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With Clinton Tuesday May twenty seven. It is Clinton Maynard here one three one eight seven three. I am looking outside the window here from our studios in Pimont. I can actually see there is no dust haze across the city. Is all that. There's some bright sunny skies, a little bit of cloud, but the dust has vanished. Have you experienced dust like that. It's in the last few years. I certainly have. Visibility was down to about three hundred leaders.
We'll find out about what's caused that in a few moments. So this is the good news. Dust does have a way of slowing down trains. I understand that they actually can slow down the trains. So if it's at all possible that Sydney Trains management can figure out some way to maybe dust off the rails, if they can try to prevent dust entering the air conditioningsvictims of the trains, please do that, because and after there's a way that Sydney trains can actually be derailed and slow down. We'll
find a way in this city. What a debarkay yesterday afternoon was coming up on the program the future of Rosehill Racecourse is to be decided within the next few minutes. The ATC chair Peter mcgarrian will be on the show a little later, and we're also hoping to speak with Gay Waterhouse. The flood recovery is continuing on the mid North Coast and in the Hunter Valley and around Tai where I was yesterday. The Prime Minister has been there
over the past few hours. Now. I think it's critical that we address the long term issues that affect the Mid North Coast and the North Coast in particular, and that concerns insurance. We'll be talking with the Insurance Council and the program our straight shooters for a Tuesday join us after four thirty. Susan Temperaman and Holly Hughes and Mark Geyer is back and MG has had some dramas he's been on a charity walk and his feet aren't
fearing too well. You are my eyes and ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so semi a text message zero four six zero eight seven three eight seven three have you say one three one eight seven three nine past three in Sydney now, the skies a bright. The dust seems to have disappeared, but what was happening this morning? Miriam Bradbury joins me. She's a meteorologist with the Bureau. What was going on this morning, Miriam.
Well, essentially it' starned quite some ways away from Sydney. This dust originated in South Australia. Actually, it was picked up by these very very strong winds associated with the cold front that moved through. The winds were strong both ahead of and behind the front, and they were westerlies, which means they were coming from the west and pushing to east. So they picked up all at dust across South Australia where it's been very dry and very dusty.
They brought it through those southwestern parts of New South Wales yesterday afternoon, then kept bringing it eastwards, affecting much of the River Arena, pushing all the way to Camber early this morning and eventually reaching the Metro area through those early hours of this morning. So we actually did see some very low visibility as this dust came through.
Camden had visibility down to only a few hundred meters between about six and eight o'clock in the morning, most areas experiencing more of this dust haze in the air for quite some time.
Now looking outside my windows Chief Mount Studios in Piermont, and it looks it looks very clear. So is all the dust now blown away? Yeah?
Pretty much so. These westerly winds are continuing, which means all that dust is now being blown or way out to sea. And in fact, for anyone listening who's interested, if you jump on and take a look at the satellite imagery, you can actually see these areas of brown moving out over the water away from the New South Wales coast. That's the dust that's been affecting us this morning, now moving well offshore, leaving us with much clearer air in its wake.
Is this quite rare for Sydney.
Yeah, look, it's reasonably rare. We need the dust to come from these areas where it's very dry and very dusty, as you can imagine, so that is South Australia or possibly western parts of New South Wales. To get all the way to the east coast, though, you need very strong winds to push it all that distance and also
make it across the ranges. So it just so happened that this cold front moving through had these very very strong winds associated with it, persisting for a long time, which really just enabled this dust to be moved practically a whole state across to reach us in the Sydney area.
Is it possible that there could be more dust later in the week.
Or is this it look it's unlikely. The winny conditions are likely to persist through today. We actually have a severe weather warning out for parts of the state, including the Blue Mountains to the west of Sydney, and it could be fairly gusty through this afternoon, but these winds should ease back later today and as we move into tomorrow and Thursday, we are looking at much more moderate
winds coming through and they're changing direction as well. They're coming from more of a southerly direction, so they're coming from the south. Unlikely to bring any more of that dust our way.
Okay, thank you for the information. Thank you Miriam Bradby from the Weather Bureau. Now Jack Hahn from the Today Show has just sent me message and some vision of the flight radar around Sydney Airport and because of westerly winds, it appears that Sydney Airport is currently operating on one runway as one way and I'm just having a look at the the flight radar and that does seem to be the case. We'll check it out with Sidney Airport about where there's going to be need delays for flights
this afternoon. But it would appear that Sydney Airport at the moment is operating on one runway because of the westerly winds.
You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney. Stay tune to Sydney Now with Quinton.
Lay On to gmb Okay. Right now, the members of the ATC are at Royal Randwick voting on the future of rose Hill Racecourse. I actually would have thought it would be more appropriate to hold the EGM today at rose Hill. Nevertheless, there are eleven to twelve thousand members of the ATC and they are deciding whether rose Hill will be sold off for five billion dollars to the state government. That money would be paid over the course
of ten years. As we've been discussing now for several months, and in fact this issue has been around since late twenty twenty three. The racetrack would be redeveloped for twenty five one thousand new homes with a metro station. Now the vote is happening right now. Most of the votes have actually come in via proxy electronically, so there will be a result quite quickly. From what I've been hearing throughout the day, the No vote is virtually one hundred
percent over the line. It looks that way now that that could change and we don't have these figures through yet, but mainfow is that the No campaign was very confident they would have enough votes to win, but it would be closer than a lot of people were expecting. Peter McGowan is the chair of the ATC. Now I'm not in the meeting at the moment obviously, but I've just had a few people send me messages that apparently mister mcguran has not had a wonderful reception. There's been some
booze for the chair of Peter mcgarran. And bear in mind the board itself of the ATC is split. So Peter mcgaran, of the chair, obviously wants to see this happen. Racing New South Wales, which is led by Peter Velandi's wants to see this happen. The state government wants to see this happen. But every time I talk about this in the radio, you don't want to see it happen,
but it's up to the eight TC members. There is going to be the question if the vote is not successful, then what if the ATC is in the belief that they need this funding five billion dollars over ten years to secure its future and to scue the future of racing in New South Wales. Where do they then get the money from? Would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury? Well, Peter mcgodi'll ask answer those questions for us after five o'clock when he joins me. But as we speak there
is not a result that's been released yet. But I'm getting some pretty good mail. And this has been the case for several weeks, but it's certainly built up today that the no vote will be successful.
Be your part of Sydney now with Clinton Maynard called one three one eight seven three.
Well, yesterday we were broadcasting the program from Tarre, and today the Prime Minister has toured both Tarre but also surrounding areas of the Mid North Coast. The Defense Force is now on the ground. They have seventy personnel who are assisting now with the recovery effort. Eight hundred homes have been written off insurance claims. Lodge There are already thousands of assurance claims that have been put forward. The SEES has conducted five thousand assessments so far. Damage assessments.
They have deemed it seven hundred and ninety four houses on the mid North Coast, but also parts of the Hunter Valley are unfit to live in. There's going to be a question of how these people recover. The Prime Minister says they will not be forgotten about. He says the disaster has been far worse than what's been experienced in this particular region ever before.
People have spoken about the twenty twenty one floods and how that had a devastating impact, but they thought that would be the peak. Well, this flood has been far worse and the impact has been far more severe. I spoke with Linn at Wingham when we visited there. Linn's eighty years old and has lived in this area for her entire life there in Wingham, and she has never seen anything like it in her lifetime, as did other
people in Willam who we spoke to firsthand. There is nothing like coming to an area and seeing people firsthand and engaging with them.
The Prime Minister is also spilt out what sort of financial assistance is now available.
We are activating the Australian Government Disaster Recovery Payment in nine local government areas. This payment helps people who have suffered the most serious impacts, including a major damage to their home or serious injury or loss of a loved one as a result of severe weather. It's a one off payment of one thousand dollars for eligible adults and four hundred dollars for eligible childs. It will be available from two pm tomorrow. We're also extending the Disaster Recovery Allowance.
This is providing for up to thirteen weeks of income support for people who can't attend their workers, employees or people who are self employed and are unable to earn an income. This involves as well comes on top of the support that is already rolling out, including personal hardship payments one hundred and eighty dollars for eligible adults and up to nine hundred dollars per family in the nineteen
affected local government areas. The Community Recovery Support Fund that provides a million dollars for all of the impacted counsels just to help with the costs of cleaning up and repairing damage and as well the primary producers and small businesses support.
This provides for concessional.
Rate loans as well as freight sub seeds to help transport livestock and fodder. All of these supports where icknowledge is going to be more needed here.
The prime is to detailing all of the financial assistance that's available and that covers it there. Now, that's not going to do a lot for businesses that I witnessed yesterday that have been wiped out, such as the motel. I visited the oyster farm and there are loans that are available, but those loans also need to be paid back. The question is raised that should really be the responsibility of a government to bail out homeowners maybe who don't
have insurance, to bail out businesses. There are thousands of insurance claims that have been lodged already, but I think there's a deep issue that's going to need to be addressed, and that's the affordability of insurance going forward. Now you know from how much your basic home insurance premium has gone up in suburbs in Sydney that are not affected by natural disasters. You might not be in a bushfire area, you may not well, be in a flood prone area.
Your premium has gone up, hasn't it in the past twelve months? Well, think about what it's like for people in those areas where they do have floods from time to time. It's on a whole new level, completely unaffordable. And it's easy for us to say we'll move away, it's not easy in practice to actually do that. I will be talking with the insurance council after five. If you got an idea about how we actually get around this issue. Do we need to return to a government
insurance off remember that one the goio. What are your thoughts one three one eight seven three. If there's something you see on the streets that we know need to know about, send you a text message zero force like zero eight seven three eight seven three, and that is our word on the street. Things to temper, Temper, a great night's sleep, night after night. The difference is temper.
And in barrel, this is a word on the street in barrel, Jason, what can you tell us what's going on in barrel this afternoon?
A power outage down here?
It's the wind has been blowing like a gale, as it has over most parts of these other whales and whilst it's good to see the that dirt go out the sea and'd certainly taken the power out with it here.
So you've had no power for how long?
Going up to an hour and a half.
Now Endeavor Energy, you supplies the electricity is say, probably.
Not till nine pm tonight.
