This is the Friends of History Debating Society. I'm John Bachelor.

Immediately to New South Wales, to Jeremy Zachus, reporting from New South Wales on the climate.

Remember, this is the Southern Hemisphere. it's ending autumn coming winter, and the

reptiles, everything in Australia is exotic and will try to kill you. And finally cricket cricket there's a positive story about

cricketeers we've been a little harsh about the all- England team hero Ben Stokes and we've got a very positive Ben Stokes story

but we begin with not the weather not the climate we begin with Dallas

Jeremy a very good evening to you reintroduced Dallas to the audience who is Dallas and what is Dallas is

uh morning routine good i John yes well Dallas Morning routine.

G'd know John. Yes, well Dallas, he's our 10-year-old spoodle, which in the US you do actually call them cockapoo. So it's the same little thing, the little black furry dog is our best friend and he's very much a big part of our family.

Well, the thing is John Dallas, living where we are right now makes a lot of friends.

And when I say friends, they're friends of the animal kind and not all dogs.

So what tends to happen is every morning when we take Dallas outside, he moses around the backyard

as he does and does his business, but he always says hi to some of his best friends.

Well, it turns out now, one of his best friends is actually a cocker too.

And I know we've spoken about Molly and Peggy in the past, which was the Staffordshire Terrier and the Magpie in Queensland

that made best of friends and they are forever more. But I never thought that my little spoodle

Dallas would also have the same kind of relationship. And this cockatoo, John, I can tell you.

He knows what he's doing in the same one.

He actually will now sit up on the fence

until Dallas comes out.

Dallas will come out.

We'll greet the cockatoo. The Cockatoo will have a few words back.

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