# Paul Murray Our Town: Berrimah | 28 June

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 28 Jun 2026, 47 min.

Audio: https://p.podderapp.com/2544644999/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/2fb3740d-3436-44af-8cc0-a91900716aa5/be3abd48-25e5-45a6-aede-ac2a00524a12/0a6fca05-9bf5-4423-8b70-b47700d18cc4/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=95971714-8fe6-4855-b1fe-ac2a00524a12

Pauline Hanson's take on the Canberra bubble, the US to mark 250 years of independence. Plus, One Nation drops below Labor in the Newspoll. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Live from Berriman. This is Paul Murray live out town Today, Australia.
[0:09] Speaker 1: Welcome to Berrama. It's Darwin in the Northern Territory. Hello everyone,
[0:13] Speaker 1: how are we? We are at the Darwin Trailer Boat Club.
[0:18] Speaker 1: This is my single favorite venue in one of my
[0:22] Speaker 1: favorite places in the entire world. Right and you know
[0:26] Speaker 1: we've been lucky enough this year to go to the States.
[0:29] Speaker 1: You know how much we've been lucky enough to go
[0:32] Speaker 1: around the country for the best part of ten years. Well,
[0:34] Speaker 1: we keep coming back to Darwin, the specific suburban as
[0:37] Speaker 1: I said, being Bherrama. But we keep coming back because
[0:40] Speaker 1: this is winter. This is winter. If you have not
[0:45] Speaker 1: been to the territory in a while, there's a way
[0:46] Speaker 1: to fix that. While I'm talking book right now. If
[0:50] Speaker 1: you came to the territory last year, there's a way
[0:52] Speaker 1: to fix that book right now. If you are thinking
[0:55] Speaker 1: about a different lifestyle, do it now. The best taste
[1:00] Speaker 1: there for it is winter. The people are absolutely spectacular
[1:03] Speaker 1: and again come down here to the Trailer Boat Club.
[1:06] Speaker 1: Merv and Angelino are in the front row here. Thank
[1:08] Speaker 1: you very much for having us. Lads, as always, mention
[1:11] Speaker 1: my name, payful price. That's the arrangement we come to
[1:14] Speaker 1: with everyone who we work with here. Of course, thank
[1:17] Speaker 1: you very much the good people of Harvey Norman who
[1:19] Speaker 1: are able to take us around the country. So what
[1:23] Speaker 1: are you in for tonight, Well, you can't come to
[1:24] Speaker 1: the territory and not muck around with a few crocodiles.
[1:28] Speaker 1: We will do so on the Adelaide River in a
[1:30] Speaker 1: couple of minutes time. I had the opportunity I've never
[1:33] Speaker 1: done this before, which is to jump in a chopper.
[1:35] Speaker 1: Absolutely sensational. Pilot Chantell was just amazing up and around.
[1:41] Speaker 1: Have a look at Darwin from the sky. It is
[1:43] Speaker 1: as amazing as you think. But in and of itself
[1:46] Speaker 1: the reason to come sunset in Darwin. It's the most
[1:49] Speaker 1: magical ninety minutes in the country. No offense to broom
[1:53] Speaker 1: and your staircase to the moon good impressive. I'll give
[1:56] Speaker 1: you the silver medal. But gold, gold, gold is here
[2:00] Speaker 1: when the sun starts to go down, especially when you
[2:03] Speaker 1: may not have work tomorrow. Now it's also a massive
[2:06] Speaker 1: day in Darwin. In fact, it's been a massive week
[2:10] Speaker 1: both that way and this way because right now the
[2:13] Speaker 1: beer Can Regatta is taking place. This is where, unsurprisingly,
[2:17] Speaker 1: given the name, it's on the bottle. Where as many
[2:20] Speaker 1: beer cans as you can put together to float and
[2:24] Speaker 1: then you can win a race. Now, I've got to
[2:26] Speaker 1: say some of the entries when I've been having a
[2:28] Speaker 1: look back over the past, they've sort of got away
[2:30] Speaker 1: from the theme of actually using the beer can as
[2:32] Speaker 1: the floatation device and there's just like a giant inflatable
[2:37] Speaker 1: device with a bercan on it. No, no, that's not
[2:39] Speaker 1: the spirit. Right, You've got to look good, you've got
[2:41] Speaker 1: to sink halfway, you've got to pull it back up
[2:44] Speaker 1: and keep going. Of course, last week and again all
[2:48] Speaker 1: the reasons to come to the territory in winter supercars
[2:51] Speaker 1: is here, was here just last weekend. And the fun
[2:54] Speaker 1: isn't just the broom brooms going around watching that magnificent
[2:58] Speaker 1: series of racing in on sessed with What about the
[3:01] Speaker 1: entertainment that they put on. This is one of the
[3:03] Speaker 1: stunt planes that was flying up and down pitt Lane.
[3:07] Speaker 1: Look at how close the tailor that thing goes to
[3:11] Speaker 1: the concrete local air shows spectacular that, by the way,
[3:15] Speaker 1: will be night racing and twilight racing thanks to the
[3:18] Speaker 1: NT government and Leah Fanookiaro is the pocket rocket, who's
[3:21] Speaker 1: kicking ass for the people of the Northern Territory here.
[3:24] Speaker 1: We'll have a chat to her in a couple of moments.
[3:25] Speaker 1: That was one of her big ideas was to bring
[3:27] Speaker 1: this thing towards twilight and nighttime racing well. And on
[3:31] Speaker 1: top of all of that, drags. They were there last
[3:34] Speaker 1: night at Hidden Valley as well, lots of people having
[3:37] Speaker 1: plenty of fun ripping in doing donuts. Are you getting
[3:41] Speaker 1: the theme that the territories about freedom, ladies and gentlemen?
[3:44] Speaker 1: Are you getting the theme that Darwin is the capital
[3:47] Speaker 1: of freedom in Australia? Are you getting the theme that
[3:51] Speaker 1: Darwin is the place to come if you want to
[3:53] Speaker 1: have fun? And which Ossie doesn't want to do that?
[3:57] Speaker 1: And then the cherry on top or dare i the
[4:00] Speaker 1: cherry on top of a cake with another cake on
[4:02] Speaker 1: top of the cherry with three cherries on top. They
[4:05] Speaker 1: blow up on the first of July to celebrate their freedom,
[4:10] Speaker 1: their independence Territory Day July the first only place in
[4:15] Speaker 1: Australia where you can do it. This was us a
[4:17] Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Jeez, I wonder why it is
[4:19] Speaker 1: I always come in and around this time of the
[4:21] Speaker 1: year to celebrate everything that's amazing about the territory. Well again,
[4:25] Speaker 1: I couldn't be a bigger fan, I couldn't talk it
[4:27] Speaker 1: up hard enough, and I couldn't be more enthusiastic about
[4:30] Speaker 1: you coming to Darwin. It is a spentacular place. So
[4:33] Speaker 1: we celebrate all of that in a moment or two time.
[4:36] Speaker 1: The breaking news tonight is there has been a little
[4:38] Speaker 1: uptick in the polls for Labor and that is bad
[4:41] Speaker 1: news for One Nation. For the past month, One Nation
[4:44] Speaker 1: has been apparently the most popular political party in the country.
