October 7, 2024 • 6 mins
Australian correspondent Oliver Petersen joins Jack Tame to discuss today's repatriation flight from Lebanon, work from home days becoming a thing of the past, and NRL expansion plans.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And six PR Perth Life presenter Oli Peterson is with
us this afternoon go to Olie get A Jack. So
it is the October seventh anniversary and the first repatriation
flight from Lebanon are touching down today.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, that's going to land just after seven o'clock tonight
Sydney time. There's about two hundred people on board. They
left Lebanon, went to Cyprus. It's one of two flights
which is being operated by Quantus on behalf of the
Australian government, so they're flying back to Australia free of charge.
There's expected to be another three hundred odd passengers on
the other flight, which is due to touch jet down
(00:34):
on Wednesday. These flights, there's still plenty of people in Lebanon,
plenty of Australians in Lebanon at the moment saying they
are unable to get out of the country. Yeah, are
unable to get to Cyprus and get onto these Mercy
flights back to Australia. But at this stage there are
no other plans for additional flights. But I mean it's
obviously a moving beast at the moment, so there could
be other announcements later in the week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Just just talk to us about things on the ground today,
because I know there was a lot of contention heading
into the anniversary about protests around the country, you know,
particularly in Sydney. I think at one stage the police
said they didn't want them to go ahead, and then
they relent and said no, maybe it is a good
idea that they go ahead. How have things been so
far today? So so far.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Things haven't really kicked into gear, and it's meant to
be later this afternoon in Sydney. We saw some protests
around the nation over the weekend. Here where I am
in Perth, there was about three hundred or so people
that gathered in the middle of our CBD on Saturday afternoon.
It was mostly peaceful. There was one particular protester who
was carrying with them a particular placard with the face
(01:39):
of a Hesbala leader and was asked to remove that
by police. Likeally, there's been a bit of to and
fro about whether or not that person should have been arrested.
But I do worry about what might happen in Sydney
this afternoon because it's not just people who are joining
the cause on behalf of being say pro Palestinian protesters.
It's looping in a lot of other groups jack for
causes that have absolutely nothing to do with anything in
(02:01):
the Middle East. I think there's a few professional protests
taking advantage of the fact. In Sydney today it is
the Queen or stop to Queen anymore, as it's King
Charles's holiday birthday weekend, so they're going to make the
most of protesting this afternoon in the CBDSU.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine that that is going to
be a huge event, So we'll keep a close eye
on things there. Hey, working from home days are numbered.
Bosses are all day staff back in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Dell all the computer giant and flight Center telling all
the stuff they got to come back to work. And
in fact, there was a only a couple of weeks ago.
KPMG Australia said that eighty two percent of CEOs believe
everybody will be back in the office by twenty twenty seven.
We're almost getting an announcement from lots of different businesses
at the moment that they're telling their staff to come
back to work. But interestingly a lot of public sector
(02:49):
workers are starting to find in their latest pay and
enterprise bargaining agreements that in fact they're being offered nine
day work fortnights to try and retain the staff. Now
they're being told they'll have to work more so in
extra forty five minutes per day to access that second
Friday off every other week. But maybe that's going to
be the compromise. Year staff have to go back to
(03:09):
the office. They'll be able to nego s yet these
ideas and Okay, I'll come back, but I don't want
to be there every Wednesday, and you know, eventually don't
want to be there every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Would would you do the forty five a day for
a day off every fortnight?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I mean, we can't do it in this game,
can we? But if I was doing something else, yeah,
I mean happy would it be having every second Friday off?
Like good luck to them?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's it's interesting
that they're offering that. I mean that the order for
the public service here's not an order, but in a
directive is that that you know, they're expecting a few
more people to be back in the office than perhaps
have been in the post COVID era. You sort of
get the sense that this is not something you know,
this is this is kind of sweeping into the public
seat that having already been instituted in the private sect
(03:50):
for some time ago. The NRL expansion plans are on ice,
at least for some of the teams, because the dollars
don't it up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, this is what it looks like. It was very
interesting Grand Final Day, obviously in all the action on
the Panthers beating the storm, but what was actually happening
off the field was Peter Velandi's the chair of the
aar LC, was holding all these different interviews and all
these radio stations around Sydney and obviously we have a
bit of skin in the game over here in Perth
because they're about to revive the Bears from North Sydney
(04:19):
and make them the Western Bears. And we were look,
we all sort of given the nod nod, wink wink wink. Hey,
this this is going to happen, like there is an
announcement coming this week. All of a sudden, he reckons
it doesn't stack up. The finances are not there. That's
the Perth bid, he says. All the other bids aren't
really stacking up. The only one that's stacking up is
the bid from Puppy and New Guinea whenever went's underwritten
by the federal government, the China six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It's going to stack up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But
the but person not going to be getting its team.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We don't know, we don't know. Frantically, and I was
talking today to the Bier organizers and they're saying, no,
we're still negotiating. I think it's going to be on track.
