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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Onto GV.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
This is sitting now with Clinton.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Friday, June thirteenth. Clinton mainae with you one three, one
eight seven three hang on. I actually didn't realize it
was Friday the thirteenth today. I'm not superstitious, but let
me tell I'm glad my football team played last night
rather than tonight. A trend has actually emerged in recent years.
I was reading that tattoo parlors all over the world
they now have a policy of closing on Friday the thirteenth.

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So if you want to get a tattoo this afternoon,
you're probably out of luck. Plenty coming up on a
pack program for you. The state's Treasurer, Daniel Mookie will
be on the program. Have you been in the studio
after four o'clock now? He's finalizing the budget, will hand
it down in a couple of weeks time. And I
use this on an opportunity to give you the chance
to ask him questions. If there is something you believe
our government, the state government should be spending money on.

(00:57):
Let me know if there's some areas you believe when
need to cut back because the government is actually in
deficit at the moment, send me a text message zero
force like zero eight seven three out seven three two
gb dot comfur emails and we'll put some of those
questions to the treasurer. After four o'clock, Mark Guyre on
the program. After five thirty we'll go through our NRL tips.
A real legend of music is on the show today.
I'm looking forward to this. Tim Finn, the founder of

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Split Ends, and of course he was in credit House
for a couple of albums with his brother as well.
Tim Finn after four point thirty at a fabulous prize
to give away a one hundred dollars about you to
spend at Bankstown Sports Club. You are my eyes and
ears when it's happening in Sydney now, so send me
a text message zero force x zero eight seven three
eight seven three our number one three one eight seven three.

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Well in Sydney now. Two men are in custody, police
custody after they've been charged over a significant cocaine syndicate
that there is a real twist to this story. Detective
Superintendent Peter Foe, the commander of the State Crime in
Commands Organized Crime Squad, joins me. This is quite a
curious story. What's happened here?

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Yeah, thanks Clinton for having me. Yeah, you're right, it
is very interesting and a little bit out of the norm.
But essentially, we've got a number of Colombians who have
come here to Sydney during the month of May, over
different days, and we've been monitoring those people, believing they
are here to sell large pointies of cocaine. We executed

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a search on on Wednesday, and during the search RN
we found ten blocks of white compressed powder that appeared
to be cocaine, and further analysis of that powder indicated
it actually wasn't cocaine. So these people were here selling
to a number of different organized crime networks white powder
which they were purporting to be cocaine and actually wasn't.

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So essentially they're frauding these organized crime groups.

Speaker 3 (02:54):
Now, not to say that those who consume cocaine are
doing anything good for their health, but if somebody was
to buy this what they thought was cocaine but is
actually another white powder, would this potentially pose a significant
health risk as well.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Look, i'd suggest it wouldn't be good for you, but
it's predominantly just normal white powders and crystals that you
can buy from the shelf, So you know, they're not lethal.
It's not a lethal combination by no means, so that's
not a risk in relation to that. But I mean
the biggest risk around this is to the people buying

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this thinking it's cocaine and then on selling it and
it's actually not cocaine. It creates in the minds of
the people purchasing it they've been essentially ripped off by
an organized crime group, which creates the conflict. And that's
our biggest concern, and that's the success of this story
is stopping the conflict around what would have occurred out
of these people, you know, the drug rips and the

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confrontation around that.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
Well, so much of what a Task Force Falcon is
now investigating is about just that these game wars that
we've seen break out in the streets see the Often
it's about turf, but it's also about these conflicts between
these groups.

Speaker 4 (04:04):
Yeah, I don't think there's any hiding that that most
of the conflict and the violence on the streets is
around in terms of the organized crime conflict is drug related.
So this essentially is exactly that these people have come
here and they've obviously seen an opportunity to make very
large amounts of money and sell this inner powder purporting

(04:26):
to be cocaine and to these groups who then on
sell it thinking it's cocaine, and then the conflict flows
from that.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
A sixty one year old man charged along with a
twenty seven year old Congratulations, excellent detective work.

Speaker 4 (04:38):
Thank you, no problems.

Speaker 3 (04:39):
Thanks m Detective Superintendent Pedofo.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Now with Clinton Man on t.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
GB eleven past three. Australia is calling on a diplomatic
solution to the impending war, and that's what's shaping between
Israel and Iran. Explosions. Have you been following throughout the
day of course of rung out across the capital Tyran,
Israel is targeting military facilities. Now is Iralian State TV
is reporting the chief of the Revolutionary Guard has been

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killed in the strike that hit the headquarters of the
branch of the Iranian Armed Forces. The Israelid leader Benjamin Etna,
who says he is protecting his country but also the
broader world.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation
to develop the means to achieve that goal. Tonight, Israel
backs those words with action. We struck at the heart
of Iran's nuclear enrichment program. We struck at the heart
of Iran's nuclear weaponization program. We targeted Iran's main enrichment

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facility in Atans. We targeted Iran's leading nuclear scientists working
on the Iranian bomb. We also struck at the heart
of Iran's ballistic missile program. Last year, Iran fired three
hundred ballistic missiles at Israel. Each of these missiles carries
a ton of explosives and threatens the lives of hundreds

(05:59):
of people. Soon, those missiles could carry a nuclear payload,
threatening the lives not of hundreds, but of millions. Iran
is gearing up to produce ten thousands of those ballistic
missiles within three years.

Speaker 1 (06:15):
Now.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Just imagine imagine ten thousand tons of TNT landing on
a country the size of New Jersey. This is an
intolerable threat. It too must be stopped. Iran is now
working on what it caused, the new plan to destroy Israel.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Benjamin Netanya, who our foreign mister Penny Wong, has responded.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
These risks further destabilizing a region that is already volatile.
We call on all parties to a refrain from actions
and rhetoric and will further would further exacerbate tensions, and
we urge the parties to prioritize dialogue and diplomacy. We
all understand the threat of Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile

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program presents a threat to the international to international peace
and security.

Speaker 3 (07:04):
Penny Wong now, Iran has promised a harsh response that
hasn't occurred yet. They say they may well restrict oil
to the rest of the world. Our Prime Minister Anthony
Abernizi has arrived in Fiji in the past hour. He
has been greeted by a Fijian honor guard. He has
inspected the military. This is as part of his travel

(07:24):
to the G seven. So he is on his way
to the United States, but he's visiting three countries on
this trip. He is about to hold talks with the
Fijian leader. Said of Any Ram Booker and mister Albinizi says,
it's vital that we show commitment to the Pacific. Years
highlighted various trade deals and security ties that we have
in the region. But what is critical about this trip
is not so much the whistle stop tour of Fiji.

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It's what's going to happen in the United States. As
of now, he still has not been un of confirm
that he will hold a meeting with Donald Trump. And
given the orcus situation of the past forty eight hours,
a meeting with mister Trump is crucial.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
This is Sydney now with Clinton Maynard on two GB
call now one three one seven three.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
Well in Sydney. This weekend NEIDER, the National Institute of
Dramatic Art, has its Open Day. Incredible alumni have been
celebrated in the world stage. This week. Alumni of NIDER,
Sarah Snook won the Tony Award for her performance in
the Picture of Dorian Gray and Differ. You've seen Sarah
Snook in succession over the years. You know she's a brilliant,
brilliant actor. Baz Luhrmann was made a Companion of the

(08:30):
Order of Australian the King's Birthday Honors List. Of course,
he is a graduate of NIDER. NIDER really is the
place for budding creatives in Sydney, really from all over
the country. Liz Hughes is the CEO of NIDER. Thank
you for joining us, Liz.

Speaker 7 (08:42):
Thank you so much. Clinton lovely to be here.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
Timely that your open day is this weekend, given that
the news about both Baz and Sarah this week.

Speaker 7 (08:50):
Absolutely and there's a couple others as well. So there's
another Tony Award for Dane Laffrey for design for another musical,
and two other alumni were awarded, Katherine Martin and Jim Sharmon,
famous actually for the Rocky Horror Picture Shows some years ago.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
So Nider covers obviously actors, but you mentioned Katherine Martin
there Baslum's partner. She's a designer. So you do train
people across a range of creatives.

Speaker 7 (09:17):
That's right. We train the whole suite of creative production roles.
So we have design, we have costume making, props making,
cnic construction technologies, technical theater and stage management specialists, makeup
writers and directors, so we've got the whole, the whole
suite of roles and then lots of ways we train
the really the trades people of the arts. So you

(09:40):
know very much about practice based training that's very industry relevant,
great job outcomes, so wonderful courses that have been training
people and have had who've had successful careers for you know,
sixty sixty years. We've had a good formula. It works,
and we're really keen to meet the next generation of
creative individuals who have potential to come here.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
And you've had so many wonderful graduate services. Correct me
from wrong, mil Gibson was a graduate.

Speaker 7 (10:04):
Well, Gibson's a graduate. Absolutely, yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
So the open day start from tomorrow. What can we expect?

Speaker 7 (10:11):
So we start from nine thirty in the morning and
we go through to three point thirty pm. There's a
whole range of experiences. There's alumni panels where we have
previous alumni from all the disciplines coming and showing their experiences.
People can see are production. Then they can then go
behind the scenes and find out how the production's actually made.
There's demonstrations on makeup and lighting, costume making, props making

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yet sort to the course leaders. We've got great scholarships
on offer as well, so it's good to find out
about them. We've just announced one from Netflix for makeup,
and we've also got another from YouTube as an example.
And there's also those surprises that happened Clinton on the day.
So I don't want to be too coy, but there's
the odd flash mobs that might happen as well. So
it's a fun, interactive experience that we really keen to

(10:57):
meet people that are passionate about the industry. So yes,
performance making, screenmaking, live events, extended reality gaming, all of
those disciplines we train for.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Okay, we can check the details on your website. Your
open days tomorrow in Roundwick. Thank you for your time, Liz,
Thank you so much. Liz Hughes, who's the CEO of
Night of the open day begins tomorrow morning one three
one eight seven three. If you've got a question for
Daniel lookie, you can send those to me now. He'll
be with me in about an hour's time. Email via
the website two GB dot com. If you'd like to
have you say, send me a text message zero fourth

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zero eight seven three eight seven three. This is Sydney now.
It's fourteen degrees on the coast, fifteen degrees in Penrith
at the moment. There is the chance of a couple
of showers to start the weekend tomorrow, but Sunday should
be driving a little bit cloudy on Sunday. Now. There
will be decision at four point thirty from the Fair
Work Commission about the dispute the ongoing to speak between
the unions and the state government on Sydney's train network.

(11:51):
Now when I say this is an ongoing dispute between
the rail unions, well, the Rail, Tram and BUST union
has agreed to the deal that's been put to them
by the state government through the Fair Work Commission for
a pay rise, a twelve percent pay rise over three years.
It's more than the state government wanted to pay, but
it's a lot less than the unions originally seeking. The
problem they've got is the ETU, which only makes up
about eight hundred odd workers on the Sydney network, is

(12:14):
holding out. Not so much over the pay, that's part
of it, but there's basically a demarcation dispute between the
two unions and it's about job titles of different workers.
What both the RTBU and Sydney Trains they're now on
the same side. They want the Fair Work Commission to
make an order at four point thirty this afternoon that
all the union members and there are about nine thousand

(12:34):
of them in total, vote on whether to accept this
deal or not. Don't just leave it up to the
union management. Because the RTBU, they have aut eight thousand
members THETU about eight hundred members. So the confidence is
if the Fair Work Commission says put it to a
vote of the workers, it'll be successful that I'll wan
the deal go through and perhaps once we can forget
about industrial action for just a little while on Sydney's trains,

(12:57):
wouldn't that be good? Unfortunately, the commuters of Sydney don't
get a vote. I reckon we probably should.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
Be a part of Sydney. Now with Clinton, Maynard called
one three one.

Speaker 3 (13:08):
Eight twenty four past three. Did you hear about the
arrest of motorbike rider who used social media to brag
about what he was doing. This is a motorbike rider
who has been charged by the police over several pursuits
from Woollongong. He's been before the courts today and I
actually think what this shows is what the federal government
is trying to do with restricting kids accessing social media

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is a step in the right direction. Now, I actually
don't think as the father of three teenagers, I don't
think this is the ultimate solution to protecting our kids
from social media. They'll still get around it. But hear
me out why I think this is an example of
why this is necessary. This bloke is thirty three. It's
alleged he was involved in several high speed pursuits with
police this week on his motorbike around Woollongong and the

(13:52):
South Coast. He's accused of filming using a camera on
his helmet while he's been chased by the cops and
then posting the footage on social media. Clearly the sharpest
tool in the shed. I mean, if you think about it,
you don't want to get in trouble with the police,
so you're allegedly speeding away from them, but you put
the video on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought that

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was too smart. Nevertheless, that will play out in the courts.
On Wednesday, he's accused of leading police on a pursuit
in Albion Park, SO in the Wollongong region, reaching speeds
of up to two hundred kilometers. An hour later, he
was accused of leading police on another chase. He was
then arrested at Killaney Heights, SO in Sydney. Police seized cocaine,
They raided his home, they seized more evidence. Police alleging

(14:36):
court during one of the pursuits, he used a helmet
camera to film the chase, reaching speeds of wait for it,
two hundred and ninety nine kilometers an hour. Okay, so
this bloke is thirty three years of age. Part of
the issue with social media is idiots using the platform
to gain notoriety, to gain clicks and likes. It's the

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same as kids as as young as twelve, for instance,
in towns like Mare in the West, breaking into homes
while people are asleep inside, stealing their keys, then taking
their cars, and there's evidence and this is also plaid
out in the courts as well in the last couple
of months of these kids filming their crimes and then
posting it on social media. It's the same with teenagers

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who jump on the roof of a train or they
cling onto the back of a train carriage. It's called buffering.
Why are they doing it because they're filming it, posting
it on Snapchat, posting it on Instagram, one of the
social media platforms. Why do they do it to get likes,
to get notoriety. It's part of this motivation to becomes
some sort of social media celebrity by doing crazy things.

