# Paul Murray Our Town: Armidale | 26 July

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 26 Jul 2026, 49 min.

Audio: https://p.podderapp.com/2544644999/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/2fb3740d-3436-44af-8cc0-a91900716aa5/be3abd48-25e5-45a6-aede-ac2a00524a12/6e8e7436-2fbd-4b87-930d-b49300d15e7a/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=95971714-8fe6-4855-b1fe-ac2a00524a12

Questions over Anthony Albanese's secret dinner, Labor is threatened by the right-wing surge. Plus, millions wasted on social media slop. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Live from Armadale.
[0:02] Speaker 2: This is Paul Murray Live now town. Can I try that?
[0:09] Speaker 3: Gooda amda?
[0:10] Speaker 2: How high hole this?
[0:12] Speaker 4: We're in the weld with god brilliant entertainment center here
[0:16] Speaker 4: in beautiful Armadale. What a magnificent looking audience. They're pumped,
[0:20] Speaker 4: they're fired up, they're ready to go. It has been
[0:22] Speaker 4: a beautiful weekend for us here in Armadah, where we've
[0:25] Speaker 4: seen such incredible things. Most importantly been able to hang
[0:28] Speaker 4: out with great people. We've had a laugh with a
[0:31] Speaker 4: couple of shows that are around town, and we'll hop
[0:33] Speaker 4: in the car and go up the road to show
[0:35] Speaker 4: you how beautiful things are just out of town and
[0:37] Speaker 4: even a little further than that. But it is a
[0:39] Speaker 4: big show and we've got a lot to get to
[0:41] Speaker 4: this evening, including a little bit about what is what's
[0:45] Speaker 4: it like to.
[0:45] Speaker 2: Be involved in the ethical raising of a pig?
[0:48] Speaker 4: Well you'll find out a little bit later tonight when
[0:50] Speaker 4: we had a chance to hang out with Emily and Glenn,
[0:53] Speaker 4: who are spectacular and they're part of the Harvey Norman
[0:56] Speaker 4: Delicious Awards which are coming up a bit later in
[0:58] Speaker 4: the year.
[1:00] Speaker 5: How we're farming and how are running their land?
[1:03] Speaker 6: Is a great way for people to see that they
[1:06] Speaker 6: can that they do have alternate options and they can
[1:10] Speaker 6: still support small Australian farmers that are doing the right
[1:13] Speaker 6: thing by the animals and the land.
[1:17] Speaker 2: These guys are fantastic. I'll tell you what. I know.
[1:19] Speaker 4: They're going to be part of a class field, but
[1:20] Speaker 4: they are really lovely people. I'll have a chat to
[1:22] Speaker 4: Emily in a couple of minutes time, so let us
[1:24] Speaker 4: get into the news of the day.
[1:26] Speaker 2: I'm imagining everyone here is a massive.
[1:28] Speaker 4: Fan of the Prime minister. He no, I thought that
[1:31] Speaker 4: might be a chance. I know it's not North Korea,
[1:33] Speaker 4: but I know that at our joints you're probably going
[1:35] Speaker 4: to get one hundred percent. The no vote will come
[1:37] Speaker 4: in here or, of course, as the Prime Minister says,
[1:40] Speaker 4: a historic change when it comes to yes or no votes.
[1:43] Speaker 2: But as you know, this.
[1:44] Speaker 4: Prime Minister loves coming up with an excuse that if
[1:47] Speaker 4: you used it on your husband or wife, there's a
[1:50] Speaker 4: chance you would be in the doghouse pretty quickly, right like,
[1:54] Speaker 4: remember when they promised not to do all that stuff
[1:56] Speaker 4: before the budget, they did it. Anyway, Now, you and
[1:58] Speaker 4: I would call that a lie. Correct, No, he said, this.
[2:04] Speaker 2: We have changed our position.
[2:07] Speaker 4: Oh then fine, completely fine. Try that in your next
[2:11] Speaker 4: argument at home and see what happens. All right, And
[2:13] Speaker 4: of course you know a few years ago when some
[2:17] Speaker 4: illegal boats hid into the country. Thankfully not as bad
[2:20] Speaker 4: as it was in previous years, but there was some
[2:22] Speaker 4: believe it or not, illegal boats that turned up. Now
[2:24] Speaker 4: the Prime minister, remember the Prime minister with all of
[2:26] Speaker 4: the technology, all of the ability to contact world leaders.
[2:30] Speaker 4: Well what was the excuse as to why he couldn't
[2:33] Speaker 4: talk about it that day? Well, apparently his mobile doesn't
[2:37] Speaker 4: work when he's in the car.
[2:40] Speaker 7: I've been traveling in the car.
[2:44] Speaker 2: Well, then that's completely fine.
[2:45] Speaker 4: You know, we've all done that thing where we were
[2:47] Speaker 4: pretending to talk to somebody and go, oh, I'm going
[2:49] Speaker 4: into a tunnel. I'm going into a tunnel. You're driving
[2:51] Speaker 4: to Glenninness. There's no tunnel, but I'm going I'm driving.
[2:54] Speaker 4: There's a tunnel here.
[2:55] Speaker 2: But still so.
[2:56] Speaker 4: Interesting story past couple of days has popped up and
[2:59] Speaker 4: how the Prime minister's banging on about wealthy donors backing
[3:03] Speaker 4: in one nation or property developers backing in the Liberal Party. Well,
[3:07] Speaker 4: the reality of the system is people are able to
[3:09] Speaker 4: donate and political fund rises and fundraisers are nothing new.
[3:13] Speaker 4: But there was a little story that just happened to
[3:15] Speaker 4: come out in the past couple of days that the
[3:18] Speaker 4: Prime Minister had attended a ten thousand dollars ahead. If
[3:22] Speaker 4: they paid you ten grand, would you have dinner with
[3:24] Speaker 4: the Prime minister let alone?
[3:25] Speaker 2: Would you pay them? Tend that?
[3:28] Speaker 4: What a boring dinner that would be. We've changed our position,
[3:32] Speaker 4: thanks Dhal. All right now, when he's trying to be
[3:35] Speaker 4: asked about you know, hang on, why did you have
[3:37] Speaker 4: it at this person's house?
[3:38] Speaker 2: Got the connections there?
[3:39] Speaker 4: When it comes to the ATO and investigations, Well, get
[3:43] Speaker 4: ready for excuse number three to use when you come
[3:45] Speaker 4: home late from the pub.
[3:48] Speaker 2: I attend lots of functions.
[3:51] Speaker 4: Well then it's fine and who cares, right, No one's
[3:54] Speaker 4: paying attention.
[3:55] Speaker 2: And don't think we have forgotten that.
[3:56] Speaker 4: The Garma Festival, which is coming up in the next
[3:59] Speaker 4: couple of weeks, of course, a major meeting of people
[4:01] Speaker 4: that are invested in indigenous issues, indigenous policy culture, the
[4:06] Speaker 4: greatest Prime minister of all time, proud of the fact
[4:08] Speaker 4: that he'd been freshly re elected, he stood there, he
[4:10] Speaker 4: looked them right in the eye. And he made this
[4:12] Speaker 4: promise just a year ago.
[4:16] Speaker 7: I think it's visit eight or nine to Gama, and
[4:22] Speaker 7: I commit here that every single year, as that I
[4:27] Speaker 7: have the great honor to be Australia as Prime Minister,
[4:31] Speaker 7: I will be here.
[4:34] Speaker 2: I mean the passion. I'd pay ten grand to be
[4:36] Speaker 2: in the same room, wouldn't you.
[4:38] Speaker 4: But you saw behind twenty twenty five, right, So the
[4:41] Speaker 4: next opportunity to prove his promise was correct twenty twenty six.
[4:45] Speaker 4: But he's not going and his excuse is rather tape.
[4:50] Speaker 7: You know what, amish, I haven't had a day off
[4:53] Speaker 7: all year, all year.
[4:58] Speaker 2: Now.
[4:58] Speaker 4: I don't know how many farming family we have here
[5:00] Speaker 4: in the room, but hands up, who's had.
