Summer Breakfast with Matthew Pantelis - 2 January 2025

Published Jan 1, 2025, 11:34 PM

Tim Lester from 7 News in the US on the terrorism incident in New Orleans, Shaun de Bruyn CEO of Tourism Industry Council SA, Vicki Matchett with a shark being dumped in her driveway, Museum Director at the Australian Mint Stuart Baines, Joe Keynes - farmer, Premier Peter Malinauskas, performer Rhonda Burchmore, and Chief SA Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier

Five a summer breakfast. Matthew Pantellis, Good morning, eight minutes past six o'clock. Happy New Year, all of that, because already that was forty eight almost hours ago, coming up tonight, a long time ago. What did you do? I hope you had a great night. Whatever it was. We ended up at Semaphore or Port Adelaide at least for dinner, had a look at the fireworks, the early fireworks from the Birkenhead Bridge right at the top, and a good view across the Semaphore from there, and got out of the traffic eventually on the way out due that took ages, and Glennelle the same and Brighton I'm sure the same down there. Traffic everywhere and a lot of people queued up. I know the backways through Semaphore. Grew up around there, rode my bike right through that area, so the getting out wasn't too bad, at least skirting around some of the traffic. But it was a lot of traffic, no doubt. Then we made our way into town and by then, of course it was almost midnight, so we had to look at the fireworks there as well. A bit of the educated moth tour, but good fun, good family night out. So we enjoyed that, and there it was. It was not the zaniest of New Year's eves. I think as you get older, you're over the partying and the boozing and everything else that comes with being in your twenties. But anyway, there it is. It was a good night. I enjoyed it, kids enjoyed it, and we had fun. So I hope yours was a good one as well, whatever you did on the program today, we're going to go to the US. This terrible attack, as you heard in the news with Kendall then in New Orleans where at least ten people have been killed and thirty five injured. Someone driving their car through a crowd of revelers and that person shot dead by police. Just awful. So we'll find out about that later this hour. We'll talk with the tourism industry about events coming up this year. We'll have a look at the new stories of the day. Of course, this dead shark do you hear about this? Someone dumped a dead shark in a driveway. We'll speak to the owner of that property a little bit later. On the Australian meant they're having an auction of the the last coins for twenty twenty four and some new coins coming out this year. Will speak to them about that. The premiere, Peter Melanowskis will be on the show this morning and Roun the Birchmore a bit later on as well. Also Professor Nicholas Burry At Chief Medical Officer joining me a bit later too, So lots coming up between six and nine this morning. On this day in South Australia, second of January, way back eighteen thirty seven, the colony is what six days old we established the Supreme Court. I don't know that crime was rife already, but perhaps it was, and the Supreme Court of Essay established eighteen thirty seven on this day, six days old South Australia as a colony. Nineteen oh two, a young girl called Bertha Shippen was murdered, stabbed and slashed at Tawita near Sedan, two weeks just before a fourteenth birthday. At an inquest, her sister, twenty four year old girl called Mary, stood trial was found to be most likely responsible. Stood trial, she was acquitted. The murder remains unsolved. Nineteen fifty five, on the second of January, Black Sunday, bushfires and the Adelaide Hills destroyed the Governor's summer residence at Marble Hill, the eighth fire which burnt through the grounds or damaged out building since eighteen eighty two, and also on this day nineteen sixty, UDNA data recorded the highest ever temperature in Australia fifty point seven degrees fifty point seven. There's some global warming for you. In nineteen sixty it was cooler. The next day the cool change swept through just fifty point three, so a bit of a spell in Udina data at this time in nineteen sixty. It is a hot place generally, and I think regularly gets Australia's highest temperatures, but I don't know it's been as high as fifty point seven recorded there and probably still remains the case today. The high temperature recorded in Australia nineteen sixty. If you have driven through Loxton, or maybe you live in Loxton and you bought a lotto ticket for the last Saturday, you may not have checked it yet because no one's got in touch with the lotto people. But you're one point three to five million dollars richer. So if you've got a lotto ticket you've bought in Loxton at the news agency there or wherever you bought it from, probably worth checking. Don't lose it anyway. They haven't been able to track down the winter. It's not part of the lot members club or linked. The ticket's not linked to a player card or online account. So if you live in the Riverland and certainly through Loxton, bought yourself a lotto for the last Saturday, worth a look, I dare say. The lottery people say you're probably oblivious if you haven't checked it over yesterday to the fact you're that much richer. One point three million dollars very much worth a look all right? Eight double two to three double double ow is the number. If you might have thoughts about this incident on the bus at Theverdon yesterday. I mean, what the heck? So people get on at different stops, probably not known to each other they're getting on, but they knew each other, and a brawlerupts as the bus leaves the city. The driver gets to Thebdon, has to stop, has to get out, so do the other passengers on board not involved. The bus is damaged, windscreen shattered, if not smashed, and a lot of people injured minor relatively minor injuries, but clumps of hair removed. I understand blood around the place. One woman taken to the hospital with some non life threatening head injuries. Unbelievable. And eight thirty in the morning on New Year's Day police called and seventeen or so people arrest at age thirteen to fifty eight. Incredible. Not a good way to start your New Year's And if you're just an innocent person and on the bus, you'd think, well, the worst of the revelle is over all. The people who got hammered the night before, probably sleeping it off somewhere. But nope, eight thirty in the morning there's a big brawl on a bus involving as many people as almost fit on a bus. Just about unbelievable. Good morning to you. Got a couple of texts from people on that bus incident yesterday. Peter says, good morning. The incident on the bus a disgrace. I witnessed a similar incident on the tram from the city to glenelg Have a wonderful year, And Da Vita says, Matthew, my partner was a bus driver and left for this exact reason. No longer safe for driver or passengers. And you read the comments by the driver are reported in the Tizer yesterday saying it's not safe doing this, It's not a good job, just unsafe, and I mean he had to stop the bus and get out because he felt so unsafe, and so did the other people who weren't part of the brawl. Just unreal as police came and arrested seventeen people just fighting on the bus. Incredible, alrighty eight double two three below. Let's check on a house fire at Hackham overnight. Jade Robren for five double a breakfast and sunrises on the roads this morning. Happy New Year to you.

