FIVEAA Breakfast with David & Will - 22th July 2025

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Speaker 1: Not after six.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, tell you and welcome a Tuesday on five double a breakfast, the twenty second of July. It is not breaking news to tell you it is windy and wet out there at the moment, more someplaces more than others. We're going to talk about all that with the weather Bureau a little bit later this morning. But if you can afford to sleep in a little bit, today's a good day to do it. And don't do it. I didn't spend the first thirty minutes of your day picking up the strewn remnants of the inside of your garbage bin for pickup night that had blown over in the night. Worst job on planet Earth to be doing in the early hours of the morning, but I reckon there'd be a few others that might have to do it as well. Today. If you are stay here, stay leasted, because it's a big morning ahead. The Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt is going to join us on the program after seven o'clock today. Fourteen million dollars committed to stuff to do with the algill bloom yesterday. I'd love to be more specific, but they weren't. Then after seven thirty, the Phil Curi will join us as the first sitting day of the new Parliament in Camber. It's going to be a big, big day on that front. Looking forward to chatting with Matt Hutchinson. You might recall we spoke to him last year when last year, earlier in the year, when he talked about setting off on this remarkable endeavor to walk the entire East coast of the United States. After that chat, we said, let's chat to you while you're doing it. So we're going to be talking to him after eight thirty today, looking forward to that. Plenty of other things going on around in Adelaide as well, beyond the weather and the olgall bloom. There's a bit happening in the health sector as well that we're going to do some work on today and in a moment a flavor combination that has to be heard about to be believed. David Penberthy, good morning to.
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Speaker 1: You, Good morning Will, Good morning listeners. I can't wait to talk to Matt at eight thirty. He's a great blake, so he has. I'm just looking at the NAEs he sent me yesterday. He's on the top of some snow covered mountain somewhere. He's hiking solo from Mexico to Canada. It's a four two hundred and forty columnut of journey. He's already raised one hundred grand. He sent me this video though, and it begs the question, what's the worst place you've ever been camping? He was camped on the side of this mountain and he found he got there late in the day. He found what he thought was a really nice spot, and he woke up and it was just pristine, beautiful. He was in a little depressed, sort of small valley on the edge of this this mountain and the sun had just come up, and he's going on, what a beautiful day, and then he just looks and he says, he sees this thing move, and he goes, what's that thing in this crevice in the in the mountain base where he's where he's camped. And then he sees this mom and he's part he's camped ten meters from a bear den. You're kidding. I'll show you the video. We'll put it up on the live stream when we talked to him, because he's actually recording it. Bears are not to be trifled with. It's not a grizzly, but it's it's a brown and it's massive, and he go, that's funny, it's a Peter. Have set up my little two man bivouac from from Snow. He's directly in front of a brown bear's den.
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Speaker 2: All I know is about bears is that people Canadians who live with them all the time that I see in that show alone, get terrified when they see one within one hundred meters of their camp on the program where they're out in the wilderness and they that's like them seeing a bear is not that wild yet they get terrified. So if they're scared of them, an Australian bike suddenly setting up camp next to a whole group of them profit undergrade.
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Speaker 1: I think as Australians too, we don't really get bears. No, not at all like the Canadians because they say, you know, be loud, be big, say bear, you know, shout at the bear. You've seen them do that in a loan. But yeah, as Ozzie, you know, we're more likely to see a saltwater crocodile. Other side of Credit Guard there's a big salty I you know, keep on paddling.
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Speaker 2: CJ's Bakery on Beach Road in Christie's Beach is a sweet tooth's paradise. They've won whole heap of awards that renowned everyone in the area. We know exactly the place I'm talking about. And they've got sometional press today for a new creation that a bit of a chin scratcher. I've got to say, it's a bit confronting. First thing in the morning. They're calling it the Homer Donut, which we're putting up on the Facebook and YouTube live stream for you now, which is your sort of stock standard donut, except it's cutting off like a sandwich and the filling is this mustard pickles of burger patty with melder cheese, crispy bacon and tomatoes sauce, but a sweet bit of savory's hell of a mouthful.
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Speaker 1: Beck is the baker at CJ's Bakery.
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Speaker 2: It joins us now, Bet, good morning, Good morning, Well, Beck, was this your your idea?
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Speaker 3: Was a mixture of three? Myself, Andrew and our apprentice Jack sort of just brainstormed it, came up with it, and just went rolled with it.
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Speaker 2: Had the apprentice Jack been out for a big night after he came up with this, No.
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, he's too young for that, Okay, No, we being a savory creation, we just wanted to create something out of the box and think outside the box and brainstorming lots of ideas and just came up with this.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, but you is it?
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Speaker 1: Has it been on sale? Beck? And have you sold many? Because I reckon, we're looking at it. Let's look the sort of thing you buy it for your mate as a joke on his bucksnight for lunch.
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Speaker 3: Launching today today's first day at CJ's Bakery.
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Speaker 1: Wow, And have you have you had much pre launch interest? Is there a bit of as on around there with Christie?
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Speaker 3: Yes, it's been posted on social media a lot, so there's definitely a lot of interest behind it. So that's fantastic.
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Speaker 1: And have you had any support from the Heart Foundation for this invention? Has it got any stars yet?
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Speaker 3: But maybe you never know?
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Speaker 2: Have you write it?
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Speaker 1: Becky?
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Speaker 3: No, I haven't not yet, but I reckon it might be on the plan for today.
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Speaker 1: Just ballpark keviny calories?
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Speaker 3: Youreck can we talking about how many colories are?
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Speaker 5: All of the calories.
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Speaker 1: Exactly right?
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Speaker 2: It looks it actually looks spectacular, Beck, I think you've struck something. So CJ's Bakery at Christy's Beach is the place to go to if you want to try the Homer donut good on your beck. Love it when people think outside the square, that is crazy. CJ's Bakery.
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Speaker 1: What you eating one of them?
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't have thought, what's the wild Let's ask you what's the wildest thing they've eaten? Eight double two three double o double or textus on zero before eight zero eight thirty ninety five.
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Speaker 1: What's the weirdest thing you've eaten. I'm not entering that competition. On account of repeated visits to Mexico.
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Speaker 2: You've eaten a lot of weird stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, insects, mainly they're beg on the insects over there.
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Speaker 2: I ate something that was at a Tasting Australia event and the chef said, I want you to all have an open mind and eat this. I'm not going to tell you what it is, because if I did, there's no way you would eat it. And everyone at our table went and I thought, oh well, I'll give it a crack.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't a Christie's Beach day nut, feel good. I wish it was.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what part of it was part of a kangaroo, and I know what part it was, but it was bloody.
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Speaker 1: Was it was it what what we're known back in the days of the Green and Gold Cookbook as variety meats.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a real variety. The chef never said what it was in the end, and but it was. Look, I wouldn't have.
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Speaker 1: A blood it was like a blood sausage or something.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was raw meat. It was raw and served in a lettuce cup like sang CHOI bout liked. Yeah, yeah, except not sort of. You know it means lean meat, lean kangaroo. Well it was. It was raw, raw kangaroo something and it tasted more. Maybe it was a little confronting.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know. I really think that's quite weird. Our older listeners like Blake's listening to the Shay and who were cooking or watching their mum's cook in nineteen forty nineteen forty five, every single South Australian dinner time menu, in some cases, if you are lucky, would include lamb's fry, would include brains, would definitely include tripe, tripe in white sauce, crumb, brains.
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Speaker 2: All this kind of stuff. Fancy chefs like to put on well now expensive menus.
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Speaker 1: In the space of two generations, we've got to the point where people just go, how can you eat that? My dad, his grandfather, his father, my grandfather uncle, Grandpa pen who had Harris stores and sterling. He had a tongue press the in the shed for preserving and pickling tongues. You just need a chicken that was considered pretty lardy. Dar It's funny Mum and Dad, Now I really like rabbit and if I serve it up, they just have flashbacks to the youth, particular being one of nine. But her idea of hell is eating a rabbit, because it was constant.
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Speaker 2: If you've eaten something weird. We'd love to hear about at eight double two three double o double. Of course, till in a morning where the weather is going to dominate conversation, we'll have to hear how much you've gotten the rain gauge, what the what the wind has been like in your area was certainly in the western suburbs it was howling overnight. The rain totals are a bit deceiving because they came up from nine am yesterday through to nine am today. But you get a bit of a sense about the sort of scale off the rain we've had in certain parts of Adelaide. For example, in the western suburbs the airport gauge three point four meals sorry three meals West Terrace is three point four. You get much more at Caipo eight meals at Caipo seven, at Mount Crawford eleven point two. At Mount lofties as wet as anywhere paril were west six point six and then a place like Parafield out north it's actually been dry relatively speaking, just one point eight mills of rain out out north. Chris and Surrey downs Is on the line, wanted you, Chris.
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Speaker 6: Good morning. I'll eat just about anything.
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Speaker 7: I've been brought up for part.
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Speaker 6: Of you at home and today with my grandparents, et cetera.
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Speaker 8: And they were way back and they used to make up some good concoctions.
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Speaker 9: You know.
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Speaker 6: No, I'll eat just about indying.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot to be said for it, Chris. Like you know, we'll talk about food waste and even people who obsessed about global warming and the amount of farts that cows do, there's an argument freeding as much of the cow as you can. You know, not everyone needs to eat nothing but mint or steak. There's a lot more to the animal than that good call.
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Speaker 2: Chris nine and alfter six minutes Take a break news headlines coming up in just a moment.
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Speaker 10: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five, Double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: I think it's icy outside of the b It's an icy call.
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Speaker 1: It was an international terrible song day. It's ted eight degrees outside of the moment.
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Speaker 2: One of those mornings where if I can get it up and I'll do it in just a moment. But the winds, the wind factor is what's making it cold. I don't think the headline temperatures are particularly bad. Are we're talking about bad food combinations or adventurous food choices you've made in the pars? June in Christie's Beaches on the line morning June.
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Speaker 1: You're there, Jane. I can hear the June.
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Speaker 2: I can hear the June shuffling around in the distance.
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Speaker 1: Coen, Jeane.
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Speaker 2: We might try and get June back out.
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Speaker 1: We've lost Jean. Our good friend Rob makes a good point. We won't eat awful but well, happy to buy supermarket sausages and nuggets totally, and.
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Speaker 2: Meat pies, meat pies and the democracy sausage. I know, we knew that was in there. That's true, which shows for real. The federal Environment Minister Murray, what's coming on the program a little bit later today yesterday and lick kicking off our news headlines, he unveiled a one off fourteen million dollar package to deal with the algall bloom. Finally, the funds, which have yet to be allocated, are expected to exped on beach clean up, scientific research, business assistance, communication and planning to mitigate future blooms. Where are they going to find scientists that might be interested in studying this, you ask.
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Speaker 1: Mostly just going back and dig through their inbox and go, there's all those letters. We were getting a zeal as that day twenty.
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Speaker 2: Three, a State Emergency Management Cabinet committee will meet a little bit later today to determine an action plan, including the extent of more state funds to deal with the matter. The Environment Minister, though, did a tour of the beach yesterday, appeared on all the major news services last night and.
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Speaker 1: The top tour of Adelaide's beaches. Oh the humanity, there's another one.
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Speaker 2: Here's a little bit of what he hit to say.
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Speaker 11: I would expect that it's likely that this funding from the federal government will support activities like cleaning up the beaches and removing some of that marine life that has been washed on shore. It's likely to support business assistants because we again we acknowledge that there are businesses doing it really tough as a result of this event, this was.
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Speaker 2: An intriguing story. In the ties of this morning, several British police recruits have been sidelined to administrative duties after they failed firearms training at this houth Australian Police Academy. It's understood the FUR we're part of a cohort of twenty overseas and interstate officers who were set to graduate from a fifteen week course earlier this month. They don't carry firearms at all in the UK.
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Speaker 1: Do they? I'm not sure. I read that article and it said that certainly a lot of police in Britain don't carry guns. But it's interesting, isn't it, Because I've been given the criticisms about the language and numerously requirements for new recruits, say Poles of the year that well, you're still going to get through your training, doesn't matter what you start at.