[4:47] Speaker 1: Well that ends tonight. According to news Poll which has
[4:52] Speaker 1: just been released in the Australian newspaper, it shows that
[4:56] Speaker 1: Labor has had an uptick in the polls. This is
[4:59] Speaker 1: the primary gone from thirty to thirty three percent. One
[5:03] Speaker 1: Nation has gone from thirty one to twenty nine percent
[5:06] Speaker 1: and an absolute distant third. In fact, the worst number
[5:09] Speaker 1: they have ever had in news Poll's history. The Coalition
[5:13] Speaker 1: at seventeen percent. That's going to be problems not just
[5:15] Speaker 1: for the Coalition but obviously problems for its leader. In
[5:20] Speaker 1: terms of the Greens, they're now sitting at thirteen percent
[5:23] Speaker 1: and the best of the rest, it's sitting in and
[5:25] Speaker 1: around eight percent. Now also there's been a little downslide
[5:30] Speaker 1: in terms of the personal numbers for Pauline Hansen. But
[5:34] Speaker 1: I also want to show you the red Bridge pole
[5:36] Speaker 1: which has appeared in the Financial Review tonight, because it's
[5:39] Speaker 1: pretty similar to what has just happened with News poll
[5:42] Speaker 1: where they have shown Labour up to thirty percent, One
[5:46] Speaker 1: Nation down to twenty nine percent, the Coalition at eighteen percent,
[5:51] Speaker 1: and the Greens at fourteen percent. Now you can bet
[5:55] Speaker 1: your house that the hot take from the camera media
[5:57] Speaker 1: types is going to be this is all about monocolture,
[6:00] Speaker 1: This is all about the National Press Club speech. Now,
[6:03] Speaker 1: if you're a one nation supporter, yes, not a good
[6:06] Speaker 1: day because the scoreboard has flipped. But there hasn't been
[6:09] Speaker 1: a five point drop. There hasn't been a ten point drop. Yes,
[6:12] Speaker 1: two or three is outside of statistical noise. But probably
[6:17] Speaker 1: the way I would be reading this is that Labor
[6:20] Speaker 1: has stopped the bleeding and maybe just for now, the
[6:23] Speaker 1: beginning of a bit of a plateau when it comes
[6:25] Speaker 1: to one Nation. And yes some doubt, particularly from Labor
[6:29] Speaker 1: voters that were curious about one nation. What have I
[6:32] Speaker 1: been showing you the ACTU campaign to win back labor
[6:36] Speaker 1: voters from one nation. So it's a bit of a
[6:39] Speaker 1: present of the Prime Minister and write in time for
[6:42] Speaker 1: Territory Day. Let us talk about what also is happening
[6:49] Speaker 1: on July the first and July the first is when
[6:52] Speaker 1: all the things that governments have set us up for
[6:55] Speaker 1: we get a whole bunch of things that change. Some
[6:57] Speaker 1: things go up, some things go down. By the way
[7:00] Speaker 1: after crack the night, after government changes, I think the
[7:03] Speaker 1: most important thing happening on the first is we've got
[7:06] Speaker 1: our documentary. This is the two hundred and fifty years
[7:09] Speaker 1: of America. This is everything from NASCAR to a little
[7:12] Speaker 1: town called Natchez in Mississippi. The people are awesome, the
[7:16] Speaker 1: smiles are wide, and the cheese is orange. It's super
[7:20] Speaker 1: freaking orange, just like the president. The cheese is orange.
[7:25] Speaker 1: So that's coming up Wednesday night at eight o'clock. But
[7:28] Speaker 1: something that also you need to know about the first
[7:30] Speaker 1: of July is that the cost of living crisis is
[7:33] Speaker 1: over everyone. Okay, we're all pleased at albow. Cost of
[7:37] Speaker 1: living crisis completely over right. You've been won over by
[7:40] Speaker 1: the budget last year, this year, next year. Well, of
[7:44] Speaker 1: course they like to pat themselves on the back for
[7:46] Speaker 1: the choices that they make in Canberra. That always funnily
[7:49] Speaker 1: enough to make Canberra richer despite whatever they say. Well,
[7:53] Speaker 1: are you sitting down, are you sitting down at home?
[7:56] Speaker 1: Sitting down here at the trailer club because five dollars
[8:01] Speaker 1: a week tax cut? I mean, how good is that.
[8:08] Speaker 1: I don't know how much a skill he is here,
[8:09] Speaker 1: I'll double check, but five dollars, that's what they want.
[8:13] Speaker 1: A pat on the back foor, that's what they want
[8:15] Speaker 1: to cut off for. That's the way I've changed your life.
[8:17] Speaker 1: Because yeah, okay, at head office, when you put lots
[8:19] Speaker 1: of five dollars together, it adds up to an awful
[8:21] Speaker 1: lot of five dollars and you go all the way
[8:23] Speaker 1: to the top of the Empire State Building. But when
[8:25] Speaker 1: the five dollars ends up in your pocket, there's a
[8:28] Speaker 1: chance you might lose it while you're driving, and it's
[8:31] Speaker 1: underneath the seat for the next couple of weeks. Now,
[8:33] Speaker 1: are there people who are absolutely on the bones of
[8:35] Speaker 1: their backside? Absolutely? But is it patronizing to believe that
[8:39] Speaker 1: an extra five dollars is going to turn their life around?
[8:42] Speaker 1: This is by the way of five dollars or hundreds
[8:45] Speaker 1: of millions of dollars that I think the government, rather
[8:47] Speaker 1: than trying to pat themselves on the back, should give
[8:49] Speaker 1: to charities because they're the ones that are doing the
[8:52] Speaker 1: work today. People like food Bank. I saw them on
[8:55] Speaker 1: the way to Hidden Valley here this weekend. They're the
[8:59] Speaker 1: people who need the help because they're the ones that
[9:01] Speaker 1: are coming in underneath the social safety in it because
[9:04] Speaker 1: as you know, there are people that are falling through it,
[9:07] Speaker 1: and it's charity that's there for it. But here's the
[9:10] Speaker 1: best bit. What do I like to say when it
[9:12] Speaker 1: comes to this federal government, they take with one hand
[9:16] Speaker 1: and they give back with two fingers. Because guess what
[9:19] Speaker 1: also happens on the first of July. Petrol taxes are
[9:22] Speaker 1: increasing and the average that will be going up per
[9:26] Speaker 1: tank is somewhere between eight and thirteen dollars. Look at
[9:30] Speaker 1: that charmer's maths. How good's that five bucks here, eleven
[9:34] Speaker 1: bucks there. That's why we're on our way to of course,
[9:37] Speaker 1: a trillion dollars. Well done, Albau Alba did good. You
[9:41] Speaker 1: did a thing, You did a thing, faired dicom also
[9:45] Speaker 1: worth mentioning as well here too about the budget. Of course,
[9:48] Speaker 1: as you know, it has already made its way through
[9:51] Speaker 1: the Senate. But I'll tell you what, it's got a
[9:53] Speaker 1: lot of work to do to dig this government out
[9:55] Speaker 1: of the black hole they put themselves in. What was
[9:57] Speaker 1: the public's reaction to the budget? Again, good evening.
[10:02] Speaker 2: Voters have hit Anthony Albanisi with a sledgehammer. His budget
[10:05] Speaker 2: now the most unpopular since Paul Keating was Prime Minister
[10:09] Speaker 2: more than thirty years ago, and both broke election promises.
[10:13] Speaker 3: The latest polls show the PM's popularity has nosedived. Voters
[10:18] Speaker 3: are threatening to walk away from the major parties and
[10:20] Speaker 3: barely anyone thinks they're better off.
[10:25] Speaker 1: Nailly, it's couldn't that have just gone down like the
[10:29] Speaker 1: lead balloon. It continues to do so. And remember, as
[10:32] Speaker 1: I showed you the polls last week, they've actually gone backwards.
