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Speaker 1: Seven past nine fire double a on a Monday, a brand new week. How do we find you? Hope we find you well, Hope you've had a great weekend and enjoying the remains of summer. For some people, the summer still goes to the twenty first of this month, but a few bureau says it ended on the end of February. Is that right? I can't remember anyway, something like that eight double two to three double A put me straight on that that's the number to ring so much on the show today. Some really good news, positive news to start with about the impact of banning mobile phones in schools. We thought there was going to be somewhat of a negative backlash. Kids these days, from the moment they can walk, they can seem to handle a mobile phone in terms of, you know, punching up pictures, looking at things, drawing and playing around with them and iPads and the like, and it's just part of life today and it carries on to school when they have their first mobile phone, and it's caused all sorts of problems associated with bullying, taking photos, preoccupied people, not relating with one another. There have been so many issues regarding mobile phones. Well, the State government's brought in this ban. It's been in force for some time now, and all indicators are that it is working brilliantly. The kids are not only not missing their phones, they're finding lots of other things to do. They're asking for things to do, they're joining clubs, they're creating programs, they're doing things that they would otherwise have not done because they have their faces buried in their phones all the time. So we'll talk about that with the Minister of Education, Blair Boyer. Tensions in the White House, we're going to speak with expert doctor John Brunei. What happened over the weekend was absolutely mind blowing. The fact that it was supposed to be talks about the future of the US's involvement, continuing involvement in the Ukraine. We had Prime Minister Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and of course Voladimir Zelensky, and it descended into the worst kind of it. If there had to be that sort of debate and consultation, it should have all happened behind closed doors. It didn't. It happened art in the public, and it was brutal and it was offensive on so many levels. People have been drawn on party lines largely, the Republicans in America say about time, you know, we can't have somebody come in and treating our president like Voladimir Zelensky did. The other side seems to be the rest of the free world are absolutely shocked and stunned by how the Ukraine president was treated. The rest of the world has sort of wrapped their arms around Voladimir Zelenski. But what does it mean internationally? What does it mean for international relations? We'll speak with doctor John Brunei about that. The Oscars are on today and I think probably in about an hour and a half or so, the action begins and we're going to speak with the movie analyst Shane A. Bassett about that. Who are your favorites? Guy, I'm going to say Guy Blackmore, But that's totally wrong, isn't it. Of the Australians Guy Pearce, who is just about one of my favorite actors. I love everything he's been in. He's up for Best Support Actor in The Brutalist. We have for an award for potential award for Better Man Robbie Movie, Robbie Williams Movie, Best Documentary, Porcelain War, Best Animated Feature Film, so lots of Australians are up for gongs today and let's hope they do well. And we'll find out from Shane A. Bassett how it is going. We're going to look further into the West Beach fish deaths. This has been on the minds of a lot of people for some time. How did it happen? What can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again? Has there been a cover up? What is actually going on? There's a federal government report on nuclear waste that Rex Patrick things should be made public. Why haven't we heard about this? It was compiled at the expense of about half a million dollars about a year or so ago, but the government won't release it. He is finding out if he can get that released, find out where we are likely to store nuclear waste. And it is an issue because whatever you think of nuclear waste, Australia does have plenty of nuclear waste. It is stored temporary sites around the nation. At the moment we go ahead with the Orcus nuclear submarine program nuclear submarines, there will be nuclear waste. Where will it be stored? We can't keep not talking about it? Is the government keeping it quiet because it is not politically advantageous at the moment to talk about it, and we'll find out more about that. And there's a scam warning. Australian Banking Association says there's something that we should certainly be on the lookout for. And I mean another day, another scam. So but this is one that we really need to be on the lookout for, particularly involving banks. And this is another one actually regarding footy tickets too. Be very very careful where you buy footy tickets from. Get them from reputable sources, make sure that you can confirm they're not sort of backyard deals where you pay your money and find out you've got nothing. Thirteen past nine to five A. I've got to talk about this next subject. It came to my attention and a visit to the supermarket. You know, we've talked about bluey Mania. It's all around us, it's sweeping the world, and we talked of the Bluey fiasco revolving around the ABC. In July twenty seventeen, in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC and the BBC CO commissioned Bluey is an animated series for preschool children to be developed by a Queensland production company. It was an inspired move. Bluey is without question an international success story. In the US alone, it was the most watched show on TV in the past year. But when the deal was done, the ABC made a massive, massive bungle. They allowed the BBC to have all the merchandising rights. The National Broadcaster, which complains about a lack of funding, didn't even ask Bluey's created Joe Brohm for a slice of the merchandising pie, and that at last estimate, was worth one billion dollars. Now the ABC's total funding is just over one billion dollars. They could be almost self funding. And to add insult to injury, and this is where it comes into. Right up to today, there's a Bluey custard on the supermarket shelves which is all well and good, blue custard, terrific in your turn it round and on the back is a big BBC studio's logo. So the custard you buy for your kids or grandkids is propping up the British National Broadcaster. So I looked a little bit further. Arnott's Bluey Biscuits, Colgate, Bluey Toothpaste, Bluey play though Bluey video games, Bluey Monopoly games, Bluey's or Paul's, Blue ice Cream, Bluey Toys, blue Easter eggs. Now there's a blue Monopoly game. Where will it all end? And think for every one of those products, a percentage is going into the coffers of the BBC. And the BBC are right into merchandising. They say the Bluey franchise is the gold star in their crown. It's the big one. If the BBC had been generous, they might have let the ABC have a share, but no, it was a business deal. The ABC apparently didn't even ask to be involved in the merchandising. If they'd been half smart, they can now be virtually self funding. But they're going to hold out the hands for more taxpayer funding purely because of the ineptitude of their management. Now remember four Intennol standards. Never watch, listen or read anything the ABC does. I'm very much a supporter of the ABC. I think it is an important artlet for the media as long as they have a fair and balanced view on things. But while exact figures are not readily available, the ABC generates a relatively small amount of revenue through merchandising. They do have merchandising, but it's compared to the government funding, it is a very small amount. Just to think if they said we'll have a share of that bluey merchandising, they wouldn't have been hitting the taxpayer up for more money. And that is very poor management. Imagine that happening in private enterprise. How many heads would roll? Sixteen past nine. If you have a thought on that or anything we're going to talk about today, give me a call eight double two, three oh.
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Speaker 2: Five, double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's nineteen past nine, five double A on the Monday morning. We find you well from the text line. What was offensive, Graham the fact that Trump exposed Lenski and that he doesn't want a peaceful solution. Difficult to watch, But after the Trump Russia collusion hoax, Trump had to do this to show the world what he was actually doing to negotiate a solution. Where have all the billions gone that every country has given Ukraine? This wore smells of corruption and innocent people on both sides die as a result. Sam from Newton, Okay, Sam, thank you for that. I think the billions have gone. I think when you're running a war that runs for three years against a power like Russia. I think the money's pretty well gone into that. If there's been some fed off, we need to know more about that. There's no question about that the WAT was handled was absolutely disgraceful. Those sorts of discussions, if they're to take take part behind the scenes, not in full public view, then there's no question that Donald Trump is sidling up to Putin. You know, you can be critical of Zelenski, but are we suggesting that Putin is anything less or more than a terrorist? Eight double two to three? Doublow, doublow? Why are we still bringing in so many people? We are a dry state, people are carting water is no rain for months. De Cel isn't the answer stop immigration. De Cel works, it's a stopgap measure. But the amount of power that it uses and the darn side of deesel plants, and we might discuss this at some stage. While diesel is great for propping us up with water that we don't have to drain so much from the murray, the byproducts of a desail plant, the amount of Brian that salty solution, where do you think that goes? That goes back into the ocean? And that chokes the fish effectively. I don't know where they pump out that extra salilated water, Brian, but it isn't good for the environment and lots of fish and sea life caught up in the extraction process. But yeah, we will talk about that another time. Maybe we talk about some good news. Mobile phone bands in South Australian public high schools appear to be having a dramatic effect in the most positive way. My first guest today is Education Minister at Blair Boyer Minister. It's certainly good news in.
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Speaker 3: The data that we've got now after a twelve month review with the ban in full effect right across public high schools in South Australia, really vindicates the decision that the government took to ban those phones from the start of the day until the end of the day. Graham, we've seen, you know, the kind of results that I think you probably would definitely hope for around less disruption in the classroom and less of those kind of negative consequences of having phones in schools around bullying and harassment and all those kind of things that were obviously bad for students but also took up the time of staff as well. But what's really come out in this review is the huge increase in kind of what I might describe as old fashion activity in break times, at recess and at lunch time. So the data we've got shows that eighty three percent of leaders, and there was three thousand submissions from teachers, staff, and students and parents as part of this review that we did, eighty three percent of school leaders, seventy five percent of teachers reported more positive activity at break time, so kids, you know, talking to each other face to face instead of head down in their phone. A lot of reports of it's almost been caught a bit unawares by students asking for more things to be put on at lunchtime and recess because they felt they were bored because they didn't have their phone. Big growth in clubs, whether it's sport or academic clubs or whatever it might be. I think it just really speaks to the fact that we've had been in this really long, slow kind of decline around you know, people doing things at school, not just in the classroom, but at recess and lunch that didn't involve phones, and we've sort of been caught unaware of ourselves around the extent to which phones had taken over to the point that when we actually banned them properly, we were taken aback by students saying, hang on, I need something.
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Speaker 1: Else to do.
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Speaker 3: I want a club, I want more sporting opportunities, you know, board, I don't have my phone. It's a great problem to have, but it really does speak. So I think that how entrenched bone use was by young people at.
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Speaker 1: School, has there been any negative impact?
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Speaker 3: No, I mean the report didn't find that there were any changes needed, which is great news. Of course.
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Speaker 2: The thing that I had.
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Speaker 3: Concerned me was around what it would do to teach a workload in terms of enforcement of the band. The thing that kept me awake at night before we brought the band into full effect, Graham, was you know, would we create extra points of conflict or confrontation between teachers and students at the start of the day when they enforced the band. But the good thing is that it looks like we've got really high levels of compliance, and as time has gone on, more and more students, you know, not all of them, Some are still absolutely want their phone back, don't get me wrong, which is no surprise, but more saying they prefer school without them, and I think that's you know, like anything that's got a level of addiction in it, you need help having it taken away, and phones is the same. But what we're also seeing is ninety three percent of school leaders and seventy nine percent of teachers reported a decrease in staff time spent following up issues caused by phones and social media. That's the thing that as really stood out in this that it can be a positive kind of policy in terms of giving teachers the capacity to focus on reading and writing, literacy and numeracy and less time spent following up you know, you know you need to have your phone off. Please put your phone away, stop messaging people and all the kind of spats and disputes that might break out because of a phone in the classroom.
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Speaker 1: So what's the mechanics of it all? When the students arrive at school in the morning, they're asked to turn in their phone. Is that the way it works?
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Speaker 4: Basic, That's exactly how it works.
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Speaker 3: And we took a hard line policy of our jurisdictions brought a phone ban into place, but some allowed students to get it out at recess and lunch, which I think is is the wrong way like obviously, some of the biggest benefits that we're seeing here at recess and lunch times the different ways it's put into place at different schools. Most schools put a bit of a consultation process in place. Some use these fancy pouches where you put the phone in the pouch, it magnetically locks, and you need a special little magnetic machine at the end of the day to unlock it again, and then you keep the phone on you but you can't open it. Others say they have to be left in lockers. Some say they have to be left in bags. All those different things have worked in different ways, and there's flexibility for schools about how they enforce it. But it's fairly simple. Your phone is off at the start of the day and it's not back on until school ends. I'm really glad that we took a hard line on this.
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Speaker 1: Are there any exceptions of special needs cases where maybe students do need to have their phones on them at all times?
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Speaker 3: There are for medical reasons, or sometimes the phone needs to be used for instance of showing teachers evidence that works being done, or even if it's used as a calculator in rare circumstances. But you've got to get permission from your teacher for that, you know, otherwise the phones need to be away and off to.
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Speaker 1: The entire day.
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Speaker 3: So there are definitely those circumstances where if a student has a medical ailment or something like that, grat that necessitates them needing to be reached, and of course we provide flexibility for that, but in the vast majority of cases that there aren't exceptions to the rule. And it was funny it was at the start of the band, you know, a lot of people said to me, how are kid's going to pay for things at the canteen, because of course a lot would be using like a tap and go function on their phone. And people managed to overcome that. They got another way of having a card or no one of the little stickers that they could use that could work as a tap and go feature, and all those things have settled down, and a lot of people too, finally, people who were at school, perhaps at the same time as me at high school and the nine nineties, asking questions like how I get in contact with my child, and we'd say, well, the same way that we get it for decades. You can call the school and you can leave a message at perception, then they'll they'll find your child and get them to call you back and again. Those things have all settled down and people have got used to doing things effectively the way that we did them successfully for many years.
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Speaker 1: It all seems to be working well. Minister. Thanks for your time today. If you have a thought on the mobile bands in school working well for you or in not happy with it, let's know eight double two to three double.
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Speaker 2: Oh five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twenty eight to ten five double A from the text line High Graham. What's Sam from Newton said in his SMS is absolutely ridiculous saying that the Ukrainian president doesn't want peace? That is disgusting. Why doesn't Sam say the truth and say that Russia invaded Ukraine and that Trump is a Russian asset? Nick from Croydon Park, thank you for that.
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Speaker 2: Nick.
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Speaker 1: Interesting the division and the passion that people speak, with the pro Trump supporters aligning very strongly with Donald Trump. We'll find out more about those sorts of issues right now. With Ukraine's future totally in the balance, there was a bitter exchange over the weekend in the White House. The high stakes meeting between the President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voladimir Zlansky, to generating into a shouting match, to put some perspective on it and bring it into an understanding that we perhaps can get our heads around. Doctor John Brunei, Founder and see of Sage International, Doctor, good morning.
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Speaker 4: To you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 1: This was quite stunning what unfolded in public, and it is I think it's set the world on edge. Would that be fair to say?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that that is fair to say. And I would say that there are a lot of people in the public here in Australia and elsewhere who will defend the American president under all possible circumstances. However, let me put it very clearly, this thing was a set up, hire fake meeting between Trump and Zelensky. If people were looking at this particular forty minutes of bruhaha, they would notice that Zelensky looked particularly uncomfortable for much of the time that he was being lectured by Donald Trump and then berated by Jadie Vance's vice president. Now, the fact of the matter is that if people were paying attention to the particular meeting, the media were already stacked with Trump appointees. Most of them were addressing President who are not President Trump for audium slip there, and we're basically ignoring Zelensky, which I thought for a visiting head of state who is allied to the United States in an existential war fighting against the Russians, that was a very unusual move to make. So I suspect there was a lot of planning to be had here. Trump wanted Zelensky to submit. Zelensky did submit, and I think that most people put in a situation that Zelensky was in, unless they were just of, you know, a character that they thought, well, that's fine, they would also raise their hackles. I think it was just a natural response that Zelensky put forward under those pressing circumstances.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the negative feedback towards Zelensky that we get on this station is that, you know, why can't he explain where the millions of dollars have gone? Millions, maybe billions of dollars? You know the war machine, you know he's siphoning off millions.
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Speaker 4: Well okay, well I would I would argue, where's the proof. You know, many of these people are just repeating Trump talking points. They are not coming up with any particular proof saying I have this that demonstrates that Zelensky is a corrupt dictator. There is no evidence that have been put forward by anyone from the center of the political spectrum, if you will, that has shed this. And look, you know, we have to remember Zelenski was democratically elected back in twenty nineteen. That they are now under martial war is not unusual because basically the Ukrainian Constitution said very clearly that if the war, if the country was ever in a state of war, there would be no elections held and there would be a situation of martial war. And if one were to pick up a history book, you would notice that democratic leaders often don't have elections during a war. I mean, did Winston Churchill offer himself up for re election during World War Two?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: We all understand that enemies take advantage of they take advantage of countries that have democratic ideas, And if you were to put yourself up for election in a period of war, it is highly likely that your political opposition will be funded by your enemy.
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Speaker 1: When we look at the situation where Donald Trump is got into bed with Putin, there's no question about that he's siding with him, And when he calls Zelensky a dictator and virtually responsible for starting the war, I mean he's put a line in the sand. Is there any way back?
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Speaker 5: Look?
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Speaker 4: I think that the Europeans believe that there is a way back. I don't think that will to be seen another repeat of Zolenski Trump meeting anytime soon. I think that the anger that that whole thing had generated now has put a massive chasm between Keith and Washington. But I do think that the Europeans believe that they have better relations with Trump and that somehow they'll be able to act as a bridge back to the Trump White House. Now whether or not Trump wants to play that card, or whether he doubles down on his relationship with Vladimir Putin, is anyone's guest. But if we go by history as we've seen it play out over the last week or so, it seems likely that Trump will go the Russian way.
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Speaker 1: It would seem that if there were to be a peace settlement, it would be purely on the Soviet or Russia and the US terms, and that would mean a loss of territory to the Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: At the moment, absolutely and let's be under no illusion here, you know, a peace deal that does not include the government of Ukraine nor European stakeholders, who, as we have found of from the French President, has gifted many billions of dollars to the Ukrainian war effort. As a matter of fact, I think thirty billion dollars more than what the Americans have had provided thus far. You know, you've got a little bit of a problem here in terms of understanding where these situations lie. But I think that you know, as far as Europe is concerned, and the Europeans are concerned, they do want this back to become a thing of the past as soon as possible so they can get on with the idea of trying to create a viable peace. But of course that Bible peace depends on a peacekeeping mission, which the Brits are trying to put forward. And you know, Prime Minister Kiostarma has been very open about putting boots on the ground in Ukraine, but only under the conditions that the Americans will provide some sort of security backstop to a European lead force. Now, this is a very interesting position for Britain to be in because, of course Britain, like Australia, not much of the Western world. You know, after the Cold War ended, we basically gave up on our defense forces. You know, they're all being paired back to such a degree that we can't undertake massive involvements, not unless we start investing heavily in personnel, cutting off the fat of our defense bureaucracies. And no one is talking about that, not in Britain and not in Australia. But if we take Britain as the lead, the lead organizer, the British Army currently has more cause cavalry than it has tanks. It also has seventy five thousand men. Now, depending on the level of commitment to Kirstarmer wants to give Britain in this venture of a peacekeeping mission, a theoretical peacekeeping mission, we could be looking at a deployable British force anywhere between ten thousand at the light end and about fifty thousand at the heavy end. I can't see the fifty thousand at the heavy end happening. Ten thousand is possible, But then where are the rest of the troops coming from, because they'll have to also come from places like France, perhaps Germany, perhaps Poland, who knows.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, is there any merit in what Donald Trump has said about that Europe has not been pulling its weight? I mean, I think you said that Europe has given more to the Ukrainian cause in the US, despite what Donald Trump says. But should Europe have been doing more all along?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, two things can be true simultaneously. The Europeans have been very slack in terms of their own defense capabilities. I mean, that's without a doubt. And the thing is that Europe is a highly bureaucratized You know, the European Union is a highly bureaucratized structure centered in Brussels, and it moves very slowly, and it's got some twenty eight members. Everyone has to be in some form of agree and so you can understand that things are slow in terms of trying to get progress and sometimes almost impossible to get progressed. So, yes, I think that there is certainly the fact that Europe needs to lift its game in terms of finding its own security. But then we also have to realize that when the Western Alliance was founded, when NATO was founded, it was never intended to be an equal partnership between the United States and Europe. That's only come up over the last couple of weeks. I mean, to be honest, NATO was an instrument of political and strategic dominance by the United States over Europe to prevent a European power from becoming the most dominant power on the continent. That was its key role. Now Trump wants an organization that was never designed to be a partner, a full partner in security with the Americans, to become one. That's got to be a mission impossible the whole world.
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Speaker 1: The US has been seen as the world policeman for many, many decades now. Australia has been a staunch ally of USA since the Second World War, and we've gone into battle every battle that they've fought around the world. Will they be there if we.
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Speaker 4: Need them, that's a very good question. Well, I mean, the Americans have now deployed a submarine. I think it's the USS Minnesota to help shadow the Chinese for televis currently making its way around the great continent of Australia. So I suppose we could see we could say that now. Yes, now is a transactional thought. I mean, now the United States is interested in shadowing a Chinese fleet. There may come a time when the Americans won't be interested and we'll expect Australia to do more. And my question then would be to the politicians, what are you going to do to step up at the moment We've got, you know, people lambasting alb and Easy for his defense policies, and rightly so. But then we think that maybe the opposition will have an idea.
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Speaker 6: They've got no idea.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what was Peter Dutton saying the other day, Well, buy another twenty eight JSPX. You know that's going to cost another three billion dollars. And not only that, one has to say who we're we're we're finding the air crew for these new fighter jets. We have constant skill shortages in this country, an undermanned defense force. You know, what are we going to do to develop a sense of addressing the real problems and the real elephant in the defense room, and that is personal and defense industry skill base. We have no people. So if they, if Peter Dutton can come up with a plan to actually address these kinds of issues, perhaps we'll stand a much better chance in the future. But if he's all if all he is is promising three billion dollars for twenty eight fighters at about one hundred and seven million dollars apiece, and that's it. That's not going to help us when the Chinese send another flotilla down here to circumnavigate the content.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, we have an election pending. Are there any votes in saying to the electorate at large we're going to commit more to the defense budget.
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Speaker 4: Yes, superficially, yes, it's going to favor the party that comes up with the greatest number on the table. So if we you know, as I said, if Peter Dutton says that he's going to be spending more on defense, people will say, I want to be strong with defense and so therefore, you know, rah raal, let's go team. But it's not about that. It's about where is the money invested. If it's not invested in personnel, our air force is still going to be small, it's still going to be undermanned. We're still not going to have you know, full contingent of fighter squadrons flying all over Australia at any time that the government needs to. So again, it's not about the money, it's where we put the money, and you know, we do have a top heavy defense force as well, paying for many salaries of people who perhaps should have been drummed out of the service quite some time ago. You know, if you look at say, for instance, one of the services, in particular, Royal Australian Navy, we've got about ten combat vessels. And if you look at the ranking at the top end the flag officers say from rear admiral to admiral, and admittedly it's at the rear admiral, there's a lot of fat. We've got about two hundred and thirty two people of rank of admiral in the Navy. Now I'm sorry, god, we're spending a lot of money on salaries for a navy with ten combat vessels. We don't have a navy of a thousand ships, which requires such a top heavy structure. So let's address the elephant in the room. Let's address to real problems. If you have a cumbersome, overly bureaucratic, careerist defense force, you're not going to get the kind of defense that the country needs.
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Speaker 1: Well, when you talk about the defense spending and having a top heavy navy, I remember not that long ago talking about the fact of the public servants and so forth, and the head of our Defense department earns three times what the head of the US Defense Department earns well.
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Speaker 4: And that's a case in point. So again, these are the critical issues growing that Australian defense has and what our political parties ought to be addressing. But because defense is the biggest spender of public moneys in Australia, they have their own power base. They're well protected, and they don't want to suffer public criticism for the way that they're being shaken. And I mean, this kind of mentality has to stop. If we want to be serious about Australian defense. We need to have a light and nimble hierarchy, a light and nimble hierarchy suited for the assets that we have. You know that the numbers of warships, the numbers of aircraft, the numbers of battalions in the army. If we have too many of the top end people administering a small force, surely that doesn't make any sense to most people.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you speak a lot of sense. So we could go on talking all day, doctor, but I appreciate your time. Thanks for giving it to us today. Appreciate it.