[5:02] Speaker 2: A holiday this year? Yeah? I thought so? What about
[5:06] Speaker 2: in the past two years? Yeah, I thought so.
[5:09] Speaker 4: There are many generations of farmers, including one I was serving
[5:12] Speaker 4: a chapman at a pub the other night. Five generations
[5:14] Speaker 4: of farmers. They themselves hadn't had a holiday in the
[5:17] Speaker 4: best part of four years.
[5:17] Speaker 2: But it relax everyone. The Prime minister needs one.
[5:20] Speaker 4: So despite the fact that the group that he will
[5:21] Speaker 4: is willing to go to the mat for to fight
[5:23] Speaker 4: that referendum, to potentially split us down the middle. First
[5:26] Speaker 4: opportunity NU come on of that promise a change of position.
[5:30] Speaker 4: Imagine if any of this applied to Angus Taylor, to
[5:33] Speaker 4: Matt Canavan.
[5:33] Speaker 2: Or god forbid to Pauline Hanson. Do you reckon? The
[5:35] Speaker 2: media would let that happen?
[5:36] Speaker 4: No, because remember what was the headline story last week,
[5:39] Speaker 4: Man yells at dog was apparently a freaking outrage. Imagine
[5:43] Speaker 4: doing any of those things if they were on our
[5:45] Speaker 4: side of the aisle. All right, now, the Labor Party
[5:48] Speaker 4: conference has just finished. I know I didn't care either,
[5:50] Speaker 4: but still, the Labor Party conference had just finished in Adelaide.
[5:54] Speaker 4: Was the great get together of all of the smart
[5:57] Speaker 4: people inside the party. But legitimately the smartest man in
[6:00] Speaker 4: Labor is Paul Erickson. Now you may not know his name,
[6:03] Speaker 4: you know his work. He is the political boss of
[6:07] Speaker 4: the Labor Party. He is the one who has put
[6:08] Speaker 4: together the twenty two election, the twenty five election. He
[6:11] Speaker 4: is the one who's always got an eye on the
[6:13] Speaker 4: next election. What they're going to bash up, what the
[6:15] Speaker 4: message is going to be, cut, cut, cut all of that.
[6:17] Speaker 2: This is the guy.
[6:18] Speaker 4: Well, he's now already telegraphed this is very unusual for
[6:22] Speaker 4: him to do TV interviews, but Andrew Clenell got him
[6:24] Speaker 4: on the air with us this morning. I think we
[6:26] Speaker 4: know what he's going to be talking about, or labor.
[6:28] Speaker 4: We'll talk about a lot between now and the next election.
[6:31] Speaker 4: When asked about why people are moving towards one nation
[6:34] Speaker 4: in the polls, he says, we.
[6:37] Speaker 8: Think about the last decade, Andrew. One thing that has
[6:40] Speaker 8: stood out is that every time workers and businesses have
[6:44] Speaker 8: felt like we're through the crisis, the latest crisis, and
[6:48] Speaker 8: every time they're picking themselves up off the floor, another
[6:51] Speaker 8: big event comes along, another crisis, whether it is war
[6:56] Speaker 8: in Europe, war in the Middle East, a global inflation surge,
[7:00] Speaker 8: all the way back to the pandemic, and that constant
[7:04] Speaker 8: sense of every time you're picking yourself up off the floor,
[7:07] Speaker 8: another knock comes along. I think has led to a
[7:13] Speaker 8: sense for people in the community of pessimism that as
[7:19] Speaker 8: progressives and as a center left party, we need to
[7:22] Speaker 8: tackle and take on But I think is at the
[7:25] Speaker 8: core of this rise of the populace right all over
[7:28] Speaker 8: the world.
[7:29] Speaker 2: I didn't say it's exciting.
[7:31] Speaker 4: I said he was smart, and I said that this
[7:32] Speaker 4: says what is the beginning of their language. When he
[7:35] Speaker 4: was asked directly about why many of the scandals that
[7:38] Speaker 4: are supposed to have knocked one nation out of the
[7:40] Speaker 4: game that they haven't, he said this.
[7:43] Speaker 8: What we're focused on is the agenda that figures like
[7:48] Speaker 8: Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce and figures in the Coalition
[7:52] Speaker 8: like Angus Taylor and Tim Wilson share. That's where what
[7:55] Speaker 8: we think the agenda the debate has to be focused on.
[7:58] Speaker 8: And that is an agenda no support for cost of living,
[8:02] Speaker 8: relief cuts right across.
[8:04] Speaker 2: The board, and.
[8:07] Speaker 8: An objective and a purpose to divide Australians for political gain.
[8:13] Speaker 8: And that's what I'm most worried about, and that's what
[8:16] Speaker 8: we're most focused on.
[8:18] Speaker 2: Now.
[8:19] Speaker 4: You notice that he doesn't talk about the fact that
[8:21] Speaker 4: fuel taxes are going up at the end of this week,
[8:24] Speaker 4: despite the fact that the Prime Minister just this weekend
[8:26] Speaker 4: we're doing everything we can to deal with cost of living.
[8:28] Speaker 4: He didn't mention the one t for trillion dollars stead
[8:31] Speaker 4: and it didn't mention not one, not two, not five,
[8:33] Speaker 4: not six, not eleven, but fifteen interest rate rises since this.
[8:37] Speaker 2: Mob came to power.
[8:38] Speaker 4: No, no, no, it is all about saying the same thing
[8:41] Speaker 4: over and over again.
[8:44] Speaker 8: Well, I think one thing that has become clear this
[8:47] Speaker 8: year is that, as the polls show, the coalition will
[8:52] Speaker 8: not be able to govern without One Nation. One nation
[8:54] Speaker 8: would not be able to govern without the coalition. So
[8:57] Speaker 8: at the next election, the choice will be between a
[9:00] Speaker 8: labor government that's delivery real change, providing immediate relief now
[9:06] Speaker 8: and making the real changes that the country needs on
[9:08] Speaker 8: the economy, on housing, on healthcare on the one hand,
[9:12] Speaker 8: or an alternative of a chaotic and divided coalition one
[9:18] Speaker 8: nation government. That's the case that we have to build
[9:21] Speaker 8: and set out over the next two years.
[9:25] Speaker 2: Wake up, everyone, it's almost over. Okay, wake up. I
[9:28] Speaker 2: can feel the energy in the room, and I can
[9:29] Speaker 2: feel you at home.
[9:30] Speaker 4: But there's a point I'm making here. This is the
[9:32] Speaker 4: guy making the decisions. This is the guy who was
[9:35] Speaker 4: able to save Albanezi from himself at the end of
[9:37] Speaker 4: the last parliamentary term when the interest rates were as
[9:40] Speaker 4: high as they are now with the expectation of going higher.
[9:43] Speaker 4: This is the guy who changes the subject, okay, and
[9:47] Speaker 4: he has found his subject that will be hammered home
[9:50] Speaker 4: between now and the next election.
[9:53] Speaker 8: The situation that we're preparing for is an election where
[9:57] Speaker 8: we will face a in the form of the Coalition
[10:03] Speaker 8: and One Nation working together because they have to, because
[10:07] Speaker 8: the polls show that neither of them can win without
[10:09] Speaker 8: the other, and because they share an agenda. Well, the
[10:13] Speaker 8: polls show that the Coalition and One Nation can't govern
[10:17] Speaker 8: without each other. The Coalition can't win without one Nation.
[10:21] Speaker 8: One Nation can't win without the coalition. John Howard said,
[10:26] Speaker 8: the politics is governed by the iron law of arithmetic.
[10:30] Speaker 8: These are the facts, and this is the scenario that
[10:33] Speaker 8: I think will shape the next election and Victoria's next up.
[10:37] Speaker 8: We have the Victorian election in November, we have the
[10:40] Speaker 8: New South Wales election next March, and then the next
[10:43] Speaker 8: election after that will be the federal election. And what
[10:45] Speaker 8: stands out to me about all three of those elections
[10:49] Speaker 8: is that the Coalition will not be able to win
[10:52] Speaker 8: without one Nation, and one Nation would not be able
[10:55] Speaker 8: to win without the coalition.
