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Speaker 1: Five Double A Summer Breakfast Matthew Pantennis.
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Speaker 2: So good morning to you, seven minutes past six o'clock on five A this morning today being Tuesday, the thirtieth of December, three hundred and sixty fourth day of the year. As we count them down, fireworks tomorrow night, all of that. Tomorrow is going to be a cool night. Twelve degrees now the overnight low heading into the first day of the year. So if you're going out, probably a light jacket would not be a bad idea. At twelve degrees. That'll be probably a little bit after midnight, but I don't think it'll be a lot warmer at midnight. So if you're out and about tomorrow night, kids, still up whatever, counting down to the new year, twelve degrees is the overnight low, so might pay to rug up. Coming up on the show this morning, Big show as always here on five Double A, the Breakfast team David and Will might be enjoying a break, but the news continues and we're going to bring it to you. We had Bill on yesterday morning talking talking about snakes that he had seen while taking a couple of cab fares out to Pariloui on Sunday, Sunday night, large snakes two two meters unreal. We've got Rolly Burrell coming on this morning to talk about the fact, well, it is snake's season. We're well aware of that. They do come out in summer. We know this. But they're around, and I think Bill's story is be on the lookout. He made the point that they were on the road. He was in a car a cab obviously, but if you're riding a motorbike or a cycle, bicycle or a scooter or a gopher, then your chances are probably not as good at avoiding the depending where it is and where you are and all of that. But they do move around, and Bill was saying they were heading to some houses on the other side of the road. Nevertheless, snake season, we'll chat about that. We'll look at the most popular baby names announced for twenty twenty five. Peace between Russia and the Ukraine. How about the Middle East at the moment, While Trump met with Voladimir Zelensky yesterday and spoke with Vladimir Putin, he is right now meeting with benjaminett Nyahu in Florida at marri Lago. So we'll talk to John Bruney about all of that. Caution on the road over New Year's harvest continues. There are heavy vehicles running around. Will speak with the grain producers of essay, we'll look at the story of homelessness in Broken Hill where a former convict from Yattla and an adelaide man is rehabilitated after spending time behind Barza. Now giving back to the community in Broken Hill with support for the homeless and looking after talking about snakes, looking after local nature and wildlife while traveling over the holiday period. All that coming up between now and nine o'clock. Your calls as well eight double two to three double double O. And of course so you can text O four four eight eight thirteen ninety five. Well, talking of peace in different parts of the world, Geet Trump is really angling for that peace price, isn't he? The Ukrainian president believes a peace agreement with Russia is almost over the line. Volodimir Zelenski in Florida for talks with Donald Trump and mister Trump conceding there are still a couple of issues standing in the way of peace in Ukraine. Mister Zelensky yesterday saying great progress has been made.
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Speaker 1: Anti point piece plan ninety percent agreed, and US U Greene Security Gurrante is one hundred percent degree, the US Europe U Greene Security Gurranty is almost agreed. Military you Mansion one hundred percent degree.
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Speaker 2: All of this taking places agreement. As Russia bombs Ukraine heavily, particularly over the weekend, just waves of rockets being fired in He's obviously trying to grab as much territory as he can before peace comes about in that region. Meantime, as I mentioned, Donald Trump kicking off a meeting with Benjamin Nettnya who at Mari Lago. Peace in the Middle East and the rebuilding of Gaza expected to be front and center of talks with the mister Netnya, who former advisor to President Clinton. Laura Schwartz telling today progress is needed right now.
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Speaker 3: Phase two is supposed to be wander away with the rebuilding of Gaza, Hamas putting down their weapons, the disarmament of Hamas, and also having a new government standout that's more representative. Those things have not.
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Speaker 2: Happened all right, So that's going on. They're still negotiating with Hamas, who is still effectively the government there. So in the Gaza strip, so interesting times China. No peace in this part of the world, it seems. The Chinese national broadcaster CNB, I suppose, has shown confronting images of warships at sea and Chinese soldiers on land preparing to launch mobile missile launchers. China's foreign minister says any attempt to stop what he calls China's reunification with Taiwan would fail. Taiwan condemning the war games. As BBC reporter Stephen McDonald files this report.
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Speaker 4: What this is is a dress rehearsal for two things. One is a blockade of Taiwan with these five different sections on a map, live fire exercises going on on all sides of the island, and the other is to prepare for an attack on that island.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's concerning. So no peace there in the imminent future, it seems anyway. It's peaceful now though. Off our coast, the latest hunt for the Malaysian Airlines flight MH three resumes today, as Georgia Condeck reports, it's.
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Speaker 5: Been almost twelve years since the plane left Kuala Lumpa with two hundred and thirty nine people on board. The Boeing Triple seven, now a new team of researchers is trying to work out where it went. Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will return to the suspected crash site in the Indian Ocean again today, after ditching an attempt earlier this year due to wild weather. News Corps says the search will resume intermittently across a fifty five day window. The company has specialist equipment for mapping, surveying, geotechnical sampling and salvage. Georgia Condack nine News.
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Speaker 2: All right, hopefully they find it. Put that mystery to bed. Gotta find it, don't we It's there somewhere. They know this from the pings that it was giving back every hour for however many hours it was in the air, And they know it's off the coast somewhere, and the floating debris that ended up in Madagascar across the other side of the pond there. So I got to get it, got to find it. One of the heroes of the Bondai terror attack says he couldn't sit by and watch the horror Unfoled Ahmed al Ahmed has given his first television interview to CBS since fifteen people were killed at the iconic location. He gained international recognition after disarming one of the gunmen and told CBS he acted without hesitating to think about.
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Speaker 6: To hear the kids and the wom one and all this and man screaming and asking for help and no one help.
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Speaker 2: He still has two bullets lodged in his shoulder, nerve damage in his hand that could be permanent. Meantime, the Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi continues to refuse a royal commission into the Bondai massacre, telling the fifteen families who sent him an open letter pleading for one royal commission would be too traumatizing for them, you think, PM, do you think it'll be more traumatizing than losing their loved ones and lying on the ground while shots rained all around them. Too traumatizing for them? That's insult upon insult, Isn't it? Perhaps more traumatizing for the Prime Minister in his government in allowing anti Semitism to flourish after an attack occurred. Just unreal, unreal, But there we are. Quarter past six on five double A. The number eight double two to three double double O will be back after these words. Eighteen past six on five double A nineteen degrees almost twenty In fact in the city twenty five today are much cooler day than yesterday, where the temperature climbed right up. The house was hot last night, their conditioners on and trying to cool it down. Hard falling asleep when it's so hot. But that's where you have air conditioning. I suppose that's why it's there. If you're lucky enough to have it, and hopefully most of you do, make sure it's on. Keep cool when it's so hot, really important for your health, particularly if you're older. Few messages that have come in, Michael says, yesterday you're talking about road maintenance around Adelaide and the state. Mike Gut aches with road maintenance. When something is resurfaced, it's more rougher than it was before it gets new. Bitchamen, no one's inspecting the work. In most cases, it's terrible because they know. No one inspects where our money goes. For instance, on the corner of State's Road and Penny's Hill Road in the southern suburbs. Or when they shove Bitchumen in they just stopped the large area of filling. No roller taken off the trailer. Cheers Michael It's unreal, isn't it, so no one inspects it. Michael, you reckon to see what happens there. Regarding social media, Adam says, just with this ban in place for the under sixteens, it was easy for my nephew to bypass the ban. All he had to do was change his age on Facebook, screw up his face in the photo, take a selfie. They couldn't tell if he was under sixteen or not. All right, thank you, and Ron says, next time you've got Peter melanowskis on, ask him to fix pedestrian crossings over railway lines so the disabled can use them safely instead of having to join the crossing with traffic. Oh so, so, in other words, if you're in a wheelchair or a gopher, you go over the railway tracks on the road, not through the crossing. Seems the premier hates disabled using access cabs, says Ron. All right, so basically you want wider pedestrian crossings, I suppose, And they've got a zigzag around as a safety measure so people can hopefully pay attention to the fact trains maybe coming. But then are they on their phones the whole time? Anyway? Yeah, who knows all right better pedestrian crossings at railway crossings according to to run, thank you ron keep them coming. Through a University of Melbourne study. This is interesting. It's found listening to music in the car causes drivers to have less control. In simulated test, drivers were more likely to crash and have poor control over speed and stability compared to those who have the radio off or the MP three play or whatever off. But researchers found music is helpful when it comes to staying alert on long road trips. Now, how does that work? Because that would be contradictory. Why is music helpful on long trips and not helpful on short probably in a city trips? How does that's contradictory? But there we are Uni of Melbourne study. Now is there a go to song in the car? Trying to think what mine would be? Always love the bit of die straights? Back in the day playing cassettes, remember those days in the old Sigma or whatever, have the cassette deck in the car and pull out a cassette and slip it in, And how horrible was it when the tape deck chewed up your tape, which would happen occasionally. I don't know if it was the heat thing perhaps or or not, just the fact that obviously it all gets hot in the car. That would have some sort of long term damage. You would think on everything expanding, contracting, the tapes, the machine, all of that. But yeah, die straits back in the day. These days, whatever's on the radio, whether it's talk or sometimes music driving along, But I don't know about that crash thing. Listening to music. I don't think it matters either way. You know, you drive along whether you're listening to talkback news. In fact, you're probably more likely to crash with talkback because somebody's on there that makes you angry. You'd want to berate the radio, which yes, might happen in my car from time to time. But anyway, music is not terrible. There was I think the Mini guy, the guy who came up with the Mini minor Sir someone or other refused to put a radio in, trying to remember if it was the Mini or the Morris, but refuse to put a radio in because he thought it would be too distracting. A car just needed, he said, a speedo, a heater, and windscreen wipers, and that was it. The mister that was it whatever they had in the nineteen forties equivalent of that. But no radio, definitely, no radio too distracting for drivers. Can't have a radio in the car. Yeah, I mean there are people who can't go without music, can't go without having the radio off. It's too quiet. Sometimes sometimes it's nice switching it off and just I don't know, listening to silence other times, or you need it. This person says, I agree, keeps you awake and mind stimulated driving longer trips listening to music or talk. Yeah, I'm always flicking around, you know, particularly in the country you're searching for stations. I'm not big on listening to the phone list putting that through the car. I'd much prefer radio, and particularly if you're on a digital network through your car, as in DAB radio, where you and cars update with whatever's within range, and so you go to you might never hear Otherwise as you're traveling around. You drive with your eyes and brain, not your ears. This texter says. Mark says, cassettes get chewed up because of the heads on the tape player. Get dirty. There we go. Good on your Mark, thank you. Yeah, I agree with all of those you drive with your eyes and brain, not your ears. So it shouldn't matter, is your point. And I'm kinda with you because I just think big contradiction crashing in the city and it's good for you on longer trips. I don't really see that difference, I must say, but there we are. That's the latest research out of the Melbourne UNI. Meantime sport dietitians are highlighting the little known benefit of chocolate milk in helping to aid athletes' performance and recovery. Won't test for drugs either. It follows research showing chocolate flavored milk could help athletes perform up to twenty one percent longer in consecutive bouts of exercise compared to water. It also delivers an optimal carbohydrate to protein ratio of four to one, helping support rapid recovery following exercise. Several benefits of flavored milk compared to water and other sports drinks. Okay, so chocolate flavored milk. Imagine if it was coffee flavored like iced coffee, you do even better, wouldn't you? Potentially can't be the chocolate as opposed to anything else. What if it were strawberry? I don't know, but if it was coffee flavored milk, you surely perform even better because of the caffeine kick. But the little known benefits of chocolate milk, particularly helping aid athletes performance and recovery, Well, who knew chocolate milk is good for you if you're an athlete, probably not as good if you're not an athlete, you'd have to say. But if you are an athlete, well it could be could be the done thing, righty bit of action in the Southeast. In fact, couple of cases in the Southeast. Mitch Sarakowsky from seven years happened to be in the Southeast yesterday to view the outcome with Nick McBride. Mitchell is on the line. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Mitch, Good morning Matthew.
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Speaker 2: All right. Firstly, let's start with that Nick McBride arrested on the weekend charged with the domestic violence offenses and didn't get bail, spending new years behind bars.
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Speaker 7: Yeah that's right, Matthew, so MP Nick McBride. He arrived at the Mount Gambia prison late yesterday afternoon after his bit for freedom suffered a setback, and it's a far cry from his bowling con Murra Estate where he was rearrested on Saturday, charged with assaulting his estranged wife, A Catherine. It's at the prison Matthew where he remained until at least the six of January, pending a home detention report. And for a well to do politician Matthew used to public life and freedom, it's going to be a major adjustment, a big shot two noted out for his electorates, and with just weeks to go until this state election, it's not clear what his political future hold. But you have to wonder whether it still has any life less in it at all. But one thing's for certain, the sad state of affairs won't do his vote to appeal any good.
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Speaker 2: No, that's right. It's Troy Bell in Mount Gambia prison as well, because if he is the way it's going, they'll need a politicians wing.
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure what thought prison brought true bells in. I do believe it's Yatlers, Ah right, Okay, all right, but yeah, not quite sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay, no worries. Now, while you're down there in Panola overnight and you're still there obviously you're in Panola, now, I understand a major fire that broke out around two two thirty this morning in a building, and it has spread from there.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. So the Panola home remains under police guards following that fire. Cruise were forced to keep their distance, Matthew after a dangerous or what they say, a dangerous batch of chemicals was too volatile to approach.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: The fire broke out at the property on South Terrace just after one o'clock this morning. The home has been destroyed. It's still unclear whether anyone was in sight at the time or if there were any injuries, but fire caused. Investigators are now making their way to the scene to shed some light on what happened here early this morning.
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Speaker 2: All right, so they'll be I mean it spread to a paddock, and I guess they'll be monitoring that throughout the day for hotspots and everything else.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. There. Fire crews are currently on the scene, just as you said, monitoring those. The property is quite large, but we're what I'm looking at right now. The home is flattened, so certainly devastating here in Panola this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I can imagine people they're waking up to that. Maybe some were awake through the night. Is the home surrounded by others. Were there other properties you know obviously the paddock, but other houses nearby.
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Speaker 7: They're quite quite a fair distance right, a bit distance away. But you know, if this was happening early this morning next to next to your property, would have really concerned.
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Speaker 9: The would be concerned.
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Speaker 7: The property is quite large, it's surrounded by a dry and dry grass. So the firefighters did a great job to control the fire and stop it from spreading to other homes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, good on you, Mitchell. Appreciate the update, thank you and look forward to seeing your report tonight on seven years. Thank you very much, Thank you, Mitchell Sarayovski from seven in Panola this morning where a large fire, as you heard, destroyed a house hopefully no one was in it, and has spread to a paddock nearby, so really concerning cause at this stage to be determined, but chemicals there as well, so yet to see exactly what happened and police fire investigators will be on hand this morning to have a look at that. Right on six point thirty on five double eight, it is time for the news and when we come back, we're going to have a chat about being on the lookout for snakes. Snake season in South Australia twenty five to seven. Now on five Double A. We're the Bureau and police coming up in around ten to fifteen minutes from now. But yesterday morning, in this half hour I reckon it was close to seven o'clock. We had Bill from Richmond call in. Bill's a cabby and rings in regular lead of five Double A, and Bill talked about snakes that he'd seen on Sunday night as he was driving people from the airport. Two trips from the airport, coincidentally, both to Pariloui, one after the other. Dropped off, went back to the airport, picked up the next one. Where you're going Parilowis half Bill went again. But when he was there in that area he saw two snakes, two large snakes. One he said was two meters the first one, the second one a little bit shorter at about a meter and a half. I don't know about any better, frankly, but that's what they were. And concerning I suppose that they're out and about, but we expect at this time of year it's warmer. They do come out, they feed, they mate, they lay eggs, they feed again, they settle in for winter but they are out and about and everywhere and ROLLI Burrell, who we talk to often at this time of year. I guess, Rally, good morning to you. You've been seeing them, seeing them for a little while now, no doubt.
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Speaker 8: Yes we have.
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Speaker 9: Yes, it's pretty foot on now, so all the snakes are going into their houses to get cooled off. They don't like extreme temperatures what we've been having, so we've been getting a lot of snakes in their houses.
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Speaker 2: Unreal Where do they go in the house? They sit under a fridge or under a couch or something like that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, ul do I see what happens is snakes don't like temperatures over about thirty five they cook. So when people have got the air conditioners going and that's blowing under the doors and they're outside, trapped outside. See, they can't tell what the temperature is going to be that day, so then they will come inside to cool down.
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Speaker 2: Well, so the importance of keeping doors closed. Pet doors would be an easy access point, I reckon, Yes they are.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they quite often go through the pet doors.
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Speaker 2: So what's the best way to do with that? I guess you've got to keep everything shut.
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Speaker 9: Well, you do you do You don't go leaving your doors open at night when it's thirty six degrees during the day, they won't come out, they won't move. You won't see a snake out at thirty six. So then they start to move at night when it cools off. So if you've got your doors open, that's when they're going to come in.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right? Where are some of the odd places you found them around this summer in home? So I guess they'd go anywhere they could inside a place, just curl up somewhere and try and keep cool.
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Speaker 9: Oh, we got one in in the doll's house the other and the little girl was playing around with her little cigareines and things in the dollhouse and there was a baby one curled up in the doll's house.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 9: She was quite lucky.
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Speaker 2: She who spotted it, the girl or parents The.
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Speaker 9: Little girl did, so she went and told her mums.
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Speaker 2: My goodness, that's.
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Speaker 9: Snakes aren't, as I said many times, snakes aren't here to hurt us. They're terrified of them. Yeah, yeah, it's only when we mess around with him and dogs and cats go and play with them. They don't actually, you know, sit under on bush and so there's a human, they're going to get him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to keep down.
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Speaker 9: It's a shame they don't, all right, So.
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Speaker 2: Is it mainly Brown's at the moment, I spice it's all of them, the red belly blacks, and we.
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Speaker 9: Get the pygmy copper head up in the hills, which is a very small snake, and then you just get the eastern browns on the plains and the red belly blacks through the creek systems.
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Speaker 2: O the pigmy ones are they are danger as well. They venomous.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they're quite venomous. They're still doing a lot of work on them. They got three toxins that they carry, so they're quite a lethal snake. But they're very small snake, very shy. They're on the endangered list.
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Speaker 2: So sorry, I was going to say some some suburbs worse than others for catching them. Do you get called out? So, I guess around the foothills you'd get a lot, But they're everywhere else.
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Speaker 9: Snakes are everywhere these days. They just go through the storm water systems and pop up wherever they want to. People bring in maulch and firewood and stuff.
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Speaker 2: And that's where they love to hang out. It's under a pile of stuff. So the messages keep your yards clean, yeah, keep.
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Speaker 9: Yourselff all elevators and they do a proper baiting program with baiting boxes. And they only come in for one thing and to my so they don't come in for water. Everyone thinks they come in for water. I mean, where does the snake get water from in the desert?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They get the water from the food. They don't they they do?
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Speaker 10: They do?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Well, all right, any big ones around that you've helped repatriate, they all all.
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Speaker 9: Seem to be big this year. The season's really weird this year, like we never had a spring. Yeah, it's only really just started to take off now. I mean like it was really cold for three months and we got rob three months of that. Snakes have usually mate it by now. They're only just starting to mate. So the time they lay their eggs and the baby's hatch, which I don't think they will gain this year. Last year it was too hot, the eggs didn't have enough humidity to hatch, and this year I don't think they'll be hatching either, So it'll be two years that something's happened out there. But I mean it'll pick up the game.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, well okay, so so normally they have two hatchings, don't they over summer? But you reckon that might not even occur once.
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Speaker 9: No, it's usually Eastern Browns usually only clutch one, do they Okay? Yeah, the Western Browns, I've known that they've clutched three times. Really, that's sort of out out right out in the middle of Australia. The Western Browns. We don't get them down.
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Speaker 2: Here just as well. I mean we've got enough as it is of the ones we don't want. They're out there. What do you do with them, Ronnie? You take them out to the bush somewhere? Let them go.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we let them go in sensible places, you know. Like I used to have stickers on my car and I don't have them on there anymore because every time I want to go for a week, because I'm in the car all day. So if I want to go and have a week, someone I put up and say, what are you doing? Made You're lett the snake go? And I said, no, mate, I'm having a Wii. We get accused of it all the time, but we don't we do it in the proper areas. Yeah, they've got to go within you know, two to three k's from where we catch Oh really yeah, I don't just go past the playground on the froze.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, something like that. I wondered if you took them out to I don't know, somewhere between for arguments, sake Wakery and Blanchetown or no.
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Speaker 7: No, no.
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Speaker 9: So if I catch something at Mount Compass, it's it's got to go somewhere around Mount Compass. But I don't put it on farms and drawings. Usually it's usually government lands and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: That's where it belongs to.
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Speaker 9: A right, like if I catch a red belly up here at Mountcumbers, I'll probably put it in my ponger Dan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, and it's still within it's it's sort of territory, more or less familiar terrain. Yeah, all right, really interesting. So they're out and about the messages. If you see one, obviously, you know, keep your distance, see where it goes and give you a call. Yeah, definitely, good on you mate, Thank you, happy to email, Thank you, Rolly Burrow, snake catchers, Adelaide and there to help if you've got one in your dollhouse. For goodness sake, imagine that the little girl playing with a dollhouse and there's this baby brown curled up inside. That is full and scary, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Ugh.
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Speaker 2: I've seen them out in the wild. But and photos, you know. Down at North Haven, I remember someone put a photo up of a big eastern brown just next to the playground there along the esplanade. But there's a lot of scrubland between there and the bushes. As a kid walking through that scrub land on the path, mind you, not through the bushes themselves, there was a huge brown. I haven't forgotten that. I would have been about eight or nine, curled up under a bush next to the path. It was massive. It would have been meters long too, at least it was just so big and enjoying the sunshine or the shade, I suppose under the bush middle of the day, just curled up there mining its business. So I let it do that. But they're there through that scrub and really anywhere scrubby. I walk right up to a red belly black once on the Waterfall gully track up to Mount Lofty, thinking who's left a strip of tire across the track and it wasn't until I was probably even half a meter away from it. I thought, nope, that's a snake, and I'm back right off. And it didn't care. It just sat there in the sun, half on the path, obviously absorbing heat. But they're out there all right, but particularly in those areas, but in summer well, as Rollie said, they're looking for somewhere cool to go, like your house, Wow, Doll's house, that is scary. Quarter to seven on five double, around twelve to seven now on five double A. Let's check in with the bureau with a much cooler day on the way. Daniel Sherwin Simpson is the duty forecast.
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Speaker 11: Morning Daniel, Good morning, Matthew.
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Speaker 2: All right, so what did we get to yesterday in the end, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: So it was a pretty warm one yesterday in Adelaide we got up to thirty nine point four, so we just didn't crack the forty, although a bit further north up at Parafield they managed to get into the forty. So the forty degree was around in plenty of places, including up in the northern suburbs, but we didn't quite get there. But we've seen that call change come through, and it's going to stay a whole lot cooler today, only up to a maximum of twenty five degrees due to these quite cloudy skies and the southerly airstream coming in, so it will be a little bit blowy today as well, but I think probably generally even with that wind about probably a more pleasant day, as I think people are maybe a little bit sick of their heat. We will see these sort of gustier winds continue overnight, particularly if you're sort of in the eastern suburbs or kind of on the side of the Lofty Ranges facing towards the city, so you could get some wind overnight and that wind stick around till tomorrow. Temperature is going to stay relatively till will tomorrow, twenty five degrees by the time of New Year's even midnight, we're generally looking at fifteen degrees in the city, so fairly mild, a little bit cooler up in the lofties, but shouldn't be too bad for the American.