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Speaker 2: At the end, you have to have bus perturbed about this whole this program of bringing people in though this doesn't concern me particularly. I don't know if it does you. But they're from an environment we don't use guns. We're training up to use guns. They weren't quite ready in the small, the short space of time that we had available.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. It does sound like the system is working. Isn't it exactly better than journeys some Cockney lunatic walk in the streets of Adelaide drift as a cup holder gun that he doesn't.
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Speaker 2: Dirty Harry impersonations.
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Speaker 1: Right. It is funny though, isn't it like the whole British police genre. It's when you think of it more in the context of the bill, But you don't have the sort of yeah, as you said, dirty Harry Callahan type people. It's not a real gun driven thing in Britain. It's more than you know was his name Burnside? I know you lot.
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Speaker 2: How much do you think it's that cost to do a driving lesson at the moment?
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Speaker 1: Far too much so seriously, well, I just kept one a few years ago. Two teenagers went through it. It's go way to get rid of all that unwonted cash.
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Speaker 2: According to some analysis and the ties this morning, the average cost of a driving lesson is one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty cents one hundred and thirteen a lesson. What do you need ten lessons?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, a thousand bucks before you can sit the test.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot of money. And where pricier than places like Canberra and and other capital cities in the country.
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Speaker 1: What's the being higher.
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Speaker 2: Maybe there's maybe fewer drivers, maybe fewer driving age kids. Maybe it's just economies of scale. It's a great question. We're going to drive to do some more work over that. On the over the course of the morning. The other thing, just rounding out the news headlines, this was this look like vision from a Hollywood movie. An overheated battery expected is suspected with the cause of a fire in the overhead locker of a passenger flight landing in Tasmania. Was the bound for Hobart Bowing seven eight seven, a fe operated by Virgin It took off from Sydney yesterday was beginning to descend into Hobart when the blaze broke out in the overhead cabin. People jumped out of their seats. We've got on the Facebook and YouTube livestream right now and they're they're dousing the cabin. They're the locker to put it out. Have a listen. People with bottles of Mount Franklin water and drink bottles pouring it into a backpack.
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Speaker 1: It looks like where the pretty bounty must have trying to extinguish a fire on a plane with the one hundred and fifty mill bottles that they give you these days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's exactly not built for firefighter? Is it exactly expected to today? Seven to twenty five meals of rain. We've had a bit of that already. We'll hear from the weather bureau coming up very short about the rain we're having. Sue in my lord, good morning. What's the rain light where you are?
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Speaker 12: Pretty full on? I think we've had about maybe eleven twelve meals. It's pretty windy pass the course up here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're a tough lot up here.
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Speaker 2: You are, s my lord, part of the world, and you've eaten something weird, so it sounds like.
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Speaker 5: Oh not me.
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Speaker 12: My dad used to tell me when he was a boy, he used to get served up chicken feet and comb soup.
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Speaker 2: Ooh okay, chicken feet and comb soup. The old chicken foot. That's a bit of a staple at um char.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 2: That means it's a stable for deep end Berdie. Thank you, Sue, appreciate that. Let's talk sport, Tom read in the studio glider or garage doors ending strength, style and safety to your home glidder ol dot com dot are you morning ready?
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Speaker 13: Morning?
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Speaker 14: Will morning David. I'm not sure if this has come out or not, but it's on the Live website. The dates have come out for next year's events, so it's all out there. You can get early bird tickets. It's going to be a grange, so Feb thirteen to fed fifteen.
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Speaker 1: And is it a grange for the last time or this is twenty twenty seven one after this, because yeah, yeah, grange knows that next year is.
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Speaker 14: There twenty twenty six, it'll be there, so Feb thirteen to fifteen, but beyond that it's still a bit up in the air.
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Speaker 1: Is liv going all right? Tom? Well?
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Speaker 14: That I mean, there's no doubt the number one event I think is here in Adelaide. They don't get great crowds for the other tournaments were nothing like they get here. I think they went to Singapore following here last year or earlier this year in Seville.
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Speaker 1: Yes, but you don't see the people of Southern Spain or Champion to go to the party. Holes. Feel like it's a lot of coverage. You know, they're in the UK this week.
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Speaker 14: I think the other issue is they've got a lot of other tournaments, like we just had the Open Championship for example, you know at Royal Port Rush in Ireland, so they get their fill of high quality golfers probably a week in, week out, whereas you know, we just don't get that same access. So we're over here, we're probably starved of high level tournaments and high quality players. So it's it's definitely better here than it is anywhere else.
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Speaker 1: But those days, there's no question over the local demand, the national demand. Yeah.
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Speaker 14: So the dates again ready thirteen to fifteen. So Friday over Valentine's could be hot for.
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Speaker 1: The very real well could be seriously off to Night's romantic weekend, isn't it? What have you done Valentine today? Holy? Id it o? But I'm going to the grain guy. Good your read eggs boys.
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Speaker 10: David Penberthy and World Goodings five double a breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes to seven ten point five degrees outside and Adelaide the moments of the temperature is still coming down. Feels cooler than that outside, and it certainly has been wetter than that. How much more is on the way up to twenty five mills forecast by the Bureau. Will be chatting with them very shortly. It has meant it's bucketing down outside right bucketing down as we speak with the EGO. Some of that twenty five meals is coming. Four hundred and ten premises and businesses without power this morning. A couple of them are regional, like up near Renmark and one hundred and twenty eight down near Cape Jervis. The biggest around Adelaide is just south of a Chunga. There's one hundred and forty three premises without power at the moment. The expectation is by mid morning, by about eleven thirty late morning in fact, that they'll be restored. Otherwise you're looking at ninety seven around Humbug Scrub and Salisbury Downs. Is a little pocket in Salisbury Down's where power will be out until about ten thirty twenty three places without power this month.
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Speaker 1: We'd love to hear what's happening where you are. Folks, give us a call elight double two to three double a double low. But as I said, if you are heading into the city now you're an early bird worker, be careful on the roads because I just popped out and have a quick look on the balcony and it is torrential.
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Speaker 2: When nominating the stars of the Adelaide Football Club season twenty twenty five, thus far, you've tempted to say Riley phil Forpe, you might look at Isaac Rangin, Jordan Dawson, Dan Curtin, Alex Neil Bullen. After the way, they've all been good. None of them have a record as perfect as our next games. Matt, the Crow's saxophonist, the saxophone player who sometimes plays before the games, has a perfect record this season. He's undefeated. Where were to be on the We're on the record of saying after the first time he played, We're of the view this should just become something that happens every single home game in Adelaide, No doubt, there should not be a debate. This should become a feat. He's excellent. His name's Matt and he's on the line. Now, Matt, you are you aware you're undefeated?
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Speaker 15: Are you boys? Welcome back?
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Speaker 16: Yeah?
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Speaker 15: Well it's a funny start that I don't know. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just help my footy tips. I'm just happy about that, help everyone. But yeah, it's just just a lucky coincidence that that's the way it sort of worked out. And yeah, it has been funny to have a few people sort of find find me on socials and in box me going, oh do you realize this? So I've been tracking along, but you know, hey, it's just so good to see them win at home and to be part of that. Like it's just still I think I said it, you know the first time I caught up, you know, to pinch myself a moment. So it's just been a great season for the boys.
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Speaker 1: When did you When did you start doing it? Matt? And remind us because we spoke to you after the first game. How did it all come about? Though?
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Speaker 15: So we sort of big thanks to the team at the crow Is, especially Mike MCATs and and Kim that do the match day stuff and essentially so my my booking agent T K. Tom put forward sort of a few options for the pre game that they were looking to change up to the start of the season. So that's how it sort of all came about. And and that round one sort of worked out a really well, being on the roof and they got the win, and then they had locked me in for every home game so of the season. So from there, you know, it was just that that was already inevitability. So we just you know, rolled with the punches, so to speak, and it's all sort of worked out. The only one that obviously I wasn't part of because it's a it's sort of a different AFL runs is to gather around, so.
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Speaker 1: Which it was. But with the IFL running the final series, please tell me we're going to find a way to get you. We can. We can't go in a potentially having the double chance without our lucky charm with us.
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Speaker 15: No, I think that's that's that's locked in, ready to go. But yeah, I think if Rowie is keeping a little bit, I'm going to keep them a little bit, and you know we have to. You know, I'm waiting. I'm waiting for him, so you know he wants to go hard and I will be on the right behind him.
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Speaker 2: Would would you it sounds like you enjoyed it, Matt, would you be interested in doing it for multiple years if it became an ongoing thing like like we think it should.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I'm only contracts for the year at the moment, but yeah, like obviously I love it. It's so good. I mean, I'm a massive Grows fan, so for me, it's you know, I've never got to see so many Crows games because as a as a music usually gigging at the time they're playing. So for me to get to watch the footy and play it, you know, it's yeah, it is sort of is that pinched me. I can't believe I'm sort of here. So look, I love it, you know, and you know, we just want for me as well. You know, we just want the fans to have some sort of entertainment and vibe. And we got the drummers there earlier that you know, you see them outside and they're on also in there over before I play and the guys run out, So just trying to create that atmosphere and give people, you know, going to the footy, you know, a show from start to finish, and really obviously the main show is then the boys winning. So but you know, if we can add little parts to it to make it a bit more enjoyable, then you know, that's job done.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Were doing a great job, Matt. We love it.
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Speaker 2: It is awesome, it's fantastic. Good on you, Matt, and let's hope that long may that unbeaten record continue.
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Speaker 1: Something miraculous happened last night. Well one of the interstate football programs. You know what happened. Well, they mentioned the Crows and they producers mon't be happy with that. Well, they did get through the forty minute dissertation first about what's going on at Saint Kilda. Yeah, but once they've built with that, you know, number one question on everyone's mind, what's going on? Some they said, oh Crozegata right.
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Speaker 2: Which I take is a massive I mean that's bigger than the premiership, that.
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Speaker 1: Is, that's right. Exactly.
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Speaker 2: Have you got lucky charms, folks, Matt is the Adelaide Football Club's lucky charm this year? Any sporting superstitions, all lucky charms, things that bring you luck, we'd love to hear about them. Eight double two to three double E can textas on ZWO before eight zero eight thirteen and ninety five, we received some correspondence from the northern part of the state over the course of well yesterday we got it in fact, with regard to the delivery of the Advertiser and Sunday Mail in Corn where residents there have been advised they will no longer be paper deliveries to the town and in rural areas north of Adelaide. Now this is not a paper thing. It sounds like this is because of an issue with freight companies. Leah Trotter is from the Corn local newsagents, the operator there. Leah, good morning. What do you understand about why the paper be getting.
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Speaker 1: Delivered any longer?
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Speaker 17: Oh, hey, good morning. Not about the freight companies at all. In fact, we had correspondents from news Corp going back six or eight weeks indicating that it's News Corps themselves that have made the decision to review their supply in to rural Australia and we're just one of the areas that's being impacted by that. So the freight companies have also experienced a loss out of this decision. Not made the decisions.
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Speaker 2: Okay, because we've been told it's due to a contractual dispute with Cochran's the transport company. But you've said, you're you're of the belief that the company has decided just not to deliver papers to some of these regional areas.
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Speaker 17: Not that I just believe it, but the correspondence, as you know, as the agent, the correspondence I've got from news Corps says that News Corp have made a decision, along with their ongoing review of other parts of Australia and their rural supply network, that they will not be supplying into our area. And we're you know, we're members of the Australian Lotches and News Agencies Association and ALNA that that association has indicated that this is a common pattern across rural Australia.
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Speaker 1: How many would you would you estimate leap because Corn, you know, a reasonably big country town, you still have a fair few subscribers, I imagine.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, we we would see fifty customers a day in our store for newspapers, and we also supply the nursing home and probably that's been the group that is most impacted. They're, you know, they're very sad about that, but it's not an option in our town for somebody just to pop, you know, to another spot and grab a newspaper where we're a good half hour driving any direction to be able to do so. So we've got at least fifty very disappointed people in town at the moment. But we're a resilient community and they've we've had some very interesting conversations about what that means two individuals, what they were buying the newspaper for, and what it meant in their lives. So we have certainly got some disappointed people in our community. But yeah, not to blame Cochranes. They I know are equally disappointed.
