FIVEAA Breakfast with Will & Stacey - 16 October 2026

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Speaker 1: I want the meat straight, Mum. I want it.
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Speaker 2: Knockdown, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
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Speaker 3: Live from Hindmarsh Square, it's 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 4: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee.
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Speaker 5: 8 after 6, good morning to you. Welcome to Friday on 5AA Breakfast, the 16th of October. It's dark out there right now, but we have some magnificent Adelaide spring days ahead and a big program on the way for this Friday as well. We'll be jumping in the time machine. Michael Smith will join us before 7 o'clock. We're going to flash back to a concert at a venue that no longer exists. They're my hints for you this morning for our flashback with Michael Smith just before 7. Also on the program, Nelson Scott will wrap the week in federal politics. Lots to talk about on that front, including some unemployment data yesterday, a controversy swelling around the Greens federally as well. A big challenge for the new leader in Canberra, which we will wrap very shortly. Jake Kelly, a newly crowned, you get crowned or awarded, awarded a Michelin star for RK. We'll be on the program before eight o'clock. Jimmy Barnes is going to be on the show. Looking forward to this. Been on a deep dive, Stacey. Totally unrelated. Had no idea we were having Jimmy Barnes on. today, but earlier in the week, went down a cold chisel rabbit hole on Spotify, which is just, I must have made it happen. It's like saying Beetlejuice three times. I just played Cold Chisel and suddenly we've got Jimmy Barnes coming on.
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Speaker 6: Suddenly Jimmy Barnes is coming on.
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Speaker 5: And good morning to you, by the way. Looking forward to chatting with Jimmy. This is why new music struggles, because people like me go, I want to feel like listening to something. Should I try something new or should I go back to the entire catalogue of history and pick something that everyone thinks is great that I haven't necessarily explored enough?
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 5: Cold chisel it is.
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Speaker 6: Pick something you know.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's exactly right. That's why new art tends to struggle these days.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's true.
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Speaker 5: Let's have a look at the meat tray, shall we? Because it is a Friday morning. Let's have some fun. Drake's, your Aussie family-owned supermarket, is the ultimate meat tray for grillmasters this spring. Drake's Ingredients for Everyone started the week, was it Monday of this week?
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Speaker 6: I think it was.
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Speaker 5: It feels like a lifetime ago, talking about the new Christmas tree.
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Speaker 9: $ 2.
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Speaker 5: 1 million over 10 or 25 years, depending who you ask, in the city council. It's going to be better than what we've got.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 5: It's going to be spectacular. But a Christmas tree is nothing if not for its adornments, its baubles, the thing on top. Now, I'm not going to say a star because this morning we want you to decorate our new tree. For the meat tray this morning, design a bauble. Tell us what should be in the position that the star would normally be on. Let's South Australianise our new tree. What is going to be on the tree? 8223 0000. You can text us on... 0-4-8-0-8-13-95. Maybe you're a traditionalist and you'll say, you know, some sort of crafty The Last Noel or something or other will be on the tree. But also you might say a Holden needs to be on the tree. We'll find space. It's a big tree. It's $ 2. 1 million. You got any that come to mind immediately, Stace?
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Speaker 6: I thought on top we should have a silver pigeon.
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Speaker 5: Oh, a la the Rundlemore pigeon?
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Speaker 6: The Rundlemore pigeon. I just thought that would be a great top decoration.
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Speaker 5: Spectacular.
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Speaker 10: Yep.
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Speaker 11: Yep.
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Speaker 5: I like that.
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Speaker 6: Because the balls, I think they'd tip.
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Speaker 5: Well, the mall's balls can feature in some way, can't they?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but just not a top.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you're right. They might overweight the whole thing. Yeah. But on their side, they actually look like baubles.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, they do.
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Speaker 5: So maybe they could be recognised in some way.
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Speaker 6: We'd have to keep them together, though.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 6: You can't separate.
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Speaker 5: People have to be clever with how they come up with this. We don't want to overweight our tree. 8223 0000, text us on 04808 1395. Anything goes, but we want to make it feel like... We want to make it look like a tree that belongs just in South Australia. So let's go to Seton for our first suggestion. Tony, what are you hanging on our brand-new tree?
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Speaker 11: I've got a good one. It's a political Christmas tree. I'm going to put an ambulance with a mattress next to it.
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Speaker 5: LAUGHTER An ambulance with a mattress next to it.
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Speaker 6: A mattress.
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Speaker 5: We need a ramping bauble, don't we?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought Tony was going to say a chalked ambulance.
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Speaker 5: A chalked ambulance would be nice. Did we get to the bottom of, are we seeing chalked ambulances? No, I don't think we are. It didn't sound like they're necessarily in the planning yesterday.
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Speaker 6: No, you just decided all of a sudden the health system's not working.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they just realised.
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Speaker 6: They've put out some ideas.
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Speaker 5: On how to fix it. They're getting in early before the next election, which is terrific. So an ode to ramping in one of our baubles.
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Speaker 6: The other idea I had was not necessarily on the tree, so I don't think it counts. But anyway, you know how some people have a train that goes around the tree? You know, a little train track?
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 6: We should do that, but an Oban track.
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Speaker 5: Oh, that's fantastic. So part of the track is just a bus.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Then it goes on the track.
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Speaker 6: It goes on the track, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Could there be a little tunnel? Yeah, maybe we could. Yeah, sure.
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Speaker 13: Do it.
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Speaker 5: Could we have a tunnel that goes through from one side of the tree to the other at great expense?
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Why not?
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Speaker 5: I think that'd be something.
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Speaker 6: We'd need to hire some boring machines.
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Speaker 5: And, folks, you need to come up with non-political examples. Can you see where Stacey and our brains and Tony's go immediately? Okay, so there's a whole other world out there. Sport, art, historical achievements in South Australia. Gary, good morning.
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Speaker 15: I don't have a statue of mods taking the speccy.
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Speaker 5: Now you're talking, Gary.
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Speaker 7: Yep.
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Speaker 5: Mods taking... Do you have one in mind? Against North Melbourne? Was it on Mick Martin's back that he took one in the goal.
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Speaker 11: Square at Footy Park?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like that. Let's do that. Mods over Mick Martin at Footy Park. I'd love Footy Park to be recognised in some way, but I'll be the only one. Sam in Theverton, good morning.
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Speaker 14: Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 7: Hey, my brother's got an old HQ Monaro two-door, and he's always in the garage tinkering with it. I said, you need it in your lounge room.
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Speaker 10: So let's put the Monaro on top of the tree.
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Speaker 5: The entire full-sized Monaro on the tree.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, the old Monaro on the tree.
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Speaker 7: You'd love that.
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Speaker 5: I love it. It's a beautiful idea.
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Speaker 6: That is a great idea.
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Speaker 5: And let's go to One Tree Hill. Brad, what are you hanging on our brand-new Adelaide City Christmas tree? Right-o.
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Speaker 16: Being a purely South Australian thing, a large Sturt Desert Pea.
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Speaker 12: Oh, beautiful.
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Speaker 5: That's a very serious and worthy idea. Sturt Desert Pea. That is great call.
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Speaker 6: Because a lot of trees these days, a lot of people do floral decorations.
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Speaker 5: That's true.
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Speaker 6: Different types of flowers and bows and things on the tree. So a Sturt Desert Pea.
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Speaker 5: David Alberton's called in. Dave, if you say anything about Luke Pedler, I'm going to be sick.
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Speaker 1: Welcome aboard, Luke.
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Speaker 11: We're going to.
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Speaker 13: We're going to need four baubles, two Port Adelaide ones, one's looking up, one's looking down, two Adelaide ones, one's looking up, one's looking down. And depending on ladder position, we put one higher or lower, one will look down upon the other and one will look.
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Speaker 5: Up at the other. It'll be like the West End chimney, but on Christmas Street.
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Speaker 13: It'll be like the chimney, but on baubles.
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Speaker 5: That is a serious contender for the meat tray, Dave. That is magnificent. I love that idea. Rob in Clearview, what do you think?
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Speaker 15: Look, if I can get past the stop-the-chop protesters around the tree, I'm going to put a nesting bin chicken on top.
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Speaker 6: Nesting bin chicken.
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Speaker 8: I like that.
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Speaker 6: I think it's an artificial tree, so it shouldn't be any protesters.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, surely not. Surely not. It is fake, isn't it?
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Speaker 6: We've got too many other things to focus on right now.
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Speaker 5: Okay. Mark in Hove, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Will and Stacey.
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Speaker 1: How are you going?
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Speaker 10: Good.
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Speaker 6: Look.
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Speaker 10: I think we should have a really large, big, silver middle finger.
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Speaker 1: Right up the top because it's been a really tough year.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Just cop that, 2026. Maybe the finger could have a year number next to it so we can remember, you know, 2026 was pretty ordinary.
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Speaker 6: My fear is what if the next few years aren't any better?
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Speaker 5: We just have a tree full of extended middle fingers. Raymond, good morning. What's hanging on the tree?
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Speaker 17: Morning, folks.
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Speaker 18: Good morning, Adelaide. What's hanging on the tree?
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Speaker 11: So at the top of the tree, I think we need a large, glowing 600ml Farmers Union iced coffee container.
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Speaker 16: Yep.
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Speaker 18: Right, prior to place. And as a bauble, we definitely need a fruit choc.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Oh, why haven't we thought of that one already? That's such a great.
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Speaker 6: What does a fruit choc bauble look like, though?
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Speaker 5: Well, I think it's actually... It's a big brown ball. Yeah, it's just a fruit choc. Or do you mean what it looks like? It doesn't look great.
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Speaker 6: It just looks like.
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Speaker 5: It does look like a big brown ball. But maybe we just make it that we get men's to design an actual oversized fruit chalk that hangs on the tree. Hangs on the tree, yeah. And maybe it either survives a hot summer or it doesn't. We just have to wait and see. Mark in Richmond, what are you hanging on the tree?
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Speaker 11: Hey, guys.
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Speaker 10: I'd go a Villy's pie or a Balfour's pie.
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Speaker 5: Great.
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Speaker 20: Love it.
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Speaker 5: Do one of each. Now, Balfour's is back in South Australian hands. Yep. Love that. Balfour's back part of the conversation. Villy's obviously legendary in this town. Mark, we might take one more before we go to a break. Michael in Ridleyton.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: You there, Michael?
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Speaker 20: I think two big wine bottles next to the tray would be just fantastic.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, great call.
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Speaker 5: How do you pick the wine bottles? One from.
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Speaker 6: Clean Skins.
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Speaker 5: Clean Skins.
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Speaker 7: Red and white.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, red and a white. McLaren Vale and Barossa. Even then, you're leaving out the Adelaide Hills and Clare. You can't get a region.
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Speaker 6: No, well, you got rid of Clare this week.
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Speaker 5: No, I just... Listen.
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Speaker 8: No, you sold it off.
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Speaker 6: You traded, Alclair.
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Speaker 5: I'm a ruthless trader. Yeah, yeah, everyone's laughing at me, but you wait when it's 29 degrees and tropical on the 14th of July. Eighteen minutes after six, we're going to take a break. Back in a moment.
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Speaker 2: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
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Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 5: 22 minutes after six, we've got a brand spanking new Christmas tree for Victoria Square. $ 2. 1 million worth. It comes with lights. It comes with impressive size. It comes with being much newer than the one we've got. It doesn't come with baubles or any decorations. And that's where you come in, folks. And for the meat tray this morning, thanks to Drake's, we're asking you to decorate our brand new tree. Your family-owned supermarket has the ultimate meat trays for grillmasters this spring. Drake's ingredients for everyone. Let's go to Andrew's farm. Sharon, what are you hanging on the tree?
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Speaker 21: Hi, good morning, guys.
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Speaker 11: I think we should put like a wreath over the top with all the AFL teams and on the top.
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Speaker 21: Put Adelaide Oval because it's gather round.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, recognise gather round.
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Speaker 6: Gather round wreath.
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Speaker 5: A gather round wreath. Good one, Sharon. Sally, what are you putting on the tree?
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Speaker 1: I've got two.
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Speaker 19: One's really out there. I don't even know if you guys have heard of him. But there's a clown that's been entertaining Adelaide families for years. He was around when I was little. I had him at my kid's first birthday, and he's now 20, and he's still entertaining. His name's Fritz Sandwich.
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Speaker 5: I certainly do know Fritz Sandwich, Sally.
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Speaker 19: And he's uniquely South Australian. You'll never find another clown like Fritz. And the other one is definitely Hans. They've both got to be on there.
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Speaker 5: Some entertainers recognising some local entertainers. That's good.
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Speaker 6: That's great.
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Speaker 5: Amazing that Fritz Sandwich the Clown has made it onto the tree before Fritz the Sandwich has made it onto the tree. Maybe they both could be celebrated.
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Speaker 6: And is that not the most Adelaide conversation ever, that Sally was talking about a kids' party clown and you knew who she.
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Speaker 5: Was talking about? Absolutely. Let's go to Morfitt Vale. Ian, good morning.
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Speaker 12: Good morning.
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Speaker 16: My tree topper would be a bunion. The train at the bottom probably has to be commissioned and only installed next year. I'd make a model of the steam ranger.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: And my ball ball would be a frog cake.
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Speaker 5: Ian, you've got the whole tree sorted. That was magnificent. Thank you, Ian. Terry in Klemzig, good morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good morning.
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Speaker 15: I think we should actually put two big shining Michelin stars on the top of the tree to celebrate the good fortune of McGill Estate.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that's a great idea.