[10:35] Speaker 1: Things have got more unpopular about the budget the more
[10:38] Speaker 1: that we have had to hear about it. But of
[10:39] Speaker 1: course it has passed. It is all there and their
[10:43] Speaker 1: mates of taxpayer media, well they are now trying to
[10:46] Speaker 1: ask the question of okay, so the idea is that
[10:50] Speaker 1: you promised you wouldn't do that, You did that. People
[10:54] Speaker 1: don't like that. You have to wait a year to
[10:56] Speaker 1: actually kick in. That'll all end up by right. You
[11:02] Speaker 1: think this angle will be forgotten.
[11:04] Speaker 4: Over time, because it's the substance that matters, and the
[11:07] Speaker 4: substance of this is dealing with issues in our housing
[11:12] Speaker 4: market which have locked young people out for too long.
[11:17] Speaker 1: Yeah, hands up, who's going to forget this budget in
[11:20] Speaker 1: a week's time, months time, year's time, next election time.
[11:26] Speaker 1: I thought, so well done, Jimmy, you did a thing
[11:29] Speaker 1: all right. Now. The camera media is of course doing
[11:32] Speaker 1: their best to line up one nation going after Pauline Hanson.
[11:35] Speaker 1: Why because she's the biggest threat to the status quo,
[11:37] Speaker 1: the comfortable little arrangements that exist that you see on camera,
[11:41] Speaker 1: off camera, behind the scenes, in the bars, the little
[11:44] Speaker 1: side chats, the private messages. Now, of course, latest opinion
[11:48] Speaker 1: polls they show that Pauline Hanson in a strong, very
[11:51] Speaker 1: strong position right now. And of course you remember that
[11:54] Speaker 1: the Pharah by election, which was way back in May,
[11:59] Speaker 1: way back in of course, produced one nation's first Lower
[12:02] Speaker 1: House elected MP. If I seem a little fuzzy about
[12:06] Speaker 1: just how long ago, how far back in time, just
[12:10] Speaker 1: how deep I had to reach into the time machine
[12:13] Speaker 1: for that election, is the ABC has already sending reporters
[12:17] Speaker 1: to the seat of Parah to work out if people
[12:19] Speaker 1: regret their choice. This was what appeared on taxpayer Internet
[12:25] Speaker 1: this weekend, which is as one nation continues to surge
[12:28] Speaker 1: in the polls, voters in Farah are waiting to see
[12:30] Speaker 1: if they're newly elected MP has the power to deliver
[12:33] Speaker 1: on his promises. It's been fifty days, fifty days since
[12:40] Speaker 1: there was a by election. Have they bothered to go
[12:43] Speaker 1: back in five years and check out if Zally Stegel
[12:46] Speaker 1: has done anything other than interviews on Radio National. Has
[12:50] Speaker 1: they done anything to talk to the Tiffany teals about
[12:53] Speaker 1: their promises and what they've delivered on? Of course not.
[12:56] Speaker 1: But of course they're fair and balance, they're down the middle,
[13:00] Speaker 1: they're independent. They wouldn't dare be as opinionated as that
[13:04] Speaker 1: man on the television that you're watching right now. But
[13:07] Speaker 1: that's the way they spin it right, And isn't it
[13:09] Speaker 1: always amazing whenever they spin the ball off to the left. Now?
[13:14] Speaker 1: As for Pauline Hansen, again, the reverberations continue after that
[13:18] Speaker 1: National Press Club speech from a couple of weeks ago,
[13:21] Speaker 1: and as I said, the media finding ways to try
[13:24] Speaker 1: to find where's the Achilles heel, where's the thing what
[13:28] Speaker 1: will take her down? Well, unbelievably, the media decided this weekend,
[13:35] Speaker 1: you know what we're going to do, talk to her
[13:37] Speaker 1: ex husband. I don't know what the purpose of this was.
[13:40] Speaker 1: I don't know why this applies to this politician, and
[13:44] Speaker 1: it doesn't apply to blokes about going and interviewing their
[13:49] Speaker 1: ex wives. This is a low tactic. This is not
[13:51] Speaker 1: a way of learning about Pauline Hansen. This is not
[13:54] Speaker 1: a way of working out whether she should or shouldn't
[13:56] Speaker 1: be the leader or your prime minister. It's a low
[13:59] Speaker 1: act of again, trying to scandalize a private life. Now
[14:03] Speaker 1: I would say the same if somebody went and did
[14:06] Speaker 1: an interview with the prime minister's ex wife, the same
[14:10] Speaker 1: for a backbencher who four relationships ago. Private life none
[14:14] Speaker 1: of our business, especially when you are particularly young. Also
[14:18] Speaker 1: worth noting here too, they reckon that she's going to
[14:21] Speaker 1: affect tourism. This was in the Sydney Morning Herald and
[14:25] Speaker 1: the age this weekend is that they think that she's
[14:27] Speaker 1: going to have an effect on Australian tourism, similar to
[14:30] Speaker 1: Trump and the United States. A world of pain right
[14:34] Speaker 1: literally in my fairly extensive travel, my experiences that many people,
[14:42] Speaker 1: rightly or wrong me begin with interactions with a presumption
[14:45] Speaker 1: that many Australians are essentially racius. Really it's hard to hear,
[14:52] Speaker 1: and it's even harder to counter. And again, why is
[14:55] Speaker 1: Paulin Hanson? Don't vote for her because again she becomes
[14:58] Speaker 1: like Trump. One thing for certain is the latest rhetoric
[15:01] Speaker 1: from Henson and one Nation risks Australia becoming about as
[15:04] Speaker 1: popular overseas as Americans when they travel are stick it
[15:08] Speaker 1: up your pot feeding None other than the Chief Minister
[15:15] Speaker 1: of the Northern Territory is leoft for n NOOKI aro give
[15:17] Speaker 1: her a round of applause, love this, go on that?
[15:21] Speaker 5: Or you have you average day today?
[15:24] Speaker 1: Eily? This is winter. It's why I wanted to show
[15:27] Speaker 1: everything at daytime. The joint is powering, mate, you're turning
[15:31] Speaker 1: it around. I think it's hitting in the right direction.
[15:33] Speaker 1: Do you feel do you feel that lifting energy?
[15:37] Speaker 5: Absolutely? People have just got to spring in their step again.
[15:39] Speaker 5: You know, our economy is on, the crime is down,
[15:42] Speaker 5: the weather is incredible, and I think for the first
[15:45] Speaker 5: time in a long time, we're reinforcing the fact that
[15:47] Speaker 5: the territory is just an amazing place to live, work,
[15:50] Speaker 5: visit and invest. And you know, for people freezing right now,
[15:54] Speaker 5: what are they doing?
[15:54] Speaker 1: That's it? They should be here make a change, all right.
[15:57] Speaker 1: I mean, who wouldn't want a normal person in charge
[16:00] Speaker 1: of their government rather than the political class that is
[16:03] Speaker 1: sort of on the nose right now. But give us
[16:05] Speaker 1: an idea. I mean literally a week ago Supercars that
[16:10] Speaker 1: Big Chuck I mentioned about moving to nights, you know,
[16:13] Speaker 1: the BERCN Regatta today and then five works in the future.
[16:17] Speaker 1: I mean, this is the pocket for the two weeks
[16:19] Speaker 1: to turn up, isn't it.
[16:20] Speaker 5: Oh, there's no doubt, and for a taste of the
[16:22] Speaker 5: territory come in your winter, our dry season.
[16:25] Speaker 6: To enjoy it.
[16:26] Speaker 5: It's just the best place in the world right now.
[16:28] Speaker 5: Supercars we had forty thousand people through Hidden Valley and
[16:32] Speaker 5: it was epic. And it's not just the racing. Next
[16:34] Speaker 5: year's Twilight racing. So for those who want to cooler
[16:38] Speaker 5: night come and book for that. It's literally a bucket
[16:40] Speaker 5: list item. We had f thirty five's roaring around, deafening people.
