Perth Today with Simon Beaumont Podcast - Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Yes, good morning. I hope you're going well. Simon boumole with you through until one o'clock today. Hey, you going hope you're having a good one thus far. Thank you to Milsey and Carl. Looking forward to the Sound of Music Extravaganza tonight in Northbridge. Should be fun. See you're there if you are one of the many that are going along. Thanks for listening today. I'd love to hear from me one double three eight eighty two the text messages zero four eight seven triple nine eight eighty two.

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

Do you shop at Audi? Yes? Do you shop it out? Yes?

Or no?

Do you shop it auty for everything? Choice have worked out that the that their basket of groceries is most expensive at IgA and Aludi is the cheapest. Aldi is the cheapest. Do you do you shop at Audi? And do you shop in the middle aisle or that have all that weird stuff? And what do you buy from Audi? Do you shop it out? Yes or no? There's plenty of them around. They're in most big shopping centers, particularly in the northern, eastern and southern suburbs, not so many

I do.

I'd shop there every week, Simon, and I love it and I save a lot of money, my meet and everything. I most couple of things that they don't tell have, So I have to go to Coles, which is leaf to be and that's getting shorter and shorter. Can't buy it.

Anymore.

All right, so you're just about everything at Aldi? Yes, all right, well I'll put you down on the yes the very much the yes column. Janice, thank you very much for calling. Cheers. Do you shop at Aldi? The yeses are fourteen the nose A three one, double three, eight eighty two is is the phone number if you want to give us a call today, or we can semss zero four at seven triple ninety two A eighty two. We'll speak to Choice a little bit later on Choices. Choice.

Yeah, good mate. I do eighty five percent of my grow throes at Aldi. Yeah, yeah, they're great. There's nothing nothing wrong with the products they have. It's only like the fifteen percent is you know, a certain load Gi bread rolls and I can only get a Woolworth or particular musically bar. But I yeah, eighty five percent at Aldi, speaking of which I'm driving past one now.

So so you're I'm just looking at your phone. You're You're North, aren't you? Yeah, Gender League, Yeah, all right, so there's plenty around you there.

Hey, well, yep, there's one there at Butler, and I don't know Clark's and Yan Chep I think got one.

Yeah right, okay, all right, Simon Man, thanks for phoning in. So seventy five percent of his shopping has done at Aldi. We can have some fun with that today. And we have compiled a list of some of the thing items you can buy from the middle trays. That's auty good, different right, We'll come back in just a moment. Thanks for listening in, And I do want to touch on

Ah, Hi.

Are you a no? Are you a no? To Aldi?

No?

I shop there.

But my issue with Aldi is every time you go there and you ask them a question, they're too busy to answer and they walk off, even the manager because they're too busy cleaning the store. And then when you go to the register, they have one register and then they go well the register, so they open one their register and then so there's a couple of people have gone out of that line that register. Then they close

Yeah you don't, Yeah you don't. Yeah right, Phil, I've got you. You don't go there for the service, that's for sure. Although I know some young people who work at Aldi and they're lovely, but they are under the pump, So Phil doesn't like I'll put you down on the no column, mate, Thank you. I Shopkarina. Hello Karna, it's nice name, Karina. I've always liked that. I shop at Aldi, but they don't have everything I need, so I still have to go to Woolworths. Janine says, I don't shop

We basically have two countries that have been.

Fighting so long and so hard that they don't.

Know what the fuck they're doing.

Do you understand that? You know, I often can't understand what he's saying. But that was pretty straightforward, wasn't I He's in charge of the whole world, that bloke. He's got a big red button twenty to quote Billy Connolly twenty four minutes past nine. Mike, you are right. It is the seventy fifth anniversary of the Korean War. Thank you, mate, But it was in nineteen fifty. That's where we got our fifties and our seventy fives mixed up. Thanks mate.

I'm good? Thank you?

How much money you owed?

It's about six hundred, between six and seven hundred dollars.

Six and seven hundred. Yeah, how did you rack that up? Did you just payovers on game night or something? Did you?

So what we did was it was only about game three or four into a new season, and so what we would do as a team is we would pay in advance because you know these days, no one's got cash on them, so we would pay one hundred dollars each at the beginning of the season. So you know, we've got eight in our team, so that was you know, so that's eight hundred dollars. And like I said, we were three or four games into the new season, so you know we're still owed between six and seven hundred dollars.

Sorry Lisa, Sorry intrupt. You didn't keep them yourself. You actually paid it to Bounces.

Did you, Yes, yes, that's correct. Yeah, okay, And so they ticked it off against our name, and two of our players actually paid on the Tuesday, the night before we got the email to say it was closing.

Right, So have you spoken to Bounces or what was Bounces? It's closed now, isn't it.

It's all all done and closed.

Yeah, it's all done and dusted. So that we on April the twenty third, and we got the email to say that Bounces was closing. And so that's exactly the same day one of our other one of our other teammates sent an email which we got no reply from. Again, on the twenty sixth of May, we sent a second email and that hasn't been replied to either, and it was the exact same email that they sent to us advising that they were closing.

Same email address. Yeah, well so so not able to make contact with them.

No, No, that's.

Disappointing, isn't it for a small family business?

Yeah, and it would you know, you can, I guess you could understand a little bit if they were had gone bankrupt or you know whatever, they were short of fun. But I think it was their decision to close because the rents were going high.

Yeah, that's right, and wanting to use the facility for something else. Hey, Lisa, is there any any other teams in a similar situation? Do you know?

Well? I suspect that there would be, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. No, I don't really know.

Yeah, all right, but we'll stay in touch, Hay And yeah, it's a fair bit of do six seven hundred dollars. No, doubt about that when you're when you're trying to do the right thing in good faith. Yes, yeah, thanks Lisa. I appreciate that, so so yeah, thank you. Good luck, Lisa Slocum. So are there teams out of pocket for when bouncer are closed down? It's not a massive amount of money, but it is, isn't it? One hundred bucks? Poo person one double three eight eighty two? Do you

Hello, definitely definitely yes. And they're so ploite and they's funny. And one even when the escalators weren't working, carried my ear fry that I just bought all the way down to my car.

Did they really? That's very nice? That would have caused chaos in the shop, I reckon, given how how lean they run the start Sally, I'll put.

You down and they're pretty good.

Yeah, I'll put you down. The yes column, thank you one double three heady two. Peta is just wondering how you kissed your mother in law to establish if it's cold or not. It's a very good question, Pete. I'm going to back out of this. I'm going to reverse my way out of this. Helen says, great show. Thank you, Thank you, Helen. Never shop it, Oudie, takes too long to find what you want? Like you shop around and often get fresh food at Spudshed especially snaggers thumbs up

Starting to clear up on the majors now. The Mitchell Freeway of flying out Okay Kanana and Northbounds still busy around Farrington Road to Cramford have underspeed Row Highway eastbound at Wileary Drive to Nicholson Road and Leech Highway northbound at Manning Road in Wilson. Likewise, Row Highway northbound at Great East and the Highway bypass in Hazelmere, the tunnel still underspeed westbound.

I'm seb Claire, Comperth Traffic Leader six pr. Actually the silver is the CEO of choice and joins us now. Gooday, Ashley, thanks for your time.

Good morning Bowie.

We are running a poll this morning, Ashley. Do you shop at Aldi? The yes is a fifty two, the nose are twenty two. People go there in great number and your survey suggests your barsket of goods is the cheapest.

It does.

Yeah, and this is year two of doing these surveys. So we saw that consistently last year too, that Aldi was overall the best place to shop in terms of price. The gaps narrowed a bit this year, though.

Okay, to who's in Who's in two? I think I think i Ga is in four, isn't it Who's in two? And three? Coals and woolies.

Yeah, so it's coals and Woolies. That's right.

I mean overall nationally, Coals is in the second spot, with.

Woolworth in thirds, and was the choice survey show different product range. People go to the four big stores for different products.

Right, Yeah, that's right. So I mean one of the things we've changed this year is the basket of goods that we're shopping for. You know, shoppers taught us they wanted more fresh produce and also a chance for us to test a greater range of products. So we've kind of split the basket in half, and one half will test every quarter the same thing, and then the other

Yeah, hey, actually what so what were some of those headlines? I think I read that maybe coals are good for apples, Woolies good for chicken breast, Is that right?

That's right.

So it's interesting because all these cheapest overall, but not for everything. And yet you are right, Wilworth was cheaper for chicken breasts and pumpkin holes for apples, and actually IgA was the best for carrots and garlic.

Yeah, all right, anything else we need to know Actually that our text machine is melting down here on this one. Do you shop at how do the yeses are coming in big time? Any other headlines from the survey.

Yeah, look, I think the thing it reinforces so people who can't get to an ldie and that's still a lot of people in Australia who don't have easy access to an aldie or sometimes even a good viable second alternative. You know, the things we kind of recommend around how do you get the best of value in a shop? For those folks would be trying to turn autopilot off. So don't just even if you want to get in and out as quickly as possible, slow down, look at

In our view.

