of safety of the street lighting.

Sorry, David.

Unfortunately we're hearing it more and more. Gabby called up last time you were here for an update on the Orange Highway.

What can you tell them?

Yeah, I got this one wrong, Gabby. I bundled it into the Gray Eastern Highway bypass project. So to clarify it, the Orange Route is actually known as the East Link Project, next to each other, but completely different names. It's a planned eighty kilometer stretch of road that will run from Read Highway through to northm update is. Over the past few years we've undertaken a large amount of planning and

All right, little way to go in that one?

Hey, Mark, nice, Aman James, Sorry.

We're good Mark, How can you co help you?

Okay, I'm the Kanana Freeway heading into the city. The illuminated lights over the freeway, there's a little sign that says when blank, you can travel at eighty kilometers an out. But the same ones on the Mitchell freewa are heading to the city say that when blank you can trouble.

One hundred kilometers in how And it's gonny to know what was the difference.

Because when the northern suburbs are bit of drivers than people in the southern suburbs, isn't it Yerko.

I'm just not even going there, but.

Listeners, maybe once I get off air you can just go to town on that statement. But my understanding is there's actually a breakdown lane for motorists coming southbound.

So Mitchell Freeway has a breakdown lane.

We don't actually have that for northbound so we kept it at eighty kilometers right, So basically a design constraint. That's why there's a lot of extra signage for those emergency stopping bays and obviously the lums, the lane use management signs that are overhead. That's I threw it out there. We're creating a list for you.

I don't like it.

I can't wait to see it.

It's for Christmas, when every road project in w A will be finished.

Yes, but I'm not owning the year.

So in all seriousness, that's my understanding in terms of that eighty but well spotted. I don't think there's many motorists that would have actually, you know, actually seen that.

That's subtle difference. Very good, Mark, Very good, Mark.

Keep your wits about you now. Jackson wanted to know whether you've got any plans to upgrade the intersection of Thomas Road and Johnson Street in Quanana last time you were here.

No plans to upgrade, Jackson, but the delays you experienced may have been due to detective faults at the nearby Quanana Freeway and Thomas Road interchange. Johnson Street signals are coordinated with the interchange signals during peak periods so that faults, so faults at one location can impact the performance of another because of that miscommunication.

Vicki's in q Dale, Good afternoon. How can you co help you?

Yes, I live on Right Street between QO Young Road and Armadale Roads. There's a roundabout on each of those roads, but the traffic still flies along there like even a school bus. The other day, I reckon it must have been going eighty ks an hour, you know. So I'm just wondering if there's any speed bumps or anything that like that that may be put into space.

Yeah, great question, Vicky, and Ali's going to love it because I'm going to geek out again those speed bumps or as we call them now, raise safety platforms.

Peace Council Roads Council need to initiate it.

But the great news is Main Roads has something called the Low Cost Urban Road Safety Program. Councils like to abbrevia that abbreviate that to LCURSP. It's fully funded by Main Roads. Local government have to undertake the initial initial community consultation and then pre and post measurements to see if speeds have.

Been reduction reduced.

Sorry, but one hundred percent funded by Main Roads, So Vicky get on to the City of Belmont and see if they've got any plans to use the low cost urban road safety program like that.

Any roadworks we need to know about this fortnite, Yuko.

They're sure is Oli night works at the intersection of Canning Highway and Queen Victoria Street are continuing with lane closures and reduce speeds in place between eight pm and five am until next Monday.

Thirtieth of June.

Tomorrow night, Mitchell Freeway southbound will be closed between Warwick Road and Read Highway from nine pm to four am. Warwick Road on ramp to Mitchell Southbound will also be closed from eight pm to four am.

During the closure.

Motorists can use Warwick Road to access Marmi and Avenue or Erindale Road to continue south and then reconnect with the Mitchell Freeway southbound via Reed Highway. And Lastly, listeners, if you are interested in finding out more on the Tonkin Highway extension project, we still have one further community information session at the Farmers' Markets at two Preston Street in Mundajong on Saturday, the fifth of July. We'll have the team they're ready to answer your questions between nine

And look out for Uko's blue clipboard. We'll see in a couple of weeks.

See you.

Then you're listening to Perth Live with Oliver Peterson on Perth six PR.

