And then there's no fear because what ramifications are there?

Exactly.

There's nothing.

There's no ramifications for them.

So yeah, interest rates have gone up, but a lot of them own multiple properties.

They're all financially very, very well off.

And they've made sure to kick the ladder down from the next group coming up behind them.

Richard Marles now should be added to that list because I think his language in the last 24 to 48 hours has been completely unacceptable for a bloke whose job title is Defence Minister.

Are you happy the way your boys played tonight?

Oh, yeah.

You know that's my kind of game.

A lot of people don't like it.

It's ugly and it's muddied up a little bit, but I don't mind it.

We had three or four pass interferences that, I'll be honest with you, I didn't see it down near the goal line inside the five that that aided that score, but we turned it over a few times.

There was some sloppiness in there.

wow wow a big victory tonight 22 to 7 it gets real next week in the district play and you and I talked about this last week you're in a bizarre district you're going to be doing a lot of traveling I guess just the way it is and it begins next week going to Tallahassee to play Godby

Now you've got this story where this is a Freedom of Information document saying that just before they launched all of this with the algorithm, the department seemed to have blindsided the minister and there was all this panic when they realised that this was about to come in.

It's just fascinating, isn't it, that you think, how does a reform that was this significant get within three days of going live before the minister actually discovers something that is such a fundamental error? So, according to those Freedom of Information documents that you were just talking about… This urgent brief went to Sam Ray on October 29, and this is in 2025.

Health Minister Mark Butler was copied in on this briefing warning, and it basically said to them, assessors cannot override the algorithm, even if they disagree with the assessment that has been put forward.

And then the new system started on November 1, so it was just a few days before.

But the department had already been telling assessors before this urgent briefing that, no, no, you'll be able to override the system.

before they realised that that wasn't the case.

And this is not just some minor administrative detail.

need more than that you need to actually say where are you

These are two good football teams, a big district game early in the season, and, man, it came down to the fourth quarter, and your guys found a way to get it done.

Well, we used to be in the same district.

They moved up to 4A this year.

So, yeah, I mean, I've been watching what they do.

I have never been able to compete over here.

I've never coached in a game over here, but I've known Coach Daugherty for a while.

The motions and the things that they do to you and as many formations as they run on offense, just couldn't get our kids kind of to believe in it early in the game.

Who are some of the guys on the defensive side of the ball who have really been sticking out and coming to play every night?

How has it gone, the return to your alma mater?

Oh, it's great.

You know, it's like – Some days I walk in here, it's like I was never gone.

And that's a tribute to the people, the staff, the administration here.

Our Booster Club has done an outstanding job of getting us where we need to be very quickly to be competitive.

And I've been able to win.

I appreciate you guys giving me credit, but I've had a lot of good players at the places I've been, and I've had a lot of good coaches with me.

Oh, there's a big rivalry aspect when it comes to Baldwin and Baker County, is there not?

And so you're saying to those who say, well, they've got to go somewhere – A great answer.

I had this epiphany just a few weeks ago, and I thought data centres, as we know, require a substantial amount of land, electricity, infrastructure.

And at a time when we are competing for housing, it's hard to try and find where to best put this in this limited space.

What about regional and rural racetracks? Now, obviously, not every single racetrack is going to be the right fit, but at almost any regional centre, the chances are you will find a racetrack that is occupying a large amount of land and you don't race every single day of the year.

And so I just thought we could potentially do a feasibility study to ensure that the noise isn't going to be impacting the horses or racing and ensure that it's not going to do any damage to a local community.

But I just thought it's a way to make the most of this space, but also bring in another revenue stream for country racing.

Because to maintain these tracks is not cheap.

So you've got some thoughts on this because Victoria in particular, there have been concerns expressed about it and kids are going out, very young kids going out and getting involved in some of the protests.

Two months later, Pauline Hanson says it, and everyone puts it up in lights.

It is smart, though, by Chris Minns because he, he's not playing the politics here.

He's literally just talking about a policy that is incredibly important, and when both Chris Minns and Pauline Hanson are agreeing on tobacco tax, perhaps Canberra should wake up and, and pay attention to what they're calling for.

I mean, in New South Wales, they've already shut down 300 illegal tobacconists.

And, and Chris Minns does make a good point where he says, "I don't want our police officers wasting their time-"

Mm

... around immigration.

And it was just...

Now they're loose with the facts.

Deary me, hasn't Tanya Plibersek had a terrible past sort of fortnight defending the Prime Minister for his inappropriate melons comments? But then also now these marks about it's never been a better time to be a first home buyer does not need to come under scrutiny because, again...

The Labor ministers are all coming out and gaslighting the nation to say, we are doing such a great job.

But the reality is, Luke, crashing the housing market is not something to be tapping yourselves on the back about and saying how brilliant we are, because this is the biggest asset for most people.

And as your property value is declining, you are ultimately poorer, which then also then will lead to flow on impacts within the broader economy because you're not going to go out and have as much discretionary spend if you feel as though your biggest asset is going backwards.

And so, that will then have broader issues.

But the numbers within this article that found its analysis goes through, it really tells the story of an average income earner who's looking at just a median priced home now and base is the equivalent of 10.2 times their annual wage.

I mean, I would like to

test drive?

This is a new thing we've started.

We've kind of always done it, but we're doing it much more formal this year.

