Casey Donovan on the new musical 'Sister Act', The annual federal budget wrap with industry leaders, 'Around the Courts' with Sean Fewster, Federal Health Minister Mark Butler reacting to the federal budget, SA Treasurer Stephen Mullighan & Shadow Treasurer Sam Telfer's reaction to the federal budget and your calls.
Nine minutes after six. Good morning to you and welcome to Wednesday. On fire Double A Breakfast is the twenty sixth of March, is the morning after the Federal budget. We will have the most comprehensive rap that you're going to hear anywhere coming up after seven. What has become something of a tradition on five Double A Breakfast, our big budget rap where we get the big industries affected in South Australia by these big decisions to rate the budget out of ten. That's going to happen after seven o'clock today. That's always quite interesting. Everyone gets a minute talks through what concerns their area. We'll find out how they've seen Jim Chalmers unexpected budget that got handed down last night. Sewan Fuscher is going to join us. We'll go around the course with Sean Fuster, the Treasure of South Australia. Opportune moment for Steven Mulligan to come in today for his regularly scheduled spot. We'll talk to him about Wyala, We'll talk to him about the federal budget's impact on South Australia and also Casey Donovan starring in Sister Act, the musical that's beginning in Adelaide tonight, running for three weeks. She'll be joining us on five tou Blow Breakfast as well. David Pedworthy, Good Morning.
Too, Good Morning listeners. Good Morning will bump a budget edition as always, But as always we always say the opinions that matter the most of yours. So let us know what you think. And yeah, I mean, in a nutshell to kick things off, I'm really keen to hear what's everyone planning on spending the five dollars a week on.
We've got a year to work it out. Which is the other good thing?
Well, that's it. You don't want to, I mean, you never want to rush into an important financial decision, you know, if you're going to, if you're going to spend a significant amount of money five dollars a week. It's good that they've given us that long to plan it, you know, because you don't want to. Probably quite seriously, you don't want to. You don't want to misspend your fiver on I don't know, ten redskins when you could perhaps go to office works and buy a pen.
And use it.
Towards your child's education. But you could buy one quarter of a book for one of your children. I mean, this is the sort of use it as a as a long term educational investment for you for the development of your child. Or are you're just gonna leave the coins sitting in the ash tray in your car.
With the endless number of possibilities. I couldn't sleep last night. I hated the pillow and my mind was racing.
It's amazing when you put it together in an annual set. I mean, it's two hundred and sixty dollars. That's so much money you could go on a holiday.
So two and sixty eight dollars if you're on a holiday to glen Gowrie as of July one next year, and then again you'll get it on July one, twenty twenty seven with the tax bracket that's currently at sixteen percent, fall into fifteen percent and then fourteen percent the year after that. In all seriousness, folks, eight double two three double double, please amp me a text line. What is something you can buy right now for under five dollars?
Well, I'll actually give you an example. So Drake's the other night down the road making Scollott potato as we call it our family. Some people call it potato or grat and some people called potato bake. Whatever bakes your potato, you can call it what you're like. Everyone knows how to make it. You cup the potatoes thin, you've put butter and grated cheese and some fresh thyme or maybe a bit of rosemary, maybe a bit of garlic if you want. But you need cream. You need cream to make it work. So I was in the dairy aisle, I was looking at the cream. Two hundred and fifty mils of cream. One of the brands is five dollars fifty. That's like basically a few tablespoons of cream in that pot, and it's five dollars fifty. You know, five years ago you would have got a liter of cream for five dollars fifty. You know what I did and said, as a matter of principle, for the first time in my living memory, I bought the plain brand one because I just said, I'm bugging if I'm paying five dollars fifty. So that's one thing you could do. You could buy a high end pot of pouring cream to make some potato bake for five dollars fifty. So you'd have to know someone else who's just had their tax cut, so you have to lend you fifty cents to pay the difference.
On the police samecare tech sign is up and about. Obviously the soccer wo has got up last night to zip. Got it done against China says you can get blueberry and banana toast and a free Macers coffee for four dollars seventy. Why do you get a free Macer's coffee? Maybe cond just does because they like it.
Is that the loose change?
Or is that is that the four dollars seventy that's pretty good value. That is pretty good. That's good that you get that once. I mean they're even calling.
It the cup of coffee the Kapa coffee text.
I'm not sure it is a cup of coffee, cup of co where it's got five dollars anymore? Is it a small within a standard full cream milk somewhere? Maybe? See.
The thing is, we're not trying to sound ungrateful and like I.
Actually think generally tax cuts a good government like returning to his governance.
This this is the tax cut equivalent of buying your wife flowers from the survey, where the gesture is poultry enough to be more annoying than generous where you just think, is that really what you're think of me? Three mangy cruis anthem, There was a couple of stale old Look at Marguerite Dais he's all wrapped in our four looks like it's off last night's takeaway.
Ye.
Well, the problem well, well, and the thing is, I think most people are acutely aware of the full spectrum of things that the federal government has carriage job. If this was the Reserve Bank, whose only job is rates go up, rates go down, taxes cup, taxes go down, you'd say, well, I guess, thank you. It's better than nothing. But but it's not a tax cut in isolation. It's a tax cut against the backdrop of power prices going up. It's a tax cut against the backdrop of inflation.
And twenty five dollars shy of what we're told we're going to get.
But that's right.
But don't forget minus the five So now it's one hundred and twenty dollars less because you've got five bucks a week coming. I don't know if things. The problem is they shouldn't have called it a tax cut. That the politics of it is stupid, because they should have said, look, we're going in this budget a tough economic time, but we can tell you we're not going to be increasing income tax. If anything, you might find you saved a teeny bit, but to go you're getting a tax cut. The thing is a lot of us can remember the Howard hera, we've had a baby, you got three grand? Well that was that was real flying around you know, oh this is so good. But isn't the point of life's pregnant? And I'm going to Harvey Norman the point of the television.
Wasn't It's not that it's the twenty four hours new cycle after the budget. This is for every flyer that gets pitted out in the election campaign. That's simply going to say every Australian gets a tax cut. Yeah, this is a dot point on a fly dollars.
Worth of total. Yes, it's a card trick completely. I'm better than a tax increase, but I don't know. I'm more excited about the soccer. How good was that?
That was good? I did get a text before I came in. There were very rarely. I watched the first half and once it was all really it was done and dust that I went to bed.
There is your tense moments in the second half of China just not up the snuff. They played better in the second half.
Should we talk about the pandas now? Want me to talk about it after?
I'm not going to say anything about the pandas well. I think you should dissect this one least.
He's saying rap all right, So we're not going to do it now. I just just just know this. James Woles texting me before six am this morning saying, sorry, what about the pandas and the budget? James got some thoughts because it's a good day to be around, stick around. You might not you might not have your five bucks go far, but I'll tell you what, fifteen grand a week sounds pretty good. Yeah, let's take a break.
We get some of your headlines coming up, Nick, David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine, five, double a Breakfast.
Twenty half to six and terrific suggestions coming on the police samecare text line of what you can spend your five dollars a week tax cut on that comes. You've got a year to plan, So we're using this as good intel at the.
Might start rush into this. Brent from Woodville says guys, I believe you can get a curly whirly.
Worthies. Yeah, they've got a place.
Yeah, of twigs were going to get a twist as well, the small twigs, not the big twigs.
Lucy rates the curly Whorthy is the best chocolate.
I know that. Carol will say, chewy.
There they they fan How many people got introduced to the curly Wealthy purely because it was the sort of second last thing they ate out of showbag?
Yeah, what's that weird look? And practiciate down the bottom all are you? The good news is you can get we.
Can get one now, Curly weally lead recovery.
That's right. God, if you've been making serious points along the lines of Graham saying, well, my power, there was twelve hundred dollars a quarter, so this little bonus is quite the insult. Twelve hundred quarter. Mine was two hundred a month for a while a few years back, until I've got my solid things sorted out. Simon says, I can't buy a pine at the pub for five dollars, but this will at least cover the tax I'm giving back to the government. Jim and gold and Grave says this won't even cover the cost of paying for my KO subscriptions. I can watch the Crows play Saturday.
Keep the suggestions coming through, though, maybe even what it can't achieve zero before zero eight thirty ninety five. In of course, in eight double two three double O.
With my five dollars, I can buy seventeen minutes of car parking at the lade over Sunday.
Did you read the one about the guy I can buy three liters of diesel petrol?
Yeah? And also I'm not sure was it k oh no name given holiday to glen Garry. I suggested you could pull the money and go on a holiday like the glenn Gowry. This listener lives in glen Garry and says, well, I can't really afford to live here, so I'm not sure five dollars is going to get you holiday.
Good point them coming in the big The big ticket item for South Australia was in many respects just about the only ticket item. Two point four billion dollars for WHYALA seemed to suck up any amount of money that was going to be spent on South Australia.
Fair enough.
We will talk to the Treasurer about that a little bit later. Other than that, you've got one hundred and twenty five million dollars to remove the Curtis Road level crossing. There was a big section in the budget on all the infrastructure and development that the federal government was undertaking, and that was the only little dot point in South Australia.
See I disagree that we don't get any money because they've saved Wyala. Like there's an undeniable national interest in US having a sovereign still making capacity. Otherwise we have to go cap in hand to China to buy advanced still from them. You look at all the the seven billion dollars being spent, seven billion dollars being spent in Queensland on as yet unspecified road upgrades. I wonder which electrics they're going to be going through.
Well you know what's happened here. The moment the whale of bailout money had to come through, someone in the treasury went well that's essay done. Yeah totally.
Well someone in treasury you mean like the Treasurer. Yeah, indeed maybe also the Prime Minister. They've had their head and that's their whack. Other news caught today for a twenty nine year old man who was arrested yesterday emptied carjacking in the Western Suburbs. Police were called to a small fire on a footpath at Woodville around seven forty am. Then there was a second fire a short time later. They then went to a house at Ridleyton and tried to arrest the suspect. The man then ran off. He approached a car as it reversed from a driveway, opened the driver's door and tried to steal it. He was then subdued with OC spray Acehm, that's capskin spray O s at a TV show. We'll have to ask Orange County. Yeah, we'll have to ask the police about that. His charges include light fire in fired anger season hinted police, attempt, theft of motor vehicle, assault, resist rest and breach of balle He did all that before. It sounds like about nine am, which is a productive part. Apple AirPods can now be used as hearing aids in Australia. This is fascinating. The device has won regulatory approval here and users can now download an upgrade that turns AirPods Pro two earbuds into a clinical grade hearing aid for mild to moderate hearing loss. Well that would probably take a lot of the esthetic concern some people he's hearing age have out of it. You just look like you were were in airpints. Just there you are. Twenty eight new jets are going to be added to the Quantus domestic fleet. The planes will feature super sized overhead lockers, more toilets. They're in the final stage of production in Germany and due to rife by June long range as well, they should have bought these ten years ago when that bludge of Joyce was running the joint. Seriously, there's one of the ways you maintained the facade that contests' finances were going as well as they could so that he could gouge his bonuses out of them every year or not in the bad years. But in Joe Aston's book he makes a really good case for showing how contasses non purchase of planes one of the key reasons why we don't have international flight to have adelaide with Pondas.
