# Paul Murray Our Town- Echuca | 30 November

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 30 Nov 2025, 50 min.

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Our Town hits Echuca as Paul Murray takes the show on the road with big guests, discusses global airbus recall and ‘Big Australia’ keeps getting bigger. Plus, a look inside the great Aussie beer shed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Live from a chunker, Victoria. This is Paul Murray live
[0:06] Speaker 1: out town can Teka. How areeen couldn't be here? Finally
[0:12] Speaker 1: ourtown to the years exit the people of Harvey Norman.
[0:15] Speaker 1: We're at Radcliffe in the Chuka.
[0:17] Speaker 2: Thank you to Olivia and your team and he owns
[0:19] Speaker 2: Rebecca and Adam. Thank you very much for turning on
[0:23] Speaker 2: just a beautiful Victorian evening the night before summer starts.
[0:27] Speaker 2: It's like it's August here. We're the wives, but we're
[0:29] Speaker 2: pushing on and having a great time. This is one
[0:31] Speaker 2: of our biggest crowds of the year. Thank you very
[0:33] Speaker 2: much for turning up. How many people are from chuk
[0:36] Speaker 2: are here tonight?
[0:37] Speaker 1: God love you?
[0:38] Speaker 2: Who's traveled to be here tonight? Who's never heard of me?
[0:41] Speaker 2: And goes why am I here?
[0:43] Speaker 1: Fair enough?
[0:44] Speaker 3: Hi sir?
[0:44] Speaker 1: Welcome? Welcome? All right? Please, you're honest about it. Now.
[0:49] Speaker 2: We've got a lot to get to tonight, including showcasing
[0:51] Speaker 2: this magnificent region. As always, the rules are pretty simple,
[0:55] Speaker 2: which is see Australia. It is a magnificent part of
[0:59] Speaker 2: Australia with its history. Paddle steamers of course from the
[1:02] Speaker 2: sort of mid eighteen hundred is more likely eighteen sixties
[1:05] Speaker 2: all the way to working today. So many great stories,
[1:09] Speaker 2: such great Australians. The main drag shop after shop worth visiting,
[1:12] Speaker 2: and if you're lucky enough, you'll see a fat bloke
[1:15] Speaker 2: from Sky News dancing till dawn at the Achuka Hotel,
[1:19] Speaker 2: which is a particular site to be seen. And good
[1:22] Speaker 2: luck to anyone who needs therapy after that. But we
[1:25] Speaker 2: went hard last night, which was good.
[1:26] Speaker 1: All right.
[1:27] Speaker 2: Now, before we get to some of the stuff we're
[1:28] Speaker 2: going to do tonight, let me talk about the news,
[1:32] Speaker 2: including of course that migration back in the news Big Australia.
[1:36] Speaker 2: Australians of all types know that we've got too many
[1:40] Speaker 2: people coming in at any one time. But also I
[1:42] Speaker 2: want to show you about the great difference between the
[1:44] Speaker 2: protests the media approves of and the protest the media
[1:47] Speaker 2: doesn't approve of.
[1:48] Speaker 1: And you'll see the way that was characterized today. And
[1:52] Speaker 1: Oscar Piastre fingers crossed. We hope he can do well
[1:55] Speaker 1: because he's on.
[1:55] Speaker 2: Pole for guitar later tonight, very early tomorrow morning, Jennifer
[2:00] Speaker 2: and Ozzie can become a Formula one world champion. And
[2:03] Speaker 2: speaking of motorsport as well, congratulations to Chaz Mosted after
[2:06] Speaker 2: a big effort in Adelaide and becoming the supercars champion.
[2:10] Speaker 1: Now, if you had.
[2:11] Speaker 2: A Jetstar ticket over the past couple of days, you
[2:14] Speaker 2: might be somewhere you either planned not to be for
[2:17] Speaker 2: a night longer or you never got to get off
[2:19] Speaker 2: the ground. Why because there was a huge problem with
[2:23] Speaker 2: an upgrade to the aircraft. Now, this thing caused huge
[2:26] Speaker 2: trouble everywhere. Not the fault of the airline, instead the
[2:29] Speaker 2: people who make the plane. One or two people decided
[2:33] Speaker 2: to give their opinion and it was all positive on
[2:35] Speaker 2: the news last night.
[2:38] Speaker 4: Waiting for ours, no progress at all.
[2:41] Speaker 2: We are pitched, we are tired, like you know, we
[2:42] Speaker 2: are sleep deprived.
[2:44] Speaker 5: Not happy at all because I'm not well and I
[2:46] Speaker 5: need to get home.
[2:48] Speaker 2: So a normal Jetstar experience for people. No where to sleep,
[2:51] Speaker 2: no where to put you for, no food anyway. Sorry
[2:54] Speaker 2: to everyone who got caught up in it officially as
[2:57] Speaker 2: to what the explanation was his Channel nine last.
[2:59] Speaker 6: Night flights were thrown into chaos when aircraft manufacturer Airbus
[3:04] Speaker 6: issued an urgent software update, impacting six thousand planes across
[3:09] Speaker 6: the world. The eight three twenties, other backbone of Jetstar's network.
[3:15] Speaker 2: Now, are you excited at check because they've got some
[3:17] Speaker 2: wonderful news for you. Australia this week has accepted our
[3:21] Speaker 2: one millionth refuge I thought that might be the reaction
[3:25] Speaker 2: one million refuge I thought that might be the case. Well,
[3:29] Speaker 2: I'm a little different in the celebration of the Home
[3:32] Speaker 2: Affairs Department because they took to Facebook over the past
[3:35] Speaker 2: few days to.
[3:36] Speaker 1: Celebrate one million refugees.
[3:39] Speaker 2: They decided to count it back though, of course, until
[3:41] Speaker 2: in and around the Second World War, making it seem
[3:43] Speaker 2: like nothing's changed over those seventy eighty years and focus
[3:48] Speaker 2: on things well. The Facebook page note that they decided
[3:53] Speaker 2: to put up why.
[3:54] Speaker 1: This was being celebrated.
[3:55] Speaker 2: Who knows why they thought they'd get anything other than
[3:58] Speaker 2: the odd comment on socials.
[3:59] Speaker 1: I don't know, but here we go.
[4:01] Speaker 2: In the last ten years alone, people from around the
[4:04] Speaker 2: world have found safety and a new beginning in Australia.
[4:07] Speaker 2: They have enriched the Australian community, added to our social fabric,
[4:12] Speaker 2: and strengthened our economy. The one millionth grant is more
[4:16] Speaker 2: than just a number. That represents millions of stories of
[4:20] Speaker 2: families rebuilding their lives in a country where they can
[4:23] Speaker 2: belong and contribute.
[4:25] Speaker 1: In a vibrant shared future.
[4:27] Speaker 2: Now what I love though, is that while obviously they
[4:30] Speaker 2: were out and about and they wanted to be seen
[4:32] Speaker 2: and look, it is good that Australia isn't an open
[4:34] Speaker 2: and loving place and we want to make sure that
[4:36] Speaker 2: people who do come via that door of people who
[4:39] Speaker 2: are well and truly those deserving and coming from particularly
[4:42] Speaker 2: difficult parts of the world. But I think they need
[4:45] Speaker 2: their room for a posting because this is the comment
[4:47] Speaker 2: that is immediately underneath the comment that was posted by
[4:52] Speaker 2: the Department of Home Affairs, and it is from the
[4:54] Speaker 2: Department of Home Affairs who say our social media policy
[4:59] Speaker 2: requires the users to be respectful and appropriate, ensuring our
[5:03] Speaker 2: channel to remain a positive environment for a youthful community. Unsurprisingly,
[5:09] Speaker 2: clearly they got their.
[5:10] Speaker 1: Ass kicked by a bunch of people who wanted a
[5:12] Speaker 1: this say.
[5:13] Speaker 2: Because of course the issues in and around migration, legal,
[5:16] Speaker 2: illegal being, form filling out or even the refugee program
[5:20] Speaker 2: or worth paying attention to here, but the issues of
[5:23] Speaker 2: just how big our country is from where people come
[5:26] Speaker 2: for what it means to our country is something that
[5:28] Speaker 2: the opposition apparently in the next week or so will
[5:30] Speaker 2: be formalizing their position on today. They were talking about
[5:34] Speaker 2: the idea and what do you think about this, a Chika,
[5:36] Speaker 2: Do you like the idea of tougher English tests and
[5:39] Speaker 2: Australian values.
[5:41] Speaker 1: Quizes for people coming into the country. We are in
[5:43] Speaker 1: for that, all right, so John O.
[5:46] Speaker 2: I'm sure it's got last name, but in Australia we
[5:48] Speaker 2: just use THEO as the full title. As the Shadow
[5:51] Speaker 2: Home Affairs Minister has said, among other things, that the
[5:53] Speaker 2: Coalition is considering introducing a citizenship style test on Australian
[5:57] Speaker 2: values for new visa holders, strengthening English language requirements for
[6:02] Speaker 2: foreign students as it prepares for its revamped immigration policy.