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Now the government reducing the age that kids can access
social media, it's not going to stop it all plenty
of kids are still going to access these things because
they're smarter than governments and smarter than the law. But
this is a start, I reckon. I think it's going
to help parents at least have that conversation with kids
that they can't legally be doing this stuff, and then
that may have the impact of discouraging some of these

(16:04):
children from performing crazy stunts on social media, and then
maybe as they grow up and they reach their thirties,
for instance, they won't think, Hey, I've got a great idea.
I'm going to jump on my motorbike speed away from
the cops at two hundred and ninety nine k's an
hour and film it not too smart. Messages coming through
about social media and crazy stunts and from one of

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my listeners, we were doing crazy stunts without social media.
Why is social media the problem? Well, I'll tell you why,
because the number of people. I'll just take the train
network for instance, the police have confirmed there's been a
massive increase in the last five years about the number
of teenagers they're finding jumping onto the back of train
carriages hanging on.

Speaker 1 (16:43):
Now.

Speaker 3 (16:43):
I know this did happen when I was a kid
as well, but it's not in the numbers. It's happening
at the moment and they're doing it because they're trying
to get likes on social media. Well, Linda says, why
don't the authorities just confiscate the mobile phones of lunatics
who film themselves and broadcast their dangerous criminal activities. Well,
there is new legislation that was introduced by the state
government about six months ago to actually make it a

(17:04):
crime to film such stunts on social media, so they
can be charged over it, and confiscation could be a
decision for the courts. Peter Ford coming up in a moment,
mel Brooks making a comeback to the screen at the
age of ninety nine. But firstly, let's check in his headlines,
and we've got the latest. Good afternoon, Katie.

Speaker 8 (17:23):
Fourer, Good afternoon, Clinton.

Speaker 9 (17:24):
Two men have been charged and police say more arrests
maybe on the way as they investigate the sale of
fake cocaine in Sydney. It's alleged as South American syndicate
sold sugar, caffeine and other powders disguised as the drug
for about ninety thousand dollars a kilogram. A review of
last year's Deadly's Sydney Hobart Yacht Race has sparked several changes.

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The Cruising Yacht Club says there will be stricter qualification protocols,
better education and improved racing updates. Prime Minister Anthony Albanesi
has arrived in Fiji, where he'll soon hold economic and
security talks with his counterpart, and the Australian National University
will trial a jug which could be used to fight
several different cancers. It targets a specific protein linked to

(18:12):
the development of different forms of the disease, including blood,
breast and prostate cancer. In sport, the Knights have re
signed exciting rookie Fletcher Hunt to a new two year deal.
The Flying winger will remain at the club until the
end of the twenty twenty seven NRL season. Clinton More
News at four Think Katie.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Good news about Fletcher Hunt. He probably has maybe the
best mullet in rugby league. He competes with his teammate
Fletcher Sharp in the mullet stakes. Oil prices have increased
by almost ten percent. The Australian dollar is also weaker
as a result of what's occurring between Israel and Iran.
Local currencies buying just under sixty five US cents. But
the concern is going to be what's going to happen

(18:51):
with our petrol prices. As you know, the service stations
seem to pass on those world oil price increases fairly quickly,
not necessarily. When they go down, is jumping by ten percent,
will no doubt mean that bowser prices will rise in
the next couple of days.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
If it matters to.

Speaker 2 (19:05):
You, you'll hear it here and Sydney now with Clinton
Maynard until six.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
Neil Brooks is making a comeback to movies. Peter Ford
with all the details. Good afternoon, Peter, hell a Clinton.

Speaker 10 (19:16):
Well, I'll tell you what this hope for us all
because at the age of well, he's almost ninety nine.
He's going to be appearing in space Balls too, and
it's forty years ago since the first one. It was
very much a stend up of the Star Wars hit
movie of the time. And this is now going into
full production. A Mel's not going to direct it. I
think he's going to co write it. But by the

(19:37):
time they start filming it, he'll be ninety nine. By
the time it comes out, he will be one hundred
years old and they put out a video of this
morning at tea. What he looks great. He looks so
sharp and funny still and I'm looking forward to seeing it.

Speaker 11 (19:51):
But he doesn't.

Speaker 10 (19:52):
That's no kind of record. I might add, there was
a woman called Jeane Calmet appeared in the film when
she was one hundred and four team years, so top
that one.

Speaker 3 (20:03):
Now, well, he must be doing pretty well. But it
might not be a record with age there for for
an actor. But in terms of the amount of time
between a sequel and the original forty years, you don't
usually get a forty year gap.

Speaker 10 (20:14):
And no, you won't be accused of rushing back too
soon to the well, would you? But good luck to them.
I mean, it's often sequels, of course disastrous. But let's
hope this one isn't. Let's hope it's a great way.
Presumably it may be Mel's last ever movie, but who knows.
For people who know Mel's work, it's it's kind of
funny because one of his most famous sketches, which you

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can watch on YouTube back in the old days, was
a sketch called the two thousand year Old Man, in
which he played a two thousand year old man. Well,
he's got a way to go, but at least he's.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
On the way.

Speaker 3 (20:45):
Good on him as Spaceballs too coming to cinemas near you.
Mike Love has played a beautiful tribute to Brian Wilson.
They found with the tee.

Speaker 10 (20:54):
We've just seen some extraordinary I can't think of another
death where so many famous legy people have made a
point of wanting to go out and pay tribute to someone.
And recurring theme has almost been the inspiration that Brian
was and also the fact that the music that he

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created was so unique. But Mike Love has posted now
Mike Love of course one of the original Beach Boys,
and he still goes out on the road as a
group called the Beach Boys, even though he's obviously the
only original one. But they did have a very fractured relationship,
very much so, I think more so from Brian's point
of view, but without wanting to be mean. When you

(21:35):
do have friendships or relationsships with people who have mental
health issues, it can be very difficult. They can be
very challenging, they can turn on you, all that kind
of thing, And it did seem to me that the
agro was much more from Brian towards Mike than reverse.
But he wrote quite a lengthy piece. But this is
at the very end of it, which I thought was
so sweet. At the very end, he says, thank you

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for the harmonies, the memories and the love. Death leaves
a heartache, no one can heal. Love leaves a memory,
no one can steal. I miss you forever, my beloved cousin.

Speaker 1 (22:10):
Mike.

Speaker 3 (22:11):
Oh, that's really beautiful, Peter, really nice.

Speaker 10 (22:14):
Yeah, lovely words, aren't they.

Speaker 3 (22:16):
Pete will talk next week. See that entertained report of
Peter Ford become.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
John be.

Speaker 12 (22:23):
My grandfathery Brown dear got into a five.

Speaker 13 (22:42):
Well, that fear is so both. I want to go.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
These days, the success of music's very much measured by
Spotify plays. Could you imagine when Spotify releases the statistics
probably the next couple of weeks on the number of
Beach Boys tracks each These songs that have been listened
to over the last twenty four hours maywell set some
new records. Now talking about music later in the program,
really excited about this, and about now is time I'm

(23:09):
going to speak with Tim Finn. Tim Finn, the founder
have split ends and have very successful He's had a
very successful solo career as well. It's forty years since
he released his deboo solo album, which featured hits like Fractions,
Too Much Friction on It and of course a big
part over the years of Crowded House with his brother
as well. Neil so Tim Finn my special guest. After
four point thirty this afternoon, it's eighteen to six four.

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A man in his forties is still being treated in
Liverpool Hospital after a mining accident this morning in Appen.
Paramedics were called to the GM three app And West
Colliery in Douglas Park. The miner underground. He's in his
forties had been injured, so understood. He suffered what they
call crushing injuries and it took quite a little while
to extricate him and to bring him to the service.

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And he was brought to the service not by the
paramedics but by other workers. He has suffered back and
neck injuries. He's now in Liverpool Hospital in a stable condition.
Word on the street thanks to Temper a great night's
sleep night after night. The difference is Temper. If there's
something you'd like us to investigate, send me a message
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force zero eight seven three eight seven three. The revelations
we made yesterday about electric buses in Sydney came from
a tip off via word on the street, and that
was the confirmation from Transport for New South Wales that
more than seventy buses that have been manufactured in Saint
Mary's by Custom Denning have been off the road because
their batteries aren't working properly, so they need a replacement battery.

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That the batteries are from Europe, they're having to source
new ones, so there's only two that have been fixed
so far. So all these buses are either in storage
in depots or at the Saint Mary's workshop. I have
been contacted by another manufacturer at next Port and they
tell me they've managed to supply Transport for New South
Wales sixty electric buses. They're now based in Leichhart and

(24:58):
they've since traveled million of kilometers trouble free and they've
found that passengers have been very happy with a surface.
So the buses that I've been talking about refer to
one particular manufacturer who is now trying to fix with
different batteries that are sourced overseas. There are other supplies,
but the numbers of buses that are being supplied by
the Australian manufacturers is overall quite small. Transport from New

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South Wales is seeking to convert a fleet of four
thousand buses, so Nextport, for instance, only supplied sixty. So
it's a drop in the ocean essentially. But the bus
manufacturers are telling me that the problem is the government's
not putting up money up front for orders. So the
government suggests that the scale doesn't exist. But it's sort
of a chicken and the egg quite problem. They need

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governments in the first place if they want to go
ahead with this plan to convert the entire fleet to electric,
to be upfront with the money.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on two
gb com now one three one.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Eight seven three. Give me a call if you live
in the Ride area. I'll be keen to hear from
you on this. For years, the Council has been locked
in a dispute over the future of tg MIL in
the field at Massfield. I know last year Chris looked
at this particular issue. Well it's popped up again this
week because there has been a decision and this may
well be a final decision on the future of tg
MIL inn the field. There's effectively been approval for the

(26:16):
field to be sold off redeveloped for housing. Whether this
is the solution to the housing crisis is probably not
going to be enough, but the local council is not happy.
The City of Ride Mayor Trenton Brown joins us, so
thank you for your time, Mayor. So just to give
a bit a little bit of background, we did cover
this on this program last year. But the tg MIL
in the field, it's been used for club rugby By

(26:38):
Eastward for years, but it is controlled by North Ryde Council.

Speaker 14 (26:42):
Isn't it.

Speaker 10 (26:44):
Aminity club on the site yes, so purchased about seven
years ago.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
So they want to redevelop it for housing. You though,
as the councilor been opposed, We certainly are.

Speaker 10 (26:54):
We think there is a very strong demand already and
a growing demand from a growing population for open space
and recreational space and active open space as well, so
this is critical this six point two hectare site.

Speaker 3 (27:10):
But what's happened this week is a separate panel the
North Sydney Planning Panel, and I know that you have
members of the council part of that panel. They've actually
approved the redevelopment.

Speaker 10 (27:20):
Unfortunately they have the same panel rejected the same application
two years ago, which is odd. So I must say
it's a shock decision that this is the third attempt
and on the third attempt the RSL proponents have been
given approval at gateway to proceed further through the gateway.

Speaker 3 (27:37):
So how did it just work for those that understand
the planning process, how does it work with final approval?
It goes over your head as the local council just
to this panel.

Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yes it does.

Speaker 10 (27:46):
I mean we've been in discussions for compulsory acquisition of
this site for a number of months. The previous same
proposal was rejected by the independent Sydney North Planning Panel
two years ago. The new submission was approved to then
proceed to the next step, which is through the gateway

(28:07):
for further approval and further submissions to be made to
the state government. So this Planning Panel will become the
approval authority, unless, of course, this decision only days ago
is rejected by the Planning Minister. And I think the
Planning Minister has unfortunately been misinformed by his own department
and therefore this has led to a very bad outcome

(28:29):
for our community. Through this approval just days ago, the.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Club wants to develop about one hundred and thirty homes
for seniors. All the councils across Sydney under a lot
of pressure from the Planning Minister, Paul Scully to approve developments.
If you don't, if you keep opposing, this isn't the
state government that it's going to turn to you and say, well,
you're going to have to find another oval that we redevelop.

Speaker 10 (28:50):
Well, look, I think what the state government need to
do is understand that they need to step into the
conversation and strike the right balance between not just an
uplift in housing, but an upload in additional employment facilities
and civic infrastructure like open space and parks and gardens
and playing fields and additional school and hospital investments. Now
they haven't done that. The City of Riode has outperformed

(29:12):
our housing targets previously. We are highly confident of outperforming
by building and approving more housing than the current period permits.
We have twenty two thousand dwellings currently in the planning
portal being assisted and the new housing reforms provide for
an additional fifteen thousand. Now that's a total of thirty
seven thousand dwellings coming in close proximity to the TG

(29:35):
Milner fields and that makes for a very compelling proposition,
which is why the argument on strategic merit was rejected
just two years ago. And that's why I don't understand
the most recent decision because the strategic merit case for
planning approval is even more compelling today for the rejection
than it was two years ago.

Speaker 3 (29:55):
But on the flip side, and OTG Milner has been
the home of Eastwood Rugby Club fifty years. The owner's
northright RSL so by selling this off similar concept to
what happened with Rose Hilbert didn't go ahead. This is
going to secure the Eastwood Rugby Club financially for years
to come and surely that's a good thing.

Speaker 10 (30:12):
Well, look, the future of the Eastwood Rugby Club is
completely independent of this deal whatsoever. Ride Council has made
it very clear that we wish to move through compulsory acquisition.
We have more than adequate funding available to purchase this
site and I think the sadness is that the Uthwood
Rugby Club didn't come to the Ride Council seven years
ago because I think they would have already been paid

(30:33):
for the grounds, they would have moved already and this
long drawn our process could have been avoided. This is
a critical site for our community and we certainly won't
be changing our view or backing down in any way
in our resolve to keep this as important critical open
space for a booming community.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Okay, where to from here? Do you seek a minister
a meeting with the Minister?