The signature lines actually, thank you. I know you're busy today. Appreciate your time talking to us at six PR no worries, thank you, Thank you, Actuley the Silver the CEO choice. So I'd love to hear from you today. I'm a grumpy JB says, I'm a yes for Audi. I'm a pensioner and I shop at AUTI every penny counts. By the way, Woolli's at carousel, Cannington's close. It's an express lane a year ago. You don't go through the auto cashier. They don't have one or two people. Cash is available

Yes?

The fifty ones and the nose of twenty eight and a lot of people making the comment you go to Aldi to buy some milk and you end up with a caravan cover or something else. David and como, Audi is the most expensive store there is. You go for milk, bread and eggs and you come out with a bunch of tools and gadgets and a caravan cover. But I didn't know I need it. Thanks, Dave John says, not really.

How are your good?

May?

Thank you?

Good good? I definitely shop it out, but all of them. I'm a grocery tragic. Pounce around everywhere and go to a lot of specialty shops. But now the cleaning and their dairy, like their cheeses and things like that are excellent, done for money. Everything else is a bit hidden this but just the cleaning products.

Yeah right, good, thank you. Joe phone has a bit of literally there mate, but thank you, Jenny says, I love the show. Thank you, Jenny. That's nice. I shop it out in the chocolate and biscuits there are deluxe good word Jenny. Yes, I shop at Aldi Fresh the fresh produce. Spudshed kills them all, thanks Brian. Yes, Spudshed is not canvas by choice. We're lucky to have spudsheds. I reckon Aldi. W A does sell meat from w A Growers is one of our listeners. What do the

People are judgmental light days the people believe.

Are stereo typing today.

Yeah, well I'd hate to think what they think. Maybe you know what I don't really key anyway?

Mine is.

I don't stop an audio. Obviously we don't have one in Colligue Simon.

But I just.

We've got chairs in Polly.

Simon.

There is that us serious. He wasn't cooperating as pretty usual but I just said to share, and there's actually a song about Audi and it's quite hilarious. You're saying about you walking with you know, the bread and milk and to come out with tools and a caravan cover. Well that's basically what this song is about.

Yeah, yeah, we'll try.

Quite funny.

Yeah, we'll try and find it. Dimon, cheers, mate, have a good day down there. Troy from Collie not stay in his lane, not ringing during sport. Carl Anglam reckons farmer jacks is the best. Yeah, they're pretty good, don't they, Carl? There are hybrid I g a kind of a setup. There's some ripper farmer jacks around the place. A good one. And well up, isn't there Carl carlos one double three eighty two. What shops do you not have in the western suburbs? The Mark.

There? You go good considering they probably get contractors and tradersman and do all who work. I don't reckon there's too many Bunning stores over there.

You know what?

You know what?

Mark? There is one in Claremont and that's it, and that's got a two story double. I think yeah, I think you're right. We talked about that yeah, there's only one bunning Is in the Western suburbs. The double story one's got the little l escalator thing goes up in the middle. Thank you get a Ian?

Yeah, this is aara I would think, you know, it's time for that organization to have one in the Western suburbs.

Is certainly a market for it.

So surprised is only one that carrying up?

So let one in the Western suburbs.

Let me ask you this Ian. He's carrying up the Western suburbs.

I don't see there's the Western Suburbs. Not by definition bringing up likely never.

Was, never was, never was, never will be. Thanks mate, cheers. No Gazara, I'll put that on the list. There we go. No Audi, no o k here, no big w They do have a Bunnings. No reject shops in the Western suburbs. Good a Simon, Yeah, good o Simon.

Not exactly a shot, but they've got nothing in the backyard. There's a bunch of nmbies over there.

They don't. Yeah, that's it's just a bit of casual stereotyping. They shall we folks. There's no spudshed. There are no spudshs in the Western suburbs. There are no Dan Murphy's in the Western subs. All about shops that we all love. There's no Drummonds Golf in the Western suburbs. There's no Department of Transport Licensing center in the Western suburbs is West Perth or Western suburb. There's no AFL stores, and

Is there?

There's a target in SUBI isn't there no kmart? As well? Lots of people not too happy with the Bunnings in Clermont either. I don't mind it. I don't mind the Bunnings in claim On anyway, of course, there is an off off market tobacco shops in the western suburbs. I was in one yesterday. It's his agent. Thank you? This one here? Do you shop at Aldi? This is Ben and Beal Divers. I'm a yes to Aldie. It's good. It's different. Their own brand tim Tams are over half

Could I Rob Simon there are you? Yeah?

Good? Thanks? So this is this is Vince's Street West, which is a little sort of slip road that runs up up the hill near Lake Manga. What happened.

Basically a part mer current on the street. Obviously, because I'll reside here and once in a blue moon you might see a ranger. But on this one, on particular day, I still got a ticket, and so I've made inquiries to the council about having it removed and they basically there's only three ways which you can get a ticket with drawn, and that's like you've got a Breaken card down, your car's got to be towed or a theft and

Yeah, breakdown, emergency, can needs to be towed or whatever. So there are three reasons. So right, rob, even though you've written to them and presented to them, they still they're still saying even at your house being pinged outside your your house, they're saying too bad.

Pretty much exactly right, yep, And we pay a couple of that thousand dollars a.

Year rates for them.

But one of the biggest thing is is that they've got these signs, but they're never enforced. You never see a ranger here that there has been cars parked in the street for days and no tickets. Nothing is just on this one particularly day a guide to the outside to come down the street and ping people. So what's the point of having signs and having that sort of penalty system if.

Not going to force it?

Yeah, because that stops you from parking outside your own house or sometimes from in your a looted car park at the house. Right.

Unfortunately, in our complex you can't park on the actual complex itself. There's no visitors car park. You have to park within the within your garage. But as you know, garages are pretty small back when this is built, and cars a lot bigger. So my farm, you it doesn't fit at all and I can't turn. So unfortunately, what I have to do is I'm going to park on

Yeah, all right, Well we'll follow up with a Cambridge because certainly it's coming through loud and clear from other people that we've heard from. The Cambridge just will not back down on parking infringes whatsoever. Other councils do. We're here that South Perth a pretty reasonable vincent. Are reasonable, but your crew and this has been pinging for parking outside your house, Rob. We'll follow it up. We'll see if we can get mister mac on the mayor to

Lindsey, Hi, thank you for the opportunity to speak. I quickly our story. My wife and I parked on my Court Street. She had an appartment with a cancer specialist at Saint John of God's. There we used the easy park app system to purchase the ticket. That fore you was duly deducted for one hour's parking from her account. When we came back, there was an eighty dollar fine on the car. And what had happened is that had defaulted to the registration of the other car. We have

Well that's what you're doing. That means you fail. So that's Cambridge too, isn't it, Lenz Yes.

City of Cambridge, sorry, Town of Cambridge. But get this were our appeal failed because of the reasons that Rob gave. It didn't meet those three criterias they're given so I actually rang the department to discuss my appeal and they said, oh, yeah, it's very common, it happens all the time.

But we're not we're not going to rescind it, and.

We're going to go through the collection process, final notices or whatever, and culminated then taking us to court. So I said to them, Okay, we'll look forward to you getting us before the magistrate and we'll be able to tell the magistrate the sixty three year old cancer patient who was confused or not confused, but she put the wrong registration number down and you're going to find her

It, and they said, no, we're not going to do that.

Yeah, that's that's the thing. So that's five of you now, Lindsay, and I'm sorry to hear that your your wife is crooked. That's five people I know who have are in this situation with the city. Came so we'll try and get Gary mack on pretty reasonable bloke gas. We'll try and get him on because it's coming through loud and clear. Cambridge just simply not backing down at all. And if you've paid for your parking and you've used the wrong registration on easy Park, surely surely the fine should be

Now, gooday, Matt good Simon, go through with you.

You're in Canberra today. And West Australians were involved in this theater of war.

Absolutely Western Australians were involved. We had over sixteen hundred Western Australians in fact served in the Korean conflict as part of the eighteen thousand Australians that participated. Australia was the second country to have all three forces Navy, Army, Air Force involved in supporting the South Koreans when they

And mad I'm aware of the memorial in Kings Park, which I think was only opened a couple of years ago.

Retally, yeah, we'll speak.

We'll speak to Peter Heeny about that in just a moment. But what's your understanding of what the next month will hold in terms of remembering.

Well, as with our commemorative activity, it's important when we say the words are the end of the ode, lest we forget that that is not hollow, that Australians remember all of those that have worn our uniform on our behalf and served in conflict and through a range of

Do you And I'll ask Peter Heeny in this in just a moment, because he's the State Secretary here, Matt. It is a national national remembrances today and through the month and will let go into the states, into the jurisdictions.

So yes, we've had the National service this morning here in Canberra, and I know that in across all states where they're having their own commemorations.

Of course, not.

