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May Tuesday, June ten, one three one eight seven three days. Clinton Maynard on one of those sensational Sydney afternoons. There's hardly a cloud in the sky. Sure it's a little chilly, as it has been for a few days, but the sky's are absolutely gorgeous this afternoon. Now, I like to bring you good news. We are all millionaires. Yes, if you own a property on paper, you are a millionaire. For the first time, the average Australian home price dwelling
price has topped a million dollars. Now, this has been a case in Sydney for a few years now, but according to the ABS, the national mean price of a residential dwelling has gone past a million dollars. So celebrate. If you're fortunate enough to own property, you are a millionaire on paper. At least. Coming up on the show, the price of berries is going through the roof. You may well need to have a million in the bank to buy blueberries. Blueberries in particular, also strawberries. And it's
not just because of the floods. Straight shooters this afternoon. Should private school fees be tax deductible? We're going to have a look at that. Mark guys on the program after five point thirty. And we've got a great prize for the quiz this week, one hundred dollars vouchers to give way to spend up at Bankstown Sports Club. We'll
play the quiz after five point thirty. You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so text me zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three have you say one three one eight seven three? Well in city now. Police are investigating two hidden runs. One of those has resulted in the fatality a pedestrian. The forty six year old man has died in Liverpool hospital today. This follows an incident this morning Junction Road
at Lemea. Police used pole Air the helicopter and found the car they believe to have been involved in a nearby sports center. A seventy seven year old woman has been rested. She has not yet been charged. That followed another incident in Maryland's where a sixteen year old girl was struck at the intersection of Denmark and Anne Street. Now she's now in the Children's hospital in Westmead in a stable condition. The driver involved in that one has
not been found. Police would like to speak to anyone who has dash cam footage. That's often very handy. Now the number for crime stoppers one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero. At the same time, police have wrapped up their operation their King's Birthday long weekend operation on the roads. They've issued more than four thousand speeding infringements and they've also detected more than six hundred and fifty people with
drugs in their system while driving. The Assistant Commissioner, David Driver joins me on the show, thank you for your.
Time, thank you, glinting, good afternoon.
Just firstly, on these hit runs. There was another hit run on Friday in Penrith as well, plus these two in the past twenty four hours, we seem to have gone through a spate of these sort of incidents.
We have had three of those incidents recently. Unfortunately two of them were fatalities. And so what I can say about the incident that occurred on Thursday, A twenty year old male has been arrested in respect to that matter. So there were some very good investigations conducted by our crash Investigation Unit and that identified that driver. So that was some very good work, but sadly that the pedestrian did pass away. And similarly, we had another fatality this
morning junction at Lumea. As you mentioned, we're a forty six year old man died as a result of injuries that he received. So both those matters are still under investigation.
At seventy seven, you're a woman in custody at the moment. She's yet to be charged for your operation over the weekend, David, you've issued more than four thousand speeding fines and you've conducted a huge number of breath tests. But what jumps out at me is the number of people you have found with drugs in their system.
Yeah, look, the offenses committed with the presence of drugs. So we conducted over nine and a half thousand random drug tests and six hundred and fifty five of those tests of those drivers tested positive to either cocaine, methamphetamine or cannabis. So it is a concern and what we unfortunately,
what we are finding. As well, as you mentioned the speeding, we had incidents where people were detected exceeding the speed limit by more than forty five kilometers an hour, testing positive to our cohol mid range, and also having drugs in their system. That is just a recipe for disaster. So you know, we are out there, we are conducting these enforcements, but we really need people to take their own take responsibility for their own actions. If they continue
to commit these offenses, they will get caught police. We advertise the fact that we are running special operations, so it's a little bit hard to understand why people would take the risk knowing that there's going to be that enhanced focus on road safety and we publicize it.
So well, look, there's a lot of people found speeding, as you've outlined them, more than four thousand. But if I can look at a positive not that anybody found to be over the blood alcohol in it is good. But if the two hundred and two thousand breath tests you conducted, it was fewer than three hundred positives, I mean as a percentage, that's actually reasonably good.
Look.
Part of random brand of breath testing works on some science in respect to a general deterrent effects. So people see random breath testing and they know that we're conducting that activity, so they make a decision well in advance not to drink and drive. So that's part of the strategy. Then the other part of the strategy is with our mobile stops, it's more a little more targeted given areas, and there is a high detection in mobile tests, so
we combine those two strategies. One is a general deterrent, but we saw even over the weekend at stationary sites, people were testing at high range levels even at ten am in the morning. So it's very, very frustrating when we tell people that we are going to be out in force, and I don't think there's a genuine appreciation of the risk that they are presenting to other martyrs and other road users, pedestrians, bike riders, motorbike riders, everyone, So it really is stupid behavior.
So is that a message of people who go out drinking the night before, maybe drinking say two in the morning, aren't getting the message that there's still alcohol in their system at ten o'clock next morning.
Yeah, it takes about on average, and I say average because it does vary between people, but it takes about one hour to get rid of one standard drink. So that's why the rule of thumb. Two drinks in the first hour will take you to a round point zero five and the third Every single drink after that will keep you at that level if you have one drink per hour.
Good work over the weekend. I saw plenty of your officers out there. Thank you. Thanks Assistant Commissioner David Driver.
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Through thirteen past three. Ross over to LA for the latest on the riots. Our nine reporter on the ground is Jonathan Curzley. John, I, what's the latest, Clinton, as you come to us tonight.
It is a very tense situation here across much of downtown Los Angeles. It's been calm most of the day. Then essentially we saw this face off between a group of protesters, the National Guard and US Border and Customs police. Essentially that lasted for hours until something stucked. Essentially the police, one of them moved on. What that did, though, was moved hundreds and hundreds of protesters throughout different parts of
the city. So tonight there have been sporadic clashes between protesters and police for a fourth night, and they've been taking place in different pockets of downtown LA, some outside federal buildings, some inside other areas. Really over quite a large space of distance, and they are moving fast. They seem a lot more organized today than perhaps what they
were last night. We know last night too that by about midnight twelve thirty local time, which is probably five five thirty Australian Eastern time, they started to move out of the city altogether. Now that is what authorities would have wanted much earlier tonight. They're trying to bring this to some sort of then, But at this stage tonight there's been tear gas been fired, rubber bullets being fired. It shows no sign of letting up.
The seven hundred Marines that Donald Trump has ordered to join the two thousand National Guards. Is that seen as what's going to end this?
Well, Donald Trump will think so. But you talk to the protesters on the ground, of which there are hundreds of the right throughout the city tonight, and they will say to you that that is just inflammatory and only going to increase the anxiety here on the streets. It's not just two thousand National Guard. Donald Trump is promising
a number two thousand. According to Gavin newsom So, it is a real step up of the law enforcement measures being taken by the federal government in a state, in a city where Essentially, what you have is gold Trump pitted against California and against Los Angeles. He is shaping up for a good fight here, and he has shown that if he does not think that he is going to get his way, or people are angry with his policy measures, then he is prepared to be heavy handed.
He is prepared to do things that other presidents have not done. I overtake a state governor to take control of the National Guards and mobilize them. That's what he's done here. Davin Newson has called him illegal. He's trying to sue him. But as you talk to next night, there's silence blaring throughout all of Los Angeles. I've seen fire trucks, police cars going past. There are a number
of helicopters overhead. The police Airwing has been using their search lights throughout a very large perimeter of downtown Los Angeles, in and around that core policings. We have seen so much action over the course of the last three days. So as we enter soon into the early hours of yet another day, the anxiety, the ten scenes, the violence, it doesn't show any sign of eatings here.
Click and Jonathan, just lastly, obviously you have iced the immigration and Customs enforcement taking people into custody to throw them out of the country, but protesters themselves being arrested in charge.
Protesters have been arrested tonight. There have been a number of them told by police, but because they did not listen to dispersal orders, because they were told to get out of the way and did not, though they were all going to be arrested. The LAPD had said earlier today that they had made some fifty arrests over the course of the last day or so. Now those numbers are only going to increase once they identify people. The federal government has announced that they've identified somebody who is
throwing rocks at immigration vehicles the other nights. They are now obviously seeking them. We've seen ice raids carried out again today in a different part of Los Angeles. We've seen protests take place not just here in LA but in other cities in Tampa, in Florida, and Dallas and Texas. In New York, a sitting protest at Trump Tower, and the anger is spreading bit by bit by bit by
bit by bit. And what this is is a very tense situation that is having ramifications, not just for the city of angels, but for the country of the United States of America. There are many people in many cities watching this. Donald Trump is called the paid antagonists taking past in these protests. He believes that people are being drafted in from outside of these cities to increase the level of violence here. You talk to officials here in LA and they're saying, no, that's not the case. They're
pushing the blame onto Donald Trump. So right the way, from the top down to the people who are battling this on the streets, there is a clash of ideas, a clash of personality, and no sign that they can find any sort of common ground to try and bring this to an end, and it's an end that really is needed.
Fast, Stay safe this evening. It is eighteen past ten where you're at the moment. We'll see your nine years tonight. Thank you, Jonathan, Thanks.
Basin, and thanks for having it's not always good stuck funeral listeners.
Jonathan Curzley on the ground in LA at the moment. Certainly will cross back to John Oo in our nine correspondent should there be developments, So tomorrow there will be directions hearing in the Fair Work Commission to try to resolve this ongoing dispute between the state government and the
combined rail Unions. Now I shouldn't say the combined rail unions because all the unions involved in long running dispute, they've all agreed now to the state government's pay deal except one of them, the e TOU, the Electrical Trades Union, and because they haven't agreed, it's holding up the whole process.
Now.
I was in contact with the RTBU president over the weekend and he's frustrated. Now I know there's plenty of you are frustrated with them because they've put us through hell, us commuters for the last couple of years. But at least now they've agreed to the deal from the state government and they just want to get on with it. They are frustrated the ETU is now holding up the whole process. So the government has now informed me that tomorrow there'll be a directions hearing at ten thirty and
this direction's hearing effectively what they want to do. They want to force the unions to put this issue to a vote of their members. John Graham says, we've made our requests for rail workers to now decide to finalize this agreement, but we will respect the decision of the Fair Work Commission. Wrapping up this agreement, we'll give workers a fair pay rise and provide a million daily passenger's certainty.