[10:58] Speaker 4: Oh, every time you just want to go to sleep,
[10:59] Speaker 4: next you don't so that yourself, because.
[11:00] Speaker 2: That's what they want.
[11:01] Speaker 4: By the way, speaking of the Victorian election, just since
[11:04] Speaker 4: to Allen tonight, the phone calls have happened, which is
[11:07] Speaker 4: you've lost the support of the party room. Tomorrow cabinet meeting.
[11:11] Speaker 4: Expectation is that she either throws the gun and badge
[11:13] Speaker 4: on the desk then or she gets blasted out and
[11:16] Speaker 4: there'll be a new premiere in Victoria by shoes Gay. Now,
[11:24] Speaker 4: can you imagine how much people hate her a Victoria
[11:26] Speaker 4: if in Armadale this is the reaction, right Armadale.
[11:29] Speaker 2: Right, they've got to stay election in March next year, Okay, but.
[11:32] Speaker 4: They're fired up about what's happening because they pay attention
[11:34] Speaker 4: to what's happening around the country. Now, I want to
[11:36] Speaker 4: talk about your region, your life specifically, and the ones
[11:39] Speaker 4: for your kids and for your grandkids, because in regional
[11:41] Speaker 4: Australia it's a great place to go.
[11:43] Speaker 2: Yes, of course.
[11:44] Speaker 4: Lifestyles can be cheaper than the ones that are in
[11:46] Speaker 4: the major cities. But something that has absolutely changed since
[11:50] Speaker 4: COVID is property prices. In fact, in Broken Hill, in
[11:54] Speaker 4: just the past twelve months, prices there have gone up
[11:57] Speaker 4: for a house median house price play thirty percent, in
[12:00] Speaker 4: Verrel twenty five percent, Gunnada twenty percent, eighteen cesnoch Is
[12:06] Speaker 4: seventeen percent.
[12:07] Speaker 2: Here in Armadale.
[12:10] Speaker 4: In just the past twelve months, house prices have gone
[12:13] Speaker 4: up nineteen percent in Tenifield, you can see there, it's
[12:18] Speaker 4: thirteen and a half.
[12:19] Speaker 2: In Urala, it's eleven percent. In Glen Inneses, it's.
[12:22] Speaker 4: Seventeen percent for those that have come down the road
[12:25] Speaker 4: since Tamworth. Just the past twelve months at East Worth,
[12:29] Speaker 4: seven hundred and ten thousand dollars is the median house
[12:31] Speaker 4: price in East Tamworth, seven hundred thousand in the North,
[12:34] Speaker 4: five hundred and forty eight in the South and five
[12:36] Speaker 4: hundred thousand in Tamworth. But you're sitting down well, thankful
[12:39] Speaker 4: everyone in this room is. But hopefully you are at
[12:41] Speaker 4: home in the past five years. Just before I show
[12:45] Speaker 4: everyone in the past five years. Well there you go, Bugra.
[12:47] Speaker 4: Armadale's gone up sixty percent. House Now, if you own
[12:51] Speaker 4: a house, great good luck to you because one day
[12:52] Speaker 4: you might get to sell. But you're worried about your
[12:54] Speaker 4: kid getting in. You worried about your grandkids getting in.
[12:57] Speaker 4: A couple of people are already having a chat saying
[12:58] Speaker 4: or we might pull the pin now, So you don't know.
[13:00] Speaker 4: I don't get it all right, Armadale up sixty You're
[13:02] Speaker 4: holler up sixty two ten to field. Look at that
[13:05] Speaker 4: at eighty seven seventy nine percent in Glenningness.
[13:09] Speaker 2: Again, have a look in Tamworth.
[13:11] Speaker 4: Up fifty seven fifty six, one hundred and seven percent
[13:15] Speaker 4: in five years. Is what's happening in South Tamworth right now?
[13:19] Speaker 4: So I want to show of hands who is concerned
[13:21] Speaker 4: about their kids being able to buy a house here
[13:24] Speaker 4: in Amadah. Who's worried about their grandkids eventually being able
[13:30] Speaker 4: to buy tenorfield.
[13:31] Speaker 2: Even in the fifty years from now? Right?
[13:34] Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Well, randomly I'm going to pick you, sir,
[13:36] Speaker 4: which is convenient because I think we asked this question
[13:39] Speaker 4: before the show.
[13:39] Speaker 2: So you've got a microphone in front of you.
[13:41] Speaker 4: Firstly, what's your name, Chrisoday?
[13:42] Speaker 2: Chris? How are you so? Chris?
[13:44] Speaker 4: What worries you about house prices here and about the
[13:47] Speaker 4: expense for your kids and grandkids being able to buy
[13:50] Speaker 4: in here?
[13:51] Speaker 2: Oh?
[13:51] Speaker 9: Worries Me's? I got three boys they've worn and bred here.
[13:55] Speaker 9: But the greatest Australian dream that we all had is
[13:59] Speaker 9: not reality for them. They're looking at maybe doing it
[14:05] Speaker 9: intergenerational mortgages for them. That's something that we've.
[14:09] Speaker 2: Never dreamed of.
[14:10] Speaker 9: We've read about it when we're in our younger days
[14:13] Speaker 9: in Japan or something like that. But now the greatest
[14:16] Speaker 9: strain dream is not their reality.
[14:19] Speaker 2: And just hands up for the room, thank you very much.
[14:21] Speaker 2: Hands up.
[14:22] Speaker 4: Who would be willing to think about voting for someone
[14:25] Speaker 4: you've never voted before?
[14:26] Speaker 2: If they actually have an answer to housing? Would it
[14:29] Speaker 2: move you?
[14:29] Speaker 4: It will be enough to move you from somewhere to
[14:31] Speaker 4: somewhere else. You're just a powerful interesting point to see.
[14:36] Speaker 4: All right, Thank you very much, appreciate it. Thank you
[14:37] Speaker 4: everyone in the room for answering. All right, let's talk
[14:39] Speaker 4: about this magical part of Australia of which yep, buy
[14:42] Speaker 4: you now because the prices keep going seems like a
[14:45] Speaker 4: magical investment at the moment. Obviously Armadale right now, if
[14:48] Speaker 4: you've been here, you know where it is. In relation
[14:49] Speaker 4: to places like Paul mcquarie Tamworth. A plenty of intercity
[14:54] Speaker 4: hockey can happen between those two areas. Shout out to
[14:56] Speaker 4: Nikki watching us right now on the Sunny coast. But
[14:59] Speaker 4: of course the Gold Coast well you know, a little
[15:01] Speaker 4: while away, but still closer than Sydney in terms of
[15:04] Speaker 4: the demographics, that need to be known around here, surprisingly
[15:08] Speaker 4: young compared to other parts of regional New South Wales
[15:11] Speaker 4: and the population out about twenty three thousand people.
[15:14] Speaker 2: Now.
[15:15] Speaker 4: One of the things that you've got to do, obviously
[15:17] Speaker 4: is see Australia. Obviously, visit Australia. We want you to
[15:20] Speaker 4: be able to visit regional in New South Wales and
[15:22] Speaker 4: specifically coming here to Armadale. And when you are here
[15:25] Speaker 4: in Armadale, make the most of everything here, but also
[15:27] Speaker 4: say the day to take this drive. It's one of
[15:30] Speaker 4: the best in the country. I love a sunny winter's
[15:40] Speaker 4: day in Armadale. So many things to see and to do,
[15:43] Speaker 4: including to check out plenty.
[15:45] Speaker 2: Of local history.
[15:46] Speaker 4: This was a building that was built in eighteen thirty
[15:50] Speaker 4: nine at the height of one of the many heydays
[15:53] Speaker 4: that this city has had, and they built it for
[15:55] Speaker 4: just five and a half thousand pounds and so many
[15:58] Speaker 4: of those old beauties have got a brand new lease
[16:01] Speaker 4: on life in the twenty first century. Because something may
[16:03] Speaker 4: surprise you about Armadale. This is a young city. In fact,
[16:08] Speaker 4: its average age is younger than both the state and
[16:10] Speaker 4: national average, and that's because the University of New England
[16:13] Speaker 4: has been here for a long time. So there's lots
[16:16] Speaker 4: of funky art just when you.
