FIVEAA Breakfast with Will & Stacey - 14 September 2026

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Speaker 2: Live from Hindmarsh Square, it's 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 3: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee.
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Speaker 4: Good afternoon, good morning to you. Welcome to Monday on 5AA Breakfast. Coming up on the program this morning... Stephen Rowe with his take on all that happened and the Crows season that was after 7 o'clock this morning. I'm looking forward to that. Also, after 7.30, what's happening to Hindley Street? One way, it's going to be refreshed, wider footpaths, some pretty spectacular 3D rendering was released over the weekend. The Lord Mayor is going to join us and also... The West End Association president feels like most people think this is a pretty good idea. If you've got reservations or indeed you just agree that this is the zhuzh up that Hindley Street had to have, we'd love to hear from you this morning on 8223 0000. We'll talk property with Bronte Manuel. We'll talk about the wrap-up of the Royal Show. The CEO of the show, Will Rayner, will join us just before nine o'clock. Stacey Lee, good morning to you.
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Speaker 5: Happy Monday, Will.
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Speaker 4: Happy Monday. Well, we need a bit of, Need a bit of something happy to look forward to, I think, on this Monday morning stage. Not to start on a negative foot, but footy season's officially over for South Australians, unless you're one of the sort of odd bods that goes for one of the remaining clubs that's not South Australian. Royal show's over.
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Speaker 5: That went quick.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. So here we are, 14th of September. It's Adelaide. What's the next date you've got circled on your calendar to look forward to? What's the next thing? Surely it's not the pageant, is it? Is it the pageant? Is it Christmas? What's this time of year? What's the next thing in Adelaide? Or maybe in your life, folks, that you're looking forward to? 8223 0000. Text us on 04808 1395. It is a weird sort of part of the year.
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Speaker 6: It is.
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Speaker 7: I was about to be very predictable and say the October long weekend for two reasons. A, day off.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. B, usually my birthday lands on that weekend or around it. But it's usually an extra celebration time.
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Speaker 4: Nice to have a birthday around a public holiday. Well played, you.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you. Thank you. And also, just at this time of year, we have a whole bunch of birthdays.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 5: Both of my sisters are born in September, October. My mum, me, my husband. So, we've got a lot of birthdays.
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Speaker 7: It's a big celebratory period in heading into Christmas. So for us, I think it's probably just birthdays and lots of family time.
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Speaker 4: I think that the October long weekend, I said to you, it's just before we come on, we can't just all say October long weekend, okay?
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Speaker 5: It's the first thing I said.
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Speaker 4: We need to be a bit more creative. No, because it was the first thing I thought of as well. But not having the Monday off, I think that first week of October is generally circled in the calendar because it starts to feel like, a really fun time of the year weather-wise.
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Speaker 5: The nights are lighter as well.
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Speaker 4: The nights are lighter.
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Speaker 5: You can go for that walk after dinner.
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Speaker 4: Exactly right.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's a bit warmer in the mornings. Linda and Hal at Kyve, what's the next date that you've got circled in the calendar?
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Speaker 10: Sunday.
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Speaker 11: Sunday?
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Speaker 4: What's Sunday?
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Speaker 7: I'm flying to Honolulu and cruising back to Australia.
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Speaker 4: Oh, if you don't mind, Linda. So you're going, you're flying there and then the crew, where does the cruise bring you to?
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Speaker 10: French Polynesia, Tahiti, New Zealand, and Australia.
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Speaker 4: Oh, that's spectacular, Linda. Beautiful.
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Speaker 10: 50 years married, and that's the celebration.
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Speaker 4: Oh, well, congratulations to you.
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Speaker 12: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: That was great. So is this the longest cruise you've been on?
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Speaker 10: No, I've been on the Queen Elizabeth for five weeks.
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Speaker 12: We took my mum.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 4: You know what, Linda? I'm just so jealous of you. That sounds magnificent. But you put in the hard years, Linda, so fair enough. You've earned this trip.
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Speaker 8: Well, 50 years.
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Speaker 13: 50 years of my husband's jokes.
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Speaker 5: You deserve it.
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Speaker 10: I used to laugh with him.
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Speaker 5: Now I laugh at him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as long as you're still laughing, Linda, that's the main thing.
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Speaker 5: That's important.
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Speaker 4: Happy anniversary to you guys, Linda. That's really spectacular. Enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: 50 years with.
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Speaker 4: With your partner. It's a long time when you think about it.
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Speaker 5: By that stage, it's probably the same jokes over and over as well.
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Speaker 4: Literally, it is. It is. The same shtick. The same routines. The same habits. Brilliant. That's fantastic, Linda. Next date, you've got a circle on your calendar, folks. Let us know.
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Speaker 14: 8223 0000.
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Speaker 8: Text us on.
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Speaker 4: 0 to 4, 8, 0, 8, 13, 95.
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Speaker 5: We're getting lots of text messages in.
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Speaker 7: Ben says, as a teacher, I'm looking forward to school holidays coming up in a couple of weeks before the big push for term four at the end of the year. Con says, next Sunday, my red legs win their 32nd premiership.
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Speaker 4: Yes, all the, yeah. It's that nice time of the year where upset Crows fans, poor people obviously have the Maggie's and that's the different kettle of fish, but all go back to the Sandford clubs.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Stupid AFL. Who cares about it anyway?
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Speaker 9: Yep.
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Speaker 5: Well, David says the same thing, the sample grand final.
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 7: John from Port Augusta. Oh, no, that's someone else sending a text about John. I'm not going to read that out.
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Speaker 15: Sorry.
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Speaker 5: Daylight saving. I love the longer days and the ability to get more done in a day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a good time of year. Keep them coming in, folks. 8223 0000. It will shoot us a text. Remember, you can watch along on the Facebook and YouTube live stream. Should we talk grand final tickets or does it feel premature? Should we talk grand final tickets? Paddy's giving the nod.
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Speaker 5: Well, I was going to ask how you are. I was listening on Saturday night.
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Speaker 4: Voice is still a bit shot. General outlook on life, still a bit shot.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I suppose I've gone through the various stages of grief. How many are there? There's seven?
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Speaker 17: Seven, yeah.
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Speaker 4: Seven. A lot of anger yesterday.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't know whether that will persist today or not. I'm trying to be more philosophical as I get older and get my old age. Hence, we're talking about how things are on people's ballots.
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Speaker 8: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: We want to look on the bright side of life.
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Speaker 4: Exactly right.
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Speaker 5: There will have to be conversations about that.
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Speaker 4: There will be conversations. Rennie will start that conversation very, very shortly. And then I'm looking forward to Rowie coming on a little bit later as well. But we do have grand final tickets to give away.
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Speaker 19: We do.
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Speaker 4: And that process is going to start today.
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Speaker 20: Today.
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Speaker 4: Today. So the 5AA Breakfast AFL Grand Final Ticket Competition will start today. And you know the way it works, folks, if you've been listening for a long time. If you haven't been, we'll give you a clue each day. You have a chance to have a crack at it. If you get it wrong, there'll be another clue tomorrow. And after each clue is an opportunity to guess and get you along to Melbourne for the grand final. Now, it includes flights. It includes your accommodation and, of course, the tickets as well. This is huge. And I think we've hit on a nice way of doing this this year where you don't need to be a footy aficionado to win the tickets. You don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of, you know, everyone who's worn the number 22 on grand final day, for example. Mm-hmm. This is– I think this will have a broader appeal this year. We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
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Speaker 5: We'll see how we go.
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Speaker 4: The first clue is coming up a little bit later.
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Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 4: 20 after 6, what's the next date circled in your calendar? AFL footy finished. Royal show finish. Just want to get a sense from our listeners. What's the next big one? What's the next thing you're looking forward to? Ricky Nord, good morning.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. This one's more for you, Will, being a crows trade chick like you. My big next state circuit is the AFL draft.
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 6: So we can pick up some players and draft some players so that our team finally might have some players that aren't scared to tackle. So maybe, maybe, We can have a good one.
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Speaker 21: So that's my next question.
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Speaker 4: I always love draft night, Rick. For sickos like us, Rick, draft night is Christmas Day. It's great. My fear is we'll draft a really good young midfielder that'll be terrific by the time that Jordan Dawson's 36 years of age. But I'm not going to be negative. I'm not going to be negative, Rick. Thank you. Dave in Alberton, good morning.
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Speaker 9: Good morning, guys. I've got two things. First one, Melbourne Cup Day, because after Melbourne Cup Day, you can sort of call it early because it's nearly Christmas.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 9: But poignant that you brought up Jordan Dawson there. Whilst, obviously, I'm delighted that the Crow season has come to an end, it can't go without acknowledging the manner in which Jordan Dawson's carried himself this year. Nothing but admiration from me and, I think, the footballing community there under the most trying of circumstances, the way he's performed on and off field. What a man, what a leader. I hope him and his family have some time to gather themselves and make the most of the season coming up because, yeah, what an unbelievable man. Nothing but admiration from me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well said, Dave.
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Speaker 4: Beautifully said, Dave. What about that low-rent, low-life smudge mark of a human being who went and sent him that post on social media after the game?
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Speaker 5: What is wrong with people?
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Speaker 4: Historically, been of the view that we should mentioning these these absolute drips want nothing more than to be on the back page and to be mentioned they're attention-seeking losers who have nothing better to do than hassle people that are just trying to go about their lives and do their jobs they're just they're clearly empty vessels of human beings this dickhead has put his name on his, on his post. He, this is how, this is the room temperature IQ dope that did this. And he's been doxxed is what they call it online. He's been, they found him. They know his name. They know where his work, his phone number, his phone number.
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Speaker 8: Yep.
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Speaker 7: Hey, people, if you're going to go and abuse someone on social media, have a think about what information you've got out there publicly available. In this situation, I don't actually feel bad that people are finding his personal details. And good on Jordan Dawson for, A, calling it out, but also, B, not censoring it.
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Speaker 5: Where it came from.
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Speaker 7: I know sometimes some players kind of blur the person's face or their name. In this case, Jordan Dawson didn't do it, and I fully support that. If someone is going to send a message like that, you deserve to have your name and your face out there in the public.
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Speaker 4: If you've just tuned in and you have no idea what we're talking about, don't even look it up. It will lower your faith in humanity. I'm not even sure this blog is humanity. Actually, Ben in Glenelg East, good morning.
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Speaker 22: Good morning, Will and Stacey.
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Speaker 8: How are you both?
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Speaker 4: We're good, Ben. Take us back. Give us something to look forward to. Circled in the calendar, Ben.
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Speaker 22: Oh, look at us. 1978, given Pendo's the other side of the world, I thought that Des Foster would be getting a mention all week if Pendo was on the air. So just, yes, that famous grand final of almost 50 years ago when Stuart were 29 points up at three-quarter time and... John Wynne ran into the coach's box and upset Jack Oatey, and Tenvo's never let it go. I do recall in the Army's run last year that he was mentioning Dez Foster. He'd seen him not long ago, and he was still a very good bloke.
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Speaker 23: So a time he was all in.
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Speaker 4: Forgiving him as a human, not forgiving the decision, though, I don't think, Ben.
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Speaker 19: That's right.
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Speaker 4: I would imagine, and it's good you brought that up, I reckon, because if people are wondering, what's it like living in Spain right now? I'll tell you exactly what it would be like living in Spain this week. They will have access to Spanish YouTube, And the kids will be getting a dissertation on the Des Foster decision from whatever it was 50 years ago now. Not quite. Yeah, almost 50 years ago now.
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Speaker 5: And Dave's got a lot of time on his hands. He's probably done a PowerPoint presentation.
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Speaker 4: Oh, he will have. He will have. He doesn't need it. In fact, he can close his eyes and take you through exactly the injustice that occurred that day. Quinton and old Ronella, good morning.
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Speaker 23: Good morning, you two.
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Speaker 8: Hi, everyone.
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Speaker 19: What am I looking forward to? There's quite a few, actually.
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Speaker 17: Not here in Dave's bloody Albertan.
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Speaker 23: I've been talking about pool for a while.
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Speaker 19: Also, pool season.
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Speaker 17: Opens up on Daylight Savings.