Every Carean veteran can make it to Canberra. We had great representation here. In fact, I can tell you one of the people who participated in the commemorative ceremony here in Canberra was a Western Australian from Esperance who decided he wanted to drive himself to Canberra to participate. We offered to wirem over he drove, which shows you the commitment of these guys. And we're talking about guys that

Mat as a senior member of the Albanesi government, I'll ask you this if I may. We had a point where we are now talking about the US air strikes on Teyran. Does the Albanesi government out and your government's support those strikes?

Well, we've said certainly that we are supported, you know, supported taking out that nuclear capability of Iran that was critically important. We've acknowledged that. Many of my colleagues have been acknowledging that over the last few days. But what's important also now is that the ceasefire between Iran and Israel sticks somewhere and starting to see that now, which is really important to de escalate those tensions in the region.

Matt, How does the mechanics of it work, not strictly your remit being their Veterans Affairs Minister, but being a senior member of the government, how our briefings passed to say, for example, mister, our needum is one.

Well, as you would imagine, I don't really go into how we operationalize the conduct of our defense activities and how we engage diplomatically, especially amongst our five used partners, which includes the United States, was incredibly important ally, and relationship that we hold with them and others when it comes to intelligence and operations I'm not going to go into the detail of that, but obviously that relationship that we hold with the United States is incredibly important, particularly

We are chatting to you first and foremost with regards to remembering the Korean War starting today, Matt, and we appreciate your time and we will speak to Peter Heeney from Western Australia who's the secretary of the movement here in Wa. Thanks your time, minister, Thanks boy, cheers mate, Matt Keo the Veterans Affairs Minister. And yes, it's so that it's seventy five years nineteen fifty when it kicked off. The numbers are one, six hundred and seventy three people

Yes, yes, Simon, yeah, he had a bit of an experience for there a little while ago. Now, yes, I went there an appointment obtson Saint John of God's Hospital and there was as per usual, it was not very mean parking spot. So I've got to park. But the person behind me was was was over, was over over the line. So I put it in the best I could and I probably maximum we would have been over probably about four or six inches over the over the white line, and there's nothing I could do about it

Yeah, your number eight peet from from it, just from our listeners, number eight who's had dramas getting a parking fine either you know, mitigator, change withdrawn whatever from Cambridge. So we will try and we'll try and speak to the mayor. I'm sorry to hear that. Mate. Three hundred bucks.

Yeah, it's yeah, it hits you, hits you hit pocket.

Thanks Peter. So it's only it's not a big shire. It's one of the It was originally part of the City of Perth. Wasn't that Cambridge Remember when they broke up into four Vincent Cambridge, City of Perth and and the other council And they they're only a small council. They are a town, which you know, which suggests that they're a small council. But they go hard on the parking fines. I wonder if they're set up just not set up to withdraw them. Other councilors do do it.

Yeah, Simon, how are you mate?

You haven't got no, no, two dollars, two dollars, you know.

I don't they haven't. I don't think they've got there's a Regix shop in the flory at four American, Jim.

Yeah, but I think they.

Haven't got two dollar shops you know where you can buy anything for two dollars.

Yeah, you're probably right, mate, You're absolutely right, Thank you, Jim. No Indian spice store by you buy those ducks, those ducks that hang up the red ducks can buy them. Gain you. There's no China. There's no Chinatown in the Western suburbs. You've got a Rebel sports. Yes, you have got an office works, SUBI office works and SUBI yep. I'm talking to Sean who lives in the Western suburbs and is very funny. The Indian spice rug shops. You

Good morning boy, I'm cold, Thank you.

I'm up at King's.

Park all right, So, okay, you have a service there today, do you?

Yeah, we have a service to mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the Australian service and style of the war in Korea. And it's about a.

Just lost you there, Pete, say again, we lost your phone.

Yeah, there's about one hundred people here at the moment to mark the anniversary, the seventy fifth anniversary of the commencement.

Of the Korean War.

At the memorial itself, Pete.

Yes, at the memorial.

We're about to start the service in about five minutes.

Bowie.

Yeah, all right mate, Well that's a good turnout. We were talking to Matt Keo, the Minister for Vets Affair, and he was saying, you know, one bloke drove from France to Canberra, Pete, that's to be part of it today. And they are. They're older blokes now, aren't They're in their nineties.

As Unctimately, Simon, a lot of our boys, Korean boys, are passing away and it's the end of an era actually, because as the Vietnam veterans are the next ones to go.

I was going to ask you that you're a man of Vietnam and of course you know had a lot to do with legacy over the years, so a legacy represented there today, Peter.

Yes, legacy are represented not only by me, but the President Legate Steve Style is here as well as as well as all the service heads, the Brigadier commodorees. They're all here today to mark the seventy fifth anniversary.

Simon and Peter.

The crowd that's gathered one hundred or so, some of those would be veterans themselves, would I imagine there be family and loved ones in attendance too.

Yes, there's a lot of family and loved ones. As we've mentioned earlier that the Korean veterans are getting older and unforunately passing away and the families love coming along up here to the Korean War Memorial and looking at the names of the nineteen hundred and eighteen West Australians that served in Korea. And of course we've got an honor roll up here too, which I think I've mentioned

Yeah, well, Peter, I'm going to let you go because I know you're due to do your thing in a couple of minutes. Time for people who would like to pay their respects in over the over the coming month or so. Peter, where is the memorial Specifically.

The memorial is on the corner of Saw Avenue and May Drive, And don't forget Simon. On the twenty seventh of July, which is the Armistice day. There is a big celebration up here at ten o'clock at the Korean War Memorial.

All right, really good to talk to you, Peter. Thank you mate, Thanks for having a chat to us. And stay warm and do your thing, keep up the good work.

Thanks mate. We'll look forward to talking to you at all later day.

Yeah right, Peter Heeny. So the twenty seventh of July is the Armisis Day, the cessation of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula. Peter Heeny's is sexually the Korean Warmermorial in Kings Park. It was only opened a couple of years ago, in twenty twenty three, and Pete and his mates were instrumental in doing that. Peter himself is a Vietnam veteran and a fine fella. Thanks Peter. Ten point thirty. So just a couple of minutes until the ceremony starts there.

Good news that picnic blanket has been cleared from Mitchell Freeway north Man at Aaron Dale Road in grell Up. Traffic now flowing and fine there and the major is clearing up. Nothing to report on the Mitchell Kuanana all Graham Farmer Freeways. Good run in and out of the CBD, and nothing to report on around the metro area. On step Clark and Perth traffic lead a six PR.

Asking about shops that aren't in the western suburbs. We are big time stereotyping, but it's fun, David and Guildford said, there's a rug shop on Bayview Terrace in Clermont. Thank you. David Russell said, is there a Ta b or a Baker's Delight in the Western suburbs? Sean Mark? Is there a Baker's Delight? Is there a Baker's Delight in the

Yeah?

I think, well, yeah, there's that one. On the cash converters. You don't got a cash converters, have you? I know it sounds like I'm talking to myself, but I'm talking to Sean and Mark who live in the Western suburbs. Do you shop it out of Yes? As seventies and those thirty seven. I spoke about this earlier. The WA Electoral Commission seemed to be in strife. The top three have left. Rob Kennedy disappeared immediately after the election. We understand that Rob is on stress leave. Fine fell up,

Hey Bowie, nice to be with you again.

They appear to be in disarray. We're five days away from mister mccusis report into the twenty twenty five state election. What do you make of this mass exodus?

Well, clearly there have been a number of exits. We know that, and we're aware that some of them were perhaps coming and others were a little less expected. Nonetheless, the senior leadership of the WA Electoral Commission is going through a transformation, and we know that a new acting from Missioner has been appointed and a new acting Deputy

As a when mister McCusker hands down his report, do you think we will know in all the detail in the findings in the exec summary? Will it tell us who and how has it decided to outsource the Purcell Kelly? Will that be described you're hoping it is.

I'm not certain what mister McCusker's report will detail. Clearly that was a very significant factor in the fallout from the last election and so the last state election of course, and so I'm certain that it will get some attention. Whether we get the detail that you're talking about, I don't know and have no way of knowing. I'd also know though that Purcell Kelly had a significant role to play in the federal election, which came only a matter of weeks later, and there seemed to be far fewer

Basil, I don't think I could run an election. I don't know if you could given your background in history. Is it a person who's run the Red Bull air race you know a lot of years going as one awards for that? Is that a position who should be running an election as an event? Is that suitable or appropriate you think?

Look, I don't want to comment on the individuals and people in the public sector and senior public servants. They rise through the ranks with a whole range of experiences that they might bring to that vocation, and it would be wrong to say that you can't learn in some elements of life and professional life and bring those into

To Basil Zemplus, the leader of the opposition here in Western Australia. Basil again, to go back to the outsourcing will probably hopefully no more when mister McCusker's report is handed down. This outsourcing crew, this contractor at this stage have the contract for the local government elections in October. You have a local government background. Most recently they also

Well, again again I note that the most recent federal election, which had elements of it worked on by and the support and other grunt work provided by Purcell Kelly, it seemed to go pretty well and so perhaps one albeit a rather significant blip on the raidar the state election, and in particular around election day and that week immediately after some of the counting and counting delays, it didn't

Yeah.

