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Speaker 1: Live from Heinmar Square. It's five double a Breakfast. Deevin Fanbervie and Will.
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Speaker 2: Goodies sive it after six. Good morning to you and welcome to Thursday and five double A Breakfast. The fifth of the headline is this though we've had some rain or a shower or a patter anyway, water fell from the sky briefly this morning. The question is god to beat? Is it enough to have filled the gauge on West Terrace in any way that says we have had rain officially for the first time in twenty twenty six, certainly first time about it on the windscreen driving in this morning on the program. We'll try to work that out with the bureau. Also coming up this extra are you across this extraordinary case of the Australian TV host in the United States, Savannah Guthrie, whose mother has been was kidnapped and there appears to be some sort of a ransom demand and be the equivalent in Australia of Koshi host hosting Sunrise and one of his parents gets taken by who knows who and disappears off the street. We're going to talk about that story with Rob Scott from seven News very very shortly. Also coming up the beer excise. We've talked about this. How many years have we been doing the show, eleven years? Beer excise has gone up every single one of those. It goes up with CPI, well, perhaps no more. We'll talk about that after six thirty today. Also coming up, tragic story of a loss of home in the Deep Creek bush fire. Matt Abraham's going to come on the program. When I took the Great Henry Young documentary? And should people over on the Peninsula get compensation because their power is so reliably unreliable? All issues were broached this morning on five Double A Breakfast. David Penberthy, good morning to.
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Speaker 3: You, Good morning, well, good morning listeners. Now I was sound asleep and I heard this. That's funny. The air condition must must have overheated. There's this sort of windy wishing sound, or maybe one of the women in the house has left the hair dryer on.
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Speaker 2: What is that?
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Speaker 4: Shhh?
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Speaker 3: We hang on, that's rain, that's none of that's made up. I thought there's something something weird happening.
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Speaker 2: I had the same reaction. I went, is someone sprinkler on next door? Yeah? Or is it quite broken? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I wondered to the to the edge of being outside to go hang, Oh no, it's it's that old fashioned rain thing. Remarkable and apparently it's what I was thinking as was driving. Is this just going to be a localized, you know, western suburbs thing.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Rob's texted in saying there was a two minute burst of rain in nord Luke, a bit of rain in Queenstown. I mean that's sort of northwest dish. But so you got it. You got it your neck of the woods. We certainly got it our neck of the woods. So it would probably be over this. If it's made it to Nord it stretched over the city. I on how far east it went. Did anyone in the hills get any rain this morning? Well?
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Speaker 3: Has anyone got enough to register in the gate?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Listen to Sam and Ned on the way in. It doesn't sound like it. I don't think there's any more rain around now, is there? There's not unexpected later? No, there's nothing. There's absolutely nothing on the forecast. I don't think this was for the rest.
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Speaker 2: We might still be a are you cheering on the record now? Ah? What's only what is it Feb nineteen is that we need to get to be just having a look at the seven day forecast, and I lie Tuesday and Wednesday, there's rain forecast nothing significant, zero to one mills Tuesday, zero to two on Wednesday, and again zero millimeters is So this is the way that I'll use the I'll use the Bureau's convoluted verbiage twenty five percent chants of at least two millimeters of rain on Wednesday. So you see in this there's a twenty there's a seventy five percent chance we won't get two millimeters of rain. So work that out. How far east did the rain get, Folks, north south? Did you have you had any in the last hour? And well, let's be honest before anyone any pedant texts in, Yes, it wasn't a rain event. Maybe it doesn't even qualify as a shower, but water have did descend from the sky, and that hasn't happened very much for quite some time. Let's go to Kadena. Kim, Good morning, Good morning, God, here are you good? Thank you? Kim.
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Speaker 5: I'm in a track. I'm just leaving Caneen and I're heading toward down Ladle Paul Wakefield and out over to my right there's just one big road cloud and you can see the rain just streaming out of it. Really probably about Clinton Center or somewhere.
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Speaker 2: We've we've found the culprit. Good on your kid, well, magnificent work. Thank you kid. Let's go to Mondray Heights. Debbie, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, it's only just started the rain here and it sounds like it's quite steady.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's good, Debbie said. How many minutes have been going for? How many minutes have been going for?
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Speaker 2: Though? Debbie? Probably about fine, okay, really starting that.
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Speaker 7: He's off a little bit, but it's.
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Speaker 8: Still going that.
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Speaker 2: That's good. I mean five minutes of rain in Adelaide, and it feels like it feels like a news story, doesn't it. You tuned into this and they go what Michael and Roster, good morning.
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Speaker 9: The dogs and I are walking the dusty tracks of Morio to trails.
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Speaker 2: Are you getting wet? Michael?
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Speaker 10: No, I said, dusty trail.
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Speaker 2: Dusty, no moisturing.
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Speaker 9: See, we're kicking out dust. And by the way, when I turned on the radio this morning radio, you know the app rain, I thought, am I going back in time? Like a couple of years ago, we had the same conversation again and we were talking about no rain at the west West, the west Perish rain gauge. I thought, hang on, is this a playback of the old story, And I thought, rain, there's no rain.
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 9: Come on, well, it's all very drying in roster of Morio.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So it hasn't quite made it that far, Michael, thank you. So we got it so of appreciable sense. It sounds like maybe it's extending further north and south than it is east west at the moment.
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Speaker 3: I just checked back on the text that Ben Jordan sent the other day. We've got to make it to February eighteen or beat the record, which is from nineteen oh six. That was the lowest combined December January rainfall nineteen oh six, well.
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Speaker 2: As third as a point of definition and clarification, that's important here for the record purpose. Ben Jordan's texted in on zero before eight zero, eight thirty ninety five, and he says no rain in the west Terrace gauge at six am. Well that's the official rule. That's all that counts. Yeah, exactly. It is remarkable that we can have a system sophisticated in twenty twenty six you know, when we have AI bots planning to do the jobs of most normal intelligent people. Yet you and I can walk outside of our homes, feel water on our brain and our face from a cloud, Yet our official instrumentation says, no, you experienced no rain that day.
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Speaker 3: Well, bit like occasionally the ball hits the stumps in cricket, but the bales don't fall off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this feels it's less occasional than that. Sorry, that feels less occasional than this. Yeah, but it's got to be there to be measured, and it's like a graham of Yeah, but you and I both knew it happened, and then a week from now will be going it will still no rain.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you just think it did. It's like some broken mirror, yeah episode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, some sort of David Lynch kind of film.
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Speaker 3: What about yesterday during the show, I got a text from Kate saying I think I've just been electrocuted in the shower and I was busy at work.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's no good. Are you all right? Obviously that's shocking us. Sorry, you take the man out of newspapers. Yeah, but that's right. We've paid the big bucks.
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Speaker 3: That's sort of a pub work anyway, Okay, I was doing some riding yesterday and she ran me up. She goes, you know, I've just been reflecting on that. That is probably kind of significant, isn't it? That I got a zap in the shower? And she did a Google surge on it and straight away essay, Pound Networks if you get zapped ever holding handles in the shower or anything like that at home, ring this number, and I was like, I was in the middle of writing something and I thought, well, no, actually, there shouldn't be any sort of distinction between were you slightly electrocuted or significantly a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit of an electrication.
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Speaker 3: If there's power running through your house somehow, then clearly there's something wrong. SA Power Networks. The guy who came around the black called Justin. This guy was like the the Winston Wolf of electrics.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel better now? Oh? There was there for about three hours.
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Speaker 3: But interestingly, when I rang the number and the woman on the phone said life threatening emergency hotline, and I went I said, hey, sorry, I Open not one of those people who's going to clog up the line, because the only.
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Speaker 2: Reason I'm ringing is that this morning.
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Speaker 3: My wife got an electric shock in the shower while she was having a shower. And then he goes, oh, no, sir, absolutely, this is the number you should be ringing.
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Speaker 2: They took it so seriously. But this justin Blake. We really hit it off.
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Speaker 3: We worked out had common interest in music and being to the same gigs over the years and everything else. They said a track out because they thought that it was in the actual Stabi pole and I know what the bits and pieces are called, but a lot of this stuff's a really old gear. In the end, this guy, after hours, he worked out that there's like electricity comes into your house and then it goes out again. They ask me to explain it.
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Speaker 2: It was the guy. It was like talking to.
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Speaker 3: Albert Einstein or maybe Thomas Edison. He invented electricity, didn't he Edison invented the light bulb. Anyway, he's giving me this real high endex P.
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Speaker 2: The ACDC guy, I think, not the music, the alternate current direct current guy for those about the rock, we salute you.
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Speaker 3: But there's this old bit of copper wire, really old that had just gone green and it was frayed.
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Speaker 2: It was rusted as well. That was part of the wiring that took the electricity away from the house that was hidden under this cover that it just totally cooked. And he came out and he went, dadda wow, but the dead set. They took it so seriously. They had a crew there with a cherry picker to get up there into the the wiring on the STABU pile.
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Speaker 3: And I just thought, I know that for York Peninsula people you might be listening, go well, lucky you mate, because we've been putting up with endless power outages here. But I just thought in such a situation that they took so seriously because I said, no, these things can potentially.
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Speaker 2: Be quite how frightening. So the origin was not in your home. The origin of the issue was out in st Yeah. Yeah, and it led to you being electrocuted, well, being electrocuted.
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Speaker 11: In the shower.
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Speaker 3: I actually think I actually think it ended up being being our wiring on the house but connecting it back to the street.
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Speaker 2: Okay, right, but it's the kind of thing that an electrician wouldn't find that. No, somebody knows the infrastructure needs to fine. Yeah, if any our listeners about anything similar to that, apparently it's really quite common. Anyone being electrocuted. I reckon A lot of our listeners would have had little apps. Eight double two three is the number, not like no No. I got electrocuted in Mexico thanks to some remarkably bad workmanship in a cheap hotel. I turned on the shower. It was in Puerto ors Candida and this doss house. It would have cost ten dollars a night. But there was a light bulb socket in the shower. Okay, that's I'm no electrician, but that would seem to be problematic funny places to put a line bulb.
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Speaker 3: So I go to the shower, turned it on, and I was looking at this thing and some water ran onto it like this, So I kind of have to shower straight.
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Speaker 2: Away and anyway dry it off. And I went downstairs and I spoke to the people of the count.
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Speaker 3: I just got electrocuted in the shower, and they just they said, ah, yeah, we meant to say, you've got to turn off that. There's a switch on the wall where the light bulb goes. You're gonna turn the switch. I said, why is there a light bulb socket in the shower?
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Speaker 2: Out gave we forgot the before the bags will be brought up. You'll pay for everything in the mini bar. This is how the key operates. And by the way, please flip the I don't want to be electrocuted in the shower switch before you get in. You get what you pay for.
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Speaker 1: Deep in pen Birthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Two minutes after six. Got some terrific news about the future of Bedfit Industries yesterday with the can completion of the deal that will see the jobs they're secured into the future. As the Premier set at his press conference, it's the end of this period of uncertainty now, which is wonderful news for our friends that worked there and listeners like David and aberfall Park. David, good morning to you.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, David. How are you this morning, guy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Good, thanks David. This is happy news, mate. You must all be so relieved.
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Speaker 12: I was yesterday morning guy, who was fantastic just to see the new owners came and.
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Speaker 2: It was just for us.
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Speaker 12: Our jobs have been saved. It was really fantastic for all of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Has there been a few people though, who had lost their jobs over the last year with some of the changes that have been made.
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Speaker 12: I'm not too sure to be honest, we had a few of those meetings at the moment. I'm not really too short at the moment, Dave. Yeah, yeah, I know he's not too short at the moment.
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Speaker 3: So, but that that new owner, he sounds like a good guy and he sounds like he's committed to Bedford for the long haul, doesn't he.
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Speaker 12: That's correct, Yeah, because we all had I think we all had to get together yesterday morning and all the meeting was there. It was just really good. Dog's been saved. But as you have the owners now to take it over for us now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, well that's good news. David.
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Speaker 3: What sort of work are you doing? What sort of work are you doing at Bedford at the moment.
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Speaker 12: Mate, Well, we're doing the part at the moment. We're doing the doggie teekers, both the piggies at the moment. We've been very busy at the moment, everything.
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Speaker 2: Done from the Omen shops.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, they've been very been very busy for us. Now things don't really pick up a bit now, Yeah, extremely busyess place at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's excellent. Ye's day. We're really happy for you, mate, and for all of your friends there at Bedford.
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Speaker 12: Good on you dog, you have a good morning.
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Speaker 2: You tell thanks day here. That's a terrific story, a really concerning and frightening story out of the United States affects a TV host by the name of Savannah Guffrey. Was born in Melbourne here in Australia incidentally, and now works as a sort of on NBC doing a Sunrise style role. She was going to be heavily involved in the Winter Olympics coverage as well. That's all been put on hold because it appears her mother was kidnapped. Rob Scott from the Seven Years US Bureau joins us. Rob, what do we know about the disappearance of Savannah's mother?
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Speaker 13: Now, yeah, look a very intriguing and concerning story of this. So Nancy Guthrie eighty four years old. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Last time she was seen alive was on Saturday when her son in law dropped her off at her home in Tucson. She didn't turn up to church the next day on Sunday, and you know that's very out of characters. So family reported her missing. Since then, they have found what they say as signs of forced entry at her home, even some blood at the house, and police was saying now that they believe she was taken against her will and her life could be in jeopardy. They are chasing down a number of leads. But when the sheriff spoke at a media conference recently, he really painted the picture that they have no idea where she is, who took her, or why. And in the last few days, several media outlets here in the US, including TV stations and TMZ, that celebrity website, have received what they say are unverified ransom notes, reportedly from the kidnappers, demanding millions of dollars in Bitcoin for the safe return of the grandmother. Look police looking into those, as I say, they're unverified, but they say that they have no suspects at this stage, although there is some reporting around today here in the US that that son in law who dropped her off at her home is potentially a suspect, although police are also trying to play that down a bit. So they don't really know where she is, who took her, or why. But as you say, she is the mother of Savannah Guthrie born in Melbourne. As you mentioned, she is one of the most famous faces on Breakfast TV here in the United States, she hosts co hosts, as you say, Sunrise style breakfast TV program So that's really adding to the intrigue of all this. And perhaps one of the angles that the police looking into is maybe there was some threat to her that led to her mother being captured, although they haven't revealed that at this stage. So, you know, the sheriff, he looked pre overwhelmed when he faced the media yesterday. He's never had to deal with anything like this in his career. And you know, they really have no clue as to why this has happened.
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Speaker 3: I presume, Rob obviously that Savannah is not appearing on TV at the moment, and she made any excitements about it at all.
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Speaker 13: No, you're right, she's off here. And as you mentioned in the introduction, she was supposed to be heavily involved in the NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics. She's since pulled out of that. No public statements other than a post on Instagram really calling for prayer for her mum. She and her mother are very religious, and you know, she's just asking for everyone to support her through prayer. So other than that, we haven't heard from her and we haven't seen her, but she's pulled out of the Winter Olympics to be here as police scramble to try and find her mum, who apparently, according to them, is is pretty unwell. Not only is she elderly at eighty four, but she has to take daily medication which she needs to survive, and it's been four days now that she hasn't had that medication. So the top the clock is really ticking on this one.
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Speaker 3: Just a horrible story, Thank you, Rob. Rob Scott there for Channel seven in San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen point six degrees outside of the city, heading for a top of thirty two. We've had reports of a smattering of rain around the suburbs, orbit none in the West Terrace rain gage, so it doesn't officially count. Tomorrow thirty three. They expected top Saturday thirty five. That'll be the hottest of the days. Ahead Sunday thirty three, thirty one, Monday to start next week thirty four Tuesday, possible shower, says the forecast twenty nine on Wednesday of next week.
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Speaker 3: Getting a lot of blunt feedback from bloke. So unlike me, don't have soft hands and know how things work, Rob says, I think electricity always existed. Dave Thomas Editson. Thomas Edison just discovered how to harness it. Not to be nitpicky. And also Brian Likely says Dave, just for correctness to be electrocuted, it means to be killed by electricity electric shot.
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Speaker 2: So it's like drowned. Yeah, if you drowned, you are Yeah, you know more, we can't. I drowned it a little bit today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a fair clarification. Thank you, guys. I made that mistake as well. Tom RNs of the five Double a breakfast year. Everybody, you're ready morning boys.
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Speaker 14: Winter Olympics are about to start, Fellas, and we had look, I know a lot of people were going, oh, I'm not sure I care or not, but I've done a bit of a preview and our flag bearers were an outstayver night. So Jakara, Anthony, Matt Grahame. It starts in a few days time, fairbait and just looking at some of the events and how the Aussies will go. So just a bit of a brief stap shot for you. We've won nineteen medals in the past. We were the first nation in the Southern Hemisphere to win a gold medal. That was in two thousand and two. Remember Stephen Bradbree who could forget, and then Alyssa Kamplon, so they are are two. And then the next Southern hemisphere.
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Speaker 2: The whole Southern hemisphere did a bradbe back in two thousand and two. I didn't realize.
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Speaker 14: And no one won a gold medal from the Southern Hemisphere until twenty twenty two other than us.
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Speaker 2: So we've slowly There is a lot of snow in the sun in heavy you, that's right, and we've gotten better.
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Speaker 14: So nineteen ninety four was when we won We won our first medal that was a team's event, a relay five thousand meter skating. Then nineteen ninety eight another individual medal for the first time Zalie Stegl, who's still in politics, I think. And then we won two medals in two, two, in six ten, in three in twenty ten, three in twenty fourteen, three in twenty eighteen, four in twenty twenty two. So how many medals will we get this time around? Well, I reckon, there's genuinely eight to ten medal chances in events like the monobob Have you heard of that.
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Speaker 2: That's the monobob. So that sounds like a dance routine from the eighties, It doesn't it.
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Speaker 14: It's like the we've all seen call runnings, the four man bobs led. This is a one person bob's led, so.
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Speaker 2: It sounds over fun. That be the monobob.
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Speaker 14: There's some really dangerous cool sports. I reckon in the window Olympics. Bree walkers in that. We've got a freestyle skier in the half pipe. She's our youngest, sixteen, Indra Brown. Keep an eye on her. The two flag bearers, Anthony Matt Graham, they could win as well. So I'm putting the over unders. Will you're just asking me.
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Speaker 2: Before four and a half. Finally half, I think we'll win, and I'm going over.
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Speaker 14: I think we'll win five medals.
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Speaker 2: In the curling, I don't know.
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Speaker 14: Well, I'm sure we've got a curling team. The events I'm looking forward to. My favorite event is the ski jumping. You know where they go down the massive brand and they go I think it's about eighty meters they go, Can you I mentione, Hey, mum, dad, I want to do this ski jumping.
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Speaker 2: It's so for me to the other side of home Spreer totally. It's it's mad based on all the information you just gave us about the history in the Southern Hemisphere. Any I'm smashing the under thank you. I reckon if you did, if you did go down that same thing.
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Speaker 3: You want to have had a couple yes at fifteen when you jump off the roof of the house, ba, you don't want to do.
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Speaker 2: It when you're getting in the box letter or whatever. Joking folk. At least they'll be clothed.
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Speaker 1: Five double a Breakfast deep in pen Bervie and Will Goodings.
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Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes to seven. There might be the end to one of the longest running campaigns on five double a Breakfast, the twice yearly indexation of the beer x I S. We're to talk about that in just a moment, but first, Chris in Surrey Downs is on the line. Chris, you got any rain there in Surrey Downs. Yeah.
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Speaker 15: I've going out of the kitchen and there's a bit of padded and looked out at the back and it was coming down for a while, probably about ten minutes. But looking out the front again it's blue sky and syrus cloud. So I don't know. We should make up its mind. But the definitely tell it's rain because of the road out of the front swat they're true.
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Speaker 2: So are you You don't have a rain gauge, do you, Chris?
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Speaker 15: No, No, it would I doubt very much. With it be enough to get in there, but it was enough to know that I could hear it from inside. Yeah, hitting on the pa gola and everything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good experience. Isn't enough to say long without any Yeah, it calls.
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Speaker 15: It down a bit, you know, you open up all the doors and windows and let the breeze blow through.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely good stuff. Christ all right, Dave and South Brighton, Good morning, honny guys.
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Speaker 16: Whether the report from South Brighton is as dry as a as you could describe on radio. It's unbelievable. And it hasn't been a drop. I've just come out in the driveway. There's not a drop of any dust or anything on the windscreen. Absolutely try And the other reason I rang too, You were talking about electrical issues through caps and things like that. It's really important if you feel tingling through your cats to get it checked out. Potential leaking earth and it can be fatal. There was a young girl. I think it may have been Fort Lincoln or some four periods a few years quite a few years ago. Now that I actually killed her with a chop, it's really important to get checked out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, as I said, das a power straight onto it. They arrived within two hours as it. Don't go in there, you know, don't have a shower, don't use the taps. And they did take it extremely seriously. And as I said, justin the blaker came out, couldn't have been any more thorough he was.
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Speaker 2: He was a gun.
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Speaker 16: Oh yeah, they have looser connections on the stoby poles that just comes back through the water pipe. So yeah, susly it's not a minor issue.
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Speaker 2: No, no, exactly, good cold day, thank you mate. The Albanezi government is it looks like they will have enough support to pause the indexation of customs duty rates for draft beer for two years. The layman's language for this is your beer prices went up twice every year in line with inflation. So whenever we talked about inflation three point seven, two point nine, whatever it might well have been, it's all been above two the three percent. As we know at the moment, that was the price that was being artificially added on to the to the to when you went and bought a beer twice every year.
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Speaker 3: So does the government does the application of x scise which makes the price of beer go up, Does that then become something that's factored into the reserve banks thinking about inflation?
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Speaker 2: They go, I hang on, all that's that's there's something else that's gone.
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Speaker 3: So the government through its own excise is actually creating inflation.
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Speaker 2: It inflation double or's a double whammy then, because it's so, this is how much everything's going up, So let's whack up beer by that amount artificially twice per year. Well it's going to be paused for a couple of years, which, frankly it should just be done away with all together. I think. Martin Palmer from Palmer Hotel Group joins us.
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Speaker 17: I imagine you agree, Martin absolutely, morning guys and to your listeners, Yeah no, Look, it's if it can find its way through to legislation. I think it would be a fantastic thing for pub for pub drink as well. We might not see an effect immediately, we certainly will over two years. And as you rightly point out, I mean it's almost like a multiplier effect on inflation, and obviously it's a massive multiplayer effect on the price of beer in pubs, people that like to drink in pubs, which is which is a really important point too. I think that it's an acknowledgment that, you know, the cultural role that pubs pubs play and we need to keep that relevant.
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Speaker 2: Well, two things are a statistical fact, people have never drunk less since we've recorded it, and people are less sociable than they've ever been. There are huge social arguments in favor of not putting up cost barriers to this kind of behavior.
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Speaker 17: Well, look, I mean the one place that people can definitely drink and do drink responsibly are in licensed venues, and I mean that's a really important point. Let's not forget that about seventy percent of all alcohol is actually brought takeaway, so it's consumed in backyards and barbecues, which is fantastic, but it was also consumed in homes and that's where a lot of damage can possibly happen. So, you know, the more that we encourage people to get back and drink responsible in hotels is a win for all of those things.
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Speaker 2: I think it's just getting ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: I mean you know, I think back to thirty years ago. If you spoke to mates had been to Europe, they go craky. You know, I bought a beer in London. You wouldn't believe it. It was seven dollars or something. You know, remember people used to marvel at how expensive drinks were. Like, I can't think of a country I don't know, maybe Brunei, where you know, places have got shahi. A law might make it more expensive deliberately on policy grounds. But I can't think of any other part of the world that where beer is more expensive than Australia.
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Speaker 2: Like in Barcelona. I was there a few years back in the July break, a beer was like three euros. Not really good hotels, it's not six bucks. What would what's the average price of a pint over the bark the moment? Do you reckon Martin?
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Speaker 17: Between ten and ten and twelve dollars broadly depending on where you go. But I mean I've got I've got sons who are in their twenties, and I mean I see it firsthand that the front of mind is it's too expense. You know, sometimes it's too expensive to go to the pub. They can't, they can't can't do it all the time, but they want to be social and they want to go out, so they they tend to, you know what, they what's generally known as pre load, which is not fantastic sometimes and and then and then might go out for a while. But you know which is which is And it also drives them away to I'm not saying it's been sorry my sons, of course, but you know, generally it can drive them away from from a sort of less impactful alcohol too. That beers five percent, four and a half five percent, things are there twelve thirteen percent.
