More New Zealanders are applying to become members of Australia's army.
It comes after Australia made changes to the way they recruit new members, with New Zealanders able to join since the start of July, with citizens of Britain, the US and Canada also able to apply from next year.
Australian correspondent Steve Price says 166 New Zealanders have signed up.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's ready to see price. Very good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Not much happening today.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I see another quiet day the coalition. Now this ties up.
I was going to ask you about this, this thing
that Dunton's got on with the CFMEU and the fact
that everything you see around you is built over price
because they're all crooks. That surely is in part going
to play well, if it isn't already in these polling
(00:25):
numbers we're seeing this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, look, no one likes that union. And clearly what
we've now got is federal labor and state labor and
Victoria in particular, but also in your South Wales and
Queen camp in denial over what they can do now
to react to the complaints that have been lodged against
the behavior of the union. So it will play out
well federally. It's probably more of a state issue in
(00:49):
Victoria than a federal issue. But when you drive on
a tunnel in Sydney and they've got a magnificent road
system there, now you know that you're paying a high toller.
It's the most tolled city in the world for road tolls.
Then you're paying more because the Union were crooks. And
when they built the thing, they were paid too much
in salary in wages, and they screwed the hell out
(01:11):
of the people who were building it. And we should
also remember, and I mean I have to keep reiterating
that the construction companies themselves have got a lot to
blameful here. I mean, they had these very lucrative government
contracts and so when the union came along and said, well,
you know, we're going to be the ones who do
the hard yaker here, and you're going to pay us
a lot of money in wages. You're going to give
us more than what you would be paying people who
(01:33):
are not in the CFM. The construction company said yes
because they didn't want to lose the contract, and so
you end up with an expensive piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's all the stuff, the laws they're changing, the Fair
Work Commission, who's investigating. Is that going to be consequential
and effectible?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not? No pathetic And it's not even a genuine inquiry.
I mean, the folk has been put in charge in
Melbourne at the inquiry is in the inner circle of
the public service. I mean it's not going well. This
country's got a federal and each state as a corruption Commission,
and that Corruption Commission is not being used to investigate
(02:08):
what's gone on here. And so unless there is a
strong push from the public, a public mood to say, look,
this needs to go to another Royal Commission, or at
least to the Corruption Commission, we're not going to find
out exactly what happened in labor. It's a classic case.
Don't ask the question you don't know the answer to
because you don't want to know what.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, you don't want to know the truth. See I'm
also reading stevevi over the weekend. Liverpool Council. Now this
is something we wouldn't have anything to do with normally.
But a city council in Sydney on the brink of
suspension a report that accuses it of potential corruption, wasting
public money, frequent and repetitive pattern of hiring family and associates.
What's the matter with everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, local councils, particularly in Sydney in the time I
worked there, with the worst offenders. I mean, they're the
ones who've got in charge of planning permission and so
you've got a huge amount of power over someone who
wants to build a factory or do a housing estate.
You go to the local council and if you pay
enough money you will convince them to change the planning
(03:13):
regulations on that bit of dirt. It's as simple as that.
There's a long, long, long history in Sydney local council
has been crooked.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's amazing, though, how many of us are joining up
your military and does that turn things around?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Bob? We're in good shape now. One hundred and sixty
New Zealand has applied to become members of the Australian
Defense for US. Nice. So when China comes over the
horizon up in Darwin, your boys will be front and center.
This is what because we've changed the recruiting the way
where we do recruits in New Zealanders been able to
(03:47):
excuse me to apply for Army, Navy and Air Force
since July one, So it's a significant number of people.
One hundred and sixty in less than two months, one
hundred and sixty six in fact, it is. And then
from January a citizen of the US, Britain or Canada
you will also be allowed to apply for the ADF.