Speaker 10 (30:53):
Well, I certainly do. I do, honestly believe the Minister
has been misinformed because there's a couple of aspects to
the open space and the significant housing growth in Macquarie
Park and the surrounds that the Minister isn't aware of.
Just days ago we were given a briefing by the
Woolworth's Corporation about not taking up the incentives for open

(31:15):
space gifted by the Planning Department, but instead they want
to build a distribution center at the old Peterbord High School. Now,
the Minister for Planning and the Department of Planning, I
think that is potential open space for a growing community.
It certainly is not. There are other areas within the
Lachlands Line Precinct and mccroe Park Precinct such as the
Linear Park, and other financial incentives to the private sector

(31:38):
landowners that are simply not being taken up. So the
great problem we have is will continue to outperform in
housing growth, but we won't get the commensurate uplift in
open space, green space and active recreation.

Speaker 3 (31:51):
And that trend. That is critical because if we're going
to gem more people into units, doesn't matter if it's
in your district, the Rod District or other parts of Sydney.
We still need areas, particularly for kids to play into
play sport. Thank you if you sign Mayor Clinton, the
Mayor of Right Council, Trenton Brown, let me know if
you live in that area, what's it like. Do you
care if the oval disappearsance converted to housing and if

(32:11):
there are other parts of Sydney where you see a
similar thing happening, let me know. One three, one eight
seven three. I just want to quickly cross to Marco
who's just been through the airport Tunnel's some serious traffic
dramas there market what's happened?

Speaker 15 (32:23):
Yeah, there's a five nose to tail pile up in
the far right lane, but also a lot of the
debris has fallen into the next lane, so both lanes,
both the right hand lanes are out of action.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
So is that southbound?

Speaker 1 (32:37):
Yes?

Speaker 15 (32:38):
Southbound?

Speaker 1 (32:38):
Correct?

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Goodness? So yeah, it has to be southbound on a
Friday afternoon, doesn't it.

Speaker 11 (32:43):
Definitely?

Speaker 15 (32:44):
By the way, I love your show.

Speaker 3 (32:45):
Buddy, good on your marke. I appreciate your support. So
there you go, General Homes Drive. I'm driving home, General
Hans Drive the night fantastic five car pile up is
southbound in the Airport tunnel and the debris is actually
going over several lanes, so hopefully the authorities can get
in there quickly. And it's Clinton Maynard here. The weekend
is almost here as well. Just recapping five car accident
in the airport tunnel. So General Homes Drive, this is southbound,

(33:09):
the worst time of the week for this to happen.
There's debris across most of the lanes there through the tunnel.
The emergency services are not there yet, they should be
there shortly. It's fresh Food Friday thanks to our mates
at Harris farm Markets and they are a proud partner
of this program. Let's find out what you should be
eating what's fresh this weekend? Carlos Siravollo is the head
of fresh buying at Harris Farm Markets.

Speaker 16 (33:30):
Hello, Carlo, Hey, good afternoon, Clinton.

Speaker 10 (33:32):
How a we're going?

Speaker 3 (33:33):
I'm a little cold, It's I'm just saving. Look at
the temperature now where I am. It's fourteen degrees where
I am in the western suburbs, thirteen degrees in some
suburbs where we grow our produce, probably even colder. Is
that affecting what we can buy at Harris Farm this weekend?

Speaker 16 (33:47):
Yes, Unfortunately the cooler where the particularly in Queensland, which
is where which is the food bowl for Australia at this.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Time of the year.

Speaker 16 (33:55):
It hasn't been particularly cold and has slowed down production
a bit. But just rest assured everyone, if we look
to the sky, we're on a full moon cycle which
is normally assigned with those extra daylight hours, that we
are not far off from extra volumes.

Speaker 10 (34:09):
Coming in the market. So on the back of that moon.

Speaker 16 (34:12):
I suspect that we'll see some price relief.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
In the words to come good. What's good in fruit
this weekend?

Speaker 16 (34:18):
Look, if we're talking for it this week strawberries, there
are a number one line. They are still a little
bit on the xy side, but we anticipate they'll come
back as the weeks goes on and as those warmer
days come through. We've got crimson seedless grapes which are
magnificent eating. There's probably the only grape you consider eating
it this late in the season. Bananas are great. The

(34:38):
Australian apple season as well and truly in the full
swing and you can virtually hit any apple and there'll
be fantastic. The Osi citrus season is also in full swing,
and navels are a master. They're sweet and juicy and
you know what, they're great value.

Speaker 3 (34:50):
What about veggies, Veggi, you can't go past red caps.

Speaker 16 (34:54):
They are amazing value and quality. This week in all stores,
we've got Continental Passi rhubarb, the old fashioned rhubarbs, an
old favorite Jack pumpkin. The packaged potatoes are all great
value this week, as is jack pumpkin, and our imperfect
comerange is on at a great price.

Speaker 3 (35:11):
Run us through a couple of specials for us as well.

Speaker 16 (35:14):
Alrighty for the specials for this weekend, we have cup
mushrooms on at seven ninety nine. There's been plenty of
mushrooms around and they are fantastic at seven ninety nine,
are about five dollars a kilo off what they normally
said at We've got one kilo cocktail potatoes that's three
ninety nine, which is two to three dollars less than
what they normally are. Red Radish, another old favorite, two
bunches for three bucks, so that's great value. We've got

(35:36):
our imperfect eggplant at two ninety nine, which is less
than half the price of the premium fruit. And our
avocado farmers all need a hand. There is a there
is a deal of avocados around on the markets at
the moment, and we've got our imperfect range at two
forty nine a kilo, which will be less than probably
sixty or seventy cents a peace, So plenty of value
in that.

Speaker 3 (35:55):
And the imperfect stuff still tastes good, doesn't it. Thanks mate,
Thank you, have a great weekend. Carlos Cerravello, who's the
head of fresh buying at Harris Farm Markets. Harris Farm
Markets where everything's fresh, at local and a little bit special.
Find your flavor today at harrisfarm dot com dot au.
The Liberal Party is still to make a decision of

(36:15):
whether they're going to seek a challenge in the Court
of Disputed Returns over the result in the electorate of
Bradfield where the Independent the Tell Nicolette Buller has been
declared the winner. It's twenty six votes, so there's nothing
in it now. The fact that the Liberal candidate Jizel
Captirian was initially in front, they may try to use
that as grounds. Susan Lee has spoken about this today

(36:37):
and she told the Today's Show, well, no decision has
been made yet.

Speaker 17 (36:40):
We'll wait for a process to take its place. Obviously
it's been declared not for us, and we'll see what
happens next. But I do want to give a shout
out to the amazing Giselle Captarian who is our candidate there.
She's got a great future as an incredible woman in
the Liberal Party.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
Susan Lee, that decision hopefully will come in the next
week or so. Thanks the message poorly poorly telling me
about the pile up in the airport tunnel. So it
involves four cars and a truck, so a truck is
also involved in this, so it might take a little
longer to clear. I mentioned on Friday the thirteenth often
tattoo parlors around the world close, such as today. Anna says,
no sash tattoo in Sydney's been operating for thirty two

(37:17):
years and it's still opened. Coming up alfter the news,
the Treasurer Daniel Mookie.

Speaker 18 (37:22):
There is Sydney. Now we've clinton on.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
To GenB seven past four confirmation. Now Iran has begun
its retaliation action against Israel with drone strikes. Iran has
launched more than one hundred drones at Israel in recent hours.
Israeli Defense Force Brigadier has confirmed that Israeli forces are
working actively to intercept the drones and their shield has
actually been quite quite effective in recent years. The drones

(37:49):
launched from Indian Iranian territory are expected to take several
hours to reach their targets. The Times of Israel expects
some Iranian missiles to get through, according to Israeli official,
but their shield system has proved quite effective in the
past seven past four. Just repeating that drama in the
airport tunnel, general homes drive at the moments southbound. There

(38:09):
are massive delays because there's been a pile up involving
four cars and a truck. There is debris all over
the road and it's going to take a little while
to actually clear that. So if you're heading south down
Southern Cross Drive, if you're driving along General Homes Drive,
bear that in mind. If you can take another route
at all, mate, you can go the old Botany Road route,
do that, because it is going to be a nightmare

(38:30):
trying to get home over the next couple of hours.

Speaker 18 (38:32):
If it matters to you, you'll hear it here.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Sydney now Wood Quinton Maynard until six.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
The state's budget for the next year will be handed
down in a couple of weeks time. And just like
most of us, the government's under extreme financial pressure. The
half Yaly Review was released a few months ago, back
in December, and the deficit has grown to five billion dollars.
So the government is spending more money than it receives
in tax in other revenue, and that must mean I

(38:59):
would assure that the treasurre A Daniel Mookie is going
to have to make some cutbacks or put up tax. Well,
let's find out. Daniel Lookie joins me in studio. Hello Treasurer,
Hello Clinton, thank you for having me in. We're going
to take some questions from our listeners as well, So
if you've got a question for the Treasurer, and bear
in mind he doesn't come armed with reams of paperwork,
so he'll be using his brain here if you do

(39:21):
have questions one three one eight seven three. And I've
got a few questions that have been sent to us
as well, But this is your opportunity. If there's a
particular question about government spending, if there's something you want
to see in the budget, an area of spending that
you believe is essential for our city, give me a
call out one three one eight seven three. You can
send messages zero force zero eight seven three eight seven three. Okay,

(39:42):
deficit you revealed in December, it's five billion dollars a
couple of weeks until your hand down the budget. Will
it come down, Well, you'll have.

Speaker 19 (39:50):
To wait and see for budget Day, but I can
definitely make the point that, yeah, you're right, the budget
is under pressure. When I became Treasurer, I inherited a
budget deficit of roughly fifteen billion dollars last year in
New South Wales. I also had twelve point six billion
dollars of GST income taken off us for the next
four years, so we're under pressure and we have to
be very careful with every single dollar that we're spending,

(40:11):
and that's not changed in this particular budget. Every single
dollar that we are collecting from people through taxes or
we're getting from the commonwealth, we have to make sure
that it's getting a good return for the public.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Are you going to have to make some cuts.

Speaker 19 (40:25):
There's no broad cuts coming in the budget. We have
been very disciplined in our spending since we got here
and formed government now nearly two years ago.

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Can we keep that on tape? A treasurer has said
there will be no broad cuts in this budget.

Speaker 19 (40:38):
No, of course, there's not any broadcuts coming. What we
are absolutely doing, though, is we are making sure that
every dollar is being well spent. If we think a
program is not returning, we are absolutely clear about the
fact that we will move the money. If we think
that a money could be put to a better use,
we absolutely will put it to a better use. Absolutely,
I want to be very clear about that, Clinton, and
that's what you would expect me to do. On behalf

(41:01):
of the people of New South Wales. I will say
when I came to power, I inherited from my predecessor
experence growth that was about twenty four percent per year.
That was Matt Keane's last budget. It's come down quite
significantly like that. We made it very clear at the
time that it's going to take time to repair the
state's budget position. But I'm confident when people see the numbers,
they'll see that we've been very careful. We've been very disciplined.

(41:22):
Our debt numbers are stable. The budget is under pressure.
The budgets particularly under pressure right now for two reasons,
workers comp and disasters, And that will be clear on
budget Day.

Speaker 3 (41:33):
I'll ask you about workers competent in particular in a moment,
because it's some significant action next week in that. But
whenever I talk about the public service and we discuss
pay rise as a fair bit, because your government has
been involved in dispute after dispute with different arms of
the public service, I keep hearing from our listeners saying,
why can't the nurses get a decent pay rise? Now,
I know this is before the indust Relations Commission, but

(41:56):
will there be some joy in the budget for nurses?

Speaker 19 (41:59):
Well, already we are rolling out things like safe staffing
levels for our nurses, which was our key election commitment.
And was working closely with the nurses union. And when
it comes to nurses pay, we already have delivered nurses
the biggest pay rise they've received in more than a decade.

Speaker 3 (42:14):
But they're telling me the Nurses Midwaf's Association says that
those in Queens that have paid I think seventeen percent
more and that nurses are leaving New South Wales to
move to Brisbane.

Speaker 19 (42:23):
Yeah, but I'd also just point out the stats, which
is we are seeing that nurse recruitment and retention levels
are now higher than there were pre COVID and we've
recovered a large part of our attention issues. And equally
we are record enrollments in nurses joining New South Wales Health.
We very much respect the Nurses Association, We very much
respect the state's nurses. But I'd also just point out

(42:45):
we brought back an independent umpire for our nurses. We
didn't say to our nurses that you have to agree
with us. Unlike the previous government which had used the
force of law to restrain nurses' wages for a decade,
we have brought back an independent umpire and our nurses
and the Nurses Union is using it. So from our perspective.
Yet we'll always look to see what more we can

(43:06):
do with the nurses, but we're not going to hide
the fact that, of course it remains an issue in dispute.
Just final point, Clinton, you're making the point about the
broader workforce. We have reached agreement now with pretty much
the rest of the public sector, and we are obviously
waiting to see some further decisions today from Fair Work
about the rail dispute. But if that's now largely resolved,
people will see that the investment we have been making

(43:28):
in essential services does mean that we are investing more
in our central workers, and that is leading to lower
class and cancelations, more police signing up at the academy,
and better public services for the community.

Speaker 3 (43:42):
The one sector of the workforce that people keep saying
to this program that they want helped is the nurses.
So for why is it You've managed big increases for teachers,
big increases for police officers. And I'm not suggesting particularly
with the police officers, because it's a centially you had
a recruitment problem there, it's essentially you address that. But
why is it the nurses? If you can just explain
it simply, why can't the nurses get an increase of

(44:03):
the same size as the teachers and the police.

Speaker 19 (44:05):
Well, with the teachers and police, we negotiated hard bargains.
We did find abundance of resources that allowed us to
be redirected towards their pay, which is also the reasons
why we'd be able to sign up more teachers and
more police, which is leading to more kids having teachers
and more cops in our stations. When it comes to
the nurses, though, I can't duck the fact that we

(44:26):
worked with the Nurses Association pretty tightly on their number
one priority, which was safe staffing levels, and we've been
rolling that out and we absolutely have made a critical
investment in safe staffing levels as well as nurses wages
as well. Of course, the nurses union is doing their
job of always arguing for more. We remain determined to
see whether we can narrow the differences with the Nurses' union.

