Mornings with Mark Levy - Full Show 26th March

0:00On 2GV Sydney and network stations across Australia. This is Mornings with Mark Levy. A very good morning to you on this Thursday, the 26th of March, a Mark Levy welcome to Mornings as we broadcast in Sydney, Canberra and across Australia on the 2GB app, coming up on the show today negotiations with the US Stool as Iran declares it will end the war on its terms. Australia could be self-sufficient in five years if we unlock our oil resources. The eye-watering amount of money being made from the GST on our fuel while in sport daily cherry ebbons expecting a hostile reception tonight at Brookfarl Oval. Quick look at Sydney's weather, showers are storm developing with the top of 30 in the city, 31 out west while in Canberra, showers are possible storm for the nation's capital up, reaching 24 degrees. As always, I'd love to hear from you this morning, the number to call 1-31873, you can

1:01email me at 2GB.com where you click on the feedback icon and that text lines up and running 0-460-873-873, well this war in the Middle East is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon. US President Donald Trump put forward a 15 point peace plan which has since been rejected by Iran with the regime responding with five conditions of its own for the hostilities to end. Now the negotiations are continuing, meantime the Israelis insist they're seeing a breakdown of discipline within the Iranian regime after almost four weeks of relentless strikes which they believe have gutted the heart of Tehran's military, its leadership and its nuclear program. So the regime might be clicking to power but the IDF insists Iran's ability to be a long term threat to Israel and the wider Middle East has been historically weakened. Now when it comes to the position we find ourselves in as Australians, the simple fact of the matter is we cannot afford this war to continue because we're already seeing

2:03the effects from the fuel crisis which she getting worse by the day. There's a story to day on the front page of the Australian newspaper where our port operators warning that a diesel scramble could stall trade nationwide, paralyzing container terminals and emptying the supermarket shells. Working companies as I touched on yesterday have already started parking up their fleets. I'm hearing reports of apprentices being laid off because some of these business owners simply can't afford to keep them on and spare a thought for the farmers who are weighing up whether to sow their winter crops at a time when they can't access the diesel they need to operate their machinery. In fact I received an email overnight from a farmer by the name of Luke who I'll try and catch up with later in the show. He wrote to me, Mark, I'm a beef farmer from the heart of alley. Our current battles are just at the bowser. The government seems to be forgetting about some of the other pressures we're under at the moment like these, we're on the verge of drought, but we still need to sow our crops.

3:04Then there's the feed we're trying to grow for the cattle and I'd hate to think what the cost of Urea will be in roughly four weeks' time. To make matters worse the current situation is at a major effect on the cattle market, cows last week that were $3.90 in our $2.70, do the sums on over 550 kilograms and that's a decrease of $600 per head in a week. Well Luke, thank you for your email and like I said we'll try and catch up with Luke later in the show, but it just emphasises how difficult it is at the moment especially for our farmers. So it begs the question why aren't we unlocking our vast oil resources and why haven't we? To put it in a perspective, have a listen to this. Our estimated commercial oil reserves are 2.5 billion barrels, billion with a bee. But we rely on imports of fuel for 90% of our daily consumption. How does that make any sense? It's the reason why energy experts are in the telegraph today calling for the government

4:06to start refining our own oil so that we're self-sufficient within the next five years but we're too busy giving into the environmentalists, aren't we? The greens and the like. Now look, the other aspect of this fuel crisis that's infuriated me over the last couple of weeks is the money that's being made by the federal government while we're paying over $3.00 a litre for diesel. And I'm talking about the GST which Pauline Hanson has seized on today, the one nation leader has crunched the numbers on these inflated fuel prices and she's revealed the government is making an extra $300 million a month from the GST on fuel. I'll say it again, an extra $300 million a month from the GST. Can you believe it? An extra $300 million a month from a GST on fuel while hardworking Australians are having to skip meals in order to fill up their cars. Now I spoke to Peter Curry from the NRMA last night to confirm that and he told me the diesel has now gone up $1.20 a litre on average and unleaded has gone up around $0.70 per

5:11litre so that figure of $300 million from the GST is accurate. I said it yesterday and I'll say it again because the GST is applied to the final pump price which already includes the exise the government is double dipping. If they're making extra money on the GST why won't they cut the fuel exise which stays the same anyway at 52 cents? The precedent was set in 2022 during the pandemic. The Morrison government temporarily cut the exise to provide some relief yet this current mob won't even consider it. I mean what a joke. It begs the question do they even care? They're effectively profiting from this crisis. And I know the Prime Minister has convened a meeting of National Cabinet on Monday and it's time for Anthony Albanese to take control of this because we have lost faith in Chris Bowen and that happened years ago. As Andrew Bolt writes today in the telegraph, Chris Bowen is stuck, unable and unwilling to promise there won't be rationing some day but unable and unwilling to admit there

6:14might be saying only it was not on the agenda for fear of making this panic buying even worse. That's why Labor spent an estimated $150,000 trying to block the release of its emergency response manual which suggests governments tackle fuel shortages by having petrol pumps cut out when motorists buy as little as $40. At a time when we need leaders, we can trust and lead us to commerce, we have Bowen and he's boss. Now, have you lost faith in this government and when did you lose faith in the government and how is this fuel crisis affecting you or your business? The cause we've taken over the last few days have given those in Canberra quite the picture of what's happening in the real world and I don't know what Angus Taylor is waiting for. Angus, you're the opposition leader. Start putting the pressure on the government to cut the fuel exise and start making a difference like one of your predecessors Scott Morrison did back in 2022. It's the obvious and logical choice to help people who are hurting at the moment.

7:16You can have you say this morning on 131873, you can email me at 2GB.com and you can shoot through a text on 0460-873873. Look, the other question I wanted to pose this morning is, if we look ahead to the 2020-28 Federal election and we factor in the Albanese government's handling of the current fuel crisis, the cost of living crisis, the energy crisis, how could anyone vote for this mob ever again? How? It's a dead set plan show and we've become the circus animals. We cannot possibly continue under this Labor government beyond 2028, which is why the coalition and one nation need to start working together to ensure this country doesn't suffer any longer. Now I'm encouraged by the comments from Paul Enhancin today on the Ours, the one nation leader is declared she'd be very happy to use her numbers to elect a coalition government. And she'll always preference the Liberal and National parties above Labor, Till MPs and

8:20the Greens. Well, if that's the case, Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan need to lock in some sort of formal or informal agreement to ensure we can make the necessary changes at the next election in 2028. One nation is not the enemy. One nation is going to help ask this Labor government which needs to happen for the good of this country. The message to the coalition is simple, rather than keeping attacking and keeping on attacking one nation, get into bed with them to ensure you're in a position to affect the necessary change beyond the next election in two years' time. Do you agree with me, folks or not, 131873, the number? You can email me at 2GB.com and you can text me 0 4 6 0 8 7 3 8 7 3. Now moving on to other things, where do we go here? Let's go to the ABC. Now look, I know we had some fun yesterday with the staff strike and everything else, but serious question. Did you survive just fine without the public broadcaster over the last 24 hours?

9:21I certainly did. It's the reason why I think this strike action could backfire on the staff over at R&T because it shows the government that the country can function just fine without it. Yes, the radio and television divisions are important during emergencies, but do we really need to invest over $1.2 billion a year in the ABC? The other issue for the staff, especially the various on-air presenters who hijacked their various programs to spruke their union message about the need for a bit of pay deal, it's a breach of the code of conduct. Now Sarah Henderson, the Senator rightly points out yesterday in Canberra, several high profile presenters use their taxpayer-funded platforms to spruke union talking points and prosecute their own private pay disputes. When Girish Sawani told viewers that management was falling short of offering fair pay and gem of a nest and answer the walk out live on air, they weren't just being transparent.

10:21They're in clear violation of their workplace agreements under the ABC's Code of Conduct. I couldn't help myself, I looked it up this morning. Under the standard section of the ABC's own policy, it clearly says employees are required to quote, ensure activities do not constitute an actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest, comprise, compromising the integrity, independence, impassionality and high standards of the ABC. So there's the first breach. It's also worth pointing out the Code of Conduct mandates that all staff must protect the ABC's reputation and ensure that public comment doesn't intersect with their professional life in a way that compromises the broadcasters integrity. So there's the second breach. So if that's the case, are these employees going to be sacked? Have abused a public asset for private gain. I saw a clip last night on nine news of Fran Kelly on the picket line suggesting the broadcasters being run into the ground, run into the ground. How's that possible with an annual budget of over $1.2 billion?

11:26And for the record, I reckon some of the viewers would have enjoyed the reruns of Tom Blyson's hard quiz over Sarah Ferguson's left-leaning questioning of politicians on 730. And I reckon the listeners to ABC National found it quite relaxing this morning while listening to classical music coming out of their speakers. Now look, at the end of the day, there was nothing stopping the staff from walking off the job. They're entitled to do that. But the way in which this was conducted, I think, will haunt the ABC for years. By airing the grievances on the very bulletins they are paid to keep objective, these presenters have handed their critics, including me and other golden ticket. How can an audience trust a presenter to be impartial on government policy when they've already proven they'll use their microphone to lobby for their own bank accounts? I think the ABC Board and Management have a choice now. They can allow this breach of the Code of Conduct to slide, effectively signaling that the inmates are running the asylum, or they can enforce the discipline reaction mentioned in their own policy to restore some semblance of professional standard.

12:29The staff wanted to show the public what they were missing, instead they showed the taxpayers of this country that we can get along just fine without them, and that their commitment to impart she out of the ends exactly where their union membership begins. If Management won't act, then the soothing classical music I think should stay. At least the violinists don't have a political agenda. You can have your say on the ABC this morning on 131873. What else have we got for you today? Here we go. My favourite topic. Now look, I think most of you would agree with me. We're pretty sick and tired of the weekly protests. Well, good on Mark Morrie over at the Telegraph. He's reporting Moors that New South Wales is in a constant state of protest with more than 2,300 rallies, demonstrations and marches every year, so that works out to be an average of more than six a day. Figures obtained by the Telegraph show there were 11,791 protests held across the state between 2021 and 2025, with 4,322 held in the Sydney CBD alone.

13:35Now the independent MP and former police officer Rob Roberts says enough is enough, and it's time the state government considered a permit system to restrict or allocate a certain number of times for groups to protest. I agree with him. And the other thing I've been saying for months is, let's designate a specific area. All these protestors in the domain, they can rally, they can protest, they can demonstrate about whatever they like. It's much easier for the police to manage a static protest, and it's also one that will alleviate the pressure on the CBD, who's running this state, the government of the protest. So good on Rob Roberts for his comments today in that daily Telegraph piece by Mark Morrie. I'll have a bit to say this morning as well about these groups and these individuals who were mourning the death of the Ayatollah in Sydney, and you'll remember I took the Mayor of Liverpool, Ned Manoon, to task over his refusal to stop that from happening. He virtually said, oh no, it's free speech, you're allowed to mourn whoever you like.