00:28:18
Speaker 2: So what of your customers, le have told you, what are their old nams? What are they going to do?
00:28:23
Speaker 17: Well, they're not there some of them. Many of our customers who still read the newspaper are the older cohort and because younger customers have moved online much earlier, so mostly it's the older customers and many of them aren't aren't keen to move into an online reading format, which is what news Corp is suggesting that they're doing. In fact, news Corp had flyers in each of the newspapers over the last few weeks offering some short term access to that online forum. But most of my customers have handed it back to me and said, I won't be doing that. That's not for me. So that's that's perhaps not an option for them, or it might be in time as they come around to it. They've likened it to. Certainly the customers have likened it to the process that banks underwent with moving things to electronic transfers and ATMs. That's how they're feeling about it. Most of our customers have indicated that their biggest disappointment is not having a reason to drive their car into town in the morning, go for their morning walk, make it a part of their day. It's something that's been built to their psyching for a very long period of time.
00:29:36
Speaker 1: Absolutely understandably. Good on you, La. It's a sad situation, Leon Trotter. They're from corn, the local Corns, William Creek. Either No, it's I'm going to try to find out what's going on with that, because I hadn't heard anything about that. Well, but bast Of on Lee's saying says it might be a national thing. It's not. My parents and their mates, Off and Jake. That the reason you still get the newspaper one of the key reasons. Just we'll get the newspapers to flick up the back to the obituaries page.
00:30:05
Speaker 2: Make sure you're still alive A third eight to.
00:30:08
Speaker 10: Seven David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:30:12
Speaker 1: Nine to seven.
00:30:13
Speaker 2: Corey text is saying he's desperately hoping that his workplace has no power. Well, I've got bad use.
00:30:19
Speaker 1: For your Corey.
00:30:21
Speaker 2: Pretty Much all of Adelaide's looking good. Just four hundred and ten premises across the entire state out and look about half of those are in Adelaide and half of those that are outside of Chungus. Unless you work there, I reckon you might be just out of luck this morning. Mate, You're gonna have to put on some warm clothes and brave the elements because it is coming down in a serious way. Mark Anilac at the Bureau joins us. Now, Mark, is this the sort of bulk of the rain we're expecting today or is it going to be various fronts over the course of the next eighteen hours or so?
00:30:52
Speaker 18: Are you quite right?
00:30:53
Speaker 19: This is pretty much the bulk of it. We had a cold front move through over night and we saw rainfall figures of up to ten millimeters on the plains and ten to twenty millimeters in the hills. That was which the cold front last night. There's still a broad westerly airstream bringing in some gusty showers for the next couple of hours. So probably still some further further showers and rainfall around the metropolitan area in the next couple of hours. But during the course of the day we'll see those showers gradually easing back, and the winds will ease back as well. Tomorrow shouldn't be too bad. But for today, like I said, showers, windy to start with, and everything's sort of gradually easing back. Top of thirteen degrees and currently it's ten degrees in the city.
00:31:36
Speaker 1: Good stuff, Mark, keep the broy handy, thanks for that. It's going to be a wet work all right.
00:31:39
Speaker 2: Let's say to say, Pauls and your Constable Matt Brown joins us. Matt Operation returned to school yesterday and you've found a couple of parents who weren't quite ready for the morning drop off.
00:31:50
Speaker 9: Exactly right, guys. A woman has been caught drink driving after being stopped near a Capunda school. A state traffic enforcement unit motorcycle member was conducting duties in the vicinity of Kapun the schools yesterday as part of operation returned to school and just before three point thirty pm police stopped Suzuki sadan and seen leaving the school area on Adelaide Road and breast tested the driver and she produced a blood alcohol reading of ero point two three six, almost five times a legal limit. The woman also had three passengers, including two children, in the car at the time. The forty one year old woman from Capunda was reported for drink driving and issued with a twelve month immediate loss of license notice. The car was impounded for twenty eight days and she'll be sums to appear in court at a later date.
00:32:31
Speaker 1: What happens with the situation with when you're in that position, Matt, and you've got kids in the car too, you, does that become one of those mandatory notification type things where you have to alert ch our welfare authorities to the fact that that's happened to you.
00:32:45
Speaker 9: Well, in certain circumstances, yes, if you know it's been reports of dangerous driving or anything like that, or if there's other offenses detected. But yeah, one thing's for sure. There'll be walking to school for the immediate future.
00:33:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Matt. Also, and there's a police operation at the Longer train station yesterday where Blake was arrested with knives.
00:33:07
Speaker 9: That's right, I'd be concerning this person walking around with knives in broad daylight. But Southern District Police were conducting a proactive operation around the nor Longer railway station yesterday and they saw a man acting suspiciously on the platform. They conducted a search of him and located a small folding knife in the top of his backpack, and the further search of his belongings and backpack uncovered six knives, three market pens and two screwdrivers. A thirty eight year old man from Old nor Longer was the rested in charge with carrying an offensive weapon and he's been issued with a six month transit barring order preventing him from going anywhere near public transport. So he's been refused bail and will appear in the Christie's Beach Magistrate at the court today. So a pretty good pickup by the Southern District patrols there.
00:33:48
Speaker 2: Absolutely, And obviously, Matt, it's pretty wet and wild out there on our roads today.
00:33:52
Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly right. Of course, there's been quite a few reports of storm damage or trees down and lights not operating correctly. Of course, probably the most the busiest intersection in all of South Australia at the intersection of King William and North Terrace. The traffic lights playing up there at the moment, so police are on the way there. So just to either avoid the area or just drive through with caution, and any incidents of storm damage or traffic hazards called the Police Assistance Line on one three one trip le four so we can get a patrol out there. Also the SEES or MFS other agencies to come along and help and also drive to the conditions as well. Make sure your fog guides if you have them on your vehicle they're switched on as well, and also your tires and windscreen wipers are in good working order also. So yeah, I hope everyone gets to work or or school wherever they're going safely today.
00:34:50
Speaker 1: Good on you so you can so.
00:34:52
Speaker 2: Matt Brown from Safe PA we have played on seven News last night, which is where you catch Miley Hogan in a minment. But Chris Martin at the most recent co Play concert, the most recent subsequent to the one that everyone's been talking about. He spoke at length before the camera gets shown at the crowd in what.
00:35:12
Speaker 1: Was a deliberate measure to give people.
00:35:14
Speaker 2: Some forewarning that should you be engaged in any conduct that might see your employment cease, or your family or whatever it might well be, you might like to assist. It was a very clever way of addressing the issue without mentioning any of the players by name. But we know them all now, Miley Hogan and the US has been covering this story and everything else that's going on. Miley, Good morning.
00:35:37
Speaker 20: To you, Good morning, Good morning.
00:35:40
Speaker 1: So Miley, a few personnel changes at Astronomer.
00:35:44
Speaker 20: Yeah, look, this story it just keeps on continuing, doesn't it. It keeps making headlines. And now the new CEO has made his first public comments since taking over the role, and look, it appears that he wants and hopes that the company can now move past this viral moment. Everyone's seen that clip where the now old CEO, Andy Byron, was caught on video cuddling up with the company's head of human resources. The pair immediately hid hid duck down after they were sprung, And yeah, the internet did it sting didn't. It went right after them, tracked them down, identified them, dug into their personal lives. But now the new interim CEO, Pete de Joy has put a message up on LinkedIn saying, the events of the past few days have received a level of media attention that few companies, let alone startups in our small corner of the data world. Ever, in counter, the spotlight has been unusual and surreal for our team. And while I would never have wished for While I would never have wished for it to happen like this, astronomer is now a household name, so the company trying to get on with business guides.
00:36:45
Speaker 1: So he's gone. What's the status with the HR director? Is she still there?
00:36:50
Speaker 20: Unclear at this stage. I'm not sure what's happened to her or if she's handed in her resignation, but we do know that Andy Byron handed in his resignation and the company accepted.
00:36:59
Speaker 2: I think most people social media feeds have been full of that. And these AI videos that pop up everywhere now that people can create incredibly sophisticated videos with very basic prompts, it's a remarkable jump leap forward in the technology and Donald Trump's been a bit taken by it, Miley, because he's retweeted something that was somewhat provocative.
00:37:20
Speaker 1: Yeah.
00:37:21
Speaker 20: Look, it's not unusual for Donald Trump to share these AI generated videos on his truth social platform, but this one in particular is gaining a bit of attention because it shows former US President Barack Obama being arrested. The video is fake. It appears to be a manipulated footage of an Oval Office meeting that actually did take place back in twenty sixteen. But this video that's been shared on social media shows the FBI coming into that meeting, putting Barack Obama on his knees, and then arresting him. It then goes to show him in an orange jumpsuit behind bars. Now, look, this is all to do with Trump administration officials instantly accusing mister Obama of trying to harm Donald Trump's campaign back in twenty and sixteen. The Democrats have labeled that not true and have also said that this is a distraction as Trump and the administration try to move the conversation away from the Epstein files.
00:38:18
Speaker 1: Yeah, hard to know what's real and what's fake anymore. It's a crazy time to be alive. Good stuff, Miley Miley Hogan there for seven years in the US Bureau.
00:38:27
Speaker 2: Stick around after seven o'clock this morning, the Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt joins us live on five Double A.
00:38:33
Speaker 10: Breakfast David Penberthy and Will Gooding's five Double A Breakfast.
00:38:37
Speaker 2: Eight after seven. It's wet and cold out there. Take care on our roads. That was the message from SAPAL, and we spoke to them about fifteen minutes ago. The message from the Weather Bureau was that this is the bulk of the rain that's coming through in forecast today, So maybe a little bit later it'll get drier. The way things are forecast, though, it's a fascinating week ahead. Ben Jordan, our resident stats man, makes this observation. With up to eight mills forecast this week, that's half half of every bit of rain we've had since the first of January this year. That would be also the wettest week in Adelaide since December nine, two thousand and three, when we had seventy three meals of rain. So if we get every bit of what's forecast, and I actually don't think we're going to get there today. Not to take the wind out of Ben's sales. But if we were to be the wettest week in some twenty two years. Having a look at the around some of the gauges in the West, Terrorist Gage seven point two meals. Since nine am yesterday at the airport out west, it's been wet to ten point five at Edinburgh nine point eight. You go to Caipo eight point two, Mount Lofty fifteen point eight, significant bit of rain there and as I've been saying throughout the morning, much drier. Parafield two degrees sorry two meals and then Roseworthy zero point six. Give you some sort of sense of where it's fallen in a big way and where it hasn't well.
00:40:03
Speaker 1: At the end of last week we were being told by the Federal government that the Environment Minister Murray What was going to be sending one of his most senior bureaucrats over to South Australia to investigate the al will bloom. We're not quite sure what happened, but as of yesterday we discovered that we were going to be graced by his presence. The Minister for Environment did make it to Adelaide and he joins us now, Senator What, good morning and welcome to Adelaide. Finally, why won't you declear this a natural disaster?
00:40:32
Speaker 8: Well, good morning and thanks for the opportunity to have a chat. There's no doubt, as I said yesterday, that this is a really serious environmental event facing South Australia, and I recognize that it's causing all sorts of terrible impacts, whether it be to the environment, to the local economy, and it's obviously taking a really big emotional toll on South Australian's I think we all want to see those beautiful beaches restored to their usual condition as quickly as possible. When it comes to how we've approached this, natural disasters, both from a Commonwealth point of view, but more broadly pretty much recognized as rapid events that move through quickly bushfires, floods, cyclones, those kind of things, And of course we're talking about something different here. Natural disasters often involve loss of life, massive property destruction. Again, this is a different kind of event, but I don't want to get away from the fact that this is a really serious event. I guess it's a little bit more like a drought in the sense that it's been building for a long time.
