Summer Breakfast with Matthew Pantelis - 9 January 2026

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Speaker 1: Morning, everybody. Five minutes past six o'clock on five double A Matthew Pantellus here with you through till nine today being Friday, Friday, the ninth day of January, our last morning on breakfast, Jess, sleep in Monday and tomorrow for that matter. The alarm goes off for you when four o'clock, about about four, about ten to five. For me, the benefits of living a little bit closer, So forget that. From next week back on Mornings with You from nine am here on five double eighth next week. Now lots to have a chat about on the program this morning, and we have coming up a bit later on, in fact this hour a little bit before seven. Josh Fridenberg will join me as the Prime Minister called a royal commission finally, finally, you wouldn't see a better backflip at the Brisbane Olympics coming up, but has called a Royal commission into antisemitism, bowing to public and political pressure, announcing the Commission into the Bondi terror attack and anti Semitism in Australia. Former High Court Judge Virginia Bell will lead the inquiry to look at the prevalence of anti Semitism in Australia, the circumstances of the Bonda massacre and strengthening social cohesion. Anthony Alberzi saying he believes a Royal Commission is essential.
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Speaker 2: That our government's priority is to promote unity and social cohesion and this is what Australia needs to heal, to learn to come together. It's clear to me that a Royal Commission is essential to achieving.
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Speaker 1: This, alrighty, So that is where the Prime Minister stands now. Funny, only a few days ago it was the last thing we needed, not cohesive, disruptive for unity or be upsetting all of that. But the political pressure obviously became too much for the Minister and as bowed to the inevitable as it seemed to he always would have to. It wasn't going to go away. So talk about misreading the room and misreading it badly. But we have one now and it's exactly what is needed in the wake of the worst terror attack on Australian soil in our history. Just an awful thing. So hopefully, hopefully we can move on beyond this point. The Commissioner Against Antisemitism or the Special Envoy Combating Anti Semitism, Julian Siegel saying, this inquiry is about finding the best way forward.
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Speaker 3: Most importantly, what it needs to aim for is to understand what we must do as a country, as I've said before, to push anti Semitism to the margins and make sure that events that we've experienced can never happen again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so hopefully we move beyond that point that we're at at the moment. All right, the hot weather, it'll can you forty three degrees again yesterday despite the forecast being around thirty eight, but right now very nice opening the doors to step out of a hot house. Had trouble sleeping last night, Ah, even with the air on just too hot. Twenty two degrees at the moment, and it was lovely opening the doors to step out and just feeling the cool breeze. Oh, beautiful and really pleasant twenty two degrees if you're getting up early for your morning walk. At the moment, cloud light, cloud around. There's a bit of color over the Adelaide Hills at the moment too, where the sun beginning its approach to warm up the day. Yet again, we're only only going for thirty two now. It was to be thirty five, as you heard Kerry say a little while ago, so thirty two. But over the border in Victoria and today will be a high danger day. There are warnings all over the place. Before I tell you what's going on in Victoria, there are severe heatwave warnings for most of South Australia. There are also heat warnings or the heat warning certainly the fire bands fire danger ratings as extreme for the West Coast, Eastern Air Peninsula, Lower Air Peninsula, Flinders, Mid North, Mount Lofty Rangers, York Peninsula, Riverland, murray Land, Upper Southeast and Lower Southeast. Extreme fire danger raidings in all of those, so don't do anything silly outdoors the wind will pick up. The heat wave summary severe everywhere except for ki Lower Air, Lower Southeast and West Coast and York Peninsula. All of those are low intensity heat wave. The rest a severe, including Adelaide, Metro and the Mount Lofty Rangers all raided a severe risk of a heat wave apart from the ones I mentioned that are low intensity, So take care, hydrate yourself. Still, it's still going to be warm thirty two, but the change is on the way. Meantime. In Victoria, major bushfires wreaking havoc, two of them in the northern part of the state. Over there feared multiple properties lost, not yet possible to say how many. The bushfire near Longwood burning through twenty eight thousand hectares, threatening homes and lives. Two emergency warnings in place. Residents around have been told to keep a close eye on their emergency app and vic Emergency website. The emergency warnings also in place in the northeast near Wawa Wahua Park's Victoria's closed door public land there. Forest Management Victoria Chief Fire Officer Chris Hardman has this dire warner.
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Speaker 2: I've said repeatedly that our government's priority is too.
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Speaker 1: All right, we've heard from you. Let's try this one.
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Speaker 2: If you are caught in a bushfire under those conditions, radiant he kills you will be killed before the fire gets to you under these conditions.
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Speaker 1: All right. So the usual sort of warnings there, but nevertheless a total fire ban in place for the whole of Victoria. We have extreme conditions here in South Australia today and as you heard with Kerry, two lives last on our roads yesterday. We're up to five fatalities for twenty twenty six. This year second in twelve hours last night or yesterday afternoon Main South Road. This occurred between a crash between a motorbike and a truck. The motorcyclist, a twenty four year old man from old nor Langer on Earl Plates, was killed, the twenty seven year old truck driver uninjured. Police want to hear from anyone who witnessed the crash or has dash cam footage. Follows a fatal crash early yesterday morning at Sutton Town near Mount Gambia on the Limestone coast. So just an awful time, an awful start to twenty six on our roads, so take care driving around out there. Twelve minutes past six o'clock. Now, of course there is a one hundred dollars voucher caller of the morning to give away eight double two to three double O double O for that thanks to the wonderful people at the Kent Town Hotel. Also, oh yes, the phone number gave you that The text line O four four eight h eight thirteen ninety five and you can email on air at five double A dot com dot au. We will have a chat about the algill bloom, the fact that the opposition here want to reconvene the committee looking into the algle bloom after the allegations the other day on Wednesday that the government told people researching it to hold off until after the state election. Opposition wanting to reconvene that algle bloom committee. Ashton Herne will join me on that will look at emergency upgrades at Clear Hospital, the government announcing twenty two million for the emergency department and the opposition saying well, when you're going to reinstall, reinstate the helipad to many vac people from there to the city, the road is awful by the way going to Clear if you haven't been on that lately, that needs an urging upgrade. There's calls for in fact, there will be a rally at Old Ronella this weekend residents against a plastic manufacturing facility that's been put smack bang in the middle of a residential area. They're saying, wrong place. We'll have something else, thank you, but wrong place for this. And seventy five percent of new mums have issues with body image. There's some of the things coming up and we will let you know more about those as we go forward. Quarter past six sixteen minutes past six o'clock. See the brawl yesterday at Henley Beach, Two teenagers rested after a disturbance. Police say disturbance. It looked like an all in I don't know what mela that covered the whole of that square area, you know, where the fountains are down on the ground, the little water pool area that kids love to jump in and whatever. But it was full on and one kid thrown down to the ground. These two sixteen year old boys arrested, charged with disorderly conduct, bailed to face the Adelaide Youth Court February nineteen. But somehow this brawl erupted cheering kids all around them, as is the want of teenagers, egging them on, egging on their man. But the police were called obviously they weren't far away and arrested too, sixteen year olds charged with disorderly conduct. No reports of injuries, but it looked pretty full on in the video footage I've seen of this melee that just hundreds It looked like hundreds anyway of people around around the pair as they fought tooth and nail for a few minutes in the middle of the square. Just unbelievable, and as is this and I don't know if police are going to talk about this this morning, but I see a driver. Given the fact we're up to five fatalities this year, you have to wonder, don't you, why the message just doesn't get through a driver court nearly six times six times over the limit at the York Peninsula. On the York Peninsula on Thursday yesterday, Yorktown Police stopped the Mitsubishi Sedan at wool Bay conducted a roadside breath test sixty eight year old man point two eighty one, just short of six times the legal limit. Further checks revealed not only that disqualified from driving the vehicle unregistered, so car taken away for twenty eight days cost him a fortune to get it back from impound driving, disqualified charges, driving unregistered, uninsured, and drink driving a further twelvemonth loss of license. So it gets added on. This is why when people don't have licenses and you say, well, how can they lose their license? So just keep adding it on and hopefully at some point some of these idiots get jail as a result of ignoring the basic road rules on what should and shouldn't be doing. Let's talk about somewhere cold, not Adelaide, not Southern Australia at the moment, but Greenland, and there had been, as you know, machinations by Donald Trump and his administration to take over in one form or another, Greenland takeover ownership. Denmark has called for a meeting with the USA. I understood the Foreign Secretary Secretary of State Marco Rubio was scheduled for meetings over there anyway to talk about this. But let's put that to Ben Downey, seven years europe correspondent, who is following the story.
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Speaker 4: Hello, Ben morning, Yes, you're right, that's precisely what has happened. Rubio had these meetings penciled in. But what everything in the wake of Venezuela and all these terms we start hearing about territorial sovereignty that happened when the US when an extricated Maduro from Venezuela were now the same terms of being raised when it comes to Greenland. But Europe's leaders are taking a far far different view of what happens to the Kingdom of Denmark's island territory than they did with what's happening in Southern America. They're basically all in unanimous opposition to Trumps repeated doubling and tripling down on his desire to have Greenland not only in the future but in this presidential term, and the White House really refusing to rule out military intervention.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I mean going to war with Greenland or Denmark. It probably won't work out well for Denmark if it came to that, but it's well, hopefully it doesn't. I mean, it's just a ridiculous situation, isn't.
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Speaker 4: It, To say the least. I mean, to make it more ridiculous, Denmark's Datish troops are in Greenland. They're under cold war orders right now. Foreign military rhymes on Greenland shores that to shoot first and ask questions later. So that's the that's the modus of Arona. That's the south tence this situation is. And it's made even yes because Denmark is one of the US's greatest allies. I mean, they lost, you know, per capita, more troops following America into Afghanistan than effectively any other nation. They the US already has bases in Greenland, and they've been a really close close ally. But Donald Trump wants Greenland, he says, for Arctic and national security, but also it's rich in these minerals that they need for all this modern tech and transistors and silicon chips that China's access to the US currently doesn't. So you know, Marco Rubio earlier this week said maybe you know, we could buy Greenland off of Denmark instead, But JD. E Van's the Vice president today and Donald Trump earlier ruled out that idea. That must have been much more keen on the use of force. But the European laders pushing back. Kisstart of the British prime ministers on the prone to data, Trump saying that the future of Grand Lands of the Greenland at Denmark alone, and France's President Emanuel mccrouan he went even further. He's based saying the US is turning away from its allies. So the temperature's rising up here despite it being about native ten twenty in Greenland.
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Speaker 1: All right, can they find it a way through? Do you think.
