Hello people of the internet! My name is Johnny and welcome back to another FNAF news video. This time we're talking about Security Breach, Stewell Studios, and the brand new Tales from the Pizza Plex books. Surprisingly we have a lot of Security Breach news to talk about in this video, so honestly I don't want to drag out this intro too too long.  So if you're not up to date the Tales from the Pizza Plex books are a brand new book series from the FNAF franchise being released this year. They have a similar style to the Fazbear Fright books where in one book there are three stories, but this series is a bit different because at least one of the stories in each book directly connects to Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex from Security Breach. But today we finally have the official descriptions for book two and three. So as a quick recap, Tales from the Pizza Plex number one, Lally's Game. As a description that reads, some secrets are better left hidden. A forbidden artifact from her fiance's past beckons to Selena. Jessica leads a double life from her friends and co-workers in the children's wing of a hospital. Maya can't resist the temptation to explore an off-limits area of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex. But in the world of Five Nights at Freddy's everything comes with a price to pay. So the first book Lally's Game comes out on January 19th of this year so pretty soon. And now we have the official description for the second book, Haps. Have you ever wanted something badly even though you shouldn't? Steve's dream of a video game programming career and starting a family led him to take a job that seems too good to be true. Aiden and Jace can't resist scaring some young kids in the tube maze of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex. And all Billy wants is to become the perfect ideal of what he knows he really is an animatronic. But in the world of FNAF be careful what you wish for. So the first story focuses on Steve and his dream job of becoming a video game programmer. A job that seems too good to be true. Now we've had stories in the past where characters go into video games. Though I don't think we want to talk about that one anymore.  Though the one about Steve will connect to Haps. The character who may be on the cover if their name is Haps. Because the first story in each book always connects to the title and the cover. Aiden and Jace are scaring some kids in the tube maze of the pizza plex. Not sure what could go on there. Maybe they get trapped in the tube maze, they can't find their way out. I honestly feel like that second story might connect more with Haps. Cause let's say they're scaring kids in the maze, they get lost in the maze, they need help. Haps, help is on the way. And maybe they get chased in the maze, I don't know. And Billy wants to be an animatronic. Huh. Now I think that one might be hinting at a theory some FNAF theorists have going right now. And that is the theory that Gregory is an animatronic, a robot. So depending on how that story goes down we may have some evidence for that theory or maybe it'll go against it. I don't know, that's going to be a very interesting story. Moving on to the third book called Somnophobia. What are you running from? Sam is afraid of just about anything and everything that's unhealthy ever since his father died. Something about the spring-trapped costume in the role-playing area of Freddy Fazbear's mega-pizza plex chills Luca to the core. And Grady's fear of being trapped in small spaces makes walking as a pizza plex technician extremely challenging. But in the world of FNAF our deepest fears have a way of chasing us. So once again Sam, you know, being afraid of unhealthy treats since his father died will most likely connect to the daycare attendant Moon on the cover, Somnophobia. So I feel like this one is a super predictable story. The Moon will offer some of the sleepy time candy to Sam. He's going to fall asleep. He's going to stay asleep because that's what Somnophobia is, the fear of sleeping and staying asleep. And we'll probably get tormented by Moon, the daycare attendant while he's sleeping, being stuck forever sleeping. Something about the spring-trapped costume in the role-play area though. That story is um, not one I want to touch. Chills Luca to the core. Yeah, I don't know what's going to go on in that story. Maybe Luca will get springlocked. Maybe the costume's like super, super accurate where it has springlocks. I don't know, I don't really want to read about a FNAF role-play story, but in the Lord's year 2022, that's what us FNAF fans have going for us. And then finally, Grady, he's a technician at the Pizza Plex. He's afraid of small spaces. And the deepest fears have a way of chasing us.  So those are the two new descriptions for the tales from the Pizza Plex books two and three. Tell me what are your theories about the books and the stories down in the comments below and let's move on. So we actually got news from Steer Will not too, too long ago on a brand new patch coming to Security Breach. Updates on patch 1.06. Hey, hey, we've got a small update for you regarding the latest patch for FNAF Security Breach. To align with the launch of our physical discs, we've broadened our language support to include Korean, simplified Chinese, and traditional Chinese. Physical discs will be available on April 1st for the PS4 and PS5 in both US and Korea. For our PC users, you'll be getting this patch in a few days and it will also contain the game's size reduction. We do appreciate your patience for this change. Since it touched literally every part of the game, it was vital we tested again and again and again and again. And then one more time. The version that's been live had a download size of about 52 gigabytes with a uncompressed size of about 84 gigabytes. The new version has a download size of about 41 gigabytes with a uncompressed size of 65 gigabytes. That's it for the current update. We know it's not much, but since it's technically a patch, we want it to be clear about its contents with a formal update. Thanks again for sticking with us and FNAF Security Breach. We'll have more new, more exciting updates for you in the not too distant future. Thank you, Ray McCaffery. So that was posted on the 31st of March and I know the update has been pursed for PlayStation and I'm pretty sure it will be out very soon for PC. And in that post, they talked about the physical discs of Security Breach and that's exactly what we're moving on to right now. They even had a cute little video to go alongside with the release. I'll play that right now. Welcome to Mother's Size. Work off the calories while you eat. Sign up for a membership pass today. Super cool perks include discounts on pizza, nachos, fries and cookies. And golly gee, look is what I got here. So even though I don't have a PS5, I spent 40 bucks on a game I don't even have the console for, I bought a physical copy just so I can show it off for you guys in this video. Here's the back. There you go. You can read that if you want. Just a little description about the game and inside you have a sticker sheet and also the disc for the game. I know some people do care so here's a look at the disc. It looks awesome. I love how they actually, you know, made it look cool with the logo and some, you know, stars and a cool little background. But also if you do buy a physical copy of the game, you also get some stickers of Freddy, the sun, Chica, Monty, the moon, Roxanne, and also the pizza plex logo. So there you go. Physical copies of the game are now out PS4 and PS5. And I do get a lot of comments asking when's the game going to release on Xbox and Switch. And gee, Willikers, if only I had made a video talking about that. Oh, wait a second. I did. So if you missed that, the exclusivity deal that Steel Wool and Scott had with PlayStation is over. It was a PC and PlayStation exclusive for the first three months. So the deal is over. They can now release it on other platforms like Xbox and again, Switch, if they can handle that. I'll keep it a stack with you boys. I don't think it's coming to mobile, but yeah, Xbox and Switch and, you know, other, other things. It was actually announced that it's coming to Stadia as well. I forgot to put that in my FNAF news document, but I, hey, I just remembered about that. So yeah, Steel Wool is working with the Stadia team on a brand new plugin that makes porting PC games easier to Stadia. So hopefully we can expect it to come to Stadia pretty soon. And hopefully we can expect it to come to Xbox pretty soon because I know a lot of you guys are getting pretty impatient, but let it be known that they are most likely walking very hard on porting it over. It takes a lot of time. So we just got to be patient and wait. Moving on, we got Steel Wool over on Gamejolt. The FNAF community over on Gamejolt just reached a million members, which is crazy. And Steel Wool made a official account and they're giving away a few Funko statues for the game. Wow. There are one million of you as a thank you for being an important part of our FNAF community. We've got some fun giveaways to celebrate you. Post a screenshot on your profile playing security breach with the hashtag, hashtag welcome to Gamejolt and we'll pick five winners to gift FNAF Funko 12 inch statues. The Gamejolt staff will notify the winners by email on Friday, April 8th. So if you can't do dates, that is today. So get those screenshots in as soon as you can. I'll leave a link down to their Gamejolt in the description down below. So go enter if you want to win. And finally, the last news topic for today. Security breach is officially on the Epic Games Store. You might have seen my last video on it, but yes, you can now get security breach on the Epic Games Store. It is up on the store right now. You can go get it if you want. And because of this, a lot of people are thinking, maybe we could get Freddy Fazbear in Fortnite maybe. Now I got a lot of comments on that video and also my TikTok video. Hey, follow me on TikTok. I have TikTok. TikTok boy. I'm a TikTok boy now. Absolutely hating the idea of FNAF coming to Fortnite. And honestly, that's why I want it to come to Fortnite even more now. It's not guaranteed to happen, but this is definitely a step closer to having it happen because now Scott and Steve will are directly working with Epic Games to get, you know, the game on their platform. And this is the first FNAF game on the Epic Games Store. And I'm pretty sure Epic Games knows that there is a big, big hype around FNAF right now in a big, big hype around FNAF in Fortnite because that would be hilarious. So I'm not saying it's guaranteed to happen, but I do think it's probable at this point now. But that is going to do it for all the FNAF news for today. Once again, I'll be back this weekend with some FNAF merchandise news. So thank you guys so much for watching. Hit the like button, subscribe, and I'll see you all on the flip side. Goodbye.