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Speaker 5: And it could be, as the star guide gets updated, you know, the number of stars on the tree could be updated as well.
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Speaker 6: If we get a three-starred restaurant.
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Speaker 5: Multiple twos, maybe. Good one, Terry. Julie and Blake for you. Good morning.
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Speaker 22: Good morning, Stacey.
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Speaker 21: Good morning, Will. I think the police commissioner, because he's actually top of the tree now, isn't he?
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Speaker 5: He is the top of the tree.
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Speaker 22: And also, while he's up.
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Speaker 1: There, he can keep an eye on it and make sure Mellie doesn't.
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Speaker 11: Chop it down.
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Speaker 5: Thank you, Julie. Yeah, he might just not be able to contain himself, the Premier, with a big brand-new tree in the middle of the city. Keep them coming in. We will keep adorning the tree right throughout the morning, 8223 0000. 00 is the number. You can text us on 04808 1395. Let's have a look at the weather situation. 15.1 degrees outside at the moment. That is nice. Heading for a top today of 26. That is even nicer. Tomorrow, 27, mostly sunny. Sunday, 29. Monday's 29 with an overnight low of 20. That's actually starting to get a bit of a summer feel to it. That's not spring. When you get a overnight low with a two in front of it. Tuesday, 26 with some rain, but it doesn't look like there's going to be any massive change to the temperature. Zero to five millimetres of rain potentially on Tuesday, 26. Wednesday, 28. Then Thursday, it's going to be a tropical day. Zero to seven millimetres of rain. So we might get a bit and 31 the expected top for Thursday next week. So not sure if there'll be a change that comes with that or not. Bit of a traffic hazard to be wary of this morning. If you are driving in Near the entertainment centre, certainly from the west, there was a two-car crash there that only 40 minutes ago was still not cleared. I know because I was detoured around it by a large number of police that were in attendance. But it looked like a serious crash at what is a really, really busy intersection of Port Road and coming from the west and the east, of course, as well. So one to be wary of. Let's turn our attention to sport. For security, safety and style, made to order, choose Gliderol Garage Doors. Gliderol.com.au. Corey Norris from the newsroom. Morning, Corey. Will, Stacey, thank you for having me. What's been happening?
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Speaker 23: Look, I was just saying to the boys earlier that with the AFL trade period now over, it feels like it's the unofficial start to the cricket season.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, so Sunday is the second test in South Africa and Aussie's looking to go 2-0 up in that series. Matt Renshaw has caused a few headaches for selectors because he's obviously dominated in the first test, made lots of runs. He bats at number five. Traditionally, he's an opener, so it's left with the shuffling of the order now. So does he come back up to open the batting, or does he stay at five? Travis Head needs some runs as an opener, so whether he goes back down to five is certainly given selectors something to think about there.
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Speaker 5: What do you think? Nick Madison made runs in the second innings, didn't he? He did, yes. After really struggling in the first innings.
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Speaker 23: That probably saved him, didn't it, the second innings runs, so... It'll be interesting to see how they go with that batting order.
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Speaker 5: Were you surprised about the ease with which Australia won that first test? I thought, given the World Test Championship when we played them at Lourdes last time, they looked unbelievable. They did, yeah. This was going to be a much tougher series. Or did they just not give a good count of themselves?
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Speaker 23: I don't think they brought their best. And I'd expect them to bounce back pretty hard in the second test on Sunday. So, interesting to see. The Aussies, yeah, they did surprise me, for sure.
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Speaker 5: The Adelaide 36ers. They're taking on the top of the table.
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Speaker 23: Jackjumpers tonight, their steering win over Sydney on Sunday really sort of set up their season. If they can get the job done on the road again against the league's best, that really sets up their season, doesn't it?
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: What's the latest on when some of the cavalry is going to return?
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Speaker 23: Yeah, so I think Flynn Cameron's two to three weeks away.
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Speaker 5: He's got that ankle injury.
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Speaker 23: They get him back. They just look like a much better outfit. Trevor Gleeson's starting to get them To click a bit, which is good to see.
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Speaker 5: Tell you what, if the Tassie football side can emulate what the Jackjumpers have been able to achieve, they'll be pretty delighted. They're a remarkable story. It goes under the radar a bit because it's the NBL. They do.
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Speaker 23: And Scott Roth is the coach of the Jackjumpers. He's probably arguably one of the best sporting coaches in the country.
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Speaker 5: At the moment.
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Speaker 6: Because they've only been around for a couple of years.
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Speaker 23: They've been around for a little while now. They've... And they've had some success, which is good. And I think Scott Roth has actually spent some time with Ken Hinckley.
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Speaker 5: Is that right? Yeah.
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Speaker 23: And I think Tasmania, Benny Gale basically introduced them and said, you guys get along because Scott Roth has, you know, the entire state has got behind the Jackjumpers and that's what they want for the footy side as well. So it'll be interesting to see how that marriage works over the coming years.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, scary if they are able to emulate them because the Jackjumpers have been unbelievable.
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Speaker 24: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: Good to have you in, Corey. Appreciate it, mate.
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Speaker 7: Good stuff, guys.
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Speaker 5: Thank you. Appreciate it. We'll let you get back to the newsroom. All right, let's have a look at the seven sensational South Australians over 70. I usually wait to say that until after eight because my mouth hasn't warmed up yet and it's a little bit difficult.
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Speaker 6: The coffee's settled in.
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Speaker 2: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
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Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 5: 21 minutes to 7 police and weather coming up this half hour. Michael Smith will join us from 7 News. We'll jump in the time machine and go back to a concert experience that I reckon a fair number of our listeners were probably at. Footy Park. I'll give you that much. Much love, entertainer. Michael Smith will take us back there just before 7 o'clock. And then a little bit later in the morning, on the topic of music, Jimmy Barnes will be our guest. He's going to be fronting the concert at Manham that's taking place that... We've spoken about it in previous years. I think David went there actually last year to see it. Wonderful backdrop.
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Speaker 6: Sounds by the river.
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Speaker 5: Sounds by the river. The houseboats pull up. You can stand in the park there. It looks amazing. Jimmy Barnes will be there and he'll be on the program after 8 o'clock today. Let's talk unemployment. This is now a really interesting discussion economically in Australia because unemployment was revised up for August. So what we had yesterday announced was a scenario where unemployment was unchanged at 4.7%, but it means for two months now, we've had unemployment at the highest level that we've seen since COVID. And the reason that is interesting beyond what it's saying about jobs, businesses, the entire economic picture, is it might put the brakes on a rate rise for November. Remember, the RBA has a dual mandate. They have to try and achieve full employment and keep inflation between 2% and 3%. If unemployment starts tipping, well, then they might think twice about putting More impediment to hiring in the marketplace and making money more scarce. Sally Tindall is the Data Insights Director at Canstar and joins us now. Sally, good morning.
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Speaker 21: Good morning, Will. Good morning, Stacey.
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Speaker 1: How are you guys?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we're well. How much do you think this revised figure will play into the RBA's thinking for a November rise?
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Speaker 21: I think it will absolutely weigh on their minds, but it's difficult to say at this point which way the decision will go because it really is on a knife edge at this point in time because they've got this inflation problem. It's actually getting a little bit worse with the kind of flaring up of tensions in the Middle East and the flow through to prices here in Australia. But then, of course, you've got this very slightly creeping up unemployment figure. And as you said, Bill, they do have this dual mandate. They do need to keep Australians in jobs. The RBA in the previous communication, at the end of the last meeting and certainly in the minutes that just came out this week, they really did play down that small rise in unemployment. They said that the staff's judgment was that these Indicators were broadly pointing to a stable labour market and a stable labour market conditions in the near term. They do believe that there's still some tightness in the market, but that was before this round of data. It has crept up to 4.7%. It's getting slightly uncomfortable for the RBA. What I would say is this data set from the ABS, they have been tweaking the way that they collect part of the survey, and the data can jump around. So it might be that the RBA wants more evidence on the side that there's this softness in the labour market before it starts.
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Speaker 25: Acting on it.
00:21:16
Speaker 21: All of that to say, I just think it's a very fine line ball call at this point in time for another rate hike in November. I have a feeling they might pause. With that collection of data at hand, see how everyone stands with the latest one they've already just fired off. You know, most people, when a rate hike happens, and we just had one, what, how many weeks ago? Two weeks ago, whatever it was. Might be three now. My goodness, time goes. But anyway, it takes a long time to actually hit your bank account. So the banks passed on that rate hike. the big four did last week. So you're paying more on your mortgage now. They're charging you more, right? But the extra money isn't coming out of your bank account yet. The banks tend to give you two or three months before they actually start pulling that extra money out of the bank account. So these rates take a long time to flow through the household and then into the economy.
00:22:07
Speaker 6: And so, Sally, this is what we know in crude terms the RBA wants to see is unemployment increase, which means people lose their jobs and inflation come down. But how do we keep that balance so people are in jobs, enough people are in jobs, so they can keep their houses?
00:22:27
Speaker 21: Yeah, it's such a difficult equation for them. And this is what the RBA points to regularly as to why they didn't hike as quickly as perhaps other countries. And they were very keen to protect jobs in Australia and make sure people could have a job because paying the mortgage at higher interest rates is very difficult for a lot of households across the country to do. But imagine trying to pay the mortgage with no job.
00:22:54
Speaker 10: That's just a disaster.
00:22:56
Speaker 21: And so they have been quite cautious when it comes to protecting jobs. But yes, they are kind of willing to accept more unemployed people in order to bring down inflation.
00:23:08
Speaker 10: It's kind of a cruel.
00:23:09
Speaker 21: Kind of or a pointy end of business for the RBA where they can't basically have it all, unfortunately. I would say, looking at the data, quite interestingly, South Australia has the lowest unemployment rate out of the state's territory, sitting at 4.2%. That's equal with Perth, I believe, looking at the seasonally adjusted data. So, you know, it's significantly tighter in South Australia than other states.
00:23:35
Speaker 18: That's interesting to see.
00:23:36
Speaker 5: Yeah, that certainly is, Sally. Thank you. Sally Tindall, the Data Insights Director at Canstar. The South Australian point's a really interesting one. There's this other debate that's now happening among economists. So the RBA's dual mandate is to try to get us as close to full employment as possible. Now, full employment's not 0% unemployment. It's an economic term. They generally work on this idea that it's about 4.6%. That's what the RBA's estimate is. That's the point at which if unemployment's lower than that, it's inflationary because people are competing for wages and there's more money in the economy that way. Everyone's got a job. Everyone's got money to spend. They're wondering now if it's 4.7% and inflation's still going up, have they miscalculated? Because this is a very vague sort of area of science. We don't really know because of how people behave. There's humans involved in this, not robots. Maybe it's closer to 5%. And which you go, I go 4.6, 4.5, who cares? Well, 4.6 to 4.7 was 39,000 jobs disappeared.
00:24:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
00:24:37
Speaker 5: But we're talking massive assumptions about what the employment picture in Australia looks like and how that feeds into inflation. These are big picture things that sound like really small numbers. Andrew makes the point, the IMF are forecasting the unemployment rate to rise to the highest in the developed world due to rising inflation and almost flatline productivity. It backs up the RBA warning. Some economists are predicting a recession. It's typically how you break the cycle of inflation historically, Andrew, before we achieve the soft landing post-COVID, but maybe we're paying for that now. And thank you for that text as well, Brent. We'll get to more of her thoughts in a moment. First, though, let's head to the Weather Bureau because this is unequivocally good news if you like sunshine and good times. Daniel Sherwin-Simpson at the Bureau joins us. Morning, Daniel.
00:25:18
Speaker 24: Good morning, Will and Stacey.
00:25:19
Speaker 5: Looks like this is a beautiful weather pattern for the next few days.
00:25:22
Speaker 24: Yeah, it's going to be absolutely lovely. You might be a bit hard-pressed for the sunshine at times, but today we are seeing a cloud band move over the state. It's currently sort of over the Spencer Gulf and is going to make its way towards Adelaide. So we'll be a bit cloudy, but we're not expecting anything falling from those clouds today in the Adelaide area. But the warm weather is going to stay around. We've got a blocking high set up in the Tasman Sea, which is going to sit there for about a week on end and keep driving north to north easterly winds. over the state, and that'll lead to the warmer temperatures by the time it gets down to Adelaide. So, yeah, 26 today, 27 tomorrow, 29 on Sunday and Monday. Even once we do see a little bit of the wet weather coming in on Tuesday, 26 still, and then by the time we get.
00:26:08
Speaker 7: To Thursday, 31.
00:26:08
Speaker 24: So the warmer weather does still stick around, even if we see a couple of showery periods coming through at times.
00:26:15
Speaker 5: That's interesting. Thank you, Daniel. Daniel Sherwin-Simpson at the Weather Bureau. Is it officially... Jumpers and long sleeves are packed away now.
00:26:23
Speaker 6: Oh, well, I did that a couple of weeks ago and then had to bring.
00:26:26
Speaker 5: Them back out. I get it. But I feel like if we've got the rain coming through and it doesn't get any cooler, we're officially into the warm part of the year, aren't we?
00:26:37
Speaker 16: Maybe.
00:26:37
Speaker 5: Watch me jinx the hell out of this.
00:26:40
Speaker 6: Next week we'll get a 12-degree day.
00:26:41
Speaker 5: It'll be snowing next Friday. Surely it's time to pack away the long sleeves officially now. Let's head to SAPOL. City Constable Rebecca Stokes joins us. Morning, Rebecca.
