Upbeat Songs With John Radio Show 27th March 2023

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Thank you for listening to the last show of 'Great songs 'Great songs never played before' Radio Show' @ Upbeat Songs With John at Bay & Basin 927fm Here are the lists of songs that were played this week:

Walk of life by #direstraits

Good for you by #iconapop

A picture of you by #JoeBrown & #thebruvvers

Now and forever by #airsupply

Get back by #thebeatles

Say I love you by #reneegeyer

I don't want to talk about it by #rodstewart

Boys' night out by #pattipage

J OK and Elvis did it too by #rolandstorm

Vacation by #conniefrancis

Upright everything's alright by #steviewonder

For crying out loud by #meatloaf

I'll be there by #GerryAndThePacemakers

I thank you by #johnfarnham

Torn between two lovers by #marymcgregor

Fast car by #tracychapman

The model by #kraftwerk

I could never be ashamed of you by #rolandstorm

Sing your praise to the Lord by #AmyGrant

Children of the revolution by #marcbolan & #trex

Venus by #bananarama

Hometown glory by #suziedemarchi

Chuck E's in love by #RickieLeeJones

Be bop a lula by #coljoy & #thejoyeboys

I'm lost without you by #marlonwilliams

Listen to the music by #TheDoobieBrothers

Here in my arms by #HelenReddy

Some days are diamonds by #carteredwards

We belong to the night by #EllenFoley

Me, the peaceful heart by #lulu

Thank you to Joanne & Zena & for all your song requests on last week's radio show. This week will be the 'Men and women of country Radio Show'. So, tune in and also listen in.

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The Property Market - One Agency Elite Group - And my thoughts on it!

So, these are figures supplied by One Agency Elite group today for the last month:

The Shoalhaven 1,325 - The number of properties currently for sale in the Shoalhaven 169 - The number of properties sold in the Shoalhaven last month $3,840,000 - The highest price paid in the Shoalhaven last month $773,307 - The average sale price in the Shoalhaven last month 92 - The median days to sell in the Shoalhaven last month 150 - The number of properties currently for rent in the Shoalhaven

I can see from a report from From an Analytical company fthat has completed research for Shoalhaven LGA, it appears that it is slightly a 'Buyers market'. The price of houses is dropping slightly. And what could be causing it is a multiple of factors?

One thing I know is the continual decrease of time worker employment And who do I blame?  Simply, all past Australian governments, employers and unionists. Unionists because they collect membership fees to assist employees in wage discussions and/or employee conditions. In the past, there have been many strike days/weeks (loss of wages for employees) and yet I was to always understand the Union would pay you for the hours not paid. I don't know if they ever have or haven't. I know my father wasn't paid during The Sydney Bus Atlantean Dispute 1970/1

Then, wage case for wage rises was always on the forefront agenda of union officials' tables,. Yet, year after year, Employers and businesses grew sick of these wage rises that they decided to reduce or get rid of full-time workers. Employers had to find funds from within the business, to cover the wage rises, whether it was a small business or a large employer.  Basically, it was cutting into their profits or little profit hey mad have Some may have faced liquidation.

In fact, employer/ employee enterprise bargaining power in time was done without Unions. I have never heard of a unionist standing up for getting Full-time employment and reducing or eliminating casual employment. But I'd love to hear that!

The average wage of an Australian Full-time worker in 1980 was $29,000 in Canberra and $21,020 in the rest of Australia. In 2,000 the average wage was $39,580 in Canberra and in the rest of Australia was $37,191 or less depending on each State/ Territory. In 2020, the average was $99,184 and in the rest of the country was $98,420 or less, depending on which  State and territory you worked.

Are you starting to get my point? Not included here is the increase in the cost of living. For example, a loaf of bread (about 2 kg) was costing 54 cents, in 1980. The cost of a loaf of bread in 2000 was $1.99 in Australia and today an average loaf of bread is approximately $3.50.

So, I previously blamed Unionists, I now blame and include Employers of grocery stores and businesses that deal with goods and services that make costs rise. Finally, the Australian Government (of the past 60 years) I also blame. who has controlled financial interest rates through their policies and have them regulated by the Australian Reserve Bank.

