Summer Breakfast with Matthew Pantelis - 29 December 2025

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Speaker 1: Five double a summer breakfast. Matthew pantellis, so good morning to you. Eight minutes past six o'clock on the twenty ninth day of December, which would make it what the three hundred and sixty third day of two thousand and twenty five. So we're getting down towards the pointy end of the year, really pointy New Year's even a couple of days as I really see the side anymore, but the sun glowing behind the peak of Mount Lofty, just looking out that way and about to peek over the top in the next little while, as we have passed the longest day of the year, that was about a week ago now, So we're on the slide into winter. Believe it or not. It won't feel like that today at top of thirty five. They were no top of thirty seven today, as Kendall just said, So it's going to be certainly warm thirty eight even I think she said so sunny, sunny in thirty eight, so it won't feel like winter at all. We're going to get hot. It's already quite warm out there, twenty four degrees now in the city, so it is going to be hot. I'll stop saying it. It is just beautiful though this time of year, isn't it? Got to enjoy it. Down at the beach, that would have been scores of people, thousands of people along the shoreline yesterday. The algal bloom seems to have disappeared at just the right time. I haven't looked at that app at all, the Beach Safe ESA app. But has anyone seen algal bloom anywhere? Love to know because or at least not in the metro area right, But if it's around, let us know where you've seen it, even if it's further afield, your peninsula, air Peninsula even or southern Flurio. Loved to get a visual tap on that as opposed to an app telling you. And I'm sure the app is operating at its best capacity with surf Life Saving volunteers entering data every day and all the rest of that. But love to hear from you. Lots of news around today, and one of the big stories is seventeen grieving families of the Bondai terror attack of United in their push for a national Royal commission. If the PM thinks this will go away, it is glaringly obvious the country needs this. But two weeks after the shooting, which killed fifteen people, dozens injured, forty odd ended up in hospital. A fierce political debate ignited in the days after whether the federal government has done enough to combat anti Semitism in Australia. Families won a Royal commission to examine the rapid rides after the attack on October seven, twenty twenty three. This is the Hamas attack in Israel, as well as failings in Australian law enforcement, intelligence and policy which allowed anti Semitic hatred and Islamic extremism to be allowed to dangerously grow to unchecked in fact, and what changed must be made to protect all Australians going forward. So that's been the call of everybody around the nation, the Opposition, Josh Friedenberg and now the seventeen or the families, seventeen grieving families of the Bondai terror attack uniting in their push for a national Royal commission to be held. The state of New South Wales is holding one federal government, the Prime Minister announcing an investigation into departments liaising. Peter Kredlin had a scathing article in the Sunday Mail yesterday about what's the PM afraid of in calling it the only thing it would expose potentially, although they say it will take years. Well by then, by then he might not even be Prime minister, So what's the worry. But I'm sure he thinks differently. But she says the only thing that might uncover his government failings and the Prime Minister's failings in ignoring warnings, etc. But it seems so obvious that this is needed to be held in the country. We can talk about that going forward. We will this morning have a chat with Mike Smithson about the arrest of an independent MP in the Southeast on domestic violence charges related charges, so that'll be coming up this half hour. We will chat about Trump and Zolensky to meet this morning at Marri Lago in the US. We'll have a look at the Sydney to Hobart as boats crossed the line last night. We'll cross to the scene of a car crash at Rosewater where a small red car hatchback of some sort has somehow on Grand Junction Road veered ninety degrees from the road into the front of a mini mart and is sitting at the moment half in half out of the store. Nothing stolen, no, you know, attempt to set it a light or anything like that. The person has fled police leaning towards possibility of someone a little bit over the limit, the driver fleeing the scene. But the car through the front of this shop. On Grand Junction Road at Rosewater. There's not going to be a lot of traffic there this morning, I dare say. But if you're using Grand Junction Road, particularly heading east, one lane is closed at Rosewater on Grand Junction Road, I imagine it's near that intersection. I forget the street that comes out near Mount Carmel College where it comes out there and half some on the tip of my tongue has always but anyway, it's just not far from there, just up the road a little bit and heading east one lane down, So look out for that. We will talk about the Algall bloom a bit later. Maybe the Murray River is the place for you and house experience going to join us a bit later on to talk about that. At the cost of an ASHES test finishing after two days, what perfect weather today to sit in an air conditioned house and watch the fourth test, day day four, it would have been maybe that would have been asking too much in any case, but a two day test where everyone is out both teams on the first day. When has that happened? It almost happened in the first test, of course, but gosh, you know you send you start batting again the second time on the very first day. That's unbelievable. If we get flip, if we wake him up, we might have a chat with him about that. See if he remembers anything as close as that in his in his time, where two innings have been held on one day, complete innings, unbelievable. There's this story doing the rounds as well. Australia's Council station federal governments and be told to start spending billions of dollars asap. This is a climate have a listen, carily, cats and Barnas here.
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Speaker 2: The Productivity Commission says unless they do to protect Australia's housing from the impact of climate change, they'll face a damage bill of thirty one billion dollars every year. Its research revealing Australia must build more desalination plants due to increasing water demand SMH. The AGE says urgent action is needed, including requiring homes to be at least half a meter above ground. In flood prone areas and preventing ember attacks. Otherwise, climate change related damage to homes could cost the economy more than seven hundred billion dollars by the end of the century.
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Speaker 1: All right, curly cats and barnast with that report. But climate change got to spend money to fix things in case of climate gets worse. Been hearing that for a while now. And there's all the memes about you know, oil shortages, global freezing, global warming and all being an excuse to raise taxes, and here we are paying for it. And the other thing we're going to talk about today is the Federal government's allocation of ten million dollars to South Australia for black spot road projects. Ten million, ten million dollars. What is ten million buy you a new footpath and a bloke with a red flag standing there for six months? Ten million dollars. That's not going to fix bugger roll. That's a couple of guardrails and some nes cafe for the road crew working at the scene. Honestly, ten million in road black spot funding. We've got a shortfall in road backlogs in South Australia. Of the hundreds hundreds of millions of dollars and the Fed's allocate ten ten million. That might iron out a pothole or two here and there, and that's needed. God knows, but I don't know that ten million is going to fix too much at all. But we'll have a chat about that as we go through with the transport minute. To Emily Burke a bit later on in the program, one last story, and I mentioned this earlier. Will be crossing to the US on this, but the President Donald Trump remains confident a peace deal in Ukraine can be reached soon. The President Voladimi Zelensky meeting with Donald Trump. It is marri Lago resort. If not right now, it's imminent. The been they've been discussing a twenty point piece plan after Russia launched thousands of fresh attacks this week. Mister Trump says both teams can move rapidly on a resolution.
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Speaker 2: Two weeks after the shooting, which.
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Speaker 1: Less, sir, Let's try this one two weeks after. We're not going to work. I don't even know where that's coming from, because I've deleted that grab, but it seems to have stayed. No, it's not going to change, all right. I was going to play a little bit of Donald Trump, which maybe I still can somewhere here we go, let's try this version.
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Speaker 3: We've spoken and yet dinner with Steve, Steve Woodcarf and Jared and done a fantastic job, and everybody else Mirco has been incredible. The whole group has been Our group has.
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Speaker 4: Been Piker and your Great appreciates it, Russia appreciates it.
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Speaker 5: They both want to see it.
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Speaker 1: And we're going to get it ended. All right. So Donald Trump, and I think he's meeting with Putin as well in the next few days. Is something I read on the weekend somewhere, but we'll see where that goes. I mean, all of this it's dependent on Putin accepting it as the aggressor. So we'll see, all right. Newcastle Street says Luke. Is the street, Yes, I think it is, Luke. Good on you, Thank you. Coming out onto Grand Junction Road not far from there. Mark says, morning pants. If you get Flipper on, can you please ask him about his test debut. He'll tell you Mark, we've only got three hours in this program. We'll give it a go though, all right, thank you. Jack says, So instead of worrying about cost of climate change, governments, should stop mass migration. That would certainly help right EO Jack eighteen past six will take a break on five double A. And on the other side, we'll talk with Mike smith from seven News twenty two past six on five double A. Well news yesterday that independent he was elected as a Liberal, became an independent in the last term this term of parliament. Nick book McBride down in the seat of McKillop in the Southeast, arrested and held in custody overnight to face court today on charges of domestic violence. What does this mean for that electorate as an independent former Liberal? The Libs are trying to win the seat back, or would be hopeful of doing that. But Mike Smithson, of course for seven News, follows politics very closely and has for decades. Smith O Seasons, greetings to you and the family.
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Speaker 6: Signed to you, Matthew. Yes, I think we're doing better than many people on the Southeast at the moment.
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Speaker 1: So what does this mean for Nick McBride's chances of re election this close to an election? I suppose it depends what the outcome of the next day or two will be.
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Speaker 6: Well, yes, I think so. And we've got to say from the outset. He hasn't faced court on the first charges yet, and we've got to be very care what we say and how we're framing all of this. But it's a very bad look, that's for sure. And the fact that you've got a sitting MP that has spent two nights in jail awaiting and the charges that he's facing now are breaching bail. It's serious just in itself, but also the new assault charges against his wife, the allegations which he will no doubt fiercely defend. But I think from where I said, it makes his position untenable in the first instance. He might see it differently, but I can't see that this would help his causes of being re elected one little bit.
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Speaker 1: No, does it help the Liberal Party or the Labor Party.
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Speaker 6: Think it undoubtedly helps the Liberal Party. It's pretty much a role gold liberal seed Labor. I don't think rights itself off in any seat in South Australia. At the moment they're forty seven of them. I think Labor thinks it's half a chance to win the whole lot, but it won't win that many. But look, it might be that something miraculous happens to McBride and either the charges are dropped or I don't think the court appearance. And remember is there are two lots of charges here. And again we've got to be careful how we talk about two different cases basically but involving the same person. But it puts it in a very murky situation, and I think the Liberals would be saying, gee, we're distancing ourselves, not that they weren't already, but at a million miles an hour anything to do with Nick McBride. But the government's jumped on this and it talked about Troy Bell and he is now in jail. He was the MP, Liberal MP for a while then independent in Mount Gambia. It's just a messy situation in that part of the state.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely it is. So they'd be looking to get back both of those seats and as you say, they're both traditionally labor seats, although Mount Gambia and mckillob two both have had a strong history of independence over the decades.
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Speaker 6: Oh yes, it's just a strange part of the state in any respects that if we go way way back, even back to.
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Speaker 1: R mckun Yes, yes, it was during the running, Yes, and then.
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Speaker 6: Mitch Williams, who was a lot of people down there that they were Liberals and then they become very disenchanted with something or someone and become independents and sometimes find their way back into the Liberal Party. But it's I think it opens up that perhaps Labor sees an opportunity there, and there might be other independent candidates running as well when the time comes. If it's a pretty open field and you reckon your half a chance as an independent, you probably would have a go in both Man Gambia and McKillop adjoining electorates.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so interesting times ahead. You talk about Labor thinking, you know, they're half a chance to pick up all forty seven seats, but realistically, I mean this is going to look like a reverse state Bank election from ninety three, isn't it, where the Libs then got thirty seven or forty seven seats and lost one in a by election not long after because one of their MPs suffered a fatal heart attacks, So I'd ended up being thirty six eleven. But Labour's a strong chance to have a finish like that, aren't they.
