November 6, 2024 • 15 mins
Coming up today a change of heart about the proposed Bundaberg East Flood Levee.
Why MPs are checking their flight records.
A devastating end in the search for a missing fisherman.
And we take you to Belgium for a special Remembrance Day ceremony.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to iHeart White baby Bernet, your local news vix.
I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
On today's episode, MP's rush to check their flight records
and honoring our local soldiers this Remembrance Day.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Starting in Bunderberg, where the mayor has updated her stance
on the town's proposed East flood levee.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I've long held some skepticism that the levee would actually
assist our region, and what I've come to believe is
that we really need to think about people over property.
And whilst the levee might protect six hundred properties, we
have five thousand people on the north side of the
river that have no ability to evacuate. So I think
(00:43):
it's it's time that we call on the state government
to reconsider their position. As a council, we have moved
a resolution to say that we will not accept any
of the costs and charges associated with the levee, and
we notice that agencies are trying to push the council
to take responsibility for costs of the levee and that's
(01:03):
not what we're here to do. But my personal opinion
is I don't believe that the levee provides enough return
on investment for rate payers, nor does it help with
our cost of living right here in Bundy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The proposal is to build a one point five kilometer
wall near the Burnett Rivers southern Bank, equipped with floodgates,
flood doors and pump stations. It would protect more than
six hundred homes around Bunderberg East South and the CBD
SIP and Kewan from the Bunderberg Flood Protection Group isn't
backing it either.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I think they're thinking of themselves and a lot of
people have land which they've bought very very cheap in
low lying flood areas and now they want the community
to build a wall and protect them and enhance the
value of their properties. Heckler Place should never have been
built there. It was a cheap rubbish land to start with.
(01:52):
And these are the sort of people that might want
to support it, but they're in a minority.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Tony Mills owns a seafood business in the levee's. He
says there's been little consultation from the former Labor government and.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I've just got a couple of business on the street.
I've got five trawlers behind my business. A turnover about
a million dollars a year. They've all got staff that
will be unemployed. They spend money in town, they buy
their fill. I won't velvet unload there. I've got a retail,
a wholesale and an export business. And between my end
of the street and the others about another twenty two
(02:26):
trawlers just in the fishing industry, so there's a lot
of businesses down that raid will be affected. Also, the
wall's going to go about twelve meters in an adjacent
paddock to my building, so therefore all the water is
going to go over north and they'll be more affected
and they couldn't get out last time.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Around five thousand people were evacuated from North Bunderberg in
the devastating twenty thirteen floods. The area was quickly cut off,
prompting dozens of helicopters to be relied on to get
people to safety. Advocates including Mayor Hell and black Burn,
believe the funding would be better spent on a North
Bunderberg flood evacuation route.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It is on the Bunderberg Integrated Transport Strategy though, so
it is something that's identified as necessary, and there's five
thousand people that are not able to get to safety
right now. And last time that we had a flood
that was significant in twenty thirteen, there were so many
evacuations by helicopter because people could not get to safety
(03:25):
and they could not get to hospitals where people on
the south side can in fact get themselves to safety.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sid McEwan is echoing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
The calls it's lives where that concern is not property.
Property can be fixed. Lives lost can never be replaced again,
and we all know that. So if they've got some
money there, let's do it in a priority. Let's do
the evacuation route and sure some safety and comfort for
the people over the north. I know people over there
(03:53):
that start to shake when it rains heavy, and this
is the sort of thing we've got. And yet we've
got a government wanted to build a levee no consideration
for those people. So the evacuation route, answer a question
to me, is a must we the Underbelt Flood Protection
Group or I also have many other would be well
(04:15):
solutions to minimize flooding in the town. And it all
starts with river naturalization, and once the evacuation route is
in place, that would be the next thing we'd be
pushing for so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
With the LNP now in power, calls a growing for
the new government to scrap the levee and look at alternatives.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't believe that the state government has funds enough
to be able to fund the levee. However, that's a
decision for the state government, not a decision for me.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Tony Mills would rather cop another flood than have to
deal with the levee.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
All it comes up and goes down. The first flood
I was running in six days. Just hosoun and let
it go. But a levy wall, I've got construction out
there for three to five years now two to three
or five. There's nobody going to come to the business.