[16:17] Speaker 2: Go for a walk.
[16:36] Speaker 4: But to get to know the people in this town,
[16:38] Speaker 4: it's time to meet them where they are.
[16:41] Speaker 2: Fallow Good Cafe.
[16:42] Speaker 4: While there's plenty of great ones to choose from, let's
[16:45] Speaker 4: meet the team at Altitude Coffee.
[16:50] Speaker 2: Good Darryl poor lovely. It makes you thank you very
[16:52] Speaker 2: much a wo well.
[17:01] Speaker 10: Olp Coffee started eighteen years ago. We moved to town
[17:04] Speaker 10: and wanted something a bit different, so we opened a
[17:06] Speaker 10: coffee roastery, which nobody knew about at the time, but
[17:09] Speaker 10: now they do if ey'mbraced it with earth arm and
[17:13] Speaker 10: has a really nice community to live in. It's got
[17:15] Speaker 10: an excellent climate. We get genuine summer, genuine winter. It's
[17:19] Speaker 10: been pretty miles so this winterday. So you know, I
[17:22] Speaker 10: really enjoyed living I'm and I've been here for well,
[17:25] Speaker 10: I've lived here for nineteen years.
[17:26] Speaker 5: We've been open for eight.
[17:28] Speaker 10: It is a small community and with but still a
[17:32] Speaker 10: little bit of a city vibe, but not really the
[17:34] Speaker 10: Russian pier of a city. So and I has almost
[17:37] Speaker 10: everything you need. I've probably traveled, never traveled, so little
[17:41] Speaker 10: is what I have since.
[17:42] Speaker 5: On the chair because it has pretty much everything we need.
[17:45] Speaker 4: Here there's a picturesque drive that can exhere all the
[17:47] Speaker 4: way to cop there is.
[17:49] Speaker 10: That's right, the Waterfall Way. Heaps of waterfalls in the
[17:51] Speaker 10: way while a Mumby falls. Great easy access just off
[17:54] Speaker 10: the road, like probably not even five minutes off the
[17:58] Speaker 10: main road, and beautiful walks around that.
[18:00] Speaker 2: I like that. I said easy access. That means I
[18:02] Speaker 2: don't have to do a lot of stairs.
[18:03] Speaker 4: Appreciated Daryl all the vest Mak Weekend Altitude Coffee and Armadale.
[18:20] Speaker 4: I love driving in the bush and I've got to
[18:21] Speaker 4: tell you the Waterfall Way is a very special stretch
[18:25] Speaker 4: of road. It's one hundred and eighty five k's. It
[18:27] Speaker 4: goes from Armadale to the Coffs coast. It'll take you
[18:30] Speaker 4: about two and a half hours. But to do it
[18:31] Speaker 4: properly you've got to stop lots of times along the
[18:34] Speaker 4: way because there's gorgeous there's waterfalls. Everything is a postcar.
[18:38] Speaker 4: So when you come to Armadale, get the car and
[18:41] Speaker 4: go see you straight. These are the Wollomombi Falls. They
[19:05] Speaker 4: are the biggest in New South Wales and the second
[19:08] Speaker 4: biggest in the country. From top to bottom more than
[19:10] Speaker 4: two hundred meters. All of this, of course, formed over.
[19:16] Speaker 2: Millions of years.
[19:18] Speaker 4: It's something you can see on a long weekend or
[19:21] Speaker 4: a Thursday.
[19:22] Speaker 2: It's free and it's spectacular. This is Mets Gorge.
[19:51] Speaker 4: It's part of the Baker Creek falls, part of our journey.
[19:56] Speaker 4: I brought you here not just because it looks spectacular,
[20:00] Speaker 4: not just because it feels amazing, but because it sounds.
[20:06] Speaker 2: It's unique.
[20:08] Speaker 4: You won't be able to hear it, no matter how
[20:10] Speaker 4: good our technology is. But when you stand here, you
[20:12] Speaker 4: can hear water that's flowing.
[20:16] Speaker 2: Through the crevices of the rocks.
[20:19] Speaker 4: You can hear cows that are in a paddock just
[20:24] Speaker 4: a couple hundred meters away. The long as you stand here,
[20:27] Speaker 4: the different types of birds that start to appear. If
[20:32] Speaker 4: you're looking for a place to experience nature, to be
[20:36] Speaker 4: at one, did the bush come here?
[20:41] Speaker 2: That's beautiful? Seriously, it's writings your things. There's so many
[20:51] Speaker 2: beautiful things.
[20:52] Speaker 4: Around you, and you get hang out in your coffee
[20:55] Speaker 4: shops as they're some third this lots of one of
[20:57] Speaker 4: the things to see here. Ladies and general will introduce
[20:59] Speaker 4: you to it. To Bernie Shakeshift Bernie was the local
[21:02] Speaker 4: hero in Shakeshaft Sorry in that twenty twenty an incredible
[21:06] Speaker 4: award of course on Australia Day.
[21:08] Speaker 2: And he's a man who is based here in.
[21:11] Speaker 4: Armadahm and he's trying to take care of kids, not
[21:13] Speaker 4: just here, but kids all over the joint. Please give
[21:15] Speaker 4: them a random applause, Bernie, Nice to see your maidens.
[21:23] Speaker 2: So backtrack.
[21:24] Speaker 4: Youth works, that's your focus, that's what you're into. When
[21:28] Speaker 4: I see a whole bunch of reports that they say,
[21:31] Speaker 4: you know, times aren't that good for kids, sometimes people
[21:34] Speaker 4: will see.
[21:34] Speaker 2: Me in an email going all they need to do
[21:36] Speaker 2: is hard enough.
[21:36] Speaker 4: The truth is young people are actually doing it a
[21:39] Speaker 4: bit tough at the moment, aren't they.
[21:41] Speaker 2: Yeah.
[21:41] Speaker 3: I think nationally we're saying that, you know, the number
[21:44] Speaker 3: of kids that are not engaged in education or training
[21:48] Speaker 3: or employment. You know, there's lots going on that we
[21:51] Speaker 3: could certainly do a whole lot better. I think there
[21:54] Speaker 3: was a report in two thousand and fourteen where they
[21:56] Speaker 3: estimated one in five kids under the age of seventeen
[22:01] Speaker 3: don't go to school. I think in a first world country,
[22:05] Speaker 3: something's got to shift there.
[22:06] Speaker 4: Yeah, it's frightening it truly is. I mean, give us
[22:08] Speaker 4: an idea about what you do and about how you engage.
[22:11] Speaker 3: So we take the kids that are hit the end
[22:13] Speaker 3: of the rope. You might say, Paul, I got nowhere
[22:16] Speaker 3: else to sort of go, and we just take those
[22:19] Speaker 3: young people in. So see our school teachers here tonight.
[22:24] Speaker 3: So we start with keeping kids alive out of Jaile
[22:28] Speaker 3: and then chasing their dreams. So we don't have timed programs.
[22:33] Speaker 3: That's why we find it difficult to get government funding.
[22:37] Speaker 2: We work with the young people until the job's done.
[22:40] Speaker 2: So there's about.
[22:41] Speaker 3: Thirty five kids, young ones. They're getting younger. When we
[22:44] Speaker 3: first started, we were dealing with fifteen and sixteen year olds.
[22:48] Speaker 3: Most of our referrals now are coming at ten, eleven,
[22:51] Speaker 3: and twelve, so we're seeing kids not make the transition
[22:54] Speaker 3: from primary school into high school.
[22:57] Speaker 2: So give me an idea.
[22:58] Speaker 4: I mean, it's so important see parents try to do
[23:02] Speaker 4: the right thing and for whatever reason they lose track
[23:07] Speaker 4: of their kids, or even parents who are doing the
[23:09] Speaker 4: wrong thing, they end up speeding that process of where
[23:12] Speaker 4: the kids end up. How important is it that people
[23:16] Speaker 4: know that there is no kid that's too far gone,
[23:19] Speaker 4: that there is take a lot of hard work, but
[23:22] Speaker 4: there is there's no You don't give up on a
[23:25] Speaker 4: twelve year old.