Riding that thin line between control and out of control. I think my favorite part of actually going down the track is the adrenaline I get before each run. It's a little bit of nerves and a little bit of adrenaline and I feed off of it. I love that feeling. You know, making the Olympic team would mean everything to me. I got into the world class athlete program and by being in that program it allowed me to be an athlete and be a soldier at the same time which is awesome. I joined the military to put me on a direct heading for going to school and giving me something after I was done as an athlete so it was totally a proactive move. This would be my second Olympic team so it's a little bit of a different perspective. The first time around I was really excited about the experience and to do that again, to be going to do that again is unbelievable but I am coming in hoping for medals. So we've already completed four races to this point in the season. We have one more World Cup and after that World Cup which is in a couple days the Olympic team will be announced and I'm pretty confident I'll be on that team. One thing that I'll take away from this experience is that going to the Olympics is special. Going to the Olympics and representing your country as an athlete and a soldier is very special. Not a lot of people get to say that they can do that. So these are all types of memories that I'll be able to carry with me for my entire life, something that I'll always cherish.


Hey guys, how are you today? Alright, so I have another sort of a project share in another one of the black cases from American Science and Surplus like with the other video for the little glue book. I will put a link for the case in the description below American Science and Surplus is a great place to get little weird odd little bits for your arts and crafts needs and including storage So I had two of these cases and I'm actually going to get a few more. They do still have them Because I love the way this turned out so much. Alright, so I am getting ready to go on another trip this time we're going to Alaska my husband and I and I want to pack a lot lighter than I did for the Las Vegas trip Not because I don't want to bring art supplies with me I always bring art supplies with me But I don't want to bring tons like I did to Las Vegas where it was mainly an art thing This is mainly a vacation for my husband and I that I'm going to do a little bit of art on the side for so I am going to bring two journals and they're going to be separate from the art supplies that I bring I always bring my watercolor notebook and this is one that I do paintings little paintings in every time we go somewhere So I'll definitely be bringing this with me and then my Binder that I'm using to document my year. This is the second of what will be I think four of them And this one's for April May and June. So this will come with me and this binder has Pockets on the inside and front and back cover. So if I have some things I want to bring that don't fit somewhere else In here, which we'll talk about in a minute that I can I can put them in here like if I want to bring some large Like tags or something like that I've got a piece of deli paper here and a couple of clips that I'm going to leave on there and that'll work just fine So those and those will fit in my backpack I have a cute little sac roots backpack that I bring with me and these will fit in there nicely with my iPad and my Kindle and Then this is the other one of the two little journal cases that I made out of this black patent case from American Science and Surplus and it using the Tim Holtz binder rings and The binder ring punch that goes with it. I Have this thing for binder punches. So if I buy a new planner or binder that has a special punch I almost always have to have the punch just FYI. It's a little quirky thing about me now these binder rings come with brads And I opted not to use the brads. So I'm going to save the brads because I'll use them for something else And I'll show you what I did just like with the other one I glued and stitched the binder rings in and if you want to see exactly how I did that let me know and I have more of these cases and more obviously more binder rings so I can show you on camera how I did it exactly But I stitched it at the top and bottom with some strong thread and then I put glue on the thread on the inside and outside and Underneath on the back of the binder rings. I put some E6000 so it's glued to the case and stitched to the case Okay, so when I'm traveling ultra light with my art supplies you it's really a matter of bringing the bare minimum Something to write with something to color with something to glue and or tape and paper like really the bare bare minimum So we'll go over what I have in here why I have it in here What I kind of wish I could bring but I'm not going to because there's no room because everything that is not a journal has Got to fit in this case all right, so I Took some of the index card tab dividers that I had they're made out of Like file folder material and I got them in something that I got at Staples. It might have been my distress ink boxes. I Store my distress in these and they might have come in here. Nope. See they didn't either they are too big So I don't know What I got them in or with I bought something that had a bunch of these in it and I took them all out and saved To them. I've had them for a long time. You probably can buy them at the office supply store I don't know and then I took some postcard sized pieces of water hot cold press watercolor paper and I punched all of them with the Tim Holtz binder punch for these rings and put them in here Then in the double pocket section on the left side Just sitting loose in the top. I have a glue stick. I Have my travel watercolor case now I do have a smaller one But I decided right away that if I could fit this larger one in here I was going to bring it because it's got more colors in it This is a mixed case with Koi and Daniel Smith and This is the one that generally travels with me it does have a small pocket Windsor Newton travel brush in it and When I'm traveling just in case not that it really needs it But I always put a rubber band just in case so that as it's being jostled it doesn't open and have The cakes crack and go everywhere I Picked a minimum number of pens. So I've got just a black ballpoint I've got one of my new favorite pens a pilot varsity. This is a black disposable fountain pen I've got a my pygma micron 01 a Uniball Signo in white and a Faber-Castell pit pen in fine and they all fit right here And then I have two little small glassine bags One of them has and they're in the bags because not only I have a bag if I need it But it makes these easier to get in and out of the pocket without having the tape rip so this is just a piece of Packaging acrylic and I've wrapped a bunch of Double-stick tape to it and then I have Put paper clips to keep the double-stick tape wrapped nicely around the acrylic That does two things keeps the tape from coming off and getting stuck to the bag Also gives me paper clips to paper clip things into my journal with So double-duty there. So I have this one And then I have this one which is basically the same thing, but this is covered with washi tape and These two bags and we'll sit right in here in this pocket and then this glue stick sticks it right there and Then when you flip this over In the little zipper pouch that's in here. I've kind of a lot of stuff stuffed in here So I've got two water brushes with a fine and a medium nib Or tip these are actually a pair of scissors That I actually got at the Tokyo discount store or yeah Tokyo discount in Las Vegas, aren't they cool They're not the best scissors on the planet, but they're great for this for traveling. I've got a Regular two number two pencil.  I got this at The Japanese bookstore I've got a mister Some wax paper a Little journal to do my daily drawings in this will be the one that I use for May and then there's a Pocket back here with a snap on it and in here. I've got some stickers and These are clear plastic Sticker pockets. This is a pocket, but it's a sticker back Which I love to put those in the journal the binder journal to just put like tickets for things in and stuff like that So all of this stuff that's really nicely like here I do want to add a small like inexpensive teeny pencil sharpener And there is enough room for me to you know pop it in like right there, but this little bag This is it I could actually just bring this and not bring one of the binders or journals and this bag measures And this is so this is small I could bring this compared to what you all saw me pack for the Las Vegas trip This is a lot smaller than what I normally bring and this bag measures about seven by Five and it's about An inch and a half deep So it makes a nice little travel case You can get just enough in it to do some art while you're gone quick little sketches watercolors something like that and And some paper and everything else and you could actually just leave You know the pages or whatever you create in here and keep this and stuff it full of your receipts and things and have it be sort of You know memento or memory case of your trip you could write on the outside when you get home You know Alaska or you know to 2016 trip or something like that on the outside if you wanted So there you go. There you have it. I hope that gives you some ideas of what you can do This is not my original idea Shannon Green as I said in the other video had these cases Sometime last year she got these from American Science and Surplus. She had the binder ring She put it together. She made a kind of a journal out of it also. I'll try to see if I can find her video After I saw her video I realized I had all those same parts and I would do the same thing with when I went to go film this This month. This is April. What is today April? I don't even know 14th. I checked American Science and Surplus They still have these so there you go and the binder rings and the Tim Holtz punches are currently on sale right now at Joanne's fabrics But you can also use a 40% off coupon and both of these items are carried by Joanne's and I believe Michaels All right, that's it for today. Don't forget the most important thing Go out have a great day do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye


Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Investor Intel. I'm Peter Clausi. Today, an old friend and recurring guest, Thomas Smink from Hemostamics. Good afternoon, Peter. I always get that name wrong, Hemostamics. Yeah, Hemostamics. Thank you. Traded says HEM on the Venture Exchange. So let's get right into it. Could you please give us an update on the clinical trials for ACP? Yes, so we are completing a source document verification process, which is exactly like an audit of a financial statement, where you go back and you literally have to prove every piece of data that is in a database by looking at the source document, verifying that the data exists on the source document, so that when you go to the lockdown, you can do an analysis of real data. And so we're at about 60% completion of the source document verification. What's our timeline for completion? Well, it's its painstaking process because we're going back in some cases back to 2014. So it's got to be done right. It has to stand the test of a true audit by the FDA. So are we talking 2021, 2022? Oh no, definitely in 2021. But it's taking longer than even I had anticipated, quite a bit longer. Roughly 58 million shares issued note standing? Yes. You have a close to a million? Yes. Is it public who your largest shareholders are? Yes. Peter Lacey, our chairman, is now by far and on a fully diluted basis would own more than 20%, just over 20%. So what should we expect for the rest of 2021? And what's going to be exciting about 2022? We have so much coming in the pipeline, Peter, that I have a series of press releases starting in September when everybody's back to work. That is, I think, going to be very exciting for our shareholders who have been waiting a long time. That they have, but you were instrumental in making the turnaround happen. And now you're driving that with your team. So congratulations to you. Thank you. Yeah, I know it's a great team. And it's about to get a lot bigger and greater. So there's lots of things on the come. September, October, November is going to be the turnaround that we've been all anticipating for Hemostemics. Well, let's book you in for October and we'll catch up, see how you're doing. Sounds great. I thank you for your time. Hemostemics treats as HEM on the venture exchange, Thomas Smink, saved to the company. I'm Peter Clausi, signing off from Investor Intel. Thanks, Peter.