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Speaker 9: Day, so get into the pool when the summer starts.
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Speaker 23: That's fantastic.
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Speaker 19: Another date I'm looking forward to is we're flying to Japan for a family holiday in about a month's time, which will be fantastic. Can't wait. All of that is just great.
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Speaker 6: You know how it is.
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Speaker 5: That is great.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to get it right this time because otherwise I'm going to get rightly admonished by Wendy. I'm envious. Oh, you're not jealous. Not jealous. I'm envious. Not jealous. I'll have to look.
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Speaker 5: That up off air because I would have said I'm jealous of you, Quinton.
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Speaker 4: I looked it up and Wendy was absolutely correct. Okay. Always happy to learn.
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Speaker 5: We are envious.
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Speaker 4: We are envious. Live and learn. Now, let's have a look at the weather situation, shall we? The weather today is 13.5 degrees outside at the moment. Parents 13, heading for a top of 18 degrees. So the week ahead is interesting. So 17 tomorrow and maybe a drizzle around. Other than that, it's pretty dry. 17 again on Wednesday, 18 Thursday, then it gets warm. 22 Friday and.
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Speaker 4: Bring out the shorts weather. 25 on Saturday. 25 on Saturday. That's right. And then 20 on Sunday. So from Thursday onwards, it's sunny and magnificent. Nice to talk about sunshine and happiness because Tom Wren's in the studio. Usually he is sunshine and happiness, but we need to talk football.
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Speaker 5: Speaking of shorts, it's always shorts weather for Wrenny.
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Speaker 4: It's never not been shorts weather. If Tom Wren comes in with pants on, someone's died.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 8: Cool.
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Speaker 4: Glider, I'll now order a new door with operator before the end of September. Receive two extra handsets. Morning to you, Renny. Morning, Will.
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Speaker 24: Morning, Stacey. Yes, Will, you called it. Called it beautifully on the weekend. Unfortunately, and wasn't it a, you know, colourful post game? I think we're on air for an hour. It was our longest post game this year, wasn't it?
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Speaker 4: It was. Yeah, I lost. You know what? Honestly, it was so entertaining. I lost track of the time.
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Speaker 8: It was.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't even tell you.
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Speaker 25: And you're in great form, as was Roy, who'll be on a bit later. And lots of questions.
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Speaker 24: And I said it before, you know, that, the climb to the summit in any sport or in any endeavor, usually the first part of it, you know, shaving off a minute of your 5k run, that's the easy part, but it's the final few seconds. Or if you, I said to Ned a bit earlier, if you're trying to, if you're trying to lose 15 kilos, say, and you're on a diet, it's.
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Speaker 25: The last kilo or two that's always the hardest. And it's the same for the cross.
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Speaker 24: That step towards being a good side, a top four side to a top six side and being a winner and a, top two side, that's the sharpest climb. And the Crows, I think it proves on the weekend, are still miles off.
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Speaker 5: So they went further this year having won a final.
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Speaker 4: Same. Same point.
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Speaker 24: Because they finished top last year, they went out in straight sets. So it's exactly the same level.
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Speaker 5: But, I mean, this was the first year they haven't gone out in straight sets in finals.
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Speaker 4: Is that right?
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Speaker 7: So could you put that down as some sort of progress?
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 25: Depends on how you want to skin the cat.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: I don't.
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Speaker 4: So winning fewer games and beating a worse team in the finals, to me, it feels like window dressing.
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Speaker 24: It depends how you want to. I mean, yeah, that was great. They beat the Bulldogs. But then when you see what happened on the weekend and they're obliterated, you know, eight minutes into the game, you went, well, they're done. And look, to their credit, they bounced back 10 points down in the second quarter. But again, after that, it was just an annihilation, wasn't it? I mean, Brisbane really. they missed a lot of gettable opportunities. They probably could have won by 15 goals had they kicked straight. I don't think that's unfair.
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Speaker 4: I think seven or eight years into a rebuild, you're kind of hoping for some better finals memories than what was frankly a statistical anomaly beating the Bulldogs last week and getting flogged and embarrassed in the other three finals.
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Speaker 24: Yeah, and I think now, this offseason, and look, to a degree, I know a lot of fans won't agree, but I like the fact that the club came out yesterday. I think they had to. I think, you know, we've heard a lot from fans that are, you know, disengaged and annoyed and frustrated, all of that. And I think they had to come out strongly yesterday and say, no, he's our man.
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Speaker 25: We're backing him.
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Speaker 24: Now, people will, you know, disagree, but they've made a stand and they have to be aggressive in the off-season.
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Speaker 25: This club for too long hasn't been.
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Speaker 4: I didn't like it, Rennie, because it made me think internally within the four walls of West Lakes, that final didn't matter. They went mission accomplished this season last year. Because when was that statement written? But after midnight, was it written 9am the next morning or was it written before the game? Because that game didn't actually factor into anyone's thinking.
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Speaker 5: So Matty Nix is hanging around.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 25: He's got another year.
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Speaker 5: They're backing their man. He's got one more year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 25: But it's that kind of situation.
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Speaker 24: If they start the year one and four next year, we're going to be talking about this every day.
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Speaker 5: How do Crows fans feel about that?
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Speaker 25: Exactly.
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Speaker 5: We'd love to hear from you.
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Speaker 25: So Crows loses, obviously. We'll give Tex a winner. Went out a winner.
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Speaker 24: You called both of his goals in that last quarter magnificently, Will. It was sad to see him go, but what a player. Third most capped player. It's... Unfortunately, we're not talking more brightly about him.
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Speaker 4: Legend. Legend.
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Speaker 25: Absolute legend.
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Speaker 24: Crows W, Port W, they're both losers, unfortunately. Other winners, Frio, Brisbane. What a game the Frio Geelong one was. Sturt yesterday, great call by Paddy and Sammy Datto and Matty Panos and Sammy Tugwell.
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Speaker 25: They did a great job.
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Speaker 24: Kimi Antonelli, the teenager, is just taking all before him in Formula 1. In fact, he might have just turned 20. He's a freak. He's a freak. He's going to win the championship. Erling Haaland in Manchester City. Gee, they were down to 10 men. Phil Foden got a red card for kicking, but so should Bruno Fernandes. He kicked him first. That was disgusting. But City somehow still won, despite being down to 10 men. Elena Rabakina, I love the way she plays. She's the US Open champion. And Alexander Zverev is on the verge of doing the same. He's two sets to love up. And this guy, the last one, he's a winner and a loser. Shane Lowry won the Irish Open.
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Speaker 25: He's Irish. Won it by 11 shots. Now, remember, he wrapped up the Ryder Cup. Great player.
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Speaker 12: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 25: But the third round on the 18th hole, hit his drive left. Four called it.
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Speaker 24: Crowd over on the left, they're all volunteers, and he got caught in the hot mic. They deserve to get hit anyway.
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Speaker 11: Ooh.
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Speaker 4: Not good.
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Speaker 24: So you've got a lot of Irish fans that weren't saying, no, for too long this behaviour's been tolerated by this bloke.
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Speaker 25: So he won, but a bit of a loser.
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Speaker 4: For that comment. Didn't win any fans in the process, though.
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Speaker 25: Didn't win.
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Speaker 4: Lost a few. Why did the volunteers deserve it?
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Speaker 25: I think high tension, he's tense.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 23: Exactly.
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Speaker 25: Like they're standing there doing their job.
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Speaker 4: It's just an odd thing to think. Stupid.
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Speaker 8: Stupid.
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Speaker 11: Don't say it.
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Speaker 5: How would that even cross your mind?
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Speaker 4: Exactly.
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Speaker 25: They deserve it.
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Speaker 19: Wow.
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Speaker 4: No, they don't, mate. That's a ball.
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Speaker 25: That's a missile flying at them at 180 miles an hour.
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Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 26: All right.
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Speaker 8: Thanks, guys.
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Speaker 25: Knockdown.
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Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
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Speaker 4: 20 minutes to 7, police and weather coming up this half hour. Could not believe the news over the weekend that puddle jumpers, it looks like it's again, well, how many fires can one place have? It was just Friday night, Stace, we were at a function that you organised, a magnificent function raising money for puddle jumpers because they do such wonderful work for kids. And I did not. expect to be talking to Melanie this morning about what looks like yet another fire attack. Melanie Tate, founder and CEO of Puddle Jumpers. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 27: Oh, good morning.
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Speaker 4: So how many times have you been, has your premises been attacked.
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Speaker 16: Now, Melanie?
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Speaker 27: Well, this particular premises is, you know, this is the third time or the second time there's been a fire there. The other time was a break-in. But I think it's probably the combination of other sites and other break-ins and other things, I think, that makes it more kind of harder to take.
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Speaker 5: Oh, gosh.
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Speaker 7: So what happened at this premises? Where was it and when did you find out about the fire?
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Speaker 27: Sorry, well, literally less than, well, around 24 hours ago. and it was at the same place it was kind of hit about three months ago at 300 Port Road. It was also, I think I was on the phone to you guys about in March this year about a smash window and a break-in. So it was the third kind of time that something had happened at that store this year.
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Speaker 4: Has it got you wondering now about the motivation? At some point, does it stop feeling like bad luck?
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Speaker 15: Oh, absolutely.
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Speaker 27: It certainly felt very targeted yesterday.
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Speaker 22: Who would target you guys, though?
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Speaker 4: You're a children's charity.
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Speaker 27: Look, I have no idea. And I mean, you know, it just completely took us by surprise yesterday. Whereas in the past, you might have thought it was a bit random. This sort of feel very targeted today.
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Speaker 22: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So what happens now with that? Where do you go from here?
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Speaker 27: Oh, look, yesterday was just such an absolute shock. And, you know, I think you kind of have had the calls a few times where things have happened and you think, oh, okay, I'll just jump out of bed and off I go and have a look. And then getting there yesterday and seeing it absolutely burnt to the ground, you know, I was mortified yesterday, really. I don't know if it's fully sunk in properly yet, but I am very grateful to have had lots of kind of calls of support and support seeing what we can do because it wasn't just a shop.
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Speaker 10: That's the thing.
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Speaker 27: You know, it was a storage facility. It had an entire stellar of stuff, including memories from our first camp that we'll never get back now. You know, it's a pretty heartless act.
00:22:17
Speaker 5: Is everything destroyed?
00:22:20
Speaker 10: Well, I had these little moments.
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Speaker 27: It was like a rollercoaster yesterday morning where the fire department said to me, oh, Mel, You know, nothing was kind of, the fire didn't go at all down to the cellar. And then another person from the fire department came over and said, yeah, but you do realise that it would all be water damaged. And by the time you got to it, it would be probably covered in mould. And then the third person came and said, and you've got no, you won't even probably see it now because the floor would collapse. So you won't actually get to go down there, which is probably even more heartbreaking than some of the stuff is sitting there, but we'll never get to.
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Speaker 3: It.
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Speaker 4: Just awful.
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Speaker 28: It is.
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Speaker 4: Well, hopefully they can, I mean, it's just unfathomable that it wouldn't be someone or some small group of people for reasons unclear, but just awful. When you think ultimately what the impact is, obviously to Melanie, but to the people they're trying to help.
00:23:22
Speaker 5: The community that they support.
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Speaker 8: Exactly.
00:23:24
Speaker 5: Disadvantaged kids in Adelaide.
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Speaker 4: Disadvantaged kids, ultimately the ones that are the victims of this. Melanie, thank you. Melanie Tate, the founder and CEO of Puddle Jumpers. Let's do some text. 0 to 4808 1395. I want to spend a moment on Samir here. Samir in Dernan Court. I'm not sure if he's just a stirrer, Samir. Samir says, no, we know Samir's actually Lovely guys, Texas Law. Very fit. Out running often early in the morning. Says, morning, guys. Been thinking about the Crows loss on the weekend and where we're heading. I think it's time we merge with the power. This is Samir's words, not mine. And create one super strong SA team. Sounds extreme, but with the powers midfield, our back line and a combined forward line, surely that's the only way the team wins another premiership. Let's get the petition going. Crikey, I had some dark thoughts yesterday, Samir, but none quite as dark as that.