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Speaker 2: All right, And we're going to see a return of the warmer weather in days ahead.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we are going to see a slight warming, but we won't spike up as much as what we saw yesterday. So generally looking at sort of low thirties as we get into the later parts of the week, not jumping up too much, but yeah, plenty of sunny summer days. Temperatures are a little bit above average, but not you know, any absolute scorches coming through in the next week or.
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Speaker 2: So in that perfect warm zone.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, decent enough beach weather, but not melting your face off or anything like that.
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Speaker 2: Beautiful, can't wait. Good on you, Daniel, Thank you, And are you on tomorrow?
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Speaker 11: I'm off tomorrow. I've got one day off when I'm back on New.
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Speaker 2: Year's Good on you. Well, Happy New Year to you from now years.
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Speaker 12: Happy to ye, Thank you, Good on.
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Speaker 2: You, Daniel Sherwin Simpson at the bureau. So some pleasant weather, and certainly today after yesterday's scorch at twenty five, so it's fourteen degrees less than what we had yesterday. Remember the days and people always say when I was a kid it was so hot, it's because of days like yesterday. I don't think it was thirty nine every day of school holidays, but there were certainly warm days in it, and yesterday an example of that. Twenty five today and that's probably about the average for summer. The police have had a warm night overnight in dealing with the people and Senior Constable Jenny Horvat on duty at Sapole Media this morning. Jenny, good morning to you.
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Speaker 13: Ye, good morning. Is Jhen Collin and Jenny Hallvack the weather?
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Speaker 2: Oh it says Jenny horvatd on on this so sorry. Who are you?
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Speaker 13: I'm Jen Colanan, Jen?
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Speaker 2: How are you Jen Colinan?
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Speaker 11: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Good, that says Horvat. You shouldn't want to change your name.
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Speaker 13: I could do the weather right. It might actually be a bit more exciting than having to tell people of South Australia that crimes happened.
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Speaker 2: Oh I know, I know, but it has happened. And a woman arrested after lighting a fire at Modbury last night.
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Speaker 13: Yeah that's right. It was just after seven thirty last night. Police and fire crews were called to Reservoir Road after reports of a fire in a garden bed. MFS swiftly extinguished the blaze, but it managed to cause damage to a nearby building, so patrols searched the area and located a thirty six year old woman from Para Hills in possession of a lighter and a fuel canister. So she was arrested for arson and hinda. She's had a bail refused and will appear before the Adelaide Magistrates.
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Speaker 2: Caught today alrighty and a teenage drink driver out and about on the roads.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, unfortunately we get disappointed every time we have to do these. But it was just before midnight last night patrols spotted a Subaru SUV on Goodwood Road at Colonel Lake Gardens and stopped the driver and did a mobile driver test. Now that nineteen year old man's from Andrew's Farm produced a reading of zero point two three one, which is nearly five times legal limit.
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Speaker 2: Unreal and he was.
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Speaker 13: Also disqualified from driving. Oh wow, So he had his vehicle impounded and he's been issued a further twelve months instant lots of license. He's going to go to court a later date. But again, we're just so disappointed that the message isn't getting through, especially to our young people. There's no reason that they don't know that you can't drink drive and nearly five times a limit you could barely walk.
00:35:30
Speaker 2: I know, that's unbelievable that reading that is so high. And Dan there's a nineteen year old doing just unreal. And Jen, I know you can't comment, but I've sat in court so many times where somebody loses their license and the magistrate says, if you're court driving, you run the risk of going to jail. I don't know what percentage of them do, but here's an example. With that range of drink driving. This kid, I'm sorry to say, deserves some time behind bars, deserves to lose his freedom for a little while, because well, he's an idiot and he needs.
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Speaker 13: To learn how you actions have come to.
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Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and we deliver on that too seldomly, I think. But anyway, thank you, Jenny callon. You don't want to give the weather, do you?
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Speaker 14: No?
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Speaker 13: Probably, so we'll do that tomorrow.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thank you.
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Speaker 12: Bye.
00:36:19
Speaker 2: Laurel at Christie, Hello, Laurel.
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Speaker 15: I'm talking about snakes. I lived down in South gift Land, down the place Tall Dale Murder on the wrong taggy Loge, and it was alive with Tiger Snake. You wouldn't go out your front door without taking the You used to have a wire and I used to trusts around a very thick pencing rule and you'd always take that with you. And when they shunted the truck, the tracks off to go on, deciding the god would look up and look in the points. So snakes used to get into the point.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they would.
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Speaker 15: So the shovel for of hot hot ashes down and then they take to trade up and put the steam down. And then another day the gang there's a gain of four men used to do a certain length of.
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Speaker 16: Track.
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Speaker 15: Look after that. And I was sitting on the station door set my husband with one of them, and he said to the boss next to him, stop hitting my leg. He said, I'm not touching you. And the snake coming up between the.
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Speaker 2: Two on Wow, my goodness.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Oh, and that was alive. You just couldn't. You couldn't. The kids couldn't walk home from school. The farmers used to ring the kids home for us. And because you could see where they've been across the road. It was just alive with snakes.
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Speaker 2: Goodness me. And you know in sandy areas when you see how I think tiger snakes do this as well, do they not? Where they hide in the sand, They burrow into the sand and just wait for you know, a mouse or something to come by.
00:37:53
Speaker 15: There's no no sand there all bush and around everything like that.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 15: Oh no, so I know all about snakes.
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Speaker 2: Goodness me, Laurel. That's that's frightening. And tigers are quite snakes are quite deadly, aren't they quite poising?
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Speaker 15: And then I get up into the big lot of high you'd have you or your high you stacked out the front there and the snakes to get into the height, I have to be careful when you took a mile off high out.
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Speaker 2: Wow, living your life like that, my goodness. But she got used to it, just yeah, yeah, crazy, Good on your Laurel. Thanks for the stories.
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Speaker 15: Okay, thank you.
00:38:36
Speaker 2: Have a good day. Five to seven. Imagine imagine that a dodging snakes at every step almost and there's a snake on the seat between the two blokes at the railway station. Goodness me, seen any around Adelaide apart from Bill at Paralaloui the other night, two of them about an hour or so apart hour and a half maybe. But if you've seen any and where were they, let us know? Because they ate this snake's season warmer weather, and okay, they might not like thirty nine degrees in terms of being out in the sun. They can't regulate their temperature, which is why they come out early. I remember driving to Bury once. It would have been October and it was a warm day and left early in the morning, sort of just around this sort of time. And by the time we got to Bury two and a half whatever hours later, sun's up, it's ten, ten thirty. The amount of snakes that were on the highway just baking it in, just warming up. It was early. It was a long weekend in October in fact, and going back some years now, quite some years, but they were just warming themselves up on the side of the road or right in the middle. Sometimes. Heard a scary story once from a guy I worked with who was driving along and there was a snake in the middle of the road. He could see it for one hundred and ten k's, oh, that's a snake. He'd seen them before. But as he got right up to it, the snake is reared up. His window was closed, and the head of the snake is right there next to him. I mentioned that big snake. Obviously, that's keep your windows closed as you drive through snake country. Ah, dear, they are out there and they're not looking to hurt you, but you want to be making sure you know where your feet are going. That's for absolutely sure, because snakes being snakes, don't like being stood on. They don't stand for that very much or very well. Yeah, three minutes to seven on five, double A five, double A breakfast. David and Will away having their their break I'm here filling in for this week and next apart from New Year's Day. Get a sleep in then, which is nice, But the next two weeks you've got me here and then another week of mornings to come. Still to come on five double A breakfast. Over the next half hour, we will talk about the most popular baby names announced for twenty twenty five, and is it possible for peace between Russia and Ukraine and the Mideast peace dealers way talks underway right now as well, I should say, and talks underway right now between benjaminet Nyahu and Donald Trump at Marra Lago in Florida where they're thrashing out all the bits and pieces to go with that. So we'll have a look at those two issues in the next half hour. Lots of room on the call board for you eight double two to three double O double. Oh you can always text O four four eight h eight, thirteen ninety five. Send an email as well on air at five Double A dot com dot AU News on the Way at seven o'clock six past seven and on five Double A. I hope your Tuesday. Yes, that's today, Tuesday, the thirtieth of December. Hope it started well and continues well. It started well because you're tuned to five Double A. That's a start I see. Police have arrested yesterday a couple of people in the Riverland who allegedly stole Christmas presents from a houseboat. As I understand it, it happened on the twenty first of December. Cabin cruiser. In fact, no less mordered old coperium was entered wrapped present stolen from inside electronic gear fishing equipment. Police yesterday arrested a thirty one year old man from Mrook South to the twenty year old woman from Renmark West, charged with theft and remaining custody. Police able to recover the stolen items, reuniting them with the cabin cruiser owner, who I'm sure is now passing on belated Christmas gifts to the people they were meant for. But good work by the coppers there, finding the people responsible for that breaking into a houseboat for goodness sake. Meantime, no luck looking for a woman in the far North around ander Muka or she's from and Mukha. Trisha Graff last seen in rock Spy Downs on the twelfth of December. Her vehicle, a white twenty twelve four Territory, was abandoned unable to be driven near Blue Dam, east of Andermuka. It was found now two weeks ago thirteenth of December Saturday. Police have conducted an extensive search ground, aerial and specialist dive teams in the area around dams and unfortunately she hasn't been located. Undertaking further aerial searches, including yesterday around Blue Dam, and police obviously hold grave concerns for her welfare, particularly in the hot temperatures up that way. So hopefully she is found somewhere, Okay, sheltering somewhere, or maybe you know, she's living somewhere and doesn't even know people are looking for her, but they are so Trisha Graff, Hopefully she has found safe and well. The list of popular baby names, it's an annual occurrence this time of year where the top ten boy and girl names have been released. Sad to say, Matthew, which used to make the cut back in the seventies and early eighties, is number one. No longer does. I don't know that Andrea does either. But the Consumer and Business Affairs Minister is Andrea Michaels. She is on the line season's greeting minister.
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Speaker 17: Good morning, Matthew. I don't think Andrew ever.
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Speaker 2: Has no right. Well, there's a few Andreas around. You're not on your lonesome there. But anyway, what has made the cut?
00:44:32
Speaker 17: So for girls, the number one name is Charlotte, and that's the second year.
00:44:35
Speaker 18: In the row.
00:44:36
Speaker 17: But we've seen for Oliver thirteen years straight late.
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Speaker 2: Number one, okay, and there's the female equivalent. Olivia is up there as well, isn't it.
00:44:45
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's number three in the girls as.
00:44:47
Speaker 2: Well, with Eiler in the middle. So the kind of traditional names, aren't they? You know, names that go back in novels and time.
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Speaker 17: You know, we've got Hazel and Amelia and Elsie if that. We do have some older traditional names in there, but we are missing names, like you said, Matthew, and Sarah's and Emma's and Emily's that were you know when I was growing up, that was the popular name.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they were Michaels, Peters, John, They were all really popular. And I don't know a lot of that is biblical, I suppose maybe in origin, but they were certainly very popular names back in the day, weren't they. And these there's a Harper in the list's what that's fourth for girls, Hazel, as you said, Amelia and Violet. There's some tradic Daisies up there at number nine, and Ruby and Lily at number eight, so you know, they go back forever. And the boys, if we have a look at those, Oliver, Noah, Henry, Leo, Theodore, Levi, Luca, Charlie, Elijah, Jack and Oscar as the top ten. So they've been names that have been around now for a good decade or two I suppose, floating around there.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, definitely for the last sort of decade or so.
00:46:11
Speaker 10: I know.
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Speaker 17: I have a sixteen year old. His name is Charlie and that was actually quite popular, becoming quite popular when I named him, and that was sixteen years ago.
00:46:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, we keep these records, I suppose how long have we had them for? For decades? Now I can recall the name, you know, certainly Matthew was up there back in the so I said, the seventies and eighties. So that's fifty odd years ago almost. And yeah, I suppose we've got records going back time immemorial.
00:46:37
Speaker 17: Well, since we've had a first test of marriages and been issuing birth certificates, that's where we get the data from.
00:46:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long we been doing that for? I suppose by early days of South Australia, Yes, I.
00:46:47
Speaker 17: Would say, So, I don't have a date. I should actually get the date of the first birth certificate in South Australia.
00:46:54
Speaker 2: When would we have started? I suppose when government started, even maybe eighteen fifty six, it would have been registered from then.
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Speaker 17: I suspect our system was probably in the nineteen thirties.
00:47:04
Speaker 2: I guess here, yeah, a bit later, there we are. Do you reckon parents look at this this sort of list and pick their names from there, or maybe you know from relatives that have got kids already, and so I like that name, So you know, if we have a kid, we're going to call it that? Is that how it works?
00:47:20
Speaker 17: I would say, Sony, you know, I think you know names like Oliver. You think Oliver, Oliver Twist, You think you know, I'd like a baby who's going to go up to be a good kid. You know, you kind of pick those sorts of names, I guess. And if you see other children around and coming through families or friends that you think, oh that is a cute name, yeah, probably you know where they get them from.
00:47:41
Speaker 2: I reckon if you went Oliver twist, you might have a baby that grows up saying please, ma'ma and dad, can I have more? Can I have that?
00:47:47
Speaker 17: Maybe you don't want that, but it's right up.
00:47:50
Speaker 2: There, isn't it. So and Charlotte obviously you think of Charlotte Webb immediately, so Charlotte's web. So there we are all right. Good on your minister, Thank you for your time.
00:48:00
Speaker 17: Thanks Matthew.
00:48:01
Speaker 2: That's Andrea Michael's Minister Consumer and Business Affairs with the baby names list of most popular baby girl and boy names. And you know we're talking for girls. Charlotte only ninety five, so it's not huge numbers. Ninety five baby girls called Charlotte, ninety three called Eiler, seventy six called Olivia. For boys, it's well, maybe there's more boys than girls, but one hundred and twenty two brand new Olivers over the last twelve months, one hundred and eight, Noah's one hundred and five, Henry's ninety seven, Leos, ninety four Theodores. Then it drops away to seventy seven, Levi's, seventy six, Lucas, seventy five Charlie, So that's all very close, and Elijah tied with Charlie Jackson seventy and seventy oscars as well, So I don't know, I do the math sew Many's at couple of one hundred three four hundred in the top ten, but there'd be lots of others as well, obviously don't make the top ten. But interesting, all right, baby names? Would you look at a list like that? Or how would you name? How did you name your child? Traditionally in European families, and this falls away these days, but the boys get named after if there's two boys, it's the two grandfathers from the couple, the two dads the couple's dads, and same with the girls the mums. So how long that continues into the future remains to be seen. But that's the way a lot of Southern European, Greek, Italian, et cetera, and others name their children. So the names keep going, but not always, not always. It's not a rule, you don't have to, but it's just a mark of respect for the parents, really and the grandparents of the kids. So there we are, Robert says, breaking into a houseboat. Could we see you? Charge of piracy?
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Speaker 7: Are?
00:50:02
Speaker 2: He says, go you rob good one. Don't mind that at all. You never know, never know. It is quarter past seven on five, double a, seventeen past seven on five, double a, nineteen degrees now twenty five, the top of cloudy day, but the sun trying to trying to break through. It's certainly up. You might not have seen a lot of sunshine this morning, but it is up and trying to get through the clouds. But twenty five it's going to be warm, just nice, really perfect after yesterday's thirty nine point four that we climbed to in the afternoon yesterday. The talks between Donald Trump and Voladimir Zelenski indicate that peace is well. I was going to say at hand, almost at hand, it's probably more accurate and at least on the doorstep, it would seem. But will Russia play along is the key question in that at the moment, Yaho is with Trump at Mari Lago. They're talking about the Middle East, but let's start with Ukraine and doctor John Bruney, founder and CEO Sage International on the line. John, good morning to you. It is going to come down to Putin agreeing, isn't it.
00:51:16
Speaker 16: Oh well, it always has been the key factor here because you see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have a special relationship, and Donald Trump doesn't see Zelensky as anything other than an impediment to that special relationship. He sees Zelensky and Ukraine as the vassal state of Russia and rightful, you know, a rightful vassal state of Russia. And that's why again, you know, when we looked at the way that the press conference between Zelensky and Trump is quite illustrative because for those of you in the audience out there who saw it, you must have all seen the very peculiar body language between Trump and Zelenski. So you know, those kind of almost reverberations from that time that you know, Trump got really angry with Zelenski, those things haven't evaporated at all. You know, the two leaders obviously don't like each other. When you saw the press conference, that were kind of angled, they angled their bodies away from each other. Trump was always talking about the Russia Russia Russia hoax and sleepy Joe Biden, and as he does, he just rambles on about nonsense and it all has to do with him and how great he is, and of course you know, this is the greatest peace plan ever and blah blah blah. But effectively, the twenty point piece plan is just a paired back version of the twenty eight point piece plan, which were effectively Russian talking points. So Jared Kushner and Steve Witkopp are just basically carrying out Vladimir Putin's plan for peace. Now what does that actually look like, Well, we don't know, because, of course, just recently we've heard that Vladimir Putin has, or at least the Russian leadership has accused the Ukrainians of having to try, having try and blowing up the presidential palace in Russia with drones. We don't know how true that is, because the Russians tend to make a lot of accusations against Ukraine for whatever reasons. But the fact is that that seems to be Putin's way out of the negotiations because they will he'll claim that, you know, Zelensky is not a fair dealer, he doesn't really want peace. He's an aggressor. And look what he's trying to do. He's trying to kill me, you know, Vladimir Putin, how dare he? And I think that that's going to be the trigger for the Russians to effectively walk away from the peace plan they drafted for Donald Trump. I mean, it's it's it's amazing. Trump does look like Putin's soft puppet.
00:53:51
Speaker 2: And you know, the irony is as you say, Russia has certainly been bombing Ukraine in the last few days over the week and firing missile after missile waves of them into the Ukrainians. As they all talk piece, it's kind of insane. On one hand, all well.
00:54:07
Speaker 16: It's didn't worse than that, because I mean, we can sit back and say, well, you know, the Ukrainians are hitting the Russians, and the Russians are hit the Ukrainians, but the Ukrainians are actually hitting military targets and targets of the Russian economy that helped the war industry of Russia. The Russians are hitting the Ukrainian civilian population. So it's a different sort of war being fought between Moscow and Kievah, yeah.
00:54:29
Speaker 2: All right, that's that one. Now, Trump meeting with net Niyahu at Mara Lago, and I think just at the moment a media conference is about to get under weight. So they've been talking for about an hour or so, and the peace plan in the Middle East seems to have fallen behind schedule by some time. So where is that at.
00:54:51
Speaker 16: I hate to be a cynic. I seem to be the archetypal cynic on your show with regard to the international relations. So we're we're at is again. Net Now, who and Trump are best buds, just like Putin and Trump are, And Trump is effectively carrying out net Now, whose foreign policy with regard to his desires for peace in the Middle East. Now, net Now, whose designs for peace in the Middle East is not what you would imagine would be even remotely in the minds of peace in the Middle East for people in the Gaza Strip or in the West Bank or anywhere else that is not within the territorial boundaries of Israel. Net Now, who's towing very hardline. He's confident that he has the US president in his back pocket and Jared Kushner again, you know, the president's son in law is acting as a key diplomatic piece, you know, shuttling between Mara Lago and you know, Tel Aviv and elsewhere in order to try to ensure that there is not a flare up, not a major flow up of hostilities. But you know, the Israelis can keep on striking targets and in the Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, you know, the UN food trucks seem to have not been coming across the border in the way that was promised. You know, recently we've had Gaza hit by quite a severe flooding event, and of course most of the people living in tents, the refugees that be internally displaced within Gaza, all those tents have been either flooded out or blown away by the winds. So it's a pretty grim kind of situation. And if you think about stability, well, you know, good luck to you, it's not. And I think that one has to always bear in mind to every conflict there are two sides, and in the media generally we tend to favor the one over the other. And then there are all sorts of permutations to come from that. So you know, the recent Bond dig massacre, for instance, will cloud our judgment in terms of the way that we see the Middle East conflict. And that's just the way it is, you know. I mean, I'm not saying that it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that that is the fact and we have to deal with it.
00:57:06
Speaker 2: John, thank you for your time as always and your insights into that. I see Israel has awarded a peace prize to Donald Trump, just been announced at the moment.
00:57:15
Speaker 16: So well, I hope, Matthew, I hope it looks a lot better than the Fief of peace post. Does that look like something out of the zombie apocalypse?
00:57:23
Speaker 2: So there you go. Still, I don't reckon it's the one he wants. I think he's looking for one that starts with no and ends in bill.
00:57:29
Speaker 16: But that's what it is after anyway, your listeners.
00:57:36
Speaker 2: John, all the best. Doctor. John Brunei, founder and CEO Sage International, follows international affairs very very closely. The sticking point is territory. Andrew says, neither Putin nor Zelenski will compromise. And a text here from someone saying, I guess this guy doesn't seem to like Trump. At least he's bloody trying. Andrews says, federal royal commissions have been called for obodette veterans, suicides, deaths from the pink bat scheme, but not called for Australia's worst terrorist attack, despite pleas from many, including victims, families, AFP, busses, judges, barristers and many others. Surely it just has to be called. I'm not surprised families are now calling Albanzi a coward, says Sir Andrew. Text you're saying, no name, What are all the Muslim countries doing to help Gaza crickets? This one's saying. Trump on the verge of broken brokering an end to the Russia Ukraine conflict, Albanizi sending Australian Army trucks to Ukraine, has talked of sending troops to Ukraine, fueling a no one wins forever war stark difference in their approach to dealing with things. One text, you're saying, how could this government not hold a royal commission? It's disgusting. Elbow's running scared. There's audio of him being told what joy division means from three years ago. Then he walks off the plane wearing a Joy Division T shirt a couple of months ago. And on baby names, baby names in Greece, nicol Costa mat Theirs, thank you. Twenty six past seven on five double A News is on the way. We'll bring you the latest news, sport, traffic and weather. On the other side, we're going to talk about well taking more care on the roads, particularly over this period. It goes without saying Holidays, New Years, but if you're traveling to areas through the mid North the York Peninsula, Air Peninsula, the harvest is continuing. There are heavy trucks on the roads and from the grain producers of SA Brad Perry will talk to us about what that means for regional roads over this busy period. That is coming up on five double A breakfast right after the news. Twenty six to eight on five double A A double two to three double low double OW is the number I see. If you've got friends or rallies up in Broom in Western Australia, there's a severe tropical cyclone Hayley that is blowing up a storm. It's off the coast at the moment, but looks to be tracking right into the coast. Meantime, on the other side of the country, northern Queensland towns have been isolated livestock at risk. Is a record rain hits the outback, not from Haley, that's from whatever's going on up there, but to people gathering sandbags and everything else. So the top end of the country pretty wet at the moment. If you're down our end, well it's dry and hot at least yesterday, and more of that on the way, not to that extent, but looking at the forecast days ahead. In fact, right from Friday, we're into the low twenty mid twenties today and tomorrow. The first of Jan is twenty nine, and then it's into the low thirties every day through to Monday Monday the fifth, so four days around thirty to thirty two hovering. Its perfect really is perfect and perfect to go on a holiday, perfect to go on a drive through the country. But if you are going to grain producing areas mid North, South, the York and Air peninsulas particularly, then there are well it's harvest time and there are heavy trucks on the road coping with all of that. Brad Perry, CEO grain producers say, having a year to you, Brad goead morning, Matthew, So what should people be aware of?
01:01:38
Speaker 10: Yeah, so we've got harvest a little bit later in many areas than usual just because of the dry and the late rain. So there's a lot of heavy vehicles on the road and going to continue to be lots of heavy vehicles on the road through January through the school holiday period. So obviously we got a lot of tourists and people that are using regional roads during that period and they'll see the extra heavy vehicle movement. So we're just putting out of warning to be cautious and patient and make sure that everyone gets home safely.
