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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Tuesday, this twentieth day of January twenty twenty six year, well and truly underway. Did I hear right in the news? I only came in part way through the end of it where one of the players at the Australian Open tennis was complaining about their rate of pay. We've got Sam will find it, no doubt the exact statement, but I'm led to believe that. I mean, we know it's a multimillion dollar event, but if you make the final draw and you were a first round loser at the Australian Open, you get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that's not bad. You go out in straight set six love six love six love and they write you a check for one hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars or is it US dollars. I'm not sure, but it's an awful lot of money. Anyway. We'll find out more about that lots on the show today. Love to hear from you. On eight double two to three double oh is the number. There's a dump Santos protest on today as Santos toured own gets into full swing. We'll find out more about that shortly. News poll figures out yesterday shocked the political world, with Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party taking over as the second most popular party in Australia, bumping the Coalition into third place. Pauline Hansen I think it's fair to say it's been one of Australia's most controversial political figures for nearly three decades. Since she first came into power, or came into politics in Canberra, She's always been a polarizing figure. First, she's been accused of racial and religious intolerance, particularly over her views on the immigration in Islam, which critics have said stigmatize the minority communities and deepen social division. Secondly, Pauline Hanson is often criticized for simplifying complex issues. Opponents argue her popular style generates headlines but lacks detailed, workable policy, especially when it comes to the economy and trade. And on a third point, her strong client change skepticism has drawn sharp criticism from scientists and business leaders, who say it ignores evidence and risks Australia's future. In recent years, whenever she's appeared on radio or TV, there's been immediate and overwhelming reaction ninety percent of it was negative. She was just seen as nuisance value to the major parties and not to be taken seriously. Supporters, however, argued, Hansen gave voice to voters who felt ignored by the major parties, making a divisive but undeniably influential, but still just a minority voice. So what has changed now? Anytime we've spoken with her over the past six month, reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Voters both labor and liberal have voiced their support. Has she become more a centrist? Has she changed in any way? So what has changed? I think it's got to be the voters who appear to have come around to Pauline Hammonson's way of thinking. Handless a Pauline Hanson's resurgence reflects a convergence of voter frustration and political timing. Those cost of living pressures, housing stress, and declining trust in major parties have created fertile ground for protest politics. Hanson's simple, emotionally direct messaging cuts through the time when many voters feel overwhelmed by complexity and poly speak. Political commentators also point to concerns over immigration levels, cultural change, and a loss of national identity. Which One Nation continues to highlight. With major parties converging on policy, often appearing almost identical, they often appear over cautious. Hanson benefits as a clear outsider, attracting disaffected voters who are seeking direct answers rather than government contrived solutions. One Nation is often likened to Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party because they share a similar populous playbook. Both position themselves as anti establishment outsiders tap voter anger at major parties, political elites, and institutions. They emphasize national sovereignty, strong boarders, skepticism about high immigration, and resistance to progressive social agendas. Their leaders rely on plain, provocative language to cut through media noise and mobilize disaffected voters. If the latest News poll figures for anything to go by, what Pauline Hanson's doing is working. But is the Hanson factor a reality that will play out at the next federal election or will it peter out when the blow torch of having to place a tick in the One Nation box on polling day returns many voters to the status quo and they're rusted on position.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Later this morning, we're going to find out more about the whole issue with emeritus Professor of Politics Clem McIntyre, is what's happening with Pauline Hanson in one nation? A passing phase or will she and her party play an influential role in the next federal election. Eight double two three double O is the number to the or any other issue we've been talking about. As I mentioned, Conservation Council Essay is staging a protest later the day against Santos and its sponsorship of the TDU. They're saying gas is a dirty fossil fuel, one of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis. As we know, Santos is a giant gas company with plans for three massive new gas projects. So what is the thinking behind today's protest? Darcy McNamara joins us now Darcy, good.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Good morning Graham. How are you going.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm well. Thanks. What has prompted this protest against Santos?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, as you said before, gas is a dirty fossil fuel and it's one of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis, which is causing the devastating alcol bloom droughts in South Australia and bushfires all over Australia and South Australia. As you said, Santos is a giant gas company and they've got plans for three new gas projects in Narrabriya, Beadlouombrossa, and they're able to push ahead with these plans because they wield immense political influence in South Australia and we're concerned about that. We believe that we need to break our politics free of Santos, and so that's why we're calling on our labor government to dump Santos as a sponsor of the tour down Under. We did have a big rally as well last Friday. We had over two hundred people attend. We also had Adam Bandt, who was the CEO of Australian Conservation Fountadations speak. So there is a movement growing around this.
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Speaker 1: Are you surprised that there is so much government support or backing for Santos, considering the government and Salva Stratia is so pro renewables.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very surprised at the fact that our premier has been spooking the Narrow Bright gas project over in New South Wales. He's also been using climate community forums to spook gas as well. I'm really not hearing enough about transition away from gas.
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Speaker 1: It's concerning now there have been protests. I think Extinction Rebellion held a protest against Santos, So is that in concert with Conservation Council essay? Do you have anything to do with them?
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Speaker 3: No, we're two separate organizations. But Extinction Rebellion has been fighting this fight for a very long time, so we're really amplifying the same message that they're calling for and their concern for Santos being the sponsor.
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Speaker 1: Would you be attempting to disrupt the tour down Under?
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Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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Speaker 3: We love the Tour down Under. We think it's a fantastic event for South Australia and we want to honor that. Really, we're just disappointed about Santos and that sponsorship. We have no plans to disrupt the race at all.
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Speaker 1: Darcy, thanks for your time today. That's Darcy McNamara Conservation Council Essay. They're staging a protest today against Santos and the sponsorship of the Tour down Under. A little bit later on we'll speak with Treasure of Tom Kutson Turnus, who has been a big supporter, of course of the tour down Under and probably couldn't have happened without Santos's support.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen past nine to five Double A and we just heard Matthew Pantellis. I'd like to thank Matthew for filling in on the morning show while I was away. Also, Leith Forrest also did his time. Thanks guys for keeping the show up to the highest standards. You always do a great job and it's most appreciated. Well. Pauline Hanson the only mentioned the name these days and there's a huge reaction. The text line has gone hot. I'd like to hear what you think about Pauline Hanson and will this substantial rise in one nation's popularity carry through until the federal election? Eight double two three double O double is the number, Damien? What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 5: Good day Graham.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, just a relation to paul and Hanson. I mean, in some ways you could draw the analogy that she's similar to that of Trump. When Trump was running to than sixteen, he was really the ultimate protest vote. I think obviously what we're seeing in polling is achieved that protest vote for many Middle Australians. However, I think that in an election campaign, people's behavior will narrow in their voting habits because and the dynamics and the difference between US and the United States is that we have compulsory voting, and so people probably take a more informed decision at the time that they actually vote, rather than the impulse process that perhaps appears in the United States. But also the failure of One Nation to be able to address the bread and butter issues. And this is where it all, where you know, the rubber really hits the road. You know, what's their policy on tax genuine policy on tax?
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Speaker 2: It does it?
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Speaker 6: Is it credible? What's their policy on superannuation and retirement saving all of those? That's where you know, Pauline Hanson and One Nation to come on start for most little Australian No, you.
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Speaker 1: Make some good points there, Damian. There's no question about that One Nation has been seen as sort of a one or two policy party. If they're serious about being a major contender, of course they have to diversify and have views on the economy and homelessness and health and so many other aspects that they probably aren't totally across. But thanks for call eight double two to three double o double oh is the number. There's no question about online shopping. Do you partake? You're one of those people are a bit wary. It's grown, it's booming. A straight up. Post delivered one hundred and eleven million parcels in November and December alone last year. Demand surged right across the board. There was one day, I think it was December the eighth, three million parcels were delivered nationwide. That's more than three thousand every minute. And I know there are some horror stories about people waiting for deliveries or getting a message saying we tried to deliver the parcel but there was no one home and you've been sitting at home all day waiting. Well, if you have a story like that, let us know about it. I'd like to hear it. Eight double two to three double double oh. But while we are really going gangbusters for online shopping, there is a downside. New Finder research shows eighteen percent of Australians had a parcel go missing in the past year alone. The research by Finder. The editor is Angus Redmon. Why joint or kid money joins us now, Angus, good morning to you, Good morning Graham. I love buying things online, I must admit, while it's not quite the same as going into the shop and you know, having the touchy feely thing of the product, it is very convenient, convenient. But as you found out, there is a major downside to online shopping.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we can see that. Like you know, while for most people most of the time it works out okay or a worse as you said, they had the thing of your wedding and home of the delivery and then you have to go to the post office anyway to pick it up. But we do know that for one people basically in the past year said no, why I've actually had something that didn't come to my house. It was stolen from my players and went to the wrong address, or it went missing before it even got to the local post office. So it is the more that we shop online, the bigger this problem grows, and the more that people find that occasionally they're's not getting a thing that they ordered.
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Speaker 1: So this would run into millions of parcels that just don't turn.
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Speaker 5: Up exactly yea, So we'd estimated that, like you know, it's three point nine million loss to the reason a year if these vigas hold up. So while I say most of them are still getting there, but that's you know, for me, and that's a lot of parcels. And with people spending more, the average spend on a parcel now is two hundred and twenty one dollars. That adds up to over eight million dollars worth of stuff that is ultimately going missing. And that's frustrating for everybody.
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Speaker 1: So I guess we're not going to stop online shopping. So what can we do to lessen the risk?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think one thing is to be aware of what you've ordered. And I know plenty of people like there. They go a bit crazy. They're sitting on the phone, they order a few things and they're not tracking when they're said they're going to be delivered. If you have some idea when you're expecting it, you can at least think, well, will I be home, Keep an eye on your notifications, keep an eye on your emails, and you stay on top of that. And if you know that you're out and about a lot, if you are out of work every day and you're worried about that, then look at those alternative delivery options. Can you get it sent to a parcel locker? Can you get it sent to your place of work so that you're not worried about it disappearing off your porch if that's what ends up happening.
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Speaker 1: One of the frustrations is that you get a message on your phone saying and you have placed an order or two, then you've sort of lost track of them to some degree, and it'll be a message saying your parcel will be delivered on so and so and you find out it's a scam. I mean, that's what we've got.
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Speaker 5: To look out for too, absolutely, And that's the thing like, yeah, are the spam message for saying, hey.
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Speaker 7: You've got a delivery.
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Speaker 8: That's really common.
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Speaker 5: Most modern phones will identify a lot of those and they'll just end up in your spam folder automatically, but the odd one gets through. So yeah, it is also important to be cautious. If you did get on those notifications, have a look at that address, because there's a good chance if you look at it clo see and then go hang on, I don't think Australia Post actually has a website based in Germany. Maybe I shouldn't be quickening on that link.
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Speaker 1: What is the situation? You know, you know, you mentioned that an average loss of two hundred and twenty one dollars per pass. I mean, that's that's pretty serious money. Can you cover it with insurance?
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Speaker 5: So you've got a couple of options. I mean, in the first instance, obviously you're going to follow up with the deliveryal or in thatation you're going to fight up with the retailer and say, hey, can I get a refund or can I get the item? Recent that's off on what people want. I just want to say, how I wanted to buy this, think can you send it to me? You may be covered if you really don't get the delivery and you've purchased on your credit card, then you can potentially apply through that and say hey I never got these goods and then get you cash back in that way, so you might be covered by your home insurance if it gets one off the porch. But that's going to be a trickier one to pursue it. You can get the charge back on the credit card. That's definitely easier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's always obvious, you know, just deal with reputable online businesses because a lot of them set up shop and they look reputable, you know, using a and so forth. It looks repivtal, only to find out later on that you've been.
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Speaker 5: Conn Absolutely, you want to stick with those reliable, known retailers and go directly to it, because there's tempting as it can be to search for Hey, this is the product that increases the risk that you're going to run into a site that, as you say, looks legit, but actually they're never going to send you anything, So you want to try and stay away from that.
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Speaker 1: Good on your Angus Great advice, that's Angus Kidman find Editor at Large the shopping boom do you partake? I know some people say, oh, I would never buy anything online, but I think more and more of us are realizing that if you're careful and judicious and only go to reputable sites, it's pretty good. But then you know, Australia posts delivered one hundred and eleven million parcels, some will go astray, some of them get stolen. Three point nine million lost deliveries in the past year. Four percent of those were stolen and the average loss is two hundred and twenty one dollars. That's almost nine hundred million dollars lost nationally. So we're not talking about an inconsiderable amount here, so be warned and be wary. From the text line, Steve says, re one Nations rise. The Liberals have been weak at sticking to their core values because these values were not popular for a while. Now opinion has changed and people are turning to one nation as they do not deviate from their values. Goot on your Steve, thanks for that. Regarding Darcy McNamara of the Conservation Council essay and their Dump Santos protest, how does she know that gas is causing the algal bloom while two hundred out of one point three million people, And how does that lady know that the algal bloom is caused by climate change when we have substantial numbers of scientists who have not determined the reason why the bloom exists. Yes, a lot of the callers and textures on that line. If you have a thought on it, I'd like to hear it. Eight double two to three double double oh. On Pauline Hansen, Fred says, I think one of the reasons Pauline Hanson is becoming popular, she's saying what people are thinking. And I think one of the interesting things is there have been a lot of people in the past who have agreed talantly with what Pauline Hanson has been thinking, but was embarrassed to come out publicly because Pauline Hanson has been pilloried by politicians and political commentators and a lot of people saying she's a radical, she's a bigot, she's racist. So people who sort of shared similar views to her didn't want to be branded in that way. But now they're coming out of the war would work saying hang on, we are concerned about immigration. The numbers of people coming to this country are country losing its identity, the fact that there are not enough houses for Australians. People are saying it's time we did something and they're not happy with the way the governments approached the issue. They're not happy with the way the Liberal Party has approached the issue. Eight double two three double doublow eight double two three double o double o the number. Don't these people understand that without gas we will run out of power? Thank you for that. John. We will speak with treasure Tom Kutsontanus. We're having a chat with him about what he's been having to say about Ashton Herne and her deleting of social post. Yes, but also put to him what he thinks about the tour down under Santos protest back shortly five Double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is one of my favorite songs, Gloria by them, But we're not going to play anymore because we're not a music station. I'll just go home and play a little bit later on twenty eight to ten, five Double A on Tuesday Morning. Well, Treasure of Tom Kuodson Turners is continuing his relentless attack on Ashton Hearne after she deleted a social media post which supported ditching stamp duty in an attempt to distance itself from her predecessor, Vincentazia. She deleted a social media post which she was positive about the Liberal Opposition's ditch signature policy to abolish stamp duty. Well, Tom Kuitson Turners, who is quickly on the attack, he joins us, now, Treasure of good morning, O morning Graham.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm well? Thanks? So were you surprised that Ashton hearn took this action?
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think a lot of your listeners would have always have thought that the Liberal Party were about lower taxes, but the moment they had a policy that they couldn't pay for. They've just dumped it. And other candidates are keeping their posts up so that they support stamp duty cuts, but Miss Hearn has deleted hers. And I think this confusion so close to the election is quite frankly a symptom of where the Liberal Party are right now. They're confused, they're not being coherent about what their policies are, and South Totus have a right to ask, well, what is their tax policy as they had to the election, given they've just abandoned their signature tax cut.
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Speaker 1: I mean, new leader. Isn't it reasonable that she has new policies?
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Speaker 9: But my point though is when you're a teen, these policies that come up, Graham, they're debated within a shadow cabinet. Our representative government is not a presidential system. It's a cabinet led government where all cabinet ministers, all shadow cabinet members have to say on policy. Development was a big enthusiastic supporter of this massive tax cut, and now she's abandoned it, and I think voters have every right to ask, well, if I've abandoned their signature tax cut, what is their policy on taxes and what they're telling us is we'll tell you after the election what's going to happen with taxes, whether they go up or whether they go down. And I think that is completely unsatisfactory for voters not to know what the major opposition in the state's plans are for their taxes.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Shadow Treasurer Ben Hood has not taken down his post, which was had a similar meaning.
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Speaker 9: Now he's left his up. Either he hasn't let the memo from Ashton yet or he's still supports This is my point. What is the policy if the leader is saying there's going to be no major tax cut and the shadow Treasurer is saying, well, maybe there will be, or maybe there'll be other taxes to replace it. I think South Australians have every right to ask themselves if this confused now, what would they be like as a government. And I'll post this question to your listeners. Have they ever seen a bad opposition become a good government? And I think this is thematic of where the Liberal Party are right now.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, Tom, since Ashtonharn came into power, you've been savage and attacking her and taken every opportunity does this suggest that in some way Labor is a bit concerned that she is a worthy opponent to the Premier.
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Speaker 9: No, I don't think I've been savage, but I think, oh, yes you have. I don't think so, not for my standards gram anyway, I think it shows that the government's not complacent. The government does not think that this election is a laid our mozair. The government thinks that we have to be competitive, that we have to put forward our policies. We're open to scrutiny, We're open to answering questions, and we've got a tax policy that will be announcing that will be open for scrutiny. And what we won't be saying is trust us. We're going to form a commission to tell you our tax policies after the election. My point is everything we say we're going to do over the next four years will be transparent about what our political opponents are saying is, look, we don't know what our tax policy is going to be. We're going to hold a commission and that commission would tell us what to do after the election. And I think South Australians deserve better than that. I think South Australians deserve to know exactly what taxes are going to have before an election, because that breeds mistrust and when you have mistrust in the political system, you get very poor outcomes from the public.
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Speaker 1: Now, on another issue, the Conservation councilor is taking the government head on. They're staging a protest later today against the Santos' involvement and the sponsorship of the too it down Under. Now seeing the races managed by the South of Stradian government, it really is a reflection on you as a government.
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Speaker 9: Well, I'm proud of having Santos as a major sponsor. Santos or a wonderful South Australian company who called it here in Adelaide. I think South Australians are very proud of Santos Santos. Most South Australians have more ownership of Santos shares than any other company. I see no reason for us to be embarrassed by what they're doing. People know my credentials on this. I am pro renewable energy. I can't I can't have integrate more renewable energy into the system with our gas as a backup and gas it has lower emissions than cole.
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Speaker 1: But you see that gas is a dirty fossil fuel.
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Speaker 9: No, no, I do not. I think it is a fossil fuel, but it is key for decarbonization. It is key for us to make sure that if we want to decarbonize our grid, we need to have firm, reliable energy that can back up our renewables for when the doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. That makes complete sense. It's the ultimate form of storage. I mean, and I think anyone who is opposed to this really doesn't understand how the transition is working. We've got to we've got to make sure that we have a whole series of options to firm our grid. And just ruling out gas for some base ideological reason rather than looking at the physics and integration of the system is childish.
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Speaker 1: So you will ignore the Conservation Council's request that you you dump Santos.
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Speaker 9: Yes, of course we will.
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Speaker 1: Now if I can just get you to hang on just for a second, we have a question for you, Treasurer from Eric.
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Speaker 10: Eric, go ahead, Erry, no pleasure the government's kitchen. Well, I'd like to know is considering the Parlament. So the dollars and save What is your attitude for people investigative for not paying.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear, Treasurer?
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Speaker 9: No, I couldn't. I couldn't get that ground.
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Speaker 1: So Eric, Eric, can you repeat to your question.
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Speaker 10: You are the government's head kicker, treasurer, and when you came into parliament you would find the dollars the traffic which you paid eventually, what is your attitude to masure people who have thousands of more than dollars and things have made to pay.
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Speaker 9: I think Eric's just trying to make a political point. I mean, look, I think that the laws as they are give people plenty of opportunity to look after themselves and make sure that they're well acquitted.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for that, treasure. Look, the final question, what did you make of Pauline Hanson One Nation becoming the second most popular party in the nation and do you think that will have any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 9: It's a good question. Look, I don't know. I think a lot of Conservative voters are very disillusioned with the Liberal Party and they're looking for alternity, and I think they're looking towards One Nation and I think, indeed, you know, lots of voters are looking to alternatives and third parties, and I think it's a sad indictment on all of us when parties like One Nation grow. We need to work harder to make sure that we offer people a better path. And I think a lot of it's to do with the fact that young people are finding it difficult to find a home. People are feeling that the government is not listing, governments are not listening to their concerns. We need to do more to listen to people. I think our response to the housing crisis has been very, very good, and I think that's why in South Australia you're not seeing that drift from the Labor Party away to one nation, but you are seeing it from the Liberal Party to one nation. But we've got to be always vigilant. So I don't know how this will play out, but I am very concerned that what I would hate to see in the Federal Parliament is a system where that no one has a majority, you know. I like the idea of there being majority governments in Canberra. I think it's good for the country. I don't like seeing minority governments. I think minority governments can be bad for the country, whether it's Labor or Liberal. I always think we have better governments when Bob Hawk has a majority, or Paul Keating or John Howard. It is much better to have a majority than to govern by a minority, where you're open to the whims and concerns of minority groups. I think it doesn't give you the opportunity to govern in a national interest.
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Speaker 1: The treasure I guess we'll speak between now and the state election.
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Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Graham.
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Speaker 1: Treasurer Tom Quinston Tantus on a couple of issues there, Conservation Council Essa wanting a ban on Santos', the sponsorship of the two down under Paul Enhance an issue, and of course Ashton Hearn deleting a social media post. Ben Hood, the Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, is called in good morning.
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Speaker 11: Good morning Graham, and happy new year to you and to you.
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Speaker 1: You want to respond to what the Treasurer I had to.
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Speaker 11: Say, I certainly do, Graham. Look, I think this does answer the question as to why Tom Kurtzontonus had been put on ice for the last few weeks and Blair Boyer rather unsuccessfully seems to be the new mud slinger for labor. If the Treasurer has time to be stalking Ashton turns social media posts and I think that really just shows exactly where the government's priorities are. I must admit it's giving a little bit of creepy old man vibes for us. We are solely focused on giving South Australians a real choice in March, and that's a choice for more affordable South Australia, a better health system and safer communities. Now, the treasurer there said that his government was focused on transparency. But I would put it to your listeners, let's have a think about what they did promise in twenty twenty two. They promised hydrogen which fell over to the cost of about five hundred million dollars. They promised to fix the ramping crisis, of which we now have record ramping in this state, larger than any time in history. That is where their credentials sit. They made promises, they haven't delivered them, and what people will get in March from the Liberal Party A Herne Liberal government is a sole focus on South Australian's having a more affordable state. That is what we're focused on. It certainly isn't trawling through social media posts and slinging mud. If label want to do the gutter politics and the time wasting. We'll leave it to them. We're getting on with ensuring that South Australians have a real choice come March.
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Speaker 1: Well, Ashton Hearn deleted a social media post supporting ditching stamp duty. You also have a post on the abolition of stamp duty. Yours is still there. Does this mean that you still support the abolition of stam.
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Speaker 11: Duty, Well, Graham, I've always been very upfront with my position on stam Jude. I do think it's a lazy and archaic tax, and I don't think many of your listeners would disagree with that. In fact, I've said that in my maiden speech, at which I think Tom Kustontonus is only one of two people who have listened to it, my mother being the other. But what we are doing is a very ambitious plan, which is to habitacks Reform Commission, which will involve peak industry bodies, and I've spoken with those industry bodies and they are very much on board with this Tax Reformed Commission to wholly and solely look at our tax system here in South Australia and make moves and legislative changes to ensure that we have a more affordable state. That is our plan, we believe is own ambitious one and that is where we are going to be. That's what we will be taking to March for this election. We are the only party that is even remotely talking about tax reforming the state. Labor don't want to touch it. Their coppers are full on the back pockets of South Australians and they give themselves a pat on the back for surpluses and other things. Our Tax Reform Commission will be solely purposed to look at every single nook and cranny of our tax system and then provide advice to earn Theble Government to ensure we have more affordable South Australia for mums and dads, the nurses, for tradees for business people, for those in the regions, and those in METROCA, out of South Australia as well.
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Speaker 1: I mean out that stamp duty provides a huge part of the state government coffers two billion dollars. I mean, if you erated that, where would you make up the shortfall?
