Podcasts about clover moore

Australia's news in Sinhala. Listen to SBS Sinhala News Flash today. - ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ පුවත් සිංහලෙන්, සවන්දෙන්න අද SBS සිංහල News Flash.

Clinton Maynard has a few questions after Clover Moore was reelected for her sixth term as lord mayor of Sydney.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Labor government updates misinformation bill, proposing up to seven years' jail for doxing, Clover Moore claims a historic sixth term as Sydney's Lord Mayor. Plus, violent crime has soared in the US under the Democrats.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Clover Moore has won an historic 6th term as Sydney Mayor, and The Greens have performed worse than expected in a number of inner city seats, in a unique set of Local Government elections yesterday.  Eight councils didn't field a single Liberal Party Candidate, due to an administrative failure by the party's state executive to nominate candidates by the NSW Electoral Commission's deadline last month.  Four councils and wards which didn't even have enough nominations to hold elections, so those who did nominate were elected unopposed. Bill Woods chats with Sydney Morning Herald Urban Affairs Reporter, Anthony Segeart to find out everything you need to know about one of the most bizarre local government elections in recent history.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

2024新州地方政府选举正在进行，共有10名候选人角逐悉尼市长之职。现年78岁的担任悉尼市长长达20年的摩尔女士（Clover Moore ）面临来自多方的挑战。点击音频收听报道