The disruption from protracted industrial action is over. So basically what they want to do is give the members a vote of all the unions, THETU, the RTBU, the other ones involved. The RTB you, they're now on board. They represent more than eight and a half thousand Sydney Trains workers. The ETU represents eight hundred eight hundred and the actual individual members themselves. They haven't had a say on it.
So what they want the Fair Work Commission to do tomorrows say, look forget the management of the union, a lot of them. Just let the members have their say and then hopefully they'll vote for the agreement and we can get on with life.
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One eight twenty four past three. I was listening to Mark Levy this morning and the story he brought us from Buxton just blew my mind. A set of plaques on park benches, plaques that are remembering the victims of the car crash back in twenty twenty two that resulted in five teenagers being killed. A set of plarks have been ripped off the benches and stolen, a beautiful tribute to those those teenagers who died. Mark spoke with John Vanderpoot.
He's the father of fourteen year old Lily who died in the crash.
I don't know why anyone would take it. There's just, full stop, there's no gain for them. And as you said, the council made some nice benches there and remind everyone how to drive safe and whatnot. So it's in there face when kids sit on the bench, especially the kids are walking from Pitton Eye to Tarmor and that nice pathway. They sit there and they can reflect and think about safe driving and all that. And someone has just taking these plarks and I just absolutely, I just I don't
no words for it. I'm disgusted. There's no gain, in absolutely no gain.
What's your message to the low life that's done it.
We'll just drop the parks back somewhere and we'll just get the council put them back on. It might have been a couple of young fellows or yeah. I just think they're being smart, you know what. I mean, that's o. Katie's just return them and no questions asked.
Why would anyone do that? Now? All around the city you see pluques that are left on benches to remember people who've passed away, sometimes like this, in absolute tragic circumstances, from other people who've donated some money to a foundation, maybe donated a park bench. Why would anybody be motivated to steal a plaque? Just do the right thing, as John says, there'll be no questions asked. Just hand the pluks back an.
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Good afternoon. Clinton Police are investigating two separate hit and runs in Sydney. The search is underway for a driver after a sixteen year old girl was struck and injured at Mary Lane. A forty six year old man has been killed in a separate incident at Loma. The alleged driver has been arrested. The Prime Minister says he'll be seeking win wins when he sits down with the US President next week. Trade and defense will be on the agenda during Anthony Albanesi's first face to face meeting with
Donald Trump. Premier Chrismins says his confident prew card will be back on deck within months as she undergoes treatment for breast cancer. The Deputy Premier has confirmed she's taking immediate leave, and a search is underway on Tasmania's Cradle Mountain for a man thought to be missing in below freezing temperatures in Sport. Tottenham has opened talks with Brentford manager Thomas Frank as they look to replace and Posta Coglu, The Australian manager was zacked last week after the spurs
worst Premier League season in fifty years. Clinton More news it.
For eighteen degrees in the city at seventeen degrees in the western suburbs peter Ford coming up in just a moment, but just on the issue of the plaques that beIN stolen from Buxton, from the seats there that were marking the deaths of those teenagers back in twenty twenty two ash reckons. Look if the planks were brass, I guess they were taken for scrap metal, but still the amount of metal is tiny. Hello George.
Hello, we had a similar problem at our memorial Park. I'm a member of Midfield RSL sub branch right, and we had fourteen plarques stolen. Fairfield RSL, their Memorial Park had many plarques stolen as well, and they police found them in the local scrap metal dealer.
Yeah. So what are the planks made of? Are they brass?
Bronze?
It's bronze. So what the aim is to melt them down, sell them for scrap.
Well, they just take them in and sell them a scrap metal, mix them in with other metals that they have, and they tend to get missed.
Yeah.
I was going to say, surely that the scrap metal dealer could detect that when there's an inscription on the plat, But I guess if it's just in a big, huge box of a lot of scrap metal, it's not going to be picked up. Look. Thanks, so letting me know about that, Georgian. That's pretty shocking.
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Peter Ford predicted that the project would be accident. Indeed, over the weekend the acts came down on the projector what's the reaction been in the industry peak.
Well, certainly not shock. I mean, as you suggest, it was a badly kept secret, and lots of stuff have been leaking out about the replacement show. I guess the one big surprise was how swiftly it's going, finishing on June twenty seven. Now, I'm assuming that must be somehow connected to the end of the financial year and the contracts with the company that produces the show, and then the news show starts the following week. That worries me.
That's not a long lead in time to get a show up and going, particularly if you are doing long form journalism or investigative journalism. They've only got a couple of weeks to pull it together. Now, they've probably been working secretly for a few weeks already, but it would seem a lot of the staff and he began work on the show last week. So you'd like to think in their first week they're going to make an impact and pull a few rabbits out of the hat. I hope they do, but it is a very short lead
up time. But as for the project, I mean it was a great run, even if it is going out with a whimper. To do sixteen years is quite something that has a place in the history of Australian TV, and they did in their early days. They were providing something that was quite unique and innovative and all that. I think it's a shame the show became so toxic, even if it was undeserved. It became very toxic in the minds of a lot of people. But you know,
that's the way it goes. Sixteen years is a good innings in TV.
Our former colleague here at TGB, Steve Price, who was on the program for more than fifteen years, you wrote a piece in the Herald Sun today and he pointed out, firstly, but the project's been You mentioned the toxicity of it, but it's been known as a lefty program. Price. He was making the point, well, I'm hardly a lefty, so they did entertain other views. But he was also highlighting the fact that it was a program that was produced in Melbourne and he says it's a great loss to
lose that style of programming from Melbourne. In this day and age. Does that matter where a current affairs program is actually produced and broadcast from.
Well selfishly, it matters obviously for the people who live in Melbourne and want to get jobs on that style of television, but shows in that sense do come and go. But I thought the piece that Price wrote was very good. Also, I thought Sarah last night, Sarah Harris, who I really rate. I hope she ends up somewhere. I thought she also made the point that, look, you see the people sitting at the desk, but there's another sixty to seventy people who lost their jobs whose faces you don't know, who
don't earn big TV star salaries. They were a lot of them are freelancers, so that don't even get any notice. They just get pretty much dismissed on the spot. You know, they're the people who you ought to feel a bit sorry for you.
They have those run of show deals, so it's not like they've given six weeks notice. Now there's been a big twist in the Justin Baldoni Blake Lively case.
Yeah, well, I know this goes on so very long story short. Justin Baldoni was director and star of a movie called This Ends with Us. Blake Lively, who's married to Ryan Reynolds, was the female co star in it. Now. Earlier late last year, actually, she suddenly announced that she was going to be suing Baldoni for all sorts of terrible things, including workplace harassment, and The New York Times broke the story with the details of what she was suing about. He said, no, hang on, I'm actually going
to sue you for saying all this stuff. I'm suing you for defamation. So it was due to go to court de March of next year. Now what's happened is the judge has thrown out justin Baldoni's case, her case still goes ahead, and the fact that his case is thrown out does not in any way indicate that she's a shoeing to win. I don't think she is at all. But in his case, what the judge ruled was that if you make allegations in court documents, then you can't
be suits the defamation for that. If you can't make an allegation of court document where you're going to make it. Had she gone on a TV show or a radio show and made those claims, then absolutely there'll be defamation. So his side of it is thrown out, and certainly for today, there's no doubt she's had a win, but it's by no means over well.
Keip following that with some interest. Thank you, Pete Dans Clinton, Peter Ford. It's twenty two to four. Our thoughts go out to the New South Wales Deputy Premier prew Car, who I think has handled her cancer diagnosis today with so much dignity and remember and you're now to follow this throughout the day. This is the second time Prewe Carr has contracted cancer. She successfully fought off cancer in twenty twenty two. This time she's been diagnosed with breast cancer before.
And I'm really confident that I can fight it again. The prognosis is good. The amazing medical team around me are really hopeful about the prospects after treatment, and so am I. I want to say a massive thank you to everyone so far in New South Wales health absolutely amazing and I just want to remind everyone to all the women out there, just be really vigilant with your checks, getting it early. This is what's happened in my case is so.
Important and that's an important message from preu Car and Preue Car is relatively a young woman and this is the second time she's been struck down by cancer, but fortunately the doctors have discovered it early. Chris Minns has made tribute to her tenacity.
See the determination in a member of Parliament who has to and has done been able to fight off cancer previously as well as assuming the second most important position in the state.
And Mark Speakman's also had kind words.
This is something above politics and the thoughts and prayers of everyone in the opposition go out to Prue and wish her a strong and speedy recovery. I'm happy to hear that the prognosis is good. Of course I'm devastated to hear the general news, but I'm happy to hear that the prognosis is good.
She will remain as the Deputy Premier for now, there's not an acting Deputy Premier. She'll continue to be in contact with Chris Mins and the cabinet. She will stand down for now as the Education Minister, and Courtney Husos takes on that role in an acting position. And she also wanted to make it clear that for residents who live in her Electric Londonderry, so in the Penrith district, if you still have issues that you want examined, that
you want fought out in Parliament. If you've got problems, don't hesitate to contact her office. Just because she's going to be taking time off from being an MP. It doesn't mean that the staff will not follow up your concerns. So if you do have issues in Londonderry, make sure you still take them to the office of preu car all the thoughts of everyone here at two GB with
the Deputy Premier. Climate activist Greta Thunberg is now in custody with the Israelis after she was aboard a vessel that had headed to Gaza to protest the treatment of Israel against the people in Gaza pro Palestinian protests. The Israeli Defense Minister has today ordered the Greta Thunberg be shown a video of the atrocities committed during the Hamas attack on October seven, twenty and twenty three. He says it may well change her perspective. Three one eight seven
three is our number. A man is before the courts after being arrested over a bag snatch. Now the man is innocent until pleaded until proven guilty, but he's accused of attacking a seventy three year old at toun Gaby Radio railway station. Fortunately the woman was an in gyp. She was taking a hospital and she was checked over. She was actually okay. Police then arrested a twenty one year old man of the service station, Pendall Hill. He's
been charged with stealing from a person. He's appearing before.
The courts Sidney now with Clinton Maynard. If it's happening in your sitting, you'll hear it. Monti Now it's to.
