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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Friday, this thirtieth day of January. Hope we find you well. You in the path of the wild wind overnight caused havoc over many suburbs, mainly I think in the eastern and northeastern suburbs. Quatters Fly had to be diverted to Edinburgh. Thousands of homes were left without power. We'll find out the latest on the power outages from sa PAR network shortly. Also on the show today, we'll look at the weekend state politics with My News political reporter Gars MacDonald. Another resignation by a senior state government minister. Is there anything for Peter mallanask us to be concerned about? Are you looking to work from home this year?
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Speaker 2: Will?
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Speaker 1: A new Australian study is revealed the dos and don'ts of requesting remote work to maximize your chances. There's alarming research suggesting Ozzie's a delaying hospital care due to upfront costs. According to a survey by gm HbA cost of living pressures and upfront excess health fund costs and negatively impacting one and two Australians with hospital cover, forcing them to delay or avoid surgery. If you've been impacted. If you've been forced to delay surgery because of the cost factor, give us a call let us know about it. Eight double two three double double OW iPhone issues. Over recent days, we've been hearing that older iPhones with Telster may have troubles with triple O. Well, it seems the latest iPhone upgrade, the latest operating system, is causing more problems than that. People are having trouble with signal strength. People are having trouble just making contact with the websites and the like. So what is happening there. We'll speak with picker dot com dot au tech expert Lee Stark about that and other issues regarding iPhones and technical things. So if you ever question might be an idea to get on the line. Eight double two three double double O is the number to ring. National Cabinet is meeting today. If anything comes out of it, we'll bring it to you. Being Friday, we look at the week in media with Nick Hays and some interesting developments on the media front, and Nick will bring them all to you. I see that Google searchers have taken a new turn. Twenty twenty six seems to be the era of how to search, how to become a real estate agent was the top trending. How to become Certificate three in fitness searched dramatically up to two hundred and thirty percent. How to become rich in Australia. I think a lot of us would like to tap into that one. How is the best way to learn trading? Also climbed Ozzies are also searching for inspiration this year, with searchers for how to be a better person spiking, they're up three hundred and seventy percent. Are you a regular Google user? Well, I guess most of us are. What is or has been your major search? And have you what do they call it? Self improvement? Self help? How to how to become a brick layer? How to fix a leaking tap. That's a wonderful thing about Google that you've got a little problem around the house and you just go how to to Google? Or YouTube? Maybe YouTube is the way to go, but to Google is changing over the years. How to become smart? That's an interesting one. Some of us coming from a long way back eight double two to three double double and we've want to go down memory lane. Regarding the heat forty one degrees is coming up today? How did you deal with the hot weather in the old days. Wait, today, dealing with the heat is more about the cost of turning on your air conditioner and staying indoors or plunging into the backyard swimming pool. But heat waves have always been with us. In nineteen thirty nine, Adelaide had a run of thirteen days of thirty four degrees and above. I noticed the advertiser had a great article on it this morning. It was an era when the iceman didn't even knock when he entered the house, a time when sleeping outside under the veranda, on the back lawn, the beach, or even in public squares was commonplace. The South of Stralians tried to escape the relentless heat. The heat waves of one hundred years ago were just as brutal as today, only without modern conveniences. No air conditioning in the house, no air conditioning in the car. Houses were insulated or are insulated now, but they went back then. There are backyard pools and refrigerators. So how did you cope with the heat way back? When I'd like to hear about it? Eight double two to three double o double, Oh well, how did you cope with the winds? How did you cope with the wind a wreaking habit across Adelaide last night? Thousands were left without power. There are anxious moments for passengers on the Quantus flight from Melbourne to Adelaide. The Bowing seven three to seven was diverted to Edinburgh after winds at Adelaide Airport reached seventy two kilometers an hour. Louise Bonner was a passenger on board the Quantus flight.
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Speaker 3: Just interesting, I think coming into Adelaide. Actually we were literally about to land and then all of a sudden, the plane just started to take off again and it was pretty bumpy, and ten seconds after sort of trying to take off mid air again, the train the plane, there was a bit of turbulence and the plane, you know when you have those little drops occasionally had a couple of those. But I was on the plane with a couple of friends and we were trying to work out what was going on, and I thought it may have something to do with the air traffic control that my friend was pretty sure it was to do with all the extreme weather and turbulence, and we were informed later before we arrived in Edinburgh that it was due to the wind change changed and so on.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's most unusual for a plane to be diverted to Edinburgh. Mark Hoffmeyer is the Australian International Pilots Association spokesman. He explained the reason to the boys on breaking this morning.
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Speaker 4: Called katabatic winds. Effectively, you get a difference in pressure and temperature due to obviously it's really hot at the moment, and if you picture it, the Mount Lofty Ranges effectively works like a bit of a slippery slide for the wind. So they come down the hill and unfortunately their orientation relative to the main runway that later airport makes it all crosswind and you get different levels of wind at different directions at different heights. And my understanding is this flight got to about one hundred feet above the ground and the captain then obviously decided to give it away that it was unsafe and it looks like I'm not sure what their fuel state was, but the captain obviously made a decision that the safest course of action was to take the aircraft up to Edinburgh, which if you picture it, it's a bit further away from the hills, so it's less subject to those sorts of wids. So that they are able to put the aircraft safely on the ground and obviously get fuel and before coming back to Adelaide. Due to look, historically, pilots pushing bad situations, and there's been accidents in the past. Most airlines now have what sort of classified as stable approach criteria, which is things like you wind, the air speed, the tracking, the engine, trust and if those parameters can't be met, you need to conduct a mist approach. The other thing they may have got was potentially a windchier warning, which also requires the pilots to perform a windhy escape maneuver. And look, the good thing I'd say is that, yes, it was an inconvenience all the passengers. But the one thing that we're not talking about this country's accidents. Yeah, you know, our pilots don't push bad situations.
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Speaker 1: Mark Hofmeyer, explaining the situation most unusual. Did you experience the winds last night? Gully winds only extreme gully winds From the text line, Chaz says high Graham, you might like to contact SEES headquarters as hundreds of volunteers were ut last night as trees came down in the high winds. Great effort by all chas. We will speak to sees after the break and find out about the blackouts too. Essay Power Networks how many homes are still affected?
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Gram Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Nine minutes past nine five double A. Well, it's a lot mild than it was last night, although some of us living in some suburbs didn't feel or were aware of any wind at all. But those gully winds encroached way along eastern suburbs into the north eastern suburbs and caused craziness. But thankfully we have wonderful sees people who get out there and rectify matters. We will speak to them shortly. But there were a number of power outages overnight. Bringing us up today to SA Power Networks. Celia Shultz Seily, good.
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Speaker 5: Morning to you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 1: A busy night for SA Power Networks.
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Speaker 6: It has been a busy night, and I mean more generally, this heat wave has really just demonstrated the multiple network challenges. You know, Bush we've had bush fire risks fearing heat and then you know what we've seen last night is really the combination of gully winds with trees which are very, very stressed from this prolonged heat period. The winds that we saw last night generally wouldn't create the kind of impact that they have, but because these trees have been struggling in this heat, the branches are coming off a lot easier. So since about four point thirty pm yesterday, we've got about five thousand customers about the fly at the moment, But since these winds kicked up yesterday at about four to thirty, we've had a cumulative total of about thirty five thousand customers impacted and about fifty wires brought down, So we've had crews working overnight. We're actually bringing in contractors and additional regional crewise because there's been so many wires down, we've had to shift to a bit of a model where you have actual volunteers coming out and watching wires until crews can get out there and make them safe. And their priority needs to be making wires safe before they can do full restoration work, so a lot of customers don't have estimated restoration times yet. That being said, we are confident that we will work through the outages that we currently have today, but also we are expecting more gully winds tonight and tomorrow night, so we're having to think about right now planning for that and potentially more outages tonight and tomorrow night as well.
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Speaker 1: How many crews would you have out there at the moment.
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Speaker 6: I think we've got over twenty crews out there at the moment, but that's supplemented by other contractors and then additional regional cruise that will be coming in, so there'll be more than that on throughout today. And then you also have those volunteer why watches as well going out and supporting by watching downpower lines.
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Speaker 1: So it's virtually or effectively the perfect storm, isn't it. As you've said, the winds of that strength would not normally cause the chaos they have, but because the trees have been under stress from the hot weather, it's brought about their downfall.
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Speaker 6: I guess that's right, and I mean I guess we have to be grateful for small mercies. Thankfully, the temperature itself is set to come down tonight. I'm relieved that we're going to be seen hopefully the last of the forty degree heat today, because a few more days of that would have obviously just made things much more complex and difficult.
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Speaker 1: Cecilia, thanks so much for your update. Let's hope the winds drop off and your cruise get about their job and get things rectified as soon as possible. Thanks for your time. Thank you Graham, Celia sure Sessa Power Networks about five thousand outages, but about thirty five thousand customers were impacted over the period of time. So with the crews operating and understand that they're not going to be able to get the power back on as soon as we like. Although facing a forty degree day or forty one degrees, you can understand that people without power are feeling anxious and pretty concerned. A double two to three double is the number to ring if you want to comment on the situation regarding the wild wins, where you were when the winds struck and what impact they had. Well, the SEES has been incredibly busy overnight, as you can imagine. Joining us now is State Duty Officer Stephanie zak Krevsky. Stephanie, good morning to you, Good morning, an exceptionally busy nine.
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Speaker 7: It was.
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately for our crews. They were out there all night and with just those constant trees that were coming down thanks to those gully wins.
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Speaker 1: So we just heard from networks that the trees were stressed. I mean, the winds weren't necessarily really strong enough to blow down limb or take off limbs under normal circumstances, but because they were stressed, that was causing the issue.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. Celia's absolutely right. Much like you and I who get very tired and fatigued and exhausted after a number of days of high temperatures, trees are exactly the same. And the way that they manage their heat stress is to drop limbs. And they're already stressed because of the heat, and then it just takes those gusty winds that were caused through the gully winds that we saw last night from about four pm yesterday and that were really sustained overnight, and it just added to the stress that they're already feeling. And we saw those limbs come down, and we saw those that impact sort of occur right through that periv in space where it was from the southern suburbs at the bottom of the mount of the Ranges all the way through up towards Kapunda there and the impact was really felt in the eastern suburbs in particular.
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Speaker 1: How many callouts would you had.
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Speaker 8: We've had about two hundred and fifty call outs since four o'clock yesterday when those winds picked up, and they keep coming through with Obviously, we welcome that as people are discovering they wake up in the morning and they're discovering those trees down and needing requests for resistance from sees. We please ask people to continue calling us on one, three, two, five hundred. Our volunteers have been working really hard throughout the night. It was a long and very muggy night for them, but they've been working really hard to stay on top of them. But we thank everybody for their patients as they get to their jobs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we certainly appreciate the work they do because it's pretty thankless and they're working under pressure and extreme often under extreme and dangerous circumstances. So I guess what has to happen. The power lines have to be secured before you can do anything about clearing away broken branches or fallen branches.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, any trees that come down that involve power lines, we do require them to be made safe obviously before our crews can start cutting away. And we work really close with theirs, so Power Network crews with regards to that, and Celia's mentioned about the while Watchers volunteers is really fantastic and it's something that allows our ses crews to be freed up to attend other jobs that haven't been entangled in power lines, and so we work really closely with them to be able to make sure that we're doing the best we can for the community as quickly as we can to clear those roads.
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Speaker 1: Now you've had what two hundred and fifty call outs? Are there people still waiting to be helped?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we do have a number of jobs still outstanding, and as I said, they're sort of trickling in now. This morning as well, we had a bit of an increase in tempo as people woke up sort of from about six o'clock this morning and they discovered trees down outside and on their ways to work and things like that. So our crews are now still working through. As I said, they've been working all night and now we've got fresh crews coming out and rolling through those jobs as they can. So I just ask people to be patient. We are working hard to try and get through all those jobs.
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Speaker 1: I think most people appreciate. Stephanie, thanks so much for your time we'll let you get back to it.
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Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Zagrevski from the state or she's the State duty officer of the SEES. Hoping the fact that the gully Wins won't be the same again tonight as they were overnight. Let's find out from the bureau. Ursula O'Connor, ursula.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 1: How's it looking for the winds gully Wins tonight?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, not looking as likely as what we saw last night. We're going to start to see the winds come around a bit more, sort of south to southwest. Rely so I'm twenty to thirty kilometers per hour with guss possibly up to forty to sixty kilometers per hour out of the southwest there. But yes, not quite as strong as what we saw last night.
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Speaker 1: We're still looking at forty one today, yep.
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Speaker 9: Still going to be a warm day through Adelaide. The heat, I guess has been the main story over the past week or so. Yes, Adelaide itself heading for forty one, Glen ele thirty nine, Elizabeth forty three, nor Lungar thirty seven, and Mount bark Up thirty six. As we move into the weekend, though, there is reprieved from the heat on the way, We're going to start to see a ridge pushing into the by that's going to direct a southerly flow over the Adelaide area. Tomorrow, we are still headed for a top of thirty two, but then there's significantly cooler changes expected to sort of really flush that heat out as we move into a Saturday afternoon and evening, and by the time we get to Sunday where we're going from. You know, temperatures today through the Adelaide area above average by sort of ten to twelve someplaces even fourteen degrees above average, and by the time we get to Sunday, we've got those maximum temperatures six to eight degrees below average. That's going to be a very noticable change on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: In the shock to the systems. Thanks for time, Ursul Connor from the Bureau of Meteorology. Stinker hot today, but to look forward to Sunday, it's going to feel probably quite cold, Karen says. Morning. The wind last night and still this morning is extremely strong in Woodcroft. Lots of branches and debris on the streets. Eight double two three double o double. If you want to tell us about your situation regarding the storm impacted. Is your power off? And how have you coped with it? We'll take a break eight double two three double o double o after that the weak in state politics? Are there alarm bells ringing in the state government. Another senior cabinet minister has announced their retiring.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: How do you cope with the hot weather? Yeah, I know we had plenty of it. Another one today forty one degrees. Interesting article in advertiser this morning about how we did cope with the weather way back when, when there were no refrigerators, when homes weren't insulated, when there was no air conditioning. What do we do? How did you cope with it? Eight double two to three double double ow like to hear, Julie says. Eastern suburbs foothills have been smashed two nights in a row. One of those nights was yellow bin night. But I'm thankful all around me there's power, or there are all around me there are power outages, but we have power. I'm nursing my ninety four year old mother at home, and not to have air during this time for her would be challenging Julie. Yeah, be thankful that the power is not out in your area. There are five thousand properties still without power. The SA Parnett worth working as hard as possible, but you can understand the pressure they are under at the moment. Well, an interesting week in state politics. Another broadside has hit the state with or the state government. In fact, less than two months out from the election, another front benchers quit. That's the third in less than six months. Small and Family Business Minister Andrew Michaels has announced her retirement from politics before the March twenty one election. Is that likely to have any impact on the outcome of the election? What can we read into it? Joining us now is nine News political reporter Gus McDonald casketballning burning Graham. You know, three resignations of senior ministers in a short time. If the government was any in any less imperious position, you'd tell you they've got something to worry about. But have they?
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Speaker 10: Maybe sil Graham.
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Speaker 11: I didn't get that feeling when the Deputy Premier Susan closed and the Treasurer Stephen Mulligan stepped away.
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Speaker 10: This one's a little bit different.
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Speaker 11: There was rumors that Andrew and Michaels might step away last year towards the end they were expelled, and so it's interesting that now we're hearing, after the debacle of riots week after Christmas, that she's now decided to step away. With only say, two months to go until the state election. There's not much time. I assume label will pre select someone in her seat of elder relatively quickly.
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Speaker 10: It is a safe labor seat.
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Speaker 11: But the fact that she's chosen to step away now when she would have been given time to do it last year, maybe that suggests there are a few cracks in this labor outfit.
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Speaker 10: It's an interesting time to step away.
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Speaker 11: I obviously saw her comments that said that she had the flu over Christmas and that gave her enough time to think that she might want to re turn to law. I find that an interesting excuse. There might be other things that played here, but maybe she wasn't happy in the government and just wasn't willing to continue. I think public life is really tough. It's a full on job, but so is law. So it was an interesting development this morning and it might suggest something else is that play there in the government.
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Speaker 1: Any suggestion that the Premier was not particularly happy with the way she's been handling things.
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Speaker 10: I wouldn't go that far, you know. I've heard rumors that maybe.
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Speaker 11: There are some government members who you know, are having to face the music on some tough issues, and that is Right's wheak for Michaels, she's sort of left at one point for her mess clean up. I don't know if she would have loved to have had to deal with that, considering she had nothing to do with the start of the whole debarkle. But no, I hadn't heard any suggestion that the Premier wasn't happy with how she was performing. I don't think she was pushed at all. I think this is a decision that's been made by her.
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Speaker 12: Well.
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Speaker 1: On the other side, the Liberal Party leading into the state election, there's still no candidate for.
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Speaker 10: Black I find this extraordinary.
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Speaker 11: You know, it's not that long ago that David Spears won that seat against the tide in twenty twenty two, was returned to that seat and was a very popular Liberal member in that seat. You'd think that the Liberal opposition, who you know, are sizing up certain seats that they're looking to gain back seat in a by election he lost to David Spears in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 10: He then won in a by election just a few years later.
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Speaker 11: He's now fifty days away from a state election and he's got no opponents. I cannot believe the Liberals are sitting so long to pick a candidate. And the big question is they're probably waiting to see whether David Spears decides to run. I think, regardless, you'd think you'd get your candidate out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you certainly would. I mean, they are the alternative government, aren't they, after all? And you would think that fielding candidates in all seats would just not even be an issue.
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Speaker 11: And maybe the opinion is, oh, if David Spears runs, they run someone who's not a chance at all. But regardless, you think you'd still put up the same candidate that you'll run in twenty thirty because you need name recognition. People will see that someone was on the ballot in twenty twenty six and they'll see them again in twenty thirty. They might not win this time around, but at least they'll have a better shot in twenty thirty if they've all already run once.
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Speaker 1: The election is less than two months away. How have you seen campaigning so far, it's.
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Speaker 11: Really ramped up after the new year, hasn't it grained. We've seen some pretty big policy announcements, a little bit quieter this week. The governments used this week to sort of tie the end of the bows that they'd been laying for four years or so. We saw the Aquatic Center on Monday, we saw the trams on Sunday. This was the big week where they said, look, this is what we've achieved over four years and now we're ready to go again.
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Speaker 10: The opposition were a bit quieter this week.
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Speaker 11: We saw an announcement from them on Sunday, I believe, which was to do with their sand pipeline, that they're going to pull sand from the northern Beaches down to West Beach. That's a very strong local issue, especially in the seat of Colton, which is going to be a really interesting contest as well. You've got Beck Sutton they're running to the Liberals and Aria Bolcus running for Labor. That was the only issue I thought the Liberals really cut through on this week.
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Speaker 10: They were pretty quiet.
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Speaker 11: They've also, you know, they had some good announcements last week, but I thought they were pretty quiet, and I think it's just going to get bigger and larger and louder over the next couple of weeks, bigger policies.
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Speaker 10: We saw a lot of education this week as well. Again that was another issue.
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Speaker 11: Labor promised at the last election that they were going to bring in three year old preschool that started this year for the first time. It was a good week to the government, I think, compared to the opposition red policy announcements.
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Speaker 1: Do you think One Nation is going to play any factor at all.
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Speaker 10: I think they'll have their best ever state election.
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Speaker 11: I get that feeling, or at least the minor parties will in the Ledge co whether that's Jingle getting elected, whether that's a Sarah Gain getting a candidate in, whether that's the Greens getting two candidates in, I think it'll be big. Obviously, we've seen the federal polling that suggests One Nation is doing extremely well compared to the Liberals at a national level. Does that translate to a state level, I don't quite know. I think people do vote differently at state and federal levels.
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Speaker 10: One Nation doesn't have a huge.
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Speaker 11: Footprint here, but I think they'll probably do the best they've ever done in South Australia and it'll be interesting to see how you go. At the next federal election, they might pick up a senator here in South Australia.
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Speaker 10: If this continues on this trajectory.
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Speaker 1: Well, this state election will be a good litmus test for one nation because obviously, as to say, they have never had a big impact here. But federally, of course, Pauline Hansen's one thing, you know, it's the second most popular party in the nation at the moment. It would be good for her to dip a toe in the water. Do you think she's likely to make any appearance ahead of the state election.
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Speaker 11: It wouldn't shock me at all, and especially considering her popularity at the moment. Seems like what she's doing, you know, managed in the right areas.
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Speaker 10: She doesn't seem to be doing much wrong.
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Speaker 11: It's a little bit of a reflection of like a global attitude, isn't it. You see over in the UK Reform Party in Nigel Farage that has just grown and grown and grown, and he's now being considered as a you know, angel prime minister there in the UK, and the same conversations are now happening around Pauline.
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Speaker 10: People looking to vote anywhere else but the major.
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Speaker 1: Parties Yeah, there does seem to be a major turn away. I mean that the federal labor is not in any danger at the moment because of the fractionalization of the factionalization and the coalition that doesn't exist anymore. So it's a pretty clear run for the government, but one nation is certainly making an impact coming back.
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Speaker 11: To be really interesting to see how they go at this state election, But as I said, I suspect they'll probably do the best that they ever done.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of Ashton hern as opposition leader in the short time time she's been in.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think she's been really, really impressive.
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Speaker 11: She's had a really tough job to take over at the time she did, with the pressure she has, and she's a very capable politician. It's interesting and you know, I look forward to asking there this to her eventually when times passed a little bit. Does she wish she took over a little bit earlier because the lady the later it was left, the heart of the job was always going to be. She's a very talented media operator, always has been, and she sells a message.
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Speaker 10: So I think she's been really, really, really talented.
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Speaker 11: I think the government would be very cautious of how they manage the messages they point towards her, and they need to be because she's a very decent operator.
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Speaker 1: Assuming what we do, assume that Labor will be re elected, probably with an increased majority. Do you think that will damage Ashton Hearn's reputation.
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Speaker 11: Look, it'll be tough. I think voters will be forgiven. They know she's taken over at such a late stage. And it doesn't matter because I think she's of the understanding that she's not going to win this election. She's got the next four years after this election to build her reputation.
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Speaker 10: Just as long as the Liberals aren't reduced.
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Speaker 11: To say single figures, I think she'll have some sort of foothold to be able to.
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Speaker 10: Retribute any damage reputation she gets from this election.
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Speaker 1: Gus McDonald, thanks for time and you're insight appreciated.
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Speaker 10: Thanks Greg.
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Speaker 1: That's nine News political reporter Gus McDonald on the state of the state leading up to the state election. It will be very interesting to see what impact One Nation candidates will have. One Nation has not been particularly strong in South Statia, but the Pauline Hansome factor, the fact that she now leads the second most popular party in Austratia and she's quite happy to speak out on issues around the nation. She spoke to the Boys on Brecky this morning. She says that it's going to be a test for one nation in South as Stradia.
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Speaker 13: It is going to be a test case for one notion by all means, and we're putting a suite of candidates across the whole stage. We've got a great announcement coming next week. We're really focusing on that, on this election and what we want to do for the state.
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Speaker 1: And we might hear a bit more from Pauline Hanson a little bit later on in the morning. Eight double two to three, double O, double O. Dan says, completely silent down in the western suburbs. MSN weather is telling me it was no more than fifteen to twenty kilometers an hour. Well, obviously was stronger than that at the airport, wasn't it. That's in the western suburbs, the gust of seventy two kilometers an hour, but it was isolated. And I think I heard that the issue was that the way the gully winds funneled down, they literally funneled down in the direction straight towards the airport and that caused the problem. If you have a comment on that eight double two three double o double or the fact how have you dealt with the extreme weather over the years, or more importantly, how did you deal with it years ago? Jody says, hi gg before air conditioning, I used a wet towel draped over myself with a fan. On approximately twelve years ago, I was on a medium sized plane can't remember what type in Manitoba, Canada was very windy and instead of landing in Churchill, diverted to a place called Thompson. The landing was very scary, but the skill of the pilot was incredible. I guess that's when they're put to the test. A normal, everyday flight doesn't mean much, but when they're called on to do something out of the ordinary, that's when you appreciate to what they do. Back shortly five Double.
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Speaker 2: Ay Mornings with Graham Goodings and.
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Speaker 1: It's already thirty one degrees on its way to forty one today, but there is relief in sight. Good morning, Graham. After listening to your interview with Tomkutson Turners yesterday, I tried the Energy Made Easy website I'm sorry. Whilst extremely easy to input your info, the results are not easy to understand, not use a friendly at all. Still no wiser wondering if Tom's tried the app seriously disappointed, or perhaps it was just me. Good on your bet and I we'll take a look at it as anyone else tried the app. I'd like to know if you have. It's Energy Made Easy that was recommended and suggested to us by Tom Kutson Turners yesterday when we had a very interesting chat. We'll take some calls in a moment on eight double two three double oad below. But first the stocks. The All Ordinaries has started the day slightly up by nine points. A SX two hundred also up by thirteen points. The dar Jones closed up by fifty five points. The Nasdaq, however, closed down by one hundred and seventy two points. Oil sixty five US dollars a barrel. The Ossie dollar still strong seventy US cents. Mario, good morning.