It's patently obviously jump on any other carrier at the moment and then going on to a Quantas plane. It feels like you've jumped in a time machine. Yeah, yeah, you feel like you're on aeroflot sixteen point four degrees outside in the city at the moment, heading for a top of sunny thirty two today, thirty one on Thursday, thirty three, Friday, thirty on Saturday and twenty seven on Sunday. Tom Rains at the five Double Breakfast studios with tenner attention to sport morning.
Are you ready morning, Will morning David? Yeah, great result, I heard you're just touching on the soccer rus before. Really good and they got it done early. They got those couple of goals which you know, just gave them that buffer. This was how they doubled their advantage after twenty nine minutes, that goal coming sort of two thirds of the way through the first half.
Were low and lard across the talentsy around the faluplights and funny skilled by one Die Misi falutplay just as he did on Surtasy night against Indonesia. Scores again for Australia and there LEDs.
He's doubles audio there thanks to paramount. I don't think the keeper would want that one back.
Well.
I think he's a real chance that by five o'clock today is going to be in some sort of cultural revolution style goalkeeper re education camp somewhere. That was a howl. It was.
That's not good, it was, but look a great resultline was fantastic. Was a really good finished and the three goals now in his last five matches, I think, so a great week for the soccers. All six points. They're three points clear of Saudi Arabia with a much better goal difference.
So the Saudis drew overnight with Japan. So we're on thirteen, they're on ten. You know they're on twenty. They're definitely through.
So the game next to amine to the Saudi Arabia is for all the chocolate they've.
Got Japan and then Saudi Arabia. The last one we played Japan in Perth as well in June four.
I think from memory and a big home ground advantage there.
Well, that's right. A draw would be good, a win would mean we go through because then our gold difference is going to.
Be be nice. If Japan said we've qualified, we're going to roll out of a group of fifteen, but you.
Just know they won't because they're I think it goes all the way back to Kaisus Lauten and the rivalry they've got with the soccer.
I think we've just about it and beaten them since then.
I know is terrific.
Yeah, it's terrible itzing football. They're a fantastic Yeah football nation fellas. I have to clarify as well with the shield, I might have given us a little bit of a bum steer yesterday morning I said that South Australia a draw and now a draw would have been good enough in previous seasons, but they changed it in twenty eighteen nineteen. And I don't want to get people too confused, but if it it goes essentially down to bonus points for the match. So if it is a draw, it goes down to whoever gets more bonus points from the first innings.
So we need to keep an eye to your head.
Basically got to be a head. So for every run inside the first hundred overs of an innings you make above two hundred, you get point zero one. So if you make three hundred runs after one hundred overs when you're batting, you get a point. If you make three hundred and ten runs you get one point one points. If you get three hundred and fifteen you get one point one five. For every wicket you take you get zero point one as the bowling side, so within the first hundred overs only within the first so you can't bat.
Slowly makes six hundred over four days, you're not going to get as many points. That's right because potentially they come out in the last day and they whack who worked out this mathematical fereom can be complicated. I think county crickets use this, yeah, and.
I think they've done it to try and make it so that they changed it. I think Queensland in twenty seventeen eighteen made five hundred very slowly and then you know, played a drawer. It was a dull game, so they're trying to make it so that there's a bit more into I felt.
Really good about this running and then the Queensland team's pretty stacked. They are very good Marnus Lavishane's players as large as playing.
How often has Kaja turned it on in must win matches as well?
Well? Hopefully he hates the Queensland Cricket Association so much that he just stamps shoulders, arms, he walks, he stands all his stuff and kicks.
His stuff over.
It's not a danger that he does that. The other ways I'm going to show these buses cricket makes a double century or something.
And unfortunately traps over. Travis heads over in India, smashing the hell out.
Of exactly what are you going to spend your five bucks a week on? Tom?
I was gonna buy a coffee, but I don't think it is invice me in coffee that he days.
Doesn't I just gamble at all. It's not money that doesn't exist anyway. Okay, then that reminded me of that team of American thing. I promise they will never.
Die robotics, but go to sackers, so the sacker I reckon.
Though.
That's the reason why Lloyd Pope isn't playing is simply because of this rule. He's a better chance to take wickets, but he goes conceed runs, but he concedes runs, so they'd be worried that if he bowls fifteen overs and goes for ninety, Queensland might be aheaded on first things. And then if you win those bonus points, then what happens is will the team that will do that will then play for the.
Draw or at least not to lose.
So yeah, close watch keep an eye on a five days starts who's heading down there today.
Let us know if you going to Karen Roll Yeah, jerem.
On it's I mean, beautiful weather, amazing days could be perfect, going to be amazing.
Good on your ready. Tom Ran joining us in the five Double A Breakfast studio. He's already worked out. We spending that five dollars courtesy of d Penberthie Glide Old Garage Doors adding strength style of safety to your home gliderol dot Com.
That are you, David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine Fine's Double A Breakfast.
Twenty three minutes to seven police and where they're coming up very very shortly. Then Casey Donovan's going to join us on the program. Last time we spoke to her, I think it was for nine to five. She was in town for constantly on stage for the last few years. Is Casey Tonovan been here? The trope of the ad of work Actor, It's not a back for Sister Act, which is going to be a hell of a fun show as well, opening tonight and running for the next three weeks in Adelaide, our big budget wrap coming up after seven o'clock. We've had some fun at the expense of the five dollars A week tax cut to be delivered in a year's time, asking you this morning, what can you actually buy for five dollars right now? Keep coming in on zero before zero eight thirty ninety five. Then after seven o'clock though, we're going to turn our attention some of the big picture issues raised addressed or not addressed in the budget with regard to the cost of living, with regards to building houses, creating an environment that business can trade, and prospering healthcare, and also what about the plight of our farmers. Were going to tackle all those things after seven o'clock this morning. Then Sean Fust will join us. We will go around the court so big next hour ahead.
Rob's got the right idea, he says, he's going to invest his five bucks a week in bamboo futures. Now you're talking, yeah, sell silvery by bamboo. Just become a panda, Rob. That's how you get the best at the budget.
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I don't know what is the pandas tax policy. Lucy Locan, good morning to you. Good morning touch etiquette time.
Yes, talking money, talking cost of living. Always as we are talking, you'd always as we are on this program, not looking at anyone in particular.
No, I thought I thought the potato bake was a good example of the cost of living squeaks. But it was funny because when I went to the supermarket, least all I bought was the cream, and I was still sort of ostentatiously holding my one pot of I think it was two dollars eighty. I paid for the cream, the home brand cream, and I was sort of holding it up so that other people with larger piles of shopping could see that I just had one thing.
You are a staunch, not a non user of the self checkout, right, you go through and talk to the checkout stuff.
Never do it.
And you were holding there with your one pot of cream. Now tell me.
Drakes don't have those scanning things anyway, and more power to them for not having the scanning things.
Did anyone let you in ahead of themselves with your one pot of cream?
No, they didn't, And I think it was because it was right on dinner time. It was like five point thirty and everyone's trying to get home, trying to get dinner. May and you know, sometimes people have that habit where to avoid doing the right thing, they'll not make eye contact with you. They're sort of looking away. I know what you do in cream?
Go?
Yes?
Are we selfish shoppers?
Now? Are we fighting what's general shopping etiquette? Are we fighting people for the stuff that's always on special because it's cheaper and we can afford we need cheaper stuff?
I reckon were should you let people through? Should you let someone through if they are behind you with less than you've got? Should you let them through? Do you let them through at the supermarket?
Goes to my question? Are we doing smaller trips to the supermarket so there are a few people with only four or five things at a time, therefore they don't let people in because they themselves only have five things? Or are people still doing big trolley shops for families at once? And if so, do those people then let in the one cream guys.
I just think it's a basic question of at what point do you not let the person in? Because I think you can and you do it yourself, do sort of mental calculations were often I'll have like a dozen things in a basket and I'll see someone behind me, and if they've got, like, you know, they're an office worker and they've got a salad wrap and a kocher, and I'll go, yeah, come on, three.
You go.
But if you look back and you see that they've got a salad roll, a butcher, a tind of dog food, and a packet of toothpaste, you think, hmm.
Maybe tell me you live near the city. Without telling me you live near the city Butcher. Everyone's drinking that stuff these days. Big.
A lot of any city trendy is a drinking I've seen a lot of trade's drinking it. No, there's a guy getting a bar met the other day who's covered in paint. He's wearing high visions hipster doing home renovations.
If you're a.
Trading drinking kombucher this morning, please give us a But they don't exist.
Do we have any butcher drinkers at five? Double a?
Yeah?
Another vendor agram we've never explored. Come balt to drinking.
Isn't the simple rule? If you're carrying it in your hands, you get let through. If you need a carrying device, you don't.
Yeah, Well, yeah, that's good that that rule.
It's my because it's the will Goodings rule. That's why unhired on Freeedoware Radio until now.
I just I mean, I'm I happily use the self checkout, but I will just stand behind some people with trolley loads use self checkouts. I don't get that, I don't agree with that, but I will wait behind them, patiently tapping my foot.
Luke and craigmore, good morning morning.
So this is my situation.
I have half a trolleyful full of stuff, not too much about ten items. This bloke behind me got one item.
I say, mate, go.
Ahead of me.
Mate, it's all good.
So he goes ahead of me, and then the orders I think.
Four cigarette packets, and he goes, I've got to get this change. And then he orders a phone.
Charger and he wants to have a look at phones. And I'm sitting there tapping my feet and that's that's not on.
I just want to Yeah, so what normally can down violence in the supermarkets loop? But I reckon you're within your rights to crash tackling to.
The ground that you can feel the anger through the phone there from Luke, it was being nice and then he got totally the system abused something.
He's calling us. He's not in the overnight lock up means I think he's a credit to his you know community, he's a credit to his community. Indeed, Ian Roster a good morning, excellent, good morning, good thanks mate.
I have a theory.
Shop.
Did you shop?
It's no way?
Is that right?
Don't look at me? You know shirt sign you're not coming.
Through the coals. People have a high standard of etiquette, is what you're saying.