Hi, my name is Yuri from the Netherlands, and you're watching Trucker Josh. Take care. Good morning diesel. How are you doing? Beautiful day out there, isn't it? Good morning, everybody. Just getting into the cab here. Got our coffee ready to go. We got our load ready to go.  It's weighing me down. I don't want it anymore. I'm gonna go bring it to some people here in Oceola, Oceola, Iowa. You say that right? Good morning, Iowa. The plan for today deliver my load. Once that's off the trailer, clean up all my straps, take them with me. I need them. Head on up to Rosemont, Minnesota. Switch trailers to a trailer that has other stuff on it. That stuff's going up to Winnipeg, Canada. Why not? Let's bring it all the way up there, too. I don't know if I'll make it all the way home tonight. I think I could make it, but it'll probably be pretty late. I know Britt's got to work first thing in the morning, so I can't just get home at three or four in the morning and you know, wake up the whole house because the dog's going nuts when we get home. So I'll probably sleep in the truck, or maybe we won't even make it. Who knows? It'll be a full full day if we do make it, but we're gonna try. I figured out why this sleeve was rattling so much. Remember from yesterday's video? This thing was freaking me out. It's actually here. I can twist this a little bit here. It's actually cracked right in there. I don't know if you can see that or not. That's why it was loose and that's why it was rattling and freaking me out. So short-term solution. Just taped it up there so that it won't rattle. At least that's there. I think that looks better than having no sleeve there right now. And I'll have to swing by sock center again and pick up another sleeve. That'll be a little harder to put on than this top one because I got to remove the airlines and then slide it over. Maybe I can fan. We'll figure it out. For now, I mean, I don't want to stay like that for long, but short-term solution. All right, we have a plan. I know the plan. You know the plan. Now let's execute the plan. Lights on. Brakes disengaged. Pre-trip has been finished. Truck is in gear. Pause for a moment. Try and think. Make sure we didn't forget anything. We got the weasel. Okay, we're good. We're good. Let's go deliver some freight. Let's go bring people their wood. Canadian wood all the way down here in Iowa. You guys gonna build something with it or what? What are you doing? Happy to bring it here for you. Lumber is one of our main exports. Well, I don't know if the main export, but it's one of our big exports. We haul a lot of it out of Western Canada. They're not the highest paying loads, but they're a good load to get you to the higher paying loads. If I picked this up in Alberta, I had a good paying load going into Alberta. You usually have lumber coming out and this lumber is bringing me down here to Iowa, and then I've got a better load bringing me back up to Canada. So it all works out in the end. Barley's most of them. Let's see how close I am. Let's go take a look. I think I'm right close. I think I'm right up to it. If I did my calculations correctly, everyone is a happy all the time. It's a happy, happy, Minneapolis. Excuse me. Excuse me good, sir. I'm a yoy. Excuse me, my lord. Yes. You've been trying to tell me something? Yes, I have. Thanks for noticing. Well, I stopped. He wants to go out. Pets that way. All right, man, come this way. I gotta bring you this way. They say Pets this way. He's walking me. Just listen to that for a second. Have you noticed how some 18-wheelers rolling by are almost completely silent, like you can't hear them at all, and then the next one rolls by and it's just a beautiful song just Then the next one you can't hear at all. It must be the tires, eh? So, that must be tires. How about these guys? That was pretty quiet. Bull hauler, you can obviously hear. You can always hear the bull haulers coming 10 miles away. And then suddenly they're gone because they just blow past you 200 miles an hour. Well, another bull hauler all you see is a flash of light from all the chicken lights, right? Something about hauling livestock Makes you, like, it must be mandatory to have a nice truck, loud pipes and no speed limiters That's bull hauling. Go, go, go. Hey, Diesel, come here. Come here. Come on, bud. There was definitely someone here, man. Definitely. His name was Al. Al, maybe Al, but I'm pretty sure.  There you go. Fixed. Can we, uh, can we keep moving here? Come on.  How are you doing? Seems like a really interesting guy. I'm just gonna let him know I was here, too. Dogs, I don't understand. Imagine if humans did that? Just go up and sniff a bush. Chris was here.  No smoking on rest area grounds, except in enclosed personal vehicles. You're only allowed to hot box it here. That's the only way you're allowed to smoke. Roll the windows up. Has to be enclosed. Enjoy. I don't smoke, so it doesn't apply to me. Never really did. I tried it once. Tried to make myself like it. It wasn't for me. The cigarettes, they would, they'd make me nauseous and I'd have to throw up. Like, I don't, maybe I'm allergic to them. I don't know. I tried to be cool. I tried hard for a while. It just didn't work. Wasn't cool enough for smokes, but nothing against people who do. You want to smoke, whatever. And in Canada, you're allowed to, you're allowed to smoke the fun stuff. That's legal across the board. It's just like alcohol. It's sold in, in stores just like alcohol. But if you want to be a truck driver like me and you want to drive into the US like this, you're not allowed to indulge in the cannabis. Because if I get into an accident here, or if someone hits me, let's say it's their fault, they hit me, first thing they're going to do down here is test, test me for THC. And I can't use the excuse, say, well, I'm a Canadian. What do you expect? It's legal up there. Nope. They find that in my system. It's a big problem. It's still illegal here, federally. So I can't drive a commercial vehicle on federal highways here if I indulge in the cannabis, even if it's legal up in Canada. So no smoking for me. No smoking for me. Hey, Diesel, what you doing in there? I don't know, man. This is like a forest. It's very interesting. Imagine all the fun we could have. You would just take me off this leash, man. What do you think? The sign over there was very specific, said I have to leave you on your leash. It's for your own good, Diesel.  Wouldn't be able to live with myself. You got a pretty good lead here. It's like 10 meters. There's an 8 meter lead. You're good. He's good. Don't listen to him. He's good. While we're on the topic of cannabis, I don't talk about it all the time, if you're staying just in Canada, it's not illegal. And I don't know where the limit is. With alcohol, there's a very specific limit of how much alcohol you can have in your blood until you're considered DUI. I don't know what it is with pot. I don't know where that line is or how they determine that. So don't drive high. All right. Don't do that. But for me, I don't have a choice. I can't because I want to drive into the US here. It's a beautiful country. I wouldn't want to give up coming to visit for that. It's not worth it to me for that. It's worth it for me to abstain from it because I want to come and visit the US. I love driving a truck down here. It would hinder that. So I can't do that. And if you're wondering how long that THC stays detectable in your system, it can be in there for like up to three months. And it can stay in your hair for longer. I mean, I don't got any hair, but my beard hair, my arm hair, it can be in there for months if they really want to test me hard. But in a urine sample, it can be in there and detectable what up to a month, 30 days. So it's not like I can go home on the weekend and smoke up and then, you know, take a week off and then go drive in the US. It's still in my system. They can still detect it then. So it's best just to completely leave it out of my life. I don't know, maybe the US will one day jump on board with the Canadian style of doing things. But for now, it's still a big no-no down here in most places.  All right, Diesel, you got food, you got water. I got a chocolate bar. Woo. No more stopping till we get to our shipper. Okay. We need to pick up that load sitting there waiting for us already. It's always that gear. Off we go again. I say that a lot. Off we go. Again, I feel like an airplane, like a big jet taxiing for takeoff. And we've gotten the clearance from the control tower. We are clear to takeoff, clear for launch. Get into this spot on the highway. Yeah, beautiful. Look at that and we're flying. Well, it was time for the afternoon coffee. We're almost in Rosemount where we're going to pick up our load. One more coffee. Got a couple of beautiful KWs here.  I want to get a new grille soon too. I like the diamond grilles. The one I'm looking at isn't quite like that one, but it's similar. Right beside it, drop this trailer there. Oh, that's just like this one to the left here. I'm a trailer very similar to that as well. Truck idling so that you stay cool all right. You stay here in the air conditioning. Anybody who tells me that I can't keep the truck cool for my dog knows where they can go. It was just me in there.  That's my dog in there. He gets the air conditioning. He's a lord. He gets the lord treatment. Okay, so this is my load here pretty clearly. This piece of cement or concrete is just over 41,000 pounds. So my chains are rated at 6,400 pounds each. I need seven chains. I've already got three chains here. We're just tied up to the rocker panel or the rocker arm here to give it the ability to flex. Don't let me forget to tie down my tarps yet. They're just laying on the front there. So I did the front already. Now we got to put four chains on the back here. Two binders on each side. It's here and here. They have the locks right, right. Good. All right, let me show you how I do this. Got my four chains at the back here. Two binders on that side, two binders on that side. All four chains have to go through this hole right here to here. I can't put any anywhere's down the middle because that would prevent the trailer from flexing and possibly crack the cement, the concrete. Sorry, keep calling it cement. You guys know what I mean. Probably going to keep calling it cement. Okay, so we're going to put them through here and there. I'll show you how I do that. Get this whole chain up here. These chains are a little bit long, but we'll make it work. Better to be too long than too short. I have a few short chains and a few long and a few more long chains. So my short ones are already being used at the front there. So we are left with a couple long ones. That's okay. So sometimes I got to get up on the trailer. Remember the last load we pulled was on a step deck like this. The empty I dropped just over there was exactly like this with a steel brace on back. That's how we do it here. So it doesn't matter if it's a step deck or a flat bed. We can haul the same stuff. And for this now, watch your heads. Okay, don't bang your head on the cement here people. Concrete. Dang it. I'm going to keep calling it cement. See I just hook it on here like this. Just push it through there like that. Grab the other side. Don't pull it back through. Hook this side onto here. Push it through like that. We're going to put this to here. Oh, can I make it through there? All right. So we're going to go one, two, shoot. I can't get it past this here. So I'm going to have to go, I'm going to have to go through here. One, two, three, four. We'll put the first one here anyways. Let's see. Link that up like that. Loop it up, go around to the other side, pull it through. I'll show you how I do this first chain. Then I'm going to do the other three chains on my own. Okay? Because I got to get going. And no offense, but when I talk to you guys, everything takes longer. So pull that all the way through. Oh, you see then this thing gets in the way here. I can't get it through there. Oh, can I? Maybe I can. Oh, maybe I can. Come on, Josh. Figure it out. There we go. Beautiful, huh? It works. Okay. I'm just going to loop that onto there just like that. You always want to have it with the hook facing down, because if you have the hook facing up like this, I mean this works too.  