FIVEAA Afternoons with Stacey Lee - 24 February 2026

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Speaker 1: Good afternoon to you and happy Tuesday. It's the twenty fourth of February. I'm Stacy with you through until four o'clock and we have a big show this afternoon. There are a few things that have popped up that you may not know about. One of the big ones is for people traveling to the UK because from tomorrow, people who are born in the UK or those who have parents who were born in the UK may not be allowed in or may have to pay one thousand dollars for a certificate of entitlement to get in. So these are for people who are dual citizens. And it's not just those who have a passport. It's for people who might unknowingly be a duel citizen. So we'll talk about this with Peter Williams from phil Hoffman Travel. Who needs to be aware of this? What do you need to do?
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Speaker 2: What if you have a.
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Speaker 1: Trip planned in the near future. I know there are lots of people that I know who have trips planned and they're now scrambling trying to get this certificate. Otherwise they've got to try and renew their British or Irish passports. Because for so many people, including those who have come from the UK or from Ireland to Australia. Maybe they haven't had to use their British or Irish passports for a number of years and have let them expire. Well, they're the ones that will be affected by this, So we'll have a discussion about it a little later on. And if this is you, you might want to listen up. Eight double two to three double oh is the number to call. We'll also talk about retirement and how much money you need to retire comfortably. These numbers are always looked at and reanalyzed and updated, and they have been updated, and the figures might surprise you. I don't think it'll surprise you to know that it's higher than it's ever been, But so is the rest of our cost of living. So, like I say, that wasn't a hugely shocking figure to me or shocking fact, but when you look at the figures, it's pretty startling. A single needs six hundred and thirty thousand dollars as a lump sum. A couple need seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars. That's to retire comfortably. What does that mean to retire comfortably? We'll talk about that a little later on. As well, and as we always do during an election campaign, we've been analyzing some of the policies that the parties have announced. Yesterday it was the housing policies of the Labor and the Liberal Party. Well, one nation has an idea on how to readjust the tax system in Australia. We'll look at that. What is a flat tax? How would it work? Is it more fair than our current system? How would it impact you? Shane Oliver, he's the chief economist at IMP. He will join you after two o'clock to answer those questions. But now at nine minutes past one here on five Double A, we have been talking about housing and developments and the infrastructure that is planned or maybe not so planned, surrounding new housing developments. It is shaping up to be the key issue this election campaign, with both parties coming up with housing announcements on downsize of policies, and we saw the state government announce yesterday that it would set aside five hundred million dollars to buy off some former defense sites. We know that there's big developments happening in the northern suburbs out at Riverli. There has been land released in the southern suburbs at Old Dinga And when these land releases are announced, the question always comes straight after, what about infrastructure? Have you thought of transport, trains, buses? Are there enough schools? Are there enough office places for people to work near to their home so we don't have everyone traveling on the freeway or the expressway into the city. Are there enough hospital beds at the local hospital? And we always try and think of case studies and examples where in recent history would show us maybe planning has worked or maybe it hasn't. So let's check in with Mount Barker Council now. Andrew Stewart is the CEO and joins you this afternoon. Good afternoon, Andrew Stewart, thanks for your time.
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Speaker 3: Oh hi, Spacey, thank you.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 1: Mount Barker obviously a recent development, recent, you know in quotation, marks one of the more recent developments in Adelaide, and it's grown. The population of Mount Barker has grown by a significant amount in the last decade or so, and it's expected to continue to grow. What figures are we talking here, Andrew.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well we've doubled our population twenty ode years ago. It's twenty three thousand. We're forty eight thousand, So relatively speaking, that's significant for a little country town that's rapidly urbanizing. And we're thirty percent developed in terms of the land area, so we would think that it's about sixty five to seventy thousand within the next twenty years as the population. That's huge in terms of a small country town. We had thirteen hundred hectares rezoned by the Labor government twenty ten and thirty percent of it's developed. So you know, these announcements, recent announcements being made, just to put in context, Mount Barker is catering to fifteen thousand new homes. Fifteen thousand in that area. That's some perspective. That's you know, a dimension that's a real challenge for our community, and you know it's growing at a rapid pace. So that's what we've been dealing with and we've got a way to go yet.
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Speaker 1: And obviously the council approves different houses, housing developments that are that are proposed for the area. But a lot of the infrastructure, the other things that I was mentioning, schools, roads, hospitals, that's out of your control.
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Speaker 3: Well, Stacey, the Labor government in twenty ten rezoned thirteen hundred hectares. It did so after securing some basic agreements with some developers for roads, and devised a scheme whereby developers contribute to a fund to provide certain interventions certain roundabout certain intersections. A lot of that infrastructure hasn't been delivered and it's subject to the fund, and we've had escalations, so there's some challenges in terms of funding schools. We had a schools promised two years ago, but we don't know where they're going because the land hasn't been identified because when the area was rezoned, there was no land identified for reserves, for ovals, for schools, for ambulance stations, and a lot of that land's been purchased by or most of it, all of it it's been developed purchased by developers for housing developments. So then you've got to come in after the event and try and find areas for schools. So in terms of a plan, it wasn't a very good plan, and I think that's been well documented and there is an acknowledgment that you know, it's going to be better going forward. But our argument is that you know, we've got to fix some of this stuff up, and it takes a certain amount of will to do that, and we're asking the state gun to sit down at the table with us and the development community and nut out some solutions to these legacy problems that won't go away, they'll only get worse, and the times now to fix them, such as the road to connect the road heys and Boulevard that doesn't connect. There's ten kilometers in round terms, three hundred meters is problematic. It doesn't join and it fragments a community.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I was about to ask you, because I mean it's become a bit of a folk law that it's the road to nowhere.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's got a dead end. I suppose there's one way of putting it. It's meant to have been. You know, it was designated by the government as a corridor to facilitate orderly circulation in Mount Barker, but it doesn't function as a connector road and there's about three hundred meters. It's problematic. We're not looking for the government to fund it. We're saying, look, the developers have got to fund it, but we probably need to take a mature look at this and say let's step in and get it connected and then recover the money afterwards instead of waiting because it won't happen. So that our community has safe an orderly access throughout the Mount Barker district which has rapidly expanded.
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Speaker 1: So as well as that connector road, what else still needs to be done? You mentioned schools and that no land was purchased. I imagine the land that is available at the moment is going to be expensive, and that'll be at the taxpayers cost, no doubt.
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Speaker 3: So are you're imagining pretty well? It doesn't take much imagination to think that one through. And that's exactly right. We've had schools announced two years ago. Nothing's happened to give you an idea and your listeners an idea that sixty percent of our students in Mount Barker go to private schools, forty percent go to public education. And that's because there is no you know, that balance is the way it is because there isn't another school. We've had announcements for a new primary school, we haven't seen any progress on that. We've had, most recently announcement of a new high school. But it just simply says that they know that they're going to buy land for new high school, but nobody knows where, So, you know, for our community, it sort of sounds a little bit hollow that, you know that these announcements are made and it's an election, but there's no there's no proof, there's no confidence of that happening anytime soon. And we our community is getting to a point where it's saying, look, Mount Barker's got has reached a threshold point where it needs some direction from all parties, government included, to give a direction to providing meaning to these promises.
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Speaker 1: So is anyone in the state government listening.
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Speaker 3: Well, the state government has been historically caring, but you know, no more Mount Barker's. We're sorry. However, we think that fall short of you know, and it's not about blame. It's really saying, look, there are problems, but we need to work with each other to find the solutions, and we have offered some solutions. The difficult with state government and I think this is an area that you know, with all governments, you know, not just the labor state government, but all governments, is that departments when it comes to urban development, that there needs to be an integration of departments to ensure orderly development of these areas because it's not just about roads, it's about the integration of education, roads, healthcare and so on. So, you know, getting them to get out of a silo mentality for development is important, and I think there's been some acknowledgment recognition. In the case of Mount Barker. There are some problems that are legacy problems that have almost gone the too hard basket. We're saying, look, that's not good enough. We've got to work through these and fix them, such as the connect the road, such as schools and so on. Saw was another example where the state coming to promise sewer infrastructure for Mount bark and it never never delivered and the councils had to pick up a major exercise in delivering appropriate sewing of the new development area A right.
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Speaker 1: And so what happens then, because you mentioned that, you know it's only thirty percent developed, I'm assuming the rest of this seventy percent will be coming on in the next decade or so. If we still don't have a school or a high school or a primary school, and the roads still aren't connected, and the sewer isn't sewage isn't thought about, what happens well?
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Speaker 3: Sewings taking place, the council shown the leadership in the absence of anything else happening, so that had we've stepped up to the plate to deal with that issue. But you know, we've got our hands full and the road that really is a legacy issue from a state government decision. We're saying, look, we reckon. We've got a bit of an answer to this is that let's complete it. But we need you to acknowledge that there is a problem, participate in the solution, recover the investment from the developers subsequently, rather than waiting for it to happen, because it won't happen, let's get it finished and then we can tick off one of these problems that's now become symbolic and it's you know, it is demoralizing for a community to think that there's smallless developed to happen, and yet we can't fix something that was meant to have been done fifteen years ago. So we've got an opportunity to get it done. And it's not a lot of money in the scheme of things, It just takes a bit of will. So we're saying we're ready, let's get the job done.
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Speaker 1: At the start of this interview. You mentioned the fund that was announced when the development was announced. Is there do you have access to that? Can you just see money sitting in a bank account somewhere or do you know how much is available? Was any money put in?
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Speaker 3: Okay? So that fund was really for transport interventions largely, and it's administered by a Ministerial Advisory committee. They oversite the fund and they make recommendations to help fund the necessary interventions, so they include things like roundabouts at certain strategic locations where the traffic loads have increased. However, the number of projects were identified and the amount of money available was a function of the development, so that when the development happened, the money would build up and the fund. Until you build up the fund, you can't put in the infrastructure, so the prastructure is always going to lag. And of course we've had escalation. So that means that there is some concern now that there may not ever be enough money in the fund, and it's a case of recognizing that's a problem. There's a problem there, so how might we deal with that And that's something that the government, the state government set up and instead of pretending there's not a potential problem there we need to now deal with it, and we're looking for an acknowledgment that we need to be able to recognize that there are some issues and if we deal with them now, it's going to be a lot better than trying to pretend that there's not a problem, because it's not going to go away.
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Speaker 1: Well, hopefully the next time we speak, Andrew, there might be an announcement made by one of the parties in the lead up to the election. I know this isn't for you to comment on, but the mayor of Mount Barker, David Leitch, is a candidate for the Labor Party, so you'd hope that he's in there is saying Okay, we need this in melt Barker. If you want to win this seat, we need to get this in this fixed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Look, and.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure he is.
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Speaker 7: I has.
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Speaker 3: However, it's you know, he's one candidate and it takes the Labor Party to understand that they have got a big responsibility with the state and making all these announcements to get it right and that there is a growth agenda. And I'm not here critiquing their growth agender. I think that the states, you know, the work that's being done is meritorious. But let's get it right. Let's fix up Mount Barker and we can all move on. There are some key issues that hopefully nobody ever repeats. But equally I think, you know, it's important for governments if they've made a mistake to step up and say, look, we own the problem, let's fix it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That's I think something that I'd like to see happen pretty soon to give people confidence about the custadianship about state going forward.
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Speaker 1: Well, Andrew, it's been really interesting to chat this afternoon. Thanks so much for your time. And yeah, like I said, let's hope next time we chat that would have been announced.
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Speaker 8: It would have been addressing.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: See you. That's the CEO of the Mount Barker Council, Andrew Stewart. Do you live in Mount Barker. Maybe you looked at housing in Mount Barker and you had the same thought. I'd love to hear them. Eight double two three double OW is the number to call. I mentioned earlier that after two point thirty in travel talk with the team from Phil Hoffman Travel, we'll be talking about these changes to UK and Irish visas. If you've got a trip planned, and Catherine in Warredale on the text line says, yes, I have a trip to Ireland planned for later this year, booked through the Great Phil Hoffman's Well done Catherine. Yes, I do have to get an Irish and so does my daughter. We have Australian passports. No good for Ireland anymore. It's interesting, isn't it. And I'm sure the team at Phil Hoffman Travel let you know about that when you booked your trip. Others haven't been so lucky, so they've been caught out. We'll be talking about that this afternoon and if you have any questions, eight double two to three double oh is the number to call to have your say on any of the matters we're talking about on RVOS as well. I also have tickets to give away this afternoon, so make sure you stay listening for your chance to win. You could go to the Fringe. We've got a double pass for Gasher at Gluttony and a double pass for Murder She Didn't Write, which is also on at Gluttony this year. Plus don't forget it's a Tuesday, so it's Turkey Tuesday. After three point thirty you're nominating a turkey who's done something silly, who deserves to be called out on the radio for it. And we love self nominations. Maybe you forgot something this week, forgot to take the bins out, hopefully didn't forget the kids, but something more minor than that. You can dominate yourself as well. Eight double two to three Double O is the number to call to have your say on anything we're discussing here on the afternoons program. Time for the one thirty news headlines now though, and after that State of the Arts, we are going to be talking about the Adelaide Festival, which starts this weekend, and then I'll bring you the details of a fringe show by nurse Georgie Carroll. We've been talking about nurses on the program for a while now. Well, Georgie Carroll is a nurse and a comedian. She's found the funny side of nursing and I'm looking forward to chatting to her as well.
