
Simon Taylor
British rugby player
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Sep 6, 2026
Brisbane CBD assaults surge amid knife seizure crackdown
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1:14Simon TaylorGUEST
We're very much about ensuring people's public safety and that their perception of safety is high.
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1:24Simon TaylorGUEST
We use the fantastic Jack's Law warning to make sure that we're engaging early with them.
Natalie BarrHOST
Because of this rise in assaults in the city, do you think something's going wrong here? What would you say being on the ground?
A Special Guest!
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9:01Simon TaylorGUEST
Now that might sound ordinary, except Imogen was on Rory's back and he was flapping his wings.
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9:08Simon TaylorGUEST
You see, Rory isn't a boy, but a boy dragon, covered in green scales and with long crimson wings.
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9:16Simon TaylorGUEST
Imogen had seen on television that the building called the Beehive, where Parliament and Government were, couldn't be used anymore.
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12:41CodyCORRESPONDENT
We must go and quickly.
SardineCon 2026 Debrief: Live from the Show Floor
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2:16HaleyHOST
Does that ultimately put this generation at an advantage or disadvantage?
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2:21Simon TaylorGUEST
I mean, there's been numerous examples of professors doing tests where the kids weren't allowed to use AI and their grades just all dropped sharply.
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2:33Simon TaylorGUEST
And this is a consistent pattern that, like, actually your real grades are 30% behind where your grades would have been 10 years ago if AI had never been in the place.
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2:46Simon TaylorGUEST
And I think that it's sort of almost creating this additional premium on people who do have industry expertise because that's becoming so rare and so hard to find.
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4:18HaleyHOST
What's one thing you've learned through your experience about AI that you think people should start using tomorrow?
Trains, Cats, and Dads
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8:26Simon TaylorGUEST
It was a sunny day and with her best friend Rory she was exploring the fields.
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8:31Simon TaylorGUEST
Not walking or cycling, they were flying over them because Rory wasn't a boy but a four metre high dragon.
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8:45Simon TaylorGUEST
Imogen was sitting on his back, looking down at the sheep in the fields below them.
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10:48CodyCORRESPONDENT
Well, there is one
Friends Shape Us – Simon Taylor
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0:08Simon TaylorGUEST
Um, before we start, I would just say, throughout this morning, the worship has been, has been fantastic.
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0:15Simon TaylorGUEST
The, the, the contribution that Kim brought, and Johnny brought, and the, the top that Ilis is wearing actually seems really apt for what I'm preaching about.
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0:22Simon TaylorGUEST
Um, so all of this stuff just, God fits this stuff all together, and, and we wonder and we marvel at, uh, at how he, how he knits all of this stuff together.
Yum! Porridge!
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9:46speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
They gently landed and crept towards him so Imogen could see
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9:57Simon TaylorGUEST
Imogen thought it was strange because near his spine his skin was an orangey-red, but the rest of him was browny-green.
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11:52speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
The old skin was
Not Fintech Investment Advice: Natural, Sky Fusion, Quarters, El Dorado
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9:57Simon TaylorGUEST
I think it was actually Meow that were the first to market with an account for agents with controls wrapped around it.
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10:07Simon TaylorGUEST
But what's nice with, um, what's nice with Natural, of course, is, is it just-- I don't know, like there's something nice about a company whose job is to do that thing, and I need to give an account to an agent.
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The Future of the Garden Industry: One Year On
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26:54Simon TaylorGUEST
We watch programs on TV, watching farmers, you know, soil health, you know, reducing chemical inputs.
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27:04Simon TaylorGUEST
And the solutions, quite often, are technology which includes soil microbes and mycorrhizas and this sort of thing.
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27:13Simon TaylorGUEST
And the word biofertilizer was adopted from that, a product that improves plant, that has a living organism to improve nutrient use efficiency.
What is the strongest animal in the ocean?
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9:32Simon TaylorGUEST
But why are you so interested in the kauri tree? Dad said that they were one of the tallest native trees in New Zealand.
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9:47Simon TaylorGUEST
Although most were cut down in the past, there are still plenty in Northland and Coromandel.
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12:26speaker_7VOICE_ACTOR
All the trees
Simon Taylor: The most Italian Aussie you'll ever meet
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30:07Simon TaylorGUEST
And so six months in, and then this was at the tail end of COVID, so he's like, "You c- I can't book you until you're here in case your flight gets canceled and whatever." So I went to New York, and I was waiting for two weeks, and he's like, "Sorry, there's, you know, things are moving around.