Ooh before it's restored. Okay, we've just had some confirmation off air Jason, You're right, so Endeavor Energy says there are currently eighty four outages, so homes and businesses in Barrel. It's because the tree damage that's been caused by the gusty wins. The estimated time that the power is going to be back on his nine o'clock formerly from in Dever Energy. I hope you can get through JSON on batteries. Sydney Airport's now confirmed with us they are running just
one runway due to the wind. I'm getting some more information that's coming out of the meeting at Royal Ramwick on the future of Rose Hill and apparently it's very fiery. There are some leading members who are actually walking out of the meeting in disgust. So we are going to talk with both Peter mcgourren and we believe gay Waterhouse will be on the program a little later. Now, we don't have any confirmation yet of how the vote has gone, but my information is there was very little chance the
yes vote would be successful. Now, also bear in mind this is for a deal that the government has actually not formally signed off on. It would be the state government spending five billion dollars to buy rose Hill over ten years, and that's not a formality either. Yes, Chris Mins wants this to happen, but the deal actually has not been done with the government itself. We'll bring you that result as soon as it comes to hand one
three one seven to three. On the issues of insurance in disaster areas going forward, areas that are prone to bushfires, those that have a history of flooding, Neville says, what we need is a National Disaster Fund. Good idea, dan Neville Daniel says insurance for flood prone areas like medicare private health insurance. The government should cover a portion, say forty percent of the value, and the rest is from an insurance company. I will be talking to the Insurance
Council a little later on the program coming up. I'm going to talk to Peter Ford about the relationship between the French president and his wife. It certainly took a turn today. Pauline Hansen's daughter has been unsuccessful today in her bid to join her mother in the Senate. She
has missed out on the Senate seat for Tasmani. She came quite close though, so Jackie Lamby has retained her seat and at one point it was looking like Miss Lamby may well miss out, but the AEC has now confirmed the six Tasmanian senators and that will include Lamby. And just remember the way our democracy works. Tasmania has the same number of senates as we do in New
South Wales, which seems a little ridiculous. Just some confirmation of Mindeva energy for our listeners in the Southern Highlands. We have plenty via the app. It looks like it's going to be nine o'clock before the power is restored to some areas around Barrel. About eighty four properties at the moment are without power. There's been some damage to power lines caused by a tree in these winds. Let's check out your headlines and good after and Josh Bryce.
Good afternoon, Clinton. The fate of rose Hill Racecourse is expected to be known soon as members have been voting on whether location will be sold off to the state government to be turned into twenty five thousand new homes. More than one hundred specialists police are being deployed. It's part of a task force designed to help bring an end to growing gang violence on the streets of Sydney.
Key Labour backbencher at Hu six urging the federal government to push for greater action against Israel, arguing the country should be punished after restricting food and medical supplies in war torn Gaza At Australia's Queen Mary and her husband have been upstaged by the family dog King Frederick, was greeting crowds on the palace for his fifty seventh birthday, the one of the family's border colleagues, made a surprise appearance.
Is believed to be the first time that's happened. In sport, Blues coach Laurie Daly says he's quietly confident that sent to Stephen Crichton will be fit to play in the State of Origin opener after leaving training with a corked thigh yesterday. We'll have more news and sport.
It for thank you Josh eighteen degrees in the city. It is seventeen degrees in Campbelltown at the moment, one three one eight seven three is our number. The big issue in Sydney today, no doubt, is gang violence. Violent criminals, drug gangs who are now willing to shoot not just each other, but innocent victims. Now this has moved to a whole new level. And we've witnessed gun crime and drug crime in this city for decades, but it's no longer just the lives of criminals that are in danger.
We are seeing innocent people killed, cases of mistaken identity, which takes this drug war and it's all about drugs and illegal tobacco as well, to a whole new level. What we saw in Granville Sunday afternoon, innocent bystanders, their lives were put at risk. We saw just a couple of weeks ago the murder of a forty five year old mother who was abducted from her home her child whack with a baseball back. This was in Bankstown. She's stripped,
tied up and then killed. Police believe she had no idea that her husband was involved in the drug trade. Last week, the murder of a twenty three year old in a driveway over home at Condell Park. He had just come home in his ute, worked for his dad as a plumber. Apparently a case of mistaken identity because there was a crime figure living in the street. There's a theory doing the rounds that members of these criminal gangs in Sydney have changed their stance, that they're now
willing to kill innocent people. They don't seem to care and that they're criminals in the end because if anything, okay, if they maybe kill the wrong person here and there, it still sends a message to their rivals that they're more than willing to kill. The police and the government today have set up Task Force Falcon. It's made up of one hundred and fifty officers and another ninety staff. The Police Minister Usiasmin Catley.
We will not tolerate these lawless thugs getting out there with their vendebtors against each other and putting in danger innocent victims in our community. Let me tell you, if you intend to become a part of these organized gangs, you are either going to end up in a small cell for the rest of your life or indeed at the Morgue we take this very very seriously.
The police minister Yasmin Cattley, now Dave Hudson, the Deputy commissioner's heading up all this and he's a very serious police officer, is the deputy commissioner. I wonder though, whether the criminals in the Alabideine crime gang and listening to Yasmin Catley this apening, thinking we're worried that nothing worries them. The only thing they're worried about is their payday. It's all about greed. I'm going to talk with a former police officer who can give us an insight into what's
happening in the underworld at the moment. Laid this half hour and I know a lot of people respond by saying, who cares if crooks kill crooks as few of them on the streets. The problem is they're not just killing crooks now, they're killing innocent people as well.
If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney now with Quenton Maynard on.
To GB Well, hasn't Emmanuel mccron and his wife made headlines today? This is quite extraordinary, this slap on board the plane. Peter Ford joins us. What do you make of it, Pete, I'm still not sure.
I'm still I think it's odd, that's for sure. And I know, and let's be really clear, you know where everyone knows that domestic violence is not a laughing matter, but this would seem to not be that. Certainly. President Macron is insistent that it wasn't that his offers are saying it wasn't that. It was just a bit of horseplay and high jinks and they were messing around, and which is hard to meet a fully swallow because you know,
these are very experienced people. He's been in that position now for eight years, and I'm sure there's many times he's arrived on the jet in a new country and he knows perfectly well, that's the moment when the doors open and all the media are waiting to get that shot as you walk up and walk out of the plane and down the stairs. So it would seem to be very strange timing to be indulging in hijinks. But that's what they say it was.
Well, he has defended himself. This is little what he's had to say.
We were squabbling and I was joking with my wife, and I'm surprised by it, and it becomes some sort of geoplanetary catastrophe and everybody needs to calm down and should really focus on actual news.
A geoplanetary catastrophe.
Well, yes, look, I mean I think it buys into a lot of the theories that go around about this marriage, and I'm not going to indulge in those because some of them are pretty wild and pretty out.
Well.
They did meet in school and she was the.
Teacher exactly, so what we do know, even just the facts that we know, it's not ever been a conventional relationship. You know, there's a twenty five year age different there. She was a school drama teacher. He was fifteen years old, so you're getting into sort of questionable areas there. Anyway, So it's always been a little bit odd. So I
don't know, is the honest answer. But it certainly got people talking and guessing, and I guess anything that happens in the next few days people are going to jump on and say that's more.
Evidence the romance of Billy Ray Cyrus and Elizabeth Hurley has moved to a new stage.
Yes, every day we get something that's new. You know, yesterday we had the first ever red carpet appearance by the two of them, so that was quite something. Then today he's put up a post onto his social media she has as well, actually from this event they went to together in Rome, and in it he actually calls her my beautiful girlfriend, so he has used the G word girlfriend. So we haven't actually had the use of the L word yet, but that's got to be soon, I reckon.
And the is now that they've both gone back to England together and she's going to be there and he's joining her simply to spend time meeting her family and friends. So there's no doubt this is a serious thing. Whether it's going to last the distance or not is another question.
But I mean she certainly if you look at her through the years, she's got very very eclectic tastes in men still all different types of people through the years, and of course the most recent one being our own Shane Warn But good luck to them, you know, I hope they make it work.
Does he still have the mullet Billy Ryan, Yeah he has.
Look, he's got a kind of slightly dishevelled country singer. Look you know about him. But yeah, they say opposite to track, don't they I mean, she has said the thing that drew them together, and it didn't happen instantaneously. They made a movie together a couple of years ago, and there was no suggestion there that any love or any real close friendship evolved from that. But it was twelve months later when she contacted him and suddenly that's when it's all blossomed from there.
Good luck to them, Happy for them. We'll talk tomorrow.
Thanks Clenton.
We have lots of text messages about the future of rose Hill Gardens Racecourse and Peter mcgarren and Gay Waterhouse will both join me later in the program. I'm expecting a result within the next half an hour. Paul says Peter mcgoan will need to resign. His position of chair is untenable. The members don't trust him. And this one from Misty, where's the money coming from? Why should taxpayers
prop up the racing industry? This is even before considering the traffic issues that a housing estate is going to bring to the rose Hill Racecourse. Well, in regards to the five billion dollars, that's where we're very light on detail at the moment because the government certainly hasn't outlined their role in the plant other than they do want to see twenty five thousand new homes built at Rosehill.
But there's never been a formal document put on the table for any of us to look at to say, Okay, the government will spend X number of dollars per year over the decade. So it's not just money to prop up the ATC. You got to make that clear. The idea is to housing and there would be profit involved as well, whether it's for the government or developers whoever. And it's to address the problem of the shortage of
housing that we have in Sydney. But there's just there's no formality about this that this is actually what the government has agreed to. Word on the street for Tempa a great night's sleep night after night. The difference is Tempa. Debbie is in Gladesville and has a word on the street. Your line is really bad, Debbie. But so you're telling me that there's an accident on Victoria Road near Charles Street. So it's at right, is it, Debbie? Yep, it's at right.
It's heading westbound, so apologies there. Debbie's line is very poor, but there are two cars in the footpath there. Thanks
for letting us know about that. Police investigations also under way about an incident in our Tarman lunchtime today in Elizabeth Street, and just having a look at some of the photos that I mentioned with Michael McLaren a little earlier this afternoon, an elderly driver has somehow managed to fling her car, a red Honda h it's a red Honda Suv and somehow she's managed to mount apart car that's at the side of Elizabeth Street and she's ended up on two wheels and she's lucky that she hasn't
been badly injured. Now, neighbors helped her get out of the car, and then the police arrived in a tow truck driver and very delicately they were able to remove the suv from the top of a park or Black too had a camera. It looks like it's a peplay driver there. Fortunately nobody has been seriously injured, but the driver looks like she's had a very lucky escape.
You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two gb Com now one three to one, page seven three.
It's a quarter to the four. As I mentioned, the state government and the police today have announced a major task force. It is called Task Force Falcon and its job is to bring together thirteen different strike forces. So strike forces are set up to investigate individual crimes, but there would appear to be links between many of these crimes. It appears to be linked to a gang war to Sydney's underworld War. What's occurring now though, is innocent people
are being killed. As I mentioned, there was a forty five year old woman who was abducted from her Bankstown home a couple of weeks ago. Now police believe her husband was involved in the drug trade, but they also believe she had zero idea of her husband's second life. She was abducted, she was stripped naked, she was tied up. Now allegedly, then efforts were made to contact the husband. The criminals couldn't get through to the husband, so they
killed her. No one's been charged with her murder yet. Last week, twenty three year old executed in his driveway when he arrived home in Condeal Park. Police are of the belief that most likely a case of mistaken identity, that there had been a crime figure living in the street. And this appears to be the change that where we've had members of these underworld drug gangs willing to kill each other, you might think, fine, they now appear to
be willing to kill other people as well. Glenn Gorick is a retired police sergeant and has a lot of experience in investigation. Glenn, thanks for your time.
Yeah, thanks for having me on K good to talk with you.
