January 28, 2025 • 8 mins
A prominent former gangland figure was killed.
Sam ‘The Punisher’ Abdulrahim was shot multiple times in an alleged ambush in Melbourne.
Police believe a white Porsche SUV seen leaving the carpark immediately after the shooting was involved, the car later found burnt.
Australia Correspondent Steve Price told Mike Hosking that there’s been a number of attempts on his life over the years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well mate, Stevie Price.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Happy New Year, you too, Welcome back. He's got a
very long holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ye I thought I was watching you on sky TV
on must have been Friday night? Was it Friday night?
Would have been Friday night? Anyway, I thought, as soon
as I talked to this clown on Tuesday Wednesday, he's
going to give me a hard time about my holiday.
And well done. Having said that, speaking of holidays, how
was yours?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I spent two weeks in New Zealand and I've saved
this up for you, so just briefly, because I know
we're short, have tied my likes and dislikes of your
country as a tourist. Had not been to the North
Island for probably twenty years or more. Lack of graffiti
in Auckland, big tick, very clean city, loved it. The
(00:48):
chicken sandwich at the Federal Delhi in Auckland. Outstanding lunch
at Amarno Italian at Brito Mart.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You've got to go there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Did you find the service except or not?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Except? Well? I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
They were full and they found us at table, set
us on the footpath.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But that didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The food was great and the cheese scones at Tyrower
to die for. So when you're going south from is
it Tyroller or ty just down from Hamilton a little
place called the Canteen cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
SCons I dreamt about for the last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Dislikes the bunkers at Royal Oakland Golf Club. You know
they truck the sand in from the bottom of the
South Island.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
How did you get on the Royal Auckland not being
a member? Did you flash some flesh card out of Victoria?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm reciprocals with Royal Sorrento one way bridges on the
Coromandel nightmare a bottle of bottle of water four dollars
the bottle of water, but when you use your card
four dollars seventy five? What the hell's going on there?
And the traffic lights in Auckland they tacked too long
to change.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Agree with you. You've nailed New Zealand absolutely superbly. My
only question for you is I thought you were going
to New Plymouth and none of that was even close
to New Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I did go to New Plymouth and there was a
couple of outstanding golf courses there as our top rating
Breakfast show ever been sponsored by Toyota, are likely.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
To be in the future Toyota No, We're currently sponsored
by Jaguar Landrover, a vastly superior vehicular form of transportation.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Event two weeks in the Toyota Yaris Cross at the
cost of three thousand, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, it's a crap car and cost too much. There's
driven in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Very well done. Now did you personally know the punisher,
Sam Abdul Rahman by any chance?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Thank god, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He was a number of attempts on his life over
the years, but he was finally ambushed outside an apartment
complex in Preston and the northern suburbs of Melbourne yesterday,
shot in the head, ambush in an underground.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
This is a guy who has a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Of criminal enemies, many of whom we believe live offshore
in places like the UAE and in Lebanon, and he's
been involved, we believe in these tobacco shops being burned down,
Jim's being burned down. He was supposed to have a
boxing match at one point and the place where the
(03:24):
gym where he was going to stage this boxing match
was also torched one night, so probably no one except
his close family and friends going to miss him on us.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
This is just the underworld of Melbourne. I mean, you know,
for all the television programs they made about the underworld
of Melbourne, still as underworld as it ever was.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Clearly yes it is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I mean it's not quite as bad as Sydney, where
you get hits like this on a regular basis. Melbourne
used to have that back in the two thousands, but
it's been slowed down slightly. But that was a completely
brutal assassination of this criminal yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And following your economy with a great deal of inentrast,
So you're standging. I mean, elbow is going to be
desperate for a cut. Is a cut coming? Do you think?
Before the vote?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, the jury is still out. There will be a
figure out today a couple of hours time, lunchtime, out
of time. The inflation rate. So if the inflation rate
continues to go south, then the chances of a rate
cut in February by the Reserve Bank are on and
Anthony Albanize and Jim Charmers must just go to bed
every night and pray that this happens. I mean currently
(04:28):
it's headed toward the two to three percent ban. That's
inflation the Reserve Bank. I was still a little worried
about the fact that we've got a very strong jobs market.
Unemployment's very low, but the government is spending like drunken
sailors and that's adding to inflation, and our dollar is
collapsing against the US dollar. So to the year to
(04:48):
December inflation in this country was three point three percent.
