Sydney's long-awaited driverless metro train line has been launched, with up to 200,000 commuters being expected to use the service.
The line runs from Chatswood in Sydney's north to Sydenham in the inner west via tunnels under Sydney Harbour.
Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says the project is expected to draw in more international visitors, offsetting the $20 billion spent on the project.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Live presenters with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Ole get A Heather as a preemptive strike. I want
to congratulate South Africa on their big win over the
weekend against the West Indies in the second cricket Chests.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
How about the Wallabies though? Eh, do you know what? Though?
I wasn't It wasn't even the pathetic score that the
Wallabies rolled in. It was up what's going on with
their jerseys? That's the thing that caught my attention. The
startings look really orange, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, and it's really wets. You know, Perth we don't
get much rain. We've got a lot of rain on
the weekend. It really helped the South Africans, which, by
the way, the stadium oco was about sixty forty in
favor of the spring Box. Even one of my New
Zealand colleagues, Michelle, said she was barracking for the spring
Box on Saturday. I told her to think about where
she's living.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, come on, I mean you'd be siding with
us with nance you would learn barracking for the Aussies
on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, I do love to support the underdog and I
feel like you guys need a break. Having said that,
you might get your come up and so on us
because when we're going to face the spring box very shortly,
I think we're in for a little bit of a
hard time. Ollie. Listen, if this metro service which opened
in Sydney, it was opening in Auckland, the entire country
would be there to have a look at it. Are
you guys going to do the same thing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Absolutely, they reckon. There's two hundred thousand people going
to bought it today in and of itself. That's how
excited people are in Sydney. And it is game changing.
I mean put it in this context. It is the
biggest piece of infrastructure that New South Wales has constructed
since the opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and that
has been life changing obviously for plenty of Sydney siders.
This is a twenty two billion dollar project and it
(01:29):
enables people from North Sydney and Chatswood's on the North
Shore to get across the other side of the city
under the under the water there where the Sydney Harbor
Bridge would be. On the Metro railink. The trains are
pretty snazzy I've caught these trains before in some of
the first iteration of this new train line. But it's
going to cut down the services from the north Shore
into the city by somewhere between twenty and twenty five minutes.
(01:51):
So this is awesome and I really mean that because
this is going to make Sydney an even greater global
city than it already is. So look, it's expensive twenty
two billion dollars, but I reckon they're going to get
their bang for their buck.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I mean these kinds of things you never really
regret doing. The may listeners to the gambling ads, are
they actually going to be limited?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that's the multi billion dollar question. Obviously, a lot
of the sporting codes in Australia rely on gambling revenue
and we have seen a push and it's even coming
from the backbenches of the government to basically get rid
of gambling ads, particularly around the time of play, so
that you know a lot of children who are influenced
by this and obviously going to their phones and then
(02:28):
putting on a multi or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Are they going to do it?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, already, you've seen the AFL, You've seen Raby, you've
seen Cricket come out and say if you do that,
all the junior program's going to cost three or four
times as much and we're going to be in strife.
I reckon they're going to come to some sort of
agreement here there, because this poll that's out through the
Financial Review today shows that Australians actually don't want gambling
ads banned, They just want to see less of them.
So I think they'll find some sort of middle ground
here restrict the amount of gambling ads that we can consume,
(02:54):
but I don't think they're going to get rid of
them all together right now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And listen to the kids who are spending all the
time on the phone. How old are these kids who
are spending a couple of hours on TikTok every day?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So we're talking about Australian kids between ten and fifteen
spending up to two hours per day on TikTok, Now,
I mean that's probably right. I don't know about you.
I get those ipone notifications myself every week and they're
telling me I'm spending you know, four or five hours
a day, and I use, excuse all, this is my job.
But if you think about kids and they're spending two
hours looking at these reels and these video after video
after videos. That's a lot, isn't it to consume it?
