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Monday, June twenty three. It is Clinton Maynard back with you. One three one eight seven three is our number. Stunning winters afternoon, you'd be mistaken for thinking it's spring. Well maybe not early in the morning. It's still very cold in the morning. If you drive past a service station this afternoon you see petrol around the Douglas seven year lead,
please pill up. The official message from the NROMA today and we will talk to them on the show is the petrol prices are about to go up, and potentially significantly so, and this is because of the war in the Middle East. The wholesale price actually increased by eight cents about a week ago and that's yet to really take effect at service stations, but it's going to coming
up on the program. Nurses have been railing outside westmeat Hospital this afternoon, claiming maternity resources are savagely under what's expected at the hospital, to the point babies are being treated in corridors and storerooms. Now the government's denying that and the Health Minister Ryan Park will hold a meeting at Westmead later this week. But I'll talk to a midwife on the show a little later. New research shows getting too much sleep could actually lead to an early death.
I'll talk to a sleep expert about exactly how much sleep we should be getting. Mark Guy with all the news on the weekend's Footy, and I will be spinning two GB's Winter Wheel, your chance to win hundreds, maybe thousands. We gave away two and a half thousand dollars on Friday, so this is the program to play the Winter Wheel. Don't call yet. Don't call yet. You need to be
listening for the qu to call. You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so send me a text message zero four s zero eight seven three eight seven three our number one three one eight seven three. Well, right now I am looking at vision of a humpback whale that is clearly in distress off Sydney's northern ba. This whale is off it's off Palm Beach at the moment, first discovered in some trouble by
drones that have been deployed. It is tangled in a large long line, probably about one hundred and fifty meters worth. I can see that the whale now tossing. Now there's an operation that's undergoing to try to free this whale from being tangled in this line. It is being led by National Parks and Wildlife. Chad Western joins me. Chad, I'm looking at the vision at the moment and this is an operation that's been going on for about an hour an hour. What can you tell us.
Hello, mate? Well, I'm pleased to say that most of the lines now been removed from the animal. There's still
a few pieces we're working on. But the team became aware of it into the evening last night when it was in the Manly area right and this morning we stood up for our large Whale Disentanglement team and they've been out on the water since around eleven o'clock today with the assistance of ORCA and Marine Rescue and water Police, and they've managed to free most of the rope, so you're right there that it was about one hundred and fifty meters of line with four boys wrapped around the body,
the peck fins and tail, and they've removed most of that now. They've got probably a single wrap left on the pectoral ring pectoral fin and they're working on that now and hopefully they'll be back ashore soon.
Right.
I can see the whale at the moment, and it's actually tossing over, so it was on its back just a few moments ago. And the line that I can see in the water, it's difficult because this is in the deep blue water off the coast. I can see clearly one line and there's a white boy on that line. So would that be just the last remaining piece of line that's tangling this whale?
Yeah, And I'm not sure when the imagery you're looking at is from. And you're right around the drone assistance provided by agencies like Walker. They've been flying out drones and having a look at the entanglement and then sharing it with us and our team on the ground so
that they can target those pieces. But the immediate advice, because I've been working with the team all day, is that most of it has been removed, with a single wrap remaining on that left right in and a small piece at the mouth which is free and we hope it will Dislidge.
Well.
Your cruise have done a great job. Because I was watching a little earlier where this is about half an hour ago, where three of your officers that are in a red dinghy that says Wildlife Rescue on the side of it. They were as probably as close as they could safely get. And I guess are they manipulating the tools they use to try to disentangle the whale?
Yeah, exactly, so what they what they do? Obviously, we take a fair bit of time just to monitor the whale first to understand its behavior and how we'll respond to approach, and to see where it's at with its behavior with respective fatigue as well.
Obviously you can.
Imagine these will I'm quite tired, wrapped in in gear. And then what they do is they attach boys we call kegs and a sea sale in the in the efforts to slow it down even further and just make it a bit more tired so that when it's approached, we can better predict that its behaviors.
Okay, so yeah.
I can see at the moment that that dinghy with three people on board is probably about twenty five thirty meters away from the whale right now, I'm actually looking at some live vision Curtesy of our Channel nine helicopters. Great, once, Craig, once this line is completely untangled, is the whale going to be Okay? It's to continue on its northern migration. Well, you need to monitor the whale for a little while and.
There will be some monitoring as best we can given there, you know, freeing out of the open ocean. We do also consider whether we need to put a track on it. So, for example, if we can't get that pectoral line off, will consider if we need to put a tracker on it, and then we can pick it up over the next day and re engage if we can.
Okay, good work so far. Thank you, Chad.
You're welcome.
Thank you Chad Western who's some National Parks and wildlife. So as he explains that they're nearing the end of this operation that's been going now for several hours. I've been watching it over the past hour and I can see live vision and this is off Palm Beach and
there's now two rubber duckies. These are wildlife rubber duckies about thirty to forty meters away from the whale, and at times they do need to get closer with three people on board, and it would appear that there's just one piece now of line that is wrapped around part of the whales. One of the whales fins but it looks like they've managed to get most of that line
away from the whale. Part of it was tangled in the mouth at one point, so hopefully soon this whale will be fully free and able to continue on its journey north Sydney.
Now on to GB.
Thirteen past three. There's been a string of fires across Sydney's western suburbs today. Three cars were found to light in West Hoxton's and Preston's and a tattoo parlor was also set a light in Westmeat. Aaron Ramsey from nine News has been on the scene of these fires today.
Hello erin good afternoon.
These fires have now been extinguished. Do you know if they're all linked together?
Well, that is certainly at the forefront of all the investigations at the moment. Quite a bit to get through for all the local police at the moment.
Kicking us off.
Around three o'clock this morning, a privately owned gym at Marylands was fire bombed, the front door smashed in. Now one man was working out inside fitness hub when it was attacked. He was escorted out later by fire crews, drenched from the fire sprinklers, but otherwise okay. About one hundred residents in that unit block above the gym had
to be evacuated. Meanwhile, around almost exactly the same time, more fire crews were also called to eight what was initially thought to be a tattoo parlor but turns out is actually a barbershop that hasn't been there for very long, only a couple of months. They were called the railway parade at Westmead where that barbershop was also well alighted
to believed arsonists were responsible for that one. Two bakers working downstairs say they saw two people running away, one holding a hammer and the other holding a petrol cannut. Pool business was absolutely destroyed, and of course the Liverpool Police are also investigating two separate car fire incidents. As you mentioned, just before midnight two car parks in the driveway of a family home at West Hoxton they were
deliberately set alight. And then around three o'clock this morning, so about an hour or so about after the gym and barbershop fires, two figures were captured on CCTV setting a Mazda Suv a light outside a home at Preston. So at this stage it's all being investigated separately with the assistants from the arson squad, but there still could be some links made.
Yeah, and given we're talking about a barbershop, there have been some barbershops target as part of this ongoing Sydney gang war as well. I hear that the bakers that helped put that fire out did an amazing job themselves.
Oh yeah, incredible. Unfortunately the business couldn't be saved, and because it's tucked away in a complex, a few of the other businesses were also damaged, so they're also shut down for today, which is really tough on those small business owners. But it's incredibly lucky that those bakers were there to start putting out that fire, and by the sounds of it, are key witnesses in trying to find who's responsible for that fire.
Aaron will see your report on nine to night. Thank you, Thank you, Aaron Ramsey. You'll see all the vision on Channel nine tonight one, three, one, eight, seven, three, sixteen past three. The latest in the Middle East. The development today is that Anthony Albanezi has finally spoken. The Prime Minister has now fully supported the US strikes.
The world has long agreed that Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon, and we support action to prevent that.
That is what this is.
The US action was directed at specific site central to Iran's nuclear program. We don't want escalation and a full scale war. We continue to call for dialogue and for diplomacy. As I've said for many days now, we are deeply concerned about any escalation in the region and we want to see diplomacy, dialogue and de escalation.
The PM says he's been saying that for many days now, but he did not make comments over the weekend. He did not speak about this yesterday after Donald Trump made his announcement from the White House, and the Prime Minister has been criticized for that, for waiting more than twenty four hours to make his statement. He's been quizzed about that today and he says, well, this was unilateral action
from the United States and a statement was released. More than four thousand people have now asked our government for help in leaving Israel and the Middle East as this tension continues. The US has indicated that the airspace will still be open for a little while to assist with evacuation flights foreigners to Penny Wong says this may be a chance for US to actually get in there and help evacuate our citizens.
Obviously this is very fluid, but we are seeking to make arrangements to utilize that window if we are able, and we have advised Australians on the ground of that fact.
The foreign mister Pennywong well I said it felt like spring. It's twenty two degrees in the coast at the moment, twenty degrees in Penrith. There is a flood alert for the Tempe Bridge the Cooks River. This is a warning from the Bureau. Minor flooding possible at high tide this evening on the Tempey Bridge. High tide might cause flooding along the Cooks River sometime this evening and then again
on high tide tomorrow night. So the Cooks River Bridge Tempi it may reach the minor flood level of one point three meters word on the street thanks to Temper a great night's sleep night after night. The difference is temper. If there's something you want us to investigate, send me an email t GB dot com. Now one of our listeners, David, has done just that. As you know on the first of July, so next week your power prices are going
to go up. When this was announced by an EMO a couple of weeks back, we were told that the default market offer in New South Wales would increase by between eight point three percent and nine point seven percent. And unfortunately the increases in New South Wales are larger than increases in other states. That's for just household now. The default market offer means that if you don't have a contract with a particularly particular energy retailer, you pay
the default market offer. The price rises would add between seventy one and two hundred and twenty eight dollars to the annual bill of the average customer. So on a default market offer it would increase potentially between one nine hundred and sixty five dollars per year and two thy seven hundred and forty one A big gap there. It
depends on your own circumstances. Well, David has sent me some detail over the weekend of what's happening with his energy bill and he's with a link to energy and he received an email last week, a letter in the mar last week. He's done the calculations about what his bill is going to increase by. He calculates that his costs will increase by twenty seven point seven nine percent
based on his last six monthly bills. The total cost will rise by eight hundred and sixty four dollars, not by what has been publicized, And he's actually sent me the detail, and I'm just having a look at his bill, and he's done the calculations here because the Link Energy
themselves haven't done the calculations. But for peak usage, the tariff per killer what hour is fifty one cents point five to three five at the moment, it's going to increase to sixty five point eight seven nine cents now based on the calculation, that's an increase of twenty seven
point eight three percent. And then David's gone through the off peak increase which is also more than twenty seven percent, the shoulder increase which is twenty seven percent, the controlled load usage to increase which is more than five percent, and then the daily charge that they whack you with, which is an increase of seven point one four percent. So overall, his calculation is his bills are going to increase by eight hundred and sixty four dollars, which is
twenty seven point seven nine percent. But then from AEMO residential customers will see price increases between eight point five and nine point one percent does not add up. Well, we'll try and speak with the Link of Energy this week to see if you can get an explanation.