Yeah, fast approaching. At the three o'clock news, Susan Lee, the Liberal leader, has just delivered today her first big speech. She said they got smashed, absolutely smashed at the federal election. Always a good hood hit out, always a bit of fun there with yukas stowage from Main Roads. And he'll be back with us again in two weeks, so I

So let's be honest and upfront about last month's election. We didn't just lose, we got smashed, totally smashed. What we as the Liberal Party presented to the Australian people was comprehensively rejected. The scale of that defeat, its size and significance, is not lost on me nor any one of my parliamentary team sitting here today. It was devastating for our parliamentary colleagues, our party members, our supporters and

So what do you put down to that deep and growing disconnect between the Liberal Party and the Australian electorate? One double, three eight eighty two. Before that speech, Susan Lee performed an acknowledgment of country, which signals really a different tone, doesn't it for the Liberal Party, because that breaks the position from the former leader Peter Dutton. Now, mister Dutton moved away from recognition of the Aboriginal Australian

Let's talk.

Twelve after three. While you're thinking about that. Police today have announced a half a million dollar reward in a bid to locate British backpacker Peter Falconio's body. The Northern Territory Police announced that this morning the reward for new information that leads the discovery of the remains. He was shot in the head. Peter Falconio on a remote stretch of the Stuart Highway near Barrow Creek, around three hundred kilometers north of Alice Springs back in July of two

The body of Peter has never been located, despite continued efforts by the NT Police to do so by investigating any viable information or leads that have been received throughout the years since. The NT Police still hold out hope that someone may be able to provide some vital information to assist in this search, and as such, a fresh reward for information is now on offer of up to five hundred thousand dollars for information that leads to discovery

That he's Acting Commander Mark Greave of the Northern Territory Police Force let it a leaming mark. Where did it all go wrong for the Liberal Party at the federal election. Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Olie.

Personally, I mean I watched all three of the the leader's debates and it was one of those I thought Alban easy actually answering the questions he.

Was supposed but but done.

It felt like he was back in high school again with the bullying.

Tactics and the talk down his opposition instead of actually talking about what his party was going to be keen and keep doing. And quite frankly, if politics can't be solved by actually saying what your policy is, how you're going to enforce it, and how you're going to make it all happen, and you just resort to literal high school, primary school tactics, just try and get your way, then no brain of.

So Mark for you. It was about the negativity, about the criticism of the government as opposed to putting out an alternative plan and policies and to try and worthy Australian people with some new ideas.

Exactly exactly the Elie.

Thank you mate, appreciate your call. Where do you think it all went wrong for the Liberal Party? Susan Lee in her first major addresses the new opposition leader, indicating there will be a period now of deep reflection and not sugar coating the results that the opposition achieved last month. Obi says, I find it amazing that Yuko Ostowitch, the representative from Main Roads, comes onto your program every other week, and when he's asked about projects, there's always years of

Now, firstly, can I thank the Triple C. Their job is to have an oversight function of WA Police, and the report does state that our investigation, our internal investigation, has been found to be impartial and reasonable. Their investigation of the improper or the firearms licensing issues is probably a question for the Triple C. We will obviously support them as best we can through the investigation's actually four

To the company that is cole Blanche. Speaking to the media a little bit earlier this afternoon, Dave writes Oli Albo is good at saying whatever people want to hear. We saw all of this in the election and he's hoodwinked the younger voters, which predominantly live in city areas. They're so easy to greenwash with wonderful ideas that don't even make much sense. That is what happened. He also wants wa to dig up things so Australia gets money back. It's a scam for the Labor Party and may all

So what do they do?