You want gravity is your friend. You want gravity to help you out and keep it on there, right? Okay, let's get this. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Gravity is not always your friend. Sometimes it gets in the way. Take this lock off of here. I like these stat binders better myself. Some people don't like them. I really like them. So what I got trained on originally, so it feels more natural for me to use these things, as opposed to the ratchet binders or whatever you want to call them. Put that in there. See, seems good. You grab your bar. I lose my bar. Where's my bar? Bar? Where are you? Bar? Not that bar.  You're not a bar. Little stick. Should I leave it at the front? Trying to go loud. Okay, we're going to go to the front. Okay. You guys still following along? I still got your tension. Okay. I hook that on there like that, and then I pull like this until it's tight. See, tight. Now I hook this through the little loop here, this in there and that in there. And what that does is it prevents this thing from popping open on the highway. That would defeat the whole purpose. And for this extra chain, I just wrap it around here. And that way, then I'll get, I'll grab a bungee later. I was hook a bungee onto here and then onto here and boom, done. I'm going to do this three more times. Okay? Three more times. Ready to go, Diesel. Just need to drink the water. A lot of work. High quality H2O.  I'm going to do a walk around of the load. I'm ready to go now. Let's see what you think. Let's flag it up at the top. I got the bungees going around, which holds the flag in place there. Four corners all have flags, 41,000 pound piece of concrete. I got three chains at the front, three binders, four chains and four binders at the back. Chains at the front are just connected to this rocker arm. Like I've been saying, to give the trailer the ability to flex the concrete to remain rigid. I can't put any securement in the center here because there's no dunnage beneath it. And because again, the trailer needs to flex. So a 6400 pounds of piece, my chains, where they can hold up to, they can hold up to 6400 pounds each. Seven chains will do the trick. I've got two binders on this side, two binders on the other side. You can see with the extra chain here, I've wrapped it around to provide extra locking power. And what I do with this extra chain, wrap it around there, hook a bungee onto it, hook it onto the trailer that'll keep the chain wrapped around there. It's impossible for that binder to open now. We've got another flag at the back here being held on by this bungee going around through here. I've got my oversize load sign strapped tightly here. Now you got to remember that there's going to be a lot of air passing through here and hitting this. So I used the strongest one I had and I also reinforced it in the center here to the trailer so that the wind hitting this isn't going to flap it around too much. I hope that'll work. 99.9% sure it'll be just fine. On the corners here, I've put rubber protection so that my sign doesn't get completely damaged by these corners on this concrete. I do have to wash this sign as I can see. I have to do that when I get to the shop next. Another flag at the back corner here. The other two binders are on this side so the two inside chains or binders are bound to this side of the trailer. The other ones are to that side. That's pretty much it. Tri-axle trailer. That's the load guys. We're ready to go. About to pull this thing onto the interstate. I-35 northbound. It's going to bring us up to the 494 on the south end of Minneapolis and we're going to head around the city to meet up with I-94 westbound. We'll see how far we get before the sun goes down. We're near the town of Monticello, Minnesota. The Speedway, I think it's a call, yeah, Speedway truck stop. This is where we're going to call it tonight. I'm the only one festive enough to have his lights on or everyone else is just sleeping. Thanks for joining me today everybody. I'm just walking the weasel here and I'm going to sleep too, turning the lights off for the night. We'll see you tomorrow. The journey home. We're about six and a half to seven hours from home. We'll do that tomorrow.


okay that's looking down the shaft i'm starting the video in midstream here i'm down one level this is looking up the shaft i'm waiting for julie to come down there are a lot of wires here we're on rope this is obviously a little more modern it's electrified there's a bit of something that goes that way okay here comes julie see the rope there to your left now do you see the end of the rope to your left i want you to lose it free it just toss it down the skip go all right here she comes why don't you keep on going down here because i think that rope that goes enough to get to the next level on it i think okay you keep going down then is this a level yeah but we're going to explore the way back careful you be careful now watch for the end of your rope because i i think well unless somebody took it out there was one there she goes put your pack you're not close to the end of the rope are you i think you'll hit the level before you get to the end of the rope right are you at the level can you see a level so i'm coming down the shaft here and then this is looking lonely i see some feet there's the rest of them welcome all right let's get off rope and explore this level okay we're off on a level here here's kind of a dude smoking a pipe with a pointed beard it's pretty low right here there's a huge handle off of a valve or some other type of device very purple isn't it wow very purple look at that is that the fluorite i believe this is a fluorite mine oh there's a bunch of other graffiti there in there really look at the purple you think that fluoresces what's this say hey i can't read anything johnny d johnny d okay it's a face okay do me a yeah i'm definitely holding on because that doesn't look like it goes anywhere okay tom's going down farther oh so we're 150 feet down is there a level there what's that is there a level there no not right here okay these big electrical connections here oh so this is what happens when people throw rocks down ladders like this big thing it takes out all the ladders this is looking back up straight up the skip track up to julie up there see where her light is and it makes a curve there the track comes down goes down that way here comes julie it's okay you're right you can use the middle part too now you're going off to another ladder now are you missing it wrong there and the next one's kind of broken too just don't put too much weight on any one spot yeah gotta go until you reach the level here and be careful getting off the ladder grab onto that pipe maybe okay all right you made it all right we're off the ladder here's a big air tank it looks like oh what do we have here it looks like an oil car an old can of gao antifreeze sounds empty what is that ring okay so it's a rear dumper it looks like huh now the trucks are still there let's pull the light bulbs there's the dump mechanism light bulbs and food cocktail can all right let's go this way a lot of electrical wires overhead this looks like it might be smashed up this way there's a door here's somebody's cover all that looks like her an apron no those are pants oh they got their money's worth out of them here's the door this looks like it's this mine has been a lot of it has been obliterated by an open pit mine next to this underground working so i don't think you're gonna go for that way really all right there it is really good find and you see that doesn't come around the other way does yeah well there's an orchard that got buried auxiliary action huh right first sure there's a door there too auxiliary exit oh it's a drill yeah it's a rock drill that's cool so that's awesome to see the rock drill down here let's go this way okay well these wires don't make it any easier do they that's part of the drill there's a drill where's that there's a shovel handle i'm not sure what happened back here okay let's go back the other way red line something lubricant yep union 76 red line lubricant all that clacking is our climbing equipment just back to this cool drill that's pretty neat that drill is awesome okay let's take a right and go through this door see what we have here little lock i'm trying to stand up okay here's a lot of cribbing we've got this area short up what do you see stays low and then it ends oh look at that cool hanging wall wow it's flat as a pancake that's awesome i'm kind of gonna feed you up there a lot of pressure on that one in there okay we're back to this big door well there are about 10 more levels to this mine but we're out of rope for right now okay we're heading back through this first door we came through why it really smells like oil and grease in here doesn't it and the lines are down okay we got to finish this way forgot we skipped this part oh there's the bell yep we were getting all tangled up with the bell uh the skip bell on the way down on that little cable might go straight ahead no so that work car must have been right around the corner here to the right i think that work right over here but so here's some huge barrels that must be a water tank there that big one and then i think this is a fuel or lubricant let's take the right this must be an explosives locker wow 1983 california red table wine who would bring that in here wow this other one's too wine anyone what is it it's a red mandavi red Robert mandavi red right here uh 83 what's the other one okay there's still some in there okay all right no straight ahead is no go no go all right that's pretty neat he's been drinking a wine down here there's part of a dynamite box what's the set cover there's an electrical box stagecoach casino interesting all right we better get going back up what you think okay we're back to the ladders and we are going to go up i think we never did look worse in here than with light bulb going up the ladder pretty much straight up on a crappy ladder be very be very careful this is the first level let's see what it does over here truly on the other side out of breath i want to put on there here's a chute like an ore pass here's a piece of paper here what's this one that's electrical boxes no that's a furnace stuff furnace stuff right yeah let's see if this goes anywhere this looks like a big trap door for the uh skip shaft that's heavy duty enough to cover this hole right here okay here goes Julie up to the top we can see how steep it is it's almost vertical i mean hold it she's using a plastic knot and i'm backing up the rope for her so she doesn't have to hold it and can just slide it up in case a rung breaks on her she can not go sliding down the shaft here


