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Speaker 1: How five double a summer breakfast. Matthew Pantellis six past six on five double A good morning, Welcome to New Year's Eve. It is the last day of twenty twenty five, the thirty first of December, three hundred and sixty fifth day of the year. Haven't they flown by? They have flown by this year. If I have a New Year's wish, it's that twenty twenty six goes by that little bit more slowly. It has just been a rush, unbelievably fast. But here we are, the very last day. And the message, of course, as always on New Year's Eve, is take it easy on the celebrations, you know, don't drink and drive. There's a heap of the cleared public precincts, including all of public transport now, so you know police will be looking at that, no doubt over the next twenty four hours. We'll be hearing more about that tomorrow and the next day, so there's a bit to come on that. The revelers will be out tonight. The weather's pretty nice today, good start, a little bit crisp out there, just to tad, but it's a good start to the day with the temperature now as Kendall said, thirteen degrees and heading up to twenty five. It's about as cold now as it's been all night in terms of a low temperature dip down a tad lower at twelve point nine, but that's been where it's been setting and climbing up again to twenty five without the cloud that we had yesterday. Today is sunny, is the outlook from the bureaus. So nice weather and enjoy it's only warming up thirty tomorrow, thirty two for Friday, thirty one on Saturday, twenty nine on Sunday. Just pretty perfect, pretty perfect. That'll aid weather, and like what's going on at the top end of the country where both the East Coast and the West Coast are getting hammered by various low pressure systems at the moment. We'll talk about that with a forecaster a bit later on from Sky News, Rob Sharp, their forecaster from the Bureau of Meteorology. There. We'll talk to them about Adelaide weather as well in a separate conversation a bit later on in the program. We'll go to the central markets this morning, which would be I imagine busy busy for New Year's Eve, not as busy probably as Christmas Eve, but nevertheless it'd be people. They're having parties and shouting friends over and whatever to count in the new year. We'll check in with what the councils are doing, the council areas where you can go and see fireworks, and what is happening down at Glen Elk with the final bit of Jetty Road to go around Moseley Square, their Colligue Street, Culli Road, whatever it is that is yet to be finished. So we'll check in with them and and the city of course as well. Talk to the man in charge of the fireworks, Andrew Howard from Howard and Sons Pyrotechnics. The Premier will join us, the leader of the opposition will join us. We'll keep them apart for the time being. They will be on a stage together at some point debating over the next three months as we head into an election. I can imagine what each of their New Year's resolution is, but I'd love to hear yours as well. And what is the point of New Year's resolutions? Do you still bother? It seemed the cool thing to do when you were about twenty, right, and get fit, lose weight. All of that saves some money, and you never do and they go out of the window. In fact, I've got some stats here. Australians may be stepping into twenty twenty six full of optimism, this release says, but new research shows the motivation fades fast. One in five Australians broke their resolutions in the first week of January twenty five. By the end of the month, three in four had fallen off track seventy seven percent. National poll of over one thousand Australians conducted by my Fitness Poal found nearly two in five, or thirty nine percent, willing to spend one thousand dollars or more in pursuit of the new year's resolution. Despite the investment, over half admitted fifty five percent they repeat the same resolution year after year, so there's no point And why wait till January the first? If you resolve to get fit, why not do it on May the third? You know, just crazy, but there it is. I think as you go through your twenties, yet you're motivated, resolutions, all of that. As you get a bit older, you realize it's all a bit futile and the year flew by. Last year you'd be forgiven if it was October before you realize you hadn't started your resolution just yet. I think if you've got any anything you planned to do, love to hear what's in store for twenty twenty six for you and will it be better than twenty twenty five. Hope it is a better year. I mean it finished dreadfully this year with the horror of Bondai, but yes, twenty six on the way. I hope you've got champagne on ice and everything else going on at your place. Holiday Makers reminded to take care around the water over the festive season as well. Data showing the week between Christmas and New Year the deadliest, an average of three drownings per day around the country last year from Royal Life Saving CEO Justin scar says holiday behavior increases the risk of trouble in the water.
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Speaker 2: Alcohol is a significant factor in drowning. It encourages people to take unnecessary risks and overestimate their ability. We urge you to leave alcohol to the end of the day and certainly well after activities like boating or fishing.
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Speaker 1: So common sense as always got to be a place for it. For people hoping to have spent their New Years on a cruise ship that ran aground off pop On, New Guinea. They've about eighty of them have been flown back to Australia. The Coral Adventurer struck the reef on Saturday, stranding passengers and crew. I imagine it's still there. I don't know, but eighty passengers on this cruise ship which ran aground off pup On New Guinea flown back to Australia. So happy New Year, welcome home, and thinking you were going to be on a cruise ship off the ward international water somewhere bringing in the new year. Not to be, not to be, but all right, there we go. Experts say relationship education in schools should be revamped and be rebranded violence prevention. A monash unique generated gendered violence researcher calling for relationship education to stopping the skirting of the issue, calling itself family violence prevention right in your face, Dr Stephanie Westcott, it's welcomed. A British plan to upskilled teachers, to spot and treat misogyny in the classroom and send high risk students to behavioral courses, in contrast with a softer gender free approach in Australia that speaks of disrespect and misbehavior, not violence, collective shouts. Melinda Tankard Rice telling News Corp the language in Australian classrooms was often worded so it wouldn't alienate boys, and she's critical of big tech algorithms that pour misogynistic violence into boys feeds despite social media bands. So all right, there's something in that, I suppose, but call it what it is instead of using soft language that doesn't offend anyone. If you want to get to a problem, you've got to get to the source of it, the root of it. Back to New Year's even, experts encouraging us to take some time to consider health thin king central to celebrations leading to a spike and ambulance callouts for alcohol and drug related harm. Eleanor Costello from the Drug and Alcohol Foundation says staying on top of small habits is key to starting twenty twenty six on the right foot, indeed, on both your feet.
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Speaker 3: We're really encouraging people to prioritize other activities that bruce their health and well being, things like exercise, getting out in nature, eating really well, and also really prioritizing feet, which is sometimes hard to do this time of year.
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Speaker 1: And this is this is sad news. Damien Martin, of course formerles he tests cricketer, in a serious condition. He fell ill on Boxing Day. He's fifty four. The cause of his illness hasn't been revealed. Brad Hardy, who's nine radio presenter at six PR, offered his thoughts and prayers to Martin and his family during his programs.
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Speaker 4: Currently is residing in an acquaincilance hospital and he is in for the fight of his life. So I'd like everybody to have, you know, certainly their best wishous and positive thoughts for Matto.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that doesn't sound good, but hopefully pull through and it's okay. Australia's political leaders using their New Year's messages to focus on hope for next year. The Prime Minister and Opposition leader referencing the Bondai Beach terror attack as the low point of the past year. Liberally to Susan Lee believes our resilience will help shape the next twelve months as.
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Speaker 5: We step into the year ahead. There is real reason for hope. Australia is at its best when we look out for one another, when we reject division, and when we meet challenge with courage. And common purpose.
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Speaker 1: And Anthony ALBERINSI comfort and Australians will rise to the challenges ahead by working together and all of us looking after each other.
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Speaker 6: No matter what the world throws at us, we will keep doing things our way, stay true to who we are, hold on to everything that makes us the best country.
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Speaker 1: Honor alrightio. Sixteen past six on five, double A eight double two to three double o double Oh is the number. We'll take a quick break and back on the other side. Nineteen past six on five, double a, thirteen degrees in the city. Cooler start to the day. A little bit of cloud cover over the top of the Mount Lofty Rangers, not a lot of it. The sun will break through that in just a tick, but it's blue skies everywhere else. As far as I could see, it was dark. As far as I could see, it was blue, without much cloud around anywhere. Coming into work a bit earlier this morning, so still still pretty black at that stage though. But nevertheless, the sun is on its way for the final time in twenty twenty five. As long as it keeps coming up next year, that's a good start to it, I reckon. So that's something to look forward to, is the New Year's resolution dead? Is it dead? We've got a movie pass on the line, love to hear from you. Eight double two to three double double? Oh? And what has convinced you of that? Specially?
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 1: Have you? Have you given up on them because you couldn't lose the whatever kilos you wanted to lose, You couldn't save the extra dollar to go on that holiday, whatever it might be, Why is it dead to you? The New Year's resolution? Eight double two to three double o double O. Peter's called in from Malston regarding what the bus to Gleneld Peter, is it not working?
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Speaker 8: No, no, no, I remember what you used to say about being empty. So yes, it got the two six three from stop twenty three Brighton Road into Antack Highway and the first stop there near the bowling club. You can't catch the trams substitute bus. I had to get off for the next stop, and some lovely people from near black Forest told me you got to get the g L one, not the gl two because I was heading to have fronts with father Joan. It's good with right, So I've got the g L two and there were one, two, three four people okay, And they run every ten minutes because of the trams running every ten.
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Speaker 1: Minutes, right, right, Well that's why they're empty. I suppose it's too frequently. Maybe I don't.
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Speaker 8: During summer both chains were up to competitive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah they were, yeah, correct, correct, But they.
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Speaker 8: Made huge progress. At Marion Road the overpass is looking really great. Same at Morphet Road. I'm just wondering if anyone from the government knows whether the trains will start running at the end of January or not.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's been the plan and I haven't haven't heard it's changed, So stick with that. They will, is the answer.
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Speaker 8: Now, I've got two New Years resolutions. You're going to laugh at both of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. First of all, give up drinking already in moderation, right.
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Speaker 8: I can't give up smoking because I don't smoke, and very few coffee like I can have up to three coffees, which is too many. But most of all, I will be passionate about my football and nothing would change my love for the football club. And the other thing is for those who are interested, I'll be at you at eight said this morning, come along and say hello. And I've got for the first five people to mix soldered nuts and if you bring a little bag or something. I put them in their almond cashews, walnut everything, brazil nut and they go down well with a beer. Yeah, okay, yeah, Now what are you doing for New Year's massive?
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Speaker 1: Whatever's, whatever's handy. I suppose I'm not. I'm not a massive beer drinker. Don't mind a beer or two, especially on a hot day, but too much of it just bloats me. So I'd rather, you know, I'd rather have a spirit or a shampas, maybe a bit earlier on in the night.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's the tradition. I won't be awake. I watched a bit of the fireworks on Channel two and listen to Andrew Public fall asleep.
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Speaker 1: Oh there you go happy a bit.
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Speaker 8: And also my late mum, she was a beautiful lady. She couldn't handle old Lang sign that song. It reminded her of my late grandfather also did her and it brought back sad memories. And Mum Harvey ever had a drink. She'd have a drink on our birthdays and she had a drink. News even that was about it. Yeah, but I'll certainly make up for it.
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Speaker 1: And you didn't get it from her obviously, No but she was a.
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Speaker 8: Heavy smoker, and I've never touched them. Who knows what goes on in our brain.
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Speaker 1: I know that's true, That's very true.
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Speaker 8: I'm so passionate about going before because all you're doing is watching then chasing a ball around and you scream, you abuse the umpires and get into trouble you can't wear of course.
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Speaker 1: Well you're not an orphan in that regard. And it happens around the world in different sports.
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Speaker 8: So you know what about the soccer in England?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what I mean, that's what I'm thinking. It happens around the world in different sports. It happens with different size balls that they chase around, whether they be cricket balls or footballs or parks on ice or whatever.
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Speaker 8: Exactly what about the when John Macrono used to play tennis and he matched his bracket, So just that guy I can't remember his name, the gore and in Fanisivik yep, he had a tempah. Anyway, you have a wonderful new year and you're on another week? Are you?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 1: I am another week?
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Speaker 8: Are you doing news? And what are you doing after that?
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Speaker 1: I'm on holidays after that?
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Speaker 8: So we deserve them.
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Speaker 9: I do.
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Speaker 8: You're damn right, I do so I can annoy leaves now, can I? You can feel free As long as he doesn't talk about Carlton, well.
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Speaker 1: He probably will, Peter.
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Speaker 8: Good luck to Stirt and Port next year. And I hope everyone out there has a healthy twenty twenty six and it's a lot better for Australia as the country. Good luck to both sides in the twenty twenty sixth election. What time are they coming round?
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Speaker 1: Eightish, give or take a bit before, a bit after. Yeah, somewhere there, all right, Good on you, Peter, Thank you, have a good day. Good luck with you giving away your salted nuts. Twenty five past six. I see Don Bradman's rare Baggy Green is going up for auction at Lloyd's. It's a nineteen forty seven forty eight series cap. Baggy Green got the date on the front under the Australian coat of arms. Experts predict that could fetch a million dollars or more due to Bradman, of course, and it has remained. It was given by Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer, unnamed. I think just looking to see if it is name, but no, I can't see it, and has been in that recipient's family for over seventy five years across three generations. It's never been publicly displayed or sold in that period since Bradman handed it over. Presumably in that same period forty eight that was the Invincibles Tour, Wasn't it pretty sure?
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Speaker 9: It was?
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Speaker 1: Bidding is to open at one dollar and it'll close on Australia Day, the auction. It starts on the weekend, I think, so it's going for most of the month. The cap was given directly by Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer who shared the field with him late in his legendary career, remaining in the recipient's family for more than seventy five years, passed down through three generations, never afforded, are never offered for public sale, never displayed outside of the family. Baggy green caps linked to Bradman's playing days. Extraordinarily scarce players received a new cap at the beginning of each Test series. In rare cases, there was an additional cap issued. Most known examples today held by museums or tightly held private collecttions. Artifacts with such a clear chain of ownership and personal connection to Bradman almost never appear on the open market, so experts say could even exceed a million dollars. Given Bradman's unmatched legacy in the exceptional providence of the cap genuine piece of cricket history. The auction house says that Sir Donald Bradman personally gifted uninterrupted family ownership for seventy five years. It's direct link to the Don make it one of the most important Bradman related pieces to come to auction. He retired from test cricket in forty eight, so Invincibles was a bit before that, with a Koreer batting average of ninety nine point nine four, one of the greatest statistical achievements in world sport. How about that? That's certainly all true, all of that about Bradman, But gosh, she was quite the cricket wasn't any He only made a few runs in that last innings. He would have cracked the tun But maybe it's better he didn't, you know, remain a human as opposed to a god. Remain a mere mortal don. But I wonder if that ever bugged him, that he didn't crack the hundred as an average, but got so close. I suppose he achieved so much it didn't really matter. And let's face it, we all know he was an exceptional cricketer from practicing hitting a golf ball with a stump coming off a rain water tank or a tennis ball, was it, whatever?
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Speaker 10: It was?
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Speaker 1: Seen that footage of him doing that when he was older, showing how he did it and could still do it. But good eye hand coordination obviously, and being a nuggetly little bloke. That's part of it, because some of the best batsmen have been short of stature, and Don Bradman fits right into that. All right, news coming up in about a minute from now on five double A yet to come on the other side, but we'll certainly talk to police and the weather Bureau. Also we'll go around the grounds. In terms of New Year's Eve, we'll start off at the central markets. Tony O'Connell from O'Connell's Meats keeping an eye on things down there for us, and he will let us know about activity in the market this morning as people gear up for New Year's Eve celebrations tonight on the last day of the year. Some other topics coming up over the next two and a half hours. We'll also have a look at the search for MH three seventy, which went missing now almost twelve years ago. The search is back on. It started yesterday. Jeffrey Thomas from Global he's a global aviation expert, and spoken with him about this search and disappearance of MH three seventy a few times over the last twelve years, and he'd be as much as anyone hoping that this search. And they're super confident this team. They get paid if they find it, so you know they're not out there mucking around in deep waters off the coast of Wa. They will be looking with intensity to try and locate this missing plane now that's been gone for so long. All right, we'll take a break for news here on five double A twenty five to seven on five double A few text messages that have come through over the last half hour. Person he is saying, Matthew, did you hear Wilson's security are guarding our defense bases Wilson Security Chinese Zone. This texter says, why aren't our own army guarding our basis? That would be a good start, wouldn't it. Do we not have enough personnel? Could that be the reason? I don't know, but yeah, why would a private security company guard, no matter who owns it, frankly, guard an army base. Why doesn't the army guard its own basis? Isn't that part of their skill set? You would think. Another text here says my dear daughter came in to find me yelling at the TV during a Crow's five, the second one, presumably, she says, even the first one, she says, the players, So do they realize they don't have to fight over one ball? They can just go and buy another one? No surprise, she hates football, right and mix says, I hope Peter is not reaching into his trouser pockets for the handful of mixed salted Nutsi's dishing out to some poor, unsuspecting victim with a spare plastic bag. Yep, mix similar thought. And I'm just wondering where the pub is that's got empty nut containment's on its bar. But all right, thank you. Tony O'Connell at O'Connell Meets is of course at the Central Market this morning. I imagine, Tony, good morning to you, Happy New Year. I imagine it's pretty busy down there.
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Speaker 11: It's just sort of King of the Week's been very good. A lot a lot of interspects, people, a lot of families coming to Adelaide. Obviously, the caravan parks and little nuns run down because Monday and Tuesdays, people walking with their eyes open, their mouths. It's just fantastic market and you buying up big just for the holiday break obviously, but for New Year's Eve as well.
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Speaker 12: So it's been very busy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what can you see as the attraction. Obviously barbecues would be a go tonight, so you'd be doing all right.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Sausages, Chaslick's, anything meat or something a little bit different roast have been very populars for the steak of all things. Yeah, we're on the top end spokes show. I think people might just be lashing out having dinner at homes that they're going out and then doing something nice and the barbecue and their new barbecues they may have got for Christmas with all these new smokers and all those sorts of easing brisket and so cooking meat still back into Yeah, it's been very busy.
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Speaker 1: Very good, excellent, So that's good. And any any specials in the fruit and vegs you can spot over the counter there and tell.
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Speaker 11: Looking straight in front of me. Michael's there, he's got he's got two, three, four palettes of produce coming in on fork list, looks like Berry's. He's got bananas by the palette their main. They're three for five dollars. Banana's three dollars. There, I'm stealing buddy, Michael Keeling's perometerous he will beyond us. Yeah, mangoes, they're three for five dollars, which is very very good bye in there. But yeah, there's just sort of virtuale got to get all their book fifts out of the market in the next ten to fifteen minutes because the boys have madly packing up all fresh produce, cutting all the collies. There's a big chopper going there cutting all the leaves off the collies. And the bread man has just put on garlic bread, an absolute beautiful smell.
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Speaker 8: It is very nice.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, the bread bar there, they do some lovely things. It's like when Michaels he's got a new popcorn machine in his store and when he puts down on with the caramel popcorn.
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Speaker 8: So lucky.
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Speaker 1: You are lucky working there as a person, just a butcher shop somewhere. You've got it all.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we're lucky. And yeah the pantry there is they can go and get what you need. No, very good, very busy place to market, and we're shutting at three today, so I want to get in a bit.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that. So three pm there we go, normally, Okay, terrific. Good on you, Tony. You have a great New Year's tonight, and all the best for twenty six, all the.
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Speaker 11: Very best, Matthew. Nice to hear on the radio years See you.
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Speaker 1: Later on Tony O'Connell. Down there O'Connell's meets the market. A busy place and obviously a lot going on. How's the mangoes? Three for five bucks? What is going on with that? There's been a mango explosion up north. Good for us and they are pretty damn good the mangoes. I can remember my dad buying a mango in the in the nineteen seventies and an avocado as well, and people had no idea he peeled it. We were in the David Jones food Court, which was upstairs in the restaurant. Do you remember that in the old DJs and it was up on the I want to say sixth floor. I reckon it was the sixth and you'd walk around there. There was a traveler that was furniture and whatever else was on the sixth floor, but you'd go into the food area. There was a travel a on the side of that as you walked in, and then you were in the food court, which was, you know, like any food court today, only it was just David Jones. So you'd go to the cafeteria essentially with your train and load up. That's why it was done. It's unreal, isn't it. And we see he sat down and we peeled opened this mango and people at the next table thought it was ice cream like some sort of giladi. No one knew. This is in the mid seventies, and it was delish. I think it was my very first avo, maybe second. But they were nice even back then, but not how they are today. Just a common everyday bit of fruit and vegg. Back then at delicacy, almost mangoes were in the same same boat. Pretty rare to find a mango in Adelaide back in the seventies, but they've exploded in popularity and everything else, and they are at this time of year, oh so nice. So juicy, so sweet, so full of taste. Beautiful, Peter, says Matthew, wishing you twelve months of happiness, fifty two weeks of success, three hundred and sixty five days of laughter, eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty hours of joy?
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Speaker 8: Is that?
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Speaker 1: How many there are in a year? How many of those do we waste? Eight thousand and seven sixty? How many do your death scroll on Facebook or Instagram? Of those eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty, there's a resolution if you want a resolution. Cut down on that? Oh, how could you fill eight thousand apart from sleep? The unproductive ways we use our time seriously goes on. Five hundred and twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes of good luck, Try not to waste a second, Peter, good on your Peter, So true and same to you, my friend, Thank you for the text. But yes, those minutes five twenty five thousand minutes probably less relatable than eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty hours. Gosh, we would waste half of that, wouldn't we? Per year? Put sleep aside? Whatever's left, we would waste half. I reckon it feels like we do. It feels like I do you know, why haven't I learned to play the piano, or I don't know, develop the cure to malaria or something. There's got to be better things to do than sitting there on your phone, and we do that a lot, I think communally, because what's the point of having the phone otherwise?
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Speaker 13: Right?
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Speaker 1: But there it is interesting, Thank you, Peter. That's food for thought and not probably a little bit on the depressing side when you think about how you do you use your time talking of all of that UNI of essay, keeping kids safe online starts at home. Just to reminder less than well, of course, our social media restrictions for kids have kicked in, and while the onus is on social media platforms to prevent underage access, and we know kids, they've you know, so nobody texted in the other day saying kids screwed up the face, change the birth date, screwed up the face for the photo and pasted as an under sixteen. But it's on the parents, according to researchers at UNISSA soon to be Adelaide University, to make sure that the parents are the first line of defense to protect kids online from the moment they start using devices, parents need to be having age appropriate conversations about the content they access and how they interact and behave online. Well, yes, absolutely, it goes without saying really, but there it is. Now it's been said. All right, we will take a break. On the other side, we're going to talk to the weather bureau here about Adelaide's New Year's Eve forecast and New Year's Day and looking ahead as well, but pretty similar to today, just to Tad Warmer. There we go, We're done, and check in with police as well. That's coming up next on five double a breakfast. Let's check in with the weather bureau on Adelaide's beautiful summer weather at the moment. Ursula O'Connor, the duty forecaster, who is on the line. Ursula, good morning, Good morning Matthew. All right, so today where are we heading?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Well, as you said, a mostly sunny day today, we do have some southeasterly winds flowing over the area, so they could still be a little bit gusty at times today, especially sort of over the hills and about the coastal areas. But we're heading for a top of twenty five in Adelaide today. Glenelga also twenty five Elizabeth twenty seven, Nor Lunga twenty four, and Mount Barker twenty one degrees today, Matthew, and that will largely be the story as we move into the rest of the week and even early next week, We're going to be largely dominated by a ridge of high pressure, so the winds will start to ease off and we'll see fairly settles conditions and mostly sunny skies with temperatures lingering with the maxims around thirty degrees over the next five days or so.
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Speaker 1: All right, I see the end of the period you're forecasting period. We're really warming up again up to thirty six.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, you're right.
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Speaker 14: The winds are tender a little bit more northerly early next week, so that's going to bring down some warmer temperatures as we move into sort of Monday and especially Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the tropical cyclone up north there and the weather on the other side of the country, Shila, does that affect us? I mean, sometimes you get a tropical cyclone, particularly on the western side of the nation, off Wa and the clouds associated with that sometimes drift, you know, the thousands of kilometers all the way down to us. But that doesn't seem to be a feature in the weather pattern at the moment.