[23:26] Speaker 3: Well, you know who gives up on their own kids.
[23:29] Speaker 3: You know, you've just got to be able to try
[23:31] Speaker 3: different things, be flexible and you approach and as your say, Paul,
[23:35] Speaker 3: you've just got to be able to hang in for
[23:37] Speaker 3: the long haul and get through the speed on.
[23:40] Speaker 4: So in that process, I mean again, I'm just looking
[23:41] Speaker 4: at this lovely teacher that you've got with us as well.
[23:43] Speaker 2: If we can get a little side shot there in
[23:45] Speaker 2: the front, just wave and be're on Telly.
[23:47] Speaker 4: Hi again in terms of that interaction, give us an idea,
[23:52] Speaker 4: I mean again, people when they start, when they hear
[23:54] Speaker 4: the name of it, you know, backtrack Youth Works, they're thinking, okay.
[23:56] Speaker 2: Whole bunch of physical stuff.
[23:58] Speaker 4: But how do you how do you get them onto
[24:00] Speaker 4: the path where they're not just telling you off every day?
[24:04] Speaker 3: I think that's time Because we've been around for twenty
[24:07] Speaker 3: years now and we employ thirty of those young people
[24:10] Speaker 3: that came through the program. They were those bad kids
[24:14] Speaker 3: that are there now. So I think they can see
[24:17] Speaker 3: the hope you know that here's this might be his
[24:20] Speaker 3: uncle or somebody but has a job and it's now
[24:22] Speaker 3: supervising other kids. So we have this transition of just
[24:26] Speaker 3: hanging in for that long haul, teaching them to read
[24:29] Speaker 3: and write, and you know, we want to get them
[24:31] Speaker 3: work ready. We have nearly a ninety percent success rate.
[24:34] Speaker 2: Hey, well done, mate, We want you to both of you.
[24:38] Speaker 2: That's massive. Yeah, that's massive, the true But.
[24:41] Speaker 3: What it does show us, Paul, is that there are solutions,
[24:43] Speaker 3: you know, and if we just keep trying different things
[24:45] Speaker 3: and not giving up, then we can get there.
[24:48] Speaker 4: You can tell why you've got the award, and I
[24:49] Speaker 4: can tell you why you're still hard at work now.
[24:52] Speaker 4: Important here not a lot of government support, which is
[24:55] Speaker 4: where you're going to come in here wherever you're watching
[24:57] Speaker 4: us around the country. Right, if you've got access to
[24:59] Speaker 4: a check book, can you've got that little bit left over?
[25:01] Speaker 4: Or if you have somebody who is able to decide
[25:04] Speaker 4: our business is supporting this, guess what you're going to go.
[25:06] Speaker 4: And I'm asking you to go all in on these guys. Okay,
[25:10] Speaker 4: the website is up there. I make sure it's all
[25:12] Speaker 4: on our socials as well. Small support, big support, all
[25:16] Speaker 4: of it means a ninety percent success rate. Let's keep
[25:19] Speaker 4: that going and let's push that to the dream number
[25:21] Speaker 4: of one hundred well as soon as possible.
[25:24] Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, good on posture quick great here
[25:28] Speaker 2: in a moment here in Armadah.
[25:31] Speaker 4: Lots to talk about here of course with the worldess Dog.
[25:34] Speaker 4: It's a fantastic brewery right in the heart of town.
[25:43] Speaker 2: Him choose.
[25:53] Speaker 4: You make a good audience. Thank you everyone. I do
[25:55] Speaker 4: appreciate who's looking forward to the Pauline show.
[25:57] Speaker 2: By the way, we've got it up on Tuesday. Got
[25:59] Speaker 2: lots of questions.
[26:00] Speaker 4: All right, that'll be a fun one. Remember that's coming
[26:02] Speaker 4: up Tuesday. And now, of course, as you know, when the
[26:05] Speaker 4: clock strikes midnight, Scott News will become News twenty four.
[26:08] Speaker 2: It's the first big event of US twenty four.
[26:10] Speaker 4: I'm really excited for that. In terms of what changes
[26:13] Speaker 4: at your end, well, not very much. All the channels
[26:15] Speaker 4: are the same, number of program guides are all the same.
[26:17] Speaker 4: But News twenty four kicks off when you wake up
[26:20] Speaker 4: tomorrow morning with Pete Stefanovic. Now Harvey Norman is the
[26:23] Speaker 4: reason we are able to be able to come to
[26:25] Speaker 4: places like Armadale, to go around the country. When it
[26:28] Speaker 4: comes to our town and the Delicious Awards is something
[26:31] Speaker 4: they get behind, which is about celebrating Australian produce, and
[26:36] Speaker 4: our job is to speak to as many of those
[26:38] Speaker 4: first hand producers as possible. And we know about all
[26:41] Speaker 4: of the paddic to plate that exists in lots of
[26:43] Speaker 4: different areas, but there's one not too far from here
[26:46] Speaker 4: that is all about making sure that the pigs are
[26:49] Speaker 4: as well taken care of as possible and taste delicious.
[26:53] Speaker 4: Emily is the lady you're about to meet, and I
[26:55] Speaker 4: promise you she's an absolute worthy finalist in this year's
[26:58] Speaker 4: Harvey Norman Delicious Awards. For twenty one years, these awards
[27:11] Speaker 4: have been recognizing some of the most hard working people
[27:15] Speaker 4: on the land in our country. Their dedication and skill
[27:19] Speaker 4: is something to be celebrated and admired. There is no
[27:24] Speaker 4: one more respected in the culinary world than the restaurant
[27:26] Speaker 4: to Matt Moran, and he is passionate about these awards,
[27:30] Speaker 4: so much so that he's been a judge since day one.
[27:33] Speaker 11: The two days judging are two of the best days
[27:35] Speaker 11: of the year for me, and the reason being is
[27:38] Speaker 11: I just get to see this incredible produce that comes
[27:40] Speaker 11: from all over Australia, and I feel very lucky and
[27:43] Speaker 11: very blessed, but also you know, I find the produce
[27:46] Speaker 11: that I can actually.
[27:47] Speaker 2: Them pull on the menus.
[27:49] Speaker 12: I always say that, you know, without the farmers and
[27:51] Speaker 12: out the producers, I wouldn't beet a chef the restaurantor
[27:54] Speaker 12: that I am, because I wouldn't have the incredible produce
[27:56] Speaker 12: to put.
[27:56] Speaker 2: On the plot.
[28:02] Speaker 4: The winners will be announced on the fourth of August.
[28:04] Speaker 4: And now it's time to meet one of the finalists.
[28:08] Speaker 4: The team at Lebon Tewire DEMJ. They run a certified
[28:12] Speaker 4: organic pig farm that specializes.
[28:14] Speaker 2: In producing heritage breed pork.
[28:16] Speaker 4: This is a three hundred and thirty seven hectare property, making.
[28:19] Speaker 2: Something very special. So explain the name. It's beautiful.
[28:34] Speaker 6: Lebon to MJ is French for the good earth of
[28:38] Speaker 6: Emily Jane, which it's our place, and the terrain or
[28:45] Speaker 6: the soil is very very much like the European soil
[28:49] Speaker 6: where they have the pigs over in Italy. For us,
[28:51] Speaker 6: it came down one hundred percent to the animal welfare
[28:55] Speaker 6: and how the pigs are happier in their life here,
[28:59] Speaker 6: you know, So then that really translates into a fine
[29:03] Speaker 6: tasting product, and the pigs take a lot longer, more
[29:07] Speaker 6: than your mainstream pigs are three months whereas our pigs
[29:11] Speaker 6: are seven months.
[29:12] Speaker 5: So you know, it's got a great way of way.
[29:16] Speaker 6: Of incorporating the environment conservation as well as managing the
[29:22] Speaker 6: animal animals on the land.
[29:24] Speaker 2: Why is animal welfare important to you.
[29:28] Speaker 6: I've just seen how our traditional farming can be done
[29:31] Speaker 6: and how the animals are sort of you know, they're
[29:33] Speaker 6: just bred for profit and you know, to see how
[29:35] Speaker 6: many we can get out at the at the end
[29:38] Speaker 6: of the week.