We can be mighty thankful that the City of Sydney did not adopt e-scooters like some suburban councils. This week Melbourne became the latest city to ban hire scooters with the two operators Lime and Neuron ordered to remove the 1500 e- scooters within 30 days, Melbourne councilors saying they posed unacceptable safety risks – too many people riding on footpaths, not parking them correctly, leaving them scattered around the city like rubbish and creating tripping hazards The two-year trial announced in February 2022 was cut short this week despite the fact both companies had six months left on their contracts. Royal Melbourne Hospital reported that in 2022 alone 250 e-scooter riders presented in its emergency department with major injuries. Lets hope Clover Moore now sees the light and gets rid of the useless e-bikes that litter Sydney streets. I'm David BerthonSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After over 20 years in office, Clover Moore announces her bid for a sixth term as Lord Mayor of Sydney. While she enjoys strong local support, many business owners criticise her policies, blaming them for economic struggles and unfulfilled promises.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luke and James discuss how the NSW Labor Government will fail to meet its promised housing targets, the federal Government's Stage 3 tax cuts, the demise of Roger Rogerson and the Clover Moore flag incident.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In November of 1996, Cloverleaf Mall in Richmond, Virginia was the site of the still-unsolved double murder of Cheryl Edwards and Charlita Singleton, two mall employees found stabbed to death in the back office of the dollar store where they worked. In 2004, investigators briefly thought they'd uncovered new leads... that don't appear to have resulted in progress on the case. In the latest episode of Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles, host Nat Cardona speaks with Scott Bass of the Richmond Times-Dispatch who extensively covered the mall's fallout from the double homicide and the impact it had on the surrounding community. Episode transcript Note: The following transcript was created by Adobe Premiere and may contain misspellings and other inaccuracies as it was generated automatically: Hello and welcome to Late Edition Crime Beat Chronicles. I'm your host, Nat Cardona, and I'm happy to be back after a little bit of a hiatus. The last time you listened, I introduced you to the unsolved case of the Cloverleaf Mall stabbings in Richmond, Virginia. This week, I'm talking with Richmond Times Dispatch opinion editor Scott Bass, who extensively covered the mall's fallout from the double homicide and the impact it had on the surrounding community. Tell me a little bit about yourself, your career now and when you first laid your hands on this topic and coverage and what you were doing then, because I know it's like 15 plus years ago, right? As far as what you were. It was a long time. Right. I'm the Opinion Page editor at the Times Dispatch in Richmond. I've only been here for about a year. In essence, I've been a journalist in the Richmond area for almost 30 years now. Almost 30 years. So I've just kind of jumped around from place to place. I worked in magazine journalism for probably the bulk of my career. Richmond Magazine There was a publication here as an alternative weekly called Style Weekly, where I worked for about ten years. Prior to that, I worked at the Small Daily out in Petersburg, Virginia, the Progress-Index, for about two years. And then, oddly enough, I started my career as a business reporter for a monthly that a weekly business journal called Inside Business. And when the homicides took place in 96, I was I had just kind of started my career as a business journalist. Wasn't very good. Still learning. So most of my focus was kind of on the development side of things. In this particular mall was Richmond's first. The Richmond area's first sort of regional shopping destination was a reasonable shot. We didn't have anything like it, and it kind of replaced in the Richmond area, you know, in most a lot of cities where, you know, the main shopping district was downtown in Richmond, it was Broad Street. And Broad Street had the military roads. It had a big, tall Hammer's big, beautiful department stores. It's where everyone kind of collected during the holidays. It was the primary sort of retail shopping district. And then somewhere around, starting in the mid fifties, early sixties, shopping malls started to replace downtown retail districts as whites that not white flight, but as sort of the great suburban explosion took place after World War Two. Everyone moved out of urban areas into suburban the suburbs, and the retail sort of followed back. And this was Cloverleaf Mall was our first sort of big regional shopping destination that was outside of East Broad Street, downtown. And sort of a big deal. Yeah, we were a little late. Like Richmond was always kind of wait things. So, you know, this opened and the first mall Cloverleaf opened in 1972. But right about this time, within three or four years, several malls had been kind of built, were built right after Regency or excuse me, right after Cloverleaf Mall was built in 72, the Regency Mall, which was a bigger, much nicer facility. It was two stories that was built in 74 five. And then, oddly enough, Cloverleaf, which is located south of Richmond and Chesterfield County, which is sort of the biggest jurisdiction in our metro region, opened a second mall much further down the road, about three miles down the road from Cloverleaf, where there was nothing. It was a real tiny shopping strip with one anchor, and it did no business for several years. They used to call it the Chesterfield morgue. But it's interesting because just as an aside, you mall development really took off in the fifties after Congress kind of passed this as a law, basically making it, allowing developers to depreciate real estate development really, really quickly. And that was in 54. And that just jumpstarted mall development. And all of a sudden there was an explosion. Malls were built literally all over the country because it was very easy for developers to build a mall and get their money back paid off within a few years independent of how the mall actually was doing. From a retail perspective. So it just led to a proliferation of malls. And that's kind of what happened at Cloverleaf Club, which was the first. But there were several others that had built up not far away. And slowly but surely it was eagerness. It started E Cloverleaf to launch. This cloverleaf was sort of on the edge of Richmond or just across the border, and that's in Chesterfield from Richmond. And there's an interesting racial history, too, obviously, in Virginia we have independent cities, which means that our cities are actually they have separate governments from the counties next to them. Whereas if you go and everywhere else in the country, cities are tended to be centers of commerce that are part of another jurisdiction. In Virginia, we have independent cities, which means they have no connection whatsoever to the municipalities around them, which meant that in order for the city to grow, it had to annex the surrounding jurisdictions and its property residents. And this had been going on in Virginia. And, you know, the first part of the 20th century, the last one of the last big annexations and I think it might have been the last one was the city of Richmond, annexing about 23 square miles of Chesterfield County in 1970. Chesterfield County is just south of the city, sort of south and east. And they basically absorbed 23 square miles in about 40,000, 47,000 or so residents understanding that there was a racial backdrop here because this came a few years after desegregation and Richmond was sort of ground zero in massive resistance to segregation of integration in schools. And once that happened in the sixties, there was a white flight, a lot of white flight out of Richmond. People just white folks just left and they moved into Chesterfield and Henrico and some of the surrounding jurisdictions. The sort of last gasp for Richmond to sort of maintain some of its tax base occur in 1970 with the annexation. But it was also an attempt to sort of bolster the white political structure because most of the residents that they absorb were white. They were beginning to lose their political power. And that was a primary motivator for the annexation. The mall was built by Chesterfield Camp in Chesterfield County is kind of a big F-you to the city of Richmond. Like, okay, you can you took our land, you took our residents and we're going to build this big fancy mall and we're going to suck all the retail dollars out of the city into Chesterfield County. That's the way a lot of people read that. So it's just she has an interesting history there. The location was just across the city border, the border with Richmond and Chesterfield. They wouldn't even allow busses to venture into Chesterfield County because the idea was to allow busses to come into the county. We're going to be allowing black folks to come here and no one wanted that because there was a lot of there was this perception that once black residents moved in to Chesterfield County, then, you know, everything was lost. This was a difficult time for the Richmond region from a racial perspective, was not a healthy, healthy time or a place. So the mall had always had sort of this slight stigma attached to it in that regard. But in the very beginning, Cloverleaf Mall was really the center of fashion for a couple of years in Richmond. Everyone coalesced there. You know, the local department stores, which had they had stores all up and down the East Coast, Tom Heimer and Miller Roads that were founded here for hire was there. Railroads came a little bit later and Richmond really was for a period of time, kind of a center of retail innovation. This was in the seventies, sixties and seventies. A lot of the big, big format, big box stores kind of came out of Richmond and Circuit City best products. Back in those days. They were the kind of first to actually do big, big box retail. So it was an interesting time and an interesting place for Richmond because we had this history of sort of retail innovation in New York on the East Coast and in the south. And the mall came along. It was a brand new concept and everyone's letter to the mall that lasted for a few years until the other malls started showing up and duplicating those efforts. And it just kind of splintered the market. The homicides came, I guess it was 96. So several years later, the mall was in decline, had been for several years as a sort of suburban development, really took off in Chesterfield further out where around that other mall that built in that direction. So the mall completely mall was in decline, had been struggling. They had struggled to keep their department stores. They would leave, they would have new ones come in. It was difficult, but during the early nineties, things really started to take a turn. Richmond at that time was becoming known as one of the murder capitals of the U.S. during the crack cocaine epidemic, and a lot of people in the surrounding jurisdictions kind of looked at Richmond as this dangerous place to be and it was drug infested. You didn't want to go into the city. And Cloverleaf kind of was right on the edge. People kind of associated Richmond with Cloverleaf on some level. So it was in decline. People began to view Cloverleaf as a dangerous place or potentially a dangerous place. And then when the double homicides took place in 96, that was kind of the end of it. But a lot of the tenants at the mall decided not to renew their leases. The decline just accelerated and that was, I think, most people who are here in Richmond, you can recall this time period, would agree that that double homicide was kind of the nail in the coffin for Clover Moore, for lack of a better word. Sure. They only. We need to take a quick break, so don't go too far. See you all soon during your you know, your coverage of that and the decline and talking in the nineties, Do you have any recollection of what else was going on there? I mean, goofy things happen when there's like vacant stores and that kind of thing. I mean, there had but like, like what didn't what was going on inside a, I mean, murderous aside, like as far as trouble, whatever you want to label it as. There have been some, you know, some reports of, you know, teenagers walking around the mall intimidating, you know, shoppers, that kind of thing. The mall had changed in terms of the retail mix. So as as it became less of a destination and other malls had kind of cornered the market in more populous areas, the demographics around Cloverleaf were lower income. You know, there was a higher black population, higher Latino population, and you started to see a change in retail mix. So you didn't have some of the higher end retailers or the big chains had already kind of breaking. So the gaps, you know, the limited and those kinds of stores had kind of long had and left the place. So you ended up with smaller stores that didn't quite fill the spaces that had been originally, you know, it was designed for a larger footprint and it created more vacancies. And it became a place where, you know, people kind of viewed all that's at the mall is the low income, you know, mall for for people who don't have as much money. And the clientele kind of matched that. And that's the way a lot of people used. CLOVERLEAF But the vacancies were there. I mean, I don't know that it was anything I don't recall any any other major episodes. There had been, I think, another where every now and then there would be a report of someone who had been fired or a gun or a shooting or something like that. But it wasn't. But thanks for clarifying that. Yeah, I just didn't know if there was like other stuff going on there. It's more just like we don't go there because it's more. That's what made this case so bizarre, is because it was a state. It was a you know, I think they were both staffed at least ten times, from what I recall. And, you know, they they couldn't quite figure out sort of, well, who was this someone who was just passing through? Because it was kind of an it was right off of Chippenham Parkway, was close to the interstate. Could this been someone who was just passing through where they're looking around? Who knows? But the fact that they were stabbed multiple times kind of raised the question of it seemed personal. There was nothing I mean, not I mean, they scoured I mean, the police really did put everything into this, as far as I recall. And they just kept coming up empty. They couldn't that they had every lead that they had. There was a U-Haul at one point in the parking lot that it had been left unlocked with the lights on. I think that turned out to not be connected. They just they just got run into dead ends. And yeah, it's just bizarre. I have no one really ever I don't think that. I suspect today they are not any closer than they were. We know whatever happened in 2004 as a possible break in the case or we did, you know, obviously fizzled out. And it's been there almost 20 years since. So, yeah, it's definitely really. 