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Speaker 9: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 1: Good afternoon, it's half past one here on five Double A. We were talking about Mount Barker and the I think it would be safe to describe it as a mess, the mess of a development up there. Anne on the text line says yes on this sub I'd like everyone to drive through the new housing developments at Emerald Way and Aston Hills in Mount Barker. There are a disgrace identical dog boxes with no protection from the hot ozssy weather, gutters touching the house next door, no front yard, no backyard, nowhere for cars to park, and no where for children to play. It's all about quantity, not quality, and the government and councils should be ashamed. These are areas full of cheap, disposable housing that will become nothing more than slums in ten years time. If this government answers to our housing problem, then Heaven help us and all future generations. Thank you Ann for your text Keep your thoughts coming. Eight double two to three, double O, double oh is the number to call. And this is always a problem when new housing developments are announced. I think we all acknowledge we need more houses built in Adelaide, but it's making sure they're built in the right places and in the right way and they have the right infrastructure surrounding them. So we'll be continuing this discussion throughout the afternoon. And as I say, i'd love to hear your thoughts now at twenty eight minutes to two five.
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Speaker 9: Double as State of the Arts.
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Speaker 1: We like to get Artie every Tuesday and talk about all of the arts events happening in Adelaide, and one big one is coming up this weekend, the Adelaide Festival. Matthew Lutton is the artistic director and joins me in the studio.
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Speaker 8: Hi Matthew, Hi, thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: No, thanks for coming in. I can't believe it's festival time already.
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Speaker 8: I know it's really raced up. We kick off on Friday, but all the stages are going up, all the sets have arrived, all the actors are here, so we're ready to go.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what are the big shows.
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Speaker 8: Well, on Friday night we have a big free concert in the Elder Park where Pulp is performing, So that's going to be a big, big event. All their classic songs will be there for everyone for free. Then we also the same night we have a big theater work coming from Korea called The Cherry Orchard. It's got some of the amazing actors from Squid Games in it. This big, amazing architectural set that tells the story of a like a succession story set in career of a family that is wrestling with their business and everything falling apart. There's an amazing music theater work called Peer Noir, which is about Josephine Baker, who's like the most was the most famous black singer in the nineteen twenties and nineteen thirties. She's like the Beyonce of the nineteen twenties. It's her life story told through music. And at the end of the festival, we've got hoff Eschecter with a big new contemporary dance work which has got like this thumping soundtrack that is just going to sort of send us off at the end of the festival.
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Speaker 1: Oh, very cool. Just want to clarify the Cherry Orchard. Is it called the Cherry Orchard? Yeah, it's not like Squid Games. No, we're not seeing any squid Games esque, no events happening unless.
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Speaker 8: Things go terribly wrong on that performance. No, it's no, it's it's definitely called the Cherry Orchard. It's set around a family that have a billion dollar industry, but they have a beloved cherry orchard and one of the things is they need to actually sell it for housing redevelopment. And that's what causes it's a very big conflict within their family.
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Speaker 1: It's not in Mount Barker. Isn't no awkward timing? Yes, and now I know that the I guess it hasn't made well you can tell me. I've noticed with Adelaide Festival audiences tend to be a little bit older. You know, we often get different operas coming to town and they might not appeal to younger audiences. But you've tried to change that this year. I guess have you tried to change that?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: No, absolutely, Like there is a there's a really loyal audience. They've been coming to Adelaid Festival for a long young a long time. But I really want to in our programming, in our ticketing, open the door to a younger audience as well. And it's not about excluding, it's just about opening the you know, making it the larger audience. And part of that is some of the shows we're choosing. We've got a new contemporary music stream and also we've done a new ticketing program where if you're under forty you can basically see nearly everything in the festival for forty dollars. So it's a really I mean, you can go and see, like I said, see the Cherry Orchard for forty dollars. You can see Zo her pair, who's sort of like the god of French acting, for forty dollars. We have a show that goes for eight hours where they do all of the Great Gatsby in one day from two to ten, which is like an incredible It's like binging the Great Gatsby, and it's forty dollars if you're under forty eight hours. Yeah, so very comfortable seats.
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Speaker 1: Where is this at home? Okay, it would have to be somewhere comfy.
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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, but it's very how much these seats they can handle it. Each part, each episode is about an hour or an hour and fifteen. Then you have a break and you come in and out, you can go to Chinatown, come back. So it's sort of like watching five episodes back to back.
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Speaker 1: I was about to say, well, you binge a series at home, so why not binge it in a theater?
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Speaker 10: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Exactly, how funny. I've not heard of that before. It reminds me of the old movie marathons, you know, when you'd go and see two back to back movies overnight.
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Speaker 8: Well, it's something about like I love either theater and performance that either it's short, you know, it's you know, eighty minutes an hour, or you do eight hours, like it's one or the other. And this is hypnotic. It's like how you do binge things. You just want to keep watching the next bit. And what's so special about this is they say they read every word of The Great Gatsby underlead actors can recite the book by Harch. It's a phenomenal feat. So it's all set in like this. Essentially, it's a boring office building and they get bored and therefore start to read The Great Gatsby and then get addicted to it. So they create all the big decadent parties using everything they can from staples and folders and old computers to create the decadence of the nineteen twenties in an environment where they don't have that decadence.
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Speaker 1: That's very cool. Yeah, it's like a very fancy interactive visual audiobook. Yeah, reading out the book but also acting it out live in front of you on stage.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Yeah. It's part of the Joy of Adelaide festival where these are some of the greatest works from around the world, like they're really high caliber works. They're large scale works, they're not small scale, and they're all very different, like that's real literature work. But Mary said what she said, the work that comes from France is like a complete dream, so that's very surreal. It's sort of for people that love music and dreamscapes. And then Cherry Orchard is almost like a watching TV. It's almost a Netflix style, almost Korean work.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds like there's a lot going on there. And you mentioned Pulp is the free event.
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Speaker 8: Yes, so so. Javis Cocko will be hitting the stage at eight thirty on Friday down at Elder Park. The stage is being built now, so he's doing the set that he's been touring at Glastonbury. He's doing it for free for Adelaide.
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Speaker 1: How's the weather looking on Friday.
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Speaker 8: Well, at the moment, we think there might be some showers around midday and we hope they don't extend into the evening. But it goes ahead rain or shine. If there's any severe weather warnings that were approaching, will call it on the day, but it'll be fine. It's Glastonbury spirit, you know.
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Speaker 1: If there's a little bit wary, yeah, it wouldn't it wouldn't be Glaston Brie if there wasn't a little bit of rain.
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Speaker 8: That's right, it's a sprinkle.
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Speaker 1: It's just sprinkle. We'll take that. We'll take a sprinkle obviously. The other big free event that's usually involved in Adelaide Festival is Rter's Week. So I can't have you as artistic director in the studio and not ask you about Writers Week. This is your first event as artistic director.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is my first festival as Adelaide Festival Artistic Director, and I'm really sad that we don't have Adelaide Writers Week this week this year. It's such a beloved event, so many one hundred and sixty thousand people come together to hear ideas and about books. So I'm really sad that we don't have it this year, but I know it will be back next year. We've just advertised for the new artistic director, so I can't wait to see where it heads in twelve months time.
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Speaker 1: Do you get to hire the artistic director?
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Speaker 8: No, that's not me that it sort of has a separate unit inside Adelaide Festival. So the Board of Adelaide Festival will recruit the new artistic director of Writer's Week.
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Speaker 1: Have to be a brave person to want to jump into that role at the moment.
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Speaker 8: Oh it's brave, yes, but exciting. I mean, I think there's I mean, what I've really learned through all of this is that there's a huge appetite for Writers Week, Like, there are so many people that want to be there, so many people that want to engage with literature and ideas. So whoever is the new Writers a Week director has an audience that's hungry. So I think they'll be exciting to see where they want to take it.
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Speaker 1: It's definitely hungry. I was reading today that the well, I can't remember what it's called, Constellations, the gorilla sort of Writers Week that's been set up is all sold out or booked out. There's an event happening with Randell Randa abdel Fatar and Louis Adler, former artistic director of the of Writers Week, and that event's all sold out. So people want to hear about it.
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Speaker 8: They do.
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Speaker 1: People want to talk about it and talk about books. So yes, you can guarantee it'll be back.
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Speaker 8: I can guarantee it'll be back absolutely.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, good to know what else is there for people I know. Every now and then there are some events for kids involved in Adelaide Festival. Anything this year for kids.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, two very special programs for younger audiences. First of all, Slingsby, a local company is doing the a trilogy of works of the Botanic Gardens called the Compendium of Wonder. They've built a theater, so it's this beautiful wooden theater that's all in the big circular with the stage in the middle, and they're doing three different fairy tales that you can go to. It's like another marathon you can see. And also super special project is called Mama Do's Derby, which Windmill Production Company from Adelaide is creating with a whole lot of local roller derby players. So it's the story of a mother and daughter where the daughter is sort of more mature than the mother, but her mother to to sort of find a new social life and the new town joins a roller derby team in secret and tries to withhold that from her daughter. So it's got an amazing cast, but it's got twenty roller derby players on stage on roller skates the whole show and they do it. It is amazing big numbers and dances and moving the sets.
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Speaker 1: Roller skates, Oh, very good. And there they're local roller Derby.
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Speaker 8: Yes. So Premiers had a great opening in Sydney at the Sydney Festival and they had local Sydney roller Derby teams And here I've been learning a little bit about roller derby and they've got the new teams from Adelaide who will be doing the production here at the Entertainment Center.
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Speaker 1: For those who don't know about roller Derby, what is it?
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Speaker 8: It's basically, how would you describe it?
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Speaker 1: It's it's roller skates.
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Speaker 8: It's sort of fierce. It's a fierce women doing quite violent, can be violent. Yeah, that's sort of Yeah. I guess it's hockey on roller skates with incredible costumes and really perverse names.
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Speaker 1: They do names, don't They very full on? So I'm glad that you've got locals involved in it.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Look, it's it's really it's really about a balance, like we want to make sure that we're inviting the best work from around the world but also really supporting Adelaide and South Australian artists to think really big, like scale is really important Madelaide Festival. It's what puts us apart from the fringe, that we can have really big projects and win Mills, Mama does Derby is certainly big.
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Speaker 1: How are ticket sales going this year? Because I just feel like there's so much going on at this time of year between fringe and festival, and Woman's obviously part of festival as well, and then it's the races, Adelaide Cups coming up to everything happens now.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's a busy time, but we're going really well. At the moment. We're about ninety percent of where we need our tickets to be, which is super good, so five days out before the festival starts, because of course there's a big spike during the festival itself, so now we're really on track. The houses are looking really full. We're still holding some tickets aside for the forty dollars tickets because we don't want them to run out. So I think we're going to have a really busy festival.
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Speaker 1: Ninety percent is pretty good. Yes, when you talk to fringe artists and you know different people who throughout the year, they they worry when they come to Adelaide because we tend to be last minute ticket buyers.
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Speaker 8: Yes, I think we've got what's interesting some of some of the contemporary music program is a later buying audience for us. But our classical music program, which is really big in the first week, sold out almost months ago. Like there's an audience that really they like to plan early and get their sick, get their seat, and I love that audience also comes from Sydney and Melbourne and flies in. So we have different audiences. Those are very organized and those that like to come at the last minute, and we want both.
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Speaker 1: I am definitely part of the latter, not that organized, especially these days. Oh well, it sounds like there's a whole heap of things for people to do and to get on board with. Where should they go to have a look at what's on, check out the program and buy their tickets.
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Speaker 8: Everything's on the Adelaide Festival website Adelaidfestival dot com dot au that's got all the shows there, how to buy the tickets and how to make sure you can have a really full program over the seventeen days.
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Speaker 1: Matthew, thanks for coming in. Really appreciate it.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Matthew Lutton, artistic director with Adelaide Festival, which starts this Friday, seventeen minutes to two here on five Double A. Up next Georgie Carroll. She's a nurse, comedian, author and she's back for the frint Well, she's not back, she's from Adelaide, but she will be a part of Adelaide Fringe this year, so you're going to hear from her five.
00:33:04
Speaker 9: Double A Afternoons with Stacey Lee.
00:33:08
Speaker 1: We are in the middle of State of the Arts here on five Double A. And you just heard about Adelaide Festival. We mentioned Fringe Festival is on and don't forget I still have tickets to give away to Fringe Festival this afternoon and we have. We are so lucky to have lots of different comedians in town for Adelaide Festival. One who hasn't had to travel too far, Nurse Georgie Carroll, will be taking part of it all the.
00:33:31
Speaker 11: Way from Holden Hell please station area.
00:33:35
Speaker 1: The police station or just the day release. Yes, Georgie Carroll, comedian in the studio.
00:33:41
Speaker 2: Hello, Hello, Stacey, how you going good?
00:33:44
Speaker 7: How are you?
00:33:44
Speaker 2: I'm having a ball.
00:33:45
Speaker 11: This is my fate because I'm on the road most of the year touring comedy. So I've just come back from a four month UK tour where we move every day. So to be here where my kids are well, they're an't well the Kettles, they're eighteen and nineteen. I don't even know if I feel like your kids are always it's right, I don't know. I'm that one that's just pushed them, pushed them out a bit and gone like I abandon all responsibility.
00:34:07
Speaker 2: Let's see if you basketball wallow, I've done enough here.
00:34:12
Speaker 11: So yeah, So to be around that and me ma'am, who's a bit bonkers, just to be around it and their husband, Yeah, it's lovely.
00:34:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, good, Yeah, it must feel nice to be able to, I guess, perform in front of the local crowd.
00:34:24
Speaker 11: Local crowds are great. And it's not just because it's my local Adelaide Fringe is I don't know people know this. It is the second largest in the world. It's It's Edinburgh Fringe, but a lot cheaper than you're trying to get there.
00:34:36
Speaker 2: It is just such a joyous festival. I am in a.
00:34:41
Speaker 11: Tent in the Garden of on Earthly Delights, and before me in the tent is sum Sumo's wrestlers. Wrestlers, so I rock up and I'm with the sumo wrestlers, the big chunky guys sat there eating bananas in their underpants.
00:34:54
Speaker 1: Wearing their and easier.
00:34:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we have.
00:34:56
Speaker 11: No communicating whatsoever apart from Caniua. And and then when I come off stage, I've got the lady Boys of bank Ock amazing every phase of body image.