[6:07] Speaker 1: He spoke to the Newscall.
[6:09] Speaker 2: Papers over the weekend and according to that the spokesperson
[6:13] Speaker 2: who is leading the policy of Development work on immigration
[6:15] Speaker 2: and Population alongside Immigration Spokesperson Paul Scarr, also revealed that
[6:20] Speaker 2: the Coalition is considering conditions on visus to ensure that
[6:24] Speaker 2: migrants connect to the Australian way of life. Rather the
[6:27] Speaker 2: tape here he is explaining a little more.
[6:30] Speaker 7: I think we do need to look at whether people
[6:33] Speaker 7: share our values here, whether they believe in our democratic freedoms,
[6:37] Speaker 7: whether they believe in our pluralistic approach to life, our
[6:41] Speaker 7: freedom of religion as a foundational element of our society.
[6:45] Speaker 7: I think we need to do everything we can to
[6:47] Speaker 7: ensure that we uphold Australian values, as we ask people
[6:51] Speaker 7: too when they take the citizenship pledge at the ceremonies
[6:55] Speaker 7: we all attend so regularly. There should be a way
[6:58] Speaker 7: of ensuring that those values are upheld in this process.
[7:03] Speaker 1: Now that's not fog.
[7:04] Speaker 2: In the background above the mountains of Tasmania. That's smoke
[7:07] Speaker 2: coming from all of the hair that was on fire
[7:09] Speaker 2: in the ABC studio while anything relating to this was
[7:13] Speaker 2: being discussed. For their part, the Nationals agree it's time
[7:16] Speaker 2: to crack down on values and show that you want
[7:19] Speaker 2: to be part of the greatest country in the world,
[7:21] Speaker 2: not just want to come to a place and turn it.
[7:23] Speaker 1: Into the new version of the joint Girl.
[7:25] Speaker 8: From I think it actually adds to the value and
[7:30] Speaker 8: demonstrates the value of citizenship in this country and why
[7:34] Speaker 8: our forefathers have built the values and principles of freedom.
[7:37] Speaker 8: I think it's important we make sure that when we
[7:40] Speaker 8: do bring people from those challenged parts of the world,
[7:43] Speaker 8: that they understand they're coming here with the responsibility, a
[7:46] Speaker 8: responsibility to live up to the values and principles that
[7:49] Speaker 8: our great country has been built on.
[7:52] Speaker 2: Now, I'm a bloke and I'm pretty sure that David
[7:54] Speaker 2: Little Prowd did not design anything in his house.
[7:56] Speaker 1: That's all his business choices.
[7:58] Speaker 2: And it looks nice, looks beautiful, good for viewers and
[8:02] Speaker 2: even Airbnb when it's required.
[8:03] Speaker 1: Now. This weekend two different protests.
[8:06] Speaker 2: One was people who were trying to march against the
[8:09] Speaker 2: mass migration, not the conversation in and around refugees, but
[8:13] Speaker 2: again the reality of hundreds of thousands of people being
[8:16] Speaker 2: added to the queue, being added to the number of
[8:18] Speaker 2: people trying to compete for a house, compete for a job,
[8:21] Speaker 2: compete for a place in the hospital. And on the
[8:23] Speaker 2: other side of things, in Newcastle, a bunch of environmentalists
[8:27] Speaker 2: decided to grab an oor, get into a canoe and
[8:31] Speaker 2: were able to successfully stop a couple of oil ships
[8:33] Speaker 2: pulling in to town because God forbid the taxes that
[8:36] Speaker 2: come from that that helped pay for the welfare that many.
[8:38] Speaker 1: Of those people would have been on.
[8:39] Speaker 2: Which look the other way, but I wanted to show
[8:41] Speaker 2: you this, which is a little bit of the difference
[8:43] Speaker 2: between the way the media covers the one protest that
[8:46] Speaker 2: clearly they're probably not fans, over the ones that probably
[8:48] Speaker 2: they agreed with all at the very least were able
[8:51] Speaker 2: to put a positive spin upon. First the one in
[8:54] Speaker 2: Melbourne a few hundred people. Yes, there were the usual
[8:57] Speaker 2: counter protests as well, nothing as big as the march
[8:59] Speaker 2: for Astra your stuff from a few months ago. But
[9:01] Speaker 2: the big difference is the lady whose political party is
[9:04] Speaker 2: now twice as popular as the Greens, was there, Pauline Hansen.
[9:10] Speaker 9: Under this government we brought in over one and a
[9:13] Speaker 9: half million people into the country.
[9:16] Speaker 1: That's why you're housing this increase.
[9:18] Speaker 9: That's why you health services are slackon. That's why you
[9:21] Speaker 9: have the problems of getting jobs and the problems that
[9:24] Speaker 9: we have in Australia. All of it comes from high immigration.
[9:28] Speaker 2: I love that you decided to wear the Green and
[9:30] Speaker 2: Melbourne just as a nephew to one or two of
[9:33] Speaker 2: the people who might be there. But as I say,
[9:36] Speaker 2: in Newcastle, it was the Greens leader who was out
[9:39] Speaker 2: and about paddling, believing that the current was moving their way.
[9:46] Speaker 10: Very proudly part of the flotilla. Today, I've just been
[9:51] Speaker 10: out on the water and a massive coal ship's just
[9:53] Speaker 10: shipped past. I'm really proud of the movement here that
[9:57] Speaker 10: is saying no to fossil fuels, and we have a
[10:00] Speaker 10: government that is completely in bed with the fossil fuel industry.
[10:04] Speaker 2: You're pretty sure those glasses aren't made of bamboo love,
[10:07] Speaker 2: so there's probably a chance there's one or two things
[10:09] Speaker 2: that you're wearing that are part of the fossil fuels industry.
[10:12] Speaker 2: But I did promise that i'd show you the way
[10:14] Speaker 2: that the media spins things. Pick which one the people
[10:18] Speaker 2: who pick your news thought was the good one and
[10:20] Speaker 2: the bad one.
[10:21] Speaker 11: First, immigration protests, officers use new stop and search powers,
[10:27] Speaker 11: arresting just one activist as Pauline Hansen rallied her troops.
[10:34] Speaker 2: Versus the way the ABC did the Greens one.
[10:38] Speaker 12: The organizers of the protest group Rising Tide are aiming
[10:41] Speaker 12: to make this year Is Blockade the biggest climate protest
[10:44] Speaker 12: in Australia's history, with more than seven thousand people expected
[10:48] Speaker 12: to turn out. Already, here on Newcastle Foreshow, hundreds of
[10:52] Speaker 12: people have set up camp, with the local council approving
[10:55] Speaker 12: the nearby park.
[10:58] Speaker 2: Yeah, no difference whatsoever. Handed news all the time. How
[11:02] Speaker 2: many people arrested in all good booger photo of Pauline Hanson.
[11:05] Speaker 2: That's the way they picked the news. This is why
[11:07] Speaker 2: I'm so pleased so many of you join us each
[11:09] Speaker 2: and every night on Sky News and specifically in prime time.
[11:12] Speaker 2: One year to go to the Victorian election. Who wants
[11:14] Speaker 2: to vote to change the government? A checker ready to go?
[11:18] Speaker 1: All right?
[11:18] Speaker 2: Well, for their part, they both did an awful lot
[11:21] Speaker 2: of media that they here leader of the Liberal Party,
[11:23] Speaker 2: leader of the Labor Party, just checking this is that
[11:26] Speaker 2: you center Alan room and remember she's a country girl, right,
[11:32] Speaker 2: perhaps not in a chucker.
[11:33] Speaker 1: All right now. And for her part, Jess Wilson, who's.
[11:37] Speaker 2: The new leader of the Libs, she's out and about
[11:39] Speaker 2: reshuffling either Dicta's chairs on the Titanic, according to some
[11:43] Speaker 2: when it comes to the polls, or the winning team
[11:45] Speaker 2: that might be there in twelve months time.
[11:47] Speaker 1: She's made the decision to make herself the shadow treasurer.
[11:50] Speaker 2: So you're going to get an awful lot of Jess
[11:51] Speaker 2: Wilson between now and the election. The all in play
[11:55] Speaker 2: is that she's going to be able to change things.
[11:57] Speaker 2: She says as to why she picked herself for the
[11:59] Speaker 2: second one important job in a state opposition. I'm the
[12:02] Speaker 2: person best to take this forward. I'm excited about the
[12:05] Speaker 2: opportunity to be the shadow Treasurer because getting the books
[12:08] Speaker 2: under control is the most important thing that we have
[12:10] Speaker 2: to do as an alternative government in the coming years. Now,
[12:14] Speaker 2: a couple of things that I want to get to
[12:16] Speaker 2: when it comes to worth a mention before we are
[12:18] Speaker 2: done this evening is in Queensland. There was a big
[12:22] Speaker 2: step forward for their LNP government. Now remember there was
[12:25] Speaker 2: some fear that the polls were starting to turn against them.
