Breakfast with David & Will - 17 June 2025

Published Jun 17, 2025, 12:35 AM

Chair of Police Legacy SA, Chief Inspector Kellie Watkins on National Police Legacy Day, Phill Coorey from the Canada G7 conference, Breaking @ 8 with Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis, Channel 9's Kelly Hughes on Gilberton murder, Her Excellency Governor of SA Frances Adamson on promoting SA in Southeast Asia & your calls. 

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Good morning to you and welcome to a Tuesday on five to A breakfast. This is the seventeenth of June. We're going to be interviewing the Governor of South Australia, Francis Adamson this morning. The looking forward to that should be part of our official lineup for the Best of SA dinner at Adelaide Oval on Friday night. But here on the program after eight thirty. Always enjoy our chats with the Governor and very much looking forward to that. I also looking forar to catching up with Phil Curry the Eyes of the World on the u G seven sum At the moment, Phil Curry is there shadowing the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Alberanez. He met with Mark Carney, the Canadian PM yesterday. Of course, we've got the Donald Trump meeting that's going to happen in the next twenty four hours. What has Phil been able to glean on that trip we'll find out trial by jury. We've got an acknowledgment of Police Legacy Day we're going to do before seven o'clock today, and a local fire story that is either a case of really bad luck or something else, but we'll get to that very very shortly as well. David Penberthy, good morning to you.

Good morning listeners, Good morning. We're very excited about chatting to Governor Francis Adam and later on in the show not the owners of the GOV got confused. I would have been excited to talk to me the Gove as well. But yeah, yesterday we'll say we've got the gov coming on for best of us. I love that. I love that venue, I reckon. I've been there fifty times and well, just sort of be like, he's lost it. He's lost it again.

I'm going to see the job. I did want to flat you because I could see the joy in your eyes getting to talk about something you love so much.

It's not meandering anecdotes about Mexico or random recipes being plucked out of the air. I preprod of nothing. It's sentimental chat about I remember seeing where's the poope there in nineteen eighty nine. But yeah, no, the real governor, the real governor.

DoD you reckon, there's ever a moment the real governor misses her old life's a bit.

Going on in the world at the moment. Well, to use that turn of phrase.

And she used to be in the thick of this, yeah, diplomatic postings around the world, and she was solving these sorts of issues representing Australia.

I think the biggie for her she was our ambassador to China, but she was the head the Departmental Secretary, which is effectively the CEO of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She was the person who used to have to go and appear before estimates, where you get these blustering politicians trying to trip her up or get it a saying, you know, intemperate things that suited their worldview, be they hawks or doves on questions like China. I think I reckon diplomacy would be like the ultimate intellectual activity in a lot of ways, where you've got to prosecute the national interest as aggressively as you can, in a way where you pretend like that's the farthest thing from your mind. You know, when you're dealing with host nations that are often whose interests and whose conduct are antithetical to yours.

Totally the whole the analysis piece that comes before the negotiation too, I'd find completely fascinating sit in and say so what matters to these guys and how do you address that in a way that's polite to them? Like culturally, what are their sensitivities? Economically what are their sensitivities? Where are the no go areas? How do you address things that are prickly to this country because maybe they don't have a culture of directly addressing things that are controversial like all that stuff. I just find it would be fascinating to.

Work through the thing too about being a diplomat, it's a hugely interesting lifestyle. Like you get up ended a lot, so you have you have postings, and you do a posting and it's three years minimum extendable to four. But then you have to come back and you have to return to base, which is normally in Camp Bro, and do three years extendable to four there I think, I think, I'm not sure if that part's extendable, but you do. It's almost like fi Fo on steroids. So you do three years on, three years off pretty much, and you can ask to be sent to countries that sort of fit your skill set. But I've got I've got a couple of mates, really good mates who have worked for years with DFAT and the extent of the training they get. Like a friend of mine went to Thailand and they were put through this course in Thai that went for I think it went for six months. So by the time they arrived in Thailand. And when I say six months, this isn't an hour a night on duwe Lingo. This is your nine to five job with exams. So by the time they arrived in Thailand, they spoke Thai and they can read Thaie, which is crazy. Yeah, it's a beautiful written language. It's one of the prettiest written languages. I think it looks aesthetically ties very pleasing to read. The other thing, though, is like growing I love Tintin books, you know, all the sort of exotic adventures and that. Like a lot of countries, when you go there, you get what's called a hardship allowance, and I think from memory, Dilly was one for a while. I don't think it is anymore. Caracas definitely is. Tel Aviv, Israel or that one hundred percent couple definitely is. But then you get you get countries that are just hard I don't think Mexico City's one, but yeah, Caracas in Venezuela definitely is well, you can earn up to twenty percent more of your existing salary. But it's not I thought the numbers you were going to say, no, it was not double. But we years and years ago, makeswife and I went and visited this friend of ours when she was working at the Australian embassy in Brazilia. Now, Brazilia is like the third world version of Camber. It is the easiest planned city in the middle of the desert. From the air, the geography of Brazilia looked like an aeroplane. So you got this grand avenue that's like the fuselage, and then the residential areas fan out like wings. That was the idea they had. Part of the idea. The main cathedral looks like a like a Mentos designed to look like a church wave. He's the craziest modernist architecture, Robert Hughes Canda. He said, it's an utterly dysfunctional dystopia. But when we went there, his Make's wife and I years and years ago, like our friends, they had their house was it looked like Pablo Escobar's house, because that's just the way diplomats are house there with like you know, there was an armed guard with a machine gun out the front. Wow, this pool that was like probably oh easily easily twenty by ten meters with no fencing, all these tropical trees outdoor. Crrasco barber, thank you. That a servant and that's just like, well, that's the way rich people live securely in Brazil. It was just white to revisit the original point to go from there. The opening night at a cabaret festival is sort of a different change in lifestyle, isn't it. Who's coming in today? It's the scouts from Saint Mary's. You know, this is this is all good important stuff. It's great stuff. It's just a different speed, yeah, different from meeting at a Michelin starred restaurant on the thirty eighth floor of some hotel in Shanghai, though, wasn't it. We were talking to the governor after eight thirty of this morning, sixteen after six news headlines coming up.

Next David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to line five double a breakfast.

Minutes after six, was chatting with one of the wonderful Camos at sunrise and seven Ben Cashman just before seven o'clock sorry six o'cock when we came on the air because he's at the scene of this Blackwood wool With shopping center fire that took place overnight. It wasn't in the woolies, but it's in the neighboring barber shop. The front window has been smashed in. Police are investigating, haven't listened to Brittany Evans from the MFS.

CFS crews were called to Shepherd's Hill Road at Blackwood just before one thirty am this morning to reports to the fire in a shop. The quick response by volunteer firefighters on three trucks helped to extinguish the fire rapidly and prevented the business from being destroyed. Cruise also stopped the fire from spreading to neighboring shops on either side. However, they have been impacted by smoke. Total losses are estimated at more than forty thousand dollars. And say police are investigating the cause.

It sounds deliberate, doesn't it. It sounds very subsic. A barbershop doesn't just catch fire with a windows well, and it's got a history. You hear a bit more about that after seven o'clock when we chat with Ben. He know's the full history of it because he's the guy that gets up and covers these things every single day until we'll talk about that history spontaneously combusting as ad luck perhaps, Yeah. Yeah.

Police investigating suspicious death at Gilberton. Just after seven last night, VGC services were called to a uniton Walker Terrace after reports of a person collapsed inside. When officers arrived, they found someone deceased at the scene. Detectives in Major Crime Officers declared the death suspicious. A woman has been detained it is currently assisting police with their inquiries. Evidence of human occupation dating back to the Ice Age have been found at a cave site near Lithgo in New South Wales. Really archaeologist say artifacts found it the Hatters Hideout Cave make it the oldest high mountain site continually occupied by humans in Australia.

How many years ago the Ice Age? How long ago was the Ice Age? Great question? When was the Ice Age? I haven't got that one down in my diary.

My knowledge of history starts tapping out generally sometime around the Bronze Age. Now, you've always been a big bronze guy, with one hundred and fifteen thousand between one hundred and fifteen thousand, years ago and eleven thousand, seven hundred years ago.

Okay, so that's within because say indigenous history forty thousand years old, Well they didn't they put that up recently, didn't they go to eighty thousand?

Yeah, I'm not sure. Well it's a well it's a I mean, by the true it is a form of indigenous occupation, isn't it.

Yeah? Yeah, yeah, Well they know that's within that time frame night eleven thousands of suit to one hundred, isn't it. It depends on the sort.

Anyway, as recently as eleven thousand years ago, there was was ice age.

So it's a cave in Sydney, just outside the Sydney Liftgo Home of Betty Cathbert, the let's go flash. I wonder if there's a Sydney real estate agent trying to sell it. It's probably worth about seven million dollars. If you stand.

Up here, you can see all the way to the harbor, clear clear through to the heads. And that's why that's why cave men lived here uninterrupted. They held they held tight onto this.

One fixer upper. It was a cave. There's a bit of t l See, we're gonna lose all about East London listeners, because every time we talk in a sort of about anyone being shoonky, we end up standing like Arthur Daily, That's true. It's a form of racism. Will Indeed, Tabcorp.

Has been fined for sending more than six thousand messages to VIP customers. The Communication Watchdog has handed the gambling company a four million dollar fine. AKMA Authority member Samantha Yorke says this serious breaches.

Is frustrating to receive at the best of times, but when gambling is involved and VIP customers are being targeted with communications, there's a potential for genuine harm.

Is that what they subscribe for? Like, if you're a VIP, don't you want texts telling you hey, because you're a VIP, you're a mayor gambler. Isn't that the sort of in your face attention you want from tab Corp?

So presumably Tabcorp being fump just rereading this for sending more than six thousand messages to your it did each individual get six thousand text messages? Because six thousand in toto probare doesn't seen. I mean that is a lot. If it's sixth the OUTSI but how is it any different.