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Speaker 5: Who's signing the petition? Samir, number one. Anyone else? Would anyone else like to put their hand up?
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Speaker 4: 8223 0000?
00:24:22
Speaker 5: I actually think.
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Speaker 4: It would be a fun thought experiment. Can you come up with a less popular petition? Like ban the double cut roll?
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Speaker 5: 8223 0000?
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Speaker 4: I mean, unless there are people out there that want to call us and say, I'd sign a merger petition for the Crows in Port Adelaide.
00:24:39
Speaker 5: Privatise the balls?
00:24:40
Speaker 9: I would.
00:24:41
Speaker 4: Sell them off to Victoria? If that was something that was seriously presented and it got any level of popular opinion, I'd find that guy we interviewed there last week. Who was he at the show? The Bullet?
00:24:49
Speaker 21: Oh, yeah.
00:24:50
Speaker 4: And I'd jump in his cannon and I'd just be fired directly out into St Vincent Golf, never to be seen again. And I'd do it willingly. 8223 0000. Let's head to the Weather Bureau. Kirsty Johnson's on deck this morning. Christy, sorry, Christy. Good morning to you.
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Speaker 16: Morning, Will.
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Speaker 17: Morning, Stacey. Um.
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Speaker 4: Christy, now this week, I'm tantalised by the 25 on Saturday, but let's start with today. What have we got on the way?
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Speaker 28: Yeah, nothing quite that warm today. Obviously, we had some pretty warm weather over the weekend. I mean, the temperature on Saturday was, I think, our warmest since, let me check, what was it, since about the 14th of May.
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Speaker 4: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 28: So the warmest since autumn. But it won't be that warm today. We've got our average for September is about 18.5 and we're sort of heading for about that, 18 degrees today. It's going to be pretty cloudy. There's quite a lot of cloud around at the moment. Looks like maybe the odd spit on the radar at the moment. Maybe we'll get one or two spits on your windscreen as you're driving into work. But I don't think we're going to see much in the rain gauges this morning. There's probably more chance that we'll see some showers that might actually give us some measurable rainfall later today. And that's because a cold front is going to be moving through. It's sort of moving to the south of Adelaide. It's not really going to affect the city too much, but might just push a couple of showers on sort of tonight. So just be aware of that. Maybe even one or two lingering into tomorrow morning. but then they should clear up, I think, and most of tomorrow will be pretty settled, just cloudy as well and a little bit cooler, obviously, with some slightly cooler air behind that cold front. So top of 18 degrees today, 17 tomorrow, and we'll probably still have that cold air over us on Wednesday, 17 degrees, cloudy in the morning, but that cloud will be starting to clear as we go through Wednesday afternoon, I think, and the next high-pressure system pushes in, and that's what's going to bring us the much more settled weather for the second half of the week, Thursday, sunny, 18, Friday, sunny and 22. And then, as you mentioned, Saturday, sunny up to 25 degrees before we see the next change probably coming through on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: Sounds spectacular. Thank you, Christy. Christy Johnson at the Weather Bureau. Let's head to Saipol. Senior Constable Daniel Isaacson's on the line. Daniel, a drink driver's crashed into a light pole.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, just after 6.15 last night, police were called to Salisbury Highway, Salisbury, after reports a Holden sedan collided into a curb and then took out a light pole. The driver was submitted to a breath test which returned a positive result of 0.172, so over three times the limit there. The driver, a 43-year-old woman from Elizabeth Vale, was charged with drink driving and she was issued a 12-month immediate loss of licence notice. Luckily, there weren't any reports of injuries, but the damaged car needed to be towed from the scene. She'll be summonsed to appearing court at a later date.
00:27:43
Speaker 5: And Daniel, there's been a woman arrested at Lonsdale this morning. What happened there?
00:27:47
Speaker 26: Yeah, this happened at 2.20 this morning. Patrols stopped a Subaru sedan on Bryan Road for a driver test. Checks showed that the driver, a 33-year-old North Vale woman, was disqualified from driving. And during a search of the car, police located a metal baton, knuckle dusters and a pocket knife as well. The woman was arrested and charged with driving while disqualified and possessing prohibited weapons. She'll be in court at a later date too.
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Speaker 4: And also there's been a suspicious fire at Bowdoin, Daniel.
00:28:15
Speaker 26: Yeah, that one happened just this morning. Police and fire crews were called to 4th Street just after 5am today after reports of a suspect throwing a Molotov cocktail at a property. MFS worked quickly to extinguish the blaze and there weren't any reports of any injuries. So we're just asking if anybody has seen this or has CCTV or relevant dashcam footage, give us a call on Crimestoppers on 1800 333 000.
00:28:41
Speaker 4: All right, good on you, Daniels. Thank you. Senior Constable Daniel Isaacson from Saipol. Let's go to Happy Valley. Mark's called in. Morning, Mark.
00:28:48
Speaker 25: Morning.
00:28:49
Speaker 6: So if we're talking about a tradition to have a way that all players get together, wouldn't that be the state of origin sort of thing?
00:28:59
Speaker 4: Yeah, that works.
00:29:02
Speaker 6: If that's the case, then we should win every single game.
00:29:04
Speaker 8: We play then.
00:29:05
Speaker 4: That would be great. Yeah, look, you know, state of origin's one thing. Merging the clubs... Some sort of– I don't even want to contemplate it, Samir. I've already got a headache, a stomachache. I'm depressed. I don't need to read that this morning. I'm enjoying reading some of the texts, though, that have come afterwards.
00:29:23
Speaker 7: We do have some great texts. Scott says, morning, guys. Less popular suggestion.
00:29:28
Speaker 5: Everyone has to make Collingwood their second team to support.
00:29:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, that works.
00:29:32
Speaker 7: And just a lot of hell no's, including one from James in Murray Bridge. Joe, Port Adelaide supporter, says, no way.
00:29:38
Speaker 5: We have standards.
00:29:40
Speaker 7: And uh tim i won't read out your text but it's very graphic uh as to what you would do if the teams had to merge sounds painful you see it sounds painful and you said you don't want to join the swampy port.
00:29:54
Speaker 4: Ferals thank you tim uh It's pretty dark. It was a difficult night for Crows fans on Saturday night. Pap, none more so than this caller we got after the game.
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Speaker 29: Hello, Tommy.
00:30:06
Speaker 8: Yeah, g'day.
00:30:08
Speaker 17: I'll tell you where it's all gone wrong. Wolfie Sloan retires. We don't replace him in the midfield. That's what sickens me. Ever since Rory's phone retired, it's just been heartbreak.
00:30:21
Speaker 8: Sorry, Tommy.
00:30:22
Speaker 11: And we've had to replace a big bull in the midfield and we just can't do it. I just miss Rory.
00:30:27
Speaker 8: Okay.
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Speaker 25: All right.
00:30:28
Speaker 11: Well, when did Rory retire? That was a couple of years ago.
00:30:31
Speaker 3: Two years ago.
00:30:32
Speaker 30: Yeah.
00:30:32
Speaker 3: He didn't play his last season.
00:30:34
Speaker 20: Tommy, I don't want to be disrespectful, but you need to get over it, mate.
00:30:36
Speaker 3: He went out with button-up boots.
00:30:37
Speaker 4: Okay. Tommy was a bit upset. There's been some debate about whether the legitimacy or otherwise of Tommy's tears.
00:30:48
Speaker 5: I was listening. I don't know if his tears weren't legitimate, but I was just wondering if it was maybe a prank call.
00:30:54
Speaker 31: Yes.
00:30:55
Speaker 5: I can't tell.
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Speaker 7: If it was real, Tommy, I'm sorry. It just felt like putting my arm around him and giving him a big hug.
00:31:01
Speaker 4: The beauty of talkback past footies, you don't know if any of it's real. You don't know if you're in the real world anymore. You don't know where you are. It's sort of this wonderful twilight zone where everyone mourns together. Tommy did it with tears. A lot of other talkback callers over the journey have done it other ways. We have a seven before seven that celebrates them all coming up next. First, let's check traffic.
00:31:21
Speaker 1: Knockdown, bill two. With Metro Homes, sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you. Real Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:31:36
Speaker 4: Four to seven. It's time for a seven before seven. The top seven before seven. Inspired by what was really an all-time night, post-match Saturday night on 5AA Footy. If you didn't miss, if you weren't tuning in, frankly, I don't know what you were doing. I don't know where you'd rather be on a Saturday night listening to talk back after the Crow season ends. It is always a spectacular day on the 5AA calendar, and it brings us some great calls. We played Tommy just before the break. But over the course of the journey, there have been other great calls on radio stations around the country. from fans with post-match talkback. Let's get into it. Number seven.
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Speaker 29: I'm all with you, Robbie. Biggest fan, love my crows, was there tonight. We were absolutely devastated. We were robbed and the bull-fed umpires came on the next day, said we're sorry. Are they going to give us four points? They've cost us a place in the finals.
00:32:25
Speaker 8: Okay?
00:32:26
Speaker 29: And I'm absolutely disgusted.
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Speaker 23: If I knew who to.
00:32:28
Speaker 29: Write to, I'd actually write to these flogs in our house or whatever. And, Rowie, I agree with everything you say. And you fell flogs, your turn will come. Karma will get you.
00:32:40
Speaker 4: So get Nick. That was after the infamous Ben Keyes behind that would have sent the Crows into the finals. Number six.
00:32:49
Speaker 12: I am just so damned angry it's not funny.
00:32:51
Speaker 17: I have just taken my membership cards from my three sons and myself and I've just put them in the microwave.
00:32:59
Speaker 8: I've had enough of this rubbish.
00:33:01
Speaker 4: Membership in the microwave, courtesy of SEN. Number five.
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Speaker 12: Hello, Tommy.
00:33:05
Speaker 8: Yeah, g'day.
00:33:06
Speaker 17: I'll tell you where it's all gone wrong. Rory Sloan retires, we don't replace him in the midfield. And that's what sickens me.
00:33:15
Speaker 11: Ever since Rory Sloan retired, it's just been heartbreak. And we never replace a big bull in the midfield. We just can't do it. I just miss Rory.
00:33:27
Speaker 5: He's having a rough one.
00:33:28
Speaker 4: Number five on Saturday night. Alright, number four.
00:33:33
Speaker 6: The players don't care.
00:33:34
Speaker 16: You have Ashley Hansen before the game saying that no one in the club listens to outside noise.
00:33:40
Speaker 31: Maybe you should.
00:33:42
Speaker 6: Maybe you should. We've got 88,000, almost 90,000 members. If you want us to sign up next year, bloody show us something.
00:33:52
Speaker 13: Show us the heart.
00:33:54
Speaker 6: If you're not going to play for the coach, play for people like myself. We bust my balls every week to get there. How do I have money? And you dish that up against Collingwood. It's an embarrassment for the Navy blue line, especially the emblem.
00:34:09
Speaker 22: The emblem.
00:34:10
Speaker 8: Play for that.
00:34:11
Speaker 4: The emblem. Very upset Carlton fan calling into 3AW postgame. Number three.
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Speaker 14: Well, look, my grandfather came to this country after World War II. He was a Carlton man. My father is a Carlton man. And unfortunately, I was born a Carlton man. Now, experts say that breaking the cycle of intergenerational trauma is incredibly difficult and painful. But tomorrow, my partner is six months pregnant. Tomorrow, I'm going out and buying a Hawthorne jersey and I'm putting a stop to it. It ends with me.
00:34:49
Speaker 5: Intergenerational trauma.
00:34:52
Speaker 4: Gee, that not being number one or two means we've got some good ones coming. That was superb. Number two.
00:34:58
Speaker 8: Guys, when President.
00:34:59
Speaker 7: Kennedy was assassinated, Jackie's famous pink dress, the Chanel dress, was covered in blood.
00:35:07
Speaker 8: And she refused to take it off that day.
00:35:10
Speaker 2: Because she wanted America to see what.
00:35:14
Speaker 8: They had done to her husband in Dallas. Now, when... When Richmond was down by 130 points... No, listen. I'm... I vomited all over myself.
00:35:34
Speaker 4: I was wondering where that was going. I haven't heard that word for a long time. That is so bad.
00:35:46
Speaker 5: That's a long bit of draw.
