FIVEAA Breakfast with David & Jonno - 2 February 2026

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Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Seven after six. Good morning to your Welcome to Monday, the second of February. It's a bit cold out there currently thirteen point two degrees. A big show on the way, Do not go anywhere. Will Goodings having the morning off. Johnny Edwards in the chair. Federal Parliament set to resume. Will we have a new federal opposition leader. The PM was in town over the weekend promising around about seventeen thousand new homes, seven thousand guaranteed, when approximately ten thousand with the infrastructure they're investing. Trees have been on everyone's mind over the last couple of days, with them dropping limbs left, right and center. We'll speak to the Para Hills cricket club who had an almighty crack and an almighty bang during one of their games as a major gum came crashing down. We'll speak to an arborus to get the latest information and find out what we need to know if we've got a tree in our backyard that we're concerned about. Stacy Lee will be on the program. A big weekend in state politics, a number of election commitments coming forward. Left right and center from each side of the party, rowly on the show, and we'll pull the very latest apart with Tom Wren from The Australian Open. But David Pamberthy the voice of reason, thankfully you're still here.
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Speaker 3: I have never been called the voice of reason before, Joe the voice of other stuff, not reason. I haven't been trying to shake the reason tag my entire tawdry career. But no, mate, great to be great to be here start of the week. Will's clearly, you know, two weeks into the working enough.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to say that, not talking.
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Speaker 3: I don't want to question his work ethic on air, but given that he's not here and probably not listening, we might as well go our hardest. But mate, know, I certainly don't mean that Will has more jobs than anyone.
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Speaker 2: I know, and he'll be listening, I'm guarantee.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, very much, big texter. But no, it's great to be working with you again a few times.
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Speaker 2: Yes, good fun.
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Speaker 3: He did a great job over summer, Oh thank you.
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Speaker 2: It was good fun with and Jay you did a.
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Speaker 3: Good job at a pretty full on time talking about being you know, not thrown in the deep end because I don't want to say. I don't want to use that form of words because it would suggest that you might be splashing around not knowing what you were doing. You did, you did an excellent job covering BONDI.
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Speaker 2: You're giving away the inside secrets, David.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've worked with your produce, I've worked with you on air, but that was just what a horrible, harrowing story. And even though it was we just started our break and I just couldn't help myself. I was like, because normally I just switch off from everything, but I switched on that day and listened and it was compelling radio. And the weird thing was, the week before I'd done it, I've done a really lighthearted, soft interview with Kelly Sloane, the leader of the opposition in New South Wales, is obviously an Adelaide girl for us, a girl went to the same school as Ashton Herne, New York PA High, and I've done this really light fun piece with them about how New Yup High potentially the engine room of Australia's conservative female political leadership. Now it's pretty weird that one little school in South Australia, a humble state school in Newry has produced not one but two opposition leaders at the same time. But that that is weird. You sort of think Pimble's Ladies College, or Saint Peter's Girls or you know one of the more Mitchell Park High. Of course Mitchell what's it called now, Hamilton High? Hamilton High.
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Speaker 2: I was marrying Marion High.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Mitchell. Big rivalry has been like Saints versus p a c. Only you know, without the money and the good cars. But where'd you go to school?
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Speaker 2: I was a second hard boy? But don't hold it again.
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Speaker 3: This is a good, good solid down the bay.
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Speaker 2: Down the Bay. Wasn't there much though?
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Speaker 3: Good football school? Yes? Did you play there?
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Speaker 2: Not for long though unfortunately I couldn't.
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Speaker 3: Got the corns always. You've got what's his name from? Frio now retired, Pavlich, Matthew Pach, Pavlech, some big names yet a.
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Speaker 2: Big, big news happening in Canberra today with Federal Parliament set to resume. You mentioned BONDI, A lot of questions over.
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Speaker 3: The seriously this country don't get me started.
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Speaker 2: Handling of the BONDI mascurate and potentially some department restructures that took place late last year and in twenty twenty four and whether or not that led to maybe some potential slips of the intelligence system that's set to play out. Will we have a new opposition leader? It appears that we probably will.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got to say, I thought sticking pinjaminis whenever anyone says Federal Parliament time like it just feels like this country has just gone down the toilet in record time. The only thing that matters right now in terms of people's economic well being what happens tomorrow with the reserve. Now if rates go up by a quarter of a point, if your mortgage is worth half a million dollars, you're up for another thousand bucks a year roughly if you go mortgages a million bucks and a lot of people is these days because it's becoming the average price for houses and a lot of suburbs, even in South Australia. You've got to find an extra nineteen hundred dollars now. The government is in total denial about its role in driving up inflation. Every economist says that they've got to pull in government spending. And what's the opposition doing? Holding pathetic breakfast to work out he should leave the party? They're still crapping on about themselves today. They've just vanished up their own backside, the Liberals at the federal level and Ashton Hern locally valiantly trying to get the show back on the road after another three and a half years, almost four full years of sustained embarrassment at the leadership level.
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Speaker 2: Do you think it's because they just forget why they got into politics for the.
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Speaker 3: For them, Yeah, to a large degree. And you know then they scratch their heads, going, oh, one Nation's gone, all right, like it's actually I suspect that. Carlos Karremba Blake last week, Carlos from Inn Valley, Yeah, you no, long time, long time, listen to long time call. He's now the one nation state president, and he said to me, you know what's changed. People aren't embarrassed to come up to you anymore and say I want to vote for one nation. Whereas in the past it was like your dirty little secret if you wanted to do it, most people didn't want to do it. Now one in five people want to do it, like, yeah, so much of that's on the Libs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they've just forgotten why they got into politics, who they are, and people can see straight through it. They can see when you're not being genuine, and they can see when you're putting an act on and when you're just looking after yourself. And I think that's you good.
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Speaker 3: Thirty years younger than me, mate, almost you've got a.
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Speaker 2: House yet, yes, trust me a lot, and this interest rate rise could affect a lot. Yeah, I think a lot of people feel that way.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm fifty six, so I'm starting to think about it. Has my super going and like, looking back now, what I pay for a house, it's laughable compared to what it will be today. Not that it makes that much difference because you know, we've lived there, all six of us live there. We're not about to move out, not about to sell it, but I mean at some point we will and it will have gone up as an asset. But the idea is starting out now.
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Speaker 2: People will never achieve it. They will never achieve it.
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Speaker 3: It's it's bloody terrible and.
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Speaker 2: An interesting part with the state oppositions plan to remove stamp duty on existing builds up to a million dollars. It sounds good on paper, but find a house for a million dollars or less.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you can, but it's just you won't be able to do too much longer the way things are going. What's not terrible? The new Ned and Sam.
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Speaker 2: Shows fantastic Live and local from five am. Magnificent.
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Speaker 3: Hell of a lot of good feedback. There's a whole pile of texts. Where are they here? We go great show boys. I'm on the road to Mildura to a table grape get together. That's from Maddie in North Plimpton. Another one here from Kitsch Amazing first show boys, Lovely full Moon on the way to the swimming pool this morning. A lot of people just saying how happy they are that, as you said, live and local, you know, local voices on the radio at an ungodly our Kas in Brompton, Hey Kas, Can I just say Kaz came to our final show of the year last year when we did it at the Central Market. She's such a generous lady. She gave me for the kids this set of dominoes. The kids been going berserk playing dominoes. That just playing dominoes properly, but making the the dominoes cascading, like making all these different patterns on the on the dining table. So good old fashioned, clean funcas thank you for doing that, Wevely Christmas Tree.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a few people tied this morning because they would have been up all night watching the Australian Open. As Carlos Alcarez has become the youngest man to claim a career Grand Slam. History complete at Melbourne Pie six.
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Speaker 4: It's a career Grand Slam for Carlos al Karaz.
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Speaker 2: It was an incredible match taking down Novak Djokovic and an impossible task, you could almost say, but he managed to get it done. But there was another highlight from the Australian Open last night, particularly for those of us that you know, like I guess, I don't know the pi's being taken out of most people have a listener to.
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Speaker 5: This today KA stands as a global leader in mobility and in shaping the future.
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Speaker 2: So the boss of KIA is updoing his speech about how they sponsored the Australian Open and you know how excited they're happy to be here and everything, and some izy punte just yelled out boring.
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Speaker 3: Now. I was watching that live and roared with laughter. I love that bloke. I thought the heckling was apt. It was exquisitely timed that speech was one of the one of the worst speeches I've heard anybody make at a sporting contest, Like, we know what kiyas are, we know you the CEO of Kia. We know you want to plug your cars, but what the way you do it? You give a speech going, look, Kia is just so proud of its association with the Australian Open. He did make the point that they've been sponsors of the Australian Open for like a third of its life, but using all these this ham fisted sort of cliches about what's kiss slogan, energy that excites or something I don't know, whatever it is. Well, some person with a ponytail dreamed that up to sort of shoehorn that into the speech. It was just so labored and and forced. Yeah, totally did you see a liar?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was hilarious. It was the first thing Pat Nain talked about this morning. So this morning we've got a Wallace vout it to give away. We want to hear when did you say something that you probably shouldn't or maybe what are your best heckels.
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Speaker 3: I reckon, we're not eligible give what we do for a living no, correct, and it happens about once and.
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Speaker 2: Now eight double two three double O double O. When did you say something that you shouldn't have or maybe give us your best heckl eight double two three double low double OW. We'll be back with news headlines after this.
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Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast twenty.
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Speaker 2: Three after six. Good bonne chie, if you're joining us for the very first time, Welcome to Monday, the second of February. Yes, can you believe it? It is February. Will Goodings having the day off. John Edwards in the chair. He'll be back tomorrow, have no fear. But let's turn to a story that broke over the weekend. David in the Barossa, the beautiful Barossa, and well it was sad because Annabelle the cow, a cow owned by our next guest, appeared to have gone missing, thought to be stolen. Late on Saturday night. Mark Ferdinand Is from the Barissa home, said Mark, good morning to you talk us through what happened.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, John, Good morning, David. Thanks for calling me so early in the morning.
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Speaker 3: You said you're waking up on airs.
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Speaker 6: I'm actually out feeding the goats about the let the chickens out, So yeah, it was a pretty traumatic experience. Actually, we went out for the afternoon to start to do it a little bit inside the off home office, and when we got back about ten past four pm, some fun we saw our little Annabelle had been about six days old, sitting in the shade underneath a blue trailer we own and sitting with their fans. Only we've got a they're all Highland cattle, a big fluffy sort of call and miniature cows, but they're not really that miniature. And the bull and the mum, Romeo and Rosie were there and it was just a hazel all mull and underneath a gum tree and this little trailer. And then we went inside and I was inside for about probably two or so hours, and I thought I'd go outside and have a check around, and I noticed that she was missing. So I thought that was a bit weird because all the other cattle were all in the same spot. So I went for a walk around the property and couldn't see her in the immediate vicinity. So I jumped in the in the van and drive drove around the property, did that a couple of times, and actually went up right up the back end of the property as well, and took some video around the area just while I was up there and couldn't be and I thought it was a bit strange. It's only six days.
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Speaker 3: Old, and so make how long? So when when did when did she? When did she get returned? And how did she get returned?