Well, it's a high stakes game and it's not the red bull aras. Hey, bas you got to pay rise yesterday. How are you feeling about that?

Yes, it's a significant amount of money and obviously it is set by the Salaries and Allowances Tribunal. That's the system for parliamentarians and other people who work in this space. I acknowledge it is a significant amount of money, and in the middle of the cost of living crisis, I get that everyday West Australians will look at some of the amounts of money that politicians are paid and say, gee, I'd like to be on some of that, or I'd like to have a bit of that in my weekly wage.

Now.

I know from.

Observing the Lower House certainly very close up and the good people on both sides of the chamber. That's the commitment that MP's make.

They're there to work hard, they're there to serve.

Their communities and ultimately it is up to them to justify that they are.

Doing the work.

That means the salary that they're getting paid they have earned. And I think everybody is up for that assignment. I genuinely do across the board. Thank you very much for your time today, Basil. Anytime Simon speak against so.

Basil's emplus the opposition leader, so not not going super hard on the electoral commission. He's right that Purcell Kelly were involved in the federal election, but we did do interviews with the federal election Electoral Commission, and they add great pains to say that Purcell Kelly's involvement in the

On the fourteenth of July two thousand and one, Peter Falconeo went missing approximately ten kilometers north of Barrow Creek in the Northern Territory. In two thousand and three, Bradley John Murdoch was arrested and charged with the murder of mister Falconee and the attempt kidnapping of mister Falcaneo's partner, joe An Lees. In December two thousand and five, Bradley Murdoch was convicted for the murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with a non parole period.

Of twenty eight years.

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

So Bradley John Murdocker, you would have heard that yesterday. You would have heard on the station yesterday that Bradley John Murdock is unwell, is in palliative care in the Northern Territory's been moved into a palliative care facility and still not cooperating with the Northern Territory coppers. So we're none the wiser as to where the remains of Peter Falconio are. Of course, he was charged with and found guilty of his murder on that lonely stretch of road

So I'm just like to take Basil to task a little bit when he was saying, oh, we all deserve our pay rise and that we all work for the community and every single one of them, Well, I dispute that. I mean, you've got so many career politicians and one of them's our prime minister. You've got people who are appointed by unions and union representatives. You've got people that

Yeah, Lindsay, I can't argue with that, mate. I think bas is most most of all, he is a glass full sort of bloke. But that's probably not true of all of them, is it. Lindsey, You're right, thanks for calling and mate appreciating the running for call or the day. Eight minutes to eleven o'clock we had a little bit of correspondence on Baz there say he's starting to sound

Today, Mark Gooddy Simon, I heard you speaking about parking fine so a lot of people in person may not know this. I got a parking fine from the lovely South Perth Council. I was parked at a friends property. And you know, if you appeal a parking fine in Perth, as soon as you appeal it it becomes a criminal matter and you can get a criminal offense from a parking fine. Crazy, isn't it, So I got a criminal offense from a parking fine even though I couldn't give

So is that all councils. That applies to all Metro everyone who issued.

Metro councilors, all Metro councils. And I was not allowed to provide my evidence. And I took the evidence in to say that they owned that parking bay, it was not allowed to be presented in court. My parking fine ended up being over a thousand dollars one thousand dollars and a criminal offense and it was just an absolute brought. These councils are as crooked as the day is long.

Well, mate, I don't know if that makes him crooker, because if that's the law, that's the law, isn't it? But I yeah, thank you mate, Mark. Mark's point is if you do appeal it and you're unsuccessful, then you had then you've transgressed the criminal code? Is that right? Six minutes part six minutes to eleven. Love to hear from you today if that's been your experience, did a Jason?

I don't know if you've actually what's the China Leese documentary on Netflix, mate, But it's pretty conflicting yet. I mean, there was rumors that she was dating some other blow while she was with him.

I do remember that. I do remember that.

Yet.

Yes, actually she actually showed no emotion whatsoever through the court, through the whole way through the court system. Well, yeah, call me silly, but I think they should be looking at in the running backyard to be honest.

Look, I don't Yeah, I do remember the stories at the time that she had a boyfriend in Sydney, another bloke. I do remember that, But I don't know. I don't know that not showing emotion is a thing or a legal you know, he's something that can represent in court. We all make decisions, don't we as members of the public, as citizens on these matters and what people look like, their body language and the like. It's a thing we

I just want to say I never shop at Aldi because Aldi doesn't support local manufacturers. They do for their fresh goods and all their dry goods are important. You will not see an Australian product manufactured in Australia on the shelves of ELDI, so I don't go there.

Yeah, all right, all right Russell, thank you mate. I have mentioned that to some of my mates who shop exclusively at Aldi, and that doesn't worry them. They're trying to save money. Thanks russ Russell has an ideological takes an ideological position against a spoty shopping at Aldi, which is fine. Three and a half minutes to at eleven o'clock. Cheers mate, you're in the running for corner of the

I don't know.

Jim work long hours, Poly's work long hours. I don't know. I don't know if I agree with you there, mate, But thanks for your correspondence. Cheers. How do you do have Australian self shelf products? Says Christine Kiss Kiss Yeah, but a few people say certainly that some of their meat products are from Australia, aren't they. We'll check it

How I am? I back by request?

But last week Sam, how are you going there?

Oh?

Look, as I said to Mark, you know, I'm not as good as you blokes. But one day I will be listening to all your callers, and I listened to six pour old bloody day shopping at Aldi. Yeah. Look, there's benefits in it for us, you know, But all we're doing is lining the pockets.

Of the German government, the German government, all the all.

The profits that come out of Australia that they don't stay in Australia, shopping at Eldi, they don't stay in Australia, that they go to Eldie who resides in Germany.

How does that get to the government though, mate?

But it's it's it's a government based sorry, it's it's a private enterprise based in Germany. So their profits attacked by the government of Germany and they or.

Not probably Yeah, yep, Well that's where.

It's going, mate. If you shop at Cole's it's or Woolies, it stays here. And one day the average Australian is going to find out that this country doesn't belong to us anymore. It's all going to belong to foreign interest.

Yes, thank you. So the Albrick family owned eld know that North and South and they are Karl and thea Elbricks are there are the owners as to as to so they're the parent companies, the two parent companies. We've known that for a while. The I gas have a haven't have some foreign ownership as well, don't they. I'm happy, I'm happy to take the ideological stance on that I reckon. Most people shop depending on their budget and on their hip pocket, don't they? A lot of my mates do

Now expect Amenya to lead into the straits and Gout the third from left, to come back. And then once they get into the Strait, his first race as a pro in Europe. This from Gout count Now he's got a target, Menya moving away from Memorizi and the headband, a battle between these two and Gout working.

So hard to get to him, and he gets there.

Gout takes it by a meter and moving away twenty zero four, battling all the way. The strongest part of his race is always that last fifty. He holds his form so well. It's an optic collusion. It looks like he's accelerating, but he's not.

Nobody does.

Maybe bolted him back then, so comparing him to Usain Bop So he's broken his own Australian record. As I say, Goutgout's only twenty one years of age. This is in the Czech Republic on Wednesday this morning Australias and standard time and twenty oh two adjusted time. In fact, he's a teenager as he sean, so he's younger than twenty. I thought he was twenty one one double two one double three eighty two. Jeff's phoned in. Hello Jeff, greeting

Yep? Yeah, I've sent you a little pick through on the on the text system. I don't know whether that gets through or get whether it gets blocked.

We don't get. We don't bet pickies on our text mate, but you can send it to our email made email Perth Today, Perth Today dot com that I U send it through to that and I'll.

Have it exploit one and it's definitely said ninety percent. So all right, there we go. Maybe maybe the Pepper's importal or something. I don't know.

All right, Jack, all right, mate, good on you, Jeff, thank you. One double three eight eighty two. Geezer send us an SEMs to say that Michael Kane served in the Korean War. That's that's true, that's true. I just looked it up on on the internet. Geezer. Michael Kane did serve in the Korean War and had quite an impact on him. Apparently he's ninety two years of age now, Michael Kine loved to hear from you. One double three, eight eighty two. Jack says, you shop at Aldie Shane,

Imon, there's two legends in the room. You've got one, you're a legend.

Well Mark Douran joins us. Well, Rodney, you're with a couple of stats on the Pommy performance in the fourth inning, so I've got a couple bit of science to back up the same.

Definitely, first drop behind you two blokes.

Hey, Hogy Lava Shane out and smarge Indians. So Josh English comes in. We like that, don't we.

Well we've got what we wanted before the last game. Cameron Green at three didn't quite sit the World of five idiot, Lord's no, not be quite ready for three. But what they're going to they're going to work with that, going to stick with head at five and English just gets he gets a game wherever he gets a game.