And then it goes back to what Lucy says. You've got someone who's got a big trolley. They're doing the big weekly shop right versus the Nazi Audi people had the ton where they are organized and they are going in there for their cheap food and they're going in there to be really really this is my space.
I'm doing it.
The things you are not getting in front of me.
No way.
That's a great call and I'm going to send you out of Pepper's truck strength cleaning product pack and for your car caravan Boter Home Peppers Australia dot com dot AU.
I like the idea. There's this sort of cultural difference between all the difference.
Is that because in Audi I have not shopped at Audi ever before, but you have to pack your own shopping bags. So therefore there isn't really.
That voice that speaks to you.
It's all just fend for yourself.
In Audi for is now open.
You've never been Audi. Everything have some good weird stuff.
I think I would panic in Audi.
Turkish pizza, frozen Turkish pizza, gonzl mate. That seems doable. There's two fillings, spinach and fetter, and then there's a minced spiced lamb, one Middle Eastern style. I think they're like four dollars fifty. It's sensational.
Hey, Andrew on the text line has sent through a photo of his own homemade kumbulture in a what is that like an earned thing? Where you where you brew the.
Brew the kombulture like a little tail on it. You got to it.
Turns out we've got are we got one.
You guys are rolling You guys are both rolling your eyes at me talking about kom butcher because you're far too young to be into the whole gut health diet thing.
That is not rolling their eyes at it. It's because in a city, trendy hipsters with fifteen pierce things of the two gotta have my kom butcher. That's why I can't you're knocking around with in goodwood.
Everyone's down on bones and they're down in grains.
I guess the forgotten people of Henry. Hey, hey, no, Butch, you've been drink down that way plenty of seven dollar coffees. Hey, Phillis has called in. That's that might be the case. Phyllis has called in.
On Aldi.
Are you defending Audi? Phyllis?
Absolutely, I'm always looking people too, because always feel great. They've only got a couple of things, So yeah, for sure, we're not all like that.
I said you, Phyllis's right, that's good to hear.
I've only ever shopped at all Dinger Audi, and I've never had any drunks to one. At Port Adelaide Trammeled the day I was there, they were selling giant caravan covers for one hundred dollars. But I said, Kate, do we want to get one of them? It seems like a good price, And she made the excellent point that we didn't know in a caravan. Yeah I know, but yeah, well these things are normally like four hundred dollars.
It's a bargain.
I think she had her eye on the large air compressor.
It is remarkable the stuff they still there, all right.
I was just walking out of about forty eight frozen pizzas in the trolley.
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David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five double a breakfast.
Seven. It's the seven Casey Jnovan in just the moment. Let's talk whether first though. Chris Kent is on duty at the Bureau of Meteorology. Chris, How's Wednesday looking.
Yeah, morning, guys, Wednesday is looking pretty similar to yesterday. We've got minimums this morning of around sixteen degrees currently and in the city. Out on the coast, airport's got down just below eighteen degrees and up in the hills twelve degrees at Mount Lofty. But yeah, temperatures today looking pretty similar to yesterday. The maximum of thirty two degrees for the city today, thirty three to Elizabeth, thirty at Glenelg, twenty nine at Mount Sorry no longer, and twenty eight Mount Barker. And yeah, temperature wise, not looking too much changed until the weekends. A new high pressure system coming in which start bringing in a little bit excuse me, some cooler weather for the weekend and early next week, so we might see a bit of a drop in temperature, but those sunny conditions are continuing.
Good stuff. Chris, Yeah, more of the same. Lovely weather for us, but pity the poor old farmers. Thanks for that, Chris Kent from the Bureau of Meteorology. I'd say to say, pols and you comestable. Kiberly brought on the line at Kimberly suspicious house fire at Old Ronella.
Yeah, good morning. It was about twelve thirty this morning. Police and MFS were called to our home on Bridge Street at Old Ronella after reports of smoke coming from the roof. Now, the home was ablaze when patrols arrived, but it was quickly extinguished by fire crews. There were no reports of injuries as no one was home at the time of the fire, so we had our fire call. Investigators attended the scene. They've determined to be suspicious, so we've got Southern District detectives investigating the fire. They're just asking anyone with information who saw anything suspicious if they could give us a call on the Crime Stops number. One eight hundred, triple.
Three, triple zero, Kimberly.
Also a bit of mayhem in the normally sedate seaside village of Selex Beach, whe a youth arrested breaking in or car.
Yeah, it was just Nott. At ten point thirty last night we had a witness call up. They reported seeing a group of youths trying car door handles on Jessed and Way. When police attended, they located a boy still at the scene. So we've arrested a fifteen year old from Seaford Rise. He's been a chart with two counts of illegal interference of a motor vehicle and also breach of bail. He'll be appearing in the Christie's Court today. Just asking if anyone wakes up to find that their car has been interfered with anything stolen, if they could report it to police on one three one triple four.
Yeah, not the normal sort of thing you normally associate with Selex. Thanks for that, Kimberly, have a great day, Kimberly Broad. There s you hospable Kimlly Broad from Staphole.
Well, what's becoming a semi regular occurrence on our program. We have the delight to interview Casey Donovan on the shows in the studio with us with a new show coming into Adelaide. Last time it was nine to five. This time it's Sister at the Musical, which is going to be a hell of a lot of fun and a roaring success. I did I say, Casey, it sort of feels like you must have been on tour constantly for the last couple of years. Great to have you here in Adelaide again.
That's good to be Great to have you back again, Casey. This must be such a fun show to be And I remember when this movie came out and it was a bit of a sleeper, like it didn't have a huge fanfare, but it just took off. It did, and so much. It is because it's such a funny story, isn't it. It really is.
I mean, playing the role of Dolores van Cardier is very much a dream and a role I never thought i'd ever play. But growing up with Sister the movie, you know, it's part of my life. I don't know whether I put the seed in the air when I was a kid and now I get to play this role. But it's such a great fun show. The musical itself. Unfortunately we don't do any music from the movie, and I know that's really, really sad, but I can guarantee Alan Menkin's music is an absolute gem. It is fabulous. It is disco diva, but it's such a fun story. I mean, she gets put in a convent because she saw a cheating boyfriend, mafia boyfriend kind of murder someone, and then she gets yeah, mob here, and then she gets put in a convent in the last place she ever thought she'd go. And you know, I get to play with people like Genevieve Lemon and Roonda Birch Moore in an amazing cast.
You're right about Alan Menkin as well, like his back catalog, Beauty and the Beast, Little Shop of Horrors, Christmas, Carol, the Little Mermaid, like it goes on and on and on the storyline itself. I can remember seeing it at the movies and just going along thinking, oh, you know whatever, and just walking away side splitting with laughter. It's terrific.
It's such a great show, and the musical really does kind of flesh it out. And the one thing I love about Alan Menkin's music is music and a musical pushes the story forward, so there's lots of you get to learn about their different nuns and how they ended up in the nunnery and you know, became sisters. And yeah, it's just this really beautiful web of song into two story and yeah, it's so much fun.
Where are you at in terms of touring at the moment, because you're coming into Adelaide at a great time. Everyone's in arts mode.
We've had the.
Fringe and the festivals on and so forth, so you know, this is a this is a town that's primed for another show and.
It is great. I cannot wait to get out there. And the audiences have just been absolutely amazing. So I mean we are in very very good hands, and you know, we're just another church in the city of churches. I've been a funny one.
So what you've already done Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.
Yeah, and Adelaide and then one more in Perth and then yeah, we put it to bed. But I can tell you it's just been so much fun. It's just it's such a high energy show and there's no real back message to it. It's just a really great night at the theater. And you know, I've had women come along and say we've brought our husbands and they basically kicking and screaming to the theater and they left, have a giggle and just really thoroughly enjoying the show.
I can be entertainment for entertainment stake, can it? That's that's not like a dirty Yeah, it's just fun, really is.
And there's lots to see and laugh at it this show, and I just absolutely love it.
Are you?
Are you at the point of exhaustion? Yeah, when you've been performing and I know it feels like a wed think performer and an actor and then you know, an entertainer and singer to say I'm getting not too much work, but a lot of work. Ruling it is it is a lot.
On the body. And you know, I've been doing this well, I've been basically show jumping since coming out of COVID. So I'm kind of getting to that end point where sister act will kind of button and then I come back to Adelaide and do Kimberly a Kimbo, which I'm very very excited about, and then yeah, I think I might just hang up my MT boots for a few minutes and just kind of you know, reconnect with my fiance and just you know, the kitchen, where's home Melbourne, Melbourn's and I just you know, every time I get home, I you know, we had four days between Brisbane and Melbourne and I was like, I'm I'm gonna go a Bunnings and paint the kitchen. And my partner's like, babe, just just relaxed to stop, and I was like, oh, I don't. I just you know, when you're home, you just want to be You're.
Probably yearned for that sort of domesticity because moving out of a suitcase. How many months a year are you away? Do you think twelve?
I reckon with little you know, a few days or maybe a week or two in between shows, and then you're back on stage. And you know, getting a show up, it's not just you get on stage. You know, you've got to go through a tech process. So you know you're on stage from one pm till ten thirty at night, and you know you're sitting there going and then you're doing a show with an audience the next day. So it's you know, you do get show fit. And I do love my job. I am very booked and I'm very blessed well It's.
Not like being a you know, front of a rock band where you go into a town and do maybe two concerts and then you disappear for three weeks and then you're another one or so forth. Seven days a week, Yeah, yeah, seven days every night you're doing a show, you must know everything there is to know about, you know, lemon tea and vocal care preparations.
So I know everything now, I certainly don't. But you know, that's the best thing about this industry and the likes of social media these days. There's so many people out there that are showing their tips and tricks and things that help them for their voice and their bodies. And it's just we're basically elite athletes.
That makes sense.
It's just I will and I it takes us days to recover from one full night of karaoke. At last scene, You probably don't. I tend to throw myself in full action. Yeah, rude, not to, that's right, exactly. Well, how exciting it starts tonight? And how long is it going to run for?
We run till the twenty fifth of April, so east of Saturday. Yeah, which we're very very excited about. It's great to be back in Adelaide and.
The story.
A fantastically fun show. Can't wait to see it's sister act the musical dot com dot are if people want more informational to buy tickets, Casey great, have you winning it?
Thank you very much, David Pemberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five double a breakfast seven up to seven.
Good morning too. You're joining us for the very first time. On this Wednesday morning, the twenty sixth of March, we had a police home care text line full of suggestions in the first out of what you could spend your five dollars tax cut on that's coming in a year's time. What was your favorite suggestion in that first out do you think, Oh, look, I think the curly whorthly has really sort of set the pace so curly worthy. This is the curly whorthy lead recovery. This is a government that cares about curly whorlies. Once a curly whirly in every home, and in a year's time that's.
