Perth Today with Simon Beaumont Podcast - Tuesday, 27 May 2025

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What's the hold up? The Chief Economists of the Housing Industry Association, Tim Ridden is jumping into the studio today. We'll look at the housing, the current market, the strains on the building industry, and the various backlogs thereof that's coming up in just a second, and I'm going to speak to Rida Safiotti in just the moment about violence at junior sport. And that's our yes no question today. I wanted to try and clear something up straight away if we could, right.

Let's clear this up once and for all.

So yes or no is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue. So there are these allegations from a game of junior's football, junior soccer up in Mindari on the weekend that a forty six year old bloke from Whitford City Football Club allegedly has strangled a player from the Mindari Footy Club Soccer club. And I what are you seeing and hearing? Is the sideline

On.

I think at least one of reader's kids play soccer too. So is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? What are you's seeing? What are you noticing? How is your sport handling it? All of the sports, well, most of the sports sign up to true Sport, which is the state government program. True Sport has an advisory committee and tries to get essentially he tries to get kids to enjoy sport, and they do look at the behavior of parents as well, and of coaches and officials

Disclaimer?

I'm not concerning any behavior, but just a slightly different perspective. I remember seeing in a junior footy game years ago, years and years ago, a kid, fourteen year old kid my size, six foot ninety cakes just beating another kid's senseless that was much much smaller, And the father of the kid being beaten up actually ran onto the field hit the fourteen year old kid to get him off

You may react what sport mate?

Ifl yeah, okay, all right, yeah, no, that's we'll find out what happened in this situation, and we don't know a lot about it with the Mindari Whitford's thing, Scott. But we'll know a little bit more, I think once it gets to court. Thanks for your call, mate, Thanks for chatting to us, Thanks for listening. Appreciated. One double three A two basketball Still seeing ugly parents in basketball? One double three two. I'll get to your correspondence today.

Murray?

What was in town last week? He's the environment minister. He didn't get around to chatting to anybody on six PR, but he spoke to some other media outlets and Murray, what is expected to make a decision, an actual decision, not delay the decision again on whether Woodside's lease will be extended. This is at the bar up in the northwest Shelby. It could happen this Saturday from what we're

Look, So to go back a step, basically, since since heavy industry opened up on the Barrock Peninsula or up around dam Here Karata Way, there's been ongoing debate about whether the emissions from that heavy industry was affecting all the rock art that is throughout that area, and so there's been a massive study going on for many years, funded by the state government and Woodside to investigate whether in fact those emissions are causing any damage or erosion

So he's plenty of so by extension, Paul, he's calling that report that we saw last week that you and I read he's calling that into question.

Absolutely yes, and he says that this rock here is the smoking gun that shows that some of the key conclusions from that scientific study are off the mark. And so every environmentalist, every activist who's been campaigning against this project is going to seize on this and say, look, Murray White is saying, you want to make a decision based on the best science, on the top research, you need to slow down and consider this alternative argument here.

Needs to be considered.

And also I'm talking to Paul Garvey from the Australian Listeners. Paul, also in your article you raise what I think is an important point. This isn't This isn't Ben Smith from UWA. This is not his research. This has been done elsewhere, hasn't it.

Yeah, he's had some associations, but I think it's a PhD student of his who's been working at the University of Bond in Germany. The rock itself was collected by Robert Bednrick, who is an absolute employent of that archaeological profession and the Northwest Shelf region Jugga Peninsula. He was sort of the godfather of archaeology in that area. He's the one who took this rock thirty years ago and

Yeah, all right, And interestingly, I mean it's a political issue as well, Paul, as you and I know that mister Albanisi and Murray wat said we'll make this decision based on science and on data, you know, and they've got that report it in their back pocket. So this is new news. And Ben Smith, we understand from UWA, he will be holding a press conference today, as will Roger Cook around about midday.

Not together by any means, but yeah, they will be. Yeah, I've just seen they're an alert go out that Ben Smith will be out there.

Speaking on this.

I think the opponents to this gas project have jumped on this too, and we'll be trying to put this up in lights saying look, you know, this is new information. It needs to be taken into account. Murray, what though, has insisted basically since he was sworn in that this decision wouldn't be delayed any longer. Woodside has been in this process for six years. They want to see this thing go ahead. They want the certainty to to know that they can invest the pretty incredible sums of money

Yeah, for sure. Thanks for chatting to us, Paul. I think I've been watching issue for some time as have you. What do you reckon Murray? What's going to do?

I've got little doubt that he will approve it. I feel like he's sort of been out with an easy, sort of trouble shooter over the first time of government and when he was brought in, it seemed a pretty clear sign to me that the government wanted this to get approved. And I mean the economic implications of this

Yeah.

I think there's an imperative from the government to see this sorted out and sorted out early so that any political skin that's lost from this will have healed, you know, by the time that next election rolls around.

Yeah, all right, Paul, thank you for talking to us. Good story. Thank You's my Paul Garvey from the Australian. So there's a bit of a Bundi has turned up. A rock has turned up from way back thirty years of age that seems to indicate that the report that was handled down last week that there has been damaged done from the emissions on the bar up and it's yeah,

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I'm going to talk to Rita Safioty in just a moment. She is the Minister for Sport and Recreation in in Wa, but she's importantly I'm going to talk to her capacity as the mum of junior sports kids. I wonder what she's seeing. We're asking the question today is a sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? The yes is are ten and the nose of four. Thank you for your correspondence or get as much of that published and broadcast as humanly possible. Gid A Steve, I

Yeah, obviously played bla cross quade, an aggressive sport. Coached and managed junior football and soccer. A son played two years of soccer, and I found that the parents were the most aggressive in that form of the sport, mainly because of the frustration I can see in low scoring and obviously lack of physical contact. It's allowed, and when there was physical contact the parents used to get aggressed.

So might be a soccer thing, and these allegations will be heard in court. You might be a soccer thing, mate, you reckon, But with our parent behavior, yeah, I.

Actually didn't notice it a lot more and the son played a lot of junior sport and I didn't all my sons have. I noticed that the soccer aggression from the parents was the worst. Lot in the other sports, the aggression was towards the referee, which it's trying to stop. I mean, I actually wore a high vis vest to control crowds in soccer, so that made sure that parents kept the aggression to a lower level.

Yeah, all right, thanks for chating to Steve.

No problem at all, his mate.

So is a sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? So this is an extreme example, isn't it from what we heard on Sunday? And then the allegation is a forty six year old man from Whitford's football club got his hands onto the neck of an eleven year old player from Mindari Rita Safiotti is the sports minister in wah also the mum of some kids who played junior sport. Hi readA thanks your time, Hi,

Yeah, I think this is an extreme incident. I don't say I've never seen anything like it in my many watching of many games on the sidelines, So I think this is an extreme incident. But it goes back to the point of respect and being there to encourage your kids and not to take it as seriously as some do, which and we've seen it, some parents take it very seriously.

Are your kids soccer kids?

Yeah?

Yeah, all three play soccer and there's an netball as well, so so what they will play soccer and one plays netball as well.

Yeah, it is. Do you see any difference in the culture of the and the behavior of parents between netball and soccer rita.

Yeah, I think the netball parents.

Are a bit quieter.

I'd say that soccer parents polly a little bit louder, But again it just varies depending on the teams, and it depends, I think of the divisions that you're playing and how seriously people are taking it.

But look, it is, it is varied.

I went to an interschool game actually the other day and there was a parent just abusing the lines but just constantly until they were pulled up. So it does vary, it does very according to the games.

But look, I.

Think in all of this, you know, kids are out there, they're trying their best, and you can see it when there's too much aggression. It sometimes really turns them off and they don't want to code back. Whether it's the you know, it's the kid's parents or other kids, you know, they get turned off. And and the other ish of course is volunteers and alignsmen and refs and so forth. You know, you don't want we need to get more kids volunteering and or you know being refs or linesmen

In I don't know if you're across this yet, reader, and you know you've had your feet under the under the sports desk for a while now, But there's a crew at Sports West called True Sport and they try to look after the behavior of parents. And I would broadly think that True Sports had a pretty good impact, you know, through through all the sports that the state government funds. So I would think the incidents are becoming less.