Madam Prime Minister, Minister Pat Conroy distinguished ladies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, I'm Michael Fully Love, the Executive Director of the Lowy Institute. Let me begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we gathered tonight, the Ngunnawal and Nambri people. I pay my respects to their elders, past and present. Talofa Lava, welcome to the inaugural FDC Pacific lecture. What a great pleasure it is for me personally and for the Institute to host the seventh Prime Minister of Samoa, the Honorable Firme Naomi Matta-Affa at this beautiful venue. Welcome, Prime Minister. You'll see Prime Minister, I'm wearing Samoan colors tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, I now know what it's like to accompany a rock star because when I entered this building, we could barely get through the crowd. So you do us a great honor, Prime Minister, by giving this lecture. So thank you. This annual lecture is part of a collaboration between the Lowy Institute and the Foundation for Development Cooperation, a great Australian institution that does wonderful work. And let me acknowledge Ann Marie O'Keeffe, the Chair and Stephen Taylor, the Executive Director of the FDC. Let me also acknowledge the Chief Executive, the Secretary of DFAT, Shadow Ministers, thank you for joining us, Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Lowy Institute Board members, Serengus Houston, Penny Wensley, and many other distinguished guests and in particular, many other friends from the Pacific. Thank you very much for joining us. This is the first visit to Australia by a Samoan Prime Minister in nearly four years and not just any PM, but one of the great figures from our region, someone who has led with great strength and dignity, who has served for nearly three decades in public life in Samoa, daughter of a Prime Minister and now Prime Minister herself. And in those four years, a lot has happened. Our countries have lived through a pandemic that has forced us to close ourselves off from the world and from each other. In Europe, we have seen the brutal and illegal invasion of one country by its powerful neighbour. And here in the Indo-Pacific, we've seen an intensification of geopolitical competition. Last week, Australia's Prime Minister announced the details of the AUKUS arrangement, which is Australia's response to that competition, a signal of Australia's ambition to contribute to regional security, but something that will also be a big lift for our country. The government has announced new climate change targets. It's also built on the work of its predecessor and redoubled Australia's efforts in our immediate neighbourhood. We're very sorry that the Foreign Minister, Senator Wong, can't join us this evening as she tested positive for COVID this morning. But I do want to take the opportunity in her absence to compliment the Minister and the Prime Minister and Minister Conroy for the vigor and dispatch of their regional diplomacy. They have maintained really a breakneck speed of visits to Southeast Asia and to the Pacific. And I think that's very important. Even as we focus on new challenges to our North, it's important that we do not turn away from the region that is closest to us. We can't lose sight of the importance of the Pacific and the relationships we have with our Pacific family. And Prime Minister, I use the term Pacific family advisedly. My brother Christian is in the audience tonight with his partner, Vaimoaer, and they met each other in Apia in Samoa a few years ago. It's connections like these PM that I think show the deep bonds between our countries that are formed in relationships, loving relationships, friendships, football, faith. I think these are the factors that make Australia and Samoa such natural and easy partners. So there are many things, there are many challenges for us to think about. Many joint challenges from climate change and natural disasters and health and other issues, but also opportunities for us to explore. And we hope to look at some of those challenges and opportunities this evening. And now to introduce the Prime Minister, I'm delighted to call upon the Minister for Defense Industry and the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Mr. Pat Conroy MP. Like Senator Wong, he has been a frequent traveller to the region since the government was elected. He's known within the government as an energetic advocate for the Pacific. Before he went into Parliament, he was involved in public life in other ways, working for Anthony Albanese, Minister Combe and in the trade union movement. He's an articulate person and a formidable force for the Pacific. And we're delighted that the minister has agreed to be here this evening and to introduce one of the Pacific's most respected and significant leaders. Minister, the lectern is yours. Thank you, Michael, for that kind and very, very generous introduction. There's a future in politics with that sort of generosity. But it is a pleasure to be at the Lowe Institute event, particularly here at Old Parliament House, proudly lit up tonight in the colours of the independent state of Samoa. This building is now home to the Museum of Australian Democracy, and democracy is a subject and a practice on which our guest is a leading authority. First, I'd like to acknowledge the traditional owners, the land upon which we meet, the Ngunnawal and Nambri people. I'd also like to pay my respects to their elders past, present and emerging. Michael's already done acknowledgements, and I love the Pacific tradition of just saying all protocols observed, which I think covers all sins, but I will break that just to acknowledge a few people if people can indulge me. I'd like to acknowledge Simon Birmingham, the Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs, Michael McCormack, the Shadow Minister for International Development and the Pacific, Sir Angus Houston, Board Member, former Chief of the Defence Force, Jan Adams, Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, and Ewan MacDonald, Head of the Office of the Pacific. I'd also acknowledge all ambassadors and high commissioners here tonight. As well as acknowledging the traditional owners, I'd also like to restate my commitment as a member of the Albanese government to implementing the Uluru Statement from the heart in full, voice, treaty and truth. In Australia, we are proud to be home to one of the oldest continuous cultures in the world. We have First Nations Connections history with the Pacific family through shared geography, history and kinship ties that stretch across the blue Pacific. And they provide a strong foundation to engage on shared interests with partners in our region. They are just one but very important subset of our people-to-people links. As Michael alluded to, another of our people-to-people links is on the sporting field. And it'd be remiss of me not to congratulate the Prime Minister again on the wonderful performance of the Samoan Rugby League team at the Rugby League World Cup last year. And I'd like to make the point that I've made many times in the Pacific, which is if the Australian kangaroo, the players in the Australian kangaroos of Samoan heritage had actually played for Samoa, you would have thrashed us. So congratulations again. But my job here tonight, and it's a great honour to have this job, is to introduce our speaker, the esteemed and highly respected Prime Minister of Samoa, Fiamme Naomi Mata-Afa. I'm honoured to welcome her to Canberra on her first official visit as Prime Minister. Our Foreign Minister Penny Wong and I have valued her wisdom, her graciousness, her tenacity and her leadership. Particularly her passionate, committed advocacy on climate change, her principled, thoughtful approach to Pacific regionalism, and her determined, honest commitment to building an economically stable and secure future for the Samoan people. And the Pacific family is part of who we are. From the ocean that we share, to the deep people and family links across our islands, we take our responsibility as a member of the Pacific family seriously. As a government, our approach to supporting a stronger Pacific family has been to listen, to show up and to deliver for the priorities of the Pacific. And of course, the biggest priority as the Prime Minister has been a champion of is taking action on climate. Prime Minister, you've worked hard to raise awareness of the existential threat posed by climate change to the nations of the Pacific. Looking for any forum or alliance in which you can sway thinking and garner support for change. I'm glad to have this opportunity during your visit to discuss what more we can do together to drive global action on climate change, to keep 1.5 degrees within reach and build our region's resilience to this existential threat. And as you know, Australia under this government has already legislated much more ambitious national emissions reduction targets. We've set a minimum floor of 43% reduction in our emissions by 2030 and to moving to 83% or more renewable energy production by the end of the decade. And we've returned to being part of the solution. That's why we'll join at least 105 countries, including the United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, New Zealand and all Pacific Island countries who are UN members, the co-sponsor of Vanuatu's UN General Assembly resolution requesting an ICJ advisory opinion on climate change. This resolution reflects the views of the Pacific Islands Forum, leaders that in the shared endeavor, the obligations of all major emitters past, present and future should be examined. In your work on climate, you have been and remain as I said earlier, a deeply committed regionalist, someone who works hard to generate consensus. You said before the world needs to put as much energy into addressing climate change as we have on addressing COVID and you are right. You've said that the effort has to be collective and you've clearly put that spirit into action. Samoa under your leadership remains an active player in the Pacific Islands Forum. Your leadership has helped reinforce the centrality of Pacific architecture and the importance of the United Pacific family. We can navigate our shared challenges best when we do it together. You've also committed to hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting next year, the first Pacific Island nation ever to do so. And I saw your advocacy in the Chogham Forum, first-hand in Rwanda, where you argued passionately and eloquently and effectively for action on climate change and justice for the Pacific. None of this advocacy and engagement is an accident. It is the determined, continued focus of a nation seeking to deliberately influence the world around it in positive ways. In a sense, we shouldn't be surprised that the leadership Prime Minister, FIMA, has shown both in Samoa and across the region. When Samoa led the Pacific and achieving independence in 1962, her father was Samoa's first Prime Minister. Her mother too was an MP and High Commissioner to New Zealand. Prime Minister FIMA first entered Parliament in 1985 and has over time held almost every portfolio. She was Samoa's first female minister as Education Minister in 1991, first female Deputy Prime Minister and first female Prime Minister. So it is a true honor for our country to host her this week. Prime Minister, I believe you are one of the great state's people of our time. I'm privileged to work with you and to learn from you. I would like to thank you for your continued leadership and for your ongoing commitment and that of Samoans around the region to building a peaceful and prosperous Pacific. I'm very much looking forward to hearing what you have to say tonight. And I'd be grateful if you could come to the stage. Thank you very much. Mr. Conroy, your parliamentary colleagues, the representatives of the Australian government. I'd like to acknowledge the Lowy family, members of the board and of course, Dr. Fulilab for the arrangements that are inviting me tonight. Your Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, Dhalofalava and warm Pacific greetings. I'm honored to be given the opportunity to deliver this specific lecture as has been the tradition for the Lowy Institute to host world leaders in order to foster positive relations between Australia and our respective countries. I have been asked to provide through Samoa focused lenses, Pacific perspectives on the region's most pressing challenges and opportunities. And there are a few. The Pacific Islands occupy a vast oceanic region that covers almost 20% of the Earth's surface and is home to the world's largest concentration of microstates. I quote from the renowned Pacific writer, Ebelli Hauofa. Oceania is us. We are the sea. We are the ocean. We should not be defined by the smallness of our islands, but the greatness of our oceans. The Pacific's three ethnographic subregions of Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia include 10 sovereign states, five freely associated states, and eight dependent territories. For the Pacific region and its island countries, the ocean is crucial. Exercising a sense of common identity and purpose linked to the ocean has been critical for protecting and promoting the potential of our shared Pacific ocean. It is this commonality of the fundamental essence of the region which has the potential to empower the region through