01:02:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, so la cold the weather delayed the harvest, did it? Obviously? It did right through to October November.
01:02:18
Speaker 10: Yeah, we had a really really dry period right through until about June, and then we had late rains which really delayed harvesting and through that final part of the year. And so to pick the areas like the southeast are a few weeks behind where they normally would be, and there certainly our pockets right across the state where the harvest is still going on. So yeah, unfortunately, no Christmas for those guys no Christmas break, but I'm sure they're looking forward to getting the crop off. But we're going to see plenty of trucks on the road. And I've already been out and about myself and seen the frustration I guess from some drivers who want to get around heavy vehicles, but you know, it can be dangerous unless it's safe to as to pass. I think patience is certainly a virtue.
01:03:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Now. I know, for instance, on the Air Peninsula where the train grain trains discontinued now probably the best part of a decade ago, but there's been talk on and off about seeing trains come back because of deteriorating roads as a result of the trucks, and the Port Lincoln Council had issues with that, and you know needing funding and road repairs going on across the peninsula to beef up sections of road that had suffered over the last decade or so. So any talk of getting the trains back, because I know it was slow and the track needed upgrading as well, and there's money involved in doing that, but seems a much more sensible way than filling the roads up with big, heavy trucks carrying grain to and fro.
01:03:53
Speaker 10: Yeah, he spot on about the roads, Matthew. I mean, one of the challenges is that, you know the government's first federal unable to keep up with road maintenance bills. So obviously if you have more heavy vehicles and other vehicles on those roads constantly, you're going to need to increase the funding to keep them up to a safe standard. And certainly the government, we called for them to take a look at the rail line and the Efininsula and they did that, so actually did a study into options for extra grain export right across the epinential, so they're looking at at freight, not just rail but roads. But the evidential of the rail line is, yeah, it needs a lot of work and to get it back up the speed. So apparently the update last update on that is that it's at a business case stage, so they're putting together a business case state government, and I guess we'll be waiting to see what the outcomes of that are and next steps going forward. So, you know, I think it's important that we do have a mix of road and another other infrastructure to get grained two silo. But as long as at the end of the day, isn't additional cost to grow us to maintain it. I guess that's the biggest concern that we've had with it. But I think you certainly spot on.
01:05:15
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the roads, I mean they do take a pounding, and the heavier the vehicle is obviously the roads deterior rate quicker. And when there's you know, I forget the extraordinary number of large trucks rolling into to Lincoln around this time of year, but got the scores of them per day.
01:05:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, and a lot of them actually do have to go through, you know, quite busy areas that are built up, so you know, that was one of the things that they looked at was and some of the feedback going through was a general safety as well of taking trucks off the road that they have to go through regional towns, you know, just safety perspective. So particularly, you know, we've got plenty of tourists around exploring, exploring their backyard or it is exploring it, and you know, safety is a big issue.
01:06:03
Speaker 2: There's absolutely Or how's the harvest looking overall, I mean it's probably not going to be a record year given the late start, but looking stronger at least for farmers. Yeah.
01:06:12
Speaker 10: So actually over the last couple of weeks, I've been right across the stace. I've been visiting farmers right throughout the safe so I've got a pretty good picture on things, and in most areas it's looking like an average crop, so I think they're pretty worried when you know, with the dry start, but that finishing rain did help quite a bit. We had those rains through November, so probably looking overall, I think we'll get pretty close to an average, the five year average.
01:06:39
Speaker 2: That's good.
01:06:39
Speaker 10: Prices have dropped right off, so that's a bit of a you know, finally get to average. But yeah, a bit of the glosses it's going off.
01:06:47
Speaker 2: Okay, that's well, that's a shame. But at least, you know, average, that's got to be at least somewhat helpful, I suppose, and encouraging that hopefully the worst in terms of the dry weather over the last few years is behind us now and we might get some decent rains moving forward.
01:07:02
Speaker 10: I certainly taken average this year. The last few years have been really really challenging, so I mean asked just to return to a growing season where everything happens when it's supposed to happen. So when we get rainfall and timing and everything like it normally is, but we'll see.
01:07:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely good on your brad. Thank you and as I said, having new year to you and your team.
01:07:26
Speaker 10: Yeah, thanks for having you too.
01:07:27
Speaker 2: Good on your brad. Perry CEO Grain Producers essay on well, the holiday traffic meeting the harvest which is running a bit late this year for the reasons you heard, and they're calling for caution on regional roads during what is a busy period. But I would help a lot. I think if certainly on the Air Peninsula the trains came back, probably unlikely once once you cancel it. How many train services have been restored ever, not too many. Port Dock one killer meter that's one and working quite well by all accounts. But you know that costs fifty million dollars, so that's slowly fifty one in fact million dollars to return trains for a one kilometer spur line into the heart of Port Adelaide. Fifty one million, So good luck getting trains back to the Air Peninsula running up and down that that is a couple of one hundred k's and I don't know, maybe, but don't hold your breath either, because you know, infrastructure falls apart. Bridges need to be rebuilt, even little bridges, just one's over over trains, still a little bridge. It's got to carry the weight of a train that is itself carrying grain. It all costs money and the chances of getting trained back and trains back to carry grain. I mean, it makes perfect sense, should never have stopped. But once it does, it's very, very hard and financially restrictive to say, the las to get it back fifty one million one kilometer. Keep that in mind, Right sixteen to eight on fives, on our conversation about twenty minutes ago, regarding the talks Donald Trump, the US President has had with both Voladimir Zelensky from Ukraine and on the phone Vladimir Putin from Russia, and right now still underway the media conference with Benjaminett Yaho, both those meetings in Florida. This person on the text line saying, I wonder if the American Indians started a war to take back their land, would Trump just negotiate to hand it over to them in order to end a war? Well? Maybe, who knows. Maybe, Jane says, I'm so fed up of the politicizing of the Bondai massacre. My empathy is becoming diluted, and Andrew says. A few days ago, two gb radio hosts Suzi Woman questioned Anthony Alberizi about that resurfaced footage of him speaking at a pro Palestine anti Israel rally from his early political years. She pressed him about footage showing him at the Palestine rally in Sydney in the early two thousands. He deflected all her questions obviously favors aside. I don't think that's an unfair criticism, Andrew. That is pretty much how it is. And the words, the deflection just you know, he didn't deny it and said he has always supported Palestine, which kind of means yes, it was me. That's what I take into it. The word, you know, the words Anthony Alberisi and Tony Burke and Penny Wong have all been using. And I read this summer on the weekend. The sorry is not sorry we failed you, it's sorry, you're sad that this has happened. You know. The wording, the carefully chosen words, and I think people are very used to politicians and weasel words, and we can see through it. When it isn't sincere but the immense pressure that Anthony Albanezi is under continually. We've got AFP former AFP, We've got former judges, there are barristers, there's the families and the Prime Minister saying, oh, we don't want a royal commission because it might be too traumatizing for you. I mean, how insulting is that when you've lost your loved ones. Could it be any more traumatizing than that? For goodness sake, let's talk about this. It's an ongoing issue nationally. Michael Packy is of course national political editor nine Radio. He is on the line Morning pack and the Prime Minister remains under pressure to call a royal commission but not budging.
01:11:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, look absolutely right. Then he does remain under pressure, but he's not budging, even though the families of those killed in the Bondai attack are demanding a royal commission. He was asked at a press conference yesterday what he makes of a letter, an open letter that's been written to him and the government more broadly, about calling a royal commission not only into the attack but into anti Semitism, the issue of the hatred of Jewish people. In Australia and the concern is that there's been a rise in anti Semitism, especially over the last two years in Australia. But he's saying, no, there's no need for a royal commission. We're holding an inquiry into our intelligence agencies. That is, how intelligence agencies and federal police worked in trying to boil this attack and what they did and didn't do. Given that the attack did happen, and we know that one of the men that was involved in the attack was on an AZO watch list, and that's all well in good Matt that there is an inquiry into if there were any failures of intelligen and federal police authorities are more they could have could have done. There's no question that that needs. That sort of inquiry needs to happen. But to suggest that there shouldn't be a Royal commission more broadly into the issues that essentially led up to that attack, well, you know that is starting to become arrogant because we've got families, not only the opposition, you've got a high profile lawyers, ex judges, ex police commissioners all calling for royal commissions, saying that it actually does need to happen to try and get to the bottom of not only what happened a fortnight ago, but to try and come up with recommendations to start stamping out anti Semitism in Australia. So it'll be interesting to see how much the pre well, the pressure is building, but it'd be interesting to see the Prime Minister succumbs to that pressure or the government succomes to that pressure. Because one thing I've noticed about Anthony Abernezi since he's been elected in twenty twenty two, so he's coming into his fourth year as Prime Minister, he's very stubborn, Like I think that he's one of these people that he decides how things will go and even though there might be a swell of criticism over an issue, if he doesn't want to do something, he'll double down. And that's what he's been doing.
01:14:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, although you know, correct me if I'm wrong or if this is harsh, But it appears the longer it goes on, and these are not calls from certainly the opposition is joining in.
01:14:34
Speaker 16: But from a lot of people.
01:14:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. When you get the families, particularly demanding it and he's refusing, it doesn't look like strength that looks like he's running scared.
01:14:46
Speaker 19: Yeah, completely, And they're coming up with excuses day by day. The latest excuse is a Royal Commission would bring out the worst in anti semitism and that would add to the trauma of the families. But you could argue that, you know, a Royal Commission is designed to do a couple of things. It means that people that have experienced the worst of anti Semitism would testify and talk about their experiences, but you'd also have to maybe speak to some of the people that are perpetuating the anti semitism as well. That's the nature of a Royal commission to try and get to the bottom of what's going on and come up with recommendations. And I just think that that was a weird excuse that did come up. It was actually by the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke making that suggestion that the worst of anti semitism would be would come up as a result of holding a royal commission. You just think, well, that's.
01:15:42
Speaker 16: The point of it, isn't it.
01:15:43
Speaker 19: It is the point of it that you hear these really awful stories and that you try and come up with solutions for this sort of stuff to be stamped out or not happen again. So the other thing that I've also point out is when you hear the awful stories, if you feel that some certain things shouldn't be in public, you can't hold them behind closed doors. We're just the Royal Commissioner and his commissioner her commissioners listen to what's being said, but it's not being broadcast, so you know, there is still a sense of what's going on.
01:16:19
Speaker 16: So I don't know.
01:16:20
Speaker 19: I think at the moment it's just excuse after excuse as to why they shouldn't be one.
01:16:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how long that that can continue. I suppose you know, he's probably thinking the Prime Minister, if I keep resisting it, it'll go away.
01:16:34
Speaker 19: Go away. That's what I do think it will be, because they'll argue that they've called this inquiry or this snap review into the security agencies that's due to be out by April. I think that they're going to try and see if they can move on with other issues. Don't be surprised over the cooming over this month. He's saying that he's going to bring Parliament back in January, and that's to pass hate laws. The gun law and all those sorts of things, and so he's hoping that that will start becoming a bit more of a distraction. And then I reckon mat By around February or March, you're going to start seeing big announcements around around reform that they want to make to the budget and stuff like that. I think that you're going to start seeing announcements made on issues to try and you know, deflect these calls for oral commission and try and move the how would you say, try and move the topic or the debate onto other areas of that of other areas of policy, such as you know, the economy.
01:17:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, although you know every time there's well either another protest or another attack.
01:17:44
Speaker 19: Or people will be reminded.
01:17:45
Speaker 2: Even when the report comes out, that's right, all we'll be talking about is why isn't there a royal commission?
01:17:51
Speaker 9: Yep.
01:17:51
Speaker 19: Absolutely. So it'll be interesting to see if there's pressure that comes to bear on Anthony Alberenezi Robic, probably more from his inner circle, from cabinet, you know, that's probably where it would have to come to there. It's been definitely coming We know that the pressure has been mounting from outside and As we've mentioned, it's not just the opposition, it's the families and a whole bunch of other people that are really saying, you know what, this is the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil. It demands a proper inquiry in which people can see the light of day in what has happened here in a very transparent and independent way. And you know, this is a prime minister and a government which always bangs on about transparency. You know, there's a few examples where they don't seem to be showing that.
01:18:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, all right, pack we'll see where it goes. We probably won't speak before, but best wishes for twenty twenty six to.
01:18:46
Speaker 19: You, no problems, Good on your mate. Good you have a great twenty six and we'll speak then.
01:18:50
Speaker 2: Good on your mate. Michael Packi, who is National Political editor nine Radio, on the woes affecting the federal government at the moment. Texts on this that have been coming through over the last few minutes. A Royal commission, Rogers says, would expose the historic pro Palestinian position of Albow and many of his party Robert says, isn't it the adage never call a commission or investigation unless you know what the result will be. Let's the old Sir Humphrey Applebe line, isn't it from yes Minister? And that may be why Albo is resisting so hard. He knows the outcome already and it won't be favorable to the government. Look I don't imagine it will be, but stop giving us excuses like it'll be too traumatizing for the victims, as if anything could be more traumatizing than the loss of their loved ones while they sheltered around the bodies of people as bullets thudded into the ground around them. And you think a royal commission would be more traumatic than that? Come on, it's just pathetically weak. That excuse pathetically weak. We all know the real reason why Albo and his cronies don't want a royal commission, says Mike. It would expose the Labor government as compromising safety for Jewish Australians and wanting to shore up the Muslim vote in Western Sydney. Sharon says only reason Albo won't call a royal commission is because it'll drag into next election he won't get vote. See, people can see through it. Anthony Alberizi. People see through it and ah just unreal does your head In two minutes to eight o'clock on five double eight news is on the way and on the other side we will be talking about oh a few issues still to come. Love for you to join me on eight double two to three double O double OW. But we'll meet a former convict from Yattler who has done his time, he has rehabilitated, is now giving back to his community in Broken Hill with the support for the homeless, helping out there. Don Barns his name and we'll have a chat with him in a little while and also a bit later on in the program in the last half hour, how to make sure we look after local nature and wildlife while traveling over the holiday period. Have a chat with the National Parks and Wildlife Service manager down in the Limestone Coast, Nicholas McIntyre. He'll be joining me. We'll look at fuel prices as well. All that to come on five double a breakfast but the time now about a minute and a half to nine o'clock. If you've just woken up and joined us, turned on the radio, it's got the coffee going. Half your luck enjoying your holidays. Five and a half past eight, as Kendall said, currently nineteen degrees in the city. Here with you this week and next on five double a breakfast. A lot of texts after the chat with Michael Packey from nine Radio, our national political editor based in Canberra. Let me read some of these out as they come through. Bev says. Another of Albo's issues is unlimited unvetted immigration. John says, what a dreadful state we are in the most mediocre collection of federal ministers in my memory. I'm eighty Australia now reaping their misguided, inept even suspect ideological policies showing without a viable opposition democracy struggles. Andrew says. People took bullets for their kids and other people's kids. How could a Royal commission be worse than that? I'm sick of Albanezi's excuses. This person, says Matthew, neatly exposing the racism always lying below the surface with the texts he reads out putting the Muslim vote against the Jewish vote. There are many many Muslim Australians appalled by what happened. I don't disagree with that that's not the issue anyway, goes on. You seem to manage to separate the NSN nutters. Do you mean MSM mainstream media? Is that what you mean NSM? Not sure, national serial nutters. I don't know. From the anti government marches? Why not the same here? No argument. The majority of Muslims are wonderful, peace loving people. That's not the issue, never has been the issue. Of course they are. Of course they're reppalled, as the rest of us are repalled. The issue is why won't the government call a royal commission. I don't see what you're trying to say, frankly, Apart from many Muslims are repalled one hundred percent, they are one hundred percent because no one wants this but extremists and the government seems to trip over the words radical Islam and doing something about anti Semitism. This person says in the next text, everyone that wants a royal commission needs to email their local federal MP, saying they won't get your vote unless one is called. Michael says Matthew, or royal commission will make a lot of lawyers richer. I'm sure it'll do that, Michael, But is that a reason not to have one. We've had them before on I don't know about lesser issues being a fair description for things like robo dead or unions or banks, but we've had them. If not lesser issues, we've had them for certainly political issues. Well, if we can't have a royal commission for Australia's worst terror attack, then what is the point? What is the point in all those others? This person says, what a disappointment this labor government is. Can't see myself voting that way again on many fronts, all right, keep them coming in eight double two to three, double double, Tiffany, just to finish all of that, says, for people calling for a Royal commission on the terror attack and antisemitism, please join the queue. We're still waiting on a Royal commission on violence against women and deaths of women by their intimate partner. One woman killed every eight days, Thank you, Tiffany, and certainly an excellent point in that regard. Looking forward to this next chat with a man called Don Barron, who's the founder of Feeding Friends, not for profit Feeding Friends providing meals for the homeless. And the interesting part about Don is Donn is someone who has rehabilitated from a life of crime, served time at Yattler. Now I understand lives in Broken Hill and helping the homeless community there. Done. Good morning to you.
01:25:52
Speaker 8: Good morning, Matthew.
01:25:53
Speaker 2: Told me a little bit about your past. Done. So you went to Yattler and obviously committed some crime drugs or other.
01:26:01
Speaker 8: Yes, Matthew, I was convicted of large commercial quantity of a controlled substance and I received a five and a half year jail sentence for that.
01:26:13
Speaker 2: Well, all right, and serve that. Obviously you've ended up in Broken Hill and decided to get on the bandwagon about helping people in need.
01:26:24
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, Look, it was a long process getting out of jail. I couldn't get a job in Adelaide. I ended up becoming homeless, and then I phoned with my parents in Broken Hill and asked to move home, which I did, and upon coming home, I then admitted to not just because my parents thought I had just been selling drugs, but I was an addict myself. So my family placed me into a place to get better. I was there for about six weeks during that process, so I did mental health courses, addiction courses, but I was managed to secure myself a little flat to start getting things back together in my life. I've got a job and things like that. And then eventually after I was everything was good with myself and all those sort of things. I just happened to walk out of a pizza bar in Broken Hill here and see a man sleeping on the streets. So I sat down and shared a meal with him. I guess that was the first time I ever fed at homeless person. But looking back, I seen myself in him, and I just wanted to help that person.
01:27:38
Speaker 2: And it started from there. So how did you get to the point of founding feeding friends?
01:27:45
Speaker 8: Well, the next day. The next day I had a partner at the time, and we tooked a little bit extra food and we went out looking for other homeless people in Broken Hill and it grew from there. It grew. That was a couple of years back now. We also used to get a lot of help from the Salvation Army with vegetables and things like that. The local ABC put some things on the radio here. We had a lot of community support. It's grown so much now that we don't do any cooking as such, myself and my wife. It's sponsored by local businesses in Broken Hills. So every night a different business will cook for the homeless. Our volunteers will go and pick those meals up and then take them to a meeting point and the homeless can come and get themselves a cooked meal every night of the year.
01:28:41
Speaker 2: How about that? And how many people come together to make all that happen.
01:28:46
Speaker 8: Look, there's a lot of businesses that sponsor us every night. A couple of them do a couple of nights each But yeah, it's all come together. It's a good plan. We have a lot of volunteers through a organization that we all fall under now, which is called the Hope Center. We have a place in Argent Street, which is the main street in Broken Hill. The Hope Center opens twice a week to anyone in the public here in Broken Hill that's doing it tough. They can come and get surplus products. And we get those surplus products through places like Coal's and other shops, etc. That I can't dispose of a product or it's at end date, and we collect them. We take them down there and feel we can come in and get help.
01:29:31
Speaker 2: I suppose it's a sign of life in this country these days that there are homeless people everywhere. But you know, if you said there are homeless in Broken Hill, well I am surprised to hear that, really, because how do you end up in Broken Hill as a homeless person? Everyone's got a story for.
01:29:48
Speaker 8: Sure, Well everyone has a story, yes, but you know, at the same time, Broken Hill has limited housing as well, you know, so it's a bit of a fight for a rental and things like that. There are other aspects to it, such as mental health. Obviously drugs. You know, we can't excuse the drug problem, but that is that's a small portion.
01:30:08
Speaker 12: There's a lot of.
01:30:09
Speaker 8: Different reasons, you know, and as I know, I became homeless myself. If a person doesn't receive the right support, they fall through the cracks.
01:30:20
Speaker 2: And that's that's exactly how it happens around the country too.
01:30:23
Speaker 8: It is because on any one given night there's one hundred and twenty five thousand people in Australia who sleep on the street.
01:30:29
Speaker 2: It's unreal, isn't it terrible? How did you go over Christmas trying to feed people? Homeless people over the last well the week essentially just gone.
01:30:38
Speaker 8: Yes, So what we did on Christmas Day we partner with the Salvation Army every Christmas Day. We gained sponsorship once again. So I went around to different places that I knew and friends that I had, and we put on a big meal at the Salvation Army Hall. So we had soup and prawn cocktails for entrees. We had lamb on the spit with roast turkeys and vegetables for mains, and pavlovers and things like that. That wasn't just for the homeless, that was for pensioners. Anyone doing it hard was able to come and join us for a meal. And I think we catered for about one hundred people.
01:31:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good on you're don And I can just imagine how appreciative people are to get that level of care in in Broken Hill. And was there anything done before you came along? Surely there must have been.
01:31:33
Speaker 8: Broken Hill has Vinni's Kitchen which opens for a brunch. I believe it's about ten am in the morning. That's five days a week, and they close down over Christmas, etc. But feeding Friends is unique in a way. You receive a hot meal seven nights a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year. How volunteers sit down have a conversation because let's be honest, it's not just about the meal. It's about communication because that person may not have spoke to anyone all day. They might be down and things like that. So if we can just put a smile on their face, have a conversation and build their spirit up, it helps a person.
01:32:10
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I've done great work. That is fantastic and obviously helping so many people. As I said earlier, they must be appreciative. I imagine they are. Of course they would be.
01:32:20
Speaker 8: It's correct, they are appreciative.
01:32:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Hey, while I've got you in Yattler for that length of time and you get people, you'd know this colloquially saying, oh you know yet, let people go there, it's been done up. It's almost like being on holidays. I'm sure it isn't. What's it like?
01:32:38
Speaker 8: Joe is hard? Hard physically, emotionally, mentally, et cetera. Look, there's snow. Holiday can't.
01:32:45
Speaker 12: Let's be honest.
01:32:45
Speaker 8: It's prison. It's supposed to rehabilitate us. It's not supposed to punish us, so the government says. And it's hard, especially once you know you're on your sentence plan and things like that, and at the end, trying to get out of jail, trying to rebuild your life. And that's what it's all about, to get out and get back into society. We need more programs for prisoners who are leaving jail, to leave with a skill, to leave with a job, and to leave with housing for.
01:33:15
Speaker 2: Sure, and the rehabilitation part. I mean, obviously something worked there for you to come out and get your life really on training.
01:33:25
Speaker 8: Well not so much, Matthew, because I came out and I ended up homeless myself, with no employment and things like that. It wasn't until I came back to Broken Hill and other people helped me. People who's seen that. Look, this guy's got a good heart, let's help him out. One of those people my very good friend, Darren Broad. He taught me a trade once I come back to Broken Hill. So I worked for him and now I worked for his son in law, a carpentry company. It took a long time to build up those skills which didn't come from jail.
01:33:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there we are. So all right? Is there enough rehabilitation in your view? I'm sort of reading between the lines. I'm gathering you don't think there is no I.
01:34:08
Speaker 8: Don't think there is, especially for prisoners leaving the system. You know, back in the day, they used to have a lot of work gangs and things like that where they take prisoners to you know, to do small construction jobs and this, that and the other. I think that gives a prisoner a sense of responsibility, a sense of pride and things like that, and it teaches them some skills along the way.