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Speaker 11: Look, Graham, you are right, there are floods of money coming in from stamp duty and as we said, we've a bold and ambitious plan for our Tax Reform Commission to report within the first hundred days. But also need amediate relief as well, and that's why we are exempting stamp duty for first home buyers. We are scrapping the GPA payroll tax so it is cheaper to see your doctor. Those are the important things. Those are the things that South Australians talk to us about. So while Tom Kusontonus is spending time on Facebook and Instagram, we are actually listening to the people of South Australia and we will give them a real choice to deliver a more affordable state for mums and dads and for all those people I mentioned that is the most important thing.
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Speaker 1: A question I put to the Treasurer in relation to the surprise polling of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, now the second most popular party in the statia do you think I think that will have any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 11: Well, Gram, it is a very interesting question. Now, of course, we have quite an interesting sort of dynamic here in the state, given that Sarah Game was a One Nation MP or MLC and now has formed her own party. So I think that that will certainly play out. But I do agree with Tom Kusontonis on this that I think that all sides of politics need to do better, need to talk about practical policies that actually speak to everyday Australians and every day South Australians, and I think that's why you do see a bleed of voters, which is quite a large one at the present time if we go on the polling to one nation. So it is about being practical, it's about being real world, just everyday people talking to everyday people. People want their politicians and their political parties to actually talk about what matters, and that is why our focus is on giving South Australians a real choice in March. It certainly isn't trolling through social media posts and it certainly is a month slinging at the opposition. It is speaking directly to South Australians to ensure they have a more affordable state. I think that's what they want and that is exactly what we're going to begin with.
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Speaker 1: Ben Hood good to chat, Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations. Eight double two three double ow double is my number from the text line A small truck where the trailer is jack knifed and crashed into a barrier. On North South Motorway heading north near Port Road on ramp. Emergency vehicles are there, major delays. Two lanes are blocked, so be wary. A small truck where the trailer has jackknifed and crashed into a barrier on the North South Motorway heading north near Port on or Port Road on ramp. Emergency vehicles are there, so avoid the area if you can five double A mornings with gram Goodings nine to ten five double A your calls in just a moment on eight double two three double O double oh from the stock market All odds has opened the day in the red for the second day in a row, down by thirty four points. A SX two hundred also done by thirty three points. Oil fifty nine US dollars a barrel. The Aussie dollar has increased slightly, buying sixty seven US since Elizabeth.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 13: Look, I'm just wondering whether South Australians have any idea because I only learned recently that when we go to the election in March, we're going to have to vote for the Voice. Now fifty six percent of South Australians voted against the Voice. We've got the voice and it's employing something like apart from the twelve people that were voted for by the most votes they got were one hundred vote and four resigned and administrator resigned and those people may have been even put back in with no votes. But what we Why should we be voting for the voice? I think because mister Melanoscus thinks he's so popular that people will say yes. Of course, the Voice is a good idea.
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth, the State idea, the State Voice is already in operation. Why are you suggesting we are voting on it? Per se? I mean, it is not part of the Labour's election platform that I'm led to believe.
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Speaker 9: Is that so?
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Speaker 13: Because I was told that they're going to ask us to vote to say yes it's a good idea, it's.
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Speaker 1: Evidently the vote for people to be on the voice. So yeah, yeah, well we will get some detail on that, Elizabeth, I'm not so sure. But the Voice is in effect already, there's no question about that. So this election will not be about that at all.
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Speaker 13: And there are one hundred people employed for the Voice. I mean, we've we spend forty two billion a year on Aboriginals and we've got all these bodies that look after Aboriginals. We've got parliamentarians that are Aboriginal. So why do we need a voice in South Australia to cost the South Australian public all was money?
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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for you call, Elizabeth. We will find out from the Premier or the state government somebody who looks after the area of the voice to find out exactly what will be involved in the upcoming state election. But the Voice is already in force at the state government level. Let's speak with Luke Polton. Now, look, good morning morning mate. How are I No, I'm well, thanks? What have you got for us?
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Speaker 7: I've been running a campaign for about two months now on behalf of a whole bunch of local residents in Old Roannella opposing the big twenty four to seven plastic manufacturing facility that's been put forward by Tarak and Techno Clothes.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now had Labor.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the Labor government come out with three separate MPs, two of the ministers yesterday and they've come out with a public statement saying they also oppose the factory. Now, but I actually asked Nato if she would write a letter to the CAT panel back in December stating that she opposed that she.
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Speaker 5: Didn't do it for me.
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Speaker 7: So I just find it a bit odd now that three labor ministers or all of a sudden involved in the topic. You know, we've had massive community sentiment. We had a protest with over five hundred people, We got over three thousand sig dishes on a petition and it wasn't until we got it to this point and the noise really really stepped up that they have come out of the woodwork and said they're helping the community. We actually had a massive public event on Sunday just gone with Katrine Hillyard in the town of Old Ronella. There was quite a few residents that were very unhappy with her and you know the way she's dealt with this problem. And she then went on her social media afterwards and didn't post anything about the event with us. She actually took a photo separate event with a smile and she turned her comments ofst and no one could have a say so, so Luke.
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Speaker 1: Got us the state of play is this plastics factor going ahead or not?
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Speaker 7: Well currently it is and the state government are saying to us that it has to go before the cat panel, before City of Onkaparinga. But you know, the state government stopped things like the cranker before when they wanted to. And Miss Champion got on the radio before and he said that, you know, what do I expect him to do to break the law, But I don't expect him to break the law. At the end of the day, there the state government and they make the laws. So if there's a law impending, sorry impeding a decision, well who's best in line to talk about those laws and change those laws. So at the end of the day, ultimately we want the factory stopped. We've got another protest on the thirty first. We're going to run it at Techno Plaids directly in front of the building, and we got buses booked, we got crowdfunding for that. We're going to be bringing old residents down in wheelchairs, you know, all the people that can't have a stay. We're going to bring him down so they can have a say. Because me and Ian Mathison, my friend, you know, we've been very, very involved and we've been the voice for a lot of people here that haven't had a voice. And you know, we've got a lot of submissions into planning essay but again that's only because of me Ian and a lot of other really really good people behind the scenes that have helped us get it to this point.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, well good on you. Look, thanks for bringing that team, and we'll find out what the state of players with the plastics factory, whether it's going ahead, what the government's official view is on it. But I must say that's the first I've heard about it. A double two three, double double is the number to ring I mentioned a little bit earlier. I was listening or came on the end of Kendall doing Sports News at nine o'clock where Alex Demonor was saying that there should be more pay the austraint and open prize money. They want more pay and it's not about player greed.
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Speaker 14: This is what he had to say, ultimately, for the players to be better compensated, saying this, we are incredibly well compensated as of right now, but when you look at the percentages and the differences between other sports, then of course there's room to grow.
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Speaker 1: Well, Alex much and all. As I love you as a tennis player and I love you as a battling Aussie, you don't think you're getting enough money now? I know you work hard and other tennis players work hard. The Australian Open prize pool is a record one hundred and eleven million dollars. The male winner and the female winner get four point one five million dollars for becoming singles champion. The runner up gets two point one five million dollars. If you make the semi final you get one point twenty five million dollars. These are figures that most of us could just dream about. And look, if you make the first round but lose, you walk away with a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and Alex believes they're not getting enough out of the pot. Well, Alex, I only wish I was half as good a tennis player as you, because I should to be happy with that sort of money. Getting into the Australian Open getting knocked out six love six love six love may write you a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ah, we're in the wrong business. If only I had some sporting skills when I was younger. But to maybe compared to other sports that doesn't seem a lot. But I think compared to Ozzie rules football and most other sports. That's pretty good, Hi, Graham. Stamp duty was supposed to be abolished by the States when the GST was introduced. No state except Queensland kept their promise. That says a lot about labor liberal state governments. Thank you so for that bell. I'm afraid that is the case that governments do not like getting rid of taxes once they're in. They're in eight double two three, double o double oh my number. We'll be back after the News five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, Good morning to you. It's eight past ten on this Tuesday morning, the twentieth day of January. Well news poll figures out yesterday shock the political world, with Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party taking over is the second most popular party in Australia, bumping the Coalition into third place. Pauline Hanson has been I think it's fair to say, one of Australia's most controversial political figures for nearly three decades since he came into politics in the late nineties. So what is the future for One Nation? Is this just a blip on the sky on the horizon. The federal election is still two and a half years or so away. So what is likely to happen? Joining us now as emeritus professor of Politics. Clem McIntire, Clem, good morning to you, Good morning Graham. Are you surprised by the rise of One Nation?
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Speaker 15: So?
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Speaker 9: Yes and no.
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Speaker 16: There's no doubt voters are frustrated with the major parties and are looking for perhaps some other solutions in politics. So the rise is not surprising in that respect. But the fact that one nation have overtaken the coalition, the coalition polling as paul as they are, is perhaps a bit more of a surprise. So I think inevitably one nation was going to grow a bit. The fact that they've grown as much and as fast as they have is.
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Speaker 1: Noteworthy. Certainly is this more reflection on the coalition than one Nation?
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Speaker 16: I think it's both. Certainly, the Coalition is in trouble. It's really struggled since the last federal election in May of last year too identify a clear voice. It's torn between trying to appeal to the more conservative rural voters, those in facing the problems with the cost of living and so on, and balancing that with appealing to the votes that it's lost to people like the tills in the inner metropolitan area, so it really doesn't know where to be pitching itself at the moment, and that's facilitated I say, the rise of One Nation. If we look at where the support for one Nation is coming from, it tends to be out of metropolitan and rural voters. It tends to be older voters, those with lower educational qualifications, those who identify cost of living as one of the really big and migration as the biggest issues. So those voters are there and then happy Labor's not winning them over. The coalition is not answering their calls, and so One Nation benefits from that.
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Speaker 1: I think, is there any bleeding of Labor votes to one Nation?
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Speaker 16: Nowhere near as much as from the coalition predominantly. I think that one Nation vote has been made up with frustrated one time coalition voters. There's doubtless some members or supporters of Labor have been frustrated and lost faith in the government and sending a message by expressing a voice for one Nation, but nowhere near as many as coming from the coalition.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the government is more than happy to see the coalition going backwards, but have they got any reason for concern with the rise of One Nation. Yes, I think so.
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Speaker 16: I mean, you're right, they'll be they won't be upset to see the divisions inside the Liberal Party in particular, and the tensions between the more moderate voices in the Liberal Party and the more conservative voices of special in the Nationals within the federal Coalition. But Labour's primary vote in that last News poll that you were talking about was down to thirty two percent, and that's a very low figure. We're used to seeing the two major political groupings of Coalition and Labor in the high thirties and low forties in terms of.
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Speaker 1: A primary vote.
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Speaker 16: So Labour's primary vote is down, but because the opposition is divided, it's well ahead on what we call pardonly two party preferred votes when we're looking at Labor against the Coalition. So I don't think there's any doubt Labor would win an election at the moment, but it would be very concerned that its primary vote is as low as it is and it's doing as well in that two party preferred vote. I think because even though One Nation is out polling the Coalition, I think when it comes to an election, they're not going to get the preferences from other parties, so they might well land with twenty twenty five percent of the vote at the outside, but they're not going to get the preferences from other parties to come past and be able to hold those seats. So that leaves Labor in a more secure place, but probably not as strong as its own right as it would wish.
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Speaker 1: Has there ever been a time in Australian political history where the major party's primary vote has been so late.
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Speaker 16: Certainly not in the post war years. We've seen insurgent parties try before. If we go back long enough for the Australian sorry, the Democratic Labor Party in the fifties and sixties, but their polling was more like between five and ten percent at its peak, and they were able to win some Senate seats but not seats in the lower house. And then the Democrats of course in the late twentieth century used to polls of ten twelve percent, but not enough to make a breakthrough into the lower house. This is this is unusual in the Australian political terms, but not if we look more broadly, we're seeing similar trends in a lot of European democracies, where so called insurgent parties of the right are replacing the old dominant political parties.
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Speaker 1: I think Paul.
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Speaker 16: Enhanson, a self made reference to Trump is a sort of a similar phenomenon and Nasee or Farage in the UK. So there's no doubt that voters are unhappy with status quo and are trying to find different political expressions and some of those more conservative parties are benefiting from that. But in Australia they're a long way from making a breakthrough into mainstream politics in terms of seats in the Lower House and being a plausible alternative government than elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: Well, the federal election is still a long way away, and this pilling was based on a federal basis. But can you see any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 9: I'd be very surprised.
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Speaker 16: I think we'll see an increased vote for one nation, But as I say, they're unlikely to go past coalition or sorry liberal if we're talking about South Australia, they're unlikely to go past Liberal candidates in any of the forty seven seats in the Lower House in South Australia, and they're not going to benefit from from preferences coming from other parties. So I think their vote will be up a bit. They may well win a seat in the Upper House, as they did at the last election. But I think one of the concerns voters might have with one nation is many of the people who have been elected for one nation eventually get frustrated and leave. So quite a few people elected under paul En Hanson's banner sometime later we'll say, you know, I can't express myself. I'm not happy with the policy direction I'm going to. I'm leaving sit as an independent. And that's what happened with Sarah Game in the South Australian Upper House. You know, they don't have the coherence and the stability. I suppose that we're used to seeing with either the Coalition or Labor, so that again, I think voters might flirt with them in poll's midterm, but when it comes to actually picking up a pencil in the bowling birds and saying is this well I really want them, there might be a bit more hesitation.
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Speaker 1: Well, just weeks out from the state election, are you surprised that the SA Liberals still don't have a candidate for the seat of Black.
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Speaker 9: Yes, i am.
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Speaker 16: I think that the Liberal Party are struggling to again find their voice in South Australia. They were clearly not helped by the change of leadership. I suspect Ashton Hearn will probably produce a better result than Vincent Izier may have done, but the fact that the leadership changed in December has made it harder for them I think to just identify a clear set of policies and to defend those. They are obviously under some review with a new leader, and the selection of candidates has been left very late in a couple of important seats, so they're not doing themselves any favor.
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Speaker 1: Would you expect to former Liberal lead to David Spears to run in Black.
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Speaker 16: Look, I don't know. He's talked about it. It's a question only he can answer. I think it's unlikely that he would win the seat if he did bid stand always possible, but that would be my sense that it's unlikely. And again where he came and where an official Liberal candidate came will obviously be very important in terms of the flow of preferences. But Labor won that seat at a by election when David Black resigned from the parliament, and all the current polling in the state suggests that Melanowski's government is even stronger now than it was at the last election. So I think the Liberals are going to really struggle to win seats in the metropolitan are anywhere.
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Speaker 1: We have for some interesting weeks ahead of us. Thank you so much of your time, Clean Indeed, we'll speak again. Thanks Greg. That's emeritus Professor of Politics, Clem McIntyre on the state of the state and the state of the nation. What are your thoughts, love to hear them. Eight double two to three double o doublo is the number, Steve says, reed tennis players wages. I'm starting my Supporting Starving Professional Tennis Players fund if any of your listeners would like to make a donation going to Steve Yeah. This follows Alex Demonor's comments. And I love Alex Demanor. I love the fact that he's a real battler and yet he can make the top ten and he does so well. But he's sort of suggesting that the tennis players are not not getting the money.
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Speaker 14: That they deserve ultimately for the players to be better compensated, saying this, we are in tibly well compensated as of right now, but when you look at the percentages and the differences between other sports. Then of course there's room to grow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there's room to grow more than four million dollars. If you win the Australian Open Male and female, and even if you get knocked out in the first round, you've come all the way from wherever and you exit the first round in Australia Open six Love six Love six Love and they write you out a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's not bad, is it when most Australians would love to earn one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Does TV actually rot your brain? I remember growing up as a kid, my parents would often say, you sit in front of that all the time, your brain will rot, and it was considered a myth. But there's some neuroscience perspective that we'll talk about a little bit later on. But i'd like your thoughts. Does TV actually rot your brain?
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Speaker 2: Hey?
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Speaker 1: Double two three double o double is the number ring. Let's takes some calls, Rick, good morning.
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Speaker 17: Good morning, Graham, Hi good thanks, Yeah, that's good. Like my two cents worth in two please cool man like I'm just going to say my biggest when these politicians from all parties, like when I asked, well, when they're asked questions, I don't think i've ever heard them say or no or yes.
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Speaker 12: In them and so that brings me on my main point.
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Speaker 17: They say that they're going to do this, and they're going to do that or whatever they can think of to get in, and then when they get in, they say, oh, we've looked at the books and there's not enough money and we can't do what we were going to do.
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Speaker 8: So, in my opinion, like big policies, pictures are so.
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Speaker 18: Voters like.
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Speaker 17: Where the crop that comes down there now, because when you've got them in, say all federal elections, you can only come out when they've loaded it up. In my finion, most of them.
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Speaker 19: Are on a bastards.
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Speaker 17: You can't be trusted, and it's been proven over and over time and again.
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Speaker 1: And that's my final good on your rick, thanks for putting it forward. And quite bluntly too, I look at people are disillusioned with politicians. I don't think it's been a recent phenomenon, but maybe people are now more vocal about it. Maybe we're just not prepared to put up with it any longer, maybe because times are tougher than they were and we want a better deal from our politicians. But how accountable are they. They can make promises that aren't kept and they're not how to hold accountable for them at all. Because if you it's truth and advertising, you say something misleading and advertising, you get sued for it. As a politician, you can say just about anything you like. Trish, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 20: Graham, Graham. I'm just going to say something about the algal bloom because I think people who used to vote labor need to think very carefully about the fact that. And I don't care if someone wants to take me to court. I don't own a damn thing, so take me to court. But I think we're we're being conned.
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Speaker 8: I think.
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Speaker 20: The fact that I saw another dead dolphin down at Edisburg at the Fisherman's jetty the Essay Surf and Bloom Facebook group, it's called Ssay Surf and Bloom. Now they've got photos of this poor little dead dolphin and that's a mammal. Again, it's not a guild animal. So why is there no Sadi people down at Edinsburgh investigating how this poor animal died. Where's the media on this warning people to stay out of the water. Why is the Edisburgh Caravan Park promoting kids should be going in the water when there's so many dead animals? Feel all along the York Peninsula coast and my feeling is that we are being conned that this bloom is, oh, it's okay, go in the water. But because of the election, it's all being hushed up. And the people on your peninsula that care about the environment, not the counselor, it's not the terroist organizations that want to make money and get people to keep coming over there. The people that really truly care are this stress and depressed, and really.
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Speaker 21: Peter Malamowski is an aston hern. They both need to get their acts together, get onto this bloom, scientific testing, find out what we can do to alleviate these sets and act like responsible people who care.
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Speaker 20: About us and care about the environment. I'm sick of it.
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Speaker 21: If you go on the si surf and bloom, you will see hundreds of dead animals.
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Speaker 1: Good on ya, Trish, No, thanks for putting forward your point of view. If anyone else is in the edith Burg area or on York Peninsula, and there are visible signs of the algal bloom, dead animals, dead fish of any nature. Let us know about it because I think we need to know. And the alga bloom is not on the front page any longer. Not that it's under control by any means. It's probably is not a runaway dangerous as it was. But are we being told the entire truth? Like I know your thoughts eight double two three double o puling gg welcome back. I think the Australian people want things back as they were, and Pauline Hansen is driving it to get back on track. I think she will do well. Good on you, Danny. Thank you very much for that, Ian, says Hi Graham. The truth about the voices that Indigenous people have to elect their candidates going forward. This ballot is being held on the same day as the state election. This has been advertised on television. Thank you for that. Ian. Yeah, we'll get some more detail on that, because I think while it might have been advertised on television, I must say I was not aware of it. Tennis players want more money. I have a family member who was telling me the other day he hasn't had a pay rise in three years. Good on you, Dan, I think a lot of people could tell a similar story. Eight double two to three double double back after news headlines five double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: At twenty eight two eleven five Double A Graham Pauline's Hanson as Australia's only hope. I can't believe it has taken about thirty years for people to wake up. We're are seeing the manifestation of all that Pauline Hanson has spoken about play out in front of our eyes in real time. Pauline was correct and is correct today. If this country doesn't totally wake up, NA, we do oomed, go one nation. Eddie says, Hi one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to lose a tennis match. I'm off to cash converters now, to buy a couple of rackets and start practicing. Ah yes, yeah. On the back of Alex Demenor saying tennis players don't earn enough. And yet if you lose the Australian Open first round you get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A lot of people would be more than happy to earn that on an annual basis well, South Australian hospitals are still being overwhelmed by the ever worsening ramping crisis, not enough beds to accommodate emergency cases and what wouldn't entirely solve the problem. There are about twenty hospital beds sitting idle at the McLaren Vale Hospital. Jesse Troud is the CEO of a Quiller which operates the McLaren Vale Hospital. Jesse, good morning, Hey, how are you look well? Thanks? Tell us about the situation of Mclarenvale Hospital. How come there are twenty beds available?
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Speaker 22: Look, it's quite an interesting story and you would take a little bit of investigating against the bottom of what happened. But a couple of years ago there was a board in play that you made some questionable decisions alongside the government at the time to close the hospital and you know, now looking back on that definitely wasn't the right decision to make. And now we're pretty much trying to reactivate the site and bring it back to life. You know, we've already got Essay ambulance on site, We've got a bunch of GPS down there, but we actually have a whole ward there. Literally you know, probably about twelve weeks away from me how to open back up and you know, alleviate some of that stress on both ramping and on hospital beds as well.
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Speaker 1: So what condition are these hospital beds in? I mean, there's much need to be done.
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Speaker 22: No, not a lot has to be done. Obviously, We've got to procure a few things if we do go down that path, if we're lucky enough to get the state government to remember the Clara Vale exists. But really it's you know, to liquor, fresh paint, maybe a couple of things around the place, and we could be open up again in about twelve weeks because it was a hospital until, like I was saying, about two years ago, and it's still registered to be a hospital until the end of twenty twenty.
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Speaker 9: Six as well.
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Speaker 1: So what would need to happen?
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Speaker 22: Really, we just need the state government to say, yes, we need to utilize the space and jump on board, obviously from a funny perspective and obviously from a client flow perspective, and we can help alleviate some of the stress on the stress on the bigger hospitals, you know, bring people out that maybe don't need that serious urgent care and have somewhere where they can get the care they need until they find their next home or fully recovered.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt, you know, the Southern Wales area is an ever growing area, so they're certainly in the need for it, and.
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Speaker 22: It's also the oldest catchment in South Australia and I think right now it feels a little bit like maybe the state government's kind of just forgotten about Mclarenberale, which is really sad to see because it's one of the best places in South Australia to go.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's no question about that now with these hospital beds, surely the government is aware that they're there and just sitting there idly.
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Speaker 22: Well, that's exactly it they are. We've reached out and so far we've only been sold that there's no current need for the space. That's what we've heard obviously from the Health networks. Anyway, we reached out to the Premier's office, reached out to obviously everyone we possibly can, and it's just pretty much been put back on the health network to tell us that they don't feel that there's a space right now there for us, or maybe not a space that they see a need in the way it's currently shaped, but we're willing to work with them so we can help the people iron Vale.
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Speaker 1: What about staffing the hospital.
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Speaker 22: Honestly, it's going to be surprisingly easy. So since we started talking about reopening, the amount of people from the community that used to work there that didn't just want to leave the area and now work different roles have asked about coming back, So we'd be able to find nurses to fill the space pretty fast.
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Speaker 1: And I guess the people in the area would be very pleased if this was to come about.
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Speaker 22: Oh absolutely, there's not a single person in the area that wasn't a part of trying to save mclarenval Hospital when they did first close it down. And now the hospital site's been saved. But now we've got to take to the next step and reactivate it so the people in McLaren Vale can get what they deserve. In you, it's not for profit, it's managed by an amazing board of volunteers, and we just need to get the space thriving again for the community.
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Speaker 1: Well, while it's only twenty hospital beds, I mean twenty would make some impact, particularly in the southern area.
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Speaker 22: Well that's it and also brings people close to the home for a lot of people as well, so they're not having to travel so far to go see people.
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Speaker 9: That are in a hospital.
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Speaker 1: So what is the next step?
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Speaker 4: I mean really just.
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Speaker 22: Hoping to get back from the state government. I'm hoping if we make a little bit of noise in the moment, they might turn around say yeah, look, let's utilize the space. Here is where we're seeing a bit of a need or weakness in the area, and we're immediately.