Now.
I was also sent on Friday a letter from Energy Australia and I didn't open it still until this morning because I thought it was a bill, but I thought I better open it. And it's changes to my electricity rates and I'm on the default market offer because I don't have a contract. Now, I haven't gone through it yet because it's two pages of gobbllygooks, so I actually need to put some research into it. But well, we'll talk to all the grandergy about what's going on here
with David's bills. But you tell me most of us if we're not on a contract. We'll have now received one of these letters in the mail about what the increase is. Do the calculation and let me know percentage wise what your bill is going to go up by let me know. You can email me two GB dot com or give me a call one three one eight seven three. Well, they are coming. We alluded to this last week when word came through that ac DC would be playing at the MCG later this year. Well, they
will be coming here to Sydney November twenty one. Tickets are on sale through ticker tech on Thursday. At the moment, there's only one show plan. They're going to talk to Peter Ford about this in a few minutes, because yes, the members of ac DC will particularly Brian Johnson and Angus Young are in their seventies. Now question will be will they play more than one gig? They will certainly have demand for it. Stack of text messages here and
a lot of feedback about electricity prices. Brad says, my electricity price is going up by sixteen point five percent from July one. The solar feeding drops from five cents to four cents. Ben says, I'm with power Shop Killoud. Our price per sense is going up by twenty one percent. The daily price is up by six percent. Coming up in a moment, Peter Ford. Let's check out his headlines. Good afternoon, Katie Fuller.
Good afternoon Clinton. A rescue team is monitoring a waale whish he has been tangled in Natoff Sydney's Northern Beaches. Rescuers have managed to cut most of the rope away from the humpback. The delicate operation hampered at times. Is the whale thrashed in the water. The Health Minister insists he'll meet with a frustrated group of nurses at Westmeat Hospital who've staged a snap lunchtime rally. Dozens went on strike for half an hour demanding better staffing in the
hospital's neonatal intensive care unit. Boosting social housing is being put forward as an idea to alleviate the pressure facing renters. A survey shows nearly seventy percent of tenants are worried about asking for repairs, fearing they'll face a rent increase or eviction, and local students have taken out the International Rocket Engineering competition. The Sydney University team's rocket soared above ten thousand feet in sport Big Bash. Hero Mitchell Owen
has starred in America's Major League cricket. He's taken three for thirty three, then blasted eighty nine or fifty two bulls in Washington's seven wicket win over the Texas Super Kings. Clinton More news at four.
Thak Kati twenty two degrees in the cost twenty four degrees in Rootie Hill I cack. The Independent Commission Against Coruption has just announced a new corruption inquiry. I'll bring you some details in a moment. Just on energy prices, Richard, are you copying a big increase?
Yeah, yeah, Hi Clinton. We've received ours from Red Energy back in the beginning of the middle of June for the first of July, think interests increased by courtesy of Albanese and blowing in the wind, bowing. Our peak level for electricity is going to be up eleven point three eight percent, and our gas because of the same provider, is going up twelve point zero four percent.
So do you know if you're on the default market offer or if you're on a different arrangement already it's.
They noted in here. As a result of this change of reading out, your electricity rates are now five percent more than the reference price. We're starying. We'll probably stay with Red Edgy. We've got solar and that's been like the previous call or one of the things you put out that's been cut down, the cut by one cent.
So not ere have we been smacked by electricity courtesy or the Albanese government is insanity and a refusal to use more gas In Australia, we're getting hit by the gas prices because we're exporting it offs subsidized the communists China and other places, but where reasonably were reasonably all right.
I feel sorry for small business and everybody else who was struggling left, right and center, but unfortunately stupidity and how a lot of people that lead up to the third of May, and we voted this among wolf back in.
We certainly voted them back in. You're right, Richard, and good on you for highlighting small business because that then flows onto everything else that's affected. I'm just having a look at now what's happening off the coast of Palm Beach. This is now the closest that the dinghy with three people, the wildlife rescued dingy has been to the humpback. So it's just one line still attached to this whale, tangled
in one of the whales fins. The dinghy looks like it got within about two to three meters, so it may have been some of the rescue crews on board with actually trying to reach out. I mean, I actually don't know how they actually managed to do without scuba diving in there. But this is the closest they've been yet, so right, at the moment, it looks like that line is still tangled around the whales finn but they are close. They are close to freeing this whale. Well, they're going
to shake us all night long. Come the end of the year, ac DC will be touring the country and they will be coming here to Sydney.
Hello Peter Ford, Hello Clinton. So it came to pass. It certainly had been a lot of speculation and talk and at six point thirty this morning, a very coordinated drop on all social media and press releases to that those concerts are happening in November into December, and I think if you take a look at the way the tour is structured, they certainly intend to add more shows.
Now.
The way ACDC tour at the moment is that they do a show night, then they have three nights off, then another show night, three nights off. That's the way it's going in Europe, and that's to accommodate for their age. So you look at it at the moment. Currently, the first show is in Melbourne on the twelfth of November and then there's not another show according to the Today's list, until the twenty first to November. In Sydney, so clearly they're going to add one more in there, and then
they'll add another one in Sydney as well. They won't add an extra one for Adelaide because in Adelaide they're actually doing the show there under the banner of the BP Grand Final, the sort of pretend Gode Prix they have there now, so they won't add an extra one there.
Well.
That one's actually massive And when I first read about this this morning early, it was actually on a motorsport website because IM a bit of a motorsport not Pete. So I read about the fact that ac DC are playing the grand finale of the Supercars season and it seemed to be a massive deal, the fact they've got ac DC the play and this is where the old Grand Prix used to be in Adelaide. It's now the
last round of the Supercars. When we talk about the AFL and our NRL, we get excited if maybe somebody like the Lake Meatloafe plays or Billy Idle they've got ac DC. That's a massive coup for them.
Yeah, it's a good cup. And in the old days, when Adelaide really did have the Grand Prix, they used to get huge name people to come and perform on the last day. You know, Shared did it actually, And funnily enough, the Lord Mayor of the Adelaide presented Share with the key to the city at about ten years ago in the garage sale in Beverly Hills. That key to the City of Adelaide was actually on sales. I don't think Share exactly, President.
So you will be fairly confident that ac DC would add second shows to Sydney and Melbourne.
Yeah, they won't announce it until Thursday. They may not even announce it on Thursday, but the tickets go on sale then and they will sell out.
There's no question question about that.
And certainly I think probably in the day or so after that, they'll announce the extra shows.
When Taylor Swift came here to Sydney a couple of years ago, when Coldplay, we hear about a year or so ago they played force shows at a Core Stadium. Just given I'm not being ages here, but the fact that Angus Young is seventy bron Johnson's seventy seven, would you think four shows would be a little too much?
Probably, I would have thought four shows might have been stretching it.
You know.
Interestingly in Melbourne they're playing at the MCG, which is quite rare. We don't have a lot of shows go into the MCG anymore, partly because the sound is usually terrible. But in the case of ac DC, I don't think it's going to be in such a massive issue. But yeah, it's going to be a huge tour. It's like homecoming heroes coming back after ten years.
It'll be just a huge events. Whether you're a fan or not, going to be a massive event. You mentioned last week that Rebel Wilson's movie wasn't getting great reviews. Well, it's tanked.
Yeah, I thought she might have had a chance. I thought perhaps her crowd might not have cared about reviews. You know, they know Rebel's going to do a fun, silly movie, whether the critics like it or not. But they didn't go. Over the weekend, bride Hard was showing stack of cinemas right across America. It took in less than one million dollars in total across America, so basically, you know, they took more money over the popcorn counter than they did for ticket sales. But it's not being
released during Australia until the end of July. If indeed it does get released, they may have some question marks about that.
Now, So would that be a possibility that the reviews end up being so bad doesn't go well overseas, they just don't bother putting it out here.
Yeah, it's possible, you know, they could put it straight onto a streaming service or something. They might just think unless you open simultaneously and everyone has a chance. But now the word's going to filter around that it's bombed, I would think it's probably a waste of time to open it here now.
Okay, we'll talk again tomorrow.
Thanks Clinton.
Breaking news off Palm Beach. It looks like the wale has now been freed. So the humpback whale that's been caught up in about one hundred and fifty meters worth of line, and it was actually discovered by drones and it was much further south of Manly, and it's whale has made its way up the coast while it's been tangled in this line, and then this has been the operation throughout the day that's been led by National Parks
and Wildlife to try and free it. I'm just looking again at some live pictures that are coming to me from the Channel nine helicopter and it looks like these wildlife rescue crews have successfully freed the whale. Now they'll continue to monitor the humpback and will it will continue heading up the coast. But it would obviously be distressed, it would be quite fatigued by what it's been through. You could see it thrashing around. You'll see all this
on nine years tonight. It was thrashing around as these crews were delicately trying to free it from all this whale from the line. But the crews are now getting back on board a larger vessel. This is well off the coast of Palm Beach, so successfully it looks like
they've freed the humpback. So ac DC will be back on the twenty first of November, and as Peter Ford explains, they'll probably play another show in Sydney, probably two tickets to go on sale nine o'clock Thursday morning through ticket Tech. We'll actually talk to ticket Tech a little later in the week because they are putting a message out to be careful of scams that are going to be out there. It is going to be a massive event for Sydney.
Whether you're like ac DC or not, and a lot of people just want to go along for the historic nature of the event. Who's the best Heritage act you've ever seen? And look, I say Heritage Ack with respect. Angus Young is seventy, Brian Johnson, the lead singer is seventy seven, and we actually are seeing more of these bands from the seventies. Even prior to that, Rolling Stones are still touring overseas, even though Charlie what has since passed.