[29:39] Speaker 5: And for us, it wasn't about that.
[29:40] Speaker 6: It was about spending time with them, you know, getting
[29:43] Speaker 6: to learn their characters and then they're a lot easier
[29:46] Speaker 6: to manage and move when when when we do have
[29:49] Speaker 6: to move them paddocks or you know, move them back
[29:53] Speaker 6: in with the breeders.
[30:00] Speaker 12: Farmers to be the true heroes, and they're undervalued, overworked,
[30:06] Speaker 12: and I just think it's a great thing to shine
[30:10] Speaker 12: the spotlight on them and until the world or tell
[30:13] Speaker 12: strains how hard they work, because we all know how
[30:15] Speaker 12: bloody hard farmers work, how.
[30:25] Speaker 5: We're farming and how we're running their land.
[30:28] Speaker 6: Is a great way for people to see that they
[30:31] Speaker 6: can that they do have alternate options and they can
[30:36] Speaker 6: still support small Australian farmers that are doing the right
[30:38] Speaker 6: thing by the animals and the land and get a
[30:42] Speaker 6: premium product pork and then you can celebrate the animal
[30:47] Speaker 6: in that way recognition and the ability to get our
[30:59] Speaker 6: story out there and what we're actually doing, so then
[31:02] Speaker 6: more people know about us and if they are interested
[31:05] Speaker 6: in how their animals are being raised or grown, then
[31:09] Speaker 6: this is a great way to support small, ethical primary producers.
[31:26] Speaker 2: Little thing's never look so cute.
[31:29] Speaker 4: Well, to Atha and Zada that are watching, we've already
[31:32] Speaker 4: got our pet.
[31:33] Speaker 2: We've already got chased. No, daddy's not bringing back piglets.
[31:36] Speaker 4: But although they're very cute, and to Emily and Glenn,
[31:39] Speaker 4: the business is really special what they're putting together. I
[31:41] Speaker 4: wish that nothing but the best in the awards here,
[31:44] Speaker 4: but certainly they're doing really next level stuff in terms
[31:47] Speaker 4: of genes and the breeding. And also it's a little
[31:51] Speaker 4: bit of an insight too that han't been a lot
[31:53] Speaker 4: of rain around this part of Australia. We hope for
[31:56] Speaker 4: that very very soon. But it was lovely to hang
[31:58] Speaker 4: out with them in the wall of our food producers
[32:01] Speaker 4: around the country. The reality is it doesn't grow at
[32:03] Speaker 4: the shops. It needs to be grown somewhere And of
[32:05] Speaker 4: course it's people whose.
[32:06] Speaker 2: Love and skill goes into all of it.
[32:08] Speaker 4: So please support your local in lots of ways shaped
[32:11] Speaker 4: and form. All right, now, we had a great night
[32:13] Speaker 4: last night which was a show rolled into town and
[32:17] Speaker 4: it is of course a theater production of the Faulty
[32:21] Speaker 4: Towers TV show from way back when. Now, Armadale is
[32:24] Speaker 4: a place where there are lots of live shows that
[32:26] Speaker 4: happen all the time. There's community theater that takes place here.
[32:30] Speaker 4: There's all sorts of different performances. But who knew that
[32:33] Speaker 4: something from a TV show a long time ago would
[32:36] Speaker 4: be as awesome as this was last night? And when
[32:39] Speaker 4: it comes to your part of Australia. By three tickets,
[32:42] Speaker 4: including one for me, Sure it'll be an empty seat,
[32:44] Speaker 4: but they deserve the support.
[32:48] Speaker 13: I don't think this is a hotel.
[32:49] Speaker 4: It looks nothing like the picture.
[32:51] Speaker 5: We're trying to find the hotel. Which one.
[32:55] Speaker 2: Don't you want to know where the hotel is? Where hotel?
[33:00] Speaker 5: All right?
[33:00] Speaker 2: All right, I've got the venue for tonight. It is
[33:02] Speaker 2: the Ridges in Armadale.
[33:05] Speaker 4: It is just one of lots of cultural activities which
[33:08] Speaker 4: take place.
[33:09] Speaker 2: In this part of Australia.
[33:11] Speaker 4: In the next couple of weeks alone, Opera Australia's Don
[33:13] Speaker 4: Giovanni will be in town. There'll be an international film festival.
[33:18] Speaker 4: There is a lot more to Armadale than meets the eye.
[33:21] Speaker 4: We had a chat to Monique, who's been part of
[33:23] Speaker 4: the show for a long time, about what it's like
[33:26] Speaker 4: to play Sybil in Faulty Towers all over the joint week.
[33:36] Speaker 11: Visa similar all stop up so terribly.
[33:44] Speaker 2: That's quite The show is obviously incredibly famous. Everyone remembers
[33:48] Speaker 2: it from Telly.
[33:49] Speaker 4: People might have experienced it in the theater setting, but
[33:52] Speaker 4: to experience it in.
[33:53] Speaker 2: A hotel is kind of the whole point of the piece,
[33:57] Speaker 2: isn't it.
[33:57] Speaker 13: Yeah, Having interactive theater where you feel like you're actually
[34:02] Speaker 13: part of the television program inside everything, and having the
[34:05] Speaker 13: three actors all around you is an experience that people
[34:10] Speaker 13: absolutely die for and talk about four years to come.
[34:13] Speaker 13: We have repeat offenders, that's what I call them. They
[34:15] Speaker 13: come back sort of year after year or follow us.
[34:18] Speaker 14: Around the countryside, roll on plate, ladies and gentlemen.
[34:40] Speaker 13: I should leave you all in the very capable hands
[34:45] Speaker 13: of my husband.
[34:48] Speaker 4: What is the experience like to be performing in this
[34:53] Speaker 4: sort of setting? Again, you're in and amongst people. They're
[34:55] Speaker 4: not sitting in the normal theater way. They are also
[34:59] Speaker 4: able to eat drink as they go.
[35:00] Speaker 13: You have to be on the edge, you have to
[35:02] Speaker 13: be in the moment because you're never quite sure what
[35:05] Speaker 13: someone you do. I often tell all the new people
[35:08] Speaker 13: that come into our company, treat the audience like a
[35:11] Speaker 13: fourth actor, but an actor that's not quite sure what
[35:14] Speaker 13: they and how they should behave all the time.
[35:18] Speaker 14: The classes, the classes.
[35:22] Speaker 15: Ah, well no no, no, no, no, no, man will classes
[35:36] Speaker 15: on the table? I understand, I understand.
[35:43] Speaker 2: Fine, is anyone happening to not talk much as she
[35:47] Speaker 2: wants to? I've only all can custom?
[35:53] Speaker 4: What is it about performing in regional Australia that is
[35:56] Speaker 4: a different buzz than the boards of Sydney or Melbourne.
[35:59] Speaker 13: We we have a lot of our big shows in
[36:02] Speaker 13: regional Australia. People love the idea that we've come into
[36:06] Speaker 13: their town and made the big effort to travel and
[36:09] Speaker 13: give them an experience that they don't need to travel
[36:11] Speaker 13: hours and hours to get to. So, with our company
[36:14] Speaker 13: being almost thirty years next year for our big anniversary.
[36:17] Speaker 13: It's an opportunity that we can bring this incredible show
[36:21] Speaker 13: that's been going for so long into those areas and
[36:24] Speaker 13: people are so appreciative and I love them.
[36:27] Speaker 5: They're my favorite children.
[36:28] Speaker 2: Well but are on the table. Ah like this.
[36:36] Speaker 16: From a cow?
[36:39] Speaker 7: From a cow.
[36:42] Speaker 2: Awesome to be an Armadale. But also just a little
[36:44] Speaker 2: bit of personal history too. You went to school here?
[36:47] Speaker 5: I did.
[36:48] Speaker 13: I had primary school here, high school and even went
[36:50] Speaker 13: to university here. We've always had a great arts and
[36:53] Speaker 13: cultural background and the town has been very very supportive
[36:57] Speaker 13: of that. So I have people that I see who
[37:00] Speaker 13: and follow me around who remember me from when I
[37:03] Speaker 13: was a kid.