00:41:29
Speaker 1: When you get drought release people. Do you get drought lf I get it all the time, that's right.
00:41:34
Speaker 8: And as of yesterday, what we've announced is fourteen million dollars in federal funding to support a range of things, whether it be business assistants, more scientific research, the cleanup of the beaches, and communications and community awareness as well. So in your introduction you were questioning why I sent a senior bureaucrat to Adelaide last week. It was so that we would be able to better understand what it was that South Australia was looking for from us in terms of support, and we managed to turn around that request within twenty four hours of receiving it over the weekend.
00:42:04
Speaker 1: Well, the reason I was questioning it with respect is that it sort of feels like as far as Canberra and people like you are concerned that the glacial pace at which you've moved on this makes it feel like South Australia simply does not exist in your minds.
00:42:17
Speaker 8: Well, I certainly understand that's the perception in South Australia. That's been made very clear to me, and a number of our federal labor colleagues have been making the point that that's how people feel, and I accept that that's how people feel. What I've been trying to do is behind the scenes marshal the federal resources that are needed to help South Australia. I've been in regular contact throughout this event with Susan Close, the Deputy Premier and Environment Minister, to work out exactly how we could support that, and as I say, those discussions that we've been having over quite some time now have led to us being able to turn around that request within twenty four hours of receiving it, so that you may have seen yesterday the Premiere foreshadow that there will be state funding and out soon as well, and once that is announced will have a better picture of exactly how that money will be distributed. But there's money on the table from the federal government now. It's exactly what South Australia asked for and we hope to see that money hitting the ground shortly.
00:43:10
Speaker 2: So there was no request for funding before this last weekend.
00:43:14
Speaker 8: There wasn't a formal request, no, But I'm not sure being critical of the South Australian government in saying that. As I say, we've been having discussions with them for some time to understand what would be needed.
00:43:24
Speaker 1: I mean, what was the informal request.
00:43:28
Speaker 8: Well, they were certainly flagging that they were likely to be seeking federal funding for the types of things that we've now announced, but the formal request came in over the weekend. What we didn't want to do was have a situation where South Australia sent us a letter asking for all sorts of things that for one reason or another, we wouldn't be able to do. So that's why we took the time to have those discussions and people didn't see that happening. That was happening behind closed doors, those sorts of discussions to work out what would be needed so that when we got the request we could act quickly, and that's what's happened.
00:43:57
Speaker 1: Speaking of letters, Minister to Cess the tenure plibasec as Environment Minster was contacted back in October twenty twenty three by the nation's pre eminent marine scientists warning about the looming algal bloom catastrophe. You yourself will contact it earlier this year. They were after relatively modest four million dollars a year over ten years to research the causes of this bloom and to look at mitigating factors to prevent it from worsening. Why did you send them away with a flea in their ear?
00:44:29
Speaker 8: Well, there are a couple of reasons that we declined that request. As you will have heard me say, the reality is that this algal bloom is within the state control waders, and that's why I've made the point that it's primarily the responsibility of the state to manage this. But of course, with the support of the Commonwealth.
00:44:44
Speaker 1: We're not talking here about the width of rail gauge or whether you're asked for a schooner or a pint or a MIDI. I mean, let's set the sort of intricacies of federalism aside here and actually cut to the chase. You were specifically asked as our national government and warned about the fact that this was firstly going to happen and secondly had happened. You didn't even meet with those people.
00:45:09
Speaker 8: No, And as I was halfway through my answer there, as I say, the Commonwealth government primarily takes responsibilities for managing issues in Commonwealth words. State governments primarily take responsibility for matters within state waters. But we are supporting the state government in this effort despite the fact that's in state control waters. But the second reason for declining that request was that the federal government is already funding a range of activities like what the scientists are asking for. We do that through the Bureau of Meteorology. We do that through what's known as the Integrated Marine Observation System. But having said all of that, we recognize that there is a need for greater scientific research into what's causing this event, what can we do about it, how can we be pard for the future. And that's why that fourteen million dollars that we announced yesterday will include a component for further scientific research. I've already asked my department to ensure that those scientists are involved in the discussions about how that money is used. So, as I say, we've come about this in a different way to the usual disaster frameworks, but we're putting that money on the table to assist.
00:46:10
Speaker 2: So just to be clear, in future, if there's some sort of unfolding environmental disaster in our oceans and marine biologists are concerned about it, they shouldn't contact the federal Environment Minister.
00:46:20
Speaker 8: Well, I mean that might be your response to this.
00:46:23
Speaker 1: That wouldn't be it was yours. That's just what you said, though it's that's really soon.
00:46:28
Speaker 8: That's not what I said.
00:46:28
Speaker 1: That's not what I said. It's what I said you said.
00:46:31
Speaker 8: What I said is that Commonwealth governments primarily take responsibility for matters in Commonwealth waders. We take responsibility for things like World Heritage listings, we take responsibility for World herit digitalisted rainforests and reefs. State governments managed state things and we don't want to be blundering in from Canberra trying to take over. But what we've tried to do throughout this event is support the South Australian government as they lead the response and as I say, that money is now there from the federal government, with more to the ad by the state government very soon.
00:47:01
Speaker 1: So what direction should the algill bloy move in before it becomes more of a responsibility of the Fed. Should it go north, southeast or west?
00:47:09
Speaker 9: Well?
00:47:09
Speaker 1: Which way should it go?
00:47:10
Speaker 8: What you would find is that if there was an algal bloom or an oil slick or some other marine disaster that happened in Cumonwalt Waders, that would absolutely be the responsibility of the commonwalf government of the day, and we wouldn't be asking state governments to assist us with that. That is our responsibility. What we want to do is respect the fact that there are some matters that are responsibilities of state governments and they are primarily in charge. They don't want to be told what to do by Canberra, in my experience, but they want to be supported. And that's what we've done. Fourteen million dollars, the cleanup of beaches, scientific research, business assistance, community awareness, all of those kinds of things. We haven't said as said that we're not prepared to do anything that's a substantial contribution, and it's come about through working very cooperatively with the South Australian government.
00:47:54
Speaker 2: Is it time to reconsider what constitutes a national a natural disaster in Australia? Given this doesn't make that apparently narrow definition, the Greens have suggested it's time to rework the definition. Would you support that?
00:48:05
Speaker 8: Look what I said when I was asked about this yesterday, I sort of feel like that's a discussion for another day, because my focus has been about just making sure we can get that money flowing as quickly as possible to deal with this event. I think what we are facing as a country and other world is that we are facing different types of events now arising from climate change. It's pretty clear that at least one of the factors contributing to this event is climate change, along with the nutrients being flowed through the Murray etc. And we are going to have to approach these issues differently. It's one of the reasons why the alb and Ezy government has invested a huge amount more in disaster mitigation. We've recognized that we're going to be facing more bushfires, flood cyclones, those types of events, and I think we are living in a different world and we've got to think about them differently. But I guess what I've been trying to do is to not jam events into disaster frameworks or rules or guidelines, but actually work out how we can get the money that is needed by South Australia now. And we've managed to do that. It's through a different way, but we've managed to do what they've asked for and we're looking forward to seeing that money being used quickly.
00:49:09
Speaker 1: Senator Murray Watt, thanks for joining us, and you're made and voyage to South Australia. The Minister for Environment and Water there from Queensland.
00:49:15
Speaker 2: A few thoughts coming through on the text lines before zero eight thirteen ninety five, you can call into and have your say eight double two to three double. Oh, we'll check traffic and get back into that in just a moment.
00:49:25
Speaker 10: Well, David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
00:49:29
Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes after seven. A few people in the text line asking you about where Commonwealth waters started. I mean, trying to get to the bottom of that during the ad break. Apparently it's an important piece of distinction about who bothers caring about the environment.
00:49:44
Speaker 1: Funny, there's actually a painted red line on the water just out south of Investigator Straight. I think backstairs passage left hand is Commonwealth's right handed state. Seriously, so essentially it's it's.
00:50:02
Speaker 2: It's three nautical miles from what is considered the low water mark along the coast, so anything outside of that period that area is considered Commonwealth waters is a little bit convoluted, So three nautical miles from what they call the baseline along the coast or on the jurisdiction of the states.
00:50:23
Speaker 1: Once you get.
00:50:23
Speaker 2: Further out, the Commonwealth guests Unfortunately the Algabim, which is a little bit too close to sure to get the guise of the federal government on it. Heidi has called in from Gilbert and morning to your Heidi, Oh.
00:50:35
Speaker 7: Good morning.
00:50:36
Speaker 1: What do you think about this?
00:50:38
Speaker 5: Well, I just think it's a bit disappointing that it comes down to that sort of narrative really. Certainly, when the minister mentioned that if indeed the World Heritage Area was involved, then the federal government would be involved and take steps, and it sounded like oil select barrier reef that type thing. However, I suddenly thought, wait a minute, isn't the Kurong World Heritage listed and thread right now? And the other thing I thought was, well, you know, if it really is about water's way off shore, I think that's a bit more out of sight, out of mind. I appreciate that, you know, people don't have easy answers to this, but I would have thought that really there has to be a federal scientific input now, anything we can do before this becomes some sort of regular event. Now, of course, the Murray Darling Basement, the new trientload has to be considered there, you know. So that's about all I.
00:51:51
Speaker 1: Had to say. Yeah, good on your heart. Do you appreciate it.
00:51:53
Speaker 2: David Basham's the shadow Minister for Water Infrastructure is calling on this. David, good morning to you.
00:51:58
Speaker 21: Good morning. What you were taken on the three mile limit is there's been certainly been here on the Furrio Bloom much further out to see than three miles as well. To me, this is you know, as the previous course mentioned likewise around sad protected areas of the Kurong the Secral government should have been involved in this flow ago. Likewise, to me, the state government has to have been dragged here as well. You know, only three weeks ago the opposition has been called you know, fear mongering in this space, getting the fishes of thought and finally that both governments of real life that they actually have to do something here.
00:52:42
Speaker 1: David Basham, thanks for calling in.
00:52:44
Speaker 2: Well, one thing that cannot be true is something that both government's levels of a government are going to claim, and that is that they both moved as swiftly as possible to get to the bottom of this right and to solve it total total rubbish. So Murray Wat just told us that the first request for federal funding came this weekend from the State gun. He said formal, okay, well, we're going to speak to the State government a little bit later in the program, but it cannot be true that they've both acted as swiftly as possible.
00:53:13
Speaker 1: So much of this, this forty million dollar package, which is so light on detail it's not funny. And a lot of our listeners were not on the idea of clean up the beaches. Are we going to spend fourteen millions million dollars on green bins to fill them with sting rays? Is that what this is all about? Like that is really a bad case of closing the gate after the horse has bolted. Isn't it picking up the dead stuff? You know? Sadly, we've got a whole army of volunteers and surf life saving clubs who are doing that themselves at the moment and have been for five months. It's about having relief for those who are affected by it financially, but also crucially having some sort of research, really serious research led by the scientists that we refer to, to get to the bottom of this and also to look at whether there's things that can be done, because my understand is that there are some things in the offing where you can actually clean it up better than we have been doing. So who knows you know, changing technology, But overwhelmingly on the text line, people are just saying it just feels like the sort of forteen million dollar backside covering exercise at the moment. And I can tell you for a fact, between the I'm sending my most senior bureaucrat to hi, folks, I'm Murray Watt, and I'm now here in South Australia going oh the humanity walking along the beach at glenl What happened over the weekend was there were a whole bunch of calls from SA to camera along the lines of hey, are you guys actually kidding? Are you seriously not going to come over here to have a look at it? But you know how much of that is PR and how much of that is practical solutions? Well, it sort of feels like it's a lot more of the former than the ladder. Right now, let's talk power outages. Cecilia Schultz from SA Power Networks joins us on five double a Breakfast. There's a few at the moment.
00:55:00
Speaker 2: Right across the state, about thousand homes and businesses without power. Cecily, good morning.