We are seeing some of these biggest national tours continue because this is where the money is to be made in the music scene these days, not so much selling of albums, its tours. Who's the best Heritageack you've seen? Paul McCartney from a couple of years ago. Let me know three one, eight seven three, it's a quarter of
the four. Just repeating that news. Off the coast of Palm Beach, the whale of the humpback whale that's been tangled in a long line, about one hundred and fifty meters worth of line with four boys attached to it. It has now been freed by National Parks and Wildlife Officers. IKAK has confirmed they will begin a public inquiry in a couple of weeks time on Monday, the fourteenth of July into allegations have been made against employees of Transport
for New South Wales. This stems from an investigation that's been led by a current affair about a whistleblower who
has witnessed corruption. It is claim worth one hundred and ten million dollars inside Transport for New South Wales ACA through Steve Marshall aired these allegations a couple of weeks ago and it's claimed that the whistleblower, who was working in the Transport for New South Wales office in Eunora, found out about a particular company that was being preferred over all others in relation to major contracts that were being awarded by Transport for New South Wales staff worth
one hundred and ten million dollars. Well Ikak just this afternoon has now confirmed they will be holding a public inquiry into this. It will be examining employees who dishonestly allegedly exercised official functions by awarding contracts or favoring companies regarding safety barriers, Ashfeldt, line marking, bitumen, spray, ceiling panels and traffic control. So it's all in for roadworks. That is likely to be an eye opener when that IKAC
investigation begins on the fourteenth of July. A great heritage acts you've seen in recent times, Kylie on the text line, says Sir Paul McCartney. Sir Paul McCartney played Alliant Stadium in twenty twenty three. Towards the end of twenty twenty three. Kylie also says share was brilliant. This one from Chris the greatest Heritage Jack dever the Rolling Stones in Moore Theater around two thousand and three. We paid sixty dollars
per ticket. Now that was a warm up act, wasn't it, because they were playing one of the big venues, the Rolling Stones, And from memory, I think Angus Young actually came out on stage and played with them. Oh Greg greg on the text line best heritage Jack, no doubt, John Stanley, if.
It matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard until.
Six, one, seven three is my number. Now there's been a major rally in Tarre, mid North Coast today and this has involved people who've suffered during the floods of recent weeks. They're upset about the amount of government funding and an amount of government assistants it's available at the moment. May Ambor runs and owns an arcade in Tarree and she joined us on the program last week. Hello May, Hi Quinn, tell us about what's occurred today.
Well over three thousand of our community turned up to the rally today. There was a lot of emotion, a lot of heated, heated discussion, and we are just begging the government to listen to us and give us the funding that our community needs.
So the the problem here is just to clarify, mate, for those that didn't hear you talk about it last week, Tai and surrounding districts are not classed as a Category D, which means that the level of funding available to primary producers farmers I think is at twenty five thousand dollars, whereby if you were classed a Category D, it would be seventy five thousand.
Correct. But the interesting thing is Clinton that in twenty twenty one, within seven days, we were categorized as a D and now here we are thirty three days later, still categorized as a sea with a flood that is twice as big, with twice as many businesses and homes and farmers and.
People.
You've had thousands of people at this rally today. Was there anybody in a position of power, local MPs, local politicians there?
We had our representatives locally like Tanya Thompson and Alison Penfelt, they are both representing the National Party in our area. We had farmers becking, We had some people that are affected as far as the dairy farmers, the beef farmers, the oyster farmers. Then we had a business representative and
insurance representative. And then we had some a few sort of wild comments from the crowd as well, because people were starting to feel frustration and bitterness towards the whole time involved in us not being given the funding that we so desperately need.
Now this is a combination of the state and federal government and so change is needed here. Thank you for joining us, mate, and thank you for campaigning on this as thousands of other people did today, because something's got to change here because it will affect us all. We're talking farmers and primary producers, and in the end that affects what we buy in the city when we go to our green groces, when we go to the supermarkets.
Thank you May May Amble, who's the owner of Little Arcade in Tarre doogled Saunders, the New South Wales national leaders just called in. Thank you for calling me.
Do yeah goa Klinon.
I was just listening to May talk then, and it's still disappointing. Literally a month since this event happened and we've got just not enough support on the table. And when three thousand people turn up in Tarre, that's a fair bit, doesn't it. And I gather there are similar thing's planned maybe for Kempsy next week, which again is in the same bit just being completely forgotten and left out in the coal.
This is what I don't understand. If this flood and I was there and you've been there as well, people keep telling me it is worse than twenty twenty one. So how's twenty twenty one classified as a d then worth seventy five thousand dollars in grants?
But this isn't yeah, because twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty two was the Lizmore flood, which was a phenomenal flood and Lizmore specifically.
Hit really badly by that.
But again it was.
Classified by using coalition as a category D and that's seventy five grand flight as well and fifty for small business, so that the difference is stark. And look, I've spoken personally to the Premiere. The Prime Minister and the Premier have both met with exactly the same people I've met with, and yet they were only able to come to the twenty five thousand dollar mark, which they know, and the Minister for Recovery, Janelle Saffan, that knows it is not enough.
And what it does is d incentivized people to continue for their small business or their farm because it simply isn't enough to get them going again. And look, we've got a petition. Tanya Thompson started a petition a week ago.
It's online right now.
We'd love you to get involved with that.
If you just do a search for the petition supporting flood affected communities in the Mid North Coast and Hunter regions. There's about six thousand signatures on that petition right now.
We need to get to twenty for it.
To be guaranteed of being debated in Parliament. But the pushes on mate, like people are still just feeling completely neglected. We've got a state and a federal government that can and should do more. We've got a budget being delivered tomorrow. I'm pretty sure there'll be nothing in it in the budget that will help people feel good about themselves on the Mid North Coast or a Hunter region, that's for sure.
We look hopefully that's not the case, and we'll certainly be trying to talk to members of the government tomorrow about that, because Daniel Mookie indicated when he joined me a week or so ago a big part of spending would be on national natural disasters in this budget's being handed down tomorrow. Thank you Google, Thanks Clinton.
Good to talk here.
Diogod Son as the new South Wales Nationals leader. We'll have a look online of that petition and I'll mention the link a little later in the program. If they can get twenty thousand signatures on that petition, they'll be a debate in Parliament. One three one eight seven three A company your calls on Heritage Acts in a moment, but some breaking news from the Telegraph to remember this name,
Salim Mahaja, former local mayor, disgraced former local mayor. He has been granted parole today, so he will be released from prison. He'll be released next month after the State Parole Authority handed down a decision to grant him parrole on a long list of conditions. In hearing, the Commissioner of Corrective Services actually opposed his release, citing his risk of reoffending and his lack of change. However, the court has made a decision that he will be freed, so Salim Mahaja will be out.
You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB Colm now one three one eight seven three.
Okay, we've been talking about heritage. As you've seen. Chris was fortunate to be at the end Moore Theater when the Rolling Stones played there in the early two thousands. What was it like, Chris Clinton?
It was two thousand and three February and a young kid I.
Gave his first job to actually helped me secure the ticket. Wow, sixty bucks to sit in row file. There was five of us who went and Malcolm and Angus Young came on two thirds the way through the gig.
You could have almost felt Keith Richards sweat hitting you on the face as he played Charlie Watts. Was unbelievable. Of course, Mick is the.
Consumment entertainer, My greatest, greatest gig ever real music.
And if you haven't been to the end Moore Theater in Sydney, look a thereater has been there for ages. It's a venue that what maybe holds two thousand people?
Perhaps, mate, on the night sixteen hundred tickets.
You got sixteen hundred, so it's what you call it intimate venue. And I know a friend of mine went there. It was I think it was a warm up for their other shows.
Wasn't it too right?
They often do a micro gig getting ready for their big tours. And I sat behind h G. Nelson and I'm a wheelchair user so can't stand up to watch the gig. And I'd done a bit of work with HG a few months previous, and he stepped out of the way because he's a tool bloke, moved his wife in front of him, and I sat on the seat back of the uninterrupted you mate, it was just sensational.
That'd be one of the best of all time. Hey, good on you, Chris, Glad you got those great memories. Lauren says so sting at the ICC in February of twenty twenty three. Brilliant voice and He's still so smooth and silky as well. This is a good one. Rose Tattoos saw Rose Tattoo a couple of weeks ago in Brisbane. Keep listening. I'm still to spin two GB's winter wheel and give you a chance to win.
This is sit now with Clinton on TG What.
A stunning Sydney's winter afternoon we have on our hands. Are twenty degrees in the city at the moment. Some suburbs in the west Rudy Hill uputs a twenty three to twenty four degrees. I know it's very cold when you get up in the morning at the moment, but boy, this is a nice time of the year once it warms up a little bit. Good news for the humpback whale that's been tangled in a line off Palm Beach Show for the last few hours. It's now been freed.
So it's now been released. There's been an operation that's involved National Parks and Wildlife Services and they've had several boats that surrounded the whale over the past quite a few hours throughout the afternoon and one rubber dinghy red Rummadigi with three people on board, has been involved in the really delicate operation to untangle this one hundred and fifty meters worth of line and rope. Had four white boys and you'll see all this on nine years tonight
when you watch the news with Peter Overton. And it's been a really delicate operation because at times this whale it's a huge humpback whale. Difficult to say exactly how big it is from the vision that I've been watching, but it was thrashing around and it was rolling over itself throughout the operation. So the three experts who are on board that rubber ducky they had to be really careful for their own safety and then they could have easily been pulled into the ocean themselves of Palm Beach.
But over the course of hours they've now managed to untangle all this line and now finally cut the whale free. So the whales continuing on its northern migration. It's going to be monitored and they will consider it. They were considering when I spoke to National Parks in the last hour whether that actually attached a tracker to the whale, because it's going to be probably still a little bit distressed, fatigued after what it's been through over the past few hours.
But The good news is the whale is now free.
Sydney now with Clinton Maynard.
If it's happening in your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB.
Eight past four. This news just in. If you're going to post some mail to a friend, you're going to be paying more. The a Triple C has the afternoon confirmed they have approved an increase in the price of the basic stamp, so the cost of sending a letter will increase from a dollar fifty to a dollar seventy. Across the board, prices for mail will go up by a little over thirteen percent, which is obviously much much
higher than inflation which is now below three percent. Australia Post had made an application to increase their prices and for the simple reason they're losing money on the letter delivery service. So AHABLEC Commissioner An Brackley says, although we understand there's going to be an extra cost for consumers, Australia Post loses money running the national letter service. The Minister herself, so the Minister for Communications in Anika, wells
she can actually reject this decision. Likelihood she won't. Australia Post, of course, is run by the government and it's now been approved by the competition regulator, so it will happen. The average price of a single postage stamp in an OECD country is actually a dollar ninety three, so our prices are a little lower, despite the fact that we have to cover geographically much bigger area than most OECD countries.
