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Speaker 1: And a very good morning to you. Welcome to this Wednesday, twenty ninth day of April, second last day of the month. Can you believe it? Weather wise? Dear, oh dear, it's just remarkable, crazy, crazy, crazy, but we love it. We're going to end the month with temperatures in the high twenties. We're going to find out exactly what's happening with the seven News, whether presenter Casey tra Law. How much longer can it last? Why is it so? And should we prick the bubble? Should we? Well, we do want rain, don't we for people in the bush? We don't that question that at all. But it is great and enjoy it while it lasts. Also on the show today, you've heard throughout the morning on five Double A the huge fire that has burned up the Mustard Seed restaurant two million dollars damage. The cause is yet to be determined. Five Double A's Matthew pan tell Us is on the scene. We'll have a chat with Matthew a little bit later on this morning to see what the latest information is. Is working from home jeopardizing your chances of promotion? Now we know all the pluses from working from home, all the benefits and that's good, but it would appear that that might put your chances of getting promotion at work in jeopardy. We'll speak with Professor Gary Martin about that. He believes that this is the case. So think very carefully if you're deciding to work from home. This is going to make you think. There are nineteen billion, that's b with a B, nineteen billion passwords floating around online. Only six percent of them are unique. The other ninety four percent are being reused more often than a dad jacket at Christmas dinner. Hackers say a basic eight digit password is comparable to hiding your key under the doormat. So what can we do about it? How many passwords have you got? How many times do you reuse that one password? Because I can remember this one, and you use it on your bank and you use it on your Netflix account, and you use it on this, that and the other in the newspaper account, and you name it the same password. Well, you're asking for trouble. What can you do about it? What is the secret? We'll find out about that from picca dot com dot I use tech expert Lee stark Our Traditional passwords a thing of the past. Inflation numbers come out today. It doesn't look like it's going to be good news. Experts are predicting inflation are around four point six to four point eight percent petrol driven inflation. What has driven inflation? We'll speak with doctor Susan Stone when those figures come out to find out exactly what we can expect, and no doubt the RBA will be watching very closely. King Charles has varred or warred the US Congress with a message of unity, shared democratic values and climate urgency. He's reinforced historic ties while urging collective action on global challenges facing both the US and the UK. He received twelve standing ovations, so it must have been pretty good when you compare that with the Queen, who was also very popular in the US, she only received three standing ovations. Twelve standing ovations anyway, how exactly was it received, not only in the US but back home. We'll speak with gb News Royal correspondent Cameron Walker about that. And an amazing fact, did you know that King Charles and Donald Trump are related? Yes? They are. It can be traced and we'll talk about that too. Are the alarm bells ringing for Live Golf News? Today that the tournament in New Orleans in the US has been delayed. It's prompted speculation that it could signal deeper instability for the Sardi Back League. Now we've heard already that the Sardis are thinking of pulling their money out of live golf, and of course if they pull the money out, down goes live Golf. Despite assurances from CEO Scott O'Neill, questions persist over long term funding and scheduling disruptions. What does this mean for Adelaide. We've embraced live golf better than any place on the planet. It's a marquee event for this state. Any downturn can have economic and tourism consequences if they pull the pin on live golf. And what of the five million dollar redevelopment of the North Adelaide Golf Course. It's a hell of a lot of money to spend if it ends up being for amateur golfers and weekend hackers alone. So keep an eye on that. Something else that I want to talk about today and something that concerns me, and I don't know if it concerns you or not. I'd like to know your thoughts. A Sydney woman has sparked heated debate after admitting she uses her ADHD diagnosis to successfully appeal parking fines and late fees. Her name is Zoe Sheem. She's a designer. She argues that a condition impairs her memory, her time management, and executive function. She says it makes her not a criminal, just confused. Now she has a leniency letter from a psychiatrist. She claims people with ADHD unfairly hit with an ADHD tax, and this happens through or avoidable penalties. She's launching a petition to force businesses and authorities to offer grace periods, discounted finds, or exemptions for those diagnosed with ADHD. Now, she mentions one incident. She explained how she drove to a shopping center. She parked in a thirty minute time zone, went inside for a coffee before completely forgetting that she'd arrived by car. I went back later, she said, and obviously I got fined three hundred dollars in fact, but that was waived because she had this leniency letter from her psychiatrist.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: While many with ADHD have praised her approach shared similar stories, critics argue individuals should simply use phone reminders rather than expect special treatment. So should people with ADHD. And we recognize that it is a disease that should be treated with respect, But should these people have a special dispensation? Now around one million Australians, five percent of the population have ADHD. So should everyone with ADHD be given a dispensation a leniency letter? So anytime they get a parking fine, a late fee, the late payment, they wave the dispensation letter and the fine is waived. I'd like to know what you think about it. Eight double two three double double is the number to ring. I know it's a delicate area and it's not selling short what ADHD is all about, and it is a true issue with many many people. But are we going a little bit too far? Also on the show today, the latest round of inflation numbers. As I told you, we're going to hear more about that. The coalition's fuel policy. They plan to increase our stocks of fuel to sixty days. Is it a good first step? Well, the Institute of Public Affairs Research of fellow Saxon Davison thinks it is. But are we going far enough? We'll find out more about that a little bit later on, But let's take a call now to see for Trevor. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: Good morning mate.
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Speaker 2: Now, this lady's got a.
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Speaker 1: Driver, Yes she has.
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Speaker 4: What if she can't remember whether it's a red light or a green light?
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Speaker 1: Oh, dear idea, you've introduced a very interesting point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, forgot she had the car.
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Speaker 5: What if she got in someone else's car drove it away?
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Speaker 1: What if she forgot what the speed limit was?
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Speaker 6: That's right, and you're using the excuse ah, you can't have a driver's license and operate from like that.
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Speaker 1: You make a very good point, Trevor, and thanks for your call. Jane says, if that person gets confused with the little things, why is she driving a potential lethal weapon? And if this introduces a whole new factor. I mean, people with ADHD can be fully functioning and get through life very well with a minor exceptions. But if you're looking for a dispensation because you become forgetful and forget that you took your car with you you do have a license. On the line, somebody says, no dispensation for ADHD, too easy to cheat the system. Do I get dispensation for getting old and having become forgetful. Yeah, it certainly opens a can of worms, doesn't it. Good morning Graham, So sorry or seek and sorry of hearing this garbage. No different to using mental health in work. Thank you for that, Lee. What are your thoughts? Eight double two to three double o double Oh. We're going to look at the weather and I tell you what, when it's weather like this, it's worth looking at seven News Weather present a Casey to Law will join us after the break.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Latest inflation figures come out this morning. Doesn't look on think it's going to be good news. We'll speak with our experts from the University of Adelaid Credit UNI SA Chair Dr Susan Stone when the numbers do come out and what it means for you, and me tell you some person, it's not going to mean all that much to you. They're not going to be too worried. Just here that an Adelaide businessman has spent five point one million dollars on a solely yacht. I've seen pictures of it. We don't know who it is. Five point one million dollars on looks like it in the old currency about a sixty or seventy foot yacht. So they're not going to be worried by the inflation figures when they come out. But I guess for the rest of us, yeah, we might be a little worried. Something we're not worried about is the weather. How good has it been. It's just been blissed a remarkable spell of warm weather and we're almost into May. I don't know why it's happening. Do you know why it's happening. Somebody who will probably have a pretty good idea is Casey Tridor seven years weather presenter who joins us now, Casey, good morning to you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, isn't this bizarre?
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Speaker 8: We are very much well and truly into autumn, and well, certainly you know, during the day and into the evenings, I feel like sort of balmy, somewhat late summer evenings as well, sort of weather you'd expect in March. But no, as you say, the first of May is on Friday, and that's going to be our warmest day this week up to twenty nine.
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Speaker 7: For Adelaide. There are some.
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Speaker 8: Areas of the state though, where we could see May daytime temperature records go as a result, But yes, Look, the reason for this weather, there's a big high pressure system that's sitting in the Tasman. If you look at the way on a synoptic charts that that high pressure spins, it's basically directing all this air from Central Australia right across Southern Australia. If you think it's Central Australia, it's generally pretty warm there. So all these warm airs has been dragged right across the state. We've also got pretty calm conditions as well, so you know, it's been really lovely to be out and about in the last week or so. However, we will see these winds strengthen toward the end of the week, so these northerly winds will pick up. That will generate a little bit more heat as well. Hence the top temperature of twenty nine up on Friday, that is. But then behind that those strengthening northerly winds was a big change coming on the weekend, so we're keeping an eye.
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Speaker 9: On that one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look before we get to the change. Look, I can't think of a run of weather like this in April. I mean, is it totally out of the bomb.
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Speaker 9: No, it's not.
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Speaker 7: Actually if we look at the numbers.
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Speaker 8: Last April, we had five days in a row above thirty degrees and we haven't haven't actually had anything quite like that yet this April.
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Speaker 7: So that was quite extraordinary last year.
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Speaker 8: But you'll remember last year it was incredibly dry, incredibly warm right throughout that first half of the year. You know, that led to those drought conditions, which was pretty hard for us. But certainly we've had a little bit more rain at the start of this year, which is a bit more promising, and the idea of you know, usually around Anzac Day we hope to see some decent rain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's right, rains on Anzac Day. That's sort of the break in the season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Now, so I know you're a girl from the land. I must admit, being a city slicker, we tend to get a little and I remember once upon a time I actually had to do the weather for Channel seven, many many moons ago, and I was sort of gleefully saying, you know, just beautiful, magnificent weather, And I got this deluge from farmers saying it's the beautiful for you in the city, but for us on the land, it's not so good. So it's a double edged sword, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely well, look, Graham, is it absolutely depends on who you talk to. I caught up with an apple some apple growers in the hills the other day, and their system relies purely on tourism. So of course they want good weather for people to come up and pick their own apples, but equally they need a little bit of rain too to keep their orchards healthy as well.
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Speaker 7: So look, it depends who you speak to.
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Speaker 8: But of course, yes, traditionally this time of year, an Zac Day, farmers are wanting to put some seed in the ground. They've got to have that moisture in the soil to get going. And also they need this weather now while it is still somewhat warm. The problem is when the rain comes too late, it's already too cold and the grass and crops and things can't grow. So we really need this rain to start now while we've still got a bit of warmth and sunshine to really, you know, get that food in the ground growing.
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Speaker 1: The only decent rain I can think of that's happened in the last six or eight weeks is the gather around weekend where it bucketed down.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that was quite extraordinary, quite extraordinary indeed, and then of course the following weekend we had perfectly fine and sunny weather, so I'm sure they gather around organizers would have loved a flip of a flip of conditions. But yes, showers this weekend. So it's not looking like massive totals. We're not sort of talking twenty or forty millimeters, but certainly over a sustained peerage. So over the Saturday, the Sunday, and the Monday, maybe into the Tuesday, we're looking at some wet weather.
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Speaker 7: Particularly about southern parts of the state.
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Speaker 8: So this is really going to benefit those around the hills, those in the southeast Kangara Island, your Peninsula, Lower Air Peninsula, and parts of the West Coast as well. So these areas that obviously are going to need this rain. But over that three sort of four day period, we could see anywhere between five up to twenty, maybe even thirty milimeters. That's going to be really really handy for this time of year.
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Speaker 1: Just getting back to those on the land and we feel for them. There has been some rain, some good rain. I've spoken to some way say effectively we're still in drought. Is that the case.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I've sort of I'm regularly in contact with farmers as well. When I go, you know, I try and put a little bit of a positive spin if I can. I said, oh, the recent rain's been good, and they go, well, yeah, but it's not enough.
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Speaker 7: So we'll look.
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Speaker 8: The last three years of drought have been incredibly tough on our farmers, incredibly tough on the landscape, and it's done some you know, some long term damage we could say, to the health of our soils and our paddocks and farms.
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Speaker 7: So yes, it will take quite some time.
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Speaker 8: And sadly, although this year doesn't look anywhere near as bad as recent years, it is still looking below average.
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Speaker 7: So we really need a couple of years really.
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Speaker 8: Of above average rainfall for these parts of South Australia to really get back on their feet and get back to sort of normal levels so they can start, you know, really reaping really profitable crops again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and diesel prices to drop.
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Speaker 8: So absolutely, and the fertilizer that's going to throw a real curve ball to you know, farmers obviously really need fertilizer to get those crops going. And with a little bit of a lack of rainfall and potentially no access or very little access to fertilizer, or they're going to be sort of spreading it thin. We certainly won't see the usual bumple crops across the state.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we hope for the best in the future. Just before you go, let's go back to the showdown Friday night. Obviously no sign of rain then no.
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Speaker 8: No, So the warmth is going to hold off and it will feel extraordinarily warm.
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Speaker 7: It'll be the first day of May.
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Speaker 8: But you're really not going to eat the beanies or the scarves or the big jackets. You may even only want the T shirt on Friday night, Grome, it's going to be extraordinary. Seven forty is the start of the game, well after the sun sets, so incredibly warm. We still be about twenty five degrees by the time of the first bounce, and we'll see the mercury sort of hover around the mid to low twenties throughout the game. And one thing that's really interesting to note, the overnight low from Friday into Saturday is nineteen degree, so that's going to be the low temperature for that time. The top temperature on Sunday is only going to be seventeen. So the overnight low on Friday and into Saturday is actually going to be higher.
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Speaker 7: Than the daytime temperature on Sunday.
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Speaker 10: So it's going to be changed the way.
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Speaker 7: Not only rape, it will be yep.
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Speaker 8: So we're going to go from t shirt weather on Friday night to rugging up on Sunday and into early next week.
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Speaker 1: Casey, great to chatter. We'll see you tonight on seven years.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Graham Casey for.
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Speaker 1: Aw on the seven News tonight presenting the weather. And that's the case. So I'm sort of out of touch because apparently, as Casey said, last April was pretty warm. In fact, we had days of thirty degrees. Janet says high Gg It's often this warm in April and May. Thirty five years ago, I went to the Adelaid Cup on the seventeenth of May and it was hot. It's often warm at this time of year. Thank you for that. Yeah, how quickly we forget. I drove to do the shopping and forgot I drove and started walking home. Just a part of my busy mind all the time. Unless you have to think, it's difficult to understand. David Parafield gardens. Thank you for that, David ADHD. If that impaired, should they be driving? Thank you very much for that. Yeah, and that's a fair question. And that gets back to the ADHD issue. Should you have a dispensation for paying parking fines and other fees late fees because you have ADHD? Like to know your thoughts. Eight double two three double O double O is the number ring. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Then an awful story from the Adelaide Hills from Harndorff, the famous mustard seed restaurant burnt down Overnight. We'll cross to five double a's Matthew pan tell Us for the latest.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: We'll get the latest on the mustard seed fire shortly from Matthew pan Tellus, but personally as your no doubt of where have you hitd On five double A News. King Charles Overnight delivered a speech to Congress, who's part of his visit to the US to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American independence. Joining them now is gb Newsroyal correspondent Cameron Walker. Cameron, thanks for joining us. Quite an historic moment for a monarch to address the Congress.
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Speaker 11: Yes, it absolutely was. Only it was the first British king to do so. The first time ever vid monarch did so. It was nineteen ninety one, which was Queen Elizabeth the Second. And in fact this speech seemed to go down far better with the King than it did with Queen Elizabeth the Second because the Queen Elizabeth only got three standing ovations, whereas King Charles got thirteen of them, which perhaps just shows how well it went down with US lawmakers here in the States. And it was quite an uplifting speech. It really I think struck the right balance in terms of his soft power to try and strengthen and reconnect with Americans after what has been quite a turbulent month with the relationship between President Trump here in the States and Prime Minister Sekir Starmer back in London, who have had some disagreements, to put it mildly about these President Trump's stance.
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Speaker 1: On the Iraq War.
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Speaker 11: So this is really was King Charles's chance to try and repair the relationship between the UK and the US.
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Speaker 1: Would there have been much input to the speech from the government back home.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, All speeches with the British monarchs, written in consultation with the British government, and there certainly were some what some have described as political undertones. I don't think that is an accusation that King Charles has been political, but I think it certainly shows that the British government had quite a heavy hand in writing this speech. For example, there was a line in the King's speech where he talks about a commitments to spend more money on defense when the United Kingdom the biggest defense uplifts since the Cold War. That's the line which I've heard government ministers in the UK use quite frequently over the last few weeks. So those kind of little nuggets were slipped into that speech which the King was reading. But of course it is the Prime Minister who as sends the King on the States, visits on behalf of the United Kingdom. So it really is essentially I suppose a cards that there were British government plays by sending the King around the world to strengthen ties between nations.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like he delivered some very strong messages, but he catched them such a term that it was taken by the Congress in the positive way.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I think he just kind of hit all the right nails on the head, as it were. So for example, he spoke about nine to eleven and VI atrocity that took place on September eleventh attacks where more than three thousand Americans lost their lives and got a huge rousing applause where he reminded the Americans that the British responded to America invoking Article five of the Noto Treaty an attack on one as an attack on all, and coming to America's age. That reminder is what got the applause. He also spoke about holding power to accounts and checks and balances with executive power. That also went down well with Congress, whether or not he was referring to President Trump. There were the juries out.
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Speaker 1: On that one, and UCUS got quite a mention too.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it absolutely did. So.
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Speaker 11: The Defense True Fee between Australia and the United Kingdom and the United States which was signed not too long ago, that was mentioned the King, of course, as you well know, King of Australia too, so is a big defense pact which also got a standing evation from US lawmakers here because the King was making the point actually that when his mother was here in nineteen ninety one, we arguably lived in a far more peaceful world, and the King made the point that here in twenty twenty six the world is far more turbulence, far more unpredictable, and arguably far more dangerous too.
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Speaker 1: We can see that it was well received by Congress. How was it received back in the UK.
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Speaker 11: On the whole, I think it's been pretty positive coverage here in the UK. I think many people are pointing out the facts that you know, this was arguably one of the most important speeches of the King's reign because all eyes were on him and everyone was looking to him try and repair that risk that has broken out between Presidents Trump and Sekir Starmer and then by default the UK and the US as a whole, and it was the King's role to bring us back together and reconcile and reset that relationship. Because, of course, the whole point of being here is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Confederation of the United States of America, a country that cut ties with George the third is fifth great grand grandfather, and it's an opportunity, I think for the British public to see what the King can do on the world stage.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 11: A lot of people have also been saying that there were some, as I mentioned earlier, some political undertones to the King's speech, but that's not necessarily a criticism of the King or even the criticism of the labor government. It's just a way of using the King to level up the United Kingdom on the world stage. So on the whole, it's been a pretty positive coverage, but will be interesting to night to see what tonight is in Washington time. Interesting to see what the President says in his speech during the steak dinner, because this will be the first time we have heard from the President directly since the King addressed to Congress, So let's see if he reacts to the speech in any way.
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Speaker 1: What's Donald Trump in Congress for the address.
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Speaker 11: No, he wasn't, so it's not protocol for him to be in the House of Representatives during that address. That role was jd Vance, the Vice President, who is pretty high up in the Senate. The President did actually remark during his speech in the almost south lawn of a White House this morning that he would love to have been there to listen to the King's speech, but pro school doesn't allow it. But he said he would be listening on the television.
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Speaker 1: It would seem from afar from Australia anyway, that Donald Trump is quite enamored by the Royal family and King Charles in particular. He certainly is.
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Speaker 11: I think the President Trump when he invites foreign heads of station and foreign leaders and world leaders to the White House at the West Wing, he always seems very in control. He always seems quite matcho. He always seems like the top dog, likes the most important person in the room. I noticed the difference when King Charles has stood next to him. There is a mutual respects there, there is a kind of majesty about it because and he mentioned this actually this morning, his mother, who was a lady called Mary MacLeod, was born in Scotland on the Irish on this Scottish Heberty in Ireland sorry of Stornaway, and absolutely adored Queen Elizabeth. And I think that love of the monarchy and the Royal family that King Charles has President Trump even has grown up with. So he has this huge respects for the Royal family in particularly King Charles as head of state. And a fun fact for you, the Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom uncovered this morning that King Charles is actually President Trump's fifteenth cousin, dating back from a relative of James the Seconds through a President Trump's mother's line.
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Speaker 10: So yeah, I think of that.
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Speaker 11: And President Trump actually tweeted put on his chief social platform about it and said that's nice. And I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace, is what he said.
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Speaker 1: Cameron, thanks so much for your time today. GB News Royal correspondent Cameron Walker on King Charles delivering a speech to Congress at which, as Cameron mentioned, ORCUS was discussed and Australia mentioned, we.
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Speaker 12: Are building F thirty five's together and we have agreed the most ambitious submarine program in history, ORCUS, and we are doing it in partnership with Australia, a country which I'm also immensely proud to serve as sovereign.
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Speaker 1: King Charles, addressing Congress thirteen standing ovations as opposed to his mother's three, very well received, and he delivered some very very strong messages in only the way a royal could. He made a point that didn't upset anybody in Congress, would appear not to have upset Donald Trump, but The message came through loud and clear well, a message from the Adelaide Hills abnite and a tragic one that the Mustard Seed restaurant fire causing major damage at the scene early this morning. Matthew Pantellus he joins us. Now, Matthew, good morning, morning Grain a full line of day. Now, how extensive is the damage?
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Speaker 13: Look, it's destroyed inside, completely black looking at the front. This building was an old home originally and built around nineteen hundred give or take. But the tin roof is buckled in. You can see at the top of the roof, just under the roofline, the stone work has parted so you can see daylight through. It looks as if it will need demolition. I mean, obviously an engineer will make that decision, but it's hard to imagine this building surviving this fire. It was ferocious and the videos that are on our website now and social media pay tribute to that. It was just a fierce, fierce fire. Seventy five firefighters a dozen or more appliances here MFFCFS rushing to harmed Orf at eight. There is a motel just behind here, and I understand from someone who was in town for a Tuesday night wedding. In fact in the town was staying there and they had to leave the wedding to move their items out of their rooms. The nearest rooms to the back of this restaurant the Mustard Seed, so the rooms had to be evacuated at the height of the blaze and in case it spread. Fortunately it didn't. It was a still night and that helped firefighters get on top of it very quickly. But the flames witnesses describe flames bursting through the windows and quite high through the roof into the night sky as well, so a devastating fire and more to come on this. Police have been here this morning. They have been pouring through the building as in fire cause investigators both MFS and Staphole have been looking through the restaurant. We understand from its hours of operation was to have been open last night as per normal, but it wasn't. It was closed and as a result for lead no injuries to anyone, but.
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Speaker 1: Any earlier any suggestion that was deliberately lit.
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Speaker 13: Not at this stage, but police treating it as suspicious and there they'll make that determination once the Fire Corps investigators go through. A bit earlier Graham. We spoke to Graham Kosler, who has a long history with the house. In fact, his grandfather's brother lived in it. Graham and his family, his father and grandfather operated a blacksmith shop just nearby here, in fact, a couple of doors down from the house that turned into an engineering premises business when he was running it and making a farm machinery for farmers repairs, that sort of thing. But you know, he's devastated looking at his grandfather's brother's house going back to early last century, which has now been absolutely destroyed and likely to be demolished. But here's what he had to say a bit earlier.
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Speaker 14: I consumer from home. We have just headed the back of the car park here, so yeah, I can see it all going up pretty quickly. Oh, I was pretty horrendous. Yeah, it's certainly got going. I mean obviously with cooking stuff in there, it's probably going to be. The eccelerant was pretty amazing. Yeah, well, I reckon that it's fake. It was probably well, the bulk of it probably for a quarter and now twenty minutes yeah again, and then it's sort of come down quite a bit. So yeah, the boys did a great job.
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Speaker 1: Matthew handoff as a pretty close knit community. It will have an impact.
