September 2, 2024 • 5 mins
An Australian animal handler has been hospitalised after a tiger mauled her at the Gold Coast theme park, Dreamworld.
The woman was transported to hospital on Monday morning in a stable condition, with injuries to her arm.
Australian correspondent Oliver Peterson says investigations have started up, with park staff conducting a thorough review.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business Holly Peters and six PR PERF
Life presenters with us Olly. Hello, Yeah, let's get it
out of the way and go the Wallabies go South Africa.
Whoa on a weekend? Yeah, I'll tell you what, because
you guys beat the Argies by how many points? One?
(00:21):
But I love how you immediately went defensive. You shouldn't
be defensive about this. We lost to the Argies the
first time round. So yeah, I know. So you're not
going to win the Rugby Championship. That's the good thing.
So I think we're going to barrack to South Africa, now, okay, cool.
I really like how kind you are about It's a
lot about the character, Ollie. You enjoy it while it lasts. Mate,
(00:43):
tell me about this this woman. How was she after
the morning? Yeah, so she was one of the handlers
of this particular tiger and she's been more. Her arms
in a bad state. She's okay, she's in a stable
condition in hospital. Obviously her arm's not okay. She suffered
deep laceration. This is on the Gold Coast of course,
at dream World, very very popular with tourists. They've got
(01:04):
about nine tigers there. We don't know exactly what happened
this morning, but she's one of the handlers and they
do offer packages where you can get up in close
within centimeters of feeding these tigers if you're age thirteen
and above, use and tongs. So it's a popular exhibition
at dream World. There's also been two other incidents involving
(01:25):
handlers back in twenty eleven, so it's not like it's
the first time it's happened. And you think maybe dream
World has to consider what they're doing in regards to
their handlers and offering the opportunity for people to go
and feed these tigers, because we've got another handler who's
got some deep lacerations to her arm in hospital in
a stable condition, but it doesn't sound good. What do
we have any idea what caused the tiger to do this? No,
(01:48):
we don't at the moment. We don't have any information
that's come through. There's obviously the investigation on going as
you'd expect. They're say it's an isolator, it's a rare incident.
Their focuses on the team member, so they're not giving
us any info yet. But you know, you can just
imagine what was happening this morning with that handler and
the tiger and probably preparing for some of these opportunities
to feed the tigers. And that's maybe where it's happened. Yeah, hey,
(02:09):
how's the weather in Victoria? What's going on? Well, it's
actually pretty scary. You know. They're getting wind, which they're
calling it basically category three cyclonic conditions, so they're not
getting the rain with it, but getting that sort of wind.
And these wind gusts are now spreading into New South
Wales and actually South Australia and Tasmania. So look, a
lot of Southeastern Australia is absolutely copying it at the moment. Unfortunately,
(02:32):
a woman on the border of New South Wales and
Victoria has died after a tree came down in her home.
There are dozens of schools which have been shut today
as a result of this, people being told to work
at home, plenty of people without power, plenty of people
don't even have telecommunications devices. So it actually just indicates
just how powerful this wind is that is moving through
(02:52):
Southeast Australia at the moment, and the Bureau of Meteorology
expects it to last through the evening. There could be
a few thunderstorms as well. That is going to start
the bat of the state, but certainly they're bracing for
it at the moment. I spoke to my mother before
actually up in Sydney, Heather, and she said they're preparing
for a fair bit of wind later this afternoon. So
I'd hate to be on an aeroplane. Yeah, oh my goodness,
(03:13):
I know you wouldn't want to be at at all. Hey,
what do you make of the spat that's developed between
Jim Charmers and the Reserve Bank. Well, it's convenient, isn't it,
As the Prime Minister was just defending Jim Chalmers there
in the world wise, Yeah, we realized things are going
to be soft Wednesday, but Jim Charmers has come out
to have a crack at the reserve banks. They've been
keeping interest rates too high for too long. Well maybe
(03:34):
if Jim Chalmers looked around the world, that's what every
reserve bank or central bank has been doing around the world.
But it's also because the Reserve Bank came out in
their last minutes and said government spending has been too
high for too long. So look, he made this massive
promise to Australians that inflation would come down to its
target figures by the end of the year and that
interest rates would come down, and he's Jim Chalmers is
(03:54):
weighing his political capital on this heather before the next
federal election, which is due before May of next year.
It's not shaping up that way. Inflation was coming down
last week in the economic figures. But hiding all of
that is the fact that the Albanezi government has given
all Australian's extra money to pay for their electricity bill.
So it's false. Three hundred bucks to every electricity account
(04:14):
holder in Australia's false. It's not as though in flash
and he's actually coming down as much as we are
led to believe. So Jim Chalmers is getting on the offensive.
He's trying to create this idea I told you so
when all of a sudden things look soft on Wednesday.
He's just trying to save his political backside. And I
think Ozsies will probably start to see through all of
this and they'll be making up their own mind with
(04:35):
what they can do with the amount of money they have,
with what they can spend it on, and then they'll
make that decision at the ballot box because the polls
today ain't good for alber and EASi. Again, they're not
good for Dutton either, but they're not pointing a pretty
picture for the government. Yeah, it's a bit of dispration
from Jim Chalmers. Hey, thank you very much, Olie appreciate it.