00:28:52
Speaker 10: That's not healthy either necessarily.
00:28:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's very true. Everything you say.
00:28:57
Speaker 3: Martin, Martin Palmer, they're managing director for the Palmer Hotel Group. Thanks for joining us this morning. It is just ridiculous, isn't it?
00:29:04
Speaker 2: How expensive it's gone. Well, this is it's a good example of the kind of thing. Maybe it was broad in a time when alcohol consumption was was growing at a rate, there was real health public health concerns about it, and so much and so forth. But when these measures are brought in, it's really hard for governments to wean them off them, wing themselves off them. When they become a revenue stream and there is no public health imperative for this anymore.
00:29:25
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I would say I was talking about about this yesterday. He texted in about it.
00:29:30
Speaker 2: The fact that Australia is still has a luxury car tax tells you all you need to know. Well, that's another it's a classic example Australia.
00:29:37
Speaker 3: The reason we have a luxury car tax is to defend the domestic production of motor vehicles. It's to keep places like Mitsubishi.
00:29:47
Speaker 2: And Holden afloat. Yeah, like getting rid of a tax is like getting chewing our manage. Temporary temporary measures for governments that are revenue streams are like temporary hits for drug addicts. It's like, no, no, just this one, Yeah, just this one. I just need one more fixed. Yeah, that's right, just one more little bit of one more bump of luxury car tags.
00:30:07
Speaker 3: These treasures the equivalent of the people lying in some Highley street alleyways stretching their arms.
00:30:14
Speaker 2: There's a cartoon there. Let's end to the weather Bureau and talk about this. Whether Chris Kent is on Judy. Now, Chris, from your perspective, there's been no rain, has there.
00:30:24
Speaker 18: If you look at the observations, we've seen very little. But if you look out the window, the roads are a little bit wet. So yeah, we've had a few little light showers moved through this morning. We have recorded point two of a millimeter at Black Hill, but yeah, pretty brief. The nice sunrise this morning with the rain curtains as the Yeah, the showers go over the hills, but yeah, a little unexpected. But yeah, it looks like it's mostly done and dusted.
00:30:59
Speaker 2: Now. So where did you say, Black Hill, Chris?
00:31:04
Speaker 18: Yes, yeah, point two of a millimeter, so just enough to register.
00:31:09
Speaker 2: But nothing at all in the city, No, not that we've.
00:31:13
Speaker 18: Recorded in our observation. So yeah, very very light, and we were reasonably localized as well. So yeah, point two of a millimeter is more than you think, really, especially when we haven't had much rain for quite a long time.
00:31:28
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and still drive for the next week ahead.
00:31:34
Speaker 18: Yeah, still looking at pretty dry conditions across Adelaide. Maximum of thirty two degrees today, those temperatures increasing a little bit as we head into the weekend, reaching thirty five by Saturday. And yeah, then sort of pretty much sitting sort of around that thirty degree mark for much of early next week, so not a lot of change in the weather for Adelaide. Possibly some fresh winds about the hills tonight, may probably most likely the southern suburbs. Potentially a little bit of some gully winds developing, but nothing like we saw last week with that big event that brought down a lot of trees. So that's really the only thing that's really interested with the weather at the moment. I'm across Adelaide.
00:32:23
Speaker 2: No is Chris good on you, Thank you Chris Kent from the Weather Bureau. All right, let's say the same pass and you comestable Jen Callen and joins us. Jen. There's been a truck crash at Krafer's.
00:32:31
Speaker 19: Yes, that has good morning, and there's going to be delayed on the outbound up track again this morning.
00:32:38
Speaker 2: Our poor Bill's listeners.
00:32:41
Speaker 20: Yeah, I know, and.
00:32:42
Speaker 19: People will effect obviously coming into the city because they'll be looking to see what's happening on the up track. But it all happened just after three o'clock this morning. We were called to the freeway at Cleveland after a b double truck which is actually broken down and stopped on the side of the freeway was side swiped by another passing truck. That truck then collided into the cliff face. So the drivers luckily weren't seriously injured, but one of them was taken to hospital. Now we've got a tow truck on scene, but it will take some time before those trucks can be removed of the freeway, so that uptrack of the freeways down to one lane. So we're asking for everybody to please be patient, be nice to each other.
00:33:21
Speaker 2: Turn your radio on absolutely what a muzzle jin.
00:33:26
Speaker 3: Also, two people have been arrested in the stolen car down at Christie's Beak.
00:33:29
Speaker 19: Yeah, and that was just after two thirty this morning. Police spotted a Mini Cooper on Commercial Road at Salisbury and attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver refused. Apollair was called in to assist, and the vehicle made its way through the western and southern suburbs and eventually about quartaster three, the vehicle was successfully spiked on South Road at Edwardstown, but it continued onto the Expressway, where it all alleged that it reached the speeds of one hundred and seventy kilometers an hour, and the vehicle eventually came to a stop on Witton Road at Christie's Beach, where the driver and passenger ran, but they were caught quickly hiding in some nearby gardens. They're an eighteen year old man and a thirty one year old woman the driver. The man has been charged with the legal youth dangerous driving an extreme speed and he's going to find himself in court today and the passenger, she's going to find herself a court march.
00:34:22
Speaker 3: Good police work there, Jen Senior Constable with Jen Callenman from Safe.
00:34:26
Speaker 2: I just got a text from a mate who lives up in the Hills all caps. Oh, for Pete's sake, he didn't use the word peak.
00:34:33
Speaker 1: David pen Berthe and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:34:40
Speaker 2: Sixty seven. I'll get the latest on the Deep Creek fire in just a moment. Lots of good tics coming through someone here says and guys. Back in nineteen seventy three, I bought five schooners for one dollar. I was under age. Then the price went up to four schooners for one dollar. When it got the thirty cents a schooner, we were going to give up beer. We never did. Dross and Top Pub lovely work. Thank you for that. Ticks. I like this because we like to solve problems on five double A Bretwist, Paul and McGill. And he's put his name to it, which is brave. He's texted saying Lad's question without notice is this a male versus female thing? Or is it non gender specific? I get in trouble for leaving the pegs on the clothes line. I figure the pegs are then they're ready for and handy for the next load of washing, rather than looking for the peg basket curious to know pegs left on or pegs taken off. I think we can solve this, folks. Eight double two three double O double O. See.
00:35:34
Speaker 3: I worry with Paul's strategy there, and really comes down to the type of peg we're talking about. If they are your old fashioned wooden pegs, maybe, but plastic pegs sitting in the sun that a snap. They get brittle in sunlights.
00:35:49
Speaker 2: Part of the fun, isn't it? And he's like, fun, Yeah, the one peg. Hello, who's in there? Nobody? Yeah, that's what's going on here. That's the cycle of peg life, though, is it. Yeah, that's sustaining clip A single size it's why it costs six tenths of a cent to make a peg. Will you get what you pay for? You absolutely do.
00:36:08
Speaker 3: But you know, I think Paul's really you know, that's peg craziness what you're suggesting, Paul.
00:36:14
Speaker 2: Oh, I know. I'm on Paul's side. Album with you. This is it says like the kind of fight we have in my household. It's efficiency versus aesthetics, and I always fall on the side of efficiency, Paul. So I'm with you. Leave those pegs on, good Man. So if someone's texted it is saying I leave the pegs on. My missus hates it too. Helen says, pegs off, pegs on, are off? Folks eight double two three double o double oh. In the meantime, let's go and cross down to some serious business on the Fleur are at the Deep Creek fire, which gee whiz, how cfairs have been fighting this for days now. Steve Salomon is the state duty commander. Steve, good morning, what's the state of play at four to seven this morning?
00:36:55
Speaker 21: Good morning, Thank you for having me on. So we have seen the fire continue to increase overnight. We're at three four hundred hectares at the moment as it's burning through the Deep Creek National Park, certainly in areas that are extremely steep and inaccessible to cruise at the moment. We have an advice message Stay informed advice message in place for this far at the moment for in the area of Deep Creek, Silverton Blowhole, Beach Road, and Delamere in the Southern Ferria Peninsula, and we're asking residents and people in the area to keep us informed as they possibly can. While this fire is not posing any immediate threats to life and property, it could at any stage, with strong gully winds and turbulent conditions down there, jump out of the containment lines that we've got in place and could pose a risk to the community throughout the day today.
00:37:47
Speaker 3: Well, we'll keep an eye on Steven. You guys are all doing great work down there. Hopefully weather conditions remain as favorable as possible. Steve Saloman, the CFS State Duty Commander.
00:37:59
Speaker 2: Mark on Gapringer Hills, has got a traffic update for us. Mark, what's happening.
00:38:04
Speaker 16: Yeah, you go, guys, there's a cyclist who's been clicked. Un Fortunately on doesn't look good, guys, So I think there's going to be banking up there very shortly. It's donely.
00:38:15
Speaker 2: Just happened by the little cricky. All right, thank you for letting us know, Mark, and thank you for letting our listeners know. We'll keep an eye on that one, and any information that comes to hand will bring it to your life. Here this morning, Andrew and Williamstown. Pigs on or pigs off?
00:38:29
Speaker 13: Oh, good morning, gentlemen.
00:38:31
Speaker 6: I'm really sorry bad to start the day eye rolling, David.
00:38:35
Speaker 22: No, it doesn't matter what type of pigg it is.
00:38:37
Speaker 17: They come off.
00:38:37
Speaker 9: And the reason for that is when you hang the clothes up, you don't have to move them all, so you leave them.
00:38:43
Speaker 2: You leave them out there. Andrea, of course they have.
00:38:47
Speaker 6: To come off the line so that when you hang the clothes out again, you're not trying to work around all these pegs that your husband's left up there because you couldn't got one.
00:38:56
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I agree with you, Andrew take them in every time.
00:39:00
Speaker 20: Oh good good.
00:39:01
Speaker 6: I just thought you mentioned it depends what kind of peg.
00:39:04
Speaker 2: No, no, no, well you know what I mean about the ones that break. There's nothing worse than a broken peg.
00:39:09
Speaker 23: Well that's why you buy good pegs.
00:39:12
Speaker 2: Thank you, Andrew, that's excellent. Wendy and Elizabeth, good morning.
00:39:16
Speaker 20: Yeah, good morning, Hi guys. How are you?
00:39:18
Speaker 2: Yes? Good? Thank you Wendy.
00:39:20
Speaker 22: Listen, I'm an oldie.
00:39:22
Speaker 5: Pegs on.
00:39:23
Speaker 6: I can't be bothered putting them in a bag anymore.
00:39:29
Speaker 2: That's a victory for efficiency. Sue in South Blipton, good morning. Hi.
00:39:34
Speaker 22: I know they get brittle, but I leave them on.
00:39:38
Speaker 6: Can't be bothered with a peg basket and the ming not the right and you can't.
00:39:42
Speaker 24: Find it, and yeah, I leave them on.
00:39:44
Speaker 2: Good. I'll tell you what I reckon that. The Paul wondered whether it might be a male v female It might be a call of v text because there's lots of pegs off people texting in at the moment.
00:39:53
Speaker 3: There are, there are, and it doesn't split clearly on gender lines either. We're getting a lot of women saying no, I'm on the pigs on kind of gal.
00:40:02
Speaker 2: Andy and Henley Beach, good morning on a chap are you good things? Andy?
00:40:06
Speaker 12: Okay, I do my civil duty and keep my way fitting healthy pegs on.
00:40:11
Speaker 2: Grass, Pegs on the grass on the grass, Well, I mean.
00:40:15
Speaker 12: Then she has to bend down and pick them up. The main exercise she gets phenomenal.
00:40:20
Speaker 2: Squat's worked clothes hagging grew too, thank you.
00:40:24
Speaker 3: Nobody texts about this, although Karen texted in saying.
00:40:29
Speaker 2: Is this what morning radios come to? Pegs on the clothes one?
00:40:32
Speaker 3: Karen, Yes, it has Karen, Frankly, would you have rather we spent the last ten minutes talking about I do know the excellent news that doctor Randa abdel Fatara is coming back. Yeah, and maybe the council will have its way according to some of its members, and give him a quarter of a million bucks. Do we talk about that instead?
00:40:51
Speaker 2: And also I thought the pigs were a happy reprieve. Was it culture? Was this is the people's program? Paul called in with a dilemma that he needed solving, and he do they call it when you were open? Sauce it? No, you crowdsauce it. Thank you, Paddy, crowdsource to solution from the tens of thousands of feet.
00:41:09
Speaker 3: Past, Karen, don't blame don't blame us for the content, blame yourself, exactly right.
00:41:14
Speaker 2: We only work here.
00:41:20
Speaker 1: Deep and pen Berthy and will goodies five, double a breakfast.
00:41:28
Speaker 2: Seven. Good morning to you if you're joining us for the first time on this Thursday to fit the February. The headliner is, we had something approximating rain earlier this morning across large parts of Adelaide. I say approximating rain because it didn't officially count, it didn't register in the bureau a sprinkle. We have enough anecdotal evidence to I think confirmed that there was water that did fall from the sky a little bit earlier, including on my windscreen on the way in. But otherwise you have to wait till mid late next week for the next A little bit of a little bit of rain that is that is this time actually officially forecast coming up Matt Abraham, a forecast that's going to be a lot of fun. Matt Abraham was wit close to the state election, the one nation polling Corey Bernardi. All sorts of stuff is happening on. Matt Abraham will be be licking his lips after seven thirty, so make sure you tune into that. And then a little bit later in the morning will we chatting about the Henry Young documentary. Have been giving away tickets to that all this week. The premiere starts this weekend, so that man too far ed. The man himself is going to be in the studio looking forward to that. That's going to be excellent. We spoke just before the break seven o'clock news with Steve Salomon, the State Duty Officer of the CFS, with an update on the Deep Creek fire. He gave us the broad brush overview. CFIS continued to fight this blaze, the fire ground increasing in size. Just remarkable that whilst everyone else has been eating, sleeping, waking up, going to bed, these guys have been out there fighting this fire. And over the course of the coverage of it, you hear things like, oh, there's been some structures lost or some some some buildings damaged. Well, when you hear the individual stories, those things are much more acute. Ashley and Cassie Edwards had to evacuate their home off Tent Rock Road at Deep Creek. Ashley Edwards stayed to fight the fire until tanks ran dry and then had to make a hasty getaway on his quad bike. Well they unfortunately they lost their property as a part of the fire. And Natasha Hunt, who's the Cassie Edwards sister, joins us on five to blawe breakfast now and Natasha, good morning to you.
00:43:31
Speaker 3: Good morning, So Tatasha, how are your sister and brother in law getting on at the moment.
00:43:37
Speaker 25: Look, they're very weary that have been up for pretty much three days straight. I think they're very stressed and just overwhelmed.
00:43:45
Speaker 17: At the moment.
00:43:47
Speaker 25: We did have the fire come through. The main front came through a Tuesday. They were very lucky. Ash had been and CASP for everyone, plus farming units, the offs had been there fighting the fire. Ash, you know, he implemented his fire plan, had been dumping all the water on top of his houses and things like that, but it just got too sketchy and they had to get out. The sheds to the side of the house is on fire. You know, they move their main belongings into a shipping container, thinking that would be more air tight because their homes, you know, an old converted dairy and things like that. But they've got a last saving phone call from the neighbor that was on the ridge on the other side and just said get out now the fire is ripping through. And my sister said, it just was crazy how it traveled hundreds of meters just in minutes, and you know, they had to get out. At that point, we had reports from the community that they had lost their home. They couldn't get in for another twenty four hours. We did get an update yesterday. Late last night they were allowed back into the proppery to have a look at what's occurred. So that completely lost all of their sheds, his workshop, his knife making equipment, mostly valuables. But what the miracle is the home is actually still standing even though besides of it were on fire when they left.
00:45:08
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:45:09
Speaker 25: Yeah, severely smoke damaged and you know, no water access. All their tanks are melted, So there's going to be so much having to be spent on infrastructure to get it up and running, be able to get back there.
00:45:21
Speaker 3: What about the shipping container with all of their positions and it was that Okay, no, it is cooked.
00:45:28
Speaker 25: I'm going to try and get an update on our social media because we've set up a go fund me given that we've had so many people in our community ask how they can support. My sister and her husband are incredible volunteers in our community. They run the Normanville News pageant. The men shed they're involved with are lions and rotary. You know, they would never absolutely ask for help. So the only way I, as a family member, felt I could help them, was you know, get their story out there and still put them by running in so fun.
00:46:00
Speaker 3: Well, it's very nice of you to do that. And if people who are listening want to make a contribution, how do they go about it?
00:46:08
Speaker 25: Well, it would be so incredible to support them because they've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of infrastructure, infrastructure that we know their insurance isn't going to cover all of it at all. So there's a go from me and it's called help Cast and Ash Edwards Rebuild from the Deep Creeks Fire. It's on the go fund me page. Yeah, so any support, like the community locally has rallied behind them. You know, we're watching some of the donations coming in that are so generous. We know all the names that all people from our community. So even you know, if there's the broader community in South Australia can help support them, we would.
00:46:43
Speaker 20: Be so grateful.
00:46:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hopefully people can chip in. You said Ash made had knife making equipment. Was he like an Artistan sort of yeh, knife maker.
00:46:55
Speaker 25: Yes, he's the most handy guy I've ever met, so he has probably a dream man k that well did have a man cave out there with all sorts of equipment. So he had a business called Celery Patch Knives and made I guess higher ends hand carved knives and among the whole heap of other things that he does out there, but that was one of his things that he ran from the farm. So you know, it used to be a market garden as well where he would grow organic celery and strawberries and things like that.
00:47:25
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at recovery. I've just called the website up Celery Patchfarm dot com dot au. Yeah, stunning those nights.
00:47:34
Speaker 3: This was a Japanese style chef's knives. Amazing carving knives look superb.
00:47:41
Speaker 25: The stuff that he made, Yeah, he's pretty incredible.
00:47:47
Speaker 2: Do you know did he lose the stock for the knives as well or are they still for sale?
00:47:53
Speaker 25: I imagine that he would have. I'm not sure if he had anything stored in the house, but look, to be honest, they're so overwhelmed at the moment. I think they've hardly taken stock when they got out to the property. Finally, last night, you know, they're out there putting hotspots again. We had mates coming with their farm units and the CFF again because they've got these huge pine trees that are overhanging the house that have been burnt out, so there's just so much brisks on their property. I don't think they were even thinking about, you know, the more material possession for sure, just worried about safety at the moment.
00:48:30
Speaker 3: Well, the main thing is that they are safe, so and hopefully we can get some people behind the go fund meet. Good on your Nataha for setting that up and thanks for joining.
00:48:38
Speaker 2: Us fourteen and after seven which had with SAPOL just before seven o'clock this morning, who told us there's a double whammy on the way for Hills commuters this boarding. There was a two car crash at just after six twenty which resulted in some traffic restrictions. Then a truck breakdowns caused all sorts of problems. We've got a report live. The traffic is banked up from the Krafer's exit on the up track all the way back to the tunnels. No one is moving at the moment. That's two days in a row, even for the Hills people. That is cruel and unusual punishment at the moment for our heels listeners. So if you are planning on driving into the city today, prepared to be stationary for a long period, or maybe make alternate arrangements. We spend a lot of time this week covering the tragic case of Helen Sergeant, who died in a hospital bed in a corridor, having admitted herself to ed with breathing difficulties. She was checked on one hour, and then an hour later someone came back to find her and she died. Her family understandably outraged about how you can be left in a hotel corridor when you present with those kind of symptoms, with no buzzer to call for help alone and unattended to subsequently, I think the conversation has become really interesting about this, and I wonder if you've picked this up, David. There is a real gap between how our medical authorities have talked about this case and how the average punder is talking about it. Because all the medical people we speak to say, no one did anything wrong, right, this is this is if not, this is this is just this is what we have to do. But I think the outrage that they're trying to combat their argument is misaligned with what people are upset about. People are upset that this is what they have to do, not that they had to do it, not that anyone made some gross error in judgment, but rather that this is what we're at, This is where we're at, This is where the system is buckling under pressure and requiring people to be put in these places.
00:50:35
Speaker 3: Well, the argument seems to be, even if you don't have your own bed, better that you're actually in there on reward than sitting outside on a chair and not having been seen by anybody.
00:50:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:50:44
Speaker 2: But then in the case that we've been talking about, I mean, when the poor woman actually passed away and no one realized for an hour up to an hour and a half, it's so far from being a desirable situation in the public size and the family's eyes. Most of all, that it's not funny. Daniel Halsted is the chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. They've put in a this is interesting a wish list for the state election, in which they want a ministerial directive to guarantee that no one waits longer than twenty four hours in EDS. Another directive they'd like to see hospital wide safety mechanism to ensure when ED has become critically overcrowded, compulsory over census protocols are activated. Daniel, good morning to you. Can you explain a little bit further what you'd like to see change your emergency departments in South Australia.
00:51:30
Speaker 23: Yeah, Hi, so good more expert you So. Yeah. The twenty four hours maximum stays that we're talking about is basically at the moment people say need someone for up to a week at a time, and there's pretty good evidence that once people spend more than twelve hours in the emergency department, their risk of harm goes up, and it goes up exponentially with time. And so what we're asking for is that somebody comes out and says, no, after twenty four hours you're in the ED, you have to move to a board. Obviously, if the ED felt like the patienceedus so long.
00:52:02
Speaker 13: As we keep them.
00:52:04
Speaker 23: But there's really no scenario where a patient needs to be sitting in the E for twenty four hours waiting for reward there. And then the other one, which is obviously quite controversial at the moment, is this idea of compulsory over census when the immersity department gets critically overcrowded, and the idea behind that is especially at the moment. What we're facing day in, day out is a scenario where the ED is so full. We've got people in corridors, we've got people bunked up everywhere, and we just can't then see the new people seeple on the waiting room, the people on the ramps, the people at their homes. They can't get an ambulance, and so ideally what we'd like to do is spread some of that load around the hospital. We know it's not the ideal situation, and in the perfect world, everybody would get a bed and we wouldn't be talking about this, but it sort of a makeshift break pressure concept at times to sort of peak demand, and obviously the idea is to do it as safe as possible to have the stable, leaked, unwell patient are the ones that go into the over census areas in the hospital, while the sick ones.
00:53:11
Speaker 20: Go in the bed.
00:53:14
Speaker 2: Daniel.
00:53:14
Speaker 3: In terms of bed pressure, I mean, the government is always talking about how many extra beds it's put into the system, But when you're actually on the front line in the wards and seeing the congestion that's there, does it feel like the beds that have gone in have made much of a difference.
00:53:35
Speaker 23: Every day feels like a challenge, and the certainly don't feel the difference on the floor. I think one of the big things that are eating away into that is just the age care pressure. So although there's been one hundred bucks put into the system, the last year's actually got more than one hundred patients extra who now in hospitals waiting for an age care place. So overall, what we're seeing is that theirs have just been taken up by patents who actually don't need to be in hospital, but we just can't get them into care facilities because they just don't exist at the moment.
00:54:06
Speaker 3: Do you ever worry some of our listeners asking, you know, with one eyebrow cocked, are people being put on the wards to get them out of ambulances on the rams?
00:54:17
Speaker 2: Do you think.
00:54:19
Speaker 1: So?
00:54:19
Speaker 23: Most of the patients that are getting moved to the wards, well, I mean they won't move to the ward until they're ready. And most of the patients we're talking about going to these wards that've been in the ED for twenty four past hours already, they're not patients that have arrived in the ED yeah, sixty minutes ago. These are patients who have completed in aversion care and we just want to get out so that we can move the next person in.
00:54:43
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's an important issue and the complicated one. Daniel House diad and from the chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
00:54:53
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
00:54:55
Speaker 1: Five double a breakfast, David ben Birbe and Will Goodings.
00:55:01
Speaker 2: Well another day. Another dilemma for commuters in the Hills, a crash early that led to list of lane restrictions compounded by a truck breakdown that has everything back to the tunnels at a stands. Though at the moment John is on the freeway as we speak, John, what's the state of players You can see it.
