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Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Friday, this twenty seventh day of February. Well, it's on the way, folks, facing a major deluge in the metropolitan area over the weekend, predictions of up to one hundred and fifteen mills. The latest from the Bureau says Sunday ten to eighty mills of rain. That is serious rain in anyone's language. Do you know what the highest daily rainfall ever recorded in ad Lade is. I'll tell you a bit later. You might be surprised. Also on the show today, well, it seems like it's open season on charging older Australian's exorbitant amounts for age care. Since Labour's age care reforms took effect on November of last year, providers can now set uncapped prices for in home services. It's led to significant hikes and costs for basics like showers, cleaning, gardening and nursing. We're going to speak with the Member for Maya, Rebecca Sharky, who's long been an advocate for the aged. We'll talk to her a little bit later on this morning. What's happening at the old Holden Factory. Well, I can tell you it's a South Australian game changing breakthrough company called next Gen Energy Technology is revolutionizing the future by building Australia's first commercial lithium nickel, cobalt aliuminium cathode material plant. What does that all that mean? I really don't know, I can be honest with you, but the plant is being developed at Lionsgate Business Park and we'll find out more about that later this morning. Adelade's Regent Theater. What memories does that conjure up for you? The historic theatre, I think it was built around nineteen twenty eight. At the time was hailed as Australia's most glamorous and luxurious cinema, seating for over twenty three hundred people, captivated audience with opulent elegance and grand foyers. What are your memories of the Region Theater? Were you a regular there? What was the best movie that you ever saw at the Regent? We'll talk about that later this morning. Eight double two three, double O doublo is the number to ring Well. Woolworths has attributed its eight hundred and fifty nine million dollar net profit in the past six months to cutting prices across the board. Wolworth's Chief executive officer mander Bardwall says the company had added more than three hundred and fifty new products to its lower shelf price program that took the number of products in the range to more than eight hundred. Wilworth said its supermarket prices decreased. Yes, that's right, decreased yero point five percent on average, excluding tobacco, and that's compared to the prior year. It sprooked that as the eighth consecutive quarter of year on year price declines. Is that your experience. Have you noticed the price of your supermarket items dropping at Woolworth's. If so, can you give us some examples, and in fact, can you give us examples of it going in the other direction. But Woolworths is pretty pleased with what they're doing. In fact, it's seen their profit spike eight hundred and fifty nine million dollars for the past six months. Tell us your experience with Woolworths eight double two to three double o double the number to ring on that. Also, we're going to talk about getting closer to the state election. The Advertiser Editor at Large, Paul Stark, will take us through what is happening in has happened in politics during the week. But let's take a call Peggy.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Oh, good morning, Graham. You've been I think the issue of the maintenance systems are housing as they's been raised recently. I've lived in our complex, Stoe Court, Fullerton for fifty years now and that system just gets worse by the day. It's about three years ago I moved into a downstairs flat mainly because of my age, and day one of moving in the sewer part was blocked. I think it was two and a half weeks later, with three visits by different trades, they finally cleared it, but then it was blocking on a regular basis. After that. I had I think fourteen visits from trading in the first year that I was in this downstairs flat, and a lot of them were to do with plumbing.
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Speaker 1: So when when you I mean, obviously you made many representations. Who did you talk to? Was it that housing trust itself?
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Speaker 2: You speak to maintenance? Trying to get through to the maintenance is a nightmare. Yeah, you just have to hold on and hold on and sometimes they put this message your class if you don't want to hold on, but you still want your place kept in the queue. I think you have to press hash and hang up and we'll get back to Well. I tried that once and then they never got back to me.
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Speaker 1: They never phoned back. Yeah, that's that's not acceptable. Look, Peggy, can't I can't give you any answers here. We will get in touch with the Housing Minister Nick Champion and see if we can find out what the situation is. But yeah, that that certainly is untenable. Thanks so much for your call. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister came out and said that it would be a good idea for us to have more politicians forty In fact, his Special Minister of State Don Farrell believes, Yeah, that's a good idea. He says, it's been over forty years since the makeup of the Parliament was updated and in that time our population is almost doubled. You can certainly mount an argument for more politicians, but is the timing right? What price does it come at a time of runaway inflation, cost of living crisis, power bills tipped to rise by twenty percent this year and now well let's ask our taxpayers to cough up millions more for more politicians. What are your thoughts? Let's just take a look at the cost salary and superannuation per poly two hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year staff. Well, they're entitled up to seven electorate staff. Including salaries and the on costs, that's between five hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand dollars a year. Then there's the electorate allowance an office running costs up to two hundred thousand dollars. There's travel and other entitlements fifty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand, depending on where you live in Australia. Of course, that adds up to the tidy sum of one point nine million dollars per politician for forty additional MPs, approximately seventy four million dollars in the first year. That's fully indexed, of course, so that is expected to rise to eighty three million dollars by twenty twenty three. And that's not all. Of course, there's the one off set up costs for forty MPs. They're suggesting thirty million dollars, mainly for parliament House modifications. There'd be office fit uts, staff acquisition, relocation. These costs, of course are upfront and not recurring, but would add to the initial taxpayer burden if implemented, And these estimates don't include the indirect cost like Australian Electoral Commission changes for redrawing boundaries, parliamentary oversaids, or overheads like handsard security would have to be beefed up, et cetera. So set aside the one off costs forty politicians on average one point nine million dollars each seventy four million dollars a year and rising every year. For that, what do you get? While the Australian Institute, a well known progressive think tank, reckons the country would benefit from more politicians, not fewer. On the international table, we set about mid rank with one member per one hundred and eighty one thousand people. The UK, for example, has one per one hundred and eight thousand, while the US, well lego the other way, one per eight hundred and three thousand people. Now, the move could create dozens of new Lower and Upper House seats, split up vast rural seats. Now, I can see an argument to seats in the bush where members have to travel vast distances, But you can bet the vast majority of new seats would be in metropolitan areas. The overall standard of our politicians is poor by any standard. Any poll of most trusted profession politicians regularly sit at the bottom as least trusted. We Australians tend to place the highest trust in professions that involve life saving actions. Nurses, ambulance services, firefighters, doctors, pharmacists, teachers rank up there. But when you get to the least trusted professionals, politicians are done among journalists and real estate agents and social media people. Do you think we need more politicians? Would more polleys serve you better? Can we afford the extra seventy five to eighty million dollars a year? Now, let's be frank, that is really a drop in the bucket when compared to the Prime Minister's ninety billion dollars high speed rail plan. But what can we do with that seventy five million dollars? Well, you could build two one hundred bed age care facilities. Surely a more pressing need than more bums on seats in Canadra. Like to know your thoughts. Eight double two to three double O double is the number to ring Jim. Good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 3: How are you look.
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Speaker 1: I'm well, thanks Graham.
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Speaker 4: I was just going to talk about Woolworths for their alledged prices down.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where income House sold.
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Speaker 4: The partner works for the public service, so that's I know the date, so I can remember. Yeah, but Friday last, I mean the Friday before last Friday. Are not intelligent enough to know what you call that. But we ran out of dog kibble. So I went online a catalog and I was going to a period to pick her up on the fridayside the car, and I looked at the Woolworths and the Coals catalogs, and the food Land and crystal Brooks catalogs. Woolworth had, wait, say the brand, but a two point eight kila kibble. I thought, that'll do us till the Wednesday afternoon or Thursday paid edge or the next week do we get a big bag? And it was half priced for nine dollars, which is a good price for that brand. And you know, I thought, I'll just call into the food Land at crystal Brook and THEIRS was also on special for twelve dollars fifty, but their normal price was fifteen dollars fifty.
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Speaker 3: That's the shelf normal.
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Speaker 4: Price where Woolworths were alleging THEIRS was normally eighteen dollars. Oh, how can Woolworths is multi nationals well even Australia, compete against the local South Australia. How can it low South STRAI competegainst worth an offer for fifteen fifty with Woolies buying power alleged it was nineteen eighteen dollars normally. I was like you're talking about the other day with coals, were their down down a scam? I think wilworth is pulling the sam trying to take the high moral ground that we're not. But not last not last Friday, but the Friday first catalog. You can look it up, but it's still available online and as clearly good on.
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Speaker 1: You, Jim, thanks for telling us that story. I'm interested to know that Woolworth's overall say that their prices are down point five percent excluding tobacco. But has that been your experience? Have you noticed the prices have gone down their profits have gone up? There's no question about that. But yeah, have prices gone down in supermarkets? And we don't need to limit it to Woolworths. You can tell us about any supermarket that you deal with. Hey, double two three double O double is the number to ring back shortly. We're going to take a look at the weather coming up and what we need to be doing to be prepared for it.
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Speaker 5: Five double A mornings with Gram. Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Probably good advice. Don't guard in the pouring rain. It's not here yet, but folks, it's coming heavy rain and flash flooding forecasts for large areas of South Australia. Let's find out from the Bureau of Meteorology Ursul O'Connor there, surely, good morning.
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Speaker 6: To you, high Gram.
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Speaker 1: Is it going to be as bad as we're thinking? I mean, well, we want rain, but just how much rain we're going to get?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a tough one, isn't it when we have got these sort of weather systems on the way. Look today, largely through sort of the Adelaide area, mostly cloudy conditions is what we are seeing and can expect from most of the day. We could see just a few sort of lighter showers picking up, especially about the hills, Navy pushing down towards the plains and the CBD sort of through the afternoon period. We also can't rule out the chance of that thunderstorm, especially about the Adelaide Hills. This afternoon.
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Speaker 7: There is a.
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Speaker 6: Lot of tropical moisture humidity pushing down with a tropical low that's sort of up over the NT border at the moment, but it'll really be the weekend period that will be of most significant sport. The Adelaide area. Start to see rain developing sort of through Saturday, the chances sort of some early morning thunderstorms around on Saturday morning, but then yeah, really that rain starting to pick up throughout Saturday and then Sunday looking to be our wettest period of the weekend, and that's when we could start to see them some very widespread, sort of heavier rainfall totals and the chances some thunderstorms even producing some isolated sort of quite intense heavy rainfalls down pause and then it sort of starts to clear out sort of later on Monday. So that overnight periods sort of Sunday into Monday looking like our wettest time at this stage.
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Speaker 1: So as sort of what sort of totals are we.
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Speaker 6: Looking at, Yeah, so pretty widespread through the Adelaide area. Just with the rain alone, we could be seeing sort of ten to twenty millimeters and.
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Speaker 8: Then they're isolated more well, yeah, more isolated totals expected sort of with heavier showers or.
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Speaker 6: Thunderstorms could be producing sort of on Saturday, sort of up to around thirty millimeters and then looking very tropical on Sunday with you know, thunderstorms really could produce upwards of fifty millimeters if we see them eventuate.
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Speaker 1: Wow, So why is there such a big span you know, I say from ten to fifty or ten to seventy beyond. You know, you can't narrow it down more than that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well that's just the nature of thunderstorms really. With them, the storms are being you know, most chance of seeing those higher totals, and they are much more isolated in nature. And you know, even on the day, very hard to pick where you're going to see those thunderstorms pick up because you may only see one or two of those producing those higher rainfall totals.
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Speaker 1: Ursula, thanks for your update on the weather. Ursula Connor from the Bureau of Megrology. Steph Sakruski is the SCS State duty officer. She joins US now Steph in for a busy weekend.
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Speaker 7: It looks like, yeah, absolutely, that's what we're currently planning for. SES has had their state controls and it activated for the last week supporting that system as it's been dropping quite a bit of rain in the Far North and in the north of the Flinders where we've seen a lot of that flash flooding. And in the last few days we've been shifting, not shifting our focus, but expanding our focus to make sure that we're also planning for those larger falls that may be possible across sort of the more populated areas right from the Eastern air Peninsula across the York through the Mid North and the Adelaide metropolitan area and across. So yeah, very busy at the moment. We've got an incident management team in the North supporting the communities in the Far North and the Mid North. We've got an incident management team in the South that are looking to do the same down here. And it's you know, our volunteer units are getting very prepared to support their community with sandbag stocks and things like.
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Speaker 9: That as well.
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Speaker 1: So what advice do you give to the general public? How can we prepare?
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Speaker 7: And I think this is really key. We haven't We've been lucky enough not to see too many calls over the last week, but a lot of that's due to the vigilance the members of the public that are being impacted by any rain that's come through. What we ask is that people continue to do that. So if you haven't yet had a chance to clean your gutters and your drains out, please make sure you do that. What that will help you do is make sure that when there are those intense rainfall periods, the water isn't going to back up and then push back up into your roof space and hopefully prevent that flooding from occurring in your roof and water coming into your home. The other thing that we ask people to do is make sure that you are if you've got any low points on your property or you need you believe you might need some sand bags, is contact ss on one three two five hundred and be able to connect with your local unit to find out where you can get some sandbags if that's what you need. If you're going out, obviously, we're in a fabulous time of the year here in Adelaide where there's a lot of community events and public events that are going on. So if you're heading out to be social over the weekend, make sure that your property is prepped before you go. But also while you're out, just be really mindful of gutters, drains, creeks, waterways, staying away from that flooded water. And we've already seen a number of swift water rescues that have occurred up in the far North. With those rapid rises from the flash flooding that could occur here in our more built up areas as well. We would just ask the people stay out of floodwaters and don't drive through floodwaters because the floodwaters themselves are very fast moving and can move your vehicle. But also you actually don't know what the quality of the road is like underneath that, and that could actually call it be more dangerous even than the water itself.
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Speaker 1: Good advice. Thanks for That's Steph Sakruski, SS State Duty Officer on the impending downfall over the weekend, and if there are any events that have been canceled and you want to notify the public, let us know and we'll broadcast it to the five double A audience. But the possible rain up to eighty mills at the weekend, do you know what the highest rainfall and adelaide has been over the past well twenty five years, nothing like eighty mills. I can tell you that in fact twenty fourteen there was flash fighting in parts of Adelaide. Seventy five point two mills of rain pretty heavy, indeed, but we could have up to eighty mills of rain. That's pretty serious. Highest ever. Well, I'm going to tell you that a bit later on eight double two three A double is the number to ring. Well, we're getting closer to the state election campaign. After news headlines the Advertiser Editor at Large, Paul Starrick, we'll talk about the week in politics.
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Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings two.
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Speaker 1: Eight to ten, five double A. Just a quick call before we have a chat with Paul Stark and you Good morning, good morning, you do it? Yeah, well thanks?
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Speaker 10: Just another another great regarding the big two. Well about one of the big ones, Coles. When I go shopping, I don't even look at the prices. I just can't have a BA don't even look at the seat. But have been recently pink Lady apples. There used to be x amount of kilo for years and several months ago they moved it to one dollar forty per apple. Right, I didn't mad it was it was a small one and a big one. It was one forty. I've just purchased a couple. There, they've put it back to a kilo price. I went, oh, they've seen, they've seen since and they've changed their ways. No about two pink Lady apples three dollars twenty six.
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Speaker 1: You can't we can't win.
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Speaker 10: You're trying to pull the rule over your eyes, thinking, oh, they've put it back to kilos, but they put up the kelo price and you're now paying three dollars thirty for two apples, which is way more than they were when they were doing it for the one forty and apple.
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Speaker 1: So you're right there, Andy. They keep changing the goalposts, so it makes you think you're learning, you know, per kilo or per item, and you think, ah, now I know that's a good price. But if they keep topping and changing, you're dead right there. You lose track. And yeah, we know why they're doing it, don't we eight double two three double o double. If you want to comment on supermarket prices, have you noticed them come down? Wilworth say they're huge. Profit eight hundred and fifty nine million dollars for the past six months largely are based on the fact that they've reduced prices. Have you noticed that eight double two to three double oh double is the number to ring? Well, another week in politics, another week taking us closer to the state election. Much been happening? Let's find out from Paul Starrick, the Advertiser Editor at large. Paul, Good morning, Good morning, going there a you're going yeah, pretty good. Not a whole lot has happened, But I think we could go back to the big leaders debate of last week between Malley and Ashton Hern. What did you make of it?
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Speaker 11: Well, it was really interesting because this was a building, bigger, better South Australia that we talked about last week. We previewed and that was Friday lunchtime and myself and editor Gemma Advertiser Editor Gemma Jones were in conversation rather than in debate meant to be with the premiere and the opposition leader. So we were sitting either side of them and asking questions, and then all of a sudden they started quizzing one another and having quite a lively debate, and my job turned from being to asking questions to sitting back and sort of watching the action and interjecting with some occasional questions. And getting them on track. But the feedback from the audience was one that it was a good, lively debate and good to see the two leaders, respectfully with a degree of good humor, engaging one another but assertively doing so. And we tackled some top picks that haven't been on the agenda so much, like state debt for example, and to a degree, and electricity prices. So that was really interesting too, because I feel that the sort of things that people are actually caring about, as well as obviously housing supply and house prices.
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Speaker 1: I see that Tom Kittsonturnus, the Labor Party attack dog, is frequently challenging Ashton Hearn. The big one of late is the debt that he or the price of the Liberal Party's election promises four and a half billion dollars or something. Is there any substance to that.
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Speaker 11: Well, mister Keats and Tonis argues there is clearly. The typically oppositions produced costings later in a campaign. Labor did that last time when they were in twenty eighteen, sorry twenty twenty, when they are in opposition and they came under similar pressure. They argued their costings stacked up and two of I suppose a fair degree they did. The challenge for the Liberals is mister keech Andtonus appears to put a degree of research into this. It'll probably keep emerging as a as a decent point when one of Ashton Hern's key platforms is affordability and that the Liberals are good economic managers, and it's hard to sell those credentials if you're constantly under attack and you're not releasing your costings until later in the election. So it's just another front that missus Hern has to deal with.
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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned during the debate that was talked about the state debt and a lot of listeners to five double A am very concerned. I mean we say pushing towards forty eight fifty billion dollars in the not too distant future. Did either the Premier or Ashton Hern suggests that they had any plans to try to reduce that debt?
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Speaker 11: Not really to be fair, I mean both this debt was fueled by the previous Liberal government and this current Labor government. Rob Lucas's I remember the budget will Rob Lucas sort of flipped the switch from austerity to debt and he argued that as Treasurer, and he argued that interest rates were low, now was the time to start building the state, injecting money into capital projects, and some of us quized him, will hang on, We've been hearing you bang on about the state bank debt for years and what a disaster that was for the state, and I think that very legitimate concerns. It should be stressed that the ratings agencies, the sort of to degree independent umpires of that assess its abilities to hand and jurisdiction's abilities to handle debt, have been uniformly comfortable with South Australia's level of debt. I think the key risk is that beyond the North South Tunnels, South Road, Torrens, Darlington, whatever you want to call it, fifteen billion and the new Women's and Children's three point two billion plus likely to blow out. I would have thought treasurers have consistently said Stephen Mulligan. The former treasure often said that there was no room in the kitty for more major capital projects, so the state's ability to invest for one of a better term in infrastructure is crimped and limited.
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Speaker 1: Now did during the discussion or have you been able to ascertain how concerned is the government. How concerned is the Liberal Party about the increasing presence of one Nation.
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Speaker 11: I think that the PARTI is more concerned. My column for tomorrow, I've sort of drew it into this a bit. We had a poll advertising YouGov poll published last week that showed the Liberal primary support at twenty percent. This is first preference support, and One Nation's at twenty two percent and Labors at thirty seven. Now that supports concentrate One Nation supports concentrated in outer metro and particularly outside Adelaide, and it's kind of fragmented. It depends on whether there's an independent standing in the seats or not. And what it means in the outer metropolitan area is that essentially the conservative limited Conservative vote is split and Labor wins easily in their existing seats. What it means in the outside Adelaide is more diverse. Our poster tells me that we could mean that one Day wins two to three lower House seats and the Liberals win five to six. It makes it for a wildly unpredictable election. But I think clearly the Liberal Party is very concerned about One Nation, and it raises a lot of doubt about the Liberal's ability to continue as a major party should that support for One Nation continue.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Cory Bernard's made any impact since joining One Nation?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 11: I think Corey's a prominent, well known person.
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Speaker 1: He's a.
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Speaker 11: Whatever one thinks of his politics, He's been consistent over many years in where he stands. He's a conservative. He would probably argue that the Liberal Party has moved on from him, rather than him moving on from a Liberal Party. He was probably too conservative in many respects for the Liberal Party, even though he's a former state president. He's a good effective communicator. He knows how to deal with people. He ran the pub near work when I was a young man. He ran the Criterion Slash Bernardess opposite town Hall and fun Fact he had an Advertiser internal phone extension on the front bar. It was very smart and it was a great place for politicians, lawyers, journalists and so on to enjoy a few.
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Speaker 1: Drinks and I happening story on the front page of the Advertisers Today, Paul Victor Harbord Council wants for local homes to be excluded from Labour's downsize of stamp duty exemption. What's behind that?
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Speaker 11: I think it's a really interesting story, this one, because what it shows is the sort of real life impact of political policy and debate about how it can affect communities. So what's happened is two of the younger Victor Harbor councilors have moved this motion saying we don't want to be part of this policy because effectively we want to continue our mission to drive the average age of the place down from sixty. Look at the census figures yesterday twenty twenty one census, the median age of the Victor Harbor council areas sixty. They argue, I guess it's a reasonable objective they want to lower get more young people into the area as well. The counter factor to that is that older people feel like they should be allowed there too and be able to take the benefit of this policy. So it's just a really good debate, I think, and I suppose it's in a sense, as we've argued in the editorial, it's somewhat myopic to think that you can sort of erect a barricade around Victor Harbor and suggests that it's an isolate its isolated from the rest of the state in terms of a policy objective.
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Speaker 1: Sure, but you can understand the people of Victor Harber saying, well, you know, if we're going to have these people that demographic is so high, we're going to need more age care facilities, we need an updated hospital. And that's a fair question, gl.
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Speaker 11: Ask exactly, And this is an entirely legitimate point of view, and it's one of the things that we're exploreding our Building Better campaign that infrastructure growth needs to match population growth. And then that goes back to the issue we were talking about before in terms of state debt. So Labor during the week put out this plan in inverted commons for a rail corridor sort of heading north west of the city Uppast Riverly and beyond, and great idea. The question is how do you pay for it and when would it happen as opposed to just being a ligne on a map.
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Speaker 1: Well, Paul, it's been a pretty quiet week politics wise this week and we're getting closer to the election. Would you expect it to ramp up next week?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Typically in any action campaign, Graham, there's the initial flurry of excitement. Everyone launches their campaign. Federally, the election date is called. In South Australia, we have a fixed term, so we know the date. But when the writs are issued and the government goes into caretaker there's typically a sort of flurry of policy announcements. This week's mainly been about housing. That's obviously a key issue because both sides believe it's related as it is to cost of living. You know, obviously housing affordability is incredibly important, and you're housing, your mortgage is a big and your rent's a big slice of your budget. Typically things start to ramp up probably a week and a half two weeks out, and then escalat into a crescendo. I think one of the key differences this time is that there's no core flutes about which is not a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: I agree, Paul. Great to chat. We'll have a chat again next week.
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Speaker 5: Thanks very much, Graham.
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Speaker 1: Paul Sterreck, the Advertiser Editor at large. Well, another week gone towards the election. Eight double two to three double oh double is the numbered ring will take a break back shortly.
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Speaker 5: Five Double A Mornings with Graham, Goodings.
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Speaker 1: And the latest from the stock market. The All Lords has started laid down by eleven points, ASX two hundred also down by twelve points. Dal Jones closed ever so slightly up by seventeen points, the Nasdaq well down two hundred and seventy three points. That's one point eight percent. Oil currently sixty five US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar buying seventy one US cents. Eight double two three double o double is the number ring GG State Labour said they will stop massive infrastructure spending in the future to address the forty nine billion dollar debt. However, they say they're going to build a record number of new homes, a new hospital at Gawler and a new rail corridor in the North. Sounds like more spending to me. Thanks for that, Steve. Let's take a call Glamis you want to talk about the Regent Theater?
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Speaker 12: I do.
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Speaker 13: I can remember. I think I was about a fourteen year old and a friend of mine asked me to go and see.
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Speaker 9: Psycho Psycho Psicho.
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Speaker 1: Are you're about fourteen?
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Speaker 13: I wasn't allowed to go. My parents definitely said no. I raided my money box to get the money to go and I went with a friend and it was when you When we walked in, it was all spooky.
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Speaker 6: There was all this stuff.
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Speaker 13: Hanging and all this weird music going and it was very eerie, and I don't know how I sat through the movie because I was petrified. And when I got home, I could not for ages, I could not sleep. I get in my bedroom, I'd look in the cupboards of look kunder the bed?
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Speaker 1: How did you feel when you took a shower?