Yeah, and you're right. I have been briefed on True Sport and last week I entered a Sports West event where they acknowledge the role of True Sport in supporting volunteers in particular with mental health challenges, but more generally about sideline behavior. So there is some really positive messaging coming out from that program and also ways for clubs

Yeah, all right, while I've got you, Okay, will the will the Thornleigh Coburn rail link be open on schedule? I think during the Monday Dune the ninth. Is that going to happen?

Rita, Yes, that's right, yep.

So that's all that's all planned and good to go.

Yeah, we've been doing extensive driver training, so it's all ready to go. The stations are ready to go, and so that will commence. I think our community open day is the June the eighth, the Sunday to June the eighth, and during the ninety it opens for normal services.

And are you I know the PTA are aware because we spoke to a bloke who lives in Dagley shyesterday on the show and he's worried about train line squeal in Daglish. Come across your desk.

Yes it has, and so I think they did. Note we have been investing into trying to reduce some of that train noise, in particular some treatments on the tracks to reduce that train noise. I think the community is I supposed divided and whether they want to consider noise wars. But we've done some testing and we believe that without further work that's been undertaken, it's now below some of the limits that have been sent in relation to noise noise.

And just finally, I know you're a Frio fan and one of the great Prio players. Anthony Grove played two hundred games for Freer number fourteen. He's also the Combat Sports Commissioner, his heads up the Combat Sports Commissioner have had a chat to Groves yet about the ban Knuckle Championships. Where are you on that?

Yeah?

I did. Actually, both him and Maturer came in to brief me about the sport and in particular what they've been doing in relation to the regulation of that sport.

So in relation to that sport that was put.

Forward as in relations to that sport, there were some regulatory changes that were made that were signed off just before the last election, and that regulatory change was based on advice from the Combat Sports Commission saying that with extra precautions, they believe that bear knuckle boxing could have

It's not far away if it does happen when event organizers wanted to happen, So decision soon, I guess.

Yeah.

So the combat that's in front of the Combat Sports Commission. I think they've put forward a proposal, but as I said, there's a strong regulatory environment that they're put in place for this, in particular the levels of experience of the of the boxes, the medical practitioners that need to be on hand. So they're working through what safeguards and mechanisms can be put in place to make sure it can be done as safe as possible.

Are you the ultimate arbiter on this reta.

It's actually the Combat Sports Commission, who, as I said, the regulations have been changed.

To allow it.

So that was probably the key thing that happened. So the regulatory, the regulations changed that allowed the sport to be conducted in Wa. But then for an event, the Combats Sports Commission has to fantion that event and that's what's been worked through at the moment.

All righty, and then you I think you meant when you talked about last week you mentioned potential for a veto from yourself. Do you think you need to.

Exercise that not at this stage, As I said, the Combat Sports Commission have gone through and identified a number of safeguards and safeguards and mechanisms to make it as safe as possible. And they've been working through that and they seem.

Very very rigorous.

Yeah, all right, thank you for your time, Thanks for talking to our listeners.

Thank you.

Rita Safioti, Estate's Minister for Sport and Recreation. So that doesn't see bad behavior, her three kids play soccer, doesn't see it where she is, but did see it and into school. You know, some people are yelling at alignsment wonderble three A two. Is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? That's O yes, no question. I'll bring you up to date with that in just

Hi, peterh goot it, Simon. I just wanted to talk about the rock card up there and the weather effect on it. The weather up there's I worked up there for four and a half years in the eighties, and one month there we had forty one degrees in a row. I went through a couple of cyclones up there. One of them was two hundred and fifteen k's an hour. I can't understand how it's still visible, which is weathering. It's got to have an effect. It's extreme weather up there.

Yeah, I think so, mate, Yeah, absolutely right. And that's was the two hundred and fifteen k cyclone. Was that, Bobby, I think it was.

I can't remember the name of it, Yeah, but it was. It was pretty bad. Yeah, I couldn't stand up in it.

Yeah, you know what it was.

It was out there.

It was Friday, I think, Bobby was the nineties. I think you were there in the eighties, Peter, Thank you and Peter. I just looked the report that's coming out from Ben Smith. Benjamin Smith is at UWA. He speaks very specifically about the still pollution levels of sophur diok side and nicos oxide from the nearby industry. So he he's going really hard on the emissions from the from the industry up there, which is different to what you're saying.

So.

Professor Smith Ben Smith has used one of his PhD students to study a rock that was taken from the bar Up thirty years ago and he's saying, because it's because of its how, it's because of its condition. The damage you're seeing to the current rock on the bar up is from industry softodox side of nier soxside. Interesting timing, Hey one double three A two. He's out today at midday making a statement, as is Roger Cook at a separate press conference, and we do believe that's around the

Lo is that.

Bigfooty grown up adult footy or is that junior footy? I'd imagine that's a grown up footy, Kylie says, Happy Tuesday, Simon. Thank you, Kylie. I hope the sports parents don't watch the likes of Minister Carey playing the man in Parliament. Thank you. This one here from Bear of a different BEV doesn't matter how much reta sugar coats. The issue rebare knuckle fighting. The government is saying it's okay to fight.

Yeah?

Well, at the moment, I've thought you under seventeens girls big grade and the parents are fine, I mean. But one of the things that I found really interesting, and this is one thing that parents need to understand, and I talked to myself about this as well, is there a lot of a lot of us parents think that our kid is much better than they actually are. Right, bro, how do you tell a parent the reason why your kid is on the sideline because it probably should take

It's a hard one, isn't it, Tony. I know I worked with Ron Alexander for many years at sport and wreck and Ron, despite being a big, tough old ruckman, he was very strong and all kids you get equal game time and rotated through positions because that's why. That leads to enjoyment and it leads to them wanting to stay in the sport for longer. But I suppose you want to try and win too, don't you.

Yeah, in domestically, domestically, I personally believe it needs to be equal amounts. When you get to the higher levels, then it's on merit, on on your ability. But in domestically everybody should be having equal.

Amounts, all right, mate, Yeah, thanks Tony. Good to hear from it. In the running for a Caller of the Day today coming up after ten o'clock today, Parking, we've moved Parky's time. Dave Parkinson will join us after ten o'clock today. The veteran copper True Detective is the name of the segment. Did you know I didn't know this? Did you know? There was an assassination plot against Simon Crean.

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Running a poll today. Do in your opinion yes or no? What are you seeing a junior sport? Is parent behavior on the song of line is still an issue and the yes is just marginally habit at this stage. I'll bring you that tally as the As the show winds on, Jane has a positive shout out to Western Power staff. Thank you, Jane. You worked over twelve hours from seven thirty last night till seven thirty this morning working on a power line near Mawson Park, Hillary's two hundred and

Detectives with Dave Parkinson.

Yeah.

One of our favorite and very popular segments on Perth Today is True Detective and Dave Parkinson joins us. Now former everything in the w a police service. God they Parky Simon, good, Thank you for people who haven't heard the segment we covered the biggest story in the world, which was the suicide Sect, the Japanese suicide Sect operating

Really yeah, really really good, good better otherwise.

Which means it's good that they're listening. But sometimes we get we get very close to sensitive topics. I guess is my is my point. I had no idea about this one, mate. This is the you found yourself in the mid In a over a four year period, the farmers of Wa were very, very very unhappy. They were called the Rural Action Movement nineteen ninety to nineteen ninety four. What were they unhappy about?

Party here, Simon, and basically back in that time, the banks were being what banks normally are, and I'm too much of a gentleman to suggest what they are and how they operate, and the rural industry across Western Australia, particularly in the wheat belt regions that we're going through tremendous hardship. The law abiding citizens there, the wheat prices

So sorry to go to your unit got involved. There were death threats to politicians and people were actually targeting physically targeting the bank buildings.

Well they we're right through. It would be very interesting again, we're there hijacking you show. You know, some of the people in Rualdubra are probably listening and they can they would definitely remember this awful period of time. One of the main tactics was super gluin the bank locks, you know, and then other other damage that you know, perhaps shouldn't go into now that you've reminded me of sensitivity.

But I just keep doing it your way, made by way.