30 years here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, from 24 for there to be like this possible break. But that was like the last that we've seen. Right. That's the most completely They gone now. They tore down that wall. Right. So, so 1990. So November 1996, these murders happened. I was your one style Weekly article that I first came across was, you know, eight years later in 2004. So when you were covering that, where where was the mall at at that time? Was it about like literally on its last legs or. Yes, it was. It was literally on this last legs. I mean, in terms of the other day, gosh, I can't recall who was actually if one of the department stores was still there. wow. Sears might have still been there in 2004. Okay. But I believe they were the last anchor. But yeah, at that point in time, I mean, you know, a lot of it becomes self-fulfilling prophecy. Chesterfield County had pegged it for redevelopment a few years earlier. And, you know, if you spend enough time talking about the mom and dad to your constituents and the news and with plans of what we're going to do to fix it, it kind of seals the enamel. Yeah. And by 2004, it was done. Okay. It was just a matter of who was going to pay for the redevelopment. Sure. And then on as an aside to that on the fringe, it really could never shake that. This is the place where two women were murdered and they still don't know what happened. True. Yeah. No, absolutely true. There was a real estate agent. Real estate agent or a commercial real estate broker. We followed all of this with me, and the story that I wrote made the comment that, you know, that was got death written all over it. And that was really true. Like no one wanted to touch them all. You couldn't get content to resign. It just had this perception of being in a bad area. There's some racial undertones to it, of course, but by that point it was so far gone that I don't think anyone reasonably thought it could be resurrected as a retail destination. Sure. And then do you have any idea how long that all in $1 store where they were murdered out? Like how long did that survive? Any clue after they were murdered? Yeah, I don't imagine a real oak. That's a really good question. I don't know the answer to every you know. Have you talked have you tried to talk to Jay Latham? I know that the feelers have been out with that. I he he would probably have more insight on that. Right. He's a great interview. Yeah. And he actually had he did two stints there. So he was I thought he was the original loan manager, but he came in I think 75 or six, 76 somewhere. There came a couple of years after they left and then came back and he was the manager at the mall where the homicides took place. And it was like a really crazy time period, really. He just returned five weeks before or something. He hadn't been there long, and they were in the process of trying to revive it. So he worked for a Think Simon Property group, which is either just purchased the mall or believe it and have to go back and check. But yeah he was with a group that had was they had taken it over and they were had hopes of sort of reviving and then that happened and yeah, changed his plans. So. Right, so what, what's there now. They had this sort of mixed use thing. It's, there's a big Kroger, one of the biggest doesn't have me, there's nothing exciting there. They basically replace it with a mix of retail and residential and Chester County had gotten involved in issuing health issue bonds to kind of pay for some of the infrastructure and got Kroger to build. I think at the time it might still be one of the biggest Kroger's in Virginia and it's just massive Kroger marketplace. And that was the big anchor. Well, interestingly, there is one little remnant of the mall still left, which is a tire shop that was part of the mall and it still has the old sixties and early seventies sort of architecture that refused to sell. And it's still there. And it's right in the middle of this sort of new development because they put him on kind of sticking out like a sore thumb. So you can appreciate. The entire place. Yeah, and it's exciting, but they're in the process of redeveloping the whole area now. You know, there's some stuff going to put it in a couple of ice skating rinks across the street and there's a big sort of office park that have been there for years. They're trying to interconnect their office park with some shopping district slash entertainment complex right next to it that's close to the mall. You know. This is like any to pop that in any city kind of thing. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah. What's different? Right. Well, what's the what's the demographics in the area now? It's still primarily it's not a high income. You know, the area of of just, you know, just was big is about 400 square miles. So it's a big, big footprint. The sort of the as the suburban development kind of shifted further out, you know, that there was sort of inner edge parts of both counties is just kind of, you know. The one last thing that pops in my mind here is, I mean, I know you weren't a crime reporter and you are not one currently, but just for more context, because we're I'm not there and I know that Richmond was at one time, you know, the murder capital, like you say. Are there more cases like this? Like I just I guess it's interesting to me that there's so little coverage of an unsolved murder of two women at a mall, something so public. And you know, seemingly random. And it's just like, is this? And I was just kind of one of those earmarked cases in the area that people like. Definitely. No, definitely remember like or other like tons of these. I just I just don't get it. I think at the time I mean the be just what I remember of this time period, you know, Richmond was I think two years early. We had 160 murder incidents in a city of less than 200,000 people. It was a problem. We had a higher murder rate. So it wasn't it didn't happen often in Chesterfield, the jurisdictions around the city. I mean, they always had it and we've always had issues, but not not 160 murders year. So when the Cleveland murders happened, I think it just kind of got lost a little bit. I was like, okay, it's there's a racial element to it. You know, if it were two white women, then there would be way more attention focused on it. That's just tends to be the case. And because these were minority women who were found stabbed to death and all that, people had stopped caring about at least those with political power and stopped caring about allowing it to sort of just kind of drift. That's quite a bit of that here. No, it's almost. Yeah. Is there anything else you just want to add about your realm of things in connection with cool relief? Yeah, I'm so, I mean, you know, I hope it's I hope it's enough for you to sink your teeth into. And I guess I'm not having a lot of information about the actual case itself. I know Chesterfield was very close to the vest about what they were, what they would release the police department was. So I recall just kind of during when I was reporting on this, just kind of being in my head against the wall because they wanted this to be out there. But they were very it was very difficult to get them to talk about some of the leads that they had and didn't have them. All that good stuff. You know, I think for me, just going back and looking at the the case itself, I was always fascinated with it. I mean, I'm I'm a local, you know, journalist, you know, So outside of Richmond, maybe you wouldn't care about such things. But, you know, there are there are so many different layers to it from understanding like the connection between annexation and sort of the racial history. There was always like another layer to it that maybe I didn't think about or didn't realize until I went back and looked at everything again. And that's all for now. Subscribe. So that you don't come back and you episodes cases are coming your way.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has landed in the US for a state visit hosted by President Joe Biden, there has been a heartbreaking update about the child victims of a shed fire at Geeling over the weekend, Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore has been criticised by the Israel Defence Forces and Australia's wheelchair rugby team has won the World Cup in Paris.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Co-podder Sue Williams and I took ourselves off to the Owners Corporation Network's 20th anniversary event last week and it turned out to be a very revealing evening indeed. OK, the plaudits and praise were flowing faster than the free wine – and that's saying something. I hosted and Sue delivered a fascinating speech about how the OCN was formed in the darkest days of battle against corrupt developers, their sleazy managers, our supine strata committee and our incompetent strata managers. We thought we were suffering a unique confluence of bad luck … until Sue met other strata chairs and discovered we were far from alone. The big event, however, was Building Commissioner David Chandler's speech. In it he revealed the next phase of his revolution, which will gladden the hearts of owners in older buildings. He also flagged an interest in carbon neutral buildings in the future and had a none too subtle sideswipe at yours truly for my ongoing campaign to get strata out of Fair Trading. But it was generally agreed that the work OCN and especially its executive officer Karen Stiles has done laid the groundwork for David Chandler's appointment as building commissioner. You can hear David's speech in this podcast, but OCN members will be able to stream the entire event — including Sue, strata lawyer Stephen Goddard, OCN chair Fred Tuckwell, stalwart Gerry Chia and Karen (Brokovich) Stiles – on their website ocn.org.au. There were also messages from Fair Trading Minister Victor Dominello and City of Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore. If you're not a member, there's a simple remedy for that. Check it out … but only after you have listened to this week's Flat Chat Wrap. TRANSCRIPT IN FULL Jimmy  00:00 So as we mentioned last week, we went to the OCN's (the Owners Corporation Network's) 20th anniversary event on Wednesday. There were quite a lot of high-powered people there. Sue  00:12 Yes, the room was packed. It was a fabulous occasion. Jimmy  00:16 The Building Commissioner, David Chandler, was there and the Property Services Commissioner was there. Sue  00:21 John Minns... Jimmy  00:22 And we got a video message from Victor Dominello and Clover Moore. It was very exciting and interesting. So today, we're going to take a listen to what David Chandler said in his speech. He said a couple of really interesting things about new innovations. We'll have a chat about that. I'm Jimmy Thomson, I wrote the Flat Chat column for the Australian Financial Review. Sue  00:46 And I'm Sue Williams and I write about property for Domain. Jimmy  00:48 And this is the Flat Chat Wrap. David Chandler seems to be a very popular man? Sue  01:07 Absolutely. He's a great speaker, isn't he? I mean, he's very colourful and interesting, and very accessible. Jimmy  01:12 Yes. We're going to take a listen to his speech and then we'll have a chat about that... "Now, without OCN, we might never have been blessed with a Building Commissioner at all. And without this particular Building Commissioner, we might never have witnessed the profound and meaningful change in the building industry. Please welcome your Building Commissioner, David Chandler." David Chandler  01:37 Well, it's a privilege to be here today, because we've been on a long journey together. But today's story is really about OCN and I was talking earlier with a few folk here, that I see this is a bit like a graduation ceremony, where I've seen an organisation over 10 or so years (where I've been observing it), go from what was essentially about victims, to an organisation that's about advocacy. And you get a much more coherent engagement with people who have a clear advocacy perspective, rather than just simply being bogged down with their experience as victims. Now, that's not in any way to devalue the hell that I have seen people going through and it's been really... The motivator for me,