[37:03] Speaker 2: Would you like a knot?
[37:13] Speaker 17: This man has no nuts.
[37:18] Speaker 4: This production of Faulty Towers is heading all the way
[37:21] Speaker 4: around Australia. In fact, they've even put on some extra
[37:23] Speaker 4: shows going into next year.
[37:25] Speaker 2: It's a great night out. Get your tickets right now.
[37:29] Speaker 16: Absolutely amazing, very.
[37:31] Speaker 2: Good to joy of this excellent.
[37:33] Speaker 1: I've seen it three times Georgia think of the show.
[37:35] Speaker 18: It was great years laughed, love to laugh.
[37:39] Speaker 2: All right, cool, we're family, good lover.
[37:42] Speaker 1: And they made fun of me. I mean they had
[37:45] Speaker 1: half a dozen people said, are you part of the act?
[37:48] Speaker 2: Has been a crazy billy got an old fashioned fund.
[37:52] Speaker 1: It was a flashback to my youth.
[38:00] Speaker 17: I found it so wrong, my jess.
[38:13] Speaker 4: It's a good night out and we'll be coming to
[38:15] Speaker 4: a town near you. Sam Copeland is the mayor in
[38:17] Speaker 4: this part of Australia. Love it to see you, mate, mate.
[38:20] Speaker 1: Well thanks for coming.
[38:21] Speaker 2: Very good, Thank you very much. Now give us an idea.
[38:23] Speaker 2: What's it like to represent this area.
[38:26] Speaker 4: How does this area stand out and compare to other
[38:28] Speaker 4: parts of Australia that you've lived in.
[38:30] Speaker 1: Look, I'm a little biased.
[38:31] Speaker 16: I was born and bred in the region, went to
[38:34] Speaker 16: school in Uni here, lived in Sydney for twenty years.
[38:37] Speaker 16: But this is where we wanted to raise kids. And
[38:40] Speaker 16: you know, Armadale's got all the potential and you know,
[38:44] Speaker 16: to the extent I've got a vision for the place.
[38:46] Speaker 16: It's to be the thinking person's Queenstown.
[38:48] Speaker 2: Yeah right, I like it. I like it so.
[38:50] Speaker 1: Taking all the good stuff we have and pimping it up.
[38:54] Speaker 4: Well this I'm saying that the public artwork I really like.
[38:57] Speaker 4: But also this building here, this business here, there's a
[39:00] Speaker 4: perfect example about the future of the joint where it's
[39:03] Speaker 4: been around for a couple of years. But it is
[39:04] Speaker 4: not just the berea but a performance space. I mean
[39:07] Speaker 4: literally looking ahead at all the types of people that
[39:09] Speaker 4: are going to be here. It's sort of nationally known
[39:11] Speaker 4: comedians all the rest of it. That's the thing too,
[39:13] Speaker 4: It's not just about having businesses, not just things to do,
[39:16] Speaker 4: but things that build community. And that's why places like
[39:20] Speaker 4: this is so special, aren't.
[39:21] Speaker 16: They look they are And you know Tom and Dan
[39:24] Speaker 16: who built this, they also have the one up on
[39:26] Speaker 16: the corner. But it's such a great facility. But what
[39:28] Speaker 16: I love about this place is the strength of the community.
[39:31] Speaker 16: So we have you know, we had someone roll into
[39:34] Speaker 16: town two years ago and she said, I'll tell you
[39:36] Speaker 16: what this place needs, skeptics in the pub and so
[39:39] Speaker 16: that's every month. And then we had another girl in
[39:42] Speaker 16: a brash. I know, we're not meant to say this
[39:43] Speaker 16: because it's trademark, but she said, I'll tell you what
[39:45] Speaker 16: this place needs is pub choir. And she made it
[39:48] Speaker 16: say so first first Wednesday of every month. There is
[39:51] Speaker 16: something to do here every day of the week if
[39:54] Speaker 16: you hunt for it. And that's one of the highlights
[39:56] Speaker 16: of it. I guess being the mayor, I get invited
[39:57] Speaker 16: to a lot of.
[39:58] Speaker 4: Things, and one of the best things about any in
[40:00] Speaker 4: regional Australia, but particularly places like Armadale, people don't hold back.
[40:03] Speaker 4: If they want to tell you what's going on, they
[40:05] Speaker 4: tell you. And that's lovely because it just means because
[40:07] Speaker 4: people are invested, they get very honest with you.
[40:09] Speaker 2: That's something beautiful about.
[40:11] Speaker 4: This place, right he laughs, because obviously somebody did earlier
[40:13] Speaker 4: in the crowd tonight.
[40:14] Speaker 1: Well there's a few in the room, hi guys.
[40:20] Speaker 16: But yeah, look, that is one of the great things
[40:22] Speaker 16: about I guess regional Australia. Everyone is proud, everyone's approachable
[40:27] Speaker 16: and we suddenly get plenty of feed.
[40:28] Speaker 4: So good on your sand Thanks very much, very much,
[40:30] Speaker 4: thank you giving up for the mayor. More on a
[40:31] Speaker 4: second from Armadale. Here we're at the Welder's Dog Take
[40:34] Speaker 4: great location in town. Thank you very much, mister here
[40:37] Speaker 4: more and a sick.
[40:45] Speaker 2: Thanks to Harving Norman.
[40:47] Speaker 4: We are here in Armadale tonight, and I'm going to
[40:49] Speaker 4: say there was a really special organization that works across
[40:53] Speaker 4: regional Australia that I want everyone in this room to
[40:57] Speaker 4: write down all the details about everyone around the country
[41:00] Speaker 4: to know by heart.
[41:00] Speaker 2: By the end of this conversation. I don't think that'll
[41:03] Speaker 2: be a hard thing to do because angel.
[41:04] Speaker 4: Flight is an absolutely spectacular service. Its CEO is Marjorie,
[41:09] Speaker 4: one of its volunteer pilots is Robin. They're both here now.
[41:12] Speaker 4: Thank you very much for coming along.
[41:13] Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
[41:17] Speaker 4: We've talked about in the service before, but I want
[41:19] Speaker 4: to remind everyone about it now here now. Angel Flight
[41:23] Speaker 4: is a very special service, but it is one that
[41:25] Speaker 4: is available to regional Australia.
[41:27] Speaker 2: Tell us about what angel Flight is.
[41:29] Speaker 18: It's available to everybody right across Australia. Of course, we
[41:32] Speaker 18: have biggest cold of patients is in your South Wales
[41:35] Speaker 18: population base. We've done about seventy thousand rural New South
[41:42] Speaker 18: Wales flights for people who need to get non emergency
[41:47] Speaker 18: treatment in the city and the time and the cost
[41:52] Speaker 18: of car and other travel is just not available to them. So,
[41:56] Speaker 18: whoever you are, wherever you are, we're not CenTra lank
[41:58] Speaker 18: We're not going to look at your bank. Your rural
[42:02] Speaker 18: health practitioner tells us you need help, we give it
[42:06] Speaker 18: to you.
[42:07] Speaker 4: So is there a what would be a typical type
[42:11] Speaker 4: of flight, because obviously there's a lot of people who
[42:13] Speaker 4: might need to say, from Armadale get to Sydney for
[42:16] Speaker 4: particular specialist appointments. But also there might be in a
[42:20] Speaker 4: certain frail state we're going in the car that long
[42:23] Speaker 4: isn't okay. And frankly, sometimes regional airline commercial costs can
[42:28] Speaker 4: be too much. Community about the range of people who
[42:32] Speaker 4: can use the service.
[42:34] Speaker 2: It's across the board.
[42:35] Speaker 18: From our youngest that has been a three day old baby,
[42:40] Speaker 18: our oldest so far has been one hundred and one
[42:43] Speaker 18: years old. We take people wherever they need to go
[42:46] Speaker 18: from here. It might be to Sydney hospitals, it might
[42:49] Speaker 18: be to the Gold Coast Hospital, sometimes just down to Dumbo.