I don't know. I haven't got any betting apps. But if you've got them, do you ever get texts from them?

Yeah?

Sometimes they call you. Well, they ring you, yep, they ring you and goh, just I wonder if you're aware of some exciting new specials. What a real person rings you? Yep, they sure do. You were kidding me? Yeah, it's incredibly annoying. Wow, how is that not worse than what Tabcorp? Did? Wait? Well, yeah, I'd rather much get a text I could ignore than a phone call. It really is just like off the charts in this country, isn't it completely?

The Prime Minister will soon be paid more than US President Donald Trump when the salaries of federal politicians are boosted next month the Remuneration Tribunal, shall we use the turn of phrase now arms length arms length it's raising the salaries of MPs by two point four percent. Anthony have an easy salary will be lifted to six hundred and twenty two thousand dollars. He's not releasing his own phone, though, is he? Have you seen that story? Donald Trump will talk about that after seven o'clock today. He's making Trump Phone to take on Apple and he has a plane as well. Imagine of Albow got given a gift of a plane that he could just keep by a country that we're not particularly close to.

It was Katar. He gave the plane front he Imagine if I know Brunei would be a good example. Imagine if the Sultan and Brunei just suddenly took a shine to Elbow and said, I'm going to give him a plane. He's like in the top ten richest people on Earth, isn't he the Sultan? Great question?

Great question that said. Elbow does own Sydney real estate. So that probably is ten point four degrees outside at the moment, heading for a top of sixteen today. Up to a mill of rain possible, but not necessarily likely. It's going to be dry for the next few days. Sixteen the top tomorrow, within overnight low of just six.

Tomorrow morning.

Yeah, a little bit around yesterday, decent, nineteen on Thursday, at twenty on Friday, and twenty on Saturday. No rain either of those days. They're going to be magnificent days. We're going to get some good rain Sunday and Monday. So nineteen the top Sunday up to ten meals of rain Monday top of sixteen, but two to fifteen meals of rain, so potentially a little decent downpour for Sunday the twenty second and Monday the twenty third of June. Tom Rens of the five Double a breakfast studio as we turn our attention to sport thanks to glider Or Garrett's Jaws adding strength, style and safety to your home gliderol dot com dot are you ready.

In the morning, Morning David, a bit of football around the place. We spoke a bit about ports wind yesterday and now this sweating on the fitness of a couple of players, Jason Horn Francis and Alia Relia. So they've got to need them, I reckon if they're going to be a big chance to make some kind of run scans yesterday it doesn't look great. Horn Francis look like he's in a bit of discovery.

Well well, Sam Daddo, who was doing the bountrig for us during the Port game, just said he was in real pain. Yeah, not just slight discomfort. He was in there was weird, real concern at the game based on his description of Jason or Francis on the sideline.

So that doesn't sound great.

And he's not the kind of that we just come off and say, I'm a bit sore, you.

Know, I just need to rub.

Yeah, he's pretty tough players, so hopefully he's okay, but we should know a little bit more today. And Eliot had his scans last night, so he got that one below the knees which tried to come going on and he looked terrible to me. He couldn't move and they kept him out there for probably half a quarter. Yeah, but yeah, so.

That was one of those ones we're being courageous. I mean, he's always sort of seen as doing the team thing. But you went, yeah, we appreciate your bravery. Baby, don't get off the ground. Yeah, you don't need to prevent anything, do anyway.

No, that's right.

Great stories you'll often get at major championships in tennis and in golf, and so it proved again yesterday. There was a guy called JJ Sporn, who you know. To I think most lay sports fans, no one probably knows anything. He's only ever won one PGA too event he did finish runner up this year at the Players Championship to Rory McElroy, and yesterday he was one off the lead at the start of the round totally fizzled. He shot five over in his first six holes.

He was gone. He was four or five shots back.

Then they had this massive rain break, and then they come back out and he just played some of the best golf of his life. He made it fifty foot part for birdie on the part five to twelfth hole. Everyone else is crumbling around him, and then he had two putts to win the PGA, to win the US Open from sixty feet, it's like putting on this tabletop that this desk were on. The greens are so hard and firm and difficult, So sixty feet to two put to win.

This is how he did it.

What a cozy that don't need to make it two puts one?

So you know it's a long part running when it's fifteen seconds worth of crowd reaction, but that's ball was traveling a long while.

How was the sixty four feet he'd been to after binning a fifty foot on the twelfth If you make a hundred feet worth of putts in a round, you've had a good day. I reckon he would have made one hundred and sixty feet in the last seven holes.

He's had the finish of a lifetime, so.

That's got hard. The scores were.

It was so one under he was one under.

No other player finished under par I don't actually mind seeing players at that quality grind because most weeks the fair ways are huge.

They can just it's called you know, stop and drop.

So they just bombed as far as they can and then a wedge in and it becomes a parting contest, whereas this like if you're in the rough, good luck and players like Adam Scott and Sam Burns. Unfortunately the final group they shot fifteen over between them. They just got annihilated. So it was brutal out there, and just on Scott, I mean ninety six consecutive majors. I hope he has another chance at winning one. He's got the British Open next month, that's the final one for the year. But not unfortunately his time this time. But his swing is so gorgeous. But it was just it was a you're right, an absolutely brutal course out there, so amazing and we'll run to jjsponn thirty four years of age and your boys will in action again today. Yes, reminding the stats on when it's two all and the team winning Game five and going on to win the series. It's it's almost whoever wins this game, it's just about lights out.

So the statistics improved in the past.

Yeah, History is a guy. Yeah, sufficiently nervous and just made me feel worse. So that was good.

You're ready, David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five, double a breakfast.

Twenty five minutes to seven. In an hour's time, we're off to Canada. Phil Courrie is traveling with the Prime Minister Anthony Alberzi at the G seven summit that's taking place there in the next twenty four hours. It will be the site of the meeting between Anthony Alberanzi and Donald Trump. Well, they'll talk about aucust, they'll talk about the trade restrictions that have been the tariffs that have been put on Australia. It's going to be a big twenty four hours for Anthony Alberzi and Phil Curry will have the best preview you're going to hear anywhere of it. After seven thirty this morning, then we're gonna have a trial by jury and a little bit later, the Governor of South Australia, Francis Adamson, is going to join us overnight in the Israeli run conflict. We just heard a bit of that audio would have played again in our five Double News with Jade Robin. Have you seen this the video of Iranian State TV being bombed while they're on the air. So it's like a it's a routine broadcast, the likes of which you might see anywhere in Australia local television. I think it's the state run. It's the state run television, so it'd be the equivalent of an ABC broadcast where you're watching for the latest news and this happens fas.

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It looks so extraordinary, it almost looks like it's fake. The set and the.

Stage, the volume, crikey blows apart, extraord the host seems to exit okay, but it is just it's remarkable. There was warning now Israeli said, we warned that we were going to target that area beforehand. I don't know what the I don't know how enthusiastically that warning goes out. I'm not I'm not entirely sure, but it was. It was pretty remarkable. Donald Trump at the G seven, as I just mentioned, he commented on the conflict and said it needs to end.

They have to make a deal, and it's painful for both parties. But I'd say Irana is not winning this war and they you should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's still leave.

Israel has even said that they might even knock off the Eitler, we actually kill their leader.

There's some speculation, and it's only speculation is we'll never know that they have people in plates to be able to do it. And it was it was the sort of line that when they did, they did they not ask the US's permission to do all this. It's hard to imagine they didn't. Donald Trump said, that's where we draw the line. You're not doing that, Yeah, because part of the original plan was we're going to knock out the entire leadership because Israel wants to create an environment where the eye Titler is overthrown.

Want they want them the mo because there's a significant moderate faction in Iran, massive like you know, there's heaps of people who were women in particular, who would be dreaming of the Ayatollah being out of the picture. Apparently the Iran Iran sound like they're like they want this to stop. And apparently they've asked the Gulf states like Qatar and Uee and a couple of the other ones. I think I'm on to talk to Trump because he's got they've got good relations with the West, and so can you can you talk to Net and telling him to pull his heading in. But it's just another demonstration of how under Net Israel thinks no one else is going to help us. We're just going to do this ourselves, our way.

And you know, big kind of or cod position for Ran isn't to suddenly say we need the US to sort of step in and say, can we, you know, calm the conflict, because they have had the odd death to the USA march in recent years, haven't they.

And they had two confirmed plots to assassinate Donald Trump. Yeah, that's now that is poorly timed. Yeah, so looked. Let bygones be by gones. Yeah, forget all that. We need a bit of a hand here. Yeah, let's try and start again. Eight double two three double a double?

Is that how you can text us on a zero before eight zero eight thirteen ninety five as well?

Some texts coming in or so you can't read. My instinct is always to go for humor, and you know with you, we'll being a news reader a few people from making comments about how you go with it. At the same time, though, we're talking about a situation where, you know, say, any innocent people getting killed on both sides. The thing is, the thing that's really appalling about this is and this is what when we spoke to the guy in Tel Aviv yesterday. In the past, you know, the type of missiles that have used aunts aren't as good at hitting their targets, but these are genuine weapons of war being fired in all apartment blocks. It's just terrible, isn't it.

There's some extraordinary vision last night that we had on seven US that lent balast to what our guest in tel Aviv was telling us yesterday. It is remarkable the degree to which these buildings that have been ostensibly destroyed. Our apartments within these buildings that have been blown apart, but the safe room withinside inside stays entirely intact. There's the videos of people have their save from they get a little bed in there, they've got some food stores and so forth. It's pretty rudimentary. But then once you open the door to re into your apartment, the apartment's not there.

Any more.

But the safe room is intact. I know what they make him out of, what the engineering that goes into it, but it is remarkable and I don't think we've ever seen him tested like this. Maybe they've never been tested like this before, but some of the imagery is it's incredibly impressive design set against the backdrop of obviously something pretty brutal and confronting.