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Speaker 4: It's tough? Because Europe needs the US when it comes to Ukraine. They can't risk annoying them because they NATO, the alliance that's held strong and catch peace through much of the Western world post World War Two. It's relying on US weapons manufacturing in the US military and intelligence to support Ukraine's defense. And if Ukraine falls, then European leaders fear Vladimir Poopin will wash into Europe, so they can't risk pissing off Trump that much. But the problem is is that this is a central European power. Denmark EU member NATO. Ally, much of NATO's central operations are run out of there. They're ren a tight blind but they are pushing up hard. They're all speaking in solidarity against this. I think that there will It's very unlikely it will come to shots being fired. There will be a diplomatic solution here. I think it will inevitably, it doesn't take a genius to work. It will inevitably probably favor the US because they're holding quite a few of the cards, as I've explained with this situation with Russia as well. So yeah, I think it'd be very unlikely for any shelf to be fired. But it's hard to see the US not getting its way one way or another in this situation.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely right, give us just before you go, been an idiot's guide to Greenland. I understand it's got its own prime minister, but it's a territory of Denmark. Is do we have a similar comparison in Australia that we can say it is.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I was there in Greenland a year ago when this was first raised in Donald Trump's second presidential term. So yeah, the Kingdom of Denmark, it's a territory, but it is it's semi autonomously run by the Greenlandic people, so it's often referred to as its own nation. It has its own flag, it has its own indigenous Inuit population, but the Kingdom of Denmark it has its own foreign ministry. But if that foreign ministry is to engage the animation, Denmark has to be present. So it is in a weird sort of zone of its own. And the population is fewer than sixty thousand people, so you know, that's less than you know, the MCG, that's two thirds of the MCG you can fit the entire population of Greenland into. So it is, it's not a lot of people. It's an enormous area, there's an enormous amount of welfare, and it has a huge geostrategic importance. But yes, it is a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark. But there's there's a lot of tension even internally between Denmark and Greenland. Greenland what sort of more self determination, Denmark sort of more reluctant to give that out. So there are a lot of things at play, a very difficult thing to untangle, but we're going to see how it works next week some part at least, when Marco Rubio meets with these Danish and European leaders.
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Speaker 1: All right, well fifty, what are we up to? Third state after Venezuela? Now line up, everybody, good on your bend. Thank you for your time. See Ben Downey seven News Europe CORRESPONDENCYES report on seven News tonight. There's a fair bit going on locally as well, with a tourism venue planned for Ki that the mayor has some issues with. Down there a proposal for a sixty million tourism complex. The mayor of Kangaroo Island, Michael Pengilly on the line. Michael, good morning to you.
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Speaker 5: Good morning Matthew, good morning to your listeners as well.
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Speaker 1: What's the issue with this development?
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Speaker 5: A lot were concerned. I'm speaking on behalf of the community as well, a lot of the community. It's just the siding of this thing along the north coast. There's a lot of issues there. It's a huge development. We don't know a lot about it. I've actually asked for an information briefing next week. I think it is ak in the near future. We want to put in a submission, but look some of it just as the scene to stack up. Matthew. The other thing that concerns Ireland is is we're seeing large areas of the North Coast being snapped up and people getting good money for them, of course, but then they're putting in suggestions of projects that may not necessarily get legs. We're delighted to see the golf course going as a big development going on in Kingscope, but this one they're talking about geo thermal water. Now I'm no expert, but I have no idea where they're going to get how far down they would have to go to get geo thermal water. There's effluent problems. We're really concerned about fire. Only last night midnight we had enormous electrical storms come across the North Coast. We live on the North Coast. I'm a fairway away from Anam and with lightning and whatnot, that area was subject to fire six years ago. We don't think you can make it safe the road out there is not much more on the goat track, the North Coast Road. There's been no talk of putting money into the roads. John Rowe changed as Panning Minister and made the north coast of the island far more open up for doing developments on. I'm all for development, all for investment a whole lot, but I really do have serious concerns about what's the post to you, matckiw.
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Speaker 1: Even the fact eighty jobs ongoing, I mean that would be a bit of a boom to the area there, wouldn't it.
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Speaker 5: Oh look, I've heard all that before everywhere. And the big project that took place twenty od years ago, Southern Nation Lodge, was fantastic, burned down, built again, going really well. But you can't have jobs. We've got to value what we've got. We need the scenic aspect of it at spectacular coastline. We've lost a lot of beaches to people who have bought land and closed up beaches that locals will always use. Our Kangaroo Beach, Snug Cove, Sandy King George is just the name a few Dashwood. They're all stunning beaches and then now you can't get in there and it's just something on the island. We don't have a lot of things that we can drop out and do, but we can enjoy our nature. We can enjoy our beaches because the North Coast, as you're wear is very high six seven eight hundred feet in spots, and our sea. They're talking about farming. That is not farming country there, Matthew. It's you run a sheep about every five aces.
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Speaker 1: To be perfectly honest, all right, you're not opposed to development, just the right development there.
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Speaker 5: I think you've probably nailed it. There be a development. We'd like to see it much more. We've never spoken of the developer. Developer has never come to council and wanted to speak to us. We've asked to have the developer in there. The information briefing we've asked to have. We're asking to have government officers there. They could be on zoom. That's that's fine, but we don't know enough about it. But we just think it's it's just too big and it really doesn't fit the kangaroo tourism experience there.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so there we go. Michael Pengilly, appreciate your time. Thank you.
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Speaker 5: Thanks Matthew.
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Speaker 1: Mayor of Kangaroo Island, the development proposed for the north shore as you heard, and geothermal hot springs, which does Kay and I have hot water underneath it? Maybe it does, but how ad gennial as you start drilling, drill, baby, drill to find it. But anyway, that's the proposal put forward. Coming up after the news with Kerry Turner in a few minutes time here on five double A. We will have a look at keeping call as the heat wave to some degree anyway, cooler day today thirty two on the way, currently twenty two in the city, but the heat wave rolling into day three. And is there a better place to be even at thirty two degrees than jumping in a pool somewhere by the way, how's the beach been going done? A called in yesterday morning talked about the phone down at Henley Beach and a few other people made similar comments on the text line throughout the morning. But if you've been swimming off the coast anywhere Metro area, how have you pulled up in terms of symptoms any sourcecratchy throats or runny noses or whatever. And how have the dogs gone? If you've had dogs down at the beach. Let us know eight double two to three double O double oh, twenty three to seven on five double A. We'll check in with the weather bureau and police in a little while. Also Josh Friedenberg joining me this half hour. But let's talk about where you can go and cool love and I reckon they would have been flat out over the last few days. Adam Luscomb, general manager SA Aquatic and Leisure Center at Marry and Adam, good morning, Hello, yeah, very well, thank you. Indeed, well, I mean there's a bit of it, a little bit of it left given tomorrow's twenty three degrees, but thirty two today, no doubt you'll probably see a fair few people there. How's it been over the last few days? You would have been packed out?
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Speaker 6: It's quite mathew, what coming in or people are escaping the heat and doing exactly which is what we love to see with swimming pools.
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Speaker 1: What's the capacity there at Marion you can get a few in.
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Speaker 7: Well, we.
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Speaker 6: It's for made for the incasion. Well, nothing in piles and all the various a World champion ships.
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Speaker 1: For help, Adam, We've we've got a terrible line. I'm sorry to say so I might put you back to Jess. I don't know if we can get a better line than that, but obviously pools are the place to go. It goes without saying, but love to hear from people if you've been down the beach and especially in the swimming department with the algal bloom. Peter at Woodcraft went swimming at Christie's Beach yesterday afternoon, absolutely fine today Market Richmond been swimming off Glenog North three times this week, being perfectly clear in the water, no side effects.
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Speaker 7: There.
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Speaker 1: We are good to know. Thank you boys. Sunrise photo from Brenton at the Barrassa. Have a great show, he says. Brent the milky, good on you, Thank you and stunning photo looking through the vines at a beautiful sunrise. We should chuck that on Facebook or somewhere. Jess, if you've got a secon, I know you're flat out this morning, but magnificent photo of the sunrise Brent the milky in the Barrassa. Regarding k I wouldn't be South Australia unless someone is against the proposal and going back a little bit further in texts over the last half hour, Helen says, morning Matthew, Anthony Alberinezi's lost all credibility. Doesn't mean a word, he says. Luke says, Matthew, nice and cool outside at the moment. Yes, it is just beautiful outside, thank you, Luke. And Robert says, while a royal commission is welcome, let's not kid ourselves. It's more about Elbow keeping his job rather than concern for Australia's wish community. Peter says, morning, Matthew, forty three degrees it creates to one hundred and nine point nine to four fahrenheit. All right, that's a long time ago trying to make that comparison. I think we've got used to the celsiust thing. Tell you what weights heights first got used to heights, but only know a few direct comparisons, like six forty is one hundred and eighty three centimeters and I kind of go off that. So when somebody says one hundred and seventy five, I think, okay, that's got to be about five and a half feet. But can do that? Weights took me forever, partly because we had kept our old scales at home that were in stones and pounds, and it took me such a long time to start making the pound stone slash kiloh equivalent. But I've got there with that now as well. It took a while that one system. I mean it's only been fifty odd years, but anyway, finally got there. It is fahrenheit and celsius. No, that's long gone, but there we go, all right, twenty minutes to seven on five double a. Dave says, when you speak to the bureau, please ask why it's now five degrees warmer at Mount Lofty?
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Speaker 8: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Yes? It is? Where is it twenty seven point nine currently Mount Lofty? Adelaide twenty three? Why is that a little bit of hot air over the top of the peak there? Maybe? I mean it does, it does fluctuate and interesting, it's a great question, Dave. I put that to the bureau earlier this week. Where the temperature on one of the hot days it was about twenty I reckon the first morning, So what was that the Wednesday morning? Tuesday morning it was twenty seven twenty eight coming in here at six, and by quarter two it had fallen to twenty three. But really quickly, you know, in the space of fifteen twenty minutes, fill about four degrees and it's just morning. You know pre sun fluctuations in temperature was the answer, but I will ask them that's an interesting question. In fact, they'll be coming up in about two minutes from the Brendon from Maitland sent in a great part of the sunrise this morning as well. You'd have a good view, I reckon the lights of Adelaide at night looking in that direction. The sun looks sensational just early dawn, from a few minutes ago before it peeked over the horizon. No doubt over there it's probably shining brightly now as it is here in the city. Thank you for that. Let's talk about the fact the sun has been shining too brightly of late. Daniel Sherwin Simpson from the Bureau of Meteorology, Caido.
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Speaker 9: Daniel, good morning man.
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Speaker 1: All right, we can expect the cooler day, but gee it was warm yesterday.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Well, some of us around the state can still expect a holiday, but at least in Adelaide, we are going to see that cool change pushed through at some point in the afternoon. That'll bring down the temperatures quite a bit, and we'll have some gusty wins with it, so you'll certainly feel that cool change when it hits. I reckon, it's not out of the question. We pick up just you know, one or two little spots out of some higher level thunderstorms that roll over the stay. We're seeing them sort of over the Air Peninsula and Kangaroo Island at the moment. But no significant rainfall is expected. Things are still going to be fairly warm though. We do have a top of thirty two on for today, but we are certainly on the cooling trend once we move into tomorrow, down to twenty three degrees, so quite the notable cool change coming through.
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Speaker 11: Matt.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, got a question from Dave a few minutes ago on the text line. He says, how is it twenty three degrees now in the city yet at Mount Lofty it's twenty eight?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, So yeah, as you say, twenty three in the city, Mount Lofty hanging around at twenty eight and the minimum temperature at Mount Lofty was actually about five degrees warmer in the city. Main reason for that is basically we have this you know, giant pool of warmer temperature aloft at the moment because it's been so hot that's sort of stuck around overnight. Very surface of the atmosphere cools down, so that cools down a bit quicker, so the temperatures then Adelaide cooled down quicker up at Mount Lofty. That managed to pick up some of that warmer era a loft, particularly with these windier conditions right now. So yeah, just Mount Lofty being higher up, managed to access some of that warmer era loft. We are expecting though, once the sun you know, royl And truly gets up and things mix around a bit more, Adelaide should be on for the warmer temperature than Mount Lofty, but it is still going to be pretty warm up in the hills. You know, the peak of Mount Lofty might only get to thirty or so, but Mount Barker's still got a thirty three on the full path, so still be warm up in the hills.