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Speaker 13: So I paid the price?
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Speaker 14: I was petrified.
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Speaker 1: Look did you did you go to the region any other time?
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Speaker 13: I think I think we saw sand of Music there. I did. I saw that with my parents at the Sound of Music. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Have caused you any sleepless nights.
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Speaker 13: Oh no, that was a lovely movie. That's very totally different.
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Speaker 1: You still don't have nightmares about Psycho, do you?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 13: But I do get spooky about stuff.
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Speaker 1: Good thanks for sharing that memory. The Regent Theater, yeah, magnificent theatre, considered the most opulent in the in the country at the time. Big twenty three hundred people that could go and watch a movie. I've got to be honest, I'd never went to I didn't come to Adelaide in time to see any movies the Regent, but it was obviously a magnificent, beautiful theater. If you have any memories of it. I'd like to know them well. Hillary Clinton has testified under oath in the closed door House oversight session on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Seven News Miley Hogan joins US Now from the US Miley, what can you tell us?
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Speaker 15: Good morning? Well, it's just wrapped up now, and Hillary Clinton stopped out the front and actually spoke to the media. Prescribed the event as repetitive. In her words, she said that she can't remember how many times she had to say, I do not know Jeffrey Epstein. Now, this has all happened behind closed doors. But for context here, there was a lot of back and forth because the Clintons wanted to put forward a written statement, and then there were threats that they would be held in contempt. So then the Clinton said, well, we will come and we will testify, but why don't we do this publicly, let the media in, let the public see, let them decide to themselves when they hear this testimony. But then the Republican led committee said, no, that's not how we do this. For now, it has happened behind closed doors. But in her statements afterwards, Hillary Clinton has now said that she still wants the public to be able to see the full transcript. We know that it was also videotaped, was taken on camera. She's also happy for that video to be released as well. So we now need to wait and see whether or not the committee will release this video and transcript in full. The concern from the Clintons and other Democrats is that only snippets may be released, which they say won't paint the full picture of what happens in this closed door testimony?
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Speaker 1: Is Bill Clinton likely to do? Will give evidence?
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Speaker 15: So Bill Clinton is expected to give his testimony tomorrow that will obviously be very different to his wife. We know that Hillary has said that she doesn't recall Evan meeting Jeffrey Epstein, but with Bill Clinton there are that's a different set of circumstances. Of course, there's no accusation there of any wrongdoing, as though it's denied any wrongdoing, and they say that he cut ties with him a long time ago. But it will be interesting to be what he has to say. But of course this is happening behind closed doors, so at this stage, really right the mercy of what the committee decides to release, what the Clintons decides to tell us outside or really what leaks come from lawmakers inside that inside that hearing.
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Speaker 1: Is there any likelihood that President Trump will appear before the overside Committee, It's differ.
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Speaker 15: At this stage unlikely. There is an argument now because Bill Clinton will be giving his testimony tomorrow, he will be the first ever former president that's been forced to give testimony in front of a Congressional committee. There is an argument that that could now set a precedent where we may see people argue that Trump could be brought before the committee. But I highly doubt it this stage that that will happen. But you know, I don't like to make predictions when it comes to these things because any it could all change. So at this stage, no, but it could in the future potentially change. Donald Trump has always denied any wrongdoing. But Hillary Clinton today she actually put out also a written statement. She was saying that they're interviewing the wrong people, that they should be interviewing Donald Trump, and that this is a distraction tactic and politics for at play here.
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Speaker 1: There are millions of pieces of evidence, there are videos, there are pictures that are emails. What is the sentiment of the average American at the moment, do they want to get to the bottom of this or are they over it all.
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Speaker 15: It's a really interesting question because this Epstein case has really been one that a story or a narrative that the Trump administration hasn't been able to control. And that is different for Donald Trump and his administration. They're usually quite good at being able to control the narrative and what's being spoken about, and that Donald Trump especially has been very good at controlling his and telling them how to feel about a situation, and they've been quite loyal to him in that area. This particular case is one where that hasn't happened. There is a lot of curiosity about the Epstein files, about what's happened. People who are invested in this story do feel like there has been a cover up, and also when it comes to conspiracy theories as well, they take on a life of their own. And I've been talking to a couple of other reporters who've been covering this for a long time. I've spoken to lawyers who have been involved in this as well, and they all say it really taken on a life of its own, and even now it's where will this end? And will people ever be satisfied? Even if all of the documents, even parts do have to be redacted, of course to keep victims identities safe, people will still believe that stuff's being hidden from them, So it's very difficult to know where this ends, if people will growth tired of it or it will just keep going.
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Speaker 1: Marley, thanks so much for your report. That's Marty Hogan's seven News US correspondent on Hillary Clinton and her appearance hi Gg. Regarding the Pink Lady apples, Andy was spot on. They were one dollar each while a while back, which I thought was ridiculous. However, I still wish they were. As I bought four last night and it came to six dollars eighty four, I had to ask if the attendant was leaning on the scales, Danny, I can certainly understand your concern there, and Karen says morning. I recently received my Senior's card and went shopping last week at Woolly's. Asked the checkout girl if I acknowledged Senior's cards. Her reply astonished me. I actually cracked up laughing. She said, no, we don't accept them. I think Woolworth's would go broke if we did. Seriously, what a load of rubbish is this the latest Hillary Clinton we have here. There's the latest. We were just talking to Miley Hogan about Hillary Clinton. After she came out of giving evidence, she spoke to the media.
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Speaker 16: I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Hepstein. I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I never went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times. It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the Internet that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to.
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Speaker 1: Me, that's the voice of Hillary Clinton. We have to take a break for news. Then after the news, well, it seems like it's open season on charging older Australian's exorbitant amounts for age care. We're going to have a chat with the member for Mayo, Rebecca Sharky about that.
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Speaker 5: Back shorty five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 17: So far today on five Double.
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Speaker 1: A Mornings from the Bureau of Meteorology el Comor the.
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Speaker 8: Chances of some early morning thunderstorms around on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 6: But then yeah, really that rain.
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Speaker 8: Starting to pick up throughout Saturday, then Sunday looking to be our westest period of the weekend, and that's.
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Speaker 6: When we could start to season the.
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Speaker 8: Very widespread sort of heavier rainfall totals and the chances of thunderstorms even producing some isolated sort are quite intense heavy rainfall down pause.
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Speaker 1: Well, another week in politics, another week taking us closer to the state election. Paul Starrek, the Advertiser editor at.
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Speaker 11: Large advertising you Go poll published last week that showed the Liberal primary support at twenty percent and one Nations at twenty two percent and Labours at thirty seven. Now that supports concentrate One Nation supports concentrated in out of metro and particularly outside Adelaide, and it's kind of fragmented. It depends on whether there's an independent standing in the seats or not. What it means in the outer metropolitan area is that essentially the conservative limited conservative vote is split and Labor wings easily.
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Speaker 1: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings take past ten to five double A on this Friday morning. Labour's age care reforms took effect on November the first last year. It appears to have opened the door for providers to set uncapped prices for in home services. It's led to significant hikes and costs for basics like showers, cleaning, gardening and nursing. In South Australia alone, personal care roads thirty five point six percent to almost one hundred and thirteen dollars an hour. Joining us now as Federal Member for Mayo Rebecca Sharky, who's been a long term advocate for agecare. Rebecca, good morning.
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Speaker 9: To you, Good morning Graham, good to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, some of these numbers are absolutely outrageous.
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Speaker 9: They really are. And what we noticed was that between October thirty first and November one, as you said, when support at homes started, just massive increases you know, in some cases up to eighty percent increases overnight for different levels of support, and well above what the government's indicative price guide was. And as you mentioned, they're not capped. I have been pleading in the Parliament with the Age Care Minister Sam Ray to look at capping those fees so that people can get a fairer deal.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't the intention of the reforms to open the door to higher prices.
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Speaker 9: Well, I can't believe that that would be the government's intention, but that's the reality. And they're not going to be capped until the first of July, and we don't even know what those caps are going to look like. And we're and it's affecting people differently. If you are grandfathered, that means that you're not making out of pocket contributions. However, your package, you're getting a lot less I guess you could say purchase power for your package. That people are getting less and less hours of care, whether that's showering or meal preparation. And certainly a lot of people that I've talked to are foregoing any assistance in the garden that they were able to sort of, you know, eke out of their package previously. And then we have a lot of new people that have come onto the system. So they are people who weren't grandfathered, so they weren't in the system, and they weren't whitelisted as of I think it was September twenty twenty four, and so they're making massive co contributions. You know, even if you are only on a pension, the co contributions are really significant, and so it's a real double whammy for people who are grandfathered. And you know, it's been incredibly difficult in the Parliament actually just getting some t action on this issue because so many Labor Government members just think, well, tickety boo, we've got a new Act and everything's going along really well. But every single day I am getting emails, we're getting phone calls. Even open the Older Person's Advocacy Network has seen you know, a near one hundred percent increase in calls to them. This whole situation is a real mess and it's affecting people every day just needing to keep that care to stay at home, and we're hearing from you know, particularly daughters who are who are doing less hours of work themselves so that they can try and help mum or dad. It's a nightmare and the government really needs to step in and realize that this is affecting older Australians and actually make some changes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been getting many calls to five double A about people having to drop out due to the system. You know, they just cannot afford to keep going.
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Speaker 9: Well, no, and honey, how could you afford to keep going if as a as a part pensioner, you're expected to make a fifty up to fifty percent co contribution for what are really basic care needs in the home. We you know, the government on one hand says that they want people to be you know, independent and staying in home as long as possible, But how can you do that if showering and transport is for a part pensioner or a self funded retiree who's holding come off as seeing this healthcare cart of paying up to fifty percent co contribution on what are already escalated fees. Another thing I'm hearing from people is that they're not getting accounts so that invoices from their provider, so they really don't know where they're at with trying to budget their package, and they're really worried about running out of funding. So the government has not got this right. It's been in place now for a number of months. There were some good parts about this act, but every day, day to day the emails I get to just heartbreaking. Grown they really just.
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Speaker 1: Are, Oh, surely this is just the stroke of a pen. Surely the government can sort of say no, as a provider, you cannot charge inflated rates. You've got to justify what the rates were and if there's any increase, you have to justify that absolutely.
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Speaker 9: And also the government can put in price caps. The price caps are apparently going to come in on the first of July, but surely it would have been logical to put them in at the same time as the implementation of the Act. The government even delayed implementing the Act. It was actually supposed to be July last year. It came in on the first of November, so they could have got this right. I think what it needs, what first needs to happen is the government needs to realize that they haven't got this right and they're going to need to make some significant changes unless they want people to be dropping out of the system. And ultimately, you know, we've seen a massive increase in people who should be at home careful with a home care package or indeed in residential age care. In our hospital beds. We've seen massive increases. We've had state health ministers all around Australia saying our hospitals are full of people who shouldn't be there, but if they were getting good age care, they would perhaps not need to be there. So it's the system at every single turn, and you know. I mean we're talking about home care now having even got to residential age care and the long waiting list or indeed CHISP and CHISP is that common time support that really you know, low level support people are providers all across Australia are not even keeping a wait list for that program. So it's just a nightmare. And truly, I guess if I could say anything, if you're listening to this, if this is your mum, if this is you, you have got to contact If you live in a labor area, you've got to contact your federal and p because at the moment I'm one of a very few people in the Parliament jumping up and down saying this is a real problem.
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Speaker 1: Rebecca, keep up the good fight and thanks for talking to us this morning. Thanks Graham, Federal Member for Mayo, Rebecca Sharky. Yes, if you're confronted by this just unjustified cost blow out in this particular area, get in touch with your local member, and yes if it's a Labor member, but even with your if it's a Liberal member, get in touch with them. This is an untenable situation. Michelle says, high gram My mum has an age care Home Care Package. Under the new system, what a gardener is able to do has been reduced. Andrew says, this is all on the government of the new government. Support at Home scheme was designed so that the olderly now have to co contribute for shopping, cleaning and home help services that were completely covered under the previous Home Care Package scheme. Funding and reagecare. More evidence labor, do not give a toss about the age more votes from the next generations coming through. So much for governing for all, Steve, thank you very much for that, and Richard says only Council recently decided to stop providing services as part of the Commonwealth Home Support Program as a result of the changes in the law since November twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 18: Thank you for that, Richard.
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Speaker 1: Joining him in the studio is Sam daddo.
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Speaker 18: Sam, what have you got for.
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Speaker 1: Us morning, Graham.
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Speaker 19: I was receiving a few calls off air with the rain that's predicted over the next two days obviously Saturday four to thirty five meals Sunday ten to eighty meals. There is an event happening at Victoria Park. The Outlaid Motorsport Festival will be on takes over the park for two days with on track running. People will worry that I'm wondering if the event would be going ahead, so I've been in contact with the event director, Tim Possingham. Rain, hail or shine, there will be track action, so have no fear. If you've got tickets with our Laid Motorsport Festival, it will be going ahead.
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Speaker 1: Excellent.
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Speaker 18: Thanks for that.
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Speaker 1: That's Sam Dados, star of the Early Breakfast on five Double A with Ned McHenry. If you haven't heard it, you do not know what you're missing. Well, don't shake your head, Sam, it's going really well. If it's new to Adelaid Radio Early Breakfast five double A Monday to Friday five till six o'clock. On the subject of rain, I mentioned earlier that we're Willows Sam engined, then we could be facing up to eighty mills on Saturday. What is the record for Adelaide now this century? The highest rainfall was recorded on the fourteenth of February twenty fourteen, seventy five point two mills. There were sixty one mills that fell on the twenty eighth of December twenty sixteen. The forty six mills on the eighteenth of June twenty twenty one. So eighty mill would set a record. But what is the highest daily rainfall total ever recorded in Adelaide? Well, I can tell you eighty mills isn't going to cut it. It was one hundred and forty one point five millimeters. That's five point five seven inches on the old scale. This occurred on the seventh of February nineteen twenty five. I'm all for new records, but I don't think we want to break this oneder you, eighty mils will be more than enough. Back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings. Time to take some calls on eight double two to three double o double oh. Just before we do, David says something I do not understand regarding the Isis brides. How can the children be regarded as Australian when they were born in Syria fathered by a non Australian. Have the children been issued with Australian passports? Well, David, I think as long as one parent is Australian, as long as they fulfill certain requirements, I think they can be issued with an Australian passport. But someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Josie, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 20: Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 17: How are you well?
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Speaker 20: Thanks, that's good. I was ringing about the prices. You were saying about the specials going on and off in the supermarket. I've noticed over the last couple of years, in particular, now I shall out of food Land and sometimes Coals. Now I've noticed that our these prices tend to stay similar, same, but in Foodland and Coals, and this is on a regular basis. Now I'll do you two. For instances, I can name quite a few. You could probably ask me an item and I'll tell you the different. So cat food, for instance, I buy make yourself cat some food that's somewhere between eight and ten dollars, and then it goes up to fourteen dollars. Fourteen dollars fifty. Sometimes at fourteen dollars fifty is a special seat, special sticker. It occurs in food Land and in coals. This is out at Montpara. And also they get the Kansas Soft drinks, they say Solo Soft drinks. They go from nine dollars ninety to nineteen blue. Now this seems to happen every fortnight. Eggs are another one nine dollars ninety to twelve ninety, potatoes nine dollars ninety to twelve ninety. And I was noticed in this trend, and I thought because I was wondering which bit to go shop, and I noted that it was on a pension week that they go up a special sticker. Yeah, And I thought, well, these people can only get opportunities to be taken shopping sometimes, and they have to buy what's on the shop at the time, you know, and then it goes back down again. And I've noticed this, got five dollar rises in your meat department. You fruit all these rises on that particular week, and it's regular, and it's been regular for a while.
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Speaker 1: So you reckon the supermarkets are putting them up on pension week or pension day around on that week.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, that week I can go to the shops and spend you know, look at that cat food for instances, that's the one off thing. Potatoes, you know, nine dollars ninety twelve ninety, or you know the cat food State for instance, all those drinks ten dollars on that week you go there. The next week they're down, but on the week that they go up, they've got a special sticker on them.
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Speaker 1: Jazie. Yeah, we are synic lately and so we should be. Thank you for bringing that our attention. Interesting that the supermarkets, as Josie has noted, put up the prices during pension week, but a lot of the supermarkets offer a pension discount, so I don't think the pension discount would offset the price rise though, do you Mark?
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Speaker 21: Good morning, Good morning Graham, how are you today?
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Speaker 1: Good?
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Speaker 18: Thank you.
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Speaker 21: So mister Albanezi wants to have forty more politicians yep, that's in charge at the moment doing anything to help this country out.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that the government seemed to think that if we have more politicians, mind you, I haven't heard the opposition say no, they're all feathering their own nests.
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Speaker 18: I think so, you know, one.
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Speaker 21: Nation, I do believe that one nation want to clean the swamp out a bit. That's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, I can understand the argument for more politicians because astraight as population is grown. But you're going to have to prove to me that the politicians we get are going to do a better job than the ones we've got.
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Speaker 21: I don't think that's ever going to happen.
00:55:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid you're right.
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Speaker 21: I mean, if you're seriously going to vote for a party that wants to look after this country, it is not red, blue or green.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Mark, thanks for your caul. Let's go to gall It and Gary. How are you Gary?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 22: Good, thanks Graham. Just ringing. Regarding the two party major parties, stamp duty policiesbvious leave the Labor one sounds a lot better, you know, one hundred thousand versus fifteen thousand, But given that the one hundred thousand is only on new builds, I believe you only get stamp duty off the price of the land. So I think it's near impossible to spend number two million on a house in land and get one hundred thousand dollars off. I think it's a whole lot of spin ah right. I think any way you could do it would be by a block of land for one point nine million and then buy build a house for one hundred thousand. So either we can get a specialist on to find out if that's right, or even ask the Labor government how do you get one hundred thousand dollars off your stamp duty on a new build Because.
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Speaker 1: As you're you're claiming that you don't get it on the build itself. It's only on the land.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, because you only pay stamp duty on the land. You don't pay stamp duty on the new building.
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Speaker 1: Go on, Gary, we'll look into that. That's far beyond me, I'm afraid, but yeah, that there's an interesting question. Let's go to Flinders Park. Dean, you want to talk about road workers.
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Speaker 23: Thanks for taking the call. We spoke a few weeks ago about people working on roadside standing still, looking at phones and whatever. Yeah, and I rang up the Department of Transport to find out what these guys do looking at their phones during the day. Well, there's one thing that you don't want to do is make that phone call. Because a woman in charge of them wrang me back and I got an absolute serving from it. Seriously, Yes, I got told that these people have got their phones in their hands because they may be standing still their way waiting for material to come, and the phone will advise them of when it's coming and where it's got to go and whatever. She said. What what we the public interpret at them doing nothing and whatever is absolutely wrong because they are there for a purpose and their phones in their hands are for a reason.
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Speaker 1: So she took you to task about this for just asking the question.
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Speaker 23: Absolutely, And I said to her, I've got photographs of two guys standing on a stack of pavers with their phones in their hands. And I said, as soon as the supervisor walked towards them, the phones disappeared. And she said, well, they did the rightful thing. She said, they shouldn't be looking at the phones in their hand, but the supervisor would have had them there for a reason, and they would have had their phones in their hands for a reason. She gave me a.
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Speaker 1: Survey a Dean, that's amazing, thank you for letting us know that. So you can't even ring up and ask the Department of Transport what the workers are doing, which I think as a reason will request it's our money that's being spent, isn't it. Maybe someone should do a time and motion study on workers, council workers, workers doing things like road repairs and the like. I know they do a good job and so forth, but sometimes you sort of think, you know, do they need eight blocks to do that job that could possibly be done by two or three. I might ring up the Department of Transport. Well, I might cop an earful, mightn't I eight double two to three double O double is the number to ring. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Now we're going to take a look at what's going on at the old Holden Factory.
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Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 18: We always like good news stories.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a major coup for salvas strata and a development that puts us on the world stage. It comes from next Gen Energy Technology. It's based at Lionsgate Park at the old Holden Factory. Joining me in now is Andrew Cooper, CEO of next Gen Energy Technology. Andrew, good morning, Thanks for coming in to join us.
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Speaker 18: Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 24: Great to be here this morning, and thank you for opening up the airwaves for us to share our story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're going to have to leave me by the hand. I know it's all about lithium, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, et So what are you actually doing.
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Speaker 24: So we're actually building a cathode materials manufacturing plant. So inside of a battery you have a positive terminal which is your cathode, and negative terminal which is your anode, and a whole lot of plates and bits and pieces in between. It allow electron flow to take place. The most important piece in that is the cathode materials, and it's those cathode materials that we are manufacturing at the old Holden plant. In fact, we're taking the former press shop, which is a sixteen thousand square meter facility, probably the dirtiest that of the whole of the buildings on site there, but we needed some height there and that particular building helps us in that regard, and so we're setting up transforming that very dirty old building into a Class one clean room, which is a bit like a semiconductor factory. You could eat off the floor, it will be that clean and so forth. The environment itself will be climate controlled. If you wanted to walk into that factory, you would have to go through a decontamination process before moving in men in white suits. So this is exactly what it looks cutting edge high tech. It is absolutely all AI controlled and with some amazing, absolutely amazing benefits that will flow on to consumers in the end users of these batteries.
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Speaker 18: So it's quite amazing. So things like.
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Speaker 24: Extending the life of batteries from eight to ten years to thirty to forty years. Now, if you could imagine you know that here in South Australia we were already at the front of battery storage systems are best systems battery energy storage systems well, the life expectancy on the batteries that sit inside of those is around about the ten year mark, but if you've had those thirty to forty years, that is an absolute game changer. You can think the impact on forecasting of budgets, for asset management for the future, you know, the security of our grid and having the right sort of technology there that was reliable, stable and didn't have the thermal runaway issues that we have with current technology. What's thermal runaway? That's when things get too hot. You know you trust the iPhone that gets really hot every now and then, that's thermal runaway. And it's the manganese and the cobalt that sits inside of that that creates that type of problem. So we've replaced the manganese with aluminum oxide and reduced them out of cobalt in there, and we end up with a very stable, very controllable material that in effect, what we like to say in terms of marketing spin we make the magic black powder that creates super batteries.
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Speaker 1: So where does this sit on the world stage.
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Speaker 24: So, the only place in the world to produce lithium NCAA materials that commercial grade has been in China. We've transferred the IP from China to Australia. It is now one hundred percent of Australian owned. So we've then taken that IP and we've expanded on the IP on the intellectual property through IP Australia, and we've tightened up the things around formula.
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Speaker 18: And the actual process itself.
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Speaker 24: So what we have is very much front and center for the world and that's happening here in Adelaide.
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Speaker 1: So does this involve or need critical minerals.
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Speaker 18: It absolutely does so.
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Speaker 24: And one of the reasons people say why Adelaide, why why Australia, is because Australia is mineral rich. We have we're in a very unique situation here in Australia. We're the only country in the world to have all of the minerals that we require for the battery value chain. So, but we don't manufacture anything. That's all where we put our rocks on ships and send them to and buy that back in the form of a product. And so what we're doing is we're changing the way that that happens. So you know, we're reducing Scope three emissions because we're not shipping things across the world. We are creating jobs in three various areas. On the upstream side, there's mining, refining and then the advanced materials processing. And it's the advanced materials processing that we're putting in place at the old Holton factory.
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Speaker 1: Obviously state of the art technology you're using AI. Yes, many people employed.
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Speaker 24: Yes, it's one hundred and fifty five people that we will once we scale up to full scale. So we have a small team at the moment. We're bringing a team out of China that will transfer that knowledge to Australia. You have to remember that this knowledge does not exist here in Australia, so we need to transfer that. That's why we've set up an MU and collaboration agreement with originally with Adelaide University or sorry, the University of Adelaide University, South Australia, which has now come together to be Australia's largest university. At Adelaide University, we have very strong engagement with the team across the board that vice chancellor level profile, chancellor level and we're working on mapping of skills and pathways for young engineers coming through, so this will create new jobs that don't exist right now.
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Speaker 1: Something like this obviously takes a lot of money. Is any government money involved? Not at this point.