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Things are really, you know, all over the place." And then I said, "Well, I've gotta go on my honeymoon 'cause I've had my honeymoon booked." So my wife and I went on our honeymoon to Greece.
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We're maybe two weeks into our three-week honeymoon, and I get the email saying, "Are you free on Monday to do the Tonight Show?"
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More Kiwi kid comedians!
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Now, it wasn't easy for Rory because he wasn't a boy, but a four-meter-high dragon.
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10:13Simon TaylorGUEST
There were tall trees and small trees and shrubs and vines, and on the forest floor, there were wildflowers, ferns, and lots of other things.
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10:24Simon TaylorGUEST
They saw so many creatures that lived on the forest floor, like worms and snails and spiders and...
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10:33Simon TaylorGUEST
They were having so much fun exploring, they didn't realize how late it was getting.
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Trevor PlantHOST
For more on Simon and his stories, you can go to simontaylorstoryteller.com. Oh, and Simon's back on the next Suzy and Friends with another Imogen and Rory story.
Stellar advances Heemskirk amid growing global tin supply pressures
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Barry FitzgeraldHOST
and just remind uh investors where the heemskirk is in uh in relationship to the uh town of uh was zeon
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9:48Simon TaylorGUEST
We are on, the project is, as I mentioned earlier, Queen Hill is the hill just to the west of the town where the all-body daylights, they mined lead, zinc, silver back in the sort of 1890s, 1900s through this region.
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The School of Mines there was built in 1892, so a long, long history of mining.
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And our project would be on the backside of the hill away from town where we would have the portal for the underground operations.
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So we've got plenty of water, plenty of power, and we've got obviously good infrastructure near us.
Not Fintech Investment Advice: Primitive, Exponent, Prime Intellect, Coverd
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12:41Simon TaylorGUEST
... with GLM 5.2 and the latest Kimi models from Coop Moonshot run 80% good to Opus 4.8 or even Opus 4.8 equivalent models on-prem for ultra-low cost and run most of your workloads on it, and guess what? That open weight model is gonna be even better and even better and even better.
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So how do you bring that on-prem, bring your token costs down, and then call out to the big AI labs where they can do something that you can't? And there will always be a benefit to something at the frontier, but you can then also be firewalling what that is.
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And I think there's also a slightly adjacent point, which is what are your bits of IP? What are, what are the bits of know-how you have, and what are the bits of, uh, data you have that you just don't want to get outside of your walls? And if those are your IP and those are, um, what your special source, how are you gonna utilize it? Because frankly, I think a lot of incumbents have really struggled to utilize it, which is why there's potentially gonna be a resurgence in neutral third-party FDEs.
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At the moment in Silicon Valley, the whole FDE Palantir but for a vertical is a really popular model.
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You're seeing like McKinsey with FDEs type, you know, uh, rebrands coming out.
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And I can see that because I want something that's neutral that's gonna give me the engineering talent I don't, but that is taking orders from me.
Episode 12: More Than Grades: Leadership & Character with Simon Taylor & Andy Davis
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impact that can then have on the children and you know kind of going out as well the impact that has on the community so it's always been very intentional to create a culture at warren farm where we value the teachers that we have and the children then obviously get the very best from the teachers and then how we get that ripple effect out into uh into the community as well so it comes from a sense of kind of um kind of serving really in the military so in terms of serving people now moving on to serving children serving the community and that's something that's always been very strong within myself to kind of go beyond you know none of this is done for me none of this is for me to have my name on things it's actually about what can we do as a collective to have an impact on on these young lives And a phrase and quote that Andy and myself have spoken a lot about, and I see Andy smiling recently, we talk about this kind of, and I may get it wrong slightly, but it did sink along the lines of a society grows great when people plant seeds, the trees of which they'll never sit underneath.
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The impact of the work that we're doing at Warren Farm with these children from three years of age up until 11 years of age, yes, of course, we see it on a daily basis.
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We're not measuring it at Warren Farm in terms of a number in a box, which is something that no doubt we'll come on to later.
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But actually, the true impact of this we'll see in society in some 20, 30 years' time.
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9:13Simon TaylorGUEST
It'll be a young man that opens a door for somebody walking around walking down you know a corridor or something like that an interaction that somebody has how somebody then leads once they're in business themselves or how they help somebody and and those are the things that we're instilling into our children because we we believe firmly and we're quite passionate about this in that that's the true power of education absolutely we want our children to do well academically as well as they can all do but as Andy said there it's about you Leaning into the element and finding those things.