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Speaker 6: Well, look, I've been analyzing this for the last six months where I think it'll go and deep down labor thinks of us speaking to some labor people the other night. You might have even been at the same event, but it was I think they realistically think that the Libs can only win ten seats. I think ten is very optimistic. I just can't see a way forward for the Liberal Party to have an impact. Bear in mind, they just changed leaders in the last month and Ashton Hern now faces an uphill battle, which he knows. But even the policies that they've put out on a taxation reform Commission, people just don't understand that. It sounds reasonably impressive to hear it coming out of the mouth of the new Liberal leader. But people have still got to have their hearts and minds won over by it. But look, I think they'll win seats within between three and ten, probably about seven or eight. But I just can't see it. And that is a wallapy that puts the Liberal Party back to the dark ages and almost, you know, chuck it out and start again. Territory.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's how bad it would.
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Speaker 1: Be, all right, God help them with Peter Madanowskis takes his shirt off again. But I'll see where that goes. Good on you at smith though, thank you for your time and all the best for twenty.
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Speaker 6: Six Thanks Matthew, Boblo.
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Speaker 1: Mike Smithson seven News here in Adelaide, of course, and has been following politics forever in the day. All right, six twenty nine News is on the way here on five double A. Coming up after the news we will have across to the US, in fact, where Zelenski and Trump are meeting this morning at marri Lago, the President's Florida home. Rob Scott from seven News will join us. We'll also have a chat with Norman Schuler I understand and Jewish Community Council of say On the family of the families of the Bondai victims in an open letter calling for a royal commission from the federal government. At least we're trying to get in touch with Norm anyway, so hopefully we get hold of him and we'll have that interview as we move forward. All right, News time coming up on five double A twenty five to seven on five double A will cross to the United States shortly. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. It's better to be a member with RAA Road Service. So keep that in mind if you're driving around over these hot days in Adelaide, certainly today at least thirty eight degrees as the sun scales the peaks of Mount Lofty and shines down on the city through the windows here facing east in High Marsh Square. Been talking about the meeting between Trump and Zelensk, which if it's not under the way, it's imminent. Let's have a chat with Rob Scott from the seven US Bureau desk at La International Airport. I understand, Rob, Good morning to.
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Speaker 6: You, Good morning.
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Speaker 1: Are you doing all right? Thank you? So have they begun meeting?
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Speaker 8: They have, It's been going on for about an hour and a half hour. And then he was about half an hour later arriving at Donald Trump's marl Lago mansioned but he was given a pretty warm welcome by the US President when he pulled up at the front door. Their smiles, handshakes, pleasantries, a bit of a stuff.
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Speaker 1: How close are we to getting peace this time around? Do you think, oh, have we lost you? We've lost him already. Gee, that was quick. Hello, Hello you there?
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Speaker 9: Hello?
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Speaker 1: Can you hear me?
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Speaker 10: I'm still here?
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Speaker 1: Excellent? Yeah, Well you dropped out. I was just asking how close are we to getting peace at the time this time around.
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Speaker 8: So that's the million dollar question, isn't it. Look both Zelensky and Trump struck a pretty optimistic tone going into this meeting. Zelensky had said that this twenty point piece plan that the US had broken a couple of months ago, which has now been revised to be sort of more favorable towards Ukraine. He said that ninety percent of that had been agreed to with with the United States, and Donald Trump says he's pretty confident they can move quite rapidly towards a settlement that both Russia and Ukraine will be able to live with. But look, there's going to be some major sticking points. Obviously, the control of contested territory within Ukraine is one of the main points. And then Ukraine wants some guarantees from the United States security guarantees that if it signs this deal, that if Russia tries to invade it again, that the United States will come to its date. We received no sort of confirmation on which way Donald Trump is leaning, other than to say that Trump says that he is confident that Putin does want peace, and he actually spoke to him for more than an hour, hour and fifteen minutes going into this meeting, and he says he's going to ring him straight after the meeting wraps with Zelensky to update him. And it's that closeness that Trump shares with Putin that has Zolenski and many of his European allies really concerned that Trump isn't putting the sort of pressure that the world wants him to on Putin.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, that's I mean key to this is Putin as the aggressor and the bloke who obviously wants as much land from Ukraine as he can possibly secure in any piece still coming up, and he's not going to stop until he's satisfied with the result he's looking for.
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Speaker 10: Well, that's that's the big worry, And the fact that he isn't at this table means that we cannot get a peace deal signed. The fotactics Ukraine and Russia to be there to put pen to paper for anything to move beyond what we're seeing at the moment. We have heard that Zelenski is now prepared possibly to make some concessions when it comes to land, suggesting that you know, if they freeze the fighting at the front lines. He'll pull back some troops in some areas if Russia does the same.
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Speaker 8: But Putin is showing no signs of willing to compromise. I mean, over the weekend we saw him order a massive strike, raining hundreds of drones and missiles down on the capital city of Keys. And in fact, just before this meeting, one of the Kremlin officials said that they are not prepared to agree to Ukraine's suggestion of a temporary ceasefire ahead of a more permanent settlement because they think that'll just prolong the war. So they want to skip straight to a more permanent solution. And we know that Putin wants some big territorial gains handed over from Zelensky before he agrees to stop the fighting.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and the crazy part, rob is they could have ceded, not that they should have, but they could have ceded territory right at the start of this, going back three odd years ago, because that's going to be ultimately the result here is Russia securing territory it didn't have before the invasion. But you know the point, we're three years down the track almost, and in fact I think we are three years and it's almost for actually is it. Yeah, well there we are and thousands of lives lost in the meantime on both sides, and they could have done this in the first week.
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Speaker 8: Well, the issue with that is if you just say sure, Russia have whatever you are, where does that eet? You know that they'll keep on going. And that's the problem here. And the point that Zelenski is making is that it's not just a Ukraine that that's fighting here. They say, if Ukraine capitulates, then Russia can spread further across Europe, and that is something that has European leaders obviously very worried. They're heavily invested in all of this, and in talking about investment, that's another point that's going to be discussed today. If and when a ceasefire or a more permanent solution is agreed to. Zolensky wants a deal that includes a lot of money not only from the United States but also from Europe to rebuild his country.
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Speaker 1: All right, so lots to come out of this. Appreciate your time, Robbers. Always look forward to seeing your report on seven News tonight and maybe with an outcome, maybe something positive in all of this to come.
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Speaker 8: Singers crossed. Yeah, thanks very much.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Rob Scott seven US Bureau. And there's talks underway right now at Marri Lago, Zelenski and Trump, but needs putin to tick off on whatever they agree to. So we'll see how far away that is. That could be ages and he might say no, all right, twenty minutes to seven o'clock on five double A five double A breakfast with me over the next couple of weeks, and that it'll be johnno again back with I think Jade is going to be with him when he returns in two weeks time. Jack says, instead of worrying about the cost of climate change, governments should stop mass migration. That would certainly help on you. Jack, Thank you. Keep the text coming through four four eight, eight thirty ninety five calls as well eight double two three double O doubo. You can email if you're keen on air at five double A dot com today you when did emails become snail mail? Because it almost feels that way these these days. There there's so many other faster ways of getting in touch, but particularly the phone that's always good on that number of ours. Love to hear from you this morning, as we slide into New Year's in a few days time. The forecast, if you're curious for New Year's Eve for the day is sunny in twenty five a low overnight of thirteen degrees and Thursday, the first of twenty twenty six thirty and sunny, so a beautiful day for a barbie celebrate the New Year morning, afternoon, or dinner. But it'll be a good day, I mean morning. Maybe you barbie on the way home, perhaps, but whatever takes your fancy in that regard. The thirty first twenty five degrees and sunny, so warm enough. Might be a little bit on the cool side at night thirteen degrees if you're out watching firework somewhere, potentially a light jacket depending on how far it drops and whether it's a cool breeze blowing through as well. We'll check all that out with the bureau coming up in a little while here on five. Double a breakfast and find out, well, how are you celebrating it doing anything unique? I've got rallies who are flying to Sydney and heading out on a boat on the harbor to check out the fireworks. Sydney's going to be different this year with fireworks. That's absolutely for sure because the Bondai attack, I mean they're a police that will be out. The army will be out armed as well around Sydney taking no chances, which is unbelievable, isn't it. Who would have thought in this country we would resort to a mostly US style thanks to a couple of idiots two weeks ago. That's where we're at, and that's just sad. But here we are twenty twenty six. Welcome to the new world in Australia, or almost twenty twenty six hours away? Really righty oh, seventeen to seven now fourteen minutes to seven o'clock on five Double A. Let's check in with the weather Bureau Daniel Sherwin Simpson, the forecaster on Judy Daniel Season's greetings, Good morning.
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Speaker 11: Good morning, Matthew. I guess belated Mary Chriss and New Year's soon.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: So today we've got a pretty settle day coming up. Although it's going to be the warmest day we're going to have that there is a cool change on the way. We're up to the top of thirty eight degrees. We're probably not expecting that cool change to push through Adelade until about six to eight o'clock the winds will tend round to a southwesterly and will start feeling cooler air coming in off the Gulf, although still probably going to be a fairly warm night though, And unfortunately we won't see things really cool down until tomorrow, but twenty six on the forecast to so if you're sick of the hot weather, we'll see a bit of a change coming through, and then we're sort of mild, kind of more near average temperatures for the rest of the week, broadly hovering around the mid tee mid twenties for Tuesday Wednesday, and then hanging around the thirties or so for the rest of the week ahead of us.
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Speaker 1: All right, now we're starting to look forward, I suppose to New Year's Eve coming up in a couple of days time. How's the night looking. Is it's a cool night, isn't it.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Look, it's not going to be like icy cold or anything that it will certainly cool off. Adelaide generally keeps its heat a little bit in the evening, so by midnight or so, we've got a forecast of fifteen point four degrees if you want the exact number, So yeah, hanging around that fifteen degree mark in the evening. The winds are going to be coming around the back of the Lofty, so probably won't begin any cool sea breezes or anything at least so a little bit mild. I'd probably bring my jumper if I was heading out to watch the fireworks, but it's not going to be anything too icy cold, luckily for anyone going out and watching the fireworks at midnight.
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Speaker 1: And I see no rain on the forecast over the seven day period, Daniel, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: No, we're in a dry period. The only very very slim chance will be picking up something on Sunday as a change maage through, but that's you know, a millimeter at best, and I think we probably won't even see much. It's a very very slight chance money to see something up in the hills, but that's it, and if we do see anything, not a whole lot. So certainly into that dry summer period we've only seen about three millimeters of rainfall, and Adelaide across the center that it's been pretty drunk because it's been so dry, and with that heat today we do have I'll just flag up extreme fire danger for the Mount Lofty rangers. So today that's something to keep an eye out with that heat and a little bit of wind about as well.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely good, good advice, good reminder. Good on your Daniel, Thank you speak again, Jeers. Thanks thanks Daniel. Sherwin Simpson. You're of meteorology, so you're Constable. Rebecca Stokes at Sapole Media Bet good morning and happy new Year on the way.