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Speaker 4: Noaries, thanks very much.
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Speaker 1: Thanks ming doctor John Brunei, Founder and c Sage International. Lots of talking points there if you have any thoughts on that. Australia's defense needs and wants. What is happening with the Ukraine, Europe in general, NATO at large. Wow, there's a lot to consider. Eight double two three double O double Oh it's thirteen to ten.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Gooding.
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Speaker 1: Yes, ten to ten five doubled A. From the text line, Russia did the wrong thing, but that was three years ago and one and a half million people have died. Zelenski wanting to beat Russia is in war is a delusional thing. He can still sign the peace deal that is still on the table and he'll have security, peace and a trade deal. Well that's wish, we'll think. He isn't Andrew. He'll have security, peace and a trade deal. Do you really think you'll have security? Do you really think that Vladimir Putin, the killer terrorist at large, will say oh that's enough, I've got enough now. Putin is declared in a vow that he loved the USSR when they had so many states, and he would like to get back to that, and he would like Ukraine to be the first of them, and it wouldn't be the last. So to say there would be stability, and to say that was three years ago, like, well, let's get over it. I don't think so. On a happier note, who's who of Hollywood are gathering this morning to see which of this year's acclaimed films will take home the gongs, which performers will get an oscar. It's a very important day on the movie calendar, and to bring us up to data, I don't know if they've started awarding the gongs yet, but we'll soon find out. Movie analyst Shane A. Bassett Schang, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Graham, good warning everyone. It's my favorite day of the year, and I'm all set. It hasn't started yet. The ceremony kicks off in just over half an hour, but the red carpet is in fourth wing now.
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Speaker 1: It is an exciting time, and we've had the preliminaries, the lead ups, haven't we These sort of lesser events, the Golden Globes and all these sort of other awards that sort of the precursor. But this is the one that really matters. Isn't it? This is the one they all to call it.
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Speaker 7: Definitely, I call this my grand final. This is the grand final for me because, yeah, all the predecessors, all the awards ceremonies, and that there aren't quite a lot, you know, there's different categories and different people who vote, and even the Baster Awards are very significant. They're the British Academy Awards are what the outcome all the oscars will be. So there's been so much chop and change throughout all the winners this year, this awards season, it's very hard to pick who might win an Oscar.
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Speaker 1: I hear there are about ten movies up for a Movie of the Year. I mean that's a huge number, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, not always ten are nominated. You're allowed to have up to ten nominees. Back probably a decade ago at change, because it used to be just five nominees only, but because of the amount of more movies that get released, there's so many movies that actually get released, they extended it to a possible ten. So some years, you know, you might only get eight nominations or seven nominations, they can use ten, and this year they've definitely used all ten and they all desire.
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Speaker 1: There are quite a number of Aussies up for gongs.
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Speaker 7: Well I wish there were more because Nicole Kidman, she got snubbed for her role in Baby Girl. However, we have four Australian nominees. Guy Piers, he's not really leading the way, but he's how most prominent. Guy Pierce, the great Ossie actor. He's up for Best Supporting Actor in The Brutalist.
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Speaker 1: I really hope Guy. I think he is a sensational actor. Whatever he does, he makes it his own. He is something special.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you, so do why?
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Speaker 7: I mean, I'd be stoked for him really what he's put in the work. He has been doing both US, European and Australian film productions and television productions for such a long time now, and to get this Oscar nomination is incredible. But he's up against Kieran Colkin in that category.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: Kiaran Colkin was in the movie called a Real Pain, and he has won every single award he's been nominated for leading up to this, so it'd be a big shock if Guy won. He deserves too, because his role in The Brutalist is just second to nine. He's so emotionally four on and terrific. But unfortunately, I think Kiaren Colkin is a lock for this category.
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Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to take out the movie of the year, A big one.
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Speaker 7: It's a bit contentious. Yeah, best film for me. I would have said about a month ago Perez. Now that's got thirteen nominations and it should be the front runner. However, there's been and I won't go into details, but there's been a little bit of controversy on some of it behind the scenes, so all of a sudden it's halted, its momentum stopped. And The Brutalist and Anora are the two favorites. But I'm going for Conclave, an amazing movie about picking a new pope with Stanley Tucci and Ray Fines and Isabelle Rossolini. It is such an incredible film with its costumes and music and cinematography. I think Conclave can win, and it's actually moved up to second favorites, so I must be onto something.
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Speaker 1: What about the best Actor Best.
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Speaker 7: Actor and Actress? Is interesting because I like Adrian Brady. I think Adrian Brady's got this as the lead in The Brutalist before he did he won for The Pianist.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, just over twenty years ago now, and he was terrific in that And this one he plays a Holocaust survivor who goes to New York after the war and he makes a new life and he's an architect. That's just It's a three and a half hour movie and you are locked into that film for every single minute. Terrific performance from him. So that's my tip for Best Actor and Best Actress is hard because I want Demi Moore to win. She's my pick for the substance that Mikey Madison, who played Anora in the movie at the same name, She's that they've both been winning up into this, so they've both been like chopping and changing the wins. But Demi Moore has been in the industry for forty plus years and so many great movies and now finally recognized the first OSCAR nomination. So big deal for me. If Demi wins. I've been watching her since growing up.
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Speaker 1: I'd assume there'd be some recognition. After the death of the great Gene.
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Speaker 7: Hackman, Yeah, well, the memorial moments are always I mean, for me, they're quite emotional because you know, they're actors and producers or directors whoever they might be, who have passed away that I've been, you know, fans of. And Gene Hackman in particular was so so loved and even though he'd given up acting on his own terms just twenty years ago, he was just loved by so many And Clint Eastwood and so many people who were friends with him gave great tributes. But I can assume, only assume they'll focus on him, and then Donald Sutherland is another one who passed away last year. Just a lot of the older icons often get a real good focus and highlight, which is fine by me. I miss Gene Hackman already.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, much deserved. He's one of my favorite actors of all time. Well it's I'll let you go on. I was going to say wallow, but you know, just soaky in the atmosphere of your your grand final.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the champagnes On Ice that kicks off soon and was not like we've got four of these up all together, so you know, let's know one can actually get over the line. Our best chance is best documentary, an Australian documentary called Porcelain War.
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Speaker 1: We'll watch out for good on your Shane that's Shane A. Bassett's the mo the analyst. You hear him quite often on five double A. So who would you like to see Win? I would dearly like to see Guy ps Win. I think his movies he can play any sort of role, heavy, light, quirky. So we'd be very special if he won a gong for Best Supporting Actor. Back after the News five Double A.
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Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings all.
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Speaker 1: Week we have tickets to Fleetwood Mac's Story at Gluttoney. Give us a call throughout the morning and I'll pick the best call and you will win. Fleetwood Mac Store the great Story of Fleetwood Gluttney rymal Park, home with the biggest shows this fringe. And you can get tickets from Gluttony dot net dot au from the text line high Graham. A few months back, the Weather Bureau predicted we were facing one of the hottest summers on record. All the media ran with the story, of course, as it fits your climate ideology. Now this is a long text. Can I just intercede for a moment. If the Bureau ran a story of saying it was going to be one of the cold summers on record, we would also run that, so we're not discriminating because it fits our climate ideology anyway, Once again, the Weather Bureau was wrong. We've been caught out a number of times, among other things, fiddling with historic weather data to make the past cooler and therefore the present hotter. And they struggle these days to predict four or five days ahead. Yet their word is never questioned or debated by the media. We've had a couple of hot spells, but basically a normal warm summer. Now about the coldest night on the record in parts of Victoria a few weeks ago, and snow in the Alps. Will the media ever take the Weather Bureau to task, of course not, as it doesn't fit the narrative. I love these conspiracy theorists. The UN talks about global boiling, the Climate Council here talks of lethal heat. But all these things are in five years time or ten years time. These tipping points and predictions never happen, and the media stays silent. The Weather Bureau has a multimillion dollar budget and continually gets it wrong, but are never questioned any comments. Look, I agree the Bureau've got it wrong, and they've got it wrong many many times, but suggest that the media, but this media have our climate ideology and our narrative is rubbish. I'm happy to talk to someone. I'd like you if you want to ring up and tell us your story. I don't know if you have any expertise in this area, but we will often speak with people who have diametrically opposed views. So while I agree one hundred percent with you the bureau saying that this was going to be one of the hottest summers ever, they got it wrong, and they get it wrong a lot of the time, and it's fair to question them, and I don't mind that at all. Thank you for your email. I'd love you to ring up have a chat with this. It's eight minutes past ten on five double a well. In October of last year, hundreds of thousands of fish and marine life died at the Southastinia Research and Development Institute SADI at their facility at West Beach. The deaths included barrowmunday snapper and oyster spat. The cause of the deaths unknown at the time. Investigations have been ongoing well. The Opposition is now called on the government to take action and joining in our Shato, Minister of Primary Industries Nicola Centerfandi Nicola, Good morning to.
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Speaker 9: You, Good morning grant to you and your listeners. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: Now what is your concern? They have called for an inquiry or institute an inquiry. What is happening?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look green this is an issue that the Opposition and indeed the Parliament and then if US shown have been trying to get some months on for several months now, since the deaths of the oysters that the Juvenile Snapper and the barren Monday were first made public back in the number of last year. And you know what we saw last yeing week was a motion put forward by myself a shadow minister and supported by the cross Bench, which is basically an essence calling on the mel Analysis government to appoint an independent investigator into those stock losses and fish deaths that occurred back in October of last year at the Westpage study. And I think you know what this motion does is really signaled the parliaments posture with the government secrecy around this issue. The Parliament and in the many South Australians have a lot of questions around those debts that the main unanswers. You know, we cannot ignore the timing of these destimilations to the government's own dredging trials, and in fact FI documents reveal that there were questions being asked by being asked of the Department of Environment and Water by starting about the dredging programs and its timing, and this needs to be explored. But this cannot be government's departments investigating themselves because it doesn't pass the pub test.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 9: The fact is that STARTY is the state government's principal research institute. It is part of the Department of Primary Industries and Regions and therefore, in the interests of transparency and to ensure South Australians have confidence in the process, we believe the Parlament belief that it is imperatives that the investigation be carried out by an independent entity.
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Speaker 1: Have they issued any findings at all? Have their investigations have been going on for some time, have they said anything.
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Speaker 9: So, Graham, Look, we've asked a number of questions of both the Attorney General, who is the Minister in charge of the dredging trial, and of the Minister for Primary Industries. The information that they've provided for the Chamber thus far is very nimised and you know, that's been a real frustration for the Parliament. You know, the Minister has been quick to say that there is no evidence between of a link between the deaths and the dredging troll, but she also refuses to say that she cannot rule it out, and that's been incredibly frustrating. And you know, I think again that's what we saw in the Parliament last sitting weeks is that we are being we are incredibly frustrated about the luck of luck of transparency and the luck of accountability. And we have now called on the government to to do an independent review into these sis depths, you know, not just starting but at that private facility as well, that this comparative that this occurs. And you know, I hope that the government and the Premier does take heed of that motion.
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Speaker 1: So they haven't responded as yet to your call for an independent inquiry.
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Speaker 9: No they haven't, Graham, and you know that again it's just incredibly disappointing. You know this this minister and indeed this government has a habit of refusing to be transparent on a variety of issues. Take for instance of the refusal to do an independent review and to the government's responsors Murray flooding events, their refusal to independently investigate their response with Smarto brown rigosvirus and you know now this and you know, in my opinion, growing independent reviews shouldn't be viewed as a weakness for any government. They should actually be viewed as its strength. You know, it's an opportunity to scribe, to do and be better because the people of South Australia deserts. And you know again I'm calling on the Premiere to step up on this issue, to be a leader and to make sure that an independent inquiry it does occur to ensure you know, that confidence in this process.
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Speaker 1: So what sort of form would the independent inquiry take? Would it be a parliamentary inquiry?
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Speaker 9: Look, no, I don't think it needs to be a parliamentary inquiry, Graham. I just think it needs to be an entity or an individual outside of government. There are a lot of there are a lot of experts, interstate experts that could be called on to have a look at all of the evidence, have a look at all of the testing, and to really investigate whether or not there is you know, what is the actual potential cause of these southern and quite significant Stock Office.
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Speaker 1: Nicholas sent Toddie, thank you for your time today. Call for an independent inquiry into what was it hundreds of thousands of fish and marine life that died unexpectedly, just for no apparent reason at the Saudi facility at West Beach. We'll see if the government has more to say on that. They've been investigating it for some time, but should there be an independent investigation like you know your thoughts eight double two to three double o double the number to ring. John says ruther Glen Weather station from nineteen twelve shows no warming at all. Graham follow up on the Bureau of Meteorology happless forecasting. They actually admit that they change temperature data. They call it homogenization under world best practice. Always they are just previous temperatures down to give the impression we are warming. Raw data from Rutherglen Weather and Wendy says there will always be climate change. There is another ice age in six thousand years. Climate change has been with us forever. I will not question that, and there is climate change going on at the moment, but the amount of human involvement in that that has really never been proven. It's quarter past ten five double a.
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Speaker 2: Five Double AY Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: In past ten five Double A We've been talking about the unexplained fish deaths at sari at West Beach and we spoke to the opposition shadow minister and we've got a comment from the Minister for Primary Industries, Clear Scribven, who due to health issues is not available to speak, but this is the release from her office. The loss of snapper egg larvae, ten day old juveniles, as well as oyster spat and barramundi finglings are being investigated by scientists who are experts in their field. The investigation is carefully examining four key areas fish health, environmental factors such as weather and ocean conditions, coastal water quality, and human activities such as sight maintenance and sand replenishment. It is common for larval fish to have high mortality in aquaculture due to their fragility, weak immune systems, and sensitivity to water quality, nutrition and stress. The investigation is ongoing and given the complexity of the data being analyzed, scientists are following a careful and structured approach. The South Austonian liberals undermine the credibility and professionalism of the science and research capability at SADI, which has an excellent international reputation developed over its decades of work. That's from the Office of the Minister for Primary Industries, Claires Gribbin. It's twenty past ten five, Double a Elizabeth, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 10: I'd like to suggest that it was over ten years ago that everybody was frightened to death because we were never going to have rain hit the earth again. And I'd also like to say that I was alive in nineteen thirty nine when Victoria was on Far and South Australia half of South Australia was on Far. I had two weeks over one hundred degrees and South Australia had ten days over one hundred degrees. And I mean, all you can say is that weather changes all the time and it rotates, and if you listen to the scientist, millions of years ago, it was hotter in this country than it is today. All I'd like to say is let's take the weather as it comes each day and be grateful when we get rain, because we haven't had rain for ages. Now it is a drought and we're used to droughts. Thank you very much for listening.
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Speaker 1: Gooj You Elizabeth, thanks for putting your case. Yeah, look, I think the newspapers sometimes catastrophize, you know, we get these things of you know, Australia set for a scorcher, and you know numerous places in Perth and maybe Central Australia and maybe Adelaide, certain others, but it's certainly not universal across the country. We can still have pretty cool weather in some places. I don't think it has been as bad as what they like to make out it's been. And we've had worse, as Elizabeth said, you know, back in January the twelfth, nineteen thirty nine, forty six point one degrees, two days earlier, forty five point nine degrees, back in twenty nineteen, forty five point eight degrees. So extreme weather is not a rarity in this part of the world, and they appear to massage the numbers to make it seem worse. And as the forecast when the Bureau says, you know, this is going to be one of the hottest summers ever. Look, I have trouble forecasting five days out, so forecasting three months out does make you wonder at times. Dave, Good Morning, Morning Graham.
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Speaker 11: I'd like to make a comment about the envy had with the about the shut in Defense Force. Sure, so a few years ago, when General Malham was still alive, I was actually working in the Defense Force at the time, and I sat down with him and I said to him, so, how many kilometers of us of our coastline can we actually defend? And he said, we can defend twenty six kilometers for a maximum of three days. We're either going to run out of fuel or bullets first. We also have the wrong four structure mix in that we've spent all this money on joint strike fighters. They're not fighters, they're aerial sensing platforms. The Chinese have got fighters, everyone else has fighters, but Australia. We haven't got a replacement for our f Onine eleven medium range strategic bomber. We should be looking at things like the fifteens. We don't have stealth bombers, long range bombers. You know, we don't have a lot of the capabilities that we actually require in order to defend Australia.
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Speaker 1: Do you think do you think we've sort of relied on the big brother. We've got support from the US and they'll always be there for us, so we really don't need to overspend on defense.
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Speaker 11: Well, the seventh Fleet are based out of Guam and basically, if stuff happens, they're going to have to defend themselves and anyone else that's actually being attacked. But the seventh Fleet isn't huge. The seventh Fleet is a reasonable Size's the equivalent of essentially our enable capacity if you like, But they're going to be stretched to defend themselves as well as everyone else. We don't have enough fuel storage here in Australia. The US have had to invest a lot of money in even putting their own fuel dump up in Darwin near Robinson Robertson Barracks, so that if stuff happens, they're not reliant on us because they cannot rely on us because we won't have enough capacity for ourselves. And so if they have to bug out of that area and they need fuel, they've got their owns, their own storage. And the US have actually made a policy of saying we will not build infrastructure on any other country's land. Well, guess what they've broken that in order to they have a capability within the Darwin regional area.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Australia should increase its defense budget.
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Speaker 11: I think Australia needs to look It's not so much the defense budget, but it's actually looking at our defense structure. As the previous caller said, we've got a lot of senior serves within the Defense Force who every single one of them is actually trying to stay in to get a nice, big fat pension, but also they're trying to make a name for themselves and in doing so, they're actually assisting in making wrong decisions such as joints, the number of joint strike fighters, getting rid of our fads, not actually putting pressure on things like British Aerospace to actually put out our Hunter class frigates quicker than what they actually are. They're not actually looking at what is the next generation of students that are leaving school, what do they actually want, what they actually need As far as the career path. Some years ago they had an apprenticeship program within the Defense Force, so you can go into the army as an apprentice electrician, fit of Inturno or that sort of thing. That's all gone on the wayside. But yeah, Australia is actually saying we need tradesmen. Well, why don't you get a lot of these younger kids into apprenticeships within their defense force, and some of those apprentices have gone on to become chief of Army. There is a career outside of outside of an apprenticeship if you choose to actually stay in.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed it, John, but I'm sure I heard doctor John Brune correctly when he said regarding our navy that we have something like twenty rear admirals we have ten ships. I mean, is that overkill? Way overkilled?
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Speaker 11: You know, how many admirals do you actually need to command to command a navy? You know, one admiral would actually do ten ships easily, because that if you look at other countries like the UK instead of there, how many admirals do they actually have for the number of ships they have, And they've got a lot more ships than what we have. Have many admirals that are actually within within the US Defense Force for the size of their fleet. But then again, they also have admirals that are actually looking after things like the Marines and things like that. Right, So, I think, as I said, we've got a lot of senior serves. We've got too many senior serves for our sized defense force, which they're all on you know, three four five, six hundred thousand dollars a year salaries. If you actually get rid of a lot of the dead wood and actually shrink that down, you can actually put a lot of that money into young and up and cunning coming students that are leaving school who potentially are looking for a career path somewhere.
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Speaker 1: You're very knowledgeable on the subject, Dave, so you'll be interested in this figure. The US Defense secretary controlling a one point four trillion dollar budget earns in Australian dollars three hundred and eighty two thousand dollars per year. Is Australian counterpart, with a defense budget of fifty eight billion, is paid one million, one hundred and thirty five, five hundred and twenty four dollars, effectively three times as much. Does that tell a story?
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Speaker 11: Well, look at the US Postal Service. Even then, the head of the US Postal Service earns a quarter of a million dollars. How guys, a girl now I think it is is earning a couple of million.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got it wrong somewhere. Good on your day. Thanks, thank you, Boby, I appreciate your call. Eight double two to three double oh double, oh yeah. We've got it so wrong in this country. And you speak to the government, they say, well, you know, it's a free market world. We've got to pay these money. There's sort of money to attract people into the public service. Well they don't have to do they don't have to do that in America. They can pay them reasonable wages. But when when the US Defense secretary is earning three hundred and eighty two thousand dollars managing a one point four trillion dollar budget and the Australian counterpart, managing a piffling fifty eight billion is paid three times as much. I mean, and you wonder where you tax dollars.
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Speaker 2: Go five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's twenty eight to eleven on five double A or with Graham Goodings. Thanks for your company today, Thanks for your informed comment and interesting comments on the whole range of things. Eight double two three double O double oh is the number to ring if you'd like to take part. And a reminder that we have tickets to give away to Fleetwood Mac story at Gluttony that will come up at any given moment in the show from the text line IgG, why worry about Chinese ships when they have control of Darwin Harbor and a commercial size airstrip in Way. New subs are a pipe dream with insufficient numbers to a crew them, so it says Kevin, Yeah, Darwin Harbor is a joke, isn't it. I mean, really, it's been given a ninety The Chinese have leased it for ninety nine years, and I think that was previous liberal government that agreed to that. I mean, really, you know, if we have any potential adversary, it's China, and we lease one of our most significant harbors, most tactically important harbors to the Chinese. They can sail in and out at will. Hi g. Something is surely wrong when the annual budget for defense, NDIS and indigenous affairs are much the same, says Raylen. Remember USA didn't come to our aid in World War Two until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It's time a politician had the guts to bring back national service. We've turned into a Third World backwater. As far as the climate goes, it seems all the Weather Bureau and media are under forty so everything is a drama with no memory of the past or living without air conditioning. Good point ly and but geez, I hate to live without air conditioning, and I'm not under forty. I can tell you that eight double two to three double o double. If you'd like to comment on the issues of weather, the USA coming to our aid, will they ever do it again? And as Leanne says, it was only in World War Two after they attacked Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that they came into the war and gave us any assistance. But thankfully they did. It's twenty seven to eleven on five double A. Whenever there's a debate about nuclear power in Australia, a big question regularly comes up. Well, that's all well and good, but what do we do with the waste? It can't just be taken to the local dump along with the garbage or rubble. It has to be handled with immense care, stored in particular ways while it remains dangerous, and that can be a long time, sometimes of decades and in the case of high level waste, up to thousands of years. Former Senator Rex Patrick says a report into nuclear waste storage, which was finalized in late twenty twenty three, still hasn't been made available for public discussion. He's going to the Administrative Review Tribunal today to get access to the report. Rex Patrick joins me in our Rex, why hasn't the report been made public before this?
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Speaker 8: Well, that is a great mystery. You might recall that when Peter Dutman announced that there were going to be seven sites for power reactors in Australia, Anthony ALBERNIZI came out and all upon mister Dutton to reveal the sites. Now I've got a situation where the government has done a report into locations for a high level radioactive waste management facility for UCUS, and they are refusing to be transparent about the outcome of that report. I understand it to be perhaps politically controversial, politically sensitive, but this is an issue that will last a millennia in respect of once the decisions made. This is not a decision simply for this government or a next government. It's a decision that will involve hundreds of years. And for that reason, it should be made public so that the people can so that people can talk about it.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't it be covered by cabinet confidentiality?
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Speaker 8: Well, that's the question that's before the Administrative Reviews Tribunal today. Difficulty with that, and I've got to be a bit careful because i don't want to be in breach of something called the Harmon obligation. But in principle, the Commonwealth must show that the document was brought into existence for the purpose.
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Speaker 1: Of going to cabinet.
