# Paul Murray Our Town: Burnie | 22 February

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 22 Feb 2026, 49 min.

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The Australian Federal Police probes Pauline Hanson's comments, Aussies don't want ISIS brides back. Plus, Tasmania embraces Pauline Hanson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Live from Bernie, Tasmia.
[0:03] Speaker 2: This is Paul Murray, live out town.
[0:08] Speaker 1: Welcome to Tasmania. Welcome to takeoday, Bernie. How are you
[0:12] Speaker 1: love to see you. What a great part of Ustavia
[0:15] Speaker 1: this is. We have had a magnificent weekend and I
[0:18] Speaker 1: can't wait for the opportunity tonight to be able to
[0:22] Speaker 1: tell you about what we have been experiencing over the
[0:25] Speaker 1: past couple of days. Seriously, what a place to come
[0:27] Speaker 1: and visit. Put it on the bucket list as you
[0:29] Speaker 1: make your way around Tasmania. But also if you want
[0:32] Speaker 1: to look at an incredible lifestyle that exists here too,
[0:36] Speaker 1: So Bernie, we will tell you all about it in
[0:37] Speaker 1: a moment or two times, including the beautiful building that
[0:40] Speaker 1: we are in right now, which is the Arts Center.
[0:42] Speaker 1: This is one that has been rebuilt over the past
[0:45] Speaker 1: couple of years, massive, massive juge of about twenty million dollars.
[0:49] Speaker 1: A Senator Richard Colbeck from Tazzy, who's in the front row,
[0:51] Speaker 1: big part of all that. Give him a round of
[0:52] Speaker 1: a pause because it's a great building. He's a good man.
[0:55] Speaker 1: Were back Richard him. Thank you, Richard, really appreciate you
[0:58] Speaker 1: being here tonight. All right, now, let us get to
[1:02] Speaker 1: a couple of things before we get into what is
[1:04] Speaker 1: best about Bernie, and we'll get to all of that
[1:06] Speaker 1: in a second. Now, you may will have heard that CHERRYE.
[1:09] Speaker 1: Markson had Pauline Hanson on her show last week. You
[1:12] Speaker 1: may well have heard that there was some comments that
[1:15] Speaker 1: were made in and around the Islamic population of Australia,
[1:19] Speaker 1: ones that I've got to say if you actually have
[1:21] Speaker 1: seen the interview. She corrects pretty quickly twenty four hours
[1:24] Speaker 1: later further explains, but can you believe this here where
[1:28] Speaker 1: the police are seriously looking at a potential hate crime
[1:34] Speaker 1: of what she had to say in and around that interview. Now,
[1:37] Speaker 1: this is stuff that is the worst of what happens
[1:39] Speaker 1: in England. This is the stuff that shouldn't be happening here. Again,
[1:43] Speaker 1: my view is is that people who are elected to
[1:45] Speaker 1: the Parliament have an opportunity to be hide and fired
[1:48] Speaker 1: every three years by us if you are able to
[1:52] Speaker 1: as Lydia Thorpe did say she wanted to burn down
[1:56] Speaker 1: the parliament and there was nothing to see here, But
[1:58] Speaker 1: these comments are the ones that the police actually investigate.
[2:01] Speaker 1: I think we're in a slightly screwed up place now.
[2:03] Speaker 1: The Police and the Federal Police are the ones having
[2:05] Speaker 1: a look at all of this, ironically after those hate
[2:08] Speaker 1: laws had gone through the Parliament just a few weeks ago.
[2:11] Speaker 1: Very brief statement, but it's worth repeating to you here
[2:13] Speaker 1: that the Australian Federal Police, so they are aware of
[2:15] Speaker 1: the interview and for the comment will be made at
[2:17] Speaker 1: an appropriate time. Now, apparently a whole bunch of those
[2:20] Speaker 1: either from the community or on their behalf, have been
[2:23] Speaker 1: the ones who have been running off to the police
[2:25] Speaker 1: trying to get them involved in all of this. Again wait,
[2:28] Speaker 1: watch and see. But for those who think this is
[2:31] Speaker 1: the way to handle a political force, you don't like
[2:34] Speaker 1: what happened when they tried to jail Donald Trump. Did
[2:37] Speaker 1: that work out with him not being the president again.
[2:40] Speaker 1: And of course Pauline Hansen has already been in and
[2:43] Speaker 1: out of jail after politics was responsible for putting her
[2:47] Speaker 1: there and it was quashed. I can guarantee you this,
[2:50] Speaker 1: any sort of a move like this is only going
[2:52] Speaker 1: to strengthen her support and her support particularly here in
[2:56] Speaker 1: the Northwest and I'll get to that. Polling later is
[2:58] Speaker 1: getting very strong right around the car literally, the orange
[3:01] Speaker 1: empty chair is out ranking some of the great historical
[3:04] Speaker 1: forces of Australian politics. Unsurprisingly, the Prime Minister is going
[3:08] Speaker 1: well passive aggressive here, pretending to be the calm one
[3:11] Speaker 1: who causes no division whatsoever. Unsurprisingly he thinks he's got
[3:16] Speaker 1: in over one nation. Here's what he told Andrew clenell
[3:18] Speaker 1: on Scott Us this morning.
[3:20] Speaker 3: I'm not a lawyer, nor am I in charge of
[3:25] Speaker 3: fulfilling those laws. I'll allow the appropriate authorities to engage.
[3:30] Speaker 3: What we shouldn't do, Andrew, and what will not build
[3:33] Speaker 3: social cohesion is if people come out and have their
[3:38] Speaker 3: different views based upon their thoughts. What's important here is
[3:44] Speaker 3: that we actually respond in a responsible way.
[3:48] Speaker 1: All right, So now let's just take a quick survey
[3:50] Speaker 1: of the people that have randomly gathered on a Sunday
[3:52] Speaker 1: night here in Bernie. Anyone keen for one of the
[3:55] Speaker 1: Isis brides currently in Syria to move in next door? Oh? Well,
[4:00] Speaker 1: guess what. An opinion poll has shown us that two
[4:02] Speaker 1: thirds of Australians don't want them back in the country
[4:06] Speaker 1: at all. Does this surprise anyone here? Let me read
[4:09] Speaker 1: along with what we're saving. Jisue well trained. I like this.
[4:13] Speaker 1: This is fantastic, you know, Paul says Potato, you sayto
[4:17] Speaker 1: I don't actually all right, so let me read here
[4:19] Speaker 1: for what's in the newspapers today. Two thirds of Australians
[4:21] Speaker 1: think the so called ISIS brides should not be allowed
[4:24] Speaker 1: to return to Australia, with support of one nation holding firm,
[4:28] Speaker 1: after Angus Taylor toppled Susan Lee, that's your headline. The
[4:30] Speaker 1: quote says that a news fox and hedgehog pole. Don't
[4:35] Speaker 1: you love that as a name on your business card?
[4:36] Speaker 1: But anyway gone. For the Sunday Telegraph, sixty four percent
[4:39] Speaker 1: of voters opposing those coming back into the country from
[4:44] Speaker 1: the Middle East, including a majority of Labour supporters, which
[4:47] Speaker 1: is probably why we have the Prime Minister with the
[4:49] Speaker 1: dog and pony show earlier in the week, pretending that
[4:52] Speaker 1: he was against all of this, when as we know,
[4:55] Speaker 1: the bloke is actually responsible for whether they get the
[4:57] Speaker 1: paperwork and whether they're allowed back in is My hands
[5:00] Speaker 1: are tired. Tony Burke was on Insiders on the ABC today,
[5:05] Speaker 1: We're among other things, he has said very clearly they
[5:08] Speaker 1: are not involved in returning these people whatsoever. Now, remember
[5:14] Speaker 1: when the WUFLU was running around, no one could enter
[5:17] Speaker 1: Australia no one at all. Okay, the government has shown
[5:21] Speaker 1: us before that if they want to keep everyone out,
[5:24] Speaker 1: they can, regardless of how much it costs you because
[5:27] Speaker 1: you were visiting Nano somewhere else or on the holiday
[5:31] Speaker 1: of your lifetime. They kept you out when you wanted
[5:34] Speaker 1: to go from a state with zero cases to another
[5:36] Speaker 1: state with zero cases where you had to plead for
[5:39] Speaker 1: your life and spend two weeks in a hotel room.