From next month, large letters up to one hundred and twenty five grams will increase from three dollars to three dollars forty. Ordinary large letters between one hundred and twenty five and two hundred and fifty grams will go up from between four dollars fifty to five dollars ten. Now, I know most of us don't post letters these days. It's much cheaper to deal with email, but if you still like to send a letter to a friend, you will be paying a little bit more on the future.
It's ten past four. Nurses and midwives have rallied outside Westmead Hospital today following revelations that the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit inside Westmead simply does not have enough resources. The NICU is funded for forty four beds now. The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is the unit inside Westmead that looks after the sickest of babies, babies who are premature, babies
that need them most help. And it is forty four beds in size, but on a regular basis, the staff, the nurses there and the doctors, they need to open it up to as much as fifty beds. So what they describe this is they have to double park the babies, triple park. And it's been suggested today that there are babies being treated in the corridors at the hospital. There are babies being treated in storerooms. Now I've spoken with the government today and they say that they're not being
treated in storerooms. And the Minister Ryan Park will go to Westmead Hospital this week once the budgets handed down, and he will meet with some of the nurses and he'll meet with the management. Jessica Charleston is a midwife at Westmead Hospital and she's one of the midwives who's concerned. Thank you for joining me, Jessica, Thank you for having me tell me about your experience of treating babies in this unit.
So first of all, I just want to highlight that we are talking about the neonatal intensive care unit within the adult hospital. We are not part of the Kids Hospital. We are not part of the Children's hospital network. We are part of Western.
This is the Westmead standard hospital. But you're talking neonatal care, so babies who are the most neat baby.
Within the adult hospital. So there's been some confusion about which unit has been referred to and yeah, just one age.
So this is the neonatal intensive care unit within Westmead. So tell me about your experience.
It's pretty scary sometimes walking in and sort of not knowing what you're going to do, what you're going to get for the day, walking into a bedspot and go it, Oh, there's some extra babies in here that they're meant to be class. I've got an extra allocated extra babies, and what I should be this is a really sick baby and I've got to manage that really sick baby as well as another one, maybe two babies.
Is there an issue of its physical resources having the physical space there or is it a staffing problem?
Both?
It's both. We have physically run out of space in the unit that we have. We have forty four physical bedspots in the unit and it's not un news for us to have fifty babies and with times going even higher than that. Our funding is currently to have twenty one staff on a shift, and over the last probably four to six months, we're needing twenty four to twenty six. So is staff needed to do extras and over time to try and meet that demand. I mean we rarely
get there. That's staff trying to do as much as they can.
There was a headline this morning about babies being treated in the corridor. Baby's being treated in it in a storeroom. Now the government's told me, you know they're not being treated in the storeroom from your experience, is that true?
It's true.
We have what we call what has always been known as our resource room, which started life as a storeroom where we kept our resussates that we used to treat critically unwell babies and was where we then were able to restock those resussates. And after there was an article in twenty eighteen, I believed after that the shelves from the storeroom were removed. But it's still the storeroom that we can have up to sort of two or three babies.
In Ryan Park. The Health Minister, he's going to come out and see you guys later this week. What do you want to say to the Health minister if you personally get the chance to meet with him, what do you want to say to Ryan Park.
I don't necessarily want to say anything. I just we would love the opportunity to show him what we're talking about. Ye, it's anyone like, it's very obvious what the issues are. We can show him how our daily staffing sheet that sort of shows how many shorts we are on a shift regularly, and we can show him babies hammed into what is obviously one bed spot, having sort of two babies side by side. We can show him this store
room that we put babies in. We might even have an admission that sits out in the corridor while we try and move other babies to make room for this sort of unexpected admission that we often get.
Well, he's going to come later in the week and hopefully you can show him the exact reality of the situation. Thank you for your time, Jessica, Thank you very much. Jessica Charleston, who's a union midwife, so she has met representative of the union, but she works here on the job. So it's the neonatal intensive key you know, within Westmeat, so it has funding for forty four beds, but often they have to treat fifty babies at one time, and
these are really sick babies, often born premature. These are the babies who need the most health. Chris Min's the Premier, has responded to this today. Some of the good.
Signs that we're seeing is retention across the network is now where we were at prior to the COVID emergency. We are saving over ninety percent of people year or year from retiring or resigning from the public health system.
So chris Minn says the issue is mostly about stuf laughing, and Jessica said, yes, it's staffing as well, not just the physical layout of the hospital and the resources there. And the Premier's argument is they're now preventing nurses from resigning. Don't forget the Nurses and Midwives Association is still locked in the pay battle as well with the state government
and that's not resolved yet. That's before the Industrial Relations Commission and nurses have paid roughly seventeen percent more in Queensland.
If it matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
Until seven new road toll statistics have been released for the whole country today. They show to the end of May, there's been an increase year on year in the number of people killed in their roads of four point eight percent, one thy three hundred and thirty seven. This increase, and these are the latest statistics that have been released, largely
attributed to the increase in death of cyclists. There's been a thirty six point seven percent jump in the number of people killed on the roads who are cycling forty one. But there's also been a big jump in the number of pedestrians who were killed, up fifteen percent to one hundred and ninety two. I wonder how much that's got to do. And we talk a lot about issues of distraction, but pedestrians who are glued to their mobile phones when they walk across the road and don't realize there's traffic
in the way. They might be listening to something through their earbuds. They might be looking down and watching social media, watching videos while they're walking. But that's a big jump, an extra one hundred and an extra fifteen percent number of fatalities involving pedestrians one hundred and ninety two deaths, and an increase in cyclists killed on the road thirty six percent to forty one. Twenty one past four, the
Good Guys has got into some trouble. Today they have reached an agreement with the agriple C. They've agreed to pay a fine of thirteen and a half million dollars. This relates to court proceedings that will launched last year midway through last year effectively about fake advertising or advertising that was false, also in regards to what they called the store cash promotion. Under this sentiment agreement and it's subject to call approval, the Good Guys will pay a
penalty of thirteen and a half million dollars. They will contribute two hundred thousand dollars towards the Ahriable C's own costs, and they'll also implement a remediation program for certain customers that were affected. Now JB High Fight not a lot of people realize this JB High Fight actually owns the Good Guys and it all relates to the way they
were advertising some goods. The a Triable C says, basically it comes down to trust that consumers need to be able to trust any major retailer when they advertise stock for a certain price and a certain deal.
Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
If it's happening in your sitting, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB.
Twenty two past four, Just on the road, toll Nick on the text line says, in regards to that increase, I believe it comes down to attitudes. Attitudes on the roads, especially amongst ute drivers, and the lack of accountability and punishment for speeding drivers, and also a lack of police. Certainly we need more cops than the roads, and still there are something like two and a half thousand fewer
cops actually authorized in New South Wales. But the increase that's been recorded today shows it's a big jump in motorbike riders, cyclists and also pedestrians. Perhaps utes might be responsible some of those accidents, but it's also about the way pedestrians behaving on the road. Twenty three past four on the issues in New South Wales hospitals. Paul has some experience in the area.
Hello Paul, good afternoon. Look, I worked in pediatric intensive care a long time ago, forty years. However, back then there was always one nurse to patient. There are always two doctors in the ward, only ten patients in the ward plus occasionally up to two more that was twenty four to seven. Sometimes kids were brought into Sydney from in the state. Sometimes very occasionally some were transferred in the state to because of well, obviously the number of beds.
I mean, maybe that's the way they can get around it. But it's not just the matter of caring for three kids. You've got worried parents. They're worried.
It's bugary.
So you've got.
Potentially nine people that's under your care as a nurse.
Yeah, great point, and it's certainly the problem they have at Westmeat at the moment is that the staff patient ratio in that neonatal unit is certainly not one to one. Thank you if you message Paul one three one eight seven three if you've had experience it, particularly when it comes to the care of babies and children in our hospital.
Great text message is still coming in about let's say, I use the term heritage and that's not an insult because we're talking about ACDC making their return to Australian shores with their tour later this year. They'll be playing in Sydney November. But perhaps some older established music acts that you've seen over the years who've been the best. This one from and Maria and Maria has a great one.
And Maria says she saw Tina Turner perform in nineteen ninety three and it wasn't at the NRL Grand Final. And Maria saw Tina Turner per film at the Formula one Grand Prix and Adelaide Ayton Senner had won his last race McClaren before he moved to Williams. She was fabulous and she actually brought Aton Center on stage and they sang simply the best. Really, what a memory to have in lighten ed and Sener died in nineteen ninety four, so wow, what a memory to have with Tina Turner
and simply the best. This one from George John Farnham in twenty fourteen was just amazing. He had so much energy in the concert tour that he did with Lionel Richie. However, Lionel Richie seemed to phoner in Lionel was absolutely lackluster. Good question on the text line from Claudine to those road tile statistics we just mentioned include e scooters on the road without a helmet, lighting or a license. Yes, they do, so they'd be classed as a cyclist even
though they're basically a motorbike. Those e scoters And I know I've been banging on about this for ages and it's a big talking point now. But again on the weekend, I saw a stack of kids in my suburb, Engodeine in the South on the fat Boy bikes for the first time. I often see two kids at once on the fat Boy bikes and they are designed to carry two people. I saw three on one and probably third in year old girls on the fat Boy bikes. Two of the girls had helmets, the third didn't. Now it's
their own. They fall off the back and they hurt themselves. Well, they've only got themselves a blame for not wearing the helmet. But the girl who's on the back clinging to the other two girls, they're wearing the helmets. Do they think I look because I'm not actually in control of the bike. It doesn't matter. Let's check out news headlines. We've got the latest.
Katie Fuller, Good afternoon, Clinton. The corruption watchdog will hold a public inquiry as it investigates allegations concerning staff at Transport for New South Wales. The ikak pro will look to determine whether employees partially or dishonestly awarded contracts to companies in return for benefits. Singapore Airlines has canceled some of its flights between Singapore and Dubai as conflict escalates in the Middle East. Carta Airways is closely monitoring the situation.
Twenty five years on, tight knit Queensland community is coming together to remember fifteen lives lost in the Childers. Backpackers Blaze and Rock Legends ACDC will bring their tour down Under in November and December for the first time in a decade. The band will be performing at stadiums in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. In sports, Sydney FC midfielder Anthony Cassis will leave the Sky Blues after failing to come to
terms on a new contract. He played two hundred and sixteen appearances for the club, helping to secure four trophies. Clinton More news at five.