Gb it's called to the four. Have you noticed the price of berries, in particular blueberries. We are in courage to eat blueberries. They're regarded as one of nature's super foods. They're great for you. Supermarket prices have reached nine dollars eighty for a punnet. Now a punet's about one hundred and twenty five grams, and that's much higher than the prices usually are in winter. And I was wondering whether the floods are responsible. No, it's not. The floods is
at the time of the year. Apparently it's going to take longer for the berri's prices to come back down. Rachel mackenzie is the executive director of Berries Australia and joins us. So thank you for your time, Rachel, You're welcome via blueberries in particular, so expensive at the moment, Well.
It always happens this time of year. It is actually a gap in our supply. So whilst we do grow blueberries twelve months of the year here in Australia and are actually the only country to do so, it is just a trickle at this time of year. However, consumers should be pleased to know that supply will pick up fairly soon and that will certainly impact price.
Because I was wondering, I know a lot of blueberries are grown around Coff's Harbor and obviously the Mid North Coast, and I was there a couple of weeks ago. It has been affected by the flood so I thought perhaps it was linked to the weather.
Not at this time of year, this is pretty standard. However, the floods will potentially have an impact on supply in a few weeks time. We're looking at maybe a reduction of around twenty five percent, So the fruit that was impacted by the floods would not be coming onto the shelves at the moment. Okay, certainly in a few weeks time it may have some impact.
So does that mean it's going to take a little bit longer for the prices to come down to where they normally would be.
Yeah, I think that's a reasonable assessment. It's hard to know, particularly as there is more and more production, especially over in Western Australia, which might balance out that impact on the coffs have a region, but I would expect that there will be a drop in supply and that does lead to increased prices. However, we are coming into our peak season and you know prices can drop as low as two dollars eighty a punt like they did last year.
What about strawberry prices At the moment strawberry prices are also high.
Again, we are just in that seasonal gap. So Australia's pretty lucky. We've got a very strong summer production window in Victoria and Tasmania and then Queen Zone really picks up the slack for winter. But we're just in that little in between period where there's not a lot of fruit around.
Just wondering whether Aussies have sort of changed their expectations when it comes to fresh fruit and vegs these days, that there's almost an expectation that you've got good quality and good value all year round.
Yeah.
Look, I think it is an interesting one because I think we all want the best product, and the best product grows in the season that feeds it. And we're not a country that imports a lot of products across the full suite of fruit and vegetables. So I think as consumers, my advice is really take advantage of the product when it is in peak season, because not only will it be less expensive, but it will just be the best quality then.
Too, makes some sense. Thank you, Rachel, Thanks very much, Rachel McKenzie, who's the executive director of Berry Is Australia. So the price should start coming down on LI. But I do think maybe we've changed their attitudes compared to say, when we're kids, we are so lucky compared to most other countries that we have this amazing abundance supply of
fresh fruit in particular and veg as well. You always start to build this expectation that it's always available depending not depending on what season we're in, and that it's a good price. Is Grant on the text line says you got to start driving down to the Highlands and shopping at the Robertson fruit shop. They have two punts of berries the other day for five bucks two punts of strawberries, similar price, best fruit and edgies in the Highland.
So that's Robertson. I thought Roberson was just home to the potatoes. Keet me started on the big potato. Do you have solar panels on your roof? Well, the state government is today announced an additional incentive for you to get a battery for your solar panels. Because it's all well and good for you to generate electricity through your panels.
But if that's all happening in the middle of the day and you want to use the solar at night and it disappears, well, fat lot of good it is, so really it makes sense to have a battery, but the price of batteries is hideous. So what the government along with the federal government, has done today is is effectively double the incentive. So there'll be a fifteen hundred dollar payment if you install a battery and you're connected to the virtual power plant. The virtual power plant is
basically it shared electricity with your neighbors. So overall, the combined benefit is going to be five thousand dollars up front. So, for instance, you install an eleven and a half kilowatt system, which I understand costs about ten thousand dollars. You'll get a support payment of five thousand, so you'll still be up for five thousand dollars, but it may well help you save in the long run if you install a large battery. So at twenty seven kilo battery, now that
cost thirty thousand dollars. You've received a discount of around ten thousand from the Commonwealth program and then there's an upfront payment of fifteen hundred from New South Wales. And the reality is a lot of Australians, whatever you think about renewable energy, a huge proportion of Australians have solar panels on their roof. It actually has been a very popular form of power, but it doesn't really work unless
you've got a battery. And I think the percentage of Australians who have solar but have a battery is about fifteen percent. It's tiny and it's because of the price.
So this is probably smart from both the governments. I just wish when originally, say twenty years ago, the push for renewable started, instead of our authorities and our government's thinking about offshore wind farms, thinking about solar panels in bush areas in agricultural is Why didn't they start thinking about the way we use solar panels in suburban areas
that have been popular in this country for years. Why didn't we introduce battery schemes and put the investment in batteries and rooftop solar ten fifteen years ago rather than say, let's build offs your wind farms. Wouldn't that make more sense.
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Ginb if you'd send a text message zero force zero eight seven three eight seven to three of the prices of fresh fruit and vege at the moment James is telling me about round beans twenty four to ninety nine a kilogram at pendor Hill Market, You've got to be kidding. Well, I guess that's when you don't buy your round beans. I guess we need to be selective when we're buying
fresh fruit and fitch. Look. I spoke at the start of the program about the police operation on the roads across the weekend more than four thousand people caught speeding. Reality is I just wonder whether the double demerit point threat is still a effective. We've been doing it for years and the number of bit more speeding keeps going
up every holiday period. I think we need to start the process of road safety, better road safety by changing the way we train junior drivers, how we train our sixteen year olds and our seventeen year olds, have more advanced driver training, defensive driving, having a stricter system of testing. But I had a few text messages when I raised the issues of the road till last week, suggesting that we do what they do in Europe and introduce speed
limitters in our car. Some of our listeners were arguing with me, what's the point in having a car that's capable of doing one hundred and eighty kil limmeters now when the speed zones one hundred and ten now. Appreciate your perspective there, But I was reading today about the latest VW golf and the technology that is being used in Europe, and in Europe it includes a mandate for speed limitters in cars. Now, I actually think that is verging on George or or nineteen eighty four stuff. I
think that'd be going too far. I don't think we want to get to the point where the government the authorities are able to control using technology how fast we drive. That's going too far. Let's start with our sixteen year olds and seventeen year olds and training them better in the first place, and then testing them more thoroughly. But I bring this up because VW has confirmed they will not activate this software for their latest golf in our market.
They say that there are issues with how the software can be used. Now, if you have a modern car, you may have a dashboard, for instance, and technology with cameras in your car that can pick up roadside speed signs. Have you noticed they're often wrong? Now we've got that in Oursuzomox, and you might be going through a seventy zone, for instance, a ninety pops up because it doesn't read
the sign correctly. And the way the technology works, it's actually quite impressive when it works, and you'll get a little warning on your dashboard saying you're going through a sixty zone and it might start flashing if you go
sixty six. Well, the way it works in Europe, and the technology in Europe is not it's compulsory in cars, in new cars, but a driver can actually switch it off the way it works in Europe when you go through a speed zone and if the camera detects you driving at sixty five and a sixty zone, there's gentle pushback on your throttle and there's an autonomous reduction in your engine power. Now VW says here they will not do that because they've seen with some other manufacturers the
technology not working properly. And I've seen that with our own car that sometimes the cameras don't read those speed signs correctly. So I don't think we want to go down that path, but there's probably a reality of how the future is going to work, and I don't want to see the day we're a government, the police force Transport for New South Wales can control your speed behind the wheel. I think that's going way too far, I reckon. Honestly.
What we need to do is tough en up the way we try and drivers in the first place have advanced driving courses as mandatory is part of the system, and then when kids are actually sitting for their license, a tougher system there side.
Now we've clinton.
On t GB seven past four one three eight seventy three. I'm looking at live pictures being the courtesy of sky from the streets of LA. It is just gone eleven o'clock at night and there are still fires burning. I'm looking at some vision from an intersection. This is a major intersection, and this is an area of LA where effectively they're under curfew. Now people aren't meant to be out in the streets, and there is a fire burning
right in the middle of the intersection. There are still ongoing clashes between the protesters, some who've been taken to the custody and police along with the National Guard and now the Marines. There have been seven hundred Marines who've been deployed to LA and that decision by Donald Trump and his administration has been criticized by the Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom. He is condemned it as being an American that's what he says. He says, this should not be
a role of marines. He says, marines are heroes who have served their country defending democracy. They should not be deployed on American soil, facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial president. I mean when he does say to take on their own countrymen, Well, what mister Trump is doing here and not defending what's actually happening. But well, some of them aren't their own countrymen,
because some of them are illegal immigrants. This is what mister Trump has had to say.
He's destroying one of our great states. And if they didn't get involved, if we didn't bring the guard in, and we would bring Mauren if we needed it, because we have to make sure there's going to be law in order, you had a disaster happening.
So for the moment, there does not seem to be any breakthrough in what's happening on the streets of la given that we are now well after eleven o'clock at night and these clashes are continuing. Lauren to Marzi nine's reporter, and you've now would have seen the video of Lauren being shot with a rubber bullet. She has now spoken with the Prime Minister Anthony Albanezi.
Well, I spoke with Lauren the small warning and she's going, okay, she's pretty resilient, I've got to say.
But that footage was horrific.
That was the footage of an Australian journalist doing what journalists do at their very best, at their very best, which is to go.
Into an environment that's not comfortable.
But where in LA it is not unreasonable to think that she would not have been targeted with a rubber bullet. It is not unreasonable to think that she could go about her coverage clearly as people can see the footage clearly identified as media. And so we have already raised these issues with the US administration. We don't find it acceptable that it occurred, and we think the role of the media is particularly important.
Is that something you'll raise personally with the president.
Well, discussions I have with the president, discussions between myself and the president. That's the way I deal with people, diplomatically, appropriately and with respect. So I'll leave the discussions with the President untill they occur, rather than full shadow them.
The Prime Minister speaking of the National Press Club until six.
This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB Call now one three, one eighty seven three.
It's ten pasts four word on the street thanks to Temper, a great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is temper. And this is a little curious. Paul's at Central station at the moment.
What do you get to tell us, Paul, Hey there, Clinton, Yeah, just just a random one. I was just at Central Station, nothing terribly important, but look the Australian flag on the quop tower there at Central Station is flying at half mass currently and I was curious as to why that probably is.