Firstly, and I asked you about your insight into this ongoing gang or and maybe the way it's being changed in the moment. But first of what the Governor's announced today was Dave Hudson. It is a task force, Task Force Falcon. It'll bring together one hundred and fifty officers and ninety other staff. When police respond in this way, bringing together thirteen strikeforces under the umbrella of one group. What does that tell you about their concern.
It tells you that you're in trouble. Really, you have a big problem in Sydney. When you're going to pull all these police off one group of investigations and move them all over into and focus purely on this, there's going to be a lot of work to come to a halt and a lot of new work brought up. So it tells me that they're extremely concerned about the circumstances that are going.
On now, and you know, you only have to look.
We've had this run of drive by shootings.
We've had this run of innocent people being shot back Queen. This goes back four decades that I remember of certain families in Sydney. Four decades. You would think that it would have stopped, and it hasn't. And it's this tit for tat continuance of oh, we'll take that person out and thinking that that will end it.
When it doesn't.
What it does it escalates.
It because then the other side start planning their retaliatory behavior.
I went along to a press conference with the Senior Police probably about eighteen months ago, and they'd made some more arrests members alleged members of the Alamadeen family crime gang. And for years they are at all with the Hams. You think most of the Hamses are in jail. And they made a declaration at this press conference Glenn that
they believed they'd effectively broken up the Alamedines. But today we're hearing, we have over the past couple of weeks that some of these crimes again, including what transpired Sunday in Granville, Parramatta, is again linked to the Alamedines.
Yeah, there's a remote link to that. I believe it's alleged that the person that was seriously injured in that one is linked to the Alamadeen. Obviously the lawyer was there with them. He's the lawyers are all linked to them anyway in some shape or form, because they're defending them and the Alamadean family.
Look, I remember when I.
Was in crime team, and I go back to the eighties and there was all sorts of problems with the right. Back then, they were all causing trouble. They were young, you know, and again they've grown up that we thought they would outgrow it, and the Alamadean family has just continued on generation to generation with this kind of problem. That's it's Razors said. We have the alleged Rezark family,
the dib family. It's just analyses prime families coming from that southwestern corner, and they seem to involve themselves in this serious crime. And as you know, innocent people are getting hurt. Bob Knight shooting back at two thousand and nine. Two thousand and nine, Bob Knight was shot in the neck by his trade bullet from a shootout.
So Bob Bob Knight was a truck drive, wasn't he truck.
Driver sitting at an intersection driving his truck going to work and he gets shot and he's and the family are left with that mess. And that was a stray bullet from one of these driby.
So that is literally in the crossfire. That's actually what happened. But has there been a change in your observations of some of these crimes this year? Has there been a change in the way these gangs are operating that they're willing to kill innocent people such as the forty five year old wife of somebody connected to the drug dealer who didn't even know her husband was involved in this, or the kid last week who police believe simple case a mistaken identity.
Yeah, it has changed.
Look the difference you go back to the old school days of the Christovadal Flannery.
They would have bring the third party in right and.
They would conduct surveillance and go and do the execution or whatever. It narrowed down to family members on family members for a long time. That has now gone back to third parties where they are using a young males that are running around involved in some form of time. They grabbed them onside, they paint them a lot of money, and then they give them the job to do.
And that's what's happening here.
And hence why there is a lot of mistakes being made. It's third parties who aren't up to the job that they take it on because they want the money and make it nund for themselves.
So they're not, let's be blunt, they're not very good at being an assassin.
No, they're not at all.
They're terrible.
They're absolutely hopeless. And as you're seeing the wrong things are getting done and look, you know, it's just a complete mess. And the proactive policing approach to it is going to be the only anste They're going to have to saturate that southwestern area with proactive police looking for these people running around in the planning phases of these things and try and intervene before they execute their plan.
Yes, So, just in conclusion, Gwen, is that the answer having more cops on the street actually targeting these dugs.
It has to be.
There's no other way you can combat it. There's absolutely no way you can combat people running around that are going to carry out a murder on an execution. All those crime gangs are trying to do is send a message to the game. They're making a statement, and the problem with it is it just goes round and round in circles and innocent people are getting killed. And look, the people of Sydney don't deserve this. There's lots of good people out in that south for us to Sydney.
That live every night in fear of a.
Drive by coming down the street. It needs to be cleaned up. And I believe Dave Hudson would be the best man for the job because he has forty years in the police force, mostly in investigations, and he was a great detictive when in his younger days. I think he's the greatest guy to head this up and do something about it.
He's heading this up and he may well be the commissioner by the end of the year. Thank you for your Tom, Glenn.
Thank you Clinton.
It's always good to talk with you.
Retired police Sergeant Glenn Gorick. Now, I know, you know some people don't care about people who are crooks shooting each other, but and I know people have also been caught in the crossfire for years. But the story last week of the twenty three year old who's arriving home at work at ten point thirty reversing his car up the driveway and someone completely covered in black get away car. They're waiting for him, and the neighbors heard someone out
saying no, no, no, don't do it. And it wasn't even anyone involved based on what the police investigation show involved in the drug trader or crime. The god I'd had one traffic infringement that was the only thing on his record. That is terrifying and that's what we've got to do everything we can as a community to stamp that sort of behavior out and once these people are before the courts, get them in jail and keep them there. The New South Wales government has been criticized today by
the Lock the Gates Alliance. What is the Lock the Gate Alliance. They're one of the fairly radical environmental groups.
They're angry that the government has approved its sixth coal mine expansions since they came to power, and the Lock the Gate Alliance is using the Mid North Coast floods as an example about why these particular coal mines should not be expanded, because they are suggesting that the floods on the Mid North coast in the Hunts Valley have been caused by climate change, and now the government is making it worse by approving the expansion of a coal
mine in Tarmor, which is twenty five kilometers from Campbelltown. It is the first fourth coal mine approval since the New South Wales Net Zero Commission warned in New South Wales that we are not on track to meet our emissions reduction targets for twenty thirty or twenty thirty five. I somehow don't think the expansion of one coal mine or native This is actually the sixth since the New
South Wales Labor Buddy came to power. I don't think the expansion of that coal mine was going to prevent the mid North Coast floods.
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Hey kid, aren't you lucky Natella for anternoon? Do your kids eat Natella or your grandkids? I've never been into it. I've never been into it, but I was reading this week that Australians eat an average each year of fifteen million kilograms of Natella, which is the chocolate hates nutspread that's been a round top. It was around when I was a kid, but just something I never really had, and we don't have jars of it sitting in our kitchen cupboard. I don't think it's that great for.
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Natella. Nevertheless, it's been rated the number one spread in twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four based on sales dart up because we eat fifteen million kilograms. But it is facing a challenge. I read this week it is facing a challenge from Biskoff. Have you had Biscoff now? Biskoff is increasingly popular. Based on Google Trends search data, more people have searched for Biscoff than they have Natella over the past few years. Natella is still beating it
in the sales race. Biscoff is a caramel cinnamon spice biscuit and spread, and a lot of the big food retailers doing deals with the Biscoff manufacturer, Lotus Bakeries to have biscoss favorite fluid biscos on to tell it better, I think I probably go for Veggie Mine.
The Sydney Now with Clinton on.
To gb Well, the votes are being tally right now, votes that will decide the future rose Hill Gardens racecourse. The EGM has concluded at roy Ramick this afternoon of the ATC. There's been a bigger turnout than was expected and as a result of this, it's likely to be a closer vote. I don't yet have a result, but what I've been hearing is the no vote is going
to be successful. Later in the program, I'm going to speak with the ATC's chair, Peter mcgorren, but also I'm going to speak with Gay Waterhow Gay Waterhouse has been in my program several times in the last couple of weeks has been staunchly in the No camp. The deal, of course, to sell Rose Hill to the state government, who would then develop it with property developers five billion dollars over ten years, and that would create space for twenty five thousand new homes. Now most of those would
be apartments. There would also be a new metro train station. This is a divisive issue. It is passionate. I received so many listeners' messages telling me don't sell Rose Hill. But in the end it comes down to a democratic decision from the ATC. Chrispin's the Premier, wants this to happen, but he has repeatedly said he won't acquire the land. I heard one rumor today that if this sale is not successful, if the vote is not successful, that the
premier would acquire the land. He has consistently ruled that out. I don't think he's going to be doing that, as has been now reported over the last couple of days. This is the one chance. There are some property experts who say that if the members of the ATC don't take up this deal now, it won't be there on the table in say three or four years time, or the valuation will change. The five billion dollars won't be there. Many prominent people have taken part in this meeting this afternoon,
including John Singleton form my owner this radio station. He has spoken to reporters on his way out.
Five billion dollars for a bit of rotten land at I don't even like going at all. If you've asked the people to send up who went to rose Hill the last five years improve a point, So you're disappointed, Yeah, I thought we'd have some fireworks and some yeah people getting stuck into one. That's all big, that five and polite and very disappointing.
I heard the bit of angst in there, but as Singo says that everybody was very polite towards one another. So Singo appears to be a fan of the idea to sell rose Hill. Now he's pointing out he said, you stand up if you actually don't go to the rose Hill races. Now, I'm not a racegoer, Okay, someone coming at this issue independently, But certainly what Peter mcgouran has told me is that consistently the attendance figures at rose Hill have been going down. Ranwick has been more
successful in attracting the punters. But it's a democratic decision for the members of the ATC and certainly when I get that information through about the success of the vote, I'll bring that to you. My understanding is no will be successful, but it's going to be tight.
If it matters to you, you'll hear it here. Sydney now with Clinton Maynard until sex Well.
The flood recovery effort continues on the mid North Coast. We were broadcasting the program from there yesterday, but also the Hunter Valley. There are about eight hundred homes that have been declared so far uninhabitable. They'll have to be knocked down. Now. Reality is some of the families in those houses aren't insured, and there's a lot of pressure now in the insurance industry. Firstly for those that do
have insurance to respond quickly to process claims quickly. But there's also the question of what is going to happen long term on the mid North Coast and the same question for the North Coast that of course suffered the floods around Lismore. There's then businesses, businesses for instance, that may have been operating in a particular area around Tai for decades and decades that insurance has become so expensive they simply can't afford to a new premiums that they
drop out. What happens to them. Yesterday on the program, the Premiere was with me and I asked him what is going to be done about insurance reforms long term? Does the government need to play a greater role in providing insurance for properties that are deemed to be uninsurable.
The government's announced and intention to pursue reform in that area, to be honest with you, because we're going to have more of these in the future, not less, we have to think about ways of reducing the amount insurance insurance people pay and hopefully in certain areas, making it affordable for the first time, or at.
Least the policy being offered.
I don't have you know, I try to be really blunt.
In these circumstances because people have got.
To have straight information from the government. I don't have an easy answer.
I wish I did.
If we did, we would have implemented it before the storm hit Port Macquarie and Kempsey. But we have to start working on it because we need a longer term solution.
Well, the Prime Minister today, who was being tar to his credit, was also asked about the future of insurance in areas like the Mid North Coast and the Far North Coast.