00:26:50
Speaker 9: Good morning.
00:26:51
Speaker 5: There's been a serious crash at Salisbury Park.
00:26:54
Speaker 9: Yes, this happened just after 10pm last night. Emergency services were called to Main North Road at Salisbury Park after reports that a pedestrian had been struck by a Toyota sedan. The pedestrian's a 56-year-old Davron Park man. He was initially assisted by members of the public who stopped to help before being treated at the scene by paramedics. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. The driver's a 63-year-old Salisbury Park man. He wasn't physically injured in the crash. Main North Road has since reopened. It was closed while police examined the scene. I'm keen to speak with anyone who witnessed this crash or has any dash cam footage of the incident. They can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
00:27:32
Speaker 6: And Rebecca, a man's been arrested at a construction site in Finden.
00:27:36
Speaker 9: Yes, just after 10 last night, police were called to Crittenden Road, Finden after reports of a man entering a construction site with a torch. Police cordoned off the site, conducted a search and located the man inside the property a short time later. He's a 25-year-old from Beverley. He's been arrested and found in possession of gloves, metal snips and a torch. So he's been charged with being unlawfully on premises and possessing an article to commit an offence. And he'll face support Adelaide Magistrates Court Adelaide today.
00:28:01
Speaker 5: And this has got to be a typo, Rebecca. A drink driver's been caught four times the legal limit at Elizabeth. How can you even operate a car if you're four times the legal limit?
00:28:09
Speaker 9: You think you wouldn't be able to, would you? So this is just before 4am. Northern District Patrols were travelling on main north road Elizabeth and they saw a Toyota four-wheel drive weaving all over the road. So there's your answer. They couldn't really operate this vehicle properly. Drawing attention to themselves, so they were stopped by police, and the driver recorded blood alcohol reading of 0.206. Further checks revealed that the registration plates on this Toyota weren't even assigned to that vehicle, and the driver was also unlicensed. So this 48-year-old interstate woman, she's been arrested and charged with drink driving, driving without a license, and driving with unassigned plates, and she'll face the magistrate's court later today.
00:28:44
Speaker 5: All right. That's just unbelievable. Rebecca, thank you. Senior Constable Rebecca Stokes from SAPOL. It must be the most overused word post every SAPOL segment. Unbelievable. I've got to find something else. Reach for the thesaurus, Will.
00:28:56
Speaker 7: All right.
00:28:57
Speaker 5: It's true, though.
00:28:59
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:29:00
Speaker 8: Four times.
00:29:01
Speaker 5: It's exasperating, isn't it? Four times the legal limit. I can never work out how blood alcohol content mathematics works. Let's surely not say 16 drinks in the first hour or whatever it works out to be based on your body weight. Surely it's not that. I don't know. I just don't know how it graduates.
00:29:17
Speaker 6: I don't think I could even find my keys.
00:29:19
Speaker 5: I wouldn't have thought. Sleepy time at that point, surely. Now, let's put some more things on the tree, shall we? Thanks to Drake's, your family-owned supermarket, the ultimate meat trays for grillmasters this spring. Drake's, and greetings for everyone. This is, of course, Meat Tray Friday. We've got a brand-new tree in the city of Adelaide. We are adorning it with Adelaide-made designed and conceived baubles. I think we've got things that are even grander than a bauble. There's a Holden Monaro on the tree at the moment. There's been some terrific suggestions over the course of the morning. The frog cake's on there.
00:29:49
Speaker 6: Some pies, some wine bottles.
00:29:50
Speaker 5: Some wine bottles. There's the wonderful Dave from Alberton suggestion about the baubles Crows in Port that look up and down at one another on the basis of where they finish at the end of the season. It's where they sit on the tree, which I think is a great idea. Get yours coming in now, 8223 0000. Decorate our brand-new Christmas tree with a South Australian bauble, 8223 0000.
00:30:14
Speaker 2: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
00:30:22
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:30:27
Speaker 5: 67 asked for the thesaurus. And this is an interesting news story, Rob. I just texted, there's a truck full of thesauruses rolled on the freeway, spilling its load. Witnesses are said to be shocked, stunned, aghast, startled, dumbfounded and amazed. Thank you, Rob. For the meat tray this morning, we're asking you to decorate our brand new Christmas tree in the city. We want it to be South Australianised. That's not a word you'll find in the thesaurus. Andrew in Kirsbrook, what are you hanging on the tree?
00:30:52
Speaker 14: Good morning.
00:30:52
Speaker 7: How are you?
00:30:53
Speaker 5: We're good, Andrew.
00:30:55
Speaker 14: We need to have a red tin on the top. A West End red tin needs to take part of the place. And I thought we could have, like, miniatures of our finest achievements, like we're one-way highway. Our $ 300 million golf course, the MotoGP track, you know, the bald pigs.
00:31:15
Speaker 22: Oh, yeah, the.
00:31:16
Speaker 7: Pigs, yep.
00:31:17
Speaker 5: Andrew, you've decorated half the tree for us. That's a terrific Metro Friday entry. What were the signs above the old one-way expressway that would say it was closed or open? Maybe one of those, a stylised version of one of those.
00:31:29
Speaker 6: I like that.
00:31:30
Speaker 5: Would fit in above the tree. I reckon our next guest would be able to design the entire thing by himself.
00:31:38
Speaker 3: It's time to flashback with Michael Smith.
00:31:41
Speaker 5: Yeah, if there is a doctor of South Australiana, it is a Michael Smith who also puts together the wonderful Seven News flashback segment. Morning to you, Michael.
00:31:48
Speaker 7: Very kind, Will. Good morning, Stacey. We've got a flashback for you this Sunday night that you can crank up and sing along to. I had the great pleasure earlier this week of listening to an album I don't reckon I've listened to for probably about 20 years. One of the great double albums of a live concert ever. One that I reckon a lot of 5AA listeners would have in their catalogue for sure. Neil Diamond's Hot August Night. I'd forgotten how good it was. Why was I listening to it? Because this year marks 50 years since he first came to Adelaide and played a concert at Footy Park. It was such a big tour in 1976. Hot August Night had spent 29 weeks at number one on the Australian charts, so fans could not wait for him to get here. The last concert in the tour in 1976 was held at the Sydney Sports Ground and was televised nationally. Neil Diamond fell in love with Australia as well and at the end of the tour he promised to come back. He kept his promise, it's just that it took 16 years. Have a listen to a little of this report from Geoff Dunn.
00:32:57
Speaker 26: The legend is back and his 92 tour kicks off in Adelaide Wednesday night. Diamond arrived in town this afternoon and made an unexpected detour for a chat with the local media.
00:33:07
Speaker 12: We've waited a long time for this and this is going to be great.
00:33:10
Speaker 5: We're all excited about it.
00:33:12
Speaker 13: Sweet Caroline.
00:33:26
Speaker 7: He played three sold-out shows back-to-back at the Entertainment Centre in 92. I was lucky enough to go to one of them. He really was terrific live in concert. He hasn't been here for more than a decade. Of course, poor health preventing him from touring these days. But you might have heard there is a stage show celebrating his life, which is now touring Australia. It's done huge business in Melbourne, Will. It's called A Beautiful Noise. They've announced seasons for Sydney and Brisbane. Fingers crossed it'll come to Adelaide maybe next year as well.
00:33:56
Speaker 6: I hope so.
00:33:57
Speaker 5: There is no song on planet Earth that compels you to sing along like Sweet Caroline does. Or even just do that.
00:34:03
Speaker 7: We saw it at the NFL match at the MCG last month. It's so rousing. It's a great sing-along song. And I remember being a very young kid in the 70s. Hot August Night was sort of the soundtrack that people played at dinner parties. That's my enduring memory. And then also getting up the next morning to see if there were any after-dinner mints left on the table.
00:34:24
Speaker 6: I remember that. The box of after-dinner mints on top of the fridge.
00:34:26
Speaker 5: Very classy. Michael, thank you. Looking forward to that on Sunday night from 6 o'clock on Channel 7. Michael Smith in his wonderful flashback segment. 1976, it was interesting to think back to footy parks. A footy park opened in 74 and would have been really excited to have this brand new huge venue back at the time to do concerts. I remember when I was younger and the Rolling Stones played there. We've had some other massive ones over the course of the journey that we don't. How many big Adelaide Oval concerts do we have now? Ed Sheeran played Adelaide Oval, didn't he? Pink played Adelaide Oval. Everyone else seems to play, they do outdoor venues or entertainment centre really, don't they?
00:35:08
Speaker 6: Entertainment centre, yeah.
00:35:10
Speaker 5: All right, let's not talk about the basketball stadium. There's much more than that. Yeah, that's right. These conversations always tend to go back to the basketball stadium. Let's go to Prospect. Andrew, put something on our tree.
00:35:22
Speaker 23: Oh, yes, sir.
00:35:23
Speaker 24: Yeah, good morning.
00:35:24
Speaker 12: Well, obviously you need a star or an angel, so perhaps Peter Malinowskis might be the star at the top of the tree.
00:35:31
Speaker 5: An angelic Peter Malinowskis.
00:35:34
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:35:34
Speaker 5: He'd be a little bit on the nose for the premiere of the day on his brand new Christmas tree to put himself at the top, wouldn't he?
00:35:42
Speaker 6: I love the juxtaposition of it, Andrew. Peter Malinowskis atop a tree.
00:35:46
Speaker 5: Atop a tree. I think his media people might say, Peter, I know you really like to be on the tree, but we've just got a bit of bad tree-related press at the moment. Maybe don't go and do the tree press conference.
00:35:57
Speaker 6: Do you want to put yourself on top of it?
00:35:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's not do that. For all tree-related content, let's direct inquiries to Blair Boyer, the minister for everything else. 5AA news time. We're going to wrap some of the morning's stories in just a moment. We'll wrap the week in federal politics with Nelson Scott as well. We're going to talk about the... The proliferation of speed cameras at school zones. So, Stacey, you might recall, I refer to her as the matron of the school speed zone, who has explained to us the pitfalls of this technology-absent situation we have with these hard-to-read signs that people get caught in. You, from the start, have said these need to be illuminated. There needs to be technology that needs to be built in if we're going to put in variable speed zones across South Australia.
00:36:44
Speaker 13: Mm-hmm.
00:36:44
Speaker 5: People need to be told.
00:36:45
Speaker 6: I have no issue with the speed zones.
00:36:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, they make sense.
00:36:48
Speaker 6: They make sense. Slow down when kids are around.
00:36:50
Speaker 5: And yet.
00:36:51
Speaker 6: But if you're going to change the time zones at different times of day, put flashing lights so it's clear, so people can actually see them and don't get confused and people actually do slow down.
00:37:00
Speaker 5: So rather than getting technology that will aid people to abide by the speed limit, we're going to get technology that will fine people for failing to abide by the speed limit.
00:37:08
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:37:08
Speaker 5: All stick and no carrot. We're going to get into it with the minister after this.
00:37:13
Speaker 2: Knock down, build two. With Metro Homes, sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
00:37:21
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:37:30
Speaker 5: 7up7, good morning to you if you're joining us for the first time on this Friday the 16th of October. Excluding Darwin, we are the warmest capital city in Australia right now. It's 16.8 degrees. As you've just heard, the apparent temperature... It's fairly warm too. Just a beautiful weather pattern over the course of the next couple of days. Magnificent way to head into a weekend. We have a meat tray too, which would make it all the better for you. Thanks to the wonderful people at Drake's, your Aussie family-owned supermarket with the ultimate meat trays for grill masters this spring. Drake's ingredients for everyone. We're asking you to decorate our brand new and juiced up Christmas tree in the city. $ 2. 1 million is the tree's cost. We got into the politics and economics of that earlier in the week. This morning, We're decorating it. You need to tell us what needs to be on the tree. And a lot of people have already put their entries in.
00:38:18
Speaker 13: We're going to need four baubles. Two Port Adelaide ones. One's looking up, one's looking down. Two Adelaide ones. One's looking up, one's looking down. And depending on ladder position, we put one higher or lower. One will look down upon the other and one will look up at the other.
00:38:31
Speaker 15: I think we need a large, glowing 600ml Farmers Union ice coffee container.
00:38:36
Speaker 11: And as a bauble, we definitely need a fruit shop.
00:38:39
Speaker 7: I think we should have a really large, big, silver middle finger.
00:38:43
Speaker 24: Right up the top.
00:38:44
Speaker 5: That's not a statue.
00:38:45
Speaker 25: The mod's taken a specky.
00:38:47
Speaker 10: So let's put the Monaro on top of the tree.
00:38:50
Speaker 1: I'd go Billy's Pie or about this pie.
00:38:52
Speaker 7: A large, sturt, desert pea.
00:38:55
Speaker 17: I think two big wine bottles next.
00:38:58
Speaker 4: To the tree.
00:38:59
Speaker 1: I think the police commissioner.
00:39:01
Speaker 15: If I can get past the stop-the-chop protesters around the tree, I'm going to put a nesting bin chicken on top.
00:39:08
Speaker 5: So keep your suggestions coming through, 8223 0000 is the number, or text us on 048 08 1395. You'll be in the running to win that magnificent meat trade. It's good Barbie weather coming up at the moment as well. We spoke at the first hour about the inflationary or de-inflationary impacts of the unemployment rate, which came in higher than expected yesterday, 4.7%, highest since COVID. We shed 39,000 full-time jobs. Some of the other data points that the Reserve Bank tends to look at are commercial activity, private commercial activity, which makes this a relevant headline this morning. $ 510 million will be spent by Australians on Halloween decorations and costumes. And treats, the combination of those three things. Half a billion dollars, $ 510 million. This didn't exist. When did Halloween start becoming a thing?