[5:42] Speaker 1: Don't tell me the government doesn't have a power to
[5:45] Speaker 1: do what it wants when it wants. But amazingly, Tony
[5:50] Speaker 1: Burke is trying to say here, because you're an Australian citizen,
[5:53] Speaker 1: automatically you are going to get a passport. You know
[5:56] Speaker 1: that the law gives the capacity for a minister to
[5:59] Speaker 1: say no, I don't care what the last minister or
[6:02] Speaker 1: the one before, or the one before or the one
[6:04] Speaker 1: before that. If you're in the hot seat and you've
[6:07] Speaker 1: got the pen, give these people the ass don't let
[6:10] Speaker 1: them into the country. But here is the Home Affairs
[6:13] Speaker 1: Minister banging around on the home game otherwise known as
[6:17] Speaker 1: the ABC.
[6:18] Speaker 2: Are you actively trying to stop them coming back?
[6:20] Speaker 1: Then, oh, we don't want them to come.
[6:23] Speaker 2: Back, But are you actively trying to stop them?
[6:25] Speaker 1: We're actively making sure we do nothing to help them,
[6:29] Speaker 1: nothing to help them at all. The only reason there is.
[6:32] Speaker 2: Stop them is the question, I beg your pardon. Nothing
[6:34] Speaker 2: to stop them?
[6:35] Speaker 1: Well, you can't.
[6:36] Speaker 4: Other than a temporary exclusion order.
[6:38] Speaker 5: There isn't a legislative power to be able to stop
[6:40] Speaker 5: an Australian citizen from entering.
[6:42] Speaker 1: Australia so effectively.
[6:44] Speaker 3: That question goes to are we breaking the law?
[6:47] Speaker 1: And the answers note, well, what annoys me particularly about this?
[6:51] Speaker 1: What I think is insulting to you and everyone who
[6:54] Speaker 1: is watching. Remember, you can't walk into a country unless
[6:57] Speaker 1: you have a passport to be able to do so.
[7:00] Speaker 1: If you are in a Syrian refugee camp, your capacity
[7:03] Speaker 1: to walk to the help desk of Australia doesn't exist.
[7:08] Speaker 1: The only opportunity for you to be able to make
[7:10] Speaker 1: such an application, theoretically is when you can get yourself
[7:13] Speaker 1: too an embassy. The most likely one here would be
[7:16] Speaker 1: something potentially in and around Lebanon. That's when the process,
[7:20] Speaker 1: if it must happen, should have started instead. As we
[7:24] Speaker 1: reported and we showed you all last week, and because
[7:26] Speaker 1: you watch us, you're following every little detail here rather
[7:29] Speaker 1: than just you know, the smoke in the air, is
[7:33] Speaker 1: that there was a whole bunch of passports that had
[7:36] Speaker 1: been applied for, a whole bunch of passports that were collected,
[7:39] Speaker 1: a whole bunch of passports that left Australia and then
[7:42] Speaker 1: were handed to the people in the refugee camp in Syria.
[7:47] Speaker 1: That's not something said by some far right wing troll
[7:50] Speaker 1: or some lunatic live streaming. That was from the people
[7:53] Speaker 1: who are running the refugee camp that they say about
[7:56] Speaker 1: the timelines. Now, you can slow play the ball is
[8:00] Speaker 1: rugby league, or you can slow the play down of course,
[8:02] Speaker 1: with the preferred method of football here. But let's be clear,
[8:06] Speaker 1: the government pretending that we only just learned about this
[8:08] Speaker 1: last week is a lie. When they say that they
[8:11] Speaker 1: are doing nothing to help facilitate the return, it is
[8:14] Speaker 1: a lie. And again further detail comes today from the
[8:19] Speaker 1: news corp press across the country about just how much
[8:22] Speaker 1: of a head's up authorities may will have had to
[8:24] Speaker 1: this potential return. Now, remember the exclusion order only went
[8:27] Speaker 1: in last week after it was Turkish television that showed
[8:30] Speaker 1: these people leaving the camps. Of course, again, slow play
[8:34] Speaker 1: the ball. Wid didn't that process begin earlier than all
[8:37] Speaker 1: of that? Think about when you have to deal with
[8:38] Speaker 1: government versus whatever the hell is going on with these
[8:41] Speaker 1: people dealing with government. The Sunday Telegraph is aware of
[8:44] Speaker 1: confidential talks that have been taking place between the federal
[8:47] Speaker 1: government and state agencies, including the isild's Cabinet Office. It
[8:50] Speaker 1: has been underway since late last year, not last week,
[8:55] Speaker 1: not Monday when you learned about it, not January the first,
[8:59] Speaker 1: late last year. In regards to the eleven families, thirty
[9:02] Speaker 1: four people are making their way back, it can now
[9:05] Speaker 1: exclusively reveal that the federal government has been engaged in
[9:08] Speaker 1: these high level planning with state agencies for months. It's
[9:11] Speaker 1: understood that the Home Affairs Department officials have been holding
[9:14] Speaker 1: regular briefings with state agencies both in Ucipwhils and in Victoria,
[9:19] Speaker 1: and talking to the AFP and talking to members of
[9:21] Speaker 1: the Joint counter Terrorism Team. Now, something that's going to
[9:29] Speaker 1: help speed this up as well potentially or bring this
[9:32] Speaker 1: to a head sooner rather than later, is that the
[9:33] Speaker 1: actual camp that they are in right now is going
[9:35] Speaker 1: to close. So the ability to work out how to
[9:39] Speaker 1: have slow played the ball, how to have pay potentially
[9:41] Speaker 1: got to safer haven. That wasn't that place. Perhaps again
[9:46] Speaker 1: parts of the Middle East where family may well be well,
[9:49] Speaker 1: all of that is going to become a problem now
[9:51] Speaker 1: when we talk about radicalization in Australia. What about the
[9:55] Speaker 1: story again that we saw this weekend. You know about roadblocks,
[9:57] Speaker 1: these things that your kids shouldn't be playing. Sorry, if
[9:59] Speaker 1: you have kids that are playing it, it should be banned.
[10:02] Speaker 1: I got little kids, they want to play it. I
[10:03] Speaker 1: don't want them to be playing it. Why because like
[10:06] Speaker 1: all the other stuff that's been banned, you're able to
[10:08] Speaker 1: talk with other people while you're playing. Well, what about this.
[10:11] Speaker 1: Have a look at the screen here in Bernie, or
[10:12] Speaker 1: just keep watching the telly at home. This is what
[10:15] Speaker 1: some people are playing on roadblocks, games where you can
[10:17] Speaker 1: pretend to be Islamic state fighters. Literally, kids in Australia
[10:22] Speaker 1: are able to play this garbage. My simple message is
[10:27] Speaker 1: too the lady who would otherwise be up the front
[10:29] Speaker 1: of the plane or going free to sporting events, who
[10:32] Speaker 1: is also the Communications Minister, the Minister for Freebie anekal
[10:35] Speaker 1: Wells ban roadblocks for people under sixteen. Now you're cool
[10:42] Speaker 1: with that, Bernie Block kid. Now, all right, I bet
[10:48] Speaker 1: it equal. Now let's get to some of the politics
[10:51] Speaker 1: in and around Tasmania. There is a fascinating pole and
[10:54] Speaker 1: of course you know that the wonderful Lee Hanson is
[10:56] Speaker 1: with us. I'd really like to see, of course, good
[10:59] Speaker 1: people like Richard Claire in the Senate for the Liberal Party,
[11:03] Speaker 1: but I also want to see people like Lee Hanson
[11:05] Speaker 1: step up and also make it into the federal parliament.
[11:07] Speaker 1: I know Jackie Lambdy's a local, but buggerher. Lee Hanson
[11:11] Speaker 1: is the future for this part of calaf Nania. Well.
[11:16] Speaker 1: One Nation statewide, if there was a federal election, would
[11:19] Speaker 1: get about a quarter of the vote statewide. This is
[11:22] Speaker 1: the latest polling which came out from an organization via
[11:25] Speaker 1: the Pulse, one of the local news sites that you
[11:28] Speaker 1: can see here. You can see that the Liberal Labor
[11:31] Speaker 1: Party is at thirty percent. That lives at eighteen one
[11:34] Speaker 1: nation twenty four percent. We are in the federal seat
[11:37] Speaker 1: of Brandon, which for a long time is flipped and
[11:39] Speaker 1: floppeda depending on whom the government is. If there was
[11:42] Speaker 1: an election held yesterday fifty to fifty between One Nation
[11:46] Speaker 1: and the Labor Party, we will see what happens. When
[11:50] Speaker 1: it comes to South Australia, their election is often running
[11:53] Speaker 1: as we speak, that will be happening on the twenty
[11:56] Speaker 1: second of March. The leaders include the Liberal who may
[11:59] Speaker 1: be responsible or at least be the one in charge
[12:01] Speaker 1: when everyone loses their seat. Malanowskis is close to seventy
[12:05] Speaker 1: percent as the preferred premier, so he's expected to go
[12:08] Speaker 1: hot and hard. But again one nation surging Corey Bernardi
[12:11] Speaker 1: are hoping to get himself back into parliament. Probably likely,
[12:15] Speaker 1: you'd have to say, because they were able to get
[12:17] Speaker 1: somebody elected at the last state election to the upper House.