00:35:48
Speaker 8: Okay.
00:35:49
Speaker 4: The number one talkback call. Post-footy.
00:35:53
Speaker 25: We'll go to Stu from Handorf.
00:35:54
Speaker 17: Hello, Stu.
00:35:55
Speaker 12: Where is the game plan? Ken Hinckley coming out and saying we're going to do more of the same. More of what, Ken? Failing for another 10 years? I am ready to rip everything up. I'm ready to turn in this lifelong support for this club. I just cannot stand it anymore.
00:36:11
Speaker 31: I'm physically ill year after year. The same rubbish. The same disgust in my... I tell you what, it puts part.
00:36:28
Speaker 4: Of the idea there's no great oratory anymore, does it? You listen to the passion, the cadence and the delivery. I'm with those people. I feel all their pain. They were superb. That is one of the all-time great seven before sevens. No notes, gents.
00:36:47
Speaker 1: Knock down.
00:36:48
Speaker 12: Build two.
00:36:49
Speaker 1: With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes. They do it all for you.
00:36:55
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
00:37:03
Speaker 4: Eight after seven. Good morning to you. Joining us for the first time on this Monday, the 14th of September. Lots of listeners with plenty to look forward to. We started the program this morning wondering with the show and AFL footy finals over for Crows fans now as well as sport fans. What's the next big event or the big date on the Adelaide calendar? A lot of love, of course, for the October long weekend, but lots of things going on. If you've got one for us, we'd love to hear from you as well, of course. 8223 0000. Stephen Rowe is coming up with all the fallout from the Crows loss on Saturday night. Looking forward to hearing what Rowe's had to say. He's been stewing on it, thinking on it for now over 24 hours. See where he's arrived after what was a remarkable night of talkback Saturday night. Inspired one of my favourite ever 7-4-7s a moment ago. The greatest ever post-game footy talkback callers of all time. Who was it? Joe texted and said, I'm sorry, Paddy and Jess, who put this together, but after choking on my cereal, nearly dying, that JFK one should be number one. Pure gold. Joe?
00:38:01
Speaker 5: I also loved Jane with a Y. Good God.
00:38:03
Speaker 7: Glad I don't follow football. That's another world. Obviously, the Crows lost. I thought that would be a given.
00:38:08
Speaker 5: Sorry, Jane.
00:38:11
Speaker 4: Thank you, Jane. We're going to talk about the Hindley Street upgrade very shortly as well. The Lord Mayor is going to join us one way for a portion of Hindley Street and then a footpath widening, a lot of trees. Looks spectacular. What are your thoughts, folks? We'd love to get a snapshot of what the 5AA Breakfast listeners think about the Hindley Street redevelopment. I don't think everyone would agree It's overdue. It's looked awful for a long, long time. Is this the right model? Making it one way for that one section? Let us know. 8223 0000 is the number. The weeks, if you've been following federal politics, have settled in to a fairly predictable pattern at this point in time. And it goes something like this. Monday, One Nation makes a major policy announcement. We debate it for the rest of the week. And guess what this morning?
00:38:59
Speaker 32: One Nation is set to unveil a major immigration overhaul today looking to block migrants from 26 countries. An initial three years of cuts and deportations has been slated, dropping the total net migration levels by over 750,000. So that's courtesy of Sunrise this morning.
00:39:17
Speaker 4: So there's a lot of numbers. Now, and some of you might say, well, I think One Nation's position on migration is well established. But this is really detail-rich, this policy now. So we can tell you things like... Um, in student numbers will be capped at 115,000 a year. You can say things like there will be negative net overseas migration for three years. before they get to that 130,000 target, which we'd spoken about in the past, the question of that Pacific Island backpackers working in the country, that's been accounted for. That will still go ahead. That's okay. Um, which sort of resolves the policy difference between, um, uh, the member for Farrah and David Farley and Pauline Hanson. Thank you, Stace. Um, Under the plan, only people on a proposed new high-value postgraduate study visa targeting science, engineering and medical research will be allowed to bring families into Australia. And as you just heard in that Sunrise Report, 26 countries that currently have the Do Not Travel advice on Smart Traveller will not be able to arrive in Australia. So it's a lot of detail. It's again caught the major parties flat-footed, I think. We've been talking about this for a long time now, and One Nation have been the first to put out an itemised breakdown of what migration would look like. The reservations about this are going to be, obviously, what does it do to headline GDP and economic growth? I think you're going to hear probably over the course of today the business community going to come out and say– This is going to harm our ability to grow and employ and meet critical shortages. The government is not great at funneling people to us as quickly as we're going to need them because we don't know what the challenge is going to be. So that will be the debate today. But it's a familiar-looking week, isn't it?
00:41:09
Speaker 7: And we had a conversation last week about population growth, and we're talking about without migration, the population would be going backwards. If there is negative overseas migration under this plan, there would be negative population growth.
00:41:23
Speaker 11: Yeah.
00:41:23
Speaker 5: So what would that mean?
00:41:24
Speaker 7: Only for three years at this stage, but what would that mean for our economy when we know we have an ageing population?
00:41:33
Speaker 5: We know we.
00:41:33
Speaker 7: Can't get aged care workers. We know we can't get care workers in the disability sector. What would happen to those industries?
00:41:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to kickstart a huge debate, and the news cycle, again, is going to be dominated by it this week. But it's not platitudes. It's policy, so it's exactly right. It gives us something really meaty to sink our teeth into. You're going to hear detailed later today. That was the drop to the papers this morning. Something that was dropped to newspapers around the world over the weekend is without a doubt the most troubling story on planet Earth right now. We last week, I spoke a bit about the fact that some of these frontier AI models, unreleased, were beginning to solve mathematical equations and problems that that had been beyond human capacity. The millennium problems. One of them was solved, Navia Stokes, last week. It's 26 years. The best mathematicians in the world have been working on this. One of the models started working on it two weeks ago and came up with something of an answer. And we were talking about the potential of this technology. Almost immediately after that came out, there was a high-profile resignation at one of these companies where an engineer said, we are flirting with an extinction event here. Some of this language sounds like science fiction.
00:42:49
Speaker 7: It does.
00:42:49
Speaker 5: It sounds like we're living in a movie right now.
00:42:51
Speaker 4: It does.
00:42:51
Speaker 7: Where we should see the impending end of the earth, but none of us are seeing it. Except this guy who quit his AI job because he said, you're all going to die if.
00:43:02
Speaker 4: We keep going. These guys are saying it, and that's the language they're using. The most extraordinary thing, and we might try and get it at some point, was an interview that was done, I think it might have been on British television, after this resignation with one of the heads of these companies saying, said by way of reassuring people that he puts the probability at an extinction event related to AI at about 10%.
00:43:30
Speaker 5: That's 10% too high for me.
00:43:35
Speaker 4: You could see the interviewer's face. Because this guy's trying to say, this is really unlikely. Wouldn't get on a plane that had a 10% chance of crashing. The thing that's happened in the last 24 hours is the heads of all the big AI companies have co-signed a letter written by Dario Amodi, who is the head of Anthropic.
00:43:55
Speaker 5: Anthropic.
00:43:56
Speaker 7: So there's three main big ones, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's one, whatever it's called.
00:44:01
Speaker 4: That's right. So Sam Altman at OpenAI and Elon Musk have all co-signed this letter saying, Everyone needs to pump the brakes on AI development.
00:44:09
Speaker 33: As we get to the pace of model releases, right, that's commercial activity. And in order for companies to coordinate directly on commercial activity, they need to do so working with the government.
00:44:22
Speaker 4: So the letter says, this is one of the rare occasions I can ever remember where an industry collectively said, hey, government, come in. We need you to come in and control what we're doing here because we're scared by what we're doing. Now, the counter-argument to this has always been, all right, so America and Australia make rules. Is China going to have the same rules? Yeah. Is Russia going to have the same rules? And these guys historically have argued, well, we're not heading anywhere. We're heading to a place that scares us, but we'd rather be us getting there first than someone else. They're not even saying that anymore, and I feel like that's notable.
00:45:01
Speaker 5: It just sounds so... ridiculous to me.
00:45:05
Speaker 7: The three bosses of the three big AI companies come out and say, hey, we're moving too fast.
00:45:10
Speaker 5: Can someone tell us to slow down? Just bloody do it. Why do you need someone else to come in and tell you what you're doing?
00:45:18
Speaker 7: If I'm driving down the street going too fast and going, oh, this feels unsafe.
00:45:22
Speaker 4: There really should be a speed limit here. Can the police come and pull.
00:45:26
Speaker 5: Me over and make me stop?
00:45:27
Speaker 25: Just do it yourselves.
00:45:28
Speaker 7: If you all agree you're going too fast- You can all just do that.
00:45:32
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:45:32
Speaker 5: You can all just slow down.
00:45:34
Speaker 4: They don't trust each other to do it or themselves maybe even. Oh, man.
00:45:37
Speaker 5: And so what?
00:45:38
Speaker 7: Someone else coming in and saying, you need to slow down, sir, shaking their finger in their face is going to stop them?
00:45:44
Speaker 5: Will they trust then that their competitors will slow down? I don't understand this.
00:45:50
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:45:51
Speaker 4: We don't understand it. We're not talking about it enough. It's the scariest story in the world right now.
00:45:55
Speaker 8: All right.
00:45:56
Speaker 4: Here's a palate cleanser.
00:46:06
Speaker 34: That's the biggest game of the year, and it could be you heading to the 2026 Toyota AFL Grand Final.
00:46:17
Speaker 4: Over the next two weeks, we're going to be giving away a series of clues. Every day there's a chance to win. Every day there's a new clue that the prize doesn't go off. We have flights, accommodation, tickets to the Grand Final. We're playing little musical snippets this morning. Because we're after a musical act. We're after a musical act for the thing we're looking for. In the past, we've looked for grounds, ovals around Adelaide. We've looked for footballing legends from South Australia. This year, it's musical acts. Musical acts that, and here is clue number one, performed at the grand final after 2005. So post-2005. That cuts it down. Hey, that makes it. That's a good clue.
00:47:02
Speaker 5: I wouldn't say easy. That's a good clue.
00:47:04
Speaker 4: That's a good clue straight off the bat.
00:47:05
Speaker 8: 8223 0055.
00:47:05
Speaker 4: If you'd like to try to get the AFL Grand Final, you need to tell us the musical act that we're looking for. The first clue is they've performed after 2005. AFL Grand Final, performer, could be individual band, you know, get calling now. 8223 0055.
00:47:25
Speaker 7: I know there's always hesitation with these competitions to be the first day caller, but get in.
00:47:30
Speaker 5: Get it out of the way. We're not blocking you from guessing again.
00:47:34
Speaker 4: Exactly. That's right.
00:47:35
Speaker 25: Are we?
00:47:36
Speaker 4: No.
00:47:37
Speaker 8: No.
00:47:37
Speaker 4: Just good luck because there'll be 10 million people trying to call in.
00:47:39
Speaker 5: You can guess today and again next week if it hasn't gone on.
00:47:43
Speaker 4: All right. 8223 0055 is the number. AFL Grand Final tickets, flights, accommodation to the big day. All you need to do is correctly identify the Grand Final performer we're looking for. Today's clue is after this. 2005 we'll take our first guess on the other side of this break.
00:48:03
Speaker 1: Knock down bill two with metro homes sell one and move on keep the other as an investment metro homes they do it all for you will.
00:48:12
Speaker 2: Goodings with stacy lee this is five double a breakfast to.
00:48:16
Speaker 4: Once in a lifetime experience going to the afl grand final if you can do it on someone else's dime and not have to pay for flights and accommodation No one gets to do that unless you win a competition like this. We're looking for someone who's performed at the AFL Grand Final after 2000 and what was the year?
00:48:33
Speaker 21: Five.
00:48:34
Speaker 4: That was our first clue today. But really cuts it down as well. Does cut it down significantly.
00:48:39
Speaker 5: I feel like we've made a mistake by giving that clue out as the first clue.
00:48:42
Speaker 4: So what does that mean? 20 years worth of Grand Finals. 21 years of Grand Finals.
00:48:45
Speaker 9: All right.