01:34:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
01:34:32
Speaker 8: The government doesn't have the money to do that anymore.
01:34:34
Speaker 2: So you're using what you've learnt basically to survive, to make your own money and pay your way for renting everything else. Yes, yeah, yeah, And that's the way it should be in helping the homeless. In the meantime. Good on, You're done.
01:34:47
Speaker 8: If you can do that, and then you can give back to the community, the community will accept you and the respect is mutual.
01:34:52
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Patrick's texted and he says, what a beautiful story, and thank you Don for your big heart. Great to hear this type of encouragement when twenty twenty five bless you done and those supporting you, He says, So that's Nice's Patrick, Yeah, and Don, thank you for your time, lovely story, and keep doing what you're doing it. It's magnificent.
01:35:10
Speaker 8: Sure, Matthew, thank you and we'll talk soon.
01:35:12
Speaker 2: You've got a podcast page, haven't you that people can.
01:35:15
Speaker 8: Oh yes, sorry, yes, people can hop on Facebook. Our Facebook page is feeding Friends to double a oh to double eight. Oh, obviously being Broken Hill's postcode, but yeah, feeding Friends to double a do.
01:35:26
Speaker 2: Oh, good on your Don. Thank you for your time, mate, all the best. Thank you. Thank you. Don Baron, founder of Feeding Friends and find him on Facebook Feeding Friends and that number the postcode of Broken Hill, not for profit organization providing meals for the homeless. There to double eight. Oh, that's what it was. Good on You're done, lovely story. Nineteen past eight on five double almost twenty two past eight on five double. A couple of hours ago this morning, around six twenty or so, we crossed to Panola where Mitchell Saraovsky from seven who was at the scene of a major fire in the town. Danny Crozier is the regional duty commander there and I understand a house has been destroyed. The fire spread to a paddic or field next to the house, and cruz had quite a busy time of it from around one am this morning. Danny good morning to you. Thank you for your time.
01:36:19
Speaker 20: Good morning, thank you.
01:36:21
Speaker 2: What's the latest? What happened? Do we know yet the circumstances behind this.
01:36:26
Speaker 20: We're just waiting on fire calls to arrivee from Adelaide, which they'll conduct their investigation. But what's happened is we've got a structure fire which has spread to a shed and then has spread to a paddick just behind the shed as well.
01:36:38
Speaker 2: Okay, this occurred what one two am?
01:36:42
Speaker 20: How about ten past one this morning?
01:36:44
Speaker 2: Okay? At the time we spoke to the seven reporter news reporter who was there, Mitchell Seraowski, there wasn't any confirmation if anyone had been in the house at the time or or not. Can you enlighten us on that at all? Yep.
01:36:59
Speaker 20: So the house was vaking at the time of the fire, and the fire it server has caused an estimated value of see hundred to eight hundred thousand.
01:37:07
Speaker 2: Dollars wow, okay, and the cause yet to be determined. He mentioned there was a concern about chemicals in the house. Any word on that.
01:37:18
Speaker 20: So we've always got an inherent risk with me having fighting structure fires, especially in houses and shed We don't know what people storing their sheds, and obviously aerosols and other chemicals that you normally put in your household shed.
01:37:33
Speaker 12: And we've just got to take things.
01:37:34
Speaker 2: Cautiously, okay, all right, So the fire went to the shed and then to the grass around. Is the grass down there like it is anywhere through the Adelaide Hills at the moment, dry would have spread quite quickly.
01:37:46
Speaker 20: If so, We're lucky down here in Panola that it's still got a tinge green to it. If it was any further north, it would be much like the Ablat Hill jest.
01:37:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So now you're waiting for fire cause to work out exactly how this was sparked. But the house empty at the time at least that was good and well. Sadly the shed destroyed, as you said, seven to eight hundred thousand dollars damage. That's a lot of damage.
01:38:10
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:38:10
Speaker 20: So there is a classic car that was in the shed as well, which is a bumpy bu up a bit as well, and obviously shed in the country town has a lot of stuff.
01:38:20
Speaker 12: In it as well.
01:38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, any knowledge of the car for people that might be interested enthusiasts, Was it a holding forward something else?
01:38:28
Speaker 20: I believe it's a Morris miner.
01:38:29
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, sad one less Morris minor in the world. Good on your Danny, thank you for your time this morning, and we'll done to your cruise on duty through the night. No, thank you, Thank you Danny Crozier, who's the regional duty commander of the CFS down in Panola. This big blaze at around one am a bit after broke out, spreading to a shed there goes the Morris and then into a field. So Fire Cause investigators on their way down to have a look at that. Quite the blaze on South Terrace in Panola. The house was fully engulfed in flames and the fire had already spread. When crews arrived. They put the blaze out. Obviously they'd be hotspots they'd be monitoring, but the house completely destroyed and no one home at the time. All right, that's the latest from Panola. Twenty five past eight. Got a text here from Ron who says, if you want an idea how bad the roads are in South Australia, take a ride in an access cap. There's no chance you'll fall asleep. Yeah, it's like that, isn't it. Sadly talking about fires. I see the MFS have just put this out literally in the last nine minutes. South Australia is preparing to welcome the New Year tomorrow night. The state's fire services calling on the community to celebrate responsiblyle fireworks displays to license professionals. All right, can you still buy fireworks, you know, in places like Darwin? I don't know if you can. Maybe you can, I don't know anyway, Approximately thirty incidents caused by unlicensed fireworks or they come from somewhere over the last twelve months. Now, over between December one, twenty four and thirty one January twenty five. What's that thirteen months, a third of which occurred during the twenty four hour New Year's Eve celebration period, placing unnecessary strain on emergency services, increasing risk to community safety. Private fireworks unsafe and illegal. While they're popular New Year's Eve, using them without a license presents serious and unnecessary risk. They can cause severe injuries, burns, fires and fatalities. All right, So there's the warning from the MFS and CFS on dangerous or illegal fireworks. I mean, we used to use them all the time on Guy Forks Night, didn't we which move from October to June for common sense reasons, and it was only the spade of injuries really that saw them being banned. But they come from somewhere, and if you're ever up in the hills on New Year's Eve at around midnight, you see them going off, the illegal ones in just random spots. You can see the big ones, particularly if you're up high and got a view of the metro coast. You can see them at Glenelg at Semaphore in the city and then you see, oh, that must be Jet's Cross, or over there is I don't know, Burnside, and down there is Henley Beach and it's just one or two going up and you think, yep, they're illegal. So all right, good luck trying to stamp that out because people will still be doing it, but the warnings are there. Take care with the legal fireworks. We'll take a break eight thirty News on the way here on five Double A. On the other side, we'll talk about taking care of nature and wildlife if you're out and about South Australia over the next little while on hollid twenty six minutes to nine o'clock on five Double A, eight Double two to three double O double Oh is the number? Guy Forks Night was the fifth of November, says Geraldine. Yeah, it was, it was back in the day. They I do recall they moved it to the June Long June, Yes, June Long weekend because of the fire danger risk, which is great, and certainly it was held then as well. Bill McClintock says, Hey, Matthew, you bought any hot cross buns yet? Bill? I mentioned your surname. Oops. Hang on, Bill says Matthew, you bought any hot cross buns yet? No, Bill, No, not yet. But it will be almost criminal if they're not for sale yet, and I'm sure they are, because that's that's tradition now, isn't it Boxing Day? The shops open, well, not Boxing Day, because supermarkets don't. The day after the twenty seventh they open and you can get your hot cross buns. That's got to be the way it goes. I'm not a massive hot crossbun person. I don't mind them, but they're not the go to so but if it is for you, we'll enjoy, certainly. Don't mind the kitans chock chip ones. They're fantastic. Don't know if they're out yet, they can't be far away. Easter is the first weekend in April this year, someone told me the other day. So it's coming. It'll be here before we know it, as is always the case, David says, morning, Matthew. It's all very well and good to say prisoners should come out of jail and have access to housing and jobs. But if that was the case, a lot of people be going to jail to q Jump to get a housing trust house where rent at the moment is approximately one hundred and one dollars and a job. I've done jail. I know a lot of people who have, and it definitely worked for me. Part of the punishment is the struggle of having to rebuild from nothing. You don't want to do that again because it really is hard work. All right, thank you, David. Let's have a chat about taking a break and going on a trip around the state and looking after wildlife and nature while we're about it. Nicholas McIntyre is National Parks and Wildlife Services down at the Limestone Coast. Nicholas, good morning, Good morning, Matthew. How are you good? Thank you? So what's the message here?
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Speaker 9: Oh?
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Speaker 14: Well, look at this time of the year. We call it our peak visitor season here in the National Parks and Wildlife Service across the state, and of course our ranges will be out and about, servicing visitor amenities and interacting with people, educating them on the environment. But the other side of things is that you know, everybody can play a part to protect our precious parks. It's great to see people out and about and join themselves, and there's always just a few little tips and tricks just to make sure that everybody has.
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Speaker 16: A good time.
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Speaker 2: All right, give us a few.
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Speaker 14: Well, I guess you know, obviously what people are doing is they're going to interact with wilderness and appreciate the open, wild open spaces. And I guess what we always say is, don't see wildlife, just let them be native, but observe them and interact with them and take photographs, have a good time, take your rubbish with you, leave no trace, only footprints. Generally dogs aren't allowed in parks, but if you do want to take your foods for a walk, well then we've got a website which you can search for dog friendly parks and it will give you the various expectations around staying on the track, lengths of leads and say forth. We do strongly encourage that people stay on tracks that are established because it either prevents in some areas along the coast, it prevents coastal erosion, or it might be actually diverting you around a sensitive spot, either for cultural sensitivity, it might even be a little threatened orchard outcrop which is in that area. So that's why we have tracks established. Follow those. But also a big thing when you get to a park, pull up, look at the observer, look at the advisory signage. Quite often I'll give you the length of the trail, expect the duration and difficulty of the trail, or even things if you're on the coast, let your ties down just so that you get bitter traction on the scene. All those sorts of things help you have a good time. But most of them all enjoy the serenity. That's the number one rule and the nature that we offer here in our perks in South Australia.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that is the number one rule for sure. I'll tell you what you talk about sticking to trails. And when I went up to have a look at Operation Flinders up in the Northern Flinders area, there They told me about how when you leave an established track in a car and you drive over grasses and whatever that track, especially if it's repeated once or twice after you, somebody follows whatever, it takes years for those tracks to recover. You know, you see the flatten grass and whatever. You think, well, that'll be fine in a week or two bit of rain or whatever, But it takes years for tracks like that to recover.
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Speaker 14: For sure. Some of those environments have established over time and it takes a long time for them to re establish. And the simple example, I'm down here near the coast. We've got a lot of sand dune areas that have formed over many years, and the vegetation acts to help stabilize those genes. If we lose the vegetation gradually over time, the sand dune blows away with the winds. It takes a long time for vegetation establish more disturbance, and suddenly you've lost the journal system. And also, you know an area which was once upon a time quite pristine, So it does take a long time. Sometimes it might not even be possible to re establish if the underlying sands that have held the vegetation have blown away or been displaced.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicholas, I think last time we spoke, I think it was with you, we were talking about feral pigs that you were trying to track down through the Limestone coast there. Someone had let some loosen. They breed pretty rapidly and you were trying to rain them all in. Did you get them all? You had a few sill outstanding, I think last time.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm not sure where that might have been me.
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Speaker 2: Or somebody else. Landscape board.
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Speaker 14: Certainly if the several pigs out and about, we would work closely with the landscapeboard to track and try and remove those before they damage either private land holdings or our own parks, because they are very invasive and do a lot of damage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so, yeah, you want to get hold of them. They they're not They're not native, that's for sure. And yeah, of course the damage they do to other creatures that are native as they jump through and look for food and all the rest of it and track through vegetation can be can be quite devastating, that's right.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, And that's why across our national parks we try to participate in all those programs to reduce any threats to the natural environment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Good on you, Nicholas, thank you for your advice, appreciate it, no worries.
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Speaker 14: Nice talking to you.
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Speaker 2: Likewise, good on you, all the best for the new year. Robert, not on that topic, different topic here, says, if Santa watches your behavior all year, the year doesn't start till January the first, does that mean the seven days between Christmas and New Year are off the record? Asking for a friend, he says Robert, I reckon it starts December twenty six. Again, doesn't it. He might take the rest of Christmas Day off sleeping, but then he's watching, which is a bit creepy. Please repeat Don Barrett's podcast contact. Colin asks, yes, I can't, and I'll get you exactly what it is in just a sect because feeding Friends. Just google that Feeding Friends, Feeding Friends, put that in Facebook and you'll find it. And there's a postcode for broken Hill after it, which is two double eight zero for memory. But Feeding Friends just go with that. You'll find it. Colin, thank you. I think it was moved to May twenty four from the fifth of November. Being says, Oh, it could be. It'll certainly brought earlier. I seem to remember it around the June long weekend, Geraldine. But you could be right maybe, but May twenty four would not always have been a Saturday. Obviously that's the only issue there. Richard has called in from Shidow Park, did I Richard?
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Speaker 16: Good morning?
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Speaker 9: Hell?
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Speaker 5: Are you ye?
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Speaker 2: Good? Thank you good?
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Speaker 12: Matthew. This might open a can of worms. But a royal commission and we all know the saddest thing happened at Bondo. We all must admit that it was the saddest thing Australia has ever coped with. And I'm the next ADF personnel and that's very sad, all right. But the thing I'm ringing for today is a royal commission. Last night I watched count Affairs and this full daughter of the father who lost his life. Once the royal commission, a royal commission is only going to cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars. And if the New South Wales's government, we say, are going to do a royal commission, why can't the Royal Commission? What alban Easy is not going to have some of their staff members or their board members go to that Royal Commission from the New South Wales of the government and combine the funds. But a royal commission will only put up piles and piles of paperwork. And we all know that it should be a track in person department for these people who went to Singapore and did this training there to be assassin or shooters or thing should be watched. Then that money could go into that pot and be more Australian security thing. But a royal commission is only going to take a money pot and piles of files of paperwork on it on the table somewhere.
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Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. I just think if we have royal commissions for the things we have had in the past, if anything in this country deserves a national Royal commission, it is it is this and tackling anti Semitism. And you know, I mean, look, we've had royal commissions for all sorts and governments call them. Let's face it, they've been called in the past for political reasons because a government wants to kick a goal against a former government.
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Speaker 12: But then yeah, then why can't it can be combined with federal one and state.
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Speaker 2: Not to no, because they'll cost a found them. I know, I know, well, look cost New South Wales because it's their Royal Commission. But that's right, the you know, AZIO and other agencies would well I don't think it would stop them giving evidence to the New South Wales one, but they report to the Commonwealth. That's that's the death you want them. That's why you want a national one. I think.
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Speaker 12: Well, then those as O staff get exemption and are able to report to the New South Wales Royal Commission, and then.
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Speaker 2: It's there because you know what to with that you'd have And I get it if you beef up the New South Wales one. But this is where I think the New South Wales one probably isn't as necessary as a federal one because you apply the findings from the federal one right across the country, as opposed to the New South Wales one, where you'd have different states saying well that doesn't apply to us.
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Speaker 12: Well yeah, but that's where the whole problem is in. It's like the ADS and the Navy or the police force. Now we can't talk to the federal police because that's feduab plice. Right, come on, this is Australia, one country.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 12: I'll serve for one country, one person I've served, and there's other thousands of people who are serving for one person country Australia, and you're Richard. Have a great new year YouTube gaitful what you do and it's yeah, it's always good listening to five.
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Speaker 2: Double A love you listening Richard, Thank you, thanks, y bye. Got a text from Michael a bit earlier, Michael at Oakland's Park who says, I noticed you're not mentioned in five double as twenty six on air lineup. When will we hear you as you're very popular with the listener's having new year to you. Thank you, Michael, you two. I'll be around. You'll hear me, You'll hear me in news, You'll hear me filling in. I'll be around the place. Thank you for the text though. Thirteen to nine on five double A, eleven to nine on five double A Tony and pain them Hi.
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Speaker 1: Tony, good morning, Matthew.
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Speaker 2: How are you really well? How are you going good?
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Speaker 1: Thank you? Yesterday I was at t tre Plaza and now I'm beholding Cole's supermarket. What did they put it out? Hot coss bun?
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Speaker 2: There we go? How many pagets you buy?
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Speaker 1: I didn't buy any. I know in Audy stores they to them all year round. Really yes, audy stores to them all year real one, that's interest in having hot cossbunds all year round?
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Speaker 9: Just go down?
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Speaker 1: Is they doing more year round?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Fruit and bless and chop the chip and all of that.
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Speaker 1: What I saw yesterday at the cold store plaza, I think they were just fruit ones that they were putting out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, also you were talking about snakes before. Now, I used to work in the age care industry, and I'm talking about years ago. We had a snake at one of the nursing homes. I was under a patient's wheelchair near the kitchen and dining room, and luckily they had sliding doors. And the director of nursing that was acting in charge at the time come and got me and said there was a snake under one of the residents wheelchairs. So what I did was close the sliding doors between the kitchen and the dining room, opened the security door that went outside, and luckily I told the resident not to move. I just pulled his wheelchair back and there was only a baby bound snake was about eighteen months old anyway, when the snake actually came and caught it and said it had enough venom to kill twenty adults.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're pretty.
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Speaker 1: There was only a baby, so imagine if it was a pully grown one kill Yeah, but that's the first time I've actually seen a snake in person. Really, it was only a Yeah, it was only a baby. It was a brown baby brown. Yeah, I mean beautiful color. But yeah, I couldn't believe how much damage just a baby could do.
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Speaker 2: Twenty adults and they're poisonous at the minute they they're born. They're born with that there, so you know, you see it hat you can bite you and kill you at that point. Yeah, scary.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the story. See it, Bye bye, nine to nine. How about that snakes. They're out there, they're warming up and the weather is too. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get raa road service. Better to be a member with our road service. Let's check fuel prices around the place. BPX Convenience on Stebenheath Road out in the north dollar forty eight point five. That's today's winner. That's excellent. The BPX Convenience Plimpton Anzac Highway, corner of Cross Road up the top there dollar fifty five point five and the solo at Windsor Gardens on Northeast Road dollar fifty five point five, the diesel mobile Hillcrest, Northeast Road dollar sixty nine point five, and the mobile at Shidow Park Commercial Road dollar seventy five point five. So there we are, and use the RAA app or any other app to give you information on fuel prices near you shop around it and people ring up and say, you know, you see it up at some servos dollar ninety nine the peak price you'll pay for fuel at the moment, and people are there filling up. And it makes no sense when across a road or you know, half a kilometer away, if that down the road petrols at a dollar fifty, who'd be filling up for a dollar ninety nine? But people do. I don't get it. I don't get it. Julie from Blakeview on snake shi juels. How are you?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, good morning, Matthew. You know you've ruined my You know I love you, Matthew. I just would listen to you. Oh no, you know that you just runed my whole day from about seven o'clock this morning talking about snake Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sorry.
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Speaker 18: They are my biggest phobia in the whole world, and I dread this summer. Not that I go anywhere near like you're talking about going up into national parks and on trails and everything. There is no way on this earth that you would get me anywhere near a trail or anything where there's grass or whatever. I have enough trouble working for walking around suburbia. Just have this really bad snake phobia. Shopping, Yeah, I can't look at them on TV. I know every ad on TV that has a snake, so I'll turn it over before it gets to it. I can't look at them in a book, a paper, yeah. Yeah. And I had the shocking dream the other morning, and it was so vivid. I woke up and I was in a little deep sleep and I woke up shaking my hand because I have this not just not did I just get bitten by this goddamn snake. It was latched onto my finger. And I wake up out of this dream and I'm thinking I've still got the snake latched onto me. Oh yeah, if you knew my husband, just ask him my snakephobia.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 18: It's just so bad. And I've been like it all my life and it hasn't changed. It it gets worse as I get older. And you know, he said, oh, let's go somewhere where you can overcome it, and just pat one and I said, you got closing. And he was in a pet shop the other day and he came home and he said, oh, I just saw some snakes. Of course, I thought outside snakes and he said, no, no, no, I was in the pet shop and I said, oh my god. I said, I'm not going in that pet shop.
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Speaker 2: Would you hold a python that has not.
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Speaker 15: Matthew?
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Speaker 18: Oh no, no, I like I said, Matthew, I can't even look at them in a book a paper if I'm reading the Sunday Marcuse I always like to have a physical read the paper, Sunday Mail. And if I come across a snake in the paper lot, there might be somebody called one or saw one or whatever, and he's lovely photo looking at me, I have to call him and he has to come and take that page out and destroy it, get rid of it.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember, Julie, Back when we were kids, if you went to the Adelaide Zoo, the snake pit. I mean, these days it's all behind class, but you'd go to a pit and stand up on a little step and there was a stone wall and the snakes were in there. And I do remember that.
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Speaker 18: I do remember it, yes, but not me. I didn't look at any pit. And when we've been to the zoo, my husband's fascinated when we're both love animals of any kind, but you know, snakes don't bother him at all, and he likes to go and have a look in the snake house and I just wander off somewhere else. There's just no way, possibly under any circumstance, and I accidentally did. I went into the Nocturnal house, and before we went in, I said to him, now, will there be any Will there be any in there?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 18: No, you won't find no. No, because you're walking along on the start and they can't see. And I'm following this man with his little little kid, and the kids said, oh, I look, daddy, and I'm looking like you're nice, little fluffy or whatever, and the kid says, look, Dad, look at this, And of course I looked and it was a snake. Well, I screamed, didn't I My husband was about fall back and a sin as off screen. He said, oh my god, no, that's Julie in your off screen. So yeah, and I just ran outside and yeah, that's it. No, I don't know why, massive, but I've always been like it always will be. And then when you started talking about them this morning at about seven o'clock, great, that's a good way to start my day off. Massive.
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Speaker 2: I'll try not to do it tomorrow, Julie, please, and I will continue to listen to your Matthew. I love you too, Julie, thank you, thank you very much, and for the call as well. Coming up to around two and a half to nine on five, double A Pete says the people filling up at servos at the higher price of people who have a company cart and company fuel card from their employer. Rob says, years ago, I used to live behind the ABC building. One morning I saw a good size brown snake in the street there. As colins would, they can pop up anywhere. Patrick has sent me a photo of hot cross buns on shelves, and this person says. The reason baby snakes are so dangerous they can't control the amount of venom they pump when they're young. Right, I don't know if an adult can do at any what they ration it off? Do you think I don't know thanks for the text. Though, Bob says Morning Matthew in twenty five twenty six, a citizen's religious faith should not be the determining factor in deciding whether a Royal Commission is needed to determine whether there are signals highlighting a terror attack was imminent. The fact that Australian citizens were slaughtered by a couple of crazed individuals is more than sufficient reason for a Royal commission. Completely agree, Thank you, Rob. That's where we'll leave it. Thanks for your company, Stay tuned. Richard Pasco follows the news in a round about ninety seconds from now
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Speaker 2: So good morning to you, seven minutes past six o'clock on five A this morning today being Tuesday, the thirtieth of December, three hundred and sixty fourth day of the year. As we count them down, fireworks tomorrow night, all of that. Tomorrow is going to be a cool night. Twelve degrees now the overnight low heading into the first day of the year. So if you're going out, probably a light jacket would not be a bad idea. At twelve degrees. That'll be probably a little bit after midnight, but I don't think it'll be a lot warmer at midnight. So if you're out and about tomorrow night, kids, still up whatever, counting down to the new year, twelve degrees is the overnight low, so might pay to rug up. Coming up on the show this morning, Big show as always here on five Double A, the Breakfast team David and Will might be enjoying a break, but the news continues and we're going to bring it to you. We had Bill on yesterday morning talking talking about snakes that he had seen while taking a couple of cab fares out to Pariloui on Sunday, Sunday night, large snakes two two meters unreal. We've got Rolly Burrell coming on this morning to talk about the fact, well, it is snake's season. We're well aware of that. They do come out in summer. We know this. But they're around, and I think Bill's story is be on the lookout. He made the point that they were on the road. He was in a car a cab obviously, but if you're riding a motorbike or a cycle, bicycle or a scooter or a gopher, then your chances are probably not as good at avoiding the depending where it is and where you are and all of that. But they do move around, and Bill was saying they were heading to some houses on the other side of the road. Nevertheless, snake season, we'll chat about that. We'll look at the most popular baby names announced for twenty twenty five. Peace between Russia and the Ukraine. How about the Middle East at the moment, While Trump met with Voladimir Zelensky yesterday and spoke with Vladimir Putin, he is right now meeting with benjaminett Nyahu in Florida at marri Lago. So we'll talk to John Bruney about all of that. Caution on the road over New Year's harvest continues. There are heavy vehicles running around. Will speak with the grain producers of essay, we'll look at the story of homelessness in Broken Hill where a former convict from Yattla and an adelaide man is rehabilitated after spending time behind Barza. Now giving back to the community in Broken Hill with support for the homeless and looking after talking about snakes, looking after local nature and wildlife while traveling over the holiday period. All that coming up between now and nine o'clock. Your calls as well eight double two to three double double O. And of course so you can text O four four eight eight thirteen ninety five. Well, talking of peace in different parts of the world, Geet Trump is really angling for that peace price, isn't he? The Ukrainian president believes a peace agreement with Russia is almost over the line. Volodimir Zelenski in Florida for talks with Donald Trump and mister Trump conceding there are still a couple of issues standing in the way of peace in Ukraine. Mister Zelensky yesterday saying great progress has been made.