So this is the flag outside Central Station, the main tower. Yeah, okay, we'll see if we can find out what's going on there. I'm not aware off the top of my head where the somebody of note has passed away in the past twenty four hours that would deem that we that we lower flags. Actually, my staff have just been in contact with Transport for New South Wales. Okay, now this is the answer. Oh, now the flag pole is damaged. The flagpole actually has sustained some sort of damage. They're waiting
for it to be fixed. That's why the floonne is being flown. The flag is being flown at what looks like it's half masted. Is it's not actually at half master the moment because of somebody who has passed away as a sign of respect, the flagpole itself has actually been damaged. If there's something you'd like us to check out, you can always send me a text message zero fourth
zero eight seven three eight seven three. We spoke a lot in the past couple of weeks about home insurance premiums in light of the floods and the natural disasters that we've experienced over the past couple of years, and it's had the effect of pushing home insurance premiums up and for many people, to completely unsustainable levels. But what about your car insurance? Have you had a look at
what your car insurance premium is? Stats released by Canstar show prices have risen six percent over the past year, so inflation is now well below three percent, so it is more double the inflation rate. The average cost of comprehensive car insurance has increased by one hundred and twenty
two dollars. Mature drivers now that is a driver judged to be over the age of fifty, have experienced the biggest jump in prices, by six and a half percent, so they're now paying two hundred and sixty dollars on average. But they're not paying the most. The title goes to young mail drivers, probably not a huge surprise. Those under the age of twenty five, they're facing angel premiums of three thousand dollars. The research also shows that by switching
insurers you could save a bit of money. Loo'd love to hear from you about your car insurance premiums in particular one three, one, eight seventy three. Have you had to renew of late? I received mine last week by coincidences, not actually why we're raising this. And yes, it's gone up even though the value of the car has gone down. Sally Tindall is the data insights director of Cansder. Hello Sally,
Hello Clinton, how are you? I'm good. The cost of car insurance is up by six percent, so that's double inflation.
Yeah, it's incredible.
And look it's a lot smaller rise than it was the year before the year before when we did similar quoting, it went up by thirty point five percent if you can believe that, but you probably can because you probably fell off your chair when you've got your premium at that point in time.
But you know, we go, okay, well it's a lot lower than last year, but it's still adding on top of it. We're not seeing car insurance premiums go down. I don't know if we'll ever see that day. The average premiums that is thirty percent rise in twenty four and a six percent rise in twenty five. That adds to a very expensive car insurance bill if you're not shopping around.
Well, that six percent is much better than previously or what it was, so that's that's encouraging. I mean, I noticed mine was the averages twelve sixty, two hundred and sixty. That's pretty much what mine came in at the other day. I mean, there are so many variables though, it's not just your age, the value of your car, where you live.
Oh, absolutely, it can really add a lot to it. You know what kind of registered drivers you have on there. You know whether you've got a no claim discount, whether you've got a safe driving record. It's incredible the level of detail some insurers are asking you. I just jumped on to UI the other night just to check out their process, and they were asking me whether I used hands free with my mobile phone, how many times I might use my mobile phone in the car. Yeah, it's incredible.
And if they're asking you these questions, it means that they are putting that into their matetrix to understand the risk that you pose to them as an insuranquipment.
Well, could that be a good thing in that you could if you're a safe driver who has good habits behind the wheel, that you could be selling yourself as a model driver.
Absolutely, and this is perhaps the future in car insurance. It's called calimatics, I'm told, or black box car insurance. Rollin' Insurance actually offers this as a feature to its customers, where you could download an app and have it running every time that you're in the car, and it can measure things like you're breaking strength or speed you're cornering. It's incredible, but and for me, I'm thinking, oh my god,
I'm driving with two kids is stressful enough. But for someone that's an incredibly safe driver and won't get stressed by some that kind of app, you know, that could be a really good way to explain to the insurer that you are a low risk driver.
The title for the most expensive insurance belongs to young male drivers under the age of twenty five. And look, that doesn't surprise any of us. They're probably the greatest risk. But the big increases for drivers over the age of fifty. Why do you think that's been the case?
Oh look, I'm actually not sure exactly why that's going up, but I would note that their premiums actually are a lot lower than some of the others, in fact, all of the others looking down this list, so they actually have on average the cheapest premiums age people driving over fifty. But that increase has gone up this particularly and maybe there's gene you know data, you know, maybe it's been
a particularly bad year for drivers over fifty. I'm not entirely sure, but at one two hundred and sixty dollars, that's actually unfortunately cheap compared to the under twenty five mails, which you said were three thousand dollars. You know, it's less than half of what the under twenty five mails are paying. And you know, as you said, no surprises there.
As to wife, how can we save money?
Okay, Well, first of all, I would say, compare, Compare, compare. You use your annual renewal notice not as a box to tick and flick and just pay that figure on the page, but to check if there's a cheaper deal out there. Our research shows that if someone switched from the average priced policy to a five star rated one from our site we rerate them, you could save six
hundred and ninety two dollars from the average premium. That's a drop of thirty one point one percent what are savings there six hundred and ninety two dollars just by shopping around. But I would say when you are shopping around for car insurance, it's not a race for the bottom. You're not looking for the cheapest price policy you can possibly find. You actually want to get value for money. You want to have the features and the coverage just in case you do have an accident, and so it's
important to read the fine print. It's important to do a good comparison. But you can also jump onto our site. We've done the hard work for you.
Ie.
We've gone through I'm not kidding when I say the team has gone through sixty seven thousand car insurance quotes. They do that once a year to work out what constitutes good value for money.
You're right about checking what features they offer. We were caught out a couple of years ago my wife's car. We didn't have the specific extra why they need this, I don't know, but the windscreen insurance, we didn't have that, and of course the windscreen was hit by a rock
and cracked. We had to have a new windscreen. Was adem expensive windscreen because it was an in new car with all the technology that's in a windscreen these days, and we lost our excess, which I think was about eight hundred dollars, so we would have been much better off paying on another twenty five dollars extra for windscreening.
Current insurance, It's insurance is one of those things where it's like, oh, cut a shuit of water when it comes to making a claim. And you know, people always feel like they're not getting value for money when they're not claiming, But as soon as you need to make a claim, you'll want that extra insurance. So it's really important to look at things like your excess so you can One way to save money is to increase your excess, but you've got to understand the risk that you're taking
on by doing that. So for example, I did a test on a Toyota Camri twenty sixteen model and I found that if I increased my excess from one thousand dollars to two thousand dollars, it reduced the annual premium by ninety six dollars. Well, that's a great saving if you don't need to claim on the excess, but if you do in that given year, you're up for an extra thousand dollars. So it's you know, it's really.
A toss up.
It's a difficult decision for people to make. But if you are looking at you know, quitting comprehensive car insurance all together and going to third party property or just you know, a third party person, which is compulsory obviously, then it's absolutely worth looking at things like your excess in addition to shopping around to see if you can keep that cover.
Yeah, have so many variables to look at. Thank you Sally, Thanks Clinton, Sarry Tymdall from Canstar. So it's not straightforward these days because there are so many optional extras as well, But the message from Sally is shop around. A Sydney school student has won a payout of two hundred and seventy six thousand dollars in damage after an incident in a sand pit several years ago. It occurred during long jumping training at the Neutral Bay Public School. This was
six years ago. This is twenty nineteen. The child at the time was eleven. Sustained injuries after doing the long exercise in the sandpit. But the boys landed on the sand and has hit something hard below the sand. There's something really hit him, causing a significant pain in his back. Now this has been before the courts for years and years. Well the Court of the Appeal Court has ruled in favor of the student and as a result, the New South Wales government will have to pay two hundred and
seventy six thousand dollars in compensation. Twenty four past four. I'll come to your cause about insurance in just a moment. But I was talking just before the news about the technology that's used in Europe where speed can be limited in cars based on the cameras that a lot of
modern cars have now that can read speed signs. Now VW today is confirmed they're not going to introduce that technology in their new golf on the Australian market because they've found that based on what other manufacturers of experience, it's not that reliable. Sometimes the car will read the wrong speed. And Daniel makes that point in the text line. I also have an Iusumux which is what we have.
I've actually disabled that feature because you go through a school zone, it will tell you it should be doing forty even when you're outside the school hours. So it's not feel proof yet and it just concerns me the one day governments are going to use this technology to have more control over your car. One three one eight seven three is our number talking car insurance up more than six percent in the last year. Oh Steve, Oh glare Lynn, How are you good, buddy?
Okay, it's just a couple of things, Okay. Firstly, car insurance, it goes up while the value of your car goes down.
Yes.
And then you have house insurance. Most house values go up and insurance goes up, even though I don't like paying it. But there's there's a real issue there when something goes down in value, yet the price goes up in value. So the payouts clearly across the board have to be the profit has to be more for those insurers than anyone else. And the other thing that staggers me. I've got six windows on my car. Five of them are covered by insurance and the other one is it not part.
Of the car and is mind blowing? Yeah, look, this frustrated me.
No end.
A couple of years ago, when the wind screen of my wife's new cars she is driving on the M one just had a little stone flick. She didn't even notice it until she arrived at her destination. The windscreen cost twelve hundred dollars to replace, so we took up the excess. We had an eight hundred dollars excess because we didn't have the special wind screen insurance. Why is the wind screen different to your backwindow exactly?
And we just all accepted it as we have ridiculous cycle or fuel. We just accept these things. Unfortunately, I don't know what you do about it, but yeah, I think they're valid points.
I'm with you, Steve, Thank you. Mate. On the text line, Emma says, we have a towing business in the Hills area of Sydney. We are finding a lot of people are not insured. They only have third party people are canceling their comprehensive insurance due to the cost. Michael says, Mate. Most of the people that I know are now driving without insurance. They simply can't afford it. That's what they're now doing. Let's talk to BEPO in Pensers. Hello, Beppo, what's your insurance premium?
Like my insurpak meal is cheap by this year?
Sixteen cents.
Yeah, your insurance has gone down by sixteen cents exactly. You're probably find your car's not worth as much as it used to be.
Now that the car was the show of last year.
Five two hundred d ye executive say two hundred.