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Speaker 8: That is, on the day they first started writing it, it was to go to cabinet. They are struggling to make out their case, but just administratively, it's improper for a document like this to become a cabinet document because cabinet documents can't be shared across successive governments. If the government are successful in the proceedings today, what it will mean is that perhaps in one hundred days, if we have a new Prime minister, mister Dutton as the Prime Minister, this document, which has cost taxpayers well in excess of half a million dollars and involve several agencies of government, couldn't be used by a Guton government or any other future government. So it's just an absurdity the idea that you do a comprehensive study and you limit it in time to only the current government by making it a cabinet document.
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Speaker 1: So do you know what the terms of reference would have been. Were they looking for proposed sites high level waste, low level waste? What were they looking for?
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Speaker 8: Well, the Minister has talked about the report coming up with a scheme to select a site, but the contract that was granted to an external contract to leave the review basically said that they wanted the report to identify possible location. So I don't think the report will select a particular site, but it will at least identify those sites around Australia that are geologically suitable for the storage of high level waste. It may be that the government decides that if they're going to tackle this high level waste problem at the same time, they may also seek to tackle the low level waste problem, which has not been solved since the Kimber decision was overturned by the Federal Court. It's not entirely clear, but what we do know is the document does talk about Orcus waste.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a very real issue. Where we have the Orcus submarine project full steam ahead. There will be nuclear waste and nuclear fallout from that.
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Speaker 8: Well, there will be nuclear waste, that's without question, and we do have to take responsibility for it. That is the agreement between Australia and the United States. And we know we've had great difficulty in the past trying to select these sites. Now the government's actually short circuit than that. In November of last year, the Parliament passed laws that allow the Defense Minister simply to non a site by way of regulation, no consultation required, no social license required, by the strict letter of the law. And that's one of the reasons why we need to get this report out as soon as possible so everyone can talk about it, everyone can debate it.
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Speaker 4: Discuss it, talk about the.
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Speaker 8: Pros and cons, because we are in a situation where technically the Minister could simply look at the report and declare the site and that's the end of the story. And even where you've got laws in Queensland or South Australia say you can't have a nuclear waste, because the Australian Naval Nuclear Propulsion Act is a federal act, it overrides any state laws.
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Speaker 1: We know this is politically sensitive. We only have to look at Kimber so it would seem with an election in the win, the government doesn't want to really stir up the nuclear pod.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, look, look, I made this request more than a year ago, and so it wasn't necessarily minded to have the document prior to an election. But at any point, this is a sort of information that ought to be put out into the public domain, and we can then hear what mister Albaneze's views are on them, We can hear what mister Duttman's views.
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Speaker 1: Are on them.
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Speaker 8: The other may be bipartisan support. It may not, in that sense, become an election issued between the two major parties, but we simply don't know because the document's being held secret.
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Speaker 1: So how long do you think there'll be an outcome you of appealing to the Administrative Review Tribune? At the moment, when is there likely to be a decision?
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Speaker 8: So the hearing is on today, and typically I then would expect the tribunal will reserve its decision and sometime within a month will make its decision, and then the Department will have twenty eight days if it goes in my favor, to appeal the decision. So it might be a couple of months away, and that means it might certainly be the other side of an election. But again I'm not really focusing on this from an election point of view. I simply want the public to be able to see what is being talked about, what the criteria are for these sites, there are where the possibilities lie. In the end, this is about long term decision making, not about a short term election issue.
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Speaker 1: That's Rex Patrick, who is the Jackie Lamby Senate candidate, former senator with his views wanting this nuclear waste storage report revealed, why has it not been done? And hopefully he will find some satisfaction today with the Australian Review Committee. It's nineteen minutes to eleven on five double A. Hi. Graham alas springs has been averaging above forty degrees for a while now, lucky for us here and it was short lived going in. Thanks for that, Peter Graham regards the caller who highlighted massive anominies regards between salaries paid to US and Australian the current administration. I guess the US administration is looking to cut back the number of civil servants as they have identified massive waste inefficiencies etc. Whilst we continue to employ public servants. Current public servants need to be reminded they work to assist the public ie the taxpayer, instead of always creating hurdles and barriers. More public servants is not the answer if we really need to have a very close look at the public service, that is the growth industry. Was it thirty six thousand extra public servants in the last year, No wonder unemployment is decreasing, but yeah, the rate that look. I admire public servants that do work hard, do a good job, and get a fair day's pay, but at the top level on a world scale, they are earning so much more than anywhere else pretty much in the world, particularly a country like the US, when top civil servants, top administrators in the US are only only a third of what their Australian counterparts are getting, and the Australians are responsible for far smaller departments. Go figure eight double two to three double o double oh is the number David says. We have five aircraft able to undertake air to air refuel of our military aircraft. Our politicians have taken one and fitted it out for their use. The furniture they kitted it out with is so heavy it has significantly reduced its range and overall capability as a military aircraft. Idea sort of like something out of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister, isn't it GGI googled to try to understand how much is one trillion dollars and the generated answer was if you started counting now, it would take thirty one, six hundred and eighty eight years to arrive at one trillion dollars. That is a staggering amount of money. Good on your Stavros. Trump has nominated a three star general for the top job over the heads of a bunch of four stars, a lot of noses out of joint in the US. Only time and history will tell whether Trump has done the right thing. But if you've been a four star general for many, many years waiting for a top job and a three star comes straight over the top of you, noses certainly out of joint. One more for an hour, Hi Graham, can you get old Elbow on and point out the collapse of our great country and way of life and share with him all you just mentioned about the wages of public servants in our armed services? Because Old Albow just doesn't seem to know. Cheers Mark in hart Cove. Look, the invitation is always out to the Prime Minister. Here's welcome to come on this program at a moment's notice. If he phoned up right now, we'd move heaven and earth to have a chat with him. I would suggest that because an election is in the wind, he at some stage will appear on this program, if not this program, on the Breakfast program. But I have a whole fistful of questions that I would like to ask the Prime Minister. No doubt you do too, So at any stage you'd like to ford those questions to us, and I'll have a stockpile of questions to ask the Prime Minister. Likewise, Peter Dutton, if you have questions you want to ask of him? How he is going to turn the Titanic around? How and he's going to improve things in Australia, What he's going to do with the money's going to spend? Where he's going to get the money from to spend? Eight? Double two to three double O double oh?
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Speaker 2: Is the number five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, what's happening while away? What's happening with the steel works? Well, Cabinet members are heading to Whaler this morning for an announcement to read the money starting to flow to businesses and I'm sure they just can't wait for that we'll find out about that this morning. Let's hear from John Chapman, Wiler, Regional Coordinator.
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Speaker 12: I think it's a day where there's going to be lots of questions for the administrators at the creditors meeting at two o'clock and we'll see where that ends up. This is a statutory meeting that the creditors that the administrators have to have within eight days of their appointment. So it'll be the third real open interaction with the wider creditors to the steel works in Wyala, so I think it's going to be quite an interesting meeting. The process is spelled out quite clearly on a specific website that's been set up Wyaler Support dot SA, dot gov dot AU. The government's intention and it's been a very clear instruction from the Premier. He wants to get the money moving quickly.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 12: To do that, creditors need to provide certain documentation and one is a proof of debt which they need to provide to the administrators but also to the government along with the statutory declaration and a few other bits and pieces along the way. Now we've got a team from the Department of State Development who have been assisting businesses and we will continue to do that both here at Whaler and in Adelaide because we're also conscious that there are a large number of businesses outside Wyaler that significant sums. I've been dealing with businesses directly.
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Speaker 4: I sat down with.
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Speaker 12: One last week. They're rowed over five million and their Whaler based business, so it's really important we can get that money moving quickly because they've got payrolls to make. We're also working with the administrators to make sure that if they had work orders with the steelworks prior to the administration, that they get new work orders so that they can continue their work seamlessly. So so far, so good, and we're standing ready to assist anyone.
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Speaker 1: That's John Chapman on the creditors meeting at Whaler that's due to get under way at two thirty this afternoon. Nine to eleven five A, a Quantus flight bound from Sydney to Perth has been forced to turn around and make an emergency landing at Mascott Airport. Emergency services scrambled at Sydney Airport after the flight did a U turn and they headed back to its departure point after reports of an on Bild emergency. One of our Sydney to Perth flights returned to Sydney shortly after taking off this morning, reporting a technical issue. A quite A spokesman said, our pilots are highly trained to handle situations like this. The aircraft landed safely and the appropriate procedures were conducted. The aircraft, after landing safety taxi back to the gate under its own steam. No doubt you'll hear more about that in the news throughout the day. On five Double A Tom, good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 5: I have opinion on two subjects, and it's a cursey. I wonder if you let me say it before you make a comment, if you could please. The first thing is talking about our military in general, but mainly the IDF. My youngest is a member. We're supposed to be supposed to be a successful multicultural country, right our forces across the board should reflect that. They don't. I don't believe. Well, again, you only got to look particularly boots on the ground, if you look at the ADF. I can't say much more than that without being declared some sort of racist. At the end of the day, the only way we would combat this to actually have our forces mirror our true multicultural situation is to actually have probably a forced national service where everybody has to serve time in the forces. That's why I'm going to stay on that, because that doesn't reflect the true multiculture when you look at the background of the people, particularly boots on the ground in our forces, and they're having a hell of a time with recruitment. Now, the next thing is if I could this meeting between Trump and the Ukraine president. I really feel for the Ukraine president. I reckon the man's got real cahoonas and I would love him to lead our country. But having said all that, whether you believe Trump is mentally unstable, and quite possibly he is.
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Speaker 1: He made no.
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Speaker 5: Bones about it, Graham when you first started running for president, that he was going to put America first, he was going to clean up the wastage what they consider the wastage as far as financial and all the rest of it. At the end of the day, he's done that. And he got within twelve hours by being as so and so as he was, and he's offside as a snipper, and you know what, he got exactly what he wanted. He got the Europeans to dig deep and actually and actually back the Ukraine president up. So whether you like him or not as far as being a businessman, jeez, he's a tough so and so.
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Speaker 8: But I don't.
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Speaker 5: Agree with a lot of his policies. I don't agree with him personally. I think he does have a scrutlist and I would love to see more and more of the country dig deeper and deeper to back the Ukraine president and the people there who have got the guts of you know what they are doing. They are doing the dirty work of the European countries, and Yanks know this. They and they sit back and they wait, which they've done during the First World War, they did in the Second World War. They always come in late. So at the end of the day, I hope, I hope that we still have a friend in America because unfortunately, I believe we're going to need them.
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Speaker 1: Tom well put, I don't necessarily agree with everything you've said, but you've presented the case. Well, we do need the US as an ally, and we have been there for the US. They have been pretty much there for us, although as has been pointed out, they didn't come to our defense immediately at the start of the Second World War. It was only when they were invaded in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese that they came in. Thank god they did, because that certainly brought a quicker end to the war. But we've always been there for the US in our small way, supporting them in every way we can. But you'd have to think that the way the Trump administration thinks, it's certainly America first, and as Tom said, there's no question about that. He said, that's what it would be all about, America first. But you have to really consider your allies, and at the moment Australia is has become a bit of a poor relation. What are your thoughts about that? Five minutes to eleven five A Jack says, thirty six thousand public servants. This government is a bunch of idiots. These people go to work and they do nothing to help the economy. It would be better spent on housing for our homeless people. Look, I've just have to qualify that, Jack. A lot of public servants do a great job, just so there are too many of them, Hi, Graham, just on waste in the defense force. I have a friend who's just retired from the Air Force on full pension, but still works three days a week, six hours a day including lunch breaks, and owns fifty thousand dollars tax free, still gets a quarter of his mortgage paid and full medical. Not a bad deal to be on regards rob Hi g Gene. It's not just government waste. Councils are worse from CEOs, mayor councilors, directors, managers, team leaders leading hands so much fat to trim our rates should be much cheaper. And as I often say on this, we really should look at the Brisbane model, shouldn't we. Brisbane has one overr arching council for a population almost twice the size of Adelaide, and they do seem to do pretty well. There was an interesting article on the Advertiser today by Jamie mclergue about rationalizing the councils and he made some good points. We have something like sixty eight councils in South Australia. The councils represent a third of what councils in Victoria do. So just peak a figure in South Australia. If a council represented fifty thousand people in Victoria, that same council will represent one hundred and fifty thousand people. So you know, dollar for dollar, you know, per capita, we are over represented by a huge amount with our councils. So what would you think about a rationalization of councils, A good idea or not? Eight double two to three double o double. Oh, we're going to take a break for news. I want to talk about something that concerns me. There are plans to ease pressure on our energy grid by cutting air conditioners powered on hot days. If you've bought an air conditioner since twenty twenty three, it's probably including what's called a demand response capability, and that essentially means they can communicate with a remote agent via Wi Fi or mobile network. In other words, big brother can turn your air conditioning down, whether you like it or not. What are your thoughts about that? Because interstate they are turning their back on it, saying it is not an effective way to cut power costs.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, six.
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Speaker 1: Past eleven five A on a Monday morning in Adelaide. I hope we find you well. Well, there's lots of smiling going on in the cricket world in South Austraia at the moment. After years in the doldrums. We have been sellar dwellers for a Australian cricket terms for longer than I care to remember. In fact, for the first time twenty twelve, the state's cricket team tasted glory in a national competition. That was winning the One Day Cup Final against Victoria by sixty four runs at Adelaide Oval. Great event, terrific to see and we looked like hosting the Shield final. But what are the chances of being held at Adelaide Oval? Because it falls as the AFL season gets into full swing. Braiden Ingram seven nine Sorry sorry, bradon nine News Adelaide sports reporter joins men. Now Braiden, good morning to you.
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Speaker 13: Good Graham, good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you've been right across this story. What are the chances of the final being played at Adelaide Oval?
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Speaker 13: Look, I mean, certainly the SAKA would like to think they're high. Ultimately, this is going to be a decision from the AFL and the Crows. Clearly the first box to tick is that SA lock up hosting rights. They're around ten to eleven points ahead on the table at the moment, so they might only need a draw against Victoria this week with a couple of bonus points to lock up that hosting rights. And then again it's a matter of where it is. Clearly at the moment it would be Karen Rolton Noble given the fact that the final was due to start on a Wednesday, fin it's on a Sunday, which is the thirtiest, which is when the Crows are also scheduled to play North Melbourne. So the supposal will be to bring the final forwards like two days, and then you jam the Shield Final in between ports clash on the previous weekends. Then you play the Shield Final for five days Monday to Friday, and then the following Sunday, the thirtiest is when the Crows play North. So clearly that would require creget pitches. They're going to be taken out now he played a couple of footy games. They then get taken out, they get put back in for the Shield Final and then back out again. So Dan off, geez it had a lot to do. And I guess the question is going to be I think it's going to be whether the AFL is comfortable because clearly we've seen you know, the Adelaide will be converted from a soccer game to a soccer pitch to an AFL pitch pretty quickly in those sort of things. But when you're taking out cricket pitches, I imagine there's probably a few more degrees of difficulty involved.
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Speaker 1: Sure. I mean it's not like the old days when when the cricket pitches were there permanently and in forty season you just played on top of the cricket pitches. Those days are long since gone. And you know they're dropping pictures, which in itself takes time and effort. I mean, in an ideal world, we'd love to see this happen. But do you think it's a reality of practicality.
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Speaker 6: Ah?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I think that's the thing. I Look, it can be done, clearly. You know, if there was a groundstaff to do what it would be the Adelaide Oval and the curator jamien Hoff. But again, with so many things that need to be picked off, I think that have to find a balance with the grass as well, because clearly it's cut shorter for cricket than what it is. You have to find a middle ground there. I just I tend to think the AFL with these scenarios, they tend to err on the side of portion, or they tend to err on the side of the solution that fits them best. And that's not a criticism. I just think that's how they tend to operate. So they might look at this and go, well, what if one of the machines breaks down or what if something goes quite wrong? Then then in a tight schedule, we don't have a ground to play our game apps, So I just wonder if that's what it comes down to, and they go, it's not worth the trouble, but maybe there's some capital there, there's a favor that's those you know, between between cricket and footy, or one that they can thank for later. They go, you know what, let's do this and there might be something that comes back our way.
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Speaker 1: It'd be great to see, there's no question. I mean, Karen Rolton Oval is a beautiful oval. It's great for cricket, but we're talking a final here and you know, Adelaide Oval is the home of cricket in the state, so if it could be done, it'd be great to see.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think as well. I was there on Saturday night and there was I think about six and a half thousand and there it genuinely sounded like fifteen or twenty did they create a great atmosphere the included as a passionate Salustralian cricket fan base there And it just seems right that it would be at Adelaide Oval. I mean, you know, of course Creet solely create for so so so long, so I think it just does seem right and there'll be nothing better than seeing the photos and the videos that will last the time that if they do win the side of their listing it in front of that famous stand rather than at Karen Rowling, which, as you sayed, it's a great intimate venue. But ultimately it's not the Adelaide over. It's not, say Timers Cricket.
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Speaker 1: Good on the Braden thanks for your chat today, base gram chat, Sir Brad Ingram, nine years Adelaide sports reporter who's been all over the story about the possibility of the Shield Final and the likelihood it's not one hundred percent locked in that'll be in southas Strata as yet, but the chances are it will be. It's scheduled for Karen Rolton Oval, but it would be great if it could be at Adelaide Oval. But would have to be sandwiched in between a port game and the Crow's game, and it would mean that Shield final would have to be brought forward a couple of days, but that would only leave a couple of days for the Adelaide Oval to remove the drop in pitches. And well you can't alter the length of the grass obviously, but the grass is shorter for cricket. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double. I'll tell you someone who's got some strong thoughts. That's our own KG.
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Speaker 14: This is a hot topic for me. We haven't won the Sheffield Shield for thirty years. We started our progress on Saturday night with a great win for our foky cabinet. Would be the city of the game, which was fantastic. Southa siding trigger has been in the will. Now if we get our home final, the game has to be played at the Adelaide which is.
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Speaker 1: The home of cricket.
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Speaker 14: Why I don't given stuck what everybody else does. Let the two bodies get together, as you mentioned Will and Dave and work through it, which is best for both the Adelaide Football Club and the Stacker. This is a golden opportunity and I'm read hot on this. This is a golden opportunity to do some great work for Saltha strivings.
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Speaker 1: Triger.
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Speaker 14: We haven't had dead we need to except we've started. Now get off your barbered wood wood.
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Speaker 1: What do you really think, kg Ah Do you love him? The one, the only, the iconic kg Cunningham on whether the Shield Final should be played at Adelaid Oval or not? What your thought's eight double two to three double? Oh? Somebody says hold it at Adelaid Oval for what maybe five thousand people if lucky, each day. It'd be interesting to see what sort of crowd they get, Graham. In relation to the cricket and Crow's ground clash, don't we have an AFL ground at Mount Barker that no one can afford to use? The Crows can go there? Surely? Well, Darren, it isn't quite that simple. There are probably close to forty thousand people, most of them Crow supporters, who have their tickets to go to watch the Crows at Adelaide Oval, and they're not going to squeeze into Mount Barker. Wonderful on all as the ground is, it would take eight to ten thousand people at the most, So that isn't an option thirteen past eleven five Double A preparations are underway with tropical Cyclone Alfred forecast across the coast between Bunderberg and northern New South Wales on Thursday. It's edging ever closer. To bring us up to date is A four BC journalist Matt Hepworth. Matt, good morning to.
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Speaker 15: You, Graham, good morning.
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Speaker 1: What's unique? The cyclones aren't unusual in Queensland? What is unique about this particular one?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean we are right in the middle of cyclone season and as you rightly pointed out, there would be nothing unusual about it if it were in the state's north or far north. And in fact, this is really where tropical Cyclone Alfred began. We've been following its movements for well over a week now and it did form well off the far north Queensland coast. Over the last few days, it's continued to track south and the big update that we've sent over the last twenty four hours is it's now on a collision course for southeast Queensland. So the exact location of the crossing is still unknown at this state. However, a stretch of the Queensland coast pretty much but anywhere between Bunderberg and the Queensland New South Wales border could be in the firing line. At the moment, we're looking at a Category two system, so that basically means we could have wind gusts of up to one hundred and forty kilometers an hour. The greater concern around that would be the rain. Up to six hundred millimeters of rain is possible and for flood prone regions, particularly like Brisbane, but right across southeast queens and that's the main concern at the moment.
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Speaker 1: When you've been hit by lots of rain, lots of floodwaters in recent times, it's not like you need anymore.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, very much. So we've already had a wet summer and this is what we hear with these events. The timing is always very unfortunate. Is we've already got very wet catchments and creeks, so there's that fear, and of course you can combine that with a high tide as well. The fact that Brisbane is a river city, it's built on the river, so if you combine that with high tides it could cause for some pretty serious damage, which is why all our authority they're out today just warning residents to start getting prepared. At this stage, we're looking at a crossing of Thursday or Friday. So we've heard from our premiere this morning that's asking residents to be prepared, you know, things like your basic storms you know, anywhere, whether it's you know, cleaning your gutters, tying down loose objects, just making sure that you know, we are prepared for whatever might come our way.
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Speaker 1: When you look at it, most cyclones, as you say, far North Queensland is where they normally happen, low population centers. I guess the critical issue here is that we're moving towards some pretty large population centers, absolutely, and you.
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Speaker 15: Know I've covered a fair few cyclones over the years and so often they do, you know, go over remote communities where I guess, yeah, the damage can be minimized, you can have evacuations in some cases. I mean, you know, you're talking about Australia's third largest city, so it's not as if we can, yeah, just evacuate should it come. So that's why, once again, you know, the preparation around this is so important as well, and the fact that it's such a widespread area at the moment, I mean, the tracking at the moment, looks like it will cross probably just north of Brisbane, but you know, the Sunshine Coast would certainly be in the firing line as well. That's a large populated area, the Gold Coast just down the road. Of course, they are quite immune to flooding as well, and even for residents in far North New South Wales as well, So it's a very large spread area and at the moment it's just a watch and wait for large parts of the Queensland coast and it.
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Speaker 1: Could impact the start of the AFL season in Brisbane too.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right. We ardue to have the Lions kick off their season on Thursday at the Gabble. We heard from Andrew Dillon and the CEO of the AFL a short time ago. They're pretty much on a watch and wait as well. My understanding is that the Lions would prefer to wait until they have a buy in round three, so if the match were to be called off, and they haven't made that decision just yet, but the Lions would prefer to have it in round three when there is a bye. So yeah, there's a lot right at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Graham, Well, Matt, let's hope it all doesn't come to fruition, the rains hold off and the cyclone diminishes. Thanks for your time today. Thank you Matt Hapworth for BC Brisbane journalist on cyclone Alfred, Which was which was cyclone Albow? Well, no it wasn't. It was cyclone Anthony originally, but for obvious reasons it was probably a good idea to rename it because you can imagine if it had caused any major issues destruction and death, even perish, the thought cyclone Anthony at this time leading to an election probably wouldn't be great. Politics seventeen past eleven five.
01:33:41
Speaker 2: A five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Have you bought an air conditioner recently? In recent years, well since July twenty three, Well, most new air conditioners sold in South Australia must include a demand response capability. Essentially, this means they can communicate with a remote agent via Wi Fi or mobile networks or connect to an external device. That's so they can adjust their cooling capacity when signaled. Plans to ease pressure on southa Strata's energy grid by cutting air conditions par on hot days effacing new criticism. However, since new research has raised darts about the idea. The reform marked the first step towards remotely controlling air cons with signals triggering three modes, turning off the compressor, reducing cooling to fifty percent, or limiting it to seventy five percent. An eighteen month trial involving volunteer households is set to begin later this year. While such schemes aim to save consumers money by avoiding costly network upgrades, experts like doctor Martin Gill have flagged issues. He pointed out trials showing minimal power savings when reducing air con capacity, especially on hot days. In fact, New South Wales recently abandoned a similar plan, citing its limited energy savings. Instead, doctor Gill suggests tweaking thermostat settings for better results without safe sacrificing comfort. Sad isn't it that we're in this day and age that our energy grid is so fragile that we have to hand over our own air conditioners to external forces to manipulate it to try and balance air conditioning power grid?