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Speaker 2: On board with it.
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Speaker 22: Whatever they say that they need to be done in the area, put our hands it up. We want to make it happen for the people.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is the time to agitate because we're leading into a state election. So if you make enough noise, hopefully they do the right thing.
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Speaker 22: That's exactly we just want to be remembered. You know mcglam Rail's seal there. The people, they are amazing and let's get in the healthcare system.
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Speaker 1: They need good ened. You're Jesse, great to chat. Jesse Trout, CEO of a Quilla, which is operating the mccaren vale hospital site. They've got twenty hospital beds just sitting idle at the moment, and we know that the ramping situation is not getting any better despite what the state government said, we will fix ramping. No they haven't. So twenty beds. It's not going to solve the overall situation. But if they could be put to better use, it would seem to be a reasonable thing. So State government, Health minister, if you're listening, love to hear from you. Eight double two three double Oh. Karen's has never heard that your brain will watching TV. But my parents used to say that your eyes will turn square if you watched him. I used to get that too. You'll end up with square eyes if you keep watching so much television. Did it stop me?
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Speaker 12: No, Liz, Good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 23: You're on about tennis players getting one hundred and fifty seves.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, poor things when they lose.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, but what about football? Is basketball is? Look how much wages that getting. It's astronomical compared to at some of these tennis players.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, Well, I think someone and they sit at home.
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Speaker 23: They don't have to travel the world to go to tournaments and different things like that. Yeah, a lot of those people are struggling, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to struggle learning one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a tennis tournament.
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Speaker 23: But they do a lot of training and everything else.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Michael at North Brighton has texted to say that poor Alex. His total prize money total to date is twenty two million dollars US. That's not bad for twenty six year old, bloody hard for well he has. But a lot of people work bloody hard. I know people who work bloody hard as plumbers and they don't they do you have a plumber?
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Speaker 23: Likely?
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Speaker 1: No, can't be too hard. Good on your Liz, good to chat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Look, look, they deserve huge money, there's no question about that. The AFL average wage is four hundred and ninety three thousand, almost half a million dollars. It's huge money. But when you look at the fact that the lifespan of an AFL player, you know, we look at the stars at around for ten years and play one hundred, two hundred three hundred games and you think, wow, you know they've got it made. But I think the average life of a football player is three years, you know, So it's a big commitment to end up effectively on the scrap heap and have to look for another job now. I'm not saying boo, who poor them? Because if they've got the opportunity to play football at that level and they do have to work hard, that's fine. But once they're there, they do earn pretty good money. June says. So if I play four tennis major tournaments in one year and lose, I earned six hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you do, June, We've left it too late. I'm afraid Maria.
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Speaker 24: Good morning, Good morning, Graham, Happy New Year, and do you too, yes, thank you. Look, these players are tennis. Any sport removes the not for profit datus and make them pay tax. In regards to posts on the internet, Remember Kevin Rudd's nasty comments about Trump and then he deleted them. Yeah, and look, Pauline is not a radical, She's not a racist. Parties are worried she may not be polished and she may not say the right thing in the right urb and add urb and so forth, getting attacked from three parts udies in the media. She says it the way it is. She calls the spade a spade. She doesn't black backflip out comes, stay on message and as I say, no, backflips doesn't be as the public. Now, people be bold, let's change politics. This is what the major parties and the Greens are worried about. They only worry about themselves. They give us promises and ideas, but they take take from the Australian people. Yes, they are polished to hers. That's what people are stickause the hypocrisy. Plus, remember when Pauline said, and she wasn't racist, she said there were a lot of Chinese people coming into Australia. These facts is that the data shows seventy percent of apartments and homes are owned by Chinese that are left empty. Parliament running scared of pulling and fannabe Joyce. It thinks that they band us for the birtha is totally unacceptable. Graham.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I tell you what. She's going to be back Maria. There's no question about that. And look, I agree with a lot what you had to say. People are just fed up with politics and politicians are sparusing the same old stories, same old, same old. The fact that the difference between the Coalition and the Labor Party is minimal. Once upon a time, if you heard a policy you would say, oh, that's certainly a Labor policy, or that's certainly a coalition policy. Not so anymore. They are almost down the line and people are sort of saying, we want an option, we want a choice. Andrew says, I reckon, we're being conned as well. Living on the coast in Adelaide for fifty plus years, this is the only time I've ever seen dead dolphins on our beaches. This has to be due to the toxic bloom. It can't be a coincidence. Look, as I said earlier, if you have any instances you live along our coast, whether it be on York Peninsula or metropolitan beaches, let us know if the incidence of dead fish dolphins has increased dissipated. We'd like to know, because just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean to say that is not an issue, and the government needs to be aware of the fact that we're all concerned about it. GG one Nation voters don't worry too much about taxes or superannuation because they pay little or none. They have little or none, and that's the fault of the migrants. Kerry okay, Kerry Gig, you allow complete nonsense to be spread about the climate. That Moronic Conservation group, along with Get Up gets funds from overseas interests to demonize fossil fuels. There is no emergency. Coal didn't cause an algal bloom, and this brain dead term emissions is just made up. Even the feeble minded know that CO two is essential for life on Earth. The amount in the atmosphere is dangerously low in Earth's geological history. This entire climate change issue is nothing but a scam, John, Thank you very much for that, Gigi. I think South Stata has had enough of Labour's lies. Good on you, Peter, and One Nation Rise. Regarding One Nation, the liberals have been weak at sticking to their core values because these values were not popular for a while. Now opinion has changed and people are turning to One Nation as they did not deviate from their values. And that is the interesting thing that the fact that the way Pauline Hansen was demonized way back when for being a bigger than a racist, has she changed the views. I don't think she's changed them at all, So it would appear that people have come around to thinking what she's thinking. Dean, Good morning, Good morning, Graham here going good. Thanks Yes.
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Speaker 18: Last week I rang up for Matthew and made a conversation about some observations that you make around town where you go past some rope construction where you see a lot of the guys in there orange uniforms on their telephones, of them working. I said that the interesting if they could turn around and do more, that we get a lot of these roads sticks quicker, and the Department of Transport turned around and said, I'll get someone to call you. Well, anyhow, a woman rang me yesterday who's in charge of these people? And I got an absolute bucketing from her for making the observation.
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Speaker 7: That I did.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really, you're not allowed to make an observation of that nature.
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Speaker 18: You paid me out. She said, whatever you see, She said, all of those people are there doing something, and they're there for a reason. And I said what talking on their phones? She said, oh, they could be waking for a gradeer to come along, or someone to pick up a palette of papers and whatever. I've got photos of two people yesterday on East Avenue talking on their phones and then someone came along and they saw the person coming, they hid their phones. And I pointed that out to her and I said I've got photos to prove it, and she said, well, she said if that's the observation you made, She said, you can see that that person that came along has done the right thing, And I thought, well, I should have been doing the wrong thing to start with.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's true. Good on your dean, Thanks for that observation. Yeah, I think we've all seen road workers, rown maintenance technicians or whatever they do, seem to be standing around. Maybe they all have individual jobs and they're waiting for their time, but at times it does look like that there are many workers to do just a few jobs. Does Alex demanor know how much money people who work real jobs earn. Yeah, I think someone like Alex, and as I say, i'd really admire him. I think he's terrific. But look, if he has any grievances, keep them to yourself. When you're earning the sort of money that you've earned twenty six, well, he's twenty sixties of age. He's earned twenty two million dollars US. That's not closer to thirty million dollars. He's done very well. Yes, he's earned it, he's worth it. But you know, to be critical and saying that they don't earn enough as tennis players. Average AFL player is now earning almost half a million dollars the NRL wage four hundred and twenty eight thousand. The Prime Minister is earning just under six hundred thousand dollars. Now, whatever you think of Anthony Albanezi or whoever happens to be Prime Minister at the time, I don't think that's overpaid. I think the Prime minister should be worth that. Mind you, If the Prime Minister is getting five hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars compared that to the President of the United States, he earns considerably less, which would be fair to say is a little bit bigger job than the Prime Minister of Australia. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double double back soon five double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Eleven to eleven, five double A on a Tuesday morning. Does TV actually rot your brain? I know my parents used to say some things to me about sitting in front of the goggle box as it was called back then, other than square eyes. But yeah, it'll write your brain. Is there any truth to that or is it just just one of those mythical things. Well, Queensland Researchers at Queensland University of Doing Well. I've been doing some research into the matter, joining US now as Associate professor. Paul Gardner, Professor.
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Speaker 8: Good morning to you, Hi Graham, how are you.
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Speaker 1: I'm well? Thanks? Is it too late? Decades of watching television rotted my brain potentially?
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Speaker 8: Ah, Look, I think the jury's still a little bit out on that. What we do know is that when we look at watching people who watch five levels of TV compared to people to use the computer or reading, that their brain help isn't quite as good. But what we don't know is what are they actually watching on TV and how are they watching? And so when we looked at the data, this was about one and a half million people from thirty different countries. A lot of the information was collected before things like streaming services, so before Netflix and crime and those sort of things. So the way we've watched TV now is very different, and we also need to work out how we're watching TV, not just what we're watching.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there is the thing with the streaming TV now you can binge watch you know where once upon a time, not that long ago, you had a favorite TV series and say it was on every Tuesday at eight thirty you'd watch it and you'd have to wait a whole week for the next episode. These days, they drop it once and you can watch ten episodes in a row if you like. That has changed a lot of people's viewing habits exactly.
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Speaker 8: And if you think about traditional TV, there was also ad breaks, so people would get up and do things during the ad breaks, whereas now they're sitting for those prolonged periods. And we think it's that sitting for those prolonged periods without breaks, which might be more detrimental to brain help.
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Speaker 1: Is it likely to have more negative impact on young children?
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Speaker 8: Look, we looked at people age body five and over, so I'm not sure you know what the data is saying with children. But you know, one thing we do know is that if you don't use it, you lose it. So we encourage people to, you know, do things to keep their brain active. But also there's other things that you can do. You can go for a walk, you know, be physically active, eat the right sort of food. There's a whole range of things that we can do to improve our brain help.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it is such as you say that traditional television, you know, there'd be an ad break and you can make a cup of coffee or garten you know, water or plants or something like that and get away from it and give your eyes a rest and give your body a rest, and give your brain a rest.
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Speaker 9: I guess.
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Speaker 1: But when you when you lock into watching hours and hours of TV, you know, you do almost become in a sort of a coma tas state.
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Speaker 8: And the other thing that you know, when you're watching, you know, one episode time you would actually stop and think about what you watched and reflect on it, whereas now you're just going straight into the next one without actually thinking about it and processing what you've just watched.
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Speaker 1: So you've done extensive research, what would you like to see happen with it?
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Speaker 8: Look, I think what we need to do next is look at the impacts of streaming on brain help you know, those prolonged binges that you were just talking about. But we also want to see, you know, what this means in terms of what else people are doing in their day. So if we think about the twenty four hour day, you know, people are sitting, they're sleeping, and they're moving, and we need to find a good weeks of those different behaviors. So you know, are people staying up later to binge TV at the expense of getting a good night's sleep. So all of these things interact, and we need to be looking at the whole day when we're working, specifically at sitting time, we need to be thinking about or what are those activities that actually engage our brain and can we do a little bit more of those?
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Speaker 1: And of course it's not only the brain that's impacted. If you sit in front of TV for three or four hours and not moving, you know, it's not doing your physical side of your health any good.
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Speaker 8: In it exactly. And what we often say is, you know, what's good for brain health is good for heart health. So you know, the impacts of TV viewing have been shown to be associated with things like type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all of those things are also related to brain health. So it's you know, one big m you know, miss if you like.
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Speaker 1: So, what simple advice would you have to people regarding their TV viewing habits.
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Speaker 8: Oh, well, I think if you're streaming, take a break at the end of each episode, get up and do something, and you know, maybe if you haven't done any reading for a while, it's a good opportunity to pick up a book. There's lots of great TV series and movies being made from books, so maybe read the book as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about exercising your brain as well as your body. Exactly, exactly, joined your professor, greater chat, Thanks, happy viewing, Associate Professor Paul Gardner, University of Queensland. Does TV rot your brain? Well, probably doesn't rot your brain, but it doesn't do it any good. And let's face it, your brain is a muscle like anything else, and if you just sit there watching. I remember the early comparisons between TV and radio, and this is back in the days. I'm old enough to remember that on radio they used to have plays and shows and you know the theatre and it was called the theater of the mind. So you know, you had a detective show and you had to imagine what the detective looked like, how tall he was, you know how strong he was, what color his eyes were, what color his hair was, you know what car he drove, and you had to exercise your brain. But now you turn on the TV show and it's all there, living color you don't really have, and you just absorb it like a big sponge. Although we still enjoy it that way. Hate double two to three double o double is the number to ring. Attorney General Michelle Rowlands is currently tabling in the Government's Hate Speech Bill in the House and this is what she had to say a short time ago.
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Speaker 25: Seeking a community that saw their Jewish heritage as a contributor to the richness of the Australian character, that sense of safety has been shattered as a community. As Australians, it is our responsibility to rebuild that trust. The violent terrorist attack we saw in Bondai did not occur spontaneously. Violent extremism starts with words, words of hate spread throughout the community by pernicious individuals and organizations. This hatred is corrosive to a multicultural, democratic society. This bill targets those that support violence, in particular violence targeted at a person because of their immutable attributes. This conduct is criminal, but more than that, it is the seed of extremism, the roots of terrorism. It must be stamped out with the full force of the law.
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Speaker 1: That's Attorney General Michelle Rowlins tabling the Government's Hate Speech Bill in the House and it will be interesting to see how that unfolds. And you'll hear the latest on five Double A News throughout the day eight double two three, double O double ow is my number, Ian says Hi Graham. I have been a patient in the McLaren Vale Hospital. It suited the government to use it during COVID when this was no longer needed, the government stopped funding. Besides ramping and bed shortages. Surely this hospital is needed because of the many accidents on the Victor Harbor Road. Yeah, well, put Ian, and there's no question that it is a vastly growing area. And if there are twenty hospital beds just sitting there vacant, they can be put to better use. Back after the news five Double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham, Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're in for a stinker on Saturday, which came out of the blue because it's going to be hot. Then we find out from the Bureau this morning it's going to be forty Well, news, folks, it's going to be hot, and that's going to be forty one on Saturday now or later in the week Thursday, top twenty seven, Friday thirty five, Saturday forty one degrees. It's going to back away on Sunday to thirty three. But a stinker I haven't had too many stinkers?
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Speaker 24: Have we?
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Speaker 1: How many forties we had this year? One? Two? Maybe that's all. So it hasn't been a particularly hot summer, and certainly very few records on the way eight double two three double double. Oh read the algill Bloom high gram. My neighbor is working for a company. You have a contract to pick up dead fish off the beaches every day. Had their contract extended for six months? Can we read something at that? Cheers? Thank you for that. V you've heard the story with Kendall then and the boys and Brecky were talking about this morning. It'speaking of Brecky. Is breaking an important meal to you? I could not leave the house without having at least something in my stomach. I have to have breakfast. I know a lot of people don't need anything. Wait till mid morning, get up and have a coffee. No, I've got to have some breakfast. And the popular breakfast rankings are really interesting, rolledouts number one, that's the best for you, all the way down to cocoa pops and fruit loops at number eleven and twelve. What is your breakfast routine? Do you have breakfast or not? And do you stick with the fact that it's got to be good for you diet wise, or do you just go for the taste. Let's know eight double two three double o, doubleo the number to ring Well. Probus is marking a significant milestone this year, celebrating fifty years bringing people together through local clubs built on friendship, connection and shared interests. To share the story of Probus with us, i'd like to welcome national spokesperson Have Hewitt, have a good morning to you, Good morning to you. Now tell us the story of ProBiS. How did it all get underway those fifty years ago.
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Speaker 26: Well, it was basically formed in New Zealand initially actually in nineteen seventy four, and then Australia followed in seventy six to basically bring people together when they've decided to finish permanent work or they're semi retired and wondering what to do with their themselves and still have you know, some contact with others. Probos arose out of that. It's a way basically for people to have meetings in their local communities.
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Speaker 27: Guest speakers.
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Speaker 26: Trips are organized not for profit organization, but it's really been incredibly successful over all those years. And just keeps on growing. So in Australia now there are ninety thousand members across thirteen hundred clubs, and in your state, South Australia there are one hundred and forty one clubs now and six six five hundred members, which is a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, most certainly. And as you say that, it's for people who have just perhaps reached retirement age. People's lives can be so full. You know, you get married, you have kids, you know, buy a house, do this, go on holidays, the kids leave home, you reach retire and age, and all of a sudden, for a lot of people, what do you do? So Probus has filled the gap for a lot of people.
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Speaker 26: Yes, you know, that's of course if you're not spending all your time looking after grandchildren.
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Speaker 27: Which seems to happen a lot more than.
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Speaker 26: But you know, if you want some time for yourself to yourself and the space to meet other people and do some interesting things, then this is a thing to do. I'm more familiar with country groups clubs in Australia because of my travels on back roads when I was presenting that for the ABC, and my mother was actually a Probus member in Victoria, I grew up in the bush and I know when she retired, I think not till she was seventy, but she joined the local probus at a little town called Totura with farming friends and they had an absolute ball doing all sorts of things. And I remember her doing a great trip to Tasmania. And so for this event, the fiftieth anniversary, the first big function will be in Sydney in early February, because that's where that's where it all began fifty years ago, at Hunter's Hill. But then later in the year there will be a big national day of picnics around Australia. Most of the government houses, in fact all of them, I think, will be staging special events. At the event in Sydney. John Howard will be the keynote speaker because that was I think once in his electorate. So there's all sorts of good stuff going on. And I think the other thing about these sorts of groups, and again I've seen them closely while doing backrows as Probust as Roatary. So many good community groups out there that actually really improved people's mental health as well, apart from engaging and connecting them with their communities. And I think that's really really important in this day and asi. And we saw that through COVID, didn't we how much people do need to be connected.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question about that. That isolation is all well and good, but all of a sudden head closes in on you.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, once again, you're not exercising the brain. You're not you know. I mean, social contact is vital, and as people get older, often that social I mean a lot of people's social contact is going to work and there's lots of people around and they talk and so forth. They leave work and they lose a lot of contacts and friendships that they've had before. And I guess organizations like probus can fill that gap absolutely.
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Speaker 26: And in my observation too, I think it is probably harder in the city, you know. I think you can fall through the cracks. And I've seen in my own you know, I live in I've got a place at Richmond, inner City, Melbourne, and spend half the year on the New South Wales South Coast at a beach house we bought up dy million years ago. But you do see, I think in the country people sort of have each other's backs a lot more and they see if someone is maybe lonely or needs a helping hand, whereas in the city you can become forgotten. So these groups probus is just a fantastic wave of feeling that no, you're not on your own and there's a lot more interesting stuff you can be doing out there.
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Speaker 1: Have you found and I've given a lot of talks to service groups like Rotary and the like that it's harder to get people to join the people whether it be you know, their life is so full either activities or whatever that they're not joining as they did, say fifteen to twenty years ago.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, I think with I don't think that's the case with Probos, but I think definitely with groups like Rotrie and the Lions Club. And I too have done a lot of speeches for Rotrie, and it's a really important organization because it's volunteers doing all these wonderful things to build you know, needed to needed projects in their communities. But I think, and look, you see the same with historical societies, volunteers and sporting clubs. People younger people especially are just so busy with their kids, activities or just trying to keep their heads above water working hard that there is less room in lives now, I think to do the same sort of volunteering, so it's left very much too older people, and I do hope there's a change in that that, you know, younger people can see the value in doing things to help others, just making that extra time if they can to chip in, because you know, we all owe our communities. I think I was brought up with that mentality my parents always my dad was a shy counselor forever it seemed, and they were always involved in local groups. And I think it's incredibly satisfied. It's good to think that you're doing something for your community and making it better.
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Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to PROBUS, I mean we live in an aging community, particularly here in South Eastradia, it would suggest that because of an organization like Probus that your numbers would grow because they're increasing numbers of people reaching the age that ProBiS club is the place.
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Speaker 27: To be well, you would hope so.
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Speaker 26: And in fact, the number of clubs in South Australia that's six thousand, five hundred members. The split i'm told is pretty even between Metro and the country. But in the city, four new clubs were formed in the metro area and by the end of last year. So that's really impressive, isn't it. So obviously there is a need for it out there and people are seeing that that there's something in it for them that they can get a lot of enjoyment.
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Speaker 1: Out of this. Most certainly will have a great to chat with you. Congratulations on Probus reaching fifty and made the celebrations continue.
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Speaker 26: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: That's a Heather Ewett, Probus national spokesperson, Probus marking a significant milestone, fifty years of bringing people together. You're a member of a ProBiS club, give us a call, tell us what Probus has meant to you, and maybe there are people out there who'd like to learn more about Probus if you can tell us like to hear about it. Eight double two three double O, double oh back shorty.
01:30:53
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twenty past eleven five double A good morning too. If you've just joined us, Thanks for climbing aboard Graham. My husband and I belonged to Kawana's service organization. Our Gleneld clubs over fifty members. Most of us over seventy do find it hard to get new members. Good on you, Mary, thanks for telling us your story. Yeah, I found that. As I've said, I've spoken to many service groups over the years and have enjoyed doing that, and the plea has always been the same that it is really hard to get younger people to join, whether they're not so service minded volunteer minded, or whether they're just too busy, or life has changed and priorities have changed. Brecky wise, we're talking about Brecky before. Hi, Graham, I can't function without breakfast week picks and muselely plus sustagen on top mind you, I'm nearly seventy Good on you, Greg. I can remember the days when you sat at the breakfast table and you had the box of cornflakes or rice bubbles, and there was lots of information printed on the pack because and you sat there and read it. Because it was in the days that we didn't have the paper delivered. There was no internet, and there was no smartphones, no laptops, no iPads and the like. So I used to sit there and read the read the cereal packet. Quite a bit boring after while, I might say, Well, in Canberra, the Prime Minister has paid tribute to Tim Picton rather of South Australia and Health Minister Chris Picton, who tragically passed away.
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Speaker 28: He was respected right across the state, right across the political spectrum, and he also due to his background working in three states as well as in Canberra, he was very well known and I have no doubt that he would have one day sat on at least this front bench had his life not been cut so short by that act of violence.
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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister, they're paying tribute to Tim Picton and our condolences to Chris Peak and the Picton family and friends. It's twenty two past eleven on a I think we'll take some calls Sue, good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 29: Just before I such chatting, can somebody tell me why every time I get on the phone, I attract my cats.
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Speaker 1: You attract your cats.
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Speaker 29: They want to come and sit with me.
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Speaker 1: I gather around them. Well they won't. I hear what you're going to say, Are you talking to you?
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Speaker 4: What it is?
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Speaker 29: But every time I suddenly end up with three cats sort of sitting and going, what are you doing? I said, I'm talking on the phone.
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Speaker 1: Got a captive audience.
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Speaker 29: Yeah, just listen to the lady you're talking to before I manage the local op shop. Yeah, here in mylore, and I find our role is far more than just running the op shop. We've become a really vital link to so many people because we're also in a rural area and people have their properties further apart. They come in to us every week to talk to for companionship, to all sorts of reasons, which is far beyond just buying something in a k op shop. Sure, yeah, you know, we really all people from all sorts of problems that you know, and I really think we play a really vital role in people's well being and mental health. Sometimes if you don't see irregular for a while, you wonder how they are. And I think it's it is difficult for us to get young volunteers. We struggle. All of our volunteers are over sixty and it's a big issue.
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Speaker 1: But it seems to be a sign of the times, doesn't it.
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Speaker 29: I mean, it isn't. It's sad because the volunteers make great friends too, but they'll learn a lot. But reaching out to people who rely on us, maybe they've got no one else to talk to, so they'll come in and they'll have a chat with us every morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice that they're able to do that, and it's nice that you make yourself available for that to happen exactly.
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Speaker 29: So we find that a really important part of volunteering and making the shop more than just the shop, most definitely, and playing that connection.
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Speaker 1: Good on your So keep up the good work. And there's no doubt about it that volunteering is a two way street. You might be doing something for others, but by volunteering, you're doing a lot for yourself as well. David, how you doing?