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Speaker 1: Anti point piece plan ninety percent agreed, and US U Greene Security Gurrante is one hundred percent degree, the US Europe U Greene Security Gurranty is almost agreed. Military you Mansion one hundred percent degree.
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Speaker 2: All of this taking places agreement. As Russia bombs Ukraine heavily, particularly over the weekend, just waves of rockets being fired in He's obviously trying to grab as much territory as he can before peace comes about in that region. Meantime, as I mentioned, Donald Trump kicking off a meeting with Benjamin Nettnya who at Mari Lago. Peace in the Middle East and the rebuilding of Gaza expected to be front and center of talks with the mister Netnya, who former advisor to President Clinton. Laura Schwartz telling today progress is needed right now.
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Speaker 3: Phase two is supposed to be wander away with the rebuilding of Gaza, Hamas putting down their weapons, the disarmament of Hamas, and also having a new government standout that's more representative. Those things have not.
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Speaker 2: Happened all right, So that's going on. They're still negotiating with Hamas, who is still effectively the government there. So in the Gaza strip, so interesting times China. No peace in this part of the world, it seems. The Chinese national broadcaster CNB, I suppose, has shown confronting images of warships at sea and Chinese soldiers on land preparing to launch mobile missile launchers. China's foreign minister says any attempt to stop what he calls China's reunification with Taiwan would fail. Taiwan condemning the war games. As BBC reporter Stephen McDonald files this report.
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Speaker 4: What this is is a dress rehearsal for two things. One is a blockade of Taiwan with these five different sections on a map, live fire exercises going on on all sides of the island, and the other is to prepare for an attack on that island.
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Speaker 2: All right, that's concerning. So no peace there in the imminent future, it seems anyway. It's peaceful now though. Off our coast, the latest hunt for the Malaysian Airlines flight MH three resumes today, as Georgia Condeck reports, it's.
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Speaker 5: Been almost twelve years since the plane left Kuala Lumpa with two hundred and thirty nine people on board. The Boeing Triple seven, now a new team of researchers is trying to work out where it went. Marine robotics company Ocean Infinity will return to the suspected crash site in the Indian Ocean again today, after ditching an attempt earlier this year due to wild weather. News Corps says the search will resume intermittently across a fifty five day window. The company has specialist equipment for mapping, surveying, geotechnical sampling and salvage. Georgia Condack nine News.
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Speaker 2: All right, hopefully they find it. Put that mystery to bed. Gotta find it, don't we It's there somewhere. They know this from the pings that it was giving back every hour for however many hours it was in the air, And they know it's off the coast somewhere, and the floating debris that ended up in Madagascar across the other side of the pond there. So I got to get it, got to find it. One of the heroes of the Bondai terror attack says he couldn't sit by and watch the horror Unfoled Ahmed al Ahmed has given his first television interview to CBS since fifteen people were killed at the iconic location. He gained international recognition after disarming one of the gunmen and told CBS he acted without hesitating to think about.
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Speaker 6: To hear the kids and the wom one and all this and man screaming and asking for help and no one help.
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Speaker 2: He still has two bullets lodged in his shoulder, nerve damage in his hand that could be permanent. Meantime, the Prime Minister Anthony Alberanezi continues to refuse a royal commission into the Bondai massacre, telling the fifteen families who sent him an open letter pleading for one royal commission would be too traumatizing for them, you think, PM, do you think it'll be more traumatizing than losing their loved ones and lying on the ground while shots rained all around them. Too traumatizing for them? That's insult upon insult, Isn't it? Perhaps more traumatizing for the Prime Minister in his government in allowing anti Semitism to flourish after an attack occurred. Just unreal, unreal, But there we are. Quarter past six on five double A. The number eight double two to three double double O will be back after these words. Eighteen past six on five double A nineteen degrees almost twenty In fact in the city twenty five today are much cooler day than yesterday, where the temperature climbed right up. The house was hot last night, their conditioners on and trying to cool it down. Hard falling asleep when it's so hot. But that's where you have air conditioning. I suppose that's why it's there. If you're lucky enough to have it, and hopefully most of you do, make sure it's on. Keep cool when it's so hot, really important for your health, particularly if you're older. Few messages that have come in, Michael says, yesterday you're talking about road maintenance around Adelaide and the state. Mike Gut aches with road maintenance. When something is resurfaced, it's more rougher than it was before it gets new. Bitchamen, no one's inspecting the work. In most cases, it's terrible because they know. No one inspects where our money goes. For instance, on the corner of State's Road and Penny's Hill Road in the southern suburbs. Or when they shove Bitchumen in they just stopped the large area of filling. No roller taken off the trailer. Cheers Michael It's unreal, isn't it, so no one inspects it. Michael, you reckon to see what happens there. Regarding social media, Adam says, just with this ban in place for the under sixteens, it was easy for my nephew to bypass the ban. All he had to do was change his age on Facebook, screw up his face in the photo, take a selfie. They couldn't tell if he was under sixteen or not. All right, thank you, and Ron says, next time you've got Peter melanowskis on, ask him to fix pedestrian crossings over railway lines so the disabled can use them safely instead of having to join the crossing with traffic. Oh so, so, in other words, if you're in a wheelchair or a gopher, you go over the railway tracks on the road, not through the crossing. Seems the premier hates disabled using access cabs, says Ron. All right, so basically you want wider pedestrian crossings, I suppose, And they've got a zigzag around as a safety measure so people can hopefully pay attention to the fact trains maybe coming. But then are they on their phones the whole time? Anyway? Yeah, who knows all right better pedestrian crossings at railway crossings according to to run, thank you ron keep them coming. Through a University of Melbourne study. This is interesting. It's found listening to music in the car causes drivers to have less control. In simulated test, drivers were more likely to crash and have poor control over speed and stability compared to those who have the radio off or the MP three play or whatever off. But researchers found music is helpful when it comes to staying alert on long road trips. Now, how does that work? Because that would be contradictory. Why is music helpful on long trips and not helpful on short probably in a city trips? How does that's contradictory? But there we are Uni of Melbourne study. Now is there a go to song in the car? Trying to think what mine would be? Always love the bit of die straights? Back in the day playing cassettes, remember those days in the old Sigma or whatever, have the cassette deck in the car and pull out a cassette and slip it in, And how horrible was it when the tape deck chewed up your tape, which would happen occasionally. I don't know if it was the heat thing perhaps or or not, just the fact that obviously it all gets hot in the car. That would have some sort of long term damage. You would think on everything expanding, contracting, the tapes, the machine, all of that. But yeah, die straits back in the day. These days, whatever's on the radio, whether it's talk or sometimes music driving along, But I don't know about that crash thing. Listening to music. I don't think it matters either way. You know, you drive along whether you're listening to talkback news. In fact, you're probably more likely to crash with talkback because somebody's on there that makes you angry. You'd want to berate the radio, which yes, might happen in my car from time to time. But anyway, music is not terrible. There was I think the Mini guy, the guy who came up with the Mini minor Sir someone or other refused to put a radio in, trying to remember if it was the Mini or the Morris, but refuse to put a radio in because he thought it would be too distracting. A car just needed, he said, a speedo, a heater, and windscreen wipers, and that was it. The mister that was it whatever they had in the nineteen forties equivalent of that. But no radio, definitely, no radio too distracting for drivers. Can't have a radio in the car. Yeah, I mean there are people who can't go without music, can't go without having the radio off. It's too quiet. Sometimes sometimes it's nice switching it off and just I don't know, listening to silence other times, or you need it. This person says, I agree, keeps you awake and mind stimulated driving longer trips listening to music or talk. Yeah, I'm always flicking around, you know, particularly in the country you're searching for stations. I'm not big on listening to the phone list putting that through the car. I'd much prefer radio, and particularly if you're on a digital network through your car, as in DAB radio, where you and cars update with whatever's within range, and so you go to you might never hear Otherwise as you're traveling around. You drive with your eyes and brain, not your ears. This texter says. Mark says, cassettes get chewed up because of the heads on the tape player. Get dirty. There we go. Good on your Mark, thank you. Yeah, I agree with all of those you drive with your eyes and brain, not your ears. So it shouldn't matter, is your point. And I'm kinda with you because I just think big contradiction crashing in the city and it's good for you on longer trips. I don't really see that difference, I must say, but there we are. That's the latest research out of the Melbourne UNI. Meantime sport dietitians are highlighting the little known benefit of chocolate milk in helping to aid athletes' performance and recovery. Won't test for drugs either. It follows research showing chocolate flavored milk could help athletes perform up to twenty one percent longer in consecutive bouts of exercise compared to water. It also delivers an optimal carbohydrate to protein ratio of four to one, helping support rapid recovery following exercise. Several benefits of flavored milk compared to water and other sports drinks. Okay, so chocolate flavored milk. Imagine if it was coffee flavored like iced coffee, you do even better, wouldn't you? Potentially can't be the chocolate as opposed to anything else. What if it were strawberry? I don't know, but if it was coffee flavored milk, you surely perform even better because of the caffeine kick. But the little known benefits of chocolate milk, particularly helping aid athletes performance and recovery, Well, who knew chocolate milk is good for you if you're an athlete, probably not as good if you're not an athlete, you'd have to say. But if you are an athlete, well it could be could be the done thing, righty bit of action in the Southeast. In fact, couple of cases in the Southeast. Mitch Sarakowsky from seven years happened to be in the Southeast yesterday to view the outcome with Nick McBride. Mitchell is on the line. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 7: Mitch, Good morning Matthew.
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Speaker 2: All right. Firstly, let's start with that Nick McBride arrested on the weekend charged with the domestic violence offenses and didn't get bail, spending new years behind bars.
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Speaker 7: Yeah that's right, Matthew, so MP Nick McBride. He arrived at the Mount Gambia prison late yesterday afternoon after his bit for freedom suffered a setback, and it's a far cry from his bowling con Murra Estate where he was rearrested on Saturday, charged with assaulting his estranged wife, A Catherine. It's at the prison Matthew where he remained until at least the six of January, pending a home detention report. And for a well to do politician Matthew used to public life and freedom, it's going to be a major adjustment, a big shot two noted out for his electorates, and with just weeks to go until this state election, it's not clear what his political future hold. But you have to wonder whether it still has any life less in it at all. But one thing's for certain, the sad state of affairs won't do his vote to appeal any good.
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Speaker 2: No, that's right. It's Troy Bell in Mount Gambia prison as well, because if he is the way it's going, they'll need a politicians wing.
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Speaker 7: I'm not sure what thought prison brought true bells in. I do believe it's Yatlers, Ah right, Okay, all right, but yeah, not quite sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay, no worries. Now, while you're down there in Panola overnight and you're still there obviously you're in Panola, now, I understand a major fire that broke out around two two thirty this morning in a building, and it has spread from there.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. So the Panola home remains under police guards following that fire. Cruise were forced to keep their distance, Matthew after a dangerous or what they say, a dangerous batch of chemicals was too volatile to approach.
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Speaker 8: Now.
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Speaker 7: The fire broke out at the property on South Terrace just after one o'clock this morning. The home has been destroyed. It's still unclear whether anyone was in sight at the time or if there were any injuries, but fire caused. Investigators are now making their way to the scene to shed some light on what happened here early this morning.
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Speaker 2: All right, so they'll be I mean it spread to a paddock, and I guess they'll be monitoring that throughout the day for hotspots and everything else.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that's right. There. Fire crews are currently on the scene, just as you said, monitoring those. The property is quite large, but we're what I'm looking at right now. The home is flattened, so certainly devastating here in Panola this morning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I can imagine people they're waking up to that. Maybe some were awake through the night. Is the home surrounded by others. Were there other properties you know obviously the paddock, but other houses nearby.
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Speaker 7: They're quite quite a fair distance right, a bit distance away. But you know, if this was happening early this morning next to next to your property, would have really concerned.
00:20:08
Speaker 9: The would be concerned.
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Speaker 7: The property is quite large, it's surrounded by a dry and dry grass. So the firefighters did a great job to control the fire and stop it from spreading to other homes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, indeed, good on you, Mitchell. Appreciate the update, thank you and look forward to seeing your report tonight on seven years. Thank you very much, Thank you, Mitchell Sarayovski from seven in Panola this morning where a large fire, as you heard, destroyed a house hopefully no one was in it, and has spread to a paddock nearby, so really concerning cause at this stage to be determined, but chemicals there as well, so yet to see exactly what happened and police fire investigators will be on hand this morning to have a look at that. Right on six point thirty on five double eight, it is time for the news and when we come back, we're going to have a chat about being on the lookout for snakes. Snake season in South Australia twenty five to seven. Now on five Double A. We're the Bureau and police coming up in around ten to fifteen minutes from now. But yesterday morning, in this half hour I reckon it was close to seven o'clock. We had Bill from Richmond call in. Bill's a cabby and rings in regular lead of five Double A, and Bill talked about snakes that he'd seen on Sunday night as he was driving people from the airport. Two trips from the airport, coincidentally, both to Pariloui, one after the other. Dropped off, went back to the airport, picked up the next one. Where you're going Parilowis half Bill went again. But when he was there in that area he saw two snakes, two large snakes. One he said was two meters the first one, the second one a little bit shorter at about a meter and a half. I don't know about any better, frankly, but that's what they were. And concerning I suppose that they're out and about, but we expect at this time of year it's warmer. They do come out, they feed, they mate, they lay eggs, they feed again, they settle in for winter but they are out and about and everywhere and ROLLI Burrell, who we talk to often at this time of year. I guess, Rally, good morning to you. You've been seeing them, seeing them for a little while now, no doubt.
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Speaker 8: Yes we have.
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Speaker 9: Yes, it's pretty foot on now, so all the snakes are going into their houses to get cooled off. They don't like extreme temperatures what we've been having, so we've been getting a lot of snakes in their houses.
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Speaker 2: Unreal Where do they go in the house? They sit under a fridge or under a couch or something like that.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, ul do I see what happens is snakes don't like temperatures over about thirty five they cook. So when people have got the air conditioners going and that's blowing under the doors and they're outside, trapped outside. See, they can't tell what the temperature is going to be that day, so then they will come inside to cool down.
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Speaker 2: Well, so the importance of keeping doors closed. Pet doors would be an easy access point, I reckon, Yes they are.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they quite often go through the pet doors.
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Speaker 2: So what's the best way to do with that? I guess you've got to keep everything shut.
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Speaker 9: Well, you do you do You don't go leaving your doors open at night when it's thirty six degrees during the day, they won't come out, they won't move. You won't see a snake out at thirty six. So then they start to move at night when it cools off. So if you've got your doors open, that's when they're going to come in.
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right? Where are some of the odd places you found them around this summer in home? So I guess they'd go anywhere they could inside a place, just curl up somewhere and try and keep cool.
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Speaker 9: Oh, we got one in in the doll's house the other and the little girl was playing around with her little cigareines and things in the dollhouse and there was a baby one curled up in the doll's house.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.
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Speaker 9: She was quite lucky.
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Speaker 2: She who spotted it, the girl or parents The.
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Speaker 9: Little girl did, so she went and told her mums.
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Speaker 2: My goodness, that's.
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Speaker 9: Snakes aren't, as I said many times, snakes aren't here to hurt us. They're terrified of them. Yeah, yeah, it's only when we mess around with him and dogs and cats go and play with them. They don't actually, you know, sit under on bush and so there's a human, they're going to get him.
00:24:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, they want to keep down.
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Speaker 9: It's a shame they don't, all right, So.
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Speaker 2: Is it mainly Brown's at the moment, I spice it's all of them, the red belly blacks, and we.
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Speaker 9: Get the pygmy copper head up in the hills, which is a very small snake, and then you just get the eastern browns on the plains and the red belly blacks through the creek systems.
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Speaker 2: O the pigmy ones are they are danger as well. They venomous.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, they're quite venomous. They're still doing a lot of work on them. They got three toxins that they carry, so they're quite a lethal snake. But they're very small snake, very shy. They're on the endangered list.
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Speaker 2: So sorry, I was going to say some some suburbs worse than others for catching them. Do you get called out? So, I guess around the foothills you'd get a lot, But they're everywhere else.
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Speaker 9: Snakes are everywhere these days. They just go through the storm water systems and pop up wherever they want to. People bring in maulch and firewood and stuff.
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Speaker 2: And that's where they love to hang out. It's under a pile of stuff. So the messages keep your yards clean, yeah, keep.
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Speaker 9: Yourselff all elevators and they do a proper baiting program with baiting boxes. And they only come in for one thing and to my so they don't come in for water. Everyone thinks they come in for water. I mean, where does the snake get water from in the desert?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. They get the water from the food. They don't they they do?
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Speaker 10: They do?
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Speaker 7: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Well, all right, any big ones around that you've helped repatriate, they all all.
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Speaker 9: Seem to be big this year. The season's really weird this year, like we never had a spring. Yeah, it's only really just started to take off now. I mean like it was really cold for three months and we got rob three months of that. Snakes have usually mate it by now. They're only just starting to mate. So the time they lay their eggs and the baby's hatch, which I don't think they will gain this year. Last year it was too hot, the eggs didn't have enough humidity to hatch, and this year I don't think they'll be hatching either, So it'll be two years that something's happened out there. But I mean it'll pick up the game.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, well okay, so so normally they have two hatchings, don't they over summer? But you reckon that might not even occur once.
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Speaker 9: No, it's usually Eastern Browns usually only clutch one, do they Okay? Yeah, the Western Browns, I've known that they've clutched three times. Really, that's sort of out out right out in the middle of Australia. The Western Browns. We don't get them down.
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Speaker 2: Here just as well. I mean we've got enough as it is of the ones we don't want. They're out there. What do you do with them, Ronnie? You take them out to the bush somewhere? Let them go.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, we let them go in sensible places, you know. Like I used to have stickers on my car and I don't have them on there anymore because every time I want to go for a week, because I'm in the car all day. So if I want to go and have a week, someone I put up and say, what are you doing? Made You're lett the snake go? And I said, no, mate, I'm having a Wii. We get accused of it all the time, but we don't we do it in the proper areas. Yeah, they've got to go within you know, two to three k's from where we catch Oh really yeah, I don't just go past the playground on the froze.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, something like that. I wondered if you took them out to I don't know, somewhere between for arguments, sake Wakery and Blanchetown or no.
00:28:20
Speaker 7: No, no.
00:28:21
Speaker 9: So if I catch something at Mount Compass, it's it's got to go somewhere around Mount Compass. But I don't put it on farms and drawings. Usually it's usually government lands and stuff like that.
00:28:33
Speaker 2: That's where it belongs to.
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Speaker 9: A right, like if I catch a red belly up here at Mountcumbers, I'll probably put it in my ponger Dan.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, and it's still within it's it's sort of territory, more or less familiar terrain. Yeah, all right, really interesting. So they're out and about the messages. If you see one, obviously, you know, keep your distance, see where it goes and give you a call. Yeah, definitely, good on you mate, Thank you, happy to email, Thank you, Rolly Burrow, snake catchers, Adelaide and there to help if you've got one in your dollhouse. For goodness sake, imagine that the little girl playing with a dollhouse and there's this baby brown curled up inside. That is full and scary, isn't it.
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Speaker 7: Ugh.
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Speaker 2: I've seen them out in the wild. But and photos, you know. Down at North Haven, I remember someone put a photo up of a big eastern brown just next to the playground there along the esplanade. But there's a lot of scrubland between there and the bushes. As a kid walking through that scrub land on the path, mind you, not through the bushes themselves, there was a huge brown. I haven't forgotten that. I would have been about eight or nine, curled up under a bush next to the path. It was massive. It would have been meters long too, at least it was just so big and enjoying the sunshine or the shade, I suppose under the bush middle of the day, just curled up there mining its business. So I let it do that. But they're there through that scrub and really anywhere scrubby. I walk right up to a red belly black once on the Waterfall gully track up to Mount Lofty, thinking who's left a strip of tire across the track and it wasn't until I was probably even half a meter away from it. I thought, nope, that's a snake, and I'm back right off. And it didn't care. It just sat there in the sun, half on the path, obviously absorbing heat. But they're out there all right, but particularly in those areas, but in summer well, as Rollie said, they're looking for somewhere cool to go, like your house, Wow, Doll's house, that is scary. Quarter to seven on five double, around twelve to seven now on five double A. Let's check in with the bureau with a much cooler day on the way. Daniel Sherwin Simpson is the duty forecast.
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Speaker 11: Morning Daniel, Good morning, Matthew.
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Speaker 2: All right, so what did we get to yesterday in the end, Yeah.
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Speaker 11: So it was a pretty warm one yesterday in Adelaide we got up to thirty nine point four, so we just didn't crack the forty, although a bit further north up at Parafield they managed to get into the forty. So the forty degree was around in plenty of places, including up in the northern suburbs, but we didn't quite get there. But we've seen that call change come through, and it's going to stay a whole lot cooler today, only up to a maximum of twenty five degrees due to these quite cloudy skies and the southerly airstream coming in, so it will be a little bit blowy today as well, but I think probably generally even with that wind about probably a more pleasant day, as I think people are maybe a little bit sick of their heat. We will see these sort of gustier winds continue overnight, particularly if you're sort of in the eastern suburbs or kind of on the side of the Lofty Ranges facing towards the city, so you could get some wind overnight and that wind stick around till tomorrow. Temperature is going to stay relatively till will tomorrow, twenty five degrees by the time of New Year's even midnight, we're generally looking at fifteen degrees in the city, so fairly mild, a little bit cooler up in the lofties, but shouldn't be too bad for the American.
00:32:15
Speaker 2: All right, And we're going to see a return of the warmer weather in days ahead.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, we are going to see a slight warming, but we won't spike up as much as what we saw yesterday. So generally looking at sort of low thirties as we get into the later parts of the week, not jumping up too much, but yeah, plenty of sunny summer days. Temperatures are a little bit above average, but not you know, any absolute scorches coming through in the next week or.
00:32:41
Speaker 2: So in that perfect warm zone.