00:39:56
Speaker 6: No wonder why everything's inflationary at the moment because you can't get to an American holiday without having to spend money on it.
00:40:03
Speaker 5: We invented America. I feel like this only happened five years ago.
00:40:06
Speaker 6: It wasn't a thing when I was a kid. When I was a kid, maybe around 10, 11, we would go and do trick or treating, but there were no decorations. My sister and I would just go around our area. We'd maybe dress up as a witch and we would.
00:40:20
Speaker 5: Okay.
00:40:21
Speaker 6: But that was it. It wasn't the big thing it is now.
00:40:24
Speaker 5: That is now a significant spending holiday in Australia. You're right. In my time, it existed purely for Tim Allen's family on home improvement. It didn't exist in Australia. $ 510 million. That feels like a watershed moment. Other news knocking around this morning. You've just heard in 5AA News that Donald Trump has taken to social media to can the execution. We spoke about that at length earlier in the week, about the morality, the wisdom of that, or otherwise. Well, it's not going to happen now. He said he still believes it might have been a strong deterrent, this is a direct quote, for the world to witness how America deals with terrorists and scum like Hassan. But he goes on to say... any very good and well-meaning people would rather not watch him die through streaming or any other visual device. So someone's got to suggest that that one would not be the ratings winner that he otherwise thought it might well be. Do we celebrate or do we just begrudgingly acknowledge the fact there was a sole $ 100 million winner of the Powerball last night?
00:41:24
Speaker 6: Look, I'm celebrating. I didn't have a ticket and I didn't have any skin in the game.
00:41:30
Speaker 5: One person in Ballina. In New South Wales.
00:41:32
Speaker 12: How crazy is that?
00:41:34
Speaker 5: Half of Australian adults or nearly half of Australian adults bought a ticket to the Powerball last night and one person won it, $ 100 million.
00:41:44
Speaker 6: That's the concerning figure to me. Half all Australian adults bought a ticket. That's nuts.
00:41:51
Speaker 5: So you can very quickly work out the maths of that, can't you? Because if you imagine working age adults, let's say there's 18 million of them. 9 million people buy a ticket. What's a Powerball ticket cost you? It's good business to be in lottos, isn't it?
00:42:08
Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
00:42:09
Speaker 6: There's people making a lot of money out of it.
00:42:11
Speaker 5: Yeah, they certainly are. Well, one person won a hell of a lot of money. $ 100 million is going to Ballina. The other thing that's happened- that we should acknowledge in the last 24 hours is the Hilltop Hoods have now got a lane named after them in the city. Clubhouse Lane is no more. It is now Hilltop Hoods Lane. And they've got this wonderful artwork of them performing that's in the street as well. It looks actually spectacular.
00:42:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, it does.
00:42:35
Speaker 5: I wonder if we're going to see more South Australians acknowledged. Is there any more? Do we need a Grant Stephens Lane? Is there any more?
00:42:43
Speaker 6: So far, what the City Council has done, only artists.
00:42:47
Speaker 7: Yes.
00:42:47
Speaker 6: They've done a few.
00:42:49
Speaker 5: Paul Kelly?
00:42:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's right, Paul Kelly Lane. I think it's a good thing. I like it.
00:42:54
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:42:55
Speaker 5: It very much contemporises street names, though. I'm no big heritage person, but we can't have all of our street names be named after people who were relevant between 1990 and 2020.
00:43:09
Speaker 6: But surely Clubhouse Lane.
00:43:10
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was pretty naff.
00:43:11
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:43:11
Speaker 5: 8223 0000 for the meat tray, folks. You can text us on 044808 1395. What are you hanging on the tree?
00:43:20
Speaker 6: The other interesting thing I wanted to mention about the Powerball. So we've only had a few times where the Powerballs reached $ 100 million. One was in June last year, and it was also won by one ticket. However, that person is still yet to claim their winnings. So if you were in Sydney and you happen to purchase a Powerball ticket from the Bondi Junction News Agency for last year's Powerball, $ 100 million, it's still up for grabs. They still haven't found the winner.
00:43:50
Speaker 5: That's extraordinary.
00:43:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, I know.
00:43:51
Speaker 5: That person must have died in all seriousness.
00:43:55
Speaker 6: Can you imagine doing the clean-out of the house and finding a winning ticket?
00:44:01
Speaker 5: How about this from Rob? Rob says, I heard on a podcast the other day, Americans are expected to spend more than $ 1 billion on Halloween costumes today. For their dogs. It's a good business to be in. Just a billion dollars.
00:44:12
Speaker 6: That's one I support.
00:44:14
Speaker 5: Now, Timmy G's knocking around outside the studio today. We often talk with him on a Friday morning to discuss sport. He's got a brand new comedy show coming up. It's playing at the Kent Town on October 24. Timmy G turns 60. We're going to discuss that with him on the other side of this break. Let's check traffic.
00:44:31
Speaker 2: Knock down.
00:44:32
Speaker 8: Build two.
00:44:33
Speaker 2: With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes.
00:44:38
Speaker 6: They do it all for you.
00:44:39
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:44:46
Speaker 5: And in after seven, we're still chasing up the Minister Michael Brown with regard to what is quite remarkable. It's so good to have you on the program, Stacey, to talk about this because this has been your baby from the moment the new variable speed zones were announced for schools. I think on merit, everyone gets it. We want people taking more care. We've had some incidents that weren't just near misses, but were near tragedies and some tragedies that took place out front of South Australian schools because the speed limit didn't change for areas where we had main roads going past well-populated schools. It was a recipe for disaster and it was realised on too many occasions. So we got these new 40k an hour school zones that are in effect during the periods of the school pickup and the school drop-off on days where there are school kids there. You need to be aware of whether it's public holidays or whether it's.
00:45:35
Speaker 6: School holidays.
00:45:36
Speaker 5: School holidays.
00:45:36
Speaker 6: I don't have a school-aged kid, so I don't really know when school holidays are.
00:45:39
Speaker 5: Exactly right. And so your point from the beginning has been there should be some better, the signage needs to do more than be something- Just light them up. When you're travelling to 60km an hour, you need to read and decipher in an instant. Light it up.
00:45:53
Speaker 6: Put some flashing lights on there. It's what they do interstate. It's what they used to do in some areas in Adelaide, according to some of our texters.
00:45:59
Speaker 5: Well, four of the 119 zones that currently operate have speed red light cameras attached to them. The next 40, 24 of them are going to have speed cameras. This is going to be a lucrative revenue stream for the state government.
00:46:12
Speaker 6: So I've done some maths.
00:46:13
Speaker 7: Yes.
00:46:13
Speaker 6: Because in May, some data was released about how much revenue two of these cameras raised. they raised $ 700, 000 in fines in not even three months. So I've been doing the maths on this. That means per camera for a one-year period, They raise $ 2. 8 million per camera. If we're now going to have 24 cameras at $ 1. 4 million, sorry, so it's $ 1. 4 million per year per camera times 24 cameras is $ 33 million. I found the most recent publicly available stats on how much it costs to put flashing lights on a camera. This was based on New South Wales figures in 2012, so I've taken account for inflation over those years, which is 50%. It is $ 33, 000 to put two flashing lights on the signs at the end of each school zone.
00:47:05
Speaker 5: It's $ 33, 000. $ 33, 000.
00:47:06
Speaker 6: It's a good business to be in. If you do that times 24 zones, that's about $ 800, 000. So the government would still raise $ 32, 800, 000 even if they pay for the flashing lights. They'll still raise $ 32 million in speeding fines.
00:47:25
Speaker 5: And as the protesters have said to us, you could have the things connected to solar power. They could just operate and you wouldn't need any power connection whatsoever.
00:47:31
Speaker 6: And there's the capability now that schools can turn them on and off. A teacher can go out and say, yeah, we need these on now because maybe Osh has finished and there's a whole bunch of kids, so it might be past four o'clock, but we've got lots of kids around, so we want people to slow down. Or we're leaving for a school excursion at 11am, so there's kids around, we want people to slow down. They can turn them on and off as they wish.
00:47:52
Speaker 5: If you're motivated by safety, that'll make sense. If you are seduced by the lucrative revenue stream, maybe less so.
00:47:59
Speaker 6: $ 33 million a year they're expecting to raise.
00:48:01
Speaker 5: That is just absolutely incredible.
00:48:04
Speaker 8: And speaking about report cards with distinctions, here's Jennifer. Tim Ginniver on 5AA Breakfast.
00:48:10
Speaker 5: It's a similar amount of revenue that Timmy G's expecting to bring in as a new comedy show that's taking place very soon for Timmy G's turning 60 at the Kent Town Hotel. Morning to you, Tim. Good morning.
00:48:24
Speaker 8: It's great to be in the studio with you guys. Bit of a change, isn't it?
00:48:27
Speaker 6: This is lovely.
00:48:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, very special. So October 24th. So not this Saturday, but next Saturday.
00:48:32
Speaker 7: Correct.
00:48:33
Speaker 8: Don't get used to it either, Stacey, by the way.
00:48:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, so it should be good. It's a good room.
00:48:39
Speaker 8: I don't know if you remember KG had his 85th there, I reckon.
00:48:42
Speaker 5: Now, big room.
00:48:44
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a big room.
00:48:45
Speaker 17: Yeah.
00:48:45
Speaker 5: It's a great room. So, looking forward to that. Nice and big. How did you get coached back to doing stand-up comedy? Because our listeners might recall you did a big run in Gluttony a number of years back.
00:48:56
Speaker 8: Ten years ago it was. And that was pretty much the inspiration. It was actually one of our sales reps here at work just said, did you do a fringe show? Because there's a lot of young people here now. They seemed nice.
00:49:10
Speaker 4: Yeah.
00:49:10
Speaker 5: They looked you up on Wikipedia.
00:49:14
Speaker 8: And so we got talking about it. She said, oh, really?
00:49:16
Speaker 5: And I said, yeah.
00:49:16
Speaker 8: She said, you should do another one. I said, well, I'm not doing 15 nights. I can tell you right now. So I said, look, I might do one and then the next one will be my eulogy, which I'm dead set determined to do that, by the way. You're going to do your own eulogy? I am going to prepare my own eulogy. I'm going to appear on the screen. I'm going to come out and do my own because– Don't trust any of my friends.
00:49:38
Speaker 5: Yeah. I wouldn't either.
00:49:40
Speaker 8: I don't want my wife speaking on my phone. That's for sure. So I will be jumping out of the coffin.
00:49:48
Speaker 5: I will be delivering the eulogy.
00:49:49
Speaker 8: So that will be my last stand-up gig. So if you don't want to, you know, not wait till then because I intend to be here for a while.
00:49:56
Speaker 27: Yes.
00:49:56
Speaker 8: Pop on down to the camp town.
00:49:58
Speaker 5: That's great. So playing in grand finals, debuting for the Maggies, working in the media for a long time, calling footy. Where does stand-up comedy rank in terms of the scariest thing that you've done?
00:50:11
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's right up there. I've got to say, when I did the Gluttony gig, the first night, I just felt like it was prior to running out the tunnel in the grand final. It had the same emotions, like the nerves. Am I going to play well? What if I don't play well? All of those things that go through your mind. And then there's the euphoria of it going well.
00:50:34
Speaker 14: Yeah.
00:50:34
Speaker 8: And the aftermath. My biggest problem was I did 15 nights. Every single night I did it, there was somebody in the crowd that I hadn't seen for a while. Timmy, come for a drink afterwards. Yeah, I will. Don't worry about that. I'll come straight out the tent after the show. And go and have a drink with them. And then the next night, oh, Will, g'day, mate. Come and have a drink to me. All right. 15 nights.
00:50:57
Speaker 6: That's what fringe is about, though.
00:50:58
Speaker 8: Through the liver, onto the fence at the end of it. Let it dry out. And that was the hardest thing. And God, I had one mate that I went to school with. He came down from Mount Isa.
00:51:08
Speaker 7: Drove. Drove.
00:51:10
Speaker 5: That's extraordinary.
00:51:11
Speaker 8: First thing I said to him, no refunds, mate.
00:51:15
Speaker 6: Do you practice? Do you rehearse in front of anyone?
00:51:18
Speaker 8: I tried, and rehearsals are almost pointless. Yeah, it was horrible because we had to set up the tent to see what we needed and if the PowerPoint would work and all that stuff. And then he said, well, go and practice. And there was people trying to put the seats up to get it ready. And I'm trying to do this story. And I looked at him. I said, no, I'm not doing this. Let's go to the pub. Jumped out. So what I'm reflecting on is the 10 years since.
00:51:47
Speaker 5: Yes.
00:51:48
Speaker 8: And it's amazing. I said, I don't count in years anymore. I count in decades. It goes that quick. From 50 to 60, just flew.
00:51:55
Speaker 7: Yeah.
00:51:56
Speaker 8: Now, we're just going to talk about what happened in that 10 years. Because if you reflect on, anybody reflect on your last 10 years and try and go, wow, what's happened? It's quite phenomenal how much you actually get through.
00:52:05
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:52:06
Speaker 8: So, and we've had a very interesting 10 years. So, lots of things to talk about.
00:52:12
Speaker 6: A few extra grundies.