Jade, Happy he too, Matthew. I am at Scenic Way in Hackham in Adelaide South where a fire broke out at three fifty five this morning. It's still very much an active scene. About thirty five fieries were called to the area and witnesses say that they woke up to a man screaming, banging, really loud noises. They ran out onto the street and discovered the man was trying desperately to get out of his home. Thankfully, he was able to break out of the home carrying his dog. They have been taken well. The gentleman has been taken to hospitals, supposedly with some burns and smoke in elation. Neighbors have taken in the dog, and very good news to report that Luna is safe and happy across the road with their neighbor. The house is completely gutted, there is nothing left of it. Smoke is still smoldering as we speak, and fieries, as I said, are paying it very close attention trying to put out those the smoldering smoke flanes at the moment. But it is believed that the fire started from an electrical fault. Neighbors have told me that the gentleman had a lot of electricity involved in the front part of the house, a lot of video games, electric seats, etc. And that could be a possible cause. But it is very much an active scene. As I said, Investigators are arriving on the scene trying to piece together what exactly has happened. But there was just the sole occupant in the home, and good news at this stage, as I mentioned, he is safe albeit has been taken to hospital, and I will bring you any updates as they come to hands. But there is also a developing story in Durning Court as we speak. Another fire has broken out over there and we're hearing that that one is very serious as well. As I get more details, I will bring them to you.

Good on you, Jade, Thank you. Good news at at least no serious injuries by the sounds of it, but terrible start for twenty five for that person. Thank you for the update there twenty past six now well, lots of other news I'm talking of fires. Will mention the scrub fire in the southeast near Strawn, about fifteen kilometers south of Narracourt. CFS have been there from yesterday as this fire broke out. It's burning in heavy scrub, but there is a lot of smoke around, so they were on the ground overnight monitoring and extinguishing. The fire crewis will be rotated. They're supported by National Parks and other groups locally and observational aircraft and other equipment will be brought into the site. But the fire will continue to cause a lot of smoke in the area and anyone in the southeast nearby around Narrow Court, particularly Strawn, beautiful old mansion at Strawn, which I think is part of these days. National Parks or Persa, possibly at Persa, and they're using it as some sort of research area through there, but emergency services working on and around roads in the area. So if you're traveling through there today, maybe on holidays, whatever the case may be, be aware of that. And certainly for anyone listening down there, well, that is something you should know about. I'm sure you do already. It's been burning for the best part of eighteen or so hours now, already eight double two to three, double O is my number here this morning, if you want to have a chat New Years or anything else you've heard so far. Over in the US, witnesses have described as mass carnage a truck plowing into crowds celebrating New Years. In the US. At least ten people killed in the incident in the New Orleans area, thirty others injured. The FBI describing it as an act of terrorism, the driver's being killed following a shootout with police. Jimmy is one of the witnesses. He watched it unfold.

We ran upstairs to the balcony area that we knew was there, and when we got.

Up there, it wasn't anyone chasing anybody.

It was just unimaginable casualty.

I mean, just the disfigurement and the body's strong, something you cann't see.

You'll never forget.

Police superintendent and Kirkpatrick says the youth sped down a street at fast paced, the driver opening fire on police.

Because of the intentional mindset of this perpetrator who went around our barcage in order to conduct us, he was hell built on creating the carnage and the damage that he did.

I've seen reports, I don't know if they're confirmed yet, but seen reports that witnesses saying there was an ISIS flag in the car. Now, you know, I suppose that's what's lent the FBI to say it's an act of terrorism. But we'll speak with Tim Lester from seven years in the next half an hour, about half an hour from now roughly on this and just an awful thing to happen at the start of the year over in the US. Three Virgin Australia crew have been detained in a hotel in Fiji. Has understood the trio restricted to their rooms over an incident which occurred after they landed. A replacement team flying the plane home defact confirming it's aware of the reports. It's not providing any further comment, so we don't know what the incident is at this stage as to what happened, but doesn't sound very very good. These three people Virgin Australia crew confined to their rooms their hotel rooms. Almost fifty Australian soldiers' graves from World War one and two have been damaged during conflict in the Middle East. Commonwealth War Graves Graves Commission analysis shows two cemeteries in Gaza have been hit by Israeli strikes. Dozens of graves affected, their remains have not been disturbed. Authorities in the Italian city of Milan are getting tough on smokers. Will be fined if they light up on city streets or public areas. That'll clear up the smug very big on smoking over in Italy and Greece and other parts of Europe. So in Belgium the first European ban on disposable vapes has come into force, so they're cracking down. Imagine that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison rubbing shoulders with US President elect Donald Trump. Mister Morrison posting a picture on X of himself and his wife Jenny alongside Donald Trump and wife Milania at the Trump's New Year's Eve party at Marri Lago in Florida. It's thought mister Morrison was the guest of Andrew Pratt Anthony Pratt, who is close to the incoming president. Home values have declined over the past three months, Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra posting the biggest falls. Home values rose in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane. There are signs prices are starting to moderate, though, new data from property research group core Logic showing prices are down point one of a percent point one yay, bringing to an end to a strong period of growth. Research director Tim Lawless says the housing market is catching up with the economic reality.

Combination of cyclical factors, but also just simply the fact that serviceability is much harder now with interest rates as high as what they are. We've been seeing consumer sentiment generally quite low up until recently, at least as well.

Mind you, financial stress taking a toll on the mental health of many Australians. Beyond blues, National debt Helpline experiencing a thirteen percent increase in callers reaching out for help over the last year, and many of these people would never have thought they would have needed help at all. Ever, a clinical spokesperson, doctor Luke Martin says, that's been compounded right now over the holiday period.

We know the festive season can be a very emotionally ot a time where we feel a lot of pressure to spend more than we might like to to create that perfect Christmas experience, and so I think it's really really conscious that we manage our expectations really carefully.

The Prime Minister tip to make changes to bulk billing and urgent care clinics ahead of the election. The Sydney Morning Herald reporting the federal government working on policies which will make it more affordable to see a GP and a further focus on medicare, an election expected to be called in March or May at the latest. We'll crust a sport in justice sac. We'll have a look at that. But firstly, Adelaide's weather looking forward a few days well, today perfect twenty nine, sunny, bit warmer tomorrow, still Sunday in thirty five you'll feel that partly cloudy thirty six on Saturday thirty three on Sunday to round off the weekend, mind you, for you might be having a permanent weekend at the moment in terms of holidays, or at least semi permanent until it's time to go back. Monday will be cooler with a shower or two and twenty, then warming up again thirty on Tuesday, thirty three next Wednesday. So there it is. Having a look forward a few days and right now in the city currently fourteen degrees so okay, it's going to be warm and perfect one day, beautiful the next, or whatever the way it goes. That's satellite for you this time of year. Looking at sport. Lucy Locan, good morning.

Good morning, Matthew. I'm no Tom Wren.

He's in Brisbane at the moment commentating the Brisbane International Tennis on that Nick Kirios and Nick Novak Djokovic were in the doubles together. They've been knocked out in the second round. They were beaten by Michael Venus from New Zealand and Nikola Mektik from Croatia. They lost in three sets. Nick Kirios also lost in his singles. Novak Djokovic still playing singles. Nick Kirios I believe has a wrist injury, says it's going to take a miracle for him to do well at the OZ Open.

In a Grand Slam.

In the women's Ossie Kimberly Birrel she is a little bit further down the but we love her regardless. She's put up a huge upset up against Emma Navarro, who was the number two seed in the Brisbane International.