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Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Graham you.
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Speaker 19: I just wanted to sort of give a good news story about the medical system because you get so many knockers about our government and the medicare and everything on the way you kend. The friend of mine were over on your fininsula Sunday. He fell off a ladder at the shackle was staying and badly crushed a finger and herd his shoulder. Anyway, I rushed into the Yorktown Hospital because it was the only one around, and we had fantastic Luckily there's no one in the waiting room, but you know, the doctor put thirteen stitch into his finger, took X rays, took X rays of his shoulder and then sent those X rays to a specialist in Adelaide to check because they were worried about the hairline cracking. His finger getting infected, so they have to put him on antibiotics. All up, We're there for about two and a half hours and we walked out no costs, completely free. You know, my daughter lives in America. If that was America under the capitalist system of America to be paying three or four thousand dollars for what they did. Also point out that doctor was a new Iraqi migrant, very good doctor, well spoken, very good at his work. And you know, so you know, people love knocking the new migrants, the Middle Eastern people, but there's a lot of very very good people out there and they're helping us a lot, especially as we get older. We don't have enough youngest original wide Australians to cover all the jobs. We need those people qualified people, of course, to help us live a good retirement.
01:37:06
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:37:06
Speaker 1: Now you make a good point. That's good to hear a good news story because you're dead right, I mean, negativity rises to the top. People seem to thrive on bad news stories. But it's great to hear a good news story, so give the hospital a plug again. Which one was it? Yorktown Hospital, Yorktown Hospital. Well to everyone at Yorktown Hospital, Congratulations, you've got a very satisfied customer in David. Good on your David. Thanks for the chat. Yeah, look to all our health workers and first responders and the like. You do a sensational job. But unfortunately, too often bad news is what makes the headlines. Sue, good morning, good morning.
01:37:44
Speaker 15: Just to comment on the volunteering, I'm seventy two and I volunteer. But a lot of it is because the age of retirement for women used to be sixty and now it's sixty s Evans, And because of the childcare and young mum's having to go back to work. The ladies that would have normally sort of volunteer because they didn't have a lot to do and now sitting after children or still working.
01:38:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a very good point, to a very good point. Indeed, life has changed, and you know the situation has changed.
01:38:24
Speaker 15: That does impact on the volunteers.
01:38:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that. And it's a shame because without this, without volunteers, Sue, this country grind to a hold absolutely. Yeah, I mean it's unpaid labor and we need volunteers and if people have the time to volunteer, please do so good on you, Sue, thanks so much for your call, Tony says, in regards to Demonor's comment about raising tournament prize money, a professional tennis player has a whole team of traveling support staff, coach, physio, food, travel, et cetera, which can elevate expenses well beyond one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year, especially for elite players.
01:39:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:39:00
Speaker 1: I take that on board, Tony, but you're saying elevate expenses well beyonde hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. The losing prize money for the first round of the Australian Open is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so you don't have to be there take part. There's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. As you say, as a player, can be very expensive to go on the tour, but dear Idea, you know, you get me on the first round and you start earning serious money. John says, of course it's going to be hot this week. It's TDU week. Tour down Under.
01:39:33
Speaker 2: Good on your John five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:39:38
Speaker 1: Good morning to you, thanks for tuning in. Max says hello, Graham, I've been doing some research. The results tell me that watching Marriage at First Sight on TV does permanent brain damage. Ah, you being unkind. A lot of people love shows like that. Tennis players saying they're underpaid, Maybe they should tell that to brain surgeons and see what their response is. Yes, that's in regard to Alex Demor who has suggested that tennis players aren't getting a big enough share of the purse. Now, if Alex goes on to win the Australian Open, he will pocket an excess of four million dollars. Yes, that's four million dollars. Now, we know tennis players work hard. It's a lot of training, a lot of hard work, a lot of natural abilities needed. But a four million dollar pay day and if you go out in the first round of the Australian Open one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and he is suggesting that should be more, should be more? Like to know your thoughts on that eight double two to three doubler is the number to ring Good morning, gg I have an idea on how tennis players and other cash poor sports people can easily have more funds. The people I know get better or work harder to advance in their chosen profession. Well they get a second or third job seems to be helping them only saying Cononia, Patrick, thank you very much for that. Eight double two three double doublo is the number to ring. Anthony wants to know what is hate speech? What's next? No abusive comments at the football Everyone will have to behave with only constructive comments towards umpires and players. Puts a whole new perspective on the showdowns. Can you imagine a showdown with everyone saying all well done, Yes, nice kick, good job, umpire, well good decision. Would sort of take some of the fun out, wouldn't it. Read the algal bloom My Graham high gram. My neighbor is working for company who have a contract to pick up dead fish off the beaches every day, had their contract extended for six months, and the lady you had on earlier said gas was part of the cause of our algal bloom. How would you know when scientists, marine experts, purser and the government don't even know fair question. Eight double two three double DOUBLEO is the number to ring well After beating cancer At seventeen years of age, Brendan Trekkie Johnson took on a mammoth task and that was a cross country ride from Perth to Sydney to raise funds for cancer research. He joined us now, Brendan Treckie Johnson. Brendan, good morning, Yeah, thanks thanks for having me. Yeah, look, tell us about the ride. You've completed it now, that's a fair hit. How long did it take?
01:42:19
Speaker 4: It took eight and a half days, so I'd planned to beat the record actually set by Austrian Christoph Strasser in twenty seventeen of six days in almost eleven hours, but unfortunately we had some really really bad head winds the entire way, so I sat back a long way. But yeah, I got in on Sunday about one pm into the upper house.
01:42:43
Speaker 1: Now, tell us a little bit of a background about yourself. You know, seventeen years of age to contract cancer. That's awfully young.
01:42:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a tough period for me. I'm thirty four now so it's well behind me. But certainly as the physical scars all over my body from that time there was mental scars as well, and that period of my life was really challenging and the treatment and everything didn't really go to plan, and yeah, I left some lasting effects as a young as a young man, so yeah, it's taken some time to come back from that. Still sort of dealing with that kind of stuff. And I took this challenge on in support of Tour to Cure Cancer Research Foundation and we raise a lot of money. But yeah, for me, this challenge is about, you know, challenging myself and inspiring others to do the same. And I think that's when we learn the most about you know, ourselves as when we're a challenge with those adversity, that adversity and for me now it's a privilege to be able to put myself through that kind of pain and suffering as opposed to you know when people get unfortunately diagnosed with cancer and any kind of illness.
01:43:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you were a six time or stay at a marathon, mountain bike national champion. Did you have a site at the age of seventeen before contracting cancer that this is what you wanted to do, become, you know, a professional sports person?
01:44:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was on a good trajectory at the time, and it sort of it did derail that I spent after after treatment and stuff, I spent several years getting a trade and doing another, yeah, a regular job. For ten years or so, I still circled along along the way at a reasonable level. And then in the last in the last five or so years, I've gone full time with it and been able to do some things I'm really proud of, particularly Yeah this this culminating in this ride from Perth to Sydney in support of Yeah charity, but also Yeah, really challenging myself and yeah, showing what's I guess possible as a human being post Yeah, post such a disease such as cancer.
01:44:52
Speaker 1: So how does this marathon ride compare with other events that you've competed in.
01:45:00
Speaker 4: A thing of its kind that I've taken on. So my race professionally on the gravel circuit in the US mostly which is races. The longest one we have by far as sort of eight hours. It's a two hundred mile race in Kansas called Unbound, but most of our races are sort of four to six hours, And what we took on last week was close to nine days of fifteen hours or more a day, so really a new challenge and it took all aspects of my body to complete it. Yeah, we fell short of the record, but it was certainly a new challenge mentally physically, sleep deprivation, that kind of thing was a whole new ball game for me, and certainly we had yeah, about seven people in the road with me as well.
01:45:53
Speaker 1: So I was going to say, effort. It's not like it jumped on your bike in Perth and hopped off at eight days later in Sydney. You must have had a reasonable support grew behind it.
01:46:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a supported record, so you know, all you have to do basically is ride ride your bike every kilometer of the way, and you can have whatever support you need to be able to do that safely, their guess. And yeah, in terms of nutrition, we had a moving motor home with us and two others vehicles on the road for road safety. So obviously it's a big trucking route that's their turf out there, and we sort of invaded it for a week. But we had great support from those drivers and all the people driving across the country as well. So yeah, great support team and very necessary. I mean, all seven of them were on the go the entire time. Just a crazy effort. But yeah, it was amazing to see that part of the country on my bike.
01:46:53
Speaker 1: Did you just have the one bike?
01:46:55
Speaker 4: You can switch bikes. Yeah, But in terms of the record is such that it's so fast paced that and particularly the guy who holds it now, he barely slept and my approach was to sleep a lot more and ride a lot faster. So in terms of the bike, I was on a time trial bike, so you know, not much not built for comfort, built built for speed, which certainly sewed itself towards the end of the week I was dealing with with the ailments.
01:47:24
Speaker 9: But yeah, speed was the name a game for me.
01:47:28
Speaker 1: It was all about raising awareness and money, the two of the cure. How much do you raise thee We're close.
01:47:34
Speaker 4: To forty thousand now is which is really good, and a lot of people got on board. And even though out on the road, you know, we would see the same families for a period to like three days on a roll, like because we're leaving so early and finishing so late, we would see them like cycle through each day and maybe they got on board with what we were doing, and you know, we had the QR code on all the vehicles for people to start and to discan and and it's been a a great level of support and into Adelaide this week with the tour under and some engagements and stuff there, it's going to be really nice to keep pushing that, pushing towards that fifty thousand dollars target.
01:48:13
Speaker 1: Well, Brendan, congratulations and if anyone wants to make a donation, what can they do?
01:48:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's my Instagram page. Tracking on anyone is my tag. But yeah, I'll be on the ground Adelaide this week and at some events and then obviously the Tour it Under is happening and in its prime, and yeah, I hop to raally some more supporter as you sort of wrap up the campaign.
01:48:35
Speaker 1: Good on you're Brendan, great to chat. Thanks so much, Brendan. Trekkie Johnson, who after beating cancer at seventeen, has wanted to highlight the plight or highlight the situation of cancer, and his Tour de Cure raised forty thousand dollars so far. You can contribute to that by going to his website and he'll be in time for the tour down Under. My number is eight double two three double o double. Oh, we'll take some calls.
01:48:59
Speaker 2: John good mone, good morning Graham.
01:49:02
Speaker 12: I must say, and that that's an amazing story. And you know, the stuff that people go through and then they're willing to put themselves out to that type of thing is very impressive. This is more a nick pick. And because it's so hard to get on the sports show and with the Tour down Under being here at the moment as well as the tennis, there seems to be assumption that we're all vexillologists instead of having we're all we're flag experts.
01:49:29
Speaker 1: Oh okay, flag expert.
01:49:32
Speaker 12: You'll notice that not so much in the tennis because at least that the breakday generally will put up their country, but particularly in the cycling, mirrors are very there's quite a mix of countries that people aren't familiar with. You don't have a clue where they have come from.
01:49:48
Speaker 8: So I would have thought it would be just as easy to put the.
01:49:50
Speaker 12: Three letter I artic code for in front of the name instead of a flag. It seems to be prevalent in a lot of sports, but particularly you're a notice of the sight thing if you watch any of it. That's the case.
01:50:04
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good point. Yeah, I mean, flags look more colorful. But unless you're what do you call it a flexologist or something illis vexologists vexillologist, I've learned something about John.
01:50:19
Speaker 12: I mean, I do like my flags, but I mean there are some that you just have absolutely no idea, and some are.
01:50:24
Speaker 1: Quite similar, and when looking at them from a distance, how do you tell?
01:50:27
Speaker 12: And if you're blueger and colorbline, then it's really horrendous, like I am so so Yeah, it's just a minor nitpicked And there was one other thing that's completely and actually gone out of my head.
01:50:39
Speaker 1: Well, next time you think of it, let us know. Good to chat. Good on your John. Yes, that's that's the thing, isn't it? Colors flags, because a lot of a lot of countries have flags of similar colors, and you know, from any sort of distance. He makes a good point, it might be easier to put the three letter code for the country they came from. Dusty.
01:50:59
Speaker 24: Hello, Hello.
01:51:01
Speaker 30: Do I hope I never get that word in a script of my dialogue that I have to.
01:51:08
Speaker 12: What would work to pronounce? Yeah, you listen.
01:51:16
Speaker 30: I'm trying to be an artists, an actor and a comedian for about five years. I'm sixty seven O Victor Harbor. You know, we're struggling with the algal moon. I do try and do some busting down here. The council are very supportive. Now rows ahead part the Bluff State government land, but the council manager currently they will not issure a busker's permit to use that area because there are no safe areas to perform. And I support that decision, and you know, let's try and create some performing places that are safe. And the council have just built a nice new performance space in the lawns near the Bowls Club in Victor Harbor, so you know, they're investing rate past money and I've been a rate pay here for thirty years, so you know, and this is our performance of our Arts Minister and Adelaide Writers Week. I've got open mic comedy shows I'm paying to organize at the Rudy night Club in February, March and April. You know, so we're trying, you know, part of it. I don't get fringe hunting, but you know it's part of the fringe they'll be I'm going to help other communitis who come here for the fringe perform and promote their shows. So it's about the performance to the Arts Minister. I've sent an email to the Arts Minister, you know, suggesting that you know, they support our council to build these safe performance spaces in the Rosetta Head Wharf park area and one of the oldest Strake Wharf would be nice, right, very popular with fishing and families in the day, but very busy, so it's not really safe to set up and perform me, you know. So I asked the Minister, I send any well contract of the office and I said, senaty, So I do all that, but we're going to apply what happens are she handballs it sideways? Just some other minister. Now, when I was in a corporate technician in the Court for corporate Computing, we had some training about responsibility seekers and responsibility shirkers. So there are some people, you know, they will see an opportunity, but it's not really my responsibility to take that on to help solve that problem. I'm not paid to do that, and you know I'll put a token effort in handball it sideways. They're a responsibility shirker. And there are other people who's seeing an opportunity. You're not really paid to do that extra work, but it will read to a good outcome and that you know. So this is what they've trained is to be a responsibility seeker. Okay, So I'm just disappointed.
01:53:46
Speaker 1: And you're still waiting for an answer.
01:53:48
Speaker 30: No, I got an answer. She's handballed it side.
01:53:50
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You haven't got a final answer though.
01:53:53
Speaker 30: It's ministry with Joseph that Joe Psychage and I have a previous issue with him and I just don't have any face in him either. So I'm very disappointed. And you know, I'm not surprised you've got this train wreck at the adlid Riders.
01:54:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your Dusty. I think you've put forward your case pretty well and I hope it gets resolved and you can do your busking down south. On the stock market front, the All Ords has continued its slow start, done by forty five points, ASX two hundred also lost more ground, down forty two points. Oiler is still going for fifty nine US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar steady at sixty seven US cents, back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham goodings. It's ten to twelve five double a coming up at midday the news, followed by conversations with the Quansey and then it's Stacy Lee. How the first day go stays?
01:54:47
Speaker 27: Hello, Graham? Really well, Yeah, really good. I pressed a couple wrong buttons.
01:54:52
Speaker 1: That's part of the game.
01:54:52
Speaker 31: Felt comfortable pretty quickly, and I was so exhausted I passed out on the lounge at eight thirty last night.
01:55:00
Speaker 1: The feeling all too well, no doubt. You've seen the story about breakfast cereals. Are you important breakfast person? Do you have to have bricky?
01:55:06
Speaker 31: I am yes, And I was reading that as I was eating my wheat bis this morning.
01:55:11
Speaker 1: Oh they rate pretty well.
01:55:12
Speaker 27: Yeah, number three on the list. I'll be talking about this this afternoon.
01:55:16
Speaker 31: I've got a dietitian and nutritionist coming on to talk about it, because I think breakfast is something we're all quite passionate about.
01:55:24
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting that you know, breakfast the most important meal of the day. That I grew up hearing that, yes, and more recently on that's not so important that I couldn't get the people that say, oh, do you get up and have a cup of coffee and don't have anything to lunch. That would destroy me.
01:55:39
Speaker 27: No, I can't do it.
01:55:40
Speaker 1: I get very angry when I get hungry. Me too. I'm starting to get angry.
01:55:43
Speaker 27: Now, Okay, I better hurry up and get out of here. I don't want to see that side of you.
01:55:47
Speaker 1: No, food's very important to me. And but brecky, you can't start the day without good breakfast.
01:55:53
Speaker 2: Yep.
01:55:53
Speaker 31: And I've got to say I'm When I saw this list, I was quite heartened because I'm usually either an oats or a wheat bitch.
01:56:00
Speaker 1: Oh right, it's the top of the list.
01:56:02
Speaker 27: Of the top of the list.
01:56:04
Speaker 31: However, my suspicion is it depends on what you're adding, right exactly, because.
01:56:10
Speaker 27: Does anyone have play notes? But absolutely nothing added.
01:56:15
Speaker 1: I mix honey, a bit of salt, give a bit of tang. Salt gives just a little tang and honey, cinnamon on top, just a little bit of milk.
01:56:25
Speaker 27: You might have to try the little sprinkle of salt.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, no day, it's yeah, I know, salt isn't on the top of the pile good thing for you, but it does just bring out the flavor.
01:56:35
Speaker 31: Well, it's very that sweet and savory combination is very in you salted caramel, and you've got that different flavor profile.
01:56:43
Speaker 1: I'm other than that. I like a bit of musely. Yeah, that's I've noticed Musely wasn't listed on them. I don't know where it fits, well, I.
01:56:51
Speaker 27: Guess because it varies.
01:56:52
Speaker 31: You can buy so many different types, with so many different fruits and nuts and grains and stuff added.
01:56:57
Speaker 1: So I found I at last found a museally, a toasted music I really liked and I always gove to it, and they took it off the market, of course, and then I went for another two in a row. Now one was called O and G. I can't think of the name of the second one. And after a few months and I'm really into it, gone, I'm the kiss of death.
01:57:19
Speaker 27: Not to self, not to sel.
01:57:22
Speaker 1: So we're so I'm back on corn flax, which I noticed has listed at number ten on the list.
01:57:27
Speaker 27: Not great, not.
01:57:28
Speaker 1: Great, not great.
01:57:29
Speaker 31: No, we'll be talking about that this afternoon. I'll be chatting to Chloe McLeod, who's a dietitian and nutritionist. And while I've got her, I also want to ask her about bacon because I've been seeing a lot lately about bacon being a class one carcinogen, yeah, and being as bad as tobacco. But eating bacon is as bad as smoking. All these headlines I keep reading and I'm thinking, I mean, I know it's not great, and let's talk about how we can make it healthier, and there are healthier options out there.
01:57:58
Speaker 27: But that is smoking, surely not.
01:58:01
Speaker 1: No, I find that hard to believe. I mean, I know the stories about bacon, and it's not the top of the tree thing for you.
01:58:07
Speaker 28: No.
01:58:08
Speaker 1: But if you had to make a choice between bacon and.
01:58:10
Speaker 27: Smoking, yeah, I think I know which one I'm going.
01:58:14
Speaker 1: I know which one I go for.
01:58:15
Speaker 27: But I might ask Chloe for some alternatives to bacon as well.
01:58:18
Speaker 31: If we're starting our year fresh talking about cereals and breakfasts and what we like to eat and what's good for you, and if we're saying bacon's not good for you in the you know, air quotation marks everything in moderation, as they say, what are some alternatives?
01:58:32
Speaker 27: If you want your egg with a bit of meat, what can we put with it? Are we going to be having chicken and egg rolls? Just it's not the same chicken and egg?
01:58:42
Speaker 1: How does that work? No, probably not.
01:58:43
Speaker 31: I've always criticized Americans for the crappy turkey bacon they eat, But do we have to resort to turkey bacon?
01:58:50
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I went to America and that they were big on eating out breakfast. Oh yeah, families eat out. And what they put on the plate absolutely amazement.
01:59:00
Speaker 27: And how big the plate?
01:59:02
Speaker 1: The eggs and bacon, Well that's sort of fine, but then there'd be pancakes with maple syrup all on the one plate, and then tomatoes and then a waffle.
01:59:12
Speaker 5: It's crazy, isn't it?
01:59:14
Speaker 1: And I thought, how do you mean we all eat these things and it ends up in your stomach? We know that, but a little bit of separation.
01:59:20
Speaker 31: Please, or I once ordered a side of hash brown. You get one or two little hash browns on No, an entire plate of hash brown. I've got a dinner plate size hash brown.
01:59:33
Speaker 27: Yeah crazy, I know that.
01:59:36
Speaker 1: You wonder why Americans aren't Morenobese?
01:59:39
Speaker 31: Well, yeah, we'll be talking about that this afternoon. I'm also going to be talking to the team from Phil Hoffman Travel. We've got the travel segment Thesavo Turkey Tuesday is back, so looking forward to that and did you know that we have an E motorcycle company headquartered here in Adelaide. So we talk about electric cars and then you've got your electric scooters and bikes.
02:00:05
Speaker 27: But this is an E.
02:00:07
Speaker 31: Motorbike, right, so not a not a push, not a scooter bike, E bike not but an E motorbike. So I want to talk to them about the technology surrounding E motorbikes and how does that work. And a fear that a lot of people have with electric vehicles is that there's no sound. I know people from the deaf community are really worried about that. An increase in electric vehicles, it's hard to hear when a car is coming. A motorbike would have similar concerns.
02:00:36
Speaker 27: Plus the speeds E.
02:00:38
Speaker 31: Electric vehicles and motorbikes they must get up to some huge, huge, very quick.
02:00:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.
02:00:45
Speaker 27: Yeah, So we'll talk about all of that because this is kind of new.
02:00:49
Speaker 31: We've learned about the electric cars and E bikes and scooters for a while, but motorbikes, I think it's quite quite new on our roads.
02:00:58
Speaker 27: Interesting stuff, So we'll talk about that this afternoon too.
02:01:00
Speaker 1: Excellent. Look, before you go, we had Tom Kuittzon Turners on earlier. I don't know if you heard it. I did. It's interesting he's been really the attack dog regarding Ashton Herne. Do you think he's doing that because there is some concern in the Labor Party that all of a sudden there is I mean, they're going to win, There's no question the Labor Party will win, but they see Ashton hern really as a viable contender.
02:01:23
Speaker 31: Absolutely, And I thought Ben Hood, the Shadow Minister, made a really good point when he called in afterwards. Surely the government has better and bigger and more important things to do than trawling social media right now, don't they.
02:01:36
Speaker 1: Well Tom tried to justify it. They're sort of, you know, just highlighting the issues. But yeah, I tend to agree, you know, get on with running the state and those other things will tend to look after themselves.
02:01:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
02:01:47
Speaker 31: I'm not concerned as to what the politicians are putting on social media as much as I am as to what they're saying and promising and then fulfilling after those promises are made.
02:01:56
Speaker 1: Well, as I said to Tom Kuittson Turner's regarding Ashton hern you know, she new leader, new policies. I can't see there's a real issue if she sees that the state needs to go in a different direction or the policies need to be different. I mean, I don't think any politician has not changed their mind at some stage.
02:02:12
Speaker 27: Yes, I agree, new leader, new policies.
02:02:15
Speaker 31: You'd think it just becomes a concern when the leader then changes in a year's time and then there's new policies again, and then it continues every year.
02:02:22
Speaker 27: So hopefully for the Liberal Party that doesn't happen gives her.
02:02:25
Speaker 1: Something to talk about. Definitely, Stacy will hear of this afternoon after one.
02:02:29
Speaker 27: Thanks Gigi.