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Speaker 9: Good morning Matthew. You hope you've had a great Christmas.
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Speaker 1: Thank you I did, yes, hope yours was too. Some sad news to start off today. And boy it was only last Thursday I think, where we had a media conference on the fatal five and the usual police road safety campaign over summer. On that day. Later on two people died tragically in a crash on South Road down around o'haller and Hill. And there's been another fatal in the southeast I understand last night.
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Speaker 9: Yes, this single car crash occurred last night at Suttontown near Mount Gambia on Hinton Road about nine p forty five pm. Holden sedan containing four people left the road and crashed into a tree and sadly the driver he's a thirty one year old Millicent man died at the scene. He's three passengers, a twenty eight year old man, a twenty nine year old woman and a twelve year old boy all sustained injuries and were taken to hospital by ambulance. But fortunately the injuries are not considered last threatening. We very nearly could have had a quadruple fatal crash there, So yeah, fortunately the three passengers survived. Major crash investigators attended and examined the scene overnight and investigations into this crasher ongoing. Anyone with any information, perhaps witnessestic or prior to the crash can contact crime Stoppers on one eight hundred chriples three, triples zero and the local men's death is the eighty sixth life lost on South Australian road so far this year.
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Speaker 1: Sure, that's that's terribly sad, especially this time of year, it sort of takes on. Not that you know, anything to be said about the other times of year, but around here, the poignancy of Christmas New Years, it's just really heartbreaking.
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Speaker 9: I think, oh exactly, And I don't know if people realize, you know, just how much of an impact it's going to have for years to come. It's going to be a reminder every year, this time of year, when it rolls around that this is the time that they love that they lost their loved ones. So that's why we really want to put the focus on people's you know, taking responsibility for their driving and if they're going away for New Year's really just pay attention to driving and just yes, do everything safely.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. There's been a car crash mentioned this a bit earlier at Rosewater Grand Junction Road and a lane closed a bit earlier. I don't know if it still is. What's the latest on that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that happened at two twenty this morning, Emergency Services was called to Grand Junction Road after a puts a Volkswagen SUV had crashed into a Roastwater tobacco shop and the driver ran from the scene. Trials are quickly at the scene and located the driver nearby on Leeder Street and he was arrested. He's a forty two year old man from Aldinger Beach. He's been charged with driving under the influence, driving without due care, bridge of bale, and leaving the scene of a crash. He's seen a few his bail and we'll face court today. Our Crimes and Investigators attended the scene and even though this cars crashed into it into a tobacco shop, it appears as though it's just a crash. It's not linked to our Operation Eclipse, which is our police operation targeting illegal tobacco crime. It does just appear to have been a crash caused by this alleged drunk driver. So hopefully that will be cleared up soon.
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Speaker 1: All right, little traffic around this morning, so it's not going to impact too much, but nevertheless, another reminder, don't drink and drive. For goodness, say exactly thank you, Hi, I have a good one. You two. Rebecca Stokes from Senior constable from Police Media Sandy at West Lake Side, Sandy.
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Speaker 12: Oh, just before I'd say what I was going to say, I reckon what the government is giving us for our roads is less than what Green Milk's spending.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Anyway, what I.
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Speaker 12: Rang to say was the bus timetable is greatly reduced this week because not many people catch buses. So just let people be aware to check when their bus is running, because are you having about half the number on this week?
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Speaker 1: They do this every year, don't they over this period?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, but people forget and then they go to catch the bus and it's not there.
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Speaker 1: Totally, totally good on your sandy, great reminder, thank.
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Speaker 6: You, no worries.
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Speaker 1: See yeh bye bye. Yes, this is right. So this time of year reduced transport services buses, trains, I imagine trains and trams as well, because they'd be running empty. Also trams, I mean you know, perhaps the forty bus up and down running empty along Anzac Highway. I'm sure they'll still be going, but the rest of the services will be reduced. They probably have been as well. Drivers take their holidays or a few of them do anyway, and a skeleton staff essentially remains to keep services moving but to reduce services over this period and happens every year. So if you are needed, if you've got an app, just download or Google anytime dot com, dot au I think it is. You can find it anyway. It tells you where your bus is, or you can download real time bus movements on your phone and see where your bus is. Also will tram or train, so it tells you how many minutes before it gets to your stop. So yes, if you just know the name of your stop, all the number Bill at Richmond can.
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Speaker 7: I Bill, Hello, good morning, how are you.
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Speaker 1: It's very good. Merry Christmas, have been new year thanks to you.
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Speaker 7: I've been or listeners. I had to do something very important to say last night on I have tried to get hold of Channel nine, but very difficult. So I hope that you can do the best. Last night at ten thirty on right road, Ingle Farm and forty five on in this road by Lali. First, the first brown snake was more than two meters really. It was right next to the housing, crossing the road towards heading towards the house. And look, I had to run over like three times because it was that long, you know. And I explained the lady, look, I'm too busy. You know, this is what is happening. She said, thanks very much, Merry Christmas. And then I went back to the airport, picked up another customer. It was going to parallel and the left. This second snake was exactly the same situation. You're not in the road in sixty kilometers zone. It is also right next to the thousand and This snake was about meter and half a brown snake and also heading towards the thousand and Yeah, I had a customer when I ran the second snake so it was let's say this was coincidence. I had two customers and I had I ran over two snakes, and so I think this should someone should say something on TV because what is happening, Like these snakes are not stupid, So when they are when they are crossing the road, they obviously really like ah, they are crossing the road. So they are in normally at the side of the road waiting for a road to be clear, and they are rolled up, you know, they rolled up, then they make a meter, they stop in the middle of the road, and then they rolled up again, and that is when I run them.
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Speaker 6: Older.
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Speaker 7: So people assume that animals are stupid, but they are also same as any other animal would be trying to like safely across the road. So I someone should put warning for people that are using you're riding bicycles or scooters or because they are most or in dangers because if they would run across them, they would ye. You know, people in cars are safe, but people that are using bicycle lanes might be in danger of them.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, so anybody on a bike or a motorcycle. Very good point, I reckon. People might disagree with running, some might disagree with running them over. But nevertheless, I mean, if you can't avoid it, they're on the road, what do you do. However, if you're on a motorcycle and there's a snake, you do stand a risk. However, whatever percentage it is of being bitten, that is not good. Thank you, Bill. Don't worry about TV. You've told radio, You've told everyone in Adelaide TV channel nine. Give me a break, but you've told You've told everyone here via five double A, which is a timely reminder. Snakes are out, it is warm. And as for why the snakes cross the road, well, the parents on the other side would have had a hissy fit if it was late for dinner. I suppose get a hissy anyway, all right, two to seven on five double A. Good morning to you if you've just joined us. Six past seven December twenty nine. Today is a Monday. Because we all lose track of days, don't we this time of year. I thought last Friday, I think it was or Saturday, maybe was Tuesday. For some reason, I knew yesterday was Sunday. So there goes a week. Today Monday. So here we are, all right, coming up a bit later on this hour, we will have a chat with Hayden Els about this car into the Mini mart in Rosewater a bit earlier this morning. But we're going to go to the UK shortly and speak with Ben Downey from seven News Europe correspondent there about Bridget Bardet passing away at the age of ninety one. Quite the film star in her day. Various reports of a sex kitten is what she was dubbed as back in the sixties and seventies. But anyway, we'll try and get hold of Ben, having difficulty getting through to him at the moment. Over in Britain, I see in Brisbane, a child has been arrested after setting off an explosive device at a Brisbane shopping center. Police were called to the center in bracken Ridge at a one thirty yesterday afternoon. Anyone know is it a big center? It is it like a Marion type center? Is it just a small shopping center? But anyway, reports of a loud explosion in the public toilets. It set off the fires sprinkler system. Police arrived finding a small improvised device which had been detonated, using and causing minor damage. No one was injured. Police attended a nearby address, arresting a twelve year old boy charged with entering premises with intent, damaging premises by explosion and stealing is due to appear in court early next year. Police assuring the public in Brisbane the incident is not terror related, but a twelve year old now, okay, couple of things curious in terms of things that go kaboom, and wanted to do something. But you know, surely you just do it in the backyard, wouldn't you, not in a public to toilet. And if it's more than a twelve year old's science experiment, could it potentially morph into something a little bit more deadly in years to come? Or you'd want to keep an eye, wouldn't you. I think to make sure this young man as he grows into an adult, doesn't sort of go down the path of bigger kabooms. And we don't want that, not in this day and age. So I can imagine the sprinkler system going off though in a blast in the toilet, imagined somebody else was in there in a qub couse, something that would have made you do the business really quickly. I imagine, all right, seven past nine on five double a so International style icon and French film star. I don't know if she was an international style like maybe back in the day Bridget Barde. She Bridgitte Barde. She shunned the limelight. I don't know if recluse is too strong, but she did shun the limelight. After her initial stardom, she was in quite a few movies, sang quite a few songs as well. In nineteen fifty six is where it all began, and God created woman and that put her in the international spotlight. She became an icon in France, but by the seventies had walked away from the film industry, putting her fame behind animal rights activism. The French president Emmanuel Macrau has remembered her as saying as a hero, a hero, gee, we throw that word around. Saw one at Bondai, A couple at Bondai in different different guys, as different places around that scene on the bridge, the elderly couple there down on the ground. Of course, they're heroes anyway, has said, we mourn a legend of the century. Or she was certainly that that's a fair call. Passing at the age of ninety one, all right, having difficulties getting through to Ben Downey. But there is another story I wanted to talk about, and that is the brother of the health minister here, Christon. Tim Picton, who lives in wa felled by a one punch. Now don't know king hit, cowd hit, don't know, don't know the circumstances. Haven't seen the footage, but police told the court CCTV has captured the hit from twenty different angles, so a lot of where it occurred, a lot of CCTV. One man charged his face. Court don't know if he got bail or not at this stage, but it raises questions about not questions about the fact so much that a one hit can kill, as we know. Thoughts with the Picton family. Tim is fighting for his life in a critical condition, has had part of his skull removed according to news reports today, and according to police prosecutors in court yesterday, will be left with disabilities if he recovers. So hopefully he does recover and hopefully any disability is negligible. Certainly, Thoughts with his family, including Chris, but Janine Jackson Sammy d Foundation CEO is on the line and Janine just yet another tragic reminder about the dangers of brawling in public.