(44:47):
But at the same token, we're being pretty upfront. That's
why we brought back an indpend an umpire.

Speaker 3 (44:51):
Some questions from our listeners now on this particular issue.
Anthony says, you've got plans for the new Rouse Hill
Hospital minimum eight hundred staff if they want operate the
use the two hundred beds and operate twenty four to seven.
Since he doesn't want to pay the nurses a wage,
how's that going to.

Speaker 19 (45:06):
Work rowse Hill Hospital, Well, at ourse Hill Hospital, we're
putting more money into the rouse Hill Hospital project in
this particular party, So you're going to have.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
The nurses to start it. No, No, Banks, you made
an announcement this week and think about Banks ten.

Speaker 19 (45:16):
Yeah, we also made a big investment in Bankstown Hospital.
And look, I just simply point out the facts. We
are enrolling a record a number of nurses that are
joining the new South Wales Health Service. Equally, at the
same time we are retaining our nurses as is, and
that's a good thing. And so and when it comes
to places like rowse Hill Hospital, we're really pleased that

(45:37):
we're making a critical investment in that hospital, particularly because
the community of rowse Hill has promised that hospital at
three separate elections under our predecessors, they're entitled to say, well,
we want to see it being built, and in this
particular budget that community will see real progress and real
dollars being put behind the project.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
To detail in this question from Sandratte something she's passionate about.
Could we ask, mister Mooky, is it possibly in increase
funding to the Adoption Information Unit. It's part of the
Department of Communities and Justice, so that all birth mothers
affected by forced adoption can receive information in regards to
adopted children. Is that an area that you might be
able to find money for.

Speaker 19 (46:13):
Yeah, well again, I'm well and truly across the fact
that lots of people are wanting to see that service improve.
I am working with the Minister to see what we
can do there to ensure that people can get access
to those records. Quicker, I haven't got an announcement for
you today on that, Clinton, but you're right to say
that this is something that's on our radar and we
are looking at it.

Speaker 3 (46:32):
Michael asked a question here, should the Federal government, so
you might be able to flick this down to Canberra?
Should the Federal government fund the revitalization of Cockatoo Island
given its naval history.

Speaker 19 (46:42):
Well, when it comes to money from Canberra, I'm never
going to say no.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
So that's a yes.

Speaker 19 (46:50):
I welcome Commonwealth contributions to lots of our different projects,
but I'll simply say when it comes to cutting money
from Canberra, I'm always going to accept money for the
people in New South Wales.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Now, we've been covering extensively the last couple of weeks
the workers compensation fight on the station through our programs.
Mark Speaton was on my show on the day that
he voted for an inquiry, teamed up with the Greens
to do that. The inquiry is next week. Now, I
understand you have had some meetings with MP's taking part
in that inquiry in the last twenty four hours.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 19 (47:17):
I have the opportunity to provide a briefing to that committee.
Of course, it's a private briefing, so i won't go
into the particular details, but I'm looking forward to appearing
in that committee as well next week. My message to
the Liberal Party is this is not an issue in
which we should be playing politics. I mean, they made
a choice to team up with the Greens. They're going
to need to explain that decision to the three hundred
and forty thousand odd small businesses that are facing the

(47:39):
prospects of a thirty six percent increase in premiums over
the next three year. And that's if those businesses have
no claims this system is not working for injured workers,
it's not working for small businesses, and it's not working
for the stage.

Speaker 3 (47:51):
And this isn't something new, And I've seen data about
the historic funding ratios and back to leaven the days.
I think when Dominic Perrote was.

Speaker 19 (47:59):
The treasurer, it does clinton. When I came into Parliament,
the private sector insurance scheme had a dollar thirty two
in assets for every dollar they have in liabilities. It's
now at eighty two cents. The scheme now has eighty two.
So does that mean the scheme is broke? The scheme

(48:19):
is in a deficit. The scheme is in a deficit.
The scheme is going backwards five million dollars a day,
and it's not helping people get back to work. It's
not helping people get back to health. And the people
who are paying the price for it are the people
who are paying premiums, which is overwhelmingly small business.

Speaker 3 (48:35):
And it's going to mean premiums go up. So hopefully
the Coalition will do the right thing by their constituents.
At some point, I want to get to a quick
call from Christian about nursing. Hello, Christian, Hi, it's Kirstin,
Hello chist.

Speaker 7 (48:45):
Just a quick question with nursing.

Speaker 15 (48:47):
First of all, yes or no?

Speaker 20 (48:48):
Are they going to get a pay rise?

Speaker 21 (48:50):
Yes or no?

Speaker 10 (48:50):
And second of all, we're going to find all the
nurses to feel leak the new banks Down Hospital, all
these sort of things.

Speaker 7 (48:57):
They're not interested in working in these as wells anymore.

Speaker 19 (49:00):
So, as I've said, we have given nurses a pay rise.
We've given the nurses the best, the best payerrise have
had more than a decade, and they deserve absolutely every cent.
And when it comes to making sure the hospitals be
at Lidcomb, Bankstown, be at Rouse Hill, we are signing
up a record number of nurses each year and we
are retaining them.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
So it's now up to the Industrial Relations Commission what
the payrolls is going to be.

Speaker 19 (49:22):
Well, the Industrial Relations Commission is arbitrating, which is why
we brought back an independent umpire. And it's important point
to make here Clinton. For twelve years, nurses didn't even
have the right for arbitration.

Speaker 3 (49:33):
I've got more messages about versing in particular, and Kathy's
making the point. Imagine if teachers had to pay for
parking at schools like nurses have to at hospitals. Now,
I know that's anichue for the health Miss Ryan Park,
but it does seem and I know there was special
rules drink ovid, but it does seem harsh.

Speaker 19 (49:45):
Yeah, but at the same token, we do provide other
benefits for our healthcare workers, not just nurses as well,
and you're not going to hear from me anything other
than respect for our healthcare workers. We understand how much
pressure people are under right now, and we are looking
to see what everything we can do to make sure
that people are being respected at work. And that does
mean and continuing to engage with the nurses union, which

(50:07):
we will do, but we're not going to Clinton. I
can't pretend that this is an easy issue to resolve.

Speaker 10 (50:11):
Now.

Speaker 3 (50:11):
I appreciate you coming in the studio. You've left your office.
You've been preparing the budget now for weeks. I understand
you listen to a fair bit of music while preparing
the budget. So I would have assumed it was aDNA,
but apparently it's not advert Apparently it's this fellow.

Speaker 18 (50:24):
Card need homost dog.

Speaker 3 (50:25):
This life goes on baby. So that's Kendrick Lamar, your
staff telling me that you listen to Kendrick Lamar while
doing the numbers.

Speaker 19 (50:34):
I do he's a well I mean he just did
the super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (50:37):
Like, can only play part of that song there because
it does go into some graphic detail a little later.

Speaker 18 (50:41):
Yeah, we look Clinton.

Speaker 19 (50:42):
I'm not going to hide the fact that I'm a
hip hop fan. My first two budgets I also have
quite the hip hop soundtrack. We will reveal the soundtrack
of this budget closer to Budget day. But Kendrick Lamar
is coming to Sydney. He's coming to Australia. He's one
of the world's biggest stars. He led the super Bowl
Bridge super Bowl halftime show, which I'd strongly recommend all

(51:03):
your listeners if they're interested, to have a look at.
So from our perspective, yes, I've been listening to quite
a lot of Kendrick Lamar.

Speaker 3 (51:08):
You got me there, Daniel Rookie, thank you. Hopefully you
can help the nurses out in the budget. Thanks Lintin
the Treasurer at Daniel Lookie twenty four Pass four. The
Fair Work Commission is due to hand down a decision
at about five to six minutes on the Sydney train dispute.
So what the government and now the Rail, Trim and
Bus Union is seeking is an order for this issue
to go to the members, so the members will actually

(51:29):
vote on whether to accept this pay deal. The ETU
has been opposed to that. Emergency services say it's actually
really fortunate that only two people suffered injuries after this
gas explosion blew out a wall of a unit block
in the Western Suburbs this morning. You would have heard
about this today. Seven people are assessed on the scene
after this explosion in Lidkem was at six point thirty

(51:49):
this morning. One of them was knocked unconscious, another person
suffered minor burns, somebody suffered smoke in elation. Fifty people
had to be evacuated. The acting ambulance Superintendent elicit Honworths
says it could have been much, much worse.

Speaker 22 (52:03):
It always has the potential with any explosion to have
some significant injuries and fatality.

Speaker 18 (52:08):
So we've been extremely lucky here today to only have
two patients in.

Speaker 8 (52:13):
A stable condition.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
That's the paramedic Illicit con Worth. That very fortunate. It's
only two people who suffered injuries there one, three, one,
eight seven three, Hello Wayne, how you going Clinton?

Speaker 23 (52:24):
Good?

Speaker 14 (52:24):
Wayne, that's good.

Speaker 21 (52:26):
I was just going to comment on the treasurer assertion
that the people paying the price for workplace injuries are
the people paying the insurance premium. Do they understand what
the worker's compensation scheme is there for.

Speaker 3 (52:43):
Well, it's primarily there to assist the workers who bit injured.

Speaker 21 (52:47):
That's exactly right. I mean, you know, if I was
an injured worker, well, I'm sure as hell wouldn't be saying,
oh my poor employers that didn't have proper, faked precautions
in place.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
The problem that we've got, though, Wayne, is that the
blowout in this scheme is not so much caused by
what you would term physical injuries. A lot of this
is because of mental health issues.

Speaker 4 (53:10):
Now.

Speaker 3 (53:10):
It's not to downplay that this is not a significant
problem in the workforce now, but there's there's clearly some change,
he wain, in the way that the mental health problems
are treated in the workforce, because that's fueling the blowout
and the costs.

Speaker 21 (53:23):
H Yeah, I get that, Clinton, But we're talking about
an insensitive comment here by the treasurer, a labor treasurer,
you know, and you know, I mean we have here
a labor government that seems to hate nurses, and now
is making comments as though they hate all workers.

Speaker 3 (53:41):
And I appreciate you perspective on that way, because certainly
he has very much lost the support on this issue
of the unions. The problem he's got is the systems broke,
and to fund it, it's either going to take a
lot more taxpayers money to cover it, or business is
going to have to pay a lot more, which is
going to then transfer to all the costs that we pay.
So they've hit a Star Mart, they've hit a brick wall.

(54:01):
Were so part of these reforms, and it's part of
the reforms is changing the way mental health is dealt with,
and it does need to be reviewed because yes, not everybody,
but there's a lot of routing when it comes to
psychological injury. Twenty seven past four, Friday afternoon GE. There's
dramas with the airport tunnel at the moment. If you
Southern Cross drive, General homes drive, you're going to be
delayed getting home because there's been a pile up involving

(54:23):
four cars and a truck. They're moving to clear the
lanes of the moment, this is affecting the southbound lanes
General homes drive in the tunnel. There's been debris left everywhere.
Quite a serious accident. We're just hoping that everybody who's
been involved in the crash is okay. The police have
just been talking to us off air about what's happening
here and they're telling us that at the moment, the TMC,

(54:47):
they're the Transport Management officials there on the scene right
at the moment trying to deal with the situation. Four vehicles,
there are four cars, there's a truck. But it's going
to take a while to clear this up, so you
will be delayed heading home. Canny's Headlines with the latest
Katie Fuller.

Speaker 8 (55:06):
Good afternoon. Clinton.

Speaker 9 (55:07):
Australia is urging both sides to de escalate after Israel
launched major militious military strikes on Iran. The Jewish state
says Tehran was close to building a nuclear weapon and
that couldn't be allowed. Paramedics says it's lucky no one
was more seriously heard in a suspected gas explosion at

(55:27):
an apartment block in leedkemb two manor in hospital. The
Premier is ruling out legislative change which would allow poker
machines at Crown Barangaroo. There are reports the casino operator
has been lobbying to have a band lifted, and experts
is scrambling to figure out what's behind the first fatal
crash of a Boeing Dreamliner in India as seven eight

(55:49):
seven went down shortly after takeoff, killing at least two
hundred and sixty people. In Sport, the first Super Rugby
Pacific semi final kicks off next hour in christ Church.
The Crusaders are hosting defending champions the Blues. Clinton More
News at five.

Speaker 3 (56:05):
K kat thirteen degrees in the coast. It's twelve degrees
in Terry Hills. At the moment. The Australian Prime Minister
is meeting with the Fijian Prime Minister Setelini Rambuka. This
is at the first stop on his three country tour
that he's embarked on what we met.

Speaker 24 (56:20):
As partners and friends that we can rely on who
are trusted and here, my friend, are trusted partner and
friend of Australia.

Speaker 3 (56:28):
Now, there are a lot of Australians actually in Fiji,
yes on holidays, but certainly there's a fair population of
expats that are living in Fiji as well. And the
Prime Minister says, you'll have to take that into consideration
at the next election.

Speaker 24 (56:39):
I must say here in the hotel, so far one
hundred percent of people I have met have been Australian.

Speaker 13 (56:48):
In the next election campaign.

Speaker 24 (56:50):
I think I'll dawn off here in Fiji in order
to make people from right across Australia who have come
here to enjoy the warm weather and importantly the hospitality
of your wonderful people.

Speaker 3 (57:04):
So that may be an indication that mister Albanezi is
planning to run again at the next election in three
years time, but he'll be campaigning in the Pacific, not
in his electorate in inner Sydney.

Speaker 2 (57:14):
If it matters to you, you'll hear it here Sydney
now with Clinton Maynard until.

Speaker 3 (57:20):
Six This is not an exaggeration. I'm joined today on
the program by Music Royalty. We have all grown up
by music written and performed. Momo yesterday.

Speaker 18 (58:07):
Too much fiction, that's a faction much fiction.

