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So you gonna be speaking yourself this afternoon at two
No I don't think so mate not here
I don't think so
Unless they get a good crowd
If they get a good crowd I'll get up and have a turn
Uh huh
They seem to ah they get a good crowd when Charlie starts speaking at two o'clock
The other speakers come half past two three o'clock
Some of them wander away
You know
Get a good crowd I'll get up and have a talk
So most most of the speaking starts from around three or so
Ohhh, little after two
Twenty past two, quarter past two
You know
forename2 starts on the dot
He checks his watch
He wants to get his money's worth in you know
Three hours
So he speaks for the whole three hours
No he don't he don't go for three hours
No
He only goes for about an hour
He get He's nearly seventy now forename2
And that's where he does it
Yep that's always been that's been his platform

I like that ah Peter Garrett
I think he's bloody he's a really good speaker whether you agree with his point of view or whether you don't agree with his point of view he is a bloody good orator and a damn good speaker

Peter Garrett
That young chappie, bald
He's got the group Midnight Oil
Bloody good speaker he is see eh
He knows what he's bloody talking about too
When he starts talking on the environment look mate he's just he is a bloody realist to my way of thinking you know
Have you heard him speak
Yes I have mate
Here or somewhere
No no I don't as far as I know he hasn't spoken in the Domain
Not for many years

Oh well he's guest
He gets invited to to take to take talks you know
Hello forename1 how are you
Good mate yourself
What do you know
Oh no blows his nose
Excuse me mate can we turn this seat around
On the side
Sure
so we can face the speaker
Thanks
We usually do
I'll just move this so you can get to it
Right
Okay
I'll just turn it around here a bit more
That's me
I'm
Oh that's all right then
I'm gonna throw it a
Don't worry about it mate it'll do the soil the world of good
Will it
Don't worry about fruit
Fruit vegies'll do the soil a lot of good
Some people say that's oh that's littering but it's not it's good for the soil
Mmm

No
Bastards I'll just
Just think of the plastic on the garbage
On the garbage bloody tips of the world too
One brand New Jersey round the garbage tips
The old mounds where they used to take the garbage out you know
Fucking hell man it's everywhere
Fucking hell;
Where
New Jersey
Oh yeah
They covered all all all the that's where all the garbage tips are for New York state you know
Mm
And now they have to go all the way into Western Pennsylvania
Three hundred miles out of New York to fucking dump garbage
Mm
They should make uh the separation of garbage uh compulsory don't you think
You know plastic into organic stuff
Well they're trying a lot of councils are trying to do that now
Mmm
A lot of councils are trying to do it
Mm
But ah people are just so irresponsible they'll just chuck anything in the bloody garbage bins
They'll chuck turds in there if you let 'em
Yeah
Human shit's about the best garbage you can get
I know a place in Mortdale in Roberts Avenue the garbage dump was on one side of the road and that's pretty green but the shit depot was on the other side and it's bloody it's like a jungle now you know
Mm mm
Bloody beautiful
Yeah
Years later of course
Yeah
you know after they haven't dumped shit there for about fifteen twenty years now you know
Yeah yeah