00:32:44
Speaker 11: Yeah, decent enough beach weather, but not melting your face off or anything like that.
00:32:48
Speaker 2: Beautiful, can't wait. Good on you, Daniel, Thank you, And are you on tomorrow?
00:32:53
Speaker 11: I'm off tomorrow. I've got one day off when I'm back on New.
00:32:55
Speaker 2: Year's Good on you. Well, Happy New Year to you from now years.
00:32:59
Speaker 12: Happy to ye, Thank you, Good on.
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Speaker 2: You, Daniel Sherwin Simpson at the bureau. So some pleasant weather, and certainly today after yesterday's scorch at twenty five, so it's fourteen degrees less than what we had yesterday. Remember the days and people always say when I was a kid it was so hot, it's because of days like yesterday. I don't think it was thirty nine every day of school holidays, but there were certainly warm days in it, and yesterday an example of that. Twenty five today and that's probably about the average for summer. The police have had a warm night overnight in dealing with the people and Senior Constable Jenny Horvat on duty at Sapole Media this morning. Jenny, good morning to you.
00:33:40
Speaker 13: Ye, good morning. Is Jhen Collin and Jenny Hallvack the weather?
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Speaker 2: Oh it says Jenny horvatd on on this so sorry. Who are you?
00:33:48
Speaker 13: I'm Jen Colanan, Jen?
00:33:50
Speaker 2: How are you Jen Colinan?
00:33:52
Speaker 11: Yeah?
00:33:52
Speaker 2: Good, that says Horvat. You shouldn't want to change your name.
00:33:56
Speaker 13: I could do the weather right. It might actually be a bit more exciting than having to tell people of South Australia that crimes happened.
00:34:02
Speaker 2: Oh I know, I know, but it has happened. And a woman arrested after lighting a fire at Modbury last night.
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Speaker 13: Yeah that's right. It was just after seven thirty last night. Police and fire crews were called to Reservoir Road after reports of a fire in a garden bed. MFS swiftly extinguished the blaze, but it managed to cause damage to a nearby building, so patrols searched the area and located a thirty six year old woman from Para Hills in possession of a lighter and a fuel canister. So she was arrested for arson and hinda. She's had a bail refused and will appear before the Adelaide Magistrates.
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Speaker 2: Caught today alrighty and a teenage drink driver out and about on the roads.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, unfortunately we get disappointed every time we have to do these. But it was just before midnight last night patrols spotted a Subaru SUV on Goodwood Road at Colonel Lake Gardens and stopped the driver and did a mobile driver test. Now that nineteen year old man's from Andrew's Farm produced a reading of zero point two three one, which is nearly five times legal limit.
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Speaker 2: Unreal and he was.
00:35:07
Speaker 13: Also disqualified from driving. Oh wow, So he had his vehicle impounded and he's been issued a further twelve months instant lots of license. He's going to go to court a later date. But again, we're just so disappointed that the message isn't getting through, especially to our young people. There's no reason that they don't know that you can't drink drive and nearly five times a limit you could barely walk.
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Speaker 2: I know, that's unbelievable that reading that is so high. And Dan there's a nineteen year old doing just unreal. And Jen, I know you can't comment, but I've sat in court so many times where somebody loses their license and the magistrate says, if you're court driving, you run the risk of going to jail. I don't know what percentage of them do, but here's an example. With that range of drink driving. This kid, I'm sorry to say, deserves some time behind bars, deserves to lose his freedom for a little while, because well, he's an idiot and he needs.
00:35:58
Speaker 13: To learn how you actions have come to.
00:36:02
Speaker 2: Yes, absolutely, and we deliver on that too seldomly, I think. But anyway, thank you, Jenny callon. You don't want to give the weather, do you?
00:36:12
Speaker 14: No?
00:36:12
Speaker 13: Probably, so we'll do that tomorrow.
00:36:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thank you.
00:36:18
Speaker 12: Bye.
00:36:19
Speaker 2: Laurel at Christie, Hello, Laurel.
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Speaker 15: I'm talking about snakes. I lived down in South gift Land, down the place Tall Dale Murder on the wrong taggy Loge, and it was alive with Tiger Snake. You wouldn't go out your front door without taking the You used to have a wire and I used to trusts around a very thick pencing rule and you'd always take that with you. And when they shunted the truck, the tracks off to go on, deciding the god would look up and look in the points. So snakes used to get into the point.
00:36:53
Speaker 2: Yeah, they would.
00:36:55
Speaker 15: So the shovel for of hot hot ashes down and then they take to trade up and put the steam down. And then another day the gang there's a gain of four men used to do a certain length of.
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Speaker 16: Track.
00:37:09
Speaker 15: Look after that. And I was sitting on the station door set my husband with one of them, and he said to the boss next to him, stop hitting my leg. He said, I'm not touching you. And the snake coming up between the.
00:37:22
Speaker 2: Two on Wow, my goodness.
00:37:25
Speaker 9: Yeah.
00:37:25
Speaker 15: Oh, and that was alive. You just couldn't. You couldn't. The kids couldn't walk home from school. The farmers used to ring the kids home for us. And because you could see where they've been across the road. It was just alive with snakes.
00:37:39
Speaker 2: Goodness me. And you know in sandy areas when you see how I think tiger snakes do this as well, do they not? Where they hide in the sand, They burrow into the sand and just wait for you know, a mouse or something to come by.
00:37:53
Speaker 15: There's no no sand there all bush and around everything like that.
00:38:00
Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 15: Oh no, so I know all about snakes.
00:38:04
Speaker 2: Goodness me, Laurel. That's that's frightening. And tigers are quite snakes are quite deadly, aren't they quite poising?
00:38:10
Speaker 15: And then I get up into the big lot of high you'd have you or your high you stacked out the front there and the snakes to get into the height, I have to be careful when you took a mile off high out.
00:38:23
Speaker 2: Wow, living your life like that, my goodness. But she got used to it, just yeah, yeah, crazy, Good on your Laurel. Thanks for the stories.
00:38:35
Speaker 15: Okay, thank you.
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Speaker 2: Have a good day. Five to seven. Imagine imagine that a dodging snakes at every step almost and there's a snake on the seat between the two blokes at the railway station. Goodness me, seen any around Adelaide apart from Bill at Paralaloui the other night, two of them about an hour or so apart hour and a half maybe. But if you've seen any and where were they, let us know? Because they ate this snake's season warmer weather, and okay, they might not like thirty nine degrees in terms of being out in the sun. They can't regulate their temperature, which is why they come out early. I remember driving to Bury once. It would have been October and it was a warm day and left early in the morning, sort of just around this sort of time. And by the time we got to Bury two and a half whatever hours later, sun's up, it's ten, ten thirty. The amount of snakes that were on the highway just baking it in, just warming up. It was early. It was a long weekend in October in fact, and going back some years now, quite some years, but they were just warming themselves up on the side of the road or right in the middle. Sometimes. Heard a scary story once from a guy I worked with who was driving along and there was a snake in the middle of the road. He could see it for one hundred and ten k's, oh, that's a snake. He'd seen them before. But as he got right up to it, the snake is reared up. His window was closed, and the head of the snake is right there next to him. I mentioned that big snake. Obviously, that's keep your windows closed as you drive through snake country. Ah, dear, they are out there and they're not looking to hurt you, but you want to be making sure you know where your feet are going. That's for absolutely sure, because snakes being snakes, don't like being stood on. They don't stand for that very much or very well. Yeah, three minutes to seven on five, double A five, double A breakfast. David and Will away having their their break I'm here filling in for this week and next apart from New Year's Day. Get a sleep in then, which is nice, But the next two weeks you've got me here and then another week of mornings to come. Still to come on five double A breakfast. Over the next half hour, we will talk about the most popular baby names announced for twenty twenty five, and is it possible for peace between Russia and Ukraine and the Mideast peace dealers way talks underway right now as well, I should say, and talks underway right now between benjaminet Nyahu and Donald Trump at Marra Lago in Florida where they're thrashing out all the bits and pieces to go with that. So we'll have a look at those two issues in the next half hour. Lots of room on the call board for you eight double two to three double O double. Oh you can always text O four four eight h eight, thirteen ninety five. Send an email as well on air at five Double A dot com dot AU News on the Way at seven o'clock six past seven and on five Double A. I hope your Tuesday. Yes, that's today, Tuesday, the thirtieth of December. Hope it started well and continues well. It started well because you're tuned to five Double A. That's a start I see. Police have arrested yesterday a couple of people in the Riverland who allegedly stole Christmas presents from a houseboat. As I understand it, it happened on the twenty first of December. Cabin cruiser. In fact, no less mordered old coperium was entered wrapped present stolen from inside electronic gear fishing equipment. Police yesterday arrested a thirty one year old man from Mrook South to the twenty year old woman from Renmark West, charged with theft and remaining custody. Police able to recover the stolen items, reuniting them with the cabin cruiser owner, who I'm sure is now passing on belated Christmas gifts to the people they were meant for. But good work by the coppers there, finding the people responsible for that breaking into a houseboat for goodness sake. Meantime, no luck looking for a woman in the far North around ander Muka or she's from and Mukha. Trisha Graff last seen in rock Spy Downs on the twelfth of December. Her vehicle, a white twenty twelve four Territory, was abandoned unable to be driven near Blue Dam, east of Andermuka. It was found now two weeks ago thirteenth of December Saturday. Police have conducted an extensive search ground, aerial and specialist dive teams in the area around dams and unfortunately she hasn't been located. Undertaking further aerial searches, including yesterday around Blue Dam, and police obviously hold grave concerns for her welfare, particularly in the hot temperatures up that way. So hopefully she is found somewhere, Okay, sheltering somewhere, or maybe you know, she's living somewhere and doesn't even know people are looking for her, but they are so Trisha Graff, Hopefully she has found safe and well. The list of popular baby names, it's an annual occurrence this time of year where the top ten boy and girl names have been released. Sad to say, Matthew, which used to make the cut back in the seventies and early eighties, is number one. No longer does. I don't know that Andrea does either. But the Consumer and Business Affairs Minister is Andrea Michaels. She is on the line season's greeting minister.
00:44:21
Speaker 17: Good morning, Matthew. I don't think Andrew ever.
00:44:23
Speaker 2: Has no right. Well, there's a few Andreas around. You're not on your lonesome there. But anyway, what has made the cut?
00:44:32
Speaker 17: So for girls, the number one name is Charlotte, and that's the second year.
00:44:35
Speaker 18: In the row.
00:44:36
Speaker 17: But we've seen for Oliver thirteen years straight late.
00:44:40
Speaker 2: Number one, okay, and there's the female equivalent. Olivia is up there as well, isn't it.
00:44:45
Speaker 17: Yeah, that's number three in the girls as.
00:44:47
Speaker 2: Well, with Eiler in the middle. So the kind of traditional names, aren't they? You know, names that go back in novels and time.
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Speaker 17: You know, we've got Hazel and Amelia and Elsie if that. We do have some older traditional names in there, but we are missing names, like you said, Matthew, and Sarah's and Emma's and Emily's that were you know when I was growing up, that was the popular name.
00:45:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were Michaels, Peters, John, They were all really popular. And I don't know a lot of that is biblical, I suppose maybe in origin, but they were certainly very popular names back in the day, weren't they. And these there's a Harper in the list's what that's fourth for girls, Hazel, as you said, Amelia and Violet. There's some tradic Daisies up there at number nine, and Ruby and Lily at number eight, so you know, they go back forever. And the boys, if we have a look at those, Oliver, Noah, Henry, Leo, Theodore, Levi, Luca, Charlie, Elijah, Jack and Oscar as the top ten. So they've been names that have been around now for a good decade or two I suppose, floating around there.
00:46:09
Speaker 17: Yeah, definitely for the last sort of decade or so.
00:46:11
Speaker 10: I know.
00:46:12
Speaker 17: I have a sixteen year old. His name is Charlie and that was actually quite popular, becoming quite popular when I named him, and that was sixteen years ago.
00:46:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, we keep these records, I suppose how long have we had them for? For decades? Now I can recall the name, you know, certainly Matthew was up there back in the so I said, the seventies and eighties. So that's fifty odd years ago almost. And yeah, I suppose we've got records going back time immemorial.
00:46:37
Speaker 17: Well, since we've had a first test of marriages and been issuing birth certificates, that's where we get the data from.
00:46:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, how long we been doing that for? I suppose by early days of South Australia, Yes, I.
00:46:47
Speaker 17: Would say, So, I don't have a date. I should actually get the date of the first birth certificate in South Australia.
00:46:54
Speaker 2: When would we have started? I suppose when government started, even maybe eighteen fifty six, it would have been registered from then.
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Speaker 17: I suspect our system was probably in the nineteen thirties.
00:47:04
Speaker 2: I guess here, yeah, a bit later, there we are. Do you reckon parents look at this this sort of list and pick their names from there, or maybe you know from relatives that have got kids already, and so I like that name, So you know, if we have a kid, we're going to call it that? Is that how it works?
00:47:20
Speaker 17: I would say, Sony, you know, I think you know names like Oliver. You think Oliver, Oliver Twist, You think you know, I'd like a baby who's going to go up to be a good kid. You know, you kind of pick those sorts of names, I guess. And if you see other children around and coming through families or friends that you think, oh that is a cute name, yeah, probably you know where they get them from.
00:47:41
Speaker 2: I reckon if you went Oliver twist, you might have a baby that grows up saying please, ma'ma and dad, can I have more? Can I have that?
00:47:47
Speaker 17: Maybe you don't want that, but it's right up.
00:47:50
Speaker 2: There, isn't it. So and Charlotte obviously you think of Charlotte Webb immediately, so Charlotte's web. So there we are all right. Good on your minister, Thank you for your time.
00:48:00
Speaker 17: Thanks Matthew.
00:48:01
Speaker 2: That's Andrea Michael's Minister Consumer and Business Affairs with the baby names list of most popular baby girl and boy names. And you know we're talking for girls. Charlotte only ninety five, so it's not huge numbers. Ninety five baby girls called Charlotte, ninety three called Eiler, seventy six called Olivia. For boys, it's well, maybe there's more boys than girls, but one hundred and twenty two brand new Olivers over the last twelve months, one hundred and eight, Noah's one hundred and five, Henry's ninety seven, Leos, ninety four Theodores. Then it drops away to seventy seven, Levi's, seventy six, Lucas, seventy five Charlie, So that's all very close, and Elijah tied with Charlie Jackson seventy and seventy oscars as well, So I don't know, I do the math sew Many's at couple of one hundred three four hundred in the top ten, but there'd be lots of others as well, obviously don't make the top ten. But interesting, all right, baby names? Would you look at a list like that? Or how would you name? How did you name your child? Traditionally in European families, and this falls away these days, but the boys get named after if there's two boys, it's the two grandfathers from the couple, the two dads the couple's dads, and same with the girls the mums. So how long that continues into the future remains to be seen. But that's the way a lot of Southern European, Greek, Italian, et cetera, and others name their children. So the names keep going, but not always, not always. It's not a rule, you don't have to, but it's just a mark of respect for the parents, really and the grandparents of the kids. So there we are, Robert says, breaking into a houseboat. Could we see you? Charge of piracy?
00:50:01
Speaker 7: Are?
00:50:02
Speaker 2: He says, go you rob good one. Don't mind that at all. You never know, never know. It is quarter past seven on five, double a, seventeen past seven on five, double a, nineteen degrees now twenty five, the top of cloudy day, but the sun trying to trying to break through. It's certainly up. You might not have seen a lot of sunshine this morning, but it is up and trying to get through the clouds. But twenty five it's going to be warm, just nice, really perfect after yesterday's thirty nine point four that we climbed to in the afternoon yesterday. The talks between Donald Trump and Voladimir Zelenski indicate that peace is well. I was going to say at hand, almost at hand, it's probably more accurate and at least on the doorstep, it would seem. But will Russia play along is the key question in that at the moment, Yaho is with Trump at Mari Lago. They're talking about the Middle East, but let's start with Ukraine and doctor John Bruney, founder and CEO Sage International on the line. John, good morning to you. It is going to come down to Putin agreeing, isn't it.
00:51:16
Speaker 16: Oh well, it always has been the key factor here because you see Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have a special relationship, and Donald Trump doesn't see Zelensky as anything other than an impediment to that special relationship. He sees Zelensky and Ukraine as the vassal state of Russia and rightful, you know, a rightful vassal state of Russia. And that's why again, you know, when we looked at the way that the press conference between Zelensky and Trump is quite illustrative because for those of you in the audience out there who saw it, you must have all seen the very peculiar body language between Trump and Zelenski. So you know, those kind of almost reverberations from that time that you know, Trump got really angry with Zelenski, those things haven't evaporated at all. You know, the two leaders obviously don't like each other. When you saw the press conference, that were kind of angled, they angled their bodies away from each other. Trump was always talking about the Russia Russia Russia hoax and sleepy Joe Biden, and as he does, he just rambles on about nonsense and it all has to do with him and how great he is, and of course you know, this is the greatest peace plan ever and blah blah blah. But effectively, the twenty point piece plan is just a paired back version of the twenty eight point piece plan, which were effectively Russian talking points. So Jared Kushner and Steve Witkopp are just basically carrying out Vladimir Putin's plan for peace. Now what does that actually look like, Well, we don't know, because, of course, just recently we've heard that Vladimir Putin has, or at least the Russian leadership has accused the Ukrainians of having to try, having try and blowing up the presidential palace in Russia with drones. We don't know how true that is, because the Russians tend to make a lot of accusations against Ukraine for whatever reasons. But the fact is that that seems to be Putin's way out of the negotiations because they will he'll claim that, you know, Zelensky is not a fair dealer, he doesn't really want peace. He's an aggressor. And look what he's trying to do. He's trying to kill me, you know, Vladimir Putin, how dare he? And I think that that's going to be the trigger for the Russians to effectively walk away from the peace plan they drafted for Donald Trump. I mean, it's it's it's amazing. Trump does look like Putin's soft puppet.
00:53:51
Speaker 2: And you know, the irony is as you say, Russia has certainly been bombing Ukraine in the last few days over the week and firing missile after missile waves of them into the Ukrainians. As they all talk piece, it's kind of insane. On one hand, all well.
00:54:07
Speaker 16: It's didn't worse than that, because I mean, we can sit back and say, well, you know, the Ukrainians are hitting the Russians, and the Russians are hit the Ukrainians, but the Ukrainians are actually hitting military targets and targets of the Russian economy that helped the war industry of Russia. The Russians are hitting the Ukrainian civilian population. So it's a different sort of war being fought between Moscow and Kievah, yeah.
00:54:29
Speaker 2: All right, that's that one. Now, Trump meeting with net Niyahu at Mara Lago, and I think just at the moment a media conference is about to get under weight. So they've been talking for about an hour or so, and the peace plan in the Middle East seems to have fallen behind schedule by some time. So where is that at.
00:54:51
Speaker 16: I hate to be a cynic. I seem to be the archetypal cynic on your show with regard to the international relations. So we're we're at is again. Net Now, who and Trump are best buds, just like Putin and Trump are, And Trump is effectively carrying out net Now, whose foreign policy with regard to his desires for peace in the Middle East. Now, net Now, whose designs for peace in the Middle East is not what you would imagine would be even remotely in the minds of peace in the Middle East for people in the Gaza Strip or in the West Bank or anywhere else that is not within the territorial boundaries of Israel. Net Now, who's towing very hardline. He's confident that he has the US president in his back pocket and Jared Kushner again, you know, the president's son in law is acting as a key diplomatic piece, you know, shuttling between Mara Lago and you know, Tel Aviv and elsewhere in order to try to ensure that there is not a flare up, not a major flow up of hostilities. But you know, the Israelis can keep on striking targets and in the Syria, in Lebanon, in Gaza, you know, the UN food trucks seem to have not been coming across the border in the way that was promised. You know, recently we've had Gaza hit by quite a severe flooding event, and of course most of the people living in tents, the refugees that be internally displaced within Gaza, all those tents have been either flooded out or blown away by the winds. So it's a pretty grim kind of situation. And if you think about stability, well, you know, good luck to you, it's not. And I think that one has to always bear in mind to every conflict there are two sides, and in the media generally we tend to favor the one over the other. And then there are all sorts of permutations to come from that. So you know, the recent Bond dig massacre, for instance, will cloud our judgment in terms of the way that we see the Middle East conflict. And that's just the way it is, you know. I mean, I'm not saying that it's right or wrong. I'm just saying that that is the fact and we have to deal with it.
00:57:06
Speaker 2: John, thank you for your time as always and your insights into that. I see Israel has awarded a peace prize to Donald Trump, just been announced at the moment.
00:57:15
Speaker 16: So well, I hope, Matthew, I hope it looks a lot better than the Fief of peace post. Does that look like something out of the zombie apocalypse?
00:57:23
Speaker 2: So there you go. Still, I don't reckon it's the one he wants. I think he's looking for one that starts with no and ends in bill.
00:57:29
Speaker 16: But that's what it is after anyway, your listeners.
00:57:36
Speaker 2: John, all the best. Doctor. John Brunei, founder and CEO Sage International, follows international affairs very very closely. The sticking point is territory. Andrew says, neither Putin nor Zelenski will compromise. And a text here from someone saying, I guess this guy doesn't seem to like Trump. At least he's bloody trying. Andrews says, federal royal commissions have been called for obodette veterans, suicides, deaths from the pink bat scheme, but not called for Australia's worst terrorist attack, despite pleas from many, including victims, families, AFP, busses, judges, barristers and many others. Surely it just has to be called. I'm not surprised families are now calling Albanzi a coward, says Sir Andrew. Text you're saying, no name, What are all the Muslim countries doing to help Gaza crickets? This one's saying. Trump on the verge of broken brokering an end to the Russia Ukraine conflict, Albanizi sending Australian Army trucks to Ukraine, has talked of sending troops to Ukraine, fueling a no one wins forever war stark difference in their approach to dealing with things. One text, you're saying, how could this government not hold a royal commission? It's disgusting. Elbow's running scared. There's audio of him being told what joy division means from three years ago. Then he walks off the plane wearing a Joy Division T shirt a couple of months ago. And on baby names, baby names in Greece, nicol Costa mat Theirs, thank you. Twenty six past seven on five double A News is on the way. We'll bring you the latest news, sport, traffic and weather. On the other side, we're going to talk about well taking more care on the roads, particularly over this period. It goes without saying Holidays, New Years, but if you're traveling to areas through the mid North the York Peninsula, Air Peninsula, the harvest is continuing. There are heavy trucks on the roads and from the grain producers of SA Brad Perry will talk to us about what that means for regional roads over this busy period. That is coming up on five double A breakfast right after the news. Twenty six to eight on five double A A double two to three double low double OW is the number I see. If you've got friends or rallies up in Broom in Western Australia, there's a severe tropical cyclone Hayley that is blowing up a storm. It's off the coast at the moment, but looks to be tracking right into the coast. Meantime, on the other side of the country, northern Queensland towns have been isolated livestock at risk. Is a record rain hits the outback, not from Haley, that's from whatever's going on up there, but to people gathering sandbags and everything else. So the top end of the country pretty wet at the moment. If you're down our end, well it's dry and hot at least yesterday, and more of that on the way, not to that extent, but looking at the forecast days ahead. In fact, right from Friday, we're into the low twenty mid twenties today and tomorrow. The first of Jan is twenty nine, and then it's into the low thirties every day through to Monday Monday the fifth, so four days around thirty to thirty two hovering. Its perfect really is perfect and perfect to go on a holiday, perfect to go on a drive through the country. But if you are going to grain producing areas mid North, South, the York and Air peninsulas particularly, then there are well it's harvest time and there are heavy trucks on the road coping with all of that. Brad Perry, CEO grain producers say, having a year to you, Brad goead morning, Matthew, So what should people be aware of?