Speaker 3 (58:13):
My guest today is the legendary Tim Finn, the founder
of Split Ends, of course, collaborated with his brother Near
with Crowded House and solo performer. It's forty years since
his first solo album was released, Escapade, and he's going
to be touring the country in a few months time,
and he joins me on the program. Welcome Tim, nice
to be here. I'm seeing you on the video at
the moment. It's a video call, and I could I

(58:34):
could hear listening to some of your your legendary tracks
there when you say recorded with split ends six months
in the leaky boat, and you're there and you're you're
in the mixing studio and it's it's the final mix
is done. Do you sit back and think we've got
a good one here?

Speaker 1 (58:49):
I mean you do?

Speaker 13 (58:50):
You get excited, like you know, you work on them
so hard though, that's the thing.

Speaker 22 (58:54):
He's been hundreds of hours, you know, if you combine
the writing, rehearsing and then recording, and.

Speaker 13 (58:59):
So you are a bit kind of worn out with
it by the time against the mixed stage.

Speaker 22 (59:03):
But then for some really good mechs and Eddie Rayner,
our keyboard played quite a big part in this mex.
Usually the band would sit back and let the engineer
producer do most of the work. But Eddie got rolled
up his sleeves and got involved, and so I remember
the jubilant feeling that he was having and it sort
of spread. It was very infectious, and I had to admit, Yeah,

(59:24):
it was a rush this song, and kind of the
speed of it surprised me because I wrote it as.

Speaker 13 (59:28):
A kind of mid tempo song and it just took
off in the studio.

Speaker 22 (59:32):
Wanted to be faster, you know, and so it had
a lot of a lot of excitement in it by
the time we finished.

Speaker 3 (59:38):
What does the song mean?

Speaker 18 (59:39):
That song?

Speaker 22 (59:40):
Well, you know, I was reading a book about the pioneers,
the early days of people coming out and ships and
boats from Europe to Australia and New Zealand.

Speaker 13 (59:49):
Really those boats were stinky and smelly and horrible. They
were crowded, there was no sanitation, and so I just
kind of got into that because the band was going through.

Speaker 22 (01:00:00):
Quite a good time internally, but myself personally, I was
my life was kind of falling apart a little bit. Yeah,
I was having having a rough time. A long term
relationship was ending, and I felt very fragile and exposed.
So the band was my kind of safe place really,
and so it's a song about that feeling of having
your mates alongside you, supporting you, you know, a difficult time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:24):
Tim I was only I was only a little kid
in the early nineteen eighties, and I was born in
the mid late seventies and my mom was a key
with though, so a lot of oddies feel affection for Kiwis.
Of course, what was the theatrical side of Split Ends?
What was the driver of that?

Speaker 13 (01:00:39):
Well, to be honest, I mean we were very influenced
by sixties bands, particularly the Beatles. You think about the Beatles,
every time they kind of came out, they had a
different look.

Speaker 22 (01:00:47):
Man, Yeah it's Sargeant Pepers though I were wearing those
really brightly colored suits. It just seemed normal to us
to kind of dress up and put on a show,
you know. And we've adopted these personas because they just
felt right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:00):
Become a bit of a trademark, very different to the
olds pub roxy of those days.

Speaker 13 (01:01:05):
Yeah, well that's right.

Speaker 22 (01:01:06):
In nineteen seventy five, we were playing the pubs around Alburn,
particularly because we were signed to Mushroom Records at the time.

Speaker 13 (01:01:12):
Mark Gonenski and Frank Stabaala and all those.

Speaker 22 (01:01:14):
Guys were putting us into the pubs, and you know,
we had a following of about six people. They came
to every show and the rest of them were standing
at the back of the room kind of scratched it.

Speaker 3 (01:01:24):
There, what's going on here?

Speaker 13 (01:01:27):
But you know they didn't forget us. I guess, you know,
if they weren't sure, they still remembered us.

Speaker 3 (01:01:30):
I have read books about Split Ends and yourself and
your brother. But how did Neil join the band?

Speaker 13 (01:01:36):
Well, we were looking for a guitar player.

Speaker 22 (01:01:38):
This was in nineteen seventy seven and the other founding
member of the band, Philip Judd, had left the band
and so we needed a guitar player. He had supported
spind Ends when he was about sixteen through New Zealand,
and we just knew he was a good singer, good songwriter.
He never played electric guitar, but we figured he could
pick it up pretty quickly when he was a little
boys to encourage him with his piano lessons, so stepped

(01:02:00):
in a lot of musical knowledge and very good singer.

Speaker 13 (01:02:03):
So you know, it was a no brainer when we
finally clicked on it.

Speaker 3 (01:02:06):
You know, fast forward to your time the Crowded House,
and certainly I've heard the stories that it was you
and Neil writing songs together that would have been a
Finn Brothers album. Effectively, when you put wood face together
and you end up joining Crowded House. Did you want
that stuff to be work with just you and your
brother or were you're happy to sort of bring it
into crowded House.

Speaker 22 (01:02:26):
Well, we wrote it as a brother's project, and we
just set out distinctly to write harmony styles and so
we were right weather with you and it's only natural,
and they were all sort of fitting into this framework
of the blood harmonies, you know, the two brothers singing together.

Speaker 25 (01:02:41):
It was because of the fact that Neil was stuck
between because he had started this Crowded House record already
already recorded for the two Feet a few of the
other songs, handed it into the label and they said, no,
we don't hear a single.

Speaker 13 (01:02:54):
So then we did our project. And then he was
going through the agony of God, you know, because the
worst thing you ever want to do is listen to
the record company. But you can't help it, you know,
they get in your head. And so he was a
bit taught because we had all these other really good songs.
They just fitted perfectly in the end. But it was
a bit of a switch. But I think you know,

(01:03:14):
by Nick and Paul particularly, I'm not sure you know,
they handled it very well.

Speaker 22 (01:03:18):
They were very gracious. In fact, they were kind of
excited to get into those songs as well. But you know,
having two fins in the band was.

Speaker 1 (01:03:25):
A bit much.

Speaker 13 (01:03:25):
Probably it was a bit of a power block.

Speaker 22 (01:03:27):
I suppose we didn't intend it to be, you know,
but it just skewed the band a little bit. But
it was a fantastic time. We had an amazing touring.
The record stands, you know, the test of time.

Speaker 3 (01:03:37):
So I was going to mention that tim because I'm
thinking back to the days when I was in it.
I was late teen, early twenties, and I think your music,
that's probably when you suck up. I reckon most of
your music, and breathing stays you for life. And so
that era of grunge out of Seattle, and then there
was you know, the hip hop stuff happening at the
same time, would face I Reckon stand the test of time.

(01:03:58):
Even all these years later, there are song It's only Natural,
I think, is such a beautiful song still.

Speaker 13 (01:04:04):
Yeah, thank you?

Speaker 1 (01:04:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 22 (01:04:05):
Well I love playing that live and Neil does too,
you know, so he's got his crowdit his latest incarnation
of crowded house.

Speaker 13 (01:04:12):
They play that song. I go out and play when
I'm doing a solo show.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
Yep.

Speaker 22 (01:04:17):
I had my daughter singing with me in Adelaide the
other night. She's twenty two years of age now. The
beautiful boys, so having that blood harmony.

Speaker 13 (01:04:25):
Again, me and my daughter, Me and Neil, Neil and Liam.

Speaker 22 (01:04:29):
You know, it just works and it's a beautiful song
to do live, people just clicking.

Speaker 3 (01:04:34):
Well, it's a stunning song.

Speaker 1 (01:04:36):
Now.

Speaker 3 (01:04:36):
The two that you'll be embarking on in Australia later
this year in August is to mark forty years since Escapade.
So your first solo album, what is that? That album? Media?

Speaker 1 (01:04:45):
Well, it was it was.

Speaker 22 (01:04:46):
It was a very joyous kind of you know, because
the band decides for the decided to decide to take
six six weeks off, which don't sounds like we've been
touring our asses.

Speaker 13 (01:04:56):
Off, you know for years, and so six weeks seem
like a really nice time. It ended up being about
three months, I think, But I just started writing.

Speaker 22 (01:05:04):
I had my piano there in the house, and you know,
I'm always trying to write a song, so it seemed
to me that the most fun I could have was
to make a record. And then I met Rooky Fota
because I heard him play drums on a Renee Gaer track,
and I just thought, who the hell is that? You know,
it was one of the best drum grooves I'd ever heard,
and got to know Ricky and got Mark Moffert.

Speaker 13 (01:05:24):
You know, they co produced the record. Mate a whole
lot of musicians through them. I mean, Vanetta feels I'm
doing backing vocals. You know, she taught me so much.

Speaker 22 (01:05:33):
She came from a long, obviously long tradition of gospel
and American R and B and soul music, so she
brought some of that into the record. Richard t dropped
in one night to play piano. He was on two
Paul Simon. It was a liberation for me after ten
years of being in.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
The band and again and that album is roughly a
decade before would face and there are still songs, so
I made my day. Everyone still recognized that song all
these years later, you know.

Speaker 22 (01:05:58):
Yeah, it's one of the finger pointing sign like when
you start doing it, you hit that chorus of the crowd.

Speaker 13 (01:06:07):
It's a good feeling.

Speaker 3 (01:06:08):
You'll be touring in August State Theater here in Sydney
on the ninth of August and Leaders Theater in Thrule
it's Northern Subur's Will and Gong. I saw a band
you might know from the tea party last year and
in Needer's Theater if you have if you haven't been there,
it's a really beautiful historic building. It's a great little
venue throughout August. Yeah, it's it's really great. Tickets through Ticketmaster.
It has been a pleasure to speak to you. Thank

(01:06:29):
you so much for your time, Tim, Thank you very much.
Tim Finn. One of the crackers from Split ends six
months in a Leaky Boat, written by Tim Finn. If
you want to go and see it's a few months
out from when Tim Finn is touring. He's touring his
first solo album, which was Escapator. You'll be playing all
the hits August nine State Theater. The tickets are available

(01:06:52):
via Ticketmaster. As Steve has been reporting our traffic reports,
there is still traffic chaos heading south General Homes drive
south cross Dry through the Airport tunnel. Now this accident
has now been cleared, so it'd involved four cars and
a truck. Thankfully it does not appear that anyone's been
seriously injured. But it's now being cleared away, but the
traffic is still a nightmare and it's going to be
a mess probably for the rest of the peak.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
We a part of Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard called
one three one eight seven three.

Speaker 3 (01:07:19):
I brought your news yesterday during the program about the
Order of the General's report into the way the government
is regulating poker machines in New South Wales and the
Order of the General has found there's not enough monitoring. Essentially,
not enough is being done to help problem gambling and
prevent problem gambling. As you know that the Labour Party
is very much opposed to cashless gambling. I don't really
understand why. Yes, there are significant lobby groups at play,

(01:07:41):
but I suspect if there was actually cashless gambling that
actually might help. It's the industry. Most people don't use
cash these days. Nevertheless, there's been a development in this
this afternoon. The Premier Chris Mins has ruled out allowing
Crown to have poker machines at the brang Guru Casina.
And this is really significant because the store he broke
that there was a proposal for at least five hundred

(01:08:03):
pokeing machines as a trial at the casino. The whole
reason that casino was developed in the first place. It
was supposed to be for high rollers and that Star
wouldn't have the competition in the same way as you know,
Star is a financial basket case. I want to bring
Luke Grant in on this, and of course he'll be
presenting the Weekend Morning program tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (01:08:20):
Hello Luke good a Clinton good a bit to bring
me in on a punting story, Thank you mate?

Speaker 3 (01:08:25):
Or what do you think do you think Crown should
be allowed to have Pokeys?

Speaker 14 (01:08:30):
Well, look, the deal was done a decade ago. Things
were a bit different back then, so you can understand.
And look, they know their business model and they think
they can probably do better with five hundred pokem machines.
But you've got to look at the deal as it
was put and the deal is apparently they be those
cashless machines and they'd remove five hundred from other venues

(01:08:53):
so they could put five hundred at Barangaroots, so there
would be no net increase in the number of pokem machines.
What I didn't though, was that in New South Wales
there's eighty seven thousand, seven hundred and forty nine poker machines.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
I couldn't believe it.

Speaker 14 (01:09:09):
They generate a profit of just under eight and a
half billion, and the government takes about two billion in
tax back to the proposal. So they're here, We've got
half of Austraateer's machines in New South Wales and I
think Chris Means is right to say he inherited this
and you know he can't get it fixed if getting
it fixed means reducing the numbers of machines, and that's

(01:09:33):
obviously what the Order to General is getting at. But
what gets me is that someone in government has actually
said to the people of Crown, hey, look, your idea
is not a bad one. So there's going to be
no net increase in machines and they're going to be
cashless but made. If you read the political tea leaves
there is no leader liberal or labor, no leader who

(01:09:56):
can tip off and adding five hundred machines to a
venue as a matter that the deal was done ten
years ago. The mood is not there for the people
to say, hey, you're beauty, so the Premier had to
do what he did.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
In my view, they just generally on podcast sins Luke. Look,
I've never really been attracted to them. I reckon if
you can afford it, and you know a problem. You
want to play them go your hardest? Do you play them?

Speaker 18 (01:10:17):
Do you like them?

Speaker 14 (01:10:19):
Look twenty years ago I did. I'd play them every week,
but mate, I haven't. Or the other day went out
for dinner and we let we let a pineapple run around.
But other than that, maybe once or twice a year.
And look, I'll consider myself lucky. You are too. You know,
I don't see one thing could give me a hundred bucks.

(01:10:40):
You got to feed that thing. But there are people
that can't do that, that you know, have that addiction,
and you know you've just got it. As a society,
we've got to account for those people. Obviously, whatever they've
done hasn't been enough. And I think it's now what
about twelve hundred dollars per person we lose in New
South Wales the individual machines each year.

Speaker 3 (01:11:00):
That's astonishing, it's astronomical. What's coming up on the show tomorrow.