It's only Peterson six pr per Live presenter. For more
from Heather Duplessy, Allen Drave Listen Lived and News Talk
(04:57):
Said Be from four pm weekdays. Follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
International Correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand Business Holly Peters and six PR PERF
Life presenters with us Olly. Hello, Yeah, let's get it
out of the way and go the Wallabies go South Africa.
Whoa on a weekend? Yeah, I'll tell you what, because
you guys beat the Argies by how many points? One?
(00:21):
But I love how you immediately went defensive. You shouldn't
be defensive about this. We lost to the Argies the
first time round. So yeah, I know. So you're not
going to win the Rugby Championship. That's the good thing.
So I think we're going to barrack to South Africa, now, okay, cool.
I really like how kind you are about It's a
lot about the character, Ollie. You enjoy it while it lasts. Mate,
(00:43):
tell me about this this woman. How was she after
the morning? Yeah, so she was one of the handlers
of this particular tiger and she's been more. Her arms
in a bad state. She's okay, she's in a stable
condition in hospital. Obviously her arm's not okay. She suffered
deep laceration. This is on the Gold Coast of course,
at dream World, very very popular with tourists. They've got
(01:04):
about nine tigers there. We don't know exactly what happened
this morning, but she's one of the handlers and they
do offer packages where you can get up in close
within centimeters of feeding these tigers if you're age thirteen
and above, use and tongs. So it's a popular exhibition
at dream World. There's also been two other incidents involving
(01:25):
handlers back in twenty eleven, so it's not like it's
the first time it's happened. And you think maybe dream
World has to consider what they're doing in regards to
their handlers and offering the opportunity for people to go
and feed these tigers, because we've got another handler who's
got some deep lacerations to her arm in hospital in
a stable condition, but it doesn't sound good. What do
we have any idea what caused the tiger to do this? No,
(01:48):
we don't at the moment. We don't have any information
that's come through. There's obviously the investigation on going as
you'd expect. They're say it's an isolator, it's a rare incident.
Their focuses on the team member, so they're not giving
us any info yet. But you know, you can just
imagine what was happening this morning with that handler and
the tiger and probably preparing for some of these opportunities
to feed the tigers. And that's maybe where it's happened. Yeah, hey,
(02:09):
how's the weather in Victoria? What's going on? Well, it's
actually pretty scary. You know. They're getting wind, which they're
calling it basically category three cyclonic conditions, so they're not
getting the rain with it, but getting that sort of wind.
And these wind gusts are now spreading into New South
Wales and actually South Australia and Tasmania. So look, a
lot of Southeastern Australia is absolutely copying it at the moment. Unfortunately,
(02:32):
a woman on the border of New South Wales and
Victoria has died after a tree came down in her home.
There are dozens of schools which have been shut today
as a result of this, people being told to work
at home, plenty of people without power, plenty of people
don't even have telecommunications devices. So it actually just indicates
just how powerful this wind is that is moving through
(02:52):
Southeast Australia at the moment, and the Bureau of Meteorology
expects it to last through the evening. There could be
a few thunderstorms as well. That is going to start
the bat of the state, but certainly they're bracing for
it at the moment. I spoke to my mother before
actually up in Sydney, Heather, and she said they're preparing
for a fair bit of wind later this afternoon. So
I'd hate to be on an aeroplane. Yeah, oh my goodness,
(03:13):
I know you wouldn't want to be at at all. Hey,
what do you make of the spat that's developed between
Jim Charmers and the Reserve Bank. Well, it's convenient, isn't it,
As the Prime Minister was just defending Jim Chalmers there
in the world wise, Yeah, we realized things are going
to be soft Wednesday, but Jim Charmers has come out
to have a crack at the reserve banks. They've been
keeping interest rates too high for too long. Well maybe
(03:34):
if Jim Chalmers looked around the world, that's what every
reserve bank or central bank has been doing around the world.
But it's also because the Reserve Bank came out in
their last minutes and said government spending has been too
high for too long. So look, he made this massive
promise to Australians that inflation would come down to its
target figures by the end of the year and that
interest rates would come down, and he's Jim Chalmers is
(03:54):
weighing his political capital on this heather before the next
federal election, which is due before May of next year.
It's not shaping up that way. Inflation was coming down
last week in the economic figures. But hiding all of
that is the fact that the Albanezi government has given
all Australian's extra money to pay for their electricity bill.
So it's false. Three hundred bucks to every electricity account
(04:14):
holder in Australia's false. It's not as though in flash
and he's actually coming down as much as we are
led to believe. So Jim Chalmers is getting on the offensive.
He's trying to create this idea I told you so
when all of a sudden things look soft on Wednesday.
He's just trying to save his political backside. And I
think Ozsies will probably start to see through all of
this and they'll be making up their own mind with
(04:35):
what they can do with the amount of money they have,
with what they can spend it on, and then they'll
make that decision at the ballot box because the polls
today ain't good for alber and EASi. Again, they're not
good for Dutton either, but they're not pointing a pretty
picture for the government. Yeah, it's a bit of dispration
from Jim Chalmers. Hey, thank you very much, Olie appreciate it.
It's only Peterson six pr per Live presenter. For more
from Heather Duplessy, Allen Drave Listen Lived and News Talk
(04:57):
Said Be from four pm weekdays. Follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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