Intense weather conditions are kicking off along the southeastern Queensland and northeastern New South Wales coast as Cyclone Alfred inches closer.
It's within 200 kilometres, and is expected to make landfall overnight.
Energy providers report more than 35,000 homes and businesses are now without power.
Australian Correspondent Murray Olds told Mike Hosking residents are feeling the effects of the tropical cyclone well before it makes landfall.
He says 450 millimetres of rain is expected for northern rivers, and winds could exceed up to 155 kilometres an hour.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Me.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'll make Murray aldsers we this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Man, Michael, good morning to you. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was watching an interview with Elbow yesterday. God, he's
boring to interview, isn't he? I mean, what a boring boring.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Man's I've interviewed him three times?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Is like cat cat Karen, Karen, you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
My dear Peter Dutton isn't much better?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
True, but he speaks what was interesting about it? And yes,
I we'll get it's all. It's all tied in with
the weather. They were asking him, Given you won't call
an election this weekend because of the weather, You've now
run out of time and you're going to have to
run a budget and you have to going to go
longer than your thought. Is that how it looks like
it's going to unfold?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, although having said that, and I heard that as well.
But having said that, tropical cyclone Alfred which is dictating terms,
no doubt about that. It's slowed to a virtual crawl overnight.
It's only a walking pace that it heads towards the coast,
and that has created the suggestion it might not be
a category two when it arrives. It could beat down
to a category one and you know, to lay people
(01:05):
like ourselves. You know, that doesn't sound like a hell
of a lot, but apparently it is right now though
the cyclone is still well off the coast, but in
northern New South Wales where we're talking about right now
here you go up to four hundred millimeters of four
hundred and fifty mills of rain could be dumped across
the northern rivers this morning with wind gusts of one
(01:26):
hundred and fifty five k's an hour, and Alfred Mike
is still well out to sea. So the people of
particularly Southeast Queensland, they are bunkered down big time. You've
got flights canceled, schools are shut, you've got businesses all
boarded up, and it's really just a case of wait
and see. They've done all they can to preposition, you know,
(01:48):
flood rescue boats and you know the Australian Defense Force
has been called in. This is all hands on deck
big time and as you say, it could impact very
much the calling of the election. But if Alfred does
cool off a bit, maybe Albaneze could still go to
the Governor General on Sunday because he's moderate situation from
(02:09):
the Emergency Central headquarters in Canberra. He's not leaving his
post until Alfred makes landfall.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, well, fair enough to But then the next question is,
because of the timing and you need thirty three days,
if you can't go this weekend and you rule out
easter and all of that sort of stuff, he's then
going to run a budget. Does he want to run
a budget?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I mean probably not, you know, I mean there's some
decent stuff to talk about. Interest rates, Okay, one little cut,
maybe another one coming down the turnpike. GDP in the
December quarter came in at zero point six percent of growth.
That makes the annual growth rate one point three percent.
You can talk about that. That's after seven successive declines.
(02:48):
You've got decent retail spending figures, notwithstanding the Boss of
Country Roads saying buy more paths from me please. So look,
there's stuff to talk about. But right now is my
figure on this Right now it's Coalition fifty one to
forty nine to Labor two party preferred. Peter Dutton still
trails alb and easiest preferred Prime minister, and there's been
(03:13):
a cash splash. We're drowning and bloody election promises from
both sides everything Labour says. The coalition's matching everything a
coalition puts up just about Labour's matching. The big area
where perhaps they are differing is in terms of the
public service. It's a bit trumpy and what Dutton and
(03:34):
company are talking about here is slacking the public service.
Labor's bloated, the barocracy, all this stuff. It's the big
impost on the taxpayer, big spending, a big government spend
on the public service that is really mushroomed under Albanezi.
That's the line from Peter Dutton. Labour is saying, Mike,
as you might expect, trust us with your health and
look at the economy. We are heading in the right direction.
(03:57):
W ir.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was just saying while you were getting a reconnected
w A's this week, And what a weird place wa is,
isn't it. It's sort of it. I mean, geez, it's
not good for democracy when you win fifty three or
fifty nine seats and they're going to lose a few
this time, but they're still going to win the election.
And it's just the money, isn't it. I mean, they've
got so much money they don't know what to do
with it. And people can't be bother changing the government.
(04:17):
Why would you win. Everything's good in the sunshining, mate.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They're sitting on a giant iron or mine. That's all
WA's mate. It hasn't been any coal over that side
of the country, all the coals in the East Coast,
which no one wants anymore. Everybody wants the iron or
of Western Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Exactly. I know you're busy, Murray. I know you're running
a newsroom. I know you're a news titan in that
part of the world. So you you crack on with it.
You get those you get those little in turns in there,
and you tell them how it's done. You show them
how it's done, mate, the Murray Old's way.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Taking Murray Murray Olds. He's in charge of stuff this morning.