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Speaker 6: So it was really weird. We we were reluctant to go public straight away because cows mother cows tend to leave their little newborns in hiding spots from time to time and go off and take care of their own needs food wise and water wise. So we were My wife actually it's quite interesting. This is my first time farming. This only a little twenty acre blocks out of Labrosage, out of ring In Stockwell. So my mistress is from a family of fifth sixth generation farmers. Parents have got one hundred and sixty eight is out of Baraba and wheat and pig piggery. And the father's big ned peace come off four hundred acres at long planes and he was an awesome footy flier umpire out there in the league. And then and then the mum Robin Cheeser of fifteen thousand acres out on the Ethninsula, and even their farm in wa was its bigger than that. So well, the family just keeps getting small.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible. Well, it's good news that it's all. Annabelle's all beat return and hopefully it's not as sinister as it appears to be. If you'd like to join the conversation, you can do so at any stage. Eight double two three double low double. It's a top of thirty two degrees today Wednesday tomorrow at top of thirty two. It's going to be a nice week all on the tops of thirty. We're taking your calls this morning on eight double two three double double O. Though we want to know, give us your best heckle or maybe when did someone say the wrong thing after someone yelled out a bit old big old boring during one of the sponsor's speeches last night at the Australian Open Guy in Highgate, tell us your story, morning, lads.
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Speaker 7: This was back in nineteen seventy two. I was doing Leading, which is year eleven today's language, and we were a fautiful of English students on a screening of Romeo and Juliet. Juliette's taken the dagger in a hand and about to stab herself from the chest. Your song wag and the audience heels out no, no, none of the boobs spoke sense to me.
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Speaker 3: I just read you the master who said that. You boys said that.
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Speaker 2: Eight double two to three double o double ow. We want to hear from you. When did someone put their foot in it? Or when did you hear the best heckle. Let's turn to sport. Order a new glider or garage door before the end of feb and the operator is free teas and seas apply Renny, good morning to you. Carlos Alco has the youngest Grand Slam win in history here at Australia.
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Speaker 3: How good.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, he's the sixth man in history to have done it. So he's done so at age twenty two. An amazing achievement for him to have won all of those majors. As you say, he's now won seven Grand Slams, so he's got a bit of catching to get Novak Djokovic. But wow, he's got ten time fifteen years if he goes as long as Jokovic four set victory. So he's our big winner from the weekend. Him and center of now won the last nine Grand Slams between them, they're sitting up for real dynasty those two. Even though Sinner we know, went out in the semi finals, he's got four to his name, so Alkaz is leading that race early on.
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Speaker 3: Between those two. It was an amazing tournament for Djokovic too, wasn't it all incredible? Incredible?
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Speaker 8: It does make you think.
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Speaker 3: Though you look like you read out a puff.
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Speaker 8: He's thirty eight. He had the walkover in the fourth round and then he was two sets to love down in the quarter final against Mazzetti. Is that his best opportunity? You know, the body clock's ticking. He's won twenty four. I mean, he's the greatest of all time when you look at what he's done. But is he going to get a better chance to win a twenty fifth and go past Margaret Court on his own?
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 8: You wouldn't doubt him, but it's going to be very difficult with Sinner and Alcoraz in the form they are now and only getting better for the next five years at least. Other winner obviously Elena Rebakna. She won her second Grand Slam title.
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Speaker 2: Delighted for her.
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Speaker 8: She was in the abyss A little bit probably eighteen months ago, but has come back bigger and stronger. That's her second Grand Slam title. That was a fantastic women's finals, so well done to Elena Rebecken. Other winners over the weekend Arsenal have moved a little bit further ahead in the English Premier League title race. Alex Volkanovski, for those UFC fans out there, won the featherweight title over the weekend against Diego Lopez Dominic Zelanki highlights this morning for Tottenham. He scored an amazing scorpion kick. It was incredible acrobatics. I'll play some audio throughout the morning, losers. The T twenty World Cup starts in well a few days time. The Aussie cricketers have been beaten by Pakistan three nil in their warm up series. Got done by one hundred and eleven runs, which in a ten twenty clashes it's real panting. It's a lot and the thirty sixes have now lost four out of the last six games or any one game.
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Speaker 3: Clear on top.
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Speaker 8: Just a few sort of little warning signs ahead of the playoffs in a few weeks time. So not a great result unfortunately for the thirty six is going down by twenty points to the southeast Melbourne Phoenix on Saturday.
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Speaker 2: Good on your ready.
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Speaker 1: Thanks boys, David Penberthie and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Twenty seven. Good morning to you. If you're joining us for the first time, Will Goodings, I'll he'll be back tomorrow. John Edward's in the chair. We're taking your calls. Eight double two three double low double OW. We want to hear when did you put your foot in it? Eight double two three double low double O. When did you put your foot in it? Because if you were watching the Australian Open last night, well someone did I think what we've all wanted to do at some stage in our life.
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Speaker 5: Today KYA stands as a global leader in mobility and in shaping the future.
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Speaker 2: I parto yelling out b right in the middle of a sponsor's speech. We've all been there, David.
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Speaker 3: I think it worked too, because the CEO couldn't have finished your speech any quicker after being sleeves did you sort of really put the foot down and get me out of you?
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Speaker 2: We're taking your calls. I teed out to Jerry in what worried our Jerry, good morning to.
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Speaker 9: You good morning, guys. Actually funny you should say the word ceo because that's pretty much what happened a few years back at a Christmas show which was at a very very posh hotel in Adelaide, which I won't name, and I won't name the business that I was working for, a very good friend of mine, who was renowned for her drinking prowess, decided to advocate for all of her workmates because we're getting so poorly paid, and with some help, managed to clamber up onto the bar of such posh hotel in her high hills and raised her glass and said, who do you have to and explete it insert here to get a pay rise in this company? And there was a hush silence.
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Speaker 2: You imagine through the crowd.
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Speaker 9: It was like water has parted and Moses and this mammal from the back and said, well that had been me.
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Speaker 2: That's incredible, That is incredible.
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Speaker 3: Not a bit of alcohol.
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Speaker 2: In Dutch courage, candor tell you what maybe the PSA or other unions could learn from that. Anyway, we're taking your calls eight double two to three double DOUBLEO. We want to know when did you or did someone put their foot in it? Join the conversation. But let's turn to what was big news on Saturday. The Prime Minister was in town. He was at Mono Pare in the Northern Suburbs, inspecting a number of new homes that have been built a part of the Labor government, the Melanousis government to increase housing. We now know that the state government's plan is being rolled out nationally and the Prime Minister is expected to deliver one hundred thousand new homes for first home buyers. Here in South Australia, we're expecting around seven thousand homes for first home buyers, with an additional ten thousand expected to be built through the key infrastructure being built. That's like water bill, that's like water infrastructure. We know our water bills have to increase as a result of it. But I think a lot of people are wondering, Yes, it's great to have all these homes, but who's going to build them? And that is certainly a question that the Master Builders Association has been asking. Will Frogley is the CEE only joins us now Will, good morning.
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Speaker 10: To you, Good morning, Johnna, good morning Dave. Great to be with you.
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Speaker 3: So we'll I've got to admit having trouble understanding exactly how this scheme will work. I know it's only twenty to seven, mate, and I'm not trying to outsource my job to you and get you to explain it. But it's like a loan from the Feds to the state, is it not.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I guess the main thing they're obviously focusing on, Dave, is unlocking supply. Everyone knows housing is extremely challenging, but there's quite a bit of land in Northern Adelaide in particular, But the biggest problem is there's no water, sewage, etc. As things currently stand. So a massive part of what the federal government and that ounce with the state government on the weekend is really about trying to get at the water that's badly needed to get those to support those homes that are going.
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Speaker 3: To be built.
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Speaker 10: There's also a number of other things in there, expanding play for the live and money for urban renewal projects. But the actual full details I think are still to come.
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Speaker 3: Have you got the workforce to do all of this? Do you think will in seuth Australia In.
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Speaker 10: A short answer things currently sand David, No, we do not. At this election. Master Builder's number one focus is on skills and boosting our trade base in South Australia. And that's for very good reason. If you don't have enough skilled workers, construction work takes longer, it's more expensive, and quality suffers as well. So this is a crucial thing we need to solve. The next government absolutely has to continue to spport programs like boorn to Build, which speaks to your kid at year seven, kids in onwards right across the state about the extensive opportunities in building construction and how in demand they're going to be. And that program put more than two hundred kids in a job last year alone. But where we think there is a massive, massive opportunity is related to what we call maturash apprentices, those who are twenty one a noe over. They make excellent apprentices a lot of the time, but they're considerably more expensive to employ and as a result, right now they're just not being given a shot. At a time we are desperate to get more good quality trades and David I always use the example. Let's say a twenty eight year old's just come out of the army, fit motivated, really wants to be a carpenter who we desperately need to build all these homes. We cannot afford to let someone like that be turned away in the current environment. The other big piece, David, is what is looming is a massive, massive disruption of our labor market thanks to AI, that information industry so to speak. Experts are calling it an employment ice age that's going to come with a massive spike in unemployment.
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Speaker 11: Now.
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Speaker 10: The next government needs to start planning now and think about how we're going to retrain all these people who are going to lose their thanks to AI and put them in an area which is going to be heavily in demand, building trades, a career that's going to be AI proof, and get them outworking. Because there is support at the moment for those apprentices who are twenty one and older, but it's woefully inadequate. It's only a little amount of money, and it's usually for the first year or first two years in apprenticeship. Has to be massively increased and for the duration of your apprenticeship, otherwise there's going to be nowhere near enough people to build all these homes we desperately need to be built.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I think the rate at which they're being built leaves a bit to be designed will frougly. The see of the Master Builders Association is South Australia. Thanks for catching up with the smoke. We'll talk saying cheers.
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Speaker 2: It is great news for the houses, but as we'll say it, and as you said it, it's kind of it's a gift before the horse or something like that in terms of it's great to have these numbers, but it seem like we're jamming people into these concrete suburbs without the other infrastructure, the schools, the police station.
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Speaker 3: Well the classic example is that, and Peter mellon Ousts has been upfront about this. But the reason our power bills have jumped so much, sorry, our water bills have jumped so much has been specifically to pay for infrastructure that wasn't there before a lot of this real estate was rolled out. So you know, it happens all the time with infrastructure not keeping up with urban sprawl.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, all right. We're taking your calls a double two three double ow. We want to know when did you put your foot in it. Margaret and Parafield Gardens, Good morning.
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Speaker 4: To you, Good morning, good morning. I'm not sure if this is even in the correct category, but I'll give it a crack. Now, we're all familiar with the movie Christmas Vacation, aren't we, of course?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Okay, So I was on a cruise in September and I'm sitting down the back of the ship, probably on the second level, looking down at about two hundred people that are in the spa and just lying down getting a suntan, and I'm looking at the back of the ship. I just put this brown stuff. I'm thinking, what's this coming from?
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Speaker 6: Like the ship?
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Speaker 4: Have we gone through something in the middle of the ocean, But it went onto kiloma and kilometers and unbeknownst to me, and I've probably only had one cocktail, but I just feeled out in my loudest voice, Shit it was full.
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Speaker 3: Yes, coz Eddie, what all llegs? You one of the great all time cinematic characters. Good on your margaret, Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thirteen minutes to seven. Let's find out what we can expect with the weather today. Ursula O'Connor is on duty. Ursula, what can we expect?
