FIVEAA Afternoons with Stacey Lee - 28 April 2026

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Speaker 1: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you and Happy Tuesday. It's the twenty eighth of April and I'm Stacy with you through until four o'clock and I'd love to hear from you this afternoon about cruising. Have you ever been on a cruise? What destination have you been to? Did you like it? Was it not for you? I've never actually been on a cruise before. I've been on cruise liners, I've broadcast my radio show on cruise ships, but I've never stayed on board and done a holiday on a cruise ship. I've never cruised myself, and it's I'm not sure it's something that overly appeals to me right now. Maybe in the future that'll change. But I'd love to hear from you because there is some news that Ozzie's are setting new records for the number who are choosing to holiday via a cruise. It's at an all time I'm high. One point four five million of US took ocean cruisers last year and that broke the previous record, which was set in twenty eighteen. Now the overwhelming majority of those are sailing within Australian waters and in the South Pacific, but the number of people who were doing overseas cruises does continue to grow, So I'd love to hear from you this afternoon. Is cruising for you? Have you done it before? Would you do it again? Where did you go? Tell me all about it, and we'll be talking about it with Peter Williams from Phil Hoffman Travel in Travel Talk after two point thirty plus. I think for me one of the most hated parts of being on a plane has to be the tiny, tiny toilet, going into that super small small toilet and having to negotiate your way down and up, and then you wash your hands in the tiny sink and get water every wear and wipe it down with the tiny paper towels. It's the worst. But there's one airline that's looking at introducing an on suite. Of course this would be for their first class patrons. But how much would you pay to have your own on suite on a plane? Whatever they're asking, it's probably too much for me, but I like the idea of it, so we're going to explore it this afternoon in Travel Talk. If you've got any travel questions as well, if you've got a trip that you're planning coming up, or maybe you're thinking of cruising and you'd like some ideas from Pete. Make sure you get on the phone eight double two three double O double o. Plus the news today that the new independent Reviewer has been appointed, Tom Rodgers' former Australian Electoral Commissioner, will review the South Australian election and the way it was handled by our local electoral Commission. What could be looked into as part of this How bad was this election compared to other years? I mean losing ballot papers. It's a pretty serious issue and you don't want the public to lose trust in the Electoral Commission because once you lose trust in the way democracy is held and the way democracy plays out, it's not good for anyone. So this review will be taking place. What should we look at? Will the impact of the voice to Parliament be looked at? Will try and answer those questions this afternoon. Plus, an MP officially becomes an MP when it's declared that way. Declarations have not been made in the upper house of State Parliament yet and parliament resumes next Tuesday. So while the votes have been counted and we know who the MPs are going to be, they're not technically MPs yet, they haven't been sworn in, they haven't been declared by the Electoral Commission. It means they can't get paid, it means I don't know if it means they have offices in the building yet. What sort of impact could that have on the first sitting week of Parliament, Because no doubt a new government, well new slash old government, wants to get straight to work. They've been voted in with a mandate and I imagine they have legislation they want to introduce and discuss. So you need all the MPs there, right. We'll be talking about that after two o'clock, But first up today, I think anyone who's had children would understand it's a stressful time men, but particularly women. It's a stressful time when you're pregnant. In most circumstances, there's a lot to worry about. You know, we get told what to eat, what not to eat. There's lots of doctor's appointments in the lead up to it. You're planning, you may be going to parenting classes and learning how to look after this baby that all of a sudden will be fully self fully reliant on you. And the last thing you want to worry about is what hospital will I have to go to when I'm in labor. Well, that was the reality for Lauren Buck, who's a freeling mum. She had planned to deliver her child at the Gauler Health Service throughout her whole pregnancy, but when she went into labor, that was thrown into chaos. And she joins you this afternoon. Hi, Lauren, thank you so much for your time.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Stacey, how are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm all right? How are you?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: Not too bad? Thank you for having me on this afternoon.
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Speaker 2: No, I think it's really important because I was reading about your story and hearing it this morning and this afternoon, and it really resonated with me because this all happened at the start of July last year, and I had a baby in June last year, and I just was really empathizing with you about how stressful that would have been, not knowing where you needed to go while you were in labor. So take us back to the beginning. You were pregnant, you thought you were going to be birthing at Gaula Hospital and then what happened.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So it wasn't until my waters had broken two weeks early when I had phoned our midwife to let them know that I was in active labor and baby was under distress with nconium in the waters. So during that phone cool I just assumed I'd be going to call the hospital, which I unfortunately couldn't, so I then thought, okay, we'd be going to McEwan's Hospital, which they then intern said that they were at capacity and inform me that it looked like it would be Kapunda Hospital. So I had to wait at home until they were able to call me back so that they could organize the service for me at Capunda Hospital to have an emergency c section. So it wasn't until they did phone back to concern that that it was confirmed that I've having my little boy at Kapunda Hospital by a emergency C section one cold, rainy July night.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. And was there a reason given to you, either in the moment or later as to why you couldn't go to Gauler and Olyle Mack was at capacity? But what was what was the issue at Gawler at the time.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure, so I don't feel confident in saying, but I do believe it was a starting issue whether there may not have been the obstetricians or the midwife available, or even the space for patients. So I'm not sure, but that is yeah, that's what I was told.
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Speaker 2: And had you ever been to Kapunda Hospital before?
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Speaker 3: Only briefly once many years ago. However, I actually didn't know that they had a birthing service there, and yeah, it wasn't until they said in that moment that I'd be going to Kapunda. Did we arrive there to have our baby? And it is such a beautiful service and everyone there is amazing. So it's really a valued service for the community and it's just so sad that they're not getting the support they need.
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Speaker 5: Mmmmmm.
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Speaker 2: And how's your baby now?
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Speaker 3: So Layton is just everything. He is beautiful, he is charming. That he does have challenges, so there has been a developmental delays noted. We're actually we're actually currently sitting at the Women's and Children's Hospital to get something investigated. So that's where we are the more.
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Speaker 2: Ow, Well, thank you for talking to us. I'm sorry to add that to your plate.
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Speaker 3: No, that is fine because it's so important as well. And the nurses I've let them know here and they've been wonderful as well. So yeah, so like in yeah, he does have some developmental delays and he gets it quite often and quite quite bad. And he yeah, he is showing some signs of possible neurological damage from he was treated for early on setsteps up two days old. So yeah, there is a lot of challenges from our experience.
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Speaker 2: I'm really sorry to hear that, and it just I can imagine adds to the stress. And it must feel like you've been, I guess worrying since the moment you went into labor almost.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, it feels like almost ten months ago we had to him and time just hasn't a good skill. There's been so from that very moment that he went now I'm coming, ladies and gentlemen, to the moment you know we were confirmed to be going to Kapunda and then everything went from there and here we are today. But yeah, it's just the real time. Nothing nothing stopped.
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Speaker 6: It's just been go, go go.
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Speaker 2: The thing that stands out to me is, I guess the the difference in care that you can get in in Metro compared to to regional South Australia.
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Speaker 3: At times, absolutely and this is why I've I've reached out to try and use our journey as a way of really being able to voice the needs because every staff member, every doctor that we have come across, has been true, really incredible. However, these hospitals are not getting the support and the resources that they need to be able to provide adequate services and then they're burning out. And I just I really if something can be done to help these hospitals, these workers, these doctors, everyone now, because time's being wasted here, you know, like time when he's ten months old, this was happening before him, it's still happening now. What can we do right now to help these staff members? So yeah, I really am so grateful that Ashton's team has said that we can help. And that's that's why I'm here. This is why I'm using our voice.
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Speaker 2: And you know the way you put it that you want the staff to have the support they need in the hospitals, but also hearing your story parents too. I mean, the last thing you want or need when you're in labor is to get out your phone and put Google a hospital in Google Maps and try and work out where you're going, especially when you know you've planned, You've done your appointments, you have a plan. We all know. When you're pregnant, the birth plan is paramount. You need to know where you're going because unknowns are what can trip you up. And your unknowns didn't come from from you, they came from the health system.
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Speaker 3: It's so funny you say that, because it wasn't until we had arrived in Kaponda that I had turned to my partner and I, under breathlessness, had said, do you know where we're going? And he said I don't, or I had to get my maps out to sort of see exactly where we were going because it was late at night. Yeah, just to be able to in those circumstances, you need the clarity, you really really do if anything could go wrong, anything.
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Speaker 2: Well, I really appreciate you sharing your story with us, particularly while you're at the women's and Children's hospital. I know that must not be an ideal setting for you, but it's a really important story to share. And yeah, we appreciate your time and sending all of our love to baby Lakean. And I'm sure he gets lots of lots of tight squeezes from mum every day he does.
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Speaker 3: And thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: No, I appreciate it. Like I said, my daughter's just a few weeks older than him, so I'm I'm tearing up listening to your story as we speak. So thank you for sharing. Thanks Lauren, all the best.
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Speaker 7: Bye.
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Speaker 2: That's Lauren Barker, mother from Freeling, who yeah, had to go through that while she was in labor, and she mentioned that she's grateful to Ashton and her team. This story has been highlighted by the Opposition and Jack Baddy is the Shadow Minister for Health and well Being. He also joins you now, good afternoon, Jack Baddy.
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Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Stacy, and I know.
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Speaker 2: Your a new dad as well, so you're probably listening to that and you've been speaking to Lauren and feeling for her too.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 8: Little Artie's just a couple of months younger than Lake. And I really felt for Lauren today as she shared her story alongside her beautiful family, and I think what she helped to do was shine a light on these workforce challenges that are sweeping the health system right across regional South Australia. This was one of the most important and joyful moments of Lauren's life and it turned into something pretty frightening and pretty uncertain when you break it down. You've got a young mother in labor who was told that her hospital was on divert, then told another hospital was full, and then told that she had to wait to find out another hospital where she could go and safely to liver her baby. I don't think any South Australian families should be forced to play musical chairs with hospitals while in labor, but unfortunately that's exactly what's happening in regional South Australia at the moment, and it is.
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Speaker 2: An issue and we spoke to the Health Minister about it, I think last week when there was a story about the Anguston District Hospital not having doctors in the ED for a few days a week, and they said that they've addressed that issue with virtual doctors being available at the time, but they are trying to actively recruit people to the regions, so it's not an isolated issue to gall A Hospital or the lyle Mac being at capacity at the time. It's a hard one though. How do you try and entice doctors and nurses and midwives if they don't want to work in our regions.
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Speaker 8: You're right, but This isn't an isolated case. We're seeing ongoing diversions, staffing shortages across regional South Australia and services that are stretched well beyond capacity. I think step one is acknowledging we have a problem when it comes to workforce in regional South Australia. If this sort of stuff was happening at a city hospital, there will be outrage. But I think because it's happening in the regions, it's out of sight and out of mind. But I think regional South Australians deserve a whole lot better. The fact of the matter is we need more. We need more doctors, we need more nurses, we need more midwives. Our regional health workers are doing an incredible job, often under immense pressure. But the problem is this simply not enough of them. So I think we need to have greater incentives for doctors and health professionals to work in regional areas, otherwise we're going to keep seeing this sort of stuff happening.
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Speaker 2: Well, Jack Batty, thank you for your time and for raising Lauren's story. Thanks Basie Shadow Minister for Health and Well Being, Jack Baddy there and we have reached out to the Health Minister Blair Boyer to get the government's response to this, and we haven't heard back yet, but when we do get a response from them, we'll make sure we bring that to you. As I mentioned, we did talk to him last week about other issues at a different regional hospital and he acknowledged that there is an issue recruiting staff to work in these regions and there are incentives on offer. Maybe they're not enough though. I think it was up to fifty thousand dollars to head to the regions. You'd think that might be enough to entice some people. But yeah, it's a really hard one and hearing stories like Laurens just really makes it hit home, that's for sure. Eight double two to three double O double OW is the number to call to have your say on the matter. And Wendy in Silisbury Park has called in with a traffic update. Hi Wendy, Hi Staphy.
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Speaker 9: There's a big major accident on John Rice Avenue just up from the line m yourean hospital going towards the whole intersection and I was coming from the hospital down to Holden's Way. A bus was involved but the bus has gone away now they're loading up ambulances with people and there's about five or six cars involved.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, that doesn't sound good at all.
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Speaker 9: All over the they're all over the road and there's PEAPs heaps of people walking around with bright blu oat green jackets on.
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Speaker 2: Oh green.
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Speaker 9: Do you know, like the the best people wear that flu o green?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they've got that over their ambulance outfits.
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Speaker 2: All right, okay, the paramedics, yeah, okay, yeah.
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Speaker 9: I thought there was a bus involved, but the bus didn't look hit up. But because I'm parked at the side street, we're having to use all the backstreets.
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, that go along.
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Speaker 9: The side of of John Rice Avenue. We've got bus just going down their heaps of cars. It's about four or five police cars there as well.
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Speaker 2: Well. Glad emergency services are on scene. And thank you for telling us, Wendy. I hope you're okay.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I wasn't involved. The fire engines went ahead of me and then I saw it all blocked side streets.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, well, well done, and thanks for sharing.
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Speaker 9: Yeah. Well, the news came on for the traffic and it wasn't on that, so that's why I rang up.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, we appreciate it.
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Speaker 11: Thank you, You're welcome.
