# Paul Murray Our Town: Bathurst | 27 September

An episode of [Paul Murray Live](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/376966263), 27 Sep 2026, 48 min.

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Albanese plays up the threat on the world stage to push tech laws, Aussies suffer because Labor is addicted to their fuel tax. Plus, diggers rebel as Richard Marles doubles down on sale plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:01] Speaker 1: Live from Bathurst, this.
[0:03] Speaker 2: Is Paul Murray Live, Our Town. G'day, Australia. G'day, Bathurst.
[0:10] Speaker 2: How are we all? Having fun here on a Sunday night.
[0:13] Speaker 2: We're at the National Motivation.
[0:15] Speaker 3: Museum at the feet of Mount Panorama.
[0:17] Speaker 2: Lovely to see everyone.
[0:19] Speaker 4: A nice, fired-up crowd.
[0:21] Speaker 2: And I can tell you, the weather in Bathurst has
[0:25] Speaker 2: been everything, all right? It has just been lovely, beautiful,
[0:29] Speaker 2: warm days, a little chilly this evening, but it is
[0:31] Speaker 2: just the most perfect time of year to be here.
[0:35] Speaker 2: And it's not just the weather, it's not just a
[0:36] Speaker 2: venue like this, it's the beautiful people as well. So
[0:39] Speaker 2: thank you for hanging out with us tonight and thank
[0:40] Speaker 2: you for the weekend that we have had. Now, tonight
[0:44] Speaker 2: on the show, of course, we celebrate everything to do
[0:46] Speaker 2: with this beautiful city, with the wonderful region that is
[0:49] Speaker 2: around us right now. I can tell you, we are
[0:51] Speaker 2: standing in the middle, of course, of a deeply holy
[0:53] Speaker 2: site for me. Why? Race cars and, of course, the
[0:56] Speaker 2: race cars at Bathurst. But this is a place that's
[0:59] Speaker 2: got multiple really impressive sort of national standard museums. The
[1:03] Speaker 2: architecture here is spectacular. You can do a weekend, a
[1:07] Speaker 2: long weekend, or, of course, as I'll be doing in
[1:09] Speaker 2: a couple of weeks' time, spending many more than just
[1:12] Speaker 2: a couple of days here. If you are somebody who
[1:14] Speaker 2: is jack of living in a Sydney or Melbourne, can
[1:16] Speaker 2: I tell you, pick it all up and come here,
[1:18] Speaker 2: all right? It's a beautiful place to raise a family,
[1:21] Speaker 2: or if the world of downsizing is what you're into...
[1:23] Speaker 2: This is the place that already, as I was walking
[1:26] Speaker 2: around with mum this weekend, she's having a look in
[1:27] Speaker 2: the real estate window here and the window there. So
[1:31] Speaker 2: it's one of those places that are magnificent to see.
[1:34] Speaker 2: All right, we'll celebrate all of that in a couple
[1:35] Speaker 2: of minutes time. But as first, let us tell you
[1:38] Speaker 2: how amazing Australia is under the rule of Anthony Albanese, right? Now,
[1:42] Speaker 2: you should know, by the way, that if Australia feels
[1:45] Speaker 2: slightly more incompetent than when Anthony Albanese is in charge,
[1:50] Speaker 2: that's because the current acting Prime Minister is Richard Marles, OK?
[1:55] Speaker 2: The Deputy Prime Minister is now the acting Prime Minister
[1:58] Speaker 2: because our current Prime Minister, of course, well, he wowed
[2:00] Speaker 2: the world. I mean, last week, an award... I mean,
[2:04] Speaker 2: listen to the reaction of Australia to an award-winning... Prime
[2:09] Speaker 2: Minister that we have here. Yeah, he got an award
[2:12] Speaker 2: in New York, but in Australia we couldn't give a stuff.
[2:14] Speaker 2: But as you know, what they were very keen to
[2:16] Speaker 2: talk about last week was when somebody used open AI
[2:21] Speaker 2: to look inside the world of Medicare.
[2:25] Speaker 4: And we are going to lead with that breaking news
[2:27] Speaker 4: at 6.30.
[2:27] Speaker 5: The Prime Minister has just confirmed that a rogue open
[2:31] Speaker 5: AI agent has infiltrated an Australian government website.
[2:36] Speaker 6: OpenAI could face criminal charges for the artificial intelligence breach
[2:39] Speaker 6: of a Medicare website.
[2:41] Speaker 4: First up, those extraordinary revelations emerging about an intrusion by
[2:45] Speaker 4: the artificial intelligence company OpenAI.
[2:48] Speaker 2: Oh no, Terminator 2, they're coming for us, the machines
[2:51] Speaker 2: are winning! And the Prime Minister, now this of course
[2:55] Speaker 2: happened months ago and the Prime Minister did not know
[2:57] Speaker 2: about this before it happened in exactly the same week
[3:00] Speaker 2: he wanted to talk about problems with AI on the
[3:03] Speaker 2: international sphere, and he was very keen to remind us all,
[3:07] Speaker 2: all last week, and again it's spilt into this week,
[3:09] Speaker 2: about how serious all of this was. This situation is
[3:13] Speaker 2: obviously unacceptable.
[3:15] Speaker 7: Recently, an artificial intelligence agent infiltrated an Australian government website.
[3:22] Speaker 8: This is unacceptable.
[3:26] Speaker 2: Now, little did everyone at the UN General Assembly know
[3:28] Speaker 2: that our Prime Minister is 100% AI, because a real
[3:32] Speaker 2: human couldn't actually be that dumb, right? But we've got one,
[3:38] Speaker 2: and he's won a couple of elections. That's Australian AI. Well,
[3:46] Speaker 2: what is Trump saying now? Super intelligence, is what he's
[3:49] Speaker 2: supposed to say. Why do I talk about all of
[3:51] Speaker 2: this in this holy site? in this beautiful town with
[3:54] Speaker 2: these wonderful people. Because guess what? Despite the fact that
[3:57] Speaker 2: it led the news, despite the fact that it was
[3:59] Speaker 2: made out as if some sort of national secrets had
[4:01] Speaker 2: been compromised, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Acting Prime Minister,
[4:06] Speaker 2: described the leak today as minor. A little different than
[4:11] Speaker 2: what we were told a couple of days ago, right?
[4:13] Speaker 2: We all woke up to this incredible, massive news. It
[4:15] Speaker 2: was very serious, but now it's minor. Now, again, far
[4:20] Speaker 2: be it from me or anyone else to suggest that
[4:22] Speaker 2: the timing of the announcement had anything to do with
[4:25] Speaker 2: the speech the Prime Minister was giving. to the United Nations,
[4:28] Speaker 2: by the way, half-empty hall, but who's counting?
[4:30] Speaker 3: Me.
[4:31] Speaker 2: And as for this situation, again, on Sunday agenda, the
[4:36] Speaker 2: Deputy Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister was speaking to
[4:38] Speaker 2: my friend and colleague, Andrew Clennell. Again, remember how this
[4:42] Speaker 2: was first sold to you, and then when it's room temperature,
[4:45] Speaker 2: the Baymarie is not keeping it as hot and steamy
[4:47] Speaker 2: as it was when it started.
[4:50] Speaker 6: This is a very serious incident. It is also true
[4:54] Speaker 6: that the impact of that specific incident is relatively minor.
[5:01] Speaker 2: All a free kick to the opposition. Here is the
[5:03] Speaker 2: Shadow Defence Minister having a crack at the Defence Minister
[5:06] Speaker 2: and Acting Prime Minister.
[5:08] Speaker 9: The Prime Minister's motivations, I think, are pretty transparent. He
[5:11] Speaker 9: was at the United Nations. He was seeking to justify
[5:13] Speaker 9: the purpose of his international travel. He picked the day
[5:16] Speaker 9: that Sam Altman was addressing the United Nations to dress
[5:18] Speaker 9: him down and announce this, and he amped it up.
[5:20] Speaker 9: Understanding is that the Prime Minister's office had possession of
[5:23] Speaker 9: this information for five or six days before the Prime
[5:25] Speaker 9: Minister publicly announced it, so I think a deliberate choice
[5:28] Speaker 9: was made to release it when he did.
[5:31] Speaker 2: Now, hands up who's happy paying as much for fuel
[5:34] Speaker 2: right now? Jeff, show everyone Bathurst and how excited they
[5:38] Speaker 2: are to be paying three bucks for diesel at the
[5:41] Speaker 2: moment or very close to it. In fact, right now,
[5:43] Speaker 2: petrol in Bathurst, I can tell you, E10, about $ 2.