00:52:14
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:52:14
Speaker 8: And also, you know, just the fact of life. Like, one of the things I talk about is putting on weight.
00:52:22
Speaker 15: Yeah.
00:52:24
Speaker 8: I knew there was a time in life that when you've played football or you've been an athlete, there's an expectation that you will look the same for the rest of your life. And it's an unreal expectation, especially when you're as social as I am. So the classic was I rushed to grab the bins and put them out because I'd forgotten and the green bin man was coming down and I quickly ran it out and all the rest of it. And the guy puts his window down. He says, hey, Timmy, putting on a bit of put.
00:52:56
Speaker 5: Oh, no. He copped a drive-by from the bin man.
00:53:00
Speaker 8: And that's when I said in like, oh, where have I got to? What a low point in life.
00:53:07
Speaker 5: Putting on a bit of put. The garbo.
00:53:09
Speaker 8: Had a crack at that.
00:53:10
Speaker 5: Unbelievable.
00:53:11
Speaker 8: Oh, jeez, that made me laugh. How do people get tickets, Tim?
00:53:14
Speaker 20: Easy.
00:53:14
Speaker 8: Just Google Timmy G turned 60, and they're there.
00:53:17
Speaker 1: Bang.
00:53:18
Speaker 8: On you get. A couple of good seats left.
00:53:20
Speaker 5: Can we talk sport quickly? Absolutely. Just wrap trade week, the trade period, this last bit. I've always been, perhaps overly so, according to some of our listeners, critical of the Adelaide Football Club, and we've talked about that a lot. One thing, I'm not going to be diplomatic about the Port Adelaide Football Club for a moment, because you've taken Luke Peedler now, and I just don't care about being nice anymore. That meant Warwick was one of my favourites.
00:53:44
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:53:44
Speaker 5: But I wonder this, in chatting to one of our Port listeners... Incredibly great haul for Zach Butters in the trade period. Port Adelaide's done exceptionally well. But do you think you, Timmy, as a legend of the club and Port fans, are prepared for the next couple of years of pain? Because this is a club that proudly has said you haven't rebuilt in the past, come from a legacy of only knowing winning, certainly in my lifetime in the Sandfull. It looks like there's the foundation of future success, but it looks like it's going to be a pretty lean... couple of years at Alberton. Do you accept that or do you think that actually you can have some success over the next two to three years?
00:54:22
Speaker 8: I was buoyed by what Josh did early this year. And you could say that our list definitely was starting to get affected. Now, with injuries, it really fell away towards the end. What he was able to do, though, very early, I'm very buoyed by what I think he can do. So I think we can jump a few spots without too much difficulty just by having a healthy list. So you've got to hope for that.
00:54:45
Speaker 5: No, Zach, though.
00:54:45
Speaker 8: But there is definitely– we had this list and we kept going for that one or two extra just– so we traded out picks and the like to get maybe that defender or maybe that ruckman to try and win the flag. And we got a few prelims, but we weren't able to achieve it. So that phase is now finished because you've lost Robbie Gray, you've lost Travis Boak and Westhoff, and all those players are now gone. So you're right. There is this, and the way our list manager talks about it, Jason Cripps, is very good at saying, right, this is now what we're doing is loading up, so we have another crack at it. And that probably looks around 2030. So that's probably the realisation. You can still play a lot of good, hard, competitive footy, In between and start to– the more you are able to start to win but then get yourself into finals and get that experience, that's that next three years.
00:55:43
Speaker 5: It'll be an exciting ride over the course of the times. But I reckon just you guys aren't– you're not accustomed to being down for long periods.
00:55:50
Speaker 8: What they don't like– and I saw it this year when I walk in Adelaide Oval, talk to all the supporters– What they don't like is seeing a game plan that they don't like or lack of effort or just not doing the things that they love about Port Adelaide. They love them having a crack. So early this year when they were, the feedback was, you know what, we know where we're at, but they're having a crack and that's what we want. So if they keep that up while they're, what would you say, developing, then I think that they'll be happy with that progression should that remain.
00:56:21
Speaker 6: Just have to be patient.
00:56:22
Speaker 13: Yes.
00:56:23
Speaker 8: Well, there's a bit of patience, but there's also that intent. They want to see real intent. And I mean, for Adelaide, I think keeping Nick Murray was a win. I really do. I was fearful if he had gone in that trade.
00:56:36
Speaker 5: Well, you're writing off next year at that point, I think.
00:56:37
Speaker 8: Well, you're very, very vulnerable to injury. And you had a couple of key injuries that were in defence, so you don't want that again. So I think that was a win for Adelaide.
00:56:46
Speaker 5: Do you notice how Tim's voice changed from talking comedy to talking about what I made? Sort of the look in the eye sort of changed a bit as well.
00:56:53
Speaker 6: Oh, it got very serious.
00:56:54
Speaker 5: Yeah, I know. I love it.
00:56:55
Speaker 8: You should have seen when I went over the line.
00:56:59
Speaker 5: Metamorphosis. Hey, all the best for the show, Tim. We'll obviously chat with you on the eve of it next week.
00:57:05
Speaker 8: You will indeed. So look forward to that. And thank you very much for allowing me to come in.
00:57:09
Speaker 5: Good to have you in.
00:57:09
Speaker 8: Bright, sunny room.
00:57:11
Speaker 5: Good on you, Timmy.
00:57:14
Speaker 2: Knock down.
00:57:15
Speaker 5: Build two.
00:57:16
Speaker 2: With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment.
00:57:20
Speaker 6: Metro Homes. They do it all for you.
00:57:23
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:57:27
Speaker 5: 20 to 8. Love this entry for the meat trays. We try to adorn our new Christmas tree in the city. Ben from Paradise says, Will and Stacey, a suggestion for the tree. We could have a... commercial in confidence section on the tree it would be high up tucked away in the back we're not sure what the baubles would look like but it doesn't matter because you're not allowed to see them anyway ben you've won a great that is great you've you've just won uh the day forget the meat tray that'll be awarded later but you've won the day with that dex that was magnificent uh lots of texts on school crossings as well the uh the investment in school crossings Not lights to help you understand the variable speed limits, but rather speed cameras to find you when you do get it wrong. Bill in Black Forest has a thought on this. Morning, Bill.
00:58:10
Speaker 25: Good morning, Will and Stacey. Look, my problem is that, yeah, lights would be very handy and also somehow telling us when it's the end of the zone. Currently, it's just the next 60k zone. And there's no sign saying end of school zone.
00:58:28
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:58:28
Speaker 6: That's a great call.
00:58:29
Speaker 5: Yeah.
00:58:29
Speaker 6: And sometimes it's very unclear.
00:58:31
Speaker 27: You're right.
00:58:32
Speaker 6: The signage can be an issue. There's a zone in my area where there's a school zone sign to slow down. Halfway through, there's a regular speed limit sign. So you go from down to 40. Halfway through, there's a 60. And then you get to the end of the school zone and you think, oh, did I just increase? Because I'm not past the end of the school zone.
00:58:50
Speaker 5: None of it's clear.
00:58:51
Speaker 6: It's not clear at all.
00:58:52
Speaker 5: It hasn't been well thought through at all.
00:58:53
Speaker 13: Yeah.
00:58:55
Speaker 5: Going to putting in speed cameras before fixing up the original design faults is, I think, pretty beyond the pale. Let's head to Canberra. Nelson Scott is our 5AA Canberra correspondent wrapping another big week in the nation's capital. uh Nelson good morning we don't usually get too many we'll focus too much on controversies within the Greens but they've had a big week they've got a new leader and a a new crisis with West Australian Senator Jordan Steele John now the subject of an inquiry how much trouble is he in Nelson Yeah.
00:59:23
Speaker 18: Jordan, morning, guys. Very controversial developments regarding Jordan Steele-John. He's taken leave from the Greens' party room. There's been a letter that was sent to David Shoebridge, who is the new leader, as you say. Basically, seven current Greens members, including current staffers and some branch members, sent this letter detailing allegations of inappropriate behavior. behaviour towards women spanning close to a decade, going as far back as 2017. These included details saying that women were being warned not to be alone with Jordan Steele, John. So David Shoebridge has responded. He says that the WA Greens are going to fund an independent third-party investigation to these claims. So they say they're looking into it. The interesting thing here, too, is it appears as though that these allegations have been circling around Greens circles for some time. Sometimes Greens circles can be quite secretive. There was a 2018 document by the New South Wales Young Greens, which is David Shoebridge's state, which raised some of these concerns about the alleged behaviour of Jordan Steele-John. Worth noting, of course, that Jordan Steele-John rejects the characterisation, vehemently denies any allegations of being inappropriate towards women. He's working with this WA Greens independent investigation group and we might see the result of that. So there has been some criticism this morning that perhaps that investigation should be done outside of the party apparatus to ensure that it is independent, but we'll see where this goes from here.
01:00:59
Speaker 6: Did you say they went back to 2018?
01:01:00
Speaker 18: Yeah, so the first allegations in the letter that David Shoebridge received, it goes back to 2017, but there's a separate note from the New South Wales Young Greens which was sent in 2018, raising some concerns about the behaviour of Jordan Stilton.
01:01:18
Speaker 6: And to our knowledge, was anything done about those claims all those years ago? Was it looked into or.
01:01:24
Speaker 18: We don't really know what's happened. This has been some of the question that David Shoebridge has received yesterday. What has the Greens known about this for some time? What has been done to our knowledge? So far, there hasn't been any formal investigation taken or informal investigation taken up until this point. And the letter was received yesterday. But it appears, though, there might be more to this story. So we might see more to come. However, worth noting, once again, Jordan Silverjohn projects all these allegations and await the findings of that review.
01:01:56
Speaker 5: Nelson, the Greens were also involved in an unusual sort of coalition with the Coalition and One Nation to defeat Mark Butler's proposed changes to the private health rebate that kicks in when people reach the age of 65. What's the future of that bill now? He said he's going to reintroduce it in the lower house. Is the government going to be forced to compromise on this and potentially build in a carve-out for pensioners like the Greens are asking for?
01:02:23
Speaker 18: That appears to be the most likely scenario, yes. As you say, this bill was defeated in the Senate. It's unlikely coalition between the Greens, One Nation, pretty much the whole Senate except for Labor blocked this bill to scrap private health insurance rebates for Australians over 65. Labor wants to do this because they said that they can fund additional aged care beds. They need that $ 3 billion in savings. The opposition says, you've got to find savings elsewhere. We're not going to support it. The Greens are saying, as you say, if there's an exemption for pensioners, they might come around to it. It appears as though that's the most likely option for the government to get this through. So I suspect that they've introduced it. They'll have to do some negotiations if they want to get over the line. The Greens are the most likely party, and it appears as though at the moment that's the Greens' sticking point. So I suspect that perhaps later in the year that might be the compromise the government makes to.
01:03:18
Speaker 5: Get this through.
01:03:20
Speaker 13: Okay.
01:03:20
Speaker 12: Okay.
01:03:21
Speaker 6: Do we have any modelling on how many people that would impact?
01:03:26
Speaker 18: Yeah, so quite a few. And the opposition is basically saying, you know, people have been saving. They've got their private health insurance with these settings. It's cruel to scrap it. I'm not quite sure of the exact number that it's going to be impacted by directly. But, yeah, Labor says $ 3 billion in savings. They say $ 5, 000 or so aged care beds could be funded through it. So we'll see what happens. Certainly an unpopular move in the community from what we're hearing.
01:03:55
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's for sure.
01:03:56
Speaker 5: All right. Nelson, thank you. Nelson Scott, our 5AA Canberra correspondent. We've just been sent through a statement from the police minister who's not available to talk to us this morning with regard to the speed cameras at 40k zones. He says speed is one of the biggest contributors to fatal crashes on our roads. And these 40K zones are designed to protect children and their families during busy drop-off and pick-up times when there are lots of children around trying to cross main roads. These are not new cameras. They're existing cameras on these stretches of road and flashing signs will be in place to alert drivers. There have been several terrible crashes outside schools over the past few years and the state government is taking action to improve safety. So, I mean, that seems unequivocal. There will be flashing lights in place to alert drivers. Well, if that's the case, that's That's reasonable.
01:04:43
Speaker 6: That's only at the sites with cameras, though, not at the other sites.
01:04:46
Speaker 5: That don't have cameras. No, that's right. It should be a matter of course.
01:04:49
Speaker 8: It should be.
01:04:50
Speaker 6: There should be flashing lights at every school zone because if the government's priority here is kids' safety, then let's not leave it up for question about what the speed limit should be. Let's make it really obvious for every road user about what the speed limit is.
01:05:03
Speaker 5: We're not designing a system to catch the confused people who inadvertently do the wrong thing. We're trying to design a system where it's clear to everyone who wants to engage with the law, that you go slow down in front of a school. In the absence of a flashing sign, it starts looking like it's been designed... To catch people out. To catch people out as opposed to, you know, catch people that are.
01:05:22
Speaker 6: So that's a good start.
01:05:23
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:05:23
Speaker 6: Flashing lights where there are speed cameras.
01:05:25
Speaker 13: Good.
01:05:26
Speaker 7: Good.
01:05:26
Speaker 5: Make it the standard.
01:05:27
Speaker 6: Now do it for the rest of them.
01:05:28
Speaker 5: Correct.
01:05:28
Speaker 7: All right.
01:05:29
Speaker 5: It's 12 to 8. Let's check traffic.