So if you or your parent wants to see what does living at Margaret Pratt look like, the only way to find out is come give us a test drive.

Call Holly, we'll get you in in the morning.

If you wanna have breakfast with us, have breakfast with us.

Come to the 10 o'clock activity.

you have a golf tournament?

They workshop these changes and sit around and go, how is this going to work? What are the real world examples? What are the consequences? Wouldn't they do that?

John, I fear that they don't because we're hearing so many unintended consequences that are coming out of this budget.

And I wouldn't be surprised if we start to see more unintended consequences come out of the health rebate that they're going to be removing for over 65s.

But regarding this widow's tax, you know, all credit to the ACT Senator David Pocock, who was the one that found this.

And it just shows, though, what happens when tax reform is rushed through Parliament and They knew that the law was flawed and they had the opportunity to fix it and they chose not to.

And now we're in this pickle and they need to do something about it, which I know they've come out tonight saying that they will, but they need to get onto it very, very quickly.

Which is

really exciting, but they'd be in the pool.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I did ask Stephen and said, look, the issue is there's a lot of sharks out there.

How do we know that, you know, the siren is just not going to constantly be going off when you see, you know, a grey nurse shark, but because you've seen a silhouette, you go and set off the alarm.

So, he said that the drone operators, which is a paid position because it's operating 365 days a year from dawn till dusk, and it is literally a person will be standing there conducting it.

So they go through extensive training to be able to identify the different fin type, the different shape of the shark.

So the sirens will only go off when they spot bull sharks, great whites and tigers.

And depending on how close it has gotten into the water.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And I did ask Stephen and said, look, the issue is there's a lot of sharks out there.

How do we know that, you know, the siren is just not going to constantly be going off when you see, you know, a grey nurse shark, but because you've seen a silhouette, you go and set off the alarm.

So, he said that the drone operators, which is a paid position because it's operating 365 days a year from dawn till dusk, and it is literally a person will be standing there conducting it.

So, they go through extensive training to be able to identify the different fin type, the different shape of the shark.

So, the sirens will only go off when they spot bull sharks, great whites and tigers and depending on how close it has gotten into the water.

So, don't think that when you're at the beach, you're just going to be hearing the shark alarm going off all the time because that's not going to be the case.

energy in places like France and Germany is nuclear.

Okay

... that's how that happened.

It's, as I grew up on Tom T.

Hall, I grew up on Bruce Springsteen, I grew up on the great storytellers, Townes Van Zandt, and all of these wonderful songwriters.

And I love a good story, and I really love a good story that seems to beg more questions than it answers, and that's what this was for me, so I've spent a long time just trying to sort through it and figure it out.

Now, I hadn't read that article that Sylvan mentioned in Just the Facts, and so it certainly seemed to me like there was some literal truth to the lyrics in the song, but with John you really never know.

Even with that, though, there's just so many images that just brings it to life for me.

Jamie?

And we need these locations for the possibility of defending ourselves against an overseas conflict or even a terrorist attack.

You're spot on, Chris.

And that is certainly one of the concerns when it comes to HMAS Penguin, that if it is going to be partially split up, are we going to be losing access to the water? Because that's a crucial element for our national security.

And especially when we think about the AUKUS partnership and the submarines that's going to be required.

Now, the government have said that they will be attempting to keep the diving aspect of the site, but we don't actually know the amount that's going to be divested.

It looks like about two thirds of the site, but the boundaries haven't been confirmed.

But this is a really crucial step.

It will go ahead.

swam the English Channel, right? I

did.

And my training ground was Coogee.

Wow.

So I used to spend all day Saturday swimming from Coogee to Bondi and back.

You're joking.

So when I saw yesterday, and we knew that there's sharks out there because a lot of them you see that are tagged and there is an app that you can see where some of them are if they happen to be around.

be leading the world in this,

swam the English Channel, right? I

did.

And my training ground was Coogee.

Wow.

So I used to spend all day Saturday swimming from Coogee to Bondi and back.

You're joking.

So when I saw yesterday, and we knew that there's sharks out there because a lot of them you see that are tagged and there is an app that you can see where some of them are if they happen to be around.

I'm a nation with shark

So I think this is gonna resonate with a lot of people out there in the community at the moment.

Yeah.

This is a real quiet crisis, Mark, that we have happening here.

So it's not making front page news.

We don't see people protesting about it in the street, so it's not really being spoken much about.

And I did a deep dive into it in my show a few weeks ago because it's a huge issue.

Last year, the fertility rate fell to a record of one point four eight births per woman.

How did it make you feel when you found that the Federal Court ruled in favor of a transgender woman? Because I've spent the weekend thinking to myself, the world has officially gone mad.

[laughs]

So from what people were saying about it, they weren't overly impressed.

And I must say, Peta, The Australian exposed a few days ago this teal donation link that is coming through to Michelle Milthorpe.

So while she says that 98% of her donors are from around Farrer and around the country and not Climate 200, she's actually being very well backed by a group called Regional Voices Fund.

So this group is linked with all of the top teal donors, and they only donated to cl- Climate 200-backed candidates in 2025.

[laughs]

So everywhere you look when it comes to Michelle, while she wants to say she's not a teal, let's also look at her team.

Her campaign manager was also linked to Allegra Spender and Monique Ryan.