00:48:46
Speaker 4: Alan in Moorfield Vale, you've got a guest for us this morning.
00:48:50
Speaker 29: Good morning, Will and Stacey.
00:48:52
Speaker 16: Yeah, I reckon Lionel Richie.
00:48:54
Speaker 4: Oh, dancing on the ceiling. He's a bit crook at the moment, poor old Lionel, isn't he? He's collapsed a couple of times while he's been performing. I love that grand final performance. I thought it was great.
00:49:05
Speaker 8: It was, yeah.
00:49:06
Speaker 4: Unfortunately, it's not the one we're after. Sorry about that, Alan. Lionel Richie. Hopefully he can keep performing.
00:49:14
Speaker 5: So that was.
00:49:15
Speaker 4: What year was that?
00:49:16
Speaker 5: I've just looked it up.
00:49:17
Speaker 9: 2010. 2010.
00:49:17
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, so that was within.
00:49:21
Speaker 4: The– That works. And Alan was correct.
00:49:23
Speaker 5: I'm doing really bad math in my head on there.
00:49:26
Speaker 8: Post-2005.
00:49:26
Speaker 4: Alan was right and I was wrong. You wait until we have seven clues and you start going, hang on, does that work?
00:49:32
Speaker 5: If I'm this bad on day one, who knows?
00:49:34
Speaker 4: You'll be all right. You'll get informed soon. Alan and Morfavale, bad luck. But stay listening and you can bring in another time and you might get another chance. AFL, authorised GF promotion, GFAFL26 slash 143. Well, it's not going to be the Crows at the Grand Final, unfortunately. And I don't think there was an expectation that they would win. There was a hope that they could win. And I don't think anyone saw a totally uncompetitive, embarrassing, historic loss that ultimately came on Saturday night. Rowey, we called it. Good morning to you. How are you feeling 36 hours later?
00:50:16
Speaker 20: Oh, Will and Stacey, good morning. Yes, great call, by the way. But crikey, sadly, in seven minutes of devastation, Crow season 26 went straight down the dunny. It was 32 points to nothing in a heartbeat, 10 inside 50s to zip. They were just uncompetitive. It was Adelaide's biggest loss in two years, their biggest total conceded since 2018. They're 2-6 versus top six teams this year. Now, that's a body of work. They're facts. There's no emotion in those statements. Are they facts, Will?
00:50:46
Speaker 4: They're facts. They are facts. Okay.
00:50:49
Speaker 20: So they either had a bad day and simply capitulated. That's the best. If it was a one-off, if it was an outrider, that's won people's thoughts. We had people that Went down that path. Or worse, that list and coaching group is miles off. And the coach basically said that. So taking this team to the promised land, that's the decision in the wake of that loss that's in front of the coaches, the board, and the executive right now. What now? That's the big question for me and fans.
00:51:23
Speaker 4: What now?
00:51:24
Speaker 20: And how do we take that next step? And with who? If it is with Nixie, that's fine. If it's with different coaches, that's fine. Different development.
00:51:31
Speaker 4: Well, they said it's going to be Matthew Nix. They put out a letter to all the members yesterday.
00:51:37
Speaker 20: Yeah, okay. So this is my take on it. Matthew Nix's first five years was the rebuild, and the last two years was the challenge. They were top last year, went out in straight sets, didn't win a quarter. They were the sixth best team this year at the end of it. They beat the Dogs and smashed by the Lions in a final. We saw that. So what's the boards and Matthew Nick's measure this year? Was it win a final and tick that box? Was it growth? I want to know what their measure is for them to come out yesterday and say what they did. So here's the thing for me.
00:52:11
Speaker 4: Well, what we do know, Roy, just on that, on the timing of it, we know that the game on Saturday night didn't matter because they had a statement ready to go on Sunday morning. That's right. So they didn't care. They actually did not care about the final on Saturday night. Correct. Correct. Correct.
00:52:24
Speaker 20: See, and that worries me, and that's what I want to talk about now.
00:52:26
Speaker 8: Correct.
00:52:26
Speaker 4: Correct.
00:52:27
Speaker 20: For them to come out immediately. Now, I reckon they've done that. If we didn't live last week, the week that we had with Matty Nix and their speculation if they lose his out, if we didn't have that, I don't think the board and the executive would have come out yesterday with a statement. I think that's a reactional knee-jerk reaction to what happened the week before. But for me, here's the thing. I want to look at the measures and the body of work in the last two years. So this year, Win-loss, it's a fail because they went backwards. If I was sitting on the board and saying, Will, game style, I'm saying fail because we lost exactly the same way.
00:53:02
Speaker 4: Looked out of date compared to the rest of the league.
00:53:05
Speaker 8: That's it.
00:53:05
Speaker 20: Exactly right. List demographic, fail. There's still midfield gaps at the elite level. And look, in fairness to them, they're trying to alleviate that. We know that. Growth and development, fail. Finals, fail. And against the top six teams, your game style, they're 2-6 ahead. fail. So these are the measures that I'd be looking at. The other thing is, are they connected? As a massive measuring stick, do they listen to the coaches? Are they connected? And that's a massive tick. I think that's the conundrum. They're a fail in six of my key areas, but they love the coach. They play for the coach. Their DNA is great. They still challenge that last quarter was a write-off, but anyway, that's the thing.
00:53:45
Speaker 4: You know that whole last bit you just said? That sounds like the Ken Higley Port Adelaide experience, doesn't it?
00:53:50
Speaker 25: 100%.
00:53:52
Speaker 4: And I was thinking about this over the weekend, and I think a lot of Crows fans, because there's two camps. There's some Crows fans that want to see their team play well, and they'll get 14 or 15 great nights a year, and if you win a premiership, great. If not, we'll try again next year. Then there are the angry types, and we sort of fall more into that camp, Rowey, that want your club to be relentlessly pursuing a premiership and not leaving any stone unturned. And those ones are the ones that are going to be raising some questions about it.
00:54:13
Speaker 25: 100%.
00:54:14
Speaker 4: We'll summarise. I want this one question answered.
00:54:22
Speaker 20: The one that Matthew Nix posed in his post-game pressure. He said, we still have a lot of work to do. We're on the right path. And he basically said, I'm the man to do it. Now, I'd need to be convinced of that. I need to be convinced that Matthew Nix is the man to take this team to what I call the promised land, that next step, that last next step. You know when you climb Mount Everest? You can get up there, but that last apparently 100 metres is is the one where most people fail.
00:54:52
Speaker 4: It's that last... This is what I was... To round that thought out, Ro, this is what I was wondering. Is there a sort of a culture of being comfortably Crystal Palace about the Adelaide Football Club, where Crystal Palace famously don't ever win the Premier League, they never get relegated, but so long as they're chugging along and you get a couple of good seasons, you're going to sell out. You'll sell out. Everyone gets a couple of good nights at the footy. No one has to have hard conversations. It's just okay enough to be a bit of fun. That, to me, feels like that's why we've had 11 finals wins in 30 years, because you go, oh, you know, next year, next year with maybe a little bit more application and luck, you'll get there. It just sort of feels all very comfortable to me. That's how I felt yesterday after Saturday night. But when that letter came out, I thought, yeah, because there's no– it was okay. Maybe we can do another 30 years of okay.
00:55:44
Speaker 11: There is.
00:55:46
Speaker 8: Yep.
00:55:46
Speaker 20: There is a smell of comfortability and that body of work, the journey since 97, 98, you would say that. It's not that they don't want to, but there's no ruthlessness or hunger from that board.
00:55:57
Speaker 4: They haven't. You sell it out. You're going to be on the back page of the Tizer every day. You're always going to be on the news. You're not going to be irrelevant like a Melbourne club that falls off the map or an interstate club with not a traditional football background that can disappear if they're not good. You're always going to be okay. There's not really any need to really upset anyone on the quest for a premiership.
00:56:16
Speaker 18: Yeah.
00:56:17
Speaker 20: I just need to be convinced by Matthew Nix when he presents to the board his season that he is the man to do it. He's the man to take them to the promised land. He's the man to take them that next journey from flipping that top six teams to winning six and losing two. And I would pay a lot of money to sit on that board as an independent to sit and judge that. But I'm not and I never will. So it's hard.
00:56:44
Speaker 4: For you and I.
00:56:45
Speaker 5: It seems like they don't even care about that presentation, Rowie. They've made their mind up.
00:56:49
Speaker 20: Well, Stacey, and that, again, is where we're all getting at here. That's what I'm concerned about. That one point is what I'm absolutely concerned about. So he's not going to have to present.
00:57:00
Speaker 4: He will.
00:57:01
Speaker 20: But the board's already made their mind up. He's the man going forward. So everyone else just shut up.
00:57:05
Speaker 4: We know what we're doing.
00:57:06
Speaker 8: Yeah.
00:57:06
Speaker 24: Hmm.
00:57:08
Speaker 20: I need to be convinced as a fan, as a past player. I need our listeners to be convinced that he's the man to take them that next journey. Now, he may very well be, and they may be right, and they've made their call, and you're right. But I'd love to sit in judgment on that and see.
00:57:23
Speaker 4: Do you know what I find surprising too, Roy? That after that embarrassing loss on Saturday night, the statement goes out first thing Sunday morning. There wasn't even a whip around, not even a meeting, not a couple of texts. You guys, are we still feeling good about this? Nah, just the assumption that.
00:57:37
Speaker 16: Yeah.
00:57:38
Speaker 4: We're still on course.
00:57:39
Speaker 20: I think you summed it up. That's the actions of a mediocre club. A comfortable club. A club that's going to get their $ 105 million thing. They'll move into that at Christmas time and everyone.
00:57:52
Speaker 2: Will be happy.
00:57:52
Speaker 4: It's all about feeling good. Good try. Good effort, FC.
00:57:57
Speaker 20: But I think if you gauge the temperature of our listeners after the game, I think they've read that mood wrong.
00:58:04
Speaker 4: I think you're right.
00:58:06
Speaker 20: I get around the streets. I run in a business. I was at the footy yesterday and, you know, walking from James' change room and well done to Sturt. They're into a grand final against my beloved Nord. That'll be a great grand final next week. Eagles just weren't good enough. They weren't talking about the Eagles, Sturt, Nord, the Sanford grand final. I got absolutely seconded about the mediocrity of our club and that statement. That was bought out yesterday.
00:58:32
Speaker 4: I got smashed.
00:58:33
Speaker 20: I got smashed.
00:58:35
Speaker 4: The sports show tonight is going to be must-listen to radio. I can't wait. You and Timmy G working through it. We'll catch you then, Rowey.
00:58:43
Speaker 1: Knock down. Build two. With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes. They do it all for you.
00:58:51
Speaker 4: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast. 16 minutes to 8, coming up after 8 o'clock this morning. We're going to be talking about the show. Any recollections of the show? Who got along this last weekend when the weather was magnificent? Thoughts? Things that were great? Things that you'd do differently? We can put them all to the CEO of the show, Will Rayner, before 9 o'clock this morning.
00:59:17
Speaker 5: Anything extra you'd like to see at the show?
00:59:19
Speaker 4: Yeah, what would you see added?
00:59:20
Speaker 5: What can we add to the show?
00:59:21
Speaker 4: That's a great idea. What would you add? 8223 0000. Maybe this is the thought experiment they did at the city council or in the state admin building when they were talking about Hindley Street. What could we do to make it safer? What could we do to make it more enjoyable? What could we do to make it look less slummy?
00:59:40
Speaker 17: Yeah.
00:59:41
Speaker 4: So they've come up with a plan, and it's a significant one. The- Eastern End from King William to Morfitt Street would now flow east to west. It'll be one way. There'll be wider footpaths, new pedestrian crossings, and there'll be improvements to the Lee and Bank Street intersection, which is overdue because they are now serious foot traffic thoroughfares with the eateries and bars and so forth along there. Safer street lighting, CCTV coverage, raised garden beds. It looks really nice. I did look at it and go, oh, if I was a trader, does this have a bit of a jetty road vibe with regard to the disruption? Because I think ultimately it's going to look great, but how do you achieve the end result whilst allowing people to trade? I guess that's the kind of thing that is in the purview of our next guest, the Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Dr. Jane Lomax-Smith. Lord Mayor, good morning to you.