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Speaker 13: Right across absolutely, And I've been speaking to locals here this morning who do feel that. And you know some have beaten here in the past described, you know, the people running it as nice, pleasant, the food good, so you know, they're obviously shocked at what has happened. But this restaurant on its website talks about the fact that they have a mission to help the homeless as well and do some charity work on the side. So and you know, using some of the food obviously from in here. So absolutely devastating. I think the effects will be felt across, as you say, Graham, the community, both business locals and the people who benefited from their good deeds.
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Speaker 1: And no word from the owners as yet, not as yet, not as yet, No thank you for that. Matthew Pantellus on the scene of the mustard seed fire. If you were there, you witnessed it, or you frequented the mustard seed, give us a call, love to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twelve to ten on an absolutely delightful Wednesday, twenty ninth day of April, second last day of the month. How beautiful is it. Let's take a look at the stocks. The all odds down by twenty seven points, ASX two hundred down by twenty eight points. The dal Jones closed the day down by twenty five points. NASDAK down two hundred and twenty three points. As for oil, Brent crude up again to one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. West Texas is now at ninety nine US dollars a barrel. Gold dropped by eighty seven dollars to four thousand, five hundred and ninety five US dollars Possie dollar buying seventy one point eight US cents, So Brent crude is now up at a level one hundred and eleven point to whatever, or one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. Will Gooding said on five DOUA a breakfast this morning, made the point that as soon as the war in the Middle East broke out, crude oil at the time I think it was about fifty eight dollars a barrel shot up to eighty dollars, and fuel prices here in Australia just went through the roof from around a dollar seventy five to well, it got up to two dollars fifty. Here we are with Brent crude currently at one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel, extremely high, and yet our petrol prices as low as they've been for some time. I've seen around town a dollar seventy one point five, dollar seventy five point five dollars sixty nine point five. So there is no correlation between an instant rise or fall in oil prices and a change in petrol prices here. Shane Oliver spoke to Will Goldings this morning on breakfast about the reasoning.
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Speaker 15: I think what happened was the original rise in petrol prices at a shot where they should have got to it went too far. I remember my calculation was something that if oil got to know around current levels, then we would have pechyl prices pushing around two dollars ten or something like that, two dollars twenty maybe, And of course we went way beyond that, and he said we've got up to three dollars in Adelaide.
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Speaker 5: I think the average around.
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Speaker 15: Australia and in Adelaide that the high was about two dollars sixty front leaded. So we went way way above what we should have been, and now we're probably undershot. We overcorrected back the other way. There are other factors in there as well. Obviously you mentioned the fuel excise cart, so if we didn't have that, I think GST went full. Was also cautle that the most we sided. Whether there's any much GST windfall now at all. Anyway, given where frightened, calm back down, but that knocked about thirty cents off in total. So we didn't have that, then we'd be we wouldn't be dollars seventy, it would be around two.
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Speaker 1: Dollars AMP Chief economist Shane Oliver. Now, on the thirty first of March, Brent crude reached a peak of one hundred and eighteen US dollars barrel, currently at one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. Strange, that isn't it. But we'll take the lower prices while we can get them. A lot of interest in this Sydney woman who sparked heated debate after admitting she uses her ADHD diagnosis to successfully appeal parking fines. Now she was fined three hundred dollars for leaving her car in a thirty minute zone. She forgot she'd taken the car, and she went in for a coffee, finished a coffee, and walked home, only to find out, oops, I left my car there. She went back was faced with a three hundred or of fine. Then she produced a leniency letter from her psychiatrist, which she says everyone with ADHD should get because they tend to be forgetful. She said, she's not a criminal, just confus used. What are your thoughts about that? Give us a call? Eight double two three double double O. Should people with ADHD be given a leniency letter, a special disposition because of their condition that they if they pay or I have a fine that's late paid, that they get off, or parking fine that they don't pay because they forgot their car and get off. What do you think, Hi Graham, Jim Savac here, you need to push this school speed zone issue. I travel all over ad Laid as my role as a building supervisor. This morning, coming through Belair, I had a vehicle right up my backside as I slowed down for the forty kilometer an hour rule. Then at Mercedes College nine twenty cars going through this forty k zone at sixty kilometers an hour totally oblivious to the speed restrictions. This needs to be addressed asap, and it's going to end in tears for the motorist, hip pocket and children's safety. The other matter I had with school zones. So if a school has a forty kilometer in our speed limit and there are children present after ours, do I have to drive through at forty or twenty five K's totally confusing. Yeah, Jim, you've highlighted an issue that is confusing a lot of people, generating a lot of revenue for the government. But there are more important issues at stake, children's safety for one, and just the hip pocket of motors for another. So good on you, Jim. Thanks for that. Hi Graham, Bell says, what an interesting world we live in. The King traveled to the USA and addressed Congress and gets a standing ovation for saying what Trump had been trumpeting pardon the pun since his presidency, same message, different person. There were no kings protests when an actual king came into town. A bizarre world. Indeed, thank you for that, Bell, and Bridget says, No, I am a late diagnosed ADHD woman definitely has made life tough, but have held done a full time job for many years, arriving to work on time, and as someone said, there are reminders on mobiles. Yeah, look, it is a bit hot. I think nobody's aren't underselling the significance of ADHD and the issues that it can cause, but suggesting that because you've had an ADHD you need a leniency or deserve a leniency letter. So if you forget to pay a fine or park in the wrong spot, you wave the letter and the fine has waived. It seems going a little bit too far from me. Eight double two to three double o double oh is the number to ring in a world of not so good news. I had to smile last night the story of LB the Jack Russell. The story unfolded earlier in the week Elbe a little Jack Russell was stuck thirteen stories up high on a Sydney high rise. He'd been lost for two days. Then there was this dramatic rescue and the pictures were sensational. Well, last night on TV we saw video of LB. He was just taking a walk, none the worse for where after his scary ordeal? What is it about animals? Now? If that had been a person stuck for two days they'd still be recovering from the trauma and maybe never get over it. But there was LB taking a walk like nothing happened. You've got to love dogs stories like that, don't we. In amongst all the doom and gloom in the world, the story of LV brings a smile to your face.
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Speaker 5: John, Good morning, Good morning you a lovely little story that was.
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Speaker 1: Was it fantastic?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yesterday, were coming through past Brighton High School half past three. There was the news the night beforese code the business about the forty kones. Everyone slowed down, everybody. Yeah, so the message had is just how to get out. There's ridiculous that the government didn't make a big deal about because they just wanted the money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the cynics view. But you've got a question because the government spent a lot of money on advertising, promoting things they need to be promoted on the federal government, you know, telling us to save fuel, spending twenty million dollars on how to save fuel. You know, this is about saving lives.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he look, there is one thing have you done Jenny Road lately? Then mostly street area not for a month or so? Okay, Well they're put in traffic lights caught on Moseley and Jetty Road. Now that for an innovation after one hundred years. As you turn we're at some of the das we hit Jetty Road and turn left, installed a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights and no one sees it that people are driving through red light. And it's just the most ridiculous Instead of a pedestrian crossing you've ever seen, it's about fifteen meters from the intersection. As you turn around, you just don't see the light on the left because you just can't see.
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Speaker 1: It just fifteen meters from the other section. Yeah, it is ridiculous. Yeah, things come up with that sensational idea.
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Speaker 5: Anyway. Yeah, people just go straight through the red light and people are on the road.
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Speaker 1: So exactly where is it? John? So people can be warned.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So if you're coming along Mogu Street from south to north, you hit Jetty Road as you turn left going to Mosley Square, there's the traffic light, the pedestrian crossing.
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Speaker 1: All right, good on your John, to be for warned us to be for if you see anything happening on on the roads that you think we should know about them, advising other five double A listeners and motors, it'd be a good idea eight double two to three O on the text line, we need the cold and rain to get rid of mice. Do we have a mouse plague or don't we? If you're on the land at the moment. There are suggestions that as there is a mouse plague on the way, obviously the weather we're having at the moment isn't helping. But there are also supposed to be plagues of insects and flying ants and so forth. Mind you, we had we had an invasion. I didn't think there were ants, flying ants, but little mini flies that just appeared out of nowhere. The light was on and the door was open, and all of a sudden, these thousands of little insects. Have you experienced that? Is that happening in your neck of the woods or was it just happening down west Lake's Way? Eight double two three double double is the number ring. We're going to take a break for news. Then after the news, the coalition's come out with a fuel policy. It's been described as a good first step. They suggest that instead of around thirty days storage, we need sixty days storage. All well and good, but what is that going to cost?
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Speaker 15: Back?
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Speaker 1: Shortly five double A mornings with Graham Goodings thirteen standing ovations? How does that work? Because do you give us a standing ovation, sit down and stand up? I guess you do. But anyway, the King well and truly well received, and he actually even told a few Jackson kept the house smiling.
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Speaker 12: Now, as you may know, when I address my own parliament at Westminster, we still follow an age old tradition and take a member of Parliament hostage, holding him or her at Buckingham Palace until I am safely returned. These days we look after our guests rather well, to the point that they often do not want to leave. I don't know, mister speaker, if there were any volunteers for that road here.
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Speaker 1: Today maybe the King mist his standing or Misty's calling stand up comic? What do you think? A double two three double double the number to ring well? The Coalition leader Angus Taylor is announced to a coalition government would expand fuel reserves to sixty days. The Institute of Public Affairs has welcome the opposition's plan to expand fuel reserves, but does it go far enough? Joining us now is Saxon Davidson a research fellow at the Institute of IPA Institute of Public Affairs, Saxon, Good morning to.
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Speaker 16: You, Good morning, Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: So a step in the right direction.
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Speaker 16: It absolutely is. The war in the Middle East has really exposed how fuel vulnerable and how diesel vulnerable we are as a country. And I think that any plan that promises and can actually deliver on expanding our fuel reserve is a good idea and a good policy and one that should be pursued.
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Speaker 1: So how did it get to this. Once upon a time we had fuel refineries around the nation, we produced our own oil, and now we're importing most of it.
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Speaker 16: Well, yeah, it's been a complete, utter failure to have any foresight and a complete failure to maintain our and sovereign capability across both sides of politics, across many decades. And you only have to look at the amount of fuel, all the proportion of fuel that we import over time to really show this. In two thousand and two, we only imported eleven percent of the fuel that we needed of the fuel that we needed to survive, and now we import approximately ninety percent. And this has happened for multiple reasons. One reason is that we have been closing our refineries.
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Speaker 9: Over the last.
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Speaker 16: Couple of decades, and the remaining refineries that we do have we have been regulating under the whole net zero matrix and the net zero policy and emission reduction policies from multiple sides of government, whether it be States.
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Speaker 1: Or fedral If we were to reopen or build new refineries, we'd still have to import the oil though.
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Speaker 16: Wouldn't we Yes, we would, And until we open more oil fields or we start drilling for more oil ourselves, which has been proposed recently by the Chrystal fully government in an oil field that they have discovered, we will continue to import our own fuel, but we do we need to be drilling more for oil and for fuel, and we also need to be refining more of it as well. So I think that expanding the amounts of fuel reserve days, actually keeping a stockpile here in Australia and fuel storage here in Australia and expanding that fuel stockpile from thirty to sixty days is a good idea.
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Speaker 1: Sixty days, though when you look at the IA, they say that nation should hold ninety days, So are we setting the bar too low?
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Speaker 16: I think potentially, but we have to have a start somewhere, you know, we need to get the ball roll at some stage. We certainly need a time frame to get a larger stockpile, larger than sixty days, as the IA does recommend having a ninety day stockpile. But I think getting a headstart and getting a good first step and actually having a conversation about what our fuel reserve should be and what our fuel reserve must be is a good first step. And I hope the Albanesi government follows suit with a policy of their own.
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Speaker 1: To increase our storage. Will come at a cost, and that would mean every Australian taxway would pay for it. How would that translate, you know, sense perlitter? How would we pay?
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Speaker 16: Angus Taylor yesterday said that it would calculate to about one extra cent per liter onto your cost of fuel. But I think and also it was an eight hundred and million dollar cost for the policy itself to twenty thirty, I personally think that it is worth it.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 16: We all know that government spending is at a record federally when you exclude the pandemic, and that obviously this is having an impact on inflation. But this is really an argument we start talking about the cost of government policies, whether it is worth it in the long run. Plain put, there is a lot of government spending that we do that does not match up economically or productively to our society, and that is what's causing the inflation crisis that we are seeing at the moment. There are things, simply put, that the government should spend the taxpayer money on for us to function as a society, and I think fuel security is absolutely one of those things.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't let's move towards more fuel security really cut across the government's net zero unrenewable plan. I mean they really don't want us to be using oil at all.
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Speaker 16: Yes, it would, But to be honest, something else that this war in Iran has exposed is how sort of vulnerable the net zero agenda really is. You know, the Prime Minister isn't traveling across Southeast Asia to get more wind turbines to get or to get more electric vehicles into the country. He's doing it to get more fuel. And obviously refining this fuel is obviously very emission intensive. You know, the government imposes a carbon tax on our last two refineries through the safeguard mechanism. We release some analysis on this earlier this week. The show that to twenty thirty, this carbon tax on our last two refineries in Victoria and in Queensland is going to cost them about one hundred and sixty five million dollars from last financial year to twenty thirty.
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Speaker 1: Islity.
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Speaker 16: Of course, it's affecting their the viability and ultimately we need to exempt them from the safeguard mechanism or at best case scenario, get rid of the policy altogether. Because this sort of net zero agenda doesn't just affect our fuel security. It affects a whole range of other things, whether it be agriculture, whether it be our energy security, and our basic manufacturing. So what I'm hoping is is that out of this disastrous war and out of this sort of fuel crisis that we're experiencing, that we can actually look at how the existing policies that we have affects other areas as well in regard to our sovereign capability.
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Speaker 1: If net zero were to be scaled back, and quite finds how to imagine this current government wanting to do that, But what immediate impact could that have on fuel prices and supply well, we.
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Speaker 16: Would be able to expand our refinery, our refinering of our petroleum products. We would also it would also be easier to actually open more refineries. If there's less green tapes and less environmental concerns being imposed onto refineries obviously to what is required and what is reasonable, then it would actually be easier for us to be able to make our own fuel, to refine it, and to drill for it, which means means that ultimately will be more fuel secure, like ultimately no country is actually immune to the price to global price shocks, Like I'm not going to pretend that there would have been no impact if we didn't have net zero, but the wall still went on, but we'd be able to be more We'll be able to survive it a bit more easier, and also we'd be able to more independently, be able to rely on our cells and not be so vulnerable because as I said earlier, ninety percent of our fuel is important now compared to twenty five years ago when there was just eleven percent. We need to pull the goods and services that we desperately need and are non negotiable for us to survive independently. As a nation, we must be able to be able to, at least to some extent, rely on our sales.
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Speaker 1: Saxon, thanks for your time. That's Saxon Davidson ipa research fellow. So what are your thoughts, folks? The coalitions announcing a government of the Coalition would expand fuel reserves to sixty days. It's still well short of the IA's claim that we should have ninety day supply, but Heckett's double what we have at the moment. Are you would you be prepared to pay a cent e liter extra for petrol? Because that's the estimate by Angus Taylor of what it would cost to install new storage tanks around the nation. Because millions and millions of barrels of oil or fuel is going to take up a lot of space that has to be put somewhere, we have to pay for it. There were suggestions we're talking twelve up to twenty billion dollars for storage. Don't know that it's that much, but would you be preared to pay a cent e liter? Let's know your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double oh more. On those insects in a moment, Russell says, those flies are in plague proportions. Sitting up the river on the weekend, I needed a cover over the top of my wine glass. Oh Russell, you poor thing. My heart bleeds for you. Those miniature bugs are ripe in North Adelaide. I think they're all over, but I all the same type of bugs or different types of bugs. We need a bugologist. What do you call them? A think of the name of a bug person. It'll come to entomology. Is an entomologist something? But someone will tell us back shortly.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, twenty.
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Speaker 1: One past ten and five double A. This delightful Wednesday morning. We can take calls in a moment on eight double two to three double oh. But just before that, Karen says, high Graham, what a lot of sense that gentleman just made. The Greenies have been caught out and we are desperate to be able to stand alone as a nation. I one hundred percent agree with the sixty day storage, and hopefully when we get to sixty days, we'll add another thirty so that we'll never have to have this happen again. Bring back manufacturing, bring back refineries, drill for oil. Thank you for that. On the bugs. Hi gg Those small bugs are at Brooklyn Park. No idea how they get through the flywire and are all around our labs. Good on, Shane, thank you for that. Yuri, You've experienced little bugs too.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to say what I say that your son will and dug out a day. First of before I talk about your perfect entomology. We've got something common. We both have married lovely polish wife, very love exactly exactly, buddy, Okay this and actually part of my job is as a courier that I every morning I go to the wait and deliver fruit flies in an eski to the people to examine them, do what they the second do what they do, and that and that I go to the entomology department. You spot on with that one.
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Speaker 1: So where do you get the fruit flies?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 4: I think they come from the river and they come through our depot in terms of express and we just have a contract where we have I have to have those fruit flies at weight by nine o'clock every morning. And what they do I think they dissect and then send them back out in the field to kill the other ones.
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Speaker 16: It's just not that.
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Speaker 4: Also, they've got different insects and my friend Peter christ there, the one of the boss there's he's got the big cabinets full of hundreds and hundreds of insects on display. He said, you know what, Yuri, I caught every one of them. Absolutely, it's a fascinating department.
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Speaker 16: In Tomolos.
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Speaker 4: The US booms to good.
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Speaker 1: Things, brilliant, good on your Yuri, great to chat. So there it is, and the Uri. Part of his job as a courier is delivering fruit flies for examination. Are they d sex? Is that what we do? I think I've heard of that. They get d SX and then get sent out into the atmosphere where they mate and every you know, all the fruitflies think well, this is all good. We're appropriating. Little do they know they're firing blanks. Hi g G a center leater. That is cheap. How much are we paying and have paid for Bowen's Green dream snowy two point zero now forty eight billion dollars in growing for example, Good on your eck, thanks for that. Let's go out to NORWD. Mike, how are you doing?
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Speaker 17: Okay?
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Speaker 15: Graham?
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Speaker 6: Just you playing a picture as regarding a trip I just did overseas and returned at Adelaide airport with a few gripes. The experience in getting in there now is improved, like getting through the checks with their custom you know, sort of when you do your baggage check, that's a lot more fluid. But on return yesterday there was five hundred and fifty odd people two planes landed internationally, and you've got a lot of tile tied children, etc. After the long trip, et cetera, and old people, and there's only six passport scanner machines working. And you've got like you know, queues of people waiting in the cattle grid, and you've got a gentleman standing there in a suit holding a placard up saying queue here. And then you've got another plane that's dedicated basically for the air crews to get through, you know, And I just don't think it's good enough. I really don't.
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Speaker 1: So there've got sex machines. You're saying that about five hundred people that are waiting to go through at a time exactly right.
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Speaker 6: You know, they've got like you know, a husband and wife they do their as you put it in their scan and you've got your children's ones, et cetera. Machines and then towards the end. When we went out, they actually opened up the customs area where the pilots and all the crew had gone through, and they were manually checking us out sort of thing. And then when we got outside, we went to the taxi rank and there was like forty or fifty people with their suitcases waiting to get taxis. And I spoke to one of the attendants there and I said, where's the taxis, mate? You said there's none. You said, you just got to wait INTEO. And then so we went to Uber and it was much the same. W I just don't think it's good enough. And I mean, like, you've got the flights now coming United Airways flying to America. Now that's the fifteen hour flight, and I just don't think it's up to scratch.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, you make a couple of interesting points there, Mike, regarding taxis and ubers. I mean, maybe fully aware of when the flights are coming in. It's not like, oh, a flight with three hundred people on board has just arrived out of the blue. I mean they would have the schedule, they know when they were flight. So what time of day was this.
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Speaker 6: Around about seven seven thirty in the morning. Oh yeah, I actually think the Adelaide International Airports of Clayton Airport anyway. I mean like you've got a curfew from eleven thirty until five o'clock in the morning. I mean, if you want to come up to standards and make a genuine international airport, you've got to be open twenty four seven, mate. Not you don't have the freight flights and the air ambulance flying, and not international flights when they come in at the same time every morning. And I'll tell you another thing too. We had some stuff that we declared, some boxes that we bought in and we deliberately put there could contain see Jadi Yadi YadA, and we quite expected them to open a box and the woman just said what's in there we told them or whatever, and she said go on through. Now we could have had anything in there and she didn't have a knife and check.
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Speaker 2: Any of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you say not to be desired that place, it really does.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting to say that, Mike, because it's lauded has been such a great airport. Is when you go around the place it is, I mean, it's we're not comparing it to huge airports around the world like Singapore and beyond. But it is a very good airport. But yeah, it might be letting its patronage down if you only have six passport check ins when you've got five hundred people waiting. Jack says, while most of us would be happy to pay an extra cent for petrol storage, it would be appropriate if we deducted a few dollars from the wages of politicians that allowed this stupidity to prevail in the first place. We'd earn a lot from the stupidity, Jack, would we because there are a lot of politicians who have let this go through to the keeper. Ed says, in the words of the King of America, Australia needs to drill, baby drill on the subject of it insects and bugs and the like. We're getting lots of people ringing up. They've been Inundavid We at West Lakes the other night, just out of the blue. It must have come through the FLYWI screen, I think. But these tiny little insects. I've heard that people talk about flying ants. These weren't flying ants. These were like miniature flies. And they're everywhere, and we're getting reports they're all over the place. North Adelaide and prospect and the like. Well, a little bit later on this morning, we're going to speak with Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs. We're going to get to the bottom of this one way or the other.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Lot's to talk about this morning. From ADHD getting a leave pass if you have failed to pay a fine or forget to pay a parking ticket. Two were bugs, ad laiders in and dated with bugs at the moment, what's going on? We're going to find out exactly from Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs. Shortly, I want to talk now about passports, though not passports. I'm thinking of that because we're talking about adlaid airport and is it up to international standard. We'll talk a little bit more about that. If you have any thoughts about adlaid airport and going through customs and the like, I'd like to hear them eight double two to three double o double.
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Speaker 15: Oh.
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Speaker 1: But passwords in what I want to talk about. Do you know how many passwords are in circulation? About nineteen billion. How many of them are effective? Well, you'd be stunned to know that it's about six percent of them are actually unique the rest we keep using and rehashing and regurgitating, is the death of the password about to become imminent. That is the suggestion. Let's have a chat now to Lee Stark pick a dot com dot au tech expert, Lee, good.
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Speaker 10: Morning to you, Good morning man, how are you going good?
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Speaker 1: Thanks? Look, I don't think we all know we need a pass password, because if we don't, you know, life is laid bare to anyone who wants to hack to it. But just how effective are passwords in this day and age.
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Speaker 19: Look, they're necessary, but they're probably not as effective as they used to be, largely because they're easy to break, they're easy to forget, they leak. It's not that you leak them, it's that when someone breaches a database, they get leaked, and so it's problematic to have passwords.
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Speaker 10: In general.
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Speaker 19: We've moved on largely, or we're starting to move on to a technology that started rolling out around twenty twenty three. It's taking some times we actually get to everyone, but basically it's a replacement for passwords, but still sometimes requires that you that you have one, and they're not every account's going to use one, but largely it ties your account to something that you have in your life that you always keep with you, which is your phone. We call this concept a pass key, and it comes in two forms. It's a digital version that exists on your phone. It's largely it's kind of like having two factor authentication, where you would normally get the message, but instead of having to type of password in, it just ties it to that account. So it's a count on your phone, and every time you get a new phone, you transfer those passkeys to that new phone. And the other type of passkey is actually a physical passkey.
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Speaker 10: It's literally a.