Well, we expect insurance companies to do right by their customers and swiftly process claims.
They've set up an.
Office here so that they can be dealt with swiftly. Our focus now is on the cleanup and recovery from this event. That's our focus, the immediate needs. That's what people here expect us to do. Yes, there are longer term issues that.
Need to be looked at.
What we need to do at this point in time, though, is make sure that people's immediate needs are looked after.
In the end, you didn't answer the question about what's going to happen with insurance long term. Andrew Hall is the CEO of the Insurance Counsel and is in Tari at the moment. Thank you for joining me, Andrew, Thank you for having me quin Firstly, the situation right at the moment in terms of processing claims and assessing the damage. We often hear in times of these natural disasters it simply takes insurance companies too long to carry out those assessments.
So are you able to give us an assurance that that's not the case this time around?
Well our full flood event this year, So insurance companies have been working since January when the floods started up in far North Queensland and we had ten thousand odd claims in that region. Moved down to Tropical Cyclone Alfred and the flooding that occurred in Harvey Bay and then Dwan to Lismore, out to western Queensland and now here
on the mid North coast. Since twenty twenty two, insurers have massively expanded their workforces, so we've got really an army of people that are moving at the moment down the coast and into the areas here on the mid North.
Coast to get the assessments done.
As the Prime Minister mentioned there, we've opened an insurance hub here in tai People can come in without a booking. They can see their insurance company and have a conversation with them face to face to get their claim organized. So there's a whole raft of initiatives that have started since the biggest event we went through, which was twenty twenty two.
What's and credite for doing that? What is now during a natural disaster? What would the average weight time be between the time and assessments conducted, the claim lodged and a payout is made.
So for us, we're trying not to make payouts insurance replaces like for like, we try to rebuild and restore. What's there payouts happen when the persons some insured is not going to cover what they want to do to their property. And this is part of the problem with flood. One of the issues with flood if you think about what happens when a bushfire goes through or a cyclone goes through, we have homes are often completely destroyed. They're then built back to a bushfire proofed or in Queensland.
They're built back to a category three or above standard for cyclone. We have no standards for flood. We we are expected to build back the exact saying property in the exact same location, with the assumption that it's not going to happen again.
And standing and.
Here in Taris, you would have seen all these other towns that I've been to today and spoken to people that happened to them in twenty twenty one. It's twenty twenty five. It will happen again. These are areas that in the old world were known as one and twenty one and ten year flood zones. These days we call them a two or a five percent chance of flooding every year.
They're the ones we've.
Got to deal with.
I spoke to numerous Brisoness owners and residents in particular yesterday in tari and they told me that premiums had jumped up dramatically after twenty one twenty two, in some cases twenty five thousand dollars, so completely unaffordable. How can that be justified?
So flood is our biggest problem. And where I see twenty five thousand dollar premiums and I investigate it, it's always related to that properties flood risk. Now, why is flood the problem. Flood is a problem because it is a predictable and known risk. We know that that building where it stands, is likely to flood, how often, we know how often it's likely to flood, the depth of frequency,
All of those factors are very well known. Insurance is designed to protect you from unexpected so the accidental fire, the hailstorm, the bad storm that comes. But with flood it's been a very different set of challenges and we're not alone in Australia. Every other insurance market in the
world has the same problem. If an insurance company takes on a house, like a couple of the homes that I've seen today here that have flooded three times since twenty twenty one, they're trying to price the cost of restoring or rebuilding that property completely every three years, and that's how you end up with prices of twenty five thirty thousand dollars.
There's been some headlines. Now, whether you can clarifyse to me, is you sis an over the top headline that much of the mid North Coast will now be uninsurable? Is that unfair?
That is unfair? Most of the mid North Coast is insurable, and we've looked at the insurance rates up here and they pretty well match insurance rates across the state of New South Wales. But there are very concentrated areas of homes and businesses that in very high risk locations. They're the ones with the high prints.
What is there a way that you can work with the government whereby perhaps a property owner in one of these areas who may well have been there their whole life, and they know that it's floodponed, and perhaps they haven't been through a flood as bad as what they have experienced in the last week, whereby there can be a combination of the government and private insurance companies coming together to at least be able to offer some sort of affordable policy. Because I asked that I was an oyster
farm yesday can oster farmers on the river. But the particular rest farmer I was speaking to has been there is whole life, and yes, floods do occur. A flood occurred in twenty twenty one, but he's never been through a flood like this one before.
And Clinton wants devastating for the oyster farmers. We know is that it can knock out production for up to three years. Look, there is a solution there. It's going to be a public private partnership between government and insurance. We have already provided all of our peril data to the federal government. That's all the information we use around the flood peril free example. What we've said to government,
and we've had long conversations with them. We put out a policy ahead of the last federal election that was just held where we've priced the de risking of twenty four catchments on the East Coast over a period of ten years.
Now.
It's about thirty billion dollars. It's expensive and there is no easy silvable because ultimately to get the price of insurance down you've got to reduce the risk. If you don't reduce the risk, someone ends up paying. If we go and spread that cost across everyone's policies. I get people who live in non flood zones tell me they don't want to be subsidizing those people in flood zones. So we're saying to government, we've got to work with
you on this. We know here are the facts. There are two hundred and twenty thousand homes on the East coast of Australia that are sitting in a two or a five percent chance of flooding every year. Within that cohort, about a third of those people live on less than fifty.
Six thousand dollars a year.
These are people who can lease forward this sort.
Of rig which is where we need government intervention. I've got one more question for you, Andrew, but i just need to break into this for the moment. Rose Hill Racecourse will not be sold. Breaking news. The no vote has been successful. Fifty six forty four The ATC members have voted against the sale of Rose Hill Gardens fifty six forty four. Will bring you more details in just
a moment. Just back to Andrew Hall, who's the CEO of the Insurance Council, because I do have one more critical question that affects all of us listening in Sydney. There'll be many of our listeners, Andrew, who don't live in a flood zone, who don't live in an area that's under threat from bushfires, but have experienced dramatic increases in their home insurance premiums in particular in last year.
Is the flood emergency at the moment, is it going to affect the premiums of other people this year.
It's literally too early to tell. The reality is a lot of these floods that are occurring have already been catered for in the reserves.
That insurers have.
The battle that ensurers are facing, it's the same as everybody else. Building inflation has gone through the roof over the last three years. So the cost of restoring or rebuilding your property has risen by forty percent in three years. What we say to people is you need to look carefully at your sum insure. These days, people often think to themselves, look, it will only cost half a million dollars to rebuild this house if I need to. That's
not the case anymore. And this is what we're really concerned about moving forward, is at the level of not non insurance, but actually under insurance.
And I can understan why there's under insurance in my policy. In my listeners, numb it jumped almost fifteen hundred dollars in one year, and so I basically had a reassessment that many of our listeners have been in the same position. I've got to move on, Andrew, but I do appreciate your insights and being there on the mid North Coast. Thank you Andrew. Thanks quin Andrew Hall, CEO of the
Insurance Council. There's no easy solution to the people who do live in flood zones, but there needs to be some sort of arrangement between both the insurance industry and the government. Okay, just repeating breaking news. Rose Hill Race Course will not be sold off. The ATC members have voted against the sale fifty six forty four that's the percentage, fifty six percent, forty four percent. There are roughly twelve
thousand ATC members. The turnout of the EGM that's been conducted at Royal Ramwick has been bigger than had been anticipated. There were mostly proxy votes that have been talied up digitally. But what it means is the members have voted against the sale. Well, Peter mcgorran will join me after five o'clock.
He is the chair of the ATC and the big question is going to be, well, what now if the ATC believed that they would benefit from the five billion dollars, If that money is not going to come into the coffers, what does the ATC do going forward for the racing industry in New South Wales? Is there going to be a plan to sell off other assets Warwick Farm, Canterbury. Would that be a possibility or is there another way around this? Is this actually over or will there be
another way of trying to get this deal done. We're going to find out after five o'clock twenty one past four, Hey with the latest, Josh Bryant.
Good afternoon, Clinton, Rose Hill racecourses you were just saying will not be sold off after a majority of Australian Turf Club members voted not to proceed with the sales of the state government as part of a plan to turn the site into twenty five thousand new homes. Police have now confirmed a man who was shot in Granville over the weekend has died as a result of his injuries. The Prime Minister has met with Farmers, Defense and SEES personnel who are dealing with the flood crisis on the
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Sixteen degrees in the coast fourteen degrees in the western suburbs. Pete mcgo on, the chair of the ATC, has confirmed the sale of rose Hill Gardens is not going ahead.
The ATC members today voted not to sell rose Hill Gardens. That means it's finished, taken off the table, will not proceed in any shape or form into the future. I personally am disappointed, as are forty four percent of members.
Who voted in support.
It's a relatively narrow result, but the members vote is supreme, it's binding and I respect it and the club now has.
To look to the future. Gay Waterhouse has been the biggest name in Australian racing for years and has been opposed to the sale. She joins us, So Gay, thank you for your time. Are you happy about this?
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Delirious? And the reason is it gives the people of Liverpool. It gives not only racing, but it gives the people of Liverpool a wonderful Outlest you know who wants the twenty five thousand extra people living there. You know, it'll just make it. It would have made it just horrendous. If I was a resident of Liverpool, I would have been voting no. As a member of the ATC. You couldn't think of selling it. It's our premier track. It's a one track we own. And they've made the right decision.
You know, they're not fools of members and they were trying to be deluded by the ATC, which were very wrong the way they handled the sale. But that's past the decisions being made. The hammer's down.
The vote was fifty six percent against forty four percent four As a result of that, do you believe Peter mcgarren should stain his job as chairman?
I do. I think he should resign because he handled the whole process disgracefully. They were bribing the members by you know, cheek jack. You can have one thousand dollars worth of the you know, free drink, and you can have you know, the no membership payments. You can't do that when you're at clubs. When you're a club, you've got to be totally unbiased and say, look, these are the two views. You are the members, you choose.
Now tell me gay if there are financial issues within the ATC. They obviously decided they needed a lot of money. Do you think they'll now turn to other assets that they and what would they sell Warwick Farm, Canterbury for instance.
Well, they shouldn't be selling any of them. You know, you're not asking to sell the st STGC or the cricket ground or any of those sporting resorts. We need our sporting resorts and each racetrack looks after the demographic of that area. The people that Liverpool don't want to go to Randwick. They might for one big day, but the rest of the time they'll go to their local
tracks or they'll support them. What should happen is the track should go back to managing themselves as they do in Melbourne, and just and the Racing New South Wales for just the overseer. But at present all the moneies go to Racing New South Wales and they're handed out gingerly to the club.
And just to clarify that, the probably Warwick Farm is closer to Liverpool than rose Hill. But how should the industry now go about trying to attract more punters, more fans to rose Hill? Because Peter mcgourrin argued that the numbers going to the track rose Hill in particular have been going down.