So I guess the old term a Zach is well
(04:08):
and truly alive. You boys are on our side. Now
when you get.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Invaded, well, exactly, we'll have no one left where we
haven't got a military. That's part of our problem. Hey,
by the way, we didn't get to the numbers on
that pole. What are the numbers on the pole?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Both sides on the nose? Only twenty eight percent support
both the leaders, which is really interesting. Albinize is less
popular than Dutton. And one name because they asked on
both sides of politics, who's the most popular in your
in that party and who would you like to be
prime minister? The name Senator Nampa jimper Price from Northern
(04:42):
Territory was the second most popular Conservative politician in the list,
after Peter Dutton himself. Now she's the problem is she's
in the Senate, so she'd have to get out of
there and find a seat. She's also in the Northern
Territory which only has I think two or three seats
in total. But she is an extraordinary popular person, seemed
(05:04):
to get things done, and I wouldn't be surprised to
the Liberal Party who were actually looking at trying to
nudge her a cost to their way and have her
as a candidate to stand probably in the Lower House
in the next election.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Interesting go well, might catch up Wednesday preciate a Steve
Price out of Australia. Yeah, Dutton's cost claim so is
backed by the master builders of Australia. They want independent
economists get in there and have a look at what's
going on. If somebody said the behavior of the union
was pushing up costs by thirty percent, that would not
surprise me. Extraordinary. And on the military in the New
(05:37):
Zealand as joining the military, people have been banging on
a plate about the police in this country and how
everyone's going to Queensland. It simply isn't true. Because there
was a story floating about over the weekend that the
government might we will raise this with lux and tomorrow
the government might be struggling to get their five hundred
more police officers because if you look at the number
of ads in the paper of the Police News, constabulary
(05:59):
staffing numbers have fallen by one hundred and twenty four
not including vacancies. So there were ten thousand, two hundred
and November twenty three, ten thousand and one ninety in
feb of twenty four, ten thousand and one fifty two
in March and April. So they're a bit over ten thousand,
but it's not growing. But then they get to the
Queensland number, there's sixty nine people have gone to Queensland,
(06:20):
sixty nine out of a populational workforce of over ten thousand.
Do that as a percentage, it's point six of one percent.
There's more than point six of one percent of ordinary
New Zealanders that have gone to Australia. And in just
about every large company in the country, I guarantee you
there's at least point sixty nine of one percent who
(06:41):
have crossed the tasmanal left work to go somewhere else.
It's a non event, it's a non story.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
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It's ready to see price. Very good morning to you.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Not much happening today.
Speaker 1 (00:03):
I see another quiet day the coalition. Now this ties up.
I was going to ask you about this, this thing
that Dunton's got on with the CFMEU and the fact
that everything you see around you is built over price
because they're all crooks. That surely is in part going
to play well, if it isn't already in these polling
(00:25):
numbers we're seeing this morning.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, look, no one likes that union. And clearly what
we've now got is federal labor and state labor and
Victoria in particular, but also in your South Wales and
Queen camp in denial over what they can do now
to react to the complaints that have been lodged against
the behavior of the union. So it will play out
well federally. It's probably more of a state issue in
(00:49):
Victoria than a federal issue. But when you drive on
a tunnel in Sydney and they've got a magnificent road
system there, now you know that you're paying a high toller.
It's the most tolled city in the world for road tolls.
Then you're paying more because the Union were crooks. And
when they built the thing, they were paid too much
in salary in wages, and they screwed the hell out
(01:11):
of the people who were building it. And we should
also remember, and I mean I have to keep reiterating
that the construction companies themselves have got a lot to
blameful here. I mean, they had these very lucrative government
contracts and so when the union came along and said, well,
you know, we're going to be the ones who do
the hard yaker here, and you're going to pay us
a lot of money in wages. You're going to give
us more than what you would be paying people who
(01:33):
are not in the CFM. The construction company said yes
because they didn't want to lose the contract, and so
you end up with an expensive piece of infrastructure.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
It's all the stuff, the laws they're changing, the Fair
Work Commission, who's investigating. Is that going to be consequential
and effectible?
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Not? No pathetic And it's not even a genuine inquiry.
I mean, the folk has been put in charge in
Melbourne at the inquiry is in the inner circle of
the public service. I mean it's not going well. This
country's got a federal and each state as a corruption Commission,
and that Corruption Commission is not being used to investigate
(02:08):
what's gone on here. And so unless there is a
strong push from the public, a public mood to say, look,
this needs to go to another Royal Commission, or at
least to the Corruption Commission, we're not going to find
out exactly what happened in labor. It's a classic case.