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Speaker 24: We've gone to the market and we're in the process of a major capital raise one hundred million dollar rais which we're doing offshore at the moment, So we would like to certainly encourage the federal government to be involved. But at the end of the day, if you wait for government, then you're going to be waiting a long time. I think government will eventually catch up year around the ribbon cutting of time, as there's the time. But I have to say the state government has been outstanding. The support that we've received from the team within the Investment Attraction site has been absolutely fantastic and across the board. The Premier is aware of this project. The Minister of Trade and Investment, Joe Sockarch has been very heavily engaged with us as well along the way, and we're delighted with the level of support that we're seeing from a state level. We know that at state level there is not a lot of funding for support in that regard, we're not worried about that. We just want that logo on the page. So what's the timeline When are you going to be up and running in Adelaide. We anticipate once the major capital raises out of the way, which is over the next six months, so that's starting right now. But we anticipate by the end of next year that we'll be producing and our materials through our pilot plant, which is about two thousand tons. Now, what's really important to note is that we actually already have our customer, so we are We've signed a thirty year off take agreement with the US and that is worth over five hundred million dollars a year. Wow, that's quite significant. And we will be supplying Australian mind refined and processed minerals into the critical mineral stockpile for the US.
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Speaker 1: So where as you've mentioned, we usually ship our minerals and rules resources offshore, which all be done.
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Speaker 18: Here, we'll be doing the processing here.
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Speaker 24: So the materials that we produce will go straight to the critical mineral stockpile, but also to sell manufacturers who can then manufacture those selves for specific applications. And at the moment if anybody wants to make a battery, they have to be import materials from China. And we've seen for the years, and you know, I'm not I'm very supportive of what China has done for us over the years. They provide us with a tremendous amount of technology. Half the clothes we're wearing on our back come from China. So China has been a really strong contributor. And they've you know, when you look at what they've done in the critical mineral space, it's outstanding. But we've lost something in all of that. You look at the manufacturing that we've lost here in South Australia. What we're doing is restoring that. We're bringing back sovereign manufacturing capability. We're creating jobs for the future, which is something that is quite outstanding.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a positive and I think you know it's nation building that sort of thing.
01:08:41
Speaker 18: It is, absolutely it is.
01:08:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I noticed and I saw the video about your company, and this is why I want to do the story that a major company like Semens is involved.
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Speaker 18: What role do a play, Yes, Seemens, we're just right.
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Speaker 24: From the start. So Semens have been an outstanding company. They they understand what we're trying to do here. They see the benefit from an environmental perspective, they see the benefits from a manufacturing perspective. They will be providing the software that we require for full automation of our plant. Plus they will be providing the digital twin software, so we'll create the factory in a virtual environment as well as in reality. And so their software allows virtual and reality to come together. So when it comes to training and development of our staff, we can put our staff into a VR environment, a virtual reality environment and train them so they can pull panels off of the production line and they can do a deep dive into equipment.
01:09:43
Speaker 18: They can understand the safety and.
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Speaker 24: Other related issues that are there that traditionally have been done in the classroom or on the floor.
01:09:53
Speaker 18: We can actually do that in a virtual environment.
01:09:56
Speaker 1: Australia's manufacturing as virtually groundoor holder. Any issues and problems for you because you're virtually having to start up from square one, No, not at all, Not at all.
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Speaker 24: So we have a really solid team that we have working with us as a part of that transfer of knowledge from China. So the team will come out and spend time with the Australian team and transfer their knowledge over a three year term. So what's important to us is from a federal government perspective is where visas and those sorts of support areas are in place, we can bring in the right level of expertise to transfer their knowledge to the Australian workforce.
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Speaker 1: You're obviously very focused on that and there's one project at the moment, but is there any room for expansion or absolutely we already we've already started those conversations.
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Speaker 24: So down the track, and when I say down the track, we're talking properly within the first five years. We want to put a second plant in place. So the original plant that we're talking about in the the former press shop will produce ten thousand tons paranum ten thousand times paranum because there's a five.
01:11:05
Speaker 18: Hundred million dollars revenue stream.
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Speaker 24: Now, what we're looking to do on the same side is to build a purpose built facility, which were about two hundred thousand tons, and then the idea of that then is to take the two hundred thousand ton facility for global export markets and the ten thousand time facility we can pivot into domestic supply because by then we'll have battery bed cell manufacturers. Right now today we don't have a customer in Australia because nobody makes battery cells in Australia. We need that's part of the value chain to come up to speed. And when that's ready, then we'll pivot across and support the battery chain here and south in Australia.
01:11:48
Speaker 1: Really exciting, Andrew, congratulations to you and more power to you. I think we love good news stories here. It is a good news story. We've been speaking with Andrew Cooper, see of Next Gen Energy Technology.
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Speaker 5: Five A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: No rain yet, could be a little bit later this afternoon, but by g by Jingy's are we going to cop it over the weekend? Up to eighty mills maybe one hundred and fifteen mills over a total over the weekend. Let's take it called David, good morning.
01:12:19
Speaker 12: Oh, good morning, Graham. I'm reading enough about this British passport fiasco. Oh tell me well where you were supposed to go last month? And I've been living in Australia since nineteen seventy two. I was born in England and I've traveled everywhere with my Australian passport. I just renewed it for this trip and then we were told you you won't be allowed in the UK with it, so you've got to get a British passport. But they wont id so I did a stupid thing. When now I think about it, I set my Australian passport, my old nineteen eighty one expiring British passport over between England. So I've got no passport now and due to fly out the twenty fourth and March to the UK. I've ran my friends in the UK. They've tried getting any information from that side and all they did is now we're getting about of middle and inquiries a day. At the moment, I'm sorry, wow, if you haven't got a code or something. But a friend of mine, the worst one is she just got divorced and she was taking her son for a holiday. She was born in Melbourne, but she's just found out she needs a British passport because her mother and father came out here in nineteen forty something.
01:13:38
Speaker 1: A confusing situation.
01:13:39
Speaker 12: I even thought about a British park.
01:13:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so when do you need it? All sort of out buy when you're heading off.
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Speaker 12: We're flying out on the twenty fourth of March.
01:13:48
Speaker 1: I can understand your concern. Look, David, look hold the line. Because Peter Williams from phil Hoffman Travel was on Stacy Lee's program earlier this week and spoke on this very subject.
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Speaker 25: If you were born in the UK and you are still a bridget and citizen, so in other words, you haven't renounced your citizenship, you'll need a UK passport. So you've got to apply for a passport right now. That isn't that expensive.
01:14:13
Speaker 1: I think it's.
01:14:13
Speaker 25: Around about let's call it about one hundred and twenty about two hundred and twenty dollars. The problem is it's taking five to eight weeks to get that passport, so those people that haven't got it yet, they're struggling to get it in time for maybe a trip that they plan to get away fairly quickly.
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Speaker 18: So that's a bit of a challenge.
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Speaker 25: So if one of your parents was also born in the UK, and this is where it comes with, some people don't even understand that they may be. So if when your parents are born in the UK, you may be automatically a sitism without knowing it or even registering. So you again will need to get a passport, so you need to apply for passport or that certificate. And if you ever have held a UK passport and it's expired, you have to go get a new one. So there's three very basic rules for listeners out there which might you know, they might go, oh wow, I'm one of those. Well that means you need to get your act together and get things happening now as of yesterday though some temporary measures and it is only a guidance, so please don't take this as gospel, okay. And what we recommend is that you check with your travel agent. So if your book with fiel Off and Travel, give us a call and we'll walk you through it. Or if you've books a direct with an airline, you should be ringing your airline.
01:15:24
Speaker 17: To see whether they will uplift you.
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Speaker 25: So these are the temporary measures that if you can't get your passport in time, your UK passport in time, you may be able to travel on your valid Australian passport. You get your ETA, which is your online entry to the UK. So it's just an online entry which until all this fiasco started having that was the simple method, and an expired UK passport that matches exactly your Australian passport. Your current Australian passport should be enough for them to uplift you for the time being. Now this is a temporary measure and we don't know how long it's going to last. But at least that came through yesterday for those people that you still haven't been able to get hold of their passport.
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Speaker 1: So that's Peter Williams from phil Hoffman Travel. It seems to be a pretty confusing situation, so David, I suggest you get in touch with your travel agent to get some more advice on that. My number is eight double two to three double double O from the text line hi GG. Yesterday I went to Flinder's Hospital for a colonoscopy and all the staff in that ward were absolutely amazing. That is great news, Adrian. Colonoscopies aren't great fun, are they? But I tell you what, it's better than the alternative finding out years later that you've got an issue, So.
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01:16:52
Speaker 18: Well there you go.
01:16:53
Speaker 1: We were talking about the Regent Theater a little bit earlier. That goes back to nineteen twenty eight, hailed as Australia's most glamorous and my curious cinema. Do you remember the Regent? You have stories about it? Give us a call.
01:17:07
Speaker 17: Five, double, a turns fifty.
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Speaker 18: A lot has happened in that time.
01:17:12
Speaker 1: Good evening, leaders and gentlemen, this is your Heights Region theater.
01:17:17
Speaker 26: For nearly seventy five years, the Regent Theater in Rundell Moore was Adelaide's grand palace of cinema.
01:17:24
Speaker 27: Dispoosed luxury from the moment you.
01:17:27
Speaker 26: Entered, a place of sparkling chandeliers, a mighty Whirlitzer organ and evenings filled with the magic of movies.
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Speaker 27: Ladies used to dress up to the irons beautiful gowns, and the men used to wear suits at either hat.
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Speaker 26: But times changed, audience's strength and the theater was downsized after.
01:17:46
Speaker 5: Thirty nine years.
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Speaker 18: It's the end of the road for the old Regent, as most people in Adelaide know it.
01:17:51
Speaker 26: In January two thousand and four, after decades of film screenings and memories. The Regent Theater finally screened its last showing and closed its doors forever.
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Speaker 17: There was a dazzling farewell. Every seat in the house was sold. People flopped to enjoy one last night of the Regent.
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Speaker 26: Today, the heritage facade and Regent Arcade remain a quiet tribute to a once beloved cinematic landmark that shaped Adelaide's cultural heart.
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Speaker 1: Connected to our community for fifty years, five double a always Adelaide memories of the Regent Theater? Did you ever go there? What did you see there? Her caller Earlier, she was telling us that when she was fourteen, without her parents' knowledge, she and her friend went to see Psycho. She was fourteen at nightmares about it ever since, I'm not surprised. What did you see at the Regent? Was it? She? Actually? She said she went back lad and saw was it a sound of music? And that didn't cause any nightmares? Kay says on the text line, the sound of music was at the Paris Theater formerly the Plaza. I saw it there with my mum when I was about seven, for my first visit to the cinema. A lovely memory, my first memory wasn't the Regent. It was in Melbourne growing up, and I must have been about eight or ten, and my auntie took me to see a movie and we got there late, and that the course it was in darkness other than the screen. And we went and sat down and I thought, this is the most uncomfortable seat I've ever sat on. It just felt terrible. And it was an interval before I realized that I hadn't pushed the seat down. You know how they click up and flip up. So I was sitting on a quarter of a seat. A little bit embarrassing, but I was only a kid after all. Memories of the Region Theater. Give us a call, Richard, Good morning.
01:19:42
Speaker 17: Good morning done, How are you good things?
01:19:45
Speaker 28: I'm just ringing with the weather report and all the commercial channels have said and the radio have said we're into a bad weather storm and flooding and all this. I've just left the Morphic Vale area going into upp the Gully area and the gutters along Witch Sheaf Road are completely filled with dumb trees and gum sorry gum leaves and all that. Right, So wouldn't you think that the council thinking, hang on, we're getting the bad weather we pull, we better have a look at some of these gutters and things like this. And I'm not just saying this part of Adelaide. I'm saying also central of Adelaide and also central north of Adelaide too.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting observation, Rachel. I wonder if that is on a council's radar, that when there's some really heavy weather coming in, should we go out and check the gutters the drains. I wonderful.
01:20:39
Speaker 28: The main flooding is on the road, and if there's rubbish in the gutters, I know that a council can't get you know, twenty twenty thousand kilometers of gushes clean. But you would think that on their way home, they would think, hang on, that gutter's blocked.
01:20:56
Speaker 3: Might tell my boss tomorrow, you know, and.
01:20:59
Speaker 28: Things like this or somewhere with gushers. Have a look at this area and see a lot of trees there, So why aren't we training that up?
01:21:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, it pays a fair question. Good on you're Richard, Thanks for that. Yeah, look, while you think of it, if you're about gutters on your house and you have any areas that could flood, now is the time to clean them out, get them checked or whatever, because tomorrow may be too late, and Sunday it's going to be worse gray Goo. So who says, didn't we go through this last week? Or it's going to pour with rain on Sunday? Why don't we get none? Well maybe this time, maybe this time it will be the case, Graham. It won't rain on the weekend. I just went to Bunnings and bought lawn fertilizer.
01:21:38
Speaker 18: Oh, thank you, Andy.
01:21:40
Speaker 1: What about the old story about people washing their cars if you want the to rain, wash your car. Eight double two to three double O double back after the Newes.
01:21:48
Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:21:52
Speaker 1: Hey, it's a Friday morning after eleven o'clock in thanks, seven minutes past eleventh and that Herald's into the studio none other than me these stables. Nick, good morning to you.
01:22:02
Speaker 17: Good morning Graham. A relatively quiet week this week. I heard you with Paul story.
01:22:07
Speaker 1: Yes, there wasn't a whole lot on the political front. It's sort of been that, sort of the quiet before the storm.
01:22:12
Speaker 17: I guess I've been looking forward to a quiet week now for close to I think close to at the start.
01:22:18
Speaker 1: Of the year, we had one. Yeah, yeah, and that's so much happening.
01:22:22
Speaker 17: That's just been brilliant. But a little bit on the on the international front, it's been running around. Obviously, the Epstein files continues to roll out. Donald Trump will continue to be number one on the media. Neette Visibility, Ardell, the Miss Parade, the Isis Brides.
01:22:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that has generated a lot of I was gonna say, confused thinking, but confusion, not confused thinking. But it seems like the political parties don't know quite where to stand on it.
01:22:49
Speaker 17: They don't know how to play it. Yeah, they don't know how to play it. So one nation will simply go no, yeah, most political leaders will look at them and go, well, look they're Australian citizens. Those Australian citizens, and heaven forbid that Australian citizens denied access back to their own country. If they're Australian citizens, my believe you've got to be back in. But their behavior and the way that they've gone about it, some will say that they've forfeited their rights to come back. And that's been the big thing that obviously has been debated in the media over the last week as to whether what these people are like, now, are they radicalized? Are they a threat to our society? And I think that sort of buys into the one nation sort of whole immigration issue there of let's just say no. And even Anthony Alberonisi and the Labor Party, the Labor Government has been a little a little bit shy on all the details that have come out, so we're not really in the full loop as to what is going on here, but it is a real concern, particularly for listeners of this radio station, for people right across the country as to where they might end up, where they might be, what further monitoring will go on, and it just brings that element of fear in there. And this just buys into the one nation whole approach of why they're being so successful in the polls is because they're prepared to say no. Well, the other part is have to be a little bit more careful. But my personal belief, Graham, is that if they're an Australian citizen, they've got to come back now. If they want to come back, then we have a duty to bring them back.
01:24:26
Speaker 1: But again and once they're here, then what procedures, what protections, because as the story goes, you know, do you want one of them living next to year and now an isis bride and the children might be perfectly good citizens. Yeah, but there is a question, and that there has to be a question.
01:24:42
Speaker 17: Well there's a question already around why they made that decision to head over there in the first place, so one might question their ability to make decisions anyway. But yeah, it is a concern, and I think and understandably so. But it is a small thing. I suppose in the big scheme of things is to bring back the Australians that should be back here on Australian soil. But this will be political, particularly for a federal level. But we're that far out from a federal election. It's becoming a state issue even to would agree they could end up here in South Australia.
01:25:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it looks like it will be New South Wales, Victoria and to a lesser degree, Queensland, but yeah, who knows, who knows.
01:25:22
Speaker 17: Yeah, So, look, they've been very very it's been a very popular topic in media right across the country this week, and you know, look, I think it will still keep on going until they actually land back on the shores and until we get to hear the whole truth and what is going on.
01:25:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, and somebody has to come out and tell the whole truth. Speaking of telling the whole truth, Hillary Clinton appearing on the Epstein Files.
01:25:47
Speaker 17: Yes she has. She said she was going to come out and do it. I think Bill's out there tomorrow to be talking. I love the fact that she was asking all these questions and she was asked about UFOs, Pizzagate and all that kind of thing. I think Jesus with making a bit of a mockery of all of this. But look, the Epstein Files continues to shock. I think that really the big story that came out this week was with regards to potentially the king, suggestions that King should abdicate. Now, wow, that's a big call. That is a big call, because how much did the King know? And we've been talking about whether Andrew would be charged. No charges have been laid, but we were talking about whether Andrew will be charged, whether anything will come of it. I hope that something does, actually because I think that we can see the evidence that is very much in front of us that something should be happening. But how much did the king know? Now the King is being stopped at doing the things that he needs to be doing. So's the entire royal family to be honest in that they are not able to be who they are or what they do for the UK. So while this continues on, this will continue to be an anchor for the monarchy. And I was listening to your Peter fitz I'm in this interview on my.
01:27:02
Speaker 1: Yeah last Friday, gee man monarchist a royalists, anti monicas.
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Speaker 17: I love what if you talkback calls ringing in that wind bag, Peter Fitzier. But it kind of does raise the question though, you know, as to what is the future there of the monarchy if this really continues to plague the king and the King has ended up at number nine on the media neet visibility reports. That's how big it has been. Is that he's now been dragged into this to this level.
01:27:32
Speaker 1: Let's put the monarchy on the spotlight or in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. And you know, as you've said, you know they've got royal things to do, and all of a sudden they're being taken away from that.
01:27:42
Speaker 17: Yeah, and look, we do want to see some action, we do want to see some results from this. And taking away from Andrew you've got Donald Trump as well, who seems to think he's been exonerated from everything. But I swear he has very rose colored glasses and extreme blinkers on.
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Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, nothing to see here?
01:28:05
Speaker 17: Well, it's it is everything to see here. So this look, I think it is important that this continues to play out, and it's good to see that they're being very vigilant about bringing that content out in front of the public. But there's still so much more.
01:28:20
Speaker 1: Well, the suggestion is that a lot of material relating directly to Donald Trump has just disappeared.
01:28:26
Speaker 17: Redacted, gone, disappear. It's any wonder he was he had all those boxes in his home before the first time, that mare Lago, that's right, Yes, about what was in there? What was in there? And you know, look there's a lot of there's a lot of things that have been thrown around that Epstein was a Russian spy. Look, this just continues to play out, and it has captured obviously the global.
01:28:50
Speaker 1: Attention amazing, and the millions of documents anyhow, and I mean that is just remarkable.
01:28:56
Speaker 17: Look, if I tell you what, if you wanted to research it, if you wanted someone to be you know, the Dante Cross, the t's dot, the eyes. Epstein was your man. He's seem to have everything recorded. Incredible.
01:29:09
Speaker 1: A double two to three, double O, double oh is the number if you want to have a chat with Nickay's about what's happening in the world of media. We'll be back shortly.
01:29:16
Speaker 5: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Past eleven five Double A. It's our media segment, what's been happening in the world of media. Quays joins us this time on a on A. I was gonna say Thursday. It's Friday, isn't it. Please You're you're.
01:29:31
Speaker 17: Half an hour from knocking off, Graham, come on the.
01:29:33
Speaker 1: Week know that the weekend is just over the horizon.
01:29:36
Speaker 17: Sam, your producer, I think he's ready to go. He's done, he's had a big wee.
01:29:39
Speaker 1: We'll started to think footy.
01:29:40
Speaker 17: Yes we are. Football back on the agenda. So and good luck to you, sir. I know that the closing date for the for the board for Adelaide. Couldn't have a better voice for the Adelaide Crows and craws.
01:29:51
Speaker 1: You're very kind.
01:29:52
Speaker 17: That'll go in the show notes. The football's back. I think you know a lot of us have been watching match sim and seeing it come up. I think that this is the most exciting time for fans to just get a sense and feel without a long break from football, seeing them play, seeing how your teams are performing match simulations a little bit different. We have the state of Origin which has happened and done and dusted, which did very well by the way, but it is exciting to know that we're only weeks away from getting back into the season, getting the real stuff. Yeah, and look, I know, you know as I was born in Victoria, I've lived in Western Australia. I am South Australia now you know, I've been fortunate for the three states that I've lived and worked in have been three AFL states. I couldn't think of anything worse than living in an NRL state. It just would drive me insane. But you get a sense and feel that it's all coming. So big things happening for the AFL this year. There's changes obviously that are going on with the game, but the broadcasting, you know, get yourself and see the games, see it where you can still free to wear and I think a big year for both the crows Port Adelaide this year so as a North Melbourne supporter, that's very hard for me to say.
01:31:04
Speaker 1: Great, but I remember ninety eight very well.
01:31:07
Speaker 17: Yeah, thank you, thanks for reminding. We came back in ninety nine. But look it was, it's happening and it's a big industry and it's a big time for us. But interesting little note though. Graham was Peter Vland, the CEO of the NRAL.
01:31:22
Speaker 1: He loves the AFL, he loves it.
01:31:24
Speaker 17: He had a little crack at the AFL during the week and suggesting that AFL follows everything that the NRL does. Now, you know, the state of origin was a topic of discussion. You know you haven't been able to do that for thirty years. What makes you think you can do it now? The whole movement interstate games that are going on. Gather around, gather around, he's claiming gather around. I mean, he's a little bit cheeky, Peter of the Land, he's claiming gather around. That was a that was an initiated by the UK as he's pinched. He's pinched that one. So look, I love that little bit of competition between the AFL and the NRL. But here's the real truth. You get more people at an AFL game, No doubt, you get more people watching AFL. You know, we did discussed last week it's a better game.
01:32:11
Speaker 1: Come on.
01:32:12
Speaker 17: Well, that's all up for that's subjective, that's very subjective. But at the end of the day, they market themselves better the AFL than the NRL. Always an NRL player in trouble. Now, I know that we have a few AFL players that get themselves in hot water, but does not nothing to the degree that an NRL one does. So you know that's up and about. But it's something we talk about. We talk about it at work, we talk about it at home. And I can't wait. I think you can tell I can't wait.
01:32:40
Speaker 1: Let's take it. Call Ian good morning, Good morning guys.
01:32:43
Speaker 29: I love this segment.
01:32:45
Speaker 21: It's great.
01:32:45
Speaker 29: I just try to talk about the nonsense you have the see every night on the news with Ashton and Belly.
01:32:51
Speaker 21: You know, there's.
01:32:52
Speaker 29: Strowering a Buddy Brick and he's doing this, and then you see Ashton the next night cutting wood and whatever. Why we have to put up with that?
01:33:03
Speaker 17: I love that, And you know why, you know why they do that. They want to just for a moment, look like you and I. They want to look like the you know, John and Joe blogs. They just have IP voter. They want to be one of us, and they'll continue to do that.
01:33:19
Speaker 29: I don't mind the shovel. You know, when they're starting a new project, they go there and they get a ton of dirt and they stump it down and they throw it up. In the end, you get a picture for the avatars. I mean that's okay, But when you start getting on the tours, you just shake your head to go, really.
01:33:36
Speaker 17: I reckon Ash and Hern holds a shovel, all right there, She doesn't look like that's her.
01:33:40
Speaker 1: First knock out of place?
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Speaker 5: Did it?
01:33:43
Speaker 1: Good on you? And thanks for Carl. Yeah, that is interesting, isn't it. I mean Polly's used to kissing babies. That was another one. And having a beer in the front bar. Now Bob Hawk could do with that. Bob Hawk could have a drink with anybody, and I don't drink anyone.
01:33:56
Speaker 17: Well when he's when he's the yard glass World Champion champion exactly. You're not actually being disingenuous there, I'm actually being real, real to life, real character.
01:34:06
Speaker 1: Another later Prime Minister, Labor Prime Minister tried to do the same thing Kevin rud in the front bar. That was the funniest. No one has looked more out of place in the front bar than Kevin r He's.
01:34:16
Speaker 17: Like he got out of the bar on his two feet. But interesting, Ian says that because it's there is a lot of movement that's going on. And again to your point around state politics worked, we're three weeks away from a state election. It was a bit of a quiet week this week, seven or eight it was, according to the stream tracker. Stream does all the media monitoring here in South Australia. For the government and the government policies, they've identified eight for the Liberal Party, now seven for Labor And how many do you think one nation released this week?
01:34:50
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be too many?
01:34:51
Speaker 17: Would it a straight out zero? So here we go here we're calling it out. One nation is going to keep quiet, not say a thing, not delivering policy, not delivering anything that they can be held accounted for, accountable for, and they're going to do well polling.
01:35:07
Speaker 1: They hit your head down and say nothing, keep.
01:35:09
Speaker 17: Your head head down, say nothing. Let the other two fight it out. But again, I think we mentioned it last week. If you're a conservative voter and you're planning to vote one nation, do it in the upper House. Don't do it in the lower House because you're just going to kill the very I suppose the fabric that is the liberal Conservative vote here, and having seen and lived it in Western Australia when they absolutely annihilated them, it's going to take a decade for them to come back. So if you're a conservative voter, don't vote one nation. Below the line Bill has texted in.