[16:45] Speaker 5: We had Oh, it's a festival of racing more than
[16:48] Speaker 5: anything else. Beercn regatta today. What's not to love about
[16:51] Speaker 5: boats made out of beer cans racing in our harbor.
[16:55] Speaker 5: I mean, this is the place, this is the place
[16:57] Speaker 5: where Lifestyle is King.
[16:59] Speaker 1: So you're at that to eighteen month point now in
[17:02] Speaker 1: the administration, and obviously there's everything you promise, and then
[17:06] Speaker 1: there's sort of you know, the ball of wires that
[17:08] Speaker 1: you walk into where you go, did the last person
[17:12] Speaker 1: even bother cleaning the house? Right?
[17:15] Speaker 6: It was a mountain of whys?
[17:17] Speaker 1: So what's that process like when you've walked in and
[17:20] Speaker 1: you've assumed it to be pretty weird, but you end
[17:23] Speaker 1: up knowing it to be a whole world weird.
[17:25] Speaker 5: You think it's going to be bad, and then you
[17:27] Speaker 5: pull back the curtain and it's an absolute disaster. So
[17:30] Speaker 5: we've done a lot of work in eighteen months. As
[17:32] Speaker 5: I said, crime has plummeted. We've wound back the clock
[17:35] Speaker 5: to twenty seventeen levels. So for you people watching at home,
[17:38] Speaker 5: your jurisdiction cannot boast a reduction in crime like we have.
[17:43] Speaker 5: Lifestyle is King. We're focused so much on making sure
[17:46] Speaker 5: people have control over their lives. They can have fun,
[17:49] Speaker 5: do what they want to do, raise their family, small commutes.
[17:53] Speaker 5: We're giving people fifty thousand dollars to build our home here.
[17:55] Speaker 5: I mean, this is the place, and our economy is
[17:58] Speaker 5: just taking off. We've got a massive new rere of
[18:01] Speaker 5: mind Beaterloo Gas, Australian Territory Gas. We'll be powering the
[18:05] Speaker 5: territory this September, and we've got the highest jobs growth
[18:09] Speaker 5: in the country. So if you want to get ahead,
[18:11] Speaker 5: have a good lifestyle, raise your family, you should be
[18:13] Speaker 5: looking north. This is where it's happening. This is the
[18:16] Speaker 5: future of this country and you'll have a great time
[18:19] Speaker 5: doing it.
[18:19] Speaker 1: Also sort of for you personally and philosophically, right, Obviously,
[18:23] Speaker 1: there's a worldview that you know I have. There's a
[18:26] Speaker 1: worldview you have that I admire. But when you start
[18:30] Speaker 1: to be in a position, it's one thing to ipine
[18:32] Speaker 1: on telly or even to be in opposition. But once
[18:34] Speaker 1: you're actually there and you start to pull the leavers
[18:36] Speaker 1: and guess what these theories actually work? This is actually
[18:39] Speaker 1: a way to run the joint. Does the first bit
[18:43] Speaker 1: of success start to give you the rocket fuel to
[18:46] Speaker 1: chase the next to it, and then you feel you're
[18:48] Speaker 1: up on your tippy toes and reaching as high as
[18:50] Speaker 1: you can.
[18:50] Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely when you're having success. You know, when we
[18:53] Speaker 5: backed in our police with the best pay deal in
[18:55] Speaker 5: the country, when we timened our laws, when we put
[18:57] Speaker 5: people's right to be safe above everything else, we noticed
[19:00] Speaker 5: a huge improvement straight away. It wasn't rocket science. People
[19:04] Speaker 5: and other jurisdictions just don't have the guts or the
[19:06] Speaker 5: gumption to get it done, whereas we have done that
[19:08] Speaker 5: job and will continue to do that job. When it
[19:11] Speaker 5: comes to the economy, we know, when government gets out
[19:13] Speaker 5: of the way, business can thrive. And that's exactly what
[19:16] Speaker 5: we've done. Making it easier to do business here makes
[19:19] Speaker 5: people's lives better and they then are the ones employing territories,
[19:23] Speaker 5: creating new opportunities, and the excitement is here. You know,
[19:26] Speaker 5: if you have a bit of get up and go
[19:27] Speaker 5: and you want to get ahead in your career, you
[19:29] Speaker 5: cannot do it anywhere else like you can do in
[19:31] Speaker 5: the territory. And I think there's something very special and
[19:34] Speaker 5: unique about that. Certainly, you know a huge part of
[19:37] Speaker 5: what I love about the territory, but it's for people
[19:39] Speaker 5: who want to have a go, You get a go.
[19:41] Speaker 1: Yeah. I also love that it's people who regardless of
[19:46] Speaker 1: whether you were born here and moved here whatever. Right
[19:48] Speaker 1: is that there are so many people with just most
[19:51] Speaker 1: incredible skills, like literally having a little chat before the
[19:54] Speaker 1: show with a bloke about helicopters and how he's using
[19:58] Speaker 1: them and what he does for work, how he's doing
[20:01] Speaker 1: everything for your managing fires. Literally at Chantella we were
[20:04] Speaker 1: talking to yesterday talking about her dream of being one
[20:07] Speaker 1: of those people to work in something that's pulling a
[20:09] Speaker 1: giant cable, all of the sort of deep mechanical knowledge
[20:12] Speaker 1: that's here. But I also don't want the perception to be, oh,
[20:16] Speaker 1: you know, it's just a bunch of sort of super
[20:18] Speaker 1: you know, rough and tough stuff. The white collar stuff
[20:20] Speaker 1: does really matter, and it's a growing sector here too.
[20:24] Speaker 1: And it's not just what previously governments have done, which is, oh,
[20:27] Speaker 1: we'll just keep adding to the bureaucracy. How have you
[20:30] Speaker 1: helped to build them to extend and supercharge the brain
[20:36] Speaker 1: of the territory.
[20:37] Speaker 5: As I said, it attracts people who really want to
[20:39] Speaker 5: get ahead in their career. So ambashan ambition is a
[20:42] Speaker 5: huge part of the territory lifestyle, and if you work
[20:45] Speaker 5: hard and try hard, you will get the opportunities. You
[20:48] Speaker 5: will get the promotions and you will get the chance
[20:50] Speaker 5: to forge ahead, and it opens new doors. When you're
[20:52] Speaker 5: a smaller place, then you know you rely on yourself
[20:56] Speaker 5: a lot more to get things done. You have to
[20:57] Speaker 5: have that entrepreneurials, you have to be able to innovate,
[21:01] Speaker 5: and people embrace that wholeheartedly. We're not stuck in traditional
[21:05] Speaker 5: ways and you don't have to have come through certain
[21:08] Speaker 5: streams to get that. You just have to really want
[21:10] Speaker 5: to be good at what you do and work hard.
[21:13] Speaker 5: And I think that's what's great about the Territory. That
[21:15] Speaker 5: aspiration piece is still alive and well here, and it's
[21:18] Speaker 5: something that we can't forget about in this country. We've
[21:20] Speaker 5: got to be supporting people who want to have a go.
[21:23] Speaker 1: Now, let's talk about let's talk about territory day. Let's
[21:26] Speaker 1: talk about fireworks. Our mates and fusion certainly today, I
[21:31] Speaker 1: love them, I love the whole family. They're on a
[21:33] Speaker 1: little bit. A little bit later, you've got a firework.
[21:36] Speaker 1: I mean, it's pretty good to now be officially a
[21:38] Speaker 1: pocket rocket.
[21:39] Speaker 5: I know, officially, I can't believe it. So yes, there's
[21:43] Speaker 5: a beautiful little firework named after me.