00:55:21
Speaker 22: Through about fifteen minutes ago.
00:55:23
Speaker 26: They two trucks, so too late.
00:55:26
Speaker 16: To plock I think one in the other, so it's down to one lane. It's a bit of a bold the.
00:55:34
Speaker 22: Overhead entry over the Jellian the story till you get there. So it all goes down to one lane, which is partially unmanaged. So that's a crawl because it's a big dial tow truck there looking up the big truck.
00:55:57
Speaker 2: You've been let down by the line. Sorry John, but we appreciate, Thank you. We've got a good bit of good intel there though, about the two trucks, two lanes, you get a sense of why it's such a disaster at the moment. Again, if you can leave late work remotely or I mean there's no al turn it what wrote otherwise with Wooden mid issue. But if you're stuck in it right now, our thoughts are with you. It's a shocker. There's a Hills story to talk about. In fact, it's a bigger than just the Hills, but it's where we'll focus on this morning. The Defense Minister federally yesterday announced plans to sell a whole stack of defense land right around the country. The total sales expected to reach somewhere in the order of three billion dollars. But Defense has been it pains to argue that that's not the sum of the benefit from selling this land that they say is unused or underutilized. It's the one hundred million dollars a year that is spent as part of the statement the upkeep on the land that can be reinvested in defense. So for South Australia, what does that look like, Well, it means plans to sell the one hundred and forty five hectare Woodside Barracks Edinburgh Parks Hamstead as well the Ward Barracks at Oaklands Park wouldn't be entirely sold off. They would divest three point four hectares of the twenty three hectare Warredale Barracks at Oaklands Park. You might appreciate that Our next guest has a bit to say about this. Rebecca Sharky is the Federal member for Mayo. Rebecca Sharky, good morning to you.
00:57:19
Speaker 6: Good morning Davin Will Look certainly, I mean I think part of my community would be shocked by this decision. Some probably not so surprised, but I think the majority of my community is very concerned about the decision to sell the Woodside Barracks. Next year it's supposed to have its centenary. Just last year we had the sixteenth Regiment Air Defense relocated down to Edinburgh. But I think more than anything, and I've surveyed the community extensively, people have said to me, please don't let this be turned into houses. And with one hundred and forty five hectares, you know, I mean, there would be the potential for the government to do that, and it has you know, enormous opportunity for for other such other uses if they're not going to keep it for defense, which which the majority of the community would have liked to have seen it kept for defense. And many defense people have said to me, look, it's really short sighted. Where you know, it's been used as a training ground, it's it's where World War two men in World War two troops depart from. Part of it was used for refugees back in back in after World War Two, and then of course the Marriequarters were used as an asylum seeker compound. But it is a very large parcel of land and much of it is still you know, remnant native vegetation. There's not a lot of that in the hills. So the environmental aspect, the indigenous aspects, I've been talking with the Pyramount people, but I think you know, and also there's so much recreation facilities that are on there that our community could definitely use that.
00:59:12
Speaker 2: But you know how this sounds, Rebecca sharky, don't you This sounds like nimbiism. This so we've got a housing crisis, do you.
00:59:18
Speaker 6: Think, well, I mean, we've I think the Adelaie Hills are doing our fair share of lifting. When it comes to housing, they rezoned Mount Barker, They've carved that up, they're still you know, I think it's only around twenty five percent developed. We have further out, We've got murray Bridge, NaN's tat around an eight percent growth. But ultimately you need to keep some land that's free from housing, that is looking at the natural environment and really from a bush fire risk. That's probably the thing that concerns me the most, and I think many in my community and many of us still have, you know, very close for our memories the Cuddly Creek fire. I certainly have been evacuated in fires in our hills. And then on Kapringer Valley Road becomes a car park. So you know, potentially if you were to look and carve up one hundred and forty bipeckses, it could easily be over two thousand blocks. You know, that's thousands more people in an area that's really just been a cluster of small townships.
01:00:27
Speaker 3: So I thought, I did think Rebecca, it was that that you came on immediately after what is now the second major Southeastern freeway this week. I mean, we know that the lack of any cogent planning in the Hills seems to be the problems.
01:00:45
Speaker 6: I think it's even more than that. I think it's recognizing that we have really one arterial route into the city and every year, year and year, whether you're putting more people at murray Bridge or Mount Barker or indeed other parts of the Hills, the pressure on the Southeastern Freeway grows and grows and grows, and you just need one truck breakdown, you need one small rear end and it brings everything to a stop. And it is a bush by risk area. The whole area is zoned bushfire and we've lived through that. And I think that both the state government and the state opposition need to come out and be very clear on what they intend to do with this land. And I would like them to see to make a commitment that it's not used for housing. I mean, if you've got a Ballair National Park on the weekend, it is absolutely chocker. It would be fantastic if that land could be used for like a new version of Blair National Park. You know, let's use it for the community that the community have this to use, and I think that that would be a great tourism draw card for our region.
01:01:53
Speaker 2: I think the thirty five million dollar price tag being floated might be dazzling the federal government. But we'll we'll stay in touch with you on this, Rebecca, because we know a lot of your constituents fired up about it too, Rebecca Sharky, the independent federal member for Maye. They're too what we'll get into this in a moment that the text lines totally divided on the very evenly divided between people saying this is ridiculous to even contemplate and others saying why we have an entertaining keeping these large parts of the land so close to the city unused if at a time like this. So we'll get into all your text and thoughts in just to my but it's where we get it even split on the text line.
01:02:27
Speaker 3: There's I think a lot of people are talking about his immigration. Why do we need all the extra houses?
01:02:30
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:02:32
Speaker 1: David pen Burthy and Will Gooding's five Double a Breakfast.
01:02:38
Speaker 2: Twenty to eight, monitoring the traffic situation on the freeway this morning where a two car crash followed by when our our listeners are telling us was two trucks that broke down. It's causing all sorts of issues. John in Eastwood. Are you stuck in it at the moment, John, or have you just been through?
01:02:55
Speaker 24: I just got through the tow trackers or the prime mover. Tow trackers just shift in the outside lane. So there's two lanes now, the truckture on the inside lane, but directly opposite that on the inbound outbound lane, a troop car.
01:03:11
Speaker 2: Frank, it's all happening. What There's been a new crash.
01:03:16
Speaker 16: There's a circus on the freeway keeps.
01:03:18
Speaker 2: Going, so hang on, just to do some rough accounting here. We had a crash just after six am, followed by a truck breakdown, followed by now another crash that's out. It's unbelievable, John, thank you my goodness that we're getting protext from poor old people living in the hills just saying why did I do this to myself? The two they're making compelling. A lot of people are saying, can we get a train, some public transport or something. Maybe Rebecca Sharky might want to trade her support for housing development for some public transport. She's got the whip hand, absolutely, she certainly.
01:03:51
Speaker 27: Does received manifest you're eating the doors I tell you what any buses says, anyone not turning up the day.
01:04:05
Speaker 2: Of the dump Matts. She's like the whole political environment in Australia is spinning around on its axis at the moment. Who knows where it's going to end up. The first test is going to be the state election. Matt watches it closer than anyone. Matt Abraham, good morning to the morning.
01:04:21
Speaker 28: Well, good morning, David. I am trying to get out of my head an image that was planted there by you, David Pemberthy, when you're interviewing Ted O'Brien, who's part of the is it part of the season, Well, no national team, federally the coalition, ex coalition, Yeah, yeah, And you asked him to apologize to Ashton Hearn for the chaos and causing her and you said that Peter Malnauskus could run down rund Or Moore with a lampshade on his head and still win. And ever since then I've had this image of Peter Malnauskus running down running more with the lamb shade on his head, and I thought, I wonder what would happen if he did nothing?
01:05:08
Speaker 2: Nothing? Would his vote go up? Oh?
01:05:14
Speaker 28: He'd probably get the vote, you know, tract votes from the lampshade, making sort of artisans of Adelaide.
01:05:19
Speaker 2: Now we are in quite O'Brien actually handled that quite well well.
01:05:23
Speaker 28: He's a very mild manner, and you kept asking him questions about the coalition split for some reason instead of policy.
01:05:31
Speaker 2: But they're the ones that keep talking about it.
01:05:33
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, he and they totally valid points about Jim Charmer's economic management, interest rates and.
01:05:39
Speaker 2: All of that.
01:05:39
Speaker 3: But the problem is that all of yesterday, yet again for the Liberals and the Nationals, was taken up by talking about each other exactly, and John Nails a man that John Howard's dropped a bomb on and overnight saying, for God's sake, people sought this out.
01:05:54
Speaker 2: You've actually, when you think about it, if you zoom out and think about it, you've got to try really hard to have your worst ever polling result. Environment where the government has mishandled the worst terror attack in the nation's history, followed by interest rate rises. They're going to make people the cost of living worsen. You got to you got to be spectacularly bad at your job to go in that environment. We're going to poll our worst ever. Yeah, yeah, totally.
01:06:15
Speaker 28: And you've got a situation where the leader of One Nation, Pauline Hanson, in terms of leader favorability this is the red Bridge Pole, which is you know, published in the Financial Review, She's on thirty eight percent favorability as a leader. Anthony Alberniez's on thirty four, Barnaby Joyce is on twenty three, Susan Lee ten as leader, Andrew Hasey sixty, Angus Taylor thirteen, David, you know who cares about him? And Donald Trump sixteen. This is an amazing situation.
01:06:52
Speaker 11: And the.
01:06:54
Speaker 28: One Nation vote, the primary vote is Labours is thirty one. One Nation is twenty six. And then there's sort of daylight to you know, what was left of the coalition. And the big shift is, as Phil Curry told you guys a couple of days ago, it used to be people like him, he said, you know, grumpy old buggers who were voting for One Nation. But now it's across the board in terms of they haven't voted yet obviously, but in terms of being polled, the One Nation support people are giving them a tick is right across the board. You know, it's millennials it's gen Z, it's burners.
01:07:30
Speaker 2: But the split in a party political sense though, is that more of them are people who say though they have been liberal voters than labor voters.
01:07:38
Speaker 28: Yeah, there's still quite quite a swag of labor voters, but it's it's a huge problem here for Ashton Hern in South Australia, I think, I mean Corey Bernardi standing as number one candidate and has been interesting to watch the sort of the Fimberland Patrick of candidates being shifted around. Chris McDermott he was in love with, but suddenly the Upper House is looking pretty darn good really running under Sarah game X one nation banner. But if that one nation vote which is sitting so high twenty six percent, if that's in any way, even if you're not look even if you're not ten percent off it, that's going to get Cory. He's going to stroll into the Upper House with a full quota which is only eight point three.
01:08:26
Speaker 3: To three em strong exactly he could get He's probably so relaxed about doing a solid for Corey and saying or I don't shuffle a.
01:08:35
Speaker 28: Spot down, will be right anyway, smart guy. They could get to they could let's not get ahead of ourselves. Elections you know, still a month.
01:08:44
Speaker 2: Aways, but it's only federal voting intention I know, but.
01:08:47
Speaker 28: You'd have to say that in those big seats where we saw the voice vote here in South Australia, the big regional seats where the no vote was strongest of anywhere in the in the nation, then there's got to be some bleed into South Australia. We don't have sort of this magic barrier up there. The one nation vote at the last election was a last staid election, was enough to get Sarah game up and she didn't even get eight point three to three. You don't need to get a full quota. You just need to be sort of hanging in there for the crumbs for a lot of these parts.
01:09:19
Speaker 3: Don't you reckon that there's people who misread South Australia because of our arti heritage, our history of pioneering reforms, female suffrage, our fresco dining, land rights legislation. First need beach down at Maslin's. There's all the sort of Don Dunstoness things that if you're sitting outside Dylan's bookshop on the parade having a cafe late that feels like your reality. There's a completely different adelaide and it exists in places like Spence, the Federal Cedar, Spence, which voted I think seventy two no off the top of my head to the Voice to Parliament. And this is where I think the one nation stuf the people who, luckily for all of them, they've got huge margins.
01:10:05
Speaker 2: But if you're like you know, Nick Champion, or you're.
01:10:08
Speaker 3: Tony Piccolo, you're out north or also to the outer South, there'd be a lot of people down there going, yeah, I got the shits with life, you know, body, everything costs them so much. And the text line now and lie of the woodside stuff. So many people are talking men immigration in the context of well, why do we keep needing to build all these buddy houses? Anyway, that's where for labor. I mean, it's probably gonna manifest itself in someone who's on fifteen percent ending up on maybe thirteen percent. But they can't ignore it either, can they.
01:10:40
Speaker 28: Well they can't.
01:10:41
Speaker 2: And if you look at.
01:10:44
Speaker 28: Allegedly what should be the safest liberal seats here, seats like Phinnis Well, David Basham Independent lou Nicholson pushed him to just about what do they get Phinis. Yeah, he's on point seven. That's Margins running and she's running again. You've got Flinders Sam Telfer. That's another what should be a safe seat. But it's on three percent and that's because he had Liz Habitman ran against him at last election and in this election, Port Lincoln businesswoman Meghan Petherick is running against him. Throw throw in that at Mount Gambia. Well, there's no one in Mount Gambia.
01:11:25
Speaker 2: They're not going to get at The Liberals on twelve percent in Mont Gambia according to that Forestry body Pole, Well twelve I mean Troy Bell's blake twenty.
01:11:36
Speaker 28: If it was allowed to Troy Bell could probably you know, win it from Yatla.
01:11:40
Speaker 2: I meant Pauli and Goodfellas didn't sell run in Man Gambia. The elect the Gallic, the liquify the pan.
01:11:52
Speaker 28: So it is interesting if, for instance, the Liberal votes down. I'm just thinking about the Upper House here, because we know the Low House is going to be you know, a car crash. But let's say Peter mal Nawskus has to negotiate with Corey Bernardi for eight years. In the Upper House, if the Lib votes down, Labor may get an extra seat up there, but one nation may sort of steal that from them. So Claire Griffin's career may be over. She was dropped down the batting order. It'd be very interesting to me to see, maybe on social issues but also economic issues, how that plays out. And even if they don't have the balance of power, they will have a platform. You know that this gives this give would give Corey Bernardi a big springboard in terms of having a platform, you know, as an elected politicians. Yes, it's a long time. It's not bad, gig.
01:12:44
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it.
01:12:48
Speaker 3: Did this film ot Like, I know you're a port supporter, so I don't like that. I don't want to mention the two thousand and seven Grand Final. I was thinking about this last night in the context of footy. Sometimes a game can get so spectacularly one sided, because if it's a fifty point lead, you know this is all over them, and you're not even involved.
01:13:11
Speaker 2: You just turn off.
01:13:13
Speaker 3: But a game can get so spectacularly one sided that it becomes perversely compelling and you can't take your eyes off it, do.
01:13:24
Speaker 28: You How much can they lose by.
01:13:28
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what it feels like to me, the only real question around this election is how much can the Liberals lose by?
01:13:33
Speaker 11: Yeah?
01:13:35
Speaker 2: Is that unfair?
01:13:36
Speaker 28: No, it's not unfair. I meant it's a question you have to ask. And you know the combination of the Malinowskus factor anyway, and then you feed in one nation and you've got some good, high profile independence running and you've got you know, Labor Party ad. I was on Facebook last night flicking around looking for my mighty grab of the week and they've got this devastating ad on Facebook with Nick McBride images of him going into his electorate office or in a meeting with an ankle bracelet on Troy Bell in jail. Then they've got David Spears and they've got an image of someone who purports to be David Spears snorting something that is either whiz fizz or some white powder.
01:14:25
Speaker 2: I think.
01:14:27
Speaker 28: It's a devastating ad. Now I haven't seen it on Telly yet, but it was on Telly okay, I was watching Midsummer Murders. Probably might have upset there. But it's a devastating ad. And you can say, well none of it's Ashton Hearn's foot, Well, none of it is Ashton Hearn's fault. But we are seeing you know, Ashton Hearn is very much a product of the Pine Moderates. Stephen Marshall admitted after he'd lost the election that actually shortly before he lost the election that really he should have had more balance in his cabinet. He froze out Conservatives. There are some chickens. None of this. You can't say, oh, well, this has just happened to the Liberal Party. No one's really to blame. Well, really, in a very small way in South Australia, you've had a reflection of what's happening federally in terms of policy and the moderates versus the Conservatives. It's you know, it is a big issue for them, both of us. All three of us have had conversations I know, off there and on there. I would think with Peter mal Nauskus about or you're going to romp this in.
01:15:43
Speaker 2: And he hates that. Okay, this conversation now yes, And he.
01:15:49
Speaker 28: Said to me at one stage, well, you know the EU sending troops, Denmark sending troops into Greenland, you know, in terms of what a volatile environment we're in.
01:16:00
Speaker 2: And I was thinking of that.
01:16:03
Speaker 28: When I saw this one Nation pole come up and Corey Minardi in terms of the volatility, I think this is going to be a wild election, this state election.
01:16:14
Speaker 1: Five Double A Breakfast David Pembervie and Will Goodings.
01:16:24
Speaker 2: Matt Abram with us in the five Double A Breakfast Studios. We're turned our mind to the spin of the week.
01:16:31
Speaker 28: Yes, I'm really concentrating today to get the order correct.
01:16:34
Speaker 2: So this is now.
01:16:36
Speaker 28: Labor Party has been running a sort of a you know, a tally of Liberal party spending promises, and apparently it's outrageous. This is the fact that they've wracked up huge, huge record debt.
01:16:51
Speaker 2: But that's been how's your oxygen playing?
01:16:53
Speaker 28: But exactly exactly, And I noticed Tom Quinson Tournas is talking about the whaler plant and saying, oh, if there's problems, it's a it's the Fed's problem.
01:17:02
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:17:03
Speaker 28: But anyway, a journalist got to Ben Hood, who's the shadow treasurer, and.
01:17:10
Speaker 2: They asked him, is.
01:17:11
Speaker 28: There any charts you've lost track of spending? This is his answer, Tom, because.
01:17:28
Speaker 29: Sorry, yes he was on the yellow brick road. But I think that's not because because of six seven.
01:17:45
Speaker 28: Ben Hood gets a very hefty nine out of ten just because Meanwhile, I don't want to be picky, but have a listen to this and I'll explain why this is Susan Lee.
01:17:57
Speaker 30: But the Nationals have chosen to leave the coalition. At this point, the door is open. I've maintained that the door stays open. But I am not focused on the door. I am focused straight ahead out here into the Australian communities that we love, respect and are determined to work hard every single day.
01:18:19
Speaker 28: For No, wait a minute, if you're going to go straight ahead, aren't you going to bang into the door? Doesn't somebody have to open the door to this commute?
01:18:29
Speaker 2: Not focused on the door? No, are you going to just charge through the door?
01:18:34
Speaker 31: I don't know. You gotta do something. One out of ten for spin. I'll look out for that door, Matt, I will then I saw her face five.
01:18:48
Speaker 1: Double breakfast deep it's Ben Berbie and Will Gooding's okay, hey.
01:18:53
Speaker 2: But it's after great breaking ain't coming up in just environment. Just to repeat the tail of the tape for Hill's commuters who yesterday had to way through a disastrous situation to get into the city. Now, at this time today we can report there has been a two car crash, a two truck breakdown followed by another crash on the freeway. We continue to get pictures from listeners and texts from those that are stuck in traveling, and it's lovely to have them on board listening, but frankly they'd rather probably be at work or getting about their day and they can't get there. So got us thinking. The Hills morning commute, I think is an unassailable record holder, is the worst morning commute in Adelaide. The problem too, is that people have got no choice. It doesn't matter with Hills. You've basically got one way in, one way out. So what's second? What's the second worst commute in Adelaide? Eight double two to three double a double Hills is obviously number one? All right, you folks have won. This is like the Don Bradman batting average of bad commutes. Have to be Northeast Road, wouldn't It's what's the worst commute in Adelaide outside of the Hills double two to three double er textas your suggestions, will assess them and you list as your part of the judgment panel zero before zero eight thirty ninety five as well the second worst commute in Adelaide. What is it?
01:20:14
Speaker 3: Well, the state government is accused of double standards over new laws which, on the face of it, make perfect sense. They sound like they're really good for subcontractors working in the building industry, where the government wants to crack down on the non payment of subcontractors. Well, that is a good thing, and I reckon every subbing listening to this would say about time too. The only problem is the state government itself is going to be exempt from these rules, meaning that any subcontractor who's doing work in building and construction on any state government projects and finds themselves in the not entirely rare position of not being paid for their work won't have the same recourse that they will if they are doing the work in the private sector. It's an issue that came to my attention on account of some really interesting evidence that was given before a Legislative Council Committee hearing last year. It's been championed as an issue now by SA Best MLC Connie Bernaris, and also the person who really teased it out as an inconsistency is a smart bloat by the name of John Murray, who is the Chief Adjudicator for South Australia and also a former national CEO of the Master Builders Association. We have both of them on the line now and we'll kick off with Connie. Connie, thank you for joining us, and also to John for joining us this morning. In your evidence, Connie, you said, if the laws go ahead as envisaged, will be the only state in Australia, the only jurisdiction in Australia that has this arrangement.
01:21:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning. Well, it's typical of the way this government does business and sadly, Dave, they've already kicked off. They've kicked off because this legislation, and you've described it very well into of its intent. The framework is designed to ensure that contractors and subcontractors get paid on time for the work that they do. Last year, this government exempted itself in certain circumstances from the scope of that framework. So that means that if you're a contractor or a subcontractor and you're doing work for the Crown, for the government. We know that there is a ton of work at the moment being done on government projects, then you will not be able to take advantage of security of payment legislation, which has actually been in place since two thousand and nine. It was a mammoth effort to get this legislation through in South Australia. It's law, and what we've done, Dave, it's a little bit worse than what we've just described. These laws came into effect in two thousand and nine. They covered everybody, including the government. Last year when we had those hearings, I found out that the government had very quietly, without consulting with anybody, exempted itself from the scope of that framework via regulations. Now that should have everyone up in arms, because these aren't changes you make by regulations. These are substantive changes that impact contractors and subcontractors. Worse still, they applied these changes retrospectively, so that means if you're already in those contracts, in those contractoral arrangements, you now may find yourself not being able to make a claim for a payment that you're entitled to and use, you know, that fast tracking mechanism that is available under this process to insure that you can pay the bills, you can pay your staff, you can keep your doors open, all those things that the little guys rely on. And can I say the one and only justification that was given during those hearings from government represented who we finally managed to get to appear before the committee before we could get any answers aside from the fact that they had not even consulted with industry. They said, well, if you're doing a project that's worth four million dollars, then you're from the beg end of town. Now you go out and find me one contractor or subcontractor who will agree that a four million dollar contract means that you're from the big end of town. These are mum and dad businesses.
01:24:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:24:28
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and these are the guys that are going to be hit the hardest.
01:24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I'll bring John Murray into the conversation as well. John.
01:24:37
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us in your evidence. And obviously you've got many decades experienced in the building industry with the NBA and also as essays Chief Adjudicator, you described this as astonishing.
01:24:51
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen this done anywhere in Australia or overseas.
01:24:56
Speaker 20: No, It's completely unprecedented. I don't know of any state government, any government that has exempted itself from its own legislation. It just smacks of grand hypocrisy. It basically says do what we say in our legislation. But the legislation won't a fighter up. This isn't a government providing leadership or playing its role towards having a more prosperous and fair industry. It amounts to nothing more than government abusing its market power. And if I could say one more thing, the government didn't even bother, didn't even bother complying with its own better regulation, handful of its own guideline which provide that if you are going to power, are you regulation, then you must go prior before before you even do that, that you must undertake a regulatory impact assessment to see whether it has an impact, and if a significant impact, then you need to do a risk impact statement.
01:26:05
Speaker 3: Maybe what do you think, what do you think the government's motivation was for creating this exception for itself?
01:26:12
Speaker 20: Well, they said when they gave evidence on the day that I was there, they said, well, firstly they said, we always pay our bills. Well you've got to wonder about that. But it begs the question, well, what if someone puts in a claim but it's rejected then then the whole thing about security a payment legislation is that you can go through a process of rapid adjudication and had that hurt quickly, so that that is she can be resolved and that payment can be made and enforced is to keep the cash flowing. So I don't know whether they I really don't know why they did that, but they then went on and said, look, sometimes when we go through adjudications, we take the rest that we might not have a favorable outcome. Hello. Yeah, many people are just gruntled and there are different ways of handling that issue. But you can't go about exempting yourself from your own legislation.