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Speaker 1: Matt absolutely so tempts in the mid twenties immediately after and rising to around thirty by Tuesday. Sunny days ahead again. But Daniel today, in terms of the extreme fire danger, the winds likely to pick up what late morning.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we are expecting to see the winds pick up quite a bit. So we do actually have a severe weather warning out for large parts of the state. That doesn't include the Adelaide Metro, but it does pick up the back of the Mount Lofty Rangers. So when it could get pretty gusty around then, and we are going to see the winds pick up through the afternoon. Possibly could even see a little bit of dust blowing around, so there might be a bit of hate hanging about. There's even quite a significant fire out sort of dune away. With all these strong winds. You might even see a loft in the sky a bit of smoke this evening. That might have led to that pretty nice sunrise we saw this morning, as there's quite a lot of smoke around and that often makes the sunrise quite a bit more orange. So yeah, there is quite a bit going on weather wise today, so it's definitely something to keep your finger on today.
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Speaker 1: Good on your Daniel, Thank you for the news there, Daniel Sherwin Simpson Judy Forecast at the Bureau. Let's go to Matt Hale in Police Media and morning to you, madam. Motorbike truck fatality at hackem yesterday afternoon. A dreadful start to the year this year.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, absolutely so. Just before three pm yesterday emergency services responded to a crash on men so through it between Binelli motorbike and a truck. Sadly, as you say that, the rider of the motorcycle died at the scene. He was a twenty four year old man from Old nor Lanana. The truck driver, a twenty seven year old Christy's beach Man, was taken hospital for mandatory blood tests. He was uninjured. Major crash investigators attended that scene and we're now appealing if anyone has witnessed that crash or dascam footage please contact Crimestoppers one eight hundred, Triple three, Triple zero. And I'd just like to highlight this is the fifth life lost on our essay Ruse this year, and three of those have been with motorcycles.
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Speaker 1: See and we're only on day nine of the unbelievable. Take care, everybody. A suspicious vehicle fire Mansfield Pack Yes.
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Speaker 12: About two thirty this morning police and MFS were called the Kent Street after reports of a car on fire. Police responded and located the car on fire on the road in Masa, Sudan. Was completely destroyed by the blaze. And please believe that car was actually stolen back in December and then deliberately lit. We're continuing our investigations and again we'll call it for crime stoppers. If anybody knows how to think about that, please contact us.
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Speaker 1: All right, Matt, appreciate the time, Thank you, Thank you very much. Seeing your Constable Matt Hale Police media this morning. On those incidents, Philip says, took the puppy for a walk o Sullivan Beach last night, got home, she couldn't breathe properly. Then bringing up Phlem ended up at Rundle Street Emergency Vet last night. Zena's a lot better this morning. A needle in medication thanks to the wonderful vets. What a night sick dog got home at one point thirty four hundred and seventy five dollars later. No more beach for us, It's unsafe, he says, all right, we'll take a quick break. Josh Friedenberg will join me next nine minutes to seven o'clock on five Double A Well. Some three weeks after the terrible massacre our fifteen people forty odd injured in hospital at Bondai Beach after calls from hundreds of people, taking out two full page pages of newspapers, Yes Yes today and prolonged calls over many weeks from individuals, business groups, people coming together in the law, a sport, health, business, you name it, demanding a royal commission. Finally, the Prime Minister backflipped on the adamant view he had that a royal commission was not necessary. One of those very first calls, coming the day after the massacre from Josh Friedenberg, former Treasurer of Australia, who joins me, now, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, nice to be with you.
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Speaker 1: You would be pleased with the news, but just yesterday morning, before the announcement, you were tweeting we don't want this commissioner. What are your thoughts today?
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Speaker 7: Well, my point about the commissioner, and I recognize that Virginia bell is a distinguished tourist, was that I would have thought, after the last two and a half years of trauma and tragety, that the Prime Minister would have sought the support of the Jewish community for his choice before the name was publicly floated. But that didn't happen.
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Speaker 1: Is this basically, do you I mean, do you see this as the Prime Minister saying, well, you've dragged me to this position, but you're going to get who I.
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Speaker 7: Want I see it that way. I do see though this World Commission is an opportunity to recept and repair the nation at the time that we really needed to.
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Speaker 1: Will it go a long way towards doing that. I heard the PM read the terms of references yesterday and thought, well, it seems to be exactly what is needed. And it took such a long time and for him a lot of political pain to get here.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it should have been a decision that he took it earlier. He could have taken it early. He should have taken earlier, but unfortunately that didn't happen. But now that the decision is made, we need to get behind it and make it a success.
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Speaker 1: The PM's going in hard for Virginia Bell, and probably rightly. I mean, she may have had decisions that Jewish community disagreed within the past, but I wouldn't have any doubts of her independence in doing this role and her impartiality in doing this role. From your comments, you seem to be agreeing with that. From what you said a few minutes ago, I.
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Speaker 7: Mean, absolutely we need a fiercely independent in the impartial, rigorous analysis of how the events of the Bondai massacre took place, and how we're going to stop it ever happening again. And we need the Royal Commission to get to the bottom of those individuals, those organizations, the ideology that is fanning these flames of hate, and that is what is absolutely critical to take us forward. The last two and a half years, we've seen by bombing of synagogue, we've seen the docks of Jewish creatives, we've seen the boycotting of Jewish owned businesses, we've seen rights in predominantly Jewish suburbs in Melbourne. This is all unforgivable and unforgettable and it shouldn't have come to this, but unfortunately it did, and it culminated in the worst terrorist attack in Australia's history, and fifteen innocent people lost their lives, forty were badly injured and as we speak this morning that year there are still people in hospital who are battling for their life and we shouldn't lose sight of that. And so this Royal Commission was the obvious vehicle to affect real change. It's not a guarantee of change. The guarantee of change is that the Royal Commission does this job. Well, and that the government implements what we hope is a practical roadmap of recommendations to take this forward.
00:37:10
Speaker 1: Is there anything lacking in it, anything you'd like that you think should have been included.
00:37:16
Speaker 7: Oll, Look, it's going to have a very wide focus. If you look at the terms of reference, that covers issues like immigration and law enforcement and obviously the corporation and coordination levels between federal and state intelligence agencies. It also looks at institutions, cultural institutions, higher education institutions because they have been places where this intimidation and harassment towards Jewish people has been unfortunately quite pronounced. And then of course it also focuses on dere radicalization and education because that's an important part of this puzzle as well. This is not a new issue, This is not an Australian only issue. But what your listeners understand, and I think the majority of Australians understand, is that while the bonddimassacre was an attack on the Jewish community, it was actually a threat to every Australian and that's why, as you said in your introduction, we saw the likes of down Fraser and Ian Thorpe come together with the heads of HP and the former chiefs of the Army, Air Force and Navy in Australia because they're not Jewish, but what they do understand is that this is not the Australia that they know and they love, and so it's incumbent upon us all to restore that Australia that we know and we love, and the Royal Commission is hopefully a pathway to doing that.
00:38:50
Speaker 1: And Dawn Fraser's comments intervention call it what you will, seem to have been. I don't know that was the turning point, but something seemed to change around them.
00:39:00
Speaker 7: Look, I thought she was extremely brave. I spoke to her and after that she made that speech, and you know, she was alongside and Nova Peris, who's another incredibly brave person, a former Labor Senator, first Indigenous Olympic gold medalist, an incredibly important voice in this whole debate, and she, like so many others, have been consistent in their advocacy, not just since the terrible attack at Bondai, but really since mus Is a terrible attack on October seventh, twenty twenty three. Because we don't want to allow those foreign conflicts to poison our domestic debate any longer. But unfortunately that's what's happened.
00:39:48
Speaker 1: You were portrayed in a cartoon in the Sydney Morning Herald the other day as being amongst a number of people holding up. The cartoon depicted you and others holding up those calling for a royal commission, basically ridiculing the whole thing. What are your thoughts on that carto?
00:40:07
Speaker 7: Well, I think that was extremely anti Semitic, and I think it was extremely inappropriate, and I think linking the Prime Minister of Israel to the cause by non Jewish and Jewish Australians alike for a royal commission was just ridiculous and in fact it goes to the heart of a lot of the misinformation, disinformation and hate that we've seen in Australia. We cannot link what is happening overseas to attacks on brown Jewish Australians. There should be no conflict between someone's faith and someone's citizenship and that is what we need to understand and that is what we need to get to the bottom of.
00:40:54
Speaker 1: And just finally, Josh Friedenberg, the Premier here Peter melanowskis in support of the Rider Festival Adelaide Writers' Festival decision to dump a pro Palestinian academic and author from the festival coming up. What are your thoughts on that. From the fact they've done.
00:41:13
Speaker 7: The boards obviously made the decision, I think Premier has made some comments on a whole leader to them to explain the decisions that they've taken. But within these cultural circles, within these writers' festivals, it's critically important that we also avoid the demonization of the Jewish people and we enhance social gradation.
00:41:42
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, Thank you. Josh Bredenberg on the Royal Commission right on seven o'clock news time on five double A, currently twenty three degrees seven minutes past seven, we've been talking the Royal Commission on Bondai on the line as shadow, you know, Home of Fairs Minister John O'DUNNEYAM, Good morning, Senator.
00:42:05
Speaker 5: Good morning, Matthew.
00:42:06
Speaker 13: Thanks for having me.
00:42:07
Speaker 1: We finally got there. I think most Australians and looking at Poles, it was only something like twenty percent or less that didn't think Royal Commission was needed. The rest of the country broadly in favor. So from an Australian point of view, the country now will have the Royal Commission it has demanded.
00:42:26
Speaker 10: That's right, Matthew, and it is about time. I think it is great that we finally do have a Royal Commission. I think it is lamentable that we took as long as we did for the Prime Minister to see sense in this. I mean, when you've got the families of victims saying it's necessary given the rise and proliferation of antisemitism across the country. You had former heads of security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies all calling for it. You had, of course great representatives of our communities in the sporting notables, and then, as you say, the broader public saying, well, what's what's not to be gained from a royal commission into this. So look, it's taken a while. I struggle to see how the Prime Minister can reconcile the arguments he made about not having one with our calling one. But here we are. It has to work. But he incumbent upon Virginia Bell, the commissioner there to a point, and the Commission itself to do this work for the betterment of our country.
00:43:23
Speaker 1: Elements of the Jewish community have been concerned about the appointment of Virginia Bell as the person to lead this Where does the opposition said on that are you comfortable with Hernie? You wouldn't surely have any doubts of her ability to do the job impartially.
00:43:38
Speaker 10: Oh, look, she's a well credential, highly respected member of the legal fraternity. Of course, there were concerns expressed by members of the Jewish community, especially in their leadership. The point the opposition had made to government, and this is a government who said they were consulting and wanted to ensure that this was something that the Jewish community could get on board with. Our point was well provided the commissioner or commissioners, and of course our preference would have been for a number of commissioners to bring different types of experience to the table. Was that the Jewish community would be satisfied. Now, I did see Daniel Aggie on the President of the Executive Council of Australian Jury yesterday say well, look sure there were concerns, but now this has to work. It was the Prime Minister's decision, his captain's call with his words, so it's just got to work.
00:44:29
Speaker 14: Now.
00:44:30
Speaker 10: The Jewish community want this to work. And so that is the opposition's hope too. We'll look at the terms of reference, the draft letters, patent. But this has to work. We cannot let this fail.