I mean, I've got they've got my number, and they got my number, and they know the muroral officers in Carlisle Heights that can come in anytime. But it was, it really was a tragic time. And I don't want to make light of it because I mean, I've jumped forward a bit since this, Uh, these events that happened. You know, we've got the r U Okay, we've got the blue trees and I've just come back from mind him up and they're everywhere down there would suggest there's

I can't remember that story, bag, Yeah they did.

Yeah, they'd be part of between Muliva and Jeralton, there was about four lengths of role got blown up and obviously no one's taken responsibility for that. Obviously, as I said, a lot of my friends out in the country wouldn't even contemplate that. They, you know, the decent, law abiding people. Then having said that, yeah.

The next chapter in all this, you have done dignitary protection at different times your unit. I'm talking to Dave partners and folks. If you don't recognize the voice. So Simon Crane is coming to Late Grace.

Yes, and what happened. We got a very very credible threat that his life was at risk. Now I cannot remember why. I don't think his portfolio if I remember correctly, and perhaps Sean could google it or whatever. I thought. He was Industrial Relations minister at the time. It could be wrong, but anyhow, he was coming to Late Grace and through obviously place and others in the community, concerned citizens. They said he better not turn up because we've got a we have a couple of people here who are

So it's my understanding that you got him off the plane and you actually put yourself between him and potentially where a shooter could be.

Yes, yeah, that was that was my role. I mean, I always hated the nickname bullet catcher, but myself and my crew in the dignity protection area, that's basically what we were. Things weren't really bad. I mean, I'm trying not to make light of it. It was a lot, you know, we were very capable, very capable people that you know, we weren't just full of catchers. We could take out a threat as well. But it was it's

Yeah, I mean a lot of the stories to involve your mate, the late John Watson and like Gray. So you're back there and you reckon, you might have bumped into the guy who was the original threat, did you.

Yeah, we did well, John John On myself and my daughter Stacey Weist did a lot of fundraisers down there. You know, we played music and whatever and entertained and and we did that over and over a number of years, and we've become very very close friends with the number of the local community. Then it was terrific Tom And after about three years one of one of who now has a very very good made of mind from there.

So they actually knew that and they took him, took him the way that's right.

They restrained him. Yeah, they had him in a out of town which was which was I'll forever be grateful for because forget me, forget Simon Crane. It's just something that the State of Western Australia did not want and does not want. There are other ways, even when you are at your lovest ebb, there are still ways to sort things out. And this guy actually was a decent bloke and I've had a couple of bees with him over the years and things like that, and what concerns

Here, we'll come back to parking just a moment. David bullardcatcher Parkinson's with today amazing story, Parky, I had no idea. I must have missed all of that. I'm not sure what I was doing, but that's that's incredible. That blowing up railway lines and super gloden banks and threatening federal politicians is incredible. We'll come back more Parky after these day. Parky Parkins is with us today, former super former, dignitary protection, former everything. This is a This is True Detective Our

Yes, Simon, basically around about seventy ninety seventy five seventy six that we had a women Police office and absolute true legends of West Australian placing were there. You know, some of the most magnificent ladies you did forget. But what happened is I think it was around about seventy six the government and the WO Police Department decided to bring women into policing as general duties police officers, detective

Great idea, and across the regions and obviously it was the same, but there was this issue, and then of course horror, horror, but a Garland I met GALEI came to Caldully as a young woman police officer and we ended up going out to and we got married in nineteen seventy eight. Well, when it was announced that we were engaged, I got what we called a red devil in the male.

That was a transfer notice to go yeah, yeah, really, so and so and her and I were the first one or two to actually get married at that time. And then of course, horror of all horror, Simon maternity, Dave maternity. So they come and they get pregnant, and now I'm one short on my shift. These are the these are the issues that the pioneers, and I call them pioneers of those days. And then horror, an absolute

And look, we have no names here, but at the current police commander was the first female bomb technician in Australia. You had a bit to do with that. And you know she was also involved in the bombing of Don Hancock and lou Lewis in the driveway and laugh Lane. So she's exceptional too.

She's a tremendous lady. And I will to name her, but she's a tremendous lady. When my inspector from the Tactical Response Group, who the bomb squad was under the end there, came and saw me, so I liked to I like to put X up for a bomb training course, I said, I don't have an issue with that. Well, by Jesus signon, I got flogged. The head of the bomb training under the National County Terrorist Plan was in New South Wales. He rang me and the expletives that

Mi've got a nineteen year old and she her mate from school is just isna is up at Dune up training at the moment, Parky. And it's very normal for you know, girls of their age to see it as a career, as a profession, as an option. It's just normal.

Now, well, it's incredible. And I've mentioned to you and your listeners that in twenty twenty one I worked back in with now Governor Chris Dawson in the COVID Command Center and we were based in the Offisheries Building office of the Highight there and it was a fifty to fifty split, fifty percent females fifty percent blokes. A lot

Yeah, yeah, park you could talk to you all day on this stuff. Thank you very much for being our true detective again today. And I should have mentioned this, but Simon Crean died a couple of years ago, Parky premature in Germany, didn't he So.

He did and his brother was lost in the snowfield was a few years before that. I don't know what they have a family but not Yeah, yeah, tragic family.

Yeah, good to talk to you, mate, Thank you very much for next fortnite. Thank you mate, Dave Parkinson, our true detective on the show. Got a million stories. And yeah to the to the recruits, upper journal, up the female recruits, good luck to here. I think over the years we've talked to some of the high sort of highly prized recruits that a lot of the female officers come through the system, come through the training system and marked very very highly in the all the testing, the

Good morning, Simon, Yes, clearly I do, yes, Hyge Park.

Yeah, So nothing's happened, Karen. What's your understanding why as to why nothing's happened.

I have no understanding as to why nothing has happened. But I am I am pleased today that we've got the opportunity now to apply to some grants. But it doesn't stop us, from a welders perspective, to continue to ask the government to strengthen its research capacity. You know, we need to put further funding into research and how

Simon, Yeah, sure, so you know this, and I know this. So Clermont's lost trees, Allison's lost trees in Vincent, I think Canning's lost trees Bayswater. Do you get a sense that the current regime the containment zones are working, Karen, But they're.

Focusing very strongly on the zone Zone A and making sure it's contained of the Zone B, which is the buffer zone. And I do believe that everybody's working really hard to contain it. But however, and the approach seems to be not they're not just sort of cutting the trees down like they were initially. They're trying everything they can to save trees.

But you would have.

Heard where Mayor Zamon announced or said the other day that the Hyde Parks lost the fight with on a couple of the islands. So it's containment is the ultimate goal, and it absolutely is the ultimate goal. We don't want it to spread at all. However, there's many different prongs to this. Recovery is one responses another and looking to the future and looking for management is also one of the elements that we have to we have to consider.

Daren, Am I hearing you right that the grants for this dough and it was seven point two mill possibly up to sixteen thousand trees. I think for every tree that we lose to the borer, you could plant three, I think I remember requitly saying that. Am I hearing that the actual ground round has only just opened? Is that what you're saying?

It's open, Yeah, it's only just open, and it's open for six weeks only. It closes on Monday to seventh July, and local governments can apply for I think it's eleven hundred and forty dollars per tree they've lost, and an exception exceptional circumstances they can apply for a larger amount of I guess something like I'm money guessing something like

Four thousand and five that I haven't heard that figure for. And that's not just the Morton Bay figs. That's playing trees and other species too, Karen, that's all.

That's all trees. That that's the data that the most recent data that we've actually had access to helps us that.

Yeah, all right, And to go back to where we started. Do we know why the grants around us has been so delayed?

Absolutely? I have no idea what we've been We have been advocating strongly for this to open so that local governments can get on and order their trees and get you know, and consider planting them. Now they will be able to order them this year and they have three years in which to plant those trees. You know, I guess, choose the appropriate tree, make the right grounds prepared, and then get grant trees back into the ground.

Yeah.

That's the other thing where if it is a Morton Bay fig, they've got a huge root structure and their big trees, and you can't necessarily put the tree back in a new tree back in the same spot.

Hey, well, I'm not a an't it? But I'm assuming not No.

Not a I'm not a I've got a cult from you, learned something new every day. You can be a farmer, but not a gardener. Karen, that tried.

You know.