[5:47] Speaker 10: 37.
[5:47] Speaker 2: Unleaded, $ 2.
[5:47] Speaker 10: 39.
[5:47] Speaker 2: The premium stuff, if you're a little bit fancy.
[5:50] Speaker 10: $ 2. 66.
[5:50] Speaker 2: Diesel, $ 2.
[5:51] Speaker 11: 89.
[5:51] Speaker 2: Now, that price, a little bit higher depending on where
[5:53] Speaker 2: you are. around the country. A reminder, by the way,
[6:01] Speaker 2: that it.
[6:01] Speaker 12: Was $ 2. 50- ish when they cut the tax that they shouldn't
[6:05] Speaker 12: be taking last time. Yet again, we hear from the
[6:10] Speaker 12: acting Prime Minister in what was quite a news-making interview
[6:13] Speaker 12: with Andrew Clennell today, that despite the fact that this
[6:15] Speaker 12: is a government that's 100% focused on cost of living,
[6:18] Speaker 12: guess what their plan is when it comes to the
[6:20] Speaker 12: charging of 52 cents per litre for every litre of
[6:25] Speaker 12: petrol of all of its types that is sold in Australia.
[6:28] Speaker 12: Duck egg, bugger all, I almost said that word on
[6:31] Speaker 12: the television.
[6:33] Speaker 9: Any chance at all you'd consider a petrol excise cut again?
[6:37] Speaker 6: Again, we're not considering that.
[6:41] Speaker 2: No, I mean, you know, no. I mean, obviously, these
[6:44] Speaker 2: people feel our pain, right? They drive a car that
[6:47] Speaker 2: you pay for as the taxpayer. It is fuelled with
[6:50] Speaker 2: fuel that you pay for as the taxpayer. Of course,
[6:53] Speaker 2: we know that Chris Bowen, he prefers an EV. You know,
[6:56] Speaker 2: one of those Chinese EVs where literally even the ABC
[6:59] Speaker 2: showed us last week that somebody could hack and turn
[7:02] Speaker 2: on the microphone inside the car. Their obsession is pretending
[7:06] Speaker 2: that they're here to do something about cost of living. Fuel,
[7:08] Speaker 2: of course, in an area like this where the travel
[7:10] Speaker 2: distances are greater, it is of an even greater importance yet.
[7:14] Speaker 2: No help. No change. Again, James Patterson with the free
[7:18] Speaker 2: kick from in front.
[7:20] Speaker 9: When diesel is heading towards $ 3 a litre, I think
[7:23] Speaker 9: Australians have welcomed this kind of relief.
[7:27] Speaker 2: Now, as we are here in the middle of the
[7:28] Speaker 2: National Motor Racing Museum, history is something worth talking about.
[7:32] Speaker 2: And there is a beautiful building, particularly in Sydney, called
[7:35] Speaker 2: the Victoria Barracks. It's historic. It has its connections back
[7:39] Speaker 2: to the earlier days of the Australian Defence Force. And
[7:42] Speaker 2: it's a bloody big site. It's also worth a lot
[7:43] Speaker 2: of money and somebody wants to sell it. The somebody
[7:46] Speaker 2: are the people who have us in a budget deficit
[7:47] Speaker 2: for the next, not 10, not 20, not 30, but
[7:50] Speaker 2: 40 years of deficits. Now, we couldn't possibly sell anything else.
[7:55] Speaker 2: This is the one that they are selling. Despite the
[7:57] Speaker 2: fact that local groups have said that the history shouldn't
[8:00] Speaker 2: be fiddled with, shouldn't be changed with, at least 10,000 people,
[8:04] Speaker 2: thanks to Michael McLaren and 2GB, got together behind a
[8:07] Speaker 2: public petition for it not to be sold. And again,
[8:10] Speaker 2: plenty of locals have been pretty vocal that a piece
[8:13] Speaker 2: of Australian history doesn't need to be flogged off so
[8:16] Speaker 2: we can still owe the rest of the world more
[8:19] Speaker 2: than a trillion dollars.
[8:22] Speaker 13: Victoria Barracks, Sydney is the birthplace of the Australian Army
[8:26] Speaker 13: and it's the spiritual home of the Army.
[8:28] Speaker 2: The role of government is to be the custodian, not
[8:30] Speaker 2: the liquidator.
[8:31] Speaker 3: This is something that we need to preserve. It's hugely
[8:34] Speaker 3: important for our history and our culture. I have to
[8:37] Speaker 3: tell you that I haven't run into a veteran at
[8:40] Speaker 3: any official function that hasn't raised Victoria Barracks with me.
[8:46] Speaker 2: So let's go three from three about the Deputy Prime Minister,
[8:49] Speaker 2: the Defence Minister, the person who would have a really
[8:53] Speaker 2: snappy excuse as to why we have to sell off
[8:55] Speaker 2: this while we still owe the world one T4 trillion dollars.
[9:00] Speaker 2: And that will grow to 1.2, 1.5. And why does
[9:03] Speaker 2: debt matter? Because, as I've shown you how many times,
[9:05] Speaker 2: it goes from the repayment being the 10th biggest thing
[9:08] Speaker 2: till eventually it's the biggest thing and the biggest reason
[9:11] Speaker 2: that you pay tax. Well, Apparently, the Defence Minister has
[9:15] Speaker 2: stated that one of the reasons this thing needs to
[9:17] Speaker 2: be flogged off again from that same interview this morning
[9:20] Speaker 2: is because there's some top brass who really like the
[9:24] Speaker 2: fact that there's a really old wine cellar there. So
[9:27] Speaker 2: the only reason they don't want it to be sold
[9:29] Speaker 2: off is because they don't want their little clubhouse sold off.
[9:33] Speaker 2: Talk about absolutely gaslighting people about what is really being
[9:37] Speaker 2: sold here. Not a private members club, but our history.
[9:42] Speaker 6: It's not my priority to see Defence manage the oldest
[9:45] Speaker 6: wine cellar in Australia. It's nice that it's in Victoria Barrack, Sydney,
[9:48] Speaker 6: but it's not core interest in terms of defending the country.
[9:52] Speaker 6: You know, there are a few former generals who liked
[9:54] Speaker 6: hanging out there who are lamenting this.
[9:58] Speaker 2: All right, old mate, you want to talk about what's not?
[10:00] Speaker 2: core to the country? You getting private flights from Geelong
[10:04] Speaker 2: when there's a perfectly good airport in Melbourne. You know
[10:07] Speaker 2: what's also not core to the defence of the Australian people?
[10:11] Speaker 2: Defence Force, you're using military VIP planes for you to
[10:16] Speaker 2: leave from Geelong rather than going to the commercial flights
[10:20] Speaker 2: that come from Melbourne because you live in Geelong and
[10:22] Speaker 2: it's a little bit closer. We can all play that game,
[10:25] Speaker 2: but this is history that locals and even the state
[10:28] Speaker 2: premier don't want solved. But it's being solved because... Our history,
[10:32] Speaker 2: of course, is something to be ashamed of. Our history
[10:35] Speaker 2: is something that you can flog off. Everyone else's history
[10:37] Speaker 2: must be respected, let alone the history that we learn
[10:41] Speaker 2: each and every day that apparently is more important than
[10:43] Speaker 2: our own history. Leave the barracks alone, please. We know
[10:49] Speaker 2: that they like spending other people's money, perfect example of
[10:52] Speaker 2: it I've just spoken of. And remember how I've been
[10:55] Speaker 2: hot under the collar for the past little while of
[10:57] Speaker 2: this government spending the best part of half a B
[11:00] Speaker 2: for billion dollars, half a B for billion dollars on rorts. Now,
[11:05] Speaker 2: this has been a giant sinking fund of hundreds of
[11:07] Speaker 2: millions of dollars that the Centre for Public Integrity belled
[11:11] Speaker 2: the cat that, surprise, surprise, it all went where the
[11:14] Speaker 2: Labor Party wanted it to go. This is sports rorts
[11:17] Speaker 2: on steroids, but because, of course, the media get tucked
[11:20] Speaker 2: into bed at night by the Labor Party, nothing to
[11:22] Speaker 2: see here, right? Again, remember how this was described by
[11:25] Speaker 2: the people who did the report? I'm a facey. It
[11:29] Speaker 2: looks like the misuse of public money or serious pork barreling,
[11:33] Speaker 2: as it's sometimes called. But remember the AIO prime minister,
[11:39] Speaker 2: I think I'll stick with that one, is a Jedi master, remember?