Imagine that being like sort of part of the what you look for in a home. You know, here it's like like a double card lug lock up garage would be nice, But over there it's like what's the bombshelter situation? Like, you know, if we've been rained down and there's a bit of a gap in the Iron Dome that night, now where do I put the kids? I'd be out of that country quicker than I like. I don't know where listeners have gone to Israel. I wonder if we've got any his listeners have gone to or Ran. Apparently it's almost impossible to get in. The food writer and broadcaster Anthony Bourdain. He spent years seeking and eventually getting permission to go into Iran. He did a great film, a great show about it.

Was one of his one of my friends in Iran really went and visited just as sort of a real jet center type of like just to go to places in the world that you don't typically go to, and said it was unbelievable, really good because there was a sort of this duality of culture there where Out in public, it was this very fundamentalist Islamic experience, but then the moment you get behind closed doors, it was like the old pre nineteen seventies Persia was back. Yeah, yeah, and he said it was just remarkable what happened outside and then inside in places, especially among young people, which is what Israel trying to tap into.

My dentist for a while was an Iranian woman. Yeah. And I knew a guy in Sydney called Ama who was in the Villawood detention Center but eventually got given the Australian citizenship because he was an appos state, which is someone who's changed their religion, which is against in Islam. It's well in Sharia law punishable by death at its most extreme. If you renounce your Islamic faith and become a Christian or any other religion, watch out. And he'd done that in Iran.

We'll ask you on this morning on eight double two three double o double about your guilty pleasures and the manner of which they manifest financially, things that you won't say no to despite costs going up and so forth. There was a piece of the ties of this morning by data Comparison site Finder that revealed fourteen point one million of us so fair whack. We're indulging at least one of the four short term what they call dopamine hits across seven days. Things that eat into the budget? What are those things? Vapes, booze, fast food and food delivery. I don't know fast food, I guess you go get yourself as opposed to food delivery, forking out two hundred and sixty one dollars a week, which adds up to thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars a year. That's after tax as well. Almost half of the people who responded do by takeaway each week. Alcohol was the next most common, with two and five. About forty percent of people buy alcohol every week. Twenty one percent of people, about one in five used uber eats and their equivalents one in five bought cigarettes or vapes weekly. It is a staggeringly high cost when you think about it, So what do know what yours don't think about it? Yeah, well that's that's clearly how we all do it. Thirteen thousand, five hundred dollars a year is a huge amount of money. It's like buying a car every well, it's almost like buying.

A car over.

Let us know what are your guilty pleasures? Eight double two to three double o double O. Doesn't matter if they're not, if they don't have a health sticker on them, or if they you know, aren't the smartest use of your money. It's your money, do whatever you want with it. Let us know what yours are. Those folks, we'd love to hear from you.

Speaking of things that are frowned upon, I was in traffic yesterday in the city and I was thinking, remember the interview we did with Chris Pickton about Hamgate for ham ads, salami and how processed foods, the list of goods and products that the Health Department things shouldn't be advertised with. The Minister said ham is not on his radar. He even sent me a photo of a ham sandwich that he'd made for his kids in their lunch box that day. But I remember I was thought back during that interview because I asked him what about subway, because he was saying, this is all about going after junk food. It's about going after KFC, you know, three piece feeds, zinger Berger's macas, et cetera. But he said when I said, what about subway, and he said, we're going to take a case by case approach because I think that, like subway is a good example. And the reason I thought of this was yesterday I saw an entire bus covered in subway, like the whole bus was a subway. At the length of the bus was a twelve inch sub And then I saw another bus that on the back had Primo salami in the stackers the ones you put in your kids lunchbox. And I thought, that's the other thing I'll get into it about. It's be worth an enterprising journalist. Well maybe that could be us. Maybe we could do that ourselves, get onto Primo, get on a subway and take is everything all right?

Yeah?

If you had any feedback about jumping through any extra hoops, because.

Don't you reckon. Subway is a classic example of something that can either be total garbage or really really good. I mean, you can go there and say, I want the three meats, double cheese under the gorilla with ranch sauce, and you know we could have all vegetables. Yeah, tuna avocado letters good.

Like getting any advertising on a train at the moment if you've seen them back in government, back in your hands, the big advertising.

I wonder what we the taxpayer have paid for that? Or do we not need to pay ourselves? I wonder when the election is too Yeah, let's check traffic.

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David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine, five, double a Breakfast, eleven.

To seven, asking you the sorts of things that cost of living will never kill your guilty indulgences. Peter says it's buying Sturt merchandise and Badgers.

Thank you. Peter. Andrew had a one word response alcohol, thank you. Andrew.

Another from conn who says, I indulge in five different paid apps to watch various soccert competitions, and I like this one good quality local produce olives, cheese, wine, crackers, so forth, life is too short.

For bad olives yeah, totally con You need five different paid apps to watch soccer, don't you you do?

It needs to be They need to be bundled in one place. It is ridiculous. It's chasing all the different leagues and so forth.

I can't remember which one give meant to be watching at any given time. Exactly.

All right, let's say to the weather Bureah. Hannah marsh is on duty this morning. Hannah, looks like we're going to a little bit of a dry patch.

Good morning, David and Will. Yeah, we do still have a few showers around this morning. Showing up on the weather watch radar. We have seen falls of less than five millimeters, with one point six millimeters in the city gauge. But as you mentioned, we do have a high pressure system that's moving in which will clear the showers away. We are looking at a maximum of sixteen for the city today, fifteen for Elizabeth and Glen Elga no longer, and fourteen at Mount Barker, sixteen again tomorrow. But we also see the temperature start to increase as we head later into the week as that high moved out to the east and the winds come around to the north. But there is a chance that we do see some shower activity next Sunday with another system moving through.

Good stuff. Hannah, thanks for that, Hannah Marsh there from the Weather Bureau, I see you, comestable.

Liam Bennett joins us from SAPOL and limb this suspicious death at Gilbertin last night.

What can you tell us about it?

Yeah, good morning gents. Just seven pm last night police responded to reports that a man had collapsed inside a unit on Walkerville Terrorist at Gilberton and when police arrived, they sadly found a sixty five year old man deceased at the property and detectives from Eastern District, CIB and Major Crime attended the scene and they determined that the man's death was suspicious. And just prior to this incident, police were called to another home on Walkerville terrast after an intruder was seen in a backyard. The woman allegedly smashed a window at the rear of the property and gained entry while the occupants were inside, and police responded to this scene as well, and they arrested a woman who was taken to hospital for treatment of several lacerations and following a complex investigation, overnight the thirty year old woman from Gilberton has been arrested in relation to the break in as well as the man's death, and she is expected to be charged with murder and she will face court in the coming days.

More details to merge on that one. I'm sure we get Liam, Senior Constable Liam Bennett from Sapole the aptly and sadly ahead of this next chat. I was reading yesterday and I only just popped up fleetingly on news dot com a police officer in Tasmania during some routine pullover was shot dead. Just appalling and no further details yet on why. Sounded like a routine traffic stop. And you know, we had the the honor the other day of sitting down in the wake of the what's her name Brandon Jane Cruise case, Anthea back with Anthea back, Constable Anthea back, all that she's been through. It's an apt thing to reflect on on Police Legacy Day, isn't it.

Yeah, there are moments, there's news stories when you say that there's nothing that surprising about a recruitment shortage, and I think in a low sense it goes to things like police officers being.

Adequately protected by our courts.

They've belatedly got that one right, or it goes to walking into unpredictable danger like in that scenario in Tasmania. They are incredibly brave. It's incredibly important the work they do, and it's why police legacy exists. And today is National Police Legacy Day and there's a big function on today to acknowledge the work, sacrifice and just the daily risk the police officers take to keep us safe. Chief Inspector Kelly Watkins joins us on five Double A Breakfast. Kelly Watkins, good morning to you.

How good morning David Will So, Kelly, can you give us a sense I'm not trying to put you on the spot here. I don't know if you have the national figures at hand, but there must be a heck of a lot of kids and spousers who get support through legacy. I mean I can think of, sadly, I can think of, off the top of my head at least half a dozen cases, well no more than that, where police officers have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty.

Yeah, well, it's tragic and I think that what we saw yesterday in Tasmania really highlights the dangers that our police face every day, and I just really wanted to acknowledge the family, friends and colleagues of this police officer who's unfortunately lost their life. And it's unfortunately all too familiar in this space where you know, we've seen the loss of Jason Doig in South Australia on duty, the wayan Billa incident where we lost two officers in Queensland, and while we lose a serving police officer, it's really important to remember that there's a family behind that officer. There's parents, there's as children potentially that have lost the loved ones through you know, their family member service to the Australian community.

How long has the legacy been going, Well.

It's quite an interesting story. The legacy began fifty four years ago today in Queensland when a group of Queensland Police officers that presided the informal tradition of passing the hat around to help their grieving families of a lost police officer just wasn't enough. They decided something more enduring was needed and something worthy of these families. And with that idea, they actually began the first legacy movement in Australia. And so what began is that real grassroots act compassion amongst colleagues has grown into a national movement where today we have police eight police legacy organizations operating independently in every state and territory across Australia and we are all united in a purpose that we stand with police families through life's most difficult moments.

Now, Kelly, ways in which our listeners can participate in support police legacy. You've got pins available, but also there are some participating florists as well. What's the full suite of ways in which people can donate to legacy today?

Yeah, so today we've got Police Legacy pins that can be purchased for five dollars at Drake's Supermarket and the Police Credit Union branches across South Australia. If members of the public would like to, they can head to our website and purchase a pin there also, or they could make a donation of support. We have several of our state's iconic buildings lighting up blue this easning in recognition of Police Legacy Day, and if you head to our website you can have some details on participating florists in relations to Police Legacy Day. The connection to Florist is that the logo for Police Legacy Day is the micromas daisy, the daisy of the patrons saying of police in Saint Michael. So it makes a nice connection to our legacy movement. Is the daisy Saint Michael.

