Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on police hunting down a driver following deadly NSW road rage incident

Police are on the hunt as details about a deadly road rage accident in NSW continue to emerge.

Authorities have revealed a 27-year-old was killed after he got out of his vehicle to respond to threats from the driver following him.

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says witnesses have claimed the alleged killer was driving a ute - and an appeal has been made for dashcam footage.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murriold's Assie correspondents with us. Now he mus very good afternoon, Heather. Okay,
how's this going down? The plan to build the seven
new nuclear.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Plants, Well, no surprise when I tell you that it
depends which way you vote. Over here, Coalition supporters, those
who like Peter Dutton are propping Labor fans are saying
it's absolute nonsense what Dutton is proposing. Basically, the climate
wars are back on over here at big, big time,
and the opposition, Heather is gambling that have promised to

(00:29):
bring a nuclear power to this country will win enough
support to kick labor out of opposite the next election.
Peter Dutton's promising seven nuclear power plants at seven different
sites around Australia. Two he says will be operational in
eleven years if the Coalition gets up next year at
the election. He's promising to provide admissions free base load power,

(00:53):
which of course is a critical part of Australia's energy mix.
Large scale reactors for New South Wales, Queenslander Notorious, smaller
units for South Australia and Western Australia, all to be
government owned. Okay, so good, so far, as I say,
coalition fans are saying new beauty, but what the critics
are saying is, wow, it's going to be well for

(01:14):
a start off. Can you give us some costings. Who's
going to fund this? Well, the government and taxpayers will
own it. Who's going to build and design it? The
only ones getting built and design around the world right
now are being built and designed by Russia and China.
He's promising more detailed costings after the next election, will
lab us you know rightly saying well, hang on, how
on earth can we back this kind of bit vague

(01:37):
promise and how much are we going to be up for?
And the experts, the science, the science leaders have here
are saying nuclear power head that will simply be massively
more expensive than renewables. So again, the climate wars are
on and we're all.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Most or a fort explaim something to me though, because
if it's falling largely down political lines, right, so if
you vote right, you're going to love it, and if you
vote lifting it shouldn't people who vote left actually be
on board with this because your alliance is a country
on coal is way too high and anything to help
the climate would be a good thing for a left
wing voter, wouldn't.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It, Well, yes it would, but to the extent that
we need to know how much we're going to be
paying for this very expensive nuclear option. Peter Dutton is
look the citiusirose as our premiere scientific organization in Australia.
The best scientific brains in the country have said, listen,
this will not be on time. It'll be way beyond

(02:35):
twenty forty when the first powers coming off the grid
and atomic energy plant. We have no idea how much
it's going to cost, who's going to design and build it.
There's just all often the never never, And it's basically
splitting down this ideological line. The National Party hates renewables,
said bugger Off. We want to keep digging out coal
and farting cows and all the rest of it. And

(02:57):
Peter Dutton is trying to exploit the political prism, the
divide that exists in Australia. He's trying to exploit that
to win office. And fair enough, I mean, go your hardest,
feed a dub but a lot of people aren't buying it.
And I understand what you're saying about the left. Anything
to drive down a mission shore, but at what cost
and how long, that's the big questions.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Well, that is an argument that I would share with
the left. At what cost and how long? Hey, what
happened with this road rage incident in Sydney. How do
you go from being angry at someone to mowing them down?

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Well, exactly, and there's a whole bunch of different questions
being asked. The young guy twenty seven years old, he
was hit and run this morning, died at the scene
in western Sydney. The police trying to find the driver.
Victim wearing high vis clothing. Road very very busy. Parents
were dropping children off at school, very nearby the shopping
center as well. Some suggestion it was a ranging road

(03:51):
rage incident based on witnesses who said, ge whiz, this
guy was driving away in one thousand miles an hour.
Very good description of the ute involved and now an
appeal of course dash and footage. Mars.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Thank you. I really appreciate your time. As always, look
after yourself. We'll talk to you next week. That's Murray
Old's Australia correspondent.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
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