THE RE-WRAP: Are Some Ethnicities More Accident-Prone?

THE BEST BITS IN A SILLIER PACKAGE (from Monday's Mike Hosking Breakfast) No. Don't Think So/How Aussies Debate/How Canadians Vote/How the Warriors Are Going/How We're Paying for Our Holidays Now

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh there and welcome to the re Wrap for Monday,
all the best bits from the Mike Hosking Breakfast on Newsbalks.
He'd be in a stillier package Iron dlean Hart. Sorry,
I haven't been here for a couple of weeks, but
you have to have a holiday sometime, don't you. Now
I'm back with you now and today we'll be discussing
the Australian debate, the leader's debate that happened last night,

(00:49):
the Canadian election. Speaking of elections, that's going to happen
tomorrow morning, our time the warriors. Is this actually going
to be the year? And by now pay later holidays?
Mike's got some strong views on those, but before any
of that, he's also got some strong views about acc

(01:11):
and whether they should be taking an ethnicity based approach
to some of the claims. How does that work?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
It is being reported as a scrap, which I'm not
sure as accurate, but if it is, it is a
shame and probably a lesson for the combatants who are
both supposed to be on the same side, But under
the MMP, I ask you this simple question, is anyone
really on the same side. See what's happening here is
ACT are concerned about ACC and their current desire to
solve safety issues in the manufacturing sector. But by putting

(01:39):
a race based lens across it, here we go again.
ACC want people who have got some answers or run
some programs for injuries to MARI and PACIFICA. This, of course,
is not what the government is supposed to be about,
and a cabinet edict says so the shame of this
is both sides. In fact, all three sides I thought
were on the same page on the same issue. They

(02:00):
campaigned on the issue. They campaigned on it because the
last government got so obsessed with MARI issues and language
and acquiescing to everything cultural. A large sway of the
vote has got thoroughlyck and tired of it all. So
why are we here after a year and a half,
and while we're here in a cabinet instruction, why are
we here? It's beyond me the fact ACC or any
government department is still trying this on. I would have
thought it's the real problem. And goes to a theme

(02:20):
that we've highlighted too often this term and on this program,
and that is a public service who don't appear to
be neutral or operating under the instruction of the government
of the day, but rather to their own beat. There
is no good news in two parties seemingly debating a
formally agreed approach with each other, and there is no
good news in a department continuing to do something they
shouldn't be doing. We have enough to deal with at
the moment, don't you think without previously agreed approaches being

(02:43):
relitigated or disavowed. Obviously, work safety is not a race
based problem. It's an industry problem or a sector problem.
Acc should know this, and even if they didn't, they
should be following instruction, act or on the right side
of this. But they shouldn't have to be given the
point of government is enactment of policy, not endless relitigation.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
In case, if some ethnicities are having more accidents in
some areas than other ethnicities are, maybe I don't know,
that is a bit confusing. It's a rewrap right, So
it would have been a real head to head between
two dynamic personalities last night, as Peter Dadden and Anthony

(03:26):
alban Easy went up against each other for the last
time before Australia's big vote.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
When we come to the Australian race, which is coming
into a conclusion. Final debate last night, neither leader one review.
Neither leader tried to take a deep breath, showed the
pace or slow the pace and give a thoughtful answer
that departed from their daily lines. Dutton was provocative on
the Welcome to Country. He had to go at that
and said there it's dividing the country, which is probably true.
Albanezey played it safe in his response. Debate was uneven,

(03:53):
full of carping and might not influence many voters. Albanze
knew the price of eggs better than Dutton, but it's
hard to see that changing the election. It was entitled
the Final Showdown. This was on Channel seven. The debates
thus far had been so lackluster that a new gimmick
was required to heighten the drama. So a strip sixty
second time limit was placed on their answers, putting a

(04:15):
soundtrack of Stagy music to their answers. As their time
ticked out, the music swelled to a crescendo. So that
was Channel seven last night.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Yeah, I've watched them of it back. Terrible boring, and
the music was strange, very very quite almost inaudible for
most of their time, and then they would bring it
up just at the end. I don't think it was
to add any sort of drama or gravitas to the
speeches themselves. I think it was more like an Academy

(04:45):
Awards Oscar style. We're bringing the music up now because
your time's over and it's time to get off the stage.
I think that's sort of Yeah, it was a bit odd. Meanwhile,
in Canadia they've got their election tomorrow, and yeah, but

(05:05):
hope maybe I don't know what was going on with that.
A terrible car ramming incident at the Filipino Festival in Vancouver,
but holy moly.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
A stunning reversal of fortunes in Canada's historic election. That
was the headline yesterday, and it really is. It's this
time tomorrow. It's a Monday they're voting for. I don't
know why they do it on a Monday, and I'm
not sure whether it penalizes people, whether it workday is
an issue in Canada, but nevertheless, they are voting tomorrow.
There's been record numbers of early votes. People like to