We are the Ex-Candidates - join us as we discuss the issues that matter. On this week's show: * Rebecca Thompson - One Nation candidate for Hume www.facebook.com/RebeccaThompson.PHON https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100073808323068 https://www.instagram.com/excandidate_bec/ * Adam Zahra - One Nation candidate for Macarthur https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079290144379 www.instagram.com/zahra4macarthur/ * Steven Tripp - One Nation candidate for Warringah https://www.facebook.com/ExCandidate.Steven/ https://www.instagram.com/steventripp.excandidates/ Join us as we discuss: * World Economic Forum overview * Bugs for food * Is the WEF good, bad or both? * Strategic Intelligence - the belly of the beast * Housing affordability solutions * Road infrastructure funding * Profit based tax vs transactional tax * What is stakeholder capitalism? * Victorian agriculture amendment bill * Do Aussie's agree with lockdowns? * Ben Fordham calls for mandates to end * Mark Latham experiences * Clover Moore's plan for Circular Quay * How can Government support small business? * Themes of the upcoming NSW State election

Australian cities are where the nation's majority live, eat and emit. Combatting the emissions that accompany these highly urban environments, Sydney's Lord Mayor Clover Moore established some of Australia's most ambitious climate initiatives including plans for net zero by 2035, reducing waste and increasing green space. Clover Moore is recorded live in conversation with Benjamin Law at Powerhouse Ultimo. For more information go to 100climateconversations.com/clover-moore 