Yeah, well, well hover, it's a successful day for you, Kelly, and I hope everyone gets behind and supports this wonderful organization, Police Legacy. The Essay branch that are celebrating National Police Legacy Day today, Chief Inspector Kelly Watkins our guest before we go to the break, couple of texts on people's pleasures that no financial crunch will kill some really good ones coming in.

Yeah, really good variety. Michelle says. My indulgences are streaming services and ebooks. I could probably live without the streaming services, but not the books. And what about our good mate Cas in Brompton. Hey, Kas, my kids that we've become addicted to tracing paper on account of that gift you gave. You gave us that day we're at the Central Market. I have to go and buy some more from office works. Caz is my guilty pleasure having six different types of coffee beans awaiting my choosing as to which one I will grind for my two to three coffees a day, and that sounds Here's one for Quentin that should give anyone who's still on the darts incentive to get off the damn things. Quentin's fellows. It used to be a guilty pleasure. Not now. Make's wife and I. We used to spend more money on cigarettes than our mortgage per week. My lungs thank me. For the last twelve years, I've replaced it with quality beef and lamb and Maria. I love Maria. This is so good. What about spending one hundred dollars on a panatone that doesn't taste any different than fifteen dollars one?

Keeping coming in eight double two to three double O double our Texas on zero before eight zero eight thirty ninety five hour wrap of the morning stories next, including some big moves in the morning industry here in South Australia.

I'm going to take you to the scene of a suspicious fight.

David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five double a breakfast.

Minutes after see even good morning too.

If you're joining us for the very first time on this Tuesday morning, All things being equal.

It's not that cool.

Eleven degrees doesn't sound great, but when you look at the forecast for the rest of the week, it's gonna get us low as six tomorrow morning. Then we're in single digits as far as low's go right for until Sunday, where it maybe creeps up to ten and then a low of eight and some showers on Monday. So all things being equals, I say, it's not that cool a start to the date just feels that way. Stick around wherever you are, whatever you're doing to A couple of big interviews we're going to be conducting this morning. Phil Curry from the Australian Financial Review is shadowing the Prime Minister at the G seven summit in Canada. We will talk to him ahead of the meeting with Donald Trump that's going to take place in the next twenty four hours and get a sense of what has already been established and what is on the agenda and has been with Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister, and what else Australia has happened to get out of this trip from the Prime Minister. So we'll talk about that with Phil Curry after seven thirty and then an hour later the Governor, Francis Adamson is going to join us on five to blaw breakfast and this is going to be great.

She wants to talk about a couple of her.

Own trips, one to Vietnam where she was talking education, and another trip that's coming up very very shortly to India and the subcontinent. We mentioned right at the start of the program. Her former life was as an Australian diplomat. She's been doing some travel and she can provide a pretty unique perspective both as South Australia's chief ambassador, but also as someone who's lived that life, lived in communities and made at Australia in the past. So that'll be a really interesting conversation. I reckon after at thirty today.

Amazing life and an amazing career. Most certainly is all right.

Let's shop into the news cycle this morning, and a couple of our biggest companies here in South Australia have been making moves. Let's start with Santos, which is the biggest company headquartered in South Australia. They have agreed to a thirty billion dollar deal to sell to a consortium of investors led by an ABU Dhabi based state owned oil company. The board has endorsed the deal. A cash off of price of twenty eight percent above the share price was the catalyst behind this. They made a really good offer. Now this is intriguing for South Australia because there are elements here that the South Australian government would have does have control over that you wouldn't otherwise when there's a private takeover. Because South Australia issues the licenses when it comes to exploration and the access to these sites and so forth, so there can be conditions put on the sale by the state government. Have a listen to the Energy Minister Tom Kitzintana's I'm not.

Sure this will have an impact on power prices. I think the impact here is going to be on jobs that investment. It could be more investment, could be more jobs. We don't know yet. So that's why we've got to take time to assess this.

So that's why his tone is about, well you need to convince us. Where typically private companies buy one but it's not governments don't have a stake. They do in this and we do in this because, as I say, it's our biggest company, one of the conditions that has been made clear that the state government says is a non negotiable is the headquarters.

Stays here Inlade.

And it sounds as though according to the advertisers reporting that the consortium have agreed to that that they will keep it here.

I just want to read it. That's also one of extinction rebellion conditions as well, because otherwise what will they glue themselves to you?

That is a great question we may one of our listeners can turn their minds to. On the text lines zero WA thirty ninety five. I just want to read you a bit of the spin so you can make up your own mind. This is what that consortium are telling USK the South Australian taxpayer, because we do have a role to play here. They have promised that the headquarters will stay here. They will support local employment and local communities, accelerate investment in gas in Australia and the wider region to quote, provide reliable and affordable energy and low carbon solutions to customers in Australia, the Asia Pacific and beyond. That's the pitch they're going to make here. It'll be the same bit, bigger and better. Okay, you need to convince the state government so that we'll watch that one.

That's a really big story for South Australia. Well. The other. The person who is going to play arguably the most important role in all this is the Federal Treasurer because it needs to be assessed by the Foreign Investment Review Board and the history of success when it comes to big takeovers from foreign interests of anything involving energy in Australia is not a good one. Doesn't bode well for this consortium because the real biggie this is when Peter Costello was treasure was Shell tried to buy Woodside and in the end the FEDS, this was our government, said no, you're not doing that.

I wonder about I'd love to know what our listen's attitudes to this, because I think reflexively people gook, we need to keep these assets in Australian hands. Do you feel like you've been particularly well served with your energy prices in Australia at the moment of this regimen.

I actually think though the history of the history of South Australia, there is still a hell of a lot of hostility and I'm sure it's going to come through on the kest line on the text line. A lot of people, when you say the words John Olsen to them, they go exerciital and they have this instinctive view. It's funny people complain about the government when you trust the government the moment the government says, are we going to sell it as well? We like them an those government hands. But you know there is there is still a redolent view that we lost control of our power industry without that. In New South Wales they own the power. Yeah, what's it called. What's thet of Australia. What's the average talk about listener's view on that? In New South Wales, by way of contrast, I think they feel just as gouged as anyone, because I've listened a bit.

And it's funny because here we say, oh, it's been sold off to private interests that have no they don't care about South Australians. They're had to make a buck. Go over there and listen and they'll say, this is a revenue stream for a government that doesn't care about South Australians.

They just want to make a buck. Yeah, they make all the money out of it. They're laughing all the way to the bank.

The other one, that's a bit of news that might be of benefit to south of the stroone commuters. BHP yesterday announced the partnership with the transport company Horizon. That will mean the copper that they move from Olympic Dam, Carpentina and Prominent Hill will be transported by rail. Now they're going to build a forty million dollars depot at Tapimber. It's expected to cut out more than eleven thousand truck movements per year. They move two hundred and forty four bundles of copper each way, more than two thousand, five hundred kilos via freight per day. That that won't happen anymore. So big news from Santos and BHP overnight. This is intriguing out of the US. You've doubtless heard a little bit about this. In five double a news with Jade Roberin. The Trump organization is announcing it's starting a new cellular phone service called t one Phone by Trump Mobile. They're going to charge forty seven dollars forty five a month. Could do you know why that number might be significant?

Hang on forty seven.

Dollars and forty five cents a month?

Was that the primary vote that he got the election.

He's the forty seventh and forty five president of the fifty anyway, didn't he just yes, it will include unlimited calls, text and data. They're going to build and sell a phone too, at four hundred and ninety nine dollars that they say we built in the United States. Have listened to Eric Trump, Well, you know what, more and more.

We're using technology as a company, right to correct the problems. Obviously truth Social was to correct freedom of speech, right, I mean, he lost his throughout the political process. Obviously, Crypto and we have got the biggest projects in Crypto was to correct another problem, which is the fact that they were debanking all conservatives. I was the most canceled person probably in the history of the country. And now we're doing Trump Mobile, and Trump Mobile is going to revolutionize kind of you know, cell phones, mobile calling. We're going to do it better, We're going to do it safer, We're going to have more functionality, more features. And the coolest thing about all these ventures is we're doing it right here in the United States. You're not calling up call centers in Bangladesh. You're not you know, you're doing it right out of Saint Louis, Missouri, and you're going to have phones that are made right here in the United States of America, and they're going to have it's going to be cheaper forty seven bucks a month. You're going to have more international dialing for free, hundreds of countries international dialing for free. It is the biggest bang for the buck. And we're really excited to get to the space.

And what this is politically is a shot across the bow of Apple, Android and so forth to say we can make it here, we can make it affordable. Apple of course said if you we make phones in America entirely, they're going to cost thousands upon thousands of dollars. Well, the Trump family want to say that is not necessarily true.

It'll be interesting to see what success, what traction it gets. Would anyone buy the Elbow phone. I wouldn't have thought if Alba had decided that he was going to, you know, like Trump used the authority of his office is a bit of a money making enterprise on the side. Well, if you launch his own crypto, albow coin, Yeah, albow coin, it is a kind of extraordinary when you put it in the Australian context in it, like Albou releasing his own crypto currency, making his own phone, and receiving a plane that he could use after he leaves off. Your man, haave A Melai did it in Argentina, but it tanked. He released the coin that was There's an ongoing investigation into how that all panned out. I think the all Salvador and President's don't one too well. El Salvador changed their official currency to bitcoin, did they know, Yeah, but then they changed it back to the US dollar as well because it wasn't working. Got to pay for those giant prisons somehow, I guess yeah. Nineteen alfter seven a local story. A barbershop at Blackwood has experienced some sort of fire overnight. The cash man, Ben Cashen from seven years here in Adelaide is at the scene. Ben, what's happening mane?

Good morning, David and Will. I am on scene in Blackwood where a popular barbershop has been gutted by fire overnight and police are treating it as suspicious.