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Speaker 2: See you.
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Speaker 12: Yah.
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Speaker 2: That's Wendy in Salisbury Park And yeah it sounds bad. So if you're near John Rice Avenue near the Lale McEwen, maybe find a different route or be prepared for a bit of a delay. Glad emergency services are there on scene. Eight Double two three, double O double OW is the number to call, and Michael in Blackwood has called in.
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Speaker 13: Hi Michael, Yes, good afternoon. A couple of reasons about what DI to get doctors into regional areas if there's no accommodation, and probably as well as you know, doctors are not going to live in a housing trust hard that's not unfair. But I would just add that. And I heard just say that Blair Boy coming on on good health ministers and Jack Baddie. But One Nation got elected on being the loudest voice in opposition and health was a priority. Chantell spoke about the Cadena and Wallerer and Maitland hospitals and Dave Payton's the One Nation member for that. I mean, have they rung in to this program with an answer on health?
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Speaker 2: I haven't heard from them today, right, I.
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Speaker 13: Mean, but this they got elected on being the loudest voice in opposition because the opposition haven't done anything, so wouldn't you think that'd be on the or they barred from bringing you.
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Speaker 2: No, I never ban anyone. Everyone's will bring on my program.
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Speaker 13: So yeah, this health was the big issue that Cory Bernardi spoke about. And I've read the pamphlets from Chantell and from Dave Peyton and these hospitals are in.
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Speaker 2: Their electric Okay, well thanks for that.
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Speaker 14: To get off the line.
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Speaker 13: They may be trying to ring.
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Speaker 2: Now, Thanks Michael, appreciate the call. So you have you to take a call from anyone, whether it's an MP or a listener who'd like to have their say. Phone lines are always open. Eight double two to three double O double OW is the number to call. It's time for news headlines now and after that State of the Arts. We have a few different events happening in South Australia very soon. Tasting Australia is coming up and I think we all need a good laugh every now and then. There is a festival for that as well.
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Speaker 15: Five double A afternoons. It's Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you. It's twenty seven minutes to two here on five double a and it's time to talk about some wonderful festivals happening in our state. Very soon.
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Speaker 15: Five double as State of the.
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Speaker 2: Arts Tasting Australia is coming up. As you know, I love my food, so it's one of my favorite events of the year. And this year the city of Uley is putting on a festival of Rice, and I thought we've got to talk about this because I just love the idea of celebrating rice. To tell us all about it. Mike Smith is the organizer of the festival and joins me in the studio. High Mike, Hi, Stacy, how are you.
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Speaker 16: I'm great, It's great to be here.
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Speaker 2: Very fun. What why Rice? Where did you come up with this idea of a festival of rice?
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Speaker 16: That's a really good question actually, and to be honest, it really started from having a look at the I guess the cultural demographic shift that's been happening in only over the last five to ten years. And you know, we've really seen a bit of a cultural shift where we historically have been quite Greek and Italian dominated in our cultural representation, and that's shifted over the last five ten years to more of a Chinese and Indian based makeup, and so you know, looking at those two cultures, the one binding ingredient really that stands out for me there is rice. They're the two biggest consumers of rice and also the two biggest exporters of rice. So it was really for me an opportunity to highlight not just the Chinese and Indian communities, but the growing Southeast Asian community and just really that cultural shift that's been happening not just in only but across wider Adelaide over the last five ten years, and used rice as the binding ingredient to bring all that together in celebration.
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Speaker 2: And it's so universal. I mean, I'm Greek and I think of all the different rice dishes that we have. I fed Molly the other night my daughter for guess my mum had made, which is a rice and lentil dish. And we've got the rigolo, which is a rice dessert Italian risotto. So you know, rice is pretty and we all use rice, we all eat rice.
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Speaker 16: It literally is on every corner of the globe. And interestingly we will have rosolio at the event. There's there's a wonderful local business called Kafathaki who's doing that especially just for Festival of Rice.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's the best. They will never beat my mum's though, No, of course not. Oh so what can people expect. It's happening on.
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Speaker 16: On Saturday, the ninth of May, which is next weekend and the day before Mother's Day.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that's exciting.
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Speaker 16: It is it is?
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Speaker 2: Where is it happening?
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Speaker 16: So it's happening right in the center of Uley, right where the town hall and the only library is. So we've got a couple of road closures in place, and the event essentially takes an entire city block with lots of little nooks and crannies. There's underground car parks, we're inside the town hall and library. It's it's really an event that evokes exploration. There's a lot of things to see, a lot of things to come and experience.
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Speaker 2: And it's free.
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Speaker 16: It's all free.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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Speaker 2: Do you know that's my favorite word, Mike. Second favorite word is sale, but first favorite is free.
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Speaker 16: I think that's a lot of people's favorite word. And you know, at City of Only, all of our rent programs are free for our outdoor external events, and we try and keep it as accessible as possible.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right, So I imagine lots of food, lots of rice.
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Speaker 16: Well, it is the key feature. You have to have rice to be involved in the festival, and not just in the food, but we actually have a range of activities and other experiences that are rice based. We have a lot of We have a couple of bars serving drinks with including Japanese rice Laga, Japanese Sucki, Korean soju, all rice based drinks, some really great rice based desserts, and some really interesting rice based activities, including some kids craft activities that really look at journey of rice from when it's when it's harvested to its journey across the world and where it extends to in every corner of the globe. Lots of free workshops and activities. Yeah, it's really an educational piece, you know, an opportunity to explore the culture and the stories that are behind the cultures that associate with rice as much as it is an opportunity for people to come and eat some good food and have a good time.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: See, the second part of that is what appeals to me. Just eat some good food, have a good time. Can you bring the family along.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, absolutely, and the dog with really family and pet friendly at this event, as we are at all our events at City of Onley, but we encourage it actually, and the event runs from mid day until ten pm at night. So really our more family orientated activities are during the day, over that lunch period in the afternoon. As we go into nighttime the lights switch on, it becomes a little bit of a party environment. Still family friendly, of course, but most of our kids' activities particular particularly focus during the.
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Speaker 2: And tell me about some of the workshops that you've got on what you what can you do and learn about?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, sure, we've got We've got some great demonstrations and workshops, including sushi making. We've got some paper crafts, some kids fish kite making. We've got a drumming workshop which is associated with a local lion dance group. Yeah, lots of lots of craft activities in particular, but there's a lot of things for kids to be able to come and get hands on with.
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Speaker 2: I probably need the sushi making classes. I've done them. I've made sushi once at home when I was pregnant, because you know, you can't really eat sushi out of course, and so I made it at home and look, they fell apart before they got in my mouth, but most of the flavors were there. Had the rice, had the seaweed, had the tuna, avocado or whatever else. But I probably need a sushi making class.
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Speaker 16: Look well done. You probably did better than I would have done, to be honest, but it's not my forte. But that's why I'm bringing in the professionals to come and teach me how to do it.
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Speaker 2: So if you do want to do one of those classes, or you think your kids would like to do the kite making, do you have to book those in ahead of time?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 16: No, absolutely not. So it's all free. It is all first in, best dressed, so you know, particularly if you're coming with kids, I'd recommend trying to come early, but we have lots of spots available for kids to join in. There's lots of different activities as well, so if they can't jump on one if it's a bit busy, they can jump on another one and circle around.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Nice, and so bring the kids. You mentioned a bit later on that the lights come on. I imagine you've got some live music, some bands.
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Speaker 16: We certainly do. We've got live entertainment and cultural performance happening all day. We've got a stage that's running a full program that we've curated in association with our friends at Exus Arts Gallery, and also interweave through the stage program. There'll be live cultural performance that pop up throughout the festival sites, across the day and across the night, and that includes things like lion dancing. There's a twenty five plus strong traditional Indian drumming roving group. There's Jeopandese Ticho drumming. There's amazing performances from artists such as Georgia and Norico, which anyone may remember from Australia's Got Talent. It's really a solid program and there's going to be excitement and happy all day.
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Speaker 2: Oh well, it sounds like a whole heap of fun. I'll have to make my way down. I always have a great time at the local festivals that you put on, and because everyone knows I live in the area, so I love to come along. So thanks for coming and telling us all about it, Mike, No problem at all.
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Speaker 16: I hope to see there.
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Speaker 2: Yes, sounds good. Mike Smith. There the event organizer for the Festival of Rice, which is on Saturday May nine, from the City of Onley and Tasting Australia, nineteen minutes to two here on five double A. I think we all feel at the moment that we need a good laugh. There is nothing better than a good Brey laugh. And up next I'm going to be telling you about a festival that's coming to Adelaide, to the Hills in particular, and it is called a good Laugh.
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Speaker 1: Five The Afternoons with Stacey Lee.
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Speaker 2: Eight double two three double oh is the number to tall to have your say on any of the matters that we're talking about on the Afternoons program. And very soon, in around an hour's time, we will have travel talk with the team from Phil Hoffman Travel and we're talking about cruising. This week, I'm asking you have you ever been on a cruise? What did you think about about it? Would you book another one? John is in Semaphore Park, Hi, John.
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Speaker 6: Hight Stacey there you going?
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Speaker 2: I'm good? How are you.
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Speaker 6: Fine? I've never done this before so I feel a bit.
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Speaker 18: You know he out there?
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Speaker 2: Well, thanks for ringing John's this is a safe space.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay. Now, firstly, I think you're wonderful and I missed you while you were heavy baby, and.
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Speaker 18: Because you're really good at what you do fantastic, Thank you anyway. Yeah, I just wanted to talk a bit about cruising and it might be a bit negative, and a lot of people weren't like what I've got to.
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Speaker 6: Say that I'm going to say it anyway. Yeah, my wife and I went on several cruises around the you know, we're up in the Asia area and all that sort of stuff, and they were good. And then we didn't do any for a while, and then I noticed that there were cruisers here locally from Adelaide, so you didn't have to go to Sydney or wherever else to get on the ship. And I thought, oh, they look good. They're only all night. You left from here, you went to Port Lincoln, you went to Kangar Island and then you come back. And they were good, but they were smaller ships, right. And the last one we had the misfortune to be on it was a beach ship. Don't ask me the brand, I can't tell you, but it was one that had something like three thousand bloody passengers and I thought, oh, bloody hell. Anyway, I thought, well it should be good. Well it wasn't. The meals were pretty ordinary, and I mean most of it's paid for you don't have to do anything. But on one night, I thought, I'm going to have a steak. I haven't had a steak for a while. Well I did, and I should have put it underneath my feet on my shoe because it was bloody awful. I complained, and they said, oh, give me another one. I thought, well, I don't know whether it's going to be any better anyway, So I said, don't bother, don't bother, and so that was that.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's experience to have.
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Speaker 6: No, No, I mean, things happen. Things happened. I mean the best thing about cruising is that it's pretty cheap. When you think about it. You've got, you know, your cruise. You're going here, there, everywhere. All your meals are included, and you unpacked once and that's it. Then you get off at the end and and they gat to lots of interesting places and whatever else.
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Speaker 19: And so I'm.
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Speaker 6: Not negative about it. I just our last time wasn't a good experience. And my wife says, we're not doing that again.
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Speaker 2: Oh no, Well that's good to hear your experience, John, because I'm sure there are lots of people who have been on cruises and have had similar experiences as well. So thank you so much for ringing and telling us about it.
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Speaker 6: My pleasure having great AVO. I love you.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, John, appreciate it.
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Speaker 18: See you bye bye.
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Speaker 2: That's John in Semaphore Park And we will be talking about cruising after two point thirty with the team from Phil Hoffman Travel. So if you've been on a cruise before and you want to share your experience, I'd love to hear it. Eight double two to three double O double ow. Well, if you were to cruise up the freeway to the Adelaide Hills from the month of May. From the first of May, there will be a comedy festival happening. A Good Laugh is the name of it, and Louise Clark is the event director and she joins me in the studio. Hi Louise, Hi there, how are you?
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Speaker 20: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: And good thank you?
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Speaker 2: This sounds like a whole heap of fun. Oh it is.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely We all need a good laugh. We all do need a good laugh. Is exactly what called the festival a good laugh. We all need a good laugh, I absolutely now more than ever, now, more than ever, exactly.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and you've got some pretty big comedians headlining.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, I've got an absolutely amazing lineup. So it's going for the three weekends and it's a different lineup every single night, so it's on Friday and Saturday night on the across the three weekends, and yeah, different lineup with some amazing headliners and also really good local contingency of comedians as well.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, and you so you've got Clear Hooper.
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Speaker 5: Hooper and Dealrouck and Sam Thornton and Melbuttle Love Mel Bottle, Yeah, and Alex Ward and Michael Hinging and then we've got some amazing locals as well, and Kevin Koppereri and Lorii Bell who also does Fanny Flaps. So yeah, there's a really good, amazing solid lineup.