She beat her seven five seven five.

The United Cup also on I love the summer of tennis because it's something I know about. Australia defeated Great Britain and Sydney, but Great Britain on the whole have done better, so they are in the quarterfinals. Australia is out Alex Deman although did win his singles before he played in the doubles. Now footy, I actually will do that in a second cricket. You and I both said we don't know much about the cricket. But the seg Test starts tomorrow the Pink Ball Test. McGrath Foundation this year is raising money for all types of cancer. Usually they just raise money for breast cancer research, but this year Glenn McGrath has said they're going to raise money for all types of cancer research. So Sydney Test starts tomorrow.

They would have raised millions over the years.

Surely yeah, when did they start at sitting?

Yeah?

Or fifteen years ago?

Ish yeah ish yeah, that's right.

And in foodie Richmondster Noah Bolter is facing court later this month.

He's been charged with assault after an alleged.

Incident at a sports club in Mulwalla, which is on the Victoria, New South Wales border. For those playing at home, he something happened. A twenty seven year old man was taken to hospital to be treated for a cut to the head. Twenty five year old Noah Bolter was arrested at Mulwaller Police station, charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He'll be in Victorian court later in January.

There we are, okay, thank you for that. The sport update, Lucy Locan eight double two to three double O double Oh it is news time on five double A. On the other side, well, of course, next half hour we'll check him with police and the bureau as well, and also have a chat with Tim Lester from seven on the awful goings on in New Orleans in the US New Year's Eve over there, the sun is up over Adelaide at the moment. Just came up. It's amazing sitting here a day after day and seeing, if I'm in early enough, seeing the movement of the sun over the year, and how at this time it is as south as it gets pretty much. The equinox was what a week or so ago too, maybe so it probably has moved a fraction towards the north. But the depths of winter late June, when it's as far north as it gets as the earth tilts, just amazing the distance between the two. As we go, Karen, thank you for the text that Hope Valley says. So lovely to hear you Matthew while driving to work, appreciate that. Where are you working Karen, this morning, this early? What's going on? Why aren't you on holidays? I've got an excuse. I suppose someone's got to be here, but yeah, all right, good on you going to work at this time so early. Let's see. We've talked about the fire at Hackam. There's one at Durnham Court another house fire, well, waiting on details for that, but there's also been a house fire at Enfield, so quite the night for the MFS. Hope everyone's okay in all of these, certainly the one at hackem. The person got out minor burns. We understand hopefully that's right. We'll wait for confirmation. But he was trapped in the house for a while and was screaming for help, as you heard if you were listening half an hour or so ago. Jade Roberin's report of that. But there has been a fire at Enfield as well. This is Pramer Osborne from the MFS.

At approximately twelve am on the morning of Thursday, defect of January, the MFS attended a structure fire at Howton Street and Field. On arrival, twenty five fighters from six appliances and the command vehicle attended a residential property where they found the rear yard shed well involved in fire. The MSS firefighters, using high pressure lines and breeding apparatus, controlled and extinguished the fire within twenty minutes. Due to effective response by the MFS, they were able to contain a fire to the shed, protecting all surrounding properties and the residential property. All occupants of self evacuated upon amfest's arrival. Fire guys have a ten the scene and determined cause is undetermined suspicious. The structural damage estimated one hundred thousand true.

All right, So that's a fair bit of damage. Anyway, they'll look at the exact cause of that as the morning goes on, and we'll bring your details of what's happened at Durnham Court as as soon as we have them. You might have heard about this. This occurred just a couple of days before Christmas, on the twenty second of December, but quite the story. I don't know how much news it made because ultimately no one suffered any serious injuries. But it goes to show, as we think last year ninety people losing their lives on say roads one hundred and seventeen the year before. In twenty three, this could have been two more. Two people, a seventeen year old driving and a ten year old passenger, so you'd think a younger brother or sister, both from Blakeview were taken to hospital but have been released. The vehicle damaged beyond repair. What happened is they were driving north on the Galla Bypass. They swerved to miss a kangaroo. It was about at ten pm on the twenty second of December. Swerved to miss a kangaroo. So young driver seventeen probably you know, relatively inexperienced at that age. Never swerve for an animal like a kangaroo, especially, never swerve because this is what happens. They went down the embankment, collided with a pole, speared across to the other side of the road. Imagine if there was oncoming traffic, rolled several times, rolled several times. They both got out okay, and police saying without doubt, if they hadn't been wearing a seat belt, this likely would have ended in a family having to deal with trauma at Christmas, losing one, if not both loved ones, both kids. So seat belts, and so often we hear in fatalities a cause of death is the occupant who died passenger or driver not wearing a seat belt. Unreal So seventeen and ten year old having to miss a kangaroo rolling down an embankment or going down an embankment hitting a pole spearing across to the other side, because I would have been doing one hundred which is the speed limit along there eighty at least if not one hundred, and have rolled a couple of times. Car written off. They're lucky seat belts. There you go, moral of the story. So it is important, it is very important, Okay, lots of other news around the place, and we'll be crossing to tim Lester soon this Friday tomorrow, when the latest COVID figures are out. In terms of numbers in South Australia, it's very lucky, very likely rather we're going to hit a million COVID cases if we haven't already. In South Australia. It was very close to that a week or two ago. The last figures I saw were about three hundred off. So if we didn't get there in the last few days, we certainly will by the end of this week when the figures are released one million COVID cases in say so we will talk about that with Nikolas Bury, the Chief Medical Officer a bit later on this morning. It is certainly something the AMA is concerned about. They put out this release not long ago saying we were on the cusp of a million and we have had of course many deaths here in Essay as well over that period. But the reminder is be alert and be aware of it. Take precautions, you know, wash your hands at very least you can do, and try and stay away from people hard on New Year's Eve, I mean even watching the fireworks in the city, and no matter where you were, probably surrounded by people and it's hard to do. It's become a little bit of life. I suppose we're all used to it these days, and whether people are still getting vaccinations or not, but it is something to be aware of. You still don't want to get COVID. No one wants to be sick of anything, whether it's COVID or the flu or the common cold. But it is here to stay. And that's the message overalls. Take sensible precautions, all right, coming up to six forty two on five double a tim lester not far away. We'll speak with police and the weather Bureau as well, just on COVID. Graham says, that's only the reported cases. Matthew, I wonder what the real number is. Yeah, you're right exactly, because who's reporting these days? Apart from if you turn up to the doctor anyone ringing Essay Health to say yeah, I got COVID. I don't know that many are doing that. Let's check in with the weather bureau today. The second of January looks just about perfect. Chris Kent, good morning, good morning, How are you all right? Thank you?

So?

Yes, it is looking pretty good.

It is.