I think they can just try and sense they can
get a few more dollars out of either the state
government here or you know, the co sponsorship between the
with Sydney Bears and the w A bid teams. So
it'll be very interesting. But maybe maybe the finances don't
stack up. Maybe the broadcasters don't want to pay as
(05:08):
much money for extra content for extra rugby league matches.
It's fat.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, that's interesting. So because you know only how in
different cities and states like that, the sporting tastes differ
substantially Australia, so your Victoria tastes quite different to your
Sydney taste, etcetera, etceteracetera. Well, can you just give us
the top three sports in terms of winter popularity in Perth.
Do you think, like where would rugby league rank? Would
(05:31):
that be one or two?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it's AFL one, two and three.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's an AFL town, massively huge. So they'd almost be
better off just putting another team in Sydney right, well
in some ways, but I mean you look at the
success obviously of the Warriors in terms of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You pack Yeah, yeah, Sorts stadium. I should say every
single week you pack it. Now, we could pack our
stadium here at twenty five thousand every week as well.
I know the South Island team wants to enter the competition,
but if you want to be a truly national game,
and there's a lot of five over, a lot of
people have moved into Western Australia out of Queensland and
New South Wales where they're born and bred rugby league diets,
(06:09):
they would love it. It would work here. It genuinely
would work here and give you an extra time zone.
But it's just interesting eleventh hour something else seems to
be up because the bid team so mate, there's no
problem with finances, they're just changing the goalposts.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah right, this makes sense. Okay, thanks Ollie, appreciate your
time on you Jack Sea mate there does Ollie Peterson
from six PR Perth Live for more from Hither Duplessy
Allen Drive, listen live to news talks it'd be from
four pm weekdays, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
And six PR Perth Life presenter Oli Peterson is with
us this afternoon go to Olie get A Jack. So
it is the October seventh anniversary and the first repatriation
flight from Lebanon are touching down today.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, that's going to land just after seven o'clock tonight
Sydney time. There's about two hundred people on board. They
left Lebanon, went to Cyprus. It's one of two flights
which is being operated by Quantus on behalf of the
Australian government, so they're flying back to Australia free of charge.
There's expected to be another three hundred odd passengers on
the other flight, which is due to touch jet down
(00:34):
on Wednesday. These flights, there's still plenty of people in Lebanon,
plenty of Australians in Lebanon at the moment saying they
are unable to get out of the country. Yeah, are
unable to get to Cyprus and get onto these Mercy
flights back to Australia. But at this stage there are
no other plans for additional flights. But I mean it's
obviously a moving beast at the moment, so there could
be other announcements later in the week.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Just just talk to us about things on the ground today,
because I know there was a lot of contention heading
into the anniversary about protests around the country, you know,
particularly in Sydney. I think at one stage the police
said they didn't want them to go ahead, and then
they relent and said no, maybe it is a good
idea that they go ahead. How have things been so
far today? So so far.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
Things haven't really kicked into gear, and it's meant to
be later this afternoon in Sydney. We saw some protests
around the nation over the weekend. Here where I am
in Perth, there was about three hundred or so people
that gathered in the middle of our CBD on Saturday afternoon.
It was mostly peaceful. There was one particular protester who
was carrying with them a particular placard with the face
(01:39):
of a Hesbala leader and was asked to remove that
by police. Likeally, there's been a bit of to and
fro about whether or not that person should have been arrested.
But I do worry about what might happen in Sydney
this afternoon because it's not just people who are joining
the cause on behalf of being say pro Palestinian protesters.
It's looping in a lot of other groups jack for
causes that have absolutely nothing to do with anything in
(02:01):
the Middle East. I think there's a few professional protests
taking advantage of the fact. In Sydney today it is
the Queen or stop to Queen anymore, as it's King
Charles's holiday birthday weekend, so they're going to make the
most of protesting this afternoon in the CBDSU.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Yeah, yeah, I can imagine that that is going to
be a huge event, So we'll keep a close eye
on things there. Hey, working from home days are numbered.