00:35:07
Speaker 2: Kind of luckily I don't bother with that stuff.
00:35:11
Speaker 11: But we have everything backstage at mine and it's just such a joy to be at.
00:35:16
Speaker 2: What a party festival.
00:35:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's very fun vibes. I was down there on Sunday, just went and chilled out near the lake gluttoney, had some good drink, went with mum. It was great, Yes, it rained, it's all right. We put our umbrella up.
00:35:31
Speaker 2: We just crack on.
00:35:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, we just crack on that.
00:35:34
Speaker 2: Yes, what we do.
00:35:36
Speaker 1: And now tell me about your show this year. It's called infectious obviously from your nursing nurse for twenty.
00:35:42
Speaker 2: Four years, not registered anymore, I can say what I want now.
00:35:46
Speaker 11: I love being a nurse as well though, and I know that we do get a bit of our vibe for being martyrs. And I am a Union girl and I'm totally behind what we're doing. I don't know all the details, but I know I'll be behind them. But I am definitely more a celebration of celebration of that thing where you you love all people. That's part of compassionate and useful.
00:36:06
Speaker 2: That's what nurses are. Compassionate and useful.
00:36:08
Speaker 11: That's where you boil it down and just the celebration with the biggest workforce in a nation. And it really is staff room banter vibes. It is the Gallows humor.
00:36:19
Speaker 10: It is.
00:36:21
Speaker 11: I think the staff room is probably the last bastion of brutal, free gentle, brutal, judgmental, free speech.
00:36:32
Speaker 2: But it's also kind. So yeah, it's that it comes.
00:36:35
Speaker 1: From a good place. But I imagine being a nurse, you have to be able to look at that you mentioned gallows humor. You'd have to be able to see the humor in life.
00:36:45
Speaker 11: Otherwise I met the odd nurse that can't, and you break them, do you know what I mean?
00:36:48
Speaker 2: Like, you've got to be able to go in and have a little bit of a giggle.
00:36:51
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's called debriefing. They make us do it now. It's it's a legal requirement that after a shift you go and have a Really it's something that the nurses used to do when they all live back in the nurses home. So they all used to and then they used to have like a pack of SIGs at the chair behind the bin and unpack whatever they've just seen, anything from conception to the afterlife. And yeah, so but no they've kind of mandated it. Now you have to sit there. It's an unpack it.
00:37:15
Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned the pack of SIGs because I always whenever I walk past the ra or yeah, at a hospital and you see a nurse out the front smoking, it's such a contradiction.
00:37:24
Speaker 2: It's such a quite weak well.
00:37:26
Speaker 11: I think what happens is we see people who smoke fifty fags a day and drink eight liters a goon wine and then we.
00:37:33
Speaker 2: Think, oh, we could do more.
00:37:35
Speaker 1: There's just.
00:37:37
Speaker 12: It.
00:37:37
Speaker 11: We're very hard to kill unless you're unlucky. I've got to tell you something, though, I have been having the greatest one. It's my husband is the reason I'm on here today.
00:37:46
Speaker 1: Okay, right, so here's your husband here with you.
00:37:49
Speaker 2: I brought him with me.
00:37:51
Speaker 11: He is a huge admire of your work, loves your show, and so every time, and he's my DESI driver.
00:37:58
Speaker 2: At the moment, I've had my car keys.
00:38:00
Speaker 1: So can I just stop you there for one second? Because Georgie said to me before we got on it my driver here. I've been having so much fun with him, and you're only now telling me it's your husband. I thought you had a drive.
00:38:10
Speaker 2: No, I don't have a driver, he's saying.
00:38:13
Speaker 1: You's kind of them. Okay.
00:38:15
Speaker 11: Else, he's my driver because I've had my keys taken by a doctor, not a police, right. So, and I'm fine anyway, but you know, he just fall over and then they say you can't drive for a bit until we know where you fell over.
00:38:25
Speaker 1: Okay.
00:38:26
Speaker 11: So and Steve, I mean we I married the rock, not the rebel. He is the most beautiful, solid working, does not leave your family man.
00:38:35
Speaker 2: He is just that. But a little bit tense, do you.
00:38:39
Speaker 5: Know what I mean.
00:38:40
Speaker 1: I love that you're saying all of this while he's.
00:38:45
Speaker 2: Not leaving me over there. A little bit of a tense man.
00:38:48
Speaker 11: I mean, if he answers the phone and the doorbell goes, he goes, oh, it's.
00:38:51
Speaker 2: All going on.
00:38:52
Speaker 11: You know, there's a lot of tension in his life, and now.
00:38:57
Speaker 2: He's having to drive me everywhere.
00:38:58
Speaker 11: I see it Now, the other week we were in the and you had a bit on air about people on scooters and on electric bikes leading red oo's or something.
00:39:06
Speaker 2: They all needed to be in a camp somewhere. I don't know.
00:39:08
Speaker 11: There was some there was some hatred for these and I can honestly say I've never thought about it, but Steve it would appear, and and never thought of anything else but getting annoyed about these scooter people. And he was getting on my nose with that. So then I get on his nose because he's going, you want to get on this show? And I was going, yeah, Sophie Lee, and he's like, it's Stacy. And then later on I go yeah, Susie Lee and going.
00:39:27
Speaker 2: No, it's Stacy.
00:39:28
Speaker 11: And I was getting him so mad by calling you the wrong name over and over again.
00:39:32
Speaker 1: And then I've been called worst, don't worry.
00:39:35
Speaker 11: And then I was doing it on purpose, and then I'd get your first name right, but then call you Sophie Lay.
00:39:40
Speaker 2: And then when I just got it all right, when.
00:39:42
Speaker 11: We got out of the car, because I was going, right, okay, so who am I emailing again.
00:39:45
Speaker 2: He went Stacey Lee and that's it. Stacey Lee. Five triple a job. Al I have been having the great fun winding.
00:39:58
Speaker 11: Him up and he should not in PII because he was like, you've got to talk to You've got loads in common. And I was like what, And he's like, she's just had a baby, and I'm like, you've had babies?
00:40:07
Speaker 2: Why does me and her having a baby?
00:40:08
Speaker 1: Are your kids? Eighteen and nineteen?
00:40:10
Speaker 2: Eighteen and nineteen?
00:40:11
Speaker 13: This is.
00:40:13
Speaker 11: I've forgotten what you're going through now. But he's a really really lovely man, really solid and dependable lot.
00:40:18
Speaker 2: But like I said, if just.
00:40:20
Speaker 1: We should bring Steve in and you can say writing your thoughts on scooters. No, no, he's shaking his head at me, please don't.
00:40:27
Speaker 11: Rocks are great things to marry, but they are only fun when you throw them.
00:40:34
Speaker 1: He's just rolling his eyes, like, oh, I'm so used to this.
00:40:37
Speaker 11: Yeah, well it's retired off the back of meter in comedy, so you know, well do you know what I mean?
00:40:44
Speaker 2: So, yeah, this is his pens.
00:40:45
Speaker 1: Oh I love that. Well, I'm grateful to have you both in today. Yeah, thank you for driving us, Steve, appreciate it.
00:40:51
Speaker 2: I think I'm walking home.
00:40:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think you are too. To Holden Hill.
00:40:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got to come to the shower.
00:40:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like cold.
00:40:57
Speaker 11: Baby eighteen months, eight months, eight months, baby, I'm babes in arms absolutely.
00:41:03
Speaker 2: Babes in arms are welcome as far as I'm concerned. All right, So majority, it's.
00:41:07
Speaker 11: Not all women, but it is just a big room of people celebrating how good people are.
00:41:12
Speaker 2: You will learn nothing, you will laugh a lot. That is it.
00:41:15
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you want at friend. I'm not there to learn, I'm there to laugh.
00:41:20
Speaker 2: Yes, that's it.
00:41:22
Speaker 1: How fun. It sounds like it's going to be a great show. And I love the idea that you had a tea in one hand and a map of Australia in the other. Yes, this was a Cadelaide to pick Adelaide to move to.
00:41:33
Speaker 2: That's right. So I decided we needed to leave.
00:41:38
Speaker 11: I was we were the king and Queen of the village. We were the pushing backs of Rochdale in the UK. So there's eight pops, there's one supermarket. We've done it all and I don't know. I just felt like I need to move from here, and yeah, I wanted Italy. But we went and had a look and we decided we'd be the worst dressed and drunkest people there. You need to in Italy, we were like, we can't. We went and I was like we yeah, we we're not. We're not this, it's.
00:42:06
Speaker 1: Not for us.
00:42:07
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then yeah, Australia came up.
00:42:11
Speaker 11: We looked everywhere, ruled out some things for obvious reasons. Steve didn't want to give it a nine to five work and didn't want to come home to the dark, so that ruled out. In Queensland, yeah, Perth was too full of English. We love English, but we wanted a proper sea change. And then we boiled it down basically Sidney too expensive, Melbourne and Adelaide and we asked all the backpack of mates and they were like, oh, go Melbourne, it's so so metropolitan and we're.
00:42:35
Speaker 2: Like, oh that's not doesn't sound like nah. So yeah, we came here.
00:42:39
Speaker 11: And then there's a book, believe it or not, called Where to Live in Adelaide that you can buy us a migrant And then I found out that open here, durn and Court and all that that's where all the Italians lived and I'm desperate to be Italian. Well, so that's where we ended up.
00:42:52
Speaker 1: It's I guess that that's your starting point, that springboard into Italy. Living in Durnham Court with the Italians. Maybe one day we'll get to Italy.
00:43:00
Speaker 2: Yes, that's right, Yeah, Holiday, I think. Well, I'm so happy. Thank you for having as Adelaide.
00:43:06
Speaker 1: No, thank you for choosing Adelaide, Thank you for coming in, Thank you Steve for driving her. If you want to get along to see Georgie Carroll at the Garden, you can get your tickets at fringeticks dot com. So you're on all throughout the season.
00:43:18
Speaker 11: Every single thing except for this Thursday. We've canceled because I'm having the thing that tells me if I can get my car keys back or not.
00:43:25
Speaker 1: Fingers crossed for you. Fingers's got his fingers and toes and anything he can cross his cross.
00:43:32
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:43:32
Speaker 2: I would love to see everybody there, bring your mates. It's a riot.
00:43:36
Speaker 1: Oh I love it. Thank you so much for coming in. Georgie get home safely, I know you will. I'm looking at Steve. He's good. I love it. This is so good bye bye. Two minutes to two here on five double A after the two o'clock news, we're totally changing tunes and talking about tax. How's that for a sales pitch. No, no, it's not just about text. Don't switch, don't fall asleep. Shane Oliver will join me. We're talking about different proposals from all of the parties ahead of the state election. One nation has come up with a different idea on how you should be taxed. They've proposed a flat tax. What is it, how will it work? Will it benefit you? How will the government get money? We'll answer all of those questions.
00:44:19
Speaker 9: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacey Lee.
00:44:22
Speaker 1: Welcome to the second hour of the afternoon's program. In around half an hour's time, it's Travel Talk with the team from phil Hoffman Travel. And if you're planning on traveling to the UK, you will need to listen up because there have been some changes certain people depending on what passport you have. If you're a dual citizen, maybe you're unknowingly a dual citizen with the UK or Ireland, you might not be allowed in or you'll have to pay one thousand bucks to get some sort of certificate to get in. Don't worry though it sounds a little bit confusing. Pete the Managing director and CEO of phil Hoffman Travel, will be in the studio to answer all of York questions at nine minutes past two. Though, we have been analyzing the different promises from the different parties ahead of the state election, and One Nation is in the polling suggested to be one of the more popular parties, more popular than the Liberal Party. In fact, here in South Australia federally, One Nation has refloated the idea of a flat tax. They'd like to change the tax system in Australia. So how would that look? What is a flat tax? Amp Chief economist Doctor Shane Oliver can answer that for you. Good afternoon, Shane, Good afternoon, Stacey. Thanks yeah, thanks so much for your time. A flat tax, it's come up again. It comes up from time to time during election campaigns and the like. Tell us what it is.
00:45:49
Speaker 10: Well, yes, it does come up perfectly regularly, many many decades ago. Joe by Ilki Peters tonight in Queensland, remember him used to advocated. But the flat tax is where rather than stepping up through the tax scales as you earn more, for example, if you earn more than was eighteen thousand dollars, I think at present you start paying a sixteen percent rate up to forty five thousand, and of course, if you earn more than one hundred and ninety thousand, you're paying a forty five percent tax rate. And of course Betty here, Betty care levy is ated on top of that. So we've got this sort of graduated scale that goes up with your income, starting at sixteen sixteen cents in the dollar, rising to forty five cents of the dollar. A flat rate would say, well, everyone pays the same twenty percent rate, and therefore, whether you're earning eighteen thousand or whether you're earning one hundred and ninety thousand or two million dollars a year, you will be on a flat rate. And often that would be said as something like twenty or twenty five percent. So that's how a flat tax rate would work. It's obviously very simple compared to the current arrangement. But I reckon some people would get huge benefits here. High income earning, you'd say, fantastic, I'll take it. Can't come earn it. You may may not think that.
00:47:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And I think Joviolki Pedison in Queensland you mentioned he suggested a twenty five percent flat tax rate. We don't know what one nation is suggesting it. They haven't given a number, they've just said they wouldn't be They would float the idea and they wouldn't say no to it at this stage because they argue the tax system is too complex. So I guess if that's your only measure, a tax system that's a bit more simple and less complex, this would work.