The boys behind me, Karen on load. I do seafood
and supply, you know, like the Olympics. I can do
(05:07):
all that sort of stuff. It's just my business is
basically over. And not only mine. I've got shoe steel,
I've got engineering shops down the road. You've got restaurants,
boat builders, you know. To be devastating.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Member for Bunderberg Labour's Tom Smith has written to the
new premier asking him to go ahead with the levy.
He says David chris A fully agreed to honor all
projects that were already funded and underway before the election.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
How do you feel about politicians getting flight upgrades or
access to exclusive airline lounges. It's been the talk of
federal politics for the past couple of weeks, with MPs,
including the Prime Minister, scrambling to check their flight records.
The Member for White Baylou O'Brien says the airlines have
too much influence in federal politics and it should be stopped.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
It's a very relationship the major airlines seem to have
with government and I don't think it's healthy. One of
the first things that you receive when you're elected to
the Federal Parliament a letter from the CEO of the
company inviting you into their exclusive, invite only lounges. In Quantis,
that's the Chairman's lounges. In virgin that's the Club Lounge.
(06:21):
And these are lounges that aren't very obvious in an
airport because they're so exclusive. I gave their memberships back.
I wasn't using them, but I gave them back earlier
this year. And part of the reason I did that
was that I don't believe the big airlines are acting ethically.
I don't believe they're good corporate citizens, and I believe
(06:42):
they're sticking their beak into areas they shouldn't. And the
influence that they have by doing the things that have
been in the media, I think it's inappropriate. They enjoy
an incredibly helpful regulatory environment, particularly the big ones, Countis
and Vergin, that is controlled by the federal government and
that is why federal members of Parliament are given these
(07:04):
access to these lounges, and obviously the upgrade that's a
whole beast on its own. I mean, how you can
justify a gift like that, and we're talking thousands of
dollars if what's reported is true.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We don't want to see politicians necessarily having to sit here,
the Prime Minister or a minister have to sit back
in economy. But surely it should be the government paying
for it, and any upgrades the government has to pay for,
rather than being given it as a gift from a
major player in the airline industry.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, definitely. I mean, look, these are the upgrades that
are in the media are personal ones. You know, people
going away on holidays. They're not on government business and
they've asked for an upgrade and they've received. When we
do travel, and I've traveled overseas in my role as
a committee member, and you're well looked after. But when
(07:56):
you're traveling in a private capacity going on a holiday,
were we should be treated the same as everyone else.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
O'Brien says there are already rules in place for declaring
upgrades and the Ministerial Code of Conduct, however, is National
Party colleagues. Senator Bridget mackenzie has failed to declare sixteen
upgrades on quatus and Virgin flights since joining Parliament in
twenty ten. He says he'd support new rules or a
ban on the practice.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
They have lobbyists that transition from government to staff in
government and then to the corporate world as ament public
relations or government relations. In the corporate world. With the airlines,
the relationship is very cozy, very cozy, as is the banks.
And there are two industries where they're too big to fail,
(08:41):
so the government will support them and prop them up
in hard times. So we did it through the GFC
with the banks, and we did it through COVID with
the airlines. With the government spent some five billion dollars
helping to mothball and pay for the expenses of the
airlines when they couldn't run through the lockdowns, so they're
(09:01):
considered too big the file, so that alone, there needs
to be the highest level of transparency in ethics.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Mister O'Brien says he once received an upgrade for himself
and a staffer, but it wasn't requested and he declared.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It after the break. A search ends in tragedy on
the Fraser Coast.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I have white, I have White.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're listening to iHeart my Bay Bernier. I'm Taylor Larson,
joined by Bruce Atkinson. A large scale search at Marlborough
has ended in tragedy this week. Darren Kimlin said off
from Leamington Bridge boat Ramp on a solo fishing trip
Saturday morning. The alarm was raised the following day when
he failed to return home. The forty two year olds
boat was found on Monday, and on Tuesday a man's
(09:51):
body was discovered in the search area. Police are investigating
the exact circumstances of the man's death, but it's not
being treated as species.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There are fifty five thousand names on the meningate in
the Belgian city of Epa. They are the soldiers from
the Commonwealth who are killed in Belgium during World War
I but have no known grave. Six thousand of Australians.