Speaker 14 (01:11:05):
We'll get to Dennis Shanahan and have a chat about
the week it was politically, Boy, isn't there some stuff there?
Elbow has gone to see Trump, we hope, I mean
he's stopped off a three G fair enough he's got
to keep sweet with our neighbors. But you would have
think with the rumored unraveling of Orcus that you know what,

(01:11:26):
we'll just make We'll just make a breeline to the
US and just have a chat to someone that knows
what's going on. At least look like you're half interested.
So we'll talk to Dennis about that and the political
fallout all around that as well. This fascinating trial of
Aaron Patterson in Victoria, called by many of the Mushroom trial,

(01:11:48):
Say Grace is a podcast done by nine Penelope Lersh
and her colleagues do a brittant job in this. There's
not much we can talk about because of the restriction
on what we can and can't say, but we can
certainly tell you about the town that the trial's happening
in and the locals who are turning up to watch
what's going on, and just how they do with reporting

(01:12:11):
this trial.

Speaker 1 (01:12:12):
I mean true crime.

Speaker 14 (01:12:13):
As you know, Mate is a real thing. Ossie is
love it, don't they well?

Speaker 3 (01:12:17):
Particularly on podcasts and books as well.

Speaker 14 (01:12:20):
Craig Bennett will look at the life and times of
Brian Wilson. Michael Schubridge talking of aucas from strategic analysis
of Australia. He'll tell us about what we should do
to please the Yanks. Our remarkable Ossie, are remarkable the
former Deputy Commissioner of the New South Pest Police and
has done so much more. Nick Calvis will have a
chat to him on Sunday as well. Mate, all that

(01:12:41):
coming up of the weekend from nine both days, please
tell me your tip Newcastle, no Ah.

Speaker 3 (01:12:49):
And tip Newcastle. I'm coming last. Still, I'm still coming last. Hey,
we'll be listening tomorrow morning.

Speaker 14 (01:12:57):
Thanks Buddy, Luke Grant.

Speaker 3 (01:12:59):
Saturday and Sunday from nine o'clock there is Sydney Now
with Clinton Maynard on to gb Friday afternoon. The weekend
is almost here, but there is a lot of breaking
news right at the moment. This has just come through
from the Fair Work Commission. The Fair Work Commission has
ruled in favor of Sydney Trains and the ongoing dispute

(01:13:21):
with the Combined Rail Union. So what this means, and
the RTBU I should point out, is actually on the
side in this particular issue with Sydney Trains. What this
means is the union members themselves who work on the
network will vote on whether accept the new pay deal.
The ETU was the union that represents about eight hundred
odd workers. They were the ones holding out. Well, the

(01:13:41):
Fairwork Commission's basically decided enough is enough. Let's put it
to the members. So there'll be a vote of the
members whether they'll accept the deal. It's a twelve percent
pay rise over three years, so four percent a year.
It's less than what the unions, it's more than what
the state government wanted to pay. That will go to
a vote. I would suggest that it will be voted
in favor of because the ART which has eight thousand members,

(01:14:02):
actually more than eight thousand members, is very much in
support of this. So I think you will find that
this will result in this deal being approved and hopefully
that means an end to industrial action, we hope. Now
the Prime Minister has begun his international tour. He is
visiting three countries. He will be at the G seven
with the United States. He is seeking a meeting with

(01:14:22):
President Trump. They will be discussing orcast now that yet
has not been confirmed. He hasn't confirmed that he will
be meeting with President Trump. However, he has stopped on
the way in Fiji. He is meeting City Rambuka right
at the moment, and he has been asked about the
ongoing situation, the developing situation between Israel and Iran. Now
the latest on that is Iran has deployed dozens and

(01:14:43):
dozens of drones and they are in the process. The
Israeli military is in the process of intercepting those drones.
This is what Anthony Albernizi has had to say just
a short time ago.

Speaker 24 (01:14:53):
We are very aware of what has occurred and it
is earning any escalation in the region. My message to
Australians is that the Department of Foreign Affairs in trade
are upgrading very soon, the messages to Australians about warning

(01:15:16):
about travel to the region. We want to see a dialogue.
We of course are very conscious of the threat that
Iran becoming a nuclear state would represent to peace and
security in the region as well.

Speaker 3 (01:15:32):
We want to see these issues resolve through.

Speaker 24 (01:15:35):
Dialogue and the United States has been playing an important
role there.

Speaker 3 (01:15:39):
Anthony Albernezi, echoing what his Foreign Minister Pennywong had to
say a little ear in the day, that dialogue is
necessary here to be honest. After hearing what Benjaminettenya, who
has had to say and what the Uranians about to say.
I can't imagine there's going to be much dialogue in
the next twenty four hours.

Speaker 2 (01:15:54):
You'll want to know what's happening in Sydney.

Speaker 18 (01:15:57):
Stay true to Sydney Now with on to gymb.

Speaker 3 (01:16:03):
Eight seven three is our number on Sydney Now Table.
It is the Friday Round Table. Let's have a bit
of fun for a Friday afternoon in the studio with
me this afternoon. Amanda Rose Hello, Hello, Hello, and also

(01:16:25):
special guest, first time he's making his debut on the
Friday Round Table. He's got a bit of experience in
this game. John Stanley, Hello, John, Hello, How are you mate?
How are you feeling after last night? Just before we
get into the issues of the day.

Speaker 18 (01:16:39):
We had a good show last night. It was terrific,
lots of calls, lots of variety. Was a very good show.
So yeah, feeling quite good. And I've come up the
mid North coast. What what are you referring to? Which
part of the program are.

Speaker 3 (01:16:52):
You talk There was a football game last wen, Well,
I was too busy watch.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
We're doing my show.

Speaker 26 (01:16:57):
He was too busy working Clinton.

Speaker 18 (01:16:59):
What was the what was a football game?

Speaker 3 (01:17:00):
I think I think the Crown of Sharks defeated this
and George of Laura Dragons from memory they.

Speaker 18 (01:17:05):
They played last night. Okay, I'll look it up. We'll
have a look and see if I can check the score.

Speaker 3 (01:17:09):
Was that actually waiting for my phone to ring at
about ten o'clock last night because I thought I did
getting your phone.

Speaker 18 (01:17:14):
I'll tell you what was interesting. I'll tell you what
was interesting. Clinton's there's a couple of people who love
essentially you know, those little kids that run around school
yards gain Nan and so I got a couple of
text messages from a couple of Narks early in the game,
and then and then they shut up until halftime. Nothing

(01:17:36):
I and I actually and I said he, I said, listen,
this is going to turn around. So you Blake's who's
making out that your phones are broken? I'm waiting for it.
And of course they started again. It's just so childish,
isn't it. Really? It's childish. You're having hot shots at
people over their football teams, and particularly.

Speaker 26 (01:17:55):
To Australia.

Speaker 18 (01:17:57):
It's ridiculous. It's childish.

Speaker 3 (01:18:00):
Are you a passionate sports fan, Amanda, No, I'm not.
It is a very estrange thing.

Speaker 27 (01:18:04):
Look it is Look the whole pettiness with John was saying,
it's very real in Australia, not just sporting, it's in
business too, syndrome.

Speaker 3 (01:18:14):
Have you seen my shark SOPs? Look?

Speaker 27 (01:18:17):
I like the commitment people have to our sporting teams.
I draw the line when you cry over them.

Speaker 3 (01:18:23):
Now, new data has been released. New data has been
released by the software company at Lassion. It's found that
sixty one percent of gen Z workers are more likely
to read a message, so a text message that includes
an emoji. You work a lot with business, as Amanda,
do you find this is the way that people within
business communicate via emojis, little symbols.

Speaker 26 (01:18:44):
Look, let me tell you a story.

Speaker 27 (01:18:46):
I remember I hired a particular gen Z to work
with me and I was responding with okay, good, sounds great,
and then I got the are you angry at me?
Because I was so efficient with my responses, And then
I realized, oh, I need to throw in an emoji
and it's all good and a smiley face. And so

(01:19:07):
really what it is it's more of an emotional check
are you okay? Because when you think about it, like
back in the day, we had face to face conversations.

Speaker 26 (01:19:16):
We could read people's emotions.

Speaker 27 (01:19:18):
We can understand if they're angry or happy. So we've
got a very sensitive generation that aren't quite sure. So
that is why I say, when you work with someone,
you should sit down and say, how do we communicate?

Speaker 26 (01:19:29):
What is your language? Do you like email? Do you
like texts?

Speaker 27 (01:19:32):
What is the best way to do this? But when
you go too far with you emojis, it's usually a
red flag.

Speaker 3 (01:19:38):
I'm just going through my text messages on my phone
at the moment, so I don't really I think I
sometimes use the thumbs up. I don't see.

Speaker 27 (01:19:45):
That's a tricky one because thumbs up can also mean
good and also mean get stuffed.

Speaker 3 (01:19:51):
Oh right, well, I'm just looking through my text message
file from John Stanley. There is not one emoji that
John has exchanged me. So you don't use emojis?

Speaker 18 (01:19:59):
John, Why don't you emojis?

Speaker 16 (01:20:00):
Now?

Speaker 18 (01:20:00):
You can just use words, can't you? What would you
use emojis? Or I like to actually send pictures sometimes
I've got.

Speaker 27 (01:20:05):
Lots of pictures in this I've sent you emojis in
our text Clinton. See I'm listening to Marley face. I
can see a miss shocked face.

Speaker 3 (01:20:13):
There's a string of emoji. See that a politician has said.
I won't name this particular politician.

Speaker 16 (01:20:18):
You know.

Speaker 18 (01:20:18):
The thing about this is it's all because these days
no one answers their phone. They use text and the
idea of someone actually tried to ring me today and said,
your message bank's for so well, I never listen to
a message bank. No one, I mean, does anyone actually
leave messages and use the message bank? No one uses that.
But I wonder, because the emoji thing, this will change

(01:20:41):
really quickly. Five years from now, there'll be something else. Yes,
everything's changing really really quickly, and you've got to be
up with it. Clinton, You've got to get onto this.

Speaker 3 (01:20:49):
No, I think it's generational because I've just received a
text message from one of our colleagues, Mark Levy, and
I'm looking through the file of Mark Levy messages that
he sent me over the last few months. There's no
emoji from Mark. I should read this text message though, Amanda.
All right, it does say does this count as the
fifth day of work for John? Because of course he
doesn't work on Fridays. Mark works six days a week,

(01:21:10):
sometimes seven, he does.

Speaker 18 (01:21:15):
What about what about Michael McLaren. He sends letters still,
he'll see if he wants to tell you something. I
like what you them in your show last night, He'll
actually write, He'll post you a letter.

Speaker 16 (01:21:23):
I love that.

Speaker 27 (01:21:24):
I actually have my own set with my name on
it and a seal, a wax letters. I've got a
wax seal so a friend actually got that for me
for my birthday and it says from the desk of
Amanda Rose and it's a bunch of you know, paper
with envelopes with a wax seal.

Speaker 3 (01:21:43):
Seven three is the number. Let us know. Do you
use emoji? So I've been sending a text message from
Dave the bus driver. He says, Clinton thumbs up. There's
a picture of bus. There's a smiley face, there's a
heart beat beat, there's a picture of a hamburger.

Speaker 18 (01:21:58):
A beer a.

Speaker 3 (01:22:00):
People think I'm obsessed with trains. I'm just frustrated by them.
As a smiley face, I.

Speaker 26 (01:22:04):
Like the burger.

Speaker 3 (01:22:06):
Seven three emojis. Now it's Friday the thirteenth, so I
actually didn't realize it was Friday, the thursdayth until I
physically read the date at the start of the program.
Do you have superstitions Amanda.

Speaker 26 (01:22:14):
Absolutely not, But I do like to torment people that do.

Speaker 18 (01:22:18):
John well. For instance, I've got it well when I'm
watching because I follow the Dragons and I follow the
Giants and follow a couple of other teams and other sports.
But so what I'll do is I'll wear my always
wear my jumper while the game's on, even if I'm
watching it at home or in the studio. I had
it on under my jumper last night. If they win,

(01:22:38):
I don't wash the jumper, so I could go actually
win a couple of weeks without washing, but I washed
straight after. So it's got to be washed after a defeat.
Washes out the defeat, and you have to be wearing
the jumper. So I brought my Giants jumper up to
watch tomorrow. They lost last week, so I'm hoping that
we'll be okay. I've had that jump or washed. And
in fact, I went to watch the Giants play Richmond

(01:23:00):
out at Home Bush and I was in a function room,
but I have my jumper with me, and the first
three quarters they're playing terribly hang on, so I put
the jumper back on and they won. They won right
at the death, So I think that's a superstition, but I.

Speaker 1 (01:23:16):
Believe in it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
I'm not superstitious. But last night I didn't go to
the game because I thought that would be bad karma,
because I went to the last Sharks game and they
were flogged. So I didn't go to the game last night.
But I stood there in the wardrobe, John, I've got
one of those walking wardrobes, and I've got all the
Sharks jerseys lined up. I put a great deal of
thought into which one that i'd wear. Everyone does, so
I deliberately wore a Shark's jersey from about three years

(01:23:39):
ago where we played a preseason game at Cogra Oval,
your home ground, and we won. I thought that'd be
good karma.

Speaker 18 (01:23:45):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:23:45):
All right.

Speaker 18 (01:23:47):
When I really need a lot of help, I wear
the twenty ten jumper, which has been signed by Wayne Bennett.

Speaker 26 (01:23:51):
But you got to say that signed by Wayne Bennett,
and then I like it.