(05:35):
get in early. But the polls are tightening forty two
point nine to thirty nine point three. This is to
the Liberals, this is to Carney, this is to the incumbents.
At one point they were twenty points behind behind. It
was over. It was a foregone conclusion. It wasn't even
a race. Hence the headline a stunning reversal. Trudeau quits,

(05:57):
Trump gets elected. Bang, the whole thing flips on its head.
So this time tomorrow will be talking about the Canadian race.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah. So Mike commented that it was where that they
vote on a Monday there. I mean they've vote on
a Tuesday in America, the first or second Tuesday in
November or is that Thanksgiving? Anyway, I know they vote
on a Tuesday. So Canada does it on a Monday.
Are we the odd ones out? Are we the weird
eyes making everybody go out on a weekend to vote

(06:26):
when they could just pop out in their lunch house instead.
Rewrap right, the Warriors have carried on their winning ways
and still very much at the top of the table
there or the top end of the table. And as
you would expect, Mike kicked off the show with one
of these.

Speaker 3 (06:43):
Tell you what it was going to be quite a
sight in christ Church when the new stadium is full
of Warriors fans. I mean, yes, it was a sellout
on Anzac Night, but you suspect the seventeen thousand is
not the maximum amount of love that the Warriors have
in that particular part of the world. But the deal
signed for several years. It does seem the idea of
a second team now and the NRL is gone. But
that's before you get to the news also that the

(07:03):
NRAL A pretty much stitched together this arrangement that we'll
see a team from Western Australia into the competition anyway,
with a side like the Warriors to support no matter
where in the country you are, who needs another team
for goodness sake. Then the celebrations Shan's nickel clock start
signs up until the end of twenty seven. Jackson Ford
played his fiftieth game started with the ball on the
night the Knights got put to the sword. The Knights

(07:23):
aren't that good, of course, and when good sides play
not so good sides, what you're wanting to see is
a disciplined professional display that shows the gap between the
two and that is what we got. We know this
because we've been here before. But on the other side
of the equation, I mean, in past years we been
the bottom of the table, operated done like a dinner
by a quality side that showed no mercy. Once again,
if you forget Vegas, we've won every game bar Melbourne.

(07:46):
Melbourne was a brain explosion that got rectified at halftime,
but by then it was too late, so we deserve
the loss. But out aside, how could do we look?
How together do we look? For goodness sake? This week?
It was over at halftime, the result never looked in doubt,
and with the dogs falling the top of the table
gap has closed and we are right there. It would appear,
even with the injuries, were a very solid side with depth,

(08:07):
capable of beating pretty much any one. There is now
a consistency, don't you think that's been missing in other years?
And at the risk of harping Metcalf and his kicking
is still an issue and something needs to be done
about that. You can hide that stuff on good days,
but there will be plenty of games. Last week was
one of them where points left on the table had
the potential to haunt us. But for now five from
seven right up the top of the table, pointing end

(08:29):
of the table. Good vibes all round. We can increasingly,
I think confidently, say this is our yea.

Speaker 2 (08:37):
Yeah. The strategy of completely writing them off at the
beginning of the season seems to have worked well for
the Warriors. I guess it comes a point though, where
they can't ride that under dogs status anymore? Can they?
If they keep winning all the time? Very yeah, very interesting,

(09:00):
and we'll see what happens the re rat if you
have to go over to Australia to watch them in
the finals to be able to afford it, or will
you have to put it on the never never?

Speaker 3 (09:11):
We can buy now, pay later the most disturbing partner.
I don't know whether it's the sign of the times
and we've all given up or we're just hopeless with
our money and we don't know how to behave any better,
But a growing number of travelers are using buying our
pay later for flights and hotels and cruises in a storm.
It seems to be the most ridiculous thing in the
world to carry debt to pay for a holiday, a house. Yes,

(09:33):
if you're desperate food, I can understand it, but a
little sojourned to me Yorker, Are you serious, gen Z millennials?
Of course they are most likely to use a bit
of debt. The value of travel bookings has increased by
fifty percent on buying our pay later in the last year.
There now there's one firm called our firm. Their volumes

(09:54):
up thirty eight percent. They've crossed the billion dollar mark,
a billion dollars worth of holiday spending on buy and
now pay later. Is it old fashioned to suggest if
you can't afford a holiday, taking on alone is probably
not the smartest thing you ever did.

Speaker 2 (10:08):
But it's complicated, isn't it? Because technically, if you have
a mortgage, you're living and dead anyway, aren't you. So
it's a little bit more debt in order to just forget,
you know, having to get up in the middle of
the night to go to work for a couple of weeks.
Is that I don't know why I'm using that for

(10:29):
an example, like just something that popped into my head?
Does that make any more? That make a bigger difference
to the actual total of debt? And don't get me wrong,
I'm not saying it's a good idea as I put
my feezer bill in the last two weeks. Anyway, I'm

(10:50):
back back into it now and loving it, loving every day.
I can't wait for that two fifty alarmed to go
off every morning, and I'll be back with you, bright
and bushy tailed again.

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