14:37Really? Well I know police are now looking into it, they're investigating with the dozens of mosques and other Islamic bodies, broke the law by commemorating the death of the Iranian Supreme Leader, so we'll have a look at that one for you this morning. A few other stories that caught my eye in the various newspapers and around the place. I probably will get a bit fired up when I talk about this later in the show, this pathetic sentence imposed on a driver who hit and killed two people in a head on crash back in 2023 at Heckenberg. You might remember he's the grub who refused to call an ambulance before doing a runner and filming himself eating KFC. Johnson could cause in, is his name? He's in a walk free from jail in three years. Three years, what a joke. The US AUS court, rather, has fined social media giant meta $530 million. This is a landmark legal battle, which has found the digital company failed to protect children from sexual predators and misled its users about the safety of its platforms, so that could open the floodgates to legal action against other

15:41social media companies. And here's a great story, a lovely story involving a priest up on the central coast. In fact, a bishop, a Catholic bishop from the central coast has been handpicked by Pope Leo for a senior role in the Vatican. Anthony Randazzo has been promoted to Archbishop, and he'll spend the next three months in Rome where he'll work as the head of religious texts and law prefecture. So congratulations to Anthony Randazzo from the central coast. I'm sure we may have some people listening to us right now who are familiar with the bishop. Well, he's now an Archbishop, and he is going to be the most senior Australian working at the Vatican. So congratulations to him. Now, we turn to sport. She's some good news for the sharkies leading into the weekend that Craig Fitzgibbon has signed a new deal until the end of 2029. And if he sees out his contract, he will become the longest serving coach in the club's history. But I don't think we put the cart before the horse given the coaches that are under pressure at the moment. You lose three in a row and all of a sudden your head's on the chopping block. Look at

16:45Todd Payton, Anthony Seabull, Shane Flanagan. So good luck to Fitzgibbon. He's a good man and he's done a good job down there at Crennuller. Footy tonight, Daly Cherry Evans back at Four Pines Park Brookvale, but he'll be wearing a rooster's jersey in the game against Manley. There has been a debate this week that has been, you know, roaring along people debating on whether or not he should be booed. Of course, he should be booed. Whether you think he's one of Manley's favorite sons, he's in an opposing team's jersey. So the Manley faithful standing on the hill and sitting in the grandstands who let's face it, Manley fans love ripping into anybody and especially the referees. Of course, they get a boo, Daly Cherry Evans. I'd expect nothing less. That's a part of sport. You want to get under the skin of your opponents and give your team an advantage. So Daly Cherry Evans knows that. He's big enough strong enough to expect it and handle it tonight. So you'll see that live and free on nine's wide world of sports. AFL, Jolongat home do Adelaide. I note Michael Dixon. It was a swan's rookie and now a super bowl champion. He went into visit the swans this

17:47week at their training headquarters at Moore Park. Zach Lomax has missed out on the super rugby Pacific day boo with the Western force resisting the urge to select him for this weekend's match against the chiefs. The buildup continues for the soccer ruse ahead of the FIFA World Cup warm-up match against Cameroon tomorrow night at a core stadium in Sydney and New World Record holder Cam McAvoy has taken aim at swimming authorities saying it's ludicrous that he received no bonus for becoming the fastest man in history over 50 meters. So that's a look at what's happening in sport today. So there's plenty for us to talk about this morning. If you've got an opinion to share story to tell something to report, the number to call 131873. You can email me at 2GB.com and you can text me 0 4 6 0 8 7 3 8 7 3. You're with Mark Levy as we broadcast on 2GB in Sydney through the 2GB app and Vine Network stations right across Australia. Yeah, let's get straight to your feedback as we invariably do. Hard to start the show. 100%

18:48Mark Will spoke and Labor got to go. Thanks for speaking up for us Aussies. Russ at Roy, Mark. I think the petrol shortage is reinforcing Chris Bowen's argument for electric vehicles. He must be loving it at the moment. Another one here, Mark I lost trust in the government before they were elected. $275 reduction in power. We knew that would never be delivered, not across the detail of the OCR and unemployment and then announce the voice and election night. You might say that sold news, but it set the tone and guess what? It's just got worse from Jace. Sylvia, is it going me? Mark, I've never had faith in this government, but it's worse than I thought it would be. As for Bowen, of course, he should go. He should have gone years ago. Another one here from Rayatland Island. Morning, Mark. Agree 100% with you on comments. You've made this morning. Coalition and One Nation will continue to lag behind the mob in Canberra if they don't join on a united front, said that they haven't thus far. And doing a fig tree totally agree, Mark. The Coalition and One Nation need to work closely together for the good of the country.

19:48Well, it's the reason why I think this strategy at the moment, and it started a couple of weeks ago when Matt Canavan was first appointed leader of the nationals. His first response was to start attacking One Nation. We've heard some of the Liberals do that as well. That's not the answer. As I said the other day, and I think I heard Peter Credland say it on Sky the other day, you don't win back voters by feeding them vinegar. You've got to give him some sugar. You've got to be nice to them. And when One Nation has this ground swell of support that sees the opinion polls reflect One Nation is certainly surging as far as a ground swell of support is concerned. Why would you attack them? You'd be thinking to yourselves, okay, well, we, okay, clearly need to differentiate ourselves between what the coalition stands for and what One Nation stands for, but attacking One Nation, they're attacking the wrong team. They need to attack this labour-green alliance. That's what's done the damage to this country. Jump of the line and have you say this morning on one, three, one, eight, seven, three. Anna's done that. She's at Croydon Park.

20:49Good morning, Anna. Hi, Mark. How are you going? I'm very well. Thank you, Anna. My heart's thumping, making this phone call, honestly. I'm really emotional at the moment, and I know I'm not just speaking for myself. I know I'm speaking for so many people who were suffering at the moment, and my plea is to Anthony Albanese. What are you doing? Like, honestly, what are you doing? Like I said, you know, I'm just one of many people, but I've recently spent one and a half thousand dollars moving my kids and I come a single bum to a cheaper place in Sydney to save 175 a week only for that money not to go in my pocket at all. It's going on these ridiculous fuel prices, the cost of groceries, cost of electricity. I mean, I've lived in survival mode since my divorce 10 years ago, and I'm highly educated, I'm highly skilled. I can't even get anyone to give me any work from home. I've got to work from home. I've got a conic illness. And I'm just exhausted, you know, and like I said, I'm not

21:49special. There's other people out there suffering, but this is really my plea to Anthony Albanese, you just say, what are you doing? Really? I mean, it's ridiculous. You have no idea how powerful this phone call is. I think everybody can hear how distraught and upset you are. I'd ask you this, Anna, and I just want you to just take a big deep breath for me because we're all in this together, okay? But how does it make you feel as a taxpayer in Australia, okay? It's a single mum with a couple of beautiful kids, but you turn on the telly at night and you see people like Chris Bowen and Anthony Albanese say, oh, we got enough fuel. We're going to be fine. But all the while you're having to pay an exorbitant amount of money just to put Petra in the car. Oh, it's just a joke. It really is. I mean, I had to drive my kids to their sports carnival today. And I was just panicking thing, you know, driving past five different fuel stations because no fuel thinking, or what do I do? I mean, you know, there's no fuel. What if my kids get sick? I

22:52can't pick them up. And I've got no family help. I do everything on my own. And, you know, I've got great kids and, you know, lucky for that. But I just feel like, you know, I'm sitting here thinking, I've got all this knowledge. No one will even hire me. You know, I can work from home. I thought, yeah, I can't work out there because, you know, I'm not well. But I just, I'm sitting here every day thinking, when is Albanese going to announce? I'm going to cut the fuel ex. So if I'm going to somehow really do something for all of us who were suffering and look, I've got some savings in the bank, but it's whittling very quickly. Trust me because, you know, I'm not earning that much money, but I've got more than other people out there. And I just hope he's listening to this phone call. Stop with your silly meetings. You know, stop, you know, just do something now. Like really do something now. I've been like this for 10 years, and I've had enough. Mark, I've really had enough. I've got to say something. And good on you for giving us a call on the open line. I'm just going to pop your back to

23:54Chelsea and Georgia. We're going to keep in touch and just make sure everything's okay. All right. Okay. Yep. Thanks. I appreciate you taking my call. All right. And stay strong. We're all in this together. We've got to remember that. And I often refer to the 2GB family. And there are a lot of people, I know who feel exactly like you. It's the reason why we as a radio station are trying to, trying to do things for our listeners, you know, whether it's the, the boughs of us to competition last year, 250 bucks with a fuel, whether it's some family passes to the, to the royal east to show. In fact, Anna, are you still there? Yeah, yeah. Anna, I've got a very good relationship with Murray Wilton. I know this probably won't help, but would it help you if I was to get manage to get my hands on a family pass to the east to show, just so you can go out and enjoy it with your kids? Yeah, that would be really nice. Thank you. Anna, it's the least I can do. Just stay there and I'll get some details. I just want to, I just want to try and do something for you. I wish I could help, but if I can try and get my hands on a family pass to get you out to the Sydney Royal East to show, that's the least I can do.

24:55Stay there, Anna. We'll get some of your details. Well, that's just heartbreaking. It really is. Are you listening, Prime Minister? Angus Taylor, are you listening? You know, you, you turn on the TV, you watch question time, and they're at each other. They're arguing over nothing. They're the real Australians, Prime Minister, who are hurting. Yet you've got an energy minister who stands at the dispatch box and says, I know, we're sweet. We've got enough fuel. We've got enough supply. We're sweet garbage. That's bullshit, Prime Minister. It is. And I'm sorry to use that language, but it's just heartbreaking to hear listeners like Anna, who can't live their day-to-day lives through the inaction of this insipid labor government. It makes me so angry and it's so upsetting to hear our listeners have to pour their heart out on an open line because our politicians, our elected leaders, will not listen. One, three, one, eight, seven, three, the number, 28 to 10. Oh, the board's gone into meltdown off the back of that call from Anna.

26:00Mark, I'm choked up. What do you say? We've had call after call after call on the open line in the last five minutes. People just wanting to help Anna out with some money. I've got emails here. Mark, can I get in contact with Anna? I just want to give her 100 bucks. I've got other people saying I want to give her 20 bucks. I want to give her five. Anything I can to help this woman. Mark made me cry this call, mate, from Neil. Mark, I'm a middle-aged bloke. I'm in tears. Keep giving it to this government. Surely they've got to start listening. Well, you just feel like you're banging your head up against a wall. I was thinking driving into work this morning. What did we hear about when the Prime Minister was first elected during election campaigns? He struggles of coming from our housing commission background, growing up under a single mum. As a single mum, is the Prime Minister listening to these people?

27:01Yet all we get is the smugness from Chris Ballon, who stands there like a smiling, chessier cat, because he thinks he's got everything under control. You know, I saw a release from the government yesterday saying that there are no petrol stations without fuel and metropolitan areas. That's garbage. You drive across Sydney and you'll see them for yourself. I was driving into work this morning along the Princess Highway. There was one. Numbers blacked out. No petrol. Just break your heart. It really does. 131873 is the number jacks down in Hobart. Morning, Jack. Yeah. Jack, you're on the air, mate. What would you like to say? I know we're out of an easy brushing, but it needs to continue. I see him stand there and tell us where we work from home, so fuel, do what you can. He gets on a plane and flies down to here to Hobart to see Queen Mary. Why would it have no idea? He should be in his office day and night trying to fix our problems and then he'll do the same thing any time there's no opening of

28:09a bloody shoe box. It's just probably nuts. How much is this selfie album as cost as a fortune? Yeah. Jack, I'm going to keep pointing the finger as well at Chris Bowen and we can refer to it as album easy bashing, but what we're doing is we're highlighting the inaction from a government. And I think we all have a responsibility to do that. You know, even rusted on Labor voters can't tell me at the moment they're not hurting. Yet they want to sit there and they go, oh, what a great job the Prime Minister's doing. We had a bit of a laugh yesterday with the ABC being on strike. And I jokingly said, oh, ABC News tonight, the Albanese government handling this crisis brilliantly. That's genuinely what some of these lefties think. Yet the struggles of everyday Australians at the moment, not only a cost of living crisis, the cost of fuel. When was the last time you opened your electricity? But what are you paying to keep your lights on? Yet we have all these natural resources and we don't use them to our own advantage.