01:00:31
Speaker 10: Good morning.
01:00:32
Speaker 5: So how long will the works take and when will they start?
01:00:36
Speaker 10: Well, it's not going to start immediately. It's going to take much more than a year because, of course, councils consult women in each of their life and Although we've only got 70% of the design, the last 30% is the really important bit. We know about the paver design, we know about the trees and the planting, but keeping the businesses going is what we really have to focus on. And that means making sure where we have parking, it has to be in an appropriate place for loading zones. We have to look after the hotel to make sure they can still get vehicles in at night. And people talk quite often about closing off the street and pedestrianising it, but We have to understand there's a large hotel in that street, and not only do they need drop-offs from the airport, they sometimes get whole coachloads of air crew, and you can't have the airline hostesses crawling down the street with their trolleys and their luggage for 100 yards because no cars are allowed. It's really important we look after every business. So we'll be consulting on exactly what their needs are, where it's appropriate to have outdoor dining, and where we might have barriers, you know, sort of raised beds or stock cars getting onto the pavement, and where it's appropriate to have seating, because we know this gets a lot of foot traffic, and the design is really important in that last detail. And whilst it's tempting to think that the Premier and I sit in a dark room plotting the design, we do employ specialists to do it.
01:02:07
Speaker 4: Did you... How wild did, let's remove or retire the darkroom plotting element of this, but in terms of throwing things against the wall and wondering how you might fix Hindley Street, did you consider changing any of the zoning stuff with regard to late night or adult venues and the cluster of them that's in that spot of Adelaide?
01:02:29
Speaker 10: Well, we do know that people don't want massage parlours in the East End or in Hutt Street, so We've recently changed the planning zones to encourage only the allowable activity around this area. Obviously, you don't want massage parlours near schools and children, but we wanted to have a night-time area that was fun for people and was a destination. Whilst there may be wowsers who don't like people going out late and drinking, You can't have a big city without a late night venue location. It's unthinkable that we would have the entertainment sector surviving if people came to gather around or they were visiting events at the theatre and couldn't go out for a drink and a bit of enjoyment later in the night. And obviously the government has put a lot of money into major events and we need to make sure our destination's up to scratch. That's why they wanted to top up the funding we've committed to make sure that this was as splendid as it could be and really as attractive but also safe. And the extra money they have contributed to this as a co-funding agreement has actually made a big difference because it's allowed us to put some extra facilities in and I think make it a once-in-a-generation change that we needed.
01:03:58
Speaker 5: Sorry, Lord Mayor, I just wanted to go back to the timeline.
01:04:02
Speaker 7: After the consultation on that final 30%, when do you expect the works to start and finish?
01:04:10
Speaker 10: I think it's going to take 18 months to actually begin because we have to consult again and make sure we've got the design right. We've got another 30% to finalise. We also need to work with the property owners over the maintenance of the businesses and The city council's an expert at managing street upgrades and having the businesses survive. Traditionally, what we do is we break it up into bite-sized pieces and we divide it on sides of the road. Obviously, that costs more because we have contracts in and we have to design their workflow so that the businesses stay open. Having said that, we also invest quite often in nighttime activity. You've probably seen it if you drive cars. Through the city, we have people working under lights through the night. We do that on King William Street, all our main streets. The issue here, of course, is that we can't have night workers in Hindley Street because they need to be open. So the staging is going to be much more sophisticated and we'll have to do it properly.
01:05:15
Speaker 11: It's called competency.
01:05:16
Speaker 10: This is what councils do.
01:05:18
Speaker 7: And a couple of our listeners just want to make sure that the pavers won't be slippery this time.
01:05:22
Speaker 4: Right.
01:05:23
Speaker 10: Well, I think that the previous councils had that problem at the other end of Hindley Street. Hopefully, we've got that sorted now. I think you can make a mistake once, but you should never make it twice.
01:05:36
Speaker 5: Lord Mayor, thanks for your time.
01:05:38
Speaker 8: Thanks a lot.
01:05:38
Speaker 11: Bye-bye.
01:05:39
Speaker 4: The Lord Mayor of Adelaide, Dr Jane Lomax-Smith. That staging process, of course, was the thing that made life impossible for her in Glenelg. They didn't stage it. They decided to do it to save a bit of money and to try to do it all in one whack, which is what? It meant that it just was unusable for such a long period of time.
01:05:58
Speaker 25: All right.
01:05:58
Speaker 4: 10 to 8. Keep your thoughts coming through. 8223 0000. Text us on 04808 1395. We'll be back right after this.
01:06:05
Speaker 16: Knockdown.
01:06:06
Speaker 1: Bill 2. With Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes.
01:06:12
Speaker 5: They do it all for you.
01:06:13
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:06:28
Speaker 4: Federal politics with a flow-on effect for real estate is the one-nation immigration policy that's been announced with all sorts of new detail. A negative net overseas migration total, that is, we'll have more people leaving than arriving for a period of three years before levels return to 130,000. people a year. There would be dramatic cuts to international student numbers, greater restrictions on when and under what circumstances family members can come and join Australians, and a stack of countries, 26 in fact, from which people will not be allowed to enter Australia. What it all means is pretty dramatic, I would imagine, for Bronte. Bronte Manuel, good morning to you. So the sum of all that is fewer people, fewer people presumably on one hand to compete for the buying of homes, but then fewer people possibly to build the homes. What's your instant sort of first flush reaction to it all?
01:07:28
Speaker 35: Well, I think if we go completely tunnel visioned and we go, all right, what we're trying to do right now is we are trying to build new homes to fix the housing crisis, right? And federally, you know, we're behind that target. And I think we'll probably get further behind that target as the incentive for people to build is.
01:07:49
Speaker 3: Drying up, you know, with obviously the changes.
01:07:51
Speaker 35: In SA, we're above that construction number on our goal of 66,000 properties, but behind on the 84,000 goal, which is the per head capita, you know, head count would be allocated from the total 1.2 million of, you know, Australia. So I guess we're trying to build new homes. The other solution is we have less people required to need homes. However, wouldn't our unemployment rate need to be through the roof to take that course of action?
01:08:25
Speaker 3: So that's where this is your pay grade, not mine.
01:08:29
Speaker 35: I would have thought that we need people coming in because we're not, you know, I looked at a population pyramid.
01:08:36
Speaker 3: And it used to be a pyramid. And now it's not pointy at the top.
01:08:40
Speaker 35: You know, it used to be something to the effect of 32 taxpayers were paying for one sort of retiree. Now it's like sub 10 taxpayers paying for one. You know, we're not effectively having enough children, hence we're bringing people in. So to me, in isolation, if we have less people coming into the country and we can't build the homes that we need to build.
01:09:04
Speaker 3: Will it fix the housing problem? Yes, I guess it would.
01:09:09
Speaker 35: Do I think there'd be all sorts of bigger problems in Australia if that happened? Yes, I also think that would be the case.
01:09:16
Speaker 5: Bronte, there's often.
01:09:18
Speaker 7: rhetoric going around about migrants and migration and the demand that that puts on the property market. We hear anecdotally from people that they'll go to auctions and it's migrants out bidding them, that they'll go to rental opens and there's a big long line of people who look like they're not from this country, you know, waiting to get that rental. How much truth is there in that? As someone who's out on the ground, who's buying the homes? Who's applying for the rentals at the moment?
01:09:51
Speaker 35: Yeah, I think it's pretty broad spread, but 100% like we are, I guess, you know, a multicultural society. So there are 100% people from different countries that haven't lived here for very long. And I guess I'll just go out on a a bit of a limb here. Ultimately, if the unemployment rate was higher and if people were moving here from another country and not contributing to the tax position or not contributing to working in the country, well, that's a whole different story. But if we need people, because there's things out there now like one and done, and people can't afford to have children. So if you have two children, you just replace you and your partner, right? So right now, we can't just replace. We have to have more people that are working to fund it because we just haven't had enough children for so long and we can't 3D print 18-year-old workers overnight.
01:10:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah.
01:10:47
Speaker 7: And good luck convincing anyone to have more than one at the moment.
01:10:51
Speaker 5: I mean, that one and done care, Bronte.
01:10:53
Speaker 35: Yeah, well, that is the catch-22, right? And I remember I was at a realestate.com conference in Singapore four or five years ago and they said effectively that We are going to be bringing people from India into Australia to fix this population issue. So it's not by chance. It's 100% by design. And whether we agree or disagree, we have to get people, you know, from somewhere that can contribute to the country. And, yeah, I guess if this policy did come.
01:11:25
Speaker 3: In, yeah, I don't know.
01:11:28
Speaker 35: I guess we'd find out what position the housing market would be in because you're right. We won't be able to build them as easily, but then we may not need, well, we won't need as many. So I haven't answered your question. I've probably just span around in circles because I don't know if there's an answer.
01:11:41
Speaker 7: No, well, I think, you know, the policy has just been released today and we're all sort of digesting it and trying to work out what impact it will have. So it's good to have your perspective on the real estate market, Bronte, as always.
01:11:51
Speaker 5: Thanks for your time.
01:11:53
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot.
01:11:53
Speaker 5: Bronte Manuel from Toop and Toop there. Time for the 8 o'clock news.
01:11:57
Speaker 7: After that, big breaking at 8 today and we've got our TV competition.
01:12:01
Speaker 5: How old is your TV? We've got one to give away.
01:12:04
Speaker 8: I'll send an SOS to the world.
01:12:07
Speaker 1: Knockdown, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
01:12:15
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:12:20
Speaker 4: Ten after eight. I think a moment passed this morning and we allowed it to pass without drawing due focus to it, Stacey. Oh. We had a thought bubble from the Adelaide City Council to change something about the city and we don't have a single negative text about it. We don't have a single negative text about the decision to redesign Hindley Street. That can't... I... This is, I've been doing this show for 11 years.
01:12:47
Speaker 5: Will's mind is blown.
01:12:48
Speaker 4: We have never once talked about a major city design idea from the Adelaide City Council. That has at least had some people saying, huh? So, one way, wider pedestrian, oh, hang on, have you spotted one, have you?
01:13:03
Speaker 5: We did get one text.
01:13:04
Speaker 8: Okay.
01:13:04
Speaker 7: Someone suggested that Hindley Street should be closed off completely.
01:13:09
Speaker 4: Okay.
01:13:10
Speaker 5: But it wasn't.
01:13:10
Speaker 4: Well, that sort of suggests there's merit in what they're doing. They should just go further.
01:13:14
Speaker 14: Yeah.
01:13:16
Speaker 7: I actually think this is a really good compromise because I know in the past when we've spoken about it, that texter who said just close it off completely to cars and just have it pedestrian, continue Rundle Mall going through. The big downside to that is the drop-off and pick-up of people on Hindley Street.
01:13:34
Speaker 5: I have lucky friends whose parents would pick them up on Hindley Street back in the day when we were out partying.
01:13:40
Speaker 30: Yeah.
01:13:42
Speaker 7: I don't think anyone who is picking up kids on Hindley Street would prefer them to walk down a dodgy alleyway to get to them on another road.
01:13:48
Speaker 4: So you'd push all the foot traffic to North Terrace or something, rather? Yeah. If that's a problem you're trying to fix, you're just moving the problem, I guess, aren't you? You just move the problem to one of the other streets. But look, let's mark the occasion, 14th of September. Just about everyone seems to think this is a good idea. Maybe some tweaks, but broadly speaking, everyone is pro Hindley Street redevelopment, which is great. If I'm wrong and you're sitting at home going, I think this is a crap idea.
01:14:12
Speaker 5: We think it's perfect as it is.
01:14:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. Leave it. Let us know. We'd be fascinated to hear your view. As always, 024808 1395, or you can call us on 8223 0000. We'll be talking more about the upgrade with the president of the West End Association, Andrew Wallace, very shortly. The other thing we'll try and do, In the last half hour, if you've got some thoughts on tweaks, changes, improvements, additions, subtractions from the Royal Show, we just had it for another edition, was there anything you'd do? Because we're going to have Will Rayner on and we're going to be talking to him about all the wrap-up from the show that was.