collective and combined agendas and actions. The blue Pacific narrative will strengthen the existing policy frameworks that harness the ocean as a driver of a transformative socio-cultural, political and economic development of the Pacific. And it gives renewed impetus to deepening Pacific regionalism. We know that we can do more together than alone. While Pacific countries vary widely in population, economic circumstances, development, political status and stability, they face several common challenges, each amplified by the devastating impact of COVID-19 pandemic and the pervasive impacts of climate change. These challenges include political leadership and regionalism, peace and security, economic development, climate change-related impacts, natural disasters, oceans and the environment, technology and connectivity, and the intensification of geo-strategic competition exacerbating the region's existing vulnerabilities. At their 2019 meeting in Tuvalu, forum leaders further highlighted these concerns and subsequently endorsed the development of the 2050 strategy for the blue Pacific continent, a strategy that reinforces commitment and working together as a collective for advancing Pacific regionalism based on the blue Pacific narrative. Pacific Island leaders have nonetheless recognized the need for a new, inclusive and game-changing approach to Pacific regionalism, a regionalism that can not only realize the unmet development needs of Pacific Island peoples, but also meet the demands of a new global development paradigm. At the heart of this approach is an emphasis on inclusive policy development and implementation, as well as recognition of the political dimension for ensuring development outcomes for the Pacific. The 2050 strategy encapsulates how we can best work together to achieve our shared vision and aspirations. It is based on the firm recognition of the strategic, cultural and economic value that our blue Pacific region holds for us and our shared commitment to protect and leverage this value. Therefore, the newly emerging wave of regionalism maintains a people-centered lens and Pacific control of a regional agenda. It fosters wider political engagement and maneuvers creatively through and around, structures with the common goal of improving the lives of our Pacific peoples. It seeks to achieve the key objectives of sustainable development that combines economic, social, and cultural development in ways that improve livelihoods and wellbeing and uses the environment sustainably. Economic growth that is inclusive and equitable. Strengthened governance, legal, financial, and administrative systems. And security that ensures stable and safe human, environmental, and political conditions for all. It expresses the political ambition of our leaders to navigate the Pacific through the global and regional geopolitical forces that impact on our region's ability to achieve development outcomes for our people. In this context, development actors need to work with us, understand the politics of development in our region, and seek to engage with us in a way that supports our agency and leadership on sustainable development. As well, it emphasizes Pacific leadership and ownership on regional opportunities and challenges. My country, Samoa, has always advocated for a re-energized and robust Pacific forum process through which all development partners work with at the regional level, even with the preference to deliver bilaterally. For the member countries, this will add value to the efficacy of their respective prioritization processes. This has resulted in creating a platform for the PAM process with Japan, the US Pacific Summit, and the Korea Pacific Summit. It is against this background that we have made all efforts to reconnect our Pacific family, including strengthening our regional institutions, in particular, our premier educational institute, the University of the South Pacific. The USP has contributed significantly towards shaping the framework for the Pacific regionalism through intellectual dialogue and to interface with people who are actively engaged in redefining the way the Pacific framework should work. The collaboration between the USP and other institutes in the region can leverage research-based sustainable solutions for issues facing the region. We have learned from the past of examples that are testimony to the strength of our own Pacific diplomacy, which included successful outcomes from the COP 21 climate talks in Paris in 2015. The advocacy for the SDG-14 on oceans and the inclusion of loss and damage on the climate change agenda during COP 27. Climate change remains the single greatest threat to the well-being, livelihoods, and security of Pacific peoples. Taking into account the insufficient global response to limit temperatures below 1.5 degrees Celsius, as a small island-developing state, as well as the chair of the Alliance of Small Island States, EOSIS, we will continue to advocate for retching up ambitious targets and urgent follow-through in the implementation of the nationally determined contributions. For Samoa, we are aiming to reach a target of 100% electrification through renewables by 2030 and to promote urgent and inclusive transformation of the land and maritime transport sectors towards decarbonisation. The Pacific will remain persistent in urging major emitters to phase out all fossil fuel subsidies and accelerate actions towards transitioning to low greenhouse gas emission climate resilient economies. Climate financing is crucial to ensure transformational investments in order to achieve the net zero by 2050 goal. However, we cannot achieve that if funding for the root causes of climate change is exponentially greater than investment in appropriate response to climate change. We continue to see devastating impacts of climate change on our neighbours like Van Watu, having recently been hit by Cyclone's Judy and Freddie within a few days. This is our reality and that is why we will never stop pushing for all to do their part. Samoa's role as the chair of the Alliance of Small Island States emphasises Aeosis' advocacy role as a strategic necessity and is the thread that binds its work. It must be said that the active engagement of all members, in particular the Pacific members, at the highest political level is critical to achieving our desired objectives. The Commonwealth has always been a champion for small island developing states and the escalating concerns about the ongoing climate crisis. Samoa will be bringing our Commonwealth family to our Blue Pacific region in 2024, as alluded to by Minister Conway. There is no better place to discuss solutions and concrete responses to the climate crisis than in the home of those who stand to lose the most. Similarly, the Pacific offers solidarity to support Australia's bid for the COP in 2026. Our Blue Pacific continent is fast becoming an increasingly contested strategic space. The question for us is how prepared are we to tackle the emerging associated challenges? Regional and national stability has never been more critical in order to maintain peace and security, prosperity and well-being of all our Pacific peoples. We are faced with the perplexities of varying versions of the Indo-Pacific strategies. The resultant partnerships that have emerged from the diversity of networks and alliances, as well as the underlying lack of understanding of the Pacific countries of how and when the two large ocean spaces morphed into the Indo-Pacific and the rationale behind the concept. Why? Because this is the basis of the geo-strategic approaches of the development partners working in the region. I feel I need to be very frank and to say to this gathering tonight that in the Pacific we feel our partners have fallen short of acknowledging the integrity of Pacific leadership and the responsibility they carry for every decision made as a collective and individually in order to garner support for the sustainable development of our nations. Such acknowledgments can simply be in the form of information sharing and open consultation if we consider ourselves as a Pacific family and looking to find solutions in the Pacific way. The shifting global and regional geopolitics is creating an increasingly complex and crowded region that places the Pacific at the center of contemporary global geopolitics. This trend coupled with broader challenges such as climate change and disaster risk, rising inequalities, resource depletion, maritime boundary disputes, and advances in technology will continue to shape the Pacific regional security environment. Pacific Island forum members have a proud history of working collectively in response to events and issues that have challenged regional security, peace, and stability in the past. The Pacific region's current geopolitical and geostrategic context underlines the need for an integrated and comprehensive security architecture incorporating an expanded concept of security. A stable and resilient security environment provides the platform for achieving the region's sustainable development aspirations. We welcome the efforts by some of our development actors to keep the Pacific countries consistently informed of security developments specific to their countries but which can have potential impact on the Pacific region. On that note, I was very fortunate to have a security briefing earlier this afternoon by your security teams and I'm very thankful for the sharing of that information. While we become, we may become an unwilling actor in the current tensions around the Pacific Rim by virtue of our geography. It may be pertinent to ask how our region can assert our geography as the basis for promoting regional and global peace as was done with the work of the Rarotomo Treaty. In terms of economic growth, I wish to acknowledge Australia and New Zealand's support towards the post-COVID recovery through the important contribution of labour mobility and what it makes to the economy of all participating countries. While considering the nuances of expanding labour mobility, we must ensure that we maximise the benefits and minimise any negative impacts on the livelihoods and business domestically in labour-sending countries. It is important that regular consultations take place and that there is the opportunity to review from time to time the efficacy of the schemes to ensure unfair disadvantage of either side. Pacific countries with limited human resource capacities cannot sustain development efforts with regular brain drain. Of great importance to Pacific-sending countries is the commitment to ensure that workers' rights and welfare conditions are socialised, safeguarded and implemented in a timely manner. It is also important to note that in terms of development cooperation, Australia recognises the importance of long-term commitments and predictability to effective planning and sustainable change for partner countries and have instituted agreed-to arrangements to facilitate policy shifts as well as accepting the integrity of the use of partner country systems. It is also important to maintain close communication and cooperation in order to shape policies and institutions to drive inclusive and sustainable economic growth, including working closely with all willing development partners through processes such as the Joint Policy Action Matrix Dialog. Such a process encapsulates the advancing of economic reforms to achieve sustainable growth and prudent debt management. All PASA Plus signatory countries are committed to closer regional economic integration through working together and with the PASA Plus implementation unit based in Arpere to drive the implementation of PASA Plus and facilitating the flow of goods, services, capital and people across signatory countries. We will also collaborate on biosecurity and market access to enhance trade flows. We very much look forward to stronger partnerships for economic growth, for security and stronger relationships between our people. There is a clear need to reinforce and support existing and promising approaches, particularly those that are non-partisan and non-interventionist. In closing, let me again express