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Speaker 9: Use?
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double double oh, Mark, good morning, good.
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Speaker 16: Morning, good morning, Graham. Just sorry about that made I was just doing something. How are you?
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Speaker 8: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Good? Thanks? What can we what can we do for you?
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Speaker 16: Look, an earlier caller rang up about these thirty six thousand public service that Peter Dutton's going to get rid of. Well, I just wanted to point out that at the moment this government, current government, have managed to move fifty thousand private contractors consultants off the public payroll that we are employed by the previous Liverpool governments. So they've turned that around and then they've only they've employed another nine thousand public servants to deal with the backlog involving sixty thousand veterans. Who's the backlog as we know you've spoken about this before yourself, has been there for years and they haven't been able to clear that upset the desperately working on that. Now the trouble isn't going to sound a bit like a labor stooge. You, But I like my politics, so when I hear things, I like to go and investigate and find out sort of what the real story is. Further, this labor government has decreased the numbers of public and private consultants in the defense industry. They've saved about four hundred million there and they've saved over six hundred million by getting rid of the fifty consult fifty thousand consultants previously hired by this government. So in Dunton sees he's going to cut the public service by thirty six thousand, he's going to have to replace them somewhere somehow to do the job, and that might mean going back to the private sector, which is costing this country more money than ever before. So I just when you hear politicians say these things, it's not hard to find on the internet. David Pocox a good place to start to find out what the actual backstory to all this really is. And in fact Dartan's grabbed a headline people have jumped on it. But the reality is he probably can't afford to run sack thirty six thousand consultants unless he employs more private consultants.
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Speaker 1: YEP, an interesting point of View've good on you, Mark, thanks for your input. It is a vex question, isn't it. I mean, the size of our public service per capita is huge, But if we get rid of some public servants, as Mark suggested, we might need to get private consultants in to do their job. But isn't it a matter of getting people into the offices. I'm not one hundred percent fan of Elon Musk by any means, but his doge the Department of Government Expenditure. Maybe we should appoint an independent person to go through different departments and see how much work is being done by different people. Eight double two three double o double oh the number to ring. It's a huge, huge day in Hollywood. The Oscars are underway. Miley Hegan is there for Channel seven News. She's on the red carpet or Miley, where all we are? Is it all started yet?
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Speaker 11: Well?
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Speaker 17: I've actually just walked off the red carpet. It's finished the red carpet. The show has started. All of the stars are inside the Dolby Theater and they are waiting. Well, actually, some of the awards have already been handed out. Unfortunately, Australian guy Pierce did not pick up the award for Best Boarding Actor.
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Speaker 1: I know, disappointed.
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Speaker 18: Were really rooting for him.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, it was his first ever OSCAR nom but look, just in honor to be nominated, is what he said. And we actually spoke to him on the red carpet and he was very excited to be there. It's such a friendly guy, so generous at this time. So shame he didn't win, but absolutely amazing for him to get this stuff.
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Speaker 1: So what are your tips? Who's going to get the movie? Gone?
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Speaker 17: So the Best Picture? There are three films really that are going after this one that could likely win, and that's Conclave, which is that movie about picking a new pope. The other one is The Brutalist, the three and a half hour epic, and that's the movie that Guy Pierce is in. But the other one that a lot of the bookies have as the favorite is Anora, and a lot of a chat in the buzz around this film is that it hasn't been very Oscarby, if people would describe it. But I've been calling it kind of a dark twist on Pretty Woman, and it is a phenomenal film. It's won over a lot of critics and people really do think that it could pick up Best Picture. So it'll be interesting to see what happens there.
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Speaker 1: I should have asked you who picked up if Guy Peers didn't win the Best Supporting Actor? Who did.
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Speaker 17: Kieran Culkin, who has been picking up.
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Speaker 13: All seasons.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah fair enough. So do you get to sneak into the festivities or do you stay out outside and pleat them as they come out.
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Speaker 17: I wish, I wish I got to sneak in there, but no, I watch it on TV like everybody else wants. The Red Carpet is over, and yeah, watch it on all the live feeds as they come in.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't a seat You couldn't be a seat warmer.
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Speaker 17: I know, I wish I could be a seat walker. Actually, I found a new job that people do before before the actual ceremony starts on the red carpet. They wear name tags as well, like Timothy Salome guide here and they walk up and down before the red carpet open. I assume to help the camera operate and get the right lighting in the right angle.
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Speaker 1: It's good, Miley, thanks for your reporting that that will have it all in full tonight at seven on seven News.
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Speaker 17: Absolutely thank you.
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Speaker 1: Miley Hergan Channel seven on the Red Carpet or the Red Carpet is now, it's all inside and Guy Pierce didn't win. Disappointed five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings twenty eight to twelve, final thirty minutes of the show. Still times are you to get your calls to on eight double two to three double double low. Hardly a day goes by that we don't talk about scams something we're ever alert, but the scammers seem to be one step ahead, half a step ahead best and all we can do is put out warnings to you on a regular basis. Joining in now is CEO of the Australian Banking Association and a bly and a good morning to.
01:41:33
Speaker 6: You, good morning, how are you well?
01:41:36
Speaker 1: Thanks? What are you? What's the latest warning we need to be flagged about? Graham.
01:41:42
Speaker 18: One of the things we think it's really important to get people to be a little bit more vigilant about is we're coming into footy season. Fans love to go and see their teams and it does mean that it's game on. Unfortunately for ticket scammers, they get onto the online marketplace platforms and offer tickets that actually don't exist. So just really encouraging fans. Obviously they love to go and see their teams play. Scammers take advantage of your enthusiasm for your team. Just be very careful about where you're buying tickets. Buy them from authorized, well known ticket sellers and companies, and those companies often have their own authorized resale platforms, they're fine too, but be very careful if you're going on to an online marketplace.
01:42:29
Speaker 1: I guess people are looking for something cheap. They think, you know, I can get them cheaper somewhere else. That really is a fallacy. You know, you've got to pay full price and you've got to go through the reputable source.
01:42:41
Speaker 18: Absolutely, But for the really big games, you know, the sellout games, the finals, the things that really matter to locals. Showdown games in South Australia, like the ones that are held each year between Crows and Port Adelaide. Those sellout games, people are actually prepared to pay a lot more because they're so keen to get there, and that's when people are really at risk of losing a lot of money.
01:43:07
Speaker 1: What should we be on the lookout for. Because people do so much shopping and trading online, it's second nature these days and they feel comfortable doing that. So what are the warning signs.
01:43:18
Speaker 18: Well, there's a number of things people should look out for. I would say be aware of highly discounted tickets. You know, if it sounds too good to be true, then maybe it is. And be very careful about people wanting you to transfer funds directly into a bank account or even more concerning a crypto currency platform, So you really should be transferring, you should be paying for these sorts of things. To recognize companies that are authorized to sell these sorts of tickets. Always try, as I said, to purchase from an authorized ticket seller, but scrutinize emails or texts that offer to sell you a ticket that's not from a very well known website by ticket tech or Ticketmaster. They'll try and get to you any way they can. And you know, it really pays just to take a little step back and think does this look right?
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Speaker 1: Is there any more banks can do to combat scammers?
01:44:17
Speaker 18: Well, it's a constant battle. Banks are up against some of the most sophisticated international criminal gangs who are capable of using industrial scale technology through and often using social media platforms. But banks have one of the good news Grahams. That good news is Australia is one of the few countries in the world that have seen both the incidents of scams drop and and the amount of money being lost to scams drop. It's more than forty percent drop over the last eighteen months two years, which you know is it's a combination of a lot of investment in that time from banks into new technology, and all your listeners in a men of them will have got messages from their banks saying, you know, so if you're traveling overseas and you start buying something, you'll get a message saying these transactions just happened on your account is really new. So that sort of technology that banks have invested in keeping people safer. But I also like to think that people have just got a little bit more savvy. You know, they look at you know, the things that come through your phone saying, you know, you haven't paid your tolls or mam, I've dropped my phone and the toilets. You know, people are getting a little bit more savvy and you know, maybe not answering unknown phone numbers because they're scammers. And I think it's a combination of banks investing in better technology, our telephone companies also investing in better you know, surveillance systems on scammers, Customers getting a little bit smarter and a little bit more careful. And I think, you know, I would like to see our social media platforms step into this space a lot more because most of the scams that we see with particularly big losses are coming from you know, dodgy investment scams being advertised on these big social media platforms, romance scams that you know that promise you the world and you know it's a disaster. So it's got to be everybody has got to do better. And as soon as you close one door with these sorts of things, you know the criminals will find another way.
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Speaker 1: They've come a long way. They're far more soisticated. I mean, it was the Nigerian prince who had eight million dollars he wanted to send to you, and there was an email full of typing mistakes and you could see through it in a second. Now they are incredibly sophisticated.
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Speaker 18: You're absolutely right, and you know the technology can often be a double edged thought. AI is reaching a level of sophistication where you know, they can impersonate you, Graham, they can make a video of you that makes you look completely real with your voice, et cetera. Scary and in the hands of criminals, that's pretty scary. But it's equally true that that same technology ai AI is basically recognized as patterns and so banks deploy it all the time to be searching through their systems literally every second of every minute of the day, looking for anything that's unusual. So when they start to see you, you know, something some behavior on your account that is very different to the way you would normally use that account, the red flag it. So you know, as I said, it's a double edged sword. And the challenge for banks and the government and the telcos and for social media platforms is to keep up with the criminals. And that's part of the reality is that's the cost of doing business as a bank in the modern world.
01:47:40
Speaker 1: How accessible are the banks? I mean, if you're not sure and it's something you think your bank's been in touch with you, you know, is it as easy as picking up the phone saying I'm not sure about this? Could this be a scam?
01:47:50
Speaker 18: Yes, it is. Banks all have call centers that take complaints, that take and they if you call and say I think I'm being scammed, they can put you straight through to their foward team. They have very big forward teams. One of our major banks I've visited recently and they've got more than five hundred people just working on financial fraud and crime every day of the week. Now, you know, the call centers in Our banks are like the call centers in government departments and probably your radio station. You know there are times when they're busier than others, but I encourage people persevere, just stay on the phone. Some of them have an option where they can you can register to have them call you back. The sooner your bank finds out about it, the sooner and more likely it is that they can recover the money for you.
01:48:37
Speaker 1: And a bly great to chat.
01:48:38
Speaker 18: Thanks for time, great to chat. Thanks chrime so you.
01:48:41
Speaker 1: Are the Austratum Banking Association and a bly so be worn. We started off talking about cricket, not cricket. We were talking about cricket where we football scammers. The fact that footy tickets are being scammed, So be wary going online. Think I might be able to get a cheap deal here, No, don't do it. You might be frustrated by going through the regular outlets, but that is the only way to do it. If you're in dart Ring your football club, they will help you, they will advise you and tell you what direction to go in. But we've got to keep a step ahead of these scammers. It isn't always easy.
01:49:13
Speaker 19: Very good morning, Yes, good morning, Graham, how are you. It's a great program this.
01:49:18
Speaker 1: Morning, Thank you.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:49:20
Speaker 19: The reason I'm ringing in this for three things, and I'll be quick about them. One with regard to the thirty six thousand service public servants that they're proposing to the spell of I think, you know, I thought that this country was all about employing people to you know, so that they could people could have a living, to have a living, and that for their families and all the rest of it. And I can remember here in Adelaide some years ago, there was a person in politics, so I won't name them, obviously, but that person would have become the only female premiere in the whole state. And that person was going to disperse twenty five thousands of public servants at that time. I'm wondering if anyone can remember that. But thankfully that didn't come.
01:50:18
Speaker 1: About that Isabel Redmond, I recall, yeah.
01:50:21
Speaker 19: Yeah, that one, and so I just wondered whether can anyone remember that one. The other one is with regard councils cutting back on councils, well, I think, you know, for like one for the north, one for the east, one for the West, and one for the South. And I reckon that that's all that's I reckon, that's all that's needed. I don't know what the others would would be, what would be therefore, but I think it's too much. And the other thing is air conditioning. What's this business about recon reduce air conditioning, especially in the very hot weather that we've been having just lately.
01:51:05
Speaker 1: Well, the plan is because of the fact that with such a drain, air conditioners are such a drain on our wonderful power grid that most air conditioners installed since July twenty twenty three have this demand response capability. It's called where you're connected via Wi Fi or mobile network and someone at the other end can say, oh, we're consuming too much power. We'll just turn down phase air conditioning system. How do you feel about that?
01:51:34
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean when I have my air conditioning, I have it on high for a couple of minutes and then it's down on to low the whole time. So but you know, but beyond that, I think, well, everything's going to be in its place at the end of the day.
01:51:52
Speaker 1: Good on your failure, Thanks for your input. Yeah, that air conditioning thing. It's interesting that while we're pressing ahead with it here in Southastralia and New South Wales's band in a similar plan, saying it its savings are very limited in fact, as most air conditioners only running at about fifty percent of capacity anyway, tweaking them back down is not saving a lot for the grid. Phil, good morning morning Graham.
01:52:16
Speaker 13: You're looking well.
01:52:17
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much, Glad.
01:52:21
Speaker 20: The Shield Final on a quick pick from way back, and I'd love to see the Shield Final play at but I just don't see how they can squeeze in between the twenty second and the thirtieth. It's I mean, I think people have said forgetting that the Shield Final is not four days, it's five days. So that's goes. So the moment is scheduled to finish, the Shield schedule to finish the same day playing with Melbourne.
01:52:50
Speaker 1: Well, the kind of the suggestion was to move forward the play for the Shield.
01:52:56
Speaker 20: Move it forward, so the last AFL game is on the before that the twenty second is Port Vessus Richmond on the twenty second. That would give them one day on the on the twenty third to get the pitch ready to have you've had people running well out of the pitch, putting dimmocks and sprig marks and have it all over the pitch. Then they'd have to starting the twenty third play for the five If they played for the five days, then they'll have the twenty to get the ready game and put the goal posts in and then get there ready for the for the next game on the thirtieth. So they've only got one day, assuming the game goes it's full tilt a five days well the equipment and we said it is. We don't know until five thirty on the fourth day when the game is going to finish, And so they would only give them one day either side to get the to rejig the opal and put paint them pleinging and put the goal post in, put the gold post out.
01:53:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's an impossible dream. Yeah, good on your hold the line. You've won tickets for you and a friend to see the Fleetwood Mac Story in the Mayworth at Gluttoney at Rymal Park, home of the biggest shows this fringe. Tickets from Gluttney dot net dot au. Well done Phil and we have tickets all this week to Fleetwood Mac Story. Great story indeed, and it's great music. Eight double two three double o double oh back shortly five Double A.
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Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:54:24
Speaker 1: Ah, that last train to Clarksville. It's eleven to twelve on five Double A and coming up this afternoon after one Stacy Lee, Stacy, how are.
01:54:31
Speaker 7: You hello, Graham?
01:54:32
Speaker 14: I'm good?
01:54:32
Speaker 1: How are you good? Are you a Monkeys fan?
01:54:36
Speaker 8: Oh?
01:54:37
Speaker 1: The band there? Well, yeah, yeah, that's what the last train of Clarksville it was. You're not the ones in the zoo, the ones on the TV and on the stage. Sorry to catch you unaway.
01:54:48
Speaker 21: That's okay, I will I will say. Music is my downfall. I cannot remember names of songs and bands, and so forgive me.
01:54:55
Speaker 1: If I that's all right, that's I don't know.
01:54:59
Speaker 21: That's I'm sure if I heard some Monkey songs, I would know them.
01:55:04
Speaker 1: And that's a little bubblegum music victory. It was probably predate you sometimes sounds like it's you're probably way too young even no of the monkeys. Anyway, More importantly, what have you got for us today?
01:55:17
Speaker 7: Well?
01:55:18
Speaker 21: Did you that that trump audio with jd Vance and the lot of mis Zelenski? Is I still as I listen, I I cringe and I gasp and I smile and then I'm a gasp there's so many emotions and so many reactions you have when you hear the audio. But we wanted to know what it felt like to be in the White House at the time. So we're going to talk to a correspondent for Reuter's who works in the White House, who was there when it happened, and see what the feeling was like on the ground, because not just the drama in the room, but then there was drama afterwards of Donald Trump asking Zelenski and his aides to leave or did he ask or did.
01:56:04
Speaker 17: They just leave?
01:56:04
Speaker 21: And there was actually a reason to be there that I meant to sign an agreement.
01:56:08
Speaker 1: That's right, the mining agreement never happened.
01:56:11
Speaker 21: Never happened, and Zelenski left, and then you've seen European leaders come out and show their support for Zelensky. So what does this mean for the United States relationship with other parts of Europe moving forward? And what does this mean for the relationship with you.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: Certainly destabilized the world as we knew it twenty four hours before. Yeah, all of a sudden, all bets are off, All allies are maybe not allies any longer. Yeah, So yeah, where do we stand? I don't know yep.
01:56:41
Speaker 21: So we'll talk about that, and I'd love to hear your views. I don't know about you, but I woke up on Saturday morning, and every morning, the first thing I do is I opened my news apps and read the news, and it was the first article on every app, and I watched the audio, and then I sort of rolled over and saw my husband was awake, and he was what watching the audio, watching watching the surreal you.
01:57:03
Speaker 1: Know, your wake up, you think, did this really happen in public? I mean, we don't know what goes on behind closed doors in negotiations, and usually they come out and sort of say, well, a deep and meaningful discussion, and you know, it's been a little bit of argie barjie, but this was played out in public, which was pretty raw and unpleasant.
01:57:21
Speaker 12: It was.
01:57:22
Speaker 21: Yeah, So we'll continue the discussion this afternoon, and I'd love to hear from you to get your reactions and where you were when you were watching the vision. Also, you would have seen that story about Formula one drivers being fined if they swear in their cars, because that's right.
01:57:37
Speaker 1: If you're watching the coverage, all of a sudden, you see a little little traffic coming up, sort of saying that such and such car and whoever it is, you know, max fus stap and a little comment. I thought that they would be delayed, like you know they tol. You'd sort of think like say it, Oh, that's okay, well, then play it thirty seconds later. But apparently not. It all goes out there.
01:58:02
Speaker 21: And so, you know, I can understand when you're in a heightened environment like that, things come to mind. Sometimes I have to stop myself from swearing in front of the microphone, which is a habit I'll have to change with a young bubb on the way. But we thought, let's talk about it. Let's talk about the origins of swear words and how the language of swear words has changed over time. And maybe there are some swear words that used to be in regular use that aren't in use anymore. And we can give some ideas to the Formula one drivers. And I want to hear the replacement words that you have. I know, when we were little, my mum, instead of saying the s H word in the house, she would always go sugar plump fairies. So it was a nice replacement for a very rude swear word. And so I want to hear yours this afternoon. Who's got the best swear word replacement? And we'll create a list. We'll send them to the Formula one drivers and they can use those instead.
01:59:00
Speaker 1: I can quote it in an instance here. And if my wife Eve's listening, I don't know at the moment. She is a Polish heritage, and as a consequence, I've learned a few swear words in Polish. We were playing cards with friends and I got dealt a pretty mean hand. We're not a good hand at all, and I was going to swear, and I thought, well, I will do the right thing because these people are I don't know them all that well, so I swore in Polish. Problem was they also spoke Polish, and the look on their faces and the look on Eve's face because they knew well, he could only have learned that word from one person, So be very careful swearing in a foreign language. Who's around That is a.
01:59:43
Speaker 17: Really good reminder.
01:59:45
Speaker 21: So we'll have that discussion as well. And David Wenham is coming into this show. Yes, he's got a new movie out and it's an Aussie drummer.
01:59:52
Speaker 18: It's called Spit.
01:59:53
Speaker 1: He is a real talent.
01:59:54
Speaker 21: Oh and you love this movie. I can't wait to talk about it with him. The first ques that comes to mind. I watched it over the weekend. There are a lot of close ups of his feet in the movie, of his bare feet, where he's wearing thongs the entire movie. He plays this really boguan criminal mastermind, and you can't work out if he's a genius and he's putting it on or if he's just got really bad slush good dumb luck. He's got a mullet and there's skinny jeans and thongs the entire movie. And he somehow gets put in an immigration detention center and he's this criminal mastermind and you're watching it going is he Is he really smarter?
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Speaker 17: Is he really dumb?
02:00:34
Speaker 1: I can't decide.
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Speaker 21: But there are so many close ups of his bare feet, and I just thought quite intentional. And when he signed onto this movie, did he know that his toes were going to be so famous?
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Speaker 1: I don't at my feet one I think I would want my feet on display. Still, what you do in the name of acting exactly sounds fun.
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Speaker 21: There's gonna be a fun discussion there with David Wenham as well.
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Speaker 1: Going to Stacy. Thanks Stacey, Lee coming up after one o'clock News this afternoon, Joiner on the show and take part. It's five to twelve. I think we've got time for recall Brian, good.
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Speaker 6: Morning, Yeah, good morning Graham.
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Speaker 1: How are you? Yeah? Well, thanks, good Graham.
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Speaker 6: I as much as I agree with all the anti Trump stuff that's going on, I think the blog has actually done us a favor by having this public argument. I think now we can all see what sort of a varsity is.
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Speaker 1: I tell you what. I tell you what. You would be surprised, Brian at the number of people were getting, not too many on air, but texts. He has a huge level of support in this part of the world, huge support.
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Speaker 6: I understand that, mate, But as much as understanding that, I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: It exactly what you're saying.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think the rest of the will now knows how he operates behind closed doors. We don't know what goes on with the bullying and the tactics city uses.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's there's the point, and that's the point I was making that usually these sort of the RGI bargie happens behind closed doors, and when these politicians, these leaders come out, they present a unified face and even so you can read between the lines as they well, they've had disagreement, but all that nastiness is kept out of plain sight. But in this case were there for all this. And Trump is a bully, there is absolutely no question about that. And jd Vance is unequally bully. Yeah. Well, well, and I think Donald Trump is a lapdog of Vladimir Putin. You know, whatever you think, whether you think Trump is doing the right thing by his country, the way he's fall into line with Putin is scary, absolutely scary.
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Speaker 6: It is.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Brian, Thanks for input today. That's it for today. Thank you so much for taking part in the show. Covered a lot of territory. A lot more to be covered as the week unfolds. I hope you can stay with us to take part in the show. Coming up, we have news, then conversations with Qunsey and then Stacey Lee after one o'clock. You have a great day.