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Speaker 21: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Great. So it's on for the three weekends in May, from the first to the sixteenth, and it's at different venues too, which sounds cool.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. So traveling around the whole Mount Barker region, which is what I wanted to be able to do, so like spoiling those different townships and going in and taking comedy to the locals. And so you don't have to get any car, you don't have to come down the freeway and then you can you know, experience comedy like world class comedy in your own backyard, which is kind of what I was going for. So and also just it's so beautiful up there. So it's also an opportunity for people in the CBD whatever to you know, go up and have a bit of a tour around as well, so you don't have to just go to one, you can kind of tour around and explore these amazing venues. So the first up this weekend is actually in the Tin Shed Distillery in then that one is actually sold out, so oh, I know, WI ticket sales are doing really lovely. Yeah, it's great, and then we go to Macclesfield and then we have a family friendly contingent as well on the third, So the third of May we do the Big Giggle which is in Harndorff and the Academy lawns by the kind of Adelaide wine bar as well. So that's kind of free family day from eleven to or four. So it's kind of you know, family friendly into good because all the other events are plus fifteen, so yeah.
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Speaker 2: And so do you have It's hard to get a comedian for kids, but there's lots of kids entertainment out there.
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Speaker 5: I've seen a lot of children entertainment, yeah, but yeah, doing stand up comedy for kids is a bit more different.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, a lot of fart jokes, exactly, a lot of poo jokes, yes, yeah, so it's kind of yeah, covering all bases, I guess.
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Speaker 5: And then the next weekend we go to a chunker and then oh yeah, so the Community Institute there, and then we go on to Meadows at the Cheese Factory, which is a stunningly beautiful have you been there. It's such a great venue, just the idea of cheese and it's in this big old cheese factory and it's got amazing acoustics, beautiful little stage and it's just outside Meadows and I love Meadows as well. And Meadows has got a festival going on that weekend as well, so kind of a Tunga weekend. So it's like a really beautiful weekend to get out and about in the hills.
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Speaker 2: Oh nice, we are really fun vibe.
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Speaker 5: And then we finish off the last weekend is in Prancing Pony Brewery in Totness, which is just outside Mount Barker and they've got great beer and it's got be really good night those tickets are going really fast as well, actually, and then we go to the town Hall in Mount Barkerb for our gala event.
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Speaker 2: Ah, yes, that's the big one I always see, you know, we've got the fringe and I think that's when most of the comedians come to town. But then you always see the Melbourne Comedy Gala and these events on Interstate Comedy Events. So it's nice to see we've got a comedy girl gala.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely everybody needs a gala. So that's on the that's the last one on the sixteenth of May, and it's in the Mount Barker town Hall, which is a beautiful old venue, and we're going to be closing the road beforehand and it's going to be a bit of a kind of starting at five and we're going to have live music and then Barker Pub is going to trade out and yeah, it's going to be a really nice evening actually, and then we do two hours of comedy.
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Speaker 2: And you get to hear little bits of lots of people in a gala, which is the best bill I think.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, it's going to be fun.
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Speaker 2: Because you get a little taste of everyone.
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Speaker 5: Everybody, Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 2: So what made you come up with the idea of doing it in the hill.
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Speaker 5: I guess it's really I've been working with the Mountain Barker Council and they've been really supportive and they actually invited me to apply for their major Events grant and I'd worked with them a couple of years ago, and I was the director of Sterling Fringe for many years and have done a lot of festival work and then I was like, we haven't really got a comedy festival here in South Australia, and I just thought it was a great opportunity to be able to put on a comedy festival and it was kind of came out of the idea of basically, we need a good laugh, and that is exactly what it's called a good laugh. Because of everything that's going on around the world globally, we kind of can all get a bit overwhelming and sometimes it's just good to have a bit of a laugh and for a nervous system. And then also to tour around and I live in the Hills as well, and it's just such a stunning place to be and may as well. It's autumn time of year, isn't it, And I love it and the light and everything and the leaves falling. So that's yeah, so just one thing to another. And the Mount Barker Council were like, yeah, this is a great idea, let's go for it. Amazingly supportive and it's not that far.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I know, we're so lucky that we don't really have to travel huge distances in Adelaide and South Australia and even sometimes the idea of oh I've got to go there this weekend, you could we we're so lucky that we're in a position where we can say that, but really, yeah, it's so half hour drive up the freeway, get some good food, go to a winery.
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Speaker 5: Great wine. Yeah, there's amazing distilleries now you know, the tin shed and everything. There's loads of places.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's great and so well, especially on the closing night, will you have sort of food vendors? Will it be a food truck festival scenario.
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Speaker 5: Food as well? So that and also it's about kind of discovering the local venue venues as well. So all the previous weekends, so Partzy and Pony have a really good you know, evening dinner as well, and then also tin sheds of food and then so it's just about exploring all the different places at next door to the venues as well. But yeah, also on the town hall there'll be food options for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the best part about going to an event like this. That's always my favorite part. If I ever have tickets to an event at the festival, theater or wherever, it might be booking the dinner, working out where we want to go, what sort of cuisine will fit the night, fit the weather, fit the vibe, and book looking up reviews from nearby restaurants and then exploring something different.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Absolutely, And the show starts at eight o'clock, so it's perfect you can go for dinner six six thirty and then roll into the two hours of comedy.
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Speaker 2: How good? Yeah, yeah, I think I'm very there with you. We all need a good laugh, absolutely good laugh. So where can people go if it sounds like something they want to be involved in and get tickets to.
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Speaker 5: Just Google goes to Humanitics. That's where the ticketing platform is. So you just go on there and you can buy tickets directly from the platform. It kind of you can see all the different venues and it's a really good price point. Actually, it's thirty dollars. Oh, general admission for two hours of comedy. I think that's yeah, and then yeah, and there's also concessions at twenty five and then if you go with a group of four it's also twenty five dollars.
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Speaker 2: How good.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, and the big gigglers free of course. That's great. That's the Kid's Keys, the Kids one on Sunday this Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Oh perfect. Yeah, Well, thank you for telling us all about it, Luis, Thank you for having me really appreciate it.
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: That is a good laugh which is coming to the Adelaide Hills on from the first of May this weekend. It starts, so get online and get your tickets and it runs for three weekends in a row until the sixteenth. Louise Clark, they're the event director. All right, it's time for the two o'clock news now and after that. Tom Rodgers, the former Australian Electoral Commissioner, has been appointed to lead an independent review into the way the South Australian Electoral Commission handled the election we've just had. What could he be looking at? What impact will it have? How will he make sure that his review is comprehensive enough that people who may have I guess, started to second guests or lost hope in the way that our elections are handled, that that doesn't happen into the future and their trust can be reinstated. We'll talk about that after.
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Speaker 1: The News five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you, and welcome to the second hour of the afternoon's program. Coming up very soon, Travel Talk with Pete Williams from Phil Hoffman Travel, and we're talking about cruising today. Have you ever been on a cruise? What did you think of it? Where did you go? I'd love to hear your story, and if you've got a question for Pete about cruising, I'm already getting a couple through on the text line. He is the man to ask because he is the font of all knowledge, not just with cruises but travel in general, so he will be able to answer your questions. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number, or you can text it through zero double four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. In we will be talking about the independent review into the South Australian Electoral Commission and the way that the organization handled the state election back on the twenty first of March. But first up, we started the show today sharing Lauren Barker's story with you. She's a freeling mum who went into labor in July last year and was told She rang her hospital to say yep, it's happening. I'm coming in, as all all mums do when they're in labor, and she was told by the Gaula Health Service where she was planning on having her baby, where she'd had all of her appointments in her regular appointments in the lead up to her labor, they said, sorry, we are on divert and you have to go somewhere else. We would usually redirect you to the Lyle McEwan hospital, but that was at capacity, so she had to wait and they called her back, and eventually, around twenty minutes later, she got a call saying go to Capunda Hospital. Her and her husband got in the car started driving to Capunda Hospital. Realized they don't know where the hospital is, had to put it in Google Maps. While she was in labor. She had to direct him there and then they got to the hospital and thankfully, baby Lakean was born via emergency cesarian not too long after, but it does highlight the need for staffing and I guess for a more targeted approach to hiring staff and trying to get staff into regional hospitals, because this isn't the first story that we've shared of this nature. Just last week we were talking about there being no doctors on staff for a few days a week at the Anguston Hospital. So it is an issue and we spoke to the Health Minister at that time last week and he acknowledged that it was an issue. We reached out to him about Lauren's story today and he held a press conference a short time ago. Here is how Health Minister Blair Boyer has responded to her story.
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Speaker 22: So I've got very high expectations. It's a new health ministor and the service we provide to patients and of course people from regional South Australia and to this family, I say, I'm sorry that the experience you had didn't meet your expectations. WI As Health Minister, I want people to go through our health system, whether they're giving birth or whether they're receiving end of life care or whatever it might be, getting care and support that meets their expectations and meets our society's expectations more goodly.
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Speaker 7: I think that is really really.
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Speaker 22: Important we do, of course, and this is not a new phenomenon. It is not something that just South Australia is grappling with. This is an occurrence right around Australia in rule and regional areas. We do sometimes have work for shortages because it is very hard to attract staff, harder than it's ever been to regional hospitals where we do need to divert services for a time, sometimes that includes birth in services to other hospitals. We are and perhaps in response to the second part of the question, we absolutely acknowledge that we've no just been there for a very long time.
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Speaker 7: We took to.
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Speaker 22: This election only weeks ago a pretty big election commitment around thirteen million dollars to start a GP training facility in Mount Gambia for the specific reason of trying to do more to grow the workforce in terms of GPS to go to regional hospitals, because we know it is an issue and it has been an issue for a number of years.
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Speaker 2: So Blair Boyer's response there the Health Minister, what do you make of it? Eight double two to three double oh is the number to call, or you can text it through zero double four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. Now we've heard the news today that the state government has announced that former Federal Electoral Commissioner Tom Rodgers will lead the independent review into the state election. What will it look into? Why is this necessary? Would we consider how would you consider the way the Electoral Commission handled the state election. Clem McIntyre is across all of this, and Hayes an emeritus professor of Politics at Adelaide UNI, and he joins you now hallo, Clem, Hello Stacy. So you know there's been a lot of discussion following the election about issues that have occurred, polling places not opening on time, there being issues with some of the technology. But I think the big one is that the ballots that were found after the counts had taken place in the declarations were made. That's a pretty big one.
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Speaker 23: Right, Yes, there were a number of problems through the election that that is certainly up there with the worst of them. We normally rely upon the electoral commissions in Australia, across the whole country, state ones in the federal one to be absolutely rigorous in the conduct of the elections. It's one of the things that I often used to cite talking to students about the sort of the integrity of the democratic process in Australia. We have arms length electoral commissions who are given the rules and it's up to them to apply it. It's nothing to do with the government, but clearly when there have been as many problems as they have the last election, there are questions to be answered and it's no surprise that the government's appointed an independent reviewer. Tom Lodgers is a former electoral commission at the federal level, very successful and well regarded, and I've no doubt that he will lead a detailed review into the various mishaps that took place here in South Australia at the state election and in the process of coming the votes subsequently.
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Speaker 2: And I think you touch on a really important point there, Clem. We need people to have trust in the electoral process. So this needed to happen because you couldn't just have a question mark over ballots being lost and being found a month later and not being counted or being counted late. There had to be something so the South Australian community could know something was being done. This was being looked at, and we need people to trust the process.
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Speaker 23: Yes, that's right. I don't think anything that I've heard that went wrong during this election suggests corruption or malice of forethought as it were, they mishaps and mistakes and oversights, rather than the deliberate process to corrupt the results. I think we should be satisfied with that. But at the same time, seeing the level of integrity and due diligence in the planning and the execution is a very important part of communicating that trust and confidence in the electoral Commission. And as you say, people having a sense that all is as it should be, above board and run appropriately is a really important plank in us having faith in the outcomes and that a Democrat processes that flow from the election of the stadium, haven't we?
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Speaker 2: And now there have been a couple of suggestions as to how the inquiry should play out. The Opposition has called to make sure the inquiry looks into whether or not the Voice to Parliament election should have been held on the same day. Do you think that's worthy of including?
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Speaker 23: Oh, I think it's certainly part of the overall view that Tom Rodgers, as the independent reviewer, will want to look at the terms of reference include a note about the concert about the importance of consultation of average and elders about their experiences in voting at the Voice election. And there were questions raised about is it the right day to hold it when we're having the federal election. I think for me, the answer to that would be yes. The average Voice election doesn't get many voters, but it's a statewide process. So the idea that you'd set up a full statewide election for the small number of I think it was about three and a half thousand voters who cast to vote for the Voice, that would just be foolish, I think a very expensive process. Having it on the same day as the state election I think is the right call, But it adds to the complexity of the state election that it's run in parallel. That just means that the Electoral Commission need to be ready for that and anticipating any problems that might arise and planning accordingly.
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Speaker 2: And at one point one nation, we're calling for a parliamentary inquiry into the way the election was handled. The government has opted for an independent reviewer separate to the Parliament. Why is that important?
