The Jane Marwick Show

Leigh Strange in Bruce Rock is dealing with an oat crop that just didn’t get enough rain, but he’s got some great parenting advice on resilience and the important role of sport, especially in rural communities. Conversely, Tony White’s hay crop is looking good, and he’s busy working to 3am to get it cut, but he’s not too busy to take his boys to a local Nyoongar celebration which gives him pause for thought about unemployment, and he has some good ideas about older Australians, especially pensioners filling the gap in employment at harvest. Raelene Hall on the politics of COVID 19 says it’s time to consider learning to live with the virus, and she’s had a visit from the McGills. Julian is on the road with his wife Dale, up to Neds Creek and Karajini – with some useful tips for travellers and plenty of laughs along the way. Meanwhile, Sam Burgess has been to the doctor, and has had the difficult task of packing up his wife’s belongings after they agreed to separate. Sam put a message on social media about checking up on your friends on RU OK Day, is preparing to start contract hay cutting, but in true Sam-style, laconically offers “I’m living the dream”. Brad Jones joins Jane in the studio to talk about the Qantas captains who’ve been working on his farm during COVID, and talks about flights, borders and having family in Queensland when you live in WA.

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Gary Shannon was the king of Perth radio for decades. He and Jane worked together on the phenomenally successful The Morning Crew and at 96fm where they hosted breakfast. In this extraordinary podcast, Gary reveals some deeply personal details about his life. Intimate issues he has never aired in public. Why has Gary Shannon been known by three different names? And how has that affected him? Gary and Jane discuss the WA Premier Mark McGowan’s popularity, parochialism and Covid, with Gary saying “I’m over the double standards” regarding the politics of so-called hard borders. One rule for the rich, the famous and sporting stars, another for the rest of the population. In this wide-ranging discussion they talk about just what it takes to make great radio, and ask has political correctness ruined the medium or can it still be entertaining? Gary talks about being kicked off Facebook for a week and Jane asks him to pinpoint the catalyst for his extraordinary focus and drive. This is a podcast with two fearless broadcasters who know a thing or two about radio, who went on to become lifelong friends. Unmissable.

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Julian is overjoyed, it's rained, 6Bs was a great success, but he is fed-up with Premier McGowan.  Leigh has pulled on the footy boots, the've not had much rain, but his wife Dee has a thriving photography enterprise.  Raelene has news about her husband Clyde’s cancer, meanwhile her son is out checking the windmills and destroying vermin including wild dogs. Sam loved 6Bs and has had a bit of rain but needs to travel for his own health concerns.  Tony turns the tables on Jane and asks about the future of media and wonders about politics in the age of social media.  Brad has taken on another Qantas captain, sharing very sad news about the suicides of cabin crew. But, he shares the incredible story behind an historic building he has converted into a bar, calling on the relatives of West Australian and UWA founding father Thomas Bath to get in touch.

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Meet the impressive Jade Thorpe, who along with his wife Laura, runs the Yelverton Protea Farm started by his parents.  Passionate about the proteaceae family of plants and flowers and WA wildflowers, this small family business is inspiring, artistic and innovative.  Their not-so-secret ingredient is hard work.  With a focus on value and affordability without compromising on artistic creativity, this small family business is a Western Australian success story. And this uplifting podcast is a must for lovers of proteas, floristry, plant propagation and gardening.

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"Bring it to Victoria immediately"

Could there be a cheap, effective treatment, even a cure for COVID19? And if there is, why aren’t we hearing about it? Does the battle to get an effective COVID-19 treatment identified mirror the battle that Nobel Laureate Professor Barry Marshall endured when he and Dr Robin Warren proved that H. pylori infections caused peptic ulcers? Professor Thomas Borody is an internationally regarded physician with four FDA approved drugs on the US and Australian markets. He is renowned for developing the triple therapy that cured peptic ulcers after Barry Marshall and Robin Warren proved that they were caused by H. pylori infections. He saved more than 18,000 lives in Australia and millions internationally.

Professor Borody has reviewed key antiviral scientific research and identified that two available drugs (Ivermectin and Doxycycline) approved by the TGA and FDA, when combined with zinc, effectively treat, even cure patients who test positive to COVID-19. He says that the treatment is available in tablet form that can be taken at home as a preventive treatment by high risk individuals, or by those who test positive to minimise need for hospitalisation at the higher curative dose.

Desperate to get to Victoria, Professor Borody says distribution teams could be deployed to Victoria’s hot spots to treat COVID positive patients immediately, and that people exposed or at risk could be take a preventative dose.

But, he says, without the support of Big Pharma, lobbying government and the relevant authorities is proving very difficult. "I am totally amazed and surprised that seemingly educated people will not say ‘hey we’ve got deaths happening here’…anyone in their right mind would immediately say ‘let’s get some teams to treat the infected patients in Victoria’ ”.