00:44:40
Speaker 1: No from what you've heard of it yesterday, and I was in the car listening to the announcement yesterday driving around, it seems to be quite encompassing, quite widespread. Looking at the issues that need to be looked at, do you think it lacks anything.
00:44:55
Speaker 10: Well, I don't think it lacks anything. We want to review the terms of reference FLEE. They came out yesterday, and.
00:45:01
Speaker 5: Of course that is in draft form as far as.
00:45:04
Speaker 10: I can ascertain here, and it does seem to be wide ranging. A couple of things we do want to ensure is that nothing is off limits. I know that Richardson review dealing with the work of intelligence and security agencies is on foot and ongoing, but I don't think this Royal Commission could be effective unless it took into account all of those elements, including any potential failings of those agencies enabling the attackers to perpetrate what they did on December fourteen in Bonbai. This has to be open, it has to be transparent. Anything less is something that the community will not have confidence in so, as I say, we're examining the terms of reference. They seem to cover the field, but we want to make sure it does properly take into account everything that led to what happened that those tragic events in Bondai last year.
00:45:55
Speaker 1: All right, Senator John Dunnahan, thank you for your time.
00:45:58
Speaker 10: Matthew, thank you very much, you two.
00:46:00
Speaker 1: Shadow Minister for Home Affairs Andrew says, finally the government have called for a National Royal Commission, but I shared Josh Friedenberg's concern over the appointment of Virginia build I oversee it has to feel the government to still try to influence the outcome. He says, Yeah, I don't think so. You know, she's a former High Court justice. She can be impartial. She knows what she has to do. It has to work, and I'm sure she will do an excellent job in what appears to be from what I heard the Prime Minister read yesterday, in terms of the elements of the inquiry that she wide ranging. She will do a good job in delivering the outcome that she will be investigating. So you know, everything's on the table as it should be. Finally, saw at Redwood Park. Really good text, I Reckon says, let me get this great. When sports, stars, business etc. Got behind the voice, the media told them to stick the sport and business. Yet now the media are happy for the same people to tell the government what to do. Make it make sense. I think that's a reasonable point. And all I can say in making it make sense, Sue, is the media on the side of common sense. That's the answer you're looking for. But that's how it seems to me. All right. Thirteen past seven on five double A eight double, two to three double. Oh is the number five double? A sports show tonight from four o'clock. Wayne Phillips is the man in charge of course Flipper.
00:47:37
Speaker 14: Good morning, Good morning to you, Matthew.
00:47:40
Speaker 8: How are we doing?
00:47:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, very well, thank you. You would have looked at the final day's play yesterday. But what a great Test series. It was, not least because Australia won it, but it really was quite engrossing. Even those two day matches were quite engrossing, very much so.
00:47:56
Speaker 14: And when you look at the numbers of the ten ds, I think eight ninety thousand people have attended. The people that concerned about the longevity life, the popularity of Test match cricket. Well, I think that confirms it, doesn't it. You know, it was just amazing people getting along and enjoying and seeing the ultimate result. Sure it was in Australia's favor, but yeah, I just think that the health of Test match cricket is still pretty darn strong.
00:48:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely right. And I don't know that we've seen we could keeper so dynamic and so influential in a game in terms of batting prowess since let me think a young man going back nineteen eighties and nineties cap three, three twenty, I think, well three fifty one, I forget three twenty.
00:48:45
Speaker 14: I've got one of those in the back bar there.
00:48:47
Speaker 13: Yeah, that's incredible.
00:48:50
Speaker 14: He's been fantastic, Alex has it, keeps getting it done, and the way the way he goes about it is just so important. And what he brings to that team is such an important key personnel, as you say, Matt, and look just so reliant in behind the stumps and making decisions and setting the standards. And then when he goes out with the blade and does it so very well again, and I mean he's a key contributor and he's going to be there for a little while, don't you worry. And he's got that important role of course if he's in charge of the team song, the celebrator of team song, so where it is sung with the enthusiasm and making sure everyone's there. So I don't know where it would have been done. I'm sure they might have used Ousman's moniker out on the on the on the Sydney Cicker ground. Perhaps they stood around and just had him there and acknowledged him as well.
00:49:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and just to finish there, Travis Head. Now, I tried watching it yesterday and starting early, I dozed off, woke up in time for the presentation. So Travis Head getting Man of the Match at Mitchell Stark Man of the Series. I mean, it's nice sharing the honors around, but I don't know Travis ha and his batting would have qualified. With the centuries all the way through, it would have qualified for Man of the Series pretty much. But not to take anything away from starts bowling.
00:50:10
Speaker 14: Look and yeah they would have been it would have been a tough decision to make. And yeah, with mit'ch just grabbing a couple of wickets late in that England inning and just getting him past thirty thirty one wickets is just an incredible business, so he's done so. But he also gets a couple of fifties as well, so he contributes a little bit with the bat. I mean he's one of only I think it's six players that have got over thirty wickets and two scores of over fifty in a five Test match series. It's only happened six times and he's one of those. Now it's amazing, amazing stat Yes, to be player of the series, I mean that, congratulations, well done. But boy trapped one too.
00:50:50
Speaker 1: Far, No, that's for sure. Absolutely Now Strikers up against the Hobart Hurricanes in Hobart tonight, so some more action on the way be looking at that.
00:51:00
Speaker 14: Sure very much. So, yeah, we spoke with Matti showed last night about it and yeah, getting down there, I mean they're a good side. They seem to know their ways so very well around down there at home there on top of the ladder, and they're the reigning champions, so it's going to be a tough one. But Adelaide, you know, those Strikers such a strong win the other night here at the Adelaide Oval, so there was a few questions asked of them, but they held onto it and did it so very very well. So they'll have the confidence to go in and be able to perform well and at some sort I mean with the Test series bringing over now that releases all of that talent back into the BBL. So I would think we'll see Alice Carey back for the Strikers in the next couple of games as well as all of the other franchises will be very happy to have their Ossie talent back in the group as well.
00:51:46
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and there's another Hobart match on in Adelaide. Adelaide thirty six is Tasmanian jack Jumpers, who probably wouldn't be much opposition to our local boys, you wouldn't.
00:51:58
Speaker 14: I would think they'll keep them busy halftime and yeah, just one be another sell out down there. They're in such great form, they look right and all of around the cord and the various performers that they have and they keep getting it done. And yeah, Mike Will's very very happy and having half an eye on looking at the finals now. So no, that's that's going to be another ripper. We're looking forward to that one as well.
00:52:22
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Flipper here, all of that tonight with you four till seven here on five double a great speaking with you, Thank you, gotcha, but bye now good on you. Wayne Phillips here filling in for Rowe and Timmy g over the summer period and always entertaining, always great talking about sport. Now, there's an event on this weekend on Sunday down at Glenelg. It's an annual event, The Blessing of the Waters is being held. The day itself has passed earlier on in the week, but it is being celebrated as has been traditioned for decades down at Glenelg on the Sunday. Bladimir dev Rellis is one of the people organizing this is on the line. Good morning to you, Vladimir.
00:53:06
Speaker 13: Good morning to you too, mister Pinzeli.
00:53:08
Speaker 1: No, very well, thank you. Matthew's fine. Now, this event Sunday afternoon, what around twelve thirty, and then an afternoon of fasting and dancing and great music and great food.
00:53:19
Speaker 13: Correct. Correct, We're starting today and we'll be going until late, so roughly Friday, Saturday and Sunday from say ten to ten. It's a free event. Anyone can attend. There is no entrance fee or things like that. And it is of course something that celebrates our traditions. It's part of our heritage and it brings community together and everyone is welcomed clearly, as he has been the case for many many years now. We've been celebrating it at Klanolk for decades. But the tradition itself goes back centuries. It's nothing new. It's part of the Greek Orthodox Faith and the Orthodox face of many other nations, be it Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian, you name it.
00:54:25
Speaker 1: What is the blessing, what's the design to do? What are you actually doing down there?
00:54:30
Speaker 13: Okay? So together with the festival on Sunday, we will have the Blessing of the Waters that will take place at between twelve o'clock and one o'clock. And it is based on the baptism that Christ received when he went to the river Jordan and John baptized him. And it's a unique event because when Christ was baptized, two other persons were up here, that is God, the Father and the Holy Spirit. So it's it's one event where we see Father, Son and the Holy Spirit all making a present at the same time. So our Bishop Bishop Silvana Adelaide will be present together with many of the other priests and as well as priests from other nations if we like, or communities, and he will be throwing the cross Christ if you like, into the water, and there will be a number of swimmers who will take off and compete as to who will actually cut the cross the fast. It's considered to be a great blas think to be able to cutch the cross.
00:56:02
Speaker 1: Is this something that was done for fishing fleets to keep them safe when they went out to fish.
00:56:09
Speaker 13: Correct as well as as well the blessing on the waters is designed to actually bless the sea uh and uh. In fact, once the water is blessed, I mean the main users of the of the word uh, fishermen and sailors and you know, people in those professions. So for for them it's considered to be more important.
00:56:35
Speaker 1: Okay. So the as far as people taking part in the food and the music and everything else. Is that on the foreshore there at Glenog on the on the ground it's on.
00:56:44
Speaker 13: Jimmy Melrose Park, which is basically the space in front of the jetty that already things have been set up and the finishing touches are going in the next couple of hours, and uh, we're ready.
00:57:03
Speaker 7: To go, all right.
00:57:04
Speaker 1: I got some cooler weather for it too, so that'll be nice.
00:57:07
Speaker 13: Yes, I mean today, for example, we won't be serving any red meat. We will be serving seafood for example. Beautiful, so you can have a seafood yeos. There will be some desserts and stuff like that, coffee whatever else. And the weather is improving, thankfully, so we're gonna have good weather over the next three days. Not only that, the water is very clear, so that gives an opportunity to actually get into the water. So we're already in a good position.
00:57:48
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't need to bless the water if the algo blooms disappeared.
00:57:52
Speaker 13: I think I think the waters can use all the blessings they can get.
00:57:56
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks, thank you very much for your time this morning. Hope it goes well much. Thank you you will. You're welcome. Vladimir devrelis from the Blessing of the Water event to be held at Glenelg from today over three days. The festival goes on Seafood Day today. Sounds good, doesn't it. Twenty six past seven on five double a eight double two to three oh is the number. The news is coming up Kerry Turner with that. And on the other side, talking of Algill blooms, the Opposition calling for the reconvening of the committee, which is now broken for the year. I think they've successfully managed to do this. I understand. We'll get some details though from Ashton Hern, the state Opposition leader, in the wake of evidence provided this week, saying suggesting from a community scientist who alleges she's been told by public servants they were instructed not to investigate the origins of the bloom until after the state election. Hard to imagine that's right, But that's the claim. All right, we'll look at that next on five double a breakfast twenty four to eight on five double a eight double two to three double o double oh the number, Peter says Matthew. Why doesn't the Bondi Council demolish the bridge used in the Bondai shooting, a bad memory of the event, construct a new, modern, different bridge. What do you think? Ah, yes, I suppose. I don't know if that's top of my You're right, it is a memory of what happened. But is it is it better to get rid of it? Or retain the memory as a means of ensuring it never happens again. I mean, what difference would a new bridge make Ultimately you throw money at doing that, and for what purpose ultimately? So you know, I think handled correctly, it can be a good commemoration and a reminder of making sure it never happens again. Thanks for the text, Peter. Wednesday, some stunning evidence given to the committee investigating the State Parliamentary Committee investigating the algill bloom in our waters and the evidence from community scientists who suggested that she had been told by public servants, a number of different public servants that the government had instructed people to those investigating to hold off looking at the cause of the algal bloom until after the state election. Hard to believe the government would do that, Frankly, it just seems very contrary to what we've heard over the last few months about action being taken. But as someone pointed out yesterday, cold water and storms would kill the bloom. Now warm water is supposed to kill the bloom and it has been a bit of a dog's breakfast. Ashton Hern, the leader of the Opposition, moved to rec convene the Joint Committee on harmful algill blooms and succeeded in that move. She joins me. Now, Ashton Hern good.