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Speaker 23: I think the fact that it's independent of both the Government and the Parliament is just underlining the the distance, the arms length distance between the agencies of the Government and the Parliament and the review that we're going to get. Tom Rodgers is from outside South Australia. He's a long serving Federal Commissioner with a lot of experience in elections. I'm struggling to think of a better person to be running this review. There's nothing to stop the Parliament conducting its own inquiry. So when the Parliament sits and we have one Nation member sitting in both the upper and lower houses, they can call for a parliamentary inquiry there and if the numbers are there, that'll go ahead. But I don't think it's likely to reach any conclusions that an independent review wouldn't come to.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, it could be seen as it could be not taken seriously by the public as well. If you have a parliamentary inquiry and you have parliamentarians who have just been elected looking into the way an election was handled, I would think that there could be the perception of conflict.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 23: So though we should emphasize that the most parliamentary committee's inquiry consist of members of all the political parties and the cross bench as well, so they're not really normally seen to be part of and exercises. But you're right. If we've got a Parliament that's elected by a certain process, inquiring into the election itself, then that raises questions of sort of conflict of interest and so on. There is no question of any such matter with an independent review like Tom Rodgers. But as I say, the Parliament will have the capacity if it wants to, if there are sufficient numbers in the Chamber, to set up a committee of inquiry. That would take place, but as I say, it's hard to know what it would cover that was unlikely to be covered by the independent review anyway.
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Speaker 2: There was another story that I reported in the Advertiser today that Legislative councilors haven't been officially declared by the Electoral Commission yet. It's been some time since the election. It's now the twenty eighth of April. I thought all votes had been counted and we knew who was going to be our MPs. But the idea that it hasn't been formalized is concerning because Parliament resumes next Tuesday, so you want all the MPs to know that they've got a rock up to work.
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Speaker 23: Yes, exactly. It's now what five weeks since the election, just over five weeks since the election. Counting votes for the upper House is much more complicated business than it is for the lower house. We're talking about the whole of the state as a single constituency, and when you allocate preferences in order to get the final outcome, you need to have every vote in front of you, because candidates could finish a couple of votes apart, and the order of that finish is critical as to who who gets eliminated from the count and whose preferences are distributed. So you can't sort of do it on a progressive basis. We see that as on a nominal basis on election night when we talk about the notional two party preferred vote. That's sort of indicative until the final count takes place. But it's simply not possible to do that for the upper House. We're familiar and also in the Senate with waiting several weeks before we get an outcome. So every vote has to be in, it has to be counted, and it has to be sort of entered into the computer so that when the button is pressed and the preferences are distributed, we do get that outcome. So the fact that it's taken longer is no surprise. The fact that it's taken this long is a worry. As you say, Parliament is due to sit on Tuesday. Look, we know quite nearly ten of the eleven people we're electing to the upper House. It's quite clear from where the results where the votes are. But we can say which of the say that ten of the eleven can that's have been elected, but the eleventh candidate remains in limbo. It looks like it'll be clear driven from the Labor Party, but that's no guarantee.
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Speaker 2: And really counting are they still being counted?
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Speaker 23: Well, I don't think they've still be encountered. I suspect that they're being entered into you know, sort of digitally ended into the computer so that when the process of counting takes place, every every ballot paper is there and accounted for. Yes, And they can't, as it were, press the button, as they say, until every every paper has been scanned and added to the to the count with all the preferences indicated. But you can only got to put yourself in the position of some of the the likely winners, they're not being paid yet, they are not able to establish their office and appoint staff. They are and in case of one of them, at least they're not absolutely sure that they're going to be elected. So that when we're only a handful of days, what is it a week till the first sitting of Parliament, is again something that I think that the review will be looking at the process and speed with which that count for the Legisative Council has taken place.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, particularly given Claire Scriven, as you mentioned, is the one that's up in the air. She was sworn in as a minister many many weeks ago, so she still worked with provision.
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Speaker 23: Yes, there is provision to be a minister, but you have to get your seat pretty soon afterwards. I think it three months that you can be serving as a minister without actually having a seat, but you forfeit that commission if you don't get a seat in that time. And in the sense for Claire Scriven, it's perhaps less of a problem. She's familiar with the Parliament, she knows how it worked. But you can imagine if it was a candidate who had never been elected before they're sitting at home twiddling their thumbs today and then told on get to Parliament on Tuesday. Perhaps they've told on Friday. They've got to get the rest of their life in order and they've got to be expected to sort of get up the speed instantly on becoming an MP. So it's far from my deal, I think, Stacey.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, you can say that again. Well, Clem, always appreciate your insights. Thank you for coming on and talk to me, talking to us about how the review might take place. Appreciate it. Thanks so much, Clem McIntyre, the Emeritus Professor of Politics at Adelaide University. Eight double two to three double O double OW is the number to call to have your say, and I'll take some calls.
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Speaker 15: Next five double A afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: It's almost time for the two thirty news. And after that we have Travel Talk with Pete Williams from Phil Hoffman Travel and this week we're talking cruising and I'd love to hear from you on eight double two three double O double oh if you've been on a cruise, where have you been? Did you love it? Did you hate it? We heard from John earlier who said he'd been on a couple. I liked most of them, but I'm not sure he'd go on one again after a bad experience. But I'd love to hear about your experience. And if you've got any questions, Pete is the man to answer them. Blake and Marion has called in and Blake, you want to talk about school crossings.
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Speaker 14: Good afternoon, Stacey. Yes, I heard your segment yesterday with David will and Breakfast for the Week in Politics, and it's pretquently is that because basically there was an incident you may record about a month ago at the front of Seaview High School on Seeking Road. Peter was struck as a crossing, and obviously a month on there's still no school zone signs installed at this location. It's one of many that the Marian councilor is meant to beginning installed in time, but obviously at the moment it's not there. So I agree with a lot of your points. Actually I think it's quite confusing signage. But I think the main thing take away from it, and the reason I'm advocating for it so strongly because I think there is a call to safety there, and not just in this instance, but as a student, a previous student going to the school that was obviously a really hot, big hot spot and it felt dangerous on a main road there. Yeah, so I actually rode away to the Minister's Transport also the Minister for Education at a few points. But the main thing that did take away from it and trying to advocate for was a fast tracked approach because currently the website says that the school crossing is the sign is meant to be installed by the end of twenty twenty six. So it was advocating for that to be installed sooner given recent events of course, and also a review of safety conditions at the secret road crossing. And the reason that I've actually reached out to the ministers on that front is because there's actually an ELC right next door and about turn Redmaters away there's two primary schools, so I'm hoping to get a response back. My correspondence after two weeks was passed on to the Minister for Police and he's considering it. And that was two weeks ago, so yeah, obviously a month has passed now, hoping to get some answers, but yeah, obviously my main concern is getting a safety first outcome. But yeah, do we have hear anything yet, Safey, So yeah, want to touch base about you comments just as well.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for letting us know about it, Blake, And I had the Minister of Police on yesterday, Michael Brown, so I'd be interested to hear what response you get from him. So stay in touch. I'd love to follow up with this because yeah, I think you raise some good points, and particularly if there's been an incident at the school already, you would think that those signs there in that school zone should be fast tracked and put in place as soon as possible. So yeah, stay in touch, Blake. Feel free to send us the correspondence when you get it from the minister.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, of course, thank you and very quickly as well. I think you raised some great points yesterday that perhaps it is the forty zone at all times rather than just at school set times throughout the day. I know that would cause a bit of frustration with ongoing traffic and whatnot, but as you mentioned the school sport on the US on our weekends out of ours, I've said to the Police Minister's office as well, like I'm happy to be an advocates for this area and I think it's important that Saphey comes first in this and that's the reason I'm advocating. So we'll definitely keep you informed. Sapey.
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Speaker 2: Thanks, Blake, really appreciate it.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, see you.
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Speaker 2: And yeah, he's right. This is why I've been so passionate about it, because kids safety should not be ambiguous. If there's a question mark over it, we have an issue, so let's address it. This is why we need this is why we have talk back lines. Raise your issue and hopefully we can help get some answers. Eight double two three double o double oh is the number time for news headlines now and after that travel talk share with us your cruising experience.
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Speaker 1: Five double A afternoons with Stacey Lee.
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Speaker 2: Let's go straight to the weather Bureau now. Morgan Pumper is the Bureau of Meteorology. Hello Morgan, Hey, they're facing what sort of temperatures can we expect for the next few days?
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Speaker 17: Yeah, well, after the twenty seven today, pretty similar into the next year with twenty eight degrees both Wednesday and Thursday, and still warming up on the Friday with twenty nine degrees. Look, we will have a little bit more airflow with the north northeasties on Friday. Then it'll start to cool down and get a little bit showery as well, so hopefully we get at least the five millimeters over Saturday and Sunday is a combined total. When we see those temperatures coming down from the twenties to about twenty degrees on Sunday and into Monday as well, so it seems like we'll start to see that change in our weather conditions coming soon, but still pretty warm mostly Sunday to partly cloudy through the rest of this week as well.
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Speaker 2: Sounds good, Morgan, Thanks for the update, No worries see you. That's Morgan Pumper at the Bureau of Meteorology.
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Speaker 2: Fantastic loving talking about cruising today.
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Speaker 24: Yes, no, it's fantastic. I was on the Breaky Show with the Boys this morning as well, so lots of good news there which is great.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: People, well, a lot of people are enjoying cruising. Some people have other thoughts.
01:05:29
Speaker 24: I heard the gentleman was at bill I think who didn't like his steak?
01:05:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you get that, you get that.
01:05:36
Speaker 7: Look.
01:05:36
Speaker 24: He was probably on one of the local cruisers that you know. Probably food, I'll be very frank, food is probably not their shining light. They have specialty dining on board, which is a slight upgrade, but the kind of the price that you pay for that type of like it's really cheap. Like some of those cruises are just over one hundred dollars a day. Wow, you probably can't expect the world for that type of thing, But you know, the rest of it is really good, and it just depends, you know, it just depends. If you're expecting a Michelin star dining experience, you're not going to get it. But if you want to go on a five star cruise, you're going to get it. You kind of get what you pay for, like in anything.
01:06:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I guess that's why people are more edging towards cruises because you can you can choose what you want. You can go as lucks or you can go as as budget as you like, depending on the location you want to go to what you prioritize. I prioritize food, but not everyone does.
01:06:29
Speaker 24: Look, cruising is really easy, but it can also be quite complex unless you totally understand what's going on. And that's where cruise specialists like ourselves, our guys are trained on cruising. And I always say, if you put someone on the wrong cruise line or the wrong destination, they'll hate cruising for the rest of their life. Right the ship might be too big, too small, too boring, to two party two, you know, but we ask two or three questions. We can narrow that down to two or three cruise lines and a couple of destinations. Then you'll fall in love with cruising for the rest of your life. So it's all about that experience, because there is a cruise for everyone out there. I've been cruising with my young fami well when they were young, my.
01:07:07
Speaker 7: Boys all the way through now.
01:07:10
Speaker 24: We started out going on the big resort ships because they wanted water slides and they want lots of entertainment.
01:07:15
Speaker 7: But now they're grown up, and.
01:07:17
Speaker 24: You know, you travel with other couples and we're after fine dining and nice restaurants such a completely different ship and a different experience. So it's all about knowing and matching up the client's needs with the right ship and the right destination and that's what we do.
01:07:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's no point in recommending a cruise or booking a cruise if you are maybe a retired couple and you don't want screaming kids and water slides around. There's no point in booking that has kids on board because you can have one without.
01:07:45
Speaker 24: Correct there's cruise lines like Viking Cruises for example, that they do not have kids and they don't have a casino. So there you go like it's but then you know you put someone on there who you haven't asked the questions and they love to have a flutter. Well they're not going to be very happy with us. So yeah, that's what it comes down to. You can see with the stats at the moment. This is what I was chatting to the boys this morning on five double As. The penetration rate which is the amount of people that cruise each year out of Australia, is at record levels. I think we've gone from one point three to five to one point four to five million, so.
01:08:14
Speaker 7: That's huge growth, really really huge growth.
01:08:17
Speaker 24: And on the outset that looks great and it's some of the highest penetration in the world. That's six percent of our whole population did a cruise in twenty twenty five. That's an amazing number, isn't it. But where the worry is, and this is where it's become a little newsworthy, is that although the bulk of those cruises well over a mere in Australian waters, so Australia and New Zealand, up up the coast around Australia, all that type of thing, we are making it a little hard for these cruise lines to come down to Australia because the cost of some of the regulatory stuff, so like the port fits for example, they're getting so high that a few cruise lines in the last couple of years I've said, we're not coming down year round, and so we've got plenty of choice in what we call the wave season, which is October through till March, because a lot of the ships will come down, they'll spend some time here, then they'll follow the sun and they'll head back to say the Mediterranean or the Caribbean or the Americas. But not many of them are staying down here during our winter months, and it's a beautiful time to cruise, especially out of say places like Sydney and Brisbane, where you can cruise out to the South Pacific and in winter you're still getting twenty.
01:09:24
Speaker 7: Five to thirty degrees. It's beautiful.
01:09:25
Speaker 24: In fact, it's a really nice time to go because there's no human yeah or humid. But a lot of those cruise lines aren't staying around for that year round, right cruising and look Adelaide had some homeporting there for a while, but unfortunately there was a consolidation of two cruise brands, Carnival and P and O Australia, and so we were left just with Cardivan. Unfortunately we lost our ex Adelaide year round cruising, so there's a few challenges there. But what is growing really quickly. It's probably the area we specialize in is the fly cruise, so that's people actually getting on a flight and flying to say Greece or Italy and then doing the Mediterranean, or flying to Vancouver and doing Alaska, and that is growing quicker than the domestic market because it's more competitive in those areas. So Australia Australia's government. Australia regulatory system needs to be looked at otherwise we'll lose these hips down here and no one wants that because it's growing overall.