[11:43] Speaker 2: This is not the scandal you think it is.
[11:46] Speaker 7: In 2012, I've been advised that I got honorary membership,
[11:51] Speaker 7: so I made a decision. I don't have a card,
[11:55] Speaker 7: I don't go to the club.
[11:59] Speaker 2: Well, there's another part of this story, and One Nation
[12:02] Speaker 2: has done the digging on some multicultural grants, and guess
[12:05] Speaker 2: where most of those ended up? Exactly where the Labor
[12:08] Speaker 2: Party wanted them to go, into the safe seats or
[12:11] Speaker 2: the marginal seats. The Albanese government has driven a tenfold
[12:15] Speaker 2: increase in the multicultural grants to more than $ 300 million
[12:20] Speaker 2: since they won office in at the last election with
[12:23] Speaker 2: 94 seats. The figures have been crunched by One Nation.
[12:26] Speaker 2: They have worked out that it went from $ 32 million
[12:29] Speaker 2: of multicultural grants to $ 325 million in multicultural grants. 87%
[12:37] Speaker 2: of them, they went, unsurprisingly, despite the fact that it
[12:42] Speaker 2: should be an open promise. It was one where it
[12:44] Speaker 2: was the MP, essentially, in a closed bidding process. was
[12:48] Speaker 2: the one who decided whether the money was going there
[12:50] Speaker 2: or not. Which brings us to the one nation of
[12:52] Speaker 2: it all and the Turnbull Times, otherwise known as the Guardian,
[12:56] Speaker 2: has discovered a massive scandal. The one nation that is
[13:00] Speaker 2: currently looking, of course, for candidates in the Victorian election,
[13:03] Speaker 2: candidates in the Easter Wales election, and candidates in the
[13:06] Speaker 2: Australian federal election, and when 1,800, 2,000 people turn up,
[13:10] Speaker 2: that one of the things that needs to be done is,
[13:12] Speaker 2: of course, vetting of the candidates. Unsurprisingly, that's not a
[13:15] Speaker 2: free process. So, shock horror. People who put their hand
[13:18] Speaker 2: up to run for One Nation have to pay a
[13:21] Speaker 2: fee to be able to be considered a candidate. This
[13:24] Speaker 2: apparently is a scandal that is making the party some $ 630, 000.
[13:28] Speaker 2: Shock horror. Now, this was billed, by the way, as
[13:32] Speaker 2: an exclusive story because there's also fundraising pressure on people
[13:37] Speaker 2: who end up running for One Nation. Well, are you
[13:39] Speaker 2: sitting down? There's also fundraising pressure on people who are
[13:42] Speaker 2: the candidates or members for the Liberal Party, for the
[13:47] Speaker 2: Labor Party as well. And as for the Greens, who cares?
[13:51] Speaker 2: There should just be less of them. Now, in terms
[13:55] Speaker 2: of the support for One Nation, a news poll has
[13:57] Speaker 2: just done some analysis which has just dropped on the Australians' website,
[14:01] Speaker 2: and it shows that in the preferred PM stakes, Pauline
[14:04] Speaker 2: Hanson is leading as the preferred Prime Minister in Queensland
[14:08] Speaker 2: right now. Now, to give you an idea of the
[14:10] Speaker 2: primary vote, again, One Nation is at 30, Labor is
[14:14] Speaker 2: at 29. The least popular place for One Nation is,
[14:19] Speaker 2: of course, in Victoria, where they've got just 25%. but
[14:23] Speaker 2: they've got 36% of the vote right now in Queensland.
[14:27] Speaker 2: In terms of preferred Prime Minister, Anthony Albaesi is leading
[14:31] Speaker 2: in New South Wales, in Victoria, but he's losing in Queensland,
[14:34] Speaker 2: 52 to 48. So, of course, all of that will
[14:38] Speaker 2: result in a well-timed Four Corners piece tomorrow night on
[14:43] Speaker 2: the ABC, which is, of course, exposing the way that
[14:46] Speaker 2: they run things inside One Nation.
[14:48] Speaker 10: I mean.
[14:49] Speaker 2: How incredible that the ABC and The Guardian both had
[14:51] Speaker 2: exclusives about the same topic at the same time, but
[14:55] Speaker 2: definitely don't work together. All right, let's get to the
[14:58] Speaker 2: fun of things, which is this beautiful building, this incredible
[15:02] Speaker 2: city and that incredible racetrack. Behind us right now, that's
[15:04] Speaker 2: the first Holden that ever won Bathurst. It went around
[15:08] Speaker 2: the track in 1968. It went around the track with
[15:11] Speaker 2: me this weekend. Mount Panorama, Bathurst, it needs no introduction,
[15:23] Speaker 2: but this is the most famous road in all of Australia.
[15:26] Speaker 2: In a couple of weeks, yet another great race of
[15:29] Speaker 2: 1,000 kilometres with Australia's best racing drivers trying to tame
[15:33] Speaker 2: the mountain. Now, for the rest of the year, of course,
[15:45] Speaker 2: it is a public road. Speed limit, 60 k's an hour.
[15:50] Speaker 2: But if you want to get around, there's only one
[15:53] Speaker 2: way to do it. And that is to do it
[15:54] Speaker 2: with a little bit of class. To show a little
[15:57] Speaker 2: bit of respect to this holy site. So, we're going
[16:01] Speaker 2: to do it in the first Holden to ever win
[16:05] Speaker 2: the race. Now, technically, this is a replica, but I
[16:07] Speaker 2: don't care. It works for me. Brad, g'day, mate. Hello, Paul.
[16:10] Speaker 2: Jump in.
[16:16] Speaker 10: Three, two, one, go!
[16:30] Speaker 14: Alright Brad, suffice to say, this is a dream coming
[16:34] Speaker 14: true right now.
[16:34] Speaker 2: But I need to focus, I need to focus. When
[16:37] Speaker 2: did this become a race track?
[16:38] Speaker 4: So Paul, the Mount Panorama circuit was first opened in 1938.
[16:43] Speaker 4: The first year it was dirt, the second year it
[16:45] Speaker 4: was sealed, but I suspect it wasn't like you see
[16:47] Speaker 4: it now. And it's just gone over the years, it's
[16:50] Speaker 4: got more and more advanced, the safety measures, the concrete walls,
[16:54] Speaker 4: the surface is better, and it's still the best track
[16:57] Speaker 4: in Australia. I'll be the first to admit, when we
[17:02] Speaker 4: moved up here eight and a half years ago from Melbourne,
[17:04] Speaker 4: I'd go out at night to get a little bit
[17:06] Speaker 4: of milk and go home the long.
[17:08] Speaker 8: Way around the track.
[17:17] Speaker 2: Give us an idea about what goes into keeping this
[17:21] Speaker 2: looking better every year.
[17:23] Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. Look, it's amazing the amount of time that
[17:27] Speaker 4: goes in. And, you know, for the race fans, they
[17:29] Speaker 4: only are here for the week of the race. And
[17:31] Speaker 4: it's all kind of an assembled thing. It's all year
[17:34] Speaker 4: round maintenance by council's team and then as we get
[17:37] Speaker 4: closer to the race, certainly in about an eight week
[17:40] Speaker 4: period leading up to the event, there's an amazing amount
[17:43] Speaker 4: of work going in. Contractors erecting grandstands, all the paint jobs,
[17:47] Speaker 4: all the work going on. They're making sure that the
[17:50] Speaker 4: grass is nice and green so even if it's been
[17:52] Speaker 4: a dry winter like this one, they'll be putting water
[17:54] Speaker 4: down so that when it comes to the big race
[17:57] Speaker 4: and everyone in Australia is watching it.
[17:58] Speaker 8: On TV, it looks 100%.
[18:04] Speaker 14: The skill cannot be said enough because they've got to
[18:09] Speaker 14: do it not just once not just right but 161
[18:12] Speaker 14: times the concentration must be amazing.
[18:17] Speaker 11: Absolutely and i think the other thing that probably needs
[18:20] Speaker 11: to be taken into consideration is every lap could be
[18:23] Speaker 11: different the track conditions change the car can change the
[18:26] Speaker 11: tires are going off The fuel load's lighter, so the
[18:29] Speaker 11: balance is different.
[18:30] Speaker 4: They are doing 161 qualifying laps and going as hard
[18:34] Speaker 4: as they possibly can, but feeling what the car's doing
[18:36] Speaker 4: underneath them the whole time and watching for traffic and
[18:39] Speaker 4: stopping the guy behind them getting in front.