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Speaker 10: No, not quite.
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Speaker 14: At the moment we're in summertime. We see sort of a ridge of high pressure sitting over the southern parts of South Australia, self effecting Adelaide, but certainly through the more northern parts of the state. We are seeing high cloud coming down associated with that tropical cyclone and the trough laying through the northern parts of the country. But for Adelaide itself, the ridge of high pressure keeps that a little bit further north.
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Speaker 1: All right, terrific, appreciate your time. Rchela. You have a great New Years. Thanks Matthew, thank you, Thank you very much. Senior Constable Kimberley broad at Sapole Police Media Kimberley, good morning and happy New Year to you too.
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Speaker 10: Good morning, Happy New Year to you and your listeners as well.
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Speaker 1: Now I understand a serious crash at Taralie in the mid North.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was just after five point thirty this morning. We were called to the Horrocks Highway after reports of a single vehicle rollover. So the Hoax high is currently closed between the township of Tarlee and Molineau Road. Which is just south of the Barrier Highway turn off. So we do have major crash offices in attendance, so we're just asking people to please be patient but avoid.
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Speaker 1: That area if you can, okay, cause on that at this start of space, that's major crash will be going up there to do that.
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Speaker 10: That's right and re far too early to speculate.
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Speaker 1: All right. Three arrested in a stolen car at Fulham.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this one was three thirty this morning. Police were alerted to a petrol drive off at a service station on Tapley's Hill Road and it was involving a stolen Mitsubishi ute. That ute had been reported stolen about ten days ago, so patrol searched the area and spotted the car abandoned on Sarko Road. They then arrested three suspects at a nearby address. So we've got a twenty eight year old woman from Pennington. She was being charged with the legal use and the petrol theft. She was bailed to appear in February. But two others, a twenty seven year old woman from Birkenhead and a seventeen year old boy from Salisbury North. They were also charged the illegal use but they've been refused bail and they'll be appearing in court today.
00:33:52
Speaker 1: All right, there, we are good on you, Kimberly, thank you and it's all the best for twenty six to you and all your team there.
00:34:00
Speaker 10: Thanks very much, you two.
00:34:01
Speaker 1: All right. It is coming up to eleven minutes to seven o'clock on five double A. The year finishes with a bit of a bang in terms of history. On this day, nineteen seventy five, Cold Chisel performed at Footy Park. Were you there for that seventy five they would have filled Football Park Amy Stadium as it became, of course, but Footy Park in the day in seventy five, Cold Chisel would have been a big crowd. I imagine in their heyday. What's more, Kay Sam would have been part of the repertoire by around seventy five, and not to mention many other songs as well. That's seventy five going back, and this is yesterday, thirtieth of December. But in eighteen seventy two, the only woman to be executed in South Australia, Elizabeth Wilcock, who was twenty five, was hanged at Adelaide Jail for the murder of her husband. Many who and there's a lot of you out there who are on to Elizabeth Wolcock because I mentioned this about a year ago and people rang in about the fact she was very likely innocent. She had been the victim of domestic abuse. There was a young child involved as well, which is just tragic for that child, losing both mum and dad. But anyway, she was the only woman to be executed, and she was hanged at Adelaide Jail thirtieth of December eighteen seventy two. In eighteen eighty, on the thirtieth there was a fierce bushfire Franklin Harbor on the Air Peninsula claimed the lives of Mary MacArthur and six of her children aged two to nineteen. Her husband and four other sons were working on a nearby property. They managed to get to bare ground. I don't think it was high ground, but it was just sparsecrets, so no shrubs and whatever. The fire didn't get to them and they survived. But how tragic is that they're buried. I want to say Cadeena or something, not Franklin Harbor anywhere anyway, but there's a monument to them around the Cadena area or somewhere else anyway, not Franklin Harbor on the other side of the Gulf, and they're buried there, these six children and their mum, Mary MacArthur. But how tragic is that a bushfire in eighteen eighty claiming well almost half a family, big families in those days. So ten kids, six of them died and the mum, the dad and four sons escaped by getting to a patch of land that the fire didn't burn through, which is frightening enough in itself. The heat would have been intense, but they survived.
00:36:40
Speaker 10: That.
00:36:40
Speaker 1: There we are, so that's how historically in South Australia the year finishes off there. I see a lot of rain and flooding in Queensland talking of weather down here in tropical cyclone Hailey, which is the one up north. We're going to talk to a Rob Sharp Sky News Meteorology department on all the water up there. Now. There have been calls over how many years to pipewater to build. There is a dam up there, of course, big dam off up Waway, But there's so many calls over years and why we didn't do this when we built the Alice to Darwin raw line and put pumping stations and a pipeline alongside it at the same time to get some of all that water from up north down to the south where we could really use it. Imagine filling the reservoirs here with water from tropical cyclones up north and low systems that just dump so much rain, as is happening in Queensland. All that water eventually makes its way to Lake Hare, which is magnificent for Lake Care and surrounding wildlife and fauna and flora, but ultimately it goes to waste, just evaporates from there. Can you still sail on Lake Hair out I don't know that you can, which is just nonsense, but anyway, if you can't, But there's a yachting club up there as we know, but I don't know how effective it is in terms of being able to get out on that water. I think you need permits to get to Lake Care anyway, which are easily accessible. They're not there to stop people, but easily obtainable. But you go up there, and the yacht club was certainly concerned about the fact they may not be allowed to sail in the future future flooding events as they've been doing for decades. Which is just one of those almost politically correct things. I mean, come on, what damage is that doing just putting a boat on the water in a big lake like that? Right, will take a break at around six minutes to seven on five Double A and news is coming up at seven o'clock all the latest new sport, traffic and weather with Kendall Breddicks. Seven past seven on five Double A. Good morning to you if you've just woken up and joined us. Half your luck sleeping in. If that's what you're doing on Wednesday, the thirty first of December, maybe on holidays and starting to think about New Year's Eve tonight and what you've got to do around the house, if you're having people over barbecue, getting dusting that off and everything else, cleaning up the place, maybe putting things on ice for later tonight. There's going to be parties around the place, no doubt around about that, and people enjoying New Year's Eve, including down at the city of Port Adelaide and Enfield where traditionally fireworks are being held at Semaphore. I understand that is the case again this year. Clear Bone is the mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield. She's on the line, Happy New Year to you.
00:39:41
Speaker 16: Happy New Year, Matthew. What an exciting time of year it is.
00:39:44
Speaker 1: It is, isn't it? It always is? What is happening around your region.
00:39:47
Speaker 16: We have fireworks at both nine point thirty and at twelve o'clock at Semaphore, and from six o'clock though, that's when you really see the party starting. We've got a DJ and a couple of life performers and this is stretching mostly around the Semaphore Foreshore area. But if you want to park a little bit further away, which is probably the only place you'll get a car park, you can walk along the foreshore and there's a few little activations along the way as well. But this year there is one thing different and that is that we're actually opening up a car park at epen As a reserve in Semaphore South, so that's all free. If you're finding it difficult to find a car park elsewhere, then make sure you're head head down to there, because, of course, with lots and lots of people, I'm expected I think last year we got up around the eighty thousands mark. You definitely need to find a different way to get transport or find a car park and be willing to walk a little bit of a way.
00:40:36
Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that's so true because last year we had dinner in the port and headed we watched the nine thirty fireworks actually standing on the Birkenhead Bridge, which is a great view of them. You look all the way, yeah, over the river. I mean they're a little bit distant, but not far. You know, it's only a couple of k's right, so on the bridge right at the behalf of it, you'd get a great view of the fireworks because there's nothing in your wait, you know, just seeing them. But then we made the mistake clear of then driving towards Semaphore. Trying to get out on the Lafeva Peninsula was a nightmare, I've got to say. So good tip about parking further away and being prepared to walk, or finding a train or a bust or something.
00:41:23
Speaker 12: But absolutely yeah.
00:41:25
Speaker 16: And maybe if you are needing to find a car park and you're not from the peninsula, park on the Semaphore South and Port Adelaide's side rather than heading deep into the peninsula, because that's where you're probably getting a bit of strafing home. But hey, more time to bring in the new year in the car with the family on the way.
00:41:42
Speaker 1: That's the glass Huffull approach. Absolutely, So there we are. What else is planned for Port Adelaide for the year. What's your new Year's resolution in terms of me, are you going to run again?
00:41:53
Speaker 7: Yeah?
00:41:53
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's definitely the plan. So yeah, elections obviously for next year, which it all comes around way too quickly. But look, great things are happening in Port Adelaide Endfield and we're really excited about some of the strategies actually that we've got in place, which is really helpful for community and community clubs to know about what's coming up next. So all of the sports improvements and the community open spaces, we really have on a bit of a strategic plan now, so rather than it being hey, guess what this year we're doing this and making political decisions, we're trying to make it more of a strategic decision. So we're working on the sites that need it most first of all, and working our way through all of them. So there's a few of those happening, but our biggest projects definitely our Semiphore foreshore project, looking to get the shovels in the grounds in the second half of the year. So that's a really massive project that we have going on. So we'll be looking at whether or not New Year's will actually be at Semopore next year. We're not quite sure about the timing of all of those sorts of things because it's quite a big project, but we'll definitely be having fireworks somewhere in the city of Pae. But yeah, I guess that would be the one to say. We've been working on this Demiphore project for probably four years now, I believe.
00:42:58
Speaker 1: Been big tail. So when you say the foreshow, you're talking about that lawn area around the war memorial and everything else. So you're looking at Smophore. Ruh, you're not going to do a Jetti road Glenelga.
00:43:09
Speaker 16: No, no, no, we're leaving the footpaths alone. Zemophore Road. People are pretty happy with how it is. There's just a few little minor upgrades that we'll do over the next few years in terms of furniture and that type of stuff. But all the work, big works that's happening at Semmer fourth Foreshow is a lot of it's actually underground. So we're wanted to put in some decent throough systems, power and improve the irrigation system so that we can make sure that that space is one that looked really good all throughout the year and also makes it easier for festivals such as New Year's e to be able to host a much better event because at the moment we don't have underground power in that area. So because we needed to do that already, and we also had committed when the water flyed came down, we committed to improving that area with a new water play area, we're actually going to take the opportunity to do the whole scope of work. So yeah, final plans haven't yet been released to the council, so we'll be looking forward to seeing them early in the new year. But it will be a really big project. Didn't we be opening up all of the walkway into the jetti we're actually moving the train line pickup stop. So at the moment, the pickup stop is right at the end of the jetty and it's really heavy traffic when we have the bicycles come through people wanting to get into the jetty area. There's of course the kiosk and the playgrounds with it. Moving that around just to the side which is closer to the train shed than the Railway Museum has been excellent to work with and we're really excited about the new platform that will be creating for them there, but also paying homage to that railway line and extending some really beautiful artwork along the footpaths. So it is some a heavy amount of work, a lot of it is underground, but it will be impacting to the community for a while. But we yet to understand exactly how that will be. But we need to be a little bit flexible to ensure the project is an amazing finish for the community.
00:44:54
Speaker 1: All right, tongue in cheek. You should extend that railway line frankly all the way to north Haven or you know, take it down the coast of Brighton, even get other councils to chip in.
00:45:03
Speaker 16: But oh my god, can you imagine put Oh you could have taken part in our community consultation, Matthew, that would have been an amazing opportunity. Why didn't we think of it?
00:45:12
Speaker 1: Indeed, all right, good on your clear thank you for your time. I hope tonight goes off well. Good tip about the parking, as I said, and you don't want to be caught in the sort of jams that eighty thousand odd people can create on the La Feva Peninsula with only a couple of access points or three of them to get on or up four I suppose with bowright, I'm faking the bridges and Bower Road.
00:45:33
Speaker 16: So what other hot tip, Matthew is that the road Smophore Road will be closed from around twelve o'clock to day. So if you're wanting to get in get some shopping and go throes done, popping into the butcher or any other type of shopping that you want to do with a nine to five type of a shop, make sure you do that earlier this morning. Or you can always park obviously down on the foreshore and then walk your way up to Semaphore Road or park along one of the side streets. But yeah, just to let people know, please keep supporting those businesses because they are being impacted by this twelve o'clock quoture today.
00:46:04
Speaker 1: Is that just from Military Road to the beach or the whole length of Semaphore Road.
00:46:07
Speaker 16: I believe it's the whole lengths depending on the area, and it's about having safety for four people. But actually that doesn't even make sense. I'm pretty sure it was the whole length, but now that I think about how that would work, I'm not exactly sure. So definitely define western end, Yeah, definitely the beachside.
00:46:24
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, good on you, Clear thank you for your time.
00:46:26
Speaker 10: Lovely thanks my bye.
00:46:27
Speaker 1: Clearbone, Mayor of the City of Port Adelaide and Enfield on their celebrations tonight. So fireworks nine point thirty and midnight, it does get really busy and the Lafeva Peninsula being a peninsula, there's only a few access points, so if you're heading to Semophore and you want to park, get there early. The streets are jam packed. I can tell you that from experience last year. It is quite busy down there. So watching it from the Juvoys Bridge or the Birkenhead Bridge good vantage points. Turvoids is pretty good as well, where you can see all the Semaphore from the highest point, but so same with the Birkenhead. You're looking over the Port River to the west and straight at Semaphore only a couple of k's at the most, probably a k and a half, so you get a good view of the fireworks and it does look impressive from there. So reflect on the Port River as well, nice for you, So maybe that's a tip for you. Alrighty quarter past seven on five double eight, eighteen past seven on five double A. As we know, house prices right across the nation going through the roof Adelaide no exception. In fact, Adelaide is quite strong in terms of house price growth, which is good if you are perhaps looking on down sizing your property and thinking it's too big and want to get an apartment or something and sitting on a big empty block now the kids have moved out, that is in your favor. However, if you try to get into the market, particularly for the first time, and you add stamp due for that, it does add up. The Liberals have announced yesterday that their new Year's resolution in South Australia is stamp duty relief for first home buyers. And a first time buyer is Luke McKenzie, who is on the line. Luke, good morning to you, good morning, how are you all right? Thank you? So if you could say stamp duty, I mean, who wouldn't write you'd certainly welcome that.
00:48:27
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, it'd definitely be a very welcome thing for the young people.
00:48:33
Speaker 1: What's the mean for you? So you're thirty two. You and your fiance looking to get going and get your first Have you got a house yet?
00:48:41
Speaker 13: Yeah?
00:48:42
Speaker 17: Yeah, we've recently just just signed the contract and purchased our first house, which is very exciting and a very big thing, especially with all the costs involved, especially stamp duty, which is a massive one.
00:48:55
Speaker 1: So how much Yeah, fifty three fifty three thousand for stamp duty. Wow, that's a lot too. I mean that wouldn't even be many people's deposit, No.
00:49:07
Speaker 17: No, exactly. And for the young, young couples and young people to save that sort of money nowadays, especially with the cost of living, it's definitely a hard thing to a hard thing to do.
00:49:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's more than a couple of jobs. That's that's two jobs each really to try and get it.
00:49:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just about Yeah, it is.
00:49:25
Speaker 1: It's it's difficult. So okay, on top of the home, which would have cost you what eight nine hundred thousand I imagine.
00:49:33
Speaker 17: Yeah, nine and ten, Yeah, which is a lot of money for us.
00:49:38
Speaker 1: It is so all right, looking to for people following in your footsteps in years to come, you'd like to see that removed.
00:49:46
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, I think it's absolutely unnecessary, especially like you. You want the young people to have a go and be able to get into the market, be able to have a future, have a family and have have a decent go I things, and that tax were definitely removed would definitely help us.
00:50:07
Speaker 1: All right, Luke, appreciate your time and all the best. Thing. What you're up to renovating the houses, it's that the next step.
00:50:13
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's definitely on the next step will probably be a bit of a process, but yeah, that's a next step all right.
00:50:18
Speaker 1: Good luck with it, mate, Thanks for your time, all the best for twenty six Thanks, thank you. Ashton Hearn, leader of the Opposition in South Australia, on the line as well. Ashton Hearn, good morning. I imagine there's one main resolution you'd have centering perhaps around March.
00:50:35
Speaker 18: Yes, good good morning, Matthew, and to all of you, all of your listeners, and a shout out to Luke and his fiance Chelsea, just for sharing their struggles in finding a home in South Australia and making that more affordable. They're actually getting married on election day, so that's certainly a key date for both of us. But yeah, we've got a long way to go, you know. In terms of making sure we put our policies forward to the people of South Australia so that they know that in the Liberal Party they've got a real choice. And we are fairly and squarely focused on making our state more affordable. We want to give young people, particularly a bit of a leg up so that they can secure a future here in South Australia. And part of making our state more affordable is lowering taxes, and that too will be a big focus of ours.
00:51:21
Speaker 1: Lowering taxes though, and while we'd all welcome that without a shadow of hesitation, how do you pay for it? How do you then pay for other policies with a drop of this magnitude coming into the coffers.
00:51:35
Speaker 18: Yeah, so this policy is around one hundred million dollars per year, so it is a lot of money. But at the same time we're unashamably focused on making our state more affordable. If you can do that, then the entire state becomes more productive. Of course, we'll release all of our costings well before the election so people will be able to see all of that in detail, and we will have a plan to lower debt in South Australia because under labor that has belonged to forty eight billion dollars or will balloon to forty eight billion dollars. But we're going to be unapologetic in our focus on making our state more affordable because it's not just people like Luke who were just on your program and his fiance Chelsea. There are so many people who are busting their guts and really they're not getting any further in their hopes and dreams in South Australia. So we want to take the handbrake off and instead of people giving more taxes to the government, we think that it's the individual and the family who are best placed to spend their money. So again, we'll be very focused in twenty twenty six on making our state more affordable. So you'll hear me talking about.
00:52:40
Speaker 10: That a lot.
00:52:40
Speaker 1: All right, the public Transport Plan you've committed to fifty cent fares. That's also going to cost at the very least one hundred million, So there's two hundred million plus. You've got to find where's that money going to come from.
00:52:55
Speaker 18: Well, yeah, we'll be having it, and there'll be more policies on top of that as well, Matthew, and of course we'll be announcing all of our costings well before the election, so I'll be on your program speaking with you about that in detail, I'm sure. But at the end of the day, we are wanting to make our state more affordable, and those two policies that you speak to are about making easing the cost of living pressure and we'll be announcing all of our.
00:53:21
Speaker 1: Costings all right, So cost of living, that's going to be your key message going to the election.
00:53:26
Speaker 18: Absolutely, yeah, there's really when I'm out and about talking to South Australians. It doesn't matter if you're in the regions or if you're in the city. People are concerned that our state is no longer affordable. They're working hard but not getting ahead. So that'll be really a big focus. But also just making sure that our health system is better. The government talks a lot about making it bigger, which of course we know we need extra beds, but we want to put a focus on making sure that it's actually better, not just for staff but for patients, and that means that we need to look at all things. People waiting so long in the emergency departments, looking at the elective surgery lists, and a big challenge that we have is attracting and retaining workforce. So that'll be a focus of ours, and we already have policies in that place. But also I know that many of your five Double A listeners would be growing frankly pretty sick of the increased crime that we're seeing right across our states. So making sure that we have safer suburbs and stronger community with more police, and also making sure that there are genuine consequences if people are breaking the law, particularly in relation to bail. So those are really the three areas that we'll be honing in on because they're the basic things that the people of South Australia care for.
00:54:44
Speaker 1: All Right, the consequences you talk about, that's one of the things that resonates with listeners here. We often read and get reports from police about the arrest from overnight whatever, and it's somebody who is out on bail, and I think, why on earth would you give somebody, and particularly they've been out on bail, they've committed a crime, why would you give them bail? Again? You know, that's where it sometimes heads and that is the most frustrating thing to read out.
00:55:14
Speaker 18: I totally agree with you, and there's nothing more frustrating, and that's why people need consequences, and where we will be saying, well, we've got a policy which is if you break bail, you're facing jail, because people are sick of seeing these repeat offenders out on the street doing the same crimes over and over again with no consequences. But the reason that people get away with it really is because they know that there are no consequences. So we wanted to flip that and that'll be a very key focus.
00:55:43
Speaker 12: Of ours too.
00:55:44
Speaker 1: How much jail if you break bail like the rhyme, but how much.
00:55:48
Speaker 18: Jail, Well that'll depend on the offense. But I think the focus is on if you're out on bail, you're out on you know, if you're out on bail and you're again offending, then you're going back in to jail. So that's really the basic nature of it. I think that people are really sick and tired of seeing the same people do the same crimes for no consequence. And we see what's happening in states like Queensland. I think the L ANDP government up there have really cracked down on crime, and we want to do the same thing here because otherwise I do worry about the message that it sends to the next generation as well.
00:56:26
Speaker 1: All right, and done a personal level New Year's resolutions, anything in mind.
00:56:31
Speaker 18: I'd like to get back into running, I really yeah, I've kind of put the exercise to one side, given I've been managing this new role, and I've got a nineteen months old toddler who certainly keeps me pretty busy. So I'd like to try and squeeze in some time for an early morning run if I can. That's probably my New Years.
00:56:49
Speaker 1: Resolutionekay, good luck with that, especially in the next three months.
00:56:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, I read it.
00:56:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ashton Hurd, appreciate your time. Thank you, thank you, Leader of the Opposition. All right. Twenty eight past on five A. Will be speaking with the Premiere in the next half hour as well. Back after the news coming up later this half hour, the Premier, Peter Malanowskis will join me. We'll get his New year resolutions as well, but see how he's ending the year. We've been talking a fair bit about the rain up north, and Tom's text puts it into perspective. Read this out a bit earlier nine hundred mills in seventy two hours off the Queensland coast just south of Cairn's place called Mission Bay and certainly wet, certainly wet up there. We're going to have a chat with Rob Sharp, whose Sky News meteorologist on both the system over Queensland and the tropical cyclone Hailey over Wa. So that's coming up that chat. Also the continuing going around the grounds in terms of local councils and what they're doing for New Year's Eve. So if you're thinking of going to Semaphore, had clear Bone the mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield on a little while ago. Fireworks down at Semaphore nine thirty and twelve. Either get there super early, get a park and forget about leaving for a few hours, or try and leave the car somewhere further back and walk to the foreshore because the peninsula they had eighty thousand, eighty thousand people down there last year. Along the coast it gets absolutely flat out and all those people trying to leave it once at nine point thirty after those fireworks and midnight takes a while. What's happening down at Glenelg will be chatting shortly with Jane Fleming, who is a counselor at the City of Holdfast Bay Council about their displays tonight. Jane, good morning to you.
00:58:49
Speaker 19: Good morning Matthew.
00:58:50
Speaker 1: What is happening? Got two lots of fireworks?
00:58:53
Speaker 19: Well, we do in two locations. So firstly we're having we call the family fireworks at nine to thirty pm down at Brighton on the Foreshore and that's a great place to bring your kids, sit on the beach and watch the fireworks display. It's also a good place to support the local traders on JETI Road Brighton. And then at gleneg of course we've got the nine to thirty pm fireworks as well, which is great for families. And then of course at midnight and we've got DJ's playing. So down at the Brighton.
00:59:30
Speaker 15: Foreshow we've got DJ Foe who's.
00:59:32
Speaker 19: Playing from six to ten pm, and at Glenelg we've got DJ Matt he'll be performing between six and eight. DJ Brooke ocetto eight till ten, then DJ Dylon Manov ten till one am and then all the party finishes at around one am.
00:59:51
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a twelve o'clock fireworks at Brighton as well.
00:59:54
Speaker 19: Just glenel No, just Leanell down the bay will be the place to be at midnight.