Don't ask the question you don't know the answer to
because you don't want to know what.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No, you don't want to know the truth. See I'm
also reading stevevi over the weekend. Liverpool Council. Now this
is something we wouldn't have anything to do with normally.
But a city council in Sydney on the brink of
suspension a report that accuses it of potential corruption, wasting
public money, frequent and repetitive pattern of hiring family and associates.
What's the matter with everyone.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, local councils, particularly in Sydney in the time I
worked there, with the worst offenders. I mean, they're the
ones who've got in charge of planning permission and so
you've got a huge amount of power over someone who
wants to build a factory or do a housing estate.
You go to the local council and if you pay
enough money you will convince them to change the planning
(03:13):
regulations on that bit of dirt. It's as simple as that.
There's a long, long, long history in Sydney local council
has been crooked.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
It's amazing, though, how many of us are joining up
your military and does that turn things around?
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Bob? We're in good shape now. One hundred and sixty
New Zealand has applied to become members of the Australian
Defense for US. Nice. So when China comes over the
horizon up in Darwin, your boys will be front and center.
This is what because we've changed the recruiting the way
where we do recruits in New Zealanders been able to
(03:47):
excuse me to apply for Army, Navy and Air Force
since July one, So it's a significant number of people.
One hundred and sixty in less than two months, one
hundred and sixty six in fact, it is. And then
from January a citizen of the US, Britain or Canada
you will also be allowed to apply for the ADF.
So I guess the old term a Zach is well
(04:08):
and truly alive. You boys are on our side. Now
when you get.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Invaded, well, exactly, we'll have no one left where we
haven't got a military. That's part of our problem. Hey,
by the way, we didn't get to the numbers on
that pole. What are the numbers on the pole?
Speaker 2 (04:20):
Both sides on the nose? Only twenty eight percent support
both the leaders, which is really interesting. Albinize is less
popular than Dutton. And one name because they asked on
both sides of politics, who's the most popular in your
in that party and who would you like to be
prime minister? The name Senator Nampa jimper Price from Northern
(04:42):
Territory was the second most popular Conservative politician in the list,
after Peter Dutton himself. Now she's the problem is she's
in the Senate, so she'd have to get out of
there and find a seat. She's also in the Northern
Territory which only has I think two or three seats
in total. But she is an extraordinary popular person, seemed
(05:04):
to get things done, and I wouldn't be surprised to
the Liberal Party who were actually looking at trying to
nudge her a cost to their way and have her
as a candidate to stand probably in the Lower House
in the next election.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Interesting go well, might catch up Wednesday preciate a Steve
Price out of Australia. Yeah, Dutton's cost claim so is
backed by the master builders of Australia. They want independent
economists get in there and have a look at what's
going on. If somebody said the behavior of the union
was pushing up costs by thirty percent, that would not
surprise me. Extraordinary. And on the military in the New
(05:37):
Zealand as joining the military, people have been banging on
a plate about the police in this country and how
everyone's going to Queensland. It simply isn't true. Because there
was a story floating about over the weekend that the
government might we will raise this with lux and tomorrow
the government might be struggling to get their five hundred
more police officers because if you look at the number
of ads in the paper of the Police News, constabulary
(05:59):
staffing numbers have fallen by one hundred and twenty four
not including vacancies. So there were ten thousand, two hundred
and November twenty three, ten thousand and one ninety in
feb of twenty four, ten thousand and one fifty two
in March and April. So they're a bit over ten thousand,
but it's not growing. But then they get to the
Queensland number, there's sixty nine people have gone to Queensland,
(06:20):
sixty nine out of a populational workforce of over ten thousand.
Do that as a percentage, it's point six of one percent.
There's more than point six of one percent of ordinary
New Zealanders that have gone to Australia. And in just
about every large company in the country, I guarantee you
there's at least point sixty nine of one percent who
(06:41):
have crossed the tasmanal left work to go somewhere else.
It's a non event, it's a non story.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
For more from the Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks that'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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