01:35:42
Speaker 1: He says, hi, grime, please ask your media guest about this. About a year ago it was revealed that over one hundred public servants was sitting around doing nothing and continue to be very well paid.
01:35:51
Speaker 17: Only one hundred, Only one hundred, I reckon there's probably about one thousand public servants sitting around doing no. We shouldn't say that about our public servants. Interesting, could be good to know where that's come from and where they've suggested in which area.
01:36:06
Speaker 1: Bill, Maybe you can let us know and we'll do some more investigating on that.
01:36:09
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of public servants coming to question as to and the size of the public servants so massive.
01:36:18
Speaker 1: Look, I don't have a complaint about the rank and file public servants doing a great job, very necessary job. But when you get to the fat cats, the bureaucrats, the department heads earning three quarters of a million dollars a year, it's six hundred and fifty grand a year. Hard to justify that.
01:36:32
Speaker 17: Grea, if you can get it, though, Graham, good, if you can get it.
01:36:34
Speaker 18: But no one's ever offered me one of those jobs.
01:36:36
Speaker 17: No one's ever offered me either. But I'll go into a white little wins will be and I just leave this for with your listeners today. Is that counsels? You know, I think we're over governed. We have too many councils. And is anyone out there at the moment confused by the bin system? That the fact that we can only put our red bin out every second week. Now, you know, in this hot weather, those bins start to stink and they stink badly. Cannot be good. That is one frustration I have with local councils. So if there's any smart.
01:37:07
Speaker 1: Give them one job. Just give them one job.
01:37:09
Speaker 17: Rubbish roads and rates and rates you think you could get one at least all three of those.
01:37:15
Speaker 1: Right, you know?
01:37:15
Speaker 17: Anyway, But that's we are over governed.
01:37:18
Speaker 1: Parting comments were Wulworths has been in the news.
01:37:22
Speaker 17: Will Worths big announcement obviously a big profit there for them. They're going to say that they're now the preferred supermarket nationally. They're claiming that they've got a lot more food that is or stock that is under value, that is cheaper. I question that you don't make eight hundred odd million dollar profit in a short period of time and have a cheaper product. There is something going on there.
01:37:45
Speaker 1: They're claiming that their prices are down by zero point five percent excluding tobacco.
01:37:50
Speaker 17: You ask everyone at home if they're feeling a little excuse, yeah, but you ask everyone at home how they're feeling about how much they're paying for meat, how much they're paying for you know, the chocolate. Chocolate's gone through the roof, fruit and vege, you name it. Yeah, and don't start going two for thirteen dollars. The kind of savings that they try to put in front of you, It's like, no, I don't want that and it's not cheap. That follows off from Cole's previous last week. So Cole's got a hammering last week, Wilworth gets their hammering this week, and the other big one is Quantis Quantas announced their big profits this year for this term, and they're making a fair bit of money. They've got a few developments that they're going on, but they're also being a little cheeky, Graham. They seem to be offshoring their start, which is going to come under fire a bit if well. We'll have some good journos looking casting their eyes over that.
01:38:43
Speaker 22: Nick.
01:38:43
Speaker 1: Always great to have a chat.
01:38:45
Speaker 17: Good to see Graham.
01:38:45
Speaker 1: Nickaye's from Media Stable. Will join us again next Friday morning, five Double A.
01:38:50
Speaker 5: Mornings with Graham. Goodings.
01:38:53
Speaker 1: Well it's coming, folks, the heavy rain get ready for it. Large areas of the state have been hit. Metropolitan eras are about to be inundated over the weekend, claims of what one hundred mills or more up to eighty mills on Sunday alone. But to the rest of the state is already experienced particlarly, mid north and beyond, a lot of lot of wet weather, which is good news in a lot of ways. Can and Faye is an ander merker locally joins us now. Canon, good morning to.
01:39:20
Speaker 3: You, Good morning Graham. Hey going down there, look.
01:39:23
Speaker 1: Well, thanks mate, still raining there, look.
01:39:27
Speaker 3: At it's been quite bizarre up here. It's throwing, drizzling constantly for about a week and on with a few we're seeing all the storms go around. It's it's one of those wild things. We're literally seeing the storms go past us, which is fantastic because if we've got if we get a full cloud burst or microburst, it'll probably take and amka.
01:39:52
Speaker 1: Out wow is that right?
01:39:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the main streets of Creek bed filt around the open field, so there's only a one bitchman rode in with a bit of love shoots, but it's all the surrounding hills are all mud and clay, and it just every now and again when we do get a big flash blood, it always makes the media of these the whole towns virtually flooded. But a lot of these old places have been around since the thirties, so they are pretty spectacular shacks.
01:40:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when was the last time you had a substantial downpour?
01:40:24
Speaker 3: Then I guess last weekend we had about thirty meal and that was recorded over the weekend, and then on January had about twenty meals. So the whole area is green and water logged. So if we do get another and expected of hit, it'll flood very quickly. I wake this up here, and considering it was the hottest place on the planet a month ago fifty degrees and now it's green and the frogs are out and the wild flowers are coming up pretty amazing.
01:40:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. So you're saying that the major rain is has sort of been skirting it. You've been just getting drizzled while surrounding areas are getting a decent downpour.
01:41:05
Speaker 12: Oh.
01:41:05
Speaker 23: Absolutely.
01:41:06
Speaker 3: A lot of our mates on the station's middle creeks, the light they're getting up to over one hundred mill with a couple of days all through the Bush Telegraph, all our surrounding roads to Mari William Creek barrel knocked out at the moment, so there's all those sorts of issues and getting the intel on the railway. The woman were boxed, the downs port of Gustrow was knocked out for a bit. So yes, certainly there's been some fantastic falls of weather, which anyone across the Outback and regional Australia welcome for for the rains, but certainly the infrastructure damages has been huge because you're.
01:41:43
Speaker 1: Not getting it up for that, are you I mean you're not geared up for big downpours.
01:41:47
Speaker 3: It's yeah, on this scale, no, And you know there's a not a lot of money going out into regional infrastructure, and especially now it's you know, the aviation keeping. It's not as keeping our aviation areas and unsealed ones operational, it's the roads to get to them. So the rains welcome, But what goes with that is along you know, lots of defenses getting knocked out the roads infrastructure.
01:42:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So what sort of annual rainfall would you get around Anamooka.
01:42:19
Speaker 3: Oh, we get about one hundred and sixty to one hundred and eighty milli a year, and in context, we've had a third of that already this year.
01:42:26
Speaker 1: Wow, what is the wet season for you?
01:42:30
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's sort of weird this problem of the year. We do get rains and in October we get summer rains here and it's been the tourists in October and januaries for some of these large bloods and what really it's good having this low drizzle sort of so they're top It takes time for the water to soak in. But if we do get these cloud you know, the cloud verstus. What's a great imagery of just skies and a cloud just dumping it keeps some heaps of water. That's why we're sort of worried about if one of those hits this and we sing it all around us. And like some places in town, some locals or major twenty two meal bombs say thirty and then somewhere else will say six, So they can be very localized. Ye, now very intense.
01:43:17
Speaker 1: So what's the forecast for you at the moment? Is there more rain on the horizon.
01:43:23
Speaker 3: We've been like in and or you know, far a week sandbagging, big trenches for those sorts of things. So been forecast to rain pretty much every other day changes so it's forecast rain. We haven't had any yet, so they supposed to be a big one. And Saturday estimate.
01:43:45
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the forecast for your area at the moment, and it intrigues me. The Bureau says for the rest of today zero to thirty mills, Tomorrow zero to forty mills, Sunday five to fifty mills. It's a big span, isn't it. Yeah, going to get nothing or you're going to get it. Drenching.
01:44:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're really just going to you know, prepare for the worst, right, prepare for the worst. And it is people have a lot of the ople S fields. Takes a long time, so that the apple miner has been knocked out for the for the machinery, they had to move that. And our claims are full of water. The roads out there are full of water, and it takes because we don't have a council, the roads that feel like to maintained by ourselves, so it takes a long time to drive them out. For those sorts of things that on the benefit for us. Is this the movement of water on the scale for fifty milo the last month changes the whole topography of the Opal fields, so that a lot of the open that's been left behind from old Tommy miners, the alluvial local that hasn't been moved for decades decades brings open to the surface. Wow, that's a total class. A lot of the locals and their families, they don't have encourage the them up yet business they don't. If it do come up, don't don't really cross the bush. Give it another week or so put it chans up our roads. Yeah, but those in the know are places up here if they're going down to Victor Harbor or York's fishing or something like that. So after the rain fell bolts put the calm and ditchmen and go moving for forty eight.
01:45:20
Speaker 1: Hours and can do pretty well.
01:45:22
Speaker 3: Maybe seed maybe's just prospecting, looking for open on the surface. So that's the way, the good thing, that's the way. The bonus on that sort of stuff.
01:45:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, seeing there are so many mines around and a muca, what impact does a really big downfall have. I mean, they don't fill up obviously, but it does cause problems.
01:45:43
Speaker 3: I guess, Oh, sure they do. A lot of we have sort of declines. They're sort of an open cuts with some holes and a bob cattle do a drive into dol fill up quickly and we do things. But you know, try to sandbag. Guys would agree. But sometimes there's enough rain they'll be build not so much. It's not about this time. Maybe a couple of weeks will take to dry out. There's a lot of it's the access roads that's getting to our minds. There's certainly lots of wash outs. I have started being creative, but the texture of the surface I've here, it's just really thick mud and play and it just finag get to get drive away uncaus all dirt roads, it just picks up, so it's just like mud sliding. You seem actual billion movies. You can't sort of chuck it up for the tires and the traction.
01:46:34
Speaker 1: So it sounds like you've had enough rain for the time being anyway.
01:46:38
Speaker 3: Conan, Oh, look, it's always welcome for more. It's you know, just like just slowly, just slowly, you know, it doesn't look to get anyway any Graham just told me then.
01:46:50
Speaker 1: Canaan, Look, we might catch up with you on Monday, give you a call just to see if you know you've survived the weekend downpour.
01:46:58
Speaker 3: I think.
01:47:00
Speaker 1: Good on you. Great to chat Canon fay An and the Merca Local and giving us a pretty comprehensive report on the impact of rain in the area. Bob Backaway as the commodore at the Lake Yacht Carve joins us. Now, Bob, how are you today? Now we know that the impact rain can have. The rain that's falling around the area at the moment, does that have an impact on Lake Air itself?
01:47:23
Speaker 14: Certainly does. What's happened is the Indian nation has been pretty warm, and there's been a lot of little cyclones up around the Kimberleys. And what usually happened or started a week ago is effectively an inland cyclone formed between the South Australia and Northern Territory border, and it's lucking down this moist air from the Kimberlees and it's literally pouring down like just over a week ago that under one hundred and fifty mili in a band from if you say for mood, that data down to Mari started at Roxby the forty seven. I think in that first lot that I went right over to Napamiri on Purple Creek just in Queensland from Innaminca and Cameron's Corner. They just got a beating out there. This is all flat country. When it rains under one hundred and fifty mil everything floods.
01:48:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. So do you get subjected to tropical downpalls all that often?
01:48:25
Speaker 14: It does happen, And this typically what's happened here as the local western rivers of Blake Air, what's pouring water into it at the moment, and that happens reasonably frequently, Like I can remember the two thousand floods started off with filling Lake Air to two meters and that's just from the Nils and the Cumba River right and Lake Air South has got three little rivers feeding it and it's filling up to At the moment, it's mostly Westerns the Queensland, the big Queensland rivers that normally suppli us, they've had constant, minor and moderate flooding. We're hoping Cooper Creek will come back to the burst or track and top up the lakes that we love to sail on around.
01:49:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine.
01:49:15
Speaker 14: Let's wait and see. Like last year, we thought, like this time last year, we thought nothing was happening, and then once we went into March and started pouring down and Cooper Creek, as you know, in a mink out of record flood level and you know it's just a late monsoon last year and this year it appears so.
01:49:36
Speaker 1: Is they much water in the lake at the moment.
01:49:40
Speaker 14: It's a building. It's probably about one and a half meters in Belt Bay at the moment. I use satellite imagery to measure the debt because there's no debt gauges out there. The trouble is it's just been cloudy there for a week. But just looking at the stream gauges of the war are coming in, I'd say it'll be one and a half meters. The typical good flood that we get, like last year is just over two meters and it would probably get to that.
01:50:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, good for sailing.
01:50:13
Speaker 14: Well not on Lake Air.
01:50:14
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's now what happened. There wasn't an access band to Lake Air.
01:50:21
Speaker 14: National Park in Australia that you can't even walk in. So it's ridiculous. Like a national park's defined as a recreation area, but you're not a letter recreate in this one.
01:50:32
Speaker 1: So what because you're going to cause a lot of damage? Is that the theory?
01:50:36
Speaker 14: No, there's a one word answer to why we can't sail there. It's called lithium.
01:50:43
Speaker 1: Lithium.
01:50:45
Speaker 14: Yeah, salt lakes are full of lithium. Oh okay, so there's a large Australian mining company wants to mine it.
01:50:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:50:54
Speaker 14: The South Australian government obviously is under heavy influence from the CFMEU and in twenty fourteen they tried to remove national park status from all the salt lakes and we couldn't work out why, and then we found out why.
01:51:11
Speaker 1: Oh there, politics plays its part. So where do you sailing?
01:51:15
Speaker 18: These days?
01:51:17
Speaker 14: We sail on the rivers and lakes like this. Recent rains filled up a very pretty lake that we at a dinner station that we took a Straate geographic journalist to in twenty three, and we had an article in April twenty four on our trip there. There's lots of little lakes, the Cooper Creek Lakes. We're hoping all get a top up as well. We had a big regatta on one of them last year with sixty yachts, one hundred and seventy three people.
01:51:47
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
01:51:48
Speaker 14: We're planning on having something similar this year. The trouble is we're getting too many people, are not enough volunteers.
01:51:57
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, that's the case all over. I'm afraid.
01:52:00
Speaker 14: Look yeah, yeah, as a beginning, hard work. So we're working out how we're probably going to limit membership.
01:52:08
Speaker 1: Become a very exclusive club.
01:52:10
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, well it was exclusive at one stage because there was rear to sail on lake air that now we can't even sail.
01:52:18
Speaker 5: On the lakes.
01:52:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a shame.
01:52:20
Speaker 14: Look, if we did four of us did a six hundred and thirty eight kilometer trip on the rivers last year. That's real adventure. You go, you're sailing out into pure wilderness.
01:52:31
Speaker 1: Well, that'd be brilliant. Yeah, an experience you could get nowhere else in the world. Bob always great to chat. Thanks for your time. That's Bob backaway, commodore of the Lake Air Yacht Club five double.
01:52:42
Speaker 5: A Mornings with gram Goodings.
01:52:45
Speaker 1: Zero seems to be continually upling in the ant. He could be up to one hundred and twenty mills of rain top level. That would be something to see, isn't it. We're bracing for that. I hope you're prepared for it. The gutters are cleared, the drains are unblocked, because we could be in for a downpour impacting widespread areas of the state. We were talking to Conan at Arcuarrula and Bob up on Lake Eir. They've had plenty of rain. Now it is our turn. Sue says, I was driving when you mentioned movies. My sister and a husband sneaked me in to see The Exorcist when I was thirteen babysitting. It was newly released and the theater was full. We were front row center. I was spooked for years afterward and slept with the lights on Sue thirteen seeing The Exorcist. I didn't even want to see it as an adult. Hi Graham loved the show. With regard to your call Or Caller and Ander Muka, the same can be said for the Adelaide Hills, we seem to be in a very real rain shadow. It has been increasingly the case over the past few years. Laney, thank you very much for that. On the subject of politicians wearing hive z gear and laying bricks and digging holes, Steve says, and why does Mally always have to be holding a glossy booklet front and center here? The politician posers. We haven't seen too many kissing babies lately, have we remembered? The politicians about going along nor with parade or somewhere, and they kiss every baby in sight. Thankfully that untidy habit has stopped, but they still get out there and buy people a beer or have an ice share on ice cream. Politicians people of the people A double two to three double double oh. A short time ago, the Treasurer Jim Chalmers was asked questions about negative gearing now.
01:54:27
Speaker 10: Tax policies out.
01:54:28
Speaker 27: Tax policies are all about delivering another income tax cut in July this year and another one in July next year, so that there are three income tax cuts from this Albanesi Labor government.
01:54:41
Speaker 17: We are alive, obviously to.
01:54:43
Speaker 27: The intergenerational issues in the housing market and in the tax system, and we've got other policies to help address that sense of unfairness, cutting income taxes, making superannuation fairer, boosting the low income super tax offset, and in housing, building more homes and making it easier to.
01:55:02
Speaker 17: Save for a deposit.
01:55:03
Speaker 27: And so those are our policies on tax and on housing. It's not unusual this far out from the budget that the Treasury would be considering other options and other next steps, but they would, as always, any further steps along those lines would be a matter for Cabinet in the usual way.
01:55:21
Speaker 1: That's a Treasurer of Jim Chalmers. A short time ago, at midday we have the news, followed by conversations with Cornsey. Then after the one o'clock news, it's Stacy Lee who joins me out. Stacy, how are you good?
01:55:32
Speaker 30: How are you good?
01:55:33
Speaker 1: Thanks to you? Prepared for the big wet.
01:55:35
Speaker 26: I was just about to say the same thing to you. It was meant to be raining this morning, though I had a walk organized and didn't go on it, get canceled it because I thought it would be raining and nothing yet.
01:55:44
Speaker 30: So this is the thing. The Bureau, I guess, and the sees will have to be prepared and prepare us. But I don't know how much of it will actually.
01:55:53
Speaker 1: What will eventually. It intrigues me.
01:55:55
Speaker 30: I don't want to play it down just in case.
01:55:57
Speaker 1: No, no, you can't. But the Bureau of hedging their bets these days four to thirty five mills, ten to eighty meals. I mean that's a pretty big band, huge range. It's a huge range, and it's been incrementally cheaping up. We could have eighty mills, we can ninety. It's now up to we could have one hundred and twenty mills over the weekend. But then again we might not.
01:56:19
Speaker 26: And I understand you know that it might not all land in one spot, So it could be up to eighty meals if it all lands in one area, but it might be ten meals if it's all over the place.
01:56:29
Speaker 30: So I do get that, but it also is there's a big range. Can we not narrow it down a little bit?
01:56:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Bureau's become a bit gunghy because they've made some mistakes and got things wrong, and it's upset a lot of people and farmers and the like. So they're sort of saying, well, it could be really bad, but then again, it might be so bad at all. So it intrigues me because I'd remember when I first came into the media, the Bureau was always accused of not being all that accurate, and I think forty years down the track, they're no more accurate than they wear way back when.
01:57:00
Speaker 26: Make me feel better that it's been consistent, and at the end of the day, it's informed guesswork, right, it's not telling us what has happened. It's trying to predict what will happen based on what they can see.
01:57:13
Speaker 30: And what they can see.
01:57:14
Speaker 26: Is heading our way from different areas and different regions, so it is informed guesswork.
01:57:20
Speaker 1: So I've always been intrigued how they can guess the temperature, because you know, what is there I guess and what's scary is there's no but limit you. So, so it's going to be forty, which is hot. It can be fifty. There's no cap. If it wants to go higher, it'll just go higher.
01:57:36
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:57:36
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, enough of that. What have you got on the.
01:57:40
Speaker 26: Show this afternoon, we are going to talk about the Victor Harbor Council, Oh yes, voting to write to both leaders of the major parties, Labor and Liberal, to say, actually, you know, you're downsize of policies to encourage more people to sell their homes and move elsewhere.
01:57:58
Speaker 30: We don't want them here.
01:58:00
Speaker 18: Yeah.
01:58:01
Speaker 30: Isn't that a bit ageist?
01:58:03
Speaker 1: No? No, no, it's not at all. You don't think so, being someone who it's challenged being agist and not being agist and whatever the reason they do that the burden because what they're the average age down there is fifty nine. And do they have enough doctors, do they have enough hospitals, do they have enough age care facilities. I would have prefaced it differently. I would have said, we welcome all these people, but we need increased facilities. We need the Victor Harbor Hospital to have an extra twenty five beds, we need an age care facility. Just to sort of try and put an blanket band is probably wrong, but I take the point regarding ageism. But I think it's for the right reasons. It's not that we just don't want old people living here. Yeah that makes sense.
01:58:48
Speaker 30: Yeah, that does make sense.
01:58:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't think they just don't want older people there, because in a lot of ways, you go to Victor Harbor, it's a beautiful place, very peaceful place. Yeah, maybe not around school's time, but for the rest of the year.
01:59:00
Speaker 18: Place to be.
01:59:00
Speaker 26: But if there were fewer older people and more younger people, would it be as peaceful?
01:59:05
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't think if you go down to that area, you're not going down there to you know, if you want to lead the high life and that your head off to Sydney and Melbourne and party, party, Party, you don't go to Victor Harbor.
01:59:17
Speaker 10: No.
01:59:17
Speaker 26: But as we as our urban sprawl broadens, you know, we've got people moving further out north, people moving further down south. Is Victor Harbor going to be the new hub for families and they will they bring a similar slightly different burden on the health system there.
01:59:34
Speaker 30: I mean kids need to go to a.
01:59:35
Speaker 26: GP as well, People in their forties need to go to hospital as well. Yes, older people probably need those services more but I think as our urban sprawl grows there could this could be encouraging families to go to victd Harbor. People are willing to travel further to get to work into the city Victor Harbor. I mean in Adelaide terms. You and I originally are not from Adelaide. And I used to travel an hour and a half each way to get to UNI every day in Sydney on the train.
02:00:02
Speaker 30: And when I tell anyone in Adelaid that three hours of travel a day, that's ridiculous.
02:00:07
Speaker 26: You know, my in laws have have a beach house down at or Dinger and it takes a whole forty minutes to get there.
02:00:11
Speaker 30: And it's for someone who spoil We are very spoilers utiful.
02:00:16
Speaker 1: It was an hour to work to and from work in Melbourney. I never thought anything of it, you know, So we have been spoiled in Adelaide. But yeah, look it's a whole area we need to reassess. And no doubt it's a good headline, isn't it. You know the people of vic Darbor saying oldies don't come here.
02:00:31
Speaker 30: Don't come here.
02:00:33
Speaker 26: So we'll talk about that this afternoon. I also have our new Friday election chat with the double As on five double A Amanda Rishworth from the Labor Party and Rusten from the Liberal Party. So we'll be talking about the differences in the two parties, downsize of policies. What impact could David Spears have on the election? If he announces he's going to run this weekend?
02:00:53
Speaker 1: Is he going to do?
02:00:53
Speaker 5: You?
02:00:54
Speaker 1: Reckon? I hear and it hasn't been clarified whether he is able to run eagerly.
02:01:01
Speaker 26: There are differing opinions, and what I have been told is it won't be decided until he decides to run. If he does, he puts his hand up, and then if there's a challenge if the electorc Commission says we don't think you're eligible, so then they have to look him to whether or not he's eligible or not, so it all hinges matter or not he does.
02:01:21
Speaker 1: And when are the Libs going to announce the rest of their candidates they.
02:01:24
Speaker 30: Have I think they did it yesterday.
02:01:27
Speaker 1: I reckon wasn't aware of that.
02:01:29
Speaker 26: There's a whole bunch of names you won't recognize somewhere on our website somewhere Graham, that's wonderful, Feedy Friday as.
02:01:37
Speaker 30: Well and then we tell you what's on over the weekend. It's all happening, Stacy.
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Speaker 1: Lee coming up after the one o'clock news. That's just about it for the weekend folks. But the winner, the winner. Congratulations Josie, you've won a double pass to see London Calling Wednesday, fourth of March at Gluttony in Rhinal Park. Home are the biggest shows this fringe. Tickets from Gluttney dot net dot au. Look, I hope you have a wonderful weekend day drive. If you can, we'll see you Monday.