01:00:00
Speaker 1: Okay, so nine thirty at Glenelg and midnight nine point thirty only at Brighton for fireworks. How's the Jetty Road now, I've seen it from the top end. I've only been up the top end of it. That side street that comes out opposite Gordon Street cut across there and looks good that bit. When's the resk going to be finished up around Moseley Square?
01:00:21
Speaker 19: Oh right, so everything is going to be completed by like everything completed by the middle of the year. Collie Terrace at the moment is closed off the cars because that concrete needs to cure for twenty eight days and then they'll pave it and then cars will be able to go through there. So end of January, I'm pretty sure that's when that's going to be paved and opened up again. But at the moment they've done a really good job with opening it up for dining, for the businesses and the restaurants and people are a bit really happy with that little Collie Terrace Lara area that's been formed in the short term, so it's great.
01:01:02
Speaker 1: Now trams are they set to return end of January. Still, is that the plan yet, well that we.
01:01:07
Speaker 19: Haven't been advised any difference. So as far as we know, DIT have said trams to return at the end of January.
01:01:16
Speaker 1: All right. In the meantime, I understand you've lost another business down there, Montezumas has apparently closed recently. So there's still no rate relief for the traders doing it tough down there, Jane.
01:01:28
Speaker 19: So with any trader, any residents in the city of Holdfast Bay, if they're suffering hardship, they hardship, they can apply to council for rate relief and there is a process to go through with that. So that's always open.
01:01:45
Speaker 10: For people to apply.
01:01:47
Speaker 1: Is people taking that up traders particularly?
01:01:53
Speaker 19: I am not privy to the private conversations between the rate department that it's not something.
01:02:00
Speaker 1: That's not the conversations. Just are people taking it up?
01:02:05
Speaker 9: There have been people that have applied for it yet, Okay.
01:02:07
Speaker 1: All right, So and counsel I suppose considering everything on its merits. But surely if you're a trader that's been impacted, and you know you haven't, you've lost your money for the last twelve months or how long this has been going on. Feels at least that long. You'd surely be looking at that favorably, wouldn't you. And this is perhaps that what you're not privy to, but surely that should be taken Matthew.
01:02:31
Speaker 19: There's a specific rate department, and I think there's a certain criteria. I know during COVID it was a similar kind of thing, like a lot of businesses were suffering, and that department worked very closely with those businesses. I'm a business owner myself. I've got a small business on Brighton Road and I know a lot of the businesses down in Brighton. It's because I worked down there during COVID. They did apply, but I don't know the personal outcomes is obviously that's a confidential conversation between the owner and the staff in that department.
01:03:06
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, Thanks match Happy you too. Jane Fleming, who's a councilor at City of Holdfast Bay Council, fireworks Brighton nine thirty and nine thirty and midnight at Glenelg. So good luck with traffic down there as well, and especially without the trams working. Mind you, there's forty buses the government has shuttling empty to and from the city. So maybe some of them just brush the cob webs off before you sit down, because they're not very well used. But they are on the road, and I imagine they're all going to be out tonight. Surely restricted bus services though at the moment this week, as people aren't using public transport because no one's working. Just look how quiet the roads are every day so far this week, which is a lovely time to drive around the city. It is pretty quiet out there, Debbie at South Blimton morning, Debbie, I.
01:04:05
Speaker 9: Nearly just choked on my breakfast burrito. Then Montezoomers had not.
01:04:10
Speaker 1: So haven't they got a text.
01:04:11
Speaker 9: Saying they are closing on the twenty eighth of FB is their last right Okay, so yeah, incourage they're still open. Everyone gets down there and support them.
01:04:20
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:04:21
Speaker 9: So sad that they're leaving. They've been a great business in Adelaide, have lots of fine over thirty years at Monte Zoomers can various locations.
01:04:28
Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, they've been around. Is that the last one operating? The last Montezumas?
01:04:34
Speaker 12: I think?
01:04:36
Speaker 9: Well, I reckon they are a Queensland right there. Used to be the big old one at North Adelaide.
01:04:42
Speaker 8: That was there forever. We would go in there, Geese. So we were going there before I had.
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Speaker 9: Children, and my kids are like twenty two, so we've been, you know, and they put on such good nights, like they used to let us wear their Mexican sombreros and have birthday parties and it was just the best place to go. So yeah, I'm really sad they're leaving them. I hope it wasn't a direct result of what's happened to Panel, because that would be really disappointing. Yeah, everyone gets down there. They're there through the twenty eight.
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Speaker 1: All right, good on your debbie, thanks for that, and chance to get some more burritos in the meantime till the twenty eighth. Thank you, thanks for the call. All right. Seventeen to eight on five double a eight double two to three double o the number. How can we stop inflation of housing? Easy? Stop auctions. Just put a price on your house or have a chance to buy, not just the rich. Bill says, you know what, Bill, that's a very good point because even when houses are for sale, it's effectively an auction. Where I had had a crack at a house a couple of years back now that was and the people that were there, and as soon as you know, you pull up around the corner because you can't get on the screen there's that many cars, a bit like going to Semaphore for the fireworks tonight. Anyway, you walk around the car a trudge to the house. Is there's several hundred people having a look at this small house because they were advertising it now a couple of years Keep in mind it was in Keilburn. It was four hundred and fifty grand advertised, or four to seventy, close enough to how much did it go for? Six hundred and ten? And you look at the crowd and think, okay, this is going to go for at least one hundred thousand more. And so you go there and then the auctioneer calls, oh, you're closed. You want to do you want to up your bid? And you're offer and so you think, well, do I or don't I. But at that point you know, well you stop trying to rip me off. Essentially you knew it was never going to go for four seventy So you're right, Bill, I mean it's but even saying it's not an auction, put it up for sale. It's got to be put up for sale fairly for a price around the mark. Didn't we have a law once saying has to be within ten percent of what it's suggested price is estimated price? Oh, the market the sides, Well, it does. But you know, real estate agents, Okay, they're acting for the seller. Totally get that, and I'd want the best deal as well if I was selling. But yeah, there's a bit of auctioneering going on either either side of that, whether whether it's up for auction or up for sale. Good good point, though, Allie says, morning Matthew, Happy New Year. Regarding the closure of Montezuomer's at Glenelg. I've lived in gleneg for fifteen years. I had no idea Montezoomer's was an open running business. The frontage is old, deteriorating. Honestly, didn't look like it was open. I don't think the Jedi rode up graded much to do with their closure. Perhaps the dilapidated frontage wasn't very inviting. Oh that's one for the landlord, I imagine, Allie, thank you. Has DJ Pants got a gig tonight? No DJ Pants is kicking up the hills tonight a little bit anyway, thank you the good news prowft thing I read that one have I not the good news. Premier will not lose the election as ministers might need to kick up the behind. White puts someone in as a minister for whatever who knows nothing about that particular topic. Frank says Radio. Sam says Matthew. I'm on the trans Adelaide website trying to find a timetable for the free buses tonight. Can you help me, Sam? It's normal, normal timetables whatever, timetables for tonight, but they'll be free. So this is the other thing with the New Year's Eve, absolutely free public transport from don't quote me on the hours. I think six pm till six am, but that'll be on the site somewhere, but free public transport port around twelve hours. Enjoy New Year's Eve, buses, trains and trams. Patricia at glenel Colo Patricia, Hey, Matthew.
01:08:49
Speaker 15: Happy New Year you doo now, Matthew. Look, I live in the Bay, had done for twenty five years. Who's still live in the Eastern suburbs. Could not even think of living anywhere else these days. I adore where I live on three houses from the beach in a no through road to the esplanade. The reconstruction of Jeti Road has been a trial. However, it had to happen, and it couldn't have happened at a more appropriate time than when there's no trams running up and down Jety Road, because you could never have done what they've done if there have been trams. Some of the businesses that have been complaining, Matthew Montezoom is, why would they be complaining. Part Trudge Street was not closed and there's a free car park next door and across the road, So why would they say that they're closing because of what happened down there? Because I drive up and down Partridge Street onto Gordon Street every day every day in my life, if not once three times, and I go past there. So if you were going there, you could walk there if you're a resident around here, or you can park in the car park next door. I liked the person that just rang.
01:10:04
Speaker 20: A while ago.
01:10:04
Speaker 15: I think I've been there twice in twenty five years, and I wasn't all that impressed. So I think this is very easy for people to jump on the bandwagon. Clearly it's been you know, it's been like a bomb site down there, but it had to happen. And look now it's all opening up and it looks fabulous. Yesterday down there, well, I went down to Cole's about six o'clock last night and you could not get a car. You wouldn't have got a car park. You couldn't get one in the Coals car park, every street that I drove down trying to think, oh look i'll just park here. I came home and put my car back in the car park.
01:10:44
Speaker 8: And walk down there.
01:10:46
Speaker 15: The bay is hopping at the moment. And as somebody said just a while ago, I think it was the girl from the council. That plaza area that's there out the throat because Collie Terrast is still operating and they've created in front of the College hotel there that used to be the Jetty hotel that is now a plaza, and my god, it looks fabulous now. It's not staying like that, unfortunately, and when the trams come back, well they can't stay like that. But it had to be done. You know the old adage, you can't make an omelook without breaking an edge. When was it going to be done? It had to be done, and the trams. Look, look, I am, I can't tell you I'm hanging out for those trams to start again, because I have never caught a bus to town in all the years I've lived here. What I've been doing is going driving down to Glenel down to Brighton and getting on the train and going in and getting off the train and then getting on the tram out the front of the train station and going to the market. That's how I've been rather than take my car into the city, and that hasn't been hard. That hasn't been hard. Catch the train in town, then get on the tram and then go around to Victoria Square, you know, or down to the Botanic Gardens. But people, look, I got to Melbourne a lot and they've just finished doing that. Underground tunnels. I don't know whether you've been there. Melbourne has been cut off for probably seven years. Those tunnels and stations are opening now, like the one at Anzac down near the War Memorial. I've ridden those tunnels in the last few weeks. And those train stations are like cathedrals underground.
01:12:33
Speaker 13: They're divine.
01:12:34
Speaker 15: But those people have put up with shite and now and everyone's complaining.
01:12:40
Speaker 8: Of course they do.
01:12:41
Speaker 15: But now the whole of Melbourne is like on a high because it's all finished and they've got all these extra stations and they're all beautiful and they've got wonderful murals, and look, why don't we just settle down. Everyone will have forgotten this part of the middle of the year. Maybe not we who live here. And yes there've been some businesses, but look the grand they've complained that place it looks always looks shoddy.
01:13:07
Speaker 12: They don't pull up the weeds, they don't.
01:13:09
Speaker 15: Clean the windows. That's got nothing to do with hots going on on Jedti Road.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Maybe because there's no one around for the time being, though, Patricia, you know they'll make it look good when it's all done. Look, thank you for the call. We'll leave it there because you've had quite the say on Jedti Road. As for the trams, if you could do Jedti Road anytime, even if they weren't building in overpasses along the rest of the line, trams could have run to Morphitt Street Morphort Road as they Brighton Road, sorry, as they do other times when the bay is closed. But anyway, all right, thank you for the call. It is eight minutes to eight o'clock. Let's speak with the premiere of South Australia, Peter Melanowskas. Happy New Year to you, Happy to new message.
01:13:58
Speaker 21: Well we're almost there, we're going to.
01:13:59
Speaker 1: Almost a few hours.
01:14:00
Speaker 21: That's right, Lefty.
01:14:01
Speaker 1: How are you celebrating?
01:14:03
Speaker 13: Very quiet night?
01:14:04
Speaker 21: Actually, I think just with the Annabelle and the kids and maybe a couple of friends popping over as well. So Newyear's Eve has a very different complexion when you still want to get the young ones in the bed.
01:14:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, at an early time. Absolutely. Now. I mentioned this to Ashton her and I imagine, like her, you have one main resolution for twenty twenty six and it centers around March.
01:14:26
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:14:26
Speaker 21: Well, obviously it's an election year and that's important. You look around the world at the moment, Matthew, and you see a lot of democracies that are fraying. Is the democracy that's really been quite challenged. But here in South Australia we're going a very robust and healthy liberal democracy. The next election is South Australia and every election is important, but this one's also going to be really quite unique because because the laws that are committed to and we got through the Parliament. This will be the first ever election held anywhere in the world, to the best of our knowledge, where there are zero political donations, not from unions, not from businesses, not from big wealthy donors. All of it is banned. So we're going to have an election that is exclusively based on the quality of policy and the quality of candidates. And that's something that I strongly believe in and hopefully something that the rest of the state can get around and know over Not everyone likes politics, and I get that, but it doesn't change the fact that elections are important and it's a good opportunity for the state to set itself up for the four years ahead.
01:15:34
Speaker 1: All Right, you're concerned about going up against Ashton hern at all, against Vincentansia, who you would have been planning the election around.
01:15:43
Speaker 21: Oh look, you know I've worn't over the last few years to not spend too much time worrying about our political opponents. You know, they have faced four leaders in less than four years, so that will chop and change as it does. I think when you're the premier, your job is to focus on leading the state as best as you can and not for a moment would I suggest that the government is perfect or as a leader, I'm perfect. There are areas we would have liked to have done better. But it's also true that I think we've got a united team. The government has been scandaled free, and the state is heading in the right direction, and that's something I'm really keen to maintain. And you know, I look, you know, on one level, I look to elections with a degree of anxiousness all the time because you don't know what the outcome is going to be. But the flip side of that coin, Matthew is I'm really excited about getting into it. We've been working hard over a sustained period now to get our election policies all lined up, are all fully costed, and I'm just excited about rolling that out and letting the States see that we've got an agenda for the future. And you know, we've got to I don't think anyone can doubt the fact that the States in a strong position relative to the rest of the country. It's not perfect, but we're in a strong position. I'm really keen to see for the State to see that we've got a plan to make sure that trajectory continues over the next four years if we're lucky enough to win the election.
01:17:14
Speaker 1: All right, lucky enough, I think you can put that in the bag frankly, because the polls are suggesting a reverse ninety three style result where the Libs en ended up with thirty seven seats.
01:17:24
Speaker 21: Yea, well, I reject that completely, Matthew, what was the tip? Well, it's not about tips. What do you think thirty Well, here's my thinking, right, and I don't want to sound trite about it, but I've seen political parties, and I've seen political leaders over the year get ahead of themselves and think that poles matter right now. I understand that people want to talk about them, and they're interested in them, and they're a snapshot of a point in time. But the problem with polls is they diminish the power of everyone voting. At the same time, they diminished the authority that every South Australian has when they work and walk into a ballot box and exercise that extraordinary right and privilege to vote for their leader and their community and their leader of the state. And people who seek to preent that outcome as though it is determined by anything else apart from individuals casting their ballot on election day. I think doing themselves and democracy a disservice. So I'm really cautious about making assumptions. But I don't say that flippantly. I just, you know, to predict outcomes when you know about a million South Australian will be the ones that determine themselves is a pretty brave proposition.
01:18:47
Speaker 1: Indeed, let's say it is a strong finish for the Labor Party, because I think that's a fair call at this point. Would you look at doing something unique with that majority in that for instance? And Neil has asked the question asked the Premier year if he has on his agenda uranium waste storage, and I'm thinking something along the weather Ll Plan and even the Nuclear Royal Commission that we had that called on us to do more and bring in a heck of a lot of money for the state by storing uranium here in a remote part of South Australia. Not the worst idea.
01:19:24
Speaker 21: Ever, No, no, And I was on the record, and you know the record speaks for itself. I was on the record as being quite a strong supporter of that proposition. But what was also clear at the time, and I think is true today is it's got to have bipartisans support, and the moment that that was lost, because that would be a that's a it was the whole That whole project is a thirty forty year project, and you know the moment that bipart of the support was lost when when Stephen Marshall was through it, the project fell away. Think it's also worth noting a couple of things, Matthew. I think the state was in a very different position back in twenty I think that was first mooted and first proposed back in twenty twelve. The state's in a very different position now in comparison of what it was then. Actually, no, I think it was. It was twenty fifteen is acually, so we're ten years down the track. And I say that in the context that ten years ago the state was economically in a very different position, whereas today we've got the fastest growing economy in the country. We've got the fastest well some of the fastest growing wages in the country. We're closer to the national average in terms of median income. So the state's economy is sort of accelerating at a very good pace at the moment, and we don't you know, I don't sit around worried about where is economic demand coming from. I'm more concerned about how we're going to meet that demand, and there are challenges associated with that, and none more important in my view than housing. So it's just a different I think it's a different debate at a different time. But having said that, yes, we intend to seek a mandate for a number of policies that we're going to take to the election, and I guess that's what we're looking forward to rolling out over the course of the next couple of months.
01:21:19
Speaker 1: You don't want to foreshadow any.
01:21:22
Speaker 21: Not on New Year's Eve.
01:21:24
Speaker 1: Let's get into the just finally, then, Should Anthony A. Aneasy bow to the inevitable and the obvious calls coming from around the nation from so many apart from the families of the victims of Bondai, from so many people of reputation, barristers, former judges, AFP, former commission et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's a long list of them. Should we have a federal royal commission as seems inevitable?
01:21:52
Speaker 7: Yeah?
01:21:52
Speaker 21: Well, I think royal commissions are incredibly powerful and useful tools under various circumstances. We've had two over the course of this term of government. The first was by Julia Gillard into early childhood education and next year over six thousand South Australian families for the first time you get access to three three year old prescool kindy in this state as a result of that. And then the other one we had was of course into domestic violence. We'd recently just announced a massive investment on the back of that, so they can be very powerful and useful tools. Oh look, I'd say two things. First thing is, I know Chris Mins is having a state based row commission. I think he's done the right thing by doing that, and if there's any opportunity for the South Australian government to support that state based row commission, we will certainly do it. The second thing I'd say is you know whether or not there's a federal or commission. Well, there's only one person in the country that can determine that, and that's the Prime Minister of the nation. Whoever that is at a peacei goal point in time, and this is a decision that squarely rests with the Prime Minister.
01:22:53
Speaker 1: See no advice, No, you should do this, You should heed all the cost.
01:22:58
Speaker 21: If I have advice for the for the Prime Minister, then you know, and on occasions I've had that, particularly on matters that attained to South Australia think why hour, I think Orcas. Then I tend to do that in the way that most Austrains would expect me to do, and that's either the phone or in person of the Prime Minister. I tend not offer him advice through the media.
01:23:21
Speaker 1: All right, Peter melanows, because thank you for your time. Best wishes to twenty six to you and your family.
01:23:25
Speaker 21: Wise Matthew likewise, until all your listeners as well.
01:23:27
Speaker 1: Good thank you. Nine minutes past eight o'clock on five double A, last hour of the show. Richard Pasco from nine Peter has sent me photos of hot cross funds. Says, saw these and coals yesterday. I thought you might like to know. Thank you, Peter. Two for eight by the way, two for eight bucks. Two packets not too hot cross buns for eight dollars. I saw them in Aldi yesterday on McGill road. Hot cross buns, Briosh hot Cross buns to boot. Didn't buy any, but gee they looked all right. Briosh hot Cross buns. So there's a tip if that is your want, a bit early in the season for me. But anyway, they're out there, which as they should be traditionally. Boxing day I cross buns of for sale because Easter is, you know, somewhere off in the distant future, the mists of time, but here soon enough. The way that last year went, this year went twenty five, still twenty six is undoubtedly going to fly just as as quickly. Robert in the barassa can I Robert, good morning?
01:24:30
Speaker 22: How are you?
01:24:30
Speaker 1: Yeah? Good?
01:24:32
Speaker 22: Firstly, let me always say are you doing a fantastic job filling in very large boots.
01:24:39
Speaker 1: Of David and will thank you Robert.
01:24:44
Speaker 22: As Secondly, you had Peter Malanaskis on the line and you were talking about the upcoming state election. Just wanted to say that about four years ago, the very first working day and Monday after the last state election, and David interviewed Peter Malanowskis and his very first question to him was, Okay, you're now going to fix the ramping.
01:25:11
Speaker 23: What are you going to do?
01:25:12
Speaker 22: And Peter's response was, well, I've got four years to fix it. Watch this space and all I've seen over the last four years is just further bad news, much much worse than the previous government with Stephen Marshall with the ramping and nothing's being solved, and it is something that I think that Peter malanowskis should be brought to account because of the extensive campaign that he and the au straand Labor Party did at the last state election that they were going to fix ramping and eachial fact as the exact opposite.
01:25:53
Speaker 1: It was a core promise, wasn't it obviously at the time the only promise most of us can remember in fact from that campaign.
01:26:01
Speaker 22: Well, I pretty much remember every Stoby poll in Adelaide was about we are going to fix ramping. I know that halfway through this current a LP government that they tried to change the tune and say that it was something else, and it was never promised that that would have been a dishoner statement. I really do believe that the public is owed a proper explanation by Peter Mallenouskers going into this state election in March explaining precisely what what has he done about this and why has he fixed it? Because if he can't fix that, no matter how many bread and circuses he brings this state through live golf and and gather around and motor racing.
01:26:59
Speaker 10: Uh.
01:27:00
Speaker 22: It is a fundamental then at health and the delivery of health that has to be dealt with properly by this because that's why we elected them.
01:27:12
Speaker 1: Absolutely and no doubt ramping will be top of mind. I suspect as we head into the next three months into the election. Good on your Robert, thank you for the call. We've spoken to the Port Adelaide Council and the hold Fast Bay Council about what is happening for New Year's Eve tonight. There's going to be fireworks displays. Well I think there's a big one in murray Bridge, but certainly there's one as you'd expect right in the heart of the city. Andrew Howard Howard and Sons Fireworks is on the line. Andrew, good to chat with you again. Happy New Year almost to you.
01:27:46
Speaker 12: Yeah, good morning, MAT's your Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
01:27:49
Speaker 1: What's planned for tonight?
01:27:51
Speaker 13: Yeah, we've got a great.
01:27:52
Speaker 12: Show lined up tonight in the city of Adelaide on the River Thiremes. We've got the Family Fireworks at nine o'clock, which is an eight minute fireworks display fied from pontoons on the river and Pinky Flats, So anyone that's down enjoying the entertainment at Elder Park will get a great show there. And then then at the conclusion of the BBL cricket game at Adelaide over there'll be Birds of Tokyo concert there and fireworks of that, and then at midnight we'll ring in the new year and spectacular style again on the river.
01:28:20
Speaker 1: Okay, So really, if you're around that region, you get three fireworks, yeah.
01:28:24
Speaker 10: You do.
01:28:25
Speaker 12: Yeah, And they are designed for the spectators that are attending each event specifically. It's a great little empathy to there on the river turns. It's not like it's not designed like the old traditional sky show where people can watch from a you know, the surrounding parklands or stay at home and watch. It is an intimate display designed for people that are coming to the city to enjoy the celebrations, and likewise two for people going to the cricket being designed for people who enjoy from their seats.
01:28:51
Speaker 1: How many fireworks do we burn through going going through that? Will you burn through? Particularly over the course of the night.
01:28:58
Speaker 13: Oh, there's a lot.
01:28:59
Speaker 12: I think tonight, we'll We've got sixty displays on across the country.
01:29:02
Speaker 13: It's a huge, huge night.
01:29:05
Speaker 12: The City of Adelaide's got about six tons of fireworks and a full truckload of equipment.
01:29:10
Speaker 13: On all the displays.
01:29:11
Speaker 12: We're also doing the displays you mentioned before, Brighton, Glen Elksfore, City of Adelaide, the Cricket and also Wallaroo and a lot of other locations around the country. So the busy night we're we're using every single pyrotechnician we've got. There's about one hundred and fifty pyrotechnicians, every single computer controller, we've gotten, every single firing module.
01:29:33
Speaker 1: So busy night, okay, all right, so no night off for the pyrotechnicians. That's a great term.