Where's it all gone wrong? Where was the disconnect? Spoken about by Susan Lee at the Press Club in Canberra today? One double three eight eighty two the talkback number. We'll hear from the Treasurer Jim Chalmers on today's inflation figures. He just a moment great, have you a company humph Day Wednesday here on six PR If you'd like to join the conversation, I'd love to hear your voice one

This is the lowest that inflation has been four years. It's the lowest headline inflation since the beginning of twenty twenty one. It's the lowest underlying inflation since the end of twenty twenty one, and also means, for the first time since these monthly records have been kept that we have seen six consecutive months now of inflation within the Reserve Bank's target range. This means that the progress we're making together on inflation is substantial, and it means that

Jim Charmer's the Federal Treasurer, none those inflation figures a liarlier today. Do you feel as though things have started to call with what you need to pay for what you buying? Do you feel as though inflations starting to get back into the bottle? One? Double three eight eighty two. May that mean there'll be an interest rate cut again

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Well, we are spoiled for choice. We get some of the best musicals in the world coming to Perth and starting in just over one month's time, is the Fabulous Beauty and the Beast of course by Disney, and I please to say joining me in the studio today is shub Sree Candia who plays Bell. Shubstree. It's lovely to meet you.

Thank you, thank you so much for.

Having me my pleasure. You have the best role in one of the best musicals of all time, I really do.

It is such a much loved classic and it's just a beautiful role to play. I think she's a beautiful character and it's an honor to be in this production.

You've been traveling Australia playing Bells. Perth the last stop on the national tour.

It is the last Australian stop. So I think if you haven't seen the show and you've been wanting to, now's the time because it is the last place we will be.

And it's good for you because you're back where you grew up in wa Yeah.

I think you know it's been such a long wait to come here. The Perth tour was announced so long ago that it's like, oh, it's finally here. So yeah, I'm very much looking forward to it.

I'm sure you are. You've been in Perth now for a little while on this stints and you had a little involvement with state of origin.

Yes, I'm actually we're in Adelaide with the show at the moment, but it was really wonderful to kind of pop down to Perth just ahead of the actual tour and yeah, perform the national anthem for the origin.

How's that when you get to that call, I've in front of sixty thousand people, adopt the stadium and I you've done it before. But what's that like seeing the national anthem in front of in front of a packed house?

I mean, it's kind of one of those ones where you know, you're like, don't muck up the words to the national anthem. I think that's the biggest pressure. But it's I think, so different from performing on stage, you know, like the audience is very much there to watch the sport, and so different from like you know, now performances when they're very much there to watch us.

I would imagine that you still think, is it we are one and free or we are young and free? Because we all grew up with it, you know, the old version of how it's one and free, And I think sometimes people say the wrong thing.

I think so, but I really love the new version. I think that lyric change is great and it always sticks in.

My Yeah, it is good. It is good.

But you go from the extremes, right, you got a State of Origin rugby league crowd to performing Disney's Beauty in the Beast and some of the best theaters in Australia and you're gonna be doing that in Crown in a month's time. That's awesome. There's nothing quite like live musical theater. There really isn't.

I think, you know why so many people keep coming back to the show, It's just because, you know, I think the nature of live theater is that it's different every day and we have you know, sometimes people with illness and we'll have a cover on and so like you always like there's a different version of the show every day, always saying true to like what it is. But I think that's the joy of watching something live.

And you have a really talented cast that is performing with you in Disney's Beauty in the Beast. Yeah, obviously developing some good friendships along the way as well.

Yeah.

I mean it's been two years, so it's been a long time of kind of finding our rhythm with each other, and I think we have the most incredible cast. I remember from day dot thinking in the rehearsal room, Wow, they've really cast the best people for the roles in this so it's really an honor to be a part of it.

Do you ever get sick of anybody you're with you're looking forward to a wrapping up set, I have to see them again for a little while.

No, I think everybody's pretty great on this one.

It's been a good time. Do you have any idiosyncrasies of your own that before a performance you have to, you know, put like your left shoe on before you right shoe or anything like that.

Yes, I think there are like little things that I'm like, I have to do this now just because it's part of my plot. But I think that's also fun. You know, you have a little backstage things with the crew as well, like we'll high five before this particular scene, and you know that's all part of the fun.

You attracted towards Disney productions, and I know you've been Cinderella on a couple of occasions. I believe she'll tree.

Yes, that actually wasn't with Disney. That was a Rogers and Hammerstein's version of Cinderella. And then I did into the Woods as Cinderella as well. But my last Disney show was Aladdin and I played Princess Jasmine, and that was the last time I performed in Perth, so it's really nice to be back.

Well do you prefer Bell or Princess Jasmine? You get some pretty good roles, I really do.