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings
Speaker 1: Seven past nine fire double a on a Monday, a brand new week. How do we find you? Hope we find you well, Hope you've had a great weekend and enjoying the remains of summer. For some people, the summer still goes to the twenty first of this month, but a few bureau says it ended on the end of February. Is that right? I can't remember anyway, something like that eight double two to three double A put me straight on that that's the number to ring so much on the show today. Some really good news, positive news to start with about the impact of banning mobile phones in schools. We thought there was going to be somewhat of a negative backlash. Kids these days, from the moment they can walk, they can seem to handle a mobile phone in terms of, you know, punching up pictures, looking at things, drawing and playing around with them and iPads and the like, and it's just part of life today and it carries on to school when they have their first mobile phone, and it's caused all sorts of problems associated with bullying, taking photos, preoccupied people, not relating with one another. There have been so many issues regarding mobile phones. Well, the State government's brought in this ban. It's been in force for some time now, and all indicators are that it is working brilliantly. The kids are not only not missing their phones, they're finding lots of other things to do. They're asking for things to do, they're joining clubs, they're creating programs, they're doing things that they would otherwise have not done because they have their faces buried in their phones all the time. So we'll talk about that with the Minister of Education, Blair Boyer. Tensions in the White House, we're going to speak with expert doctor John Brunei. What happened over the weekend was absolutely mind blowing. The fact that it was supposed to be talks about the future of the US's involvement, continuing involvement in the Ukraine. We had Prime Minister Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and of course Voladimir Zelensky, and it descended into the worst kind of it. If there had to be that sort of debate and consultation, it should have all happened behind closed doors. It didn't. It happened art in the public, and it was brutal and it was offensive on so many levels. People have been drawn on party lines largely, the Republicans in America say about time, you know, we can't have somebody come in and treating our president like Voladimir Zelensky did. The other side seems to be the rest of the free world are absolutely shocked and stunned by how the Ukraine president was treated. The rest of the world has sort of wrapped their arms around Voladimir Zelenski. But what does it mean internationally? What does it mean for international relations? We'll speak with doctor John Brunei about that. The Oscars are on today and I think probably in about an hour and a half or so, the action begins and we're going to speak with the movie analyst Shane A. Bassett about that. Who are your favorites? Guy, I'm going to say Guy Blackmore, But that's totally wrong, isn't it. Of the Australians Guy Pearce, who is just about one of my favorite actors. I love everything he's been in. He's up for Best Support Actor in The Brutalist. We have for an award for potential award for Better Man Robbie Movie, Robbie Williams Movie, Best Documentary, Porcelain War, Best Animated Feature Film, so lots of Australians are up for gongs today and let's hope they do well. And we'll find out from Shane A. Bassett how it is going. We're going to look further into the West Beach fish deaths. This has been on the minds of a lot of people for some time. How did it happen? What can we do to make sure it doesn't happen again? Has there been a cover up? What is actually going on? There's a federal government report on nuclear waste that Rex Patrick things should be made public. Why haven't we heard about this? It was compiled at the expense of about half a million dollars about a year or so ago, but the government won't release it. He is finding out if he can get that released, find out where we are likely to store nuclear waste. And it is an issue because whatever you think of nuclear waste, Australia does have plenty of nuclear waste. It is stored temporary sites around the nation. At the moment we go ahead with the Orcus nuclear submarine program nuclear submarines, there will be nuclear waste. Where will it be stored? We can't keep not talking about it? Is the government keeping it quiet because it is not politically advantageous at the moment to talk about it, and we'll find out more about that. And there's a scam warning. Australian Banking Association says there's something that we should certainly be on the lookout for. And I mean another day, another scam. So but this is one that we really need to be on the lookout for, particularly involving banks. And this is another one actually regarding footy tickets too. Be very very careful where you buy footy tickets from. Get them from reputable sources, make sure that you can confirm they're not sort of backyard deals where you pay your money and find out you've got nothing. Thirteen past nine to five A. I've got to talk about this next subject. It came to my attention and a visit to the supermarket. You know, we've talked about bluey Mania. It's all around us, it's sweeping the world, and we talked of the Bluey fiasco revolving around the ABC. In July twenty seventeen, in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC and the BBC CO commissioned Bluey is an animated series for preschool children to be developed by a Queensland production company. It was an inspired move. Bluey is without question an international success story. In the US alone, it was the most watched show on TV in the past year. But when the deal was done, the ABC made a massive, massive bungle. They allowed the BBC to have all the merchandising rights. The National Broadcaster, which complains about a lack of funding, didn't even ask Bluey's created Joe Brohm for a slice of the merchandising pie, and that at last estimate, was worth one billion dollars. Now the ABC's total funding is just over one billion dollars. They could be almost self funding. And to add insult to injury, and this is where it comes into. Right up to today, there's a Bluey custard on the supermarket shelves which is all well and good, blue custard, terrific in your turn it round and on the back is a big BBC studio's logo. So the custard you buy for your kids or grandkids is propping up the British National Broadcaster. So I looked a little bit further. Arnott's Bluey Biscuits, Colgate, Bluey Toothpaste, Bluey play though Bluey video games, Bluey Monopoly games, Bluey's or Paul's, Blue ice Cream, Bluey Toys, blue Easter eggs. Now there's a blue Monopoly game. Where will it all end? And think for every one of those products, a percentage is going into the coffers of the BBC. And the BBC are right into merchandising. They say the Bluey franchise is the gold star in their crown. It's the big one. If the BBC had been generous, they might have let the ABC have a share, but no, it was a business deal. The ABC apparently didn't even ask to be involved in the merchandising. If they'd been half smart, they can now be virtually self funding. But they're going to hold out the hands for more taxpayer funding purely because of the ineptitude of their management. Now remember four Intennol standards. Never watch, listen or read anything the ABC does. I'm very much a supporter of the ABC. I think it is an important artlet for the media as long as they have a fair and balanced view on things. But while exact figures are not readily available, the ABC generates a relatively small amount of revenue through merchandising. They do have merchandising, but it's compared to the government funding, it is a very small amount. Just to think if they said we'll have a share of that bluey merchandising, they wouldn't have been hitting the taxpayer up for more money. And that is very poor management. Imagine that happening in private enterprise. How many heads would roll? Sixteen past nine. If you have a thought on that or anything we're going to talk about today, give me a call eight double two, three oh.
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Speaker 2: Five, double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's nineteen past nine, five double A on the Monday morning. We find you well from the text line. What was offensive, Graham the fact that Trump exposed Lenski and that he doesn't want a peaceful solution. Difficult to watch, But after the Trump Russia collusion hoax, Trump had to do this to show the world what he was actually doing to negotiate a solution. Where have all the billions gone that every country has given Ukraine? This wore smells of corruption and innocent people on both sides die as a result. Sam from Newton, Okay, Sam, thank you for that. I think the billions have gone. I think when you're running a war that runs for three years against a power like Russia. I think the money's pretty well gone into that. If there's been some fed off, we need to know more about that. There's no question about that the WAT was handled was absolutely disgraceful. Those sorts of discussions, if they're to take take part behind the scenes, not in full public view, then there's no question that Donald Trump is sidling up to Putin. You know, you can be critical of Zelenski, but are we suggesting that Putin is anything less or more than a terrorist? Eight double two to three? Doublow, doublow? Why are we still bringing in so many people? We are a dry state, people are carting water is no rain for months. De Cel isn't the answer stop immigration. De Cel works, it's a stopgap measure. But the amount of power that it uses and the darn side of deesel plants, and we might discuss this at some stage. While diesel is great for propping us up with water that we don't have to drain so much from the murray, the byproducts of a desail plant, the amount of Brian that salty solution, where do you think that goes? That goes back into the ocean? And that chokes the fish effectively. I don't know where they pump out that extra salilated water, Brian, but it isn't good for the environment and lots of fish and sea life caught up in the extraction process. But yeah, we will talk about that another time. Maybe we talk about some good news. Mobile phone bands in South Australian public high schools appear to be having a dramatic effect in the most positive way. My first guest today is Education Minister at Blair Boyer Minister. It's certainly good news in.
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Speaker 3: The data that we've got now after a twelve month review with the ban in full effect right across public high schools in South Australia, really vindicates the decision that the government took to ban those phones from the start of the day until the end of the day. Graham, we've seen, you know, the kind of results that I think you probably would definitely hope for around less disruption in the classroom and less of those kind of negative consequences of having phones in schools around bullying and harassment and all those kind of things that were obviously bad for students but also took up the time of staff as well. But what's really come out in this review is the huge increase in kind of what I might describe as old fashion activity in break times, at recess and at lunch time. So the data we've got shows that eighty three percent of leaders, and there was three thousand submissions from teachers, staff, and students and parents as part of this review that we did, eighty three percent of school leaders, seventy five percent of teachers reported more positive activity at break time, so kids, you know, talking to each other face to face instead of head down in their phone. A lot of reports of it's almost been caught a bit unawares by students asking for more things to be put on at lunchtime and recess because they felt they were bored because they didn't have their phone. Big growth in clubs, whether it's sport or academic clubs or whatever it might be. I think it just really speaks to the fact that we've had been in this really long, slow kind of decline around you know, people doing things at school, not just in the classroom, but at recess and lunch that didn't involve phones, and we've sort of been caught unaware of ourselves around the extent to which phones had taken over to the point that when we actually banned them properly, we were taken aback by students saying, hang on, I need something.
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Speaker 1: Else to do.
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Speaker 3: I want a club, I want more sporting opportunities, you know, board, I don't have my phone. It's a great problem to have, but it really does speak. So I think that how entrenched bone use was by young people at.
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Speaker 1: School, has there been any negative impact?
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Speaker 3: No, I mean the report didn't find that there were any changes needed, which is great news. Of course.
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Speaker 2: The thing that I had.
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Speaker 3: Concerned me was around what it would do to teach a workload in terms of enforcement of the band. The thing that kept me awake at night before we brought the band into full effect, Graham, was you know, would we create extra points of conflict or confrontation between teachers and students at the start of the day when they enforced the band. But the good thing is that it looks like we've got really high levels of compliance, and as time has gone on, more and more students, you know, not all of them, Some are still absolutely want their phone back, don't get me wrong, which is no surprise, but more saying they prefer school without them, and I think that's you know, like anything that's got a level of addiction in it, you need help having it taken away, and phones is the same. But what we're also seeing is ninety three percent of school leaders and seventy nine percent of teachers reported a decrease in staff time spent following up issues caused by phones and social media. That's the thing that as really stood out in this that it can be a positive kind of policy in terms of giving teachers the capacity to focus on reading and writing, literacy and numeracy and less time spent following up you know, you know you need to have your phone off. Please put your phone away, stop messaging people and all the kind of spats and disputes that might break out because of a phone in the classroom.
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Speaker 1: So what's the mechanics of it all? When the students arrive at school in the morning, they're asked to turn in their phone. Is that the way it works?
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Speaker 4: Basic, That's exactly how it works.
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Speaker 3: And we took a hard line policy of our jurisdictions brought a phone ban into place, but some allowed students to get it out at recess and lunch, which I think is is the wrong way like obviously, some of the biggest benefits that we're seeing here at recess and lunch times the different ways it's put into place at different schools. Most schools put a bit of a consultation process in place. Some use these fancy pouches where you put the phone in the pouch, it magnetically locks, and you need a special little magnetic machine at the end of the day to unlock it again, and then you keep the phone on you but you can't open it. Others say they have to be left in lockers. Some say they have to be left in bags. All those different things have worked in different ways, and there's flexibility for schools about how they enforce it. But it's fairly simple. Your phone is off at the start of the day and it's not back on until school ends. I'm really glad that we took a hard line on this.
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Speaker 1: Are there any exceptions of special needs cases where maybe students do need to have their phones on them at all times?
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Speaker 3: There are for medical reasons, or sometimes the phone needs to be used for instance of showing teachers evidence that works being done, or even if it's used as a calculator in rare circumstances. But you've got to get permission from your teacher for that, you know, otherwise the phones need to be away and off to.
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Speaker 1: The entire day.
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Speaker 3: So there are definitely those circumstances where if a student has a medical ailment or something like that, grat that necessitates them needing to be reached, and of course we provide flexibility for that, but in the vast majority of cases that there aren't exceptions to the rule. And it was funny it was at the start of the band, you know, a lot of people said to me, how are kid's going to pay for things at the canteen, because of course a lot would be using like a tap and go function on their phone. And people managed to overcome that. They got another way of having a card or no one of the little stickers that they could use that could work as a tap and go feature, and all those things have settled down, and a lot of people too, finally, people who were at school, perhaps at the same time as me at high school and the nine nineties, asking questions like how I get in contact with my child, and we'd say, well, the same way that we get it for decades. You can call the school and you can leave a message at perception, then they'll they'll find your child and get them to call you back and again. Those things have all settled down and people have got used to doing things effectively the way that we did them successfully for many years.
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Speaker 1: It all seems to be working well. Minister. Thanks for your time today. If you have a thought on the mobile bands in school working well for you or in not happy with it, let's know eight double two to three double.
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Speaker 2: Oh five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twenty eight to ten five double A from the text line High Graham. What's Sam from Newton said in his SMS is absolutely ridiculous saying that the Ukrainian president doesn't want peace? That is disgusting. Why doesn't Sam say the truth and say that Russia invaded Ukraine and that Trump is a Russian asset? Nick from Croydon Park, thank you for that.
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Speaker 2: Nick.
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Speaker 1: Interesting the division and the passion that people speak, with the pro Trump supporters aligning very strongly with Donald Trump. We'll find out more about those sorts of issues right now. With Ukraine's future totally in the balance, there was a bitter exchange over the weekend in the White House. The high stakes meeting between the President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Voladimir Zlansky, to generating into a shouting match, to put some perspective on it and bring it into an understanding that we perhaps can get our heads around. Doctor John Brunei, Founder and see of Sage International, Doctor, good morning.
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Speaker 4: To you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 1: This was quite stunning what unfolded in public, and it is I think it's set the world on edge. Would that be fair to say?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I think that that is fair to say. And I would say that there are a lot of people in the public here in Australia and elsewhere who will defend the American president under all possible circumstances. However, let me put it very clearly, this thing was a set up, hire fake meeting between Trump and Zelensky. If people were looking at this particular forty minutes of bruhaha, they would notice that Zelensky looked particularly uncomfortable for much of the time that he was being lectured by Donald Trump and then berated by Jadie Vance's vice president. Now, the fact of the matter is that if people were paying attention to the particular meeting, the media were already stacked with Trump appointees. Most of them were addressing President who are not President Trump for audium slip there, and we're basically ignoring Zelensky, which I thought for a visiting head of state who is allied to the United States in an existential war fighting against the Russians, that was a very unusual move to make. So I suspect there was a lot of planning to be had here. Trump wanted Zelensky to submit. Zelensky did submit, and I think that most people put in a situation that Zelensky was in, unless they were just of, you know, a character that they thought, well, that's fine, they would also raise their hackles. I think it was just a natural response that Zelensky put forward under those pressing circumstances.
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Speaker 1: A lot of the negative feedback towards Zelensky that we get on this station is that, you know, why can't he explain where the millions of dollars have gone? Millions, maybe billions of dollars? You know the war machine, you know he's siphoning off millions.
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Speaker 4: Well okay, well I would I would argue, where's the proof. You know, many of these people are just repeating Trump talking points. They are not coming up with any particular proof saying I have this that demonstrates that Zelensky is a corrupt dictator. There is no evidence that have been put forward by anyone from the center of the political spectrum, if you will, that has shed this. And look, you know, we have to remember Zelenski was democratically elected back in twenty nineteen. That they are now under martial war is not unusual because basically the Ukrainian Constitution said very clearly that if the war, if the country was ever in a state of war, there would be no elections held and there would be a situation of martial war. And if one were to pick up a history book, you would notice that democratic leaders often don't have elections during a war. I mean, did Winston Churchill offer himself up for re election during World War Two?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 4: We all understand that enemies take advantage of they take advantage of countries that have democratic ideas, And if you were to put yourself up for election in a period of war, it is highly likely that your political opposition will be funded by your enemy.
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Speaker 1: When we look at the situation where Donald Trump is got into bed with Putin, there's no question about that he's siding with him, And when he calls Zelensky a dictator and virtually responsible for starting the war, I mean he's put a line in the sand. Is there any way back?
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Speaker 5: Look?
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Speaker 4: I think that the Europeans believe that there is a way back. I don't think that will to be seen another repeat of Zolenski Trump meeting anytime soon. I think that the anger that that whole thing had generated now has put a massive chasm between Keith and Washington. But I do think that the Europeans believe that they have better relations with Trump and that somehow they'll be able to act as a bridge back to the Trump White House. Now whether or not Trump wants to play that card, or whether he doubles down on his relationship with Vladimir Putin, is anyone's guest. But if we go by history as we've seen it play out over the last week or so, it seems likely that Trump will go the Russian way.
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Speaker 1: It would seem that if there were to be a peace settlement, it would be purely on the Soviet or Russia and the US terms, and that would mean a loss of territory to the Ukraine.
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Speaker 4: At the moment, absolutely and let's be under no illusion here, you know, a peace deal that does not include the government of Ukraine nor European stakeholders, who, as we have found of from the French President, has gifted many billions of dollars to the Ukrainian war effort. As a matter of fact, I think thirty billion dollars more than what the Americans have had provided thus far. You know, you've got a little bit of a problem here in terms of understanding where these situations lie. But I think that you know, as far as Europe is concerned, and the Europeans are concerned, they do want this back to become a thing of the past as soon as possible so they can get on with the idea of trying to create a viable peace. But of course that Bible peace depends on a peacekeeping mission, which the Brits are trying to put forward. And you know, Prime Minister Kiostarma has been very open about putting boots on the ground in Ukraine, but only under the conditions that the Americans will provide some sort of security backstop to a European lead force. Now, this is a very interesting position for Britain to be in because, of course Britain, like Australia, not much of the Western world. You know, after the Cold War ended, we basically gave up on our defense forces. You know, they're all being paired back to such a degree that we can't undertake massive involvements, not unless we start investing heavily in personnel, cutting off the fat of our defense bureaucracies. And no one is talking about that, not in Britain and not in Australia. But if we take Britain as the lead, the lead organizer, the British Army currently has more cause cavalry than it has tanks. It also has seventy five thousand men. Now, depending on the level of commitment to Kirstarmer wants to give Britain in this venture of a peacekeeping mission, a theoretical peacekeeping mission, we could be looking at a deployable British force anywhere between ten thousand at the light end and about fifty thousand at the heavy end. I can't see the fifty thousand at the heavy end happening. Ten thousand is possible, But then where are the rest of the troops coming from, because they'll have to also come from places like France, perhaps Germany, perhaps Poland, who knows.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, is there any merit in what Donald Trump has said about that Europe has not been pulling its weight? I mean, I think you said that Europe has given more to the Ukrainian cause in the US, despite what Donald Trump says. But should Europe have been doing more all along?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, two things can be true simultaneously. The Europeans have been very slack in terms of their own defense capabilities. I mean, that's without a doubt. And the thing is that Europe is a highly bureaucratized You know, the European Union is a highly bureaucratized structure centered in Brussels, and it moves very slowly, and it's got some twenty eight members. Everyone has to be in some form of agree and so you can understand that things are slow in terms of trying to get progress and sometimes almost impossible to get progressed. So, yes, I think that there is certainly the fact that Europe needs to lift its game in terms of finding its own security. But then we also have to realize that when the Western Alliance was founded, when NATO was founded, it was never intended to be an equal partnership between the United States and Europe. That's only come up over the last couple of weeks. I mean, to be honest, NATO was an instrument of political and strategic dominance by the United States over Europe to prevent a European power from becoming the most dominant power on the continent. That was its key role. Now Trump wants an organization that was never designed to be a partner, a full partner in security with the Americans, to become one. That's got to be a mission impossible the whole world.
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Speaker 1: The US has been seen as the world policeman for many, many decades now. Australia has been a staunch ally of USA since the Second World War, and we've gone into battle every battle that they've fought around the world. Will they be there if we.
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Speaker 4: Need them, that's a very good question. Well, I mean, the Americans have now deployed a submarine. I think it's the USS Minnesota to help shadow the Chinese for televis currently making its way around the great continent of Australia. So I suppose we could see we could say that now. Yes, now is a transactional thought. I mean, now the United States is interested in shadowing a Chinese fleet. There may come a time when the Americans won't be interested and we'll expect Australia to do more. And my question then would be to the politicians, what are you going to do to step up at the moment We've got, you know, people lambasting alb and Easy for his defense policies, and rightly so. But then we think that maybe the opposition will have an idea.
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Speaker 6: They've got no idea.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what was Peter Dutton saying the other day, Well, buy another twenty eight JSPX. You know that's going to cost another three billion dollars. And not only that, one has to say who we're we're we're finding the air crew for these new fighter jets. We have constant skill shortages in this country, an undermanned defense force. You know, what are we going to do to develop a sense of addressing the real problems and the real elephant in the defense room, and that is personal and defense industry skill base. We have no people. So if they, if Peter Dutton can come up with a plan to actually address these kinds of issues, perhaps we'll stand a much better chance in the future. But if he's all if all he is is promising three billion dollars for twenty eight fighters at about one hundred and seven million dollars apiece, and that's it. That's not going to help us when the Chinese send another flotilla down here to circumnavigate the content.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sorry, we have an election pending. Are there any votes in saying to the electorate at large we're going to commit more to the defense budget.
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Speaker 4: Yes, superficially, yes, it's going to favor the party that comes up with the greatest number on the table. So if we you know, as I said, if Peter Dutton says that he's going to be spending more on defense, people will say, I want to be strong with defense and so therefore, you know, rah raal, let's go team. But it's not about that. It's about where is the money invested. If it's not invested in personnel, our air force is still going to be small, it's still going to be undermanned. We're still not going to have you know, full contingent of fighter squadrons flying all over Australia at any time that the government needs to. So again, it's not about the money, it's where we put the money, and you know, we do have a top heavy defense force as well, paying for many salaries of people who perhaps should have been drummed out of the service quite some time ago. You know, if you look at say, for instance, one of the services, in particular, Royal Australian Navy, we've got about ten combat vessels. And if you look at the ranking at the top end the flag officers say from rear admiral to admiral, and admittedly it's at the rear admiral, there's a lot of fat. We've got about two hundred and thirty two people of rank of admiral in the Navy. Now I'm sorry, god, we're spending a lot of money on salaries for a navy with ten combat vessels. We don't have a navy of a thousand ships, which requires such a top heavy structure. So let's address the elephant in the room. Let's address to real problems. If you have a cumbersome, overly bureaucratic, careerist defense force, you're not going to get the kind of defense that the country needs.
00:31:17
Speaker 1: Well, when you talk about the defense spending and having a top heavy navy, I remember not that long ago talking about the fact of the public servants and so forth, and the head of our Defense department earns three times what the head of the US Defense Department earns well.
00:31:36
Speaker 4: And that's a case in point. So again, these are the critical issues growing that Australian defense has and what our political parties ought to be addressing. But because defense is the biggest spender of public moneys in Australia, they have their own power base. They're well protected, and they don't want to suffer public criticism for the way that they're being shaken. And I mean, this kind of mentality has to stop. If we want to be serious about Australian defense. We need to have a light and nimble hierarchy, a light and nimble hierarchy suited for the assets that we have. You know that the numbers of warships, the numbers of aircraft, the numbers of battalions in the army. If we have too many of the top end people administering a small force, surely that doesn't make any sense to most people.
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Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, you speak a lot of sense. So we could go on talking all day, doctor, but I appreciate your time. Thanks for giving it to us today. Appreciate it.
00:32:37
Speaker 4: Noaries, thanks very much.
00:32:38
Speaker 1: Thanks ming doctor John Brunei, Founder and c Sage International. Lots of talking points there if you have any thoughts on that. Australia's defense needs and wants. What is happening with the Ukraine, Europe in general, NATO at large. Wow, there's a lot to consider. Eight double two three double O double Oh it's thirteen to ten.