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Speaker 14: Good morning, Graham. I don't know if you remember I called you before Christmas regarding an issue of a tax debt that the tax office was chasing me for twenty five of twenty twenty five years ago.
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Speaker 1: I do recall it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I just thought to give you an update. It's quite comical to be honest with you. Anyway. I contacted my local member, which was clear Classenham is a local member in Norwood. Yeah, and they represented me and contacted the ATO. I then got a call from or. I had to call the ATO a lady who was a complaints line, and she told me that the debt would be removed and there would be a confirmation email.
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Speaker 15: Sink to me.
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Speaker 14: That was three weeks ago. I haven't got anything. I've tried during this person three times now and left messages, no response. It appears that the tax office ignored ignoring me. And also I've gone back to Claire's office to advise them that nothing's been done and no email has been sent confirming the debt's been removed. And it seems to me that the ATO is a law unto themselves.
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Speaker 1: That's a bizarre situation. So you were involved in informed by the ATO that the debt would be rectified, the whole matter would be cleared up. You get an email and you've heard nothing.
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Speaker 14: Since, heard nothing since this is a clear case. I call this robo debt. They're sending letters out to people asking them to pay a debt that relates to many, many many years ago, which was originally on hold or apparently it wasn't on the on the tax report, and now all of a sudden's being recovered. So I'd have to classify this as like a robo debt type instant. And the way the tax office is behaving is disgraceful, and I'd like to see, well what do you do? It looks like the tax office can do whatever it's like. And I said to the tax office, I said, but I said, how can you go back to stuff that goes back twenty five years? I said, if I had business and I was wanting to chase the debt, I have a statute limitation of sixty years. Well, she said, that doesn't apply to the ATA.
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Speaker 1: We can do whatever you like, as you say, a Laura, and to themselves. Look, we'll make some inquiries with the ATO, Maria, because it just seems a ludicrous situation. You know, this is sort of hanging out of your head. Do you want to clear it up and put into the past. So look, stay tuned. We'll see what we can find out and get a spokesperson from the ATO on Let's take another call out to clemsig Terry.
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Speaker 16: Good morning, Good morning Graham, how are you good.
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Speaker 1: Thanks?
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 17: This morning I heard Ashton Hern talking to the boys and she was stating she stated that she was going to fight to keep the torrens on On power station going for a few more years.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: Well, I just wanted to know. It seems funny because everybody talks about the Larren's Island power station. I was a mechanical fitter for years and I used to do shutdowns at Terrence Island and I also used to do shutdowns at Pelican Point. Right now, nobody ever mentions the word Pelican Point NGI own it, ERGI actually owned it now. I think it used to be t t X some or other. I can't I can't remember who it was, some American county, but I think Angie's got it now. But just just in answer to that, I know there are fifty percent capacity apparently at the moment. I just wanted to find out what's going on and what we can do to get some more power into the system, you know, or what the what their main game is.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting. We'll make some inquiries. It's Angie that's running Pelican Point, isn't at the moment.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, Yeah, Angie's the one got it at the moment. And I've heard, I've heard the word that they were running at fifty percent capacity because they're doing something with battery stories or something. But you know, I mean it's nice for us, you know, as the public. You know, we should be aware of what's going on.
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Speaker 1: We will make inquiries. I can't tell you exactly when we'll find out, but we will make some inquiries. Or someone might be listening that works at Pelican Point. What is the situation with Pelican Point? Because power is a vital issue in this state, an issue that still comes to mind to me, that does concern me a lot. And Tomkinson Ternus has conceded that we'll always need gas, that we need firming power. Renewables cannot do it on their own. But there are things that no matter how many renewables you have, there are industries that can't fire up. Now. Aluminium is one of them, steel works, cement works, fertilizers. They just cannot get enough power out of renewables. That's been conceded. So what is happening with Port Agusta. Shouldn't we be considering firing that up in another way, building another qualified power station. I know the government won't hear of it, but what really is the long term future for the wireless steel works? Where is the power coming from? Will that have to be gas? And we know how expensive gas is? Like to know? Eight double two to three double O double o. Christine, good morning.
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Speaker 18: Oh, good morning, and hello, how are you?
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Speaker 1: I'm well?
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Speaker 19: Thanks good.
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Speaker 11: I was on a.
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Speaker 18: Flight from Perth last night that was JQU Triple one that was meant to arrive at eight point thirty and we hadn't.
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Speaker 16: Aborted landing too, oh right, yes, and.
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Speaker 18: The pilot did it. We nearly landed and then the wheels went up, and heard them, and then he quickly went up and was very bumpy. And then I think we went out to Edinburgh or Paris, but I'm not sure. I could see an airstrip, so maybe they were thinking of doing that. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But you didn't land there. You didn't land it Edinburgh, no, we did not.
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Speaker 18: Then we came back and he was quite bumpy, but he handled it very well, and probably I think about twenty minutes later we landed but it was very windy.
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Speaker 1: Did you have any concerns?
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Speaker 18: No, but I think other people. Yeah, it's not a bit shaky, but I have had that my third demanding ever. But you know, I thought I was, but it was very frumpy out there.
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Speaker 1: Christine, thanks for sharing that story with this.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I look, I think as planes come into land, we're all just that little anxious to the wheels hit the ground. But you're coming in coming in, the planes slowing out, plans slowing up. You can see the airport runway almost at ground level, and then all of a sudden, the power up and back out into the air. The first reaction is what in the hell's going on? So that's interesting from Christine to say that there was a second flight that was diverted, although it was able to eventually land at Adelaide Airport A double two to three double O double. If you were on that flight or another one, I'd like to hear from you. Chris says, I found the Energy Made Easy website to be useless. The information was difficult to interpret, and when I calculated my bill using the electricity company and plan I should change to, I would have been paying more than with my current provider. Thank you about Chris. Look, we might make further inquiries if anyone else out there tried to use the Energy Made Easy website. Does it in fact make energy easier? I'd like to know on the text Lane Hi, I had strong winds in Attleston, Newton, Campbelltown and Ross Trevor area from Wednesday night. Plant pots have been broken, made at at times hard to walk, a big mess. However, they and others in the area have enjoyed so far the cool wind that has as brought fresh air blue. And everyone looked at me like to say, where have you been sleeping, because I was I can't think of the area, but gully winds were impactful, and no one in the newsroom lived anywhere near the hills, and they just sort of said, what do you what are you going on about? It wasn't breezy last night. Eight double two three double oh Energy Made Easy website. As a chicken, all this does is offered me a comparison of foxes to choose from. Wow, that's a good analogy like that. The building site next door wind was so strong last night a temporary fence blew over in the middle of the night. Yeah, some of the wind must have been fearsome. There's no question about that. We'll be back tonight again, Gully wins, but the Bureau suggests they won't be as strong and that would be a breath of fresh air. Can we say that for the sees who are working overtime at the moment to repair the situation A SA Power networks about five thousand properties are still without power. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number? Do you have an iPhone? If you had trouble with it lately, did it recently upgrade or did you recently upgrade the update the operating service? Well, if it's with Telstra, you might be having problems with triple O. You might be having other other problems too. I've spoken to people who have said, all of a sudden, the signal strength has gone. They are talking to someone on the phone with full bars showing, and they go downstairs or move out of the area and all of a sudden bars disappear. Crazy, So what is happening. We're going to speak with tech expert Lee Stark about that from Picker dot com dot au and I want your calls on how you cope or did cope back in the days before air conditioning, back in the days before insulation and housing? What did you do to stay cool?
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's eight minutes past ten as we enter the second hour of the show. Thanks for joining us. Well, are you an Apple iPhone user? Many people are. Have you been having trouble lately? The operating system was upgraded and they can sort of do it. You can either opt in or opt out. My feeling is always due. Were oh wait till a new system has been around for a while. They're buying out the bugs. Well, appears there could be a few bugs, particularly for iPhone users on Telstra Summer experiencing severe signal loss and connectivity issues. It's been suggested that the problem is primarily affecting older iPhones like the eight and eight plus a iPhone ten. But I was talking to talking to a friend yesterday. He's got the latest liphone. He said, he's having real trouble with the signal strength on phones. So what's the issue. What's going on here? Best person to speak with is Picker dot com dot a U tech expert Lee Stark Lee. Good morning to you. Come on man here, you going, yeah, well, thanks, no doubt you've been asked this question over and over again. Is it an issue with my phone or the operating system?
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Speaker 20: Uh, it's probably an issue of your operating system. Sometimes it's an issue with reception. The two issues you're talking about are very different. So we'll tackle the iPhone eight one first. So earlier this week, a whole bunch of updates were made to older phones. Anything over seven years is technically considered all but the iPhone eight, iPhone eight plus, iPhone ten well arguably some of Apple's more successful phones. They're nine years old now roughly, and so it's unusual that they'd received an update this late. They did, and unfortunately, the updates had a really interesting catch where it stopped anyone on Telstra or Telstra connected smaller operators like Willy's Make Belong pretty much anyone that used the Teltra network from being able to connect the patches out.
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Speaker 15: Now.
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Speaker 20: It's a really awkward fix, and it's one we can actually say over the air, but it's so awkward that you don't just go to your regular settings and make it work. If you did upgrade and had this weird thing where you weren't able to connect to Telstra, you have to do these really specific settings changes in order to reconnect. So that's one thing newer iPhones not being able to connect. That's actually a cross between the phone itself and more than likely the connection that you're on at the time. So that one is probably that one could possibly be Telstra, whereas the one we're talking about, the iPhone eight and ten, that's definitely Apple, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was saying, I was contacted by a friend is that he's got the latest iPhone, and he said in his building, he can be talking to someone on the phone and go downstairs and all of a sudden, signal strength drops away to nothing.
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Speaker 20: So that can usually be explained by some of the devices in the actual apartment or an entire building. So a good example is some people might not have really well shielded microwaves. I actually have one of those. I'm testing in the kitchen right now, and when the microwave switches on, pretty much im interference goes up and the phone loses connections. So that could be related to other appliances inside the house or inside the building that are just not playing nicely. That's distinct from what's happening with the iPhone models that got an update.
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Speaker 1: So what advice do you have for people.
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Speaker 10: For which one? For the people who are.
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Speaker 1: I'll leave it with you with the older iPhones.
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Speaker 20: So if the older iPhones, you pretty much have to go to your settings right now. And if you were affected by this and you downloaded the update, go to Settings General and about, and Telstra and Apple would have basically sent out a small what's called a baseband updates. You don't need to know what that is, but all you need to know is that your carrier settings will be fixed. So a little alert will pop up in Settings General About that says accept the carrier settings fixed. Basically, just hit okay. Once that's done, just scroll down in about screen to where it says service providers a whole bunch of little settings in there, and it should say the words Telstra fifty four point one next. Once it says that, it tells you that you're on the most updated carrier settings and at that point you'll be connected immediately. If you didn't upgrade your iPhone this week, you'll be fine. In fact, the latest update going out now has should should be totally fine, especially given that Apple is aware of this happening. But anyone who did upgrade, and we know the number should be somewhere between five hundred and fifteen hundred people across the country, but we don't have an exact amount on the Apple would know that. Basically, if you're one of those people, that's all you really have to do. Just go to settings General about press okay, and you'll be back connected again.
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Speaker 1: All right. And the issue of those with newer phones who find with Telstra they're getting severe signal loss.
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Speaker 20: Go outside. It's a terrible logic, but the closer you are to a or the further away you are from an inside building where is a risk of other devices impacting your interference things like that, the more likely you are to have a stable signal. Inside has never been perfectly great for a lot of devices. For a long time, Optus actually had the edge on that, and that was in the areas of two G and three G and we don't have that anymore now. Basically, four G, five G and Wi Fi are competing with all the other devices in your house that have electromagnetic interference. So the best thing you can do to get near a window, go outside, go on the patio, do things like that, but the further deeper inside of a building, you go, that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it does seem unusual that this has not been a problem before with earlier operating systems. Yet when the new operating system is introduced, now it's a problem.
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Speaker 20: It's less likely the operating system and more likely an optimization around the antennas on it. Keep in mind the phone itself. So he's got a brand new iPhone. It's not just that he's got a new operating system. He's also got new antennas. He's got Wi Fi six C or Wi Fi seven built into it. So there's a lot of different factors there, more than just the operating system.
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Speaker 1: Okay, good advice, Thanks for that. My feeling generally is just as a total novice, when a new operating system comes out, I don't leap to get it because I think if there are any bugs and that I don't want to have them, so I'll wait a month or so just to see. Is that a good idea for a lot of people?
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Speaker 20: That's totally fine advice. As long as you actually update within that month or two, that should be fine. A lot of people actually save their updates for years. They actually The first complaint they'll go when they go to somewhere like an Apple store to get it fixed is there's been no update for about six months to a year, So that's actually quite normal. A month is totally fine. A lot of people leap to updates. I don't either. I usually wait two or three days for something actually to happen. Sometimes I will test updates when well ahead of time, but for the most part, waiting a few days a week, a month, that's totally fine. Just make sure you get them once they've been out there for a while.
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Speaker 1: Now leaves something I want to put to you. And maybe I'm paranoid and that I've always worried about systems like Siri and Alexa listening in on you, and I've been reassured of time that they're not listening in they only respond when you speak to them. But I see Google's facing a class action after users claim the company was in fact spying on them.
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Speaker 10: So it's really weird.
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Speaker 20: As a technology journalist, every time someone says to me that my devices are listening in on me, the answer is, actually they are. They are absolutely listening in on you, but because they have to, because they have to be triggered by certain words. So I dare not say the words that trigger all the smart speakers, not just for the listeners of this show, but also for everything in my office, because it will all pick up. But the reality is they all have to listen. Then what they're not supposed to do is always record. So listening is one thing, recording and storing the data is another. And so I think what you're referring to is that Google is effectively settling a case at the moment in where it's been passive. It's supposed to be passive monitoring and not record, but it's been proven or I guess alleged that it's been recording alongside of it. There are elements where it will actually do that. There we go, there are elements where it will actually do that and store for certain period and the Google and Amazon even have a little library you can go to in your history to find what you've said in the past. But it's not supposed to record past a certain point. It's always It's kind of like a security camera. It's always paying attention, it's always on, always recording, but only when something happens is it supposed to store that information?
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Speaker 1: Right, And is Apple with SyRI in the same situation.
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Speaker 20: Possibly, but how it stores its information is really what's critical here. I don't think the accusation or in court is the issue that it's always it's always technically listening, because it is, it waits for a statement about its smart assistance and then it wakes up. The problem is of the recording. So any device that has a smart assistant could be a part of this, provided it's always actively on, and that usually means your iPhone with Siri, Android with Google.
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Speaker 1: C Will this mean problems?
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Speaker 20: It shouldn't, So there are a couple generations of the iphe What they're talking about is some of the iPhone se models are based off an iPhone eight and one was based off an iPhone eleven. It shouldn't because the iPhone SC takes a slightly different operating system, and also it's been largely fixed. As I said, when Apple realized what had happened with that Telstra update, it did what's called an unsigned patch, which means it pulled it down and no one could update to it. So you'll find if you've got an S or an eight or an eight plus or a ten and new update to the new version now because Apple has fixed that. But with the issue with the with all devices also affecting your phone call. That's something that affects every phone. So the closer you can get to outside or to a window, the better.
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Speaker 1: So much information, so much advice. Good on you, Thanks for that tech expert, least dark.
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Speaker 10: Great to chat, always happy to help.
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Speaker 1: Aiding past ten five double a GG with regard to your now is man talk about it? Yeah, with regard to your friends, five double A Mornings with Graham. Goodings and good morning to you if you've just joined us. Twenty two minutes past ten is the time we're going to take some calls in a moment, so if you want to get on the line, do so. Eight double two to three doublelow double low. Andrew says, to keep cool. As kids in the seventies, we'd run through the sprinkler in the backyard and visit friends who had a pool. We had a pedestal fan or pedestal fans in our bedrooms. The living room had an evaporative air conditioner on wheels that Mum would fill with water and ice blocks. The car had no AC so you'd wind down the windows. The school classrooms had ceiling fans. Good on you, Andrew, thanks for that. Yeah, memories, memories, memories. We didn't even have fans in our place. I remember. I remember my father would come home from work on a stinking hot day and he'd go out and he would turn on the hose and he would hose down the house, particularly the roof. He'd try and cool it down by hosing it down. And we'd often sleep out in the backyard, which was great fun, I must admit, John, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Good morning Graham. Yes it was great fun. Or remember those.
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Speaker 1: But I won't give up the air conditioner though, John, would you?
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Speaker 15: No, No, neither will lie. The best thing's ever been invented. I've got a little story for you. I'll be very brief and quick. In December last year, unfortunately we had to have a cremation for my sister. Cost us twelve thousand dollars for the funeral service. We then found out that to have her ashes interred with Mum and Dad was going to cost us a little plark put on Mom and Dad's headstone. Who's going to cost us another thousand and eighty dollars? So okay, we come up with the money for that. Yesterday I got and informed the brass plarks being made and it'll be done in eight weeks. I said, would you advise us the day that you're going to do this so we could my two brothers and I can be in attendance. She said, if you want to be in attendance, that's going to cost you another two hundred and sixty dollars.
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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, on a remarkable situation, Why are you being charged to observe the plank being put up? I can't quite follow why that.
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Speaker 15: Will wash the ashes being into Yeah. Yeah, to me, it's just it's a blood sucking event that goes on a sucking month. Try to suck money out of people anyway they can.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Well, I'm not impressed. And I just told the particular lady when she passed that information on, I said, well, it looks like we won't be in attendance, and I've said that to me, is an insult to my family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can understand how you feel. John, Thanks for sharing your story with us, and commiserations go to you and your family too. I don't know what the policy would be. Maybe all cemeteries have that same procedure and const structure if anyone's listening who knows, give us a call eight double two three double oh, double oh Elizabeth.
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Speaker 21: Good morning, good morning, and thank you for having me on.
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Speaker 1: It's a pleasure.
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Speaker 21: Concerned about this vote for the Aboriginal Voice at the same time as we have of our state election. I just want to sum up. We have a federal part a federal government that votes every three years and they are about nine members that are average of Aboriginal background. We have a state election every four years and I think there's one Aboriginal person. We have local government, and now we're going to have this vote for Aboriginals, which is in my view, absolutely unnecessary because there were about five hundred people voted for the Voice when they had their Clever site and four of them resigned and we don't know whether they had another election to put those four people back. But anyway, so they are represented in our federal parliament, our state parliament and what is there what is their need when we already have all the laws that are made both federally and state look after every person, every Australian, and we are all Australian and they are duiplicated with their state bodies. Now we have to aide by what this Aboriginal Voice, which has about five hundred people apon it only.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, Elizabeth. It's only advisory body that it can't suggest to the government, you know, what policy will be. They can look at pieces of policy and say we'd like to see this, that or the other. But the government is not beholden. They do not have to adopt. It's just an advisory body, yes.
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Speaker 21: But they have to be voted for. So when we go to our election, will there be people handing out how to vote cards for the Aboriginal people for our state parliament and people handing out how to vote cards for the Voice?
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Speaker 1: I think that's just for Indigenous people. I don't think that, yes, what they.
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Speaker 22: Have for gram And I sort of have a change of subject today because I want to take my hat off to Jessica Adamson as a journalist for the Advertiser. She wrote this fabulous article on Wednesday about the bone marrow donation for this young man and how it saved his life. And the background to that is very extensive because many years ago, in nineteen seventy one, a little boy called Anthony Nolan was born at Redwood Park and in nineteen seventy four, his mother, Shirley Nolan, because he had this bone marrow illness. She got this idea from somewhere, I don't know where, to start up a register to register everybody in the world with bone marrow. And eventually that happened, and that is why that young man's alive today, and she's given more than twenty eight people the chance to live. How wonderful She's no longer alive because she developed Parkinson's. But I just think that's a wonderful connection within Adelaide, that we have these wonderfully, really bright, brainy people who are so futuristic in their thoughts. And there was nothing to do with computers or anything like that there, and then it was all just down to her and her thinking and concept and desire and love to save her boy. And he died at age seven. So it's a sad story there, but a very happy story for that young man here.
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Speaker 1: Oh and thanks for passing that story on for us. So I did not read that article by Jess Adamson. I know Jess write some great articles. I missed that one, but thanks for passing it on to our listeners. My number is eight double two to three double O double. We'll be back after news headlines five double A.
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Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Pretty eight minutes to ten or to eleven. In fact, on five double A this Friday morning, we find you well as the temperature climbs to forty one degrees today, trying to stay cool. We were hearing from Mario earlier about tax debt that he's been trying to have cleared up. It's been going on with that tax department for twenty years or more, Geraldine Wright, So I had exactly the same from the Taxation apartment. I had help from Rebecca Sharky's office. The debt, which I know we didn't have, was removed immediately by account and checked. I agree, very strange. Carton said they had a client who owed one dollar for twenty years. Yeah, the Australian Taxation Office has a lot to answer for, but they don't answer to a whole lot, or for a whole lot. Over the last week or so, we've been getting a lot of calls regarding bulk billing doctors not bulk billing people paying the gap specialist charges. A lot of issues that are concerning a lot of people with good reason alarming research suggests Ozzie's a delaying hospital care due to upfront costs. According to a survey by GMHBA, cost of living pressures and upfront excess health costs are negatively impacting one and two Australians with hospital cover, forcing them to delay or avoid surgery. Let's find out more about it. Meg Rainer, healthcare communications Specialist, Head of Corporate Communications at gm HbA. Meg, good morning to you, Good morning, thanks for having me on. Now tell us about this research.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, so we researched Australians just to better understand how the cost of living pressures are impacting their access to hospital care. And it was really quite startling to find out that one in two with hospital cover had delayed or avoided surgery because of the upfront excess costs that some health funds are charging when people do try and go to hospital. It's not something that GMHBA charges. We actually waive that excess cost, which can be up to seven hundred and fifty dollars per per hospital admission. So obviously that's quite a lot, particularly if you're having to have multiple visits in a year for simple things like a cholonoscopy or an endoscopy or an eye surgery or infusion. Even so, it's quite startling to hear that people have been putting those really important health things off.
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Speaker 1: Well, a lot of these are things that you shouldn't be putting off because it could be life threatening.
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Speaker 23: Absolutely, and you know, when we were speaking to people about it, you were in conducting the surgery. A lot of people were, i mean unaware that there were health insurance like GMHBA that don't charge this because they're putting things off like a surgery to remove a tumor, you know, and that's just horrifying. And those who aren't putting it off, you know, are potentially putting themselves even in more debt because they're either relying on a credit card. You know, we had eighty one percent of people were saying they were going to rely on a credit card for a same day procedure. That's the stress alone of having to deal with a health thing and then having the financial pressure on top.
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Speaker 1: It's just awful to any or does anyone in the situation who approaches their doctor saying, look, you know there is any way you can wave this because it's something I can't afford. Do they get the affair.
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Speaker 23: Oh look, I'm not sure how it works on a doctor to doctor basis. I mean as a health fund, it's something that we make eligible for. We make a sorry available to honestly most of our members that have that eligible cover, just because everyone should have the right to be able to access these things. So all of our members with Basic Bronze Silver Hospital Gold Cover, they've got the access waiver to access the same day hospital procedures. So I think it's worth having that informed medical consent when you're going for any procedure or booking in for any sort of thing like that that is going to impact your health around what costs and what can be claimed on private health, what can be claimed on medicare, what your doctor is able to do for you. Have those discussions up front. We don't want people to be having the extra stress of putting off a surgery or something that you know could potentially impact their long term health. Its absolutely not at all something that we would want to see. And you know, we're not for profit health insurer. We've got more than ninety years experience and this is something that for us, it just should be something that our members shouldn't ever have to worry about. You know, that's why we did this research to understand understand a better impact this is having on people.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's no question that the cost of medical and hospital benefits are increasing. I mean time, the cost of living pressures are coming from all angles, and power builds are going up to the supermarket. It's cost you more all the time. So people have to weigh up the fact of you know, how much have we got to spend on medical and hospital benefits and there are so many options available in so many different levels. It can all be a bit of intimidating.
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Speaker 23: Oh, undoubtedly it is really intimidating. And you know, we have really trained experts in our customer care team who can take those calls from our members or people who are curious about our fund to learn more about it. We try and make sure we've got really detailed information that's easy for people to understand on the GMAHBA website. And we just want people to sort of have a think about as a long term investment in their health. You know, like if people look into things around how young they're joining their healthcare fund. If you join after thirty one, you are going to look at extra taxts on top of that, so it's worth looking in.