01:27:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, And look, I'm glad we got this out in the public arena because if there are any subcontractors listening have found themselves in this position, we'd love to hear from you. It's a complicated issue, but it's one we wanted to raise because it has the potential to affect a lot of cyber contractors, particularly with all the building going on. Connie Banarassa Best MLC and Chief Adjudicated John Murray, thank you for joining us this morning.
01:27:46
Speaker 2: I think the Hills have made an unassailable case to be a home of Adelaide's worst commute, given the last two days of absolutely traffic stands still on the freeway. But we're trying to get to the bottom of what's the second worst commute in Adelaide. Raymond and Salisbury has a suggestion morning.
01:27:59
Speaker 26: Raymond, Good morning boys, how are we all good?
01:28:02
Speaker 2: Thank you?
01:28:02
Speaker 19: Ramon good see yeah, hey south.
01:28:05
Speaker 32: Road without a down man.
01:28:06
Speaker 21: Yeah.
01:28:07
Speaker 26: So the section between Well where the tunnel is going to be, the section between the bridgeworks and Darlington, but in particular, at all stages of the day, the area between the Anda Coway are underpassed and Tomsley. It's just it's not a bumper any part of the day, but obviously you know peak times are it's worse. But yeah, it's horrible, sourd that tunnel gets done and it's opened.
01:28:32
Speaker 2: The betever everybody, it's with us for a couple more years yet unfortunately, good on your Raymond. Lots of suggestions coming through. Con says, pretend the pretend you're round about around eight thirty am. Corey says, the Southern Expressway on the way home most nights, just as you get the South Throw there's almost always a crash on the bridge over the on Kapringa River and after a long day you just want to be home.
01:28:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is just you get a great run on the Southern Expressway, then you hit the river and you're like.
01:28:57
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go. Worst commute from East to the Suburbs for three weeks a year when the race is on and it's a tough life, says an anonymous exter. I like this one from Catherine has to be cross Road. I like to know if anyone has gone through the South Road intersection without waiting for a train. My record is three trains. I've had got three trains there before you go. Is this is something broken, Nope, it's just how it works. That's a good suggestion.
01:29:22
Speaker 3: I like the freight train on Leady Street some mornings where you just trying to get down to Hungry Jacks or something to get yourself bacon deluxe for a quick lunch and you see the ominous caboose going, oh, I know you're going to be for an hour.
01:29:35
Speaker 2: Lots of South Road suggestions. Ben says anything that touches South Road is the second worst commute. Pete says Eastern Suburbs anytime the vates are in town is the second worst commute. Keep them coming through. We'll get to the bottom. Of this at South Road or or Eastern suburbs during the vates. It seems to be the two leading contenders.
01:29:52
Speaker 3: At one of your fellow Grange listeners, and I know what he's going to say. I reckon, it's going to start with the latter.
01:29:57
Speaker 12: H morning, Vinnie, you read my my son, Yes, Wholebrooks Road in Grange Ray Gain.
01:30:04
Speaker 10: It is murder, absolute murder.
01:30:09
Speaker 16: Are they ever going to complete in that intersection?
01:30:11
Speaker 2: Em I do that trip four times a day, and you know what you mean?
01:30:16
Speaker 20: Will you know what I mean?
01:30:18
Speaker 2: It's a disaster. It's so bad at the moment, it's and you try it. There's no good backstreet option. It's just bad. Vinnie. I hear your pain, my friend. That is a shocker. Mark at angele Vale, good morning.
01:30:30
Speaker 20: Good morning John.
01:30:31
Speaker 33: Are you.
01:30:33
Speaker 16: Anything coming off the Northern Expressway. Yeah, Slip Road, Curtis.
01:30:38
Speaker 20: Road, Angle Vale Road, Dale Keith Road.
01:30:41
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous, yep. Good vote for the North. Good on you, Mark, Thank you keep coming in. We might collect these well by nine o'clock we'll get an answer to what is the second worst commute in Adelaide at the moment.
01:30:53
Speaker 1: Deep and pen Berbe and Will goodings, five double a breakfast.
01:31:00
Speaker 2: Real deja vous day today. Yesterday we were speaking about breakdowns on the freeway that meant that the Hills commute was a disaster and for something different, power being out on the on the Peninsula again happens. We worked out on average once more than once every two weeks at the moment. It's a ludicrous situation. And speaking to people who work over on the Peninsula, the obvious question was, well, given the predictability of power audages, should you get some compo? Here's Joe Barrett and us speaking to Joe yesterday, do you get any compo?
01:31:33
Speaker 3: Like, if you miss out on a morning's worth of sales, do you get any compensation? Can you come through insurance or anything?
01:31:39
Speaker 8: No, no, no, nothing at all, No, no, not at all. Yeah, it's awful and so and as I said, that's our morning trade is coffee. He's donuts sort of thing. So yeah, we've lost all that trade.
01:31:52
Speaker 2: Fraser Elis is the member four Narunga and joins us now in five double a breakfast phraser. This is just is unacceptable. Wasn't it longer? It goes?
01:32:01
Speaker 10: Mate? You know it's happening more and more and more frequently. Almost twelve months ago we had outage of over twenty hours, but sort of should have rung alarm bells and triggered change. But here we are one, you're on and it's still happening. It's quite unbelievable.
01:32:14
Speaker 3: When we were talking to Joe Fraser, it just felt like there was almost an air of resignation in her voice. And I really I do struggle with the idea that I think we've got an explanation from SA Power Networks where they were saying unless it's negligence, they don't cough up. It's a fine line between negligence and not having proper, up to date infrastructure in place because you happen to be in regional South Australia, I reckon ye.
01:32:42
Speaker 10: And how long does it have to be since they got their warning that this is happening before they fix it finally, before they are negligent? I guess this is the next question. But the other point I'd like to make on that southing is that in the last term of government or this time of government, I should say they change it so the voltage variation will be enough to trigger compensation with or without fault. If there's a surge that runs through your house that fries your fridge, you'll be eligible to get that commonsation. You'll be eligible commensation to replace that. But if there's an extended out, if it means you lose trade or stop perishes, you won't be compensated for that. So, on the one hand, you are, and when the end result there's no different, on the same you are. On the other it doesn't just doesn't quite.
01:33:22
Speaker 2: Make sense to me. It's quite remarkable looking at the map as we were yesterday, Like it just seems like Yorks has just copied it everywhere.
01:33:30
Speaker 10: Yeah, and like I said, we've at what point does the fact that we're aware this is a consistent problem and nothing has happened to fix it finally does that fall into the negligen category?
01:33:43
Speaker 2: And what do you make of the timeline that the networks told us about yesterday, Fraser where they said that the fixing of the infrastructure or the upgrading of the infrastructure is a year's not months timeline.
01:33:58
Speaker 32: Well, it might be.
01:33:59
Speaker 10: Without being a neglectspert on the topic, it should be a never ending cycle of slowly replacing these as years go by. I mean that's part of the cost of what our power bills is is an allowance for maintenance and upgrade of the network. So I can't I don't necessarily accept that we've got to replace them all at once now all of a sudden, like it should be a consistent systematic scheme of replacement as time progresses. So yeah, And the other point worth making is that they shut and while we appreciate this, I'm not complaining. They shut our power down two or three weeks ago for a planned out is to give it a proper clean And here we are two weeks later and now it's the sort of six hour outage yesterday morning. Is they can shut it down two weeks ago and clean it only last for a fortnight. We certainly need something to change totally.
01:34:45
Speaker 2: Praiser elis the member for Narunga running again too at the election.
01:34:49
Speaker 10: Phraser yet, yeah, planned, I'll see if I get picked on up.
01:34:52
Speaker 3: But you've got one nation, you got one nation breathing down your neck over there on Yorks.
01:34:57
Speaker 32: Oh they can.
01:34:58
Speaker 10: That's having a decent crackits that's the Mocksit's good decent choices between candidates.
01:35:03
Speaker 2: And the Libs. The Lib's got a candidate.
01:35:06
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Lives has got a candidate. But there that's the ex center at the moment, the three of us.
01:35:10
Speaker 3: I'm sure there were a few more to come out of the woodwork labor, labor sitting this one out.
01:35:15
Speaker 10: I don't know about finally sitting it out, but they certainly haven't announce anyone yet.
01:35:21
Speaker 2: No worries on a hiding. Nothing is a labor candadate. Despite the premiest popularity for campaigning with Murray Watt, Yeah, thank you, Fraser, Fraser, Elise, the member been a runger.
01:35:34
Speaker 1: Five double a breakfast deep it Penberthy and Will Goodings.
01:35:45
Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes, The nine out number eight double two three double O double Oh you can text us two on zero four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. I've been looking forward to this chat all day, David. It is the most anticipated documentary film event of the year. No it's not Milanie, No it's not Milane. It's bigger than bigger than smaller budget.
01:36:03
Speaker 3: Mind you got smaller budget, better film, better content, better content, much better content, much better movie. The movie, of course, is Forever Young, and it's the story about our great friend Henry Young, Produced by and directed by another one of our great friend, legendary admn and creative Jeffrey Reid, both of whom are in the studio with us today. Jeffrey and Henry, good morning, and thank you so much for coming into the studio.
01:36:31
Speaker 33: Good money to great pleasure.
01:36:34
Speaker 2: So, Henry, I was just saying to you, the last time you were here in the five double A Studios, we had streamers, we had balloons because it was your one hundredth birthday two years at that. You look like you're in very good health. Ston good David. So how often are you playing tennis these days?
01:36:56
Speaker 33: Four times two week? Yeah, four times a week. It's it's incredible. I can't believe it myself, but you know it's I like my tennis and there's no reason I'm a turn So what else.
01:37:08
Speaker 2: Do I do? So keep you up for strength. You made a self deprecating joke off here that you can't believe that they found enough content for the documentary to run for forty minutes. Get going through the whole process. Did you enjoy Did you enjoy being part of the process of making this documentary but your life?
01:37:24
Speaker 11: Yes?
01:37:25
Speaker 2: I did you know it?
01:37:27
Speaker 33: There was a time when people opened doors for you, and it always used to embarrass me, but now I just put my head up and sail to and I do say hey you. It doesn't wait anymore. It's you've got to not be old, but you've got to be very old qualify.
01:37:46
Speaker 3: So it's almost what is it four years since the Clash of the Centurions came about, Jeffrey?
01:37:52
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, well yeah.
01:37:53
Speaker 4: Four years this year it was four years twenty twenty three, sorry, three years so it was just training open three.
01:38:00
Speaker 3: Just after the war started between Russia and Ukraine. What's the last few years been like for you, Henry? Because no one knew who you were. We didn't know your name this time four years ago. Since then, you've played on Senate court at the Australian Open, you met your friend from.
01:38:22
Speaker 2: Ukraine, Stavaski. That's right.
01:38:26
Speaker 3: You've been on multiple TV programs. You were on the front bar with Fitzi. Do you sort of pinch yourself that all of this fame, because it is fame, has come so late in your life?
01:38:40
Speaker 33: Well, the compensation for this, in other words, they've got all these young friends, and when you're old, it's wonderful to have young friends because you they they didn't treat me as being old. That they just treat me as I don't know, as Henry. And it's wonderful. It's wonderful, you know it. It keeps you in the in the stream. So I don't feel old. No, I don't feel old.
01:39:08
Speaker 2: No, I'm good.
01:39:10
Speaker 33: Hell everyone, I'm in a good pad.
01:39:12
Speaker 3: Having having played tennis against you in the school six for your way when we played doubles, not only do you not feel old, you don't look old on a tennis core.
01:39:23
Speaker 33: Well, I must admit there are times now when I feel my age, but it's my bethlessness and I'm working on it. I watch YouTube and they they are full of things that that you could be and should be doing to keep keep around.
01:39:38
Speaker 2: And I tell you all, Jeffrey, when you sit there and make the documentary and you're putting it together, what were you particularly taken by? What was what was the story that you're really really in a narrative sense, wanted to tell about about Henry.
01:39:54
Speaker 4: I think it was when we did the Clash of the Centurions at the Australian Open. That was sort of the rock for the documentary. And making doccos is not like writing and making a feature film. You're actually reverse engineering the film. And I'd actually started just out of interest filming some interviews, just with a few mates with Henry in twenty twenty one. Because these life stories, David, you know this, the yarns he tells and the life he's led are just so interesting. And I didn't have an idea for a film. I just thought, we need to record this and you know, someday what will happen. So it's taken a while to come together, but you know, there's been so much content in Henry's life and his celebrity. Now he's very much in demand on the media circuit. You know, he is a bit of a rock star wherever he goes. But in the film, you'll see the befoors. You'll see all of the story leading up to the battle, the Clash of the Centurions with Stanislavski. I mean, he was the oldest competitive tennis player in the world at that time, and so when we found out that Henry was six months older, we challenged him to a tennis match. And you know, it took a year and a half to put it together, but twenty twenty three, the Australian Open Henry Young and Leo Stanislavsky walked down on the center.
01:41:18
Speaker 2: Course, that's a great story. Must have felt like a one in a million shot that that was going to come off, especially with the words going on around the world.
01:41:24
Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean it all started from it didn't a couple of times.
01:41:27
Speaker 11: Well, I was just angry about the Russian invasion.
01:41:31
Speaker 4: It touched me deeply, and this was a way of us kind of putting our mark on it, and Henry and I saying, well, you know, we can do something about this. And the clash is, you know, a fun thing, a fun story for two ninety eight year olds they were at the time to you know, come together with their love of tennis and actually raised money for the war effort for Ukrainian War victims.
01:41:58
Speaker 11: And we're still doing that with this film as well.
01:42:01
Speaker 3: You know, when that story ran the first time it ran in the Australian I don't know if you ever saw the comments from the readers, Henry, but people were saying, I love this story, I can't get enough of it. And it's just such a feel good story that you didn't want to knock Lenard.
01:42:19
Speaker 2: Off his perch because you are rightly the oldest.
01:42:21
Speaker 3: Tennis player in the world. The Guinness Book of Record had it wrong when they listed him. But the good humor and the good grace you showed in just wanting to meet him to help Ukraine. It was People love that story and it must have made you feel good.
01:42:38
Speaker 2: Too, well it did.
01:42:40
Speaker 33: I don't think it generally known that the professional players have this Players for Peace. It's a charity that they that they've initiated themselves, and so I was just part of it, and it rais to how many how much did.
01:42:56
Speaker 4: It make well after the It started with the US Open in twenty twenty two and that's when the Russians invaded that year. So in the January for the Australian Open twenty twenty three, after that, it was four and a half million US raised for that charity Tennis Place for Peace, and that's the global charity, as Henry saying, professional Tennis and the Four Slams.
01:43:22
Speaker 11: So it's a fantastic effort.
01:43:25
Speaker 4: So we we can't get the exact numbers, but we think the Australian Open charity concert so.
01:43:33
Speaker 33: If they can come in then it was a great pleasure for me to be part of it because it is such a worthwhile charity and to be able to do my little bit was wonderful.
01:43:48
Speaker 3: Well Henry, you led and continue to lead an amazing life. I know a lot of our listeners are going to get along on Sunday to you, Jeffrey Wild with the film. We watched it together mate just before Chris. It's a lot of fun. I look forwardunderstanding you both on Sunday. And what we will do now is we'll wrap it up by giving one more giving one of our listeners a chance to win another double pass to get along to the Capri this this Sunday after.
01:44:17
Speaker 2: You can give us a call now an eight double two to three double O double.
01:44:19
Speaker 1: Oh.
01:44:19
Speaker 2: But the other thing is there are tickets available, aren't they? So you go to Humanitis or search for Forever Young Humanitis and that'll get your there. Bot on Will Yeah, I think that there are tickets available. I we want to get along and see this remarkable documentary event. Henry, Greatdab and Jeffrey, thank you, thanks well, thanks so much, guys. We'll see you on Sunday, ptererfect look forward to it.
01:44:37
Speaker 1: Bye bye, deepd pen Burthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
01:44:42
Speaker 2: We have been to nine. There's been an instant at Christy's Beach this morning with a couple of arrests. Mate Peter Caldecott, which at the scene, will cross to him in justinm'ment first though, David and Rich Havens called in. David, we're cheering for you, mate, We want you to get along and see thee for every Young documentary this weekend. All right, mate, here you go. There's only one question fingers crossed. Okay, here we go.
01:45:05
Speaker 3: When Henry played against Leonard at the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena, which court did.
01:45:12
Speaker 2: He play on?
01:45:21
Speaker 32: Do you want the actual cord?
01:45:23
Speaker 5: Do you want the name?
01:45:25
Speaker 2: Already said nothing but the best, Nothing but the best for Henry owns sena cord or nothing. Congratulations. See David, you're getting along this weekend and anyone else who wants to get along you can still do so. There are some tickets available if you search Forever Young and head to Humanitics, you'll get those tickets. Good on your David, you will certainly be there. Peter Caldecot is at Christie's Beach this morning. Pay see what's happened with these arrests.
01:45:52
Speaker 32: So yeah, I'm doing at Christie's Beach at the moment, just off Pete's Beach Road down down the bottom on what now. This couple the police have chased oven eight about three o'clock in the morning all the way from Salisbury through the northern suburbs, all the way down South Road. They spiked the air tires of this Mini Coopers near Doors Road on South Road, and amazingly they kept going. They went onto the expressway and we're doing like one hundred and seventy kilometers an hour on the Southern Expressway, went all the way down. He got off on Beach Road and as if he came down here, you could see a long scratch mark going up the street and it goes all the way the length of the street and then goes into someone's driveway where neighbors say they heard yelling and screaming. The police pulled in behind them, a couple got out, they were yelling and screaming, ran off down the road where police pantsd on them and arrested them. So it's there's been a lot of activity down here, and they going good on police for actually arresting the couple who are now facing multiple charges. But we talked to one lady who said that everyone woke up and she just heard yelling and screaming police pouncing on these two suspects outside our house.
01:47:15
Speaker 3: And Peter, they weren't and they're not Christie's Beach people, this couple, are they They're from out north, were they?
01:47:21
Speaker 21: Yeah?
01:47:21
Speaker 32: Elizabeth and Ottaway, I believe a man and a woman. Yeah, It's just just amazing they could go that distance and how dangerous is that to be going one hundred and seventy on the Sunday Expressway with with on three tires, you know, and and to keep going all the way to Christie's Beach and finally stop and run off.
01:47:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, pair Arthwitz, good on your piece. Thank you, Peter Coldocott Christie's for seven years, Adelaide. A lot of really nice messages coming through about our chat just now with Jeffrey and Henry Young Mark in Brompton says, that's one of the best good news stories going around. A wonderful gentleman. And to quite Henry, it's good to have young friends. They don't treat me as old, they treat me as Henry. Great story, and Liz with a warning for us. Will says, watch out, boys, Henry's.
01:48:10
Speaker 2: Got a good radio voice. It could be his next vocation. Well, absolutely this. I wouldn't put any ceiling on what Henry Young can achieve.
01:48:18
Speaker 3: And being one hundred and two years old, he is coming into the demo in the right sort of sweet spot for five A broadcasters.
01:48:25
Speaker 2: Exactly a little bit earlier we were taking nominations for the second worst commute in Adelaide. We think number one spot is done and dusted, with the Hills again today suffering three separate incidents that have been a gridlock for a large part of the morning peak hour. A crash just after six o'clock this morning with two cars, a two truck breakdown, and then as that was just been cleared, one of our listeners on the Hills alerted us to the fact another crash had taken place. It's been a disaster, but lots and lots of nominations for the second worst commute. Some of them have been live David. Some have been live accounts, for example Heather Texas saying the obviously the Harndorff is a nomination. Helen says, when I first came to adelade from Victoria, we went out to Salisbury and then never did it again. Thank you for that, Helen. But mainly I think the two that we didn't really break the deadlock on were the kind of open ended anywhere on South Road and eastern suburbs into the city during the v eights. They seem to be the top two nominees for the second worst commute. I reckon the real South Road vortex is often with the gardening. I'm frequently going to the dump there in Everdon, just next to the old West Everton Hotel, which is sadly going because of the Torrents to Torrens upgrade. But if you turn left near the brick works, so heading down the road near the dump, so you turn lef to where the West Saberdon Hotel was, head down South Road towards Henley Beach Road. That is like the Bermuda Triangle. You can just sit there forever and doesn't matter what time of day it is. It's a complete and utter pain in the you know what it certainly is. Let's have the fuel situation this morning, the fuel watch thanks to our great friends at the RAA where petrol We've got to say, and not much has been made of this this year, it's quite cheap. Historically it's been consistently under a dollar fifty. We had prices that sort of knocked around this point, but we had a harving of the fuel exise. You might recall this is this is not artificial, this is a this is the genuine article. So the cheap spots this morning, LeRoy's at Monopower is at a dollar forty five point nine. That is the cheapest, and that is as cheap as I can remember for quite some time. The Yugo West Time Marsh dollar forty seven point nine. The BP ex convenience at Brooklyn Park is a dollar fifty one point five, and diesel remains consistently under a dollar sixty. It is at a dollar fee fifty nine point five. Hey, y, City residents, particularly city residents who live in the south western corner of town in and around Whitmore Square, might want to be paying extra close attention to the show tomorrow. We have a story that is going to be of interest to you.
01:51:16
Speaker 3: And if anyone who does live in that area and listens to our shows or even works in that area has any concerns about some of the sort of lawlessness that has been going on in that part of the city over the past few months and wants to get involved in the conversation.
01:51:33
Speaker 2: We would love to. It's been a hot spot previously.
01:51:36
Speaker 3: Is the Simon Smart the judge You've got attacked by the blokeep totally out of the blue, attacked at Ville Gardens with a pole broad daylight in a very charitable act. The judge said he's not going to press charges against the bloke. Remains to be seen whether the police still go ahead because they have the discretion.
01:51:54
Speaker 2: To do that. But some of the stories we've heard would make your hair stand on end. Not that it was as serious as that, but I had a family member that was walking through there a number of years ago that someone some drunken lf which jumped on their back.
01:52:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of concern about the needle exchange program as well and some of the drug addult people that it's the residents say is acting like a bit of a bit of a magnet for people who have got in some cases massive issues. Spare of thought though for the people of only part. Greg says Victoria Avenue would have to be one of the worst roads. It's so hard to get your car in and out of those double gates during peak out traffic.
01:52:40
Speaker 2: You always get your driver to do it for you. I guess move the Bentley, I can't get there. Yeah, can be really one of the real inconveniences of living in the most exclusive streak in Adelaide makes it hard to get the sturt games. Oh well, I mean you wiz oh the humanity Tomorrow, that'll be tomorrow boarding. We'll talk more about whitmore square metre Friday feedback Friday as well. Always have a lot of fun on Fridays. We'd love you to be part of it. And what we would love to is to have a morning where we don't have to talk about the fact that there is issues on the freeway. Hey little just a little bit of housekeeping as well. There is rain in one official gauge in Adelaide this morning at Plimpton Park. I believe zero point one mills officially, so whilst none in the West Terrace gauge, which means we are still on for our consecutive streak of rainless days. The history books will say, yes, you were imagining it. There was a little smattering of rain this morning. Eighteen is the day to break the record. Eighteen. Yeh, I'm cheering for us not to get this record. No same. Can it please rain sometime soon? All right? That's all from us. Stick around. Graham Goodings is coming up after nine o'clock and we'll catch you tomorrow morning. From six.
01:54:00
Speaker 17: In the troub bouncing home the sun, persistful of thing.
01:54:08
Speaker 2: This is three, really nowhere, he's SERI not upstairs.
01:54:15
Speaker 21: This is true,
Speaker 1: Live from Heinmar Square. It's five double a Breakfast. Deevin Fanbervie and Will.