[18:40] Speaker 2: And in these conditions... Bumping and grinding. The biggest win
[18:46] Speaker 2: of his career. I've been all over the country and
[18:49] Speaker 2: I have met people doing incredible jobs and incredible sites.
[18:52] Speaker 2: And when I really like a joint, I end up
[18:55] Speaker 2: saying to somebody, geez, what an office you've got, right?
[18:57] Speaker 3: Yep.
[18:59] Speaker 2: What an office you've got! Look, there are an awful lot.
[19:02] Speaker 4: Of worse places to be than driving a classic Monaro
[19:05] Speaker 4: around the track on a Friday afternoon.
[19:06] Speaker 2: So, yeah, it's not bad.
[19:07] Speaker 8: Pretty awesome, right?
[19:09] Speaker 2: That is it right behind.
[19:14] Speaker 8: Us.
[19:17] Speaker 2: I also had the chance to take my little girls,
[19:19] Speaker 2: Asher and Xavier, who are here for the weekend as well,
[19:22] Speaker 2: and for them to be able to travel around in
[19:23] Speaker 2: the back of that thing, they're still buzzing about it,
[19:25] Speaker 2: which is awesome. Let's, of course, focus on the region
[19:27] Speaker 2: of Bathurst. It is a couple of hours away from Sydney,
[19:31] Speaker 2: a little bit longer if you currently head up the
[19:34] Speaker 2: normal way, so a lot of people going the Bells
[19:36] Speaker 2: line of road right now. But, of course, not too
[19:39] Speaker 2: far from here is Orange. I should say, and I
[19:41] Speaker 2: know there's always sort of inter-city rivalry, Orange is really
[19:45] Speaker 2: kicking goals at the moment, really beautiful place as well
[19:48] Speaker 2: as part of your week here in this area. to
[19:50] Speaker 2: go and see. And particularly, if like my missus, you
[19:52] Speaker 2: like to shop, it is a very beautiful place to
[19:55] Speaker 2: go and see. Dubbo, of course, again, this is the
[19:57] Speaker 2: whole thing about basing yourself in Bathurst, right? If you're
[20:00] Speaker 2: there with the family, you can go off to the zoo,
[20:03] Speaker 2: you can make your way, of course, if it's just
[20:05] Speaker 2: the two of you reconnecting or just hanging out, across
[20:08] Speaker 2: to Orange, but of course, spend your time here. A
[20:10] Speaker 2: football stadium of people, 45,000 people live here. The median
[20:14] Speaker 2: age is 38, and excluding the birth country of Australia,
[20:18] Speaker 2: England would be the place that most people have a
[20:23] Speaker 2: connection to. Some wonderful classic homes around here as well,
[20:26] Speaker 2: and beautiful historic homes. And of course, this place has
[20:30] Speaker 2: four major museums. And I've got to say, shout out
[20:33] Speaker 2: to the people running them who work for Council, and
[20:36] Speaker 2: they are this beautiful facility here, the National Motor Racing Museum.
[20:40] Speaker 2: There's the Rail Museum that we'll check out a little
[20:43] Speaker 2: bit later in the program. There's the Fossil Museum, which
[20:45] Speaker 2: is pretty damn cool as well. And then, of course,
[20:47] Speaker 2: there's old Ben Chifley's house. Ben Chifley, of course, legendary
[20:52] Speaker 2: person from Bathurst, former train driver and, of course, former
[20:55] Speaker 2: Prime Minister. He lived on Busby Street with his Mrs Elizabeth.
[21:00] Speaker 2: I'm a Bogan better than saying Prime Minister's wife or
[21:03] Speaker 2: saying Mrs Elizabeth. They moved into the joint in 1914. Today,
[21:08] Speaker 2: it is basically kept as it was in and around
[21:11] Speaker 2: the time of the 1940s, which is a symbol of
[21:14] Speaker 2: simplicity yet warmth of country life at the time. Chifley
[21:18] Speaker 2: was a great Prime Minister, but perhaps is best known
[21:21] Speaker 2: for not wanting to live the Lavish lifestyle. Of course,
[21:23] Speaker 2: he lived, as you can see there, at his home
[21:27] Speaker 2: in Bathurst. He didn't live at the lodge. Instead, he
[21:29] Speaker 2: went to a humble hotel, which was about $ 700 meters
[21:32] Speaker 2: away from Old Parliament House. Ali and the team who
[21:35] Speaker 2: helped manage this place have put together a great audio
[21:37] Speaker 2: tour as well. And it is just one of the
[21:40] Speaker 2: many awesome museums to see when you come to Bathurst. Now,
[21:45] Speaker 2: it's very rare that we mention where we are going
[21:47] Speaker 2: next while we are where we are right now. But
[21:49] Speaker 2: a really special shout out to our next Our Town,
[21:52] Speaker 2: And if you're watching us in Western Australia, get ready,
[21:54] Speaker 2: we're coming for you in Karratha. If you are watching
[21:58] Speaker 2: in Karratha right now in Western Australia, or you can
[22:00] Speaker 2: be there on the 25th of October, you know the deal, ourtownatnews24. com. au, ourtownatnews24. com. au, Karratha,
[22:09] Speaker 2: in Sunday plus one month from now. There's plenty more
[22:14] Speaker 2: beautiful cars to show you, including, yes, this one. This
[22:17] Speaker 2: was the first of the Brock winning cars, a co-driver
[22:20] Speaker 2: at the time. Have a look at this magnificent piece
[22:22] Speaker 2: of Australian history and the Bogan who could just stare
[22:25] Speaker 2: all day at it.
[22:26] Speaker 8: But I won't.
[22:26] Speaker 2: There's other stuff to talk about next. How good is
[22:34] Speaker 2: Bathurst and the people that are here? By the way,
[22:37] Speaker 2: Jack Rabin, that's Speedway car. Remember, of course, Jack Rabin,
[22:41] Speaker 2: who I think is like top five Australians whose face
[22:43] Speaker 2: should be on our mummy. He, of course, the first
[22:46] Speaker 2: person to win a Formula One championship in a car
[22:48] Speaker 2: that he made. one of the many things that you
[22:50] Speaker 2: can see at this incredible museum. Now, the good people
[22:54] Speaker 2: of Harvey Norman are the reason that we are able
[22:56] Speaker 2: to go around the country and to be able to
[22:58] Speaker 2: celebrate areas like Bathurst. And tonight, we have just a
[23:03] Speaker 2: slight look into the future that is available now.
[23:07] Speaker 15: MUSIC Spring is here and it is time to get outside.
[23:20] Speaker 2: As always, whenever we go around the country, thanks to
[23:22] Speaker 2: our mates at Harvey Norman, we like to visit the
[23:24] Speaker 2: locals to see what's going on.
[23:26] Speaker 10: G'day, Andrew.
[23:37] Speaker 2: How are you, mate? Hey, Paul. How are you? Very good.
[23:39] Speaker 8: What about these new digs?
[23:41] Speaker 2: The new store is sensational. I love it.
[23:43] Speaker 10: How good is it?
[23:44] Speaker 16: What a terrific looking store.
[23:46] Speaker 8: I love it.
[23:46] Speaker 2: You've got obviously everything every normal Harvey's has got, but
[23:49] Speaker 2: so much more.
[23:50] Speaker 8: The people are wonderful. How's Bathurst at the moment?
[23:53] Speaker 16: Bathurst is going fantastic.
[23:55] Speaker 2: What a great town. I love this town.
[24:07] Speaker 8: Every time I come in here, I want a toaster,
[24:09] Speaker 8: I want a vacuum cleaner. I love all the new stuff.
[24:11] Speaker 16: Have you seen the new robot lawnmower and pool cleaner arrangement?
[24:17] Speaker 8: Lawnmower and pool cleaner, no.
[24:21] Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool. No, I don't need one, but that's cool.
[24:24] Speaker 2: How do you do it now? Every day. Whether they're
[24:39] Speaker 2: going to swim in it or not swim in it.
[24:42] Speaker 2: Every day. So how does it work?
[24:51] Speaker 16: Oh, it'll map your pool, it will clean the floors,
[24:56] Speaker 16: it'll clean the walls, it'll even skim the top, and
[24:59] Speaker 16: even has a 10-hour battery life.
[25:01] Speaker 2: Okay, so where's the hose?
[25:03] Speaker 16: There's no hose at all, completely wire-free.