Well, they haven't put a penny into it for the last ten years and if you don't put any money into your asset, it devalues. You know, if they were to put the money into it, they put in Durandrick or stop buying all these silly properties. Racing New South Wales has been buying all over New South Wales. That money should be going into our premier race tracks and
there are four of them. The money should go into them to increase, to improve the tracks, the facilities for the horses and also for the members and the people who go racing.
Well, Gay, your site has been successful, so hopefully the next meeting we see at rose Hill we're attracted, big crowd. Congratulations go, thank you for your time.
That's okay, thank you brother.
Gay Waterhouse's leading horse trainer, probably the biggest name in Australian racing over the past thirty forty years. And just to clarify, yes, and I've getting lots of messages. Gay mentioned Liverpool on several occasions there Warwick Farm, to be fair, is closer to the Liverpool area than rose Hill is. But point remains that many people who are passionate about racing did not want to see rose Hill sold. Now
the government's now got an issue. The government's got a problem because they were banking on building twenty five thousand homes through developers there. But there's also issues for the ATC. That five billion dollars that was going to come into the coffers, well that money is not going to come into New South Wales racing anymore. So how does New
South Wales Racing push forward? I'll talk with Peter mcgorran after the five o'clock news and he's still conducting his press conference because there's a lot of questions to ask about that. But a lot of feedback coming in on the text line in the phones one three one eight seventy three. Richard, you were inside the meeting, good, I Richard. I think Richard's decided to go back inside the meeting. Bill Hello, I Bill, Yeah, Clinton? Is this a good call or not?
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Common sense provailed him. I strongly did You've got a rach calls and staff right, and I allus training. Once someone said you're a silladors. He said, a good tradesman never sold these tools. And the same applies to your assets. You don't sell your assets because you know the part and partially what happened.
But Bill, when was when was the last time you went to Rise Hill?
Oh, I live in buch I used to be remember, but you know I let it slip because I never used to.
Go yeah, fair enough, fair enough, well, I mean clearly much the members didn't want to say it solid off. Thank you, Bill, Richard diet I mat.
Did I Clinton here at Randwick? The weather was fine and the track is good.
Interesting the meeting was actually held at Randwick. You were inside the meeting. What was the mood like?
Yes, it was overwhelmingly no. In fact, when our chairman mentioned it was fifty six and and calling that a close vote. We remember back with the original proposal just a couple of months ago, we were told that the no vote was around seventy percent. So you know, the change there is probably down to what we now call the bride.
Now.
My light bulb moment was when I heard on your program that correct me if I'm wrong, but you said that the CEO of the Metro says that you can put a station in after the line has been put through it.
That was from one of our listeners who claimed that the CEO of the Metro said that in a parliamentary inquiry. But I've had a closer look at that. Technically it's possible, but the cost of it makes it impossible. It'll never happen because the cost will make a prehbitive.
Yeah, I think you were saying that the average perlor somebody was saying that the average per station cost is about two billion. That the existing Metro apparently costs twenty two billion. But I don't think that putting an incremental station in when the line is already there is actually going to be actually two million dollars, but two billions. But for me personally, I would go to rose Hill far more often if there was a Metro. And what would happen to the attendance is if the Metro stop
was put in there. I believe that'd skyline.
No no doubt about that. But the problem for the government is putting a Metro station there to service a race course. The numbers donate up there because the racecourse is being used so every second weekend and then some events in between. That that doesn't create the passenger base to justify the station. What creates The justification for the station is twenty five thousand homes and potentially say eighty
to one hundred thousand residents. That's what creates the traffic every day needed for the metro station, which would cost a minimum of a billion dollars. Straight shooters with Susan Temperman coming up in a moment and Holly Hughes. But firstly, I've got so much response here on the decision by the ATC to reject this deal to sell off rose Hill Racecourse rose Hill Gardens. The percentage of votes for
was forty four percent against fear fifty six percent. The Premier, Chris Mins has just responded to this.
I think it's an opportunity that Sydney's missed out on. It feels like a goal and opportunity that slip through our fingers. Very disappointed by that, but I accept the decision of ATC members. I want to thank the leadership of the ATC for pursuing this bold reform.
Frank Carboni, the mayor of Fairfield in the Western Suburbs, has called in about this. Kiday, Frank good I good decision or bad decision?
Well, I think ultimately the members have made that decision and everyone needs to respect that. It's no different that the end of the day, the vote's been done. But I think what we need to look at here and I think it was a proposal. It didn't go through, but let's look at let's turn it into an opportunity.
And as the Premier has always said.
It's about providing housing, and I respect that that's what he was trying to do, but that doesn't mean that he can't get that five billion dollars now and maybe look at putting it elsewhere.
And the five billion dollars was to then sell it back to property developers and build houses. It's not just five billion dollars sitting there.
No I know that.
But the East West corridor from the airport to Westmeat that is aren't not done. You have the opportunity to have a lot of uplift, both private and public. There's a lot of public and private land just then fair for the Loan one area loans twenty five thousand homes. So if you put that investment, it would be a long term investment for Sydney. Connecting Sydney, have a real metro that runs East West and the government would still be able to uplift a lot of their properties that
they own a lot along that corridor. But I would argue that you'd get a lot more than twenty five thousand homes.
And if you build the metro Look, I'm with you, Frank, that we need more metros in Sydney and it is a way and the metro line at the moment they do have obviously, as you know from being a local government mayor, they have those various proposals to develop near metro stations. So if they're to build more metro lines, it would go to planet be to reason that they'd be able to develop more housing in those areas. I just as you well know, they're not keen on spending
the money on more metro lines. Daniel's asking the quest and on the text line, can the government make a compulsory acquisition of Rosehill Racecourse like they do with private properties. Well, the Premier has said he will not do that. He's made it very clear that he won't do that because he wanted to ensure it was a democratic process through the ATC on Sydney.
Now you can't handle the true the straight shint.
Our straight tutors on a Tuesday afternoon, Susan Templeman, the member for hawk Scree and the outgoing Liberal Senator in Camball Phit, New South Wales. Holy Hughes, Hello, Holy, Hello Susan. As members in Sydney, I both want to get your perspectives on this. I'll start with you, Susan, as a Western Sydney MP. The plan that's not going to happen. The rose Hill racecourse will not be sold off. Do you think this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I'm with the Premier.
I think it's a missed opportunity, a lost opportunity for Sydney and for housing and for young people who may be, you know, hanging out to governments for really fine places to build. But it is a decision by the ATC. They're the landowners and we have to respect that decision.
Holly, what's your view.
Well, I'm a member of the ATC, so I've been a member for a while and go to the races, both at Ramwick and rose Hill, and there was certainly a very strong sentiment within the trainers, within a lot of the membership that it wasn't ultimately a deal that they felt was going to be beneficial to the club.
I mean, I know that sort of been put in terms of five million dollars, but it was.
It was over a very extended period of time. I think it's fifteen, so you know, there was there was feelings within the membership and the communication around it.
You know, I've had a flurry of communication in.
The last couple of weeks for me spoke because the vote was previously postponed, trying to get more support for it. There was certainly a lot of sweetness being offered two members. But you know, when you've got trainers like Gay Waterhouse and some of the others coming out so strongly against it, you know you've got a respects what the membership and
the racing fraternity have voted for. I think Frank Carboni is right when he says that there are other opportunities that perhaps the government should look at, and there's so much red tape involved with housing developments, you know, it might be more of an opportunity.
For the premiere to have a good look at those that.
Are currently trying to be developed but are bogged down in red tape.
For so many text messages about this, Tim says, all the no votes, I bet they haven't been to rose Hill for the past twenty years and says a golden opportunity lost a gym, twenty six thousand homes into an already full area that doesn't have enough infrastructure. And look, that is an issue Susan, that there isn't enough infrastructure in Sydney's western suburbs.
Well, this will always been this is sort of something Sydney's had for decades. Is what comes first the infrastructure, But it was really clear there was going to be new public transport there. We have a big issue in Sydney around housing.
You know, we have a lots of people who don't.
Want it in their backyard, who don't want it near them, and that's what the state government has to navigate.
Along with councils.
They have to get really put their sort of kick this along. Because we're investing in housing at a federal level, we're incentivizing the states to do it. And this is really the first time since we were lasting government that we've had a federal government actively involved saying okay, guys, we want to help you make this happen. But ultimately it is the states that has to do the.
Hard yard Ian's asking the question on the text line, why doesn't the government build a metro station at Rosehill anyway, future proof for development in the meantime be utilized by raceco as workers and residents the area. I think the problem is the government would need minimum billion dollars to build that extra station. It doesn't want to spend the money. Now. Fortunately this vote count has cancluded quite quickly, so the meeting was at two o'clock. We had a result just
after three point three. Fortunately the AEC has had nothing to do with the count, which is a good thing because they like to take their time. The AEC. We've had that news in the past twenty four hours. There will be a partial recount in Goldstein. The request was made by the Teal Independent Zoe Daniel. There will be a full recount as well in Bradfield because there was a few of the one hundred votes that were the
difference between the Teal candidate and the Liberal candidate. Does the AEC do you think Susan maybe need to review how it conducts the count because to take a long time.
Well, I've been on the receiving end of a long vote, a long count. It took sixteen days for me in twenty nineteen to count vote. But then of course they do a recount in terms of checking the distribution of preferences because they want the final data to be accurate. So we should be really grateful that we've got a thorough process. And I was in the Erskine Park counting place with the AEC on Friday because my seat was
declared and I was declared the successful candidate. And you know, it's quite extraordinary to see ordinary of this, just your average person there who puts the hand up to go and be part of this extraordinary democratic process. So I think we should be really proud of it. Yes, there'll be a lot of humans involved in time involved that that gives us a result that we can trust, and that's really key, Holly.
And we do have a strong democratic system. But could we maybe employer for few more people with the AAC to get these vote counts completed faster?
Well, well, I mean it does take a long period of time, and that is with the compulsory preferential voting that everyone's got to fill out every single ballot square on the ballot papers, so you know, getting the result right, I mean, then Bradfield, the difference is eight votes, I mean, it's extraordinary when you think of seats with one hundred and thirty thousand voters in them and it comes down to eight votes, and it is important that each one's
checked and you know, maybe more people might be the answer, but then they're all double checked as well, and they're counted, you know, as we know on election night, you know, they're counted at each boost.
Then they all go in centrally and it's making.
Sure that that.
Process is as smooth as possible.
The Prime Minister is detailed flood recovery payments for people affected by the natural disaster from the Mid North Coast the Hunter Valley today. So one off payment of one thousand dollars per eligible adult, four hundred dollars per child. There'll be for those who are without employment because of the flood, thirteen weeks of payments. There will be some
interest free or low interest loans. Do you think that, both both ladies, and I'll start with you, Susan, something needs to be done more in the long term about how we operate insurance in these areas.
Yeah, there's at I heard you talking to the Insurance Council Andrew Hall, and I've spent years working on this issue because I got one of these payments back in twenty thirteen when my house burnt down, and it is a simple emergency payment that just.
Buys you.