01:01:07
Speaker 11: Morning, Good morning, Matthew, and good morning to all your listeners too.
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Speaker 1: What I see today already the people who'll be facing Rick Percy, chief Executive of the Department of Premier and Cabinet, Mehdi Derudi, the chief executive of Primary Industries, Mike Steer from SARDI spoke with Mike yesterday, and Ben Bruce, chief Executive Department of Environment and Water. So you've got the heavy hitters there, and I suppose important to get to the veracity of these claims, whether they're right or wrong.
01:01:36
Speaker 11: Absolutely, and look, they were pretty explosive claims that were made by Saith Coleman earlier this week, and so we moved really quickly. The charge was led by Nicholas San Defanti, who's a member on that committee for the Liberal Party, because we just think that look, these weren't just throw away lines or throw away comments that you'd see in the backyard barbecue. These were made by a very senior scientist under a parliamentary committee and we believe they need to be investigated. I mean, the argle bloom has had an extraordinary impact along coastal communities for industry and for livelihoods. And to have someone who's well regarded come out and say that, on not one occasion, but two or three occasions across various departments, that there's been a direction or instruction that the cause of the argle bloom should not be investigated until after the election. I mean that in itself warrants further scrutiny. And so that's why we acted really really quickly to put forward a letter to the chair, which is Robert Simms from the Greens, to reconvene the committee, and that'll be happening.
01:02:40
Speaker 7: Today, all right.
01:02:40
Speaker 1: Mike Stiya yesterday adamant that no such direction had been received by him or his department.
01:02:47
Speaker 11: Well, there's just there's thousands of people within the public service right across the various departments, and I'm sure that Mike might be speaking on his own personal experience or perhaps hasn't given a direction. But the fact is that at the Parliamentary inquiry, Ms Coleman said that it was usked on a number of occasions to further confirm what she was putting forward, which she did. A Parliamentary committee is very, very serious and that's exactly why we've moved to further investigate. And I might add that there might be an opportunity to even look at having the Premier and the Minister come before this committee as well as we don't get further answers today, because you know, there's been lots of commentary around the government's flat footedness when it comes to the algle bloom. That's not just what people are saying at the political level, but when you're out on the ground and you're speaking with businesses, you're speaking with people who are impacted by the algle bloom, they have been concerned about the government's flat footedness. And I think if there's any suggestion that they're not full throttle on getting to the bottom of the cause of the algle bloom, and that they focused that this really from a political perspective as opposed to getting answers extraordinarily concerning.
01:04:01
Speaker 1: Could it be lost in translation potentially that it's not so much the cause, it's try and find solutions, will work on the cause in due course, not necessarily before or after the election, but let's find a way to solve this thing. First.
01:04:16
Speaker 11: Well, it was pretty explicit that it was until after the election, and that's really what has rung the alarm bells because no one likes to see political interference in these parts of serious matters. And the other point to make as well, Matthew, is that if you don't know what the cause is, how can you possibly prevent further outbreaks into the future. I mean, that's the we understand that there's a very real risk that you know, the state has been experiencing over the last a few months and six since this bloom started.
01:04:45
Speaker 15: But if you don't know what the cause is.
01:04:47
Speaker 11: How can you go about mitigating it further into the future. And that's really where the minds of the government and the departments should be. We'll be asking questions today obviously around whether the departments have enough resources to make sure that they are getting to the bottom of the cause, and of course we will be asking some really pointed questions about whether there has been political interference, because that's certainly in the public interest.
01:05:14
Speaker 1: All right, Ashton hern A, leader of the opposition, thank you for your time this morning. The premier has called in. He joins me now, Peter melanowskis.
01:05:23
Speaker 15: Good morning, good morning. If you good morning to your listeners.
01:05:25
Speaker 1: Well, claims of political interference, Mike Steer on the program yesterday denied it. If you were called, what would you be saying?
01:05:34
Speaker 15: So just a couple of things. It's worth noting, Matthew, it was actually the Labor government. It was the Labor Party members that called on the parliamentary inquiry yesterday. In fact, we supported the establishment of a joint House, cross party parliamentary inquiry because we're welcome for anybody to look at all the actions the governor has taken throughout the course of the algal bloom and the one thing, or want to say the one thing. There's a number of things. I spent a lot of money on, up to over one hundred million now, but one of the core things that lots of those dollars have been invested in is to establish exactly what the cause of the algabloom is and to invest heavily in the science and research to establish what were the contributing factors to this. And now much of that science is out there. All of that science is out there when we get our hands on it, and it continues to be invested and researched in. We established the Parliamentary Inquiry. We got the Parliamentary Inquiry to sit today, bring it forward additional sitting, and I personally have made sure that the inquiry gets access to all the key public servants. And the reason why I'm so keen to do that because I know what's happened here, and that is that huge swaths of effort have been made by a whole group of scientists within government, particularly being led by Sardi, but also in the Department Environment and Water as well, throwing everything they have, working around the working through Christmas to establish the science around the algor bloom and then put it all out on the public record. And I was, you know, as I said yesterday, I was genuinely stunned that miss Coleman made these claims, and then when she was asked to produce evidence of these claims, she's actively and publicly acknowledged that she doesn't have any evidence to produce. So bring it on, we say, the Parliamentary Inquiry. You know, this is a different parliamentary inquiry to the one where the Liberal Party walked in with artificial AI generated false evidence around detail plants contributing it. We're not interested in conspiracy theories just facts, and we're very happy for the public record to show.
01:07:44
Speaker 1: That Faith Coleman's allegations stunning to you, Mike Steer equally stunned when I spoke to him yesterday morning. We didn't ask for Faith Coleman to come on. She was too busy yesterday to have a chat in the morning. But it's hard to make John, and I'll stand by what I said yesterday. Hard to imagine this being taken in that particular contents of political interference, if the comments were even made, Well, why would we well exactly, I mean I understand that a argument totally.
01:08:15
Speaker 15: Yeah, Why why would we not want to find out the cause of the algoroom? Because once we find it out, we can if there's something we can do to address it. And it's hard in this instance, it's not like a fire you can put out. We would And while I'm wrapped that, you know, tens of thousands of South Australis are enjoying the coast now that's largely cleared up. We also know that it could come back, and that's why the science and research hasn't stopped. It's been doubled down on. We're still were we're investing new money into establish the Algo Research Research Unit that started themselves to be contributing to an other organization. We establish a scientific research panels, scientific advice panel in the knowledge that we shouldn't just have government science looking at this, we should have other scientists too, And we invited Faith Coleman herself to be on that panel, and beyond that that reference group. And she and not once did that reference group as she raised these issues. So, look, I don't know. I can't speak for miss Coleman. We conducted her an asked please provide us any evidence of this.
01:09:24
Speaker 7: She can't.
01:09:25
Speaker 15: All I know is that it doesn't accord with what the truth is, which is we're throwing everything at it and following the science and stood us in good said till now, and that's what we're going to continue to do.
01:09:35
Speaker 1: All right, Seeing you've volunteered to call in today, a couple of quick questions. One is the Writer's Week, the Writer's Festival deciding to drop a pro Palestinian academic and author, Ruanda abdul Fatar, that has your support, your endorsement, that decision.
01:09:52
Speaker 15: Yes, it does. The board makes these decisions. I've given it every Writer's Week that's happened since I've been premier. It seems to be some sort of different controversy about it.
01:10:00
Speaker 5: Contributor.
01:10:01
Speaker 15: I've made clear and I've thought it actually after a lot of thought and consternation. As the first Writer's week I was during which I was premier, I was asked to cancel someone and I didn't. I don't think. I don't think politicians should be choosing artistic content. I think that's for the board. They've got independent artistic discretion. But the boards made this decision and I absolutely support her. And a bit of just an interesting bit of context which is not out there in the public realm. Doctor Ruanda Abdul Fatar herself called on a pro Israel speaker to be canceled in twenty twenty four. She wrote to the Board on the sixth of February and twenty twenty four and called for doctor Thomas Freedom to be removed from the program. In that instance, the Board obliged and the pro Israeli speaker was removed. Now fast forward two years, the opposite is true, and I think the boards made the right decision here for a range of reasons, not least of which doctor Abdul Fatar is on the record advocating against the cultural safety of those who believe in Zionism Jews, and I think Right this Week is all about diversity of opinion, people debating ideas, different thoughts, even if they're controversial. But if someone is advocating against the cultural safety someone else who's got a different point of view, that doesn't accord with the whole idea of Right this Week, And I think that's only only that's my view to support their decision is only enhanced, of course by the fact we've seen the Jewish community going through a period of extraordinary mourning, given the worst race based terrorist attack we've seen in the history of our country.
01:11:44
Speaker 1: In that vein. Then you'd welcome the Royal commission announced by the Prime Minister. Did you counsel him in that regard?
01:11:53
Speaker 15: Look, I don't go into the discussions that I have with my federal government colleagues when I offer a view. Thought I've made plain from the start of this when I've been asked about it, I support it absolutely. Chris Mins's decision Chris obviously made of mind his decision of a raw commission in New South Wales. I think I was the right to do and I absolutely support the Prime Minister's decision.
01:12:16
Speaker 7: To have this rule.
01:12:18
Speaker 1: Did you offer a review?
01:12:20
Speaker 15: If I did, I wouldn't be sharing it.
01:12:22
Speaker 1: No, No, not the view, but you don't have to share what the view is. But did you offer review?
01:12:28
Speaker 15: Look haven't. I haven't spoken with the Prime Minister himself directly about this.
01:12:32
Speaker 1: Okay? All right, Well that says it all. Thank you Premier for calling in.
01:12:36
Speaker 15: Thanks a lot cheers.
01:12:37
Speaker 1: Peter melonowskis on those issues all right. Ten minutes to eight on five double A eight double two to three double O double, nine minutes to eight o'clock on five double A yesterday the government and we get into election footing increasingly a brand new emergency department for Clear Hospital. Twenty two million to deliver a brand new emergency department for Clear Hospital, and that was good news for the mid North around there. They do have an ED, but it is old and not fit for purpose, cramp space all the rest of it. Penny Pratt is the member for Frome, which takes in the beautiful Clear Valley. Penny Pratt, good morning.
01:13:14
Speaker 16: Good morning, Matthew, good morning to everyone listening somewhere in this fantastic stay.
01:13:19
Speaker 1: Yes as I understand that Claire Hospital also has had a defunct helipad and you're looking for funds to get that up and running for emergencies.
01:13:29
Speaker 16: Well, look, it's a case of two critical health infrastructure assets in Claire, but the Premier is only focused on one of them, and that is of course a very welcome upgrade to Clear Hospital. It's one hundred and one years old, I've said on the local Health Council, and we have been lobbying the Health Department for attention and funding for many years now. So people in regional South Australia listening to your program this morning, Matthew will understand full well what it means to have millions of dollars invested in the country hospital. But it was audacious of the Premier to sworn into town, into my town, stand at mic Hospital and be two hundred meters away from the very life saving health infrastructure that we need fixed right now. Not a project into the future, but right now. The government has already spent twenty three million dollars upgrading thirteen helipads around South Australia. They're done, they're finished, but fifty percent of them I'm off bold and one of them is clear. So a we are within our rights to demand that where the government is paying attention to a hospital upgrade, it also makes sure that pilot's medictine pilots can land at the hospital back door so that those patients can receive that life saving treatment. When every second.