[12:28] Speaker 2: Well guess what they actually won in a place they
[12:30] Speaker 2: haven't won for a very long time.
[12:31] Speaker 1: That is the scene of hinchinbook. Now, this was a
[12:34] Speaker 1: Catter Australia Party seat.
[12:35] Speaker 2: This is around Townsville and it's the first time the
[12:38] Speaker 2: LLNP has one there, meaning people are backing them in.
[12:41] Speaker 2: David Crucifoley obviously very happy with what happened there. As
[12:45] Speaker 2: I mentioned before, Oscar Prstree, he is in a scenario
[12:48] Speaker 2: where after winning the sprint race after qualifying to be
[12:52] Speaker 2: first in Qatar that if he wins and he'll certainly keeping.
[12:56] Speaker 1: A very tight battle with landa Norris.
[12:58] Speaker 2: If Lanta Norris does not do as well as sort
[13:00] Speaker 2: of the perhaps top five, we might be getting very
[13:03] Speaker 2: close to the idea of an Aussie as an F
[13:05] Speaker 2: one chant roller. Tip on the fingers Crossed champ from McLaren.
[13:10] Speaker 13: It's been a good day, which is nice for a change.
[13:13] Speaker 13: It's been just a day where things will clicked from
[13:17] Speaker 13: the start and I think, yeah, the Spring Caller session
[13:19] Speaker 13: went really well, thanks the team, great car and we've
[13:22] Speaker 13: been looked really good this weekend so far, so I'm
[13:26] Speaker 13: pretty happy with that.
[13:28] Speaker 2: Go ask o, good luck son and that'll be having
[13:30] Speaker 2: that four o'clock in the morning on Fox Sports channel
[13:33] Speaker 2: five oh six, and yep, I'll be watching it live
[13:35] Speaker 2: and watching the replay unless, of course I don't want
[13:37] Speaker 2: to know what happened at all, and I'll save it
[13:39] Speaker 2: for the drive to Melbourne.
[13:40] Speaker 1: All right.
[13:41] Speaker 2: Now, you know how every single night i'd like to
[13:43] Speaker 2: show you how showbiz for ugly people work. And I
[13:46] Speaker 2: think that's okay because in the same way, you know,
[13:47] Speaker 2: certain people are the only ones allowed to tell jokes
[13:50] Speaker 2: about their community, right so, as an ugly bloke in showbiz,
[13:53] Speaker 2: I know what it's like to be an ugly person
[13:56] Speaker 2: in showbiz, which is why I'll love to give it
[13:58] Speaker 2: to the politicians to spend your money not just on
[14:01] Speaker 2: their own wages, not just on their own staff, but
[14:05] Speaker 2: of course have a full time staff member to make
[14:07] Speaker 2: crappy social media videos where they talk to us all
[14:10] Speaker 2: like we're kids way back on Romper Room. And it's
[14:12] Speaker 2: miss Helena who's looking for Jeff and John and Michelle
[14:16] Speaker 2: well anaka Wells was of course the Minister Communications, which
[14:20] Speaker 2: is also the Minister for freebies because she's the Minister
[14:22] Speaker 2: for Sport. Well she was spending your money this weekend.
[14:28] Speaker 1: In aiety.
[14:33] Speaker 14: Was investment.
[14:41] Speaker 1: I could watch it. I'm telling it fair enough.
[14:42] Speaker 2: By the way, congratulations in the North Melbourn Kangaroos on
[14:45] Speaker 2: the a f L W.
[14:46] Speaker 1: Back to back. And then what about Nick McKim.
[14:49] Speaker 2: This is the Greens leader and I know I'm in
[14:51] Speaker 2: a room full of Greens voters because you're just leaning
[14:53] Speaker 2: forward wanting to know how he's going to make the
[14:56] Speaker 2: country better.
[14:58] Speaker 8: I'm thinking we should p to Maker to run for
[15:01] Speaker 8: Parliament for us which seat, honestly any seat I would
[15:06] Speaker 8: give make any seat come.
[15:08] Speaker 1: Are we no jack but don't cover day Wow?
[15:14] Speaker 2: We pay them they ride the laws and we pay
[15:16] Speaker 2: for somebody to make that crap all the time. Doesn't
[15:18] Speaker 2: feel that's bad on a Sunday night, but by the time,
[15:20] Speaker 2: working tomorrow for the government for a whole day paying
[15:22] Speaker 2: your taxes, it will feel twice as bad when we
[15:24] Speaker 2: show it to you again tomorrow.
[15:26] Speaker 1: All right, A two cut.
[15:26] Speaker 2: Let's get into celebrating this magnificent city. Last time I
[15:30] Speaker 2: was here, I was but a kid and on our
[15:32] Speaker 2: way through a school excursion.
[15:33] Speaker 1: It is so much better to come back as an adult, bring.
[15:36] Speaker 2: Your families and don't just roll through. Spend plenty of
[15:39] Speaker 2: time here as you can see pretty much even Stevens
[15:42] Speaker 2: between Adelaide and Sydney. If you want to land in
[15:44] Speaker 2: Bendigo and move across a beautiful and picturess drive up
[15:47] Speaker 2: from Melbourne. It is a spectacular part of Australia. If
[15:50] Speaker 2: you're lucky enough to have a paddle steamer, we probably
[15:52] Speaker 2: won't be able to travel that far, but.
[15:54] Speaker 1: Certainly up and down one rather significant river. Now.
[15:57] Speaker 2: In terms of the demographics, fifteen thousand people call this
[16:00] Speaker 2: beautiful place home. The average age according to the last census,
[16:02] Speaker 2: was forty five. In the top birth country outside of
[16:05] Speaker 2: Australia was England. Let us now have a look at
[16:08] Speaker 2: what was the only way to get around in a
[16:10] Speaker 2: place of historic is this, and that's to make the
[16:12] Speaker 2: most of the Murray River and meeting wonderful people on
[16:14] Speaker 2: the paddle steamers. In a Chuka. You can have one
[16:22] Speaker 2: foot in Victoria, one foot in New South Wales, or
[16:26] Speaker 2: set sail on the mighty Murray River, the actual border
[16:29] Speaker 2: between the two states.
[16:31] Speaker 1: Now.
[16:31] Speaker 2: Atchuka was famous in the mid eighteen hundreds a bit
[16:36] Speaker 2: closer to the eighteen sixties of being the paddle steamer
[16:39] Speaker 2: capital of Australia.
[16:41] Speaker 1: This meant that.
[16:43] Speaker 2: Many of the things that were required up and down
[16:45] Speaker 2: the river they came through here.
[16:47] Speaker 1: Once they came off a paddle steamer.
[16:49] Speaker 2: They went onto the trains and they would eventually make
[16:52] Speaker 2: their way to places like Melbourne. This is history that
[16:56] Speaker 2: you can live, you can smell, you can touch. Speaking
[17:05] Speaker 2: of local legiends, Jenny is.
[17:08] Speaker 1: One in her own ride.
[17:09] Speaker 2: Of course, she literally in the eighties learned how to
[17:12] Speaker 2: drive one of these things, and it's such a local
[17:14] Speaker 2: feature that she gives her experience and passion for the
[17:18] Speaker 2: area to people like myself who are on the paddle
[17:20] Speaker 2: steam I love you to meet you, Jenny.
[17:25] Speaker 1: Give us an idea.
[17:26] Speaker 2: About a chuka and why did a chuka become the port.
[17:31] Speaker 2: We know there's rail that obviously preceded the port or
[17:35] Speaker 2: followed the port.
[17:36] Speaker 1: Give me an idea of how a chuka became what
[17:39] Speaker 1: it did.
[17:39] Speaker 5: Because you had the waterways here, you've got the capacity
[17:43] Speaker 5: with up which isn't very big, but it was very
[17:45] Speaker 5: useful in those days. Then you've got your Murray River here,
[17:49] Speaker 5: and if you continue along the Murray, especially downstream before
[17:53] Speaker 5: to Rubby where's book, you've got all your other towns
[17:55] Speaker 5: and cities and things as well. But of course you
[17:58] Speaker 5: had your floods and droughts.
[17:59] Speaker 4: Again like that.
[18:01] Speaker 2: The paddle steamer here being around the sort of mid
[18:04] Speaker 2: eighteen mid eighteen hundreds, the fifties and sixties, correct, is
[18:08] Speaker 2: when they started to work the Murray workhorses working boats.
[18:12] Speaker 5: They carried the cargo. They used to carry the wall
[18:15] Speaker 5: or sheet the cattle, and the people were building houses.
[18:19] Speaker 5: They carried all the goods up to where they were
[18:20] Speaker 5: building the houses. It all went with paddle steamer and barges.
[18:23] Speaker 5: They toured barges.
[18:26] Speaker 2: So let's talk about driving one of these things. How hard.
[18:30] Speaker 2: Is it compared to jet boats. You've driven those.