[12:20] Speaker 1: The numbers there you can see that the Greens, well,
[12:23] Speaker 1: they're at twelve percent double the vote is one nation
[12:27] Speaker 1: in South Australia. This is at the state election twenty
[12:29] Speaker 1: four percent, Labor at forty four percent. Now, as I
[12:32] Speaker 1: always say, caution and want people to understand, when it
[12:35] Speaker 1: comes to what's happening on the right, essentially the overall
[12:38] Speaker 1: pie of fifty five forty five left and right hasn't
[12:41] Speaker 1: really changed. There's a lot of change in and around
[12:44] Speaker 1: that other side of politics, the one that certainly I
[12:46] Speaker 1: wanted to win at the last election, but were well
[12:49] Speaker 1: and truly put in their place. So it's about preferences.
[12:51] Speaker 1: Preferences matter regardless of what you do and who you
[12:54] Speaker 1: vote for. My view is you should always make sure
[12:57] Speaker 1: that you make a very clear choice with your number
[12:59] Speaker 1: two as well. Well. Yeah, and just finally, can I
[13:03] Speaker 1: just mention a little opinion poll, another one which came up.
[13:05] Speaker 1: Can you believe according to this opinion poll, President z
[13:09] Speaker 1: the leader of China, is more popular in Australia than
[13:12] Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Now I get it, we're a little more
[13:16] Speaker 1: trumpy than some people are. But the idea that the
[13:19] Speaker 1: president of the United States who yes is at times
[13:24] Speaker 1: a lot to deal with the people back him in
[13:26] Speaker 1: as opposed to the person who is in charge of
[13:29] Speaker 1: a country that has already created so much trouble, creates
[13:33] Speaker 1: a threat to the Western world of life, way of life.
[13:36] Speaker 1: That's incredible to actually look at the numbers putin negative
[13:39] Speaker 1: approval of sixty percent Trump forty one and just minus
[13:44] Speaker 1: twenty six for the Chinese leader. Wait, watch and see.
[13:48] Speaker 1: I've got a feeling I'm going to be talking about
[13:49] Speaker 1: that a lot more this week on the show. But
[13:52] Speaker 1: let's celebrate Bernie. Let's take you for a little one
[13:55] Speaker 1: hour holiday here in the most magnificent part of Tasmania,
[13:58] Speaker 1: one of the most magnificent parts of Australia, well as
[14:01] Speaker 1: you can see on the map, were a technically in
[14:05] Speaker 1: the northwest. But again there's the regions within the regions,
[14:07] Speaker 1: and I want to get too complicated about it, but again,
[14:10] Speaker 1: a couple of hours away is lon Cesston, not that
[14:13] Speaker 1: far away. Is Davenport not Devonport? Or is it devent
[14:17] Speaker 1: Port not Davenport. I knew i'd screw that up. Here's
[14:21] Speaker 1: me being all smart us and local and I've gone
[14:24] Speaker 1: right into the hole that I was digging for myself.
[14:27] Speaker 1: About twenty thousand people here, including by the way, there
[14:31] Speaker 1: is about one in twenty people who play netball in
[14:35] Speaker 1: this town. I'll explain why in a second. Median age
[14:37] Speaker 1: is forty three and the top country of birth outside
[14:40] Speaker 1: of here is England. Now Andrew is the bloke who
[14:43] Speaker 1: runs the local Harvey Norman. Harvey Norman are the very
[14:45] Speaker 1: reason why we are able to travel around Australia. And
[14:47] Speaker 1: if there's a bloke who knows Bernie like the back
[14:49] Speaker 1: of his hand, not just because he is part of
[14:52] Speaker 1: the business community, but because he loves this joint, he
[14:56] Speaker 1: was the perfect bloke to show us around and have
[14:57] Speaker 1: a look at everything he's into. And this is just
[15:00] Speaker 1: a fraction of what we saw yesterday. Harvey Norman are
[15:04] Speaker 1: our partners in our town. Are the reason that we
[15:06] Speaker 1: were able to go around this beautiful country. And here
[15:09] Speaker 1: in Bernie in Tasmania, there is a very special bloke
[15:12] Speaker 1: that runs this store. His name is Andrew, and he's
[15:15] Speaker 1: going to show us around beautiful Bernie. Here is Andrew,
[15:21] Speaker 1: mister Bernie, mister Bernie. All right, now, let's show us
[15:25] Speaker 1: around this beautiful city. I want to get to know you.
[15:27] Speaker 1: I want to get to know this town.
[15:28] Speaker 2: Too easy, mate, let's go.
[15:29] Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, all right, so tell me
[15:31] Speaker 1: the Andrew story. What's your connection? How long have you
[15:34] Speaker 1: been here? So it was funny.
[15:36] Speaker 6: Actually I was born on this site forty five years ago.
[15:38] Speaker 6: He used to be the old hospital. Harvey Norman was
[15:40] Speaker 6: built here twenty years ago. But I've been with Harvey's
[15:43] Speaker 6: twenty three years.
[15:44] Speaker 1: I think. Wow.
[15:46] Speaker 6: And then in two thousand and fifteen, I think it
[15:48] Speaker 6: was the Bernie franchise come up for grabs and I
[15:53] Speaker 6: just kept on the mistate manager about it and finally
[15:56] Speaker 6: got it. Yeah, eleven years later, I'm still here.
[16:03] Speaker 1: Jeez, woll I have a look at this. Yeah, brilliant view.
[16:06] Speaker 6: Turn the weather on for you today, or I will
[16:09] Speaker 6: tell me what's around. Well, that's the old pop mills.
[16:12] Speaker 6: So that used to be the big manufacturing thing in town.
[16:14] Speaker 1: Harving Norman.
[16:15] Speaker 6: Down there, let's see someone.
[16:17] Speaker 1: Vital landmark, yeap vital.
[16:19] Speaker 6: It looks like someone's loading up a fridge down there.
[16:22] Speaker 1: Down in there. You I can see that from here.
[16:25] Speaker 6: Our beautiful woodships which we export those. That's down looking
[16:30] Speaker 6: out over the main CBD, beautiful lookout. It's lunch up here,
[16:34] Speaker 6: sit here, watch the world go by.
[16:36] Speaker 1: It's all right, let's keep going. Best tour guide in town.
[16:45] Speaker 1: So this is a netball center.
[16:47] Speaker 6: So five years ago I reckon they were going to
[16:50] Speaker 6: pretty much close the doors on this place. And they've
[16:54] Speaker 6: done a power of work here. So that's strong, strong committee.
[16:58] Speaker 7: How many teams have you got we have we have
[17:00] Speaker 7: a round about one thousand participants playing a week. Seriously,
[17:04] Speaker 7: so we've got a round about twenty mixed teams, twenty
[17:08] Speaker 7: women's teams, around about fifty odd schools teams of a
[17:12] Speaker 7: Saturday morning.
[17:13] Speaker 1: How important is it to get that local support from
[17:15] Speaker 1: people like Andrew.
[17:16] Speaker 7: And we wouldn't we wouldn't be able to open the
[17:19] Speaker 7: gates if we didn't have the support from our sponsors.
[17:22] Speaker 6: New seats too, aren't they. We've just replaced the old
[17:25] Speaker 6: timber ones. I don't jump up here a seat.
[17:28] Speaker 1: You just have to have a little relax, beautiful up here,
[17:31] Speaker 1: sit back, have a little look. You've done a good
[17:33] Speaker 1: job up here. Link.
[17:34] Speaker 7: Yeah, it's come up really well.
[17:36] Speaker 1: Oh the Tigers. What a great story though, Like Len
[17:40] Speaker 1: and that, like you can tell all day every day
[17:44] Speaker 1: breeds it right and everyone on the committee breeds it yep.