01:29:41
Speaker 12: It's a busy night and we really look forward to it. You know, it's the night where people come together to celebrate, celebrate the new year, and we get to put on a great show and forget about the politics I suppose of the previous caller there, you know, certainly a night just to forget all all that come together, celebrate and we enjoy putting on a great show.
01:30:01
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Where do drone sit in all this these days? Hold I reckon they Andrew will beg your pardon. Sorry, yes, Andrew, I beg your pardoner called your how I know, I know so Andrew. Drones seem to over the last few years get a bit of a run up, you know, they were seen as an alternative. They don't do it for me. I don't know they do it for many people. They're just lights in the sky. There's no excitement to them, you know. They three pictures.
01:30:29
Speaker 12: Certainly in comparison to fireworks, they don't have the same impact because they have their place in a form of entertainment or a particular style of show they have. It's very heavily it's new ground, it's new technology. It will evolve. They're very heavily regulated in Australia for very good reasons. But they have their limitations to fit within those regulations and safety guidelines, of which they can't really entertain people watching in say three sixty degrees of an audience or an event side or event space. There's a lot whether we're restrictions with them. There's a lot of white space restrictions with them.
01:31:03
Speaker 13: But I think you will see.
01:31:04
Speaker 12: Over time it will evolve and there'll be a lot of hybrid shows where you'll see it all forms of entertainment, live backs on stages, impressive light shows, laser shows, fireworks and drone shots.
01:31:16
Speaker 13: It'll all evolve, and.
01:31:18
Speaker 1: It is evolving already because originally drones were just drones. But now they can fire fireworks as well, can't they direct?
01:31:23
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, we're applying fireworks to drones and using it in appropriate spaces to integrate into our shows. So it will, it will evolve, but it won't replace the good old fashioned fireworks display and really bang for buck. If you think of how many people could say, spread along the beaches of Adelaide and enjoy a fireworks show, fight off the jetties. That's a very large space and being entertained by a fireworks display or the city of Adelaide, it's pretty good bang for buck in relation to fireworks.
01:31:54
Speaker 1: All right, now you're able to say what one display costs. You know, we're talking about a year's eve type displace, so they've got lots of fireworks. What's a ten minute show approximately cost?
01:32:06
Speaker 12: It varies depending on the geographical location, but some regional councils around Australia are spending about about sixteen and a half to twenty thousand dollars on their years e fires displays. Some are spending about forty thousand, and a major city celebration is about one hundred thousand dollar market. But then on top of that they've got to look at their event management plan of security, fencing, emergency services and all the other things that go in it. The fireworks are actually probably a small or medium budget line in the whole scheme of running an event in modern Australia, you know, it's just a different landscape of street closures and tensing, security and all the things that go into organizing a public events these days.
01:32:48
Speaker 1: All right, good on you, Andrew, Good luck with it tonight around the country. Indeed, as you obviously tied up with so many displays, and appreciate your time this morning on five double A.
01:32:58
Speaker 12: Thank you very much mate, Happy to thank you.
01:33:01
Speaker 1: Andrew Howard. Howard and Son's fireworks on the display in the city. So nine o'clock after the BBL game and then midnight, so if you're in order park you get three how Good's that three fireworks displays? Max says global warming not an issue at New Year's Eve, Let's stop fireworks light show would be better in terms of pollution. Max Veille Park, Nah, Max, sorry stuff global warming, it's New Year's e leanne. I think this point more relevant. God, who help all the wildlife and pets tonight they'll need it. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Poor animals. Now, there's all things you can do with dogs, keep them indoors, you know, try and keep them in a quiet room, all that sort of thing. If you live near a firework district, it's not so much. I mean, if you're around Semophore of glenorgor wherever else, you'll know there'll be fireworks. You can do something about that in the lead up. It's the private fireworks that people have, the illegal ones that I'm all the problem. I think, Andrew, it's called in God, Andrew, good morning.
01:34:06
Speaker 24: Ow as Flow City traveler. I'm just running up on that call. And before the fireworks got wireless, the Labor Party, and I'm a bi peeved with him at the moment, campaigned heavily on ramping. Everybody knows that they have explained it very well. What the situation is now at the hospital beds that clogged up with nearly three hundred people, they should be in nursing games and Mark Butler and Alban Easy. Yeah, that Prime minister again and who's useless should be on the radio here answering what they're doing about nursing games to get people out of hospital and put in nursing games where they belong. Now, if you think about it, three hundred people out of hospitals and whacked in nursing games that freeze up a on hospital bed.
01:34:55
Speaker 1: Absolutely you're right and no argument with any of that. But you know, the the State Labor Party and they would have known this at the time, right, they would have known exactly that that's what it needs. And it was a was it a different government, Yes, it was. It was the Morrison government at the time when they were elected.
01:35:11
Speaker 8: I think No.
01:35:13
Speaker 24: I got one other thing to point out with you that you should ask the Premiere on if he does get a huge vote, and the same for Ashton Hern on this. Why don't they bite the bullet and have a greater Adelaide City Council like with compulsory voting like in Brisbane City Council and wipe out only council so we don't have to put up within the city of Adelaide counselors getting elected with five hundred vote.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, like Hart Street, yeah or less. Absolutely good question, Andrew, that's a great question. Of course we should have that in Adelaide. Now that's reform. Wonder if a state government, labor or liberal would be up for it. Great question. I was going to say, with the hospital beds, just to finish off there. You know, they went into that promise Labor party, eyes wide open, eyes wide open on fixing ramping. They would have known about getting old people out of hospitals and the need for more nursing home beds, would have known that one hundred percent. So the promise was made eyes wide open. And it is I think probably a stain on the political process that parties make promises hoping to keep, you would think in most cases, but unable to keep. And that's the shame of politics, I suppose. And you know, as that's saying, goes for me once, shame on me, for me twice, shame on No, it's the other way around, isn't it. Now It sounds like George W. Bush for me once, shame on you, for me twice, shame on me. That's right, Thanks w for that. Twenty two past eight on five double twenty four past eight on five double A eight double two to three double O double, oh the number. As you would be aware, the search for MH three point seventy has resumed off Waters of Wa in the Indian Ocean there and the searchers who are going to be paid if they find it reasonably confident. I think it's fair to say that they have more or less pinpointed where this plane is. It's just a matter of locating it. Jeffrey Thomas, global aviation expert and based in Perth, is on the line. Jeffrey, good morning to you. They are reasonably confident. I think is fair to.
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Speaker 13: Say, yes, Matthew. They are. The company we're talking about is Ocean Infinity, the UK based company probably one of the world's number one underwater search companies. And they've got in fact three locations which they're going to search, and they've returned to the one that they were searching in up till the twenty eighth of March earlier this year. They searched for about a month before the weather turned foul and they abandoned the search. And they have returned to that particular spot, which is about eighteen hundred kilometers south our west of Perth, so I should say west south west of Perth, and then they're going to make their way slowly to another spot and then further north to what's called the Whisper spot. So there's three major locations that they're looking at, and yeah, they're very confident that they'll find them three seventy in one of those three locations.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the first, and in a way we go from there. Gee, it's such a mystery, and has anything really changed in terms of aviation. Can a pilot, for instance, switch off transpondence and whatever else that was switched off in that plane so we lost its location? Surely that is the very least changed.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 13: Look, the issue here is that you need to be able to switch things off. For instance, if you have a short circuit, if you've got a five, if you've got an issue like that, you need to be able to switch things off. And a transponder needs to be switched off when the aircraft arrives at an airport, so there are some dynamics there where you need to be able to switch things off. What they've improved is the tracking of aircraft and that's involved an evolving process. But look, at the end of the day. If you have a rogue pilot, there's still not an awful lot you can do about it. Fortunately, that's a very very rare event. If that is what turns out to be the case in this situation.
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Speaker 1: They're pretty sure that is the case, isn't it, Because at this pilot's home they found a flight path leading to where the search is today. Essentially that's what he had planned on his flight simulator at home.
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Speaker 13: Yes, correct, that he had planned this particular route, and he did this about approximately two months before this particular flight, and he wiped that from his flight simulator program. It was later recovered by the police. And Yes, within the industry itself, although the Malaysian government has exonerated the captain and the co pilot, but within the wider aviation community, it is accepted that it had to be a human. Had to be human. The plane could not have done what he did by itself, so it had to be a human, and most likely it was the captain because of other factors related to the captain as well.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Jeffrey, they've only got a period of time. Now, it's not the shortest period, but it's months, isn't it, In which they can search because of the weather.
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Speaker 13: You look absolutely right, Mack. You've basically got till the end of March early April into twenty twenty six. They've got three underwater autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs, and these are called Huguen six thousands. That will see the six thousand denote six thousand meters. That's how deep they can go. These autonomous underwater vehicles are pre programmed to do a particular course and up and back searching. They can search for up to, depending on the payload, between seventy and one hundred hours autonomously, and then they return to the ship and all the ship picks them up at the location where they where they've been pre programmed to. So with three of those working, they can do seven hundred and fifty square killer meters a day, and over the fifty five search days that they plan, they could do up to about thirty seven thousand square kilometers.
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Speaker 8: Of the area.
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Speaker 1: All right, So well, let's, as we said, hope they find it this time around. Jeffrey, appreciate your insights. Thank you, and best wishes for twenty six to.
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Speaker 13: You and to you too and the listeners.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Jeff Jeffrey Thomas, global aviation expert and based in Perth. On the resumption yesterday for the search for MH three seventy off waters off Wa Indian Ocean. Let's hope they find it. News is coming up on five double A and still to come in the next little while. We'll talk with the RAA urging south south east to make travel plans ahead of time and making safety a priority, which is good advice for all of us. We'll have a chat with Charles Mountain from the RAA next. On the other side of the news twenty three to nine. Steven at Norwood, Hello, Stephen, I.
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Speaker 2: Do Matthew how I I'm good?
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Speaker 1: How are you?
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Speaker 20: Yeah?
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Speaker 16: Not too bad?
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Speaker 23: Just this to them three seventy. I can't believe it's been twelve years. I just wondered why it's taken so long for him to get to this stage. Actually I remember actually when it happened that day.
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Speaker 1: But it's a big ocean, a big ocean box. Yeah, sorry, it's a big ocean. And you know they've looked, but they just haven't found it.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, fair enough. Well, yeah, I was talking about the black box, and I don't know if you know that that was actually invented by an Australian guy in Melbourne years ago, nineteen fifty four. Yeah, and they no longer use tape. They is digital now. But my question has always been I don't understand why the Aline companies when the plane goes down, the black box goes down with the plane, which I find strange. I've always wondered why the Aline company's bowing and don't actually build some sort of thing in the back of the plane that actually a jettison the actual data before crashes and it comes down on the chute and then it will sort of give off a beacon signal it floats or whatever. Because nine times out of ten when the plane goes down, well this one, it goes down with the plane thousands of feet in the water and they never find it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Glenn has texted in on that. He says, the black boxes in an aircraft only sends pings for three months. If the time was you know, if this was three months ago, they could have found the plane. I recall, Steven, you might too when they started looking for it and they were listening for the ping. By the time they worked out it was likely in the Indian Ocean, they only had days to go. It was in the last days of that three month or whatever period it was to listen for the pings, and they went out but couldn't find it, so you know, perhaps not in the right spot or whatever. Yeah.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, you know you could have one the beacon that's actually got solar panels built in and it would just float on the top and give off the signaling definitely when there were sun You know, I just don't know what they've got that technology now, just biggest belief.
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Speaker 1: How would they know that the black box know the jettison itself. I mean, if the pilot is rogue and decides he's going to crash the plane, now, why would the black box jettison in that sort of situation.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I.
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Speaker 23: Guess I have to have some sort of fail safe you know, where the plane was in a dive or whatever. Then you know, it was like some sort of computer took over and basically just or have two of them, have one that's actually like the old type which just goes down with the plane, and have one in the back that near the tail end that just the jettison's out automatically, so it's giving off signals.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well there's technology to be invented. I guess Steven, New Year, thank you, thank you for the call. Debbie says, yep, it's an Odsie invention, the black box, and it's actually orange. There we are so they can find it easier when they're searching through you know, wreckage the color. But there we go. I didn't know it was an Australian thing. That's that's interesting. Well. The mess as we head into New Year's Eve tonight is to plan ahead for a safe New Year's Eve in terms of public transport or transport full stop, your own public whatever it is. Charles Mountain, RAA, Senior manager of Road Safety on the line, Charles, Happy New Year to you, your family, to all there at the RAA.
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Speaker 2: You met, and to all your listeners.
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Speaker 1: Now the big crowds expected, I'm stunned from the chat earlier today with the Port Adelaide mayor. They had eighty thousand. We were one of the crowds along the Lafeva Peninsula last year. Eighty thousand people down around Semaphore. That is incredible, and I guess big crowds everywhere wherever you are tonight.
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Speaker 25: Well yes, I mean and particularly since the weather forecast looks so good, and we would expect everyone'll be taking advantage of that and getting out to venues wherever they are. So you know, as we say that, the safety message years there has been planned for the Newyear's Eve celebrations is to plan ahead. So particularly if you intend to have a few drinks, you do need to ensure that you make those get home safety plans before hands, because once you're out there and start drinking, it's really is too late to make those rational choices in many cases. So planning ahead and that way you can enjoy the whole evening, obviously get home safely and start twenty twenty six in a cake manner. You know, we were just looking back through the called the Chars statistics for twenty twenty five. You know we've lost eighty five people this year. There's been seven hundred and seventy three to this injury. So you know, really, while the years the celebrations are a time literally to celebrate, it's this is the cebering time just to remember what's gone before us in the year, and we're really make a conservative to ensure we don't see the same thing occurring again in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Now there is pre public transport from right through the night. Six pm is at five pm till six am, pretty good thirty hours.
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Speaker 25: Yes, it's from five pm the day free public transport kicks in and then it's till six am on years toy itself. And if you're attending the Big Bass League match, there's actually free public transport available particular holders from three pm today as well. So lots of options out there for people, and it's probably particularly important to take advantage of the free public transport where possible because obviously taxis and rideshare vehicles are being high demand doing those busy periods.
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Speaker 13: So the other really important point.
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Speaker 25: We're saying, if you're out about driving police look out for pedestrians. Sometimes pedestrians not particularly aware of what's going on but their own environment and safety, so just be mindful of that and you may find that people wandering crossroads where they shouldn't be, for example, So slow down in those busy areas, just keep extra viculent during that period, particularly leading up to midnight and the post midnight celebrations as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, and you know it goes without saying drinking and driving Charles don't mix drug taking. All of that doesn't mix very well with others on the right.
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Speaker 25: Absolutely much, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 13: I think you know we're seeing this.
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Speaker 25: There are good opportunities and good options for people to avoid putting yourself in a situation where you feel like you have to drive and you shouldn't. So please ensure you take those options up and that way you can safely enjoy if you're going out to enjoy a party for example, even think about staying over for example, so you're not forcing yourself to drive in the conditions when you shouldn't. At the end of the day, it's about enjoying the start of twenty twenty six and more importantly, continuing to induce so through that year.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Charles just well, I've got you. Earlier this week we were talking about it on five double a Breakfast with the Transport Minister. Ten million dollars for black Spot funding. Given our backlog here of what is it two billion, ten million, I guess you take every cent you get from the FEDS. But Jue, that's a tiny drop in the ocean.
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Speaker 25: Well, I think to be fair we need to understand the black Spot program is quite specific.
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Speaker 13: It is actually for relatively low.
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Speaker 25: Cost but the high value projects across the road network which can improve safety at locations where they've been an identified crash history. The call for inc increased funding for road maintenance continues, and it's obviously one of the things that will be asking about state government and going into the state election as well, because we do need to see an increased level of investment to address the backlog of road maintenance across the entire network. The black Spot Funding program certainly do welcome the increased spending in that, but like all programs, there's always an opportunity to increase funding because there are so many things that can be done across the network to make things safer. But having said that, to us, also really important as drivers, cycles and pedestrians too, that we also take responsibility for our own safety, perhaps more than we've done in the past, and perhaps that it might be a good news resolution for people is just to ensure that whatever we do, wherever we go and however we travel, we do it in the safest possible manner, and perhaps offer a little bit of courtesy and patience toward our few travelers and road users wherever possible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, good on your child. Appreciate your time today and right throughout twenty five and look forward to chatting with your next year.
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Speaker 25: Our pleasure, Thanks very much, Matthew.
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Speaker 1: Charles, Mountain, Ria Senior Manager Road Safety. Andrew says, money, technology, and a huge ocean. The reason MH three to seventy still hasn't been found. They're actually two black boxes. One is an in flight recorder recording flight crew conversation, the other for recording the aircraft's Avionyx engineer frame, navigation, attitude, speed, et cetera, and inputs to the equipment by the flight crew. Well, look, the team's searching now. As you heard with Jeffrey Thomas, three locations are going to be moving to over the next three to four months, weather permitting, as they search the Indian Ocean, and with the information from that captain's flight simulator at his home where he planned this trip out, they're reasonably confident, fair to say, as to where this plane is. Well, let's hope their confidence is rewarded with an act result, because this is one mysbree, we want put to bed as to where this plane has landed. All right, time is twelve and a half two nine on five double a back shortly and at summer breakfast. Because the weather's so nice as this time of the year. Obviously twenty five today, mostly sunny, sixteen right now in the city, dropping tonight for New Year's Eve to twelve degrees, although that'll be early tomorrow morning four five six am. Around midnight expected to be about fifteen. So look, that may be depending where you are on the foreshore. Perhaps might be a tad cooler or a breeze creating a windsheel factor. Might pay to have a jacket. I think tonight shorts will be all right, but a jacket to keep yourself warm on the whole. Tomorrow thirty and sunny, sunny on Friday thirty two, Saturday thirty one and sunny Sunday will be twenty nine and sunny Monday. This is the fifth of January, by now see the years flying by. Already thirty one and sunny, and Tuesday the sixth sunny thirty six degrees, so warming up by next Tuesday thirty six by then, all right, so it is it is this time of year. Love it though, love it didn't get hot the other day. Don't mind that it's difficult trying to sleep air conditioner on, no problems. Eventually slept like a baby once I fell asleep on a hot pillow through the day. But it's good. Gotta love the last bit of well not the last, We've got a bit of sun to come, I suppose. But the warmth is just wonderful given we had such a cold prolonged winter right into November really before the weather started finding up. Even the poor old Jacarandas were a couple of weeks late in going purple this year to the RAA, well, don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. Better to be a member with RAA Road Service than be stuck on the side of the road checking fuel. Watch around the place. BPX Convenience Elizabeth Downs on Hamblin Road dollar forty eight point nine. That's good United at Adelaide Airport, Sir Richard William Avenue one fifty five point five, the BPX Convenience at og Road one fifty five point five, Diesel at Mobile Hampstead Gardens, Northeast Road one sixty nine point five and BPX Convenience at Prospect on Main North Road a dollar seventy one point nine, so some good prices there for unlettered But yes, it is time to shop around too, because I've seen some petrol prices still right up there at a dollar eighty nine, and you don't want to be paying that when you can be paying it round the dollar fifty mark. Janelle says Matthew, does free public transport mean the trains will run throughout the night? Usually last train is eleven fifty from the city, Janelle, my understanding is yes, but please check that with Adelaide Metro to be sure. But free public transport, as I understand it, is bus trains and I was going to say trams, but presumably the replacement bus service trams through the city I imagine though and out to Heinmarsh there as they've been running over the last few months. That's my understanding, Janelle, But double check that with the website. Maybe we can try and do that in the next few minutes. But as I understand it, New Year's Eve public transport does run and has for many years, buses, trains and trams through the night, but double check, Dom says, read the black box. If a malfunctioner on an aircraft, no decent pilot plans to crash will continue to try and save the aircraft up to the point of collision. Black box needs to stay with the aircraft so data can be collected for full flight and can avoid this happening again with information. In the future, aircraft have emergency locator beacons on board, which are normally impact activated and used to locate the last position of an aircraft through satellite. This gives emergency service an opportunity to pinpoint location and look for aircraft and survivors. That black box can then be recovered. Well that's how it usually works. Good on, you're dumb, Thank you for the black box one oh one lesson and makes perfect sense. This is why you don't want to jettison it, which I don't see how that can happen. If in the case of MH three point seventy in the pilot bringing it down to potentially a glows into the water, how would the black box know to jennison itself, as Stephen was suggesting a little while ago. So no, I think you know, the greater minds and ours have worked out how that should should operate in the future, and I'm sure it will. Regarding public transport, the government yesterday announced a suite of public transport hubs and services designated as declared public transport hubs, and they include interchanges like Aberfoyle Park, Arndale Colonnades, Elizabeth City Center, Flinder's Medical Center, Flinder's UNI, and others. Is a whole stack of them, along with railway stations including Elizabeth Flinders where else a few others. Woodville Park and Rides are included, Mount Barker, Klemsig, Golden Grove, Port, Dock Paradise. So there's a whole heap of interchanges, car parks and stations declared and more thirty more than thirty transport declared as precincts so police can be searching for knives and other whatever else that means alcohol, you know, you name it as part of the declared precincts they've announced for shopping centers. Nineteen knives, by the way, detected in shopping centers at the Adelaide railway station, following four thousand searchers over the last little while. So it's working. The other thing I had to talk to you about today almost out of time. I should have done this earlier. The Police Commissioner, the Federal Police Commissioner in Chrissy Barrett said yesterday about the Bondai shooters acting alone combing the movements of the pair, since fifteen innocent people were killed, pitty they weren't doing it in advance. But the AFP confirming the father and son traveled to the Philippines for almost a month. The Philippines National Police say they barely left their hotel and there's no evidence to suggest they went underwent training for the attack in the Philippines while they were there. Now, why would you go to the Philippines to barely leave your hotel? And if that information from Philippine authorities is right, the question would be, well, what visitors did they have to their hotel room? Would it not? This is anyway AFP commission at Chrissy Barrett speaking yesterday on this issue. Here's what she had to say.
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Speaker 7: There is no evidence to suggest these alleged defenders were part of a broad out terrorist cell or were directed by others to carry out an attack. However, I want to be clear, I am not suggesting that they were there.
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Speaker 1: For tourism, all right, and this is a little bit more of it.