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Speaker 14: Yes, well, good morning, Matthew, And it is an awful story that's coming out of wa And firstly, our thoughts are with Tim Picton and his family during this time. It's a really awful situation that they find themselves in. But I think we're all reminded that one split decision can change lives forever.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 14: It's something that we have been advocating for now for more than seventeen years, that one simple decision to hit somebody can change and ruin Marge forever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that's exactly it. We understand he fella hit his head on the footpath and was unconscious when paramedics arrived and obviously rushed a hospital from there. But your programs go a long way to try and teach kids about the dangers of exactly this, about walking away, about not throwing that punch, about thinking.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, we absolutely advocate for emotional regulation in young people, teaching them how to manage their anger before it turns into a red hot rage, but also teaching and everyone can use this strategy, especially during this season, is that if you see some that you know getting upset or angry, help them walk away, walk away so that tomorrow is a better day. You know, this is a season where we all come together and celebrate, but violence is absolutely never the answer, and one split decision can actually turn what is a celebration into heartache. And we're hoping that no one We don't want to see these headlines. Education is absolutely the answer. We know that when we're in schools we can actually change the culture of violence and violent decisions. And this is absolutely heartbreaking. The reason we exist so that no one else gets.
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Speaker 6: These phone calls.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and that's the thing. You know, we talk about the victims, and rightly so obviously, but I don't want to sort of go too far down the path of sympathy for the aggressive. But you can imagine what his family is going through as well, indeed, what he's going through. Not not that it's not undeserved, but there are two sides to this.
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Speaker 14: As always, absolutely it is the perpetrator in the perpetrators families lives who are forever changed as well. It isn't this isn't a one angled story. The one split decision has a rival impact. You know, the first responder's lives are changed, the people in the hospital's lives are changed. It actually impacts so many people around that one incident. Sam Sam's funeral had over a thousand people at it, and those lives have been changed forever as well. The implications of a small at least not a small pecision. It's a one split decision literally change his lives forever. And really from our perspective, what we're advocating for is prevention is so that no one has to actually leave the consequences of that split decision. So if you are out this season and we know, we know so many people are going to see it, you know where people are out for the u Z celebrations and.
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Speaker 12: All of those, is that they will see.
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Speaker 14: Alcohol induced anger, Please find a way to walk away.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's the important message, Janine. Appreciate your time today, Sammy d Foundation. I hope you don't have to talk about this too much in twenty twenty six, but it is an important message nevertheless, and one for people to heed and walk away is the key. And you know, if you see somebody in that situation, a friend you're with, as you say, the most important thing, guide them away, tell them, remind them you don't want to be doing this, and do whatever whatever it takes get them out of there on both sides. Yes, absolutely, thank you for your time.
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Speaker 14: Thank you so much, Matthew.
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Speaker 1: Janine Jackson, Sammy d Foundation CEO on the terrible news. The brother of the Health Minister in a critical condition in a Perth hospital where he lives in wa. Tim Picton with critical injuries after going down hitting his head on the footpath after he was punched a young man in custody as a result of that and has face caught already. Just terrible situation, all right, mentioned bridget Bardou passing at the age of ninety one. We got hold of Ben Downey seven News Europe correspondent. He is on the line, Ben sad news. Not totally unexpected at the age of ninety one. I was saying just before a recluse, probably too strong a word after her film career, but she gave it up and shunned the limelight, didn't she at some point in the seventies she certainly did.
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Speaker 15: And yeah, it is undeniably sad despite as you say, even though she was later in her years at ninety one years old. But yes, after that meteoric rise to stardom, she felt that age thirty nine after forty more more than forty films, that she had given her youth away to men and to others, and she wanted to instead turn her life around and dedicate it to animals and other advocacy. Of course, she shot to stardom with the French film and God Created Woman, so began a rapid ascent of becoming an icon of the sexual revolution. She was soon dubbed really like France's answer to Marilyn Monroe. You know, she still has like Lee's ripples in the style and fashion well, with people mimicking her things today. And she was married four times, but that press obsession is one of the reasons that drove her to leave the film and fashion industry, so giving her life over to animals and other causes. She also took up a side with some quite fire politics in France as well that actually earned five convictions too, So led a very complex life, leads an incredibly complex legacy, but no doubt an incredibly powerful one. France's President Emmanuel Macron today mourning her as a legend of this century, other people saying she's the incarnation of the French woman. So really the French cinema fashion, that animal advocacy was all morning today. After Brigitte Bardou died age ninety one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was certainly studying in her day. And the comparison with Marilyn Monroe not an unfair one. I mean she made you know, there were a few women of that time, particularly the fifties and sixties, those two and you know, you throw in the likes of Saya, Raquel Welsh and another Jane Fonder of that period, and you know, the four of them, and there were probably others too that escaped my memory at the moment. Who just revolutionized, as you say, that sexual revolution of the Late Sea Stings particularly or through that era. It just changed the film industry, had changed the world.
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Speaker 15: It did. And I think one thing that you know, you raised all those names, they all have in common is they all had such a strong sense of self. They were all totally unapologetic about who they were, and I think that's what looking back before my years, but what many people find was so striking and what we gave that revolution such force in that post World War era, people were suddenly realizing and coming out of their shelves and with icons like Brigitte Bardeaux or like Marilon Monroe gave them a blueprint and audiences love them. Sadly though it was a double edged sword. Audiences began to fall more in love with the character of their personal lives rather than their on screen personas the characters they were betraying. There were instances where photographers had broken into Brigitte Bardo's home before the paparazzi became what it was today. That's one of the reasons why she took up animal advocacy. She saw herself sometimes, she writes, as an animal in a cage. So they paid an enormous price in many respects for what they took on. But I think they certainly left the world in the minds of so many in a better place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, all right, Ben, appreciate the tribute. Thank you for your time, my pleasure. We look forward to your report on seven News on the life of Bridget Barde Ben Downey, seven News Europe's correspondent there twenty one past seven on five double twenty four past seven on five double a eight double two to three double O double oh the number. Thanks to Luke for the info, says with the on the back of Sandy's call. A bit earlier reduced bus services for this week with the holiday period. Luke says Adelaide Metro dot com dot au for real time arrival of buses or trams or trains along with any Trip dot com dot au. So either of those trip shows you a map of where your bus is so you can physically look at where it is and how far away it is from you. And the Adelaide Metro website gives you a real time arrival at your stop of where your when your bus is coming to that particular stop. So either of those websites Anytrip dot com do you or Adelaide Metro dot com dot you and you'll be able to get real time information regarding your service bus, train or tram. Worth a look with the reduced services this week. Hayden Nelson seven years at Rosewater where a car has gone into a tobacco shop at around two thirty in the morning. I understand, Hayden, Yeah, Matthew, that's star.
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Speaker 16: What's occurred here this morning that a family suv of Volkswagen Tiguanas slammed into the front of the Rosewater Mini supermarket on Brand Junction Road at about two point thirty this morning near Addison Road police were quickly on stine. They've arrested the forty two year old driver, a man from old Dinga Beach. Now he's been charged with driving under the influence HISS, breach of bail, driving without due care, leaving the scene of a crash as well, so some fairly serious charges there and he's been refused bail to face the Port Adelaide Court today. There has been a se S crews here propping up the building at the moment. But if anyone is to drive past this mini supermarket on Grand Junction Road this morning, they'd noticed that the yawning is fairly well caved in. But at this stage the SEES believes it is structurally okay, it's not at a risk of collapse. They've put their props in, but certainly this morning and in pictures we've been showing on sunrise throughout the morning, you can see that, you know, this vehicle's done a pretty large amount of damage to the building. There's debris scattered everywhere, some soft drinks scattered around this morning and as I said, that awning it's practically caved in now.
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Speaker 1: It's just a ninety degree crash almost, isn't he hasn't come across the at a t junction or anything. He's just veered into it at almost ninety degrees.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: Sure, See if you see those pitches this morning on sunrise, you'll see that Roe Street runs perpendicular to Grand Junction Road. It appears that he's driven down Rhodes Street potentially at some speed, jumped over the median strip, which is a raised median strip, and then has hitsed the mini supermarkets. So that may be why there is such a dancing the buildings. And then while the car was wedged in so far into the building, and while the SEES is taken every precaution and been here for a few hours trying to make sure it's structurally sound, the tow truck has been it has removed the vehicle. It did appear for a moment that the building was actually resting on the vehicle, but that doesn't appear to be the case now those props are in place. So yeah, as you say, you're right, he did hit it at quite an angle. It would take some skill, perhaps in this case not much skill at all, because he was under the influence. And it is incredibly lucky. There is a family who lived behind the supermarket and they not injured, actually didn't hear it and they were only told by police. So their kitchen is at the back of the supermarket. There's no damage there. So they're incredibly lucky, you know, lucky that no one was inside the shop and with someone like that, you know, driving around town on back streets around the night, I'm incredibly lucky that person who, as I said, the forty two year old or ding a man at this stage have been told he may have a wrist injury. You know that he wasn't killed. Did the airbax deployed.
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Speaker 8: And then no one else was killed?
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Speaker 1: Unbelievable, I'll tell you what. That's the second lucky escape then for a car in that particular district, because you've obviously seen the footage Hayden on seven years. Of course he would have the car on Hanson Road on was it Saturday that just lost control and brought down that stovey polet next to the person in a gopher just missing them. For goodness sake, how did that happen? That was a seed? Yeah, speed might have been effected there as well.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, certainly, I mean looking at those pictures that's seen that stoby pole collapsed. I mean, yeah, you know, you know that takes a lot of force. So really people just really have to heed those holiday warnings. Perhaps they may not be getting through quite as strongly as they should be to people because you know, speedy driving under the influence, you know, driving without seat belts, on driving dangerously. These are all things the police constantly warn us about, and particularly around this time of year. And to see these crashes like that, well, you know, devastating for them to have to attend. And it's you know, in those both these instances. Really yeah, as you say, fucking no one's been killed.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right, Hayden, appreciate your time as always, so seen the pictures this morning, look forward to your report tonight on seven years.
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Speaker 13: Thank you, Thanks man.
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Speaker 1: Cheers Hayden Nelson from seven years reporting from Rosewater where a car's gone into a tobacco shop at two thirty this morning. Lucky it was that time, because I mean imagine that happening at two thirty in the afternoon it would have been. And how's that crash on Hanson Road just around the corner a couple of k's from there, where a car has lost control appears to be speeding from the vision, slams into a car waiting to come out on the corner. There waiting for this car to pass it had it been driving normally, just as well it was waiting. There's a bloke on the corner in a gopher as well, sitting there and the car misses him. This out of control car probably lucky for the guy in the gopher. It slammed into the car on the corner first, which also missed the guy in the gopher as it spun around after being hit. And the first car continues on sideways into the stoby pole half on the footpath, literally centimeters talking two or three away from the guy on the go for bringing down the stoby pole next to him. Unbelievable. It only takes a second and just to be in the wrong spot by a few centimeters and it's all over. Fortunately, in both these cases no major injuries, so that is good. All right. News time on five double A. On the other side, talking of roads, we're going to talk about the piddly funding from the federal government for South Australia's black Spot program ten million dollars in fact, just a tad under that. Nine point nine I think million. What do you get with that? You get a couple of potholes, enough bitchamen to fill a cup of tea and that's about it. Unbelievable. We'll talk about that next with the Transport Minister. Twenty one to eight on five Double A. We've woken up to the news this morning that our road toll has increased to eighty six lives lost, eighty six people killed on our roads throughout twenty twenty five with a fatal crash near Blanchetown in the southeast last near not Blanchtown anyway, it was in the southeast last night. And that is just Sutton Town near Mount Gambia last night. So it's just absolutely tragic. The RAA last month, early last month, fifth of November put out a release saying our road maintenance backlog stands at two point one billion dollars. Two point one billion dollars. That's the Order to General report is what they're citing. The federal government yesterday has put up nine point nine million dollars nine point nine million. We have a two point one billion dollar backlog. The Fed's contributing nine point nine million. Emily Burke, Minister for infrastructure and transport on the line. Minister, good morning to you. Almost time to issue a happy New Year, but you wouldn't be too happy about just on ten million coming in for road maintenance in South Australia. What does that do? A couple of blokes with stop signs and a guardrail, it's about it.