00:55:04
Speaker 22: To you, Yes, good morning, Hello.
00:55:06
Speaker 2: Are there any a particular concern to you guys that will be out for a long time.
00:55:09
Speaker 22: Do you think not at this point? No, yes, As you said, we've got about a thousand customers without supply at the moment. There were a few. There was obviously some squawly winds overnight and customers have woken up this morning and have reported in power. So we've seen a few of those outages come in the last hour or so. We're not expecting this to be a significant event on the network. You know, our crews were resourced up as usual and our crews are working through the adages at this point. We're expecting the weather to carry out throughout the day, but we don't have any major concerns at the moment.
00:55:43
Speaker 2: No good news, all right, thank you, Cecily. Cecily Shultz Power Networks. The biggest has just come online. It's an area. Let's have a look here in the Eden Valley, about four hundred and nearly five hundred premises without power. There is why it's ticked up in a big way recently. But Cecilia makes the point, people wake up, the power doesn't go on, they SA power network. So we expect perhaps that number will grow over the course of the next hour or two five double A news is coming up, Phil Curry in the nation's capital. Shortly the first sitting day in camera of the new Parliament. What's first up on the agenda? Phil, take you through it next David.
00:56:17
Speaker 10: Penberthy and Will Goodings five double A breakfast.
00:56:20
Speaker 2: Twenty two minutes to wait your chance to win when we convene the jury before eight o'clock this morning. See you what a lot of people have passed judgment on our interview with the Federal Environment Mister Murray? What just after seven Fran Murray?
00:56:31
Speaker 4: What?
00:56:32
Speaker 1: Murray?
00:56:33
Speaker 2: What hell have you been doing for four months? Frankin Birkenhead is on the line. Frank, Good morning to you, Hi, Good morning to you both.
00:56:40
Speaker 16: Mate. Look, it's all very well to years. We'll spend forteen million dollars on cleaning up all these sea creatures on the on the shores. Yeah, that's great, But to me that's kind of a bandaid job. What if I keep it keeps happening, They're going to spend fourteen million every time. You know, as they keep coming, they need to really attack, you know, just get some get the signs, just to really get in and find out what's causing it.
00:57:07
Speaker 1: Correct as possible.
00:57:08
Speaker 18: Mate.
00:57:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, great point, Frank. Otherwise we're looking at a fourteen million dollar skips for SA scheme. You know, everyone can go down check a dead stingray in or container thanks to the Albanesi government. Terrific.
00:57:22
Speaker 2: We did learn in that interview that it was all apparently it just because it happened too close to shore. It's why the federal government weren't that interested the three nautical mile rule that after which point they start caring about the environment of the waters, which makes it It makes the whole thing rather comical, really it was then therefore the fourteen million dollars was simply in response to goodwill, I guess, not being part of their usual concern. We'll be chatting with the state government little bit later to find out why it was only just this last weekend they made a request for funding. Phil Curry kicked this story along in a massive way just before we left on leave when he broke the story that marine scientists had written to the federal government previously to warn about all this. He joins us now and what is the first sitting day of the new parliament in Canberra. Feel good morning to you.
00:58:10
Speaker 18: Morning fellows. Welcome back.
00:58:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks Phil, mate. We just had your good friend Murray what on the show.
00:58:16
Speaker 18: You're not talking to me?
00:58:17
Speaker 1: Oh really? He backbender really.
00:58:21
Speaker 18: Really with your Mana's office. Yeah, I wouldn't even te us he was going to Adelaid yesterday. So they're a bit they're a bit bruised, I think.
00:58:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, well this time four days ago, he wasn't going to Adelaide.
00:58:30
Speaker 18: No, that's right. I think it was. Well, it was last Friday morning. I think he finally sort of bothered to pick up the phone to a couple of indivis, one with Matt Pantellus on Double A and another one on the ABC, and they were both pretty tragic in terms. He argued that line about it being in state waters and it's a state issue and doesn't meet the definition of a national disaster, and all the sort of bureaucrats if you like. And I think after that it was the likes of Mark Butler, you know who it's got the electorate. It used to be known as Port Adelaide, now Adelaide, and Mark Market thinks that was quickly realizing how serious an issue was and how bad it looked at the federal government was staying at arm's length from it and not wishing to get involved. So something obviously happened over the weekend. Malanowskis got back from holidays. He'd been sort of you know, sleep at the switch as well, I would suggest, and leaving it all to season close. And finally on the on the weekend, they realized they had a political problem and someone better get over there and spent and offer some money. And so there was a cabinet meeting yesterday morning and they ticked off on that fourteen million dollar package and Mary got pumped on a plane. You might or may not know. He was meant to do that announcement at Brighton Beach, but word got out and so they and they were worried about protests, so they really Yeah, so they scarped into the CBD and did it at the State Admin Center.
00:59:48
Speaker 1: Oh really, I didn't know that. That's interesting.
00:59:50
Speaker 18: No, it was scheduled for them to be done on the beach. That's why they had Louise Miller Frost there. She's the federal member for Boothby with Brian's and her electrics, so she was sort of standing there looking awkward in the in the government building. So They were clearly aware of the sensitivity and that that little optics of this has been terrible.
01:00:06
Speaker 1: So hell of a way to run a country, though, wasn't it. I mean, you think about Murray, what hailing as he does from Queensland. I mean, there's a state that's mastered the art of Every time, you know, a couple of trees get blown down in cans, or someone finds some blight on a banana, or we import I don't know, mangoes from another country, they have a special cabinet meeting at the drop of a hat.
01:00:28
Speaker 18: Yeah, And I think that's right, And you know, that's it sort of reminded me a bit of all those years ago when the Abbot government told Holden to pack up and leave. You know, it's just this sort of complete teenie they have in the East States, in the Eastern States toward as if problems over the other side of the Great Dividing range room of a second tier and not really serious. And I lookt this government. He sees everything first and foremost as a crew, as a crude political calculation. And I have no doubt that when this started manifesting becoming really serious couple of months ago, they just thought, oh, there's no marginal seats is totally you know, and you can hide behind definition of a national disaster and all those sorts of things. But as you said, you know, and it has been said one hundred thousand times, Jennie, if it was on a on a Sydney beach, Albaneze would have been there with a Snooklunder checkbook weeks ago. It's the other point I think. I think Frank Frank from Birkenhead made made a very good point, you know who rang in. I was talking to the scientists yesterday who wrote that letter to what, saying that we just need a bit of day so we can get a handle on this, and they weren't. They're not going to receive any of this funding that was announced yesterday, some of it is for scientific research, and they make the same point. Look, it's all well and good, but until we know how bad this is, how big it is, how big it might get, and how how extensive it is. That that that and even what and Melanaus because we was saying, oh we still haven't got a handle on this. All these blokes are asking for some money so they can get a handle on it. So they can start to answer some basic questions that business want to know that the environmentalists want to know that, you know, trying to try and sort of tire riven around it, if you like, and put some definition around it. And the government still hasn't really addressed that. And I think that was a you know, I think, as Frank said in this call to you, that that's exactly you know, the shortcoming yesterday's announcement.
01:02:16
Speaker 1: Hmmm, Hey, phil ob he's never ever moment in terms of the GST. Tho are the famous lines used by John Howard before he went to the people in ninety eight and sought the successful mandate to bring it in. But it's pretty significant. So the PM yesterday said there is absolutely no way the GST will be going up.
01:02:36
Speaker 18: Yeah, it sort of takes a bit of the puff out of the productivity so called Productivity round table next next month, because if you're going to one of the things I want to talk about there is reforming the tax system, and you just can't perform the tax system unless you're prepared to look at the GST. Because if you want to find money to lower less efficient taxes like income tax and business taxes and things like that. You've got to find the day from somewhere else, and the easiest way to do it is just to wike the GSD up a bit. So and yeah, you would do that. You would have to compensate people on lower incomes for the sort of short term impact it would have on cost of living. But you know it's just labour just has this philosophical objection to the GSD. They see it as a regressive tax and they've never supported it. They didn't support it when it was brought in. I suspect, you know, if the States or ganged up and said old and we're all broke, which they are, you know, for the likes of Balanaoskis and Chris Mins, the ones who have some cloud and camera set hold on, we actually we wouldn't mind if it gets increased because they would get most of the day from it and made a case for it. You know, that could change, but it sort of shows that the government really doesn't want to go down that road at this productivity summit, and I suggest they won't do much on tax over and hit a few wealthy people.
01:03:47
Speaker 2: Again, do you anticipate feel any productivity driving policies of substance are going to come out of this talk fest, because I mean, we had the unions coming out in the last twenty four hours and they want a four day working week. That doesn't feel like this conversations tracking in the right direction, and more money.
01:04:06
Speaker 18: They said, if we're going to increase the productivity, that means profits are going through one a wage. Riz say, old, you've got to generate it first. The business community is like pretty united going in on this. They're basically saying that I just put in a shameless plug. We've got to put peace on in the fin today on all this. But how they got completely shafted to that Jobs and Skills summit in twenty twenty two when they all all these business people turned up only to work out this massive industrial relations agenda had already been preordained and was announced as the supposed outcome. So they're going to come into this one with eyes wide open, and their view is business that generates productivity, not the trade union movement. So this is their their show and the union should take a back seat. But yeah, I think the main measure that will come out of it, and it's already been announced and the government's already set it in train is to try and do this much needed reform of the environmental approval laws, which just a terrible light the lot of the environment's being destroyed and no produce can get developed. So this this act doesn't tick either box. It was meant to kick and the government failed to get it through the last time. But this time the Liberals say they're up to it, and last week Ken Henry, the former Treasury secretary, is now quite a passionate environmentalist city. If you can't get those development laws, you know you can't. You're not going to to build a critical mineral's mine or a wind farmer. You know the approval times and these things that you're going over two years now, and so that that would probably in terms of just getting stuff going, getting stuff moving, been able to build all the houses we need and you know, the economy, growing infrastructure. Just just fix up the development laws whilst you know, making sure we're not accelerating the destruction of our natural habitat. And I think that'll be the thing they'll wave around amongst other things at the end of it.
01:05:47
Speaker 1: How great stuff, there's always Phil and I hope, we hope you get out of the freezer scene on us. You know, you don't want to be disconnected from Murray for too long.
01:05:54
Speaker 18: He's a good bloke's I think they've just been a bit stung by the you know, by the strength of some of the stuff that's been written.
01:06:01
Speaker 1: Yeah. Funny. They spent in the entire election campaign putting up pictures on Twitter of dead fish, fish with three eyes and fish with three heads on account of nuclear plants. And since then we've actually had them in South Australia on account of something else.
01:06:15
Speaker 18: Yeah, exactly right, As I said, I just think I just think they completely under Yeah, they just underestimated it because South Theatrey is never really on their raidar not like the good old days when you had a lot of marginal seats and you know when John Howard was in and I remember the TiSER. We ran that huge campaign on the River Murray.
01:06:30
Speaker 1: And save the Murray and successful campaigns on the car industry, the tariff stuff in nineties ninety seven, ninety eight. Yeah, so alas the Darwin railing.
01:06:40
Speaker 18: Yeah there we built that.
01:06:42
Speaker 1: Hits some memories film Mississippi, right exactly.
01:06:48
Speaker 2: The old man Phil Curry, the political editor of the Australian Financial Review it David.
01:06:53
Speaker 10: Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
01:06:56
Speaker 2: Eight minutes the way if you'd like to win yourself one hundred dollars worth of Samtass seafood. Get calling now eight double two to three at double o double O. Time forray. Trial by jury.
01:07:04
Speaker 23: In the criminal justice system, all defendants are innocent until proven guilty, either by confession, plea bargain or trial by jury. This is one of those trials.
01:07:17
Speaker 2: Really simple jury this morning. Eight double two three double I was the number if you'd like to be part of it. Over the weekend, the Labor government in the UK announced that around one point five million at sixteen and seventeen year olds will be eligible to vote at the next general election there and then they're going to lower the voting age to sixteen.
01:07:37
Speaker 1: How many in the UK? How many of those one point five million will do you suspect will be rusted on Tory voting.