01:05:32
Speaker 2: Knockdown Bill 2 with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes.
01:05:39
Speaker 6: They do it all for you.
01:05:40
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:05:45
Speaker 5: Eight minutes to eight, talking about the front page of the Times this morning. There's school zones that will now be, will have cameras stationed nearby. The police minister contacted the program and said their existing camera is not being built for the purpose of catching people, but I think when you get caught by one, you really don't care about its origin story. 24 of the 40 new zones that are coming on board will have those cameras operating. Just four of the 119 that exist right now do. So if you've been confused, you've been given the benefit of the doubt. But that will change with the proliferation of speed cameras. We're going to chat with Darren Davis, the president of the Get Home South Foundation, in a moment. But I think it might inform some of that chat to read some of these text days because lots of people have a view on this.
01:06:25
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah.
01:06:26
Speaker 6: This person says, school zones, the electronic variable speed limit signs should be managed by the school, activating only 20 minutes before and after school start and finish times. Default speed limit then applies, making the limit clear. And that's all I think people are wanting. Just make it clear so we don't get it wrong. There's no one on here saying they disagree with school zone speed limits.
01:06:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great point. There's not a single person saying they shouldn't be in place. No, no.
01:06:51
Speaker 6: Some people are annoyed that they've got to reduce their speed so far. To them, I say, oh, well, tough luck. There's kids around. If reducing your speed is going to keep the kids safe– Too bad.
01:07:01
Speaker 5: That's right. Mark says, what was wrong with the old 25K school crossings with flashing nights with children present, which still exist in certain places? I can tell you more people notice and slow down rather than a 40K sign. Mark is suggesting this is the wrong strategy. Not the words he used, but I just tied it up a little bit for you there, Mark.
01:07:21
Speaker 6: And Guy wants to know if he can invest in the cameras at school zones given the percentage of income. That they're going to generate for the government. And that's just based on my very poor maths, I will point out. This is just Stacey's back of the napkin maths based on what two speed cameras generated in three months.
01:07:42
Speaker 5: What a dystopian future it'd be if we could start buying shares in speed cameras. And maybe the Adelaide City Council's. I'd buy shares in the Adelaide City Council's AI fining car.
01:07:50
Speaker 8: That stupid car.
01:07:51
Speaker 6: Which, by the way, I might have some more information on.
01:07:54
Speaker 7: Oh.
01:07:54
Speaker 14: Mm.
01:07:55
Speaker 5: I always find it intriguing compared to how behind what happens, and you might hate all this and that's fine, but the rest of the country, to your point the other day that's really stayed with me, Stacey, about the infrastructure that's going on in Sydney, $ 3 billion for the tunnel that's going under the Sydney Harbour, $ 15 billion for South Road here. Theirs is a toll, ours is not, which is funny because it just means everyone pays for it in Sydney, just the people who use it pay for it. But beyond that, you can actually be a private investor in infrastructure projects in other parts of the country. You can buy shares in a north-south motorway elsewhere and get a component of the revenue. So you get private capital coming in plus tolls and the other things, and it takes the burden off the taxpayer. And again, no one thinks it's a good idea here. Let's go to the president of the Get Home Safe Foundation, Darren Davis. Morning, Darren. Morning, Will. No one disagrees with the merit of this sort of technology. And I think that's a positive first step. Are we doing enough to make schools safe and the areas around schools? Is there any other low-hanging fruit we're missing, do you think?
01:09:00
Speaker 10: Yeah, look, when this first started rolling out, I actually spoke to a couple of government ministers. My assurances were that there weren't going to be any speed cameras unless there were flashing signs indicating that zone and when it's a 40 degree. I don't know if that's going to be the case moving forward. But for me, I said right from the start, we want these zones, we want the kids to be safer, but we want people to actually know that they need to slow down. So having flashing lights, having signs more visible, that's the way forward. Too many people are missing these signs. And people can say, well, drivers shouldn't be missing signs. We've never had to be so aware of kids on... e-bikes, e-scooters, other signs around. So the more obvious we can make these zones, the safer they'll be.
01:09:52
Speaker 6: Sorry, I got distracted for a minute there, Darren, by a text message. Someone said, I think you've already answered the meat tray question. The tree should be decorated with thousands of little speed limit lights that light up and constantly keep changing. And to your point there, Darren, and the text message from Gavin, it is confusing at times when the speed limit keeps changing. This person on the text line said they just went through a school zone on the 80k Lonsdale Highway and that school zone drops down to 60. So they're not all 40. Now, You know, it's an easy excuse to say, oh, I didn't know. It can be confusing. But one way to ensure people do know and those people who aren't abiding by the rules is to make it clear. Would you be encouraging the government to install the flashing lights at all school zones or just the ones.
01:10:37
Speaker 8: With the cameras?
01:10:38
Speaker 10: I already have done, Stacey. I've spoken directly to a couple of different ministers about this and my view was very clear from the start. I really supported what the government wants to do. This government is about road safety, but unfortunately, people are only going to be safer in a school zone if they know when to slow down. So, yeah, we need some flashing lights. We need to make it obvious or, for me, create safe school corridors so all of the roads around that school are permanently 20km less than they normally are. So on a 60k road, the area is always 40. In the side streets where it's 50, the local council roads, well, those streets are always 30. And then there's no confusion. It's always that. No one from interstate needs to know about whether it's a school day or not. No one from overseas needs to know. It's always that.
01:11:33
Speaker 6: That's a great point about people from interstate not knowing. People without kids don't know. I don't know when school holidays are.
01:11:39
Speaker 5: Darren, thank you. Darren Davis, the president of the Get Home Safe Foundation, with some pretty reasonable advice and recommendations for the state government.
01:11:46
Speaker 6: Some of the school zones are still in place when it's school holidays. Those $ 25, 000 an hour, you have to abide by that at all times, regardless of school holidays or not. If children are present, you need to slow down to $ 25, 000, even if it's Saturday afternoon.
01:11:59
Speaker 5: As Darren says, it's a lot to think about when you're travelling at $ 60, 000 an hour and you're driving your car and you're thinking, is it school? What time of day is it? At what point am I meant to slow down? Even if you don't know the area, you don't even know there's a school coming. It's just a lot to work out very quickly. Mike in O'Sullivan Beach has called in. Morning, Mike.
01:12:16
Speaker 7: Yeah, why don't they paint the gutters yellow or something so you can easily check that?
01:12:20
Speaker 5: Great idea, Mike. I think that's brilliant. That's a nice low-tech solution to the problem. That doesn't require... And, you know, that gives a degree of permanence. And I actually think this is a rare occasion where the variability of it, the frustration of the variability means that people actually probably prefer... Maybe tell me if I'm wrong, folks. A permanent change. A permanent change is actually, to a lower speed, is preferable to this hodgepodge situation we've got at the moment, which no one understands.
01:12:50
Speaker 6: Andrew on the text line says, no more signs. With so many, they all get lost. We need to be watching the road.
01:12:54
Speaker 5: I agree, Andrew.
01:12:55
Speaker 6: I'm not saying put another sign. I'm just saying make the current ones flash.
01:12:58
Speaker 5: Yeah, make it clear. All right. 5AA News is coming up. Breaking at 8. And Jimmy Barnes next.
01:13:07
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01:13:14
Speaker 20: All for you.
01:13:15
Speaker 8: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee.
01:13:17
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01:13:20
Speaker 5: Eight minutes after eight, meat trade this morning. Thanks to the great people at Drake's, your Aussie family-owned supermarket with the ultimate meat trades for grill masters this spring. Drake's ingredients for everyone. We've got a brand new Christmas tree in Adelaide, well overdue, and we need it to be adorned with some celebrations of South Australia, baubles of your design and choosing what's on top of the tree. It's already getting pretty full, but there's some time for more of your Meat Tray Friday entries on 8223 0000. If you want some ideas of how to cook that meat, should you win it, you'd want to tune in a little bit later today to Leith Forest with Chris Jarmer for Foodie Friday as well at 2.30. Thanks to Smeg and Powers. If you're building or renovating, your first choice should be visiting the Smeg showroom at Debney Distributors. Taste the difference with Smeg. and powers the christmas tree earlier in the week good to think about stories of the week as we get closer to feedback friday uh four simple questions no wrong answers three fabulous prizes if you'd like to be part of that you can call in as well on 8223 0000 and in a moment jimmy barnes will join us on five double a breakfast looking forward to chatting with the legend himself.
01:14:24
Speaker 6: Well, there'd be lots of small businesses around South Australia at the moment who are trying to make ends meet and then are wondering how they're going to do that after the federal government changes come into play in returns to capital gains tax and the discretionary trust changes. The opposition leader in South Australia wants to do something about it. Ashton Hearn has written to the Prime Minister and she joins you this morning. Good morning to you, Ashton Hearn.
01:14:49
Speaker 7: Good morning.
01:14:50
Speaker 6: What are you asking of the Prime Minister?
01:14:52
Speaker 27: Well, we've written to the Prime Minister really just urging him to pull every lever possible to give businesses some breathing space and the very clear things that we've got local businesses and businesses across the nation up in arms about are the changes to the capital gains tax and of course the changes to discretionary trust. We're hearing from businesses that every single day is a battle for survival and we had one local business in Unley saying that they just feel like they're getting screwed all of the time and Yesterday, I presented the Premier with an opportunity for us to stand together and to campaign in, you know, really to get Albo to change his tune on these measures. But unfortunately, he didn't take me up on that, which I thought was a bit surprising because he was beating his chest a little bit, saying he's always willing to go hard with the Commonwealth, on the Commonwealth. But unfortunately, he didn't on this occasion.
01:15:45
Speaker 7: So.
01:15:46
Speaker 27: I can only assume that he supports these changes, which for many businesses will be the final nail in the coffin when they come into play next year.
01:15:53
Speaker 6: Have you heard back?
01:15:56
Speaker 8: No.
01:15:57
Speaker 27: Look, I asked him directly in question time, and he basically said that I'm always able to write to the Prime Minister if I like. I've done that. He said that he picks up the phone to the Prime Minister, but Who knows what they talk about? Perhaps they should start talking about something useful and he should chew his ear off about these tax changes which are going to be the final coffin for small businesses. The Premier likes to distance himself a little bit from Albo, but I think that on this occasion it just is a proof point that they're really cut from the same cloth and I think they should now be known as Malbo because they have the same approach when it comes to small businesses and proving that they've got no idea about the daily challenges that they're facing.
01:16:40
Speaker 5: The application of stamp duty is within the purview of the state government, Ashton Hearn. The New South Wales government have said they will waive stamp duty for individuals and businesses that have to restructure out of trusts as a result of the federal government's changes. Should we be doing the same here in South Australia?
01:16:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, my.
01:16:56
Speaker 27: Understanding is that South Australia has a pretty unique situation that was changed so that that won't apply here in SA.
01:17:02
Speaker 21: Okay.
01:17:03
Speaker 27: Which I think is a good thing. But look, that's just one of many issues and pressures that small businesses are facing. Of course, you're hearing me bang on a lot about payroll tax, which is a lever within the state government control. This is something that we know would really give businesses that opportunity to grow. And I think this is the broader point, is that we've got federal labour and state labour that I think are really trying to squash aspiration. They've got levers within their control that they can pull to give businesses some breathing space. And at the moment, they're just refusing to do it. Their priorities are clearly elsewhere, and that's the matter for them. But when you do have the responsibility of being in government, you've got to get the bread and butter basics right. And that means that you've got to have a strong economy.
01:17:51
Speaker 5: Guys, just on another issue, we see there's going to be some redundancies at the new merged Adelaide University. Given the focus federally now on cuts to migration and controlling student intake into Australia a bit more stringently, is the $ 450- odd million that South Australian taxpayers have been spent on a merger looking like a bit of a white elephant?
01:18:16
Speaker 27: Well, look, I mean, every single week I feel like we've got people who are associated with this merger coming to us saying what a bit of a flop it's been. You know, I like to think that hopefully it's just a few teething issues and that, you know, it'll all get back on track. But it's certainly concerning what's going on with this merger. And at the end of the day, look, we want to have a thriving education system in South Australia. This really was coined by the Premier as being that opportunity, but we're really yet to see anything come from fruition from it. So, yeah, there's still a lot of waters to go under the bridge on this one.
01:18:49
Speaker 7: I think. Hmm.
01:18:51
Speaker 5: Ashton Hearn, thank you for joining us.
01:18:53
Speaker 1: A pleasure. Thanks, guys.
01:18:58
Speaker 6: To your point, Will, about the stamp duty. The Treasurer's Office has been in touch saying we are the only jurisdiction to abolish stamp duty on transfers of non-real and non-residential transactions.
01:19:09
Speaker 5: Non-real, yeah. No stamp duty applies to transfers. So in the event of restructures.
01:19:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what it sounds like.
01:19:14
Speaker 5: So South Australia and the New South Wales government on that front.
01:19:17
Speaker 6: This includes trust changes.
01:19:19
Speaker 5: So testamentary trust. Small business family trusts as well. I am concerned about the university merger. So we've got Migration is the biggest issue, cracking down on students, and we've just created the super uni.
01:19:33
Speaker 18: Yep.
01:19:34
Speaker 5: Based on an environment, a student environment that is looking fast out of date.
01:19:39
Speaker 7: Yep.
01:19:40
Speaker 6: And didn't Adelaide University drop in the international rankings this year?