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Speaker 17: Oh, look, this is actually more funding than we've received in some time, most I've seen for a while from the black spot funding. Black spot funding is there to really address some of those those locations that we know have higher crash rates, we know that we need to be putting more attention to them. So I think there's not only a lot of communities, there's twenty different locations across the state that will be benefiting from this. And sixty percent of that is that funding is going to our regional areas as well. So this is new roundabouts, new traffic lights, near shouldering.
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Speaker 18: This is more.
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Speaker 17: This is a different conversation to the one that you're having about that backflog.
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Speaker 18: So I just black for spot.
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Speaker 17: Funding will actually make a really significant dip prints to a lot of community. Some of these projects are around two million dollars and those are projects also in our regional community. So whether it's port linking or finness or lots of different areas across the regions, there will be people that there will be benefiting from these. But that backlog really has come about. When we left government in twenty seventeen, it was seven hundred and twenty three million. When we came back it was one point nine and you know that's a billion, that's a six significant increase, and that's because they privatized our road maintenance. They sold off our road maintenance equipment. So now we're left with this big black hole in funding that we're having to fix. So that's really what we're left with.
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Speaker 1: What it says, though, is neither of you care, liberal or habor about fixing it. That's what it says.
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Speaker 17: Well, no, actually, we have increased funding and we have now a rolling increase in funding of thirty million dollars every year. So that's the new funding that's come about because we do we do, we want to commit to fund and we were investing more than road infrastructure than ever before. And if you look at the Master Builders Association, they would agree with that that we're spending twenty seven percent more in our road infrastructure maintenance our road infrastructure, so that's you know, it's a significant investment that we're putting back into our road maintenance, but also into our road infrastructure, which is just as important. We have to make sure our current roads are being maintained, but we're also building new roads as well, and that's what we're doing in South Australia moment. I think anyone driving around Adelaide was very much agreed with that. And it's not just in our ladies in Region South Australia as well. I'm on New York's at the moment. Driving over, I saw lots of roadworks along the way and lots of new roads being built. You know, that's what we want to be seeing. It's not just about metropolitan and Adelaide is about regional and we do more road maintenance in regional South Australia than we're doing Metro, and we're spending way a lots in regional South Australia as well on new roads infrastructure.
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Speaker 1: All right, well, getting that two point one billion down, is it going to come down? I mean you might be spending more on it, but is there an acceptable level of backlog? Is it half a billion? Is it one hundred million. What's acceptable.
01:05:11
Speaker 17: Well, we will just keep investing in it because that's what we need to be doing. And you know we're seeing investing in the riverland. That's a twenty million dollar fund just for the Riverland that's split between federal government state government. That's another fund that we're putting in there to build resilience. We're putting funding into the Adelaid Hills and there's five hundred and fifty million dollars that we're spending in new road infrastructure and maintenance and roads in the Adelaide Hills. There is a lot of investments going across South Australia. And I know people when they drive it around they tell me this all the time. There are so many cranes, whether it's in metropolitan, whether it's in regional. I mean, we even built a barge in the outback. There were two cranes Interminka in the Outdack to build a barge for the very first time to get to hit the front line open. There is investments happening across our state to keep people moving, but people with people safer, because as I just said, you know, no one wants to hear the news of a tragedy on our roads. It's not just about the individual set of families, it's about the communities that they've come from. This is nothing anyone likes to hear. So we are investing, and we do keep investing, and as I said, we're increasing it. It's funding now by thirty million dollars a rolling fund because we care about our road safety.
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Speaker 1: All right. The RAA making the point this is back in November on their release, which I've got here. If you hit a pothole or your will drops off a crumbling shoulder at one hundred and ten k's an hour, the consequences can be horrific, possibly fatal, which is certainly true, and well you know, at best you're in a serious car crash, potentially a head on in that sort of situation, or you slide into a tree, and if you survive it, your injuries can be horrific and life lasting. And this is what obviously they want to avoid, we all want to avoid. And ultimately what it is is just money has got to be funded these things. We talk about the importance of bringing the road told down and there are plans across the state and have been for decades to reduce it and bring it and we've done that to some degree, But eighty five as eighty six as it stands at the moment, deaths on our roads every year is just too high. It's way too high. Still.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, that's right, and that's again I guess, as I said before, no one likes hearing these stories. It has a huge rifle impact. I'm a country kid on York's at the moment, I've had friends of friends pass away through car accidents. It's a horrific experience that goes through. But you know, that's why we are investing. And I know, and I hear this from my own family and who there's twenty three one thousand killing meters of roads in South Australia and in regional South Australia. We're investing over two point seven billion dollars in new road infrastructure and projects, and that's seventy percent of all road infrastructure across across the whole state if you take out the T to D project, because that's such a big project we are we are actually spending a lot in regions out of Australia, and we're also spending more than ever before in new road infrastructure to make them say. I mean, we're a state that has never had a non stop freeway motorway in our state. We now will because of the T TOD project. You know, we're like I said before, we're spending and putting dedicated funding into the adlaih Hills so we can have new interchanges that people can get in and on and off the freeway. And we're doing things in the Riverland. And we're investing more than ever before through this rolling Infrastructure, rolling maintenance fund on our road. So there is funding happening. And I appreciate every time we hear a story of an accident, it is horrible. It's something no one wants to hear it. And that's why we need to keep investing and making these differences in our community.
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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time. By the way, won't be a non stop freeway across North South till you get rid of the traffic lights at Riverley. I mean, what's the point of spending fifteen billion on the North South program through the city only to pull up at Riverlely, for goodness sake, on a one hundred and ten hundred even kilometer an hour speed limit there. It's just ridiculous.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, well, I guess the River Leaf projects also takes into account the actual developers as well, and that's something we continue to have conversations with about what we can do when I guess the population increases at the Riverlely New development as well. You know, we are we are investing quite heavily in that maintenance. And also that's Lonstock Freeway and we will make a significant difference. You know, we're taking a twenty one traffic light with a TGD project, so people will be able to get to where they need to forty minutes faster than what they would be at the moment. So that will make actually a significant difference, not only at a time level, but at economic level, so we can get great moving and people moving as well.
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Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time, Thank you, Thank you. Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Malie Burke. Sam Telfer is the shadow he's called in. Mister Telfer, Good morning, very good morning. Af million dollars just a drop in the ocean.
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Speaker 13: It's well poot And I don't know, I hadn't been having the conversations with people about all the cranes that are kicking around South Australia. I've had more questions and comments from people talking about all the potholes. I mean, a lot of my city cousins are traveling regional roads at the moment, Matthew, and I'm starting to realize just how bad the road network right across South Australia is. And yeah, for less than ten million dollars for black spot funding, it's only going to really tinker at the edges of a few of these dangerous hindissections when looking at what we're really dealing with as a whole. And you know, it's it's not just the nice to as, it's the vitals, it's the shoulder ceilings, it's the potholes in roads, it's the things that need constant investment from the government. And you know, I listened to the minister and appreciate she's got her talking points that she'll stick to. But I'm driving tens of towers of kilometers on the roads every single year, Matthew, and I see how bad roads are getting right across that state.
01:11:06
Speaker 1: I've got a list of them here of where they're spending that money, and you know, things like two point five million for safety upgrade, shoulder ceiling, signage, audio, tactile lines that you go over when you accidentally cross the line or whatever as you're driving along the as you goes two point five million. That's for Phinnis Milang Road. I'm sure that will help there and make the road a bit safer. Their shoulder ceiling for seven hundred odd thousand a Gooid Highway. It's Spaulding. There's a lot of local stuff Morphet Vale Bains Road, upgrade of traffic signals, mile end, installation of a raised intersection platform, whatever that might be. Lighting upgrade around North Parade Hall, att Cove, new right turn arrows. So it's for things like that, installation of around about one point two to install a round about million main road at Mawson Lakes. So you know, these are little things that will help. But the bigger question remains about the state of our roads right across South Australia and particularly regional roads. As you'd know SAMTOFA fatalities more so on regional roads and country roads.
01:12:17
Speaker 13: Yeah, sadly that's one which really hits home and you know, with extra people on the roads this time here Maki especially, and you know, like you're saying, these projects are all important, but it is just a scale that is not being properly addressed by this labor government. We need to have more money put into our roads. And despite, like I said, the spin from the minister about how much they're putting in, they continue to go backwards when they're looking at the regional road backlock.
01:12:44
Speaker 1: Absolutely. What I've got you was the Member for Flinder's there on the Air Peninsula talking to some of the oyster farmers around Sojuno's Streaky Bay area who have been really concerned about the move of oysters from Franklin Bay across the peninsula from the east, from the yes east to the western side and the fear that this may be tried again moving forward. I know there's quite a few still with concerns. This is after they blockaded the boat ramp down near Streaky going back a couple of months ago now, but really concerned that this may continue into the future.
01:13:23
Speaker 5: Yeah and yeah, and that this.
01:13:24
Speaker 13: Is something I've been watching very closely. Obviously the whole of the e financial is the big footprints. But you know, we all know each other very well, so I've written to the minister a few times and asked questions in Parliament before Parliament finished, just to make sure that there's actually a stringent but thankful looks at Franklin Harbor are now free of the brevy toxsin which comes from the alga bloom. There's not the crenia levels within Franklin Harbor. So I've been encouraging people to make sure that they're eating as many oysters as they can afford. This fest is season. I know that it's been on the plates of many people because they're seafood coming from the west of our stadium, particular from my elector. It is such high quality. And look, this is where we need to make sure that the confidence continues to rise in our seafood industry because of the impacts that the algle bloom has had in general has been pretty significant. But yeah, voices from right across the peninsula are thankfully now free of the algal blooms. You and I'm encouraging Sony people as possible to get stuck into them.
01:14:27
Speaker 1: Good on your sam telf, appreciate your time and you call. Thank Thanks made seven and a half to eight on five double twenty six and a half degrees already in the city this morning at six to eight total firebands apply, Mount Lofty Rangers and Eastern End Peninsula declared extreme. Don't go out there with an angle grinder whatever you do. And the cffs have been flat out over the last even day twenty four hours with fires oft Meninghi, Whaler, Stewart, Second Valley and Blanchetown that have been keeping them busy. Ray Jackson his state Deputy commander, he is on the line now. Very good morning, season's greetings, Thanks for your time, and obviously it's a reminder already before strong winds have even kicked in, and not that we might be getting some later tonight least gusty wins, but a reminder take care out there.