Sylvie Ellsmore is the Greens mayoral candidate for the City of Sydney in the upcoming NSW local elections. She's running a campaign to make Sydney a city for everyone, not just the rich, with a particular focus on housing and grassroots democracy.  This was a fantastic conversation about the state of local Sydney politics, the legacy of independent mayor Clover Moore and the Greens' vision for how the local city council can play a much more activist role in fixing the truly cooked Sydney housing market. I think you'll find Sylvie's passion ideas inspiring and cool. Go team.  Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you If you've got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron I'm recording a stand up special at Chapel Off Chapel in early December I'm doing Easey Comedy in Collingwood on Thursday November 11th with Dave Hughes @Sylvie_E Sylvie's candidate page Sylvie's Facebook Sylvie's instagram If you live in NSW make sure you're enrolled to vote in the local elections by the end of TODAY (October 25th) ARTICLE: Greens want the City of Sydney to lead on affordable housing Check out the federal Greens' policy to build 1 million homes Cause of the Week: Welcome Merchant (on linktree); book for the Greens for the City of Sydney Dinner Party here

New Year's Eve family fireworks display has been scrapped by the City of Sydney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to 2021 MLOG Thank you for once again joining us for another year of Podcasting about our shared Love of Golf. In this Episode I catch up with fellow podcaster Steve Smith from the Golfing Greenkeeper Podcast. We talk about the importance of Wedges in your bag and hopefully help understand some of the many questions I receive on a daily basis. We also talk about Clover Moore's plans to demolish Moore Park Golf Club. Leave it alone I say. Anyway, Let me know what you have been up to on your golfing journey andI will share, maybe even get you on the podcast. What do you think of the logo, check it out on insta. email me ross@myloveofgolf.com Check out The Golfing Greenkeeper https://www.instagram.com/thegolfinggreenkeeper/   Improve your GOLF Mental Game INCITEGOLF Academy - Build an Unbreakable Mental Game ( Free 1st Program) https://incitegolfacademy.teachable.com/   The My Love of Golf Podcast Insta: Instagram Facebook: Facebook Twitter: Twitter Rocket: Rocket Insta The Mental Mastery Golf Podcast Want to improve your Mental Game? Then check out The Mental Mastery Golf Podcast hosted by Rossco and Jamie from Dare2Dream www.dare2dream.com.au Mental Mastery Golf Podcast Mental Mastery Facebook Group   The GolfRules Questions Podcast Facebook: GolfRules Questions FB Insta: Insta YouTube: GRQ Youtube PODCAST: The GolfRules Questions Podcast  

Clover Moore Busted In Disabled Parking, ScoMo Five-0 Becomes And The Battle Of Victoria, Mask Judgement, Prince Charles On Andrew’s Toe Sucking, How Far Did Your Crap Box Take You? Mikey Robins’ Reveals Some Disturbing Historical Facts, The Downfalls Of Online Meditation, Supermarket Politics, When Animals Attack – Aquatic Edition, Moon News – Fruit Picker Shortage.

