Perth Today with Simon Beaumont Podcast - Thursday, 29 May 2025

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Right, let's clear this up once and for all.

Yes or no? Is it over for the Woodside protesters? Is it all over? After Murray? What the Federal Environment Minister in yesterday in principle get backed the gas producer Woodside in looking to extend the lease until twenty seventy with some conditions, of course, what do you reckon? Is it over for the protesters? Yes?

Or no?

I don't think it is im and no on this one. What do you reckon? Is it over for the protesters? So the anti activism, the anti Woodside activism has been ferocious, it's been sustained. Here's a chronology. Here's a quick rundown of some of the major hardline activism headlines, if you will. Going back to November twenty twenty one, the protests started

Or no?

Is it now over? For the Woodside protest is what are they going to do now? Is the drilling in the brows basin the new the new battleground one double three eight D two. Thanks for listening in today, Ray says, your guest is Steve Kilby with a K, not Gilby. I'm sorry if I said Gilby, Ray, I really like Steve Kilby, always have Steve Kilby on the show. A little bit later on, Let's clean this up. So I must have said it because Greg said the same. Sorry Greg, Sorry,

We have a very strong working relationship with the Merjigga Aboriginal Corporation. We've worked closely with traditional custodians for more than forty years now, and whilst we haven't always gotten it right, we have very strong working relationships now and we support the World Heritage listing and we believe industry and heritage can coexist. I'll leave it to the state and the federal government to comment on.

The UN report. That's mega O'Neil yesterday, so there's more to come here. I don't think I'm a no on this. I reckon it's not over for the Woodside protests, as they will keep going. They'll probably changed tactic, they'll probably get more creative. It hasn't worked, hasn't worked politically. I'm not sure if it's worked in terms of community support either. Ken from Southern River Good Kim. Yes, it's all over

Mining Simon, how are you very well?

Mate?

Yeah, I don't believe it's over at all. I wouldn't trust that Minister Murray Wood as far as I could throw him. He's destroying lives, sheet trade in wa and until he's given that the ultimate green light, I reckon.

We haven't got a real apprival yet.

No, that's a good point, Zeno. It is subject to conditions. Thank you mate, so xeno not trusting Murray wad in this regard. Trina of Mainland. Hi, Trina, thanks your thoughts. I think most of us are just blown away by the timeline. Granted until twenty seventy, that is a very very long time since Trina, it is Trina, and I did think Murray what would pull back on it. I'll still get a messages of saying it's Steve Kilby. I know, I know it is, and I can't believe I said Kilby.

Good I Simon or should I say Shane? We'll go with Simon.

Thank you.

Poor blokes his first interview with me as well, so he was remorseful. So what does this mean? And this is conditional, so it's not it's not across the line yet. Can you have you got some metrics on this for us?

Oh, look, this is a matter that sits with Woodside at presently. It's a standard part of the regulatory procedure that the Minister would come back with some conditions. I assume and would be surprised if Woodside weren't working through those issues over the coming days and then issuing a response.

To the Minister.

But you know, I trust and hope that all is in order and that will get the absolute final confirmation in the expected time period.

Is the Browse base in the next part of the argument that still hasn't been approved as it aired, so we've got you know, the lease in the contract has been extended up until twenty seven conditions notwithstanding. Is Browse the next sort of battleground you.

Think, Oh, look, and again look, this is a matter for the company. I mean, here's the important thing. Signon global capital is more mobile than ever and we just can't assume that further investments of that nature and that particular one that you refer to are some sort of

Aaron, you did cci get to meet with mister Watt when he was here a couple of weeks ago, and were you surprised at how quickly you made this decision.

Yes, we did meet with Minister what and we appreciated his constructive engagement on the issue. He didn't speak with us to any any detail particular about the Northwest Shelf decision. Due to the sensitive, sensitive nature. We noted to the Minister why we thought it was an important project to go ahead. But he was very professional and careful and guarded in his comments and so we had no insight whatsoever into the decision. Look, he had to make the

There's economics in this, and this is why we're talking to you with there's some politics in this as well. Can you reflect on why you think Albanezi and what have done this at this time and so quickly?

Oh? Look, I think, as I said before, there's just a growing realization around the critical role that natural gas will play in the future economy. It's going to be absolutely vital for providing affordable and reliable energy in the

All right, Aaron, thank you very much for talking to us today. Thanks you time. Thanks to Aaron Maury. That's interesting, isn't that? It's the mobility of global capital is interesting. So we know that China is part of this argument. We know that America is China needs gas, and the PM himself earlier this week used the phrase firming capacity, which is around our ability to access natural gas in energy production until such time as we transition into renewables.

Everything else is secondary, secondary to the way that we treat the planet and one another.

So that's the song echo Side Woodside that just popped up in the middle of the song list, and you know, some people like it, and some people said, mate play play beds of burning or place up else. But that's you know, that's when I really started to take notice that the protesting against the nippers, protesting against at the midnight all concert going to Meg O'Neil's house facing mccubburn. I don't know how all that went down. One double three eight Edy two is the is the phone number?

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Siahs is via the text line that sarahs Hello Sarah, She says, Simon, these woodside protesters are like jilted partners whose exites have remarried. They can't accept the outcome because the conflict has become their whole reason for being. Without it, they either have to do something to define themselves with evaporate. Redefining yourselves always difficult, hard work, and evaporation is unacceptable for those who like to draw attention to themselves. Thank you, Sarah,

You, Hice, Simon, good to be on the station.

Yeah, thank you. We're running a yes no poll today. Is it over for the Woodside processes? The yes are five and the nose are twenty And I think you would agree with that this this could really exacerbate and inflame the hardline activists.

There's obviously a number of aspects to this. You know, the environmental aspects are pretty clear. You're you're talking a lot about the Yeah, the protests that that Woodsid's receiving. You know, we spend a lot of time thinking about investor perspectives and speaking to investors as well. Woodside doesn't

That's so that's that's the next bad, isn't it. That's the next part of the puzzle. We suspect the Browse basis.

Yeah, yeah, I think so. So you know, this conditional approval, we haven't seen what the conditions are, but that's to operate Kraftic gas plant or the Northwest Shelf, which can process gas. But that's running out of gas. So you know, if if this this approval is granted, then you know Woodside's going to be looking for other gas sources and you know, probably the most prominent is is Brows.

So you know, I had a little phone around yesterday and talked to people who are on the protest activism side of it, Alex and they I think they're a little rattled. They weren't expecting the decisions to be so quick and so clear and so brutal. Conditions notwithstanding, if I can ask you about that part of it, the social license part of I guess for Woodside and their corporate responsibility thereof you mentioned that there hasn't always been

I can't talk to what suggests you you know what, thank you, but yeah, you know what I mean, they've got to I think they've got a good rep in in a brand in the community, haven't they, which which goes to corporate responsibility. I think they act like they need to protect their brands. You know, they do face a lot of cruises criticism. I think, you know, maybe counter and intuitively to some of your listeners, they actually don't generate strong chans. So over the last fifteen years

Seen as a WA company too, aren't they And they are based here there employee about four thousand people. Again, that's that goes to branding, I suppose, doesn't it.

Yeah, Yeah, they are w based that they're increasingly focused on Houston. So you know the current see Meg is US based. Their last major investment was US based, So I think they like to play up the fact that they're a West Australian company. Yeah, and they still are headquartered here, but you know, I think that there is a gradual pivot towards them being increasingly Americanized.

This is Alex Hillman from the Australation Center for Corporate Responsibility. If I were to ask you as a citizen, Alex or even is you in doing your day job as you are now? Yes?

No?

Is it over for the woodside protests? Are you yes? Or are you a no?

No?

So I think climate change climate science is getting more certain, the impacts are getting more real. You know, we're seeing massive floods in New South Wales at the moment. We're seeing massive droughts in South Australia at the moment. You know, the Australian government is both sides of government have a net zero policy so the energy transition is happening. Woodside

Mentioned firming capacity this week, alex He seems to think or hint that we still were going to need gas for a while.

Yeah, that's true. So you know that the energy transition is happening. The vast bulk of energy or increased energy supply each year and is now coming from renewables, and what we're seeing in Australia and the East Coast and the West Coast, in Japan, in China and Europe, what we're seeing is that renewables are backing out coal and then as that happens, we're seeing less less demand for gas.

Thanks for the chat today, Alex. Very good tactical move not to comment on the seduction stuff. Well done. Thanks for thanks.

Great to see you.

Thanks jeers mate, Alex Hillman Australian Center for Corporate Responsibility. So that is interesting, isn't I guess they see the wood size returned investors isn't great. I'm probably like a lot of people. I see the Woodside ads on TV had a bit to do with surf life saving over the year, with my years with my kids. So I see them sponsoring the Nippers program, they sponsor free oh on the Jumper, so you do. And they employ a

Yes, gooda Simon. I just wanted to know why are they still exporting cole overseas from New South Wales and Queensland when that produces probably three four times the amount of greenhound greenhouse gases and gas does and why aren't they concentrating on that instead of the gas? And yes, I think it's over for the environments environmentalists because they're not going to change the decision. They can keep protesting and protesting, but they won't change the decision now that it's being made.