my appreciation for the invitation to deliver some specific perspectives of the region we share. I would also like to acknowledge the assistance which has been provided by the Australian Educational and Research Institutions to the Pacific countries and to Samoa, in particular since the end of the Second World War. At a time when the Pacific is in need of research on so many issues of vital importance to the Pacific, it is the Lowy Institute that has filled in some of the very important research gaps by placing significant focus on the Pacific region. But I do have to say, Michael, mostly in Melanesia. I wish again to thank the Lowy Institute, all the best for your very important work as we move into the future. And I want to acknowledge all of you and thank you as colleagues for your interest in the blue Pacific and its future development. Thank you. Well, thank you, Prime Minister. Thank you very much for those thoughtful and wide-ranging remarks which deserve to be read widely around the region. And thank you also for the Prime Ministeral feedback, which is noted. And a lot of my brilliant colleagues from our Pacific team are here today. So we'll have a talk about that feedback. So thank you. Thank you also, PM, for agreeing to take some questions from me for 10 minutes or so. And then the PM has agreed to take questions from the audience. So if you get your questions ready, if you catch my eye, the PM may be willing to take some questions from you. PM, you talked about so many different issues. But let me start with climate change because you identified it as the number one security threat in the Pacific and you mentioned the effects that Vanuatu and other countries have felt. I know you're just back from London, so you've got a bit of a global view that you can share with us. How optimistic are you that the world will reach agreements that limit dangerous warming and how comfortable are you with the efforts that Australia has committed to in the last year? Well, it's always best to start closer to home and the latter part of your question had to do with advancements in Australia's stance on climate change. So I think I need to take the opportunity here at the Lower Institute to say how much the Pacific family has appreciated the newer commitments that have been made by the Australian government on climate change, your own nationally determined contributions, the targets to which you have set, which are very significant. And I would like to congratulate you all. And I think I need to acknowledge, Samo and other Pacific countries are so small. It doesn't take a lot of data collection or huge surveys to determine what people are thinking. You can gauge that very quickly. But what I did note with the developments in Australia's advancing positions on climate change is that a lot of that had to do with your public and the stance that your constituents were presenting to. So as a politician, I sort of see things in those lenses and I think I do have to credit the Australian public. I mean, of course, there are varying views, but I think it is to such a degree where the government has made those commitments. Now, the last cop in Shamu shape was a bit underwhelming, I think was the word, the polite word. And we were concerned from the Pacific that there seemed to be some backsliding in terms of what we had understood to be global agreements on the 1.5. The AOSIS group very quickly made presentations to the convention, to the conference, presenting this concern that we were seeing. We do understand, of course, that that particular region was with its fuels and so forth. They have a particular view. The next cop is also going to be in the same region. So we in the Pacific and those of us who are all advocating for timely interventions to the climate crisis, I hope that we will keep up the pressure to ensure that the commitments that have been agreed to in past conferences can be upheld and that the work is carried forward. The loss and damage issue, I think it was quite significant at the last cop, a bit of good news. It's formally on the books, so to speak, with proposals to develop funding models of how that work can be carried out and it is a demonstration of progress. So although it would seem at times perhaps we're not moving towards our goals as fast as we should be, I think we still need to acknowledge some of the wins that we are achieving and to just pursue those and advocate strongly. And for those who are able to make significant contributions, especially to funding, research, it's very important that that keeps going. So I'm optimistic. All right, let me ask you about some other security issues. You alluded to the increasing competition that the region sees between the United States on the one hand and China on the other. Let me invite you to speak a little bit more about that if you're open to it and in particular let me ask you about the issue that's in the headlines this week and that is AUKUS. A couple of times you mentioned the importance of consultation and you thanked the Australian government for some security briefings which I presume was on AUKUS but can I ask you about the substance of those briefings? Do you feel comfortable with the AUKUS arrangements as they've been announced? Well, I think I said in my comments that... And I think this is framed around the new narrative of the Indo-Pacific and that has become the founding narrative for development partners, especially the morphing together of these two big oceans. Now, the Pacific Islands were never consulted about that new narrative or had a discussion amount. I think perhaps Fiji might have been invited to one or two meetings. But then it's quite interesting. We had the summit last year in September with the Americans. They talk about Indo-Pacific. Australia and New Zealand talk about Indo-Pacific. Japan talks to us about Indo-Pacific. Everyone talks to us about Indo-Pacific. And I think there's an assumption there that we know what they're talking about and actually we don't. So, I mean, we're having to inform ourselves as best we can. But given that we occupy a very large space of one of those oceans, one might have thought that having some input from the Pacific Islands might have been a good idea as we moved into that new narrative. But I think we were quite used to it. We don't really want to throw any tantrums or anything like that. We'd like to be helpful. I think given when the opportunities arise that we can make comments. But I think I was sharing with colleagues who were giving me the security briefing this afternoon. There's something about foreign policy, right? Which a large part of it has now got to do with security. And I'm reminded of the former king of Tonga, Tupo V, when he was minister of foreign affairs. He was asked by a reporter, what was Tonga's foreign policy? And he said, foreign policy, we don't have foreign policy. And this poor reporter was quite stumped because of course he's talking to the foreign minister and does expect a very comprehensive reply and not that kind of answer. And so he said, oh, could you explain yourself further? And the minister then said, well, it is our lot in the Pacific that other people have foreign policies. We just navigate our way around them. So I think there's a lot of truth in that. And I think it's also why we from Samoa advocate so strongly for regionalism. Because as a bloc, you get a bit more attention. As tiny little islands, no one really pays too much attention to you. So I think the experience of the advocacy, especially around climate change, the advocacy that we did as a region around the Rarotonga Treaty on nuclear issues, it has built up the credibility of the Pacific's participation in foreign policy and foreign affairs. Am I answering your question? You provided a wonderful answer, P.M. I don't think you quite came at the question of the nuclear-powered submarines. Oh, right. That's very easy, Michael. That's none of my business. I mean, we understand it. And I think Minister Conroy, who unfortunately had to leave us, and I think yourself in your introductory comments, this is how Australia sees its role in the security aspects of the region. And we understand that. And I think with the further integration of New Zealand and Australia into the Pacific family, Australia is now part of Melanesia. New Zealand is part of Polynesia. I think we're deepening opportunities to be talking to each other a lot more about those sorts of things. And I can't tell you what your security people told me this afternoon. There's lots of redefinitions of regions happening. Let me ask you, I want to come to the audience and give them an opportunity to ask a question. But I do want to ask P.M. as the first female Prime Minister of your country, named recently by the BBC as among the 100 most influential women around the world. Can you reflect? It's not bad. It's not bad. Can you reflect a little bit about the role of women in the Pacific? And can you tell us, is there a particular female leader that you've admired over the course of your career, from whom you've taken inspiration? Well, it's no secret that the Pacific still has the lowest representation of women in our respective governments. And there are still some of us who don't have any women. I think in the early days of the gender issue, some of us around this room might recall the first decade for women. One of the indicators of successful women's participation in public life was linked to the general economic status of a country. So I still would tend to think that that indicator and the cause, perhaps, of this low representation amongst many other gender disparities is that our respective economies reached that level where the basic services for women, especially around their responsibilities to their families. The burden is still upon the women to carry on. So our economies were not able to give them the benefits. We're not able to give them the services that may free them up to, perhaps, participate more rigorously in political life. So, I mean, Australia has been a leading donor in the Pacific on gender equality. The Verotonga Declaration, when was it again? 2012? So we were on that. Anyway, that was the first time that the leaders, the Pacific leaders made a gender declaration. And I think there is discussion. It needs to be revisited. And there's still a lot of work that needs to be done. I mean, the questions are a lot of resourcing has gone into this, both fiscal and human resourcing, technological resourcing. So the question being posed is, why is there not enough change? And was there one female lady that you've looked up to? Well, funny enough, it's not necessarily national leaders. The women leaders have had an impact on me. Of course, my family and the communities. And I've always been active in young women's and women's organizations. So there's so many leaders there. And it's quite interesting for me as a politician, since 1985, I still find that when I go back to those organizations that I belong to, I'm at a conference where it brings together women. I draw such a lot of energy from them. So it's still a basis of a source of energy for me. Well, thank you, Pam. Let's take a few questions, two or three questions I'd like to. Please, if you'd like to pose a question to the PM, please put your hand up. Yes, I see Meg Keen and Simon Birmingham. So we might start with those two, and then I'll take one more if we can fit it in.  