Going to be possible.
Is there a danger that the RBA, when some of the released their minutes We'll have they will identify a curly worthy spike unprecated demand. You're the abs guy will is the curly Worthy in the basket of goods. I think it's going to be a place. I think they're they're gonna have to include it.
We might find next RBA meetings. So a couple of things that happened sadly contains brought a few new planes and everyone's bought a curly Worthy.
We underestimated the demand side issues regarding curly worthies in Australia. That's where interest rates are going up. Now we've been talking about that tax cut and indeed more with regard to the federal budget this morning, happy to take your thoughts eight double two three double double contextas on the police amcare text line as well, the Prime was sprooking the budget on TikTok Haven.
Listen, it's up Australia.
We're giving every taxpayer another tax cut. Last year we made sure that every Australian got a tax cut, and in tonight's budget we've done it again. Helping with cost of living is our top priority and that's what we're doing.
Predictably, the opposition of come out slamming those tax cuts.
We won't support what they're doing here. Look, let's be clear, they are a cruel hoax. I mean they are not a genuine tax cut. We have already announced important tax cuts. We've said that small businesses should be given accelerated deportmall we.
Whichd prought about the point. The reason we're spending so much time talking about this headliner of the budget is because this is the budget we weren't meant to have. There was meant to be an election called if not for cyclone out for it, and what we ended up getting was this sort of hastily thrown together document where all the big spending promises had already been announced, the expansion of the PBS, the Medicare levy and so forth. We knew about all of the other things. The only thing that was a surprise on the day was that was the tax cuts, because the rest of it was announced a sort of part of the foe or phony election campaign.
I think the most stunning factor emerged from the budget is that it costs fourteen, six hundred and fifteen dollars a week to feed a couple.
Of pandas I'm going to get to that, don't worry.
And I saw the front page of The Tiger last night, I thought all the Will's head is going to explode.
It worry and this one another win for the CCP. All right, let's what we do every after every year. This is like your own private nightmare.
Big government combined with unyielding generosity to a couple of lay.
About living in a simulation. That's what. That's what that it up now, happy mirror. What a slap in the face of Australia front page in Australia. And what about all the other animals that do procreate?
Yeah, I know all the ones out there having a crack. I'm the back you know, the cappy bar's going for it. That giving them man, now three of them.
In all seriousness, one thing we do like to do every federal budget and state budget the morning after is speak to some of the key groups affected by the big decisions that are taken by governments, both state and federal. And what we do is give them opportunity to come on, speak for a minute and rate the budget out of ten in their area of interest. We're going to start with Ross Womersley, the CEO of the ESA Council of Social Services. Ross, good morning to you. How did you see the federal budget?
Good morning you, gentlemen, are very funny.
Thank you, not always deliberately.
Excuse me.
If you're a if you're a low income household across South Australia, you'll be You'll have welcomed the announcements around some of the health public education investments that have been made. However, and of course it was the three Days of Early Learning, which I think will be very helpful for young families, particularly working young families trying to hold life together. We do think that, like some of your listeners have been saying, it's a great shame that they didn't use the opportunity rather than imposing tax cuts or giving modest tax cuts to people, that they actually increased the income support and you and I.
Have talked about the need for that four years now, and it would be vastly more life changing for those people who were trying to get buy on job seekers to have seen that. We also think that the six point eight billion dollars that there now will have spent on energy bill relief could have been better targeted and it could have funded energy upgrades on every social housing property across Australia, and that would have also created a huge long term impact reducing demand for those households that really struggle with their Jesus come. So we think the government needs a big vision. The next government needs a big vision to protect the most vulnerable. There's some extra money coming to South Australia. Treasurer Mulligan will be pretty excited as at least three hundred million dollars extra coming into the South Australian budget. We hope he's going to spend that on things like public housing to ensure that the housing cristis that we've got going on yet addressed.
What do you say out of ten ross six and a half six and a half good? Thank you for that. Let's head to Andrew Kay, the CEO of the South Australian Business Chamber. Morning, Andrew money Will, how'd you say it?
This is the budget they didn't want to deliver. Needs the budget we didn't want to hear. It's a business here in South Australia. This budget was over quicker than the Adelaide Essendon game. There was complete absence of general business policy and it has to make us wonder if they're keeping their power drive to try and read this over the next month and the lead up to the election, because seriously, what there was not much there. It was short term focused. You know, where was the vision for the tax reform to drive innovation and productivity. Even the instant asset right off for businesses of up to twenty K, which was expected to be extended in this budget, wasn't there. That was the miss. There's one hundred and fifty dollars rebate for energy bills, which for businesses who've been getting a twenty to thirty percent year on year increase for the last three or four years, is almost insulting. That won't buy an espresso caps for the bordering copy machine, I think they'll be. I'll be drinking international ROAs out the back of the warehouse for the next few months.
Nothing wrong with international rights to Andrey, just as.
The premiere.
If I found it is a point of where I am. But in the spirit of the week ahead, I'm giving it a four one for each day. It's going to take the Sacker Boys to knock over Queensland to bring home the Sheedules.
Magnificent Andrew. Let's hope that part comes true. The part the part about extra support for business comes through true as well. Andrew always replete with them sporting metaphors and references, which we always Enjoyabll Frogley is the CEO of the Master Builders Association here in South Australia. Well, any highlights or lowlights in the budget for you guys.
Look to be honest, I share a lot of the sentiment of Andrew. There's not many nasty surprises in the budget, but equally there's very little to get excited about either. There's a lot of talk about the cost of living squeeze, and rightly so, but there's also a less publicized cost of doing business squeeze, and there's precious little there in the budget. Would have liked to seen a lot more to support the businesses are really the ones that drive economic growth in this country and build for all austrains.
There's very little at all in the budget.
To help bring down business costs and you know, redish regulation and incentivize growth. So if you look at some of the key challenges for industry construction costs, build times and declining productivity, there's very little in there and the budget to help with those measures. Andrew mentioned the Internet set right off and also the did you build relief they're missed opportunities there for sure, and you know in terms of Insolvence to South Australia's performed by father beast in the country in construction, but if you look at other places around the country, it's particularly on the Eastern seaboard it's been disasters. So there's a few good things in there in terms of sending us for apprentices and modern methods of construction so modular and prefab to help speed up beats build times. But the only real major project in there that is the one twenty five million for the Curtis Road level crossing removal. So really I'm pretty underwhelmed by this budget. I'd give it a five out of ten.
Good on your will, Frankick, thank you. Now on the health angle, dtr Ramia Rahman, the Vice President of the Royal College of GPS doctor, Good morning to.
You, Good morning Will.
How are you going very well?
How did you see the budget from a health perspective.
Yeah, Look, so the government certainly has demonstrated commitment to rebuilding Medicare and the commitment to general practice specifically. So there's been a recording rejection of eight point five billion investment and this comes up to decades of Medicare underfunding. So there is a recognition of the value of general practice as well as general practitioners in the community, and the funding primarily that we are welcoming a lot is specifically for training more gps, incentivizing junior doctors to choose general practice as a specialization, as well as the Women's Health Package, which has been a turnaround and a lot of women in the community clapping their hands for multiple medications that are going to be available on PBS and at cheaper rates as well. But we are concerned that the government's plan won't deliver the nine out of the ten bulk build appointments that they are expecting. Patient rebates are still quite low to cover the cost of care, specifically for patients who are who've got complex and chronic conditions. There's an aging population as well, so certainly the money needs to be diverted to areas where it's going to make them impact. So we're wanting to see an increase in the patient medicare rebates for longer consultations. That's where the real medicine does happen, and that's where general practice sees a lot of the money that needs to be funded towards and also increasing the patient Medicare rebates for mental health. You know, after COVID and the pandemic, we've certainly seen a rising mental health consultations and the patients are needing it, the GPS.
Are calling for it, and how did how would you score it dog your own?
Oh gosh, that's a really tricky question specifically for health, and we've just got to yeah, I know, and we've just got to focus on the idea that you know, government needs to be hearing where the need is, where the money needs to be diverted for patients and for patient care and so longer consultations and mental health is where we're seeing the needing to see the increase for patient Medicare rebates.
They're good insight there. You're free to make it, hastened to add, you're free to make a number up. There's nothing scientific or any random number that'll do.
Oh no, I think, well that would that would that would not be That would not be right of me. I think we've got to we've got to applaud what is coming towards health, but noting that Medicare has been underfunded for decades, okay, and we're really wanting to see those increase in passion medicare rebates.
Okay, fair enough, thank you for that. And there's one of the great thing about people of science. Never up for frivol or stupidity, are they? That's right, give it a big six point three exactly right.
There's whatever one grip we really wanted to add this year given the drought conditions in South Australia and in other parts of the country, and that is to get a sense of what's in this budget for people making their living on the land and feeding the country in the process. Simon Maddox is the chair of the Primary Producers Association here in South Australia. Simon, good morning to you. How did you How did you guys see the budget? Oh?
Look, I think it's pretty disappointing really, I've no doubt. One of the challenges is that South Australia and bit of Western vic and drought and everybody else is dealing with flood and raids at the moment. The big package in this budget that's South Australia is obviously money for Wyler that and the Curtis rate update, and there's not much else specifically for primary producers, not a lot of relief for the challenges our guys are facing. There's obviously some commitment in the FEDS to improving trade environment, and that's really important because a significant part of what Australian farmers produce is export, I think some seventy percent, so ongoing work in the trade area is really really critical, but it won't specifically help our guys. Currently. There's more money for Murray Darling water buybacks, but again we don't know quite how much or what those costing tax payers because they don't disclose those figures for fear of impacting the market dynamics. There's a bit of money for pest management control, which is an ongoing issue for this country, and biosecurity investments, but I think the really big issues like fixing rural roads and stimulating regional housing and overcoming workforce challenges are missing. As Andrew tossed on earlier, I think we were looking forward to an extension of the instant asset right off. That's a really big issue for primary producers and there's nothing there's nothing there for that, so it's a short term focused budget, not long term. I think the big takeaway for me was I think it's time to get into bamboo farming.
Do you think too that some of these South Australian farmers are stuck in the mega safe seats of gray and Barker to pity you can't move some South Australian farms to these marginal seeds in Queensland and New South Wales. We get all the attention.
Oh, there's no doubt we've got We've got a real challenge. There's a challenge even getting people in Adelaide to appreciate just quite how significant the drought and the impact has been for primary producers, not just in the north of the state, but in the southeast as well. Lots of producers really been challenged by it. So look that there's an ongoing program of work that the federal government has that works with the state government to support drought and drought impacts. But I think if we don't get some opening, good opening season range this year, then we're in a whole whole other world of pain.
