Wake Up Australia

Bob Carr, Former Premier of NSW & Former Australian Foreign Minister, joins Michael to talk about the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the major stock market crash that occurred 90 years ago in late October 1929 .

 

It started on October 24 ("Black Thursday") and continued until October 29, 1929 ("Black Tuesday"), when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.

 

It was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United State, which saw stock markets around the world instituting measures to suspend trading in the event of rapid declines, claiming that the measures would prevent such panic sales.

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Michael talks to Trent Nikolic from Caradvice.com.au about a new Australian Automobile Association (AAA) survey of 1500 Australians that shows that all road users should pay to fund the roads…not just those using petrol or diesel.

The poll suggests that 76 per cent of Australians would call on green-car owners to contribute to transport infrastructure with ­almost one-in-two declaring it unfair they avoid paying fuel excise.

Professor Christian Leuprecht, National security expert and a professor at both Queens University & Royal Military College, joins Michael to discuss the end of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi… and Delta Force, used regularly in covert combat missions around the globe, which brought about his demise.

 

Along with the US Navy’s Seal Team 6, Delta Force it has been working to locate and eliminate the very top members of ISIS and until now, have had a lower profile than Team 6… whose exploits became world news when they shot dead Osama bin Laden in 2011.

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Warren Brown, Daily Telegraph columnist, cartoonist & author, joins Luke Grant to talk about his Daily Telegraph article on the death of serial killer Ivan Milat.

 

Mr Brown writes ‘For anyone who lived through the 1990s, just the mention of Belanglo State Forest will suddenly revive the nightmare that is Ivan Milat.’

 

These two names, Milat and Belanglo, are inextricably linked with some of the most heinous crimes seen in Australia — the unimaginably terrifying ordeal for seven young backpackers who all succumbed to the serial killer’s well-practised procedure of kidnap, torture and execution-style murder.’

Helen Dalton MP, Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party Member for Murray, joins Luke Grant to discuss her proposed bill for water registery.

 

Mrs Dalton asks “In what country in the world would floods be creating havoc during a drought?   The one country where politicians and corporations can make millions from keeping water scarce, keeping prices high and keeping their water ownership secret.”

 

Her bill would:

1)           Force NSW politicians to declare their water interests on our conflict of interest form.

2)           Change the application process for getting a water licence so people can't hide their identity when they apply for their licence

3)           Change the online water register to allow people to search for water holdings of people and companies.

The Bill was introduced last week with the hope that it will be debated and voted on early next year.

Professor Gary Martin, CEO the Australian Institute of Management WA, about the vexing matter smokers in the workplace causing resentment from their non-smoking workmates.

 

They are a dying breed, the last remaining smokers. They assemble unceremoniously like outcasts on the pavement outside office blocks and next to carparks around the country.

 

And they’re still under fire, with a survey by Willis Towers Watson finding that half the workers surveyed believe smoking breaks cause resentment among non-smoking colleagues.

 

This appears to stem from the fact smokers are often automatically excused while others feel they need to justify taking regular breaks. 

 

Now some bosses won’t hire smokers and claim they are unhealthier, take more sick days and create an organisational image of ill-health.

 

But is it fair to ban smokers from the workplace?

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Richard Dababneh, Partner at Turner Freeman Lawyers, joins Luke Grant about the flood of lawyers who have bombarded former Married At First Sight reality star, Tracey Jewel, following a landmark ruling against Channel 7 involving House Rules contestant Nicole Prince.