Really, what can we you know, we saw we saw young Sam opening, you know, taking on the Indians, reverse ramps, all all that infuriating Indian bowling attack. What what have we seen since since then? Has he done anything since in shield cricket.

Or what he might have had?

He's he's played a bit of red bull, played some chill games, might have had a few lectures. I think he's been taken in and given a few lectures from a few past grades on how to actually play chess cricket. But it will be interesting to see how he bats. I hope your bats with flair. That's part of his game.

So but how are you going to but that?

We could say there are quite as quite as bouncy and conducive to playing ramp shops and that sort of thing. So he'll but differently, he'll try and he'll try on so many he's played. This is the opening batsman. He's got a good opportunity.

You and I have spoken about josh ing this a bit, you know, making a Test century on debut. He's a ripper, isn't he made? Great fee quick, good team man, good in the field. He's a good addition. I'm not just saying that as a West Australia he can play Joshy.

No, I think they mark him and he's nearly a ten out of teen, isn't he everybody loves him? No one's got a bet we're to say about English. He's made one hundred and three forms of the game. Deserts his spot in the team and hopefully it can cement it. And as you say, he's a good Western Australian.

Hey, Holly, what do you make of you know, given given we did not win the World Test Championships and fell over in the last dig what do you make of Lion's Lions bowling? Is he just is a bit off? Is he a bit rusty?

And it wasn't a game it wasn't a game at Lord's for lawn to do it too much. There's some game to a lyon. We saw a test that's were lying and involved six six games in a game. He's an off spinner. He wasn't required in that game and the quicks dominated the game. So no, he plays his role when he's got to plays role. Couldn't bowl him out on the last day, or couldn't bowl him out in the last inning, So no, no, don't go. Don't

Yeah, all right, what else are you looking for the next four hopefully three to five days hockey?

Well, if anybody rings in that studio and speaks to you about four day Test matches, hang up on them. It's the biggest load of junk we've ever heard. Two great teams, two good teams that play against each other. You need five day test matches. And we saw that

All right, let's bringing your chipping and putting, Coach Mark Douran to back that up with some data mark the yes, impressive, incredibly impressive. Three to seventy on the last day. What else have England done recently? What else have we seen in final day run chases?

Well, it was described by former England captain one of Hogies mates, Michael Vaughan as a balance of aggression and watchfulness last night. So it was he says, bas ball with brains. So he's saying they've extended it, which is weird. They scored three point fifty on the final day chasing down three to seventy one in total with eight overs to spare. That's going pretty hard. But he says watchfulness with brains. Under Brendan mckellum, their former Kiwi captain who

What does that mean?

Under Steve war and when we were playing fabulous cricket, we were scoring at three point sixty six runs per over and winning often inside five days. In the four days that we talk about. Their best result four for five hundred and six on day one of a Test match.

Yeah well yeah, yeah, okay, So it's.

The tenth highest successful run chasing Test history that Hoggy's talking about. And Rodney not even you would know this one the first time ever a team has won a Test match when the opposition has had five century makers.

Yeah, okay, they've.

Just breaking all the lutely.

No bats ball at all. Who don't even talk basball. There was no aggressive cricket. The only person who played baseball was Panned Blake. I've got two hundreds the keeper for he played a bit of baseball. There was no basball by England at all. The wicket says about forty wickets. Sender wickets quite across the ground, so you hit the ball square of the wicket at heating and it goes for four four runs. So that's where the scoring came from.

Hoggie and Mark Ben Stokes in career best You think good Nick, isn't he.

Well, he's got to watch himself. I think he's game by game he's getting over by himself. I'm glad he didn't because sometimes sometimes Stokes, when the game's got to be won, he really really just keeps buying over after over, and he turned the game. And that first thing he got the bull to swing an old ball that was doing nothing. He got it to swing and picked up four from the first things and he was really instrumentally

On Thursday at Wannero if I can hit them straight off the tee. Are we the Australian Test team in trouble like the form England's putting together heading into an Ashes series? Are we in trouble?

No, they're bowling. Didn't look very good. But they've got to get Wooden Archer back into the team if they're going to threaten us. It's going to be an interesting this West Inn. He's just getting back to the West inniast Sloman. Do you know since they burnt us last year which I was shocked. You know, Joseph got a seven for them to win the game. For them, they've tried sixteen batsmen then top seven sixteen batsmen. You are

They all average a bet.

Twenty twenty five. It's absolutely the worst batting I've ever seen in the history of Test cricket. No, seriously, sixteenty batsman had sixteen openers. Oh no, we haven't, No, we haven't. They all have his twenty five. They wouldn't. Any shield side would beat this mob. Any shield side would beat the West Indies and roaches roaches missing for the first one. Seals is are pretty good. Quick he comes in, but they just haven't got the they haven't got the clients.

All right, cut that audio up, Simon, because if on day two it's game on, get hoggy back on. He loves doing this though.

Yeah, yeah, he's a he was a rumpy fast ball and that's what he's been like that. He's all there. How's the shore game.

Out of the Bunker's brilliant?

Now good?

Oh after that little your mate that gave us a bit of a lecture day on the radio. Yeah, richies was it was a bit of a star. Yeah, I forgot his name.

Yeah, Minji just got Minji Lee and a third open title, so he knows what he's talking about.

Hoggy, the same same bunkers she practiced, a royal Royal Freeman in the same bunkers she's been in at the same time, right.

Mate, Hey Hogy, thanks for coming on tonight, coming on today. I look forward to to watching some of it tonight and your thoughts as the test progresses. Thank you mate, Rodney Hogg.

How good.

The thanks for the stats, Mark my please, well done mate, Thank you. Mark Dorn coming in to supplement a little bit of ranting and raving with some data and some stats we like that help us eleven back in a moment.

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Had a little wander through the city yesterday, had a walk after work. One walked through through them all and up to sort of up to Parliament House and back to six PR. And I saw a nice little floral tribute outside the Belgian Beer Cafe to mister Farn who passed away probably three saturdays ago now after being allegedly

Good morning, Simon. Well, it's a bit surprising. We're actually in slightly negative territory. We had a strong lead from Wall Street and we've also had some good news on the local inflation rate. But Phil, we are run down a fraction. Last night that baw Jones index was up by over six hundred points at one stage it finished had five hundred and seven points or one point two percent, and as I said, we are still in slightly negative territory.

Simon eight seven seven to two. Thank you, Owe, You have a good afternoon. We'll chat again tomorrow. Well do cheers Boe cheers mate, Thank you all and clear from sure and partners. Remember to cast your mind back to twenty eighteen and Craig challon the Vetnir and he's mate Richard Harris had been planning a trip to the Caves, a cave diving trip to the Nulliboar, and they were called away at late notice to try to help out, as it turned out successfully with rescue rescuing the soccer team,

And great thanks thanks for having me on to me.

That's true, isn't It's an amazing complex, complicated set of limestone caves and the Nullerbaar and divers all over the world. Come here.

It's an amazing place.

Yeah.

So it's the world's largest continuous limestone cave area in the world. And there are thousands of caves out there, some really big ones and some tiny ones that a lot of totally amazing place it's covers in.

Yeah.

So, as part, tell us about your research, because given your title or entomologist and are technologists, you've found a number of species that we haven't either haven't seen before, haven't seen for a while down there.

Yeah, that's right. So I work on spiders mainly, but a lot of other insect and invertebrates too, And we went out to do a survey of a cave that was little known to science, so it hadn't had any scientific surveys, and we found a large number of really interesting and highly cave adapted invertebrates, so species that had lost their eyes, that had grown really long legs, and were really kind of well adapted to a life in the dark.

How exciting is that for someone who does your job.

It was epic.

It was.

It was incredibly exciting. It made it even more exciting that the cave itself was really, really, really difficult to get into, so lots of very tight squeezes and then to go to all these squeezes to find all this amazing these amazing animals, was it? It made it worthwhile?

Yeah, doctor Josh Marsh from the University of Adlaigh. Does it involve diving with your team or you in you know, just in space and in the air.

Yeah, No, we just work in on the surface.

We don't go into the water.

And in fact, the cave that we found these animals in was really dry and really really salty, so no water to dive into there.

Yeah, so these animals have adapted to life underground and life in these caves, no eyes and long legs. What else have you found?

So excitedly so we found So it's always exciting finding an animal that's cave adapted because really rare and really special. But really on a very exciting level, we found what

Yeah, alive or mummified, yes, no, Well, this was the.

Exciting and mysterious thing about this cave. We didn't find any living invertebrates in the whole cave. We found thousands of dead mummified ones, and some of them had died kind of mid climb up on the cave walls and so like they were frozen in motion. It was really kind of eerie, huge numbers of them and very very well preserved. They look like they could have died yesterday, but they could.

Be very old.

So what's your theory there? What had happened? Was there an event or did something happen in the cave that led to this?