[18:35] Speaker 5: Much much harder.
[18:36] Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's because the propulsion is to the side,
[18:40] Speaker 2: not the rear.
[18:41] Speaker 5: And you've got your you've got your steering roll up
[18:43] Speaker 5: the top, and you've got a lot more area, but
[18:46] Speaker 5: you have to control jet goes a great put your
[18:50] Speaker 5: fifth down. Of though, ninety percent of the people would
[18:54] Speaker 5: come here come for the experience, the fact that they're
[18:58] Speaker 5: on the Murray River. It's got such a wonderful drink,
[19:01] Speaker 5: and the fact that the paddle steamer was built specially
[19:05] Speaker 5: for this river.
[19:09] Speaker 10: Murray River is a bit of an icon and it's
[19:13] Speaker 10: lovely landscape and it's history of Australia. So I was
[19:17] Speaker 10: quite happy to come here and see.
[19:20] Speaker 14: All of It's quite beautiful.
[19:23] Speaker 15: Murray River is just an amazing river to have a
[19:25] Speaker 15: look at. So much history steeped in this area, apart
[19:30] Speaker 15: from the history of the paddle steamers themselves, but the
[19:34] Speaker 15: trade that came through here originally back in the early
[19:39] Speaker 15: the late eighteen hundreds and the early nineteen hundreds.
[19:43] Speaker 16: And this is my office too, so I'm a little
[19:45] Speaker 16: bit by it.
[19:46] Speaker 1: We come up here a fair bit and try to
[19:47] Speaker 1: come up here once.
[19:48] Speaker 2: A year, because the weather's better than Gippsland for star
[19:51] Speaker 2: others because it's got the wine barrels in city outside
[19:55] Speaker 2: and have a couple of drinks.
[19:58] Speaker 5: I think they like the am built, the fact that
[20:00] Speaker 5: they can sit back and relax and chill. Especially people
[20:04] Speaker 5: have been business people flat out all week come up
[20:07] Speaker 5: for the weekend and just forget all about it.
[20:16] Speaker 1: Beautiful, historic and relaxing.
[20:19] Speaker 2: This is the perfect way to spend an hour or
[20:22] Speaker 2: two on an Australian icon.
[20:26] Speaker 1: What a great way to get around. It takes about
[20:28] Speaker 1: half a ton of red wood to the able draft
[20:31] Speaker 1: get the engine going. You talk about two hours each
[20:33] Speaker 1: to me every day.
[20:34] Speaker 2: Now I should tell you about it is that while
[20:36] Speaker 2: there are plenty of one of all historical things that
[20:38] Speaker 2: are around this very modern place as well the best
[20:42] Speaker 2: of cafes, the best of restaurants, great shops open seven days,
[20:46] Speaker 2: up and down are all of the main drags and
[20:49] Speaker 2: some of the side streets as well. But most importantly,
[20:51] Speaker 2: as always, the asset is the people. And we have
[20:53] Speaker 2: had just a magnificent time.
[20:55] Speaker 1: From horse and carriage to beer haul to just again
[20:59] Speaker 1: random chat to the middle of the road.
[21:00] Speaker 2: It's been a lovely time here all right after the
[21:03] Speaker 2: blak we will continue to celebrate at Chukah, but specifically
[21:07] Speaker 2: showing you some of the great people were doing things
[21:09] Speaker 2: in regional Australia thanks to Harvey, Normous, Tomola.
[21:19] Speaker 1: Welcome back, welcome back.
[21:21] Speaker 2: Here we are in a tuka thanks to good people
[21:23] Speaker 2: at Radcliffe, which is.
[21:24] Speaker 1: One called the restaurant and a venue that you've got
[21:27] Speaker 1: to come and see. This is just what a beautiful
[21:29] Speaker 1: room this is.
[21:29] Speaker 2: Jeff, take an ice and wide shot, because not only
[21:32] Speaker 2: lovely people in here, but a beautiful, beautiful venue. You
[21:35] Speaker 2: can wave everyone you're on TV if you can see us. Hey,
[21:37] Speaker 2: there you go, say all the best of the venue manager,
[21:40] Speaker 2: Olivia Rebecca and Adam Mitchell, who are the owners here
[21:43] Speaker 2: at Radcliffe.
[21:43] Speaker 1: That's the one to go and check out with you
[21:45] Speaker 1: here in a Chukah.
[21:46] Speaker 2: Now, Harvey, normand and the Shine Awards are synonymous with
[21:50] Speaker 2: celebrating the fabulous women.
[21:52] Speaker 1: Who populate regional Australia.
[21:54] Speaker 2: The women who make our country a better place and
[21:56] Speaker 2: make our communities as important as we all know them
[21:59] Speaker 2: to be. Look at some of the nominees for twenty
[22:02] Speaker 2: twenty five. It's that time of the year again when
[22:05] Speaker 2: we celebrate the women who are pursuing positive change right
[22:09] Speaker 2: across regional and rural Australia. For nine years now, The
[22:13] Speaker 2: Weekly Times, supported by Harvey Norman, have put on the
[22:15] Speaker 2: Shine Awards. This celebrates the passion, dedication and courage of
[22:20] Speaker 2: spectacular women right across the country.
[22:23] Speaker 17: Kenny and I, running our companies and doing what we
[22:25] Speaker 17: do for our companies, have always been really involved with community.
[22:31] Speaker 1: And what we've done.
[22:32] Speaker 17: Here is put a showcase on regional Australia the women
[22:37] Speaker 17: that are doing fabulous things that you don't hear about well.
[22:40] Speaker 3: These are people who are really making a difference in
[22:41] Speaker 3: their communities.
[22:42] Speaker 1: We've got so many.
[22:43] Speaker 17: Inspiring stories and so many inspiring women. I think Kay
[22:46] Speaker 17: and I both feel was a real opportunity to actually
[22:48] Speaker 17: shine the light on women of rural and regional Australia
[22:51] Speaker 17: are often the angthong heroes in their communities that don't
[22:54] Speaker 17: actually get recognized.
[22:55] Speaker 2: These are the type of people who give everything, make
[22:58] Speaker 2: an enormous contribution and expect nothing in return. This year,
[23:02] Speaker 2: the readers of The Weekly Times nominated one hundred and
[23:04] Speaker 2: ten incredible women and a select few have now been
[23:07] Speaker 2: named as the twenty and twenty five finalists, so let's.
[23:11] Speaker 1: Hear some of their incredible stories. Linda Widdup.
[23:18] Speaker 2: She founded Ossie Hay Runners in twenty nineteen after being
[23:22] Speaker 2: moved by a news story about how drought had ravaged
[23:26] Speaker 2: the farmers in Dunnydoo in central western New South Wales.
[23:30] Speaker 1: Since then, her and her team have delivered.
[23:32] Speaker 2: Almost two thousand truckloads of vital hay and feed to
[23:37] Speaker 2: farmers in crisis across the nation.
[23:40] Speaker 3: I followed this post for about three or four weeks
[23:43] Speaker 3: and I said to me, Dad, have a look at this,
[23:46] Speaker 3: you know. I said it's not good, and he just
[23:48] Speaker 3: sort of looked at me and said, well, you know,
[23:50] Speaker 3: what are you going to do? And I thought, well,
[23:52] Speaker 3: what can I do to help here? And I ended
[23:54] Speaker 3: up putting out a call with a few friends and
[23:57] Speaker 3: got about three or four semi loads of hay and
[24:00] Speaker 3: a lot of the girls jumped on with utes and
[24:02] Speaker 3: trailers and horse floats and things. I've always been a
[24:07] Speaker 3: very help and given person, and I wanted to do
[24:11] Speaker 3: more for our farmers. They are the backbone of our country.
[24:14] Speaker 3: You don't think that those few little loads are hay
[24:17] Speaker 3: here and there or whatever, but once it turns into
[24:20] Speaker 3: something big. At any such time, I can have seventy trucks.
[24:24] Speaker 1: On the road.
[24:25] Speaker 3: When a really bad weather events strikes, I drive away
[24:29] Speaker 3: and I think, how do they go on? How do
[24:32] Speaker 3: they keep going? But you know, when there's a little
[24:35] Speaker 3: bit of help from us and know other people, they
[24:39] Speaker 3: push through.
[24:41] Speaker 2: Now we love the bush, but for many in it,
[24:43] Speaker 2: it is hard to get to the health services you
[24:46] Speaker 2: need when you need them. The counselor Melanie from South
[24:49] Speaker 2: Australia has spent the last fifteen years taking mental health
[24:53] Speaker 2: care directly to the homes or farms of her clients.
[24:58] Speaker 18: I think accessibility isably the biggest hardship face by people
[25:03] Speaker 18: that live rurally in our community. My passion is reaching
[25:07] Speaker 18: people that are other than disengaged so not wanting to
[25:12] Speaker 18: go into society to reach out for help, that may
[25:14] Speaker 18: live remotely, that don't want to go to school so
[25:17] Speaker 18: have attendance issues, and families of farmers and farmers have
[25:24] Speaker 18: contracts with DBA so veterans and their families.