Speaker 1: Good morning, Welcome to Friday, this twenty seventh day of February. Well, it's on the way, folks, facing a major deluge in the metropolitan area over the weekend, predictions of up to one hundred and fifteen mills. The latest from the Bureau says Sunday ten to eighty mills of rain. That is serious rain in anyone's language. Do you know what the highest daily rainfall ever recorded in ad Lade is. I'll tell you a bit later. You might be surprised. Also on the show today, well, it seems like it's open season on charging older Australian's exorbitant amounts for age care. Since Labour's age care reforms took effect on November of last year, providers can now set uncapped prices for in home services. It's led to significant hikes and costs for basics like showers, cleaning, gardening and nursing. We're going to speak with the Member for Maya, Rebecca Sharky, who's long been an advocate for the aged. We'll talk to her a little bit later on this morning. What's happening at the old Holden Factory. Well, I can tell you it's a South Australian game changing breakthrough company called next Gen Energy Technology is revolutionizing the future by building Australia's first commercial lithium nickel, cobalt aliuminium cathode material plant. What does that all that mean? I really don't know, I can be honest with you, but the plant is being developed at Lionsgate Business Park and we'll find out more about that later this morning. Adelade's Regent Theater. What memories does that conjure up for you? The historic theatre, I think it was built around nineteen twenty eight. At the time was hailed as Australia's most glamorous and luxurious cinema, seating for over twenty three hundred people, captivated audience with opulent elegance and grand foyers. What are your memories of the Region Theater? Were you a regular there? What was the best movie that you ever saw at the Regent? We'll talk about that later this morning. Eight double two three, double O doublo is the number to ring Well. Woolworths has attributed its eight hundred and fifty nine million dollar net profit in the past six months to cutting prices across the board. Wolworth's Chief executive officer mander Bardwall says the company had added more than three hundred and fifty new products to its lower shelf price program that took the number of products in the range to more than eight hundred. Wilworth said its supermarket prices decreased. Yes, that's right, decreased yero point five percent on average, excluding tobacco, and that's compared to the prior year. It sprooked that as the eighth consecutive quarter of year on year price declines. Is that your experience. Have you noticed the price of your supermarket items dropping at Woolworth's. If so, can you give us some examples, and in fact, can you give us examples of it going in the other direction. But Woolworths is pretty pleased with what they're doing. In fact, it's seen their profit spike eight hundred and fifty nine million dollars for the past six months. Tell us your experience with Woolworths eight double two to three double o double the number to ring on that. Also, we're going to talk about getting closer to the state election. The Advertiser Editor at Large, Paul Stark, will take us through what is happening in has happened in politics during the week. But let's take a call Peggy.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, Oh, good morning, Graham. You've been I think the issue of the maintenance systems are housing as they's been raised recently. I've lived in our complex, Stoe Court, Fullerton for fifty years now and that system just gets worse by the day. It's about three years ago I moved into a downstairs flat mainly because of my age, and day one of moving in the sewer part was blocked. I think it was two and a half weeks later, with three visits by different trades, they finally cleared it, but then it was blocking on a regular basis. After that. I had I think fourteen visits from trading in the first year that I was in this downstairs flat, and a lot of them were to do with plumbing.
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Speaker 1: So when when you I mean, obviously you made many representations. Who did you talk to? Was it that housing trust itself?
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Speaker 2: You speak to maintenance? Trying to get through to the maintenance is a nightmare. Yeah, you just have to hold on and hold on and sometimes they put this message your class if you don't want to hold on, but you still want your place kept in the queue. I think you have to press hash and hang up and we'll get back to Well. I tried that once and then they never got back to me.
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Speaker 1: They never phoned back. Yeah, that's that's not acceptable. Look, Peggy, can't I can't give you any answers here. We will get in touch with the Housing Minister Nick Champion and see if we can find out what the situation is. But yeah, that that certainly is untenable. Thanks so much for your call. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister came out and said that it would be a good idea for us to have more politicians forty In fact, his Special Minister of State Don Farrell believes, Yeah, that's a good idea. He says, it's been over forty years since the makeup of the Parliament was updated and in that time our population is almost doubled. You can certainly mount an argument for more politicians, but is the timing right? What price does it come at a time of runaway inflation, cost of living crisis, power bills tipped to rise by twenty percent this year and now well let's ask our taxpayers to cough up millions more for more politicians. What are your thoughts? Let's just take a look at the cost salary and superannuation per poly two hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year staff. Well, they're entitled up to seven electorate staff. Including salaries and the on costs, that's between five hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand dollars a year. Then there's the electorate allowance an office running costs up to two hundred thousand dollars. There's travel and other entitlements fifty thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand, depending on where you live in Australia. Of course, that adds up to the tidy sum of one point nine million dollars per politician for forty additional MPs, approximately seventy four million dollars in the first year. That's fully indexed, of course, so that is expected to rise to eighty three million dollars by twenty twenty three. And that's not all. Of course, there's the one off set up costs for forty MPs. They're suggesting thirty million dollars, mainly for parliament House modifications. There'd be office fit uts, staff acquisition, relocation. These costs, of course are upfront and not recurring, but would add to the initial taxpayer burden if implemented, And these estimates don't include the indirect cost like Australian Electoral Commission changes for redrawing boundaries, parliamentary oversaids, or overheads like handsard security would have to be beefed up, et cetera. So set aside the one off costs forty politicians on average one point nine million dollars each seventy four million dollars a year and rising every year. For that, what do you get? While the Australian Institute, a well known progressive think tank, reckons the country would benefit from more politicians, not fewer. On the international table, we set about mid rank with one member per one hundred and eighty one thousand people. The UK, for example, has one per one hundred and eight thousand, while the US, well lego the other way, one per eight hundred and three thousand people. Now, the move could create dozens of new Lower and Upper House seats, split up vast rural seats. Now, I can see an argument to seats in the bush where members have to travel vast distances, But you can bet the vast majority of new seats would be in metropolitan areas. The overall standard of our politicians is poor by any standard. Any poll of most trusted profession politicians regularly sit at the bottom as least trusted. We Australians tend to place the highest trust in professions that involve life saving actions. Nurses, ambulance services, firefighters, doctors, pharmacists, teachers rank up there. But when you get to the least trusted professionals, politicians are done among journalists and real estate agents and social media people. Do you think we need more politicians? Would more polleys serve you better? Can we afford the extra seventy five to eighty million dollars a year? Now, let's be frank, that is really a drop in the bucket when compared to the Prime Minister's ninety billion dollars high speed rail plan. But what can we do with that seventy five million dollars? Well, you could build two one hundred bed age care facilities. Surely a more pressing need than more bums on seats in Canadra. Like to know your thoughts. Eight double two to three double O double is the number to ring Jim. Good morning, Good morning Graham.
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Speaker 3: How are you look.
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Speaker 1: I'm well, thanks Graham.
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Speaker 4: I was just going to talk about Woolworths for their alledged prices down.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, where income House sold.
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Speaker 4: The partner works for the public service, so that's I know the date, so I can remember. Yeah, but Friday last, I mean the Friday before last Friday. Are not intelligent enough to know what you call that. But we ran out of dog kibble. So I went online a catalog and I was going to a period to pick her up on the fridayside the car, and I looked at the Woolworths and the Coals catalogs, and the food Land and crystal Brooks catalogs. Woolworth had, wait, say the brand, but a two point eight kila kibble. I thought, that'll do us till the Wednesday afternoon or Thursday paid edge or the next week do we get a big bag? And it was half priced for nine dollars, which is a good price for that brand. And you know, I thought, I'll just call into the food Land at crystal Brook and THEIRS was also on special for twelve dollars fifty, but their normal price was fifteen dollars fifty.
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Speaker 3: That's the shelf normal.
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Speaker 4: Price where Woolworths were alleging THEIRS was normally eighteen dollars. Oh, how can Woolworths is multi nationals well even Australia, compete against the local South Australia. How can it low South STRAI competegainst worth an offer for fifteen fifty with Woolies buying power alleged it was nineteen eighteen dollars normally. I was like you're talking about the other day with coals, were their down down a scam? I think wilworth is pulling the sam trying to take the high moral ground that we're not. But not last not last Friday, but the Friday first catalog. You can look it up, but it's still available online and as clearly good on.
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Speaker 1: You, Jim, thanks for telling us that story. I'm interested to know that Woolworth's overall say that their prices are down point five percent excluding tobacco. But has that been your experience? Have you noticed the prices have gone down their profits have gone up? There's no question about that. But yeah, have prices gone down in supermarkets? And we don't need to limit it to Woolworths. You can tell us about any supermarket that you deal with. Hey, double two three double O double is the number to ring back shortly. We're going to take a look at the weather coming up and what we need to be doing to be prepared for it.
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Speaker 5: Five double A mornings with Gram. Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Probably good advice. Don't guard in the pouring rain. It's not here yet, but folks, it's coming heavy rain and flash flooding forecasts for large areas of South Australia. Let's find out from the Bureau of Meteorology Ursul O'Connor there, surely, good morning.
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Speaker 6: To you, high Gram.
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Speaker 1: Is it going to be as bad as we're thinking? I mean, well, we want rain, but just how much rain we're going to get?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a tough one, isn't it when we have got these sort of weather systems on the way. Look today, largely through sort of the Adelaide area, mostly cloudy conditions is what we are seeing and can expect from most of the day. We could see just a few sort of lighter showers picking up, especially about the hills, Navy pushing down towards the plains and the CBD sort of through the afternoon period. We also can't rule out the chance of that thunderstorm, especially about the Adelaide Hills. This afternoon.
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Speaker 7: There is a.
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Speaker 6: Lot of tropical moisture humidity pushing down with a tropical low that's sort of up over the NT border at the moment, but it'll really be the weekend period that will be of most significant sport. The Adelaide area. Start to see rain developing sort of through Saturday, the chances sort of some early morning thunderstorms around on Saturday morning, but then yeah, really that rain starting to pick up throughout Saturday and then Sunday looking to be our wettest period of the weekend, and that's when we could start to see them some very widespread, sort of heavier rainfall totals and the chances some thunderstorms even producing some isolated sort of quite intense heavy rainfalls down pause and then it sort of starts to clear out sort of later on Monday. So that overnight periods sort of Sunday into Monday looking like our wettest time at this stage.
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Speaker 1: So as sort of what sort of totals are we.
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Speaker 6: Looking at, Yeah, so pretty widespread through the Adelaide area. Just with the rain alone, we could be seeing sort of ten to twenty millimeters and.
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Speaker 8: Then they're isolated more well, yeah, more isolated totals expected sort of with heavier showers or.
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Speaker 6: Thunderstorms could be producing sort of on Saturday, sort of up to around thirty millimeters and then looking very tropical on Sunday with you know, thunderstorms really could produce upwards of fifty millimeters if we see them eventuate.
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Speaker 1: Wow, So why is there such a big span you know, I say from ten to fifty or ten to seventy beyond. You know, you can't narrow it down more than that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, well that's just the nature of thunderstorms really. With them, the storms are being you know, most chance of seeing those higher totals, and they are much more isolated in nature. And you know, even on the day, very hard to pick where you're going to see those thunderstorms pick up because you may only see one or two of those producing those higher rainfall totals.
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Speaker 1: Ursula, thanks for your update on the weather. Ursula Connor from the Bureau of Megrology. Steph Sakruski is the SCS State duty officer. She joins US now Steph in for a busy weekend.
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Speaker 7: It looks like, yeah, absolutely, that's what we're currently planning for. SES has had their state controls and it activated for the last week supporting that system as it's been dropping quite a bit of rain in the Far North and in the north of the Flinders where we've seen a lot of that flash flooding. And in the last few days we've been shifting, not shifting our focus, but expanding our focus to make sure that we're also planning for those larger falls that may be possible across sort of the more populated areas right from the Eastern air Peninsula across the York through the Mid North and the Adelaide metropolitan area and across. So yeah, very busy at the moment. We've got an incident management team in the North supporting the communities in the Far North and the Mid North. We've got an incident management team in the South that are looking to do the same down here. And it's you know, our volunteer units are getting very prepared to support their community with sandbag stocks and things like.
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Speaker 9: That as well.
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Speaker 1: So what advice do you give to the general public? How can we prepare?
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Speaker 7: And I think this is really key. We haven't We've been lucky enough not to see too many calls over the last week, but a lot of that's due to the vigilance the members of the public that are being impacted by any rain that's come through. What we ask is that people continue to do that. So if you haven't yet had a chance to clean your gutters and your drains out, please make sure you do that. What that will help you do is make sure that when there are those intense rainfall periods, the water isn't going to back up and then push back up into your roof space and hopefully prevent that flooding from occurring in your roof and water coming into your home. The other thing that we ask people to do is make sure that you are if you've got any low points on your property or you need you believe you might need some sand bags, is contact ss on one three two five hundred and be able to connect with your local unit to find out where you can get some sandbags if that's what you need. If you're going out, obviously, we're in a fabulous time of the year here in Adelaide where there's a lot of community events and public events that are going on. So if you're heading out to be social over the weekend, make sure that your property is prepped before you go. But also while you're out, just be really mindful of gutters, drains, creeks, waterways, staying away from that flooded water. And we've already seen a number of swift water rescues that have occurred up in the far North. With those rapid rises from the flash flooding that could occur here in our more built up areas as well. We would just ask the people stay out of floodwaters and don't drive through floodwaters because the floodwaters themselves are very fast moving and can move your vehicle. But also you actually don't know what the quality of the road is like underneath that, and that could actually call it be more dangerous even than the water itself.
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Speaker 1: Good advice. Thanks for That's Steph Sakruski, SS State Duty Officer on the impending downfall over the weekend, and if there are any events that have been canceled and you want to notify the public, let us know and we'll broadcast it to the five double A audience. But the possible rain up to eighty mills at the weekend, do you know what the highest rainfall and adelaide has been over the past well twenty five years, nothing like eighty mills. I can tell you that in fact twenty fourteen there was flash fighting in parts of Adelaide. Seventy five point two mills of rain pretty heavy, indeed, but we could have up to eighty mills of rain. That's pretty serious. Highest ever. Well, I'm going to tell you that a bit later on eight double two three A double is the number to ring. Well, we're getting closer to the state election campaign. After news headlines the Advertiser Editor at Large, Paul Starrick, we'll talk about the week in politics.
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Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings two.
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Speaker 1: Eight to ten, five double A. Just a quick call before we have a chat with Paul Stark and you Good morning, good morning, you do it? Yeah, well thanks?
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Speaker 10: Just another another great regarding the big two. Well about one of the big ones, Coles. When I go shopping, I don't even look at the prices. I just can't have a BA don't even look at the seat. But have been recently pink Lady apples. There used to be x amount of kilo for years and several months ago they moved it to one dollar forty per apple. Right, I didn't mad it was it was a small one and a big one. It was one forty. I've just purchased a couple. There, they've put it back to a kilo price. I went, oh, they've seen, they've seen since and they've changed their ways. No about two pink Lady apples three dollars twenty six.
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Speaker 1: You can't we can't win.
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Speaker 10: You're trying to pull the rule over your eyes, thinking, oh, they've put it back to kilos, but they put up the kelo price and you're now paying three dollars thirty for two apples, which is way more than they were when they were doing it for the one forty and apple.
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Speaker 1: So you're right there, Andy. They keep changing the goalposts, so it makes you think you're learning, you know, per kilo or per item, and you think, ah, now I know that's a good price. But if they keep topping and changing, you're dead right there. You lose track. And yeah, we know why they're doing it, don't we eight double two three double o double. If you want to comment on supermarket prices, have you noticed them come down? Wilworth say they're huge. Profit eight hundred and fifty nine million dollars for the past six months largely are based on the fact that they've reduced prices. Have you noticed that eight double two to three double oh double is the number to ring? Well, another week in politics, another week taking us closer to the state election. Much been happening? Let's find out from Paul Starrick, the Advertiser Editor at large. Paul, Good morning, Good morning, going there a you're going yeah, pretty good. Not a whole lot has happened, But I think we could go back to the big leaders debate of last week between Malley and Ashton Hern. What did you make of it?
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Speaker 11: Well, it was really interesting because this was a building, bigger, better South Australia that we talked about last week. We previewed and that was Friday lunchtime and myself and editor Gemma Advertiser Editor Gemma Jones were in conversation rather than in debate meant to be with the premiere and the opposition leader. So we were sitting either side of them and asking questions, and then all of a sudden they started quizzing one another and having quite a lively debate, and my job turned from being to asking questions to sitting back and sort of watching the action and interjecting with some occasional questions. And getting them on track. But the feedback from the audience was one that it was a good, lively debate and good to see the two leaders, respectfully with a degree of good humor, engaging one another but assertively doing so. And we tackled some top picks that haven't been on the agenda so much, like state debt for example, and to a degree, and electricity prices. So that was really interesting too, because I feel that the sort of things that people are actually caring about, as well as obviously housing supply and house prices.
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Speaker 1: I see that Tom Kittsonturnus, the Labor Party attack dog, is frequently challenging Ashton Hearn. The big one of late is the debt that he or the price of the Liberal Party's election promises four and a half billion dollars or something. Is there any substance to that.
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Speaker 11: Well, mister Keats and Tonis argues there is clearly. The typically oppositions produced costings later in a campaign. Labor did that last time when they were in twenty eighteen, sorry twenty twenty, when they are in opposition and they came under similar pressure. They argued their costings stacked up and two of I suppose a fair degree they did. The challenge for the Liberals is mister keech Andtonus appears to put a degree of research into this. It'll probably keep emerging as a as a decent point when one of Ashton Hern's key platforms is affordability and that the Liberals are good economic managers, and it's hard to sell those credentials if you're constantly under attack and you're not releasing your costings until later in the election. So it's just another front that missus Hern has to deal with.
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Speaker 1: I think you mentioned during the debate that was talked about the state debt and a lot of listeners to five double A am very concerned. I mean we say pushing towards forty eight fifty billion dollars in the not too distant future. Did either the Premier or Ashton Hern suggests that they had any plans to try to reduce that debt?
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Speaker 11: Not really to be fair, I mean both this debt was fueled by the previous Liberal government and this current Labor government. Rob Lucas's I remember the budget will Rob Lucas sort of flipped the switch from austerity to debt and he argued that as Treasurer, and he argued that interest rates were low, now was the time to start building the state, injecting money into capital projects, and some of us quized him, will hang on, We've been hearing you bang on about the state bank debt for years and what a disaster that was for the state, and I think that very legitimate concerns. It should be stressed that the ratings agencies, the sort of to degree independent umpires of that assess its abilities to hand and jurisdiction's abilities to handle debt, have been uniformly comfortable with South Australia's level of debt. I think the key risk is that beyond the North South Tunnels, South Road, Torrens, Darlington, whatever you want to call it, fifteen billion and the new Women's and Children's three point two billion plus likely to blow out. I would have thought treasurers have consistently said Stephen Mulligan. The former treasure often said that there was no room in the kitty for more major capital projects, so the state's ability to invest for one of a better term in infrastructure is crimped and limited.
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Speaker 1: Now did during the discussion or have you been able to ascertain how concerned is the government. How concerned is the Liberal Party about the increasing presence of one Nation.
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Speaker 11: I think that the PARTI is more concerned. My column for tomorrow, I've sort of drew it into this a bit. We had a poll advertising YouGov poll published last week that showed the Liberal primary support at twenty percent. This is first preference support, and One Nation's at twenty two percent and Labors at thirty seven. Now that supports concentrate One Nation supports concentrated in outer metro and particularly outside Adelaide, and it's kind of fragmented. It depends on whether there's an independent standing in the seats or not. And what it means in the outer metropolitan area is that essentially the conservative limited Conservative vote is split and Labor wins easily in their existing seats. What it means in the outside Adelaide is more diverse. Our poster tells me that we could mean that one Day wins two to three lower House seats and the Liberals win five to six. It makes it for a wildly unpredictable election. But I think clearly the Liberal Party is very concerned about One Nation, and it raises a lot of doubt about the Liberal's ability to continue as a major party should that support for One Nation continue.
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Speaker 1: Do you think Cory Bernard's made any impact since joining One Nation?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 11: I think Corey's a prominent, well known person.
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Speaker 1: He's a.
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Speaker 11: Whatever one thinks of his politics, He's been consistent over many years in where he stands. He's a conservative. He would probably argue that the Liberal Party has moved on from him, rather than him moving on from a Liberal Party. He was probably too conservative in many respects for the Liberal Party, even though he's a former state president. He's a good effective communicator. He knows how to deal with people. He ran the pub near work when I was a young man. He ran the Criterion Slash Bernardess opposite town Hall and fun Fact he had an Advertiser internal phone extension on the front bar. It was very smart and it was a great place for politicians, lawyers, journalists and so on to enjoy a few.
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Speaker 1: Drinks and I happening story on the front page of the Advertisers Today, Paul Victor Harbord Council wants for local homes to be excluded from Labour's downsize of stamp duty exemption. What's behind that?
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Speaker 11: I think it's a really interesting story, this one, because what it shows is the sort of real life impact of political policy and debate about how it can affect communities. So what's happened is two of the younger Victor Harbor councilors have moved this motion saying we don't want to be part of this policy because effectively we want to continue our mission to drive the average age of the place down from sixty. Look at the census figures yesterday twenty twenty one census, the median age of the Victor Harbor council areas sixty. They argue, I guess it's a reasonable objective they want to lower get more young people into the area as well. The counter factor to that is that older people feel like they should be allowed there too and be able to take the benefit of this policy. So it's just a really good debate, I think, and I suppose it's in a sense, as we've argued in the editorial, it's somewhat myopic to think that you can sort of erect a barricade around Victor Harbor and suggests that it's an isolate its isolated from the rest of the state in terms of a policy objective.
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Speaker 1: Sure, but you can understand the people of Victor Harber saying, well, you know, if we're going to have these people that demographic is so high, we're going to need more age care facilities, we need an updated hospital. And that's a fair question, gl.
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Speaker 11: Ask exactly, And this is an entirely legitimate point of view, and it's one of the things that we're exploreding our Building Better campaign that infrastructure growth needs to match population growth. And then that goes back to the issue we were talking about before in terms of state debt. So Labor during the week put out this plan in inverted commons for a rail corridor sort of heading north west of the city Uppast Riverly and beyond, and great idea. The question is how do you pay for it and when would it happen as opposed to just being a ligne on a map.
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Speaker 1: Well, Paul, it's been a pretty quiet week politics wise this week and we're getting closer to the election. Would you expect it to ramp up next week?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Typically in any action campaign, Graham, there's the initial flurry of excitement. Everyone launches their campaign. Federally, the election date is called. In South Australia, we have a fixed term, so we know the date. But when the writs are issued and the government goes into caretaker there's typically a sort of flurry of policy announcements. This week's mainly been about housing. That's obviously a key issue because both sides believe it's related as it is to cost of living. You know, obviously housing affordability is incredibly important, and you're housing, your mortgage is a big and your rent's a big slice of your budget. Typically things start to ramp up probably a week and a half two weeks out, and then escalat into a crescendo. I think one of the key differences this time is that there's no core flutes about which is not a bad thing.
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Speaker 1: I agree, Paul. Great to chat. We'll have a chat again next week.
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Speaker 5: Thanks very much, Graham.
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Speaker 1: Paul Sterreck, the Advertiser Editor at large. Well, another week gone towards the election. Eight double two to three double oh double is the numbered ring will take a break back shortly.
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Speaker 5: Five Double A Mornings with Graham, Goodings.
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Speaker 1: And the latest from the stock market. The All Lords has started laid down by eleven points, ASX two hundred also down by twelve points. Dal Jones closed ever so slightly up by seventeen points, the Nasdaq well down two hundred and seventy three points. That's one point eight percent. Oil currently sixty five US dollars a barrel, the Aussie dollar buying seventy one US cents. Eight double two three double o double is the number ring GG State Labour said they will stop massive infrastructure spending in the future to address the forty nine billion dollar debt. However, they say they're going to build a record number of new homes, a new hospital at Gawler and a new rail corridor in the North. Sounds like more spending to me. Thanks for that, Steve. Let's take a call Glamis you want to talk about the Regent Theater?
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Speaker 12: I do.
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Speaker 13: I can remember. I think I was about a fourteen year old and a friend of mine asked me to go and see.
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Speaker 9: Psycho Psycho Psicho.
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Speaker 1: Are you're about fourteen?
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Speaker 13: I wasn't allowed to go. My parents definitely said no. I raided my money box to get the money to go and I went with a friend and it was when you When we walked in, it was all spooky.
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Speaker 6: There was all this stuff.
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Speaker 13: Hanging and all this weird music going and it was very eerie, and I don't know how I sat through the movie because I was petrified. And when I got home, I could not for ages, I could not sleep. I get in my bedroom, I'd look in the cupboards of look kunder the bed?
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Speaker 1: How did you feel when you took a shower?
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Speaker 13: So I paid the price?
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Speaker 14: I was petrified.
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Speaker 1: Look did you did you go to the region any other time?
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Speaker 13: I think I think we saw sand of Music there. I did. I saw that with my parents at the Sound of Music. I'm pretty sure that wouldn't.
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Speaker 1: Have caused you any sleepless nights.
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Speaker 13: Oh no, that was a lovely movie. That's very totally different.