01:10:20
Speaker 7: It's fantastic. Yeah, great for our economy as well.
01:10:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, keeping people here, keeping people spending their money here.
01:10:26
Speaker 7: It's great.
01:10:27
Speaker 24: It means that we've got internationals flying in and although that's not our core market, it feel help and travel. It's awesome for Australia, awesome for South Australia. So we want to keep those cruise lines, attract them and keep them. But also what you said earlier on the value in cruising right around the world is so good and that's why it's growing quickly because you're getting I think it was Bill who was having a chat to you around about one thirty. You know, you're getting everything included as far as your accommodation. Obviously you're getting your cabin, you're getting all your meals included. But if you want to upgrade that experience where you can do that on to you premium and specialty dining and cocktails, or from the outset, you can buy a deluxe cruise, a luxury cruise which has all of that included, so it's really about choice. But the values is amazing at the moment, and.
01:11:16
Speaker 2: We're getting lots of calls on this. Let's go to Tony in Plimpton Park. First, Tony, You've got I understand something. Booked a bit like what Pete was talking about. A fly cruise, good afternoon, the first time being overseas.
01:11:32
Speaker 25: I'm to go to Hawaii with Quintus in September.
01:11:38
Speaker 14: Book in a with a YT paradiph Hotel.
01:11:43
Speaker 24: Fantastic, Tony, Well, first of all, I've done that cruise.
01:11:46
Speaker 7: It's amazing.
01:11:47
Speaker 24: I'm assuming you're cruising around the islands there and you're staying right in the heart of Waikiki, which is really the best area to stay for a first time traveler to Hawaii. So you're going to have an absolute fantastic time. It'll be twenty six degrees every day and yeah, it's just going to be absolutely beautiful in the islands are stunning. It's one of my favorite parts of the world to cruise. So great, great first choice, Toning.
01:12:11
Speaker 2: Nice.
01:12:12
Speaker 14: Do I have to tip the staff or.
01:12:15
Speaker 20: A transfer from the airport at the hotel?
01:12:19
Speaker 14: Yeah, so glib chain.
01:12:21
Speaker 24: Yeah, tipping in America is part of the part of the go, and we say somewhere between about fifteen and twenty percent of the flagfall. If you're looking at your transfers, so yeah, you know, make sure you've got lots of one and five dollar notes, so small currency or small denominations, so you can actually control how much you want to tip. Don't get stuck with either no cash or twenties and fifties.
01:12:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go.
01:12:45
Speaker 2: I have fun, Tony, that'll be great, Tony raises an interesting question tipping. If you're cruising in American waters. Do you need to tip on.
01:12:53
Speaker 24: The cruise depends on the cruise line. Some is fully inclusive and some it is tipping as you go. It can be up to about eighteen percent, so every drink you buy, it could be potentially up to eight percent. But then a lot of cruise lines are starting to include it now and that's what you need. That's a question you should be asking when you're booking so you can budget for it.
01:13:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, because if your beer.
01:13:16
Speaker 24: Is ten dollars, it's another dollar lady, yea on top of that. But as I said, some cruise lines fully inclusive of all tipping and gratuities.
01:13:24
Speaker 2: Right, okay, good to know Peter is in Woodville and has called in.
01:13:28
Speaker 21: Hi.
01:13:28
Speaker 26: Peter, Yeah, Peter, how are you?
01:13:32
Speaker 7: Yeah? Great mate, how are you?
01:13:34
Speaker 10: Yeah?
01:13:34
Speaker 20: Good? Good? How's right?
01:13:36
Speaker 24: Yeah he's going well, yeah, sorry, that one he popped in the office, so now he's going all right.
01:13:40
Speaker 20: Yeah, I remember when he first started fifty years ago.
01:13:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's been a while. It's been a while.
01:13:44
Speaker 20: We've been in London, London with his mother and Kay.
01:13:48
Speaker 7: Beautiful yeah Katie's sister. Yeah, no, it's great.
01:13:51
Speaker 20: And yeah, I've been about ten cruises well, and oh I'll never forget these. Probably the one one was New Zealand. That was fourteen days, right, yep, that was very good. Some princess and I'll always remember there's some princess that put his lights on and you can see all the volcanoes under nathorship.
01:14:14
Speaker 7: Yeah they do. They do a great job.
01:14:17
Speaker 24: Look, they really try and highlight some things as they're cruising around and if they've got that opportunity to do something special, they will.
01:14:22
Speaker 7: And New Zealand is that's a great one.
01:14:24
Speaker 24: I'm glad you've raised it, Peter, because it's a nice Yeah, it's a nice close to home.
01:14:28
Speaker 7: Run as well.
01:14:29
Speaker 24: For those people that might not have cruised before, it's a really good opportunity to maybe only just fly to Sydney and then cruise around New Zealand and fly back from Auckland really really easy in New Zealand's beautiful.
01:14:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, Pete, what would be what would be your top tip as someone who's been on over ten cruises, what would be your number one tip for someone thinking about doing it.
01:14:50
Speaker 20: You will never get bored, don't be scared to talk to people, and they will actually invite you back to their country.
01:14:57
Speaker 24: Right, which you make friends for life, right, Peter.
01:15:00
Speaker 18: You really do.
01:15:01
Speaker 20: And the people just so friendly from all over the world. It's just it says education. And they want to hear about Australia and you want to hear about the Canada or America wherever. Oh great, I had one invite and this was a chap, he says. When I opened my back door he sees Mount Everest.
01:15:25
Speaker 2: Oh how good? How good is that? Oh? Thank you? Peter, appreciate the call. Another Peter's called in this Peter's in Nuripa. Hello, Peter, Yeah good, you get up.
01:15:35
Speaker 14: No.
01:15:37
Speaker 25: I recommend cruising easily because we always picked a cruise depending on the porch. Like you take you take the Mediterranean, you're on the we're on the ship for twenty four days and twenty two days, we're in a port and you see everything, same with same with when you did it. We did the b and you're only on the boat for I think longer it's maybe two days in some places.
01:16:06
Speaker 24: Yeah, that's what we call a port intensive cruise, where you're at you're in port pretty well every day you might have with one c day every five or six. The beauty of that is that it becomes like you're floating hotel and effectively your hotels just moving from port to port. Yet you don't have to pack and unpack each day, and that's what people love about cruising, you know. And I think you said you're on the Mediterranean cruise for twenty four days. Well there's no way you could see Europe any other way and not be packing and unpacking all the time.
01:16:38
Speaker 25: So yeah, cruising is pops and the diverse and the diversity is there too. We did one from Dover over to New York that was amazing across Atlantic at the top rate your Victor Iceland and even then then on the Canada, you know, and even even on that trip, I think that was only a two day and where we weren't at sea. Yeah, you know, and that's how people should look at cruising. Maybe some people don't like some people love to sit on the boat all day long, but I don't I get.
01:17:14
Speaker 19: What's the name.
01:17:15
Speaker 25: Well, I've got to be a port and you've misurprised what you see of the world by doing that.
01:17:20
Speaker 2: Oh that's a great experience, no doubt.
01:17:23
Speaker 24: Explore when you're in the port, So I think it's important that you can always pop back later on, have a relax, you know, have a swim in the pool, have a bite to eat, whatever you like to do, but make sure you get out and explore.
01:17:33
Speaker 7: That's what it's all about.
01:17:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure, thanks for the call. Peter. Robert Rather in Evanston Gardens has called in with a question.
01:17:39
Speaker 11: Hi Robert, Yeah, just a quick question. The wife and I want to go on our first time cruise, but she only wants to go for about four day Where do you sugget.
01:17:51
Speaker 24: Yeah, four days is definitely close to home. So look, we've got some cruises out of Adelaide, but you'd have to wait a while it's twenty twenty eight, and I know that because I'm actually booked on one and it's just going across to Port Lincoln and Kangaroo Island, so it'll be lovely. But if you want to head off a bit earlier out of Sydney and out of Brisbane, you'll find some wonderful three four five night cruises. Some of them just cruise up and down the Queensland coast and it's a really nice way of doing it. Royal Caribbean Princess Cruisers they have some amazing shorter cruisers. So if you just jump onto our website you'll see if you click cruising on there and put in when you want to go in the amount of days, you'll be able to come up with some ideas.
01:18:35
Speaker 7: Or you just give our officer.
01:18:36
Speaker 11: Call Robert, pop into your Borer office over the weekend and see what they can do.
01:18:41
Speaker 7: Absolutely do that.
01:18:42
Speaker 2: Yep, thank you, thanks Robert, appreciate the call. And there's a couple more questions coming in on the text line Pete. I think these might be a couple short ones. Yeah, but this person says it's my first time on a cruise. Any tips for Wi Fi usage and is it best to buy Wi Fi on board?
01:19:00
Speaker 24: Yeah, great one, that's a really good one. What's happening now is most cruise ships have Starlink Wi Fi on board, and again depending on whether it's a luxury cruise or whether it's more of a value cruise, is whether it's included or not. But it's always better to buy it either before or once you first get on board, rather than just turning your phone on and trying to use the Wi Fi on the ship, because it gets very very expensive that way. So yes, you must do it some part of the package.
01:19:27
Speaker 2: Yep, because you just won't have you can't get Wi Fi anywhere else if you're not paying for it. Okay, currency, do you recommend carrying cash or using credit card for use on the ship and on land?
01:19:38
Speaker 24: Credit card? Definitely on the ship. So what happens is you just go and register your credit card and then you can choose to pay at the end however you want. So you can either put that on the card or you can use the cash at the end. But you can't go, for example, to the bar and pay cash, right it's all booked back to your room. Or again, if it was a luxury cruise. It would be all included and you wouldn't have to worry about that at all when you're on land. I always like to have a bit of cash, but are also one of these cash cards, a travel X cash card or one of your banks can also do it in foreign exchange, and it fixed the exchange rate far better than putting it actually on your credit card as such, because you get these horrible exchange charges and they're not so nice.
01:20:18
Speaker 2: And the fees yeah, for every transaction. Yeah, And this one says it's not cruising related. But can you ask if Pete knows when the ees will be available for Italy and Croatia. I don't know what that means. Do you know what that means?
01:20:32
Speaker 5: Yes?
01:20:32
Speaker 2: Okay, all right now, maybe send us another text if you and let us know what that means. All right. Ten minutes to three here on five double A, speaking of cruisers. Brenton Reed, he's on the phone from Celestial Cruisers. Hi, Brenton, Hi, how are you good? How are you pretty good?
01:20:49
Speaker 21: Thank you?
01:20:50
Speaker 7: Brenton.
01:20:50
Speaker 24: Good to hear from your mate and Celestia.
01:20:53
Speaker 7: I know you've been there just for a.
01:20:54
Speaker 24: Little while now, but you'd have to be enjoying it because they do some of that. We've been talking about the Mediterranean. It's kind of your home, isn't it where most of your cruising takes part. So maybe tell the listeners out there a little bit about celestial cruise and kind of what kind of itineries you do.
01:21:10
Speaker 21: Yeah, celestial cruises. You know, we've got two cruise ships part of a fleet. So you know these ships are between twelve hundred to thirteen hundred passengers. So the really smaller intimate ship, which is perfect for cruising the med So we based our ships out of Athens and we really cruise around the Greek islands, also Turkey and also the way up to Croatia, Montenegro and also into Italy Bari as well. So really focusing on that eastern med which those smaller intimate ships perfect for that region. It's quicker to get off, quicker to get back on, especially some of these ports. They're very small, correct, they use attend the boat, so you know ship our size at very little time to get off and enables our guests to see more months are after ship.
01:21:57
Speaker 24: Yeah, I did notice looking at her tenners before I came in that you do get into some of the smaller ports that some of those larger ships can't get into, and Kotor in Montenegro is a classic case.
01:22:09
Speaker 7: A lot of the bigger ships just.
01:22:10
Speaker 24: Can't get any of their band to go in there. And for those listeners out there who don't know where Montenegro is, it's just below Croatia, and so a lot of the Croatian I intendant is just duck in because it's these beautiful fiords and you come into the township of Cotor and it's such a beautiful little stop, but also a beautiful cruise in and out. So I'm so glad that you're going there. But you also do that Croatian coast. I know a lot of people probably when I know, I think of selectial cruising. I know the Greek islands it's always going to be the most popular, but getting up to the Croatian coast as well is really really special.
01:22:44
Speaker 21: Yeah, we do have a cruise. It's a seven night CRUI then focuses on it heads into a couple of stuffs in the Greek islands, cata Cola and so into Corfu and then heads up to the Adriatic Sea region. It's very popular. So again to Robnick. We stop in there and the unique selling thing unique point about Celesteal. We actually overnight the Provnick, so we're there from you know, eight am and we depart at two am the next morning, so you're spending all day, all night. All other cruise ships do leave around five six pm. But because we've got strong lasting relationships in this area we've in cruising, we're there till two am, especially if the Drobnicks, so a huge point of difference. So again it's all about I think you mentioned earlier on a call that's in terms of out terms by Tinnery, so it's very important intensive our teneries.