For that first you know, you've got nothing. You need unders, you need, toothpaste, you need, you need more than one pair of shoes. The clothes that you're wearing smell of smoke. Now in floods, they're going to need so much just to get through the next few days, let alone the next few weeks or months.
The real issue is.
The mix between what government and taxpayers funds in disasters and how we make insurance affordable so that the insurance can then kick in as it did, as it did for me after the fires. Eventually, you know, a week later, my insurance got cleared and I had access to the funds that I needed, certainly to be for the immediate term. The whole underinsurance issue of rebuildings just a totally other complex issue. But this is unfinished business to me. We
started the work in our first term government. I was part of an inquiry into the twenty twenty two floods that looked at the behavior of the insurers. I hope they've learned a lot from our inquiry and from the experience they had where they did let people down in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two in how they deal with people or are insured. But the other issue is the thousands of people who are not.
In short and that's a problem not just.
For them but for all of us studies. They are our fellow Australian.
And in the end we often end up bailing those people out. So there needs to be a better long term solution. We are out of time. Thank you, Holly, Thank you, Susan, Thank you Holly Hughes and Susan Temperman our straight shooters for a Tuesday afternoon. This is just coming to hand where finding out exactly what's happened off air. But there's been a brawl at a school in Sydney's southwest. Will have all the details coming up after the five o'clock news. But there has been some sort of violent
incident in a school in Sydney. Full details coming up after five o'clock.
Shag, you say that you are ma, I'll.
Be here till the end of the time.
So you've got to let me know.
Should I or should argue?
Now it seems the Nationals very confused about whether they should stay or should they go from the coalition. Talks have been continuing this week about the future of the Liberal and National Party marriage, and we don't actually have a formal coalition agreement yet. David Little Proud, the leader of the Nats, has made the suggestion that well, you know, if we're not happy with what the Libs respond to in terms of our four key policies, maybe we'll change
our mind yet again. Surely, if the coalition is going to have any hope going forward, both those parties they will stay together for the next election. This is sit now we've clinton on to GBUS seven past five flood assessments have continued on the Mid North Coast, have focused on Tari and surrounding districts. Today the Prime Minister has been in the region, but this news just to hand. Police have confirmed with us they've now charged a third
person with looting. This person has been arrested in Wingham, which is not far from Tari and Wingham has been devastated by these floods. Police discovered a man they alleged was placing items from the street into the rear of a hatchback. They then searched the vehicle. They have found tools, paintings, a lamp, tires, various personal items including family photos, DVDs and a fish tank. I'm not sure whether the accused actually has a DVD player, because many people don't have
DVD players anymore. Nevertheless, the man is accused, who was forty four, of stealing DVD's from somebody who suffered flood damage had a fish tank. Not sure if the fish tank was full of water and fish as well. Yesterday, one of the men who was arrested was accused of stealing a defibrillator. Unbelievable that man is now before the courts one eight seven three. Word on the street. It is thanks to temper, a great night's sleep night after night.
The difference is temper. I've received this tip from Denise the South Afternoon. If you want to send me news tips, go to our website two GB dot com and you can send me the information via our website. Denise has told us about a brawl that's occurred at the Thomas Riddell School in Ambervale in the southwestern subers today. Now, Denise has described this as racially motivated. Apparently, race has been a factor in this brawl. We've been in contact
with the police. The police can confirm to us at about twelve forty five today, police were called to the school in Woodhouse Drive, Ambervale following reports of a brawl. Officers from Campbelltown Police Station were told two students were involved in an altercation. It was a minor altercation. There were no reports of injuries. There is no further police action. However, the Department of Education confirms to us that this did go ahead, and they say this type of behavior is
completely unacceptable. Any student involved in this incident will face the appropriate discipline reaction. Our schools should be safe places for staff and students. Support is available for any staff member or any student impacted by this incident. The Department has confirmed there was an altercation and involved several students. The school was actually put into lockdown as a precaution.
So even though the police have said there's no further action and there were no injuries and it was minor, the Department of Education has confirmed to us that the Thomas Riddell School in Ambervale was placed into lockdown. Now we are still investigating the details of the brawl and what prompted the brawl, but our listeners tell us that race was involved. If you know more, let me know three one eight seven three.
If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney now with Clinton manor on.
To gb Well this time yesterday we had major delays on the T one North Shore train line. Now it's the turn of the Metro. There are problems on the Metro line this afternoon. Howard Collins is the Transport for New South Wales Coordinator General. Thank you for your time. What's happened on the Metro.
There is a train at Barangaru station which has basically got starck. What we're doing is where moving trains onto the other platform. So there are services which will get you from the south to Barangaroo. You come off that train, you wait on the platform and then another one comes in and takes you north again. But our avice at the moment, because it's pretty busy down there, is if you can use a Sydney trains as far as Epping or Chatswood, you stand a better chance if you're going
further north from that. But at the moment the technician is on his way to look at this train. It appears to be no power for some reason. Metro Trains Sydney, you're working on that now, but there is a sort of through service, but you've got to get out at Barangaroo and then wait for the other train which is coming from Taliwan to Barragaroo and then back again.
So if you want to if you wanted to catch the Metro Howard from Martin Place through the city, that would be possible.
Go to Barangaroo. Ye, get off that train because it's only going normally as far as Bragoro. Some are going through but most of them are not. And then just make sure you've got a train which has the death Taliwong on it. It's called a carousel, but it's a very good way. They can use both platforms on Metro. The one on the other platform is stuck at the moment. Technicians are on it. We're just waiting, but it is
getting busy, quite crowded. So what we're saying, if you're at Central or Martin Place, you may want to get onto Sydney Traditional Sydney trains. That seems to be running okay at the moment. We had a few late running freight trains. As we recover all the freight from the north, but that seems to be running quite well to epping hand Chatswood and then hop back onto Metro. If you're going further north on the Metro, how.
Long would you expect that train today to be stuck there? How long is it going to take the move?
Well, in my.
Forty eight years, I've always said it's as long as a piece of string. Blind, but I think the technicians are on board normally, once they get there, they find the fault and re energize the train. It's got both the pantographs down, so it may take a while longer. So my view is always choose a first alternative rather than think you're going to get on the Metro. And it's pretty crowded, so there are options for most people.
Happily can be repaired quickly, and we don't see a repeat of what happened last week. But that's unlikely because it's a completely different style of system.
Yeah, I think so, And we're getting past the train. There's no one stuck on a train, no one stuck outside the platform. We're going through.
This is obviously a terrible time of the day to happen, just after five o'clock.
Absolutely and normally Metro pre reliable, but this train seems to have a problem and we'll let people know as soon as we've got it moving again. It will settle down pretty quickly and Metro recovers very quickly.
And just to confirm, Howard, you really love your job, don't you.
I'd tell you I feel like the bringer of bad news all the time, but that's my job. I just want to make sure people have the right information and get that out through your listeners.
Thanks letting us know. So that is at Barangaroo at the moment. There's going to be delays on the Metro and it's going to take a while to move it. We won't see a repeat of what happened on the heavy rail network either last night because it was a mess on the T one or last week. But that is a problem right now on the Metro Barangaroo.
Okay.
The big news of the day is the decision by the members of the ATC to vote against the deal to sell off rose Hill Gardens racecourse. This would have seen the state government spend five billion dollars over the course of about ten years to redevelop the land for twenty five thousand homes. The vote has been unsuccessful, so fifty six percent voted no, forty four percent voted yes, and there were more people at the meeting that had been expected. The chairman of the ATCs, Peter mcgorran, thank
you for joining us, Peter at pleasure. Clinton, are you disappointed this afternoon?
Yes, of course, I believe it was the best thing for the club, for racing and for the community.
That being the case, and you were looking to generate five billion dollars is the future the financial future Racing New South Wales now in jeopardy because you won't have that five billion dollars cash injection.
Certainly the ATC is I can't speak for Racing New South Wales.
That's Peter Valandi's so just interrupt the ITCS in financial jeopardy.
Oh no, no, we'll always be viable, Clinton, But we've only ever got our nose above water. And oh no, we run a great club, as anyone who's intended Randwig or rose Hill would know, but we're never going to be able to upgrade our facilities what members and public.
Enjoy.
At the moment we've been doing it in twenty years. We have no funding, which requires hundreds of millions of dollars given we own four racetracks, three training centers to upgrade. So that's the challenge that what is already quickly becoming a niche sport will become an even smaller sport because we don't offer a modern value offering to members or
general public. We've lost twenty five percent of our membership since twenty nineteen and rose Hill has lost a half of its attendances over ten years.
That's a fairly dire prospect then. So that being the case, is this completely off the agenda or is there another way you could revisit the plan to sell rose Hill?
No, it's off the agenda. It was an all or nothing offer. Because the two drills digging the metro begin to hit at rose Hill Gardens in the next few weeks, so the opportunity for a Metro to construct a metro station is lost. You can't put in a metro station once the line is completed.
But the government still could develop twenty fast thousand homes without a metro in the future. It's not good, but they could do it.
It would have to acquire the land and Chris Mins and I believe and will never do that he said up privately and publicly. So long as he's premier, there will not be a compulsory acquisition oka.
To show up the finances of the ATC and the strength of racing going forward in your South welles. Could you sell off other assets? Could you sell off Warwick Farm? For instance?
No?
What Warwick Farm?
Because it's one of our training centers with some eight hundred and fifty horses. We couldn't do that. Canterbury Canterbury is a possibility, but planning is complex there that it's not a sympathetic or involved counsel to put it mildly, and the return whilst a few hundred million dollars not to be sneezed at would be welcome, that's basically a band aid. We needed significant funding to completely reinvigorate and revitalize all of our major assets.
But if you need that, Peter, and this has been knocked over and selling off Canterbury's is to bandaid. What are you going to do to reinvigorate racing?
Well? Canterbury is a possibility and through the process Clinton a lot of members who are opposed to the sale of rose Hill are not opposed to the sale of Canterbury, but that could be a long process. Council have a very different concept for that area. They want lower buildings, they want more open space. You're not going to gain what you really need, but sure if you're really desperate.
But you could look at it. You could look at it now, you could look at it. I spoke with Gay Waterhouse and obviously she's been an opponent of this campaign for some time. She says, you should resign. Will you stay in your position?
Yes, I'm not going to resign for a couple of reasons. First, I would have been in breach of my phidutionary responsibilities if I had not brought this proposal to members. It wasn't for me to say, oh, I've decided it's Rose Hills too sentimental, it's of too much value to the racing participants. I'm not even going to put this proposal. All seven directors voted when they were first told about this in December twenty twenty three to put a proposal
to members. Now recently four of the seven directors supported the actual proposal that was voted on and the resolution by members. So I'm a servant of the board. The board might replace me, but I'm not going to stand aside.
So those proposals for free membership for the lifetime members, free membership for five years, the thousand dollars behind the bar and at restaurants and food out let's per year for five years all off the table.