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Speaker 7: What this points to and I will again advise this is a point in time. Assessment is that these individuals are alleged to have acted alone. The AFP has had ongoing investigat for some time into those who corrupt Islam in their radical recruitment drive for hatred and fear. We have gone through the sermons line by line.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure what we learned from that, but she and AFP obviously based on the advice from Philippines authorities, this pair flew to the Philippines, a hot bed of Isis in our part of the world, and barely left their rooms or room. So why did they go? Then it's the obvious question, Well, you fly, you fly a quarter of the way around the world to do nothing. That's interesting. I don't know what that says, frankly, But if they didn't leave or who went to them is the obvious question that springs to my mind at least. But you might have thoughts on that you might want to share with Richard Pasco a little bit after the news, which is coming up in a couple of minutes time here on five double a's being great being with you throughout twenty twenty five, just wonderful on nights for half the year and news at the start of the year, and here today wish you, your family, everyone you're with the best for tonight and certainly for next year in twenty six and look forward to speaking with you on five double A Breakfast on Friday morning, the second day of January. Happy New Year,
Speaker 1: How five double a summer breakfast. Matthew Pantellis six past six on five double A good morning, Welcome to New Year's Eve. It is the last day of twenty twenty five, the thirty first of December, three hundred and sixty fifth day of the year. Haven't they flown by? They have flown by this year. If I have a New Year's wish, it's that twenty twenty six goes by that little bit more slowly. It has just been a rush, unbelievably fast. But here we are, the very last day. And the message, of course, as always on New Year's Eve, is take it easy on the celebrations, you know, don't drink and drive. There's a heap of the cleared public precincts, including all of public transport now, so you know police will be looking at that, no doubt over the next twenty four hours. We'll be hearing more about that tomorrow and the next day, so there's a bit to come on that. The revelers will be out tonight. The weather's pretty nice today, good start, a little bit crisp out there, just to tad, but it's a good start to the day with the temperature now as Kendall said, thirteen degrees and heading up to twenty five. It's about as cold now as it's been all night in terms of a low temperature dip down a tad lower at twelve point nine, but that's been where it's been setting and climbing up again to twenty five without the cloud that we had yesterday. Today is sunny, is the outlook from the bureaus. So nice weather and enjoy it's only warming up thirty tomorrow, thirty two for Friday, thirty one on Saturday, twenty nine on Sunday. Just pretty perfect, pretty perfect. That'll aid weather, and like what's going on at the top end of the country where both the East Coast and the West Coast are getting hammered by various low pressure systems at the moment. We'll talk about that with a forecaster a bit later on from Sky News, Rob Sharp, their forecaster from the Bureau of Meteorology. There. We'll talk to them about Adelaide weather as well in a separate conversation a bit later on in the program. We'll go to the central markets this morning, which would be I imagine busy busy for New Year's Eve, not as busy probably as Christmas Eve, but nevertheless it'd be people. They're having parties and shouting friends over and whatever to count in the new year. We'll check in with what the councils are doing, the council areas where you can go and see fireworks, and what is happening down at Glen Elk with the final bit of Jetty Road to go around Moseley Square, their Colligue Street, Culli Road, whatever it is that is yet to be finished. So we'll check in with them and and the city of course as well. Talk to the man in charge of the fireworks, Andrew Howard from Howard and Sons Pyrotechnics. The Premier will join us, the leader of the opposition will join us. We'll keep them apart for the time being. They will be on a stage together at some point debating over the next three months as we head into an election. I can imagine what each of their New Year's resolution is, but I'd love to hear yours as well. And what is the point of New Year's resolutions? Do you still bother? It seemed the cool thing to do when you were about twenty, right, and get fit, lose weight. All of that saves some money, and you never do and they go out of the window. In fact, I've got some stats here. Australians may be stepping into twenty twenty six full of optimism, this release says, but new research shows the motivation fades fast. One in five Australians broke their resolutions in the first week of January twenty five. By the end of the month, three in four had fallen off track seventy seven percent. National poll of over one thousand Australians conducted by my Fitness Poal found nearly two in five, or thirty nine percent, willing to spend one thousand dollars or more in pursuit of the new year's resolution. Despite the investment, over half admitted fifty five percent they repeat the same resolution year after year, so there's no point And why wait till January the first? If you resolve to get fit, why not do it on May the third? You know, just crazy, but there it is. I think as you go through your twenties, yet you're motivated, resolutions, all of that. As you get a bit older, you realize it's all a bit futile and the year flew by. Last year you'd be forgiven if it was October before you realize you hadn't started your resolution just yet. I think if you've got any anything you planned to do, love to hear what's in store for twenty twenty six for you and will it be better than twenty twenty five. Hope it is a better year. I mean it finished dreadfully this year with the horror of Bondai, but yes, twenty six on the way. I hope you've got champagne on ice and everything else going on at your place. Holiday Makers reminded to take care around the water over the festive season as well. Data showing the week between Christmas and New Year the deadliest, an average of three drownings per day around the country last year from Royal Life Saving CEO Justin scar says holiday behavior increases the risk of trouble in the water.
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Speaker 2: Alcohol is a significant factor in drowning. It encourages people to take unnecessary risks and overestimate their ability. We urge you to leave alcohol to the end of the day and certainly well after activities like boating or fishing.
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Speaker 1: So common sense as always got to be a place for it. For people hoping to have spent their New Years on a cruise ship that ran aground off pop On, New Guinea. They've about eighty of them have been flown back to Australia. The Coral Adventurer struck the reef on Saturday, stranding passengers and crew. I imagine it's still there. I don't know, but eighty passengers on this cruise ship which ran aground off pup On New Guinea flown back to Australia. So happy New Year, welcome home, and thinking you were going to be on a cruise ship off the ward international water somewhere bringing in the new year. Not to be, not to be, but all right, there we go. Experts say relationship education in schools should be revamped and be rebranded violence prevention. A monash unique generated gendered violence researcher calling for relationship education to stopping the skirting of the issue, calling itself family violence prevention right in your face, Dr Stephanie Westcott, it's welcomed. A British plan to upskilled teachers, to spot and treat misogyny in the classroom and send high risk students to behavioral courses, in contrast with a softer gender free approach in Australia that speaks of disrespect and misbehavior, not violence, collective shouts. Melinda Tankard Rice telling News Corp the language in Australian classrooms was often worded so it wouldn't alienate boys, and she's critical of big tech algorithms that pour misogynistic violence into boys feeds despite social media bands. So all right, there's something in that, I suppose, but call it what it is instead of using soft language that doesn't offend anyone. If you want to get to a problem, you've got to get to the source of it, the root of it. Back to New Year's even, experts encouraging us to take some time to consider health thin king central to celebrations leading to a spike and ambulance callouts for alcohol and drug related harm. Eleanor Costello from the Drug and Alcohol Foundation says staying on top of small habits is key to starting twenty twenty six on the right foot, indeed, on both your feet.
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Speaker 3: We're really encouraging people to prioritize other activities that bruce their health and well being, things like exercise, getting out in nature, eating really well, and also really prioritizing feet, which is sometimes hard to do this time of year.
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Speaker 1: And this is this is sad news. Damien Martin, of course formerles he tests cricketer, in a serious condition. He fell ill on Boxing Day. He's fifty four. The cause of his illness hasn't been revealed. Brad Hardy, who's nine radio presenter at six PR, offered his thoughts and prayers to Martin and his family during his programs.
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Speaker 4: Currently is residing in an acquaincilance hospital and he is in for the fight of his life. So I'd like everybody to have, you know, certainly their best wishous and positive thoughts for Matto.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that doesn't sound good, but hopefully pull through and it's okay. Australia's political leaders using their New Year's messages to focus on hope for next year. The Prime Minister and Opposition leader referencing the Bondai Beach terror attack as the low point of the past year. Liberally to Susan Lee believes our resilience will help shape the next twelve months as.
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Speaker 5: We step into the year ahead. There is real reason for hope. Australia is at its best when we look out for one another, when we reject division, and when we meet challenge with courage. And common purpose.
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Speaker 1: And Anthony ALBERINSI comfort and Australians will rise to the challenges ahead by working together and all of us looking after each other.
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Speaker 6: No matter what the world throws at us, we will keep doing things our way, stay true to who we are, hold on to everything that makes us the best country.
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Speaker 1: Honor alrightio. Sixteen past six on five, double A eight double two to three double o double Oh is the number. We'll take a quick break and back on the other side. Nineteen past six on five, double a, thirteen degrees in the city. Cooler start to the day. A little bit of cloud cover over the top of the Mount Lofty Rangers, not a lot of it. The sun will break through that in just a tick, but it's blue skies everywhere else. As far as I could see, it was dark. As far as I could see, it was blue, without much cloud around anywhere. Coming into work a bit earlier this morning, so still still pretty black at that stage though. But nevertheless, the sun is on its way for the final time in twenty twenty five. As long as it keeps coming up next year, that's a good start to it, I reckon. So that's something to look forward to, is the New Year's resolution dead? Is it dead? We've got a movie pass on the line, love to hear from you. Eight double two to three double double? Oh? And what has convinced you of that? Specially?
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Speaker 7: You know?
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Speaker 1: Have you? Have you given up on them because you couldn't lose the whatever kilos you wanted to lose, You couldn't save the extra dollar to go on that holiday, whatever it might be, Why is it dead to you? The New Year's resolution? Eight double two to three double o double O. Peter's called in from Malston regarding what the bus to Gleneld Peter, is it not working?
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Speaker 8: No, no, no, I remember what you used to say about being empty. So yes, it got the two six three from stop twenty three Brighton Road into Antack Highway and the first stop there near the bowling club. You can't catch the trams substitute bus. I had to get off for the next stop, and some lovely people from near black Forest told me you got to get the g L one, not the gl two because I was heading to have fronts with father Joan. It's good with right, So I've got the g L two and there were one, two, three four people okay, And they run every ten minutes because of the trams running every ten.
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Speaker 1: Minutes, right, right, Well that's why they're empty. I suppose it's too frequently. Maybe I don't.
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Speaker 8: During summer both chains were up to competitive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah they were, yeah, correct, correct, But they.
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Speaker 8: Made huge progress. At Marion Road the overpass is looking really great. Same at Morphet Road. I'm just wondering if anyone from the government knows whether the trains will start running at the end of January or not.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's been the plan and I haven't haven't heard it's changed, So stick with that. They will, is the answer.
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Speaker 8: Now, I've got two New Years resolutions. You're going to laugh at both of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. First of all, give up drinking already in moderation, right.
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Speaker 8: I can't give up smoking because I don't smoke, and very few coffee like I can have up to three coffees, which is too many. But most of all, I will be passionate about my football and nothing would change my love for the football club. And the other thing is for those who are interested, I'll be at you at eight said this morning, come along and say hello. And I've got for the first five people to mix soldered nuts and if you bring a little bag or something. I put them in their almond cashews, walnut everything, brazil nut and they go down well with a beer. Yeah, okay, yeah, Now what are you doing for New Year's massive?
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Speaker 1: Whatever's, whatever's handy. I suppose I'm not. I'm not a massive beer drinker. Don't mind a beer or two, especially on a hot day, but too much of it just bloats me. So I'd rather, you know, I'd rather have a spirit or a shampas, maybe a bit earlier on in the night.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, well that's the tradition. I won't be awake. I watched a bit of the fireworks on Channel two and listen to Andrew Public fall asleep.
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Speaker 1: Oh there you go happy a bit.
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Speaker 8: And also my late mum, she was a beautiful lady. She couldn't handle old Lang sign that song. It reminded her of my late grandfather also did her and it brought back sad memories. And Mum Harvey ever had a drink. She'd have a drink on our birthdays and she had a drink. News even that was about it. Yeah, but I'll certainly make up for it.
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Speaker 1: And you didn't get it from her obviously, No but she was a.
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Speaker 8: Heavy smoker, and I've never touched them. Who knows what goes on in our brain.
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Speaker 1: I know that's true, That's very true.
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Speaker 8: I'm so passionate about going before because all you're doing is watching then chasing a ball around and you scream, you abuse the umpires and get into trouble you can't wear of course.
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Speaker 1: Well you're not an orphan in that regard. And it happens around the world in different sports.
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Speaker 8: So you know what about the soccer in England?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's what I mean, that's what I'm thinking. It happens around the world in different sports. It happens with different size balls that they chase around, whether they be cricket balls or footballs or parks on ice or whatever.
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Speaker 8: Exactly what about the when John Macrono used to play tennis and he matched his bracket, So just that guy I can't remember his name, the gore and in Fanisivik yep, he had a tempah. Anyway, you have a wonderful new year and you're on another week? Are you?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
00:15:24
Speaker 1: I am another week?
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Speaker 8: Are you doing news? And what are you doing after that?
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Speaker 1: I'm on holidays after that?
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Speaker 8: So we deserve them.
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Speaker 9: I do.
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Speaker 8: You're damn right, I do so I can annoy leaves now, can I? You can feel free As long as he doesn't talk about Carlton, well.
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Speaker 1: He probably will, Peter.
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Speaker 8: Good luck to Stirt and Port next year. And I hope everyone out there has a healthy twenty twenty six and it's a lot better for Australia as the country. Good luck to both sides in the twenty twenty sixth election. What time are they coming round?
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Speaker 1: Eightish, give or take a bit before, a bit after. Yeah, somewhere there, all right, Good on you, Peter, Thank you, have a good day. Good luck with you giving away your salted nuts. Twenty five past six. I see Don Bradman's rare Baggy Green is going up for auction at Lloyd's. It's a nineteen forty seven forty eight series cap. Baggy Green got the date on the front under the Australian coat of arms. Experts predict that could fetch a million dollars or more due to Bradman, of course, and it has remained. It was given by Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer, unnamed. I think just looking to see if it is name, but no, I can't see it, and has been in that recipient's family for over seventy five years across three generations. It's never been publicly displayed or sold in that period since Bradman handed it over. Presumably in that same period forty eight that was the Invincibles Tour, Wasn't it pretty sure?
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Speaker 9: It was?
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Speaker 1: Bidding is to open at one dollar and it'll close on Australia Day, the auction. It starts on the weekend, I think, so it's going for most of the month. The cap was given directly by Bradman to a fellow Test cricketer who shared the field with him late in his legendary career, remaining in the recipient's family for more than seventy five years, passed down through three generations, never afforded, are never offered for public sale, never displayed outside of the family. Baggy green caps linked to Bradman's playing days. Extraordinarily scarce players received a new cap at the beginning of each Test series. In rare cases, there was an additional cap issued. Most known examples today held by museums or tightly held private collecttions. Artifacts with such a clear chain of ownership and personal connection to Bradman almost never appear on the open market, so experts say could even exceed a million dollars. Given Bradman's unmatched legacy in the exceptional providence of the cap genuine piece of cricket history. The auction house says that Sir Donald Bradman personally gifted uninterrupted family ownership for seventy five years. It's direct link to the Don make it one of the most important Bradman related pieces to come to auction. He retired from test cricket in forty eight, so Invincibles was a bit before that, with a Koreer batting average of ninety nine point nine four, one of the greatest statistical achievements in world sport. How about that? That's certainly all true, all of that about Bradman, But gosh, she was quite the cricket wasn't any He only made a few runs in that last innings. He would have cracked the tun But maybe it's better he didn't, you know, remain a human as opposed to a god. Remain a mere mortal don. But I wonder if that ever bugged him, that he didn't crack the hundred as an average, but got so close. I suppose he achieved so much it didn't really matter. And let's face it, we all know he was an exceptional cricketer from practicing hitting a golf ball with a stump coming off a rain water tank or a tennis ball, was it, whatever?
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Speaker 10: It was?
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Speaker 1: Seen that footage of him doing that when he was older, showing how he did it and could still do it. But good eye hand coordination obviously, and being a nuggetly little bloke. That's part of it, because some of the best batsmen have been short of stature, and Don Bradman fits right into that. All right, news coming up in about a minute from now on five double A yet to come on the other side, but we'll certainly talk to police and the weather Bureau. Also we'll go around the grounds. In terms of New Year's Eve, we'll start off at the central markets. Tony O'Connell from O'Connell's Meats keeping an eye on things down there for us, and he will let us know about activity in the market this morning as people gear up for New Year's Eve celebrations tonight on the last day of the year. Some other topics coming up over the next two and a half hours. We'll also have a look at the search for MH three seventy, which went missing now almost twelve years ago. The search is back on. It started yesterday. Jeffrey Thomas from Global he's a global aviation expert, and spoken with him about this search and disappearance of MH three seventy a few times over the last twelve years, and he'd be as much as anyone hoping that this search. And they're super confident this team. They get paid if they find it, so you know they're not out there mucking around in deep waters off the coast of Wa. They will be looking with intensity to try and locate this missing plane now that's been gone for so long. All right, we'll take a break for news here on five double A twenty five to seven on five double A few text messages that have come through over the last half hour. Person he is saying, Matthew, did you hear Wilson's security are guarding our defense bases Wilson Security Chinese Zone. This texter says, why aren't our own army guarding our basis? That would be a good start, wouldn't it. Do we not have enough personnel? Could that be the reason? I don't know, but yeah, why would a private security company guard, no matter who owns it, frankly, guard an army base. Why doesn't the army guard its own basis? Isn't that part of their skill set? You would think. Another text here says my dear daughter came in to find me yelling at the TV during a Crow's five, the second one, presumably, she says, even the first one, she says, the players, So do they realize they don't have to fight over one ball? They can just go and buy another one? No surprise, she hates football, right and mix says, I hope Peter is not reaching into his trouser pockets for the handful of mixed salted Nutsi's dishing out to some poor, unsuspecting victim with a spare plastic bag. Yep, mix similar thought. And I'm just wondering where the pub is that's got empty nut containment's on its bar. But all right, thank you. Tony O'Connell at O'Connell Meets is of course at the Central Market this morning. I imagine, Tony, good morning to you, Happy New Year. I imagine it's pretty busy down there.
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Speaker 11: It's just sort of King of the Week's been very good. A lot a lot of interspects, people, a lot of families coming to Adelaide. Obviously, the caravan parks and little nuns run down because Monday and Tuesdays, people walking with their eyes open, their mouths. It's just fantastic market and you buying up big just for the holiday break obviously, but for New Year's Eve as well.
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Speaker 12: So it's been very busy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So what can you see as the attraction. Obviously barbecues would be a go tonight, so you'd be doing all right.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, Sausages, Chaslick's, anything meat or something a little bit different roast have been very populars for the steak of all things. Yeah, we're on the top end spokes show. I think people might just be lashing out having dinner at homes that they're going out and then doing something nice and the barbecue and their new barbecues they may have got for Christmas with all these new smokers and all those sorts of easing brisket and so cooking meat still back into Yeah, it's been very busy.
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Speaker 1: Very good, excellent, So that's good. And any any specials in the fruit and vegs you can spot over the counter there and tell.
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Speaker 11: Looking straight in front of me. Michael's there, he's got he's got two, three, four palettes of produce coming in on fork list, looks like Berry's. He's got bananas by the palette their main. They're three for five dollars. Banana's three dollars. There, I'm stealing buddy, Michael Keeling's perometerous he will beyond us. Yeah, mangoes, they're three for five dollars, which is very very good bye in there. But yeah, there's just sort of virtuale got to get all their book fifts out of the market in the next ten to fifteen minutes because the boys have madly packing up all fresh produce, cutting all the collies. There's a big chopper going there cutting all the leaves off the collies. And the bread man has just put on garlic bread, an absolute beautiful smell.
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Speaker 8: It is very nice.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, the bread bar there, they do some lovely things. It's like when Michaels he's got a new popcorn machine in his store and when he puts down on with the caramel popcorn.
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Speaker 8: So lucky.
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Speaker 1: You are lucky working there as a person, just a butcher shop somewhere. You've got it all.
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Speaker 8: That's right.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we're lucky. And yeah the pantry there is they can go and get what you need. No, very good, very busy place to market, and we're shutting at three today, so I want to get in a bit.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about that. So three pm there we go, normally, Okay, terrific. Good on you, Tony. You have a great New Year's tonight, and all the best for twenty six, all the.
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Speaker 11: Very best, Matthew. Nice to hear on the radio years See you.
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Speaker 1: Later on Tony O'Connell. Down there O'Connell's meets the market. A busy place and obviously a lot going on. How's the mangoes? Three for five bucks? What is going on with that? There's been a mango explosion up north. Good for us and they are pretty damn good the mangoes. I can remember my dad buying a mango in the in the nineteen seventies and an avocado as well, and people had no idea he peeled it. We were in the David Jones food Court, which was upstairs in the restaurant. Do you remember that in the old DJs and it was up on the I want to say sixth floor. I reckon it was the sixth and you'd walk around there. There was a traveler that was furniture and whatever else was on the sixth floor, but you'd go into the food area. There was a travel a on the side of that as you walked in, and then you were in the food court, which was, you know, like any food court today, only it was just David Jones. So you'd go to the cafeteria essentially with your train and load up. That's why it was done. It's unreal, isn't it. And we see he sat down and we peeled opened this mango and people at the next table thought it was ice cream like some sort of giladi. No one knew. This is in the mid seventies, and it was delish. I think it was my very first avo, maybe second. But they were nice even back then, but not how they are today. Just a common everyday bit of fruit and vegg. Back then at delicacy, almost mangoes were in the same same boat. Pretty rare to find a mango in Adelaide back in the seventies, but they've exploded in popularity and everything else, and they are at this time of year, oh so nice. So juicy, so sweet, so full of taste. Beautiful, Peter, says Matthew, wishing you twelve months of happiness, fifty two weeks of success, three hundred and sixty five days of laughter, eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty hours of joy?
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Speaker 8: Is that?
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Speaker 1: How many there are in a year? How many of those do we waste? Eight thousand and seven sixty? How many do your death scroll on Facebook or Instagram? Of those eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty, there's a resolution if you want a resolution. Cut down on that? Oh, how could you fill eight thousand apart from sleep? The unproductive ways we use our time seriously goes on. Five hundred and twenty five thousand, six hundred minutes of good luck, Try not to waste a second, Peter, good on your Peter, So true and same to you, my friend, Thank you for the text. But yes, those minutes five twenty five thousand minutes probably less relatable than eight thousand, seven hundred and sixty hours. Gosh, we would waste half of that, wouldn't we? Per year? Put sleep aside? Whatever's left, we would waste half. I reckon it feels like we do. It feels like I do you know, why haven't I learned to play the piano, or I don't know, develop the cure to malaria or something. There's got to be better things to do than sitting there on your phone, and we do that a lot, I think communally, because what's the point of having the phone otherwise?
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Speaker 13: Right?
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Speaker 1: But there it is interesting, Thank you, Peter. That's food for thought and not probably a little bit on the depressing side when you think about how you do you use your time talking of all of that UNI of essay, keeping kids safe online starts at home. Just to reminder less than well, of course, our social media restrictions for kids have kicked in, and while the onus is on social media platforms to prevent underage access, and we know kids, they've you know, so nobody texted in the other day saying kids screwed up the face, change the birth date, screwed up the face for the photo and pasted as an under sixteen. But it's on the parents, according to researchers at UNISSA soon to be Adelaide University, to make sure that the parents are the first line of defense to protect kids online from the moment they start using devices, parents need to be having age appropriate conversations about the content they access and how they interact and behave online. Well, yes, absolutely, it goes without saying really, but there it is. Now it's been said. All right, we will take a break. On the other side, we're going to talk to the weather bureau here about Adelaide's New Year's Eve forecast and New Year's Day and looking ahead as well, but pretty similar to today, just to Tad Warmer. There we go, We're done, and check in with police as well. That's coming up next on five double a breakfast. Let's check in with the weather bureau on Adelaide's beautiful summer weather at the moment. Ursula O'Connor, the duty forecaster, who is on the line. Ursula, good morning, Good morning Matthew. All right, so today where are we heading?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, Well, as you said, a mostly sunny day today, we do have some southeasterly winds flowing over the area, so they could still be a little bit gusty at times today, especially sort of over the hills and about the coastal areas. But we're heading for a top of twenty five in Adelaide today. Glenelga also twenty five Elizabeth twenty seven, Nor Lunga twenty four, and Mount Barker twenty one degrees today, Matthew, and that will largely be the story as we move into the rest of the week and even early next week, We're going to be largely dominated by a ridge of high pressure, so the winds will start to ease off and we'll see fairly settles conditions and mostly sunny skies with temperatures lingering with the maxims around thirty degrees over the next five days or so.
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Speaker 1: All right, I see the end of the period you're forecasting period. We're really warming up again up to thirty six.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, you're right.
00:31:14
Speaker 14: The winds are tender a little bit more northerly early next week, so that's going to bring down some warmer temperatures as we move into sort of Monday and especially Tuesday.
00:31:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tropical cyclone up north there and the weather on the other side of the country, Shila, does that affect us? I mean, sometimes you get a tropical cyclone, particularly on the western side of the nation, off Wa and the clouds associated with that sometimes drift, you know, the thousands of kilometers all the way down to us. But that doesn't seem to be a feature in the weather pattern at the moment.
00:31:48
Speaker 10: No, not quite.
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Speaker 14: At the moment we're in summertime. We see sort of a ridge of high pressure sitting over the southern parts of South Australia, self effecting Adelaide, but certainly through the more northern parts of the state. We are seeing high cloud coming down associated with that tropical cyclone and the trough laying through the northern parts of the country. But for Adelaide itself, the ridge of high pressure keeps that a little bit further north.