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At Clinton, Good afternoon, LA police have confirmed they're investigating after nine reporter Lauren Tamazi was hit by a rubber bullet while covering immigration raid protests. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi has condemned the incident. The father of a teenager killed in a crash at Buxton is pleading for a plaque remembering her and four others to be returned. The plaques were on benches installed in memory of the five teens
killed in the September twenty twenty two crash. Aaron Patterson has denied she was worried about getting caught when medical staff raised concerns about death cap mushroom poisoning, and a new test to screen for SILLYAC disease is being develop in Australia. It doesn't require patients to eat gluten beforehand, meaning less pain and a faster diagnosis. In sport, the twenty twenty six Formula One season will open at Melbourne's
Albert Park in March. The Amelia Romagna Grand Prix in Italy will be dumped as Madrid enters the calendar as the second event in Spain. Clinton more news at five Tha Kakati.
The temperature starting to fall across Sydney fifteen degrees in the CBD fifteen Penrith. Good day in the stock market. The ASX two hundred is closed up seventy one points eight thousy five hundred and eighty seven. Deb Night with Money News tonight from seven o'clock. Cortus has issued an apology after a flight from the UK to Singapore and was then going to fly to Australia made a diversion to azerba Jahn. A passenger on board suffered a cardiac emergency.
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Night there until six.
This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB You call now one three one ay seventy three.
On insurance cost Lars says, my third party property for the car went up from one hundred and forty two to three hundred and twelve. That does not look like six percent? Well, how do you explain that? So it's more than doubled? Mary? Did your insurance policy go up? Mary?
Yes?
Mine?
How are you?
I'm good?
My insurance policy increased.
Five one cent?
Why do they bother?
Oh?
No?
I couldn't believe it when I got the email, I hang on that has it not.
Changed then that one cent?
Did the value of your vehicle go down?
Now?
Stayed the same?
Maybe that's what?
Okay, thanks Mary. Dennis is in carrying. But hello, Dennis, hi.
Quentin, how are you good?
Dennis good?
I'd just writtenly purchased a b Why do shark?
Yeah?
The big new Duke cabut Yeah, the new.
Duke cabs Yeah, hybrid vergles great to the next level.
Yeah, and they've had massive pre orders for them as well before they went on the market.
I was on a waiting list, but I got upgraded to the top. It's because someone careful, because they finance all through.
What's the insurance?
Like?
Really good three thousand books.
Now, so it's not not achieved vehicle. They're about probably what's seventy k on the road, sixty five YenS insure as well three thousand dollars.
Three thousand bucks. Yeah, I think it may be because of the batteries. I don't know. I'm not too I don't know a lot about electric verticals, but maybe to see replacement of course for the batteries.
Yeah, and that could be the case. And I think with electric vehicles, we know that because they've only been on the market for a relatively short amount of time, we still don't have a lot of information about their their longer term repair costs. Does sound like you've got a good vehicle there. The BYD Shark gets some pretty good reports, Thank you, Dennis. I'm just looking at some more vision courtesy of nine coming in live from LA.
And it's now just gone eleven thirty in LA and there are still there are cars being set alight major intersections in the middle of downtown LA. It is quite frightening. Another journalist has become caught up in the LA riots and has been injured. The ABC's North America correspondent, Lauren Day has been hurt. She was caught up in tear gas that was deployed by the LAPD. They were trying to disperse the crowd around Little Tokyo in la Now that's just come after our own Lauren Tamasi was shot
in the leg with a rubber bullet. The government in the United States, the US government has actually released a protest released a statement saying they are investigating these incidents. They are being investigated by the LAPD. Lauren Day herself has released a statement. She says, in a sign of just how quickly things can escalate after a long standoff processes, all of a sudden, we heard large bangs and the
crowd started running. I then felt the unmistakable burn of tear gas, first in my eyes, then in my nose, lips, and throat. It really stings your entire face. It makes it difficult to breathe until the point you almost want to throw up. Look, this is the reality when reporters are reporting from the front line. That's it does come
with the territory to a point. Now, I think it's pretty clear that the reporters themselves have not been targeted, but because they're in the middle of reporting on this volatile, unfolding situation, they are finding themselves subject to this And the reality is there's probably going to be more in the next couple of days on Sydney.
Now you can't handle the truth, the straight shoot.
Okay, it's our political straight shooters or a Tuesday afternoon joining me as they do every Tuesday afternoon. The outgoing Liberal Center in New South Wales, Polly Hughes and the Labor member for mcquarie, Susan Tedman. Hello, Susan, Hello, Holly, Hellolank. I think we can be both very grateful that we are on this side of the world at the moment.
I think so.
Yeah.
Well, I was a foreign correspondent in the United States back in the eighties and this is not something that you ever want to see happen to journals who are just out doing their job trying to bring the news, especially on radio and TV as it's happening.
Absolutely, thanks, yeah, absolutely.
Now today I want to discuss this one with the both of you, the idea that private school fees could be tax deductible. The South Australian senator, she's a Liberal Senate, Lea Bly. This has appeared on My Colleagues program on three outw Tom Elliot's program. She says if there was a tax deduction, this would level out the playing field for parents. This is lea Bly.
It's important to note that even the most elite private institutions do receive a significant amount of public funding every year, and the net effect for those parents is they're contributing essentially twice because they're not only paying school fees, but they're also contributing to the public systems through general taxation. What we can look at doing is evening out that playing field, but also looking at how we are funding
public schools. I think it's fair to say education standards have been dropping, particularly in our public schools across our nation for decades, and we've got to do something to make sure that we aren't leaving any children behind.
Okay, tax deductible private school fees. I'll start with the government's perspective first, Susan, what do you think now?
It's not something that I would even consider looking at, and it's a bit rich coming from someone who's government presided over appalling funding of especially public schools by ignoring the hohl Gonsky reforms. We've got a system now, it only got signed earlier this year, so that every child in every school across the country where they are public Catholic Independent is going to receive funding that is based on their needs. Now, yes we've got problems, that's because
schools have been poorly funded by the previous government. So I think, you know, let's stop looking for solutions to something that isn't the problem. Let's get to the root of the problem, which is what we did in doing fair funding to schools, and now let's give that an opportunity to flow through. Our agreement in New South Wales is a ten year agreement and that's the same with all the public schools, So we will have a really good idea in coming years to see the effect that
it has. But these sorts of this kind of policy on the run, you know, it's like the liberals have said, hey, guys, any ideas, anything at all, don't hold back, throw it in.
Is fromly the time to do it, though, This is probably the time to put big ideas and even radical ideas out there. Holly, do you think, look, you can speak your mind these days, do you think it would be a good idea?
Look the policy itself as you actually listen to more of the interview and then read some of the reporting about it, It wasn't just you're just talking about tax deductibility of private school fees.
She was talking about looking.
At income splitting for families that have a better and fairer potential tax implications for families, particularly those that have a parent at home or a parent at home more so looking after children. I am pleased there's policy debate going on. Peter duart't ran a very united team, but I can't say it was a team that there was a lot of robust debate around policy, and I think that was reflected in the election result. I think you're exactly right now we is the time to have the debate.
I think our tax system is fundamentally broken across many many areas the continual increase of our alliance on income tax. This is a government who wants to now tax you when you haven't even made the money on their unrealized gains. So every should be on the agenda. What is actually important through this process is that Jim Tarmers doesn't get
carried away. And see the thirty percent of the Australian people that voted for Labor, Yes it was an emphatic win, was not the majority of Australians who voted for them, and doesn't take that as a sign that everything he
says is some sort of messianic declaration. I would actually like to see big boy pants and big girl pants go on and a courageous discussion between the two parties of government about serious tax reform, because this country, if we're going to boost productivity, if we're going to actually get ourselves back on a footing where we're not just constantly staring down one point two trillion million dollars worth of debt, we need proper tax reform in this country.
Is there, well, Susan, is there a desire in the in the Labor party room now that you do have such a big majority, Is there a desire for more radical policy, for policy that maybe may not have been popular pride of the election.
Oh.
The Prime Minister spoke at the Press Club today and made it very clear we are going to do the things we said we do. Let's start with those, let's continually evolve policy, looks for good ideas, explore new ideas, but our priority is delivering the things we said we would.
And you know, one of the things that he announced today was a gathering, as he called it, in Canberra to discuss productivity a bit like we had the Jobs and Skills Summit three years ago to really kick start how we tackle complex issues that.
We'd inherit it.
And now we know productivity has got to be the focus. So that's the sort of evolutionary initiative that you're going to see to keep doing the things.
That we've started.
You know, we've just started. We know we've got a lot more to do. And it won't be just grabbing any grab bag of ideas that someone might throw.
Up now talking about productivity. Holy you visited a Sydney factory this morning.
Look, I did, and I wanted how to look at this space. So this is around sort of Alexandria Zeppeland area of Sydney. And this is off the back of reports in South Australia that there are now supporting the Upper House there for the government to just determine that you are having inappropriate land usage, so they will just take it, not compulsorily, wire not paid for it, just take it. I mean it's effectively a form of communism.
But we hear governments talk about affordable housing, housing crisis, the need for more houses. Clover Moore is I got to get out of town hallmore because what I saw today was an area that she still thinks is a manufacturing area. And the reality is these businesses, these buildings are in effect either wearehouses so there's no jobs, non employment, or they are completely empty and unused.
But when you go to.
The bayside side of the road, if you go sort of gardeners rode down towards the airport in Mascot. If you go to the Bayside Council out side of the road, there is apartment buildings that are built there with businesses thriving underneath them. Yet five six hundred meters down the road walk from Mascot train station where it becomes Sydney City Council, it is absolutely derelict. There are buildings, warehouses, factories that have long since moved their operations into other
areas that are absolutely underutilized. Could be used to create housing that is so desperately needed. Yet we are still hearing from the men's government. I mean, we don't know what the hat's doing. They haven't built a house. So if everyone is serious about this housing situation, Paramata Road is a disgrace. Every single one of those stores is pretty much empty.
And has been for decades and decades. Susan The Prime Minister actually was asked about housing today at the National Press Club address and he said regulation is actually a big part of it, reducing the red tape, and he praised Chris Mins for showing initiative on the rose Hill deal even though it didn't go through. But do you think the problem lies he with local councils.