01:14:45
Speaker 7: Well, we've been talking about ramping, it feels like, for way too many years in South Australia and there's not a whole lot of... of improvement in the ramping space last month. The stats were the worst ever on record in South Australia. And the conversation as to why ramping has gotten so bad I think has really shifted over the past, I don't know, 12 months. The government, state government that is, is really focused on this idea of bed block, the aged care residents that are stuck in a hospital bed because there is no other place for them to go. But so far it's only been the state government that's been kind of singing from that song sheet.
01:15:28
Speaker 5: They don't want to.
01:15:29
Speaker 7: Push too hard because it's a federal Labor government and then it becomes a federal Labor issue. Now, though, we are hearing some rumbles in federal parliament about this and they're coming from Rebecca Sharkey, the federal member for the seat of Mayo, and she joins you this morning.
01:15:43
Speaker 5: Good morning, Rebecca Sharkey. Thanks for your time.
01:15:45
Speaker 10: Good morning.
01:15:46
Speaker 30: Good to be with you.
01:15:48
Speaker 5: Do you see this as a real issue like the state government does?
01:15:52
Speaker 13: Well, look, I think that this is a major issue nationally, but certainly in South Australia. If we look back to October 2022, we had around 60 older people that finished their time in hospital from a medical perspective but not able to go home because there wasn't a home care and there isn't a place to go into residential aged care. Now, that's gone up from October 2022 from 60 patients to now.
01:16:21
Speaker 13: Nearly 500, 487 older people are stuck in our hospitals. That effectively equates to the QEH and no longer hospital total beds. This is a crisis that is really the making of the federal government. And not being Labor, I'm happy to call it out for what it is. And this is because we've got blocks with CHIS, but that's the low-level Commonwealth Home Support, that people get a code and then they never actually get a place with CHIS because the government hasn't put money into that for years. And then we have around 200,000 older Australians either waiting to be assessed for support at home or actually get a package. And then when we look at actual residential aged care, we're supposed to be building about 10,000 extra places a year And last year, only 800 were built. So this is a crisis that's really an abject failure of the federal government.
01:17:24
Speaker 7: Where do you think, well, obviously the responsibility lies with the federal government, but at some point the scales are going to tip because, as you mentioned, it's gone from 60 to nearly 500 just in a few years, in a three-year span. As our ageing population continues to age, the problem will get worse and How can they address this?
01:17:47
Speaker 13: I think collectively all of the states need to put as much pressure as they can onto the federal government to right this wrong. And a lot of it just goes to being, you know, really mean with the funding. As I said, for that really low-level common-sign support, that's getting a bit of help in the home. Because what tends to happen is people are trying to manage themselves, whether that's mowing the lawn, cleaning the gutters, cleaning the windows. And then they fall off ladders and then they break their hips and then they end up in the hospital system. Or then people are not getting support at home, which is the next level of care because there's that 200,000 Australians waiting across the nation. And so then people are not eating properly or they're having difficulty cooking, cleaning the home, and then the problems there are often around malnutrition. which takes a long time to address. And then, of course, people are being delayed getting into an actual.
01:18:52
Speaker 27: Aged care bed, which is, again.
01:18:54
Speaker 13: Leading to those hospital blocks. So really what we actually need is the federal government to stop saying that they've fixed aged care and be honest with the Australian community and say we're failing at aged care and we need to do much better. Now, they did.
01:19:10
Speaker 13: Say that they would do a rapid review with respect to people being effectively AI assessed. That time's been and gone.
01:19:18
Speaker 10: I've got a question.
01:19:19
Speaker 13: Today in Parliament. And look, I've got about five different areas of aged care that I could ask that question on. But we have a federal aged care minister who is asked questions nearly every day in the Parliament. And they seem to be oblivious to the crisis that they're causing.
01:19:38
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:19:39
Speaker 7: Well, hopefully at some point they become not oblivious and actually start caring about the issue.
01:19:44
Speaker 5: Rebecca Sharkey, thanks for your time.
01:19:46
Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
01:19:47
Speaker 4: I've just got a little addendum to Breaking at Eight this morning. I've received a text. It would appear we are going to get some movement a little bit later today with regard to Wyala and the steelworks. There has been some really troubling noise about the future of the blast furnace, which is to say it has no future. There are 500 of the 1,100 jobs that are related directly to the blast furnace there, and it has been– well, the Premier spoke to Parliament a couple of weeks ago and said if it has to be– if it gets shut down, those jobs might have to go. The Premier is going to be in Wales a little bit later today to make an announcement, I've just been told. So watch this space.
01:20:26
Speaker 5: More to come.
01:20:28
Speaker 4: We would love that announcement to be, hey, there's a buyer who's going to install a new blast furnace. The timing doesn't feel like that.
01:20:36
Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure, and correct me if I'm wrong, but the conversation about it almost this whole time has been it's not really in a saleable condition without a blast furnace.
01:20:45
Speaker 4: Correct. That's right.
01:20:46
Speaker 7: So it needs that for someone to be buying it. No one's coming in to say, hey, I'll rescue you and I'll fix that big piece.
01:20:53
Speaker 4: Of infrastructure that's necessary. I'm sure when they all sat down around the table to say, okay, let's not add a deal for this with the state government, they were saying no. And who's going to pay the upfront infrastructure costs to get this thing operational? So our thoughts are with everyone in Whaler. We know how important that the steelworks is. I mean, we talk about in terms of sovereign steelmaking capacity in Australia, but if you think about the families, it's putting food on the table for in Whaler. And there's 500 of them that are going to be nervously awaiting that announcement a little bit later today. If you've got a really old... Sorry, Stacey, you were about to say something.
01:21:26
Speaker 7: I was just about to say, I just really feel for the people of Wales. It's just been such a rollercoaster decade?
01:21:32
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:21:32
Speaker 30: More?
01:21:33
Speaker 5: Even more than that?
01:21:34
Speaker 7: Every time there's even an inkling of some sort of announcement, positive or negative, it just has such a huge impact on everyone in the street, from the local cafe owner to the local shoe shop to people who work in the steelworks and their families. It's such a ripple effect around the town, and so I can imagine a day like today, they're all a bit on edge, so we are thinking of them.
01:21:54
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01:22:35
Speaker 1: Knock down, build two with Metro Homes. Sell one and move on. Keep the other as an investment. Metro Homes, they do it all for you.
01:22:44
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:22:49
Speaker 4: 25 after 8. Eric has called in with an old TV set. Eric, good morning to you.
01:22:56
Speaker 21: Good morning.
01:22:56
Speaker 8: I've got a problem.
01:22:57
Speaker 21: I can't get KO on my older TVs.
01:23:03
Speaker 4: Does it do apps or is it sort of pre-apps on the TV?
01:23:09
Speaker 21: It does apps, but apparently the latest version, it won't take the latest version. During football season, it's a disaster.
01:23:17
Speaker 4: Is that how you watch all footy these days, Eric, on KO?
01:23:22
Speaker 21: Yeah, if I can. Otherwise, obviously they're free to air if I can, but KO's, yeah, live and Most games are live on KO.
01:23:34
Speaker 5: So how old's your TV, Eric?
01:23:36
Speaker 21: Well, it's not that old. It's only, I think it's a 2020 model.
01:23:41
Speaker 14: Oh.
01:23:41
Speaker 21: But it doesn't accept the latest version, which is crazy.
01:23:45
Speaker 8: Sorry.
01:23:46
Speaker 4: Sorry, Eric.
01:23:47
Speaker 5: I don't mean to laugh.
01:23:48
Speaker 4: Among the old ones we've had entries for, it's on the newer end. But I take your point. Your country SA, Eric, how far out of Adelaide are you?
01:23:59
Speaker 8: 400km.
01:24:01
Speaker 4: Okay, so what kind of access do you have to watching normal free-to-air footy? Is it limited?
01:24:10
Speaker 21: Free-to-air is not too bad, but obviously sometimes they don't have the free-to-air matches on.
01:24:15
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:24:16
Speaker 21: Especially the crows.
01:24:18
Speaker 4: Of course.
01:24:18
Speaker 21: They don't have them on TV, so it makes it tricky.
01:24:22
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely. No, we get that. In this day and age, I'm going to try and speak a bit in defense of Eric here.
01:24:31
Speaker 5: No, I just love it. It's the oldest TV competition. No, I respect it.
01:24:36
Speaker 4: Where once an old TV might have been a picture tube that blows up. But this day and age, it's a software update that means you can't use any of your apps.
01:24:44
Speaker 7: Could you not stream on your iPad or laptop and then, I don't know.
01:24:50
Speaker 4: Mirror it.
01:24:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's the word.
01:24:52
Speaker 8: Yeah.
01:24:53
Speaker 5: Airdrop, not airdrop.
01:24:54
Speaker 4: No, mirror it or cast it. Airplay. Airplay.
01:24:59
Speaker 17: Yeah.
01:25:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's clunky, I guess. It would be annoying.
01:25:03
Speaker 5: It would be annoying.
01:25:04
Speaker 4: Thank you. Hey, Eric's in the running. He got through. That's okay.
01:25:06
Speaker 25: Is he?
01:25:07
Speaker 4: We'll have a meeting afterwards.
01:25:09
Speaker 5: Okay.
01:25:12
Speaker 34: All right.
01:25:13
Speaker 4: Let's talk about Idley Street. Andrew Wallace is the West End Association president. Andrew, good morning. Our thoughts immediately went to businesses and disruption, but it sounds like you're broadly supportive of the upgrade plan.
01:25:25
Speaker 23: We are broadly supportive and just a point of Just correction, I'm actually just a spokesperson, not the president these days.
01:25:30
Speaker 4: Oh, okay.
01:25:31
Speaker 23: But that's right.
01:25:32
Speaker 4: Not a problem.
01:25:33
Speaker 5: We'll make you the president, Andrew.
01:25:35
Speaker 23: Oh, just for a day. No, we've been advocating for this for many years, and so we're very pleased to hear that this partnership has finally come to fruition. I think the City of Adelaide had a plan out well over a year ago, actually, and it's great to see the state government coming on board with additional funding to make it an even better street.
01:25:54
Speaker 7: So there were a few options, I believe, closing it off altogether, making it one way. Does it go east-west? Does it go west-east? Of all of the different options, would you say this was the best one?
01:26:06
Speaker 23: I think the one-way street is certainly a really interesting option. I think what we gained through the one-way street is significantly widened footpaths, better access for deliveries for business and some parking. And really importantly, we get space to put trees, additional outdoor dining if it's required. There's a whole raft of things that actually really broaden that footpath and enables. Most importantly, at peak times, it just gives people more space to be able to circulate around safely. So I think regardless of east to west east, this needs to be properly tested. But a one-way street is a really interesting outcome for the street. And the street will appear so much different. I think it'll be a terrific outcome.
01:26:43
Speaker 31: Yeah.
01:26:44
Speaker 4: All right. Well, that's excellent. It seems to be the consensus too.
01:26:47
Speaker 5: I think, I'm with you now, Will. I'm confused. The state government, the council, the.
01:26:52
Speaker 7: Traders, everyone agrees this is a good thing.
01:26:57
Speaker 4: The devil will be in the delivery, but let's not knock it. If it's a good idea, it's a good idea. It certainly looks it, and we haven't been able to find many descending voices, if any, this morning. We do want to hear some voices after 8.30. We've got some opportunity, we've opened the phones. We've got some open line talkback time. So, 8223 0000. We'll be talking about the show. If you've got ideas for improvements or things that need to be added or removed from the show, give us a call. You want to talk crows and the fallout this morning, you can give us a call. If you want to talk about the One Nation's immigration policy, breaking at eight with regard to bed block and The Fed's now jumping into an issue that the state has been very keen to point out is a federal issue, albeit it falls on the state books when people are occupying public health beds. All things we'd love to hear your thoughts on this morning. So give us a call, 8223 0000, the number.