We can't be perfected everything.

I'll be good at everything. Hey, Karen, just while I have you and I don't know if you've heard or if you've chatted to to your gang in it Welga. Are Yogu going to get some money out of defense? Have have you heard anything on the d RF A funny No.

No, I haven't heard. I've heard the concerns and I'm very much aware of the Yelgu, the shop of Ylgu's the position there in and that it is a matter that DRF Defense are considering.

Yeah, all right, nice to chat you today, Karen.

Thank you, Okay, thanks not to see you too, Simon.

Karen Chappel Welga presidents. So four thy, five hundred and fifteen trees in the metro area have been lost to the boro. I haven't heard that before, and that's the latest figure. That's just I think that's local government tree, so there could be more. So have you have you had a tree knocked over, shredded, mulched, chipped because of the boar in your street, in your neighborhood, or on your property. Let me know, one double three eighty two.

Look I'm just ringing up. I'm now about to have a third tree cut down from this bug. I'm up in les Murdy And what I've been told is there's no compensation. Like I'm about to lose amulberry tree that's about fifty sixty years old.

Yeah right, I didn't know. I didn't know. I didn't know Mylberys could cop the boar. Is that that's that's an in proper.

Yep, very susceptible pretty much anything that's not native.

But how's this.

I've got a native maluca a t tree that's also been affected by it. It's got him where I've pruned it.

Yeah really okay, hey, justin So no compensation.

Is it?

Is it worth talking to? So what shire is Lesbon? Does you say Les Mardy or come him under?

Yeah, it's actually it's not the shy that does it. It's the government. So the Department of Primary Industries. They are the ones that come out, have a look and then organize if you want someone, yeah.

Cut it down?

Who pays for the who pays for it to be cut down? Justin?

Well, I'd say the government, the Department. I've spoken to him, but they they're not that well funded when it comes.

So do they take it? Do they take the chips away?

Just?

Do they dispose of the chips?

Yeah?

Yeah, they have to.

And then you go into a quarantine stage where anything over two and a half centimeters can't be removed from your property. So you've got to burn it and I'm lucky enough to do it up where I am.

Yeah yeah, yeah, sure, all right mate? So what are you going? Maybe you can yeah, in the absence of knowing justin, maybe you could talk to the shy up there and see if they can help you out with some replants. Is it in your back garden? Is it or on your property somewhere?

Yeah?

Yeah, yeah it is.

But the thing about it is the show used to provide fifteen plants a year, but now they've determined that it's more of a lottery. So I just source met mate, you know.

All right, yeah, all right mate. Well maybe ring Darren scene or between six and eight on Saturday or Sunday he might be able to. He's got a big tree farm out in Burlong, mate, maybe he'll spot you up public new trees. Thanks justin interesting chat, Thank you mate. We have did ask to speak to the new Environment Minister Matthew Swinborne. He's in back to back meetings ahead of parliamentary sitting, but he hasn't been available. I tell you he has been available. Is a lot to this show,

Yeah, I did. Actually, both him and Bob Katura came in to brief me about the sport and in particular what they've been doing in relation to the regulation of that sport. In relations to that sport, there were some regulatory changes that were made, so those regulations were changed, and now there's been an event that's come forward, so the Combat Sports Commission is going through that proposed event and in particular looking at what additional regulations could be put in place.

When Minister Safiotti spoke about the ben Knuckled Fighting Championships last week, she said she could exercise a veto on whether the event came here or not, but she obviously taking advice from the Combat Sports Commission at this point. Brendan's phone in.

Hi.

Brennan, Hi Simon.

Firstly, I don't think it's being luckle fighting as any form of sport at all. To me, it's a blood sport and I don't really see what regulations kind of stop it. I think reader needs to really have a look at it from a totally different perspective. We're trying to rid our society of all forms of violence and domestic violence. These one punch of tax at killing crippled people. I just don't see any place for it coming to Perth or anything like that. We've got police doing special

Yeah, all right, are you ok ufc.

Uh well yes or no? But I wouldn't pay to go and watch two blokes or two ladies belt the hell out of his cellars.

Yeah all right mate, not so yeah, thanks Brendan. All they're all good points, Brendan. It seems it seems pretty brutal, doesn't it.

Well, it does, Simon, and you know we're trying to get rude violence out of our society. We never will, but I just can't say them what type of people would go and pay the watches?

Yeah?

That does me, mate. I think really needs to have another look at it, I really do.

Yeah, thanks Brendan, cheers mate, thanks for your thought. It's one double three A two is the phone number. So Brenda is not a fan of being knuckle boxing. Yeah, it's good work by JB spotting that one. If you're listening, Jamie, Harold of the Rocks, I think it's two rocks, isn't Harold? That's Harold of the Rocks. You European housebor or a small hive beetle, hendravirus, bat lissavirus, menangle virus, citrus canker, white ants, fire ants, cane toad, European rabbit, red imported

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Thanks listening in deja vu all over again. Remember listening to this station. I think I was working at the station at the time as well. Remember Martin Whitey twenty ten West Australia MP. He had a book out and he used to took way back there in twenty ten,

Mate.

John made a damn good point there. Same thing with rugby spear tackle someone on a rugby field of sports spear tackle on the street and it's violence. Yeah, it's it's BKFSA at the moment before it was UFC. It doesn't matter what the what the sport is or the combat sport is. People complain. Now sports have rules and points scoring system, which is combat sports.

Do that?

Then people go and say it's a blood sport. Well, blood sport or not. Still got the words sport in it, doesn't it.

Now a lot of the people going.

On about readers trying to encourage violence, and you know, we've got a problem with violence in our society and everything, and I can see what they're saying. However, the average combat sports or blood sport enthusiast or watcher or supporter isn't someone who's actually actively participating in martial arts and training themselves. Majority of them just don't. They just enjoy it. But you'd find that people who actually do enjoy the sport and watching it and engage in martial arts and

Okay, yeah, all right mate, Hey yeah, good. Thanks your thoughts, Bruce. I'll percolate on those. I'll have a little think about that. Cheers, mate, Thank you for your thoughts. I think I think did I read something in the in one of the papers that I read this morning. There's some new research to say that people who do coward punch can hit people men in their twenties, and they're out at night, So the assaults are happening at nighttime, mostly enacted by men

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Yes, I am yeah?

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How you go good?

How are you good?

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Adhd Yes?

Yeah, I was calling about the fact that you said that it's being over diagnosed. I'm Fortgaton was diagnosed last year, and it's being talked about a lot these days because so many women of my age who are finally being diagnosed with it instead of being misdiagnosed for years with things like anxiety or just all other thought depression and all those sorts of conditions.

Yeah.

So it's just really frustrating because, yeah, you hear this sort of stuff all the time. It's been over diagnosed and all that sort of thing, but it's not it's just that for years women missed.

So yeah, women, this is this report is coming out. You know, I can only express my frustration having a kid and I just you know, just and kids in particular do talk amongst themselves, Louise, you know that the peer pressure and there's a bit of a badge that goes with at least I now know what what I've gotten. Now we can address it. But there is a report, there is a report out today and it comes from psychiatrists that it's been diagnosed, and I appreciate it. So it's made a.

Difference to you, right, because obviously women, girls prevent.

Differently to boys.

Yeah, okay, yeah, Louise, I'm not I'm not cutting you off. Just try and move. I can't hear because your phone is a glitchy. Just move a bit if you will.

Yep.

Yeah, so you're gone.

Is that better?

Yeah, yep.

Yeah. So it's just it's it explains my whole sort of childhood. And then he has also explained a lot of issues that I've had, you know, even when you're like becoming a mother and all of that sort of thing. And also also a lot of women at my age are in ferry menopause and that's when the symptoms are actually exacerbated, and that's why so many of us are actually getting diagnosed.

Yeah, all right, good luck, Louis. He thinks it's calling us today.

Thank you.

How it goes well, gid I, Frank.

Yes, good morning woman. Bare knuckle fighting was banned over one hundred years ago. It's violent and brutal and dismiss Pepper Rottio thinks that this is a good example there our young people, the violence in the city of a Friday and Saturday night. I don't go into your own Northbridge anymore. This is a really bad example. And cage fighting, so I've even gone even more so he's gone from cage fighting to bare knuckle fighting. What you're going to

All right, thanks, thanks Frank. I don't know what her being a woman has to do with it in my view, but appreciate your thoughts.