Sakkat twenty degree is on the coast in Penrith, nineteen degrees A lovely afternoon, but the sun will be going down in about half an hour's time. One three one eight seventy three On the issues at Westmead Hospital and the neonatal unit there that is clearly under resource. The Health Minister Ryan Park has made a promise that he's going to go to Westmead after there was a protest there today and he will talk to the staff at
Westmead this week. Michael says, while the neonator ward at Westmeat is critical and the nurses there are angels and deserve more than they're getting, there's actually one level higher and this is where the sickest of babies go, and that's to the Gray Sward. Miracles are being performed in the gray Swart and hopefully the conditions and the resources they have are adequate. Will try to find out, Michael,
how they're doing in the Gray Sward. I was talking a little bit earlier about the rally that's been held in Tarre today. Three thousand people have attended the rally demanding the government reclassified areas of the Mid North Coast and the Hunter Valley to Category D following the floods. Now if they were class Category D, they'd qualify for
government funding of seventy five thousand dollars. During the floods of twenty twenty one twenty twenty two, there were areas of this region that were class Category D. Now this affects farmers and primary producers business owners that entitled them to those seventy five thousand dollar grants. So many people have told me that the destruction, the damage that's been suffered on the Mid North Coast in particular in the last month is far worse than it was in twenty
twenty two to twenty twenty one. Lizmore was another example altogether. But there were areas of this region that categorized D back in twenty twenty two, but they don't now. It just seems very strange. Well googled sort as the National's leader told us about a petition that's now online. If you go to Google, just type in support flood effected Communities on the Mid North Coast. You'll then find a link. Just type in support flood effected Communities in the Mid
North Coast. There'll then be a link that takes you to the Parliament website. And on the Parliament website, just follow the links when you type that into Google. There is an e petition. You can sign that petition. If that petition receives twenty thousand E signatures, don't actually have to go anywhere and sign anything with a pen. But if there are twenty thousand signatures electronically, the matter will go to Parliament, and if it goes to Parliament, there's a better chance of change.
We are part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called one three one eight seventy three.
A Sydney site is boring. Well no, I don't think we're boring at all. But there's there's been a drama on social media and this is going viral. As they say, you see often there's this story and the government talks about this. The New South Wales government talks about this, that Sydney's nightlife and nighttime economy is not strong, that we don't rival cities around the world where you might, for instance, walk down George Street ten thirty at night
on a Tuesday and everything's closed. It's very hard to get a decent food late at night in the CBD. Despite the fact Sydney is classed as a World city. Suggestion is that we need to do a lot more to make the city more vibrant. I think if we're out and about and the demands there. Government's changed the rules over the years. I think if demand's there, businesses
will open late and they will offer food, beverage or entertainment. Well, there's this woman who's gone viral on social media, her name is Tazzy, in that The Daily Mail has done a story about this. She claims is a problem with Sydney's nightlife and it's not the fact that businesses don't open late.
Well, we need to address the problem at the route. Okay, it's not the nightlife that's boring. People from Sydney are insufferably boring.
Okay, people from Sydney are insufferably boring. Has she been to Adelaide? Has she been to Melbourne? Clearly not what's boring about Sydney. We've got the best beaches in the country. I mean Brisbane for all wonders of Queensland, Brisbane doesn't have a beach. It's got a river. We've got the greatest harbor in the world. We've got the Opera House, which, if you've been to the Opera House lately, it's magnificent, renovated that a few years ago, was there about a
month ago. It's spectacular. And the people are boring. I think Tazzy actually needs to have a bit of a good look at herself. Yeah, you tell me seriously, is that the problem with Sydney. Is there no night life in Sydney because we're all dull and boring. Let me know, eight seventy three, it's twenty to five. Apparently Sydney has no light life because the people are boring.
But we need to address the problem at the route. Okay, it's not the night life that's boring. People from Sydney are insufferably boring.
Okay, that's tazzy. Dayton says on the text line, Sydney life life was great when there was old school trans music events on Let you on a secret, Dayton, I might have been one of those people who occasionally went to one of those old school trance events a long, long time ago. Dave says, Yes, people in Sydney becoming boring because they're stuck at home paying off their mortgage. Even renters are struggling because you can't afford to actually
go out and enjoy the night life. Word on the street, thanks to Temper a great night's sleep night after night. The difference is Temper. We brought you that news a little earlier in the hour that Australia posters had now approval from the a triple C to increase the price of a stamp and then a whole range of other post costs will go up. This message from one of our listeners will on the Northern Beaches. I missed receiving a package from Australia Post today. I live in Warrwood
and my local post office at Warrwood Square. For some strange reason, I received a message that the parcel had been delivered to Monavail Post Office instead. Usually it's taken to Warrwood, so I drove to Monaval Post Office. I get there at around twelve thirty five to find out the post office is completely closed for an hour between twelve thirty one thirty. When I finally get there, I'm told they only had two staff available so they had to close for lunch. And now they want to increase
their prices. And reality is that Australia Post makes decent money from their parcel service because of the boom in online shopping, but they're not making money at all from letters. We're talking great heritage performers that you've seen over the years. After his ACDC will be coming here in November, David, you've seen led Zeppelin, Hi, I haven't been when did you you mate?
It was February seventy two, so not recently.
No, no, yeah, it.
Cost me a whole lot of Yeah, four dollars seventy.
Four dollars seventy in nineteen seventy two. It's probably worth a bit of money back then.
Yeah, I guess. Yeah, in my way to it was a bit of a chunk.
But yeah, I would spend a hell a lot more.
To see them.
Yah.
Good on you, David. You've got to be so careful now with the way social media works in AI. After reading the ACDC News this morning, I had a headline pop up on one of my social media feeds saying led Zeppelin reforming two are in twenty twenty five, and I thought that that cannot be right. I know, Jimmy Page and Robert Plan have done a few tours and there's been a special reunion show here and there. I double checked it. No, they're not reforming. Be really careful
about what you read on social media. Jason says, saw the Eagles Sydney Entertainment Center in twenty ten and they were fantastic. All phones are before Glenn Fry passed as well. Magic concerts just want to cross to Debbie. Debbie's in Ludnum and she's just come across some dramas on the roads. Hello Debbie. Hey guys, if anybody knows Ludinum.
Road, well, it appears to have been a head on collision.
So one of the workmen walking back was telling me, so avoid Ludinum Road at Ludinum.
Ludinum Road, Ludinum so head on collision. Do you know if the people involved in the accent.
Are Okay, I have no idea.
I was in the car when about seven police cars fit past, four ambulance and about four or five fidru. Okay, thank you, yes, just avoid road okay, thanks. Letting us know about that, Debbie. We'll speak with the police now and find out what's happened here. So it's an accident. Appears to be a serious collision Ludinum Road heading west in Ludenum. If you know anything about that one send me a message zero four s zero eight seven three eight seven three.
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The straight Steed, our straight shooter from Monday afternoon is the former MP Craig Laundy, and we talked to Craig this afternoon because he's coming to us from Boston. He's in the United States, where, of course the decision is made by the White House at the epicenter of what's happening around the world at the moment at get a, Craig Quinton, how are you may look, We're good on this side of the world, but we are very much watching what's happening in the Middle East from the outside. Now.
Anthony Abernezi today has come out and said that Australia does support the decisions that have been made by Donald Trump. Just firstly, from your perspective on the ground in the US, what is the reaction of the American people to the American involvement.
Well, the first thing I flew in overnight and there is a lot more bonier a bit in the last twelve bumps, there is a lot more armed security to lax transfer and the rest of it way probably way too early to be worth that. But I don't think they will take any risks because who knows what they will do now. But the US sided to I think rightfully join in what's going on.
This is the issue I think going forward for the citizens of the United States is that, yes, the Iranian military force is no match for the US, clearly with the ease of which we've seen what occurred on the weekend and also the Israeli action there. But we know they have operatives and they fund operatives all over the world that may well be in the US that may now be developing their plans for terrorist attacks.
Yeah.
Look, normally, yes, historically you think that. But coming off the back of twelve to eight months of Israel going toe to toe with Hamas and Hezbala and the US going toe to toe with the Hohothies in Yemen, I just think and Siria falling, which I should mention, I just think their proxies around the world. They are now finally for the first time I think since nine and seventy nine, back in a corner. And we'll earn more over the next forty eight to seventy two hours on
what was behind the decision from Trump Andy's team. But I wouldn't mind betting that far back in a corner that they have thought, let's press on and get rid of the clear and present danger, which is nuclear threat.
Craig. The government reacted with a simple statement over the weekend it's taken until today, so a full it's well an excess of twenty four hours for Anthony ALBINESI to come out firmly in support of the United States. Did it take the government too long?
Yes, he should In a short answer, yes, he should have come out straight away. And this is the challenge that the party phase. And I don't get it historically. I do when parliament's close and the seats in the Lower House are close. Even that a lot of the seats in the Lower House have a high contingency of Australians born of a movement background, but they now hold an overwhelming majority, and this is the right course of action.
You cannot have Iran buring. There was an interview on Seeing and over the weekend Clington where the Iranian Defense Minister said that the shift from thirty to sixty percent in Richmond was happening now. I mean that, I think that was the thing that pressed the button for Trump and the administration in the US. You can't sit back a day after it happens and wait, you've got to go all in behind this because the thought of a nuclear Iran weapon Iran is just one you cannot deal with.
On a lighter note. Craig big announcement today ac DC are touring the country. They will be playing in Sydney. There was some fears maybe they only play in Melbourne and then Adelaide for the Supercars Grand Finale, but no, they will be playing in Sydney. What are your perspective on this from somebody who runs a major hospitality business, what does it mean for a big international act in Australian act like ac DC to be coming to the country.
It's huge. It's our version. I mean we had Tylis with this time last year. It's our version of that. Major announcements of multiple concerts in cities across moy in Australia is great for local economies in every state and each state government should get on board and support it.
Thrill but New South Wales have and can't wait to see. Yes, that song has sadly been hijacked by the Dallas Keeler, but for me, for me, it will always be a terminated two song and and and it will be yield at the top of the voice by Australians no matter what state they're in.
I think it's been used as the run out music for every second sporting club in the world over the years at some point.
Well not not the Bulldogs, Clinton, neither Joker in the Faith.
