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remember being in Big W a few weeks ago and I was buying something for Charlie and I was like deep in the kids' clothes section and the alarm kept going.

And it was over the speaker, evacuate the building, evacuate the building.

And then the alarm, whoo.

EMA is the biggest developer in the world outside of China, building the biggest projects, the biggest buildings.

So if that's what you do for a living, it's like you've gone from the little leagues into the, you know, uh the big majors but you're in the majors right uh so absolutely so it was the overseas experience uh running a listed company in in in another jurisdiction uh dealing with international everyone you know we i went from i think the the biggest year i had in in in mervac we turned over 3.6 billion dollars that year you know we're turning over 100 billion us dollars a year um You know, the biggest concrete slab I've ever poured was we were connecting the mall and Big W at MacArthur Square during the redevelopment of MacArthur Square in 1994, and we poured a 750 cubic metre slab, which took all day, right? You know, I poured a 40,000 cubic metre pile cap in Dubai.

I had, on any given project, we had 100,000 men on there.

100,000 men.

Their e-commerce division's also done well, jumped by more than 20%.

Big W sales fell back a little.

Coal's released its quarterly results on Friday.

131873, a little bit of feedback here about what Jim Chalmers has said in Parliament today about inflation.

CEO Amanda Bardwell said her turnaround plan is gaining traction, with average prices falling and over 1,000 products now in its lower shelf price range.

Discount chain Big W is still struggling, with sales down 0.9% as cost of living pressures impact consumers.

Apple to replace faulty iPhone duos days after launch.

Apple has acknowledged screen problems with its new iPhone Duo, with users posting photos of lines and cracks across the inner display.

And then the issue you have with a real werewolf is it takes time to build a real werewolf.

You can't just go down to your local Big W or Target store or Kmart.

I'm not sure what you have in Scotland.

Our

So ones that we've got that are worse than Sheen, best and less...

Big W, Black Pepper, Blue Illusion, if you know any of those.

No. Q Clothing, which is Q and Veronica Main.

Yeah.

They're so fantastic.

You get them from, I think, like Target, Big W, Kmart, bookshops.

They...

Sorry, someone's just started using a chainsaw in our vicinity.

You'll get it tomorrow if you do overnight shipping.

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