01:15:15
Speaker 10: Yeah, thank you. Next your inceidings, greetings to you and your listener. Yeah, you're right, certainly a significant day today with total firebands and the off ranges in the East Pinsula, and we really need to remind people, as you said, not to undertake any risky activity machinery, power tools, campfires and that sort of thing, even if they're not in the areas that have got a total fire ben and really important that people have their bush fire plan and are ready to action that.
01:15:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely so are you still you spent the night your cruise out at Blanchetown, didn't anywhere else at second value? Was that all over yesterday?
01:15:53
Speaker 10: Essentially, we've got a break around the Second Valley fire late last evening, but cruise on the fire ground overnight and we'll be back there again today to ensure that that fire doesn't escape those control lines. And as they were at the mining the East fire as well, we were lucky enough for a wind change to come through and push the fire back on itself and get the opportunity to put a control one around the fire and then increase. Will monitor that again today.
01:16:21
Speaker 1: Okay, And what's happening with the one at Blanchetown, because cruise were there overnight, weren't they, Yes.
01:16:26
Speaker 10: They were, So the cruise are going back in again today and again we'll use some machinery to put a brake in to one end of that. Fortunately, it's on a small island and we're able to access that island reasonably easily, so we're hopeful we'll have that fire contained before the.
01:16:44
Speaker 6: Worst of the weather hit.
01:16:46
Speaker 1: Any idea on causes of any of these at this stage.
01:16:49
Speaker 10: The Mining the East fire was caused by a harvester. But the Bloodstown and Second Valley files where don't have the information handed.
01:17:00
Speaker 7: For how they started.
01:17:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so obviously investigations underway there and I'm sure police will be appealing for anyone who saw anything suspicious. But gee, you know your cruise and we say it every time on call, on standby holiday time of year, perhaps relaxing with families enjoying you know, a barbie or whatever might be. Can't enjoy the cricket because that's a disaster. But anyway, but you know, putting it all aside when the call comes and heading out there to do the job. And I'm sure there's a lot of appreciative people in those regions who would only applaud your members.
01:17:35
Speaker 10: Yeah, our volunteers do an amazing job. They're available twenty four to seven, you know, trying to keep five days in the year, and as you said, they put their lives on hold and they drop toll of the sound of the paser and go out to help the community, to keep the community faith and you know, without being Australia would be in a significantly more risky area in terms of fire and being able to for them out.
01:18:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely good on you. Ray, appreciate your time and hopefully we don't have to talk to you a lot over the summer.
01:18:07
Speaker 10: No, I hope so too. And just yeah, if I could just from one paper to make sure that they've gone onto the cface website and they downloaded the alert so they can start with what's happening in their area.
01:18:21
Speaker 1: Fantastic, Ray, thank you, No problem at all all right, Ray Jackson, CFS State Duty Commander News is coming up on five double A eight double two to three double o double the number and coming up on the other side, we'll talk it about interest rates. What are they likely to do in twenty twenty six? Sharon, No, No, it's not Sharon. I keep calling it that, but it's not. It's Susan Stone. You can see where I was going. Credit Union SA Economics chair from UNISA will join me after the eight o'clock news. It's an appropriate song up for the debarkle of the fourth Test. A lot of how what's that? And going on on the first day, that's for sure. Regarding road maintenance loads of texts, Paul says I lived next to a ten ton rated bridge currently being used by heavy articulated overweight trucks daily. The local council has just been eighty grand in small concrete repairs on the bridge. The government had installed temporary cameras to find drivers didn't stop the local truck drivers. Once the cameras were gone, the trucks returned. Sometimes it's the wrong use of the road by road users that destroy roads. This person says, the money that gets wasted on road repairs would be staggering. The manpower they use doing repairs with people standing around doing nothing blows my mind. The intersection near the airport must have taken two years. Anyone would think they've built a new freeway in time and cost. Having traveled around the world a lot. In Minneapolis, they have six months to repair roads because of the cold they get moving. People running road repairs here need to have a look and not pay money for people's toile around doing nothing. Another text here saying morning, Matthew, not just country roads. Blair Road only road is in shocking condition, bumpy, uneven, full of holes. John at Normanville says, Matthew, most of the ten meal it can be considered gone by the not really necessary three overtaking lanes being built on the end of South Road in the last stretch before the ki ferry at Cape Jervis, where motorists can then spend the Lemming rush like time saved. Sitting in the ferry queue. Wayne says, goody mate, we'll look at Rivily as the population there grows. Sounds just like the debarcle that is Curtis Road. He slip and Curtis black Spot not even started when it should be finished. Carol says, what a pleasure to hear this morning. I agree Riveley lights and abomination should have built an overpass. Cheapskates, trucks must attest it. Cars do came through yesterday or for built up on the motorway. And Paul says, as a heavy vehicle driver, Riverley lights are a joke. We settle in wind the truck pulling triple trailers then have to try and stop. Have you seen the skid marks from the trucks all the way along Port Wakefield Road, skid marks at Bolivar, at Cavan skid marks As obviously, a car on the blink of a yellow light slams the brakes on and the truck behind it has to absolutely throw out anchors in the bitumen to try and pull up in time, have a look in your rear vision mirror for the heavy truck that's behind you before you you try and stop on a yellow light. That would be good advice. I reckon truckies would agree. I'm sure Peter at Glenelgon Road Maintenance got I pete.
01:21:45
Speaker 5: Oh hi Matthew, good morning and having you too. Thank you, Matthew. Were regarding the road maintenance debarcle. As you know, you and I and everybody who drives a petrol and and diesel vehicle pays a huge amount of our petrol cost in road maintenance, Levey. I mean, for every leader of petrol that we purchase, I think it's more than half of it goes to road maintenance. The people who are avoiding paying road maintenance are the people who are driving electric vehicles. Now they're paying nothing, absolutely nothing, and that is being corrected around the world. Hasn't been done here yet.
01:22:32
Speaker 7: We're always last to do.
01:22:33
Speaker 5: It a sensible but our nearest neighbor, New Zealand, they bought in a levee for electric vehicles and plug in hybrid vehicles are going back nearly six months ago now the latest one. I mean most of the western nations have done this. The latest one, only a week.
01:22:56
Speaker 7: Ago, was the UK. In in England, I heard that.
01:23:02
Speaker 5: People with electric vehicles now have to pay three p per liter, sorry three p per kilometer in road maintenance levy for their electric vehicles, and the people is plug in hybrid They pay one a half pe per kilometer for road maintenance. And you know it's got to happen here, and the sooner the better. I mean, these people are just avoiding the responsibilities driving electric vehicles and plug.
01:23:35
Speaker 1: In hybrids, and the rest of us are getting the p taken out of us as a result.
01:23:40
Speaker 5: Exactly.
01:23:40
Speaker 1: Good on you, Thank you, Peter. Yes, it's going to change. It will change eventually. The government will have to. They'll just have to because they're missing out on money, and you know that'll be their motivation. Just a couple more techs that have been here all the way through as well on road maintenance. Spin, spin and spin. Let's protect our federal Imagine if the nine mill had come from a liberal government, says Rick at L Dinger. Jack says, trouble is, Matthew, this money invested in roads gets eaten up by ridiculous union rules like employing ten people to fill a pothole with safety vehicles, road signage, et cetera. And Paul says road building and repairs are expensive. Millions of dollars spent for a small overtaking lane built out of Roseworthy. All right, gee, that whole road needs to be two lanes, frankly all the way up to clear at least along the Horrocks Highway there. And whichever one that is that's Horrocks, isn't it? Or is that the other one? The oh what's it called? The one starts with a K? Anyway, it doesn't matter, dreadful road. Let's talk about rates. And while still talking about money, I suppose what are rate's going to do next year? Because the economy is spluttering along, immigration is pushing up inflation and electricity prices. Council rights things we hate the most are inflation rate, which means rights might have to rise to try and bring that under control. Doctor Susan Stone, Credit Union SI Economics Chair, Good morning, season's grading.
01:25:12
Speaker 19: Season, season's greetings to you, Matthew.
01:25:16
Speaker 1: What is going to happen with rights? What's your prediction?
01:25:20
Speaker 19: I think there's definitely not going to be much of a movement or many decreases. I think, as we had been predicting before, I think the RBA will be more cautious. I don't expect them unless something unexpected happens in December. The rate the CPI increases that we saw in September mainly into October. There were some transit with a considered transitory in other words, there were some timing issues with the electricity rebates, so those costs went up. There were some big events spending, so some of the recreational costs and spending went up. And the RBA, I think, is going to be looking very closely at what happens in December to see if that trend is continuing. If it continues, then they have to make a decision whether they want to raise rates to cut that off or they want to continue to hold rates. But I don't think we're going to see any rate cuts anytime there.
01:26:34
Speaker 1: Well, if we listen to the retailers, I've had a great you know, six weeks or so with Black Friday and Cyber Monday and obviously Christmas and then Boxing Day sales. I mean people who's got money?
01:26:45
Speaker 13: But people are out, yes, there there are.
01:26:50
Speaker 19: I mean some of the I have heard that some of the Boxing Day sales from some of the bigger retailers were a bit disappointing that many many people UH bought much of their Christmas presents over the Black Friday sales and the Cyber Monday sales. So we'll have to see kind of when the numbers, you know, are are actually crunched out how we did in December, because it could have just been that December's spending was transferred back to November and then over the two months we have not significant increases. But those people that are spending, I mean higher interest higher interest rates is good for savers, it's good for people who are on investing. If you own your home, the value of you've seen the value of your home increase tremendously over the past five years, and so these people are are in a fairly comfortable position. Renters, of course, have seen rents go up, and then people who have mortgages have also seen their rates go up. So but you know, some people have have done okay because they've been able to with the with the three rate cuts we've all seen this year, they've been able to pay down their mortgage a bit. So maybe they're feeling a bit more comfortable. You know, it is a big variety of people in financial circumstances.
01:28:12
Speaker 1: All right, So at the moment, business as usual. You reckon for the at least the beginning of the year, and we'll see what happens after that. But I wouldn't put too much in the basket of a rate cut from what you say, even into the future.
01:28:25
Speaker 19: Yeah, I would. I would be surprised if they cut rates, you know. You know, at least in the first half of the year, we'll have to have some really strong reductions and inflation for.
01:28:35
Speaker 12: Them to do that.
01:28:36
Speaker 13: Yeah.
01:28:37
Speaker 1: Indeed, So it's an always good speaking with you, getting your insights. Thank you, Thank you, Matthew, Doctor Susan Stone, Credit Union SA Economics chair from UNI SA on EV's David at glenelg Hi, David.
01:28:48
Speaker 4: Oh, here are you going now? If you remember when and how are bought in the GST, if your excas is meant to go and that hasn't happened, so there's no reason for us to be charged for a a per kilometer rate when using electric vehicles. It's a big scam. They've just used fuel exis to raise money. They should have scrapped it. A long time ago. There was absolutely no reason whatsoever to charge per kilometer. If the Labor government wants to bring in and you know, clean energy, then they suck it up. Why should we suck it up? They're getting rid of they're going to lose fourteen billion dollars of takes revenue by bringing in clean energy.