In this very special episode we talk about the life, times and scandals of Angus Taylor, the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Angus Taylor, this is your lifeAngus Taylor and his wife Louise are apparently extremely litigious.Taylor had a career before politics at McKinsey. His brother, Charlie Taylor is a senior partner at McKinsey.While at McKinsey, Taylor played a large role in setting Fonterra, New Zealand’s largest company.If you’ve heard of McKinsey, it might have been via the US Presidential election primaries. They have ties to US intelligence.Taylor has hated renewable energy for a long time. In 2013 he spoke at a “Stop these things” anti-wind farm campaign.Angus Taylor’s brother Richard founded a company called Growth Farms Australia, a $400 million dollar agricultural fund manager. Richard is also the director of a company called Jam Land.He also has interests in a whole mess of Cayman-islands registered companies with names like Eastern Australian Irrigation and Agricultural Managers Limited, along with Gufee, the Taylor family investment firm.2013 was a big yearIn 2013, Angus Taylor was by far far the biggest donor to the LNP, giving $155,000 to the party. He was also elected to the seat of Hume.As a backbencher, he was strongly anti-renewable energy.Jamming up the grasslandsJamland is a company Angus Taylor’s family investment fund is heavily invested in, and his brother Richard is a director of the company.The company was investigated by the NSW government, but the investigation went nowhere.The Federal Government opened an investigation into the poisoning, but Josh Frydenburg’s office started looking into whether they could secretly weaken the environmental protections.John Auer—a former part-owner of Jamland—was convicted of illegally poisoning 420 wedge-tailed eagles.WatergateIn July of 2017, Eastern Australia Agriculture was paid $79m by the federal government for water licences. This was done without a tender and netting massive profits for EAA.EAA then used debt loading and Cayman islands-trickery to avoid paying any tax on the deal.The water credits were valued by Colliers, a company previously retained by EAA.Tony Reid, who formerly worked with Taylor at McKinsey, was heavily involved in the deals.Reid at the time also worked for Growth Farms Australia, a company invested in by Gufee, the Taylor family investment fund.Richard Taylor (Angus’ brother), is a director at Growth Farms.Clover Moore newsAngus Taylor’s office a document apparently showing that Clover Moore, the Lord Mayor of Sydney spent $14.2m on travel.The document with those figures never existed on the Sydney City council website. (the council actually spent $228,000).The investigation into the doctored documents was dropped by the NSW Police (Scott Morrison called the NSW police commissioner, an old mate).The Australian Federal Police investigation was dropped too, after they “formed no concluded view”.The rumour mill suggests Taylor’s wife, Louise Clegg, was planning a run for Lord Mayor.Self-congratulatory AngusAngus Taylor once wrote a comment on his own Facebook post: “Fantastic. Great move. Well done Angus”Future AngusAngus Taylor is up to his usual tricks, pushing gas and coal as the plan for future energy generation.There’s also talk of a massive new gas pipeline, and an end to bans on fracking.Taylor is also blocking any kind of Australian emissions plan, refusing to put in place any kind of target.Australia’s climate policy was ranked 0 out of 100 in a global performance index.ActionsChange your electricity provider and buy renewable energy  

Shell is posting cringe on International Women's Day, Missy Higgins' dad has Coronavirus, and the Australian government continues their efforts to make corruption a national sport. We try to make sense of the chaos in this blockbuster episode.NewsAll fires are out in New South Wales!It’s International Women’s Day. Celebrate with the horror of this Shell ad.Never forget that International Women’s Day began as a socialist celebration of working women.CoronavirusVox has a detailed and readable summary of what we know about COVID-19 so far. Here’s the direct source for what the experts are saying. The Australian government website is good for a just-the-facts summary of symptoms to look out for and best-practice precautions.Missy Higgins dad has COVID-19, but didn’t meet the health department’s guidelines for testing.Australians are panic-buying toilet paper. As Buzzfeed reports, it started as a media scare, now its becoming a real panic.Panic buying and hoarding is bad for everyone else. It prevents people who are living paycheque to paycheque from being able to purchase the things they need.The poorest people in our society — people on casual work and without sick leave, are also the people who come into contact with the most people.The Liberal government has a history of trying to make it harder for the poorest Australians to the access health care they need.Jeremy Poxon of the Unemployed Workers Union has interrogated Centerlink on the requirements they will place on unemployed people under quarantine, with no clear answer. They have a bad record on this, cutting off the payments of bushfire victims.Government corruptionPenny Wong has accused Scott Morrison of being “up to his neck” in the corruption of the sports rorts.The liberal party attempted to shut down on questions by calling the word “rorts”, “unparlimentary”.Angus Taylor, the government’s minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, was not interviewed by the Federal Police, after his office falsified documents for a fight with Clover Moore, mayor of Sydney.Taylor’s business interests have also raked in $93 million of state and federal funds during his time in office.In extra promoted to guest star news: Glenys Beauchamp, who was in the episode last week destroying documents, has now been found intimidating an academic whistleblowing a data breach of 3 million Australians.Anne Rushton, government’s Minister for Families and Social Services refused to say that Australia’s social security system should not cause harm to the people within it.Bushfires and climate changeThe Morrison government is dropping funding to an international emissions research collaboration.… along with the Bushfire & Natural Hazards research centre.It appears that the much-hyped $2 billion bushfire relief fund may not exist. Only $400,000 has been distributed so far.Angus Taylor (who loves to take $93 million of taxpayer money for his businesses) is trying to keep the Liddel coal power station open to at least 2026, even though it’s not economical.The Australian government has not done modeling of the economic impact of climate change until at least 2013.The gas power plants in Australia have been running at 30% of capacity for the last 18 months — and yet the government are calling for more to be built.ActionsShout out to the Flood Cast from Flood Media — check their series on capitalism and a socialist future. Solidaritus et podcastus ✊Wash your hands, buy a reasonable amount of toilet paper and if you can, take time off from work if you're sick.If you have COVID and your boss makes you work, make sure to take them aside during the day to apologise for trying to slack off (enclosed spaces if possible).