It's got to have it to in front of it
if the reserve's going to move. If the Reserve moves,
that's when Anthony Albanize will say, right out there, go
see what's happened inflation since we've been in office. Let's
go to an election. You can put me back in
charge because I know how to manage money. No one
believes that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, indeed not would you call the election right now.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If I was Anthony Albinezi, I think I'd wait until
the last possible date, probably mid April or early May,
because his polling is atrocious.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
While you've been away, he's just in a free fall.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's just sad to watch, and his leadership, particularly over
the anti Semitism thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is exactly Yeah, that's what I was going to two
part question, Actually, what just give us a price? This
anti Semitism thing? Where the hell has all that come from?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Lack of action immediately after October seventh allowing people to
protest every Sunday in Melbourne for the last what is
it two years? Almost one and a half years unbridled
being able to wear Kefia's takeover universities.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Come from the far left and particularly agitated by the
social gender in both Sydney and Melbourne. And it's got
out of hand in Sydney with all of the burning
down of childcare centers and mosques and sorry and Jewish
places of religion.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's really frightening to watch the Jewish community, of whom
I know a lot are very frightened at about it all.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A second part of the question was, and I was
asking you made of mine in Sydney the other day
and he didn't know the question. So these polls I'm
watching this week two party preferred and single party coalitions ahead,
given the preferencing and all that stuff, how far ahead
does a coalition need to be in front on two
party preferred to feel good about winning a.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Bit more than where they are. They've got to win
eighteen seats to win majority government. That's a hell of
an ask in two party preferred If you looked into
those figures that released a newspot yesterday or on Monday,
they would fall short. Probably they'd win fifteen on that
if it was they needed something like a five point
three percent swing against the government nationally because the Green's
(07:01):
obviously always preference Labor. I think we're headed still at
the moment to a minority Labored government, which would be
a disaster because they would have to do deals with
the teals who do survive some will, and that would
be bad for Australia. I think Dutton's on the right path.
He's got a number of things have to go right
for him. But if he continues to be as strong
(07:23):
as he is on things like energy policy and immigration,
I think he's got a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Very interesting year. Just to correct this, I might have so.
Was it Tyruha, which is a place, or was it
tim Raw.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's spelt t i r a.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You yeah, t raw that's separate to tyrue right Glad.
Apparently they're the cheese businesses particularly famous in that part
of the world. Well then mate, we'll catch up again
on Friday. I appreciate, No, we won't. We'll catch up
again next Monday, Steves, unless we're putting Steve on Friday,
which we're not, so no change to the program. Don't
Panic for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast and live
to News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or
(08:03):
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Well mate, Stevie Price.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Happy New Year, you too, Welcome back. He's got a
very long holiday.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ye I thought I was watching you on sky TV
on must have been Friday night? Was it Friday night?
Would have been Friday night? Anyway, I thought, as soon
as I talked to this clown on Tuesday Wednesday, he's
going to give me a hard time about my holiday.
And well done. Having said that, speaking of holidays, how
was yours?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
I spent two weeks in New Zealand and I've saved
this up for you, so just briefly, because I know
we're short, have tied my likes and dislikes of your
country as a tourist. Had not been to the North
Island for probably twenty years or more. Lack of graffiti
in Auckland, big tick, very clean city, loved it. The
(00:48):
chicken sandwich at the Federal Delhi in Auckland. Outstanding lunch
at Amarno Italian at Brito Mart.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
You've got to go there.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Did you find the service except or not?
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Except? Well? I thought it was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
They were full and they found us at table, set
us on the footpath.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
But that didn't matter.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The food was great and the cheese scones at Tyrower
to die for. So when you're going south from is
it Tyroller or ty just down from Hamilton a little
place called the Canteen cheese.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
SCons I dreamt about for the last three weeks.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Dislikes the bunkers at Royal Oakland Golf Club. You know
they truck the sand in from the bottom of the
South Island.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
How did you get on the Royal Auckland not being
a member? Did you flash some flesh card out of Victoria?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Correct?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm reciprocals with Royal Sorrento one way bridges on the
Coromandel nightmare a bottle of bottle of water four dollars
the bottle of water, but when you use your card
four dollars seventy five? What the hell's going on there?
And the traffic lights in Auckland they tacked too long
to change.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Agree with you. You've nailed New Zealand absolutely superbly. My
only question for you is I thought you were going
to New Plymouth and none of that was even close
to New Plymouth.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I did go to New Plymouth and there was a
couple of outstanding golf courses there as our top rating
Breakfast show ever been sponsored by Toyota, are likely.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
To be in the future Toyota No, We're currently sponsored
by Jaguar Landrover, a vastly superior vehicular form of transportation.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Event two weeks in the Toyota Yaris Cross at the
cost of three thousand, seven hundred dollars.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Yes, it's a crap car and cost too much. There's
driven in a nutshell.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Very well done. Now did you personally know the punisher,
Sam Abdul Rahman by any chance?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Thank god, I didn't know.