29:09Penny Wong gave $5 million to Lebanon. Chris Bowen couldn't even turn up to a national cabinet meeting over the energy crisis, the petrol crisis because he was fulfilling his obligations as this, you know, international head of whatever it is, the climate thing that he's involved in. It's just, you can't tell me ladies and gentlemen that in 2028, this mob will end up with enough votes to hold on to power given the mismanagement of this country. It's infuriating, it's upsetting. But most importantly, when you speak to people like Anna, it's heartbreaking because you can hear the pain and the struggles in their voice. At what point do you, as politicians, start listening to the people you purport to represent? 20 to 10. Mike Tury-Kindy says, morning, Mark, we are also blessed to have you guys on 2GB advocating and pressuring our governments to do the right thing. You shouldn't have to, but yet you do have to. Thank you, Mike. There's a few people saying, Mark, can you replay Anna's call later in the show?

30:13Well, Andrew Hastie's going to join us after the news at 10. And I'm going to play Mr. Hastie exactly what Anna said. And we'll get one of our federal politicians to respond. I know he's not in a position to be able to make a difference as a government, but he can certainly put the pressure on the government as the opposition in this country to cut the fuel exercise. And I just want to keep coming back to the point that the government is double dipping. They have a GST on our fuel. They have a fuel exercise on our fuel. The exercise doesn't change at 52 cents, but the GST does. And as Pauline Hanson said last night, and she's set again today in the telegraph, the government in this country is making an extra $300 million a month from the GST extra on our fuel, an extra $300 million per month on our fuel. And we wonder why people like Anna are so upset. So many Australians are really, really hurting. One, three, one, eight, seven, three, the number 2GB.com. Click onto the feedback icon. Well,

31:16I was able to help out Anna with some Easter show tickets. And I want to do the same for you this morning. 2GB, no, the show. Yes, it's our favorite time of the year because the Easter show is almost here. And we are giving away family passes to the show right across the day with 2GB, no, the show. In each program, we'll give you a fun fact about the show. All you need to do is remember that fact and then listen out for your cuticle. If you're the nominated caller on the prize line and we'll take caller number 13 today, 1, 300, 7, double, 2873 is the number to ring. And all I'll do is ask you to give me the daily fact and you'll be the winner. So here is today's Easter show fun fact. Honky Tonk, the Nashville inspired bar with live country tunes. Barbecue smoked meats and craft drinks will return for the 2026 show and it'll be open from 10.30 a.m. until 10.30 p.m. So that's what the question is today. You'll need to remember barbecue meats looking at the question here. No, I want you to remember

32:22the name of the bar. That's what I want you to remember, the name of the bar and then stand by for your cuticle. When you hear it, give me a ring on 1, 300, 7, double, 2, 8, 7, 3 and you, ladies and gentlemen, will win the family pass to the royal Easter show. So yes, remember the name of the bar. That's what you'll need to remember. So stand by for your cuticle. That's what you'll need to remember. So stand by for your cuticle. 1, 300, 7, double, 2, 8, 7, 3 and we'll do that a little later for you here on the 2GB morning show. Just away from the fuel crisis. So there was a really lovely moment last night down at Waverley. Bondi Hero Ahmed Al Ahmed was awarded a key to the city and a lifetime beach parking pass for his bravery during the December 14 terror attack. Of

33:25course, the 43 year old went viral after that footage showed him sneaking up behind one of the two terrorists shooting at a 10 D's of the Hanukkah event and wrestling a long-barrelled gun away from him. He was shot several times. Ahmed Al Ahmed requiring multiple surgeries at St George Hospital. And as we now know, 15 people, innocent people were killed on that day. The youngest being 10 year old Matilda. The father of two was presented with the gifts to honor his heroism at a ceremony hosted by Waverley Council where Bondi Beach is located and a video message from the premier Chris Minnes was played for the audience in which he thanked and praised Mr Ahmed. Waverley Mayor Will Nemesh also spoke and said Mr Ahmed, disarming one of the gunmen, has become synonymous with heroism and the bravery of ordinary Australians displayed during that day. Mr Ahmed then became the second person in the council's history to receive a lifetime beach parking permit for the LGA, which also includes Bondi, the governor of New South Wales Margaret Beasley, also spoke at the ceremony, acknowledging Mr Ahmed's injury sustained during the encounter.

34:29So what a lovely moment for Ahmed Al Ahmed, who is a hero, along with each and every other person who was down there on that ill-fated night and lent a hand and obviously took matters into their own hands and sadly lost their lives, their heroes as well. But a very lovely night last night for Ahmed Al Ahmed and his family, well done to the Mayor Will Nemesh and to all those people in attendance for that last night. It's ten and a half to ten. Peter on the Sunshine Coast says Mark the opposition should be using Anna's phone call today in question time to find out what Anthony Albanese's response is. Well we'll certainly send the audio to Angus Taylor's team and if they want to at least quote one Anna's had to say, I'm still heartbroken that I can't do more to help Anna, I wish I could. But thank you to all those generous listeners who've been in touch to offer their support financially to Anna but to also just to ensure that she's okay. And there's a really important message here from Miku, she says, Levy, I'd call but I don't think

35:32I could hold it in. I'm seriously worried about people's mental health right now. You may have been a person that is just getting on your feet and then this, please reach out if you're struggling. 131114 is the number for lifeline, don't be alone and don't be embarrassed. And I was listening to Gus Walland talking to Ben this morning on the breakfast show and Gus has been talking about this for a long, long time for the people, the need for people just to reach out and ask for help. He does that through. He's got your full-life foundation and you know whether it's men, women, children, if you're struggling, there's no need to feel alone and no need to feel embarrassed. If you're like Anna and you're really struggling and you need somebody to talk to, yes, you can give us a call at 2GB but if you need to speak to a professional, give lifeline a call, 131114. Mark Labor has done so much damage to people realize how long it will take to get this great country back on track. That's Greg at Bonville. Mark, I've just returned from a short trip to the Northern New South Wales or Caravan Park. We stayed in, had plenty of vacancy over Easter,

36:34usually booked out 12 months and advanced you to cancellation. This is going to hit tourist towns really, really hard from Jeff, from Lately in Queensland. Well, there's a story about it in one of the papers. It might be the telegraph that I read this morning that a lot of families have cancelled their east to get away, which just goes to show that they can't afford the cost of fuel at the moment to get them to their destination. I've got people saying, Mark, we should be driving to Parliament House and protesting against all of this. Well, Louise, it's great in theory, but we've also got a factor in the cost of getting to Canberra to start voicing our concerns and our anger. I think the best way in which to do that is via the open line here at 2GB on 131873. You can do that for a Macem, a Macem.com today, you until you're pricey tilco where to go. 4.5 to 10. Yeah, we spoke about cancellations over the east to long weekend. This story in the herald at Murrow Runduy Caravan Park, just north of Skone. Don Campbell should be gearing up for one of the year's busiest periods. The Murrow Runduy Festival, the warbirds over Skone Airshow this weekend,

37:37instead. He's been feeling cool after call from customers, canceling their trips anxious about the cost and worried they won't be able to fill up in the regional town. So yeah, we've got to wait for a national cabinet meeting on Monday to do something about it. Unbelievable. News is next. Across Australia, this is Mornings with Mark Levy. The second hour of the program in Andrew Hastie not too far away from joining us for a chat from Parliament House in Canberra in the middle of a division at the moment. So when he pops into our Canberra Bureau, we'll have a chat to Mr Hastie on the program this morning. In the meantime, the New South Wales Premier Chris Minnes says the state's liquid fuel emergency operation center opened in Paramount of this morning. The told reporters in Sydney, the center would provide information on fuel usage to government agencies and big oil companies to help them become aware of bulk purchases in the construction mining and agriculture sectors. The Premier said we

38:42hope that the circumstances in the Middle East don't continue to deteriorate, but we have to be prepared in New South Wales. The Premier said there were clearly distribution problems for independent petrol stations trying to access fuel. We're speaking with the oil companies to give us greater clarity that if there's not a lawful reason why independent petrol stations can't purchase the petrol, we will take extraordinary action. So there are hundreds of petrol stations across the country now that are without fuel. So then announcement in that operation center has been opened this morning. At meantime, in the United States, the military says it struck 10,000 targets in Iran during the first four weeks of Operation Epic Fury. The military central command spokesperson Admiral Brad Cooper said 92% of Iran's largest navy vessels had been destroyed. In an update posted to social media, Cooper said precision strikes had overwhelmed Iran's

39:43air defenses and that the U.S. maintains air superiority over Iran. He said Iran's drone and missile launch rates are down by 90% and that more than two-thirds of Iran's drone and missile manufacturing had been destroyed. So that's the latest information there from the United States military. In the meantime, look, I've seen some pretty ordinary and pathetic sentences imposed by the courts in New South Wales during my time in this job. The judges are appointed to the bench to impose penalties that meet community expectation, but then you come across stories like this one. You may have seen it on the current affairs last night and they make you wonder how these judges reached their decisions and thank goodness a carrot affair was there for the sentencing. They were there in Campbelltown District Court for the sentencing of a bloke by the name of Johnson Cacosean. You might remember the name. He's the young bloke who caused the crash that killed Alina Kaufman and Ernesto Salazar in Sydney, southwest at Heckenberg in I think it was September

40:45of 2023. Johnson was driving a high-powered SUV when he veered onto the wrong side of the road and collided head on with the victim's car at Toyota Echo, which was traveling in the other direction. He fled the scene without even calling an ambulance. He was driving on a suspended license. In the immediate aftermath, Johnson showed more concern for his own car and the amount of money he'd lost than for his victims. Not only did the driver flee the scene, he filmed himself later eating KFC. Well, you'd better grab hold of that steering wheel or you'd better sit down because if you're not familiar with this case, you know what this grub copped as far as a sentence gauge? A custodial sentence for the non-parole period of just five and a half years, meaning he will be eligible for release in three. So he will walk free from jail in March of 2029. The man who sentenced him was just as David Arnet and I just want you to let that sink in from Johnson. Cosian kills two people when he hits them head on. He shows no concern for the victims.