00:47:39
Speaker 10: That's right. It has the huge benefit of simplicity. You don't have to calculate extra rates above extra levels of income, although mind you, these days with spreadshet it's quite easy to work it out. Presumably you'd still have the same exemption, So if you're a member of a union, or you had to buy clothing or something associated with your work, all those sorts of things, you still have the exception. Then it to reduce your taxable income. But overall it would be simpler. I guess many would argue, though, that it's not necessarily fairer. In fact, it may not be fairer. I know some people say, well, you're still paying the same tax rate, and a high income earner will be paying a lot more tax dollar measures in dollars than a low income earner is so in that sense they might say, well, it's still progressive, but their rate of tax will be much lower. So whereas a high income earner today might find them paying on average thirty five forty percent, perhaps perhaps thirty five percent of their income in tax. So I'm not focused with marginal tax rate. Film focused on the average across ther whole income. Low income earner would be paying a lot less than that, particularly if you're earning less than forty five thousand, where your tax rate is at most sixteen cents in the dollar or eighteen cents if you include the Medicare leading so it would be a lot simpler. But the reality is that lower income owners would find themselves on a higher rate, and you could argue that it's not so fair at the moment, a lot of the burden does fall on high income earners to keep the tax system going out of interest. I mean, last time I saw the numbers, top ten percent of wag journers or income earners in Australia were paying almost fifty percent. Almost fifty percent of the income tax revenue collected by camera was coming from just the top ten percent, but one third was coming from the top one percent. If we go to a flat tax, then those abortions would go way down. We'd go down a long way from where they are at present, and you'd have a higher share coming from lower income earners. And some might say, well, that's not consistent. We're trying to reduce inequality. It would actually make inequality worse.
00:49:51
Speaker 1: And I guess that means would the government be collecting less tax at the end of the day, so that have to be a way to make.
00:50:00
Speaker 10: Up they would there would I guess you know, the body might say well, I've got a cut spending or do something like that. Alternatively, you could devise the rate of tax which is consistent with collecting the same amount of income, so you'll collect less income from the high income owners, collect more income from low income miners. You could devise a rate. I don't know what it would be, but I suspect it somewhere between twenty five and thirty percent, which where you'd be able to collect the same amount of revenues. So it can be set up that way. But if not, then you'd have to find other ways to make savings, and maybe you do have to increase the GST or cut government spending. So it does raise a lot of issues around complexity one area where it may help I guess is that some people would regard the top rate forty five cents to the dollar above one hundred ninety thousand, or forty seven cents. If you've got many care as egregious. You know, it's almost half of your extra income goes in tax. So that's the extentive. If I'm h governor, I might as well go and relocate in Singapore only pay twenty cents to the dollar or something. So in that sense it might act as an incentive to more work in Australia, boost productivity perhaps, but those effects are all a bit unknown. It would be a bit a bit risky just basing on that alone. So my feeling is, yes, it's an interesting debate, but ultimately probably not a probably not a why stick to do given the impact I think it would have on raising inequality.
00:51:32
Speaker 1: And there are people who are one Nation supporters who agree with that. Jack on the text line, it is fair. The more you earn, you still pay more tax on a flat rate. As you said, you know, if you earn a million dollars a year or forty thousand dollars a year, everyone is still paying the twenty percent, So if you're paying twenty percent of a million bucks, you're going to be paying more than the person earning forty grand.
00:51:53
Speaker 10: But yeah, yeah, there's no doubt about that that that's true. But the rate won't go up as much. You won't go up as as it does under the gung system, where you go from sixteen cents in the dollar at the low end, or zero in fact, if you're earning up to ten thousy two hundred beyond that sixteen and then it sort of gradually steps up. So highering coment is about paying a higher proportion of their wages at president and therefore a dollar amount would step up more dramatically than it would under a flat tax.
00:52:23
Speaker 1: Question without notice, Shane Oliver. Do we need amendments to our tax system? It's been floated that federal labors looking at capital gains tax changes on a much smaller scale. Here in South Australia, the government and the opposition of both proposed changes to stamp duty, you know, to try and relieve that for downsizes. It's been talked about a lot, particularly at the federal level. Do you think we will see some changes heading into the next election and does our tax system need an overhaul. Do we need changes to be.
00:52:55
Speaker 10: Made, well, I think it certainly needs to be made. I don't think it stick the purpose any I think the top raid is to agregious. It kicks in at a very low level. It's only about twice average earnings. If you've got to the US and other countries around the world, it typically kicks in that top rate typically kicks in at around six times as earnings, whereas in Australia you've just got to earn double average learnings. Then you're paying that you're on the top rate. I think there's also a great problem with our tax system that we're seeing my generation, baby Burmers, we're retiring. That incloses the retirement in my case or man you have already retired. And at the same time we're going to be more and more dependent on workers to keep coverage, care payments and so on. So rising burden on income earners, been rising pressure on the income tax system. And the problem with the income tax system is that it's skewed. There's all sorts of problems. Whether it's top rate is too high, what do they call it, being bracket creep is a major problem. You've just got to have your wage to go up with inflation that eventually you'll kick over into a new higher rate. If, for example, you go from forty five thousand to forty five thousand and one sent subtenly new tax rate, your tax rate jumps from thirty fent extra income will be taxed at a much higher rate, almost double your previous rate, and that's just due to inflation. So we need to index. I think b brackets to increase is in inflation. There's an excessive dependence in Australia on income tax. Other countries rely more on GST and that's why one way of collecting continuing to collect tax from people who move into the retirement pays in their life and is the burden on workers going forward. So I think we should be relying more on the GST less on income tax. The problems with stamp duty it's a totally ridiculous tax. Safe governments right around Australia are totally addicted to it though. But this concept you have to pay twenty five thirty forty thousand dollars whatever it is upfront to get into the property market, I think is totally that should be replaced with an ongoing FuMB or modest land tax thousand dollars a year or five hundred or something like that, not those huge upfront amount. There's a whole bunch of things which I think we need to do. The capital gains tax discount is arguably a little bit too generous, But as Bill Kelty has argued in last week, just removing the capital gains tax discount or reducing it without lowering income tax rates would just amount to a tax hike, which I think would be a silly thing to do. So if you're going to change capital gains tax, you really need to look at it as a whole package, you know, involving more reliance on the GST, less reliance than income tax, push out all the tax scales, and also lower those top top rate. So I think there are things we desperately need to do to fix up a tax system. If we don't, it's going to remain an ongoing drag on our economy.
00:55:56
Speaker 1: Sounds like they need to hire you as a consultant.
00:55:58
Speaker 10: Chain Maybe maybe, but by the stay back, and I'm aware that we've been debating a tax reform for the last twenty years now, I think coming up, and they never seem to get anywhere.
00:56:11
Speaker 1: I know if anything is just tinkering around the engines. And I mean, well it's been fraught any in time. Anyone has suggested tax changes in recent years that I can remember that they don't get in. So it is it's dangerous politically.
00:56:26
Speaker 10: Yeah, ideally you need some sort of bipartisan support and we're better compromise with the left getting some of their things up and the right getting some of their things up. But I reckon you could we've got a sort of a statesman out, the statesman like leader willing to explain it to austral and be why we need to change it, then you could get changed through. But unfortunately statesmen like leader has disappeared. With how and Castello and haw con keeting, we haven't had the statesman like leaders capable of selling the need for reform, and consequently it just ends up in the two hard basket.
00:57:01
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, Well, dare I say, I don't think this is the last time we'll be talking before a federal election anyway about tax and proposals. So appreciate you feeling us in this afternoon. Shane, thanks so much for your insights thanee you that's doctor Shane Oliver, chief economist with AMP. What do you think would you like to see a flat tax rate? It would make my life easier with calculating what I need to pay in tax, that's for sure, but I'm not sure it's more fair. I'd love to hear your thoughts though. Eight double two three double O double O.
00:57:32
Speaker 9: Five double A afternoons with Stacy Lee.
00:57:36
Speaker 1: Taking your calls. Now eight double two to three double double Oh is the number? Rick in west Blake's Hello, You've got some thoughts on a flat tax rate.
00:57:45
Speaker 13: Well, it's all about TAS.
00:57:47
Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 14: I was watching by going to the on YouTube this x CEO from public servants. Now we go two point four many of public sermons versus an example to Japan, they've got three million public experaments population of one hundred and fifteen million versus twenty eight million.
00:58:08
Speaker 3: Okay, we've got.
00:58:09
Speaker 14: Seventeen five ex servants per homeless people. Now in the facts, where you think I've money, you're going to Le's going to play the fud experment.
00:58:19
Speaker 1: Sorry, Rick, I'm just struggling to hear you. We've got a really bad line there. I might put you back to Jesse. It sounds like you're in the car. So maybe you can get us off the car speaker or something like that, and we'll see if we can get you back on. In the meantime, let's go to Salisbury. Hey, Jeff, Hey.
00:58:34
Speaker 15: Stace, I'm actually in West Lakes now, I've moved.
00:58:37
Speaker 1: It's yes, I can hear you're in the car. It sounds like you're moving.
00:58:41
Speaker 15: Is that bad?
00:58:41
Speaker 14: Can you mean that?
00:58:42
Speaker 15: Yeah?
00:58:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're good. You're good.
00:58:44
Speaker 15: All right, cools now, Yeah, I respect miss Dollivers at point of view, but I don't know how he put Paul Keating in the States when bracket he put us in a recession. But nevertheless, Costello and Howard, we're awesome. I am just as silent shadowself was in the foot because they voted for Elbow. And he said he wouldn't change the tax brackets. When we had to stage three tax cuts, he said he wouldn't change them, and that would have stopped bracket creep for over ten years. But what did he do? He lied again like he's done with the Issis Pride and all the other stuff, and he changed them and what that did make and practiced around helping the poor whatever he wanted to wrap it up in and at the end of that that I think it was six months or twelve months after that, I think the government raked in twenty eight billion dollars off the change of that Stage three tax cuts. That twenty eight billion dollars should have been in out pockets, you know what I mean, And Australia got sucked into it. He said he wouldn't do it, just like he said.
00:59:47
Speaker 16: When he got elected.
00:59:47
Speaker 15: Everything will be cheap for under labor. Everything's doubled. You know, people are going to start smartening up and looking at the finance and the economic side of things rather than this. You know, well, I don't know what they're thinking, because it's just basically do with small businesses. We've always looked at their economics, that's all accounts, and that that Stage three tax cuts would have went into a lot of business designers. Hands on everybody's hands, because that's what the first stage three counts afforded. The second stage going into the floor side of things, but they would have boosted money into their business, employed more people.
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you for your thoughts, Jeff, appreciate it. Thanks see you have a good one. This person on the text line, do people realize public servants include nurses, et cetera. Which hospital do they want to shut? Yeah, I've got to agree with you. And it's so easy to bash public servants, isn't it. We have to remember that the public service is the biggest employer in South Australia. If we were just to just say let's get rid of public servants, it's a whole lot of people out of work. That's a whole lot more people on you know, employment benefits from the government, a whole lot more burden on the tax system. I think it's really easy throwaway line, get rid of public servants. What do you mean by that? Which public servants? Are you talking teachers, nurse, which ones? Or just the executives? Then who's going to run the departments? I'm with you on the fact that it needs to be looked at. I don't think we need so many executives in some of our departments, and I certainly don't think some of the executives deserve to be earning the huge pay packets that we see them earning. But to say get rid of public servants is just such an easy throwaway line, isn't it. Eight double two three double o double?
01:01:25
Speaker 7: Oh?
01:01:25
Speaker 1: Is the number to call time for the two thirty news now though, and after that it's travel talk. So if you've got a trip booked to the UK or Ireland in the next few months, you will want to listen up. There are some changes about how you'll be able to get in and there might need to be a fee that you pay to get some specific documentation. So if you've got some questions, doesn't have to be UK or Ireland related, it can just be a general travel question. You know what to do? Eight double two three double O double O five double.
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Speaker 9: A Afternoons with Stacy Lee twenty.
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Speaker 1: Nine to three Here on five double Daniel Hayes, Is it the Bureau of Meteorology? Hello, Daniel Day. It's a bit cloudy today. I've almost thought it was going to rain. It was really threatening, but nothing.
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Speaker 17: Yet, no, nothing yet, It hasn't stopped.
01:02:13
Speaker 7: It getting fairly.
01:02:14
Speaker 17: Warm, pushed even a degree or two warmer than the forecast max today up to around about thirty to thirty two across Adelaide this afternoon, and we do have a severe weather warning out for some damaging winds developing tonight as well across parts of the Adelaide area, particularly around the areas butting up against the hills around the eastern suburbs there, looking at the high pressure ridge that's to the south being quite strong at the overnight, and that low pressure trough to the north deepening further as that low pressure system continues to bring a lot of rain to the northeastern parts of the state. But the interaction between those two means that the pressure gradient across the hills, it's going to be quite strong, and we could some quite decent flows down off the hills into town through the overnight and into tomorrow period. We're looking at the southeasterlies, the average winds pushing up to round about twenty five to forty kilometers now this evening and continuing around about thirty to forty five kilometers in tomorrow. Now that's the average sustained wind, but the gusts would push up to at least see some gusts around about that ninety kilometer an hour part around across the Mount Lofty Ranges and potentially as far down as the Adelaide metro area.
01:03:31
Speaker 1: This evening, all right, So windy night ahead, Yes, quite.
01:03:36
Speaker 17: Raindy, but still relatively dry. But we are still looking at the potential for some rain to come down into the south and southeast of the state from late in the week. Basically, that low pressure system is going to continue to be fairly slow moving up around that territory South Australian border area for a few more days yet, but it does weaken somewhat and start to slip further southwards by the end of the week, so potentially sharing activity increasing across Adelaide Friday and through the weekend.
01:04:07
Speaker 1: Okay, sounds good, Daniel, appreciate the update. You're welcome, Daniel Hayes there at the Bureau of Meteorology twenty six to three.
01:04:17
Speaker 12: Thanks to Phil Hoffman travel for over thirty years creating moments you'll never beget.
01:04:22
Speaker 9: This is five double a travel talk with.
01:04:26
Speaker 1: Peter Williams, Managing Director and CEO of PHT. Hello, Pete Stacy, how are you good? How are you?
01:04:33
Speaker 9: Fantastic?
01:04:34
Speaker 8: Care?