Thousands gathered outside Sydney's Town Hall protesting government response to ongoing bushfires in New South Wales. Protestors demanded that urgent steps be taken to tackle the climate crisis on both Federal and State levels. - Хиљаде људи је синоћ на улицама Сиднеја протествовало захтевајући акцију Федералне Владе у вези климатских промена, за које се верује да проузрокују незапамћене пожаре у Новом Јужном Велсу.

New South Wales police are investigating the origins of an altered document used by Angus Taylor to attack the Sydney lord mayor that included grossly inflated travel figures for the council. How did the scandal unfold and is there a plausible explanation for this mystery document?

The brown stuff's hit the whirly thing for Angus Taylor - what the hell was going on in his office? How much does China love coal? And learning from our moral superiors - the actor-vists join Extinction Rebellion, but which car did they take to get there?

Australia is making international headlines over Donald Trump's impeachment saga and the media is losing its mind about it. We talk that and RMIT university giving a Chinese government agency overriding authority over teaching at its Confucius Institute, as well as the upcoming National Driver Licence Facial Recognition Solution which will totally never ever be hacked and the ACT legalising marijuana and we learn it's difficult to grow in Canberra. Our heroes and villains this week include UFC Octagon girls, Todd Phillips, the Bureau of Meteorolgy and the Victorian justice system. We talk to Daisy Cousens about how Australia got involved in Trump's impeachment story, why Trump is the greatest troll in the world, Greta Thunberg and Antifa stopping an old lady attending a Dave Rubin event (20:20-37:12). We then talk to IPA Campus Coordinator Angus Heaton about the upcoming Generation Liberty Event ‘The Great Energy Debate: Which power source is best to solve the energy crisis?' and how his IPA connection led to an outrageous Student Council session (37.15-43:21) before major controversy in another round of Hey What Did We Miss? (43:21-50:51) At the end, we debut the new segment Won't Someone Please Think Of The Children since Kings Cross will still have lockout laws, Angus Taylor's all-time comeback to Clover Moore on the ‘climate emergency' and we break down the results of the Breitbart poll on Trump.

This week our podcast is given over to an extended chat with NSW Independent MP for Sydney, Alex Greenwich. I've come across many politicians in this game. Most have been honest and decent (to a point) and a few have been self-interested and not so much corrupt as corrupted - mainly by party allegiance and personal ambition. But it's very rare to come across someone who is as clear-sighted, committed and empathic as Alex. Locally, he's known as the man who took over from Clover Moore when she was forced to chose between being Mayor of Sydney and the city's MP in the NSW parliament. That he won the by-election comfortably was no surprise but he then increased his majority at the next state election, despite having a chunk of traditionally Liberal voters grafted on to his constituency. Nationally, he was the face of the same-sex marriage campaign while appearing on the SBS TV series Filthy Rich and Homeless. And as soon as the next state election campaign is done and dusted, he will take up cudgels for the voluntary euthanasia movement. Will all that on his plate, as well as being an active constituency MP, we were very lucky to get an hour of his time to talk about the things that matter to us here at Flat Chat. Why him?  Becasue his constituency has more high-rise apartments than any other in Australia. So this podcast is the first of two parts in which we discuss the strata issues of the day - Airbnb, cladding, defects  ... and pets. The highlight of the chat, for me, was his description of how a last-minute push by the Owners Corporation Network (and a few like-minded souls) alerted MPs in constituencies with large numbers of apartment blocks that they were about to be effectively handed over to Airbnb and other online letting agencies to be used for holiday lets, regardless of the devastating effects of strata communities. His description of the corridors of Parliament full of MPs asking each other what was going on and the last minute U-Turn by our Planning and Better Regulation Ministers makes our latest Flat Chat Wrap podcast worth a listen in itself. Enjoy. https://episodes.castos.com/flatchatpod/Flat-Chat-Wrap-11-Alex-1-.mp3

Clover Moore has been involved in politics for 38 years and for the last 14 she’s been Lord Mayor of Sydney. She’s stood in 13 elections and won them all. But it hasn’t been easy - she’s copped her fair share of criticism along the way, which Clover says has often been quite hurtful. But as Henry Rollins discovers, she’s made of pretty tough stuff. If this episode brought up any stuff for you, get in touch with  Beyond Blue at beyondblue.org.au or in Australia on 1300 22 4636. If you’re in an emergency or at immediate risk of harm to yourself or others, please contact emergency services on triple zero.

Tough has evolved. Join Henry Rollins road tripping around Australia, to discover what tough means. It’s honest, challenging, and sometimes intense. That’s what makes it a tough conversation.  Come for the ride with Mercedes-Benz X-class and listen in to Clover Moore, Mick Fanning, Adam Briggs and more. Follow the journey at www.x-class.com.au.