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Speaker 19: USB key, but it doesn't actually store anything other than passwords. You can't actually stick it into your computer and move passwords to it. It kind of migrates using special software. So for people who aren't sure that they want to use their phone, which is entirely possible, or that they're so secure that they know they've got too many passwords to constantly check on their phone, the physical pass key is an option that's largely where we've gone. It's because passwords are useful, but they leak, they get broken, and as you said, we use them again and again and again. There are some tips that I can offer to get people out of that. Most services are past key specific or starting to these days.
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Speaker 1: Look, I don't know, I can't think. What is I've got something on my Mac computer that allows me keychain or something like that, And yeah, I checked on all my passwords are there, and I scrolled down. I couldn't believe there would be over one hundred different passwords. I mean, is that typical.
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Speaker 10: That's a small amount.
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Speaker 19: Actually, you've got a smaller amount of real people because every so not every service uses passkey. As I said, it's still it's still rolling out. But every every account that you have has a password attached to it. So you think of all the social media services, now, you think of the music services, you think of your bank, which might not have your password saved. Ever, every service that has an account has a password attached to it, and even parts of your computer, so the application. So on a Mac there's keychain, which on modern mas is actually just an app called passwords, which sinks from your phone to your iPad to your Mac, which is a really handy way of being able to try to recall the password and needing to pace it in when you're on your iPhone. Android doesn't quite have the same thing. Android does have a password system that's linked to Google Chrome. Sore. If you have an Android and you have a PC, or you have an Android and you have a Mac, you can actually find it at passwords dot Google dot com and that'll specifically look at your passwords that jump from phone to your Google Chrome browser.
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Speaker 10: That's how that works.
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Speaker 1: Can they be hacked?
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Speaker 19: It's unlikely they technically can be hacked because it's part of your account, but it's unlikely to be to get your passwords out of your Mac. If someone would break into your Mac, they would have to be able to log into your Apple account, and that already has two factor applied to it, so it's unlikely to get into your Chrome. Same sort of problem. So it's unlikely to get a password manager hacked. It's more likely that a database would be breached, like if someone broke into X or Facebook can link the linked all the passwords and then hopefully you don't only have to change one password, provided they weren't all the same.
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Speaker 1: So let's go back a step or two because a lot of people say, you know, I'm just coming to terms with password. I want to move on a pass key. What is a safe past I don't want to know what are the safe elements of a password? You know, like, obviously, if there are only two digits or something like that, it's going to be easy to hack. How many how many digits do you need or different figures or whatever to make a safe password.
01:02:19
Speaker 19: Yeah, so, I mean ideally every password should be nonsensor call as in a bunch of random letters and numbers. So you need to need a minimum of one of one upper case letter and one number and a bit of punctuation. It's impossible to tell people, like, if you're trying to remember your passwords, a password manager is always the best solution because it'll save it to the browser. But if you are trying to remember a password and maybe you're writing it down, what I tell people is create your own little cipher, Create your own little little pattern that you can use. So it could be something as simple as I listened to five double A, but you're changing certain elements of it, So you're changing the five might become an S, the A might be one lower case one upper case. That way it becomes a cipher specific to you. And then at the end of that, if you want to this this is an all a technique it still kind of works, which is to make the passwords specifically unique as you go around. So if you only want one password for everything, and a lot of people do this, particularly in Australia, and when they are above the age of sixty, we find this. If you only want the one password, make sure the last two letters on the back are specific to an account, so FB for Facebook, WA for WhatsApp. That way, the single password is relevant to one specific place and it gets breached, you don't have to change the entire thing.
01:03:33
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's good advice. I according to cybersecurity, I mean, there are three hundred and thirty eight million users of the password one two three four five six. Yeah, that's just lazy.
01:03:45
Speaker 19: It's not just that that there are there are loads of users of one two, three, four, five six, seven eight, and quite a lot of people still try to do password with an exclamation mark. Thinking that's totally fine as well. But for a lot of people, if you have a password that you use regularly and you don't want to switch, put a number at the end of it an exclamation market. It's not it's not a great approach, but at least it makes it slightly more secure. But if you keep a password all in lower case or letters or just one upper case, it can be broken quite easily. The bigger problem is using one specific password for everything. That's a real risk. That's why we say put two letters on the end. It just makes a little bit easier if it were to break open, and not through any fault of your own. It just makes it easier to replace that single password.
01:04:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that idea. So you've got a word or the combination of letters, and if it's a Facebook account FB, if it's WhatsApp, you know, and you just use a couple of letters, so each you have they're all individual and different passwords. So you know, someone just can't crack into everything. Your bank account's and it works exactly.
01:04:46
Speaker 19: Your bank account's more likely most bank account ATO is much the same way with my GOV. They're almost always tied to multi factors. So if you can always have multi factor switched on, if any service that you have offers that, that is always a much better approach. Passwords are useful, absolutely, but multi factor that little SMS message that comes to your phone or an AUTHENTICATA app that gives you so much more control when it comes to security. That's obviously the first step is security. A better password, it's definitely important, but making sure multi factors switched on. If pass keys are available to you, it's even better. But there's a lot of places that haven't moved on to them yet. It's largely only the big ones where we're talking about like Amazon, Apple, Meta, they're larger than ones who've moved on the pass keys. A lot of banks still haven't switched them yet either.
01:05:30
Speaker 1: I must say that multi factor when they send something to your phone, I find that reassuring. I sort of think, well, you know we're on the same wavelength and no one's going to tap into this.
01:05:41
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, it still actually can be hacked.
01:05:42
Speaker 19: The weird part about multi factor is it can technically be hacked, but it's a really complex hack. Basically, the best way of securing multi factor is to call up your telco and make sure that they have to have security if someone were to switch you to a different telco, if someone were to try and port your phone number, that does happen. People do try to port phone numbers as a form of kind of we call it a man in the middle attack. Someone is trying to basically take hold of your phone so they can use multi factor against you. But most hellcos have largely cottoned onto it. There's a few smaller ones in Australia that are still gradually trying to work out what to do, but most have worked out.
01:06:17
Speaker 10: But yes they need ID before they switch.
01:06:21
Speaker 1: Excellent. Good on you, Lee, always great to chat. Thanks for your time today.
01:06:24
Speaker 10: Always happy to help at least.
01:06:25
Speaker 1: Dark Picker dot com dot au tech expert on the death of a password. I'll be around for some time yet, but be a little bit more judicious. Don't use the well how many times you see the word password? People use password or in business admin. Evidently there are fifty three million people who use admin around the world. Mostly it guys who are too lazy to do something else. But the more characters you put in, obviously the better it is. But you've got to mix it up, and it's best not to use known words like summer or happy days or something like that. If you mix it up. But then if you've got to try and remember them, what do you do with it? All those passwords? How have you handled passwords? Let's no eight, double two three, double O, double oh is the number? Malie says, why should the RBA consider upping the interest rate because of the increased cost of living partly due to the fuel increase across business? Surely the consumer is getting hit hard with the prices that they are lowering their standard of living by spending less on optional goods. Anyway, Yeah, I tend to agree with you, Mali, but not having a financial background, I'm not so sure. But if they introduced or raise the interest rates is to minimize spending, Surely increase fuel prices does the same thing. Maybe we're missing something, John, you've got some thoughts on passwords. Yeah, good, thanks.
01:07:43
Speaker 3: I used to use incorrect because I have a bad habit for getting password. Yeah, but it'll tell me your password is incorrect, and that's the truth. I'm not right. My wife the kids made me change it correct.
01:08:03
Speaker 1: Good on, John, Thanks for sharing that. If you'd like to share your password, Well, I suppose that's a bit risky. Maybe a password that you've used in the past, a password that you find amusing, or passwords that you know about. But yeah, don't give away the password you're using at the moment, but a password that maybe you used in the past and don't use it any longer. We're going to talk about bugs at the moment, the infestation of little credits flying through the air. How are they getting through the flywire? Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs will join us shortly.
01:08:33
Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:08:36
Speaker 1: Oh cis I find this bit hard to believe, so as he says, I have over five hundred passwords over my iPhone, iPad and laptop. Each password is unique, and I know each and everyone without ever having to look them up. My system means I could have two thousand unique passwords and I would know each one by heart easily. Each password has the ideal mix of upper and lower letters, some numbers, and characters. I don't need a password manager because I remember each unique password. They vary in length from eight to fifteen characters. Susie, that is wow. How do you do that? I barely remember one password. I'd sort of shuffle them around. I've got over one hundred of them, No way would I remember them all. Mike's high gram. I run two bugs appas in the backyard, no bug problem. They even attract the mossies. Thank you for that, Mike. Well, this is born out of the fact that lots of people have been saying all around Adelaide that they've had infestations of little bugs, of flying ants or something. Even at Westlakes the other night we had this infestation. Don't know they got through the fly wire screen that tiny, absolutely infinitesimal, but thousands of them. So what's happening is that the weather or what? Who better to ask than Kristen Messenger from Bugs and Slugs Kristin, good.
01:09:53
Speaker 20: Morning to you, good morning praying.
01:09:56
Speaker 2: Should we be.
01:09:56
Speaker 1: Surprised at the moment, is that there's an infestation happening?
01:10:00
Speaker 20: Oh no, because we've had we've had really nice, warm, moist conditions, and I think what people are seeing are probably they are a type of fly. They're called don't be put off by their name. They're are fungus gnats. I think that's what people are seeing.
01:10:16
Speaker 1: And it's a fungus gnat.
01:10:17
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, fungus nat, which is a very small, little sort of Really most people would look at it and go all, that's a tiny black fly.
01:10:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:10:27
Speaker 20: And it's funny you say that, because my secret shame is that on Monday night, so I go to the West Lakes Bowls.
01:10:33
Speaker 21: Club to play bingo with a friend of mine and I noticed the wall of the West Lakes Bowls Club on Monday night was absolutely wherever they had a light on, it.
01:10:46
Speaker 20: Was teeming with fungus nats And I almost went back to my car to get my net and catch some for because they love them.
01:10:54
Speaker 1: I've got a food for food for your playing mandesses.
01:10:58
Speaker 20: Oh look, they're really good food for lots of things. I think they probably do more good than harm. You know, they don't really don't really interfere too much, so they can't the lava, which are a little maggots because they're a fly. The lava can you get into your potting mix, and they like potting mix with a bit of peat boss in it, so they like, you know, the sort of potting mix that you would have in an indoor plant or an outdoor plant that likes a bit of moisture.
01:11:27
Speaker 1: So where are they? Where are they normally then, Kristen? I mean, you know, they've just all appeared out of the blue. What's their normal life cycle? Where do they live?
01:11:35
Speaker 20: Yeah, look, they're around all the time. They're really pretty common. But if it's not nice and warm and the soil is not moist they'll be in much lower numbers. But as soon as you get consistent moisture in the soil, and if you've got a really lovely organic sort of soil that's a bit bear on top, that is the perfect environment for them to hatching. So that one way you can control them is to just let the top of your soil dry out a bit, which is usually not a problem for.
01:12:06
Speaker 10: Us in South at, no problem at all, that's right.
01:12:10
Speaker 20: And the other thing you can do is mulch your pots, because the females don't really love laying in malt. They want to lay sort of direct soil, and the lava struggle to emerge if there's a layer of malch on the top, So you know, that's one thing you can do, is sort of keep a bit of mulch on your plants.
01:12:32
Speaker 21: But as soon as things dry out a bit.
01:12:35
Speaker 20: You know, it was a little bit weird, this sort of unseasonal kind of rain and warmth at the same time we normally get a bit of a cold snap, and that not for a lot of those bugs on the head. But you know, people might have noticed that there's an awful lot of mosquitoes persisting. There's still an awful lot of you know, just house flies and blowflies and things like that that are normally quiet by now because it's normally a bit colder than they'd like it to be, so they either die or they go into a sort of a winter hibernation.
01:13:07
Speaker 17: If you like.
01:13:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, out West Preston it was the what do you call them again, fungus.
01:13:12
Speaker 20: Some fungus gnats, Yeah, fungus nats.
01:13:15
Speaker 1: But I've heard other people sort of say in other areas about flying ants. Would that be right?
01:13:21
Speaker 20: Ah, most of the ants have done their thing already, But I have seen I was at ypy the new Cultural Center in Port Adelaide, which is just one of my fast becoming one of my favorite places, and I did see a new you know, recently mated massive enchant queen under a rock there. But I just saw one of them. I didn't such a photo of her on my Facebook page. She's lovely. So they must still be flying in some spots. But again it's a little bit well, depending on how look at it, a little bit late or a little bit early. But you know, as soon as you get warm out of seasonal sort of warmth combined with moisture, bugs will persist because most of them, being cold blooded, will respond immediately to a bit of extra warmth, and of course they don't mind the moisture. So there could still be ants flying. Yeah, okay, and they could be termites flying.
01:14:25
Speaker 1: But ah, right, we can do it.
01:14:27
Speaker 20: I haven't seen termites, and usually when that's happening, people send me photos and say what's this and I haven't must admit I haven't had any in the last sort of four weeks, not ants or termite.
01:14:40
Speaker 1: Do we have flying cockroaches in South Australia.
01:14:43
Speaker 20: Yeah, We've got heaps of cockroaches in South Australia.
01:14:48
Speaker 1: I've only ever seen. I remember going to Sydney years ago and all this these big bugs on the window and I said what are they? And I said flying cockroaches. I'd never heard of flying cockroaches.
01:15:00
Speaker 20: Yeah, lots of cock creatures. And some of the introduced species can fly. They're reluctant flyers, I have to say. And we've got a lot of native species. We've got more than four hundred and fifty species of native cock creaches, and some of those are just beautiful and really important. They're really important pollinators.
01:15:18
Speaker 17: Some of them.
01:15:19
Speaker 1: Beautiful cockroach come on nobody likes cockroaches.
01:15:22
Speaker 20: Oh yeah, no, I love them. They're right up there for me, Graham, the native ones, and even we have those big introduced. I want to say they're American cockroaches. Get them mixed up. That's terrible, isn't it for a bug lady? But we have them in our drains. I'm down in important.
01:15:42
Speaker 16: We have them.
01:15:43
Speaker 20: You know, they come out of every orifice at night. And I've got a neighbor. We go out with the torch hours and hours at night looking at them. They're really interesting. We've got them in your house. You'll see go outside at night, you'll see thousands.
01:15:58
Speaker 17: Of them in the street.
01:16:00
Speaker 1: Now, Kristin, a question for you from Gavin who says I have noticed a lack of ladybirds this summer. Can you ask Kristin about this?
01:16:09
Speaker 20: Well, you need acids for ladybirds. I've noticed I grow a few things to attract acids, because acids attract ladybirds, lady beetles if you like, so, you're not going to get lady beetles visiting your garden if you don't have food for them. They track, and you know, they're like a heat seeking missile for aphids. So they track aphids and they will be attracted to them. So you've got to you've got to let a couple of plants be the sort of sacrificial plants that you allow acids to develop on. And then very quickly lady beetles will fly in and they'll lay eggs. The eggs are little bunches of orange, you know, they're only about a middle meter for each egg, and they will lay them among the aphids. So don't destroy the apes because you'll destroy the eggs. And then shortly after that, within sort of a week, those eggs will hatch and you'll have these very bizarre looking little blue and orange lava that crawl around and they eat more aphids than the adults. But you can also attract you know, hoverflies, they have a lava that eats aphids, and also lace wings and also ah, there's a couple of other there's a couple of other They all sort of look a bit the same, but the main ones, I guess of the lace wings and the hoverflies and the lady beetles will all produce lava that will attack aphids. You know, if you've got the lace wings, they're the ones that lay their eggs on a stalk. They have this beautiful fine silk stalk and one single egg at the top of it. And then when the lava hatch, they carry around the skeletons of their dead you know, they're dead prey on their back as some people call them junk bugs, and they do that as a disguise, I guess, so they can move through the aphis. And there's a couple of parasitic wasps that are also very effective at targeting acids.
01:18:15
Speaker 1: Would you believe you make it sound all that exciting before we let you go? And I'll have to do that in the moment. Christ tell me Christmas beetles. I haven't seen a Christmas beetle for yongx. What's going on?
01:18:28
Speaker 20: They're around, but not now because at this time of the year their lava for the Christmas beetles, like most of the scarard beetles, they are a type of scarred beetle. Most of them do their business pretty quickly, so they emerge just before Christmas.
01:18:44
Speaker 9: They it's the Christmas beetles, Christmas beetle, and.
01:18:48
Speaker 20: Then they lay their eggs and so at this time of the year, their eggs are down in the ground and they're big, fat lawn grubs. So if people are digging at well, usually not in your lawn, though, they'll be in your malch or in your lift litter, or at the base of eucalyptus trees. Some of them target the roots of plants and things, so you know when people are digging up those grubs that everybody immediately sees and.
01:19:12
Speaker 5: Says, oh, they're lawn grubs.
01:19:13
Speaker 17: Got to get rid of them.
01:19:14
Speaker 1: They're not.
01:19:15
Speaker 20: They could easily be, well, some of them will be, but some of them will be Christmas beetle over so you need to And then there's another invasive one, the Argentine lawn beetle that the adults look a little bit like a Christmas beetle mimic, but they're a bit smaller, so there's a bit of confusion there. People are trying to rescue the invasive species. But if you want lots of Christmas beetles, plants, native grasses and plants, eucalypse.
01:19:40
Speaker 18: Advice to track them.
01:19:41
Speaker 1: Chris and I could listen to you for ages, tell us a little bit about bugs and slugs, give yourself a promo.
01:19:48
Speaker 20: Well, we're an invertebrate education service, so we visit schools and Kindey's and stuff like that. But if people want to I'll be doing a thing this weekend. Actually, grahams, that's okay to give it a plug. Yeah, go ahead at Stangate House in All Gates for the Hills Garden Affair. And it's an amazing event. You can get a Google it and you can find a ticket online, I think. But there's lots of speakers and stallholders and we did it. It's every second year. I think we did it three years ago and we were absolutely blown away by this amazing garden and how many people came along to see it. So that's something. If people want to hear me talk about ways to attract invertebrates to your garden and the good stuff they do, I'll be doing the talk up there, so come along.
01:20:37
Speaker 1: Brilliant. Good on youre Kristin, thanks so much for your time today.
01:20:40
Speaker 20: Thanks Graham.
01:20:41
Speaker 1: Sea bugs and Slugs Chief Kristen Messenger. And does that answer your questions about bugs and slugs and those little ants and what was it the fungal nuts, nut piny flies. Lots of little things out there at the moment, all due to the weather we're having eight double two three double o double is the but a ring. If you have a comment, We're going to break for news then to look at the issue that working from home could be a career killer for you. What's that mean?
01:21:09
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:21:12
Speaker 1: Well, just the sort of news we didn't want to hear. The inflation rate has risen from three point seven to four point six percent? What will that mean? Will the RBA be onto that we would expect? So what does it all mean? We'll speak with Adelaide University Credit Union SA SA Chair of Economics, doctor Susan Stone in the next half hour, so stay tuned for that. Regarding lawn beetles, with the larvae of black lawn beetles, I use pellets to say, let's say last for six months. How do I know if they are back? Do I need to dig or look for the grass to die? Look? Unfortunately Andrew Kristen from Bugs and Slugs is not with us any longer, but maybe give her a call. Well on another issue, and this is about working from home, which more and more people have adapted to since COVID. Of course it became the stand reg but now more and more people are working from home again, there's a suggestion that if you are working from home, it could jeopardize your chances of promotion into the future. Professor Gary Martin is the Australian Institute of Management WACO and joins US now professor good morning, Thanks for your time, Morning Graham. Working from home it has lots of benefits, but could it be jeopardizing someone's chance of a promotion?
01:22:24
Speaker 22: Look, I think it could. Working from home has lots of challenges. There are a lot of people that are enjoying it, particularly as a petrol prices start to increase or go up and down and all over the place. That means the commute can be a challenge for many. So it's had its surged recently in terms of the numbers of people choosing to work from home or being allowed to work from home. But as I said, it does come with challenges. And one of the things that we've noticed over a period of time now is that we'll see this more of this as it unfolds over the next teen years, is that there's something called proximity buyers in workplaces, and that's just a technical term to say that managers tend to favor employees who are physically nearby. Kind of makes sense, doesn't it.
01:23:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you're looking at maybe two people of absolute equal ability and producing the same amount. One is working home and has really seen the other one is in and out of the boss's office and having a high profile and well time for promotion. Who do we think of Probably the person who's just outside.
01:23:34
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think the risks for remote workers at the moment is that they can unintentionally get left out of those ad hoc meetings that take place in the office. They might miss some development opportunities. They're obviously less visible to managers. When career opportunities then do come up, they might not be front of mind if they're not in the office regularly. And you know, the problems worst when people work remotely in a different time zone, because then the contact again is perhaps even more limited than it might be if you're in the same time though. So there's there's a number of things that might work again, you being in front of mine when it comes to sturry increases or sir comment to a special job, or being included in a particular project out of mind or sight out of mind. Pretty much what we see.
01:24:28
Speaker 1: Are there some industries or job roles that suffer most from procimmity buyers.
01:24:33
Speaker 5: No, I think this is across the board.
01:24:35
Speaker 22: This is a phenomenon across the board. Now, it's probably unfair to say this happens in every industry, across every type of organization you know of different sizes and sectors like corporate sector, not profit and so on. There are all these different factors involved here, so it's probably unfair to just say that this phenomenon is experienced in every single sector. There might be some areas, some industries where people are very conscious of this idea of uh, including people who are not in the office as well, And so you know, it's not across every single thing or every single work environs, but it is a very very significant issue which manages themselves are not aware of, and nor are people who work remotely.
01:25:30
Speaker 1: So are there anything that remote workers can do to stay front of mine for their bosses?
01:25:36
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think the main advice is that are remote workers, both working from home or in other locations, they need to be stronger self advocate. So what we might experience is in the workplace, you know, people don't really want to blow their own troublet trumpets because it actually comes across, as you know, a bit off, a bit more of a self centered. Look, you're not a team player if you talk about what you've achieved. So it's important though for people that have made achievements and are working mostly remotely to be more visible. And you only become more visible in a sense through making sure you do engage, You do check in regularly, not just when there are a meeting is called and you talk about your progress and what you've been doing. And I think that probably does help to really to keep you included in opportunities as they arise in workplaces. It's about being a stronger I call it self advocate because I don't want to say you blow your own trumpet, but it is about trying to actively make your achievement more visible.
01:26:46
Speaker 1: So from a manager's point of view, what do they need to do to be more aware that a remote worker might be just the perfect person for that promotion, but they out of side, out of mind.
01:26:56
Speaker 22: Yeah, this is an interesting one because just having a discussion about onset, if managers are listening, many managers are not aware of the idea of proximity bias, and they wouldn't have thought twice that this might be occurring in workplaces, So just being aware of it is something that would help in the first instance. So you know, obviously workplaces and leaders, CEOs, senior leaders have an obligation to talk about these things and to make sure that people outside regular workplace are actually included. So creating an awareness that there is this type of bias is really, really, really important. And I think also looking at exactly what the policy is for working from home. So it might be that you know, a couple of days a week in remote situation is fine, but the rest of the time could be in the office. So trying to get that balance right is a management responsibility. Also, because there's a difference between someone who's away one day a week versus someone who's never in the office, I think those sorts of things need to be considered.
01:28:13
Speaker 1: So taking this proximity by a step further, could it also affect salary reviews and bonuses along with promotions.
01:28:21
Speaker 22: Absolutely. I think you know what we underestimate is when we are in the workplace, a lot of the things that happen during the day are actually spontaneous, and if you're not there, you're not part of those spontaneous type of discussions, and so you are less physical. So there's unfortunately a little bit of a stigma sometimes working with home, working from the remote location. That might be that, you know, if you work from home, you not as engaged, not as productive and soide now I say stigma because we haven't been able to prove that these things are actually real, and so given all of that, less productive, less engagement when it comes to that sorry, review time, probably not going to get the same type of increase as someone who's in the office and highly visible. Again, this does not happen in every workplace, in every workplace because some workplaces are aware, but it certainly happens in many workplaces.