[25:28] Speaker 2: One of my favorite things about what Melanie does is
[25:31] Speaker 2: that she is reshaping conventional mental health care. She's thinking
[25:35] Speaker 2: about different ways to help her clients and one of
[25:38] Speaker 2: those involves some furry friends.
[25:41] Speaker 18: Scientific research proves that animals have an extremely calming effect
[25:46] Speaker 18: on people that have anxiety, profound stress, and anger. So
[25:52] Speaker 18: by utilizing the dogs first, when people come onto our property,
[25:58] Speaker 18: the dogs meet them, the dogs get a part, and
[26:01] Speaker 18: instantly the clients that do come Pierre, they seem to
[26:05] Speaker 18: just wind down straight away, find that calming approach, fill
[26:10] Speaker 18: their cors soil levels dropping, and feel a lot more
[26:13] Speaker 18: calm and ready for our therapy session.
[26:17] Speaker 2: These are all amazing people, very special women, and congrats
[26:21] Speaker 2: to everyone who has been nominated, but I am very
[26:23] Speaker 2: excited to introduce to you the twenty twenty five winner
[26:28] Speaker 2: of the Shine Awards is Samantha Longmore, a disability advocate
[26:33] Speaker 2: who has a story.
[26:34] Speaker 1: You have to here to believe.
[26:38] Speaker 19: This one particular week block, I suppose I worked from
[26:42] Speaker 19: Thursday morning right through until Sunday morning, throughout the days,
[26:46] Speaker 19: all throughout the nights, and did not get not one
[26:48] Speaker 19: wink of sleep. I ended up having two car accidents
[26:51] Speaker 19: on the same stretch of road in two different states
[26:53] Speaker 19: in about forty five minutes. On that Sunday morning, just
[26:56] Speaker 19: over twelve years ago. A sustained a brainstem and spinal
[26:59] Speaker 19: cord injury onalized down my right hand side and my
[27:02] Speaker 19: life changed dramatically and I had to learn how to sit.
[27:06] Speaker 2: Even twelve years after losing the use of both of
[27:10] Speaker 2: her legs and right arm in that horrific double car accident,
[27:15] Speaker 2: Sam has defied expectations to become a champion water skier.
[27:20] Speaker 19: I was huge into sports prior to my accident. In general,
[27:23] Speaker 19: I was a sprinter, a high jumper, a cross country
[27:25] Speaker 19: runner or all of these things. And I just strived
[27:28] Speaker 19: so hard to try and get back into sport because
[27:30] Speaker 19: I knew for me that that would help me in
[27:32] Speaker 19: so many different ways. Up in Sydney, I found a
[27:35] Speaker 19: come and try New South Wales just having a water
[27:38] Speaker 19: ski club, and that would have been about six years
[27:40] Speaker 19: ago now. And here I am right here, right now,
[27:42] Speaker 19: about to start a block of training for a couple
[27:44] Speaker 19: of days prior to the World Championships. I'm just out
[27:47] Speaker 19: here being me, trying to advocate for people in similar
[27:50] Speaker 19: situations just to have a crack at life.
[27:52] Speaker 2: So do any and everyone in regional and rural Australia.
[27:55] Speaker 2: I want you to take the time to think about
[27:58] Speaker 2: any and all inspiring women who are pursuing positive change
[28:02] Speaker 2: in your community, write their names down and get ready
[28:05] Speaker 2: to pop them.
[28:06] Speaker 1: Into next year's awards.
[28:08] Speaker 2: You can do that at the Weekly Times website from
[28:10] Speaker 2: August next year.
[28:13] Speaker 19: I wouldn't be where I am right now in life
[28:15] Speaker 19: in general without the support of these incredible small communities.
[28:21] Speaker 17: Make sure these women are being recognized and you're putting
[28:26] Speaker 17: their names forward to us.
[28:31] Speaker 1: Wow, are they awesome?
[28:34] Speaker 2: Congratulations to Samantha.
[28:37] Speaker 1: And everyone else.
[28:38] Speaker 2: To Katie and to Keim, thank you so much for
[28:42] Speaker 2: the support that you put into the Shine Awards, the
[28:43] Speaker 2: Weekly Times, Harvey Norman, and of course to Katie and Jerry,
[28:47] Speaker 2: I want to say thank you so much for the
[28:48] Speaker 2: support that they've given us to be able to go
[28:50] Speaker 2: around the country and meet incredible women like that and
[28:53] Speaker 2: great local representatives like the gentleman I'm about to introduce
[28:56] Speaker 2: you to Sam berrel Is. His name is the local
[28:58] Speaker 2: state MP for this region. Give him around way, mate, Federal. Sorry, sorry,
[29:03] Speaker 2: my hell of me all right? So now, just before
[29:07] Speaker 2: I get to that, I should also mention again as
[29:09] Speaker 2: part of the Harvy Norman of things here too, is
[29:11] Speaker 2: that local people have gone into the local store in
[29:14] Speaker 2: a choker and have made their suggestions about great local
[29:17] Speaker 2: community groups. Sorry to Sam, I'll get you there in
[29:20] Speaker 2: a second here, right, but I want to say thank
[29:22] Speaker 2: you so much to Michael, to Benjamin and Keenan, the
[29:25] Speaker 2: three blokes that have got big interests in running the
[29:27] Speaker 2: store and big sections. Go and see them for everything
[29:30] Speaker 2: you need in a church air. But it's betting electrical,
[29:33] Speaker 2: you name it, White Goods. They're the blokes to come
[29:35] Speaker 2: in and say gooday, mentioned my name, paid full price, Michael.
[29:38] Speaker 1: Benjamin and Keenan.
[29:39] Speaker 2: But congratulations because each of these organizations are going to
[29:42] Speaker 2: get two thousand dollars to spend in store, including Adam
[29:46] Speaker 2: and the team from.
[29:47] Speaker 1: Boys to the Bush, which is awesome.
[29:49] Speaker 2: The Adams family and Kylie representing them, and also Murray
[29:52] Speaker 2: revert Tea Rooms have all received those two thousand dollars.
[29:55] Speaker 2: So give them a round of applause and thank the
[29:57] Speaker 2: boys as well. So sorry Sam to get state in
[30:01] Speaker 2: federal politics to mix sed up.
[30:03] Speaker 1: But let's get to it right now.
[30:04] Speaker 2: All right, Sam, you represent an area in Nichols that
[30:07] Speaker 2: is here, Shepherd and a whole bunch of places in between.
[30:11] Speaker 2: Give me the sales pitch. What's unique about this bit
[30:13] Speaker 2: of Australia.
[30:14] Speaker 20: Well, it's the food bowl of Australia. We have created
[30:18] Speaker 20: the most incredible irrigated agriculture here and that's led on
[30:20] Speaker 20: too food manufacturing. It's bound by the Murray Rivers of
[30:25] Speaker 20: the North and it's got other rivers such as the
[30:27] Speaker 20: Campasity and the Gulben where I grew up, and the
[30:30] Speaker 20: most stunning red Gum river, red gum forests and rivers,
[30:35] Speaker 20: and it's just a beautiful place.
[30:37] Speaker 1: I love living here.
[30:38] Speaker 20: I've lived here all my life and to represent it
[30:40] Speaker 20: in canber is a great honor.
[30:41] Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been kind enough to be able to get
[30:43] Speaker 2: the chance to do show some shepherd and now in
[30:46] Speaker 2: a Chuka. Something that's very clear is that their BS
[30:49] Speaker 2: detector perfect perfect. What's it like to represent the people
[30:54] Speaker 2: here and how often will they pull you up if
[30:56] Speaker 2: you're in the wrong spot.
[30:58] Speaker 20: It's great to represent the people from here. When you're
[31:01] Speaker 20: a regional MP in Canberra, you know the metropolitan people
[31:06] Speaker 20: aren't more and more non understanding the way regional Australia
[31:09] Speaker 20: works and just how much regional Australia provides in terms
[31:13] Speaker 20: of the culture.
[31:13] Speaker 1: And the economy of the whole country.
[31:15] Speaker 20: So you're always on your feet trying to sell that
[31:18] Speaker 20: message and trying to explain to people.
[31:20] Speaker 1: That things are a bit different out here.
[31:22] Speaker 20: So when you get crazy ideas like people wanting to
[31:25] Speaker 20: take more irrigation water away from production in the mary
[31:28] Speaker 20: Daley Basin Plan, or some of the excesses around renewable
[31:33] Speaker 20: energy and transmission lines, you know, the people here, as
[31:38] Speaker 20: you said, their best detector is right up to that
[31:41] Speaker 20: and we've got to be there fighting for them on
[31:43] Speaker 20: those really really important issues.