I think they're both very different, and I've kind of loved being both of them, I think, and Aladdin it was a really lovely introduction to being a lead in a production because I think the responsibility of the show wasn't so much on me, you know. I was a lead, but very much a supporting lead, whereas this show I feel like I'm on stage pretty much the whole time, and it's hugely demanding.

Yeah, it's funny that we're talking today because yesterday afternoon my son had turned on the Disney streaming service and actually found the musical version of Frozen. Oh yeah, and all of a sudden, the way that it's also now streaming, you go, hold on it, ma, this is like you're

I think also just growing up with that animated film, what I've kind of loved about this version of the show is the kind of incorporation of.

Kind of.

Animation in the in the show, which I haven't loved on any other show that I have seen or been a part of, but I think because there was the animated version, I think the incorporation of how they've done with this one is just really beautiful and it kind of is nostalgic in that way.

That's a beautiful music score, Beauty and the Beast. You must be just the hairs on the back of your neck must be standing out when you're singing some of those absolute classics there. It really is.

And I think, you know, it's always special to have a different orchestra in each city, so like I cannot wait to hear our Perth orchestra play that music.

Gee, it's exciting, all right. If you want to get tickets, head along to Beautyanthebeast musical dot com dot au first performance here in Perth is in just a month's time, Thursday, the twenty fourth of July. I bet you can't wait to get your feet back on the ground here in Perth. Is there anywhere when you're a return to Perth that you must visit? Is there some place or a particular cafe or restaurant that you go I must go to when I'm back in Perth.

I think I haven't lived here for such a long time, so much is new to me, so I really just can't wait to explore again.

Well, fair enough, get up to King's Park and get out to codders Low Beach and just enjoy the fresh air of Western Australia. It's so good to have you in the studio. Is today good luck?

Thank you.

We'll go off to the UK in just to chick with. End of Brady Lancelin needs a racetrack Ollie on the foreshore to stop the erosion, and to say the Lanceln Hotel Ollie. It may be a spurious comparison, but perhaps the Libs could take a look at the disaster of the Conservatives in the UK. You've been and learned from their mistakes. They've had at least three leaders since Boris and from what I hear, they have all been very, very ineffective. We'll look at the polls, look at our

Changed, Ohlie, Actually it was a lot cooler in London yesterday Oxfordshire. Today it's even cooler. Still a lot of cload cover. Heat wave has gone away for now. Heat waving inverted comments obviously by your standards.

Yes, indeed you've probably still got a sweater on when it's twenty two degrees in you're on Switchem. Yeah, he can't. He's bringing forward Trump's state visit to September.

So Keer Starmer right now is in the Netherlands for this NATO summit two days. President Trump has just turned up and Starmer will be delivering some very good news because President Trump wants his second state visit as quickly as possible. However, the Prime Minister is going against the King on this because Charles's view was that yeah, Trump could come, but come initially and go to Scotland for lunch and have a chat and they could plan the

The UK is going to buy fier jets capable of carrying nuclear weapons in that.

This is a big, big story breaking this morning here. So obviously all eyes on defense and NATO and spending and Starmer has just let it be known that they will be buying a dozen F thirty five fighter jets from an American company. And this is a new development for the UK's arsenal of weaponry. They will be able to carry nuclear weapons now Britain has never been able to launch them from jets before. Britain's never launched one obviously ever, but if they had to do it right now,

So United's preparing to make the strakra you Jaffa to find of interest from Liverpool and Arsenal.

So this is the.

Swedish international Alexander Esak, he has been a revelation since he joined Newcastle United. He's scored the second most goals in the Premier League last season, behind Mossala of Liverpool and the whisper is Liverpool want him to join up with Salah and Arsenal are also wanting to sign him, So Alexander Esak is in big, big demand. Newcastle United clearly are worried about losing him. They want to make him the highest paid player in their history. So he

Yeah, well you would say that though, Oh Wally.

Do you want to hear some goss j on.

Guess who fell asleep in the sound of music last night in Northbridge?

No, it's tonight, It hasn't been on yet, it's tonight.

And oh no, no, no, I heard. I heard a friend of ours was in north Bridge last night a little preview and got bored. Anyway, I've said too much, likely.

These days away tonight for the main event, and you should have jet it into this, you'd love it.