Cruise were called to.

The Hall of Fades barbershop just after one am to find the shop engulfed in flames. The front window had been smashed, and investigators believe a jerry can, which I can see out the front of the store now, was used to help accelerate the blaze. It comes just days after a Molotov cocktile was reportedly thrown at the same business, raising dearest concerns about why this barbershop has been targeted twice in as many days. Police are on sting investigating with waiting for fireclaus and crime scene to arrive.

Whither someone's really upset about their haircut or there's something else going on, Yes.

Yes, yes, and I confirm here I've just spoken with the manager of our sappology. The neighboring businesses also have some damage and I can confirm that will be closed for the day, so I know there's up to eighty clients that are expected to come through there, so quite inconvenience. The closest ones of Marion and the Flinders Medical Center are really disappointing that some neighboring businesses have been affected too.

Well, that's just it, isn't it. And you know it's the same with the tobacco wars that we've seen, where businesses next door end up bearing the brunt of it, often being damaged by urs and themselves or being out of business for the day, So a huge inconvenience there for people who are going in for blood tests or trying to get results and so forth. But the owners of the barber sal on set anything.

I haven't been on scene this morning. I think police are still trying to get in contact with them. So by all accounts, is a very popular barbershop. Some clients, some other tenants in the buildings, so they're nice people. Some other tenants have said they're not surprised by the attack, so you can make your own assumption.

Get on Ben Cashing from seven News here in Adelaide at that garb shop fight. They're going to see pictures of tonight. To your point, will about how people will react to the idea of Santos being in foreign hands overwhelmingly negative so far. On the text line Paul and Blake view, boys, here we go again, selling off to South Australian business to overseas interests. Why do we allow this to happen? We're slowly losing control of our assets. Another one here from Jane with why I don't understand why we'd want to sell any important asset like Santos to a Middle Eastern country. But we don't own it, we're not selling it. No, well, that's its is not a government department like it's a company. It's a company. So what's its biggest shareholder? Right now?

It's probably some private equity firm that's based in China or something or other. Yeah, well, I'm not sure what are we protecting.

One bloke who would have a pretty big dog in the fight, you'd imagine, is the CEO Kevin Gallagher, because he had the whole stack of shares yep in it. And that's not a knock on him. He's a great guy who's done an excellent job by the state with the jobs and the expansion of Santos. One question I've got if you take Santos out of the picture, what's the biggest company headquartered in Adelaide? Great question? Okay, is it Cooper's I hang on, what about no in defense headquarter headquartered? He doesn't have headquarters? Yeah no, no, let's think on that.

Eight double two three doub You might have suggestions folks there before eight zero eight thirty ninety five, what but would be the biggest company headquartered in South Australia.

A lot of people to expressing great concerns about what this all means for extinction rebellion, someone making the point that it is going to be very hard for them simply it's going to glue themselves to sand and over there in the Middle East.

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Six minutes after seven. Coming up very shortly, Phil Curry in Canada. We'll talk to him about the Prime Minister's trip and his upcoming visit, will catch up with President Donald Trump. I'm just looking at to try and answer our form of question about if Santos was to depart, Not that it sounds like it will. It just seems like a stipulation of salers. The headquarters stay a year. But what would become our biggest company crediting in Daily with their list of the biggest companies that they released last year. Yeah, last year, Santos was one. Two would be Argo Investments, a sort of for there's an investment company they invest in Stuff. Third would be Beach Energy, fourth, Codin, fifth, Thomas Foods, sixth, the Adelaide Airport, seventh, Elders eight Land Services nine, Flinders Port Holdings ten Discovery Parks. Well, I mean Santos you'd imagine is an order of magnitude bigger than any of those.

Yeah, I thought BHP, but there's no. BHP is headquartered in Melbourne in Colin Street. They do a lot of work here, but they don't their headquarters aren't actually here. Yeah. Pere Greene is up there as well in the top twenty and Thomas you know you said Thomas Foods. They're about third or fourth on the list. So yeah, all right, let's have it.

Let's talk sport for seeing this last not in the sports show Rowe and Timmy g we're talking about the sort of by being the point in the season when you reflect, you assess his Rowic assessment of how the Crows have gone thus far.

Ten for it, the break would have been juicy. There's no doubt about that. Nine and five in the eight is not bad. Got the best percentage, best attack, best defense. There's a bit to do a few things to fix up. Stay sound with no injuries. My production piece will come out of the top draw.

I'm sure it will. So for those that put all those hours.

Into it, it's not wastehold just whold. I'm going to be professional and just hold all right. So I'm happy where they are, not not ecstatic. I'm happy where they sit.

The production piece to which you refer was the one he had mocked up about the lid coming off if they won on Friday night, but it got stuff back in the desk draw that one, so to be heard at a ladder date. You'll hear Scott camper Rally's assessment of how the Crows are going tonight on the Drive Show, all thanks to unique home style foods.

The Tires has got one of its halfway mark Ladder predictors today that I had to look at before the show. They've got the Crows coming forth, I reckon they're a bit rough on Port. They've got Port missing the missing the finals, but for their prediction, because this is where they go through all the remaining rounds. So the prediction they've got Port beating Sydney this weekend, then beating Carlton after that. From the remaining one, two, three, four, five, six seven, eight games. They've got Port winning one of their final eight. Well, that's rough, they reckon. The only one they're going to win is against West Coast and then Port. In the view of the pundits at the paper, Port Lo's their final six games of the year, losing to Hawthorne in Tazzy, losing the second Showdown, losing to Geelong and Geelong, Frio Away, sorry, Frio in Adelaide, Carlton away and Gold Coast in Adelaide, sixte in a row. Hard to believe they lose all those.

I don't believe that, and Jay on the text line says Argo Investments was for a time in the eighties headed by Sir Donald Bradman.

Which is the case.

Yeah, a bit of South Australian history crossover there with Sport five Double A News time, Phil Curry in Canada at the G seven.

Next David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to line five, Double A Breakfast, twenty.

Minutes to the way.

We've got a jury coming up very very shortly breaking eight after eight o'clock on a story that we've received lots of texts on this morning, so to be a follow up that you'll be particularly interested in. But first let's head to Canada, where Phil Curry is following the Prime Minister at the G seven for the Australian Financial Review. Phil, good morning to you or good evening to.

You over there?

Good afternoon absolutely, how good afternoon?

Who are good things? Phil? So have you been with Albo yet? Is he already there, Phil?

Yeah, we've been traveling for a few days. We left I can't remember now. A few days ago we went by a feetle state of Night. There you did a bit of Pacific diplomacy. Then we went to Seattle for two nights to do not much announce sort of an artificial intelligence Amazon deal and so there for a couple of nights. Then we got into a Calgary or about twenty four hours ago. Now I think that's the lost track of the days and for the G seven, which runs it's Monday here and it runs Monday and Tuesday here. Then we get to come home in about twenty four hours from now. He'll meet Donald Trump, and that's really why we've come all this way. The rest of it's all been to sort of make work stuff. So it'll be the first face to face against for Trump.

So have you had much of a much by way of a briefing about what Australia expects to come out of this meeting with Trump or is it still a bit of a bit of a movable face.

What is, Well, probably not much stay I mean, it's I mean, there's a lot going on at the moment, as you can imagine, and we've got we're not a member of the G seven. The G seven is the seven richest developed nations in the world. Is really the G eight, but they booted out Russia ten years ago, so we've been in bide along with a few other countries like Careers South Africa to sort of do stuff on the side, were like the fringe. But so everyone is probably preoccupied, he's can imagine with what's going on in the Middle East, and you know, all the leaders are asking Trump to sort of take the lead and sort of broke to some sort of de escalation and and he's not too keen. He thinks their reignings have over overplayed their hand here. So that tends to be the dominant theme. And in between that, everyone's having meetings with them, trying to put their own agendas under his nose. And we're obviously alban easy when he meets him tomorrow. The main thing will be trade, you know, all the tariffs that he hit us with and the other one of the Ucust because there was that announcement last week. They're reviewing August and that puts the sort of air of instability over August. So he'll be seeking reassurances from Trump on August. But he also be putting the case on trade. And as for that, I don't think we're going to get much out of him because he met the Canadian Prime minister a few hours ago here and you know, he's got a much better relationship with him. Mark Carney and I've already met a few times and he didn't dually get far. You know, they just agreed to keep talking. So I don't think Alvan he's going in there with huge expectations as he's going to get a result, But it's basically putting a face to a name and then plan another meeting, probably in Washington in September. We're trying and get something concrete out of him, but he's pretty mad over him.

What do you think, just you're reading and talking to people, Phil, what's what's actually the order of importance for Anthony Alberinezi at this this catch up, would he if he could walk away with one of a resolution on one of the two things, would it be Ucus or the tariffs?

Do you think I think it'd be Augus. Yeah, given the state of the world and what's going on, I mean, you know, as bad as those tariffs are. On trade, we got off pretty well, like, Okay, he's hit our still in our aluminium, but he's hit everyone else is still in our aluminium, so we're not too badly disadvantage. But the tariffs of the Liberation Day tariffs on everything else we sell to America ten percent, and again that's the minimum. A lot of companies got a.

Lot worse than that.

So competitively we're still doing all right. Would rather not have them, obviously. But on defense, yeah, the world's crackers, as you know well, and getting more crackers by the day, and so you know, China's not here. Of everyone, there's still the sort of elephant in their own despite what's going on in the Middle East, and we don't know, they don't want August to fall apart for that reason, so they just you know, they don't want to be sort of blackmailed bodies. You listen to having to spend more on defense either because we think we're spending enough. And he's going to point out to Trump, look, it's not just what we spend on defense, but we've got your marines in the Northern Territory. We got a big duel reserve up there. We're tiding up at w A, so your sub to been docked there. So he just wants to stick under his nose all the end time supportable giving the Americans in terms of military assistance to sort of, you know, just get him to back off on the defense demands and leave Orcist alone.