He says, I don't have time to be on this program,
Like God, I've got stuff to do. A He's a
man of He's a man of immense power, influence, wealth, mystery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Me.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
I'll make Murray aldsers we this morning.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Man, Michael, good morning to you. Now.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
I was watching an interview with Elbow yesterday. God, he's
boring to interview, isn't he? I mean, what a boring boring.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Man's I've interviewed him three times?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Is like cat cat Karen, Karen, you.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
My dear Peter Dutton isn't much better?
Speaker 2 (00:22):
True, but he speaks what was interesting about it? And yes,
I we'll get it's all. It's all tied in with
the weather. They were asking him, Given you won't call
an election this weekend because of the weather, You've now
run out of time and you're going to have to
run a budget and you have to going to go
longer than your thought. Is that how it looks like
it's going to unfold?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
Yeah, although having said that, and I heard that as well.
But having said that, tropical cyclone Alfred which is dictating terms,
no doubt about that. It's slowed to a virtual crawl overnight.
It's only a walking pace that it heads towards the coast,
and that has created the suggestion it might not be
a category two when it arrives. It could beat down
to a category one and you know, to lay people
(01:05):
like ourselves. You know, that doesn't sound like a hell
of a lot, but apparently it is right now though
the cyclone is still well off the coast, but in
northern New South Wales where we're talking about right now
here you go up to four hundred millimeters of four
hundred and fifty mills of rain could be dumped across
the northern rivers this morning with wind gusts of one
(01:26):
hundred and fifty five k's an hour, and Alfred Mike
is still well out to sea. So the people of
particularly Southeast Queensland, they are bunkered down big time. You've
got flights canceled, schools are shut, you've got businesses all
boarded up, and it's really just a case of wait
and see. They've done all they can to preposition, you know,
(01:48):
flood rescue boats and you know the Australian Defense Force
has been called in. This is all hands on deck
big time and as you say, it could impact very
much the calling of the election. But if Alfred does
cool off a bit, maybe Albaneze could still go to
the Governor General on Sunday because he's moderate situation from
(02:09):
the Emergency Central headquarters in Canberra. He's not leaving his
post until Alfred makes landfall.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Okay, well, fair enough to But then the next question is,
because of the timing and you need thirty three days,
if you can't go this weekend and you rule out
easter and all of that sort of stuff, he's then
going to run a budget. Does he want to run
a budget?
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I mean probably not, you know, I mean there's some
decent stuff to talk about. Interest rates, Okay, one little cut,
maybe another one coming down the turnpike. GDP in the
December quarter came in at zero point six percent of growth.
That makes the annual growth rate one point three percent.
You can talk about that. That's after seven successive declines.
(02:48):
You've got decent retail spending figures, notwithstanding the Boss of
Country Roads saying buy more paths from me please. So look,
there's stuff to talk about. But right now is my
figure on this Right now it's Coalition fifty one to
forty nine to Labor two party preferred. Peter Dutton still
trails alb and easiest preferred Prime minister, and there's been
(03:13):
a cash splash. We're drowning and bloody election promises from
both sides everything Labour says. The coalition's matching everything a
coalition puts up just about Labour's matching. The big area
where perhaps they are differing is in terms of the
public service. It's a bit trumpy and what Dutton and
(03:34):
company are talking about here is slacking the public service.
Labor's bloated, the barocracy, all this stuff. It's the big
impost on the taxpayer, big spending, a big government spend
on the public service that is really mushroomed under Albanezi.
That's the line from Peter Dutton. Labour is saying, Mike,
as you might expect, trust us with your health and
look at the economy. We are heading in the right direction.
(03:57):
W ir.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
I was just saying while you were getting a reconnected
w A's this week, And what a weird place wa is,
isn't it. It's sort of it. I mean, geez, it's
not good for democracy when you win fifty three or
fifty nine seats and they're going to lose a few
this time, but they're still going to win the election.
And it's just the money, isn't it. I mean, they've
got so much money they don't know what to do
with it. And people can't be bother changing the government.
(04:17):
Why would you win. Everything's good in the sunshining, mate.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They're sitting on a giant iron or mine. That's all
WA's mate. It hasn't been any coal over that side
of the country, all the coals in the East Coast,
which no one wants anymore. Everybody wants the iron or
of Western Australia.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Exactly. I know you're busy, Murray. I know you're running
a newsroom. I know you're a news titan in that
part of the world. So you you crack on with it.
You get those you get those little in turns in there,
and you tell them how it's done. You show them
how it's done, mate, the Murray Old's way.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Taking Murray Murray Olds. He's in charge of stuff this morning.
He says, I don't have time to be on this program,
Like God, I've got stuff to do. A He's a
man of He's a man of immense power, influence, wealth, mystery.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to
News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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