Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer.

Melbourne's 241+ days of cumulative lockdown surpasses any other city, costing at least AUD$150 million a day. Record daily case numbers surpass Sydney's for the first time. Hospitals overrun when whole purpose of lockdowns was to buy time and prepare the health system for covid. Failure to learn lessons from last year's city hotspots. Rapid home testing to start in November. Pfizer boosters approved in Israel and the US.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer.

Victoria struck by a 5.8 magnitude earthquake as a riotous anti-lockdown mob gathered in Melbourne's CBD threatening the public, police and efforts to control the city's growing delta outbreak. The potential for a super-spreader event is real and could seriously set back efforts to emerge from grinding lockdown, set to be the longest for any city in the world. Meanwhile, federal health minister Greg Hunt has requested approval for 5 year olds and up to get the jab.

Piers discusses Victoria’s new Roadmap to Deliver the National Plan with Geoff Wells, a senior consultant urologist at Melbourne's Box Hill hospital. While Geoff says there's some improvement for Melburnians, the slow pace of getting kids back to school is scandalous and the roadmap is confusing and lacking in confidence. He thinks people who are fully vaccinated should enjoy more freedoms now and if future lockdowns occur once vaccination targets are met, government ministers should have their pay cut.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer.

Regional status of Mornington Peninsula an increasingly hot issue; Shadow Health minister Georgie Crozier calls for more nuanced, targeted response to hotspots; risk averse Andrews Government plans for gradual and cautious reduction of tight restrictions; overseas lessons in benefits of rapid antigen testing; how to incentivise double vaccinations.

Georgie Crozier, Victorian Shadow Minister for health and deputy leader of the Legislative Council, explains why Melburnians must be given hope that their city will emerge from nearly 8 months of crushing lockdown. In a wide-ranging interview, she discusses the government's broken promise of providing thousands of extra ICU beds, its failure to promote all vaccine options to the most vulnerable and its lack of a firm plan to open up from lockdown. Georgie also discusses the return of Matthew Guy as leader of the Opposition, the need to embrace rapid antigen testing and offers her support for calls that the Mornington Peninsula be considered regional and not locked down as part of Greater Melbourne.

Piers talks with Bruce Keebaugh, founder of catering and events company The Big Group, about the need for a clear and transparent plan to reopen the Victorian economy. Bruce says there's huge frustration for businesses and people stuck at home who want to get back to living. He's a big supporter of rapid anitigen testing, which he reckons is a great tool not being utilised. And he'd love Melbourne Cup Day on November 2nd, often referred to as 'the race that stops the nation', to mark the beginning of Australia's emergence from devastating lockdown.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer. Cases popping up on highly vaccinated Mornington Peninsula as faith in Andrews government wanes; futile elimination target replaced with vaccine drive. New Opposition leader Matthew Guy reinstalled to take fight to ALP. WHO designates MU mutation a 'variant of concern'.

A chat with Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist Russell Morris about his project with musician and actor Rick Springfield. Their new album 'Jack Chrome and the Darkness Waltz' came together from opposite sides of the world and celebrates the Mexican tradition of the Day of the Dead. Russell explains how the album seemed to almost write itself, plus the influences and technology which made this amazing work possible.

Live-to-air radio interview with Piers Cunningham and Brendon Telfer.

If stage 4 restrictions don't work and even NZ can't control Delta, what will work to bring the numbers down? Mornington Peninsula vaccine rates well ahead of state average; Europe sets limits on American travellers as US 'pandemic of the unvaccinated' worsens; the unbelievably high cost of over 7 months of lockdown for Melbourne.

Guy West, professional share market investor and a world chess master and Dr. Ian Storey, mathematician and lecturer in information systems share their thoughts on where the world's booming markets might be headed - the possibility of a catastrophic crash, how to balance a future of deflation versus hyper inflation and how to be less of a loser than the next person if things go pear shaped. Keep in mind this is a friendly chat and should not be construed as advice. We don't pretend to know the future.

Part 2 of a 2 part long-form interview.