01:29:26
Speaker 1: Is proximity bias that significant that someone particularly going for a job should sort of think, you know, I can work from home, I can work in the office. Should they be thinking seriously of what is the best outcome for them?
01:29:41
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think they can certainly talk about that at an interview. But I actually think that when someone goes into a workplace safe or the first six months, they might want to make sure that they spend time as much time as possible in the workplace when people know them and their managers know their capability, and there's a level of trust and so on. That's the time to have a discussion about perhaps working from home one or two days a week perhaps and gradually easing into that. So you know, I think having a base period where you get to know your colleagues, you get to know the job, those sorts of things is really really important. So the first six months of any new job should be spent as much as possible in the office and then basically transition into some remote work because let's faces, there's lots of advantages of working remotely. It does help people out who are very busy, who've got long commutes, and all of those sorts of things. So we don't want to see people not in the office, sure, but we actually want to make sure that it's set up for success in their careers, and that includes salaries. As you pointed out, Graham.
01:30:57
Speaker 1: Professor, thanks so much for your advice. Professor, Carry Martin Austra at an Institute of Management, Waco. Proximity buyers, have you heard that before? It could be jeopardizing your future. Do you work from home on a regular basis? Is there some in the office who does the same sort of job as you is no better than you, but as continually getting promotions or pay rises because you are out of sight, out of mind. If you've been in that situation, do you work from home, do you feel like you're being overlooked or do you have actual, you know, some evidence that you were overlooked because you just weren't in the office.
01:31:32
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:31:38
Speaker 1: Two past eleven, five double A. This delightful Wednesday morning, Richard says, my wife's boss works from home permanently since twenty twenty. My wife has to go into the office every day and essentially be her assistant as well as doing her own work. My wife's work goes unrecognized because her boss isn't in the office. Well, that is interesting, Richard. That is the actual reverse of what we're saying. So yeah, it's really proximity bias in reverse. Thank you for that. Let's go out to Value View Murray, good morning, Oh.
01:32:09
Speaker 18: Good morning.
01:32:10
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:32:11
Speaker 18: I could keep going for an hour about that. Yeah, because I had a Niee working from home doing police checks, and I'm a dinosaur. I thought our private are police checks if you do them at home. But the other thing is. I was talking to a building inspector yesterday and because you were talking about the Snow River scheven, we just got about the blowout and the blow out.
01:32:39
Speaker 1: From two billion dollars to forty two billion dollars.
01:32:43
Speaker 18: Yeah, but our tunnel was supposed to be one point two billion here and now it's over twenty something billion dollars. So that's going out, and they reckon. There's sinkholes and other problems the ground waterways that are going to cause problems in it. And the other thing. The steel works has been closed for five weeks and they're having trouble getting building materials for houses at the moment.
01:33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a compounding problem, there's no question about that. Of course, Wiler is so old that it's obviously going to continually need upgrading and replacement and refurbishment and costs.
01:33:27
Speaker 18: We've still got, you know, gunter rowing tax and they are finance people still running the place. And how much are they taking.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, you asked some pretty good questions there, Murray, for which I don't have any answers. But state governments and federal governments open tab bring out the credit card. The debt goes up and up, and up. Yesterday the premiere spoke about the Wireles steel works.
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Speaker 23: In the operation of the blast fenace, the future is a key consideration of all of the proponents that are bidding for the steel works.
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Speaker 1: So meanwhile the costs go up and up and up. David, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 17: Now I love it when people get on their high horse because they see energy companies making a lot of money and they want to charge them ay win full tax. And look, I had a thought about it, and then I thought about the tax that Indonesia was going to charge to have boats go through. But it's a little bit worse than that. What it means is that if we put a export duty on our gas, which is essentially what the government is going to do, what if they decide to repay the favor and put a twenty five export duty on the petrol coming to Australia.
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Speaker 1: How do we know they haven't got that already.
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Speaker 17: Well, I don't think they would have, but if they decided to go down this road, and that would take around about our donecy calculations just so that's twenty five percent. You're looking, well, look, you take maybe thirty forty billion dollars out of the Australian economy from inflated petrol prices. Well, how do you know it's not. There's no documentation of the charging with full taxes on petrol coming to Australia.
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Speaker 1: All of highlights, all of highlights, David, is the vulnerability of Australia, doesn't it? I mean that we are so dependent on other countries for so much.
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Speaker 17: Well, well, I rang my local member and I said to her. I said to her, Oh, you're missing something here. I said, our energy security is in Asia. Why don't you build twelve financy? Oh that would cost seven hundred billion dollars. Refinal I said, how do you want to you want us to find out? Yes, I want you to start right now, I said, I want you to. I want you to fund it right now. I said, because if there is an Asian conflict and our petrol security is cut off, then it's all that's game over now, you can't. What happens is when we go into recession, all the world's go into recession, governments start to change. And if you look at history, Asia's had a very very turmin a lot of turmoil in their government. So if you have a government change or a policy change or if China wants to start conflict and it cuts off our fuel security, then we are very vulnerable. I think we should and Albernies is running around doing all these deals, but there's no talk about in building oil refineries because he doesn't want to upset the greens. Now I've done some figures, so we've got he wants to go all green, right, so I've done some figures. I've looked at they tried to look at the biggest solar panel park in Queensland that uses about four thousand square four thousand acres, right, and that does half a gigawatt. Well, we need about three hundred of them to supply Australia's energy, so we're going to cover four thousand. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. The amount of land was going to be covered with solar panels which have to be replaced every twenty years, and the maintenance and the cost and the batteries. It's what Albanize in the Labor government have set up is and their ideas and their philosophy is about being a world leader in energy is absolutely nuts. I just can't believe the government's so stupid and he's had three years to deal with this. Like when you see a conflict start up in Israel, you know that it's going to spread to the Middle East, you know, and almost they should have started building fuel security three years ago and we wouldn't have this problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think it started a lot earlier, Matt David and thanks so much for your call. I mean, this has been successive governments. There's no question about that that we've flown in the face of having fuel security for twenty years or more. I think it's twenty years since we had the stories that we're supposed to have. Nowhere around the thirty day mark and the Prime Minister has dashed off overseas to secure some fuel and he comes back with a million barrels or something like that, which is enough oil for us for a day something like that. Yet, no, we've got to look at the much bigger picture than that, and unfortunately successive governments have let us all down. My number is eight double two three double o double. We're going to take a break for news. Then we're going to take a look at the latest round of inflation numbers, and unfortunately they're not good.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was the news that we didn't want to hear, but unfortunately we have heard it. Inflation rate has risen from three point seven percent to four point six percent. Let's make some sense of it with Adelaide University Credit Union SA Chair of Economics, doctors who in Stane doctor, Good morning, thanks for joining us.
01:39:02
Speaker 9: Good morning, Graham.
01:39:04
Speaker 1: Any surprise in these figures.
01:39:07
Speaker 9: No, Actually the markets were betting four point six so they actually got this one completely right.
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Speaker 1: So where too from here? How is the IRBA going to take a look at it?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the real concern is that, as expected, it's really transport and charges and logistics that are driving this number because and fuel price increases. So it's really being driven by the immediate impacts we've seen coming out of the war and the closing of the Strait. What we're not seeing yet are the follow on impacts. So what's happening to all the manufacturers who are having to now produce things at this higher cost of energy and fuel. Those prices through goods have only just started coming through, So we're seeing a little bit of an increase in clothing prices and accessories things like that that have big logistics costs associated with them, but we haven't seen the production costs. So what I'm saying is that I think there's an excellent chance the RBA will raise rates because they know this is coming, so they won't want to wait and be reactive. They're going to want to try to clamp down on this input cost inflation before it really takes hold.
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Speaker 1: And there's an question. When fuel prices go up, it impacts every aspect of our lives, from you know, the man on the lands through the consumer.
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Speaker 9: That's exactly right. And you know, it was interesting because I was looking at the numbers for Adelaide and where Adelaides always had and we have been running a bit higher inflation rate than the rest of the country, and that continues. Our rate went up by four point nine percent. Only Hobart had a larger increase, and most of that's coming from logistics. But previously it had come from things like recreation and travel, and now it's really as I said, it's coming from logistics and clothing and accessories and transport fees are really what's driving you know, South Australian inflation right now.
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Speaker 1: So looking at these figures, it would suggest this is not the end of the inflation increase.
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Speaker 9: No, I don't think so. I think that you know, we're seeing, you know, people buying products that have already been in inventories or that have been produced before the war, and then coming in the months coming up, we're going to see those products that have been produced with energy prices after the war. So I would think that we're going to see more widespread inflation in the coming months.
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Speaker 1: To the simple mind, we sort of say, you know, the Abbia as interest rights to to cut back on spending, but doesn't increase fuel prices effectively do the same thing we pull back in other areas.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it is true, it's it's and and as I said, you can see that even in Adelaide, we don't see much on travel, you know, it's been down, and and also you know holiday spending that's all down for the month of March, so people have been transferring spending to other areas. But what they're also worried about is just widespread inflation across you know, businesses as well. And they're they're also worried about expectations. And this is the tricky part because if people start to think, yeah, we saw with the with the petrol prices when they went down, petrol outlets were experiencing, you know, huge cueues or even running out of fuel because people were buying in the expectation that the price would go up, and that puts obviously pressure on prices going forward. And if that starts to translate into other areas of the economy, then then it becomes a real problem. And so what the RBA wants to do is to ensure that they are taken seriously that they're going to do what it takes to get inflation down because inflation hurts everybody, and they're going to be very much wanting to signal to markets that this is this is. They don't want markets to build in expectations of future price rises because that just becomes self fulfilling.
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Speaker 1: Is it three infrat rates rises? We've had them around, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 9: Well if we if we yeah yeah yeah, and then.
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Speaker 1: We sorry sorry, would we would we expect this to be a rise in the same magnitude or lodgia.
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Speaker 9: That I think is going to be the big question. I think that the markets are pricing in a twenty five basis points, so the same type of increase that we've been seeing waiting to see and hope that if the war does end and these cost impacts are short lived, that we may be able to come out of it without the RBA having to be too aggressive. So a lot of it does depend on what happens in the Middle East.
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Speaker 1: Labor have the fuel excise for three months? Would that have had an impact?
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Speaker 17: Yes?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you see that in the prices coming down and the GST as well. They cut having to pay the TST on fuel, so that that's why we're seeing prices around Adelaide below one one dollar eighty, So we're that's coming in, but that's just recent so it won't be reflected in these numbers. It'll be in April's numbers.
01:44:49
Speaker 1: It's less than two weeks till Jim Chomman's hands down his budget. Would he be taking the lightest interest rights into account before he brings down the budget.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I would think he's going to. I mean, they'll announce. It's only a week, but I think they'll He had said they're going to come up with some scenarios and how that may impact the budget that they're going to present, and I would assume that you know that scenario is going to include having maybe fifty basis points increase or having more rate increases going forward, and what impact that has on the budget. They'll know for sure, because as I said that, the RBA will announce their decision a week before the budget comes out, so they will have time to tweak numbers if that's the case.
01:45:39
Speaker 1: Finally, any advice for consumers.
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Speaker 9: People, Yeah, do need to you know, evaluate their spending, follow the government's advice. I guess about not trying to drive if you don't have to. Some people don't have a choice but to minimize that and to you know, if you can, you know, put off a big purchase or you know, try to decide how you're going to distribute your earnings. Because on the plus side, your savings rates should start to go up. We should see increases in things like term deposits or even in you know, your savings account at the bank. Those rates, so it becomes beneficial to save at this time.
01:46:22
Speaker 1: So there is somewhat of a silver lining.
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Speaker 9: There is a small one, but it's there.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Stone, Thanks so much, always great, Dr Susan Stone, and yeah, buckle up, folks. We're in for a bit of a bumpy ride. Inflation is on the rise or has risen, and the next we will hear from the RBA and what they're going to do with the interest rates. And a short time ago, Jim Chalmers spoke about the latest inflation rate figures.
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Speaker 24: Obviously, the most substantial impact on this inflation data comes from fuel prices. Automotive fuel rose thirty two point eight percent in March to be up twenty four point two percent through the year. And to consider the impacts of fuel in the month of March, remember that automotive fuel fell seven point two percent in the month of February, So the impact of fuel alone is adding point eight percentage points to annual headline inflation. So what we're seeing here is largely a story about international pressures playing out at the bowser. But in the coming months we expect the impact of this oil shock to be felt more broadly across prices and across the economy as well, broad enough to impact on the trim demean data as well. So we already had an inflation challenge in our economy, we know that before the conflict, but the tickup in the monthly headline data today was driven by the conflict, and this walk drive inflation up even higher before it comes back down again. We've seen the war play out in headline inflation today, and we know that it will be increasingly reflected in other measures of inflation in the coming months as well.
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Speaker 1: Treasurer Jim Chalmers, speaking on inflation, the rate rising from three point seven to four point six percent, like only your thoughts on it eight double two three double oh, Dan says, someone better tell the RBA, or tell the RBA can't control fuel prices or the around war through interest rates, They'll plunge the country into a recession long before the war is over. David says, the cost and time taking to build a snowy pumped hydro we could now have a functioning nuclear power station or two forty two billion dollars for the snowy two project, and well it's forty two billion and counting because it is not completed. Should have been completed years ago. And David says, while it is not proximity bias, I was not promoted as I did not have a university degree and yet was expected to train people who did have a degree on how to do the job. David, that is an awful story, and I've heard the same sort of thing happening before, purely because you didn't have letters after your name or on. I've heard of the people and they've had to train people who do have university degrees who don't know how to do the job. You train them, they get the promotion, and you get a pat on the back if you're lucky. Your thoughts A double two to three double is the number to ring five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings turning to twelves. Still time for your core on any issue of the day. Something we've been talking about, something that takes your fancy not to hear from you. Well, what's happened with the stock markets? After the announcement that the interest rates have gone through the roof? The all odds currently done by one points, asx two hundred is done by four points. Oil Brent crude still going for one hundred and eleven US dollars barrel, West Texas crewed at ninety nine US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar buying seventy one point seven US sense. So the interest rate gone from three point seven to sorry, the inflation rate so many numbers in front of me, the inflation rate correction correction correction. The inflation rate has gone from three point seven to four point six percent. What are your thoughts on that? On a different subject, Sue says, I use an address book. This is going back to the passwords and why passwords are on the way out. Pass keys are the way of the future. I use an address book, says Sue, with the little letters on the right hand side for quick access to store my passwords and pins, et cetera. I don't often need it, but I keep it in a very safe place you never know. Good on you, Sue, Thanks for that. Yeah, how do you store your passwords if you've got fifty sixty eighty whatever, like if you use the one So I've only got one password, I use it for everything. Well, you're in trouble doing that, But how do you store your passwords? Anyway? All this past key stuff is all leading to us being locked into a digital system ready for a cashless society. Here they are complaining about all the troubles of hacking and scams, but they're all on the digital system. So what we need is less internet. I'm terribly sorry that is not going to happen, but I sort of tend to agree with you. Well, the King made an impressive speech in front of Congress this morning our time, thirteen no less than thirteen standing ovations and an admiring audience of Congress. The President wasn't there because it's not protocol for the President to be in Congress, but he was listening. Later on, he held an official dinner at the White House for the King and the Queen.
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Speaker 25: Before we really begin, I want to congratulate Curls on having made a fantastic speech today at Congress. He got the Democrats to stand.
01:51:53
Speaker 2: I've never been able to do that.
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Speaker 25: I couldn't believe it.
01:52:02
Speaker 10: They liked him more than they've ever.
01:52:03
Speaker 25: Liked any Republican or Democrat actually, So I just want to thank you.
01:52:08
Speaker 10: Congratulations. It's not an easy thing to do. That's a tough place.
01:52:12
Speaker 1: And after the President of King Charles had this design as the.
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Speaker 12: United States celebrates this very special anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, and may I also just start by paying tribute to your own courage and steadfastness, as well as to your security services for their swift actions on Saturday evening in preventing further injury. My thoughts, my thoughts, and sympathies are very much with you, the First Lady, and all those guests for whom this must have been a very upsetting incident. As the words of that famous anthem remind us, this is the land of the free and home of the brave. As your own response demonstrates what used to be called in the last war in the United Kingdom.
01:53:16
Speaker 10: Keep calm and carry on.
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Speaker 1: He knows how to work an audience, There's no question about that. The Queen his mother was excellent. There's no question about that, mind you, she still only received three standing ovations. King Charles received thirteen standing ovations before and the Congress. But it is remarkable how in retrospect some of the things that King Charles had to say were very strong and powerful. But the words that he used, the terms, and the way it was couched, he got the message across didn't offend anybody, but the message was sheeted home no less. And we spoke to Cameron Walker, who was a royal watcher a little bit earlier today, who came up with a fascinating reason, because there is no question that Donald Trump has somewhat of a love affair with the royal family, and he obviously gets on well with King Charles, and you can see the rapport and the way I mean normally, Donald Trump when he has other dignitaries, foreign leaders around the world, he assumes the role of leader of the free world and the most important person in the room. He doesn't appear to do that when it comes to having royalty in the room. And maybe, as Cameron Walker had to say, this is the reason.
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Speaker 7: And a fun fact for you.
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Speaker 11: The Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom uncovered this morning that King Charles is actually President Trump's fifteenth cousin, dating back from a relative of James the Seconds through a President Trump's mother's line. So yeah, I think of that, and President Trump actually tweets it, put on his chief social platform about it and said that's nice. And I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace, is what he said.
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Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, So a lot of rapport and good humour going on between the President and the King, which I would think is good for UK US relations because it has been quite cool between the President and Kierstam and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. No doubt the King's visit was largely predicated on re establishing relations and it would appear that that has been done pretty well. Indeed from the text line typical HR with their ever extending range of biases. Thank you Graham. All this past key stuff is leading us to being locked into a digital system. Is that the case on the subject. When we were speaking with Cameron Walker earlier, and we've had excerpt from the King speaking with in front of Congress, somebody ran up and said, I believe I believe the King had some humorous lines. Well, this was one of them.
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Speaker 12: Now, as you may know, when I address my own parliament at Westminster, we still follow an age old tradition and take a member of Parliament hostel, holding him or at Buckingham Palace until I am safely returned. These days we look after our guests rather well, to the point that they often do not want to leave. I don't know, mister speaker, if there were any volunteers for that road here today.
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Speaker 1: He could have been a stand up comic. Although choice stand up comic King. He's probably happy with the choice he's made. It took him a while to get to ascend to the throne, but there you go. So the question I posed earlier and I'll pose it again, are there alarm bells or should they be alarm bells ringing over live golf in Adelaide? It comes about seeing a tournament in New Orleans. Live golf has been delayed and it's prompted speculation that it could signal deeper instability for the Saudie backed league. Now we know the Sordies are can considering their commitment and without Sorty money, there is no live golf tournament. Despite assurances from CEO Scott O'Neill, questions remain. Will long term funding persist now for Adelaide, which is embraced live as a marquee event. We're pouring in lots of money, particularly with the North Adelaide redevelopment forty five million dollars to redevelop the North Adelaide golf course so it is an international standard course, befitting international golfers. Will it end up being a forty five million dollar spend only for weekend hackers and amateur golfers? Is that a good investment of money? I guess time alone will tell. After one this afternoon, it's Stacy Lee who joins men. Now, Stacy, how are you good?
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Speaker 5: How are you?
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Speaker 7: Graham good?
01:57:40
Speaker 1: Thanks? I'm getting bored with saying isn't it a wonderful day, beautiful weather?
01:57:44
Speaker 10: It really is.
01:57:44
Speaker 1: Though it's going to end, we know that it's just beautiful.
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Speaker 7: We'll enjoy it while we've got it.
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Speaker 8: And I will be talking about the Live Golf postponement. Yeah, they're calling it a postponement of the Louisiana event.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it could be a port of things to come.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and it seems like that the reporting last week, as you mentioned, that the private investment fund, which is backed by the Saudi regime, is reconsidering their funding, which, yeah, as you say, means live golf might not go ahead if they're not doing that, do we There's going.
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Speaker 1: To be no White Knights. I mean, it's not like someone else will come out of the woodwork and say, oh, we'll fund this tournament.
01:58:19
Speaker 15: No.
01:58:20
Speaker 1: I mean it only existed because of the Saudi money and they've got so much of it and they wanted to spend it a certain way, and if they decide to dry it up, that will be the end of live golf.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yep.
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Speaker 8: So I'll be continuing that conversation this afternoon. Yesterday I think was the day that the state government took carriage of the golf course, and I think parts of it started to be closed off.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the timing is just well, I was going to say impeccable, that's not right. But I mean if the redevelopment was to be in two or three months time, when you know we had a better idea what's happening with liv golf. But right at this very moment, the decision to go ahead, we could be paying for it.
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Speaker 7: Well, we will be paying for it of the outcome.
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Speaker 1: Oh way, that's the thing. And it's forty five million dollars. I mean to upgrade a public take live golf out of the equation, to upgrade a public golf course at a cost of and this is the original lessonment forty five million. And we happen to know that these sort of projects go over budget usually, so well, let's stick with forty five million. It's a lot of money to pay for a public golf course, a lot.
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Speaker 8: Of tax payer money in an economy like this. Lots of people questioning that. So yeah, I'll take your calls this afternoon if you have some thoughts on it. Eight double two to three double OW. I'd also like to know who's your celebrity crush? Because you just played a little bit of King Charles. During that speech, Donald Trump had this to say, Oh, I think you've got a bit of a grab there.
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Speaker 7: Look the orange one.
01:59:48
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I have found it.
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Speaker 25: I also remember saying very clearly, Charles, look young Charles, He's so cute.
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Speaker 1: That's my mom.
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Speaker 10: My mother had a crush on Charles.
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Speaker 1: Can you believe it?
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Speaker 9: In front of her, the king, in front of King Charles.
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Speaker 1: And I think there's a bit of a bro mance going on there too. I think I think Donald is quite a nabbed with Charles.
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Speaker 8: So, Donald Trump's mum her celebrity crush was well at that time, Prince Charles. So I'd like to know from you this afternoon, who's your celebrity crush?
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Speaker 22: Do you have one?
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Speaker 1: Do you have a celebrity crush? Like off the top? No, I might incriminate themselves. No, what about you?
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Speaker 22: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I like a rugged man. I was a vin Diesel girl.
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Speaker 8: I liked those what were the car movies called the ones I'm looking at Sandy and Fury.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I was in Diesel girl.
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Speaker 10: Wow, looking at me like that doesn't suit you?
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Speaker 8: That's what I found right, yes, but we'll be talking about that this afternoon. We have Tech Talk with Richard Pasco and from Friday. If you were thinking about getting battery or solar on your rooftop and taking advantage of the subsidy that the federal government had in place, it's changing. So we'll have the team from ME NRG Solar in the studio to answer your questions on that because we always get lots of questions, lots of people interested in it.