Yeah, I mean on the coal, I guess the simple answer to that field is still a market for coal, isn't there? And that's the that's a vexed question, and we do have plenty of it. But you know the prime is that hindered very strongly that we need gas. We need a gas export industry globally and here in Australia to firm up our transition to renewables. Wonderful, Thank you Phil, Thanks for you call mate, and they running for core of the day. Hello Teresa, good morning, good morning.

I'm just phoning up of that the woodside demonstrating people. Yes, I don't making a pool themselves, helping needs you. It's a prime minister, H's what the main date and others should shut up and get stuffed.

All right, Thanks, thanks Teresa, concise to the point a paucity of language. Yeah, he does have the mandate. I think they were waiting to see, you know, if they needed to get on with the Greens and the Teals and Kate Chaney and the like before they made decision. Murray Wat's made the decision. A lot of our listeners are aren't convinced. They are still very stroppy about Murray Watt's role in the cessation of the live sheep export trade.

Ooday bowie, How are you mate going? Well, yeah, I'm not sure about the guy you were talking to a bit earlier. He sort of came across as being a little little biased against Woodside. He didn't have a lot of positive stuff to say about them, but that's his progatives the same as everybody else. The biggest problem these these protesters have made is they're just they're way too radical. You know, they don't resonate. I don't believe they resonate

Yeah, yeah, Bill, I reckon the tobacco one is will not happen or is never going to happen. But yeah, I do take your point. I mean an inter Energy copper fair bit as well. I think that was a pack comings it wouldn't wear yourn Inter Energy shirt as the Australian captain. So Bill, my point of view is I think the hard lim activism stuff doesn't work with people perhaps like you and me who you know, and I care about the planet and the fishies and the

How are you a good simon?

Very quickly. I've asked this question a few times on the defunt Overnighters. We will now ask the question to you. Can you please get a protester on the phone and ask them out right if you really want to make a difference, why actually go and protest over in China and India where you'll do better good over there than here. Because they're the biggest protest they're the biggest polluters. So yeah, will you be able to ask one of them out right? And get an actual answer out of them.

Yeah, all right, well, thanks Joan. That's very a good point, well made. Yeah, we know India and China are the great polluters of the planet. And I suppose you know you can what was that saying, think globally, act locally, can't you? I don't think that the I think the protesters are rattled. This has set them back. They weren't expecting the decision to be as clear cut and as to come down, to be delivered as quickly, and they are a little bit rattled. But they will keep I

Get a Maddie Hey Bowie.

Yeah, I'm here at Balga Tafe where the premiers made an announcement about taste. But I think the interest, obviously was his response to the federal government's decision to approve that Northwest Shelf extension, which you've been speaking about this morning. So the project was given the green light to continue until twenty seventy in northern Wway, and Roger Cook says he's relieved and that it's good to know that the federal government are on the same page as his government,

Yeah, Maddie, thank you've sent some audio into a let's play Roger Cook's some of his thoughts this morning. Here we go.

Obviously there's a sense of relief but satisfaction that the Commonwealth agrees with the State government that we can continue with the Karatha gas plant for the foreseeable future to ensure that we can continue to process gas through that facility. This saves literally thousands of jobs in Western Australia, thousands of jobs associated with that plant, tens of thousands of jobs of indirect employment, and of course it secures the

Now we have to wait for the final decision.

What happens now, Well, my understanding is that the Commonwealth has to have a period of consultation with the stakeholder. In this case, it's Woodside is the operator of the joint venture partnership, because they've provided some conditions that I'm not privy to in relation to the granting of the extension. And then once that consultation has been completed, the government will be in a position to make a final decision.

All right. So the federal and state labor governments are in lockstep there, Maddie. What extra tape courses will be free from next year?

Yeah, so it's this is why I am at balgut haste.

Yeah, all right, Maydi comprehensive. We'll see you when you get back and we'll hear your reports during the course of the day. Thank you, Thank you. Maddie Cross out at the Bouga Tafe today. So there's a number of free courses. I'll just repeat those after the news today for those of you that got kids, or you might be a mature age student interested in changing direction. We'll

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Downhearted. I think the anti Woodside protests is feeling a little bit downhearted as of yesterday afternoon, so we're asking the question today what next for the protests? Is it over for the Woodside protest? As I chronicled the rough timeline of the high profile hardline activism initiatives, they've staged going right back to twenty twenty one when they first started protesting against the Woodside nippers, and it's been unrelenting and it's been sustained and it just keeps cropping up,

Mate.

They can't stop the project. What are they going to protest for the next forty years? No, of course not s his Donna, and I've been asking you about Burk Drive. So Burk Drive is probably one of the more high profile roads streets, local roads that are used when you ride your pushbike around the river. It's changed over the years. It's got narrower, it's got some sort of little traffic caarming devices on it now, but the councilor considering because

Agda Siahe going like, cyclists, Look, whether you like it or don't, the fact of the matter is that we've just got to get over it. I mean, I've just spent my wife and I just spent ten weeks in Europe Scandinavia or Scandinavia, Central and Eastern Europe, visited ten countries, cyclists everywhere, and people just get over it. We've got speed limits over there of thirty and forty and fifty kilometers an hour in built up areas, and people just

Yeah so cultural, hey, Henry think one hundred percent.

One hundred percent. Now, Having said that, a lot of those Scandinavian countries have and you know, Germany et cetera, have got good infrastructure to allow for bikes. But when you go to the UK Island, Scotland and Wales, the roads are really really narrow, and yet again the cyclist on the roads and people just you know, just wait and safely maneuver around them.

It's just the way it is.

Are they exercised cyclists or are they both bakery commuters?

Yeah, Ina, you know, in Norway, Denmark, Germany bakery commuters. But when you go to the UK, particularly when you're when you're sort of out of the out of the city area, there's you know, there's serious cyclists who are doing it for the leisure, and you know you've got big tour buses et cetera, and trucks and people just people just you know, get on with it.

Yeah, all right, thanks Henry Choose mate. Thanks you call thirteen past ten the city of Melbourne looking to adjust bird drive and it's probably one of the more prominent roads in Perth for doing a lap around the river.

How's it going, Simon, thanks for taking my call. I've I used to be a pretty avid cyclist that I've lost the passion over the last sort of eight eight months. That previous caller. The difference between there and here is

So what do you what do you think they want to do?

Les?

What are you hearing?

Well, the speed humps and the traffic calming devices, that's for cars. It's going to slow the cars down, but it's obstacles for cyclists.

Yeap, all right mate, well mate, it's we will chat to the council. There's it's two point seven k's of road and I reckon it sounds like you've ridden on it many times, and we'll find out what the plan is where they put speed humps in and traffic caarming but cyclists can still get through it. It remains to be seen. But it's probably one of the busiest stretches, isn't it.

Well it is, that's right, and especially when you get the big palatons there and you mix that with impatient drivers, which are a dime a dozen on our roads, it is a recipe for disaster. So I get it. The idea of it is good to make it safe for cycling, but people who actually ride bikes and know what safe cycling is all about need to have input Otherwise you end up with something that makes it worse.

Yeah, makes it more unsafe, all right, Liz, thank you, mate. I appreciate that. We'll find out more from the council shortly. And it's a generic question as well. It could be happening in your suburb. We my thoughts. If you get ten people riding together, one of them would we will be a terrible rider, doesn't look at cars, doesn't think about cars, other riders, pedestrians, does the wrong thing. There are more expresses a percentage. There are probably higher percentage

Weird one for you. I have an aneurysm at the moment, so I was told not to get my blood pressure up to my operation. So I thought I'd do some uber each deliveries and I had an order for three bottles of milk today for Australia Post Malaga. I went there and I was held against my will for over ten minutes because the guy thought that I must be a terrorist because I was delivering milk to Australia Post.

So did you When you deliver the milk, you leave it out with the milk gets delivered here, gets left down in the foyer. Where did you leave the milk or did you try to?

I had instructions to take it in and the map was pinned, and I showed him the app and I showed him the person and their contact number to so it was a staff member, and showed them where I was supposed to go in their instructions. So I showed them all of that. He wasn't interested. So I ended up giving him the milk. I said, well, here, look, you can have the milk and do but whatever you like, I'll just go. And he wouldn't let me go. And then he put the door down and closed the door

Is he and was he obviously an Australia Post employee.

Yes, supervisor. I got to think of his name tag and that on the video and that as well. And as I say in the video, I make it very clear. I said, this man is holding me against my will and not letting me go. He nods his head, he says yes, And you know, we kept going until he finally let me go. But this is crazy delivering milk and I've got health concerns at the moment, and you know, I'm just so rattled.

Yeah you sound rad Mark. I'll ask this as delicately as I can wire you behaving yourself.

Absolutely, I was just delivering milk. I mean, at the end of the video you see I just say to him, you know, for fs, take let me go. But that was it. I mean, when you're delivering uber, it's as simple as rocking up to as handing him, thanking them and off you go. Even when he didn't want that to happen. And I gave him the order, even though he wasn't the one with the order, he was. He gladly took the order and I said, okay, well I'll just go now, and he was like, no, You're not going anywhere.

Bizarre and Australia Post have doubled down and said, no, this is this is the right process.

That's how we train them. You had no right to come on Australia Post property and you had no right to be delivering milk to us.

Have you delivered milk to them before?

No?

No, they're all random jobs, you know. And this one was out in Malaga and I live on the other side of the city, so it was a good paid job. This delivery. It was a long delivery one. It was like oh yeah, and I didn't even think about it, just wropped up there with the order and as I say, I showed him the app, I showed him my idea, I showed him everything, and yeah, and I was just held against my will and I kept stating to him, let me go, let me go, and he just kept refusing.