01:19:47
Speaker 5: The only counter would be if there's– and I can't imagine such modelling exists because all this was done in a different world where there weren't focuses on cuts to student intakes– If there is some modelling that would suggest one merged entity actually will stand up better in an environment where there's fewer international students, but that would be a happy accident because it's just not the world we've been in. It's just a lot of money, $ 450 million to make it happen.
01:20:15
Speaker 6: Well, and- You know, to the Premier's credit, he's been the one out there saying, I'm going to speak differently on migration and we need people here. Because we've got the university merger, we've got the AUKUS deal, we need workers coming to South Australia. But if the federal government's not on board, they're the ones who control the borders and who they let in.
01:20:35
Speaker 5: Just given all that and given the amount of money that's been spent and how much has been hyped to hear yesterday that there were going to be, I think the turn of phrase, it was almost like advanced retirement packages. They offer retirement packages to people who are 55.
01:20:48
Speaker 6: Oh, can you imagine? Don't imagine too hard.
01:20:51
Speaker 5: No, no, no. No nature of that. 16 minutes after I, we're going to check traffic and in a moment, Jimmy Barnes is going to join us and this is going to be Quite the concert experience. So stay listening. Jimmy Barnes here in South Australia. A tour that's going on nationwide, but it's unique here in SA, and you'll find out why in a moment.
01:21:13
Speaker 2: Knockdown Bill 2 with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
01:21:21
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:21:29
Speaker 5: Well, Sounds by the River returns next year with another spectacular lineup. John Stevens, Birds of Tokyo, Eskimo Joe, Chocolate Starfish, Sarah McLeod, Baby Animals, headlined by our next guest, the great Jimmy Barnes. Jimmy, good morning to you. Good to chat again.
01:21:44
Speaker 1: How are you?
01:21:45
Speaker 5: We're great. I was just trying to think last time we were talking to you, it was either around the release of Defiant or... your cookbook. I can't remember which it was, but I reckon at the time we were talking.
01:21:56
Speaker 24: It was the fine cookbook.
01:21:57
Speaker 5: It was the.
01:21:58
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:21:59
Speaker 5: I reckon we were talking health with you at the time. How is the health these days?
01:22:02
Speaker 1: Pretty good, yeah. I'm fine and fit. You know, I've been... You know, as you know, I went through a bit of a bad spate there where I got all sorts of operations in about over a three-year period. So I feel like I've sort of had like 100,000 kilometres, you know, service. A little new park. I'm ready to rock for another 50 years, you know?
01:22:20
Speaker 5: LAUGHTER Do you have an association? Playing in Manum is just such a great spot. We've spoken to people who've done concerts there before and they love it. Do you have a history with the river at all here in South Australia?
01:22:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I used to sort of, you know, I could get away. I remember a couple of times as a young fellow, you know, with a few mates from school, we went up to Talon Bend and fished and hung around and swam and all that sort of stuff. We really liked it a lot. And then when I was a young guy, you know, when I first joined Colchisle, a few local musos there who were, you know, they were in sort of cabaret bands and stuff around town, took me up and we went on a houseboat up there, which I really loved. So it's always been a place, you know, the Murray itself has always been a place that was really sort of, you know, sort of a bit magical for me, you know?
01:23:11
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:23:12
Speaker 5: Great spot for starting a houseboat trip, man.
01:23:14
Speaker 1: I really love the energy of the place. And, you know, I'm sailing down there.
01:23:17
Speaker 7: It's just great.
01:23:18
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's magic.
01:23:19
Speaker 7: Sounds like that's a right approach.
01:23:19
Speaker 1: And Manum's great.
01:23:21
Speaker 24: Manum's great.
01:23:21
Speaker 1: I love the fact that we're played by the river and all these people are pulling up in house clothes and shit.
01:23:26
Speaker 26: Yeah.
01:23:26
Speaker 5: It'll be sensational.
01:23:28
Speaker 6: That will be awesome. Yeah. Will touched on it. Between your cookbooks and your music, you've got kids' books and a documentary as well and a new album released last year. Yep. How do you find time to do it all?
01:23:43
Speaker 1: You know what? I'll have to be honest with you. I'm hyperactive. That's the secret. I'm hyperactive, and I'm always busy. We're a very busy family, our family, actually. Jane's busy, you know, so I've got to just keep up with her. But I don't like sitting around doing nothing, so I'll get bored quick, and I'll sit at my computer and start writing stories. At the moment, I'm writing two books at the moment. I'm writing another set of short stories, and I'm still working on this novel that I've been working on for about three years, this horror story. So I've got that. I'm writing songs for a new album at the moment. I've got a new kids' book in the publishers at the moment getting sort of finished up. And Jane and I have already sort of started work on our next cookbook and a line of products we're going to put out for sale in shops.
01:24:33
Speaker 5: You've really got the writing bug, haven't you?
01:24:35
Speaker 1: I really like it. Considering that I've said this before, but right, I've spent most of my life reaching out, screaming outwards. When I sit down at my computer, I just sort of get a chance to sort of look back in a bit more introspective and I can just sort of let my imagination run wild. I'm not sort of like, you know, talking to other people. I sort of write for my own pleasure, really. And it's just something, you know, and I do love, you know, telling a good story. And I've sort of developed, you know, I started off doing that sort of nonfiction stuff, you know, the biographies, autobiography stuff. And from there, I've gone into short stories. And the great thing about short stories is, you know, because I put the attention span of a small soap dish. It's a good thing to write short stories. And it's sort of like writing songs in a way. You hit them hard, hit them fast. And I started with the last book. I started mixing, you know, short stories, which were fiction, with the nonfiction. And the great thing about that is it sort of blurs the lines. So, you know, you could write more. I could access more of the stuff that I've got in my head that I've done over the years without incriminating all my mates. You know, I could just sort of.
01:25:46
Speaker 12: Change a few names.
01:25:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, protect the innocent.
01:25:48
Speaker 1: And then none of my mates are going to sue me or sue me.
01:25:52
Speaker 5: We'll look forward to chatting about those books when they come out as well. Can I ask you, is looking after your voice, because going on a tour, we're doing Sounds by the River here, but Red Hot Summer elsewhere around the country as well. So it's a big tour.
01:26:06
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:26:07
Speaker 5: Is it a bit like doing exercises as you get older where it's all about in the recovery phase? How does the voice go these days after a tour like this?
01:26:15
Speaker 1: It certainly helps if you start fit. I'm a lot healthier than I've been for many years. I swim and I do Pilates and I walk miles and do all that sort of stuff. I'm fit before I start. And that gives you that, because really, the mechanics of it is you're getting air out and across your vocal cords. And if you can do that with plenty of power, you're going to make a noise, right? So that's the basic mechanics of it. But you do have to sort of make some stuff. As you get older, particularly I'm 70 now, so I've got to be able to do this night after night. You've got to make sure you get good sleep. You've got to, you know, if there's too much air conditioning, it's not great for you. So I've turned the air conditioners off in hotels most of the time, open the windows. But otherwise, it's just, you know, I'm lucky. I've got a voice like a Mack truck. It's a bit hard to start, but once you get it going, you.
01:27:07
Speaker 6: Can't stop it.
01:27:08
Speaker 5: It is one of the great voices.
01:27:10
Speaker 6: So how do you come up with a set list? When you know you're going to perform at Sounds by the River, how do you decide what songs over that long career you're going to play?
01:27:18
Speaker 1: Well, as a music band, when I go see bands, I like them to play the stuff that I know them for, you know? If I go and see a band, I want to hear what they're playing, the songs that I like. So I'll go... My wife's just tiptoeing through the room. There's songs like, whether it's Lay Down Your Guns, Working Class Man, I'd Die To Be With You Tonight, K-San, Flame Trees, things like that, that are songs that people really want to hear me sing. So I've got a bunch of there, but I go, okay, there's a basis of a set. There's a crux of it. And then I'm lucky enough that I've had 22 solo records and probably 12 or 15 cultures of albums to draw from. And I can sort of bring songs in and out of the set to, one, to keep making the set interesting for the audience and for the band and for myself. And just sort of change the pace of the set wherever I like. So, you know, we'll go out and we'll learn, you know, we'll learn 30, you know, 40 songs or something for a tour. And then I can, you know, of that we play sort of 22. So I can sort of swap songs in and out at leisure. So, you know, and you really, quite often you get up and you see, you know, how the audience is reacting. They want to rock, you know, so play them some more rock. I'll look a bit laid back. I'm still going to play them some more rock. I'm going to play the really fast rock now yeah so you know you have a sort of you know you have that crux of the set which you have to play and then the rest and when I say have to play the songs I love playing anyway and the songs that people like so that's a really great sort of launch pad for a set.
01:28:55
Speaker 5: Any set yeah you released also in the last a couple of weeks a tribute to your Great contemporary, the late Angry Anderson, who sadly passed away in the last couple of weeks with Rock and Roll King. That must have been quite a thing to record.
01:29:10
Speaker 1: You know what? I recorded it when I was doing the Defiant album last year because I was looking at songs for the record. And at one point, I hadn't written all the songs yet. And I loved that song. And I've played a couple of Rose Tattoo songs in my set over the years because I'm a big fan. And Angry's a dear friend of mine. So I recorded that song, and then as it happened, I ended up writing more songs than I needed, so it didn't go on the album. So I rang Angry, and I said, look, I've recorded Rock and Roller's King, and he was really thrilled about that, and I said, I'm going to come and play it to you. And being the people we are, you know, Rock and Rollers, we're always busy, and he's away on tour, or I'm away on tour, or whatever, and we never got to cross paths, and I never got to play it for him. So So when he passed away, which I've got to say, you know, it was very, very sad. But, you know, the great thing about it is he was, you know, he was doing what he loved. He was on tour, you know, playing with his band and playing great shows, apparently. But when he passed away, I just thought I'd like to sort of, you know, put the song out as a tip of the hat to my dear friend. And Angry was, you know, people looked at Angry and were terrified. You know, he was 5'0. And frightening, you know, covered in tats. And it looked like he would kill you with a glance. But Ang Lee was actually a big softie. He was a really great guy, you know, a really, really good guy. And we had lots of long and deep and meaningful chats together. I'd known him for about 45 years. So, you know, it was a big loss. So I just wanted to put something out to him.
01:30:40
Speaker 5: No, beautiful. Hey, Jimmy, can't wait for Sounds by the River, mate. Are you building it out to people on the houseboats pulling up at Manum? It's going to be some sort of sight and experience.
01:30:49
Speaker 1: I'm like the foghorn.
01:30:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it. Call the ships to shore. All the best, Jimmy. Good to chat, mate.
01:30:57
Speaker 7: Good on you.
01:30:57
Speaker 17: All the best, guys.
01:30:58
Speaker 5: Jimmy Bard, Sounds by the River at the Manum Golf Club on Saturday the 9th of January. You can get tickets at ticketmaster.com.au.
01:31:09
Speaker 2: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
01:31:17
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:31:23
Speaker 5: 20 to 9, Ziggy's taken issue with the manner in which we address Ashton Hearn during our interviews with her. Ziggy says, guys, I noticed you already announced your guest as Ashton Hearn. Each question you ask, do you have to address her as Ashton Hearn? It'd be like her saying Will Goodings and Stacey Lee each time she answers you guys. It's a trap you fall into, Ziggy, because when you have the Premier on, you can refer to him as the Premier or a Minister. You can call the Minister for shorthand. If you start saying Ashton, it feels a bit matey.
01:31:47
Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean, I think you're the same. As a journo, you don't want to sound too matey with politicians because we're here to do a job and that's not to be friends.
01:31:56
Speaker 5: I think it sounds matey. We can try it out, Ziggy, and see how you feel about it.
01:32:01
Speaker 6: This is going to sound like I've overthought it, but it's what they want as well. Politicians want to sound matey. So they'll come on and go, mate, Will, Stace, Albo, Mally. They want you to know them as Albo and Mally and Pete and Ashton. So they sound more.
01:32:18
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:32:18
Speaker 6: And, Anything a politician wants inherently, a journalist doesn't want to give them. So we do not want to give them that.
01:32:24
Speaker 5: Bell says, good morning, universities in South Australia earn a combined annual revenue of $ 2. 7 billion to $ 2. 8 billion. They earn $ 7. 1 billion in combined assets, and lecturers and professors earn up to $ 200, 000 per annum, depending on their level. I don't think they'll go bust if the number of international students are decreased. They won't go bust, but the question is, will we, as the taxpayer, derive a benefit for a $ 450 million loan? investment like we would have imagined to have prior to the decision to reduce the number of international students, which are the financial pipeline that allows them to accrue all that sort of wealth. That's the question.
01:32:58
Speaker 6: You know what I was thinking about as well? It gives the state government yet another reason to blame the federal government for something.
01:33:06
Speaker 5: Completely.
01:33:06
Speaker 6: Now, ramping can be blamed on them because they've got aged care people languishing in hospitals. Pretty soon the uni merger can be blamed on the federal government because we're not getting bang for buck anymore, guys, because we don't have international students.
01:33:18
Speaker 5: That's a good point.
01:33:18
Speaker 6: See, they did this at the federal level. It's not us.
01:33:20
Speaker 5: See, it's that darn elbow. Feedback. Feedback time.
01:33:29
Speaker 23: Friday today, so have your say, feedback.
01:33:32
Speaker 5: First three callers through will be on board to contest for Feedback Friday. I'll take you through the prizing. Everyone wins a prize.
01:33:38
Speaker 7: Yep.
01:33:39
Speaker 6: Everyone who calls in or who gets on air.