Yeah, the.

It was it was banned, wasn't it. So UFC was banned in this state under Columbardeed and tuck Waldron Sports Minister kayetuck If you're listening. Labor brought it back in. We've had UFC fights here in Perth. You know that the main game, the promotional arm of MMA has been here in Perth. But now this is a this is a next step. This is a progression or a bracket creep of what we're tolerating as sport. There's no question about that. Six sixteen minutes past eleven o'clock is the

No?

Poll? Is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue here in Perth in Western Australia. The yes are twenty two and the nose eleven. Thanks for your thoughts and all of that. Will keep a tally right through until the end of the day. Still to come on the program, We've got the guys from the Housing Industry Association of Australia will be in. We're going

To told you, thank you, good afternoon, good morning.

Yes, sorry, yeah, nice to have you on the show today. So there is a warning out today and this has has been reported in the Herald Sun in Melbourne two prominent psychosis woman overdiagnosed and over medication of ADHD is an issue and we're seeing as profit driven diagnosis, soft the symptom criteria, inconsistent treatment standards across the living stresses, academic pressure and social media influence.

What do you think, Well, it's a mixed picture. Actually there's an underdiagnosis as well. I spent the day yesterday in a headspace in New South Wales. I saw fifteen young people and more than half of them were referred for assessment or reassessment for ADHD as along with everything else.

That's very interesting. So the data itself, Patrick comes out from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, and I saw that. Yeah, they're reflecting a ten percent increase on last year for under eighteen patients. What is that because we have we changed the criteria of diagnosis, the symptoms.

Yeah, yeah, it's easier to get the diagnosis now. But in younger people it's probably less likely to be misdiagnosed because it is a disorder, neurodevelopmental disorder. It's supposed to be at its peak in primary school really, and the old idea was that it got better as you got older and you more or has grew out of it in most cases, so people recovered from it. There was a recovery pathway from it. But you know, people have

Now.

Some of those people will have been missed in childhood because it was underdiagnosed in the past. But there's another group who are struggling in various ways and they've lapped onto this very popular sort of label if you like, and putting a lot of pressure I think on prescribers. And of course some of the prescribers are exploiting that because it's in the private practice world, it's a market. So these are very large co claimers that some psychiatrists are charging are pretty worrying.

Speaking to Patrick McGrory, listeners the professors with us today talking about this new data that seems to reflect Yeah, a perfect storm of a number of factors. Well, the optics, So Patrick, I've got a family member and some experience with headspace and were professional services as well that aren't not for profits. What about the optics? He does look like in industry, doesn't it.

Yeah, Well, this is why the federal government's commitments in the election campaign, which we're actually matched by the coalition too, to be fair, of expanding the free mental health care for young people, you know, by boosting headspace capacity and also building a backup system, a more specialized expert mental health care sitting behind headspace for the more complex cases. So that means that the healthcare will be more equitable for young people, for children and young people, and it

Those people.

Well, one of our listeners has phoning through to say that she's in her in her late forties and she's a postmenopausal and she said she's just been diagnosed and it's made a world of difference to her. She was probably misdiagnosed for years and years and years. So she was an example of what you're talking about. Professor. We appreciate your time talking to us here in Perth.

Thank you very much, Thank you very much.

No, I just come quickly on that one. That's an example of a genuine case that was missed. But I think we're seeing other people who present in the same way. They don't get the same benefit either as this lady actually has. So we've got to be a lot more sophisticated about how we go about this.

Yeah, all right, thanks you time, professor. Thank you, have a good afternoon. Professor Patrick mcgory ao former Astrayan of the Year, So he contests this information. Certainly. My experience is that it feels like it's an industry, and it feels like this doctor shopping and it feels like in the subject to a lot of interpretation. So the criteria change.

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I'm Rob Beaver on Path Traffic Leader six PR. Yeah, thanks you company. Today we'll talk to Owe Clear in just a moment from Sere and Partners we get an update on the market. I just want to remind our listeners that six PR will be taking a continuous call tomorrow evening of the State of Origin Game one, the Queensland versus New South Wales game the Blues versus the Marons. We'll be taking that very exciting Perth Bears are coming to Western Australia as you know, but six PR will

Good morning to you, Simon.

Telstra held their investor day this morning and they announced something called their Connected Future thirty strategy. The Telstra CEO, Vicky Brady explained that this five year plan means that Telstra will be looking at their business in three layers. Firstly, the customer layer, they want to consistently be among the top ten strongest brands in Australia. Then there's the network layer that's their mobile and fixed line network that they

Thank you very much. Owe, have a good afternoon. We'll chat again tomorrow. Cheers Bowie, Thank you, Ow and Clear from Shaw and Partners. You're listening to Perth today, so I'm Obama. We're here until one o'clock after midday today. Those television series that you didn't see all the way through will have a chat about that. And Craig Bloxam, the lead singer and songwriter guitarists from Spy Versus Spy, will join me as well. Thank you for listening. Cam

Yeah, absolutely, absolutely so. I think you know, from from the industry perspective, you know clearly you know we've had a challenging few years and I think you know, the good thing that we see for the for the for this year and the next four months is an opportunity to to really focus on on delivering more housing and taking control I guess of some of the issues that we've had in the past, so such as supply chain,

Tim ridden Jordan's in the studio now from the Housing Industry Association. They're the chief economists today. Tim, good morning, Thanks for having me. Yeah, no worries, so I'm glad you got God here. We're just talking about the leavers that federal government and state governments can pull when it comes to housing supply and housing stock.

Yeah.

Look from a per perspective, as Cameron's saying that there is a huge constraint here, which is just that labor force constraint. It's very different WA as to what it is in the rest of the country and.

Everywhere else.

It is about governments removing themselves from the market. And here there are two types of problems. Problems time has solved and problems time will solve. And what we're going to see over the course of the next five years is, at no stage is WA going to deliver enough homes to meet demand in any year. So that housing shortage, that housing constraint, house price growth, that's going to continue, and the volume of homes we build each year will

Well, if it's possible, Summer to side Cam and to utim, is it possible to describe in fifty words or less why WA building companies have been going under in such number.

Look, I think the answer is twenty nineteen, right, that was where the damage was done. Things just got too too slow, too low down in the cycle in twenty nineteen. With hindsight support at that point in the market would have kept more builders and more tradees in Western Australia and seen less exit to the East Coast.

And now we just can't bring them back quick enough.

Cam your thoughts, Yeah, Look, it's not just localized to West Australia either, think you know nationally, The fact is the BURM post COVID with the home build a stimulus just put a lot of pressure on builders and naturally we we work in the in the system of fixed price contracts. So as Tim said, when when materials started to to increase so significantly, plus the labor constraints hess the building went went way up and it just put

And again this is an anecdote, and my listeners are pretty savvy on whenever we talk about this, and they there's a couple of things that they often pick up on. It's do we have enough tradees, building trades, people in men and women in Perth to improve the delivery of new housing stock? Do you physically have enough people? And they also ask ask about apprentices and do we have

Labor is the biggest issue, and there's a couple of things going on and look some of it obviously, trade rates are at a very healthy rate. So what that means is that some trades work at a certain pace and productivity level. So we're certainly dealing with that. Apprentices Yes, we need more apprentices look and there's no silver bullet to any of this, by the way, So you know, obviously we're a mining state, so we have labor sucked

Yeah, and I guess the other other see that's the voice of cam Laid. You can hear listeners. He's the group, the general manager of some at Homes group and Tim Riddan's with us as well. And the next question in all of that, if people come in from into state and overseas, where where are they going to live? Well, they always ask.

Me that that look that people figure things out simon. So there's look, there is enough. Yeah, vacancy rates are low, but what we're seeing is that people are actually coming up with their own solutions to to find to f a place to live in the meantime. I mean, you can look at it that it's a bit of a catch twenty two. But you know what we're seeing is

Yeah, thanks Cam, Tim Reardan from the HIAS perspective. When you came into six PR today, Tim, you would have seen a huge building development down on the corner which is the old State Chemistry laboratories. You would have seen the new university being built over in Yagan Square. These big projects they suck up government projects. They suck up labor too, don't they.