I definitely think that there's challenges with councils. At the same time, I know councils feel that they represent their rate payers and should have a say. But you know, if there are places that are sitting there empty, needing to be reused and repurposed, then that's why we have a planning Ministry in New South Wales, Paul Scully, who I'm sure is open to many conversations to explore where there might be, just like they did with rose Hill.
And I think the point was made both by the Prime Minister and Housing Minister Claire O'Neill that it does take courage to do those things and put those ideas out there. Not all of them will be successful, but we are at it's urgent. This is not something we can sit back and go, oh, we've got tons of time. We need housing yesterday, and you know that will do
our bit. But a lot of it's going to come down to the State government being bold, and that means counsels really do need to come along with that and look for the best possible outcomes. I know people don't like change in their communities, but I note that Karingay has come up with some really good plans. But from what I've seen in the paper to meet the housing targets that were set for inch not necessarily the way
the state government have originally intended. So I hope those sorts of processes work their way through pretty quickly, because oh my goodness, we need we.
Need bold ideas, We certainly need bodies. I just about to wrap up almost out of some time here, but you're in your way to Canberra SEUSAN for new MP orientations, so you'd be hoping hosting some of the new members of Parliament. It's got any best or worst first day on the job story for us?
Well, I have to tell you the twenty seventh of July in twenty sixteen was a fantastic first day on the job when I was declared as an MP and I got the keys to the office, and I then got shown round the office by the property people who handed over keys, and at the end of it, I said, oh, I must have missed the bathroom. Is there a door I missed? And they looked at me and said, no, there is no bathroom. If you need to go the toilet, there's a shopping center up the road around the corner,
and that's where you go. So it took the chine off a bit. My poor staff, who will spent much more time in the office than I do, had had to suffer that. But I'm pleased to say I did from a worker health and safety perspective. We did end up eventually in a new office and they have a bathroom.
Holly, have you got a first down the job story for me?
I don't know.
I'm looking forward now, Clinton. I don't know what the next first day on the job's going to look like.
I'll be looking for the job.
But I don't actually have a story that I can think of. But you know it has any great resonance.
I mean it was.
I do remember being headhunted for a job in my early twenties and they kept offering me more money, and I remember doing turning up on the first day. It wasn't even really one hundred percent sure what they wanted me to do. But that was back at a time where things were very, very different in the corporate arena. But Susan, oh my god, no toilet, I got to say, having dealt with the Department of Finance, I won't miss that and it doesn't surprise me.
It's the least we can do. That is straight shooters for a Tuesday. Thank you, Susan, Thank you, Holly, thank you Straight shooters every Tuesday afternoon. My first day on the job at the radio station. You know what I honestly did the first time the job. I spent the whole day with Murray Old's who was driving me around Sydney. It's three to five on insurance premiums Adam on the text line says, I just received my comprehensive mode of
policy renewal the insurance. For some the insurance reduced the sun to eight thousand dollars. Now it reduced to buy eight thousand dollars in one year. The premium, though, went up from one hundred and eighty six dollars per month to four hundred and sixty eight per month, so I changed insurers. Yes, I did spend an entire day. My first day at the radio station was with Marie Old's. John says, Look, it could have been worse. You could have been spending with John Stanley.
I don't feel like doing anything. I just want a map.
Did you hear about the survey released today that shows seven out of ten Australians calling sick seventy percent? I actually thought it would have been higher than that. The habit costs business seven point three billion dollars per year. It adds up to twenty four point six million days off every year. Now if you don't count mental health days. Sixty eight percent of Australians say they have faked being sick. The number one reason why they fake being sick apparently
it's because of a lack of sleep. Lack of sleep the next reason because they want to relax and recharge. Twenty seven percent say they actually want a mental health day.
No matter what happened to Norman, be called then sick?
How about this? Work from home is a big debate in the UK as well as it is here. A former UK police officer has been banned for life from working in law enforcement. He has been found to have faked one hundred hours of work. There was a misconduct panel review into the work of p C Liam Reex between June and September of last year. Mister Rex wait for this, deliberately held down keys on his laptop at
regular intervals to prove that he's actually working. The former officer admitted to opening a blank word document on his laptop and holding down the Z character on his keyboard for expended lengths of time. Stunning the lengths people will go to.
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GB one three one eight seven three. Good now have your company this Tuesday afternoon, the sun going down across Sydney. The good news is we have no reports of significant delays on the train network. I know that's a stunning development because usually at this time the trains are absolutely stuffed. But no, the trains are actually running. And tomorrow in the Fair Work Commission there will be a Directions hearing to again try to resolve the ongoing industrial dispute the
combined rail unions. And we brought you this news with John Graham would have been little more than a week ago. Apparently agreed to a new payoffer with the state government to end industrial action once and for all world for at least the next three years. The problem is the ETU is holding out. The RTBU represents more than eight thousand workers, the ETU eight hundred workers and they're now stopping this actually going ahead. So what's going to happen tomorrow?
The government, and they have the support of the RTBU, is going to seek some orders from the Fair Work Commission, whereby they they want the Commission to say to the union's management, you know what, put it to a vote of your members. Let the members decide democratically, and what will happen is obvious. The RTBU has more members than the ETU, so this deal will actually go through. But at the moment it is the ETU that's holding all
of this up. Eight past five monash IVF has been in the headlines today because they have admitted they transferred the wrong embryo into a Melbourne woman. This is the second incident that this company has been involved in in just two months. They released a statement to the stock market today the ASX and they revealed it had mistakenly transferred a patient's own embryo to her during a process in which she was supposed to receive an embryo from
her partner as they sought to extend their family. Now, two months ago, Monash IVF was forced to admit an embryo mix up at its Brisbane clinic that resulted in a Queensland woman giving birth to a stranger's baby, quite horrifying. In the ASX statement today, Monash said the incident at the Clayton Premises on the fifth of June was under investigation and they apologized to the couple involved.
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The Prime Minister today has delivered his first major speech since winning the election here before the National Press Club. I should also point out that Susan Lee will make an announcement and make a speech to the National Press Club later this month. Now. He spoke about many issues, effectively setting the agenda for the next term in Parliament. Now, most of the topics that he touched on were issues that were debated and discussed during the election campaign. But
he was asked about defense spending. The United States wants to straying to increase our defense spending to three point five percent of GDP, But the Prime Minister said is he's not going to put a number on it.
Well, I think that Australia should decide what we spend on Australia's defense, simple as that.
That's my view.
Now if others think that that's not the case, then it's up to them to make that case. Angus Houston's been a friend of mine for a very long period of time and I always pay attention to anything that Angus Houston has to say. But I've made it very clear we will support the capability that Australia needs.
So the Prime Minister saysse spending will be on specific so we need three more ships for the Navy, or we need x number of helicopters or jets. He was also asked about the commitment to build one point two million houses in the country and there are guidelines that the state governments need to meet across the country to effectively solve the housing crisis. He said much of this has to do with red tape and he's committed to reducing bureaucracy, but a lot of that bureaucracy is about
state governments and local counts. He did praise Chris Mins for his position on selling off Rosial race course.
He was right.
He was absolutely right.
In putting forward something that was controversial and in the end people knocked back in spite of the factor had the support of the leadership of the racing industry.
But that's the sort of thing that we're going to need to do.
You can't deal with supply issues without having the courage to do things like that.
So Albo agrees with Chris Minns that we need bold ideas. So why is it when David Elliott raised on this program for the first time in about a decade, the idea of selling off the jail Long Bay jail, redeveloping that prime land around Little Bay. Why isn't government willing to pick up that Now? It can't be because of transport, because there is a transport link that is not far away, the light rail. The light rail could be effectively extendard. It would be cost efficient given how much that land
would be worth. Now, that wouldn't solve the housing affordability crisis because it's not going to be cheap housing, but it would have an effect on the overall market. But it doesn't seem that anyone's really keen on the idea.
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Tax time is almost here and that means scammers are also active. CPA Australia's warning us to watch our inbox. They're actually warning us to watch out for scams early in the morning, so before you have a cup of coffee, before you have your breakfast, when you may be half awake. ATO logos official wording. They're being used on an increasing number of scam messages, even messages such as you have
a new refund notification about this? How about this? Phishing scams have cost Australians more than thirteen million dollars so far this year, and that's triple what it was at this time last year. Jenny Wong is CPA Australia's tax lead and joins us thank you for your.
Time, Jenny, ty Clinton, thanks for having me.
It seems that the scam is a pit to a killy active this year. Is that because simply we're a couple of weeks out from the end of the financial year.
Yes, that's right, and I think every Australian adult it's likely to see some scam emails or SMS a lead up to tax time, and scammers trick you into paying money or giving out their personal information. So it's a major problem and it's getting worse.
Now. You've identified the problem today as being early morning. Why are they targeting us in the morning?
Oh?
Look, scammers are very clever. They take advantage of any situation, and at tax time they targeting individuals through unsubserved messages claiming they're from the ATA or other organizations. They often arrive early in the morning because you may be more likely to have a momentarily laps in judgment or you're still waking up, so scammers have that in mind and they act on that vulnerability.
I also wonder whether a lot of it has to do with the fact that the scammers may not even be based in our country, that they're based in overseas, perhaps Russia or somewhere over there, and these emails are sent out in bulk in the millions around the world.
Yes, that could be true as well.
Yes, what tips do you have for us to look out for?
There are a couple of things that you need to look out for. So it's actually getting harder to distinguish what's a legitimate scam.
Versus what's real.
But look out for grammatical errors, so anything that's unusual language American English spellings using z's instead of s's. For example, ATO doesn't use ciple links in their unsolicited SMS messages, So you see links in an unsolicited SMS or qr COO coming from the ATO, treat it as a scam. Can always check the sender's address. Anything unusual as a red flag, So even if the address includes ATO or Australian Tax Office, look for subtle anomalies like using a
number or adding extra letters, that sort of thing. So just be wary of those things.
And then even posts we're talking up leading up to the end of the financial year, but I expect at the start of the new financial year when many people are then put in their returns and they may be expecting a refund and the ATO actually turns around their refunds fairly quickly for a lot of people these days, that also going to be a danger time.
Yes, generally if you lodge online it might be like a two week turn of our time. But if you lodge, yeah, if you're expecting a refund, that's also a dangerous time as well.