So how would you score it from your perspective, Simon?
Oh, look, I think specifically it's Look, it's it's not a bad short term budget, but for agriculture, I'd be hard.
Pest to go past before Simon, thank you for that Simon Maddox, the chair of the Primary Producers of SA. We've done a few of these, so you get a sort of you sometimes get a bit of a sense from the panel that we put together overall what the vibe is.
It and sometimes it's not matter from their own well ideological bent, given the nature of their organizations. I mean, Ross WILLMSY is hardly going to come on and say there's not nothing that for business convert Andrew k isn't going to come on and say, well, you know, why are they doing more to raise tax? They should have raised the corporate.
But I think that is that that the vibe of that panel matches largely what we're seeing on the text line, and I think it's a byproduct of the budget. As we said at the start, that wasn't meant to happen. It's not there's no outrage, but there's no it's generally inspiration there underwhelmed. There's no outrage nor inspiration. That's a good way of putting it.
I actually thought that even though doctor Brahman wouldn't come to the party with a mark out of ten, her answer had the most detail because it's the area where the government is actually doing the most. And it's apt that we have the Health Minister Mark Butler joining us after eight o'clock to discuss the budget because I actually think tactically, if Flavor's smart, that'll be a huge focus of the campaign because it's an area where they do have a story to tell and one which historically has wrongfooted conservative parties in this country.
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David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to line five, Double A Breakfast.
Twenty seven after seven. Interesting chat last night. I always loved when Campo joins the sports show with that ROWI and Timmy g. Last night, ROWI was asking about the Crows, the hype and weather they are after two rounds the real deal.
I'll ask you this, are they the real deal?
I've really enjoyed what I've seen, and you can only play against the opposition that's put up to you at this point in time. They've done what they've needed to do and you can see some improvement and sometimes when you beat teams easily, you can see what I guess their m is for the rest of the season. So that's the Probably the thing that I've enjoyed the first couple of weeks is the fact that they've and I went back out to look at twenty four numbers and twenty three numbers, they've kicked thirty more points in the first two weeks, more than what they have in twenty three twenty four as an average. So twenty three was a standout year from an offense point of view, twenty four not so much. But you know, you have a look at what they've been able to do in the first couple of weeks, and I'm thinking there's a bit of Murray David in there from a prism perspective, because you can certainly see that they're trying to control the ball by foot and even when the momentum, and when the momentum is there, they've actually owned the ball. And then when they've got the opportunity to open the opposition up by foot, they've been able to go and go quick and get inside that forward light.
Yeah, there's been plenty to like about how the Crows have started, And as we've been saying a week, the funny thing is the danger game. This Sunday against the North Melbourne all of a sudden.
I think anyone who's banking those four points is mad. Although Tom Wren very bullish, He's been bullish all year. He hasn't been wrong yet. He said they're going to absolutely take some killed or apart. He said they're going to flog Essenmon. He's got them winning on Sunday by at least six goals. Yeah he did.
Hey you the big sporting event we're watching like we're watching with our fingers crossed is of course the for Sacker a little bit later today ten thirty this morning, Karen Rott Noble Day one. We'd love to get a big crowd down there. If you're going down, God must be a cricket fan because the next five days the weather it's perfair and the oval looks stunning. It is spectacular. Let's hope they get a decent crowd down there and they can get the job done. Nervous day for South Australian cricket. It's one of the longest drouts in essay sport at the moment, nearly to twenty nine to thirty years. So wishing them all the best that I get down and support them. Karen Rolton Novle. It's a beautiful spot and they've done a great job doing it up as well. Five Double A News is on the way. We're going around the course with Sean Fuston, next.
David Pemberthy and Will Goodings. Six to line five Double A Breakfast.
Coming up to twenty minutes to wait. The Federal Health Minister Mark Butler's going to join us on the program after eight o'clock today. If you caught doctor Aramia Rahman, the VP of the Royal Australian College of GPS, is part of our budget rap. You know, that's a fascinating topic to sink your teeth into after a federal budget that was really lacking in other key talking points. All bit, everyone's having a lot of fun with the five dollars extra you're going to be getting from well.
I think that's got to be our next question to the member for High Marsh, High Mush or Port Adelaide High Marsh. Isn't it Butler's seat?
These days? It was Port Adelaide, Now it's got Now it's on.
Maybe you go to and buy taco or half a taco?
Is that in Port Adelaide?
It's in Port Adelaide, the excellent Mexican place we're talking about yesterday. We'll last the Minister what he's going to spend it, or maybe he's going to get together with nine friends this Friday and by a carton of beer.
Just about gets you there, doesn't it. The treasure of South Australia Steven Mulligan to be on the program is well fascinated to hear his takeouts with regard to things like the money apportioned to WYALA, but also I think what's rightly been described as an absence of federal funding for a whole lot else. I know the two things you want to talk about are WYALA and the investment in education and schools. But then you look, if you if you bake the unfortunate decision to compare South Australia with states on the Eastern seaboard, you're going to think this page is missing in the budget and the.
Way to compare them, and the Tier has done a good job with it graphically. You look at the money allocated and then you look at the marginal seat and the problem we've got is, with the exception of booth B there aren't any. So you know that's it. In a nut shell. This is it's you know, Ross Kelly lives. It's they've still got a whiteboard in Canberra and they'll tell you black and blue that they don't and that's crap. That's how they work out how the money is handed out. So plenty more budget coverage to come on five tou bl a Breakfast. Before all that, though, let's turn our attention to matters of Lauri and order.
It's time to go around the courts with Sean fused to on five double A Breakfast.
Sean Fuster joins us in the five double A Breakfast Studio. Had a really opportune time, Sean, because you get to talk to us about and fill us in the detail of a case that is hugely high profile that we've been following closely, the Yandal case. Marco Yandal who shot and killed Stephen Murphy.
And Marco Yandal didn't I got to stop here.
Sorry, Now, Marco's the son Keith keith yandle did keith Yandle Sorry, Keith Angel shot Stephen Murphy Kendell in his shed. That's why you're here with the details. But there was a plea bargain that's led up to this point, and that was unsealed yesterday.
That's right. We now have the full details of what actually happened in this entire mess. So back in February of twenty twenty three, you had the situation where as a jury has found Keith Yandal murdered Stephen Murphy. Stephen Murphy sleeping rough in the Cuddler area outside of Gawla. He was in Keith Murken Yet there we go, New Studio, New Tongue. He was in Keith Yandal's shed where Keith was growing cannabis.
He was cowering.
He was shot with a twenty two that had a laser sight and a torch on it. Marco the sun is holding a torch from the other side, shining it on him at the time. Keith eventually pleaded not guilty to murder and went to trial. What we can now talk about is the fact of why Marco ended up pleading to assisting an offender because he was originally charged with murder as well. You might remember those early bail hearings where the prosecution described the case as a cold blooded, callous execution, saying that Marco was just as guilty as his father. You could see that based on the CCTV footage, then it all went away.
Well, this happened right at the start of this whole process, right, and.
The started as very prot it.
So what actually happened was on the day that the both were due to enter their pleas I'd learned from sources that Keith was going to plead guilty to murder in a plea bargain with prosecutors and as a result, prosecutors would accept Marco's plea to the lesser charge of assisting an offender, so his father would take the blame. Do the right thing by your son, do the right thing by his son. What happened was when it came into court, counsel for Keith said, our clients just asked to speak to us. We need another week. We're sorry to cause a problem, we need a week. Counsel for Marcos said, well, no, the plea bargain's been struck, your howner. We're ready to go, and the prosecution said okay. So Marco's plea to the lesser charge was accepted without Keith first pleading guilty to murder. They came back one week later. Keith lawyers said, we're sorry, we have to resign from the case. Our client's given us conflicting instructions. Keith hired a new law and said, not guilty, take.
Me to trial.
That's extraordinary renegging on a plea bargain. Now, there's part of me that says the DPP has offered so many bargains over the years that this was inevitable. Someone finally figured out how to gain limit the system. There's another side of me that says, everybody on Stephen Murphy's side of things had to put up with a much longer court process as a result of this.
What I don't understand, though, Sean, is so if the father's pleading not guilty and the son's pleading guilty to a lesser offense, they weren't exactly putting on a united front, were they.
No, they weren't. But at the same time, it was trying to make sure on Keith's side that Marco didn't go down for murder, right, yeah, okay, And at the end of the day, as we know, Marco got a suspended sentence, with the court choosing not to view the CCTV footage shooting.
I don't get the logic sentence if that was the father's intention wouldn't have made more sense for the father to plead guilty and for the son to plead not guilty.
Well, the father to plead guilty to murder was always the original intent of the bargain, But the DPP was never letting Marco off with nothing. Yeah, OK, so it wasn't a case if you can walk away. The minimum was a sister defender.
So that's what the dad wanted.
That's what the dad wanted. I want my kid to go in for a sister defender and he'll get a suspended sentence, olply guild and murder. Oh wait, yeah, wait, you've just accepted his plea without taking mine stuff. You you can now take me to try. You can't undo what you've done.
Surely that will be the last time in the history of South Australia that in an arrangement where two people are pleading guilty, that the lesser charge will get to plead first.
Well, I guess that's a question for Martin Hinton k C. Isn't it? Hope it would be, because we've now seen demonstrably what a problem it's caused. That jury did not take very long to come back with that verdict. In keith yandle and the jury had to watch the footage of the murder multiple times, So twelve ordinary people have been subjected to this footage time and time again. Or because this plea bargain was done in this slap hazard matter.
Is any of that admissible? Was any of that part of the say that you get to the sentencing stage or does that become reniquing on a deal? Is that in any way inform you know state of mind?
The only way, the only reason I can tell you any of this is because this didn't make it into the trial. Because I saw so many suppression orders slapped on this trial that it reminded me of the old days. I thought we were back in the early two thousands with the number of suppressions that were flying left and right during this trial, right even on things the jury had physically seen were suppressed. And there's some suppression orders I can't tell you about because their actual existence is suppressed.
Well, what's an example of one of them that's been.
I don't want to give you one, because I'm going to end up giving you the one accident that's suppressed.
Foreign suppression speak generally around why this case might have had so many suppression orders.
No, because I don't understand it. With all due respect to all parties involved, it made no sense. I could not follow why we were suppressing so many things and why all those suppressions remain.
When you said before Sewan about the jury had to make repeated viewings of that horrible CCTV footage, is that when the juris see it, is it shown in open court or is it shown in the privacy of the jury room or how does it happen?