For Remembrance Day on Monday, we're commemorating two of the
men from our region whose names appear on the massive memorial.
David Findlay enlisted in Bunderberg in nineteen sixteen and died
(10:27):
less than a year later, aged twenty nine. Charles Roberts
from Gippey died in nineteen seventeen, aged twenty seven, and
his name is also on the memorial. Every night since
nineteen twenty eight, the buglers of the local fire Brigade
have been playing the Last Post at the Menngate. Benoi
Motrie is the chairman of the Epa Last Post Association.
I spoke with him and I was there working as
(10:47):
a battlefield tour guide, and he says it's an emotional ceremony.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
It's in fact every evening a monument that comes to
life and that brings people together. One hundred years ago
we brought a lot of people together to fight. Now
we bring them together to think about what happened, to
reflect on what happened and maybe to try to go
(11:13):
to better future. One of our aims is to remember
and to continue to honor the fallen, but another aim
is also to maybe to learn from what happened and
to try to go to better future.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
So this ceremony has an important role and has getting
up close towards one hundred years because I think nineteen
twenty eight, which was the first last plot, but a
very important role not just for the visitors but for
the local people as.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Well as it's a part of our daily life here.
Every evening at seven point thirty police comes, they stop
the traffic. Symbolically, we stop the daily life. We go
back in todds to the First World War and then
we have the whole ceremony, the symbolism around. It's very
good that we stop the traffic, that we go back
(11:58):
in time, and that very leed on what happened. We also,
for example, used the bugle. The bugle was used during
the First World War, so we wanted the same instrument
to be used under the gate for the ceremonies. A
trumpet would be much easier, but the bugle is the
right sound to have under the meningate. And we also
(12:19):
chose in the beginning of the Meningate white mening Gate,
because all the troops left the city center to go
to the east and to the most major battlefields. Who
were over there. A lot of the soldiers who passed
the lions then because there was no real gate, there
were the famous lines there and they passed the lines,
a lot of them not to come back. And so
(12:41):
after the war, Ipri was totally ruins. To make a
long story short, we rebuilded our city and we gave
a little part of our city to the Commonwealth, and
then they built the new Meningate integrated in nineteen twenty seven.
And during that integration you had six bugles of the
Summer Light Infantry who so owned for the first time
(13:02):
the last post there and that touched also the people
at Tanning and also the deeper citizens, of which one
was my great granddad at that time. So he and
some other citizens came together and said, okay, that's what
we have to do. We have to soond every evening
the last post to remember and honor those guys, and
(13:23):
so we organize ourselves, and so we began from nineteen
twenty eight on.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Imagine there's a commitment to keep it going.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, we are committed to continue to
remember and to honor the fallen of the First World War.
I think the names who are on the monument, nearly
fifty five thousand names and all the names who died
here two hundred and fifty thousand casualties in total for
the common world, are much more important than the numbers
(13:50):
we get under the men gate every evening. So we
do it for the guys on the gate. We do
it for the soldiers who died here. And I think
in the future, I think more and more people know
about our organization, know about Eeber and the First World War.
There used to be a time that the Australians only
knew about Gallipoli, didn't know eeper, or only the very
(14:13):
interested ones. But I think you lost more guys here,
and finally you won the war here, and so I
think it's a very important spot for the Australians to
come here to the to Eber. People sometimes ask me, yeah, yeah,
how long will it continue? Yeah, but if we would
sound one last post ceremony for one soldier who died here,
(14:37):
we still have work until two thy six hundred and
so still a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
That's it for this week. If you want to hear
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Speaker 3 (14:53):
We're back next week with more local, trusted, and free
news I Have
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Welcome to iHeart White baby Bernet, your local news vix.