All right, Well in the brake mead, I'll have a look at the video that he's very bizarre. I hope you're okay.

Yeah, thanks, yeah, yeah, I took some medicine and.

Hopefully yeah yeah, yeah, no Joe for a walk or something. Mate, before it starts rating. Thanks Mark, we'll take pause. It's twenty minutes past ten. That's bizarre, isn't it. We will come back. Is it over for the woodside protests? As yeses A nine and the nose of forty two. Thanks for responding in great number. We'll take a break. Brian's semessus,

Hi, I am Hi Bowie. Yeah, a bit of a tragic development with this story. Listeners, if they've been tuning into Philippo Mama's news bulletins this morning, they would have heard about this crash that happened around ten thirty last night. An e scooter and a white Volvo truck collided at the intersection of Canning Highway and Sterling Highway in East Frio, and police have just confirmed that. Unfortunately, the e scooter writer, who was a thirty one year old man, did die

You said ten thirty last night.

Yeah, ten thirty last night. Oh yeah.

So there's a knowing that little intersection, and there's cycle ways either side of the intersection which you can cross over, and presumance with the bridges so you can cross over either way there. So that's terrible.

Yeah, and obviously it would have been dark, you know, ten thirty at night. I don't know e scooters. I don't think they're fitted with lights. Maybe some of them are it's not that some of the topic I know a lot about, but there has unfortunately been a spate of eescooter really serious crashes and now this death Bowie. So over the weekend an E scooter writer suffered critical injuries after he collided with a car in Middle Swan and that happened really early Sunday morning, I think shortly

Yeah, in the late at night at intersections.

They're fully dark. Yeah, okay, alright, thank you Anne, And we'll ask your listeners. Is it a requirement to have lights on a scooter if you're writing at night? I would imagine it.

Would be, yeah, because whenever I've seen EA scooter writers at night, I think they've just been you know, going slow and on the footpaths on residential roads.

But I've never really had to.

I mean, unless I'm just not seeing them, you know, whether I have not seen them at major intersections when I'm driving. But it's a scary thought because they're so quiet too, right, you don't necessarily hear them or see them coming.

Yeah, And if you're coming off a cycle away or of a path, or even they're not on the road, are they? Thank you? Anne? Thanks two chilling stories there. One double three eight eighty two is the phone number? Are you you know? And I ask, in the absence of knowing, are you required to have a by a light on your scooter if you're traveling at night? I

Hi?

Simon?

Hi, I'm well, Sue, Thank you?

Yeah? Good look.

I feel very very strongly about the cycling you around Perth because we are faced with so many challenges already, with drivers that are very impatient, and I just feel like putting speed bumps in is just a prohibitive And to me, it's the whole government, the state government, local government. They are trying to get cyclists off the road. They're investing a lot of money into infrastructure, into mountain bike trails, gravel bike racing has become massive. More and more road

Yeah, you're probably right, so sign to change, haven't they. So when I used to do triathons in the eighties and nineties to west to ride down the coast and up Bolt of Rebold Hill and around City Beach and around the city, but not anymore, and just.

Even Rebold Hill, like I was training there Tuesday, we were doing repeats of Oceanic Now I can remember as little as five years ago at five point thirty in the morning, you would not see a car because we'd be finished by seven. Still, now we're doing the same thing. You would see fifty cars every sort of twenty minutes being through. It's crazy how much things have changed.

Yeah, yeah, no doubt. But thank thank you for your texting, your phone call, Sue, thank you cheers who's gone? Yeah, yeah, I'd love to hear from you today. So Burt drive in added all the council is looking to change change that two point seven k bit of road. It's used extensively by cyclists in riding solo, in pairs, in threes, and in big packs in the pelotons. We'll try and find out a little bit, a little bit more as it goes on the lone voice in the Wilderness on

Good timon how you're going, good mate, Simon. I just want I just wanted to relate my story about my encounter with an eat cyclist last week. I was coming back from Ocean Reef on Ocean Reef Road and and It was late at night, probably about nine o'clock at night, and I almost hit this scooter guy and I didn't see him until I was past him. He was he was totally in black and I didn't see him at all on the road.

What was he doing? Right, So you're traveling down the road. Where was he going across? Badly?

Was he?

Was he on the on the road?

Now he's on the side of the road, not not on the shoulder, but just in my almost in my lane but not quite, but completely oblivious to the danger that he'd put himself in.

No lights.

He was no lights, completely in black. I didn't see him until I was past him.

Yeah, all right, Yeah, Kevin, you know, I imagine if you did him, Imagine how bad you'd feel forever if you did hurt him.

Yes, exactly. I felt bad anyway, more out of shop than anything that I didn't see him.

Yeah, yeah, thanks mate, Thanks for your CAULP. Appreciate that this one here from Tipsy. My scooter has built in lights, but not really sufficient, especially late at night. Thanks Tipsy. Stopped playing on the roads is marked from Marrett River. So I think Mark's a pro cyclist, Jim says, roads are for commercial purposes to get from A to b, not for exercise, says you know, Jim, they're not, mate, You're allowed a light on the road, mate, they're not. So so when I drive to work, Jim or dry,

A bowie?

I'm great. That's good now. That's a Tommy Hill figure jumbo and I like that. And one of our listeners, Jeff phone In, said that he thought that bloke's name was Tommy Hilfin garden.

There's a funny story. I'm wearing this jump and my business partner asked me to bring in a green jumper because he's going to dress up as Ned Flanders on the weekend of a dress up party. So that's why we're today to get to him.

It sounds like a hell of a party. One double three A Dody two. If you'd like to speak to Nick Ruchac today, you can. Simon and Danny will get to you guys in just a moment. Ring in Wonduble three A Daddy two is the phone number. Nick here to take your legal questions. Simon, Good morning, How are you.

Simon?

Nick?

Hello?

Mate?

Yeah, I'm just a question about testing a will. I lost my father and sister six years ago. I lost my mother a couple of months ago, but no other siblings, so it's just me alone. Just wondering my sister's late sister's children. They have been given a substantial amount of money from my mother in the will. They're not happy with what they've got, so they are seeing they're entitled to half, which is what my sister and I probably

Okay, So when it comes to contesting a will, there's only a class of people who can do it. So I just need to establish the relationship between the deceased person and the person who wants to challenge the will. So the decease, the relationship is one of grandparent and grandchild, right, the decease grandparent died and the grandchildren are looking at challenging the will. Is that right?

Yes?

Okay, So when it comes to that, grandchildren are in the class of categories that can challenge grandparents will, but they can only challenge it in specific circumstances, and they are if they are being maintained by the deceased immediately before death. So think of a situation where the grandchild is living with a grandparent and receiving money or school fees and stuff like that, or if the grandchild's parents died. Right, So they're the main situations that a grandchild can challenge

Well, yeah, because their mother died six years ago my sister, then.

Yeah, so that would be something that.

Yeah.

So then because they were stepping the shoes of your of your sister. And so this is the situation, right, they don't automatically get anything from the will that they have to that the court will look at whether the will should be adjusted, so whether they should be given something from the will, and they look at a whole bunch of factors regarding that. They have to launch a claim within six months of probate being issued, so at this stage is probably good to get some legal advice

How is that? Simon?

Does that hit?

And I'm very sorry for your losses, Simon, And that's a lot for one person to have to deal with and then to put up with this as well. Does that help you, mate?

Yeah?

It gives me a bit of an insight. Yeah.

Thanks, Yeah, I'll.

Contact that CrossBridge and yeah, thank you represents they decided to do it.

Yeah, good luck mate, that's I'm sorry for those losses in the last six years. Simon having chat to Nick. There, gooda Danny, Hi there, how are you Nick?

Good Danny?

My nephew was charged with a defaming or threatening a politician on Facebook. Now he they came out and arrested him and took possession of his computers and stuff. The date on the paperwork is wrong when he's gone to court, and they also cannot find the original evidence of him threatening this politician. Where does he stand in regard to being.

In court with that?

So when it comes to the paperwork is wrong, that's called the statement of material facts, so that can be adjusted. Sometimes the prosecution make it a date wrong here and there, But when it comes to criminal law, the prosecution has the burden of proving the case beyond reasonable doubt, so they would need to tender that evidence. I wouldn't say too much about this case on radio because this conversation itself can be used as evidence, so don't give them anything,

So that that notion of you know, a Facebook post or a social media post is regarded as as a publication and it is published. Even if it's disappeared, it's still it can be found canted, it's still regarded as published.

That's right, it is published, and it's we don't often hear of criminal defamation charges. It is actually an offense and it does exist in the books and so it doesn't happen often. But this case was a prominent figure, so it did happen, so they can get it. So it's the prosecution's job to try and find it right, So they would have to do all kinds of stuff like maybe they have the subpoena Facebook and go go

Does that helped any Yes, it certainly does.

Thank you, Thank you Danny, thanks for punning. In eighteen and a half minutes to eleven o'clock, Mark is one of our listeners. He's an uber driver and I think you might have heard this where you were waiting to come on. It's a bizarre situation. Mark's Nuba driver delivering milk to an Australia Post outlet. Delivers the milk gets according to Mark, and this is his version of events, he gets detained against his will. Let's have a listened to Mark from earlier on.