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Speaker 2: Goodies sive it after six. Good morning to you and welcome to Thursday and five double A Breakfast. The fifth of the headline is this though we've had some rain or a shower or a patter anyway, water fell from the sky briefly this morning. The question is god to beat? Is it enough to have filled the gauge on West Terrace in any way that says we have had rain officially for the first time in twenty twenty six, certainly first time about it on the windscreen driving in this morning on the program. We'll try to work that out with the bureau. Also coming up this extra are you across this extraordinary case of the Australian TV host in the United States, Savannah Guthrie, whose mother has been was kidnapped and there appears to be some sort of a ransom demand and be the equivalent in Australia of Koshi host hosting Sunrise and one of his parents gets taken by who knows who and disappears off the street. We're going to talk about that story with Rob Scott from seven News very very shortly. Also coming up the beer excise. We've talked about this. How many years have we been doing the show, eleven years? Beer excise has gone up every single one of those. It goes up with CPI, well, perhaps no more. We'll talk about that after six thirty today. Also coming up, tragic story of a loss of home in the Deep Creek bush fire. Matt Abraham's going to come on the program. When I took the Great Henry Young documentary? And should people over on the Peninsula get compensation because their power is so reliably unreliable? All issues were broached this morning on five Double A Breakfast. David Penberthy, good morning to.
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Speaker 3: You, Good morning, well, good morning listeners. Now I was sound asleep and I heard this. That's funny. The air condition must must have overheated. There's this sort of windy wishing sound, or maybe one of the women in the house has left the hair dryer on.
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Speaker 2: What is that?
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Speaker 4: Shhh?
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Speaker 3: We hang on, that's rain, that's none of that's made up. I thought there's something something weird happening.
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Speaker 2: I had the same reaction. I went, is someone sprinkler on next door? Yeah? Or is it quite broken? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, I wondered to the to the edge of being outside to go hang, Oh no, it's it's that old fashioned rain thing. Remarkable and apparently it's what I was thinking as was driving. Is this just going to be a localized, you know, western suburbs thing.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Rob's texted in saying there was a two minute burst of rain in nord Luke, a bit of rain in Queenstown. I mean that's sort of northwest dish. But so you got it. You got it your neck of the woods. We certainly got it our neck of the woods. So it would probably be over this. If it's made it to Nord it stretched over the city. I on how far east it went. Did anyone in the hills get any rain this morning? Well?
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Speaker 3: Has anyone got enough to register in the gate?
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Speaker 2: Yes?
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Speaker 3: Listen to Sam and Ned on the way in. It doesn't sound like it. I don't think there's any more rain around now, is there? There's not unexpected later? No, there's nothing. There's absolutely nothing on the forecast. I don't think this was for the rest.
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Speaker 2: We might still be a are you cheering on the record now? Ah? What's only what is it Feb nineteen is that we need to get to be just having a look at the seven day forecast, and I lie Tuesday and Wednesday, there's rain forecast nothing significant, zero to one mills Tuesday, zero to two on Wednesday, and again zero millimeters is So this is the way that I'll use the I'll use the Bureau's convoluted verbiage twenty five percent chants of at least two millimeters of rain on Wednesday. So you see in this there's a twenty there's a seventy five percent chance we won't get two millimeters of rain. So work that out. How far east did the rain get, Folks, north south? Did you have you had any in the last hour? And well, let's be honest before anyone any pedant texts in, Yes, it wasn't a rain event. Maybe it doesn't even qualify as a shower, but water have did descend from the sky, and that hasn't happened very much for quite some time. Let's go to Kadena. Kim, Good morning, Good morning, God, here are you good? Thank you? Kim.
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Speaker 5: I'm in a track. I'm just leaving Caneen and I're heading toward down Ladle Paul Wakefield and out over to my right there's just one big road cloud and you can see the rain just streaming out of it. Really probably about Clinton Center or somewhere.
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Speaker 2: We've we've found the culprit. Good on your kid, well, magnificent work. Thank you kid. Let's go to Mondray Heights. Debbie, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Hi, it's only just started the rain here and it sounds like it's quite steady.
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Speaker 3: Oh that's good, Debbie said. How many minutes have been going for? How many minutes have been going for?
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Speaker 2: Though? Debbie? Probably about fine, okay, really starting that.
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Speaker 7: He's off a little bit, but it's.
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Speaker 8: Still going that.
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Speaker 2: That's good. I mean five minutes of rain in Adelaide, and it feels like it feels like a news story, doesn't it. You tuned into this and they go what Michael and Roster, good morning.
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Speaker 9: The dogs and I are walking the dusty tracks of Morio to trails.
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Speaker 2: Are you getting wet? Michael?
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Speaker 10: No, I said, dusty trail.
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Speaker 2: Dusty, no moisturing.
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Speaker 9: See, we're kicking out dust. And by the way, when I turned on the radio this morning radio, you know the app rain, I thought, am I going back in time? Like a couple of years ago, we had the same conversation again and we were talking about no rain at the west West, the west Perish rain gauge. I thought, hang on, is this a playback of the old story, And I thought, rain, there's no rain.
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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
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Speaker 9: Come on, well, it's all very drying in roster of Morio.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So it hasn't quite made it that far, Michael, thank you. So we got it so of appreciable sense. It sounds like maybe it's extending further north and south than it is east west at the moment.
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Speaker 3: I just checked back on the text that Ben Jordan sent the other day. We've got to make it to February eighteen or beat the record, which is from nineteen oh six. That was the lowest combined December January rainfall nineteen oh six, well.
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Speaker 2: As third as a point of definition and clarification, that's important here for the record purpose. Ben Jordan's texted in on zero before eight zero, eight thirty ninety five, and he says no rain in the west Terrace gauge at six am. Well that's the official rule. That's all that counts. Yeah, exactly. It is remarkable that we can have a system sophisticated in twenty twenty six you know, when we have AI bots planning to do the jobs of most normal intelligent people. Yet you and I can walk outside of our homes, feel water on our brain and our face from a cloud, Yet our official instrumentation says, no, you experienced no rain that day.
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Speaker 3: Well, bit like occasionally the ball hits the stumps in cricket, but the bales don't fall off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this feels it's less occasional than that. Sorry, that feels less occasional than this. Yeah, but it's got to be there to be measured, and it's like a graham of Yeah, but you and I both knew it happened, and then a week from now will be going it will still no rain.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you just think it did. It's like some broken mirror, yeah episode.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, some sort of David Lynch kind of film.
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Speaker 3: What about yesterday during the show, I got a text from Kate saying I think I've just been electrocuted in the shower and I was busy at work.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well that's no good. Are you all right? Obviously that's shocking us. Sorry, you take the man out of newspapers. Yeah, but that's right. We've paid the big bucks.
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Speaker 3: That's sort of a pub work anyway, Okay, I was doing some riding yesterday and she ran me up. She goes, you know, I've just been reflecting on that. That is probably kind of significant, isn't it? That I got a zap in the shower? And she did a Google surge on it and straight away essay, Pound Networks if you get zapped ever holding handles in the shower or anything like that at home, ring this number, and I was like, I was in the middle of writing something and I thought, well, no, actually, there shouldn't be any sort of distinction between were you slightly electrocuted or significantly a.
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Speaker 2: Little bit of an electrication.
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Speaker 3: If there's power running through your house somehow, then clearly there's something wrong. SA Power Networks. The guy who came around the black called Justin. This guy was like the the Winston Wolf of electrics.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel better now? Oh? There was there for about three hours.
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Speaker 3: But interestingly, when I rang the number and the woman on the phone said life threatening emergency hotline, and I went I said, hey, sorry, I Open not one of those people who's going to clog up the line, because the only.
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Speaker 2: Reason I'm ringing is that this morning.
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Speaker 3: My wife got an electric shock in the shower while she was having a shower. And then he goes, oh, no, sir, absolutely, this is the number you should be ringing.
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Speaker 2: They took it so seriously. But this justin Blake. We really hit it off.
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Speaker 3: We worked out had common interest in music and being to the same gigs over the years and everything else. They said a track out because they thought that it was in the actual Stabi pole and I know what the bits and pieces are called, but a lot of this stuff's a really old gear. In the end, this guy, after hours, he worked out that there's like electricity comes into your house and then it goes out again. They ask me to explain it.
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Speaker 2: It was the guy. It was like talking to.
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Speaker 3: Albert Einstein or maybe Thomas Edison. He invented electricity, didn't he Edison invented the light bulb. Anyway, he's giving me this real high endex P.
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Speaker 2: The ACDC guy, I think, not the music, the alternate current direct current guy for those about the rock, we salute you.
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Speaker 3: But there's this old bit of copper wire, really old that had just gone green and it was frayed.
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Speaker 2: It was rusted as well. That was part of the wiring that took the electricity away from the house that was hidden under this cover that it just totally cooked. And he came out and he went, dadda wow, but the dead set. They took it so seriously. They had a crew there with a cherry picker to get up there into the the wiring on the STABU pile.
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Speaker 3: And I just thought, I know that for York Peninsula people you might be listening, go well, lucky you mate, because we've been putting up with endless power outages here. But I just thought in such a situation that they took so seriously because I said, no, these things can potentially.
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Speaker 2: Be quite how frightening. So the origin was not in your home. The origin of the issue was out in st Yeah. Yeah, and it led to you being electrocuted, well, being electrocuted.
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Speaker 11: In the shower.
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Speaker 3: I actually think I actually think it ended up being being our wiring on the house but connecting it back to the street.
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Speaker 2: Okay, right, but it's the kind of thing that an electrician wouldn't find that. No, somebody knows the infrastructure needs to fine. Yeah, if any our listeners about anything similar to that, apparently it's really quite common. Anyone being electrocuted. I reckon A lot of our listeners would have had little apps. Eight double two three is the number, not like no No. I got electrocuted in Mexico thanks to some remarkably bad workmanship in a cheap hotel. I turned on the shower. It was in Puerto ors Candida and this doss house. It would have cost ten dollars a night. But there was a light bulb socket in the shower. Okay, that's I'm no electrician, but that would seem to be problematic funny places to put a line bulb.
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Speaker 3: So I go to the shower, turned it on, and I was looking at this thing and some water ran onto it like this, So I kind of have to shower straight.
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Speaker 2: Away and anyway dry it off. And I went downstairs and I spoke to the people of the count.
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Speaker 3: I just got electrocuted in the shower, and they just they said, ah, yeah, we meant to say, you've got to turn off that. There's a switch on the wall where the light bulb goes. You're gonna turn the switch. I said, why is there a light bulb socket in the shower?
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Speaker 2: Out gave we forgot the before the bags will be brought up. You'll pay for everything in the mini bar. This is how the key operates. And by the way, please flip the I don't want to be electrocuted in the shower switch before you get in. You get what you pay for.
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Speaker 1: Deep in pen Birthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Two minutes after six. Got some terrific news about the future of Bedfit Industries yesterday with the can completion of the deal that will see the jobs they're secured into the future. As the Premier set at his press conference, it's the end of this period of uncertainty now, which is wonderful news for our friends that worked there and listeners like David and aberfall Park. David, good morning to you.
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Speaker 12: Good morning, David. How are you this morning, guy?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Good, thanks David. This is happy news, mate. You must all be so relieved.
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Speaker 12: I was yesterday morning guy, who was fantastic just to see the new owners came and.
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Speaker 2: It was just for us.
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Speaker 12: Our jobs have been saved. It was really fantastic for all of us.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Has there been a few people though, who had lost their jobs over the last year with some of the changes that have been made.
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Speaker 12: I'm not too sure to be honest, we had a few of those meetings at the moment. I'm not really too short at the moment, Dave. Yeah, yeah, I know he's not too short at the moment.
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Speaker 3: So, but that that new owner, he sounds like a good guy and he sounds like he's committed to Bedford for the long haul, doesn't he.
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Speaker 12: That's correct, Yeah, because we all had I think we all had to get together yesterday morning and all the meeting was there. It was just really good. Dog's been saved. But as you have the owners now to take it over for us now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, well that's good news. David.
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Speaker 3: What sort of work are you doing? What sort of work are you doing at Bedford at the moment.
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Speaker 12: Mate, Well, we're doing the part at the moment. We're doing the doggie teekers, both the piggies at the moment. We've been very busy at the moment, everything.
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Speaker 2: Done from the Omen shops.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, they've been very been very busy for us. Now things don't really pick up a bit now, Yeah, extremely busyess place at the moment.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's excellent. Ye's day. We're really happy for you, mate, and for all of your friends there at Bedford.
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Speaker 12: Good on you dog, you have a good morning.
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Speaker 2: You tell thanks day here. That's a terrific story, a really concerning and frightening story out of the United States affects a TV host by the name of Savannah Guffrey. Was born in Melbourne here in Australia incidentally, and now works as a sort of on NBC doing a Sunrise style role. She was going to be heavily involved in the Winter Olympics coverage as well. That's all been put on hold because it appears her mother was kidnapped. Rob Scott from the Seven Years US Bureau joins us. Rob, what do we know about the disappearance of Savannah's mother?
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Speaker 13: Now, yeah, look a very intriguing and concerning story of this. So Nancy Guthrie eighty four years old. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. Last time she was seen alive was on Saturday when her son in law dropped her off at her home in Tucson. She didn't turn up to church the next day on Sunday, and you know that's very out of characters. So family reported her missing. Since then, they have found what they say as signs of forced entry at her home, even some blood at the house, and police was saying now that they believe she was taken against her will and her life could be in jeopardy. They are chasing down a number of leads. But when the sheriff spoke at a media conference recently, he really painted the picture that they have no idea where she is, who took her, or why. And in the last few days, several media outlets here in the US, including TV stations and TMZ, that celebrity website, have received what they say are unverified ransom notes, reportedly from the kidnappers, demanding millions of dollars in Bitcoin for the safe return of the grandmother. Look police looking into those, as I say, they're unverified, but they say that they have no suspects at this stage, although there is some reporting around today here in the US that that son in law who dropped her off at her home is potentially a suspect, although police are also trying to play that down a bit. So they don't really know where she is, who took her, or why. But as you say, she is the mother of Savannah Guthrie born in Melbourne. As you mentioned, she is one of the most famous faces on Breakfast TV here in the United States, she hosts co hosts, as you say, Sunrise style breakfast TV program So that's really adding to the intrigue of all this. And perhaps one of the angles that the police looking into is maybe there was some threat to her that led to her mother being captured, although they haven't revealed that at this stage. So, you know, the sheriff, he looked pre overwhelmed when he faced the media yesterday. He's never had to deal with anything like this in his career. And you know, they really have no clue as to why this has happened.
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Speaker 3: I presume, Rob obviously that Savannah is not appearing on TV at the moment, and she made any excitements about it at all.
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Speaker 13: No, you're right, she's off here. And as you mentioned in the introduction, she was supposed to be heavily involved in the NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics. She's since pulled out of that. No public statements other than a post on Instagram really calling for prayer for her mum. She and her mother are very religious, and you know, she's just asking for everyone to support her through prayer. So other than that, we haven't heard from her and we haven't seen her, but she's pulled out of the Winter Olympics to be here as police scramble to try and find her mum, who apparently, according to them, is is pretty unwell. Not only is she elderly at eighty four, but she has to take daily medication which she needs to survive, and it's been four days now that she hasn't had that medication. So the top the clock is really ticking on this one.
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Speaker 3: Just a horrible story, Thank you, Rob. Rob Scott there for Channel seven in San Francisco.
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Speaker 2: Sixteen point six degrees outside of the city, heading for a top of thirty two. We've had reports of a smattering of rain around the suburbs, orbit none in the West Terrace rain gage, so it doesn't officially count. Tomorrow thirty three. They expected top Saturday thirty five. That'll be the hottest of the days. Ahead Sunday thirty three, thirty one, Monday to start next week thirty four Tuesday, possible shower, says the forecast twenty nine on Wednesday of next week.
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Speaker 3: Getting a lot of blunt feedback from bloke. So unlike me, don't have soft hands and know how things work, Rob says, I think electricity always existed. Dave Thomas Editson. Thomas Edison just discovered how to harness it. Not to be nitpicky. And also Brian Likely says Dave, just for correctness to be electrocuted, it means to be killed by electricity electric shot.
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Speaker 2: So it's like drowned. Yeah, if you drowned, you are Yeah, you know more, we can't. I drowned it a little bit today. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a fair clarification. Thank you, guys. I made that mistake as well. Tom RNs of the five Double a breakfast year. Everybody, you're ready morning boys.
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Speaker 14: Winter Olympics are about to start, Fellas, and we had look, I know a lot of people were going, oh, I'm not sure I care or not, but I've done a bit of a preview and our flag bearers were an outstayver night. So Jakara, Anthony, Matt Grahame. It starts in a few days time, fairbait and just looking at some of the events and how the Aussies will go. So just a bit of a brief stap shot for you. We've won nineteen medals in the past. We were the first nation in the Southern Hemisphere to win a gold medal. That was in two thousand and two. Remember Stephen Bradbree who could forget, and then Alyssa Kamplon, so they are are two. And then the next Southern hemisphere.
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Speaker 2: The whole Southern hemisphere did a bradbe back in two thousand and two. I didn't realize.
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Speaker 14: And no one won a gold medal from the Southern Hemisphere until twenty twenty two other than us.
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Speaker 2: So we've slowly There is a lot of snow in the sun in heavy you, that's right, and we've gotten better.
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Speaker 14: So nineteen ninety four was when we won We won our first medal that was a team's event, a relay five thousand meter skating. Then nineteen ninety eight another individual medal for the first time Zalie Stegl, who's still in politics, I think. And then we won two medals in two, two, in six ten, in three in twenty ten, three in twenty fourteen, three in twenty eighteen, four in twenty twenty two. So how many medals will we get this time around? Well, I reckon, there's genuinely eight to ten medal chances in events like the monobob Have you heard of that.
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Speaker 2: That's the monobob. So that sounds like a dance routine from the eighties, It doesn't it.
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Speaker 14: It's like the we've all seen call runnings, the four man bobs led. This is a one person bob's led, so.
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Speaker 2: It sounds over fun. That be the monobob.
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Speaker 14: There's some really dangerous cool sports. I reckon in the window Olympics. Bree walkers in that. We've got a freestyle skier in the half pipe. She's our youngest, sixteen, Indra Brown. Keep an eye on her. The two flag bearers, Anthony Matt Graham, they could win as well. So I'm putting the over unders. Will you're just asking me.
00:21:06
Speaker 2: Before four and a half. Finally half, I think we'll win, and I'm going over.
00:21:09
Speaker 14: I think we'll win five medals.
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Speaker 2: In the curling, I don't know.
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Speaker 14: Well, I'm sure we've got a curling team. The events I'm looking forward to. My favorite event is the ski jumping. You know where they go down the massive brand and they go I think it's about eighty meters they go, Can you I mentione, Hey, mum, dad, I want to do this ski jumping.
00:21:26
Speaker 2: It's so for me to the other side of home Spreer totally. It's it's mad based on all the information you just gave us about the history in the Southern Hemisphere. Any I'm smashing the under thank you. I reckon if you did, if you did go down that same thing.
00:21:37
Speaker 3: You want to have had a couple yes at fifteen when you jump off the roof of the house, ba, you don't want to do.
00:21:43
Speaker 2: It when you're getting in the box letter or whatever. Joking folk. At least they'll be clothed.
00:21:55
Speaker 1: Five double a Breakfast deep in pen Bervie and Will Goodings.
00:22:04
Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes to seven. There might be the end to one of the longest running campaigns on five double a Breakfast, the twice yearly indexation of the beer x I S. We're to talk about that in just a moment, but first, Chris in Surrey Downs is on the line. Chris, you got any rain there in Surrey Downs. Yeah.
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Speaker 15: I've going out of the kitchen and there's a bit of padded and looked out at the back and it was coming down for a while, probably about ten minutes. But looking out the front again it's blue sky and syrus cloud. So I don't know. We should make up its mind. But the definitely tell it's rain because of the road out of the front swat they're true.
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Speaker 2: So are you You don't have a rain gauge, do you, Chris?
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Speaker 15: No, No, it would I doubt very much. With it be enough to get in there, but it was enough to know that I could hear it from inside. Yeah, hitting on the pa gola and everything.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good experience. Isn't enough to say long without any Yeah, it calls.
00:23:01
Speaker 15: It down a bit, you know, you open up all the doors and windows and let the breeze blow through.
00:23:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely good stuff. Christ all right, Dave and South Brighton, Good morning, honny guys.
00:23:13
Speaker 16: Whether the report from South Brighton is as dry as a as you could describe on radio. It's unbelievable. And it hasn't been a drop. I've just come out in the driveway. There's not a drop of any dust or anything on the windscreen. Absolutely try And the other reason I rang too, You were talking about electrical issues through caps and things like that. It's really important if you feel tingling through your cats to get it checked out. Potential leaking earth and it can be fatal. There was a young girl. I think it may have been Fort Lincoln or some four periods a few years quite a few years ago. Now that I actually killed her with a chop, it's really important to get checked out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, as I said, das a power straight onto it. They arrived within two hours as it. Don't go in there, you know, don't have a shower, don't use the taps. And they did take it extremely seriously. And as I said, justin the blaker came out, couldn't have been any more thorough he was.
00:24:17
Speaker 2: He was a gun.
00:24:19
Speaker 16: Oh yeah, they have looser connections on the stoby poles that just comes back through the water pipe. So yeah, susly it's not a minor issue.
00:24:30
Speaker 2: No, no, exactly, good cold day, thank you mate. The Albanezi government is it looks like they will have enough support to pause the indexation of customs duty rates for draft beer for two years. The layman's language for this is your beer prices went up twice every year in line with inflation. So whenever we talked about inflation three point seven, two point nine, whatever it might well have been, it's all been above two the three percent. As we know at the moment, that was the price that was being artificially added on to the to the to when you went and bought a beer twice every year.
00:25:07
Speaker 3: So does the government does the application of x scise which makes the price of beer go up, Does that then become something that's factored into the reserve banks thinking about inflation?
00:25:17
Speaker 2: They go, I hang on, all that's that's there's something else that's gone.
00:25:20
Speaker 3: So the government through its own excise is actually creating inflation.
00:25:24
Speaker 2: It inflation double or's a double whammy then, because it's so, this is how much everything's going up, So let's whack up beer by that amount artificially twice per year. Well it's going to be paused for a couple of years, which, frankly it should just be done away with all together. I think. Martin Palmer from Palmer Hotel Group joins us.
00:25:43
Speaker 17: I imagine you agree, Martin absolutely, morning guys and to your listeners, Yeah no, Look, it's if it can find its way through to legislation. I think it would be a fantastic thing for pub for pub drink as well. We might not see an effect immediately, we certainly will over two years. And as you rightly point out, I mean it's almost like a multiplier effect on inflation, and obviously it's a massive multiplayer effect on the price of beer in pubs, people that like to drink in pubs, which is which is a really important point too. I think that it's an acknowledgment that, you know, the cultural role that pubs pubs play and we need to keep that relevant.
00:26:29
Speaker 2: Well, two things are a statistical fact, people have never drunk less since we've recorded it, and people are less sociable than they've ever been. There are huge social arguments in favor of not putting up cost barriers to this kind of behavior.
00:26:43
Speaker 17: Well, look, I mean the one place that people can definitely drink and do drink responsibly are in licensed venues, and I mean that's a really important point. Let's not forget that about seventy percent of all alcohol is actually brought takeaway, so it's consumed in backyards and barbecues, which is fantastic, but it was also consumed in homes and that's where a lot of damage can possibly happen. So, you know, the more that we encourage people to get back and drink responsible in hotels is a win for all of those things.
00:27:15
Speaker 2: I think it's just getting ridiculous.
00:27:18
Speaker 3: I mean you know, I think back to thirty years ago. If you spoke to mates had been to Europe, they go craky. You know, I bought a beer in London. You wouldn't believe it. It was seven dollars or something. You know, remember people used to marvel at how expensive drinks were. Like, I can't think of a country I don't know, maybe Brunei, where you know, places have got shahi. A law might make it more expensive deliberately on policy grounds. But I can't think of any other part of the world that where beer is more expensive than Australia.
00:27:47
Speaker 2: Like in Barcelona. I was there a few years back in the July break, a beer was like three euros. Not really good hotels, it's not six bucks. What would what's the average price of a pint over the bark the moment? Do you reckon Martin?
00:28:02
Speaker 17: Between ten and ten and twelve dollars broadly depending on where you go. But I mean I've got I've got sons who are in their twenties, and I mean I see it firsthand that the front of mind is it's too expense. You know, sometimes it's too expensive to go to the pub. They can't, they can't can't do it all the time, but they want to be social and they want to go out, so they they tend to, you know what, they what's generally known as pre load, which is not fantastic sometimes and and then and then might go out for a while. But you know which is which is And it also drives them away to I'm not saying it's been sorry my sons, of course, but you know, generally it can drive them away from from a sort of less impactful alcohol too. That beers five percent, four and a half five percent, things are there twelve thirteen percent.