41:50Does the bolt before filming himself eating KFC and what a district court judge imposes a sentence that a result in him walking free from jail to live a normal life in three years? I hope Michael Daly's listening, the attorney general in New South Wales and the DPP, they need to appeal this today. Where's the justice for the victims family? Their mother Angelina was in court yesterday and through a stream of tears she described the sentence as a joke. Outside Miss Kaufman said, I just feel like they ripped out my soul again. I mean, my soul already went in with my kids when I buried them. Whatever shred of hope I had and of getting justice for them is gone. And her heart break turned to anger when Miss Kaufman said he left them for dead, not one, but two. He was only worried about his car to get money for insurance for the car and for a lawyer. So this shows you what sort of a person he is. He didn't care about anyone but himself. How can Johnson, Cocosian, walk free in three years' time? That's not justice. It's an insult to the victims and

42:55their family. A life for a life used to mean something and this court rumored apparently cost less than two years per victim. We'll take a break at 12 past 10. We'll come back and have a chat to Andrew Haiste. Yeah, we'll get down to Canberra and just to catch up with Andrew Haiste, he's just making his way from the Chamber to our political bureau in Canberra, Parliament House. G'day, Libby, just filled the truck up, mate, $4,618 at $3.31 a litre, an increase of about $1,400. On a second note, I truly and honestly believe Mr. Albanese in this government don't care. Everything is fine in their world on six-figure salaries. That one from Les. Just pulled into the mobile at West Ride, put the nozzle in Makar, nothing coming out. They've run out of E-10. Started it on Mark from Sue. Ampile out of diesel, Roberts Road green acre. So the government's putting out releases. Oh no, all petrol stations in metropolitan and there is a sweat. We're all good. Rubbish. Rubbish. 131873, the number 2GB.com. Click onto the feedback icon

44:00if you would like to join us. Tom, when you say this grubble walk free in three years, has he been in custody up until yesterday? Will he be serving three years or three years plus time already in custody? But what does it matter, Tom? It's a pathetic sentence imposed on a bloke who killed two people when he ran head on into their Toyota RECA. Whether it's time already served or whether it's another three years, it's a pathetic sentence handed down by a pathetic district court. 131873 is the number 2GB.com. Click onto the feedback icon. Well, let's get down to Canberra to federal parliament. Andrew Hastie is joining us on the line right now. The deputy leader of the opposition in the lower house and the shadow minister for industry and sovereign capability. Andrew, good morning to you. Good morning to you, Mark. Can you listen us? Well, mate, I just want to play you something at the start of our chat here and I know you might get dragged away because of divisions and the like. Well, we took a phone call in the first hour of the show from a woman by the name of Anna. She's a single mum. It's heartbreaking and she demonstrated

45:05what everyday Australians are feeling right now. I just want you to have a listen to what Anna had to say to me earlier this morning. Oh, it's just a joke. It really is. I mean, I had to drive my kids to their sports carnival today and I was just panicking, you know, driving past five different field stations because no fuel thinking, or what do I do? I mean, if, you know, there's no fuel, what if my kids get sick? I can't pick them up and I've got no family help. I do everything on my own and I'm sitting here every day thinking, when is our beneath you going to announce? I'm going to cut the fuel exercise. I'm going to somehow really do something for all of us. So, Andrew, that's Anna. She lives at Croydon Park in Sydney. The Prime Minister is her local member in Grangler. She's getting no support from him, not as a local member, and certainly not as a Prime Minister, and Anna is one of millions of Australians who are really doing it tough right now. Look, I really sympathise with Anna. A lot of Australians out there are doing it tough, particularly who

46:05rely upon their car to get around, particularly with young children. I know that a lot of people are worried long term if this continues about having a choose between food and getting their kids to school. She mentioned the doctor. There's all sorts of issues here. So, yes, the Prime Minister has to lead. He's not doing a good job of leading and that's why we've been focused on demanding a plan from him and his energy minister, Chris Bowen. They say that all the shipments are arriving in this country, yet we've got over 500 service stations, which have run dry. The government's job at this point is to identify where people are hoarding or where there's informal rationing, establish where those bumps are and smooth them out across the economy so that our distribution networks are working for the Australian people, for people like Anna. We shouldn't have to wait for another national cabinet meeting on Monday, surely. No, this is a really serious time and the Prime Minister, if he was leading, he would call a national cabinet. That's why we federated in 1901 because we were worried about a crisis, a national crisis. So, all the colonies came together,

47:07formed states and a country and this is an international crisis. Iran has globalised the war. They've globalised the Battle of Hamuz and we are affected because we're right at the end of the supply chain and 90% of our fuel is imported. So, we are in the gun and we've got to have a plan and the Prime Minister doesn't have one. You just heard Anna say, why doesn't he cut the fuel exercise? Why isn't the opposition seizing on this? Isn't that the logical option staring us all in the face? There was a precedent back at the height of the pandemic from the Morrison government that cut the fuel exercise? Isn't the government double dipping at the moment with not only the fuel exercise but the GST on top of that as well? Look, all options should be on the table and I'm open-minded about that because it was Scott Morrison who cut the fuel exercise by half when Russia invaded Ukraine and that impacted oil supply across the world as well. Fuel prices went up as a consequence and it was targeted and temporary relief for six months. So, there is a precedent and all options are on the table. Our focus is on the Australian people, on people like Anna who

48:07are doing it tough. People have been smashed for the last four years with inflation. Regular Australians, low income Australians, they've had their purse to sing power reduced and now when they see fuel prices spiking up to $3 a litre for diesel, it's frightening. From an opposition's point of view, you're an alternative government here. You can really take it up to the government and corner them and say, right, well, this is what we think should happen and we want you to jump on board and that is to cut this fuel exercise because we've got a GST applied to the final pump price, which has already included the exercise. So, the 52 cents doesn't change but the GST does and Paul Enhancin seized on this. She's saying, look, the government's making an extra $300 million a month at the moment on the GST on fuel. That's $300 million a month going into the government coffers. All the while we've got people like Anna working out whether or not she's got enough money to put fuel in a petrol tank. That's right. Well, look, all options are on the table. The problem is this government is not

49:09being transparent. They keep telling us the shipments have arrived. Yet we have 500 petrol stations across the country that have run dry. They have the information. They'd be modeling the supply chains. They'd be modeling when the global supply shock actually hits us hard, which is apparently sometime around mid-April, late April next month. They're not even being transparent. We have to use question time to find out which service stations around the country have closed and how many by state. This is a government that is not being transparent. If you don't have the information, it's very hard to make decisions. Our task is to get them to the table and all options should be on the table, by the way, including a fuel excise cut. You know what really angers me, Andrew, when I watch question time, just as a keen observer, when the smugness that's on display from Chris Bowen who gets up there and you guys are putting genuine questions to the energy minister, the man who's responsible for this, and the response is I refer the honourable member to my previous question. Isn't that the ultimate slap in the face to the Australian people when

50:10you, your job in opposition, is to ask the questions that we're entitled to answers on? Absolutely. That's your job. That's why we have question time. It's an hour and 15 minutes of accountability every single day. The minister has three minutes to answer the question. Three minutes. They often go off track, so we have to make a point of order and bring them back to the question. But what we've seen this past week is Chris Bowen sitting down and not answering the question. And that's why we've been saying you're all done, mate. 30 seconds in and you're done. I must be missing something, Andrew, and you've been in politics long enough to maybe work this out for me. How the hell is Chris Bowen still a minister of the crowd? Everything he touches is a disaster. Well, you're not wrong there. I'm not going to argue with you, Mark, and a lot of people want change. They want change, and it can't come quick enough, and our job at the moment is to just force the government to come up with a plan that looks after people like Anna. All right. Well, if we want to change your government, I think you're going to need the assistance of one nation through preferences and the like to get rid of this Labor government. I know Paul

51:14Enhancin's in the paper today saying, look, she's happy to work with you guys all of a sudden. Are there any discussions happening behind the scenes between the leadership of the coalition and those in one nation? Look, I've always had a respectful relationship with Paul En. I've got no quarrel to pick with Paul En. But one nation, they're out to tear us down. There was an article yesterday in the Australian financial review where James Ashby, her chief of staff said, we've got to get rid of all the old players and start afresh, and he was talking about the coalition. So this is a contest. I want to win. I want to deliver good, center-right government for the Australian people. And what we saw on the weekend in South Australia was a cannibalisation of the South Australian vote, which just empowered Labor to deliver more Labor government. So I'm happy to work with anyone, but if it's a competition, well, I'm going to fight hard because I believe the coalition can deliver a better government than the Labor government. But see, it's trickier entry because you don't want to fall into that trap where you're going after one nation because all that does is it just

52:19fractures that center-right vote even further. And the real enemy here for yourself and one nation, I would have thought, is that Labor greens alliance. Well, we can't afford as a country to have another one, two, three terms of a Labor government, which is surely why the coalition needs to work with one nation together to try and ask this Labor government. Am I right or wrong there? Yeah, absolutely. But like I said, you know, I'm not trying to pick a quarrel with one nation. There's a lot of good people in one nation. And I want to win their vote back. But one nation have very clearly said that they want to take our votes office. So it's a competition. And I think what we need to do is come up with a vision and better policies. And we're doing that. We're out of net zero. We're going to kill net zero and we're going to get this country going cheaper power prices for family small businesses in industry. We're going to cut immigration and insist on higher standards. And we're going to look at ways of making the economy work for working Australians who've been smashed by inflation. They've been smashed by the expansionary monetary policy of the RBA. So a

53:22lot of Australians have no hope of ever buying and owning their own home. That's got to change. That's all on the table. And one thing we need to do is get back to standing on our own to feet. Andrew, you know, the amount of resources we have available to us in this country. I mean, there's a story in the papers in Sydney today about oil. Why we're not refining our own oil. We've got these large amounts of oil that we don't use yet. We've got two refineries. We did have six. Is that something that would change under a coalition government? All options are on the table. And I said this yesterday at the Australian National University and the speech. I said, you know, we should be looking at all options about recovering our refining capacity. That includes using techniques like coal to liquid. You could use our coal, which we have an abundance of to make crude oil and then turn that into jet fuel and diesel. And that would give us a level of self-sufficiency. So in the event of a war, we could stand on our own to feet. And at the moment, we don't have that option, which is why we're so vulnerable. And people like Anna, they're hit hardest. And this is Donald Trump's choice, by the way. You know, I've been pretty tough on

54:27Donald Trump over the last week because it's people like Anna who get smashed. And I should remind you that one nation's been pretty strong in supporting Donald Trump's war. I mean, that's not a point that's made very often, but I want to make it so your listeners today. You don't support the war? Well, I didn't get a choice. Australians didn't get a choice. We weren't briefed. It just started. And now we're dealing with the consequences. And you know, but it doesn't, but the entry, doesn't that fall back on the politicians in this country that haven't prepared us for what was inevitable, this conflict in the Middle East? Well, we didn't know it was inevitable. Oh, come on, Andrew, you've been around long enough to know what was happening in the Middle East. This was always going to happen. There were warships being mobilized. We knew this. Yeah, sure. We saw the military build up. We saw the military build up. But I think what's happened here is that, you know, President Trump thought he could go in and win the war in a week. And, you know, right now, Iran has the world economy held to ransom. And people like Anna are suffering as a consequence. And I'm not going to send, you know, young Australians to die in a conflict that we don't know an end state too. And there's no clear strategic objective.

55:31Hmm. Who do we believe here at the moment? Because we've got the United States saying one thing, we've got Iran saying, oh, no, no, nothing's happening. There's no, no talks. Is there an end in sight of this war or how do you envision this long, this war to go on for? Well, Iran after Operation Midnight Hammer in June last year dispersed a lot of their missiles and drones. They decentralized authority, but especially for this moment, if that their regime was to capitate, they could still fire missiles. And they've been firing missiles at the Gulf states, at ships, and that's closed the strait of Hamuz. And then of course, you know, Donald Trump when he came out, he said that, you know, you know, this, this is about changing the regime. So the regime is going to fight to the death because they know that if they, if they give up, they're finished. And so it's a real strategic pickle that we're in. And my, my, my, my, my vision for this country going forward, Mark, is that we're self-sufficiency without self-sufficiency without a fence force. We can fight and stand on our own two feet. And we have enough refining capacity and we use our natural resources so that we're not caught out again if this ever happens down the track.