My mother loves us. My mother absolutely adores it, so do you know what. I've never watched us, but the good luck to everyone involved. It's not my kind of cup of tea the whole musical world, but my mother absolutely adores it. It is a Christmas regular in our house.

Yeah, what's wrong with you? I mean it's it's sort of a rod of passage. Everyone's going to watch the sound of music. Something has gone wrong in your life, and something's gone wrong in Nick Alvianni's life. You need to fix that. Ending you've got to Christmas.

I'll go with Alviani deal.

See you night, Chad Tomorrow, Bally and the Brady Love and the line from the UK. There's a little word on the street for you. Somebody may have been at the preview last night and had a little snooze. I'm sure they'll stay awake for tonight's main events. It's going to be huge sound of music. Carlingington's going to nail a few notes. He's going to absolutely love it. It's

Well, it's such an opportunity because it's a line where people want to live. It's also a line where you've got local governments like we see the Fremantle where I was mayor, who are really keen to see many more people take North mounta train facing amazing opportunity on the beach, but no one knew how people ditting around it, but all the way up that line were caught as slow at Subiaco City West.

Huge opportunities.

We have an obsession, don't we at birth to go out further, whether it's north, south or east. But we don't want to go up Brad.

Yeah, that's right. Did you know seventy of all new houses are built on the free So the longest city in the world, we are Ali and it's getting longer because that's what we're building over two thirds of our new houses. So it's a real opportunity. But this is a key point I'm trying to make to the property council. Government's got to lead on this, yet you've got to

So we had the Planning Commission last week prove that seventeen and fifteen story apartment complex on Station Street and Codders. The council obviously doesn't want it. There's a bit of community acs because of the infrastructure at the moment with the boom gates. Now, isn't this the perfect time, the perfect opportunity, Brad, to actually sink the railway line, because like you just pointed to with Subi Centro, you do

That's right.

And this is the kind of projects that would be really great to see government invest in. I think much better than you as we're part for example, but actually you know these are actually city making projects where you would you know, create really vibrant centers. But you've got at the moment you got thrown at doing that station

Be a bad thing? One double three eight eighty two Brad. The metro Net projects obviously attached to try to put apartment complexes around the stations where the new lines have been constructed, Has there been the uptake do you think the government was hoping for?

No?

Look, there's been a very unenthusiastic uptake, and that looks there's good reasons for that. Developers want to make a profit as they should and building out there. I mean that people who want to live.

In an apartment don't want to live, you know, in some far flung out a suburb on a new train line that's not connected to anything.

The great advantage of density, a good well planned density, is.

That it's it's it's near amenity, it's it's near existing centers, coffee shops, you know, rivers, beaches, all the things that actually make our city good. That's where we should be putting density, not in these far flung locations. And always bizarre that government's kind of literally got it back the front we I mean, we need planning to encourage density, not just on the Freeman of the line where I talked about it's today, but.

I mean take another example of Bayswater. I mean, the town of Bayswater is desperate again for people on their main street development down there, but there's no again, there's no plan to do it there, but there is further further out along out towards Whiteman Park, which is frankly where probably nobody really wants to live in an apartment.

So why are the worst the suburbs always missing from this conversation? Why is the Freemantle line ignored?

Brad Ah, Look, I reckon it's governments don't want to have the battle. It's a very well educated community and there are look, there are there is some Nimbia element down there.

But I'd also say that I reckon lots of people in that community.

If you sat down with them as them designed their city centers and these new transit orientated developments around train stations with them, you would.

Have overwhelming support for this. But that requires government to sit down and do the work with the community. But I think that's exactly what needs to happen. And if we don't do that, all we're going to do is.

Keep pushing more and more people to the friends rather than inviting people to live in the best parts of first that that include along along our train lines.

So we've got this point and use the Cutters example again, Yes said last week where it originally went to Council of eight Stories, they said no that it went to the planning commission. He's now given them fifteen and seventeen. So have we gone to the council in the first place, they would have just had eight, fifteen or seventeen. Now

Yes, And I think, look, it is broken, and it's broken now because well there almost isn't planning anymore. What you've seen now, unfortunately, is a centralized state government planning system where really anything gets approved, whether it's in the planning.

Scheme or not. It's kind of got very ad hoc. Mean, I think almost ned to go back.