Well, that was one of the arguments, because the media were repeatedly removed from the building, well the court room, I should say repeatedly removed from the court room whenever anything controversial was going to be shown, So the public gallery was closed.
The idea on the public if you happen to be just sitting there watching the trial, you had to leave, That's right.
The DPP argued that it was upsetting an objectionable material new cough button.
I like it.
That legislation was actually created for child exploitation material, right, and yet it was being used here for this. Compare that now to the case that just lawful started off with that of Jack Hanley, and that piece of footage where Jack was killed on a street was played fifty or more times backwards forward slow motion blow that's right with the family sitting in court, So where's the consistency.
It's bizarre.
Couldn't figure that out. Couldn't figure that Not that I particularly wanted to watch the footage must be fair, but I'm very glad that's not part of my brain now. But for the jury, none of this would have happened had that plea bargain not been muffed in the first place. Now, muffed is my word. I'm sure that someone in the DPP says you can't categorize it that way. Well, muffed is my word on that.
Is there any debate that you're aware of, Shorn with regard to the ethics of this sort of duel plea bargain arrangement where you get two people and it's in one's best interest, maybe there's a family member involved to plead to something so they can they can plead down and get you know, maybe no jail time or no conviction record, whatever the fence might be. Because I suspect all of our listeners that kind of arrangement. They'll raise an eyebrow at and wonder if justice is truly being done and those generations, are they rare and are they generally considered, you know, a part and pastor or do some people have qualms about that.
It'd be hard to say that they're rare, because there are so many families and siblings and things that do go through the courts. Unfortunately. In terms of how often it happens, I would say it's infrequent. In terms of whether it's been dealt with, I would say no. Because around the same time we had the Zi family stabbing out at Sefton Plaza. Now the Zi family case, the father offered to plead guilty to attempted murder if everyone else in the family was let go. The DPP said no way to that. And yet in this situation we had what we had.
The level of involvement of the other members of the Zi family made that massively different from this though, I.
Guess except on the prosecution's original case, Marco's involvement was massive. He was holding the torch and part of what they called the cold blooded execution style murder. So somewhere between those bail applications that were so passionate that stopped him from being released and the plea bargain everything changed.
What's the decision matrix for the DPP with regard to accepting plea bargains and so forth You've talked about with regard to things like appeals, It's about reasonable chances of success? Is that the only measure here? Is it about expediency?
Is about It's the only measure publicly known if you read the DPP's charge, our DPP is committed to securing a conviction and following cases that have a reasonable prospect of conviction. That's the only stated metric they have. But if you go back on the Nova app or the five double A app and listen to Just Lawful from a couple of weeks ago, Daniel and I actually dug into the entire plea bargaining situation with all of the statistics, because there are some quite frightening statistics in terms of how many cases every year are being dealt with through plea bargaining.
I'm fascinated. I might go back and have listened to that then, Suan, because I'm just interested in and I'm not being lazy. I just don't remember the numbers be sub priorities. I'm sure too, is it about pursuing the highest maximum charge for one offender, or is it about the total number getting the highest possible level of offense for everyone involved? And I just think that they are competing goals. Potentially.
What you'll find if you listen to this episode is that the set of statistics that might explain that to you don't then match a set of stistics from SAPOLE or the courts that talk about the outcomes of these matters. Right there's no ability to chart between the different sets of stats kept by the different agencies to get a clear picture of.
What all this means. It's intriguing in this case highlights.
That or obfus skating. You know, you say intriguing, I say obfus skating. But maybe I'm a little jaded in this rep.
Area in more experience, that's for sure, and that's what we love getting you in. Now you're off for a couple of weeks, sadly foradly for you. The good news for listeners is that Joss Lawful will continue. So this really fascinating section you're doing at the moment on arson and fire related offenses will continue.
We will, indeed, and this upcoming episode I actually stump Daniel into speechlessness with an arsonist giving his explanation for why he did what he did. It's a medical explanation. I guarantee you you have never heard anything like it.
Looking forward to that. Have a great break, John, Thanks, I see you soon. All right, we're going to have check traffic thanks to Corporate Clean Property Services. They're referred for a reason. After all, they don't cut corners, they clean them.
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Four minutes to a Breaking aid. Coming up after eight o'clock this morning. Mark Butler, the Healthaness, is going to be on the program also the Treasurer of South Australia, Stephen Mulligan. Good moment to have him on for his regular chat after the federal budget last night. What did it mean for us the South Australian government, Our GST receipts declined. I suspect he might be a little bit motivated to talk about that, particularly when you look at how much Western Australia gets. The only state that doesn't have any state debt or anything. Money coming out of their ears is crazy. This has been the remarkable Senate hearing going on over in the United States. It was meant to be with regard to national security threats. So you had all the heads of defense and intelligence and so forth being grilled by members of Congress. Well it has They changed tact a little bit after that extraordinary story that broke whilst we're on are yesterday when a member of the journalist class, the editor of The Atlantic, was included on a X thread with JD. Vance, with Pete Heggsheth, the head of Defense, with the Trump's chief of staff, some people from the CIO and so forth, and details were exchanged about an impending strike on Hoothy rebels. Now, the journalist says, after the fact written about this, and some of the questioning in this hearing, as you might imagine, got a bit fiery. Here's a little bit of it with regard with Senator Mark Warren questioning Toolsey Gabbett.
You were my TG on this group chat.
I'm not going to get into this face, so he through knowledge whether you were on this group chat.
There was no classified material that was shared in that.
So then if there were no classified in material, share it with the committee.
You can't have it both ways.
These are important jobs. This is our national security so tg Toolsy Gabbard is the head of the CIA in and was part of that text. It is one of the most extraordinary stories. Pete Heggsseith came out immediately afterwards the Defense Secretary and seemed to suggest that the whole thing was a fabrication. Subsequently, the government's confirmed that it was real. But it's not more that that's just no big deal.
He's had a massive crack at the journalist as well, said that he pedals lives. You know what you do, Judo confend for himself. But one of the things that is really funny is jd Vance's comments about the Europeans, where he describes them as layabouts and says, you know this is as.
He says, I hate doing this to help the Europeans.
Yeah, yeah, can't stand them. But that's a view that the president holds and has made no secret of the fact prior to making his return as president that over the past sort of a couple of decades, Western U has already dropped the ball when it comes to looking after its own defense.
It's a remarkable story.
Wonder what he'll think of the defense spending that Jim Charmers outlined last night, so what are we at two point one with a planning at the time with three.
By the end of the decade.
Yeah, and given Trump's fondors for telling other countries how they should look after their affairs.
Well, we have given them ten billion dollars to build their own submarine at the moment, so you shouldn't. That's a prey good deal for them. Yeah, it's a great deal for them. Yeah, he loves a good deal. A minute to eight five Double News is coming up, Breaking eight, not too far away.
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Nine minutes after breaking eight, not too far away. The Health Minister Mark Butler is going to join us. Then after eight thirty today the Treasurer of South Australia, Stephen Mulligan, will be on the program. As always, we extend you the offer with these the decision makers in this country, that you have direct access to them if you want to ask a question, you can do precisely that if you'd liked us to ask it in your behalf flick it film. The Police Homecare text line zero four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five it's time for breaking it eight.
Well, finally some long overdue good news for the workforce in Wyala. It's my understanding that later this morning, the acting Premiere Susan Close, who was acting in the absence of Peter Malanowskas, who's on the trade mission to India, Doctor Close is going to be traveling up to Whyala. I think other ministers, possibly including the Energy Minister Tom Kotzontonis, are going to be there too. They're going to be announcing that as the steel works is currently sort of in caretaker mode under government control with a one eye very firmly on finding a buyer a new operator as part of the sort of upkeep and maintenance of it, the administrators are going to be announcing along with the state government that more than sixty full time positions, more than sixty full time jobs are being sought immediately at the steel works, with another forty to fifty to follow. So that's a significant injection of people into the workforce at the steel works and shows that the government and the administrators are committed to making an ongoing concern. When I heard this information yesterday, it reminded me of the question we asked the premier only a couple of weeks ago, where we were asking if in the transition period there would be any opportunities for new jobs to be created at the still Works premier.
We're hearing for the for the first time in a long time that the steel mill is actually hiring as part of the stabilization process. Is it Is there any truth to that?
Yeah, look that this is the irony when we put the business into administration. In the weeks up to that, the union was telling us that GfG that the business was giving out more over time than they can remember, right, because they had flashed and burned so hard that when the blasphemers got back up and running it again, that they then had to find people to do some work around the place. And of course, over time, as any manager will tell you, overtime is almost a bit of a cardinal sin because you're paying workers huge penalty rates for overtime when a natial fact, you just be better off having more staff that be far more productive. It'd also be safer. So the stabilization of the business is looking to hire people again. The work orders are going out. There is now cash flying through the wilder economy today as we speak in a way that hasn't for a very long time, indeed, and that's because they're getting the business back on its feet. So the administration is a good thing in Whaler. And you know, I'd encourage anyone to go up to why to just get around and talk to people like the town in a better position now there's been in a long time.
So there you go.
The numbers are going to be confirmed later today. More than sixty full time positions to be created, with the expectation that another forty to fifty will follow.
Well, that is good news, and we will pursue the funding of the wireless still works with the Treasurer of Stephen Mulligan after eight thirty. Right now, let's head out in the road and checking with Jade Roberin for the first time on this Wednesday morning. Good morning you, Jade, A jolly.
Good morning to you too.
Guys.
We've been chatting budget all throughout the show, and one item that popped out to me was Will's favorite topic, the pander is I reckon? Our new couple were the biggest winners in the federal budget. They were handed fourteen thousand, six hundred and fifty ten dollars a week. Now, a large chunk of that goes to feeding them. Basically, they'll have a packet of bamboo that never runs out. I reckon it's dipped in gold, but they chow through up to thirty kilograms a day of this stuff. Now, budget papers confirm the federal government will contritribute seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars a year, So that breakdown again fourteen thousand, six hundred and fifteen dollars a week until mid twenty thirty four. Now, as for us, humans will be getting a tax cut of five dollars fifteen a week in July next year, rising to ten dollars thirty in twenty twenty seven. That's not even enough to go a watch the panders eat their bamboo. So I thought, I'm going to go down to Rundle Mall and ask a few people about what they thought of this spending. And guys, I have to say, I'm very surprised that most are actually in favor. So, Andrew, the pan has got quite lucky last night in the budget around fifteen thousand a week.
What's your thoughts on that?
Well, first impression is fifteen thousand dollars given the fact that they're already being subsidized by the Chinese government. That seems an awful lot in saying that. Look, we all love the Pandas, but is it really worth that amount, panor.
What do you think?
