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is Waitley.

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Good morning. A quick observation

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to start. Clearly our

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politicians have never heard of the

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early crow. While we all basked

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in the Matilda's glow yesterday and counted

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ourselves among the millions who had watched

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on television,

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our elected leaders jumped straight to

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the end and proposed a public

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holiday should Australia win the World Cup.

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If the Matilda's can pull off a win in

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the World Cup, then that would be extraordinary.

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And I reckon the states and territory leaders

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will be under enormous pressure to show

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that they understand how significant this achievement

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is. The Prime Minister wants to give them a public holiday. Then

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of course we'll be talking with the other states to appropriately

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commemorate it. Come on, people!

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This is the stuff you do not

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say out loud during a tournament like

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this. You don't leave your seat

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during a tight run chase. You don't

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declare the favourite home at

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the 200. And you don't

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start making plans for when you lift

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the trophy with three games to go. And

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now it seems...

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And now it seems every minister

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is just jumping on board. If

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the Matilda's win the World Cup, this will be probably

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the biggest sporting achievement in Australia's

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history. And I think 26 million

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people are going to deserve a day off to celebrate. So I am 100%

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with the PM

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on this one. Bugger off! Our

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politicians are slow with

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the necessary funding for sport, but

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they are lightning to jump on a sporting

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bandwagon. There's only one

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way to handle these things, and that was demonstrated

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by Bob Hawke.

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I tell you what, any boss who sacks anyone

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for not turning up the day is a bum. LAUGHTER

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And that's it. Wait till we...

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win and then give everyone

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the day off spontaneously.

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Don't go the early crow. You

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don't leave your seat during a tight run chase.

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You don't declare the favourite home of the 200

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and you don't start making plans for

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a public holiday with three games to

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go. Good grief.

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Do our elected officials not follow

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sport? And if you watched eight minutes

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of France last night, banging three goals

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past Morocco, you realise that

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the Matildas are underdogs on Saturday.

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Never mind semi-finals and finals.

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Just enjoy it. Just be

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swept along by it. Dream,

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but don't be planning

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victory laps. Good

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grief. 0-4-3-3-9-8-11-16-40-wings-temper-tex-temper-a-matrus-like.

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No other 1-300-7-3-6-7-3-6-the-open-line for EFS delivering

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simple freight solutions. If

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you want to ring up and support a public holiday for the

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Matildas, go over to Neil

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and do that. We're proper sports fans

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here. I was so eager to hear

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Craig McRae with Andy and Gacy

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yesterday. We've all come to love the Collingwood coach and

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he didn't disappoint. He still had his lovely

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light touch,

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which is ever present.

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He faced the grilling from his wife over the failure

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to shut down James Sicily. He revealed

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his man crush on John Bertrand. He didn't

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tip into any of the external theories

3:27

that are prevailing at the moment. All the doomsaying

3:29

after two straight defeats. He

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took responsibility for the failures on

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Saturday. He shielded the players

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from what went wrong.

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And he revealed the approach to the review and

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the analysis. On first viewing,

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McRae could see the flaws. They

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were clipped and discussed by the group. And

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then he made sure to bring the team back

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to what has made them so good over

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the course of the season.

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We don't want rules, but we've got guidelines. In certain

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parts of this game, we want to do this

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in here. And if you don't,

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there's a disconnect. And then there's unpredictability

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about what we do. And then there's a greater disconnect.

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I'm not sure we're gonna do that situation. No,

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we're gonna do this. I sat with the pliers, so

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the leaders yesterday and showed them a couple of these framework

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things we're talking about, and it was really clear for them. I'm

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a big take the guys on the journey thing. I

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said, what do you wanna do with this with the main group?

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You want me to show it? Or do you want me to just let you guys

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drive this? So there's a bit of, you know, the empowering and

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I'm like, no, let's show it. I said, well, I need your support

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and making sure this message gets loud and clear. Now,

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I think we've got a safe enough environment. And mostly

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I look on the bright side of things and

4:36

encourage behavior, reward behavior. You

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know, we lost three games in a row last year and I came

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in with this complete 100% positive

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approach to it. Wasn't, how you guys,

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you got to stop doing this behavior. It was like, remember

4:47

this case when you did this real well? That's the

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guy we wanted to be. Again, yesterday, I just, it

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was only 14 odd days ago that game against Port Adelaide

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you talked about. Yeah, well, I just put some footage

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of that up. I said, this wasn't that long ago,

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boys. Yes. Let's just get back to being this

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team. And some of that, and a lot of that

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stuff is around our DNA and around our things

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we can control. No one can take those things away from

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us. Yeah, bring on Friday night. I

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was excited for a response. And like

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we have all year,

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it's not really about the scoreboard and

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it's not really about the outcome. It's about playing

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the minutes the way we want to do you played. And that's

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always been our focus. So we'll get to work on

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bringing that back to life. 14 days

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ago, Collinwood prevailed in the game of the year atop

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of the table clash against Port Adelaide.

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That's the coaches approach. Our

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leadership portfolio is run by Luke Hodge,

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about to join Hodge. I just want to bring in Phil

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and Burnley. Welcome to you, Phil.

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How are you, mate? I'm good. I

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just think that public holiday is crazy, mate. These politicians

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are happy spending the money of the employees who've

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got to fund the day. I'm sure we'll all get behind

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it if the government turned around and said they'll cover all the costs

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for the day for all the employers.

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Let's just let them win the World Cup, hey?

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And then see how we feel about it

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after that. And politicians,

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fair dinkum, they exploit

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sport for their own worth and

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then ignore it

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when we actually need a bit of

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funding

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and a bit of guidance. 043981116 to have your sailboat.