Do you know yet, Phil, When when when Trump and Albanezy have their meeting together, do you know what the format is going to be. Are they going to sort of, you know, find a room and peel off somewhere privately or is it going to be one of those sort of you know, open fire between them on the big settees and you guys are relaid into photographs.

You know, they're not letting us in apparently, but because it's on the sidelines of the summit, so they have the special meeting on him set up for these because he's doing Trump's doing his meetings with every other leader here. We're just one of them. So it will be that normal thing where they sort of stand there and you know, crack crack crack, laying jokes for the cameras and shake hands and then tell us to get lost and go inside and have their have their talk beyond in secret, and then put out some blame readout saying, you know, positive constructive discussions when allies was tell he tells you absolutely nothing. That's the sort of thing that's the format for these things. But it will be important that he actually meets Trump. You know, they put a name to a face and then that. But it's not nothing. No, I wouldn't anticipate anything happening tomorrow. Is Kevin run there, of course he is, Yeah, No, he was. He was with us in Seattle as well. He's the US ambassadors. That's only normal. But he would be both here and in Seattle given were meeting the US president as well.

But surely he's Trump though, because Trump. I'm giving what Trump said about him and what in the first instance about Trump.

Yeah, we were discussing this to day actually, but I suspect he'll be part of the delegation when they sit down to talks because Trump's got his you know, his people here, his trade secretary on all all his cabinet minister's here, so he might be Maybe Kevin was sitting in the corner, but he's got a bed now.

Maybe record.

Grout Joe Mark's glass. The monster showbag.

Is that?

Like, that's right. I've never met him in my wife. You don't get to get an ice hockey game in or anything while you're there.

A couple of guys round of the baseball we have an iron seattle but stupid working, so you don't get a lot of time time on these trips to do stuff like that. I'm too old to drink anyway. It kills me.

Good on your field. We'll catch up. We'll catch up again. So it sounds like a great trip. Get on your phild Curry there in Calgary, Canada, traveling with a PM for the Australian Financial Review.

It doesn't sound like there's going to be any blockbuster headlines out of that meeting tomorrow, but in see it's Tom Trump, who knows you're not predicting anything.

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Going back fifteen twenty years when it was the stuff first came up. Interested in what the jury thinks this morning about the prospect of a genetically modified crop, a healthier tomato.

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It could be available in supermarkets soon, the benefits apparently being for health. It contains a lot of the good stuff that they are in blueberries and blackberries and the skin of eggplant and so forth. It contains good stuff, but if you put it in a tomato, it suddenly looks purple. We've got some pictures on the live stream at the moment that people are looking at would you eat it or leave it? During number one morning.

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Morning, Good morning.

I'd eat it. Well. We changed vegetables and fruit already to make sure they're perfect when they get to store. That's probably not geneally modified because you imagine a lovely salad with that purple tomato in there. That would be absolutely colorful, and I'd be willing to give it a number two.

Thank you. Quite a pretty picture. Did you number three? Good morning, good morning?

Yeah, given that most of the modern FOD vegetables have already had some sort of modification done, if it makes it more tastier and better, better looking to eat absolutely every every day of the week.

Do you number three? Thank you? Do you number four? Good morning?

Good morning?

Guys.

That's a hell no.

The next thing, you know, we'll be having purple tomato sauce and purple tomato soup.

You need to draw the line somewhere, and that's a bit.

More confronting when putting the sauce category, isn't it. But you eat a whole bowl of purple liquid, purple purple soup, well, purple ragu, purple purple chili concane.

Yeah, that starts to get Yeah, yeahs is good. Did you number five, good.

Morning, good morning?

Yes, I'd give it a go.

You have purple carrots.

Now, so why not that you do?

Yeah, that's a good point.

You can give it a go.

Thank you, Thank you very much. Who wins the one hundred dollars sam Tes seafood voucher.

Let's give it to Dura number two during number two for no good reason.

One hundred dollars worth of seafood coming your way. I know it would be unscientific to read too much into a sample of five people in a country of twenty five twenty six million.

I know eighty percent of Australians will eat a purple tomato, but I wonder if that's what our focus group. I mean, there's no outrage on the text line coming through.

I reckon if we did this I reckon, if we did this subject fifteen years ago, people would gone franken food.

I reckon. At the end of her political career, Natasha stopped the spoil. When she was the leader of the Democrats South Australia's own NSD, she was a huge crusader against genetically modified food, whereas now it's like, meh, whatever, people.

The whole gene science has become less confronting for people, not in all of its aspects. But I think the idea was really people just made people feel icky a while ago, but it's been with us for over a decade.

I think it was with the manipulation of animal DNA. You can go that, yes, and also the other thing too at the time, because I think people probably got the things all sort of collapse in the one in their head, even though this from my understanding, originated from what the what the animals were being fed, but mad cow disease was around at the time, and I think people had this sort of whole Franken foods idea. Yeah, that's right, I'd eat one. I meant anything anything. I won't eat sweet potato.

I think the problem with with the reason we in Australia have been hesitant to do this has been part in part public opinion, but also in part because of the nature of being an island. We can control when this is the issue with the US at the moment, by security wise, we can really control the quality and what's grown here and protect it. And I think the past there's been a concern that what if one of these tomatoes gets in with a seed for whatever, gets in with another crop, and then you don't have the original version being grown here in Australia, they all get polluted, for want of a better term, and so we've been sort of a little bit cautious with regard to how much of this we allow, because we want to protect the real, high quality stuff that we're already growing here. Doesn't sound like that will necessarily be an issue in this case. The other thing is Australians are now officially amongst the people most in the world who are skeptical about and hesitant to embrace new technologies that we sit at the If you pole all countries on planet Earth, it's generally Western countries an Australia chief among them who don't like the idea of AI. In the past, it's been stuff like genetic modification, God forbid, we mentioned nuclear There is sort of this reluct despite the fact that we're a very advanced and technologically capable country at a human basic level. All the polling suggests we don't love it, and it's often places like Asia where they have they absolutely embrace it. Europe's even ahead of us, but where us the US, UK, English speaking Western countries are a bit more like eh.

I like to think I'm doing my bit and driving the numbers down in Australia, you are doing yeomens most of last week just screaming and angry about the fact that the soccer was on taramount. Cole World's gone to ellen anbar. That is frustrating.

That's a fair point five double a year STI I'm breaking it coming up in just a month.

David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five double a breakfast, seven after.

Eight break you're coming up in just the moment.

Then we're headed to Gilberton and a person who's been charged with murder following suspicious death there yesterday. Will get you across the latest details that'll come up this half out. Then after eight thirty out of our best of I say dinner on Friday night the Governor of South Australia, Frances Adamson, who's going to be appearing and chatting with us. Then we'll be chatting with you after eight thirty today about some of the important trips she's been on recently, the Order of Australia merits that have been handed it out. We'll talk to you about that process where she's off to next and a bit of a sense because there's no one better to talk to about the way which countries behave and how we engage with them in Australia that Francis Adamson, who's had an incredible wealth of experience in that space, so we'll be chatting with her after eight thirty. Always a terrific chat stick around for that.

Well.

The biggest story in Adelaide today obviously is the fact that Santos, which is South Australia's biggest company, has struck a thirty billion dollar agreement to sell itself off to a consortium of investors led by the state owned oil company in the Middle Eastern country of Abu Dhabi. What does this mean for South Australia. What does it mean for local jobs? What does it mean for the future of Santos Santos having its headquarters still here in Adelaide. We're joined now by the Energy Minister, Tom Keutsantanis to flesh out these questions. Minister, good morning and thanks for joining us for a special breaking at eight. What are the key concerns that the state government has about the idea.

We're worried about the headquarters, pure and simple. We're worried about the jobs, and we're worried about the decision makers who are run now a global all and gas company out of South Australia not being here anymore. That's our biggest concern. To be entirely frank with you, David. Your listeners might not appreciate this, but having a company the size of Santos based on adelade means that there are CFOs proturement officers, board members, there are eyes on Adelaide, people who make big and dollar decisions, making these decisions here in Adelaide, and they're making them about investments in Alaska. They're making the decisions bad investments in the PNG in the Northern Territory, in Queensland and New South Wales all out of Adelaide, a state owned investment firm, out of the Emirates, buying Santos could mean we may lose that type of capability here in South Australia. That's my biggest concern because once they're not here anymore, their eyes aren't on Adelaide. Would become a side office, which is my concern, which is why we passed our legislation to give us the ability to have a say in if there's a sole process and a change of ownership.

Government say, I wanted to ask about that, Minister, because we the taxpayer aren't and totally helpless like we might be in other private acquisitions that take place. So is the mechanism that legislation is the mechanism the exploration rights that we grant here in South Australia and how much leverage does that afford the state government and the tax player.

There are two pieces of leverage Australia and the state has the first one is that is the Foreign Investment Review Board and the treasurer is approved at a commonwealth level. So because it's a foreign owned it's a state owned investment fund, they would need the approvement of the third board and that's their first hurdle that they have to overcome. The second hurdle they have to overcome is the state government, and the state government has passed legislation that gives us the ability that when mineral resources or gas, when all the gas resources are sold and there's a change of ownership over those production licenses, mineral licenses or exploration licenses, we get the same with the new owneries. Because of environmental concerns, the commodities in the ground are owned by us, we want to make sure that the right fit and proper person buys them. So that's their next step. So we're not going to rush to any judgment. We've got that mechanism. How much leverage does that give us given they're buying a lot of assets that are outside of our reach, things in Asia, things in North America, assets in Western Australia and Queensland. I don't know, but the processing facility at the Kipper Basin provides almost all of the aid and gas to the eastern seaboard in New South Wales, so it is a critical piece of infrastructure. No doubt the common lawth in the state would have lots to say about who owns it.