Now I think Melbourne Storm Music, the Storm, that's I guess that's understandable. I think Angus Angus is seventy or he's in his seventies. Brian Johnson that the lead singer, he's late seventies. Now are they too old to be rocking like this?
Not?
Can they can still rock it out like that? Bring it on?
I say, good on.
You, Craig Queen, Craig Lordia Monday Straight Shooter. So they will be coming here in November. Tickets go and sale Thursday morning, nine am ticket Tech. It's only one Sydney show to start with, but the likelihood is that'll sell out fairly quickly and there'll be a second show. I think you'll find announced. But if you're desperate to go, you're gonna have to line up on well, now you know what lines up anymore today? There's no physical ticket Tech outlet in Sydney is then ah, you've got to
do it online. Of course you have done for years now. But that'll be Thursday morning. We're going to bring you some details on Wednesday about the best way to try to go about it. Mark says I saw ac DC with Bond Scott Coff's Harbor Civic Sentate nineteen seventy eight. There are only a few hundred people there and it was absolutely awesome. The stock market has reacted to what's happening in the Middle East today by closing down deb Night.
I'll have all the details of money use from seven o'clock the as six two hundred down thirty point six points eighty four hundred and seventy four and all Liyes. Tonight of course will be on the reaction of Wall Street. We spoke to Debbie just a few moments ago who was on Ludnum Road and saw all these police come drive past her. In Ludenum. There has been an accident, as Steve has mentioned the traffic report as well. Two cars have been involved. One has rolled on Ludam Road westbound.
The two patients are now being treated by paramedics. They've suffered minor injuries. Scott Hayward actually filling in for deb Night tonight, hosting Money News this evening. One three one eight seven three is our number. It was this time last week I told you about the terrifying shooting at the Auburn kebab shop that resulted in three people being shot, including one woman who works at that kebab shop. She's a lady the police say has nothing to do with
criminal activity at all. Two men ran into that shop wearing all black, wearing black baler clavers, blandishing their pistols, and they haven't been found yet. Now I've got full confidence in the police that they will find these men, these so called assassins, who weren't very good at shooting because they missed their targets. But I don't have confidence that this gang war is going to be shut down
anytime soon because of what's fueling it. What fuels is cocaine but also illegal tobacco, and this crime war is going to continue to raye on and innocent people are going to keep being caught up in it because the
federal government has their head in the sand. It's been reported since last week that the man the government had targeted, Saman Jim Azari, is high up in the Alamandine crime network and this was the fourth attempt in recent times on his life, and it's been reported that he is one of the players behind a tobacco rip a condor park. A rip is where one criminal gang tries to steal from another criminal gang drugs or, in this case, tobacco.
What's fueling the sale of illegal tobacco is the demand from every day Australians who usually do the right thing, but because the exorbitant price of cigarettes, are resorting to
buy the illegal stuff because it's so much cheaper. Chris Minn spoke out about this issue a few weeks ago before the shooting and he said there needed to be consideration by the federal government to cutting the excise and then the very next day the Treasurer Jim charm has ruled it out immediately, no debate notice, gar no, no, we're not cutting it. It needs to be looked at.
Now.
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life, you know, I don't like it, but it needs to be examined because the ultimate consequence is innocent people are being shot.
Now.
I read today that the new South Wales government and the Victorian government and the Queensland government behind the scenes, they're joining together to actually lobby the federal government for more resources for law enforcement. And they to be good. But also Chris mens is not going to give up on his campaign that the federal government, through Jim Chummers,
actually needs to look at the excise. And I know that's not popular with the health lobby, that is not popular with politicians, but reality is, innocent people are being shot. This criminal war is raging on, and much of it is fueled by illegal tobacco that people who are usually law abiding citizens are buying because they can't afford cigarettes. Seven three is my number. Three to five. We've been talking about heritage as acts from years gone by is
in bands who two of the country to huge crowds. David, who do you see recently?
Oh?
Okody, mate, how are you Clinton?
I'm good.
I saw actually Akadaca in about seventy five, actually at Victoria Park, you know the swimming pool.
They said they Uni, oh yes, a few years ago.
Been one of their first concerts.
But you saw someone recently though.
I saw Sir Paul McCartney a couple of years ago.
Oh, legend.
He was absolutely fantastic. For eighty three there's they're youngsters, the Akadeca and he did about three and a half hours, going from instrument to instruments, song to song, without even a toilet break and.
That was Allian Stadium. So the Sydney Football Stadium. What were the acoustics like there? What was the sound like?
Oh that was fantastic, fantastic.
Yeah, and that's that's always the few with the big venues like that.
Oh no, no, it was brilliant. He was fantastic. Played everything you played, mandolin, ukulele base, of course, a couple of pianos.
Fantastic. Hey, good on your David, Thanks for letting us know about that. There's a suggestion that Sydney has no nightlife or it's not good because the people in Sydney are pouring. Kim says, you should have been around with all the pubs rocked with Ossie music. That was fun. Reality is pubs have been able to make so much more money over the past twenty odd years from poker machines than live bands. And yes, there are still hotels that feature live music, but it's far more profitable to
have a few Pokey's in the corner. Tim says the problem with Sydney's nightlife is the mayor. The mayor doesn't seem to like nightlife. Clover more. Transport's also an issue that the train network shuts down at one o'clock in the morning, so it makes it pretty expensive if you are out late, if you're trying to get home via a taxi or ubert, it's down expensive. Now in the next hour of the program, not far now, I'm going
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T GB seven past five one three one eight seven three. More than four thousand people have now asked the federal government for help leaving the Middle East. They are people who are stranded in Israel and Iran. Now, some of those would be people who've traveled to that region the world in full knowledge that it is a danger zone, that it's a war zone. Others would be Australians who have citizenship who have been there for some time. The Foreign Minister Penny Wong says they will use and they
have since made forces there. They will try to assist as many citizens as they can.
Obviously this is very fluid, but we are seeking to make arrangements to utilize that window if we are able. Have advised Australians on the ground of that fact.
The Prime Minister Anthony Albernezi has finally come out and said Australia does support the US strikes on Iran. Now, it took him more than twenty four hours to make that statement. There was a statement issued on the weekend, but it didn't come from the Prime Minister's mouth, and he's been asked today why did it take so long.
Well, we aren't a central player in this contract conflict. That's just a fact. And what we do is we run an orderly stable government. But I make comments about this in three countries over recent days, and my comments today are perfectly consistent with that.
Now, Iran does have an ambassador based in Canberra. His name is Armada Saturaji and he's effectively today issued a veil threat to the United States. This is the ambassador to Australia making comments about what's happened in the Middle East. He has told Nine News. Other Muslim country may see this as an attack. May see this as provocation. It's effectively a warning to the US. And given he's the ambassador to our country, could it be interpreted that it's a warning to us as well.
You know that he like Iran and Iran would not be said, and that would be our responsibility to the US.
Show net.
Now, mister Trump has not made fresh comments today. He is likely to speak again the next twenty four hours and will certainly monitor what he has to say.
You want to know what's happening in Sydney, stay tuned to Sidney Out with Clinton onto GB.
Now you should watch nine Years tonight with Peter Roverden to see these pictures from off Palm Beach this afternoon. For several hours, a humpback whale has been trapped in a long line. Now it's not clear whether it was a fishing line where it was some sort of sharknet unclear, but the humpback rail, which was on its migration north, was tangled in this line for several hours and cruise from National Parks and Wildlife worked for hours and hours
to try to free it. Now, courtesy the Channel nine helicopter, I was able to actually watch this as it was all taking part, and there was a four boats that surrounded the whale over these hours this afternoon. But there were three rescuers in a rubber ducky which is red rubber ducky and on the side it said Wildlife Rescue, and it was these three rescuers who were basically doing
all the work. And it was obviously very delicate because at times they were able to get close, but the whale would toss itself over and cause enormous splash, so they had to keep their distance at other times. Eventually they managed to actually cut the line away, which is great for the whale because the whale will now be able to continue migration north. Now it's likely to be fatigued and it's probably suffering somewhat for being tangled for
some time. Chad Western the instant controller of this rescue. He's been the man in charge with National Parks and Wildlife. He joined me earlier in the program and he said this was an extensive and a very delicate operation.
The team became aware of it into the evening last night when it was in the Manly area, and this morning we stood up our large whale disentanglement team with the assistance of ORCA and Marine rescue and water police. It was about one hundred and fifty meters of line with four boys wrapped around the body, the peck sins and tail. We take a fair bit of time just to monitor the whale first to understand its behavior and how we'll respond to approach, and to see where it's
at with its behavior with respective fatigue as well. Obviously you can imagine these whales'm quite tired wrapped in in gear, and then what they do is they attach boys we call kegs and a sea sale in the effort to slow it down even further and just make it a bit more tired so that when it's approached we can better predict its behaviors.
Chad Western from National Parks and Wildlife who was with me a little earlier. So hopefully the whale is going to be okay and the experts will continue to monitor as it migrates out the case. But you've got to say that the three people who were aboard that rubber dinghy who became really close, I mean they showed a fair bit of courage because the whale was thrashing around at some point and the seas would have been quite right,
simply because of the Wales movement. But they've done a remarkable job.
In the end. If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney now with Clinton on to GB AS.
I was driving through Sydney South this morning, I spott a petrol well under a dollar seventy leader and it made me think, given what's happening in the Middle East of the moment now, it must be a good time to fill up. Well, it certainly is. That's the message from the NRMA today. Peter Courry joins me from the NMA.
Hello Peter, good afternoon mate.
Why should we fill up at the moment?
Yeah, look, definitely fill up now. There's a couple of things. First of all, the price cycle in Sydney has absolutely hit the bottom. We don't think it's going to go any further. In fact, we've noticed that clip up a little bit in terms of the average. And also what we're now going to start to see is the flower and effects of what started off between Israel and Over a week and a half ago. So wholesale prices have gone up about eight cents of later in the last
week in a bit. That's going to flow on. Plus, the price cycle in Sydney is turning, so please fill up now. There's some real good bargains across the city, but they won't be there for much longer.
So the fact the fact that the wholesale price increased a week ago and we're still seeing petrol relatively cheap, why is that the case.
Look, it's because the price cycle Licdney was falling. That to be fair, how did the situation in the Middle East not occurred? We would see those falls continue into late this week. Because the average price is a dollar seventy well, it got to a dollar seventy three, it's
now gone back up to a solo seventy four. We were expecting it to drop to the low one sixties, but because of what's happened over the last week and a half, we knew that that floor was going to be a lot higher, unfortunately than we had hoped, because those wholesale prices.