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Speaker 1: Brilliant cooding here, Stacy. Thank you, Stacy Lee. Coming up this afternoon at one. That's it for us, Thanks for your company. We'll be back tomorrow and do it again
Speaker 1: And a very good morning to you. Welcome to this Wednesday, twenty ninth day of April, second last day of the month. Can you believe it? Weather wise? Dear, oh dear, it's just remarkable, crazy, crazy, crazy, but we love it. We're going to end the month with temperatures in the high twenties. We're going to find out exactly what's happening with the seven News, whether presenter Casey tra Law. How much longer can it last? Why is it so? And should we prick the bubble? Should we? Well, we do want rain, don't we for people in the bush? We don't that question that at all. But it is great and enjoy it while it lasts. Also on the show today, you've heard throughout the morning on five Double A the huge fire that has burned up the Mustard Seed restaurant two million dollars damage. The cause is yet to be determined. Five Double A's Matthew pan tell Us is on the scene. We'll have a chat with Matthew a little bit later on this morning to see what the latest information is. Is working from home jeopardizing your chances of promotion? Now we know all the pluses from working from home, all the benefits and that's good, but it would appear that that might put your chances of getting promotion at work in jeopardy. We'll speak with Professor Gary Martin about that. He believes that this is the case. So think very carefully if you're deciding to work from home. This is going to make you think. There are nineteen billion, that's b with a B, nineteen billion passwords floating around online. Only six percent of them are unique. The other ninety four percent are being reused more often than a dad jacket at Christmas dinner. Hackers say a basic eight digit password is comparable to hiding your key under the doormat. So what can we do about it? How many passwords have you got? How many times do you reuse that one password? Because I can remember this one, and you use it on your bank and you use it on your Netflix account, and you use it on this, that and the other in the newspaper account, and you name it the same password. Well, you're asking for trouble. What can you do about it? What is the secret? We'll find out about that from picca dot com dot I use tech expert Lee stark Our Traditional passwords a thing of the past. Inflation numbers come out today. It doesn't look like it's going to be good news. Experts are predicting inflation are around four point six to four point eight percent petrol driven inflation. What has driven inflation? We'll speak with doctor Susan Stone when those figures come out to find out exactly what we can expect, and no doubt the RBA will be watching very closely. King Charles has varred or warred the US Congress with a message of unity, shared democratic values and climate urgency. He's reinforced historic ties while urging collective action on global challenges facing both the US and the UK. He received twelve standing ovations, so it must have been pretty good when you compare that with the Queen, who was also very popular in the US, she only received three standing ovations. Twelve standing ovations anyway, how exactly was it received, not only in the US but back home. We'll speak with gb News Royal correspondent Cameron Walker about that. And an amazing fact, did you know that King Charles and Donald Trump are related? Yes? They are. It can be traced and we'll talk about that too. Are the alarm bells ringing for Live Golf News? Today that the tournament in New Orleans in the US has been delayed. It's prompted speculation that it could signal deeper instability for the Sardi Back League. Now we've heard already that the Sardis are thinking of pulling their money out of live golf, and of course if they pull the money out, down goes live Golf. Despite assurances from CEO Scott O'Neill, questions persist over long term funding and scheduling disruptions. What does this mean for Adelaide. We've embraced live golf better than any place on the planet. It's a marquee event for this state. Any downturn can have economic and tourism consequences if they pull the pin on live golf. And what of the five million dollar redevelopment of the North Adelaide Golf Course. It's a hell of a lot of money to spend if it ends up being for amateur golfers and weekend hackers alone. So keep an eye on that. Something else that I want to talk about today and something that concerns me, and I don't know if it concerns you or not. I'd like to know your thoughts. A Sydney woman has sparked heated debate after admitting she uses her ADHD diagnosis to successfully appeal parking fines and late fees. Her name is Zoe Sheem. She's a designer. She argues that a condition impairs her memory, her time management, and executive function. She says it makes her not a criminal, just confused. Now she has a leniency letter from a psychiatrist. She claims people with ADHD unfairly hit with an ADHD tax, and this happens through or avoidable penalties. She's launching a petition to force businesses and authorities to offer grace periods, discounted finds, or exemptions for those diagnosed with ADHD. Now, she mentions one incident. She explained how she drove to a shopping center. She parked in a thirty minute time zone, went inside for a coffee before completely forgetting that she'd arrived by car. I went back later, she said, and obviously I got fined three hundred dollars in fact, but that was waived because she had this leniency letter from her psychiatrist.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: While many with ADHD have praised her approach shared similar stories, critics argue individuals should simply use phone reminders rather than expect special treatment. So should people with ADHD. And we recognize that it is a disease that should be treated with respect, But should these people have a special dispensation? Now around one million Australians, five percent of the population have ADHD. So should everyone with ADHD be given a dispensation a leniency letter? So anytime they get a parking fine, a late fee, the late payment, they wave the dispensation letter and the fine is waived. I'd like to know what you think about it. Eight double two three double double is the number to ring. I know it's a delicate area and it's not selling short what ADHD is all about, and it is a true issue with many many people. But are we going a little bit too far? Also on the show today, the latest round of inflation numbers. As I told you, we're going to hear more about that. The coalition's fuel policy. They plan to increase our stocks of fuel to sixty days. Is it a good first step? Well, the Institute of Public Affairs Research of fellow Saxon Davison thinks it is. But are we going far enough? We'll find out more about that a little bit later on, But let's take a call now to see for Trevor. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: Good morning mate.
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Speaker 2: Now, this lady's got a.
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Speaker 1: Driver, Yes she has.
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Speaker 4: What if she can't remember whether it's a red light or a green light?
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Speaker 1: Oh, dear idea, you've introduced a very interesting point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, forgot she had the car.
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Speaker 5: What if she got in someone else's car drove it away?
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Speaker 1: What if she forgot what the speed limit was?
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Speaker 6: That's right, and you're using the excuse ah, you can't have a driver's license and operate from like that.
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Speaker 1: You make a very good point, Trevor, and thanks for your call. Jane says, if that person gets confused with the little things, why is she driving a potential lethal weapon? And if this introduces a whole new factor. I mean, people with ADHD can be fully functioning and get through life very well with a minor exceptions. But if you're looking for a dispensation because you become forgetful and forget that you took your car with you you do have a license. On the line, somebody says, no dispensation for ADHD, too easy to cheat the system. Do I get dispensation for getting old and having become forgetful. Yeah, it certainly opens a can of worms, doesn't it. Good morning Graham, So sorry or seek and sorry of hearing this garbage. No different to using mental health in work. Thank you for that, Lee. What are your thoughts? Eight double two to three double o double Oh. We're going to look at the weather and I tell you what, when it's weather like this, it's worth looking at seven News Weather present a Casey to Law will join us after the break.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Latest inflation figures come out this morning. Doesn't look on think it's going to be good news. We'll speak with our experts from the University of Adelaid Credit UNI SA Chair Dr Susan Stone when the numbers do come out and what it means for you, and me tell you some person, it's not going to mean all that much to you. They're not going to be too worried. Just here that an Adelaide businessman has spent five point one million dollars on a solely yacht. I've seen pictures of it. We don't know who it is. Five point one million dollars on looks like it in the old currency about a sixty or seventy foot yacht. So they're not going to be worried by the inflation figures when they come out. But I guess for the rest of us, yeah, we might be a little worried. Something we're not worried about is the weather. How good has it been. It's just been blissed a remarkable spell of warm weather and we're almost into May. I don't know why it's happening. Do you know why it's happening. Somebody who will probably have a pretty good idea is Casey Tridor seven years weather presenter who joins us now, Casey, good morning to you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, isn't this bizarre?
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Speaker 8: We are very much well and truly into autumn, and well, certainly you know, during the day and into the evenings, I feel like sort of balmy, somewhat late summer evenings as well, sort of weather you'd expect in March. But no, as you say, the first of May is on Friday, and that's going to be our warmest day this week up to twenty nine.
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Speaker 7: For Adelaide. There are some.
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Speaker 8: Areas of the state though, where we could see May daytime temperature records go as a result, But yes, Look, the reason for this weather, there's a big high pressure system that's sitting in the Tasman. If you look at the way on a synoptic charts that that high pressure spins, it's basically directing all this air from Central Australia right across Southern Australia. If you think it's Central Australia, it's generally pretty warm there. So all these warm airs has been dragged right across the state. We've also got pretty calm conditions as well, so you know, it's been really lovely to be out and about in the last week or so. However, we will see these winds strengthen toward the end of the week, so these northerly winds will pick up. That will generate a little bit more heat as well. Hence the top temperature of twenty nine up on Friday, that is. But then behind that those strengthening northerly winds was a big change coming on the weekend, so we're keeping an eye.
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Speaker 9: On that one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, look before we get to the change. Look, I can't think of a run of weather like this in April. I mean, is it totally out of the bomb.
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Speaker 9: No, it's not.
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Speaker 7: Actually if we look at the numbers.
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Speaker 8: Last April, we had five days in a row above thirty degrees and we haven't haven't actually had anything quite like that yet this April.
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Speaker 7: So that was quite extraordinary last year.
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Speaker 8: But you'll remember last year it was incredibly dry, incredibly warm right throughout that first half of the year. You know, that led to those drought conditions, which was pretty hard for us. But certainly we've had a little bit more rain at the start of this year, which is a bit more promising, and the idea of you know, usually around Anzac Day we hope to see some decent rain.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's right, rains on Anzac Day. That's sort of the break in the season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Now, so I know you're a girl from the land. I must admit, being a city slicker, we tend to get a little and I remember once upon a time I actually had to do the weather for Channel seven, many many moons ago, and I was sort of gleefully saying, you know, just beautiful, magnificent weather, And I got this deluge from farmers saying it's the beautiful for you in the city, but for us on the land, it's not so good. So it's a double edged sword, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely well, look, Graham, is it absolutely depends on who you talk to. I caught up with an apple some apple growers in the hills the other day, and their system relies purely on tourism. So of course they want good weather for people to come up and pick their own apples, but equally they need a little bit of rain too to keep their orchards healthy as well.
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Speaker 7: So look, it depends who you speak to.
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Speaker 8: But of course, yes, traditionally this time of year, an Zac Day, farmers are wanting to put some seed in the ground. They've got to have that moisture in the soil to get going. And also they need this weather now while it is still somewhat warm. The problem is when the rain comes too late, it's already too cold and the grass and crops and things can't grow. So we really need this rain to start now while we've still got a bit of warmth and sunshine to really, you know, get that food in the ground growing.
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Speaker 1: The only decent rain I can think of that's happened in the last six or eight weeks is the gather around weekend where it bucketed down.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that was quite extraordinary, quite extraordinary indeed, and then of course the following weekend we had perfectly fine and sunny weather, so I'm sure they gather around organizers would have loved a flip of a flip of conditions. But yes, showers this weekend. So it's not looking like massive totals. We're not sort of talking twenty or forty millimeters, but certainly over a sustained peerage. So over the Saturday, the Sunday, and the Monday, maybe into the Tuesday, we're looking at some wet weather.
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Speaker 7: Particularly about southern parts of the state.
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Speaker 8: So this is really going to benefit those around the hills, those in the southeast Kangara Island, your Peninsula, Lower Air Peninsula, and parts of the West Coast as well. So these areas that obviously are going to need this rain. But over that three sort of four day period, we could see anywhere between five up to twenty, maybe even thirty milimeters. That's going to be really really handy for this time of year.
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Speaker 1: Just getting back to those on the land and we feel for them. There has been some rain, some good rain. I've spoken to some way say effectively we're still in drought. Is that the case.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, I've sort of I'm regularly in contact with farmers as well. When I go, you know, I try and put a little bit of a positive spin if I can. I said, oh, the recent rain's been good, and they go, well, yeah, but it's not enough.
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Speaker 7: So we'll look.
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Speaker 8: The last three years of drought have been incredibly tough on our farmers, incredibly tough on the landscape, and it's done some you know, some long term damage we could say, to the health of our soils and our paddocks and farms.
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Speaker 7: So yes, it will take quite some time.
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Speaker 8: And sadly, although this year doesn't look anywhere near as bad as recent years, it is still looking below average.
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Speaker 7: So we really need a couple of years really.
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Speaker 8: Of above average rainfall for these parts of South Australia to really get back on their feet and get back to sort of normal levels so they can start, you know, really reaping really profitable crops again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and diesel prices to drop.
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Speaker 8: So absolutely, and the fertilizer that's going to throw a real curve ball to you know, farmers obviously really need fertilizer to get those crops going. And with a little bit of a lack of rainfall and potentially no access or very little access to fertilizer, or they're going to be sort of spreading it thin. We certainly won't see the usual bumple crops across the state.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we hope for the best in the future. Just before you go, let's go back to the showdown Friday night. Obviously no sign of rain then no.
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Speaker 8: No, So the warmth is going to hold off and it will feel extraordinarily warm.
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Speaker 7: It'll be the first day of May.
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Speaker 8: But you're really not going to eat the beanies or the scarves or the big jackets. You may even only want the T shirt on Friday night, Grome, it's going to be extraordinary. Seven forty is the start of the game, well after the sun sets, so incredibly warm. We still be about twenty five degrees by the time of the first bounce, and we'll see the mercury sort of hover around the mid to low twenties throughout the game. And one thing that's really interesting to note, the overnight low from Friday into Saturday is nineteen degree, so that's going to be the low temperature for that time. The top temperature on Sunday is only going to be seventeen. So the overnight low on Friday and into Saturday is actually going to be higher.
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Speaker 7: Than the daytime temperature on Sunday.
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Speaker 10: So it's going to be changed the way.
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Speaker 7: Not only rape, it will be yep.
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Speaker 8: So we're going to go from t shirt weather on Friday night to rugging up on Sunday and into early next week.
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Speaker 1: Casey, great to chatter. We'll see you tonight on seven years.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much, Graham Casey for.
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Speaker 1: Aw on the seven News tonight presenting the weather. And that's the case. So I'm sort of out of touch because apparently, as Casey said, last April was pretty warm. In fact, we had days of thirty degrees. Janet says high Gg It's often this warm in April and May. Thirty five years ago, I went to the Adelaid Cup on the seventeenth of May and it was hot. It's often warm at this time of year. Thank you for that. Yeah, how quickly we forget. I drove to do the shopping and forgot I drove and started walking home. Just a part of my busy mind all the time. Unless you have to think, it's difficult to understand. David Parafield gardens. Thank you for that, David ADHD. If that impaired, should they be driving? Thank you very much for that. Yeah, and that's a fair question. And that gets back to the ADHD issue. Should you have a dispensation for paying parking fines and other fees late fees because you have ADHD? Like to know your thoughts. Eight double two three double O double O is the number ring. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Then an awful story from the Adelaide Hills from Harndorff, the famous mustard seed restaurant burnt down Overnight. We'll cross to five double a's Matthew pan tell Us for the latest.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: We'll get the latest on the mustard seed fire shortly from Matthew pan Tellus, but personally as your no doubt of where have you hitd On five double A News. King Charles Overnight delivered a speech to Congress, who's part of his visit to the US to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of American independence. Joining them now is gb Newsroyal correspondent Cameron Walker. Cameron, thanks for joining us. Quite an historic moment for a monarch to address the Congress.
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Speaker 11: Yes, it absolutely was. Only it was the first British king to do so. The first time ever vid monarch did so. It was nineteen ninety one, which was Queen Elizabeth the Second. And in fact this speech seemed to go down far better with the King than it did with Queen Elizabeth the Second because the Queen Elizabeth only got three standing ovations, whereas King Charles got thirteen of them, which perhaps just shows how well it went down with US lawmakers here in the States. And it was quite an uplifting speech. It really I think struck the right balance in terms of his soft power to try and strengthen and reconnect with Americans after what has been quite a turbulent month with the relationship between President Trump here in the States and Prime Minister Sekir Starmer back in London, who have had some disagreements, to put it mildly about these President Trump's stance.
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Speaker 1: On the Iraq War.
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Speaker 11: So this is really was King Charles's chance to try and repair the relationship between the UK and the US.
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Speaker 1: Would there have been much input to the speech from the government back home.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, All speeches with the British monarchs, written in consultation with the British government, and there certainly were some what some have described as political undertones. I don't think that is an accusation that King Charles has been political, but I think it certainly shows that the British government had quite a heavy hand in writing this speech. For example, there was a line in the King's speech where he talks about a commitments to spend more money on defense when the United Kingdom the biggest defense uplifts since the Cold War. That's the line which I've heard government ministers in the UK use quite frequently over the last few weeks. So those kind of little nuggets were slipped into that speech which the King was reading. But of course it is the Prime Minister who as sends the King on the States, visits on behalf of the United Kingdom. So it really is essentially I suppose a cards that there were British government plays by sending the King around the world to strengthen ties between nations.
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Speaker 1: It sounds like he delivered some very strong messages, but he catched them such a term that it was taken by the Congress in the positive way.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely, I think he just kind of hit all the right nails on the head, as it were. So for example, he spoke about nine to eleven and VI atrocity that took place on September eleventh attacks where more than three thousand Americans lost their lives and got a huge rousing applause where he reminded the Americans that the British responded to America invoking Article five of the Noto Treaty an attack on one as an attack on all, and coming to America's age. That reminder is what got the applause. He also spoke about holding power to accounts and checks and balances with executive power. That also went down well with Congress, whether or not he was referring to President Trump. There were the juries out.
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Speaker 1: On that one, and UCUS got quite a mention too.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it absolutely did. So.
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Speaker 11: The Defense True Fee between Australia and the United Kingdom and the United States which was signed not too long ago, that was mentioned the King, of course, as you well know, King of Australia too, so is a big defense pact which also got a standing evation from US lawmakers here because the King was making the point actually that when his mother was here in nineteen ninety one, we arguably lived in a far more peaceful world, and the King made the point that here in twenty twenty six the world is far more turbulence, far more unpredictable, and arguably far more dangerous too.
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Speaker 1: We can see that it was well received by Congress. How was it received back in the UK.
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Speaker 11: On the whole, I think it's been pretty positive coverage here in the UK. I think many people are pointing out the facts that you know, this was arguably one of the most important speeches of the King's reign because all eyes were on him and everyone was looking to him try and repair that risk that has broken out between Presidents Trump and Sekir Starmer and then by default the UK and the US as a whole, and it was the King's role to bring us back together and reconcile and reset that relationship. Because, of course, the whole point of being here is the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Confederation of the United States of America, a country that cut ties with George the third is fifth great grand grandfather, and it's an opportunity, I think for the British public to see what the King can do on the world stage.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 11: A lot of people have also been saying that there were some, as I mentioned earlier, some political undertones to the King's speech, but that's not necessarily a criticism of the King or even the criticism of the labor government. It's just a way of using the King to level up the United Kingdom on the world stage. So on the whole, it's been a pretty positive coverage, but will be interesting to night to see what tonight is in Washington time. Interesting to see what the President says in his speech during the steak dinner, because this will be the first time we have heard from the President directly since the King addressed to Congress, So let's see if he reacts to the speech in any way.
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Speaker 1: What's Donald Trump in Congress for the address.
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Speaker 11: No, he wasn't, so it's not protocol for him to be in the House of Representatives during that address. That role was jd Vance, the Vice President, who is pretty high up in the Senate. The President did actually remark during his speech in the almost south lawn of a White House this morning that he would love to have been there to listen to the King's speech, but pro school doesn't allow it. But he said he would be listening on the television.
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Speaker 1: It would seem from afar from Australia anyway, that Donald Trump is quite enamored by the Royal family and King Charles in particular. He certainly is.
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Speaker 11: I think the President Trump when he invites foreign heads of station and foreign leaders and world leaders to the White House at the West Wing, he always seems very in control. He always seems quite matcho. He always seems like the top dog, likes the most important person in the room. I noticed the difference when King Charles has stood next to him. There is a mutual respects there, there is a kind of majesty about it because and he mentioned this actually this morning, his mother, who was a lady called Mary MacLeod, was born in Scotland on the Irish on this Scottish Heberty in Ireland sorry of Stornaway, and absolutely adored Queen Elizabeth. And I think that love of the monarchy and the Royal family that King Charles has President Trump even has grown up with. So he has this huge respects for the Royal family in particularly King Charles as head of state. And a fun fact for you, the Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom uncovered this morning that King Charles is actually President Trump's fifteenth cousin, dating back from a relative of James the Seconds through a President Trump's mother's line.
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Speaker 10: So yeah, I think of that.
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Speaker 11: And President Trump actually tweeted put on his chief social platform about it and said that's nice. And I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace, is what he said.
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Speaker 1: Cameron, thanks so much for your time today. GB News Royal correspondent Cameron Walker on King Charles delivering a speech to Congress at which, as Cameron mentioned, ORCUS was discussed and Australia mentioned, we.
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Speaker 12: Are building F thirty five's together and we have agreed the most ambitious submarine program in history, ORCUS, and we are doing it in partnership with Australia, a country which I'm also immensely proud to serve as sovereign.
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Speaker 1: King Charles, addressing Congress thirteen standing ovations as opposed to his mother's three, very well received, and he delivered some very very strong messages in only the way a royal could. He made a point that didn't upset anybody in Congress, would appear not to have upset Donald Trump, but The message came through loud and clear well, a message from the Adelaide Hills abnite and a tragic one that the Mustard Seed restaurant fire causing major damage at the scene early this morning. Matthew Pantellus he joins us. Now, Matthew, good morning, morning Grain a full line of day. Now, how extensive is the damage?
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Speaker 13: Look, it's destroyed inside, completely black looking at the front. This building was an old home originally and built around nineteen hundred give or take. But the tin roof is buckled in. You can see at the top of the roof, just under the roofline, the stone work has parted so you can see daylight through. It looks as if it will need demolition. I mean, obviously an engineer will make that decision, but it's hard to imagine this building surviving this fire. It was ferocious and the videos that are on our website now and social media pay tribute to that. It was just a fierce, fierce fire. Seventy five firefighters a dozen or more appliances here MFFCFS rushing to harmed Orf at eight. There is a motel just behind here, and I understand from someone who was in town for a Tuesday night wedding. In fact in the town was staying there and they had to leave the wedding to move their items out of their rooms. The nearest rooms to the back of this restaurant the Mustard Seed, so the rooms had to be evacuated at the height of the blaze and in case it spread. Fortunately it didn't. It was a still night and that helped firefighters get on top of it very quickly. But the flames witnesses describe flames bursting through the windows and quite high through the roof into the night sky as well, so a devastating fire and more to come on this. Police have been here this morning. They have been pouring through the building as in fire cause investigators both MFS and Staphole have been looking through the restaurant. We understand from its hours of operation was to have been open last night as per normal, but it wasn't. It was closed and as a result for lead no injuries to anyone, but.
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Speaker 1: Any earlier any suggestion that was deliberately lit.
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Speaker 13: Not at this stage, but police treating it as suspicious and there they'll make that determination once the Fire Corps investigators go through. A bit earlier Graham. We spoke to Graham Kosler, who has a long history with the house. In fact, his grandfather's brother lived in it. Graham and his family, his father and grandfather operated a blacksmith shop just nearby here, in fact, a couple of doors down from the house that turned into an engineering premises business when he was running it and making a farm machinery for farmers repairs, that sort of thing. But you know, he's devastated looking at his grandfather's brother's house going back to early last century, which has now been absolutely destroyed and likely to be demolished. But here's what he had to say a bit earlier.
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Speaker 14: I consumer from home. We have just headed the back of the car park here, so yeah, I can see it all going up pretty quickly. Oh, I was pretty horrendous. Yeah, it's certainly got going. I mean obviously with cooking stuff in there, it's probably going to be. The eccelerant was pretty amazing. Yeah, well, I reckon that it's fake. It was probably well, the bulk of it probably for a quarter and now twenty minutes yeah again, and then it's sort of come down quite a bit. So yeah, the boys did a great job.
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Speaker 1: Matthew handoff as a pretty close knit community. It will have an impact.
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Speaker 13: Right across absolutely, And I've been speaking to locals here this morning who do feel that. And you know some have beaten here in the past described, you know, the people running it as nice, pleasant, the food good, so you know, they're obviously shocked at what has happened. But this restaurant on its website talks about the fact that they have a mission to help the homeless as well and do some charity work on the side. So and you know, using some of the food obviously from in here. So absolutely devastating. I think the effects will be felt across, as you say, Graham, the community, both business locals and the people who benefited from their good deeds.