Yeah, there's no doubt we're competing viercely with all of the other industri's mining industry, construction, engineering and trying to attract kids to our industry as apprentices. AD's very true and it is a little bit of a double edged sword for us. We need to build infrastructure in order to build new homes and that chicken and battle we're having with labor. But all of it comes back to four percent unemployment in Australia. So everyone's got a job.

As they accelerate up.

We will see more new detached home building and eventually apartments will start to stack up again. And we do have a capacity constraint. There very few apartment builders left in Western Australia and as you talk to the East Coast apartment builders, yes they don't want to come to Perth because there's no way to house their labor when they.

Do come here.

But we're now competing more homes in wa than we have for a decade and with time that will ease. We will see that supply come up and eventually house price growth in Perth will start to stabilize, I mean, not the double digit growth that you've had for the past few years.

Fourteen and a half minutes to midday, the phone lines are open. If you'd like to speak to Tim Riridan from the HIA or to Camlaid from Summer, please do. We'll take a break. We'll come back in just a moment one double three A to eudy two. If you have any questions, I will ask you next about existing stock that's on the market, because there's an under supply of that as well, and other any leavers you think the government can tweak to to free up some of

Yeah hello, yeah go mate.

To do with the strata, A lot of people don't like buying strata is because in apartments, because they have to pay austrata see one. And the maintenance of the strata companies have appalling record and the fees just increase

Phil, I'll get candor respond to that shouldn't happen.

But no, it shouldn't happen. And thanks for throwing to me on that one.

I think you'll find that on that front of plans changing after sale, you'll find the atual who have made some legilative changes over the course of the past few years that will significant constrain that. But yes, on those strata fees that there is a component, the cost component there. It is going to take some time in Perth before we see that off the plan apartment phase come through.

We've taxed foreign capital.

We allow individuals people to come in, but they're not allowed to bring the money with them in order to build new homes. Now, at some stage, I expect that state governments will realize that those policies are allowing people in but not the money to build new homes is counterproductive. They get less stamp duty revenue, less economic activity. Less homes built make the housing affordability crisis worse, and we will see a reversal of those trends just.

On just on existing versus new housing. Stock. Cam and Tim my mate went looked at a place on the weekend as a part of a strata complex. Ninety odd people went through. Probably sixty people put in an offer and it went for one hundred more than it was advertised for. And I think you and I might have

No, there's certainly there's a time and place for all of that. And the balance here in Western Australia isn't right. We are building ninety percent detached and by the end of the decade we expect that that's much more of a sixty thirty split. But yes, stam duty is a core problem because it is a very inefficient tax. A taxes people when they're relocating because they're retiring, or they need to move for their job, or for their health reasons,

Yeah, I'll come back to you, Cams, I reckon we'll go back to where we started, which is labor. That's a big one for summer. Isn't it getting enough labor or get to that can make that just a sec get a in.

Far away just kind of question. Is there a shortage of basic raw materials in Perth? No, it is not.

The supply chain has definitely improved. There's certainly some challenges through the home building grant, and obviously you know we're very remote, so we do rely on on importation from overseas for some materials, but ultimately all of the stuff is all made here, So the material supply chain is definitely stabilized and normalized here.

Yeah, all right, both of you are quite optimistic that we might be through some of the things we have been seeing insolvencies and issues, and both of you are quite optimistic, last half full that he's going to get better from here. Michelle bullet as a kindly, the last couple of times, last couple of means means I have to pay less of my mortgage.

Tim what's that going to do to the sector. Well, you've probably got a couple more of those to come to. The inflation went up because of global crisis has come back down along with the rest of the world as well. And so from everything we can see that CPI is coming back within target bounding gain to continue. So one two, maybe more rate cuts this year, perhaps a little bit more next year. Now, long term, we're not going to return to zero point seventy five percent cash rate just

And you also seem you also mentioned renovations that's up forty percent.

Did you say, yeah, renovation market in Perth is the strongest in the country. You're seeing renovation activity pick up as house prices grow, and here it's even more so. The reason for that is that when we hit this particular point in the cycle where land prices are rising, people make the decision rather than to relocate, they make

Other markets.

Long term we typically see about a third of the labour sitting on the renovation side and two thirds on new home building, and WA is just still Perth is just recalibrating there to get the right structure, so enormous six manager high end quality renovations is a very good side of the market for.

A builder to be involved in at the moment. Yep, Cam Tim's here to talk at the dime by Summit Developments dinner, so you'll get to your a bit more of him this evening. I guess a cold shardy thank you both for coming in. I really appreciate it, and you both of you are optimistic that we've probably seen the worst of what we have seen. You came your bullish.

Yeah, Simon, I think it's a it's a really good point. I think. I guess the message to to the listeners is that if you're thinking about doing something, do it now. There's a bit of a misconception that the prices will go down. Prices prices won't go down and certainly the cost of building won't go down. So I guess we feel that things have stabilized. There's a bit more normalization coming into the market. New land prices are starting to sort of stabilize.

For a bit.

So I think if you're if you're wondering what to do, my message would be to do it now and start making those plans.

Yeah, all right, thank you both for coming in. It's a good, good chat to have at this time. I feel you've you've filled me with optimism and buoyancy for the future. Thanks gents, thank you, thanks for coming in. That so Tim Riddan from the Housing Industry Association of Australia. He's the chief economist in cam Lane, cam Laide is the GM of the Summitt Homes Group. Hope you enjoyed that.

Until one. This is Perth Today with Simon Beaumont on Perth six. Yeah, thanks for listening in.

If you'd like to call the show you hand wonderuble three atty two. We have put the application form into Oliver Peterson and he's given as sup permission to speak to Andrew Williams in just a moment. You'll hear Willow with JB on the weekends talking movies, and you hear Andrew Williams on Fridays talking to all of about TV shows. Handmaid's Tale, Who's run for six series, run for six

I love you show you just wanted to say, what a stupid idea of this? Picking up boxing is teaching violence, encouraging violence, like, why not put towards safety of women, mate, They overturned this to allow vote for it. They just get some shell kids in order like that, or some protection for women. Just wrong area of.

All right, Liam, thank you mate, thanks for call.

So.

Liam doesn't like what's now being called b b KFC BKFC as in UFC Beart Knuckle Fighting Championship. My colleague Jamie Burnett spotted this a couple of weekends ago that this the legislation has been changed to allow that to be recognized as a combat sports. The Combat Sports Commission, which are based at the department formerly known as DSR but now d l G s i C, they will make a decision as to whether this event will go forward.

Yeah.

The black List I think maybe to about season six or seven from memory, it ended up probably about ten seasons. But it just got a bit silly. Too many plot twists, the key cast members leaving. They just got a bit silly.

It was James Spader in all the series, Mark, yeah, I think he was Yeah, okay, all right, Blacklist so you got to yeah, all right mate, Thank you, cheers, thanks for your thoughts. One, double three two. We spoke to Brett Christian on Friday. Brett today, if you're listening. Brett is the editor of The Post newspaper group started with the Subi Post. Of course, Brett told us last Friday that he had imported a printing press from Canada and he was being built and is being built and

It's a high speed prestol will print out paper in half a day, so that you know there is spare spare capacity there. It's we we find that people really like their their their local news and and they like it, I think more importantly they like to have a variety of voices. There's you know, there is there is a big centralized media operation in in Perth, in print especially. I mean there's there's the cells in the ABC and and and a smaller electronic our it's but sales print goes.

And we ran a yes no poll on this on Friday, would you like to see another major newspaper, major in mainstream meeting newspaper in Perth? And the yeses did win the day on Friday. And I can tell you that the finn Review people and Brett's people have been talking. So Brett has reached out to the Australian Financial Review and said we're here if you want to use the printing press. So that that has happened. The phone lines

I've thought I watched the first two seasons.

I think of Grim.

Grim yep, yep, and Lost as well, it got a little bit weird at.

The end and Lost. So Grim was Grim is in double m isn't it as in the Grim fairy tales?

Yes, that's right, Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, no waries. That's and lost as well, bowled out a lost.