He tells Jane that "the analogy between Helicobacter and COVID is very similar".

Ivermectin was discovered in the 1970's and is on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of essential medicines.

Professor Borody has used the same data and research methodology with the COVID-19 Ivermectin Triple Therapy as he used when he developed the world’s first cure for peptic ulcers saving millions of lives around the globe.

He says this combination of Ivermectin, zinc and Doxycyline, all  “off the shelf” drugs could be the answer to Australia’s #COVID19 crisis.

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Friday August 7th, Dean is woken by knocking at the hotel bedroom door at 5am. The police use a key card to open his door. He is not charged with anything. He still doesn’t know what the has done wrong. He is simply taken away by the police under cover of darkness to the airport where he is forced to board a plane to South Australia. He feels humiliated as hundreds of people watch him and his police escort at Perth airport. Later that afternoon, the Premier tells a news conference that Dean has been fined and that “people shouldn’t tell lies”. But Dean has not been fined. But perhaps that will change under the emergency powers the government has employed.

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Today Dean learned that he is the subject of a criminal investigation by WA police. He learned that startling fact while listening to the radio, isolated in his hotel room. He had no contact from any authorities from when he was left there around 10.30pm last night. He was alone when he heard the news. This is the latest on his battle to be allowed into Western Australia. UPDATE: 5am Friday, police arrived at Dean's hotel room, told him to pack his bag, took his phone off him for a period of time, and escorted him to the airport under cover of darkness. No charges were laid. He has been flown back to South Australia, which, incidentally does not have any COVID community transmission. 

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This is the story of Dean. A FIFO worker in South Australia who is trying to get back to WA to see his partner Robyn. After numerous rejected applications to fly to Perth, he received approval on July 31st to enter WA on August 5th. But he is currently holed up in a hotel in Perth. Although he was given a travel exemption to fly to WA, signed by an assistant inspector for WA Police, when he flew in last night he was refused entry to the state. Instead, he was taken to a hotel in Perth. One officer called him a "piece of sh*t". he was refused access to a toilet, and as a result, was forced to do something deeply embarrassing. He doesn’t know what happens next, only that he has been told he will be flown back to South Australia.

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In a time of COVID, the stories from these hardworking, self-deprecating people on the land are uplifting. There isn't a problem that can't be solved, accompanied by a joke or  a wry anecdote. Jane chats to farmers across WA about the season, their work and their lives. Their zest for life and humour when faced with adversity is inspiring. If you need something to lift your spirits and make you smile, then this is the podcast for you. Julian McGill farms in Bolgart where he is getting ready to host the 6Bs, but in the meantime he’s travelled to south west WA where the ground is sodden, a big contrast with a dry start to winter in the Wheatbelt. Leigh Strange farms in Bruce Rock where his great grandfather pioneered their farm. He talks to Jane about the effect of the big wind storms that hit in May and June, of a devastated town recovering and a community rallying after its only shop was burnt down just as WA locked down to combat COVID19. Raelene Hall from remote Neds Creek Station discusses her passion for education and the battle to save the Schools of the Air when the state government announced their closures just before Christmas in 2017. Tony White has been working at the town’s busy bee as Miling adjusts to life now that the Great Northern Highway Miling Bypass has been completed. Brad Jones who farms in Tammin, has had an early start to deliver wheat to Perth, there are more trees to plant, the Qantas Captain is still helping to spread fertiliser, his kids are enjoying weekend sport and like everyone he is hoping for rain. Sam Burgess has been spreading fertiliser in the hope that Arthur River gets rain soon, he’s endeavouring to mitigate salt problems on his farm, and wondering if Julian would like him to bring a quinoa salad to the 6Bs on Saturday night.

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In the wake of reports in the Australian newspaper that “A five-year-old boy was allegedly gang-raped on a beach by other children from a remote Indigenous community on Cape York this month”, Jacinta calls for states and territories to be divested of child protection saying that “we should have a referendum to make child protection a federal responsibility”.

In fact, Jacinta says Australia needs a royal commission into the culture of child protection agencies.

 “We’ve got a problem in society when we can segregate the victims because of their skin colour and not discuss the absolutely abhorrent criminal acts that are committed against them. That we can’t discuss these issues openly in order to actually do something about them … and we wonder why they continue to be repeated”.

Ian Trust, executive chairman of the Wunan Foundation in the east Kimberley told the Australian “It does society no good to shy away from issues which are difficult to discuss especially when it is to do with children,” Mr Trust said. “The moral health of a society, regardless of where it is, is better served by examining the circumstances surrounding issues like this so we may learn from it to ensure it doesn’t happen again. Issues such as this gives us an opportunity to examine the content of our soul as a society, especially in regards to children. In my view it is not healthy for any society to consider issues such as this to be taboo to discuss.”

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