Minister, You guys, your government, unlike all labor governments across the country, you've been passionate supporters and defenders of gas. One of the big issues that drives a lot of our listeners mad is when we talk about our own ability to rely on our own energy reserves. We see how much gas is exported by Australia. Do you think there's a risk that if Santos ends up being controlled out of the Middle East, that there could be even more gas leaving Australia.

I am the truth is Tembo. I mean, even with Australian companies owning our gas resources, they still export a lot more than they use domestically because they have domestic markets so small. This is the juggling the juggling act. If they don't have the export markets, we don't have the reserve because they don't spend the money to try and get the gas reserves. It's only worried about the domestic market. We have no gas reserves, so they wouldn't be spending the money who tryn't get it out of the ground. The question for us is how do we create an oversupply in the state. How do we create an oversupply in the country. And if you've got people who own these assets living externally, what does that mean for Australia's sovereign capability to provide gas for its own people. You might remember I think shall try to buy a woodside yea and Treasurer Costello I think knocked it back in the national interest. So this is going to be a very interesting debate about the nation's sovereign capability, whether or not we're comfortable with the proposition that's been put to us. But I don't want to be entirely negative. This could be a good thing. Having a massive oil and gas player who's looking at investing in new fields, because if you look at the Emirates, you look at the Middle East, they do invest heavily in getting gas out of the ground. This might be a great outcome. We don't know yet. It is far too early for us to tell. So what we're doing is we're saying, look, we've got leverage here. We're involved in the conversation. We're not an automatic gest We're not a tick inflict state where we just say yes to everything that comes before our desks. We're going to have a look at this, and so is the Commonwealth. It's in our interestful a grief, it's not in the state's interest. We won't. I think the Premier put it best yesterday, Kevin Gallagher and Santos's job, let's look after the shareholders. For Santos, the Premier and my job is to look after the people of South Australia. So we're not as focused on what shareholders want. We're focused on what South Australians need, and we've done a lot to make the South Australian Northern Territory all search. Santos a multinational company that's worth billions and billions of dollars and South Australian has done a lot to make it that big. We deserve to have a say, can.

You put a condition on the sale from the state's perspective that there is and I don't know how you'd phrase it in definite headquartering of the business in Adelaide or could you put a time frame on it. How do you frame it up so a potential buyer can come to you and say this is our proposition.

Well, look, the Commonwealth Government did that with BHP. I remember BHDS people. It's an e merger. They required them to be headquartered in an Australian city and they chose Melbourne. I should have chosen Purse where they make most of their money. I'm not sure why they're in Melbourn where they band gas exploration less.

It's a big shout out to just Cinder Allen.

Yeah, well yeah, but I think you can do that sort of thing. You can absolutely do that sort of thing.

And just finally, Minister, just just to clarify, because some of our listeners hear this and they go, oh, Santis, that Santos belongs to us. This isn't an etotype scenario like Santos is a privately operated, shareholder oriented business. In fact, Will said to me in the ad break, one of its biggest shareholders at.

The moment is it Chinese? I think until twenty twenty one the biggest shareholder was a Chinese group.

Yeah, so it's a different sort of It's not a privatization type debate, is it.

It's about no, No, this is a privately owned company. It's not a South Astralian owned company. Thomas Playford and when Nice and we were out there starting at looking for all in gas to try and wing the state off coal and diversify from coal away from New South Wales who are extracting massive events from us and I did a great job. But the company has evolved and changed from government startup to private company to restrictions on how many shares they could sell, to now being a fully independent as sexisted company that has shareholders from around the world and a lot of South Australians own shares. And it's a lot of South Australians in their super funds and Santos shares, So you know this is a difficult part for us. This is a good deal through a shareholder? Is it a good deal through a South Australian. That's all we've got us final work out.

Yeah, that's a fascinating chat. We appreciate it, minister, thank you. Tom katsantanis the Minister for Energy, Infrastructure and Transport joining us. There one other thing, and we're going to have to replace the word Santos with Adnoc, which is the name of the abbe Drby oil company. Then the cyclist's vests every January the adnock to a down the same ring to it.

No, well, you know they see a bit of angst about that in the people quoted in the paper. If the figures are true about how many people watch and go to this Santos to it out Under, I can't imagine I have any issue securing a new sponsor. No, no, I think that Yeah, naming rights for the to it oun under seems to be the least important part of this discussion.

I think.

So that last little bit is an interesting component. We'd have a lot of people listening that if you are super is exposed who everyone's supers exposed to the Australian share market, and if part of your retirement is in Santos, you might see a twenty seven percent premium being paid on their shares well as a pretty nice little dividend.

Yeah. I don't think a whole bunch of people licking their lips at this, Yeah, exactly.

And they're not just the not just the fat cats. All right, let's chick traffic.

And I love the Victorian Labor Party broadside on the way through there. That was good. They're just fair game Victoria right there, doesn't my political ideology just takes a back seat, even people in the Labor Party. Jake's about them, all right, let's check traffic. We'll come back with an update on this murder investigation at Gilbert and visit jarvistoid As new home in Brighton Road, Somemon and Park for savings across the Toyota Certified PreO range.

David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to Line five, double a Breakfast.

Twenty one minutes to eight. It is the seventeenth of June.

On the twentieth Friday Night at Adelaide Ival will be best of say the twenty twenty five edition. Looking forward to seeing so many of our listeners there, so many of the great businesses across Adelaide and South Australia, we've been profiling during this segment will be there on the night as well, of course, because it's all about celebrating them. But we've got some more tickets to give away now, so if you'd like to come along, eight, double two to three, double O double five is the numbered call. You win two tickets plus a one hundred dollars Drake Supermarket voucheck. Get calling eight double two three, double oh and double oh and on the night, among other wonderful brands, will be celebrating Maxima. I'm joined by Kate Teeley, the CEO of Maxima. Kate, welcome. What's the sort of top.

Line version of what you guys do at Maxima.

Maxima offers a range of services for both employers and employees, and we are really all about meaningful employment. Those services include temporary and permanent recruitment services, apprenticeships and traineeships, First Nations employment and indeed supporting people living with disability looking for employment.

So there's two kinds of people that might be listening that would like your service.

You've mentioned employers and potential employees.

People are looking for a job.

What sort of people that are looking for a job typically would contact you that you can really help.

With anyone in the community. We serve all of South Australia and indeed all of Australia across our sites where they're to support them and our mission as a not for profit is to create meaningful employment.

And on the other side of the ledger, we've probably got people listening with businesses who are thinking, I just can't find the right way what kind of businesses can contact?

And I hear that all the time, and I get so excited because it's such an opportunity for us. It really is tough for business to try and find people at the moment, and I'd love them just to give Maxima a call and see what's possible for them. And we really want to see both business and individuals looking for jobs thrive and do really well. That's what the state is all about.

At Maxwell. You want people to reframe what's possible.

We do.

What does that mean for me?

It means both potential and possibility. It means that when we meet people that we're supporting, we don't see just the limitations of how they might see themselves. We see whatever is possible for them and we help them realize their ambitions around employment.

You've been doing one for work for a long time. You've also been big supporters the Best of Essay for a long time as well, so we're delighted to have you along on the big night June twenty at Adelaide over We'll see you there.

Kate, Yeah, delighted to be there.

Thanks so much.

Well, we'll see Kate there.

We'll also see Alex in Modbury Heights, who's coming along to Best of Essay on Friday nights. There's not only too many more opportunities to win tickets to get along and it's going to be a great night and it will features the Governor Francis Adamson, who's coming up af date thirty on the program this morning.

In fact, Adelaide has retained its spot on the top ten most Liverpool cities according to the Economist magazine. We are ninth. The one part of this that sticks in my crawl Melbourne's fourth. No one from the Economists can have been in Melbourne in nine a couple of years anyway. Most livable city in the world. Base that on what's the criteria? Okay, the criteria. The criteria are healthcare, culture, environment, education, infrastructure and stability. I bet it's infrastructure that costs us well, they would say they're trying to pay for that Ring road it's going.

I'm not saying it's great. I'm just trying to think by what measure? Would you say that Melbourne's better than Adelaide these days?

Yeah, I don't know, but they've got it rated fourth. The top ten is Copenhagen, Vienna, Zurich, Melbourne, Geneva, Sydney. Zurich is third. No one wants to live in Zurich. You went there, didn't you?

Yeah?

I went there for five minutes. I went to a Starbucks. You buy a cuckoo clock. I went to a Starbucks. I ordered three coffees in a and a pastry and it was like something like thirty seven Swiss francs, like seventy four Australia million dollars. And I cannot wait to leave Zurich.

Seriously. Yeah, that is insane. Osaka is seventh, equal with Auckland, then we in nine. Vancouver is tenth. Everyone loves Vancouver. I've never been there before. I've never been in Canada. The least livable cities in the world Caracas. Yeah, the aforementioned Caracas capital of Venezuela Kiev. That's sad because I reckon four years ago Keeve might have been in the top fifty most livable. It's now has Kiev there, but not you know, Cable's not there, No, but not har good issues. Not that I'm thinking of cities in the eastern part of Ukraine. Oh yeah, we Keeve's got to be more livable than Harkieve at the moment. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Anyway, Port Moresby, Harare, Lagos, Algiers, Karachi, Dakka, Tripoli and Damascus. I'll tell you what the breakfast show in Mogot issue this morning. They'll be punching the air for joy that the not mentioned in dispatches. What about Porter Prince in Haiti? That whole city is run by gangs and voodoo priests. How do they not get in there? Yeah, that's I think we really a forensic examination of what's going on. Maybe they're on the wrong list. You know what's interesting though, pretty much all the cities in the top ten are smaller by global standards. Yeah, and you know the fact that Karachi, for example, isn't there like a lot of those Indian cities. They're in there because there's just too many bloody people. Like, it's just off the charts. We're ninth, London is fifty fourth, New York sixty ninth, because they're the sort of places you go to those cities and you go, oh wow, the city that never sleeps has so much to do. But do you want to live there? Yeah? Can you afford to live there? You can't buy a house there. No.