01:04:35
Speaker 1: Although I've been talking to a couple of friends who aren't so good at the moment. They're planning on traveling to the UK and trying to work out what they've got to do because there have been some changes. Let's start at the start.
01:04:47
Speaker 5: Yes, causing a little bit of grief absolutely for those that maybe have dual citizenships, sometimes they don't even know they've got dual citizenships. But basically you need to present a British or Irish passport as of tomorrow or a certificate of entitlement, which costs over one thousand dollars five hundred and thirty pounds I think it is, which is just absolutely crazy at border control and also at the airport before you board, otherwise you may be denied boarding. So this is causing a little bit of group because there's different rules, right, there's three or four different points, so just bear with me. So if you were born in the UK and you are still a bridget and citizen, so in other words, you haven't renounced your citizenship, you'll need a UK passport. So you've got to apply for a passport right now. That isn't that expensive. I think it's around about let's call it about one hundred and twenty about two hundred and twenty dollars. The problem is it's taking five to eight weeks to get that passport, so those people that haven't got it yet, they're struggling to get it in time for maybe, you know, a trip that they'd plan to get away fairly quickly, so that's a bit of a challenge. So if one of your parents was also born in the UK, and this is where it comes with some people don't even understand that.
01:06:02
Speaker 1: They may be yeah, you're listening, might say, how do you not know you're a citizen?
01:06:07
Speaker 18: Correct?
01:06:07
Speaker 5: So if when your parents are born in the UK, you may be automatically a citisen without knowing it or even registering. So you again will need to get a passport, so you need to apply for passport or that certificate. And if you ever have held a UK passport and it's expired, you have to go get a new one. So there's three very basic rules for listeners out there which might you know, they might go, oh wow, I'm one of those. Well that means you need to get you know, your act together and get things happening now as of yesterday though some temporary measures and it is only a guidance, so please don't take this as gospel, okay. And what we recommend is that you check with your trabe agent. So if you're booked with philhof and Travel, give us a call and we'll walk you through it. Or if your books a direct with an airline. You should be ringing your airline to see whether they will uplift you. So these are the temporary measures that if you get your passport in time, your UK passport in time, you may be able to travel on your valid Australian passport. You get your ETA, which is your online entry to the UK. So it's just an online entry which until all this fiasco started having that was the simple method, and an expired UK passport that matches exactly your Australian passport. Your current Stralian passport should be enough for them to uplift you for the time being. Now, this is a temporary measure and we don't know how long it's going to last. But at least that came through yesterday for those people that you still haven't been able to get hold of their passport. So it's pretty confusing, right.
01:07:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it feels like it hasn't been very well communicated. I don't know when they announced it, but it just it feels like to me, all of a sudden in the last week or so, I've seen a lot of report Yeah, and.
01:07:47
Speaker 5: That's because it's coming in tomorrow.
01:07:49
Speaker 10: Right.
01:07:50
Speaker 5: It's been out i'd say eight weeks ten weeks, but some people who jumped on it really early still haven't got their passport, and we've got lots of clients. I think we've got about one hundred maybe more open cases at the moment. So yeah, so we were quite relieved to hear this temporary measure and we're desperately bringing all the airlines to make sure that they will be uplifted, et.
01:08:11
Speaker 15: Cetera, et cetera.
01:08:12
Speaker 1: This is another reason why it's good to book through PHT a travel agent so they can help you. Because if you just booked flights online, can you.
01:08:20
Speaker 5: Imagine the length of the phone qu at the moment one the British Embassy and to the airline. So yes, look, you know we're kind of the middleman, and you know we're there to try and help out.
01:08:31
Speaker 1: Ye, and Pete's here to help you if you've got a question. Eight double two to three double o double O. Peter in Woodcroft has called in, Hey Peter, Hi, here you going.
01:08:41
Speaker 19: It's had a really interesting situation. I'm an Australian citizen. I've gone an Australian passport and there's probably eight years left on it. My wife's been a britishism for fifty seven years, and we've been passling her and hassling her about getting because she pays the taxes, does all the voting, all the things that you do for fifty seven years in Australia, came out when she was four. Has only just got yesterday, got the notification that she's received her Australian citizenship. So we're all very excited.
01:09:11
Speaker 6: You know, you're an Australia.
01:09:13
Speaker 19: And she's got a British passport with a re entry visa that's attached to it that only lasts for five years. We're giving her all this flack about getting her Australian citizenship and then all this has just happened instantly.
01:09:30
Speaker 1: A trip Do you have a trip?
01:09:32
Speaker 20: Blet?
01:09:33
Speaker 19: No, we don't have any trips booked fortunately, But it was just the fact that she just got it.
01:09:38
Speaker 5: Yes, she's still she's still got a British passport right with the visa. No, that's okay. Yeah, she's got to bring something. She's got a valid British passport and her now valid. Get her a valid Australian passport. Make sure she gets that now. Then she's going to be It was pretty straightforward. I thought you're going to have something much more complex.
01:10:02
Speaker 19: We can just go and we want you'll be right.
01:10:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you'd be right. Just get that Aussie passport for her and you'll be right.
01:10:08
Speaker 19: And book a trip.
01:10:11
Speaker 1: That's the next Thanks for that's that's good news. So it's for people who have a British passport or had and it's lapsed. If you are a dual citizen, you need to Yeah.
01:10:24
Speaker 5: But the big one, this gray area is you may be a dual syism you don't even know it. And this comes down to all these different rules whether your parents were born there, and I was just saying to Jesse your producer affairs, sometimes depending on the date they had to be married and then after a certain date they didn't have to be married. So these are all the checks and balances that we will go through. And look there's some websites that people can getting and double check that as well. But yeah, bit confusing.
01:10:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, and do we know the reason Josh on the text line, why are they doing this to UK?
01:10:55
Speaker 5: So it's very simple, grab money, great, it's easy, is that? And look you know, look Australia have very strict rules of you know, trouble's coming into Australia as well, one of the strictest, and we charge for visas and things like that as well, but this one seems, yeah, it looks like a cash grab to me.
01:11:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, and last minute. I know you said we found out about it eight to ten weeks ago, but for a lot of people, if they've booked trips a year in a still very short notice.
01:11:20
Speaker 5: It's still very very short notice. And especially when the British contract can't turn these passports around, you know, quicker than five to eight weeks. So that's just crazy. They should have been prepared for this and be turning around, you know, in four or five days, yeah, you know, which is what we turn an Australian passport around when we need to, you know, four or five days.
01:11:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, And Marie and Glenn Gowery has called in high end Marie, Hi, how are you doing good?
01:11:45
Speaker 16: A question regarding a trip. I'm heading off to the UK in June, June nine. And my mother was born in London in nineteen thirty. She came out to Australia when she was about a year just over a year old, so to my knowledge, she never held UK citizenship. She spent her whole life in Australia and never even went.
01:12:13
Speaker 20: Back to the UK.
01:12:15
Speaker 10: Would I be covered just.
01:12:16
Speaker 16: With an ETA or do I have to do something else?
01:12:20
Speaker 8: This is a good one.
01:12:22
Speaker 5: I would be getting onto thegov dot UK website and I believe you can plug in your details and it will really then tell you whether you may or may not need some kind of other documentation. I don't want to give you that advice on air, just in case it's incorrect. I don't want to be too specific on that one because it is yours. It's a long time ago, but nineteen thirty one, i'd like to think not but see, this would be a classic case of where you could get caught out. So please make sure if you have your trip booked through a travel agent, whether it's US or another travel agent, please double check with them. If not, jump onto that gov dot UK and check your overseas overseas Brittish passport entry requirements.
01:13:05
Speaker 16: Okay, gub dot UK. All right, no worries, thank you, good.
01:13:09
Speaker 1: Luck, Anne, Marie.
01:13:12
Speaker 5: There's so much gray in this. This is the problem, right, and so we have to be very very specific. My time is my team is totally over it, like they know, because We've actually got a couple of cases where staff you know they are as well.
01:13:24
Speaker 1: So even thinking with Anne Marie's case that you have to go back and think about nineteen thirteen, nineteen thirteen, we're going back a lot of years now too.
01:13:33
Speaker 5: We can get caught out right.
01:13:34
Speaker 1: Yep, all right, Brett, and Claire has called in, Hay Brett.
01:13:38
Speaker 6: Hi, here you going good. Just got a bit of a query in relation to something you said earlier that the new changes may be coming in and maybe not as a bit of a reprieve for the people who are having a hassle. And if you can get in there with the entry VISAU and your current Australian passport.
01:13:56
Speaker 5: Yep, correct, Yep, that's right. So it's a temporary guide Bread and I'll say it is a guidance only it came through yesterday that hopefully with a ETA which is your normal entry requirement and a valid Australian passport and an expired UK passport that matches that, then you should be fine.
01:14:18
Speaker 7: Yep.
01:14:18
Speaker 6: Okay, this is where we don't have a problem. There could be a problem because I'm thinking that people out there that are going to have exactly the same issue we are going overseas in November, so we got in quickly. We did everything. All I have to do is have at that entry thing is not a problem. My wife because she both her parents were born in Ireland and she also has it yet she hasn't expired UK passport. Had to apply, no problem. Two hundred and eighty dollars or whatever it was. But we had to stand her current Australian passport, her expired passport and her expired British passport.
01:14:57
Speaker 21: That's right.
01:14:58
Speaker 6: We had to send that all over by recorded.
01:15:00
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you're not traveling anywhere during that time because they've got all your documentation exactly right. Yeah, No, that's right, Brett and that. Yeah, it's very inconvenient, but those are the rules now, and so I.
01:15:13
Speaker 1: Feel so uncomfortable sending my passport somewhere.
01:15:15
Speaker 19: Yeah.
01:15:16
Speaker 5: Look, look at the end of the day, it's all registered place.
01:15:18
Speaker 10: You just kind of have.
01:15:19
Speaker 1: To be done.
01:15:21
Speaker 6: We're lucky because we're not leaving it until November. So I'm just thinking. I was listening to it and I thought, there's going to be a lot of people that are in the same boat as us, and if they're waiting six eight ten weeks for this thing to come back.
01:15:32
Speaker 22: Yeah.
01:15:33
Speaker 5: Oh that's a good heads up bread Thanks, No, I appreciate that, mate, And you're one of the lucky ones and the smart ones that got on to it early, so well done.
01:15:41
Speaker 1: Yeah. One more quick question off the text line. So if you just travel on your Australian passport, how will they know you're a UK citizen? Says Steve.
01:15:49
Speaker 5: At the end of the day, they've got databases. I would never ever take the risk if you actually should be qualifying for either a British passport Irish passport, you should be you should be getting it, or you need to pay for the certificate.
01:16:05
Speaker 1: Again, what if you Yeah exactly, but if you pay your flights, you get there and then you get turned over, you.
01:16:10
Speaker 5: Could either be denied boarding or worst case scenario, you get all the way there and they turn you around.
01:16:15
Speaker 1: So you don't want that, No, no, you don't want to take that risk. All right, it is fourteen minutes to three here on five double A, and let's bring in James McCulloch from Explorer Journeys. Hello, James, good afternoon. You haven't changed your entry requirements. We don't need a special passport to go on and Explorer journey.
01:16:35
Speaker 20: No, No, we do cruise out of Southampton's later in the year and look like everyone, I'm in the same boat exactly.
01:16:44
Speaker 5: So the rules do apply for anyone going to the UK. Let's qualify that whether whether you on a Explorer journey or not. James, how are you, mate, I'm very well, thank you. That's that's great. As you know, just come back from Perth. We held our first World Travel Expo over in Perth. We had your team over there, went exceptionally well. But a little bit about your product for the listeners out there. I know we've been on there a couple of times, but one of my favorites having a cruise out of Vancouver with you late last year.
01:17:13
Speaker 20: Correct. Yes, Look when you and new new entry into the luxury cruise market. We have two ships that we're built that are actually in service currently and we have the third ship, Explorer three easy to remember one to six, so she'll be in service out of Venice Shipyards and venicales out in the end of July, and then in twenty seven we'll have two additional ships and a third in twenty twenty eight. But they're all very sort of small nine hundred passengers, six hundred and fifty to six hundred and ninety staffs, so plenty of space, and all the switees have balconies.
01:17:51
Speaker 5: James, that's good, it's amazing. I was lucky enough to be on the Explorer one and here we are just about to fight out Explorer three, and I remember you going through the plans of you know, how quick these ships were going to be released, and I think, correct me if I'm wrong, but it was going to be the quickest in maritime history.
01:18:07
Speaker 8: These builds.
01:18:08
Speaker 5: As far as getting these ships out under the water, very.
01:18:11
Speaker 20: Very very much, so, yes, very To have six ships in a matter of sort of four or so years our years is incredible. With how busy the industry is and how busy the building industry, trying to get a build CUD, it's very hard to even get somebody to slot into builder ship, so it's challenges there. But look, luckily there's a big maritime history. We're part of the MSc group, so you know they're building ships every second day. You know, that's a bit of an exaggeration, but certainly they've got the contacts because we're forever building ships, whether it be cargo or the main luxury ships as we've got and also the MSc brand.
01:18:49
Speaker 1: What sort of destinations do you go to, James with Explorer journeys, we.
01:18:53
Speaker 20: Are cruising predominantly this year in the Mediterranean, but heading down to Dubai later in the year. We also cruise to the Caribbean, and we're heading up into South sorry, the Northern Europe later in the year with our brand new ship in July August. And I guess exciting because as we grow, our footprint grows, we're heading down to the Amazon Alaska and closer to home Japan, you know in twenty seven and Asia, you know, through through what I say, like China, Hong Kong, down through Vietnam, et cetera, Singapore and will base a ship out of Singapore over Christmas twenty seven twenty eight. So we're branching further and further as we have new builts. So exciting times for us.
01:19:39
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's great.
01:19:40
Speaker 5: And I guess when you've got a ship based in Singapore, it's just that one easy flight from Adelaide six hours, so we'll be coming up with some great fly cruise packages And I think excitingly as you keep building you're going to becoming a little closer to home and maybe even visiting Australia.