56:33All right. Well, keep taking it up to the government in Canberra because there are a lot of people hurting and you heard Anna's call and I'm getting call after call after call on this program. Andrew, people that are saying government prime minister, you have to do something. And I think the start is to cut that fuel exercise. Andrew, hasty, I appreciate your time as always. Thank you, Mark. Good on you, mate. Andrew, hasty. There he is. Joining us from Canberra, the leader of the opposition, deputy leader of the opposition in the lower house and the shadow minister for industry and sovereign capability. You can have your say this morning, folks. You've heard what Mr. Hastie has to say. The number to call 131873. You can email me at 2GB.com and you can text me 0460873873. But what I would say to those in Canberra, whatever side of politics you are on, that phone call that we took in the first hour of the show from Anna should be resonating through the corridors of power because Anna speaks on behalf of most Australians who are having to make sacrifices and choices just to put petrol in their car to take their kids to school and to go to the supermarket to buy groceries to put on the table and that are groceries

57:37that are also the price of going through the roof. We'll take a break at 1030 and come back with more. I'm going to be honest with your folks. I'm quite disappointed with some of the answers offered up by Andrew Hastie and it looks like you are as well. I've just had a few messages here. Jesus, mate, does Andrew Hastie know what a free kick is? That was his chance to really make it some big statements. So, disappointing. We're in serious trouble. 131873 is the number to gb.com. Marcus, is it like to have morning Marcus? Good morning. Yeah, look, I'm actually on your side. I thought that everything was on the table, but I don't want to be on the table. I want to be in the policies. I want to be pushed for it. And if anybody listens to a question time, he says, oh, this is our chance to make the government accountable. None of the questions are answered. It's answer time. It's not answer time. It's question time, but the answers never come. So, I really felt he had a chance to actually talk about the few lakesides and the need to write

58:40now, not the government to double dip, dialect, parliament, ask for it, others have asked for it. It's not that hard to say, yes, that's a good idea. It's not on the table. It's got to be in the policy. And the sad reality is, Marcus, when Andrew Hastie talks about all options being on the table, there are a lot of people across this country that don't have options on the table. Their option at the moment is, can I or can I not afford to put fuel in my car? And that's when the option is on the table, that choice, because she goes to some surveys and there is no fuel. So, there is no options. Marcus, I thank you for your call. Susan Richmond, morning, sir. Hi, Mark. Hit the nail on the head. You did it well. Great interview. Andrew Hastie has no idea what he's talking about. When you mentioned about, when you about the war, he ignored it. No, he didn't. We're right if we have a war. We don't need America. Well, I don't know about, I don't know about it. We certainly need the United States.

59:42If you have a look at our defense capabilities, which is something Andrew and I have spoken about, but the look, the war has been raised for a reason. And that is to cut the head off the snake of the biggest funder of terrorism anywhere in the world. So that was done for a reason. And I remember saying this weeks and weeks and weeks ago, and I heard Michael McLaren, my colleague talking about it, who follows these things a lot closer than I do. He spoke about, you know, naval fleets moving warships, positioning themselves for what was to come. Yet all we heard from Canberra was Anthony Abernese writing letters to Sir Kia Stammer about whether or not the former Prince Andrew should remain in the royal succession line. I mean, you as a government, if every day Australians like myself and Michael McLaren and others across Australia can say, oh, geez, we're going to have something going on over here in the Middle East. The Americans are mobilizing. Something's going to happen. Why aren't you as a government doing something about it in preparedness for what is to come? And thinking, geez, okay, well, we've only got over 30 days of fuel. The global standard is we need 90.

1:00:46Wouldn't you, wouldn't you be trying to do whatever you could to prepare the country for what was to come, knowing that we rely on our diesel economy? But they set on their hands. So, look, I had to challenge Andrew Hasey on that point and I would have thought somebody with his military background would have understood that. Thank you, Sue, for your call. Mix in Jolong, morning, Mick. Hey, Libby, how are you? I'm very well. Thank you. Mate, nice to have you on board from Jolong, buddy. Yeah, no worries. Hasey's got no idea of the liberals. They keep back in one nation. They think they're going to get anywhere in the election. They need to work on nation to get rid of this rotten government. They're nicked in the head. Look, I understand what Andrew's saying. You know, they've got to defend themselves if one nation or James Ashby has a crack at them. But all it does is it gets those voters who have made the switch and have turned their back on the liberals and the nationals. It just gets their backup when they hear the former party they voted for, having a crack at the party they now want to support.

1:01:51I'll keep using the analogy because it's the best one I've heard. You don't feed those voters vinegar. You feed them sugar in a way to win them back. You need to sweep that rather than something that's sour in other words. Another Victorian robot, Blackburn. Morning, Rob. Good morning, Mark. Mate, I'm pretty fired up with this. That was a great interview you had with Andrew Hasey. Thank you. They'd exposed the libnet strategy. Blame Trump and let bow on off the hook and stop any sort of heat from the previous liberal decisions, which we can't change. What happened then? We can't change it. But what I'm going to say is now is now. Stop looking in the rear view mirror and work with one nation and others to get rid of this bloody hopeless government and get something done right now to take the pressure off. Rob, you've heard the calls. Call after call after call this week. Mate, and I'm going to repeat what I said. I think it was yesterday or the day before.

1:02:54And that is that I don't think the open line in this country has ever been more important to send a very clear message and direct message to those politicians, their staffers, and the bureaucrats who listen and monitor everything we say on this radio station. They know how much you're hurting because they get the transcripts and they get the audio clippings that they play in their offices and say, oh, jeez, have a listen to this poor woman, Anna, who's well, what are you going to do about it, Prime Minister? What are you going to do? You know, Anthony Albanese, the man that grew up under a single mom in a housing commission background. Well, the way we're going, they're going to be a lot more people on welfare and they're going to be a lot more people than housing because they're going to lose the roof over their head. They're going to lose their livelihoods because of the inaction of this government. Rob, you're a good man. Thank you for your call. Jess in Orange, morning, Levy, please tell Andrew and the Liberals to get on. Tick tock. Their social media has really improved since Angus took over, but they need to reach young people too. I love listening to you on the app. Mark, all I'm hearing is waffle coming out of Andrew Hastie's mouth. Get your act together. Join forces with one nation. Start hammering the crap out

1:03:59of Labor. It's very telling that the coalition is doing nothing when one nation is the only party attacking Labor. Join forces with one nation. Otherwise, you're finished. That one from Mark. Willow says, if the opposition can just give the people of Australia some hope, they'll win by a landslide in 2028. And Peter says, I thought Andrew Hastie had potential. He sounded weak and non-committal on any policy. Well, it's easy to throw away the line that, you know, everything's on the table. Well, the sound reality for most Australians is, they don't have options on the table. The only option they've got at the moment is, can I put fuel in the car or not? And that's if the service station has made available the fuel in their bhouses. 131873, the number 2GB.com. Click on the feedback icon. One more before we get to a break. Adam, he's in the mining industry. Morning, Adam. Hey, Garland. I'm good, buddy. Yeah, mate. Yeah, look, better from the mining industry. The amount of diesel that we go through on a daily basis. To more or less, keep the lights on pretty straights out there. It's quite a lot.

1:05:03So if there is a genuine shortage going on and we have a shortage of diesel and we can't we can't produce enough cold sufficient enough to burn in the power plant, your lights will turn off. Yep. So it's about time that the government actually started doing something together. It's been pretty obvious ever since the on-dieterrorist thing that we had that this government is enabled to run this country. Yep, they're they're late to the party, aren't they? They're just the problem I've got with the government is they they're too reactive rather than being proactive is probably the best way I can put it. If you can see something that's coming as clear as day, what we knew what was going to happen in the Middle East. Andrew H.D. says, I know we didn't know. Of course we knew. The world knew what was to come. And if we had a decent relationship with the United States, maybe Donald Trump would have told Anthony Abernese instead he's writing those letters out to you sir, Kia Stammer. I think it's a disgrace what

1:06:05Prince Andrew has done. He can't possibly be in the Royal, the Royal Succession line. How is that going to put food on the table for hardworking Australians? The people he supposed to represent. They're just all over the shop. Adam and I think if you call, she who is, if the mining industry is running out of diesel, it's no wonder that we've got petrol stations and service stations across this country that don't have any diesel. What are the other question that I keep getting asked? What are they waiting for? Fuel to go over four dollars, five dollars a liter? I was talking to somebody in the fuel industry recently. He said, Mark, it'll get over five dollars. It's coming. So at what point does the government say we are going to act? They won't even consider a cut to the fuel exercise. Seventeen minutes to eleven. Just some news through from police, as we welcome you back at 13 to 11. A man will face court today charged with 45 offenses after allegedly falsifying documents and posing as a casting agent to lure young actors. In November of 2025, detectives launched an investigation under strike force Vatible

1:07:09into reports amount allegedly falsified documents and posed as a casting agent for an international company offering false TV film opportunities in exchange for sexual activity. Following inquiries, detectives executed a search warrant at Lewisham in January, seizing documentation and electric items. A 57-year-old was charged and remains before the courts following further investigations and the further seizure of identification and items. A 57-year-old man was arrested yesterday at a home in Lewisham. He was taken to Newtown Police Station charged with 45 offenses, including 13 counts of sexually touching other person without consent and there's a long list of other charges. He's been refused bail to appear before the bail division court six today. So we'll be able to identify him tomorrow on the program. 131873, the number 2GB.com, click on to the feedback icon. Well, look, everybody's talking about the fuel exercise and why the government won't cut it. This is what the nationals sent at a Bridget McKenzie sit on the today show

1:08:12when she was asked whether or not the government should cut the fuel exercise. Well, Carl, the trucking industry's been asking for GST relief on fuel for a couple of weeks and they've handed that plan to the government who've done nothing. When we cut fuel exercise, our transport operators don't actually get relief, so there does need to be a carefully calibrated response. But there is no shortage of ideas here. Here, Bridget McKenzie speaking on the today show, and I alluded to an email I received overnight from a gentleman by the name of Luke, who's a beef farmer in the Hunter Valley, and he wrote me a lengthy email about some of the other pressures they're going through at the moment, and I thought I'd invite him on to the show for a chatty's from Taluat Cattle Company. His name is Luke Nichols. He's on the line right now. Luke, good morning, dear mate. Good day, mate. How are you going? Very well. Thank you for taking the time to send me an email overnight. I really appreciate you putting some context and some perspective around all of this. Let's just start off with the fuel crisis, though, if we can. What sort of an impact is that having on your farm and your business, mate? Yeah, it's having a large impact just for the fact that

1:09:19we're in the middle of putting your winter crops in at the moment, and yeah, we're, you know, tractor's are running pretty flat out, and we're, you know, our main tractor that we use to do that is, 450 litre tank, and, you know, with the, with the process of fuel that, you know, up around $3 and you're filling it up every second, second or third day, it adds up pretty quick, and yeah. What about fuel supply? Luke, what about fuel supplies? Are there enough of it up there, or are you like a lot of the other regions where you haven't got any at all? No, it's been, it's been up and down, really. There's been some smaller service stations run out, some service stations around the district have been sort of cutting off every second bouts, who are assumed to try and preserve a bit of fuel, and but we yet to fully run out for longer than 24 hours, the local service ran out, sort of late in the afternoon with a fuel delivery in