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Speaker 1: That's a good advice. Thanks for that. That's Meg Rayner, head of corporate Communications at gm HbA. Are you one of those Aussies delaying hospital care due to upfront costs? One in two Australians are doing just that. A reminder that we're going to have Federal Health Minister Mark Butler on the program next week and if you have any questions for him, and I'm sure you will have, I'll let you know when he's coming on and you can give him a call. But you can give me a call now on eight double two to three double O. Andrew says, I'm in age care admin. I just want people to know that with the new Support at Home scheme, which commenced on the first of November, if you weren't on a home care package before that, you will now have to pay a percentage of contribution out of your own pocket for cleaning, shopping, transport and home help services that were fully funded by the old home care package scheme. It's a deceitful government cash grab. Thank you for that, Andrew. We will certainly put that question or put that situation to the Federal Health minister hi Gg grow up in the seventies. Were a family of ten, mom, dad, seven brothers and me, youngest and only girl. We had a two bedroom home, double brick. After a couple of hot days, the house would heat up, no cooling at all. Dad also squirt at the house arm with the hoes. We used wet tarles to cool down. Slept on the back lawn at night. My eldest brother taught me all about the Southern Cross and the saucepan stars and the night sky. We'd all walk down to the beach at night. Wonderful times. Yeah, you put aside the fact that it was pretty tough. It was hard going, no cooling, no insulation of the house, but the memories that brings back and the thoughts. Yeah, you'd lay on the lawn looking up at the sky, looking at the stars. You'd learn a lot, talk to your family, you know, no phones, no TV going, no social media. Just yeah, amazing times. Tough times, but amazing times. I can remember we go down to the beach. You get a stinking hot day, so we'd all drive to the beach and you spend the day at the beach and when the sun dipped below the horizon. You'd go home and you go to get in the car and it was like getting into a furnace, absolutely stifling hot, and of course there was no air conditioning, so you open the windows and you drive home. By the time you got home, you're hot of than when you got to the beach in the first place, but still, and then there was no cooling when you got home. Ah, yeah, wonderful times. Eight double two three double o double. How did you cool down in the tough times? I'd like to know eight double two to three double double. Oh, let's know about that. Well. Pauline Hansen was on the Brecky Program with David and Will this morning, answering whole lots of questions. She was very outspoken regarding the state of the Liberal Party around the nation.
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Speaker 13: South Australia's right across the whole country. And if you think you might have it bad down there, my god, I'm in Victoria at the moment. It is atrocious in this state. They really are a basket case. And you know, people are screaming out for someone with clear, common sense policies, make change and make a difference in the state. All they want is hope for the future. For the future generation and it's nothing given by the current governments. It's like, you know, these politicians doing there for the own jobs security. They get to pay a packet. I don't think many of them go out on a limit will represent the constituents. They follow the party line and if you look at most of these parties run by the units for big, big multinationals. So where's the representation for the people and this what they want? They want to be heard.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Pauline Hanson's One Nation is now the second most popular party in Australia. It has to be spoken of in terms of an alternative government. I know we're a long way up from an election and a lot can happen between now and then, but people are taking Pauline Hanson seriously, particularly the federal government. We'll hear a bit more about Pauling Hanson or from Pauling Hanson a little bit later on. Let's take a call Paul good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning. I too swept on the backlawn as a kid.
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Speaker 24: You imagine these days, gone out in the backyard and sleeping on the.
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Speaker 4: Pavers ah it's modern hothhouses.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, they're not too much grass to be seen.
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Speaker 17: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 25: Bye, Blae.
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Speaker 1: Good on your Paul. Yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, what we did and how we coped and you couldn't wait for the iceman to come around them. Well, when I was really, really young, we didn't have a refrigerator. The iceman would come once or twice a week, and you'd have an ice chest and he would put a huge block of ice into the ice chest, which it seemed to keep things cool for a few days, and then he'd need to come again. I remember, well, I don't remember, it's before my time, but that huge heat wave spell in Adelaide there were thirteen days over thirty four degrees and people were really put to the test back then, and the ice works, which was government owned at the time, broke down, which caused ice rationing. Can you believe that there was ice rationing in Adelaide? How things have changed? Do we have it easy now? We complain about when we should turn the air conditioner on, although we've got good reason to complain when it costs a lot for the power. Pat good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I love you.
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Speaker 14: Trip down memory land.
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Speaker 12: I remember it, laying down in the laundry with wet owls and the fan going.
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Speaker 14: Of course we were that rich enoughter on the air condition of it. Yeah, you think how much times have changed.
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Speaker 12: I just think now when I heard the last gentleman talk how we could sleep on the grass. And but you think now, if you're outside hosing your house down, some greeny ass white or someone, will you complaining about you the counsels and you can't afford it to run your air condition So have things change for the bear over time?
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Speaker 14: Not really, I reckon they've gone bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your paty. I take in what you say. I wouldn't give up the air conditioner for anything, But I vividly remember my father always coming home from work in the middle of summer and the hook up the hose and hose down the house, particularly the tiles, and it would effectively cool down the house a little bit, but not a lot. And you'd pray for some sort of breeze, just any sort of gentle breeze, because I can't ever remember in our household even having a fan. I just just don't know. But yeah, and when you went to school and if it got too hot, they'd send you home. It's too hot to be at school, So you'd be home by midday. That sort of doesn't happen these days because with two parents, usually both working, there might be no one at home, so the school becomes a babysitter as well. But back in the day you would be sent home if it got beyond a certain temperature. Memories, if you have any, I'd like to hear them at double two three double doh double.
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Speaker 2: Low five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twelve minutes two eleven five double Eli says we would bring the mattress on the lawn. Only worry about that was the creepy crawley. How did the mother's cope? Now electricity in some country is doing the washing, boil the copper to do the washing. If they had sick kids, how did they cope? And of course a lot of the stoves way way back then were wood burner stoves, so if you were to do any cooking in the middle of a heat wave, you'd have to fire up the fire up the stove, throw the wood in it. Ah dear, oh dear, And we think it's tough these days. Eight double two three double double the number thirty five point one at the moment heading for forty one degrees today, we're trying to work out ways and remember ways we kept cool way back in the day. If you have any stories, I'd like to hear them on eight double two three double O double ow. We're thinking about ways of keeping cool today, keeping our animals cool. What about animals in the zoo? Joining us now? As Ian Smith, director of the Minato Safari Park, Ian, good morning to you. Yeah, it's something that I guess most of us don't think about, but animals effectively out in the wild, although they're in captivity, they're still effectively in the wild. Is there any steps you take to keep them cool or help them keep cool?
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Speaker 26: Well, certainly, Yeah, a lot of the species we've got out of Minado, they're sort of heat adapted there from the similar sort of locations around the world, whether it's Australia or Africa. But yeah, we certainly bear in mind that on those days. You know, we offer them as much choice as we can, but we make sure that they the opportunity to seek that choice, and we provide them with extra sort of things to keep them cool as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it would be difficult. They would try and seek out shade, I guess that would be the first thing. Animals would try to do.
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Speaker 26: Certy shade and try to minimize their activity as well, so they're not sort of moving around. So once they've got that shade, they're not encouraged to move around and they can preserve their heat generation.
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Speaker 1: As you've said, most of the animals there have probably come from similar sort of climates like in Africa. But are there any there that the South Astonian environment is totally foreign to them?
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Speaker 26: Look, I wudn't they completely foreign? You know, you would think, you know, we've got things like Asian elephants, but even Asian elephants in the wild they go through a dry season where they go through similar sort of temperatures and humidity sort of extremes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. So I guess there's not a lot of activity at the moment among the animals on a day of forty one degrees or more.
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Speaker 26: Well, they're not sort of you know, charging around the habitats as they usually would be. You know, there's a lot more tolerance of each other, you know, when they're trying to sort of you know, squeeze that a little bit of shade out, but they share it out quite equickly. It's great to.
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Speaker 1: See any evidence of any of them under stress.
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Speaker 26: Look, I think we certainly they're under some stress, but that would be the same instid of the world and for any animals really, and we try and make sure we don't push them a little bit too far. You know, every animal that sort of temperature is operating it sort of it's physiological maximum.
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Speaker 1: Really, I guess things are fairly quiet at Manata at the moment. You probably wouldn't get too many visitors on a day like today.
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Speaker 26: You know, today is probably not as bad as you know. We'll work close for three days, you know, just the last weekend on the SAT date of Monday and Tuesday today would be a normal for quiet time. Anyway, schools have gone back and you know, the numbers have really dropped off the last few days.
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Speaker 1: And going to the other extreme. Not that southa Stratia has real extremes in temperature, but in the middle of winter, is that present any problems for any of the animals.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, We've got sort of things like you know, wind breaks that's going to sort of keep them bit warm, and some areas have heating as well to sort of tape a chee off the air, because even at BNADO there'd be some mornings where we get around freezing temperatures.
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Speaker 1: Ian Smith, thank you so much for your time. How animals at Manato Zoo cope and they it sounds like they're coping pretty well, probably better than most of us are coping, Graham. In the late sixties, I experienced something worse than no air conditioner in a car no radio. We drove from Adelaide to Queensland with my mum's new husband singing all the song from South Pacific, the movie All the Way to Queensland. Now, sixty years later, I'm still trying to get those bloody songs out of my head. Steve, I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair. South Pacific. There were wonderful songs in South Pacific. But I guess being in an enclosed space for hour after hour hearing those songs, I don't know how well your mum's new husband sang thirty five point one in Adelaide. At the moment at Parafield it's thirty six point five Kooba Petie forty one point seven Roxby d Arm's forty three, Renmark thirty five point nine adelaide, of course, heading for forty one degrees today? How do you cope with the heat? How did you cope with the heat? Way back when? I'd like to know, my wife's neighbor used to deliver blocks of ice and kerosene by horse and carriage. Would walk into the kitchen and put a block of ice into the freezer, into the compartment and then just walk out. I can't remember that happening at our place, but I can remember the nightmare before we had an indoor toilet and there was no sewerage system. It was an outside system, shall we say, And the night cart man used to come and collect the cylinder from under the toilet once a week. There's a job for you. Remember the water slippery sides slides that used to have in the backyard and you'd have them on for hours, Well not anymore. Yeah, that was one way to keep cool, wasn't it Turn the sprinklers on. My father would going put the sprinklers on and say, all right, gave for your life. So my brother and I to get outside and run around in the sprinklers was wonderful. But yeah, these days, would you be able to do that? Just let water run like that. Dur Any degree gig Re, Pauline Hanson. I have voted liberal all my life. I will be voting for one nation next federal election. Liberals have lost their principles and are distracted by who's going to lead the party instead of focusing on what's best for the country. Thank you for that, Steve Well. As we've been playing some segments of Arline Hanson, who was on The Brecky Show with David and Will this morning, she was asked if she'd considered a switch to blow a house.
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Speaker 13: Look, it hasn't gone to my head, and a lot of people are calling for it by all means. But they even put it in our movie and I didn't have any idea about it. But anyway, so it's about.
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Speaker 6: A laugh having a laugh.
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Speaker 13: But the whole fact is, Look, no, I'm going to just keep going the way that I'm going at the moment. I haven't got a spell heard about it. Think about Prime minister, the country. All I wanted to get the right people in to make different people flives out there in turn out country around to prosperity, give people want a decent stand living way of life. That's not my aim is it's not about Pauline Hanson. It's about the country and about the people.
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Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson, What are your thoughts? Her movie was banned, her caricature of what Well, I don't know what you'd call the movie, but if you've ever seen her on social media, their little excerpts, little comedy skits, having a go at the government, et cetera. It was to be shown at cinemas in Melbourne and evidently the workers, they're the staff, they're kicked up a stink, so they stopped and decided not to show it, and then they change their mind again. How is it the workers can say, oh, you're not going to show that. We don't want you to show that movie. Where are we going in this country? And I don't know that the movie is saying anything. I mean it might, it might cut close to the bone and offend some people, but is that any reason to ban it? I mean, are we're getting to the stage that if anyone's offended that's good enough reason to ban it? What are your thoughts? Alan?
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Speaker 16: Good morning, Yes, good morning, Graham Graham. I'll guess you notice the pay rise this morning for the South Australian book servants of one hundred bucks a week. Yep, thirty thousand people, which is three million dollars a week. Or if you want to multiply it by fifty two, at four hundred and fifty six million dollars per year.
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Speaker 1: Yep, adds up, doesn't it?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, sure it does. Where's the money coming from? Water race?
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a good question. I mean, I'm not saying that these public servants don't deserve the pay rise, but we've got a wonder that is there a bottomless pit because you know the government is spending money hand over fist at the moment, both stayed and federal.
01:17:12
Speaker 16: Well you could say too that you know, I'm a little bit naive, but I think this is probably a bribe to make sure that thirty thousand public service won't vote for the state government.
01:17:24
Speaker 1: No, allan, how could you ever possibly consider that?
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Speaker 15: Oh?
01:17:28
Speaker 16: Well, me, I'm just suspicious.
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Speaker 1: Ah Well, I mean, well, I'm going to see if the nurses pay dispute what the government is settled before election day, because at the moment they're not accepting the offer that the government is putting to them.
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Speaker 16: That's right.
01:17:44
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if their settlement is reached just before the election.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, that would be Elizabeth Dabar's doing.
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Speaker 1: That's the one. Yeah needs to be Allan. Thanks for your call. Yes, this is the time that the government is trying to patch up. I saw one of the government's adds to what they'd achieved over four years. It was very impressive and they have done a lot, but of course it patches over the problems that they have for things like ramping, which is still an issue. The big issue with them, of course, is they promised to fix ramping. It's not like we will do ours, there's no question about that. But the way they've handled the alder bloom crisis I think has been poorly done. But have the opposition been strong and highlighting the weaknesses of the state government. Not so sure about that. I like to know what you think. We're talking about how we dealt with the heat way back when before air conditioning, and I was talking about the family going down to the beach and then at the end of the day, you know, you'd cooled off and you go to get in the car and it was like a furnace. Somebody said, yeah, you've got third degree burns from your seat belt. Yet this younger generation reckons they have it so tough. Well, I guess every generation has its pluses and minuses. Unfortunately, in this current climate, with the cost of living crisis, you have to make decisions on what comes first. If that means living in your home or having some day surgery, your home will always come first. Eight double two to three, double double is the number. Ring will take a break. Then after the news, after the eleven o'clock news, we're going to look at the week in media in review with Nick.
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Speaker 2: Hays, five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings by.
01:19:21
Speaker 1: Fast eleven five double A on a Friday, and we know what that means. Time to talk media with Nickays. Nick, welcome back. Have you New Year Christmas Easter?
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Speaker 19: I'll let us say that on the thirtieth of January.
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Speaker 1: Look, a lot of people think you shouldn't sad on New Year's Day. I know it's chocking.
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Speaker 19: Good to see you looking fit and healthy and twenty twenty six. What a big year this is going to be.
01:19:43
Speaker 1: Well, Look, there's a whole range of things to talk about. Probably the most current is what's happened with the nine Radio.
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Speaker 19: Nine Radio Big announcement this morning, So a lot of the listeners will be aware that obviously five double A is owned by Nova, so it's not affected by radio at all. And you've got two GB in Sydney, you've got three AW and Melbourne, four BC in Queensland, six PR in Perth. Now that's been on the market. It's been on the market for about three or four months of heading up out of twenty twenty five. A lot of quiet bidders coming in, a lot of very well known bidders coming in, names like Singleton, coming in, Hutchison from the SEG group. They were all had a bit of an interest. Thirty odd million was what they wanted to pay. It hasn't gone that way. The announcement has been made. Channel nine has sold the four stations for fifty six million dollars to a publican, a New South Wales publican. And it is really quite remarkable when you think about it. Now it's Arthur Laundy. Now, Arthur Lawndy has quite a reputation. He's probably the single biggest owner of pubs and hotels in this country. He's worth a wpbout one and a half billion, so he's not short of a dollar and he snapped it up for fifty six million.
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Speaker 1: Dollars, so way less than probably what they paid for it.
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Speaker 19: Oh yeah, so Singleton's sold to GB for just over eighty million dollars, not more than a decade ago. And that's just how far or where this is gone. And you know, buyers sell, it's a buyer seller's market. I think in this case it is definitely a seller's market. But sorry, a buyer's market. But yeah, I think nine will be very happy with that. And as a result, they've gone out and bought their advertising company QMS. They've really locked down their approach to the East Coast. So there'll be a few sort of warning signs going up to those in the on the West coast at six PR as to sort of what's going on with them. And I think it possibly is very good news for listeners and listeners to talkback radio on the Eastern seaboard. I think there's a good chance that there's a long long there's a long future for talk radio on the East Coast.
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Speaker 1: The only concern I would have is I would like working for a station. It to be bought by somebody who has some sort of knowledge of radio or television or whatever. You happen to be in. What does a publican know about radio?
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Speaker 19: I know, I know, Graham, this has been battling my mind all morning. What does he know about this? I mean, look, he's obviously a big advertiser with traditional media and he will know what the cost of that is. So he's buying into that future there for him and his family moving forward. I think that there is something about someone who might be a fan of talk radio and want to see its success not necessarily just take it by it, sell it up, break it up and make a dollar out of it. I mean names like Singleton and Hutchison. You know they're big business people. They want to make a dollar and you know, never never hold or hold back anyone trying to make a dollar. But it would be commercial first for audience now, and audience is everything when it comes to talk radio.
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Speaker 1: So two GB and three OW are incredibly.
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Speaker 19: Successful, incredibly successful, one of the biggest radio programs, the breakfast program three AW, Ross and Russell, biggest in Australia, just short of Pembo and will we won't tell at the heels we won't be telling them that. But and then you've got ben Fordham, who is incredibly big on two GB, and then you had likes of Ray Hadley that were big names on the East Coast that could be potentially coming back. But the rest of their programs are doing well. You don't necessarily need it.
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Speaker 1: Don't think it with it, you don't think it with it.
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Speaker 19: So I think it's good news for radio. I think when we talk about the decline of some media, traditional media and where it's falling over, radio is still very successful. It still grows. And the reason I think that is Graham is because you know, people will be listening to this in their car. They might be listening to this great, but they could be only how that alternative is listening to a podcast, and that takes extra energy and time to do that. But we're such a mobile or society that radio does very well and current.
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Speaker 1: I mean a podcast is basically a history lesson. Yeah, you know, if something like if something while we're talking now, if something happens in Canberra, Intostate or wherever we're on it, I'd say, sorry, Nick, We're going to cross the camera for the Lakers. That's what radio can do. Don't worry.
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Speaker 19: That's happened to me many in middle of a segment. It's like, no, we've got the Prime minister.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 19: Look, and talk radio is very much like social media for older people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well exactly, that's what it is.
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Speaker 19: It is and it keeps us connected, it keeps us informed, engaged, entertained. I think it's a good move. I think they're going to do very well out of it. So that's the big news out of Sydney today. It's been listed, it's been bought, it's been sold, and it's good news I think for listeners across the East and seaboard.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for further developed. The thing with radio is I look, I'm old enough to remember the time before television, and when television started people said that little bit of the death of radio. Who's going to listen to radio now? When you've got pictures you can see it all happening in front of you. Well, radio survived, it evolved and changed, changed dramatically and where television is probably now freeware television is you know in a part of the state.
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Speaker 19: And look at you, mister TV talking about because you're back on radio doing the very thing that you do well. And video killed the radio star. It's that great song no talk radio connects. Communication is everything. And while we're human beings and this is not even in an AI world can take over. As long as there's a connection and you're making someone feel good, you're entertaining, like I say, informing them, then we're always going to have a successful medium here. So keep it going.
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Speaker 1: Not a disagreement. So what else is happening? Then you've been away, you've been off overseas. Did you miss all at the end of the cricket and the start of the tennis?
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Speaker 19: Got all the crickets? Tennis? I start, I just missed. I've just spent nine days in New York City, Graham, and I thought I could come back and tell your stories of really derelict leadership in the United States, turmoil and everything like that. When you're in New York City, they don't mention Trump once, not once did I hear Donald Trump. I watched a lot of media. I went and visited quite a few media houses. Obviously they're big on Trump, but people in New York City not so. But to come home to a breakup of a coalition one nation, pall Enhans and potentially now the opposition party and also Albaneze is still sort of bereft of any form of leadership. I mean he's doing, according to the latest polls, doing very well with his response now to BONDI but I was just shocked by that. I thought, you know, we throw a lot of barbs at what goes on in the United States and what happens politically there. Hey, we should start taking a little bit more notice on what's happening here. Yeah, because we're not that good at it. Oh, we're not that good at.
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Speaker 1: It, right, I tell you. I on holidays, spend a little time in Singapore and if you want to go to a place that's well run, well organized, it's a very expensive place to go to, but they know how to run a city state. Yeah. Yeah, everyone loves it. They always complain about it's being too expensive, but everyone has a home, a roof over their head, a path in life where they can succeed if they want to. You sort of think, why can we be more like that in Australia.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, it is amazing because I think it's just comes down to this, the egos that go on within political parties and individuals, is it's just staying alive for them, not really having the people's thoughts views and ambitions sort of looked at, and that's really upsetting. I thought we'd be coming back to be talking a little bit more about the travel roots once sort of BONDI light down. I thought, here we go, here we go. But no, I think that one's now passed us, and we're now heading towards the state election of course here in South Australia. And look what is going on with the Liberal Party is absolutely I think the hardest thing to watch. I don't know whether Susan Lee is going to fall on a sword anytime soon. I hope not, because if they go too far to the right in reaction to what's happening with one nation, then they're really they're going to destroy that middle ground.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have nowhere to move. And the thing is they can't even organize a coup properly because they've got too likely contenders and they know that if they both run for the leadership, neither will win.
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Speaker 19: And two just on that two gutless leaders too, by the way I mean, and I'm calling that one is even a former SAS officer, but I'm calling them gutless because if you stand by your convictions and you believe what you're doing. You should have done that already, and this is they're just waiting for their opportunity waiting room. There's enough blood to go in there and do that. What they're actually done has made albin Easy look amazing when you hasn't done anything really crazy. A vote for one nation, and I know that one nation. I was counting the amount of times one nation was even mentioned on this radio station right through the week, because they're hard to try. Everyone's talking about them at the moment. But a vote for one nation is a vote for labor. It's as simple as that, because you're just taking away that conservative vote that might have headed towards the Liberal Party. But you know what, I don't blame one nation voters voting that way. I blame the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party is a complete and uther mess and they've made a complete balls up of it. What should have been the BONDI response was incredibly good from Susan Lee, but she did not follow.
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Speaker 1: Through with that and fell away badly.
01:29:44
Speaker 19: And the media caught up with that and they've held her to account. So it's been a big.
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Speaker 1: Couples double two three double O double. If you'd like to have a chat with Nick about what's happening in the world of media. You might have an alternative view. We'd like to hear it back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings and a very good morning if you just joined us. Being a Friday, we're doing all things media and politics and what's happening in the world with Nick Hay's from Media Stable. From the text line high Gg, Nick is one or percent. We need to worry about our own government. Labor and co are getting into areas of freedom to express an opinion into undemocratic territory. Scared for my children and grandchildren regards Patrick, I don't know if I've made sense of that. Actually, Nick is one hundred percent. We need to worry about our own government. Labor and co are getting into areas of freedom to express an opinion into undemocratic territory.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Look, it's.
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Speaker 19: It's such an Australian thing to do. And I know that we see ourselves as sort of smart, intelligent people that are I guess you know, we're fait in. We do the right thing, but we tend to have a focus on others to see how poorly they're doing to make our sales feel a little bit better, and that US politics in global politics, Donald Trump. I know you just mentioned Donald Trump. It's everywhere, but you know, we'll have a crack and a throat and go at that. But I think we start to need to look a little bit more inward about how we're performing and what we're doing. You know, you and I were just talking off. We're one of the luckiest countries in the world. Look at all the resources that we have, with the most overtaxed people running around, but yet we still don't have politicians that can actually do the right thing or at least go out and make real change for what's going to happen to the you know, the pockets of hip pockets of everyone that's running around. It's a bit sad, but we've got some challenges. We've got some challenges here.
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Speaker 1: And Jason says, Hi Graham, how is a vote for one nation a vote for labor? That makes no sense at all.
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Speaker 19: It makes absolute sense. The reason it is a vote for labor is as a conservative vote, you'll be leaning towards either the liberal side as opposed to labor. So a one nation voter is never ever going to vote labor. But when they take those votes away from a potential Liberal or a Conservative member, it goes to labor because it just takes and brings down the value of what a Liberal member or a National's member would get. Look, there's three members now of the Conservative coalition right currently no coalition, but it used to be the Liberals and the Nationals. Now you've got one nation. There's three of them the vote and will at least see things very similar, maybe just to different extents. But when you vote one nation and one nation will have a very successful state election here in South Australia, but it will not make really any impact, but it takes away another Liberal vote. And when you take away the Liberal vote, it just reinforces labor. So that's the reasoning behind it's a labor vote. Excellent, Okay, we might get on the subject of politics again. But we were talking television and so forth and ratings and how the major sport events are going. Yeah, So if you're an Ashes supporter, if you loved your cricket over the summer, what a series it was for one Graham g I think we called a few of the wickets even while we're doing this segment and look, it was amazing there for seven. They've definitely won the ratings war if you're going to compare it to the Ashes versus the Australian Open. Now I'm fully where the Australian Open is still going and it's still very big for nine. I got to say, the Australian Open does put on a very good show. I mean, you know the amount of people that go to Melbourne to do it, and you know the people that fly over for it, and it's such an international event as well. But on numbers, the Ashes has one sort of not hands down, but has done very well. The things that would have let seven down is the very short.