01:19:55
Speaker 20: Well, that's true. Actually we are visiting Australia because we've just launched our world cruise first there after Explorer Journeys in twenty twenty nine and that's heading that'll start in Dubai and finishing Barcelona. But the ship is spending around two weeks within Australia and New Zealand and heading to the South Pacific. So exciting that we'll actually have a ship land. Sorry, not in Adelaide but Melbourne.
01:20:21
Speaker 8: Sorry I'm not look I thought you had the influence.
01:20:27
Speaker 20: You know, Peter knows. I'm in Adelaide every second week.
01:20:31
Speaker 14: You know.
01:20:31
Speaker 20: It's dear to me, and i'd love to have a ship from very easy and you know, to get into town from from where the port is in Adelaide. But hopefully one day we'll do like one.
01:20:42
Speaker 5: Day and yeah, when you've got those six ships, I'm sure it's going to happen. But you know, even to bring it down into Asia and then as you said, that world voyage around Australia. I think it's going to be awesome for your brand. But you know what we're seeing with your brand and with the sales that you know, the public absolutely love it and have a bit of a saying that it's kind of young and modern in the luxury cruise space. Could you maybe just clarify that, because certainly I know what that feels like when I went on board, but maybe just for the listeners out there.
01:21:12
Speaker 20: Yes, look, you know I want to say young and modern. I guess it's sort of my terminology, not the companies per se, because our average age booking is fifty five right across. You know, we've got an American European infused clientele on board and clearly Australian and our friends in New Zealand are traveling more and more. So I think because the ships are brand new and you know, not many luxury ships if any and you can correct me, Peter, is that we have four swimming pools on board, twelve bars and six restaurants plus gel arteria, et cetera, et cetera. So and we really position the ship as a floating resort at sea in hotel. Very easy, I guess for me to make that statement. But when you're on board, guests go, wow, this is like a floating hotel, so you know, we bring in some different things to offer, and you don't have had to cruise before because especially in their Europi teneries, you've only got one day at sea, so you're waking up in your beautiful suite, room service included, and you're in a different port, in a different country. So it's very exciting to have sort of a I guess a younger Enthoo's clientell as well on board.
01:22:22
Speaker 5: You know what, James, I used this term when I was running the expo the other day. Someone came out to me and said, tell me about Explorer journeys. I actually said, it feels like my favorite little European village just floating around the Mediterranean. And they looked at that went wow. And because you know, it just has that very I know you said floating resort, and I think some people think floating resort really big chips. This to me felt like an intimate little village because it had all these you know, on board, you've got all these beautiful little restaurants, so you don't have like a big main dining room. You've got all these intimate little bars in it. To me, I just felt like one of my little villages that I can just walk around and feel really comfortable, knowing that I'm going to be treated really well, I'm going to have great food, I could go to a little bar when I wanted to. It was just, yeah, that's how it felt to me.
01:23:11
Speaker 1: Oh, you should hire Pete James. He's sorry, I.
01:23:14
Speaker 20: Was just about to say that. Actually, yes, I mean he's been on all the I guess, on all the different luxury cruises, so he's he's speaking as he sees it. But look, yeah, I totally agree with that. And I think when you said comfort, you know, you don't have to wear ladies your tir or gentleman jackets. You know, we're very sort of country casual on board, and I think that's really important when you're cruising, that you're not feeling sort of underdressed or overdressed. You know, sure, and gentleman can wear jackets, but when you're sailing the Mediterranean in summer, it isn't nice to be in a pair of pants, shoes and short sleeved shirt and ladies addressed. And you know, it's all about comfort, as you say. But I think one of the things too that and I know people have probably listening had been cruise lines where you're forever SiGe, owning your name away and you're thinking boy. But when it's all included, what I like is that no one's asking what your sweet number is. They're coming over to you and asking what you would like and then serving you accordingly. That's refreshing knowing that you've paid everything up. There's no bill shock at the end of a cruise, and I'm sure people are now nodding their head.
01:24:21
Speaker 1: I know that the all inclusive sounds that you're calling me, you're speaking.
01:24:27
Speaker 20: It makes sense these days, you know, we all know then there's extras hidden here and there and so forth. We're very clear of what we offer on board, and I think that's one of the joys of cruising now that you can prepaid very much.
01:24:39
Speaker 1: Everything yere you go, and for anyone interested they can hear all about it. On Thursday at Phil Hoffman Glenelle brunch.
01:24:46
Speaker 20: Correct, Yes, looking forward, so we'll be talking about the ship and what the new ship's looking like and where we're cruising and talking and looking at the sweets and hearing people's comments. So Peter has the details. But yeah, Danik glenelg one Thursday evening, Yeah, James.
01:25:03
Speaker 5: And we'll be both there and yeah, it's a great product Stace here, it really is. And James, Explorer Journeys has just now become a member of our exclusive Platinum Cruise Club as well, so we get on board credits and really really special treatment when you're on board, and we'll be talking through that on Thursday night as well, because not only will you get the great deals, and you know we've got deals here. I was looking at the Adriatic and a gan enchantment that you've got saving up to five four hundred, but then on top of that you're getting another three hundred euro on board as part of the exclusive Platinum cruise club that Phil Hoff and Travel run.
01:25:40
Speaker 20: Yes, we've got some great offers and I think we've got six packages actually that you seem to always get a good deal out of me Travel, which is a pleasure because and I think one of the most important things is that look, whether you're in Glenelga and you can make it Thursday night or not, that with all the officers with Phil Up and Travel, someone has been on Explorer Journey, so they can give you their personal recommendations. I think that's really important too, because they can point in a right direction and what it's all about on board and unbiased.
01:26:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, opinion, it sounds like it's a place to be. James, thanks for your time.
01:26:17
Speaker 5: Bye, Thank you.
01:26:19
Speaker 10: James.
01:26:19
Speaker 1: Want to coull it there from Explorer Journeys. All right, Janelle has been waiting patiently on the phone page. She's got a question. Hi Janelle, thanks for waiting, my pleasure.
01:26:30
Speaker 20: Thank you.
01:26:32
Speaker 22: We are going to the UK in June July. And my hobby who was born in England but emigrated with his parents under his parents' passport in the seventies, so we've never actually had a British passport. And every time we go on to this the uk gov site, it's saying about the citizens that have passports or is he all classes?
01:27:03
Speaker 5: Yours is cut and dry. He needs a he needs a British passport, right, he must apply for one. The cheapest thing for him to do is actually get the passport rather than the documentation. As we said, it's a thousand dollars to me.
01:27:18
Speaker 1: That's get the certificates.
01:27:20
Speaker 5: Just get the UK passport and then all the benefits will come with that. Yes, you've got to go through it You've got plenty of time, you know, So that's that's no problem. So let but get it done earlier rather later, because you heard my comments.
01:27:35
Speaker 22: Yeah, so we've already that've already we've sort of started as process, but we weren't sure if it was something we had to do. Absolutely do And they're asking for his obviously his original birth certificance, which is a bit unnerving sending them all the way from Australia to England when it's the only copy you've got.
01:27:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would feel uncomfortable with that, Janelle.
01:27:57
Speaker 5: It won't be it would be going to the conscient here in Australia.
01:28:01
Speaker 1: Good luck with that, Pete. Just before we finish up, there's one question on the text line. John says, I heard that if your old British passport was issued before nineteen eighty nine, the temporary exemption does not apply and you still need a new British passport. Do you know if this is true?
01:28:16
Speaker 15: Yeah?
01:28:17
Speaker 8: So this is it right?
01:28:18
Speaker 5: So where we're not one hundred percent certain, we're checking on each occasion. So my feeling is that it was. But you know what, this came in yesterday. Yeah, there's clarification and it's changing all the time, so I don't want to be definitive. It's double checking with the experts. So whether again back to your travel agent or through the consult.
01:28:39
Speaker 1: And it applies to you. Even if you don't want to renew your British passport, which is what Mara says her husband had one, it expired, doesn't want to renew it, is it still affected.
01:28:49
Speaker 5: Kururse Yep, yeah, absolutely, yeah, which is yes. People this is kind of against their will a little bit. At the end of the day if they want to travel to the UK, they're going to have to get one or the other document.
01:29:00
Speaker 1: Goodness me. All right, well, yes, it sounds like you need to get in touch with your local PhD to get it sorted, to find out exactly what you need to know. Now, Pete, I know you've always got some events coming up. You mentioned the Explorer event on Thursday.
01:29:12
Speaker 5: Thursday's can be really exciting. And then I'm running a Canada and Alaska road show all around the state. We've got something like ten or twelve presentations will be doing. So that's launching the twenty twenty seven product. It's a beautiful product. It's by rail, sea and luxury coach and we do this every year and it always sells out. So jump onto the PhD dot com dot au website register and we've got some nice nibbles, glass of wine and I'll be presenting the very best of the best on the day or evening.
01:29:44
Speaker 1: Sounds good, And there's somewhere near you. You're going to Port Elliott, Stirling, the Barossa, the Arkabar, the Lakes, Evanston, Glenelg. So wherever you are pretty, Pete's coming to you, Ye coming to you. Love it great to chat Pete. Thanks so much by Peter Williams. They're managing director and CEO at Phil Hoffman Travel. Pack your bags, your dream destination awaits thanks to Phil Hoffman Travel Forever thirty years creating moments you'll never forget. This is five double A Travel Talk and it's time for the three o'clock news. Now after that we're talking about superannuation. There are these calculations done every year and we'll tell you how much you need in your superannuation retirement fund to live comfortably in retirement.
01:30:26
Speaker 9: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacey Lee.
01:30:30
Speaker 1: Good afternoon to you, and welcome to the third and final hour. Of the afternoon's program. It's a Tuesday, It's the twenty fourth of February, and that means in around half an hour's time, I'm taking your Turkey Tuesday calls. So get thinking. Who are you nominating for Turkey of the Week this week? Who's done something silly that deserves to be called out on the radio for it? And as you know, we love a self nomination here on Turkey Tuesday. I've already got a text nomination, so get in nice and early. Eight double two three, double O double oh is the number. I have a case, a mixed pack, a mixed twenty four pack of turkey flat wine cans, so that'll include some of their rose, some of their pinot gris and some of their Shiraz grenash as well. So make sure you get involved and nominate your turkey. Don't forget. I also have tickets to the Fringe to give away, a double pass to go and see Gasher which is on at Gluttony, and a double pass to go and see Murder she didn't write. So if you'd like to join the conversation, if you'd like to go along to Fringe, make sure you call into the afternoons show, you've got an hour to do it. Eight double oh eight double two three double o double oh at eight minutes past three. Though this is something we've been talking about on the station, you've been hearing it in the news throughout the afternoon. If you're looking to retire in the near future, maybe you're doing some maths and trying to work out how much you will need for a comfy retirement. Well, the Australian Association of Superannuation Funds has done the maths for you and it doesn't look like it's good news. Let's talk to the CEO, Mary Della Hunty. Good afternoon, Mary, good afternoon, Nice to be with you, Thanks for your time. I guess it's unsurprising that the number's gone up on how much people will need to save for a comfortable retirement.
01:32:24
Speaker 23: Yeah, we've adjusted the lump sums of the retirement standard, but it's not all bad news. It does mean that people will need to rely more on their super and less on the age pension. So we're looking at a comfortable retirement for homeowners, couples needing around seven hundred and thirty thousand as a lump sum, and singles around six hundred and thirty.
01:32:44
Speaker 1: Thousand, and that's up from the last stats that came out.
01:32:52
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's up.
01:32:53
Speaker 23: We've adjusted it. We don't adjust it that often, but we thought it was worthwhile for two reasons really. Firstly, though the age pension is index to inflation, the things that retirees actually spend their money on, I'm sure your listeners know, they've gone up in price faster than inflation, so the age pension hasn't kept up with the cost of living. And the second more of a minor reason, really, the government has lifted deeming rates after freezing them for a while, which reduces how much pension people with assets like financial assets like bank accounts and managed funds, how much they can actually access in the age pensions. So we need to rely more on those superbalances. So we may need a little bit more in there.
01:33:31
Speaker 1: So for those who don't aren't totally across how it's assessed. When you are assessed whether or not you're eligible for the pension, the home you're living in is exempt, is that right? But other assets are taken into account.
01:33:44
Speaker 23: Yeah, other assets are taken into account. And the way they take into account financial assets really for simplicity and fairness is that they deem it deemed certain financial assets to earn an amount of money. So your bank account, you managed funds, shares, etc. They are deemed to earn either. If they're valued under about sixty four thousand, it's deemed to earn one point twenty five percent. Any of the assets at above sixty four thousand round about about three point twenty five percent. So that means you're not having to provide all the statements about what it did earn. But it does mean that when that's adjusted, your age pension can be affected.
01:34:22
Speaker 10: Right.
01:34:23
Speaker 1: Okay, so a couple years ago, if you were a single, you needed five hundred and ninety five thousand. Now on your maths, they'll need six hundred and thirty thousand. Couples needed six hundred and ninety now seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Is that? I guess, how do.
01:34:43
Speaker 2: You work that out? Because that's hard?
01:34:45
Speaker 1: Did you're working out life expectancies, you're working out different people's budgets and spending habits.
01:34:50
Speaker 23: Yes, And it's been a standard that we've put together for now twenty years, and so we're getting quite used to what it looks like underneath.
01:34:59
Speaker 14: The hood.
01:35:00
Speaker 23: It relies on knowing people spending patterns, as you say, how long they live, how long they need to rely on that superannuation. And then what we do is break it into two levels of retirement benchmarking. One is that comfortable level. That's the one we've been talking about. That will include things like top level private health cover, streaming services, an overseas trip once a year, some domestic travel, and things like that. So that's what a comfortable retirement might look like. We also have a benchmark for a modest retirement now that, as the name suggests, has a lot less discretionary spending in it. Perhaps not the highest level of health cover, domestic travel, only an older car, an older fe not the streaming services, you're not eating out as much, and those lump sums. We think if you're a homeowner and you're aiming for a modest retirement as a couple, you need one hundred and twenty thousand in the super and a single one hundred and ten thousand, So just some figures to work with. Everyone's retirement is personal, though.