Yeah, another beautiful day across Adelaide today. Maximum of twenty nine degrees on the forecast, so after a minimum this morning of fourteen point two, so it wasn't too bad over nine either. Expecting those temperatures to warm up a little bit as well as we head into the weekend ahead of a cold front that's moving across the bike, So thirty five on the forecast for Friday and then thirty six on Saturday. On Sunday, I could see a little bit of spot of rain around with the sort of behind that front. Could see sort of a rare yeah, a couple of millimeters maybe at best, not a looking at a lot of rain. There's possibility of a bit of a rumble of thunder as well. And then yeah, cool conditions starting, the cooler condition starting next week before things are warming up again as we head into sort of later next week, so a bit of a up and down again in terms of temperatures. But yeah, we're still for the next few days anyway, still very pleasant condition.

It's pretty pretty normal, isn't it. That sort of thing for this time of year. But I reckon, Chris, this seems to be so far a summer more accustomed to what we recall as as kids, perhaps or going back even a few decades, you know, when some are just used to be sunny and hot all the way through.

Yeah, that's right. So far it's been sort of reasonably warm and yeah, quite sunny. So those yeah, well the forecast sort of yeah, has the longer term forecast has maybe sort of a slight weather trend to it. But given that we don't see a lot of rainfall generally during summer months, yeah, that doesn't really account to real significant rainfall on the forecast. So I thank Yeah, those sort of conditions are sort of yees set to continue for a little while.

Good on your Chris, have a great day. Thank you, Chris Kent, Forecast, the Bureau of Meteorology. Let's check in with SAPOL and what they're doing overnight, certainly the fires we've mentioned, and Senior Constable Scott James on the line from Saphole Media. Good morning Scott, Good morning, Matt. How are you all right? Thank you? So, yes, you've been kept busy with these fires.

Yes, there were quite a few fires overnight in Adelaide. So just after midnight we were called to Holton Street at and Field after reports of a structure that was on fire. When crews are rare, they found that the sheds that the air of the property were alight. MFS crews were able to bring the fire under control, and after that they found that three sheds were totally destroyed by fire. So a large shed next door was also sustained. Next door also sustained heat and smoke damage and this was all extinguished by the fire crews. So thankfully there were no report of injuries in relation to this one, and fire calls investigators are attending and examining the scene to determine the cause of the fire. And we're just asking anyone just conduct crime stoppers if they've got any information on one hundred, triple three, triple zero.

All right, So those fires that will all be under investigation, as you say, fire calls investigators to determine the causes exactly.

Yeah, So that one at Endfield, and then we've got the one that happened about three fifty five this morning at hackem So we were called the scenic hack them after reports that the house was engulfed in flames. Again, MFS were able to bring the fire in control. However, the house's fleets have been destroyed by the fire. Nearby ocupants were evacuated as a precaution was taken to hospital for some smoke inhalation. It's believed to be some minor injuries. Fire calls investigators will attend that one today and undertake an assessment and then durning Court. We were called to Reed's Road after flames were reported to be coming from a property just after five point thirty this morning. When cruise arrived, the houses engulfed in flames and lots of smoke coming from the roof. The ocument of the house was found on the front lawn and he was taken by hospitals by ambulance. In his condition is not really believe not believes to be life threatening. Fire crew is able to again battle that blaze and the fire has been prevented from spreading to further neighboring properties. So yeah, in relation to all those three fires, fire calls investigators and some of that take this villa, tend a scene to investigate the circumstances surrounding the fire and anyone that may have information just to contact Crampstop was on one one hundred, triple three, triple zero just to assist with the investigation.

All right, good on your Scott, appreciate your time, Thank you, Thank you, Scott James, Senior Constable from SAPOL this morning. Let's check the roads around Adelaide now.

Glenn Ben Road in Erindale is currently closed in both directions between Statonborough Street and Stanley Street due to fallen power lines. Motorists are advised to avoid the area. Traffic is starting to build along King William Street from Sturt Street to Goodjus Street and Payn and Rodney. Marlborough Street in College Park is currently reduced to forty in both directions. Would you sare out the window while slicing up pineapple? If you wouldn't do it anywhere else, why do it on the road. Don't let a car change who you are? Say for driving starts with you. Brought to you by the Australian Government. That's Adelaide's most accurate traffic on five Double A.

Thank you. More of that coming up in five Double A News ten minutes to seven o'clock. Now, let's go to the US. Is dreadful incident that has occurred in New Orleans. Tim Lester seven US US Bureau on the line, Tim, good morning, good morning back. Just a horrific attack.

Absolutely, yeah, three point fifteen am in Bourbon Street. Anyone who's been to New Orleans will know the French Quarter, know of the French Quarter, and we'll also know that Bourbon Street is one of the most iconic party spots, certainly in America. If you've been there, that's what it is. Well, at three hours after the gong went for the New Year, a driver has taken a Ford F one P fifty pickup truck or a kind of very big ute I guess you'd say, driven it onto the footpath around police who had police cars blocking the street, round police, and then plowed the vehicle through the crowd, killing at least ten and injuring another thirty five. When the vehicle finally ground to a halt, the man left out of the vehicle and apparently shot at police. Fired is an automatic military style weapon at police. They've killed them, but not before two police officers were shot and there now in hospital recovery. Or we've just learned from the FBI that they believed that others were involved and are now tracking them. Who knows, We don't know who they are, but there is a hunt on to others involved, and New Orleans the super Bowl in the month's coming and a major football match on today has been delayed, so New Orleans is in a scramble to reassure citizens that it can secure the city.

I understand the man's now being named all just recently, but also witnesses is IT police as well have confirmed and that there was an ISIS flag in the car.

Yes.

In fact, a couple of confirmations essentially that this was a terrorist act. One is that there was an ISIS flag being carry read on the back of this utility that points to the Middle East and Islamic state group that America has of course has been fighting now for more than a decade in the Middle East. The other is that they apparently found it an escuie or cooler in the vehicle, several explosive devices and have deactivated those as well a military style AR fifteen style assault weapon and other weapons. So yeah, plenty of evidence now to know that this was a terrorist motivated attack. But the fascinating thing, or the worrying thing it has sense to emerge in a press briefing that's just wrapped up, is that the FBI believes that others help this man and so is hunting them.

Yeah, all right, And no indication yet as to who, how many, where any of that. I suppose that'll come out in time.

It will, and with some urgency because there are major events going on in that city and of course all of America now wondering what the threat level is going forward. So people are generally nervous, as you'd expect, and maybe as they should be as the FBI and other authorities get on top of just how serious the threat is here.

Has the President Joe Biden commented yet, or Donald Trump too for that matter, who seems to be more in charge at the moment.

Well, both have briefly, although and both in a sense of deferred to the authorities on this. Joe Biden's both spoken and posted online and Donald Trump has posted, but really both remained pretty much in the dark, and the FBI scrambling to understand how great the threat is, but acknowledging that it does that this is not a lone WILF attack, but they've got something more widespread than that going on.