Twenty seven after right back here in Adelaide, A big developing story overnight. A investigation into was suspicious death at Gilbert and has led to a murder charge.

Kelly Hughes for nine News is covering the story this morning.

Kelly, just for our listeners waking up or tuning in, bring them up to speed with what's happened there at Gilbert and what we've.

Learned thus far.

Good morning, guys. Well, yeah, I'm just here Walkable Terrace at Gilberton, just a five minute drive from the city. And yeah, there's quite an incredibly heavy police presence here. There's about ten twelve detectives as well as a crime scene investigation. Forensics are also going in after they discovered a sixty five year old man deceased inside a block of units, but I'm just standing out the front now. Depictives have been on scene in police a very strong presence here since about seven of slops. They found this man last night, and since then a woman has actually been arrested, a thirty year old woman from Gilberton who we believe just chatting to neighbors also lived in this block of unit. She was arrested at the scene last night. Actually she was caught breaking allegedly breaking into some units and that's how they were aluted to the body in this house. But yeah, incredibly sad. This morning, a few neighbors that we been chatting through said they knew this gentleman, this sixty five year old man who was very loving and caring and actually had a care as well. So we believe it was the care of whose found him last night.

Just a horrible, horrible story. Kelly, thanks for that. Kelly Hughes at the site of the Gilbert murdereder investigation for nine News Adelaide.

All right, we're can take a break. Five double A News is not too far away. On the other side of it, the Governor of South Australia, Francis Adamsman, will join us on five to bla Brick.

David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five Double A Breakfast.

Twenty one minutes to nine Big Week on five Double A always is with best of SA on Friday Night. We celebrate great South Australian brands and companies and we share the evening with our listeners. It's a wonderful night and it's going to be made all the more special this year because we're going to be joined by our next guest on the evening, Her Excellency the Governor of South Australia, Francis Adamson, Governor.

Good morning to you, Good morning David and Will, and to your listeners as well.

We always love having you on, Governor, and we are particularly excited, your Excellency that you're going to be coming along Friday night, because it means a lot to ask but also to our listeners and what it.

Means quite a lot to me. Can I say as well? I mean, I think this is the third time you've invited me, and finally I'm able to accept your invitation, so I'm really looking forward to it now.

It's going to be a lot of fun. You've had a pretty busy well, you're always busy, but you've had a particularly busy dance card of late with some overseas travel as well.

Yes, look, I do a couple of visits overseas each year to promote South Australia and typically they're into the Indo Pacific region as we call it, and this year I've been in Southeast Asia, in Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. And on the weekend I'm heading off to that more or less straight after your events on Friday night, heading off to Sri Lanka and India for the best part of a week again to promote Outh Australia, to promote education, wine, agred business, green energy, tourism, all the wonderful things that you were talking about, some of which you were touching on when you were mentioning Adelaide's top ten stations again.

Yeah, yeah, A deserved accolade that one, for sure. How big a part when you're selling education at the moment, your excellency is the new university merger?

Well, look, it's certainly. I think it's on people's radar and when I travel, I normally it's not so much have with me. Governors don't travel with big delegations, but Adelaide University and Friends University are normally there when I am wherever I am, and I'm also patron of Study Adelaide, so there is an awareness and I think a degree of an excitement too about the new university. People can instantly see the success of it when it's the rationale for it, when it's explained. And of course, what countries overseas are looking for is not only to send students here for an education, and that of course can be in our secondary schools as well as our universities. Excuse me, but they're also looking for delivery of education in their own countries by our institutions, and also research joint research projects. So I think it's well understood, or it seems to be pretty well understood overseas. Education agents are aware. I talk to governments about it in my meetings as well too, and I think they see it. There's a logical thing to do and not so much of a difference of what it's been before.

I'm always loath to ask questions to you, your excellency that can drift into commentary about current affairs and so forth, but I'll do it anymore. You are so when you were heading up, when you were the Departmental Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Trade, and also when you were Australia's ambassador in China. You were an advocate, I suppose, an advocate on behalf of the government of the day, but an advocate all the same for free trade and you did a lot of work in China at the time that we struck the free trade agreement with China. Do you see the world sort of recoiling back into a new sort of more protectionist year at the moment and what do you think the challenges or indeed conversely opportunities are for a state like South Australia in that environment.

Well, I think, I mean, it would be hard to argue that the world has got easier in the last five years something clearly it hasn't. And some of what we see you could certainly categorize as protectionist. But at the same time we've seen and South Australian companies have been beneficiaries of that continued negotiation of free trade agreements and there was a first free trade agreement negotiated with Indian in twenty twenty two. Are closer economic and trade arrangement that's actually been delivering substantial benefits across the country actually through the reduction of tariffs. But one thing that's been quite important for South Australian arm and growers is that reductions of tariffs in India have really opened up that market. And one of the things I'll be doing when I'm in New Delhi is sitting down with a group of armen importers to see whether those South Australian almonds can be even imported in even larger quantities. So look, I think there are certainly opportunities, and the big picture is really that other countries, companies, traders are looking for stability and reliability, and I think when you start thinking about significant economies, we're still the world's fourteenth largest economy. When you look at the size of our economy, when you look at our legal system, masterability, our democracy, we're a pretty attractive partner, a partner in all sorts of things, but certainly for trade and investment, and that, if you like, has been one of the things that's come through pretty strongly in my travel over the last couple of years on behalf of South Australia is just how highly regarded we are. People want to want to meetis they want to do business with us. They want to explore opportunities for partnership. And part of the reason they're doing that is they're hedging, you know, they're spreading their risks, they're diversifying their markets, and they see us as a desirable partner. And that's a good place to be given what we're producing, the know how that we have and the way we think about the world from a South Australian perspective.

We're also producing some remarkable Australians and they get honored with the King's birthday on his list the Order of Australia, which is celebrating its fiftieth year this year. Were there any any stories that you're particularly taken by this year?

Oh, look, I'm always taken with stories. I mean, I get about twenty four hours earlier notice to know what's coming. I don't know before that, but I sit down immediately and I write to all of the South Australian recipients. And amongst those are always some I know have had an opportunity to meet as governor and some I don't know. But there were seventy four recipients from South Australia in the King's Birthday Honors list, and you're right, it's our Australian honors system is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary this year, and over that time, let's just say we typically get sixty or seventy let's just say seventy South Australian recipients in the King's Birthday Honors List and in the Australia Day Honors List. So you know, that's one hundred and forty people a year over fifty years. That may not be exactly, might have been lower numbers early on, but that you think of the number of South Australians, I mean in my term as governor, I will have met about seven hundred and fifty recipients. And they are people who are who've given outstanding service or whose achievements have been exceptional, whether they're in local communities across the state, whether what they've done has had some actual statewide impact or indeed national or international impact. And this passed on his list. Professor Roger Bayard was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia. That's relatively rare. That's the top honor for services to medicine and forensic pathology and I think anyone who read the interview with him in the Advertiser would have realized just why he received that award. What what a man. And then you have someone like Roy Colthard who's Order received an Order of Australia medal or will be invested with that in September when we have those ceremonies for services to Indigenous communities. Henry Young, you know, young by name, not young by age anymore, at the one hundred and two year old war veteran and the world's oldest competitive tennis player. I've had the pleasure of meeting Henry several times and he's still playing tennis and he's being honored for services to veterans and services to tennis. So there's just no end to the things that inspire people, that drive them to contribute to their communities. And fortunately Australians typically are on the lookout for these people. And that's what I want to encourage your listeners to do today. I would guarantee that some of them have had on their minds for a while. I must nominate in name of person you know for an award in the Order of Australia, And what better time to do it than now you simply go on to the web search well, you don't have to search very hard to find Governor General's website, but it's there, and then you work through the process, which has been made much more friendly than it used to be. It can all be done online and relatively easily. But that will then ensure that other South Australians worthy of this kind of recognition can receive it.

We had a great chat a few weeks ago with the what's his title, Lieutenant Governor Richard Harris. Yes, yeah, we had a wonderful chat and ext one. We were talking about your career, Governor and what a remarkable life you've had because the theme of the discussion with Richard Harris that day was exploration and we described you on I'm not sure if you heard the interview, but we described you as an explorer because your life's taken you to so many sort of wonderful places and you know, working as chief of staff to an Australian Defense Minister, heading up the embassy in China, working in Hong Kong, in London, it must have just been a thrill doing so many different things through your passion and aptitude for diplomacy.

Well, I mean it has been I didn't. I must say I missed that. I wish i'd heard it, and I funny enough, as I was growing up, I thought to myself, what a pity, the age of exploration is really over? But actually it's not, and I don't think it is even now, because yes, I've done what you've said. I've done, and I very much enjoyed doing that. But just as much, if not more, I enjoy my current role, which takes me across the lengths and breadths of South Australia and meeting amazing people, seeing wonderful things. And I sometimes wondered to myself, I've spent all that time overseas and I've still got some catching up to do in our wonderful state.

Mmmm. Yeah. A great chatting to you again, Governor, and we very much look forward to your company and this Friday night with our listeners at the best of essay. Thanks so much for coming.

On see you on Friday. Bye.

Always love chatting to fascinating person. Yeah, terrific to chat with. That's going to be really fun on Friday night as well. She's a good argument for taking for any opportunity that comes along to take yourself out of your comfort zone to just do something. Yeah, how many situations would she have found in her life and growing up in that remarkable family with Jennifer Cashmore, the late Jennifer Cashmore as her mum, who was a trailblazer in her own right as well. Pity of the state didn't pay more attention to what she was saying and the lead up to the state bank collapse because she's the only one banging on about it accurately, falling on deaf ears on both sides of politics for a very long time. But yeah, just totally remarkable career.

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