[17:48] Speaker 1: But the fact that that was on its knees, fully
[17:51] Speaker 1: back and roaring, that there would be places in Melbourne
[17:55] Speaker 1: that wouldn't be as kidded out as that.
[17:56] Speaker 7: Not.
[17:57] Speaker 6: Definitely not. And that's all just part of that local
[18:01] Speaker 6: supporting locals region.
[18:03] Speaker 1: It's just that.
[18:04] Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just what we live and breathe down here.
[18:08] Speaker 1: So where are we going now?
[18:09] Speaker 6: It's going to duck into the tennis. There's an international
[18:12] Speaker 6: tennis event starts tomorrow.
[18:15] Speaker 2: But this complex is sensational.
[18:19] Speaker 1: Look at this. This is an international tennis tournament. So
[18:22] Speaker 1: you're the bloke from the service station. So between the
[18:25] Speaker 1: two of you, you're back in a lot of things here,
[18:27] Speaker 1: don't you.
[18:28] Speaker 8: We like to help out with local sports, so this
[18:31] Speaker 8: is a hate c I Burn International. We've got players
[18:34] Speaker 8: come from all around the world to play. Starts tomorrow
[18:37] Speaker 8: with the qualifiers and then run through to the following
[18:40] Speaker 8: Sunday for finals day. We've actually had at Ashbarti come
[18:44] Speaker 8: and she got knocked out. I think it was first round.
[18:46] Speaker 8: When you come here as a kid and played and
[18:49] Speaker 8: ended up being a world number one.
[18:51] Speaker 1: She could win Wimbledon, but she got knocked out here
[18:53] Speaker 1: in Bernie all right, fair enough Barger, Melbourne in January,
[18:56] Speaker 1: Bernie in February, Bernie in February. Next Andrew going down
[19:01] Speaker 1: to the waterfront. Excellent of send him from our pie
[19:03] Speaker 1: trying to see it down low.
[19:06] Speaker 2: Beautiful, beautiful little spot.
[19:09] Speaker 6: Don't tell too many people how beautiful it is.
[19:12] Speaker 1: Now we'll keep it between us.
[19:13] Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, Mainlanders asked, and yeah, and now she's terrible.
[19:18] Speaker 1: It's no shocker.
[19:20] Speaker 6: Come down, grab an ice cream or if you're dining here,
[19:22] Speaker 6: have a beautiful walk along the bard Walk and then
[19:25] Speaker 6: out to watch the penguins.
[19:27] Speaker 1: Wow, hello on Paul, how are you nice to meet
[19:31] Speaker 1: your tracy to do, but this is the man Dane.
[19:34] Speaker 6: He organizes his park run.
[19:36] Speaker 9: Two years ago, twenty eighteen, we got the Bernie Park
[19:39] Speaker 9: Run going. I knew Rick Ferguson and Andrew Warlord was
[19:42] Speaker 9: the CEO of the Berney Council and Devenport had got
[19:44] Speaker 9: going about a year and a half before us.
[19:45] Speaker 1: So we thought, bug of this.
[19:47] Speaker 9: We don't want Devenport boom better than us. Go to
[19:49] Speaker 9: the council, got the money and got the sponsorship in
[19:51] Speaker 9: two thousand and eight and we took off and last
[19:54] Speaker 9: week we had three hundred and six people.
[19:56] Speaker 1: When you've got a little crew here turned up for us,
[19:58] Speaker 1: set up for you guys. So then yep, a lot
[20:01] Speaker 1: of them are sharers.
[20:01] Speaker 9: An over two hundred, My partner Joe over to traces
[20:04] Speaker 9: over two hundred will show us what you do.
[20:06] Speaker 1: Please let's go ready, What I should have started with
[20:15] Speaker 1: more of a walk? What's wrong with I could have
[20:19] Speaker 1: started with a walk? And my pants are pulling down?
[20:25] Speaker 1: So tell me about Lord balls. What is it about
[20:27] Speaker 1: it that doesn't pick you?
[20:29] Speaker 6: I just once an image that that's involvement in the
[20:32] Speaker 6: club and the amount of people which show who's coming
[20:37] Speaker 6: to work and I've seen him here at the balls
[20:38] Speaker 6: club and you put a bad ball down and you've
[20:41] Speaker 6: got another one.
[20:42] Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. You're ready. You pumped for today?
[20:46] Speaker 1: I believe anyway, I believe him in the television ball
[20:49] Speaker 1: stay bud. We're on hallowed ground now, yep, we're on
[20:52] Speaker 1: hallowed ground. What's he like as a player? Oh? He
[20:59] Speaker 1: has his moments, man, Yeah, it can be very good.
[21:02] Speaker 1: Well he's going to go off and get changed, so
[21:03] Speaker 1: you're off your and golde. The thing I love about
[21:07] Speaker 1: balls is it really is men, women, young old people
[21:11] Speaker 1: having fun.
[21:12] Speaker 10: And it's a great social thing for the older generation,
[21:15] Speaker 10: like it gets them out.
[21:17] Speaker 1: They love it. You know, you don't have to be
[21:19] Speaker 1: the best bowl of it. You just enjoy yourself. Go
[21:21] Speaker 1: the hornets, go, the hornet, go the hornets. Look at
[21:24] Speaker 1: this here he is a million bucks, looking great, looking great,
[21:28] Speaker 1: a rumped. How are you feeling? You're ready? You're pumped,
[21:31] Speaker 1: ready for the day. You got a big one all right?
[21:32] Speaker 1: Can we do a have a quick little nets before
[21:34] Speaker 1: the game? Yep? I think you'll be a good coach
[21:36] Speaker 1: for me today, So go to Horner rubbish little job.
[21:51] Speaker 1: I've got a job. Come on here, he goes, oh
[21:57] Speaker 1: look at it to Oh, yes, yes, the job. I
[22:00] Speaker 1: love a job. Still, that's very impressive. That's very impressive, Andrews.
[22:05] Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you for showing us around
[22:07] Speaker 1: your bride. And this place is infectious. Yep. Your commitment
[22:10] Speaker 1: to it is awesome. Your connection with Harvey Norman, to
[22:13] Speaker 1: all the different clubs, all the different people, and there's
[22:15] Speaker 1: so much more. We're could do another hour. Champion man,
[22:18] Speaker 1: come to Harvey Norman in Bernie Sagoday. Pay for price
[22:21] Speaker 1: if you mentioned my name, Andrew?
[22:24] Speaker 2: How goodnes is he?
[22:24] Speaker 1: Good on? Andrew? That was awesome. That was awesome, all right,
[22:29] Speaker 1: your lovely wife and boys were happy? All right? Good god?
[22:31] Speaker 1: He did well? Didn't he did really well? Great men,
[22:34] Speaker 1: Thank you very much. I should also mention too. Along
[22:36] Speaker 1: the way too we met the people from Rotary. They
[22:39] Speaker 1: also run a disability transport service which is around here.
[22:44] Speaker 1: The cricket club also an opportunity to look at a
[22:47] Speaker 1: whole bunch of sporting things. But again, community spirit is
[22:50] Speaker 1: typified by Andrew and his team. Speaking of in a second,
[22:53] Speaker 1: we're going to talk footy and like you saw me running,
[22:55] Speaker 1: we'll do Penguins next. Well, I'm and Bernie, thanks for coming.
[23:07] Speaker 1: Welcome back to burning. We're here in beautiful arts that
[23:09] Speaker 1: I love. It is seen everyone can I never run
[23:12] Speaker 1: right at the back to back HOLI.
[23:16] Speaker 2: Now.
[23:17] Speaker 1: Tazzy has long wanted a football team, and the process
[23:22] Speaker 1: to get the Tazzy Devils has at times been politically difficult.
[23:27] Speaker 1: At times the debate has gone around and around and around,
[23:30] Speaker 1: but thankfully the debate has been settled. Now. If you
[23:34] Speaker 1: are somebody who can go and find a bit of googling,
[23:36] Speaker 1: you would remember that the very start of the process
[23:38] Speaker 1: a little bit skeptical because of the amount of taxpayers
[23:41] Speaker 1: money that was in. I am now all in on
[23:44] Speaker 1: the project, not because of who we are about to
[23:45] Speaker 1: talk to, but because I like the whole. If you
[23:47] Speaker 1: build it, they will come. Principle of things, I love
[23:51] Speaker 1: the idea of Tazzy having full representation in national sport.