01:36:01
Speaker 1: That's a pretty big difference.
01:36:04
Speaker 23: Yeah, it can make an enormous difference if you're factoring in turning over your assets, so turning over your car, for example, having a good TV, having the streaming services, and that all sounds like it's, you know, living high, and well it's not really. And as we've seen from that sort of cost of living pressure, a lot of the items that retirees have to spend money on they're really going through the roof. So the modest retirement people will be relying more on the age pension, but they still have to spend on certain things like water has gone up seven percent, tea and coffee for example, fifteen and a bit percent. Now that might be discretionary for some, it is not for me. Electricity No, no, and let's not judge exactly. Electricity is up twenty one percent, So they're not items you can choose to go without really no.
01:36:58
Speaker 1: And the age pension, as you mentioned, and doesn't go up twenty percent a year.
01:37:03
Speaker 23: No.
01:37:03
Speaker 4: No.
01:37:04
Speaker 23: And so with electricity you had subsidies rolling off from various levels of government, and you've had that sort of natural price rises. So it's tough in retiring land, and people work with their budgets really really well, but they're tight.
01:37:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, And I guess that's the thing everyone's got different budgets, everyone's had different lifestyles. That's why we have the age pension available, and that's why we have superannuation available. And I guess that figure as well, one hundred and ten thousand dollars for a single, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars for a couple for a modest retirement. The money that's in your super also, I guess, increases in value over the years. Even when you are accessing part of it each year or some of it each year, you still are usually learning money.
01:37:53
Speaker 23: Yeah, yeah, And we have had periods of double digit returns over the last few years which have really added into people's accounts. The other thing that's happening is that we're having more people come through retirement that have had more of a benefit of a higher superannuation guarantee rate going in. And so the good news is that while superannuation people folks relying on their superannuation have to rely on it more, they actually have more in their accounts. So it's not all a dire news story today, but it is worth remembering that these are people who are really having to adjust and make sacrifices in their budget.
01:38:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I've been thinking of superannuation recently, especially here in South Australia. We're in an election campaign Mary, so as you can imagine lots of promises being made and both parties have a downsizer policy. Now they're different and we won't get into the differences in the minute detail of each of them. However, I think a lot of people look at that and say, oh, great, some sort of encouragement for older people to downside their property. And I was thinking about it the other day and talking to someone here at work about it, because it's great to see a reduction in stamp duty. I think to encourage people to downsize their homes and it would free up more homes in the market. However, if you're then saving money on stamp duty and you've got more money in your pocket, and maybe you're putting more money in super, that might be a flow on effect that some people don't consider that. It might affect their eligibility for the aged care pension, or it might affect their superannuation balance as well. So all of these things have a flow on effect. I guess it's true.
01:39:33
Speaker 23: It's pretty complex. We would think that seeing and talking to someone about those complex circumstances is the best sort of thing, the action that you can take. Often if you call your fund, they can talk you through at a general level, sometimes at personal advice level, what's best for you. And that is a great step to take.
01:39:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, When should you start really thinking about retirement. I'm looking at my superuation balance thinking well, I have enough at retirement, and you know it's not really front of mine right now.
01:40:06
Speaker 23: I know a lot of people who start every Monday morning thinking about their retirement. But maybe the actions, the actions that you need to take, you can take when you're young. So you can check on your super and see whether or not firstly one fund, the fund that suits.
01:40:21
Speaker 4: You the best.
01:40:22
Speaker 23: Secondly your investment choices, like have you made the right investment mixed choices for you? Do you feel comfortable? And then you look at your insurance and look, it doesn't get perhaps much more dull at a barbecue than to talk about insurance in super but it is so crucial. It can be some of the best decisions that you make to ensure your ability to earn a wage. So have a look at those when you're young, and then watch that balance grow and be really proud of everything you've managed to.
01:40:50
Speaker 1: Put away and not asking you for individual advice. But we're told to shop around when it comes to electricity companies, and I guess even banks now and lots of different providers. How regularly should we be looking at our super provider and maybe better performing ones and switching over.
01:41:12
Speaker 23: One of the greatest things about the Australian system is the choice that you have, so you can do it as often as you like. You sort of press a button and within three five days kind of they've had to move your money to where you've chosen it to go. So I don't know that you need to do it that often, but definitely make sure that you've made the right choice for you and if you want to make changes, it is very simple to do.
01:41:36
Speaker 1: I well appreciate your time this afternoon, Mary, Thank you so much.
01:41:39
Speaker 23: Thank you, Thanks so much.
01:41:41
Speaker 1: Mary, Della Hunty. They're the CEO of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia. How often are you checking your superbalance? Kevin in Adelaide on the text line says I check my super balance every day. They go every day. Kevin, I guess it's like checking your bank account eight double two to three, Double O, double oh is the number to call if you've got a comment about your superannuation and we've got some time to take some calls after this five.
01:42:09
Speaker 9: Double A Afternoons with Stacey Lee.
01:42:12
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01:42:23
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01:42:25
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01:42:33
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01:42:37
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01:43:03
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01:43:12
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01:43:17
Speaker 1: Taking your calls now on eight double two three double Oh. Maybe you've got some thoughts on superannuation or you'd like to talk about Mount Barker rezoning and whether or not governments consider infrastructure when they release new land deals. Ian is in Heathfield and has called in Hi Ian.
01:43:38
Speaker 24: Yeah, how are I just wanted to make the comment that your guest was talking around six to seven hundred thousand needed for a bodder retirement, but the government have just changed the as care fee system. And Noel Whittaker, a journalist in The sunnown a couple of weeks ago, wrote that the average person will be paying one hundred and thirty thousand dollars a year for age care. So if you're a couple going into age care, you'll need, according to Nol Whittaker, two hundred and fifty to two hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year. So I don't understand how the six hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand dollars figure is legitimate anymore. I don't think I don't think the figure is taking into consideration any contribution at all to two age care costs.
01:44:35
Speaker 7: Once you get there.
01:44:37
Speaker 1: The figure that after the Superannuation Funds Association is quoting is for someone who owns their home, so they're living in their home, not in aged care.
01:44:48
Speaker 7: Yes, but my point is.
01:44:51
Speaker 24: That if seven hundred thousand might be, you might be comfortable in your home. But the super anguments need to consider hold in, are they going to fund a couple two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year age care fee?
01:45:07
Speaker 1: But they don't need to worry about that if they're living in their home. They might need to consider that once they get into an aged care facility if they if they go into an age care facility, but if you're living in your home, you don't need to worry about that.
01:45:21
Speaker 13: No.
01:45:21
Speaker 24: Life point is, though there's lots of people that move into age care homes and seven hundred thousand dollars if you still need to budget ultimately for your age care fee, and I don't think too many people realize that the age care fee systems just changed and you will need one hundred and thirty thousand dollars ahead on average according to this journalists. Anyway, in your age key years. So if you've lived three years of age care, which is about the average, that's you know, four hundred thousand dollars a piece.
01:45:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I didn't see that reporting. I'd be interested to look at those figures because I know it's different depending on where you go as well. There are different levels of aged care facilities depending on the type of care that you might need, or if you're heading into retirement as opposed to aged care, if you've got different healthcare concerns and you need higher needs. So it all varies, I guess. So maybe that figure that journal was looking at was just an average across the system. I'm not sure, Ian, but thank you for raising it. Eight double two three double O double oh is the number to call. You know what, I'm going to give away some fringe tickets right now if you'd like to go along to gasher at Gluttony on Wednesday, the fourth of March. Call now, eight double two three double O double oh is the number. I've got a double pass to give away. And after these three thirty news headlines, we are going to have Turkey Tuesday, So get thinking, who's done something silly? Who deserves to be called out on the radio for it. Do you have someone that you're nominating. I'm going to get in early with my early nomination. I'm just gonna nominate mine. Now, whoever it was that came up with using the same word for someone to resign as it is to re sign. I've got sky News on my TV and here, and I keep seeing their little you know, the supers that go along the bottom, the words that scroll along the bottom of the screen, such and such resigns. And every time I see that, I think it's someone resigning, but it's not. They're re signing. Those two words are too different. They need to be more different in the in the dictionary. I think resign and resign should not be next to each other. We need to think of better words for that. So whoever came up with those words, Yeah, that's who I'm nominating for Turkey of the Week. Sue on the text line says Stacy, I opted to join and contribute to super in nineteen eighty as soon as my employer, NAB deemed that women were worthy. So that's kind of depressing that it was only in nineteen eighty, But anyway, let's move on. So glad I did I was able to retire at sixty, while friends of mine in their seventies are still working because the pension age keeps going up. Yeah, I know it's hard. And there's so many people that I know in that age bracket who were business owners, you know, own their own business and opted not to pay themselves SUPER and now heading into retirement age. It's not a good situation to be in. But that's why. Thankfully, now we learned from that and we've changed the rules and there are compulsory superannuation contributions for everyone who's employed, which I think is a great thing. So, yes, we've learned the lesson. It hasn't worked for everyone. So for those people who didn't have SUPER and didn't pay themselves SUPER or weren't employed at the time, I know, particularly for women and single mums who are divorced and left relationships, if they didn't have any SUPER because they were at home with the kids, they're the ones who are often worse off in this situation. So it does affect a lot of people, and we do have to think about retirement a lot sooner than we'd like. I know, I don't want to think about it, but you have to that's what we have to do. Eight double two to three double O double OW is the number to have your say congratulations to Adam in Cockatoo Valley. Well done to you. You've won the double pass to go and see Gasher at Gluttony. So this is on the fourth of March at Rhymal Park, home of the biggest shows this fringe. Get your tickets at Gluttony dot net dot au and I've got a double pass to give away every day this week. Another double pass to Gasher coming tomorrow, but still an opportunity to win tickets to go and see Murder. She didn't write this afternoon and after these three thirty news headlines, your chance to win a case of twenty four Turkey flat vineyard Cans, rose Pinot, Grisha Azgrenash. It's a mix case of the Turkey flat wines. You just need to nominate your Turkey of the week.
01:50:05
Speaker 9: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacey Lee twenty.
01:50:09
Speaker 1: Six minutes to four Here on five double Are you know what time.
01:50:13
Speaker 12: It is time to call in and nominate your Turkey of the week for Stacey Lee's Turkey Tuesday.
01:50:22
Speaker 1: Eight double two three double oh is the number. Who is the turkey you are nominating this week. I have a case of turkey flat wines to give away their wines in a can. Delicious. Sherry is in Salisbury.
01:50:36
Speaker 4: Hi Sherry, Hi Stacy.
01:50:38
Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you.
01:50:41
Speaker 4: Feeling like a bit of a turkey?
01:50:42
Speaker 14: Oh?
01:50:43
Speaker 1: No, is it a self nomination?
01:50:45
Speaker 4: It's a self nomination?
01:50:47
Speaker 1: Oh Sherry? What did you do?
01:50:49
Speaker 4: Okay?
01:50:50
Speaker 18: Well?
01:50:50
Speaker 4: On Friday, I was out having a lovely brunch with a girlfriend I don't get to see that often down at Semaphore and my phone rang and I was going, why were bringing me?
01:51:00
Speaker 9: Like?
01:51:01
Speaker 7: Surely?
01:51:02
Speaker 4: So I answered the phone and my boss says to me, where are you? And I said, I met some of them. I'm having bunch with my girlfriend.
01:51:07
Speaker 14: What's up?
01:51:08
Speaker 4: And she said, but you're supposed to be at work and I went, well, I don't work on Fridays. And she said, Sherry, you've worked the last four weeks on Friday. You used to have Fridays off, now you have Mondays off. I'm sorry, what do you want me to do? And she said, well, what do you think you can do? And I said, well, I guess I could come in if you really need me to. She kindly said. She said, just come to work on Monday, but I said, I've actually got appointments on Monday. I can't come in to work on Monday, but I can come the following Monday. And she went, okay, but I had to go to where work today and I felt like a real turkey, so I couldn't wait laughing.
01:51:59
Speaker 1: That's so funny. You were just so excited to see your friend and catch up.
01:52:03
Speaker 4: We were going op shopping and I'm thinking, please don't make me go to work. We need to go.
01:52:09
Speaker 1: Did you get any goodies?
01:52:11
Speaker 17: I did.
01:52:11
Speaker 4: Actually I always get a barg and then I go to shopping.
01:52:14
Speaker 1: Good on you.
01:52:16
Speaker 4: So there's always old things in shops, so I.
01:52:19
Speaker 1: Never have any luck op shopping. But probably I'm probably not patient enough.
01:52:24
Speaker 21: It does.
01:52:24
Speaker 4: It is a bit of a process, like you've got to make sure you've got and we had the time I had all a Friday, So yeah, no it was. It ended up being a great day, but I cently felt like a turkey walking into it. No.
01:52:39
Speaker 1: I love it. Sherry, well done, Thank you for the nomination.
01:52:42
Speaker 4: Thank you you too.
01:52:44
Speaker 2: See you.
01:52:47
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Let's see if Scott in Burnside can top it.
01:52:50
Speaker 8: Hello, Scott him good.
01:52:55
Speaker 13: Well, I think I'm a bit of a turkey as well, and I'm something in the air on Friday because I hired a budget truck to move here ouse, and I paid the extra for less excess and never never have a car accident at all. Anyway, we moved a couple, did a couple of trips, and then anyway, our fridge didn't fit, so I had to go pick up a spare one from my brother in law, and I was turning into the parking lane on the street and I hit his big bang and there was a tree overhanging and smashed the top of the removal his truck. And then after this, I thought, oh, well, you know what, I paid the extra excess, so it's only going to cost me two grand, which is still a lot, by the way. And then I read the fine print and then it does not cover overhead or underbody damage. So I've been sitting waiting for the bill and I'm thinking it's going to be ten thousand plus because no insurance would cover me. So read the fine print.