[21:44] Speaker 1: This year the pocket rocket.
[21:45] Speaker 5: It's a seven shot and I like to think that
[21:48] Speaker 5: it's the seven pedals on our territory flag, on.
[21:50] Speaker 1: Our desert rows. And it's great.
[21:53] Speaker 5: Last year we had to fight New South Wales and
[21:55] Speaker 5: Queensland to let our fireworks get to the Northern territory,
[21:58] Speaker 5: so I had this month's long battle on my hands
[22:01] Speaker 5: to save territory day. We got there in the end,
[22:03] Speaker 5: and I've been rewarded with a fireworks.
[22:05] Speaker 1: So it's pretty. It's pretty cool and special. Well, by
[22:08] Speaker 1: the way, this is the pocket rocket. Can I just
[22:11] Speaker 1: ask for a moment for all of Australia to enjoy?
[22:14] Speaker 1: Can I get a pocket rocket to hold a pocket rocket? Please? Look? Ah,
[22:19] Speaker 1: look at this bang bang bang. I love it. I
[22:22] Speaker 1: love it. Also, you should have put together Remember they
[22:25] Speaker 1: made the VS Buster for us, the Milania one, which
[22:29] Speaker 1: I think when you let it off, donal is the noise.
[22:34] Speaker 1: But it looks amazing. Oh, it looks amazing.
[22:38] Speaker 5: Mine's loud and colorful.
[22:39] Speaker 1: I'm told, oh, there you go.
[22:40] Speaker 5: I don't know if that was some sort of connection.
[22:42] Speaker 1: But so do your kids get right into it? Does
[22:45] Speaker 1: your friend?
[22:45] Speaker 5: I totally absolutely. We love fireworks and something that's been
[22:49] Speaker 5: really important to us because everyone focuses on the fireworks,
[22:53] Speaker 5: but why do we celebrate territory Day. So we've been
[22:56] Speaker 5: getting all the schools this year to really teach our
[22:58] Speaker 5: kids about self government. This is the forty eighth anniversary
[23:01] Speaker 5: of self government. Prior to that, Camber ruled the territory
[23:04] Speaker 5: since nineteen eleven. Now, if you can imagine, I mean
[23:07] Speaker 5: those people watching who live there, unfortunately, but you know
[23:10] Speaker 5: it couldn't be more different to the territory and that
[23:13] Speaker 5: fight for self government on the first of July nineteen
[23:15] Speaker 5: seventy eight was so significant. We are a very young
[23:18] Speaker 5: jurisdiction punching way above our way, achieving amazing things. And
[23:23] Speaker 5: you know we're on that path to statehood one day.
[23:25] Speaker 5: I just know it in my bones. Poll But for now,
[23:27] Speaker 5: we're here to celebrate and weight fireworks next Wednesday to
[23:31] Speaker 5: say yes, territories can run ourselves. Thank you very much. Camber.
[23:35] Speaker 5: You stay down there.
[23:36] Speaker 1: We got this. Ala Lujah. I'll tell you what the
[23:38] Speaker 1: signatary to all of it, too, right, the territory gets
[23:40] Speaker 1: this down on its own two feet. Fourteen days later,
[23:43] Speaker 1: this little bloke got born. So that means we've got
[23:45] Speaker 1: to celebrate the territory every year. Right, we got to
[23:47] Speaker 1: come back for fireworks every hiver. A round of a
[23:49] Speaker 1: push is the best, the Chief Minister, honestly, more strength
[23:56] Speaker 1: and success year, Leah, well done, Nag. The terrorists joined
[23:58] Speaker 1: us after the break. This is our town here in Darwin.
[24:01] Speaker 1: We are doing it at.
[24:02] Speaker 7: The trailer Boat Club.
[24:03] Speaker 1: Thanks. Look at people of.
[24:04] Speaker 7: Harvey woman, welcome back here to Darwin.
[24:14] Speaker 1: The Harvey Norman in Darwin is at Berrima. We're at
[24:18] Speaker 1: the Darwin Trailer Boat Club. And again, this is just
[24:21] Speaker 1: a magical venue. I remember sitting on the other side
[24:25] Speaker 1: of this thing a couple of years ago. Remember we
[24:28] Speaker 1: brought the family up and I sat here with Dad.
[24:31] Speaker 1: It's one of the best moments of our relationship between
[24:36] Speaker 1: father and son. I say that because it just was
[24:38] Speaker 1: a calm down, a sit down, great food and the sunset.
[24:42] Speaker 1: So a magical memory and a magical place for me.
[24:46] Speaker 1: A really special territorian is at Nova Paris kneebone. You
[24:50] Speaker 1: of course know that Nova is an absolute hero and
[24:55] Speaker 1: she's got a foundation that Harvey Norman are supporting. That's
[24:59] Speaker 1: the no the Paris Foundation. I'll give you their website
[25:02] Speaker 1: in a moment or two is time. But I was
[25:04] Speaker 1: able to go down to the foreshore a little bit
[25:06] Speaker 1: earlier today where I had a chat with the former
[25:09] Speaker 1: politician and former olympian but all time legend. No. Good
[25:14] Speaker 1: to see you too now, Novae. What I love about
[25:16] Speaker 1: you and the foundation is that you focus on building infrastructure,
[25:20] Speaker 1: stuff that helps people today next month than for the
[25:23] Speaker 1: next few years. Tell me more about the foundation and
[25:27] Speaker 1: why its focus is building stuff.
[25:30] Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, Paul.
[25:31] Speaker 3: The reason why I focused on infrastructure, it's because it's legacy,
[25:35] Speaker 3: it lasts a long time, it's impactful, it's visible, and
[25:40] Speaker 3: I guess also as a foundation, people who have supported
[25:43] Speaker 3: my foundation can actually see where their money's gone and
[25:47] Speaker 3: what their money has built. And after well, actually during
[25:50] Speaker 3: COVID and twenty twenty one, I came back here to
[25:53] Speaker 3: Darwin and the federal government at the time had its
[25:56] Speaker 3: third federal inquiry into food security. And eleven years and
[26:01] Speaker 3: not much has changed. So that was the reason why
[26:04] Speaker 3: I started my foundation. I wanted to focus on food
[26:07] Speaker 3: insecurities and also water infrastructure, but also.
[26:14] Speaker 6: Education. They are the three features of my foundation.
[26:17] Speaker 3: A lot of people don't realize that scabies because you
[26:20] Speaker 3: don't wash your clothes of bedlinen is a contributing factor
[26:23] Speaker 3: to romatic heart disease.
[26:25] Speaker 6: So there's that.
[26:26] Speaker 3: I'm building infrastructure around massive, big super greenhouse to bring
[26:31] Speaker 3: fresh food in a healing center which is a combination
[26:34] Speaker 3: of ancient healing and modern healing, and also a community
[26:38] Speaker 3: laundry in the commune of Yirikala. And then I've also
[26:41] Speaker 3: partnered with this beautiful community called Bowaka, which is another
[26:45] Speaker 3: thirty kilometers past the Garma site where last year is
[26:49] Speaker 3: celebrated twenty five years of the Garma festival. And every
[26:54] Speaker 3: single year, Paul, you have prime ministers that carme and go,
[26:57] Speaker 3: carme and go, and come and go, and they do
[26:59] Speaker 3: a lot of talking, but not a lot of you know,
[27:02] Speaker 3: sort of I guess a contribution when it comes to infrastructure,
[27:06] Speaker 3: and that's where a lot of my support has gone
[27:10] Speaker 3: into the last couple of years.
[27:11] Speaker 6: As the community of Bowoka.
[27:12] Speaker 3: We've put in you know, diesel generators which have come in.