1:10:23in the next morning, but yeah, that's still, you know, it might be a six or seven hour period, it still affects everyone getting around. We had a truck book to go get a bit of machinery last week, and he got to the servo, and it was out of diesel, and yeah, it puts pressure on whether he can make it to the next town to get the diesel, and whether they've got it there as well, it's, yeah. And all this on top of Luke, some of the other things you've listed to me in your email, the fact that, you know, you're on the verge of drought, it's pretty dry out there at the moment. It is very dry, Mark. We're feeding some cars now, we're feeding about 150 cars, but we run upwards of 1000 cars here, and if we don't get rain in the next probably two or three weeks, we'll be feeding the majority of them, and we are lucky in the fact that we have irrigation country, we can make our own hay, and we can feed some of our younger stock, we've weed

1:11:25them early off the cows and got them on the crop already, but it still, it still makes the job harder when it's in drought, it's, yeah, it's, it's not easy feeding care, you go through a lot of hay, a lot of grain. Well, the other thing you're going to go through, mate, is you're here, Luke, you're right in your email, Timmy, you're going to hate to think, well, that's going to cost in four weeks, don't you? Yeah, no, I really hate to think what it's going to cost because we've got to put the crops in to feed the cattle, and then after, after that, it doesn't just stop there, yeah, it's, it's your area, we apply your area after each grazing, or each time we, we make it into hay, we apply the your area, and then water that in to help growth in the cooler months, it's only going upwards with the price of diesel as well, so yeah, that's another one. Yeah, and then Luke, the other one I wanted to ask you about is, you know, the cattle market, and they're not going to affect it has here, because you were pointing out to me that what you were,

1:12:26you were selling cattle for what, $3.90 a kilo, and that's down to, what is it, $2.70 now, is it? Yeah, it was, I probably marked that up a little bit yesterday, I read, there was a bit of misinformation there, but they were back 50 cents out of cows yesterday, so we, we were $3.90 last week, and we're back to $3.20 yesterday, $3.30 in, so it's, it's going to start to, with the drying period, people are offloading a lot of cattle, more cattle on the market, dries the price down, and then you've got a cart, that people have got a cart, I mean, you can't blame the, the people buying them to paying a lesser price, because they've got to put the fuel in the trucks to cart them, so. Well, Luke, thank you for jumping on and having a chat to us, mate. I just think it's another aspect of, you know, a lot of people, the one thing I wanted to get across to the list as this morning, Luke, is that, you know, our city slickers that live in the metro areas, we can go to the survey, if that's run out a few, we just go to the next one, and we can

1:13:28shop around and try and find the best possible price, whereas a lot of our farmers don't have that option, and your factor in drought, your factor in, you know, the cost of Eurea, as you've touched on, your factor in the market, the cattle market that's dropped, and we're talking about a cattle market, you know, you're selling cows that are, what, 550 kilos, it adds up pretty quick. So, while you say it's gone down 50 cents, that adds up when you're talking about half-toned cows, so, mate, just, just a strong, let's keep in touch, and mate, I, next time I'm off the hunter, I'd love to come out and have a look at your property and your business mate, because the farmers are the backbone of this country, we're going to make sure we look after you, all right? Yeah, now, thanks, thanks, that mark, thanks for your time, and I appreciate it, and I, yeah, as I said in my email also, I'm not complaining too much, because I choose to live this lifestyle, but it is, you know, it's, I think it's worthwhile sometimes, just pulling out a few different aspects of the battles that we face out here on the land, and we're probably one of the lucky farmers in where we're situated, but it affects everyone the same.

1:14:30Well said, Luke, well said, you're a good man, and thank you for what you're doing out there on the land. Luke from Tolua Cattle Company. So, it's just, it's just another thing to think about for those in Canberra that, you know, when we're talking about fuel, we factor in drought, we factor in the knock-on effect that has on Eurea, you know, the knock-on effect that has on the cattle market, you know, people are already struggling, farmers in particular trying to get their fuel, and then when it comes to selling their cattle, they're having to take a lower price, for the head of cattle that they're usually selling for what Luke said was what $3.90, that's now come back 50 cents. So, it all adds up. It all adds up. Four and a half to 11. Yeah, well, lighting things up a bit in the final hour of the program with Sarah McDonald, who's going to join us from Tasmania this week. And on the way to the news, a baby monitor is being urgently recalled over fears that can catch fire while charging. The Australian consumer watchdog issued the recall on Tuesday telling parents they need to get rid of their baby-sense Max view video monitor screens. The monitor was being sold on the

1:15:34high-sense and baby-sense websites, as well as by Amazon. So, the baby-sense Max view video monitor screens throw them in the bin. We've got to break for some years. We'll come back with our final hour. This is Mornings with Mark Levy right across Australia. Yes, final hour of the program. If you'd like to join in, you can do that thanks to a Maceim 131-873. The number you can email me at 2GB.com. You can text me as well, 046-0-873-873. I've had so many people reach out to me wanting to help out Anna. That heartbreaking call that we took in the first hour of the program. Single mum lives at Croiton Park and is just desperate for some help in these really, really tough times. I've had a lot of people reach out. I just had another gentleman who wants to remain nameless. Same Mark, I'm happy to donate a $1,000 fuel card and a $1,000 Woolie's gift card if that helps Anna. I'm constantly blown away by the generosity

1:16:40of our listeners across Australia. Thank you. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. If we can make a bit of a difference in Anna's life, we'll certainly do that. 131-873, the number to call. Now, look, just before we get back into some serious stuff, as you know, it was an hour's last week that Robbie Williams will be bringing here's Brit Pop Stadium 2A to Australia this November and we love a little bit of Robbie Williams on this show. Yeah, he'll be playing in Melbourne, Brisbane, Newcastle, Adelaide and Sydney playing at a core stadium on Saturday the 14th of November and he's promised to play all his big hits including Angels, Feel, Better Man, Love My Life and that one. Rock DJ, you'll all see his songs like this one.

1:17:47Now, I've got two important things that you need to know. The first one is this, Salves for the general public on Sal today at 3 o'clock but you'll need to be quick. For details, just head to FrontierTuring.com and the second one needs a bit of a buildup so I want to play this. Yes, we are going to add a tiny here on 2GB mornings because we, yes, we will be giving away some double passes next week here on 2GB mornings. That's for Robbie Williams and he's Brit Pop 2A coming to Sydney so 3 o'clock today via FrontierTuring.com or keep listening to this program next week for your chance to win and who doesn't want to be there to watch the great man in action. Robbie Williams, the great entertainer, Robbie Tayden away.

1:18:50I can't wait. We'll do that all next week right here on 2GB mornings so make sure you stay listening for your chance to win some tickets and I'm sure there'll be a rush to the website FrontierTuring.com at 3 o'clock this afternoon to buy all of those tickets. We'll a ticket just to get along and see Robbie Williams in concert. Now, I just want to heart back to something that happened yesterday in New South Wales Parliament. It involves a member of the Greens in question time, Jenny Leong. The New South Wales Police Association posted a clip of this on their social media pages last night which is where I saw it and I feel the need to once again defend the hardworking men and women of the New South Wales Police Force. Now, look, I hate to say this but Ms Leong has become a political pain in the ass. She's the first person to join these protests. The member for New Town has been quite vocal about the plight of the Palestinian people in Gaza but ironically the Greens MP I don't think

1:19:50has said anything about the treatment of women in Iran. Oh, that's right. These people like to pick and choose when they want to stand up for the human rights of the oppressed. Now, Jenny Leong is still pursuing this line of police brutality after the public order right squatter was forced to disperse the Eddie Israel protesters a few weeks back at Town Hall. Mind you the same protesters who were told where they could stand. The same protesters who chucked their toys out of the cot when the New South Wales Supreme Court ruled against them earlier in the day and the same protesters who clearly have no respect for the law. Have a listen to this carry on from Ms Leong. It was a stunt yesterday while posing a pathetic question to the New South Wales Premier Chris Minnes. Here she is, Jenny Leong. Premier, you have continually defended the actions of the New South Wales police at Sydney Town Hall on February the 9th. I have here 117 harrowing personal accounts from members of the community who were there that night. Will you commit to personally reading these and

1:20:51ensuring the perpetrators of this police brutality are held to account? I call the Premier. Members of the government, the Premier has a call. I'm going to wait. I'm sorry. I'm not going to commit to reading all of those. I don't know where they're from. I don't agree with the premise of the question, which I think puts in front a determination before the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has even had a chance to conduct an investigation, which was previously a demand of the member for Balmain. I think it's incumbent upon all members of parliament and all members of the community to wait for an independent investigation into the circumstances relating to that night. What I do know, however, is that the organisers of the protest refused a legitimate lawful— Premier, I will stop the call for you, but I didn't give a point of order for that. It's relevant, once you're known. Premier, I asked if you would commit to reading these accounts

1:21:55from members of New York. Members will come to order. Members will come to order. It's amazing, isn't it? It is amazing. I have 117 harrowing personal accounts, police brutality. It's just, it makes you sick, especially when it's an elected member of parliament attacking the hardworking men and women of the police force. Would you want to join the cops when politicians like Jenny Leong won even support you? When it comes to the Greens, there's a growing dangerous disconnect between them and reality. For weeks, we've listened to the new town MP and colleagues launch a relentless, scathing offensive against the police force. They're crime, doing exactly what the public expects of them. Maintaining order when a protest descends into chaos, and it's time to call this for what it is, another disgraceful attempt by the Greens to undermine the rule of law for political point scoring. The narrative being spun by Ms Leong that a group of peaceful protesters was

1:22:59inexplicably brutalised simply doesn't hold up under the weight of the facts. Last month at town hall, we saw protesters deliberately, yes Jenny, deliberately crossed the line. They didn't just express a viewpoint. They ignored lawful directions, breached police lines, and attempted to force their way through a city already on edge following the terrorist attack at Bondi Beach. If you don't believe me, listen to the facts. To date, dozens of individuals have been charged by strike force Lane. These aren't vague charges. They include assaulting police officers, causing actual bodily harm, a fray and public disorder, and throwing missiles at police. Another two women were charged yesterday, a 27-year-old, who's accused of assaulting and hindering all resisting police. She was also charged with possessing a prohibited drug after allegedly being found with cannabis. The other woman's a 31-year-old woman from Kellyville, who's accused of offensive or indecent behaviour in a major event area and a fray. So to Jenny Leong and the Greens,

1:23:59let me make something clear to you. When your mates start throwing punches and projectiles at police, they forfeit the peaceful label. Instead of supporting the men and women in blue, who work 12-hour shifts to keep our CBD from turning into a battlefield, Miss Leong and the Greens MPs have used their platforms to call for the charging of police with misconduct before the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission has even finished its morning tea. By constantly taking potshots at police, the Greens are sending a clear message to the community, if you don't like the law, you don't have to follow it. And if the police stop you, we'll make sure they're the ones under investigation. Well, to the Greens, the overwhelming majority of us support the police. They're the front line of our democracy and they're the people who are tasked with the thankless job of managing situations that would terrify politicians like Jenny Leong and Sue Higginson, who are more than happy to sit back and criticise police from the safety of their air-conditioned officers on Macquarie Street. The protesters are a waste of space and so are

1:25:02the Greens. The police don't get to pick and choose which laws to enforce based on the way the political wind is blowing. They show up, they do the job and they face the flak and it's high time the Greens stop treating the thin blue line like a political punching bag. And to you Jenny Leong and the Greens, you might be happy to stand with protesters but I'll tell you what, I'll stand with the brave men and women in uniform every single day of the week. 16 past 11. Well, I love a Thursday and look, it has been a bit of a heavy morning, so let's lighten things up a little bit because we love catching up with Sarah Mcdonald and believe in a notch, she's on the line with us all the way down the bottom of Australia and the little apple are that we call Tasmania. Morning, Sarah. What did Paul Keating call Australia? That's the end of the universe of Tazzy's the bottom. The bottom's up. How about his gorgeous? I love it. I don't think I've ever, I don't think I know I haven't been to Tasmania. What's