I had an order for three bottles of milk today for Australia Post Malaga. I went there and I was held against my will for over ten minutes because the guy thought that I must be a terrorist because I was delivering milk to Australia Post.

Basic question, and this is Mark's version of events. Nick in a very bizarre situation. If true. Not that I'm doubting Mark, but I guess there's always two sides to every story. Can can a business holder person against their will if if they regarding them as trespassing?

So this is there's a few things going on here, right, So make on the face of it, may have a claim in taught for false imprisonment right, So false amphrisment is a civil claim. Basically, it's where you have been prevented from leaving, so they restrict your freedom. So I've seen the video, They've closed the gate. He told them he wants to leave, they prevented him from leaving. Right, So what happens here is Australia Post has to prove that they had some sort of authority, some sort of

Is it worth?

Is worth pursuing?

So thanks Nikka, well answered bizarre So the circumstances, it would seem. And the other question that comes to mind for me is do we get milk and bottles anymore?

We don't get it delivered, but I've seen them in the shops. I've seen I think bottles are milk because of microplastics, right, so if you have a glass glass container, it's probably a little bit slightly more healthy for you, but they cost a lot more.

Dope.

They thank you, thank you for thank you for going with me on that one double three eight eighty two tours tort yep. I remember that from remember that from when I went to school a long time ago. Quarter to eleven. We'll come back more of Nick marujack your phone in one double three eight eighty two, Milton's SMSU Nikki, She's about to study law next year. So I'm just finishing off my bridging course. It'll be online. I was wondering what undergraduate it had to take so I can

So once you've done your law degree, then you want to train and get some work experience, and then after you've graduated, you have to go and do some post post articles.

It's not yeah, we.

Don't do it anymore. You do something called College of Law, right, So you'll do You're going to College of Laws where a lot of there's other education providers. You go there, they give you, you know, some training for a few months, and then you have to do some work experience placements, right, So it could be twenty days up to seventy five days something like that. So that usually takes about six

So Milton's question is about what undergraduate course he should take.

I think, well, you need to do a law degree. Yeah, so you'll need to Some unis will make you do an undergrad first before you do a.

Law degree be a generic one, comments Yeah.

Yeah, look, okay, so there's you know, I think anything that makes you more valuable. Right, So if you want to go into say an area of like tech technology and law, you might do with some sort of tech degree. I did a commerce degree, right, something very general that really helps. But I think that there's a whole variety of great degrees you can do. And yeah, so I can't really pick one at the moment, but commerce is a generic one. If you want to do that.

Mill time that help make commerce maybe or if it is going to be more specific it or whatever it is. So thanks, good luck, Milton, thanks for getting in contact. So a long SMS from Robert here. Nick Oh, I go through as succinctly as I can. Nick. I recently won a court order against a tenant that have maliciously damaged my property the tune of nearly ten thousand dollars. The former tenants refused to reply to my emails to

So the court probably can't give you that information, but this is I'll give you some general overview of what you need to do. So you've got a court order, so the next step is to enforce the court order. That means you have to file some paperwork with a court. Then this person is brought into court and then wages might be garnished and stuff like that. Right, But the problem is you have to kind of serve that and

Now.

Yeah, well, Robert, I hope that helps let us know how you go mate. That's very interesting. What was the Australian Electrical Commission angle you had there, Yeah, find.

An electoral role.

Right.

So yeah, these are the things that you can't just go online and search for anyone's address. You have to go into person and you have to actually look in their computers and write it down, right, so they won't allow you to take any photos and stuff like that.

Right.

That's that's a tactic that's often been found. Yeah, and it just you have to wait for this guy. You have to kind of get on there. You have to update your details every time there's an election. So if you updated, if this tenant updated it recently this recent election, you know you might have a current address.

Okay, Yeah, very interesting. One double three A daddy two is the is the phone number if you'd like to speak to Nick. We've got a couple of minutes if you'd like to give him a call. One double three A daddy two. Just a new court case could see childcare payments become tax deductible.

Really, yes, So the rule is from this there's a precedent from the High Court from nineteen seventy two where someone tried to deduct nursery school fees and the court said no, this is a private and domestic expense. You can't deduct it. So if you're going to deduct something on your taxes, it has to be used to produce accessible income and it cannot be for private or domestic nature.

Right.

So we have this law firm in the Eastern States that is preparing a claim on behalf of one of their clients to say, well, childcare fees I are actually, you know, help me earn accessible income. And so they're trying to get this really old law from the nineteen seventies overturned.

Game changer it would be.

And if that actually get up on that, then so many people can deduct their childcare expensive. Childca is expensive. I've got a four year old and it's just a lot, So it would be a big win for a lot of working parents out The argument is that you know, a lot's changed since nineteen seventy one. Maybe back then there weren't as many single parents or working parents. Now that dynamics completely changed. So these people are arguing this law. Fan's arguing, which has got to get with the times.

Little Simon or a little Simone. Yeah, a little Lev, a little Lev for me, little lev how cool. I didn't know that about you one double three eight e two. He could snee ski squeeze in a call if you'd like to ring Nick marou Chak. A lot of people

Yeah, that's right. So the Legal Practice Board is the umpire that regulates lawyers. They allow lawyers to come into the profession, they kick lawyers out who are no good. They have a lot of control. So they've been hacked and they've been about three hundred gigs of data has been stolen and a lot of correspondence. But there's also some bank accounts of lawyers. The Legal Practice Board says that only limited amount of bank accounts that have been disclosed,

Yeah, the cybersecurity is such a huge issue, isn't it. Nick? Thank you, Thank you for your thoughts, compassion and wisdom today. Look forward to catching up with you next week. Light the Green Jumper like the Tommy hillf and garden Jumper, I like it. Thank you, Thank you, jeers mate, Nick, Maru Jack mk Illegal be back with this next week at the same time. It's three and a half minutes to eleven o'clock. Thank you for listening. Why is Australia

On Perth six PR. This is Perth Today with Simon Beaumont.

Thanks for listening into Perth Today. I'm Simon Beaumont, as that nice man said here until one o'clock at today. It was said to be post election. It was said to be the biggest climate based issue in Australia, the extension of the Woodside Project lease. And yesterday Murray Watt said he go, he can be there until twenty seventy. We hear some conditions, you need to meet them. You've got ten days to get back to me and then

Mate, just wondering after years of court case protesters being able to lodge their appeal protests, now the bird it's been made to continued protests being harassment because it's different to protest if your case haven't mentioned in front of a court or in front of a hearing well once the desions made, shouldn't go again.

Harassment because I don't know. I don't know, full stop new paragraph. I don't know if harassment is a crime.

Now coulda Dave, good day, Simon, and good day to your listeners.

You've had a win. You and I talked a little while ago there was a potential for some apartments being built on the site of the Journal up resort, and looks like you've had a win with council.

Yes, indeed, you know the last time we spoke is much anxiety amongst residents and everybody in the community. But that soon turned to jubilation and celebration on Tuesday night when the councilors voted in simple majority to oppose the local development Plan. So it's been a wonderful win for everybody, and we just want to thank the councilors for supporting

Moment, David, is that's the prevailing mood jubilant? Is there any way for the proponents of the development to come back at this?

Yes, there is. There's a couple of avenues that can take. They can obviously appeal to the what it's called the SDAU and obviously try and see whether they can get an opportunity to have decision reviewed. But obviously there's some other considerations that have to be taken into place when

The end of the day.

Yeah, all right, so you will go to the State Administry of tribuneal I do know from because I read the Post newspaper group. I read this City Post every Friday. Sometimes accouncil may reject thing, but SAT may approve it.

That is quite right. So this is often the case. But obviously they've got to treat things in their merits. And in this particular instance, the circumstances and the environment is very, very different to other things that they've considered in the past. Yep, so it will be quite a unique one, should I say, in this particular instance, And that's why I do believe that common sense will prevail and people will see a different side of the story

Yeah all right, Dave, well well done. I'm jubilant to a point, and we'll wait to see what whats that comes up with. Thanks for chatting to us.

It's a pleasure, simon. Thanks for keeping in touch with us and keeping our story up on the air.

Thank you, mate. David cheers mate, David Smith. I think he's at the dentist today, is he David? And says he's the chairman of the Connolly SOS action groups. Accounts of the city of Journal. Love of knocked back the developments on the Journal Loup resorts which were said to be three buildings fourteen twelve and six stories on the

Oh, Hi Simon, how are you?

Yeah?

Good to talk to you. This is a very busy bit of road, particularly for the ciphing crew, isn't it.

Oh?

It's very popular because it's by the water. It's absolutely delightful, beautiful drive.

What are you thinking here?

Well?

We've got a petition from sixty four people saying that they wanted something done about speeding and noisy cars and motorbikes traveling along there and bicycles and so on like that. And I think there's been about eighteen crashes over a three or four year period, and so the council made a decision to just the other night to make sure

It sure is. Yeah, it's a nice houses, great view the big Dog Park between the road and the river. It's a good bit of a good bit of real estate. Is it fifty k's an hour at the moment, Katie.

Yeah, it's fifty k's an hour, And it looks like from what I've seen of the graphs that the people are generally in that range. But you know, obviously there's other factors so oh, there was a bit of a funny story about a few I mean, this has been going on for quite some time, the complaints about noise and so on like that, and traffic. And there was one fellow who said, oh, you know, he wanted to have a speed trap put along me to catch all

Also.