I'm Taylor Larson, joined by Bruce Atkinson.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
On today's episode, MP's rush to check their flight records
and honoring our local soldiers this Remembrance Day.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Starting in Bunderberg, where the mayor has updated her stance
on the town's proposed East flood levee.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
I've long held some skepticism that the levee would actually
assist our region, and what I've come to believe is
that we really need to think about people over property.
And whilst the levee might protect six hundred properties, we
have five thousand people on the north side of the
river that have no ability to evacuate. So I think
(00:43):
it's it's time that we call on the state government
to reconsider their position. As a council, we have moved
a resolution to say that we will not accept any
of the costs and charges associated with the levee, and
we notice that agencies are trying to push the council
to take responsibility for costs of the levee and that's
(01:03):
not what we're here to do. But my personal opinion
is I don't believe that the levee provides enough return
on investment for rate payers, nor does it help with
our cost of living right here in Bundy.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
The proposal is to build a one point five kilometer
wall near the Burnett Rivers southern Bank, equipped with floodgates,
flood doors and pump stations. It would protect more than
six hundred homes around Bunderberg East South and the CBD
SIP and Kewan from the Bunderberg Flood Protection Group isn't
backing it either.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I think they're thinking of themselves and a lot of
people have land which they've bought very very cheap in
low lying flood areas and now they want the community
to build a wall and protect them and enhance the
value of their properties. Heckler Place should never have been
built there. It was a cheap rubbish land to start with.
(01:52):
And these are the sort of people that might want
to support it, but they're in a minority.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Tony Mills owns a seafood business in the levee's. He
says there's been little consultation from the former Labor government and.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
I've just got a couple of business on the street.
I've got five trawlers behind my business. A turnover about
a million dollars a year. They've all got staff that
will be unemployed. They spend money in town, they buy
their fill. I won't velvet unload there. I've got a retail,
a wholesale and an export business. And between my end
of the street and the others about another twenty two
(02:26):
trawlers just in the fishing industry, so there's a lot
of businesses down that raid will be affected. Also, the
wall's going to go about twelve meters in an adjacent
paddock to my building, so therefore all the water is
going to go over north and they'll be more affected
and they couldn't get out last time.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Around five thousand people were evacuated from North Bunderberg in
the devastating twenty thirteen floods. The area was quickly cut off,
prompting dozens of helicopters to be relied on to get
people to safety. Advocates including Mayor Hell and black Burn,
believe the funding would be better spent on a North
Bunderberg flood evacuation route.
Speaker 1 (03:05):
It is on the Bunderberg Integrated Transport Strategy though, so
it is something that's identified as necessary, and there's five
thousand people that are not able to get to safety
right now. And last time that we had a flood
that was significant in twenty thirteen, there were so many
evacuations by helicopter because people could not get to safety
(03:25):
and they could not get to hospitals where people on
the south side can in fact get themselves to safety.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Sid McEwan is echoing.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
The calls it's lives where that concern is not property.
Property can be fixed. Lives lost can never be replaced again,
and we all know that. So if they've got some
money there, let's do it in a priority. Let's do
the evacuation route and sure some safety and comfort for
the people over the north. I know people over there
(03:53):
that start to shake when it rains heavy, and this
is the sort of thing we've got. And yet we've
got a government wanted to build a levee no consideration
for those people. So the evacuation route, answer a question
to me, is a must we the Underbelt Flood Protection
Group or I also have many other would be well
(04:15):
solutions to minimize flooding in the town. And it all
starts with river naturalization, and once the evacuation route is
in place, that would be the next thing we'd be
pushing for so.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
With the LNP now in power, calls a growing for
the new government to scrap the levee and look at alternatives.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I don't believe that the state government has funds enough
to be able to fund the levee. However, that's a
decision for the state government, not a decision for me.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Tony Mills would rather cop another flood than have to
deal with the levee.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
All it comes up and goes down. The first flood
I was running in six days. Just hosoun and let
it go. But a levy wall, I've got construction out
there for three to five years now two to three
or five. There's nobody going to come to the business.