01:53:58
Speaker 1: But yes, horrible, what do you mean, don't I thought when you hired a car there were always insurance included.
01:54:06
Speaker 13: Well there is, like and there was, but you know, I paid extra for the excess, but in the fine print it doesn't cover overhead damage which was on the top left corner, or underbody damage, so you know, anything on the side's fine. But yeah, I'm just waiting and every day it's off the road and it's extra thirty four dollars and all the bill will come to me and a pickup truck a tow truck bill as well.
01:54:31
Speaker 1: So no, good, od that's rough. I almost feel bad playing the turkey sound.
01:54:38
Speaker 13: Oh yeah, well something good will come around the corner, so let's just think positive.
01:54:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's a bit ridiculous that you have to when you hire a car a truck you have to say, okay, I'd like to pay extra for the excess and overhead damage and undercarriage damage, and can I make sure I'm covered on all sides of the truck for the damage please?
01:55:00
Speaker 13: Oh no, So next time I'm paying for a moist.
01:55:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, good call, good call. Oh, Scott, I feel bad, but it's the right of passage. I have to.
01:55:08
Speaker 8: Oh, well, good luck with a see you.
01:55:13
Speaker 1: Oh really feeling for Scott. There, Andrew on the text line this morning, my flatmate wanted cheese on toast. Okay, so she decided to put the cheese on the bread and put it all in the toaster. Needless to say, most of the cheese is still stuck on the inside of the toaster. That's Turkey behavior. That's a real Turkey thing to do. I love that one, Andrew. Thank you. Laura in Glenelg, North, Hello.
01:55:43
Speaker 20: Hi there.
01:55:44
Speaker 18: On the Friday afternoon, my niece was married at five o'clock. It was a beautiful day and evening and it wasn't until Saturday at the recovery that she realized she hadn't seen her friend who had flown over from Melbourne for her wedding, and her friend thought it was on Saturday. Oh no, so she'd come all the way over and just got the day wrong.
01:56:11
Speaker 1: Well, I was just sitting in the hotel room or something.
01:56:14
Speaker 18: Well, no, she was going about her business. She's got family here, but she was getting ready to go to the wedding on Saturday at five o'clock when everyone was at the recovery at one o'clock.
01:56:24
Speaker 1: Oh no.
01:56:26
Speaker 18: So apparently she just cried. She just cried all morning when she found out she missed it.
01:56:33
Speaker 1: Oh, Laura, that's so hard, coming all the way from inter state as well, and then missing the wedding.
01:56:38
Speaker 18: And I think she's actually getting married herself this week.
01:56:42
Speaker 16: Oh, being very.
01:56:43
Speaker 18: Stressful, and she's made the effort to come over and then she just.
01:56:47
Speaker 1: Missed the wedding and then she missed it. Oh the poor thing. Oh no, that's Turkey, Oh Laura, thank you for the call. You're welcome to see you, Lucy and Golden Grove is nominating herself for Turkey Tuesday. I got up on my step ladder to get something out of my wardrobe forgot my ceiling fan was on, and worse, it was on high and I'm not observant, I didn't realize I was close to it. I started to hear a whushing sound behind my head and wondered what it was. Whilst I was on the ladder, I turned around and oh my god, I came eye to eye within about three centimeters of the fan blades circling madly right in front of my face, which then, because of the shock of almost losing my head, made me stumble off the ladder. See I guess at least the fan didn't hit you. It was just you fell off the ladder. Just that you fell off the ladder. There's anything, any sort of consolation there. Oh that's funny. Well done, let's go to Dylan. Now you've got a Turkey nomination I have.
01:57:54
Speaker 7: I'd like to nominate my waist please.
01:57:57
Speaker 1: Oh Dylan, this is dangerous territory, I.
01:58:00
Speaker 7: Know, I know.
01:58:01
Speaker 4: Well.
01:58:02
Speaker 7: We were lying in bed one day and she said to me, she said, I saw this strange airplane going over today. She said it was the shape of a triangle. And I said, well, it could have been one of them stealth bombers and she said, no, I can see it.
01:58:22
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:58:22
Speaker 7: So I thought that was a bit of a turkey.
01:58:25
Speaker 1: Oh that's funny. It's also a bit of a a bit of a dad joke.
01:58:30
Speaker 7: It is, but it actually happened.
01:58:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do like that one. It was, didn't you say it was in the morning?
01:58:40
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, we were just lying about that. No, No, probably that's what it was. I though she wouldn't have been talking if she hadn't had a coffee.
01:58:49
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, she sounds like me. Oh that's good, Thank you, Dylan, appreciate it you too.
01:58:58
Speaker 8: Bye.
01:58:59
Speaker 1: Oh that's hard. So many good Turkey nominations this week. I think it has to go to poor Scott. He's waiting for a ten thousand dollar bill for damaging the truck rental, So the least I can do is send him some turkey flat vineyard wines to try and drown his sorrows. Congratulations Scott, You've got the beautiful turkey flats coming your way. But thank you to all of our other turkey nominations. Seventeen minutes to four here on five double A. You may have just heard in the news headlines with mel Usher that there has been a bit of an update of such in the Gus LaMonte case. This is the poor four year old who died disappeared from Oak Valley station in September last year. We know all about this case. It's been declared a major crime. Well, Guss's parents, Josh and Jess have released a statement and they've released another photo of Gus to try and help in the investigation. Their task force and say investigations are continuing. We've got the photo up on our live stream at the moment, so jump on Facebook or YouTube. Such a beautiful four year old boy, those golden curly locks. This new photo he's sitting in the back of a car with a dog. You'd think it's probably the family dog. I'm not sure, but you know, just one of those classic photos that I think everyone would have of their children in the backseat of their car. Just looks so innocent and you so ready to jump out of the car and take on whatever comes next. It's such a horrible story. I'll read the statement out from his parents, Josh and Jess. We are united in our grief, and we are united in our search for answers about what happened to our little boy, Gus, who means everything to us. Our lives have been shattered and every moment without him is unbearable. We know someone out there may have information, and if someone knows what happened, we're pleading with that person, or anyone who may have seen or heard anything, to please come forward. Even the smallest detail could give us the answers we so desperately need. We also want to express our deepest gratitude to everyone involved in the search for Gus. The tireless efforts of police, emergency Services ADF personnel, volunteers and specialists have meant more to us than we can ever say to the friends, family and supporters who have shown such compassion, concern and assistance during this heartbreaking time. Thank you. Your kindness has helped carry us through the darkest days of our lives. It's just heartbreaking. But hopefully this photo and a video. They've released a video as well of Gus there. It is on our live stream. You need to jump on and see this. It's again it's such an innocent video. Gus with his long blonde locks, wearing a hat on a little foot foot bike. Those the little bikes that I guess toddlers use. They use their feet to pedal along the ground in a bright blue jumper. It looks like he's on Oak Valley Station there. In this vision you can see a beautiful sunset in the background and it's just little Gus on his own on a dirt track, pedaling along the bike, wearing his hat, not a care in the world. It's heartbreaking to see and hopefully these images will encourage someone to dig into their memory and remember something and call sa poul one. Three to one triple four is the number to get in touch with police and if you know anything at all, please use it and get in touch with Task Force Horizon so there's that update for you on Gus Lamont, another appeal for information since he went missing in September. Eight double two to three double OW is the number to call, and let's shift gears. Let's bring everyone's spirits back up. I've got more Fringe tickets to give away. So if you'd like to go along to see what's this show that I've got I've forgotten the name of it. Now murder. She didn't write that's the one, Thank you, Jess. I was too distracted and thinking about that vision of little Gus. But if you want to go along to the Fringe and see murder, she didn't. All right, give us a call now. Eight double two three double double OW is the number. I've got a double pass. I'll give them away after this.
02:03:06
Speaker 9: Five double A. Afternoons with Stacy.
02:03:09
Speaker 1: Lee been a very big good afternoon to you. Coming up after four o'clock Rowe and Timmy g with the Sports Show. We'll find out what they've got on very soon, but before I do, some breaking news here on the afternoon show. We've been talking about the travel changes if you're heading to the UK and Ireland. We had Pete Williams in the studio from phil Hoffman Travel answering your questions because from tomorrow there are some changes if you're a British or Irish passport holder, or you have been in the past if you're a duel citizen, either knowingly or unknowingly. So this is getting a whole heap of people wrapped up in this drama who may not even know. If your parents were born in the UK, for example, you could be a duel citizen without even knowing it. There were some changes announced that you would not be allowed into the UK or Ireland without renewing or getting your passport or getting a certificate of entitlement which could cost one thousand bucks. So you can imagine you can understand why some people are a bit annoyed by this. Well, we do have an update from Pete and the team at phil Hoffman Travel. Quantus has agreed to accept expired UK passports for dual citizens, so this is to come into effect tomorrow. Quantas will accept expired UK passports for dual citizens looking to enter the country as long as they're issued from nineteen eighty nine onwards. Pete was talking about an update from the UK Home Office this week that would allow travelers with expired passports to enter the country, but that was going to be at the discretion of airlines. So Qontas has announced that they will accept the expired passports, but other carriers like British Airways are yet to reveal their discretion decisions on this issue. It's confusing for so many people, and I know people who have been caught up in it unknowingly. It's people who, for example, have had a British passport in the past but haven't wanted to renew it. They haven't had any need or want to do that. It doesn't matter. You might not want to renew the passport, but you won't be allowed into the country unless you do, or unless you pay for this certificate of entitlement, which are one thousand dollars. So Pete saying why would you do that when you can renew the passport for I think it was about two hundred and fifty bucks. So there's a lot of people who will be wrapped up in this and will continue to update you. And as always the advice is if you're unsure, call your local PHT they can help you, or whoever it is your travel agent that you booked your travel through. They should be able to help you to make sure it's a seamless trip. The last thing you want to do is get to the airport and get turned around, or even worse, get on the plane and get to the UK and then get turned around at the border. No one wants that. Rowe and Timmy g On after four rowies in the studio.
02:06:02
Speaker 21: Hello, how's this for a thought? Talking passports? Everyone, every citizen in the world should be able to have a duel passport. Oh yeah, so you can pick another country that you can have reciprocal rights with. Mine would be Japan. I've just come back from Japan.
02:06:18
Speaker 2: Oh my god, how good is it?
02:06:20
Speaker 1: They have got it right over there, haven't they.
02:06:22
Speaker 21: Have you been?
02:06:22
Speaker 1: I've been twice, went, we went once, and then we booked another trip the year after.
02:06:27
Speaker 21: We think we'll do the same thing. God, they've got it right anyway. Just thought, so a ritual passport.
02:06:32
Speaker 1: That would Yeah, there'd be a lot of questions and issues with that. Where can you work in both countries? Can do you pay taxes in both countries? Can you apply for pensions in both countries?
02:06:41
Speaker 2: Thought of it that deeply.
02:06:43
Speaker 21: I'm just saying wouldn't that be a good I like your thinking, Yes, stone your lane. Stephen Bryce Cotton six times nb L MVP. He is a Bryce got him on? Jack Greenwell is mister Bright. So twenty seventeen they won the Grand Finalal Richmond over the Crows. Mister Bright's side was saying on the end, CG he got up and sang Oh. He makes me sick whenever I hear that song. He wrecked a perfectly good song.
02:07:05
Speaker 1: It's a good song.
02:07:06
Speaker 21: Who's wrecked a perfectly good song?
02:07:09
Speaker 18: Oh?
02:07:09
Speaker 21: Just because you know they sang it or whatever? He's a Fox for the expert, really good bloke. But do you like Jack mad he right coach of the Sadful Crows? And Zaria? Who's Zaria? T you who she is? Tells a w w E wrestler. She's made it in the big time. She's the fourth South Ossie, which is incredible. They draw wrestlers from all around the world. We've got four South Aussie girls that are wrestlers in the WWE. So in April at Las Vegas they will have fifty odd thousand in one of the big and she'll be performing.
02:07:43
Speaker 2: Wow.
02:07:43
Speaker 21: Speak to her.
02:07:44
Speaker 2: I'm looking for well that's cool.
02:07:46
Speaker 21: Excuse me, I'm not into wrestling. It's a theater, isn't it.
02:07:50
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, is WW either the fake one or is it the one where they get in actual fights?
02:07:56
Speaker 21: Fake face? It's fake, it's entertainment. It's it's go in, pay your money, sit there and just have a laugh, or go wow that was good, or gee, well that was a good trick, or you know this one's going to it's all orchestrated.
02:08:08
Speaker 9: We know that.
02:08:09
Speaker 21: You know it's just escape, isn't Yeah WW. But they are great entertainers and great athletes. So I'm looking forward to speaking to Zari. She sounds like a lovely girl from Adelaide. And yeah, you know I'm not tuning in.
02:08:22
Speaker 1: It's going to be you have to tune in. I might tune in. We look, look, I won't, oh to the WWE. I thought you meant to the sports show after four? You have to?
02:08:32
Speaker 21: So you just see you won't.
02:08:33
Speaker 1: No, I said, I probably will, Oh, you probably will.
02:08:35
Speaker 21: Know I was going tune into the WW. It's going to be out of Las Vegas live on Netflix. They're going to show it live.
02:08:42
Speaker 1: Live on This is the thing for an Adelaide girl to be going over to Vegas. That's a huge international stage. They got a massive crowd.
02:08:50
Speaker 21: So we'll speak to her. We'll speak to her after four o'clock, so.
02:08:52
Speaker 1: You then love it, see you then I'll listen to you then Rowe and Timmy g on after four. Thank you everyone for your calls and you're texts today. That's it from me and I'll talk to you at one o'clock tomorrow