Yeah, that's right they do yeah
Yeah
Yeah, they section it off, they section it off and let it let it ur mature for a year yeah
The reason you can do that is
Hello forename4
I didn't known that, I didn't know whether you could or not forename3 Unintelligible section untranscribed
So you gentlemen come every Sunday and
I'm here every Sunday yeah
Yeah forenameC 's here every Sunday so's forename3 and forename4 Yeah
Right
Yeah all of us we're regulars mate
I'm forenameA anyway
Hello forenameA
Hey ya forenameB how are you
Allright
How are you going
What are you gonna do tonight after the Domain
Uh Well I'm actually here to um
I ah work at Macquarie Uni
Oh yeah m- w- yeah right
Yeah and um I'm doing a research project
Mm
Well I'm a research assistant for a big project that's collecting um samples of recorded speech
Hello forename7
Yeah
We're looking for speakers for Sunday night for our little hall in Kings Cross
In Kings Cross
Yeah we're looking for speakers and audience participation you know
Uh huh
Like people who who'll stand up and ask questions
Mmm
when the question time's on you know
And uh I might take those details down because um
AllRight
I'm uh researching a big project that's collecting samples of Australians speaking and um
Every Sunday night I'll I'll just just give you a little memo
Every Sunday night
It's at sixty Macleay Street
Uh huh
Behind the library Kings Cross It's the Community Aid and Welfare it's ah Hall
Right sixty
sixty Macleay M A C M A C L E A Y Macleay Street Kings Cross
Kings Cross
Yeah
Behind library
Behind library
Yep
Ah every Sunday night
Sunday night Yeah
Every Sunday night
six till eight
six till eight
The speakers start at six thirty the that's when the but we have supper before and after
Speakers
Supper before for half an hour and after the speakers
So speakers be six thirty to seven thirty
That's right no six thirty yeah that's right yeah six thirty seven thirty
Right supper half hour
And ah our our question time then
Right
And then we have supper after it
Oh question time seven thirty
Well see we go for two hours six-thirty till eight- thirty
Right
In that we have we might have one speaker who'll go for an hour then w- an hour's question time as we did last week
Mm mm
Or we might have three speakers
Mm mm
Quarter of an hour each quarter of an hour question time
Right
For however long the talk goes
Right
See the talks are only permitted under the proviso same amount of time for questions
Yeah right right
Tonight we got three speakers
Right
Quarter of an hour each
Right
And then quarter of an hour question time after each speaker you see
Right
That takes up to two hours
Each speaker fifteen minutes questions fifteen minutes
If you're interested and you've got some free time tonight you might come along for audience participation just if you're interested no
You don't have to ask a question
Yeah
But if you want to come along and you you feel you that you want to ask a question
Yeah
You know there's a certain time allotted after the speaker's finished and ah that's when there's question time
Right
forename2 's a hard taskmaster mate you know
Is he
He likes discipline in the ah in the group
Mm mm
But come
I'm on the door I'm the doorman
Right
I I let 'em I let 'em in or if I don't like the look of 'em I won't let 'em in
Right
But you've already introduced yourself so if you front up there tonight I'll let you in okay
And what's your name again sorry
forenameA
forenameA
yeah And yours
I'm forenameB
forenameA Okay forenameB
If if not to if not this Sunday then definitely some Sunday soon
Yeah Okay
Well there's forename2 's phone number
He's the boss
I'm only his I'm only his corporal
And it's
forename2 's five four two
ten ninety five
ten ninety five
Right
You ring forename2
Mm mm
And he'll give you more details than I can about it
Right
Good forenameA that's good information
I'll I'll let you in forenameB if I see you there any Sunday night
okay
Mmm that's interesting
And what kind of things often get spoken about forenameB
Well most of us are either atheists or rationalists or humanists or or um philosophy
You know we got some sort of philosophy
Mm mm
And ah that's what we mainly talk about
I'd talk about anti-religion meself I'm the anti-Christ you know

forename2 you listen to him for a while mate
Right
You get the picture you know
Yeah yeah
Last week I put on some Bertrand Russell tapes
Good good
Bertrand Russell in Australia nineteen fifty
Right
And ah he talked about Australia
Mm mm
Desert
Mm mm
Australia's relationships future relations fu future role in South East Asia the Threat of communism
The white Australia policy
Ah or the physical universe
Mm mm
And ah bit of anthropology
Mm mm
You know
He went on for an hour
He's bloody good Bertrand Russell
Greatest mind in a thousand years that guy definitely
Bertrand Russell
You get the nazis down here occasionally
Yeah get all sorts of down here you know
The nazis come here too
Well the nazis wha were they weren't here last week but the week two weeks before thatthey dressed up ra in brown shirts and swastikas they're over there
neo nazis
Fair dinkum
Over under that tree there yeah
Far out
Skull community
They St George played last night see
That's right yeah
They don't play on Sundays he doesn't come
Mm
He goes to watch them
Mmmm Now that'd be interesting
So he knows some who would come here today
There's an aboriginal guy forename5 over there
He talks on aboriginality
He's good
He's pretty good
He's a good speaker forename5
He knows what he's talking about
Comes here most Sundays
Yeah he's just about just about every Sunday yeah
You see him roll up
Forename6 he's a rationalist
Uh huh
He talks
He'll be here later on
I'm just a poor Balmain supporter
So am I
I know
They weren't interested yesterday were they
Eh
No
Not interested definitely
No they never win on Saturdays mate don't you know that
Well I don't think that's that's the general rule but I mean they just didn't seem interested in winnin' at all you know
I never seen 'em win a Saturday game yet
Oh well I have
Oh yeah I'm not sayin' they haven't won but I'm sayin' it's a long time since they won a Saturday game
That might be a better way of phrasing it
Well I don't know what went wrong but the a bloody lot lot that did go wrong
They might be camera shy
No ha ha
Oh Shit they've had enough TV games this year to snap out of
yeah I I know
that sort of
I'm only joking
I'll tell you what something that might interest you too down at the it's only open Sunday ten till about five its the Police museum
Mmm mmm
Down at the Quay in the old uh old old police
I tell you what Manly went up a few knots didn't they last week
Interesting museum is it
They sure improved it out of sight darl you know who that was
Michael O'Connor recitation
Mmm Mmmm I'm mostly interested in hearing people speak
spell it out
They won't get any here though mate
They still want an
Do they
to do that
They weren't good to watch really
They made a lot of mistakes
Oh they give you tou
As they give you tours of the museum
Oh that that'd be an interesting I might take that down
Balmain was tackle-shy
It's a long time since I seen them seen 'em tackle-shy like that
So so that was Sunday
'bout ten to six 'bout ten to five
Ten till about five
Yeah
And it's called the Police Museum
Police and justice museum at the Quay
Uh uh
Phillip Street the Quay
It's the old police station
author	stevecassidy
date	Wed, 01 Nov 2017 01:18:15 -0400
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