Speaker 3 (01:23:55):
Yeah, Okay, if you've got qride a the thirteenth superstitions,
let us knact our number one three one eight seven
three back to the roundtable. In a moment, the transformittist
to John Graham has just released a statement after the

(01:24:15):
Fair Work Commission made a ruling that a direction is
made that all the members of all the combined rail
unions they get to vote. It's a democracy, they'll get
to decide whether they'll accept this new pay deal from
the state government. Mister Graham says the new South Wales
government welcomes the Fair Work Commission's order to put in
principal agreement to a ballot. This is another critical step
in ending disruption from a million rail commuters. It is

(01:24:37):
time to let the workforce decide. The government's viewers that
this is a good deal for the rail workers. It
will pass. I've been in contact with the Rail, Tram
and Bus union management. They are supportive of it. Now
they have eight thousand members. That's more than a majority,
is only eight hundred e to ye members, so the
deal will pass. It means they get a twelve percent
pay rise over three years. Hopefully it means there's no
more industrial action. An expanded edition of the Roundtable This afternoon,

(01:25:05):
we have John Stanley who is broadcasting from the mid
North Coast. Amanda Rose now Mark Leave He's joined us
as well.

Speaker 23 (01:25:10):
Hello team, how are you going? Hello John part time.
Very well mate, I'm looking forward to filling in for
you and not calling them football from seven o'clock. I've
been listening to Clinton on the way in and I
just I just thought i'd pop in and ask a question.
So I get a lot of messages from like, I'll
range of people from different walks of life, and when
I'm busy, I just do the thumbs up emoji.

Speaker 18 (01:25:30):
Is that rude?

Speaker 3 (01:25:32):
Oh, when you're busy? Yeah, to acknowledge that it's a
yes if you.

Speaker 26 (01:25:37):
Have a history with them and they know that's what
you mean.

Speaker 27 (01:25:40):
Like, that's okay, because it could be you know, the
two fingers together, okay, but thumbs up yet, that's good.

Speaker 26 (01:25:45):
If you're known for that. But if you don't use
it often and then all of a sudden you get
thumbs up, it actually means well, I.

Speaker 23 (01:25:52):
Didn't realize I was going through my phone just to
have a look at who I've given the thumbs up to. You, Regia, Well,
without wanting to lam drop, I gave the thumb up
to the Prime Minister. He texted me during the floods
and I gave him a thumbs up, and I thought
that's a bit rude.

Speaker 22 (01:26:05):
Good.

Speaker 23 (01:26:08):
Yeah, I won't tell you what the next time.

Speaker 3 (01:26:10):
But my wife has just sent me a text message.
It starts with a sad face and then there's a
thumbs up at the end.

Speaker 23 (01:26:19):
Has the round table become marriage counselor how are you John?

Speaker 18 (01:26:24):
I'm not too actually, Michael McLaren rang the switch to
say he's got some strong words about my suggestion. He
soule fashion. He writes letters I should get I should
get those words in the post delivery on Monday. He
managed to get him into the He's taking. He raced
up and posted it just before six o'clock. He reckons

(01:26:46):
it'll get in on Monday.

Speaker 3 (01:26:48):
Seven threes and number Ian has a view on the emergence.

Speaker 1 (01:26:50):
Hello William, Hey, go on guys enjoying the program?

Speaker 3 (01:26:55):
Do you use the emergenes?

Speaker 16 (01:26:57):
Look?

Speaker 7 (01:26:58):
I do, I do.

Speaker 11 (01:26:59):
I know some people to overdo them, but I think
emojis to have a place because text messages can be
very bland, and they can be interpreted in terms of
its tone or context sometimes so you know, and particularly
you're talking about something that's more emotive, particular between the
male and the female sexers, and it can be interpreted
in different ways. I think sometimes the emoji just adds

(01:27:21):
another little layer of expression as to what the intention
of the of the messages, So.

Speaker 26 (01:27:27):
Hang on manipulation.

Speaker 3 (01:27:28):
The one I've just been, the one I've just been
said from cast my wife is a sad face.

Speaker 23 (01:27:33):
That's not exactly good?

Speaker 24 (01:27:34):
Is it.

Speaker 11 (01:27:36):
Okay? But like in certain industries, right, like in industries,
say heavy industry or aviation, thumbs up is a very
important signal because that be could that means could, that
means means definitely yes, or you know, definitely you're safe
or definitely whatever, So that you know, like an emoji sometimes.

Speaker 3 (01:27:55):
And some people means old was thumbs up? Fine, good
on you?

Speaker 18 (01:27:59):
What I just maybe maybe Musk sent Trump thumbs up
a mojor.

Speaker 26 (01:28:04):
Trump thumbs down in return.

Speaker 3 (01:28:08):
One last quick topic for us because we're almost out,
but I want you all your views on this one.

Speaker 23 (01:28:12):
Hey, you've got an NRL player listening to us. You
just said, can you ask Clinton what the eggplant means?
I said, no, it's too early for that.

Speaker 3 (01:28:19):
Thanks for you, mate.

Speaker 26 (01:28:21):
It means lasagna has been cooked.

Speaker 24 (01:28:23):
Well.

Speaker 3 (01:28:24):
The certain NRL player might have a view on this issue.
Was published in the Australian Financial Review Today excellent journal
that it is A report has found that twenty two
percent of employees report often or rarely, rarely use the
toilet their workplace because they're concerned about embarrassing. There is
issues of cleanliness, but there's a concern that some people
don't want to do certain things in the tour.

Speaker 23 (01:28:45):
Kind of a program. Are you running here? It's a
poole driving home on a Friday night, ready for a
big weekend. They've worked all week and you bring it
up toilets at workplaces.

Speaker 3 (01:28:54):
This is the Australian Financial Review, which our company does own.
It's probably the most respected in the short on content
this week. Right, Okay, so do you have concerns that
you go?

Speaker 1 (01:29:07):
First? John?

Speaker 18 (01:29:09):
I can, Well, it's not a problem for me. I'll
just say I'll just say two quick ones. Can I
First of all, over the years now that there have
been people who've been suspected of doing it because it
saves money at home. The second thing, though, is that
I think it's concerning. No, I think I think the
concern might be that you may leave, You may leave
some something in that. Yeah, you may poison the atmosphere

(01:29:33):
in the bathroom. Easy. The easy answer to that is
as you're walking out and someone walks back in, you go, oh, leave.
He's been here about five minutes.

Speaker 23 (01:29:40):
Would you.

Speaker 3 (01:29:41):
Yeah, I have to tell the story previously. But there
wasn't incident in the toilets at Parliament House.

Speaker 23 (01:29:47):
Oh hang on a second, finish that story. You'd be
bringing up being Adeen macatt.

Speaker 3 (01:29:52):
A politician in the cubicle and I wasn't in the
cubicles section and he was on the phone. I could
overhear a conversation he was happy about very sensitive political.

Speaker 26 (01:30:04):
Which just proves.

Speaker 27 (01:30:06):
Look, let me tell you I work in a lot
of male dominated industries and none of them have ever
had a problem with going at work.

Speaker 26 (01:30:12):
I can tell you right now.

Speaker 1 (01:30:13):
Got to go.

Speaker 23 (01:30:14):
You've got to go, and don't they jam. There was
a toilet paper thief here at t GB.

Speaker 3 (01:30:17):
Flad was it before bring the lockdowns?

Speaker 23 (01:30:19):
Well, I'm not prepared to name names, but it no
longer works here and I once day sprung him walking
out with a couple of rolls of toilet paper.

Speaker 26 (01:30:25):
Times are tough, buddy, tough cost.

Speaker 23 (01:30:27):
Of living crisis at the old joint, that John noa rap.

Speaker 3 (01:30:31):
There was a very well known personality who was filling
in who is going to open the book? Put reams
of Baker in there? Now, Yeah, that is the most
entertaining Friday roundtable we've had yet.

Speaker 18 (01:30:44):
Levy's going to get flooded with messages. Now, come on,
who was it was? Toilet?

Speaker 26 (01:30:50):
Just think it thumbs up?

Speaker 23 (01:30:52):
Put a students in initial. Well, he works four days
a week at the moment.

Speaker 3 (01:30:55):
Put it that way, John Stanley, Amanda Rose, Mark Levy
that here's the Friday round table and late's Cape Coller.

Speaker 8 (01:31:07):
Good afternoon, Clinton.

Speaker 9 (01:31:09):
The long running industrial dispute for Sydney rail workers is
a step closer to resolution. The Fair Work Commission has
ordered a ballot beheld to see if workers support the
in principal deal reached between the combined rail unions and
state government. Foreign Affairs is now urging Australians not to
travel to Israel, and anyone in Iran is being told

(01:31:31):
to shelter in place. Iran is vowing to respond to
Israeli strikes on the country. A teenager has been charged
with hitting a police officer with a motorbike. The nineteen
year old man is accused of driving his bike at
the constable in Koffs Harbor, leaving him with leg injuries.
And residents of a Lidkem apartment block have been forced

(01:31:51):
to find alternative accommodation after a war was blown out
in a suspected gas explosion in Sport. Round fifteen of
the NRL can use tonight on the Gold Coast. This
Eagles can break back into the top eight with a
victory over the bottom placed Titans.

Speaker 8 (01:32:06):
Clinton War News at six.

Speaker 3 (01:32:08):
S kkati twelve degrees in the coast, fourteen degrees in
the western suburbs. Mark Guy are coming up and we'll
have a look at our tips in the NRL for
this weekend on Sydney Now Chilie Brown Now.

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Speaker 3 (01:32:34):
The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference has been held this week
in Apple's released a new software with phones that if,
for instance, you ring a utility or a company and
you're left on hold, the phone is going to be
so smart. The software in the phone is gonna be
so smart you actually won't have to stay on hold.
The phone will let you know when they're ready to
talk to you. Charlie Brown abe talking about all this

(01:32:56):
stuff on Life and Technology tomorrow morning. Hello, Charlie. I'm
pretty impressed with what apples come up with you.

Speaker 28 (01:33:02):
Yeah, it's Google, Apple. I've both been working on this
idea of let's make the phones work for us. And
when it's kind of like.

Speaker 18 (01:33:10):
The reverse call robot. Right, You've got robots that are.

Speaker 28 (01:33:14):
Used by big call centers and big companies banks, telco's,
insurance companies, and they ring you and they don't have
a human on the end until you've been on the
phone for a few seconds.

Speaker 18 (01:33:26):
Going hello Hello.

Speaker 28 (01:33:27):
This is about reversing that and giving you more control
one over who is ringing you and whether you're going
to sit there on the phone answering it, or whether
you're going to want the phone to answer for you,
identify who they are, what they're calling about, then you
choose to take the call from there. And also what
you just described as well, actually having the phone, having

(01:33:52):
the person on the other end of the phone on hold,
giving more information and then you pick up the call.

Speaker 3 (01:33:58):
It's just remarkable. Was there something the conference that's surprised you.

Speaker 28 (01:34:03):
I think what's interesting is that iPad is finally going
to have a user experience that is more closely aligned
with the Windows based user experience the way we use
Windows in a PC, and we have multiple windows for
multiple things, and we position them around the screen. Apple
iPad's going to have that from about September when they

(01:34:24):
bring out that software update for selected iPads, mainly the
newer ones. And I think people who use iPad who
have been asking about this only since there actually has
been an iPad, I think people are going to get
a lot of value.

Speaker 1 (01:34:37):
Out of that.

Speaker 3 (01:34:38):
So I'm addicted to my iPad. But what I've and
this may be part of what Apple's finding. My iPad
might be as old as ten years old now and
it's still I've got to reboot it a fair bit,
but it still works pretty well. I suspect you won't
be able to update the software on that because I
can't even find I need a new cover for it.
I can't even find a new cover online for it.

Speaker 28 (01:34:56):
Yeah, these kinds of sort of read ourrectional features that
they bring out often there maybe the last three or
four years the device is that old, are coming out
with the iPhone features that we talked about, with the
call screening feature that's going to be back to about
iPhone eleven that that will go to. So you know

(01:35:17):
you've got iPhone sixteen at the moment, so back to eleven.
That's not too bad, that's pretty good. But some people
do miss out with the older hardware and that's just
part and parcel. People do complain about it every year
that I'd rather have I want that feature too. It's
because they're trying to match the software experience to that
hardware capability of the device. And that's part and parcel
with what we experience with technology. What's coming up on

(01:35:39):
the program tomorrow more about worldwide develop a conference with
our Mac expert Mike Boyd. We're gonna have a chat
to him. Also, why all of a sudden people are
buying regular cameras once again? Certain models or cameras sold
out in stores.

Speaker 18 (01:35:54):
Will go through.

Speaker 28 (01:35:55):
What is going on tomorrow when we chat to Canon.

Speaker 3 (01:35:57):
Will be listening from eight to clock. Thank you, Charlie.
Thanks cleant Aali Brown Tomorrow, Life and Technology from eight
o'clock on two GB.

Speaker 18 (01:36:04):
Finance update.

Speaker 3 (01:36:06):
Not a great day on the stock market today. The
All Ordinary is trading down point three per cent eight thousand,
seven hundred and seventy points. The A six two hundred
down point two one percent, eight five hundred and forty
seven one Australian dollar buying sixty four US cents. There
is going to be a lot of speculation and focus
on oil prices over the next couple of days, given
what's occurring in the Middle East. Now Brent crude is

(01:36:29):
most relevant to our market. It's gone up today by
as much as thirteen percent to seventy eight dollars US
a barrel at one point. It's moderated a little since then,
it's about seventy four dollars as it stands. But what's
this going to mean for us when we go to
fill up our cars. That's the crucial issue. Money News
producer Tom Story has spoken with the Conwealth Banks for

(01:36:51):
Rick Darr about this today.

Speaker 20 (01:36:52):
If we're talking seventy dollars a barrow, where you know
we would sive us about a dollar eighty five and
eighty dollars a barrow would get two about two dollars
a leader. So for Australian I'd think that the seeming
to be attention to this is going to be significant
from that side. But yeah, it's a very fluid situation.

Speaker 3 (01:37:11):
You can hear the full interview on the effect of
the attacks on oil prices by downloading the Money News
podcast every Friday. It's presented by Tom every Friday, available
with your podcasting app of choice.