01:07:43
Speaker 2: I think their numbers are pretty strong in that demo. Eight double two three double o double O.
01:07:49
Speaker 1: I mean there might be some kid from eating called Quentin Huntington Smith. Yeah, talks like a South Australian young Liberal that the Tories will be happy to see that he's got his out of card. But as I reckon, for the rest of them, it's the hugest coup for labor doing this.
01:08:06
Speaker 2: So already in Scotland and Wales, I believe they've had it at the age of sixteen, So they're going to make it uniform across the UK sixteen year olds to vote. Would you like to see that in Australia? What should the voting age be, folks, sixteen or eighteen? Make your judgment now on the jury and someone who was on the panel is going to win themselves a whole bunch of seafood thanks to Samtas one hundred dollars worth. I spent one hundred bucks at Samtas, I reckon over three trips on four different meals.
01:08:37
Speaker 1: It goes a hell of a delay, it does. And I'll tell you what. For all the talk about cost of living, it is one of the few places where prices have not changed. I don't know how they do it. No, this is not a plug. We're just having a conversation about this. Like we've been in that four for sixty dollars deal read since our show started. I reckon, let's not talk about it too much.
01:08:58
Speaker 2: They might get ideas.
01:08:59
Speaker 1: Here a couple double I was the number bonus, would not do that.
01:09:02
Speaker 2: Sixteen and it's right, sixteen or eighteen? What should the voting age be? Should we follow what the UK is doing? Remember, if you're on the juror, you can expound on your thoughts or you can simply register it. Either way, you're in the running for one hundred dollars. Se seafood avout you. Let's get to some jurors now. During number one, the voting age in Australia sixteen or eighteen?
01:09:23
Speaker 18: Definitely eighteen, okay, thank you.
01:09:26
Speaker 1: During number one during number two, good morning, I.
01:09:29
Speaker 15: Think it should be eighteen because I think they're too young to make decisions.
01:09:34
Speaker 1: Thank you.
01:09:35
Speaker 2: During number two during number three, good.
01:09:37
Speaker 24: Morning, good morning, definitely eighteen. I had to wait till I was eighteen. They want everything instantly. The shame of generation instant coffee, instant this instant that they could wait like I had the only.
01:09:48
Speaker 2: Thing I equipal with you. I don't think they want instant coffee at all. During number three during number four, good morning, Hello.
01:09:54
Speaker 17: How are you?
01:09:55
Speaker 3: Definitely eighteen?
01:09:57
Speaker 1: Thank you, Jen.
01:09:58
Speaker 25: They're not allowed to drink until they're eighteen, though they shouldn't be able to have to stay m It.
01:10:04
Speaker 2: Does seem peculiar in a country where especertainly Australia, we're saying at sixteen, you're just old enough to get your head around social media.
01:10:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we're going to ban that, but I'll let your vote.
01:10:14
Speaker 2: It would seem old to say day, but the wide world of politics is now you're always exactly during number five, good.
01:10:20
Speaker 26: Morning, Good morning guys, how are we good?
01:10:23
Speaker 1: Thanks right?
01:10:25
Speaker 25: Absolutely not at Kingston today and I've got kissed in that age, s gree they have trouble trying to understand what they want.
01:10:31
Speaker 6: To do in the next to give their courses.
01:10:34
Speaker 25: And or going forward. Also perfectly done with those five teenagers the other day, you know, burn a house and orking it and then drive out the other of ten. So I just think they're not ready.
01:10:45
Speaker 1: Okay, thank you, thank you.
01:10:46
Speaker 2: During number five, During number six, sixteen or eighteen for the voting age.
01:10:50
Speaker 26: Look, I I'll go against the tide and say sixteen. I think that elderly people in nursing homes who are sort of losing their faculties are still allowed to vote, and some of some of the marketing that survived the term of office, and the sixteen year olds, I've got more skin in the game, so I don't know that that's an excuse necessarily.
01:11:07
Speaker 2: Okay, thank you during number six, and finally during number seven, good morning.
01:11:13
Speaker 6: Oh that's going to keep the jurors in the jury room a little longer. It's not unanimous. I'll keep it at eighteen, but with a caveat that there's a lot of people over eighteen who shouldn't have the right to vote either.
01:11:26
Speaker 1: Oh that's great. So what do we get six to one in the end? Yep, seven to one, seven to one, seven to one, an emphatic win for the status quo. Keep it at a saying I'm not worried about this current generation of kids were sixteen. I'm worried about what I was like when I was sixteen and thinking, you know, I was in no mental state to do anything that's sophisticated. But do you support it?
01:11:47
Speaker 2: No, I think eighteen is a reasonable I think you got other things on your mind when you're six there, when you're eighteen, you're you've left you've left school. That feels like the structured sort of system of the state bringing you into adult. Once you've graduated out of that, it's joable further study or whatever you might want to do. And it feels like you're you're at that point in society said you're a fully fledged adult. You have total agency over your decisions. And I think that's the logical point at which you should start being able to beep part of the democratic process. Because also if you can vote at sixteen, I mean you could stand for do we want a sixteen year old senator?
01:12:23
Speaker 1: We've got a twenty one year old one. Now we dout Australia, We certainly do.
01:12:27
Speaker 2: Do we have a price you give away with you ever gote hundreds of sef and you can just give it to a random number.
01:12:31
Speaker 1: Let's give it a during number three.
01:12:32
Speaker 2: During number three, you've got one hundred dollars worth of Semas seafood coming your way. We have got a big breaking at coming our way. If you want to hear from the premiere on the Algill Bloom and our interview with Murray what then you're gonna want to stick around. He's coming up next.
01:12:47
Speaker 10: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
01:12:51
Speaker 2: Seven minutes after right had a bit of rain of course over the last twenty four hours, just looking at what's in the gauge as we look at the clock. So we're about to rounded to the new twenty four hour period because it's nine am to nine am eight point six mills in the West Terrace gauge eighteen point four at Mount Lofty where it's been the wettest, and Roseworthy the driest, not even a middle rain at Roseworthy on what has been a day that in so many other places in Adelaide has been particularly wet. As we enter what is going to be a really wet cycle, knowing this weekend that we're likely to get someone in the order of forty mills of rain. That's what Mark Anlac at the Weather Bureau told us yesterday. Looking forward to heading to the East coast of the United States after eight point thirty today because Matt Hutchinson's going to be joining us on the program. He told us on the show earlier in the year about this idea. He had to walk the entire east coast of the US, and as you revealed a little bit earlier, David, he's had already a run in with a bear that would be.
01:13:47
Speaker 1: Camped right next to a bear, next to a bear's den. In fact, he woke up and I saw this thing moving behind a shrub and he went, what's that. It's a giant brown bear a great place, staring at me.
01:13:58
Speaker 2: No would be chatting with him about his adventures after eight point thirty today, but right now it's not for breaking it.
01:14:07
Speaker 1: Well. The other side of the Algall bloom story following on from our interview at seven o'clock with the Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt for the first time since he came back from his break with his wife and kids, where you're joining the studio by the Premier, Peter Mallanauskus to get the state's perspective on what is happening with the Algall bloom premiere. Good morning, and thanks for coming back in. Can I start with a blunt question, and I don't want to sound rude or disrespectful. Have you had your sco my moment with this? No?
01:14:35
Speaker 13: No, I don't think that's right. I mean I've been keeping across this throughout the entire time, and I was wighing in the lead up to when we were going away, and the first thing I did yesterday and morning when I got back was to go out too the coastline and then go down and visit Sarti. So I feel really grateful in respect to the fact that the Deputy Premier acts as the Premier while I was away, and over the last couple of weeks, her and I have been in frequent contact and I think she's been handling the issue as professionally as anyone possibly could, and I'm very grateful for that.
01:15:03
Speaker 1: But have you reflected though on your leadership style as Premiere, because there is, rightly or wrongly, a public perception that there are some things that you have grabbed with both hands, and they are often of a sporting nature. You know. Walking out in the middle of the Adelaide Oval with Andrew Dillon saying we've got gathered around for another year, people go, Most people, including us, go, that's great. But have you led from the top enough on the algall Bloom Well.
01:15:28
Speaker 13: You know, But then there are a million other issues that I deal with every single week that I grab with both hands that represent major challenges, whether it be around the messtic violence, raw Commission, whether it be about confronting the challenge we've got with cooptera and had with Cooptera in Wayala, whether it be the work that we're doing currently on period, I mean, there's always something and there's never a good time for a premier to go away. And every single time. What I said from the outset when I became premier is that I won't go away over Christmas because a bushfire risk. The July school holidays are the time that I can spend a couple of weeks.
01:15:59
Speaker 1: With the kids. Just be clear, we're not knocking you for that, and far be it from us who have just come back from two weeks with our own kids overlapping the school holidays. A bloke needs a break, a father needs a break, that's fine. But even in the lead up to that, did you outsource this too much?
01:16:15
Speaker 4: No?
01:16:15
Speaker 13: I don't think so, because we've been getting updated at a cabinet level on what's been happening with the argall bloom for some time. And what people need to appreciate is there are a couple of first thing, it's an unprecedented event. Unprecedented event makes it very difficult for people to predict how to will play out. But the predictions that we were getting from the scientific assessments there was that we expected that over the course of winter that the algle balloom would dissipate as the weather called, as we started to see more rain, as we started to see more cloud cover, And of course that hasn't transpired in the way that was being foreshadowed, and that now raises other questions around the underpredictable nature of this algole bloom. What does that mean going forward, what does that mean for consequences for industry, and as that has become increasingly clear, particularly over the month of July. As a state government, I think, like I said, the Deputy Premier has been responding assertively, and I've certainly been doing that in the last couple since first thing I got back after two weeks off.
01:17:14
Speaker 2: The federal government has been lambassad for being tardy and laggards when it comes to showing a genuine interest in this. We put that to the federal Environment minister after seven but we need to establish something about timelines. Because he made this point to us.
01:17:27
Speaker 8: We managed to turn around that request within twenty four hours of receiving it over the weekend.
01:17:31
Speaker 2: He says that the state government only made a request for federal funding this weekend. Now we've been talking since February about this, and we've been speaing to oyster farmers who haven't sold an oyster in seventy five days. Has been months worth of economic disruption. Why was it only this weekend that a request was made.
01:17:47
Speaker 13: Well, a couple of points I back of that. First thing is as a state goverment, we're out of the blocks far quicker in respect to what we've done with state government resources and money. And we've done that with it for instance, fee relief for commercial fishes and charter operators and so forth. So in terms of state government resources, we have been out of the blocks rather quickly. In respect to our call on the federal government support, and this is let's be clear about this. We've been arguing, arguing and saying, you know, publicly that we think it should be declared as a natural disaster, and of course, should it be declared as a natural disaster, that then then invokes a whole range of financial supports coming from the Commonwealth. Now the komov has been reluctant to do that, and that is a point of difference that we have. My view, and I said this front on first thing yesterday morning, publicly when I did my first presser was this needs to be declared a natural disaster. Now up to this point, the commov hasn't done that, which then of course means we have to find an alternative means to be able to extract resources from them, namely at a consolidated revenue through a direct ask, and that's where we have written formally and subsequently been able to get that support. So the idea that we haven't been calling on the federal government to show support until the weekend, that's simply not true.
01:18:55
Speaker 2: So just to be clear, then the request this weekend was about an avenue that in getting money. That wasn't about calling this natural disaster, which.
01:19:04
Speaker 13: Getting money through an alternative source, and that's consolidated revenue from the federal government.
01:19:08
Speaker 1: When did you originally ask the federal government to have this declared a natural disaster?