01:14:55
Speaker 1: Count loof a helicopter did have to land there, where does it land? What are the local oval or somewhere that's the default.
01:15:02
Speaker 16: Yes, But for Claire, because we have very tall lights on our upgraded oval, pilots won't land there either. We have an aerodrome that is fifteen minutes north north, away from the city and away from this town, fifteen minutes north of the town. There is never a question about the quality of care that patients receive from our fantastic, hard working volunteer ambulance officers. But fifteen minutes away from the hospital starts to add to a delay and transfer of care. Many many more minutes up to ours can be added to the treatment for a patient. And we should expect that where a patient is in a hospital that they can be safely on a gurney and rolled out to the heliculpter that is, you know, fifty meters outside the back door. The government cannot answer. It cannot account for why fifty percent of a twenty three million dollar project is mossble. Six helipads around the States are deemed too unsafe for our pilots to land, and the government can't explain why.
01:16:07
Speaker 1: What would it cost?
01:16:08
Speaker 16: Hospital yesterday? Instead it was fencing.
01:16:10
Speaker 1: It is not what would it cost to upgrade the helipad there and frankly around the state, I imagine similar costs.
01:16:15
Speaker 16: It all well, this is the this is the conundrum. Twenty three million dollars is the answer. But it's been spent. They have been upgraded. I stood yesterday on the clear helipad. It is brand new, It is elevated, it has new fencing and gravel, new roads. The trees have been cut, there's some lighting, there's new signage. It's finished. It was finished last March, Matthew. So what's the pilot will land? Well? Yeah, why? And when when will they be ready? Why are country patients being treated like second class citizens?
01:16:48
Speaker 10: When when?
01:16:50
Speaker 16: This just would not be acceptable for any of our flagship hospitals in the city.
01:16:55
Speaker 1: So, I mean, this is like the Yes Minister episode of a hospital without patients because they get in the way. You've got the helipad but no one wants to use it.
01:17:02
Speaker 7: What's that about exactly?
01:17:03
Speaker 16: Well, I've written to the Australian Transport Safety Bureau Chief Commissioner CEO Angus Mitchell because I'm just not getting any answers from the Attorney General Department responsible for the contract with Babcock that provides the helipads the helicopters. I can't get any answers out of doctor Robin Lawrence, the CEO of SA Health, neither the Minister for Health and the Premier clearly wasn't brief properly yesterday and didn't know what was going on. The answer is that helipads create dangerous downwash as they land and take off, and a national report just two years ago showed that there'd been eighteen injuries around the country, but half of them were happening at hospital helipads, particularly to elderly people knocked over and injured by the helicopters landing. And that means that KASSA has stipulated new guidelines exclusion zones helicopters have to land about sixty meters sorry that there needs to be a safety zone for pedestrians they need to be sixty meters away from from the helicopter landing. Now, what we know when we look at these six regional helipads Victor Harbor Man and murray Bridge, Port Pirie, Claire and one other. The problem is there are buildings in the way Matthew a childcare center, retirement village, a nursing home, a seafest station, private houses. So the government really does still have very many questions to answer and country patients are being denied emergency retrieval from their hospital.
01:18:45
Speaker 1: Well, especially given the state of the road leading up to Claire. Is it the Horris that's the horric highway is not just an orthor horric highway, horror it is. It's terrible most of it, apart from a couple of kilometer along stretches or two where they put in dual passing lanes and whatever and it's nice and new and smooth. The rest of it's a disaster for motorists. But anyway, all right, need that HELI padd Well, we.
01:19:08
Speaker 16: Can talk about regional roads.
01:19:11
Speaker 1: Good on your Penny Pratt, the member for Frome, which takes in Clear, so a lot of money for the Clear hospital brand new ed on the way the government is re elected, which seems rather incredibly likely. Twenty two million dollars to deliver a newed for clear hospital. But the helipad is another story. What's that about. They've built it, it's all fenced and everything else. Yadiada is all done, but no one wants to use it. That is very yes, Minister, eight o'clock news, not far away. Currently in the city, twenty five degree six past eight, Friday, the ninth of January, cool the day as you heard with Kerry thirty two currently twenty five marked from Summertown. Call the tree is down on Greenhill Road, blocking both lanes oat up and down between Summertown and the turnoff towards Mount Lofty. So you can get to and from Crafer's Mount Lofty via Greenhill Road, but you can't get past to go to Summertown or Eurraidler. So find a different way around that. There are roads, I mean you go a long way around, but there are roads that will take you past Summertown if you're coming up Green Hill Road for instance, looking to go to Eurraidler. But you might end up a little bit further afield, somewhere down the middle of the Piccadilly Valley or somewhere Victor up in the hills, Hello Victor.
01:20:35
Speaker 17: Oh good morning, Matt. You look, there's no question that what's actually caused this fire earth this is alger bloom? Is that fire tudden foschik when you when you dump by one and a half million liters of this knight agen a phosphorus containing fire a tunded on Kangaroo Island. So I've got a dog buck in the back. Yeah, that this is going to feed the Alga bloom. And I believe if they they've actually dismissed this, they just point blank dismissed it no logical reason, no investigation, know nothing. They've dismissed this as being a possibility. But if they do investigate it, I think they'll find this. They're probably going to open one of the largest can of worms ever in Australia. Because this country runs under American standards for fire retardants, that it's going to be a very difficult thing to change that. The excuses they've come up with so far about cold water up welling, which is an annual event. Annual, we don't get annual blooms the River Murray's flooded for hundreds of years, it's never happened. And as far as the marine heat wave is concerned. Having spoken to Faith Colmon, she said that they're just relying on satellite data of the surface type. She was a few microns on the surface. I've got data from the detail plant which is the core water temperature, and it's actually decreased over the last seven years.
01:21:50
Speaker 14: I've got that data, all.
01:21:51
Speaker 1: Right, Victor. Have you submitted it to the inquiry?
01:21:54
Speaker 4: Oh?
01:21:55
Speaker 17: Yes, I've done two submissions, one federling in one state, and we're also made presentations of the committee at committe meeting.
01:22:02
Speaker 1: Okay, good on you. Well, hopefully they listen to some of what you've got to say regarding the Murray though all I'd say might flood for hundreds of years, but it probably hasn't had the nutrients. In fact, definitely hasn't had some of the you know, the fertilizers washing into it in floods that we've had over the last you know, fifty years or so, which I think is a factor as well. But anyway, look, thank you for the call. Got a lot of people on the line, so I'll keep moving. Colin at all Dinger beak shall I, Colin.
01:22:29
Speaker 18: Good morning metthew How are you good?
01:22:32
Speaker 5: Yes?
01:22:32
Speaker 18: In regards to this algel bloom and whatnot. I just listened to our Esteem premiere and there's a bit of smoke being blown. But around the place. I think on that, mate, it talks about all the money that's been spent if you stop wasting money on the advertising on the TV. And we've got the algal response teams coming down here. Four or five people in the two youths out walk along the beach, have a look and then go back sitting there you for fifteen twenty minutes. What a waste of money. They're not doing anything. They were down there earlier or earlier as in months ago, with a pair of tongs picking up fish while there's thousands of fish on the beach. They should do what they do in the Eastern States, and they are on there's like a rake on the stand and that cleans up all the hypodermic needles and everything. Would have been far better to have done that than they have a team of people as a pair of tongs picking up a single fish at a time.
01:23:29
Speaker 1: All right, Colin, appreciate the call. Thank you. Nine past eight on five double A This Sunday, there's going to be a rally in Old Ronella Sunday morning, ten am departure, a bit of a march through the town and it's with concern over a twenty four to seven plastic manufacturing facility been planned for a residential area right in the midst of houses. Luke Polton community advocate leading the charge against this going ahead. We had look good morning to.
01:24:01
Speaker 19: You, morning mate.
01:24:02
Speaker 1: How are I all right? Thank you? What are your issues with it?
01:24:05
Speaker 20: Well?
01:24:05
Speaker 19: Number one is the zoning change, because the first page of the zoning will, sorry, the planning essay submission actually states that they're wanting to do so increase in truck traffic in our area, potential impacts the environment, obviously pollution, chance of factory fires, house prices, just to name a few.
01:24:23
Speaker 1: Okay, so I understand it's a twenty four to seven plant, is that right?
01:24:27
Speaker 13: Yeah?
01:24:27
Speaker 19: Yeah, So according to the initials submission that was put into planning Essay, it specifies twenty four to seven manufacturing on several different pages. The companies have come out and specified otherwise in public statements. But the concern for us as residents is if they put an application for twenty four to seven and it gets passed, even if they choose to do it or not, it opened up the door to what could happen in the future and what could happen in other locations. And on top of that, if they can switch you know, this mixed use zoning here it's a light industrial, well, anybody else in South Australia should be a bit worried because it could come next to their house and they could do the same thing the way the playing world currently work. So ultimately, like the planning laws need to change, but we definitely need some ministerial intervention here as well, because there is a possibility that old Nick Champion can get involved and you know, jump on board and sort of put the brakes on this and we can come up with alternate plans, but they're all a bit quiet at the moment.
01:25:18
Speaker 1: Do you think the government would want to stop a development that might employ I don't know how many people, but probably tens of people, if not one hundred or more people. Do you reckon the government wants to stop that going ahead?
01:25:31
Speaker 19: Well, I'll put it this way mate, Like monetary wise, obviously a factory for them might produce more money but when it comes to our general area like this zone, it could be a mixed use zone, something similar to Boden. So you could have craft markets, sorry, craft breweries. You could have markets, you could have you know, specialty shops, you could have food stools. So you know, look at it this way, mate, It's like old ronella. Can either be made or broken here. It could be twenty four to seven factory with trucks in our neighborhood, or we could have an amazing event that could be you know, skatewide. I'd attract people down here, increase our house values, but instead they want to do the opposite because it obviously benefits the government the money, the revenue that the factory produces, I would assume, because why else would they make a choice of a factory over people's lives. It doesn't make sense, all right.
01:26:14
Speaker 1: So this march you're meeting nine thirty ten am departure where you're going from them?
01:26:20
Speaker 19: Where to So we're going to start at John Raynell's actual homestead in by the Creek, which is a place that nobody ever sees when they zoom passed on the main roads. And we're going to walk along the creek line through some of the historic part of Ronella. We're going to do a three side factory tour so that everyone can have a look exactly what's going on here, what's been demolished so far, and you know, really really get a good look. And you know, we're really really hoping that Malley and the game come down because there's load of people that have a lot of questions here for him. So yeah, whether whether or not they do will be the test on Sunday. And I guess yeah, they don't rock up, well probably make everyone a bit more mad, to tell you the truth. So I really think they should come down and have a chat with the locals about what's going to take place here and what they're called the action is for the future.
01:27:01
Speaker 1: Look, there'd be people saying, oh, this is just another NIMBI campaign. Not in my backyard. You don't want it there. Where do you want it to go?