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Speaker 1: You still don't have nightmares about Psycho, do you?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 13: But I do get spooky about stuff.
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Speaker 1: Good thanks for sharing that memory. The Regent Theater, yeah, magnificent theatre, considered the most opulent in the in the country at the time. Big twenty three hundred people that could go and watch a movie. I've got to be honest, I'd never went to I didn't come to Adelaide in time to see any movies the Regent, but it was obviously a magnificent, beautiful theater. If you have any memories of it. I'd like to know them well. Hillary Clinton has testified under oath in the closed door House oversight session on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Seven News Miley Hogan joins US Now from the US Miley, what can you tell us?
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Speaker 15: Good morning? Well, it's just wrapped up now, and Hillary Clinton stopped out the front and actually spoke to the media. Prescribed the event as repetitive. In her words, she said that she can't remember how many times she had to say, I do not know Jeffrey Epstein. Now, this has all happened behind closed doors. But for context here, there was a lot of back and forth because the Clintons wanted to put forward a written statement, and then there were threats that they would be held in contempt. So then the Clinton said, well, we will come and we will testify, but why don't we do this publicly, let the media in, let the public see, let them decide to themselves when they hear this testimony. But then the Republican led committee said, no, that's not how we do this. For now, it has happened behind closed doors. But in her statements afterwards, Hillary Clinton has now said that she still wants the public to be able to see the full transcript. We know that it was also videotaped, was taken on camera. She's also happy for that video to be released as well. So we now need to wait and see whether or not the committee will release this video and transcript in full. The concern from the Clintons and other Democrats is that only snippets may be released, which they say won't paint the full picture of what happens in this closed door testimony?
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Speaker 1: Is Bill Clinton likely to do? Will give evidence?
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Speaker 15: So Bill Clinton is expected to give his testimony tomorrow that will obviously be very different to his wife. We know that Hillary has said that she doesn't recall Evan meeting Jeffrey Epstein, but with Bill Clinton there are that's a different set of circumstances. Of course, there's no accusation there of any wrongdoing, as though it's denied any wrongdoing, and they say that he cut ties with him a long time ago. But it will be interesting to be what he has to say. But of course this is happening behind closed doors, so at this stage, really right the mercy of what the committee decides to release, what the Clintons decides to tell us outside or really what leaks come from lawmakers inside that inside that hearing.
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Speaker 1: Is there any likelihood that President Trump will appear before the overside Committee, It's differ.
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Speaker 15: At this stage unlikely. There is an argument now because Bill Clinton will be giving his testimony tomorrow, he will be the first ever former president that's been forced to give testimony in front of a Congressional committee. There is an argument that that could now set a precedent where we may see people argue that Trump could be brought before the committee. But I highly doubt it this stage that that will happen. But you know, I don't like to make predictions when it comes to these things because any it could all change. So at this stage, no, but it could in the future potentially change. Donald Trump has always denied any wrongdoing. But Hillary Clinton today she actually put out also a written statement. She was saying that they're interviewing the wrong people, that they should be interviewing Donald Trump, and that this is a distraction tactic and politics for at play here.
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Speaker 1: There are millions of pieces of evidence, there are videos, there are pictures that are emails. What is the sentiment of the average American at the moment, do they want to get to the bottom of this or are they over it all.
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Speaker 15: It's a really interesting question because this Epstein case has really been one that a story or a narrative that the Trump administration hasn't been able to control. And that is different for Donald Trump and his administration. They're usually quite good at being able to control the narrative and what's being spoken about, and that Donald Trump especially has been very good at controlling his and telling them how to feel about a situation, and they've been quite loyal to him in that area. This particular case is one where that hasn't happened. There is a lot of curiosity about the Epstein files, about what's happened. People who are invested in this story do feel like there has been a cover up, and also when it comes to conspiracy theories as well, they take on a life of their own. And I've been talking to a couple of other reporters who've been covering this for a long time. I've spoken to lawyers who have been involved in this as well, and they all say it really taken on a life of its own, and even now it's where will this end? And will people ever be satisfied? Even if all of the documents, even parts do have to be redacted, of course to keep victims identities safe, people will still believe that stuff's being hidden from them, So it's very difficult to know where this ends, if people will growth tired of it or it will just keep going.
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Speaker 1: Marley, thanks so much for your report. That's Marty Hogan's seven News US correspondent on Hillary Clinton and her appearance hi Gg. Regarding the Pink Lady apples, Andy was spot on. They were one dollar each while a while back, which I thought was ridiculous. However, I still wish they were. As I bought four last night and it came to six dollars eighty four, I had to ask if the attendant was leaning on the scales, Danny, I can certainly understand your concern there, and Karen says morning. I recently received my Senior's card and went shopping last week at Woolly's. Asked the checkout girl if I acknowledged Senior's cards. Her reply astonished me. I actually cracked up laughing. She said, no, we don't accept them. I think Woolworth's would go broke if we did. Seriously, what a load of rubbish is this the latest Hillary Clinton we have here. There's the latest. We were just talking to Miley Hogan about Hillary Clinton. After she came out of giving evidence, she spoke to the media.
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Speaker 16: I don't know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Hepstein. I never went to his island, I never went to his homes, I never went to his offices. So it's on the record numerous times. It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate, one of the most vile, bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the Internet that was serving as the basis of a member's questions to.
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Speaker 1: Me, that's the voice of Hillary Clinton. We have to take a break for news. Then after the news, well, it seems like it's open season on charging older Australian's exorbitant amounts for age care. We're going to have a chat with the member for Mayo, Rebecca Sharky about that.
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Speaker 5: Back shorty five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 17: So far today on five Double.
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Speaker 1: A Mornings from the Bureau of Meteorology el Comor the.
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Speaker 8: Chances of some early morning thunderstorms around on Saturday morning.
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Speaker 6: But then yeah, really that rain.
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Speaker 8: Starting to pick up throughout Saturday, then Sunday looking to be our westest period of the weekend, and that's.
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Speaker 6: When we could start to season the.
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Speaker 8: Very widespread sort of heavier rainfall totals and the chances of thunderstorms even producing some isolated sort are quite intense heavy rainfall down pause.
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Speaker 1: Well, another week in politics, another week taking us closer to the state election. Paul Starrek, the Advertiser editor at.
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Speaker 11: Large advertising you Go poll published last week that showed the Liberal primary support at twenty percent and one Nations at twenty two percent and Labours at thirty seven. Now that supports concentrate One Nation supports concentrated in out of metro and particularly outside Adelaide, and it's kind of fragmented. It depends on whether there's an independent standing in the seats or not. What it means in the outer metropolitan area is that essentially the conservative limited conservative vote is split and Labor wings easily.
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Speaker 1: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings take past ten to five double A on this Friday morning. Labour's age care reforms took effect on November the first last year. It appears to have opened the door for providers to set uncapped prices for in home services. It's led to significant hikes and costs for basics like showers, cleaning, gardening and nursing. In South Australia alone, personal care roads thirty five point six percent to almost one hundred and thirteen dollars an hour. Joining us now as Federal Member for Mayo Rebecca Sharky, who's been a long term advocate for agecare. Rebecca, good morning.
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Speaker 9: To you, Good morning Graham, good to be with you.
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Speaker 1: Yes, some of these numbers are absolutely outrageous.
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Speaker 9: They really are. And what we noticed was that between October thirty first and November one, as you said, when support at homes started, just massive increases you know, in some cases up to eighty percent increases overnight for different levels of support, and well above what the government's indicative price guide was. And as you mentioned, they're not capped. I have been pleading in the Parliament with the Age Care Minister Sam Ray to look at capping those fees so that people can get a fairer deal.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't the intention of the reforms to open the door to higher prices.
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Speaker 9: Well, I can't believe that that would be the government's intention, but that's the reality. And they're not going to be capped until the first of July, and we don't even know what those caps are going to look like. And we're and it's affecting people differently. If you are grandfathered, that means that you're not making out of pocket contributions. However, your package, you're getting a lot less I guess you could say purchase power for your package. That people are getting less and less hours of care, whether that's showering or meal preparation. And certainly a lot of people that I've talked to are foregoing any assistance in the garden that they were able to sort of, you know, eke out of their package previously. And then we have a lot of new people that have come onto the system. So they are people who weren't grandfathered, so they weren't in the system, and they weren't whitelisted as of I think it was September twenty twenty four, and so they're making massive co contributions. You know, even if you are only on a pension, the co contributions are really significant, and so it's a real double whammy for people who are grandfathered. And you know, it's been incredibly difficult in the Parliament actually just getting some t action on this issue because so many Labor Government members just think, well, tickety boo, we've got a new Act and everything's going along really well. But every single day I am getting emails, we're getting phone calls. Even open the Older Person's Advocacy Network has seen you know, a near one hundred percent increase in calls to them. This whole situation is a real mess and it's affecting people every day just needing to keep that care to stay at home, and we're hearing from you know, particularly daughters who are who are doing less hours of work themselves so that they can try and help mum or dad. It's a nightmare and the government really needs to step in and realize that this is affecting older Australians and actually make some changes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we've been getting many calls to five double A about people having to drop out due to the system. You know, they just cannot afford to keep going.
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Speaker 9: Well, no, and honey, how could you afford to keep going if as a as a part pensioner, you're expected to make a fifty up to fifty percent co contribution for what are really basic care needs in the home. We you know, the government on one hand says that they want people to be you know, independent and staying in home as long as possible, But how can you do that if showering and transport is for a part pensioner or a self funded retiree who's holding come off as seeing this healthcare cart of paying up to fifty percent co contribution on what are already escalated fees. Another thing I'm hearing from people is that they're not getting accounts so that invoices from their provider, so they really don't know where they're at with trying to budget their package, and they're really worried about running out of funding. So the government has not got this right. It's been in place now for a number of months. There were some good parts about this act, but every day, day to day the emails I get to just heartbreaking. Grown they really just.
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Speaker 1: Are, Oh, surely this is just the stroke of a pen. Surely the government can sort of say no, as a provider, you cannot charge inflated rates. You've got to justify what the rates were and if there's any increase, you have to justify that absolutely.
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Speaker 9: And also the government can put in price caps. The price caps are apparently going to come in on the first of July, but surely it would have been logical to put them in at the same time as the implementation of the Act. The government even delayed implementing the Act. It was actually supposed to be July last year. It came in on the first of November, so they could have got this right. I think what it needs, what first needs to happen is the government needs to realize that they haven't got this right and they're going to need to make some significant changes unless they want people to be dropping out of the system. And ultimately, you know, we've seen a massive increase in people who should be at home careful with a home care package or indeed in residential age care. In our hospital beds. We've seen massive increases. We've had state health ministers all around Australia saying our hospitals are full of people who shouldn't be there, but if they were getting good age care, they would perhaps not need to be there. So it's the system at every single turn, and you know. I mean we're talking about home care now having even got to residential age care and the long waiting list or indeed CHISP and CHISP is that common time support that really you know, low level support people are providers all across Australia are not even keeping a wait list for that program. So it's just a nightmare. And truly, I guess if I could say anything, if you're listening to this, if this is your mum, if this is you, you have got to contact If you live in a labor area, you've got to contact your federal and p because at the moment I'm one of a very few people in the Parliament jumping up and down saying this is a real problem.
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Speaker 1: Rebecca, keep up the good fight and thanks for talking to us this morning. Thanks Graham, Federal Member for Mayo, Rebecca Sharky. Yes, if you're confronted by this just unjustified cost blow out in this particular area, get in touch with your local member, and yes if it's a Labor member, but even with your if it's a Liberal member, get in touch with them. This is an untenable situation. Michelle says, high gram My mum has an age care Home Care Package. Under the new system, what a gardener is able to do has been reduced. Andrew says, this is all on the government of the new government. Support at Home scheme was designed so that the olderly now have to co contribute for shopping, cleaning and home help services that were completely covered under the previous Home Care Package scheme. Funding and reagecare. More evidence labor, do not give a toss about the age more votes from the next generations coming through. So much for governing for all, Steve, thank you very much for that, and Richard says only Council recently decided to stop providing services as part of the Commonwealth Home Support Program as a result of the changes in the law since November twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 18: Thank you for that, Richard.
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Speaker 1: Joining him in the studio is Sam daddo.
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Speaker 18: Sam, what have you got for.
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Speaker 1: Us morning, Graham.
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Speaker 19: I was receiving a few calls off air with the rain that's predicted over the next two days obviously Saturday four to thirty five meals Sunday ten to eighty meals. There is an event happening at Victoria Park. The Outlaid Motorsport Festival will be on takes over the park for two days with on track running. People will worry that I'm wondering if the event would be going ahead, so I've been in contact with the event director, Tim Possingham. Rain, hail or shine, there will be track action, so have no fear. If you've got tickets with our Laid Motorsport Festival, it will be going ahead.
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Speaker 1: Excellent.
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Speaker 18: Thanks for that.
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Speaker 1: That's Sam Dados, star of the Early Breakfast on five Double A with Ned McHenry. If you haven't heard it, you do not know what you're missing. Well, don't shake your head, Sam, it's going really well. If it's new to Adelaid Radio Early Breakfast five double A Monday to Friday five till six o'clock. On the subject of rain, I mentioned earlier that we're Willows Sam engined, then we could be facing up to eighty mills on Saturday. What is the record for Adelaide now this century? The highest rainfall was recorded on the fourteenth of February twenty fourteen, seventy five point two mills. There were sixty one mills that fell on the twenty eighth of December twenty sixteen. The forty six mills on the eighteenth of June twenty twenty one. So eighty mill would set a record. But what is the highest daily rainfall total ever recorded in Adelaide? Well, I can tell you eighty mills isn't going to cut it. It was one hundred and forty one point five millimeters. That's five point five seven inches on the old scale. This occurred on the seventh of February nineteen twenty five. I'm all for new records, but I don't think we want to break this oneder you, eighty mils will be more than enough. Back shortly five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings. Time to take some calls on eight double two to three double o double oh. Just before we do, David says something I do not understand regarding the Isis brides. How can the children be regarded as Australian when they were born in Syria fathered by a non Australian. Have the children been issued with Australian passports? Well, David, I think as long as one parent is Australian, as long as they fulfill certain requirements, I think they can be issued with an Australian passport. But someone will correct me if I'm wrong. Josie, Good morning to you.
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Speaker 20: Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 17: How are you well?
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Speaker 20: Thanks, that's good. I was ringing about the prices. You were saying about the specials going on and off in the supermarket. I've noticed over the last couple of years, in particular, now I shall out of food Land and sometimes Coals. Now I've noticed that our these prices tend to stay similar, same, but in Foodland and Coals, and this is on a regular basis. Now I'll do you two. For instances, I can name quite a few. You could probably ask me an item and I'll tell you the different. So cat food, for instance, I buy make yourself cat some food that's somewhere between eight and ten dollars, and then it goes up to fourteen dollars. Fourteen dollars fifty. Sometimes at fourteen dollars fifty is a special seat, special sticker. It occurs in food Land and in coals. This is out at Montpara. And also they get the Kansas Soft drinks, they say Solo Soft drinks. They go from nine dollars ninety to nineteen blue. Now this seems to happen every fortnight. Eggs are another one nine dollars ninety to twelve ninety, potatoes nine dollars ninety to twelve ninety. And I was noticed in this trend, and I thought because I was wondering which bit to go shop, and I noted that it was on a pension week that they go up a special sticker. Yeah, And I thought, well, these people can only get opportunities to be taken shopping sometimes, and they have to buy what's on the shop at the time, you know, and then it goes back down again. And I've noticed this, got five dollar rises in your meat department. You fruit all these rises on that particular week, and it's regular, and it's been regular for a while.
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Speaker 1: So you reckon the supermarkets are putting them up on pension week or pension day around on that week.
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Speaker 20: Yeah, that week I can go to the shops and spend you know, look at that cat food for instances, that's the one off thing. Potatoes, you know, nine dollars ninety twelve ninety, or you know the cat food State for instance, all those drinks ten dollars on that week you go there. The next week they're down, but on the week that they go up, they've got a special sticker on them.
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Speaker 1: Jazie. Yeah, we are synic lately and so we should be. Thank you for bringing that our attention. Interesting that the supermarkets, as Josie has noted, put up the prices during pension week, but a lot of the supermarkets offer a pension discount, so I don't think the pension discount would offset the price rise though, do you Mark?
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Speaker 21: Good morning, Good morning Graham, how are you today?
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Speaker 1: Good?
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Speaker 18: Thank you.
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Speaker 21: So mister Albanezi wants to have forty more politicians yep, that's in charge at the moment doing anything to help this country out.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that the government seemed to think that if we have more politicians, mind you, I haven't heard the opposition say no, they're all feathering their own nests.
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Speaker 18: I think so, you know, one.
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Speaker 21: Nation, I do believe that one nation want to clean the swamp out a bit. That's a good thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, look, I can understand the argument for more politicians because astraight as population is grown. But you're going to have to prove to me that the politicians we get are going to do a better job than the ones we've got.
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Speaker 21: I don't think that's ever going to happen.
00:55:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm afraid you're right.
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Speaker 21: I mean, if you're seriously going to vote for a party that wants to look after this country, it is not red, blue or green.
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Speaker 1: Good on you, Mark, thanks for your caul. Let's go to gall It and Gary. How are you Gary?
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Speaker 12: Yeah?
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Speaker 22: Good, thanks Graham. Just ringing. Regarding the two party major parties, stamp duty policiesbvious leave the Labor one sounds a lot better, you know, one hundred thousand versus fifteen thousand, But given that the one hundred thousand is only on new builds, I believe you only get stamp duty off the price of the land. So I think it's near impossible to spend number two million on a house in land and get one hundred thousand dollars off. I think it's a whole lot of spin ah right. I think any way you could do it would be by a block of land for one point nine million and then buy build a house for one hundred thousand. So either we can get a specialist on to find out if that's right, or even ask the Labor government how do you get one hundred thousand dollars off your stamp duty on a new build Because.
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Speaker 1: As you're you're claiming that you don't get it on the build itself. It's only on the land.
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Speaker 22: Yeah, because you only pay stamp duty on the land. You don't pay stamp duty on the new building.
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Speaker 1: Go on, Gary, we'll look into that. That's far beyond me, I'm afraid, but yeah, that there's an interesting question. Let's go to Flinders Park. Dean, you want to talk about road workers.
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Speaker 23: Thanks for taking the call. We spoke a few weeks ago about people working on roadside standing still, looking at phones and whatever. Yeah, and I rang up the Department of Transport to find out what these guys do looking at their phones during the day. Well, there's one thing that you don't want to do is make that phone call. Because a woman in charge of them wrang me back and I got an absolute serving from it. Seriously, Yes, I got told that these people have got their phones in their hands because they may be standing still their way waiting for material to come, and the phone will advise them of when it's coming and where it's got to go and whatever. She said. What what we the public interpret at them doing nothing and whatever is absolutely wrong because they are there for a purpose and their phones in their hands are for a reason.
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Speaker 1: So she took you to task about this for just asking the question.
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Speaker 23: Absolutely, And I said to her, I've got photographs of two guys standing on a stack of pavers with their phones in their hands. And I said, as soon as the supervisor walked towards them, the phones disappeared. And she said, well, they did the rightful thing. She said, they shouldn't be looking at the phones in their hand, but the supervisor would have had them there for a reason, and they would have had their phones in their hands for a reason. She gave me a.
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Speaker 1: Survey a Dean, that's amazing, thank you for letting us know that. So you can't even ring up and ask the Department of Transport what the workers are doing, which I think as a reason will request it's our money that's being spent, isn't it. Maybe someone should do a time and motion study on workers, council workers, workers doing things like road repairs and the like. I know they do a good job and so forth, but sometimes you sort of think, you know, do they need eight blocks to do that job that could possibly be done by two or three. I might ring up the Department of Transport. Well, I might cop an earful, mightn't I eight double two to three double O double is the number to ring. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Now we're going to take a look at what's going on at the old Holden Factory.
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Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 18: We always like good news stories.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's a major coup for salvas strata and a development that puts us on the world stage. It comes from next Gen Energy Technology. It's based at Lionsgate Park at the old Holden Factory. Joining me in now is Andrew Cooper, CEO of next Gen Energy Technology. Andrew, good morning, Thanks for coming in to join us.
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Speaker 18: Good morning, Graham.
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Speaker 24: Great to be here this morning, and thank you for opening up the airwaves for us to share our story.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, now you're going to have to leave me by the hand. I know it's all about lithium, nickel, cobalt, aluminum, et So what are you actually doing.
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Speaker 24: So we're actually building a cathode materials manufacturing plant. So inside of a battery you have a positive terminal which is your cathode, and negative terminal which is your anode, and a whole lot of plates and bits and pieces in between. It allow electron flow to take place. The most important piece in that is the cathode materials, and it's those cathode materials that we are manufacturing at the old Holden plant. In fact, we're taking the former press shop, which is a sixteen thousand square meter facility, probably the dirtiest that of the whole of the buildings on site there, but we needed some height there and that particular building helps us in that regard, and so we're setting up transforming that very dirty old building into a Class one clean room, which is a bit like a semiconductor factory. You could eat off the floor, it will be that clean and so forth. The environment itself will be climate controlled. If you wanted to walk into that factory, you would have to go through a decontamination process before moving in men in white suits. So this is exactly what it looks cutting edge high tech. It is absolutely all AI controlled and with some amazing, absolutely amazing benefits that will flow on to consumers in the end users of these batteries.
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Speaker 18: So it's quite amazing. So things like.
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Speaker 24: Extending the life of batteries from eight to ten years to thirty to forty years. Now, if you could imagine you know that here in South Australia we were already at the front of battery storage systems are best systems battery energy storage systems well, the life expectancy on the batteries that sit inside of those is around about the ten year mark, but if you've had those thirty to forty years, that is an absolute game changer. You can think the impact on forecasting of budgets, for asset management for the future, you know, the security of our grid and having the right sort of technology there that was reliable, stable and didn't have the thermal runaway issues that we have with current technology. What's thermal runaway? That's when things get too hot. You know you trust the iPhone that gets really hot every now and then, that's thermal runaway. And it's the manganese and the cobalt that sits inside of that that creates that type of problem. So we've replaced the manganese with aluminum oxide and reduced them out of cobalt in there, and we end up with a very stable, very controllable material that in effect, what we like to say in terms of marketing spin we make the magic black powder that creates super batteries.
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Speaker 1: So where does this sit on the world stage.
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Speaker 24: So, the only place in the world to produce lithium NCAA materials that commercial grade has been in China. We've transferred the IP from China to Australia. It is now one hundred percent of Australian owned. So we've then taken that IP and we've expanded on the IP on the intellectual property through IP Australia, and we've tightened up the things around formula.
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Speaker 18: And the actual process itself.
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Speaker 24: So what we have is very much front and center for the world and that's happening here in Adelaide.
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Speaker 1: So does this involve or need critical minerals.
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Speaker 18: It absolutely does so.
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Speaker 24: And one of the reasons people say why Adelaide, why why Australia, is because Australia is mineral rich. We have we're in a very unique situation here in Australia. We're the only country in the world to have all of the minerals that we require for the battery value chain. So, but we don't manufacture anything. That's all where we put our rocks on ships and send them to and buy that back in the form of a product. And so what we're doing is we're changing the way that that happens. So you know, we're reducing Scope three emissions because we're not shipping things across the world. We are creating jobs in three various areas. On the upstream side, there's mining, refining and then the advanced materials processing. And it's the advanced materials processing that we're putting in place at the old Holton factory.
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Speaker 1: Obviously state of the art technology you're using AI. Yes, many people employed.
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Speaker 24: Yes, it's one hundred and fifty five people that we will once we scale up to full scale. So we have a small team at the moment. We're bringing a team out of China that will transfer that knowledge to Australia. You have to remember that this knowledge does not exist here in Australia, so we need to transfer that. That's why we've set up an MU and collaboration agreement with originally with Adelaide University or sorry, the University of Adelaide University, South Australia, which has now come together to be Australia's largest university. At Adelaide University, we have very strong engagement with the team across the board that vice chancellor level profile, chancellor level and we're working on mapping of skills and pathways for young engineers coming through, so this will create new jobs that don't exist right now.
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Speaker 1: Something like this obviously takes a lot of money. Is any government money involved? Not at this point.