Have been creeping up.
And that was inevitably going to be passed on to motors here in Australia.
It's hard to obviously predict what's going to happen on the other side of the world in the next couple of days. But yeah, if what we are seeing intensifies and those world all prices do go up, how fast will it take to increase the Bowser prices here?
Yeah, so price movements globally, So anything that happens globally takes about seven to ten days to flow onto Australian consumers and Australian motors at the Bowser. So that's why we're starting to see those prices that those increases that kicked off a week and a half ago, that's why we're starting to see those come across the Australian market now. So anything that happens overseas takes about seven to ten days. We are obviously hoping.
For the worst of it.
Everyone is waiting to see what happens next. We expect after the US attack on Iran over the weekend when the markets in Asia closed, we might see our regional benchmark cappers go up two or three dollars a barrel. But we're waiting to see. So we're watching very carefully. We're hoping we'll see the worst of it. But it is the Middle East.
Simple messages, fill up.
Today, fill up today, please, good on.
You, Peter, thank you, Peter Peter Krue from the NRAM have a look at the NRMA app as well, because that's the way to find savings across the city. No, no, no, no, no, I haven't fallen asleep. Some research has been released today overseas that indicates if you get too much sleep might not be good for you. For years, we've been told that if you don't sleep enough, if you don't sleep
seven to eight hours, you were damaging your health. Well, this latest research is showing if you get too much sleep, if you get perhaps nine hours sleep, you could be at a greater risk. Jen Walsh is the director of Center for Sleep Science. So thank you for joining us, Jen, Yeah, thanks for having me in Clinton. I'm very confused this afternoon. I'm very confused. So if you sleep too much you could affect your health.
Yeah, sadly, that's what a lot of evidence actually shows, not all of it. That we have far more evidence indicating that insufficient sleep or not very much sleep is poor, you know, for our health and lots of aspects of our health. But yeah, there are a few, quite a few studies also that show that if we're sleeping sort of nine, ten eleven hours, then yes, that can be detrimental as well.
So this was research that was conducted in Hungary and they analyzed more than two minion participants, so this isn't a small study, and it found that there was an increased risk of death for those that slept nine hours or more at night.
Yeah, So what they did was they looked at a number of other studies. So they compiled data from it was I think about seventy eight studies into something like that, and they and on those studies were looking at different health outcomes and the overall outcome was general mortality. But you know, they were looking at things like cardiovascular disease, cancer, and death from all of those conditions, and this was
the overall finding. When they add up, you know, on average all of the results from all of the studies, you know, what did they find? And yes, they found that if the people were sleeping longer than nine hours, and for the most part these studies, that nine hours has come from an individual self report, so how what they actually think they sleep, so that you know, you can imagine there's an inherent error in that measure as well.
Well.
That's a really good point because I think there's an issue of quality of sleep. I've got an app, so I wear a fit bit, and so I look at it too closely these days. And even if I'm in bed for very rare I'll be nine hours. But if I'm in bed for say eight hours, it's very rarely the app says I've had eight hours sleep, it's often six and.
Six and a half exactly.
Yeah.
So that's one of the potential reasons that these long sleep durations are potentially considered or showing to be detrimental for health outcomes is because it might just be that people are spending more time in bed think they're sleeping. Maybe they do think they are asleep, and they may go to sleep at the start of that sleep period and they wake up at the end, but during the night they may be awake lots, so they sleep may be quite broken, and that we know is detrimental for health long.
Term broken sleep. I know it's difficult to generalize, but as you get older, and maybe it just depends from person to person, can you survive on few hours sleep?
Generally, what we know is that as we get older, we achieve slightly less sleep, but or then as we get quite old, and we know as we're getting closer to our time of death, that our sleep often increases, but generally, for a number of years, our sleep, the amount that we're getting does decrease, but it is relatively small. It may only be in the order of half an hour. So we need a little bit less sleep perhaps, or maybe we're just achieving.
A little bit less.
So is there a magic number?
Well, the magic number is seven to nine hours, based upon the evidence that we've got and based upon expert consensus. So you know, getting a bunch of experts in the room looking at all of this evidence around health outcomes
and they recommend seven to nine hours. However, there are not many experts out there that are going to say, look, if you're getting nine and a half and ten hours sleep per day, and you are waking up feeling good, feeling refreshed, and you're functioning well, I want you to chop an hour off that because we want to bring
you into that seven to nine range. No one's going to say that if people are waking up feeling refreshed and they're getting more than that seven that nine hours and it's not too much more, then I think that that's probably going to be okay. If we're talking about eleven, twelve, thirteen hours. Maybe someone wants to go and get themselves investigated to see whether there is something else that's going on. Is there another health condition that is contributing to that long sleep?
Good advice Nanka Jen Pleasure, sleep well, Jen Welsh, he's the director of the Center for Sleep Science. I'm just having a look at the Apprikay. So I use a bit bit and it measures my sleep. So last week, the average sleep that I had was seven hours twenty five But if I look it on a daily basis, the average is blown out by what I sleep on weekends. So on weekends I will sleep more than eight hours generally, but then some weekdays. Gee, last Wednesday four hours and
forty three minutes. That wasn't flash. Let me know how you're sleeping one three, one eight seven three. Mark Guy reviewing all the rugby league action coming up shortly revealed today there has been a six week delay in tunnel boring for the Metro West train line. This is the new Metro that will run from the city to Paramatta and Westmeat and this is worth twenty five billion dollars.
The halt has been sparked. This has been revealed by the Cidney Morning Herald today because it concerns the tunneling was going to go too close to the piles. The foundations from Major Telster Exchange, which is not far from where this big Paramatta CBD metro train station is going to be internal documents that have been seen by their herald.
So the contractors were concerned well over a year ago that one of the tunnel boring machines, and they're huge or one hundred and eighty meters long, would actually dig really close to the piles. So the foundations of the multi story Telstra building at two hundred and thirteen Church Street, well, the Premier Chris Mins has been asked today when did he know this was going to be a problem.
Generally speaking, they knew that it would be a more complex build as you got closer to the surface around Paramatta. And as far as when I was briefed, my understanding is the Minister for Transport was briefed about the challenges weeks ago.
It is hoped the tunnel boring machines will soon resume their operations.
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Bad day on the stock market and in response to what's happened in the Middle East, the fifth day in a row, the ax has closed down. Scott Hayward'll bring us all the details shortly. Oh, this is a great text message from Christian zero force zero eight seven three eight seven three. I just mentioned there have been delays with tunneling for the new Metro under Paramatta because it's emerged the tunnel operation has come close to the foundations
of major Telstra exchange. Christian said what they needed to do they needed the drain man to dig the tunnel, because the drain man to be able to do that without disturbing anything above.
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Australia is backing the US president's decision to attack Iranian nuclear sites, but says now is the time for diplomacy. Donald Trump has tested regime change may be needed in the Islamic Republic if its leaders can't make Iran great again. A toddler has died in an incident at a home in Port Stevens. Police were called to a property at Fingle Bay, finding the two year old unresponsive. They couldn't be saved. A whale has been freed after becoming entangled
in a row pop Sydney's Northern Beaches. National Parks and Wildlife will continue to monitor the hump back and postage prices is said to go up from next month. The basic rate for small letters will jump from a dollar fifty to a dollar seventy and ordinary large letters will increase by forty cents. In Sport, a total of forty three Australians will compete the one hundred and thirty eighth edition of Wimbledin, with qualifying beginning today. World number one
hundred and two. Tristan Schoolgate is chasing his debut in the main draw Clinton more news at six.
K Katie eighteen degrees on the coast, fourteen degrees in Penris. So the temperatures are falling quite dark across the city. Now it won't be as cool tonight as it was across the weekend. It looks like the weather throughout the week's actually going to be pretty good. Waverley Council has unveiled plans today for two point three million dollar proposal for what they're calling memorial walls. Now, the cemetery at
Waverley is one of the city's oldest. It dates back more than one hundred years and it's known for very prominent Victorian monuments throughout the cemetery. But like most parts of Sydney, they're now running out of space at the Waverley Cemetery. So what they've displayed today is this plan, and this is common in cemeteries in different parts of the country, but they haven't done it like this in
Waverley before. Is they're going to spend two point three million dollars on a memorial wall and it will contain small compartments where remains can be given a permanent resting place. But what this will do, it will generate six million dollars in revenue for the site in the coming years. And reality is a Waverley Council, like most organizations that run cemeteries, are having problems at the moment, they're simply running out of space. They've decided this is going to be the answer.
Finance update, Well, it's.
Been a fairly rough day on the stock market and that has a lot to do with what's happening overseas in the Middle East. Scott Hayward filling in for deb Night tonight on Money News from seven o'clock. Hello, Scott Clinton.
You talked about cooling weather. Well, I'm actually impressed with
how our share market recovered this afternoon. It only closed down thirty points zero point four percent to eight thousand, four hundred and seventy four Now, obviously this is the first time our market has been opened since the US bomb crucial nuclear sides in Iran yesterday morning our time, but utilities financials Conwalth Bank it a fresh record highs today, which is great news for a lot of people who have retail and industry super funds, which Commonwealth Bank will
probably be the line's share of that. Energy stocks also maintained its gains. So you know, Iran is the seventh largest all producer on the planet as well as being the third largest gas producer of natural gas on the
planet as well. And despite all of that unred that we've seen over the last twenty four to forty eight hours, the shell market has been resilient both here and even the US futures, which we'll talk about tonight on month and US from seven o'clock are looking reasonable considering what's been taking place.
Soko's a point of that it's the fifth day it's been down, but relatively it could have been far worse because it made that comeback.
Well, that's right. The only thing that I think will hurt us, you know, across the two GB listening audience, will be the price of petrol. And the price did hit, Brent Crudle did hit above eighty dollars just after a quarter past eleven this morning. It leveled off at around seventy eight dollars. It does mean that the price of petrol will go up in my opinion. So if you're driving home now listening to two GB filling out the tank, now at you a dollar seventy seven, a dollar eighty
one is not bad. Economists are talking back above two dollars between now and maybe again. We've got school holidays coming up, so that's also a time when petrol also spikes.
Yeah. Peter Coury made that point with me a little earlier from the NRMA. Today is the day to phill. I saw petrol selling Z ten for underd dollars seven year leater at some of the surveys in Sydney this afternoon. So Philip today, because it's only going to go up in one direction. Another giant of the international business world has passed away.