Tim, as always, thank you for your time this morning bringing us up to date, and we'll see that and any developments that come in the next hour or a few hours in your report tonight on seven YEWS. Thank you, good on you, Matt, tim Lester US bureau over there, and just awful this attack. Somebody driving a car around the police barricades. Geett. You know, you go into our mall, our Rundle mall, and thank goodness for those ballards that pop up out of the ground that keep us all safe when we're shopping in that area of Adelaide, and you'd think, you know, you look at the Adelaide over where we've done similarly in the street around there and on War Memorial Drive and the surrounds and somewhere like the US, why don't they have them using police cards as a barrier. That's great, that's a start, but there's there's got to be some lessons in that if people can just drive around them. Lucy Locan, it's back in the studio.

Good morning, Louise, good morning.

Just as you were chatting with Tim there, I've noticed online another potential terrorist attack has happened in America.

Not as dramatic as that one, but still awful.

A Tesla cyber truck has exploded in Las Vegas outside of the Trump Hotel in Las Vegas. One dead, several have been injured. Cause of the fire is currently unknown, but the American police indicated that they're investigating if it is another act of terrorism or a suicide car bomber.

But that has just happened.

In Nevada, well in Las Vegas.

Las Vegas, outside Trump Hotel, Las Vegas, a Tesla cyber truck explosion.

What time there? Do you know?

This report is from two pm their time, so New Year's Day afternoon, and that was about half an hour ago, so I'm.

Still reasonably busy. You'd expect two pm people everywhere.

I dare say, yeah, lucky that only a few were injured. I'm pretty sure it was the driver who is deceased, but others have been injured.

Wow, all right, that's terrible. Well, yeah, what do you say? Just you hope it's not terrorism, But potentially that's how they're treating it. And given where the concern would be at the moment following the New Orleans attack, then it potentially is. And if police are looking for more, well this could be an indication of where to start looking. Unreal, you know, it seemed that we were over all of this going back over the last couple of years, well since COVID, but clearly not, clearly not, These these maniacs are still out there, just awful. Three to seven on five double A news is on the way. On the other side, Well, lot's coming up. We'll speak with Sean de Brune, CEO of the Tourism Industry Council here in s about events coming up this year. How did we end up last year? Certainly hoteliers would be happy. Occupancy rates in hotels around Adelaide have been excellent over the last twelve months, so I we'll discuss all of that. We'll look at the news of the morning. Of course, Vicky Matchett will join me. Who she Well, she's a property owner who found a dead shark dumped on a driveway. What the heck. I'm sure it just didn't fall out of the sky, not shark Nado or anything. We'll have a chat to VICKI a bit later on in the next half hour. This is the first work day of the year after the public holiday yesterday. Of course that means doesn't mean people weren't working yesterday. Obviously, emergency services, the usual things that were operating were some of the shops in the city, of course, because we can't let everybody work. You only have to be in the city or anywhere outside it to go to a be able to trade in a shop. It's just crazy, but they're our shopping laws. The radio stations of court, including five double A working hard on public holidays, just another day for us. But if you're back at work today, well you might be getting ready and heading off. I hope you have a good day for the first work day, proper work day of the year. For people working in hotels. Well, you've had a good year last year, record hotel occupancy throughout twenty twenty four, and I'm sure twenty twenty five looks pretty promising as well. Let's find out. Sean de brun Is, CEO Tourism Industry Council of say, good morning, Sean, how are you good.

Thanks Matthew, Happy new year, Yes.

You too, thank you So okay, we had quite a few events. I imagine this year to live not far away, gather around only a month or so after that and it's looking good again.

Yeah, it is.

Absolutely Through this early period of the year, it's a particularly strong period for us too. Strongest period for some terms of ABD Hotel over November and then February March, it's a really strong period for occupancy.

I imagine the tour downend that brings in a lot of people as well.

Absolutely, you know, it's a wonderful event to internationally watch. So it's not only great in terms of visitation, but it's great in terms of promoting our great state.

What's coming up this year? You know, it's the usual things like that are the fringe that festival won Adelaide, all of that, But anything out of the blue, anything big that's happening that we don't normally usually get. I suppose it needs to be some sort of sporting event or big business event to drag people in.

Yeah.

The obviously the lines are touring, which will be that the British and Irish lines are coming through in July twenty twenty five. That's going to be that'll be massive and it'll be a big winter event, which is which is fantastic. I think the other one, and there's there's a number as you highlighted massive, but the other one is if you haven't got to the Botanic, go check out you early.

It's fantastic exhibition. It's really brought the visitation to the gardens to record high. So really encourage those people that haven't gone and seen to her in the Botanic Gardens to get there and have a look. So that's a couple of the special things that happening at the moment or coming up.

Yeah, is that a night event or you know, is it lights or is it something you can see during the day.

During the day it's free and got public access and at night there's a ticular event. So it's three or four nights a week that you can get there to watch it. And yeah, both experiences are absolutely brilliant. So Haylight today it looks like something nice weather. If you're looking for some of the kids, head to Hurley.

All right, there you go. So we get the big things right in Adelaide, don't we. So we can put on these these huge events and they work a treat. They're absolutely fantastic. It's the little things like I think the last time we spoke Sean was about five ending somewhere for buses picking up tourists to take them to the Barossa or McLaren or wherever to be able to park and not get fined in the city by over zealous parking inspectors.

Yeah, and that's obviously the complexities of the industry. There's so many different elements to tourism and people's visits, and you know, the city council's working with operators at the moment to fix some of those issues and they are finding solutions. I think the point that I'd really like to make, Matthew is that you know that government is very supportive of tourism here, state, local and federal government. They put a lot of gy and resources into tourism. There's always issues that we need to work on. The great thing about events also is that the people come, they have a great time. We know how good Adelaide is doing events with that size city as well that you know, these events already capture the city and people still war to provide vibration from their event, but you might not care in bigger places like Melbourne and Sydney. They go back home and they talk about it, and people, you know, are really waking up to the fact that Adelaide, South Australia is an amazing place for a visit. It's a great place for a holiday, and more and more people are going back home talking positively about their experiences and people are booking and coming, which is wonderful for us as businesses.

Has anyone on your council probably be a good one for this. Has anyone ever added up how many hotel rooms we have in Adelaide.

It's over ten thousand now we've added. Without knowing the exact numbers we've added, I think you know, twenty to thirty percent new hotel rooms over the last three or four years, so there's been a big expansion in the hotel sector.

I've think the government was.

Reporting that we cracked over ten thousand room nights during the Adelaide Test match, which was a record for our state and for our city.

I remember years ago the Australian team I'm talking back in the eighties had to stay in the Barren Townhouse, which was in Hinley Street, and you know it was that I don't know, the Hilton had only just opened, I think, as our first sort of major international hotel and up until then they were staying in the Barren town House, probably with the opposing team as well.