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Speaker 1: And no word from the owners as yet, not as yet, not as yet, No thank you for that. Matthew Pantellus on the scene of the mustard seed fire. If you were there, you witnessed it, or you frequented the mustard seed, give us a call, love to hear from you.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twelve to ten on an absolutely delightful Wednesday, twenty ninth day of April, second last day of the month. How beautiful is it. Let's take a look at the stocks. The all odds down by twenty seven points, ASX two hundred down by twenty eight points. The dal Jones closed the day down by twenty five points. NASDAK down two hundred and twenty three points. As for oil, Brent crude up again to one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. West Texas is now at ninety nine US dollars a barrel. Gold dropped by eighty seven dollars to four thousand, five hundred and ninety five US dollars Possie dollar buying seventy one point eight US cents, So Brent crude is now up at a level one hundred and eleven point to whatever, or one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. Will Gooding said on five DOUA a breakfast this morning, made the point that as soon as the war in the Middle East broke out, crude oil at the time I think it was about fifty eight dollars a barrel shot up to eighty dollars, and fuel prices here in Australia just went through the roof from around a dollar seventy five to well, it got up to two dollars fifty. Here we are with Brent crude currently at one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel, extremely high, and yet our petrol prices as low as they've been for some time. I've seen around town a dollar seventy one point five, dollar seventy five point five dollars sixty nine point five. So there is no correlation between an instant rise or fall in oil prices and a change in petrol prices here. Shane Oliver spoke to Will Goldings this morning on breakfast about the reasoning.
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Speaker 15: I think what happened was the original rise in petrol prices at a shot where they should have got to it went too far. I remember my calculation was something that if oil got to know around current levels, then we would have pechyl prices pushing around two dollars ten or something like that, two dollars twenty maybe, And of course we went way beyond that, and he said we've got up to three dollars in Adelaide.
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Speaker 5: I think the average around.
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Speaker 15: Australia and in Adelaide that the high was about two dollars sixty front leaded. So we went way way above what we should have been, and now we're probably undershot. We overcorrected back the other way. There are other factors in there as well. Obviously you mentioned the fuel excise cart, so if we didn't have that, I think GST went full. Was also cautle that the most we sided. Whether there's any much GST windfall now at all. Anyway, given where frightened, calm back down, but that knocked about thirty cents off in total. So we didn't have that, then we'd be we wouldn't be dollars seventy, it would be around two.
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Speaker 1: Dollars AMP Chief economist Shane Oliver. Now, on the thirty first of March, Brent crude reached a peak of one hundred and eighteen US dollars barrel, currently at one hundred and eleven US dollars a barrel. Strange, that isn't it. But we'll take the lower prices while we can get them. A lot of interest in this Sydney woman who sparked heated debate after admitting she uses her ADHD diagnosis to successfully appeal parking fines. Now she was fined three hundred dollars for leaving her car in a thirty minute zone. She forgot she'd taken the car, and she went in for a coffee, finished a coffee, and walked home, only to find out, oops, I left my car there. She went back was faced with a three hundred or of fine. Then she produced a leniency letter from her psychiatrist, which she says everyone with ADHD should get because they tend to be forgetful. She said, she's not a criminal, just confus used. What are your thoughts about that? Give us a call? Eight double two three double double O. Should people with ADHD be given a leniency letter, a special disposition because of their condition that they if they pay or I have a fine that's late paid, that they get off, or parking fine that they don't pay because they forgot their car and get off. What do you think, Hi Graham, Jim Savac here, you need to push this school speed zone issue. I travel all over ad Laid as my role as a building supervisor. This morning, coming through Belair, I had a vehicle right up my backside as I slowed down for the forty kilometer an hour rule. Then at Mercedes College nine twenty cars going through this forty k zone at sixty kilometers an hour totally oblivious to the speed restrictions. This needs to be addressed asap, and it's going to end in tears for the motorist, hip pocket and children's safety. The other matter I had with school zones. So if a school has a forty kilometer in our speed limit and there are children present after ours, do I have to drive through at forty or twenty five K's totally confusing. Yeah, Jim, you've highlighted an issue that is confusing a lot of people, generating a lot of revenue for the government. But there are more important issues at stake, children's safety for one, and just the hip pocket of motors for another. So good on you, Jim. Thanks for that. Hi Graham, Bell says, what an interesting world we live in. The King traveled to the USA and addressed Congress and gets a standing ovation for saying what Trump had been trumpeting pardon the pun since his presidency, same message, different person. There were no kings protests when an actual king came into town. A bizarre world. Indeed, thank you for that, Bell, and Bridget says, No, I am a late diagnosed ADHD woman definitely has made life tough, but have held done a full time job for many years, arriving to work on time, and as someone said, there are reminders on mobiles. Yeah, look, it is a bit hot. I think nobody's aren't underselling the significance of ADHD and the issues that it can cause, but suggesting that because you've had an ADHD you need a leniency or deserve a leniency letter. So if you forget to pay a fine or park in the wrong spot, you wave the letter and the fine has waived. It seems going a little bit too far from me. Eight double two to three double o double oh is the number to ring in a world of not so good news. I had to smile last night the story of LB the Jack Russell. The story unfolded earlier in the week Elbe a little Jack Russell was stuck thirteen stories up high on a Sydney high rise. He'd been lost for two days. Then there was this dramatic rescue and the pictures were sensational. Well, last night on TV we saw video of LB. He was just taking a walk, none the worse for where after his scary ordeal? What is it about animals? Now? If that had been a person stuck for two days they'd still be recovering from the trauma and maybe never get over it. But there was LB taking a walk like nothing happened. You've got to love dogs stories like that, don't we. In amongst all the doom and gloom in the world, the story of LV brings a smile to your face.
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Speaker 5: John, Good morning, Good morning you a lovely little story that was.
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Speaker 1: Was it fantastic?
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Speaker 5: Yeah? Yesterday, were coming through past Brighton High School half past three. There was the news the night beforese code the business about the forty kones. Everyone slowed down, everybody. Yeah, so the message had is just how to get out. There's ridiculous that the government didn't make a big deal about because they just wanted the money.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the cynics view. But you've got a question because the government spent a lot of money on advertising, promoting things they need to be promoted on the federal government, you know, telling us to save fuel, spending twenty million dollars on how to save fuel. You know, this is about saving lives.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he look, there is one thing have you done Jenny Road lately? Then mostly street area not for a month or so? Okay, Well they're put in traffic lights caught on Moseley and Jetty Road. Now that for an innovation after one hundred years. As you turn we're at some of the das we hit Jetty Road and turn left, installed a pedestrian crossing with traffic lights and no one sees it that people are driving through red light. And it's just the most ridiculous Instead of a pedestrian crossing you've ever seen, it's about fifteen meters from the intersection. As you turn around, you just don't see the light on the left because you just can't see.
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Speaker 1: It just fifteen meters from the other section. Yeah, it is ridiculous. Yeah, things come up with that sensational idea.
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Speaker 5: Anyway. Yeah, people just go straight through the red light and people are on the road.
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Speaker 1: So exactly where is it? John? So people can be warned.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So if you're coming along Mogu Street from south to north, you hit Jetty Road as you turn left going to Mosley Square, there's the traffic light, the pedestrian crossing.
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Speaker 1: All right, good on your John, to be for warned us to be for if you see anything happening on on the roads that you think we should know about them, advising other five double A listeners and motors, it'd be a good idea eight double two to three O on the text line, we need the cold and rain to get rid of mice. Do we have a mouse plague or don't we? If you're on the land at the moment. There are suggestions that as there is a mouse plague on the way, obviously the weather we're having at the moment isn't helping. But there are also supposed to be plagues of insects and flying ants and so forth. Mind you, we had we had an invasion. I didn't think there were ants, flying ants, but little mini flies that just appeared out of nowhere. The light was on and the door was open, and all of a sudden, these thousands of little insects. Have you experienced that? Is that happening in your neck of the woods or was it just happening down west Lake's Way? Eight double two three double double is the number ring. We're going to take a break for news. Then after the news, the coalition's come out with a fuel policy. It's been described as a good first step. They suggest that instead of around thirty days storage, we need sixty days storage. All well and good, but what is that going to cost?
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Speaker 15: Back?
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Speaker 1: Shortly five double A mornings with Graham Goodings thirteen standing ovations? How does that work? Because do you give us a standing ovation, sit down and stand up? I guess you do. But anyway, the King well and truly well received, and he actually even told a few Jackson kept the house smiling.
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Speaker 12: Now, as you may know, when I address my own parliament at Westminster, we still follow an age old tradition and take a member of Parliament hostage, holding him or her at Buckingham Palace until I am safely returned. These days we look after our guests rather well, to the point that they often do not want to leave. I don't know, mister speaker, if there were any volunteers for that road here.
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Speaker 1: Today maybe the King mist his standing or Misty's calling stand up comic? What do you think? A double two three double double the number to ring well? The Coalition leader Angus Taylor is announced to a coalition government would expand fuel reserves to sixty days. The Institute of Public Affairs has welcome the opposition's plan to expand fuel reserves, but does it go far enough? Joining us now is Saxon Davidson a research fellow at the Institute of IPA Institute of Public Affairs, Saxon, Good morning to.
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Speaker 16: You, Good morning, Thank you for having me.
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Speaker 1: So a step in the right direction.
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Speaker 16: It absolutely is. The war in the Middle East has really exposed how fuel vulnerable and how diesel vulnerable we are as a country. And I think that any plan that promises and can actually deliver on expanding our fuel reserve is a good idea and a good policy and one that should be pursued.
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Speaker 1: So how did it get to this. Once upon a time we had fuel refineries around the nation, we produced our own oil, and now we're importing most of it.
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Speaker 16: Well, yeah, it's been a complete, utter failure to have any foresight and a complete failure to maintain our and sovereign capability across both sides of politics, across many decades. And you only have to look at the amount of fuel, all the proportion of fuel that we import over time to really show this. In two thousand and two, we only imported eleven percent of the fuel that we needed of the fuel that we needed to survive, and now we import approximately ninety percent. And this has happened for multiple reasons. One reason is that we have been closing our refineries.
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Speaker 9: Over the last.
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Speaker 16: Couple of decades, and the remaining refineries that we do have we have been regulating under the whole net zero matrix and the net zero policy and emission reduction policies from multiple sides of government, whether it be States.
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Speaker 1: Or fedral If we were to reopen or build new refineries, we'd still have to import the oil though.
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Speaker 16: Wouldn't we Yes, we would, And until we open more oil fields or we start drilling for more oil ourselves, which has been proposed recently by the Chrystal fully government in an oil field that they have discovered, we will continue to import our own fuel, but we do we need to be drilling more for oil and for fuel, and we also need to be refining more of it as well. So I think that expanding the amounts of fuel reserve days, actually keeping a stockpile here in Australia and fuel storage here in Australia and expanding that fuel stockpile from thirty to sixty days is a good idea.
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Speaker 1: Sixty days, though when you look at the IA, they say that nation should hold ninety days, So are we setting the bar too low?
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Speaker 16: I think potentially, but we have to have a start somewhere, you know, we need to get the ball roll at some stage. We certainly need a time frame to get a larger stockpile, larger than sixty days, as the IA does recommend having a ninety day stockpile. But I think getting a headstart and getting a good first step and actually having a conversation about what our fuel reserve should be and what our fuel reserve must be is a good first step. And I hope the Albanesi government follows suit with a policy of their own.
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Speaker 1: To increase our storage. Will come at a cost, and that would mean every Australian taxway would pay for it. How would that translate, you know, sense perlitter? How would we pay?
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Speaker 16: Angus Taylor yesterday said that it would calculate to about one extra cent per liter onto your cost of fuel. But I think and also it was an eight hundred and million dollar cost for the policy itself to twenty thirty, I personally think that it is worth it.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 16: We all know that government spending is at a record federally when you exclude the pandemic, and that obviously this is having an impact on inflation. But this is really an argument we start talking about the cost of government policies, whether it is worth it in the long run. Plain put, there is a lot of government spending that we do that does not match up economically or productively to our society, and that is what's causing the inflation crisis that we are seeing at the moment. There are things, simply put, that the government should spend the taxpayer money on for us to function as a society, and I think fuel security is absolutely one of those things.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't let's move towards more fuel security really cut across the government's net zero unrenewable plan. I mean they really don't want us to be using oil at all.
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Speaker 16: Yes, it would, But to be honest, something else that this war in Iran has exposed is how sort of vulnerable the net zero agenda really is. You know, the Prime Minister isn't traveling across Southeast Asia to get more wind turbines to get or to get more electric vehicles into the country. He's doing it to get more fuel. And obviously refining this fuel is obviously very emission intensive. You know, the government imposes a carbon tax on our last two refineries through the safeguard mechanism. We release some analysis on this earlier this week. The show that to twenty thirty, this carbon tax on our last two refineries in Victoria and in Queensland is going to cost them about one hundred and sixty five million dollars from last financial year to twenty thirty.
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Speaker 1: Islity.
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Speaker 16: Of course, it's affecting their the viability and ultimately we need to exempt them from the safeguard mechanism or at best case scenario, get rid of the policy altogether. Because this sort of net zero agenda doesn't just affect our fuel security. It affects a whole range of other things, whether it be agriculture, whether it be our energy security, and our basic manufacturing. So what I'm hoping is is that out of this disastrous war and out of this sort of fuel crisis that we're experiencing, that we can actually look at how the existing policies that we have affects other areas as well in regard to our sovereign capability.
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Speaker 1: If net zero were to be scaled back, and quite finds how to imagine this current government wanting to do that, But what immediate impact could that have on fuel prices and supply well, we.
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Speaker 16: Would be able to expand our refinery, our refinering of our petroleum products. We would also it would also be easier to actually open more refineries. If there's less green tapes and less environmental concerns being imposed onto refineries obviously to what is required and what is reasonable, then it would actually be easier for us to be able to make our own fuel, to refine it, and to drill for it, which means means that ultimately will be more fuel secure, like ultimately no country is actually immune to the price to global price shocks, Like I'm not going to pretend that there would have been no impact if we didn't have net zero, but the wall still went on, but we'd be able to be more We'll be able to survive it a bit more easier, and also we'd be able to more independently, be able to rely on our cells and not be so vulnerable because as I said earlier, ninety percent of our fuel is important now compared to twenty five years ago when there was just eleven percent. We need to pull the goods and services that we desperately need and are non negotiable for us to survive independently. As a nation, we must be able to be able to, at least to some extent, rely on our sales.
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Speaker 1: Saxon, thanks for your time. That's Saxon Davidson ipa research fellow. So what are your thoughts, folks? The coalitions announcing a government of the Coalition would expand fuel reserves to sixty days. It's still well short of the IA's claim that we should have ninety day supply, but Heckett's double what we have at the moment. Are you would you be prepared to pay a cent e liter extra for petrol? Because that's the estimate by Angus Taylor of what it would cost to install new storage tanks around the nation. Because millions and millions of barrels of oil or fuel is going to take up a lot of space that has to be put somewhere, we have to pay for it. There were suggestions we're talking twelve up to twenty billion dollars for storage. Don't know that it's that much, but would you be preared to pay a cent e liter? Let's know your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double oh more. On those insects in a moment, Russell says, those flies are in plague proportions. Sitting up the river on the weekend, I needed a cover over the top of my wine glass. Oh Russell, you poor thing. My heart bleeds for you. Those miniature bugs are ripe in North Adelaide. I think they're all over, but I all the same type of bugs or different types of bugs. We need a bugologist. What do you call them? A think of the name of a bug person. It'll come to entomology. Is an entomologist something? But someone will tell us back shortly.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, twenty.
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Speaker 1: One past ten and five double A. This delightful Wednesday morning. We can take calls in a moment on eight double two to three double oh. But just before that, Karen says, high Graham, what a lot of sense that gentleman just made. The Greenies have been caught out and we are desperate to be able to stand alone as a nation. I one hundred percent agree with the sixty day storage, and hopefully when we get to sixty days, we'll add another thirty so that we'll never have to have this happen again. Bring back manufacturing, bring back refineries, drill for oil. Thank you for that. On the bugs. Hi gg Those small bugs are at Brooklyn Park. No idea how they get through the flywire and are all around our labs. Good on, Shane, thank you for that. Yuri, You've experienced little bugs too.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to say what I say that your son will and dug out a day. First of before I talk about your perfect entomology. We've got something common. We both have married lovely polish wife, very love exactly exactly, buddy, Okay this and actually part of my job is as a courier that I every morning I go to the wait and deliver fruit flies in an eski to the people to examine them, do what they the second do what they do, and that and that I go to the entomology department. You spot on with that one.
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Speaker 1: So where do you get the fruit flies?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 4: I think they come from the river and they come through our depot in terms of express and we just have a contract where we have I have to have those fruit flies at weight by nine o'clock every morning. And what they do I think they dissect and then send them back out in the field to kill the other ones.
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Speaker 16: It's just not that.
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Speaker 4: Also, they've got different insects and my friend Peter christ there, the one of the boss there's he's got the big cabinets full of hundreds and hundreds of insects on display. He said, you know what, Yuri, I caught every one of them. Absolutely, it's a fascinating department.
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Speaker 16: In Tomolos.
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Speaker 4: The US booms to good.
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Speaker 1: Things, brilliant, good on your Yuri, great to chat. So there it is, and the Uri. Part of his job as a courier is delivering fruit flies for examination. Are they d sex? Is that what we do? I think I've heard of that. They get d SX and then get sent out into the atmosphere where they mate and every you know, all the fruitflies think well, this is all good. We're appropriating. Little do they know they're firing blanks. Hi g G a center leater. That is cheap. How much are we paying and have paid for Bowen's Green dream snowy two point zero now forty eight billion dollars in growing for example, Good on your eck, thanks for that. Let's go out to NORWD. Mike, how are you doing?
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Speaker 17: Okay?
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Speaker 15: Graham?
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Speaker 6: Just you playing a picture as regarding a trip I just did overseas and returned at Adelaide airport with a few gripes. The experience in getting in there now is improved, like getting through the checks with their custom you know, sort of when you do your baggage check, that's a lot more fluid. But on return yesterday there was five hundred and fifty odd people two planes landed internationally, and you've got a lot of tile tied children, etc. After the long trip, et cetera, and old people, and there's only six passport scanner machines working. And you've got like you know, queues of people waiting in the cattle grid, and you've got a gentleman standing there in a suit holding a placard up saying queue here. And then you've got another plane that's dedicated basically for the air crews to get through, you know, And I just don't think it's good enough. I really don't.
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Speaker 1: So there've got sex machines. You're saying that about five hundred people that are waiting to go through at a time exactly right.
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Speaker 6: You know, they've got like you know, a husband and wife they do their as you put it in their scan and you've got your children's ones, et cetera. Machines and then towards the end. When we went out, they actually opened up the customs area where the pilots and all the crew had gone through, and they were manually checking us out sort of thing. And then when we got outside, we went to the taxi rank and there was like forty or fifty people with their suitcases waiting to get taxis. And I spoke to one of the attendants there and I said, where's the taxis, mate? You said there's none. You said, you just got to wait INTEO. And then so we went to Uber and it was much the same. W I just don't think it's good enough. And I mean, like, you've got the flights now coming United Airways flying to America. Now that's the fifteen hour flight, and I just don't think it's up to scratch.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, you make a couple of interesting points there, Mike, regarding taxis and ubers. I mean, maybe fully aware of when the flights are coming in. It's not like, oh, a flight with three hundred people on board has just arrived out of the blue. I mean they would have the schedule, they know when they were flight. So what time of day was this.
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Speaker 6: Around about seven seven thirty in the morning. Oh yeah, I actually think the Adelaide International Airports of Clayton Airport anyway. I mean like you've got a curfew from eleven thirty until five o'clock in the morning. I mean, if you want to come up to standards and make a genuine international airport, you've got to be open twenty four seven, mate. Not you don't have the freight flights and the air ambulance flying, and not international flights when they come in at the same time every morning. And I'll tell you another thing too. We had some stuff that we declared, some boxes that we bought in and we deliberately put there could contain see Jadi Yadi YadA, and we quite expected them to open a box and the woman just said what's in there we told them or whatever, and she said go on through. Now we could have had anything in there and she didn't have a knife and check.
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Speaker 2: Any of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you say not to be desired that place, it really does.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting to say that, Mike, because it's lauded has been such a great airport. Is when you go around the place it is, I mean, it's we're not comparing it to huge airports around the world like Singapore and beyond. But it is a very good airport. But yeah, it might be letting its patronage down if you only have six passport check ins when you've got five hundred people waiting. Jack says, while most of us would be happy to pay an extra cent for petrol storage, it would be appropriate if we deducted a few dollars from the wages of politicians that allowed this stupidity to prevail in the first place. We'd earn a lot from the stupidity, Jack, would we because there are a lot of politicians who have let this go through to the keeper. Ed says, in the words of the King of America, Australia needs to drill, baby drill on the subject of it insects and bugs and the like. We're getting lots of people ringing up. They've been Inundavid We at West Lakes the other night, just out of the blue. It must have come through the FLYWI screen, I think. But these tiny little insects. I've heard that people talk about flying ants. These weren't flying ants. These were like miniature flies. And they're everywhere, and we're getting reports they're all over the place. North Adelaide and prospect and the like. Well, a little bit later on this morning, we're going to speak with Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs. We're going to get to the bottom of this one way or the other.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Lot's to talk about this morning. From ADHD getting a leave pass if you have failed to pay a fine or forget to pay a parking ticket. Two were bugs, ad laiders in and dated with bugs at the moment, what's going on? We're going to find out exactly from Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs. Shortly, I want to talk now about passports, though not passports. I'm thinking of that because we're talking about adlaid airport and is it up to international standard. We'll talk a little bit more about that. If you have any thoughts about adlaid airport and going through customs and the like, I'd like to hear them eight double two to three double o double.
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Speaker 15: Oh.
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Speaker 1: But passwords in what I want to talk about. Do you know how many passwords are in circulation? About nineteen billion. How many of them are effective? Well, you'd be stunned to know that it's about six percent of them are actually unique the rest we keep using and rehashing and regurgitating, is the death of the password about to become imminent. That is the suggestion. Let's have a chat now to Lee Stark pick a dot com dot au tech expert, Lee, good.
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Speaker 10: Morning to you, Good morning man, how are you going good?
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Speaker 1: Thanks? Look, I don't think we all know we need a pass password, because if we don't, you know, life is laid bare to anyone who wants to hack to it. But just how effective are passwords in this day and age.
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Speaker 19: Look, they're necessary, but they're probably not as effective as they used to be, largely because they're easy to break, they're easy to forget, they leak. It's not that you leak them, it's that when someone breaches a database, they get leaked, and so it's problematic to have passwords.
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Speaker 10: In general.
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Speaker 19: We've moved on largely, or we're starting to move on to a technology that started rolling out around twenty twenty three. It's taking some times we actually get to everyone, but basically it's a replacement for passwords, but still sometimes requires that you that you have one, and they're not every account's going to use one, but largely it ties your account to something that you have in your life that you always keep with you, which is your phone. We call this concept a pass key, and it comes in two forms. It's a digital version that exists on your phone. It's largely it's kind of like having two factor authentication, where you would normally get the message, but instead of having to type of password in, it just ties it to that account. So it's a count on your phone, and every time you get a new phone, you transfer those passkeys to that new phone. And the other type of passkey is actually a physical passkey.
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Speaker 10: It's literally a.
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Speaker 19: USB key, but it doesn't actually store anything other than passwords. You can't actually stick it into your computer and move passwords to it. It kind of migrates using special software. So for people who aren't sure that they want to use their phone, which is entirely possible, or that they're so secure that they know they've got too many passwords to constantly check on their phone, the physical pass key is an option that's largely where we've gone. It's because passwords are useful, but they leak, they get broken, and as you said, we use them again and again and again. There are some tips that I can offer to get people out of that. Most services are past key specific or starting to these days.