Now, yep, it's off the table. And the renovation of the members' facilities at Randwick and Warwick Farm are off the table. The upgrade of the stables at Warwick Farm and at Randwick are off the table. Look, I can't hide my disappointment. Clinton. This was a chance once in a lifetime because of a metro station that will now evaporate, to revolutionize in a way every other race club in the world would give their right arm to.
Be able to do.
I know you're the public face. This is the chairman of the ATC, but as you know, the leader of the Racing New South Wales organization, Peter Vland's very effective. He usually wins in the end. Do you think there's a way that mister van and he was very supportive of this proposal. Do you think there is a way that mister Vilandi's can get his way through another means no.
He accepts the members vote as I do. There's no legal way to do it because remember the ATC is governed by the Registered Clubs Act and that requires a vote of members for the dispersal of land. So it's the status quo and all the challenges that brings.
That is going to bring challenges for sure. Thank you for your time, Peter, Thanks Clinton, Peter McGown, who's the chairman of the ATC. So there we have it. It's over. We are now told it's over. Chris Minn says there will be no compulsory acquisition of rose Hill Gardens, so there'll be no twenty five thousand homes at rose Hill. But it looks like Stephen Crichton is likely going to miss playing State of Origin one sun Corps Stadium, Brisbane.
Of course you'll hear it here on the Continuous Call team tomorrow night. They're going to give him until tomorrow to prove his fitness. But it's looking pretty shaky, Campbell Graham, looks like you're playing the set is Mark Guy joins me after five point thirty to talk everything in sport
and rugby league. Today, the new South Wales government, along with the police, have announced the creation of Task Force Falcon now, Task Force Falcon is going to bring together thirteen different police strike forces that have been investigating various gangland shootings over the past couple of months. It's been prompted by what occurred in Granville Woodville Road on Sunday evening.
It was around this time on Sunday evening the emergency services were called to Woodville Road following reports that three people in a Toyter High Lucks have been shot at by a bunch of people in a Mercedes. Well confirmation now that one of the men who was in that car has died in hospital. His name is Darwood Zakira. He is allegedly or was allegedly an Alamedine associate. The Alamedines are a notorious Sydney crime family at the center of much of the drug dispute in our city. He
has died in hospital now. There are still two other people were injured, including a lawyer who's acted for some of these these alleged criminals in the past and another man who is now facing charges. Police are still looking for those who are responsible for the shooting.
Until six, This is Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two GB Call now on three.
So the plan to sell off rose Hill Gardens is done and dusted and look, Peter mcgorran, chairman, very clear there it's not going to happen. I'm gonna say I still wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the future it does. Peter Landi is very effective at usually getting what he wants and he's been a big supporter of this, and I know he hasn't spoken publicly much about this because it's been a decision for the ATC, but I still wonder if down the track there'll be
some way that this happens. Chris Mins is disappointed by this decision and the Premier says, moving on from rose Hill, we still need to look at out of the box thinking when it comes to addressing the housing shortage New South Wales.
This shouldn't take the wind out of the sales when it comes to bold ideas for housing in New South Wales. I don't take from this result that we should shut up shop stop with major initiatives for housing proposals in the state.
I think we should go the other way.
We should be taking more risks when it comes to major housing proposals in the second most expensive city on Earth. We've been far too timid for far too long and it's resulted in young people fleeing Sydney at an alarming rate. And the truth of the matter is more proposals like this aren't needed to break the back of the housing crisis that we have in the state.
So what's the next proposal going to be? I suggested to Peter mcgore and they sell off Randwick ll maybe Canterbury, but it won't generate as much money for the ATC. The ATC doesn't own Randwick, that's actually Crown Land, so it's owned by the state government. I don't think the Premieer is going to advocate settling off Randwick. Paul has been a member for twenty years. Get I Paul.
Twenty years and just to be clear before a start, I miss out on my lifetime free membership.
Now that was the plan.
Yeah, I'll tell you why.
I I didn't know.
It was that interview with the and was an embarrassment. He says that this came in twenty twenty two. It's taken them this long to at best cobble together a slapdash proposal, which had to be pulled back in April because apparently more information was needed. Between April and now, they cobbled together what we're calling the bribe to put to members and they still lost. I honestly believe if we had had a competent board, they probably could have got it through.
The other aspect and the other aspect of the way it has been put together. And I've taken a middle a position now, in the middle because I'm not a member of the ATC. I'm not a big racing fan, so I'll rely on people with greater knowledge of the industry than I have. But the state government, even though Chris Means wanted this to happen, they actually didn't put a proposal in writing to the public.
And this is the problem is that we're on balance. What were we left with as members? We were less with a proposal that we might do a deal, and the condition a possible deal, not a deal. It wasn't done. It was a possible deal going forward. And this chairman and this board have got to go for their incompetence that they've put us all through.
Well, he says he's not going to go, but it will be a decision by the Board of the future. Good on your port one three one eight seven three the number. It was a fair free day on Sydney's trains Metro system yesterday and of course there was a meltdown on the T one. You have to pay for the affairs today. But guess what, there's another meltdown. This time it's at the Metro. As Howard Collins told us, there is a train stationery at Barragaroo station. Neil breen
Breenie is actually stuck on the metro system today. Bernie, where are you, mate, man, I'm.
At Barrangaroo with I mean thousands of people.
Oh mate, Howard Collins is a dribbler.
He didn't know what he was talking about. You can't get further south than Barrangaroo and the trains come into Barrangaroo from the north and go straight back to Talawan and so no one So at the moment at Martin Place and Gadigall and Central would be just I mean, if Brangaroo is this chaotic, those three would be totally cowardy because there's not trains moving.
Because so what Howard told us was that you could you can know through trains, So you can't catch a train from North Sydney, for instance, through Barangaro to Martin Place and into Sydney. But he said you'd be able to catch one from Barrangru to sydneym.
Yeah, but what's happening is that train's not coming. So that train was like we were there for ten minutes and then they finally said it's going to be another fifteen or twenty until the train that comes in and takes people's south. So there's just people, I mean, just like Brown's cows everywhere.
And this is the Metro line, which is actually a lot more reliable than the standard train.
Yeah, and the poor buggers, the poor buggers who the staff, they don't know what's going on are there. So the trains are coming in from Tallawong and everyone is coming from North Sydney's pouring out of Barragaroo and then it just leaves empty.
To go north.
I've got This is the official statement that has been released Fromdney Metro. Just after four pm, Metro train was held at Barreranguru station due to the pantograph issue which is part of the overhead wirings. That's four pm, that's an hour and a half ago. Announcements are being made on board and on platforms very limited services running between Sydnam and Barangaru. Services are operating with delays between Barranga
and Taliwan. So that's not right, Brien. It's not operating between Barrangero and Sydnem No.
Yeah, very limited. When they say very limited, so i'd say very very limited.
Okay, you know what I mean.
And so so people sort of aren't moving between those two and then when the train comes.
There's too many people are the statement here Brinie says a technician is now on site to resolve the issue and move the train. God suggests maybe more than one technician is needed with this one. Maybe they could push the train out of the way.
I don't know.
I'm walking the circular key to get the three three three.
Good on your Brenie. With everyone else, Neil Breen, you'll see an exclusive investigation and a current affair about the mess that is the now Metro system, joining the mess that is Sydney's heavy run network and with all the latest Josh Bryant, Good afternoon.
Clinton, the Premier says a vote on the future of rose Hill Gardens racecourse will not deter the state government from pursuing other bold housing plans after members rejected the plan to turn the site into a mini city with twenty five thousand homes. A third person has now been charged with looting in flood hit areas of the Mid
North Coast. A thirty two year old man, one of two men shot at Granville over the weekend, has now died as the result of his injuries, and data shows Sydney house prizes have grown one hundred and seventy one percent over the last twenty years. In sport, Lachlan Galvin may have played his final game for the West Tigers. He's been left out of the team to face the Cowboys on Saturday night as he negotiates a deal with the Bulldogs. We'll have more news and sport at six.
Thank you, Josh. Fourteen degrees in the City, thirteen degrees in the West.
A Finance Update dead.
Night presenting Money News Tonight from seven o'clock. Hoor deb Hello to you. The Australian share market. What's looking like today?
Done really well today? There was a rally around well after midday on the ASEX two hundred and even though the Wall Street is closed because of the Memorial Day holiday, it didn't stop our markets from doing really well. It ended up closinger point six percent the ASEX two hundred or forty six points higher, the best finish we've seen since mid February. The tech stocks were really performing the strongest. The Aussie dollar, though it's come back a little bit.
It's slightly weaker, back under sixty five years cents.
There is a theme park war that's broken out in the United States.
Yeah, so theme parks are big business, not just in the US but all around the world. And Universal is the latest to launch a brand new theme park. It's the first theme park that's open in twenty five years in America. It's called Epic Universe. It's in Florida. Seven billion dollars is what they pumped into this theme park.
It's one theme park with seven one theme park.
It's about seven times the size of the existing theme parks that Universal already our owns, and it's got fifty attractions. Harry Potter and Nintendo's Mario Kart are the kind of key iconic Hollywood legends that the rides have been based on. Everything about it is meant to be immersive, So the architecture, the sounds, even the food is meant to make you blend into the backstory of the ride, so you don't
just get on a roller coaster and go off. You're part of the Harry Potter universe as part of this ride. And the aim of it is to basically take on Disney and it's big dominance of theme parks in America and all around the world.
But if you're a Universal Studios and you're spending seven billion dollars developing a theme park, can you imagine what the entry fee is?
Well, this has been the big complaint about Disney and the Disneyland theme parks for families. It's you know, it's unaffordable, it's very very expensive, but they're promising an amazing experience for the dollars that you spend. So it's new, it's whiz bang, it's got Ai being incorporated into it all, so you know, people will go along and have a bit of a gander.
I suppose a little arder in the program. And sorry, we've been put off for course by what's been happening with rose Hill. But I raised the issue of the growing success of Biscoff up against Natella Australian's eight. Last year, fifteen million kilograms of Natella.
My children have.
Consumed probably yet three quarters of that.
I wanted to ask you about that because I've had all these messages that I haven't been able to get to. Grahams says Nattella's also when ice cream, I don't really eat either of it. Jen says. Biscoff is amazing, lovely caramel flavor, great little treat with the coffee. So in your house in the night, household Biscoff or Natella Natella.
We get the biggest tubs known to mankind of Natella, and my kids love it on crumpets. We used to have people visiting us who would come from Amsterdam and other countries where it's considered you know, you have it on to.
It veggiemight there is breakfast.
Yes, So my kid's got a taste for it and they love the stuff. We try and sort of ration it out. In fact, I've never had the Biscoff, but the Natella I can definitely testify a Google.
Searches for Biscoff have gone through the roof and they're still selling much smaller quantities than Natella. It's Lotuses, the company Lotus Bakeries behind Biscoff, but they the food analysts believe, the market analysts believe that's going to be Biscoff is gonna be the next big thing to take on the tiller.
I don't know.
Good luck trying because it's really ingrained.
My kids love it, kids love it. Deb Night hosting Money used tonight from seven o'clock. Thanks dev, Thank you.
Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard.
I if it's happening in.
Your city, you'll hear it on Sydney Now to GB.
Well, I didn't speak with MG yesterday because, to be honest, I was a little bit embarrassed as I tipped zero out of five in the footy tips, so I just couldn't front up to talk to MG. I'm feeling okay about it now, Hello, make guy.
Good afternoon, Clinton. How are you, my friend?
I'm okay. I'm over my terrible tipping performance, mostly because half the two GB tipsters actually tipped zero to five as well.
Well. There was a just go back from and we'll get to the walk in a second.
But a young one of the drivers who helped the walk that I was on last couple of days, he had a little bit of a multi a bet a dollar bet on all the away all the teams that were not favored paidred.
They paid one hundred and eighty dollars.
Oh anyone for one dollar?
Yes, he one hundred and eighty dollars. He showed us all last on Sunday night. So made the tipping is very hard. I mean it's even even like with the game tomorrow night, everyone's saying New South Wales. But how can you honestly say that, like pick who's going to win this game when you don't know what's going on in the season proper.
It's just shot you can't. So Team list Tuesday is important today because you've got lots of begins announces starting with Manly.
Yeah, Jake and Tom Traboy Bish as well as taki Ahau will be out of this game against the Broncos on the weekend. Jake still having the hia symptoms. Tommy with his cork quite I believe it is. But they have got some good news.
Benjam Boyvitch is back, so that's some good news for Manly. But yeah, both Turboys are out, so that's the same they're playing. Has moved so on Collo.
From the fullback spot to the wing where Jesse Arthur's will be the new fullback for the Broncos as well.
Probably the biggest team news today is Locky Galvin being actually left out of the West Tigers. So it's probably not a shock given he's going to go to the Bulldogs.
Yeah, that's a shock. Now we've spoke.
We've spoken that a naws him about Locky gowing over the last few months, and I think honestly, once his deal was done, we'll probably it will be will be a lot more glad for it because it's been a.
Long time coming. Feel Good gets his man.
A lot of people have been blowing up about the way Gus, but he's doing his job.
I'll tell you what MG. You know, I broadcast the show yesterday from Tari, so had a long drive back last night from Tari after the show, so I got back home pretty late, was about eleven thirty or something. I couldn't go to bed. You know the reason I had to watch one hundred percent Footy on nine on replay because I'd heard about this massive blow up between Michael Chamis, the Cydney Money Herald, Janno and Gus Goold and it was worth the price of admission.
I watched it back today and Michael Chamis basically attacked Gus was thrown back back. Well, they did, and that's kind of you know, it's yes, it's I don't mind it.
I think Michael Charles Chamas well done. And Gus said the Gus is kind of fucking a twenty half place the night because he's the c. Plus he's got a prime time job on TV, which you can and I think a lot of other CEOs of other Rugby League teams are a little bit ending to that because he gets a chance to put if you will, with players while he's commentating.
Now he's had he's had a wrap on lookie other for a long time now. State of origin one tomorrow night, you are heading up to Brizzy.
Yeste early flight in the morning, going up there to face the hostilities of Sun Corps. And I believe that even from my cross tomorrow will be in an outside broadcast outside the stadium.
Then I'm going to be doing it.
Wild water sports were results from six to seven in enemy territory?
Can you imagine how much I Am going to cop it?
I think this is good. Would you walk down would you walk down Caxton Street? Not Starkers or anything, but with your blues jersey on from the early nineties.
No, no, not tomorrow night, not Origin night. Nah nah, because.
I've made I value my life at the moment, I don't want to be I don't wanted to be going down there with ten thousand screaming Maron fans who are all buying from Blood and they see me.
Oh my Lanter, no way, man, I couldn't think of anything worse.
Hey, now, MG, you did some great work for charities and you have been walking for the Great Walk Foundation dot com dot are you and you've embarked on a sixty k walk.
Yeah, thanks you.
The Great Walk terms eighteen this year Clinton.
I've been a part of it for maybe ten of those.
Eighteen years, and I was in the inaugural trek when we went from Bathist to Blaxland.
Sorry.
And so now it's every year one sixty k's and they've raised over two million dollars for local charities from or local businessmen who do the track. It's it's an arduous, arduous walk because there's a lot of you know, undulating roads out in the out the back west there past Baptist and you go to Tarana, then you got liftgo. It's Lake Lyle is a bit of a hard walk, so my feet absolutely can. I've got so my blister's in the back of my heel. I don't know how I'm going to get a shoring to go on this
plane tomorrow. So any any remedies for blisters moment?
What do you think?
Look?
I was going to say thongs, but I think songs that songs aren't in fashion at the moment, are they? You got to wear crocs these days, haven't you?
Moms?
I was thinking about wearing loads like the loafers with a pair of socks like the slides.
Would you pull your socks up.
Over my jeans?
Good?
Look here there's Billy bub guy.
Look at him.
If you want to donate the Great Walker Great Walk Foundation dot com dot you do some great work for charity. MG, well done.
They thank you, Bud.
In the books you're listening tonight up there and the ladies up there at they'll bitter time. I go back to bathis kindly what we work, guys, and get through to the blacks on Friday.
We will talk to you tomorrow from Brisbane.
I'm cool, Quinn, Yeah, happy, happy, birthday brother.
Thank you, mate. I try to keep that quiet.
I know you did, mate. Hannah, Hi Hannah.
Yes it's it's not a significant birthday, but there might be one coming out in the next year.
But it is your birthday, mate. My mum rang me earlier today to say forget it's.
Your mum rang you. Thanks MG, Mom, Thanks MG. He's a cracker. Tomorrow night, State of Origin one live with a continuous call team on Sydney.
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Thankfully, the dust has gone away, and he believe the dust has gone away. You wouldn't see it because it's quite dark across Sydney right at the moment. Fourteen degrees in the city, thirteen degrees in the western suburbs. Tomorrow mostly sunny day, no dust. Nineteen degrees is the top. Thursday, cloudy in nineteen mostly sunny and twenty degrees on Friday. I'm getting lots of messages about the dramas with the metro line, so Barangaroo station at the moment there is
a train that's stuck at Barragaroo. What it means is that you cannot get a metro train from the northern part of the line to the southern part of the line. So from Talowong Chatswood, the North Sydney station's like Victoria Cross under the Harbor to Barangaroo and then through to the city and then Sydney. They're not going all the way through, so they're stopping at Barangaro in both directions. Now there's a very limited service that goes between sydneym
and Barangaroo or Tallowong and Brangaro. But when I say limited, emphasized that very limited. We spoke to Breeni who was actually at Barangaro station. He gave up and said he's going to head for the three thirty three bus. Paul and Pado says, well, I've done just that. It's a disaster. Everyone is now heading for the three thirty three bus. Alistairs says it pays to listen to two g being good on Brening for the update, because I've disregarded the
advice now from Transport. I've followed Brine's advice and Bingo, I've managed to get on an empty train at Victoria Cross. It is an absolute mess, not just on Sydney's trains. Each afternoon at the moment. Now the Metro as well. Do you want to win some tickets to go and see a wonderful playt the Ensemble Theater. I've got a double pass to give away. You need to call this number one three one, eight seventy three Clinton's Quiz. Yes, we've got tickets to the theater give away. We're very
cultured on this program. The quiz coming up in just a moment nine to six. There's been some stories around that just Center Price was actually sounded out to run in the Lower House, which is critical because yes, she's switching to the Liberal Party, but you can't lead a party from the upper House. So for her prospects potentially one day to be the Prime Minister, she needs to
move to the lower House. She's released a statement to Sky News and she's confirmed I did receive suggestions from various individuals, including supporters, colleagues and friends who would have liked me to run for a lower House seat. There are two seats in the Northern Territory in the lower House.
They're both Labor Party members. At the moment, she says, I remain content with that decision not to run, but I look forward to continue the big task that lies ahead for the Liberal Party in holding the Albanezy government to account. I think you can pretty firmly say that
she will look at it the next election. I think just Into Price has some big ambitions, and I think if there's the prospect if the Liberals are looking stronger, if there's the prospect of her winning a seat in the Northern Territory in the Lower House, I reckon you'll see her run.
Time to expose your minds. Do you may begin your questioning Sidney Now? Questions questions or against questions?
Important?
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Get it right?
Clinton's Quick Quiz.
The Lover and the Dumb Waiter is playing at the Ensemble Theater Currebilly. Don't miss Howard Pins's double bill late no Other The Lover followed by The Dumb Waiter. A night of intrigue, wit and comedy tension. Ensemble Theater, Curabillity. Get your tickets now, Ensemble dot com dot au. Let's find some contestants to the evening Steve's Innately, Hello Steve, I'm good, my friend. And in schofield Sallo, Marty, how
are you? I'm good? You can go First, your thirty second starts, Now, how many legs does a fish have?
None?
Correct? What year did Facebook launch? Two thousand and one and two thousand and four?
Two thousand and one, No, was four.
What is the perfect score in a game of ten pin bowling? Three hundred? What is the highest grossing holiday movie of all time? The Grinch? Or Love Actually.
Love Actually?
No, it's actually the Grinch. Now. I think it should be Love Actually because despite it being a bit cringe at times, it's a brilliant movie. But no, it's the Grinch. So you are on one, and let me assure you we've had winners finish on one previously. Steve, your thirty second starts, Now, which country is the biggest exporter of coffee.
For Sue?
Correct? New York Knicks, a team associated with which sport basketball? Correct? Finish the sentence A blessing in disculptor good at that one?
This guy?
Correct, you're the wain up. You actually won on two anyway, So look, apologies for my question asking. I've got a very sore thumb. Seriously, I squashed my thumb in between some metal just before the show. We had blood spurting out across the studio. So if I've been slightly off my game today, that is the reason why I've had a very sore thumb. We're going to send you out a double pass to go and see the Lover and the dumb Way that it is playing at the Ensemble
Theater Ensemble dot com dot Are you you won't believe this? Actually, yes you will. There are dramas on the t for train line thirty minute delays, an urgent train repair being conducted right now at Townhall station. So we have problems at Barangaroo with a train stuck there on the Metro and now a train broken down a townhill. Paul, give yourself extra time.
And now a preview of what's coming up on Wide World of Sports for the Sirato successor, the turbo charged Kia K four kias on new small sedan GT line veryant available now find out more about Kia's latest.
Small car Horsey coming up up to six o'clock.
Yeah, Clinton, Big Benny Elias is signed to whip up a bit of origin height because it has been a bit flat between both teams blow up and not enough bluffs, but all the blofs were in gusts and everyone else.
Yeah, yeah, so.
We've got all the injury lates as well. With Steve Crichton and Payne Hears, we'll have that covered for you. I'm asking the listeners what's your favorite state of orangin moment of all time. Jake Riccardi from The Giants will join us, also in Craig Gabriel to wrap up the French apem MG and Wally Lewis.
That's mine. Thank you for listening over the past couple of hours. We've had a big one. That's Sydney now.