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Speaker 24: We've gone to the market and we're in the process of a major capital raise one hundred million dollar rais which we're doing offshore at the moment, So we would like to certainly encourage the federal government to be involved. But at the end of the day, if you wait for government, then you're going to be waiting a long time. I think government will eventually catch up year around the ribbon cutting of time, as there's the time. But I have to say the state government has been outstanding. The support that we've received from the team within the Investment Attraction site has been absolutely fantastic and across the board. The Premier is aware of this project. The Minister of Trade and Investment, Joe Sockarch has been very heavily engaged with us as well along the way, and we're delighted with the level of support that we're seeing from a state level. We know that at state level there is not a lot of funding for support in that regard, we're not worried about that. We just want that logo on the page. So what's the timeline When are you going to be up and running in Adelaide. We anticipate once the major capital raises out of the way, which is over the next six months, so that's starting right now. But we anticipate by the end of next year that we'll be producing and our materials through our pilot plant, which is about two thousand tons. Now, what's really important to note is that we actually already have our customer, so we are We've signed a thirty year off take agreement with the US and that is worth over five hundred million dollars a year. Wow, that's quite significant. And we will be supplying Australian mind refined and processed minerals into the critical mineral stockpile for the US.
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Speaker 1: So where as you've mentioned, we usually ship our minerals and rules resources offshore, which all be done.
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Speaker 18: Here, we'll be doing the processing here.
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Speaker 24: So the materials that we produce will go straight to the critical mineral stockpile, but also to sell manufacturers who can then manufacture those selves for specific applications. And at the moment if anybody wants to make a battery, they have to be import materials from China. And we've seen for the years, and you know, I'm not I'm very supportive of what China has done for us over the years. They provide us with a tremendous amount of technology. Half the clothes we're wearing on our back come from China. So China has been a really strong contributor. And they've you know, when you look at what they've done in the critical mineral space, it's outstanding. But we've lost something in all of that. You look at the manufacturing that we've lost here in South Australia. What we're doing is restoring that. We're bringing back sovereign manufacturing capability. We're creating jobs for the future, which is something that is quite outstanding.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is a positive and I think you know it's nation building that sort of thing.
01:08:41
Speaker 18: It is, absolutely it is.
01:08:42
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now I noticed and I saw the video about your company, and this is why I want to do the story that a major company like Semens is involved.
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Speaker 18: What role do a play, Yes, Seemens, we're just right.
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Speaker 24: From the start. So Semens have been an outstanding company. They they understand what we're trying to do here. They see the benefit from an environmental perspective, they see the benefits from a manufacturing perspective. They will be providing the software that we require for full automation of our plant. Plus they will be providing the digital twin software, so we'll create the factory in a virtual environment as well as in reality. And so their software allows virtual and reality to come together. So when it comes to training and development of our staff, we can put our staff into a VR environment, a virtual reality environment and train them so they can pull panels off of the production line and they can do a deep dive into equipment.
01:09:43
Speaker 18: They can understand the safety and.
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Speaker 24: Other related issues that are there that traditionally have been done in the classroom or on the floor.
01:09:53
Speaker 18: We can actually do that in a virtual environment.
01:09:56
Speaker 1: Australia's manufacturing as virtually groundoor holder. Any issues and problems for you because you're virtually having to start up from square one, No, not at all, Not at all.
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Speaker 24: So we have a really solid team that we have working with us as a part of that transfer of knowledge from China. So the team will come out and spend time with the Australian team and transfer their knowledge over a three year term. So what's important to us is from a federal government perspective is where visas and those sorts of support areas are in place, we can bring in the right level of expertise to transfer their knowledge to the Australian workforce.
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Speaker 1: You're obviously very focused on that and there's one project at the moment, but is there any room for expansion or absolutely we already we've already started those conversations.
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Speaker 24: So down the track, and when I say down the track, we're talking properly within the first five years. We want to put a second plant in place. So the original plant that we're talking about in the the former press shop will produce ten thousand tons paranum ten thousand times paranum because there's a five.
01:11:05
Speaker 18: Hundred million dollars revenue stream.
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Speaker 24: Now, what we're looking to do on the same side is to build a purpose built facility, which were about two hundred thousand tons, and then the idea of that then is to take the two hundred thousand ton facility for global export markets and the ten thousand time facility we can pivot into domestic supply because by then we'll have battery bed cell manufacturers. Right now today we don't have a customer in Australia because nobody makes battery cells in Australia. We need that's part of the value chain to come up to speed. And when that's ready, then we'll pivot across and support the battery chain here and south in Australia.
01:11:48
Speaker 1: Really exciting, Andrew, congratulations to you and more power to you. I think we love good news stories here. It is a good news story. We've been speaking with Andrew Cooper, see of Next Gen Energy Technology.
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Speaker 5: Five A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: No rain yet, could be a little bit later this afternoon, but by g by Jingy's are we going to cop it over the weekend? Up to eighty mills maybe one hundred and fifteen mills over a total over the weekend. Let's take it called David, good morning.
01:12:19
Speaker 12: Oh, good morning, Graham. I'm reading enough about this British passport fiasco. Oh tell me well where you were supposed to go last month? And I've been living in Australia since nineteen seventy two. I was born in England and I've traveled everywhere with my Australian passport. I just renewed it for this trip and then we were told you you won't be allowed in the UK with it, so you've got to get a British passport. But they wont id so I did a stupid thing. When now I think about it, I set my Australian passport, my old nineteen eighty one expiring British passport over between England. So I've got no passport now and due to fly out the twenty fourth and March to the UK. I've ran my friends in the UK. They've tried getting any information from that side and all they did is now we're getting about of middle and inquiries a day. At the moment, I'm sorry, wow, if you haven't got a code or something. But a friend of mine, the worst one is she just got divorced and she was taking her son for a holiday. She was born in Melbourne, but she's just found out she needs a British passport because her mother and father came out here in nineteen forty something.
01:13:38
Speaker 1: A confusing situation.
01:13:39
Speaker 12: I even thought about a British park.
01:13:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so when do you need it? All sort of out buy when you're heading off.
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Speaker 12: We're flying out on the twenty fourth of March.
01:13:48
Speaker 1: I can understand your concern. Look, David, look hold the line. Because Peter Williams from phil Hoffman Travel was on Stacy Lee's program earlier this week and spoke on this very subject.
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Speaker 25: If you were born in the UK and you are still a bridget and citizen, so in other words, you haven't renounced your citizenship, you'll need a UK passport. So you've got to apply for a passport right now. That isn't that expensive.
01:14:13
Speaker 1: I think it's.
01:14:13
Speaker 25: Around about let's call it about one hundred and twenty about two hundred and twenty dollars. The problem is it's taking five to eight weeks to get that passport, so those people that haven't got it yet, they're struggling to get it in time for maybe a trip that they plan to get away fairly quickly.
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Speaker 18: So that's a bit of a challenge.
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Speaker 25: So if one of your parents was also born in the UK, and this is where it comes with, some people don't even understand that they may be. So if when your parents are born in the UK, you may be automatically a sitism without knowing it or even registering. So you again will need to get a passport, so you need to apply for passport or that certificate. And if you ever have held a UK passport and it's expired, you have to go get a new one. So there's three very basic rules for listeners out there which might you know, they might go, oh wow, I'm one of those. Well that means you need to get your act together and get things happening now as of yesterday though some temporary measures and it is only a guidance, so please don't take this as gospel, okay. And what we recommend is that you check with your travel agent. So if your book with fiel Off and Travel, give us a call and we'll walk you through it. Or if you've books a direct with an airline, you should be ringing your airline.
01:15:24
Speaker 17: To see whether they will uplift you.
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Speaker 25: So these are the temporary measures that if you can't get your passport in time, your UK passport in time, you may be able to travel on your valid Australian passport. You get your ETA, which is your online entry to the UK. So it's just an online entry which until all this fiasco started having that was the simple method, and an expired UK passport that matches exactly your Australian passport. Your current Australian passport should be enough for them to uplift you for the time being. Now this is a temporary measure and we don't know how long it's going to last. But at least that came through yesterday for those people that you still haven't been able to get hold of their passport.
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Speaker 1: So that's Peter Williams from phil Hoffman Travel. It seems to be a pretty confusing situation, so David, I suggest you get in touch with your travel agent to get some more advice on that. My number is eight double two to three double double O from the text line hi GG. Yesterday I went to Flinder's Hospital for a colonoscopy and all the staff in that ward were absolutely amazing. That is great news, Adrian. Colonoscopies aren't great fun, are they? But I tell you what, it's better than the alternative finding out years later that you've got an issue, So.
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01:16:52
Speaker 18: Well there you go.
01:16:53
Speaker 1: We were talking about the Regent Theater a little bit earlier. That goes back to nineteen twenty eight, hailed as Australia's most glamorous and my curious cinema. Do you remember the Regent? You have stories about it? Give us a call.
01:17:07
Speaker 17: Five, double, a turns fifty.
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Speaker 18: A lot has happened in that time.
01:17:12
Speaker 1: Good evening, leaders and gentlemen, this is your Heights Region theater.
01:17:17
Speaker 26: For nearly seventy five years, the Regent Theater in Rundell Moore was Adelaide's grand palace of cinema.
01:17:24
Speaker 27: Dispoosed luxury from the moment you.
01:17:27
Speaker 26: Entered, a place of sparkling chandeliers, a mighty Whirlitzer organ and evenings filled with the magic of movies.
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Speaker 27: Ladies used to dress up to the irons beautiful gowns, and the men used to wear suits at either hat.
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Speaker 26: But times changed, audience's strength and the theater was downsized after.
01:17:46
Speaker 5: Thirty nine years.
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Speaker 18: It's the end of the road for the old Regent, as most people in Adelaide know it.
01:17:51
Speaker 26: In January two thousand and four, after decades of film screenings and memories. The Regent Theater finally screened its last showing and closed its doors forever.
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Speaker 17: There was a dazzling farewell. Every seat in the house was sold. People flopped to enjoy one last night of the Regent.
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Speaker 26: Today, the heritage facade and Regent Arcade remain a quiet tribute to a once beloved cinematic landmark that shaped Adelaide's cultural heart.
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Speaker 1: Connected to our community for fifty years, five double a always Adelaide memories of the Regent Theater? Did you ever go there? What did you see there? Her caller Earlier, she was telling us that when she was fourteen, without her parents' knowledge, she and her friend went to see Psycho. She was fourteen at nightmares about it ever since, I'm not surprised. What did you see at the Regent? Was it? She? Actually? She said she went back lad and saw was it a sound of music? And that didn't cause any nightmares? Kay says on the text line, the sound of music was at the Paris Theater formerly the Plaza. I saw it there with my mum when I was about seven, for my first visit to the cinema. A lovely memory, my first memory wasn't the Regent. It was in Melbourne growing up, and I must have been about eight or ten, and my auntie took me to see a movie and we got there late, and that the course it was in darkness other than the screen. And we went and sat down and I thought, this is the most uncomfortable seat I've ever sat on. It just felt terrible. And it was an interval before I realized that I hadn't pushed the seat down. You know how they click up and flip up. So I was sitting on a quarter of a seat. A little bit embarrassing, but I was only a kid after all. Memories of the Region Theater. Give us a call, Richard, Good morning.
01:19:42
Speaker 17: Good morning done, How are you good things?
01:19:45
Speaker 28: I'm just ringing with the weather report and all the commercial channels have said and the radio have said we're into a bad weather storm and flooding and all this. I've just left the Morphic Vale area going into upp the Gully area and the gutters along Witch Sheaf Road are completely filled with dumb trees and gum sorry gum leaves and all that. Right, So wouldn't you think that the council thinking, hang on, we're getting the bad weather we pull, we better have a look at some of these gutters and things like this. And I'm not just saying this part of Adelaide. I'm saying also central of Adelaide and also central north of Adelaide too.
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Speaker 1: That's an interesting observation, Rachel. I wonder if that is on a council's radar, that when there's some really heavy weather coming in, should we go out and check the gutters the drains. I wonderful.
01:20:39
Speaker 28: The main flooding is on the road, and if there's rubbish in the gutters, I know that a council can't get you know, twenty twenty thousand kilometers of gushes clean. But you would think that on their way home, they would think, hang on, that gutter's blocked.
01:20:56
Speaker 3: Might tell my boss tomorrow, you know, and.
01:20:59
Speaker 28: Things like this or somewhere with gushers. Have a look at this area and see a lot of trees there, So why aren't we training that up?
01:21:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, it pays a fair question. Good on you're Richard, Thanks for that. Yeah, look, while you think of it, if you're about gutters on your house and you have any areas that could flood, now is the time to clean them out, get them checked or whatever, because tomorrow may be too late, and Sunday it's going to be worse gray Goo. So who says, didn't we go through this last week? Or it's going to pour with rain on Sunday? Why don't we get none? Well maybe this time, maybe this time it will be the case, Graham. It won't rain on the weekend. I just went to Bunnings and bought lawn fertilizer.
01:21:38
Speaker 18: Oh, thank you, Andy.
01:21:40
Speaker 1: What about the old story about people washing their cars if you want the to rain, wash your car. Eight double two to three double O double back after the Newes.
01:21:48
Speaker 5: Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
01:21:52
Speaker 1: Hey, it's a Friday morning after eleven o'clock in thanks, seven minutes past eleventh and that Herald's into the studio none other than me these stables. Nick, good morning to you.
01:22:02
Speaker 17: Good morning Graham. A relatively quiet week this week. I heard you with Paul story.
01:22:07
Speaker 1: Yes, there wasn't a whole lot on the political front. It's sort of been that, sort of the quiet before the storm.
01:22:12
Speaker 17: I guess I've been looking forward to a quiet week now for close to I think close to at the start.
01:22:18
Speaker 1: Of the year, we had one. Yeah, yeah, and that's so much happening.
01:22:22
Speaker 17: That's just been brilliant. But a little bit on the on the international front, it's been running around. Obviously, the Epstein files continues to roll out. Donald Trump will continue to be number one on the media. Neette Visibility, Ardell, the Miss Parade, the Isis Brides.
01:22:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that has generated a lot of I was gonna say, confused thinking, but confusion, not confused thinking. But it seems like the political parties don't know quite where to stand on it.
01:22:49
Speaker 17: They don't know how to play it. Yeah, they don't know how to play it. So one nation will simply go no, yeah, most political leaders will look at them and go, well, look they're Australian citizens. Those Australian citizens, and heaven forbid that Australian citizens denied access back to their own country. If they're Australian citizens, my believe you've got to be back in. But their behavior and the way that they've gone about it, some will say that they've forfeited their rights to come back. And that's been the big thing that obviously has been debated in the media over the last week as to whether what these people are like, now, are they radicalized? Are they a threat to our society? And I think that sort of buys into the one nation sort of whole immigration issue there of let's just say no. And even Anthony Alberonisi and the Labor Party, the Labor Government has been a little a little bit shy on all the details that have come out, so we're not really in the full loop as to what is going on here, but it is a real concern, particularly for listeners of this radio station, for people right across the country as to where they might end up, where they might be, what further monitoring will go on, and it just brings that element of fear in there. And this just buys into the one nation whole approach of why they're being so successful in the polls is because they're prepared to say no. Well, the other part is have to be a little bit more careful. But my personal belief, Graham, is that if they're an Australian citizen, they've got to come back now. If they want to come back, then we have a duty to bring them back.
01:24:26
Speaker 1: But again and once they're here, then what procedures, what protections, because as the story goes, you know, do you want one of them living next to year and now an isis bride and the children might be perfectly good citizens. Yeah, but there is a question, and that there has to be a question.
01:24:42
Speaker 17: Well there's a question already around why they made that decision to head over there in the first place, so one might question their ability to make decisions anyway. But yeah, it is a concern, and I think and understandably so. But it is a small thing. I suppose in the big scheme of things is to bring back the Australians that should be back here on Australian soil. But this will be political, particularly for a federal level. But we're that far out from a federal election. It's becoming a state issue even to would agree they could end up here in South Australia.
01:25:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, well it looks like it will be New South Wales, Victoria and to a lesser degree, Queensland, but yeah, who knows, who knows.
01:25:22
Speaker 17: Yeah, So, look, they've been very very it's been a very popular topic in media right across the country this week, and you know, look, I think it will still keep on going until they actually land back on the shores and until we get to hear the whole truth and what is going on.
01:25:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, and somebody has to come out and tell the whole truth. Speaking of telling the whole truth, Hillary Clinton appearing on the Epstein Files.
01:25:47
Speaker 17: Yes she has. She said she was going to come out and do it. I think Bill's out there tomorrow to be talking. I love the fact that she was asking all these questions and she was asked about UFOs, Pizzagate and all that kind of thing. I think Jesus with making a bit of a mockery of all of this. But look, the Epstein Files continues to shock. I think that really the big story that came out this week was with regards to potentially the king, suggestions that King should abdicate. Now, wow, that's a big call. That is a big call, because how much did the King know? And we've been talking about whether Andrew would be charged. No charges have been laid, but we were talking about whether Andrew will be charged, whether anything will come of it. I hope that something does, actually because I think that we can see the evidence that is very much in front of us that something should be happening. But how much did the king know? Now the King is being stopped at doing the things that he needs to be doing. So's the entire royal family to be honest in that they are not able to be who they are or what they do for the UK. So while this continues on, this will continue to be an anchor for the monarchy. And I was listening to your Peter fitz I'm in this interview on my.
01:27:02
Speaker 1: Yeah last Friday, gee man monarchist a royalists, anti monicas.
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Speaker 17: I love what if you talkback calls ringing in that wind bag, Peter Fitzier. But it kind of does raise the question though, you know, as to what is the future there of the monarchy if this really continues to plague the king and the King has ended up at number nine on the media neet visibility reports. That's how big it has been. Is that he's now been dragged into this to this level.
01:27:32
Speaker 1: Let's put the monarchy on the spotlight or in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons. And you know, as you've said, you know they've got royal things to do, and all of a sudden they're being taken away from that.
01:27:42
Speaker 17: Yeah, and look, we do want to see some action, we do want to see some results from this. And taking away from Andrew you've got Donald Trump as well, who seems to think he's been exonerated from everything. But I swear he has very rose colored glasses and extreme blinkers on.
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Speaker 1: Nothing to see here, nothing to see here?
01:28:05
Speaker 17: Well, it's it is everything to see here. So this look, I think it is important that this continues to play out, and it's good to see that they're being very vigilant about bringing that content out in front of the public. But there's still so much more.
01:28:20
Speaker 1: Well, the suggestion is that a lot of material relating directly to Donald Trump has just disappeared.
01:28:26
Speaker 17: Redacted, gone, disappear. It's any wonder he was he had all those boxes in his home before the first time, that mare Lago, that's right, Yes, about what was in there? What was in there? And you know, look there's a lot of there's a lot of things that have been thrown around that Epstein was a Russian spy. Look, this just continues to play out, and it has captured obviously the global.
01:28:50
Speaker 1: Attention amazing, and the millions of documents anyhow, and I mean that is just remarkable.
01:28:56
Speaker 17: Look, if I tell you what, if you wanted to research it, if you wanted someone to be you know, the Dante Cross, the t's dot, the eyes. Epstein was your man. He's seem to have everything recorded. Incredible.
01:29:09
Speaker 1: A double two to three, double O, double oh is the number if you want to have a chat with Nickay's about what's happening in the world of media. We'll be back shortly.
01:29:16
Speaker 5: Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
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Speaker 1: Past eleven five Double A. It's our media segment, what's been happening in the world of media. Quays joins us this time on a on A. I was gonna say Thursday. It's Friday, isn't it. Please You're you're.
01:29:31
Speaker 17: Half an hour from knocking off, Graham, come on the.
01:29:33
Speaker 1: Week know that the weekend is just over the horizon.
01:29:36
Speaker 17: Sam, your producer, I think he's ready to go. He's done, he's had a big wee.
01:29:39
Speaker 1: We'll started to think footy.
01:29:40
Speaker 17: Yes we are. Football back on the agenda. So and good luck to you, sir. I know that the closing date for the for the board for Adelaide. Couldn't have a better voice for the Adelaide Crows and craws.
01:29:51
Speaker 1: You're very kind.
01:29:52
Speaker 17: That'll go in the show notes. The football's back. I think you know a lot of us have been watching match sim and seeing it come up. I think that this is the most exciting time for fans to just get a sense and feel without a long break from football, seeing them play, seeing how your teams are performing match simulations a little bit different. We have the state of Origin which has happened and done and dusted, which did very well by the way, but it is exciting to know that we're only weeks away from getting back into the season, getting the real stuff. Yeah, and look, I know, you know as I was born in Victoria, I've lived in Western Australia. I am South Australia now you know, I've been fortunate for the three states that I've lived and worked in have been three AFL states. I couldn't think of anything worse than living in an NRL state. It just would drive me insane. But you get a sense and feel that it's all coming. So big things happening for the AFL this year. There's changes obviously that are going on with the game, but the broadcasting, you know, get yourself and see the games, see it where you can still free to wear and I think a big year for both the crows Port Adelaide this year so as a North Melbourne supporter, that's very hard for me to say.
01:31:04
Speaker 1: Great, but I remember ninety eight very well.
01:31:07
Speaker 17: Yeah, thank you, thanks for reminding. We came back in ninety nine. But look it was, it's happening and it's a big industry and it's a big time for us. But interesting little note though. Graham was Peter Vland, the CEO of the NRAL.
01:31:22
Speaker 1: He loves the AFL, he loves it.
01:31:24
Speaker 17: He had a little crack at the AFL during the week and suggesting that AFL follows everything that the NRL does. Now, you know, the state of origin was a topic of discussion. You know you haven't been able to do that for thirty years. What makes you think you can do it now? The whole movement interstate games that are going on. Gather around, gather around, he's claiming gather around. I mean, he's a little bit cheeky, Peter of the Land, he's claiming gather around. That was a that was an initiated by the UK as he's pinched. He's pinched that one. So look, I love that little bit of competition between the AFL and the NRL. But here's the real truth. You get more people at an AFL game, No doubt, you get more people watching AFL. You know, we did discussed last week it's a better game.
01:32:11
Speaker 1: Come on.
01:32:12
Speaker 17: Well, that's all up for that's subjective, that's very subjective. But at the end of the day, they market themselves better the AFL than the NRL. Always an NRL player in trouble. Now, I know that we have a few AFL players that get themselves in hot water, but does not nothing to the degree that an NRL one does. So you know that's up and about. But it's something we talk about. We talk about it at work, we talk about it at home. And I can't wait. I think you can tell I can't wait.
01:32:40
Speaker 1: Let's take it. Call Ian good morning, Good morning guys.
01:32:43
Speaker 29: I love this segment.
01:32:45
Speaker 21: It's great.
01:32:45
Speaker 29: I just try to talk about the nonsense you have the see every night on the news with Ashton and Belly.
01:32:51
Speaker 21: You know, there's.
01:32:52
Speaker 29: Strowering a Buddy Brick and he's doing this, and then you see Ashton the next night cutting wood and whatever. Why we have to put up with that?
01:33:03
Speaker 17: I love that, And you know why, you know why they do that. They want to just for a moment, look like you and I. They want to look like the you know, John and Joe blogs. They just have IP voter. They want to be one of us, and they'll continue to do that.
01:33:19
Speaker 29: I don't mind the shovel. You know, when they're starting a new project, they go there and they get a ton of dirt and they stump it down and they throw it up. In the end, you get a picture for the avatars. I mean that's okay, But when you start getting on the tours, you just shake your head to go, really.
01:33:36
Speaker 17: I reckon Ash and Hern holds a shovel, all right there, She doesn't look like that's her.
01:33:40
Speaker 1: First knock out of place?
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Speaker 5: Did it?
01:33:43
Speaker 1: Good on you? And thanks for Carl. Yeah, that is interesting, isn't it. I mean Polly's used to kissing babies. That was another one. And having a beer in the front bar. Now Bob Hawk could do with that. Bob Hawk could have a drink with anybody, and I don't drink anyone.
01:33:56
Speaker 17: Well when he's when he's the yard glass World Champion champion exactly. You're not actually being disingenuous there, I'm actually being real, real to life, real character.
01:34:06
Speaker 1: Another later Prime Minister, Labor Prime Minister tried to do the same thing Kevin rud in the front bar. That was the funniest. No one has looked more out of place in the front bar than Kevin r He's.
01:34:16
Speaker 17: Like he got out of the bar on his two feet. But interesting, Ian says that because it's there is a lot of movement that's going on. And again to your point around state politics worked, we're three weeks away from a state election. It was a bit of a quiet week this week, seven or eight it was, according to the stream tracker. Stream does all the media monitoring here in South Australia. For the government and the government policies, they've identified eight for the Liberal Party, now seven for Labor And how many do you think one nation released this week?
01:34:50
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be too many?
01:34:51
Speaker 17: Would it a straight out zero? So here we go here we're calling it out. One nation is going to keep quiet, not say a thing, not delivering policy, not delivering anything that they can be held accounted for, accountable for, and they're going to do well polling.
01:35:07
Speaker 1: They hit your head down and say nothing, keep.