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Speaker 1: Look, I don't know, I can't think. What is I've got something on my Mac computer that allows me keychain or something like that, And yeah, I checked on all my passwords are there, and I scrolled down. I couldn't believe there would be over one hundred different passwords. I mean, is that typical.
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Speaker 10: That's a small amount.
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Speaker 19: Actually, you've got a smaller amount of real people because every so not every service uses passkey. As I said, it's still it's still rolling out. But every every account that you have has a password attached to it. So you think of all the social media services, now, you think of the music services, you think of your bank, which might not have your password saved. Ever, every service that has an account has a password attached to it, and even parts of your computer, so the application. So on a Mac there's keychain, which on modern mas is actually just an app called passwords, which sinks from your phone to your iPad to your Mac, which is a really handy way of being able to try to recall the password and needing to pace it in when you're on your iPhone. Android doesn't quite have the same thing. Android does have a password system that's linked to Google Chrome. Sore. If you have an Android and you have a PC, or you have an Android and you have a Mac, you can actually find it at passwords dot Google dot com and that'll specifically look at your passwords that jump from phone to your Google Chrome browser.
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Speaker 10: That's how that works.
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Speaker 1: Can they be hacked?
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Speaker 19: It's unlikely they technically can be hacked because it's part of your account, but it's unlikely to be to get your passwords out of your Mac. If someone would break into your Mac, they would have to be able to log into your Apple account, and that already has two factor applied to it, so it's unlikely to get into your Chrome. Same sort of problem. So it's unlikely to get a password manager hacked. It's more likely that a database would be breached, like if someone broke into X or Facebook can link the linked all the passwords and then hopefully you don't only have to change one password, provided they weren't all the same.
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Speaker 1: So let's go back a step or two because a lot of people say, you know, I'm just coming to terms with password. I want to move on a pass key. What is a safe past I don't want to know what are the safe elements of a password? You know, like, obviously, if there are only two digits or something like that, it's going to be easy to hack. How many how many digits do you need or different figures or whatever to make a safe password.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, so, I mean ideally every password should be nonsensor call as in a bunch of random letters and numbers. So you need to need a minimum of one of one upper case letter and one number and a bit of punctuation. It's impossible to tell people, like, if you're trying to remember your passwords, a password manager is always the best solution because it'll save it to the browser. But if you are trying to remember a password and maybe you're writing it down, what I tell people is create your own little cipher, Create your own little little pattern that you can use. So it could be something as simple as I listened to five double A, but you're changing certain elements of it, So you're changing the five might become an S, the A might be one lower case one upper case. That way it becomes a cipher specific to you. And then at the end of that, if you want to this this is an all a technique it still kind of works, which is to make the passwords specifically unique as you go around. So if you only want one password for everything, and a lot of people do this, particularly in Australia, and when they are above the age of sixty, we find this. If you only want the one password, make sure the last two letters on the back are specific to an account, so FB for Facebook, WA for WhatsApp. That way, the single password is relevant to one specific place and it gets breached, you don't have to change the entire thing.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's good advice. I according to cybersecurity, I mean, there are three hundred and thirty eight million users of the password one two three four five six. Yeah, that's just lazy.
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Speaker 19: It's not just that that there are there are loads of users of one two, three, four, five six, seven eight, and quite a lot of people still try to do password with an exclamation mark. Thinking that's totally fine as well. But for a lot of people, if you have a password that you use regularly and you don't want to switch, put a number at the end of it an exclamation market. It's not it's not a great approach, but at least it makes it slightly more secure. But if you keep a password all in lower case or letters or just one upper case, it can be broken quite easily. The bigger problem is using one specific password for everything. That's a real risk. That's why we say put two letters on the end. It just makes a little bit easier if it were to break open, and not through any fault of your own. It just makes it easier to replace that single password.
01:04:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that idea. So you've got a word or the combination of letters, and if it's a Facebook account FB, if it's WhatsApp, you know, and you just use a couple of letters, so each you have they're all individual and different passwords. So you know, someone just can't crack into everything. Your bank account's and it works exactly.
01:04:46
Speaker 19: Your bank account's more likely most bank account ATO is much the same way with my GOV. They're almost always tied to multi factors. So if you can always have multi factor switched on, if any service that you have offers that, that is always a much better approach. Passwords are useful, absolutely, but multi factor that little SMS message that comes to your phone or an AUTHENTICATA app that gives you so much more control when it comes to security. That's obviously the first step is security. A better password, it's definitely important, but making sure multi factors switched on. If pass keys are available to you, it's even better. But there's a lot of places that haven't moved on to them yet. It's largely only the big ones where we're talking about like Amazon, Apple, Meta, they're larger than ones who've moved on the pass keys. A lot of banks still haven't switched them yet either.
01:05:30
Speaker 1: I must say that multi factor when they send something to your phone, I find that reassuring. I sort of think, well, you know we're on the same wavelength and no one's going to tap into this.
01:05:41
Speaker 10: Well, I mean, it still actually can be hacked.
01:05:42
Speaker 19: The weird part about multi factor is it can technically be hacked, but it's a really complex hack. Basically, the best way of securing multi factor is to call up your telco and make sure that they have to have security if someone were to switch you to a different telco, if someone were to try and port your phone number, that does happen. People do try to port phone numbers as a form of kind of we call it a man in the middle attack. Someone is trying to basically take hold of your phone so they can use multi factor against you. But most hellcos have largely cottoned onto it. There's a few smaller ones in Australia that are still gradually trying to work out what to do, but most have worked out.
01:06:17
Speaker 10: But yes they need ID before they switch.
01:06:21
Speaker 1: Excellent. Good on you, Lee, always great to chat. Thanks for your time today.
01:06:24
Speaker 10: Always happy to help at least.
01:06:25
Speaker 1: Dark Picker dot com dot au tech expert on the death of a password. I'll be around for some time yet, but be a little bit more judicious. Don't use the well how many times you see the word password? People use password or in business admin. Evidently there are fifty three million people who use admin around the world. Mostly it guys who are too lazy to do something else. But the more characters you put in, obviously the better it is. But you've got to mix it up, and it's best not to use known words like summer or happy days or something like that. If you mix it up. But then if you've got to try and remember them, what do you do with it? All those passwords? How have you handled passwords? Let's no eight, double two three, double O, double oh is the number? Malie says, why should the RBA consider upping the interest rate because of the increased cost of living partly due to the fuel increase across business? Surely the consumer is getting hit hard with the prices that they are lowering their standard of living by spending less on optional goods. Anyway, Yeah, I tend to agree with you, Mali, but not having a financial background, I'm not so sure. But if they introduced or raise the interest rates is to minimize spending, Surely increase fuel prices does the same thing. Maybe we're missing something, John, you've got some thoughts on passwords. Yeah, good, thanks.
01:07:43
Speaker 3: I used to use incorrect because I have a bad habit for getting password. Yeah, but it'll tell me your password is incorrect, and that's the truth. I'm not right. My wife the kids made me change it correct.
01:08:03
Speaker 1: Good on, John, Thanks for sharing that. If you'd like to share your password, Well, I suppose that's a bit risky. Maybe a password that you've used in the past, a password that you find amusing, or passwords that you know about. But yeah, don't give away the password you're using at the moment, but a password that maybe you used in the past and don't use it any longer. We're going to talk about bugs at the moment, the infestation of little credits flying through the air. How are they getting through the flywire? Chris Messenger from Bugs and Slugs will join us shortly.
01:08:33
Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:08:36
Speaker 1: Oh cis I find this bit hard to believe, so as he says, I have over five hundred passwords over my iPhone, iPad and laptop. Each password is unique, and I know each and everyone without ever having to look them up. My system means I could have two thousand unique passwords and I would know each one by heart easily. Each password has the ideal mix of upper and lower letters, some numbers, and characters. I don't need a password manager because I remember each unique password. They vary in length from eight to fifteen characters. Susie, that is wow. How do you do that? I barely remember one password. I'd sort of shuffle them around. I've got over one hundred of them, No way would I remember them all. Mike's high gram. I run two bugs appas in the backyard, no bug problem. They even attract the mossies. Thank you for that, Mike. Well, this is born out of the fact that lots of people have been saying all around Adelaide that they've had infestations of little bugs, of flying ants or something. Even at Westlakes the other night we had this infestation. Don't know they got through the fly wire screen that tiny, absolutely infinitesimal, but thousands of them. So what's happening is that the weather or what? Who better to ask than Kristen Messenger from Bugs and Slugs Kristin, good.
01:09:53
Speaker 20: Morning to you, good morning praying.
01:09:56
Speaker 2: Should we be.
01:09:56
Speaker 1: Surprised at the moment, is that there's an infestation happening?
01:10:00
Speaker 20: Oh no, because we've had we've had really nice, warm, moist conditions, and I think what people are seeing are probably they are a type of fly. They're called don't be put off by their name. They're are fungus gnats. I think that's what people are seeing.
01:10:16
Speaker 1: And it's a fungus gnat.
01:10:17
Speaker 20: Yeah, yeah, fungus nat, which is a very small, little sort of Really most people would look at it and go all, that's a tiny black fly.
01:10:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:10:27
Speaker 20: And it's funny you say that, because my secret shame is that on Monday night, so I go to the West Lakes Bowls.
01:10:33
Speaker 21: Club to play bingo with a friend of mine and I noticed the wall of the West Lakes Bowls Club on Monday night was absolutely wherever they had a light on, it.
01:10:46
Speaker 20: Was teeming with fungus nats And I almost went back to my car to get my net and catch some for because they love them.
01:10:54
Speaker 1: I've got a food for food for your playing mandesses.
01:10:58
Speaker 20: Oh look, they're really good food for lots of things. I think they probably do more good than harm. You know, they don't really don't really interfere too much, so they can't the lava, which are a little maggots because they're a fly. The lava can you get into your potting mix, and they like potting mix with a bit of peat boss in it, so they like, you know, the sort of potting mix that you would have in an indoor plant or an outdoor plant that likes a bit of moisture.
01:11:27
Speaker 1: So where are they? Where are they normally then, Kristen? I mean, you know, they've just all appeared out of the blue. What's their normal life cycle? Where do they live?
01:11:35
Speaker 20: Yeah, look, they're around all the time. They're really pretty common. But if it's not nice and warm and the soil is not moist they'll be in much lower numbers. But as soon as you get consistent moisture in the soil, and if you've got a really lovely organic sort of soil that's a bit bear on top, that is the perfect environment for them to hatching. So that one way you can control them is to just let the top of your soil dry out a bit, which is usually not a problem for.
01:12:06
Speaker 10: Us in South at, no problem at all, that's right.
01:12:10
Speaker 20: And the other thing you can do is mulch your pots, because the females don't really love laying in malt. They want to lay sort of direct soil, and the lava struggle to emerge if there's a layer of malch on the top, So you know, that's one thing you can do, is sort of keep a bit of mulch on your plants.
01:12:32
Speaker 21: But as soon as things dry out a bit.
01:12:35
Speaker 20: You know, it was a little bit weird, this sort of unseasonal kind of rain and warmth at the same time we normally get a bit of a cold snap, and that not for a lot of those bugs on the head. But you know, people might have noticed that there's an awful lot of mosquitoes persisting. There's still an awful lot of you know, just house flies and blowflies and things like that that are normally quiet by now because it's normally a bit colder than they'd like it to be, so they either die or they go into a sort of a winter hibernation.
01:13:07
Speaker 17: If you like.
01:13:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, out West Preston it was the what do you call them again, fungus.
01:13:12
Speaker 20: Some fungus gnats, Yeah, fungus nats.
01:13:15
Speaker 1: But I've heard other people sort of say in other areas about flying ants. Would that be right?
01:13:21
Speaker 20: Ah, most of the ants have done their thing already, But I have seen I was at ypy the new Cultural Center in Port Adelaide, which is just one of my fast becoming one of my favorite places, and I did see a new you know, recently mated massive enchant queen under a rock there. But I just saw one of them. I didn't such a photo of her on my Facebook page. She's lovely. So they must still be flying in some spots. But again it's a little bit well, depending on how look at it, a little bit late or a little bit early. But you know, as soon as you get warm out of seasonal sort of warmth combined with moisture, bugs will persist because most of them, being cold blooded, will respond immediately to a bit of extra warmth, and of course they don't mind the moisture. So there could still be ants flying. Yeah, okay, and they could be termites flying.
01:14:25
Speaker 1: But ah, right, we can do it.
01:14:27
Speaker 20: I haven't seen termites, and usually when that's happening, people send me photos and say what's this and I haven't must admit I haven't had any in the last sort of four weeks, not ants or termite.
01:14:40
Speaker 1: Do we have flying cockroaches in South Australia.
01:14:43
Speaker 20: Yeah, We've got heaps of cockroaches in South Australia.
01:14:48
Speaker 1: I've only ever seen. I remember going to Sydney years ago and all this these big bugs on the window and I said what are they? And I said flying cockroaches. I'd never heard of flying cockroaches.
01:15:00
Speaker 20: Yeah, lots of cock creatures. And some of the introduced species can fly. They're reluctant flyers, I have to say. And we've got a lot of native species. We've got more than four hundred and fifty species of native cock creaches, and some of those are just beautiful and really important. They're really important pollinators.
01:15:18
Speaker 17: Some of them.
01:15:19
Speaker 1: Beautiful cockroach come on nobody likes cockroaches.
01:15:22
Speaker 20: Oh yeah, no, I love them. They're right up there for me, Graham, the native ones, and even we have those big introduced. I want to say they're American cockroaches. Get them mixed up. That's terrible, isn't it for a bug lady? But we have them in our drains. I'm down in important.
01:15:42
Speaker 16: We have them.
01:15:43
Speaker 20: You know, they come out of every orifice at night. And I've got a neighbor. We go out with the torch hours and hours at night looking at them. They're really interesting. We've got them in your house. You'll see go outside at night, you'll see thousands.
01:15:58
Speaker 17: Of them in the street.
01:16:00
Speaker 1: Now, Kristin, a question for you from Gavin who says I have noticed a lack of ladybirds this summer. Can you ask Kristin about this?
01:16:09
Speaker 20: Well, you need acids for ladybirds. I've noticed I grow a few things to attract acids, because acids attract ladybirds, lady beetles if you like, so, you're not going to get lady beetles visiting your garden if you don't have food for them. They track, and you know, they're like a heat seeking missile for aphids. So they track aphids and they will be attracted to them. So you've got to you've got to let a couple of plants be the sort of sacrificial plants that you allow acids to develop on. And then very quickly lady beetles will fly in and they'll lay eggs. The eggs are little bunches of orange, you know, they're only about a middle meter for each egg, and they will lay them among the aphids. So don't destroy the apes because you'll destroy the eggs. And then shortly after that, within sort of a week, those eggs will hatch and you'll have these very bizarre looking little blue and orange lava that crawl around and they eat more aphids than the adults. But you can also attract you know, hoverflies, they have a lava that eats aphids, and also lace wings and also ah, there's a couple of other there's a couple of other They all sort of look a bit the same, but the main ones, I guess of the lace wings and the hoverflies and the lady beetles will all produce lava that will attack aphids. You know, if you've got the lace wings, they're the ones that lay their eggs on a stalk. They have this beautiful fine silk stalk and one single egg at the top of it. And then when the lava hatch, they carry around the skeletons of their dead you know, they're dead prey on their back as some people call them junk bugs, and they do that as a disguise, I guess, so they can move through the aphis. And there's a couple of parasitic wasps that are also very effective at targeting acids.
01:18:15
Speaker 1: Would you believe you make it sound all that exciting before we let you go? And I'll have to do that in the moment. Christ tell me Christmas beetles. I haven't seen a Christmas beetle for yongx. What's going on?
01:18:28
Speaker 20: They're around, but not now because at this time of the year their lava for the Christmas beetles, like most of the scarard beetles, they are a type of scarred beetle. Most of them do their business pretty quickly, so they emerge just before Christmas.
01:18:44
Speaker 9: They it's the Christmas beetles, Christmas beetle, and.
01:18:48
Speaker 20: Then they lay their eggs and so at this time of the year, their eggs are down in the ground and they're big, fat lawn grubs. So if people are digging at well, usually not in your lawn, though, they'll be in your malch or in your lift litter, or at the base of eucalyptus trees. Some of them target the roots of plants and things, so you know when people are digging up those grubs that everybody immediately sees and.
01:19:12
Speaker 5: Says, oh, they're lawn grubs.
01:19:13
Speaker 17: Got to get rid of them.
01:19:14
Speaker 1: They're not.
01:19:15
Speaker 20: They could easily be, well, some of them will be, but some of them will be Christmas beetle over so you need to And then there's another invasive one, the Argentine lawn beetle that the adults look a little bit like a Christmas beetle mimic, but they're a bit smaller, so there's a bit of confusion there. People are trying to rescue the invasive species. But if you want lots of Christmas beetles, plants, native grasses and plants, eucalypse.
01:19:40
Speaker 18: Advice to track them.
01:19:41
Speaker 1: Chris and I could listen to you for ages, tell us a little bit about bugs and slugs, give yourself a promo.
01:19:48
Speaker 20: Well, we're an invertebrate education service, so we visit schools and Kindey's and stuff like that. But if people want to I'll be doing a thing this weekend. Actually, grahams, that's okay to give it a plug. Yeah, go ahead at Stangate House in All Gates for the Hills Garden Affair. And it's an amazing event. You can get a Google it and you can find a ticket online, I think. But there's lots of speakers and stallholders and we did it. It's every second year. I think we did it three years ago and we were absolutely blown away by this amazing garden and how many people came along to see it. So that's something. If people want to hear me talk about ways to attract invertebrates to your garden and the good stuff they do, I'll be doing the talk up there, so come along.
01:20:37
Speaker 1: Brilliant. Good on youre Kristin, thanks so much for your time today.
01:20:40
Speaker 20: Thanks Graham.
01:20:41
Speaker 1: Sea bugs and Slugs Chief Kristen Messenger. And does that answer your questions about bugs and slugs and those little ants and what was it the fungal nuts, nut piny flies. Lots of little things out there at the moment, all due to the weather we're having eight double two three double o double is the but a ring. If you have a comment, We're going to break for news then to look at the issue that working from home could be a career killer for you. What's that mean?
01:21:09
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:21:12
Speaker 1: Well, just the sort of news we didn't want to hear. The inflation rate has risen from three point seven to four point six percent? What will that mean? Will the RBA be onto that we would expect? So what does it all mean? We'll speak with Adelaide University Credit Union SA SA Chair of Economics, doctor Susan Stone in the next half hour, so stay tuned for that. Regarding lawn beetles, with the larvae of black lawn beetles, I use pellets to say, let's say last for six months. How do I know if they are back? Do I need to dig or look for the grass to die? Look? Unfortunately Andrew Kristen from Bugs and Slugs is not with us any longer, but maybe give her a call. Well on another issue, and this is about working from home, which more and more people have adapted to since COVID. Of course it became the stand reg but now more and more people are working from home again, there's a suggestion that if you are working from home, it could jeopardize your chances of promotion into the future. Professor Gary Martin is the Australian Institute of Management WACO and joins US now professor good morning, Thanks for your time, Morning Graham. Working from home it has lots of benefits, but could it be jeopardizing someone's chance of a promotion?
01:22:24
Speaker 22: Look, I think it could. Working from home has lots of challenges. There are a lot of people that are enjoying it, particularly as a petrol prices start to increase or go up and down and all over the place. That means the commute can be a challenge for many. So it's had its surged recently in terms of the numbers of people choosing to work from home or being allowed to work from home. But as I said, it does come with challenges. And one of the things that we've noticed over a period of time now is that we'll see this more of this as it unfolds over the next teen years, is that there's something called proximity buyers in workplaces, and that's just a technical term to say that managers tend to favor employees who are physically nearby. Kind of makes sense, doesn't it.
01:23:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you're looking at maybe two people of absolute equal ability and producing the same amount. One is working home and has really seen the other one is in and out of the boss's office and having a high profile and well time for promotion. Who do we think of Probably the person who's just outside.
01:23:34
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think the risks for remote workers at the moment is that they can unintentionally get left out of those ad hoc meetings that take place in the office. They might miss some development opportunities. They're obviously less visible to managers. When career opportunities then do come up, they might not be front of mind if they're not in the office regularly. And you know, the problems worst when people work remotely in a different time zone, because then the contact again is perhaps even more limited than it might be if you're in the same time though. So there's there's a number of things that might work again, you being in front of mine when it comes to sturry increases or sir comment to a special job, or being included in a particular project out of mind or sight out of mind. Pretty much what we see.
01:24:28
Speaker 1: Are there some industries or job roles that suffer most from procimmity buyers.
01:24:33
Speaker 5: No, I think this is across the board.
01:24:35
Speaker 22: This is a phenomenon across the board. Now, it's probably unfair to say this happens in every industry, across every type of organization you know of different sizes and sectors like corporate sector, not profit and so on. There are all these different factors involved here, so it's probably unfair to just say that this phenomenon is experienced in every single sector. There might be some areas, some industries where people are very conscious of this idea of uh, including people who are not in the office as well, And so you know, it's not across every single thing or every single work environs, but it is a very very significant issue which manages themselves are not aware of, and nor are people who work remotely.
01:25:30
Speaker 1: So are there anything that remote workers can do to stay front of mine for their bosses?
01:25:36
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think the main advice is that are remote workers, both working from home or in other locations, they need to be stronger self advocate. So what we might experience is in the workplace, you know, people don't really want to blow their own troublet trumpets because it actually comes across, as you know, a bit off, a bit more of a self centered. Look, you're not a team player if you talk about what you've achieved. So it's important though for people that have made achievements and are working mostly remotely to be more visible. And you only become more visible in a sense through making sure you do engage, You do check in regularly, not just when there are a meeting is called and you talk about your progress and what you've been doing. And I think that probably does help to really to keep you included in opportunities as they arise in workplaces. It's about being a stronger I call it self advocate because I don't want to say you blow your own trumpet, but it is about trying to actively make your achievement more visible.
01:26:46
Speaker 1: So from a manager's point of view, what do they need to do to be more aware that a remote worker might be just the perfect person for that promotion, but they out of side, out of mind.
01:26:56
Speaker 22: Yeah, this is an interesting one because just having a discussion about onset, if managers are listening, many managers are not aware of the idea of proximity bias, and they wouldn't have thought twice that this might be occurring in workplaces, So just being aware of it is something that would help in the first instance. So you know, obviously workplaces and leaders, CEOs, senior leaders have an obligation to talk about these things and to make sure that people outside regular workplace are actually included. So creating an awareness that there is this type of bias is really, really, really important. And I think also looking at exactly what the policy is for working from home. So it might be that you know, a couple of days a week in remote situation is fine, but the rest of the time could be in the office. So trying to get that balance right is a management responsibility. Also, because there's a difference between someone who's away one day a week versus someone who's never in the office, I think those sorts of things need to be considered.
01:28:13
Speaker 1: So taking this proximity by a step further, could it also affect salary reviews and bonuses along with promotions.
01:28:21
Speaker 22: Absolutely. I think you know what we underestimate is when we are in the workplace, a lot of the things that happen during the day are actually spontaneous, and if you're not there, you're not part of those spontaneous type of discussions, and so you are less physical. So there's unfortunately a little bit of a stigma sometimes working with home, working from the remote location. That might be that, you know, if you work from home, you not as engaged, not as productive and soide now I say stigma because we haven't been able to prove that these things are actually real, and so given all of that, less productive, less engagement when it comes to that sorry, review time, probably not going to get the same type of increase as someone who's in the office and highly visible. Again, this does not happen in every workplace, in every workplace because some workplaces are aware, but it certainly happens in many workplaces.
01:29:26
Speaker 1: Is proximity bias that significant that someone particularly going for a job should sort of think, you know, I can work from home, I can work in the office. Should they be thinking seriously of what is the best outcome for them?