[25:07] Speaker 17: MUSIC Mmm.
[25:30] Speaker 10: Oh.
[25:31] Speaker 8: Oh.
[25:32] Speaker 2: Yep. Did you want to take one? Absolutely.
[25:44] Speaker 10: Oh. Oh.
[25:46] Speaker 2: What a punishment.
[25:47] Speaker 10: Oh.
[25:54] Speaker 2: Not for me. I want to get my Sundays back
[25:57] Speaker 2: as well. So tell me about the robot lawnmower that
[25:59] Speaker 2: will change my life.
[26:01] Speaker 16: Can I introduce you to Georgie?
[26:03] Speaker 2: Hello, Georgie. What do you do, Georgie? What do you do, Georgie?
[26:07] Speaker 16: Well, mate, see those wheels? That means I'll go over
[26:10] Speaker 16: all terrains, up to 800 square metres of your lawn,
[26:14] Speaker 16: all while you're.
[26:15] Speaker 2: While I'm doing what, exactly? Oh, just a touch of green.
[26:27] Speaker 2: A little yellow.
[26:29] Speaker 10: Je traverse en rêvant.
[26:30] Speaker 18: Les rues de Napoli Où je revois les jours passés
[26:39] Speaker 18: tout près de toi Ici la tour Eiffel.
[26:48] Speaker 2: Je m'appelle artist, or as we say in Bogan, je
[26:56] Speaker 2: m'appelle artist. A masterpiece. Or probably watching car racing. Andrew,
[27:07] Speaker 2: thank you very much. Appreciate it. I have got my
[27:09] Speaker 2: Saturday back. The pool will be clean. Sunday, the robot's
[27:12] Speaker 2: doing the lawn. Now let's take care of the rest
[27:15] Speaker 2: of the week. That'll take care of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
[27:27] Speaker 2: How good is that? Yes, the future is here, the
[27:30] Speaker 2: robot that can clean, the robot that can even cut
[27:33] Speaker 2: the lawn. And of course, it's all thanks to our partners. Yes,
[27:37] Speaker 2: our commercial partners at the wonderful Harvey Norman. All right,
[27:40] Speaker 2: look at what you're seeing now, a collection of the
[27:42] Speaker 2: great man's cars. 20 years on since we lost Peter Brock. Brad,
[27:46] Speaker 2: of course, is the man who is showing us around
[27:48] Speaker 2: the museum and you can meet him here too. find
[27:51] Speaker 2: a new friend and he knows everything there is to know.
[27:53] Speaker 2: You love when somebody comes in and asks a random question. Again,
[27:56] Speaker 2: thank you for having us, mate. Can you believe 20
[27:59] Speaker 2: years since Rocky died?
[28:00] Speaker 4: Absolutely amazing. That 20 years has gone so fast and
[28:03] Speaker 4: he's still one of the most famous racing drivers ever.
[28:07] Speaker 4: In Australian history, 20 years after he's gone.
[28:09] Speaker 2: Incredible. And it's one of those things where I reckon
[28:11] Speaker 2: there's even... He's one of those figures that is a
[28:14] Speaker 2: pop culture figure. He's as big as Paul Hogan or
[28:17] Speaker 2: John Farnham, one of those people who, even 20 years
[28:20] Speaker 2: after his death, which, of course, came many years after
[28:23] Speaker 2: his absolute apex of success... Just one of those people
[28:27] Speaker 2: who probably everyone in the room here, but certainly many
[28:30] Speaker 2: people watching, they still have a warm feeling. And lots
[28:32] Speaker 2: of people got to meet him because the thing about
[28:34] Speaker 2: motorsport is this is really hands-on in terms of meeting
[28:36] Speaker 2: the fans, right?
[28:37] Speaker 4: Absolutely. And I've seen it read that or written that
[28:40] Speaker 4: they reckon there's probably more Peter Brock signatures in the
[28:42] Speaker 4: world than any other sportsman ever because he would stay
[28:45] Speaker 4: until the last fan had had their thing signed and
[28:47] Speaker 4: he was a really amazing person to the fans.
[28:50] Speaker 2: Correct. Him and Bradman, that'll be the two all the
[28:52] Speaker 2: way through. All right, so... Special exhibition, and again, this
[28:55] Speaker 2: is part of if you physically come to Bathurst for
[28:57] Speaker 2: the race to be able to stick around a day
[29:00] Speaker 2: later or even a day earlier because of the road
[29:03] Speaker 2: issues that are at the moment. So you get to
[29:05] Speaker 2: see so many cars. But before we get there, why
[29:08] Speaker 2: is there a go-kart.
[29:08] Speaker 10: On the wall?
[29:09] Speaker 4: So we like to have a bit of the broad
[29:12] Speaker 4: history of Peter's career. You know, there's lots of the
[29:14] Speaker 4: Bathurst cars, lots of Commodores and all that sort of stuff.
[29:16] Speaker 4: But I love showing something that people may have forgotten.
[29:18] Speaker 4: This is from the 1995 Legends of Motorsport event in Sydney.
[29:22] Speaker 4: And you can even see the accident damage on the
[29:24] Speaker 4: back where somebody went over the back of Peter when
[29:26] Speaker 4: he got in the way.
[29:27] Speaker 2: That's great. There's even a little bit of dirty fuel
[29:28] Speaker 2: on the bottom there. But, no, you're not allowed to
[29:30] Speaker 2: race any of these cars. You just come and have
[29:32] Speaker 2: a look. And certainly don't touch them either, all right? So,
[29:34] Speaker 2: let's walk through. What are we seeing here? A car that,
[29:37] Speaker 2: of course, driven by Peter Brock, Greg... Murphy Jason Bright
[29:41] Speaker 2: Rick Kelly Todd.
[29:42] Speaker 1: Kelly Todd Kelly Todd Kelly so this is the 2003
[29:46] Speaker 1: Bathurst 24-hour winning car so the Monaro the first year
[29:49] Speaker 1: the yellow Monaro the second year Brock he got his
[29:51] Speaker 1: 10th victory yes he didn't get it in the thousand
[29:53] Speaker 1: but the 24-hour race I think counts Correct.
[29:55] Speaker 2: I'm with you completely. Some people want to put an
[29:57] Speaker 2: asterisk on it. Not for me. Now, of course, he's
[29:59] Speaker 2: synonymous with Holden, but he, of course, drove, among others,
[30:04] Speaker 2: a Volvo.
[30:05] Speaker 4: Of all the things. So this is from the Bathurst
[30:07] Speaker 4: 12-hour in 1994 and the Eastern Creek 12-hour in 1995. And, yeah,
[30:12] Speaker 4: Rocky in a Volvo. Who'd have thought it?
[30:14] Speaker 2: So, again, what we spoke about when we were driving
[30:17] Speaker 2: around before and looking around the track, the early days,
[30:22] Speaker 2: but all the way right through for many decades, it
[30:25] Speaker 2: was about a car you could buy. It was about
[30:28] Speaker 2: a way of showing your endurance with a brand. So therefore,
[30:31] Speaker 2: why is Volvo involved in it? Because they wanted to
[30:34] Speaker 2: sell cars. Absolutely, absolutely.
[30:36] Speaker 4: And those 12-hour races in that day, were for production cars.
[30:39] Speaker 4: So it genuinely was, if they had a good result
[30:41] Speaker 4: on Sunday, they'd sell more cars on Monday.
[30:43] Speaker 2: Correct. And I can testify that in some of these,
[30:45] Speaker 2: there's still the ashtray and there's still the cigarette lighter.
[30:48] Speaker 10: All right.
[30:48] Speaker 2: Now, this I want to call a little bit of
[30:51] Speaker 2: the heartbreaking era. Because there were those years where all
[30:54] Speaker 2: the Brockie fans would turn on, have great hope, and
[30:58] Speaker 2: then as early as the first lap or as deep
[31:00] Speaker 2: as four hours in, it wasn't going to happen. But
[31:03] Speaker 2: tell us about this car.
[31:04] Speaker 4: So this car is really special. This is when Peter
[31:06] Speaker 4: came back to the factory fold. So the big bust
[31:08] Speaker 4: up in 87, it had taken a long time. But
[31:10] Speaker 4: in 1994, he was back with the factory team. And incredibly,
[31:14] Speaker 4: he scored the very first touring car championship win for
[31:18] Speaker 4: Holden Racing Team. So it was meant to be.
[31:20] Speaker 2: Very cool. An absolutely beautiful car. Again, 05, for those
[31:25] Speaker 2: who don't know, 05 was, rather than just 5, was because,
[31:28] Speaker 2: of course, 0.05.