00:28:52
Speaker 10: That's not healthy either necessarily.
00:28:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no, that's that's very true. Everything you say.
00:28:57
Speaker 3: Martin, Martin Palmer, they're managing director for the Palmer Hotel Group. Thanks for joining us this morning. It is just ridiculous, isn't it?
00:29:04
Speaker 2: How expensive it's gone. Well, this is it's a good example of the kind of thing. Maybe it was broad in a time when alcohol consumption was was growing at a rate, there was real health public health concerns about it, and so much and so forth. But when these measures are brought in, it's really hard for governments to wean them off them, wing themselves off them. When they become a revenue stream and there is no public health imperative for this anymore.
00:29:25
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I would say I was talking about about this yesterday. He texted in about it.
00:29:30
Speaker 2: The fact that Australia is still has a luxury car tax tells you all you need to know. Well, that's another it's a classic example Australia.
00:29:37
Speaker 3: The reason we have a luxury car tax is to defend the domestic production of motor vehicles. It's to keep places like Mitsubishi.
00:29:47
Speaker 2: And Holden afloat. Yeah, like getting rid of a tax is like getting chewing our manage. Temporary temporary measures for governments that are revenue streams are like temporary hits for drug addicts. It's like, no, no, just this one, Yeah, just this one. I just need one more fixed. Yeah, that's right, just one more little bit of one more bump of luxury car tags.
00:30:07
Speaker 3: These treasures the equivalent of the people lying in some Highley street alleyways stretching their arms.
00:30:14
Speaker 2: There's a cartoon there. Let's end to the weather Bureau and talk about this. Whether Chris Kent is on Judy. Now, Chris, from your perspective, there's been no rain, has there.
00:30:24
Speaker 18: If you look at the observations, we've seen very little. But if you look out the window, the roads are a little bit wet. So yeah, we've had a few little light showers moved through this morning. We have recorded point two of a millimeter at Black Hill, but yeah, pretty brief. The nice sunrise this morning with the rain curtains as the Yeah, the showers go over the hills, but yeah, a little unexpected. But yeah, it looks like it's mostly done and dusted.
00:30:59
Speaker 2: Now. So where did you say, Black Hill, Chris?
00:31:04
Speaker 18: Yes, yeah, point two of a millimeter, so just enough to register.
00:31:09
Speaker 2: But nothing at all in the city, No, not that we've.
00:31:13
Speaker 18: Recorded in our observation. So yeah, very very light, and we were reasonably localized as well. So yeah, point two of a millimeter is more than you think, really, especially when we haven't had much rain for quite a long time.
00:31:28
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and still drive for the next week ahead.
00:31:34
Speaker 18: Yeah, still looking at pretty dry conditions across Adelaide. Maximum of thirty two degrees today, those temperatures increasing a little bit as we head into the weekend, reaching thirty five by Saturday. And yeah, then sort of pretty much sitting sort of around that thirty degree mark for much of early next week, so not a lot of change in the weather for Adelaide. Possibly some fresh winds about the hills tonight, may probably most likely the southern suburbs. Potentially a little bit of some gully winds developing, but nothing like we saw last week with that big event that brought down a lot of trees. So that's really the only thing that's really interested with the weather at the moment. I'm across Adelaide.
00:32:23
Speaker 2: No is Chris good on you, Thank you Chris Kent from the Weather Bureau. All right, let's say the same pass and you comestable Jen Callen and joins us. Jen. There's been a truck crash at Krafer's.
00:32:31
Speaker 19: Yes, that has good morning, and there's going to be delayed on the outbound up track again this morning.
00:32:38
Speaker 2: Our poor Bill's listeners.
00:32:41
Speaker 20: Yeah, I know, and.
00:32:42
Speaker 19: People will effect obviously coming into the city because they'll be looking to see what's happening on the up track. But it all happened just after three o'clock this morning. We were called to the freeway at Cleveland after a b double truck which is actually broken down and stopped on the side of the freeway was side swiped by another passing truck. That truck then collided into the cliff face. So the drivers luckily weren't seriously injured, but one of them was taken to hospital. Now we've got a tow truck on scene, but it will take some time before those trucks can be removed of the freeway, so that uptrack of the freeways down to one lane. So we're asking for everybody to please be patient, be nice to each other.
00:33:21
Speaker 2: Turn your radio on absolutely what a muzzle jin.
00:33:26
Speaker 3: Also, two people have been arrested in the stolen car down at Christie's Beak.
00:33:29
Speaker 19: Yeah, and that was just after two thirty this morning. Police spotted a Mini Cooper on Commercial Road at Salisbury and attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver refused. Apollair was called in to assist, and the vehicle made its way through the western and southern suburbs and eventually about quartaster three, the vehicle was successfully spiked on South Road at Edwardstown, but it continued onto the Expressway, where it all alleged that it reached the speeds of one hundred and seventy kilometers an hour, and the vehicle eventually came to a stop on Witton Road at Christie's Beach, where the driver and passenger ran, but they were caught quickly hiding in some nearby gardens. They're an eighteen year old man and a thirty one year old woman the driver. The man has been charged with the legal youth dangerous driving an extreme speed and he's going to find himself in court today and the passenger, she's going to find herself a court march.
00:34:22
Speaker 3: Good police work there, Jen Senior Constable with Jen Callenman from Safe.
00:34:26
Speaker 2: I just got a text from a mate who lives up in the Hills all caps. Oh, for Pete's sake, he didn't use the word peak.
00:34:33
Speaker 1: David pen Berthe and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:34:40
Speaker 2: Sixty seven. I'll get the latest on the Deep Creek fire in just a moment. Lots of good tics coming through someone here says and guys. Back in nineteen seventy three, I bought five schooners for one dollar. I was under age. Then the price went up to four schooners for one dollar. When it got the thirty cents a schooner, we were going to give up beer. We never did. Dross and Top Pub lovely work. Thank you for that. Ticks. I like this because we like to solve problems on five double A Bretwist, Paul and McGill. And he's put his name to it, which is brave. He's texted saying Lad's question without notice is this a male versus female thing? Or is it non gender specific? I get in trouble for leaving the pegs on the clothes line. I figure the pegs are then they're ready for and handy for the next load of washing, rather than looking for the peg basket curious to know pegs left on or pegs taken off. I think we can solve this, folks. Eight double two three double O double O. See.
00:35:34
Speaker 3: I worry with Paul's strategy there, and really comes down to the type of peg we're talking about. If they are your old fashioned wooden pegs, maybe, but plastic pegs sitting in the sun that a snap. They get brittle in sunlights.
00:35:49
Speaker 2: Part of the fun, isn't it? And he's like, fun, Yeah, the one peg. Hello, who's in there? Nobody? Yeah, that's what's going on here. That's the cycle of peg life, though, is it. Yeah, that's sustaining clip A single size it's why it costs six tenths of a cent to make a peg. Will you get what you pay for? You absolutely do.
00:36:08
Speaker 3: But you know, I think Paul's really you know, that's peg craziness what you're suggesting, Paul.
00:36:14
Speaker 2: Oh, I know. I'm on Paul's side. Album with you. This is it says like the kind of fight we have in my household. It's efficiency versus aesthetics, and I always fall on the side of efficiency, Paul. So I'm with you. Leave those pegs on, good Man. So if someone's texted it is saying I leave the pegs on. My missus hates it too. Helen says, pegs off, pegs on, are off? Folks eight double two three double o double oh. In the meantime, let's go and cross down to some serious business on the Fleur are at the Deep Creek fire, which gee whiz, how cfairs have been fighting this for days now. Steve Salomon is the state duty commander. Steve, good morning, what's the state of play at four to seven this morning?
00:36:55
Speaker 21: Good morning, Thank you for having me on. So we have seen the fire continue to increase overnight. We're at three four hundred hectares at the moment as it's burning through the Deep Creek National Park, certainly in areas that are extremely steep and inaccessible to cruise at the moment. We have an advice message Stay informed advice message in place for this far at the moment for in the area of Deep Creek, Silverton Blowhole, Beach Road, and Delamere in the Southern Ferria Peninsula, and we're asking residents and people in the area to keep us informed as they possibly can. While this fire is not posing any immediate threats to life and property, it could at any stage, with strong gully winds and turbulent conditions down there, jump out of the containment lines that we've got in place and could pose a risk to the community throughout the day today.
00:37:47
Speaker 3: Well, we'll keep an eye on Steven. You guys are all doing great work down there. Hopefully weather conditions remain as favorable as possible. Steve Saloman, the CFS State Duty Commander.
00:37:59
Speaker 2: Mark on Gapringer Hills, has got a traffic update for us. Mark, what's happening.
00:38:04
Speaker 16: Yeah, you go, guys, there's a cyclist who's been clicked. Un Fortunately on doesn't look good, guys, So I think there's going to be banking up there very shortly. It's donely.
00:38:15
Speaker 2: Just happened by the little cricky. All right, thank you for letting us know, Mark, and thank you for letting our listeners know. We'll keep an eye on that one, and any information that comes to hand will bring it to your life. Here this morning, Andrew and Williamstown. Pigs on or pigs off?
00:38:29
Speaker 13: Oh, good morning, gentlemen.
00:38:31
Speaker 6: I'm really sorry bad to start the day eye rolling, David.
00:38:35
Speaker 22: No, it doesn't matter what type of pigg it is.
00:38:37
Speaker 17: They come off.
00:38:37
Speaker 9: And the reason for that is when you hang the clothes up, you don't have to move them all, so you leave them.
00:38:43
Speaker 2: You leave them out there. Andrea, of course they have.
00:38:47
Speaker 6: To come off the line so that when you hang the clothes out again, you're not trying to work around all these pegs that your husband's left up there because you couldn't got one.
00:38:56
Speaker 2: I agree with you. I agree with you, Andrew take them in every time.
00:39:00
Speaker 20: Oh good good.
00:39:01
Speaker 6: I just thought you mentioned it depends what kind of peg.
00:39:04
Speaker 2: No, no, no, well you know what I mean about the ones that break. There's nothing worse than a broken peg.
00:39:09
Speaker 23: Well that's why you buy good pegs.
00:39:12
Speaker 2: Thank you, Andrew, that's excellent. Wendy and Elizabeth, good morning.
00:39:16
Speaker 20: Yeah, good morning, Hi guys. How are you?
00:39:18
Speaker 2: Yes? Good? Thank you Wendy.
00:39:20
Speaker 22: Listen, I'm an oldie.
00:39:22
Speaker 5: Pegs on.
00:39:23
Speaker 6: I can't be bothered putting them in a bag anymore.
00:39:29
Speaker 2: That's a victory for efficiency. Sue in South Blipton, good morning. Hi.
00:39:34
Speaker 22: I know they get brittle, but I leave them on.
00:39:38
Speaker 6: Can't be bothered with a peg basket and the ming not the right and you can't.
00:39:42
Speaker 24: Find it, and yeah, I leave them on.
00:39:44
Speaker 2: Good. I'll tell you what I reckon that. The Paul wondered whether it might be a male v female It might be a call of v text because there's lots of pegs off people texting in at the moment.
00:39:53
Speaker 3: There are, there are, and it doesn't split clearly on gender lines either. We're getting a lot of women saying no, I'm on the pigs on kind of gal.
00:40:02
Speaker 2: Andy and Henley Beach, good morning on a chap are you good things? Andy?
00:40:06
Speaker 12: Okay, I do my civil duty and keep my way fitting healthy pegs on.
00:40:11
Speaker 2: Grass, Pegs on the grass on the grass, Well, I mean.
00:40:15
Speaker 12: Then she has to bend down and pick them up. The main exercise she gets phenomenal.
00:40:20
Speaker 2: Squat's worked clothes hagging grew too, thank you.
00:40:24
Speaker 3: Nobody texts about this, although Karen texted in saying.
00:40:29
Speaker 2: Is this what morning radios come to? Pegs on the clothes one?
00:40:32
Speaker 3: Karen, Yes, it has Karen, Frankly, would you have rather we spent the last ten minutes talking about I do know the excellent news that doctor Randa abdel Fatara is coming back. Yeah, and maybe the council will have its way according to some of its members, and give him a quarter of a million bucks. Do we talk about that instead?
00:40:51
Speaker 2: And also I thought the pigs were a happy reprieve. Was it culture? Was this is the people's program? Paul called in with a dilemma that he needed solving, and he do they call it when you were open? Sauce it? No, you crowdsauce it. Thank you, Paddy, crowdsource to solution from the tens of thousands of feet.
00:41:09
Speaker 3: Past, Karen, don't blame don't blame us for the content, blame yourself, exactly right.
00:41:14
Speaker 2: We only work here.
00:41:20
Speaker 1: Deep and pen Berthy and will goodies five, double a breakfast.
00:41:28
Speaker 2: Seven. Good morning to you if you're joining us for the first time on this Thursday to fit the February. The headliner is, we had something approximating rain earlier this morning across large parts of Adelaide. I say approximating rain because it didn't officially count, it didn't register in the bureau a sprinkle. We have enough anecdotal evidence to I think confirmed that there was water that did fall from the sky a little bit earlier, including on my windscreen on the way in. But otherwise you have to wait till mid late next week for the next A little bit of a little bit of rain that is that is this time actually officially forecast coming up Matt Abraham, a forecast that's going to be a lot of fun. Matt Abraham was wit close to the state election, the one nation polling Corey Bernardi. All sorts of stuff is happening on. Matt Abraham will be be licking his lips after seven thirty, so make sure you tune into that. And then a little bit later in the morning will we chatting about the Henry Young documentary. Have been giving away tickets to that all this week. The premiere starts this weekend, so that man too far ed. The man himself is going to be in the studio looking forward to that. That's going to be excellent. We spoke just before the break seven o'clock news with Steve Salomon, the State Duty Officer of the CFS, with an update on the Deep Creek fire. He gave us the broad brush overview. CFIS continued to fight this blaze, the fire ground increasing in size. Just remarkable that whilst everyone else has been eating, sleeping, waking up, going to bed, these guys have been out there fighting this fire. And over the course of the coverage of it, you hear things like, oh, there's been some structures lost or some some some buildings damaged. Well, when you hear the individual stories, those things are much more acute. Ashley and Cassie Edwards had to evacuate their home off Tent Rock Road at Deep Creek. Ashley Edwards stayed to fight the fire until tanks ran dry and then had to make a hasty getaway on his quad bike. Well they unfortunately they lost their property as a part of the fire. And Natasha Hunt, who's the Cassie Edwards sister, joins us on five to blawe breakfast now and Natasha, good morning to you.
00:43:31
Speaker 3: Good morning, So Tatasha, how are your sister and brother in law getting on at the moment.
00:43:37
Speaker 25: Look, they're very weary that have been up for pretty much three days straight. I think they're very stressed and just overwhelmed.
00:43:45
Speaker 17: At the moment.
00:43:47
Speaker 25: We did have the fire come through. The main front came through a Tuesday. They were very lucky. Ash had been and CASP for everyone, plus farming units, the offs had been there fighting the fire. Ash, you know, he implemented his fire plan, had been dumping all the water on top of his houses and things like that, but it just got too sketchy and they had to get out. The sheds to the side of the house is on fire. You know, they move their main belongings into a shipping container, thinking that would be more air tight because their homes, you know, an old converted dairy and things like that. But they've got a last saving phone call from the neighbor that was on the ridge on the other side and just said get out now the fire is ripping through. And my sister said, it just was crazy how it traveled hundreds of meters just in minutes, and you know, they had to get out. At that point, we had reports from the community that they had lost their home. They couldn't get in for another twenty four hours. We did get an update yesterday. Late last night they were allowed back into the proppery to have a look at what's occurred. So that completely lost all of their sheds, his workshop, his knife making equipment, mostly valuables. But what the miracle is the home is actually still standing even though besides of it were on fire when they left.
00:45:08
Speaker 2: Wow.
00:45:09
Speaker 25: Yeah, severely smoke damaged and you know, no water access. All their tanks are melted, So there's going to be so much having to be spent on infrastructure to get it up and running, be able to get back there.
00:45:21
Speaker 3: What about the shipping container with all of their positions and it was that Okay, no, it is cooked.
00:45:28
Speaker 25: I'm going to try and get an update on our social media because we've set up a go fund me given that we've had so many people in our community ask how they can support. My sister and her husband are incredible volunteers in our community. They run the Normanville News pageant. The men shed they're involved with are lions and rotary. You know, they would never absolutely ask for help. So the only way I, as a family member, felt I could help them, was you know, get their story out there and still put them by running in so fun.
00:46:00
Speaker 3: Well, it's very nice of you to do that. And if people who are listening want to make a contribution, how do they go about it?
00:46:08
Speaker 25: Well, it would be so incredible to support them because they've lost hundreds of thousands of dollars of infrastructure, infrastructure that we know their insurance isn't going to cover all of it at all. So there's a go from me and it's called help Cast and Ash Edwards Rebuild from the Deep Creeks Fire. It's on the go fund me page. Yeah, so any support, like the community locally has rallied behind them. You know, we're watching some of the donations coming in that are so generous. We know all the names that all people from our community. So even you know, if there's the broader community in South Australia can help support them, we would.
00:46:43
Speaker 20: Be so grateful.
00:46:44
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, hopefully people can chip in. You said Ash made had knife making equipment. Was he like an Artistan sort of yeh, knife maker.
00:46:55
Speaker 25: Yes, he's the most handy guy I've ever met, so he has probably a dream man k that well did have a man cave out there with all sorts of equipment. So he had a business called Celery Patch Knives and made I guess higher ends hand carved knives and among the whole heap of other things that he does out there, but that was one of his things that he ran from the farm. So you know, it used to be a market garden as well where he would grow organic celery and strawberries and things like that.
00:47:25
Speaker 2: So I'm looking at recovery. I've just called the website up Celery Patchfarm dot com dot au. Yeah, stunning those nights.
00:47:34
Speaker 3: This was a Japanese style chef's knives. Amazing carving knives look superb.
00:47:41
Speaker 25: The stuff that he made, Yeah, he's pretty incredible.
00:47:47
Speaker 2: Do you know did he lose the stock for the knives as well or are they still for sale?
00:47:53
Speaker 25: I imagine that he would have. I'm not sure if he had anything stored in the house, but look, to be honest, they're so overwhelmed at the moment. I think they've hardly taken stock when they got out to the property. Finally, last night, you know, they're out there putting hotspots again. We had mates coming with their farm units and the CFF again because they've got these huge pine trees that are overhanging the house that have been burnt out, so there's just so much brisks on their property. I don't think they were even thinking about, you know, the more material possession for sure, just worried about safety at the moment.
00:48:30
Speaker 3: Well, the main thing is that they are safe, so and hopefully we can get some people behind the go fund meet. Good on your Nataha for setting that up and thanks for joining.
00:48:38
Speaker 2: Us fourteen and after seven which had with SAPOL just before seven o'clock this morning, who told us there's a double whammy on the way for Hills commuters this boarding. There was a two car crash at just after six twenty which resulted in some traffic restrictions. Then a truck breakdowns caused all sorts of problems. We've got a report live. The traffic is banked up from the Krafer's exit on the up track all the way back to the tunnels. No one is moving at the moment. That's two days in a row, even for the Hills people. That is cruel and unusual punishment at the moment for our heels listeners. So if you are planning on driving into the city today, prepared to be stationary for a long period, or maybe make alternate arrangements. We spend a lot of time this week covering the tragic case of Helen Sergeant, who died in a hospital bed in a corridor, having admitted herself to ed with breathing difficulties. She was checked on one hour, and then an hour later someone came back to find her and she died. Her family understandably outraged about how you can be left in a hotel corridor when you present with those kind of symptoms, with no buzzer to call for help alone and unattended to subsequently, I think the conversation has become really interesting about this, and I wonder if you've picked this up, David. There is a real gap between how our medical authorities have talked about this case and how the average punder is talking about it. Because all the medical people we speak to say, no one did anything wrong, right, this is this is if not, this is this is just this is what we have to do. But I think the outrage that they're trying to combat their argument is misaligned with what people are upset about. People are upset that this is what they have to do, not that they had to do it, not that anyone made some gross error in judgment, but rather that this is what we're at, This is where we're at, This is where the system is buckling under pressure and requiring people to be put in these places.
00:50:35
Speaker 3: Well, the argument seems to be, even if you don't have your own bed, better that you're actually in there on reward than sitting outside on a chair and not having been seen by anybody.
00:50:44
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:50:44
Speaker 2: But then in the case that we've been talking about, I mean, when the poor woman actually passed away and no one realized for an hour up to an hour and a half, it's so far from being a desirable situation in the public size and the family's eyes. Most of all, that it's not funny. Daniel Halsted is the chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine. They've put in a this is interesting a wish list for the state election, in which they want a ministerial directive to guarantee that no one waits longer than twenty four hours in EDS. Another directive they'd like to see hospital wide safety mechanism to ensure when ED has become critically overcrowded, compulsory over census protocols are activated. Daniel, good morning to you. Can you explain a little bit further what you'd like to see change your emergency departments in South Australia.
00:51:30
Speaker 23: Yeah, Hi, so good more expert you So. Yeah. The twenty four hours maximum stays that we're talking about is basically at the moment people say need someone for up to a week at a time, and there's pretty good evidence that once people spend more than twelve hours in the emergency department, their risk of harm goes up, and it goes up exponentially with time. And so what we're asking for is that somebody comes out and says, no, after twenty four hours you're in the ED, you have to move to a board. Obviously, if the ED felt like the patienceedus so long.
00:52:02
Speaker 13: As we keep them.
00:52:04
Speaker 23: But there's really no scenario where a patient needs to be sitting in the E for twenty four hours waiting for reward there. And then the other one, which is obviously quite controversial at the moment, is this idea of compulsory over census when the immersity department gets critically overcrowded, and the idea behind that is especially at the moment. What we're facing day in, day out is a scenario where the ED is so full. We've got people in corridors, we've got people bunked up everywhere, and we just can't then see the new people seeple on the waiting room, the people on the ramps, the people at their homes. They can't get an ambulance, and so ideally what we'd like to do is spread some of that load around the hospital. We know it's not the ideal situation, and in the perfect world, everybody would get a bed and we wouldn't be talking about this, but it sort of a makeshift break pressure concept at times to sort of peak demand, and obviously the idea is to do it as safe as possible to have the stable, leaked, unwell patient are the ones that go into the over census areas in the hospital, while the sick ones.
00:53:11
Speaker 20: Go in the bed.
00:53:14
Speaker 2: Daniel.
00:53:14
Speaker 3: In terms of bed pressure, I mean, the government is always talking about how many extra beds it's put into the system, But when you're actually on the front line in the wards and seeing the congestion that's there, does it feel like the beds that have gone in have made much of a difference.
00:53:35
Speaker 23: Every day feels like a challenge, and the certainly don't feel the difference on the floor. I think one of the big things that are eating away into that is just the age care pressure. So although there's been one hundred bucks put into the system, the last year's actually got more than one hundred patients extra who now in hospitals waiting for an age care place. So overall, what we're seeing is that theirs have just been taken up by patents who actually don't need to be in hospital, but we just can't get them into care facilities because they just don't exist at the moment.
00:54:06
Speaker 3: Do you ever worry some of our listeners asking, you know, with one eyebrow cocked, are people being put on the wards to get them out of ambulances on the rams?
00:54:17
Speaker 2: Do you think.
00:54:19
Speaker 1: So?
00:54:19
Speaker 23: Most of the patients that are getting moved to the wards, well, I mean they won't move to the ward until they're ready. And most of the patients we're talking about going to these wards that've been in the ED for twenty four past hours already, they're not patients that have arrived in the ED yeah, sixty minutes ago. These are patients who have completed in aversion care and we just want to get out so that we can move the next person in.
00:54:43
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:54:43
Speaker 3: Absolutely, it's an important issue and the complicated one. Daniel House diad and from the chair of the Australasian College for Emergency Medicine.
00:54:53
Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us.
00:54:55
Speaker 1: Five double a breakfast, David ben Birbe and Will Goodings.