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Speaker 1: All right, terrific, appreciate your time. Rchela. You have a great New Years. Thanks Matthew, thank you, Thank you very much. Senior Constable Kimberley broad at Sapole Police Media Kimberley, good morning and happy New Year to you too.
00:32:29
Speaker 10: Good morning, Happy New Year to you and your listeners as well.
00:32:32
Speaker 1: Now I understand a serious crash at Taralie in the mid North.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was just after five point thirty this morning. We were called to the Horrocks Highway after reports of a single vehicle rollover. So the Hoax high is currently closed between the township of Tarlee and Molineau Road. Which is just south of the Barrier Highway turn off. So we do have major crash offices in attendance, so we're just asking people to please be patient but avoid.
00:32:57
Speaker 1: That area if you can, okay, cause on that at this start of space, that's major crash will be going up there to do that.
00:33:04
Speaker 10: That's right and re far too early to speculate.
00:33:07
Speaker 1: All right. Three arrested in a stolen car at Fulham.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, this one was three thirty this morning. Police were alerted to a petrol drive off at a service station on Tapley's Hill Road and it was involving a stolen Mitsubishi ute. That ute had been reported stolen about ten days ago, so patrol searched the area and spotted the car abandoned on Sarko Road. They then arrested three suspects at a nearby address. So we've got a twenty eight year old woman from Pennington. She was being charged with the legal use and the petrol theft. She was bailed to appear in February. But two others, a twenty seven year old woman from Birkenhead and a seventeen year old boy from Salisbury North. They were also charged the illegal use but they've been refused bail and they'll be appearing in court today.
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Speaker 1: All right, there, we are good on you, Kimberly, thank you and it's all the best for twenty six to you and all your team there.
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Speaker 10: Thanks very much, you two.
00:34:01
Speaker 1: All right. It is coming up to eleven minutes to seven o'clock on five double A. The year finishes with a bit of a bang in terms of history. On this day, nineteen seventy five, Cold Chisel performed at Footy Park. Were you there for that seventy five they would have filled Football Park Amy Stadium as it became, of course, but Footy Park in the day in seventy five, Cold Chisel would have been a big crowd. I imagine in their heyday. What's more, Kay Sam would have been part of the repertoire by around seventy five, and not to mention many other songs as well. That's seventy five going back, and this is yesterday, thirtieth of December. But in eighteen seventy two, the only woman to be executed in South Australia, Elizabeth Wilcock, who was twenty five, was hanged at Adelaide Jail for the murder of her husband. Many who and there's a lot of you out there who are on to Elizabeth Wolcock because I mentioned this about a year ago and people rang in about the fact she was very likely innocent. She had been the victim of domestic abuse. There was a young child involved as well, which is just tragic for that child, losing both mum and dad. But anyway, she was the only woman to be executed, and she was hanged at Adelaide Jail thirtieth of December eighteen seventy two. In eighteen eighty, on the thirtieth there was a fierce bushfire Franklin Harbor on the Air Peninsula claimed the lives of Mary MacArthur and six of her children aged two to nineteen. Her husband and four other sons were working on a nearby property. They managed to get to bare ground. I don't think it was high ground, but it was just sparsecrets, so no shrubs and whatever. The fire didn't get to them and they survived. But how tragic is that they're buried. I want to say Cadeena or something, not Franklin Harbor anywhere anyway, but there's a monument to them around the Cadena area or somewhere else anyway, not Franklin Harbor on the other side of the Gulf, and they're buried there, these six children and their mum, Mary MacArthur. But how tragic is that a bushfire in eighteen eighty claiming well almost half a family, big families in those days. So ten kids, six of them died and the mum, the dad and four sons escaped by getting to a patch of land that the fire didn't burn through, which is frightening enough in itself. The heat would have been intense, but they survived.
00:36:40
Speaker 10: That.
00:36:40
Speaker 1: There we are, so that's how historically in South Australia the year finishes off there. I see a lot of rain and flooding in Queensland talking of weather down here in tropical cyclone Hailey, which is the one up north. We're going to talk to a Rob Sharp Sky News Meteorology department on all the water up there. Now. There have been calls over how many years to pipewater to build. There is a dam up there, of course, big dam off up Waway, But there's so many calls over years and why we didn't do this when we built the Alice to Darwin raw line and put pumping stations and a pipeline alongside it at the same time to get some of all that water from up north down to the south where we could really use it. Imagine filling the reservoirs here with water from tropical cyclones up north and low systems that just dump so much rain, as is happening in Queensland. All that water eventually makes its way to Lake Hare, which is magnificent for Lake Care and surrounding wildlife and fauna and flora, but ultimately it goes to waste, just evaporates from there. Can you still sail on Lake Hair out I don't know that you can, which is just nonsense, but anyway, if you can't, But there's a yachting club up there as we know, but I don't know how effective it is in terms of being able to get out on that water. I think you need permits to get to Lake Care anyway, which are easily accessible. They're not there to stop people, but easily obtainable. But you go up there, and the yacht club was certainly concerned about the fact they may not be allowed to sail in the future future flooding events as they've been doing for decades. Which is just one of those almost politically correct things. I mean, come on, what damage is that doing just putting a boat on the water in a big lake like that? Right, will take a break at around six minutes to seven on five Double A and news is coming up at seven o'clock all the latest new sport, traffic and weather with Kendall Breddicks. Seven past seven on five Double A. Good morning to you if you've just woken up and joined us. Half your luck sleeping in. If that's what you're doing on Wednesday, the thirty first of December, maybe on holidays and starting to think about New Year's Eve tonight and what you've got to do around the house, if you're having people over barbecue, getting dusting that off and everything else, cleaning up the place, maybe putting things on ice for later tonight. There's going to be parties around the place, no doubt around about that, and people enjoying New Year's Eve, including down at the city of Port Adelaide and Enfield where traditionally fireworks are being held at Semaphore. I understand that is the case again this year. Clear Bone is the mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield. She's on the line, Happy New Year to you.
00:39:41
Speaker 16: Happy New Year, Matthew. What an exciting time of year it is.
00:39:44
Speaker 1: It is, isn't it? It always is? What is happening around your region.
00:39:47
Speaker 16: We have fireworks at both nine point thirty and at twelve o'clock at Semaphore, and from six o'clock though, that's when you really see the party starting. We've got a DJ and a couple of life performers and this is stretching mostly around the Semaphore Foreshore area. But if you want to park a little bit further away, which is probably the only place you'll get a car park, you can walk along the foreshore and there's a few little activations along the way as well. But this year there is one thing different and that is that we're actually opening up a car park at epen As a reserve in Semaphore South, so that's all free. If you're finding it difficult to find a car park elsewhere, then make sure you're head head down to there, because, of course, with lots and lots of people, I'm expected I think last year we got up around the eighty thousands mark. You definitely need to find a different way to get transport or find a car park and be willing to walk a little bit of a way.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and that's so true because last year we had dinner in the port and headed we watched the nine thirty fireworks actually standing on the Birkenhead Bridge, which is a great view of them. You look all the way, yeah, over the river. I mean they're a little bit distant, but not far. You know, it's only a couple of k's right, so on the bridge right at the behalf of it, you'd get a great view of the fireworks because there's nothing in your wait, you know, just seeing them. But then we made the mistake clear of then driving towards Semaphore. Trying to get out on the Lafeva Peninsula was a nightmare, I've got to say. So good tip about parking further away and being prepared to walk, or finding a train or a bust or something.
00:41:23
Speaker 12: But absolutely yeah.
00:41:25
Speaker 16: And maybe if you are needing to find a car park and you're not from the peninsula, park on the Semaphore South and Port Adelaide's side rather than heading deep into the peninsula, because that's where you're probably getting a bit of strafing home. But hey, more time to bring in the new year in the car with the family on the way.
00:41:42
Speaker 1: That's the glass Huffull approach. Absolutely, So there we are. What else is planned for Port Adelaide for the year. What's your new Year's resolution in terms of me, are you going to run again?
00:41:53
Speaker 7: Yeah?
00:41:53
Speaker 16: Yeah, that's definitely the plan. So yeah, elections obviously for next year, which it all comes around way too quickly. But look, great things are happening in Port Adelaide Endfield and we're really excited about some of the strategies actually that we've got in place, which is really helpful for community and community clubs to know about what's coming up next. So all of the sports improvements and the community open spaces, we really have on a bit of a strategic plan now, so rather than it being hey, guess what this year we're doing this and making political decisions, we're trying to make it more of a strategic decision. So we're working on the sites that need it most first of all, and working our way through all of them. So there's a few of those happening, but our biggest projects definitely our Semiphore foreshore project, looking to get the shovels in the grounds in the second half of the year. So that's a really massive project that we have going on. So we'll be looking at whether or not New Year's will actually be at Semopore next year. We're not quite sure about the timing of all of those sorts of things because it's quite a big project, but we'll definitely be having fireworks somewhere in the city of Pae. But yeah, I guess that would be the one to say. We've been working on this Demiphore project for probably four years now, I believe.
00:42:58
Speaker 1: Been big tail. So when you say the foreshow, you're talking about that lawn area around the war memorial and everything else. So you're looking at Smophore. Ruh, you're not going to do a Jetti road Glenelga.
00:43:09
Speaker 16: No, no, no, we're leaving the footpaths alone. Zemophore Road. People are pretty happy with how it is. There's just a few little minor upgrades that we'll do over the next few years in terms of furniture and that type of stuff. But all the work, big works that's happening at Semmer fourth Foreshow is a lot of it's actually underground. So we're wanted to put in some decent throough systems, power and improve the irrigation system so that we can make sure that that space is one that looked really good all throughout the year and also makes it easier for festivals such as New Year's e to be able to host a much better event because at the moment we don't have underground power in that area. So because we needed to do that already, and we also had committed when the water flyed came down, we committed to improving that area with a new water play area, we're actually going to take the opportunity to do the whole scope of work. So yeah, final plans haven't yet been released to the council, so we'll be looking forward to seeing them early in the new year. But it will be a really big project. Didn't we be opening up all of the walkway into the jetti we're actually moving the train line pickup stop. So at the moment, the pickup stop is right at the end of the jetty and it's really heavy traffic when we have the bicycles come through people wanting to get into the jetty area. There's of course the kiosk and the playgrounds with it. Moving that around just to the side which is closer to the train shed than the Railway Museum has been excellent to work with and we're really excited about the new platform that will be creating for them there, but also paying homage to that railway line and extending some really beautiful artwork along the footpaths. So it is some a heavy amount of work, a lot of it is underground, but it will be impacting to the community for a while. But we yet to understand exactly how that will be. But we need to be a little bit flexible to ensure the project is an amazing finish for the community.
00:44:54
Speaker 1: All right, tongue in cheek. You should extend that railway line frankly all the way to north Haven or you know, take it down the coast of Brighton, even get other councils to chip in.
00:45:03
Speaker 16: But oh my god, can you imagine put Oh you could have taken part in our community consultation, Matthew, that would have been an amazing opportunity. Why didn't we think of it?
00:45:12
Speaker 1: Indeed, all right, good on your clear thank you for your time. I hope tonight goes off well. Good tip about the parking, as I said, and you don't want to be caught in the sort of jams that eighty thousand odd people can create on the La Feva Peninsula with only a couple of access points or three of them to get on or up four I suppose with bowright, I'm faking the bridges and Bower Road.
00:45:33
Speaker 16: So what other hot tip, Matthew is that the road Smophore Road will be closed from around twelve o'clock to day. So if you're wanting to get in get some shopping and go throes done, popping into the butcher or any other type of shopping that you want to do with a nine to five type of a shop, make sure you do that earlier this morning. Or you can always park obviously down on the foreshore and then walk your way up to Semaphore Road or park along one of the side streets. But yeah, just to let people know, please keep supporting those businesses because they are being impacted by this twelve o'clock quoture today.
00:46:04
Speaker 1: Is that just from Military Road to the beach or the whole length of Semaphore Road.
00:46:07
Speaker 16: I believe it's the whole lengths depending on the area, and it's about having safety for four people. But actually that doesn't even make sense. I'm pretty sure it was the whole length, but now that I think about how that would work, I'm not exactly sure. So definitely define western end, Yeah, definitely the beachside.
00:46:24
Speaker 1: Yeah all right, good on you, Clear thank you for your time.
00:46:26
Speaker 10: Lovely thanks my bye.
00:46:27
Speaker 1: Clearbone, Mayor of the City of Port Adelaide and Enfield on their celebrations tonight. So fireworks nine point thirty and midnight, it does get really busy and the Lafeva Peninsula being a peninsula, there's only a few access points, so if you're heading to Semophore and you want to park, get there early. The streets are jam packed. I can tell you that from experience last year. It is quite busy down there. So watching it from the Juvoys Bridge or the Birkenhead Bridge good vantage points. Turvoids is pretty good as well, where you can see all the Semaphore from the highest point, but so same with the Birkenhead. You're looking over the Port River to the west and straight at Semaphore only a couple of k's at the most, probably a k and a half, so you get a good view of the fireworks and it does look impressive from there. So reflect on the Port River as well, nice for you, So maybe that's a tip for you. Alrighty quarter past seven on five double eight, eighteen past seven on five double A. As we know, house prices right across the nation going through the roof Adelaide no exception. In fact, Adelaide is quite strong in terms of house price growth, which is good if you are perhaps looking on down sizing your property and thinking it's too big and want to get an apartment or something and sitting on a big empty block now the kids have moved out, that is in your favor. However, if you try to get into the market, particularly for the first time, and you add stamp due for that, it does add up. The Liberals have announced yesterday that their new Year's resolution in South Australia is stamp duty relief for first home buyers. And a first time buyer is Luke McKenzie, who is on the line. Luke, good morning to you, good morning, how are you all right? Thank you? So if you could say stamp duty, I mean, who wouldn't write you'd certainly welcome that.
00:48:27
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, it'd definitely be a very welcome thing for the young people.
00:48:33
Speaker 1: What's the mean for you? So you're thirty two. You and your fiance looking to get going and get your first Have you got a house yet?
00:48:41
Speaker 13: Yeah?
00:48:42
Speaker 17: Yeah, we've recently just just signed the contract and purchased our first house, which is very exciting and a very big thing, especially with all the costs involved, especially stamp duty, which is a massive one.
00:48:55
Speaker 1: So how much Yeah, fifty three fifty three thousand for stamp duty. Wow, that's a lot too. I mean that wouldn't even be many people's deposit, No.
00:49:07
Speaker 17: No, exactly. And for the young, young couples and young people to save that sort of money nowadays, especially with the cost of living, it's definitely a hard thing to a hard thing to do.
00:49:18
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, that's that's more than a couple of jobs. That's that's two jobs each really to try and get it.
00:49:24
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just about Yeah, it is.
00:49:25
Speaker 1: It's it's difficult. So okay, on top of the home, which would have cost you what eight nine hundred thousand I imagine.
00:49:33
Speaker 17: Yeah, nine and ten, Yeah, which is a lot of money for us.
00:49:38
Speaker 1: It is so all right, looking to for people following in your footsteps in years to come, you'd like to see that removed.
00:49:46
Speaker 17: Yeah, absolutely, I think it's absolutely unnecessary, especially like you. You want the young people to have a go and be able to get into the market, be able to have a future, have a family and have have a decent go I things, and that tax were definitely removed would definitely help us.
00:50:07
Speaker 1: All right, Luke, appreciate your time and all the best. Thing. What you're up to renovating the houses, it's that the next step.
00:50:13
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's definitely on the next step will probably be a bit of a process, but yeah, that's a next step all right.
00:50:18
Speaker 1: Good luck with it, mate, Thanks for your time, all the best for twenty six Thanks, thank you. Ashton Hearn, leader of the Opposition in South Australia, on the line as well. Ashton Hearn, good morning. I imagine there's one main resolution you'd have centering perhaps around March.
00:50:35
Speaker 18: Yes, good good morning, Matthew, and to all of you, all of your listeners, and a shout out to Luke and his fiance Chelsea, just for sharing their struggles in finding a home in South Australia and making that more affordable. They're actually getting married on election day, so that's certainly a key date for both of us. But yeah, we've got a long way to go, you know. In terms of making sure we put our policies forward to the people of South Australia so that they know that in the Liberal Party they've got a real choice. And we are fairly and squarely focused on making our state more affordable. We want to give young people, particularly a bit of a leg up so that they can secure a future here in South Australia. And part of making our state more affordable is lowering taxes, and that too will be a big focus of ours.
00:51:21
Speaker 1: Lowering taxes though, and while we'd all welcome that without a shadow of hesitation, how do you pay for it? How do you then pay for other policies with a drop of this magnitude coming into the coffers.
00:51:35
Speaker 18: Yeah, so this policy is around one hundred million dollars per year, so it is a lot of money. But at the same time we're unashamably focused on making our state more affordable. If you can do that, then the entire state becomes more productive. Of course, we'll release all of our costings well before the election so people will be able to see all of that in detail, and we will have a plan to lower debt in South Australia because under labor that has belonged to forty eight billion dollars or will balloon to forty eight billion dollars. But we're going to be unapologetic in our focus on making our state more affordable because it's not just people like Luke who were just on your program and his fiance Chelsea. There are so many people who are busting their guts and really they're not getting any further in their hopes and dreams in South Australia. So we want to take the handbrake off and instead of people giving more taxes to the government, we think that it's the individual and the family who are best placed to spend their money. So again, we'll be very focused in twenty twenty six on making our state more affordable. So you'll hear me talking about.
00:52:40
Speaker 10: That a lot.
00:52:40
Speaker 1: All right, the public Transport Plan you've committed to fifty cent fares. That's also going to cost at the very least one hundred million, So there's two hundred million plus. You've got to find where's that money going to come from.
00:52:55
Speaker 18: Well, yeah, we'll be having it, and there'll be more policies on top of that as well, Matthew, and of course we'll be announcing all of our costings well before the election, so I'll be on your program speaking with you about that in detail, I'm sure. But at the end of the day, we are wanting to make our state more affordable, and those two policies that you speak to are about making easing the cost of living pressure and we'll be announcing all of our.
00:53:21
Speaker 1: Costings all right, So cost of living, that's going to be your key message going to the election.
00:53:26
Speaker 18: Absolutely, yeah, there's really when I'm out and about talking to South Australians. It doesn't matter if you're in the regions or if you're in the city. People are concerned that our state is no longer affordable. They're working hard but not getting ahead. So that'll be really a big focus. But also just making sure that our health system is better. The government talks a lot about making it bigger, which of course we know we need extra beds, but we want to put a focus on making sure that it's actually better, not just for staff but for patients, and that means that we need to look at all things. People waiting so long in the emergency departments, looking at the elective surgery lists, and a big challenge that we have is attracting and retaining workforce. So that'll be a focus of ours, and we already have policies in that place. But also I know that many of your five Double A listeners would be growing frankly pretty sick of the increased crime that we're seeing right across our states. So making sure that we have safer suburbs and stronger community with more police, and also making sure that there are genuine consequences if people are breaking the law, particularly in relation to bail. So those are really the three areas that we'll be honing in on because they're the basic things that the people of South Australia care for.
00:54:44
Speaker 1: All Right, the consequences you talk about, that's one of the things that resonates with listeners here. We often read and get reports from police about the arrest from overnight whatever, and it's somebody who is out on bail, and I think, why on earth would you give somebody, and particularly they've been out on bail, they've committed a crime, why would you give them bail? Again? You know, that's where it sometimes heads and that is the most frustrating thing to read out.
00:55:14
Speaker 18: I totally agree with you, and there's nothing more frustrating, and that's why people need consequences, and where we will be saying, well, we've got a policy which is if you break bail, you're facing jail, because people are sick of seeing these repeat offenders out on the street doing the same crimes over and over again with no consequences. But the reason that people get away with it really is because they know that there are no consequences. So we wanted to flip that and that'll be a very key focus.
00:55:43
Speaker 12: Of ours too.
00:55:44
Speaker 1: How much jail if you break bail like the rhyme, but how much.
00:55:48
Speaker 18: Jail, Well that'll depend on the offense. But I think the focus is on if you're out on bail, you're out on you know, if you're out on bail and you're again offending, then you're going back in to jail. So that's really the basic nature of it. I think that people are really sick and tired of seeing the same people do the same crimes for no consequence. And we see what's happening in states like Queensland. I think the L ANDP government up there have really cracked down on crime, and we want to do the same thing here because otherwise I do worry about the message that it sends to the next generation as well.
00:56:26
Speaker 1: All right, and done a personal level New Year's resolutions, anything in mind.
00:56:31
Speaker 18: I'd like to get back into running, I really yeah, I've kind of put the exercise to one side, given I've been managing this new role, and I've got a nineteen months old toddler who certainly keeps me pretty busy. So I'd like to try and squeeze in some time for an early morning run if I can. That's probably my New Years.
00:56:49
Speaker 1: Resolutionekay, good luck with that, especially in the next three months.
00:56:52
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you, I read it.
00:56:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, Ashton Hurd, appreciate your time. Thank you, thank you, Leader of the Opposition. All right. Twenty eight past on five A. Will be speaking with the Premiere in the next half hour as well. Back after the news coming up later this half hour, the Premier, Peter Malanowskis will join me. We'll get his New year resolutions as well, but see how he's ending the year. We've been talking a fair bit about the rain up north, and Tom's text puts it into perspective. Read this out a bit earlier nine hundred mills in seventy two hours off the Queensland coast just south of Cairn's place called Mission Bay and certainly wet, certainly wet up there. We're going to have a chat with Rob Sharp, whose Sky News meteorologist on both the system over Queensland and the tropical cyclone Hailey over Wa. So that's coming up that chat. Also the continuing going around the grounds in terms of local councils and what they're doing for New Year's Eve. So if you're thinking of going to Semaphore, had clear Bone the mayor of Port Adelaide Enfield on a little while ago. Fireworks down at Semaphore nine thirty and twelve. Either get there super early, get a park and forget about leaving for a few hours, or try and leave the car somewhere further back and walk to the foreshore because the peninsula they had eighty thousand, eighty thousand people down there last year. Along the coast it gets absolutely flat out and all those people trying to leave it once at nine point thirty after those fireworks and midnight takes a while. What's happening down at Glenelg will be chatting shortly with Jane Fleming, who is a counselor at the City of Holdfast Bay Council about their displays tonight. Jane, good morning to you.
00:58:49
Speaker 19: Good morning Matthew.
00:58:50
Speaker 1: What is happening? Got two lots of fireworks?
00:58:53
Speaker 19: Well, we do in two locations. So firstly we're having we call the family fireworks at nine to thirty pm down at Brighton on the Foreshore and that's a great place to bring your kids, sit on the beach and watch the fireworks display. It's also a good place to support the local traders on JETI Road Brighton. And then at gleneg of course we've got the nine to thirty pm fireworks as well, which is great for families. And then of course at midnight and we've got DJ's playing. So down at the Brighton.
00:59:30
Speaker 15: Foreshow we've got DJ Foe who's.
00:59:32
Speaker 19: Playing from six to ten pm, and at Glenelg we've got DJ Matt he'll be performing between six and eight. DJ Brooke ocetto eight till ten, then DJ Dylon Manov ten till one am and then all the party finishes at around one am.
00:59:51
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a twelve o'clock fireworks at Brighton as well.
00:59:54
Speaker 19: Just glenel No, just Leanell down the bay will be the place to be at midnight.
01:00:00
Speaker 1: Okay, so nine thirty at Glenelg and midnight nine point thirty only at Brighton for fireworks. How's the Jetty Road now, I've seen it from the top end. I've only been up the top end of it. That side street that comes out opposite Gordon Street cut across there and looks good that bit. When's the resk going to be finished up around Moseley Square?