[23:56] Speaker 1: I love the idea of a facility that means yes,
[24:00] Speaker 1: big rock acts can turn up monster jam. Whatever you're into,
[24:03] Speaker 1: there's going to be a chance to be able to
[24:05] Speaker 1: see it in Tazzy. Brendan Gail is a man who
[24:08] Speaker 1: had incredible success with administration of the Richmond Tigers, taking
[24:12] Speaker 1: them over when they were in a world of trouble
[24:14] Speaker 1: and getting them up to the legendary status of the
[24:17] Speaker 1: past few years. He's in charge of what is going
[24:20] Speaker 1: to be a phenomenal addition to the world of Australian sport.
[24:23] Speaker 1: He's also a Bernie boy. Brendan, love you to meet you.
[24:28] Speaker 1: Great to meet you, Paul, welcome so Bernie born and
[24:31] Speaker 1: bred and to be back here as the boss of
[24:35] Speaker 1: the upcoming footing team would be amazing. But tell me
[24:37] Speaker 1: about Bernie. What do you love about it?
[24:38] Speaker 11: It's fantastic. Spent most of my up bringing him. A
[24:41] Speaker 11: mum ste who lives here. Look, it's a hard working town,
[24:43] Speaker 11: a proud town, a lot of proud sporting clubs, industry,
[24:48] Speaker 11: aesthetically beautiful, got the beach here at home and it's
[24:51] Speaker 11: really important and importantly this part of the world has been.
[24:55] Speaker 1: Football heartland as well.
[24:56] Speaker 11: Some great footballers come from this part of the world
[25:00] Speaker 11: for over one hundred years.
[25:01] Speaker 1: Well, as you may notice, slightly overcasts. So let's use
[25:04] Speaker 1: that as the excuse to get up to the club.
[25:08] Speaker 3: You do.
[25:09] Speaker 1: Brendan, Bernie is beautiful.
[25:11] Speaker 8: I love it.
[25:11] Speaker 1: It is great. You've got the main beach. Here the
[25:14] Speaker 1: circ club right in the main street. I mean you
[25:16] Speaker 1: look right down to the beach.
[25:17] Speaker 2: It's a fantastic place.
[25:18] Speaker 1: People are great, pubs are lovely too. I can testify
[25:21] Speaker 1: to a lovely Saturday night here. Let's talk Tazzi Devils.
[25:25] Speaker 1: The excitement has been building for some time and I
[25:28] Speaker 1: think one of the smartest things the club did was
[25:30] Speaker 1: to test that support when times we were a little
[25:34] Speaker 1: more touch and go about the facility, was to say, hey,
[25:38] Speaker 1: put your hand up if you want to tell everyone
[25:40] Speaker 1: that you're in. And what two hundred thousand people become
[25:43] Speaker 1: first off members are in.
[25:44] Speaker 11: Sixteen thousand pool and half of those outside of Tasmania.
[25:49] Speaker 11: So there's a lot of affection for the notion of
[25:51] Speaker 11: tasumating the team as well. But no, it was about
[25:54] Speaker 11: forming a relationship, getting to know them, taking them on
[25:57] Speaker 11: the journey and really building the brand.
[25:59] Speaker 1: And it's been fantastic. So give me an idea about
[26:02] Speaker 1: what it takes to start something from scratch as opposed
[26:06] Speaker 1: to stepping into something that has history like obviously your
[26:10] Speaker 1: history with the Richmond Tigers. The ability to totally turn
[26:14] Speaker 1: them around from another year of rebuilding to eventually comps
[26:19] Speaker 1: what's the difference for you as an administrator. Well, it's
[26:21] Speaker 1: a new.
[26:21] Speaker 11: Club, but we have a richest in tradition forty one
[26:25] Speaker 11: hundred and sixty years. The first game was eight in
[26:27] Speaker 11: sixty six, and this state and these towns and communities
[26:31] Speaker 11: have produced some of the greatest players of all time.
[26:35] Speaker 11: So I just feel that will be wind in our
[26:39] Speaker 11: sales for our footy club. So yes, you're building, you're
[26:42] Speaker 11: building a club and you're building an organization players, but
[26:45] Speaker 11: you've got a really strong brand and a history and
[26:48] Speaker 11: identity already. And we're the only club in the country
[26:53] Speaker 11: that can claim and represent entire states, so we have
[26:56] Speaker 11: to be whole estates. That's why being in Bernie and
[26:58] Speaker 11: being a Chudley and Smith then and Stanley and all
[27:01] Speaker 11: over the state, these places are so important to our
[27:04] Speaker 11: football club.
[27:05] Speaker 1: I also love and I mean this with everything I've got.
[27:08] Speaker 1: I want Tazzy to be in the national weekly conversation right,
[27:14] Speaker 1: not Mainland and Tazzy, not Melbourne and Tazzy. I love
[27:18] Speaker 1: the idea that it is a relentless joining of the
[27:24] Speaker 1: island to the mainland. I love it well.
[27:27] Speaker 11: It puts us on the national stage and you're in
[27:30] Speaker 11: market just about all year because you've got men, you've
[27:33] Speaker 11: got women's, you've got the postseason, the draft, and so
[27:37] Speaker 11: you're always talking about Tazzy and this is a massive
[27:39] Speaker 11: national sport.
[27:40] Speaker 1: I also think it's.
[27:41] Speaker 2: Really going to lift the place.
[27:43] Speaker 11: It's going to create a sense of aspiration for our
[27:46] Speaker 11: young boys and girls. There's more approximate role models now,
[27:49] Speaker 11: and they're not all going to play footy for the Devils,
[27:51] Speaker 11: but they might work in finance or marketing. All they
[27:54] Speaker 11: might walk sorry, work in this sports business industry. We're
[27:59] Speaker 11: almost creating night around teams and culture in the stadium
[28:02] Speaker 11: and it will transform the state. It is so much
[28:05] Speaker 11: bigger than football.
[28:06] Speaker 1: I was just thinking about what success looks like, right, Like,
[28:09] Speaker 1: obviously the hope, the expectation would be on a full
[28:13] Speaker 1: stadium every game, win, lose or draw. But I'm thinking,
[28:16] Speaker 1: if we come back here in five to ten years
[28:20] Speaker 1: to see kids bouncing footage while walking up and down
[28:22] Speaker 1: the street, what does success mean to you apart from
[28:25] Speaker 1: just maybe a lovely bit of silver at the end
[28:28] Speaker 1: of September.
[28:29] Speaker 11: Yeah, look, clearly you can't do those sorts of things,
[28:31] Speaker 11: but look, it is bigger than that. I don't want
[28:34] Speaker 11: to sound glod, but it is about that aspiration. It's
[28:37] Speaker 11: about kids believing and having ambition and being better students
[28:41] Speaker 11: and better you know, musicians and better footballers.
[28:44] Speaker 1: It is about the economy. I really believe.
[28:47] Speaker 11: You know, we're not curing cancer here, but institutional power
[28:51] Speaker 11: of foot is pretty big. And you know, a growing economy,
[28:57] Speaker 11: you know, I think there's negative population growth at moments.
[29:00] Speaker 11: Are those sorts of things you would think we expect
[29:02] Speaker 11: would change. So it's more than just footing.
[29:05] Speaker 1: So when you're putting together the roster, obviously the roster
[29:09] Speaker 1: is what we see on the field, but you're also
[29:10] Speaker 1: in a position to be able to go, okay, we
[29:12] Speaker 1: want the best in coaching, we want the best in recovery.
[29:16] Speaker 1: What's the pitch if you've got to that stage with
[29:18] Speaker 1: some people, that early pitch to say come move the
[29:22] Speaker 1: tazzy and because where you get to live is special
[29:26] Speaker 1: as well as the job you're going to get paid for.
[29:28] Speaker 11: I think the pitch is this is a real footy
[29:30] Speaker 11: club in a location where it's real football, this history, tradition,
[29:36] Speaker 11: it's meaningful to people.
[29:38] Speaker 1: It's really meanful, and I think that matters.
[29:39] Speaker 11: I think that's going to motivate people and concentrate their minds.
[29:43] Speaker 11: But also it is the lifestyle, or it's you know,
[29:46] Speaker 11: they talk about peak our traffic down here. Seriously, I know,
[29:50] Speaker 11: I know you want to be politely, you know, like
[29:53] Speaker 11: nine minutes.
[29:54] Speaker 1: So so it's the access.