01:27:49
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01:27:57
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:28:01
Speaker 4: 19 minutes to nine. We've just been sent a really distressing picture. At Port Norlunga Beach, a dolphin has washed up. There are council representatives from presumably council on the scene there this morning. Obviously, your first thought is bird flu. But we'll learn more about that over the course of the day. But we're going to cross the scene. in just a moment on that. 8223 0000 is our number. We're opening the lines for talkback as well. We're going to talk the show in a moment, but lots of big issues. Breaking at eight as well has started a lot of conversation on the text line. So call time available. Otherwise, we will go to the text. 0248081395. William Fraser took the photograph of the dolphin and joins us now on 5AA Breakfast. William, good morning. Thank you. This is obviously really distressing. Is your suspicion that this might be bird flu? Was there any obvious, I guess I'm asking, any obvious signs of what the fate that might have befallen this poor dolphin?
01:29:01
Speaker 19: Look, I don't know what the reason was. I can say I've lived in Port Noongar for a year, and last year the algal bloom was roaring. There were dead fish everywhere. I haven't seen much signs of that this year. It was a juvenile dolphin by the looks of it, so I'm not sure how often they would die by natural causes, but I assume not often. So it does make you suspicious that it's something unusual. And obviously with the bird flu going around, that was my first thought.
01:29:29
Speaker 7: How far away were you from it when you first spotted it? And did you think as you got closer that it could ever be a dolphin?
01:29:36
Speaker 19: Look, yeah, I actually first was suspicious that it was a dolphin. I was only on a boardwalk at Port Nalanga, so it wasn't far from where most people walk. I first thought it might be a dolphin but that is quite unusual I've never seen one before and I kind of walk daily so it was like a white tinge I thought maybe it's a stone but then I second guessed myself like how would a stone get washed up on the beach it's not really something that big so yeah I had two dogs with me and I walked up and then I was kind of second guessing myself and whether it's a smart idea to bring my dog so close but I do kind of want to check it out and take a photo to see what it was maybe it wasn't the smartest thing but My Labrador, who normally would try and eat anything, didn't even go for it or anything. Maybe she knew that you should eat dead dolphins, but I was quite pleased that they didn't get too close. But yeah, I just walked up and had a look. It was only 50 metres from the old boat ramp at Port Noongar.
01:30:30
Speaker 4: With the suspicions, and again, we reiterate, we have no idea that this was a bird flu case yet, but this is what feels like all these things are suspected bird flu cases now. That being the case, did you get any advice medical-wise, William, for symptoms to look out for for you or for your Labrador having been close to this dolphin?
01:30:51
Speaker 19: Look, I actually didn't talk to anybody about it. I did call the hotline and I was on hold, but then I saw the two council workers walking off and so I just continued. But if I'm meant to do anything, maybe I'll check that out now. Maybe you're making me a bit concerned.
01:31:05
Speaker 4: No, no, don't be nervous, William. I was intrigued to see whether as part of reporting any suspicions like this, whether you get told something like that.
01:31:14
Speaker 19: Yeah, I didn't bother going through the reporting things. As I said, I did see the council workers there. And there was footprints around it, so I thought other people probably took photos and did the right thing.
01:31:22
Speaker 4: No, fair enough.
01:31:24
Speaker 5: Well, it's concerning. Dolphins. I think there was a whale that washed up.
01:31:27
Speaker 9: Yeah.
01:31:27
Speaker 7: There's a sea lion as well has now contracted bird flu. So we knew it was inevitable.
01:31:33
Speaker 4: That poor sea lion got attacked by a shark and then got bird flu.
01:31:36
Speaker 8: Oh, really?
01:31:36
Speaker 4: It's a rough week. You think you're having a bad week?
01:31:38
Speaker 8: Oh.
01:31:39
Speaker 4: Andrew says it could also be a natural death like the whale that you just mentioned, Stace, at Port Elliot last week. Absolutely. That's absolutely right. But we're on high alert for all these sorts of things at the moment because we know how dangerous bird flu can be. Thanks for chatting with us, William. We appreciate that. Trish has called in. Morning, Trish.
01:31:55
Speaker 30: G'day, mate.
01:31:57
Speaker 27: Look, excuse me.
01:31:59
Speaker 15: I just wanted to allay people's fears. Like, there's a lot of scaremongering going around, it seems, regarding immigration. that, oh God, you know, like if we stop all this immigration, like a million people in four years, which is outrageous, we're not going to have people to look after, for instance, our elderly, blah, blah, blah.
01:32:24
Speaker 30: Like this is absolute and complete rubbish. If you're living in the world of looking after your elderly parent, anyone that knows I look after mum on a daily basis.
01:32:41
Speaker 15: She's 93. And there are so many people applying for jobs. When I put an ad up on one of the higher sites, because I'm the one managing it now, I've taken the role away from the provider because they were too expensive and also didn't do a very good job. So you're allowed to self-manage. And I put an ad up several times now, looking for staff to help shower mum and do her toileting. All the jobs, as some people say, oh, Australians don't want to do it. But actually, I have a lovely Australian worker who is working for mum two days a week. And I have a lovely African girl, an African Christian girl who hasn't been here that long. And I was swamped with applications. There are people living in this country who are now underemployed, they cannot get work because there's too many carers here already.
01:33:45
Speaker 5: Too many carers, you think, Trish?
01:33:48
Speaker 15: Not think, I know.
01:33:50
Speaker 5: Wow, that's just not what the stats show.
01:33:54
Speaker 15: Well, that's a lie then because if you put an add up, like.
01:33:57
Speaker 10: If you were Stacey, it's Stacey, isn't it?
01:34:00
Speaker 5: Yes, that's my name.
01:34:01
Speaker 8: Yes.
01:34:02
Speaker 15: If you were looking after a 90-year-old person, you'd know the facts, but you don't. You are listening to scaremongering and misinformation.
01:34:15
Speaker 7: I'm listening to official statistics from the ABS, but you might call that scaremongering.
01:34:19
Speaker 5: That's okay.
01:34:20
Speaker 18: But look, Stacey, I get umpteen people, girls, men, lots of people, new immigrants, all applying for a one-hour job like, Well, that's great then.
01:34:33
Speaker 10: Let alone a whole week of work.
01:34:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, but it was just fantastic, Trish, and we're glad. That might go to the uniqueness of the work that you're offering. I know from my experience, I've got a father-in-law who needs intense care, and I don't think there is– it seems as though essentially 95% of the staff there aren't born in Australia, and they do a wonderful job. But maybe there is– if you're doing it one hour a week, it's a different, you may be combining it with other work. Um, maybe working one-on-one is excellent and really enjoyable.
01:35:10
Speaker 7: Um, and just because someone's white and doing that, my, my dad is also a care worker. He helps people, um, in the aged care industry and he's a Greek migrant. If you looked at him though, you probably wouldn't, wouldn't know that, but he was born overseas.
01:35:23
Speaker 5: He was born in Cyprus.
01:35:24
Speaker 7: So I just think a lot of the time we look at someone and make assumptions about who they are and where they've come from.
01:35:29
Speaker 9: Hmm.
01:35:29
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01:35:48
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01:36:32
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01:36:33
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01:36:34
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01:36:41
Speaker 2: Will Goodings with Stacey Lee. This is 5AA Breakfast.
01:36:47
Speaker 4: Seven to nine. Terrific call from Trish just before the break, who was making the case that in her personal experience, there's no trouble getting Australians to want to work in caring broadly, aged care. She is a 93-year-old parent that she cares for that needs assistance during the week. And she says, well, she doubts this whole thing campaign with regard to the one nation migration policy that we're going to see you have a difficulty finding carers a few disagreements um uh sharon disagrees sue says i work in the industry there is a lack of qualified aged care workers uh jane says we love all mum's carers african asian aussie british they're all fantastic and if they're nice people who want to work let's have more of them we need them as well as the students uh that goes with the money that goes into research uh others are sceptical of the ABS. They think it's been co-opted by the government. Oh, God. I'm just trying to, there's a lot of tech, I'm just trying to sort of get them sure, because a lot of people will write, you know, missives, and I'm just trying to condense it down so I can read a few down. Yeah, so keep coming into it, 4808 1395. Again, a debate that's been started today on a Monday morning, huge One Nation policy announcement, and I guarantee you it's going to be the talking point all day and over the course of the week. The big talking point over the last week or so has been the Royal Show. It's been another great success. Will Rayner, the CEO of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society, joins us. Will, good morning. Have you got numbers on attendance or anything like that yet?
01:38:15
Speaker 16: They're coming through, Will, gradually. It was a really strong event, probably going to be slightly above last year, which is a fantastic result. So what we did see that people really taking the advice to get all the value for money out of their ticket. So probably staying longer and doing all the hundred free things that you could do in the nighttime entertainment. So it was a great show. Everyone's a bit weary this morning trying to clean up the site, but it was a great show.
01:38:41
Speaker 7: Will, I saw a lot of people posting online who maybe had purchased the incorrect tickets or tickets for the wrong day and then were struggling to sort of change that over given that there's no sort of gate ticket purchasing option anymore. For next year, what would you advise for someone who's maybe made a mistake with their online purchasing?
01:39:02
Speaker 5: How can they get it fixed?
01:39:04
Speaker 14: Sure.
01:39:04
Speaker 16: So the website, the show.com.au is the best place to get all the information. We do have kiosks available on Sitespace. They're just not cash available there and we have assistance there on site as well. So plenty of people to help. We want to get as many people in as possible, obviously, so we try and make it as flexible as we can.
01:39:22
Speaker 25: Yeah, great.
01:39:22
Speaker 5: So you can talk to a staff member when you get there?
01:39:25
Speaker 23: Yeah, yeah, we have people that go every day.
01:39:28
Speaker 4: Well, what's long-term looking at the Royal Show? What's success? Out of some major events, it's trying to get something like the fringe. I imagine they always want the number to go up. They want more shows. They want it to be bigger. They want to grow the total. You've got limited space at the, at the show grounds there is the aim just about trying to get the attendance number up. Is it about trying to get people to you? You mentioned a metric, then trying to get people to spend more time at the show. What do you guys consider some success long-term?
01:39:56
Speaker 16: Well, long-term we've been around 186 years. I think long-term is a good one. Um, At our core and our purpose is to promote excellence in agriculture. So we're all about promoting this great agricultural sector in South Australia and getting people to understand where their food and fibre comes from. Now, the obvious way that everyone sees that we do that is through the annual Royal Show, but we're a not-for-profit. We maintain the site ourselves. We're very limited.
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Speaker 23: Government support.
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Speaker 16: We've got our own education foundations. We've got our own programs and youth in agriculture. So success for us is just continuing to be able to give back into agriculture. The show is obviously our biggest event, but we hold other events during the year as well, all with the purpose of promoting agriculture in the state.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I love seeing the kids from Urbrae Agricultural School there with all the animals, and they were doing the tractor rides as well, which Molly loved, riding a tractor. So it's really good to see them getting involved.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 23: We have a great partnership with Urbrae.
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Speaker 16: On Wednesday, they had to shut down Urbrae School because 95% of all the students were at the show.
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Speaker 3: I believe it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I saw a few of them.
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Speaker 16: Volunteering and showing exhibits. Some of our fastest growing competitions are in the lead steers competition, in the weather competition, the goats, the eggs. So that's where we're really coming back to our core purpose and what success looks like. We're getting this huge growth in the schools and youth-based competitions. bringing it back to the purpose of what the show is all about, and that's teaching people about where our food and fibre comes from.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, well, well done. Well enough, successful year. Will Rayner, the CEO of the Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society. Congratulations to Dan in Shido Park, who won the $ 200 innerwear voucher. The new innerwear store at Martin Shopping Centre has the perfect size and style for your body type.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Sorry, just got a really good text that we won't read out. We might hold on to that, but it's from someone who works in the disability support sector who's identifying with, I think, some science and a bit of nuance why we have discrepancies between the sorts of people and the sorts of jobs within the sector. And I think, and I need to read it because it's a long text, but he's making the point that there are You're exposed to different things in different parts of the sector. So the hiring experience might be entirely different based on that. And maybe we should stop. This has been now, not the text, talking about it all as one homogenous thing. Care is, you know, so all the jobs are the same. Not all the same as people who work in it like that texter, which we appreciate. We'll be well aware. All right, let's have a look at the fuel situation. Thanks to RAA on the way out. The Solo Port Adelaide Clear Street, $ 1.
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