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Speaker 1: Not good for television ratings.
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Speaker 19: Was not just good for television ratings, it's just not good for cricket either, so there'll be questions around that, and there was questions about night Game as well. But look, ultimately seven will be very happy with those numbers. Nine's doing very well out of the Australian Open, They've got to say, and they would have loved Demono to actually move forward, get a little deeper, heading to the Semis or you know, get a little further because that Australians love barracking for an Australian.
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Speaker 1: But you know you got to say Nick Kurios factor. People love to hate him, but they always watch him.
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Speaker 19: Oh they did, didn't they? And you know you look at Hewett as well, he was another one. Come on, you know you loved him or hated him as well, but he was Australian and you're still supported. But a lot of the good guys in tennis, there is a lot of good guys and girls, I should say, because the girls are doing just as well as the boys and the numbers are looking good.
01:34:47
Speaker 1: So if you're.
01:34:48
Speaker 19: Going to have a battle between the Ashes in the Australian Open, I think the Ashes just won by a small smidgeon and it would have been a very different case had some of our Australians advanced further. But it's been a good, good watching series over summer First Sport and you'll definitely see more cricket, more and more tennis back next year.
01:35:08
Speaker 1: There's no doubt that Australians love Alex Demanor. I think we've realized and he has to realize that while he's a wonderful player, there's a huge gap between number five in the world and number one and two. Oh yeah, yeah, so you know he struggled in that area. But I mean the only he sort of fell out of fav Runner if you were away at the time. Early on in the tournament, they were talking about prize money, yes, and the players were suggesting that they really should get a bigger piece of the pie. And you know, Alex Demanor, who is never going to end up one of the world's great tennis players, has already a twenty five million dollars, which is not bad money. Oh yeah, and to say we should get a bigger slice of the pie. I think it's all right for players to want a bigger slice, but let's give it to from rank number one hundred and beyond. I don't think anyone, particularly in the top fifty, really needs a boost in money.
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Speaker 19: I love how you just mentioned that the difference between one and five and then down is just it is a big difference. So I mean, if it was a top ten that was really close and it was always fighting for it, then you would go all right, yeah, maybe some more money. This is nothing new though. All sporting codes, all players and players associations want a bigger piece of either the broadcasting money either bigger part of what brings the people together. But tennis is such an individual sport, and because it's all going to one person, now that one person has a big entourage of people around them that they have to pay. But it does seem a little bit outrageous that way, and particularly we're still living in a cost of living crisis that that kind of money seems a little outrageous. So yeah, you can put them off, but gee, we don't have much else to barrow.
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Speaker 1: For four point one five million. I think it is to when the Australian Open male and female.
01:36:56
Speaker 19: I should have kept playing tennis great, I should have kept it.
01:36:58
Speaker 1: On well good at it. Put added to the list of a whole lot of other things that I wasn't all that good at some of it. From the text line, someone called in Marylyn just called and wanted to know what your thoughts were on Senator just enter price.
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Speaker 19: Okay, Look, I'm a media commentator, not a political commentator. I think the way you Ciner goes about it, I think she genuinely puts herself and presents herself in the as real as she possibly can be where she stood and she was obviously against it and you know, people found that a little bit unusual. She's outspoken, she's probably very good and she could be a potential big time leader moving forward.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she presented herself really well with the voice and whatever your view, you couldn't challenge the fact that she was articulate, knew a subject and people thought that when this all settled, that she'd get a pretty prominent portfolio in the Liberal Party.
01:37:56
Speaker 19: While we're sticking with politics, just you know, and I know a lot of the listeners all they're screaming for politicians with convictions and that would be really good, and that there is one politicians that run that's running in the seat of Unley here if in the state election. Her name is Alice Rolls. She is she's going to be a politician with conviction, very smart. And that is half the reason why the Australian Labor Party here, this is why it's Malley World in South Australia, because they've got such great people coming through. Even though we're seeing a few of them fall off and resigning now or having the last couple of months, they've just got a good bank of people to come through.
01:38:34
Speaker 1: So why can't the Libs recruit them?
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Speaker 19: Because this is the problem. This is the problem. The Liberal Party has completely lost it's essence and who it actually is. I mean, you know, I live in Kensington Park Graham. It's a strong it should have been a strong Liberal hold. It's now Labor and that's half of that is Malley and half of that is the people that are coming through. So good luck to Alice Rolls who's running for the seat of Unley. I think she'll win it, and win it hands down.
01:39:02
Speaker 1: Final question for you, can you please explain how Pauline Hansom can get into power. How do people need to vote in order for one nation to become initially one of the big two parties under the preferential system.
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Speaker 19: Well, this is the problem that one nation has is that they're only appearing in the Senate or in the Upper House the only way that And Pauline dodged that with the Breakfast Boys this morning as to whether she would run for the lower House and has said nart won't be doing that because she gets a run because of the Senate and it is it's a vote that is a protest vote against the two big guys until the two big guys get it right. That's liberal and labor. One nation is going to succeed. One nation is going to move forward. And when you want to protest and when you want to let people know that you're not happy with labor and liberal, you vote. One nation always very popular when immigration issues are up, and she's run that beautifully for thirty years, Graham. And the other thing is when people are scared. She loves the scared because pinch she makes people feel scared, and that's when we start to think, well, she could be the leader of the country. She'll never be the leader of the country and neither will Barnaby.
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Speaker 10: Nick.
01:40:11
Speaker 19: Great to have you back. Good on your mister, gooddings.
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Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, we speak media and politics and all things of interest. Media Stables founder Nick Hayes will join us again next Friday, back after news headlines. It's twenty eight to twelve five double a and as you heard from Candle, thirty six degrees at the moment in the city, mostly sunny, no rain. When was the last time we had rain? We could certainly do with it. I want to do a segment on Bay of Biscay soil. That's the soil that causes cracks and houses around Adelaide. Haven't heard much about it this season, but we will do an issue on that because it's been sometimes since we've had rain, and no rain means dry dry dry Eight double two to three double o double is the number to ring. And we've been talking on the subject of weather. Thirty six degrees heading for forty one. How do we cope in the old days, before reconditioning, before insulation, before refrigeration. How do we cope under the sprinkler in the backyard, staying down the beach, sleeping on the back lawn. So many ways we found putting up damp towels, hanging them over the window and standing in front of the fan. There were ways we survived. How did you do it? Eight double two three double o double. Oh, I like to know how you survived well. A new austraight And study reveals that the dos and don'ts of remote working requests. You're looking at working from home this year thinking about it? Well? The study has revealed the things that you should do if you're considering working from home to maximize your chances. Doctor Lindsay Arthur from the University of Melbourne joins us now doctor good morning to you.
01:41:48
Speaker 2: Hi, How are you very well.
01:41:49
Speaker 1: Thanks. So working from home is becoming more and more popular, it seems, Yeah.
01:41:54
Speaker 25: It definitely is. There's been a pretty steep increase in request for flexible work since COVID, and whether or not managers are likely.
01:42:04
Speaker 8: To approve those requests varies.
01:42:05
Speaker 25: Quie a bit.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing, isn't it. I think some businesses lend themselves to allowing people to work from home, others don't. So so what are you suggesting? What should people do if they're in a job already and want to start working from home? How do they go about it?
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Speaker 25: Yeah, it's a great question. So in our research we ran a couple of experiments with Australian managers and what we found was that the way that the request is framed and how much flexibility is being requested is really important. So, for example, requests that are based around care and improve productivity, which we call the business case, those two things are more effective than say just saying that it's what you would like and that it would see your lifestyle better. And then also requests for two days are more likely to be approved than a requests for longer periods of time.
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Speaker 1: So how does it use work? If people work. You know, a couple of days at home, a couple of days in the workplace. Do they usually take them those days together or in the middle of the week, or how does it normally work.
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Speaker 25: I think it really depends a lot on the person's work style. You know, do they work in the team. If so, managers typically prefer for them to all be in the office together and then have their working days from home together. If you're working in a job that doesn't have a lot of team involvement, there tends to be a lot more flexibility. And then obviously, if you're the one making the flexible request, you're probably making it for a reason, So you might be organizing it around school pickups, or it could be on a day that you have some other commitments that you want.
01:43:46
Speaker 21: To work around.
01:43:47
Speaker 1: It obviously has to be beneficial both to the employee and the employer, though to get any traction from your boss, Yeah.
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Speaker 25: That's absolutely right, and that's another really important finding from our studies. I actually believe that flexible work was a good thing. And I think this is really important because we are often talking about, you know, what the employee should be doing, but actually maybe we should have some bigger scale interventions that are teaching managers about the benefits of flexible works, and there are a lot, and then you know, showing them how to manage people remotely.
01:44:23
Speaker 1: The negative feedback we get back is that someone will go and say to the boss, look, you know, I want to work from home one day a week, and I make it a Monday or a Friday, and people say, well, you know, they're just warning and looking for a long weekend.
01:44:36
Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 25: I mean, I understand that that's the one of the complaints or one of the concerns, but I don't think that there's actually a lot of truth in that. I think that when managers give people that flexibility, the people want to retain it, and so they usually work well within that scope. So if you are lucky enough to have a flexible work request approved from Monday or a Friday, you're less likely to use that as say, a long weekend excuse, because you want to reteam that themselves off front of me and freedom.
01:45:05
Speaker 1: Before COVID, working from home was anomally it happened occasionally. COVID happened people were forced to work from home, and that really set things in train. So it would appear that more and more people experience working from home and they sort of thought this is the I want to do it into the future.
01:45:22
Speaker 25: Yeah, exactly, And I think a lot of companies really were able to see that they weren't productivity declines. People were working just as much in the office as they were at home. And I think the return to the workplace has had a lot to do with the social integration has teams, so managers wanting their teams to get to know each other more so than it is concerns around productivity and outfluts.
01:45:44
Speaker 1: Doctor, Thanks for you inside appreciate it, Doctor Lindsay Arthur, University of Melbourne. Working from Home The does and the don'ts. Do you work from home on a regular basis? Have you tried it? Does it suit your job? I mean there are a lot of jobs that you just can't do working from home. Well, you can't work in the retail train and work from home. Some jobs lend themselves perfectly to it. If you're answering the phone or providing call service or something like that, you can do it just as well from home as you can from the office. So what are your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double Oh? Is the number at twenty minutes to twelve five double A. We're going to take some calls. I'd love to hear from you, David. Good morning.
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Speaker 24: Oh hello, Graham. I just heard you talking before the recently visited Singapore and you're wondering why they were so successful. Yeah, I'll give you my my take on it. You notice the population is singing for how many Westerners are there? Probably ten percent, fifteen percent.
01:46:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the population is about five million. Yeah, most of them Malay or Chinese.
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Speaker 24: Have a majority of white Christian leaders. They have like Asian based cultures which have I believe, are much better to look after the people and less violent. I mean, I see Pauline Hanson and one as the complete reverse. She's not going to have a one nation. She's going to have a divided nation. She's not trying to help the Aboriginal she's not trying to help the Indians, she's not trying to help the Chinese, the Vietnamese, the Filipinos. She's dividing the nation, she's not putting the nation together. I'm sorry, Graham, but I can totally disagree with that aspect. And that last speaker you had on was a very smart man and how he said you vote for one nation, you're really voting for labor and that is dead true because the divide and conquer and Labour's just creaming them, creaming them, and these silly people voting one nation, they're not helping Australia.
01:47:42
Speaker 1: Good on you, David, thanks for the input. Well, a lot of people feel that Pauline Hanson is the answer at the moment. Obviously, the coalition non existent, the Liberal Party struggling, don't know who their leader will be, so people are gravitating towards Pauline Hanson. Hughey, good morning, Dying Lam.
01:47:58
Speaker 7: I don't think Glyn could do any worse. We only expect the expectations that do better because we know what she knows what we want. Well, that's what's not happening, the amounts of immigration, the vast amounts of population, the housing crisis, and the interest rates. She she's aware of all that. She's been the business her self too, so she's abundant to that and I hope she does well. But listen, I called about the last night's storm and the Bureau this morning stipulated that there's air stream coming down from the hills. It cross flowed a pattern to the mainland, which is the flats, especially at our airport where they did the take off a landing spect this case about the land, but they could not forecast at the time. This is a SPHA called sporadic weather. I caught sporadic weather. It happened. It could be abundant like an earthquake. It could happen anytime, unexpected, and I think this is what we're seeing around the world. But we do believe in climate change. I think we're going through a change the whole earth. For that matter. Is that there're seeing so many storms, hurricanes, the tsunamis, earthquakes, special earthquakes, landslides of three a week. We've we've got the knockout situation there, which is destruction that on the walls that's going on. And I think that we can't be too compromised or two complacent with living every day. I think something's not going to happen, especially we're supposed to have earthquake five years ago in Adelaide. We're overdue for it, to be honest me, there.
01:49:36
Speaker 1: There could be any time, as you're saying it.
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Speaker 7: Would do, and there'll be we know these severity overseas is much stronger than any other place around the world, and now it will be no different in Australia's severity. So we went for a five point four. We'll go through about seven point six eight point five if we have one in Adelaide.
01:49:55
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope it doesn't happen anytime soon herely, but yeah, we live on a fault line much Adelaide. And know when was the last earthquake in the early fifties fifty three fifty four was it? Yeah, which luckily caused quite a lot of damage, but I don't know that were any deaths or any serious injury. Eight double two three double o double is the number to ring Samantha at Enfield. How Isamantha?
01:50:19
Speaker 7: Will you good?
01:50:20
Speaker 1: Thanks?
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Speaker 5: I'm going about this out of pocket being without health insurance for surgery and late last year I had to go in and get some surgery and I was out of pocket just over one thousand dollars and I was less scratching. What on the earth is my private health cover even cover? And where a young family with two young children, and it's much like probably lots of listeners, so you know, money's a bit tight between childcare and four feet and I now need to have another operation on my other hand exactly the same. But I just I've been I put the first operation off four years. I'm going to probably have to put the next one off another four years because that out of pocket was.
01:50:58
Speaker 1: Tumongous and you shouldn't have to be doing that. There's no question, Hi.
01:51:04
Speaker 5: And I just why don't they cover more? I get Medicare, there's limits and stretched as it is, but why don't we have private health cover?
01:51:12
Speaker 25: Again?
01:51:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Samantha, you ask a good question for which I have no answer. But the costs of private health cover keep going up. They cover less and less and people are having to make some tough decisions. Do you keep your private health cover? Can you afford to keep it? It is a question. Sadly, we shouldn't have to be making eight double two three double O DOUBLEH is the number A ring will take a break back. Shortly about twelve minutes to twelve five double A well. National cab that has been meeting in Canberra regarding hospital funding, and the Prime Minister has come out of the meeting to make an announcement.
01:51:48
Speaker 27: This agreement represents one of the most significant national reforms in living memory. Those reforms will ensure that Australians can continue to access world class healthcare as well as disability supports. It prioritizes investment in our precious public health system and builds on my government's measures to strengthen Medicare. It is a major step forward in addressing the pressures that are there on our health and age care systems, as well as on the NDIS, ensuring their sustainability into the future. As part of this deal, the COMWALTH will provide an additional twenty five billion dollars for public hospitals to reach a record two hundred and nineteen point six billion dollars over the next five years. This is three times more additional funding for public hospitals than was agreed to under the last five year agreement under the Morrison government. We also committed to working together to make the NDIS better and more sustainable. We want growth in the future to be six percent or less and have agreed to work towards that. My government will continue to help states to take pressure off their hospitals as well. On top of this agreement through the one eight hundred Medicare system that began on January one, through the additional urgent care clinics, of which we will have one hundred and thirty seven. One hundred and twenty of those are already open and they're taking pressure of emergency departments. And the record new investment in expanding bulk billing is working. There are now three thousand, three hundred medical centers that are fully bulk builled. One thousand, three hundred of those are new as a direct result of our tripling of the bulk billing incentive.
01:53:48
Speaker 1: That's the Prime Minister talking about funding for public hospitals. After national Cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister says the federal government has agreed to provide an additional twenty five billion dollars to the states and territories over the next five views to fund the hospitals. We will wait to see how the states react to that. From the text line, GG, the human body has its own built in thermostat system. Before e con, your body would automatically adjust to hot or cold conditions to a fair degree, artificially heating and cooling ourselves as stuffed our built in system. Thank you for that, John. How did we ever cope? Stacy? How are you? Did you ever live? In a time before air conditioning. No, lucky, lucky you. We've been reminiscing this morning about you know, standing under the sprinkler outside to keep cool and hosing the house down to him, you know.
01:54:36
Speaker 28: The house outside of the house, assume not inside.
01:54:38
Speaker 1: I'm chucking the hose in the kitchen, the tiles on the roof and so forth. Oh there go, And staying all day down at the beach, and then getting in a burning hot caring.
01:54:49
Speaker 28: The seat belt.
01:54:50
Speaker 29: You've got the middle part of the seat belt on the invaders yet.
01:54:54
Speaker 1: So while you know, we don't really enjoy forty degree heat these days, it's a little bit easier to isn't it.
01:55:00
Speaker 28: Yeah, yeah, that definitely.
01:55:02
Speaker 29: You know, we're very lucky now, although it cost costs a bit more to use the cooling systems these days.
01:55:07
Speaker 1: So how's Molly coping with them? The hot weather?
01:55:10
Speaker 28: Good? She had.
01:55:10
Speaker 29: I don't think she's been out of the house much in the last week, which I feel a bit bad, but I also didn't want to take her out last week, and we go for a morning walk every day so we can get Murray the.
01:55:21
Speaker 28: Dog out of the house as well.
01:55:22
Speaker 29: But she hasn't been out for many activities. We've got to swimming lessons, but that's going from an air conditioned house into an air conditioned car into an indoor swimming pool.
01:55:31
Speaker 28: So you know, so.
01:55:33
Speaker 1: She's too young to be concerned. But obviously Murray would be missing getting out as much as normal.
01:55:37
Speaker 21: Yeah he is.
01:55:38
Speaker 28: He goes a bit stir crazy inside.
01:55:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't really understand, do they.
01:55:42
Speaker 28: No, And we kind of if we do.
01:55:44
Speaker 29: We try and get out every morning, but when we do, we take the short, short walk straight to the park with the grass and not as many ball throwers as he would like, because he just he could go all day.
01:55:57
Speaker 19: Yeah, but you.
01:55:58
Speaker 28: Know, I'm like, you need a bit of wa I think you need rest. Come on, let's get inside now.
01:56:02
Speaker 1: As doctor Derek McNair said the other day, you know, before we're taking a dog out in hot weather, take your shoes and sock it off and walk out on the path and just see if it's hot on your feet, it'll be just as hot on the dog.
01:56:14
Speaker 28: Yep, Yeah, it's about their feet. But also, what was it after that really.
01:56:19
Speaker 29: Hot night when I walked outside, I felt it was like a wall of heat hitting my face and I struggled to breathe after walking up the hill, and I thought, how's this little dog with a coat, a fur coat all over him going to cope?
01:56:33
Speaker 28: So, yeah, there's a lot to consider.
01:56:35
Speaker 1: What have you got the share to Then I was just.
01:56:37
Speaker 29: Going to say how significant this funding agreement is for the public hospitals. So originally the States were wanting thirty billion dollars, which was above what the previous agreement was obviously, and the federal government offered twenty and then you know, the offer was up to twenty three and now they've agreed on twenty five billion dollars and it's significant amount of money. It's over a number of years, and there was also that the timing is really significant because there was pressure on the States and the federal government to agree to it before the South Australian election. As you can imagine, if we were going to an election without a funding deal with the federal government, how can the state government promise any money towards public hospitals without knowing what the federal contribution was going to be.
01:57:22
Speaker 1: So there's been a major issue and liberals would have something to really trail the government.
01:57:27
Speaker 29: Now yeah, now I suspected it was always going to happen because you've got a federal labor government, a state labor government, and labor in almost every other state as.
01:57:37
Speaker 28: Well at the moment, so it was never not going to happen.
01:57:41
Speaker 29: However, it is pretty significant that it's now been reached and the timing of it as well, So I think we will start to see some more announcements from the state Labor party in terms of health and hospitals because they now have that funding secured, so they can start to fund their own election promises and commitments now moving forward.
01:58:00
Speaker 1: Sure, what else?
01:58:02
Speaker 29: This afternoon, we are going to talk to Joe Hildebrand about what's been happening federally the One Nation poll. Of course, he had Pauline Hanson on The Brecky Show this morning, so we'll talk to Joe Hildebrand about.
01:58:12
Speaker 15: All of that.
01:58:14
Speaker 29: We also want to talk about concussion and CTE after that news.
01:58:21
Speaker 28: About the Troy cell.
01:58:24
Speaker 29: Brain donation isn't it isn't it? So I want to talk about how significant that is and how I guess is this something that is increasing?
01:58:34
Speaker 28: Are people donating their brains?
01:58:36
Speaker 15: I know, I know.
01:58:37
Speaker 29: People's families after they die are donating brains towards research concussion research and.
01:58:43
Speaker 28: What happens after that. What It might sound a bit coolish, but I'm really interested.
01:58:48
Speaker 29: To know what what do scientists use the brain?
01:58:51
Speaker 19: Is it?
01:58:52
Speaker 28: Is it about the way it looks? Is it about the shape? Is it about the cells?
01:58:55
Speaker 11: Is it?
01:58:55
Speaker 28: How?
01:58:56
Speaker 29: How do they get in there and check what they need to check?
01:58:59
Speaker 1: Because the brain the tragedy is with concussion. Other than the impact, Initially, you don't know what long term effect it's having. It's only when somebody dies and they can dissect the brain that they can see exactly what damage has been caused.
01:59:14
Speaker 28: How bad it was.
01:59:15
Speaker 29: Yeah, so we'll have that discussion this afternoon. There was also a court ruling in December. It was just before Christmas, so it didn't get a whole heap of coverage, but it was a ruling in I believe it was the High Court or the Act actually about the Catholic Church not being held liable for child sexual abuse against children committed by priests.
01:59:40
Speaker 28: And that was because there was.
01:59:41
Speaker 29: An an absence of a proper employment relationship, so that you know, the Catholic Church and the priest didn't have.
01:59:48
Speaker 28: An employment agreement.
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Speaker 29: So when it was found that the priests who were kind of technically employed by the church were abusing young kids. The church wasn't held liable because they didn't have you know, they didn't sign on the dotted line on a contract vegetape, which to a lot of people is just absolutely ridiculous. So we're going to be talking to Andrew Carpenter this afternoon, a local lawyer who is also known as the Pedophile Hunter. Yep, he's on a bit of a rampage and he wants to get them to pay up, and not just the pedos but the Catholic Church as well. So we'll talk to him about that this afternoon.
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Speaker 1: Excellent going to Staty.
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Speaker 28: Friday as well. Can't miss out on footy Friday.
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Speaker 1: That's always a highlight. Stacy Lee coming up this afternoon after one o'clock from the text line. I needed an urgent care medical center yesterday, called ahead and they told me a three hour wait, then told me to go to the ent because there's announcement of twenty five billion dollars. How will that unfold? With the massive profits power companies are making, why are more power lines not underground? They are in my area and we seldom get problems. Thank you for that, Mike. Yeah, I guess it's more difficult in the older areas, isn't it. And the cost is obviously prohibit prohibitive. The moderate turbulence and winds that caused some issues at the Adelaide Airport yesterday afternoon was actually forecast, so it wasn't unforeseen, as Hughie says, Thank you for that, Andrew. And can you get an update from the CFS on the grass fire in the direction it's burning, whether people need to be aware or alerted? David, stay tuned for five dob A News. Well, if you have your food, be listening to Stacey Lee today just after three when Chris Charmer from Jarmer's Kitchen joins her for Foody Friday. Thanks to Smeg and Pals. Are you building or renovating? Your first choice should be visiting the Smeg showroom at Deadney Distributors. Taste the difference with Smeg and Pals. That's it. Have a wonderful weekend and stay cool,
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Friday, this thirtieth day of January. Hope we find you well. You in the path of the wild wind overnight caused havoc over many suburbs, mainly I think in the eastern and northeastern suburbs. Quatters Fly had to be diverted to Edinburgh. Thousands of homes were left without power. We'll find out the latest on the power outages from sa PAR network shortly. Also on the show today, we'll look at the weekend state politics with My News political reporter Gars MacDonald. Another resignation by a senior state government minister. Is there anything for Peter mallanask us to be concerned about? Are you looking to work from home this year?
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Speaker 2: Will?