[27:17] Speaker 6: To allow.
[27:19] Speaker 3: Electricity through solar panels. We've partnered with incredible organizations Harvey Norman,
[27:24] Speaker 3: where they've helped fitted out the cabins. I've built a
[27:27] Speaker 3: laundry out there which in a space of five months,
[27:30] Speaker 3: Bowoker had almost sixteen hundred guests. They won the Northern
[27:35] Speaker 3: Territory Best Tourism Business and on the New York Times
[27:39] Speaker 3: was in the top fifty two business. I'm not business
[27:43] Speaker 3: as places to go in the world, places to visit.
[27:46] Speaker 3: So and Bioka is also going to be host to
[27:49] Speaker 3: three women's group from National Geographics, So it's an iconic places.
[27:55] Speaker 3: It's the investment that we've done has contributed enormously. But
[27:59] Speaker 3: at the same time, mother nature took its course through
[28:04] Speaker 3: the cyclone that we had here a few months ago
[28:07] Speaker 3: and it washed out three of the cabins. So it's
[28:11] Speaker 3: facing a bit of financial hardship as well because three
[28:14] Speaker 3: of those cabins were blown away.
[28:16] Speaker 1: One of the great things about being able to partner
[28:19] Speaker 1: and get support from their mates at Harvey Norman is
[28:21] Speaker 1: obviously they already have in store the outdoor furniture, the beds,
[28:27] Speaker 1: the stuff that is important as part of that infrastructure.
[28:31] Speaker 1: Tell me about the relationship and how they've helped you
[28:33] Speaker 1: over the years.
[28:34] Speaker 3: Oh, you know, having their partnership with Harvey Normans as
[28:37] Speaker 3: being huge.
[28:39] Speaker 6: You know, people want to come.
[28:41] Speaker 3: We're talking about the homeland of Bower Canal it's an
[28:45] Speaker 3: iconic destination and a place that you need to get
[28:48] Speaker 3: up to. Paul, It's got this beautiful place called Lonely
[28:50] Speaker 3: Beach and Bawka in the Yolngul language means unknown heaven
[28:55] Speaker 3: and as Aboriginal people being able to host, you know,
[28:58] Speaker 3: high end tourists, but us to be able to come
[29:01] Speaker 3: to their cabins and enjoy a bit of a luxury
[29:04] Speaker 3: with these beautiful beds that they're sleeping in, and we're
[29:06] Speaker 3: able to put some air conditioning in these cabins.
[29:09] Speaker 6: Sally cyclone Narrell came through.
[29:11] Speaker 3: And washed out three of those cabins, So we're in
[29:14] Speaker 3: a bit of a rebuilding phase at the moment, So
[29:16] Speaker 3: any additional support will be mostly appreciated.
[29:20] Speaker 1: Yeah, and I want that support to keep coming from
[29:22] Speaker 1: everyone who's watching us right now around the country. The
[29:25] Speaker 1: website is Novapiisfoundation dot org dot au forward slash donate
[29:31] Speaker 1: and over so many of us have admired your strength
[29:33] Speaker 1: and tenacity, be it sporting and winning a gold medal
[29:37] Speaker 1: at the Olympics, representing your country, being part of our
[29:40] Speaker 1: federal parliament, standing up for the Jewish community as you
[29:44] Speaker 1: have in the past couple of years, but it is
[29:46] Speaker 1: hard to get money. So again, let's tell people why
[29:50] Speaker 1: is it so important that they give? Why is it
[29:52] Speaker 1: so important that you're able to do practical things with
[29:56] Speaker 1: real money.
[29:57] Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, Paul, You know, like.
[30:02] Speaker 3: I've been very fortunate in a way to have had
[30:08] Speaker 3: you know, my mum was very strong in her way
[30:11] Speaker 3: that she said to me and my sister, education is life.
[30:16] Speaker 6: Go to school, get an education.
[30:17] Speaker 3: And mom and my grandparents were also stolen generation, so
[30:21] Speaker 3: they never had access to the education that I had,
[30:25] Speaker 3: me and my sister. And sports was also up here
[30:29] Speaker 3: in Darwin a bit of a human equalizer for me.
[30:32] Speaker 3: You know, I could participate in sport freely and I
[30:37] Speaker 3: achieved big things in sports, and you know, represent Australia
[30:40] Speaker 3: for thirteen years and I represented everyone, Paul. You know,
[30:44] Speaker 3: it wasn't just me as an Aboriginal person representing Aboriginal people.
[30:47] Speaker 3: I proudly carried the Australian flag through Olympic glory and
[30:52] Speaker 3: World Cup and all the rest of it.
[30:53] Speaker 6: And I went to two Olympic Games. But for me,
[30:58] Speaker 6: you know, I.
[30:58] Speaker 3: Always say to kids, do it love and love what
[31:00] Speaker 3: you do, and I did that with sports, and you know,
[31:03] Speaker 3: through the power of education I went on and also
[31:06] Speaker 3: landed me to where I am today. But I think
[31:09] Speaker 3: it's the power of giving back, Paul, and you know,
[31:12] Speaker 3: to be able to give to the most vulnerable.
[31:15] Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much. Nova. You live in absolute
[31:18] Speaker 1: paradise here and it's something I never take for granted
[31:21] Speaker 1: whenever we get the chance to visit. Thank you for
[31:23] Speaker 1: what you do for people who really need the help. Again,
[31:26] Speaker 1: the foundation is Noverparis Foundation dot org do AU. Thanks
[31:29] Speaker 1: the way, I mates at Harvey Norman who've helped you
[31:32] Speaker 1: out so well for so long. And thanks for the
[31:34] Speaker 1: chat today.
[31:35] Speaker 6: Thank you.
[31:39] Speaker 1: Well, Love you and Nova. They're proud of her and
[31:41] Speaker 1: the work that she does here in the territory. Now,
[31:44] Speaker 1: time to get some crocs on the telly right, you
[31:46] Speaker 1: can't come to by the way, they don't have them
[31:49] Speaker 1: in their house. It's okay, relax everyone, but they are
[31:52] Speaker 1: very proud of them and there's plenty of wonderful tourism
[31:54] Speaker 1: that's around. Oh and a mental note, remember to wash
[31:57] Speaker 1: the rental car before I go to the airport. This
[32:19] Speaker 1: could be great. Get a wookie, how we do it? Hello?
[32:30] Speaker 1: Her best name in the territory.
[32:32] Speaker 6: I love it.
[32:32] Speaker 1: I love it all right, tell us what are we
[32:34] Speaker 1: about to see?
[32:35] Speaker 8: So we're about to head out on the water on
[32:37] Speaker 8: the beautiful Adelaide River. We're going to see some stunning
[32:40] Speaker 8: saltwater crocodiles in their natural habitat.
[32:56] Speaker 1: You guys are legends here. How long has the business
[32:59] Speaker 1: been around?
[33:02] Speaker 8: So spectacular has been operating for a little bit over
[33:05] Speaker 8: thirty years now here on the Adelaide River. Change hands
[33:08] Speaker 8: a couple times, and we do things a little bit
[33:11] Speaker 8: differently to how we did thirty years ago.
[33:14] Speaker 1: Today we're really focused.
[33:15] Speaker 8: On sustainability, keeping our impact as small as we can
[33:19] Speaker 8: while we work with these beautiful animals in this absolutely gorgeous,
[33:24] Speaker 8: gorgeous environment.
[33:25] Speaker 1: I think ogis was a swear word thirty years ago.
[33:27] Speaker 1: Now it's the only way to do it, absolutely alright.
