Wake Up Australia

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With Sydney about to face the toughest water restrictions in a decade next month, Michael is joined by Graham Ross, horticulturist & host of Macquarie Radio’s ‘The Garden Clinic’, for some timely tips on how to give your garden the best chance to survive.

Under Level 2 water restrictions, people will be required to use a bucket or watering can to water their gardens between approved times.

Premier Gladys Berejiklian said the restrictions would take effect when dam levels reached 45 per cent, and as of this week the levels for the Greater Sydney catchment, including Warragamba Dam, is at 46.2 per cent.

On the anniversary of the opening for the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games, Michael is joined by Dawn Fraser AO, MBE, who is the first of only three swimmers in Olympic history (Krisztina, Egerszegi of Hungary & Michael Phelps of the United States being the two others) to have won individual gold medals for the same event at three successive Olympics (100 metres freestyle - 1956, 1960 & 1964).

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, was held in Melbourne from 22 November to 8 December 1956, with the exception of the equestrian events, which were held in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1956.

These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania, as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America.... with Melbourne being the most southerly city ever to host the Olympics.

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Australia’s bee population will be protected and supported with a $1.5 million grant to raise awareness and ensure bee health and longevity.

On a visit to Tasmania, Nationals Agriculture Minister Bridget McKenzie said the grant will fund activities to support the Australian honey bee industry and to promote the crucial role the humble bee plays in supporting food production.

Michael is joined by Stephen Targett, President of the NSW Apiarists' Association who explains the role bees play as a critical factor for the agriculture & horticulture industry – with the annual economic value of honey bee pollination in Australia estimated to be $14.2 billion.

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Michael is joined by Chris Uhlmann, 9 News Political Editor, to discuss Paul Keating accusing Australian security agencies & media of being anti-China.

 

Following on from China’s decision last week to refuse entry to WA Liberal MP Andrew Hastie, Paul Keating has attacked Australia’s intelligence agencies, a “do-gooder” media and the Morrison government for a “remarkably degenerated” debate on China where the “whispered word communism of old is now being replaced by the word China”.

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Andrew Hastie, Liberal member for Canning WA, joins Michael to talk about he and his government colleague, Senator James Paterson, being denied visas to visit China.

The MPs were due to travel to China next month on a study tour planned by think tank China Matters, but on Friday  the Chinese Embassy told China Matters their visas had been denied, "at this time".

Both Mr Hastie & Senator Paterson have been increasingly critical about the Chinese government, speaking out about attempts to exert influence in Australia and human rights abuses against Uighurs in Xinjiang province.

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