Well that's been a topic of lots of around the campfire discussions. We don't know. I personally think it looks like it might have been a gas event or a series of gas events at some point in time. We're not sure how old or how long ago that killed these animals, because some of them that are kind of

A good story behind me.

Yeah, definitely. I was just that's my next question. Get I reckon. You can't wait to get back there?

Yeah?

Well, yes, yes, I can't wait to get back. But my legs were more bruises and cuts and legs when I got out, So I'm going to let my body recover a bit, but no, I can't.

Wait to get back.

There's there's a lot This cave is one of the most amazing places I've ever been in my life. And I think it's got a lot of stories to tell us, and some, you know, really like globally important stories about the nulla boring about the animals that might be living in other caves out there. Yeah, it's an awesome place.

Yeah.

You use the word epic, use the word awesome, which is words that my nine year old uses and I can relate to them. Does the ipicness and the awesomeness overtake there? I'm one point five caves into a cave and I'm keep banging my legs on stuff. Is it all about what you can see and the exhilaration and the adrenaline of what you're finding.

It is and I think, to be honest that the kind of fear factor adds for me anyway, adds to the kind of overall excitement of being in this world. It's when you're underground, especially in these decads where very few people have ever been, it's like stepping into a different world.

It's nothing.

It's so different to your day to day life, and it's scary, it's dark, you're in small places with very big spiders, the whole range of feelings. But most of all, it's exciting. And when you are looking at animals that you know are so special and so interesting from a scientific point of view, and so rare and globally important, then it kind of adds to that overall. Yeah, or I guess, and it is a pretty special thing to do.

Yeah, yeah, well done, keep up the good work. Just really nice to talk today in Perth and on six PR.

Thank you, it's been great to speak to you.

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Thank you, Doctor Jess marsh Entomologists are auricnologists at the University of Biological Sciences the Universe of Adelaide. Have you been in the nullible caves?

So?

Some of them are dry, they're world famous their limestone caves, and of course the water movement means that people can get inside them, they can dive inside them. These ones are dry and Jess has found a cave adapted wasp at world first, as well as other animals without without eyes and that have adapted to living in the dark. But it sounded like something had happened in the caves such that they died sort of mid stride as they

Have you been?

Are your cave diver? Not for the faint heart of this business, I reckon. I have seen craigsharn And talk a couple of times. He's a brave dude, Craig, but also a meticulous professional diver. And him and his mate Richard and the marine team they assembled to get the tie boys out of the cave. If you haven't seen Craig Challum talk already, spook. He's amazing color documentaries around

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So David Byrne's coming to Perth. That is, of course from Stop making sense, that is him with talking heads fronting talking heads, the singer songwriter, very eccentric David Byrn. But he's coming to Perth in January next year. I think it's January the twenty seventh, and you can buy tickets now, and as is the way these days, you can go online and have a look at what the song was comprises and Dee Burns is playing that once in a lifetime burning down the house. This must be

I will always be honest and upfront with the Australian people. So let's be honest and upfront about last month's election. We didn't just lose, we got smashed, totally smashed. What we as the Liberal Party presented to the Australian people was comprehensively rejected.

The scale of that defeat.

Its size and significance is not lost on me, not any one of my parliamentary team sitting here today. It was devastating for our parliamentary colleagues, our party members, our supporters and voters across the country. I want to thank all Coalition candidates who ran at the election.

I want to.

Particularly acknowledge my many friends who served in the Parliament with distinction who have not returned this term. Over two elections, the Coalition has lost thirty three seats in the House of Representatives. We've lost eight seats in the Senate. Our primary vote has fallen by more than nine percent in the House, our two party preferred vote is down more than six percent, and we hold now just two of forty three inner Metro seats and seven of forty five

That is Susan Lee speaking to the National Press Club today, admitting that and has used the words smashed quite a bit over the last couple of days, so we knew that they're a long way back. Aren't they In sporting terms. In racing terms, they are a long way back. One double three eighty two is the phone number. Dave says, yes, I shop at Aldi and they sell beer. Thank you, jack O, Yes they do, and I'll go down a

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Thanks m GOUDI is seventeen years of age. Say Hayden, thank you. Fourteen four minutes to midday. I'm Simon Beaumont. See mcdogle will be with us soon. Let's find out how LightScape is going. That is our prize for caller of the day today. Two tickets to go and see LightScape. How good go with a go go on a date to LightScape, beautiful sit out, the under the stars watcher, Kingspark's LightScape, all the beautiful trees, the blooms, all of that.

Simon?

Very well, thanks Sue. Up in the Hills. You've got an Aldi, haven't you. Yes, we do cheap, cheapest supermarke going around.

Well that's what they do on isn't that.

The basket understand a basket.

Under standard basket?

So I think people shop around would.

So if you had time, who's got time? And also what you actually need? And for me when it's shopping, yes, I look at something and I'll see the difference of ten percent and go over the You know, that's about the threat the unit price, the unit price. But it's also I'm passionate about it has to be made in Australia. It has to be Australian produce. It takes me age. Is no, not so fussed about organic as far as a priority goes. But if there's a choice. Andrew says

It's a blokey drives through the tunnel like it's the Rebi's engines. They can hear echo on the walls grown up from that. How's LightScape going, Yeah, it's going really well.

I mean last week when it was rainy we desperately need. The rain slowed down a little bit, but we still had a few thousand people through each night, which is just fantastic and it's magical at night. So what I do want to stress is if it's raining, it's actually okay. It's really adds another dimension to the Botanic Garden, and not many people get to enjoy the Botanic Garden when it's lit up in in that sort of environment, so it's well worth it. Keeps going to the end of July, Simon.

It's a great price. Yeah, so thank you for you and your gang up there for the prize ring in one level three. Ay, two, If you have a gardening question for Sue intoor outdoor plants, anything you like home hordiculture today, John.

Hello there, I just trying to ada there.

Certainly you got you, John, Yeah, sorry, all right.

I mean I want to point out about blue Eye business. I've got one out the front which was propagated from a cutting and I'm wasn't too sure when they cut it. It's pretty dormant now there's no flowers, no leaves are dropping off. Yeah, so when when's the best time for me to take cummings and soil so you will have.

The high biscus syriacus, not the alleghany. So there's a native one that we all so caol blue high biscuits, which is allegony, but this is a deciduous one. You put the cuttings in soil or in a propagation mix once it's completely dormant, and so you'll be semi hardwood cuttings that will go through and that will be any time from beginning of July to mid July, and depending on the year and how cold it is. So you've got a few weeks from now on John to take

So if I put them in the end of July in September, they'll look like a plant that's.

So starting to shoot. If you're doing it as sellable, probably not, because it will take a little while for those roots to establish. So you'll start off as small pots and then you'll start to get them to establish. And so when you're selling a plant, you do need to get a very strong root system, and so they just start to come through. They might be just colosing up,

John, Um, I'm learning.

Yeah, that's it. That's it, and the cuttings. It's about time, just waiting for time. So put in a lot more than you think you need.

Yep, there you go, John, Thank you mate, thanks for calling in.

Hi.

Carol, Oh, good morning, very good afternoon. Sue. First up, congratulations, you're very worthy winner of your award.

Thank you.

I have a camellia bush that I've only had about two years. It's like a straight up one. The leave's got terribly burnt in the forty degree heat. Consequently, most of the leaves are two thirds dead and brown and crackling, and one third green. Now, if I were to take them all off the tree or the bush.

Just there wouldn't be very much of it.

So what can I do to improve the leaves that are a little bit green?

Yes, exactly, I get that totally. So camillies only grow once a year. I would keep the leaves on it looks whilst it looks awful. It just protect them a little bit, or protect the main stems a little bit from the following summer's sun. But camellias only shoot away after they finish flowering. So they do grow once a year and you have this window of four to six weeks that they'll put on this beautiful new growth. Then that new growth will harden off ready for the summer.

Okay, okay, thank you very much, Thanks Carol, well done.

My mum is really good at growing committees, is she? Yeah, really good? And I don't I don't know why. She just sort of they just she got bore water you know, it comes on coutl howers a day. She's really good at it.

Interesting, where is it the garden on the limestone flats? So improving the soil obviously protect a position. It's a really good reflection of having the perfect microclimate for the plants.

Yeah, yeah, she's a gun. Thank you, Carol. Gooday, Jaden, Oh.

Good afternoon, Simon and Sue. I've got an out of control lemontry because little Jaden Jr. Has been doing his business over there and it's gone crazy. A lot of foliage, a lot of lemons. Just it's I can't reach the lemons anymore. So I had a couple of too many of those brown drinks and I went a little bit too aggressive one time and cutting it.

What can I do?