00:55:01
Speaker 2: Well another day. Another dilemma for commuters in the Hills, a crash early that led to list of lane restrictions compounded by a truck breakdown that has everything back to the tunnels at a stands. Though at the moment John is on the freeway as we speak, John, what's the state of players You can see it.
00:55:21
Speaker 22: Through about fifteen minutes ago.
00:55:23
Speaker 26: They two trucks, so too late.
00:55:26
Speaker 16: To plock I think one in the other, so it's down to one lane. It's a bit of a bold the.
00:55:34
Speaker 22: Overhead entry over the Jellian the story till you get there. So it all goes down to one lane, which is partially unmanaged. So that's a crawl because it's a big dial tow truck there looking up the big truck.
00:55:57
Speaker 2: You've been let down by the line. Sorry John, but we appreciate, Thank you. We've got a good bit of good intel there though, about the two trucks, two lanes, you get a sense of why it's such a disaster at the moment. Again, if you can leave late work remotely or I mean there's no al turn it what wrote otherwise with Wooden mid issue. But if you're stuck in it right now, our thoughts are with you. It's a shocker. There's a Hills story to talk about. In fact, it's a bigger than just the Hills, but it's where we'll focus on this morning. The Defense Minister federally yesterday announced plans to sell a whole stack of defense land right around the country. The total sales expected to reach somewhere in the order of three billion dollars. But Defense has been it pains to argue that that's not the sum of the benefit from selling this land that they say is unused or underutilized. It's the one hundred million dollars a year that is spent as part of the statement the upkeep on the land that can be reinvested in defense. So for South Australia, what does that look like, Well, it means plans to sell the one hundred and forty five hectare Woodside Barracks Edinburgh Parks Hamstead as well the Ward Barracks at Oaklands Park wouldn't be entirely sold off. They would divest three point four hectares of the twenty three hectare Warredale Barracks at Oaklands Park. You might appreciate that Our next guest has a bit to say about this. Rebecca Sharky is the Federal member for Mayo. Rebecca Sharky, good morning to you.
00:57:19
Speaker 6: Good morning Davin Will Look certainly, I mean I think part of my community would be shocked by this decision. Some probably not so surprised, but I think the majority of my community is very concerned about the decision to sell the Woodside Barracks. Next year it's supposed to have its centenary. Just last year we had the sixteenth Regiment Air Defense relocated down to Edinburgh. But I think more than anything, and I've surveyed the community extensively, people have said to me, please don't let this be turned into houses. And with one hundred and forty five hectares, you know, I mean, there would be the potential for the government to do that, and it has you know, enormous opportunity for for other such other uses if they're not going to keep it for defense, which which the majority of the community would have liked to have seen it kept for defense. And many defense people have said to me, look, it's really short sighted. Where you know, it's been used as a training ground, it's it's where World War two men in World War two troops depart from. Part of it was used for refugees back in back in after World War Two, and then of course the Marriequarters were used as an asylum seeker compound. But it is a very large parcel of land and much of it is still you know, remnant native vegetation. There's not a lot of that in the hills. So the environmental aspect, the indigenous aspects, I've been talking with the Pyramount people, but I think you know, and also there's so much recreation facilities that are on there that our community could definitely use that.
00:59:12
Speaker 2: But you know how this sounds, Rebecca sharky, don't you This sounds like nimbiism. This so we've got a housing crisis, do you.
00:59:18
Speaker 6: Think, well, I mean, we've I think the Adelaie Hills are doing our fair share of lifting. When it comes to housing, they rezoned Mount Barker, They've carved that up, they're still you know, I think it's only around twenty five percent developed. We have further out, We've got murray Bridge, NaN's tat around an eight percent growth. But ultimately you need to keep some land that's free from housing, that is looking at the natural environment and really from a bush fire risk. That's probably the thing that concerns me the most, and I think many in my community and many of us still have, you know, very close for our memories the Cuddly Creek fire. I certainly have been evacuated in fires in our hills. And then on Kapringer Valley Road becomes a car park. So you know, potentially if you were to look and carve up one hundred and forty bipeckses, it could easily be over two thousand blocks. You know, that's thousands more people in an area that's really just been a cluster of small townships.
01:00:27
Speaker 3: So I thought, I did think Rebecca, it was that that you came on immediately after what is now the second major Southeastern freeway this week. I mean, we know that the lack of any cogent planning in the Hills seems to be the problems.
01:00:45
Speaker 6: I think it's even more than that. I think it's recognizing that we have really one arterial route into the city and every year, year and year, whether you're putting more people at murray Bridge or Mount Barker or indeed other parts of the Hills, the pressure on the Southeastern Freeway grows and grows and grows, and you just need one truck breakdown, you need one small rear end and it brings everything to a stop. And it is a bush by risk area. The whole area is zoned bushfire and we've lived through that. And I think that both the state government and the state opposition need to come out and be very clear on what they intend to do with this land. And I would like them to see to make a commitment that it's not used for housing. I mean, if you've got a Ballair National Park on the weekend, it is absolutely chocker. It would be fantastic if that land could be used for like a new version of Blair National Park. You know, let's use it for the community that the community have this to use, and I think that that would be a great tourism draw card for our region.
01:01:53
Speaker 2: I think the thirty five million dollar price tag being floated might be dazzling the federal government. But we'll we'll stay in touch with you on this, Rebecca, because we know a lot of your constituents fired up about it too, Rebecca Sharky, the independent federal member for Maye. They're too what we'll get into this in a moment that the text lines totally divided on the very evenly divided between people saying this is ridiculous to even contemplate and others saying why we have an entertaining keeping these large parts of the land so close to the city unused if at a time like this. So we'll get into all your text and thoughts in just to my but it's where we get it even split on the text line.
01:02:27
Speaker 3: There's I think a lot of people are talking about his immigration. Why do we need all the extra houses?
01:02:30
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
01:02:32
Speaker 1: David pen Burthy and Will Gooding's five Double a Breakfast.
01:02:38
Speaker 2: Twenty to eight, monitoring the traffic situation on the freeway this morning where a two car crash followed by when our our listeners are telling us was two trucks that broke down. It's causing all sorts of issues. John in Eastwood. Are you stuck in it at the moment, John, or have you just been through?
01:02:55
Speaker 24: I just got through the tow trackers or the prime mover. Tow trackers just shift in the outside lane. So there's two lanes now, the truckture on the inside lane, but directly opposite that on the inbound outbound lane, a troop car.
01:03:11
Speaker 2: Frank, it's all happening. What There's been a new crash.
01:03:16
Speaker 16: There's a circus on the freeway keeps.
01:03:18
Speaker 2: Going, so hang on, just to do some rough accounting here. We had a crash just after six am, followed by a truck breakdown, followed by now another crash that's out. It's unbelievable, John, thank you my goodness that we're getting protext from poor old people living in the hills just saying why did I do this to myself? The two they're making compelling. A lot of people are saying, can we get a train, some public transport or something. Maybe Rebecca Sharky might want to trade her support for housing development for some public transport. She's got the whip hand, absolutely, she certainly.
01:03:51
Speaker 27: Does received manifest you're eating the doors I tell you what any buses says, anyone not turning up the day.
01:04:05
Speaker 2: Of the dump Matts. She's like the whole political environment in Australia is spinning around on its axis at the moment. Who knows where it's going to end up. The first test is going to be the state election. Matt watches it closer than anyone. Matt Abraham, good morning to the morning.
01:04:21
Speaker 28: Well, good morning, David. I am trying to get out of my head an image that was planted there by you, David Pemberthy, when you're interviewing Ted O'Brien, who's part of the is it part of the season, Well, no national team, federally the coalition, ex coalition, Yeah, yeah, And you asked him to apologize to Ashton Hearn for the chaos and causing her and you said that Peter Malnauskus could run down rund Or Moore with a lampshade on his head and still win. And ever since then I've had this image of Peter Malnauskus running down running more with the lamb shade on his head, and I thought, I wonder what would happen if he did nothing?
01:05:08
Speaker 2: Nothing? Would his vote go up? Oh?
01:05:14
Speaker 28: He'd probably get the vote, you know, tract votes from the lampshade, making sort of artisans of Adelaide.
01:05:19
Speaker 2: Now we are in quite O'Brien actually handled that quite well well.
01:05:23
Speaker 28: He's a very mild manner, and you kept asking him questions about the coalition split for some reason instead of policy.
01:05:31
Speaker 2: But they're the ones that keep talking about it.
01:05:33
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, he and they totally valid points about Jim Charmer's economic management, interest rates and.
01:05:39
Speaker 2: All of that.
01:05:39
Speaker 3: But the problem is that all of yesterday, yet again for the Liberals and the Nationals, was taken up by talking about each other exactly, and John Nails a man that John Howard's dropped a bomb on and overnight saying, for God's sake, people sought this out.
01:05:54
Speaker 2: You've actually, when you think about it, if you zoom out and think about it, you've got to try really hard to have your worst ever polling result. Environment where the government has mishandled the worst terror attack in the nation's history, followed by interest rate rises. They're going to make people the cost of living worsen. You got to you got to be spectacularly bad at your job to go in that environment. We're going to poll our worst ever. Yeah, yeah, totally.
01:06:15
Speaker 28: And you've got a situation where the leader of One Nation, Pauline Hanson, in terms of leader favorability this is the red Bridge Pole, which is you know, published in the Financial Review, She's on thirty eight percent favorability as a leader. Anthony Alberniez's on thirty four, Barnaby Joyce is on twenty three, Susan Lee ten as leader, Andrew Hasey sixty, Angus Taylor thirteen, David, you know who cares about him? And Donald Trump sixteen. This is an amazing situation.
01:06:52
Speaker 11: And the.
01:06:54
Speaker 28: One Nation vote, the primary vote is Labours is thirty one. One Nation is twenty six. And then there's sort of daylight to you know, what was left of the coalition. And the big shift is, as Phil Curry told you guys a couple of days ago, it used to be people like him, he said, you know, grumpy old buggers who were voting for One Nation. But now it's across the board in terms of they haven't voted yet obviously, but in terms of being polled, the One Nation support people are giving them a tick is right across the board. You know, it's millennials it's gen Z, it's burners.
01:07:30
Speaker 2: But the split in a party political sense though, is that more of them are people who say though they have been liberal voters than labor voters.
01:07:38
Speaker 28: Yeah, there's still quite quite a swag of labor voters, but it's it's a huge problem here for Ashton Hern in South Australia, I think, I mean Corey Bernardi standing as number one candidate and has been interesting to watch the sort of the Fimberland Patrick of candidates being shifted around. Chris McDermott he was in love with, but suddenly the Upper House is looking pretty darn good really running under Sarah game X one nation banner. But if that one nation vote which is sitting so high twenty six percent, if that's in any way, even if you're not look even if you're not ten percent off it, that's going to get Cory. He's going to stroll into the Upper House with a full quota which is only eight point three.
01:08:26
Speaker 3: To three em strong exactly he could get He's probably so relaxed about doing a solid for Corey and saying or I don't shuffle a.
01:08:35
Speaker 28: Spot down, will be right anyway, smart guy. They could get to they could let's not get ahead of ourselves. Elections you know, still a month.
01:08:44
Speaker 2: Aways, but it's only federal voting intention I know, but.
01:08:47
Speaker 28: You'd have to say that in those big seats where we saw the voice vote here in South Australia, the big regional seats where the no vote was strongest of anywhere in the in the nation, then there's got to be some bleed into South Australia. We don't have sort of this magic barrier up there. The one nation vote at the last election was a last staid election, was enough to get Sarah game up and she didn't even get eight point three to three. You don't need to get a full quota. You just need to be sort of hanging in there for the crumbs for a lot of these parts.
01:09:19
Speaker 3: Don't you reckon that there's people who misread South Australia because of our arti heritage, our history of pioneering reforms, female suffrage, our fresco dining, land rights legislation. First need beach down at Maslin's. There's all the sort of Don Dunstoness things that if you're sitting outside Dylan's bookshop on the parade having a cafe late that feels like your reality. There's a completely different adelaide and it exists in places like Spence, the Federal Cedar, Spence, which voted I think seventy two no off the top of my head to the Voice to Parliament. And this is where I think the one nation stuf the people who, luckily for all of them, they've got huge margins.
01:10:05
Speaker 2: But if you're like you know, Nick Champion, or you're.
01:10:08
Speaker 3: Tony Piccolo, you're out north or also to the outer South, there'd be a lot of people down there going, yeah, I got the shits with life, you know, body, everything costs them so much. And the text line now and lie of the woodside stuff. So many people are talking men immigration in the context of well, why do we keep needing to build all these buddy houses? Anyway, that's where for labor. I mean, it's probably gonna manifest itself in someone who's on fifteen percent ending up on maybe thirteen percent. But they can't ignore it either, can they.
01:10:40
Speaker 28: Well they can't.
01:10:41
Speaker 2: And if you look at.
01:10:44
Speaker 28: Allegedly what should be the safest liberal seats here, seats like Phinnis Well, David Basham Independent lou Nicholson pushed him to just about what do they get Phinis. Yeah, he's on point seven. That's Margins running and she's running again. You've got Flinders Sam Telfer. That's another what should be a safe seat. But it's on three percent and that's because he had Liz Habitman ran against him at last election and in this election, Port Lincoln businesswoman Meghan Petherick is running against him. Throw throw in that at Mount Gambia. Well, there's no one in Mount Gambia.
01:11:25
Speaker 2: They're not going to get at The Liberals on twelve percent in Mont Gambia according to that Forestry body Pole, Well twelve I mean Troy Bell's blake twenty.
01:11:36
Speaker 28: If it was allowed to Troy Bell could probably you know, win it from Yatla.
01:11:40
Speaker 2: I meant Pauli and Goodfellas didn't sell run in Man Gambia. The elect the Gallic, the liquify the pan.
01:11:52
Speaker 28: So it is interesting if, for instance, the Liberal votes down. I'm just thinking about the Upper House here, because we know the Low House is going to be you know, a car crash. But let's say Peter mal Nawskus has to negotiate with Corey Bernardi for eight years. In the Upper House, if the Lib votes down, Labor may get an extra seat up there, but one nation may sort of steal that from them. So Claire Griffin's career may be over. She was dropped down the batting order. It'd be very interesting to me to see, maybe on social issues but also economic issues, how that plays out. And even if they don't have the balance of power, they will have a platform. You know that this gives this give would give Corey Bernardi a big springboard in terms of having a platform, you know, as an elected politicians. Yes, it's a long time. It's not bad, gig.
01:12:44
Speaker 2: Actually, yeah, it.
01:12:48
Speaker 3: Did this film ot Like, I know you're a port supporter, so I don't like that. I don't want to mention the two thousand and seven Grand Final. I was thinking about this last night in the context of footy. Sometimes a game can get so spectacularly one sided, because if it's a fifty point lead, you know this is all over them, and you're not even involved.
01:13:11
Speaker 2: You just turn off.
01:13:13
Speaker 3: But a game can get so spectacularly one sided that it becomes perversely compelling and you can't take your eyes off it, do.
01:13:24
Speaker 28: You How much can they lose by.
01:13:28
Speaker 3: Yes, that's what it feels like to me, the only real question around this election is how much can the Liberals lose by?
01:13:33
Speaker 11: Yeah?
01:13:35
Speaker 2: Is that unfair?
01:13:36
Speaker 28: No, it's not unfair. I meant it's a question you have to ask. And you know the combination of the Malinowskus factor anyway, and then you feed in one nation and you've got some good, high profile independence running and you've got you know, Labor Party ad. I was on Facebook last night flicking around looking for my mighty grab of the week and they've got this devastating ad on Facebook with Nick McBride images of him going into his electorate office or in a meeting with an ankle bracelet on Troy Bell in jail. Then they've got David Spears and they've got an image of someone who purports to be David Spears snorting something that is either whiz fizz or some white powder.
01:14:25
Speaker 2: I think.
01:14:27
Speaker 28: It's a devastating ad. Now I haven't seen it on Telly yet, but it was on Telly okay, I was watching Midsummer Murders. Probably might have upset there. But it's a devastating ad. And you can say, well none of it's Ashton Hearn's foot, Well, none of it is Ashton Hearn's fault. But we are seeing you know, Ashton Hearn is very much a product of the Pine Moderates. Stephen Marshall admitted after he'd lost the election that actually shortly before he lost the election that really he should have had more balance in his cabinet. He froze out Conservatives. There are some chickens. None of this. You can't say, oh, well, this has just happened to the Liberal Party. No one's really to blame. Well, really, in a very small way in South Australia, you've had a reflection of what's happening federally in terms of policy and the moderates versus the Conservatives. It's you know, it is a big issue for them, both of us. All three of us have had conversations I know, off there and on there. I would think with Peter mal Nauskus about or you're going to romp this in.
01:15:43
Speaker 2: And he hates that. Okay, this conversation now yes, And he.
01:15:49
Speaker 28: Said to me at one stage, well, you know the EU sending troops, Denmark sending troops into Greenland, you know, in terms of what a volatile environment we're in.
01:16:00
Speaker 2: And I was thinking of that.
01:16:03
Speaker 28: When I saw this one Nation pole come up and Corey Minardi in terms of the volatility, I think this is going to be a wild election, this state election.
01:16:14
Speaker 1: Five Double A Breakfast David Pembervie and Will Goodings.
01:16:24
Speaker 2: Matt Abram with us in the five Double A Breakfast Studios. We're turned our mind to the spin of the week.
01:16:31
Speaker 28: Yes, I'm really concentrating today to get the order correct.
01:16:34
Speaker 2: So this is now.
01:16:36
Speaker 28: Labor Party has been running a sort of a you know, a tally of Liberal party spending promises, and apparently it's outrageous. This is the fact that they've wracked up huge, huge record debt.
01:16:51
Speaker 2: But that's been how's your oxygen playing?
01:16:53
Speaker 28: But exactly exactly, And I noticed Tom Quinson Tournas is talking about the whaler plant and saying, oh, if there's problems, it's a it's the Fed's problem.
01:17:02
Speaker 2: Okay.
01:17:03
Speaker 28: But anyway, a journalist got to Ben Hood, who's the shadow treasurer, and.
01:17:10
Speaker 2: They asked him, is.
01:17:11
Speaker 28: There any charts you've lost track of spending? This is his answer, Tom, because.
01:17:28
Speaker 29: Sorry, yes he was on the yellow brick road. But I think that's not because because of six seven.
01:17:45
Speaker 28: Ben Hood gets a very hefty nine out of ten just because Meanwhile, I don't want to be picky, but have a listen to this and I'll explain why this is Susan Lee.
01:17:57
Speaker 30: But the Nationals have chosen to leave the coalition. At this point, the door is open. I've maintained that the door stays open. But I am not focused on the door. I am focused straight ahead out here into the Australian communities that we love, respect and are determined to work hard every single day.
01:18:19
Speaker 28: For No, wait a minute, if you're going to go straight ahead, aren't you going to bang into the door? Doesn't somebody have to open the door to this commute?
01:18:29
Speaker 2: Not focused on the door? No, are you going to just charge through the door?
01:18:34
Speaker 31: I don't know. You gotta do something. One out of ten for spin. I'll look out for that door, Matt, I will then I saw her face five.
01:18:48
Speaker 1: Double breakfast deep it's Ben Berbie and Will Gooding's okay, hey.
01:18:53
Speaker 2: But it's after great breaking ain't coming up in just environment. Just to repeat the tail of the tape for Hill's commuters who yesterday had to way through a disastrous situation to get into the city. Now, at this time today we can report there has been a two car crash, a two truck breakdown followed by another crash on the freeway. We continue to get pictures from listeners and texts from those that are stuck in traveling, and it's lovely to have them on board listening, but frankly they'd rather probably be at work or getting about their day and they can't get there. So got us thinking. The Hills morning commute, I think is an unassailable record holder, is the worst morning commute in Adelaide. The problem too, is that people have got no choice. It doesn't matter with Hills. You've basically got one way in, one way out. So what's second? What's the second worst commute in Adelaide? Eight double two to three double a double Hills is obviously number one? All right, you folks have won. This is like the Don Bradman batting average of bad commutes. Have to be Northeast Road, wouldn't It's what's the worst commute in Adelaide outside of the Hills double two to three double er textas your suggestions, will assess them and you list as your part of the judgment panel zero before zero eight thirty ninety five as well the second worst commute in Adelaide. What is it?
01:20:14
Speaker 3: Well, the state government is accused of double standards over new laws which, on the face of it, make perfect sense. They sound like they're really good for subcontractors working in the building industry, where the government wants to crack down on the non payment of subcontractors. Well, that is a good thing, and I reckon every subbing listening to this would say about time too. The only problem is the state government itself is going to be exempt from these rules, meaning that any subcontractor who's doing work in building and construction on any state government projects and finds themselves in the not entirely rare position of not being paid for their work won't have the same recourse that they will if they are doing the work in the private sector. It's an issue that came to my attention on account of some really interesting evidence that was given before a Legislative Council Committee hearing last year. It's been championed as an issue now by SA Best MLC Connie Bernaris, and also the person who really teased it out as an inconsistency is a smart bloat by the name of John Murray, who is the Chief Adjudicator for South Australia and also a former national CEO of the Master Builders Association. We have both of them on the line now and we'll kick off with Connie. Connie, thank you for joining us, and also to John for joining us this morning. In your evidence, Connie, you said, if the laws go ahead as envisaged, will be the only state in Australia, the only jurisdiction in Australia that has this arrangement.
01:21:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning. Well, it's typical of the way this government does business and sadly, Dave, they've already kicked off. They've kicked off because this legislation, and you've described it very well into of its intent. The framework is designed to ensure that contractors and subcontractors get paid on time for the work that they do. Last year, this government exempted itself in certain circumstances from the scope of that framework. So that means that if you're a contractor or a subcontractor and you're doing work for the Crown, for the government. We know that there is a ton of work at the moment being done on government projects, then you will not be able to take advantage of security of payment legislation, which has actually been in place since two thousand and nine. It was a mammoth effort to get this legislation through in South Australia. It's law, and what we've done, Dave, it's a little bit worse than what we've just described. These laws came into effect in two thousand and nine. They covered everybody, including the government. Last year when we had those hearings, I found out that the government had very quietly, without consulting with anybody, exempted itself from the scope of that framework via regulations. Now that should have everyone up in arms, because these aren't changes you make by regulations. These are substantive changes that impact contractors and subcontractors. Worse still, they applied these changes retrospectively, so that means if you're already in those contracts, in those contractoral arrangements, you now may find yourself not being able to make a claim for a payment that you're entitled to and use, you know, that fast tracking mechanism that is available under this process to insure that you can pay the bills, you can pay your staff, you can keep your doors open, all those things that the little guys rely on. And can I say the one and only justification that was given during those hearings from government represented who we finally managed to get to appear before the committee before we could get any answers aside from the fact that they had not even consulted with industry. They said, well, if you're doing a project that's worth four million dollars, then you're from the beg end of town. Now you go out and find me one contractor or subcontractor who will agree that a four million dollar contract means that you're from the big end of town. These are mum and dad businesses.
01:24:28
Speaker 2: Yeah.
01:24:28
Speaker 7: Absolutely, and these are the guys that are going to be hit the hardest.
01:24:32
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah. I'll bring John Murray into the conversation as well. John.
01:24:37
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us in your evidence. And obviously you've got many decades experienced in the building industry with the NBA and also as essays Chief Adjudicator, you described this as astonishing.
01:24:51
Speaker 2: Have you ever seen this done anywhere in Australia or overseas.
01:24:56
Speaker 20: No, It's completely unprecedented. I don't know of any state government, any government that has exempted itself from its own legislation. It just smacks of grand hypocrisy. It basically says do what we say in our legislation. But the legislation won't a fighter up. This isn't a government providing leadership or playing its role towards having a more prosperous and fair industry. It amounts to nothing more than government abusing its market power. And if I could say one more thing, the government didn't even bother, didn't even bother complying with its own better regulation, handful of its own guideline which provide that if you are going to power, are you regulation, then you must go prior before before you even do that, that you must undertake a regulatory impact assessment to see whether it has an impact, and if a significant impact, then you need to do a risk impact statement.
01:26:05
Speaker 3: Maybe what do you think, what do you think the government's motivation was for creating this exception for itself?