[33:38] Speaker 9: So if you guys on the left, say get out
[33:39] Speaker 9: of Stumpy now. Stumpy is around about four point seven
[33:49] Speaker 9: meters long anyways, around about seven hundred and seven hundred
[33:53] Speaker 9: and fifty kilos.
[33:54] Speaker 6: He is a big boy.
[33:56] Speaker 1: Now.
[33:56] Speaker 9: He got his name because when we first started working
[33:59] Speaker 9: with him, he was missing one of his back legs,
[34:01] Speaker 9: his back right leg, so they called him Stumpy.
[34:03] Speaker 6: We know he liked the name.
[34:04] Speaker 9: Because he liked it so much, took it upon himself
[34:06] Speaker 9: to lose the other two, so he's only got one
[34:09] Speaker 9: leg left.
[34:14] Speaker 1: That's so cool.
[34:37] Speaker 9: As they grow, they tend to get darker, but these
[34:42] Speaker 9: guys don't necessarily darken with age. They dark and based
[34:45] Speaker 9: on their environment. So it's not like a chameling when
[34:47] Speaker 9: they're able to do it on command, but it just
[34:49] Speaker 9: does gradually happen over the course of their lifetime.
[34:54] Speaker 8: I think to me, the most phenomenal thing about them
[34:57] Speaker 8: is that crocodilians have been around for hundreds of millions
[35:01] Speaker 8: of years.
[35:02] Speaker 1: They have had so.
[35:03] Speaker 8: Much time to behold to be the perfect our bush predator.
[35:10] Speaker 8: They are just so good at what they do and
[35:12] Speaker 8: where they do it.
[35:14] Speaker 1: To give you an idea of just how close you
[35:16] Speaker 1: get to the crocs on this tour, I'm not reaching
[35:20] Speaker 1: beyond this pole. Oh just thankfully no wagu humans. The
[35:33] Speaker 1: crops have been here for millions of years, humans only
[35:36] Speaker 1: for thousands. But multiple times every day in the twenty
[35:39] Speaker 1: first century, you can come and see something people travel
[35:43] Speaker 1: from the other side of the world to do. Come
[35:46] Speaker 1: to the territory, get on the Adelaide River because this
[35:50] Speaker 1: is Australia's backyard. One word to describe what you've just said,
[35:57] Speaker 1: danger accepted, love, see a Wookie and the team. And
[36:11] Speaker 1: by the way, on your way back from that crocodile
[36:14] Speaker 1: tourism opportunity. On your way back to Darwin, make sure
[36:17] Speaker 1: that you go through Palmerston because that's where Mamma's Kitchen operates.
[36:24] Speaker 1: Dear cousin Bree is there. My uncle Phil is in
[36:28] Speaker 1: the front row his wife Gail, that is her daughter
[36:31] Speaker 1: Brie again pop in for a feed? Mentioned my name,
[36:34] Speaker 1: payful price, always the deal. Make sure you'd actually tip
[36:37] Speaker 1: a little bit extra and just say this bit's from
[36:39] Speaker 1: Paul all right. In a moment, we get into a
[36:42] Speaker 1: full detailed crack of night previews with Luke Cardi from
[36:46] Speaker 1: Hughes and Fireworks. He's a legend that we will get
[36:50] Speaker 1: to him and a mother or two's god, have a
[37:00] Speaker 1: look at this right, like technically bear them a again.
[37:05] Speaker 1: You know there's also Fanny Bay Darwin. But have a
[37:07] Speaker 1: look at this the view from the Darwin Trailer Boat Club.
[37:11] Speaker 1: I mean again, this is winter. I know it's a
[37:13] Speaker 1: Sunday night. I don't want to rub it in, but
[37:15] Speaker 1: I just want to inspire you. I want you to
[37:17] Speaker 1: come up here. I mean, you can see how happy
[37:19] Speaker 1: I am, how pumped I am to be able to
[37:22] Speaker 1: be here, to see family, to see friends. But I
[37:25] Speaker 1: want you just to experience this. It is just absolutely
[37:28] Speaker 1: eleven and a half out of ten. Now, Luke Caredi
[37:33] Speaker 1: is a man who I also count as a mate.
[37:35] Speaker 1: Why because he runs Fusion Fireworks. We met him a
[37:38] Speaker 1: couple of years ago when he made the bs buster
[37:42] Speaker 1: for us, and well he actually came up with the
[37:44] Speaker 1: idea himself. Anyway, they are the place to get fireworks
[37:47] Speaker 1: if you are in the territory. Ignore everything else, ignore
[37:51] Speaker 1: the scams, get in on Fusion Fireworks. They're the ones
[37:54] Speaker 1: to be with on July the first, and Lucas here
[37:57] Speaker 1: give them a round of applause. The bang bang man.
[38:00] Speaker 1: But how are you again? Great to see you. So
[38:04] Speaker 1: this time of the year, how much stuff have you
[38:06] Speaker 1: got ready to sell the good people of the territory
[38:08] Speaker 1: on wedding stuff?
[38:09] Speaker 10: This year we brought in just over one hundred and
[38:11] Speaker 10: thirty ton out ready territory wise.
[38:14] Speaker 1: So how does that compare to previous years? Little bit
[38:16] Speaker 1: up hag on bang on right, one hundred and thirty ton.
[38:21] Speaker 1: Yes really okay, So of that you're going to end
[38:23] Speaker 1: up selling an awful lot of it. How do you
[38:26] Speaker 1: keep track of that part of the business where one
[38:30] Speaker 1: shop's going to run out fast? Because you've got locations
[38:33] Speaker 1: everywhere we do, what's the backup? For the backup? You've
[38:36] Speaker 1: got to have on territory first and foremost.
[38:39] Speaker 10: We run on historical data, so the stores get loaded
[38:42] Speaker 10: up accordingly, and then we've got multiple trucks and we
[38:45] Speaker 10: manipulate through today. We've got some stores that close earlier,
[38:49] Speaker 10: and we've got our clearance shops at the end of
[38:51] Speaker 10: the day. They're trade right till nine o'clock and we
[38:55] Speaker 10: just funnel it through and to put it bluntly, blows
[39:00] Speaker 10: their load and comes back for more.
[39:04] Speaker 1: I love it. I love it now by the palette load. Now,
[39:11] Speaker 1: that's great. You'll be right moments. Okay. Also, what I
[39:16] Speaker 1: love here too is that you're a family business. You're
[39:20] Speaker 1: a family business that had been in on this for
[39:23] Speaker 1: such a long time.
[39:24] Speaker 10: Two decades this year.
[39:25] Speaker 1: Two decades. So how did you end up discovering and
[39:29] Speaker 1: making the most of cracka day?
[39:31] Speaker 10: Well, we as a side hustle, my wife and I
[39:34] Speaker 10: we come up and we opened a store, and we
[39:37] Speaker 10: saw the bigger picture, and we jumped on planes, went
[39:40] Speaker 10: to China, pounded the pavement of factory to factory to factory,
[39:45] Speaker 10: and we found the best, the best, And twenty years
[39:49] Speaker 10: later we're here with the next generation coming through. We've got,
[39:52] Speaker 10: you know, seventeen and sixteen year old sons running stores now.
[39:56] Speaker 10: So it's a bit of a story.
[39:57] Speaker 1: That's all right. Well, look they were very good that
[39:59] Speaker 1: Uncle Paul didn't lead them too far Australia a couple
[40:01] Speaker 1: of years ago out the front of the warehouse. But
[40:04] Speaker 1: also give us an idea about the range that's in
[40:07] Speaker 1: front of us here. Now I can see my daughters
[40:11] Speaker 1: are going to love the unicorns. I'm going to certainly
[40:14] Speaker 1: love the milania. My missus is probably get involved in
[40:18] Speaker 1: the warheads and pocket rocket and the rest of it.