I know they're in a hurry to get home, but they need to be mindful that it is the big k. So let's not just blame the outsiders that use the road some sciences, actually the locals.

Yeah, that is funny, Hey, Katie, sixty four complaints. Are they from people who live along the road or live in the area.

Oh yes, yes, I gathered there from local residents that are concerned. So they put together this petition and presented it to council and the response to the petition is that there will be a traffic study to have a look at what to do. And you know, councilors who're just a bit worried it's just going to be a

You know, some of our listeners who are cyclist Katie have been in contact with us today. There's still a lot to be able to get through there at thirty thirty k's an our young standard cycling speed. I mean you can get through the back roads back through out of Dale and around there, but you're not trying to get cycles out of the area, are you.

No.

No, no, not at all, not at all. We've actually got a cycle path as you would probably know, along the foreshore. We don't have one along the road because the officers have said that really the bikes that go on the road are generally commuter bikes and they're moving fairly quickly and generally in groups, so they wouldn't sit on a cycle path even if we've put one along the drive. So that's the thinking at the moment. It

Yeah, I think the cycle way, as you say, does go alongside the river, but we through the trees near the football over there, whose name eludes me at the moment, but that's It's okay if you're having a jog or a walk, but maybe not a maybe not for bikes. So Katie will probably go more in committing Yeah, probably know more in a couple of months time. Hey, Katie, your question without notice the we're doing an outside broadcast at the I think it's the it's over by the dome on the on the other side.

Of you know net where the oh seat water Point.

Deepwater Point. Yeah, I think we're heading down there next week. Maybe if you get a moment, come down and say hello, because we're both Brecky and mornings. Will be down in Perth now sorry.

Perth to day, fantastic time.

What time will be Well, the boys will be there from five thirty and I'll be down there from from nine o'clock. So if you get a moment drop in and say hello, hey.

Oh definitely will yeah, all right, okay on Saturday, Saturday or.

Sunday next Wednesday?

Oh sorry Wednesday, Yeah to get downe okay, great, look forward to catching up.

All right, We'll have a cup of tea. Thanks Katie. Cheers, Thank you, Katie.

Mayor.

So the mayor of the City of melbur was so twelve month study to look at all of the traffic through there. I think Katie said that the commuter groups are getting through there in the big packs or commuting commuters. Are you know, people writing to work? Aren't they are writing home? I think she's talking about the exercise crew of the Pelotons, and they do get through there in great number. It's one of those parts of Perth where there is

Truck remains broken down in Bayswater the Tonkin Highway northbound prior to Guildford Road. The left emergency lane is blocked. Traffic management on site as well. Make sure you drive it carefully.

In the area.

Otherwise moving well on the Mitchell beakanan On northbound. Still a little slow Ankintail Road, Graham Farmer and the tunnel no major issues. I'm Robbie Verm pouts, Traffic leader six PR.

Go speak to Professor Peter Newman in just a moment, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin UNI. There's a plan which seems to be backed by the City of Perth to build a traffic tunnel under the City of Perth and it's to do with the refurbishment of the Korellian and the company involved is five Eighths, which five eight I think is one of the affiliates associated with with Andrew Forrest. I think we'll get to that in just a moment. Darren says the footy oval on Burke Driver is called

I'm fine. And it's a traffic tunnel just to get trucks in to help build the site. It's not going to be a long term traffic tunnel, so it's it's a bit different to what you quite thought. I have to have a quick look at it because it worried me that we're going to try and build a great big road under Perth, which would be a real waste of money. And think you felt that too.

Well, they're not cheap, are these things. So this is under the Murray Street more connects the Forest Place Basement Reserve with the new basement area of the proposed Carellan development. So, Peter, you're hearing that it's just for construction traffic.

Yes, it's construction only. And look, it's very a very important development. This Karellian City. I think it's it's a missing link. There's now a lot more pests in Perth than cars. It's for the first time for a hundred years, you can say that. So people are coming pouring in from the railway station and they go through that area and they hit the Karelian area. It's hard to get

The city, all right, Okay, hey, thanks for thanks for correcting us on that one, Peter. Is there anywhere in your consideration in the city, in the metro area where a tunnel would be helpful? I know they're very expensive. You're often drilling and making tunnels in a sort of a water environment. You know, you're in mard, you're in clay, you're in water. Is there anywhere where we might need a tunnel to think?

Probably?

Not.

The only thing we really needed was to get the through. That was a very big thing and that that caused a lot of controversy at the time, and a lot of tunnel experts said, oh, it'll never work. And of course it's been brilliant and that's that's a major part of Perth now, to be able to go through the city like that, and you know, it's hard to imagine the place without it, and that's an important thing to realize.

Peter. The last time I spoke, I was talking to you about the trackless tramp that sat on the city of Sterling forecourt for a while, and you know us federal government money and I think you and I'm paraphrasing here, Peter, I apologize. I've got this room. You said, this is like, this is like the mobile phone. This is an absolute game change of this one. I don't reckon. We're going to get at Peter. And there may be some liberal labor politics in all of this.

Yeah, and interesting one we talked about this this week. There's a study being done on central Perth by the Girl group from Denmark that has done two other studies before that led to Elizabeth Key and lots of other innovations in Perth, which we love now. So they're good people and they're very keen on a trackless tram coming through to the city from out Curtain Way and then up through to the north out to Sterling. Look, it's

It's not.

It's a lot better than that.

Yeah, just a final one from me, a bit of chat around about improving the ferry systems on the river. We've tried them before and didn't have a great take up. You know, perhaps it's hard get to a ferry terminal. It's a little bit slow. People prefer to drive the car or use the train. Do you think there's a case to expand our ferry systems, Peter, Yeah.

Look, it's a little bit. They could. They could definitely get better and they'll go up the river a bit more around to the area around the Opter Stadium and that sort of thing that they have special uses. But they're never a mass transit solution. They never are going to carry a lot of people because you can't get to them easily and it's Perth River winds a lot,

Yeah all right, yeah, I think when we tried it back in the day, the PTA trial to Peter, and they even offered up, you know, free coffee in a free newspaper on the trial and people still didn't use it.

So yeah, you can't bribe people into changing in the transport and it's better. We've got to get something better and that includes bitting faster and cheaper and better, better ride all of that. People are not stupid that they're going to choose rather than getting all those incentives. So yeah, I look we're getting to grips with these I think the trackless trand for example, is a better option. It's

Yeah.

Very interesting that you reckon the bus. The bus industry doesn't like it. Peter, always good to chat. Thank you for your time today. Okay, see see professor Peter Newman from Curtain University formerly known as the WA Institute of Technology. When I went there in the eighties for one year in engineering before the MAT's got too hard one double three eight A handy two? What do you reckon? We need a tunnel and would you Yeah, I mean I know we've talked about a fair bit on the station

How good would a tunnel understealing highway be?

Look, I think it'll be fantastic. You know places you go to Sydney and I was really surprised the last time I went there just how easy it is for such a massive city to get out of there. And they really cleverly used tunnel in major congestion points. So north of the river you go to see Diego in Chile, they've got a major freeway system that runs in length

David Honey speaking to our man Ollie Peterson back in twenty twenty three one double three eight e two. This one here from Norm Gida. Norm, how a mate? What we do need is a roadbridge to join Wellington on Moslim part two point Waldron Biicton over Blackwall Reach says Norm. That's a bridge roadge chees mate. This one here from one of our listeners. I've got a long one about Burke Drive and I think it's from I can't quite big the name because it's how do I look at that? Max?

Okay, Simon Simon. Firstly, mate, I hope you've dusted up to Beanie because the cold weather's coming in.

Yeah. I will try old Bob dust off by Sapporo.

Beating Terry Okay, thank you mate.

There's a couple of ways you can do a tunnel. You could do it from the under the Hay Street overpass heading onto the Nanows one there to stop that blockage of all the traffic coming from the city and Freeway north. And you can also structure a tunnel under the causeway from Riverside Drive which brings you up at the back of Canning Highway towards the Birds over Pass.

Yeah, okay, not a bad idea. Hey, Terry. Have you have you been across the new bridge, the new Harrison Island Bridge.

No, I haven't made no, no, not as yet.

Yeah, I haven't give it a go mate. It's pretty good. It's like three lanes wide and yeah it's good, a bit of nice view.

I might take a cycle class there, but I'll get abused by all the pedestrians.

You won't, mate, We cyclists of people too, Terry, You'll be right, thanks mate, Thanks you call Terry the Yeah, the new bridge is good, isn't it? Have you I've riden my bike over there, had to walk over. It's good. It's got a bit of a hill in it. I've got a little bit bit weavy, little bit of a view like a new bridge, the Heriston Island Bridge one level three eighty two, a bridge over Lake June Lup

Rumour has it whilst the South Koogee Junior Footy Club are waiting for Western Power to turn on new floodlights at Santich Park, kids are getting hurt from training in the dark. Apparently Western Power needs to upgrade the distribution board, which mon't be done until the end of June. Why so long despite parents trying to use their car lights to light up the ground. Apparently a child broke his finger last week trying to mark the ball in the dark.

Then Andrews is the VP, the vice president of the South Cougie Junior Football Club, which includes, amongst alumni, the Jackowitch brothers. Good A, Glenn Good Yeah, very well. So do we have any updates from I know that person now run a story as well. Do we have any updates from the rumor? Fig Win.