01:00:21
Speaker 19: Oh right, so everything is going to be completed by like everything completed by the middle of the year. Collie Terrace at the moment is closed off the cars because that concrete needs to cure for twenty eight days and then they'll pave it and then cars will be able to go through there. So end of January, I'm pretty sure that's when that's going to be paved and opened up again. But at the moment they've done a really good job with opening it up for dining, for the businesses and the restaurants and people are a bit really happy with that little Collie Terrace Lara area that's been formed in the short term, so it's great.
01:01:02
Speaker 1: Now trams are they set to return end of January. Still, is that the plan yet, well that we.
01:01:07
Speaker 19: Haven't been advised any difference. So as far as we know, DIT have said trams to return at the end of January.
01:01:16
Speaker 1: All right. In the meantime, I understand you've lost another business down there, Montezumas has apparently closed recently. So there's still no rate relief for the traders doing it tough down there, Jane.
01:01:28
Speaker 19: So with any trader, any residents in the city of Holdfast Bay, if they're suffering hardship, they hardship, they can apply to council for rate relief and there is a process to go through with that. So that's always open.
01:01:45
Speaker 10: For people to apply.
01:01:47
Speaker 1: Is people taking that up traders particularly?
01:01:53
Speaker 19: I am not privy to the private conversations between the rate department that it's not something.
01:02:00
Speaker 1: That's not the conversations. Just are people taking it up?
01:02:05
Speaker 9: There have been people that have applied for it yet, Okay.
01:02:07
Speaker 1: All right, So and counsel I suppose considering everything on its merits. But surely if you're a trader that's been impacted, and you know you haven't, you've lost your money for the last twelve months or how long this has been going on. Feels at least that long. You'd surely be looking at that favorably, wouldn't you. And this is perhaps that what you're not privy to, but surely that should be taken Matthew.
01:02:31
Speaker 19: There's a specific rate department, and I think there's a certain criteria. I know during COVID it was a similar kind of thing, like a lot of businesses were suffering, and that department worked very closely with those businesses. I'm a business owner myself. I've got a small business on Brighton Road and I know a lot of the businesses down in Brighton. It's because I worked down there during COVID. They did apply, but I don't know the personal outcomes is obviously that's a confidential conversation between the owner and the staff in that department.
01:03:06
Speaker 1: All right, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you, Thanks match Happy you too. Jane Fleming, who's a councilor at City of Holdfast Bay Council, fireworks Brighton nine thirty and nine thirty and midnight at Glenelg. So good luck with traffic down there as well, and especially without the trams working. Mind you, there's forty buses the government has shuttling empty to and from the city. So maybe some of them just brush the cob webs off before you sit down, because they're not very well used. But they are on the road, and I imagine they're all going to be out tonight. Surely restricted bus services though at the moment this week, as people aren't using public transport because no one's working. Just look how quiet the roads are every day so far this week, which is a lovely time to drive around the city. It is pretty quiet out there, Debbie at South Blimton morning, Debbie, I.
01:04:05
Speaker 9: Nearly just choked on my breakfast burrito. Then Montezoomers had not.
01:04:10
Speaker 1: So haven't they got a text.
01:04:11
Speaker 9: Saying they are closing on the twenty eighth of FB is their last right Okay, so yeah, incourage they're still open. Everyone gets down there and support them.
01:04:20
Speaker 1: Okay.
01:04:21
Speaker 9: So sad that they're leaving. They've been a great business in Adelaide, have lots of fine over thirty years at Monte Zoomers can various locations.
01:04:28
Speaker 1: Yep, Yeah, they've been around. Is that the last one operating? The last Montezumas?
01:04:34
Speaker 12: I think?
01:04:36
Speaker 9: Well, I reckon they are a Queensland right there. Used to be the big old one at North Adelaide.
01:04:42
Speaker 8: That was there forever. We would go in there, Geese. So we were going there before I had.
01:04:46
Speaker 9: Children, and my kids are like twenty two, so we've been, you know, and they put on such good nights, like they used to let us wear their Mexican sombreros and have birthday parties and it was just the best place to go. So yeah, I'm really sad they're leaving them. I hope it wasn't a direct result of what's happened to Panel, because that would be really disappointing. Yeah, everyone gets down there. They're there through the twenty eight.
01:05:11
Speaker 1: All right, good on your debbie, thanks for that, and chance to get some more burritos in the meantime till the twenty eighth. Thank you, thanks for the call. All right. Seventeen to eight on five double a eight double two to three double o the number. How can we stop inflation of housing? Easy? Stop auctions. Just put a price on your house or have a chance to buy, not just the rich. Bill says, you know what, Bill, that's a very good point because even when houses are for sale, it's effectively an auction. Where I had had a crack at a house a couple of years back now that was and the people that were there, and as soon as you know, you pull up around the corner because you can't get on the screen there's that many cars, a bit like going to Semaphore for the fireworks tonight. Anyway, you walk around the car a trudge to the house. Is there's several hundred people having a look at this small house because they were advertising it now a couple of years Keep in mind it was in Keilburn. It was four hundred and fifty grand advertised, or four to seventy, close enough to how much did it go for? Six hundred and ten? And you look at the crowd and think, okay, this is going to go for at least one hundred thousand more. And so you go there and then the auctioneer calls, oh, you're closed. You want to do you want to up your bid? And you're offer and so you think, well, do I or don't I. But at that point you know, well you stop trying to rip me off. Essentially you knew it was never going to go for four seventy So you're right, Bill, I mean it's but even saying it's not an auction, put it up for sale. It's got to be put up for sale fairly for a price around the mark. Didn't we have a law once saying has to be within ten percent of what it's suggested price is estimated price? Oh, the market the sides, Well, it does. But you know, real estate agents, Okay, they're acting for the seller. Totally get that, and I'd want the best deal as well if I was selling. But yeah, there's a bit of auctioneering going on either either side of that, whether whether it's up for auction or up for sale. Good good point, though, Allie says, morning Matthew, Happy New Year. Regarding the closure of Montezuomer's at Glenelg. I've lived in gleneg for fifteen years. I had no idea Montezoomer's was an open running business. The frontage is old, deteriorating. Honestly, didn't look like it was open. I don't think the Jedi rode up graded much to do with their closure. Perhaps the dilapidated frontage wasn't very inviting. Oh that's one for the landlord, I imagine, Allie, thank you. Has DJ Pants got a gig tonight? No DJ Pants is kicking up the hills tonight a little bit anyway, thank you the good news prowft thing I read that one have I not the good news. Premier will not lose the election as ministers might need to kick up the behind. White puts someone in as a minister for whatever who knows nothing about that particular topic. Frank says Radio. Sam says Matthew. I'm on the trans Adelaide website trying to find a timetable for the free buses tonight. Can you help me, Sam? It's normal, normal timetables whatever, timetables for tonight, but they'll be free. So this is the other thing with the New Year's Eve, absolutely free public transport from don't quote me on the hours. I think six pm till six am, but that'll be on the site somewhere, but free public transport port around twelve hours. Enjoy New Year's Eve, buses, trains and trams. Patricia at glenel Colo Patricia, Hey, Matthew.
01:08:49
Speaker 15: Happy New Year you doo now, Matthew. Look, I live in the Bay, had done for twenty five years. Who's still live in the Eastern suburbs. Could not even think of living anywhere else these days. I adore where I live on three houses from the beach in a no through road to the esplanade. The reconstruction of Jeti Road has been a trial. However, it had to happen, and it couldn't have happened at a more appropriate time than when there's no trams running up and down Jety Road, because you could never have done what they've done if there have been trams. Some of the businesses that have been complaining, Matthew Montezoom is, why would they be complaining. Part Trudge Street was not closed and there's a free car park next door and across the road, So why would they say that they're closing because of what happened down there? Because I drive up and down Partridge Street onto Gordon Street every day every day in my life, if not once three times, and I go past there. So if you were going there, you could walk there if you're a resident around here, or you can park in the car park next door. I liked the person that just rang.
01:10:04
Speaker 20: A while ago.
01:10:04
Speaker 15: I think I've been there twice in twenty five years, and I wasn't all that impressed. So I think this is very easy for people to jump on the bandwagon. Clearly it's been you know, it's been like a bomb site down there, but it had to happen. And look now it's all opening up and it looks fabulous. Yesterday down there, well, I went down to Cole's about six o'clock last night and you could not get a car. You wouldn't have got a car park. You couldn't get one in the Coals car park, every street that I drove down trying to think, oh look i'll just park here. I came home and put my car back in the car park.
01:10:44
Speaker 8: And walk down there.
01:10:46
Speaker 15: The bay is hopping at the moment. And as somebody said just a while ago, I think it was the girl from the council. That plaza area that's there out the throat because Collie Terrast is still operating and they've created in front of the College hotel there that used to be the Jetty hotel that is now a plaza, and my god, it looks fabulous now. It's not staying like that, unfortunately, and when the trams come back, well they can't stay like that. But it had to be done. You know the old adage, you can't make an omelook without breaking an edge. When was it going to be done? It had to be done, and the trams. Look, look, I am, I can't tell you I'm hanging out for those trams to start again, because I have never caught a bus to town in all the years I've lived here. What I've been doing is going driving down to Glenel down to Brighton and getting on the train and going in and getting off the train and then getting on the tram out the front of the train station and going to the market. That's how I've been rather than take my car into the city, and that hasn't been hard. That hasn't been hard. Catch the train in town, then get on the tram and then go around to Victoria Square, you know, or down to the Botanic Gardens. But people, look, I got to Melbourne a lot and they've just finished doing that. Underground tunnels. I don't know whether you've been there. Melbourne has been cut off for probably seven years. Those tunnels and stations are opening now, like the one at Anzac down near the War Memorial. I've ridden those tunnels in the last few weeks. And those train stations are like cathedrals underground.
01:12:33
Speaker 13: They're divine.
01:12:34
Speaker 15: But those people have put up with shite and now and everyone's complaining.
01:12:40
Speaker 8: Of course they do.
01:12:41
Speaker 15: But now the whole of Melbourne is like on a high because it's all finished and they've got all these extra stations and they're all beautiful and they've got wonderful murals, and look, why don't we just settle down. Everyone will have forgotten this part of the middle of the year. Maybe not we who live here. And yes there've been some businesses, but look the grand they've complained that place it looks always looks shoddy.
01:13:07
Speaker 12: They don't pull up the weeds, they don't.
01:13:09
Speaker 15: Clean the windows. That's got nothing to do with hots going on on Jedti Road.
01:13:14
Speaker 1: Maybe because there's no one around for the time being, though, Patricia, you know they'll make it look good when it's all done. Look, thank you for the call. We'll leave it there because you've had quite the say on Jedti Road. As for the trams, if you could do Jedti Road anytime, even if they weren't building in overpasses along the rest of the line, trams could have run to Morphitt Street Morphort Road as they Brighton Road, sorry, as they do other times when the bay is closed. But anyway, all right, thank you for the call. It is eight minutes to eight o'clock. Let's speak with the premiere of South Australia, Peter Melanowskas. Happy New Year to you, Happy to new message.
01:13:58
Speaker 21: Well we're almost there, we're going to.
01:13:59
Speaker 1: Almost a few hours.
01:14:00
Speaker 21: That's right, Lefty.
01:14:01
Speaker 1: How are you celebrating?
01:14:03
Speaker 13: Very quiet night?
01:14:04
Speaker 21: Actually, I think just with the Annabelle and the kids and maybe a couple of friends popping over as well. So Newyear's Eve has a very different complexion when you still want to get the young ones in the bed.
01:14:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, at an early time. Absolutely. Now. I mentioned this to Ashton her and I imagine, like her, you have one main resolution for twenty twenty six and it centers around March.
01:14:26
Speaker 6: Yeah.
01:14:26
Speaker 21: Well, obviously it's an election year and that's important. You look around the world at the moment, Matthew, and you see a lot of democracies that are fraying. Is the democracy that's really been quite challenged. But here in South Australia we're going a very robust and healthy liberal democracy. The next election is South Australia and every election is important, but this one's also going to be really quite unique because because the laws that are committed to and we got through the Parliament. This will be the first ever election held anywhere in the world, to the best of our knowledge, where there are zero political donations, not from unions, not from businesses, not from big wealthy donors. All of it is banned. So we're going to have an election that is exclusively based on the quality of policy and the quality of candidates. And that's something that I strongly believe in and hopefully something that the rest of the state can get around and know over Not everyone likes politics, and I get that, but it doesn't change the fact that elections are important and it's a good opportunity for the state to set itself up for the four years ahead.
01:15:34
Speaker 1: All Right, you're concerned about going up against Ashton hern at all, against Vincentansia, who you would have been planning the election around.
01:15:43
Speaker 21: Oh look, you know I've worn't over the last few years to not spend too much time worrying about our political opponents. You know, they have faced four leaders in less than four years, so that will chop and change as it does. I think when you're the premier, your job is to focus on leading the state as best as you can and not for a moment would I suggest that the government is perfect or as a leader, I'm perfect. There are areas we would have liked to have done better. But it's also true that I think we've got a united team. The government has been scandaled free, and the state is heading in the right direction, and that's something I'm really keen to maintain. And you know, I look, you know, on one level, I look to elections with a degree of anxiousness all the time because you don't know what the outcome is going to be. But the flip side of that coin, Matthew is I'm really excited about getting into it. We've been working hard over a sustained period now to get our election policies all lined up, are all fully costed, and I'm just excited about rolling that out and letting the States see that we've got an agenda for the future. And you know, we've got to I don't think anyone can doubt the fact that the States in a strong position relative to the rest of the country. It's not perfect, but we're in a strong position. I'm really keen to see for the State to see that we've got a plan to make sure that trajectory continues over the next four years if we're lucky enough to win the election.
01:17:14
Speaker 1: All right, lucky enough, I think you can put that in the bag frankly, because the polls are suggesting a reverse ninety three style result where the Libs en ended up with thirty seven seats.
01:17:24
Speaker 21: Yea, well, I reject that completely, Matthew, what was the tip? Well, it's not about tips. What do you think thirty Well, here's my thinking, right, and I don't want to sound trite about it, but I've seen political parties, and I've seen political leaders over the year get ahead of themselves and think that poles matter right now. I understand that people want to talk about them, and they're interested in them, and they're a snapshot of a point in time. But the problem with polls is they diminish the power of everyone voting. At the same time, they diminished the authority that every South Australian has when they work and walk into a ballot box and exercise that extraordinary right and privilege to vote for their leader and their community and their leader of the state. And people who seek to preent that outcome as though it is determined by anything else apart from individuals casting their ballot on election day. I think doing themselves and democracy a disservice. So I'm really cautious about making assumptions. But I don't say that flippantly. I just, you know, to predict outcomes when you know about a million South Australian will be the ones that determine themselves is a pretty brave proposition.
01:18:47
Speaker 1: Indeed, let's say it is a strong finish for the Labor Party, because I think that's a fair call at this point. Would you look at doing something unique with that majority in that for instance? And Neil has asked the question asked the Premier year if he has on his agenda uranium waste storage, and I'm thinking something along the weather Ll Plan and even the Nuclear Royal Commission that we had that called on us to do more and bring in a heck of a lot of money for the state by storing uranium here in a remote part of South Australia. Not the worst idea.
01:19:24
Speaker 21: Ever, No, no, And I was on the record, and you know the record speaks for itself. I was on the record as being quite a strong supporter of that proposition. But what was also clear at the time, and I think is true today is it's got to have bipartisans support, and the moment that that was lost, because that would be a that's a it was the whole That whole project is a thirty forty year project, and you know the moment that bipart of the support was lost when when Stephen Marshall was through it, the project fell away. Think it's also worth noting a couple of things, Matthew. I think the state was in a very different position back in twenty I think that was first mooted and first proposed back in twenty twelve. The state's in a very different position now in comparison of what it was then. Actually, no, I think it was. It was twenty fifteen is acually, so we're ten years down the track. And I say that in the context that ten years ago the state was economically in a very different position, whereas today we've got the fastest growing economy in the country. We've got the fastest well some of the fastest growing wages in the country. We're closer to the national average in terms of median income. So the state's economy is sort of accelerating at a very good pace at the moment, and we don't you know, I don't sit around worried about where is economic demand coming from. I'm more concerned about how we're going to meet that demand, and there are challenges associated with that, and none more important in my view than housing. So it's just a different I think it's a different debate at a different time. But having said that, yes, we intend to seek a mandate for a number of policies that we're going to take to the election, and I guess that's what we're looking forward to rolling out over the course of the next couple of months.
01:21:19
Speaker 1: You don't want to foreshadow any.
01:21:22
Speaker 21: Not on New Year's Eve.
01:21:24
Speaker 1: Let's get into the just finally, then, Should Anthony A. Aneasy bow to the inevitable and the obvious calls coming from around the nation from so many apart from the families of the victims of Bondai, from so many people of reputation, barristers, former judges, AFP, former commission et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. There's a long list of them. Should we have a federal royal commission as seems inevitable?
01:21:52
Speaker 7: Yeah?
01:21:52
Speaker 21: Well, I think royal commissions are incredibly powerful and useful tools under various circumstances. We've had two over the course of this term of government. The first was by Julia Gillard into early childhood education and next year over six thousand South Australian families for the first time you get access to three three year old prescool kindy in this state as a result of that. And then the other one we had was of course into domestic violence. We'd recently just announced a massive investment on the back of that, so they can be very powerful and useful tools. Oh look, I'd say two things. First thing is, I know Chris Mins is having a state based row commission. I think he's done the right thing by doing that, and if there's any opportunity for the South Australian government to support that state based row commission, we will certainly do it. The second thing I'd say is you know whether or not there's a federal or commission. Well, there's only one person in the country that can determine that, and that's the Prime Minister of the nation. Whoever that is at a peacei goal point in time, and this is a decision that squarely rests with the Prime Minister.
01:22:53
Speaker 1: See no advice, No, you should do this, You should heed all the cost.
01:22:58
Speaker 21: If I have advice for the for the Prime Minister, then you know, and on occasions I've had that, particularly on matters that attained to South Australia think why hour, I think Orcas. Then I tend to do that in the way that most Austrains would expect me to do, and that's either the phone or in person of the Prime Minister. I tend not offer him advice through the media.
01:23:21
Speaker 1: All right, Peter melanows, because thank you for your time. Best wishes to twenty six to you and your family.
01:23:25
Speaker 21: Wise Matthew likewise, until all your listeners as well.
01:23:27
Speaker 1: Good thank you. Nine minutes past eight o'clock on five double A, last hour of the show. Richard Pasco from nine Peter has sent me photos of hot cross funds. Says, saw these and coals yesterday. I thought you might like to know. Thank you, Peter. Two for eight by the way, two for eight bucks. Two packets not too hot cross buns for eight dollars. I saw them in Aldi yesterday on McGill road. Hot cross buns, Briosh hot Cross buns to boot. Didn't buy any, but gee they looked all right. Briosh hot Cross buns. So there's a tip if that is your want, a bit early in the season for me. But anyway, they're out there, which as they should be traditionally. Boxing day I cross buns of for sale because Easter is, you know, somewhere off in the distant future, the mists of time, but here soon enough. The way that last year went, this year went twenty five, still twenty six is undoubtedly going to fly just as as quickly. Robert in the barassa can I Robert, good morning?
01:24:30
Speaker 22: How are you?
01:24:30
Speaker 1: Yeah? Good?
01:24:32
Speaker 22: Firstly, let me always say are you doing a fantastic job filling in very large boots.
01:24:39
Speaker 1: Of David and will thank you Robert.
01:24:44
Speaker 22: As Secondly, you had Peter Malanaskis on the line and you were talking about the upcoming state election. Just wanted to say that about four years ago, the very first working day and Monday after the last state election, and David interviewed Peter Malanowskis and his very first question to him was, Okay, you're now going to fix the ramping.
01:25:11
Speaker 23: What are you going to do?
01:25:12
Speaker 22: And Peter's response was, well, I've got four years to fix it. Watch this space and all I've seen over the last four years is just further bad news, much much worse than the previous government with Stephen Marshall with the ramping and nothing's being solved, and it is something that I think that Peter malanowskis should be brought to account because of the extensive campaign that he and the au straand Labor Party did at the last state election that they were going to fix ramping and eachial fact as the exact opposite.
01:25:53
Speaker 1: It was a core promise, wasn't it obviously at the time the only promise most of us can remember in fact from that campaign.
01:26:01
Speaker 22: Well, I pretty much remember every Stoby poll in Adelaide was about we are going to fix ramping. I know that halfway through this current a LP government that they tried to change the tune and say that it was something else, and it was never promised that that would have been a dishoner statement. I really do believe that the public is owed a proper explanation by Peter Mallenouskers going into this state election in March explaining precisely what what has he done about this and why has he fixed it? Because if he can't fix that, no matter how many bread and circuses he brings this state through live golf and and gather around and motor racing.
01:26:59
Speaker 10: Uh.
01:27:00
Speaker 22: It is a fundamental then at health and the delivery of health that has to be dealt with properly by this because that's why we elected them.
01:27:12
Speaker 1: Absolutely and no doubt ramping will be top of mind. I suspect as we head into the next three months into the election. Good on your Robert, thank you for the call. We've spoken to the Port Adelaide Council and the hold Fast Bay Council about what is happening for New Year's Eve tonight. There's going to be fireworks displays. Well I think there's a big one in murray Bridge, but certainly there's one as you'd expect right in the heart of the city. Andrew Howard Howard and Sons Fireworks is on the line. Andrew, good to chat with you again. Happy New Year almost to you.
01:27:46
Speaker 12: Yeah, good morning, MAT's your Happy New Year to you and all your listeners.
01:27:49
Speaker 1: What's planned for tonight?
01:27:51
Speaker 13: Yeah, we've got a great.
01:27:52
Speaker 12: Show lined up tonight in the city of Adelaide on the River Thiremes. We've got the Family Fireworks at nine o'clock, which is an eight minute fireworks display fied from pontoons on the river and Pinky Flats, So anyone that's down enjoying the entertainment at Elder Park will get a great show there. And then then at the conclusion of the BBL cricket game at Adelaide over there'll be Birds of Tokyo concert there and fireworks of that, and then at midnight we'll ring in the new year and spectacular style again on the river.
01:28:20
Speaker 1: Okay, So really, if you're around that region, you get three fireworks, yeah.
01:28:24
Speaker 10: You do.
01:28:25
Speaker 12: Yeah, And they are designed for the spectators that are attending each event specifically. It's a great little empathy to there on the river turns. It's not like it's not designed like the old traditional sky show where people can watch from a you know, the surrounding parklands or stay at home and watch. It is an intimate display designed for people that are coming to the city to enjoy the celebrations, and likewise two for people going to the cricket being designed for people who enjoy from their seats.
01:28:51
Speaker 1: How many fireworks do we burn through going going through that? Will you burn through? Particularly over the course of the night.
01:28:58
Speaker 13: Oh, there's a lot.
01:28:59
Speaker 12: I think tonight, we'll We've got sixty displays on across the country.
01:29:02
Speaker 13: It's a huge, huge night.
01:29:05
Speaker 12: The City of Adelaide's got about six tons of fireworks and a full truckload of equipment.
01:29:10
Speaker 13: On all the displays.
01:29:11
Speaker 12: We're also doing the displays you mentioned before, Brighton, Glen Elksfore, City of Adelaide, the Cricket and also Wallaroo and a lot of other locations around the country. So the busy night we're we're using every single pyrotechnician we've got. There's about one hundred and fifty pyrotechnicians, every single computer controller, we've gotten, every single firing module.
01:29:33
Speaker 1: So busy night, okay, all right, so no night off for the pyrotechnicians. That's a great term.