01:19:11
Speaker 13: Then well, those conversations have been happening between the Deputy Premier and the Environment Minister for some time. And their challenge, and I'm not going to speak for the Common Molve, but their challenge is that there are very clear criteria around what constitutes a natural disaster, and this unprecedented event doesn't fit that criteria. Now my view is well, to be damned with the criteria, either change the criteria or find some other way around it, because the simple fact is, although this is unprecedented, it is a natural disaster. Over one hundred commoners coastline has been affected. Industries are being disrupted, businesses are experiencing downturn. Over four hundred species of marine life are washing up on the shores of our beaches, not just in metropolitan Adelaid but in other areas as well. If that doesn't constitute a natural disaster, I'm not too sure what does. But rather than sort of arguing the toss on the declaration, although our position is clear, we wanted it federal government support because frankly we need it as a state government. We're putting our hand in our pocket. We already have and we're going to We've got a decision before us at a cabinet committee, at an EMC meeting today, Emergency Management Cabinet Committee meeting today, and what we will be announcing today is yet more a second round of support from the state government and some of the details of where about.
01:20:28
Speaker 2: And the state government have made the point that there's a lot we don't know about this. We don't know it's long it's going to be around for, and therefore we don't know the level of support required and how long it's going to be required for. The federal government said yesterday the fourteen million dollars was a one off. Would you like to see some more ongoing support or would you expect them to be a part of the support going forward?
01:20:46
Speaker 13: Okay, I hope it is a one off, right, because if it's a one off, it'll be because the bloom has diminished or dissipated in the way that was originally being forecast back in March. But if this event continues, particularly into the summer months, the Commos should be absolutely expecting a call on yet more support from the state government, as we would be keen to provide support too. You know, the briefing another scientific briefing I got from Sadi yesterday. Naturally, people would expect that my questions around Okay, well, given that it hasn't played out in the way that was expected back in March, how confident are we about the way it will play out of the course of spring and summer. And the truth is, we just don't know there are any number of possibilities in terms of how this plays out from here. But the science is so raw and so you know, immature, that we just don't know what is likely to transpire over the months ahead, which is why, from my perspective, the state government's effort has to turn pretty quickly from how do we provide support on the ground now to how do we plan and prepare for a series of events that we just don't know how they might play out into the future.
01:22:00
Speaker 1: I must be I was struggling to understand the point that the federal minister was making about state waters versus yeah, we common off waters. Yeah, I.
01:22:10
Speaker 13: Share your frustration about that, if I'm frank about it. The look, state warters federal waters. There are technical lines that sit on a map for you know, bureaucratic purposes. But the truth is, you know, the nation's coastline belongs to everybody. And when we see a challenge of this nature. Let's take if this was, for instance, a cyclone, no one sits around and says, well, listen, when the cyclone is immediately on the coastline, that state waters, therefore its state government responsibility. What we say is right, oh, we've got a cyclone. It's a natural disaster. Everyone works together, let's get something done. That's the approach that is required here.
01:22:47
Speaker 1: Now.
01:22:47
Speaker 13: Look, I don't want to diminish the fact that we have got the federal government making a contribution now and we welcome it, and that forty million dollars will go a long way to making a big difference to some of the things that we think needs to happen pretty quickly.
01:23:01
Speaker 2: Do you our listeners? And I'm just looking at the text line at the moment, there's the sentiment is probably encapsulated like this. It feels as though when it came to this disaster and we got it is a disaster that everyone here, whether you're economically exposed or not, can witness. I walked on the beach the other day. Dead fish every wee. You have to tell your kids not to touch the dead fish. People. It feels like the federal government went, okay, request for assistance. Oh, it's technically not in our zone. Okay, we can when you do something it's an environmental disaster, oh says here that it's not a natural disaster like it Actually feels like the federal government went out of their way to find any technical reason not to get involved here is that how you feel about this.
01:23:48
Speaker 18: Ah.
01:23:50
Speaker 13: Look, I've made my views known pretty plainly, as I know the Deputy Premier has, and the point that we've been sort of ramping up rather assertively.
01:24:00
Speaker 2: Whatever you want to do in.
01:24:01
Speaker 13: Your terms of what your technical definitions, the simple fact is this is something that warrants support. It is a natural disaster. Whether it fits your technical definition or not, it is a natural disaster, and it's it's just so obviously self evident that it requires national support. And you know, I made pretty clear yesterday morning when I spoke to Minister what which is in advance of the federal cabinet meeting yesterday what our view was, and subsequently in cabinet they made a decision that we welcome. And look, it will make a big difference and people will start to see that in some of the detail that we're able to roll out over the weeks ahead of terms of where those funds will go.
01:24:39
Speaker 1: Peter Mellen ask us thanks for joining us this morning.
01:24:41
Speaker 13: My pleasure to.
01:24:44
Speaker 10: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast.
01:24:48
Speaker 2: Twenty three minutes after Ray. We've had a lot of texts this morning about the ol goo bloom crisis and our various government's response to it. Because you've heard both sides, and you've heard from the federal government've heard from premier, state government site, I must confess it is nice to be talking about governments taking interest in this issue. After four months it's been us and our listeners simply talking about it. So but you've got a sense of what both sides of this discussion have said about it, and indeed their own level of urgency. What are our listeners saying on.
01:25:17
Speaker 1: The text line, A lot of negativity to be honest about Peter Mallanauskus's comments comments like these, The absolute spin by media Malley is incredible on this. Others are still having a crack at the Fed's One here from Kerry says Minister Murray Watt should be renamed Murray w TF any thought of contacting the actual scientists who dealt with the outbreak. One here well ducked Mulley Malley as usual. A couple of people here saying that we went too hard on the premiere. Other people saying we were far too soft on him, and quite a few along these lines saying sorry, but the Premier is only now right on top of this because of the public outrage and few people referring to the thing I mentioned about scom and his Hawaii trip saying that they think that this was the premier's Hawaii moment, Others saying, well, there's never a good time to take a holiday, and at least he's on top of it now.
01:26:18
Speaker 2: I think that text is right. This is at the attention of both tiers of government because of public outrage. And it's because, as we said yesterday, every morning people send us send this program pictures of dead sea life on their morning stroll and so forth. It is because of people calling it and having their say that things are being done, and governments are both at both levels has finally taking interest.
01:26:39
Speaker 1: But how shameful though that it's taken that long, well, particularly at the federal level. I spent an interesting few minutes yesterday just noodling around on Google Maps, like looking at so that the linear sort of the length of the coastline that is affected in essay, it's about one hundred and fifty kilometers, like if you could stretch end to end, And I was applying that on Eastern States maps, trying to work out what it would mean in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria. It is the equivalent of dead fish washing up from Brisbane to Byron Bay. It is the equivalent of dead fish washing up from Sydney to Naura. And it's the equivalent of dead fish washing up everywhere along the coastline between Melbourne and Lawn. Now, if that had been happening for six months, six or so months over there, they would have already had several Federal Cabinet meetings about it. Oh my goodness, none of this malarkey about well, actually that body of order is not really in our jurisdiction. You know, politics is the art of the possible. You do things because you're under pressure to do them and because the community is demanding that you do them. And that great point before too about the Kurrong Heritage listed the clear federal link to that. But you know, none of this. Can you imagine them saying, with all the National Party held seats in queens after a cyclone goes through inners file to Malley's point, well it's actually not that bit of land state owned. Yeah, like, no chance whatsoever.
01:28:11
Speaker 2: Hey, there's burning on the premier's plate because he now having returned to work after a break has also got to deal with the ramping crisis. The South Australian Salary Medical Office Association put up on their social media a pretty concerning photo overnight. We're going to put it up on our Facebook and YouTube live stream. Now I can count at least nine, maybe ten ambulances that are parked there, and the post reads sent this photo from the Lone McEwan Hospital about an hour ago, advising there are further nine ambulances on the way and they are pretty worried the photo. I mean there is no more bays left for ambulances to park in and there's twice that number that were en route. Bernadette Mulholland is the essay. Salary Medical Officers Association A Boston joins us now in five double a breakfast burned out. How did that situation play out? To your knowledge? What was the lol MAC inundated with even more ramping ambulances.
01:29:08
Speaker 27: Yeah, the answer to that that we were told is yes, that there was no reason why those ambulances weren't coming. And I guess what wasn't seen in the picture is that there's due parking bay, So there were some ambulances. We were told behind those ambulances that you actually see on the ramps, So it was an absolutely busy day for them at the Lye McEwan Hospital. And certainly we got similar photos that were sent to us by a colleague that was on the ramp at the Flinders Medical Center on Friday.
01:29:42
Speaker 1: So how would you rate the performance of the government because we just had the premiere on Burndette and we know that the obviously the algill blooms the story of the day today, But the last two weeks, the figures have just been terrible, haven't they.
01:29:55
Speaker 27: Oh, look, the figures have been really terrible. It's been a real, really busy time for all of our hospitals. In relation to what's actually happening. We were talking to a couple of the administrators yesterday and are talking about, you know, we've got the issue around flu and COVID all known that were coming to the state, but they are really worried that the preparation that was done wasn't sufficient to meet the demand. The other worrying thing that they said was that people are a bit vaccinated out for one of a better term in that really what's absolutely essential is that people continue to get their flu vaccinations, and also knowing that in the background patient and not just patients are sick, but clinicians are coming down with these lurgies as well, so high acuity presentations at the hospitals and just not the facilities available to cater for them.
01:30:53
Speaker 2: All more on the ESA Salary Medicals Medical Officers Association. Boss, thank you for your time this morning. I'll tell you what. Anecdotal evidence is not generally the best evidence. But cricky, everyone's sick at the moment, doesn't it feel like everybody's sick.
01:31:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a lot of COVID around too. We had, yeah, two of us at home, not me, but a few weeks ago we had two members of the family who had it. But equally prior to that, there there was flu going through our house that was worse than the COVID. H there's a lot. There is a lot going on, all right.
01:31:24
Speaker 2: Five to Blow News is on the way in a moment rough of the US East Coast, somewhere along that east coast where Matt Hutchardson is trekking, he is walking the entire length of it. He spoke to us before he set out on the journey and we're checking in to see how he's going.
01:31:38
Speaker 1: He's had it run in with a bear that he's going to tell us about next.
01:31:41
Speaker 10: David Penberthy and Will Goodings five double a breakfast twenty one minutes tonight eight double two three double O double is the number if you you call into the show, you can.
01:31:50
Speaker 2: Text us still on zero before eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. Have been doing Matt Hutchardson wrong all morning, saying he's been on the East coast of the United States. He's walking the entirety of the West coast of the United States raising money for educational scholarships for disadvantaged children. We had a great chat with Matt before he set off on that journey and said to him at the time, well, we need to check in with you, Matt, and he sent this video through. Should we play the audio? Have her listened to Matt? Who was you know, trekking along raising money West coast? Everything's going beautifully?
01:32:24
Speaker 1: Sprang out of Bed's camping spot. Where am I?
01:32:28
Speaker 28: Well, I'm still in this kind of bit of a face off with his bear. He's not aking aggressively at all, but his dan is just in there, and I was sleeping just here all night.
01:32:40
Speaker 2: So I've watched enough episodes of A Loan to know you shouldn't sleep near bear. Dens Matt, Good morning to you or good evening to you wherever you are on the West Coast right now. You survived the running with the bear, which we're glad to report.
01:32:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning lads, and thanks having me on your show. I've actually been listening via the app this morning and it's yeah, pulled the heartstrings a bit hearing about Adelaide and what's going on back there. Yeah, the bear was a bit unsettling, to be honest. That was in your Assemity National Park and yeah, I got out of bed, went for a call of nature, got out of my tent and heard this thing roar behind me. And it turned out that the night before i'd set up camp in the dark, not realizing dumb Aussie, that there was a bare den like ten meters from my tent. Yeah, if I were to kick the shir on and hit this thing in the head, the umpire would have called play on it.
01:33:29
Speaker 17: There.
01:33:30
Speaker 1: Oh, dear man, it's a pretty big looking bear too.
01:33:35
Speaker 7: Yeah, I must admit at the time I remained remarkably calm externally, but they say these things can be five hundred pound in you know their units though, Berendrick Kilo and look, they do rarely attack humans. But when you're ten meters from a massive predator like that, like it's They're just huge. It was unbelievable. And the fact that you just walk through the National Parks is just a remind of it. You're in the big wide wilderness and this is their house, not yours.