1:26:06it like? Is it sort of the place to go and visit if you just want to chill out something? It's very relaxed. They have a good lifestyle here. I must say, a friend of mine wagged work yesterday afternoon to pick me up, took me up cradle mountain, we went for a bus walk, had a hot chocolate cup of tea and a cake up there, walked to the cascade brewery last night, had a beer in the garden and it is sort of a slow pace of living. It's almost like a very big country, very regional town, say, of New South Wales, surrounded by mountains, mis-coming in rolling over the hills like Mallowkintai, the Paul McCartney song, beautiful waterfronts just in Hobart. It's and the nature of Tasmania's divine. They should hire me at the tourist commission, shouldn't they? I think they should. You're doing a good job at selling it to me and to the listeners. Is it cold down there yet, Chair? They've had beautiful weather but it is actually a bit cold today. I just went for a walk around the waterfront, around some of the beautiful old homes and the boats come in

1:27:07and it's getting a bit chilly in the air and I think that's the thing. I'd love a Tasmanian winter. I don't know if I could do a Tasmanian winter. I don't think I could and it gets very cold pretty soon from now on. So I think I've got hit just before the real chill. All right. We'll put Tazzy on the bucket list. I'll have to get down there some time soon. Well, let's get into the wonderful segment that we do each and every Thursday because our listeners love it. I wanted to ask you about clubs and activities that you've taken part in to make friends and get involved in the community because that's something you and I, Sarah, have been talking about, being a part of community, getting to know one another and being kind to one another. And there are a lot of examples out there of people who have joined men's sheds, the CWA, they might be a run club, a book club. I had the three dads in the studio with me on Monday. They've started a walking club just to give the mums a bit of time to themselves of a Saturday and Sunday morning. Have you heard similar stories like that, Sarah?

1:28:07I love that. I've heard there's a boring man's club and a boring women's club where they sit and talk about nothing and I thought that would be quite therapeutic at times, wouldn't I've got a friend, Kerry Milligan, who's here with us for club sandwich, the club that I'm in at the moment about the sandwich generation, the podcast and she's in her local CWA in Melbourne. So it's not country, they have a great time. It's not all about the scone making. Look, I think there's so many different clubs now aren't there and of course we've always had our sporty clubs and now the run clubs are a big part of that and if you're even Martin Place on an evening and here are thundering behind you, it is not. It is not a herd of zebras. It is the run clubs. Coming through the city or if you're at the opera house and you're there to go and see a band or have a drink or something, you'll hear them thundering along and they go round and through the botanic garden. So there's a lot of run clubs and things but I do like the idea of, you know, sort of alternative little clubs like the train spotters, you know, the plain spotters, the bird spotters, the laughing clubs that they have in some parks that have now gone on where you just sit

1:29:08around and laugh. The trivia clubs at the brewery last night, they had trivia. There was a lot of laughing there. I mean, this is thing. I've sort of not always been a club member of things. You know, I'm a bit like Groucho Marx. I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. But I could join a kind of trivia club, a run club not for me. Perhaps I could be standing by this side club. But I'd love to hear about, yeah, sort of the weird and wacky clubs that people are a member of or ones that they've started. Well, let's throw it open to the open line. 131873 the number. Have you joined a club where you've been able to meet people, whether it's a run club, whether it's a laughing club, whether it's a yoga club. I don't know anything that's out there. Like the dads that have started a walking club on a Saturday and Sunday morning, the lines are open. 131873 the number. I do need to ask though and there might be some listeners out there that can answer this for me when it comes to book club. My mates swear that they don't actually read books in book club. This is just the girls getting together to have a wine at their girlfriend's places.

1:30:10Can you confirm or deny that Sarah McDonald? Well, what sort of wine do you mean? The drinking wine or the wine about the husband? No, no, they just get on the grog. They get on the grog. Look, what goes on in book club marks days in the club. So I couldn't possibly confirm or deny your question there. But there's any writers festivals coming up and you do meet a lot of people of a certain age there who are in book clubs, although a lot of really young readers are coming along to the writers festival now, which is fantastic as well. Some people like their book clubs to talk about the book. Some of them want to talk about everything but the book. I kind of sit in the middle. I'm like half an hour of gossip. Okay, let's talk about the book. Yeah. All right, well, honestly, test ladies and gentlemen, if you're a part of a book club, I've got gals who's listening saying, I'm in a beer club, but I'm the only member. I sit at home and just have a beer boy himself. But time to, time to face up in the book club. And if you're a bloke out there listening, if you're darling, wife or partner goes off to book club, does she come home a little tipsy

1:31:14after a night with the girls talking about books or talking about the ghosts or putting the boot into you? They're number to call one, three, one, eight, seven, three. You can email us at 2GB.com or you can text us zero, four, six, zero, eight, seven, three, eight, seven, three, that the other one I wanted to talk about this morning are cleaning tips. I've bought this new barbecue right for my place. And I had to do some cleaning the other day, put some oil on it. And I've got this dirty, big oil stain underneath it on the tiles out the back. And I can't get rid of it for the life of me. Are you good at cleaning, Sarah, at your place? Do you take responsibility for that? Do you hand pass it off to the kids? Who's responsible for cleaning in the McDonald House? Well, look, I hate cleaning. I must say. I absolutely hate it. But I do it under duress. We sometimes have a cleaner who helps us out, but she goes overseas for half the year. I'm not a fan of it. And I've tried to do it environmentally responsible ways with lots of sort of baking soda and vinegar, which sometimes works. Apparently, there are lots of different

1:32:16ways you can get rid of certain stains. But I tend to just get mixed up between things. So, I'll go to clean the windows with the window cleaner and I'll spray something else completely on it, which will stain them for life. So it's probably better not to, right? Because when I was growing up, you just used old newspaper that was wet. So I have tried to get my kids to do that a little bit. Or you kind of do a bit of shaving cream on a window that can make some patterns with it and then they have to clean it off. You know the other one. Yeah, if you get things mixed up, you can make things worse. The other one that gets me is, I've got the glass pool fence out the back. And when the sun sets in the west and that sun hits that pool fence, you see how dirty it is. And you think, what can I do? Because you can't go there with a Windex every weekend and just start cleaning the pool fence. So surely there's a product out there you can spray onto the glass that just keeps it clean for longer than 10 minutes after I'm finished with it and you get the splashes on it and everything else. So if you've got any tips when it comes to getting rid of stains, especially oil stains under the barbecue and how to keep that pool fence clean, I'm all ears

1:33:18this morning will use it as a community service announcement. And off the back of you spending some time in Tassie, Sarah, we're getting closer and closer to the holidays. Easter's only a a week away, believe it or not. And it's getting really, really expensive to drive anywhere at the moment. So what's the best way to holiday at home? Can you do a city staycation if you can't afford to hit the road and head away to the regions or down to Tassie where you are? Any suggestions, Sarah? Yeah, well, I'll be back and I think I might have to stay in Sydney over Easter. So I was just starting to think about, I mean, look, you can't go wrong, you know, then just sort of going over to Manley. Can you getting the ferry from Circula Kev? You get the train, you get the public transport so you're not using the petrol. If you can get on a train, get to Circula Kev, get the ferry across to Manley or you get a ferry to Cockatoo Island. I love Cockatoo Island because it's got those layers of history a bit like Hobart. You've got all these layers and the industrial history and the working history of Sydney. And you can stay overnight on tents there, there's houses. I love Cockatoo Island

1:34:20for you kind of feel like you're going away. You can do massive walks all around the harbor now. I mean, you can go from Watson's Bay all the way to Manley if you're so inclined and you can spend a couple of days doing it. In fact, I know a friend who's going to do that and she's going to stay halfway along at the quarantine station at Manley and you can do ghost tours there at night. So you can kind of have a lot of fun, I think, setting up a magical mystery tour of Sydney. You get a train to the Blue Mountains, go for a walk there. That's not going to cost you any petrol costs. Yeah. So you can have a good staycation in Sydney if the weather's not good. We've got great lots of indoor things we can do to it, all the galleries and museums. So maybe it's a good time to think about that Sydney staycation. Yeah, absolutely. I was only thinking the other day. I went over to see one of our new sponsors Jimmy Stewart. He's got a clothing store over at Mossman. And if I kept going along that road, I would have got to the Toronto Zoo and I'm thinking to myself, how long has it been since I've been to the zoo? With all of the additions and modernisation that it's done. So although I've got to do that at some point, get out of the zoo as well. All right. The boards

1:35:20led up here. One, three, one, eight, seven, three. What we might do is we'll take a break at 11.30. We'll come back and have a chat to you. So we are talking this morning. Have you been to Hobart? Some cleaning tips as well on stains like a grease stain underneath the barbecue. How to keep those pool glass fences clean? Are you doing a staycation over Easter? But most importantly, have you joined one of these clubs, a book club, a run club, the CWA, the men shed. What club of your join just to meet people in your local area, rather than sitting in home by yourself? One, three, one, eight, seven, three, the number. We'll take a break and come back with your calls next. Sarah McDonald, Mark Levy here on mornings. Yes, Sarah McDonald, Mark Levy here on 2GB mornings. The boards lit up, suggestions on how to clean stains. It's a few people here saying you need to track down Shannon Lush, a strategist, queen of clean. She had a cleaning segment on 2GB weekends with Georgian Paul. I actually have a cleaning book. It's gold. All right, thank you. Avon, I'll have to look her up. Let's get to call us though, starting off in Canberra,

1:36:22Shirley's phone through from the nation's capital. Hello, Shirley. Good morning. How are you? Very well. Thank you, Shirley. I'm good. Thank you. We have a club in Canberra called the Shirley Club. The only body with the name of Shirley can be a member. If you're not a member, you can still come along and be a Shirley for the day. Oh my God. We have a lot of different functions and certainly a birthday and Christmas function every year. There's Shirley clubs all throughout Australia, New Zealand, America, all over the world, actually. A Shirley club, Sarah, we've got to get involved here. I would love to issue theme song, you know, the Billy Bragg song, greetings to the new brunette that starts off Shirley. That seems about actually. We do have a theme song, but I can't think of it at the moment. So now it's about Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple dancing. I could do that for you with a

1:37:23wig off. Hand in your Shirley card, Shirley, if you're not being able to remember that song, thank you for calling through. Donna's next she's out of Penra. Hello, Donna. Hi, good morning all. I wanted to share that I'm not so much part of a club that are group of people that go to the local pub once a week and we do trivia night. I've met so many different people, all ages. I take my adult children and they think I'm a hero because I know answers to stuff that they didn't even know existed. It's great. We met so many people with weddings, weeks of exchange, phone numbers. We even did musical bingo because there's a different group of people there as well. So we do this every week and I can't recommend it enough. Isn't that great, Donna? I know there's professional teams that go around and play trivia, but you go to the local pub and you'll see a trivia night, Sarah, and people get creative with the team names and everything else. It's good fun. You can have a beer if you like or a wine and an answer a few questions and have a laugh. What I love about trivia and yeah, there's some great

1:38:25team names. There was trivia all around us last night in the big garden in Tasmania and there were some young blokes next to us and they were much younger than us. So we were helping them with the old people questions like with that old song. That kind of thing. And then they won free beers and couldn't drink them as they were driving. So you had to help them. Even better. Even better. Love your work, Donna. Thanks so much for calling through. I usually just duck off to the Lou and cheat. I can't believe I'd have admitted that I shouldn't cheat. What's that your team name, Cheetah? Yeah, well, we usually run that. That's not in the spirit of cheer. Yeah, but when you run last year, you've got to try and make yourself look half decent because some of the people I've been to trivia with are just as bad as I am. Thank you very much for that, Donna. 131873 is the number. Let's go to the Darwin. We've got people listening here and everywhere this morning. Good morning to you. Good morning, Mark. Hello, mate. You're a part of a clover? No, we were going to form the procrastinators Trump, but had a few problems. Couldn't decide on a

1:39:28venue nor a date. Well, who do we invite? You're a comedian, mate. Thank you very much for that. I'll believe it or not. We had a text saying that I should speak to Shannon last. The Queen of Claim. I've got her on the line. Shannon, good morning to you. Hello, how you doing? Very well. It's Mark Levy and Sarah McDonald here. I just randomly floated a topic here this morning. I've got a barbecue right at my place. I've bought one over Christmas and I've got this grease stain underneath the barbecue that I can't get rid of and somebody suggested you need to get a hold of Shannon last. You'll be able to help you. Can you help? You're sure, Ken. Number one, for prevention in future, always keep a bucket of sand beside your barbecue. You empty the sand under the barbecue before you start barbecuing. It absorbs all the oil. When you're finished, you just sweep it up with a dust pan and put it back in the bucket. Use it again. To remove the oil that you've already got there, you need to use plaster of Paris.