[31:45] Speaker 2: Spoken to so many farmers the past couple of days,
[31:48] Speaker 2: one a dairy farmer in particular, and talking about just
[31:52] Speaker 2: those intergenerational I mean it's something that was an issue
[31:55] Speaker 2: say thirty years ago when people were talking about keeping
[31:58] Speaker 2: their kids around, but even different issue now because again
[32:04] Speaker 2: thirty years ago, the conversation was, you know, is there
[32:06] Speaker 2: someone to inherit?
[32:07] Speaker 1: Is there somebody who wants to take it on.
[32:10] Speaker 2: But then there are people in Melbourne and Sydney who
[32:12] Speaker 2: are just absolutely coming for agriculture as an industry in.
[32:16] Speaker 1: Existence at all.
[32:17] Speaker 2: I mean, these people do not understand that the food
[32:19] Speaker 2: doesn't grow in the truck before it eventually turns up
[32:22] Speaker 2: in the supermarket.
[32:23] Speaker 1: It has to be made somewhere.
[32:24] Speaker 2: The less of it that's made here big issues around
[32:26] Speaker 2: the country. There's even sort of economists that are turning
[32:29] Speaker 2: around and saying when it comes to things like climate change,
[32:31] Speaker 2: it literally all farms should go and they should be
[32:33] Speaker 2: replaced with trees in order to suck CO two out
[32:36] Speaker 2: of the atmosphere. And there would be moments when you
[32:39] Speaker 2: walk around in Canberra and while these things have never
[32:42] Speaker 2: been thought of before, they are not becoming the norm,
[32:45] Speaker 2: but they are a fringe, and sadly the fringe sometimes
[32:48] Speaker 2: only gets louder.
[32:49] Speaker 1: So how do you push back? How do you educate them?
[32:51] Speaker 1: Do you bring them here to meet people? What do
[32:53] Speaker 1: you do?
[32:54] Speaker 20: You try to bring them here as much as possible
[32:55] Speaker 20: and explain to them that we care about the river,
[32:59] Speaker 20: but we also care about a balance with our economy.
[33:02] Speaker 20: This is a great food manufacturing place. I mean just
[33:05] Speaker 20: down the road there's tomato. This is the center of
[33:09] Speaker 20: Australian process tomato growing and manufacturing. Just down the Roaded
[33:13] Speaker 20: Shepherd as SPC is the center of the fruit growing
[33:16] Speaker 20: and as you said, the dairy industry. A lot of
[33:18] Speaker 20: that dairy You know, if you're having any of those
[33:21] Speaker 20: cheeses on pizzas, they're made somewhere here in this part
[33:24] Speaker 20: of the world. So you've got to explain to people
[33:27] Speaker 20: how important that is. The other thing I've been trying
[33:29] Speaker 20: to do in Canberra is to do the Peach Challenge,
[33:33] Speaker 20: and that is to get politicians from all sides. And
[33:35] Speaker 20: I'm still waiting for Albow to say yes to it.
[33:37] Speaker 20: But labor, whoever you are, come to my office blind tasting,
[33:43] Speaker 20: have an important Chinese snack pack of peaches and then
[33:46] Speaker 20: the SPC stuff growing around here and manufactured in Shepherd.
[33:50] Speaker 1: Olidia to tell the difference.
[33:51] Speaker 20: I haven't invited her. Might be a waste of timeful,
[33:55] Speaker 20: but everyone everyone goes that. Everyone acknowledges that the better
[34:00] Speaker 20: quality and the real fruit taste in what is produced
[34:03] Speaker 20: here in Australia. But we've just got to get that
[34:05] Speaker 20: message out there that the food manufactured here is superior,
[34:09] Speaker 20: it's cleaner, it's more regulated, and you know, we've got
[34:12] Speaker 20: to give our farmers and our food manufacturers that level
[34:16] Speaker 20: of support in this country.
[34:17] Speaker 2: Also, regional health is part of your shadow ministerial responsibility
[34:22] Speaker 2: right assisting in this area. This is vital right because
[34:25] Speaker 2: health is not just about how big is the hospital,
[34:27] Speaker 2: how close is it. It is a whole collection of things,
[34:29] Speaker 2: including what we saw before there in the shine of Woods,
[34:31] Speaker 2: particularly when it comes to mental health, if you could
[34:34] Speaker 2: waive a wand what changes in regional health.
[34:38] Speaker 20: The lack of health professionals is the problem. So the
[34:40] Speaker 20: one waving is to make sure people who are health
[34:43] Speaker 20: professionals consider coming to a chuker. You've seen how beautiful
[34:47] Speaker 20: it is. Everyone knows how beautiful it is to live
[34:50] Speaker 20: in the country. But that's the start of the that's
[34:52] Speaker 20: the start.
[34:53] Speaker 1: Of the solution.
[34:54] Speaker 20: The sustainable solution is to bring the training programs up
[34:57] Speaker 20: here and to train our medical train our own kids
[35:01] Speaker 20: because they're going to stay here.
[35:02] Speaker 1: And we've had some success.
[35:03] Speaker 20: With that previous coalition policy where we moved a lot
[35:06] Speaker 20: of the medical degree places out of Melbourne up to
[35:10] Speaker 20: Sheppard and the School of Real Health, and we've got
[35:12] Speaker 20: the first lot of kids who are graduating. They're going
[35:14] Speaker 20: to come and be doctors in places like this. That's
[35:16] Speaker 20: the way to do it.
[35:17] Speaker 1: Good on you, Sam, thank you very much and I
[35:19] Speaker 1: really appreciate it.
[35:20] Speaker 2: Give it up for your local federal MPE.
[35:22] Speaker 1: Sam Beer will there representing to good people of.
[35:24] Speaker 2: Nicholas stick Aroun because we're not plenty more to show you,
[35:26] Speaker 2: including the reason you have to.
[35:29] Speaker 1: Come here as it's Meeds. Welcome back into the room.
[35:38] Speaker 2: Way you're all on TV. Hey HII, all.
[35:42] Speaker 1: Right now you're about to see this man at work.
[35:45] Speaker 2: But I thought we should have a quick chat to Gavin,
[35:47] Speaker 2: who's here in the room with this mate. Love you
[35:49] Speaker 2: to see you this weekend taking us around on the
[35:52] Speaker 2: horse and carriage. But tell me what is it about
[35:54] Speaker 2: this part of Australia that you just love living in?
[35:57] Speaker 4: Gave the country atmosphere, the green you know, the agriculture
[36:01] Speaker 4: around here. Everywhere you look there's farming. It's just really
[36:04] Speaker 4: great in the people all right.
[36:05] Speaker 2: Now, apart from the venue that we're currently in, is
[36:07] Speaker 2: there a favorite pub in town?
[36:09] Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to say cases. Yeah, no, not
[36:14] Speaker 1: at all. Now.
[36:15] Speaker 2: Obviously you every day get to see the tourists that
[36:18] Speaker 2: comes somebody who's obviously in area or come from.
[36:22] Speaker 1: The other side of the world. What sort of a
[36:25] Speaker 1: vibe do you get from the people who visit this place?
[36:27] Speaker 1: You know?
[36:27] Speaker 4: The one thing I've noticed the most is the amount
[36:29] Speaker 4: of people that are awake on how things are so
[36:31] Speaker 4: bad with the government. You know, we don't need to
[36:33] Speaker 4: stand together to fight that. But I'm really surprised and
[36:36] Speaker 4: the homeschooling, the amount of people that are homeschooling now,
[36:39] Speaker 4: because the education, you know, that's where it all starts,
[36:42] Speaker 4: isn't it.
[36:43] Speaker 2: When we were on the carriage, you said that this
[36:45] Speaker 2: show in part had played a bit of a role
[36:47] Speaker 2: in the awakening of your good self and others.
[36:49] Speaker 1: So thank you very much to you and everyone else.
[36:52] Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
[36:52] Speaker 2: Give it up for the best man in town and
[36:54] Speaker 2: when it's coming to riding around with horses and carriages,
[36:57] Speaker 2: but also good block too, and Gavin, we love you.
[36:59] Speaker 1: Make that all right.
[37:00] Speaker 2: This is part of our celebration, including a museum that
[37:04] Speaker 2: has to be seen to be believed. When we are
[37:09] Speaker 2: at home in the man cave, you know, there's lots
[37:12] Speaker 2: of little stuff from all over the country. Now we
[37:15] Speaker 2: don't pretend to be world class collectors, but I like
[37:18] Speaker 2: collecting things because I've.
[37:19] Speaker 1: All got a story.
[37:20] Speaker 2: You're about to meet a bloke just on the edge
[37:23] Speaker 2: of a chuka who is probably the best collector, not
[37:26] Speaker 2: just in the town, not just in the state, but
[37:28] Speaker 2: I reckon in the country. This is the great Ossie Beershed.
[37:46] Speaker 1: Neil how good is this joint and I've just walked in.
[37:49] Speaker 1: This is fantastic. Love it to me. Welcome. Wow.
[37:54] Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm imagining every little bit's got a story.