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Speaker 1: A new Australian study is revealed the dos and don'ts of requesting remote work to maximize your chances. There's alarming research suggesting Ozzie's a delaying hospital care due to upfront costs. According to a survey by gm HbA cost of living pressures and upfront excess health fund costs and negatively impacting one and two Australians with hospital cover, forcing them to delay or avoid surgery. If you've been impacted. If you've been forced to delay surgery because of the cost factor, give us a call let us know about it. Eight double two three double double OW iPhone issues. Over recent days, we've been hearing that older iPhones with Telster may have troubles with triple O. Well, it seems the latest iPhone upgrade, the latest operating system, is causing more problems than that. People are having trouble with signal strength. People are having trouble just making contact with the websites and the like. So what is happening there. We'll speak with picker dot com dot au tech expert Lee Stark about that and other issues regarding iPhones and technical things. So if you ever question might be an idea to get on the line. Eight double two three double double O is the number to ring. National Cabinet is meeting today. If anything comes out of it, we'll bring it to you. Being Friday, we look at the week in media with Nick Hays and some interesting developments on the media front, and Nick will bring them all to you. I see that Google searchers have taken a new turn. Twenty twenty six seems to be the era of how to search, how to become a real estate agent was the top trending. How to become Certificate three in fitness searched dramatically up to two hundred and thirty percent. How to become rich in Australia. I think a lot of us would like to tap into that one. How is the best way to learn trading? Also climbed Ozzies are also searching for inspiration this year, with searchers for how to be a better person spiking, they're up three hundred and seventy percent. Are you a regular Google user? Well, I guess most of us are. What is or has been your major search? And have you what do they call it? Self improvement? Self help? How to how to become a brick layer? How to fix a leaking tap. That's a wonderful thing about Google that you've got a little problem around the house and you just go how to to Google? Or YouTube? Maybe YouTube is the way to go, but to Google is changing over the years. How to become smart? That's an interesting one. Some of us coming from a long way back eight double two to three double double and we've want to go down memory lane. Regarding the heat forty one degrees is coming up today? How did you deal with the hot weather in the old days. Wait, today, dealing with the heat is more about the cost of turning on your air conditioner and staying indoors or plunging into the backyard swimming pool. But heat waves have always been with us. In nineteen thirty nine, Adelaide had a run of thirteen days of thirty four degrees and above. I noticed the advertiser had a great article on it this morning. It was an era when the iceman didn't even knock when he entered the house, a time when sleeping outside under the veranda, on the back lawn, the beach, or even in public squares was commonplace. The South of Stralians tried to escape the relentless heat. The heat waves of one hundred years ago were just as brutal as today, only without modern conveniences. No air conditioning in the house, no air conditioning in the car. Houses were insulated or are insulated now, but they went back then. There are backyard pools and refrigerators. So how did you cope with the heat way back? When I'd like to hear about it? Eight double two to three double o double, Oh well, how did you cope with the winds? How did you cope with the wind a wreaking habit across Adelaide last night? Thousands were left without power. There are anxious moments for passengers on the Quantus flight from Melbourne to Adelaide. The Bowing seven three to seven was diverted to Edinburgh after winds at Adelaide Airport reached seventy two kilometers an hour. Louise Bonner was a passenger on board the Quantus flight.
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Speaker 3: Just interesting, I think coming into Adelaide. Actually we were literally about to land and then all of a sudden, the plane just started to take off again and it was pretty bumpy, and ten seconds after sort of trying to take off mid air again, the train the plane, there was a bit of turbulence and the plane, you know when you have those little drops occasionally had a couple of those. But I was on the plane with a couple of friends and we were trying to work out what was going on, and I thought it may have something to do with the air traffic control that my friend was pretty sure it was to do with all the extreme weather and turbulence, and we were informed later before we arrived in Edinburgh that it was due to the wind change changed and so on.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's most unusual for a plane to be diverted to Edinburgh. Mark Hoffmeyer is the Australian International Pilots Association spokesman. He explained the reason to the boys on breaking this morning.
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Speaker 4: Called katabatic winds. Effectively, you get a difference in pressure and temperature due to obviously it's really hot at the moment, and if you picture it, the Mount Lofty Ranges effectively works like a bit of a slippery slide for the wind. So they come down the hill and unfortunately their orientation relative to the main runway that later airport makes it all crosswind and you get different levels of wind at different directions at different heights. And my understanding is this flight got to about one hundred feet above the ground and the captain then obviously decided to give it away that it was unsafe and it looks like I'm not sure what their fuel state was, but the captain obviously made a decision that the safest course of action was to take the aircraft up to Edinburgh, which if you picture it, it's a bit further away from the hills, so it's less subject to those sorts of wids. So that they are able to put the aircraft safely on the ground and obviously get fuel and before coming back to Adelaide. Due to look, historically, pilots pushing bad situations, and there's been accidents in the past. Most airlines now have what sort of classified as stable approach criteria, which is things like you wind, the air speed, the tracking, the engine, trust and if those parameters can't be met, you need to conduct a mist approach. The other thing they may have got was potentially a windchier warning, which also requires the pilots to perform a windhy escape maneuver. And look, the good thing I'd say is that, yes, it was an inconvenience all the passengers. But the one thing that we're not talking about this country's accidents. Yeah, you know, our pilots don't push bad situations.
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Speaker 1: Mark Hofmeyer, explaining the situation most unusual. Did you experience the winds last night? Gully winds only extreme gully winds From the text line, Chaz says high Graham, you might like to contact SEES headquarters as hundreds of volunteers were ut last night as trees came down in the high winds. Great effort by all chas. We will speak to sees after the break and find out about the blackouts too. Essay Power Networks how many homes are still affected?
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Gram Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Nine minutes past nine five double A. Well, it's a lot mild than it was last night, although some of us living in some suburbs didn't feel or were aware of any wind at all. But those gully winds encroached way along eastern suburbs into the north eastern suburbs and caused craziness. But thankfully we have wonderful sees people who get out there and rectify matters. We will speak to them shortly. But there were a number of power outages overnight. Bringing us up today to SA Power Networks. Celia Shultz Seily, good.
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Speaker 5: Morning to you, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 1: A busy night for SA Power Networks.
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Speaker 6: It has been a busy night, and I mean more generally, this heat wave has really just demonstrated the multiple network challenges. You know, Bush we've had bush fire risks fearing heat and then you know what we've seen last night is really the combination of gully winds with trees which are very, very stressed from this prolonged heat period. The winds that we saw last night generally wouldn't create the kind of impact that they have, but because these trees have been struggling in this heat, the branches are coming off a lot easier. So since about four point thirty pm yesterday, we've got about five thousand customers about the fly at the moment, But since these winds kicked up yesterday at about four to thirty, we've had a cumulative total of about thirty five thousand customers impacted and about fifty wires brought down, So we've had crews working overnight. We're actually bringing in contractors and additional regional crewise because there's been so many wires down, we've had to shift to a bit of a model where you have actual volunteers coming out and watching wires until crews can get out there and make them safe. And their priority needs to be making wires safe before they can do full restoration work, so a lot of customers don't have estimated restoration times yet. That being said, we are confident that we will work through the outages that we currently have today, but also we are expecting more gully winds tonight and tomorrow night, so we're having to think about right now planning for that and potentially more outages tonight and tomorrow night as well.
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Speaker 1: How many crews would you have out there at the moment.
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Speaker 6: I think we've got over twenty crews out there at the moment, but that's supplemented by other contractors and then additional regional cruise that will be coming in, so there'll be more than that on throughout today. And then you also have those volunteer why watches as well going out and supporting by watching downpower lines.
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Speaker 1: So it's virtually or effectively the perfect storm, isn't it. As you've said, the winds of that strength would not normally cause the chaos they have, but because the trees have been under stress from the hot weather, it's brought about their downfall.
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Speaker 6: I guess that's right, and I mean I guess we have to be grateful for small mercies. Thankfully, the temperature itself is set to come down tonight. I'm relieved that we're going to be seen hopefully the last of the forty degree heat today, because a few more days of that would have obviously just made things much more complex and difficult.
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Speaker 1: Cecilia, thanks so much for your update. Let's hope the winds drop off and your cruise get about their job and get things rectified as soon as possible. Thanks for your time. Thank you Graham, Celia sure Sessa Power Networks about five thousand outages, but about thirty five thousand customers were impacted over the period of time. So with the crews operating and understand that they're not going to be able to get the power back on as soon as we like. Although facing a forty degree day or forty one degrees, you can understand that people without power are feeling anxious and pretty concerned. A double two to three double is the number to ring if you want to comment on the situation regarding the wild wins, where you were when the winds struck and what impact they had. Well, the SEES has been incredibly busy overnight, as you can imagine. Joining us now is State Duty Officer Stephanie zak Krevsky. Stephanie, good morning to you, Good morning, an exceptionally busy nine.
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Speaker 7: It was.
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Speaker 8: Unfortunately for our crews. They were out there all night and with just those constant trees that were coming down thanks to those gully wins.
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Speaker 1: So we just heard from networks that the trees were stressed. I mean, the winds weren't necessarily really strong enough to blow down limb or take off limbs under normal circumstances, but because they were stressed, that was causing the issue.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely. Celia's absolutely right. Much like you and I who get very tired and fatigued and exhausted after a number of days of high temperatures, trees are exactly the same. And the way that they manage their heat stress is to drop limbs. And they're already stressed because of the heat, and then it just takes those gusty winds that were caused through the gully winds that we saw last night from about four pm yesterday and that were really sustained overnight, and it just added to the stress that they're already feeling. And we saw those limbs come down, and we saw those that impact sort of occur right through that periv in space where it was from the southern suburbs at the bottom of the mount of the Ranges all the way through up towards Kapunda there and the impact was really felt in the eastern suburbs in particular.
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Speaker 1: How many callouts would you had.
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Speaker 8: We've had about two hundred and fifty call outs since four o'clock yesterday when those winds picked up, and they keep coming through with Obviously, we welcome that as people are discovering they wake up in the morning and they're discovering those trees down and needing requests for resistance from sees. We please ask people to continue calling us on one, three, two, five hundred. Our volunteers have been working really hard throughout the night. It was a long and very muggy night for them, but they've been working really hard to stay on top of them. But we thank everybody for their patients as they get to their jobs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we certainly appreciate the work they do because it's pretty thankless and they're working under pressure and extreme often under extreme and dangerous circumstances. So I guess what has to happen. The power lines have to be secured before you can do anything about clearing away broken branches or fallen branches.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, any trees that come down that involve power lines, we do require them to be made safe obviously before our crews can start cutting away. And we work really close with theirs, so Power Network crews with regards to that, and Celia's mentioned about the while Watchers volunteers is really fantastic and it's something that allows our ses crews to be freed up to attend other jobs that haven't been entangled in power lines, and so we work really closely with them to be able to make sure that we're doing the best we can for the community as quickly as we can to clear those roads.
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Speaker 1: Now you've had what two hundred and fifty call outs? Are there people still waiting to be helped?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we do have a number of jobs still outstanding, and as I said, they're sort of trickling in now. This morning as well, we had a bit of an increase in tempo as people woke up sort of from about six o'clock this morning and they discovered trees down outside and on their ways to work and things like that. So our crews are now still working through. As I said, they've been working all night and now we've got fresh crews coming out and rolling through those jobs as they can. So I just ask people to be patient. We are working hard to try and get through all those jobs.
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Speaker 1: I think most people appreciate. Stephanie, thanks so much for your time we'll let you get back to it.
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Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Zagrevski from the state or she's the State duty officer of the SEES. Hoping the fact that the gully Wins won't be the same again tonight as they were overnight. Let's find out from the bureau. Ursula O'Connor, ursula.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 1: How's it looking for the winds gully Wins tonight?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, not looking as likely as what we saw last night. We're going to start to see the winds come around a bit more, sort of south to southwest. Rely so I'm twenty to thirty kilometers per hour with guss possibly up to forty to sixty kilometers per hour out of the southwest there. But yes, not quite as strong as what we saw last night.
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Speaker 1: We're still looking at forty one today, yep.
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Speaker 9: Still going to be a warm day through Adelaide. The heat, I guess has been the main story over the past week or so. Yes, Adelaide itself heading for forty one, Glen ele thirty nine, Elizabeth forty three, nor Lungar thirty seven, and Mount bark Up thirty six. As we move into the weekend, though, there is reprieved from the heat on the way, We're going to start to see a ridge pushing into the by that's going to direct a southerly flow over the Adelaide area. Tomorrow, we are still headed for a top of thirty two, but then there's significantly cooler changes expected to sort of really flush that heat out as we move into a Saturday afternoon and evening, and by the time we get to Sunday where we're going from. You know, temperatures today through the Adelaide area above average by sort of ten to twelve someplaces even fourteen degrees above average, and by the time we get to Sunday, we've got those maximum temperatures six to eight degrees below average. That's going to be a very noticable change on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: In the shock to the systems. Thanks for time, Ursul Connor from the Bureau of Meteorology. Stinker hot today, but to look forward to Sunday, it's going to feel probably quite cold, Karen says. Morning. The wind last night and still this morning is extremely strong in Woodcroft. Lots of branches and debris on the streets. Eight double two three double o double. If you want to tell us about your situation regarding the storm impacted. Is your power off? And how have you coped with it? We'll take a break eight double two three double o double o after that the weak in state politics? Are there alarm bells ringing in the state government. Another senior cabinet minister has announced their retiring.
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Speaker 2: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: How do you cope with the hot weather? Yeah, I know we had plenty of it. Another one today forty one degrees. Interesting article in advertiser this morning about how we did cope with the weather way back when, when there were no refrigerators, when homes weren't insulated, when there was no air conditioning. What do we do? How did you cope with it? Eight double two to three double double ow like to hear, Julie says. Eastern suburbs foothills have been smashed two nights in a row. One of those nights was yellow bin night. But I'm thankful all around me there's power, or there are all around me there are power outages, but we have power. I'm nursing my ninety four year old mother at home, and not to have air during this time for her would be challenging Julie. Yeah, be thankful that the power is not out in your area. There are five thousand properties still without power. The SA Parnett worth working as hard as possible, but you can understand the pressure they are under at the moment. Well, an interesting week in state politics. Another broadside has hit the state with or the state government. In fact, less than two months out from the election, another front benchers quit. That's the third in less than six months. Small and Family Business Minister Andrew Michaels has announced her retirement from politics before the March twenty one election. Is that likely to have any impact on the outcome of the election? What can we read into it? Joining us now is nine News political reporter Gus McDonald casketballning burning Graham. You know, three resignations of senior ministers in a short time. If the government was any in any less imperious position, you'd tell you they've got something to worry about. But have they?
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Speaker 10: Maybe sil Graham.
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Speaker 11: I didn't get that feeling when the Deputy Premier Susan closed and the Treasurer Stephen Mulligan stepped away.
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Speaker 10: This one's a little bit different.
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Speaker 11: There was rumors that Andrew and Michaels might step away last year towards the end they were expelled, and so it's interesting that now we're hearing, after the debacle of riots week after Christmas, that she's now decided to step away. With only say, two months to go until the state election. There's not much time. I assume label will pre select someone in her seat of elder relatively quickly.
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Speaker 10: It is a safe labor seat.
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Speaker 11: But the fact that she's chosen to step away now when she would have been given time to do it last year, maybe that suggests there are a few cracks in this labor outfit.
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Speaker 10: It's an interesting time to step away.
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Speaker 11: I obviously saw her comments that said that she had the flu over Christmas and that gave her enough time to think that she might want to re turn to law. I find that an interesting excuse. There might be other things that played here, but maybe she wasn't happy in the government and just wasn't willing to continue. I think public life is really tough. It's a full on job, but so is law. So it was an interesting development this morning and it might suggest something else is that play there in the government.
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Speaker 1: Any suggestion that the Premier was not particularly happy with the way she's been handling things.
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Speaker 10: I wouldn't go that far, you know. I've heard rumors that maybe.
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Speaker 11: There are some government members who you know, are having to face the music on some tough issues, and that is Right's wheak for Michaels, she's sort of left at one point for her mess clean up. I don't know if she would have loved to have had to deal with that, considering she had nothing to do with the start of the whole debarkle. But no, I hadn't heard any suggestion that the Premier wasn't happy with how she was performing. I don't think she was pushed at all. I think this is a decision that's been made by her.
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Speaker 12: Well.
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Speaker 1: On the other side, the Liberal Party leading into the state election, there's still no candidate for.
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Speaker 10: Black I find this extraordinary.
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Speaker 11: You know, it's not that long ago that David Spears won that seat against the tide in twenty twenty two, was returned to that seat and was a very popular Liberal member in that seat. You'd think that the Liberal opposition, who you know, are sizing up certain seats that they're looking to gain back seat in a by election he lost to David Spears in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 10: He then won in a by election just a few years later.
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Speaker 11: He's now fifty days away from a state election and he's got no opponents. I cannot believe the Liberals are sitting so long to pick a candidate. And the big question is they're probably waiting to see whether David Spears decides to run. I think, regardless, you'd think you'd get your candidate out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well you certainly would. I mean, they are the alternative government, aren't they, after all? And you would think that fielding candidates in all seats would just not even be an issue.
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Speaker 11: And maybe the opinion is, oh, if David Spears runs, they run someone who's not a chance at all. But regardless, you think you'd still put up the same candidate that you'll run in twenty thirty because you need name recognition. People will see that someone was on the ballot in twenty twenty six and they'll see them again in twenty thirty. They might not win this time around, but at least they'll have a better shot in twenty thirty if they've all already run once.
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Speaker 1: The election is less than two months away. How have you seen campaigning so far, it's.
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Speaker 11: Really ramped up after the new year, hasn't it grained. We've seen some pretty big policy announcements, a little bit quieter this week. The governments used this week to sort of tie the end of the bows that they'd been laying for four years or so. We saw the Aquatic Center on Monday, we saw the trams on Sunday. This was the big week where they said, look, this is what we've achieved over four years and now we're ready to go again.
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Speaker 10: The opposition were a bit quieter this week.
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Speaker 11: We saw an announcement from them on Sunday, I believe, which was to do with their sand pipeline, that they're going to pull sand from the northern Beaches down to West Beach. That's a very strong local issue, especially in the seat of Colton, which is going to be a really interesting contest as well. You've got Beck Sutton they're running to the Liberals and Aria Bolcus running for Labor. That was the only issue I thought the Liberals really cut through on this week.
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Speaker 10: They were pretty quiet.
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Speaker 11: They've also, you know, they had some good announcements last week, but I thought they were pretty quiet, and I think it's just going to get bigger and larger and louder over the next couple of weeks, bigger policies.
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Speaker 10: We saw a lot of education this week as well. Again that was another issue.
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Speaker 11: Labor promised at the last election that they were going to bring in three year old preschool that started this year for the first time. It was a good week to the government, I think, compared to the opposition red policy announcements.
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Speaker 1: Do you think One Nation is going to play any factor at all.
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Speaker 10: I think they'll have their best ever state election.
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Speaker 11: I get that feeling, or at least the minor parties will in the Ledge co whether that's Jingle getting elected, whether that's a Sarah Gain getting a candidate in, whether that's the Greens getting two candidates in, I think it'll be big. Obviously, we've seen the federal polling that suggests One Nation is doing extremely well compared to the Liberals at a national level. Does that translate to a state level, I don't quite know. I think people do vote differently at state and federal levels.
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Speaker 10: One Nation doesn't have a huge.
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Speaker 11: Footprint here, but I think they'll probably do the best they've ever done in South Australia and it'll be interesting to see how you go. At the next federal election, they might pick up a senator here in South Australia.
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Speaker 10: If this continues on this trajectory.
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Speaker 1: Well, this state election will be a good litmus test for one nation because obviously, as to say, they have never had a big impact here. But federally, of course, Pauline Hansen's one thing, you know, it's the second most popular party in the nation at the moment. It would be good for her to dip a toe in the water. Do you think she's likely to make any appearance ahead of the state election.
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Speaker 11: It wouldn't shock me at all, and especially considering her popularity at the moment. Seems like what she's doing, you know, managed in the right areas.
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Speaker 10: She doesn't seem to be doing much wrong.
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Speaker 11: It's a little bit of a reflection of like a global attitude, isn't it. You see over in the UK Reform Party in Nigel Farage that has just grown and grown and grown, and he's now being considered as a you know, angel prime minister there in the UK, and the same conversations are now happening around Pauline.
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Speaker 10: People looking to vote anywhere else but the major.
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Speaker 1: Parties Yeah, there does seem to be a major turn away. I mean that the federal labor is not in any danger at the moment because of the fractionalization of the factionalization and the coalition that doesn't exist anymore. So it's a pretty clear run for the government, but one nation is certainly making an impact coming back.
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Speaker 11: To be really interesting to see how they go at this state election, But as I said, I suspect they'll probably do the best that they ever done.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of Ashton hern as opposition leader in the short time time she's been in.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, I think she's been really, really impressive.
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Speaker 11: She's had a really tough job to take over at the time she did, with the pressure she has, and she's a very capable politician. It's interesting and you know, I look forward to asking there this to her eventually when times passed a little bit. Does she wish she took over a little bit earlier because the lady the later it was left, the heart of the job was always going to be. She's a very talented media operator, always has been, and she sells a message.
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Speaker 10: So I think she's been really, really, really talented.
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Speaker 11: I think the government would be very cautious of how they manage the messages they point towards her, and they need to be because she's a very decent operator.
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Speaker 1: Assuming what we do, assume that Labor will be re elected, probably with an increased majority. Do you think that will damage Ashton Hearn's reputation.
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Speaker 11: Look, it'll be tough. I think voters will be forgiven. They know she's taken over at such a late stage. And it doesn't matter because I think she's of the understanding that she's not going to win this election. She's got the next four years after this election to build her reputation.
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Speaker 10: Just as long as the Liberals aren't reduced.
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Speaker 11: To say single figures, I think she'll have some sort of foothold to be able to.
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Speaker 10: Retribute any damage reputation she gets from this election.
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Speaker 1: Gus McDonald, thanks for time and you're insight appreciated.
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Speaker 10: Thanks Greg.
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Speaker 1: That's nine News political reporter Gus McDonald on the state of the state leading up to the state election. It will be very interesting to see what impact One Nation candidates will have. One Nation has not been particularly strong in South Statia, but the Pauline Hansome factor, the fact that she now leads the second most popular party in Austratia and she's quite happy to speak out on issues around the nation. She spoke to the Boys on Brecky this morning. She says that it's going to be a test for one nation in South as Stradia.
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Speaker 13: It is going to be a test case for one notion by all means, and we're putting a suite of candidates across the whole stage. We've got a great announcement coming next week. We're really focusing on that, on this election and what we want to do for the state.
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Speaker 1: And we might hear a bit more from Pauline Hanson a little bit later on in the morning. Eight double two to three, double O, double O. Dan says, completely silent down in the western suburbs. MSN weather is telling me it was no more than fifteen to twenty kilometers an hour. Well, obviously was stronger than that at the airport, wasn't it. That's in the western suburbs, the gust of seventy two kilometers an hour, but it was isolated. And I think I heard that the issue was that the way the gully winds funneled down, they literally funneled down in the direction straight towards the airport and that caused the problem. If you have a comment on that eight double two three double o double or the fact how have you dealt with the extreme weather over the years, or more importantly, how did you deal with it years ago? Jody says, hi gg before air conditioning, I used a wet towel draped over myself with a fan. On approximately twelve years ago, I was on a medium sized plane can't remember what type in Manitoba, Canada was very windy and instead of landing in Churchill, diverted to a place called Thompson. The landing was very scary, but the skill of the pilot was incredible. I guess that's when they're put to the test. A normal, everyday flight doesn't mean much, but when they're called on to do something out of the ordinary, that's when you appreciate to what they do. Back shortly five Double.
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Speaker 2: Ay Mornings with Graham Goodings and.
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Speaker 1: It's already thirty one degrees on its way to forty one today, but there is relief in sight. Good morning, Graham. After listening to your interview with Tomkutson Turners yesterday, I tried the Energy Made Easy website I'm sorry. Whilst extremely easy to input your info, the results are not easy to understand, not use a friendly at all. Still no wiser wondering if Tom's tried the app seriously disappointed, or perhaps it was just me. Good on your bet and I we'll take a look at it as anyone else tried the app. I'd like to know if you have. It's Energy Made Easy that was recommended and suggested to us by Tom Kutson Turners yesterday when we had a very interesting chat. We'll take some calls in a moment on eight double two three double oad below. But first the stocks. The All Ordinaries has started the day slightly up by nine points. A SX two hundred also up by thirteen points. The dar Jones closed up by fifty five points. The Nasdaq, however, closed down by one hundred and seventy two points. Oil sixty five US dollars a barrel. The Ossie dollar still strong seventy US cents. Mario, good morning.
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Speaker 14: Good morning, Graham. I don't know if you remember I called you before Christmas regarding an issue of a tax debt that the tax office was chasing me for twenty five of twenty twenty five years ago.