[29:57] Speaker 11: You know, you can drive up here to Bernie Surf Club,
[29:59] Speaker 11: park your car and be in the water in like
[30:01] Speaker 11: three minutes. There's the natural environment, there's great schools, there's
[30:05] Speaker 11: affordable housing. There's an incredible range of lifestyle benefits we
[30:10] Speaker 11: think are really really valuable.
[30:12] Speaker 1: Good stuff, good luck, good luck the good Man. Now
[30:16] Speaker 1: seeing a bad fully general jersey. You've got the reform
[30:20] Speaker 1: jersey from night in the UK, No, I haven't yet, No,
[30:25] Speaker 1: look at yours, nice and signed by the great Man,
[30:27] Speaker 1: or of course Tuesday nights here on Paul Murray Live.
[30:29] Speaker 1: Now you are one of the passionate Tasmanians who's pasionate
[30:32] Speaker 1: about penguins. Your focus is about an hour away Stanley, Yeah,
[30:37] Speaker 1: what is it about them?
[30:38] Speaker 12: The other free speech penguin viewing platform?
[30:41] Speaker 1: Good do you work for on? More time? God?
[30:43] Speaker 12: Free speech penguin viewing platform?
[30:45] Speaker 1: Good? I spoke of you so I wanted people to
[30:47] Speaker 1: see it. Okay, now help me out. What is it
[30:49] Speaker 1: about the animals that you find so intriguing, beautiful, vulnerable?
[30:54] Speaker 12: They are just so gorgeous and melt my heart. Never
[30:56] Speaker 12: get sick of them. Chris comes with me most nights of.
[30:59] Speaker 1: The platform, like he's got a choice.
[31:04] Speaker 12: Bernie, though, is the scenter of penguins. Bernie has doctor
[31:08] Speaker 12: Purvis Marker. She is the penguin expert in Tasmonia, and
[31:12] Speaker 12: we also have Kathy Grieveson who runs Penguin.
[31:19] Speaker 1: Have been released him. But that's incredible, right Is that
[31:22] Speaker 1: it's not easy to talk on to it. You're talking
[31:24] Speaker 1: about relaxed. Is that again, that idea that you've got
[31:28] Speaker 1: people like yourself, medical professionals as well, that are across
[31:32] Speaker 1: all of it. They are a beautiful community. Love you
[31:34] Speaker 1: to see you. Thank you for coming along. All right,
[31:36] Speaker 1: go and check out the penguins and Saga Ada Jin
[31:39] Speaker 1: in the meantime when you come to Bernie, you got
[31:41] Speaker 1: to check these things out. I showed this live to
[31:45] Speaker 1: my kids last night and I can't wait for you
[31:46] Speaker 1: to see it right now, Beautiful Bernie at sunlight, magic
[31:53] Speaker 1: light everywhere else in the country. But it is a
[31:55] Speaker 1: magical time. To be here because when the sun goes down,
[31:59] Speaker 1: the penguins come out, and from about October through till
[32:03] Speaker 1: April you can come and see fairy penguins, the smallest
[32:06] Speaker 1: of the species. This is a unique experience. It's one
[32:11] Speaker 1: that I've been really excited to see. And there's an
[32:14] Speaker 1: expert to help us through his name step just before
[32:21] Speaker 1: the show gets started. This whole area has become a
[32:27] Speaker 1: nature preserve for want of a better term, for penguins. Previously,
[32:30] Speaker 1: this had been a place where there'd been plans for
[32:34] Speaker 1: a car park. At times there have been building materials
[32:37] Speaker 1: that have been left around here. But over the past
[32:39] Speaker 1: thirty years the locals have worked together to completely rehabilitate
[32:44] Speaker 1: it and to make this a place where it becomes
[32:46] Speaker 1: a playground for future families or people looking forward to
[32:52] Speaker 1: seeing the penguin family grow to be able to see
[32:55] Speaker 1: here and literally penguins this is their home away from home.
[33:00] Speaker 1: How are you, Paul? Nice to make you, Steve, you
[33:02] Speaker 1: have paid. We're about to see something specially.
[33:08] Speaker 13: This is where some of them will come up. They'll
[33:09] Speaker 13: come up over the rocks. She will come up over
[33:11] Speaker 13: the over the sand towards the wharf.
[33:14] Speaker 1: This is not a paid to it. This is free
[33:16] Speaker 1: peree on nothing and volunteers like yourself. You're here the
[33:20] Speaker 1: whole time.
[33:21] Speaker 13: We are. We're always here through the daytime. We're not
[33:25] Speaker 13: because the birds are a nocturnal animal. Most people come down.
[33:28] Speaker 13: You'll see them looking over the fence expecting to see penguins.
[33:31] Speaker 13: You may occasionally see a malta. But they're out there
[33:34] Speaker 13: feeding through the day and then they come back into
[33:36] Speaker 13: the night to either feed.
[33:38] Speaker 1: Young or to rest. Why do they like Bernie, Well,
[33:41] Speaker 1: Bernie is a great place to be. It's got me
[33:44] Speaker 1: what else you look?
[33:47] Speaker 13: No, Bernie is really great and we're lucky with our
[33:49] Speaker 13: local council at the moment. They are very into the
[33:52] Speaker 13: penguins as well.
[33:53] Speaker 1: So are we seeing at this time of year warmer
[33:58] Speaker 1: waters for them? Why? Sort of to the north of
[34:01] Speaker 1: the Islan.
[34:02] Speaker 13: No, I don't believe we have got warmer waters actually
[34:06] Speaker 13: in the Strait, But because the Strait is so open,
[34:08] Speaker 13: we get that cold air coming and the cold water
[34:10] Speaker 13: coming through from the Antarctica, which keeps the temperature fairly reasonable.
[34:16] Speaker 1: Plenty of food.
[34:17] Speaker 13: We've had a really good season this year, an exceptional
[34:20] Speaker 13: season actually with our birds, the birds that we see
[34:23] Speaker 13: are fat and healthy, which are saying, okay.
[34:25] Speaker 1: There's a lot of food out there for them.
[34:27] Speaker 13: And they are actually now on their second clutch for
[34:29] Speaker 13: the year, which is quite unusual.
[34:32] Speaker 1: So next time my missus says I've got a lose weight, no,
[34:34] Speaker 1: I'm happy and healthy.
[34:36] Speaker 13: Definitely, through the middle of the breeding season, we would
[34:42] Speaker 13: expect to see anything from twenty to sixty birds in
[34:45] Speaker 13: this section through here coming up over the rocks with
[34:48] Speaker 13: full bellies, ready to feed their young. But at this
[34:51] Speaker 13: time of the year, what they are actually doing is
[34:53] Speaker 13: what we call a catastrophic molt. The adults, even though
[34:57] Speaker 13: they've got chicks, will abandon the chicks and go to
[34:59] Speaker 13: sea to feed up. For about eighteen days. They'll come
[35:03] Speaker 13: ashore looking like little footballs on legs. They put on
[35:06] Speaker 13: twice their own body weight. But then for the next
[35:09] Speaker 13: eighteen days they will stay on shore and shed all
[35:12] Speaker 13: their old feathers.
[35:24] Speaker 1: I've got to stand here all my that is so cute.
[35:32] Speaker 1: They are so cool. Thank you to everyone who's involved
[35:35] Speaker 1: in all of this. And by the way, well I
[35:37] Speaker 1: want you to come here. I want you to see
[35:39] Speaker 1: things with your own eyes. You're able to actually join
[35:42] Speaker 1: us in Bernie twenty four to seven because on YouTube
[35:47] Speaker 1: on the Bernie Penguin Center you can watch live. In fact,
[35:50] Speaker 1: this is what's happening in one of the burrows right now.
[35:54] Speaker 1: You can see that the beautiful little creatures mucking around
[35:57] Speaker 1: as we speak, and even quick eving turn up a
[36:00] Speaker 1: little bit of sound back in the control room. Can
[36:03] Speaker 1: we hear some chirirping? Hi bodies? So hi to TV.
[36:07] Speaker 1: You're on TV Penguinshi TV penguins. Hi TV penguins never
[36:13] Speaker 1: work with children and animals. All right, cool, you can
[36:16] Speaker 1: watch you can watch that live stream. I make sure
[36:18] Speaker 1: that that's up on our socials. That is very goodgeous,
[36:20] Speaker 1: Thank you to everyone who is part of that community.