[37:58] Speaker 1: But tell me the overall of what got you collecting?
[38:02] Speaker 16: Oh fifty years ago an amp rep came to the
[38:05] Speaker 16: door to sig him out for life insurance after I
[38:07] Speaker 16: book my first house on mum's advice. That was, and
[38:10] Speaker 16: he collected beer cans at a little bar without twenty beer
[38:13] Speaker 16: cans ad it. He got excited. Here's a beer can
[38:14] Speaker 16: collecting club. So I've joined the club. Since then, I've
[38:17] Speaker 16: been President Victoria, President of Australia and I've collected ever since.
[38:21] Speaker 2: Well, you have a very impressive collection. Let's have a look.
[38:37] Speaker 2: Well now this is the best beer can collection in Australia,
[38:41] Speaker 2: but certainly this is the best beer can wall any
[38:44] Speaker 2: Australian will ever see, right.
[38:45] Speaker 1: I'd agree with you there, yes, yeah, how many have
[38:47] Speaker 1: you got here?
[38:48] Speaker 16: There's twenty thousand in this shed and there's another four
[38:51] Speaker 16: thousand in the car museum.
[38:53] Speaker 17: Wow.
[38:53] Speaker 2: Now, I am famously not a drinker, but I remember
[38:58] Speaker 2: this in particular.
[38:59] Speaker 1: I have a history with it, which was when I
[39:01] Speaker 1: was a little boy, my dad got me one of these.
[39:04] Speaker 1: This is how we saved our money and when I
[39:07] Speaker 1: was a really little boy.
[39:08] Speaker 2: There is a photo of me that I don't think
[39:11] Speaker 2: we can find for it tonight's show, but still which
[39:13] Speaker 2: is cut out and me sitting inside it.
[39:15] Speaker 1: The old KB can. I love.
[39:17] Speaker 2: I love the old KB money box. This yeah, that
[39:20] Speaker 2: is that brings back massive memories. And then the American
[39:23] Speaker 2: cans which are always so massima.
[39:25] Speaker 16: Yeah, but in Australia we did have the twenty six
[39:28] Speaker 16: fluid ounced cans too, did we.
[39:30] Speaker 1: Actually they're the big ones, but.
[39:32] Speaker 16: They're a seal can. They come out in nineteen fifty six.
[39:34] Speaker 1: But it looks like soup not beer.
[39:49] Speaker 16: There's so many different things here. We've got We've got
[39:51] Speaker 16: ashtrayed with steins glasses.
[39:54] Speaker 1: Oh, ashtrays.
[39:55] Speaker 16: Look at all the ashtrays, but say they're a thing
[39:57] Speaker 16: of the past now because you know, in the old
[39:59] Speaker 16: days everyone's in hotels and they all had advertising on
[40:02] Speaker 16: them for all the different beers. But you don't see
[40:04] Speaker 16: them anymore. Yeah.
[40:06] Speaker 1: Oh my coke cans. Oh now, now I won't lie.
[40:11] Speaker 2: I will have drunk this many cans in my time
[40:14] Speaker 2: in a chuky this weekend I love Coca Cola.
[40:16] Speaker 1: Full strength, gimme diesel footed mm of veins.
[40:19] Speaker 16: So the initial cans were from nineteen fifty six. They
[40:22] Speaker 16: were a flat top can and yet put the old
[40:24] Speaker 16: open through the top. They lasted toil nineteen sixty eight,
[40:27] Speaker 16: and then from sixty eight onwards you then had the
[40:30] Speaker 16: ring pull itself and then probably about ten years later
[40:33] Speaker 16: when it went to one clicking in clicking out. So
[40:35] Speaker 16: I didn't go on the beach and cut your foot
[40:36] Speaker 16: on the like.
[40:37] Speaker 1: Ah.
[40:37] Speaker 2: Right, So so someone was thinking of the environment.
[40:40] Speaker 16: Yeah, And the steel cans finished in nineteen eighty three
[40:42] Speaker 16: and after that we were alimin in.
[40:50] Speaker 1: That's probably my best piece here.
[40:52] Speaker 16: It's the original Carlton and United Brewer's wagon from nineteen
[40:56] Speaker 16: forty fully restored by the brewery probably twelve or fourteen
[40:59] Speaker 16: years ago, and they donate it to our museum in
[41:03] Speaker 16: twenty and eighteen.
[41:04] Speaker 12: Wow.
[41:04] Speaker 16: We're very proud to be the custodians of it. And
[41:07] Speaker 16: it is a central priest here.
[41:19] Speaker 1: What does the collection mean to you? What's it symbolized?
[41:23] Speaker 16: Well, it's astraight history. So other than the beer, Kansas's
[41:26] Speaker 16: got to be Aussie. What do you like the base well,
[41:28] Speaker 16: this week I love that, this week, I love it all.
[41:30] Speaker 16: So once a collector, always a collector, and I also
[41:33] Speaker 16: call myself a chuker's best kept secret. So you're going
[41:36] Speaker 16: to bring people to me secret.
[41:38] Speaker 2: No more, Neil, thank you so much. You're honestly You've
[41:41] Speaker 2: got to come here. You've got to see this stuff.
[41:43] Speaker 2: It's so beautifully put together, and Neil is a beautiful
[41:46] Speaker 2: custodian of it.
[41:47] Speaker 1: We love him mate than you. Thank you for making it.
[41:56] Speaker 2: And after a few hours in the great Ossie Besh,
[42:01] Speaker 2: you've got to find a way home, a plan B.
[42:04] Speaker 2: And in historical fashion, in beautiful a chukah, there's only
[42:07] Speaker 2: one way to get home.
[42:15] Speaker 1: This is the way you do transport in a chukah.
[42:20] Speaker 2: Forget your ruber buck at the tatsi, you take a
[42:24] Speaker 2: horse coach.
[42:28] Speaker 1: Onward. Sir.
[42:33] Speaker 2: Now this is what I call a plan be Remember,
[42:38] Speaker 2: don't be a shed and drive. It's very cool to
[42:51] Speaker 2: be sitting inside.
[42:52] Speaker 1: You feel like a king or queen going up the
[42:55] Speaker 1: main drag.
[42:56] Speaker 2: But I prefer being up the front with the pilot
[43:00] Speaker 2: Gavin and I going ho.
[43:07] Speaker 1: Come see a choker. It is just as cool as
[43:09] Speaker 1: you think. Two things I learned in that pack is
[43:22] Speaker 1: one I lin realize I was good and giving the
[43:23] Speaker 1: balls good.
[43:24] Speaker 2: The secondly, best take this heavy right now. All of
[43:28] Speaker 2: these things are available on Facebook. Will also link them
[43:30] Speaker 2: up on our socials. But again the great Aussie issue
[43:33] Speaker 2: is the way to go and have a look at
[43:35] Speaker 2: that and say today again and like always mentioned our
[43:38] Speaker 2: name payful price. Now a man described in our production
[43:41] Speaker 2: notes here is a very local local is a man
[43:43] Speaker 2: called Brian Spencer. I'm about to find out exactly why
[43:46] Speaker 2: Brian love.
[43:47] Speaker 1: It I major. How are you mabable? All right?
[43:49] Speaker 2: So you've got lots of strings to your bow from
[43:51] Speaker 2: being able to make special beers you across the wine industry.
[43:56] Speaker 2: You've even set up special cultural things that have got
[43:58] Speaker 2: what the best part of twins thousand people coming to them.
[44:02] Speaker 2: So what does very local local mean?
[44:04] Speaker 1: I don't know.
[44:05] Speaker 14: We're down the local part.
[44:06] Speaker 21: We're part of Campus be so we're the southern part
[44:08] Speaker 21: of Campus Bey, which if the river is the dominant
[44:11] Speaker 21: part up here, then it's wine country down where we are.
[44:15] Speaker 1: So what is it about the area that makes it
[44:17] Speaker 1: wine country?
[44:18] Speaker 21: Dirt good red dirt, it's good, very infertile soils, so
[44:24] Speaker 21: you get really low yield really intense colors and the wine,
[44:28] Speaker 21: so it's it's really known as Chiraz country, but lots
[44:31] Speaker 21: of other reds.
[44:32] Speaker 1: So we're just having a look. Here is this generally or.
[44:35] Speaker 21: That's our place, that's your joint, that's our place there.
[44:37] Speaker 21: So we've got about forty acres undervine. Wow, And you
[44:40] Speaker 21: can see the little row of hills at the back
[44:42] Speaker 21: of that little volcanic range, and that's all the where
[44:45] Speaker 21: the red dirt comes.
[44:46] Speaker 1: Beautiful pictures. I like this sort of stuff.
[44:48] Speaker 2: Now, are you the top of bloke who's got plenty
[44:50] Speaker 2: of dirt under the fingernails over the years, or.
[44:52] Speaker 21: That's got lots of broken fingernails, Yeah, lots and lots
[44:55] Speaker 21: of it.
[44:56] Speaker 1: What part of tending to things like that?