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Speaker 1: I do recall it.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, I just thought to give you an update. It's quite comical to be honest with you. Anyway. I contacted my local member, which was clear Classenham is a local member in Norwood. Yeah, and they represented me and contacted the ATO. I then got a call from or. I had to call the ATO a lady who was a complaints line, and she told me that the debt would be removed and there would be a confirmation email.
00:31:59
Speaker 15: Sink to me.
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Speaker 14: That was three weeks ago. I haven't got anything. I've tried during this person three times now and left messages, no response. It appears that the tax office ignored ignoring me. And also I've gone back to Claire's office to advise them that nothing's been done and no email has been sent confirming the debt's been removed. And it seems to me that the ATO is a law unto themselves.
00:32:27
Speaker 1: That's a bizarre situation. So you were involved in informed by the ATO that the debt would be rectified, the whole matter would be cleared up. You get an email and you've heard nothing.
00:32:36
Speaker 14: Since, heard nothing since this is a clear case. I call this robo debt. They're sending letters out to people asking them to pay a debt that relates to many, many many years ago, which was originally on hold or apparently it wasn't on the on the tax report, and now all of a sudden's being recovered. So I'd have to classify this as like a robo debt type instant. And the way the tax office is behaving is disgraceful, and I'd like to see, well what do you do? It looks like the tax office can do whatever it's like. And I said to the tax office, I said, but I said, how can you go back to stuff that goes back twenty five years? I said, if I had business and I was wanting to chase the debt, I have a statute limitation of sixty years. Well, she said, that doesn't apply to the ATA.
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Speaker 1: We can do whatever you like, as you say, a Laura, and to themselves. Look, we'll make some inquiries with the ATO, Maria, because it just seems a ludicrous situation. You know, this is sort of hanging out of your head. Do you want to clear it up and put into the past. So look, stay tuned. We'll see what we can find out and get a spokesperson from the ATO on Let's take another call out to clemsig Terry.
00:33:42
Speaker 16: Good morning, Good morning Graham, how are you good.
00:33:45
Speaker 1: Thanks?
00:33:46
Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 17: This morning I heard Ashton Hern talking to the boys and she was stating she stated that she was going to fight to keep the torrens on On power station going for a few more years.
00:33:56
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: Well, I just wanted to know. It seems funny because everybody talks about the Larren's Island power station. I was a mechanical fitter for years and I used to do shutdowns at Terrence Island and I also used to do shutdowns at Pelican Point. Right now, nobody ever mentions the word Pelican Point NGI own it, ERGI actually owned it now. I think it used to be t t X some or other. I can't I can't remember who it was, some American county, but I think Angie's got it now. But just just in answer to that, I know there are fifty percent capacity apparently at the moment. I just wanted to find out what's going on and what we can do to get some more power into the system, you know, or what the what their main game is.
00:34:36
Speaker 1: Well, that's interesting. We'll make some inquiries. It's Angie that's running Pelican Point, isn't at the moment.
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Speaker 17: Yeah, Yeah, Angie's the one got it at the moment. And I've heard, I've heard the word that they were running at fifty percent capacity because they're doing something with battery stories or something. But you know, I mean it's nice for us, you know, as the public. You know, we should be aware of what's going on.
00:34:58
Speaker 1: We will make inquiries. I can't tell you exactly when we'll find out, but we will make some inquiries. Or someone might be listening that works at Pelican Point. What is the situation with Pelican Point? Because power is a vital issue in this state, an issue that still comes to mind to me, that does concern me a lot. And Tomkinson Ternus has conceded that we'll always need gas, that we need firming power. Renewables cannot do it on their own. But there are things that no matter how many renewables you have, there are industries that can't fire up. Now. Aluminium is one of them, steel works, cement works, fertilizers. They just cannot get enough power out of renewables. That's been conceded. So what is happening with Port Agusta. Shouldn't we be considering firing that up in another way, building another qualified power station. I know the government won't hear of it, but what really is the long term future for the wireless steel works? Where is the power coming from? Will that have to be gas? And we know how expensive gas is? Like to know? Eight double two to three double O double o. Christine, good morning.
00:36:04
Speaker 18: Oh, good morning, and hello, how are you?
00:36:07
Speaker 1: I'm well?
00:36:07
Speaker 19: Thanks good.
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Speaker 11: I was on a.
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Speaker 18: Flight from Perth last night that was JQU Triple one that was meant to arrive at eight point thirty and we hadn't.
00:36:17
Speaker 16: Aborted landing too, oh right, yes, and.
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Speaker 18: The pilot did it. We nearly landed and then the wheels went up, and heard them, and then he quickly went up and was very bumpy. And then I think we went out to Edinburgh or Paris, but I'm not sure. I could see an airstrip, so maybe they were thinking of doing that. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: But you didn't land there. You didn't land it Edinburgh, no, we did not.
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Speaker 18: Then we came back and he was quite bumpy, but he handled it very well, and probably I think about twenty minutes later we landed but it was very windy.
00:36:51
Speaker 1: Did you have any concerns?
00:36:54
Speaker 18: No, but I think other people. Yeah, it's not a bit shaky, but I have had that my third demanding ever. But you know, I thought I was, but it was very frumpy out there.
00:37:07
Speaker 1: Christine, thanks for sharing that story with this.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I look, I think as planes come into land, we're all just that little anxious to the wheels hit the ground. But you're coming in coming in, the planes slowing out, plans slowing up. You can see the airport runway almost at ground level, and then all of a sudden, the power up and back out into the air. The first reaction is what in the hell's going on? So that's interesting from Christine to say that there was a second flight that was diverted, although it was able to eventually land at Adelaide Airport A double two to three double O double. If you were on that flight or another one, I'd like to hear from you. Chris says, I found the Energy Made Easy website to be useless. The information was difficult to interpret, and when I calculated my bill using the electricity company and plan I should change to, I would have been paying more than with my current provider. Thank you about Chris. Look, we might make further inquiries if anyone else out there tried to use the Energy Made Easy website. Does it in fact make energy easier? I'd like to know on the text Lane Hi, I had strong winds in Attleston, Newton, Campbelltown and Ross Trevor area from Wednesday night. Plant pots have been broken, made at at times hard to walk, a big mess. However, they and others in the area have enjoyed so far the cool wind that has as brought fresh air blue. And everyone looked at me like to say, where have you been sleeping, because I was I can't think of the area, but gully winds were impactful, and no one in the newsroom lived anywhere near the hills, and they just sort of said, what do you what are you going on about? It wasn't breezy last night. Eight double two three double oh Energy Made Easy website. As a chicken, all this does is offered me a comparison of foxes to choose from. Wow, that's a good analogy like that. The building site next door wind was so strong last night a temporary fence blew over in the middle of the night. Yeah, some of the wind must have been fearsome. There's no question about that. We'll be back tonight again, Gully wins, but the Bureau suggests they won't be as strong and that would be a breath of fresh air. Can we say that for the sees who are working overtime at the moment to repair the situation A SA Power networks about five thousand properties are still without power. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number? Do you have an iPhone? If you had trouble with it lately, did it recently upgrade or did you recently upgrade the update the operating service? Well, if it's with Telstra, you might be having problems with triple O. You might be having other other problems too. I've spoken to people who have said, all of a sudden, the signal strength has gone. They are talking to someone on the phone with full bars showing, and they go downstairs or move out of the area and all of a sudden bars disappear. Crazy, So what is happening. We're going to speak with tech expert Lee Stark about that from Picker dot com dot au and I want your calls on how you cope or did cope back in the days before air conditioning, back in the days before insulation and housing? What did you do to stay cool?
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Speaker 2: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: It's eight minutes past ten as we enter the second hour of the show. Thanks for joining us. Well, are you an Apple iPhone user? Many people are. Have you been having trouble lately? The operating system was upgraded and they can sort of do it. You can either opt in or opt out. My feeling is always due. Were oh wait till a new system has been around for a while. They're buying out the bugs. Well, appears there could be a few bugs, particularly for iPhone users on Telstra Summer experiencing severe signal loss and connectivity issues. It's been suggested that the problem is primarily affecting older iPhones like the eight and eight plus a iPhone ten. But I was talking to talking to a friend yesterday. He's got the latest liphone. He said, he's having real trouble with the signal strength on phones. So what's the issue. What's going on here? Best person to speak with is Picker dot com dot a U tech expert Lee Stark Lee. Good morning to you. Come on man here, you going, yeah, well, thanks, no doubt you've been asked this question over and over again. Is it an issue with my phone or the operating system?
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Speaker 20: Uh, it's probably an issue of your operating system. Sometimes it's an issue with reception. The two issues you're talking about are very different. So we'll tackle the iPhone eight one first. So earlier this week, a whole bunch of updates were made to older phones. Anything over seven years is technically considered all but the iPhone eight, iPhone eight plus, iPhone ten well arguably some of Apple's more successful phones. They're nine years old now roughly, and so it's unusual that they'd received an update this late. They did, and unfortunately, the updates had a really interesting catch where it stopped anyone on Telstra or Telstra connected smaller operators like Willy's Make Belong pretty much anyone that used the Teltra network from being able to connect the patches out.
00:41:58
Speaker 15: Now.
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Speaker 20: It's a really awkward fix, and it's one we can actually say over the air, but it's so awkward that you don't just go to your regular settings and make it work. If you did upgrade and had this weird thing where you weren't able to connect to Telstra, you have to do these really specific settings changes in order to reconnect. So that's one thing newer iPhones not being able to connect. That's actually a cross between the phone itself and more than likely the connection that you're on at the time. So that one is probably that one could possibly be Telstra, whereas the one we're talking about, the iPhone eight and ten, that's definitely Apple, right.
00:42:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was saying, I was contacted by a friend is that he's got the latest iPhone, and he said in his building, he can be talking to someone on the phone and go downstairs and all of a sudden, signal strength drops away to nothing.
00:42:46
Speaker 20: So that can usually be explained by some of the devices in the actual apartment or an entire building. So a good example is some people might not have really well shielded microwaves. I actually have one of those. I'm testing in the kitchen right now, and when the microwave switches on, pretty much im interference goes up and the phone loses connections. So that could be related to other appliances inside the house or inside the building that are just not playing nicely. That's distinct from what's happening with the iPhone models that got an update.
00:43:16
Speaker 1: So what advice do you have for people.
00:43:18
Speaker 10: For which one? For the people who are.
00:43:22
Speaker 1: I'll leave it with you with the older iPhones.
00:43:24
Speaker 20: So if the older iPhones, you pretty much have to go to your settings right now. And if you were affected by this and you downloaded the update, go to Settings General and about, and Telstra and Apple would have basically sent out a small what's called a baseband updates. You don't need to know what that is, but all you need to know is that your carrier settings will be fixed. So a little alert will pop up in Settings General About that says accept the carrier settings fixed. Basically, just hit okay. Once that's done, just scroll down in about screen to where it says service providers a whole bunch of little settings in there, and it should say the words Telstra fifty four point one next. Once it says that, it tells you that you're on the most updated carrier settings and at that point you'll be connected immediately. If you didn't upgrade your iPhone this week, you'll be fine. In fact, the latest update going out now has should should be totally fine, especially given that Apple is aware of this happening. But anyone who did upgrade, and we know the number should be somewhere between five hundred and fifteen hundred people across the country, but we don't have an exact amount on the Apple would know that. Basically, if you're one of those people, that's all you really have to do. Just go to settings General about press okay, and you'll be back connected again.
00:44:37
Speaker 1: All right. And the issue of those with newer phones who find with Telstra they're getting severe signal loss.
00:44:44
Speaker 20: Go outside. It's a terrible logic, but the closer you are to a or the further away you are from an inside building where is a risk of other devices impacting your interference things like that, the more likely you are to have a stable signal. Inside has never been perfectly great for a lot of devices. For a long time, Optus actually had the edge on that, and that was in the areas of two G and three G and we don't have that anymore now. Basically, four G, five G and Wi Fi are competing with all the other devices in your house that have electromagnetic interference. So the best thing you can do to get near a window, go outside, go on the patio, do things like that, but the further deeper inside of a building, you go, that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it does seem unusual that this has not been a problem before with earlier operating systems. Yet when the new operating system is introduced, now it's a problem.
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Speaker 20: It's less likely the operating system and more likely an optimization around the antennas on it. Keep in mind the phone itself. So he's got a brand new iPhone. It's not just that he's got a new operating system. He's also got new antennas. He's got Wi Fi six C or Wi Fi seven built into it. So there's a lot of different factors there, more than just the operating system.
00:45:53
Speaker 1: Okay, good advice, Thanks for that. My feeling generally is just as a total novice, when a new operating system comes out, I don't leap to get it because I think if there are any bugs and that I don't want to have them, so I'll wait a month or so just to see. Is that a good idea for a lot of people?
00:46:08
Speaker 20: That's totally fine advice. As long as you actually update within that month or two, that should be fine. A lot of people actually save their updates for years. They actually The first complaint they'll go when they go to somewhere like an Apple store to get it fixed is there's been no update for about six months to a year, So that's actually quite normal. A month is totally fine. A lot of people leap to updates. I don't either. I usually wait two or three days for something actually to happen. Sometimes I will test updates when well ahead of time, but for the most part, waiting a few days a week, a month, that's totally fine. Just make sure you get them once they've been out there for a while.
00:46:41
Speaker 1: Now leaves something I want to put to you. And maybe I'm paranoid and that I've always worried about systems like Siri and Alexa listening in on you, and I've been reassured of time that they're not listening in they only respond when you speak to them. But I see Google's facing a class action after users claim the company was in fact spying on them.
00:47:03
Speaker 10: So it's really weird.
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Speaker 20: As a technology journalist, every time someone says to me that my devices are listening in on me, the answer is, actually they are. They are absolutely listening in on you, but because they have to, because they have to be triggered by certain words. So I dare not say the words that trigger all the smart speakers, not just for the listeners of this show, but also for everything in my office, because it will all pick up. But the reality is they all have to listen. Then what they're not supposed to do is always record. So listening is one thing, recording and storing the data is another. And so I think what you're referring to is that Google is effectively settling a case at the moment in where it's been passive. It's supposed to be passive monitoring and not record, but it's been proven or I guess alleged that it's been recording alongside of it. There are elements where it will actually do that. There we go, there are elements where it will actually do that and store for certain period and the Google and Amazon even have a little library you can go to in your history to find what you've said in the past. But it's not supposed to record past a certain point. It's always It's kind of like a security camera. It's always paying attention, it's always on, always recording, but only when something happens is it supposed to store that information?
00:48:21
Speaker 1: Right, And is Apple with SyRI in the same situation.
00:48:26
Speaker 20: Possibly, but how it stores its information is really what's critical here. I don't think the accusation or in court is the issue that it's always it's always technically listening, because it is, it waits for a statement about its smart assistance and then it wakes up. The problem is of the recording. So any device that has a smart assistant could be a part of this, provided it's always actively on, and that usually means your iPhone with Siri, Android with Google.
00:48:54
Speaker 1: C Will this mean problems?
00:48:57
Speaker 20: It shouldn't, So there are a couple generations of the iphe What they're talking about is some of the iPhone se models are based off an iPhone eight and one was based off an iPhone eleven. It shouldn't because the iPhone SC takes a slightly different operating system, and also it's been largely fixed. As I said, when Apple realized what had happened with that Telstra update, it did what's called an unsigned patch, which means it pulled it down and no one could update to it. So you'll find if you've got an S or an eight or an eight plus or a ten and new update to the new version now because Apple has fixed that. But with the issue with the with all devices also affecting your phone call. That's something that affects every phone. So the closer you can get to outside or to a window, the better.
00:49:40
Speaker 1: So much information, so much advice. Good on you, Thanks for that tech expert, least dark.
00:49:45
Speaker 10: Great to chat, always happy to help.
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Speaker 1: Aiding past ten five double a GG with regard to your now is man talk about it? Yeah, with regard to your friends, five double A Mornings with Graham. Goodings and good morning to you if you've just joined us. Twenty two minutes past ten is the time we're going to take some calls in a moment, so if you want to get on the line, do so. Eight double two to three doublelow double low. Andrew says, to keep cool. As kids in the seventies, we'd run through the sprinkler in the backyard and visit friends who had a pool. We had a pedestal fan or pedestal fans in our bedrooms. The living room had an evaporative air conditioner on wheels that Mum would fill with water and ice blocks. The car had no AC so you'd wind down the windows. The school classrooms had ceiling fans. Good on you, Andrew, thanks for that. Yeah, memories, memories, memories. We didn't even have fans in our place. I remember. I remember my father would come home from work on a stinking hot day and he'd go out and he would turn on the hose and he would hose down the house, particularly the roof. He'd try and cool it down by hosing it down. And we'd often sleep out in the backyard, which was great fun, I must admit, John, good morning.
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Speaker 15: Good morning Graham. Yes it was great fun. Or remember those.
00:50:55
Speaker 1: But I won't give up the air conditioner though, John, would you?
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Speaker 15: No, No, neither will lie. The best thing's ever been invented. I've got a little story for you. I'll be very brief and quick. In December last year, unfortunately we had to have a cremation for my sister. Cost us twelve thousand dollars for the funeral service. We then found out that to have her ashes interred with Mum and Dad was going to cost us a little plark put on Mom and Dad's headstone. Who's going to cost us another thousand and eighty dollars? So okay, we come up with the money for that. Yesterday I got and informed the brass plarks being made and it'll be done in eight weeks. I said, would you advise us the day that you're going to do this so we could my two brothers and I can be in attendance. She said, if you want to be in attendance, that's going to cost you another two hundred and sixty dollars.
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Speaker 1: Oh really yeah, on a remarkable situation, Why are you being charged to observe the plank being put up? I can't quite follow why that.
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Speaker 15: Will wash the ashes being into Yeah. Yeah, to me, it's just it's a blood sucking event that goes on a sucking month. Try to suck money out of people anyway they can.
00:52:15
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: Well, I'm not impressed. And I just told the particular lady when she passed that information on, I said, well, it looks like we won't be in attendance, and I've said that to me, is an insult to my family.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I can understand how you feel. John, Thanks for sharing your story with us, and commiserations go to you and your family too. I don't know what the policy would be. Maybe all cemeteries have that same procedure and const structure if anyone's listening who knows, give us a call eight double two three double oh, double oh Elizabeth.
00:52:49
Speaker 21: Good morning, good morning, and thank you for having me on.
00:52:53
Speaker 1: It's a pleasure.
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Speaker 21: Concerned about this vote for the Aboriginal Voice at the same time as we have of our state election. I just want to sum up. We have a federal part a federal government that votes every three years and they are about nine members that are average of Aboriginal background. We have a state election every four years and I think there's one Aboriginal person. We have local government, and now we're going to have this vote for Aboriginals, which is in my view, absolutely unnecessary because there were about five hundred people voted for the Voice when they had their Clever site and four of them resigned and we don't know whether they had another election to put those four people back. But anyway, so they are represented in our federal parliament, our state parliament and what is there what is their need when we already have all the laws that are made both federally and state look after every person, every Australian, and we are all Australian and they are duiplicated with their state bodies. Now we have to aide by what this Aboriginal Voice, which has about five hundred people apon it only.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, Elizabeth. It's only advisory body that it can't suggest to the government, you know, what policy will be. They can look at pieces of policy and say we'd like to see this, that or the other. But the government is not beholden. They do not have to adopt. It's just an advisory body, yes.
00:54:43
Speaker 21: But they have to be voted for. So when we go to our election, will there be people handing out how to vote cards for the Aboriginal people for our state parliament and people handing out how to vote cards for the Voice?
00:55:00
Speaker 1: I think that's just for Indigenous people. I don't think that, yes, what they.
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Speaker 22: Have for gram And I sort of have a change of subject today because I want to take my hat off to Jessica Adamson as a journalist for the Advertiser. She wrote this fabulous article on Wednesday about the bone marrow donation for this young man and how it saved his life. And the background to that is very extensive because many years ago, in nineteen seventy one, a little boy called Anthony Nolan was born at Redwood Park and in nineteen seventy four, his mother, Shirley Nolan, because he had this bone marrow illness. She got this idea from somewhere, I don't know where, to start up a register to register everybody in the world with bone marrow. And eventually that happened, and that is why that young man's alive today, and she's given more than twenty eight people the chance to live. How wonderful She's no longer alive because she developed Parkinson's. But I just think that's a wonderful connection within Adelaide, that we have these wonderfully, really bright, brainy people who are so futuristic in their thoughts. And there was nothing to do with computers or anything like that there, and then it was all just down to her and her thinking and concept and desire and love to save her boy. And he died at age seven. So it's a sad story there, but a very happy story for that young man here.
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Speaker 1: Oh and thanks for passing that story on for us. So I did not read that article by Jess Adamson. I know Jess write some great articles. I missed that one, but thanks for passing it on to our listeners. My number is eight double two to three double O double. We'll be back after news headlines five double A.
00:56:51
Speaker 2: Mornings with Graham Goodings.
00:56:53
Speaker 1: Pretty eight minutes to ten or to eleven. In fact, on five double A this Friday morning, we find you well as the temperature climbs to forty one degrees today, trying to stay cool. We were hearing from Mario earlier about tax debt that he's been trying to have cleared up. It's been going on with that tax department for twenty years or more, Geraldine Wright, So I had exactly the same from the Taxation apartment. I had help from Rebecca Sharky's office. The debt, which I know we didn't have, was removed immediately by account and checked. I agree, very strange. Carton said they had a client who owed one dollar for twenty years. Yeah, the Australian Taxation Office has a lot to answer for, but they don't answer to a whole lot, or for a whole lot. Over the last week or so, we've been getting a lot of calls regarding bulk billing doctors not bulk billing people paying the gap specialist charges. A lot of issues that are concerning a lot of people with good reason alarming research suggests Ozzie's a delaying hospital care due to upfront costs. According to a survey by GMHBA, cost of living pressures and upfront excess health costs are negatively impacting one and two Australians with hospital cover, forcing them to delay or avoid surgery. Let's find out more about it. Meg Rainer, healthcare communications Specialist, Head of Corporate Communications at gm HbA. Meg, good morning to you, Good morning, thanks for having me on. Now tell us about this research.
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Speaker 23: Yeah, so we researched Australians just to better understand how the cost of living pressures are impacting their access to hospital care. And it was really quite startling to find out that one in two with hospital cover had delayed or avoided surgery because of the upfront excess costs that some health funds are charging when people do try and go to hospital. It's not something that GMHBA charges. We actually waive that excess cost, which can be up to seven hundred and fifty dollars per per hospital admission. So obviously that's quite a lot, particularly if you're having to have multiple visits in a year for simple things like a cholonoscopy or an endoscopy or an eye surgery or infusion. Even so, it's quite startling to hear that people have been putting those really important health things off.
00:59:07
Speaker 1: Well, a lot of these are things that you shouldn't be putting off because it could be life threatening.
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Speaker 23: Absolutely, and you know, when we were speaking to people about it, you were in conducting the surgery. A lot of people were, i mean unaware that there were health insurance like GMHBA that don't charge this because they're putting things off like a surgery to remove a tumor, you know, and that's just horrifying. And those who aren't putting it off, you know, are potentially putting themselves even in more debt because they're either relying on a credit card. You know, we had eighty one percent of people were saying they were going to rely on a credit card for a same day procedure. That's the stress alone of having to deal with a health thing and then having the financial pressure on top.
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Speaker 1: It's just awful to any or does anyone in the situation who approaches their doctor saying, look, you know there is any way you can wave this because it's something I can't afford. Do they get the affair.
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Speaker 23: Oh look, I'm not sure how it works on a doctor to doctor basis. I mean as a health fund, it's something that we make eligible for. We make a sorry available to honestly most of our members that have that eligible cover, just because everyone should have the right to be able to access these things. So all of our members with Basic Bronze Silver Hospital Gold Cover, they've got the access waiver to access the same day hospital procedures. So I think it's worth having that informed medical consent when you're going for any procedure or booking in for any sort of thing like that that is going to impact your health around what costs and what can be claimed on private health, what can be claimed on medicare, what your doctor is able to do for you. Have those discussions up front. We don't want people to be having the extra stress of putting off a surgery or something that you know could potentially impact their long term health. Its absolutely not at all something that we would want to see. And you know, we're not for profit health insurer. We've got more than ninety years experience and this is something that for us, it just should be something that our members shouldn't ever have to worry about. You know, that's why we did this research to understand understand a better impact this is having on people.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's no question that the cost of medical and hospital benefits are increasing. I mean time, the cost of living pressures are coming from all angles, and power builds are going up to the supermarket. It's cost you more all the time. So people have to weigh up the fact of you know, how much have we got to spend on medical and hospital benefits and there are so many options available in so many different levels. It can all be a bit of intimidating.
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Speaker 23: Oh, undoubtedly it is really intimidating. And you know, we have really trained experts in our customer care team who can take those calls from our members or people who are curious about our fund to learn more about it. We try and make sure we've got really detailed information that's easy for people to understand on the GMAHBA website. And we just want people to sort of have a think about as a long term investment in their health. You know, like if people look into things around how young they're joining their healthcare fund. If you join after thirty one, you are going to look at extra taxts on top of that, so it's worth looking in.