[31:29] Speaker 7: Yes.
[31:29] Speaker 2: And when the drink-driving laws were appropriately brought into the country.
[31:33] Speaker 2: And then there's a Ford.
[31:35] Speaker 4: I know, if the Volvo wasn't challenging enough, now here's
[31:37] Speaker 4: Brock in a Ford, although when you look at the
[31:39] Speaker 4: front of the car, you'll notice something missing, and that's
[31:41] Speaker 4: the blue oval. So I think even though Peter needed
[31:43] Speaker 4: a Sierra to be competitive, he couldn't quite make the
[31:47] Speaker 4: faithful deal with the fact that he was driving a Ford.
[31:49] Speaker 2: Now, I would love to be able to show you
[31:50] Speaker 2: what is on the other side of the corner, but
[31:52] Speaker 2: I can't because... of the sponsorship that cannot mention its
[31:56] Speaker 2: name in public anymore because, well, it's banned from being
[32:01] Speaker 2: able to be discussed in Australian sport, but because this
[32:04] Speaker 2: is a museum, because it is a historic piece, you're
[32:07] Speaker 2: able to see my favourite of all of the Brock cars,
[32:09] Speaker 2: the big banger. You can see it with your own eyes,
[32:11] Speaker 2: not on telly, but if you come here to the museum. Absolutely.
[32:15] Speaker 4: And this car, the 1984 Bathurst 1000 winner, is in
[32:19] Speaker 4: our own collection, has been in the collection for the
[32:22] Speaker 4: entire life of the museum. It is an absolute icon
[32:25] Speaker 4: in Australian motorsport and it is a really special thing.
[32:27] Speaker 4: We are so lucky to have.
[32:28] Speaker 7: How?
[32:30] Speaker 2: Has this museum been able to amass not just Brock,
[32:34] Speaker 2: but so much racing history, the motorbikes, the Brabham stuff,
[32:38] Speaker 2: the Chas's busted up car from not all that long ago.
[32:41] Speaker 2: How does it work that you are able to get
[32:44] Speaker 2: such a collection of Australian history?
[32:47] Speaker 4: We have an amazing network of supporters. So we have enthusiasts,
[32:50] Speaker 4: we have race teams, manufacturers. They all are very supportive
[32:53] Speaker 4: of what we do at the museum because I think
[32:55] Speaker 4: they just love the mountain and they love Bathurst. So
[32:57] Speaker 4: most of what you see is on loan. We own
[32:59] Speaker 4: about 22 cars and six bikes. Everything else, so about 80%
[33:03] Speaker 4: of what's here, is on loan. And that means it'll
[33:04] Speaker 4: be different. So you come this week, it'll be the
[33:07] Speaker 4: Brock cars. In six months' time, we'll have something completely
[33:09] Speaker 4: different in here, so there's always a reason to come back.
[33:11] Speaker 2: This is what I love. There's big buy-in from the
[33:13] Speaker 2: motorsport community, both those that have participated in it, those
[33:16] Speaker 2: that have had financial interest, but most importantly, those that
[33:18] Speaker 2: have loved it, right?
[33:19] Speaker 10: Yeah.
[33:20] Speaker 2: To be able to share this with people is something special, but, Brad,
[33:23] Speaker 2: thank you for sharing it with us.
[33:24] Speaker 4: Paul, it's been a pleasure.
[33:25] Speaker 2: Thank you. On the track and here at the museum.
[33:28] Speaker 2: Make sure you come here, see the big four museums
[33:30] Speaker 2: as well as. A whole bunch of staff go out and...
[33:33] Speaker 2: See the mates at Oberon. There's plenty of wonderful things
[33:36] Speaker 2: to see around this region. More in a moment here
[33:38] Speaker 2: as we are live in Bathurst on Our Town. Thanks
[33:40] Speaker 2: to the good people of Harvey Norman. Welcome back to Bathurst.
[33:51] Speaker 2: Have you had a great old time here? What a
[33:53] Speaker 2: magnificent place. Now, by the way, can we just reflect
[33:57] Speaker 2: a little on the actor-eligible acting that you see? Did
[34:01] Speaker 2: you prefer the falling in the pool or me as
[34:04] Speaker 2: the painter? The painter? Yeah, I thought that might be
[34:08] Speaker 2: the case. All right. I thought the suspenders were a
[34:11] Speaker 2: bit much, but no, no, no, the team said go
[34:13] Speaker 2: for it, so guess what I did? Again, one of
[34:15] Speaker 2: the other things you can see inside the Motor Museum
[34:17] Speaker 2: is this incredible collection of motorbikes, and what you can
[34:20] Speaker 2: see right there is a bust of the great man
[34:22] Speaker 2: Wayne Gardner and the bike that he won on in 1987. There, again,
[34:26] Speaker 2: the sponsorship that cannot speak its name means we can't
[34:28] Speaker 2: show it on telly, but that is the bike that
[34:31] Speaker 2: he actually won it on. You can come see it here.
[34:33] Speaker 8: Now.
[34:35] Speaker 2: The people who run these museums are people who are
[34:38] Speaker 2: so passionate about the story of their town. And Bathurst
[34:43] Speaker 2: is a railway town. Bathurst is a place that has
[34:46] Speaker 2: celebrated 150 years of its main station, but its connection
[34:50] Speaker 2: and its importance, and again, that's of course the way
[34:52] Speaker 2: that a former Prime Minister was able to not just work,
[34:56] Speaker 2: of course, but then to slowly make the travel towards Canberra.
[34:59] Speaker 2: And that railway museum is absolutely spectacular and at times
[35:05] Speaker 2: even hands-on.
[35:15] Speaker 8: G'day Ali, how are you?
[35:16] Speaker 13: Hi Paul, I'm great, how are you today?
[35:18] Speaker 8: Lovely to meet you. You too. Alright, the Bathurst Rail Museum,
[35:21] Speaker 8: an absolute must when you come here. How long has
[35:22] Speaker 8: it been around?
[35:24] Speaker 5: We've only been open about six and a half years.
[35:26] Speaker 12: Wow.
[35:26] Speaker 5: So yeah, just before COVID it was fantastic timing.
[35:29] Speaker 2: Now, there's lots of history obviously, hence why it's a museum,
[35:33] Speaker 2: but there's a bit of hands-on as well.
[35:35] Speaker 5: There is, it's a little bit different from a museum,
[35:37] Speaker 5: not quite so stuffy and.
[35:38] Speaker 18: A bit of fun.
[35:41] Speaker 8: All right, so the big kid in me needs to
[35:43] Speaker 8: do hands-on first, and then talk about history next, okay? Yeah, okay,
[35:46] Speaker 8: fair enough. All right, show me your way.
[35:56] Speaker 5: Big birthday card, and we had a celebration down at
[35:59] Speaker 5: the train station earlier in the year to celebrate 150 years.
[36:03] Speaker 2: That's cool, that's very cool.
[36:05] Speaker 8: All right, so this is the fun bit?
[36:07] Speaker 5: This is the fun bit. This is where people come
[36:08] Speaker 5: around the corner and they're quite surprised, to say the least.
[36:12] Speaker 2: Wow.
[36:13] Speaker 8: Yeah.
[36:14] Speaker 2: That's epic.
[36:14] Speaker 8: It is, it is.
[36:15] Speaker 5: It's not really what.
[36:16] Speaker 8: People are expecting.
[36:17] Speaker 5: You think of a train set, so to speak, and
[36:20] Speaker 5: a model railway is normally not quite as expansive as this,
[36:24] Speaker 5: so we're very lucky and it's a great way to
[36:25] Speaker 5: tell the story.
[36:28] Speaker 8: Now, Ali, I mentioned before that I was a big kid, right?
[36:32] Speaker 2: I brought a couple of.
[36:32] Speaker 8: People who I think might like it just as much
[36:34] Speaker 8: as me.
[36:35] Speaker 1: OK.
[36:35] Speaker 8: Asher, Zadie, come on down. Hi. Look at this for
[36:40] Speaker 8: a train set.
[36:41] Speaker 2: I say cut.
[36:42] Speaker 8: All right, who wants to play trains?
[36:48] Speaker 10: Me. Me?
[36:49] Speaker 2: All right, let's go.
[36:49] Speaker 3: Go, go, go, go. Go, go, go, go.
[36:51] Speaker 13: Go, go, go.
[36:52] Speaker 2: Don't touch anything, though. Don't touch anything.