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Speaker 13: Good morning, our fairly settled conditions at the moment, a little bit of a cooler start to the day. It's currently only thirteen degrees in Adelaide, but we are headed for a sunny top of twenty nine, also expecting twenty nine for Glen elg and Elizabeth nor Longer, twenty eight Mount Barker twenty five degrees today, And that's really going to be the story for most of this week through the Adelaide area. I've got after this high pressure system pushes out another one to closely follow behind, So mostly sunny conditions and temperatures lingering in the sort of low thirties for most of this week.
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Speaker 3: You can basically take the week off ursulre like seriously.
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Speaker 13: I'm thinking about it.
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Speaker 3: The minimum every day is about fifteen in the maximum thirty two.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, very pleasant conditions.
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Speaker 3: Indeed, I have a question without notice, I think we got point one meal of rain at our house on Saturday in the inner city.
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Speaker 13: Well, yeah, we didn't record anything in our sort of official gauges through the area, so it was.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what was happening.
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Speaker 13: Right January for Adelaide.
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Speaker 3: There was this thing in the air for a while. I think they're called clouds, and a tiny bit of moisture hit me. But in all seriousness, is it ever going to rain again? In South Australia. It hasn't rained yet this year, has it.
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Speaker 13: It hasn't yet this year, not in Adelaide. But yeah, look this week is looking dry as well. Maybe on sort of Whenesday or Thursday we see the sort of southeastlies pick up a little bit and we could see a couple of millimeters through like the Florio Peninsula area, maybe picking up along sort of the Mount Lofty Rangers and over sort of Kangaroo Island on those windward coasts. But yeah, look, not a lot on the horizon this week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we'll enjoy your breakers kind of from the weather Viewera. Thanks for joining us.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's sad to say, poulsend you consortable. Matt Brown is on duty. Matt, A stolen carr has been set alight at Penfield overnight.
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Speaker 12: That's right, John know. About ten thirty pm last night, police and fire crews were called in the intersection of Ranger Road and Penfield Road, Penfield after reports that a black Audi Sedan was on fire. MFS crews extinguished the blaze, which caused extensive damage to the vehicle, and checks revealed the Audi had been stolen from a parallel address a few hours earlier, So anyone who may have witnessed the incident as to call crime Stoppers on one eight hundred, triple three, triple zero.
00:29:57
Speaker 3: A bit of action down Little Dinger, matt with fourteen teenagers arrested. What were they up to?
00:30:02
Speaker 12: I've tried David up to no good Unfortunately. About eleven twenty pm last night, police responded to reports of a break in at a business on Beach Road at Christie's Beach. It was found that another two businesses had also been broken into and CCTV footage showed that four boys had smashed one of the doors with a rock for entering the businesses and stealing items. And further investigations led police to an address in all Dinger Beach where four boys were arrested and they've all been charged with serious criminal trespass, theft and breaching bail and bale has been refused, so they'll be in the Christie's Beach youth called this morning. So some good work there by patrols down.
00:30:40
Speaker 2: South and finally a man has been arrested in Victoria over a car fraud.
00:30:45
Speaker 12: Yeah, this one's a bit of an interesting story. John O. A man wanted buy police for fraud and deception offenses around Australia. Has been arrested in Victoria, with investigators in say looking to speak to South Australian residents who may have been a victim of the man's estending and the fifty six year old Victorian man allegedly made false documents and defrauded victims out of thousands of dollars they responded to online advertisements for vintage and collectible cars such as the Holden Monaros and Tiranas. Now the offending is believed to have started around twenty nineteen to twenty twenty. The suspect lured prospective buyers into paying deposits for the cars online and then the communication with the buyers ceased after the money was transferred into a bank account nominated by the suspect. So the man was arrested in Victoria on Thursday, the twenty ninth of January, but it's believed there's dozens of victims across Australia, with at least four people in South Australia falling victims to the scam last year. So anyone who's been a victim of this or other similar scams is urged to contact crime stoppers or their local police station and make a report. There's no shame in reporting these instances of crime. We just need to put these people behind bars for a long time.
00:31:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's plenty of them out there. Good on your mat, soen you comes to a Matt bround from Sapold.
00:31:58
Speaker 1: David Penberby Goods five double a breakfast five to seven.
00:32:03
Speaker 2: I'm sure everyone across South Australia over the last week I've looked at a big gum tree or a tree in their backyard and had a bit of concern because they've been falling left, right and center.
00:32:13
Speaker 3: David, when we did the show, what was at Thursday morning? I came in and straight out of the six o'clock news, I just said to Will and he was totally non plus by it because down at Grange Henley Way there was nothing going on that night in the inner South and Northeast. Yeah, it was blowing an absolute gale. And yesterday I with a little home chainsaw, I chopped up enough branches off the ground to fill up two green bins. I pay extra to get a second green bin for all the gardening that I do. Two bins and there's still more to put in there and you know, just you couldn't see the lawn for leaves and gum nuts. It was ridiculous.
00:32:54
Speaker 2: Nothing more liberating than using a chainsaw without safety equipment, as I'm sure you were doing, David, like each and every one of us. Well, across the weekend a number of cricket games happening, and well at Parwa Hills there was an almighty crack and an almighty bying as a massive gum came crashing down. Tyson Rollings is the president of the Power Hills Cricket Club. Tyson talk us through what happened.
00:33:16
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was quite interesting. Actually, we're live stream our games and it just happened to be right in the vision of of our live stream. Just after the tea break, a huge branch of a gum tree came down. Fortunately it wasn't on the playing field, but it was relatively close to our sight screen. So luckily we didn't have anyone operating sight screens at the time because it would have been a near myss. But fortunately there was no one around. But I haven't seen anything like that in my time playing cricket, seeing a big branch by that come down. I've had a few small ones that I've stayed over my time, but that was by.
00:33:53
Speaker 3: Far the biggest. If it had hit someone, would it have cleaned them up? Do you think, Tyson, like it was that big.
00:34:00
Speaker 14: I would have caused at least serious injuries. Yeah, yeah, I think. I mean, I can't remember where it was. I Reckon might have been in Victoria over the last three or four weeks as there was a tree that came down while song was watching cricket and they passed away.
00:34:14
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:16
Speaker 14: And obviously being a summer sport, spectators obviously flocking to the shade and under trees, and some grounds don't have cover rooms, so people rely on the trees to shade. So at this time of year, it's quite quite concerning that we're seeing lots of branches fall down.
00:34:31
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, good on your tyson. Tyson rolling the Power Hills Cricket Club president Paul Mooney is heads up tree tech essay and he's across all arborus type issues. At this time of year, the trees almost have dropped limbs themselves, don't they to conserve their need for water? Is that? Is that true?
00:34:53
Speaker 15: Yeah? So basically over the last few weeks we've seen a big increase in branches coming down, mainly just to the heat and the wind we've had. The trees get stressed and the extreme weather can cause the fall without much wartering.
00:35:04
Speaker 2: So what do we need to look out for, Paul? I think a lot of people would have big trees in their backyards or even along their street. What are the key signs to look for if the tree is going to fail?
00:35:14
Speaker 15: I should look out for dead branches, cracked in large limbs, peel and bark, branches overing and lower than normal. Something doesn't look right then, Yeah, all the experts.
00:35:25
Speaker 3: What about it? Is it also the case, though, Paul, that a healthy tree can do this too? Yeah? Correct? Mm hmmmm. So is your tip to sort of you know, at this time of year, we've got one of these massive gum trees in their yard and the kids are always out there playing soccer and cricket, but we just say it on like, at this time of year, don't play underneath it? Is that? Would that be your advice?
00:35:49
Speaker 15: That would be fair advice? Like part cars away from large trees, avoid sitting under heavy branches in hot and windy conditions. Are just keeping on any changes after storms or heat waves.
00:35:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good on your Paul Paul Mooney there from tree tech.
00:36:03
Speaker 2: Way back to you doing your garden. I want to ask this for everyone else. Has anyone noticed that the garbage bin men are no longer lifting heavy bins as much?
00:36:12
Speaker 3: What do you mean, like with the with.
00:36:13
Speaker 2: The weight of your green.
00:36:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, you've got to be careful. You've got to You can't fill it up with if you put in too much like long clipping lawn clippings.
00:36:22
Speaker 2: When they refuse to pick it up, fool.
00:36:25
Speaker 3: Really I could lift it. I put it in the bin for you, getting hidden a couple of house bricks in there. Maybe I had a bin that got was it was on its last legs anyway, but it got completely baggered. The wheels snapped off and I heard the guy doing it, and he started shouting because I think I think the wheels fell off and actually fell into the machine like and he was not impressed. But you know, maybe you should replace the bins more frequently, given that we pay you one hundred we pay for the actual bin. But I haven't heard them not picking up a half bin.
00:36:59
Speaker 2: Well I was, It's took it was a month. Now, I love gardening. David, you know that I'm owe my Lord every day or even second day.
00:37:06
Speaker 3: Go there with a single blade out of you.
00:37:10
Speaker 2: You better believe position. They didn't empty my bid for a month West Tyrance.
00:37:13
Speaker 1: What are you doing, David, Penberthie and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:37:21
Speaker 2: It's a gift before the horse?
00:37:24
Speaker 1: Hello, five, double a breakfast deep in penberthy and Will Goodings.
00:37:31
Speaker 2: Seven after seven. Good morning to you if you're joining us for the very first time. Currently twelve degrees in the city a top of thirty two. That was me just working my way through an idiom David.
00:37:41
Speaker 3: Called a malapropism named after Missus malaprop.
00:37:45
Speaker 2: I'll take your word for it.
00:37:46
Speaker 3: But where you mix up two different sayings like you you combine never look a gift horse in the mouth with them. What was what did you say.
00:37:56
Speaker 2: A cart before the horse?
00:37:57
Speaker 9: Yeah?
00:37:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, it's like you know, without shitting an island.
00:38:02
Speaker 2: Hey, it worked, it worked, and I noticed until it brought That's a big on the text line, a big two hours on the way, Josh. People will join us very shortly. We're going to discuss with a local Koala rescue Axel the koala who managed to survive or we don't know exactly how long a journey in the front of a car nestled in the engine bay A koala managed to find a nice little place and survived a couple of days there. Tim Jennifer on the program, He's not too far away, Stacy Lee of course, and a big breaking at eight that you do not want to miss. Breaking this morning, though, is a thumbs up for Essays Economy with Fitch an economist or of predicting a rating organization reaffirming South Australia is double a credit rating. Have a listened to the treasure out a short time ago.
00:38:54
Speaker 16: Got strong economic growth, good budget management, budget surpluses, manageable the fasting. South Australia's going places. They can set in the secrets, they can set in the budget, and they can see in all the metrics around confidence in South Australia.
00:39:08
Speaker 3: These are a very good set of numbers. The really good thing for South Australia, of course, is they're having our federation's equivalent of Venezuela as our next door neighbor ie. Victoria means that with everything being relative, we look back, we're absolutely caning it. In all of these national surveys of economic performance. Sorry to run on the parade a little bit there, Treasurer. In case you are listening, this next story makes my blood boil. I was reading it yesterday. And even though the perpetrators in question did spend significant time and by significant I mean up to about three months time in prison awaiting the outcome, well Court in its wisdom has decided that these two young offenders, Spencer john Wood and Tyler McDonald, who are now aged nineteen, they were on meth and they were they were drunk when they robbed two on the run petrol stations in Adelaide's western suburbs in March of last year. There was a third youth with them who still hasn't been found by the police, which begs the question as to what level of cooperation the two guys who are actually pinched for it have provided two police So they were armed with axes and they went out to these surveys in the middle of the night. They threatened the staff, They demanded that they opened the door. Then they barged in there with axes. They threatened them and then they stole all of the cash that was in the till now. Since then, one of the young men who was working there doing the late shift in the surveys. In one of these surveys, he told the court that he's so traumatized from this that he's now struggling to work. It's done him immense financial hardship. He's lost his confidence. He's a nervous wreck. So the crime of robbing not one, but two server stations with an AX. The two offenders whose names I mentioned before have been given not a custodial sentence. They've been given Their entire sentence is to be served on home detention. Now, I think a lot of people who work in retail will be wondering whether that sends enough of a signal. And in this case, the judge said that the reason that she decided not to give them custody or sentences is because they were so young. Well, I think a lot of people would look at this and go, that's exactly the wrong sort of message. If there's anything that these offenders do need, it's to actually be shown that this kind of conduct A will not be tolerated and B does come with much more serious consequences. Josh Peak is the secretary of the Retail Union, the Shop Distributive and Alloyed Employees Association, and we've got him on the line now, Josh, this is far too common for your members, isn't it. This seems to happen at least on a weekly basis in this state. Are we sending enough of a signal that it's that it's not to be tolerated?
00:42:07
Speaker 17: Well, good morning and thanks having me on. Look, this sort of incident is terrifying, and it's important to remember that these are not victimless crimes. It's absolutely awful for those people that have to experience it.
00:42:21
Speaker 18: And you've been.
00:42:21
Speaker 17: Re reading it before. The sort of lifelong impact it can have on people, I think many, And I mean I don't want to I haven't read the judge that I don't want to reflect specifically on this exact case, but you know, I think generally speaking, the penalties are there, the penalties are there to be used, and I think a lot of our members and the community really do want to see the judiciaries use those penalties to send a really clear message to the community and any other five out there who thinks it's a good idea one night to go and hold up a servo that this sort of behavior has incredibly serious consequences and it won't be tolerated.
00:43:01
Speaker 2: In the most recent police statistics from November, the rolling statistics, robbery was down four percent. Now a lot of people critical of those statistics. Do you think, well, yes, maybe these types of offenses are decreasing, they're becoming more and more brazen towards retail workers.
00:43:18
Speaker 17: Well, we're certainly hardened by the later founal crime statistics and we're seeing not just robbery down, but also they're from shop down considerably. You know, we've been engaged in a conservative effort with the datas running police under state government to really tackle this this type of crime, and that's pleasing, but we do have ongoing concerns about how exposed and dangerous late night retire whether it's server stations or bottlestops are and you know, people working at we're working alone with easy access does cause problems. And we do see a lot of offenders deciding out of heard of these types of establish because they are seen as a toss as a soft target. And we've got really a really significant report out about this about things that can be done, particularly around target hardening, making those actual workplaces safer, so that people always have somewhere safe to go, to make sure that it doesn't matter what the retail establishment is or what the workplaces. People deserve a safe workplace and they don't deserve to go to work wondering if this is going to happen to them tonight.
00:44:28
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Joshua was going to ask whether there's more that can be done. And you know, I'm not saying that the owners for this needs to fall on the on the employer, but given given its prevalence, and we know that a lot of surveys have now put in like you know, like a night window where after like say ten pm, if you're going there to buy some milk or something like that, you've got to go up to the window. You can't just wander into the shop. But in a case like this, it looks like that was something that just because these people are so so bloody violent, they've managed to circumvent that by just aorizing the staff.
00:45:02
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:45:03
Speaker 17: Well, look, I mean we are pretty clear that night windows should be something that's compulsory, particularly when there's only one worker working, and that I think will provide a lot of a traditional safety. We also want want to make sure there's always an exit point that you can never have a situation where worker is trapped with a perpetrator in a store and they're two physical things that can absolutely be be changed.
00:45:26
Speaker 13: You know.
00:45:26
Speaker 17: We do think that there is a role for greater security in particularly high high risk establishment. So there's a number of things that can be done, you know, and we're going to continue to work with employers. We do excellent engagement with the retailers in South Australia who do take safety pretty seriously. But the target hardening, making sure that high value rids are secured, making sure that cash is difficult to access. These are the sorts of physical things that can be done. Basically, stop the in sensitive work for people out there to go and hold up these types of establishment.
00:46:05
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, Josh Peak, the Secretary of the SDA, thanks for joining us. This is what Judge Lisa Dunlop said in her sensing remarks. And I'm not even to crack at the judge because this is for good or for real, and a lot of the people say for for real. This is the way sentencing works. It's the way the courts work where they take into account what's happened, but then they have to look at prior behavior by the offenders and so forth. But I will still ask the question as to whether we get the balance right in cases like this, because the judge does a terrific job here honor in outlining the impact that it's had on the victim. She said, Mister Genala, this is the name of the victim. He's a young guy, was just doing his job, but has now been left with lasting impacts. She said, mister Janala had moved to Australia to study, in the work and to quote make a better future for himself and his family. He had a right to be at work without being threatened. In those moments that you did what you did, he was thinking about whether he was ever going to see his family again. Your actions on that day have impacted his confidence, his physical and mental health, and the fact that his studies and his work because of you, he's struggling financially. He will continue to struggle with the impacts of your actions of that night for a long time to come. And yet one hundred percent, But then, Judge Dunlop said Wood and McDonald's young age and limited history of involvement in the criminal justice system was considered when sentencing them to home detention. I don't see how that first set of excellent remarks create comfortably with the conclusion that's drawn.
00:47:39
Speaker 2: And I think this is the all too common sight that we're seeing every day coming from courts. Well people will thinking of that.
00:47:48
Speaker 3: The message it sends is that the ultimate penalty for running around threatening to kill people than acts in the middle of the night is a couple of years sitting around in the comfort your home on home detention.
00:48:03
Speaker 2: Disgusting.
00:48:03
Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Gooding's five double a breakfast.
00:48:08
Speaker 2: Twenty two after seven. It's said to be a magnificent day today, thirty two degrees, around the thirties thirty entire week. I know it's going to be magnificent, David. We're getting a mountain of texts coming through on our last chat with Josh Peek.
00:48:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just trying to work out which of them we can read out because we are not in the business of contempt committing contempt of court here. As I said, none of this was a criticism of the judge, but a polite thinking out loud about whether we get the balance right with the way the system works judging the impact of crimes against the prior behavior of the people who commit it. And this is this is where I think that the point a lot of people would make is that there's certain forms of behavior that are so serious where it doesn't really matter if you've done it before or not. Yeah, and I reckon running around to threatened people that acts falls into that category. It's like, I mean, if you kill someone, you can't turn around and go, I've never done it before. Well apparently you can, actually you can. It does make a difference. Rob our good mate. Rob says home detention, sitting comfortably on the couch together playing violent video games. That'll teach them. Someone here just says, what would happen if these people did something like this In Singapore? Andrews says the crime rate might be down, but there's been an increase in youth court cases for bail breaches. Indeed there has. Max says, I would have thought the Union Rep could have gone harder at retail crime statistics, etc. Maybe there's an election company. And Steph says, shocking sentencing contrary to what the Chief Justice was suggesting when he came on last week. Got on your stuff.
00:49:46
Speaker 2: Community sentiment not reflecting what the judge has done. Let's change chat tack because a lucky kowala. He's had a pretty magnificent escape. Axel. Well, he was sitting in the middle of the road in the Adelaide Hills when unfortunately he was picked up up by a car. But then he's found himself trapped underneath the number plate near the radiator. Miss Simpson is from Southern Koala Rescue. Miss you were able to rescue the young fellow. Talk us through it was a pretty interesting sight.
00:50:16
Speaker 19: Yeah, sure was.
00:50:17
Speaker 20: I was.
00:50:19
Speaker 19: I took the phone call. But thankfully we have rescuers that live in Kangarilla, so they were able to get there super quick. But even they were initially quite perfect as to how they were going to get the little little guy out. But yeah, thankfully had to do a bit more damage to the grill and break off some bits of it, but the driver was okay for us to do that, so we could get him out and free him and get him into our clinic to get him checked over.
00:50:48
Speaker 3: How was how was the koala when when when you were getting him out, Miss, she must have been pretty distressed.
00:50:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, well, any wild animal is going to be quite aggressive. Is a bit a bit traumatized by just being hit by a large vehicle, and then it doesn't realize we're trying to help. So yeah, he put up a little bit of a fight, but thankfully we could safely get him out. And he was quite sprightly initially, but then I think when the adrenalin wore off in the shock he kicked in, he did come go a bit flat.
00:51:21
Speaker 3: This might sound like a really stupid question, but I've never got up close and personal with a kha. Do they have teeth? Are they bite?
00:51:27
Speaker 19: They do have teeth, and yes they can bite. They're not sharp feef, but they're crushing bites and they have bacteria in their mouth which can cause some nasty infections.
00:51:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, i'd imagine so they've got more grinding type teeth given their die of gum leaves.
00:51:42
Speaker 19: I guess yes, yeah, but I've been bitten a few times, and I can confirm. You don't want to get quite yeah.
00:51:51
Speaker 3: Quite strong, get the debt onto it quick, smart too if you do.
00:51:55
Speaker 6: Yes, Yeah, Well.
00:51:57
Speaker 3: It's good that he's okay, miss, do you do an important job? We love colas and how do you get themselves in the strife a bit, don't they.
00:52:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And of course the other side to it, naming it Axel pretty pretty well named after I guess getting trapped in a car? Do you reckon better than radiator?
00:52:18
Speaker 3: Tim ginevah on? Fine, double a breakfast.
00:52:23
Speaker 2: Timmy, good morning to you. You've been up all night watching the tennis.
00:52:26
Speaker 21: I'm sure, yes, exactly that, John O. And yes, welcome to Monday morning. And I got to say it was a it was a pretty good weekend. Unfortunately, our men's doubles went down, and after our mixed doubles did win on the Friday. But we saw the women's final Saturday, and then we saw the men's final, and I got to say that the women's final, I was it was a very good win by Rebarkner. But I thought saber Linka as a player probably almost played herself out of it. She was so frustrated with her own era that she was just forever gesturing on them, and I thought body language wise, that would have gave the opposition confidence to say, well, they're not handling it that well. And it was so obvious, and every time she did a mistake, she was looking at the at the box and complaining and I was like, gee, you're talking yourself out of this. One made I reckon.
00:53:21
Speaker 3: So yeah, in the end I.
00:53:22
Speaker 21: Thought Rebarka had just had to cool the head and finished off the game. But it did raise It was interesting Prague Tyley raised the Australian Open Boss. He actually raised the point of should they play five cents?
00:53:34
Speaker 3: Now?
00:53:34
Speaker 21: It's always been an argument about same money, same amount of tennis, but his argument or his direction on it is that he just wants to see more of the women play in Grand Slams and it's a good one. I think it would bring some other players actually, maybe into the mix because I think Serena Williams dominated for a long time on power. Now this would bring another element to it of endurance. I think that that could really change things.
00:54:01
Speaker 3: I think it's a valid point to make in the current context of salary parody. Tim. I mean, you know, why should you get paid the same amount if you're playing half the amount of time.
00:54:13
Speaker 21: I think it's one of the long running arguments and it's probably the only time you have that argument in women's sport, is that oh, they're getting paid the same as men, because that doesn't happen in any any other field of sport.
00:54:27
Speaker 22: So I think that that's.
00:54:29
Speaker 3: Probably where it comes from.
00:54:30
Speaker 21: But I think a few of the women on the circle would be saying, yeah, actually extend that out of five and my fitness level probably brings me back into play.
00:54:39
Speaker 3: So what do you think of the men's final? What do you think of the men's final last night? Apart from the Apart from the game, how good was the speech by the CEO of K.
00:54:53
Speaker 2: I think I.
00:54:54
Speaker 21: Know they put a lot of money in sponsorship wise and all the rest of it, but I would love to do without the sponsor speech. I think I reckon I could survive without it, but I don't know it's a necessary commercial option. But gee with ye now, i'd probably give that one.
00:55:08
Speaker 3: I miss.
00:55:09
Speaker 21: But our Karaz is just showing how good he is. And I thought Djokovic's semi final was just mind blowing. That was such a good gun against Sinner and it might have just taken a bit out of the thirty eight year old's legs. But our Karaz a worthy winner. But we're just at that time now, boys, where it's time to make predictions about where your AFL team's gonna.
00:55:32
Speaker 2: Here we go.
00:55:34
Speaker 21: It is going to come left, right and center. And I see one in the paper today where Mick mcguana, a great Collingwood midfielder himself, has raided all the club's midfields and they've got got Adelaide at sixth Port Adelaide at twelfth, which is sort of pretty much where Port finished the season. But it's just classic where you look at last year's form and you go right now, this is going to happen, and who's going to win the Grand Final and who's going to do this? And I've always said said this to Stephen before, predictions for only three people clairvoyants, soothsayers and fools.
00:56:09
Speaker 3: That is a rule.
00:56:10
Speaker 1: Good on your mate, David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:56:16
Speaker 2: Twenty one to eight. Currently thirteen degrees in the city. It's going to be a magnificent week, thirty degrees all week. Quite on our roads as well. It's a brilliant start to the week. Coming up after eight thirty. It's only forty seven days until the state election, and we're going to hear it from Robert Simms, the ESA Greens leader, to discuss what are his party's key policies and plans as we march towards the state election and to get her analysis of the week that it's been and everything in state politics. Stacy Lee joins.
00:56:46
Speaker 1: Us on five Double A Breakfast.
00:56:48
Speaker 3: This is Stacy Lee.
00:56:50
Speaker 23: Stacy, good morning, Good morning, guys. How are you good?
00:56:53
Speaker 3: Thank you? Stake forty seven days to go. I know it's going to be here before we know it, isn't it.
00:56:57
Speaker 24: It's coming very very soon. There'll be a few people who have to make some big decisions before the next election, David Spears being one of them.
00:57:05
Speaker 23: Is he going to run? Is he not going to run?
00:57:07
Speaker 3: I wanted to ask you about this because you would know better than anyone where he's thinking. Is that. I listened to the interview that you did within me anyway, excellent interview, men Abraham, and I had a disagreement about it because heard it and said he thinks he will and I heard it and I think he won't.
00:57:25
Speaker 24: And I was sitting right in the middle of you two when you were saying that, because I genuinely I don't think David Spears knows if he's going to run yet or not. And this the idea that the Electoral Commission has come out and said he wouldn't be eligible if he did run would mean it would be setting up for a court challenge. And do you think David Spears wants another court issue at the moment?
00:57:49
Speaker 3: You feel like you spent enough time in court over the last.
00:57:52
Speaker 23: Six months, and probably money as well.
00:57:55
Speaker 2: We sold his fifteen houses, and I think he's he's right.
00:57:59
Speaker 3: Well, he's been quite candid to about the impact all of this head on his mental health, which isn't to offer that up for him as a get out of jail free card, but clearly hugely stressful, even though he's the architect of his own troubles, so re entering public life, campaigning, possibly being taken to the Court of disputed returns about your eligibility, having one third of the community saying you're a convicted drug supplier and you're a disgrace. The other third may be saying, oh, you know, everybody makes mistakes, let's give him another chance, the other third saying we love David, leave him alone. Like that's not an unstressful environment for someone who has been a bit mentally unwell.
00:58:41
Speaker 23: Isn't it under stress already?
00:58:42
Speaker 25: No?
00:58:43
Speaker 24: And that's why I specifically asked him after I asked him if he was going to run in state parliament. I specifically said, well, what about local council because I know there's a vacancy the mayor of Glenelg. Amanda Wilson is not running for the City of holdfast Bay again, so there's a mayoral job up for grabs. And I think he sounded more positive about running for mayor of the hold Fast Bay than he sounded as running for state parliament.
00:59:10
Speaker 3: Would that be the right fit for him? Though? I mean that could couldn't that sort of be the Amanda Wilson problem in reverse that she had when she was the Liberal candidate for Black and everyone was saying, well, we're how at Cove and Shidow part, what's she doing here? Like the same thing might happen.
00:59:24
Speaker 23: To him in Glenell. Yeah, that's a good point. At least he's vocal.
00:59:29
Speaker 24: At least he's getting out there and doing the I think he would be many would see in that Glenelg area in holdfast Bay, maybe a bit of a voice of reason on a local council which aren't really given much credit for reason.
00:59:43
Speaker 2: Particularly with the Algall bloom as well.
00:59:46
Speaker 23: Opinions and and he's out there.
00:59:48
Speaker 24: I mean the reason I got him on the program was because I saw a video that he put up on social media. He was on his paddle board on Australia Day and he showed posted a video there was not one fish in the water. And it's such a concern at the moment that the government is very quick to dismiss the fact that the algal bloom is not on metro beaches and it's moving to York Peninsula.
01:00:10
Speaker 8: What about if it.
01:00:10
Speaker 24: Gets to Air Peninsula? What about if it gets to that area where our seafood industry is so strong. And I've been doing some regions. Some people have even started to identify very small, a toxic what they think is potentially the alga bloom, but they're not scientists, of course, over on EPs of them, so they don't know if it's the algall bloom or something else. What if it gets there, So the government's very quick to dismiss it. But just because you're not identifying any of the algall bloom on metro beaches doesn't mean it hasn't impacted the fish and a sea life.
01:00:39
Speaker 3: Doesn't Well, that's right.
01:00:40
Speaker 2: So on the seat of black though, why is the Liberal Party still not announced their candidate. That's my question. Yeah, God, what are we doing here? Alex Starton's just having a walk in the park of the month.
01:00:50
Speaker 24: I don't know if they're waiting for David's biers, because if he runs, what's.
01:00:54
Speaker 23: The point, Well, what's the point in running?
01:00:57
Speaker 3: Someone in the Labor Party said to me they really want Spears to run, even though they know it would be terrible for Alex Dighton, because there's a chance that Dyton could lose to Spears. But when you consider it in the context of those I think quite evil but brilliant negative ads that Labor has come up with, which have got the image of David Spears snorting the cocaine. They've got the image of Vincentazia saying that he's resigning as leader, and they just go bang bang bang bang bang with all the crosses of all the leaders that have come and gone. Like, if Spears does run, it gives Labor a chance to say, well, here we go, we've got someone convicted of supplying drugs who until recently was the leader of the Liberal Party running. They're are shambles. So in a sort of holistic statewide sense, it cements the perception that Labor is mad keen to reinforce that the Liberals are a mess, even though the specific individual cost to Labor could be the loss of Alex Dighton.
01:02:01
Speaker 24: Yeah, and I can see why Labor would think that as well, because as we know, David Spears isn't one to hold back on his views. He was almost the anti politician politician in that way.
01:02:10
Speaker 23: He would say.
01:02:11
Speaker 24: Things in interviews and we'd go, oh, should you have said that, and he thinking no, I shouldn't have said that, but it's the truth, it's what I think. So he would have no qualms in speaking out against Liberal Party.
01:02:22
Speaker 2: Look at one.
01:02:23
Speaker 24: Notion, it's honest, and that's what I think people get frustrated with the political class because it's not honest. It's I've been picked by my party. I came up through whatever the unions. I've worked for the party. I was a lawyer and I got a captain's call to come into Parliament.
01:02:39
Speaker 3: And I can remember at the start of the voice referendum, the federal referendums, what was that twenty twenty three. I had a conversation with David Spears and he always used to say that Shido Park is Australia and he would he often would eat barnacle bills down there. He'd do all his shopping there, just near around the Cover Road, and he had a very respectful and sincere relationship with people who live in that area. And he rang me up and he goes this voice. Because it was at the time when the Libs were running and erring about whether they was going to support the Voice or not. He said, I can't find anyone in Shidow Park who's going, oh, we really need a voice to Parliament. And it made me really interested and I ended up doing quite a few pieces for The Australian. And my entry point for it was if Shidow Park is if he if not hostile to the Voice, then so will be the rest of Australia. And he had this clever way of treating a suburb he knew so well as a sort of indicative yeah yeah, a yardstick correct, Yeah, like a like a like like a suburb that also worked as a focus group and just a really different way of approaching politics.
01:03:57
Speaker 24: Yeah it is, and that's I think people like that approach and I think there are people in that area who won't be deterred by the drug offenses. There are people in that area who will be but.
01:04:11
Speaker 23: I say go for it. It's good for us, it's good for journalism.
01:04:18
Speaker 24: If we're talking about radio fodder.
01:04:21
Speaker 2: And I think David Spears likes everyone talking about David Spears as well. I think he enjoys the speculations, the entertainment, and that's okay, but he keeps he continues to raise issues that affect his community, like the alga bloom, and that is a big issue at the moment, and I think the.
01:04:37
Speaker 23: Government would like people to stop talking about it.
01:04:39
Speaker 2: Doesn't exist apart basically, the Prime Minister was in town on Saturday and then he wasn't very interested in talking about the alga bloom at all at all beaches as far as possible as he can. But all Eyes.
01:04:52
Speaker 3: Marico sort of set the precedent on that, didn't he.
01:04:54
Speaker 2: At the moment. And there's a there's a piece particularly overseas a number of key financial newspaper stacey about live golf and its future and whether or not it will exist or only about what two weeks away from happening again at Grange, What do you think is going to play?
01:05:07
Speaker 24: Yeah, I have some serious concerns about this. We've been hearing in the news this morning. Phil Mickelson won't be playing at the Adelaide Live Golf now. He's got personal family matters, so you know, you can understand that. However, a number of players have pulled out, Brooks Kepker.
01:05:22
Speaker 23: Being the main one.
01:05:23
Speaker 24: If you're not a big into golf like I'm not, but some of these are big names that you will recognize.
01:05:27
Speaker 23: Brooks keepka of this time.
01:05:37
Speaker 2: We promised you an axquell that. Of course, the party hole down at Grange. I think a lot of people are certainly feeling what you're thinking, Stace, a lot of really keen golfers and financial analysts thinking well, there's a lot of money invested to this. But the government did change their messaging. It was a world class well it was a golf course for live golf. Now it's a world class golf course.
01:05:59
Speaker 24: Yes, my concerns are around that that the live golf potentially won't be around by the time the North Adelaide golf course has been developed, and we've spent how many millions of taxpayer dollars upgrading this golf course, cutting down six hundred trees to upgrade a golf course for a golf.
01:06:15
Speaker 23: Series that may not be around in ten years time.
01:06:18
Speaker 24: It kind of reminds me of Kerry Packer's World Golf World Cricket Series, and you know, it has good intentions.
01:06:25
Speaker 23: I actually finally get into golf a little bit because of live golf.
01:06:29
Speaker 24: You know the fact that there's just stuffy old white men playing over in America on different courses is not appealing to many people.
01:06:36
Speaker 3: Well, it's democratized and it's made it. It's given it a bit bit of rock rolluality.
01:06:41
Speaker 23: Yeah, a bit of appeal to younger generations to often.
01:06:43
Speaker 3: Not having your socks pulled up and your pilot shirt tucked in your belt.
01:06:47
Speaker 9: Like.
01:06:47
Speaker 3: It's a much more accessible and less stuffy form of golf. I feel like Malely hasn't been campaigning hard on live golf because he knows it does two things. It cements the perception that the Libs want to hammer that he's not focused on bread and butter issues. But also the amount of money that this would cost raises questions of priorities too, because I don't think the government knows exactly how much it will cost to do this project.
01:07:17
Speaker 23: No, and there are still some serious questions about it.
01:07:19
Speaker 9: I mean.
01:07:21
Speaker 24: Greg Norman being hired to design the course. Was there a tender process put in place for that?
01:07:26
Speaker 3: Of course not.
01:07:27
Speaker 23: It was just like, let's all right, let's catch up to do what number hole were they on when they made that agreement?
01:07:35
Speaker 3: This beer coaster that's got a new look, nor that laid golf course dra on the.
01:07:39
Speaker 2: Back of it, yeah August one as well?
01:07:41
Speaker 24: Did they write the numbers down on the back of the thing you put down when you're teeming on.
01:07:45
Speaker 3: I don't know there's a logical fallacy with two or a logical flaw with it. Because I'm a happy hacker, like I've never been a member of a golf club, and you know, because I'm so crap at it. But I love playing. I love playing with my son and now the younger boys are getting into it too. In a whack. Love that par three in North Adelaide a few weeks ago. But for people like me, what's wrong with the current North Adelaide golf course? Nothing? Yes, And it's cheap, it's easy to get to. You can park there, you get your little you have your receipt from your round and you put it on your windscreen if you cut there's no it doesn't need to look like it's some course in ken Kune.
01:08:27
Speaker 23: No, we're happy with it the way it is exactly.
01:08:30
Speaker 24: And look, I'm not saying I think if live golf is going to be played anywhere, it should be on the North Adelaide Golf course. So I am a bit torn on this one, but I do think the amount of taxpayer money being spent to upgrade a golf course for a golf tournament that might not be around by the time the upgrade is finished. And you know, you and your sons, how much are you going to have to pay to go and play on the Path three at North Adelaide once the upgrade is complete.
01:08:53
Speaker 3: Well, there's vague guarantees that it's not going to go up. Oh sure, well it's not going to go up too much.
01:09:00
Speaker 24: Who's got so that means the rest of taxpayers are subsidizing your golf for all these reasons.
01:09:06
Speaker 3: Station and Johnny, this is why we're not going to see an election ad going. Hi, I'm Peter mallenous because if you vote for me, you'll get even.
01:09:12
Speaker 23: More golf, more golf, more footy, more golf, less.
01:09:15
Speaker 3: Bloom I don't know, more more footy and less writers.
01:09:19
Speaker 24: Weeks might work, less art, more golf, more footy.
01:09:27
Speaker 3: We all fell apart. I was doing an interview with the Premier about the Rider's Week stuff and I did say to win either thought, maybe what you could do is say, okay, what we're going to do, We're going to shift the money from riders Week into having a second gather round. I mean, you would wouldn't work on eight, nine to one, work really well on five.
01:09:45
Speaker 2: Before we go Stace, I do want to ask you, Andrew and Michaels stepping down. It was highly predicted over around about six months ago. Everyone knew it, but they continually denied it. What's your assessment of that, because we've seen a number of key ministers and a number of key Mali soldiers, these people which are the go to soldiers for getting things done, stepping down when really there's no real need to. It seems like you're going to win the election, you're in a safe seat. Is there something going on behind the scenes.
01:10:12
Speaker 24: I think people have lives outside of politics, and that's kind of what we want, right We want people in politics who have had a life beforehand.
01:10:18
Speaker 23: Andrew Michaels has a really.
01:10:20
Speaker 24: Successful local law firm and she wants to go back to that.
01:10:24
Speaker 23: If you were a lawyer, you owned your own business.
01:10:26
Speaker 24: You came into politics because I don't know, the party woued you and you thought you'd done as much as you could do. Your arts minister oversaw all the writers weak stuff. Would you want to hang around if you've got.
01:10:36
Speaker 2: A tobacco wars as well consuming business services, if you've got.
01:10:40
Speaker 24: You know, young kids, you want a life outside of politics, go back to law.
01:10:45
Speaker 23: I don't know.
01:10:46
Speaker 3: I within the blink of an eye. SA Labor managed to find an SDA train legally qualified center right economskin, a Sean Bra shirt. They've got a factory in Kingtown.
01:11:03
Speaker 24: And produce the The big one that'll be a one to watch is Port Adelaide Clearbo and the mayor down there is going to run as an independent. So now that Susan Close has announced she's retiring, that's going to be an interesting seat.
01:11:13
Speaker 23: Now we might have something to talk about on election night.
01:11:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, what's coming up this afternoon?
01:11:17
Speaker 24: This afternoon we have doctor Derek. Of course I'm also going to be talking about retirement villagers. This was big conversation last week high rise retirement. Well, there have been changes to the planning laws about what canon can't be done in retirement villages, so we'll have a big discussion about that, and as always I want to hear our listener's thoughts.
01:11:33
Speaker 2: Beautiful, we do too. A double two to three double O double ow the text line zero double four eight eight thirty ninety five. If you'd like to join the conversation, the time is now.
01:11:41
Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double A breakfast turn away.
01:11:47
Speaker 2: A mountain of feedback on the text line David Firth, what was a pretty interesting chat with Stacy Lee.
01:11:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, all about livgolf as well. Buffalo Bill says, quite frankly, a world class public golf course in the middle of town, we'll be awesome. More people play golf than any other sport, live golf or no golf. An upgrade would be well loved after completion. Conversely, Max In Beaumont says, I can tell you with some knowledge and experience that green fees at North Adelaide will need to be approaching two hundred dollars around if you want to break even for a world class golf Good Wow, I'd like to go up one, he is saying. Roger says, Mally and his socialists will keep reminding us how much fun we're having with their bread and circus as well important matters like the bloom, ramping, unpopular voice issues, crime and bail, bad roads, etc. Hardly get a mention. And Nigel and Newton says, if you do make the investment now based on live and its popularity. If you don't rather make the investment now, then you probably never will and it will go to disrepair like the Aquatic Center and then take twice as much money to Maine.
01:13:00
Speaker 2: After that it's time for the eight o'clock news. But after we have a money Can't Buy prize to give away. David's quiz is coming up breaking at eight, so much coming up. Don't go Anywhere David.
01:13:12
Speaker 1: Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a Breakfast.
01:13:17
Speaker 3: Deevid Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a Breakfast.
01:13:23
Speaker 2: Night after eight. That was producer Pats. I guess best take it boring after last night. If you're watching the Australian Open, while the key sponsor Keia was announcing the winner, someone did their very best to tell them what they thought and tried to get him to rock to wrap.
01:13:42
Speaker 5: Up Keya stands as a global leader in mobility and in shaping the future.
01:13:52
Speaker 2: It doesn't get old on fortunately for him.
01:13:54
Speaker 3: Well there's a way to do that, to speak, you just say, look, we just feeled that he has been part of the journey for the AUSTRAI Open for more than a third of its life. But we're here, you know, not to talk about cars. We're here to celebrate the tennis and everyone goes, what a.
01:14:06
Speaker 2: Good yaw you get Craig Willis to do it, I think as well, that's another idea. But this morning we're happy to take your calls of when maybe you've put your foot in it or you've said the wrong thing. Eight double two to three double low, double low. If you're wondering where Will Goodings is, he's off. He's having a day off. I know. Can you believe it after two weeks.
01:14:23
Speaker 3: At work he's already at the wall.
01:14:24
Speaker 2: Well, people are talking.
01:14:25
Speaker 3: He's getting getting on a bit. Will.
01:14:27
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it, no, but he will be back tomorrow. John Edwards in the chair. We've got a strong hour on the way. Rob Simms, the Greens leader, is going to tell us what is the plan for the Greens here in South Australia as we are just forty seven days from a state election. But right now it's time for breaking it up.
01:14:49
Speaker 3: Well looking forward to the state election which is jally you said, he's only forty seven days away. If the Liberals are ever going to claw their way back to power, one thing they will have to do, absolutely pivotal is to regain all of those country seats which have fallen to independence. Well there's a poll out today which casts a pretty bleak light on their ability to do so. In the seat of Mount Gambia, where former MP Troy Bell is obviously not running on account of being jailed over fraud chargers, the Liberal vote currently stands, according to a Yukon pole, on just twelve percent, one nation nipping at their heels on ten percent. But the really unique and extraordinary thing in a seat which has obviously got a predilection for being served by independence, is that it's one of Troy Bell's former staff or actually he still is a STAFFRV because he's pretty much been running the electoral office in the absence of Troy Bell. Travis Fatchen is far and away the preferred candidate for voters in Mount Gambia, sitting on twenty three percent, which would put him in a pretty much unbeatable position to coast into power as the Member for Mount Gambia. Ben Hood is the Liberal Upper House MP. He's also the shadow Treasurer now in Ashton Herns Regid Liberal front bench. But he's a Mount Gambia based MP who has run previously for the seat. And to walk through this, we've got Ben on the line now. Ben, good morning and thank you for your time on these numbers. You guys don't win the seat back, do you.
01:16:30
Speaker 18: Yeah, good morning boys.
01:16:31
Speaker 16: Always good to be with you.
01:16:33
Speaker 19: Look, yeah, this.
01:16:34
Speaker 16: Pole was actually run back in twenty twenty two as well, the South Australian Forestry Product Association pole who put it up and back then they pegged me at about ten percent. I finished up on thirty percent. So look, the only pole that matters at the end of the day is the one that's in about forty six forty seven days and that'll be the proof point at.
01:16:55
Speaker 15: The end of the day.
01:16:56
Speaker 16: And look, we've got a great candida down in Mount Gambier and Laburner Alexander. She's out there she's doing the work. We've had some fantastic announcements in Mancamby, the stuff that actually really matters, like getting radiotherapy into the Limestone Coast, a billion dollars invested in breaking the back of our road maintenance backlog. They're the kind of things that the people Matt Gambia want to hear and look. In terms of independence, yeah.
01:17:20
Speaker 12: Look, they pop up.
01:17:23
Speaker 16: They hope to get some crumbs sort of every four years for whoever's in government. But it is a bit of an unlucky dip. You're not exactly sure who you're getting. I mean, if there's a proof point to be made that you know, we've had nominally conservative independence be voted in and have almost instantaneously become later cabinet ministers. So with an independent yeah, look, I think it's unlucky. You're not exactly sure who you're going to get. We've focused on Mancambia, we focus on the Killer, We focused on all of these seats in our regional areas because it is a liberal party that really is the only party that's got an interest in ensuring that there is a balance and there is equity between Metro and regional South Australia.
01:18:07
Speaker 3: What would your message be ben at a time when and you know we've had texts today about this. We certainly had a hell of a lot of them last week when we spoke to Pauline Hanson, when you've got conservative voters who were sort of shopping their vote around and looking for other conservative candidates, arguably more conservative candidates than the Liberals, be they independence or be they one nation people. Are you? Are you worried about the erosion of the Liberal vote? What would you say to those voters we're thinking about going elsewhere?
01:18:39
Speaker 16: Well, look, I'd say to them, Pembo is just I guess, look at the leader that we've got them. And Ashton was on with you guys last week and I think all of your listeners would agree Ashton is a practical, an outstanding MP in our own rights and someone who can be premiere of this state. And I would say, look to our policies, look to our message, which is a more affordable South Australia, a better health system and safer suburbs. There are three pillars that we're running on and that includes regional South Australia. Now we're getting down to the practical policies of what's actually going to make a difference here in South Australia. We're not going to sit there and make a whole heap of promises and then break them. And we've seen that time and time again with this state government, whether it be the hydrogen or ramping or housing. We are about practically getting to the people of South Australia and we know we've got the mountain to climbash and said that to herself on your show, but hell, we're turning ourselves inside out to make sure that we get that message out there and that the South Australian people have a very real choice in the.
01:19:51
Speaker 3: Liberal Party Shadow treasure of ben Hood. Thanks very much for joining us this morning. For breaking at eight, you've lost your sound.
01:20:02
Speaker 2: I had him ready.
01:20:03
Speaker 3: There's also I've been told that there's an independent candidate in Finnis, which is the most marginal Liberal seat I think, one of the most marginal Liberal held seats, and apparently she's giving things a bit of a shakeup down there too, which potentially would I mean bad enough not winning a former Liberal seat back. But I'll tell you, if you start losing ones that you hold, it's all over. Red rover now that the pole that I mentioned earlier came out of this research that's been done by the South Australian Forest Products Association. We have the chief executive Nathan Paine, joining us now because there's some really interesting data about an industry which is I think a lot of city people probably don't realize just how important forestry is to South Australia. We far and away provide in a sort of per capita basis the lion's share of national timber, and off the top of my head, I think the figure is a number of jobs. Number of South Australians employed in forestry is more than twenty thousand, so it's a hell of a lot of people. Nathan, Good morning mate. The thing that struck me as most interesting in your sort of pre election policy wish list was flagging concerns about the extent of which cheaper foreign imports and changes in building housing and commercial buildings from ossie grown timber to light imported steel. That's potentially going to put a lot of jobs at risk, isn't it.
01:21:38
Speaker 18: Good morning Jents And yeah, look absolutely Davids. You've pointed out we directly and indirect the employee over twenty one three hundred South Australians, which contributed three billion dollars to the South Strainian economy. Throughout the Green Triangle, we process thirty five per cent of Australia's structural framing timber. This is an industry that started by George Goyder in eighteen seventy five. That's how long we've been growing trees and turning that into the product that we need to build houses and keep the economy moving. What we're faced with today is we're faced with surging imports of Chinese timber products, largely in many cases using Russian conflict timber, that are flooding into the Australian market as a result of the global trade disruption aka Liberty Day tariffs. They can't send it to the US anymore, so it's landing here. They're selling it about half the price that we sell domestically manufactured timber. And whilst that sounds great, if this situation's prolonged, the impact will be on our domestic manufacturing sovereign capability.
01:22:50
Speaker 3: I know you're not sort of arguing for a protectionist model, but given that we might inadvertently be doing a bit to prop up the Chinese and from what you say, also Russian economy by using some of these imports. Is there an argument that while everybody wants to get a house as cheaply as they possibly can, should there be some sort of like preferential treatment given to Australian timber in order to protect those jobs? And can you do it in a way that doesn't sound like, you know, a Trumpian style tariff wall or do we just say we'll bugger it, We've got to protect our industry. We are going to do a Donald Trump on this and say you've got to use ossie would well?
01:23:32
Speaker 18: I think we already do in many cases. You know, we've got the federal governments made in Australia campaign. In South Australia, there's already a preferential procurement policy for steel out of Wala. That's not house framing steel, that's a different type of steel, and the South Astralian government, former Treasurer Stephen Mulligan released procurement policies that talked about preferencing domestic manufacturing. However, what seeing is in some circumstances that policy is not always being I guess brought to there. Whilst you know, I'd like to acknowledge the Premier and the Minister Forest Industry's Riven and the Minister of Education Training Skills Blair Boy ensured the new Tomsley Technical College and the new Mount Gambia Technical College which is opening today. We're built out of South Astrainian timber and that's wonderful. We need that policy really to be strengthened. We need to ensure that, you know, the seventeen thousand new homes that were announced by the Prime Minister and the Premier and the one hundred new homes at McGill was announced by the Premier yesterday, we need to ensure that those homes are built using South Australian products, South Strainian concrete, South strain and steel, South Australian timber.
01:24:47
Speaker 3: Nathan Paine, the CEO of the SA Forest Products Association, thank you for joining us.
01:24:51
Speaker 2: All right, twenty minutes after right, we'll check traffic and we'll come back with Bronte manual from Turbin Real Estate. Some really interesting information coming out today showing a prop Track survey showing that the median house price here in South Australia has increased once again by zero point nine percent over the past month. It's the highest across the country. We'll discuss that and more after this.
01:25:15
Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a Breakfast twenty.
01:25:20
Speaker 2: Five after eight. Will got things back tomorrow. John Edwards in the chair. Currently fourteen degrees in the city. Was a bit cold this morning compared to what we've been used to over the last couple of weeks or so, but it's going to be an amazing week. Thirty degrees all week as we head through until Sunday. And David, We've got a quiz coming up, which is tickets that you can't buy at all.
01:25:42
Speaker 3: Well, you can buy, and there's only a few left. There's not many left metaphorically speaking, it's a money count buy Johnny, but you can you can still buy tickets if you jump on the Humanitics website. But no Sunday. This coming Sunday at the Capri Theater. This is going to be so much fun. That made of mine. Jeffrey Reed, who some listeners will recall we had him on the show last year, has made a documentary about Australia's favorite tennis player, one hundred and two year old Henry Young. The documentary Forever Young premieres this Sunday, and as part of it, Jeff and I are going to be in conversation on stage with Henry after the screening of the film. So one hundred and two year old Henry Young. The premiere is Sunday. Now each day this week we've got two doubles to give away, and it's the first caller through who can answer a question correctly about one hundred and two year old Henry Young. I'm laboring a point here because if you ring after eight thirty, it's going to help you answer the question. So the first caller through to get the question right wins a double pass to the Capri This Sunday sounds amazing.
01:26:56
Speaker 2: That is money can't buy experience, but you can buy it if you'd luck to you what if you feel like let's check out what's happening in real estate this weekend with the trusted voice in real estate that is Bronte Manual from two to two. Really interesting information coming out of a prop Chack survey this morning showing that again essay housing prices have lifted zero point nine percent over the month of January and our current medium price for a house here in South Australia nine hundred and sixteen thousand, So that's an increase of over one hundred and eight thousand in just a year. It's an incredible figure. Also over the weekend we saw the Prime Minister in town with the Premiere announcing eight hundred million dollars in loans and grants to build around seven thousand affordable homes and create infrastructure for around ten thousand additional homes that could be built, so they're hypothetical homes. Bronte Manual, Good morning to you. What do you think the injection of this funds and potential injection of seven thousand homes will do to the South Australian market.
01:27:57
Speaker 26: Look, I think we need it. The only way to try and control this supply and demand is by purely, instinctly building new homes. Probably the part of it that we wanted the land. It was all sort of caught up in red tape, so that was relieved and then they said, yep, you've got the land, but then without the infrastructure, it's several years away from building. Now it sounds like that might happen in the next twelve to eighteen months.
01:28:20
Speaker 12: Now.
01:28:20
Speaker 26: I think we probably just need to find the extra twenty thousand trades people to build them, and then we've got.
01:28:25
Speaker 3: A solution, Brontie. Tomorrow, all eyes are going to be on the Reserve Bank for what looks like a foregone conclusion that the RBA will be jacking up interest rates by a quarter of a percent. What impact do you think that could have on buyer behavior? After the five minutes of economic sunshow and we got last year with the three rate reductions.
01:28:48
Speaker 26: I think one rate cut, one rate rise. Sorry, I'm still trying to talk in the positive. One rate rise or two rate rise I don't think will have too much effect. If there is this talk that it's going to go on forever and there's going to be three, four or five, well psychologically it may have more effect. But look, I think everyone's expecting it. It's kind of been pre framed in everyone's head. And if it doesn't happen, if anything, it'll probably just gives you know, a spirit of confidence. And if it does, I think it'll be business as usual.
01:29:16
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely good stuff. Bronte were chat again next week Bronte manual there from twop and two.
01:29:21
Speaker 2: A double two three double O double. Oh if you would like to be a part of David's quiz. He's been working hard putting together these questions, even Apple night. This is going to be harder than a millionaire hot seat. I give you the hot tip a double two three double O double. OW will come back with that. And the leader of the Greens here in South Australia, Robert Simms, what are their key election policies? Just forty seven days from the state election.
01:29:45
Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one to nine. Good morning to you. If you're joining us for the very first time, Welcome to Monday, the second of February. Will Goodings off, John Edwards in the chair. Here we back to tomorrow. But forty seven days from the state election. We're hearing from every single party and every candidate moving forward to exactly what they're working towards and looking for to the state election. And the leader of the Greens Robert Simms, joins us in studio this morning.
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Speaker 22: Good morning to you, Good morning John, and good morning David.
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Speaker 3: So Robert Gray having you in, we're just chatting off air. I find the landscape of the Upper House quite hard to read at this election because so many people have vanished. We've seen Frank Pangallo disappeared, your former colleague Tammy Franks. Don't know whether she's running or not. She's not in the Greens.
01:30:32
Speaker 22: No, she's an independent.
01:30:33
Speaker 3: She's an independent now. Sarah Game's not one nation anymore. She's fair go for South for Australians or something.
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Speaker 22: Connie Banaris, she's still with Best, She's still Jinglee is an independent. Ye, it's a bit like the bar scene in Star Wars these days are very unusual kind of group that we have there in the Upper House. I'm hoping that we're going to see an increased Green presence in the Upper House. You know, come the March election.
01:31:02
Speaker 3: Are you worried though that it could end up being a Labour clean sweep with all of the uncertainty about it, with Melanowskus' popularity, could Labour just end up with control of the Upper House.
01:31:11
Speaker 22: Well, I think that's a serious risk. And you know, if the polls or anything to go by, that's a real risk that could happen. And I think the power is going a bit to the Premier's head at the moment. We've seen a bit of evidence of that. Over the last few months, and that's what's really important that we have a strong Green presence there so that we can hold the government to account. And you know, I think I've demonstrated and the Green team has demonstrated over the last four years we've been able to work with the government to do some good things on key issues, you know, donations reform, rental reform, but we've also pushed them to go further things like you know, saving the Crown and Anchor for instance, or getting legislation through to protect public assets from privatization. These are things that wouldn't have happened if the Greens weren't there. And the Liberals are such a mess at the moment. I don't think they can be relied upon to you know, hold the Labor Party's feet to the fire. So it's really important we have that strong upper House present.
01:32:00
Speaker 3: I think overwhelmingly, I would say most of our listeners aren't Green's people, and we do get a lot of anti Green feedback. One thing that tempered that or made people sort of reassess the view of you guys. I think last year was the algal bloom and early on when the FEDS had clearly gone missing when Murray what the Federal Environment Minister when it emerged as we were just chatting about our fair that they hade warnings years ago when Tanga Plibsk was a minister from marine biologists saying something really bad is about to happen in Southern Australia. In South Australia, how how big an issue do you think the mismanagement of the algal bloom, particularly by Canberra could potentially be on polling day?
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Speaker 22: Yeah, I think it's a huge issue. I think for a lot of South Australians that's highlighted the importance of us caring for our environment and the fact that that's got to be front and center and what can go wrong when we don't put enough emphasis on the environment and on climate and through out of the years. If the Greens weren't there, we wouldn't have had a Senate inquiry into the toxic algol bloom, we wouldn't have had a state inquiry, and I think we would have continued to see the state and federal governments just missing in action. I mean this had been going on for months and months and the Greens kept saying, what's happening here, guys? You know, put your fingers out and do something, and through that pressure we were able to see some movement in terms of funds being unlocked. But I still believe that the State Labor government were far too slow to act. They didn't take it seriously enough, and as a result, there's been a huge economic impact and I think a huge social impact as well for South Australians. It's devastating to see us having our way of life threatened in that way.
01:33:43
Speaker 2: You've been sharing the harmful alble Bloom Committee. Last week we saw some information coming out of it which is pretty concerning for I think a lot of people.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, totally.
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Speaker 22: I mean one of the things that we heard is that there's a serious risk that it could spread to other states, which would be devastating. But I was also really shocked to hear from the Conservation Council that apparently there has been no reporting yet done on the ecological impacts, no public reporting done by the government on that. I find that absurd, and so I'm certainly calling for them to make that information more readily available so that we can get to the bottom of what's going on, because this is going to have a long tail.
01:34:19
Speaker 3: One of your policies about housing. Robert goes to the introduction of rent capping so that landlords can't jack up rents. What would you say to people who listening to the show, who have investment properties, who would go, well, we've got to juggle all of our inputs, council rates. There's a hell of a lot of things that are affecting us. We're not protected from cost of living issues either.
01:34:44
Speaker 22: Yeah, sure, I understand that, and that's why part of our policy is that we would cap rent increases in line with CPI, which I think is reasonable, so that means they can recover some of those expenses. But we've got a serious problem at the moment where whilst a majority of landlords might well do the right thing, there are some people that are just being greedy. And you know, I got contacted by a constituent last week. Their rent has been put up in one year by over one hundred dollars a week. Now, that's just too much and people can't afford that, and as a result, we're seeing homelessness spike and more and more people are being plunged into poverty. And a rent cap I think is reasonable. The landlord, the landlord owns the asset. They own the property, and they do get quite generous tax concessions from the federal government through negative gearing. Putting a cap on the amount that they can continue to increase rent. I think is reasonable.
01:35:35
Speaker 3: Robert Seems, leader of the Greens. You're not up, are you another? So you're guaranteed another term?
01:35:40
Speaker 2: That's right.
01:35:41
Speaker 22: Well, I'm here for another four years before I'm up again for elections. So my focus at the moment is supporting our league candidate. We've got Melanie cell Wood running and Katie McCusker, who ran previously in Dunston.
01:35:52
Speaker 3: A few times she ran in stir she did, So there.
01:35:55
Speaker 22: Are candidates for the Upper House and I'm out there supporting them. But the other seat that I've been spending a lot, a lot of time in is Hyson.
01:36:03
Speaker 3: Hill.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
01:36:04
Speaker 22: So we got twenty percent of the vote in Heysen.
01:36:06
Speaker 3: Don't any Liberals left.
01:36:09
Speaker 22: Since we've been an endangered species at the moment. We got twenty percent in Heison last state election, and we didn't really.
01:36:16
Speaker 3: These are all the people in there who make their own yoga.
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Speaker 22: Oh well, there's a lot of Green people up in that area. We got twenty this time. We're running a really big campaign there and you know, we did a big door knocking effort on the weekend. We had Larissa Waters down here. We had seventy people out door knocking and we had hundreds of conversations. It feels really good on the ground and our candidate, yeah, Genevieve Dawson scottch doing a very good job. So I think that's a seat that could flip to the Greens the selection, which would be really exciting.
01:36:48
Speaker 3: Yeah, not for distracting liberal part shake things up for them.
01:36:53
Speaker 22: And that's Robert.
01:36:55
Speaker 3: Great to catch up and we'll probably talk again during the campaign.
01:36:57
Speaker 22: Thank you, Thanks very much for the opportunity.
01:37:00
Speaker 2: Fourteen minutes tonight, before we check traffic, I'm putting the call out for David's quiz. If you want tickets to Henry Young's film, Henry Young and iconic South Australian one of the greatest tennis players going around at the ripe old age of how old one hundred and two, join the conversation the quiz to win tickets eight double two to three double O double ow. We'll take your calls after this.
01:37:19
Speaker 1: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast. It's to the story up Henry An the Lensen speak.
01:37:33
Speaker 2: Lame Forever Forever Henry Young crack an iconic South Australian and you have a quiz to send people along to see. It's a movie about Henry.
01:37:48
Speaker 3: Forever Young is the film. The director is Jeffrey Reid, and it premieres at the Capri Cinema. Now, if you do want to get tickets, there's two ways you can get them. You can listen in every day this week and enter the competition. We're giving away a double pass every day sitting along for free. Or you can just jump on the Humanitics website and do a simple Google search for Forever Young. But the first lucky entrant is Dean from Craigmore, who's going to be answering our first Henry Young related question. Dean, good morning, mate, I hope you will.
01:38:25
Speaker 25: I'm all a good day. Don't worry about that.
01:38:28
Speaker 3: All right, mate? Now you got your thinking cap on, because today's question is how old is Henry Young?
01:38:38
Speaker 25: One hundred and two.
01:38:42
Speaker 3: A mate, I'll be there Sunday afternoon. We're going to be having a chat with Henry up on stage after the screening so come and say, be lovely to meet your mate. But well done you and I've already met your day. When did we meet?
01:38:57
Speaker 25: Get a long style?
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Speaker 13: Ho?
01:39:00
Speaker 25: Hellney, you were looking at resplendent and I offered you a beer and you said no, no, sorry mate, I'm hit it. No, you were there to see the manager. Yeah, about about some advertising.
01:39:22
Speaker 3: Yeah that's right. They did some advertising with us for a while and they wanted just to go down and check out the pub. So yeah, I was keeping himself tidy.
01:39:29
Speaker 2: Good pub, the loney really good or being redone?
01:39:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, it's a I like that neck of the woods. It's good. Hey, good on your dean, while'll meet you for a second time on Sunday reunions. We like this.
01:39:42
Speaker 2: They were taking your calls this morning eight double two three, double o double o on when did you put your foot in it? Because last night, if you were watching the Australian Open, while the sponsor Kiya was doing their little speech as they always do, a member of the crowd, well he wasn't a fan of it.
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Speaker 5: Kea stands as a global leader in mobility and in shaping the future.
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Speaker 2: The crowd loved it. We loved it. The plant are yelling out boring right in the middle of the speech Robert from Saint Peter's when did you put your foot in it?
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Speaker 20: It was many years ago. I went to the Jeps Cross Market, so I specifically wanted a very colorful plant to finish off my garden. So I couldn't think of the name of it all the way there, and then what's the name of it? You had started with a fee, So as I approached the plants down, I thought, ah, I know it. I said, excuse me. The person's approaching me. I said, excuse me, do you have chlamethia? And he just looked at me with evil eye and he turned around. I thought he must be deaf, so I repeated it, doubled the volume. By this time everyone in the place was looking at me with anger in their eyes. What's wrong with these people? This woman came alongside me and she said, the plant you're looking for is clevier Olivia is sexually transmitted to the well. My chin nearly hits the paper. I can tell you. I wanted to go there and apologize, but I thought there's so much anchor. The best thing to do is exit, exit exactly.
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Speaker 2: That is so can I fantastically.
01:41:18
Speaker 20: Apologize for that person, and you'll be pleased to know that I always google search everything, make a note of it and put it in my wallet before I go.
01:41:27
Speaker 2: Oh, Robert, that is unbelievably good. That is fantastic if you have put your foot in it. A double two three, double O, DOUBLEO. We've still got time to take your calls, but let's head to La. The Grammys are on and read Butler is on the Red carpet. Read talk us through the excitement.
01:41:45
Speaker 11: Yeah, gooday, guys, it is very exciting here with being some reasonably biggest name starts to arrive on the Red carpet. But probably in the next ten to fifty minutes we'll have those top of the tree ones. Your lady gagas is Sabrina car and is Justin Bieber. Were expecting all those big names, including Mariah Carey. What has been really cool though earlier we've had a lot of Aussies on the Red carpet as well. Came in Parla has just won a Grammy, which is an incredible thing. In the pre awards ceremony that they do untelevised, which is good. And we've also seen Amil and the Sniffers, the Melbourne pub rock band comes down and strut their stuff and Rufus thesoul as well. So we've got pretty good Aussie showing here today. And it is funny hearing those really sick accents among all these Americans.
01:42:35
Speaker 3: What will they make of Emil and the Sniffers crikey read unbelievable?
01:42:39
Speaker 6: I know, I know.
01:42:40
Speaker 11: I had to say. I was talking to Amy, who is the lead singer, and she was saying she was saying she's worried that she'll drop an F bomb if she gets up there to win make her speech, and I could probably imagine that happening. They kind of stuck out, I would say, red carpet, But that is a good thing.
01:42:58
Speaker 3: So who's the smart money on who's lightly to take on the most gongs? Is Taylor Swift up there for the Taylor of Ophelia or whatever it's called the latest record?
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Speaker 11: So interestingly, Taylor isn't nominated at all for the first time since twenty seventeen, so a lot of people have been saying snubs SNAs don't actually she released that. She released that Ophelia song and the album Life of the show Girl after the eligibility for the Grammys August twenty four to August twenty five, so she's not nominated at all. Beyonce's not nominated, So instead we're seeing chancer sort of a fresh crop of I guess artists who could go up there and do really well, like Sabrina Carpenter, young Blood, that artist everybody's talking about. Also Justin Bieber, of course, he's very well known. He's up there to potentially win the Album of the Year, the big award, as is Lady Gaga and Bad Bunny, the Latin singer who if he wins, and he's performing at the super Bowl next week, and sort of everybody's talking about him, at least here in the United States. Eighth at the moment, it'd be the first Latin American to win for the Album of the Year, so that'd be a bit of history. But we'll see what happened.
01:44:08
Speaker 3: He'd be careful getting back to his hotel and the current climate. In the years, you might find himself back in Puerto Rico. Quick smart, good on your red read butler at the red carpet for the Grammys for nine years.
01:44:18
Speaker 2: All right, let's check the fuel situation. All thanks to Ria, don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get raa roads service unlettered at West High Marsh, the Hugo to dollar forty three point nine, Lero is Matt Monopara dollar forty five point nine, and the Diesel Solo at Marrying a Dollar fifty nine point nine were at a time. David, it's been good fun.
01:44:41
Speaker 3: Please back to its great fun mate, do it again.
01:44:43
Speaker 2: So yeah, enjoy your day, a magnificent day. Top of thirty two degrees. We'll catch you tomorrow from six.
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