[36:22] Speaker 1: It is a really beautiful thing to see. Speaking of
[36:24] Speaker 1: wonderful people in Bernie, you'll meet two of them right
[36:26] Speaker 1: after the break. Thank you so much for watching. Thanks
[36:28] Speaker 1: to Harvey Norman. We are here, have this beautiful Bernie
[36:32] Speaker 1: Arts pre Septs and we are in Bernie and Tasmania.
[36:34] Speaker 1: Come on down and say goody, welcome back to Bernie.
[36:45] Speaker 1: We love introduced in you two special people around the
[36:47] Speaker 1: country and the person who won the twenty twenty five
[36:51] Speaker 1: Local hero In Tasmania going on to be represented at
[36:54] Speaker 1: those major Australian Australian Day awards is Karen Franks and
[37:00] Speaker 1: from the Young Leaders of Tasmania. I put the notes
[37:03] Speaker 1: away because I just want to talk to you now, love,
[37:05] Speaker 1: so you congratulations all right? So Karen, give me an idea.
[37:10] Speaker 1: What was it that made you start all this twenty seventeen.
[37:14] Speaker 4: So Young Leaders of Tasmania.
[37:17] Speaker 5: The journey actually started in two thousand and two when
[37:19] Speaker 5: my daughter was born here in Bernie.
[37:22] Speaker 4: I grew up and then got married here and we
[37:26] Speaker 4: had our first daughter here.
[37:27] Speaker 5: She was born with their significant disability called Kobuki syndrome.
[37:31] Speaker 5: And when she was born, I remember thinking, how can
[37:35] Speaker 5: I be I know nothing about disability?
[37:36] Speaker 4: How can I be the mother that she needs? But
[37:40] Speaker 4: life has a way of just teaching you, doesn't it.
[37:43] Speaker 5: And she's taught me so much and taught our family
[37:46] Speaker 5: so much, and we're so proud of her. But anyway,
[37:49] Speaker 5: long story short, we moved to Hobart and she started
[37:52] Speaker 5: school and we witnessed while she was in school just
[37:55] Speaker 5: the growth and development that her peers had working with
[37:59] Speaker 5: her in the classroom and their natural curiosity and development
[38:03] Speaker 5: as a buddy And as she grew the gap obviously
[38:07] Speaker 5: got wider and she went to high school at the
[38:09] Speaker 5: support school in Hobart, and when she started there, she
[38:12] Speaker 5: lost track of her peers from the mainstream school. So
[38:16] Speaker 5: we started to talk to the principles and thought, why
[38:18] Speaker 5: can't we have a buddy program where we take students
[38:20] Speaker 5: from mainstream schools into the support schools and have that
[38:24] Speaker 5: buddy system happening in the support school so they learn
[38:28] Speaker 5: from each other and grow together.
[38:29] Speaker 1: So because part of the thing again about perception, right,
[38:32] Speaker 1: and again I like the focus on the world leader, right,
[38:35] Speaker 1: is that is that it is about that special X
[38:39] Speaker 1: factor that people like your daughter have and the effect
[38:44] Speaker 1: that they can have. So how do you make the
[38:47] Speaker 1: most of that in the programs? What do you do
[38:50] Speaker 1: to help lift people and to change the perceptions.
[38:54] Speaker 5: It really happens organically, Like the magic happens through the kids.
[38:57] Speaker 5: They're in the classroom, they're just having fun. Sometimes I
[39:01] Speaker 5: sit back and think, are they just doing this to
[39:03] Speaker 5: get out of maths? You know, they get to travel
[39:06] Speaker 5: down to the support school and get out of normal class.
[39:08] Speaker 5: But yeah, the magic really happens when they're just they're
[39:11] Speaker 5: naturally observing, growing together, playing, just all those things that
[39:15] Speaker 5: we take for granted, but they learn about the different
[39:18] Speaker 5: forms of communication and those barriers get broken down. Yeah,
[39:22] Speaker 5: there's one in five people in Australia live with the disability,
[39:25] Speaker 5: so we think, why, you know, they do bring so
[39:28] Speaker 5: many gifts to our world, so why not share that
[39:31] Speaker 5: with everyone, break down those barriers and really foster that
[39:34] Speaker 5: inclusion in the community.
[39:35] Speaker 1: So what did it feel like to have the focus
[39:39] Speaker 1: and the attention of that award process, to see that
[39:42] Speaker 1: sort of all of the people doing incredible things in
[39:45] Speaker 1: the state that you stood out and you would name
[39:48] Speaker 1: that local hero.
[39:49] Speaker 5: It was very humbling and like I said in one
[39:52] Speaker 5: of my acceptance speeches, it's just like there's so many
[39:55] Speaker 5: wonderful people doing amazing things just in the community. They
[39:58] Speaker 5: see a gap or they see a need and they
[40:00] Speaker 5: just feel it through the goodness of their own heart.
[40:02] Speaker 5: That's what community is all about, right, So it was
[40:06] Speaker 5: very Yeah, I felt a bit of imposter syndrome when
[40:08] Speaker 5: my name was called out, but it was an amazing
[40:11] Speaker 5: experience going to Canberra meeting the Governor General of Australia
[40:15] Speaker 5: who has since become our patron.
[40:17] Speaker 4: She came to visit us on the Northwest Coast and
[40:19] Speaker 4: our program.
[40:20] Speaker 5: In action, So that was amazing and the year was
[40:23] Speaker 5: just filled with moments like that where wow, is this
[40:26] Speaker 5: really pinch me?
[40:27] Speaker 4: Moments is this really happening?
[40:29] Speaker 1: But again, part of that ongoing gift that your daughter
[40:33] Speaker 1: has to give you and that these other kids have,
[40:37] Speaker 1: right is that you end up in these experiences. Now,
[40:39] Speaker 1: we're also a show that is about trying to make
[40:42] Speaker 1: sure that when people learn about things that they can
[40:44] Speaker 1: help lift you as well. We'd love to see more
[40:48] Speaker 1: government support, that's one thing, but community support's really important.
[40:51] Speaker 4: Absolutely.
[40:52] Speaker 1: What's the sort of stuff that you need to help
[40:54] Speaker 1: you keep doing what you're doing and make it even bigger.
[40:58] Speaker 5: Yeah, we've got a really strong press since now on
[41:00] Speaker 5: the Northwest Coast, we've got a local program manager on
[41:03] Speaker 5: the ground up here. We're working really closely with the
[41:05] Speaker 5: Northwest Support School and mainstream schools in the area.
[41:09] Speaker 4: We've partnered with Roatrie, who I heard you mention earlier on.
[41:12] Speaker 5: We use their bus for transport, so the students that
[41:15] Speaker 5: come from Kowey Primary get transported up.
[41:17] Speaker 4: In the roadtry bus to the Support School.
[41:19] Speaker 5: For their visits, so that community spirit is what we're
[41:23] Speaker 5: all about, and we're just fostering those relationships. And I mean,
[41:26] Speaker 5: obviously we are very lucky because we've got government funding
[41:30] Speaker 5: for the next four years to run this program throughout Tasmania.
[41:33] Speaker 5: But that's always something that you think of for the future.
[41:37] Speaker 5: We need community support to really build this momentum in
[41:40] Speaker 5: Tazzi and yeah, and take it across Australia.
[41:44] Speaker 1: Excellent, that's why not a great idea. It can go anywhere.
[41:48] Speaker 1: I hope this one does. How do people find you
[41:50] Speaker 1: online to either reach out, support, getting touch, ideas maybe
[41:54] Speaker 1: other again, people are doing stuff on the other side
[41:56] Speaker 1: of the country. How do they? Yep?
[41:57] Speaker 5: So young leaders of Tasmania is our We're on all
[42:01] Speaker 5: the socials and websites, so reach out.
[42:04] Speaker 4: We'd love to chat.
[42:05] Speaker 1: Gnie, love it to meet you, give us random of pause,
[42:07] Speaker 1: how good? How good? Stick you with this there, mate,
[42:09] Speaker 1: because I just want to also show another wonderful part
[42:13] Speaker 1: of Bernie. In fact, it's just across the road from
[42:15] Speaker 1: where we are, which is the regional museum that tells
[42:18] Speaker 1: the stories that have helped get us to this point
[42:21] Speaker 1: in Bernie. But it is in a particularly unique way,
[42:25] Speaker 1: including the woman who shows us around. It's one thing
[42:28] Speaker 1: to show you a postcard of beautiful Bernie. It is
[42:31] Speaker 1: another to tell you the story of this place. The
[42:35] Speaker 1: Regional Museum is something that I've been very much looking
[42:38] Speaker 1: forward to seeing, and Ali has even opened it up
[42:41] Speaker 1: for us special to give us a look around.