01:26:12
Speaker 20: Well, they said when they gave evidence on the day that I was there, they said, well, firstly they said, we always pay our bills. Well you've got to wonder about that. But it begs the question, well, what if someone puts in a claim but it's rejected then then the whole thing about security a payment legislation is that you can go through a process of rapid adjudication and had that hurt quickly, so that that is she can be resolved and that payment can be made and enforced is to keep the cash flowing. So I don't know whether they I really don't know why they did that, but they then went on and said, look, sometimes when we go through adjudications, we take the rest that we might not have a favorable outcome. Hello. Yeah, many people are just gruntled and there are different ways of handling that issue. But you can't go about exempting yourself from your own legislation.
01:27:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely, And look, I'm glad we got this out in the public arena because if there are any subcontractors listening have found themselves in this position, we'd love to hear from you. It's a complicated issue, but it's one we wanted to raise because it has the potential to affect a lot of cyber contractors, particularly with all the building going on. Connie Banarassa Best MLC and Chief Adjudicated John Murray, thank you for joining us this morning.
01:27:46
Speaker 2: I think the Hills have made an unassailable case to be a home of Adelaide's worst commute, given the last two days of absolutely traffic stands still on the freeway. But we're trying to get to the bottom of what's the second worst commute in Adelaide. Raymond and Salisbury has a suggestion morning.
01:27:59
Speaker 26: Raymond, Good morning boys, how are we all good?
01:28:02
Speaker 2: Thank you?
01:28:02
Speaker 19: Ramon good see yeah, hey south.
01:28:05
Speaker 32: Road without a down man.
01:28:06
Speaker 21: Yeah.
01:28:07
Speaker 26: So the section between Well where the tunnel is going to be, the section between the bridgeworks and Darlington, but in particular, at all stages of the day, the area between the Anda Coway are underpassed and Tomsley. It's just it's not a bumper any part of the day, but obviously you know peak times are it's worse. But yeah, it's horrible, sourd that tunnel gets done and it's opened.
01:28:32
Speaker 2: The betever everybody, it's with us for a couple more years yet unfortunately, good on your Raymond. Lots of suggestions coming through. Con says, pretend the pretend you're round about around eight thirty am. Corey says, the Southern Expressway on the way home most nights, just as you get the South Throw there's almost always a crash on the bridge over the on Kapringa River and after a long day you just want to be home.
01:28:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is just you get a great run on the Southern Expressway, then you hit the river and you're like.
01:28:57
Speaker 2: Oh, here we go. Worst commute from East to the Suburbs for three weeks a year when the race is on and it's a tough life, says an anonymous exter. I like this one from Catherine has to be cross Road. I like to know if anyone has gone through the South Road intersection without waiting for a train. My record is three trains. I've had got three trains there before you go. Is this is something broken, Nope, it's just how it works. That's a good suggestion.
01:29:22
Speaker 3: I like the freight train on Leady Street some mornings where you just trying to get down to Hungry Jacks or something to get yourself bacon deluxe for a quick lunch and you see the ominous caboose going, oh, I know you're going to be for an hour.
01:29:35
Speaker 2: Lots of South Road suggestions. Ben says anything that touches South Road is the second worst commute. Pete says Eastern Suburbs anytime the vates are in town is the second worst commute. Keep them coming through. We'll get to the bottom. Of this at South Road or or Eastern suburbs during the vates. It seems to be the two leading contenders.
01:29:52
Speaker 3: At one of your fellow Grange listeners, and I know what he's going to say. I reckon, it's going to start with the latter.
01:29:57
Speaker 12: H morning, Vinnie, you read my my son, Yes, Wholebrooks Road in Grange Ray Gain.
01:30:04
Speaker 10: It is murder, absolute murder.
01:30:09
Speaker 16: Are they ever going to complete in that intersection?
01:30:11
Speaker 2: Em I do that trip four times a day, and you know what you mean?
01:30:16
Speaker 20: Will you know what I mean?
01:30:18
Speaker 2: It's a disaster. It's so bad at the moment, it's and you try it. There's no good backstreet option. It's just bad. Vinnie. I hear your pain, my friend. That is a shocker. Mark at angele Vale, good morning.
01:30:30
Speaker 20: Good morning John.
01:30:31
Speaker 33: Are you.
01:30:33
Speaker 16: Anything coming off the Northern Expressway. Yeah, Slip Road, Curtis.
01:30:38
Speaker 20: Road, Angle Vale Road, Dale Keith Road.
01:30:41
Speaker 2: It's ridiculous, yep. Good vote for the North. Good on you, Mark, Thank you keep coming in. We might collect these well by nine o'clock we'll get an answer to what is the second worst commute in Adelaide at the moment.
01:30:53
Speaker 1: Deep and pen Berbe and Will goodings, five double a breakfast.
01:31:00
Speaker 2: Real deja vous day today. Yesterday we were speaking about breakdowns on the freeway that meant that the Hills commute was a disaster and for something different, power being out on the on the Peninsula again happens. We worked out on average once more than once every two weeks at the moment. It's a ludicrous situation. And speaking to people who work over on the Peninsula, the obvious question was, well, given the predictability of power audages, should you get some compo? Here's Joe Barrett and us speaking to Joe yesterday, do you get any compo?
01:31:33
Speaker 3: Like, if you miss out on a morning's worth of sales, do you get any compensation? Can you come through insurance or anything?
01:31:39
Speaker 8: No, no, no, nothing at all, No, no, not at all. Yeah, it's awful and so and as I said, that's our morning trade is coffee. He's donuts sort of thing. So yeah, we've lost all that trade.
01:31:52
Speaker 2: Fraser Elis is the member four Narunga and joins us now in five double a breakfast phraser. This is just is unacceptable. Wasn't it longer? It goes?
01:32:01
Speaker 10: Mate? You know it's happening more and more and more frequently. Almost twelve months ago we had outage of over twenty hours, but sort of should have rung alarm bells and triggered change. But here we are one, you're on and it's still happening. It's quite unbelievable.
01:32:14
Speaker 3: When we were talking to Joe Fraser, it just felt like there was almost an air of resignation in her voice. And I really I do struggle with the idea that I think we've got an explanation from SA Power Networks where they were saying unless it's negligence, they don't cough up. It's a fine line between negligence and not having proper, up to date infrastructure in place because you happen to be in regional South Australia, I reckon ye.
01:32:42
Speaker 10: And how long does it have to be since they got their warning that this is happening before they fix it finally, before they are negligent? I guess this is the next question. But the other point I'd like to make on that southing is that in the last term of government or this time of government, I should say they change it so the voltage variation will be enough to trigger compensation with or without fault. If there's a surge that runs through your house that fries your fridge, you'll be eligible to get that commonsation. You'll be eligible commensation to replace that. But if there's an extended out, if it means you lose trade or stop perishes, you won't be compensated for that. So, on the one hand, you are, and when the end result there's no different, on the same you are. On the other it doesn't just doesn't quite.
01:33:22
Speaker 2: Make sense to me. It's quite remarkable looking at the map as we were yesterday, Like it just seems like Yorks has just copied it everywhere.
01:33:30
Speaker 10: Yeah, and like I said, we've at what point does the fact that we're aware this is a consistent problem and nothing has happened to fix it finally does that fall into the negligen category?
01:33:43
Speaker 2: And what do you make of the timeline that the networks told us about yesterday, Fraser where they said that the fixing of the infrastructure or the upgrading of the infrastructure is a year's not months timeline.
01:33:58
Speaker 32: Well, it might be.
01:33:59
Speaker 10: Without being a neglectspert on the topic, it should be a never ending cycle of slowly replacing these as years go by. I mean that's part of the cost of what our power bills is is an allowance for maintenance and upgrade of the network. So I can't I don't necessarily accept that we've got to replace them all at once now all of a sudden, like it should be a consistent systematic scheme of replacement as time progresses. So yeah, And the other point worth making is that they shut and while we appreciate this, I'm not complaining. They shut our power down two or three weeks ago for a planned out is to give it a proper clean And here we are two weeks later and now it's the sort of six hour outage yesterday morning. Is they can shut it down two weeks ago and clean it only last for a fortnight. We certainly need something to change totally.
01:34:45
Speaker 2: Praiser elis the member for Narunga running again too at the election.
01:34:49
Speaker 10: Phraser yet, yeah, planned, I'll see if I get picked on up.
01:34:52
Speaker 3: But you've got one nation, you got one nation breathing down your neck over there on Yorks.
01:34:57
Speaker 32: Oh they can.
01:34:58
Speaker 10: That's having a decent crackits that's the Mocksit's good decent choices between candidates.
01:35:03
Speaker 2: And the Libs. The Lib's got a candidate.
01:35:06
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Lives has got a candidate. But there that's the ex center at the moment, the three of us.
01:35:10
Speaker 3: I'm sure there were a few more to come out of the woodwork labor, labor sitting this one out.
01:35:15
Speaker 10: I don't know about finally sitting it out, but they certainly haven't announce anyone yet.
01:35:21
Speaker 2: No worries on a hiding. Nothing is a labor candadate. Despite the premiest popularity for campaigning with Murray Watt, Yeah, thank you, Fraser, Fraser, Elise, the member been a runger.
01:35:34
Speaker 1: Five double a breakfast deep it Penberthy and Will Goodings.
01:35:45
Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes, The nine out number eight double two three double O double Oh you can text us two on zero four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. I've been looking forward to this chat all day, David. It is the most anticipated documentary film event of the year. No it's not Milanie, No it's not Milane. It's bigger than bigger than smaller budget.
01:36:03
Speaker 3: Mind you got smaller budget, better film, better content, better content, much better content, much better movie. The movie, of course, is Forever Young, and it's the story about our great friend Henry Young, Produced by and directed by another one of our great friend, legendary admn and creative Jeffrey Reid, both of whom are in the studio with us today. Jeffrey and Henry, good morning, and thank you so much for coming into the studio.
01:36:31
Speaker 33: Good money to great pleasure.
01:36:34
Speaker 2: So, Henry, I was just saying to you, the last time you were here in the five double A Studios, we had streamers, we had balloons because it was your one hundredth birthday two years at that. You look like you're in very good health. Ston good David. So how often are you playing tennis these days?
01:36:56
Speaker 33: Four times two week? Yeah, four times a week. It's it's incredible. I can't believe it myself, but you know it's I like my tennis and there's no reason I'm a turn So what else.
01:37:08
Speaker 2: Do I do? So keep you up for strength. You made a self deprecating joke off here that you can't believe that they found enough content for the documentary to run for forty minutes. Get going through the whole process. Did you enjoy Did you enjoy being part of the process of making this documentary but your life?
01:37:24
Speaker 11: Yes?
01:37:25
Speaker 2: I did you know it?
01:37:27
Speaker 33: There was a time when people opened doors for you, and it always used to embarrass me, but now I just put my head up and sail to and I do say hey you. It doesn't wait anymore. It's you've got to not be old, but you've got to be very old qualify.
01:37:46
Speaker 3: So it's almost what is it four years since the Clash of the Centurions came about, Jeffrey?
01:37:52
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, well yeah.
01:37:53
Speaker 4: Four years this year it was four years twenty twenty three, sorry, three years so it was just training open three.
01:38:00
Speaker 3: Just after the war started between Russia and Ukraine. What's the last few years been like for you, Henry? Because no one knew who you were. We didn't know your name this time four years ago. Since then, you've played on Senate court at the Australian Open, you met your friend from.
01:38:22
Speaker 2: Ukraine, Stavaski. That's right.
01:38:26
Speaker 3: You've been on multiple TV programs. You were on the front bar with Fitzi. Do you sort of pinch yourself that all of this fame, because it is fame, has come so late in your life?
01:38:40
Speaker 33: Well, the compensation for this, in other words, they've got all these young friends, and when you're old, it's wonderful to have young friends because you they they didn't treat me as being old. That they just treat me as I don't know, as Henry. And it's wonderful. It's wonderful, you know it. It keeps you in the in the stream. So I don't feel old. No, I don't feel old.
01:39:08
Speaker 2: No, I'm good.
01:39:10
Speaker 33: Hell everyone, I'm in a good pad.
01:39:12
Speaker 3: Having having played tennis against you in the school six for your way when we played doubles, not only do you not feel old, you don't look old on a tennis core.
01:39:23
Speaker 33: Well, I must admit there are times now when I feel my age, but it's my bethlessness and I'm working on it. I watch YouTube and they they are full of things that that you could be and should be doing to keep keep around.
01:39:38
Speaker 2: And I tell you all, Jeffrey, when you sit there and make the documentary and you're putting it together, what were you particularly taken by? What was what was the story that you're really really in a narrative sense, wanted to tell about about Henry.
01:39:54
Speaker 4: I think it was when we did the Clash of the Centurions at the Australian Open. That was sort of the rock for the documentary. And making doccos is not like writing and making a feature film. You're actually reverse engineering the film. And I'd actually started just out of interest filming some interviews, just with a few mates with Henry in twenty twenty one. Because these life stories, David, you know this, the yarns he tells and the life he's led are just so interesting. And I didn't have an idea for a film. I just thought, we need to record this and you know, someday what will happen. So it's taken a while to come together, but you know, there's been so much content in Henry's life and his celebrity. Now he's very much in demand on the media circuit. You know, he is a bit of a rock star wherever he goes. But in the film, you'll see the befoors. You'll see all of the story leading up to the battle, the Clash of the Centurions with Stanislavski. I mean, he was the oldest competitive tennis player in the world at that time, and so when we found out that Henry was six months older, we challenged him to a tennis match. And you know, it took a year and a half to put it together, but twenty twenty three, the Australian Open Henry Young and Leo Stanislavsky walked down on the center.
01:41:18
Speaker 2: Course, that's a great story. Must have felt like a one in a million shot that that was going to come off, especially with the words going on around the world.
01:41:24
Speaker 4: Honestly, I mean it all started from it didn't a couple of times.
01:41:27
Speaker 11: Well, I was just angry about the Russian invasion.
01:41:31
Speaker 4: It touched me deeply, and this was a way of us kind of putting our mark on it, and Henry and I saying, well, you know, we can do something about this. And the clash is, you know, a fun thing, a fun story for two ninety eight year olds they were at the time to you know, come together with their love of tennis and actually raised money for the war effort for Ukrainian War victims.
01:41:58
Speaker 11: And we're still doing that with this film as well.
01:42:01
Speaker 3: You know, when that story ran the first time it ran in the Australian I don't know if you ever saw the comments from the readers, Henry, but people were saying, I love this story, I can't get enough of it. And it's just such a feel good story that you didn't want to knock Lenard.
01:42:19
Speaker 2: Off his perch because you are rightly the oldest.
01:42:21
Speaker 3: Tennis player in the world. The Guinness Book of Record had it wrong when they listed him. But the good humor and the good grace you showed in just wanting to meet him to help Ukraine. It was People love that story and it must have made you feel good.
01:42:38
Speaker 2: Too, well it did.
01:42:40
Speaker 33: I don't think it generally known that the professional players have this Players for Peace. It's a charity that they that they've initiated themselves, and so I was just part of it, and it rais to how many how much did.
01:42:56
Speaker 4: It make well after the It started with the US Open in twenty twenty two and that's when the Russians invaded that year. So in the January for the Australian Open twenty twenty three, after that, it was four and a half million US raised for that charity Tennis Place for Peace, and that's the global charity, as Henry saying, professional Tennis and the Four Slams.
01:43:22
Speaker 11: So it's a fantastic effort.
01:43:25
Speaker 4: So we we can't get the exact numbers, but we think the Australian Open charity concert so.
01:43:33
Speaker 33: If they can come in then it was a great pleasure for me to be part of it because it is such a worthwhile charity and to be able to do my little bit was wonderful.
01:43:48
Speaker 3: Well Henry, you led and continue to lead an amazing life. I know a lot of our listeners are going to get along on Sunday to you, Jeffrey Wild with the film. We watched it together mate just before Chris. It's a lot of fun. I look forwardunderstanding you both on Sunday. And what we will do now is we'll wrap it up by giving one more giving one of our listeners a chance to win another double pass to get along to the Capri this this Sunday after.
01:44:17
Speaker 2: You can give us a call now an eight double two to three double O double.
01:44:19
Speaker 1: Oh.
01:44:19
Speaker 2: But the other thing is there are tickets available, aren't they? So you go to Humanitis or search for Forever Young Humanitis and that'll get your there. Bot on Will Yeah, I think that there are tickets available. I we want to get along and see this remarkable documentary event. Henry, Greatdab and Jeffrey, thank you, thanks well, thanks so much, guys. We'll see you on Sunday, ptererfect look forward to it.
01:44:37
Speaker 1: Bye bye, deepd pen Burthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
01:44:42
Speaker 2: We have been to nine. There's been an instant at Christy's Beach this morning with a couple of arrests. Mate Peter Caldecott, which at the scene, will cross to him in justinm'ment first though, David and Rich Havens called in. David, we're cheering for you, mate, We want you to get along and see thee for every Young documentary this weekend. All right, mate, here you go. There's only one question fingers crossed. Okay, here we go.
01:45:05
Speaker 3: When Henry played against Leonard at the Australian Open at the Rod Laver Arena, which court did.
01:45:12
Speaker 2: He play on?
01:45:21
Speaker 32: Do you want the actual cord?
01:45:23
Speaker 5: Do you want the name?
01:45:25
Speaker 2: Already said nothing but the best, Nothing but the best for Henry owns sena cord or nothing. Congratulations. See David, you're getting along this weekend and anyone else who wants to get along you can still do so. There are some tickets available if you search Forever Young and head to Humanitics, you'll get those tickets. Good on your David, you will certainly be there. Peter Caldecot is at Christie's Beach this morning. Pay see what's happened with these arrests.
01:45:52
Speaker 32: So yeah, I'm doing at Christie's Beach at the moment, just off Pete's Beach Road down down the bottom on what now. This couple the police have chased oven eight about three o'clock in the morning all the way from Salisbury through the northern suburbs, all the way down South Road. They spiked the air tires of this Mini Coopers near Doors Road on South Road, and amazingly they kept going. They went onto the expressway and we're doing like one hundred and seventy kilometers an hour on the Southern Expressway, went all the way down. He got off on Beach Road and as if he came down here, you could see a long scratch mark going up the street and it goes all the way the length of the street and then goes into someone's driveway where neighbors say they heard yelling and screaming. The police pulled in behind them, a couple got out, they were yelling and screaming, ran off down the road where police pantsd on them and arrested them. So it's there's been a lot of activity down here, and they going good on police for actually arresting the couple who are now facing multiple charges. But we talked to one lady who said that everyone woke up and she just heard yelling and screaming police pouncing on these two suspects outside our house.
01:47:15
Speaker 3: And Peter, they weren't and they're not Christie's Beach people, this couple, are they They're from out north, were they?
01:47:21
Speaker 21: Yeah?
01:47:21
Speaker 32: Elizabeth and Ottaway, I believe a man and a woman. Yeah, It's just just amazing they could go that distance and how dangerous is that to be going one hundred and seventy on the Sunday Expressway with with on three tires, you know, and and to keep going all the way to Christie's Beach and finally stop and run off.
01:47:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, pair Arthwitz, good on your piece. Thank you, Peter Coldocott Christie's for seven years, Adelaide. A lot of really nice messages coming through about our chat just now with Jeffrey and Henry Young Mark in Brompton says, that's one of the best good news stories going around. A wonderful gentleman. And to quite Henry, it's good to have young friends. They don't treat me as old, they treat me as Henry. Great story, and Liz with a warning for us. Will says, watch out, boys, Henry's.
01:48:10
Speaker 2: Got a good radio voice. It could be his next vocation. Well, absolutely this. I wouldn't put any ceiling on what Henry Young can achieve.
01:48:18
Speaker 3: And being one hundred and two years old, he is coming into the demo in the right sort of sweet spot for five A broadcasters.
01:48:25
Speaker 2: Exactly a little bit earlier we were taking nominations for the second worst commute in Adelaide. We think number one spot is done and dusted, with the Hills again today suffering three separate incidents that have been a gridlock for a large part of the morning peak hour. A crash just after six o'clock this morning with two cars, a two truck breakdown, and then as that was just been cleared, one of our listeners on the Hills alerted us to the fact another crash had taken place. It's been a disaster, but lots and lots of nominations for the second worst commute. Some of them have been live David. Some have been live accounts, for example Heather Texas saying the obviously the Harndorff is a nomination. Helen says, when I first came to adelade from Victoria, we went out to Salisbury and then never did it again. Thank you for that, Helen. But mainly I think the two that we didn't really break the deadlock on were the kind of open ended anywhere on South Road and eastern suburbs into the city during the v eights. They seem to be the top two nominees for the second worst commute. I reckon the real South Road vortex is often with the gardening. I'm frequently going to the dump there in Everdon, just next to the old West Everton Hotel, which is sadly going because of the Torrents to Torrens upgrade. But if you turn left near the brick works, so heading down the road near the dump, so you turn lef to where the West Saberdon Hotel was, head down South Road towards Henley Beach Road. That is like the Bermuda Triangle. You can just sit there forever and doesn't matter what time of day it is. It's a complete and utter pain in the you know what it certainly is. Let's have the fuel situation this morning, the fuel watch thanks to our great friends at the RAA where petrol We've got to say, and not much has been made of this this year, it's quite cheap. Historically it's been consistently under a dollar fifty. We had prices that sort of knocked around this point, but we had a harving of the fuel exise. You might recall this is this is not artificial, this is a this is the genuine article. So the cheap spots this morning, LeRoy's at Monopower is at a dollar forty five point nine. That is the cheapest, and that is as cheap as I can remember for quite some time. The Yugo West Time Marsh dollar forty seven point nine. The BP ex convenience at Brooklyn Park is a dollar fifty one point five, and diesel remains consistently under a dollar sixty. It is at a dollar fee fifty nine point five. Hey, y, City residents, particularly city residents who live in the south western corner of town in and around Whitmore Square, might want to be paying extra close attention to the show tomorrow. We have a story that is going to be of interest to you.
01:51:16
Speaker 3: And if anyone who does live in that area and listens to our shows or even works in that area has any concerns about some of the sort of lawlessness that has been going on in that part of the city over the past few months and wants to get involved in the conversation.
01:51:33
Speaker 2: We would love to. It's been a hot spot previously.
01:51:36
Speaker 3: Is the Simon Smart the judge You've got attacked by the blokeep totally out of the blue, attacked at Ville Gardens with a pole broad daylight in a very charitable act. The judge said he's not going to press charges against the bloke. Remains to be seen whether the police still go ahead because they have the discretion.
01:51:54
Speaker 2: To do that. But some of the stories we've heard would make your hair stand on end. Not that it was as serious as that, but I had a family member that was walking through there a number of years ago that someone some drunken lf which jumped on their back.
01:52:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of concern about the needle exchange program as well and some of the drug addult people that it's the residents say is acting like a bit of a bit of a magnet for people who have got in some cases massive issues. Spare of thought though for the people of only part. Greg says Victoria Avenue would have to be one of the worst roads. It's so hard to get your car in and out of those double gates during peak out traffic.
01:52:40
Speaker 2: You always get your driver to do it for you. I guess move the Bentley, I can't get there. Yeah, can be really one of the real inconveniences of living in the most exclusive streak in Adelaide makes it hard to get the sturt games. Oh well, I mean you wiz oh the humanity Tomorrow, that'll be tomorrow boarding. We'll talk more about whitmore square metre Friday feedback Friday as well. Always have a lot of fun on Fridays. We'd love you to be part of it. And what we would love to is to have a morning where we don't have to talk about the fact that there is issues on the freeway. Hey little just a little bit of housekeeping as well. There is rain in one official gauge in Adelaide this morning at Plimpton Park. I believe zero point one mills officially, so whilst none in the West Terrace gauge, which means we are still on for our consecutive streak of rainless days. The history books will say, yes, you were imagining it. There was a little smattering of rain this morning. Eighteen is the day to break the record. Eighteen. Yeh, I'm cheering for us not to get this record. No same. Can it please rain sometime soon? All right? That's all from us. Stick around. Graham Goodings is coming up after nine o'clock and we'll catch you tomorrow morning. From six.
01:54:00
Speaker 17: In the troub bouncing home the sun, persistful of thing.
01:54:08
Speaker 2: This is three, really nowhere, he's SERI not upstairs.
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Speaker 21: This is true,