01:23:36
Speaker 2: That sounds like John Brenton. I think that's a really good point because a lot of people would like to get off off the ship and maybe have dinner, and you can. You can go out and have dinner a yeahking in Croatia, so you could go to one of the night the night the rave parties in the caves and get back on the boat before two am before.
01:23:56
Speaker 14: You leave hopefully the ship.
01:24:00
Speaker 21: Yeah, that's like the Brovnick. We open up there also our seven night itineries that focused more of the Greek Islands and Turkey, We do the same in Mick and Ice. We're there from eight am to two am. That next if you want to go.
01:24:15
Speaker 24: Out, yeah, you can go out and enjoy a few drinks and have a bit of a bit.
01:24:19
Speaker 7: Of a good time. Yeah.
01:24:21
Speaker 24: You talk about port intensive, and you're right with a couple of callers have rang through. I think one of the itineries. I was looking at your fourteen night Itinery, one of your longer ones, which I think just looked beautiful, which did got kind of that croatia and the.
01:24:33
Speaker 7: Grease but real mixture.
01:24:34
Speaker 24: I think it was thirteen ports, so you're pretty well in a port every day.
01:24:39
Speaker 10: Yeah.
01:24:40
Speaker 21: Forty nine combines both the Greek Islands and that ari Adriatic city region, so on that forty night cruise is actually those three days.
01:24:48
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, so he's.
01:24:49
Speaker 21: Stuffing every day in the poor you know, as I mentioned, you overnight to Brovnick your overnight and Nick and Ice also in Stancorini, which is this huge bucket list destination for Australians. We arrive at eight am and we don't leave until ten pm at night. Again, all of the cruise ships leave around five to six pm, but again where they're longer so you know, that's probably the witness one of the best done sets in the world being Uncansorini. Our guests can experience that because we don't depart until ten pm, so they miss all that crowd in the evening, they have dinner overlooking you know, one of the best scenic places in the world. Yeah, it's really amazing. So yeah, very port intensive, and that's what as short to is. You know that we're over eighty five percent of our guests rate our short scursions are excellent. So yeah, we're really pride ourselves in our short skirsions and those poort intensive itineries. You're going to fly all the way through Europe. You want to see as much as Europe at the met as you can.
01:25:47
Speaker 2: That's a really good point. Now, Brenton, we've been talking today about the different things that are included on different cruise ships. So tell us about Celestial cruisers. Fair what's included and you know what do your guests receive?
01:26:00
Speaker 21: Yeah, any time I guess comes on Celestial always included is obviously the main meals and snacks. So we have three options on boards that are included. We've got the buffet, restaurant, breakfast, lunch and dinner. We've got the main restaurant as well. This is Alica Breakfast, lunch and dinner, and on the main pul deck we have sort of a cafe where we serve Eurosses, chips, hamburgers, salads, so that's included as well.
01:26:26
Speaker 24: I haven't had lunch yet and the sound of Euros and chip sounds pretty good to me. The one of the other points of difference that I love with Celestial is that your cruises generally are in and out of Athens, so it's a really easy point for us to fly into. But also where we've been selling a lot of your your cruises over many many years is where people do some land based tours. It could be with a Trafalgar tour or an insight tour, finish up in Athens and then we can jump on one of your cruises for seven or fourteen nights to finish the holiday up. I think that combination works so well with touring core.
01:27:04
Speaker 21: So yeah, a lot of our bookings that we do get through the customers combining with the land component that's through Greece or other eras of Europe, and then they want of off the cruise. The Greek islands and they combine that seven or fourteen night itinery. The other option is we do have three four night itineries as well out of Athens, which is perfect. You know, three night crews out of Athens. You actually stop in five ports. Again, you're literally visiting two.
01:27:29
Speaker 24: Stops per day, So nice little sandplog for those people that maybe haven't been to the Greek islands before and just going, you know what, I just want to have a bit.
01:27:36
Speaker 7: Of a look around and maybe they're a bit more limited on time.
01:27:39
Speaker 24: So yeah, that that that works really well. I think you're actually speaking to the converted. We we we've been speaking about the Mediterranean a lot on the shape and we both love it. So yeah, it sounds fantastic.
01:27:50
Speaker 7: Mate.
01:27:50
Speaker 24: Thanks for coming on, because not everyone's heard of the brand, but I can tell you you're in for a great cruise with Celestial Cruise.
01:27:58
Speaker 21: I appreciate you have on.
01:28:00
Speaker 2: Thanks Brenton, no worries. That's Brenton. Read it from Celestial Cruisers and it's Celestial c E L E S T y A L. If you wanted to look it up.
01:28:10
Speaker 7: It a little different.
01:28:11
Speaker 2: You've got all the info on travel website as well.
01:28:14
Speaker 7: Absolutely.
01:28:16
Speaker 2: Now, Pete, before you go, I know you've always got lots of events coming up, So what's coming up with PhD.
01:28:20
Speaker 24: Yeah, I'm just looking down this. I'm going to be really busy over the next.
01:28:23
Speaker 2: Couple of weeks. So I can see in your face the realization has just occurred.
01:28:27
Speaker 24: I've got presentations everywhere, but look there, fantastic.
01:28:30
Speaker 7: I love doing this.
01:28:31
Speaker 24: It really allows me to engage with our clients and I love presenting on especially the first couple of presentations here.
01:28:38
Speaker 7: So first of.
01:28:39
Speaker 24: All, we'll call Explore the Wild Beauty of Cana, Alaska with Princess Cruisers, so more cruising and cosmos.
01:28:45
Speaker 7: So this is at the value end of the range.
01:28:46
Speaker 24: So I've just done a road show for Canterer, Alaska with APT and that's the deluxe end. But you know, again it's all about choice and so here, if you're on a bit of a budget, then you should be coming along down at our head office, we've got our skuydeck. So Wednesday twenty nine April, so that's tomorrow, So I'll be down there tomorrow doing those presentations. Put that one in the diary, and then in a couple of weeks time back with apt say luxury here. We're doing the world by river, so not only Europe, we're doing Asia as well, and so it will be the very best of European river cruising. And then we'll be heading down to Vietnam and Cambodia and doing a bit of.
01:29:23
Speaker 7: That as well, which would be really interesting.
01:29:25
Speaker 24: So twelfth of May through to the fourteenth of May, so we were at the Lakes Resort down at west Lake's House of Hanes out at Modbury and again at our headquarters and then we're finishing off with some on the nineteenth of May and twentieth May, which will be the best of ocean, river and land with some luxury brands as Amara, AMMA Waterways river cruising and back roads touring as well, which is small group touring up to the maximum fourteen people. So yeah, that'll be something really different. So all of that is on PHT dot com dot au. Just go to click events and you'll see everything we've got coming up in pretty well most of May.
01:30:01
Speaker 2: Sounds good. Well, you've got a busy May and add to the diary. We'll see you next week, see you next week. Thank you. It's Pete Williams from Phil Hoffman travel time for the three o'clock news now and after that. If there was one Adelaide landmark that you could buy, if budget was not a thought, if you didn't have to worry about money, but there was one Adelaide landmark that you wanted to own, what would it be? Eight double two to three double O double Oh, because there is an iconic one up for sale. You'll find out what it is next.
01:30:32
Speaker 1: Five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you. Welcome to the third and final hour of the afternoon's program, and we are live on the Facebook and YouTube a live stream, so jump on there to say hello. Because this half hour I'm asking you if there was an Adelaide landmark that you could buy, if money was no object and it wasn't an issue for you, what Adelaide landmark would you love to own? Because the iconic Rundel Place in Rundell Mall is up for sale now. I don't know how much it would cost, but look we're putting that aside today. I think if I could own one Adelaide landmark, it would probably be a shopping center. I just feel like you'd probably make the most money there or I'd like to spend a lot of time there, so maybe Rundell places for me, but if there was one for you, what would it be? On eight double two three double o. Getting lots of suggestions in on the text line, but I'd love to hear you on the phone and in half an hour's time, you know what day it is, Turkey Tuesday, So get thinking, put your thinking caps on. Who is a Turkey that you need to nominate this afternoon? And we do accept all nominations, including self nominations except for politicians. We talk about politics enough. Turkey Tuesday is a politician and free zone. And now just a reminder the Phil Hoffman Travel Lounge, the experts are there at the moment taking your calls until three point thirty on eight double two three, double o double five. We were talking to Pete Williams from phil Hoffman Travel just before the news and we were talking a lot about cruising and we had so much feedback on that. So if it made you think, oh, I'd like a cruise, but I want some tips, get on the phone now. Eight double two three, double o double five is the number to ask the pH T team your questions. We do have some calls coming in on cruising still and Steve is in Golden Grove. Hi, Steve, good, Stacy here doing good? How are you?
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Speaker 21: Yeah?
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Speaker 19: Very well?
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Speaker 15: Thanks?
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Speaker 27: Now Space, I was talking. I was going to talk about cruisers. We've done most of the Violins in the Pacific there, you know, fig and Sam and all those sort of places. We've been a New and twice and I'd recommend doing New Zealand. It's just beautiful. But with the packages on board drinks packages, we found that the celebrity cruises charges for a for a standard drink package, not it still covers all your your spirits and things like that. It's about on Celebrities about one hundred and twenty dollars a day, whereas on the Princess, when we were on Princess last year, it was only about sixty dollars a day, so that was that was good, and that included a Wi Fi package and things like that. And on Princess they have a little a key where they can find you on the ship, so if you order a drink, they don't actually know where you are on the ship. I like that, and so you know it can be in your room. You could be got in the pool, but they'll find you because you've got this little key that that they can pick up. Also, what else do I think a lot of sounds.
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Speaker 2: Like you're a pro, Steve. Do you have any tips?
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Speaker 27: Yeah, well, a lot of people on their first cruise will will do the the passages where they go out when they when they land in port, and they'll buy it off the ship. Now, if you want to look around most of the places now, especially in the Pacific region, they'll have locals on shore that'll take you around about half the price.
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Speaker 11: Of what the ship will will charge you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, there you go. That's a good tip, Steve. Thank you so much for calling in. Appreciate you sharing. Mary in Flagstaff Hill also wants to talk about cruising.
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Speaker 12: Hi, Mary, good afternoons. Actually, I was thinking. The first cruise I was ever on came from Tilbury's Docks to Adelaide in nineteen fifty eight. We came to Australia.
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Speaker 2: Ah, how good.
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Speaker 12: Actually we were a ten pounds it's not palms Scotts. But I have been on a few cruises since then. My sister, my husband and her husband and I went on a Mediterranean cruise and then a couple of years later, my husband and I did a cruise from Adelaide to New Zealand and it was lovely, sort of going down to Outer Harbor and getting on a boat because that's where we come to Australia. But two years ago we did the best cruise river cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest and it was just amazing. Oh yeah, we loved every minute of it and I'd like it didn't have to wash, iron, cook or clean for two whole weeks.
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Speaker 2: I do like the idea of getting on board and unpacking and then not having to pack or unpack again, but still being able to explore different countries and different cities. That does appeal to me.
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Speaker 12: Now I do that europeon well, we would do that European cruise any day of the week.
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Speaker 9: It was fabulous.
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Speaker 2: Oh good on you Mary, Thanks for sharing. Appreciate the collay. Thanks see you. That's Mary in flag Staff Hill. If you've got an experience with cruising and you'd like to share it, get on the phone eight double two three double o double ow. Very soon you're going to hear from a name that you know well. Here on the station. South Australian farmer turned muralist Harry Schuster Harrison is his name, but we all know him as Harry. He is the farmer who mowed a giant anzac peace into his paddock. Well, there's some concern about the cost of fuel. When will he do this again? I think he might be a bit worried about how how much feels costing at the moment. So I'm looking forward to checking in with him because it's it's cropping season for him. So the mural that he had in his paddock since Australia Day, the giant digger, that's going to have to go. And when is the next one? We'll find out very soon. But I'm also asking you today what Adelaide landmark would you buy if money wasn't an issue. Rundell Place is up for sale and I think that would be right up there for one of the ones that I would buy. But what would you buy if you had all the money in the world and it wasn't an issue? Gary is an Ingle Farm?
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Speaker 5: Hi?
01:37:39
Speaker 12: Gary, good afternoon?
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Speaker 19: How are you today?
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Speaker 2: Good? How are you good?
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Speaker 27: Yes, there is only one Adelaide landmark that I would love to own. It sits way above everything else and it has to be the iconic pigs of Rundell Moore.
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Speaker 11: Everyone loves the pigs.
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Speaker 14: There's been so much joy and I would pay some understand around with.
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Speaker 27: The polloid camera all day and take photos and just give them the people.
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Speaker 2: Oh, Gary, that is great. And it was not the one that was front of mind when you were when you started talking. I didn't The Rundlemore pigs did not come straight to my mind. But that is a good one. I love it.
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Speaker 18: There you go.
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Speaker 2: You're right, they're very popular. Thank you for the call. Welcome, see you the Rundlemore pigs. Yeah, what about the pigeon? Would you want to own the pigeon? Keep your calls coming. Eight double two three double o double.
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Speaker 28: Oh.
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Speaker 2: And David is in Warredale. Hi, David, Hi, how are you good?
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Speaker 10: How are you very good?
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Speaker 7: Very good?
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Speaker 10: I was just calling regarding the second road school zone there.
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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, Blake rang in about that earlier.