Speaker 2 (01:37:22):
On Sydney Now. A weather update will be here to
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Speaker 3 (01:37:30):
It is fairly dry across Sydney. There is the chance
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a shower or two so if the kids have sport
in the morning, could be washed out, or that the
ground should be okay, so I reckon they'll play top
A seventeen degrees, partly cloudy day with some showers around
the middle of the day. On Sunday, a partly cloudy day,
some fog in the morning. It should be dry, maybe

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the slight chance of a shower, but a mostly dry day.
Eighteen degrees Monday, of course, because we're going back to
work Sunday in eighteen sunny on Tuesday, sunny on Wednesday
and sunny on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:38:01):
If it's happening in Sydney, you'll hear it on Sydney
Now with Clinton Man on.

Speaker 3 (01:38:06):
To gb talking Sport Time with Mark guy. Hello, MG.

Speaker 1 (01:38:10):
Clinton, How are you, my friend?

Speaker 3 (01:38:12):
I'm good because finally my team had a win.

Speaker 1 (01:38:14):
They had a great win. At half time it was
a little bit suss because they were behind. And second
half in particular, Adam Kanua, Blake and young Brayley were exceptional.
Brailey must be knocking on the door for that blue jersey.
He's playing sensationally. I love the way he plays. Is
a good kid.

Speaker 3 (01:38:31):
Oh that's one of the best games I've seen Brayley play.
Look to be honest, MG, I thought the Sharks are
pretty shoddy in the first half. I didn't think they
had enough energy, particularly in sort of the back end,
and the Dragons were all over. The Dragons were having
a good for really good first half. But it all
fell apart for the Dragons in the second half and
the Sharks. We ride over the top. Now, Mitch Moses,
there's some we brought your news yesterday. He was out
of origin too, But there's some big news about him

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this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:38:54):
Skins on the Stars half backs calf injury has revealed
a bit of blow that both he and the Blues.
He'll be out for six weeks on the sideline, ruining
him out of the Origin series basically this one and
the next one. So bad news for New South Wales,
bad news especially for Paramatter will be without their marquee
man for at least six weeks. Clinton.

Speaker 3 (01:39:14):
There's one very very happy man about it though, And
we feel for Mitch of the moment Dre Luis John
Stanley because Paramatter applying St. Georgia law in a couple
of weeks.

Speaker 1 (01:39:24):
How's he? How's he this one? After his team's capitulation
last night.

Speaker 3 (01:39:28):
He's not happy.

Speaker 1 (01:39:29):
He's not happy, just quickly to have the news. Bad
neues for the Knights. Young gun Fletcher Sharp has been
really out of tomorrow's game against the Roosters with a
calf strain as well son another injury this time You're
not a calf injurym to be really coped. That common
these days.

Speaker 3 (01:39:43):
And I see Fletcher Hunt, the winger has signed a
new deal with the Knights today. Now Fletcher Sharp, Fletcher Hunt,
they go to the same barber.

Speaker 1 (01:39:49):
They are twins.

Speaker 10 (01:39:51):
Twins that's going on with their haircut?

Speaker 1 (01:39:54):
Oh they look so they're the wild wild West brother.
They look like the mullet's just flowing in the wind.
Can they can play?

Speaker 16 (01:40:00):
There?

Speaker 3 (01:40:00):
Would have been this news out of Manly today. Tommy
Trevoyevich was actually offered the chance to be the eighteenth
man for New south Wales before Game one of Origin.

Speaker 17 (01:40:09):
Mmm.

Speaker 1 (01:40:10):
Now this is a prickly one because a lot of
people would say, oh, wouldn't you jump in the chance
to the eighteenth man for New south Wales. But I
think in Tom's situation it's kind of different because the
one thing he needs is casing his legs at this
stage of his career. The more he runs, I think
the more he thinks it's going to be more beneficial
for his hamstrings and his lower back. So I think

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sitting on the pine and not having a game pill
he would have been detrimental or someone like Tom I
don't think. I don't think Tom's an eighteenth man. I
think you've got to have someone like a Burden or
another young blake who give him a smack. A Galvin
think Lucky Galvin could be well mate, I'll tell right now.
If Matt Burton, somehow I didn't want to know, got

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injured or something over the weekend, I would throw Origin
eighteenth man.

Speaker 3 (01:41:00):
I've heard it all now. I think if Lockyer Galvin's
a pointed the next Australian test coach. I can understand
that if Locky Galvin is going to advise Cameron Serraldo
from the box. I can understand that if Locky Galvin
maybe takes over from Andrew Abda and Peter Landy's at
some point. I can understand that. But origin please have
I just.

Speaker 1 (01:41:17):
Got the Lochlan Galvin bug that everyone's got the moment,
I just might give myself another cup of saying that.

Speaker 3 (01:41:23):
Now, let's just quickly look at the tips. We all
tipped the Sharks last night, and I should point out,
you know, I cop it for tipping against the Sharks
a lot, and I tipped the Sharks last night. I'm
just looking at the tips from last night. John Stanley
tipped the Sharks over the Dragon.

Speaker 1 (01:41:37):
The Sharks he did, and he's a lot higher up
the ladder than we are.

Speaker 3 (01:41:41):
Yeah, we're at the.

Speaker 1 (01:41:41):
Bottom, exactly same with me. We're fifty seven, you're fifty one.

Speaker 3 (01:41:45):
Okay, So tonight and the continuous call in will be
covering this game from o o' clock. Covering starts at
seven Gold Coast up against many.

Speaker 14 (01:41:54):
Manly.

Speaker 3 (01:41:55):
Yeah, I'm going to go. I'm gonna have Seagals with
that one as well. Then tomorrow afternoon five thirty new
Castle up against the Roosters.

Speaker 1 (01:42:02):
I think the Roosters, especially now that Fletcher Shark is out.

Speaker 3 (01:42:05):
Yep, I've got the Roosters as well. The second game
you'll hear it on the Continuous Call team. The North
Queens Down Cowboys up against the Dolphins.

Speaker 1 (01:42:12):
Look, I've taken the Cowboys, but not with any great confidence.
I like the way that the Dolphins played last week
and they only they've only got Hamasi out, so the
Cowboys and other hand got the four out. So tossing
a coin, but I'll go Cowboys.

Speaker 3 (01:42:27):
Yeah, I'm going to go the Dolphins. But it's in Townsville,
so you'd think the Cowboys. But just with those origin
players out, I'll get the Dolphins. And the last game
of the round Sunday afternoon. It's on the Continuous Call team.
You'll be part of the coverage on Sunday afternoon as well.
South's up against the Bulldogs.

Speaker 1 (01:42:42):
Doggies, mate, I think the Bulldogs will be too strong
for that.

Speaker 3 (01:42:45):
Yeah, I think Galvin's been named to start the game.
He's playing half back. I'm tipping first try scorer, last
try scorer Lockey Galvin middle tri scorer as well. He
may just get the Dali M based on his one performance,
just on another.

Speaker 1 (01:43:00):
That's a pretty special note. I've taken the challenge to
get a pie thrown at my face? What for PTSD awareness?
It's some emergency. Basically, if you'd like to throw a
pie at my face, well it's on until June twenty seven.
It's all. It's all for emergency service workers who are

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who are three times more likely to experienced psychological distress
than the general population. And if you make a donation
about fifty dollars, you go on the draw to be
one of three lucky people to throw a cream pie
at my face.

Speaker 3 (01:43:34):
Well, this is fantastic. Firstly, the cause emergency and this,
as the name suggests, this is to help emergency services
workers who suffer PTSD and obviously more than in any
other section of the population. This is to raise money
for them. But for everybody who donates fifty dollars to
this campaign, you go into the draw to throw a
pie at our man's fast face. Yep, you can't fight

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back or eating, can you culd?

Speaker 1 (01:43:58):
My hands are tied behind my back. Let's we're trying
to smash the stigma of emergency service trauma one piot
of time.

Speaker 3 (01:44:07):
So just do a Google search mark Geyer, emerge and
see emerge and see you're a legend. You do so
much for charity and this is a cracker.

Speaker 1 (01:44:16):
You're a good man for giving me the platform. Brother,
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:44:18):
Good j MG. We'll see you and we'll hear from
you on Sunday on the Continuous Call Team.

Speaker 1 (01:44:22):
Have a great weekend.

Speaker 3 (01:44:23):
Bye guya.

Speaker 2 (01:44:24):
You're listening to Sydney Now with Clinton Maynard on t
GB col Now one three to one, eight seven three.

Speaker 3 (01:44:38):
It is quiz time. I need two contestants to play.
We've had a great prize this week, a one hundred
voucher for Bankstown Sports Club. So you can go along
to Bankstown Sports and you can treat yourself at their bistro.
Have a look at the menu for the bistro fantastic
at their website bankstownsports dot com. If you'd like to
have a chance to win, you need to play the quiz.
The number is one three one eight seven three. It's

(01:44:59):
ten to six to who is coming up in just
a moment.

Speaker 18 (01:45:01):
This is awful.

Speaker 3 (01:45:02):
An Air India flight from Pouquet in Thailand to New
Delhi in India has received an onboe bomb threat. It's
had to make an emergency landing at Pouquet. One hundred
and fifty six passengers on board flight AI three seventy
nine Air India, the same airline that it sadly has
been at the center of this horrible crash that's left

(01:45:23):
more than two hundred and forty people dead. So not
much more details about what's occurred, but the threat has
been taken seriously to the point that Air India has
been forced to land the jet in Pouquet. In regards
to the tragedy in India, that the details and the
investigation is still continuing. It appears that it was a

(01:45:44):
problem with the plane itself, that it lost power and
they can't yet find an explanation for that. And mind you,
the Boeing seven eight to seven Dreamliner is the most
sophisticated Boeing jet in Boeing's fleet, and we operate plenty
of Boeing seven eight sevens in this country. In fact,
this very plain was in our country just a couple

(01:46:05):
of weeks ago. If you see something on the roads,
let us know about it. One of our listeners has
just told me about a car on fire Alfred's Point Road,
So this will be down Elawong. I was actually a
pasto side of Alfred's Point Bridge. It is heading towards
the Shire just after the Almet Road intersection. One of
two lanes is blocked.

Speaker 13 (01:46:23):
There time to expose your minds.

Speaker 17 (01:46:26):
Do you maybe again your questioning on Sydney.

Speaker 8 (01:46:29):
Now estus questions or Agave's questions.

Speaker 19 (01:46:32):
That's important to patent stry.

Speaker 2 (01:46:33):
I know how smart you are and as a question,
get it right Clinton's quick quiz.

Speaker 3 (01:46:37):
Let's wrap up the show with the Queen's of the Staffternoon.
I've got one hundred doll a gift nout to give
away to Bankstown Sports Club. You can go and have
a great meal there bankstownsports dot Com. Let's find a
couple of contestants, so we have Nicole online in mount
And Hello Nicole, Hi. And Rodney's in the Shire at
Oyster Bay. Hello Rodney, goodby Quintin. You can go first
because you're from the Shire. Okay, your thirty second starts now,

(01:47:00):
which mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland unicorn?
What color are the stars on the Australian flag, red
white and blue white. What number do you call in
America for the emergency services? No, it's nine to one one.

(01:47:23):
What does what does the Roman numeral X stand for? Correct?
You had to finish at least on one. Rodney, You've
still got a chance. You're in with a chance. Okay, Nicole,
Your thirty second starts now? True or false? The Q
in quotas stands for Queensland. True or false? No, it's true.

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Which country? Which country gave us the steam engine?

Speaker 15 (01:47:52):
England?

Speaker 3 (01:47:52):
Correct? Which band had stars including Roy Orbison, Bob Dylan
and George Harrison. I don't know, traveling Wilbrigs True or false?
True or false? Today is the only Friday the thirteenth
this year?

Speaker 7 (01:48:09):
True?

Speaker 19 (01:48:10):
Correct?

Speaker 18 (01:48:10):
You are the winner.

Speaker 3 (01:48:11):
You're on two. I didn't think we were going to
get there today. A bad luck, Rodney, Well done, Nicole.
I'm going to send you out a one hundred of
vouch to go along the banks Down Sports Club. You'll
have a great time. Take the family there, Take your
family and have a lovely meal. Bankstownsports dot Com.

Speaker 2 (01:48:30):
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Find out more at Kia dot com dot au. Mick
mack or Michael McLaren is known as the best dressed
member of the two GB team, but Adam Hawes has
decided to rival him. You're actually wearing one of his jackets.
I'm channeling McLaren.

Speaker 23 (01:48:54):
Yeah, he's a stylish man.

Speaker 19 (01:48:55):
I've got the vest on.

Speaker 23 (01:48:56):
What do you think? Lovely nice?

Speaker 1 (01:48:57):
Ye?

Speaker 23 (01:48:58):
Well, this is an home note don't want to.

Speaker 3 (01:48:59):
Talking about but you're the webcam.

Speaker 23 (01:49:01):
Yeah, I just thought to try something different. Now we've
got plenty coming up on the show.

Speaker 29 (01:49:05):
Darren Lockie will join us to talk about the Seagulls
via the Titans the big game tonight, we'll talk about
the eighteenth Man debate.

Speaker 23 (01:49:11):
I've got a little idea on that one. And your
Sharky's had a win over the the lead.

Speaker 3 (01:49:16):
They were terrible in the first half, they were good
in the second.

Speaker 23 (01:49:18):
Okay, I'm good, they sure did.

Speaker 29 (01:49:19):
Jaron Rooney will join us to talk about the Australian
swimming trials in Adelaide and I've tracked down sprint sensation.

Speaker 3 (01:49:26):
Locke Kennedy is in Italy ah okay, so to him,
we were the sports of Adam Hawes coming up at
six o'clock to night, continuous call team. Don't forget they
will be covering all the footy right across the weekend,
but leaving the boys from seven o'clock tonight. We've had
a big week. Thank you for your company, thanks to Emily,
Ben Patty who's been part of the team this week
and of course Liam. We've had a great time. We've

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got a big week coming up next week as well.
Either Davis is going to be on the program. Hope
you can join us. Have a good weekend. That's Sydney now,