[36:54] Speaker 18: MUSIC PLAYS Can I just put my hand in there?
[37:05] Speaker 2: Okay.
[37:08] Speaker 13: And give it a go.
[37:09] Speaker 5: And you can't, it won't crash.
[37:11] Speaker 8: Because it's on the tracks.
[37:13] Speaker 13: That's it.
[37:16] Speaker 5: Yep, so that's it. You just push it up so
[37:18] Speaker 5: you can see the numbers go.
[37:20] Speaker 2: Can you imagine it was somebody's job to shovel all
[37:22] Speaker 2: that coal into the train engine?
[37:28] Speaker 8: So how big is this? How long did it take
[37:30] Speaker 8: to put together?
[37:31] Speaker 15: And how much does it represent the railways in and
[37:36] Speaker 15: around Bathurst?
[37:37] Speaker 5: Yeah, so it's about 75 metres long, but it includes
[37:41] Speaker 5: at least 350 metres of track. So it's quite big. Yeah,
[37:45] Speaker 5: largest one that you'll see on display. And it actually
[37:48] Speaker 5: depicts what it was like in this local area from
[37:50] Speaker 5: Bathurst heading towards Sydney to a little place called Taranah
[37:53] Speaker 5: and how that looked back in the late 50s, early 60s.
[37:56] Speaker 5: So there's a heap of stations that no longer exist
[37:59] Speaker 5: between Bathurst and Taranah. And this way people can actually
[38:02] Speaker 5: see what it used to be like when the railways
[38:04] Speaker 5: were at their peak and everybody used them to get around.
[38:08] Speaker 8: So how many people are involved in this?
[38:10] Speaker 2: What's some of the process that goes into keeping it
[38:13] Speaker 2: as accurate as possible?
[38:15] Speaker 5: Yeah that's the tough part because just because it's been
[38:17] Speaker 5: built doesn't mean it's just a set and forget. It
[38:20] Speaker 5: does take a lot of maintenance and so outside of
[38:22] Speaker 5: school holiday time we have one day a week where
[38:24] Speaker 5: the museum's closed and we do maintenance. And I do
[38:28] Speaker 5: have some volunteers that assist with that as well. We've
[38:30] Speaker 5: got about a dozen that come in on a Thursday
[38:33] Speaker 5: and what we do is we actually clean all of
[38:35] Speaker 5: the locomotives. They get turned over under a magnifying glass
[38:38] Speaker 5: and literally cleaned out with tiny little tools. We do
[38:41] Speaker 5: track maintenance every day. We've got to clean the track
[38:43] Speaker 5: every single day. And then there's all the little details
[38:46] Speaker 5: of everything. So anything scenery wise, we've got to touch
[38:50] Speaker 5: up every week. And then if there's any electrical problems too.
[38:53] Speaker 5: So there's so many elements to it. All right, so
[38:59] Speaker 5: you've got the little wheel there. And you'll see the
[39:01] Speaker 5: numbers all go up as you push the wheel up.
[39:04] Speaker 5: And we go as.
[39:04] Speaker 8: Far as seven. With this, I'm going to run out
[39:08] Speaker 8: of coal. Yeah, yeah, that's it.
[39:09] Speaker 5: You won't make it too far. No pit stops on
[39:12] Speaker 5: this train.
[39:19] Speaker 2: But railway has always been part of the story of Bathurst,
[39:23] Speaker 2: hasn't it?
[39:23] Speaker 8: That's it.
[39:24] Speaker 5: We are actually a railway town. We're known as a
[39:26] Speaker 5: lot of other things, a gold town, motorsport town, but
[39:28] Speaker 5: we're also, at our core a railway town. So it's
[39:31] Speaker 5: been 150 years now since railway came to Bathurst. But
[39:35] Speaker 5: prior to that, we were actually quite isolated. The gold
[39:38] Speaker 5: took us so far and became quite a big town.
[39:41] Speaker 5: but then needed something to keep the town going.
[39:44] Speaker 8: It would take three or.
[39:46] Speaker 5: Four days to get across the mountains to Sydney. So
[39:48] Speaker 5: if you had any cattle or wool or flour or
[39:52] Speaker 5: something to trade, it was dangerous. It took a long time.
[39:55] Speaker 5: If anyone needed supplies, that would also take a long time.
[39:59] Speaker 5: So it was quite isolated out here. When the railway arrived,
[40:02] Speaker 5: changed everything. So within a short period of time, there
[40:05] Speaker 5: were more buildings here, there were far more houses, there
[40:08] Speaker 5: was industry. The flower industry also took off as well.
[40:12] Speaker 5: And it just grew and grew from there. It was
[40:14] Speaker 5: declared a city. And at one stage, almost a third
[40:17] Speaker 5: of the town was working on the railway.
[40:18] Speaker 3: Yes, I.
[40:22] Speaker 2: Did bring the munchkins with us. Hopefully you can see them.
[40:26] Speaker 7: There they are.
[40:28] Speaker 2: Beautiful Asher and Zadie, lovely to see. Hello girls, how
[40:31] Speaker 2: are you? Lovely to wave at everyone on the TV. Hi,
[40:33] Speaker 2: there we go. Of course, Maddie, our executive producer for
[40:37] Speaker 2: a long time. Wave at the camera girls. There you are,
[40:40] Speaker 2: don't be nervous. All right, that's enough. Of course, next
[40:43] Speaker 2: to her, Wayne and mum as well. It's been a
[40:45] Speaker 2: lovely family weekend and yeah, it's been lovely to be here.
[40:48] Speaker 2: Shout out of course to Maddie's husband, Dom, and their
[40:50] Speaker 2: little baby, Isaac, who is behaving very well over there,
[40:53] Speaker 2: which we very much appreciate. All right. Cecilia Hunt is
[40:56] Speaker 2: the current Citizen of the Year here in Bathurst. Give
[40:59] Speaker 2: her a round of applause because her advocacy in and
[41:03] Speaker 2: around breast cancer has been really important. Lovely to see you.
[41:07] Speaker 2: Thank you, Paul. Lovely to be here. Now, you came
[41:10] Speaker 2: here first for uni. You've stuck around 30 years later.
[41:12] Speaker 2: What's Bathurst mean to you?
[41:15] Speaker 13: Oh, look, Bathurst has been home. For me, it has
[41:20] Speaker 13: the best of both worlds. I think it's a vibrant
[41:22] Speaker 13: regional community. It's surrounded by beautiful country areas, villages, farms,
[41:29] Speaker 13: great historical villages that you can visit. But really, it's
[41:32] Speaker 13: got something for everybody. I raised a family here, like
[41:34] Speaker 13: you mentioned, and I think it's great for kids. It's
[41:38] Speaker 13: been great for my children, sporting, the Aquatic Centre, cinema.
[41:41] Speaker 13: It's had everything for me.
[41:43] Speaker 2: So give me an idea about... Obviously, the assumption is
[41:46] Speaker 2: that when you live a couple of hours away from
[41:49] Speaker 2: a capital city, then things like access to healthcare can
[41:53] Speaker 2: be different, right? You've started a journey, which will be,
[41:57] Speaker 2: of course, the forever one, which is in 2022 is
[42:01] Speaker 2: when the first diagnosis comes your way for cancer. Being
[42:06] Speaker 2: a couple of hours away, but still, I mean, there's
[42:08] Speaker 2: obviously significant health things here. Were you able to get
[42:13] Speaker 2: what you needed in town?
[42:16] Speaker 13: Look, I think the support that's been available in Bathurst
[42:19] Speaker 13: has been fantastic. We have a great breast cancer nurse
[42:24] Speaker 13: in Bathurst and that's available for anyone who's experiencing breast cancer.
[42:29] Speaker 13: And for my personal journey, I did actually seek some
[42:33] Speaker 13: additional treatment in Sydney purely because of the surgery that
[42:35] Speaker 13: I needed to have.
[42:36] Speaker 2: Of course. So... A big thing for you is about
[42:39] Speaker 2: early detection, right? It's about people being able to be
[42:42] Speaker 2: aware of their own bodies, to be able to have
[42:44] Speaker 2: the confidence that if they have any sort of misgivings
[42:47] Speaker 2: that you should go and get something checked. How do
[42:50] Speaker 2: you spread that message amongst the community? Yeah, absolutely.
[42:54] Speaker 13: So one of the key messages that I've been trying
[42:57] Speaker 13: to get out there in the community has been about
[42:59] Speaker 13: early detection. So when I was first diagnosed in 22,
[43:03] Speaker 13: the first thing I thought about was, look, early detection
[43:05] Speaker 13: is so important. Early detection saves lives. That's the key message.