Yeah, it bailed out a lost.

It's got a little bit too weird.

I think I've just watched the first four seasons.

Mate, Yeah, all right, all right mate, thank you, Damien. I think if Rob Letcher is listening, Rob for McCaulay here at six PR. He was big on Lost. I think one double three a eighty two. Rick says today, Simon, I tried to watch the Carlton Football Club television show until about series round six. I can't watch it anymore. It's just too hard. Thanks Rick. Yeah, that's gone south a bit, mate, hasn't it gone sideways south? Whatever you

Simple as that.

You don't to transition through you know, warm thoughts.

You do it through a concrete proposal, which is the expansion of renewables up to eighty two percent of the grid.

But the way that that occurs is it needs firm in capacity.

Firm in capacity we understand it needs. It needs the gas fire power station component before we can transition to renewables, which is something that the state and federal labor governments do want to do and are committed to. Yeah, there's there's I just noticed in on I heard Carl talking about this this morning about the wind farms in Japan that are lying idle. There's a massive one billion dollar wind farm with turbines that are just stalled in Queensland

You me, am, I No, I won't ask that question.

YEP.

Three orange whips now, I don't know it started. The Handmaid's Tale finishes up today, the finale season six. I watched the first two mate, Are you have you been on board with Handmaid's Tale throughout?

No?

No, I haven't. I made it through episode one and it was one of the most significantly harrowing experiences of my life that I really struggled to go, Oh, I think I want a second dose of that, which is not to say that that's not the that's the point, right, that's the point, And it probably says a lot more about me than it does the show. But I did

I'll come back to that Series one episode one.

Yeah, No, I watched series I watched all of series one, but after just episode one, I thought this might be on borrow time. I reckon because and for me, it's a lot of the I don't mind if the show is very grim and dark and all the things that The Herman's Tail does on purpose, and it was very very well made, but it didn't it didn't sort of balance it with a watchability that I particularly found in it.

All right, So we're asking our listeners TV series that you haven't made it all the way through. I watched the first two and I think I've told you this, Andrew. I fell asleep one during one episode in series one, and when I worked out, the hauled this poor girl out of a truck and hangar in the street.

And I.

Reacted badly to that, and I had nightmares about it, and you know, I was a grown up. It's bloody, brutal Handmaid's Tale, isn't it?

Yeah?

It is, it is.

It is brutal, and I think and a lot of shows have struggle, particularly dystopian shows like like The Handmaid's Tale, with balancing that with a sort of an appropriate dose of hope or sort of reason to keep going. So my experience with this, and I won't steal anyone else's too many ideas from other people, but that the show that represented that most of all for me was The

Too, exactly the same episode. You and I are the same bloke. Yeah, the barbed wire wrapped around the baseball bat. Yeah, and the world was closing in and I couldn't see any ray of sunshine or hope. It made me despondent, Andrew.

Yeah, and I think there was a point, and I think it's only got worse as the show went along, But there was a point where I realized that all of the almost all of the original characters that I had watched were now dead.

Yeah yeah, yeah, and.

Not all of them, but almost all of them. And I kind of started going, well, what's the point of any of this, Like, if it's not an incredibly watchable show, which it certainly wasn't by that point, I just kind of went, I just don't know if I can have this level of misery in my life on a regular basis.

Yeah, Brendan, Brendan agrees to you and I the Blacklist and Walking Dead season nine. I didn't get to season nine. I got the four or five I think about. Yeah, silly, but there you go. Thanks Brendan, appreciate it. Now we've got an off topic question from Jeff and Bayswater. Who is who is the poster child? Off the topic questions today? Jeff oh Hi Simon. Yeah, I was just a little bit confused day.

But I'd like to know.

I like to know, Andrew, I've actually got.

Someone sent it to me Scarface two.

Is that actually going to be a movie or is that going to be a series?

Or is it true?

I have not heard anything about this, I as there are there is quite a lot of fake trailers on the internet. I don't know if anyone has sent you anything along those, but I can't see anything from any reputable source that indicates that there is a Scarface two in the works. There is a Scarface remake that was going to be made at some stage, but that has been that's been in development for a long time. It

Just the room you heard at the Basewater Hotel, I suspect, Jeff, yeah, under the influence, Yeah very much, all right, mate, thank you, one, double three, A two. That TV series, he didn't make it all the way through. Andrew and I have been the same on Handmaid's Tail, and also on The Walking Dead, which just got really really tough to watch. I'm what, I am struggling to go back to a bit and I do like I do like the books. Is Reacher I keep sort of oh yeah, bailing out to get

Yeah, that's interesting because that's only at season three. That's not a great That's not a great sign, is it. I've got one from sort of the right over the other side of the fence. I mean, all the shows we've talked about have been really grim, violent kind of shows.

You do you like that, John, don't you? Ordinarily?

Yeah, Look, as everyone knows, I love a show tune and I love a musical, and I was I was, I was right into it for the first couple of seasons, and then there was Yeah. I remember the moment quite vividly, but I just went, nah, I'm done, I'm out, I'm moving, I'm moving on to something else. I'm spending my time on a show that respects it.

Yeah.

Nah, I got to two episodes to go in Squid Game.

Oh yeah, yeah, season one?

Yeah right, and yeah, now I need to go and do some voluntary work somewhere or make better.

Get a positive contribution to society. Instead, I've got one more. And again I don't mean to steal one for other people, but the House of Cards, the American version, really really ran off the rails hard to particularly, sort of like season four or five, and just completely lost its way, and then obviously beyond that things only got worse somehow from there. So yeah, So that one was one where

Yeah, yeah, that's I hadn't thought of that will. And when we were discussing this this morning with my hard working team, game, inevitably the topic of Game of Thrones came up, and that that very odd last season where we got to you can actually physically see and feel when the book stopped, and then there were four more episodes where people go, what do we do now?

Yep? This is my this is my catchphrase around television, which is here, we always get into trouble when we run out of book, and this is the concern that I have around Shogun when that comes back to season two, because there's no more book. I've run out of a book. It's happened to a lot of other shows, and I think you can you're absolutely right. With Game of Thrones. There was just it's like different people started making the show as soon as they ran out of book, and

Yeah, it was all very weird. It was so so interconnected and so clever, and then it's just yeah, it's it's yeah, it was the Mate compiled by Chickens the last.

Four Yes, I can give you one show that I reckon almost everyone will have had this at some stage. I suspect there is a show that I think almost everyone has given up on at some point, and at that time will differ depending on the person. Some people may be sticking with it, but I reckon almost everyone would have a point at which they gave up on The Simpsons because it's been you know, it's thirty five seasons.

Yeah, Yeah, that's that's a really good one. And it's nice to know. It's nice to know that, you know, maybe what's that Atlantis still exists the yetty It's nice to know they're still out there, maybe the filer scene, and there's still episodes as the Symptoms out there that we haven't seen. If I can, yeah, draw a very long bow in the mountains somewhere yet there's just a lot of it. Yeah, there is, Hey, mate, brilliant, really nice.

Absolutely great chat to you.

Thanks having see mate Andrew Williams who back in the day, back in the day used to be a producer on this show. Andrew Williams fine fine producery was as well. But now he's he's found his mark now doing what he does our yes, no question today? Is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? What he's seeing the YESTERDA Twenty four of the nos are thirteen.

I farmnandre a? My line Blue Bloods with Tom Seller probably watched the first three series and then it's started repening itself. It's sort of a bit repetitious.

That's Thanks, Garrett. What era is that? Mate? When was that shown.

In the eighties?

Yeah?

Okay, all right ninety? Yeah, thanks Gary, choose mate twenty eight minutes to one o'clock on the show. Next, Craig Bloxham, who is the singer, songwriter, lead vocalist, league guitarist in Spy Versus Spy. Stay listening, Carl. The k Issus is his handmade's tail. Heyes, it dropped off, but this last series, number six redeemed itself and he's really good. Exclamation mark. Thank you, Carl. Thanks for you, correspondence. Let's go to our new droom here at six PR. John Nichols, good afternoon.

Thank you.