01:27:09
Speaker 19: Well, there's industrial areas, mate, there's Lonsdale. I actually have been in contact with someone Hackam and there's one hundred thousand square meters there's owned industrial land up there and it's separate to the two thousand house pocket and you know, some people will probably kick up about that too, But there's actually a designated area there for one that's separate, and no matter what they put up there, there's going to be industrial going up there anyway. There's Londale, there's wing Field. You know, there's other locations where they could put this, But at the moment they're claiming there's nowhere else for it to go. And I don't agree with that statement.
01:27:41
Speaker 1: Who's behind it in terms of the approvals needed? Is it a matter for the Planning Department or is it a matter for the Unkapringa Council.
01:27:49
Speaker 19: Well that's a very good question, mate, because your email either one and they send you back to the other. So at the end of the day, like the state government's for state government, aren't they And they can make laws and they can change laws, and you know, if they want to force by something for south Road, they can do it pretty quick or you know they want to. If they want to take action, they can take action. So for me, hearing the state government can't do anything, I do not believe that because they are the state government.
01:28:09
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, okay, So nine point thirty meeting, ten o'clock, the march takes off, correct, you'll be done what by by eleven twelve o'clock I imagine.
01:28:19
Speaker 19: Yeah, ten ten thirty probably will be at the Bunnies at the end location. And I have invited you know, media whoever, other politicians want to come and have a say, you know, local MP candidates from the area can come and express other people what they're planning to do for us moving forward. You know, there's a lot of people that have shown interest in contacted me, and you know, I think everyone underestimated me a bit. But now they've got two thousand people on the page, and I've got hundreds of people coming down to a march. All of a sudden, I think they might be taking me a bit more serious. So yeah, we'll see what happens.
01:28:46
Speaker 1: Dave, When did you find out about this plant?
01:28:50
Speaker 19: Actually on the third of Decembers when I initially found out, So I've found out about or seven or eight days into the planning, so the public consultation period, So yeah, I have a three week public consultation that have to notify. It was really odd the way it went about. It was right before Christmas, it was right before the last council meeting, you know, and unless I sort of found it and ran like, you know, jumped up and down to make everyone aware of what was taking place. This was already a done deal mate, This was siin field across the board. It was going to go and if we didn't stop it, it would have got approved over Christmas. We wouldn't be able to do anything about it, and it would have gone ahead. So I'm telling you now, the only reason this is even at this point that I'm talking to you is because we jumped up and down about it. If we didn't, this would already be happening.
01:29:34
Speaker 1: So who's listening then? I mean, you jumped up and down. Who said, okay, let's put the brakes on this? Was it the planning Department?
01:29:41
Speaker 19: No, no, it wasn't. The Labor Party. I'm saying is in like the noise we've created, and you know, the political I guess uproar that we've created is sort of obviously making people come back and say, oh, we're going to talk about this next week. And I've seen a few of the labor MPs on their social media saying that next week they're going to come out and have more to say about this topic. But you know this, she's been gone for five or six weeks now and we haven't heard hardly anything about what's going to happen. We even ha Katrine hill I do a letterbox drop to half the residence and she said that due to her advice or from her advice, something like that, and she's trying to tell it us all to come down and have a chat with a plastic manufacturer. I don't think she realizes that we don't want to hear.
01:30:18
Speaker 1: All right, well, good luck in that battle and hopefully you get a few people there to get that message across to them.
01:30:24
Speaker 19: I'm sure there'll be hundreds, mate, So watch the news and hopefully is a bit of a scene on the TV. So no really appreciate you having me on again, and yeah, speak to you soon all right.
01:30:32
Speaker 1: Luke, thank you for your time. Luke Pulton there who is a community advocate in terms of being an Old Ranella resident and the Facebook page actually if you want more info and where to go and everything else, residence against Old Ranella plastic manufacturing facility in Suburbia. Bit of a mouthful, but put in Luke's name Luke Polton and see how you go. You should be able to find it, all right. Seventeen past eight on five double A eight double two to three double O double o's month twenty past eight on five double. A survey or study from Flinders UNI the Department of Psychology and Social Work has found that seventy five percent of New Australian mums have issues with body lank with body image and that is concerning. This is after giving birth. Obviously, many feeling intense pressure to bounce back to pre pregnancy shape and that's the pressure that can trigger eating disorders for the very first time, according to researchers. Madeline Rhodes is with the College of Psychology at Flinders and joins me our morning, Madeline morning, thanks for having me. Yeah, thanks for your time. Thirty six studies. I understand you've looked at and finding the particularly the first year after birth is pretty critical.
01:31:54
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's right. Pregnancy can be a time that is critical as well, but particularly we know that it's higher risk in that postpartum period to develop these sorts of comstands.
01:32:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, support from family, friends, et cetera. That's got to be pretty important, I imagine, yeah, exactly.
01:32:10
Speaker 21: So our research looked at how social relationships can be protective against these sorts of issues. And what we found was that the emphasis that's placed on body image within family relationships, within partnerships, friend groups more generally can be a really important thing. One can lead to higher risk of developing these sorts of concerns, but at the same time, they can be protective against them in terms of providing that support to women, providing reassurance and these sorts of things as well.
01:32:44
Speaker 1: Women who've had a history perhaps of eating disorders, giving birth, having a child, are they perhaps more at risk of then redeveloping that disorder moving forward.
01:32:56
Speaker 21: Yeah, so we have a very strong it's very import and I guess for clinicians, for doctors and healthcare professionals to be aware of a history of an eating disorder because that can definitely rear its head again during the pregnancy and that postpartum period.
01:33:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so ways of over kase, I mean, where do people go for help if they find themselves falling down that path?
01:33:19
Speaker 21: Definitely speak to your GP as a first protocol. And also butterfly dot org dot au can have some amazing resources for women that are going through these sorts of issues.
01:33:29
Speaker 1: How common is the body image thing? Madeline seventy five percent that's a high number, so potentially well, and from that exactly, I suppose of answering mind question, three out of four women are at risk of this, So that is that is a really high figure.
01:33:46
Speaker 21: Yeah, it certainly is. It is it's up to seventy five percent of postpartum women. But by the same token, there is a shift now into that more body appreciation state of mind and appreciating the functionality of your body and things like that. So while the number of people that are still dissatisfied with their bodies is high, we are seeing a shift now that is starting to grow in the other side of the coin.
01:34:11
Speaker 1: I suppose parenthood for new parents, particularly such a challenging time, and I mean almost for partners, you need you know, how do you manage this handbook? Don't you? And being supportive, which it may not even occur to a bloke that this is an issue sometimes.
01:34:32
Speaker 21: Absolutely, and that's exactly what our research is focusing on, is that partner relationship. Obviously, men don't go through pregnancy, but it's important for them to be aware of the huge identity shift that women do go through during that period, and body image can be a very key part of that. Identity shift, and so it can it can perhaps be a moment to have a bit of a check in a way that is reassuring and respectful and loving in just how she's going generally with a body image and her identity shift at that time.
01:35:06
Speaker 1: How do you hope your research is going to be used moving forward.
01:35:09
Speaker 21: Madeline, I definitely hope to touch on exactly what you said before, Matthew about developing some more education for partners. I think that that can be a really useful thing, because what our research is doing is we're looking now at body image is more a family issue rather than an individual issue that only women should be managing by themselves. We're sort of repositioning that as more the responsibility of everyone.
01:35:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, well that's a fair call, Madeline. Appreciate your time.
01:35:39
Speaker 21: Thank you, Thank you so much for having me.
01:35:41
Speaker 1: Madeleine Rhodes, College of Psychology, Flinders UNI on research showing that three out of four women face body image issues in the wake of a birth twenty six past eight. Great text from Darren. He says, it self subject. You guys, make the subject. You can talk about what you like. Absolutely, he says. The news reports of another motorcycle death yesterday. As a motorcyclist myself, I'd like to raise my concern about the use of mobile phones while driving. Every day I see distracted driving, no head checks, no indication before lane changes. Yes, some riders ride like idiots and it's a matter of time, but most of us want nothing more than to be clear of distracted motorists, says Darren at Glenelg. Yeah, I can imagine bike riding is in my view because I'll never get on a motorbike and ride in traffic. It just seems like the most dangerous thing you could do on a regular basis, you know, sort of almost without thinking about it, about what you're doing, and it only takes a seconds lapse by somebody yourself as the rider or a motorist around you, and you know you're off the bike and hopefully okay. But it doesn't take much. It's what you're saying, and you're absolutely right. Good text, Darren, And I think the officer I spoke to earlier, Matt Hale from Hales from SA Police Media says of the five fatalities, I think he said three have been motorcyclists this year, So five deaths on the ninth of January. For twenty twenty six three have been motorbikes and that's really bad, really bad. Robert up in the Barossa, Hi.
01:37:29
Speaker 5: Robert, good morning, Matthew. How are you?
01:37:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm well, how are you.
01:37:35
Speaker 22: Getting by in this heat?
01:37:37
Speaker 8: This morning?
01:37:38
Speaker 22: You had Ashton Hearn, you interviewed Ashton Hearn where she called out Peter Malinowskis for being flat footed on the algill bloom. And then Peter sort of had some airtime. But the fact remains that Peter Malanowskis.
01:37:55
Speaker 14: Has been flat footed.
01:37:57
Speaker 22: The algall bloom come the March will have been with us for a year, a whole year, and in that time, initially Peter Malenowskus did was to.
01:38:09
Speaker 13: Ignore the media.
01:38:13
Speaker 22: And I remember David Timberthy interviewing an associate professor from Flinders University who had worn in reports that there was going to be this albal bloom and how it was going to spread across our coastline. And we are very much a coastal society and we have businesses that have been severely impacted by this disaster, and all that we had from Peter Malenowskus was denial obfustigation, avoiding until the calls were so intense that he had changed tack and jump on and support the idea of actually doing something. But all that he and Murray would have done is use this effectively as a pr campaign and a photo opportunity on the beach. They've got to do a whole lot more so when Ashton Hern says that she is going to summon Peter Malanowski to a parliamentary inquiry on what he has done over the past twelve months, I welcome that and that needs to be done as part of the process of being able to bring our coastlines back into a healthy condition.
01:39:28
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Robert, we do need to get the coastlines back. The flat footedness, as I recall, the Premier was away on holidays and the Environment Minister at the time Susan Close, who's now left that role, of course, is a backbencher till the election ahead of leaving Parliament at the election didn't seem to really be on top of it, fair to say, and that's when she couldn't rule out in an interview and I recall speaking or at the time, couldn't rule out closing beaches for summer. Now fortunately that it hasn't come to that. But I don't know what the government can do about a disaster like this, and it is a disaster, and we had Murray what's come and point vaguely at the ocean and the Gulf and then disappear. Didn't really have much to contribute at the time except say it wouldn't be declared a disaster. That's Murray. What's contribution to everything? As a federal environment minister, however, you know the thing, you know, what do you do? Go out there and scoop it up? I don't know what the answer to that is, but it's there, and it's going to be there, sadly for a little bit of time. Hopefully. I mean it's starting to dissipate. Let's hope it continues to do that until it's all completely gone. News Time on five Double A twenty two to nine on five Double A. Rob Manning is called and co founder of Sore and Say Water Innovation. Rob, Good morning to you. I understand you've got a comment on the proposed plastic manufacturing company at Old Ronella.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, good morning, Matthew, thank you very much for having me on. Yes, I was listening in tept me to that and it's one of the things that SA Water Innovations was actually set up to do is to help South Australia persistant as a leader in water remediation. Obviously, one of the concerns of the plastic plant is the microplastics that escape. We we've been working with plastics industry associations for over a year and we've proven that we can stop ninety eight percent of the microplastics on any of the sites from rending the salt water. So what we wanted to do when we set up SA Water Innovations was to work with the state government to six problems like the alga bloom, six problems like pipass on various sites and also to address the microplastics problem and makes out Australia a world leader. So we start up flag Staff Hill and we're ready to help with the Ronella site. We were happy to integrate with Counsel and work closely with the Collaboration is our big thing and we're just wanting to break the Minister, especially loosing hood on responses to things like the algle bloom, PIFAs and the MicroPlace.