[43:09] Speaker 13: And I think for women to be aware of their
[43:13] Speaker 13: own breasts and what is normal for them and to
[43:16] Speaker 13: be aware of changes. So those changes can look like
[43:18] Speaker 13: lots of different things for different women. For me, I
[43:21] Speaker 13: actually found, I detected a lump the size of a pea.
[43:23] Speaker 2: It was very small. It was by.
[43:25] Speaker 13: Accident that I found it and I'm very grateful that
[43:27] Speaker 13: I did. For other women, that might be different symptoms.
[43:30] Speaker 13: That could be a dimpling of the breast. It could
[43:34] Speaker 13: be a puckering. It could be a pain.
[43:36] Speaker 2: It could be anything.
[43:37] Speaker 13: So really, if women are breast aware and they know
[43:41] Speaker 13: what's normal for them, if they detect a change, go
[43:44] Speaker 13: and see your GP.
[43:46] Speaker 2: So you've got always lots of events and things happening,
[43:49] Speaker 2: but there's something big coming up in the next few
[43:51] Speaker 2: months for you guys.
[43:52] Speaker 3: What is it?
[43:52] Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
[43:53] Speaker 13: So I've been doing breast advocacy since 22, since my diagnosis.
[43:57] Speaker 13: My very first campaign, I launched eight weeks after my diagnosis.
[44:01] Speaker 13: Maybe it was a little bit to distract myself. At
[44:03] Speaker 13: the same time, I wanted to make a difference. And
[44:05] Speaker 13: that difference was sharing my story and local stories within
[44:09] Speaker 13: the community. And I did that with the support of
[44:11] Speaker 13: Gab Watson, who's a local photographer. She helped me put
[44:14] Speaker 13: that campaign together. as is other campaigns she's helped me with.
[44:18] Speaker 13: This upcoming campaign I've got, I've been partnering up with
[44:22] Speaker 13: Greer Films, a local film company. They've volunteered their time
[44:25] Speaker 13: and their services to help me put together some short films.
[44:28] Speaker 2: Which I'll be launching in October.
[44:30] Speaker 13: I've interviewed four local women who currently have breast cancer
[44:33] Speaker 13: and have been diagnosed recently. And I've also interviewed the
[44:37] Speaker 13: local breast cancer nurse to talk about what support services
[44:40] Speaker 13: she has available.
[44:41] Speaker 2: When you spoke about your own focus post 22. For you,
[44:46] Speaker 2: and again, everyone's different, right? But for you, how important
[44:49] Speaker 2: was it to have, not just the distraction of advocacy,
[44:53] Speaker 2: but to be able, as part of the way of
[44:56] Speaker 2: processing what's happening to you, to be able to try
[44:59] Speaker 2: to say, I don't want this to happen to somebody else?
[45:01] Speaker 13: Oh, absolutely. When you're going through something like a cancer diagnosis,
[45:07] Speaker 13: you don't want anyone else to go through it. And
[45:09] Speaker 13: if you can prevent that, if you can help somebody
[45:11] Speaker 13: to get that early diagnosis, and you know that they're
[45:13] Speaker 13: going to get a good outcome, then that's a win.
[45:15] Speaker 13: So any advocacy that I do, if I can just
[45:19] Speaker 13: reach just one woman to book that mammogram, if they're
[45:22] Speaker 13: 40 or over, if they haven't done it before, please
[45:25] Speaker 13: don't be afraid. Just jump on and make the appointment.
[45:28] Speaker 13: It takes five minutes, and it could save your life.
[45:30] Speaker 2: So how do we find you online, socials? What's the
[45:32] Speaker 2: best way to get there?
[45:33] Speaker 13: Yeah, so there's two pages. So I have Millie Mac Design.
[45:35] Speaker 13: So if you want to see the behind the scenes
[45:37] Speaker 13: for my upcoming campaign, if you want to have a
[45:39] Speaker 13: look at the films that I'm about to launch. Also,
[45:41] Speaker 13: we have a local page, Facebook group called Paint It
[45:44] Speaker 13: Pink Bathurst. So if you want to follow all the
[45:46] Speaker 13: community events and fundraising and any of the community events
[45:51] Speaker 13: that you'd like to be involved in in October, jump
[45:53] Speaker 13: on that page as well.
[45:54] Speaker 2: Good stuff. I love your smile. I love your passion.
[45:56] Speaker 2: Thank you so much for what you do.
[45:56] Speaker 8: Thank you.
[45:57] Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
[45:57] Speaker 18: Good on you.
[45:58] Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Thank you very much.
[46:00] Speaker 10: All right.
[46:01] Speaker 2: Plenty more from Bathurst here in a moment or two's time.
[46:03] Speaker 2: This is Paul Murray Live. Thanks to the good people
[46:05] Speaker 2: of Harvey Norman. Live from the National Motor Racing Museum.
[46:14] Speaker 2: Welcome back to the National Motor Racing Museum. Andrew's the man,
[46:16] Speaker 2: of course, from Harvey Norman here at Bathurst. Lovely to
[46:18] Speaker 2: see you again, my friend. All right, now we've got
[46:20] Speaker 2: the mayor here, the deputy mayor. Lovely to see you
[46:22] Speaker 2: both as well. We've got Oberon Council representative. We've got
[46:25] Speaker 2: Holly Hughes here as well. All the dignitaries are in place.
[46:28] Speaker 2: But it is now time to give away a robot lawnmower.
[46:33] Speaker 2: Thanks to the good people of Harvey Norman at Bathurst.
[46:35] Speaker 2: And to help us as the barrel girl is Zadie Murray!
[46:39] Speaker 2: CHEERING Come over here, Tickety. All right, so everyone was
[46:45] Speaker 2: given a raffle ticket before, okay? So you're gonna put
[46:48] Speaker 2: your hand inside the racing helmet and then bring me
[46:50] Speaker 2: the ticket, okay? So go around the front and then
[46:53] Speaker 2: go see Andrew and dig around, mix it around, mix
[46:58] Speaker 2: it around, go to the bottom, go to the top,
[47:00] Speaker 2: go to the bottom. That's the one you grab now.
[47:02] Speaker 2: All right, thank you. So would you like to tell
[47:06] Speaker 2: me now, it is a red ticket. What letter? B. B.
[47:12] Speaker 2: What number? 44. B44. Who's got the red ticket B44?
[47:17] Speaker 2: Hands in the air. Have we got a winner or
[47:20] Speaker 2: is it a redraw? There she is.
[47:21] Speaker 1: All right.
[47:21] Speaker 2: Well, congratulations. Thank you, darling. You can sit back down.
[47:27] Speaker 2: Thank you. Lovely to see you. You too. Well done, darling.
[47:30] Speaker 2: Thank you. All right. It's a bit heavy for me
[47:32] Speaker 2: to hand you, but I will in a moment or
[47:33] Speaker 2: two's time, OK?
[47:34] Speaker 10: All right.
[47:34] Speaker 2: What's your name?
[47:35] Speaker 10: Sue.
[47:35] Speaker 2: Good on you, Sue. Give her a round of applause.
[47:37] Speaker 2: Sue's got a brand new... She's not doing the lawn
[47:40] Speaker 2: ever again. Go give Andrew a thank you over there.
[47:42] Speaker 2: Thanks to the good people of Harvey Norman. All right.
[47:45] Speaker 2: That is our show for tonight and from Bathurst. Thank
[47:47] Speaker 2: you very much to Sue, to Andrew, mayors, deputy mayors,
[47:50] Speaker 2: everyone who's in the crowd. It is always fun to
[47:53] Speaker 2: go on the road. We'll be doing it again in
[47:55] Speaker 2: Karratha in Western Australia in a month's time. send us
[47:58] Speaker 2: an email, which is pretty simple, all right? It is ourtownatnews24. com. au.
[48:02] Speaker 2: The central message of all of these shows is we
[48:04] Speaker 2: just give you a little bit of a taster, but
[48:06] Speaker 2: see Australia. It's the best country in the world with
[48:08] Speaker 2: the best people and the regions are the best part
[48:10] Speaker 2: of it. Bathurst, thank you very much. We'll see you
[48:12] Speaker 2: all again very soon, OK? Thank you, my girls, Mum, John,
[48:17] Speaker 2: all the rest of it. We'll see you again. The
[48:19] Speaker 2: news is next on News 24.

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