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Speaker 1: That's it from me today. I have a great day, see you tomorrow.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Tuesday, this twentieth day of January twenty twenty six year, well and truly underway. Did I hear right in the news? I only came in part way through the end of it where one of the players at the Australian Open tennis was complaining about their rate of pay. We've got Sam will find it, no doubt the exact statement, but I'm led to believe that. I mean, we know it's a multimillion dollar event, but if you make the final draw and you were a first round loser at the Australian Open, you get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, that's not bad. You go out in straight set six love six love six love and they write you a check for one hundred and fifty thousand Australian dollars or is it US dollars. I'm not sure, but it's an awful lot of money. Anyway. We'll find out more about that lots on the show today. Love to hear from you. On eight double two to three double oh is the number. There's a dump Santos protest on today as Santos toured own gets into full swing. We'll find out more about that shortly. News poll figures out yesterday shocked the political world, with Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party taking over as the second most popular party in Australia, bumping the Coalition into third place. Pauline Hansen I think it's fair to say it's been one of Australia's most controversial political figures for nearly three decades. Since she first came into power, or came into politics in Canberra, She's always been a polarizing figure. First, she's been accused of racial and religious intolerance, particularly over her views on the immigration in Islam, which critics have said stigmatize the minority communities and deepen social division. Secondly, Pauline Hanson is often criticized for simplifying complex issues. Opponents argue her popular style generates headlines but lacks detailed, workable policy, especially when it comes to the economy and trade. And on a third point, her strong client change skepticism has drawn sharp criticism from scientists and business leaders, who say it ignores evidence and risks Australia's future. In recent years, whenever she's appeared on radio or TV, there's been immediate and overwhelming reaction ninety percent of it was negative. She was just seen as nuisance value to the major parties and not to be taken seriously. Supporters, however, argued, Hansen gave voice to voters who felt ignored by the major parties, making a divisive but undeniably influential, but still just a minority voice. So what has changed now? Anytime we've spoken with her over the past six month, reaction has been overwhelmingly positive. Voters both labor and liberal have voiced their support. Has she become more a centrist? Has she changed in any way? So what has changed? I think it's got to be the voters who appear to have come around to Pauline Hammonson's way of thinking. Handless a Pauline Hanson's resurgence reflects a convergence of voter frustration and political timing. Those cost of living pressures, housing stress, and declining trust in major parties have created fertile ground for protest politics. Hanson's simple, emotionally direct messaging cuts through the time when many voters feel overwhelmed by complexity and poly speak. Political commentators also point to concerns over immigration levels, cultural change, and a loss of national identity. Which One Nation continues to highlight. With major parties converging on policy, often appearing almost identical, they often appear over cautious. Hanson benefits as a clear outsider, attracting disaffected voters who are seeking direct answers rather than government contrived solutions. One Nation is often likened to Nigel Farage's Reform UK Party because they share a similar populous playbook. Both position themselves as anti establishment outsiders tap voter anger at major parties, political elites, and institutions. They emphasize national sovereignty, strong boarders, skepticism about high immigration, and resistance to progressive social agendas. Their leaders rely on plain, provocative language to cut through media noise and mobilize disaffected voters. If the latest News poll figures for anything to go by, what Pauline Hanson's doing is working. But is the Hanson factor a reality that will play out at the next federal election or will it peter out when the blow torch of having to place a tick in the One Nation box on polling day returns many voters to the status quo and they're rusted on position.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Later this morning, we're going to find out more about the whole issue with emeritus Professor of Politics Clem McIntyre, is what's happening with Pauline Hanson in one nation? A passing phase or will she and her party play an influential role in the next federal election. Eight double two three double O is the number to the or any other issue we've been talking about. As I mentioned, Conservation Council Essay is staging a protest later the day against Santos and its sponsorship of the TDU. They're saying gas is a dirty fossil fuel, one of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis. As we know, Santos is a giant gas company with plans for three massive new gas projects. So what is the thinking behind today's protest? Darcy McNamara joins us now Darcy, good.
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Speaker 3: Morning, Good morning Graham. How are you going.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm well. Thanks. What has prompted this protest against Santos?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So, as you said before, gas is a dirty fossil fuel and it's one of the biggest drivers of the climate crisis, which is causing the devastating alcol bloom droughts in South Australia and bushfires all over Australia and South Australia. As you said, Santos is a giant gas company and they've got plans for three new gas projects in Narrabriya, Beadlouombrossa, and they're able to push ahead with these plans because they wield immense political influence in South Australia and we're concerned about that. We believe that we need to break our politics free of Santos, and so that's why we're calling on our labor government to dump Santos as a sponsor of the tour down Under. We did have a big rally as well last Friday. We had over two hundred people attend. We also had Adam Bandt, who was the CEO of Australian Conservation Fountadations speak. So there is a movement growing around this.
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Speaker 1: Are you surprised that there is so much government support or backing for Santos, considering the government and Salva Stratia is so pro renewables.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm very surprised at the fact that our premier has been spooking the Narrow Bright gas project over in New South Wales. He's also been using climate community forums to spook gas as well. I'm really not hearing enough about transition away from gas.
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Speaker 1: It's concerning now there have been protests. I think Extinction Rebellion held a protest against Santos, So is that in concert with Conservation Council essay? Do you have anything to do with them?
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Speaker 3: No, we're two separate organizations. But Extinction Rebellion has been fighting this fight for a very long time, so we're really amplifying the same message that they're calling for and their concern for Santos being the sponsor.
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Speaker 1: Would you be attempting to disrupt the tour down Under?
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Speaker 4: No, not at all.
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Speaker 3: We love the Tour down Under. We think it's a fantastic event for South Australia and we want to honor that. Really, we're just disappointed about Santos and that sponsorship. We have no plans to disrupt the race at all.
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Speaker 1: Darcy, thanks for your time today. That's Darcy McNamara Conservation Council Essay. They're staging a protest today against Santos and the sponsorship of the Tour down Under. A little bit later on we'll speak with Treasure of Tom Kutson Turnus, who has been a big supporter, of course of the tour down Under and probably couldn't have happened without Santos's support.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen past nine to five Double A and we just heard Matthew Pantellis. I'd like to thank Matthew for filling in on the morning show while I was away. Also, Leith Forrest also did his time. Thanks guys for keeping the show up to the highest standards. You always do a great job and it's most appreciated. Well. Pauline Hanson the only mentioned the name these days and there's a huge reaction. The text line has gone hot. I'd like to hear what you think about Pauline Hanson and will this substantial rise in one nation's popularity carry through until the federal election? Eight double two three double O double is the number, Damien? What are your thoughts?
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Speaker 5: Good day Graham.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, just a relation to paul and Hanson. I mean, in some ways you could draw the analogy that she's similar to that of Trump. When Trump was running to than sixteen, he was really the ultimate protest vote. I think obviously what we're seeing in polling is achieved that protest vote for many Middle Australians. However, I think that in an election campaign, people's behavior will narrow in their voting habits because and the dynamics and the difference between US and the United States is that we have compulsory voting, and so people probably take a more informed decision at the time that they actually vote, rather than the impulse process that perhaps appears in the United States. But also the failure of One Nation to be able to address the bread and butter issues. And this is where it all, where you know, the rubber really hits the road. You know, what's their policy on tax genuine policy on tax?
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Speaker 2: It does it?
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Speaker 6: Is it credible? What's their policy on superannuation and retirement saving all of those? That's where you know, Pauline Hanson and One Nation to come on start for most little Australian No, you.
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Speaker 1: Make some good points there, Damian. There's no question about that One Nation has been seen as sort of a one or two policy party. If they're serious about being a major contender, of course they have to diversify and have views on the economy and homelessness and health and so many other aspects that they probably aren't totally across. But thanks for call eight double two to three double o double oh is the number. There's no question about online shopping. Do you partake? You're one of those people are a bit wary. It's grown, it's booming. A straight up. Post delivered one hundred and eleven million parcels in November and December alone last year. Demand surged right across the board. There was one day, I think it was December the eighth, three million parcels were delivered nationwide. That's more than three thousand every minute. And I know there are some horror stories about people waiting for deliveries or getting a message saying we tried to deliver the parcel but there was no one home and you've been sitting at home all day waiting. Well, if you have a story like that, let us know about it. I'd like to hear it. Eight double two to three double double oh. But while we are really going gangbusters for online shopping, there is a downside. New Finder research shows eighteen percent of Australians had a parcel go missing in the past year alone. The research by Finder. The editor is Angus Redmon. Why joint or kid money joins us now, Angus, good morning to you, Good morning Graham. I love buying things online, I must admit, while it's not quite the same as going into the shop and you know, having the touchy feely thing of the product, it is very convenient, convenient. But as you found out, there is a major downside to online shopping.
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Speaker 5: Yes, we can see that. Like you know, while for most people most of the time it works out okay or a worse as you said, they had the thing of your wedding and home of the delivery and then you have to go to the post office anyway to pick it up. But we do know that for one people basically in the past year said no, why I've actually had something that didn't come to my house. It was stolen from my players and went to the wrong address, or it went missing before it even got to the local post office. So it is the more that we shop online, the bigger this problem grows, and the more that people find that occasionally they're's not getting a thing that they ordered.
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Speaker 1: So this would run into millions of parcels that just don't turn.
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Speaker 5: Up exactly yea, So we'd estimated that, like you know, it's three point nine million loss to the reason a year if these vigas hold up. So while I say most of them are still getting there, but that's you know, for me, and that's a lot of parcels. And with people spending more, the average spend on a parcel now is two hundred and twenty one dollars. That adds up to over eight million dollars worth of stuff that is ultimately going missing. And that's frustrating for everybody.
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Speaker 1: So I guess we're not going to stop online shopping. So what can we do to lessen the risk?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think one thing is to be aware of what you've ordered. And I know plenty of people like there. They go a bit crazy. They're sitting on the phone, they order a few things and they're not tracking when they're said they're going to be delivered. If you have some idea when you're expecting it, you can at least think, well, will I be home, Keep an eye on your notifications, keep an eye on your emails, and you stay on top of that. And if you know that you're out and about a lot, if you are out of work every day and you're worried about that, then look at those alternative delivery options. Can you get it sent to a parcel locker? Can you get it sent to your place of work so that you're not worried about it disappearing off your porch if that's what ends up happening.
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Speaker 1: One of the frustrations is that you get a message on your phone saying and you have placed an order or two, then you've sort of lost track of them to some degree, and it'll be a message saying your parcel will be delivered on so and so and you find out it's a scam. I mean, that's what we've got.
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Speaker 5: To look out for too, absolutely, And that's the thing like, yeah, are the spam message for saying, hey.
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Speaker 7: You've got a delivery.
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Speaker 8: That's really common.
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Speaker 5: Most modern phones will identify a lot of those and they'll just end up in your spam folder automatically, but the odd one gets through. So yeah, it is also important to be cautious. If you did get on those notifications, have a look at that address, because there's a good chance if you look at it clo see and then go hang on, I don't think Australia Post actually has a website based in Germany. Maybe I shouldn't be quickening on that link.
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Speaker 1: What is the situation? You know, you know, you mentioned that an average loss of two hundred and twenty one dollars per pass. I mean, that's that's pretty serious money. Can you cover it with insurance?
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Speaker 5: So you've got a couple of options. I mean, in the first instance, obviously you're going to follow up with the deliveryal or in thatation you're going to fight up with the retailer and say, hey, can I get a refund or can I get the item? Recent that's off on what people want. I just want to say, how I wanted to buy this, think can you send it to me? You may be covered if you really don't get the delivery and you've purchased on your credit card, then you can potentially apply through that and say hey I never got these goods and then get you cash back in that way, so you might be covered by your home insurance if it gets one off the porch. But that's going to be a trickier one to pursue it. You can get the charge back on the credit card. That's definitely easier.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's always obvious, you know, just deal with reputable online businesses because a lot of them set up shop and they look reputable, you know, using a and so forth. It looks repivtal, only to find out later on that you've been.
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Speaker 5: Conn Absolutely, you want to stick with those reliable, known retailers and go directly to it, because there's tempting as it can be to search for Hey, this is the product that increases the risk that you're going to run into a site that, as you say, looks legit, but actually they're never going to send you anything, So you want to try and stay away from that.
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Speaker 1: Good on your Angus Great advice, that's Angus Kidman find Editor at Large the shopping boom do you partake? I know some people say, oh, I would never buy anything online, but I think more and more of us are realizing that if you're careful and judicious and only go to reputable sites, it's pretty good. But then you know, Australia posts delivered one hundred and eleven million parcels, some will go astray, some of them get stolen. Three point nine million lost deliveries in the past year. Four percent of those were stolen and the average loss is two hundred and twenty one dollars. That's almost nine hundred million dollars lost nationally. So we're not talking about an inconsiderable amount here, so be warned and be wary. From the text line, Steve says, re one Nations rise. The Liberals have been weak at sticking to their core values because these values were not popular for a while. Now opinion has changed and people are turning to one nation as they do not deviate from their values. Goot on your Steve, thanks for that. Regarding Darcy McNamara of the Conservation Council essay and their Dump Santos protest, how does she know that gas is causing the algal bloom while two hundred out of one point three million people, And how does that lady know that the algal bloom is caused by climate change when we have substantial numbers of scientists who have not determined the reason why the bloom exists. Yes, a lot of the callers and textures on that line. If you have a thought on it, I'd like to hear it. Eight double two to three double double oh. On Pauline Hansen, Fred says, I think one of the reasons Pauline Hanson is becoming popular, she's saying what people are thinking. And I think one of the interesting things is there have been a lot of people in the past who have agreed talantly with what Pauline Hanson has been thinking, but was embarrassed to come out publicly because Pauline Hanson has been pilloried by politicians and political commentators and a lot of people saying she's a radical, she's a bigot, she's racist. So people who sort of shared similar views to her didn't want to be branded in that way. But now they're coming out of the war would work saying hang on, we are concerned about immigration. The numbers of people coming to this country are country losing its identity, the fact that there are not enough houses for Australians. People are saying it's time we did something and they're not happy with the way the governments approached the issue. They're not happy with the way the Liberal Party has approached the issue. Eight double two three double doublow eight double two three double o double o the number. Don't these people understand that without gas we will run out of power? Thank you for that. John. We will speak with treasure Tom Kutsontanus. We're having a chat with him about what he's been having to say about Ashton Herne and her deleting of social post. Yes, but also put to him what he thinks about the tour down under Santos protest back shortly five Double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is one of my favorite songs, Gloria by them, But we're not going to play anymore because we're not a music station. I'll just go home and play a little bit later on twenty eight to ten, five Double A on Tuesday Morning. Well, Treasure of Tom Kuodson Turners is continuing his relentless attack on Ashton Hearne after she deleted a social media post which supported ditching stamp duty in an attempt to distance itself from her predecessor, Vincentazia. She deleted a social media post which she was positive about the Liberal Opposition's ditch signature policy to abolish stamp duty. Well, Tom Kuitson Turners, who is quickly on the attack, he joins us, now, Treasure of good morning, O morning Graham.
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Speaker 2: How are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm well? Thanks? So were you surprised that Ashton hearn took this action?
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think a lot of your listeners would have always have thought that the Liberal Party were about lower taxes, but the moment they had a policy that they couldn't pay for. They've just dumped it. And other candidates are keeping their posts up so that they support stamp duty cuts, but Miss Hearn has deleted hers. And I think this confusion so close to the election is quite frankly a symptom of where the Liberal Party are right now. They're confused, they're not being coherent about what their policies are, and South Totus have a right to ask, well, what is their tax policy as they had to the election, given they've just abandoned their signature tax cut.
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Speaker 1: I mean, new leader. Isn't it reasonable that she has new policies?
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Speaker 9: But my point though is when you're a teen, these policies that come up, Graham, they're debated within a shadow cabinet. Our representative government is not a presidential system. It's a cabinet led government where all cabinet ministers, all shadow cabinet members have to say on policy. Development was a big enthusiastic supporter of this massive tax cut, and now she's abandoned it, and I think voters have every right to ask, well, if I've abandoned their signature tax cut, what is their policy on taxes and what they're telling us is we'll tell you after the election what's going to happen with taxes, whether they go up or whether they go down. And I think that is completely unsatisfactory for voters not to know what the major opposition in the state's plans are for their taxes.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Shadow Treasurer Ben Hood has not taken down his post, which was had a similar meaning.
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Speaker 9: Now he's left his up. Either he hasn't let the memo from Ashton yet or he's still supports This is my point. What is the policy if the leader is saying there's going to be no major tax cut and the shadow Treasurer is saying, well, maybe there will be, or maybe there'll be other taxes to replace it. I think South Australians have every right to ask themselves if this confused now, what would they be like as a government. And I'll post this question to your listeners. Have they ever seen a bad opposition become a good government? And I think this is thematic of where the Liberal Party are right now.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fair to say, Tom, since Ashtonharn came into power, you've been savage and attacking her and taken every opportunity does this suggest that in some way Labor is a bit concerned that she is a worthy opponent to the Premier.
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Speaker 9: No, I don't think I've been savage, but I think, oh, yes you have. I don't think so, not for my standards gram anyway, I think it shows that the government's not complacent. The government does not think that this election is a laid our mozair. The government thinks that we have to be competitive, that we have to put forward our policies. We're open to scrutiny, We're open to answering questions, and we've got a tax policy that will be announcing that will be open for scrutiny. And what we won't be saying is trust us. We're going to form a commission to tell you our tax policies after the election. My point is everything we say we're going to do over the next four years will be transparent about what our political opponents are saying is, look, we don't know what our tax policy is going to be. We're going to hold a commission and that commission would tell us what to do after the election. And I think South Australians deserve better than that. I think South Australians deserve to know exactly what taxes are going to have before an election, because that breeds mistrust and when you have mistrust in the political system, you get very poor outcomes from the public.
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Speaker 1: Now, on another issue, the Conservation councilor is taking the government head on. They're staging a protest later today against the Santos' involvement and the sponsorship of the too it down Under. Now seeing the races managed by the South of Stradian government, it really is a reflection on you as a government.
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Speaker 9: Well, I'm proud of having Santos as a major sponsor. Santos or a wonderful South Australian company who called it here in Adelaide. I think South Australians are very proud of Santos Santos. Most South Australians have more ownership of Santos shares than any other company. I see no reason for us to be embarrassed by what they're doing. People know my credentials on this. I am pro renewable energy. I can't I can't have integrate more renewable energy into the system with our gas as a backup and gas it has lower emissions than cole.
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Speaker 1: But you see that gas is a dirty fossil fuel.
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Speaker 9: No, no, I do not. I think it is a fossil fuel, but it is key for decarbonization. It is key for us to make sure that if we want to decarbonize our grid, we need to have firm, reliable energy that can back up our renewables for when the doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. That makes complete sense. It's the ultimate form of storage. I mean, and I think anyone who is opposed to this really doesn't understand how the transition is working. We've got to we've got to make sure that we have a whole series of options to firm our grid. And just ruling out gas for some base ideological reason rather than looking at the physics and integration of the system is childish.
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Speaker 1: So you will ignore the Conservation Council's request that you you dump Santos.
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Speaker 9: Yes, of course we will.
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Speaker 1: Now if I can just get you to hang on just for a second, we have a question for you, Treasurer from Eric.
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Speaker 10: Eric, go ahead, Erry, no pleasure the government's kitchen. Well, I'd like to know is considering the Parlament. So the dollars and save What is your attitude for people investigative for not paying.
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Speaker 1: Did you hear, Treasurer?
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Speaker 9: No, I couldn't. I couldn't get that ground.
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Speaker 1: So Eric, Eric, can you repeat to your question.
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Speaker 10: You are the government's head kicker, treasurer, and when you came into parliament you would find the dollars the traffic which you paid eventually, what is your attitude to masure people who have thousands of more than dollars and things have made to pay.
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Speaker 9: I think Eric's just trying to make a political point. I mean, look, I think that the laws as they are give people plenty of opportunity to look after themselves and make sure that they're well acquitted.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thanks for that, treasure. Look, the final question, what did you make of Pauline Hanson One Nation becoming the second most popular party in the nation and do you think that will have any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 9: It's a good question. Look, I don't know. I think a lot of Conservative voters are very disillusioned with the Liberal Party and they're looking for alternity, and I think they're looking towards One Nation and I think, indeed, you know, lots of voters are looking to alternatives and third parties, and I think it's a sad indictment on all of us when parties like One Nation grow. We need to work harder to make sure that we offer people a better path. And I think a lot of it's to do with the fact that young people are finding it difficult to find a home. People are feeling that the government is not listing, governments are not listening to their concerns. We need to do more to listen to people. I think our response to the housing crisis has been very, very good, and I think that's why in South Australia you're not seeing that drift from the Labor Party away to one nation, but you are seeing it from the Liberal Party to one nation. But we've got to be always vigilant. So I don't know how this will play out, but I am very concerned that what I would hate to see in the Federal Parliament is a system where that no one has a majority, you know. I like the idea of there being majority governments in Canberra. I think it's good for the country. I don't like seeing minority governments. I think minority governments can be bad for the country, whether it's Labor or Liberal. I always think we have better governments when Bob Hawk has a majority, or Paul Keating or John Howard. It is much better to have a majority than to govern by a minority, where you're open to the whims and concerns of minority groups. I think it doesn't give you the opportunity to govern in a national interest.
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Speaker 1: The treasure I guess we'll speak between now and the state election.
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Speaker 9: Thank you very much, Graham.
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Speaker 1: Treasurer Tom Quinston Tantus on a couple of issues there, Conservation Council Essa wanting a ban on Santos', the sponsorship of the two down under Paul Enhance an issue, and of course Ashton Hearn deleting a social media post. Ben Hood, the Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations, is called in good morning.
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Speaker 11: Good morning Graham, and happy new year to you and to you.
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Speaker 1: You want to respond to what the Treasurer I had to.
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Speaker 11: Say, I certainly do, Graham. Look, I think this does answer the question as to why Tom Kurtzontonus had been put on ice for the last few weeks and Blair Boyer rather unsuccessfully seems to be the new mud slinger for labor. If the Treasurer has time to be stalking Ashton turns social media posts and I think that really just shows exactly where the government's priorities are. I must admit it's giving a little bit of creepy old man vibes for us. We are solely focused on giving South Australians a real choice in March, and that's a choice for more affordable South Australia, a better health system and safer communities. Now, the treasurer there said that his government was focused on transparency. But I would put it to your listeners, let's have a think about what they did promise in twenty twenty two. They promised hydrogen which fell over to the cost of about five hundred million dollars. They promised to fix the ramping crisis, of which we now have record ramping in this state, larger than any time in history. That is where their credentials sit. They made promises, they haven't delivered them, and what people will get in March from the Liberal Party A Herne Liberal government is a sole focus on South Australian's having a more affordable state. That is what we're focused on. It certainly isn't trawling through social media posts and slinging mud. If label want to do the gutter politics and the time wasting. We'll leave it to them. We're getting on with ensuring that South Australians have a real choice come March.
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Speaker 1: Well, Ashton Hearn deleted a social media post supporting ditching stamp duty. You also have a post on the abolition of stamp duty. Yours is still there. Does this mean that you still support the abolition of stam.
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Speaker 11: Duty, Well, Graham, I've always been very upfront with my position on stam Jude. I do think it's a lazy and archaic tax, and I don't think many of your listeners would disagree with that. In fact, I've said that in my maiden speech, at which I think Tom Kustontonus is only one of two people who have listened to it, my mother being the other. But what we are doing is a very ambitious plan, which is to habitacks Reform Commission, which will involve peak industry bodies, and I've spoken with those industry bodies and they are very much on board with this Tax Reformed Commission to wholly and solely look at our tax system here in South Australia and make moves and legislative changes to ensure that we have a more affordable state. That is our plan, we believe is own ambitious one and that is where we are going to be. That's what we will be taking to March for this election. We are the only party that is even remotely talking about tax reforming the state. Labor don't want to touch it. Their coppers are full on the back pockets of South Australians and they give themselves a pat on the back for surpluses and other things. Our Tax Reform Commission will be solely purposed to look at every single nook and cranny of our tax system and then provide advice to earn Theble Government to ensure we have more affordable South Australia for mums and dads, the nurses, for tradees for business people, for those in the regions, and those in METROCA, out of South Australia as well.
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Speaker 1: I mean out that stamp duty provides a huge part of the state government coffers two billion dollars. I mean, if you erated that, where would you make up the shortfall?
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Speaker 11: Look, Graham, you are right, there are floods of money coming in from stamp duty and as we said, we've a bold and ambitious plan for our Tax Reform Commission to report within the first hundred days. But also need amediate relief as well, and that's why we are exempting stamp duty for first home buyers. We are scrapping the GPA payroll tax so it is cheaper to see your doctor. Those are the important things. Those are the things that South Australians talk to us about. So while Tom Kusontonus is spending time on Facebook and Instagram, we are actually listening to the people of South Australia and we will give them a real choice to deliver a more affordable state for mums and dads and for all those people I mentioned that is the most important thing.