01:01:38
Speaker 10: Yeah, so we've got harvest a little bit later in many areas than usual just because of the dry and the late rain. So there's a lot of heavy vehicles on the road and going to continue to be lots of heavy vehicles on the road through January through the school holiday period. So obviously we got a lot of tourists and people that are using regional roads during that period and they'll see the extra heavy vehicle movement. So we're just putting out of warning to be cautious and patient and make sure that everyone gets home safely.
01:02:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, so la cold the weather delayed the harvest, did it? Obviously? It did right through to October November.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we had a really really dry period right through until about June, and then we had late rains which really delayed harvesting and through that final part of the year. And so to pick the areas like the southeast are a few weeks behind where they normally would be, and there certainly our pockets right across the state where the harvest is still going on. So yeah, unfortunately, no Christmas for those guys no Christmas break, but I'm sure they're looking forward to getting the crop off. But we're going to see plenty of trucks on the road. And I've already been out and about myself and seen the frustration I guess from some drivers who want to get around heavy vehicles, but you know, it can be dangerous unless it's safe to as to pass. I think patience is certainly a virtue.
01:03:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Now. I know, for instance, on the Air Peninsula where the train grain trains discontinued now probably the best part of a decade ago, but there's been talk on and off about seeing trains come back because of deteriorating roads as a result of the trucks, and the Port Lincoln Council had issues with that, and you know needing funding and road repairs going on across the peninsula to beef up sections of road that had suffered over the last decade or so. So any talk of getting the trains back, because I know it was slow and the track needed upgrading as well, and there's money involved in doing that, but seems a much more sensible way than filling the roads up with big, heavy trucks carrying grain to and fro.
01:03:53
Speaker 10: Yeah, he spot on about the roads, Matthew. I mean, one of the challenges is that, you know the government's first federal unable to keep up with road maintenance bills. So obviously if you have more heavy vehicles and other vehicles on those roads constantly, you're going to need to increase the funding to keep them up to a safe standard. And certainly the government, we called for them to take a look at the rail line and the Efininsula and they did that, so actually did a study into options for extra grain export right across the epinential, so they're looking at at freight, not just rail but roads. But the evidential of the rail line is, yeah, it needs a lot of work and to get it back up the speed. So apparently the update last update on that is that it's at a business case stage, so they're putting together a business case state government, and I guess we'll be waiting to see what the outcomes of that are and next steps going forward. So, you know, I think it's important that we do have a mix of road and another other infrastructure to get grained two silo. But as long as at the end of the day, isn't additional cost to grow us to maintain it. I guess that's the biggest concern that we've had with it. But I think you certainly spot on.
01:05:15
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, the roads, I mean they do take a pounding, and the heavier the vehicle is obviously the roads deterior rate quicker. And when there's you know, I forget the extraordinary number of large trucks rolling into to Lincoln around this time of year, but got the scores of them per day.
01:05:32
Speaker 10: Yeah, and a lot of them actually do have to go through, you know, quite busy areas that are built up, so you know, that was one of the things that they looked at was and some of the feedback going through was a general safety as well of taking trucks off the road that they have to go through regional towns, you know, just safety perspective. So particularly, you know, we've got plenty of tourists around exploring, exploring their backyard or it is exploring it, and you know, safety is a big issue.
01:06:03
Speaker 2: There's absolutely Or how's the harvest looking overall, I mean it's probably not going to be a record year given the late start, but looking stronger at least for farmers. Yeah.
01:06:12
Speaker 10: So actually over the last couple of weeks, I've been right across the stace. I've been visiting farmers right throughout the safe so I've got a pretty good picture on things, and in most areas it's looking like an average crop, so I think they're pretty worried when you know, with the dry start, but that finishing rain did help quite a bit. We had those rains through November, so probably looking overall, I think we'll get pretty close to an average, the five year average.
01:06:39
Speaker 2: That's good.
01:06:39
Speaker 10: Prices have dropped right off, so that's a bit of a you know, finally get to average. But yeah, a bit of the glosses it's going off.
01:06:47
Speaker 2: Okay, that's well, that's a shame. But at least, you know, average, that's got to be at least somewhat helpful, I suppose, and encouraging that hopefully the worst in terms of the dry weather over the last few years is behind us now and we might get some decent rains moving forward.
01:07:02
Speaker 10: I certainly taken average this year. The last few years have been really really challenging, so I mean asked just to return to a growing season where everything happens when it's supposed to happen. So when we get rainfall and timing and everything like it normally is, but we'll see.
01:07:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely good on your brad. Thank you and as I said, having new year to you and your team.
01:07:26
Speaker 10: Yeah, thanks for having you too.
01:07:27
Speaker 2: Good on your brad. Perry CEO Grain Producers essay on well, the holiday traffic meeting the harvest which is running a bit late this year for the reasons you heard, and they're calling for caution on regional roads during what is a busy period. But I would help a lot. I think if certainly on the Air Peninsula the trains came back, probably unlikely once once you cancel it. How many train services have been restored ever, not too many. Port Dock one killer meter that's one and working quite well by all accounts. But you know that costs fifty million dollars, so that's slowly fifty one in fact million dollars to return trains for a one kilometer spur line into the heart of Port Adelaide. Fifty one million, So good luck getting trains back to the Air Peninsula running up and down that that is a couple of one hundred k's and I don't know, maybe, but don't hold your breath either, because you know, infrastructure falls apart. Bridges need to be rebuilt, even little bridges, just one's over over trains, still a little bridge. It's got to carry the weight of a train that is itself carrying grain. It all costs money and the chances of getting trained back and trains back to carry grain. I mean, it makes perfect sense, should never have stopped. But once it does, it's very, very hard and financially restrictive to say, the las to get it back fifty one million one kilometer. Keep that in mind, Right sixteen to eight on fives, on our conversation about twenty minutes ago, regarding the talks Donald Trump, the US President has had with both Voladimir Zelensky from Ukraine and on the phone Vladimir Putin from Russia, and right now still underway the media conference with Benjaminett Yaho, both those meetings in Florida. This person on the text line saying, I wonder if the American Indians started a war to take back their land, would Trump just negotiate to hand it over to them in order to end a war? Well? Maybe, who knows. Maybe, Jane says, I'm so fed up of the politicizing of the Bondai massacre. My empathy is becoming diluted, and Andrew says. A few days ago, two gb radio hosts Suzi Woman questioned Anthony Alberizi about that resurfaced footage of him speaking at a pro Palestine anti Israel rally from his early political years. She pressed him about footage showing him at the Palestine rally in Sydney in the early two thousands. He deflected all her questions obviously favors aside. I don't think that's an unfair criticism, Andrew. That is pretty much how it is. And the words, the deflection just you know, he didn't deny it and said he has always supported Palestine, which kind of means yes, it was me. That's what I take into it. The word, you know, the words Anthony Alberisi and Tony Burke and Penny Wong have all been using. And I read this summer on the weekend. The sorry is not sorry we failed you, it's sorry, you're sad that this has happened. You know. The wording, the carefully chosen words, and I think people are very used to politicians and weasel words, and we can see through it. When it isn't sincere but the immense pressure that Anthony Albanezi is under continually. We've got AFP former AFP, We've got former judges, there are barristers, there's the families and the Prime Minister saying, oh, we don't want a royal commission because it might be too traumatizing for you. I mean, how insulting is that when you've lost your loved ones. Could it be any more traumatizing than that? For goodness sake, let's talk about this. It's an ongoing issue nationally. Michael Packy is of course national political editor nine Radio. He is on the line Morning pack and the Prime Minister remains under pressure to call a royal commission but not budging.
01:11:53
Speaker 19: Yeah, look absolutely right. Then he does remain under pressure, but he's not budging, even though the families of those killed in the Bondai attack are demanding a royal commission. He was asked at a press conference yesterday what he makes of a letter, an open letter that's been written to him and the government more broadly, about calling a royal commission not only into the attack but into anti Semitism, the issue of the hatred of Jewish people. In Australia and the concern is that there's been a rise in anti Semitism, especially over the last two years in Australia. But he's saying, no, there's no need for a royal commission. We're holding an inquiry into our intelligence agencies. That is, how intelligence agencies and federal police worked in trying to boil this attack and what they did and didn't do. Given that the attack did happen, and we know that one of the men that was involved in the attack was on an AZO watch list, and that's all well in good Matt that there is an inquiry into if there were any failures of intelligen and federal police authorities are more they could have could have done. There's no question that that needs. That sort of inquiry needs to happen. But to suggest that there shouldn't be a Royal commission more broadly into the issues that essentially led up to that attack, well, you know that is starting to become arrogant because we've got families, not only the opposition, you've got a high profile lawyers, ex judges, ex police commissioners all calling for royal commissions, saying that it actually does need to happen to try and get to the bottom of not only what happened a fortnight ago, but to try and come up with recommendations to start stamping out anti Semitism in Australia. So it'll be interesting to see how much the pre well, the pressure is building, but it'd be interesting to see the Prime Minister succumbs to that pressure or the government succomes to that pressure. Because one thing I've noticed about Anthony Abernezi since he's been elected in twenty twenty two, so he's coming into his fourth year as Prime Minister, he's very stubborn, Like I think that he's one of these people that he decides how things will go and even though there might be a swell of criticism over an issue, if he doesn't want to do something, he'll double down. And that's what he's been doing.
01:14:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, although you know, correct me if I'm wrong or if this is harsh, But it appears the longer it goes on, and these are not calls from certainly the opposition is joining in.
01:14:34
Speaker 16: But from a lot of people.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. When you get the families, particularly demanding it and he's refusing, it doesn't look like strength that looks like he's running scared.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, completely, And they're coming up with excuses day by day. The latest excuse is a Royal Commission would bring out the worst in anti semitism and that would add to the trauma of the families. But you could argue that, you know, a Royal Commission is designed to do a couple of things. It means that people that have experienced the worst of anti Semitism would testify and talk about their experiences, but you'd also have to maybe speak to some of the people that are perpetuating the anti semitism as well. That's the nature of a Royal commission to try and get to the bottom of what's going on and come up with recommendations. And I just think that that was a weird excuse that did come up. It was actually by the Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke making that suggestion that the worst of anti semitism would be would come up as a result of holding a royal commission. You just think, well, that's.
01:15:42
Speaker 16: The point of it, isn't it.
01:15:43
Speaker 19: It is the point of it that you hear these really awful stories and that you try and come up with solutions for this sort of stuff to be stamped out or not happen again. So the other thing that I've also point out is when you hear the awful stories, if you feel that some certain things shouldn't be in public, you can't hold them behind closed doors. We're just the Royal Commissioner and his commissioner her commissioners listen to what's being said, but it's not being broadcast, so you know, there is still a sense of what's going on.
01:16:19
Speaker 16: So I don't know.
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Speaker 19: I think at the moment it's just excuse after excuse as to why they shouldn't be one.
01:16:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder how long that that can continue. I suppose you know, he's probably thinking the Prime Minister, if I keep resisting it, it'll go away.
01:16:34
Speaker 19: Go away. That's what I do think it will be, because they'll argue that they've called this inquiry or this snap review into the security agencies that's due to be out by April. I think that they're going to try and see if they can move on with other issues. Don't be surprised over the cooming over this month. He's saying that he's going to bring Parliament back in January, and that's to pass hate laws. The gun law and all those sorts of things, and so he's hoping that that will start becoming a bit more of a distraction. And then I reckon mat By around February or March, you're going to start seeing big announcements around around reform that they want to make to the budget and stuff like that. I think that you're going to start seeing announcements made on issues to try and you know, deflect these calls for oral commission and try and move the how would you say, try and move the topic or the debate onto other areas of that of other areas of policy, such as you know, the economy.
01:17:37
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, although you know every time there's well either another protest or another attack.
01:17:44
Speaker 19: Or people will be reminded.
01:17:45
Speaker 2: Even when the report comes out, that's right, all we'll be talking about is why isn't there a royal commission?
01:17:51
Speaker 9: Yep.
01:17:51
Speaker 19: Absolutely. So it'll be interesting to see if there's pressure that comes to bear on Anthony Alberenezi Robic, probably more from his inner circle, from cabinet, you know, that's probably where it would have to come to there. It's been definitely coming We know that the pressure has been mounting from outside and As we've mentioned, it's not just the opposition, it's the families and a whole bunch of other people that are really saying, you know what, this is the worst terrorist attack on Australian soil. It demands a proper inquiry in which people can see the light of day in what has happened here in a very transparent and independent way. And you know, this is a prime minister and a government which always bangs on about transparency. You know, there's a few examples where they don't seem to be showing that.
01:18:38
Speaker 2: Yeah. Interesting, all right, pack we'll see where it goes. We probably won't speak before, but best wishes for twenty twenty six to.
01:18:46
Speaker 19: You, no problems, Good on your mate. Good you have a great twenty six and we'll speak then.
01:18:50
Speaker 2: Good on your mate. Michael Packi, who is National Political editor nine Radio, on the woes affecting the federal government at the moment. Texts on this that have been coming through over the last few minutes. A Royal commission, Rogers says, would expose the historic pro Palestinian position of Albow and many of his party Robert says, isn't it the adage never call a commission or investigation unless you know what the result will be. Let's the old Sir Humphrey Applebe line, isn't it from yes Minister? And that may be why Albo is resisting so hard. He knows the outcome already and it won't be favorable to the government. Look I don't imagine it will be, but stop giving us excuses like it'll be too traumatizing for the victims, as if anything could be more traumatizing than the loss of their loved ones while they sheltered around the bodies of people as bullets thudded into the ground around them. And you think a royal commission would be more traumatic than that? Come on, it's just pathetically weak. That excuse pathetically weak. We all know the real reason why Albo and his cronies don't want a royal commission, says Mike. It would expose the Labor government as compromising safety for Jewish Australians and wanting to shore up the Muslim vote in Western Sydney. Sharon says only reason Albo won't call a royal commission is because it'll drag into next election he won't get vote. See, people can see through it. Anthony Alberizi. People see through it and ah just unreal does your head In two minutes to eight o'clock on five double eight news is on the way and on the other side we will be talking about oh a few issues still to come. Love for you to join me on eight double two to three double O double OW. But we'll meet a former convict from Yattler who has done his time, he has rehabilitated, is now giving back to his community in Broken Hill with the support for the homeless, helping out there. Don Barns his name and we'll have a chat with him in a little while and also a bit later on in the program in the last half hour, how to make sure we look after local nature and wildlife while traveling over the holiday period. Have a chat with the National Parks and Wildlife Service manager down in the Limestone Coast, Nicholas McIntyre. He'll be joining me. We'll look at fuel prices as well. All that to come on five double a breakfast but the time now about a minute and a half to nine o'clock. If you've just woken up and joined us, turned on the radio, it's got the coffee going. Half your luck enjoying your holidays. Five and a half past eight, as Kendall said, currently nineteen degrees in the city. Here with you this week and next on five double a breakfast. A lot of texts after the chat with Michael Packey from nine Radio, our national political editor based in Canberra. Let me read some of these out as they come through. Bev says. Another of Albo's issues is unlimited unvetted immigration. John says, what a dreadful state we are in the most mediocre collection of federal ministers in my memory. I'm eighty Australia now reaping their misguided, inept even suspect ideological policies showing without a viable opposition democracy struggles. Andrew says. People took bullets for their kids and other people's kids. How could a Royal commission be worse than that? I'm sick of Albanezi's excuses. This person, says Matthew, neatly exposing the racism always lying below the surface with the texts he reads out putting the Muslim vote against the Jewish vote. There are many many Muslim Australians appalled by what happened. I don't disagree with that that's not the issue anyway, goes on. You seem to manage to separate the NSN nutters. Do you mean MSM mainstream media? Is that what you mean NSM? Not sure, national serial nutters. I don't know. From the anti government marches? Why not the same here? No argument. The majority of Muslims are wonderful, peace loving people. That's not the issue, never has been the issue. Of course they are. Of course they're reppalled, as the rest of us are repalled. The issue is why won't the government call a royal commission. I don't see what you're trying to say, frankly, Apart from many Muslims are repalled one hundred percent, they are one hundred percent because no one wants this but extremists and the government seems to trip over the words radical Islam and doing something about anti Semitism. This person says in the next text, everyone that wants a royal commission needs to email their local federal MP, saying they won't get your vote unless one is called. Michael says Matthew, or royal commission will make a lot of lawyers richer. I'm sure it'll do that, Michael, But is that a reason not to have one. We've had them before on I don't know about lesser issues being a fair description for things like robo dead or unions or banks, but we've had them. If not lesser issues, we've had them for certainly political issues. Well, if we can't have a royal commission for Australia's worst terror attack, then what is the point? What is the point in all those others? This person says, what a disappointment this labor government is. Can't see myself voting that way again on many fronts, all right, keep them coming in eight double two to three, double double, Tiffany, just to finish all of that, says, for people calling for a Royal commission on the terror attack and antisemitism, please join the queue. We're still waiting on a Royal commission on violence against women and deaths of women by their intimate partner. One woman killed every eight days, Thank you, Tiffany, and certainly an excellent point in that regard. Looking forward to this next chat with a man called Don Barron, who's the founder of Feeding Friends, not for profit Feeding Friends providing meals for the homeless. And the interesting part about Don is Donn is someone who has rehabilitated from a life of crime, served time at Yattler. Now I understand lives in Broken Hill and helping the homeless community there. Done. Good morning to you.
01:25:52
Speaker 8: Good morning, Matthew.
01:25:53
Speaker 2: Told me a little bit about your past. Done. So you went to Yattler and obviously committed some crime drugs or other.
01:26:01
Speaker 8: Yes, Matthew, I was convicted of large commercial quantity of a controlled substance and I received a five and a half year jail sentence for that.
01:26:13
Speaker 2: Well, all right, and serve that. Obviously you've ended up in Broken Hill and decided to get on the bandwagon about helping people in need.
01:26:24
Speaker 8: Yes, yes, Look, it was a long process getting out of jail. I couldn't get a job in Adelaide. I ended up becoming homeless, and then I phoned with my parents in Broken Hill and asked to move home, which I did, and upon coming home, I then admitted to not just because my parents thought I had just been selling drugs, but I was an addict myself. So my family placed me into a place to get better. I was there for about six weeks during that process, so I did mental health courses, addiction courses, but I was managed to secure myself a little flat to start getting things back together in my life. I've got a job and things like that. And then eventually after I was everything was good with myself and all those sort of things. I just happened to walk out of a pizza bar in Broken Hill here and see a man sleeping on the streets. So I sat down and shared a meal with him. I guess that was the first time I ever fed at homeless person. But looking back, I seen myself in him, and I just wanted to help that person.
01:27:38
Speaker 2: And it started from there. So how did you get to the point of founding feeding friends?
01:27:45
Speaker 8: Well, the next day. The next day I had a partner at the time, and we tooked a little bit extra food and we went out looking for other homeless people in Broken Hill and it grew from there. It grew. That was a couple of years back now. We also used to get a lot of help from the Salvation Army with vegetables and things like that. The local ABC put some things on the radio here. We had a lot of community support. It's grown so much now that we don't do any cooking as such, myself and my wife. It's sponsored by local businesses in Broken Hills. So every night a different business will cook for the homeless. Our volunteers will go and pick those meals up and then take them to a meeting point and the homeless can come and get themselves a cooked meal every night of the year.
01:28:41
Speaker 2: How about that? And how many people come together to make all that happen.
01:28:46
Speaker 8: Look, there's a lot of businesses that sponsor us every night. A couple of them do a couple of nights each But yeah, it's all come together. It's a good plan. We have a lot of volunteers through a organization that we all fall under now, which is called the Hope Center. We have a place in Argent Street, which is the main street in Broken Hill. The Hope Center opens twice a week to anyone in the public here in Broken Hill that's doing it tough. They can come and get surplus products. And we get those surplus products through places like Coal's and other shops, etc. That I can't dispose of a product or it's at end date, and we collect them. We take them down there and feel we can come in and get help.
01:29:31
Speaker 2: I suppose it's a sign of life in this country these days that there are homeless people everywhere. But you know, if you said there are homeless in Broken Hill, well I am surprised to hear that, really, because how do you end up in Broken Hill as a homeless person? Everyone's got a story for.
01:29:48
Speaker 8: Sure, Well everyone has a story, yes, but you know, at the same time, Broken Hill has limited housing as well, you know, so it's a bit of a fight for a rental and things like that. There are other aspects to it, such as mental health. Obviously drugs. You know, we can't excuse the drug problem, but that is that's a small portion.
01:30:08
Speaker 12: There's a lot of.
01:30:09
Speaker 8: Different reasons, you know, and as I know, I became homeless myself. If a person doesn't receive the right support, they fall through the cracks.
01:30:20
Speaker 2: And that's that's exactly how it happens around the country too.
01:30:23
Speaker 8: It is because on any one given night there's one hundred and twenty five thousand people in Australia who sleep on the street.
01:30:29
Speaker 2: It's unreal, isn't it terrible? How did you go over Christmas trying to feed people? Homeless people over the last well the week essentially just gone.
01:30:38
Speaker 8: Yes, So what we did on Christmas Day we partner with the Salvation Army every Christmas Day. We gained sponsorship once again. So I went around to different places that I knew and friends that I had, and we put on a big meal at the Salvation Army Hall. So we had soup and prawn cocktails for entrees. We had lamb on the spit with roast turkeys and vegetables for mains, and pavlovers and things like that. That wasn't just for the homeless, that was for pensioners. Anyone doing it hard was able to come and join us for a meal. And I think we catered for about one hundred people.
01:31:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, good on you're don And I can just imagine how appreciative people are to get that level of care in in Broken Hill. And was there anything done before you came along? Surely there must have been.
01:31:33
Speaker 8: Broken Hill has Vinni's Kitchen which opens for a brunch. I believe it's about ten am in the morning. That's five days a week, and they close down over Christmas, etc. But feeding Friends is unique in a way. You receive a hot meal seven nights a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year. How volunteers sit down have a conversation because let's be honest, it's not just about the meal. It's about communication because that person may not have spoke to anyone all day. They might be down and things like that. So if we can just put a smile on their face, have a conversation and build their spirit up, it helps a person.
01:32:10
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, I've done great work. That is fantastic and obviously helping so many people. As I said earlier, they must be appreciative. I imagine they are. Of course they would be.
01:32:20
Speaker 8: It's correct, they are appreciative.
01:32:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Hey, while I've got you in Yattler for that length of time and you get people, you'd know this colloquially saying, oh you know yet, let people go there, it's been done up. It's almost like being on holidays. I'm sure it isn't. What's it like?
01:32:38
Speaker 8: Joe is hard? Hard physically, emotionally, mentally, et cetera. Look, there's snow. Holiday can't.
01:32:45
Speaker 12: Let's be honest.
01:32:45
Speaker 8: It's prison. It's supposed to rehabilitate us. It's not supposed to punish us, so the government says. And it's hard, especially once you know you're on your sentence plan and things like that, and at the end, trying to get out of jail, trying to rebuild your life. And that's what it's all about, to get out and get back into society. We need more programs for prisoners who are leaving jail, to leave with a skill, to leave with a job, and to leave with housing for.
01:33:15
Speaker 2: Sure, and the rehabilitation part. I mean, obviously something worked there for you to come out and get your life really on training.
01:33:25
Speaker 8: Well not so much, Matthew, because I came out and I ended up homeless myself, with no employment and things like that. It wasn't until I came back to Broken Hill and other people helped me. People who's seen that. Look, this guy's got a good heart, let's help him out. One of those people my very good friend, Darren Broad. He taught me a trade once I come back to Broken Hill. So I worked for him and now I worked for his son in law, a carpentry company. It took a long time to build up those skills which didn't come from jail.