Meg, head of the Pacific Islands Program at the Lowe Institute. Thank you very much for that fantastic presentation. I think we're all going to be pouring over it for some time to come and thinking about all the points you've made. But one really stood out for me when you were talking about Pacific leadership and the name for a game-changing approach, particularly regionally, and you did mention the game-changing approach with the Raratanga Treaty. But I'm wondering what in contemporary times a game-changing approach looks like from a Pacific lens. Thank you. Well, I've been reflecting on that a lot. And one of the lessons that I've more recently learned is when I went to the Chogham Leaders' Meeting in Rwanda last year, and the journey that that country has taken to where it finds itself now since the genocide of the early to mid-90s. Now, when we're talking early-mid-90s, it's just a matter of 30, 40 years. It's one generation. I regret that I didn't do a lot more reading about Rwanda before I went. But when I arrived at that country, it looked like a developed country. I saw people walking around freely, especially women. And we all know the statistic that Rwanda is famous for, that they have more than 50% women in their parliament and also more than 50% women in their cabinet. And young. So if we're talking about game-changing, the Pacific is small, its populations are small. It really needs to use a lot more of its human resource. And I don't think we've done that enough and paid attention to that. We can have the aid dollar and, of course, the opportunities that are available for education and training is very significant when we're talking about buildings, capacities, especially of our youth. But I don't think we utilize it in a way that I've seen how they've done it in Rwanda. And I think that's... And engaging a lot more people in the process of economic growth.  And everyone thinks, you know, the government is the answer to everything. That mindset needs to change as well. We need to be able to ensure that there's a much wider participation than just merely the government in the development and growth of our economies. Thank you, Senator Birmingham. Probably don't need it. Prime Minister, thank you very much for your wide-ranging and thoughtful address tonight and for spending this week in Australia and travelling through a number of Australian states as well. It is very grateful. Can I ask perhaps two questions? I'll be cheeky there. One, building a little upon the message for the Pacific voice to be heard more powerfully and how you think Australia can help to empower that Pacific voice, that regional architecture, to be heard in other capitals around the world can we provide through our foreign service by other means to empower that Pacific voice to be as strongly as possible? And then perhaps to come back to the bilateral relationship you spoke about, labour mobility, PASA Plus, what would be the priorities that Australia could lend to help with the economic empowerment and achieving those aspirations that you have in leading Samoa to achieve stronger economic outcomes in the future? The first part of your question about how Australia helps with the Pacific voice, I mean the best example of that is creating opportunities for the Pacific and ensuring Pacific participation either by sponsorship or using your aeroplanes just to get us around to places and also helping us refine the message, taking the message to other fora that the Pacific doesn't necessarily have a voice in and where I made mention of the further integration of New Zealand and Australia into the Pacific architecture and now Australia is a member of the Melanesian subregion. You know, I think that's another way where if Australia speaks, it can speak, I think, a lot more, a lot stronger in terms of this new format that we've moved into Pacific architecture and the organisation around regionalism. With respect to the labour mobility that seems to have been a bit contentious lately but that's mostly because you move a lot faster than we do so, you know, your policy shifts are faster, we're having to catch up but I think as I said in my comments is that we need to have, you know, regular review of these agreements that we come to. The labour mobility scheme has assisted Pacific countries greatly over the COVID and how our respective economies have been impacted. You know, especially around tourism, the retailing and services industries and so forth. So the scheme has really, you know, brought support to families and of course, you know, it carries through then to the whole monetary system assists with our balance of payments and so forth. But then equally we are now experiencing the impact essentially of brain drain because initially the schemes had started off in the agricultural and horticultural so from the sending countries it was mostly the unemployed but because the scheme has now expanded to other sectors we are now moving into the more skilled labour force so we are feeling the impact of that now. Now we had the leaders special retreat earlier this month in Fiji and we took the issue to the leaders meeting and there was some thinking, you know, perhaps as sending countries we need to sort of get together and talk before we talk to, you know, New Zealand and Australia and we said, no, that's not what Simon was saying. What we are saying is that we sat down together and we talked through this. If there are issues, it's important that we sit down and continue to have that dialogue. Now I'm going to be very contentious and say that, you know, labour mobility is one thing. We're talking about PASA Plus, you know, and how, you know, that can accommodate not only labour mobility but services and goods and people. So on the people side, I've just come from the UK and I've been exited Europe, you know, and that whole concept there of the European common market. So we've been talking about that in the Pacific for a long time and part of that common market is free access of people around the region. I think we need to explore that in the Pacific. Now, when we were talking about that in Fiji, Penny Wong came from here and the deputy prime minister of New Zealand attended on behalf of their leader. And it was quite interesting. Penny Wong didn't say anything when I sort of suggested, you know, we might look at sort of common market type arrangement. But the deputy prime minister of New Zealand said, oh, but all the people in the islands will want to come and live in New Zealand and Australia. I said, well, I think that's what you might think.  So it's just a thought. I'm going to take one more question. We have a lot of friends from the Pacific in the room. I'd love to take a question from someone in the Pacific if they would like to ask one. Please. But if not, I'm going to take one more question. Yes, ma'am. Final question of the evening. Thank you for your address, Prime Minister. You mentioned leveraging strategic geography to promote peace. Can you talk about that a bit more? So how can I explain this by example? Okay. The United States as a development partner hasn't really been that visible in our part of the world. In fact, they left probably 15, 20 years ago after to Australia. But more recently, we were asked to have a summit of the leaders with the President of the United States. So they're recognizing our geographical space. For all the reasons they have, and we think we understand. But nevertheless, the attention is there. Now it might be a good thing. And it might not be such a good thing. Sometimes it's just good to go under the radar. But that's the situation of the geopolitics. There's now an interest in the Pacific and we're geographically placed. So people are beginning to talk to us. And we have to take up that opportunity. Because there are very many issues, challenges, and opportunities for us as well. And we look to our neighbors and family here in the Pacific to help us navigate that. But it's first of all, understanding that before, people just used to see the Pacific as a big ocean with a few dots. But now because the situation has changed, they actually see us or they see the Pacific in a different way. And it's not an opportunity to be missed. PM, thank you for taking our questions with great dignity and humor and intelligence and wisdom. And for being a little contentious, as you put it, we love that at the Lowy Institute. Let me call upon, before we finish, let me call upon Ann Marie O'Keefe to deliver the vote of thanks. Ann Marie is chair of the Foundation for Development Corporation. She's a long time non-resident fellow of the Lowy Institute and a colleague of mine and a very senior former Australian diplomat and an aide official. So Ann Marie, perhaps you would move her vote of thanks to the PM. Prime Minister, it's my great honor to have been asked to thank you for your inspirational speech and the observations at this, the Foundation for Development Co-operations in Orgul, Pacific Lecture hosted by the Lowy Institute. You may or may not remember, but we first met in the late 1990s when you were Samoa's minister of education and I was an Australian aide official visiting your country for aid talks. As Samoa's first female cabinet minister, you already had a region-wide reputation as a visionary Pacific leader with a deep understanding of the development challenges facing Samoa and the border Pacific. My then boss, who went on to become the head of AusAid, gave me really strict instructions to listen to you and to take on board what you were saying. And of course, nobody would ever not do that when it was Bruce Davis telling me to listen. But I'll be frank, I was very nervous about meeting you because of that reputation. What did I have to offer to our conversation about development in the Pacific? Now, more than two decades later, you're Samoa's first female prime minister and we collectively have had the privilege this evening of hearing your frank analysis of the challenges that confront the Pacific and the way forward. It is clearly a difficult pathway for the blue Pacific continent. You and other Pacific leaders must manage a region-wide, potentially destabilizing geopolitical competition for influence. At the same time, you must respond domestically and internationally to climate change, which is, as you've described it, the single greatest threat to the blue Pacific. You also have to respond to the enduring and emerging obstacles to improved social and economic prosperity across the region and within your individual countries while at the same time acting on opportunities to promote that prosperity. You have also reminded us this evening of the frustrations you suffer when partners fall short of listening to the Pacific leadership. Tonight you have given us a fulsome insight into what it means to be a Pacific leader. And this is why the Foundation for Development Cooperation is supporting this lecture series and why we at the Foundation were so keen that it was you who was the inaugural speaker. We were going to hound your office to do so, yes. Inspired by the Lowy Institute's outstanding work on the Pacific, the Foundation believes it has found the right partner in the Institute to further its own ambition of harnessing and leveraging the blue Pacific's collective skills, knowledge and organizational resources. Prime Minister, your words this evening underscore the critical need for the Pacific voice to be heard and to be listened to. And so, distinguished guests, I would ask you to join me in a round of applause to thank the Prime Minister for her guiding and visionary words tonight to the Samoan Prime Minister. Thank you. Thank you very much, Anne-Marie PM. Let me add my thanks to Anne-Marie's. You spoke about, you were asked about what could be the game changer, but I think tonight you've been a game changer for all of us. So thank you very much. Gentlemen, thank you for joining us here at the Institute. The Lowy Institute is headquartered in Sydney, but we're a national institution. It's important to us that we're represented here in Canberra. So thank you for coming along to an occasion on which I think you'll agree was a special one at which all of us got to learn at the feet of a great Pacific statesperson. The PM quoted a memorable line at the beginning of her speech. She said, the Pacific should be defined by the greatness of the oceans, not the smallness of the islands. And I take that as an injunction to all of us to think big. And the PM has tonight been thinking big. And I think all of us will do that in response. So ladies and gentlemen, thank you for being here. As you leave, you'll see, as Minister Conroy mentioned, the façade of Old Parliament House illuminated in the colours of the Samoan flag. Thank you very much for being here. I'm going to try my best here, PM. Manuia Massoifua. Thank you very much. Very good. Thank you.