Oliver Peterson: Australian correspondent on the ongoing investigations into Queensland helicopter crash

Investigations are under way in Cairns into whether a helicopter that crashed into a hotel in the middle of the night was stolen.

The pilot died after hitting the DoubleTree by Hilton about 2am, with propeller blades landing in its pool and the main street.

New reports claim charter company Nautilus Aviation say its helicopter was stolen, and police are waiting for the pilot to be identified.

Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says investigations are still ongoing.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with ends and eye Insurance, Peace of mind
for New Zealand Business Oliver Peterson's six PR Perth Life presented.
Hey Ollie, get a hair.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
They g the Kiwis did well at the Olympics better
than the All Blacks on Saturday night? I know.

Speaker 1 (00:14):
And how about the wallapiece. I mean, you guys got
given such a spanking by the spring box.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, just you know, one or two back in Pirth
this weekend. We wanted to give them just a little
bit of false hope before they returned serve on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
What about Ray Gunn?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
What a joke?

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Listen is a serious question. Yes, what a joke? Absolutely,
But how did you guys peck her to do the
breakdancing for you?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
What happened because we didn't have a federation of breakdances
in Australia, so it wasn't recognized, so she set it up.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
It's a con job and the Australian herself up as
the person.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Correct. I mean there are bloody good breakdances here in Australia,
but she set up the international or the Australian Federation,
which is rubber stamp by the Olympic Committee here in
Australia and all of a sudden she in Paris making
a fool of herself. It's just embarrassing.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
You mean to tell me that she put herself ahead
of actually good breakdancers in your country to do that
kangaroo routine there.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
Because they didn't nominate themselves for the trials. So there
were three in the women's division and they finished thirty seven,
thirty eight and forty out of the forty people who
competed in the heat. So it's just embarrassing, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
She deserves all of the crap that she's getting. I
do not feel sorry for her. Okay, now listen, how
are we going to clean up this union?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Well, that's going to require Greens and or Coalition support
which will not be forthcoming. So you hear Murray what
they're in the world wise indicate that he wants to
come in and bring in that administrators as the Employment Minister.
But the coalition's going to hold out here and they're
going to try and force the hand of the government
which is currently sitting in Parliament today. They want to

(01:50):
bring back the Building Watchdog, So that is going to
be no sort of concession that's made by the opposition.
I don't think the Greens will come to the party
and support the government in their position here to bring
in the administrator. There is calls for a royal commission.
But when you more or less have a labor aligned
union now overseeing itself, you can understand why there are

(02:11):
big questions being asked by the opposition and the Greens.
So good luck to Murray what I don't think he'll
get the support from the cross bench.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Yeah, fair enough. Do we know what calls that chopper
crash and Cans.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
We don't yet, but that Bloku was in the crash.
Some more information has come to the to light today.
It looks as though he's taking this chopper on a
joy ride. To be perfectly honest, there in Cans Heather,
So I don't think whether or not he was a
qualified PILO. I mean we could be. It is still
a terrible situation because we're talking about lives being lost
in this obviously hitting a hotel and going up into flames,

(02:42):
but we could have been talking about something a lot
more catastrophic than we are, so those investigations continue. Of course,
you would have seen the pictures on the news services
today right around New Zealand and it is just quite
spectacular that that is what has happened up in sleepy
old Lovely cans Hey.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
So what's Airbnb's argument for why it's not to blame
for the crisis.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Because they're saying this is just basically what Australians and
international tourists want to do these days. They just like
the flexibility of living or renting out for a short
term opportunity somebody's home or spare flat. Now, we do
see governments around the country at the moment looking to
try and clamp down on airb and B, particularly in
holiday hotspots. There are some places like Byron Bay, for example,

(03:23):
in New South Wales going to put in a cap
between thirty and ninety days. The New South Wales government, though,
Chris Mins, he is looking to bring in some pretty
strong legislation to restrict the number of days because quite simply, Heather,
we have a housing crisis and he's hoping by doing
that people then return those short term accommodation options into
the longer term market. Yeah, governments are bringing this on themselves,
so high migration, the lack of ability to build more houses,

(03:45):
and it's been felt right across the country at the moment.
So look, it might open up the opportunity for a
few more homes, but it's not going to solve the crisis.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
No, probably not. Only listen, thank you so much. As always,
that's Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Life presenting for more
from Heather Duplessy Elandro. Listen live to news talks.

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