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Speaker 1: How do you sell the algle.
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Speaker 23: Bloom well, we worked with STARTI in some laboratory testing using our dry roy material and in the laptop in the bench shop test. In the lab we took out ninety six point three percent of the other material and then under flow high pressure we took out more than ninety percent. So we know that the material that we've got which is one hundred percent sustainable. It's it's an Australian discovery which is now being deployed around the world where we're in India, we're in discussions with Africa in various countries, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia. We're also you know, in Saudi Arabia where we're ended a public private partnership with a souted water authority. So we've got a material which is a homegrown solution. We presented it to the government back in July. We went through the Starty testing process. We beat the products that they put us up against with ninety six point three percent of the art of material removed under their laboratory conditions. Not the ultimate that we wanted to do, but we know we can improve on that in the real world.
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Speaker 1: All right, Rob, interesting you're on with Richard Pasco. I understand in a couple of hours time on his show.
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Speaker 23: Yeah that was Yeah, that's the talk about the Alga bloom. But what really sparked me this morning and wanting to help out the team who are protesting against the plastics side at Old Roanella. We can help make that site safe. We've got the backing of the Plastic Industry Pipe Association PIPER and we're working with the University of New South Wales through their smart program to make it even more efficient. But we removed under laboratory proven results we can take out ninety eight or more per plastics back.
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Speaker 1: I think it's more than I mean, that's great, but I think it's more than that. With them, I think they're saying this is the wrong location for that type of business that potentially could be twenty four to seven in the future. It would be much better serve with micro breweries and sort of Aboden type development. But you know, the technology is certainly interesting and were worth knowing about. Thank you. I wanted to talk about Australia Day which is coming up and despite the fact, you know, some governments federally is spending a lot of money trying to look for a new date and all the rest, it is the twenty sixth of January and it has been planned for well and truly at the moment the Australia Day Council of essay looking at what we will be doing, and they've announced their program. Jan surely is CEO here in South Australia, Jan, good morning, Good morning? What is planned?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 20: Thank you? Well, it's a very full day and as it always is. But I guess, you know, this year is particularly important in the way that we come together as a nation. And if I could just you know, I guess think about a bit of context here that you know, Australia Day, as we know, offers I think something really profound in its simplicity. It's a moment to stop, to pause, reflect on this great land and its people. And I guess it invites us, you know, to slow down, breathe and connect with one another and come together. As I said, look, our program kicks off with a wonderful ceremony at seven point thirty in the morning in elder Part called Morning in the Morning, and that's a beautiful ceremony led by our first nation's peoples. And every year, Matthew, you know, thousands come and just sit and engage and just experience this wonderful hour long ceremony led by our First Nations leaders and community. And it has danced, it has the spoken word, it has traditional smoking ceremony, it's quite an an's all free and families come in. It's just it's quite. It's it's very powerful, very beautiful. And then in the evening all as we move into about five pm, the park is open for everyone, for families and od Lights for kids as well, and truly it takes off and then we head into an incredible od Lights parade which is really about our amazing intercultural communities, our service providers, our CFO, SEU, various organizations that keep South Australia strong and commit to us to serving Australia South Australia every day. So it's a parade, a spectacle of all that makes up South Australia, beautiful stem symbolism that kicks off at six pm and then we have performances on the stage from seven to fifteen to eight fifteen and then a very big official ceremony that comprises orchestras, choirs, the Adelaide Youth Orchestra at the Festival States and at their young voices and an incredible twenty nineteen Voice Award e Diana Ruvos to really powerfully bring home the songs.
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Speaker 23: That we love, the music that we loved.
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Speaker 20: It's so much part of our national story. And of course we can't help but finish with fireworks. You can't have Australia Day without fireworks. So there are some of the things that are on for all South Australians to come and join and of.
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Speaker 1: Course all three all right, terrific, and the fireworks are the key part, aren't they. I mean you get the big crowd there at the end of the day and people enjoy it.
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Speaker 20: Well, you know, fireworks, it's wonderful. We love fireworks, but I think people love the opportunity to engage with all the activities that are in the park. And this year one of the really special features is going to be a strain in bird Life which will actually be part of the rotunda that will come to life with all the different native birds that we know and cherish. So there's something that there's things for children, young children, families, there's music, there's food, and of course the incredible celebration of well, the incredible music that we know and love that we can. You know, we all want to participate in so there's something in it for everyone. And of course, as you said, you can't have as straight to day without firework.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Yes, absolutely keep part of it. Good eye all right, Jan, appreciate your time this morning. I hope it all goes well. And there's a website, isn't there people can go to and check out details across the day as to what is onwere.
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Speaker 20: There's certainly is. It's www dot os LTE's a us LA g ghts dot au ofslites au.
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Speaker 1: Thank you very much, last Jane, all the best for Australia Day to you. Although it's a couple of weeks away next public holiday, Let's get excited thirteen two nine on five double a glider roll. Let's talk about gliderl if you need a new door one that goes up and down, limited time, free controller terms and conditions apply. Let's check the roads around Adelaide this morning.
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Speaker 24: And follow on residual delays clearing from LA two car collision Tapleysire Road near Henley Beach right in the city. Got those dar tours and road closess run Victoria Square as they set up there two down Under Village four another year and North Adelaide road closures to round Memorial Drive in the outland over for the tennis next week. Visiting South Road Karata Park with a camera West Street at Ascot Park. Audio is more powerful than you think. For advertising with real power, start with commercial radio and audio where brands are heard. Visit cra dot au. That blade's most acurate traffic on five double A.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Water levels in Adelaide, according to a text, getting dangerously low treatment plants struggling not heat number of people. If the numbers don't stop Adelaide, we'll have to start boiling water. Recommend grabbing the odd ten liter water when shopping Marble Hill usually cheapest. That's a text from John or an email from John. Actually, so we're planning another sixteen thousand homes, he says, between Gaula and Angel Vale. Where's the water coming from to service those homes? It's a good question. Reservoirs low and it has been dry. We haven't. When's the last time it's rained in Adelaide. It's been ages in the city, proper rain been ages and now we're will and truly into summer. We don't all up five works. Karen says, I hate them. Think about all the animals and birds scared sometimes to death. All right, thank you, Karen. We'll take it quick break on five double A. Lots of text I'll try and get to some of those as we go forward. And only the last little bit of the program to go twelve minutes to nine now nine minutes to nine o'clock on five double A, checking fuel watch thanks to the RAA. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. Better to be a member with RAA Road Service. Leroy Monopara starring again. Main North Road one forty five point nine for unlettered ninety one United Adelaide Airport, Sir Richard William Avenue one fifty one point five, Ampole Foodery, Holden Hill Northeast Road one fifty four point nine, which is starting to look expensive. Saw it yesterday around the place for one fifty two, so the one fifty four is it's up there these days. Diesel Mobile Blair Ethel Prospect Road perennially Low one sixty five point seven. There's a LeRoy's down south. Who knew hack 'em? Maine South Road A dollar seventy three point nine for diesels. So there we go. That's fuel watch for today. Fill up if you're running low because it is especially unleaded low at the moment, so get it as cheaply as you can in case it shoots up over the weekend. The CFS are bracing for strong winds today, which I don't know if it's really blowy out there at the moment. Maybe it is in part, and we had Mark tell us about the tree down at Summertown over Greenhill Road a short while ago, so maybe it is a bit of that, a bit of wind, a bit of heat stress. Nevertheless, they're certainly concerned about the risk of fires. There's been a few around one at Sajourna down at Bull Lagoon, there's another fire burning out of control down there, but that may very well be hopefully not. Frankly, it's about to say that may be the tip of the iceberg today. Let's hope it actually isn't. Steve Salomon, CFS State Duty Command to Gooday.
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Speaker 8: Steve, Good morning, Matthew.
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Speaker 1: What are you bracing for today?
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Speaker 8: All of that, As you've just mentioned two of your listeners, we are seeing elevated wind and temperatures throughout the state today which are going to pose some challenges for our fire crews should something start. We have also observed a band of lightning that moved across the eastern end of Kanker Island and the southeast overnight, and we had sixteen new fires in the southeast that our amazing volunteers got on top of very quickly and have managed to pull them up. We're obviously watching a couple of those to make sure that they stay under controllers. The temperatures come up and the wind increases, but we may see more fires as a result of those lightning strikes overnight show up during the day as the temperature elevates and the wind picks up.
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Speaker 1: The message to people out there, and I say this all the time, you know, you put out extreme warnings of the extreme fire danger and total fire bands, yet there's always someone with an angle grinder, and you hope, you hope they get that message.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and look, today it's going to be very hot and uncomfortable. Some of the temperatures across the state are in the mid forties. Today is the day to stay indoors in front of the condition and not be out doing silly and complacent activities. We are asking the community to be as vigilant as possible if they see any smoke, if they see any flames that aren't being attended by our prus, to ring Triple O immediately, because the quicker we can get onto these fires, the less amount of damage of the curves, and it makes it easier for our volunteers who are having to work hard in really hot and challenging conditions today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely right, and I see already clear is thirty five lamourous thirty six degrees currently thirty six point five at Loxton, so you know it is warm in parts twenty six in the city right now, So hopefully the mant Lofty Rangers have a cooler day for you. With the top of thirty two, we're approaching that rapidly and hopefully it cools up after that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and what we will see is as the change moves across the state from west to east, we will see some really erratic winds as that comes through. Obviously some temperature drop once that passes through, but we're expecting strong winds, high temperatures, possibly some lightning scattered through amongst that. As the change comes across so yeah, it will be an uncomfortable afternoon for us. And this is the third day of our elevated weather. We're just asking people to continue to remain to be vigilant so that they're not complacent. We can hopefully get through all this and take a bit of a deep breath over the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Well, I hope your crews have an easy time of it. Franklin, you're not bothered too much by any fires. Good on you at Steve, Thank you, no problems. Thank you mate, Steve Salomon. See if the State duty commander with a very timely message as we round out the show this morning on the fire danger given strong winds expected ahead of the change. Just in time. Really, I mean two days of forty odd degrees, that'll do. That's a taste of summer. Had that now. Now there's another burst or two of that in weeks to come over the next two months into March, well, so be it. But two days is fine. We can cope with that, and then back into the low twenties Tomorrow twenty three, twenty five on Sunday twenty nine, and sunny on Monday around thirty degrees. The rest of the forecast period, give or take, and it's pretty good. Nice, nice weather. That's what you want for summer, just those perfect days one after the other. The scorching heat, yes, it's all right for a little bit. And the two days just fine. Three and a half to nine on five double A well, that is almost dip for me. Almost. Richard Pasco will follow the news coming up at nine o'clock and he's here to take your calls as well. Eight double two to three double o double, Oh, Jess, Jesse and I have enjoyed he's produced it. I've been sitting here talking to you and it's been great fun over the last couple of weeks. Next week I'll be in the morning show, filling in there nine till twelve. Look forward to that, look forward to chatting with you. Then, have a great weekend and see you what Monday at night.