Because you can be offered money that you think is legitimately yours. Thank you for your time, Jenny, No, thank you very much, Jenny Wong from CPA Australia. They represent the accountant. So that the tip is if you bleary eyed and you're not thinking straight, maybe it's not the best time to actually check your emails.
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Almost sixty thousand people at a course stadium for the Bulldog's victory over the Paramatta Eels last night, and we'll be talking to Mark Guyer after the five thirty news. And boy didn't they have fun on the streets of Belmore last night. They were shouting and banging the drums and singing who let the dogs out? At one point? But you'll see the vision on nine Yews tonight as well. I shouldn't laugh. They were doing burnouts and they were creating so much smoke with the burnouts they set off
smoke alarms and the fire Brigade had to come out. Look, I think it's fantastic that the bulldogs. I'm not a bulldog supporter, it's fantastic. The Bulldogs are having a great year and it's wonderful that they go out to Belmore and they bang on their drums and they're having a wonderful time. But if you don't want the police to turn up, and you don't want the alarms to start sounding, maybe don't do any more burnouts. If you are traveling via the motorways to go and see Katy Perry tonight,
it's her final show at keutors Bank Arena. But what about the Shenanigans A last night there was one of the fans, as you've probably seen the video by now, jumped up on stage. Well, Katie's there with a guitar strummed over her shoulders and she's doing You're Hot and Your Cold a big hit, and this bloke jumps up from stage and tries to tries to stop her. What was he thinking? Now, he's a serial offender, this bloke.
He's some guy who's known as the Pajama Man. He's a content creator, which means he's some blake who performed stunts to get likes on social media on Instagram. His name is Johnson Win aka the Pajama Man, and the Blake's got Form twenty twenty one. He was fined two hundred dollars because he ran under the field during the third State of Origin match in Brisbane twenty twenty three. We were playing India in the ICC. It was in
the ICC World Cup. He's run under the field. He's tribed to grab the Indian captain Virek Cohli and now he's done with Katy perrk Katy Perry's final show to a night at Kudos Bank Arena, Pajama Man. Hopefully he won't be anywhere near the venue now. Talking about rock stars, Chris Mins, the Premier, had a rockstar reception at a business forum this morning in Sydney. Now it's like the Coalition and the Labor Party of switch sides in McCrory Street,
particularly over the issue of workers compensation. So Daniel Mookie, the Treasurer and Chris Mins attended the Business New South Wales pre budget breakfast at the Shangrila Hotel this morning and they were introduced on the stage by Business Sydney executive Director Paul Nikola, who often appears in the program, and he introduced the crowd by saying, now turn to the person on your left and say I love Chris Mins, and then turn to the person on your right and
say I love Daniel Mookie. This celebration of love by the business community was all about the workers compensation issue, which you know we've been talking a lot about it on the station over the past couple of weeks, is now going to be referred to it an Upper House inquir And because it's referred to an inquiry, it means premiums are likely to go up.
Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard, if it's happening in your city, do you'll hear it on Sydney Now.
To GenB on the text line zero course zero eight seven three eight seven three, Jason asked the question, do we know what the etu's problem is? Can they explain their position, their concerns They don't like talking publicly now, so the ETU will be at the center of this hearing before the Fair Work Commission tomorrow that involves the state government, the other unions that represent workers of Sydney
Trains and the ETU. All the other unions, but notably the Rail, Tram and Bus Union, are now supportive of this new paid year with the state government, but the ETU is holding out and because of that it can't be finalized, which means, effectively we still have the thread of industrial action hanging over our heads. Now why this is important with the ETU, because if you cast your mind back to January, we had an complete meltdown of
the rail network. There were two reasons for that. One, the RTBU had instructed their drivers on the outer suburban network to drive slowly, but the system completely crumbled because there was a problem at Bondijunction, and then there was another problem at Homebush, a mechanical problem. It was actually well no, it wasn't mechanical, it was actually an electrical problem, and because the ETU was taking industri real action, it couldn't be fixed, which means the trains were stuffed for
the whole day. So this is the risk. If this dispute is not sorted out, we risk that happening again. So Jason, what's their problem. Apparently it's a bit of a demarcation dispute. It all comes down to how different workers are classified. That's a sexually the problem. But the fact that this has been going on now effectively for two years and dates back to the way when the coalition was in power. In the end, we the commuters are paying their wages through our taxes and through our
opal cards, and we're not getting the service. And that's unfair on us, the traveling public. A woman's appeared before court charged with wine fueled behave on an international flight. That's the quote from police wine fueled behavior. The sixty four year old is accused of consuming a bottle of her own wine on a flight between New Caledonia and
Sydney last week. When the woman was told she could not consume her own alcohol on board the aircraft, she allegedly became verbally abusive and, according to the police delegations, at one point kicked a crew member in the stomach. She allegedly refused instructions to sit down. During the descent, she prompted the prompting the crew to attempt to physically restrain her in her seat. The AFP then responded, once the airline arrived terminal.
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We spoke a lot about rubbish on the program last week. Well, you would have been following this story today about Sydney councils, all but three of thirty four local councils planning to raise the residential domestic waste service fee. You have a close look at your rates and your council rates are divided in to the base rate that you pay, but there's also that residential domestic waste fee. Well, it's going
to go up for virtually all of us. Now. Georges River Council, we have been in our sites over a few issues in the last couple of weeks, but hats off to them. They're the only council though there's actually three councils overall, but they're the only counselors proposing reducing their fee. The average fee of waste collection for the Georges River Council will be cut from six hundred and
thirteen dollars to six hundred dollars. So, while we have been bashing up Georges River Council on a few issues and with good reason, it's a well a hooray for Georges River Council to meet This evening, let's check in your headlines.
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And we've got the latest Good Evening, Katie Puller, Good Evening, Clinton. Another Australian journalist has been during protests in Los Angeles. ABC correspondent Lauren Day was hit with tear gas as police disperse crowds taking part in immigration raid protests. As seventy seven year old woman has been arrested over a deadly hit and run. In Sydney's Southwest, a forty six year old man was struck and killed when he stepped
outside his car. Monash Ivf has been caught up in another embryo transfer bungle, the second it's admitted to in just two months, and research suggests growing costs are seeing half of Australian men put off medical appointments. In Sport, the Roosters rushed Sam Walk into their side to face the Knights after just one game in the New South Wales Cup following a knee reconstruction. Clinton more news at.
Six Sakkati fourteen degrees in the city at the moment, It's thirteen degrees in the western suburbs. Now tomorrow the program will come to you live from the new Western Sydney Airport. I'm going to have the privilege of visiting the terminal. It's going to be the first time a lot of people are able to see the terminal. It's just about finished, so I'll be out there in the morning and then in the afternoon will broadcast the show
from the terminal. The Western City Airport will be operating late next year, capable of handling ten million passengers a year, and this is going to be very different to Mascot because it's going to be a twenty four hour day airport.
Now.
I know the flight paths were released last week and there's some controversy about the flight paths, but just bear in mind initial flight numbers is going to be much smaller for the Western Sydney Airport than they are for Mascot, and there's also much greater capacity for change there as well. Eventually, eventually, the plan is for the Western Sydney Airport to become the largest in the city that will handle eighty million
passengers every single year. The runway will accommodate eight three eighties and also seven four seven eighths, so that the biggest planes that fly around the globe it'll open late next year. Will broadcast the program alive from the Western
Sydney Airport tomorrow. As update, you did a very positive day on the stock market, the All ordinaries trading up point eight one of a percent, eight thousand, eight hundred and twelve point the ASX two hundred up point eight four percent, eight thousand, five hundred and eighty seven one Australian dollar buying sixty four US since reason for the strong performance in the stock market today is has been some very encouraging trade talks between the United States and China.
Meetings were held in London on Monday between the US Treasury Secretary and represented some China and the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besnett says, we are doing very well with China. It's not easy, but we we're getting some good progress. So that's positive for us because even though this is the direct relationship between the Chinese and the United States, they are both key trading partners for US. So if the economies of those two nations suffer, we end up suffering on Sydney.
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It's been a beautiful day across Sydney hardly it was out in the sky a little early obviously, the sun going down now tonight the temperature will will drop probably just below ten degrees in the coast, fourteen degrees in the city at the moment, thirteen in the west. Tomorrow, mostly sunny day with the top of eighteen degrees. Thursday, a shower all two developing, and sixteen showers on Friday, and at this certainly stage for the weekend, a chower
all two on Saturday, partly cloudy on Sunday. If it matters to you, you'll hear it here.
Sydney Now with Quinton Maynard. Until see let's.
Talk some sport with Mark Guy. Hello, Mging Clinton, how are you, buddy? I know we didn't get to talk yesterday, so can I ask you? How is your experience at the Mighty Shark Park on Saturday night?
It was fantastic. We got all there from one pm and so I just want to say, for the record, the best food that we've ever had delivered to us in the commentary box with the continuous call to him, it was beautiful fresh sandwiches. And then it was because it was the Pacific celebration. We had all this beautiful polylegiance to come into the box, which was delightful. So to all those at Shark Park, thank you for the accommodating gesture on Saturday. It was much appreciated.
And you're certainly polished off because I turned up at just about five thirty. You'd gone and there's no food in the box whatsoever. Everyone had eaten it.
You've got Mark leeby, Mark Guyer and Martin come on, come on, and Gow and Gow was there as well.
Now I've got a mission to make MG about that game. So that the boys did have me in the box on Saturday night, I left with fifteen minutes to go.
I walked out, why buddy, what's to be there? They were awful. I thought the stage was set for them to beat the Warriors. But unfortunately the Warriors that team like Camera this year, who are great to watch, and they're going to be there when the chips are.
Down and they have more energy and enthusiasm Crent that had none.
Yeah, that's that's not a good thing that halfway through the year, isn't it strength When you haven't got any original representatives?
Well, yeah, they've got a few injuries here and there, but they came off a buye. I know they traveler at the first half of the year, but they had a buy so they should have been rested up and they just they'd looked like lethargic.
Yeah. I was listening to the call on the way home and exactly how the boys explained it that they looked like they didn't turn up and that's worrying when you're playing home after a buy. So back on the horse.
O KMG team with Tuesday changes obviously because Origin players don't play this weekend for their clubs.