01:35:09
Speaker 17: Your head head down, say nothing. Let the other two fight it out. But again, I think we mentioned it last week. If you're a conservative voter and you're planning to vote one nation, do it in the upper House. Don't do it in the lower House because you're just going to kill the very I suppose the fabric that is the liberal Conservative vote here, and having seen and lived it in Western Australia when they absolutely annihilated them, it's going to take a decade for them to come back. So if you're a conservative voter, don't vote one nation. Below the line Bill has texted in.
01:35:42
Speaker 1: He says, hi, grime, please ask your media guest about this. About a year ago it was revealed that over one hundred public servants was sitting around doing nothing and continue to be very well paid.
01:35:51
Speaker 17: Only one hundred, Only one hundred, I reckon there's probably about one thousand public servants sitting around doing no. We shouldn't say that about our public servants. Interesting, could be good to know where that's come from and where they've suggested in which area.
01:36:06
Speaker 1: Bill, Maybe you can let us know and we'll do some more investigating on that.
01:36:09
Speaker 17: Yeah, it's a lot of a lot of public servants coming to question as to and the size of the public servants so massive.
01:36:18
Speaker 1: Look, I don't have a complaint about the rank and file public servants doing a great job, very necessary job. But when you get to the fat cats, the bureaucrats, the department heads earning three quarters of a million dollars a year, it's six hundred and fifty grand a year. Hard to justify that.
01:36:32
Speaker 17: Grea, if you can get it, though, Graham, good, if you can get it.
01:36:34
Speaker 18: But no one's ever offered me one of those jobs.
01:36:36
Speaker 17: No one's ever offered me either. But I'll go into a white little wins will be and I just leave this for with your listeners today. Is that counsels? You know, I think we're over governed. We have too many councils. And is anyone out there at the moment confused by the bin system? That the fact that we can only put our red bin out every second week. Now, you know, in this hot weather, those bins start to stink and they stink badly. Cannot be good. That is one frustration I have with local councils. So if there's any smart.
01:37:07
Speaker 1: Give them one job. Just give them one job.
01:37:09
Speaker 17: Rubbish roads and rates and rates you think you could get one at least all three of those.
01:37:15
Speaker 1: Right, you know?
01:37:15
Speaker 17: Anyway, But that's we are over governed.
01:37:18
Speaker 1: Parting comments were Wulworths has been in the news.
01:37:22
Speaker 17: Will Worths big announcement obviously a big profit there for them. They're going to say that they're now the preferred supermarket nationally. They're claiming that they've got a lot more food that is or stock that is under value, that is cheaper. I question that you don't make eight hundred odd million dollar profit in a short period of time and have a cheaper product. There is something going on there.
01:37:45
Speaker 1: They're claiming that their prices are down by zero point five percent excluding tobacco.
01:37:50
Speaker 17: You ask everyone at home if they're feeling a little excuse, yeah, but you ask everyone at home how they're feeling about how much they're paying for meat, how much they're paying for you know, the chocolate. Chocolate's gone through the roof, fruit and vege, you name it. Yeah, and don't start going two for thirteen dollars. The kind of savings that they try to put in front of you, It's like, no, I don't want that and it's not cheap. That follows off from Cole's previous last week. So Cole's got a hammering last week, Wilworth gets their hammering this week, and the other big one is Quantis Quantas announced their big profits this year for this term, and they're making a fair bit of money. They've got a few developments that they're going on, but they're also being a little cheeky, Graham. They seem to be offshoring their start, which is going to come under fire a bit if well. We'll have some good journos looking casting their eyes over that.
01:38:43
Speaker 22: Nick.
01:38:43
Speaker 1: Always great to have a chat.
01:38:45
Speaker 17: Good to see Graham.
01:38:45
Speaker 1: Nickaye's from Media Stable. Will join us again next Friday morning, five Double A.
01:38:50
Speaker 5: Mornings with Graham. Goodings.
01:38:53
Speaker 1: Well it's coming, folks, the heavy rain get ready for it. Large areas of the state have been hit. Metropolitan eras are about to be inundated over the weekend, claims of what one hundred mills or more up to eighty mills on Sunday alone. But to the rest of the state is already experienced particlarly, mid north and beyond, a lot of lot of wet weather, which is good news in a lot of ways. Can and Faye is an ander merker locally joins us now. Canon, good morning to.
01:39:20
Speaker 3: You, Good morning Graham. Hey going down there, look.
01:39:23
Speaker 1: Well, thanks mate, still raining there, look.
01:39:27
Speaker 3: At it's been quite bizarre up here. It's throwing, drizzling constantly for about a week and on with a few we're seeing all the storms go around. It's it's one of those wild things. We're literally seeing the storms go past us, which is fantastic because if we've got if we get a full cloud burst or microburst, it'll probably take and amka.
01:39:52
Speaker 1: Out wow is that right?
01:39:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, because the main streets of Creek bed filt around the open field, so there's only a one bitchman rode in with a bit of love shoots, but it's all the surrounding hills are all mud and clay, and it just every now and again when we do get a big flash blood, it always makes the media of these the whole towns virtually flooded. But a lot of these old places have been around since the thirties, so they are pretty spectacular shacks.
01:40:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, so when was the last time you had a substantial downpour?
01:40:24
Speaker 3: Then I guess last weekend we had about thirty meal and that was recorded over the weekend, and then on January had about twenty meals. So the whole area is green and water logged. So if we do get another and expected of hit, it'll flood very quickly. I wake this up here, and considering it was the hottest place on the planet a month ago fifty degrees and now it's green and the frogs are out and the wild flowers are coming up pretty amazing.
01:40:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. So you're saying that the major rain is has sort of been skirting it. You've been just getting drizzled while surrounding areas are getting a decent downpour.
01:41:05
Speaker 12: Oh.
01:41:05
Speaker 23: Absolutely.
01:41:06
Speaker 3: A lot of our mates on the station's middle creeks, the light they're getting up to over one hundred mill with a couple of days all through the Bush Telegraph, all our surrounding roads to Mari William Creek barrel knocked out at the moment, so there's all those sorts of issues and getting the intel on the railway. The woman were boxed, the downs port of Gustrow was knocked out for a bit. So yes, certainly there's been some fantastic falls of weather, which anyone across the Outback and regional Australia welcome for for the rains, but certainly the infrastructure damages has been huge because you're.
01:41:43
Speaker 1: Not getting it up for that, are you I mean you're not geared up for big downpours.
01:41:47
Speaker 3: It's yeah, on this scale, no, And you know there's a not a lot of money going out into regional infrastructure, and especially now it's you know, the aviation keeping. It's not as keeping our aviation areas and unsealed ones operational, it's the roads to get to them. So the rains welcome, But what goes with that is along you know, lots of defenses getting knocked out the roads infrastructure.
01:42:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So what sort of annual rainfall would you get around Anamooka.
01:42:19
Speaker 3: Oh, we get about one hundred and sixty to one hundred and eighty milli a year, and in context, we've had a third of that already this year.
01:42:26
Speaker 1: Wow, what is the wet season for you?
01:42:30
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's sort of weird this problem of the year. We do get rains and in October we get summer rains here and it's been the tourists in October and januaries for some of these large bloods and what really it's good having this low drizzle sort of so they're top It takes time for the water to soak in. But if we do get these cloud you know, the cloud verstus. What's a great imagery of just skies and a cloud just dumping it keeps some heaps of water. That's why we're sort of worried about if one of those hits this and we sing it all around us. And like some places in town, some locals or major twenty two meal bombs say thirty and then somewhere else will say six, So they can be very localized. Ye, now very intense.
01:43:17
Speaker 1: So what's the forecast for you at the moment? Is there more rain on the horizon.
01:43:23
Speaker 3: We've been like in and or you know, far a week sandbagging, big trenches for those sorts of things. So been forecast to rain pretty much every other day changes so it's forecast rain. We haven't had any yet, so they supposed to be a big one. And Saturday estimate.
01:43:45
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at the forecast for your area at the moment, and it intrigues me. The Bureau says for the rest of today zero to thirty mills, Tomorrow zero to forty mills, Sunday five to fifty mills. It's a big span, isn't it. Yeah, going to get nothing or you're going to get it. Drenching.
01:44:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're really just going to you know, prepare for the worst, right, prepare for the worst. And it is people have a lot of the ople S fields. Takes a long time, so that the apple miner has been knocked out for the for the machinery, they had to move that. And our claims are full of water. The roads out there are full of water, and it takes because we don't have a council, the roads that feel like to maintained by ourselves, so it takes a long time to drive them out. For those sorts of things that on the benefit for us. Is this the movement of water on the scale for fifty milo the last month changes the whole topography of the Opal fields, so that a lot of the open that's been left behind from old Tommy miners, the alluvial local that hasn't been moved for decades decades brings open to the surface. Wow, that's a total class. A lot of the locals and their families, they don't have encourage the them up yet business they don't. If it do come up, don't don't really cross the bush. Give it another week or so put it chans up our roads. Yeah, but those in the know are places up here if they're going down to Victor Harbor or York's fishing or something like that. So after the rain fell bolts put the calm and ditchmen and go moving for forty eight.
01:45:20
Speaker 1: Hours and can do pretty well.
01:45:22
Speaker 3: Maybe seed maybe's just prospecting, looking for open on the surface. So that's the way, the good thing, that's the way. The bonus on that sort of stuff.
01:45:31
Speaker 1: Yeah, seeing there are so many mines around and a muca, what impact does a really big downfall have. I mean, they don't fill up obviously, but it does cause problems.
01:45:43
Speaker 3: I guess, Oh, sure they do. A lot of we have sort of declines. They're sort of an open cuts with some holes and a bob cattle do a drive into dol fill up quickly and we do things. But you know, try to sandbag. Guys would agree. But sometimes there's enough rain they'll be build not so much. It's not about this time. Maybe a couple of weeks will take to dry out. There's a lot of it's the access roads that's getting to our minds. There's certainly lots of wash outs. I have started being creative, but the texture of the surface I've here, it's just really thick mud and play and it just finag get to get drive away uncaus all dirt roads, it just picks up, so it's just like mud sliding. You seem actual billion movies. You can't sort of chuck it up for the tires and the traction.
01:46:34
Speaker 1: So it sounds like you've had enough rain for the time being anyway.
01:46:38
Speaker 3: Conan, Oh, look, it's always welcome for more. It's you know, just like just slowly, just slowly, you know, it doesn't look to get anyway any Graham just told me then.
01:46:50
Speaker 1: Canaan, Look, we might catch up with you on Monday, give you a call just to see if you know you've survived the weekend downpour.
01:46:58
Speaker 3: I think.
01:47:00
Speaker 1: Good on you. Great to chat Canon fay An and the Merca Local and giving us a pretty comprehensive report on the impact of rain in the area. Bob Backaway as the commodore at the Lake Yacht Carve joins us. Now, Bob, how are you today? Now we know that the impact rain can have. The rain that's falling around the area at the moment, does that have an impact on Lake Air itself?
01:47:23
Speaker 14: Certainly does. What's happened is the Indian nation has been pretty warm, and there's been a lot of little cyclones up around the Kimberleys. And what usually happened or started a week ago is effectively an inland cyclone formed between the South Australia and Northern Territory border, and it's lucking down this moist air from the Kimberlees and it's literally pouring down like just over a week ago that under one hundred and fifty mili in a band from if you say for mood, that data down to Mari started at Roxby the forty seven. I think in that first lot that I went right over to Napamiri on Purple Creek just in Queensland from Innaminca and Cameron's Corner. They just got a beating out there. This is all flat country. When it rains under one hundred and fifty mil everything floods.
01:48:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine. So do you get subjected to tropical downpalls all that often?
01:48:25
Speaker 14: It does happen, And this typically what's happened here as the local western rivers of Blake Air, what's pouring water into it at the moment, and that happens reasonably frequently, Like I can remember the two thousand floods started off with filling Lake Air to two meters and that's just from the Nils and the Cumba River right and Lake Air South has got three little rivers feeding it and it's filling up to At the moment, it's mostly Westerns the Queensland, the big Queensland rivers that normally suppli us, they've had constant, minor and moderate flooding. We're hoping Cooper Creek will come back to the burst or track and top up the lakes that we love to sail on around.
01:49:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine.
01:49:15
Speaker 14: Let's wait and see. Like last year, we thought, like this time last year, we thought nothing was happening, and then once we went into March and started pouring down and Cooper Creek, as you know, in a mink out of record flood level and you know it's just a late monsoon last year and this year it appears so.
01:49:36
Speaker 1: Is they much water in the lake at the moment.
01:49:40
Speaker 14: It's a building. It's probably about one and a half meters in Belt Bay at the moment. I use satellite imagery to measure the debt because there's no debt gauges out there. The trouble is it's just been cloudy there for a week. But just looking at the stream gauges of the war are coming in, I'd say it'll be one and a half meters. The typical good flood that we get, like last year is just over two meters and it would probably get to that.
01:50:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, excellent, good for sailing.
01:50:13
Speaker 14: Well not on Lake Air.
01:50:14
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's now what happened. There wasn't an access band to Lake Air.
01:50:21
Speaker 14: National Park in Australia that you can't even walk in. So it's ridiculous. Like a national park's defined as a recreation area, but you're not a letter recreate in this one.
01:50:32
Speaker 1: So what because you're going to cause a lot of damage? Is that the theory?
01:50:36
Speaker 14: No, there's a one word answer to why we can't sail there. It's called lithium.
01:50:43
Speaker 1: Lithium.
01:50:45
Speaker 14: Yeah, salt lakes are full of lithium. Oh okay, so there's a large Australian mining company wants to mine it.
01:50:53
Speaker 1: Yeah.
01:50:54
Speaker 14: The South Australian government obviously is under heavy influence from the CFMEU and in twenty fourteen they tried to remove national park status from all the salt lakes and we couldn't work out why, and then we found out why.
01:51:11
Speaker 1: Oh there, politics plays its part. So where do you sailing?
01:51:15
Speaker 18: These days?
01:51:17
Speaker 14: We sail on the rivers and lakes like this. Recent rains filled up a very pretty lake that we at a dinner station that we took a Straate geographic journalist to in twenty three, and we had an article in April twenty four on our trip there. There's lots of little lakes, the Cooper Creek Lakes. We're hoping all get a top up as well. We had a big regatta on one of them last year with sixty yachts, one hundred and seventy three people.
01:51:47
Speaker 1: Brilliant.
01:51:48
Speaker 14: We're planning on having something similar this year. The trouble is we're getting too many people, are not enough volunteers.
01:51:57
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, that's the case all over. I'm afraid.
01:52:00
Speaker 14: Look yeah, yeah, as a beginning, hard work. So we're working out how we're probably going to limit membership.
01:52:08
Speaker 1: Become a very exclusive club.
01:52:10
Speaker 14: Yeah yeah, well it was exclusive at one stage because there was rear to sail on lake air that now we can't even sail.
01:52:18
Speaker 5: On the lakes.
01:52:19
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a shame.
01:52:20
Speaker 14: Look, if we did four of us did a six hundred and thirty eight kilometer trip on the rivers last year. That's real adventure. You go, you're sailing out into pure wilderness.
01:52:31
Speaker 1: Well, that'd be brilliant. Yeah, an experience you could get nowhere else in the world. Bob always great to chat. Thanks for your time. That's Bob backaway, commodore of the Lake Air Yacht Club five double.
01:52:42
Speaker 5: A Mornings with gram Goodings.
01:52:45
Speaker 1: Zero seems to be continually upling in the ant. He could be up to one hundred and twenty mills of rain top level. That would be something to see, isn't it. We're bracing for that. I hope you're prepared for it. The gutters are cleared, the drains are unblocked, because we could be in for a downpour impacting widespread areas of the state. We were talking to Conan at Arcuarrula and Bob up on Lake Eir. They've had plenty of rain. Now it is our turn. Sue says, I was driving when you mentioned movies. My sister and a husband sneaked me in to see The Exorcist when I was thirteen babysitting. It was newly released and the theater was full. We were front row center. I was spooked for years afterward and slept with the lights on Sue thirteen seeing The Exorcist. I didn't even want to see it as an adult. Hi Graham loved the show. With regard to your call Or Caller and Ander Muka, the same can be said for the Adelaide Hills, we seem to be in a very real rain shadow. It has been increasingly the case over the past few years. Laney, thank you very much for that. On the subject of politicians wearing hive z gear and laying bricks and digging holes, Steve says, and why does Mally always have to be holding a glossy booklet front and center here? The politician posers. We haven't seen too many kissing babies lately, have we remembered? The politicians about going along nor with parade or somewhere, and they kiss every baby in sight. Thankfully that untidy habit has stopped, but they still get out there and buy people a beer or have an ice share on ice cream. Politicians people of the people A double two to three double double oh. A short time ago, the Treasurer Jim Chalmers was asked questions about negative gearing now.
01:54:27
Speaker 10: Tax policies out.
01:54:28
Speaker 27: Tax policies are all about delivering another income tax cut in July this year and another one in July next year, so that there are three income tax cuts from this Albanesi Labor government.
01:54:41
Speaker 17: We are alive, obviously to.
01:54:43
Speaker 27: The intergenerational issues in the housing market and in the tax system, and we've got other policies to help address that sense of unfairness, cutting income taxes, making superannuation fairer, boosting the low income super tax offset, and in housing, building more homes and making it easier to.
01:55:02
Speaker 17: Save for a deposit.
01:55:03
Speaker 27: And so those are our policies on tax and on housing. It's not unusual this far out from the budget that the Treasury would be considering other options and other next steps, but they would, as always, any further steps along those lines would be a matter for Cabinet in the usual way.
01:55:21
Speaker 1: That's a Treasurer of Jim Chalmers. A short time ago, at midday we have the news, followed by conversations with Cornsey. Then after the one o'clock news, it's Stacy Lee who joins me out. Stacy, how are you good?
01:55:32
Speaker 30: How are you good?
01:55:33
Speaker 1: Thanks to you? Prepared for the big wet.
01:55:35
Speaker 26: I was just about to say the same thing to you. It was meant to be raining this morning, though I had a walk organized and didn't go on it, get canceled it because I thought it would be raining and nothing yet.
01:55:44
Speaker 30: So this is the thing. The Bureau, I guess, and the sees will have to be prepared and prepare us. But I don't know how much of it will actually.
01:55:53
Speaker 1: What will eventually. It intrigues me.
01:55:55
Speaker 30: I don't want to play it down just in case.
01:55:57
Speaker 1: No, no, you can't. But the Bureau of hedging their bets these days four to thirty five mills, ten to eighty meals. I mean that's a pretty big band, huge range. It's a huge range, and it's been incrementally cheaping up. We could have eighty mills, we can ninety. It's now up to we could have one hundred and twenty mills over the weekend. But then again we might not.
01:56:19
Speaker 26: And I understand you know that it might not all land in one spot, So it could be up to eighty meals if it all lands in one area, but it might be ten meals if it's all over the place.
01:56:29
Speaker 30: So I do get that, but it also is there's a big range. Can we not narrow it down a little bit?
01:56:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the Bureau's become a bit gunghy because they've made some mistakes and got things wrong, and it's upset a lot of people and farmers and the like. So they're sort of saying, well, it could be really bad, but then again, it might be so bad at all. So it intrigues me because I'd remember when I first came into the media, the Bureau was always accused of not being all that accurate, and I think forty years down the track, they're no more accurate than they wear way back when.
01:57:00
Speaker 26: Make me feel better that it's been consistent, and at the end of the day, it's informed guesswork, right, it's not telling us what has happened. It's trying to predict what will happen based on what they can see.
01:57:13
Speaker 30: And what they can see.
01:57:14
Speaker 26: Is heading our way from different areas and different regions, so it is informed guesswork.
01:57:20
Speaker 1: So I've always been intrigued how they can guess the temperature, because you know, what is there I guess and what's scary is there's no but limit you. So, so it's going to be forty, which is hot. It can be fifty. There's no cap. If it wants to go higher, it'll just go higher.
01:57:36
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:57:36
Speaker 1: So anyway, Yeah, enough of that. What have you got on the.
01:57:40
Speaker 26: Show this afternoon, we are going to talk about the Victor Harbor Council, Oh yes, voting to write to both leaders of the major parties, Labor and Liberal, to say, actually, you know, you're downsize of policies to encourage more people to sell their homes and move elsewhere.
01:57:58
Speaker 30: We don't want them here.
01:58:00
Speaker 18: Yeah.
01:58:01
Speaker 30: Isn't that a bit ageist?
01:58:03
Speaker 1: No? No, no, it's not at all. You don't think so, being someone who it's challenged being agist and not being agist and whatever the reason they do that the burden because what they're the average age down there is fifty nine. And do they have enough doctors, do they have enough hospitals, do they have enough age care facilities. I would have prefaced it differently. I would have said, we welcome all these people, but we need increased facilities. We need the Victor Harbor Hospital to have an extra twenty five beds, we need an age care facility. Just to sort of try and put an blanket band is probably wrong, but I take the point regarding ageism. But I think it's for the right reasons. It's not that we just don't want old people living here. Yeah that makes sense.
01:58:48
Speaker 30: Yeah, that does make sense.
01:58:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, because I don't think they just don't want older people there, because in a lot of ways, you go to Victor Harbor, it's a beautiful place, very peaceful place. Yeah, maybe not around school's time, but for the rest of the year.
01:59:00
Speaker 18: Place to be.
01:59:00
Speaker 26: But if there were fewer older people and more younger people, would it be as peaceful?
01:59:05
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I don't think if you go down to that area, you're not going down there to you know, if you want to lead the high life and that your head off to Sydney and Melbourne and party, party, Party, you don't go to Victor Harbor.
01:59:17
Speaker 10: No.
01:59:17
Speaker 26: But as we as our urban sprawl broadens, you know, we've got people moving further out north, people moving further down south. Is Victor Harbor going to be the new hub for families and they will they bring a similar slightly different burden on the health system there.
01:59:34
Speaker 30: I mean kids need to go to a.
01:59:35
Speaker 26: GP as well, People in their forties need to go to hospital as well. Yes, older people probably need those services more but I think as our urban sprawl grows there could this could be encouraging families to go to victd Harbor. People are willing to travel further to get to work into the city Victor Harbor. I mean in Adelaide terms. You and I originally are not from Adelaide. And I used to travel an hour and a half each way to get to UNI every day in Sydney on the train.
02:00:02
Speaker 30: And when I tell anyone in Adelaid that three hours of travel a day, that's ridiculous.
02:00:07
Speaker 26: You know, my in laws have have a beach house down at or Dinger and it takes a whole forty minutes to get there.
02:00:11
Speaker 30: And it's for someone who spoil We are very spoilers utiful.
02:00:16
Speaker 1: It was an hour to work to and from work in Melbourney. I never thought anything of it, you know, So we have been spoiled in Adelaide. But yeah, look it's a whole area we need to reassess. And no doubt it's a good headline, isn't it. You know the people of vic Darbor saying oldies don't come here.
02:00:31
Speaker 30: Don't come here.
02:00:33
Speaker 26: So we'll talk about that this afternoon. I also have our new Friday election chat with the double As on five double A Amanda Rishworth from the Labor Party and Rusten from the Liberal Party. So we'll be talking about the differences in the two parties, downsize of policies. What impact could David Spears have on the election? If he announces he's going to run this weekend?
02:00:53
Speaker 1: Is he going to do?
02:00:53
Speaker 5: You?
02:00:54
Speaker 1: Reckon? I hear and it hasn't been clarified whether he is able to run eagerly.
02:01:01
Speaker 26: There are differing opinions, and what I have been told is it won't be decided until he decides to run. If he does, he puts his hand up, and then if there's a challenge if the electorc Commission says we don't think you're eligible, so then they have to look him to whether or not he's eligible or not, so it all hinges matter or not he does.
02:01:21
Speaker 1: And when are the Libs going to announce the rest of their candidates they.
02:01:24
Speaker 30: Have I think they did it yesterday.
02:01:27
Speaker 1: I reckon wasn't aware of that.
02:01:29
Speaker 26: There's a whole bunch of names you won't recognize somewhere on our website somewhere Graham, that's wonderful, Feedy Friday as.
02:01:37
Speaker 30: Well and then we tell you what's on over the weekend. It's all happening, Stacy.
02:01:40
Speaker 1: Lee coming up after the one o'clock news. That's just about it for the weekend folks. But the winner, the winner. Congratulations Josie, you've won a double pass to see London Calling Wednesday, fourth of March at Gluttony in Rhinal Park. Home are the biggest shows this fringe. Tickets from Gluttney dot net dot au. Look, I hope you have a wonderful weekend day drive. If you can, we'll see you Monday.