00:32:57
Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Gooding.
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Speaker 1: Yes, ten to ten five doubled A. From the text line, Russia did the wrong thing, but that was three years ago and one and a half million people have died. Zelenski wanting to beat Russia is in war is a delusional thing. He can still sign the peace deal that is still on the table and he'll have security, peace and a trade deal. Well that's wish, we'll think. He isn't Andrew. He'll have security, peace and a trade deal. Do you really think you'll have security? Do you really think that Vladimir Putin, the killer terrorist at large, will say oh that's enough, I've got enough now. Putin is declared in a vow that he loved the USSR when they had so many states, and he would like to get back to that, and he would like Ukraine to be the first of them, and it wouldn't be the last. So to say there would be stability, and to say that was three years ago, like, well, let's get over it. I don't think so. On a happier note, who's who of Hollywood are gathering this morning to see which of this year's acclaimed films will take home the gongs, which performers will get an oscar. It's a very important day on the movie calendar, and to bring us up to data, I don't know if they've started awarding the gongs yet, but we'll soon find out. Movie analyst Shane A. Bassett Schang, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Good morning, Graham, good warning everyone. It's my favorite day of the year, and I'm all set. It hasn't started yet. The ceremony kicks off in just over half an hour, but the red carpet is in fourth wing now.
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Speaker 1: It is an exciting time, and we've had the preliminaries, the lead ups, haven't we These sort of lesser events, the Golden Globes and all these sort of other awards that sort of the precursor. But this is the one that really matters. Isn't it? This is the one they all to call it.
00:34:41
Speaker 7: Definitely, I call this my grand final. This is the grand final for me because, yeah, all the predecessors, all the awards ceremonies, and that there aren't quite a lot, you know, there's different categories and different people who vote, and even the Baster Awards are very significant. They're the British Academy Awards are what the outcome all the oscars will be. So there's been so much chop and change throughout all the winners this year, this awards season, it's very hard to pick who might win an Oscar.
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Speaker 1: I hear there are about ten movies up for a Movie of the Year. I mean that's a huge number, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, well, not always ten are nominated. You're allowed to have up to ten nominees. Back probably a decade ago at change, because it used to be just five nominees only, but because of the amount of more movies that get released, there's so many movies that actually get released, they extended it to a possible ten. So some years, you know, you might only get eight nominations or seven nominations, they can use ten, and this year they've definitely used all ten and they all desire.
00:35:42
Speaker 1: There are quite a number of Aussies up for gongs.
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Speaker 7: Well I wish there were more because Nicole Kidman, she got snubbed for her role in Baby Girl. However, we have four Australian nominees. Guy Piers, he's not really leading the way, but he's how most prominent. Guy Pierce, the great Ossie actor. He's up for Best Supporting Actor in The Brutalist.
00:36:03
Speaker 1: I really hope Guy. I think he is a sensational actor. Whatever he does, he makes it his own. He is something special.
00:36:11
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm with you, so do why?
00:36:13
Speaker 7: I mean, I'd be stoked for him really what he's put in the work. He has been doing both US, European and Australian film productions and television productions for such a long time now, and to get this Oscar nomination is incredible. But he's up against Kieran Colkin in that category.
00:36:29
Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: Kiaran Colkin was in the movie called a Real Pain, and he has won every single award he's been nominated for leading up to this, so it'd be a big shock if Guy won. He deserves too, because his role in The Brutalist is just second to nine. He's so emotionally four on and terrific. But unfortunately, I think Kiaren Colkin is a lock for this category.
00:36:50
Speaker 1: Who do you think is going to take out the movie of the year, A big one.
00:36:55
Speaker 7: It's a bit contentious. Yeah, best film for me. I would have said about a month ago Perez. Now that's got thirteen nominations and it should be the front runner. However, there's been and I won't go into details, but there's been a little bit of controversy on some of it behind the scenes, so all of a sudden it's halted, its momentum stopped. And The Brutalist and Anora are the two favorites. But I'm going for Conclave, an amazing movie about picking a new pope with Stanley Tucci and Ray Fines and Isabelle Rossolini. It is such an incredible film with its costumes and music and cinematography. I think Conclave can win, and it's actually moved up to second favorites, so I must be onto something.
00:37:36
Speaker 1: What about the best Actor Best.
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Speaker 7: Actor and Actress? Is interesting because I like Adrian Brady. I think Adrian Brady's got this as the lead in The Brutalist before he did he won for The Pianist.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
00:37:52
Speaker 7: Yeah, just over twenty years ago now, and he was terrific in that And this one he plays a Holocaust survivor who goes to New York after the war and he makes a new life and he's an architect. That's just It's a three and a half hour movie and you are locked into that film for every single minute. Terrific performance from him. So that's my tip for Best Actor and Best Actress is hard because I want Demi Moore to win. She's my pick for the substance that Mikey Madison, who played Anora in the movie at the same name, She's that they've both been winning up into this, so they've both been like chopping and changing the wins. But Demi Moore has been in the industry for forty plus years and so many great movies and now finally recognized the first OSCAR nomination. So big deal for me. If Demi wins. I've been watching her since growing up.
00:38:42
Speaker 1: I'd assume there'd be some recognition. After the death of the great Gene.
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Speaker 7: Hackman, Yeah, well, the memorial moments are always I mean, for me, they're quite emotional because you know, they're actors and producers or directors whoever they might be, who have passed away that I've been, you know, fans of. And Gene Hackman in particular was so so loved and even though he'd given up acting on his own terms just twenty years ago, he was just loved by so many And Clint Eastwood and so many people who were friends with him gave great tributes. But I can assume, only assume they'll focus on him, and then Donald Sutherland is another one who passed away last year. Just a lot of the older icons often get a real good focus and highlight, which is fine by me. I miss Gene Hackman already.
00:39:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, much deserved. He's one of my favorite actors of all time. Well it's I'll let you go on. I was going to say wallow, but you know, just soaky in the atmosphere of your your grand final.
00:39:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, the champagnes On Ice that kicks off soon and was not like we've got four of these up all together, so you know, let's know one can actually get over the line. Our best chance is best documentary, an Australian documentary called Porcelain War.
00:39:56
Speaker 1: We'll watch out for good on your Shane that's Shane A. Bassett's the mo the analyst. You hear him quite often on five double A. So who would you like to see Win? I would dearly like to see Guy ps Win. I think his movies he can play any sort of role, heavy, light, quirky. So we'd be very special if he won a gong for Best Supporting Actor. Back after the News five Double A.
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Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings all.
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Speaker 1: Week we have tickets to Fleetwood Mac's Story at Gluttoney. Give us a call throughout the morning and I'll pick the best call and you will win. Fleetwood Mac Store the great Story of Fleetwood Gluttney rymal Park, home with the biggest shows this fringe. And you can get tickets from Gluttony dot net dot au from the text line high Graham. A few months back, the Weather Bureau predicted we were facing one of the hottest summers on record. All the media ran with the story, of course, as it fits your climate ideology. Now this is a long text. Can I just intercede for a moment. If the Bureau ran a story of saying it was going to be one of the cold summers on record, we would also run that, so we're not discriminating because it fits our climate ideology anyway, Once again, the Weather Bureau was wrong. We've been caught out a number of times, among other things, fiddling with historic weather data to make the past cooler and therefore the present hotter. And they struggle these days to predict four or five days ahead. Yet their word is never questioned or debated by the media. We've had a couple of hot spells, but basically a normal warm summer. Now about the coldest night on the record in parts of Victoria a few weeks ago, and snow in the Alps. Will the media ever take the Weather Bureau to task, of course not, as it doesn't fit the narrative. I love these conspiracy theorists. The UN talks about global boiling, the Climate Council here talks of lethal heat. But all these things are in five years time or ten years time. These tipping points and predictions never happen, and the media stays silent. The Weather Bureau has a multimillion dollar budget and continually gets it wrong, but are never questioned any comments. Look, I agree the Bureau've got it wrong, and they've got it wrong many many times, but suggest that the media, but this media have our climate ideology and our narrative is rubbish. I'm happy to talk to someone. I'd like you if you want to ring up and tell us your story. I don't know if you have any expertise in this area, but we will often speak with people who have diametrically opposed views. So while I agree one hundred percent with you the bureau saying that this was going to be one of the hottest summers ever, they got it wrong, and they get it wrong a lot of the time, and it's fair to question them, and I don't mind that at all. Thank you for your email. I'd love you to ring up have a chat with this. It's eight minutes past ten on five double a well. In October of last year, hundreds of thousands of fish and marine life died at the Southastinia Research and Development Institute SADI at their facility at West Beach. The deaths included barrowmunday snapper and oyster spat. The cause of the deaths unknown at the time. Investigations have been ongoing well. The Opposition is now called on the government to take action and joining in our Shato, Minister of Primary Industries Nicola Centerfandi Nicola, Good morning to.
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Speaker 9: You, Good morning grant to you and your listeners. Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 1: Now what is your concern? They have called for an inquiry or institute an inquiry. What is happening?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, look green this is an issue that the Opposition and indeed the Parliament and then if US shown have been trying to get some months on for several months now, since the deaths of the oysters that the Juvenile Snapper and the barren Monday were first made public back in the number of last year. And you know what we saw last yeing week was a motion put forward by myself a shadow minister and supported by the cross Bench, which is basically an essence calling on the mel Analysis government to appoint an independent investigator into those stock losses and fish deaths that occurred back in October of last year at the Westpage study. And I think you know what this motion does is really signaled the parliaments posture with the government secrecy around this issue. The Parliament and in the many South Australians have a lot of questions around those debts that the main unanswers. You know, we cannot ignore the timing of these destimilations to the government's own dredging trials, and in fact FI documents reveal that there were questions being asked by being asked of the Department of Environment and Water by starting about the dredging programs and its timing, and this needs to be explored. But this cannot be government's departments investigating themselves because it doesn't pass the pub test.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 9: The fact is that STARTY is the state government's principal research institute. It is part of the Department of Primary Industries and Regions and therefore, in the interests of transparency and to ensure South Australians have confidence in the process, we believe the Parlament belief that it is imperatives that the investigation be carried out by an independent entity.
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Speaker 1: Have they issued any findings at all? Have their investigations have been going on for some time, have they said anything.
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Speaker 9: So, Graham, Look, we've asked a number of questions of both the Attorney General, who is the Minister in charge of the dredging trial, and of the Minister for Primary Industries. The information that they've provided for the Chamber thus far is very nimised and you know, that's been a real frustration for the Parliament. You know, the Minister has been quick to say that there is no evidence between of a link between the deaths and the dredging troll, but she also refuses to say that she cannot rule it out, and that's been incredibly frustrating. And you know, I think again that's what we saw in the Parliament last sitting weeks is that we are being we are incredibly frustrated about the luck of luck of transparency and the luck of accountability. And we have now called on the government to to do an independent review into these sis depths, you know, not just starting but at that private facility as well, that this comparative that this occurs. And you know, I hope that the government and the Premier does take heed of that motion.
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Speaker 1: So they haven't responded as yet to your call for an independent inquiry.
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Speaker 9: No they haven't, Graham, and you know that again it's just incredibly disappointing. You know this this minister and indeed this government has a habit of refusing to be transparent on a variety of issues. Take for instance of the refusal to do an independent review and to the government's responsors Murray flooding events, their refusal to independently investigate their response with Smarto brown rigosvirus and you know now this and you know, in my opinion, growing independent reviews shouldn't be viewed as a weakness for any government. They should actually be viewed as its strength. You know, it's an opportunity to scribe, to do and be better because the people of South Australia deserts. And you know again I'm calling on the Premiere to step up on this issue, to be a leader and to make sure that an independent inquiry it does occur to ensure you know, that confidence in this process.
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Speaker 1: So what sort of form would the independent inquiry take? Would it be a parliamentary inquiry?
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Speaker 9: Look, no, I don't think it needs to be a parliamentary inquiry, Graham. I just think it needs to be an entity or an individual outside of government. There are a lot of there are a lot of experts, interstate experts that could be called on to have a look at all of the evidence, have a look at all of the testing, and to really investigate whether or not there is you know, what is the actual potential cause of these southern and quite significant Stock Office.
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Speaker 1: Nicholas sent Toddie, thank you for your time today. Call for an independent inquiry into what was it hundreds of thousands of fish and marine life that died unexpectedly, just for no apparent reason at the Saudi facility at West Beach. We'll see if the government has more to say on that. They've been investigating it for some time, but should there be an independent investigation like you know your thoughts eight double two to three double o double the number to ring. John says ruther Glen Weather station from nineteen twelve shows no warming at all. Graham follow up on the Bureau of Meteorology happless forecasting. They actually admit that they change temperature data. They call it homogenization under world best practice. Always they are just previous temperatures down to give the impression we are warming. Raw data from Rutherglen Weather and Wendy says there will always be climate change. There is another ice age in six thousand years. Climate change has been with us forever. I will not question that, and there is climate change going on at the moment, but the amount of human involvement in that that has really never been proven. It's quarter past ten five double a.
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Speaker 2: Five Double AY Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: In past ten five Double A We've been talking about the unexplained fish deaths at sari at West Beach and we spoke to the opposition shadow minister and we've got a comment from the Minister for Primary Industries, Clear Scribven, who due to health issues is not available to speak, but this is the release from her office. The loss of snapper egg larvae, ten day old juveniles, as well as oyster spat and barramundi finglings are being investigated by scientists who are experts in their field. The investigation is carefully examining four key areas fish health, environmental factors such as weather and ocean conditions, coastal water quality, and human activities such as sight maintenance and sand replenishment. It is common for larval fish to have high mortality in aquaculture due to their fragility, weak immune systems, and sensitivity to water quality, nutrition and stress. The investigation is ongoing and given the complexity of the data being analyzed, scientists are following a careful and structured approach. The South Austonian liberals undermine the credibility and professionalism of the science and research capability at SADI, which has an excellent international reputation developed over its decades of work. That's from the Office of the Minister for Primary Industries, Claires Gribbin. It's twenty past ten five, Double a Elizabeth, good morning, Good morning.
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Speaker 10: I'd like to suggest that it was over ten years ago that everybody was frightened to death because we were never going to have rain hit the earth again. And I'd also like to say that I was alive in nineteen thirty nine when Victoria was on Far and South Australia half of South Australia was on Far. I had two weeks over one hundred degrees and South Australia had ten days over one hundred degrees. And I mean, all you can say is that weather changes all the time and it rotates, and if you listen to the scientist, millions of years ago, it was hotter in this country than it is today. All I'd like to say is let's take the weather as it comes each day and be grateful when we get rain, because we haven't had rain for ages. Now it is a drought and we're used to droughts. Thank you very much for listening.
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Speaker 1: Gooj You Elizabeth, thanks for putting your case. Yeah, look, I think the newspapers sometimes catastrophize, you know, we get these things of you know, Australia set for a scorcher, and you know numerous places in Perth and maybe Central Australia and maybe Adelaide, certain others, but it's certainly not universal across the country. We can still have pretty cool weather in some places. I don't think it has been as bad as what they like to make out it's been. And we've had worse, as Elizabeth said, you know, back in January the twelfth, nineteen thirty nine, forty six point one degrees, two days earlier, forty five point nine degrees, back in twenty nineteen, forty five point eight degrees. So extreme weather is not a rarity in this part of the world, and they appear to massage the numbers to make it seem worse. And as the forecast when the Bureau says, you know, this is going to be one of the hottest summers ever. Look, I have trouble forecasting five days out, so forecasting three months out does make you wonder at times. Dave, Good Morning, Morning Graham.
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Speaker 11: I'd like to make a comment about the envy had with the about the shut in Defense Force. Sure, so a few years ago, when General Malham was still alive, I was actually working in the Defense Force at the time, and I sat down with him and I said to him, so, how many kilometers of us of our coastline can we actually defend? And he said, we can defend twenty six kilometers for a maximum of three days. We're either going to run out of fuel or bullets first. We also have the wrong four structure mix in that we've spent all this money on joint strike fighters. They're not fighters, they're aerial sensing platforms. The Chinese have got fighters, everyone else has fighters, but Australia. We haven't got a replacement for our f Onine eleven medium range strategic bomber. We should be looking at things like the fifteens. We don't have stealth bombers, long range bombers. You know, we don't have a lot of the capabilities that we actually require in order to defend Australia.
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Speaker 1: Do you think do you think we've sort of relied on the big brother. We've got support from the US and they'll always be there for us, so we really don't need to overspend on defense.
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Speaker 11: Well, the seventh Fleet are based out of Guam and basically, if stuff happens, they're going to have to defend themselves and anyone else that's actually being attacked. But the seventh Fleet isn't huge. The seventh Fleet is a reasonable Size's the equivalent of essentially our enable capacity if you like, But they're going to be stretched to defend themselves as well as everyone else. We don't have enough fuel storage here in Australia. The US have had to invest a lot of money in even putting their own fuel dump up in Darwin near Robinson Robertson Barracks, so that if stuff happens, they're not reliant on us because they cannot rely on us because we won't have enough capacity for ourselves. And so if they have to bug out of that area and they need fuel, they've got their owns, their own storage. And the US have actually made a policy of saying we will not build infrastructure on any other country's land. Well, guess what they've broken that in order to they have a capability within the Darwin regional area.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Australia should increase its defense budget.
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Speaker 11: I think Australia needs to look It's not so much the defense budget, but it's actually looking at our defense structure. As the previous caller said, we've got a lot of senior serves within the Defense Force who every single one of them is actually trying to stay in to get a nice, big fat pension, but also they're trying to make a name for themselves and in doing so, they're actually assisting in making wrong decisions such as joints, the number of joint strike fighters, getting rid of our fads, not actually putting pressure on things like British Aerospace to actually put out our Hunter class frigates quicker than what they actually are. They're not actually looking at what is the next generation of students that are leaving school, what do they actually want, what they actually need As far as the career path. Some years ago they had an apprenticeship program within the Defense Force, so you can go into the army as an apprentice electrician, fit of Inturno or that sort of thing. That's all gone on the wayside. But yeah, Australia is actually saying we need tradesmen. Well, why don't you get a lot of these younger kids into apprenticeships within their defense force, and some of those apprentices have gone on to become chief of Army. There is a career outside of outside of an apprenticeship if you choose to actually stay in.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you noticed it, John, but I'm sure I heard doctor John Brune correctly when he said regarding our navy that we have something like twenty rear admirals we have ten ships. I mean, is that overkill? Way overkilled?
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Speaker 11: You know, how many admirals do you actually need to command to command a navy? You know, one admiral would actually do ten ships easily, because that if you look at other countries like the UK instead of there, how many admirals do they actually have for the number of ships they have, And they've got a lot more ships than what we have. Have many admirals that are actually within within the US Defense Force for the size of their fleet. But then again, they also have admirals that are actually looking after things like the Marines and things like that. Right, So, I think, as I said, we've got a lot of senior serves. We've got too many senior serves for our sized defense force, which they're all on you know, three four five, six hundred thousand dollars a year salaries. If you actually get rid of a lot of the dead wood and actually shrink that down, you can actually put a lot of that money into young and up and cunning coming students that are leaving school who potentially are looking for a career path somewhere.
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Speaker 1: You're very knowledgeable on the subject, Dave, so you'll be interested in this figure. The US Defense secretary controlling a one point four trillion dollar budget earns in Australian dollars three hundred and eighty two thousand dollars per year. Is Australian counterpart, with a defense budget of fifty eight billion, is paid one million, one hundred and thirty five, five hundred and twenty four dollars, effectively three times as much. Does that tell a story?
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Speaker 11: Well, look at the US Postal Service. Even then, the head of the US Postal Service earns a quarter of a million dollars. How guys, a girl now I think it is is earning a couple of million.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got it wrong somewhere. Good on your day. Thanks, thank you, Boby, I appreciate your call. Eight double two to three double oh double, oh yeah. We've got it so wrong in this country. And you speak to the government, they say, well, you know, it's a free market world. We've got to pay these money. There's sort of money to attract people into the public service. Well they don't have to do they don't have to do that in America. They can pay them reasonable wages. But when when the US Defense secretary is earning three hundred and eighty two thousand dollars managing a one point four trillion dollar budget and the Australian counterpart, managing a piffling fifty eight billion is paid three times as much. I mean, and you wonder where you tax dollars.
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Speaker 2: Go five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's twenty eight to eleven on five double A or with Graham Goodings. Thanks for your company today, Thanks for your informed comment and interesting comments on the whole range of things. Eight double two three double O double oh is the number to ring if you'd like to take part. And a reminder that we have tickets to give away to Fleetwood Mac story at Gluttony that will come up at any given moment in the show from the text line IgG, why worry about Chinese ships when they have control of Darwin Harbor and a commercial size airstrip in Way. New subs are a pipe dream with insufficient numbers to a crew them, so it says Kevin, Yeah, Darwin Harbor is a joke, isn't it. I mean, really, it's been given a ninety The Chinese have leased it for ninety nine years, and I think that was previous liberal government that agreed to that. I mean, really, you know, if we have any potential adversary, it's China, and we lease one of our most significant harbors, most tactically important harbors to the Chinese. They can sail in and out at will. Hi g. Something is surely wrong when the annual budget for defense, NDIS and indigenous affairs are much the same, says Raylen. Remember USA didn't come to our aid in World War Two until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. It's time a politician had the guts to bring back national service. We've turned into a Third World backwater. As far as the climate goes, it seems all the Weather Bureau and media are under forty so everything is a drama with no memory of the past or living without air conditioning. Good point ly and but geez, I hate to live without air conditioning, and I'm not under forty. I can tell you that eight double two to three double o double. If you'd like to comment on the issues of weather, the USA coming to our aid, will they ever do it again? And as Leanne says, it was only in World War Two after they attacked Pearl Harbor, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor that they came into the war and gave us any assistance. But thankfully they did. It's twenty seven to eleven on five double A. Whenever there's a debate about nuclear power in Australia, a big question regularly comes up. Well, that's all well and good, but what do we do with the waste? It can't just be taken to the local dump along with the garbage or rubble. It has to be handled with immense care, stored in particular ways while it remains dangerous, and that can be a long time, sometimes of decades and in the case of high level waste, up to thousands of years. Former Senator Rex Patrick says a report into nuclear waste storage, which was finalized in late twenty twenty three, still hasn't been made available for public discussion. He's going to the Administrative Review Tribunal today to get access to the report. Rex Patrick joins me in our Rex, why hasn't the report been made public before this?
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Speaker 8: Well, that is a great mystery. You might recall that when Peter Dutman announced that there were going to be seven sites for power reactors in Australia, Anthony ALBERNIZI came out and all upon mister Dutton to reveal the sites. Now I've got a situation where the government has done a report into locations for a high level radioactive waste management facility for UCUS, and they are refusing to be transparent about the outcome of that report. I understand it to be perhaps politically controversial, politically sensitive, but this is an issue that will last a millennia in respect of once the decisions made. This is not a decision simply for this government or a next government. It's a decision that will involve hundreds of years. And for that reason, it should be made public so that the people can so that people can talk about it.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't it be covered by cabinet confidentiality?
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Speaker 8: Well, that's the question that's before the Administrative Reviews Tribunal today. Difficulty with that, and I've got to be a bit careful because i don't want to be in breach of something called the Harmon obligation. But in principle, the Commonwealth must show that the document was brought into existence for the purpose.
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Speaker 1: Of going to cabinet.