But there also needs to be demand to local governments.

Local governments need to have density targets that they must meet. At the moment, there's only two local governments in the Metro area who are meeting.

The density targets and those are city of those are Clermonte and Freemantle.

No one else is meeting them, but there's also no consequence for not or incentive formating them.

Yeah, so they're not where they're not meeting them because of their planning schemes, or developers are not keen to build the apartments and they can't turn the profit brad or There's a little bit of both and not much of an appetite our council.

Some of them are outdated of planning schemes that makes it very hard to do so.

Others are simply that developers haven't been encouraged to come down there because it's not.

A holistic plan about where it would go and how it fits.

So we need a proactive approach that brings local governments and local communities on the journey. We can do it, I mean person, I mean I think our centers would benefit from people. Often we're not the mayor of Fremantle. I'd always say that all Fremantle needed to be better with more people, and I think the same appliers the Midland. The same applies to Armadale and the Drin Dealer. Let's

Altogether, we can actually make our city much better. We shouldn't be afraid of density. Actually in the right location, lilesially makes.

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This is a compliment from Tom. He says he may have gone mad, Brad, but he sees some sense in what you're saying about the Western somebody's pulling their weight and allowing infield housing may free up some housing and allow people wanting to scale down on their home size.

Yeah, that's right.

And that's the other key thing is there plenty of people want an age in place. You know, someone who lives in colors Folds can keep that example going. And they're big four x two on the block. They want to stay in their community. That's where their friends are. But they're rattling around. A couple other kids have gone where are the places that they can downsize into?

And then when they're downside, it.

Means more people can come in. So everyone wins if we've got that right mix of housing. But we shouldn't expect people to have to go to a different suburb because there's nowhere to nowhere else sit downside too one.

Double three Adaly two. We'll go to the phones in just a moment. I've had the safternoon of the Legislative Council. You called on the government to provide an update on their progress towards the recommendations of that inquiry into the funding of homelessness services in WA and I believe that your Housing at Homelessness colleague Tim Clifford, has had a bit of a win moving emotion he did.

Tim did a very good job and actually eventually got the government even to support the motion. Look, and it calls the government to get serious about ending homelessness. We've gone backwards in terms of the amount of rough sleepers, the amount of people who are homeless, and of course our housing weight lists and government can fix this, but

So when do they have to report back by Brad, what have you got to a couple of weeks or a month, No, I need to September.

We originally said August, but they asked for a bit more time, but which we agree to. So that got everyone over the line in supporting it. And I think this is a really key thing because we saw a budget that just came down there was only ten million dollars more for homelessess services and when we're spending six times more than that on a new NRL team. Here is it's about priorities if we're serious about any homelesses. And I would say government committed made a promise in

And those support services, those charities have never been busier, Brad. And that's not going to slow for any time soon, you know, down to what we've got six degrees today, it could be even colder than that. It's it's a tough night ahead for a lot of people.

Yeah, no exactly. And I think, look, I really hope what this new parliament where we do now have you the balance of power and we've been work across the tamber to get better outcomes for those people in the community and that's good for everybody.

Brad Betett, thanks for your time today. Thanks olein the WA Green's leader one double three eight eighty two. The Greens a win on the homelessness strategy of the government and having a report back by September. But what do you think should there be apartments built around every train station on the Frio line? Should the Frio line be

Can I here go on?

I'm good?

What do you reckon?

I just.

Want to talk about this urban density that Brad's gone on about. If West Australia was its own country, it would be the eleventh biggest country in the world by area. Our population there would be one hundred and forty third in the world. We have more and people than anybody.

Else in the world. Only there's a couple of little islands that would come in forth on more space.

That's what we've got.

What's that big deal about tram and everyone in next door to each other?

Because I think it's also about infrastructure. Brand It's about the power, it's about the water, it's about the train lines, it's about the roads. And you know, you keep going out, you keep going right as in you look at the map of Australia East and then all of a sudden you've got more infrastructure, got to build more hospitals. Obviously you still got to build them. But do we don't have the population yet? Do we, Brad, to continue to go north southeast?

I think we do.

I think it's just the developers that don't want to spend the money on the roads and so on, sewers and things that are bursting because there's so many people in this infield stuff.