[40:21] Speaker 1: But give me an idea, how do you come up
[40:22] Speaker 1: with the names the angles? Because look, at the end
[40:25] Speaker 1: of the day, it's a firework, But how do you
[40:27] Speaker 1: make them stick standout? Look, it just comes naturally to us.
[40:30] Speaker 10: We sort of have a bit of around the dinner
[40:33] Speaker 10: table close to my trip to China where we throw
[40:37] Speaker 10: a names between each other, we jump on the plane,
[40:41] Speaker 10: we go to China and we sit in an office
[40:43] Speaker 10: with designers and we're just hot desking between designers and
[40:47] Speaker 10: doing the designs because the sort of punch punch that
[40:49] Speaker 10: out in about forty eight hours. And the big task
[40:55] Speaker 10: is quality control, making sure the fireworks hit the quality
[40:59] Speaker 10: that we need to be confident in the market.
[41:02] Speaker 1: So obviously a lot of deep science behind that, or
[41:05] Speaker 1: a lot of angry neighbors. Oh probably more more angry neighbors.
[41:09] Speaker 10: Now because of deep science, we've got that under wraps.
[41:12] Speaker 1: Yep. So just check the batch, check the batch.
[41:15] Speaker 10: Yeah, we've got independent testers for int government that we
[41:19] Speaker 10: actually fly over and they test spot test during production.
[41:23] Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I've now worked out. Look, this
[41:25] Speaker 1: is my dream job, right, I've just worked out in
[41:27] Speaker 1: the second dream job, to work for the territory government
[41:30] Speaker 1: as the fireworks inspector. What else do you do for
[41:33] Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty four days of the year. Well,
[41:36] Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's Octoberot's really toughier. Eight hours a day
[41:39] Speaker 1: in the fireworks inspecting office. Yeah, I'm working off site
[41:43] Speaker 1: at the trailer Boat Club for the next two weeks.
[41:47] Speaker 1: All right, last one here what's your favorite five work
[41:49] Speaker 1: this year? What are you most excited to see people?
[41:52] Speaker 1: You know?
[41:52] Speaker 10: For me, I probably probably the little pocket Rockets. You
[41:59] Speaker 10: know year we've dedicated to the Chief Minister because she
[42:03] Speaker 10: pulled a massive solid last year when we had stayed
[42:05] Speaker 10: and border restrictions after the same process of nineteen years,
[42:09] Speaker 10: she just went into bat So I think this is
[42:13] Speaker 10: going to be the year of the Pocket Rockets, Year
[42:15] Speaker 10: of the Pocket Roctor to Leah and her team that
[42:18] Speaker 10: worked effortlessly.
[42:19] Speaker 1: Well, look, thank you so much, all the best, don't
[42:21] Speaker 1: forget you buy your fireworks fusion fireworks on Territory Day.
[42:24] Speaker 1: Love you to see all the best life family. Thank you, Paul,
[42:26] Speaker 1: give me a random applause The Bang Bang man, how's
[42:29] Speaker 1: this going to be? And speaking of the skies, imagine
[42:33] Speaker 1: being able to fly on them? Well we did.
[42:39] Speaker 11: It's extraordinary.
[43:01] Speaker 1: We've just taken off and already amazing views of blue water,
[43:06] Speaker 1: beautiful beaches and the Aussie bush that you'd imagine you'd
[43:11] Speaker 1: have to go hours away, almost over the edge of
[43:14] Speaker 1: the territory and into w A but not two minutes
[43:18] Speaker 1: from the airport. Different from you. Oh, it's just completely
[43:32] Speaker 1: different and it's almost untouched up here. You know, you've
[43:35] Speaker 1: got you put everything from the out back of the
[43:38] Speaker 1: water sort of right at your front doors.
[43:41] Speaker 8: And the weather.
[43:42] Speaker 12: The weather's like some raw year in okay.
[44:04] Speaker 1: Oh, chan Tell, that was amazing, Thank you.
[44:06] Speaker 6: I'm glad you enjoyed it.
[44:07] Speaker 1: Oh, how good is this? It's one of many tours
[44:10] Speaker 1: that you can do with these guys where you do
[44:12] Speaker 1: pub tours around the top end. You can go and
[44:16] Speaker 1: see the national parks, go for a swim and even fish.
[44:19] Speaker 6: Absolutely, we do full day fishing charters.
[44:22] Speaker 3: We do half day fishing charters, or a mix of
[44:24] Speaker 3: pub and fishing charters as well.
[44:26] Speaker 1: Fantastic. All right, well you gave us the tip about
[44:28] Speaker 1: where to go to eat, so we're on our way.
[44:30] Speaker 1: Thanks for a spectacular time, enjoy mate. And after seeing
[44:36] Speaker 1: beautiful Darwin from the sky, what about the sky at
[44:39] Speaker 1: sunset in winter? Oh, just magnificent, chan Tell. Our pilot
[44:44] Speaker 1: also tipped us into something that happens all along the
[44:47] Speaker 1: coastline here, which is a whole bunch of food trucks
[44:49] Speaker 1: which are set up so you can eat food from
[44:51] Speaker 1: all around the world with the best sunset on the planet. Goday, Harry,
[44:58] Speaker 1: how are you? How are you very good? How long
[45:01] Speaker 1: have you been doing this for I've been actually this
[45:04] Speaker 1: is my father's business started in eighty seven. Wow, I've
[45:07] Speaker 1: been around for a while, right, yeah, and I took
[45:09] Speaker 1: over in two thousand and five. Very good. Lots of
[45:11] Speaker 1: beautiful sunsets here, aren't there. That's beautiful money. Now I've
[45:14] Speaker 1: got to get some fish and chips you reckon, you
[45:15] Speaker 1: can do that for me. I can do that for you.
[45:17] Speaker 1: Excellent all right, and extra salt place. But don't tell on.
[45:19] Speaker 1: This is all right, thank you seeing the second hard Seriously,
[45:45] Speaker 1: how good is this? Great food? Amazing people today, boys,
[45:50] Speaker 1: great weather. You've got to come to Darwin at sunset
[45:54] Speaker 1: in winter or whenever you can. This is nature. Ah,
[46:15] Speaker 1: how good is it? All right? Thanks? The good people
[46:17] Speaker 1: are Harvey Norman. We say goodbye very soon from Darwin.
[46:21] Speaker 1: Got I got a little more point before we're done
[46:23] Speaker 1: a little more here on for my live all right,
[46:34] Speaker 1: farewell from Darwin. We're at a wonderful time. When it
[46:37] Speaker 1: comes to our time, our town. Please come, please come
[46:42] Speaker 1: to the territory. And when you're in Darwin, go an
[46:45] Speaker 1: hour out, two hours out, go to Alice, spend plenty
[46:49] Speaker 1: of time around spend as much time with everyone as possible,
[46:52] Speaker 1: get rid of your stress, rediscovery your smile and be
[46:56] Speaker 1: reminded of why we love Australia. Thank you so much
[46:58] Speaker 1: for a lovely time. Guys, I'll do a friend. Thank
[47:00] Speaker 1: got it well, Love you. Thank you to the trailer
[47:01] Speaker 1: boat guys and girls. We will see you again with
[47:05] Speaker 1: pull Morry Life tomorrow night back in the man Cave,
[47:08] Speaker 1: thanks again to the very good people of Harvey Norman
[47:10] Speaker 1: Newsnight is standing by in a moment or TUESDA time
[47:13] Speaker 1: with of course more about the very latest opinion polls.
[47:15] Speaker 1: When it comes to one nation, You're very enthusiastic Clappers
[47:19] Speaker 1: and I appreciate it. We'll see you tomorrow

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