01:29:29
Speaker 3: Well, they suck it up.
01:29:30
Speaker 4: They knew this before they went down the clean energy part at path and also fuel exercise was promised to get rid of when they bought in the GST. So there's no reason whatsoever. It's an absolute scam. They're trying to pull every even they try and pull money from us every which way, and they don't even want to take responsibility for the administration their own government. Everything subcontracted out and this is costing them extra money to run the country. And that's why they have to keep things in like fuel excise, because when you start to privatize government business, it actually complicates things and costing smart costs. For I just think they're wasteful buggers and yeah, that's my that's my thoughts.
01:30:16
Speaker 1: But buggers is very polite. But David, you're you're asking a government to empty a perpetually full bucket of money through the fuel excise and never fill it again. And can you what are the chances of that? Buckley's Anne, Well, guess what.
01:30:33
Speaker 5: Guess what.
01:30:35
Speaker 4: I wouldn't say that, because if they start charging per kilometer, right, they make us pay an extra twenty thousand dollars for electric car, which is bout for a good electric car, which is what it costs. And then they you know, I mean, they'll be done that, they'll be thrown out at the election. They chose this road. Now they have to suck it up. Because they went down the road of clean energy. It's their time to stuck it up, and they're going to have to start cutting. They might have to get rid of the submarines. They might have to start letting go of bids like the Olympics. They might have to just let go of and we might just have to take you know, the bottom of the line is trying to spend buckets of money to win at everything. I mean that they I can't see how they can start charging per kilometer. I can't see because.
01:31:34
Speaker 8: I would not put up with it.
01:31:36
Speaker 1: You got av No, I.
01:31:40
Speaker 4: Don't have an ev They're not quite there yet. They're a little bit dangerous. When the batteries improve, I nearly what's going to happen. It's going to go to highbrid and you know they'll do one hundred k's on electric and then the rest will be petrol. But the average personality drives about forty kilometers a day, so that's pure consumption will down by about ninety percent. But one of the big problems theirs that the petroleum industry will lose billions and billions and billions and billions of dollars. This is going to cost the country and when we go full renewable, it's going to probably cost Australia around about at least one hundred billion dollars a year.
01:32:28
Speaker 1: All right, well dark days if that's the case, that's why they'll need to charge per kilometer on your David, thank you for the call, twenty past eight on five Double A. We'll take a quick break back with more after the regarding our call, and just said David soon says, oh mates, use the road, you suck it up, use the pays Suard Henley got on your sue. Driving down South Terrace yesterday, says Brent, and a tesla plowed head first into an old into the old Sealink building. See if you can find out from SAPA what happens. Seemed a very strange place for a to go headfirst into a wall. I wonder if it had something to do with the electrics in the tesla. Might have something to do with the person behind the wheel in the tesla. I reckon, Brent. But anyway, thank you. We'll see if we can follow that up. As we know, the Fourth Ashes Test an absolute disaster well both the result and certainly from Cricket Australia standpoint estimates of some twenty five million dollars lost in terms of I suppose revenue at the ground at the g and not to mention the fact that you'd still be watching it today if it was a traditional sort of Test match. The curator, they're coming under fire ten centimeters of grass on the strip and so we thought we'd talk to an absolute expert on grass on pitchers and that is or wickets and that is Les Burdette, former curator here at Adelaide. Le's season's greetings to you, how are you?
01:33:58
Speaker 3: And to you Matthie, to you, thank you?
01:34:01
Speaker 1: What did you make of the wicket at the mcj.
01:34:07
Speaker 3: Disappointing. Yeah, I think Paigey, it's a very lonely place when you're a cread and things go wrong, and Paige, you decided to leave that little bit more grass on that. That's a fine line between pleasure and pain, and by leaving that little bit extra on what happens to the ball if I can without getting too technical, a bit of grass can give you sideways movements on a dry pitch, but if there's too much grass, the ball actually goes into the grass and then actually spits at the batsman. So instead of coming on with the bats so guys confluently play their shots and follow through the ball sort of hitch in front, and you just spit straight up into the player. So makes it very hard. You find your self protecting yourself rather than playing shots at cricket.
01:34:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's obviously a bowler's ground then, and we certainly saw that on day one with twenty wickets fall in Gosh. Yeah.
01:35:03
Speaker 3: Well, I mean, if you're going to write the script for a Test match as a creator, you would like to see all facets of the game on display, but you want that result in that last day. It is a Test match it's not a twenty twenty game or a fifty over game. Give me a Test Match number one every time, because I'm a traditionalist and I love the I love the guys showing all aspects of the game. And when it does go five days, the fast ballers get there go especially with the new ball, and the batsmen get a chance to play shots and just play the game the games meant to play. And then the spinners come on later as the surface of the pitch gets broken by bowlers running through bats and running through the heat and the sun and the bakes the surface and it cracks the bit and breaks, so there's turn there for the slow bowlers. And then you get the cap and mouse of the game of Test cricket happening. None of that was going to happen at the MCG.
01:35:59
Speaker 1: Sadly, Yeah, absolutely, you left a great legacy then for our man here in your footsteps to prepare the perfect pitch. Because Damien Damian's result was just magnificent. We got five days out of it. Who would have.
01:36:13
Speaker 3: Thought, yeah, well, it's Damon was with me for fourteen years and.
01:36:20
Speaker 1: He paid attention.
01:36:23
Speaker 3: He's a terrific technician and a terrific kid. I wouldn't take kid, he's getting old now, but he's what he presented. On morning of day three. I went every day, of course, and morning of day three I sent a message. So mate, the pitch is perfect, He's perfect. Everything's perfect about Adelaide Oval, Well done to you and your staff. So you could see where it was heading and it was just great to see two teams playing test cricket. Yeah, and the only way he can play test cricket is on an honest, true surface.
01:36:57
Speaker 1: So what does that take? Just a bit of grass three centimeters?
01:37:01
Speaker 7: Four?
01:37:01
Speaker 1: Is that enough on day one?
01:37:04
Speaker 3: Well, if you go back to Arthur Lance's day, and he's like a second dad to me when I started there in sixty nine and I finished in twenty ten. Through that period, when I started, he was cutting his pictures of the twenty cent meal, which is twenty cent piece or two milk. By tom i'd finished, I'd raised it to five and nearly six. But it's about still being able to fill the soil. Once the grass takes control of work the ball's doing, you've lost control of the game. That was the sad thing about the MCG just that he heard on a little bit too much grass, and he's admitted to that, So I'm not chucking the kid on the bus as pages a riff of bloke too. He got that one wrong. And once the ball hits in the pitch and the grass actually grabs it and it goes at different angles and spits at you, we've lost control. It's not fair on the batsman.
01:37:57
Speaker 1: No, that's right, So you know I should should other pictures O the curators take a leaf out of Adelaide. I mean, is that now that's how it's looking at least, you know, just as an outsider looking on. Yeah, well it's it's I mean different conditions, you know, humidity up north and all the rest of it.
01:38:16
Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, well yeah. The fastest pitch in the world of cricket is the whacker. It's got an eighty five percent play sand silk. Then you go to Brisbane's about seventy five percent, and all the other grounds around Australia of sixty sixty five percent, so you've got the different plays. When you get to England where these guys are from, their clays are only thirty two percent play, so they don't bounce as much as the Australian sorts. So it's a big transition for the Englishmen to come out off their playing conditions and come and play on our pitchers that are always bouncing a bit more. But at the same time they still like the ball coming onto the bat, and the ball did not come onto the bat at our recent Test match Boxing Day and the ball dominated. So it's a hard trend position for the Englishman as it is without something with a too much grass in the bullspit Seter.
01:39:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, well, maybe they're heading off to NUSA to celebrate, who knows, but we'll see what they what happens in the final one coming up. Let's great speaking with you, Good on you, thanks for your insights.
01:39:15
Speaker 3: You too, Maddy. It's I normally go to bed listening to you, so it's good to see you in the morning.
01:39:19
Speaker 1: Good on you, cheers mate, Thank you. Les Burdette QA, longtime curator here at the Adelaide Oval, of course, sixty nine to twenty ten. How about that for a record and always the best Test matches. Radio news is coming up here on five double A eight double two to three double O double oh is the number of twenty two to nine. Sue says talking about rates. I'd like to say a big thank you to the Mitcham Garbo who took our extra rubbish from Christmas. Great work and we got our neighbour's bin that they forgot to put out as well. Thank you Mitcham council. Well done. All right, some councils are on it sometimes really anyway, good on them. They did the job. That's what counts. Let's talk about your teeth. And there is concern today with a plan to increase dentists numbers could put patient safety at risk. The Australian Dental Association is concerned about that. Let's find out what that means for you. Doctor Chris Sanzaro is president of the ADA and joins me now Chris, good morning morning, Matthew. So this is a plan allowing more overseas trained dentists to work in Australia. I understand. So we're looking at bringing more of more of the men.
01:40:40
Speaker 20: That's the proposal to loosen the requirements to allow them in. We already allow overseas trained into Australia through an existing examination and test path by and this is looking at loosening those arrangements.
01:40:52
Speaker 1: All right. So you've got concerns patient safety could be at risk under this proposal.
01:40:57
Speaker 20: Yeah, we certainly do the existing scheme work well with both a written examination and a practical test. Dentistry is a very technical profession where the quality of the work that's done in people's mouths is important, and the proposal it's put out by the ARPA and the Dental Board is to not require those level of tests, and we've got concerns around the safety with that.
01:41:17
Speaker 1: All right, are they listening to you?
01:41:20
Speaker 20: None of the states. It's that for public consultation at the moment, and we're certainly concerned about where this is heading.
01:41:27
Speaker 1: All right, public consultation. So can people have a say it? Or does it is it only corporations or associations like yours?
01:41:33
Speaker 20: Absolutely, people can have a say and we encourage people to do so. The quality of healthcare in Australia is exceptional. It's a very high standard of a worldwide basis, and we should be fighting to preserve that. The risk of changing this is that the first time people would know about it if something's gone wrong is when it's actually gone wrong, and then they have to complain after the fact. And we don't think that's the right.
01:41:55
Speaker 3: Way to go.
01:41:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's the thing with Teath's not as if we can inspect our own individually. You know, you need an x Sometimes you're only aware of a problem when there's pain, and well that's usually the.
01:42:05
Speaker 6: Way that's it.
01:42:07
Speaker 20: Yeah, And some of the avenues that they're proposing here that people will be able to just do a written examination, a written diary as to the experience that they've had working in an overseas jurisdiction and that would be enough enough to allow them into Australia.
01:42:22
Speaker 3: Yeah.
01:42:22
Speaker 1: Well, surely we need exams and some sort of accreditation system that shows that anyone coming in from overseas knows what they're doing to Australian standards.