[42:53] Speaker 18: So wherever they need to go for their regular treatment,
[42:56] Speaker 18: often it will be chemo. And for example, if you're
[42:59] Speaker 18: on the trials, you have to go every two weeks.
[43:01] Speaker 18: If you miss it, you're off the trial. If you're
[43:04] Speaker 18: too sick to go, you can't drive, or you can't
[43:06] Speaker 18: afford it, you're off the trial. We don't let that happen.
[43:10] Speaker 18: We help everybody, and we don't care if you're really rich.
[43:14] Speaker 18: We do care if you're really poor, but will help
[43:18] Speaker 18: you if you need our help.
[43:20] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's beautiful.
[43:20] Speaker 4: I love it, honestly, well done, seriously, So for everyone
[43:26] Speaker 4: who's in your room, just remember the name Angel Flight.
[43:29] Speaker 4: When you've got something that's coming up in your life,
[43:31] Speaker 4: make sure that it's there. Just Google you find them
[43:33] Speaker 4: nice and easy. I'll make sure again all the details
[43:35] Speaker 4: are up online. Now, Rob, you've got the job of
[43:38] Speaker 4: getting everyone there nice and safe. But you're part of
[43:40] Speaker 4: a network of pilots who volunteer your time and sometimes
[43:44] Speaker 4: even your aircraft.
[43:46] Speaker 19: Yes, most of us would be people who either own
[43:50] Speaker 19: an aircraft or have access to an aircraft and to hire,
[43:54] Speaker 19: and we donate our time, our skill, the use of
[43:59] Speaker 19: the aircraft to make these flights possible.
[44:03] Speaker 2: So how long have you been doing it now?
[44:05] Speaker 19: Oh, twenty three years?
[44:08] Speaker 2: Well done, twenty three years make very good.
[44:12] Speaker 6: But again I do the.
[44:13] Speaker 4: Idea that this comes at the cost of time and
[44:18] Speaker 4: wear and tear on aircraft and all the rest of it. Right,
[44:20] Speaker 4: But the fact that you've got somebody like a Rob
[44:22] Speaker 4: who sticks around for as long.
[44:25] Speaker 2: Have you got a whole collection?
[44:27] Speaker 4: You've got an army of robs where once people get involved,
[44:29] Speaker 4: they stay involved.
[44:30] Speaker 18: Yeah, they all stay involved. Usually we have to pension
[44:33] Speaker 18: them out.
[44:33] Speaker 2: Because to go and get robbed forever.
[44:37] Speaker 18: All right, we've got just under five thousand pilots with
[44:42] Speaker 18: their own aircraft and about the same number of drivers.
[44:45] Speaker 18: We call Earth angels, and they truly are. They pick
[44:49] Speaker 18: you up from your city airport and take you to
[44:51] Speaker 18: wherever you need to go, and then pick you up
[44:54] Speaker 18: on the way back another aircraft will be waiting, and
[44:57] Speaker 18: back home you go.
[44:58] Speaker 2: So how did this start?
[45:00] Speaker 4: I mean, how did this become an idea where you know,
[45:03] Speaker 4: again you can think about family members who one of
[45:05] Speaker 4: the things we all get worried about when they move
[45:07] Speaker 4: a little further away from certain medical careers.
[45:10] Speaker 2: Well, how are they going to get there? Again?
[45:12] Speaker 4: The answer is in the air or in the car.
[45:16] Speaker 4: How did this come about as your focus?
[45:19] Speaker 18: Well, about twenty four years ago Bill Bristow, who was
[45:25] Speaker 18: an advertising agency man with an aeroplane, began to learn
[45:30] Speaker 18: about all the closures across the country of specialist clinics
[45:35] Speaker 18: and he started to talk to doctors and realize how
[45:38] Speaker 18: people were suffering. He seeded it, he got it going.
[45:41] Speaker 18: I came in at that stage as the pro bono
[45:44] Speaker 18: aviation lawyer and took over a CEO about twelve years ago.
[45:49] Speaker 18: For one year, I said, And that was twelve years ago,
[45:52] Speaker 18: and it's just grown ever since. There's just nobody with
[45:57] Speaker 18: any condition as long as they are safe to fly
[46:01] Speaker 18: in a light aircraft and their doctor tells us that
[46:04] Speaker 18: we'll take them.
[46:05] Speaker 4: So with that many people, I mean again, I don't
[46:08] Speaker 4: want to make a while promise on your behalf, but
[46:11] Speaker 4: you can make most requests take place.
[46:15] Speaker 18: Look, I can't remember the last time we couldn't you
[46:19] Speaker 18: make a request take place.
[46:21] Speaker 4: And that's because of this network of people like rob
[46:24] Speaker 4: that are that's.
[46:24] Speaker 18: Right, and if necessary, if, for example, we take elderly
[46:29] Speaker 18: people home to die, it might be last one. We
[46:32] Speaker 18: took Sydney to Kannanarah too long in a light aircraft
[46:35] Speaker 18: for them to cope so well.
[46:37] Speaker 2: To be at home. I don't want to be at St.
[46:38] Speaker 2: Vincent exactly.
[46:39] Speaker 18: And we will take them home. We will pay their affairs.
[46:43] Speaker 4: If you give the chance to talk to patients. None
[46:47] Speaker 4: of us want to be crooked, and none of us
[46:49] Speaker 4: want to be that crook. But when you have conversations
[46:52] Speaker 4: with people who are really weighing.
[46:54] Speaker 2: Up everything in life, what does it do to you? Oh?
[47:01] Speaker 19: Really cuts through as to how worthwhile and how meaningful
[47:08] Speaker 19: this is. Sometimes people were going through what is the
[47:14] Speaker 19: worst time in their lives, and other times that might
[47:18] Speaker 19: just have found out that they're in remission, that everything's okay.
[47:23] Speaker 19: So you get the whole gamut from Marjorie says someone
[47:28] Speaker 19: who just wants to go home to die, And I've
[47:32] Speaker 19: flown people in that condition. And one particular flight that
[47:40] Speaker 19: I did to take an elderly gentleman back to long
[47:44] Speaker 19: Reach to die. It was the worst flight possible because
[47:50] Speaker 19: of the weather. But as we got to the Long
[47:52] Speaker 19: Reach descending to land, the clouds parted and this gorgeous
[47:58] Speaker 19: golden sunset threw light into the plane. So I knew
[48:03] Speaker 19: that that was really special for him. But what I
[48:06] Speaker 19: didn't realize until after we were on the ground was
[48:09] Speaker 19: how special it was to the community. Because friends, family,
[48:15] Speaker 19: the mayor, the ambulance, the local reporters all there asking
[48:21] Speaker 19: about Angel Flight, what can we do? And that's when
[48:24] Speaker 19: I realized that it's not just about a person who's
[48:29] Speaker 19: taking the flight. This was opening up possibilities to a
[48:33] Speaker 19: whole community.
[48:34] Speaker 2: It's beautiful, honestly, Angel Flight. Please please please support, support
[48:38] Speaker 2: support lovely to see you. Thank you so much me
[48:41] Speaker 2: what you both said, all.
[48:42] Speaker 4: Right quick, great Bavin Moore here, Tomari liven Amada.
[48:52] Speaker 2: Thank you very much for joining us.
[48:53] Speaker 4: Thank you so much for.
[48:54] Speaker 2: Everyone here out the Worlder's Dog.
[48:57] Speaker 4: Now I have been told that I can give these away,
[49:00] Speaker 4: but I'm going to warn you on unco so someone
[49:02] Speaker 4: might get hurt.
[49:03] Speaker 2: But apologies. Here we go up in the air. Hey,
[49:06] Speaker 2: you get one and you can have one, all right,
[49:09] Speaker 2: all right, that's our show tonight. Thank you very much
[49:11] Speaker 2: for watching. Take you a hob and orfer. Thank you
[49:13] Speaker 2: to Angel Flight. We will see you again back in
[49:16] Speaker 2: the studio.
[49:17] Speaker 4: The News twenty fourth first edition of Paul Murray Lives
[49:19] Speaker 4: Here comes to his n

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