Yeah, so I get that. So what's the use of having a lemon? Try that you can't reach the foliage? And so after the main fruit crop has gone, it will be shooting away again. The problem with a lemon tree is if you just lop it, it will send out these really incredible long branches and they do get too high. That's what happens. So you will trim it lightly so that you can so you'll trim one branch back as it shoots away, you nip the tips out. So instead of looking at the tree once a year

No, it's just want to let you know we went to LightScape absolute magical. If anybody if they want to do something, please go, guys. I was a little bit iffy about it, but honestly the family loved it.

As an example of young kids. Did you take young kids?

You take Jayden Jr.

I took Jayden Junior mate, and the phone was put away, but he loves taking the photos and honestly it is absolutely magical.

Guys.

Good testimony, Jaden, Thank you, cheers, Mate, Maria, Rob Jason stay there back in the moment with Sue McDougal today. If you have a gardening question, call in one double three eight eighty two. Sue McDougal's with us. If you like the course, so you can. One double three eight eighty two is the phone number.

Hi, Maria, Oh good afternoon, Sue and Simon. Sorry I've got your wrong number name. I was asking about my kangaroo pause. I never seem to flower properly, like I bought the normal red and green one and I never flower properly. And I bought the yellow one and never came any color on it. It just came horrible that there wasn't very nice. And I even bought the carnival one and that didn't even flower probably either.

You might look after them so too, well, Maria, are they in shade or are they in some.

Full some yep?

Yep?

So are they in that pretty good yep?

And so why so the.

One that you said was sort of meant to be yellow but it was all faded? Was this over summer by any chance? Was it you're looking at thinking the summer flowers?

Yeah?

Yeah, the bush is really huge, but the flower comes out bit and then it never it never performs a nice color, just all faded, looking like straw color.

Yeah, okay, so that might be the particular variety. So if it's a tall growers, really strong, there is one called any Xanthus flabbtus.

No.

Flabbtus is one of the parents of many of the kangaropool. The new varieties brilliant foliage, really tough, hardy, strong grower, but the flowers are quite pale, quite insignificant. So you need either rufus like Rubra ruby red, you need orange fever yellow jam one of the big strong summer flowering varieties that will flower brilliantly. Flabvitus. All I can think, Maria is if you've got Flabbtus, you are feeding the birds, so really good for attracting bird so it is making

I think Maurice's like may, I can't grow them. I don't know why do you water them too much?

Because that can be I think.

Way way back when you and Thanks Maria, when you and I first started talking about them, you said, you know, leave them out and let let the rain try. I've tried everything soon, so I've bought the blue ones, red and green, so.

The red green ones that actually dies back naturally. But you should see the new colors that are coming through. I think some burst it might be your your color, okay, Simon, it's a new one. It's bright yellow, incredibly bright yellow, stunning color. I think it should be named after Matilda's because it's that bright yellow and green. It's stunning. But

I'll give another try, soue twenty three minutes past twelve. Thanks Maria good.

A, Rob Gooday guys, Hey, yes, secret question.

My lemon tree.

It's obviously got a lot of fruit on it, but on the leaves, so not the leasy branches themselves. The standard grab these little bulb things. And I did doctor Google, and I said it's a native wasp. I said, nevil and sound right, so I thought i'd come on alf doctor sue. So it is.

It's a native to somewhere, but it's not native to Australia as citrus gol wasp. And you'll find that, Rob, Citrus gol wasp does call it a problem. Actually, inglewood all of that area's heartland goal wasp. There's lots of it around it in that area. A few things you can do. You can trim it all off totally. You can get a vegetable peeler and open up where the wasp nestsa the larvae is in there, and that will expose the larvae and of course then it will die,

I can't go there's no chemicals that can be sprayed on it to penetrate and kill them.

Or is it just a case of so the problem we've got with chemicals is it's going to be taken up by the plant sappstream. So if it's got fruit on it, you don't want to be eating that fruit. There is a withholding period, so it's it's a way of managing it to learn to live with it, if that makes sense. But you want to reduce the population to start with.

Is that going to affect the plant long.

Term or in the fruit?

It will eventually, because it stops the plant sending out new growth. It does eventually. So if you said, Okay, I'm going to manage it, I'm going to reduce the population, I'm going to live with twenty percent of the infection. The tree can cope with that. If you say I'm not going to do anything, eventually you'll start to get this decline on the tree. So you do need to be a bit proactive.

Okay, thanks so much.

I really appreciate it.

That's okay, it's stuck in rob. Get that potato pillar out twenty six minutes past midday, get adjacent.

Hey, guys, I've need to put some new lawn down where the kids have worn it out around the monkey bars, and that is it bad timmy to do it now? And what type of lawn is most resilient.

Most resilient is a coach one of the coach lawns Jason, and depends on our grasses that we use in wa and they're so effective for covering our warm, seasoned grasses. So if you put lawn down there at the moment you have kids directly on it, straight away they go, oh cool, great new lawn. I need to get to the monkey bars again. There's not a chance for that

Yeah, that's so I can. I can make them kick the footy out of the front for a while.

Yeah, do that. Sorry, then wait, wait until because the lawn at this time of the year, yes, it'll be sitting there, but it tends to be a little bit yellow. If you said, let's prepare the soil, let's get rid of the weeds that are there. When I say prepare the soil, I imagine it's compacted a little bit. Get it right, and then as soon as the beginning of September, so as soon as the weather's starting to warm up,

Okay, we've got every flavor of lawn out the back there. Anyway, Well, the coops take over as well.

It's actually really yeah, we'll blend into the rest. But it just it's really interesting. It depends on how much water and how well it's looked after, whether whether say, if you've got buffalo, whether that takes over or the coops takes over. In the times of the year, some will be stronger than others, depending on your water regime you're feeding.

Yeah, okay, beautiful, Thank you very much.

Thanks Jason, good luck mate. Hello, Justin?

Yeah, goody, Hey he's gone good, thank you.

Look, I'm just ringing up.

I've done a bit of research.

I'm trying to track down where to buy a snotty gobble tree from.

Yeah, where do you live?

Leves Murdy?

Okay, have you tried Zanthoria nursery so snotty gobblely persona depending which species you want? Justin, have you tried Zantheea?

I have.

They always assist me with what I need.

But I said the wading list issue.

Get it?

Yeah, yeah, so stick your name down there just as a backup for you. There's a few others that you need to try. One is this time of the year. It's always a bit tricky because we have had the major winter planting. There may be some major revege projects that nurseries are growing and some are leftover, So trymuchet tree farms, or you could try Australian Native nurseries. You could try Kings Park Plants Aale which were happening in September. See if they've got any persons growing the friends. I

Oh awesome, thanks very much for that.

Welcome than you're justin. You'll enjoy a Muchet Tree Farm mate. It's a good trip out there and it's a really nice little family business amongst all the other Sue was recommending get a jill.

Oh a high time and Sue, I have a passion food vine. It's in second year and I know the name, unfortunately, and I've had food it since the summer and I've got thirty at the moment and they're all green, but of course the sun isn't strong enough to.

Ripen them up to a color.

Yeah, that's right. So we just leave them there and we just wait. At the moment they'll be quite heart also, so depending on well it depends. Actually, I did have some passion fruit from John Cole. He gave me some of his were just divine and he's got his passion for it out in the open and it still continues

And cut it back.

I've got to cut it back hard because it's grown really sick because it's on the wall.

Don't do that until the beginning of spring. Good, Thank you very much, You're welcome.

Thanks sir, your let's squeeze eddie in, get eddie.

So I'm in.

So after.

Good good, we've got some I believe it pronounced kai key apple k ei apples, yeah, which a few fruit may have been donated from the zoo at our last visit and yeah, we've kept the seeds and I've actually germinated them out of the back of the gardener's in a shallow tray in some potting mix. They're about an inch toall. I just want to find out the best way going forward to go with them, whether to put them out now or whether to wait until it gets a bit.

Warmer or Yeah, So what you need to do is wait so the fruit is slightly I'm not sure if you ate a few of the fruit, but slightly tart but sour, if that makes sense. If that's the way you can explain it. And they're relatively slow growing, so if that's some more you're putting them out now, it does depending where you live, it does need to be

Okay, Yeah, it's fairly shallow soil they're in at the moment a tray, so it's probably only sort of four or five centimeters stick. So it'd be fine to leave you in there for a little while.

I'd be actually playing for there in a small tray, transplanting them into a pot. Fine, fine until beginning of September, but then put them into a pot.

Okay, great, Okay, it's awesome.

Thank you very much, Daddy, Thanks Eddie good On, Sue, thank you, and thank you. Thank you for the price.

Oh you're very welcome. I'm so excited to be able to share LightScape. But anyone who wants to come, yeah.

Yeah, get up and see LightScape up at Kingsparke. Thank you, Sue, have a good week. To see you soon. Thank you, Sue wed We're lucky to have her. It's twenty seven minutes to one o'clock.

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Let's take pause, Let's go to our newsroom here at six PR John Nichols, good afternoon.