Yeah, some massive inns any out. Cody Walker is out for South Sydney without recurring calf injury. So I Cody turns thirty six in January, so you might think that this is his last season, but look Rooster's halfback seeing Walker returns for the first time since a round and twenty six last year. He'll play against the Knights on Saturday. Turbot was back for Manly after a thigh injury. New Bulldog recruit lock at the Galvin. He'll partner Tab Sexton
in the hears with Matt Burton on Origin. Judy and Jackson Hastings comes into the Newcastle's line up for the first time this season, so there are a bit of trouble at the moment. Knights. Colen Pong was off on Origin duties, but Jackson Hastings he'll play his first game of the year at night and.
So Galvin has been named. He was on the bench yesterday for the game against the Yels. He will play seven, he'll play six. He'll played six because Burton's in the extended squad for the Origin.
Yes, yes, Burtain's eighteenth man, so he'll be playing six. But there's some also some Origin news we haven't spoken about obviously because we went on there yesterday, but Kevin Munster has been named as captain. Look really slad. I don't know whether he's playing mind games or what, but there is word that he's going to put Pat Carrigan and Jeremiah n and I on the bench to start with cape Well and Cutter and look for it's worth. I think they're two best forwards in the game one
Carrigan and Nani. So I don't know whether he's playing ducks and drapes or I'm still thinking Corey Hawesbury might make his way into their seventeen but you know what, who cares?
As we said this, I was surprised he's not in the seventeen horse.
From Yeah, well he's in the twenty. So what I suppose was this.
So far away, it's not just the now. I was flight like the Brisbane is to Sydney. I suppose because it's four and a half five hour flight over the Perth, they've got to take them players as a contingency plan.
So but you need a madman in this in a state of Oregon. So I mean you were the madman for New South. Wow, they need one too, don't they?
I think so. I think they lacked that. You know, I felt sorry for Dahli Cherry Evans. I must confess that. I don't think when you're a half back, you you've got to have your forwards going forward and going really strongly against the other pack. And unfortunately for Daily Cherry Evans and Munster and Ponger in game one, our forwards just depleted the coins leaning forward. So I think that's
where they should have made the changes. I would have even brought Josh Papa Leiki back into the team for one last sur I think he would have been He would have been one of them inspirational leaders for Coinsland. But anyway, they've chosen what they've chosen and let the chips lay where they are. Clinton Queenslanders. Look what they're going down to zip in Perth.
And the West Tigers have made it a signing today.
They have mate Taylor may Is on a train and trial deal for the rest of the year. He'll be joining his brother Terrell, which is not about signing for this time of year, I suppose, because it's you know, he's he his handy player hasn't played for a while, so we don't know what kind of a position, what kind of condition he will be in. But yeah, the
Tigers and they're also chasing Adam Reynolds. The Tigers are as well because the Broncos are kind of yet to table him an offer for next year, so the Tigers are trying to get into the guard of the Broncos and get get Adam Reynolds down to the Tigers next year as well.
You know, some people grow up sometimes they like to change their name. He'd have a few troubles if he wanted to change his name. Who's that Taylor May Well, we'll do because he's got the name may is tattered around his neck and you certainly can't rub it off with an a race here.
He'll never get lost, He'll never get lost in the shopping center.
Yeah, there's a video doing the rounds and this shows parents in the UK heckling teenager during an under fourteen's junior rugby league game.
Yeah, I've seen it. Look, it's not good, and that's kind of vindicative of what happens. Everyone who's listening to this chat right now, we'll be not in their head when they say that they've seen some parents, coaches, officials carrying on like pork chops on the sideline when there's kid's playing. Look. I even remember a game when I was playing against I was playing for Whalen in the
Peder Junior Ability competition when I was under twelves. At half time, I'm sitting there having an orange with all my teammates. The next thing I see is my dad chasing someone across the foot field on a post motorbike. What we found out ten minutes later was the guy who was chasing said to anyone in the black team, I'll give you five dollars bash number nine, which I
was number nine. So Dad found out there. So you're kidding, yes, yes, so this is this has been going on since you know what, forty years ago, forty five years ago, So this is Look, I know. Matt Lodge has said something on Instagram as well over the weekend. He said, basically he felt obliged to deliver a strong message to it's not standing for some of the stuff that they saw
from coaches parents. He said that he loves the sports that much, but the abusing and yelling and swear and criticizing kids at a five six seven ages shouldn't happen. And I agree, I mean don't. I coached my boys for a long time and one of the main reasons I stopped coaching was because of parents interference. He's got to let the boys be boys or the girls big girls, and we've got to stop trying to live our lives through their eyes. We've had our chance. Now let them play them, let them.
Do it well.
I've actually got to say I've only returned this year to seeing my son play soccer, and I've got to say I've actually seen none of the poor behavior from parents.
That's great, Yeah, that's fantastic.
Because you hear of it all the time. But I genuinely I don't know if it's just the club that they're involved with. I don't know whether it's the area or whatever was going on, but I genuinely have seen no poor behavior at all.
Well, I think it is getting better. I think what the the I know that the Penouth Junior ABUL League, now, if you're going out from the sideline, they'll stop the game. The referel point of the person who's yelling and say, if you say one more, we're going to fall for your team. Yeah, And I think that's as strong as you can get. And I think that's what they rething should.
These kids who are refereeing most times have got to have their parents sitting in the car, their kids were sitting on the sideline just say that they get abused and they're trying to you know, these are the future. You know, without refereens, we haven't got a game. People, So let them let them go, let them, let them, let them live their lives. Yeah, the kids play their games as well.
Spot on good on MG Talk tomorrow Buddy MG back with us after five point thirty tomorrow, thirteen to six. Peter Aviden mentioned he's going to have a look at this in the nine News bullet in tonight. The new blood test that is being developed to detect people who are celiac. Now, this is quite an amazing statistic. It's estimated eighty percent of people who do suffer Celiac disease actually don't realize they have it. So those who need to be really on a gluten free diet. It's detective
at the moment, effectively through gastrosophies and biopsies. Now I have a condition, not silly, a disease, but I do have a regular gastrostrophy. Now it's not a lot of fun. You've got to go to hospital, you go under a
general anesthetic. Well, this will be some new development that will be an ultrasensitive blood test and it's being developed by some Australians and this will make quite a difference because those who have developed this blood test believe that it will mean that doctors will be able to be more effective in diagnosing the disease and then those who shouldn't be eaten gluten will actually be able to stick to a diet that won't lead them to be sick.
It's an important Australian initiative and great that it's actually been something that's been developed right here?
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GB tell me random fact of the daytime Do you remember this song Snead O'Connor? It was on this day nineteen ninety three. She lived quite a troubled life Shnado O'Connor now sadly passed. She took out a full page ad in the Irish Times.
Which is the leading newspaper in.
Dublin, and the full page ad simply said stop hurting me please. She had a really troubled chub. She felt that the world was against her. She had some issues with the Catholic Church in the paper as well. And this song which was her biggest hit, without doubt, do you know who was written by Prince? Nothing compares to you? And sadly Shaneid O'Connor long gone and writer of that chien Prince departed as well. Finally, there's been a fair bit of attention paid to the black market tobacco issue
we have in this country. Well news today that OSTRAC is actually now playing a role. Ostrack is what you might call the the financial crime fighters in the country. They're a special agency under the auspices of the federal government. They've now been brought in to look at the back end of this trade. They often, for instance, investigate big
business and financial wrongdoing. What they're now going to be involved in is working with state police and federal police about how the tobacco industry is being funded, the illegal tobacco industry because that's at the heart, particularly of fire bombings in Victoria. But how all these tobacconists that have opened up everywhere of being financed.
Do you want to know what's happening in Sydney? Stay tuned to send me out with Clinton later ont GB.
It appears that Celiac disease is one of the most underreported significant conditions that Australians suffer. But we're moving closer to a new blood test that would actually be able to diagnose Celiac disease. Jen, your daughter has Celiac disease.
Yes, she does.
We only just discovered it actually just via a biopsy. But you know she was on diet, so going on and off gluten for quite some time, and then you know, having troubles with it, ended up not being able to go back to regular school. So you know, to be able to sort of have just a blood test to be able to tell us would have been great.
It makes it, It makes it so much easier than an invasive persuages procedure. What triggered your thought that she did suffer it?
Just a general symptoms but they weren't sort of all the time. Sometimes she would get it, sometimes she wouldn't, and so sort of hidden there and when the team ages, you know, it's hard to sort of say, you know, you really.
Seek Well, it's become more common in recent years, but it's it's very much underdiagnosed. So hopefully this test will be available in a few years time. Thanks you called Jin.
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Adam Hall is hosting Wild Wood of Sports from six o'clock tonight. Hello Hawsey, Hello Clinton. Gee Sharks mate, didn't they terrible?
Yeah?
No, I've written them off. I didn't pick that. No, I've actually, I honestly do not believe they can make the top They hit the wall and if you can't make the top four, you're not going to win. The car hit the wall too. Big losses in a row. And actually that Craig fits given has wielded the axe. Oh no, sorry he hasn't. It's known the same side I love.
I have opened a can of world heaho a big show coming up tonight. Why I brought a sports Laurie Daily. You will join us from Blues Camp. They're justering down now and ahead of origin to me.
Yes, why Lua. So they're based in the Blue Mountains.
They can just get away from the focus, mate, get away from you.
Turning up with the cold scrap book.
Huh it's a bit cold.
Oh that gets them ready for the game. The toughens them up. They're playing in Perth. They have winter over there today. It's warm in Perth at the moment.
Come on anyway, so we'll talk about how they're shaping up. Plus the Maroons big changes, Camera Monster, the new skipper, dce out. We'll go through the team changes at NRL level. Sam Walker back for the Roosters, which is a big one. Kay Campbell will join us to talk about the Australian
swimming trials. Kadie McEwan again in the headlines today. Mark Bosnich Bossa will jump on to talk about the soccer US and their big game early tomorrow morning against Saudi Arabia with a World Cup spot up the grams and.
I see that Tottenham is just acts the coach of their women's team as well. There you go, they're good at that Bloodthday. Get on your hawsey. Adam Hawes with Wildood are sports coming up? After the six o'clock years deb Knight will be presenting Money News from seven o'clock to night, John Stanley taking you through the night before, Phil O'Neil and Ben Fordham for Breakfast Now. Tomorrow special edition of the program will broadcast live from the brand
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