01:29:41
Speaker 12: It's a busy night and we really look forward to it. You know, it's the night where people come together to celebrate, celebrate the new year, and we get to put on a great show and forget about the politics I suppose of the previous caller there, you know, certainly a night just to forget all all that come together, celebrate and we enjoy putting on a great show.
01:30:01
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Where do drone sit in all this these days? Hold I reckon they Andrew will beg your pardon. Sorry, yes, Andrew, I beg your pardoner called your how I know, I know so Andrew. Drones seem to over the last few years get a bit of a run up, you know, they were seen as an alternative. They don't do it for me. I don't know they do it for many people. They're just lights in the sky. There's no excitement to them, you know. They three pictures.
01:30:29
Speaker 12: Certainly in comparison to fireworks, they don't have the same impact because they have their place in a form of entertainment or a particular style of show they have. It's very heavily it's new ground, it's new technology. It will evolve. They're very heavily regulated in Australia for very good reasons. But they have their limitations to fit within those regulations and safety guidelines, of which they can't really entertain people watching in say three sixty degrees of an audience or an event side or event space. There's a lot whether we're restrictions with them. There's a lot of white space restrictions with them.
01:31:03
Speaker 13: But I think you will see.
01:31:04
Speaker 12: Over time it will evolve and there'll be a lot of hybrid shows where you'll see it all forms of entertainment, live backs on stages, impressive light shows, laser shows, fireworks and drone shots.
01:31:16
Speaker 13: It'll all evolve, and.
01:31:18
Speaker 1: It is evolving already because originally drones were just drones. But now they can fire fireworks as well, can't they direct?
01:31:23
Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, we're applying fireworks to drones and using it in appropriate spaces to integrate into our shows. So it will, it will evolve, but it won't replace the good old fashioned fireworks display and really bang for buck. If you think of how many people could say, spread along the beaches of Adelaide and enjoy a fireworks show, fight off the jetties. That's a very large space and being entertained by a fireworks display or the city of Adelaide, it's pretty good bang for buck in relation to fireworks.
01:31:54
Speaker 1: All right, now you're able to say what one display costs. You know, we're talking about a year's eve type displace, so they've got lots of fireworks. What's a ten minute show approximately cost?
01:32:06
Speaker 12: It varies depending on the geographical location, but some regional councils around Australia are spending about about sixteen and a half to twenty thousand dollars on their years e fires displays. Some are spending about forty thousand, and a major city celebration is about one hundred thousand dollar market. But then on top of that they've got to look at their event management plan of security, fencing, emergency services and all the other things that go in it. The fireworks are actually probably a small or medium budget line in the whole scheme of running an event in modern Australia, you know, it's just a different landscape of street closures and tensing, security and all the things that go into organizing a public events these days.
01:32:48
Speaker 1: All right, good on you, Andrew, Good luck with it tonight around the country. Indeed, as you obviously tied up with so many displays, and appreciate your time this morning on five double A.
01:32:58
Speaker 12: Thank you very much mate, Happy to thank you.
01:33:01
Speaker 1: Andrew Howard. Howard and Son's fireworks on the display in the city. So nine o'clock after the BBL game and then midnight, so if you're in order park you get three how Good's that three fireworks displays? Max says global warming not an issue at New Year's Eve, Let's stop fireworks light show would be better in terms of pollution. Max Veille Park, Nah, Max, sorry stuff global warming, it's New Year's e leanne. I think this point more relevant. God, who help all the wildlife and pets tonight they'll need it. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Poor animals. Now, there's all things you can do with dogs, keep them indoors, you know, try and keep them in a quiet room, all that sort of thing. If you live near a firework district, it's not so much. I mean, if you're around Semophore of glenorgor wherever else, you'll know there'll be fireworks. You can do something about that in the lead up. It's the private fireworks that people have, the illegal ones that I'm all the problem. I think, Andrew, it's called in God, Andrew, good morning.
01:34:06
Speaker 24: Ow as Flow City traveler. I'm just running up on that call. And before the fireworks got wireless, the Labor Party, and I'm a bi peeved with him at the moment, campaigned heavily on ramping. Everybody knows that they have explained it very well. What the situation is now at the hospital beds that clogged up with nearly three hundred people, they should be in nursing games and Mark Butler and Alban Easy. Yeah, that Prime minister again and who's useless should be on the radio here answering what they're doing about nursing games to get people out of hospital and put in nursing games where they belong. Now, if you think about it, three hundred people out of hospitals and whacked in nursing games that freeze up a on hospital bed.
01:34:55
Speaker 1: Absolutely you're right and no argument with any of that. But you know, the the State Labor Party and they would have known this at the time, right, they would have known exactly that that's what it needs. And it was a was it a different government, Yes, it was. It was the Morrison government at the time when they were elected.
01:35:11
Speaker 8: I think No.
01:35:13
Speaker 24: I got one other thing to point out with you that you should ask the Premiere on if he does get a huge vote, and the same for Ashton Hern on this. Why don't they bite the bullet and have a greater Adelaide City Council like with compulsory voting like in Brisbane City Council and wipe out only council so we don't have to put up within the city of Adelaide counselors getting elected with five hundred vote.
01:35:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, like Hart Street, yeah or less. Absolutely good question, Andrew, that's a great question. Of course we should have that in Adelaide. Now that's reform. Wonder if a state government, labor or liberal would be up for it. Great question. I was going to say, with the hospital beds, just to finish off there. You know, they went into that promise Labor party, eyes wide open, eyes wide open on fixing ramping. They would have known about getting old people out of hospitals and the need for more nursing home beds, would have known that one hundred percent. So the promise was made eyes wide open. And it is I think probably a stain on the political process that parties make promises hoping to keep, you would think in most cases, but unable to keep. And that's the shame of politics, I suppose. And you know, as that's saying, goes for me once, shame on me, for me twice, shame on No, it's the other way around, isn't it. Now It sounds like George W. Bush for me once, shame on you, for me twice, shame on me. That's right, Thanks w for that. Twenty two past eight on five double twenty four past eight on five double A eight double two to three double O double, oh the number. As you would be aware, the search for MH three point seventy has resumed off Waters of Wa in the Indian Ocean there and the searchers who are going to be paid if they find it reasonably confident. I think it's fair to say that they have more or less pinpointed where this plane is. It's just a matter of locating it. Jeffrey Thomas, global aviation expert and based in Perth, is on the line. Jeffrey, good morning to you. They are reasonably confident. I think is fair to.
01:37:29
Speaker 13: Say, yes, Matthew. They are. The company we're talking about is Ocean Infinity, the UK based company probably one of the world's number one underwater search companies. And they've got in fact three locations which they're going to search, and they've returned to the one that they were searching in up till the twenty eighth of March earlier this year. They searched for about a month before the weather turned foul and they abandoned the search. And they have returned to that particular spot, which is about eighteen hundred kilometers south our west of Perth, so I should say west south west of Perth, and then they're going to make their way slowly to another spot and then further north to what's called the Whisper spot. So there's three major locations that they're looking at, and yeah, they're very confident that they'll find them three seventy in one of those three locations.
01:38:31
Speaker 1: Hopefully the first, and in a way we go from there. Gee, it's such a mystery, and has anything really changed in terms of aviation. Can a pilot, for instance, switch off transpondence and whatever else that was switched off in that plane so we lost its location? Surely that is the very least changed.
01:38:52
Speaker 7: No.
01:38:53
Speaker 13: Look, the issue here is that you need to be able to switch things off. For instance, if you have a short circuit, if you've got a five, if you've got an issue like that, you need to be able to switch things off. And a transponder needs to be switched off when the aircraft arrives at an airport, so there are some dynamics there where you need to be able to switch things off. What they've improved is the tracking of aircraft and that's involved an evolving process. But look, at the end of the day. If you have a rogue pilot, there's still not an awful lot you can do about it. Fortunately, that's a very very rare event. If that is what turns out to be the case in this situation.
01:39:48
Speaker 1: They're pretty sure that is the case, isn't it, Because at this pilot's home they found a flight path leading to where the search is today. Essentially that's what he had planned on his flight simulator at home.
01:40:00
Speaker 13: Yes, correct, that he had planned this particular route, and he did this about approximately two months before this particular flight, and he wiped that from his flight simulator program. It was later recovered by the police. And Yes, within the industry itself, although the Malaysian government has exonerated the captain and the co pilot, but within the wider aviation community, it is accepted that it had to be a human. Had to be human. The plane could not have done what he did by itself, so it had to be a human, and most likely it was the captain because of other factors related to the captain as well.
01:40:51
Speaker 1: All Right, Jeffrey, they've only got a period of time. Now, it's not the shortest period, but it's months, isn't it, In which they can search because of the weather.
01:41:01
Speaker 13: You look absolutely right, Mack. You've basically got till the end of March early April into twenty twenty six. They've got three underwater autonomous underwater vehicles AUVs, and these are called Huguen six thousands. That will see the six thousand denote six thousand meters. That's how deep they can go. These autonomous underwater vehicles are pre programmed to do a particular course and up and back searching. They can search for up to, depending on the payload, between seventy and one hundred hours autonomously, and then they return to the ship and all the ship picks them up at the location where they where they've been pre programmed to. So with three of those working, they can do seven hundred and fifty square killer meters a day, and over the fifty five search days that they plan, they could do up to about thirty seven thousand square kilometers.
01:42:05
Speaker 8: Of the area.
01:42:07
Speaker 1: All right, So well, let's, as we said, hope they find it this time around. Jeffrey, appreciate your insights. Thank you, and best wishes for twenty six to.
01:42:16
Speaker 13: You and to you too and the listeners.
01:42:18
Speaker 1: Thank you. Jeff Jeffrey Thomas, global aviation expert and based in Perth. On the resumption yesterday for the search for MH three seventy off waters off Wa Indian Ocean. Let's hope they find it. News is coming up on five double A and still to come in the next little while. We'll talk with the RAA urging south south east to make travel plans ahead of time and making safety a priority, which is good advice for all of us. We'll have a chat with Charles Mountain from the RAA next. On the other side of the news twenty three to nine. Steven at Norwood, Hello, Stephen, I.
01:43:00
Speaker 2: Do Matthew how I I'm good?
01:43:01
Speaker 1: How are you?
01:43:02
Speaker 20: Yeah?
01:43:03
Speaker 16: Not too bad?
01:43:03
Speaker 23: Just this to them three seventy. I can't believe it's been twelve years. I just wondered why it's taken so long for him to get to this stage. Actually I remember actually when it happened that day.
01:43:15
Speaker 1: But it's a big ocean, a big ocean box. Yeah, sorry, it's a big ocean. And you know they've looked, but they just haven't found it.
01:43:24
Speaker 23: Yeah, fair enough. Well, yeah, I was talking about the black box, and I don't know if you know that that was actually invented by an Australian guy in Melbourne years ago, nineteen fifty four. Yeah, and they no longer use tape. They is digital now. But my question has always been I don't understand why the Aline companies when the plane goes down, the black box goes down with the plane, which I find strange. I've always wondered why the Aline company's bowing and don't actually build some sort of thing in the back of the plane that actually a jettison the actual data before crashes and it comes down on the chute and then it will sort of give off a beacon signal it floats or whatever. Because nine times out of ten when the plane goes down, well this one, it goes down with the plane thousands of feet in the water and they never find it.
01:44:13
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, Glenn has texted in on that. He says, the black boxes in an aircraft only sends pings for three months. If the time was you know, if this was three months ago, they could have found the plane. I recall, Steven, you might too when they started looking for it and they were listening for the ping. By the time they worked out it was likely in the Indian Ocean, they only had days to go. It was in the last days of that three month or whatever period it was to listen for the pings, and they went out but couldn't find it, so you know, perhaps not in the right spot or whatever. Yeah.
01:44:51
Speaker 20: Yeah, you know you could have one the beacon that's actually got solar panels built in and it would just float on the top and give off the signaling definitely when there were sun You know, I just don't know what they've got that technology now, just biggest belief.
01:45:02
Speaker 1: How would they know that the black box know the jettison itself. I mean, if the pilot is rogue and decides he's going to crash the plane, now, why would the black box jettison in that sort of situation.
01:45:16
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I.
01:45:16
Speaker 23: Guess I have to have some sort of fail safe you know, where the plane was in a dive or whatever. Then you know, it was like some sort of computer took over and basically just or have two of them, have one that's actually like the old type which just goes down with the plane, and have one in the back that near the tail end that just the jettison's out automatically, so it's giving off signals.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well there's technology to be invented. I guess Steven, New Year, thank you, thank you for the call. Debbie says, yep, it's an Odsie invention, the black box, and it's actually orange. There we are so they can find it easier when they're searching through you know, wreckage the color. But there we go. I didn't know it was an Australian thing. That's that's interesting. Well. The mess as we head into New Year's Eve tonight is to plan ahead for a safe New Year's Eve in terms of public transport or transport full stop, your own public whatever it is. Charles Mountain, RAA, Senior manager of Road Safety on the line, Charles, Happy New Year to you, your family, to all there at the RAA.
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Speaker 2: You met, and to all your listeners.
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Speaker 1: Now the big crowds expected, I'm stunned from the chat earlier today with the Port Adelaide mayor. They had eighty thousand. We were one of the crowds along the Lafeva Peninsula last year. Eighty thousand people down around Semaphore. That is incredible, and I guess big crowds everywhere wherever you are tonight.
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Speaker 25: Well yes, I mean and particularly since the weather forecast looks so good, and we would expect everyone'll be taking advantage of that and getting out to venues wherever they are. So you know, as we say that, the safety message years there has been planned for the Newyear's Eve celebrations is to plan ahead. So particularly if you intend to have a few drinks, you do need to ensure that you make those get home safety plans before hands, because once you're out there and start drinking, it's really is too late to make those rational choices in many cases. So planning ahead and that way you can enjoy the whole evening, obviously get home safely and start twenty twenty six in a cake manner. You know, we were just looking back through the called the Chars statistics for twenty twenty five. You know we've lost eighty five people this year. There's been seven hundred and seventy three to this injury. So you know, really, while the years the celebrations are a time literally to celebrate, it's this is the cebering time just to remember what's gone before us in the year, and we're really make a conservative to ensure we don't see the same thing occurring again in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Now there is pre public transport from right through the night. Six pm is at five pm till six am, pretty good thirty hours.
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Speaker 25: Yes, it's from five pm the day free public transport kicks in and then it's till six am on years toy itself. And if you're attending the Big Bass League match, there's actually free public transport available particular holders from three pm today as well. So lots of options out there for people, and it's probably particularly important to take advantage of the free public transport where possible because obviously taxis and rideshare vehicles are being high demand doing those busy periods.
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Speaker 13: So the other really important point.
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Speaker 25: We're saying, if you're out about driving police look out for pedestrians. Sometimes pedestrians not particularly aware of what's going on but their own environment and safety, so just be mindful of that and you may find that people wandering crossroads where they shouldn't be, for example, So slow down in those busy areas, just keep extra viculent during that period, particularly leading up to midnight and the post midnight celebrations as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, and you know it goes without saying drinking and driving Charles don't mix drug taking. All of that doesn't mix very well with others on the right.
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Speaker 25: Absolutely much, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 13: I think you know we're seeing this.
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Speaker 25: There are good opportunities and good options for people to avoid putting yourself in a situation where you feel like you have to drive and you shouldn't. So please ensure you take those options up and that way you can safely enjoy if you're going out to enjoy a party for example, even think about staying over for example, so you're not forcing yourself to drive in the conditions when you shouldn't. At the end of the day, it's about enjoying the start of twenty twenty six and more importantly, continuing to induce so through that year.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, and Charles just well, I've got you. Earlier this week we were talking about it on five double a Breakfast with the Transport Minister. Ten million dollars for black Spot funding. Given our backlog here of what is it two billion, ten million, I guess you take every cent you get from the FEDS. But Jue, that's a tiny drop in the ocean.
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Speaker 25: Well, I think to be fair we need to understand the black Spot program is quite specific.
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Speaker 13: It is actually for relatively low.
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Speaker 25: Cost but the high value projects across the road network which can improve safety at locations where they've been an identified crash history. The call for inc increased funding for road maintenance continues, and it's obviously one of the things that will be asking about state government and going into the state election as well, because we do need to see an increased level of investment to address the backlog of road maintenance across the entire network. The black Spot Funding program certainly do welcome the increased spending in that, but like all programs, there's always an opportunity to increase funding because there are so many things that can be done across the network to make things safer. But having said that, to us, also really important as drivers, cycles and pedestrians too, that we also take responsibility for our own safety, perhaps more than we've done in the past, and perhaps that it might be a good news resolution for people is just to ensure that whatever we do, wherever we go and however we travel, we do it in the safest possible manner, and perhaps offer a little bit of courtesy and patience toward our few travelers and road users wherever possible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, indeed, good on your child. Appreciate your time today and right throughout twenty five and look forward to chatting with your next year.
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Speaker 25: Our pleasure, Thanks very much, Matthew.
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Speaker 1: Charles, Mountain, Ria Senior Manager Road Safety. Andrew says, money, technology, and a huge ocean. The reason MH three to seventy still hasn't been found. They're actually two black boxes. One is an in flight recorder recording flight crew conversation, the other for recording the aircraft's Avionyx engineer frame, navigation, attitude, speed, et cetera, and inputs to the equipment by the flight crew. Well, look, the team's searching now. As you heard with Jeffrey Thomas, three locations are going to be moving to over the next three to four months, weather permitting, as they search the Indian Ocean, and with the information from that captain's flight simulator at his home where he planned this trip out, they're reasonably confident, fair to say, as to where this plane is. Well, let's hope their confidence is rewarded with an act result, because this is one mysbree, we want put to bed as to where this plane has landed. All right, time is twelve and a half two nine on five double a back shortly and at summer breakfast. Because the weather's so nice as this time of the year. Obviously twenty five today, mostly sunny, sixteen right now in the city, dropping tonight for New Year's Eve to twelve degrees, although that'll be early tomorrow morning four five six am. Around midnight expected to be about fifteen. So look, that may be depending where you are on the foreshore. Perhaps might be a tad cooler or a breeze creating a windsheel factor. Might pay to have a jacket. I think tonight shorts will be all right, but a jacket to keep yourself warm on the whole. Tomorrow thirty and sunny, sunny on Friday thirty two, Saturday thirty one and sunny Sunday will be twenty nine and sunny Monday. This is the fifth of January, by now see the years flying by. Already thirty one and sunny, and Tuesday the sixth sunny thirty six degrees, so warming up by next Tuesday thirty six by then, all right, so it is it is this time of year. Love it though, love it didn't get hot the other day. Don't mind that it's difficult trying to sleep air conditioner on, no problems. Eventually slept like a baby once I fell asleep on a hot pillow through the day. But it's good. Gotta love the last bit of well not the last, We've got a bit of sun to come, I suppose. But the warmth is just wonderful given we had such a cold prolonged winter right into November really before the weather started finding up. Even the poor old Jacarandas were a couple of weeks late in going purple this year to the RAA, well, don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. Better to be a member with RAA Road Service than be stuck on the side of the road checking fuel. Watch around the place. BPX Convenience Elizabeth Downs on Hamblin Road dollar forty eight point nine. That's good United at Adelaide Airport, Sir Richard William Avenue one fifty five point five, the BPX Convenience at og Road one fifty five point five, Diesel at Mobile Hampstead Gardens, Northeast Road one sixty nine point five and BPX Convenience at Prospect on Main North Road a dollar seventy one point nine, so some good prices there for unlettered But yes, it is time to shop around too, because I've seen some petrol prices still right up there at a dollar eighty nine, and you don't want to be paying that when you can be paying it round the dollar fifty mark. Janelle says Matthew, does free public transport mean the trains will run throughout the night? Usually last train is eleven fifty from the city, Janelle, my understanding is yes, but please check that with Adelaide Metro to be sure. But free public transport, as I understand it, is bus trains and I was going to say trams, but presumably the replacement bus service trams through the city I imagine though and out to Heinmarsh there as they've been running over the last few months. That's my understanding, Janelle, But double check that with the website. Maybe we can try and do that in the next few minutes. But as I understand it, New Year's Eve public transport does run and has for many years, buses, trains and trams through the night, but double check, Dom says, read the black box. If a malfunctioner on an aircraft, no decent pilot plans to crash will continue to try and save the aircraft up to the point of collision. Black box needs to stay with the aircraft so data can be collected for full flight and can avoid this happening again with information. In the future, aircraft have emergency locator beacons on board, which are normally impact activated and used to locate the last position of an aircraft through satellite. This gives emergency service an opportunity to pinpoint location and look for aircraft and survivors. That black box can then be recovered. Well that's how it usually works. Good on, you're dumb, Thank you for the black box one oh one lesson and makes perfect sense. This is why you don't want to jettison it, which I don't see how that can happen. If in the case of MH three point seventy in the pilot bringing it down to potentially a glows into the water, how would the black box know to jennison itself, as Stephen was suggesting a little while ago. So no, I think you know, the greater minds and ours have worked out how that should should operate in the future, and I'm sure it will. Regarding public transport, the government yesterday announced a suite of public transport hubs and services designated as declared public transport hubs, and they include interchanges like Aberfoyle Park, Arndale Colonnades, Elizabeth City Center, Flinder's Medical Center, Flinder's UNI, and others. Is a whole stack of them, along with railway stations including Elizabeth Flinders where else a few others. Woodville Park and Rides are included, Mount Barker, Klemsig, Golden Grove, Port, Dock Paradise. So there's a whole heap of interchanges, car parks and stations declared and more thirty more than thirty transport declared as precincts so police can be searching for knives and other whatever else that means alcohol, you know, you name it as part of the declared precincts they've announced for shopping centers. Nineteen knives, by the way, detected in shopping centers at the Adelaide railway station, following four thousand searchers over the last little while. So it's working. The other thing I had to talk to you about today almost out of time. I should have done this earlier. The Police Commissioner, the Federal Police Commissioner in Chrissy Barrett said yesterday about the Bondai shooters acting alone combing the movements of the pair, since fifteen innocent people were killed, pitty they weren't doing it in advance. But the AFP confirming the father and son traveled to the Philippines for almost a month. The Philippines National Police say they barely left their hotel and there's no evidence to suggest they went underwent training for the attack in the Philippines while they were there. Now, why would you go to the Philippines to barely leave your hotel? And if that information from Philippine authorities is right, the question would be, well, what visitors did they have to their hotel room? Would it not? This is anyway AFP commission at Chrissy Barrett speaking yesterday on this issue. Here's what she had to say.
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Speaker 7: There is no evidence to suggest these alleged defenders were part of a broad out terrorist cell or were directed by others to carry out an attack. However, I want to be clear, I am not suggesting that they were there.
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Speaker 1: For tourism, all right, and this is a little bit more of it.
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Speaker 7: What this points to and I will again advise this is a point in time. Assessment is that these individuals are alleged to have acted alone. The AFP has had ongoing investigat for some time into those who corrupt Islam in their radical recruitment drive for hatred and fear. We have gone through the sermons line by line.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not sure what we learned from that, but she and AFP obviously based on the advice from Philippines authorities, this pair flew to the Philippines, a hot bed of Isis in our part of the world, and barely left their rooms or room. So why did they go? Then it's the obvious question, Well, you fly, you fly a quarter of the way around the world to do nothing. That's interesting. I don't know what that says, frankly, But if they didn't leave or who went to them is the obvious question that springs to my mind at least. But you might have thoughts on that you might want to share with Richard Pasco a little bit after the news, which is coming up in a couple of minutes time here on five double a's being great being with you throughout twenty twenty five, just wonderful on nights for half the year and news at the start of the year, and here today wish you, your family, everyone you're with the best for tonight and certainly for next year in twenty six and look forward to speaking with you on five double A Breakfast on Friday morning, the second day of January. Happy New Year,