There's a lot of headache, an't there, Brad, when you put it into that context, make thank you very much for your call. But you know the issue is these apartment developers so they can't turn a profit. You're not turning the sods. They're not actually getting on with the job now one double three eight at he so keep the calls coming through. Twenty four after four rob of South Perth sears Brad Pettitt hit the nail on the head. Richardson Street, South Perth and Preston Street Como, they're right

Olie, are you doing good?

What do you think?

Oh?

Look, we are fighting our own fight in the woods. We've got developers who are trying to make a profit down near the call site, and we've just discovered that everything has gone sort of very quietly without proper counsel, without any sort of consideration for the community. And we've got a potential fifty unit complex for one hundred percent social housing because John Kerry basically wants it.

That way, right, So so bypassing the council and going where to the Planning Commission to make the decision?

Is it Marni, Yep, exactly, it's it's fours under eleven B which happened during cod and the you know, twenty twenty two. John was happy to say that one hundred percent social housing sort of enclaves don't work. Yet he's done it to Inglewood twice, and it's happening all over Perth.

And you get no say in it. You'd like to be able to contribute to what's happening.

We've already been to planning, We've been to council. We have been, we have been through every single avenue we can, and council get ignored. And it's because the state government can do whatever they want.

So this is the Beaufort Street project. I think a Minister Kerry might have put this up on his social media accounts earlier this year. Money is that the one that's got a couple of pitches hanging about.

Flu under the over fifty five sort of little sort of guys. And I'm ensure our aging population definitely need housing and we are so not against social housing. We're against one hundred percent social. We wanted mixed tenure. This original development had commercial on the ground floor and then mixed tenure affordable housing rent to buy with you know, the percentage of social. And it's turned into one hundred percent social from ground floor up, so not even commercial

I thought the idea moving forward though, was to integrate private social public housing across the metropolitan area, not just have one area that's social housing or one area that's public housing.

Absolutely well, that's what we were sort of thinking was going to be happening. But well, I mean we made a movie an upset in Parliament when we are we upset that Apple car but he just he doesn't care to listen. And it is more than Inglewood. We know this is happening all over us. So we just don't understand how this state government can do this to wa We're going to end up with Browny powers again.

Yeah, I thought that's what they were trying to avoid, Marny. Thanks for you call, Helen, says. Brad Pitt turned the Frio, parks and seed and a homeless refuge to get himself elected into parliament. Where's the solutions for freo?

Brad?

I'm still waiting for a big spooker and there hasn't been much action and yes to density, but if John Kerry continues to create one hundred percent social housing ghettos like he's doing in Inglewood that Marty just touched on, we're going to go backwards quickly, mixed tenure or ace John. I'm a business owner and a voice for a safer Inglewood. Hi Irene, oh hi Ollie.

How often is the showground us?

Why don't we move the show grounds?

Oh?

Yeah? Where would we take the show you reckon then, Irene, where would you like to move the show to?

Oh, well up.

Maybe Midland to the hills. That'd be all right, I mean that land that'd be very valuab wouldn't it around Clermont?

It would, yes, But you know it would give a lot of home, wouldn't it.

It would there you go, there's a bit of thinking from Irene, you know, sink the ralway line or sell the showgrounds, Mick says, in regards to sinking all the Freo train line stations, can wa really afford more billions added to the bushwinning twelve billion dollars Metro debts? Health is much more important if it was cost neutral. Though me let's just say for a nice round figure, it was going to cost twenty billion dollars to sink the railway line. Probably wouldn't be that name. It would the

Hi only listened thirty years ago. They went through the metropolitan area. Lockriage took out about or probably sixty or seventy townhouses, the two story places. Now you're going back to the old problem where the social part of it was unacceptable. So now you're building high rise again causing the same bloody problem.

Yeah, that's it, the same bloody problems.

Frank.

Can you just see history repeating itself? I mean, look at some of the concerns just raised by Marni before the government needs to build accommodation instead of buying existing buildings. What happened to Frio forty to fifty years ago, bustling in the city center. Now he could put a gunshot through it. What happened I had to be unfair to Frio. We had a big day out there a couple of Saturdays ago, just to catch up with a few of the school dads, and we enjoyed playing the e darts

I think very good. I think very good. Israel came back yesterday. I was so proud of them because they came back. You know, they went out because they felt it was a violation and technically they were right, but it just wouldn't have worked out very well. And they brought the planes back. They had gone on to another journey because there was a little bit of a violation, and I said, you got to get him back. And they came back and it was a great thing. And it's going very well.