(03:26):
We don't know what they're watching, do we. So there
is obviously a huge push in Australia at the moment
to try and push the age of access to social
media to sixteen, and obviously this is going to be
used as some sort of ammunition to make that argument
and license all of these social media platforms.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have you figured out how you're going to manage it
for your kids when they come to this age.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't know, honestly. I mean my eldest is now six,
and you know, he just picks up the iPad and
plays games like educational games. But it does worry. Even
my two year old this morning is playing some sort
of pepper Pig game. Like the fact that he even
knows how to use the iPad and turner on that's
a worry, right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah no, And that's like if you think about how
how long it took, you just understand yourself. Phone all
these guys get it immediately. Ollie, thank you for that, mate.
Olli Peterson's six pr POTH Live presenter. Yeah, this is
the thing, right, So I got a girlfriend who I
reckon we mate is year nine nine in November and
pretty much hasn't had anything in the way of screen
(04:20):
time yet. And that's kind of your parent goal, isn't it.
And she and I were talking at the weekend about
Jonathan Hayt's book and Just Generation, which is the one
lying next to my bed at the moment actually, which
I need to get on too. It's the next book
I'm going to read. And because this is the thing,
this is the worry of the modern parent, is how
much of the screen you give the kiddies. Anyway, So
my little dude, he doesn't get that much screen. I
don't know what's happening when I'm not at home, to
(04:41):
be honest, but when I'm at home, he doesn't get
that much screen. Gets a little bit of pepper peg
every now and again as a little treat, you know,
just so Bunny can do some work and stuff like that.
But anyway, one of the things he does get is
he's allowed to watch videos of himself on the cell phone,
right because it's sometimes you know, he's two years old.
I mean, like I got to know and a foot
stamp this morning. No, and so you've got to find
(05:01):
a way sometimes to distract themselves. Come, I'll be like Eggy.
Come over here, Mummy, you can watch you can watch
a little bit of Iggy on the phone. He already
knows how to go to the next one. He knows
how to unmute it so he can hear the sound,
he knows how to press play. It is alarming how
quickly they learn it and how adept they are at it.
So thoughts and prayers to literally everyone having children at
(05:22):
the moment, because unlike much much like Ollie, I have
no bloody idea how we're going to handle this. For
more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news
Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
Oliver Peterson six PR Perth Live presenters with us.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Ole get A Heather as a preemptive strike. I want
to congratulate South Africa on their big win over the
weekend against the West Indies in the second cricket Chests.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
How about the Wallabies though? Eh, do you know what? Though?
I wasn't It wasn't even the pathetic score that the
Wallabies rolled in. It was up what's going on with
their jerseys? That's the thing that caught my attention. The
startings look really orange, aren't they.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah, and it's really wets. You know, Perth we don't
get much rain. We've got a lot of rain on
the weekend. It really helped the South Africans, which, by
the way, the stadium oco was about sixty forty in
favor of the spring Box. Even one of my New
Zealand colleagues, Michelle, said she was barracking for the spring
Box on Saturday. I told her to think about where
she's living.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
I mean, come on, I mean you'd be siding with
us with nance you would learn barracking for the Aussies
on Sunday night.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Well, I do love to support the underdog and I
feel like you guys need a break. Having said that,
you might get your come up and so on us
because when we're going to face the spring box very shortly,
I think we're in for a little bit of a
hard time. Ollie. Listen, if this metro service which opened
in Sydney, it was opening in Auckland, the entire country
would be there to have a look at it. Are
you guys going to do the same thing?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh? Absolutely, they reckon. There's two hundred thousand people going
to bought it today in and of itself. That's how
excited people are in Sydney. And it is game changing.
I mean put it in this context. It is the
biggest piece of infrastructure that New South Wales has constructed
since the opening of the Sydney Harbor Bridge, and that
has been life changing obviously for plenty of Sydney siders.
This is a twenty two billion dollar project and it
(01:29):
enables people from North Sydney and Chatswood's on the North
Shore to get across the other side of the city
under the under the water there where the Sydney Harbor
Bridge would be. On the Metro railink. The trains are
pretty snazzy I've caught these trains before in some of
the first iteration of this new train line. But it's
going to cut down the services from the north Shore
into the city by somewhere between twenty and twenty five minutes.