The boys behind me, Karen on load. I do seafood
and supply, you know, like the Olympics. I can do
(05:07):
all that sort of stuff. It's just my business is
basically over. And not only mine. I've got shoe steel,
I've got engineering shops down the road. You've got restaurants,
boat builders, you know. To be devastating.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Member for Bunderberg Labour's Tom Smith has written to the
new premier asking him to go ahead with the levy.
He says David chris A fully agreed to honor all
projects that were already funded and underway before the election.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
How do you feel about politicians getting flight upgrades or
access to exclusive airline lounges. It's been the talk of
federal politics for the past couple of weeks, with MPs,
including the Prime Minister, scrambling to check their flight records.
The Member for White Baylou O'Brien says the airlines have
too much influence in federal politics and it should be stopped.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
It's a very relationship the major airlines seem to have
with government and I don't think it's healthy. One of
the first things that you receive when you're elected to
the Federal Parliament a letter from the CEO of the
company inviting you into their exclusive, invite only lounges. In Quantis,
that's the Chairman's lounges. In virgin that's the Club Lounge.
(06:21):
And these are lounges that aren't very obvious in an
airport because they're so exclusive. I gave their memberships back.
I wasn't using them, but I gave them back earlier
this year. And part of the reason I did that
was that I don't believe the big airlines are acting ethically.
I don't believe they're good corporate citizens, and I believe
(06:42):
they're sticking their beak into areas they shouldn't. And the
influence that they have by doing the things that have
been in the media, I think it's inappropriate. They enjoy
an incredibly helpful regulatory environment, particularly the big ones, Countis
and Vergin, that is controlled by the federal government and
that is why federal members of Parliament are given these
(07:04):
access to these lounges, and obviously the upgrade that's a
whole beast on its own. I mean, how you can
justify a gift like that, and we're talking thousands of
dollars if what's reported is true.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
We don't want to see politicians necessarily having to sit here,
the Prime Minister or a minister have to sit back
in economy. But surely it should be the government paying
for it, and any upgrades the government has to pay for,
rather than being given it as a gift from a
major player in the airline industry.
Speaker 6 (07:35):
Yeah, definitely. I mean, look, these are the upgrades that
are in the media are personal ones. You know, people
going away on holidays. They're not on government business and
they've asked for an upgrade and they've received. When we
do travel, and I've traveled overseas in my role as
a committee member, and you're well looked after. But when
(07:56):
you're traveling in a private capacity going on a holiday,
were we should be treated the same as everyone else.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
O'Brien says there are already rules in place for declaring
upgrades and the Ministerial Code of Conduct, however, is National
Party colleagues. Senator Bridget mackenzie has failed to declare sixteen
upgrades on quatus and Virgin flights since joining Parliament in
twenty ten. He says he'd support new rules or a
ban on the practice.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
They have lobbyists that transition from government to staff in
government and then to the corporate world as ament public
relations or government relations. In the corporate world. With the airlines,
the relationship is very cozy, very cozy, as is the banks.
And there are two industries where they're too big to fail,
(08:41):
so the government will support them and prop them up
in hard times. So we did it through the GFC
with the banks, and we did it through COVID with
the airlines. With the government spent some five billion dollars
helping to mothball and pay for the expenses of the
airlines when they couldn't run through the lockdowns, so they're
(09:01):
considered too big the file, so that alone, there needs
to be the highest level of transparency in ethics.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Mister O'Brien says he once received an upgrade for himself
and a staffer, but it wasn't requested and he declared.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
It after the break. A search ends in tragedy on
the Fraser Coast.