Not really. Well, let's just say West and I still haven't concert us direct, as they may have said on a Facebook post. Just a couple of things on our perth.

Now.

We never said parents are holding their mobile phones out with torches, because that's as good as holding the kindles out there. To be honest, Yeah they are. They are using their car lights. I set up my year as well. This body is on there to help us train. We don't expect kids to train in the dark, but they want to train, they want to learn, they want to they want to get better skills. So we're on game day, you know, we can go out there and hopefully win

Absolutely, that's what it's all about.

So we were able to accommodate, and when well we're going to have two obles with lights, we'll be able to accommodate. So currently we've got one oval, which no one trains on a Friday for obvious reasons, when we all mainly all play on Saturday. So we've got twenty one teams trying to train four nights a week.

On one oval on one oble. Yeah all right, mate, what a Western power saying? I understand all of that. And there it must be frustrating to see them just sitting there and you can't turn them on.

Well, the ironic thing is now they won't turn on anyway because due to the installation and they're not working, the lovely white cockies have now gone to strip the cable off most of them.

Oh no, damn those white cookies. Yeah that's no good.

Yeahs they make across across the city.

But yeah, so that we do have, yeah, that no standing, mate, And that that can be fixed, I guess, can we fixed hopefully reasonably quickly? What are Western powers to you? Can you you're going to get the lights on before the season finishes.

Well, here's here's hoping, Like I said, they haven't actually reached out to us directly. Obviously I have seen we're looking at the end of the City of Coburn to come back to us and said they're looking at the end of June. So we've only got you know, probably by the end of June, there's only five six weeks left. Yeah, actually not even that, probably about four weeks left. Yeah, the season two thirds over by.

That stage, so yeah, damn yeah, sorry, you can go ahead, go ahead.

So we've got we've got nine I was kicked teams this year as well, and obviously, you know, kids want to play under lights and all the fun. But we on a Sunday, both lables are full of oz Kick kids. So we're the logistics of trying to have Friday nights for oz Kick, you know, one year this week, one year that it's it's it's not feasible.

Yeah, no, the grass in the your cobae, the grass.

You can use. We've contact with the council. Obviously Tuba Up got their lights on, but obviously that's been used for them. There is one one or two lights out of the Angel Up ground where we're currently trying to speak with the council to see if we can use that. But the problem that is is only one goal process, so that doesn't help either.

Yeah, that would be frustrating. You know, you've been you've been given an assurance year the lights will be on at the start of the season, you know, obviously than the night are getting longer now, so you do need the lights and you've got a problem with some of the kids can't.

Yeah. We've explained to all the coaches that if it's not safe, don't do it. The kids are going to get hurt. It's football. They're going to get pumps and bruises, they're going to get.

Knox and all the rest of it.

We get that, but to try and train with what lightning we've got, it's not the best, but you know, the club does what it can to make it work.

Yea, yeah, yeah, Well, I mean if anyone's from West and Western Power, we'll get these transcripts made through their media monitors, you know, and they yeah, get onto Western Power if you can, if you can hear us, because that's that's that's what the plan wasn't and that was what was promised. Glenn Goodwill, Yeah, good to talk to

Next until one. This is Perth Today with Simon Beaumont on Perth six. Pr Owen from East Frio.

Goodah, thanks for making contact mate, he said, Hello Simon, and talk about cyclists here. Riverside Road, East Frio, Preston Point Road, Bicton Conning Highway to Burk Drive Saturday Sunday morning to the same issues as Burke Drive. One lane road completely dropped, blocked off by bikes and no stopping for a roundabout stop signs, vehicles doing speed limits. They

Yeah, that was good. It was listening to him.

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Yeah, he's good, good guy, isn't he. They are based down in Naval Base. They manufacture and make all the and produce all the food down there. They're a local producer. Had some dramas a couple of years ago with a fire they did. They were of action.

Yeah, it's nice to see them back on deck and their product out there in circulation and yeah, cats eating it.

Give it to your animals.

I look, I switched to another one because of the fire and I haven't gone back, but yeah, they're still getting through their bags. Yeah, I got too fuss at home anyway.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Cherish pet food folks will give them. Give that away today a bag of Cherish pet food for for our best caller one double three ad to big changes mell this week in the pet industry.

Hate those laws have come into play for the pet shops. Yeah, so I was reading, Yeah, on the twenty six, I think it was that it doesn't look like the two or three pet shops in wa went ahead and renewed the licensing to source pets from to sell from refuges. So I think I know the Clermont store near us is.

Yeah.

We spoke to the Shenton Park guys earlier this week and they are replete with dogs at the moment. I think they've got about seventy on their books that they'd be keen to kind a home for Yes, if you like to speak to Melie can one double three, one double three, eight to eighty two if you like to give us a call. Melog I don't know if this is going to be proven or proven out, but it just feels like this mainly to the expensive dogs becoming more expensive.

I wonder, I mean the same, Yeah, I guess. You know, it was interesting during COVID in those times when we were all in lockdown and felt like everyone went out and got a dog, and I guess it was the only time that I can recall in a long time that, Yeah, the refuge numbers were low, and the price of puppies from pet shops and breeders and that thing and that

We spoke to the RSPCA. They did a bust on a house recently. One hundred and seventeen dogs. Oh my goodness, and one garden inside and outside. That's a lot in it.

That's a lot. We hear of stories of cats of that number. I'll tell you about.

Yeah, dogs, a lot of yu Canuba.

That's a lot, a lot of energy as well.

Adam Gilkish would say, I've on phone in you can one double three eight eighty two. Any behavioral staff for stuff to do with your dogs cats? Can I ask you goldfish question? Mel I every now and then you get them. I've got one goldfish, yes, probably fifteen centimeters long, probably three or four years old. Wow, is he going to live for much longer? How long do they live for?

Ah, now you've got me on the spot. I think they can live. I mean some of them will live for years. Some of the bigger fish, you know, will live decades, so you're obviously taking really good care of.

Well, I think it's by accident used to have a lot more fish in the tank. So it's ninety the tanks. It's a big tank, right, Yeah. Can I introduce little fish into that? Do you think was it too big on its own?

Well?

I probably don't need to. Yeah, that is what I'd be worried about. Yeah, because I have had that happen myself, as you sort of introduce smaller fish and than they are and they disappear. Yeah, they're no longer really there for very long, so that would be my only Yeah, sort of thought on that.

You've done very well, thank you.

But I suppose if I give you a number, then this fish will outlive that, so we sort of.

Yeah, would you like me to say anything you like, because I trust you don't betray that trust Man Martin's phone in Goo Martin.

Him mel Simon. I'm actually asking for a friend. They've got a to cross.

Mold.

Teese's about thirteen years old, very quiet, reserved little guy, and in the last couple of weeks he started growling and backing away from his food bowl. Yes, he seems to be afraid of it, and she's changed the bowl, she's put the bowl in a more lighted area. But yeah, he's still doing this. So she's reverted to feeding in my hand out of the bowl.

Now.

Yeah, but yeah, and I'll said to them, you know, I'll give you guys a ring and find it if you can maybe explain that.

Yeah, Look, it's a tricky one, Martin. I guess what we do know that you know, whether something has happened, whether there was a sound or a movement or a taste or whatever, and something has you know, caused the dog to have an aversion to that particular type of bowl. And I guess you've sort of touched on my first suggestion, which sometimes it can actually be the type of bowl for whatever reason, the dog just decides that that bowl

Yes, he's happy with the food. Yeah, the food nothing changed, Yes, nothing changed all of a sudden.

Yeah.

The sight thing could be because he's he's getting.

On absolutely and yeah, that's right. And at thirteen there's can be changes.

You know.

Sometimes cataracts will start to play a player role. Sometimes the back of the eye will start to we call atrophy and their vision and certainly vision you know, in dim lighting can be reduced and he might know his food there, he just can't quite sort of see it all that well. So a wealthy area and maybe just playing around with plates and different sort of surfaces to feed him on would be where I would be heading, Martin.

All right, thank you very much, good.

Luck, cheers mate, it's nice, yes, fining for a friend, ring doctor doctor Kriddle on it. That's good today, Scott.

Yeah, guys got maybe the dog's growling because it doesn't have cherish in it. But but well, my wife on the radio a couple of weeks ago and went out and brought a puppy on Monday.

Because.

Cool she did.

What did she get?

But Cody? We got a little kavood all ships crash. Yes, she's very gorgeous. But our Tibetan spaniel, Cody's are taking a little while we warm up. So I was just after some chips and maybe how long it takes for him to get over another dog in the house.

Yeah, Scott can sometimes take a while. And what we have come to know is it really depends on they talk about social character, so it really depends on what sort of dog Cody is and what sort of dog this new puppy is. So probably worth you know, just getting some video of both of them and how they behave and I can send it to the trainers and

Yeah, he send him to appreciate it. Yeah, and theyve Scott. What's the new one called.

Mango?

Mango? Mango mango as in the fruit that's pretty good? Is it orange?

Yeah, it's light Brown.

Yeah, all right, well Scott, thanks mate, Thanks Scott, Thanks Martin. David has sent us a text. We'll come to that in just the moments. Eighteen minutes past midday. If you like speak to Mel Critle you can from the swan Born Vet Center. Our best caller will win a bag of Cherish pet food bespoke customized to your pet doctor. Mel Critles with us today. If you likes his phone, Mel, you can twenty one minutes past midday, Gillian, We'll get to you in just a second. David's texted a smell.