Thank you, Simon, Good afternoon. Opposition leader Susan Lee has declared that the Liberals must increase the number of women in their ranks if they want to improve their appeal to voters. She's given her first major public address in the role. Identifying the cost of living and national security is among her top priorities, with violence against women another focus. Fire investigators a house fire in Perths South this morning was caused by an electrical fault. The fire in Cordelia Avenue,

Thank you John, John. We were talking about David Byrne before the frontman for Talking Heads and of course a solo artis is coming to Perth in January next year at the rac Arena. A bit of a weirdo eccentric. So we're asking the questions today of you and our listeners weirdos.

I'm going to go back to nineteen seventy nine and the new wave era, Layne, I love it. Yeah, definitely weird, Yeah, lucky lucky number.

No definition of weirdo, but just phone in weirdo musicians rock and pop.

Here we go.

Thanks John, much time one yet, widow said and meant with love and care. You're weirdo musicians. David Byrne coming to Perth in January next year. Layana love it. She's John's nomination. Have you got new weirdos for us. One double three eight eighty two Split Ends are weird when they first started, when they before they became Neil Finn and Tim Finn, respectively, they were they were pretty weird weirdo musicians. One double three two is the phone number? Give us a call. It is seven and a half

Jimmy and the Boys, Ignacious Jones, the guy that designed the Olympics.

Yes you're here, Nacius Jones, one of the dead set countdown Widows. Hello Parks if you're listening. Graham Parks one of our one of our mates in the listening audience. He played bass in Jimmy and the Boys. One Double three a Day two Widows, Hi, Danny, Hi, how.

Are you today?

Good?

Thank you?

What do you got for Adam and the music?

Yeah?

He was weird?

Was he?

Good?

On you?

Thank you? Cheers?

Thanks?

Yeah? How did we make that a hit?

Yeah?

I mean I would say the Prince Charming and Standing to Live great songs?

This one?

Yeah?

Yeah, Adam Man, what were we thinking? Widows?

Gale Chantell, Hey boy, how's it going very well.

Thank you, that's good.

I was almost gonna nominate myself for all weird people.

We're after.

Technically I'm going to go the York.

Yeah.

A bit of a widow, wasn't she?

Yeah, he's a bit.

Thank you, Chantell, well done, Thank you widows.

Have a good day's caning.

Burke, the Icelandic Princess ten't mind punks in ther journal. I think we've got that somewhere, Jimmy, haven't we We'll find try and find that she in Thailand. I think Thailand. That's right, kickboxing, alive and well in Thailand. How was you trip? Whack screaming and yelling lamentations. Good nomination, Chantel will take a break, it will come back seven eight minutes to one weirdo musicians. The David Byrne is coming

Gallo, Simon Jiants talking a new producer? I think, I say, Mark, Yes, Mark, I don't know much about that guy Iggy Pop memory of Canter he kept.

He did. Yeah. I think you think he's either very very tired or very affected by something. I think pop. I saw a pop at Iggy Pop played at the Old Challenge Stadium's per super Drame Oliver, Hello, Simon, mate, he was right out there, the chairman of the board. Here he is.

I'm looking up in the city.

What the hell?

What the heck?

Mate?

Well?

I regaon that's modeling itself a little bit off. Franz Ferdinand. Have you seen them lives?

Are they a bit weird? Are they they're little bit weird?

Are they?

I like?

I like getting a bit weird sometimes.

Simon, yes, I know that. You know i'ven each other alongside. What do you have for us between one and five?

For your mate Jason Vivie, Oh, yes, you're or your former mate really close.

Yes, you go to breakfast together once upon a lunch dinners. I've been to the football with him. Now he doesn't return your calls, and Lynch would say, not anymore.

Not anymore, my mate, your co o Stowitch Yep, your mate, Brad pettittt.

Yeah that's funny. That's good.

We're up to you.

We're up to your mate. Yeah, that's right.

So so Brad bettat join us of Southternoon because he wants to talk about density through the Western suburbs and on the train line. And maybe he's being up a bit of what happened with the approval in Coddterslow last week at Station Street. But he's suggesting we should have a lot of homes built around those train stations.

So I suspect you were probably at the gym doing doing your thing. But we ran a little question to our listeners today. Shops that you will never find in the Western suburbs retail out, we get spudshed. Yeah, Aldi, No, Aldi's coming. It's not there yet though it's something might need more and you don't have a Department Transport Licensing Center. Dan Murphy's Dan Murphy don't have those, got to go far to find Uncle Dan's not anymore lynchy. I'll be

Yeah.

I like to go to dog Swamp, do you yeah? Dog dog Swamp?

I got a dog Swamp.

That's a bit of a hike, a little bit, but it goes good, right, crazy got our good?

Is that?

How good is that new roundabout at Green Street? How's that going? It's great? Like twenty five million witches hats all aims lead to one. How's that going?

It's going good? And forty five forty five? Yes, sir, so you're a ninety you're a yes? YEA shop at ninety three at dogs? Oh he's great, it's very good. I like going to a shopping center where you get everything there, a little bit from there, a little bit from here, a little bit.

From over there.

Blues brothers, Thank you mate, well done, Thanks widows. Franz Ferdinand if you got okay, yeah, thank you. Here we go.

I don't have it.

I'll bring all right, yeah, all right, take me out ten minutes to one o'clock at Widows, could they Morgan?

Yeah, I can't remember the name of the band, but the song is called Serving Birds. They don't come any weirder than that one, I can tell you.

Trash men yeah, the trash man, yeah yeah, full metal jacket yeah yeah, come on, come on, thanks Morgan had everybody's head about the bed.

Then are they weed?

Can you see them?

There? Were they?

Weired to look at?

We know it?

Suits and everything quiff black hair, clean haircut everything yet a weird song? Yes, Wed, we'll pay it, Morgan, We'll pay it mate, Thank you?

Good a John, good eye, Simon listen. You couldn't go past this guy, ian Jury, could you?

I don't think so.

He was a lunatic, mate, I'm thinking was created some great songs.

He was a good band, wasn't it the Blockheads?

Yeah?

Rip a band, countdown band mate, good work, John nice, nomination Widows.

Every manning.

Rhythm stick me, hit me, should turn eet, hit me, let me slowly, end.

Me quick, get me?

How good?

Well I'm joing yet widow injury, Gay.

Evy tiptoe through the true.

Very good. That's a good party trick, EV.

That's what I was told to do.

That's really good. Yeah, very good, Thanks Ev, Yeah, really good. Have you always been able to do that? Get that sing that high?

Yeah?

Yes all the time at times?

All got anything else for me? Thanks? Are you going tonight?

Ev?

No, I'm not on house down?

Okay, all right, well we'll have one. We'll have a pims lemonade for you. Ebe thank you, very good e b C at home. Good work by her.

Good David, I'm good Simon.

This fellows from the same stable as David burn Out of Talking Heads. I can't remember the fellow's name, but he was in the group called Wizard and See My Baby Jove. If you've seen how they dressed up, they were out there.

Yeah they were, weren't they? That David Bowie kind of glam rocky kind of thing going on. Thanks David good Man, good work mate, Wizards See My Baby Jove. I Reckon was on Fantastic seventy three on the KTEL album. I think I haven't got everything right today, Dave. I've been a little the Rado has been a little wide of the mark today, but that happens a get a trucky Carol, Hello, Simon, how are you very well? Thanks?

How are you there?

You go?

Just give you your tube. Yeah, I've got a weirdo band for you. It's men without Hats and the safety Dance. These guys used to dance around with witches hats on their heads and stuff.

Yeah, okay, I don't think I've ever seen this video. It is a weird songs, a.

Big countdown thing.

Yeah, where are you, Chucky Caroling?

Where am i?

I've just come back from the from Freemantle down the Fremantle traffic Bridge delivering some structurals still there and just heading back to the depot now.

Yeah all right, and how is it out there?

Oh today?

Yeah?

Really good?

Yeah good, not much traffic on the road. It's been a good drive today.

Yeah all right, nice to hear from you. Thank you, good stuff, Thank you weirdos. Now we're going to we're coming from.

One part.

A week and girl and we want to be Trackie Carroll. Drive carefully. It's five and a half minutes to one o'clock Paris, says Chris Murphy. Really Okay, that's hard. He probably probably wouldn't mind that. Actually, we'll come back in just a moment. It's five to one o'clock. We'll come back and let you know who's one our Call of

Yeah.

Look, very briefly from everyday things that you can't buy in the Western suburbs. If you want to buy a Porsche, you want to buy a Bentley. Do you want to buy an now for Romeo? You want to buy rest Lamborghini lectures, range Rover. You have to come discover the Troe you got to go to inne lou Yeah, yeah, every everyday items.

Thanks John, Thanks John, thanks for joining in in the right spirit. Quite right. One double three add two been asking the questions I don't know treat in the Western suburbs. Thank you, Sean. No KFC from the tax line was earlier, had a bit of fun with that this morning shops you can't find in the Western Suburbs. One double three A two has been the number no big w as well, Thanks Sean. Our call of the day today is Eddie