I know it's international relations. But the way that the US the president describes things is interesting to say the least. James hey Ollie, regarding this train station Infield idea of Brad Petee at brad Pettit rather given the current housing shortage. I've got a block that I'm wanting to develop for housing. It's one hundred meters from the new train station in high Wickham. I haven't been able to get started because of the government departments Metro need have not yet decided

Good afternoon, Ollie. I think we're going to have to have a new name for these con men. We had the bitchman bandit, so I'm not sure what we're going to call the roof repair cod minute. It doesn't quite roll off the tongue in the same way.

Now it doesn't. We've maybe got some some root, some rogue roof repairers. Maybe we could go that way.

Yeah, yeah, it sounds good to me, but I hate you.

You know, they're just knocking on people's doors.

They are, And really the strongest message that I want to send out to all your listeners is it's okay to close the door on them and say go away, I'm not interested. I think sometimes we feel like it's rude to close the door in someone's face. These people absolutely deserve to have the door closed in their face.

And they've fleeced some elderly West Australians up to about eighteen thousand dollars tration at least one example.

Yeah, absolutely so one couple unfortunately paid. So at the moment we're sort of talking around the Southern Suburbs area where we've been seeing them, so Hillman Palmelia Hilton around those areas. They've gone to one elderly couple's door, you know, told them that they needed some work on their roofs, some roof cleaning, some tile tuch pointing. Didn't give them a formal quote or even write down what the work was but turned up on the weekend allegedly did the work,

Didn't the bank stop the couple?

Though?

Too true? Shouldn't wasn't it they a bit of a red flag? Or they didn't probably know they're going to put out in thousand, six hundred and forty five dollars on the blank check.

No, they didn't, so I know. And again though the couple would have said, we've had roofwork done and this is a bank check for the roofwork.

So yeah.

But unfortunately the next couple were quoted about nineteen just over nineteen hundred dollars. But this one, again, this is the bit that really concerns me as well, is the tradesperson stood over them, why they did the bank transfer and actually up to it to twenty one hundred and forty five, which they said was GST. But it's that intimidation and threatening behavior that really concerns us as well.

So do you know who these people are? Traditional? Do you suspect you know who these as Eileen wants to turn them ruffians are?

Yeah, these ruffians are. We think they're very similar to the Bitchmind bandits, so we believe that they are probably backpackers that have come over. We're not backpackers because backpackers are usually good, honest, hard workers. They're roague people that come over from overseas. They come and do a blitz in our country under false names, false business names, through dodgy work, get as much money as they can out of our unsuspecting residents, and then leave the country growgs.

I want to call them roof rest o waterers. That's not a bad one. Trash.

Yeah, yeah, there's some good names there. We'll add those to the list. Deerfinitely.

If somebody's coming knock here on your door thinking you might need a bit of roof, as you said, slam the door, I don't need it. But if you are genuinely thinking I need to get a somebody out to look at my roof, I might need a legitimate roof restoration like you do with everything. Get those quotes, maybe get a few people out to the place to quote for you, so you're not caught up in these roof borders.

Yeah.

Yeah, Look, if someone is coming to you unsolicited, you have to really question their motives in the first instance, and they're probably going to over quote an overpriced if you think you need work done by all means, you can ask these people for a quote, but don't let them start any work. So if someone comes to your door that without being asked, that's what we call an unsolicited consumer agreement. You have a ten day cooling off

I'm sure they will when you make these payments. Is there a particular payments method that is better than others trush to try and protect yours you.

Yeah, that's a really good question, and definitely credit card is the way to pay, and most businesses, legitimate businesses will have a capacity for you to pay by credit card. The thing being if you pay by credit card and there's a dispute about the quality of work or they don't do the work, you can go to your bank and ask for a charge back. But if you're paying by cash or by check or by bank transfer, it's almost impossible to get your money back.

Good on your trash, Appreciate your time.

Thank you,