Yeah, imagine phenomenal as I think, but the Indian team this year were intercontinental. I'm quite sure where the Australian cricket team is. But just in the last couple of years we've had the Soft Hotel come, the Marias come in and open just last year, six months or so ago. So we've had some you know, we've had We've got the Crown Plaza, it's just opened up at more Lakes, a real quality Michel chainments in the suburbs of Adelaide. It's wonderful to see the growth and the jobs that come out of people's experiences. You know, we we deliver when people come here for events, they go and they have a great time while they're here, and they do talk.

Yeah, and that's the thing too. I mean a hotel change. And you talk about the Marriot as the example of coming to Adelaide and a building constructed for them essentially, and they're confident. I mean they're not expecting the hotel to remain empty obviously in coming here and making the decision to build and all the rest, and they're expecting their rooms to be full most of the time.

Absolutely, And they see Adelaide as a as a really strong market. You know that the yields, you know, have great potential and I think what's great about the brand and marry it is a lot of people. There's like the hundreds of thousands of people in their loyalty program. And so when you've got business events delegates which we do very well here in Southustralia and coming into town, they look for these these loyalty programs and when the product doesn't exist or they have to take another product, and it always missed it a bit. So to be able to have now to marry it, particularly for business events, travelers and you know a lot of the you know those hundreds of thousands of people around the world that are part of their Lawsy program. It's just it's another string in our boat for Adelaide. I think it's you know, signs are all positive that twenty twenty five is going to be a really strong year for us.

Indeed, all right, Sewan, appreciate your time this morning. Thank you.

Thanks Matthew Sewan de.

Brune from the Tourism Council of essay on hotel occupancy and events coming up. One of the events of course the veil. I can give you the dates if you need to pencil them in the five hundred race twenty seven to the thirtieth of November, so that falls back about a week or so, which is better because then the Christmas patcheant can be a couple of weeks ahead of that, so around mid November, which is also better. The ASHES Test match seventeenth to the twenty first of December next year, so closer to Christmas than just before in fact, so that'll be the ASHES Test match at the Adelaide Oval late December seventeenth to twenty one, the one before Boxing Day. Sixteen degrees in the city at the moment heading to twenty nine. Today is going to be sunny and same all week pretty much apart from a shower or two on Monday. Next week nineteen pasted seven on five double A I see yesterday in the wrap up of police news for New Year's Eve. Amongst everything that happened, there were let's see, seventy two arrests. Eleven people reported one hundred and nineteen xpiations for possession of drugs or consuming alcohol in a dry zone behavioral offenses as well, slightly up from the year before. What was a bit lower is drug and alcohol results, so twenty six for alcohol, six positive for drugs. Last year there were more the year before. They conducted over three thousand drug and alcohol tests this year and got those results, and a few were high range, including a twenty year old Ovingham man Pennington man sorry, who returned a positive reading of point two three to zero, which is rather excessive. Probably still sleeping that off. But amongst the things that kept police busy on New Year's morning, more so was illegal fireworks. And I just wonder where people get them from. I mean, do you go into state to buy them? Do they still sell them in Darwin and Canberra? I don't know. But there were small fires, one at Highbury sparked by illegal fireworks. In Robe, someone luckily non life threatening, an illegal firework went off in his face. This man, he was rushed to hospital for treatment. I mean, that's the quickest way to lose your vision, but very lucky. I think he's okay, but non life threatening injuries. Illegal fireworks, so where do you get them from? Did they annoy you? Now? At Port Adelaide, while we were watching the Semaphore fireworks at nine point thirty, you could hear and see others going off from the back streets of Port Adelaide. Somewhere somewhere around the railway line near the shopping center. They were going off there, so they must have been all over town. Also looking at Semaphore from the Birkenhead Bridge just to the left, probably Semophore Park. There were more going off there, just down the coast essentially from the main ones. So they're illegal, so where do people get them? A pretty game? I mean, police have got better things to do than try and hunt down illegal fireworks because they're, you know, sporadic. There's probably only a handful of them, so by the time they start heading in that direction, they're off. They're finished, because it's not like you've got a whole, you know, factory load of them to let off. So they're out there, I guess, and people get them and away you go. One of the things that happened New Year's Eve is somebody dumped a shark in a drive currency creek. The owner of the property wake up and saw this object down down the end, and when she realized what it was, she must have thought it was shark nado. Vicki Hatchett, good.

Morning, Good morning, Matthew, How I am all right.

Thank you? So what did a shark? How did a shark end up on your driveway.

Well that's the mystery, isn't it. It's a million dollar question. But all I know is I was on my way down to the Google Markets and doing my delivery of my pastries and bagels and things that I make, and looked across to my left and thought, oh, there's a bag of rubbish there. So I went across to pick it up because I don't like Lisa hanging around down at the end of the road. I don't like to attract more. And and then I looked a bit harder and that was a shark. And well, on inspection I thought, I thought, is that for real? I thought it might have been a sting ray or something, and then is that for real?

So I.

I thought, no, it's definitely a shark. It was about five foot long. I wasn't quite sure what typer shark.

It was at first.

It was really fresh. It appeared to have no snags, and I checked it for tags and things that didn't seem to have any tags either. But we do think that it's probably a bronze waider, So yeah.

What did you do with it?

Well, once I've done my delivery, I came back home and I thought, well, I can't leave this shark here. That's not going to be good. It's going to stink for a week. So I actually hooked it up to the back of the toe bar on the car and dragged it up and dug a great big hole in my garden and buried it in the garden and put lots of lime over it, and I plant my tomatoes on it next year and hopefully they'll be have a bit of bite.

Excellently.

I shouldn't laugh, but because it's very sad and it's quite barbaric, and it's disgusting that people just think they can freely dump that's they're rubbish. I mean, I get a lot of things dumped at the end of the road. That's unbelievable what people do.

That's the thing, isn't it that somebody would just dump a shark and perhaps they've caught it inadvertently, maybe deliberately, who knows in the side of well, what are we doing with it? Really, let's just dump it. That's the worst part, that's right, that's right.

Well, I don't know. I mean it's going to catch it and not use it for food. I don't even know whether they're protected or not. That that particular type of shark, and I probably should have phoned the authorities to advise them. But it was Sunday morning, and I thought, well, no one was going to be around, and I don't want the thing hanging around for days. Was public holidays and everything.

You had to tell it, though, don't you.

Happily in the garden and they rest in peace?

I see, I suppose you had to tell it. You not drag a five foot I mean it must be that's pretty heavy.

I imagine it was pretty heavy. Yes, So I just took the rope around its tail and took it up to the towbar and towed it back up. But yeah, I needed a hand to move it once I got to the other end. But I mean it was probably I'd say it's probably about forty kilos, so maybe a bit more than that.

So somebody caught it and just dumped it. That's that's the most likely explanation.