Well, I'm all in favor of bringing a little bit of joy to the community, and the Panders seem to do that in spades, a bit like the opera company and the symphony orchestra. I think it's the sign of a civilized society and can't do us any harm.
Kathy, what do you think of that?
Well, I'm an animal lover, so anything that helps animals is fine by me, I'd have to say. And I think given their joy that the panders bring us, it's really actually quite a cheap price to pay.
Pands Good morning.
What do you thought on that?
Well, okay, I love the Pandas. I reckon they're fantastic and if the government can give the Pandas the money to stay here, which also means that the South Australian government won't necessarily have to support it, so I reckon that it's not a bad deal.
But I must have been fifteen grand a week for.
Bamboosh toots and leaves.
I'm not too sure where they're buying it from. This country's gone to the dogs.
Seriously, you should have seen the look on Will's face this morning, folks, when you're arrived for work at quarter to six.
Believable.
But his head was going to come to a point.
You know, the debt's nearly trillion dollars, trillion dollars.
Well that in that in that context, you know, as let's say in New Orleans, La Les Bond tempts roller let the good times.
Roll, well, fifteen thousand a week and sixty year.
Nine hundred and forty billion dollars worth of debt or whatever it is, you just say, we'll bugger it.
You know, the working what's a few tons of ban boots they've thought, so working human Australians get a two and fifty dollars a year or five dollars a week tax cup. So to get what the pandas get in a week, you have to wait sixty years of the current tax cut that's been provided.
Yeah, yeah, yes, this numerically this is correct. But I just wanted to a nine year deal. This is a nine deal. People queuing up there to see us and our partners in some glass enclosure. No, no, they're not, they're not. And as that lady said before.
Animals bring us joy a huge bill, nine year deal. That's the nine year deals are the kind of things that gets Cane Corn's doing a shirtless walking talk on social media.
Why does everything costs more involving animals? One of our kavoodles had one of its teeth pulled out and dead set. Next time I have to take the dog to the dentist, I'm going to take it to my dentist. I'm just going to strap at the chest and just pretend that it's me. But it's about as Harry.
That's outrageous. That's outrageous. I don't recognize this country anymore. Sixteen after eight, we're going to check track Andrew check traffic right and good ones lately he has been actually a bit. We're going to be talking health in the federal budget in just a moment. Corporate clean property services. They're referred for a reason. After all, I don't cut corners, they clean them.
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Twenty minutes after rate continue our federal budget coverage and analysis this morning we're joined by the Federal Health Minister, Mark Butler. Minister, good morning to you.
Good morning. Well, I didn't take it for a panda hater.
I have to just compare to the.
End of it. I'm not a hater. I just believe, you know, equity for humankind, Health Minister, that's all you know, the hard working.
People of Australian charismatic fauna as well.
That's exactly right. Plenty of other animals out there trying their best. Mark Butler, we love a laugh on this show. But can I just ask, in all seriousness, did did the Albanezy government and Jim Chalmers in particular, decide that in these difficult economic times Australia needed a bit of a laugh because the overwhelming tone of the response from our listeners today.
To the five dollars a week tax cut is hilarity.
Well, we've been prett clear and honest that this is a modest tax cut. I mean it's going to cost a budget seventeen billion dollars, so it's a significant investment. But we want it to be seen as part of the package we took to the community last year when we redesign the tax cuts to ensure that everyone got one, not just people on more sort of I guess higher incomes. And so as a package, the tax cut we delivered to all Australians last year and the additional ones that we announced last night deliver an average cut over the over the course of about twenty five hundred dollars a year, about fifty bucks a week. So look, it's not huge. We're not pretending it's huge, but in the circumstances we have, we think it's the right thing to do.
But it isn't going to be any difference at all the people's quality of life. I mean, we've had an email say that we're going to have power Billy was going up by nine percent in a few months time, you know, and you're talking about the seventeen billion tollar cost of it. Wouldn't it have been better to just say, look, well we'll just not go ahead with it and you know, set the money aside to build a new women's and children's hospital or something like that.
Well, we've been able to balance a whole range of things, including additional hospital funding. South Australia next year gets an increase in hospital funding from the Commonwealth of about fifteen percent, which is more than any other state in the Commonwealth because frankly it's been underfunded for too long. We're fixing that, which will help Chris Pickton and the Premiere continue their work in making hospital care better than South Australia. But all of these things are about choices, and we took the view that a modest top up to the tax cuts we delivered last year was warranted given the pressure that householdier under. But also we've delivered energy bill relief, additional energy bill relief to all households as well, which we've also done over the last couple of years. We'll do that again over the course of the rest of this year.
We spoke as part of our Federal budget rap minister with the Royal Australian Collegy of General Practitioners, who raise some concerns with regard to some of the way in which that money is being invested in health, which in the health sect, which they say they welcome, but warn that in their view, it's not targeted enough to get the sort of level of bulk billing rate that you or the Federal opposition would expect, So what they would rather see is something like a twenty five percent increase to patient rebates for mental health, which they say is taking up a huge amount of time, and a forty percent increase in to rebates for longer consults. Have you looked at that and why did you reject their plan that they put forward.
I did, and I talked to the College and also to the AMA and other groups, including patient groups, about the situational confronting general practice, which is one where the investment we've made in bolk billings for pensioners has worked. Bulk billing rates now for pensioners and concession cardholders is now comfortably above ninety percent across the country again, but it's continuing to slide for everyone else, So everyone else is exposed to growing gap fees. And so I said pretty frankly to the College of GPS, Look, you're asking for me to give you more money without any strings attached, and I'm just not willing to do that in good conscience, particularly as a labor Minister for Health, given we've always attached such importance to bolk billings. So we will invest a record amount in Medicare, but I expect that are bulk billing rates from it. I'm not just going to hand over money without strings attached, we expect bolk billing to increase. Now I'm confident this record investment in bolk billing will see the sorts of results that we've modeled will come about, will start to turn around bolk billing for middle Australia, so people who aren't able to get a concession card and deliver millions and millions of additional free visits.
To the doctor.
There's been an expectation that on April second, when Donald Trump pronounces the next round of tariffs, that pharmaceuticals may will be something that the US targets any concern about. And I don't think anyone in Australia is going to think it's a bad move. He's spending two billion dollars extra on the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. But was there any discussion internally about whether you might be poking the bear ahead of what could be a targeting of Australia because of that scheme.
Look, big big farmer in the US for many, many years has hated the PBS, has hated our pharmaceutical benefits scheme. It's a scheme that puts a lot of pressure on companies to deliver medicines at an affordable price. It's one of the oldest health schemes in the world and it's delivered enormous benefits to Australian patient. So even under John Howard when he was negotiating the US Free Trade agreement, big farmer from the US try to pressure the Australian government to change the PBS and to give a better deal for big pharmaceutical companies who obviously want to sell the medicine's a higher prices. Our priority is delivering cheaper medicines for Australian patient. So we've made it clear again because big farmers doing exactly the same thing right now. We've made it really clear that there is absolutely no way the Australian government will negotiate around our PBS. I mean, if the federal if the US administration puts tariffs on Australian exports to the US and they're mainly sort of blood products from CSL, well that's just going to hurt American patience. It's obviously going to have an impact on CSL as well. But we're not willing to negotiate around the PBS. We've made that absolutely crystal.
Clear, Minister. We've only got one marginal seat these days in South Australia, which is Booth Peep. We've got fewer seats here than we did when you first went into politics getting on for twenty years ago. Does that explain why we get one hundred and twenty five million dollars a fixed Curtis road in Queensland get seven point two billion to fix all sorts of stuff in key marginal seats up and down its entire length.
Well, first of all, we regards to it very much as a marginal target seat. We're campaigning very hard there with a terrific candidate. So that's not us Booth me, but that the article in the TiSER is just wrong there is. Well, I'll tell you why because over the next four years of the infrastructure investment budget, South Australia gets more than eleven percent. Now we're seven percent of the population, we're getting eleven percent of the infrastructure funding over the four years of.
The It's not wrong in terms of the new specific announcements that were outlined last night.
Is it what it is?
Because there are other additional new budget commitments from last night. There's five hundred and twenty five million for the High Productivity Vehicle Network, which is about how big trucks come through the city. Another five hundred and twenty five million dollars. I'm not sure why the Tiger missed that. There's forty million dollars for the main South road upgrade around my Pong de yank Lilli to make that road safer. But there is huge money rolling out right now around the Darlington to Torrents part of the North South upgrade, I can tell you here in Canberra. You know, the complaint about the South Australian infrastructure budget is that South Australia gets substantially more than its population share. Other states noticed that as part of the very good management the South Australia has always had, going back to Pat common and Rod Hook, they've always managed their infrastructure budget well, which I mean they've always done well out of the Commonwealth and they do very well again, eleven percent of our infrastructure budget going to a state with seven percent of the population, So the best hospital funding deal in the country and the best infrastructure deal as well.
Just finally, Mark Butler, do you want to steal Olbostune because we're hearing rumors that he's going to go to Government House on Friday.
I can't count the number of rumors going around this. There's every termutation. He's going this morning, he's going, Friday's going Sunday. He's going to wait for a couple of weeks to do Peter Dutton slowly. I mean at the end of the day, we don't have long to wait. There's going to be an election in May, and it's going to be a very important election, particularly around the future of medicare.
Mark Martler, the Federal Health Minister and the Member for High Marsh formerly Port Adelaide, thanks for joining us this morning on five Double A My pleasure.
Twenty nine minutes after right. Plenty of feedback coming in on the Police Home Care text line that will form some of our conversation with the South Australian Treasurer, Stephen Mulligan, who will join us right after five Double News.
David Penberthy and Will Goodings six to nine five Double A Breakfast.
Twenty minutes the nine the treasure of South Australia shortly. Will we be tall in numbers with the Treasurer. The federal budget came out of course last night. We're obviously very biased about what that means for South Australia. But Da Stavross has texted us on the issue of one very big number that's come up a bit in the context of the national net debt. One trillion dollars. Not quite there, but you know you'd round it up, Stavross says Fellows. Just to get a perspective on one trillion dollars, I googled to try and understand how much is a trillion and the answer was if you started counting now sequentially one two, three four, it would take thirty one thousand, six hundred and eighty eight years to arrive at one trillion dollars. How did you work that out? Well, I think the Google the Google Assistant may provide the AI may bine. Yeah, that reminds me. That's like the Elon Musk one that we talked about a couple of weeks ago. For you learned one hundred thousand dollars a day every day since Jesus Christ was born, you'd still have a lower net worth than Elon Musk does right now.
Amazing, isn't it. Although the way he's going with Tesla's.