(01:51):
So this is awesome and I really mean that because
this is going to make Sydney an even greater global
city than it already is. So look, it's expensive twenty
two billion dollars, but I reckon they're going to get
their bang for their buck.
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Yeah, I mean these kinds of things you never really
regret doing. The may listeners to the gambling ads, are
they actually going to be limited?
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that's the multi billion dollar question. Obviously, a lot
of the sporting codes in Australia rely on gambling revenue
and we have seen a push and it's even coming
from the backbenches of the government to basically get rid
of gambling ads, particularly around the time of play, so
that you know a lot of children who are influenced
by this and obviously going to their phones and then
(02:28):
putting on a multi or whatever it might be.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Are they going to do it?
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Well, already, you've seen the AFL, You've seen Raby, you've
seen Cricket come out and say if you do that,
all the junior program's going to cost three or four
times as much and we're going to be in strife.
I reckon they're going to come to some sort of
agreement here there, because this poll that's out through the
Financial Review today shows that Australians actually don't want gambling
ads banned, They just want to see less of them.
So I think they'll find some sort of middle ground
here restrict the amount of gambling ads that we can consume,
(02:54):
but I don't think they're going to get rid of
them all together right now.
Speaker 1 (02:57):
And listen to the kids who are spending all the
time on the phone. How old are these kids who
are spending a couple of hours on TikTok every day?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
So we're talking about Australian kids between ten and fifteen
spending up to two hours per day on TikTok, Now,
I mean that's probably right. I don't know about you.
I get those ipone notifications myself every week and they're
telling me I'm spending you know, four or five hours
a day, and I use, excuse all, this is my job.
But if you think about kids and they're spending two
hours looking at these reels and these video after video
after videos. That's a lot, isn't it to consume it?
(03:26):
We don't know what they're watching, do we. So there
is obviously a huge push in Australia at the moment
to try and push the age of access to social
media to sixteen, and obviously this is going to be
used as some sort of ammunition to make that argument
and license all of these social media platforms.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Have you figured out how you're going to manage it
for your kids when they come to this age.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
I don't know, honestly. I mean my eldest is now six,
and you know, he just picks up the iPad and
plays games like educational games. But it does worry. Even
my two year old this morning is playing some sort
of pepper Pig game. Like the fact that he even
knows how to use the iPad and turner on that's
a worry, right.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah no, And that's like if you think about how
how long it took, you just understand yourself. Phone all
these guys get it immediately. Ollie, thank you for that, mate.
Olli Peterson's six pr POTH Live presenter. Yeah, this is
the thing, right, So I got a girlfriend who I
reckon we mate is year nine nine in November and
pretty much hasn't had anything in the way of screen
(04:20):
time yet. And that's kind of your parent goal, isn't it.
And she and I were talking at the weekend about
Jonathan Hayt's book and Just Generation, which is the one
lying next to my bed at the moment actually, which
I need to get on too. It's the next book
I'm going to read. And because this is the thing,
this is the worry of the modern parent, is how
much of the screen you give the kiddies. Anyway, So
my little dude, he doesn't get that much screen. I
don't know what's happening when I'm not at home, to
(04:41):
be honest, but when I'm at home, he doesn't get
that much screen. Gets a little bit of pepper peg
every now and again as a little treat, you know,
just so Bunny can do some work and stuff like that.
But anyway, one of the things he does get is
he's allowed to watch videos of himself on the cell phone,
right because it's sometimes you know, he's two years old.
I mean, like I got to know and a foot
stamp this morning. No, and so you've got to find
(05:01):
a way sometimes to distract themselves. Come, I'll be like Eggy.
Come over here, Mummy, you can watch you can watch
a little bit of Iggy on the phone. He already
knows how to go to the next one. He knows
how to unmute it so he can hear the sound,
he knows how to press play. It is alarming how
quickly they learn it and how adept they are at it.
So thoughts and prayers to literally everyone having children at
(05:22):
the moment, because unlike much much like Ollie, I have
no bloody idea how we're going to handle this. For
more from Heather Duplessy Allen Drive, listen live to news
Talks it'd be from four pm weekdays, or follow the
podcast on iHeartRadio
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