[45:00] Speaker 14: Look, these days I must were out in the vineyard.
[45:03] Speaker 21: So my son's taken over a lot of the beer,
[45:05] Speaker 21: wine making and beer making, so the old man gets pushed.
[45:09] Speaker 14: Back out in the vineyard.
[45:11] Speaker 2: Well, as long as you have to sample the end
[45:12] Speaker 2: product as well.
[45:14] Speaker 14: Good taste on a good taste test.
[45:15] Speaker 2: Tell us about the canola walker as well, because that's
[45:18] Speaker 2: become quite a thing.
[45:19] Speaker 14: It has really unexpectedly as well.
[45:22] Speaker 21: But look, we grow a bit of canola about one
[45:24] Speaker 21: hundred acres we crop.
[45:26] Speaker 14: Neighbors all around us grow it.
[45:28] Speaker 21: And every year you see people pulling up on the
[45:30] Speaker 21: side of the road jumping fences. Council gets shirty because
[45:33] Speaker 21: it's dangerous with dodging trucks and things, and farmers get
[45:36] Speaker 21: shirty because they don't like people gettings in their paddocks.
[45:40] Speaker 1: But you found a way for people to come in
[45:42] Speaker 1: and have a.
[45:42] Speaker 14: Little Well, we thought, why not.
[45:43] Speaker 21: You can fight these things or you can welcome them,
[45:45] Speaker 21: and so we had canola.
[45:48] Speaker 14: We carved a track into it.
[45:50] Speaker 21: We put an old truck in there and put a
[45:52] Speaker 21: platform up on the back so we'll get up and
[45:53] Speaker 21: get some photos. And so it's been as long as
[45:55] Speaker 21: you like there. And you know, they can park in
[45:58] Speaker 21: our car park, here's our toilets, and hope drink a
[46:00] Speaker 21: bit of beer and wine at the same time.
[46:01] Speaker 1: That's only fair. But twenty thousand people, I mean, that's
[46:04] Speaker 1: probo extraordinary.
[46:05] Speaker 21: First year we got seven fifty, and it's sort of
[46:08] Speaker 21: doubled and doubled.
[46:09] Speaker 14: With I can't keep doubling, and this year at quadrupled.
[46:12] Speaker 2: So that's like it's like what two hundred and fifty
[46:15] Speaker 2: days a year of people.
[46:17] Speaker 21: I know, the tunny goes through it five weeks, all right,
[46:19] Speaker 21: So that's over five weekends.
[46:20] Speaker 2: Five weekends, you've got twenty thousand people just coming over
[46:23] Speaker 2: to you enjoy it.
[46:23] Speaker 14: The three thousand a day over that long weekend of
[46:26] Speaker 14: the do.
[46:26] Speaker 2: You, if you have like special family members, come over
[46:28] Speaker 2: and restock.
[46:29] Speaker 1: Toilet paper because we're twenty thousand people.
[46:32] Speaker 2: Using your toot I'm sorry to go there, but I'm
[46:35] Speaker 2: just thinking logistically.
[46:36] Speaker 21: Where we had to go straight away to get extra toilet.
[46:41] Speaker 1: That's fantastic, right, So how long does it take to
[46:43] Speaker 1: grow can Look.
[46:44] Speaker 21: You planned in May, April, May and harvest. They're in
[46:49] Speaker 21: the final stage of harvest now, so it's all wind
[46:51] Speaker 21: road and you know, once we get a couple of
[46:54] Speaker 21: dry days, it'll be finished harvest.
[46:55] Speaker 1: Right.
[46:56] Speaker 2: See forgive me for not knowing that the time zones
[46:58] Speaker 2: of things, but is it a and now where you've
[47:00] Speaker 2: got the wine business intensifies at a certain time of year,
[47:04] Speaker 2: can holler at another time and beer, so you've got
[47:08] Speaker 2: months of something crammed.
[47:09] Speaker 14: It's a nice flow.
[47:10] Speaker 21: Yeah, So September is a key part for the canola.
[47:14] Speaker 21: Now we're sort of into you know, the grapes are
[47:17] Speaker 21: growing madly like Trifford's and grab your as you go past.
[47:20] Speaker 21: So you know you've got a lot of work in
[47:23] Speaker 21: the vineyard getting them tended. But also we're making it,
[47:26] Speaker 21: starting to make a lot of beer because someone's coming
[47:28] Speaker 21: up and it's a good time to sell that as well.
[47:30] Speaker 21: So and then the warmer weather brings people out and
[47:33] Speaker 21: we've tried to make it a place where families and
[47:35] Speaker 21: people with mixed groups can come. So the beer and
[47:37] Speaker 21: the wine helps that. And we have music every sat
[47:39] Speaker 21: down Sunday.
[47:40] Speaker 1: So wow.
[47:41] Speaker 14: So you know for this time of year.
[47:42] Speaker 22: It's a lot of parties and workdos and things like that.
[47:45] Speaker 1: So are you website? Facebook had of people.
[47:48] Speaker 21: Coming so Sharaz Republic and you'll find us if you
[47:52] Speaker 21: google that.
[47:53] Speaker 1: Fantastic.
[47:53] Speaker 2: Have people come from crazy parts of the world where
[47:56] Speaker 2: you've got.
[47:56] Speaker 14: Yeah, you're here for what reason?
[47:58] Speaker 22: Well, we had three groups, different groups flying from Indonesia
[48:03] Speaker 22: for photographs in the Canala this year.
[48:05] Speaker 14: Wow, for pre wedding shots.
[48:07] Speaker 1: That's awesome.
[48:08] Speaker 2: For people sort running around pretending it's the start of
[48:09] Speaker 2: the Wizard of Oz or something well and actually wicked.
[48:12] Speaker 22: Now there must be a thing in one of the
[48:15] Speaker 22: Bollywood movies where there's a wedding and so a lot
[48:19] Speaker 22: of the Indian people love to try and recreate the
[48:21] Speaker 22: scene in Fantastic.
[48:22] Speaker 1: That's cool. Good on you, Brian, love it mate, You
[48:24] Speaker 1: give them a round of a floor. It's good stuff.
[48:25] Speaker 1: All right. We'll make sure all of his details are
[48:27] Speaker 1: rough on our socials as well.
[48:28] Speaker 2: All right, quick break a little more from a Trooper
[48:31] Speaker 2: before we're done tonight and news at the top of
[48:33] Speaker 2: the art.
[48:38] Speaker 1: All right, welcome back to rad Groups in a troop card.
[48:42] Speaker 2: This of course is the last fun of our show
[48:44] Speaker 2: tonight and the last of our ourtowns of the year.
[48:47] Speaker 2: We will be back next year where we are going
[48:49] Speaker 2: to be going all over the shop and we'll probably
[48:52] Speaker 2: find a way to get somewhere near the fireworks in
[48:54] Speaker 2: Darwin at some point. Most importantly, the idea of these
[48:58] Speaker 2: shows is simple, which is to try to come to
[49:02] Speaker 2: places like a Chuka when things are normal, to show
[49:04] Speaker 2: you a great place to be able to visit or
[49:06] Speaker 2: maybe extended out for a little bit longer, think about
[49:08] Speaker 2: it as a place potentially to live. I want to
[49:11] Speaker 2: thank everyone who comes to the shows, including people who
[49:14] Speaker 2: come to a lot of them, like beautiful Barbara in
[49:16] Speaker 2: the front row. Here, I love your Dahl. Look at this,
[49:18] Speaker 2: she's decked up in a T shirt with my face
[49:22] Speaker 2: on it. She's made her own merch.
[49:23] Speaker 1: God love you Dahl. Give her a round of a pool.
[49:27] Speaker 1: Beautiful Barbara, a beautiful husband.
[49:30] Speaker 2: They take a lot of time to come to the shows.
[49:32] Speaker 2: Thank you and everyone who's watched the show for as
[49:35] Speaker 2: long as you have.
[49:36] Speaker 1: Fifteen years.
[49:37] Speaker 2: What a great, special and fun time we had celebrating
[49:39] Speaker 2: that last week. We now focus on getting back to
[49:42] Speaker 2: work and again fifteen years in front of US Regional
[49:45] Speaker 2: Australia is a magnificent place. It is not a place
[49:47] Speaker 2: just to see on telly. It is not a place
[49:49] Speaker 2: to occasionally go googling. It is a place to get
[49:52] Speaker 2: off your ass and come and visit, particularly.
[49:54] Speaker 1: The good people of a chuker.
[49:56] Speaker 2: You'll say, can I to anyone who turns up right,
[49:59] Speaker 2: just double checking?
[50:00] Speaker 1: Enjoy you summers, see Australia and back in the man
[50:03] Speaker 1: Cape tomorrow or not. Thanks to everyone he went back
[50:05] Speaker 1: to this role hit a two jumps say hell, let
[50:08] Speaker 1: us say an excume from on the road.
[50:09] Speaker 7: Text to Hobby on the

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