01:33:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there we are. So all right? Is there enough rehabilitation in your view? I'm sort of reading between the lines. I'm gathering you don't think there is no I.
01:34:08
Speaker 8: Don't think there is, especially for prisoners leaving the system. You know, back in the day, they used to have a lot of work gangs and things like that where they take prisoners to you know, to do small construction jobs and this, that and the other. I think that gives a prisoner a sense of responsibility, a sense of pride and things like that, and it teaches them some skills along the way.
01:34:31
Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
01:34:32
Speaker 8: The government doesn't have the money to do that anymore.
01:34:34
Speaker 2: So you're using what you've learnt basically to survive, to make your own money and pay your way for renting everything else. Yes, yeah, yeah, And that's the way it should be in helping the homeless. In the meantime. Good on, You're done.
01:34:47
Speaker 8: If you can do that, and then you can give back to the community, the community will accept you and the respect is mutual.
01:34:52
Speaker 2: Absolutely. Patrick's texted and he says, what a beautiful story, and thank you Don for your big heart. Great to hear this type of encouragement when twenty twenty five bless you done and those supporting you, He says, So that's Nice's Patrick, Yeah, and Don, thank you for your time, lovely story, and keep doing what you're doing it. It's magnificent.
01:35:10
Speaker 8: Sure, Matthew, thank you and we'll talk soon.
01:35:12
Speaker 2: You've got a podcast page, haven't you that people can.
01:35:15
Speaker 8: Oh yes, sorry, yes, people can hop on Facebook. Our Facebook page is feeding Friends to double a oh to double eight. Oh, obviously being Broken Hill's postcode, but yeah, feeding Friends to double a do.
01:35:26
Speaker 2: Oh, good on your Don. Thank you for your time, mate, all the best. Thank you. Thank you. Don Baron, founder of Feeding Friends and find him on Facebook Feeding Friends and that number the postcode of Broken Hill, not for profit organization providing meals for the homeless. There to double eight. Oh, that's what it was. Good on You're done, lovely story. Nineteen past eight on five double almost twenty two past eight on five double. A couple of hours ago this morning, around six twenty or so, we crossed to Panola where Mitchell Saraovsky from seven who was at the scene of a major fire in the town. Danny Crozier is the regional duty commander there and I understand a house has been destroyed. The fire spread to a paddic or field next to the house, and cruz had quite a busy time of it from around one am this morning. Danny good morning to you. Thank you for your time.
01:36:19
Speaker 20: Good morning, thank you.
01:36:21
Speaker 2: What's the latest? What happened? Do we know yet the circumstances behind this.
01:36:26
Speaker 20: We're just waiting on fire calls to arrivee from Adelaide, which they'll conduct their investigation. But what's happened is we've got a structure fire which has spread to a shed and then has spread to a paddick just behind the shed as well.
01:36:38
Speaker 2: Okay, this occurred what one two am?
01:36:42
Speaker 20: How about ten past one this morning?
01:36:44
Speaker 2: Okay? At the time we spoke to the seven reporter news reporter who was there, Mitchell Seraowski, there wasn't any confirmation if anyone had been in the house at the time or or not. Can you enlighten us on that at all? Yep.
01:36:59
Speaker 20: So the house was vaking at the time of the fire, and the fire it server has caused an estimated value of see hundred to eight hundred thousand.
01:37:07
Speaker 2: Dollars wow, okay, and the cause yet to be determined. He mentioned there was a concern about chemicals in the house. Any word on that.
01:37:18
Speaker 20: So we've always got an inherent risk with me having fighting structure fires, especially in houses and shed We don't know what people storing their sheds, and obviously aerosols and other chemicals that you normally put in your household shed.
01:37:33
Speaker 12: And we've just got to take things.
01:37:34
Speaker 2: Cautiously, okay, all right, So the fire went to the shed and then to the grass around. Is the grass down there like it is anywhere through the Adelaide Hills at the moment, dry would have spread quite quickly.
01:37:46
Speaker 20: If so, We're lucky down here in Panola that it's still got a tinge green to it. If it was any further north, it would be much like the Ablat Hill jest.
01:37:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, So now you're waiting for fire cause to work out exactly how this was sparked. But the house empty at the time at least that was good and well. Sadly the shed destroyed, as you said, seven to eight hundred thousand dollars damage. That's a lot of damage.
01:38:10
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:38:10
Speaker 20: So there is a classic car that was in the shed as well, which is a bumpy bu up a bit as well, and obviously shed in the country town has a lot of stuff.
01:38:20
Speaker 12: In it as well.
01:38:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, any knowledge of the car for people that might be interested enthusiasts, Was it a holding forward something else?
01:38:28
Speaker 20: I believe it's a Morris miner.
01:38:29
Speaker 2: Oh okay, all right, sad one less Morris minor in the world. Good on your Danny, thank you for your time this morning, and we'll done to your cruise on duty through the night. No, thank you, Thank you Danny Crozier, who's the regional duty commander of the CFS down in Panola. This big blaze at around one am a bit after broke out, spreading to a shed there goes the Morris and then into a field. So Fire Cause investigators on their way down to have a look at that. Quite the blaze on South Terrace in Panola. The house was fully engulfed in flames and the fire had already spread. When crews arrived. They put the blaze out. Obviously they'd be hotspots they'd be monitoring, but the house completely destroyed and no one home at the time. All right, that's the latest from Panola. Twenty five past eight. Got a text here from Ron who says, if you want an idea how bad the roads are in South Australia, take a ride in an access cap. There's no chance you'll fall asleep. Yeah, it's like that, isn't it. Sadly talking about fires. I see the MFS have just put this out literally in the last nine minutes. South Australia is preparing to welcome the New Year tomorrow night. The state's fire services calling on the community to celebrate responsiblyle fireworks displays to license professionals. All right, can you still buy fireworks, you know, in places like Darwin? I don't know if you can. Maybe you can, I don't know anyway, Approximately thirty incidents caused by unlicensed fireworks or they come from somewhere over the last twelve months. Now, over between December one, twenty four and thirty one January twenty five. What's that thirteen months, a third of which occurred during the twenty four hour New Year's Eve celebration period, placing unnecessary strain on emergency services, increasing risk to community safety. Private fireworks unsafe and illegal. While they're popular New Year's Eve, using them without a license presents serious and unnecessary risk. They can cause severe injuries, burns, fires and fatalities. All right, So there's the warning from the MFS and CFS on dangerous or illegal fireworks. I mean, we used to use them all the time on Guy Forks Night, didn't we which move from October to June for common sense reasons, and it was only the spade of injuries really that saw them being banned. But they come from somewhere, and if you're ever up in the hills on New Year's Eve at around midnight, you see them going off, the illegal ones in just random spots. You can see the big ones, particularly if you're up high and got a view of the metro coast. You can see them at Glenelg at Semaphore in the city and then you see, oh, that must be Jet's Cross, or over there is I don't know, Burnside, and down there is Henley Beach and it's just one or two going up and you think, yep, they're illegal. So all right, good luck trying to stamp that out because people will still be doing it, but the warnings are there. Take care with the legal fireworks. We'll take a break eight thirty News on the way here on five Double A. On the other side, we'll talk about taking care of nature and wildlife if you're out and about South Australia over the next little while on hollid twenty six minutes to nine o'clock on five Double A, eight Double two to three double O double Oh is the number? Guy Forks Night was the fifth of November, says Geraldine. Yeah, it was, it was back in the day. They I do recall they moved it to the June Long June, Yes, June Long weekend because of the fire danger risk, which is great, and certainly it was held then as well. Bill McClintock says, Hey, Matthew, you bought any hot cross buns yet? Bill? I mentioned your surname. Oops. Hang on, Bill says Matthew, you bought any hot cross buns yet? No, Bill, No, not yet. But it will be almost criminal if they're not for sale yet, and I'm sure they are, because that's that's tradition now, isn't it Boxing Day? The shops open, well, not Boxing Day, because supermarkets don't. The day after the twenty seventh they open and you can get your hot cross buns. That's got to be the way it goes. I'm not a massive hot crossbun person. I don't mind them, but they're not the go to so but if it is for you, we'll enjoy, certainly. Don't mind the kitans chock chip ones. They're fantastic. Don't know if they're out yet, they can't be far away. Easter is the first weekend in April this year, someone told me the other day. So it's coming. It'll be here before we know it, as is always the case, David says, morning, Matthew. It's all very well and good to say prisoners should come out of jail and have access to housing and jobs. But if that was the case, a lot of people be going to jail to q Jump to get a housing trust house where rent at the moment is approximately one hundred and one dollars and a job. I've done jail. I know a lot of people who have, and it definitely worked for me. Part of the punishment is the struggle of having to rebuild from nothing. You don't want to do that again because it really is hard work. All right, thank you, David. Let's have a chat about taking a break and going on a trip around the state and looking after wildlife and nature while we're about it. Nicholas McIntyre is National Parks and Wildlife Services down at the Limestone Coast. Nicholas, good morning, Good morning, Matthew. How are you good? Thank you? So what's the message here?
01:44:27
Speaker 9: Oh?
01:44:27
Speaker 14: Well, look at this time of the year. We call it our peak visitor season here in the National Parks and Wildlife Service across the state, and of course our ranges will be out and about, servicing visitor amenities and interacting with people, educating them on the environment. But the other side of things is that you know, everybody can play a part to protect our precious parks. It's great to see people out and about and join themselves, and there's always just a few little tips and tricks just to make sure that everybody has.
01:44:52
Speaker 16: A good time.
01:44:52
Speaker 2: All right, give us a few.
01:44:54
Speaker 14: Well, I guess you know, obviously what people are doing is they're going to interact with wilderness and appreciate the open, wild open spaces. And I guess what we always say is, don't see wildlife, just let them be native, but observe them and interact with them and take photographs, have a good time, take your rubbish with you, leave no trace, only footprints. Generally dogs aren't allowed in parks, but if you do want to take your foods for a walk, well then we've got a website which you can search for dog friendly parks and it will give you the various expectations around staying on the track, lengths of leads and say forth. We do strongly encourage that people stay on tracks that are established because it either prevents in some areas along the coast, it prevents coastal erosion, or it might be actually diverting you around a sensitive spot, either for cultural sensitivity, it might even be a little threatened orchard outcrop which is in that area. So that's why we have tracks established. Follow those. But also a big thing when you get to a park, pull up, look at the observer, look at the advisory signage. Quite often I'll give you the length of the trail, expect the duration and difficulty of the trail, or even things if you're on the coast, let your ties down just so that you get bitter traction on the scene. All those sorts of things help you have a good time. But most of them all enjoy the serenity. That's the number one rule and the nature that we offer here in our perks in South Australia.
01:46:15
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and that is the number one rule for sure. I'll tell you what you talk about sticking to trails. And when I went up to have a look at Operation Flinders up in the Northern Flinders area, there They told me about how when you leave an established track in a car and you drive over grasses and whatever that track, especially if it's repeated once or twice after you, somebody follows whatever, it takes years for those tracks to recover. You know, you see the flatten grass and whatever. You think, well, that'll be fine in a week or two bit of rain or whatever, But it takes years for tracks like that to recover.
01:46:57
Speaker 14: For sure. Some of those environments have established over time and it takes a long time for them to re establish. And the simple example, I'm down here near the coast. We've got a lot of sand dune areas that have formed over many years, and the vegetation acts to help stabilize those genes. If we lose the vegetation gradually over time, the sand dune blows away with the winds. It takes a long time for vegetation establish more disturbance, and suddenly you've lost the journal system. And also, you know an area which was once upon a time quite pristine, So it does take a long time. Sometimes it might not even be possible to re establish if the underlying sands that have held the vegetation have blown away or been displaced.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Nicholas, I think last time we spoke, I think it was with you, we were talking about feral pigs that you were trying to track down through the Limestone coast there. Someone had let some loosen. They breed pretty rapidly and you were trying to rain them all in. Did you get them all? You had a few sill outstanding, I think last time.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I'm not sure where that might have been me.
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Speaker 2: Or somebody else. Landscape board.
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Speaker 14: Certainly if the several pigs out and about, we would work closely with the landscapeboard to track and try and remove those before they damage either private land holdings or our own parks, because they are very invasive and do a lot of damage.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, so, yeah, you want to get hold of them. They they're not They're not native, that's for sure. And yeah, of course the damage they do to other creatures that are native as they jump through and look for food and all the rest of it and track through vegetation can be can be quite devastating, that's right.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, And that's why across our national parks we try to participate in all those programs to reduce any threats to the natural environment.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. Good on you, Nicholas, thank you for your advice, appreciate it, no worries.
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Speaker 14: Nice talking to you.
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Speaker 2: Likewise, good on you, all the best for the new year. Robert, not on that topic, different topic here, says, if Santa watches your behavior all year, the year doesn't start till January the first, does that mean the seven days between Christmas and New Year are off the record? Asking for a friend, he says Robert, I reckon it starts December twenty six. Again, doesn't it. He might take the rest of Christmas Day off sleeping, but then he's watching, which is a bit creepy. Please repeat Don Barrett's podcast contact. Colin asks, yes, I can't, and I'll get you exactly what it is in just a sect because feeding Friends. Just google that Feeding Friends, Feeding Friends, put that in Facebook and you'll find it. And there's a postcode for broken Hill after it, which is two double eight zero for memory. But Feeding Friends just go with that. You'll find it. Colin, thank you. I think it was moved to May twenty four from the fifth of November. Being says, Oh, it could be. It'll certainly brought earlier. I seem to remember it around the June long weekend, Geraldine. But you could be right maybe, but May twenty four would not always have been a Saturday. Obviously that's the only issue there. Richard has called in from Shidow Park, did I Richard?
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Speaker 16: Good morning?
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Speaker 9: Hell?
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Speaker 5: Are you ye?
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Speaker 2: Good? Thank you good?
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Speaker 12: Matthew. This might open a can of worms. But a royal commission and we all know the saddest thing happened at Bondo. We all must admit that it was the saddest thing Australia has ever coped with. And I'm the next ADF personnel and that's very sad, all right. But the thing I'm ringing for today is a royal commission. Last night I watched count Affairs and this full daughter of the father who lost his life. Once the royal commission, a royal commission is only going to cost the taxpayers thousands of dollars. And if the New South Wales's government, we say, are going to do a royal commission, why can't the Royal Commission? What alban Easy is not going to have some of their staff members or their board members go to that Royal Commission from the New South Wales of the government and combine the funds. But a royal commission will only put up piles and piles of paperwork. And we all know that it should be a track in person department for these people who went to Singapore and did this training there to be assassin or shooters or thing should be watched. Then that money could go into that pot and be more Australian security thing. But a royal commission is only going to take a money pot and piles of files of paperwork on it on the table somewhere.
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Speaker 2: I understand what you're saying. I just think if we have royal commissions for the things we have had in the past, if anything in this country deserves a national Royal commission, it is it is this and tackling anti Semitism. And you know, I mean, look, we've had royal commissions for all sorts and governments call them. Let's face it, they've been called in the past for political reasons because a government wants to kick a goal against a former government.
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Speaker 12: But then yeah, then why can't it can be combined with federal one and state.
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Speaker 2: Not to no, because they'll cost a found them. I know, I know, well, look cost New South Wales because it's their Royal Commission. But that's right, the you know, AZIO and other agencies would well I don't think it would stop them giving evidence to the New South Wales one, but they report to the Commonwealth. That's that's the death you want them. That's why you want a national one. I think.
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Speaker 12: Well, then those as O staff get exemption and are able to report to the New South Wales Royal Commission, and then.
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Speaker 2: It's there because you know what to with that you'd have And I get it if you beef up the New South Wales one. But this is where I think the New South Wales one probably isn't as necessary as a federal one because you apply the findings from the federal one right across the country, as opposed to the New South Wales one, where you'd have different states saying well that doesn't apply to us.
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Speaker 12: Well yeah, but that's where the whole problem is in. It's like the ADS and the Navy or the police force. Now we can't talk to the federal police because that's feduab plice. Right, come on, this is Australia, one country.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 12: I'll serve for one country, one person I've served, and there's other thousands of people who are serving for one person country Australia, and you're Richard. Have a great new year YouTube gaitful what you do and it's yeah, it's always good listening to five.
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Speaker 2: Double A love you listening Richard, Thank you, thanks, y bye. Got a text from Michael a bit earlier, Michael at Oakland's Park who says, I noticed you're not mentioned in five double as twenty six on air lineup. When will we hear you as you're very popular with the listener's having new year to you. Thank you, Michael, you two. I'll be around. You'll hear me, You'll hear me in news, You'll hear me filling in. I'll be around the place. Thank you for the text though. Thirteen to nine on five double A, eleven to nine on five double A Tony and pain them Hi.
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Speaker 1: Tony, good morning, Matthew.
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Speaker 2: How are you really well? How are you going good?
01:54:40
Speaker 1: Thank you? Yesterday I was at t tre Plaza and now I'm beholding Cole's supermarket. What did they put it out? Hot coss bun?
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Speaker 2: There we go? How many pagets you buy?
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Speaker 1: I didn't buy any. I know in Audy stores they to them all year round. Really yes, audy stores to them all year real one, that's interest in having hot cossbunds all year round?
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Speaker 9: Just go down?
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Speaker 1: Is they doing more year round?
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Speaker 2: Okay? Fruit and bless and chop the chip and all of that.
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Speaker 1: What I saw yesterday at the cold store plaza, I think they were just fruit ones that they were putting out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Now, also you were talking about snakes before. Now, I used to work in the age care industry, and I'm talking about years ago. We had a snake at one of the nursing homes. I was under a patient's wheelchair near the kitchen and dining room, and luckily they had sliding doors. And the director of nursing that was acting in charge at the time come and got me and said there was a snake under one of the residents wheelchairs. So what I did was close the sliding doors between the kitchen and the dining room, opened the security door that went outside, and luckily I told the resident not to move. I just pulled his wheelchair back and there was only a baby bound snake was about eighteen months old anyway, when the snake actually came and caught it and said it had enough venom to kill twenty adults.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're pretty.
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Speaker 1: There was only a baby, so imagine if it was a pully grown one kill Yeah, but that's the first time I've actually seen a snake in person. Really, it was only a Yeah, it was only a baby. It was a brown baby brown. Yeah, I mean beautiful color. But yeah, I couldn't believe how much damage just a baby could do.
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Speaker 2: Twenty adults and they're poisonous at the minute they they're born. They're born with that there, so you know, you see it hat you can bite you and kill you at that point. Yeah, scary.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for the story. See it, Bye bye, nine to nine. How about that snakes. They're out there, they're warming up and the weather is too. Don't get stuck on the side of the road. Get raa road service. Better to be a member with our road service. Let's check fuel prices around the place. BPX Convenience on Stebenheath Road out in the north dollar forty eight point five. That's today's winner. That's excellent. The BPX Convenience Plimpton Anzac Highway, corner of Cross Road up the top there dollar fifty five point five and the solo at Windsor Gardens on Northeast Road dollar fifty five point five, the diesel mobile Hillcrest, Northeast Road dollar sixty nine point five, and the mobile at Shidow Park Commercial Road dollar seventy five point five. So there we are, and use the RAA app or any other app to give you information on fuel prices near you shop around it and people ring up and say, you know, you see it up at some servos dollar ninety nine the peak price you'll pay for fuel at the moment, and people are there filling up. And it makes no sense when across a road or you know, half a kilometer away, if that down the road petrols at a dollar fifty, who'd be filling up for a dollar ninety nine? But people do. I don't get it. I don't get it. Julie from Blakeview on snake shi juels. How are you?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, good morning, Matthew. You know you've ruined my You know I love you, Matthew. I just would listen to you. Oh no, you know that you just runed my whole day from about seven o'clock this morning talking about snake Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sorry.
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Speaker 18: They are my biggest phobia in the whole world, and I dread this summer. Not that I go anywhere near like you're talking about going up into national parks and on trails and everything. There is no way on this earth that you would get me anywhere near a trail or anything where there's grass or whatever. I have enough trouble working for walking around suburbia. Just have this really bad snake phobia. Shopping, Yeah, I can't look at them on TV. I know every ad on TV that has a snake, so I'll turn it over before it gets to it. I can't look at them in a book, a paper, yeah. Yeah. And I had the shocking dream the other morning, and it was so vivid. I woke up and I was in a little deep sleep and I woke up shaking my hand because I have this not just not did I just get bitten by this goddamn snake. It was latched onto my finger. And I wake up out of this dream and I'm thinking I've still got the snake latched onto me. Oh yeah, if you knew my husband, just ask him my snakephobia.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 18: It's just so bad. And I've been like it all my life and it hasn't changed. It it gets worse as I get older. And you know, he said, oh, let's go somewhere where you can overcome it, and just pat one and I said, you got closing. And he was in a pet shop the other day and he came home and he said, oh, I just saw some snakes. Of course, I thought outside snakes and he said, no, no, no, I was in the pet shop and I said, oh my god. I said, I'm not going in that pet shop.
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Speaker 2: Would you hold a python that has not.
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Speaker 15: Matthew?
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Speaker 18: Oh no, no, I like I said, Matthew, I can't even look at them in a book a paper if I'm reading the Sunday Marcuse I always like to have a physical read the paper, Sunday Mail. And if I come across a snake in the paper lot, there might be somebody called one or saw one or whatever, and he's lovely photo looking at me, I have to call him and he has to come and take that page out and destroy it, get rid of it.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember, Julie, Back when we were kids, if you went to the Adelaide Zoo, the snake pit. I mean, these days it's all behind class, but you'd go to a pit and stand up on a little step and there was a stone wall and the snakes were in there. And I do remember that.
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Speaker 18: I do remember it, yes, but not me. I didn't look at any pit. And when we've been to the zoo, my husband's fascinated when we're both love animals of any kind, but you know, snakes don't bother him at all, and he likes to go and have a look in the snake house and I just wander off somewhere else. There's just no way, possibly under any circumstance, and I accidentally did. I went into the Nocturnal house, and before we went in, I said to him, now, will there be any Will there be any in there?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 18: No, you won't find no. No, because you're walking along on the start and they can't see. And I'm following this man with his little little kid, and the kids said, oh, I look, daddy, and I'm looking like you're nice, little fluffy or whatever, and the kid says, look, Dad, look at this, And of course I looked and it was a snake. Well, I screamed, didn't I My husband was about fall back and a sin as off screen. He said, oh my god, no, that's Julie in your off screen. So yeah, and I just ran outside and yeah, that's it. No, I don't know why, massive, but I've always been like it always will be. And then when you started talking about them this morning at about seven o'clock, great, that's a good way to start my day off. Massive.
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Speaker 2: I'll try not to do it tomorrow, Julie, please, and I will continue to listen to your Matthew. I love you too, Julie, thank you, thank you very much, and for the call as well. Coming up to around two and a half to nine on five, double A Pete says the people filling up at servos at the higher price of people who have a company cart and company fuel card from their employer. Rob says, years ago, I used to live behind the ABC building. One morning I saw a good size brown snake in the street there. As colins would, they can pop up anywhere. Patrick has sent me a photo of hot cross buns on shelves, and this person says. The reason baby snakes are so dangerous they can't control the amount of venom they pump when they're young. Right, I don't know if an adult can do at any what they ration it off? Do you think I don't know thanks for the text. Though, Bob says Morning Matthew in twenty five twenty six, a citizen's religious faith should not be the determining factor in deciding whether a Royal Commission is needed to determine whether there are signals highlighting a terror attack was imminent. The fact that Australian citizens were slaughtered by a couple of crazed individuals is more than sufficient reason for a Royal commission. Completely agree, Thank you, Rob. That's where we'll leave it. Thanks for your company, Stay tuned. Richard Pasco follows the news in a round about ninety seconds from now