01:29:41
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think they can certainly talk about that at an interview. But I actually think that when someone goes into a workplace safe or the first six months, they might want to make sure that they spend time as much time as possible in the workplace when people know them and their managers know their capability, and there's a level of trust and so on. That's the time to have a discussion about perhaps working from home one or two days a week perhaps and gradually easing into that. So you know, I think having a base period where you get to know your colleagues, you get to know the job, those sorts of things is really really important. So the first six months of any new job should be spent as much as possible in the office and then basically transition into some remote work because let's faces, there's lots of advantages of working remotely. It does help people out who are very busy, who've got long commutes, and all of those sorts of things. So we don't want to see people not in the office, sure, but we actually want to make sure that it's set up for success in their careers, and that includes salaries. As you pointed out, Graham.
01:30:57
Speaker 1: Professor, thanks so much for your advice. Professor, Carry Martin Austra at an Institute of Management, Waco. Proximity buyers, have you heard that before? It could be jeopardizing your future. Do you work from home on a regular basis? Is there some in the office who does the same sort of job as you is no better than you, but as continually getting promotions or pay rises because you are out of sight, out of mind. If you've been in that situation, do you work from home, do you feel like you're being overlooked or do you have actual, you know, some evidence that you were overlooked because you just weren't in the office.
01:31:32
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:31:38
Speaker 1: Two past eleven, five double A. This delightful Wednesday morning, Richard says, my wife's boss works from home permanently since twenty twenty. My wife has to go into the office every day and essentially be her assistant as well as doing her own work. My wife's work goes unrecognized because her boss isn't in the office. Well, that is interesting, Richard. That is the actual reverse of what we're saying. So yeah, it's really proximity bias in reverse. Thank you for that. Let's go out to Value View Murray, good morning, Oh.
01:32:09
Speaker 18: Good morning.
01:32:10
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:32:11
Speaker 18: I could keep going for an hour about that. Yeah, because I had a Niee working from home doing police checks, and I'm a dinosaur. I thought our private are police checks if you do them at home. But the other thing is. I was talking to a building inspector yesterday and because you were talking about the Snow River scheven, we just got about the blowout and the blow out.
01:32:39
Speaker 1: From two billion dollars to forty two billion dollars.
01:32:43
Speaker 18: Yeah, but our tunnel was supposed to be one point two billion here and now it's over twenty something billion dollars. So that's going out, and they reckon. There's sinkholes and other problems the ground waterways that are going to cause problems in it. And the other thing. The steel works has been closed for five weeks and they're having trouble getting building materials for houses at the moment.
01:33:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, it's a compounding problem, there's no question about that. Of course, Wiler is so old that it's obviously going to continually need upgrading and replacement and refurbishment and costs.
01:33:27
Speaker 18: We've still got, you know, gunter rowing tax and they are finance people still running the place. And how much are they taking.
01:33:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, look, you asked some pretty good questions there, Murray, for which I don't have any answers. But state governments and federal governments open tab bring out the credit card. The debt goes up and up, and up. Yesterday the premiere spoke about the Wireles steel works.
01:33:57
Speaker 23: In the operation of the blast fenace, the future is a key consideration of all of the proponents that are bidding for the steel works.
01:34:08
Speaker 1: So meanwhile the costs go up and up and up. David, good morning, Good morning.
01:34:14
Speaker 17: Now I love it when people get on their high horse because they see energy companies making a lot of money and they want to charge them ay win full tax. And look, I had a thought about it, and then I thought about the tax that Indonesia was going to charge to have boats go through. But it's a little bit worse than that. What it means is that if we put a export duty on our gas, which is essentially what the government is going to do, what if they decide to repay the favor and put a twenty five export duty on the petrol coming to Australia.
01:34:54
Speaker 1: How do we know they haven't got that already.
01:34:57
Speaker 17: Well, I don't think they would have, but if they decided to go down this road, and that would take around about our donecy calculations just so that's twenty five percent. You're looking, well, look, you take maybe thirty forty billion dollars out of the Australian economy from inflated petrol prices. Well, how do you know it's not. There's no documentation of the charging with full taxes on petrol coming to Australia.
01:35:23
Speaker 1: All of highlights, all of highlights, David, is the vulnerability of Australia, doesn't it? I mean that we are so dependent on other countries for so much.
01:35:31
Speaker 17: Well, well, I rang my local member and I said to her. I said to her, Oh, you're missing something here. I said, our energy security is in Asia. Why don't you build twelve financy? Oh that would cost seven hundred billion dollars. Refinal I said, how do you want to you want us to find out? Yes, I want you to start right now, I said, I want you to. I want you to fund it right now. I said, because if there is an Asian conflict and our petrol security is cut off, then it's all that's game over now, you can't. What happens is when we go into recession, all the world's go into recession, governments start to change. And if you look at history, Asia's had a very very turmin a lot of turmoil in their government. So if you have a government change or a policy change or if China wants to start conflict and it cuts off our fuel security, then we are very vulnerable. I think we should and Albernies is running around doing all these deals, but there's no talk about in building oil refineries because he doesn't want to upset the greens. Now I've done some figures, so we've got he wants to go all green, right, so I've done some figures. I've looked at they tried to look at the biggest solar panel park in Queensland that uses about four thousand square four thousand acres, right, and that does half a gigawatt. Well, we need about three hundred of them to supply Australia's energy, so we're going to cover four thousand. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. The amount of land was going to be covered with solar panels which have to be replaced every twenty years, and the maintenance and the cost and the batteries. It's what Albanize in the Labor government have set up is and their ideas and their philosophy is about being a world leader in energy is absolutely nuts. I just can't believe the government's so stupid and he's had three years to deal with this. Like when you see a conflict start up in Israel, you know that it's going to spread to the Middle East, you know, and almost they should have started building fuel security three years ago and we wouldn't have this problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I think it started a lot earlier, Matt David and thanks so much for your call. I mean, this has been successive governments. There's no question about that that we've flown in the face of having fuel security for twenty years or more. I think it's twenty years since we had the stories that we're supposed to have. Nowhere around the thirty day mark and the Prime Minister has dashed off overseas to secure some fuel and he comes back with a million barrels or something like that, which is enough oil for us for a day something like that. Yet, no, we've got to look at the much bigger picture than that, and unfortunately successive governments have let us all down. My number is eight double two three double o double. We're going to take a break for news. Then we're going to take a look at the latest round of inflation numbers, and unfortunately they're not good.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, it was the news that we didn't want to hear, but unfortunately we have heard it. Inflation rate has risen from three point seven percent to four point six percent. Let's make some sense of it with Adelaide University Credit Union SA Chair of Economics, doctors who in Stane doctor, Good morning, thanks for joining us.
01:39:02
Speaker 9: Good morning, Graham.
01:39:04
Speaker 1: Any surprise in these figures.
01:39:07
Speaker 9: No, Actually the markets were betting four point six so they actually got this one completely right.
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Speaker 1: So where too from here? How is the IRBA going to take a look at it?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, the real concern is that, as expected, it's really transport and charges and logistics that are driving this number because and fuel price increases. So it's really being driven by the immediate impacts we've seen coming out of the war and the closing of the Strait. What we're not seeing yet are the follow on impacts. So what's happening to all the manufacturers who are having to now produce things at this higher cost of energy and fuel. Those prices through goods have only just started coming through, So we're seeing a little bit of an increase in clothing prices and accessories things like that that have big logistics costs associated with them, but we haven't seen the production costs. So what I'm saying is that I think there's an excellent chance the RBA will raise rates because they know this is coming, so they won't want to wait and be reactive. They're going to want to try to clamp down on this input cost inflation before it really takes hold.
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Speaker 1: And there's an question. When fuel prices go up, it impacts every aspect of our lives, from you know, the man on the lands through the consumer.
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Speaker 9: That's exactly right. And you know, it was interesting because I was looking at the numbers for Adelaide and where Adelaides always had and we have been running a bit higher inflation rate than the rest of the country, and that continues. Our rate went up by four point nine percent. Only Hobart had a larger increase, and most of that's coming from logistics. But previously it had come from things like recreation and travel, and now it's really as I said, it's coming from logistics and clothing and accessories and transport fees are really what's driving you know, South Australian inflation right now.
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Speaker 1: So looking at these figures, it would suggest this is not the end of the inflation increase.
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Speaker 9: No, I don't think so. I think that you know, we're seeing, you know, people buying products that have already been in inventories or that have been produced before the war, and then coming in the months coming up, we're going to see those products that have been produced with energy prices after the war. So I would think that we're going to see more widespread inflation in the coming months.
01:41:56
Speaker 1: To the simple mind, we sort of say, you know, the Abbia as interest rights to to cut back on spending, but doesn't increase fuel prices effectively do the same thing we pull back in other areas.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it is true, it's it's and and as I said, you can see that even in Adelaide, we don't see much on travel, you know, it's been down, and and also you know holiday spending that's all down for the month of March, so people have been transferring spending to other areas. But what they're also worried about is just widespread inflation across you know, businesses as well. And they're they're also worried about expectations. And this is the tricky part because if people start to think, yeah, we saw with the with the petrol prices when they went down, petrol outlets were experiencing, you know, huge cueues or even running out of fuel because people were buying in the expectation that the price would go up, and that puts obviously pressure on prices going forward. And if that starts to translate into other areas of the economy, then then it becomes a real problem. And so what the RBA wants to do is to ensure that they are taken seriously that they're going to do what it takes to get inflation down because inflation hurts everybody, and they're going to be very much wanting to signal to markets that this is this is. They don't want markets to build in expectations of future price rises because that just becomes self fulfilling.
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Speaker 1: Is it three infrat rates rises? We've had them around, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 9: Well if we if we yeah yeah yeah, and then.
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Speaker 1: We sorry sorry, would we would we expect this to be a rise in the same magnitude or lodgia.
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Speaker 9: That I think is going to be the big question. I think that the markets are pricing in a twenty five basis points, so the same type of increase that we've been seeing waiting to see and hope that if the war does end and these cost impacts are short lived, that we may be able to come out of it without the RBA having to be too aggressive. So a lot of it does depend on what happens in the Middle East.
01:44:24
Speaker 1: Labor have the fuel excise for three months? Would that have had an impact?
01:44:29
Speaker 17: Yes?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, you see that in the prices coming down and the GST as well. They cut having to pay the TST on fuel, so that that's why we're seeing prices around Adelaide below one one dollar eighty, So we're that's coming in, but that's just recent so it won't be reflected in these numbers. It'll be in April's numbers.
01:44:49
Speaker 1: It's less than two weeks till Jim Chomman's hands down his budget. Would he be taking the lightest interest rights into account before he brings down the budget.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I would think he's going to. I mean, they'll announce. It's only a week, but I think they'll He had said they're going to come up with some scenarios and how that may impact the budget that they're going to present, and I would assume that you know that scenario is going to include having maybe fifty basis points increase or having more rate increases going forward, and what impact that has on the budget. They'll know for sure, because as I said that, the RBA will announce their decision a week before the budget comes out, so they will have time to tweak numbers if that's the case.
01:45:39
Speaker 1: Finally, any advice for consumers.
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Speaker 9: People, Yeah, do need to you know, evaluate their spending, follow the government's advice. I guess about not trying to drive if you don't have to. Some people don't have a choice but to minimize that and to you know, if you can, you know, put off a big purchase or you know, try to decide how you're going to distribute your earnings. Because on the plus side, your savings rates should start to go up. We should see increases in things like term deposits or even in you know, your savings account at the bank. Those rates, so it becomes beneficial to save at this time.
01:46:22
Speaker 1: So there is somewhat of a silver lining.
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Speaker 9: There is a small one, but it's there.
01:46:27
Speaker 1: Doctor Stone, Thanks so much, always great, Dr Susan Stone, and yeah, buckle up, folks. We're in for a bit of a bumpy ride. Inflation is on the rise or has risen, and the next we will hear from the RBA and what they're going to do with the interest rates. And a short time ago, Jim Chalmers spoke about the latest inflation rate figures.
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Speaker 24: Obviously, the most substantial impact on this inflation data comes from fuel prices. Automotive fuel rose thirty two point eight percent in March to be up twenty four point two percent through the year. And to consider the impacts of fuel in the month of March, remember that automotive fuel fell seven point two percent in the month of February, So the impact of fuel alone is adding point eight percentage points to annual headline inflation. So what we're seeing here is largely a story about international pressures playing out at the bowser. But in the coming months we expect the impact of this oil shock to be felt more broadly across prices and across the economy as well, broad enough to impact on the trim demean data as well. So we already had an inflation challenge in our economy, we know that before the conflict, but the tickup in the monthly headline data today was driven by the conflict, and this walk drive inflation up even higher before it comes back down again. We've seen the war play out in headline inflation today, and we know that it will be increasingly reflected in other measures of inflation in the coming months as well.
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Speaker 1: Treasurer Jim Chalmers, speaking on inflation, the rate rising from three point seven to four point six percent, like only your thoughts on it eight double two three double oh, Dan says, someone better tell the RBA, or tell the RBA can't control fuel prices or the around war through interest rates, They'll plunge the country into a recession long before the war is over. David says, the cost and time taking to build a snowy pumped hydro we could now have a functioning nuclear power station or two forty two billion dollars for the snowy two project, and well it's forty two billion and counting because it is not completed. Should have been completed years ago. And David says, while it is not proximity bias, I was not promoted as I did not have a university degree and yet was expected to train people who did have a degree on how to do the job. David, that is an awful story, and I've heard the same sort of thing happening before, purely because you didn't have letters after your name or on. I've heard of the people and they've had to train people who do have university degrees who don't know how to do the job. You train them, they get the promotion, and you get a pat on the back if you're lucky. Your thoughts A double two to three double is the number to ring five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings turning to twelves. Still time for your core on any issue of the day. Something we've been talking about, something that takes your fancy not to hear from you. Well, what's happened with the stock markets? After the announcement that the interest rates have gone through the roof? The all odds currently done by one points, asx two hundred is done by four points. Oil Brent crude still going for one hundred and eleven US dollars barrel, West Texas crewed at ninety nine US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar buying seventy one point seven US sense. So the interest rate gone from three point seven to sorry, the inflation rate so many numbers in front of me, the inflation rate correction correction correction. The inflation rate has gone from three point seven to four point six percent. What are your thoughts on that? On a different subject, Sue says, I use an address book. This is going back to the passwords and why passwords are on the way out. Pass keys are the way of the future. I use an address book, says Sue, with the little letters on the right hand side for quick access to store my passwords and pins, et cetera. I don't often need it, but I keep it in a very safe place you never know. Good on you, Sue, Thanks for that. Yeah, how do you store your passwords if you've got fifty sixty eighty whatever, like if you use the one So I've only got one password, I use it for everything. Well, you're in trouble doing that, But how do you store your passwords? Anyway? All this past key stuff is all leading to us being locked into a digital system ready for a cashless society. Here they are complaining about all the troubles of hacking and scams, but they're all on the digital system. So what we need is less internet. I'm terribly sorry that is not going to happen, but I sort of tend to agree with you. Well, the King made an impressive speech in front of Congress this morning our time, thirteen no less than thirteen standing ovations and an admiring audience of Congress. The President wasn't there because it's not protocol for the President to be in Congress, but he was listening. Later on, he held an official dinner at the White House for the King and the Queen.
01:51:43
Speaker 25: Before we really begin, I want to congratulate Curls on having made a fantastic speech today at Congress. He got the Democrats to stand.
01:51:53
Speaker 2: I've never been able to do that.
01:51:56
Speaker 25: I couldn't believe it.
01:52:02
Speaker 10: They liked him more than they've ever.
01:52:03
Speaker 25: Liked any Republican or Democrat actually, So I just want to thank you.
01:52:08
Speaker 10: Congratulations. It's not an easy thing to do. That's a tough place.
01:52:12
Speaker 1: And after the President of King Charles had this design as the.
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Speaker 12: United States celebrates this very special anniversary year of the Declaration of Independence, and may I also just start by paying tribute to your own courage and steadfastness, as well as to your security services for their swift actions on Saturday evening in preventing further injury. My thoughts, my thoughts, and sympathies are very much with you, the First Lady, and all those guests for whom this must have been a very upsetting incident. As the words of that famous anthem remind us, this is the land of the free and home of the brave. As your own response demonstrates what used to be called in the last war in the United Kingdom.
01:53:16
Speaker 10: Keep calm and carry on.
01:53:20
Speaker 1: He knows how to work an audience, There's no question about that. The Queen his mother was excellent. There's no question about that, mind you, she still only received three standing ovations. King Charles received thirteen standing ovations before and the Congress. But it is remarkable how in retrospect some of the things that King Charles had to say were very strong and powerful. But the words that he used, the terms, and the way it was couched, he got the message across didn't offend anybody, but the message was sheeted home no less. And we spoke to Cameron Walker, who was a royal watcher a little bit earlier today, who came up with a fascinating reason, because there is no question that Donald Trump has somewhat of a love affair with the royal family, and he obviously gets on well with King Charles, and you can see the rapport and the way I mean normally, Donald Trump when he has other dignitaries, foreign leaders around the world, he assumes the role of leader of the free world and the most important person in the room. He doesn't appear to do that when it comes to having royalty in the room. And maybe, as Cameron Walker had to say, this is the reason.
01:54:33
Speaker 7: And a fun fact for you.
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Speaker 11: The Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom uncovered this morning that King Charles is actually President Trump's fifteenth cousin, dating back from a relative of James the Seconds through a President Trump's mother's line. So yeah, I think of that, and President Trump actually tweets it, put on his chief social platform about it and said that's nice. And I've always wanted to live in Buckingham Palace, is what he said.
01:54:57
Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, So a lot of rapport and good humour going on between the President and the King, which I would think is good for UK US relations because it has been quite cool between the President and Kierstam and the Prime Minister of Great Britain. No doubt the King's visit was largely predicated on re establishing relations and it would appear that that has been done pretty well. Indeed from the text line typical HR with their ever extending range of biases. Thank you Graham. All this past key stuff is leading us to being locked into a digital system. Is that the case on the subject. When we were speaking with Cameron Walker earlier, and we've had excerpt from the King speaking with in front of Congress, somebody ran up and said, I believe I believe the King had some humorous lines. Well, this was one of them.
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Speaker 12: Now, as you may know, when I address my own parliament at Westminster, we still follow an age old tradition and take a member of Parliament hostel, holding him or at Buckingham Palace until I am safely returned. These days we look after our guests rather well, to the point that they often do not want to leave. I don't know, mister speaker, if there were any volunteers for that road here today.
01:56:29
Speaker 1: He could have been a stand up comic. Although choice stand up comic King. He's probably happy with the choice he's made. It took him a while to get to ascend to the throne, but there you go. So the question I posed earlier and I'll pose it again, are there alarm bells or should they be alarm bells ringing over live golf in Adelaide? It comes about seeing a tournament in New Orleans. Live golf has been delayed and it's prompted speculation that it could signal deeper instability for the Saudie backed league. Now we know the Sordies are can considering their commitment and without Sorty money, there is no live golf tournament. Despite assurances from CEO Scott O'Neill, questions remain. Will long term funding persist now for Adelaide, which is embraced live as a marquee event. We're pouring in lots of money, particularly with the North Adelaide redevelopment forty five million dollars to redevelop the North Adelaide golf course so it is an international standard course, befitting international golfers. Will it end up being a forty five million dollar spend only for weekend hackers and amateur golfers? Is that a good investment of money? I guess time alone will tell. After one this afternoon, it's Stacy Lee who joins men. Now, Stacy, how are you good?
01:57:39
Speaker 5: How are you?
01:57:40
Speaker 7: Graham good?
01:57:40
Speaker 1: Thanks? I'm getting bored with saying isn't it a wonderful day, beautiful weather?
01:57:44
Speaker 10: It really is.
01:57:44
Speaker 1: Though it's going to end, we know that it's just beautiful.
01:57:48
Speaker 7: We'll enjoy it while we've got it.
01:57:49
Speaker 8: And I will be talking about the Live Golf postponement. Yeah, they're calling it a postponement of the Louisiana event.
01:57:58
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it could be a port of things to come.
01:58:01
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it seems like that the reporting last week, as you mentioned, that the private investment fund, which is backed by the Saudi regime, is reconsidering their funding, which, yeah, as you say, means live golf might not go ahead if they're not doing that, do we There's going.
01:58:15
Speaker 1: To be no White Knights. I mean, it's not like someone else will come out of the woodwork and say, oh, we'll fund this tournament.
01:58:19
Speaker 15: No.
01:58:20
Speaker 1: I mean it only existed because of the Saudi money and they've got so much of it and they wanted to spend it a certain way, and if they decide to dry it up, that will be the end of live golf.
01:58:29
Speaker 7: Yeah, yep.
01:58:30
Speaker 8: So I'll be continuing that conversation this afternoon. Yesterday I think was the day that the state government took carriage of the golf course, and I think parts of it started to be closed off.
01:58:42
Speaker 1: I mean, the timing is just well, I was going to say impeccable, that's not right. But I mean if the redevelopment was to be in two or three months time, when you know we had a better idea what's happening with liv golf. But right at this very moment, the decision to go ahead, we could be paying for it.
01:58:59
Speaker 7: Well, we will be paying for it of the outcome.
01:59:01
Speaker 1: Oh way, that's the thing. And it's forty five million dollars. I mean to upgrade a public take live golf out of the equation, to upgrade a public golf course at a cost of and this is the original lessonment forty five million. And we happen to know that these sort of projects go over budget usually, so well, let's stick with forty five million. It's a lot of money to pay for a public golf course, a lot.
01:59:23
Speaker 8: Of tax payer money in an economy like this. Lots of people questioning that. So yeah, I'll take your calls this afternoon if you have some thoughts on it. Eight double two to three double OW. I'd also like to know who's your celebrity crush? Because you just played a little bit of King Charles. During that speech, Donald Trump had this to say, Oh, I think you've got a bit of a grab there.
01:59:47
Speaker 7: Look the orange one.
01:59:48
Speaker 1: Oh, yes, I have found it.
01:59:50
Speaker 25: I also remember saying very clearly, Charles, look young Charles, He's so cute.
02:00:01
Speaker 1: That's my mom.
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Speaker 10: My mother had a crush on Charles.
02:00:06
Speaker 1: Can you believe it?
02:00:08
Speaker 9: In front of her, the king, in front of King Charles.
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Speaker 1: And I think there's a bit of a bro mance going on there too. I think I think Donald is quite a nabbed with Charles.
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Speaker 8: So, Donald Trump's mum her celebrity crush was well at that time, Prince Charles. So I'd like to know from you this afternoon, who's your celebrity crush?
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Speaker 22: Do you have one?
02:00:28
Speaker 1: Do you have a celebrity crush? Like off the top? No, I might incriminate themselves. No, what about you?
02:00:37
Speaker 22: Yeah?
02:00:37
Speaker 7: I like a rugged man. I was a vin Diesel girl.
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Speaker 8: I liked those what were the car movies called the ones I'm looking at Sandy and Fury.
02:00:47
Speaker 7: Yeah, I was in Diesel girl.
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Speaker 10: Wow, looking at me like that doesn't suit you?
02:00:51
Speaker 8: That's what I found right, yes, but we'll be talking about that this afternoon. We have Tech Talk with Richard Pasco and from Friday. If you were thinking about getting battery or solar on your rooftop and taking advantage of the subsidy that the federal government had in place, it's changing. So we'll have the team from ME NRG Solar in the studio to answer your questions on that because we always get lots of questions, lots of people interested in it.
02:01:13
Speaker 1: Brilliant cooding here, Stacy. Thank you, Stacy Lee. Coming up this afternoon at one. That's it for us, Thanks for your company. We'll be back tomorrow and do it again