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Speaker 10: Yes, I've noticed that any school that has a uh speed camera out the front of it isn't getting it. It hasn't got them, and I feel that they don't want to do it because it's going to slow the traffic down and they're not going to get as much hits from the cameras. Plus i'd like to see them put lights on them when they're active and all that sort of stuff, which I think is.
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Speaker 3: Is good.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, I was. I was of the understanding David that where they were installing the cameras, they were also going to be installing the signs. So it was very on.
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Speaker 10: On on Shepherd Hill Road they don't have They don't have one out where the camera is there either, and I believe on Diagonal Road outside of Warridale they don't have it there.
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Speaker 2: Either, Right, Okay, that's unusual.
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Speaker 10: Whereas everywhere on Brighton Road they've got them. Yeah, they already have some Shepherd Hill Roads, but not near the high school.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well thanks for that. I'll try and raise it with the minister next time we get in, because yeah, it's definitely a topic that's sparked a lot of interest a lot of people.
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Speaker 10: I mean, it's very frustrating because I do that. I do that trip very a lot, and I'm going from fifty to sixty to forty to fifty to sixty. Yeah, it's very frustrating going and having to check speed every two seconds at and what time it is, so it's yeah. I can see how it's catching a lot of people out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well it certainly is. They're making a lot of money from it, that's for sure. Thanks for the call, David, and I think you're on school pick up at the moment. Yes, there you go, so it's front of mind. Appreciate the call. I see you and it's David in Warredale eight double two to three double O double. Oh's the number to call. And in just a moment you're going to hear from Freeling farmer Harry Schuster. He's the guy who he had the Anzac digger one thousand meters by fifteen hundred meters in his paddock at Freeling. Well it's got to go very soon because it's cropping season. But when will the next mural pop up?
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Speaker 15: We'll find out Five Double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Twenty one minutes past three here on five double A. Don't forget we're live on the Facebook and YouTube live stream and very soon it's Turkey Tuesday, so if you've got a turkey you need to nominate This afternoon. I have a case of Turkey Flat Vineyards wine in a can to give away to the best caller who's done something silly and deserves to be called out on the radio for it. Well. Harry Schuster is a farmer who's become very well known to South Australians. He has used his paddock in Freeling to create art and this year in the lead up to Australia Day and then thankfully his mural has lasted through to Anzac Day. He mode a digger to celebrate this year January twenty six and then into Anzac Day. But now it's time for cropping, so the digger will have to go and when will his next mural be? He joins you now, hello.
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Speaker 26: Harry, how are you going good?
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Speaker 2: How are you good?
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Speaker 29: Thanks?
01:42:35
Speaker 28: Going well?
01:42:36
Speaker 2: How's the crop looking? We've got it up on the live stream now some photos of it. It was just such a stunning piece.
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Speaker 26: Oh cool, not very good. That's going well. So at the moment it's still quite dry. So that the rain we had probably a month ago that the green things up a bit, especially up north of here, that since dried off, so we're still this season was sort of seeding into dry ground again. So thankfully that means that it's nothing's thrown over the mirror either.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, nice, and it's lasted really well. Do they usually last this long?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 26: So people Sometimes people thought it's been moan, but it's actually been pilled into the soil itself. Yes, you've got the stubble that is left over from the harvest the previous year, and then that's the actual dark lines have actually been soil. It's been turned over and it's darker than the rest.
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Speaker 10: Of the paddock.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, right, so let's have last for as long as it does.
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Speaker 2: Harry, you might you may have noticed from the way I was talking, but I am a city girl. I don't spend much time out in the fields with crops. But the little I do know about cropping has come from Clarkson's farm. Jerry Clarkson's farmed for.
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Speaker 26: The next season.
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Speaker 6: That soon, Yeah, me too, it's.
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Speaker 2: Coming out soon. Good. That's good because I was about to say, he shows us just how hard it is to up properly and in straight lines. So the fact that you can do these beautiful murals in your paddock is really a testament to you.
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Speaker 26: But it's turned out well, ye yeah, clarks Is. It's a good window into similar stuff happens here. So there's probably a little bit bigger machinery than we have in Europe.
01:44:19
Speaker 23: You know.
01:44:19
Speaker 26: It's the rest of it, all the drama and things. Is everything that's happened on Clark's and Fireman's happened to everyone at least once.
01:44:28
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Good, that's good to know. So what next for you? You've you've got to You've got a crop in in the.
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Speaker 26: Paddock now, yes, so in probably a week or two were planting lentils over this, So that'll that'll raise it pretty well and hopefully shortly afterday that it will be will be green. It will lasts through until summertime, early summer or late spring, when we'll spraad off and then and harvest it and it'll be there again until so thinking possibly Australia Day. But I'm not sure if the like the trio has been done and it moved to another day, or whether.
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Speaker 8: East is a better day.
01:45:07
Speaker 26: I'm not sure. Okay, I thought it's always been last minute. I think the most time I've had to consider it's publy two or three days each year.
01:45:16
Speaker 2: Yeah. Is the price of fuel impacting your planning for that?
01:45:21
Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 26: Actually, yeah, we when we was I was considering one for Easter at the time, and that was sort of right when the peak of the fuel was big of the fuel price was hitting. So we really to cut back on all the non essential stuff that we were doing, or not non essential, but all but to keep the main things running.
01:45:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough.
01:45:43
Speaker 26: Yeah yeah. Otherwise, Yeah, if nothing had happened, we would have done something for Easter. But yeah, what happened.
01:45:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, And so I guess it's too soon to start planning next year's peace.
01:45:55
Speaker 21: Oh how lovely?
01:45:57
Speaker 2: How long do you need to do? You map it out on a piece of paper, I imagine to make sure you're getting it just right.
01:46:03
Speaker 28: Yeah, bit of both.
01:46:03
Speaker 26: So I go back and forward with the padding maps. We'll having our computers to just make sure everything fits where it's meant to. But honestly, it's it's like, it's what twenty sixth of jan I planned it on the twenty second and twenty third. Wow A diamonds formed them. Yeah, diamond's form under pressure, they say, So it's all last minute. But every year these past three years, it's also been a bit of a dry finish to the years. The season the previous seasons, which means that the work that would usually take us through to mid Bebruary. Usually that's actually finished just shortly after Christmas or just truly after New Years, so we've had the time to be able to do this sort of work.
01:46:43
Speaker 5: Now.
01:46:44
Speaker 26: It's yeah, positive and negative. It's working their favorite to be able to do this, but also means that the years haven't been as good as they could be Htorically, Yes, it's give and take.
01:46:54
Speaker 2: And I know in farming, weather is such a crucial it plays such a crucial role. Do you do you know what we're expecting this year for your crops or is it still anyone?
01:47:06
Speaker 1: Yeah?
01:47:07
Speaker 26: Yeah, yeah, everyone, everyone's gone wrong enough that yeah, I'm not really sure what's going on, so we're just yeah, the seed does we always say the seed doesn't grow on the stilo, So well, yeah, planted with fertiliser and have another go.
01:47:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to wait and see, I guess.
01:47:22
Speaker 7: Yeah.
01:47:23
Speaker 26: And the people always ask, I can't you just water it? But it's if only, if only. Yeah, it's a bit too too broad scaled for that, right, I hope it's all yeah, bitter and pray for rain basically mm hmm.
01:47:36
Speaker 2: Well, all the best with this season, and let's hope you're back next year. With a beautiful mural to make us smile again.
01:47:44
Speaker 26: Yes, and if I'm not, it means that the season has been good.
01:47:46
Speaker 2: To us, so way good. Yeah, okay, well that's good. There's a there's a positive out of it either way.
01:47:52
Speaker 26: Yeah, exactly right, Thanks all.
01:47:54
Speaker 2: No appreciate it, Thanks for chatting to us today. Harry see you. That's Harry shoes Farmer at Freeling. And yeah, if you've seen his work, it was up on our live stream. We'll pop it up again and you can have a look at it on social media. It's beautiful work and it really really does make you smile when you see it.
01:48:12
Speaker 17: There.
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Speaker 2: It is the digger that was done on January twenty six and amazingly lasted until now. So yes, let's hope. Well, firstly, I hope Harry has a good long season, so maybe we won't be seeing a mural next year. But if that doesn't happen, let's hope we can have another beautiful mural next year for the rest of us to admire. That's for sure.
01:48:34
Speaker 5: All right.
01:48:34
Speaker 2: It is time for the three thirty news headlines now and after that Turkey Tuesday, there's a mixed pack of twenty four turkey flat wine cans to give away to the best caller. So, who's done something silly and needs to be called out on the radio for it? Did you lose your keys? Or you forgot to pick up dinner on the way home. Use sugar instead of salt in your recipe? I don't know whatever it is. Get on the phone now. Eight double two to three, double O, double oh is the number to nominate a turkey this week and be in the running to win the twenty four pack of turkey flat.
01:49:09
Speaker 1: Lines five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon to you. Twenty seven minutes to four here on five double A and it's that time.
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Speaker 15: Time to call in and nominate your turkey of the week for Stacey Lee's Turkey Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Who's done something silly and they deserve a little shout out on the radio for it. I have a case of turkey flat vineyard wine cans to give away. This is a mixed pack. They've got some rose, some Pino gree and some Charazgrenash. So ringing now to nominate your turkey and be in the running to win it. Pina in Greenacres is on the phone. Hi, Pena Hi, How are you good? How are you you?
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Speaker 30: Show? Yeah, I nominate my husband. He was bitterly cleaning his hearing age and the end of his hearing age. He's got he had rubber, he's got rubber on them. Anyway. In the meantime, I was baking, so I gave him a couple of pieces of chocolate and put it next to next to him on a tissue, and quite without even thinking, he just picked up his hearing age and started chewing on them, thinking it was chocolate. So he hasn't learned that one down. It couldn't work out the taste of it.
01:50:35
Speaker 2: This is a new kind of chocolate.
01:50:36
Speaker 24: Dear.
01:50:36
Speaker 30: What he didn't tell me? It's all about a day later because he must have felt like such a But yeah, it was very, very funny, and he hasn't lived there one day.
01:50:49
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so good. That's very that's definitely turkey behavior. Now was the hearing aid? Okay? He didn't have to replace it, he had.
01:50:57
Speaker 30: To place the rubber on it.
01:51:05
Speaker 2: That's very good, Peter, I love it, Thank you, thank you, see you. Let's put a smile on my face eating your hearing aid.
01:51:18
Speaker 9: Yuck.
01:51:19
Speaker 2: Let's go to wind veil now.
01:51:21
Speaker 4: Hi Betty, Hi, Hi Stacy.
01:51:24
Speaker 2: How are you good? How are you?
01:51:27
Speaker 25: Ah?
01:51:28
Speaker 4: I think I'm western a turkey?
01:51:30
Speaker 2: Really, Oh, give you my story.
01:51:35
Speaker 4: For years and years now. I make porridge in the morning, get my bowl out, put the oats in, my dates and my seeds and nuts and everything, pop it in the microwaves. And fine, so I put everything in, popped in the microwave, and then everything started smoking. So after about two minutes, I went, oh, no, my microwave is going to blow up. So I quickly pulled the door open. Just a cloud of smoke anywhere, and I finally got out with a cloth and it just burnt descenders.
01:52:09
Speaker 13: But I forgot to put the liquid in it.
01:52:12
Speaker 4: Oh it's not funny now. I mean it's funny now, but the house is still stinks of smoke. Oh, nel odor, card and just vinigar. Everything is happening, and just probably because it's in your house, I'm blaming the house.
01:52:32
Speaker 14: Just now.
01:52:32
Speaker 4: I just burnt the scond which was making my daughter as well. May that's enough for one day?
01:52:37
Speaker 2: Oh no, Betty, that's so frustrated. There's nothing worse than love getting that far into a recipe. And you you mix all the butter and you put them put the scones out on the train, and you put them in the oven, and then you get all that way and then burn the oven. I blame fair enough. It's the oven. It's the microwave. I'm totally with you. I believe you, not anything. No, I get that. I totally understand. You're very right there. I'm sorry, Betty, but I have to do it.
01:53:08
Speaker 4: Oh. Look, thank you for listening.
01:53:12
Speaker 2: Thank you for calling. Okay, see you, poor Betty. That's hard. Let's go to Beverly now, Hi, Kim, Hi, how you doing good?
01:53:23
Speaker 14: Hell?
01:53:23
Speaker 20: Are you in a bad?
01:53:25
Speaker 6: Good day?
01:53:26
Speaker 19: Yeah? I've got a giggle, I think, or a flock of turkeys, I don't know whatever a group of turkeys are that the boos at ans day?
01:53:33
Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah.
01:53:36
Speaker 19: They're probably actually at a level below turkeys.
01:53:39
Speaker 5: But yeah, there's a word.
01:53:42
Speaker 2: That comes to mind that I won't say out loud, but you're right. I think let's use the word turkey to keep it radio appropriate.
01:53:49
Speaker 19: Just totally disrespectful, respectful anything.
01:53:53
Speaker 2: It's just so unnecessary. Think about the day. What does the day mean? And why is everybody getting together at dawn to commemorate and just think about your actions.
01:54:03
Speaker 19: If I don't want to be there, I don't want to do it, roll up there ten minutes later, you know what I mean? Yeah, I go stay home whatever exactly. Anyway, it's my.
