🌆 What Do You Think About 'Sister Cities'?

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda jam Nation.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
What is your feeling on Sister Cities?

Speaker 1 (00:05):
You know it's slightly daggy. Is this like having a
pen friend or something, or maybe a billet?

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Billet?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
That's what it is.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
You parents, and then you have schooled it.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
The school had it like your netball team, you'd have
to have a billet.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
I haven't heard that word for so long. We had that.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
Billets come one time and they just stayed in my brother.
My brother and I shared a room, so we had
to go and sleep on the divan in the rumpus
room and they locked us out of our own room.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm having My brother had a billet for some sporting
thing and he started talking to me like my brother,
did I remember this billet saying to me, You've got
a head like a half suck mango sea. A mom
had to tell him to stop.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Was he from Queensland?

Speaker 3 (00:47):
I don't know now that was an expression my brother used.
The billet just picked up the abuse my brother was hurling.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
That's uncalled for. That is uncalled Did you break out
Cameron's name is Shirley.

Speaker 3 (01:00):
Even when I was small, I used to say Cameron's
name is Shirley, and it drove him to distraction and
Mom would say, Cameron, calm down.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know your name's not Shirley.

Speaker 4 (01:09):
No.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
So sister cities, by and large, councils love them because
it's a good opportunity to visit, to visit infrastructure.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, but you're not going to go to downtown Nigeria,
are to No one's going to Syria.

Speaker 2 (01:23):
No one's going let's go check how Syria is going.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Are you going to go to Tokyo or something.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
Ratepayers aren't big fans of sister city.

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's traveling billets.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Yeah. This was reported on ACA last night because Blacktown
City Council has adopted another sister city.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
No, they need to be here and do their job.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
We don't need sister city.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
What do we need a sist city for?

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Blacktown City Council has swiped right on bag Yo City
in the Philippines. Council is already coupled up with cities
in China, South Korea, New Zealand and Ireland. Would you
rather than have a sister city.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
And spend money on that or no?

Speaker 5 (02:00):
They didn't focus on your I don't think it does
help the rate payer. I think that councils should be
focused on roads, rates and rubbish, so they should be
spending money on potholes more playgrounds.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
Really, honestly, there's no playgrounds here at all, and like,
if there is, they're so far away over there.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
The potholes are ridiculous.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
The amount of people that I know that have tripped
and fallen because of these potholes and broken.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Their legs absolutely is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
How many people do you know that have tripped and
fallen and broken their legs in a pothole?

Speaker 1 (02:30):
What don't you drive on?

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Actually I walks over a pothole. I had a pothole
the other day and it was so big A had
a gift shop.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
At the point. Did you break your leg?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
I didn't break my leg, though it took me three
days to get out. What about that other guy? The
playgrounds they're over there.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
As the road?

Speaker 2 (02:48):
You know? Just couldie your area? Does that have a
sister Let me just quit draw the Google. Could you
here is a sub of Sydney which has several sister cities?

Speaker 1 (02:58):
Does it?

Speaker 2 (02:59):
You've got gung Zoo China, Italy, Wellington, New Zealand, Portsmouth?

Speaker 3 (03:04):
And how do I go to Italy as a as
an envoy? A trade envoy from couldji take some sunburnt
skin over and bring back something delight?

Speaker 2 (03:12):
I think you should go about yours.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
What about you?

Speaker 2 (03:15):
We love you Portsmouth Kronula does not have a sister city.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
You're open on the southern.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
The Southern Shire has a sister relationship with Shoe City.
Sister relationship Shoe City in Japan.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Sister relationship is not the phrase.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
The Japanese on board sister relationships.

Speaker 3 (03:34):
Sister city as a sister relationship sounds a little bit
sus It's with Tasmania.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
We're into the Japan where like Japanese, we've got usc Uh.
That's the Shire that's.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Be careful walking over those potholes.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
Well what about Cogo's sister city is Hong Kong, and
you remember the Hong.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't think we call them the Hongknese.

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Heaves a gift the Bruce Lee statue, which I drive
past quite regularly just to have a look at. Not
all the constituents were happy about that.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
He's never been to Cobra and he's not going to
he's dead. But thank you to the Honkinese, Canese