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Speaker 1: That's a good advice. Thanks for that. That's Meg Rayner, head of corporate Communications at gm HbA. Are you one of those Aussies delaying hospital care due to upfront costs? One in two Australians are doing just that. A reminder that we're going to have Federal Health Minister Mark Butler on the program next week and if you have any questions for him, and I'm sure you will have, I'll let you know when he's coming on and you can give him a call. But you can give me a call now on eight double two to three double O. Andrew says, I'm in age care admin. I just want people to know that with the new Support at Home scheme, which commenced on the first of November, if you weren't on a home care package before that, you will now have to pay a percentage of contribution out of your own pocket for cleaning, shopping, transport and home help services that were fully funded by the old home care package scheme. It's a deceitful government cash grab. Thank you for that, Andrew. We will certainly put that question or put that situation to the Federal Health minister hi Gg grow up in the seventies. Were a family of ten, mom, dad, seven brothers and me, youngest and only girl. We had a two bedroom home, double brick. After a couple of hot days, the house would heat up, no cooling at all. Dad also squirt at the house arm with the hoes. We used wet tarles to cool down. Slept on the back lawn at night. My eldest brother taught me all about the Southern Cross and the saucepan stars and the night sky. We'd all walk down to the beach at night. Wonderful times. Yeah, you put aside the fact that it was pretty tough. It was hard going, no cooling, no insulation of the house, but the memories that brings back and the thoughts. Yeah, you'd lay on the lawn looking up at the sky, looking at the stars. You'd learn a lot, talk to your family, you know, no phones, no TV going, no social media. Just yeah, amazing times. Tough times, but amazing times. I can remember we go down to the beach. You get a stinking hot day, so we'd all drive to the beach and you spend the day at the beach and when the sun dipped below the horizon. You'd go home and you go to get in the car and it was like getting into a furnace, absolutely stifling hot, and of course there was no air conditioning, so you open the windows and you drive home. By the time you got home, you're hot of than when you got to the beach in the first place, but still, and then there was no cooling when you got home. Ah, yeah, wonderful times. Eight double two three double o double. How did you cool down in the tough times? I'd like to know eight double two to three double double. Oh, let's know about that. Well. Pauline Hansen was on the Brecky Program with David and Will this morning, answering whole lots of questions. She was very outspoken regarding the state of the Liberal Party around the nation.
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Speaker 13: South Australia's right across the whole country. And if you think you might have it bad down there, my god, I'm in Victoria at the moment. It is atrocious in this state. They really are a basket case. And you know, people are screaming out for someone with clear, common sense policies, make change and make a difference in the state. All they want is hope for the future. For the future generation and it's nothing given by the current governments. It's like, you know, these politicians doing there for the own jobs security. They get to pay a packet. I don't think many of them go out on a limit will represent the constituents. They follow the party line and if you look at most of these parties run by the units for big, big multinationals. So where's the representation for the people and this what they want? They want to be heard.
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Speaker 1: Of course, Pauline Hanson's One Nation is now the second most popular party in Australia. It has to be spoken of in terms of an alternative government. I know we're a long way up from an election and a lot can happen between now and then, but people are taking Pauline Hanson seriously, particularly the federal government. We'll hear a bit more about Pauling Hanson or from Pauling Hanson a little bit later on. Let's take a call Paul good morning.
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Speaker 7: Good morning. I too swept on the backlawn as a kid.
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Speaker 24: You imagine these days, gone out in the backyard and sleeping on the.
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Speaker 4: Pavers ah it's modern hothhouses.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right, they're not too much grass to be seen.
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Speaker 17: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 25: Bye, Blae.
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Speaker 1: Good on your Paul. Yeah, thanks for that. Yeah, what we did and how we coped and you couldn't wait for the iceman to come around them. Well, when I was really, really young, we didn't have a refrigerator. The iceman would come once or twice a week, and you'd have an ice chest and he would put a huge block of ice into the ice chest, which it seemed to keep things cool for a few days, and then he'd need to come again. I remember, well, I don't remember, it's before my time, but that huge heat wave spell in Adelaide there were thirteen days over thirty four degrees and people were really put to the test back then, and the ice works, which was government owned at the time, broke down, which caused ice rationing. Can you believe that there was ice rationing in Adelaide? How things have changed? Do we have it easy now? We complain about when we should turn the air conditioner on, although we've got good reason to complain when it costs a lot for the power. Pat good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I love you.
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Speaker 14: Trip down memory land.
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Speaker 12: I remember it, laying down in the laundry with wet owls and the fan going.
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Speaker 14: Of course we were that rich enoughter on the air condition of it. Yeah, you think how much times have changed.
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Speaker 12: I just think now when I heard the last gentleman talk how we could sleep on the grass. And but you think now, if you're outside hosing your house down, some greeny ass white or someone, will you complaining about you the counsels and you can't afford it to run your air condition So have things change for the bear over time?
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Speaker 14: Not really, I reckon they've gone bad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good on your paty. I take in what you say. I wouldn't give up the air conditioner for anything, But I vividly remember my father always coming home from work in the middle of summer and the hook up the hose and hose down the house, particularly the tiles, and it would effectively cool down the house a little bit, but not a lot. And you'd pray for some sort of breeze, just any sort of gentle breeze, because I can't ever remember in our household even having a fan. I just just don't know. But yeah, and when you went to school and if it got too hot, they'd send you home. It's too hot to be at school, So you'd be home by midday. That sort of doesn't happen these days because with two parents, usually both working, there might be no one at home, so the school becomes a babysitter as well. But back in the day you would be sent home if it got beyond a certain temperature. Memories, if you have any, I'd like to hear them at double two three double doh double.
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Speaker 2: Low five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Twelve minutes two eleven five double Eli says we would bring the mattress on the lawn. Only worry about that was the creepy crawley. How did the mother's cope? Now electricity in some country is doing the washing, boil the copper to do the washing. If they had sick kids, how did they cope? And of course a lot of the stoves way way back then were wood burner stoves, so if you were to do any cooking in the middle of a heat wave, you'd have to fire up the fire up the stove, throw the wood in it. Ah dear, oh dear, And we think it's tough these days. Eight double two three double double the number thirty five point one at the moment heading for forty one degrees today, we're trying to work out ways and remember ways we kept cool way back in the day. If you have any stories, I'd like to hear them on eight double two three double O double ow. We're thinking about ways of keeping cool today, keeping our animals cool. What about animals in the zoo? Joining us now? As Ian Smith, director of the Minato Safari Park, Ian, good morning to you. Yeah, it's something that I guess most of us don't think about, but animals effectively out in the wild, although they're in captivity, they're still effectively in the wild. Is there any steps you take to keep them cool or help them keep cool?
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Speaker 26: Well, certainly, Yeah, a lot of the species we've got out of Minado, they're sort of heat adapted there from the similar sort of locations around the world, whether it's Australia or Africa. But yeah, we certainly bear in mind that on those days. You know, we offer them as much choice as we can, but we make sure that they the opportunity to seek that choice, and we provide them with extra sort of things to keep them cool as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess it would be difficult. They would try and seek out shade, I guess that would be the first thing. Animals would try to do.
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Speaker 26: Certy shade and try to minimize their activity as well, so they're not sort of moving around. So once they've got that shade, they're not encouraged to move around and they can preserve their heat generation.
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Speaker 1: As you've said, most of the animals there have probably come from similar sort of climates like in Africa. But are there any there that the South Astonian environment is totally foreign to them?
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Speaker 26: Look, I wudn't they completely foreign? You know, you would think, you know, we've got things like Asian elephants, but even Asian elephants in the wild they go through a dry season where they go through similar sort of temperatures and humidity sort of extremes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting. So I guess there's not a lot of activity at the moment among the animals on a day of forty one degrees or more.
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Speaker 26: Well, they're not sort of you know, charging around the habitats as they usually would be. You know, there's a lot more tolerance of each other, you know, when they're trying to sort of you know, squeeze that a little bit of shade out, but they share it out quite equickly. It's great to.
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Speaker 1: See any evidence of any of them under stress.
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Speaker 26: Look, I think we certainly they're under some stress, but that would be the same instid of the world and for any animals really, and we try and make sure we don't push them a little bit too far. You know, every animal that sort of temperature is operating it sort of it's physiological maximum.
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Speaker 1: Really, I guess things are fairly quiet at Manata at the moment. You probably wouldn't get too many visitors on a day like today.
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Speaker 26: You know, today is probably not as bad as you know. We'll work close for three days, you know, just the last weekend on the SAT date of Monday and Tuesday today would be a normal for quiet time. Anyway, schools have gone back and you know, the numbers have really dropped off the last few days.
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Speaker 1: And going to the other extreme. Not that southa Stratia has real extremes in temperature, but in the middle of winter, is that present any problems for any of the animals.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, We've got sort of things like you know, wind breaks that's going to sort of keep them bit warm, and some areas have heating as well to sort of tape a chee off the air, because even at BNADO there'd be some mornings where we get around freezing temperatures.
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Speaker 1: Ian Smith, thank you so much for your time. How animals at Manato Zoo cope and they it sounds like they're coping pretty well, probably better than most of us are coping, Graham. In the late sixties, I experienced something worse than no air conditioner in a car no radio. We drove from Adelaide to Queensland with my mum's new husband singing all the song from South Pacific, the movie All the Way to Queensland. Now, sixty years later, I'm still trying to get those bloody songs out of my head. Steve, I'm gonna wash that man right out of my hair. South Pacific. There were wonderful songs in South Pacific. But I guess being in an enclosed space for hour after hour hearing those songs, I don't know how well your mum's new husband sang thirty five point one in Adelaide. At the moment at Parafield it's thirty six point five Kooba Petie forty one point seven Roxby d Arm's forty three, Renmark thirty five point nine adelaide, of course, heading for forty one degrees today? How do you cope with the heat? How did you cope with the heat? Way back when? I'd like to know, my wife's neighbor used to deliver blocks of ice and kerosene by horse and carriage. Would walk into the kitchen and put a block of ice into the freezer, into the compartment and then just walk out. I can't remember that happening at our place, but I can remember the nightmare before we had an indoor toilet and there was no sewerage system. It was an outside system, shall we say, And the night cart man used to come and collect the cylinder from under the toilet once a week. There's a job for you. Remember the water slippery sides slides that used to have in the backyard and you'd have them on for hours, Well not anymore. Yeah, that was one way to keep cool, wasn't it Turn the sprinklers on. My father would going put the sprinklers on and say, all right, gave for your life. So my brother and I to get outside and run around in the sprinklers was wonderful. But yeah, these days, would you be able to do that? Just let water run like that. Dur Any degree gig Re, Pauline Hanson. I have voted liberal all my life. I will be voting for one nation next federal election. Liberals have lost their principles and are distracted by who's going to lead the party instead of focusing on what's best for the country. Thank you for that, Steve Well. As we've been playing some segments of Arline Hanson, who was on The Brecky Show with David and Will this morning, she was asked if she'd considered a switch to blow a house.
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Speaker 13: Look, it hasn't gone to my head, and a lot of people are calling for it by all means. But they even put it in our movie and I didn't have any idea about it. But anyway, so it's about.
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Speaker 6: A laugh having a laugh.
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Speaker 13: But the whole fact is, Look, no, I'm going to just keep going the way that I'm going at the moment. I haven't got a spell heard about it. Think about Prime minister, the country. All I wanted to get the right people in to make different people flives out there in turn out country around to prosperity, give people want a decent stand living way of life. That's not my aim is it's not about Pauline Hanson. It's about the country and about the people.
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Speaker 1: Pauline Hanson, What are your thoughts? Her movie was banned, her caricature of what Well, I don't know what you'd call the movie, but if you've ever seen her on social media, their little excerpts, little comedy skits, having a go at the government, et cetera. It was to be shown at cinemas in Melbourne and evidently the workers, they're the staff, they're kicked up a stink, so they stopped and decided not to show it, and then they change their mind again. How is it the workers can say, oh, you're not going to show that. We don't want you to show that movie. Where are we going in this country? And I don't know that the movie is saying anything. I mean it might, it might cut close to the bone and offend some people, but is that any reason to ban it? I mean, are we're getting to the stage that if anyone's offended that's good enough reason to ban it? What are your thoughts? Alan?
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Speaker 16: Good morning, Yes, good morning, Graham Graham. I'll guess you notice the pay rise this morning for the South Australian book servants of one hundred bucks a week. Yep, thirty thousand people, which is three million dollars a week. Or if you want to multiply it by fifty two, at four hundred and fifty six million dollars per year.
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Speaker 1: Yep, adds up, doesn't it?
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Speaker 16: Yeah, sure it does. Where's the money coming from? Water race?
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a good question. I mean, I'm not saying that these public servants don't deserve the pay rise, but we've got a wonder that is there a bottomless pit because you know the government is spending money hand over fist at the moment, both stayed and federal.
01:17:12
Speaker 16: Well you could say too that you know, I'm a little bit naive, but I think this is probably a bribe to make sure that thirty thousand public service won't vote for the state government.
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Speaker 1: No, allan, how could you ever possibly consider that?
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Speaker 15: Oh?
01:17:28
Speaker 16: Well, me, I'm just suspicious.
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Speaker 1: Ah Well, I mean, well, I'm going to see if the nurses pay dispute what the government is settled before election day, because at the moment they're not accepting the offer that the government is putting to them.
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Speaker 16: That's right.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if their settlement is reached just before the election.
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Speaker 16: Yeah, that would be Elizabeth Dabar's doing.
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Speaker 1: That's the one. Yeah needs to be Allan. Thanks for your call. Yes, this is the time that the government is trying to patch up. I saw one of the government's adds to what they'd achieved over four years. It was very impressive and they have done a lot, but of course it patches over the problems that they have for things like ramping, which is still an issue. The big issue with them, of course, is they promised to fix ramping. It's not like we will do ours, there's no question about that. But the way they've handled the alder bloom crisis I think has been poorly done. But have the opposition been strong and highlighting the weaknesses of the state government. Not so sure about that. I like to know what you think. We're talking about how we dealt with the heat way back when before air conditioning, and I was talking about the family going down to the beach and then at the end of the day, you know, you'd cooled off and you go to get in the car and it was like a furnace. Somebody said, yeah, you've got third degree burns from your seat belt. Yet this younger generation reckons they have it so tough. Well, I guess every generation has its pluses and minuses. Unfortunately, in this current climate, with the cost of living crisis, you have to make decisions on what comes first. If that means living in your home or having some day surgery, your home will always come first. Eight double two to three, double double is the number. Ring will take a break. Then after the news, after the eleven o'clock news, we're going to look at the week in media in review with Nick.
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Speaker 2: Hays, five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings by.
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Speaker 1: Fast eleven five double A on a Friday, and we know what that means. Time to talk media with Nickays. Nick, welcome back. Have you New Year Christmas Easter?
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Speaker 19: I'll let us say that on the thirtieth of January.
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Speaker 1: Look, a lot of people think you shouldn't sad on New Year's Day. I know it's chocking.
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Speaker 19: Good to see you looking fit and healthy and twenty twenty six. What a big year this is going to be.
01:19:43
Speaker 1: Well, Look, there's a whole range of things to talk about. Probably the most current is what's happened with the nine Radio.
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Speaker 19: Nine Radio Big announcement this morning, So a lot of the listeners will be aware that obviously five double A is owned by Nova, so it's not affected by radio at all. And you've got two GB in Sydney, you've got three AW and Melbourne, four BC in Queensland, six PR in Perth. Now that's been on the market. It's been on the market for about three or four months of heading up out of twenty twenty five. A lot of quiet bidders coming in, a lot of very well known bidders coming in, names like Singleton, coming in, Hutchison from the SEG group. They were all had a bit of an interest. Thirty odd million was what they wanted to pay. It hasn't gone that way. The announcement has been made. Channel nine has sold the four stations for fifty six million dollars to a publican, a New South Wales publican. And it is really quite remarkable when you think about it. Now it's Arthur Laundy. Now, Arthur Lawndy has quite a reputation. He's probably the single biggest owner of pubs and hotels in this country. He's worth a wpbout one and a half billion, so he's not short of a dollar and he snapped it up for fifty six million.
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Speaker 1: Dollars, so way less than probably what they paid for it.
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Speaker 19: Oh yeah, so Singleton's sold to GB for just over eighty million dollars, not more than a decade ago. And that's just how far or where this is gone. And you know, buyers sell, it's a buyer seller's market. I think in this case it is definitely a seller's market. But sorry, a buyer's market. But yeah, I think nine will be very happy with that. And as a result, they've gone out and bought their advertising company QMS. They've really locked down their approach to the East Coast. So there'll be a few sort of warning signs going up to those in the on the West coast at six PR as to sort of what's going on with them. And I think it possibly is very good news for listeners and listeners to talkback radio on the Eastern seaboard. I think there's a good chance that there's a long long there's a long future for talk radio on the East Coast.
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Speaker 1: The only concern I would have is I would like working for a station. It to be bought by somebody who has some sort of knowledge of radio or television or whatever. You happen to be in. What does a publican know about radio?
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Speaker 19: I know, I know, Graham, this has been battling my mind all morning. What does he know about this? I mean, look, he's obviously a big advertiser with traditional media and he will know what the cost of that is. So he's buying into that future there for him and his family moving forward. I think that there is something about someone who might be a fan of talk radio and want to see its success not necessarily just take it by it, sell it up, break it up and make a dollar out of it. I mean names like Singleton and Hutchison. You know they're big business people. They want to make a dollar and you know, never never hold or hold back anyone trying to make a dollar. But it would be commercial first for audience now, and audience is everything when it comes to talk radio.
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Speaker 1: So two GB and three OW are incredibly.
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Speaker 19: Successful, incredibly successful, one of the biggest radio programs, the breakfast program three AW, Ross and Russell, biggest in Australia, just short of Pembo and will we won't tell at the heels we won't be telling them that. But and then you've got ben Fordham, who is incredibly big on two GB, and then you had likes of Ray Hadley that were big names on the East Coast that could be potentially coming back. But the rest of their programs are doing well. You don't necessarily need it.
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Speaker 1: Don't think it with it, you don't think it with it.
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Speaker 19: So I think it's good news for radio. I think when we talk about the decline of some media, traditional media and where it's falling over, radio is still very successful. It still grows. And the reason I think that is Graham is because you know, people will be listening to this in their car. They might be listening to this great, but they could be only how that alternative is listening to a podcast, and that takes extra energy and time to do that. But we're such a mobile or society that radio does very well and current.
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Speaker 1: I mean a podcast is basically a history lesson. Yeah, you know, if something like if something while we're talking now, if something happens in Canberra, Intostate or wherever we're on it, I'd say, sorry, Nick, We're going to cross the camera for the Lakers. That's what radio can do. Don't worry.
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Speaker 19: That's happened to me many in middle of a segment. It's like, no, we've got the Prime minister.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 19: Look, and talk radio is very much like social media for older people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well exactly, that's what it is.
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Speaker 19: It is and it keeps us connected, it keeps us informed, engaged, entertained. I think it's a good move. I think they're going to do very well out of it. So that's the big news out of Sydney today. It's been listed, it's been bought, it's been sold, and it's good news I think for listeners across the East and seaboard.
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Speaker 1: Stay tuned for further developed. The thing with radio is I look, I'm old enough to remember the time before television, and when television started people said that little bit of the death of radio. Who's going to listen to radio now? When you've got pictures you can see it all happening in front of you. Well, radio survived, it evolved and changed, changed dramatically and where television is probably now freeware television is you know in a part of the state.
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Speaker 19: And look at you, mister TV talking about because you're back on radio doing the very thing that you do well. And video killed the radio star. It's that great song no talk radio connects. Communication is everything. And while we're human beings and this is not even in an AI world can take over. As long as there's a connection and you're making someone feel good, you're entertaining, like I say, informing them, then we're always going to have a successful medium here. So keep it going.
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Speaker 1: Not a disagreement. So what else is happening? Then you've been away, you've been off overseas. Did you miss all at the end of the cricket and the start of the tennis?
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Speaker 19: Got all the crickets? Tennis? I start, I just missed. I've just spent nine days in New York City, Graham, and I thought I could come back and tell your stories of really derelict leadership in the United States, turmoil and everything like that. When you're in New York City, they don't mention Trump once, not once did I hear Donald Trump. I watched a lot of media. I went and visited quite a few media houses. Obviously they're big on Trump, but people in New York City not so. But to come home to a breakup of a coalition one nation, pall Enhans and potentially now the opposition party and also Albaneze is still sort of bereft of any form of leadership. I mean he's doing, according to the latest polls, doing very well with his response now to BONDI but I was just shocked by that. I thought, you know, we throw a lot of barbs at what goes on in the United States and what happens politically there. Hey, we should start taking a little bit more notice on what's happening here. Yeah, because we're not that good at it. Oh, we're not that good at.
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Speaker 1: It, right, I tell you. I on holidays, spend a little time in Singapore and if you want to go to a place that's well run, well organized, it's a very expensive place to go to, but they know how to run a city state. Yeah. Yeah, everyone loves it. They always complain about it's being too expensive, but everyone has a home, a roof over their head, a path in life where they can succeed if they want to. You sort of think, why can we be more like that in Australia.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, it is amazing because I think it's just comes down to this, the egos that go on within political parties and individuals, is it's just staying alive for them, not really having the people's thoughts views and ambitions sort of looked at, and that's really upsetting. I thought we'd be coming back to be talking a little bit more about the travel roots once sort of BONDI light down. I thought, here we go, here we go. But no, I think that one's now passed us, and we're now heading towards the state election of course here in South Australia. And look what is going on with the Liberal Party is absolutely I think the hardest thing to watch. I don't know whether Susan Lee is going to fall on a sword anytime soon. I hope not, because if they go too far to the right in reaction to what's happening with one nation, then they're really they're going to destroy that middle ground.
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Speaker 1: We're going to have nowhere to move. And the thing is they can't even organize a coup properly because they've got too likely contenders and they know that if they both run for the leadership, neither will win.
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Speaker 19: And two just on that two gutless leaders too, by the way I mean, and I'm calling that one is even a former SAS officer, but I'm calling them gutless because if you stand by your convictions and you believe what you're doing. You should have done that already, and this is they're just waiting for their opportunity waiting room. There's enough blood to go in there and do that. What they're actually done has made albin Easy look amazing when you hasn't done anything really crazy. A vote for one nation, and I know that one nation. I was counting the amount of times one nation was even mentioned on this radio station right through the week, because they're hard to try. Everyone's talking about them at the moment. But a vote for one nation is a vote for labor. It's as simple as that, because you're just taking away that conservative vote that might have headed towards the Liberal Party. But you know what, I don't blame one nation voters voting that way. I blame the Liberal Party. The Liberal Party is a complete and uther mess and they've made a complete balls up of it. What should have been the BONDI response was incredibly good from Susan Lee, but she did not follow.
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Speaker 1: Through with that and fell away badly.
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Speaker 19: And the media caught up with that and they've held her to account. So it's been a big.
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Speaker 1: Couples double two three double O double. If you'd like to have a chat with Nick about what's happening in the world of media. You might have an alternative view. We'd like to hear it back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings and a very good morning if you just joined us. Being a Friday, we're doing all things media and politics and what's happening in the world with Nick Hay's from Media Stable. From the text line high Gg, Nick is one or percent. We need to worry about our own government. Labor and co are getting into areas of freedom to express an opinion into undemocratic territory. Scared for my children and grandchildren regards Patrick, I don't know if I've made sense of that. Actually, Nick is one hundred percent. We need to worry about our own government. Labor and co are getting into areas of freedom to express an opinion into undemocratic territory.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, Look, it's.
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Speaker 19: It's such an Australian thing to do. And I know that we see ourselves as sort of smart, intelligent people that are I guess you know, we're fait in. We do the right thing, but we tend to have a focus on others to see how poorly they're doing to make our sales feel a little bit better, and that US politics in global politics, Donald Trump. I know you just mentioned Donald Trump. It's everywhere, but you know, we'll have a crack and a throat and go at that. But I think we start to need to look a little bit more inward about how we're performing and what we're doing. You know, you and I were just talking off. We're one of the luckiest countries in the world. Look at all the resources that we have, with the most overtaxed people running around, but yet we still don't have politicians that can actually do the right thing or at least go out and make real change for what's going to happen to the you know, the pockets of hip pockets of everyone that's running around. It's a bit sad, but we've got some challenges. We've got some challenges here.
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Speaker 1: And Jason says, Hi Graham, how is a vote for one nation a vote for labor? That makes no sense at all.