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Speaker 8: That is, on the day they first started writing it, it was to go to cabinet. They are struggling to make out their case, but just administratively, it's improper for a document like this to become a cabinet document because cabinet documents can't be shared across successive governments. If the government are successful in the proceedings today, what it will mean is that perhaps in one hundred days, if we have a new Prime minister, mister Dutton as the Prime Minister, this document, which has cost taxpayers well in excess of half a million dollars and involve several agencies of government, couldn't be used by a Guton government or any other future government. So it's just an absurdity the idea that you do a comprehensive study and you limit it in time to only the current government by making it a cabinet document.
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Speaker 1: So do you know what the terms of reference would have been. Were they looking for proposed sites high level waste, low level waste? What were they looking for?
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Speaker 8: Well, the Minister has talked about the report coming up with a scheme to select a site, but the contract that was granted to an external contract to leave the review basically said that they wanted the report to identify possible location. So I don't think the report will select a particular site, but it will at least identify those sites around Australia that are geologically suitable for the storage of high level waste. It may be that the government decides that if they're going to tackle this high level waste problem at the same time, they may also seek to tackle the low level waste problem, which has not been solved since the Kimber decision was overturned by the Federal Court. It's not entirely clear, but what we do know is the document does talk about Orcus waste.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a very real issue. Where we have the Orcus submarine project full steam ahead. There will be nuclear waste and nuclear fallout from that.
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Speaker 8: Well, there will be nuclear waste, that's without question, and we do have to take responsibility for it. That is the agreement between Australia and the United States. And we know we've had great difficulty in the past trying to select these sites. Now the government's actually short circuit than that. In November of last year, the Parliament passed laws that allow the Defense Minister simply to non a site by way of regulation, no consultation required, no social license required, by the strict letter of the law. And that's one of the reasons why we need to get this report out as soon as possible so everyone can talk about it, everyone can debate it.
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Speaker 4: Discuss it, talk about the.
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Speaker 8: Pros and cons, because we are in a situation where technically the Minister could simply look at the report and declare the site and that's the end of the story. And even where you've got laws in Queensland or South Australia say you can't have a nuclear waste, because the Australian Naval Nuclear Propulsion Act is a federal act, it overrides any state laws.
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Speaker 1: We know this is politically sensitive. We only have to look at Kimber so it would seem with an election in the win, the government doesn't want to really stir up the nuclear pod.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, look, look, I made this request more than a year ago, and so it wasn't necessarily minded to have the document prior to an election. But at any point, this is a sort of information that ought to be put out into the public domain, and we can then hear what mister Albaneze's views are on them, We can hear what mister Duttman's views.
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Speaker 1: Are on them.
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Speaker 8: The other may be bipartisan support. It may not, in that sense, become an election issued between the two major parties, but we simply don't know because the document's being held secret.
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Speaker 1: So how long do you think there'll be an outcome you of appealing to the Administrative Review Tribune? At the moment, when is there likely to be a decision?
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Speaker 8: So the hearing is on today, and typically I then would expect the tribunal will reserve its decision and sometime within a month will make its decision, and then the Department will have twenty eight days if it goes in my favor, to appeal the decision. So it might be a couple of months away, and that means it might certainly be the other side of an election. But again I'm not really focusing on this from an election point of view. I simply want the public to be able to see what is being talked about, what the criteria are for these sites, there are where the possibilities lie. In the end, this is about long term decision making, not about a short term election issue.
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Speaker 1: That's Rex Patrick, who is the Jackie Lamby Senate candidate, former senator with his views wanting this nuclear waste storage report revealed, why has it not been done? And hopefully he will find some satisfaction today with the Australian Review Committee. It's nineteen minutes to eleven on five double A. Hi. Graham alas springs has been averaging above forty degrees for a while now, lucky for us here and it was short lived going in. Thanks for that, Peter Graham regards the caller who highlighted massive anominies regards between salaries paid to US and Australian the current administration. I guess the US administration is looking to cut back the number of civil servants as they have identified massive waste inefficiencies etc. Whilst we continue to employ public servants. Current public servants need to be reminded they work to assist the public ie the taxpayer, instead of always creating hurdles and barriers. More public servants is not the answer if we really need to have a very close look at the public service, that is the growth industry. Was it thirty six thousand extra public servants in the last year, No wonder unemployment is decreasing, but yeah, the rate that look. I admire public servants that do work hard, do a good job, and get a fair day's pay, but at the top level on a world scale, they are earning so much more than anywhere else pretty much in the world, particularly a country like the US, when top civil servants, top administrators in the US are only only a third of what their Australian counterparts are getting, and the Australians are responsible for far smaller departments. Go figure eight double two to three double o double oh is the number David says. We have five aircraft able to undertake air to air refuel of our military aircraft. Our politicians have taken one and fitted it out for their use. The furniture they kitted it out with is so heavy it has significantly reduced its range and overall capability as a military aircraft. Idea sort of like something out of Yes Minister or Yes Prime Minister, isn't it GGI googled to try to understand how much is one trillion dollars and the generated answer was if you started counting now, it would take thirty one, six hundred and eighty eight years to arrive at one trillion dollars. That is a staggering amount of money. Good on your Stavros. Trump has nominated a three star general for the top job over the heads of a bunch of four stars, a lot of noses out of joint in the US. Only time and history will tell whether Trump has done the right thing. But if you've been a four star general for many, many years waiting for a top job and a three star comes straight over the top of you, noses certainly out of joint. One more for an hour, Hi Graham, can you get old Elbow on and point out the collapse of our great country and way of life and share with him all you just mentioned about the wages of public servants in our armed services? Because Old Albow just doesn't seem to know. Cheers Mark in hart Cove. Look, the invitation is always out to the Prime Minister. Here's welcome to come on this program at a moment's notice. If he phoned up right now, we'd move heaven and earth to have a chat with him. I would suggest that because an election is in the wind, he at some stage will appear on this program, if not this program, on the Breakfast program. But I have a whole fistful of questions that I would like to ask the Prime Minister. No doubt you do too, So at any stage you'd like to ford those questions to us, and I'll have a stockpile of questions to ask the Prime Minister. Likewise, Peter Dutton, if you have questions you want to ask of him? How he is going to turn the Titanic around? How and he's going to improve things in Australia, What he's going to do with the money's going to spend? Where he's going to get the money from to spend? Eight? Double two to three double O double oh?
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Speaker 2: Is the number five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Well, what's happening while away? What's happening with the steel works? Well, Cabinet members are heading to Whaler this morning for an announcement to read the money starting to flow to businesses and I'm sure they just can't wait for that we'll find out about that this morning. Let's hear from John Chapman, Wiler, Regional Coordinator.
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Speaker 12: I think it's a day where there's going to be lots of questions for the administrators at the creditors meeting at two o'clock and we'll see where that ends up. This is a statutory meeting that the creditors that the administrators have to have within eight days of their appointment. So it'll be the third real open interaction with the wider creditors to the steel works in Wyala, so I think it's going to be quite an interesting meeting. The process is spelled out quite clearly on a specific website that's been set up Wyaler Support dot SA, dot gov dot AU. The government's intention and it's been a very clear instruction from the Premier. He wants to get the money moving quickly.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 12: To do that, creditors need to provide certain documentation and one is a proof of debt which they need to provide to the administrators but also to the government along with the statutory declaration and a few other bits and pieces along the way. Now we've got a team from the Department of State Development who have been assisting businesses and we will continue to do that both here at Whaler and in Adelaide because we're also conscious that there are a large number of businesses outside Wyaler that significant sums. I've been dealing with businesses directly.
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Speaker 4: I sat down with.
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Speaker 12: One last week. They're rowed over five million and their Whaler based business, so it's really important we can get that money moving quickly because they've got payrolls to make. We're also working with the administrators to make sure that if they had work orders with the steelworks prior to the administration, that they get new work orders so that they can continue their work seamlessly. So so far, so good, and we're standing ready to assist anyone.
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Speaker 1: That's John Chapman on the creditors meeting at Whaler that's due to get under way at two thirty this afternoon. Nine to eleven five A, a Quantus flight bound from Sydney to Perth has been forced to turn around and make an emergency landing at Mascott Airport. Emergency services scrambled at Sydney Airport after the flight did a U turn and they headed back to its departure point after reports of an on Bild emergency. One of our Sydney to Perth flights returned to Sydney shortly after taking off this morning, reporting a technical issue. A quite A spokesman said, our pilots are highly trained to handle situations like this. The aircraft landed safely and the appropriate procedures were conducted. The aircraft, after landing safety taxi back to the gate under its own steam. No doubt you'll hear more about that in the news throughout the day. On five Double A Tom, good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 5: I have opinion on two subjects, and it's a cursey. I wonder if you let me say it before you make a comment, if you could please. The first thing is talking about our military in general, but mainly the IDF. My youngest is a member. We're supposed to be supposed to be a successful multicultural country, right our forces across the board should reflect that. They don't. I don't believe. Well, again, you only got to look particularly boots on the ground, if you look at the ADF. I can't say much more than that without being declared some sort of racist. At the end of the day, the only way we would combat this to actually have our forces mirror our true multicultural situation is to actually have probably a forced national service where everybody has to serve time in the forces. That's why I'm going to stay on that, because that doesn't reflect the true multiculture when you look at the background of the people, particularly boots on the ground in our forces, and they're having a hell of a time with recruitment. Now, the next thing is if I could this meeting between Trump and the Ukraine president. I really feel for the Ukraine president. I reckon the man's got real cahoonas and I would love him to lead our country. But having said all that, whether you believe Trump is mentally unstable, and quite possibly he is.
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Speaker 1: He made no.
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Speaker 5: Bones about it, Graham when you first started running for president, that he was going to put America first, he was going to clean up the wastage what they consider the wastage as far as financial and all the rest of it. At the end of the day, he's done that. And he got within twelve hours by being as so and so as he was, and he's offside as a snipper, and you know what, he got exactly what he wanted. He got the Europeans to dig deep and actually and actually back the Ukraine president up. So whether you like him or not as far as being a businessman, jeez, he's a tough so and so.
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Speaker 8: But I don't.
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Speaker 5: Agree with a lot of his policies. I don't agree with him personally. I think he does have a scrutlist and I would love to see more and more of the country dig deeper and deeper to back the Ukraine president and the people there who have got the guts of you know what they are doing. They are doing the dirty work of the European countries, and Yanks know this. They and they sit back and they wait, which they've done during the First World War, they did in the Second World War. They always come in late. So at the end of the day, I hope, I hope that we still have a friend in America because unfortunately, I believe we're going to need them.
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Speaker 1: Tom well put, I don't necessarily agree with everything you've said, but you've presented the case. Well, we do need the US as an ally, and we have been there for the US. They have been pretty much there for us, although as has been pointed out, they didn't come to our defense immediately at the start of the Second World War. It was only when they were invaded in Pearl Harbor by the Japanese that they came in. Thank god they did, because that certainly brought a quicker end to the war. But we've always been there for the US in our small way, supporting them in every way we can. But you'd have to think that the way the Trump administration thinks, it's certainly America first, and as Tom said, there's no question about that. He said, that's what it would be all about, America first. But you have to really consider your allies, and at the moment Australia is has become a bit of a poor relation. What are your thoughts about that? Five minutes to eleven five A Jack says, thirty six thousand public servants. This government is a bunch of idiots. These people go to work and they do nothing to help the economy. It would be better spent on housing for our homeless people. Look, I've just have to qualify that, Jack. A lot of public servants do a great job, just so there are too many of them, Hi, Graham, just on waste in the defense force. I have a friend who's just retired from the Air Force on full pension, but still works three days a week, six hours a day including lunch breaks, and owns fifty thousand dollars tax free, still gets a quarter of his mortgage paid and full medical. Not a bad deal to be on regards rob Hi g Gene. It's not just government waste. Councils are worse from CEOs, mayor councilors, directors, managers, team leaders leading hands so much fat to trim our rates should be much cheaper. And as I often say on this, we really should look at the Brisbane model, shouldn't we. Brisbane has one overr arching council for a population almost twice the size of Adelaide, and they do seem to do pretty well. There was an interesting article on the Advertiser today by Jamie mclergue about rationalizing the councils and he made some good points. We have something like sixty eight councils in South Australia. The councils represent a third of what councils in Victoria do. So just peak a figure in South Australia. If a council represented fifty thousand people in Victoria, that same council will represent one hundred and fifty thousand people. So you know, dollar for dollar, you know, per capita, we are over represented by a huge amount with our councils. So what would you think about a rationalization of councils, A good idea or not? Eight double two to three double o double. Oh, we're going to take a break for news. I want to talk about something that concerns me. There are plans to ease pressure on our energy grid by cutting air conditioners powered on hot days. If you've bought an air conditioner since twenty twenty three, it's probably including what's called a demand response capability, and that essentially means they can communicate with a remote agent via Wi Fi or mobile network. In other words, big brother can turn your air conditioning down, whether you like it or not. What are your thoughts about that? Because interstate they are turning their back on it, saying it is not an effective way to cut power costs.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, six.
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Speaker 1: Past eleven five A on a Monday morning in Adelaide. I hope we find you well. Well, there's lots of smiling going on in the cricket world in South Austraia at the moment. After years in the doldrums. We have been sellar dwellers for a Australian cricket terms for longer than I care to remember. In fact, for the first time twenty twelve, the state's cricket team tasted glory in a national competition. That was winning the One Day Cup Final against Victoria by sixty four runs at Adelaide Oval. Great event, terrific to see and we looked like hosting the Shield final. But what are the chances of being held at Adelaide Oval? Because it falls as the AFL season gets into full swing. Braiden Ingram seven nine Sorry sorry, bradon nine News Adelaide sports reporter joins men. Now Braiden, good morning to you.
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Speaker 13: Good Graham, good morning to you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you've been right across this story. What are the chances of the final being played at Adelaide Oval?
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Speaker 13: Look, I mean, certainly the SAKA would like to think they're high. Ultimately, this is going to be a decision from the AFL and the Crows. Clearly the first box to tick is that SA lock up hosting rights. They're around ten to eleven points ahead on the table at the moment, so they might only need a draw against Victoria this week with a couple of bonus points to lock up that hosting rights. And then again it's a matter of where it is. Clearly at the moment it would be Karen Rolton Noble given the fact that the final was due to start on a Wednesday, fin it's on a Sunday, which is the thirtiest, which is when the Crows are also scheduled to play North Melbourne. So the supposal will be to bring the final forwards like two days, and then you jam the Shield Final in between ports clash on the previous weekends. Then you play the Shield Final for five days Monday to Friday, and then the following Sunday, the thirtiest is when the Crows play North. So clearly that would require creget pitches. They're going to be taken out now he played a couple of footy games. They then get taken out, they get put back in for the Shield Final and then back out again. So Dan off, geez it had a lot to do. And I guess the question is going to be I think it's going to be whether the AFL is comfortable because clearly we've seen you know, the Adelaide will be converted from a soccer game to a soccer pitch to an AFL pitch pretty quickly in those sort of things. But when you're taking out cricket pitches, I imagine there's probably a few more degrees of difficulty involved.
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Speaker 1: Sure. I mean it's not like the old days when when the cricket pitches were there permanently and in forty season you just played on top of the cricket pitches. Those days are long since gone. And you know they're dropping pictures, which in itself takes time and effort. I mean, in an ideal world, we'd love to see this happen. But do you think it's a reality of practicality.
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Speaker 6: Ah?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I think I think that's the thing. I Look, it can be done, clearly. You know, if there was a groundstaff to do what it would be the Adelaide Oval and the curator jamien Hoff. But again, with so many things that need to be picked off, I think that have to find a balance with the grass as well, because clearly it's cut shorter for cricket than what it is. You have to find a middle ground there. I just I tend to think the AFL with these scenarios, they tend to err on the side of portion, or they tend to err on the side of the solution that fits them best. And that's not a criticism. I just think that's how they tend to operate. So they might look at this and go, well, what if one of the machines breaks down or what if something goes quite wrong? Then then in a tight schedule, we don't have a ground to play our game apps, So I just wonder if that's what it comes down to, and they go, it's not worth the trouble, but maybe there's some capital there, there's a favor that's those you know, between between cricket and footy, or one that they can thank for later. They go, you know what, let's do this and there might be something that comes back our way.
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Speaker 1: It'd be great to see, there's no question. I mean, Karen Rolton Oval is a beautiful oval. It's great for cricket, but we're talking a final here and you know, Adelaide Oval is the home of cricket in the state, so if it could be done, it'd be great to see.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think as well. I was there on Saturday night and there was I think about six and a half thousand and there it genuinely sounded like fifteen or twenty did they create a great atmosphere the included as a passionate Salustralian cricket fan base there And it just seems right that it would be at Adelaide Oval. I mean, you know, of course Creet solely create for so so so long, so I think it just does seem right and there'll be nothing better than seeing the photos and the videos that will last the time that if they do win the side of their listing it in front of that famous stand rather than at Karen Rowling, which, as you sayed, it's a great intimate venue. But ultimately it's not the Adelaide over. It's not, say Timers Cricket.
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Speaker 1: Good on the Braden thanks for your chat today, base gram chat, Sir Brad Ingram, nine years Adelaide sports reporter who's been all over the story about the possibility of the Shield Final and the likelihood it's not one hundred percent locked in that'll be in southas Strata as yet, but the chances are it will be. It's scheduled for Karen Rolton Oval, but it would be great if it could be at Adelaide Oval. But would have to be sandwiched in between a port game and the Crow's game, and it would mean that Shield final would have to be brought forward a couple of days, but that would only leave a couple of days for the Adelaide Oval to remove the drop in pitches. And well you can't alter the length of the grass obviously, but the grass is shorter for cricket. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double. I'll tell you someone who's got some strong thoughts. That's our own KG.
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Speaker 14: This is a hot topic for me. We haven't won the Sheffield Shield for thirty years. We started our progress on Saturday night with a great win for our foky cabinet. Would be the city of the game, which was fantastic. Southa siding trigger has been in the will. Now if we get our home final, the game has to be played at the Adelaide which is.
01:27:34
Speaker 1: The home of cricket.
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Speaker 14: Why I don't given stuck what everybody else does. Let the two bodies get together, as you mentioned Will and Dave and work through it, which is best for both the Adelaide Football Club and the Stacker. This is a golden opportunity and I'm read hot on this. This is a golden opportunity to do some great work for Saltha strivings.
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Speaker 1: Triger.
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Speaker 14: We haven't had dead we need to except we've started. Now get off your barbered wood wood.
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Speaker 1: What do you really think, kg Ah Do you love him? The one, the only, the iconic kg Cunningham on whether the Shield Final should be played at Adelaid Oval or not? What your thought's eight double two to three double? Oh? Somebody says hold it at Adelaid Oval for what maybe five thousand people if lucky, each day. It'd be interesting to see what sort of crowd they get, Graham. In relation to the cricket and Crow's ground clash, don't we have an AFL ground at Mount Barker that no one can afford to use? The Crows can go there? Surely? Well, Darren, it isn't quite that simple. There are probably close to forty thousand people, most of them Crow supporters, who have their tickets to go to watch the Crows at Adelaide Oval, and they're not going to squeeze into Mount Barker. Wonderful on all as the ground is, it would take eight to ten thousand people at the most, So that isn't an option thirteen past eleven five Double A preparations are underway with tropical Cyclone Alfred forecast across the coast between Bunderberg and northern New South Wales on Thursday. It's edging ever closer. To bring us up to date is A four BC journalist Matt Hepworth. Matt, good morning to.
01:29:12
Speaker 15: You, Graham, good morning.
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Speaker 1: What's unique? The cyclones aren't unusual in Queensland? What is unique about this particular one?
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean we are right in the middle of cyclone season and as you rightly pointed out, there would be nothing unusual about it if it were in the state's north or far north. And in fact, this is really where tropical Cyclone Alfred began. We've been following its movements for well over a week now and it did form well off the far north Queensland coast. Over the last few days, it's continued to track south and the big update that we've sent over the last twenty four hours is it's now on a collision course for southeast Queensland. So the exact location of the crossing is still unknown at this state. However, a stretch of the Queensland coast pretty much but anywhere between Bunderberg and the Queensland New South Wales border could be in the firing line. At the moment, we're looking at a Category two system, so that basically means we could have wind gusts of up to one hundred and forty kilometers an hour. The greater concern around that would be the rain. Up to six hundred millimeters of rain is possible and for flood prone regions, particularly like Brisbane, but right across southeast queens and that's the main concern at the moment.
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Speaker 1: When you've been hit by lots of rain, lots of floodwaters in recent times, it's not like you need anymore.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, very much. So we've already had a wet summer and this is what we hear with these events. The timing is always very unfortunate. Is we've already got very wet catchments and creeks, so there's that fear, and of course you can combine that with a high tide as well. The fact that Brisbane is a river city, it's built on the river, so if you combine that with high tides it could cause for some pretty serious damage, which is why all our authority they're out today just warning residents to start getting prepared. At this stage, we're looking at a crossing of Thursday or Friday. So we've heard from our premiere this morning that's asking residents to be prepared, you know, things like your basic storms you know, anywhere, whether it's you know, cleaning your gutters, tying down loose objects, just making sure that you know, we are prepared for whatever might come our way.
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Speaker 1: When you look at it, most cyclones, as you say, far North Queensland is where they normally happen, low population centers. I guess the critical issue here is that we're moving towards some pretty large population centers, absolutely, and you.
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Speaker 15: Know I've covered a fair few cyclones over the years and so often they do, you know, go over remote communities where I guess, yeah, the damage can be minimized, you can have evacuations in some cases. I mean, you know, you're talking about Australia's third largest city, so it's not as if we can, yeah, just evacuate should it come. So that's why, once again, you know, the preparation around this is so important as well, and the fact that it's such a widespread area at the moment, I mean, the tracking at the moment, looks like it will cross probably just north of Brisbane, but you know, the Sunshine Coast would certainly be in the firing line as well. That's a large populated area, the Gold Coast just down the road. Of course, they are quite immune to flooding as well, and even for residents in far North New South Wales as well, So it's a very large spread area and at the moment it's just a watch and wait for large parts of the Queensland coast and it.
01:32:28
Speaker 1: Could impact the start of the AFL season in Brisbane too.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, that's right. We ardue to have the Lions kick off their season on Thursday at the Gabble. We heard from Andrew Dillon and the CEO of the AFL a short time ago. They're pretty much on a watch and wait as well. My understanding is that the Lions would prefer to wait until they have a buy in round three, so if the match were to be called off, and they haven't made that decision just yet, but the Lions would prefer to have it in round three when there is a bye. So yeah, there's a lot right at the moment.
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Speaker 1: Graham, Well, Matt, let's hope it all doesn't come to fruition, the rains hold off and the cyclone diminishes. Thanks for your time today. Thank you Matt Hapworth for BC Brisbane journalist on cyclone Alfred, Which was which was cyclone Albow? Well, no it wasn't. It was cyclone Anthony originally, but for obvious reasons it was probably a good idea to rename it because you can imagine if it had caused any major issues destruction and death, even perish, the thought cyclone Anthony at this time leading to an election probably wouldn't be great. Politics seventeen past eleven five.