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Thank you very much, John, appreciate that. And we'll look at Nichols Niche tomorrow. John mightn't being a Wednesday, Yes we will, we will. We are looking forward to it me too. Yeah, thank you John, John Nichols. We're lucky to have him our news reader here through the afternoon. You hear John's work on Perth Live with Oliver. Do you remember this song, folks? Do you remember it as straight and classic big Sound? Formed in nineteen eighty one,

Hey, God, how does everybody over in wa going well?

Mate? Going absolutely beautiful, beautifully. Can't wait to see you guys over here in early June. I'll let people know how they can come and see you. Big sound for three piece, wasn't it, mate? When you look back and good? I say this to all our gun guests, good songs, hold up, Oh, thank you.

Look, thank you very much. We were in the right place at the right time, I think. But there is something special about a three piece band in the sunset. You've got nowhere to hide, so you've really got to come up with the goods. And we were always very socially minded, So we just wrote songs about what we saw around us and social issues and the politics of the time. And yeah, yeah, spies were a great part of my life. I feel grateful to have been part of it.

You did have a cracked any or that that was, you know, political, political staff, homelessness, credit cards, all, all of that was in the mix on Harry's Reasons and on AO modified TV version, which are two of my favorite albums. Here. You had to go there stuff, didn't you.

We did because we felt strongly that the world was kind of going topsy turvy. Like one of the lines from Credit Cards is half a world with credit cards and the other half the left to starve. And sadly, I think it's still kind of relevant today, which is why we've done the ass Bys. We've just taken all the songs from a long time ago and reimagined them with a bit of a mongrel rock rock sound.

Hey, Craig, I saw your live a lot of times. You were always sort of two or three on the bill, and that's sort of where you've seen the fit wasn't it was just you just smash it out for an hour. It seemed that you had all that live energy that was a big part of Spies back then, wasn't it.

Well, well, it really was. We're full of, full of, full of the power and the passion to quote the oils. But it's going to be the same thing this weekend. I haven't changed that much apart from getting older, and I've got two great musicians with me. We've got Chris Lowe on drums and he pounds the crap out of

We just played I'll get Max to play Don't Tear It Down from the Asspy, so the reggae version of the of the epic Don't Tear It Down. Have a listen, here we go. That's cool mate, that works as a still nice and loud maybe thank you.

We had a lot of fun recording and it's just like the Spies. It's just completely different.

Yeah, yeah it is. Yeah, it's the same, but it's different. How's it going down?

Live?

Mate?

And the pipe sound good? The voice is holding up.

Thank you, the voice is holding up. It's a miracle, but but it is. We're going down really well. A lot of people have been very, very skeptical because a lot of people hear the word reggae and they go, I don't really.

Like that kind of music.

But all of the fans of the music who come and see the band, they always come up afterwards and say, look, I wasn't sure what to expect, but you guys are absolutely pumping because I've got a couple of younger guys with me, so they can actually play a lot better than I can. So I'm relying on them. The Spies. We just get up there like the old Spies did, and we just pound the hell out of everything and

What are you playing? What is when are you playing? On that track?

I play the bass and I sing and I jump around like an idiot.

Yeah, the bass, They make the Steve Kilby once told me, Craig, he says, I like the bass because you make the whole building shake, you make dust come out of the roof.

That's right, good on you, Steve Kilby. He's written some great Australian songs.

Yeah, he has of you, mate. Our spires are playing the Amplifier on May the thirtieth, the River Hotel, Mate River on May the thirty first, and the Indian Ocean Hotel on June the first, which is absolutely perfect down there with the Ocean Hotel where the carpet sticks to your shoes. Craig, you'll like that, Hey, may just done. Just going back to some of the and this is I was talking to my gang about this this morning.

Well, yeah, it was me actually I wrote about me. I've lost my license three times. Look, let's not go into the silly things that we've done, but everyone does silly things and that was just kind of my song. We're writing about. Please don't be like me, don't be silly. Use your head?

How many times have you? Well that, well, that that is a revelation. I thought you were going to say, no, he's just a hybrid makeup of all my loser mates. But it was auto biographical.

Three times mate, I've lost my license three times. So yeah, but we are really looking forward to playing at the Indian Nation and well all of the gigs. We're going to play the Golden Mile as well, which we wrote about Calgooley and we're just going to have a great time. The band's really firing and everyone can look forward to a great night.

Really good to talk to you, mate, And thanks to Bob Gordon to organized the chat and the good fellow Bob the former editor's Great Express Magazine Here in perfect massive out of the w music scene. Nice to chat to you, Craig. Go Well, it's the May the thirtieth, the Amplify the River Hotel in mart River, May thirty first, and down at the Union Hotel on during the first Cheers mate, good to talk to you.

Thank you very very much. It's this weekend. See you there everybody.

Yeah, cheers mate, Thank you. Craig Bloxham Ripper. They were good band, Spies and as I say, they sort of fitted in a second or third on the bill, didn't they. And they were a countdown band nineteen eighty one. They came out, they played some big gigs, they played some little gigs. Here's another sample of so we played Don't Tear It Down the Reggae the R Spires version, and here's here's credit cards big bass sound there from Craig Bloxham.

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Our caller of the day today win a couple of tickets to go and see Western Falls playing the British and Irish Lions when they're here later next month. So that's our call of the day prize. We'll give that away in just a moment. It's nine and a half minutes to one o'clock. Is the sideline behavior of parents in junior sports still an issue? What are you seeing rather than what you're reading or hearing? What are you seeing? And the yes is are twenty seven? The nose a sixteen?

This afternoon, Bowie, we will be talking to a Perth principle who has just published a letter to parents reminding them to parents. Yeah, okay, so there's just recently been a international conference for boys' schools where it's being described as a global epidemic that basically parents have forgotten how to parents and the children are the ones who rule the roost at home.

Mom and dad don't like to.

Say no to their sons in this example anymore, and that it is becoming increasingly difficult for teachers to be able to set boundaries and put rules in place. Now, Bowie, we've been hearing that on the talkback lines anecdotally for quite some time. But if we're now getting our educators having to get to the point where they are the ones who have to write to the parents to remind them that they need to do their job, but hold up there into the bargain, is it it just a

Know, oh can you help Holly out here?

You know, he doesn't really want to turn up today. Oh why because Simon spoke to him Paula yesterday. You know, that's the sort of breed of children we're bringing up these days.

A missive parenting. I was just a pet on my screen, Oliver. I wonder if their educator wrote to me. I don't know if I've forgotten had a parent, because I'm not sure I evern knew how to do it in the first time, just kind of made it up. Are you doing good day to day? Thank you?

So? Are you fair?

And they say he's not supposed to be mates with your kids?

Yeah, I know.

Look, I think the difficulty of obviously telling your child no can it at first? You know, when you've got to raise your voice at them or you've got to get them into trouble.

You might not feel good about it, but hey, you're doing it for their own good. You do it for their own benefit. Yeah, and it's about respect for others to absolutely what else do you have for us? All of us? So thanks for lending us Andrew Williams for a five minutes. He's good, isn't he? He's very good.

Paul, some h is coming in the Consumer Protector, So I'm looking forward to have a chat to Paul and Mark guyer MG on the show today Origin Obviously tomorrow night, I've in sun Corpse Stadium, will be calling the match live here on six PR.

Are you picking New Southwest? Yeah, Heart or Head?

I think Head because Heart, actually that sounds odd. Heart wants to go for Queensland because they're in Brisbane and I was just there for Magic Ground and I kind of got caught up in the buzz of just how Queensland love rugby league so much. So I'd love to see Queensland and at Suncorp Stadium. On paper though, I think your South As could give them an absolute hiding handsing.

Yeah, so you never know. That's a really bad origin, right queens.

They always turn up.

Yeah, that was true. Now the sideline behavior of parents in junior sport is it's still an issue. You have the final say on this, Oliver.

But yes, is it twenty eight and the Noser sixteight.

You're worried about it or mate? Yes at twenty eight and the Nosa sixteen. Thank you, Oliver. I'll be listening to I'll be listening this afternoon between one and five. It's four minutes to one. Back in a moment, Cole says, see at the any Notion Hotel Bowie love the Spies, Me too, Cole, thank you, mate. Call of the day today's Luise and her ADHD diagnosis. Lou thanks for ringing two tickets see the British Irish Lions versus the Western