[42:42] Speaker 4: Love you to meet you, Hi, Fall, Thanks for coming.
[42:45] Speaker 1: This is a great workplace, great office. The history of Bernie.
[42:49] Speaker 2: What was its foundations?
[42:51] Speaker 1: What was its beginning?
[42:52] Speaker 2: Well, Bernie started as a port town.
[42:54] Speaker 10: So the Van Demons Land Company, we've granted a huge
[42:58] Speaker 10: swedes of land in the northwest corner of Bernie to
[43:00] Speaker 10: look for land suitable for sheep grazing, to supply woolen
[43:04] Speaker 10: mills in England. How do you get the wool off
[43:07] Speaker 10: the country boat? That's where Bernie comes in.
[43:10] Speaker 2: Come this way, let us go back in time. This
[43:22] Speaker 2: is pretty amazing.
[43:23] Speaker 1: Yeah it is.
[43:24] Speaker 10: Peter Mercer in the late nineteen sixties and nineteen seventies
[43:27] Speaker 10: started to construct a replica historic street which has businesses
[43:33] Speaker 10: and names and stories from the history of Bernie.
[43:35] Speaker 1: Wow, so some reproductions, but an awful lot of og.
[43:39] Speaker 4: Right exactly.
[43:44] Speaker 10: Let's have a look at Wellington Times Printry. Now the
[43:47] Speaker 10: great thing about this story is this newspaper, although it's
[43:50] Speaker 10: going by a different name now, is still running today
[43:53] Speaker 10: and iconically started by a convict son. Really yes, so
[43:58] Speaker 10: Robert Harris was son of Elizabeth Harris who came to
[44:02] Speaker 10: Van Diemen's Land as a convict. He was apprenticed to
[44:06] Speaker 10: a newspaper and then eventually set up one here in Bernie.
[44:11] Speaker 2: That's pretty cool.
[44:12] Speaker 1: He was into the classifieds game, absolutely nice, nice and early.
[44:19] Speaker 10: One of my favorite stories about Federation Street is the
[44:23] Speaker 10: story of Edward Evans, who's just here on fed Street.
[44:26] Speaker 10: So he was a shoemaker and patented a design that
[44:30] Speaker 10: was unique for the conditions down in the wet West
[44:33] Speaker 10: Coast in the mining towns. So you can see by
[44:36] Speaker 10: the photograph that we have it was a high leather
[44:40] Speaker 10: boots that had a fully enclosed tongue that was waterproof,
[44:42] Speaker 10: so when you're stomping around in the mines on the
[44:45] Speaker 10: West coast and keeping.
[44:46] Speaker 1: The seat draft. I think I've seen somebody were one
[44:48] Speaker 1: of these at the nightclop.
[44:53] Speaker 10: Well, we've had some un Now let's take you to
[44:56] Speaker 10: the dents.
[44:57] Speaker 1: Oh, yes, excellent. I'm sure that they were fantastic with.
[45:00] Speaker 2: Pain management back then Federation Street.
[45:03] Speaker 1: You could hear the screen from the other side and
[45:05] Speaker 1: the wear.
[45:05] Speaker 4: Of the drill. Well, what's exciting about this drill.
[45:08] Speaker 1: It's pedal operated.
[45:11] Speaker 10: So as your dentist is very I'm sure very gently
[45:15] Speaker 10: drilling into your mouth, he's operating the drill via foot pedal.
[45:19] Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.
[45:26] Speaker 10: Bernie Regional Museum has an incredible collection. So linked to
[45:31] Speaker 10: the Winter's Photography Studio and the Advocate newspaper. We have
[45:35] Speaker 10: their photographic records, half a million negatives that we have
[45:39] Speaker 10: in storage that we're working our way through digitizing and
[45:41] Speaker 10: sharing with your community.
[45:43] Speaker 1: Wow.
[45:43] Speaker 4: Come and I'll give you all right.
[45:48] Speaker 2: After you jump off.
[45:51] Speaker 10: Behind this door is a very large walk in freezer.
[45:54] Speaker 10: Now we keep our negatives at about minus twenty degrees celsius,
[45:58] Speaker 10: and that is to slow down the decordate process.
[46:00] Speaker 1: Look at this.
[46:01] Speaker 10: So those cabinets are floor to ceiling filled with negative
[46:06] Speaker 10: boxes of negatives. Daw Number two Paul is one of
[46:09] Speaker 10: our most important objects and so iconic to Tasmania. We
[46:13] Speaker 10: have a violet scene skin better known as a tazy tiger.
[46:17] Speaker 10: I am so excited because I have plans at the
[46:19] Speaker 10: end of this year to put this on display in
[46:21] Speaker 10: an exhibition.
[46:22] Speaker 1: Wow wow wow wow wow.
[46:25] Speaker 10: So this tiger was caught in a snare in nineteen
[46:28] Speaker 10: o six and held by the man who captured it
[46:34] Speaker 10: as a pride of place sort of trophy in his
[46:36] Speaker 10: laundroom until the nineteen sixties. And then he approached Peter
[46:40] Speaker 10: Merser at his Pet Falls museum and said, would you
[46:43] Speaker 10: like one of these?
[46:43] Speaker 4: And of course Peter said yes.
[46:53] Speaker 1: Well, I do not say this lightly. I say it
[46:55] Speaker 1: because I mean it. The artifacts here are incredible. The
[46:59] Speaker 1: lady take care of them is also incredible. Ali, thank
[47:02] Speaker 1: you so.
[47:02] Speaker 2: Much, Thank you, so I really appreciate it.
[47:07] Speaker 1: I reckon everyone's sitting here who's been there once has
[47:09] Speaker 1: taken their kids and maybe even grandkids as well. More
[47:12] Speaker 1: from Bernie in a sect here, including a very historic
[47:16] Speaker 1: rock and roll reason why we are where we are
[47:18] Speaker 1: tonight more. In effect, the Bernie Arts Center actually sits
[47:28] Speaker 1: in part on the old site of the Civic Theater
[47:31] Speaker 1: where fifty years ago ac DC was playing and Ricky
[47:35] Speaker 1: was there. Yep, what was like fantastic? Yep, I was
[47:38] Speaker 1: only fifteen. Yep, it's awesome, ripping and Rwin haven't just
[47:42] Speaker 1: just was was it as loud as we imagine it
[47:45] Speaker 1: probably loud. Yeah, what was Bond Scott like to see
[47:49] Speaker 1: live out in front? He was crazy. He carded little
[47:54] Speaker 1: angus around the audience on his back. Well, I'll do
[47:57] Speaker 1: that after the show. Okay, cool. So obviously you've seen
[48:00] Speaker 1: ac DC now Paul Murray live. Yes, I'm pretty sure
[48:04] Speaker 1: ac DC was better, right, no question?
[48:06] Speaker 13: Right?
[48:07] Speaker 1: Yes? No? No, fair enough? Okay, yeah, no, thank you,
[48:09] Speaker 1: Thank you, Ricky, thank you do appreciate it.
[48:12] Speaker 7: All.
[48:12] Speaker 1: That is our show for tonight and our coast. From Bernie,
[48:16] Speaker 1: thank you to everyone again, to Senator to Senator Richard,
[48:21] Speaker 1: and of course everyone else who is here. Thank you
[48:23] Speaker 1: very much. To a great community, to Andrew and everyone
[48:26] Speaker 1: from Harvey Norman. As always, you guys should always be
[48:29] Speaker 1: proud of your city, proud of your state, but also
[48:32] Speaker 1: proud of the country that we live in, of which
[48:33] Speaker 1: we will continue to travel around for the rest of
[48:36] Speaker 1: the year. Really looking forward to that. Remember all videos
[48:38] Speaker 1: and highlights of everything we have to do, including of
[48:40] Speaker 1: course those cute little penguins. We'll be up on the
[48:42] Speaker 1: YouTube page very shortly. We'll also post links to all
[48:45] Speaker 1: of the things that we've seen. So when you plan
[48:47] Speaker 1: your trip to Bernie you can do what we did
[48:49] Speaker 1: and had a fantastic time. Well, so you're back in
[48:52] Speaker 1: the main cave tomorrow and night.
[48:54] Speaker 3: Paul Martyn saying.
[48:55] Speaker 1: See you later and thanks having
[48:59] Speaker 8: Business The t

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