A pioneer of Australian kickboxing and Muay Thai joins Betoota Talks this week. John Wayne Parr talks about the early days of a career that would ultimately see him become the first household name in this sport. The son of traveling horse trainers from Queensland, ‘The Gunslinger’ had a very similar childhood to the Karate Kid. Finding friends and family in the martial arts gyms of suburban Australia, before taking off to Thailand at 19 to learn the nuts and bolts of MMA. What a career he’s had.



His new book is called The Fighter: The Legendary Life of an Australian Champion and it's out now

A pioneer of Australian kickboxing and Muay Thai joins Betoota Talks this week. John Wayne Parr talks about the early days of a career that would ultimately see him become the first household name in this sport. The son of traveling horse trainers from Queensland, ‘The Gunslinger’ had a very similar childhood to the Karate Kid. Finding friends and family in the martial arts gyms of suburban Australia, before taking off to Thailand at 19 to learn the nuts and bolts of MMA. What a career he’s had.
 
His new book is called The Fighter: The Legendary Life of an Australian Champion and it's out now

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We spoke to Bill about a whole range of things from how current Treasurer Jim Chalmers is a shameless plagiarist who has pawned Bill's signature policy ideas off as his own, such as putting the dog up property investors and making tech start up guys quiver in their sneakers. Also returning money to workers and other woke rubbish like that designed to be divisive. As much as Bill wanted to let sleeping dogs lie, we didn't let him. Espeically on the university sector, now that he's compromised by being a Chancellor of the so-called Canberra Uni that they call a university.&nbsp; So for some raw opinions and an empty promise to award Errol a Doctor of Letters, listen now.

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This week on BETOOTA TALKS, the former Liberal candidate for Sydney's Upper North Shore, Gisele Kapterian joins to talk about what drew her to the party - and why she has stayed. Kapterian has been put through the ringer in her effort to represent the people of the Bradfield electorate, and it looks like the old guard of the Liberals are just as difficult to win over as the new Teal voters. Is Kapterian the near extinct moderate politicians that the Coalition desperately needs? It looks like a thankless mission, but she's sticking with it

 

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This week on BETOOTA TALKS, the former Liberal candidate for Sydney's Upper North Shore, Gisele Kapterian joins to talk about what drew her to the party - and why she has stayed. Kapterian has been put through the ringer in her effort to represent the people of the Bradfield electorate, and it looks like the old guard of the Liberals are just as difficult to win over as the new Teal voters. Is Kapterian the near extinct moderate politicians that the Coalition desperately needs? It looks like a thankless mission, but she's sticking with it
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