01:54:16
Speaker 28: Turkeys.
01:54:16
Speaker 2: I'm with you, Kim. I'm going to play it a few times for all the turkeys that were there.
01:54:23
Speaker 19: Pleasure to take it.
01:54:24
Speaker 2: See you bye. Oh yeah, that's a good one. Thank you, Kim and Beverly. We do need to find out what the collective noun for turkeys is. Looking to Jess here, what is it? Is it a flock? Is it a flock of turkeys? The collective noun for turkeys? We'll see, we'll see what we can find out. Vinnie is in Grange, Hi, Vinnie.
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Speaker 28: How are you? How are you good? Just talking to your producer that this is my mistake. I stuck a can of baked beans in the wood fire, right, and I've got an open wood fire and expluded right nex load. It hit me back on the wall and all the baked beans are all over my body. Right. But when I moved my body where it was on the wall, it had no baked beans, you know, like it was a lying mark off my body when I moved, you know what I mean? It looks it looked like art.
01:55:19
Speaker 2: Like a crime scene, you know when they in the movies how they outlined the bodies.
01:55:24
Speaker 28: I thought my wife was going to get angry, but she started laughing all the way.
01:55:29
Speaker 2: I can understand why that would be a really funny sight.
01:55:35
Speaker 9: Thank you.
01:55:35
Speaker 2: Baked beans all over the wall. How good is that? Well done? Vinnie? Did you end up having some baked beans.
01:55:41
Speaker 28: On my face?
01:55:44
Speaker 13: Well?
01:55:44
Speaker 2: There, he's still got to eat.
01:55:47
Speaker 18: Thank you.
01:55:48
Speaker 2: That's a good one. Thank you, see Vinny, Eight double two three double o double ow is the number to call. It's a rafter of turkeys, apparently down because they have a habit of roosting up high in the rafters. There you go, you learn something new every day. There were a rafter of turkeys out on Anzac Day booing at the dawn. Services should be ashamed, definitely as a rafter of them, that's for sure. Eight double two to three double o double oh is the number. Keep your turkey nominations coming, Oh, Betty says inspired more not inspired me. It's reminded me. I think I have to nominate myself this week for something that's also microwave related. I don't actually know. I use it every day, but I've realized that I don't know how to use our microwave at home properly. Because my mother in law was looking after Molly the other day and I said, oh, here's this. This is what to give her for lunch. Just put it in the microwave for thirty seconds. And she said, I tried to use your microwave the other day. How do I use it? And I have no idea what all the buttons on it mean except one. There's just one that says start slash thirty seconds, and every time I use it, I just press that. So if I have a meal that needs to be heated up that's not on an increment of thirty seconds, too bad. I just if something needs to be in there for a minute forty five, for example, I just hit thirty seconds four times and put it on for two minutes. Have to remember to get it out early. But I think I'm the turkey for not really knowing how to use the microwave properly. I've had it for years and it's one of those ones that I think it's a microwave oven, and it can do all these other things, but I just don't know how to use it. So ego, I'm also the Turkey this week. That's a self nomination. We do love a self nomination. Eight double two to three, double O double Oh's the number to call. We're getting some more calls in and I'll take them up.
01:57:46
Speaker 15: Next five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
01:57:55
Speaker 2: Still have some more calls coming in with Turkey Tuesday nominations. Everyone wants to be in the running for the case of Turkey Flat Vineyard Wines in a can. Frank is in Setan. Hello Frank, I'm I'm the Turkey. Did you just do your own sound effect?
01:58:12
Speaker 11: I love that.
01:58:16
Speaker 25: I tell you we made some homemade sauce.
01:58:19
Speaker 26: Past the sauce and not knowing yet, I shook the bottle to mix everything up, and as I opened the top of the bottle, top and exploded.
01:58:27
Speaker 13: I mean, the ceiling was red.
01:58:28
Speaker 14: Face was red.
01:58:29
Speaker 28: You know, when you shoot someone or not.
01:58:31
Speaker 13: You wouldn't know if you shot someone.
01:58:32
Speaker 11: But when the blood goes all obia, it's just like that.
01:58:37
Speaker 14: The walls, the ceilings are just.
01:58:39
Speaker 25: My whole face was so the whole bottle exploded.
01:58:43
Speaker 2: Oh what a nightmare. But Frank, I've got to say, the most concerning thing about that is, do you know what it's like to shoot someone?
01:58:50
Speaker 20: Definitely?
01:58:50
Speaker 14: Not too many movies.
01:58:52
Speaker 2: Hey, good, I'm glad. I'm glad for that. Go I think you do a better one. Go on, well done, Frank, love you.
01:59:02
Speaker 9: Work all right?
01:59:04
Speaker 2: To call you to see you?
01:59:06
Speaker 19: Yeah?
01:59:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, he said, No, you wouldn't know what it's like to shoot someone. No, I definitely wouldn't, Frank. No, I don't. Let's go to Old nor London now, Hi, Brian.
01:59:21
Speaker 21: Oh, how are you good?
01:59:22
Speaker 31: How are you good? By the way I was, I played long boats, I had a few drinks during the day, then went home broken and the fundy was on. Say, I probably had a few more drinks. Then I'm thinking through my phone, I check my bank account ballance and accidentally I picked the fun for a personal way. I filled it out and then on the Monday, I'm going to message from my bank before more thousand dollars in my account.
02:00:00
Speaker 2: I oh my god, why'd you fill out the form? He said, you accidentally pressed the button for a loan and then filled it out.
02:00:11
Speaker 21: Yeah I did.
02:00:13
Speaker 31: You just had too, So now I've got money for a holiday.
02:00:18
Speaker 2: Oh well, there you go. Where are you going.
02:00:22
Speaker 6: Right, beautiful?
02:00:25
Speaker 2: Thanks for the call. See you. It's Brian in Old Nor Longer. There's some good nominations today. I've had a few drinks in my time. I'm not sure I've ever had that many that I've accidentally taken out a personal loan. But there you go. They make it quite easy these days, don't They Just press the button in the app and there you go. There's four grand in your account. That'd make a nice holiday. We'll put you in touch with the Phil Hofman travel team, Brian. They could get you a nice trip somewhere, maybe a cruise. After the discussion we've been having today. Oh that's a tough one today. There are so many good ones, I think, though, I think I'm feeling sorry for Betty in wind Veil. She blew up the microwave and then burnt the scones today as well. I think she deserves a wine. So congratulations, Betty, You've got a mixed twenty four pack of the Turkey flat wine cans coming your way. There's some rose, some pino gree and some charaz grenash there for you. The best thing about these wines it's a weeknight wine for me. Turkey Flat says they're great for a picnic, caravaning, camping, and yes, all that is true, but for me, they're just good for a weeknight wine when you feel like a drink, but you don't want to open a whole bottle because we're not big drinkers during the week in my house, so I'm often if we open a bottle, we won't finish it, and I don't like to waste anything, so that's why we just get a little can of Turkey Flat wines. The Scharrazgreenash is getting a good run at the moment now with the nights getting a bit cooler, but the rose is my favorite, that's for sure. But yes, a nice weak night wine if you don't want to open a whole can. There you go, Betty. Enjoy Turkey Tuesday. Every week it's appointment listening and joining in. We love a self nomination as well, so make sure you join the conversation. All right, Coming up, we'll find out what Rowe and Timmy G is.
02:02:22
Speaker 16: Rowie back?
02:02:23
Speaker 2: Is Rowe back now yet? So it is Rowe and Timmy G with the Sports show, So we'll find out very soon. What they've got. Coming up after for.
02:02:31
Speaker 15: Five double A Afternoons with Stacy Lee.
02:02:36
Speaker 2: And coming up after the four o'clock news, Rowe and Timmy g are on with the Sports show and Timmy's in the studio. Hello, Timmy G.
02:02:44
Speaker 1: Hello Stacey.
02:02:45
Speaker 29: What an afternoon.
02:02:46
Speaker 2: It's in a big afternoon. Yeah. I was asking what iconic Adelaide landmark you would buy in money wasn't an issue? Yes, of course, do you have one?
02:02:57
Speaker 29: Well, I'm glad because money's always an issue. It was funny we were talking about it out the sports room and in Sam Tugwell. I would buy the Adelaide Evil scoreboard.
02:03:09
Speaker 2: Oh that's a good isn't it.
02:03:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.
02:03:12
Speaker 29: I would buy the Colonel Light statue. But take him down and put me.
02:03:20
Speaker 1: Up there.
02:03:23
Speaker 2: Where would you point to the sky? The North Adelaide crowd would love that.
02:03:32
Speaker 29: But it is actually a Kurdel light statue is actually a really well say it is an iconic statue, you know, pointing at the city that has been designed a square and the like. But I reckon years ago when I was working I was doing a little bit of part time stuff in the Breakfast team way back when Keith Conlin was in the Brecky team, and I reckon. Keith told me that that statue was actually elsewhere once upon a time, I think he said it was in Big Square or something and they shifted it up there.
02:04:03
Speaker 2: Well that's a good spot for it. Was he looks down on the city.
02:04:07
Speaker 29: What makes more sense, doesn't that sort of pointing towards That's what I'm doing there.
02:04:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, over there, Yeah, I've done that.
02:04:12
Speaker 29: Yeah, and look, apologies to Keith if he didn't say that, he didn't a.
02:04:19
Speaker 24: Bit there exactly.
02:04:21
Speaker 29: It was good about that job.
02:04:22
Speaker 5: Was.
02:04:22
Speaker 29: I was wandering around the streets in the morning, Oh yes, doing whatever story was coming up and the like. And I would go sometimes to landmarks and go, Keith, I'm on the corner of King William Road and North Terrace. I said, there's a statue here, and you go bank straight into it the south. It's unbelievable, the fountain that he would know. I was going over the King William Road bridge and he told me, well, once upon a time to me, yeah, and he told me the whole story.
02:04:50
Speaker 23: Oh.
02:04:50
Speaker 24: I loved it.
02:04:50
Speaker 2: It was really it was quite educational, amazing. Yeah, absolutely, Well you are our sporting knowledge.
02:04:59
Speaker 29: What I don't know, it's not worth knowing. Big Show tonight. Of course Eddie comes on Wednesdays. Lots of lots of subject matter there because the arc has come into a controversy. It's our version of var if you like, coming out of the World of Soccer, the World.
02:05:19
Speaker 2: Game and this is a video review system.
02:05:21
Speaker 29: And honestly it's caused enormous amount of troubles in the World Game, let alone. Now it's causing trouble in now. So you'll go to that and a few of the other hot topics around. Dean Brogen comes in on Tuesday. Brett James. He we got Showdown week. Of course, Brett James one eight Showdown Medal, but he won it before they are actually presented, so won it in game two. And so what happened was they didn't do it until I think the fourth year, and then what they they did a few years ago was they did retrospective six medals for the six times it was excellent. He was one of the players that won it. And the irony of bread is that Brett James played against his brother Roger James ah for Port and Crows and there was three sets of brothers that did it in the history of showdown really, so the Bond brothers, Troy and Shanne, then the James brothers and the Bassett brothers.
02:06:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, incredible, that is incredible. Imagine their parents.
02:06:22
Speaker 29: Yeah, talk about confusion.
02:06:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'd have to that. That is the only time I would allow I would excuse someone who was wearing two scarves. Yeah, you couldn't pick a team, could you.
02:06:33
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.
02:06:33
Speaker 29: I wouldn't wear no.
02:06:35
Speaker 2: No, you just wouldn't wear any no wearing no.
02:06:37
Speaker 29: Probably wouldn't even look at the game.
02:06:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, too stressful.
02:06:41
Speaker 29: Indeed, Matilda Garrett for the thunderbir As, they keep getting up by small margins. They're very good side, but it was it was a tough one on the weekend. So they're coming up again, so it's going to be a really big show lots. And Rowie's back. So for those that were overly concerned about Rowie, no need, no need. He is fantastic and he's back in the seat and he will launch like a good old Turkey Tuesday would.
02:07:08
Speaker 2: Before you go to me, I just wanted to talk to you about the last couple of weeks for the AFL. It's been a rough couple of weeks. They've had a few lots of things, very high profile issues, and.
02:07:19
Speaker 7: One of their.
02:07:21
Speaker 29: Heads of football, Great Swan, came out and basically emitted that yesterday and set a couple of the video review things that went wrong and the like, and yeah, they pretty much owned the mistakes. It's where they can fix the mistakes. That's the issue for me.
02:07:36
Speaker 1: Now.
02:07:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's all well and good to come out and say that that's on us, we acknowledge this. But then if you don't take any action to fix.
02:07:43
Speaker 29: It, well, I'm pretty sure it's nearly four seasons ago that the ben Keys disallowed goal wasn't paid to Adelaide Oble. There's still not a solution for that.
02:07:55
Speaker 2: So that you go, this is what people get frustrated by.
02:07:58
Speaker 29: Indeed, indeed indeed, and they talk about Toddler's not doing the right things.
02:08:04
Speaker 2: All that and more coming up on the Sports Show. Thank you, Timmy Rowe and Timmy g On after the news. Thank you for your calls and your text messages today. I will talk to you at one o'clock tomorrow.