Speaker 6 (09:22):
I have white, I have White.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
You're listening to iHeart my Bay Bernier. I'm Taylor Larson,
joined by Bruce Atkinson. A large scale search at Marlborough
has ended in tragedy this week. Darren Kimlin said off
from Leamington Bridge boat Ramp on a solo fishing trip
Saturday morning. The alarm was raised the following day when
he failed to return home. The forty two year olds
boat was found on Monday, and on Tuesday a man's
(09:51):
body was discovered in the search area. Police are investigating
the exact circumstances of the man's death, but it's not
being treated as species.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
There are fifty five thousand names on the meningate in
the Belgian city of Epa. They are the soldiers from
the Commonwealth who are killed in Belgium during World War
I but have no known grave. Six thousand of Australians.
For Remembrance Day on Monday, we're commemorating two of the
men from our region whose names appear on the massive memorial.
David Findlay enlisted in Bunderberg in nineteen sixteen and died
(10:27):
less than a year later, aged twenty nine. Charles Roberts
from Gippey died in nineteen seventeen, aged twenty seven, and
his name is also on the memorial. Every night since
nineteen twenty eight, the buglers of the local fire Brigade
have been playing the Last Post at the Menngate. Benoi
Motrie is the chairman of the Epa Last Post Association.
I spoke with him and I was there working as
(10:47):
a battlefield tour guide, and he says it's an emotional ceremony.
Speaker 7 (10:52):
It's in fact every evening a monument that comes to
life and that brings people together. One hundred years ago
we brought a lot of people together to fight. Now
we bring them together to think about what happened, to
reflect on what happened and maybe to try to go
(11:13):
to better future. One of our aims is to remember
and to continue to honor the fallen, but another aim
is also to maybe to learn from what happened and
to try to go to better future.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
So this ceremony has an important role and has getting
up close towards one hundred years because I think nineteen
twenty eight, which was the first last plot, but a
very important role not just for the visitors but for
the local people as.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
Well as it's a part of our daily life here.
Every evening at seven point thirty police comes, they stop
the traffic. Symbolically, we stop the daily life. We go
back in todds to the First World War and then
we have the whole ceremony, the symbolism around. It's very
good that we stop the traffic, that we go back
(11:58):
in time, and that very leed on what happened. We also,
for example, used the bugle. The bugle was used during
the First World War, so we wanted the same instrument
to be used under the gate for the ceremonies. A
trumpet would be much easier, but the bugle is the
right sound to have under the meningate. And we also
(12:19):
chose in the beginning of the Meningate white mening Gate,
because all the troops left the city center to go
to the east and to the most major battlefields. Who
were over there. A lot of the soldiers who passed
the lions then because there was no real gate, there
were the famous lines there and they passed the lines,
a lot of them not to come back. And so
(12:41):
after the war, Ipri was totally ruins. To make a
long story short, we rebuilded our city and we gave
a little part of our city to the Commonwealth, and
then they built the new Meningate integrated in nineteen twenty seven.
And during that integration you had six bugles of the
Summer Light Infantry who so owned for the first time
(13:02):
the last post there and that touched also the people
at Tanning and also the deeper citizens, of which one
was my great granddad at that time. So he and
some other citizens came together and said, okay, that's what
we have to do. We have to soond every evening
the last post to remember and honor those guys, and
(13:23):
so we organize ourselves, and so we began from nineteen
twenty eight on.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Imagine there's a commitment to keep it going.
Speaker 7 (13:28):
Yes, yes, yes, yes, we are committed to continue to
remember and to honor the fallen of the First World War.
I think the names who are on the monument, nearly
fifty five thousand names and all the names who died
here two hundred and fifty thousand casualties in total for
the common world, are much more important than the numbers
(13:50):
we get under the men gate every evening. So we
do it for the guys on the gate. We do
it for the soldiers who died here. And I think
in the future, I think more and more people know
about our organization, know about Eeber and the First World War.
There used to be a time that the Australians only
knew about Gallipoli, didn't know eeper, or only the very
(14:13):
interested ones. But I think you lost more guys here,
and finally you won the war here, and so I
think it's a very important spot for the Australians to
come here to the to Eber. People sometimes ask me, yeah, yeah,
how long will it continue? Yeah, but if we would
sound one last post ceremony for one soldier who died here,
(14:37):
we still have work until two thy six hundred and
so still a long way to go.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
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Speaker 3 (14:53):
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