Happy new year! This week Chris starts off with a critique/grumble about the almost imperceptible "soft launch" of the Victorian Cycling Strategy 2018-28 and yet more unhelpful media against bicycle riders in Queensland. Continuing on from last fortnights program, here's more three segments from Radio Adelaide series Step Away From The Car,  produced by Nicky Page and recorded with people involved with 2017 Australian Walking and Cycling ConferenceAuckland Steps Away from the Car: Hong Kong and New Zealand have very different traffic environments ... Senior Traffic Engineer Jason Chow was born in Hong Kong but now works in Auckland ... creating a variety of safe routes for cyclists and pedestrians... find out why he describes one of those routes as “vibrant”No Trespassing: The Art and Politics of Walking in NSW: When the Wiradjuri warrior called Windradyne walked from Bathurst to Paramatta in 1824 it was to surrender to the Governor to avoid further bloodshed. That event is the focus of today’s episode of Step Away From the Car ... featuring artist Molly L Wagner who is retracing that 197km walk on foot ... and as you can imagine that  experience has led to many new insights.The Trojan Horse of Fun: What happens when you take the dark arts of advertising and develop “collective impact” programs to encourage and support cycling in the City of Sydney?  Jess Miller has been finding out, in her work as Program Director with Republic of Everyone and especially as part of Clover Moore’s Independent team on the Sydney City Council.... Jess was keynote speaker at the Australian Walking and Cycling Conference and you can hear highlights on today’s episode of Step Away From the Car  Local bicycle news includes Women/Trans/Non-Binary Ride at Commuter Cycles THIS Monday 15 January, 6.15pm, starting at 14 Prentice Street, Brunswick, the 2018 Indian Pacific Wheelrace roster released and Lightning Furies: Melbourne Ride on Saturday 20 January, starting at 3pm (precrafting) 5pm (ride), Norma Redpath Studio, 4 Painsdale Place, Carlton. "The Lightning Furies is a bike gang of tough women and non-binary folks. When they take to the streets, children wave, drivers get out of the way, and lycra-clad hoons choose a different route" For more Melbourne bicycle news and events, follow YarraBUG on twitter, facebook and public events calendar

Speaking from her office at Town Hall, the Lord Mayor talks about the changing face of Sydney's music scene and how the support of small venues drastically changed the city, she also chats about the lessons she brought home after living in London, the times she used to sneak out of home to catch gigs in Kings Cross, and the Agent of Change proposal.

Finally, the mainstream media is not buying the Airbnb BS.  Have a listen to the the $30 billion global letting agency's talking head Brent Thomas squirm as ABC Melbourne's Jon Faine nails them on their failure to pay tax in Australia. "If I was the Premier, I would refuse to meet you," has to be the quote of the year. LISTEN TO IT HERE Meanwhile, in the Flat Chat column currently running online in the AFR I refer to having "previous convictions".  If you want to read the whole charge sheet, laying out my research, findings and opinions on Airbnb, start HERE. It's interesting that other branches of the media are becoming a bit sceptical of Airbnb's dubious and relentlessly repeated message that they are all about ordinary people letting rooms in their homes (while they are fighting tooth and nail to force apartment blocks to accept short-term lets of whole apartments, their main source of income). Now News Ltd journalists are faithfully trotting out any statistics from Airbnb-paid "surveys" as if they are fact.  But it's just a matter of time.  Wait till News realises that Clover Moore (bless her organic fair-trade cotton socks) is pro-Airbnb ... then the worm will turn. Personally, my views on Airbnb have evolved over the past few years.  I have gone from being largely pro the idea of legitimate sharing to very anti the TRUE intent of Airbnb which is to force us to accept holiday lets in our homes and force us to share our facilities with complete strangers over whom we and the hosts have no control. We have planning laws that were evolved over many years precisely to spare communities from this kind of exploitation.  I bought an apartment in a residential-only building. If the government wants to change its status to "de facto hotel", just to appear trendy and pour money into private investors' pockets, they can expect a much bigger backlash that the vague pathetic threats issued recently by the Airbnb attack poodles. Dammit, I might run for parliament myself.  Now THAT is a threat to democracy!  

Join The Saturday Paper’s chief political correspondent, Karen Middleton, for ‘A Month of Saturdays’, one of a series of conversations about Canberra’s big policy debates.

Sarah Keoghan reads the news headlines for August 31. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pat Griffiths goes through the top stories for Monday September 12th. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Jess Miller is bashing the campaign trail at the moment with TeamClover. Meet the Gath Hat-wearing, nose-picking potential council member through her stories and music. THE MEETING TREE r u a cop 12:00 // BIKINI KILL Double Dare Ya // 28 DAYS Goodbye // JORGE BEN JOR Take It Easy My Brother Charlie // PEACHES Fuck The Pain Away // NORAH JONES Don't Know Why // LE TIGRE Deceptacon // HIPPIE SABOTAGE Devil Eyes // JORDAN COREY Imagination //

Sydney lord mayor Clover Moore on a $1.5 million grant to support construction of a residential aged-care home for older people who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.

Episode 24 => http://tiny.cc/gsit1SYDNEY SPECIAL!  [Qld Civil Partnership] Spencer & Dktr Burke were there!  What went down at Qld Parliament? [HERO!] Alex Greenwich, conveynor of Australian Marriage Equality, speaks with the starstruck crew. [Speakers] We hear from luminaries addressing the rally - Sarah Hanson-Young, Dr Kerryn Phelps, Clover Moore etc. etc. [Qld Equal Love] Jay & Kat - couldn't have done it without you!  What are their thoughts? [Rally] What did they people think?  Randoms talk to the Gay Savvy Crew!