1:40:29You mix your plaster of Paris with water and make a really thick mix. It should be a thick spin-up but it should be able to stand a knife up in it. Once you've made your mixture up for every cup of mixture that you make up, you add one teaspoon of normal dishwashing liquid, not one of the eco varieties. Stir it through and then you paint it over the stain to a depth of no more than half an inch, no less than quarter of an inch, about as thick as your little finger. So it's kind of like icing a cake and then you just leave it there to completely dry. When it's completely dry, tap it with a wooden spoon to crack it and sweep it away and it sucks it out of the surface. Shannon, you are the quaint of clay. That's brilliant. There was something about a pool fence. Oh, yes. So the other one, so I've got the glass pool fence, right? When the sun sets in the west that shines through the pool fence and I see how dirty it is, how can I sort of keep that clean and not have to clean it every single day with windex or whatever? You don't ever use that. Commercial glass cleaners actually abrade the surface of the glass and over time they will

1:41:33actually attract dirt. So it is better to clean it with white vinegar if it's really dirty and then you rub it with sweet almond oil. When I say rub it with sweet almond oil, it's a very small quantity, roll a pair of pantyhose up in a tight ball and a teaspoon is enough to do four square meters. Wow. So you just put a teaspoon on the rolled up pair of pantyhose rub it over the glass and it stops what we call glass cans. You know where you get those things that look like white drip mud? Yes, yep. That's actually damage to the glass. Right, okay. And the sweet almond oil fills all the little bubbles in the surface of the glass so you can't see them anymore. But it also protects the rest of the surface against further incursions and it makes water and dust drop and run out. Shannon, I feel, I feel, Shannon, I just feel absolutely privileged to be speaking to you. I'm talking to the queen of clean. This is brilliant. Can we get, if you've got a website or

1:42:34something we can plug for you, Shannon? No, I don't use websites, but my books are all out there. All right, fantastic. Well, Shannon, I'm going to have to adopt you as my cleaning expert because I have no idea when it comes to cleaning. Thank you so much. You're very welcome. Talk, sir. Shannon, last, the queen of claine. You never know who's listening to this great show. Oh, fantastic. Let's keep going with some callers here. Janice. Is it scenarios? Hello, Janice. Oh, hello, Mark. How are you? Very well. Thank you. I'm not going to be rude to you, but it's goof off. It's a pick your pardon. Janice can't say that to me. The product is called goof off. It's fantastic. And where do you buy that from? Oh, Bunnings. You get grease, paint, anything. Our tiny guy told us about it when the guy who was painting the road, he still paint on the beautiful new tile. That's fantastic. It's just called GWF. Oh, double, that's goof off. You're not set me up. I'm going to walk into Bunnings to savour and say, champion, where's the goof off? They're just looking at me with two heads. Well, you do that, you know? Yeah. Oh, that's,

1:43:36Janice. I thought we were friends. Thank you very much for calling through. Valerie had a solution for the barbecue. I think we've tied that one up. Thank you, Valerie and Marilyn as well with the glass. I think we've answered that one for us as well. And thank you to all the people sending through suggestions for clubs and everything else to join. The book club, yes, is just a a front for the girls getting together and having a wine and sharing some stories. So fantastic. It's great to see all the messages from phone calls and emails coming through this morning. Sarah, as usual, very, very popular. We'll catch up again next Thursday. You behave yourself down there in Tazzy and just watch out for a few more of those beers at the brewery, okay? I think we've lost the connection dropped out at the worst time. Anyway, Sarah, lovely to chat and we'll catch up with Sarah again next week here on 2GB mornings. There you are. 131873, I'm wrapped that I got to speak to Shannon Lash, the queen of cline. Great stuff. Amasim, amasim.com today, you tell

1:44:37you pricey tilco where to go and thank you to all those people who have got in touch with us this morning, just a shout out. Duck Creek is a dear friend of mine. So is he's daughter Courtney and his wife, Jackie. Courtney and Jackie are heading off today on the annual Beyond Bicham and Rally that raises money and awareness beyond blue. As you know, this is very important to, well, I know it's very important to his family. I'm pleased to say that Courtney and Jackie were the very first female team to enter this. This is the sixth rally that they've participated and 100% of the money raise goes to beyond blue, no administration fees, etc. And look, I think I'm okay to say this. I know that Courtney has struggled with her mental health battles, but I'm led to believe that she's extremely happy at the moment. She's all loved up. I'm tall too, Courtney. I hope I'm not sharing any news that isn't already out there, but I'm just so proud of Courtney, the young woman that she has become and she has always been. So good luck to you, Courtney and well done to you,

1:45:38Jackie, for supporting Courtney and all of this. If you want to support them, you can go to beyondbichamon.com.au. That's beyondbichamon.com.au. Their team is red healer, car 25. So if you want to sponsor them, you can just search for red healer, car number 25. But good luck to all of the people taking part in the beyondbichamon.com.au. That rally, it starts today and there's going to be a hell of a lot of money raised for beyond blue, which is such an important organization. Especially in these really, really tough times. So good luck to Jackie and most importantly, Courtney. Go out there and win the thing this year and good on you for what you're doing. Now, whether you're just entering the workforce or you're on the hunt for a brand new job, why not consider a career at your local club? From bartenders, chefs and event coordinators to gym instructors and greenskeepers, club support more than 75,000 jobs across the state. Your local club is the home of get-togethers, live at attainment and family celebrations. Of junior sport, fantastic food and so much more, plus clubs give back over $120 million

1:46:42to their communities via the club grants program every year. If you want to be a part of all that, you should start thinking about a career at your local club. From the bush to the coast and everywhere in between, there are hundreds of club jobs just waiting for you to apply. Visit yourlocalclub.com.au to find a club near you. Good song. Welcome back. 10 minutes away from midday. We better do this. 2GBs. No. The show. Yes, I've got a question to ask you. I gave you a fun fact earlier in the show. You need to be the 13th caller right now. 1-300, 7-22-873, 1-300-7-22-873. And we'll find a winner and ask the question in just a moment. In the meantime, Michael McLaren has wandered in. Hello, Michael. Hello, Mark. How are you? Very well. Thank you. It's a running joke. I walk past these offers. I go, hello, Michael. Yes, I can hear you from down the hall when you do it. Yeah, good point. Yeah. What's happening? Oh, plenty. I've got a couple of things about meta today. Love it. Now, there's that big case overnight. We've got the details out of America where they've

1:47:47been asked to pay a lot of money. So we'll have a look at that because that could be transferable in the Australian context. So we'll have a look. But also someone who's actually no stranger to 2GB, John Vaughn, who's the the flag expert. He's apparently had all these Facebook pages deleted. By meta. Contraveen something anyway. So he's as many people have had this happen, as you know, written to them said, look, well, I don't know. I don't know what I've done. What's going on? Who's complained? What's there's about? Oh, no, you've contraveen. You're gone. So I'll have a chat to him and also Tim James, the member for Willoughby, who's trying to get that those, I think, this four Facebook pages restored. Oh, you're going to tell you got the Zuckerberg on or someone. It's hardly unlocked. Why don't you get him on and give it to him? Give it to the zuck. Get a zuck. What's doing? As as as that bank account going. Look, I mean, I haven't been on Facebook. I think for a decade. And I don't miss it. I would encourage people irrespective of these stories. You know, if you think it's a cesspool or what, just leave it. Just what don't, you don't

1:48:51need it. You don't, you really don't need it. You know, life is okay without it. Life was okay without it for our parents, right? Yeah, but I love scrolling through Facebook and saying, you know, what other people in my life are doing and everything else. It's fine. You could just call them. Yeah, but then I've got to talk to them. Workplace has it for you. And as he with ScreenTalk, Jim Haines with Sydney Siders, the story of May Gibbs. That's all right. And I know you're extremely excited. We're off to the Easter show. I know, and I'll be there with you. I can't wait to meet all of our listeners. Seven days. I'm standing a bit of a health kick so you need to make sure that I don't eat all of the deli. That is not a good place to go to. Although, I will say to all of the vendors and all of those that have displays if you wander over to our broadcast position next to the dome with something for myself and Ben and Michael and Clinton to try, we're more than happy to promote your business and tell people what a wonderful product it is if you bring it over and say good-a. Are you with me on that, Michael? You want, uh, on a stick for comment.

1:49:54Preferably. Yes, chocolate for comment, 100%. Okay. Yeah, I'm on board with that. Okay, beautiful. Right, the invitation is there, ladies and gentlemen, you deliver. We promote. And I think the truth is the higher the calorie intake, the better the promote. How dare you? I'm trying to lose weight, Michael McClaren. You said out of this. Thank you, great man. Thank you. See you later. There is, Michael McClaren coming up on your radio after midday, Charlie. Fones short, Richmond for our, uh, no, the show competition. Morning, Charlie. Morning, Matt. How are you? I'm very well-think you, mate. I'll be even better if you can tell me what the name is of the Nashville inspired bar at the show with country music, barbecue, smoked meats and craft drinks that's going to be open for 12 hours each day. What's it called, great man? Honky Tonk, you're right. You better stay there, Charlie, because you have one yourself family tickets to the Sydney Royal East to show and hate. I might even see in the honky

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1:53:04Anyway that's it for me. You'll come in and I'm going, I'm going, I'm going, don't you going to put the kiss? I can see by the other side of the window already. Anyway that's it for me. I'm going to go. Michael McLaren's up next with afternoon. It's been Clifton Maynard with Sydney now. Horses there with wide world of sports. James Willis with Money News and I think John Stan Lee's Crook. So I might be Phil O'Neill tonight. I'm not sure. And then of course overnight as well. You have yourself a great day. So much for the rain. Sunny here at Peermont. Anyway, enjoy your afternoon. I'll see you around the round around. Bye bye.