Speaker 3 (02:47):
He was a number of attempts on his life over
the years, but he was finally ambushed outside an apartment
complex in Preston and the northern suburbs of Melbourne yesterday,
shot in the head, ambush in an underground.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
This is a guy who has a lot.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Of criminal enemies, many of whom we believe live offshore
in places like the UAE and in Lebanon, and he's
been involved, we believe in these tobacco shops being burned down,
Jim's being burned down. He was supposed to have a
boxing match at one point and the place where the
(03:24):
gym where he was going to stage this boxing match
was also torched one night, so probably no one except
his close family and friends going to miss him on us.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
This is just the underworld of Melbourne. I mean, you know,
for all the television programs they made about the underworld
of Melbourne, still as underworld as it ever was.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Clearly yes it is.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I mean it's not quite as bad as Sydney, where
you get hits like this on a regular basis. Melbourne
used to have that back in the two thousands, but
it's been slowed down slightly. But that was a completely
brutal assassination of this criminal yesterday.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
And following your economy with a great deal of inentrast,
So you're standging. I mean, elbow is going to be
desperate for a cut. Is a cut coming? Do you think?
Before the vote?
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Well, the jury is still out. There will be a
figure out today a couple of hours time, lunchtime, out
of time. The inflation rate. So if the inflation rate
continues to go south, then the chances of a rate
cut in February by the Reserve Bank are on and
Anthony Albanize and Jim Charmers must just go to bed
every night and pray that this happens. I mean currently
(04:28):
it's headed toward the two to three percent ban. That's
inflation the Reserve Bank. I was still a little worried
about the fact that we've got a very strong jobs market.
Unemployment's very low, but the government is spending like drunken
sailors and that's adding to inflation, and our dollar is
collapsing against the US dollar. So to the year to
(04:48):
December inflation in this country was three point three percent.
It's got to have it to in front of it
if the reserve's going to move. If the Reserve moves,
that's when Anthony Albanize will say, right out there, go
see what's happened inflation since we've been in office. Let's
go to an election. You can put me back in
charge because I know how to manage money. No one
believes that.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
No, indeed not would you call the election right now.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
If I was Anthony Albinezi, I think I'd wait until
the last possible date, probably mid April or early May,
because his polling is atrocious.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
While you've been away, he's just in a free fall.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
It's just sad to watch, and his leadership, particularly over
the anti Semitism thing.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Is exactly Yeah, that's what I was going to two
part question, Actually, what just give us a price? This
anti Semitism thing? Where the hell has all that come from?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Lack of action immediately after October seventh allowing people to
protest every Sunday in Melbourne for the last what is
it two years? Almost one and a half years unbridled
being able to wear Kefia's takeover universities.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Come from the far left and particularly agitated by the
social gender in both Sydney and Melbourne. And it's got
out of hand in Sydney with all of the burning
down of childcare centers and mosques and sorry and Jewish
places of religion.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
I mean, it's just.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's really frightening to watch the Jewish community, of whom
I know a lot are very frightened at about it all.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
A second part of the question was, and I was
asking you made of mine in Sydney the other day
and he didn't know the question. So these polls I'm
watching this week two party preferred and single party coalitions ahead,
given the preferencing and all that stuff, how far ahead
does a coalition need to be in front on two
party preferred to feel good about winning a.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Bit more than where they are. They've got to win
eighteen seats to win majority government. That's a hell of
an ask in two party preferred If you looked into
those figures that released a newspot yesterday or on Monday,
they would fall short. Probably they'd win fifteen on that
if it was they needed something like a five point
three percent swing against the government nationally because the Green's
(07:01):
obviously always preference Labor. I think we're headed still at
the moment to a minority Labored government, which would be
a disaster because they would have to do deals with
the teals who do survive some will, and that would
be bad for Australia. I think Dutton's on the right path.
He's got a number of things have to go right
for him. But if he continues to be as strong
(07:23):
as he is on things like energy policy and immigration,
I think he's got a chance.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Very interesting year. Just to correct this, I might have so.
Was it Tyruha, which is a place, or was it
tim Raw.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's spelt t i r a.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
You yeah, t raw that's separate to tyrue right Glad.
Apparently they're the cheese businesses particularly famous in that part
of the world. Well then mate, we'll catch up again
on Friday. I appreciate, No, we won't. We'll catch up
again next Monday, Steves, unless we're putting Steve on Friday,
which we're not, so no change to the program. Don't
Panic for more from the Mic Asking Breakfast and live
to News Talks at B from six am weekdays, or
(08:03):
follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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