Bosses are all day staff back in Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
Dell all the computer giant and flight Center telling all
the stuff they got to come back to work. And
in fact, there was a only a couple of weeks ago.
KPMG Australia said that eighty two percent of CEOs believe
everybody will be back in the office by twenty twenty seven.
We're almost getting an announcement from lots of different businesses
at the moment that they're telling their staff to come
back to work. But interestingly a lot of public sector
(02:49):
workers are starting to find in their latest pay and
enterprise bargaining agreements that in fact they're being offered nine
day work fortnights to try and retain the staff. Now
they're being told they'll have to work more so in
extra forty five minutes per day to access that second
Friday off every other week. But maybe that's going to
be the compromise. Year staff have to go back to
(03:09):
the office. They'll be able to nego s yet these
ideas and Okay, I'll come back, but I don't want
to be there every Wednesday, and you know, eventually don't
want to be there every Thursday.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Would would you do the forty five a day for
a day off every fortnight?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Well, I mean, we can't do it in this game,
can we? But if I was doing something else, yeah,
I mean happy would it be having every second Friday off?
Like good luck to them?
Speaker 1 (03:29):
Yeah? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's it's interesting
that they're offering that. I mean that the order for
the public service here's not an order, but in a
directive is that that you know, they're expecting a few
more people to be back in the office than perhaps
have been in the post COVID era. You sort of
get the sense that this is not something you know,
this is this is kind of sweeping into the public
seat that having already been instituted in the private sect
(03:50):
for some time ago. The NRL expansion plans are on ice,
at least for some of the teams, because the dollars
don't it up.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well, this is what it looks like. It was very
interesting Grand Final Day, obviously in all the action on
the Panthers beating the storm, but what was actually happening
off the field was Peter Velandi's the chair of the
aar LC, was holding all these different interviews and all
these radio stations around Sydney and obviously we have a
bit of skin in the game over here in Perth
because they're about to revive the Bears from North Sydney
(04:19):
and make them the Western Bears. And we were look,
we all sort of given the nod nod, wink wink wink. Hey,
this this is going to happen, like there is an
announcement coming this week. All of a sudden, he reckons
it doesn't stack up. The finances are not there. That's
the Perth bid, he says. All the other bids aren't
really stacking up. The only one that's stacking up is
the bid from Puppy and New Guinea whenever went's underwritten
by the federal government, the China six hundred million dollars.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
It's going to stack up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, But
the but person not going to be getting its team.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We don't know, we don't know. Frantically, and I was
talking today to the Bier organizers and they're saying, no,
we're still negotiating. I think it's going to be on track.
I think they can just try and sense they can
get a few more dollars out of either the state
government here or you know, the co sponsorship between the
with Sydney Bears and the w A bid teams. So
it'll be very interesting. But maybe maybe the finances don't
stack up. Maybe the broadcasters don't want to pay as
(05:08):
much money for extra content for extra rugby league matches.
It's fat.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
Yeah, that's interesting. So because you know only how in
different cities and states like that, the sporting tastes differ
substantially Australia, so your Victoria tastes quite different to your
Sydney taste, etcetera, etceteracetera. Well, can you just give us
the top three sports in terms of winter popularity in Perth.
Do you think, like where would rugby league rank? Would
(05:31):
that be one or two?
Speaker 2 (05:33):
No, it's AFL one, two and three.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
It's an AFL town, massively huge. So they'd almost be
better off just putting another team in Sydney right, well
in some ways, but I mean you look at the
success obviously of the Warriors in terms of.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
You pack Yeah, yeah, Sorts stadium. I should say every
single week you pack it. Now, we could pack our
stadium here at twenty five thousand every week as well.
I know the South Island team wants to enter the competition,
but if you want to be a truly national game,
and there's a lot of five over, a lot of
people have moved into Western Australia out of Queensland and
New South Wales where they're born and bred rugby league diets,
(06:09):
they would love it. It would work here. It genuinely
would work here and give you an extra time zone.
But it's just interesting eleventh hour something else seems to
be up because the bid team so mate, there's no
problem with finances, they're just changing the goalposts.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Yeah right, this makes sense. Okay, thanks Ollie, appreciate your
time on you Jack Sea mate there does Ollie Peterson
from six PR Perth Live for more from Hither 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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