Murray Olds: Australian correspondent on the two dead bodies found on a boat in Sydney

Two people have been found dead on a boat in Sydney's north.

The bodies of the man and the woman were discovered on Wednesday evening after authorities investigated a mooring at Tunks Park, Cammeray.  

Australian correspondent Murray Olds says investigations are still ongoing.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Murray Old Joys as he mus.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
And we get a mate an afternoon.

Speaker 1 (00:05):
All right, this is a bit concerning. Australians have been
told to get out of Lebanon.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Sure have that's right.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Look, there's a quarter million Australians who were either born
there or who are descended from Lebanese migrants to Australia,
and a lot of them have family and at any
given part of the year there's going to be thousands
and thousands of Australians Lebanese Australians visiting Lebanon.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
So it's extremely serious. Kenny Wong made that point. She's
the Foreign Minister here.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
She said get out of Lebanon while there's still commercial
flights available. That video message overnight urging Australians to basically flee.
If you can't get a plane, get on a car,
get on a highway and get out because you know,
the temperature has just gone boomed straight up after the
death of that Hesbala commander and Lebanon, the assassination of

(00:55):
the Hummas leader in Iran, the government fiers Beirut Airport's
going to be closed down, you know, in a minute,
and so that's going to leave that unreliable land route.
Even I've forgotten about this. I was reminded this afternoon.
I heard a news car and I read a news
story about a Dunkirk style evacuation that happened back in
twenty six. Five thousand ozzies were taken by sea from

(01:17):
Lebanon over to Cyprus. So a pretty extraordinary times then.
And I'll tell you what, it's pretty scary right now.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
It just reminds you that Hebela's base was in Lebanon.
And of course you and I are both old enough
to remember that Lebanon used to be the rivi era
of the ministerranean of the Arab world.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
It used to was beautiful.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
It was a lovely place to go to. It now, well,
not so much. They found a couple of bodies on
a yacht near Sydney.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Not sure what this is about. A couple either in
their fifties or sixties. They were on a yacht just
here in Sydney's, you know, immediate north of the Harbor Bridge.
There's a marina there, beautiful marina, lovely part of the world,
gorgeous yacht.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
A couple went on.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Board on on that chew Day night and the alarm
was raised when they didn't come off the boat. Police
went there last night found the couple dead man and
a woman in their fifties or sixties. We don't know
at this point, nor do we know if this is
tragically a murder suicide or was it simply a couple
of deaths because maybe there's a gas bottle leaking. We

(02:18):
don't know, but police did detect the smell of gas
apparently when they went on board, had to call fire
and rescue in to make the place safe, and those
bodies removed this morning. We'll find out more, I'm sure,
either later today or tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
All Right, to the Olympics, which of course is dominating
news around the world. How's Australia going in the Olympics?

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Yeah, thought pretty well, a bunch of gold medals. Although
the swimming world was the Australian swimming world was upended
last night when thirty year old swede Sarah Sustrom Sonstrom
They've got that pronunciation right.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
She's thirty.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
She's been gamed in the Olympic Games for sixteen years.
She was the grandmar in the field and she won
a splendid race.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
My goodness, what a race by that woman.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
Fantastic and obliterated the Aussie girls twenty five year old
Shana Jack and twenty year old Molly O'Callahan. They were
the fastest two qualifiers. They finished fourth and fifth, so
that was pretty big. Also the big news here, Kyle Chalmers,
he's twenty six years old, won the one hundred meters
gold medal freestyle race and Rio finished second in Tokyo.

(03:23):
Finished second again last night to this Chinese wonder kid
nineteen years old name of pan Zan Lee. Now there's
some sort of controversy, he says, Kyle Charmers ignored him
at the start of the Olympic Games. But all these
thwods are in the zone if he ignored them. I
mean after the race, Charmers, he finished second and the

(03:43):
third place get it.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
They were all.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
Hugs and smiles with the young Chinese guy. But it's
the manner of the win that's got people talking. This
guy nineteen years old. He has won, he said, a
new world record, first world record in the pool. But
he's won by for a second. And this isn't a
race that's determined by one one hundreds of a second.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
Gee, how would you do that with a body length
in front.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
How would you do that? How would you do that?

Speaker 2 (04:08):
I wonder, Yeah, it is training.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm not going to point the finger at twenty three
Chinese swimmers who were who are tested positive to a
drug and then were cleared by WADA and the Chinese
swimming Look, no one wants.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
To go down that path. It's a it's just a
bloody dead end. It's horrible.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
You want to think that everybody is competing on a
level playing field, don't we We all want to think that.
But someone going to say, gee, where's the New Zealand
rugby women they were on the juice?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Well no, you don't say that.

Speaker 3 (04:38):
You've got hard evidence, but there's just so much smell
around Chinese swimming that you can't. I mean, as soon
as that kid won the race, the social media world
lit up, So let's wait and see mars.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I thank you so much. That is Murray Olds from Australia.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
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