01:34:06
Speaker 2: So, Matt, beyond the bear, running with the bear. How far are you through your journey and where are you based at the moment?
01:34:14
Speaker 7: Yeah, for us to recap for your listeners, I'm walking the Pacific Crest Trail, So that's walking America from south to north. It's about four three hundred kilometers and I've done about seventeen thousand, seven hundred kilometers now. So California is just a big state. I mean, I've been walking for ten weeks and I'm only two thirds of the way through it. So I'm currently at a place called Echo Lake, which is if you think of California starting in the south, come in land from the west coast, you know, twelve hundred k's go up two thirds of the state and there I am.
01:34:51
Speaker 1: So Matt yesterday when we were chatting and we'll back and forth on WhatsApp. Some of the photographs and some of the other videos that you sent through as frightening as the bear was, the one that I found the most confronting was it looked like you were on a pretty much a forty five degree angle on the side of a cliff face in completely packed, frozen, slippery ice. And in the video you were watching your feet go left, right, left, right through this groove that had been I presume by previous walkers or cut through cut through the ice somehow, and as you said, one slip to the left and you were brown bread.
01:35:36
Speaker 18: Yeah.
01:35:36
Speaker 7: Look, it's been pretty for long. You know. I'm from South Australia, dry state, dry as constant in the world. I've had rualm with exposure to snow and ice, and look, I've really seen it all the past ten weeks. Started in the desert in the south and it was forty five degrees centigrade, you know, hardly any water, just oppressive. I could really nearly ended me. And then the next minute or next minute, as I say, you're up in the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, going through these hugely high mountain peaks that are covered in snow and ice, and even most of these climbs I've done solo, and just several times a thought to grab me, you know, Yeah, one slip and I'm dead. So yeah, it's been amazing just the height of these things. I mean that one that I sent you, Dave was four thousand, four hundred meters high, and I think Mount Lofty is probably around six hundred meters high.
01:36:27
Speaker 18: Lot about that.
01:36:28
Speaker 7: So just to give you the scope of some of you know, the crazy things I've been up to.
01:36:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that it looks very remind everywhere that you've been trekking, have you bumped into many locals and when you're telling them what you're doing, what's their response?
01:36:44
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I'm taking somewhat of a cultural and political biopsy of the US. And what I really love is so just for your listener's knowledge, if I need to get off the trail to get into a town to resupply, I hitchhike. So that's where I've met them most interesting characters. And you know, you just meet the most amazing people in chat to them and you get a real sense of what they do and don't like, you know, about the political views, how they view the world, whether they like the current president, whether they don't. It's been really, really interesting, and it's obviously a time of huge cultural and political tension over here at the moment, but largely they love it. I mean, I think having an odd the accent in the US is almost a license just just to go fall Steve Irwin, you know you can pretty much do what you want the accent.
01:37:34
Speaker 1: Man. I won't. I won't faithfully describe the photograph that you sent me of your feet that was confronting. How hard has it been physically?
01:37:47
Speaker 18: Oh?
01:37:47
Speaker 7: Mate, Bobby got me?
01:37:51
Speaker 1: Sorry? You're going all right?
01:37:53
Speaker 7: No, mate, I you know I cry and quantisaz as I've told you before. But I think you know I'm higher emotion on this trek. And it's like when you're hungry back home. You're tired, you're hungry, you're worn down. And that first six weeks in the desert, I had blisters the size of golf balls on my feet. I mean, these things should have had their own taxtile numbers are that big. It was so hard, and you know, I think we're not for the port back home and the cause that I'm walking for. I would have been back within a couple of weeks. Honestly, it's been that hard. I think the beauty, the scenery and the things that your viewers can see on social media probably just don't underline the physical toll this takes. And I'm walking around thirty to forty k a day at the moment I just looked on my garment. In the last eight days, I've walked two hundred and fifty klometers. Doesn't sound that impressive, but in that time I've done eight and a half thousand meters of elevation, and that's the equivalent of climbing up and down Everest. It's just it's brutal on your body.
01:39:04
Speaker 1: Is there something sustaining about it? Like do you you must have moments where you just I mean, even looking at that bear, that photo of the bear, do you just have moments where you just go, my god, how lucky you might have been in this world?
01:39:17
Speaker 7: Yes, around ten percent of the time. I think it's you know, the other night, I some of this huge mountain peak, there wasn't a breath of air. I'd pitched my tent. Life was just so amazing, and I felt so privileged to be there, same with the bear. Like once I got away, I was like, I'm awake. Now, this is just disincredible. But it's like most things in Last David, it's a real grind. But I'm just, you know, so determined to keep going for the cause that I'm pushing for, and so I think that has probably given me a bit more resolve.
01:39:49
Speaker 1: Well made, I'll tell you what, you've done better than I would have. I would have either stayed in Tijuana or I would have to the Napa Valley and gone to the hitching post for dinner and drunk as much zinfandel and cabinets like I've got my hands on. But you're you're a machine, mate, and it's a great, great thing, and we'll get you on again, Matt, because you Matt.
01:40:10
Speaker 2: Anytime you get you know, moments of clarity, you're at the top of a mountain about local South Australian issues. We'd love you to call in. You could text us, you know, you can send us.
01:40:19
Speaker 7: I've got a solution. I don't have a solution to the Aga bloom crisis, but I might have some ideas on ramping for Maale, Well, let's do that. But yeah, just and also if I may, lads, as you know, I'm raising scholarships disadvantage kids and if if any of your lessons would like to follow along on social media, if they go to big hike dot org they can just you know, click and follow my socials from there. But if anybody would like to make a little donation and help some of these disadvantage kids to hopefully get a leg up in life, it'd be hugely appreciated. You know, a little bit from a lot would would go a long way.
01:40:55
Speaker 1: Hey, Matt, so good talking to you, mate. You sound like you're nailing it and we'll stay in touch. One hundred thousand dollars already raised. As you said, Big height dot org is where you can support Matt Adelaide's own Matt Hutchinson man versus Nature, rattlesnakes, bears, you name it. But he's winning the battle so far. Good on your Matt.
01:41:15
Speaker 7: Also, Tamba, I want to join me. I've dropped fourteen kilos, so it's good.
01:41:18
Speaker 18: It's good way to it could do me.
01:41:21
Speaker 1: The world of good mate. Get a burger in your mate, Good good luck to you. Thanks for Jadding. Thanks Matt, Thanks again by.
01:41:29
Speaker 2: Matt Hutchison on that remarkable journey along the US West Coast raising money for educational scholarships for disadvantage.
01:41:36
Speaker 1: The thing with Matt, he's not some bear gruls guy. He's not some lifelong adventurer who he's a survival. He's a mild matted surgeon from the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, who's just gone, I'm going to go and do this like it is an awesome testament to the power of the mind and human will to just go. I'm going to insert myself in this completely alien environment with limited experience, and he's doing a great job.
01:42:00
Speaker 2: But a bloody great story. Do you have any parents or grandparents of kids getting driving lessons listening to the program. We've got at least one already, Quentin's text after the break, because hey, you, like many others, have discovered, it is damn expensive getting lessons for you to get your driver's license in Adelaide, and it's more expensive than basically every other capital city in the country. The average one hundred and twelve dollars ninety three second Canberra eighty four dollars. We're not just a little bit more expensive. It's a lot more expensive here. We're going to try and find.
01:42:34
Speaker 1: Out why a TA drive around in circles. Well, there you go.
01:42:38
Speaker 2: Eight double two three double double, Oh is the number if you've been through this Quentin has we'll get his text and then we're going to try and find out why it is so expensive here in South Australia.
01:42:47
Speaker 10: David Penberthy and World Goodings five double, a breakfast.
01:42:51
Speaker 2: Six minutes the nine. A lot of great texts coming through. Bob says he's paying one hundred and sixty five dollars for a driving lesson this Saturday. Quintin a little bit earlier told that he's got a sixteen year old they're paying one hundred and fifty dollars for a ninety minute lesson. He's up to fifteen lessons so fast. So you can do the maths on that somebody can not us. Well, that's that's why I said. Somebody's almost a.
01:43:11
Speaker 1: Million dollars, isn't it.
01:43:14
Speaker 2: And then I've got a text from someone say he's got twins and they're currently spending two hundred dollars a week on drivers lessons.
01:43:22
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be the thing with twins, every everything as a parent you complain about even if it's a crikie. You know, I got to get a pun out of blueberries, it's up to seven bucks again, or something like Well, if you've got the twins, it's fourteen dollars the blueberries.
01:43:35
Speaker 2: Just an economic wrecking ball. The reason we bring it up because Adelaide is more expensive than any other capital city. Charles Mountain is the ARIA Senior Manager for Road Safety. Charles, good morning, Why are we so expensive?
01:43:48
Speaker 6: Oh, that's an interesting point. There's probably a number of factors that play a lot of It might also come down to the availability of instructors as well.
01:43:55
Speaker 18: But you know, I would.
01:43:56
Speaker 6: Stress the point that although it may seem like a lot of money up front, bearing in mind, we're training people to be able to be good, competent drivers for potentially the next sixty or so years, or for ever how long they're capable of being able to drive. So it's a pretty good investment. And it's really important to get it right from the beginning because realistically you only get one shot at this with most people. To ensure that they get off on the correct foot, learn all the correct techniques as well, so I mean, one of the really important points were learning to drive is not just the driving lessons, but also the role that the supervising driver plays as well. So that's the licensed driver that sits alongside to help you build your hours. So very important that they build on the work that the instructor trains the student in to ensure that you sort of betting those key skills and then you can maximize the value from each lesson.
01:44:47
Speaker 1: But that's true in every state in Australia obviously, Charles. So what's your suspicion once your hunch is divide is so much more pricey here?
01:44:57
Speaker 17: Well?
01:44:57
Speaker 6: As I said, I think part of it is the fact that there's a limited number of instructors available, so it tends to make it more challenging. We did see coming out of COVID as well, in particular that there was a number of people who chose to leave the industry and the numbers haven't returned. So it can make booking lessons more challenging because there simply aren't the number of constructors that are available, so that unfortunately does tend to have an impact on availability and of course price. But you know, I still come back to the point that while it may seem quite a lot of money, and for a lot of people it is, it is a really good investment in the safety for the people you're learning or training to drive. So you know, we spend money on coffees, for example, in five dollars a day for a coffee. Doesn't take long to spend one thousand dollars a year on coffee. So the reality is, if I think you can put it into context, the lessons can provide very good value providing they're done in the correct way. And as I said, the learners have the opportunity to reinforce what they're taught by ensuring their supervising driver bills on those skills as well.
01:45:57
Speaker 2: Good Charles, thank you. Mike's called in with a comment on this morning you Mike, Yeah, Charles.
01:46:02
Speaker 4: Said it really well. My son is currently going through the experience of learning with the driving instructor. We started with one and that driving instructor said twenty he needs twenty upfront lessons made no sense at all. Flip ourselves over to another guy with great reputation. He's only had two lessons, he's done sixty hours and drives beautifully. He's now going to do what's called a clump because we invested our time with the driving instructor to make sure that we went over everything for the first three lessons that he did, and by carrying that through and making sure he understands what was taught, he actually drives beautifully and he's only due to have some parking lessons and then get his feet Yeah.
01:46:48
Speaker 2: Well done, Mike. That's some good advice for people too. Thank you for that. It's a fascinating issue. We're going to leave you with fuel watch this morning. It's better to be a member with RAA Road Service. The cheapest Dasil is at a dollar sixty four. That's really good. In fact, I think this is the first time in memory that the cheapest d's on the cheapest unleaded is the same price well dollar sixty four. The BPX Convenience Northeast Road Valley View the cheapest unleaded a dollar sixty four. You can get it at the United Grange Road, Flinders Park or the Mobile Commercial Road Shidow Park. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get RAA Road Service. We're out of time. Graham Goodings is coming up next. Enjoy your Tuesday day out of the rain, and we'll catch it tomorrow morning from six