What has that got to do with the number of properties on the market, sold and up for rent? A hell of a lot. It means that I feel for these people that are not working full-time and will never work full-time. Why? Because I was given a lifetime to work full-time and enjoyed the benefits that go with it:

• The assurance of  being paid at then of each week for your full 5 days of work
• Job security - this was subject to annual reviews and this was the never wrecking time of the year for me
• Long Service Leave entitlements
• Sick Leave entitlements
• full confidence in work attitudes and ethics

With casual workers/employment, it creates a sense of employee insecurity. A potential loss of self-confidence - can lead to an unstable mental illness and anxiety. I mean, the work that comes up could be 12 to 20 hours a week. How can one employee live with that even if they are supporting themselves? And if they are supporting a young family, how will they meet their financial ends. The hours the employer provides to each casual employee could well be different for each person. Being paid a casual employee compared to a full-time employee would be substantially reduced and affect te level of the Superannuation payouts at the end of your retirement

So, what is needed is a dramatic change and a swing back to creating full-time work/employment, from employers. Complete backing up from all levels of government to support it more people employed full time provides a more stable life for the employee as they provide loyalty to the employer. Once this happens more people will be able to pay rent and purchase properties, so they can afford to pay back mortgages and feel happy in their own homes.

Which Voice Does Australia Need?

The Albanese Australian government is calling for an Indigenous 'One Voice' as a direct response to 'Uluru Statement from the heart' of 2017 at the National Constitutional Convention. 

Although I understand that our Australian Indigenous Australians would prefer to call themselves Australian Aboriginals.

I am split on the notion we need one voice for a few reasons, as I'll explain.

White history says Captain James Cook discovered Australia firstly at Inscription Point, Botany Bay on the 20th April 1770

The Uluru Dialogue represents the cultural authority of the Uluru Statement from the Heart and leads community education on the Uluru Statement’s reforms of Voice, Treaty, and Truth. The Uluru Dialogue is based at the Indigenous Law Centre, UNSW Sydney.

Right, so thinking about this take me back to way before I was born and way before the nation was discovered by Captain James Cook. Why?  Simply we need to look at how Australia became Australia through early history.

I know it is a theory, but looking at the 'Continental Drift' by Geologists or 'Plate Tectonics' by scientists seems to make all nations connected at some earlier point in time and split into different continents, as we know them. Click here for details from Nation Geographic

So, does that make us all interrelated somehow? If you agree we are interrelated, my thing here is we are originally from one landmass. Which there means that white colonial people didn't discover 'Australia'. It would have been just stepping foot on land that was previously all connected into one land mass, that over time separated.

This brings the question then of whether we still have the 195 countries that the United Nations recognises (not including Taiwan, Cook Islands, and Niue) Check here for details Or remain as one previously connected nation.

If you check the outline of the southern Australian coast indicates that we were once connected to Antarctica. Following that the western coast of Australia was connected to the Indian Continent. Lastly, New Zealand was connected to the east coast of Australia. A lot of Australians and New Zealanders may be happy with that prediction of previously being connected as one greater landmass as some people would like New Zealand to be Australia's eighth State or Territory.

Anyway, going back to the one voice that the new Australian Government is seeking, is it really required. The one voice required is from our Indigenous people, (I believe they would prefer to be called 'Aboriginals') how much of a say will that voice as a power be included in our Parliamentary Government? 

Currently, in our Australian Parliament which includes the Upper and Lower Houses, we have 10 Members of Parliament that identify themselves as Indigenous or have Indigenous heritage. Click here for details

Here they are:

• Pat Dodson (Labour) Senator - Western Australia
• Linda Burney (Labour) House - Barton
• Mallamdirri McCarthy (Labour) Senator - Northern Territory
• Lidia Thorpe (Independent) Senator - Victoria
• Dorinda Cox (Greens) Senator - Western Australia
• Jana Stewart (Labour) Senator - Victoria
• Jacinta Nampijinpa Price (National) Senate- Northern Territory
• Gordon Reid (Labour) House - Robertson
• Kerrynne Liddle (Liberal) Senate - South Australia 
• Jacqui Lambie (JLN) Senate - Tasmania

Based on The Australian Bureau of statistics of 2021, Our Indigenous population was 881,600 Click here for details

Compare it to Australia's total population of 25,690,000,  our Indigenous population represents approximately just over 3.35% of our current population (2021) Click here for details

Here we have a  combined total from our Upper and Lower Houses of Parliament 227 members. So with 10 members indicating their Indigenous history the representation in The Australian Parliament is over 4.5%. I've always said since Sir Neville Bonner was elected to the Australian Parliament.

My point is, how many Aboriginal voices do we need?  Although, I am for aboriginal people to be represented in our Australian Parliament. To me they are. And in time, there could be more Aboriginals elected into Parliament in the future as more of them see, this is where their voices are counted and can remain prominent. What do you think?

On the funny side, I always thought 'The Voice' was Johnny Farnham always singing 'You're the voice', released as a single (B side was Going, Going, Gone), and his 'Whispering Jack' album in 1986

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