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Speaker 19: It makes absolute sense. The reason it is a vote for labor is as a conservative vote, you'll be leaning towards either the liberal side as opposed to labor. So a one nation voter is never ever going to vote labor. But when they take those votes away from a potential Liberal or a Conservative member, it goes to labor because it just takes and brings down the value of what a Liberal member or a National's member would get. Look, there's three members now of the Conservative coalition right currently no coalition, but it used to be the Liberals and the Nationals. Now you've got one nation. There's three of them the vote and will at least see things very similar, maybe just to different extents. But when you vote one nation and one nation will have a very successful state election here in South Australia, but it will not make really any impact, but it takes away another Liberal vote. And when you take away the Liberal vote, it just reinforces labor. So that's the reasoning behind it's a labor vote. Excellent, Okay, we might get on the subject of politics again. But we were talking television and so forth and ratings and how the major sport events are going. Yeah, So if you're an Ashes supporter, if you loved your cricket over the summer, what a series it was for one Graham g I think we called a few of the wickets even while we're doing this segment and look, it was amazing there for seven. They've definitely won the ratings war if you're going to compare it to the Ashes versus the Australian Open. Now I'm fully where the Australian Open is still going and it's still very big for nine. I got to say, the Australian Open does put on a very good show. I mean, you know the amount of people that go to Melbourne to do it, and you know the people that fly over for it, and it's such an international event as well. But on numbers, the Ashes has one sort of not hands down, but has done very well. The things that would have let seven down is the very short.
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Speaker 1: Not good for television ratings.
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Speaker 19: Was not just good for television ratings, it's just not good for cricket either, so there'll be questions around that, and there was questions about night Game as well. But look, ultimately seven will be very happy with those numbers. Nine's doing very well out of the Australian Open, They've got to say, and they would have loved Demono to actually move forward, get a little deeper, heading to the Semis or you know, get a little further because that Australians love barracking for an Australian.
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Speaker 1: But you know you got to say Nick Kurios factor. People love to hate him, but they always watch him.
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Speaker 19: Oh they did, didn't they? And you know you look at Hewett as well, he was another one. Come on, you know you loved him or hated him as well, but he was Australian and you're still supported. But a lot of the good guys in tennis, there is a lot of good guys and girls, I should say, because the girls are doing just as well as the boys and the numbers are looking good.
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Speaker 1: So if you're.
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Speaker 19: Going to have a battle between the Ashes in the Australian Open, I think the Ashes just won by a small smidgeon and it would have been a very different case had some of our Australians advanced further. But it's been a good, good watching series over summer First Sport and you'll definitely see more cricket, more and more tennis back next year.
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Speaker 1: There's no doubt that Australians love Alex Demanor. I think we've realized and he has to realize that while he's a wonderful player, there's a huge gap between number five in the world and number one and two. Oh yeah, yeah, so you know he struggled in that area. But I mean the only he sort of fell out of fav Runner if you were away at the time. Early on in the tournament, they were talking about prize money, yes, and the players were suggesting that they really should get a bigger piece of the pie. And you know, Alex Demanor, who is never going to end up one of the world's great tennis players, has already a twenty five million dollars, which is not bad money. Oh yeah, and to say we should get a bigger slice of the pie. I think it's all right for players to want a bigger slice, but let's give it to from rank number one hundred and beyond. I don't think anyone, particularly in the top fifty, really needs a boost in money.
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Speaker 19: I love how you just mentioned that the difference between one and five and then down is just it is a big difference. So I mean, if it was a top ten that was really close and it was always fighting for it, then you would go all right, yeah, maybe some more money. This is nothing new though. All sporting codes, all players and players associations want a bigger piece of either the broadcasting money either bigger part of what brings the people together. But tennis is such an individual sport, and because it's all going to one person, now that one person has a big entourage of people around them that they have to pay. But it does seem a little bit outrageous that way, and particularly we're still living in a cost of living crisis that that kind of money seems a little outrageous. So yeah, you can put them off, but gee, we don't have much else to barrow.
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Speaker 1: For four point one five million. I think it is to when the Australian Open male and female.
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Speaker 19: I should have kept playing tennis great, I should have kept it.
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Speaker 1: On well good at it. Put added to the list of a whole lot of other things that I wasn't all that good at some of it. From the text line, someone called in Marylyn just called and wanted to know what your thoughts were on Senator just enter price.
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Speaker 19: Okay, Look, I'm a media commentator, not a political commentator. I think the way you Ciner goes about it, I think she genuinely puts herself and presents herself in the as real as she possibly can be where she stood and she was obviously against it and you know, people found that a little bit unusual. She's outspoken, she's probably very good and she could be a potential big time leader moving forward.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she presented herself really well with the voice and whatever your view, you couldn't challenge the fact that she was articulate, knew a subject and people thought that when this all settled, that she'd get a pretty prominent portfolio in the Liberal Party.
01:37:56
Speaker 19: While we're sticking with politics, just you know, and I know a lot of the listeners all they're screaming for politicians with convictions and that would be really good, and that there is one politicians that run that's running in the seat of Unley here if in the state election. Her name is Alice Rolls. She is she's going to be a politician with conviction, very smart. And that is half the reason why the Australian Labor Party here, this is why it's Malley World in South Australia, because they've got such great people coming through. Even though we're seeing a few of them fall off and resigning now or having the last couple of months, they've just got a good bank of people to come through.
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Speaker 1: So why can't the Libs recruit them?
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Speaker 19: Because this is the problem. This is the problem. The Liberal Party has completely lost it's essence and who it actually is. I mean, you know, I live in Kensington Park Graham. It's a strong it should have been a strong Liberal hold. It's now Labor and that's half of that is Malley and half of that is the people that are coming through. So good luck to Alice Rolls who's running for the seat of Unley. I think she'll win it, and win it hands down.
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Speaker 1: Final question for you, can you please explain how Pauline Hansom can get into power. How do people need to vote in order for one nation to become initially one of the big two parties under the preferential system.
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Speaker 19: Well, this is the problem that one nation has is that they're only appearing in the Senate or in the Upper House the only way that And Pauline dodged that with the Breakfast Boys this morning as to whether she would run for the lower House and has said nart won't be doing that because she gets a run because of the Senate and it is it's a vote that is a protest vote against the two big guys until the two big guys get it right. That's liberal and labor. One nation is going to succeed. One nation is going to move forward. And when you want to protest and when you want to let people know that you're not happy with labor and liberal, you vote. One nation always very popular when immigration issues are up, and she's run that beautifully for thirty years, Graham. And the other thing is when people are scared. She loves the scared because pinch she makes people feel scared, and that's when we start to think, well, she could be the leader of the country. She'll never be the leader of the country and neither will Barnaby.
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Speaker 10: Nick.
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Speaker 19: Great to have you back. Good on your mister, gooddings.
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Speaker 1: Ah. Yes, we speak media and politics and all things of interest. Media Stables founder Nick Hayes will join us again next Friday, back after news headlines. It's twenty eight to twelve five double a and as you heard from Candle, thirty six degrees at the moment in the city, mostly sunny, no rain. When was the last time we had rain? We could certainly do with it. I want to do a segment on Bay of Biscay soil. That's the soil that causes cracks and houses around Adelaide. Haven't heard much about it this season, but we will do an issue on that because it's been sometimes since we've had rain, and no rain means dry dry dry Eight double two to three double o double is the number to ring. And we've been talking on the subject of weather. Thirty six degrees heading for forty one. How do we cope in the old days, before reconditioning, before insulation, before refrigeration. How do we cope under the sprinkler in the backyard, staying down the beach, sleeping on the back lawn. So many ways we found putting up damp towels, hanging them over the window and standing in front of the fan. There were ways we survived. How did you do it? Eight double two three double o double. Oh, I like to know how you survived well. A new austraight And study reveals that the dos and don'ts of remote working requests. You're looking at working from home this year thinking about it? Well? The study has revealed the things that you should do if you're considering working from home to maximize your chances. Doctor Lindsay Arthur from the University of Melbourne joins us now doctor good morning to you.
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Speaker 2: Hi, How are you very well.
01:41:49
Speaker 1: Thanks. So working from home is becoming more and more popular, it seems, Yeah.
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Speaker 25: It definitely is. There's been a pretty steep increase in request for flexible work since COVID, and whether or not managers are likely.
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Speaker 8: To approve those requests varies.
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Speaker 25: Quie a bit.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing, isn't it. I think some businesses lend themselves to allowing people to work from home, others don't. So so what are you suggesting? What should people do if they're in a job already and want to start working from home? How do they go about it?
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Speaker 25: Yeah, it's a great question. So in our research we ran a couple of experiments with Australian managers and what we found was that the way that the request is framed and how much flexibility is being requested is really important. So, for example, requests that are based around care and improve productivity, which we call the business case, those two things are more effective than say just saying that it's what you would like and that it would see your lifestyle better. And then also requests for two days are more likely to be approved than a requests for longer periods of time.
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Speaker 1: So how does it use work? If people work. You know, a couple of days at home, a couple of days in the workplace. Do they usually take them those days together or in the middle of the week, or how does it normally work.
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Speaker 25: I think it really depends a lot on the person's work style. You know, do they work in the team. If so, managers typically prefer for them to all be in the office together and then have their working days from home together. If you're working in a job that doesn't have a lot of team involvement, there tends to be a lot more flexibility. And then obviously, if you're the one making the flexible request, you're probably making it for a reason, So you might be organizing it around school pickups, or it could be on a day that you have some other commitments that you want.
01:43:46
Speaker 21: To work around.
01:43:47
Speaker 1: It obviously has to be beneficial both to the employee and the employer, though to get any traction from your boss, Yeah.
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Speaker 25: That's absolutely right, and that's another really important finding from our studies. I actually believe that flexible work was a good thing. And I think this is really important because we are often talking about, you know, what the employee should be doing, but actually maybe we should have some bigger scale interventions that are teaching managers about the benefits of flexible works, and there are a lot, and then you know, showing them how to manage people remotely.
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Speaker 1: The negative feedback we get back is that someone will go and say to the boss, look, you know, I want to work from home one day a week, and I make it a Monday or a Friday, and people say, well, you know, they're just warning and looking for a long weekend.
01:44:36
Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 25: I mean, I understand that that's the one of the complaints or one of the concerns, but I don't think that there's actually a lot of truth in that. I think that when managers give people that flexibility, the people want to retain it, and so they usually work well within that scope. So if you are lucky enough to have a flexible work request approved from Monday or a Friday, you're less likely to use that as say, a long weekend excuse, because you want to reteam that themselves off front of me and freedom.
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Speaker 1: Before COVID, working from home was anomally it happened occasionally. COVID happened people were forced to work from home, and that really set things in train. So it would appear that more and more people experience working from home and they sort of thought this is the I want to do it into the future.
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Speaker 25: Yeah, exactly, And I think a lot of companies really were able to see that they weren't productivity declines. People were working just as much in the office as they were at home. And I think the return to the workplace has had a lot to do with the social integration has teams, so managers wanting their teams to get to know each other more so than it is concerns around productivity and outfluts.
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Speaker 1: Doctor, Thanks for you inside appreciate it, Doctor Lindsay Arthur, University of Melbourne. Working from Home The does and the don'ts. Do you work from home on a regular basis? Have you tried it? Does it suit your job? I mean there are a lot of jobs that you just can't do working from home. Well, you can't work in the retail train and work from home. Some jobs lend themselves perfectly to it. If you're answering the phone or providing call service or something like that, you can do it just as well from home as you can from the office. So what are your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double Oh? Is the number at twenty minutes to twelve five double A. We're going to take some calls. I'd love to hear from you, David. Good morning.
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Speaker 24: Oh hello, Graham. I just heard you talking before the recently visited Singapore and you're wondering why they were so successful. Yeah, I'll give you my my take on it. You notice the population is singing for how many Westerners are there? Probably ten percent, fifteen percent.
01:46:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the population is about five million. Yeah, most of them Malay or Chinese.
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Speaker 24: Have a majority of white Christian leaders. They have like Asian based cultures which have I believe, are much better to look after the people and less violent. I mean, I see Pauline Hanson and one as the complete reverse. She's not going to have a one nation. She's going to have a divided nation. She's not trying to help the Aboriginal she's not trying to help the Indians, she's not trying to help the Chinese, the Vietnamese, the Filipinos. She's dividing the nation, she's not putting the nation together. I'm sorry, Graham, but I can totally disagree with that aspect. And that last speaker you had on was a very smart man and how he said you vote for one nation, you're really voting for labor and that is dead true because the divide and conquer and Labour's just creaming them, creaming them, and these silly people voting one nation, they're not helping Australia.
01:47:42
Speaker 1: Good on you, David, thanks for the input. Well, a lot of people feel that Pauline Hanson is the answer at the moment. Obviously, the coalition non existent, the Liberal Party struggling, don't know who their leader will be, so people are gravitating towards Pauline Hanson. Hughey, good morning, Dying Lam.
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Speaker 7: I don't think Glyn could do any worse. We only expect the expectations that do better because we know what she knows what we want. Well, that's what's not happening, the amounts of immigration, the vast amounts of population, the housing crisis, and the interest rates. She she's aware of all that. She's been the business her self too, so she's abundant to that and I hope she does well. But listen, I called about the last night's storm and the Bureau this morning stipulated that there's air stream coming down from the hills. It cross flowed a pattern to the mainland, which is the flats, especially at our airport where they did the take off a landing spect this case about the land, but they could not forecast at the time. This is a SPHA called sporadic weather. I caught sporadic weather. It happened. It could be abundant like an earthquake. It could happen anytime, unexpected, and I think this is what we're seeing around the world. But we do believe in climate change. I think we're going through a change the whole earth. For that matter. Is that there're seeing so many storms, hurricanes, the tsunamis, earthquakes, special earthquakes, landslides of three a week. We've we've got the knockout situation there, which is destruction that on the walls that's going on. And I think that we can't be too compromised or two complacent with living every day. I think something's not going to happen, especially we're supposed to have earthquake five years ago in Adelaide. We're overdue for it, to be honest me, there.
01:49:36
Speaker 1: There could be any time, as you're saying it.
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Speaker 7: Would do, and there'll be we know these severity overseas is much stronger than any other place around the world, and now it will be no different in Australia's severity. So we went for a five point four. We'll go through about seven point six eight point five if we have one in Adelaide.
01:49:55
Speaker 1: Well, let's hope it doesn't happen anytime soon herely, but yeah, we live on a fault line much Adelaide. And know when was the last earthquake in the early fifties fifty three fifty four was it? Yeah, which luckily caused quite a lot of damage, but I don't know that were any deaths or any serious injury. Eight double two three double o double is the number to ring Samantha at Enfield. How Isamantha?
01:50:19
Speaker 7: Will you good?
01:50:20
Speaker 1: Thanks?
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Speaker 5: I'm going about this out of pocket being without health insurance for surgery and late last year I had to go in and get some surgery and I was out of pocket just over one thousand dollars and I was less scratching. What on the earth is my private health cover even cover? And where a young family with two young children, and it's much like probably lots of listeners, so you know, money's a bit tight between childcare and four feet and I now need to have another operation on my other hand exactly the same. But I just I've been I put the first operation off four years. I'm going to probably have to put the next one off another four years because that out of pocket was.
01:50:58
Speaker 1: Tumongous and you shouldn't have to be doing that. There's no question, Hi.
01:51:04
Speaker 5: And I just why don't they cover more? I get Medicare, there's limits and stretched as it is, but why don't we have private health cover?
01:51:12
Speaker 25: Again?
01:51:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Samantha, you ask a good question for which I have no answer. But the costs of private health cover keep going up. They cover less and less and people are having to make some tough decisions. Do you keep your private health cover? Can you afford to keep it? It is a question. Sadly, we shouldn't have to be making eight double two three double O DOUBLEH is the number A ring will take a break back. Shortly about twelve minutes to twelve five double A well. National cab that has been meeting in Canberra regarding hospital funding, and the Prime Minister has come out of the meeting to make an announcement.
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Speaker 27: This agreement represents one of the most significant national reforms in living memory. Those reforms will ensure that Australians can continue to access world class healthcare as well as disability supports. It prioritizes investment in our precious public health system and builds on my government's measures to strengthen Medicare. It is a major step forward in addressing the pressures that are there on our health and age care systems, as well as on the NDIS, ensuring their sustainability into the future. As part of this deal, the COMWALTH will provide an additional twenty five billion dollars for public hospitals to reach a record two hundred and nineteen point six billion dollars over the next five years. This is three times more additional funding for public hospitals than was agreed to under the last five year agreement under the Morrison government. We also committed to working together to make the NDIS better and more sustainable. We want growth in the future to be six percent or less and have agreed to work towards that. My government will continue to help states to take pressure off their hospitals as well. On top of this agreement through the one eight hundred Medicare system that began on January one, through the additional urgent care clinics, of which we will have one hundred and thirty seven. One hundred and twenty of those are already open and they're taking pressure of emergency departments. And the record new investment in expanding bulk billing is working. There are now three thousand, three hundred medical centers that are fully bulk builled. One thousand, three hundred of those are new as a direct result of our tripling of the bulk billing incentive.
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Speaker 1: That's the Prime Minister talking about funding for public hospitals. After national Cabinet meeting. The Prime Minister says the federal government has agreed to provide an additional twenty five billion dollars to the states and territories over the next five views to fund the hospitals. We will wait to see how the states react to that. From the text line, GG, the human body has its own built in thermostat system. Before e con, your body would automatically adjust to hot or cold conditions to a fair degree, artificially heating and cooling ourselves as stuffed our built in system. Thank you for that, John. How did we ever cope? Stacy? How are you? Did you ever live? In a time before air conditioning. No, lucky, lucky you. We've been reminiscing this morning about you know, standing under the sprinkler outside to keep cool and hosing the house down to him, you know.
01:54:36
Speaker 28: The house outside of the house, assume not inside.
01:54:38
Speaker 1: I'm chucking the hose in the kitchen, the tiles on the roof and so forth. Oh there go, And staying all day down at the beach, and then getting in a burning hot caring.
01:54:49
Speaker 28: The seat belt.
01:54:50
Speaker 29: You've got the middle part of the seat belt on the invaders yet.
01:54:54
Speaker 1: So while you know, we don't really enjoy forty degree heat these days, it's a little bit easier to isn't it.
01:55:00
Speaker 28: Yeah, yeah, that definitely.
01:55:02
Speaker 29: You know, we're very lucky now, although it cost costs a bit more to use the cooling systems these days.
01:55:07
Speaker 1: So how's Molly coping with them? The hot weather?
01:55:10
Speaker 28: Good? She had.
01:55:10
Speaker 29: I don't think she's been out of the house much in the last week, which I feel a bit bad, but I also didn't want to take her out last week, and we go for a morning walk every day so we can get Murray the.
01:55:21
Speaker 28: Dog out of the house as well.
01:55:22
Speaker 29: But she hasn't been out for many activities. We've got to swimming lessons, but that's going from an air conditioned house into an air conditioned car into an indoor swimming pool.
01:55:31
Speaker 28: So you know, so.
01:55:33
Speaker 1: She's too young to be concerned. But obviously Murray would be missing getting out as much as normal.
01:55:37
Speaker 21: Yeah he is.
01:55:38
Speaker 28: He goes a bit stir crazy inside.
01:55:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't really understand, do they.
01:55:42
Speaker 28: No, And we kind of if we do.
01:55:44
Speaker 29: We try and get out every morning, but when we do, we take the short, short walk straight to the park with the grass and not as many ball throwers as he would like, because he just he could go all day.
01:55:57
Speaker 19: Yeah, but you.
01:55:58
Speaker 28: Know, I'm like, you need a bit of wa I think you need rest. Come on, let's get inside now.
01:56:02
Speaker 1: As doctor Derek McNair said the other day, you know, before we're taking a dog out in hot weather, take your shoes and sock it off and walk out on the path and just see if it's hot on your feet, it'll be just as hot on the dog.
01:56:14
Speaker 28: Yep, Yeah, it's about their feet. But also, what was it after that really.
01:56:19
Speaker 29: Hot night when I walked outside, I felt it was like a wall of heat hitting my face and I struggled to breathe after walking up the hill, and I thought, how's this little dog with a coat, a fur coat all over him going to cope?
01:56:33
Speaker 28: So, yeah, there's a lot to consider.
01:56:35
Speaker 1: What have you got the share to Then I was just.
01:56:37
Speaker 29: Going to say how significant this funding agreement is for the public hospitals. So originally the States were wanting thirty billion dollars, which was above what the previous agreement was obviously, and the federal government offered twenty and then you know, the offer was up to twenty three and now they've agreed on twenty five billion dollars and it's significant amount of money. It's over a number of years, and there was also that the timing is really significant because there was pressure on the States and the federal government to agree to it before the South Australian election. As you can imagine, if we were going to an election without a funding deal with the federal government, how can the state government promise any money towards public hospitals without knowing what the federal contribution was going to be.
01:57:22
Speaker 1: So there's been a major issue and liberals would have something to really trail the government.
01:57:27
Speaker 29: Now yeah, now I suspected it was always going to happen because you've got a federal labor government, a state labor government, and labor in almost every other state as.
01:57:37
Speaker 28: Well at the moment, so it was never not going to happen.
01:57:41
Speaker 29: However, it is pretty significant that it's now been reached and the timing of it as well, So I think we will start to see some more announcements from the state Labor party in terms of health and hospitals because they now have that funding secured, so they can start to fund their own election promises and commitments now moving forward.
01:58:00
Speaker 1: Sure, what else?
01:58:02
Speaker 29: This afternoon, we are going to talk to Joe Hildebrand about what's been happening federally the One Nation poll. Of course, he had Pauline Hanson on The Brecky Show this morning, so we'll talk to Joe Hildebrand about.
01:58:12
Speaker 15: All of that.
01:58:14
Speaker 29: We also want to talk about concussion and CTE after that news.
01:58:21
Speaker 28: About the Troy cell.
01:58:24
Speaker 29: Brain donation isn't it isn't it? So I want to talk about how significant that is and how I guess is this something that is increasing?
01:58:34
Speaker 28: Are people donating their brains?
01:58:36
Speaker 15: I know, I know.
01:58:37
Speaker 29: People's families after they die are donating brains towards research concussion research and.
01:58:43
Speaker 28: What happens after that. What It might sound a bit coolish, but I'm really interested.
01:58:48
Speaker 29: To know what what do scientists use the brain?
01:58:51
Speaker 19: Is it?
01:58:52
Speaker 28: Is it about the way it looks? Is it about the shape? Is it about the cells?
01:58:55
Speaker 11: Is it?
01:58:55
Speaker 28: How?
01:58:56
Speaker 29: How do they get in there and check what they need to check?
01:58:59
Speaker 1: Because the brain the tragedy is with concussion. Other than the impact, Initially, you don't know what long term effect it's having. It's only when somebody dies and they can dissect the brain that they can see exactly what damage has been caused.
01:59:14
Speaker 28: How bad it was.
01:59:15
Speaker 29: Yeah, so we'll have that discussion this afternoon. There was also a court ruling in December. It was just before Christmas, so it didn't get a whole heap of coverage, but it was a ruling in I believe it was the High Court or the Act actually about the Catholic Church not being held liable for child sexual abuse against children committed by priests.
01:59:40
Speaker 28: And that was because there was.
01:59:41
Speaker 29: An an absence of a proper employment relationship, so that you know, the Catholic Church and the priest didn't have.
01:59:48
Speaker 28: An employment agreement.
01:59:50
Speaker 29: So when it was found that the priests who were kind of technically employed by the church were abusing young kids. The church wasn't held liable because they didn't have you know, they didn't sign on the dotted line on a contract vegetape, which to a lot of people is just absolutely ridiculous. So we're going to be talking to Andrew Carpenter this afternoon, a local lawyer who is also known as the Pedophile Hunter. Yep, he's on a bit of a rampage and he wants to get them to pay up, and not just the pedos but the Catholic Church as well. So we'll talk to him about that this afternoon.
02:00:21
Speaker 1: Excellent going to Staty.
02:00:22
Speaker 28: Friday as well. Can't miss out on footy Friday.
02:00:25
Speaker 1: That's always a highlight. Stacy Lee coming up this afternoon after one o'clock from the text line. I needed an urgent care medical center yesterday, called ahead and they told me a three hour wait, then told me to go to the ent because there's announcement of twenty five billion dollars. How will that unfold? With the massive profits power companies are making, why are more power lines not underground? They are in my area and we seldom get problems. Thank you for that, Mike. Yeah, I guess it's more difficult in the older areas, isn't it. And the cost is obviously prohibit prohibitive. The moderate turbulence and winds that caused some issues at the Adelaide Airport yesterday afternoon was actually forecast, so it wasn't unforeseen, as Hughie says, Thank you for that, Andrew. And can you get an update from the CFS on the grass fire in the direction it's burning, whether people need to be aware or alerted? David, stay tuned for five dob A News. Well, if you have your food, be listening to Stacey Lee today just after three when Chris Charmer from Jarmer's Kitchen joins her for Foody Friday. Thanks to Smeg and Pals. Are you building or renovating? Your first choice should be visiting the Smeg showroom at Deadney Distributors. Taste the difference with Smeg and Pals. That's it. Have a wonderful weekend and stay cool,