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Speaker 2: A five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Have you bought an air conditioner recently? In recent years, well since July twenty three, Well, most new air conditioners sold in South Australia must include a demand response capability. Essentially, this means they can communicate with a remote agent via Wi Fi or mobile networks or connect to an external device. That's so they can adjust their cooling capacity when signaled. Plans to ease pressure on southa Strata's energy grid by cutting air conditions par on hot days effacing new criticism. However, since new research has raised darts about the idea. The reform marked the first step towards remotely controlling air cons with signals triggering three modes, turning off the compressor, reducing cooling to fifty percent, or limiting it to seventy five percent. An eighteen month trial involving volunteer households is set to begin later this year. While such schemes aim to save consumers money by avoiding costly network upgrades, experts like doctor Martin Gill have flagged issues. He pointed out trials showing minimal power savings when reducing air con capacity, especially on hot days. In fact, New South Wales recently abandoned a similar plan, citing its limited energy savings. Instead, doctor Gill suggests tweaking thermostat settings for better results without safe sacrificing comfort. Sad isn't it that we're in this day and age that our energy grid is so fragile that we have to hand over our own air conditioners to external forces to manipulate it to try and balance air conditioning power grid?
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Speaker 9: Use?
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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double double oh, Mark, good morning, good.
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Speaker 16: Morning, good morning, Graham. Just sorry about that made I was just doing something. How are you?
01:35:30
Speaker 8: Yeah?
01:35:30
Speaker 1: Good? Thanks? What can we what can we do for you?
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Speaker 16: Look, an earlier caller rang up about these thirty six thousand public service that Peter Dutton's going to get rid of. Well, I just wanted to point out that at the moment this government, current government, have managed to move fifty thousand private contractors consultants off the public payroll that we are employed by the previous Liverpool governments. So they've turned that around and then they've only they've employed another nine thousand public servants to deal with the backlog involving sixty thousand veterans. Who's the backlog as we know you've spoken about this before yourself, has been there for years and they haven't been able to clear that upset the desperately working on that. Now the trouble isn't going to sound a bit like a labor stooge. You, But I like my politics, so when I hear things, I like to go and investigate and find out sort of what the real story is. Further, this labor government has decreased the numbers of public and private consultants in the defense industry. They've saved about four hundred million there and they've saved over six hundred million by getting rid of the fifty consult fifty thousand consultants previously hired by this government. So in Dunton sees he's going to cut the public service by thirty six thousand, he's going to have to replace them somewhere somehow to do the job, and that might mean going back to the private sector, which is costing this country more money than ever before. So I just when you hear politicians say these things, it's not hard to find on the internet. David Pocox a good place to start to find out what the actual backstory to all this really is. And in fact Dartan's grabbed a headline people have jumped on it. But the reality is he probably can't afford to run sack thirty six thousand consultants unless he employs more private consultants.
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Speaker 1: YEP, an interesting point of View've good on you, Mark, thanks for your input. It is a vex question, isn't it. I mean, the size of our public service per capita is huge, But if we get rid of some public servants, as Mark suggested, we might need to get private consultants in to do their job. But isn't it a matter of getting people into the offices. I'm not one hundred percent fan of Elon Musk by any means, but his doge the Department of Government Expenditure. Maybe we should appoint an independent person to go through different departments and see how much work is being done by different people. Eight double two three double o double oh the number to ring. It's a huge, huge day in Hollywood. The Oscars are underway. Miley Hegan is there for Channel seven News. She's on the red carpet or Miley, where all we are? Is it all started yet?
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Speaker 11: Well?
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Speaker 17: I've actually just walked off the red carpet. It's finished the red carpet. The show has started. All of the stars are inside the Dolby Theater and they are waiting. Well, actually, some of the awards have already been handed out. Unfortunately, Australian guy Pierce did not pick up the award for Best Boarding Actor.
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Speaker 1: I know, disappointed.
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Speaker 18: Were really rooting for him.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, it was his first ever OSCAR nom but look, just in honor to be nominated, is what he said. And we actually spoke to him on the red carpet and he was very excited to be there. It's such a friendly guy, so generous at this time. So shame he didn't win, but absolutely amazing for him to get this stuff.
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Speaker 1: So what are your tips? Who's going to get the movie? Gone?
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Speaker 17: So the Best Picture? There are three films really that are going after this one that could likely win, and that's Conclave, which is that movie about picking a new pope. The other one is The Brutalist, the three and a half hour epic, and that's the movie that Guy Pierce is in. But the other one that a lot of the bookies have as the favorite is Anora, and a lot of a chat in the buzz around this film is that it hasn't been very Oscarby, if people would describe it. But I've been calling it kind of a dark twist on Pretty Woman, and it is a phenomenal film. It's won over a lot of critics and people really do think that it could pick up Best Picture. So it'll be interesting to see what happens there.
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Speaker 1: I should have asked you who picked up if Guy Peers didn't win the Best Supporting Actor? Who did.
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Speaker 17: Kieran Culkin, who has been picking up.
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Speaker 13: All seasons.
01:40:04
Speaker 17: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah fair enough. So do you get to sneak into the festivities or do you stay out outside and pleat them as they come out.
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Speaker 17: I wish, I wish I got to sneak in there, but no, I watch it on TV like everybody else wants. The Red Carpet is over, and yeah, watch it on all the live feeds as they come in.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't a seat You couldn't be a seat warmer.
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Speaker 17: I know, I wish I could be a seat walker. Actually, I found a new job that people do before before the actual ceremony starts on the red carpet. They wear name tags as well, like Timothy Salome guide here and they walk up and down before the red carpet open. I assume to help the camera operate and get the right lighting in the right angle.
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Speaker 1: It's good, Miley, thanks for your reporting that that will have it all in full tonight at seven on seven News.
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Speaker 17: Absolutely thank you.
01:40:56
Speaker 1: Miley Hergan Channel seven on the Red Carpet or the Red Carpet is now, it's all inside and Guy Pierce didn't win. Disappointed five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings twenty eight to twelve, final thirty minutes of the show. Still times are you to get your calls to on eight double two to three double double low. Hardly a day goes by that we don't talk about scams something we're ever alert, but the scammers seem to be one step ahead, half a step ahead best and all we can do is put out warnings to you on a regular basis. Joining in now is CEO of the Australian Banking Association and a bly and a good morning to.
01:41:33
Speaker 6: You, good morning, how are you well?
01:41:36
Speaker 1: Thanks? What are you? What's the latest warning we need to be flagged about? Graham.
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Speaker 18: One of the things we think it's really important to get people to be a little bit more vigilant about is we're coming into footy season. Fans love to go and see their teams and it does mean that it's game on. Unfortunately for ticket scammers, they get onto the online marketplace platforms and offer tickets that actually don't exist. So just really encouraging fans. Obviously they love to go and see their teams play. Scammers take advantage of your enthusiasm for your team. Just be very careful about where you're buying tickets. Buy them from authorized, well known ticket sellers and companies, and those companies often have their own authorized resale platforms, they're fine too, but be very careful if you're going on to an online marketplace.
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Speaker 1: I guess people are looking for something cheap. They think, you know, I can get them cheaper somewhere else. That really is a fallacy. You know, you've got to pay full price and you've got to go through the reputable source.
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Speaker 18: Absolutely, But for the really big games, you know, the sellout games, the finals, the things that really matter to locals. Showdown games in South Australia, like the ones that are held each year between Crows and Port Adelaide. Those sellout games, people are actually prepared to pay a lot more because they're so keen to get there, and that's when people are really at risk of losing a lot of money.
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Speaker 1: What should we be on the lookout for. Because people do so much shopping and trading online, it's second nature these days and they feel comfortable doing that. So what are the warning signs.
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Speaker 18: Well, there's a number of things people should look out for. I would say be aware of highly discounted tickets. You know, if it sounds too good to be true, then maybe it is. And be very careful about people wanting you to transfer funds directly into a bank account or even more concerning a crypto currency platform, So you really should be transferring, you should be paying for these sorts of things. To recognize companies that are authorized to sell these sorts of tickets. Always try, as I said, to purchase from an authorized ticket seller, but scrutinize emails or texts that offer to sell you a ticket that's not from a very well known website by ticket tech or Ticketmaster. They'll try and get to you any way they can. And you know, it really pays just to take a little step back and think does this look right?
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Speaker 1: Is there any more banks can do to combat scammers?
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Speaker 18: Well, it's a constant battle. Banks are up against some of the most sophisticated international criminal gangs who are capable of using industrial scale technology through and often using social media platforms. But banks have one of the good news Grahams. That good news is Australia is one of the few countries in the world that have seen both the incidents of scams drop and and the amount of money being lost to scams drop. It's more than forty percent drop over the last eighteen months two years, which you know is it's a combination of a lot of investment in that time from banks into new technology, and all your listeners in a men of them will have got messages from their banks saying, you know, so if you're traveling overseas and you start buying something, you'll get a message saying these transactions just happened on your account is really new. So that sort of technology that banks have invested in keeping people safer. But I also like to think that people have just got a little bit more savvy. You know, they look at you know, the things that come through your phone saying, you know, you haven't paid your tolls or mam, I've dropped my phone and the toilets. You know, people are getting a little bit more savvy and you know, maybe not answering unknown phone numbers because they're scammers. And I think it's a combination of banks investing in better technology, our telephone companies also investing in better you know, surveillance systems on scammers, Customers getting a little bit smarter and a little bit more careful. And I think, you know, I would like to see our social media platforms step into this space a lot more because most of the scams that we see with particularly big losses are coming from you know, dodgy investment scams being advertised on these big social media platforms, romance scams that you know that promise you the world and you know it's a disaster. So it's got to be everybody has got to do better. And as soon as you close one door with these sorts of things, you know the criminals will find another way.
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Speaker 1: They've come a long way. They're far more soisticated. I mean, it was the Nigerian prince who had eight million dollars he wanted to send to you, and there was an email full of typing mistakes and you could see through it in a second. Now they are incredibly sophisticated.
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Speaker 18: You're absolutely right, and you know the technology can often be a double edged thought. AI is reaching a level of sophistication where you know, they can impersonate you, Graham, they can make a video of you that makes you look completely real with your voice, et cetera. Scary and in the hands of criminals, that's pretty scary. But it's equally true that that same technology ai AI is basically recognized as patterns and so banks deploy it all the time to be searching through their systems literally every second of every minute of the day, looking for anything that's unusual. So when they start to see you, you know, something some behavior on your account that is very different to the way you would normally use that account, the red flag it. So you know, as I said, it's a double edged sword. And the challenge for banks and the government and the telcos and for social media platforms is to keep up with the criminals. And that's part of the reality is that's the cost of doing business as a bank in the modern world.
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Speaker 1: How accessible are the banks? I mean, if you're not sure and it's something you think your bank's been in touch with you, you know, is it as easy as picking up the phone saying I'm not sure about this? Could this be a scam?
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Speaker 18: Yes, it is. Banks all have call centers that take complaints, that take and they if you call and say I think I'm being scammed, they can put you straight through to their foward team. They have very big forward teams. One of our major banks I've visited recently and they've got more than five hundred people just working on financial fraud and crime every day of the week. Now, you know, the call centers in Our banks are like the call centers in government departments and probably your radio station. You know there are times when they're busier than others, but I encourage people persevere, just stay on the phone. Some of them have an option where they can you can register to have them call you back. The sooner your bank finds out about it, the sooner and more likely it is that they can recover the money for you.
01:48:37
Speaker 1: And a bly great to chat.
01:48:38
Speaker 18: Thanks for time, great to chat. Thanks chrime so you.
01:48:41
Speaker 1: Are the Austratum Banking Association and a bly so be worn. We started off talking about cricket, not cricket. We were talking about cricket where we football scammers. The fact that footy tickets are being scammed, So be wary going online. Think I might be able to get a cheap deal here, No, don't do it. You might be frustrated by going through the regular outlets, but that is the only way to do it. If you're in dart Ring your football club, they will help you, they will advise you and tell you what direction to go in. But we've got to keep a step ahead of these scammers. It isn't always easy.
01:49:13
Speaker 19: Very good morning, Yes, good morning, Graham, how are you. It's a great program this.
01:49:18
Speaker 1: Morning, Thank you.
01:49:19
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:49:20
Speaker 19: The reason I'm ringing in this for three things, and I'll be quick about them. One with regard to the thirty six thousand service public servants that they're proposing to the spell of I think, you know, I thought that this country was all about employing people to you know, so that they could people could have a living, to have a living, and that for their families and all the rest of it. And I can remember here in Adelaide some years ago, there was a person in politics, so I won't name them, obviously, but that person would have become the only female premiere in the whole state. And that person was going to disperse twenty five thousands of public servants at that time. I'm wondering if anyone can remember that. But thankfully that didn't come.
01:50:18
Speaker 1: About that Isabel Redmond, I recall, yeah.
01:50:21
Speaker 19: Yeah, that one, and so I just wondered whether can anyone remember that one. The other one is with regard councils cutting back on councils, well, I think, you know, for like one for the north, one for the east, one for the West, and one for the South. And I reckon that that's all that's I reckon, that's all that's needed. I don't know what the others would would be, what would be therefore, but I think it's too much. And the other thing is air conditioning. What's this business about recon reduce air conditioning, especially in the very hot weather that we've been having just lately.
01:51:05
Speaker 1: Well, the plan is because of the fact that with such a drain, air conditioners are such a drain on our wonderful power grid that most air conditioners installed since July twenty twenty three have this demand response capability. It's called where you're connected via Wi Fi or mobile network and someone at the other end can say, oh, we're consuming too much power. We'll just turn down phase air conditioning system. How do you feel about that?
01:51:34
Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean when I have my air conditioning, I have it on high for a couple of minutes and then it's down on to low the whole time. So but you know, but beyond that, I think, well, everything's going to be in its place at the end of the day.
01:51:52
Speaker 1: Good on your failure, Thanks for your input. Yeah, that air conditioning thing. It's interesting that while we're pressing ahead with it here in Southastralia and New South Wales's band in a similar plan, saying it its savings are very limited in fact, as most air conditioners only running at about fifty percent of capacity anyway, tweaking them back down is not saving a lot for the grid. Phil, good morning morning Graham.
01:52:16
Speaker 13: You're looking well.
01:52:17
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you very much, Glad.
01:52:21
Speaker 20: The Shield Final on a quick pick from way back, and I'd love to see the Shield Final play at but I just don't see how they can squeeze in between the twenty second and the thirtieth. It's I mean, I think people have said forgetting that the Shield Final is not four days, it's five days. So that's goes. So the moment is scheduled to finish, the Shield schedule to finish the same day playing with Melbourne.
01:52:50
Speaker 1: Well, the kind of the suggestion was to move forward the play for the Shield.
01:52:56
Speaker 20: Move it forward, so the last AFL game is on the before that the twenty second is Port Vessus Richmond on the twenty second. That would give them one day on the on the twenty third to get the pitch ready to have you've had people running well out of the pitch, putting dimmocks and sprig marks and have it all over the pitch. Then they'd have to starting the twenty third play for the five If they played for the five days, then they'll have the twenty to get the ready game and put the goal posts in and then get there ready for the for the next game on the thirtieth. So they've only got one day, assuming the game goes it's full tilt a five days well the equipment and we said it is. We don't know until five thirty on the fourth day when the game is going to finish, And so they would only give them one day either side to get the to rejig the opal and put paint them pleinging and put the goal post in, put the gold post out.
01:53:55
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's an impossible dream. Yeah, good on your hold the line. You've won tickets for you and a friend to see the Fleetwood Mac Story in the Mayworth at Gluttoney at Rymal Park, home of the biggest shows this fringe. Tickets from Gluttney dot net dot au. Well done Phil and we have tickets all this week to Fleetwood Mac Story. Great story indeed, and it's great music. Eight double two three double o double oh back shortly five Double A.
01:54:20
Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:54:24
Speaker 1: Ah, that last train to Clarksville. It's eleven to twelve on five Double A and coming up this afternoon after one Stacy Lee, Stacy, how are.
01:54:31
Speaker 7: You hello, Graham?
01:54:32
Speaker 14: I'm good?
01:54:32
Speaker 1: How are you good? Are you a Monkeys fan?
01:54:36
Speaker 8: Oh?
01:54:37
Speaker 1: The band there? Well, yeah, yeah, that's what the last train of Clarksville it was. You're not the ones in the zoo, the ones on the TV and on the stage. Sorry to catch you unaway.
01:54:48
Speaker 21: That's okay, I will I will say. Music is my downfall. I cannot remember names of songs and bands, and so forgive me.
01:54:55
Speaker 1: If I that's all right, that's I don't know.
01:54:59
Speaker 21: That's I'm sure if I heard some Monkey songs, I would know them.
01:55:04
Speaker 1: And that's a little bubblegum music victory. It was probably predate you sometimes sounds like it's you're probably way too young even no of the monkeys. Anyway, More importantly, what have you got for us today?
01:55:17
Speaker 7: Well?
01:55:18
Speaker 21: Did you that that trump audio with jd Vance and the lot of mis Zelenski? Is I still as I listen, I I cringe and I gasp and I smile and then I'm a gasp there's so many emotions and so many reactions you have when you hear the audio. But we wanted to know what it felt like to be in the White House at the time. So we're going to talk to a correspondent for Reuter's who works in the White House, who was there when it happened, and see what the feeling was like on the ground, because not just the drama in the room, but then there was drama afterwards of Donald Trump asking Zelenski and his aides to leave or did he ask or did.
01:56:04
Speaker 17: They just leave?
01:56:04
Speaker 21: And there was actually a reason to be there that I meant to sign an agreement.
01:56:08
Speaker 1: That's right, the mining agreement never happened.
01:56:11
Speaker 21: Never happened, and Zelenski left, and then you've seen European leaders come out and show their support for Zelensky. So what does this mean for the United States relationship with other parts of Europe moving forward? And what does this mean for the relationship with you.
01:56:27
Speaker 1: Certainly destabilized the world as we knew it twenty four hours before. Yeah, all of a sudden, all bets are off, All allies are maybe not allies any longer. Yeah, So yeah, where do we stand? I don't know yep.
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Speaker 21: So we'll talk about that, and I'd love to hear your views. I don't know about you, but I woke up on Saturday morning, and every morning, the first thing I do is I opened my news apps and read the news, and it was the first article on every app, and I watched the audio, and then I sort of rolled over and saw my husband was awake, and he was what watching the audio, watching watching the surreal you.
01:57:03
Speaker 1: Know, your wake up, you think, did this really happen in public? I mean, we don't know what goes on behind closed doors in negotiations, and usually they come out and sort of say, well, a deep and meaningful discussion, and you know, it's been a little bit of argie barjie, but this was played out in public, which was pretty raw and unpleasant.
01:57:21
Speaker 12: It was.
01:57:22
Speaker 21: Yeah, So we'll continue the discussion this afternoon, and I'd love to hear from you to get your reactions and where you were when you were watching the vision. Also, you would have seen that story about Formula one drivers being fined if they swear in their cars, because that's right.
01:57:37
Speaker 1: If you're watching the coverage, all of a sudden, you see a little little traffic coming up, sort of saying that such and such car and whoever it is, you know, max fus stap and a little comment. I thought that they would be delayed, like you know they tol. You'd sort of think like say it, Oh, that's okay, well, then play it thirty seconds later. But apparently not. It all goes out there.
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Speaker 21: And so, you know, I can understand when you're in a heightened environment like that, things come to mind. Sometimes I have to stop myself from swearing in front of the microphone, which is a habit I'll have to change with a young bubb on the way. But we thought, let's talk about it. Let's talk about the origins of swear words and how the language of swear words has changed over time. And maybe there are some swear words that used to be in regular use that aren't in use anymore. And we can give some ideas to the Formula one drivers. And I want to hear the replacement words that you have. I know, when we were little, my mum, instead of saying the s H word in the house, she would always go sugar plump fairies. So it was a nice replacement for a very rude swear word. And so I want to hear yours this afternoon. Who's got the best swear word replacement? And we'll create a list. We'll send them to the Formula one drivers and they can use those instead.
01:59:00
Speaker 1: I can quote it in an instance here. And if my wife Eve's listening, I don't know at the moment. She is a Polish heritage, and as a consequence, I've learned a few swear words in Polish. We were playing cards with friends and I got dealt a pretty mean hand. We're not a good hand at all, and I was going to swear, and I thought, well, I will do the right thing because these people are I don't know them all that well, so I swore in Polish. Problem was they also spoke Polish, and the look on their faces and the look on Eve's face because they knew well, he could only have learned that word from one person, So be very careful swearing in a foreign language. Who's around That is a.
01:59:43
Speaker 17: Really good reminder.
01:59:45
Speaker 21: So we'll have that discussion as well. And David Wenham is coming into this show. Yes, he's got a new movie out and it's an Aussie drummer.
01:59:52
Speaker 18: It's called Spit.
01:59:53
Speaker 1: He is a real talent.
01:59:54
Speaker 21: Oh and you love this movie. I can't wait to talk about it with him. The first ques that comes to mind. I watched it over the weekend. There are a lot of close ups of his feet in the movie, of his bare feet, where he's wearing thongs the entire movie. He plays this really boguan criminal mastermind, and you can't work out if he's a genius and he's putting it on or if he's just got really bad slush good dumb luck. He's got a mullet and there's skinny jeans and thongs the entire movie. And he somehow gets put in an immigration detention center and he's this criminal mastermind and you're watching it going is he Is he really smarter?
02:00:33
Speaker 17: Is he really dumb?
02:00:34
Speaker 1: I can't decide.
02:00:35
Speaker 21: But there are so many close ups of his bare feet, and I just thought quite intentional. And when he signed onto this movie, did he know that his toes were going to be so famous?
02:00:44
Speaker 1: I don't at my feet one I think I would want my feet on display. Still, what you do in the name of acting exactly sounds fun.
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Speaker 21: There's gonna be a fun discussion there with David Wenham as well.
02:00:54
Speaker 1: Going to Stacy. Thanks Stacey, Lee coming up after one o'clock News this afternoon, Joiner on the show and take part. It's five to twelve. I think we've got time for recall Brian, good.
02:01:04
Speaker 6: Morning, Yeah, good morning Graham.
02:01:06
Speaker 1: How are you? Yeah? Well, thanks, good Graham.
02:01:09
Speaker 6: I as much as I agree with all the anti Trump stuff that's going on, I think the blog has actually done us a favor by having this public argument. I think now we can all see what sort of a varsity is.
02:01:25
Speaker 1: I tell you what. I tell you what. You would be surprised, Brian at the number of people were getting, not too many on air, but texts. He has a huge level of support in this part of the world, huge support.
02:01:39
Speaker 6: I understand that, mate, But as much as understanding that, I don't understand.
02:01:44
Speaker 1: It exactly what you're saying.
02:01:48
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I think the rest of the will now knows how he operates behind closed doors. We don't know what goes on with the bullying and the tactics city uses.
02:02:01
Speaker 1: Well, that's there's the point, and that's the point I was making that usually these sort of the RGI bargie happens behind closed doors, and when these politicians, these leaders come out, they present a unified face and even so you can read between the lines as they well, they've had disagreement, but all that nastiness is kept out of plain sight. But in this case were there for all this. And Trump is a bully, there is absolutely no question about that. And jd Vance is unequally bully. Yeah. Well, well, and I think Donald Trump is a lapdog of Vladimir Putin. You know, whatever you think, whether you think Trump is doing the right thing by his country, the way he's fall into line with Putin is scary, absolutely scary.
02:02:42
Speaker 6: It is.
02:02:46
Speaker 1: Good on you, Brian, Thanks for input today. That's it for today. Thank you so much for taking part in the show. Covered a lot of territory. A lot more to be covered as the week unfolds. I hope you can stay with us to take part in the show. Coming up, we have news, then conversations with Qunsey and then Stacey Lee after one o'clock. You have a great day.
02:03:05
Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings