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Speaker 1: A question I put to the Treasurer in relation to the surprise polling of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party, now the second most popular party in the statia do you think I think that will have any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 11: Well, Gram, it is a very interesting question. Now, of course, we have quite an interesting sort of dynamic here in the state, given that Sarah Game was a One Nation MP or MLC and now has formed her own party. So I think that that will certainly play out. But I do agree with Tom Kusontonis on this that I think that all sides of politics need to do better, need to talk about practical policies that actually speak to everyday Australians and every day South Australians, and I think that's why you do see a bleed of voters, which is quite a large one at the present time if we go on the polling to one nation. So it is about being practical, it's about being real world, just everyday people talking to everyday people. People want their politicians and their political parties to actually talk about what matters, and that is why our focus is on giving South Australians a real choice in March. It certainly isn't trolling through social media posts and it certainly is a month slinging at the opposition. It is speaking directly to South Australians to ensure they have a more affordable state. I think that's what they want and that is exactly what we're going to begin with.
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Speaker 1: Ben Hood good to chat, Shadow Minister for Industrial Relations. Eight double two three double ow double is my number from the text line A small truck where the trailer is jack knifed and crashed into a barrier. On North South Motorway heading north near Port Road on ramp. Emergency vehicles are there, major delays. Two lanes are blocked, so be wary. A small truck where the trailer has jackknifed and crashed into a barrier on the North South Motorway heading north near Port on or Port Road on ramp. Emergency vehicles are there, so avoid the area if you can five double A mornings with gram Goodings nine to ten five double A your calls in just a moment on eight double two three double O double oh from the stock market All odds has opened the day in the red for the second day in a row, down by thirty four points. A SX two hundred also done by thirty three points. Oil fifty nine US dollars a barrel. The Aussie dollar has increased slightly, buying sixty seven US since Elizabeth.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 13: Look, I'm just wondering whether South Australians have any idea because I only learned recently that when we go to the election in March, we're going to have to vote for the Voice. Now fifty six percent of South Australians voted against the Voice. We've got the voice and it's employing something like apart from the twelve people that were voted for by the most votes they got were one hundred vote and four resigned and administrator resigned and those people may have been even put back in with no votes. But what we Why should we be voting for the voice? I think because mister Melanoscus thinks he's so popular that people will say yes. Of course, the Voice is a good idea.
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth, the State idea, the State Voice is already in operation. Why are you suggesting we are voting on it? Per se? I mean, it is not part of the Labour's election platform that I'm led to believe.
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Speaker 9: Is that so?
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Speaker 13: Because I was told that they're going to ask us to vote to say yes it's a good idea, it's.
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Speaker 1: Evidently the vote for people to be on the voice. So yeah, yeah, well we will get some detail on that, Elizabeth, I'm not so sure. But the Voice is in effect already, there's no question about that. So this election will not be about that at all.
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Speaker 13: And there are one hundred people employed for the Voice. I mean, we've we spend forty two billion a year on Aboriginals and we've got all these bodies that look after Aboriginals. We've got parliamentarians that are Aboriginal. So why do we need a voice in South Australia to cost the South Australian public all was money?
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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for you call, Elizabeth. We will find out from the Premier or the state government somebody who looks after the area of the voice to find out exactly what will be involved in the upcoming state election. But the Voice is already in force at the state government level. Let's speak with Luke Polton. Now, look, good morning morning mate. How are I No, I'm well, thanks? What have you got for us?
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Speaker 7: I've been running a campaign for about two months now on behalf of a whole bunch of local residents in Old Roannella opposing the big twenty four to seven plastic manufacturing facility that's been put forward by Tarak and Techno Clothes.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, now had Labor.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the Labor government come out with three separate MPs, two of the ministers yesterday and they've come out with a public statement saying they also oppose the factory. Now, but I actually asked Nato if she would write a letter to the CAT panel back in December stating that she opposed that she.
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Speaker 5: Didn't do it for me.
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Speaker 7: So I just find it a bit odd now that three labor ministers or all of a sudden involved in the topic. You know, we've had massive community sentiment. We had a protest with over five hundred people, We got over three thousand sig dishes on a petition and it wasn't until we got it to this point and the noise really really stepped up that they have come out of the woodwork and said they're helping the community. We actually had a massive public event on Sunday just gone with Katrine Hillyard in the town of Old Ronella. There was quite a few residents that were very unhappy with her and you know the way she's dealt with this problem. And she then went on her social media afterwards and didn't post anything about the event with us. She actually took a photo separate event with a smile and she turned her comments ofst and no one could have a say so, so Luke.
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Speaker 1: Got us the state of play is this plastics factor going ahead or not?
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Speaker 7: Well currently it is and the state government are saying to us that it has to go before the cat panel, before City of Onkaparinga. But you know, the state government stopped things like the cranker before when they wanted to. And Miss Champion got on the radio before and he said that, you know, what do I expect him to do to break the law, But I don't expect him to break the law. At the end of the day, there the state government and they make the laws. So if there's a law impending, sorry impeding a decision, well who's best in line to talk about those laws and change those laws. So at the end of the day, ultimately we want the factory stopped. We've got another protest on the thirty first. We're going to run it at Techno Plaids directly in front of the building, and we got buses booked, we got crowdfunding for that. We're going to be bringing old residents down in wheelchairs, you know, all the people that can't have a stay. We're going to bring him down so they can have a say. Because me and Ian Mathison, my friend, you know, we've been very, very involved and we've been the voice for a lot of people here that haven't had a voice. And you know, we've got a lot of submissions into planning essay but again that's only because of me Ian and a lot of other really really good people behind the scenes that have helped us get it to this point.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, well good on you. Look, thanks for bringing that team, and we'll find out what the state of players with the plastics factory, whether it's going ahead, what the government's official view is on it. But I must say that's the first I've heard about it. A double two three, double double is the number to ring I mentioned a little bit earlier. I was listening or came on the end of Kendall doing Sports News at nine o'clock where Alex Demonor was saying that there should be more pay the austraint and open prize money. They want more pay and it's not about player greed.
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Speaker 14: This is what he had to say, ultimately, for the players to be better compensated, saying this, we are incredibly well compensated as of right now, but when you look at the percentages and the differences between other sports, then of course there's room to grow.
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Speaker 1: Well, Alex much and all. As I love you as a tennis player and I love you as a battling Aussie, you don't think you're getting enough money now? I know you work hard and other tennis players work hard. The Australian Open prize pool is a record one hundred and eleven million dollars. The male winner and the female winner get four point one five million dollars for becoming singles champion. The runner up gets two point one five million dollars. If you make the semi final you get one point twenty five million dollars. These are figures that most of us could just dream about. And look, if you make the first round but lose, you walk away with a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and Alex believes they're not getting enough out of the pot. Well, Alex, I only wish I was half as good a tennis player as you, because I should to be happy with that sort of money. Getting into the Australian Open getting knocked out six love six love six love may write you a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Ah, we're in the wrong business. If only I had some sporting skills when I was younger. But to maybe compared to other sports that doesn't seem a lot. But I think compared to Ozzie rules football and most other sports. That's pretty good, Hi, Graham. Stamp duty was supposed to be abolished by the States when the GST was introduced. No state except Queensland kept their promise. That says a lot about labor liberal state governments. Thank you so for that bell. I'm afraid that is the case that governments do not like getting rid of taxes once they're in. They're in eight double two three, double o double oh my number. We'll be back after the News five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, Good morning to you. It's eight past ten on this Tuesday morning, the twentieth day of January. Well news poll figures out yesterday shock the political world, with Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party taking over is the second most popular party in Australia, bumping the Coalition into third place. Pauline Hanson has been I think it's fair to say, one of Australia's most controversial political figures for nearly three decades since he came into politics in the late nineties. So what is the future for One Nation? Is this just a blip on the sky on the horizon. The federal election is still two and a half years or so away. So what is likely to happen? Joining us now as emeritus professor of Politics. Clem McIntire, Clem, good morning to you, Good morning Graham. Are you surprised by the rise of One Nation?
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Speaker 15: So?
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Speaker 9: Yes and no.
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Speaker 16: There's no doubt voters are frustrated with the major parties and are looking for perhaps some other solutions in politics. So the rise is not surprising in that respect. But the fact that one nation have overtaken the coalition, the coalition polling as paul as they are, is perhaps a bit more of a surprise. So I think inevitably one nation was going to grow a bit. The fact that they've grown as much and as fast as they have is.
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Speaker 1: Noteworthy. Certainly is this more reflection on the coalition than one Nation?
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Speaker 16: I think it's both. Certainly, the Coalition is in trouble. It's really struggled since the last federal election in May of last year too identify a clear voice. It's torn between trying to appeal to the more conservative rural voters, those in facing the problems with the cost of living and so on, and balancing that with appealing to the votes that it's lost to people like the tills in the inner metropolitan area, so it really doesn't know where to be pitching itself at the moment, and that's facilitated I say, the rise of One Nation. If we look at where the support for one Nation is coming from, it tends to be out of metropolitan and rural voters. It tends to be older voters, those with lower educational qualifications, those who identify cost of living as one of the really big and migration as the biggest issues. So those voters are there and then happy Labor's not winning them over. The coalition is not answering their calls, and so One Nation benefits from that.
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Speaker 1: I think, is there any bleeding of Labor votes to one Nation?
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Speaker 16: Nowhere near as much as from the coalition predominantly. I think that one Nation vote has been made up with frustrated one time coalition voters. There's doubtless some members or supporters of Labor have been frustrated and lost faith in the government and sending a message by expressing a voice for one Nation, but nowhere near as many as coming from the coalition.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure the government is more than happy to see the coalition going backwards, but have they got any reason for concern with the rise of One Nation. Yes, I think so.
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Speaker 16: I mean, you're right, they'll be they won't be upset to see the divisions inside the Liberal Party in particular, and the tensions between the more moderate voices in the Liberal Party and the more conservative voices of special in the Nationals within the federal Coalition. But Labour's primary vote in that last News poll that you were talking about was down to thirty two percent, and that's a very low figure. We're used to seeing the two major political groupings of Coalition and Labor in the high thirties and low forties in terms of.
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Speaker 1: A primary vote.
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Speaker 16: So Labour's primary vote is down, but because the opposition is divided, it's well ahead on what we call pardonly two party preferred votes when we're looking at Labor against the Coalition. So I don't think there's any doubt Labor would win an election at the moment, but it would be very concerned that its primary vote is as low as it is and it's doing as well in that two party preferred vote. I think because even though One Nation is out polling the Coalition, I think when it comes to an election, they're not going to get the preferences from other parties, so they might well land with twenty twenty five percent of the vote at the outside, but they're not going to get the preferences from other parties to come past and be able to hold those seats. So that leaves Labor in a more secure place, but probably not as strong as its own right as it would wish.
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Speaker 1: Has there ever been a time in Australian political history where the major party's primary vote has been so late.
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Speaker 16: Certainly not in the post war years. We've seen insurgent parties try before. If we go back long enough for the Australian sorry, the Democratic Labor Party in the fifties and sixties, but their polling was more like between five and ten percent at its peak, and they were able to win some Senate seats but not seats in the lower house. And then the Democrats of course in the late twentieth century used to polls of ten twelve percent, but not enough to make a breakthrough into the lower house. This is this is unusual in the Australian political terms, but not if we look more broadly, we're seeing similar trends in a lot of European democracies, where so called insurgent parties of the right are replacing the old dominant political parties.
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Speaker 1: I think Paul.
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Speaker 16: Enhanson, a self made reference to Trump is a sort of a similar phenomenon and Nasee or Farage in the UK. So there's no doubt that voters are unhappy with status quo and are trying to find different political expressions and some of those more conservative parties are benefiting from that. But in Australia they're a long way from making a breakthrough into mainstream politics in terms of seats in the Lower House and being a plausible alternative government than elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: Well, the federal election is still a long way away, and this pilling was based on a federal basis. But can you see any impact on the state election.
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Speaker 9: I'd be very surprised.
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Speaker 16: I think we'll see an increased vote for one nation, But as I say, they're unlikely to go past coalition or sorry liberal if we're talking about South Australia, they're unlikely to go past Liberal candidates in any of the forty seven seats in the Lower House in South Australia, and they're not going to benefit from from preferences coming from other parties. So I think their vote will be up a bit. They may well win a seat in the Upper House, as they did at the last election. But I think one of the concerns voters might have with one nation is many of the people who have been elected for one nation eventually get frustrated and leave. So quite a few people elected under paul En Hanson's banner sometime later we'll say, you know, I can't express myself. I'm not happy with the policy direction I'm going to. I'm leaving sit as an independent. And that's what happened with Sarah Game in the South Australian Upper House. You know, they don't have the coherence and the stability. I suppose that we're used to seeing with either the Coalition or Labor, so that again, I think voters might flirt with them in poll's midterm, but when it comes to actually picking up a pencil in the bowling birds and saying is this well I really want them, there might be a bit more hesitation.
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Speaker 1: Well, just weeks out from the state election, are you surprised that the SA Liberals still don't have a candidate for the seat of Black.
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Speaker 9: Yes, i am.
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Speaker 16: I think that the Liberal Party are struggling to again find their voice in South Australia. They were clearly not helped by the change of leadership. I suspect Ashton Hearn will probably produce a better result than Vincent Izier may have done, but the fact that the leadership changed in December has made it harder for them I think to just identify a clear set of policies and to defend those. They are obviously under some review with a new leader, and the selection of candidates has been left very late in a couple of important seats, so they're not doing themselves any favor.
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Speaker 1: Would you expect to former Liberal lead to David Spears to run in Black.
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Speaker 16: Look, I don't know. He's talked about it. It's a question only he can answer. I think it's unlikely that he would win the seat if he did bid stand always possible, but that would be my sense that it's unlikely. And again where he came and where an official Liberal candidate came will obviously be very important in terms of the flow of preferences. But Labor won that seat at a by election when David Black resigned from the parliament, and all the current polling in the state suggests that Melanowski's government is even stronger now than it was at the last election. So I think the Liberals are going to really struggle to win seats in the metropolitan are anywhere.
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Speaker 1: We have for some interesting weeks ahead of us. Thank you so much of your time, Clean Indeed, we'll speak again. Thanks Greg. That's emeritus Professor of Politics, Clem McIntyre on the state of the state and the state of the nation. What are your thoughts, love to hear them. Eight double two to three double o doublo is the number, Steve says, reed tennis players wages. I'm starting my Supporting Starving Professional Tennis Players fund if any of your listeners would like to make a donation going to Steve Yeah. This follows Alex Demonor's comments. And I love Alex Demanor. I love the fact that he's a real battler and yet he can make the top ten and he does so well. But he's sort of suggesting that the tennis players are not not getting the money.
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Speaker 14: That they deserve ultimately for the players to be better compensated, saying this, we are in tibly well compensated as of right now, but when you look at the percentages and the differences between other sports. Then of course there's room to grow.
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Speaker 1: Yes, there's room to grow more than four million dollars. If you win the Australian Open Male and female, and even if you get knocked out in the first round, you've come all the way from wherever and you exit the first round in Australia Open six Love six Love six Love and they write you out a check for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That's not bad, is it when most Australians would love to earn one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Does TV actually rot your brain? I remember growing up as a kid, my parents would often say, you sit in front of that all the time, your brain will rot, and it was considered a myth. But there's some neuroscience perspective that we'll talk about a little bit later on. But i'd like your thoughts. Does TV actually rot your brain?
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Speaker 2: Hey?
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Speaker 1: Double two three double o double is the number ring. Let's takes some calls, Rick, good morning.
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Speaker 17: Good morning, Graham, Hi good thanks, Yeah, that's good. Like my two cents worth in two please cool man like I'm just going to say my biggest when these politicians from all parties, like when I asked, well, when they're asked questions, I don't think i've ever heard them say or no or yes.
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Speaker 12: In them and so that brings me on my main point.
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Speaker 17: They say that they're going to do this, and they're going to do that or whatever they can think of to get in, and then when they get in, they say, oh, we've looked at the books and there's not enough money and we can't do what we were going to do.
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Speaker 8: So, in my opinion, like big policies, pictures are so.
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Speaker 18: Voters like.
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Speaker 17: Where the crop that comes down there now, because when you've got them in, say all federal elections, you can only come out when they've loaded it up. In my finion, most of them.
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Speaker 19: Are on a bastards.
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Speaker 17: You can't be trusted, and it's been proven over and over time and again.
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Speaker 1: And that's my final good on your rick, thanks for putting it forward. And quite bluntly too, I look at people are disillusioned with politicians. I don't think it's been a recent phenomenon, but maybe people are now more vocal about it. Maybe we're just not prepared to put up with it any longer, maybe because times are tougher than they were and we want a better deal from our politicians. But how accountable are they. They can make promises that aren't kept and they're not how to hold accountable for them at all. Because if you it's truth and advertising, you say something misleading and advertising, you get sued for it. As a politician, you can say just about anything you like. Trish, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 20: Graham, Graham. I'm just going to say something about the algal bloom because I think people who used to vote labor need to think very carefully about the fact that. And I don't care if someone wants to take me to court. I don't own a damn thing, so take me to court. But I think we're we're being conned.
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Speaker 8: I think.
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Speaker 20: The fact that I saw another dead dolphin down at Edisburg at the Fisherman's jetty the Essay Surf and Bloom Facebook group, it's called Ssay Surf and Bloom. Now they've got photos of this poor little dead dolphin and that's a mammal. Again, it's not a guild animal. So why is there no Sadi people down at Edinsburgh investigating how this poor animal died. Where's the media on this warning people to stay out of the water. Why is the Edisburgh Caravan Park promoting kids should be going in the water when there's so many dead animals? Feel all along the York Peninsula coast and my feeling is that we are being conned that this bloom is, oh, it's okay, go in the water. But because of the election, it's all being hushed up. And the people on your peninsula that care about the environment, not the counselor, it's not the terroist organizations that want to make money and get people to keep coming over there. The people that really truly care are this stress and depressed, and really.
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Speaker 21: Peter Malamowski is an aston hern. They both need to get their acts together, get onto this bloom, scientific testing, find out what we can do to alleviate these sets and act like responsible people who care.
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Speaker 20: About us and care about the environment. I'm sick of it.
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Speaker 21: If you go on the si surf and bloom, you will see hundreds of dead animals.
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Speaker 1: Good on ya, Trish, No, thanks for putting forward your point of view. If anyone else is in the edith Burg area or on York Peninsula, and there are visible signs of the algal bloom, dead animals, dead fish of any nature. Let us know about it because I think we need to know. And the alga bloom is not on the front page any longer. Not that it's under control by any means. It's probably is not a runaway dangerous as it was. But are we being told the entire truth? Like I know your thoughts eight double two three double o puling gg welcome back. I think the Australian people want things back as they were, and Pauline Hansen is driving it to get back on track. I think she will do well. Good on you, Danny. Thank you very much for that, Ian, says Hi Graham. The truth about the voices that Indigenous people have to elect their candidates going forward. This ballot is being held on the same day as the state election. This has been advertised on television. Thank you for that. Ian. Yeah, we'll get some more detail on that, because I think while it might have been advertised on television, I must say I was not aware of it. Tennis players want more money. I have a family member who was telling me the other day he hasn't had a pay rise in three years. Good on you, Dan, I think a lot of people could tell a similar story. Eight double two to three double double back after news headlines five double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: At twenty eight two eleven five Double A Graham Pauline's Hanson as Australia's only hope. I can't believe it has taken about thirty years for people to wake up. We're are seeing the manifestation of all that Pauline Hanson has spoken about play out in front of our eyes in real time. Pauline was correct and is correct today. If this country doesn't totally wake up, NA, we do oomed, go one nation. Eddie says, Hi one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to lose a tennis match. I'm off to cash converters now, to buy a couple of rackets and start practicing. Ah yes, yeah. On the back of Alex Demenor saying tennis players don't earn enough. And yet if you lose the Australian Open first round you get one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. A lot of people would be more than happy to earn that on an annual basis well, South Australian hospitals are still being overwhelmed by the ever worsening ramping crisis, not enough beds to accommodate emergency cases and what wouldn't entirely solve the problem. There are about twenty hospital beds sitting idle at the McLaren Vale Hospital. Jesse Troud is the CEO of a Quiller which operates the McLaren Vale Hospital. Jesse, good morning, Hey, how are you look well? Thanks? Tell us about the situation of Mclarenvale Hospital. How come there are twenty beds available?
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Speaker 22: Look, it's quite an interesting story and you would take a little bit of investigating against the bottom of what happened. But a couple of years ago there was a board in play that you made some questionable decisions alongside the government at the time to close the hospital and you know, now looking back on that definitely wasn't the right decision to make. And now we're pretty much trying to reactivate the site and bring it back to life. You know, we've already got Essay ambulance on site, We've got a bunch of GPS down there, but we actually have a whole ward there. Literally you know, probably about twelve weeks away from me how to open back up and you know, alleviate some of that stress on both ramping and on hospital beds as well.
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Speaker 1: So what condition are these hospital beds in? I mean, there's much need to be done.
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Speaker 22: No, not a lot has to be done. Obviously, We've got to procure a few things if we do go down that path, if we're lucky enough to get the state government to remember the Clara Vale exists. But really it's you know, to liquor, fresh paint, maybe a couple of things around the place, and we could be open up again in about twelve weeks because it was a hospital until, like I was saying, about two years ago, and it's still registered to be a hospital until the end of twenty twenty.
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Speaker 9: Six as well.
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Speaker 1: So what would need to happen?
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Speaker 22: Really, we just need the state government to say, yes, we need to utilize the space and jump on board, obviously from a funny perspective and obviously from a client flow perspective, and we can help alleviate some of the stress on the stress on the bigger hospitals, you know, bring people out that maybe don't need that serious urgent care and have somewhere where they can get the care they need until they find their next home or fully recovered.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt, you know, the Southern Wales area is an ever growing area, so they're certainly in the need for it, and.
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Speaker 22: It's also the oldest catchment in South Australia and I think right now it feels a little bit like maybe the state government's kind of just forgotten about Mclarenberale, which is really sad to see because it's one of the best places in South Australia to go.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's no question about that now with these hospital beds, surely the government is aware that they're there and just sitting there idly.
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Speaker 22: Well, that's exactly it they are. We've reached out and so far we've only been sold that there's no current need for the space. That's what we've heard obviously from the Health networks. Anyway, we reached out to the Premier's office, reached out to obviously everyone we possibly can, and it's just pretty much been put back on the health network to tell us that they don't feel that there's a space right now there for us, or maybe not a space that they see a need in the way it's currently shaped, but we're willing to work with them so we can help the people iron Vale.
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Speaker 1: What about staffing the hospital.
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Speaker 22: Honestly, it's going to be surprisingly easy. So since we started talking about reopening, the amount of people from the community that used to work there that didn't just want to leave the area and now work different roles have asked about coming back, So we'd be able to find nurses to fill the space pretty fast.
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Speaker 1: And I guess the people in the area would be very pleased if this was to come about.
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Speaker 22: Oh absolutely, there's not a single person in the area that wasn't a part of trying to save mclarenval Hospital when they did first close it down. And now the hospital site's been saved. But now we've got to take to the next step and reactivate it so the people in McLaren Vale can get what they deserve. In you, it's not for profit, it's managed by an amazing board of volunteers, and we just need to get the space thriving again for the community.
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Speaker 1: Well, while it's only twenty hospital beds, I mean twenty would make some impact, particularly in the southern area.
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Speaker 22: Well that's it and also brings people close to the home for a lot of people as well, so they're not having to travel so far to go see people.
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Speaker 9: That are in a hospital.
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Speaker 1: So what is the next step?
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Speaker 4: I mean really just.
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Speaker 22: Hoping to get back from the state government. I'm hoping if we make a little bit of noise in the moment, they might turn around say yeah, look, let's utilize the space. Here is where we're seeing a bit of a need or weakness in the area, and we're immediately.
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Speaker 2: On board with it.