Yeah, I think they might have freaked out and thought, oh God, what are we going to do with this? But you know, it probably would have been quite good meat. Quite good meat, even if you take it and use it for your dogs or something like that. For a lot of people are amazing, aren't they.

Yeah they are. Hey, tell us about your pastry business. What's going on there?

Oh yeah, yeah, Well I'm I manufacture Big Sissy food sourdough bagels and bagel crisps, and I also make the match at Chili Chutney's and Stella Dressing, the high end condiments and things. We're in about one hundred and twenty odds stores across South Australia and then we do food service as well into restaurants. So yeah, we're busy. We're busy on our little farm at Currency Creek. We have a production facility at the back of the property and it's a great little business that's been I've been a long time in the business and.

We do this.

We Lunger Farmer's Market every Saturday morning and we do the gool markets on Sundays. So that's our lovely marketing and engagement with people excellent and it's good fun little business.

So good on you, Vicky. Look, thank you for your time this morning too, and well let's hope you don't wake up to a shark or anything else at the end of your drive. Again.

Thank you, Matthew, and happy New Year to you. And your listeners.

Thank you, Vicky, you too, thank you all the best. Somebody saying you with Vicky's first thoughts were it was a stingray. What is going on down there? Lol? Indeed, thank you? Amazing, isn't it? And just the chesspar I suppose of saying, well, we've got a ted shark in the car, let's just dump it in somebody's driveway and that'll be that. It's just nuts, but there it is, all right, Andrew says, Hi Matthew, Happy New Year. There was a fireworks accident. Nineteen year old man died on Christmas Day after an explosion in Melbourne's out of North. Well, that's terrible. And how do we get these illegals into the country anyway? This is the fireworks? How does that happen? If they're illegal? They're illegal. I mean, I suppose it's like anything that's illegal. They're just there. If you know where to get them, you get them. But gee, mucking around with stuff like that, essentially, explosives is what you're playing with. Would you play with dynamite? I wouldn't. And all right, we used to have fireworks back in the day and they caused injuries too. Guy Fawkes Night, which was moved from October to June at some point but before it ended. But how many people were injured with the fireworks? Then I reckon it was lots and nothing has changed. Seven twenty seven on five Double A News, not too far away. Way on the other side, we'll talk to the Australian Mint. They've got some new coins on the way in twenty twenty five, and a bit later on in the morning, the Premier, Peter Malinowskis will join me on five Double A Breakfast. Let's talk about the coins in your pocket if you still carry cash. A lot of people do, some don't want it to ever end. I don't think it will for that matter. But new coins will be minted this year for twenty twenty five. And Stuart Baines is Australian Mint Museum Director. He joins me. Now, Stuart, happy New Year.

Having new year to you.

What's coming up?

Well, it's the Mint anniversary this year, sixty sixtieth anniversary.

So we've got a.

Great program of activities planned started really on New Year's Day with our new mid Mark coin.

Okay, so is that for general circulation.

It's a coin that you can only get at the Australian Mint, and it's something you physically actually go in there and press the button and you can watch the coin being minted in front of you. It's become quite a collector's item, particularly the first coin of the year.

All right, and so it has a special value as a result.

Yeah.

So the austral Ray Mint prints or mints the first coin in the world each year. So we actually run a ballot where a few hundred people we had four hundred people this year go into the ballot and stand around and wait for people their numbers to be drawn out of the barrel. I'm the lucky person who got the first coin, gets a little certificate, gets it in a lovely box, and this year inside the box and coin was mounted in a law tile from the mint itself.

Oh wow, so you've got a gap somewhere.

We'll have it up.

All right. About a year ago, I reckon it was the same day I found a coin with Prince or King Charles's head on it instead of the queen's. And I also had a coin and probably in that same handout of return cash, I had a coin. I reckon it was a fifty maybe a twenty with the marking the passing of Queen Elizabeth. Haven't seen either since.

Oh wow, yeah, you sound like you're becoming a bit of a noodler, someone who goes through their change to find with some of these special coins.

All they were both shining. So the magpie and me got attracted or to cry, whichever it is. But I had a look so and that's well, but I haven't seen any since.

Yeah, some of the coins, the mintage is quite low, and they're the ones that seem to become collectibles. We produce coins that are specifically collectibles and investment coins, but we also have coins that people just love to get their hands on, particularly the colored.

Two dollar coin.

How does that happen? Is that hard to do in a minting process to get the colors in those coins.

It's a long process.

It's a long process to create any coin. We have to decide, you know, what story we're going to tell. We're really keen to make sure that our coins tell stories of Australian people, Australian history, significant moments in our history, or significant things that we are doing as a community. So we want to be our reflection of Australians and of Australia.

So just deciding what.

Goes on a coin is the first step in the process. And then getting to a point where we can get a design together, where we can get the minister to approve that yes, that can go into circulating currency, and then putting it into the machinery is quite a long process.

Do other countries do let's change their coins up with significant events and the like.

Yeah, other countries do, and I think, especially with the decline of cash, a lot of countries are looking to make cash and coin more interesting and more collectible after their population. I think Australia is certainly leading away and telling stories and becoming part of the cultural currency.

Yeah, that's really interesting. Decline of cash. Well, you've brought it up now, So have you noticed that at the mint? Are you printing less or minting less than you used to?

Yes, we mint on demand. We don't just mint the coins and hope people will use them, so that we mint on demand from the various banks around the country. I think we have noticed a decline, but it's actually also pushing back up again, and I think part of that is people's nostalgia. They want to keep cash in circulation but I think there is a reality that if you're relying on the Internet and the place you're going doesn't have the Internet, you have no other way of pain. And that's particularly important in disaster zone, remote and regional areas, places we internet is unstable. Coins and cash are still king.

Yeah, and I mean I don't think it'll ever go away, despite what perhaps some people want or hope for a wish, And yes, increasingly I probably I do, In fact, not probably. I definitely use the card a lot more than coins, but I think it has its place, and I've got some on me now and I probably always do have some on me. But that's the thing. If we want it to stay, we've got to keep using it.

Yeah, absolutely, And it looks there are still many places that want to take cash, and the government's legislation about making cash an appropriate way of paying for all businesses is I think an important step in that direction.

So you mentioned demand from the banks. Is that how it works, you know, the onion z or whoever wrings you up and says we're running out of fivers or whatever it might be.

Essentially, we will need the coins based on what is needed by the banks, and that could be replacing circulating coins that are damaged. It can just be because they need to ordering more coins because the banks have run out. But it's about making sure that that circulation is controlled and we're not just minting money, Willy nearly.

Okay, lots of questions. So minting you do the coins? Who does the notes?

That's a note printing Australia and that's a subsidiary of the.

RBA.

Okay, all right, so that look after the notes? How interesting coin manufacture has it changed in any you know, in terms of printing and not printing, but you know processing over the last few years, the changes in technology. Is it easier, harder process?