01:42:35
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
01:42:36
Speaker 20: The dental students in Australia train for four or five years to a very high standards, both written and practical examinations and tests through the way, So to be able to pass that and graduate as a dentist in Australia is a very high standard and we shouldn't be diluting that. The other issue we've got is that it's going to increase the number of dentists but won't resolve the main issue which is the male distribution. We don't think there is a shortage of dentist in the country.
01:43:00
Speaker 7: It's in the wrong.
01:43:00
Speaker 1: Places, all right, So what get some from the capital cities incentives to go out regionally presumably, is what you mean?
01:43:07
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
01:43:08
Speaker 20: Yeah, And there's a lot of regional areas in Australia where at best a business case for a private practice would be borderline or a loss making exercise. Government funding targeted towards that that can address both public and private patients would be a much more effective way of getting dentist into the places.
01:43:24
Speaker 7: We need them.
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Speaker 1: Perhaps unfortunate, and I don't know how you fix this, but a lot of people, well I don't know what percentage you might have stats regularly visit a dentist for a checkup. I think there'd be a high percentage. I imagine who'd only go when there's a problem.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, correct, Off the top of my head, you got me there. But I think it's about one in two people attend on a yearly basis a lot of people out there that don't attend, and that's such an important message to get out that by attending earlier and more regularly, you're going to find problems. When they're smaller, they're easier to treat, they're simpler to truth and more effective to truth. Those regular visits are quite.
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Speaker 1: Important, absolutely, all right. So Chris, this now before the government under public consultation or out there for public so anyone can have their say. Where do they go to do that? Is it visit your association? Got a page on your website?
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Speaker 20: Yeah, lookie, the information is on the Dental Board website at the moment open for public consultations. Quite a complex document, but feel free to get in contact with us at the Dental Associations contact at ADA dot org dot a US, send us an email and let just know your thoughts.
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Speaker 1: All right, terrific, appreciate your time this morning.
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Speaker 20: Thank you, thanks for adding me.
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Speaker 1: Dentists concerned about lowering the standards for bringing in overseas trained dentists to work in Australia because we need them in the regents. The ADA saying, as you heard, we've actually got enough dentists. They're all concentrated in the city and drops away in regional areas, so the incentives need to be there to get people out in the regents to this dentistry. I mean dentists. We need them, and especially if we're in pain or something goes wrong at tooth breaks or you know, a filling appears and you get the pain or whatever. They they're very much in demand when you're in pain, that's for sure. Radio seventeen minutes to nine on five Double A will take a break back with your calls. You can contribute, of course eight double two to three, Double O, Double O. Richard Pascoe follows the news at not fourteen to nine on five Double A. Already twenty nine degrees in the city, will be thirty degrees by nine o'clock thirty eight Today sunny, no you know what, Sherlock, you're feeling that? Twenty six tomorrow cloudy change Tonight sweeping in around six seven eight pm, a little bit gusty, Not nothing in it in terms of rain, just a bit of a wind change as it shifts to the south and cooler winds coming. But tomorrow cloudy in twenty six and Sunday the rest of the week twenty five On New Year's Eve thirty for New Year's Day, What are We? Thirty three on the second of jan Friday thirty one. On Saturday twenty eight, on Sunday, possibility of a chance of a shower about a mill at the most if on Sunday, but lots of watering of the garden between now and then thanks to the RAA. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. Better to be a member with RAA Road Service. Let's look at fuel around the place, Larroi's monopara, Good morning, LeRoi Main North Road dollar forty seven point five for unleaded Ampole Broadview Hampstead Road one fifty four point nine. This is all ninety one unleaded and unleaded Milrose Park South Road one fifty five point five. One forty seven's an excellent price. Good on your le Roi, Leeroy. Maybe diesel Shells Bay Churchill Road. That doesn't sound like Blag's Bay, but anyway, dollar sixty six point seven mobile Hampstead Gardens Northeast Road one sixty nine point five. All right, so there we go. That's where diesel is at currently around the place. And petrol. Yes, if dollar forty seven is excellent, so it might be saying good o to LaRoy myself a bit later on, just need an excuse to drive out to Monopara wherever he is? Was it Monopara? What do I say he was? Yes, it was Monopara. Bit of a drive. Savings aren't worth it? All right, Let's talk about somewhere to go and enjoy the water. If your concern, excuse me still about algill blooms which seem to have disappeared for people who canceled beach houses and everything else. I reckon you would have been all right by now. But anyway, the Murray is and police have put out warnings about you know, behave properly on the Murray if you're on a boat or jet ski or skiing or whatever. But the Murray River the place for you if you worried about the bloom. Kelly Kuhn is with the Juggle House Experiences runs Dark Sky tours around Madam as well. Just an amazing thing. Kelly. Good morning, Good morning, Matthew. Good to speak with you again. Seasons greetings to you, Happy new year, Hope, it's a good one. Tell us about the Murray What can we do down there this time of year?
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Speaker 10: Thank you.
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Speaker 18: Season's greetings to you and all the listeners. It is an increased time of traffic. As you were just talking about on the river and also on the roads. So it is a great time of the year to be along the River Murray. It's very peaceful here and also peaceful in our River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve, So there's many different water based activities as well as you know the main attractions the ben Motorsport Park and Minados Fari Park not too far away. So yeah, we are very conscious of our coastal friends. It was only three years ago that we experienced the Murray River flood and at this busy time of the year it really hurt for tourism businesses, so we're definitely encouraging people to get out and about and support as many places in South Australia as possible. But for us at the River Murray, yeah, it's a really special time here. It's great to see people moving into their holiday homes and enjoying activities. Our tour last night for the stargazing was amazing. We had people from Rome, Germany, some honeymooners from Hong Kong. Yeah, and we saw the craters of the Moon and Saturn and Jupiter through the telescope and ple eightes and just a magical night sky. So for us you know, it's really incredible to show people from all around the world and our local visitors just how important it is to have a dark sky reserve away from light pollution.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's an incredible thing. And if you're somewhere where you you know, we forget in the city, just how amazing the sky is. You've got to get out and down to Manham is one place, and even further afield or wherever you are out in the country. It is incredible. I was just saying toest my producer. I was in mile or a couple of Saturday nights ago, as in a couple of weeks back, and even there you see the Milky Way so much more clearly than you do here in Adelaide. And I can only imagine Manham just how beautiful it must be.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, the River Murray Dark Sky Reserve is three thousand, two hundred square kilometers, so it's quite remarkable because there's two hundred and fifty places declared as dark sky places around the world, and ours is the closest to any capital city. Because of the Mount Lofty Ranges blocking the light pollution of Adelaide, majority of the light pollution we still see a little bit, but that is amazing that it's the closest one around the world because of that, And as you were just saying, I think folks in Adelaide and we forget how lucky we are and how close and accessible it is. And I know you're making a joke about the fuel prices at Monopara just before, but you know, we are very accessible here. And yeah, it's taken for granted, especially for those of us who've grown up under the stars.
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Speaker 20: For sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And yeah you do take it for granted, don't you. Wherever you might live, and you probably come to the city, Kelly, whatever you do, and think where have the stars gone?
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Speaker 18: Often I do think that, yes, I love going to the city, but I love jumping on the freeway and coming home. And I think since I've been seeing it through the eyes of visitors and they're often brought to tears because they've never seen stars before in their life, I mean, that is what keeps us going out there showing people this. But you know, there's also a great economic benefit from this. Our accommodation providers, you know, the petrol stations, like the eateries, so many people do really benefit from tourism.
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Speaker 10: For sure.
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Speaker 18: It's such a big economic flow on.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, so I'm not surprised, I suppose, but pleased to hear people from Europe, people from Hong Kong. And imagine trying to see stars in Hong Kong or even big cities in Europe, you just wouldn't see a thing, that's right. But coming from around the world to manam to check this out, it's fantastic.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: You know, last night we actually, not for any morbid or remorseful reasons, I called a minute silence actually because the gentleman from Rome, he'd been on the Walker Flat ferry and the river front and he was on the phone facetiming his mother back in Rome, and he said to me, you know, so remarkable, just the peace and tranquility there come from horns beeping all the time, and you know so much so with the silence that we sat in, we could just hear crickets.
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Speaker 4: We had that.
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Speaker 18: Beautiful horizon that people don't even see with the malley trees in the foreground because there's building many places that people live, so one third of our world's population living in cities and can't see the night sky. But we forget about the peace and tranquility that we have right on our doorstep here and even in the coastal regions at night. And you know, we're very fortunate. That's why so many people are moving to Australia. Australia.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely keep it a secret though, as long as we can, for goodness.
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Speaker 18: Say yes, astainable, sustainable and resourceful for sure.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Good on you, Kelly, as I said, hope twenty six goes well for you. It sounds like twenty five is finishing well, so that's good.
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Speaker 18: Good on you, much appreciated, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Kelly. Kelly Coon juggle House Experiences down at Manham and runs Dark Sky Tours in the Dark Sky Reserve that we have down there. Steve on the text line says, has anyone tried to get in to see a dentist lately? Earliest appointment available at several dentists in the Marion area is April. Wow, all right, we might need more dentists on you, Steve. Thank you. Bob says morning Matthew. I've said this before, I'll say it again. The Adelaide Oval was a spectacular indicator of how we South Australians pride ourselves when it comes down to world events, from our first Grand Prix to the test just passed. Those charged with showing off our state have been brilliant in saying, hey, world, here we are on you. Bob, let's see go down the list a little bit. And Jack says rate rises etc. Due to the cost of business which comes from a labor union regime. Brian says Riverly Intersection was a sweetheart deal between the Department of Transport and Infrastructure and the developer. The developers agreed to pay for the intersection to get development approval for ver eight thirty million cost instead of an overpass. Well, here we are spending fifteen billion to take traffic lights out between the Torrens and Darlington, and there we are spending thirty million to put them in on what is essentially the same stretch of road. If you turn left, it just after Saint Kilda turn off and then you get a set of lights in just the worst place on that bend. You come around the bend and the lights are red. It's just wrong. And this is the problem with the department because DTI Ordit Infrastructure and Transport did was dipty As you remember, the peace stood for planning, and they couldn't plan their menu for the week, let alone major road projects. This is the department that back in around two thousand and two built that tram bridge over South Road at a cost of thirty two million dollars, and only to find when they then planned South Road that the bridge was not wide enough or long enough. It was wide enough for two trams, but not long enough to stretch over what they want to do with South Road. So we've got to demolish a twenty year old twenty five at the very most less than that twenty two year old bridge must be the shortest lived bridge in South Australia. We've pulled it down to build a longer bridge for the tramp. They couldn't plan the end of the week let alone, you know, a reasonably short period relatively for a department into the future and get the right bridge in place the first time, and we expect them to cope with a new suburb. I mean, perhaps they didn't see the fifteen billion dollar North South Corridor underway at that point, only what three years ago when they put this in maybe five at the most bele and so at some point we'll have to rip out the lights and put in an overpass which should have been built in the first place. It's just madness. Can't plan their lunch. On Friday the Department of Infrastructure and Transport seriously two and a half to nine on five Double A. Richard Pascoe follows the news. Been great being with you this morning. See you tomorrow at Sick