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Speaker 22: Whatever they say that they need to be done in the area, put our hands it up. We want to make it happen for the people.
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Speaker 1: Well, this is the time to agitate because we're leading into a state election. So if you make enough noise, hopefully they do the right thing.
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Speaker 22: That's exactly we just want to be remembered. You know mcglam Rail's seal there. The people, they are amazing and let's get in the healthcare system.
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Speaker 1: They need good ened. You're Jesse, great to chat. Jesse Trout, CEO of a Quilla, which is operating the mccaren vale hospital site. They've got twenty hospital beds just sitting idle at the moment, and we know that the ramping situation is not getting any better despite what the state government said, we will fix ramping. No they haven't. So twenty beds. It's not going to solve the overall situation. But if they could be put to better use, it would seem to be a reasonable thing. So State government, Health minister, if you're listening, love to hear from you. Eight double two three double Oh. Karen's has never heard that your brain will watching TV. But my parents used to say that your eyes will turn square if you watched him. I used to get that too. You'll end up with square eyes if you keep watching so much television. Did it stop me?
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Speaker 12: No, Liz, Good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 23: You're on about tennis players getting one hundred and fifty seves.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, poor things when they lose.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, but what about football? Is basketball is? Look how much wages that getting. It's astronomical compared to at some of these tennis players.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what, Well, I think someone and they sit at home.
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Speaker 23: They don't have to travel the world to go to tournaments and different things like that. Yeah, a lot of those people are struggling, believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'd like to struggle learning one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a tennis tournament.
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Speaker 23: But they do a lot of training and everything else.
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Speaker 2: Well.
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Speaker 1: Michael at North Brighton has texted to say that poor Alex. His total prize money total to date is twenty two million dollars US. That's not bad for twenty six year old, bloody hard for well he has. But a lot of people work bloody hard. I know people who work bloody hard as plumbers and they don't they do you have a plumber?
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Speaker 23: Likely?
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Speaker 1: No, can't be too hard. Good on your Liz, good to chat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Look, look, they deserve huge money, there's no question about that. The AFL average wage is four hundred and ninety three thousand, almost half a million dollars. It's huge money. But when you look at the fact that the lifespan of an AFL player, you know, we look at the stars at around for ten years and play one hundred, two hundred three hundred games and you think, wow, you know they've got it made. But I think the average life of a football player is three years, you know, So it's a big commitment to end up effectively on the scrap heap and have to look for another job now. I'm not saying boo, who poor them? Because if they've got the opportunity to play football at that level and they do have to work hard, that's fine. But once they're there, they do earn pretty good money. June says. So if I play four tennis major tournaments in one year and lose, I earned six hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, you do, June, We've left it too late. I'm afraid Maria.
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Speaker 24: Good morning, Good morning, Graham, Happy New Year, and do you too, yes, thank you. Look, these players are tennis. Any sport removes the not for profit datus and make them pay tax. In regards to posts on the internet, Remember Kevin Rudd's nasty comments about Trump and then he deleted them. Yeah, and look, Pauline is not a radical, She's not a racist. Parties are worried she may not be polished and she may not say the right thing in the right urb and add urb and so forth, getting attacked from three parts udies in the media. She says it the way it is. She calls the spade a spade. She doesn't black backflip out comes, stay on message and as I say, no, backflips doesn't be as the public. Now, people be bold, let's change politics. This is what the major parties and the Greens are worried about. They only worry about themselves. They give us promises and ideas, but they take take from the Australian people. Yes, they are polished to hers. That's what people are stickause the hypocrisy. Plus, remember when Pauline said, and she wasn't racist, she said there were a lot of Chinese people coming into Australia. These facts is that the data shows seventy percent of apartments and homes are owned by Chinese that are left empty. Parliament running scared of pulling and fannabe Joyce. It thinks that they band us for the birtha is totally unacceptable. Graham.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I tell you what. She's going to be back Maria. There's no question about that. And look, I agree with a lot what you had to say. People are just fed up with politics and politicians are sparusing the same old stories, same old, same old. The fact that the difference between the Coalition and the Labor Party is minimal. Once upon a time, if you heard a policy you would say, oh, that's certainly a Labor policy, or that's certainly a coalition policy. Not so anymore. They are almost down the line and people are sort of saying, we want an option, we want a choice. Andrew says, I reckon, we're being conned as well. Living on the coast in Adelaide for fifty plus years, this is the only time I've ever seen dead dolphins on our beaches. This has to be due to the toxic bloom. It can't be a coincidence. Look, as I said earlier, if you have any instances you live along our coast, whether it be on York Peninsula or metropolitan beaches, let us know if the incidence of dead fish dolphins has increased dissipated. We'd like to know, because just because we're not talking about it doesn't mean to say that is not an issue, and the government needs to be aware of the fact that we're all concerned about it. GG one Nation voters don't worry too much about taxes or superannuation because they pay little or none. They have little or none, and that's the fault of the migrants. Kerry okay, Kerry Gig, you allow complete nonsense to be spread about the climate. That Moronic Conservation group, along with Get Up gets funds from overseas interests to demonize fossil fuels. There is no emergency. Coal didn't cause an algal bloom, and this brain dead term emissions is just made up. Even the feeble minded know that CO two is essential for life on Earth. The amount in the atmosphere is dangerously low in Earth's geological history. This entire climate change issue is nothing but a scam, John, Thank you very much for that, Gigi. I think South Stata has had enough of Labour's lies. Good on you, Peter, and One Nation Rise. Regarding One Nation, the liberals have been weak at sticking to their core values because these values were not popular for a while. Now opinion has changed and people are turning to One Nation as they did not deviate from their values. And that is the interesting thing that the fact that the way Pauline Hansen was demonized way back when for being a bigger than a racist, has she changed the views. I don't think she's changed them at all, So it would appear that people have come around to thinking what she's thinking. Dean, Good morning, Good morning, Graham here going good. Thanks Yes.
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Speaker 18: Last week I rang up for Matthew and made a conversation about some observations that you make around town where you go past some rope construction where you see a lot of the guys in there orange uniforms on their telephones, of them working. I said that the interesting if they could turn around and do more, that we get a lot of these roads sticks quicker, and the Department of Transport turned around and said, I'll get someone to call you. Well, anyhow, a woman rang me yesterday who's in charge of these people? And I got an absolute bucketing from her for making the observation.
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Speaker 7: That I did.
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Speaker 1: Oh, really, you're not allowed to make an observation of that nature.
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Speaker 18: You paid me out. She said, whatever you see, She said, all of those people are there doing something, and they're there for a reason. And I said what talking on their phones? She said, oh, they could be waking for a gradeer to come along, or someone to pick up a palette of papers and whatever. I've got photos of two people yesterday on East Avenue talking on their phones and then someone came along and they saw the person coming, they hid their phones. And I pointed that out to her and I said I've got photos to prove it, and she said, well, she said if that's the observation you made, She said, you can see that that person that came along has done the right thing, And I thought, well, I should have been doing the wrong thing to start with.
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Speaker 1: Oh it's true. Good on your dean, Thanks for that observation. Yeah, I think we've all seen road workers, rown maintenance technicians or whatever they do, seem to be standing around. Maybe they all have individual jobs and they're waiting for their time, but at times it does look like that there are many workers to do just a few jobs. Does Alex demanor know how much money people who work real jobs earn. Yeah, I think someone like Alex, and as I say, i'd really admire him. I think he's terrific. But look, if he has any grievances, keep them to yourself. When you're earning the sort of money that you've earned twenty six, well, he's twenty sixties of age. He's earned twenty two million dollars US. That's not closer to thirty million dollars. He's done very well. Yes, he's earned it, he's worth it. But you know, to be critical and saying that they don't earn enough as tennis players. Average AFL player is now earning almost half a million dollars the NRL wage four hundred and twenty eight thousand. The Prime Minister is earning just under six hundred thousand dollars. Now, whatever you think of Anthony Albanezi or whoever happens to be Prime Minister at the time, I don't think that's overpaid. I think the Prime minister should be worth that. Mind you, If the Prime Minister is getting five hundred and eighty seven thousand dollars compared that to the President of the United States, he earns considerably less, which would be fair to say is a little bit bigger job than the Prime Minister of Australia. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double double back soon five double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Eleven to eleven, five double A on a Tuesday morning. Does TV actually rot your brain? I know my parents used to say some things to me about sitting in front of the goggle box as it was called back then, other than square eyes. But yeah, it'll write your brain. Is there any truth to that or is it just just one of those mythical things. Well, Queensland Researchers at Queensland University of Doing Well. I've been doing some research into the matter, joining US now as Associate professor. Paul Gardner, Professor.
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Speaker 8: Good morning to you, Hi Graham, how are you.
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Speaker 1: I'm well? Thanks? Is it too late? Decades of watching television rotted my brain potentially?
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Speaker 8: Ah, Look, I think the jury's still a little bit out on that. What we do know is that when we look at watching people who watch five levels of TV compared to people to use the computer or reading, that their brain help isn't quite as good. But what we don't know is what are they actually watching on TV and how are they watching? And so when we looked at the data, this was about one and a half million people from thirty different countries. A lot of the information was collected before things like streaming services, so before Netflix and crime and those sort of things. So the way we've watched TV now is very different, and we also need to work out how we're watching TV, not just what we're watching.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there is the thing with the streaming TV now you can binge watch you know where once upon a time, not that long ago, you had a favorite TV series and say it was on every Tuesday at eight thirty you'd watch it and you'd have to wait a whole week for the next episode. These days, they drop it once and you can watch ten episodes in a row if you like. That has changed a lot of people's viewing habits exactly.
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Speaker 8: And if you think about traditional TV, there was also ad breaks, so people would get up and do things during the ad breaks, whereas now they're sitting for those prolonged periods. And we think it's that sitting for those prolonged periods without breaks, which might be more detrimental to brain help.
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Speaker 1: Is it likely to have more negative impact on young children?
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Speaker 8: Look, we looked at people age body five and over, so I'm not sure you know what the data is saying with children. But you know, one thing we do know is that if you don't use it, you lose it. So we encourage people to, you know, do things to keep their brain active. But also there's other things that you can do. You can go for a walk, you know, be physically active, eat the right sort of food. There's a whole range of things that we can do to improve our brain help.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think it is such as you say that traditional television, you know, there'd be an ad break and you can make a cup of coffee or garten you know, water or plants or something like that and get away from it and give your eyes a rest and give your body a rest, and give your brain a rest.
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Speaker 9: I guess.
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Speaker 1: But when you when you lock into watching hours and hours of TV, you know, you do almost become in a sort of a coma tas state.
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Speaker 8: And the other thing that you know, when you're watching, you know, one episode time you would actually stop and think about what you watched and reflect on it, whereas now you're just going straight into the next one without actually thinking about it and processing what you've just watched.
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Speaker 1: So you've done extensive research, what would you like to see happen with it?
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Speaker 8: Look, I think what we need to do next is look at the impacts of streaming on brain help you know, those prolonged binges that you were just talking about. But we also want to see, you know, what this means in terms of what else people are doing in their day. So if we think about the twenty four hour day, you know, people are sitting, they're sleeping, and they're moving, and we need to find a good weeks of those different behaviors. So you know, are people staying up later to binge TV at the expense of getting a good night's sleep. So all of these things interact, and we need to be looking at the whole day when we're working, specifically at sitting time, we need to be thinking about or what are those activities that actually engage our brain and can we do a little bit more of those?
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Speaker 1: And of course it's not only the brain that's impacted. If you sit in front of TV for three or four hours and not moving, you know, it's not doing your physical side of your health any good.
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Speaker 8: In it exactly. And what we often say is, you know, what's good for brain health is good for heart health. So you know, the impacts of TV viewing have been shown to be associated with things like type two diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and all of those things are also related to brain health. So it's you know, one big m you know, miss if you like.
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Speaker 1: So, what simple advice would you have to people regarding their TV viewing habits.
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Speaker 8: Oh, well, I think if you're streaming, take a break at the end of each episode, get up and do something, and you know, maybe if you haven't done any reading for a while, it's a good opportunity to pick up a book. There's lots of great TV series and movies being made from books, so maybe read the book as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's about exercising your brain as well as your body. Exactly, exactly, joined your professor, greater chat, Thanks, happy viewing, Associate Professor Paul Gardner, University of Queensland. Does TV rot your brain? Well, probably doesn't rot your brain, but it doesn't do it any good. And let's face it, your brain is a muscle like anything else, and if you just sit there watching. I remember the early comparisons between TV and radio, and this is back in the days. I'm old enough to remember that on radio they used to have plays and shows and you know the theatre and it was called the theater of the mind. So you know, you had a detective show and you had to imagine what the detective looked like, how tall he was, you know how strong he was, what color his eyes were, what color his hair was, you know what car he drove, and you had to exercise your brain. But now you turn on the TV show and it's all there, living color you don't really have, and you just absorb it like a big sponge. Although we still enjoy it that way. Hate double two to three double o double is the number to ring. Attorney General Michelle Rowlands is currently tabling in the Government's Hate Speech Bill in the House and this is what she had to say a short time ago.
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Speaker 25: Seeking a community that saw their Jewish heritage as a contributor to the richness of the Australian character, that sense of safety has been shattered as a community. As Australians, it is our responsibility to rebuild that trust. The violent terrorist attack we saw in Bondai did not occur spontaneously. Violent extremism starts with words, words of hate spread throughout the community by pernicious individuals and organizations. This hatred is corrosive to a multicultural, democratic society. This bill targets those that support violence, in particular violence targeted at a person because of their immutable attributes. This conduct is criminal, but more than that, it is the seed of extremism, the roots of terrorism. It must be stamped out with the full force of the law.
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Speaker 1: That's Attorney General Michelle Rowlins tabling the Government's Hate Speech Bill in the House and it will be interesting to see how that unfolds. And you'll hear the latest on five Double A News throughout the day eight double two three, double O double ow is my number, Ian says Hi Graham. I have been a patient in the McLaren Vale Hospital. It suited the government to use it during COVID when this was no longer needed, the government stopped funding. Besides ramping and bed shortages. Surely this hospital is needed because of the many accidents on the Victor Harbor Road. Yeah, well, put Ian, and there's no question that it is a vastly growing area. And if there are twenty hospital beds just sitting there vacant, they can be put to better use. Back after the news five Double.
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Speaker 2: A Mornings with Graham, Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, we're in for a stinker on Saturday, which came out of the blue because it's going to be hot. Then we find out from the Bureau this morning it's going to be forty Well, news, folks, it's going to be hot, and that's going to be forty one on Saturday now or later in the week Thursday, top twenty seven, Friday thirty five, Saturday forty one degrees. It's going to back away on Sunday to thirty three. But a stinker I haven't had too many stinkers?
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Speaker 24: Have we?
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Speaker 1: How many forties we had this year? One? Two? Maybe that's all. So it hasn't been a particularly hot summer, and certainly very few records on the way eight double two three double double. Oh read the algill Bloom high gram. My neighbor is working for a company. You have a contract to pick up dead fish off the beaches every day. Had their contract extended for six months? Can we read something at that? Cheers? Thank you for that. V you've heard the story with Kendall then and the boys and Brecky were talking about this morning. It'speaking of Brecky. Is breaking an important meal to you? I could not leave the house without having at least something in my stomach. I have to have breakfast. I know a lot of people don't need anything. Wait till mid morning, get up and have a coffee. No, I've got to have some breakfast. And the popular breakfast rankings are really interesting, rolledouts number one, that's the best for you, all the way down to cocoa pops and fruit loops at number eleven and twelve. What is your breakfast routine? Do you have breakfast or not? And do you stick with the fact that it's got to be good for you diet wise, or do you just go for the taste. Let's know eight double two three double o, doubleo the number to ring Well. Probus is marking a significant milestone this year, celebrating fifty years bringing people together through local clubs built on friendship, connection and shared interests. To share the story of Probus with us, i'd like to welcome national spokesperson Have Hewitt, have a good morning to you, Good morning to you. Now tell us the story of ProBiS. How did it all get underway those fifty years ago.
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Speaker 26: Well, it was basically formed in New Zealand initially actually in nineteen seventy four, and then Australia followed in seventy six to basically bring people together when they've decided to finish permanent work or they're semi retired and wondering what to do with their themselves and still have you know, some contact with others. Probos arose out of that. It's a way basically for people to have meetings in their local communities.
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Speaker 27: Guest speakers.
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Speaker 26: Trips are organized not for profit organization, but it's really been incredibly successful over all those years. And just keeps on growing. So in Australia now there are ninety thousand members across thirteen hundred clubs, and in your state, South Australia there are one hundred and forty one clubs now and six six five hundred members, which is a lot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, most certainly. And as you say that, it's for people who have just perhaps reached retirement age. People's lives can be so full. You know, you get married, you have kids, you know, buy a house, do this, go on holidays, the kids leave home, you reach retire and age, and all of a sudden, for a lot of people, what do you do? So Probus has filled the gap for a lot of people.
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Speaker 26: Yes, you know, that's of course if you're not spending all your time looking after grandchildren.
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Speaker 27: Which seems to happen a lot more than.
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Speaker 26: But you know, if you want some time for yourself to yourself and the space to meet other people and do some interesting things, then this is a thing to do. I'm more familiar with country groups clubs in Australia because of my travels on back roads when I was presenting that for the ABC, and my mother was actually a Probus member in Victoria, I grew up in the bush and I know when she retired, I think not till she was seventy, but she joined the local probus at a little town called Totura with farming friends and they had an absolute ball doing all sorts of things. And I remember her doing a great trip to Tasmania. And so for this event, the fiftieth anniversary, the first big function will be in Sydney in early February, because that's where that's where it all began fifty years ago, at Hunter's Hill. But then later in the year there will be a big national day of picnics around Australia. Most of the government houses, in fact all of them, I think, will be staging special events. At the event in Sydney. John Howard will be the keynote speaker because that was I think once in his electorate. So there's all sorts of good stuff going on. And I think the other thing about these sorts of groups, and again I've seen them closely while doing backrows as Probust as Roatary. So many good community groups out there that actually really improved people's mental health as well, apart from engaging and connecting them with their communities. And I think that's really really important in this day and asi. And we saw that through COVID, didn't we how much people do need to be connected.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question about that. That isolation is all well and good, but all of a sudden head closes in on you.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, once again, you're not exercising the brain. You're not you know. I mean, social contact is vital, and as people get older, often that social I mean a lot of people's social contact is going to work and there's lots of people around and they talk and so forth. They leave work and they lose a lot of contacts and friendships that they've had before. And I guess organizations like probus can fill that gap absolutely.
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Speaker 26: And in my observation too, I think it is probably harder in the city, you know. I think you can fall through the cracks. And I've seen in my own you know, I live in I've got a place at Richmond, inner City, Melbourne, and spend half the year on the New South Wales South Coast at a beach house we bought up dy million years ago. But you do see, I think in the country people sort of have each other's backs a lot more and they see if someone is maybe lonely or needs a helping hand, whereas in the city you can become forgotten. So these groups probus is just a fantastic wave of feeling that no, you're not on your own and there's a lot more interesting stuff you can be doing out there.
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Speaker 1: Have you found and I've given a lot of talks to service groups like Rotary and the like that it's harder to get people to join the people whether it be you know, their life is so full either activities or whatever that they're not joining as they did, say fifteen to twenty years ago.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, I think with I don't think that's the case with Probos, but I think definitely with groups like Rotrie and the Lions Club. And I too have done a lot of speeches for Rotrie, and it's a really important organization because it's volunteers doing all these wonderful things to build you know, needed to needed projects in their communities. But I think, and look, you see the same with historical societies, volunteers and sporting clubs. People younger people especially are just so busy with their kids, activities or just trying to keep their heads above water working hard that there is less room in lives now, I think to do the same sort of volunteering, so it's left very much too older people, and I do hope there's a change in that that, you know, younger people can see the value in doing things to help others, just making that extra time if they can to chip in, because you know, we all owe our communities. I think I was brought up with that mentality my parents always my dad was a shy counselor forever it seemed, and they were always involved in local groups. And I think it's incredibly satisfied. It's good to think that you're doing something for your community and making it better.
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Speaker 1: Now, when it comes to PROBUS, I mean we live in an aging community, particularly here in South Eastradia, it would suggest that because of an organization like Probus that your numbers would grow because they're increasing numbers of people reaching the age that ProBiS club is the place.
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Speaker 27: To be well, you would hope so.
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Speaker 26: And in fact, the number of clubs in South Australia that's six thousand, five hundred members. The split i'm told is pretty even between Metro and the country. But in the city, four new clubs were formed in the metro area and by the end of last year. So that's really impressive, isn't it. So obviously there is a need for it out there and people are seeing that that there's something in it for them that they can get a lot of enjoyment.
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Speaker 1: Out of this. Most certainly will have a great to chat with you. Congratulations on Probus reaching fifty and made the celebrations continue.
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Speaker 26: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: That's a Heather Ewett, Probus national spokesperson, Probus marking a significant milestone, fifty years of bringing people together. You're a member of a ProBiS club, give us a call, tell us what Probus has meant to you, and maybe there are people out there who'd like to learn more about Probus if you can tell us like to hear about it. Eight double two three double O, double oh back shorty.
01:30:53
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twenty past eleven five double A good morning too. If you've just joined us, Thanks for climbing aboard Graham. My husband and I belonged to Kawana's service organization. Our Gleneld clubs over fifty members. Most of us over seventy do find it hard to get new members. Good on you, Mary, thanks for telling us your story. Yeah, I found that. As I've said, I've spoken to many service groups over the years and have enjoyed doing that, and the plea has always been the same that it is really hard to get younger people to join, whether they're not so service minded volunteer minded, or whether they're just too busy, or life has changed and priorities have changed. Brecky wise, we're talking about Brecky before. Hi, Graham, I can't function without breakfast week picks and muselely plus sustagen on top mind you, I'm nearly seventy Good on you, Greg. I can remember the days when you sat at the breakfast table and you had the box of cornflakes or rice bubbles, and there was lots of information printed on the pack because and you sat there and read it. Because it was in the days that we didn't have the paper delivered. There was no internet, and there was no smartphones, no laptops, no iPads and the like. So I used to sit there and read the read the cereal packet. Quite a bit boring after while, I might say, Well, in Canberra, the Prime Minister has paid tribute to Tim Picton rather of South Australia and Health Minister Chris Picton, who tragically passed away.
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Speaker 28: He was respected right across the state, right across the political spectrum, and he also due to his background working in three states as well as in Canberra, he was very well known and I have no doubt that he would have one day sat on at least this front bench had his life not been cut so short by that act of violence.
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Speaker 1: The Prime Minister, they're paying tribute to Tim Picton and our condolences to Chris Peak and the Picton family and friends. It's twenty two past eleven on a I think we'll take some calls Sue, good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 29: Just before I such chatting, can somebody tell me why every time I get on the phone, I attract my cats.
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Speaker 1: You attract your cats.
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Speaker 29: They want to come and sit with me.
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Speaker 1: I gather around them. Well they won't. I hear what you're going to say, Are you talking to you?
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Speaker 4: What it is?
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Speaker 29: But every time I suddenly end up with three cats sort of sitting and going, what are you doing? I said, I'm talking on the phone.
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Speaker 1: Got a captive audience.
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Speaker 29: Yeah, just listen to the lady you're talking to before I manage the local op shop. Yeah, here in mylore, and I find our role is far more than just running the op shop. We've become a really vital link to so many people because we're also in a rural area and people have their properties further apart. They come in to us every week to talk to for companionship, to all sorts of reasons, which is far beyond just buying something in a k op shop. Sure, yeah, you know, we really all people from all sorts of problems that you know, and I really think we play a really vital role in people's well being and mental health. Sometimes if you don't see irregular for a while, you wonder how they are. And I think it's it is difficult for us to get young volunteers. We struggle. All of our volunteers are over sixty and it's a big issue.
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Speaker 1: But it seems to be a sign of the times, doesn't it.
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Speaker 29: I mean, it isn't. It's sad because the volunteers make great friends too, but they'll learn a lot. But reaching out to people who rely on us, maybe they've got no one else to talk to, so they'll come in and they'll have a chat with us every morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's nice that they're able to do that, and it's nice that you make yourself available for that to happen exactly.