Yeah, Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx. He passed away at the age of eighty. He had more than fifty years in the business of freight and parcel services. He benefited significantly from the invention of the Internet, now delivering the FedEx business seventeen million parcels every day. But hold tety is Clinton, you love this story. At one point, I think it was about forty years ago, the company was almost broke. They had five thousand dollars in the bank.
He went to Las Vegas. He gambled it all on blackjack and won twenty seven thousand dollars. I'm not condoning any gambling at all.
And we don't provide financial advice.
Of course, you know, I've got to hang a barashuit over my head on that. But that paid for the company's fuel bill which covered the week of drivers for the week. And in twenty twenty two he still remained as the CEO. Sorry, he still remained as executive chairman after he resigned as CEO and upon passing his net worth is US five point three billion dollars. So what a turn of events from a five thousand dollar punt on the last five thousand dollars to try and get
a few packages in the door. Again, he benefited significantly from the invention of the Internet, and of course we know during the pandemic Clinton everything was Internet, everything was delivered and we couldn't leave our house.
Well, Australia Post had to approven from the AH triple seed today to increase their prices because their letter business loses money but their parcel delivery business is doing well.
Just like I did see that. Yeah, I did see that. That's a quite Extraordin'm going to talk about that as well. My money used tonight writing on TGB from seven o'clock.
Good on your Scott Scott Tayward filling in tonight for deb Night. You'll hear money used from seven o'clock this evening.
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A weather update will be here to help him unexpected weather Nram Insurance, a health company.
It was a stunning day today and it's actually reached about twenty four to twenty five degrees in some western suburbs. Not the case now in most of the West. It's around fifteen sixteen degrees, nineteen degrees on the coast. It will remain dry tonight. Tomorrow the weather is not going to be as good as the high chance of showers likely late morning and into the afternoon a top of twenty one degrees. The rain will only be hanging around
for a one day tomorrow. It'll be partly cloudy on Wednesday, partly cloudy on Thursday, and a few showers on Friday. Oh that's right. I know why it's going to rain tomorrow. You know it's going to rain tomorrow because it's State budget Day. Yeah, they want to rain on Daniel Bookie's parade.
You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard onto GB Colm now one three one eight seven three.
We talked sport with MG Mark Guyer at this time every day. Hello, MG, Halo.
Clint, just listening to that great chat about the FedEx owner. Maybe it's time for you to bank some money on your shark. He's at twenty six dollars to win the competition.
They're blowing out, are they?
They are blowing out? Mate? Yep?
Look, I know this is your top ist shit you want to talk about today. What exactly is happening with the Sharks?
Well, not really, that's kind of one of the issues. I Look, there are three losses.
They've got beaten forty two to sixteen by the Roosters and then that was without five of their origin players and forty to ten from the Warriors. Now yesterday they blew a sixteen point lead against the Broncos and went down thirty four to twenty eight.
The probably thigh on is they're still sitting in the sixth positions.
So look, they are one of them teams that you know they're going to be there come semi final time, but they just have trouble beating them that top leshound of teams that so it would seem and there is a call for maybe ever change in the halves with maybe atkinsonder partner the Trindle and looking somewhere for welld the Santas or fullback.
Look.
I obviously had a lot of attention in that game yesterday, and I disagree with that. But the problem the team has got is they don't show any ticker And yeah, you're led by halves. But they played well for sixty minutes of that game, but when the going got tough, they couldn't go with them the Broncos, and it was actually the best they've played in weeks in the first half, and then they were down twelve. They were down to twelve men and they scored a try, so that they
actually showed something. But whether it's Nickeo, whether it's Trindle, there were plenty of bad players out there in the last twenty minutes. They don't have any resilience. And this is what I don't understand MG. As a player. Craig Fitzgibven was all about resilience, he was all about toughness. His team shows the opposite.
Yeah, I've got to agree with you, Why don't you say I think it sort of after Brawley's try you mentioned that with twelve men, I thought, where do we go the Sharkis are going to win one, that's going to be a great one in front of a hostile away crowd. But they just they capitulated, and I think the Bronco scored the last four or five tries. So but anyway, all I got to say is here come the Premiers. After the Panthers led, they lost the Newcastle
in around twelve. Remember that game against the Knights in baptist without their origin star and the Knights kicked there but twenty five points to six. Well, I thought that that's all penefitingam last in the ladder. Well, since then they've gone Trino bus a bye to I've been now singing eighth position on the ladder. I think it was the winner of the year, the winner of the year against the Warriors on the weekend without their five origin stars.
And I think likewise the Rousters, who basically well history of they can't win the cop because they've got beaten in the first round of the season by the Broncos fifty points to fourteen. So that they have now won seven games. They're sitting in seventh position. The Roosters and that man Tedesco, I think he's the early favorite for the Dally And Medal.
Of the Year and watching a little bit of the Roosters game yesterday, what I don't understand, MG, is how they're going to put daily Cherry Evans into that team.
I think that I think that's boat sailed, I really do. I think, but.
They've signed him think allegedly.
Well, I think they've got to maybe do what they did the Titans and do a backflip and maybe maybe maybe DC he can end up with the Titans, because I think that's the moment who need him.
I think that at the.
Moment watching that game betweenty the Eagles and the Titans last night, it wants to finish his career with the Premiership.
But these two young kids at Santa and.
Swift and Savala at the Roosters, they're doing an all mighty job and they have they have all year. And if they's still got Walker to come back, so one of them has got to be on the bench. And that means if Walker comes back and DC, he comes and get rid of both of them. So that's that's that's not good.
That's not good. I think both of these kids were great.
They could do when with Walker comes back and maybe seeing the Smith's it's on the bench at number fourteen. But yeah, look, I think the ship has sailed. I think that's I don't think it's it's good management or business. If you assign him now to upset the aboucar that's flowing with the roosters.
I think you're going to go if you look at his management.
I look at the team that that need him, and that's why that's that's probably just the Titans at the moment.
Absolutely, absolutely, he should definitely go to the Titans.
Now.
I know you've got your dog bear.
MG, that's what he is.
They want to you know what. They're sad.
There's been research. There's been research released today showing that winter, in winter, there is a rise in seasonal depression in dogs. The statistics showed that eighty one percent of owners say they walk their less dog when it's dark. Eighty four percent then notice that their dog sleeps more in winter because the poor puppy is depressed, including yours.
I think that I think they mirror I think they mirror their owners. I think that dogs basically, if fIF your owners not as actly as they are in winter, then the dogs aren't certainly aren't going to be. I think people aren't really prone to get up and walk the dogs if they're not going to have to walk themselves. So I call a bit of boss on this. I think the owner's ship is on the owners to get up and get off your kaiba, get on the streets.
Doesn't matter if it's dark, put a little put a miner's lamp on your head, and away you go, shot.
And bewond the miner's lap. So do you put a miner's lamp on your head when you're walking around?
Benruth, I wear flura so they can see me.
Hey, your grandson is nine months old today?
Yeah, rivers nine months old today, and it hasn't had that's gone quick. But it's amazing how we kind of so celebrate these milestones when they're Look one of my kids were, you know, six months, seven months, eight months, nine months.
I kind of we didn't celebrate until that one.
But yeah, little guys, little guys nine months old today and we're having a little dinner for him tonight, cooking him his special spaghetti.
Violin aide with his vegetables. And life is.
Good at the moment.
Life is great because he's in our life.
I'm obviously a long way away from that. But when you're a grandparent to those little milestones, do they somehow need more than with your own kids?
Oh definitely. I look I honestly, I honestly believe that I never thought I could, I could love a child as much as I love my own kids until a grand kid comes along. It's it's so different now.
You obviously adore your own children because but when you're in the middle of raising them, and you're in the middle of looking after them and taking them the sport and taking them to the school, and you don't have time to do what you're doing now with your grandkid that's just basically cuddle him and kiss him and then give him back to Marble Dad when he's done a poo, when he's happy.
Or.
You're such a top lay MG. Hey, we'll talk tomorrow, buddy. So Mark go back with us on Tuesday afternoon. Could your picture have an MG as your grandpa? I still can't comp that that Mark guy has a grandfather. It's time for Clinton's quiz. I need two contestants to play. We have a double pass to give away to go along to the Plulitzer Prize winning play Primary Trust. This is a comedy about second chances and quite clarent courage. It's playing at the Ensemble Theater Incurabil. If you'd like
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I've got some great prizes to give away this week, including a double pass to go along to see great play that's at the Ensemble Theater in Curebillio's called Primary Trust. Kirsten's in Lidkem. Hello Kirsten.
Hi, Hey you going?
I'm good Kirston. And we have Brian in Eastwood. Hello Brian. Today you can go first if you like Brian.
Hi.
Okay, your thirty second starts now. Which city hosted the Summer Olympics in twenty twelve?
London?
Correct? Bill Gates is the founder of Which tech company starts with an M? It's Microsoft? What is the longest river? What's the longest river in South America?
Shall America? The Amazon?
Correct? You're on two? In the Doctor Seuss books, won't Sam I eat?
What?
Won't you eat?
Bread?
No? He loved bread. He was a big fan of bread was green eggs and ham. You're on too. You've done all right there, let's try Kurston. Okay, Kirsten, your thirty second starts. Now it's math's question. What is this? What is the square root of forty nine? Correct? True or false? The Tour de France's a bicycle race? Correct? What you was the moon landing?
Sixty nine?
Correct? What are you scared of? If you have arechnophobia?
Spiders?
That's me?
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And we have a family pass to give away to an NRL blockbuster this weekend and make sure you tune in for that one.
Zach Lomax will also be along from the Eels.
He's got a big game this weekend, back to Woollongong to face his old mates at the Dragons.
I was criticized by some staff around here for tipping the Eels against the Titans because they had no halves yesterday. But I tipped him and they won. Your Eels, it's a smart move made. They are always going to win that game. Can they make the finals? Well, there are only three points out of the eight. It's a funny competition the Dragons. There's a buy coming up. They could almost be in the wells. That team that might drop out soon, you might be able to take their place.
They named the Shark the surrender at Saint Corb. I'm calling that one, didn't I also want to ask the question Alex Johnson. The triyscre record is coming up. How should the NRL celebrate the occasion. I lovely, I'd love these to you some ideas. Yeah, went to school in the Shire as well. Great Man Adam Hawes with Brad Fidler coming up after six o'clock with wy Wood Sports. Scott Haywood is presenting Money News tonight, John Stanley and
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