Yes, I was just having a look. What was The average age was ten to fifteen years. The longest one on record is forty three years, so you could try and break that, Simon.

I amazed to live this long. Yeah, you know, it's just sort of it's just there. And when I clean the tank once a month, I take it down and put it in a really small little jar, and it doesn't look happy, and then it goes back in and there's no trauma, no shock.

You've got it all, damn pat.

And yeah, when you haven't fed it for a while, it follows you around the around the room.

And they're quite cool as Yeah. I had fish for a while and that was little. I don't know, there's little personalities and yeah, what they behaviors is quite fascinating.

You see.

I like freshwater goldfish. Hey Gillian, and thanks for calling. And how are you?

Oh?

Good morning? Perhaps you all afternoon? Now beautiful rame, we're having its fantastic.

Now.

I have two lots of questions I've got I've got two cockertools, both males, so they're in separate pages. Where can I get their wings cut? I used to get them cut by friends, but they don't do them now stop them one flying all around the house.

Yeah, you've got to watch out for those ceiling fans and whatnot. Jillian. Oh, well, I could do a shame plug as well. And so you could bring them to Swanborne Vet and we will will trim them for you. But any any local veteriny clinic, Jillian will be able to do a wing clip for you. I understand some of the there was a bed center I think in Balcata, and I needn't know that they used to do wing

Yeah, do you live in Woodville?

Yeah, yes, I live in Woodville, So I need somewhere up this way. I used to take them to Hillis, but the lady went to Bewcata. She used to do their wings their nails free.

Yeah, might be too might be too far for you. But there's a bird place in the Swan Valley. I think it's called.

That's a long way for me to know.

Yeah, okay, I would honestly and look at some local Yeah whatever the closest a couple of vets are to you.

Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Can I ask him some other questions about my daughter? My daughter's got five rescue cats, had them on and off for about ten years. One was a feral cat on our baby. The feral mom she's gone deaf denile. She's never been out since my daughter had They've got a big cat pen, great big cat pen for them all to go in. But this this sni one she's got dementia. I think she wants to go outside in there and just lays in the grass all day long or under the bushes.

Yeah, I mean, you know, as they get older, and certainly if that cognitive function isn't as good as they used to, you know, we often find that they will, you know, sleep twenty two hours a day and really only get up to eat and go to the toilet, and then they're back to sleep again. And I found with my boy as he got older, he really he had his spots that he would love and he'd sort of just shift around through them. You know, someoneould be in the sun and he'd you know, he'd find a

You know, in terms of quality of life, my daughter had Skip giving her these tablets to the core eat. Then she wanders all around the house at night. But she was a fairer part. She's about sixteen or seventeen the vet. But now she sleeps in that bed with the bed with them more than the other plants.

Yeah, it's funny how their behavior changes as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, thanks Jillian, thanks for your cool good luck with getting cockertils wings trimmed. There is did you say there was a wood a veting woodwell and tops there's a doctor Todd at Woodvale does birds. We think, Jillian, so doctor Todd at Woodvale. Thank you. This one here from Michael Gooday, Simon and mel what's your opinion mail on Foresight, which is the numeral for and then cyte supplements.

Yes, I really like Foresight, so it's one of the ones that we do. There's lots of product joint supplement products out there on the market, but Foresight is one we do keep in the clinic at Swanbourne. It's got a marine plant extract in it called Epitalis, and I guess I like it because there are actually studies behind it to show that it does help with cartilage regeneration and that sort of thing too. So it comes in there's granules for sort of chronic arthritis management and then

You have to get it through your ved.

Yeah, it is over the counter, so it's one. Yeah that's over the counter. But yeah, we stuck it at the clinics.

Yeah all right, thanks Michael, well answered Melworld done. One of our listeners reckons, I don't know if this has got a name on it. We had a goldfish born in their pond that lived for twelve years. Thank you to that correspondent. A bit of gastro around for domin.

You have seen a lot of gastro and in chatting with one of the emergency centers earlier this week as well, because we were so busy I couldn't accept anymore. They've had the same thing, so it's interesting. It's sort of and I was chatting to Sean when I arrived. You know, parvovirus this time of year is just something to be aware of. It's a virus that is highly resistant in the environment. So with this rain coming it will stay

Puppy's getting oculated against paro, don't they atute.

Lately, So we do a most vets do a three vaccination protocol to really kick start that immunity and then it's they have an adult booster of it, and then it's most vaccines, it's every three years to continue with that.

Yeah, I know it's in soil mill. What is it a Is it a little bug? Is it like as a virus?

So viral particles? Yeah, so the virus is shed. So you know, the dog with PAVO that went to the park had a bit of diarrhea, shed the viral particles in that stool, and then that just sits there in the environment. Yeah, resistant before it sort of eventually breaks down. But it doesn't have to be living in a host

To pass on through fecal matter.

Yeah, so fecal oral doesn't that sound delicious?

Dust? Sure? I'm looking forward to. Yes, today's Continental roles. Our winner today of the bag of cherish is not Scott who's the who's the new owner of Mango and the old owner of Cody because got works of cherish so he can't win it. But Martin, who ranging about his friend's dogs scared of their food ball. We've got some cherish coming out your way, mate, So yeah, thanks thanks to Scott trying to win his own product. Yeah all right, Heyl, thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Give Tony carle for us. Do you still have that vet working with you? Who's the mad Collingwood support? Yes, Leah Leah, she's still with us.

Yeah. So they've got Hawthorn this week, so that'll be interesting.

Yeah.

No, she's having a great year this year. So we don't talk about football.

Much being West coast, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Avoid those conversations.

Bruce's here, Bruce to watch Origin Game one last night. Of course I did absolutely enjoy it. Yes, and no one sided, but still a good game, wasn't it. It was you sort of.

I'm always concerned with Origin because they tend to put the best players out there, and the best players try to win the game every time. So I thought New South Wales will one up all the time, where at least Queensland threw it around. I thought he's a better flowing game from Queensland.

Yeah.

Still, good boy, he's got across and we won.

Yeah.

Happy Trell Mitchell he's a man. He's anything happened there, absolutely anything. You never know whether he's going to jump in the crowd and punch on with the spectators or whatever he's going to do. Mel. Thank you, lucky to have you on the show and I look forward to seeing you in a fortnite.

Sounds good.

But on doctor Melkriddle from the Swan born vets End is still to come on the show. Steve Kilby, they say again Kilby, not Gilby, mister bell, I can't remember it saying it. I was under the pump. Steve Kilby will join us after twelve thirty. So he's playing tonight at the Milk Bar, which is in Mount Lorly. Yeah, but what's the old civy? Yeah, the old Civy and he's going it's quite an unusual show. He's got a string enseball and a few special guests. But he will

No DeLay's on the Mitchell Kranana, Graham Farmer and the North Bridge Tunnel also good run through the city and the metro area. If it is where, please drive to the conditions, give yourself an extra breaking distance and more time to get to where you're going, and also keep in mind double the mirror points in play for the wa long weekend. This evening starts at midnight right through until Monday, the second of June. I'm Bruce wallsh On Perth Traffic Leader six PR.

Running a pole today. Do you think this is curtains for the Woodside protesters?

Yes? Or no?

Jacko hijacko. He says no. They will never stop their protest. We are keeping a poll today and we'll keep it tally through until right through until one o'clock. It's twenty four minutes to one o'clock. Let's take pause. Let's go to our newsroom here at six PR. John Nichols, good afternoon, Thank you.

Simon, Good afternoon. A man has died after the scooter he was riding was hit by a truck in Perth South. That happened just after half past ten last night at the intersection of Canning and Sterling Highways in East Premattle and police are looking for witnesses. Police are also seeking information about the whereabouts of a fifty two year old Perth man who's now been missing for almost three weeks. Paul Michael Lamp's last known location was at a cal

More news at one. Thank you very much, John, Thanks for all of that. It's twenty two twenty two minutes to one o'clock. We're going to talk to Steve Kilby. Now, Steve Kilby's in Perth, former front man of the Church, of course, is tricky. He's never talked to stell Steve Kilby without mentioning the Church. And he's got a nice little show tonight at the Milk Bar, which is in Inglewood, the former Civic Hotel, and Steve Kilby is about to join us.

Now.

I know these are old songs. I know these albums go back to the nineteen eighties. But I hope you don't. Hope Steve doesn't mind me playing that thumping bassline. We talked to him before he does playing the bass because all the dust falls out of the roof and the whole building shakes. But he's here, and this show is called Jack Frost and Grant mcclennan and me. I mean you to introduce Steve. Do you play under the milky Wade? Do you play unguarded moment? I've chosen this one. Oh yeah,

How are you good?

Mate? Welcome back to Perth.

Yep, thank you.

Yeah, tell us about this show tonight, because it's a show with a bit of a difference, isn't it it is?

I'm looking In nineteen ninety one and then again in nineteen ninety four, Grant mcclennan and I made two albums together and they've just been re released after all these years by a record company in England. And I've got this wonderful bunch of Perth musicians. We've been doing this tour. We did it in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane and tonight is the last night and it's in Perth and we're

Yeah nice, that sounds amazing, so ans Rachel Equallenroola no violin Yeah, it's a typo on my machine.