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Speaker 29: So we find that a really important part of volunteering and making the shop more than just the shop, most definitely, and playing that connection.
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Speaker 1: Good on your So keep up the good work. And there's no doubt about it that volunteering is a two way street. You might be doing something for others, but by volunteering, you're doing a lot for yourself as well. David, how you doing?
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Speaker 8: Oh, hello, Graham you.
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Speaker 19: I just wanted to sort of give a good news story about the medical system because you get so many knockers about our government and the medicare and everything on the way you kend. The friend of mine were over on your fininsula Sunday. He fell off a ladder at the shackle was staying and badly crushed a finger and herd his shoulder. Anyway, I rushed into the Yorktown Hospital because it was the only one around, and we had fantastic Luckily there's no one in the waiting room, but you know, the doctor put thirteen stitch into his finger, took X rays, took X rays of his shoulder and then sent those X rays to a specialist in Adelaide to check because they were worried about the hairline cracking. His finger getting infected, so they have to put him on antibiotics. All up, We're there for about two and a half hours and we walked out no costs, completely free. You know, my daughter lives in America. If that was America under the capitalist system of America to be paying three or four thousand dollars for what they did. Also point out that doctor was a new Iraqi migrant, very good doctor, well spoken, very good at his work. And you know, so you know, people love knocking the new migrants, the Middle Eastern people, but there's a lot of very very good people out there and they're helping us a lot, especially as we get older. We don't have enough youngest original wide Australians to cover all the jobs. We need those people qualified people, of course, to help us live a good retirement.
01:37:06
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:37:06
Speaker 1: Now you make a good point. That's good to hear a good news story because you're dead right, I mean, negativity rises to the top. People seem to thrive on bad news stories. But it's great to hear a good news story, so give the hospital a plug again. Which one was it? Yorktown Hospital, Yorktown Hospital. Well to everyone at Yorktown Hospital, Congratulations, you've got a very satisfied customer in David. Good on your David. Thanks for the chat. Yeah, look to all our health workers and first responders and the like. You do a sensational job. But unfortunately, too often bad news is what makes the headlines. Sue, good morning, good morning.
01:37:44
Speaker 15: Just to comment on the volunteering, I'm seventy two and I volunteer. But a lot of it is because the age of retirement for women used to be sixty and now it's sixty s Evans, And because of the childcare and young mum's having to go back to work. The ladies that would have normally sort of volunteer because they didn't have a lot to do and now sitting after children or still working.
01:38:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's a very good point, to a very good point. Indeed, life has changed, and you know the situation has changed.
01:38:24
Speaker 15: That does impact on the volunteers.
01:38:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can understand that. And it's a shame because without this, without volunteers, Sue, this country grind to a hold absolutely. Yeah, I mean it's unpaid labor and we need volunteers and if people have the time to volunteer, please do so good on you, Sue, thanks so much for your call, Tony says, in regards to Demonor's comment about raising tournament prize money, a professional tennis player has a whole team of traveling support staff, coach, physio, food, travel, et cetera, which can elevate expenses well beyond one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per year, especially for elite players.
01:39:00
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:39:00
Speaker 1: I take that on board, Tony, but you're saying elevate expenses well beyonde hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year. The losing prize money for the first round of the Australian Open is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, so you don't have to be there take part. There's one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. As you say, as a player, can be very expensive to go on the tour, but dear Idea, you know, you get me on the first round and you start earning serious money. John says, of course it's going to be hot this week. It's TDU week. Tour down Under.
01:39:33
Speaker 2: Good on your John five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:39:38
Speaker 1: Good morning to you, thanks for tuning in. Max says hello, Graham, I've been doing some research. The results tell me that watching Marriage at First Sight on TV does permanent brain damage. Ah, you being unkind. A lot of people love shows like that. Tennis players saying they're underpaid, Maybe they should tell that to brain surgeons and see what their response is. Yes, that's in regard to Alex Demor who has suggested that tennis players aren't getting a big enough share of the purse. Now, if Alex goes on to win the Australian Open, he will pocket an excess of four million dollars. Yes, that's four million dollars. Now, we know tennis players work hard. It's a lot of training, a lot of hard work, a lot of natural abilities needed. But a four million dollar pay day and if you go out in the first round of the Australian Open one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and he is suggesting that should be more, should be more? Like to know your thoughts on that eight double two to three doubler is the number to ring Good morning, gg I have an idea on how tennis players and other cash poor sports people can easily have more funds. The people I know get better or work harder to advance in their chosen profession. Well they get a second or third job seems to be helping them only saying Cononia, Patrick, thank you very much for that. Eight double two three double doublo is the number to ring. Anthony wants to know what is hate speech? What's next? No abusive comments at the football Everyone will have to behave with only constructive comments towards umpires and players. Puts a whole new perspective on the showdowns. Can you imagine a showdown with everyone saying all well done, Yes, nice kick, good job, umpire, well good decision. Would sort of take some of the fun out, wouldn't it. Read the algal bloom My Graham high gram. My neighbor is working for company who have a contract to pick up dead fish off the beaches every day, had their contract extended for six months, and the lady you had on earlier said gas was part of the cause of our algal bloom. How would you know when scientists, marine experts, purser and the government don't even know fair question. Eight double two three double DOUBLEO is the number to ring well After beating cancer At seventeen years of age, Brendan Trekkie Johnson took on a mammoth task and that was a cross country ride from Perth to Sydney to raise funds for cancer research. He joined us now, Brendan Treckie Johnson. Brendan, good morning, Yeah, thanks thanks for having me. Yeah, look, tell us about the ride. You've completed it now, that's a fair hit. How long did it take?
01:42:19
Speaker 4: It took eight and a half days, so I'd planned to beat the record actually set by Austrian Christoph Strasser in twenty seventeen of six days in almost eleven hours, but unfortunately we had some really really bad head winds the entire way, so I sat back a long way. But yeah, I got in on Sunday about one pm into the upper house.
01:42:43
Speaker 1: Now, tell us a little bit of a background about yourself. You know, seventeen years of age to contract cancer. That's awfully young.
01:42:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was a tough period for me. I'm thirty four now so it's well behind me. But certainly as the physical scars all over my body from that time there was mental scars as well, and that period of my life was really challenging and the treatment and everything didn't really go to plan, and yeah, I left some lasting effects as a young as a young man, so yeah, it's taken some time to come back from that. Still sort of dealing with that kind of stuff. And I took this challenge on in support of Tour to Cure Cancer Research Foundation and we raise a lot of money. But yeah, for me, this challenge is about, you know, challenging myself and inspiring others to do the same. And I think that's when we learn the most about you know, ourselves as when we're a challenge with those adversity, that adversity and for me now it's a privilege to be able to put myself through that kind of pain and suffering as opposed to you know when people get unfortunately diagnosed with cancer and any kind of illness.
01:43:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you were a six time or stay at a marathon, mountain bike national champion. Did you have a site at the age of seventeen before contracting cancer that this is what you wanted to do, become, you know, a professional sports person?
01:44:07
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was on a good trajectory at the time, and it sort of it did derail that I spent after after treatment and stuff, I spent several years getting a trade and doing another, yeah, a regular job. For ten years or so, I still circled along along the way at a reasonable level. And then in the last in the last five or so years, I've gone full time with it and been able to do some things I'm really proud of, particularly Yeah this this culminating in this ride from Perth to Sydney in support of Yeah charity, but also Yeah, really challenging myself and yeah, showing what's I guess possible as a human being post Yeah, post such a disease such as cancer.
01:44:52
Speaker 1: So how does this marathon ride compare with other events that you've competed in.
01:45:00
Speaker 4: A thing of its kind that I've taken on. So my race professionally on the gravel circuit in the US mostly which is races. The longest one we have by far as sort of eight hours. It's a two hundred mile race in Kansas called Unbound, but most of our races are sort of four to six hours, And what we took on last week was close to nine days of fifteen hours or more a day, so really a new challenge and it took all aspects of my body to complete it. Yeah, we fell short of the record, but it was certainly a new challenge mentally physically, sleep deprivation, that kind of thing was a whole new ball game for me, and certainly we had yeah, about seven people in the road with me as well.
01:45:53
Speaker 1: So I was going to say, effort. It's not like it jumped on your bike in Perth and hopped off at eight days later in Sydney. You must have had a reasonable support grew behind it.
01:46:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, so it's a supported record, so you know, all you have to do basically is ride ride your bike every kilometer of the way, and you can have whatever support you need to be able to do that safely, their guess. And yeah, in terms of nutrition, we had a moving motor home with us and two others vehicles on the road for road safety. So obviously it's a big trucking route that's their turf out there, and we sort of invaded it for a week. But we had great support from those drivers and all the people driving across the country as well. So yeah, great support team and very necessary. I mean, all seven of them were on the go the entire time. Just a crazy effort. But yeah, it was amazing to see that part of the country on my bike.
01:46:53
Speaker 1: Did you just have the one bike?
01:46:55
Speaker 4: You can switch bikes. Yeah, But in terms of the record is such that it's so fast paced that and particularly the guy who holds it now, he barely slept and my approach was to sleep a lot more and ride a lot faster. So in terms of the bike, I was on a time trial bike, so you know, not much not built for comfort, built built for speed, which certainly sewed itself towards the end of the week I was dealing with with the ailments.
01:47:24
Speaker 9: But yeah, speed was the name a game for me.
01:47:28
Speaker 1: It was all about raising awareness and money, the two of the cure. How much do you raise thee We're close.
01:47:34
Speaker 4: To forty thousand now is which is really good, and a lot of people got on board. And even though out on the road, you know, we would see the same families for a period to like three days on a roll, like because we're leaving so early and finishing so late, we would see them like cycle through each day and maybe they got on board with what we were doing, and you know, we had the QR code on all the vehicles for people to start and to discan and and it's been a a great level of support and into Adelaide this week with the tour under and some engagements and stuff there, it's going to be really nice to keep pushing that, pushing towards that fifty thousand dollars target.
01:48:13
Speaker 1: Well, Brendan, congratulations and if anyone wants to make a donation, what can they do?
01:48:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's my Instagram page. Tracking on anyone is my tag. But yeah, I'll be on the ground Adelaide this week and at some events and then obviously the Tour it Under is happening and in its prime, and yeah, I hop to raally some more supporter as you sort of wrap up the campaign.
01:48:35
Speaker 1: Good on you're Brendan, great to chat. Thanks so much, Brendan. Trekkie Johnson, who after beating cancer at seventeen, has wanted to highlight the plight or highlight the situation of cancer, and his Tour de Cure raised forty thousand dollars so far. You can contribute to that by going to his website and he'll be in time for the tour down Under. My number is eight double two three double o double. Oh, we'll take some calls.
01:48:59
Speaker 2: John good mone, good morning Graham.
01:49:02
Speaker 12: I must say, and that that's an amazing story. And you know, the stuff that people go through and then they're willing to put themselves out to that type of thing is very impressive. This is more a nick pick. And because it's so hard to get on the sports show and with the Tour down Under being here at the moment as well as the tennis, there seems to be assumption that we're all vexillologists instead of having we're all we're flag experts.
01:49:29
Speaker 1: Oh okay, flag expert.
01:49:32
Speaker 12: You'll notice that not so much in the tennis because at least that the breakday generally will put up their country, but particularly in the cycling, mirrors are very there's quite a mix of countries that people aren't familiar with. You don't have a clue where they have come from.
01:49:48
Speaker 8: So I would have thought it would be just as easy to put the.
01:49:50
Speaker 12: Three letter I artic code for in front of the name instead of a flag. It seems to be prevalent in a lot of sports, but particularly you're a notice of the sight thing if you watch any of it. That's the case.
01:50:04
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good point. Yeah, I mean, flags look more colorful. But unless you're what do you call it a flexologist or something illis vexologists vexillologist, I've learned something about John.
01:50:19
Speaker 12: I mean, I do like my flags, but I mean there are some that you just have absolutely no idea, and some are.
01:50:24
Speaker 1: Quite similar, and when looking at them from a distance, how do you tell?
01:50:27
Speaker 12: And if you're blueger and colorbline, then it's really horrendous, like I am so so Yeah, it's just a minor nitpicked And there was one other thing that's completely and actually gone out of my head.
01:50:39
Speaker 1: Well, next time you think of it, let us know. Good to chat. Good on your John. Yes, that's that's the thing, isn't it? Colors flags, because a lot of a lot of countries have flags of similar colors, and you know, from any sort of distance. He makes a good point, it might be easier to put the three letter code for the country they came from. Dusty.
01:50:59
Speaker 24: Hello, Hello.
01:51:01
Speaker 30: Do I hope I never get that word in a script of my dialogue that I have to.
01:51:08
Speaker 12: What would work to pronounce? Yeah, you listen.
01:51:16
Speaker 30: I'm trying to be an artists, an actor and a comedian for about five years. I'm sixty seven O Victor Harbor. You know, we're struggling with the algal moon. I do try and do some busting down here. The council are very supportive. Now rows ahead part the Bluff State government land, but the council manager currently they will not issure a busker's permit to use that area because there are no safe areas to perform. And I support that decision, and you know, let's try and create some performing places that are safe. And the council have just built a nice new performance space in the lawns near the Bowls Club in Victor Harbor, so you know, they're investing rate past money and I've been a rate pay here for thirty years, so you know, and this is our performance of our Arts Minister and Adelaide Writers Week. I've got open mic comedy shows I'm paying to organize at the Rudy night Club in February, March and April. You know, so we're trying, you know, part of it. I don't get fringe hunting, but you know it's part of the fringe they'll be I'm going to help other communitis who come here for the fringe perform and promote their shows. So it's about the performance to the Arts Minister. I've sent an email to the Arts Minister, you know, suggesting that you know, they support our council to build these safe performance spaces in the Rosetta Head Wharf park area and one of the oldest Strake Wharf would be nice, right, very popular with fishing and families in the day, but very busy, so it's not really safe to set up and perform me, you know. So I asked the Minister, I send any well contract of the office and I said, senaty, So I do all that, but we're going to apply what happens are she handballs it sideways? Just some other minister. Now, when I was in a corporate technician in the Court for corporate Computing, we had some training about responsibility seekers and responsibility shirkers. So there are some people, you know, they will see an opportunity, but it's not really my responsibility to take that on to help solve that problem. I'm not paid to do that, and you know I'll put a token effort in handball it sideways. They're a responsibility shirker. And there are other people who's seeing an opportunity. You're not really paid to do that extra work, but it will read to a good outcome and that you know. So this is what they've trained is to be a responsibility seeker. Okay, So I'm just disappointed.
01:53:46
Speaker 1: And you're still waiting for an answer.
01:53:48
Speaker 30: No, I got an answer. She's handballed it side.
01:53:50
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. You haven't got a final answer though.
01:53:53
Speaker 30: It's ministry with Joseph that Joe Psychage and I have a previous issue with him and I just don't have any face in him either. So I'm very disappointed. And you know, I'm not surprised you've got this train wreck at the adlid Riders.
01:54:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your Dusty. I think you've put forward your case pretty well and I hope it gets resolved and you can do your busking down south. On the stock market front, the All Ords has continued its slow start, done by forty five points, ASX two hundred also lost more ground, down forty two points. Oiler is still going for fifty nine US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar steady at sixty seven US cents, back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham goodings. It's ten to twelve five double a coming up at midday the news, followed by conversations with the Quansey and then it's Stacy Lee. How the first day go stays?
01:54:47
Speaker 27: Hello, Graham? Really well, Yeah, really good. I pressed a couple wrong buttons.
01:54:52
Speaker 1: That's part of the game.
01:54:52
Speaker 31: Felt comfortable pretty quickly, and I was so exhausted I passed out on the lounge at eight thirty last night.
01:55:00
Speaker 1: The feeling all too well, no doubt. You've seen the story about breakfast cereals. Are you important breakfast person? Do you have to have bricky?
01:55:06
Speaker 31: I am yes, And I was reading that as I was eating my wheat bis this morning.
01:55:11
Speaker 1: Oh they rate pretty well.
01:55:12
Speaker 27: Yeah, number three on the list. I'll be talking about this this afternoon.
01:55:16
Speaker 31: I've got a dietitian and nutritionist coming on to talk about it, because I think breakfast is something we're all quite passionate about.
01:55:24
Speaker 1: Well, it's interesting that you know, breakfast the most important meal of the day. That I grew up hearing that, yes, and more recently on that's not so important that I couldn't get the people that say, oh, do you get up and have a cup of coffee and don't have anything to lunch. That would destroy me.
01:55:39
Speaker 27: No, I can't do it.
01:55:40
Speaker 1: I get very angry when I get hungry. Me too. I'm starting to get angry.
01:55:43
Speaker 27: Now, Okay, I better hurry up and get out of here. I don't want to see that side of you.
01:55:47
Speaker 1: No, food's very important to me. And but brecky, you can't start the day without good breakfast.
01:55:53
Speaker 2: Yep.
01:55:53
Speaker 31: And I've got to say I'm When I saw this list, I was quite heartened because I'm usually either an oats or a wheat bitch.
01:56:00
Speaker 1: Oh right, it's the top of the list.
01:56:02
Speaker 27: Of the top of the list.
01:56:04
Speaker 31: However, my suspicion is it depends on what you're adding, right exactly, because.
01:56:10
Speaker 27: Does anyone have play notes? But absolutely nothing added.
01:56:15
Speaker 1: I mix honey, a bit of salt, give a bit of tang. Salt gives just a little tang and honey, cinnamon on top, just a little bit of milk.
01:56:25
Speaker 27: You might have to try the little sprinkle of salt.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does, no day, it's yeah, I know, salt isn't on the top of the pile good thing for you, but it does just bring out the flavor.
01:56:35
Speaker 31: Well, it's very that sweet and savory combination is very in you salted caramel, and you've got that different flavor profile.
01:56:43
Speaker 1: I'm other than that. I like a bit of musely. Yeah, that's I've noticed Musely wasn't listed on them. I don't know where it fits, well, I.
01:56:51
Speaker 27: Guess because it varies.
01:56:52
Speaker 31: You can buy so many different types, with so many different fruits and nuts and grains and stuff added.
01:56:57
Speaker 1: So I found I at last found a museally, a toasted music I really liked and I always gove to it, and they took it off the market, of course, and then I went for another two in a row. Now one was called O and G. I can't think of the name of the second one. And after a few months and I'm really into it, gone, I'm the kiss of death.
01:57:19
Speaker 27: Not to self, not to sel.
01:57:22
Speaker 1: So we're so I'm back on corn flax, which I noticed has listed at number ten on the list.
01:57:27
Speaker 27: Not great, not.
01:57:28
Speaker 1: Great, not great.
01:57:29
Speaker 31: No, we'll be talking about that this afternoon. I'll be chatting to Chloe McLeod, who's a dietitian and nutritionist. And while I've got her, I also want to ask her about bacon because I've been seeing a lot lately about bacon being a class one carcinogen, yeah, and being as bad as tobacco. But eating bacon is as bad as smoking. All these headlines I keep reading and I'm thinking, I mean, I know it's not great, and let's talk about how we can make it healthier, and there are healthier options out there.
01:57:58
Speaker 27: But that is smoking, surely not.
01:58:01
Speaker 1: No, I find that hard to believe. I mean, I know the stories about bacon, and it's not the top of the tree thing for you.
01:58:07
Speaker 28: No.
01:58:08
Speaker 1: But if you had to make a choice between bacon and.
01:58:10
Speaker 27: Smoking, yeah, I think I know which one I'm going.
01:58:14
Speaker 1: I know which one I go for.
01:58:15
Speaker 27: But I might ask Chloe for some alternatives to bacon as well.
01:58:18
Speaker 31: If we're starting our year fresh talking about cereals and breakfasts and what we like to eat and what's good for you, and if we're saying bacon's not good for you in the you know, air quotation marks everything in moderation, as they say, what are some alternatives?
01:58:32
Speaker 27: If you want your egg with a bit of meat, what can we put with it? Are we going to be having chicken and egg rolls? Just it's not the same chicken and egg?
01:58:42
Speaker 1: How does that work? No, probably not.
01:58:43
Speaker 31: I've always criticized Americans for the crappy turkey bacon they eat, But do we have to resort to turkey bacon?
01:58:50
Speaker 1: I remember the first time I went to America and that they were big on eating out breakfast. Oh yeah, families eat out. And what they put on the plate absolutely amazement.
01:59:00
Speaker 27: And how big the plate?
01:59:02
Speaker 1: The eggs and bacon, Well that's sort of fine, but then there'd be pancakes with maple syrup all on the one plate, and then tomatoes and then a waffle.
01:59:12
Speaker 5: It's crazy, isn't it?
01:59:14
Speaker 1: And I thought, how do you mean we all eat these things and it ends up in your stomach? We know that, but a little bit of separation.
01:59:20
Speaker 31: Please, or I once ordered a side of hash brown. You get one or two little hash browns on No, an entire plate of hash brown. I've got a dinner plate size hash brown.
01:59:33
Speaker 27: Yeah crazy, I know that.
01:59:36
Speaker 1: You wonder why Americans aren't Morenobese?
01:59:39
Speaker 31: Well, yeah, we'll be talking about that this afternoon. I'm also going to be talking to the team from Phil Hoffman Travel. We've got the travel segment Thesavo Turkey Tuesday is back, so looking forward to that and did you know that we have an E motorcycle company headquartered here in Adelaide. So we talk about electric cars and then you've got your electric scooters and bikes.
02:00:05
Speaker 27: But this is an E.
02:00:07
Speaker 31: Motorbike, right, so not a not a push, not a scooter bike, E bike not but an E motorbike. So I want to talk to them about the technology surrounding E motorbikes and how does that work. And a fear that a lot of people have with electric vehicles is that there's no sound. I know people from the deaf community are really worried about that. An increase in electric vehicles, it's hard to hear when a car is coming. A motorbike would have similar concerns.
02:00:36
Speaker 27: Plus the speeds E.
02:00:38
Speaker 31: Electric vehicles and motorbikes they must get up to some huge, huge, very quick.
02:00:45
Speaker 4: Yeah.
02:00:45
Speaker 27: Yeah, So we'll talk about all of that because this is kind of new.
02:00:49
Speaker 31: We've learned about the electric cars and E bikes and scooters for a while, but motorbikes, I think it's quite quite new on our roads.
02:00:58
Speaker 27: Interesting stuff, So we'll talk about that this afternoon too.
02:01:00
Speaker 1: Excellent. Look, before you go, we had Tom Kuittzon Turners on earlier. I don't know if you heard it. I did. It's interesting he's been really the attack dog regarding Ashton Herne. Do you think he's doing that because there is some concern in the Labor Party that all of a sudden there is I mean, they're going to win, There's no question the Labor Party will win, but they see Ashton hern really as a viable contender.
02:01:23
Speaker 31: Absolutely, And I thought Ben Hood, the Shadow Minister, made a really good point when he called in afterwards. Surely the government has better and bigger and more important things to do than trawling social media right now, don't they.
02:01:36
Speaker 1: Well Tom tried to justify it. They're sort of, you know, just highlighting the issues. But yeah, I tend to agree, you know, get on with running the state and those other things will tend to look after themselves.
02:01:45
Speaker 2: Yeah.
02:01:47
Speaker 31: I'm not concerned as to what the politicians are putting on social media as much as I am as to what they're saying and promising and then fulfilling after those promises are made.
02:01:56
Speaker 1: Well, as I said to Tom Kuittson Turner's regarding Ashton hern you know, she new leader, new policies. I can't see there's a real issue if she sees that the state needs to go in a different direction or the policies need to be different. I mean, I don't think any politician has not changed their mind at some stage.
02:02:12
Speaker 27: Yes, I agree, new leader, new policies.
02:02:15
Speaker 31: You'd think it just becomes a concern when the leader then changes in a year's time and then there's new policies again, and then it continues every year.
02:02:22
Speaker 27: So hopefully for the Liberal Party that doesn't happen gives her.
02:02:25
Speaker 1: Something to talk about. Definitely, Stacy will hear of this afternoon after one.
02:02:29
Speaker 27: Thanks Gigi.
02:02:29
Speaker 1: That's it from me today. I have a great day, see you tomorrow.