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Katie ClaytonHOST
i absolutely love that okay so what is your long-term vision for warren farm at the moment so i know you're working towards general goals in terms of you know what education could become but for warren farm what's your what's your long-term vision
Morning Report Essentials for Wednesday 17 June
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John CampbellHOST
So how does a scammer persuade me to put my credit card in the letterbox? Do they get me on the phone? How does this work?
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27:26Simon TaylorGUEST
Yeah, so from what we've experienced from a few complaints that have come through is that, yeah, they essentially just ring up the victims or the clients, so-called clients, that they're supposedly investigating and convince them that they're investigating fraudulent loose use of their cards and their bank accounts.
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27:49Simon TaylorGUEST
And to further that investigation, to put it in their letterbox for them to uplift and complete their supposed investigation further.
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27:59Simon TaylorGUEST
And that's just to essentially have physical possession of these bank cards to fraudulently use retail outlets and the likes.
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28:08Simon TaylorGUEST
And as you said... financial loss to their victim and mistrust, I guess, of what they can do further on.

John CampbellHOST
And the people they target are often vulnerable, right? And this is disproportionately likely to be a scam that the elderly fall victim to
Warnings over new bank card scammers
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John CampbellHOST
So how does a scammer persuade me to put my credit card in the letterbox? Do they get me on the phone? How does this work?
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0:39Simon TaylorGUEST
Yeah, so from what we've experienced from a few complaints that have come through is that, yeah, they essentially just ring up the victims or the clients, so-called clients, that they're supposedly investigating and convince them that they're investigating fraudulent loose use of their cards and their bank accounts.
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1:02Simon TaylorGUEST
and to further that investigation to put it in their letterbox for them to uplift and complete their supposed investigation further but ultimately that's just a scam and that's just to essentially have physical possession of these bank cards to fraudulently use retail outlets and the likes and as you said financial loss to their victim and mistrust, I guess, of what they can do further on.

John CampbellHOST
their cynical art, and the people they target are often vulnerable, right? And this is disproportionately likely to be a scam that the elderly fall victim to.
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1:54Simon TaylorGUEST
Obviously, our elderly community are often not privy to some of the messaging that goes out on social media and the like.
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2:02Simon TaylorGUEST
So they're the ones that hopefully our community can just make sure, touch base with those, just to make sure that they're aware of what should and shouldn't be done by banks and investigating our organisations.
What do you call a snail on a ship?
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This is the story of Princess and her protector, Strengthus, who just happens to be a unicorn.
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[horse neighing] The wizards of the Wild Wood are enemies of her father, the king.
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One day, when Princess and Strengthus were out riding, the wizards' giants chased them away from the castle.
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[horse galloping] They can't return, so have ridden into unexplored lands beyond the king's border.
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[horse neighing] Princess smiled to herself as she strolled amongst the trees, as Strengthus was grazing.
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Fireside Chat with Simon Taylor and Adam Maarec
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That was the first real payments and financial services legislative act since Dodd-Frank, right? Like of, of that sort of scale.
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If you've not commented, I suggest you do if you have opinions on this, this subject.
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The Wonky Donkey man, Kylo Kitty, and excitement
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8:52Simon TaylorGUEST
This is the story of Princess and her protector, Strengthus, who just happens to be a unicorn princess.
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9:06Simon TaylorGUEST
One day, when Princess and Strengthless were out riding, the wizards' giants chased them away from the castle.
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9:12Simon TaylorGUEST
They can't return, so have ridden into unexplored lands beyond the king's border.
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The sea reflected the warm sun's afternoon rays as it gently lapped up against the shore in front of them.
The Inside Scoop on Empty Property Bargains
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4:44speaker_0HOST
Once someone comes to you with an empty property that they've discovered, what is the process from that point?
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4:51Simon TaylorGUEST
It could be a member of the public, it could be a neighbor, it could be a delivery driver, it could be a postman, binman.
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4:58Simon TaylorGUEST
Well, the first thing we will do is we will go to Land Registry and we will download and o- obtain the title documents to find out who the owner of the property is.
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So I'm sure we're not the first people to ever go down the, the line of thinking of, "We'll download the Land Registry, we'll find out who the owner is, and then we'll get in touch with them." If only it was that easy.
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21:12speaker_0HOST
There must be a fair few kind of semi-heart attacks on the other end when you suggest a price.