Shit, that may be not relevant anymore. You're right, it might come in a bit that may not be accurate any longer. I tell you there's a smaller number, but it's also tell us a bit of a story about living in South Australia. At the moment, thirty two the expected top. Today it's thirty all week until Sunday. Another four straight days of thirty plus where that late in March. In autumn, it's still relevant to check the UV index each and every day and make sure you cover up. Because you cover things like the barbecue to protective and the sun. The same goes for you. Be so smart and cover up.
It's now time to talk to the Treasurer of South Australia, not the Federal on the State one, Stephen Mulligan for our regular catch up. Treasurer, good morning and thanks for joining us today. Has South Australia been dunded with its share of the GST?
No, I don't think so. I mean, I think we've seen a boost in our GST revenues in last night Federal budget and we've.
Also given a proportion fell Oh.
That's part of the review that the Commerce Grants Commission does from time to time. Some years it increases, some years it decreases. The important thing is that we share the GST revenue on an equitable basis. That happens at the moment with the exception of Western Australia. But the good news is that the national pool, the total GST collections, is growing a bit quicker than what the Federal government expected, and that means that space like South Australia are doing a bit better with their GST revenues than we expected. In last night's federal budget.
Can we get into the infrastructure spending, because we had a valiant defense of it just ten minutes ago from the Member for High Marsh and Federal Health Minister Mark but I was saying South Australia has not missed out compared to the other states. What was your take on it, as the treasure of South Australia, do you look at some of the new, much grander spending in Queensland and New South Wales and think a bit more of that might have been nice?
Well?
I think you know, I've said on your program before days that we've got to be circumspect about this because when the Federal government matched on fifty to fifty the costs of the South Road upgrade, you know, the biggest project we've ever undertaken in South Australia. It meant that we were getting a huge influx of federal funds and last night's budget showed that South Australia is getting eleven point two percent of federal road funding, which is punching well above our weight. I mean it's way more than our population sharing, it's more than our GSV share. So you know, we're doing well as a result of previous budgets from this government stepping up funding. Of course, you know there would be an endless list of demands for people right across the state Adelaide and in the regions for more road funding because there are so many different projects and priorities that people have got their eye on. But in terms of the overall amount that we're getting, we're doing pretty well compared to where we've been in the past.
I mean intrigued. There was a bit of an insight when the Health Mint has spoke to us before about the way in which this concept of fairness when it comes to infrastructure spending is analyzed in Canberra. The metric, he said, was essentially population as a proportion of the country and then you know infrastructure spending should some way correlate to that, and his argument was, see how the Stralia does well because we get more infrastructuring spend than we should be apportion based on what of the total population we make up. But as some listeners have pointed out, surely it makes more sense to talk about the size of the state when we're talking about things like roads and how much investment is required to keep them as opposed to just the sum total of people that use them. Do you think there's any merit to that argument.
Well, when I was Transporting Infrastructure minister, I used to use the line that South Australia's got ten percent of the nation's roads. We've got seven percent of the nation's population and we get five percent of the road funding across the country. And I think that shows how much that's changed in recent years, where we're not getting five percent anymore, we're getting over ten percent, we're getting over eleven percent in fact, So yes, I think I think that is a way of looking at it. There's also a broader issue which has been pursued by state treasurers and state transport ministers of the federal government, and that is that you know, we need to maintain this rule that when we see regional projects funded, particularly ones that are carrying freight, you know, they should be funded by the Commonwealth on an eighty twenty basis pick up eighty percent of the cost the states pick up twenty percent of the costs. And while we all looked in surprise at the more than seven billion dollars that got allocated to Queensland for the Bruce Highway upgrades, one good thing was that it was done on an eighty twenty basis. Trying to maintain that funding share, recognizing that the Commonwealth has got such a greater capacity than any one of the states to fund infrastructure. But that's particularly true when it comes to a smaller state like South Australia. So that's been a focus of our discussions with the Commonwealth, particularly when it comes to regional roads. And you know, when people stay when are we going to finish duplicating the Augusta Highway, You know, when are there are other freight projects which are important for South Australia. You know, we're keen to partner with the Commonwealth, but we want to do it on a fair basis where they're chipping in the bulk of the money.
We spoke with the head of the Primary Producers Association here in South Australia after seven o'clock, who scored the budget of four out of ten, but did give some credit to the federal government, saying, listen, the reality is South Australias and drought, some of Western Victoria's in drought, the rest of the country's dealing with floods and so forth. But they felt as though they'd been largely forgotten. Has the federal the hole in the budget federally with regard to helping out South Australian farmers meant that you guys now are going to have to carry the can and pick up the cost of trying to alleviate some of that drought related burden.
Yeah. Look, I can understand while a primary producers, particularly those affected by drought, would have been watching what was announced last night with a keen eye, but it's important to remember that all of the Commonwealth drought support programs are already open and available and are already fully funded. So those Commonwealth government drought supports are there, and what we've tried to do is tried to fill the gaps as a state government in providing targeted drought support, whether it's for subsidies for feed transport particularly come out from other places around the country, trying to subsidize that, providing some grants to farmers so that they can upgrade their water supplies and infrastructure on their farms, and provide a range of other supports. The premiers already advised Parliament that we're not going to wait until the State budget necessarily we're thinking about how we can go into phase two with our drought support package in the same way that we did that for the floods. When the Murray flooded, we announced an initial package and then we came back with a subsequent package, so we're working through that. We really do feel for the farmers at the moment because that has just felt like a ludicrously dry period that we've had and it's mainly just hitting South Australia and to some extent Western Victoria. So you know, when Queensland's getting deluged by tropical cyclones and record rainfalls, it feels like we're in another country at the moment. But the good news is that those federal programs remain open and we're trying to support primary producers access to them and get the best bang for buck.
Out of it.
Just finally, Treasurer in Breaking at eight this morning we said that we're expecting an announcement today that some sixty or just over sixty full time positions are going to be created at the Wyala Still Works. So I guess these jobs are going to be essential to keep the plant operational, to get it back into better condition after the neglect that endured at the hands of Gupta's one Steel, and get it ready for a sale. How's how's the search for a new operator going?
Yeah, really good, And look, we really welcome this news today. We've got the Acting Premier, Susan Clost who'll be up there with the Minister for Energy and Mining Tom Kits and Tinas to be making announcements around this extra workforce boost for the plant there. But look, you know, part of the administrator's job was to stabilize the operations and then start investing back in the plant to make sure that it's productive, and that relates to today's announcement about the workforce. But that also means that the facility is more attractive for a still operator to come in and take it over and run it for the future. So those discussions are progressing well. My understanding is that we've had quite a number of interested parties respond to the Administrator indicating their interest to potentially take on the plant. There's obviously quite a bit of work that's got to go go on now, some due diligence and them getting on site and kicking the tires and understanding what's required for them if they take it over. But the encouraging thing is we've had a strong response so far and that means that to date the administration's going as we'd hope, and we hope in as the premiere i think said on your program the next twelve to eighteen months, that we're in a position where we've got a new operator of that still works.
Steve Mulligan, Treasure of South Australia, Thanks for joining us this morning. We'll catch up again soon.
Thanks very much.
The Shadow Treasurer Sam Telfer has called into the program Shadow treasure Good.
Morning to you.
Yeah, good morning, Jens.
So what was your reaction to the federal budget last night with regard to South Australia.
Oh, like everyone, I think was sort of trying to dissect exactly what it means and for our state in particular. But as has been highlighted in the media and in some of the commentary, I was surprised and disappointed with the little amount of actual new infrastructure funding which has been put in this budget. The treasure I sort of talked about a few of the projects which could have been included, and the great Adelaide freight bypass, that the truro bypass, the Porta Gusta Highway duplication, this sort of stuff. I hope there would be steps along the way in this infrastructure spend, but seemingly not. It seems like this is just an election budget, and reflective of that, it probably seems that Labor aren't electorally interested in South Australia. They're putting all their money into the Eastern states where they're trying to shore up votes. And you know, if I was a voter in booth b or Stirred or Kingston, I'd rightly be disappointed that there isn't that additional infrastructure spend which we've been crying out for.
Have you worked out what you're going to spend your five dollars a week tax cut on yet? Sam?
And this is the cynical nature of people looking at federal budgets. Unfortunately, when you know it's not exactly significant tax reform, when they're trying to just sweeten up a lead up to a vote with a five dollars tax incentive, it takes more than that to buy my vote. Boys, And honestly, when you're looking at the cost of living challenges which we're facing at the moment, especially the soaring energy prices, that's barely going to touch the sides.
Sam Joe for Shadowed Treasurer calling in there. Thanks for that.
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Speaking of the cost of living. I spent six dollars ninety nine last night subscribing to Paramount so that I could watch the soccer news game. Did you do the same?
I already have Paramount.
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That's not going to be all the reality anymore.
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With the erotica free, I think there's plenty of outlets for that. Tomorrow the interactive lounges by the way to text Tomorrow we'll upset Jared he goes, thanks for your stupid, uninformed financial advice regarding Tesla shares. Just fyi, they're now at an all time high and he's seen it in a screen grab. Yeah, unfortunately, Jared, and farbeat for us with our uninformed advice to tell you otherwise. But what you've clipped on is the one day trading number. So it's a one day trading high. The all time high was actually in December last year. It was well over four hundred dollars. Right now, it's a turn in eighty seven. Year to date, it's down about twenty four percent, or ninety one dollars a share.
So just on his advice, don't buy es today.
So one D means one day trading if he clicks over to five days and see what it is over the last five days, one month, six months, or why t D means year to date or you can stretch it out over five years. But we're done. We don't get it.
Okay, Well, yeah, but they're down about twenty five percent on what they were on.
The year to date. They're down a bit today, they're about twenty five percent year to date down. They're almost forty percent down on what was the all time high, which was December last year.
Funny, isn't it the Who would have thought?
Though?
Trump's special Genius Day and masks is made Tesla's popular with right wingers, yeah, and unpopular with left wingers.
They turned the world on electric cars, became really well defended by marget types, funnily enough, and hated by the left of the United States. They're getting targeted by morons with them vandalism and so forth. Hey, there's something before we go we want to point you to that's going to be a lot of fun happening this Friday. Rowe and Timmy g are broadcasting their show from a boat. Now. I don't know whether the two is going to be the calendar. My fear is it's going to be ROWI there's a song about that. I'm on a boat, so make sure you tune on Friday, four pm. There's going to be They're going to be Crowsby port related stuff bragging rights on the line, all thanks to Pepper's Cleaning products and our for industry celebrating forty years delivering custom made outdoor living and storage solutions. Ourfindustries dot com dot au. That's going to be fun.
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