01:33:42
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01:34:07
Speaker 6: Sounds right.
01:34:07
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01:34:08
Speaker 5: Good work. The SA's only Celiac-certified butcher, Burnside Village, Golden Grove Village, and online at grammaziofoods.com.au, and a Lucky Dumpling Market voucher, which is on at the moment. You can taste the flavours of Asia at the Lucky Dumpling Market, our springtime food and entertainment hub, right through until the 1st of November, which is fast approaching. It's only a couple of weeks away now. Luckydumplingmarket.com is the place to go to. Let's start Feedback Friday in West Croydon. Bob, good morning.
01:34:35
Speaker 7: Good morning, Will.
01:34:36
Speaker 1: Good morning, Stacey.
01:34:37
Speaker 5: Hello. We had a bit of a chuckle at yesterday's observation that Minister Anne Arleigh was being nicknamed Pan Anne due to her jet-setting ways, Bob. You ever had a nickname?
01:34:50
Speaker 28: I've had lots of nicknames. Uber Bob, Bomber Bob, after the Essendon Bombers, and some nicknames I probably shouldn't share with you on air.
01:35:00
Speaker 5: Well, that's good. Uber Bob. You an Uber driver or just an Uber enthusiast?
01:35:04
Speaker 28: Uber enthusiast for my friends. Oh, you drive everyone around. Anywhere from 3 a.m. in the morning, take him to the airport to midnight.
01:35:13
Speaker 5: Oh, Bob, you're the glue that holds the society together. That's good.
01:35:16
Speaker 6: We all need a Bob.
01:35:17
Speaker 5: We all need a Bob. Who in your life has cooking which you'd rate at two Michelin star worthy? Bob, anyone you know?
01:35:23
Speaker 28: Oh, my wife and my father and mother-in-law.
01:35:29
Speaker 5: Oh, really? Yes. What's your favorite dish that any of the three cook?
01:35:35
Speaker 28: Probably the dumplings or the ribs that they make and also the fried rice.
01:35:41
Speaker 26: Yum.
01:35:43
Speaker 5: Bob, it was a pretty stuttering start for the new press sec in the White House this week. Have you ever taken a job that you weren't quite ready for?
01:35:53
Speaker 8: Life?
01:35:53
Speaker 28: No, not really. No, I don't think so, no.
01:35:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, you've always been well prepared. Do you know, Bob, who the Australian men's cricket team is currently playing in a three-test series?
01:36:04
Speaker 28: South Africa, but really I'm not following it very closely.
01:36:09
Speaker 5: Well, it was interesting. Corey Norris said to us earlier, trade period ends, feels like cricket season starts, but we're already one test into the series. So it sort of does feel a little bit odd. Thank you, Bob.
01:36:18
Speaker 6: The only thing I know about the cricket so far is they had the Australian man on the commentary.
01:36:22
Speaker 5: Oh, poor old Howie, the Australian man. Talking about how nicknames are born. He will forever be known as the Australian man now. We have one spot available for feedback Friday, actually, 8223 0000, late entry time. Someone just dropped off. So if you want to call in right now, give us a buzz, and you'll win one of the three prizes. Let's go to South Clinton. Steve, good morning.
01:36:42
Speaker 11: Morning, Will and Stace.
01:36:43
Speaker 5: Cruise season's begun. Have you got any interest in cruising, Steve?
01:36:48
Speaker 11: Absolutely zero, and COVID probably made it minus 100%. Yeah, that was the.
01:36:54
Speaker 5: All the industry analysis was that that's what was going to happen post-COVID, but it's back with a bang.
01:37:01
Speaker 11: I have no interest in going on those petri dishes.
01:37:03
Speaker 5: Yeah.
01:37:04
Speaker 7: All right.
01:37:04
Speaker 5: No, fair enough. Do you think the Crows are in trouble next year with players going out and essentially none coming in?
01:37:12
Speaker 11: Mate, I've given up on them. They're just hopeless. They should have made massive changes a long time ago. I don't think the man in charge is up for the job.
01:37:25
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just felt like as soon as that question ended, you went to a dark place, Steve. I could hear it in your voice. Sorry about that. This will cheer you up. We just spoke with Jimmy Barnes about playing in Manum by the river. Do you think music sounds better by the river or by the beach?
01:37:41
Speaker 11: Oh, that's a good one. Probably going to have to say beach because I reckon there'd be less mozzies.
01:37:48
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, fair point. You get sandbags and flies, but yeah, you're right. Just lastly, Steve, are you giving out money to friends and family if you'd won the $ 100 million last night in the Powerball?
01:38:00
Speaker 11: Oh, $ 100 million, yeah.
01:38:01
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:38:02
Speaker 11: I mean, you probably only need to keep 20 of that for yourself, wouldn't you? And you could just do what you want with the rest of it.
01:38:07
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's fair. It'd be interesting to know, yeah, how much, to Steve's point, money would you need before all your immediate wishes are taken care of? That's a good point. It's a lot. It's way less than $ 100 million. $ 100 million. You're getting creative at that point. You're starting to dream up ways to spend money at 100 yeah that's true uh thank you steve john in blackwood's called in.
01:38:26
Speaker 20: Morning john good morning uh if.
01:38:29
Speaker 5: You had to run out of if you if you had run out of petrol uh john where would you hate to have run out in adelaide what's the worst place.
01:38:38
Speaker 20: Um i'll get going up along the hill.
01:38:43
Speaker 5: Up the climb uh that makes sense um Stacey sent us through a story this morning about how often people wash their bedsheets. What was the consensus, Stacey?
01:38:52
Speaker 6: Only once a month, most people.
01:38:53
Speaker 5: Once a month. We're going to put you on the spot, John. How often do you wash yours?
01:38:58
Speaker 1: That's disgusting.
01:39:00
Speaker 20: Weekly.
01:39:00
Speaker 18: Okay.
01:39:01
Speaker 5: Weekly. Good. Stacey seems to be deeply upset by this story. Were you smacked as a kid, John? Interesting poll in the Queensland newspaper this week about attitudes to this not shifting as much as people may have imagined.
01:39:16
Speaker 20: I did, and whether it was law or folklore, I know I got the strap, and you embellished that a little bit to say, hey, Dad smacked me with the dipstick, but he never did.
01:39:27
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:39:27
Speaker 20: I definitely got smacked, but it was being smacked out of caring and normally out of appearance, just being furious because I'd broken something of my sister's.
01:39:37
Speaker 5: Yeah, right. Just lastly, John, we had the conclusion of the AFL trade period this week, so we did our own Stacey and Will's trade radio. One of the more intriguing deals was a trade of the Adelaide Oval for the MCG. The MCG includes the grand final. Would you make that trade?
01:39:57
Speaker 20: Swapping the Adelaide Oval for MCG?
01:39:59
Speaker 24: Yeah.
01:40:01
Speaker 20: Oh, absolutely. 100,000 people, it's difficult to push back on that. Unfortunately, yes, the nostalgia and the history of the Adelaide Oval, yes, unfortunately, we do do that deal again.
01:40:15
Speaker 28: Because, yeah, the MCG is.
01:40:17
Speaker 18: Done with some specials that call up here and there.
01:40:19
Speaker 5: Yeah, good on you, John. I genuinely, if you had asked me before that segment about that trade and what our listeners would think, I would say it would have been about as popular as Ebola virus, but There's a few people out there that text us going, tough, but I'd do it.
01:40:32
Speaker 8: I'd do it.
01:40:32
Speaker 5: Yeah. Who wins the prizes? Bob, Steve and John. Smeg, the Gramazio Foods Sinopoli Pack and the Lucky Dumpling Market Voucher.
01:40:41
Speaker 6: Bob can have the toaster. Steve can have Lucky Dumpling and John can have the Gramazio Food Pack.
01:40:46
Speaker 5: All right. Congratulations to you all. Thanks for being on board for Feedback Friday. Coming up, we count down the top five moments of the week.
01:40:53
Speaker 2: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
01:41:01
Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:41:06
Speaker 5: Great meat tray today, thanks to the wonderful people at Drake's, your Aussie family-owned supermarket with the ultimate meat trays for grill masters this spring. Drake's ingredients for everyone. Who wins in terms of the best bauble that's going to adorn our brand new Christmas tree here in the city?
01:41:22
Speaker 6: I reckon it's got to be Michael in Ridleyton. He's the one who suggested two big bottles of wine.
01:41:27
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
01:41:28
Speaker 6: On the tree. A red and a white.
01:41:29
Speaker 5: It fits.
01:41:30
Speaker 6: Classic South Australia.
01:41:31
Speaker 5: We've been celebrating South Australian food this week, but in the process, it felt like a celebration of South Australian wine, didn't it?
01:41:37
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:41:37
Speaker 5: Because so many were attached to wineries or in wine regions. So, yeah, well done, Michael. You've won the meat tray. Should we count down the top five of the week? Let's do it. All right. Let's get into the top five.
01:41:50
Speaker 8: The top five of the week.
01:41:52
Speaker 5: Number five. What was the sound made in the Hazelwood household when the lead car conked out?
01:42:00
Speaker 22: Honestly, I don't think I'll ever believe that they won that, but they did. And you just couldn't believe it because, like, obviously, we had a bit of an issue a few laps earlier with our brake change. And then, yeah, we went back to fifth because we were leading the race most of the day. I don't know. Everything just evolved, and it was just totally amazing.
01:42:18
Speaker 5: That's Sharon Hazelwood, Todd's mum, after winning Bathurst on Sunday with the extraordinary last lap petrol disaster from the lead car. Let's go to four. We thought we'd extend out the concept of 5AA Breakfast this morning and invite you to be part of our very own AFL. trade deadline radio show.
01:42:37
Speaker 4: I would swap or trade Adelaide Oval for the MCG.
01:42:41
Speaker 25: That way we'd get the grand final every year.
01:42:44
Speaker 11: I'm trading the Fringe. That can go over to Melbourne. And I would love to get the F1 Grand Prix back here in return. I'd trade Peter Malinowskis to the Feds to wipe the state debt.
01:42:56
Speaker 25: I would trade Melly to Canberra for Albo and then on trade Adelaide Aldo to New South Wales for men.
01:43:04
Speaker 22: I would trade the North Adelaide golf course to SeaWorld.
01:43:07
Speaker 4: I would trade Will Goodings for cold sandals. It would be financially be a straight swap.
01:43:19
Speaker 5: Our trade period, I think, was way more entertaining than the AFL's trade period.
01:43:22
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
01:43:23
Speaker 6: I still have nightmares thinking about trading you for Kyle.
01:43:26
Speaker 5: I think you and Kyle. I'm still convinced. Someone needs to make that happen. Number three. Let's go to prospect. Andrew, put something on our tree.
01:43:32
Speaker 12: Well, obviously you need a star or an angel, so perhaps Peter Malinowskis might be the star at the top of the tree.
01:43:39
Speaker 5: An angelic Peter Malinowskis. He'd be a little bit on the nose for the premiere of the day on his brand-new Christmas tree to put himself at the top, wouldn't he?
01:43:47
Speaker 6: I love the juxtaposition of it, Andrew. Peter Malinowskis atop a tree.
01:43:51
Speaker 5: Atop a tree. It's got red flags all over it, I think. Yeah, great suggestion, though, a little bit early. Number two. Trevor in Nova Gardens, hit us with what you want to enter into our Michelin guide.
01:44:03
Speaker 17: I want to nominate the barbecue in on Jetty Road. There has been some changes, unfortunately. They've introduced chicken and they've got a children's menu. You know, that's great for transitioning from boys to men or girls to women. You just feel like hugging Marty.
01:44:29
Speaker 5: And Sue on the way out. We've even had some people this morning contact us saying, we have taken you up on the 5AA Breakfast Companion Michelin Guide and Luxor House. Luxor House.
01:44:39
Speaker 6: One of our listeners said, I listened to your Michelin Guide. I went to Luxor House and it was great on Hutt Street.
01:44:44
Speaker 5: The state government needs to pay us $ 2 million a year for that segment. We're driving business to these wonderful lesser known places. The number one spot of the week. Rita, good morning.
01:44:56
Speaker 19: Good morning, Will and Stacey.
01:44:58
Speaker 22: I'd like to trade my.
01:44:59
Speaker 27: Husband for pretty much anything you decide.
01:45:05
Speaker 5: Look, no, the true story is he's.
01:45:08
Speaker 27: A great guy, good civil man.
01:45:10
Speaker 21: He helped a lady with a flat tire today.
01:45:13
Speaker 22: So, you know, maybe Melbourne, they need some good deeds. But, you know, you guys can decide.
01:45:19
Speaker 6: I love that she hadn't even thought of what she wanted in return for her husband. She just wanted to get rid of him.
01:45:23
Speaker 5: Just wanted to get him out of the system, but then actually reflected on the fact that he's a pretty reasonable guy, it sounds like. Let's check the fuel situation. Better to be a member with RAA Road Service. The cheapest we've been able to spot at the Ugo St Mary's South Road, $ 2.
01:45:37
Speaker 7: 23. 9.
01:45:37
Speaker 5: The cheapest diesel is expensive. The Immobile at Blair Athol, Prospect Road, $ 2. 74. 5. Have a wonderful weekend, folks. We'll catch you Monday morning from six.
01:45:55
Speaker 14: Well, I'd love to.
01:45:59
Speaker 13: Go through it with you, maybe as a copy.
01:46:01
Speaker 2: Is there any, any hell either?