It's nothing to us, but to them it's the whole world.

It's just this sheet. Hey, what's the set list look like? How does it comprise this evening?

Well, didn't I just say that Jack Frost? The first set we're doing the Jack Frost in its entirety, and then the second set we have a little break, and then the second set is church and go between snumbers rearranged for this particular ensemble, and they all really come to life so much. It's amazing what the cello and the violin add and these players are like wonderful West Australian musicians, and they're all they're all just doing it. You know, not a hell lot of money in this,

You did explain to me already?

What what what?

What it comes from? What's the How do you get to rehearse mate with this ensemble?

Well, we rehearsed in Melbourne. We turned up and rehearsed for two days in Melbourne and then we did the first show in Brunswick. In Melbourne, so and look, we did do this so once before in Perth, so it's kind of we semi kind of knew what we were going to do anyway, but it's really picked up momentum, you know, playing in Sydney and Melbourne and then Brisbane, the show just seemed to it just seems such a shame. I wish I wish we were doing going to be

Yeah, You've always been a creative You've always been you know, that's always you know, from my understanding and having seen your heaps of times, you've always been a creative bloke. And this sounds like the ultimate creative endeavor. Bringing musicians together just for these sessions and and reworking and rebooting some old material must be it must be cool to play it live.

It really is.

It's it's made me very happy. It's strange, you know, like I do a lot of shows with the Church, and you know, the Church about to go to America and do thirty shows, and then later on in the year we're coming back and we're doing this huge store and there's a certain satisfaction and excellence that the Church do and professionalism. But with this little gang of people,

Yes, makes sure it makes you think of your mate. Hey, so we've got some tickets available tonight Steve, haven't we And it's at the the Milk Bar, but he's actually inside the Civic Hotel, isn't it. So it's a it's a ripping venue and perfect for a show, for a show like you see, Steve.

Are you in?

I know you mentioned the synthesism and you're nice and chatty with us today. Are you having a chat in between? Are you reminiscing and chatting to the crowd?

Oh?

Oh yeah, all the songs have come come with a chat. Yeah, yeah, I'm telling the whole story, and I yes, misty eyed, rose colored glasses. It's very hard to talk about Grant without getting all nostalgia. You know, he left us, He left us in two thousand and seventy was only like forty five or something. Yep, and so much more he could have done and like he was my w It's no exaggeration say he was the best friend I ever had.

He that he can he can sound just.

Like Grant and play guitar just like Grant, and that's that's that's the only reason it's even possible to do these shows, because the Grant sort of component is there.

I spoke to Mark mcintie a couple of years ago, Steve, you know, from the the Vinyls, and he talked about losing his best mate.

It must be.

It must be. I mean, we're all getting older and the songs always remind us, but it must be difficult sometimes that it does bring up such strong feelings and memories, because that's what music does, right.

That's exactly what music does. It's that's exactly what it does. So yeah, I get quite misty up there, I believe me.

And I did want to mention that the chatting between songs I reckon all you guys who've been around for a while through the countdown here and whatever. It's it's a really nice refreshing thing for you know, when we used to go and see you when you were a rockcord you didn't talk to us all that much. But may you do, which is good. We love it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yep, there'll be a lot of there'll be a lot of talking.

Sure, all right mate, always nice to chat to you. Thank you for having a chat to our crowd tonight, and we'll get we'll try and get some listeners along.

Hey, that would be fantastic.

Yeah, thanks, the good one, go well tonight, Thank you, Okay, thank you, bye, see mate. Steve Kilby from a front man of the Church and of course a mates with you know, mates with his Mark Grant from the from the Go Betweens the gobe as he said, Grant McLennan and the sleeve. The actor is called Jack Frost. Grant

So this is.

In Maylands tonight at the Milk Bar. Now he's been very patient, Brian, Brian going to talk to you in just a second, mate, we'll get you back in just a second. We've got two double passes to the show tonight. Two double pass to the show night. Call me if you've seen the church when? Where?

What was it?

Like?

I reckon the church played at the Entertainment Center. It is nine dollars ninety six and that will probably remind you probably to giveway as to who the radio station were that sponsor it. Nine dollars ninety six, moving pittures church and Australian crawl. How good is that? Thirteen to one give us a call one double three eight euty two.

P A.

But certainly Minji lee On is on the start list as well. One double, thank you mate, One double three a day.

Two.

Do you have a story about the church? About going to see the church. We've got a couple of couple of double passes the give away to the show at the milk Bart tonight at the Civic. Gooday, Eric, Oh, get a Simon.

How are you going?

Good mate? What's your story?

Good?

Ah?

Yeah?

Myst mate and I in about nineteen eighty two. I'm trying to think what you.

Would have been.

We worked in Albany and we drove up on a Friday night. We left Albany past five to go and see the church at a club.

It was in town.

I can't remember. It was all I remembers.

We had to go upstairs and.

We were only about nineteen eighteen or nineteen, and we got up there and I was setting up and I took them as to sett and I don't know whether other boys were having them muck around backstage or something whatever. So by the time they got on to play, my mate and I were just about to sleep after all the way from Anyway. And then unfortunately I asked my mate in twenty eleven and I was given the honor of choosing a song for when we were coming into

Yeah, that's nice, mate, that's nice. What was your mate's Perry Perry?

Yeah, and he had a green box wag and beetle and we drove all the away from Anyway. We've got to leave them play, that was the main thing.

Yeah, So you may know this, or Rusty Collette may know this because he's a feeling in for Oli this afternoon. Who's a big, big crook? Was Under the Milky Way was later, wasn't it? Because eighty eighty one was the first couple of albums was and I think Under Milky Way came.

Yeah, it would have done. Yeah, yeah, I just can't remembering. Yeah, I don't think Under.

The Milk.

In the early eighties, but yeah, twenty eleven. That's sour yea man.

If you want to go tonight, I will put you back to Sean and Am. If you do want to go tonight, we've got a couple of tickets we can give give to Where do you live now? Mate?

I leave about four hundred meters from the Suvier Hotel.

I reckon you should go?

Well, I was going to I was thinking that I was going to go anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I reckon you should go. I'll put you back to Sean Ann and we'll send the get the tickets out to your pronto. Mate. We'll make sure you get to enjoy the show. Hey, and give us a shout tomorrow. Tell us how he goes?

Okay, thank you very much.

Thanks mate. Have you got the tune there? Max? How good is this song? Hello? Rusty? How here you good?

Sometimes?

And this class gets come?

Yeah, let's see.

I think Rolling Stone magazine said best the Australian song of the last thirty years a few years ago. I probably grew pretty good, man. It's a classic.

And guess rising.

I'm just talking to your producers and a little pub somewhere.

No, no better still, I said to your producers. I said, I saw them live and they said we're about I said, wait, I said, what's.

Weight w our Institute of Technology, Thank you sis. I went one year until the MAT's got a bit hard in engineering. Then I went did a phyzed degree. They used to do some great bands that they did me.

I saw that.

Who was Hannahs and Collectors?

Wait, yeah, wait, look at you go? How are you? How are you? Mate? Really good? Olie's beet Crooks. So you'll be with Perth Life from one to five.

Some of the supplementary presenter's list mate. And they've called me in busy busy show today, very good show today, by the way, soon. I've really enjoyed your work.

Thank you, Rusty. I just want to say you are a very loyal and supportive fellow.

No I say that I do like it, and that vote today, I'm a no voter. I think they're just going to continue on annoying people.

Yeah, that's all they know. Is it over for the Woodside protest. I made a couple of calls yesterday Rusty and spoke to a few of the hardliners and they're pretty rattled by what they heard yesterday from Murray what and they just I think they realized that what they have been doing hasn't worked politically in terms of campaigning. So I think they've got to reboot it. But I'll give you the honors, Russ, Yes or no? Is it over the woodside protesters? What are our listeners saying?

Okay? For their final votes? Are in fifteen have voted yes that it is all over?

Sixty one, but you and I voted no plus you so sixty two sixty sixty three from me. Yeah, I think there's more water to go under the bridge there have for us today, mate.

Very busy day, mate, very busy day.

Again.

We're going to find out more about a doge. There's a call for a doze here in the Australia. I think it's a very good call, one hundred percent behind it. I just think we have a lot of a lot of gunment money getting washed around in the economy. I liked a bit more auditing of it all and I like that to be pretty public.

Okay, all right, some more TRANSPI disparacy, a doge. What else?

Absolutely travel loong will be end. We're also going to find it bees money. You big fan of bees?

I love Bees?

Yeah, I do.

Yeah, we're going to find it.

More about a fan of being stung by them. But I do like them.

I've been sung a few times. I've never really blown up, though. Have you ever blown Yeah?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I don't know why I don't blow up. It's a he's the mean thing, isn't it you to do or you don't?

Yeah?

Not mad though.

Jammie Bennett's going to catch up part of the week, yep, something you and I love a part of the week.

You do.

What's your beef to get get it off people's chest before the weekend? Yeah, I think something is eating it.

Jack get rid of it today with us. Yeah, all right, I'll be listening. Thank you all the very best. I believe the shoe bar was cranking last night with the origin supporter. So what only he go and I'll see you there soon absolutely, yeah, all right mate. Russell Collette filling in for Olie Peterson coming off the supplementary presenter's bench, which I didn't know we had one of those three minutes to one. Thanks for being part of the program today, Henry,