Look, I don't think it's an easy process, that's for sure. It has processed. There has been some automation, but the automation on the most part comes from the lifting and shifting, the manual task. We have a robot called Titan who does a lot of lifting of the barrels and pouring the barrels into the shoots ready for pressing, and we have a couple of other automated robots that cruise around the factory. But it's still a very manual process. And I think I mean I've only been at MINT for almost six months, i think, and I think one of the eye openers for me was going into one of the rooms where we had about fifteen staff sitting behind microscopes. Essentially they are making the die that actually presses into the metallics to make the coin, and they really doing that artists in themselves.

Is not even just the design.

This is getting the design into the diet an amazing process.

Okay, the fifty cent now that's the iconic coat of arms of course, which has been on there, but that's changing it up a bit this year.

Yes, one of our proof sets, one of our collectical sets, we are going back to the original fifty cent coin, which was in fact round.

Okay, all right, so that'll be interesting and the wattle's going to feature the national emblem or floral emblem as a part of that.

Yeah. Yeah.

We try and have significant Australian connections with our coins obviously, and a wattle is pretty significant and it's everywhere around the country, many many, many varieties of different wattle. So you want to get some more of our flora on our coins.

Those original fifty cents, those round ones, they had a higher silver concentration in them and were worth a lot more than fifty cents, twenty bucks even more sometimes, Yes.

Certainly nowadays those old round silver fifty cents are worth quite a bit. And you know, you never know what you collected as a child or your parents coached for you. I know I've got a folder of coins stored away that my mum and dad collected for me when I was a kid, So you just never know the value of those coins.

Is that how you became interested in all this? What got you in?

Look?

I'm a museum tragic. I love being in museums and worked in military museums, libraries, all sorts of things. But I think the notion of coins tell a story, and coins have a story, and it's not just the story that might be significant to that moment in your life when you got the coin, but it's the story the coin can tell. And I just love story. I think we need to go back to telling story, to talking about ourselves, to figuring out who we are, and I think coins play a part in doing that for the nation.

Oh interesting, good on your Stewart. Thank you for your time this morning, sorries it all. Thank you, Stuart Baines, So is the Australian Mint Museum director. New coins for twenty twenty five on the way marking their sixtieth anniversary. Be interesting tonight. Keep a lookout in your pocket. Have you seen many with Charlie's head on the back? Only the one, and that's a good part of a year ago. Now, I reckon either very early last year or late twenty three. It was in my pocket along with the one of Queen Elizabeth's passing, but it must have been earlier twenty four. But I haven't seen any more, not any with the King Charles love to know eight double two to three double O, double O. We've spoken about house fires this morning. Across to Jade Roberin from seven at Hackham, Let's speak to Kelly Hughes from nine News. She's at the house fire at Durnhamourt. Kelly, good morning, good morning. Here you going all right? Thank you? What can you tell us?

Well, look, I'm just on Reed's Road at the moment, Matthew, where this house fire involved a home around five point thirty this morning. I've just actually been speaking to some neighbors who told me that three police officers actually ran into the fire in the house and pulled out the occuper a gentleman in his seventies and performed CPR until emergency services and the ambulance arrived. He was quickly taken to hospital and they're still fighting. This fire is quite monstrous. It's quite a big house here on this road, and he's done quite a bit of damage. The house is entirely destroyed and most of the streets here are blocked off as emergency services are still trying to contain this way.

Is that.

Yeah, the gentleman thankfully has gone to hospital. I'm sure on a condition update, but yeah, pre heroic work by those police officers.

Indeed, and gosh, that's just awful. So hopefully he's okay long term. But it sounds like a close call, and I think all of them have been close calls overnight.

Yeah.

Absolutely, this was quite a tricky one to fight it, especially it's a bit of an older house and there were some beans that were falling from the roof. So it was very lucky that this gentleman got out when he did because it could.

Have been a lot worse.

Yeah, absolutely, Kelly. We'll see your report on nine News tonight. Thank you, Kelly. Hughes from night at the house fire at Durnham Court. There was one at Hackham earlier this morning, and also another at Enfield. The one at Durnhamcourt breaking out at around five thirty is Kelly said, so later than the as one was at midnight, the one at Enfield, the Hackam one at around four am electrical likely to be the cause there because apparently the man had quite a few video games and hookups involved in a front room. But fire cause investigators will get to the bottom of all of them and determine how they started exactly. But that's the speculation down at Hackem at the moment at least. But you'll see all those stories on television news services tonight and right throughout the day here on five Double A. Of course, let's talk about farmers. Oh firstly though, sorry, just before I get too excited about farmers, let's check the roads around Adelaide. I've been forgetting this all morning. Let's cross to our traffic people.

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We don't know why Pirie Street along five Double A is so busy this morning, and Lucy speculating it's all five of us turning up to work over the last couple of hours this morning, including Kendall in the news room, Richard Pasco and his producer here, Lucy and I And that's about it. But we've caused a traffic backlog. All right. Let's talk about farmers and the National Livestock Identification System is in place from yesterday. This is a news system for identifying and tracing cattle, sheep and goats. Joe Keynes is a farmer and regarding this new livestock legislation in effect from yesterday, Joe, Happy New Year and happy to you too.

I'm glad you're excited about telling to farmer.

Always always tell me about this because I imagine, look, on one hand, I suppose if you lose some cattle or a goat or too, it's easy to find them. But on the other is it an imposition?

Well, I think there is an imposition because it's an extra cost attached and at a time when we've got some last year was fairly poor commodity prices and a fairly dry season, it certainly is an extra cost in position that farmers will have to wear that we are aware that we really know that the long term benefits of implementing an electronic identification will be a really good thing to ensure that we've got market access because we're very much reliant on overseas markets, and it will ensure that we can continue and profit from the premium prices that we currently receive. So it really just shows up our traceability status.

Yeah, all right, how's that kind of work? Is it just a tag through the year? I mean it's not a GPS tag, is it?

It's not a GPS tag, but it is an electronic tag. Currently, there has been a national lifetock identification scheme in place for numbers of years. For cattle, it is already an AID, it's already electronic identification. For sheep and farm goats, it is not it is just a blank tag. Oh sorry, a number tag, because every property has a property identification code that's printed on that tag. Now that's if those tags go missing. It's really a mob based transfer method. At the moment. This will mean that we can identify the individual sheep. All sheep will be electronically identified, and it just means that our traceability systems will be really up to scratch. And it's really in response to the foot and mouth outbreak in Balley from twenty twenty two. If you recall that the federal government and the state government put or the federal government first, they put in some border protection measures and then they also talked about better traceability, and so the state and federal governments have mandated this for implementation over the next numbers of years.

Yeah, okay. Will it help with livestock thefts at all, which occur from time to time.

It'll it could do. Obviously, means that you'll be able to trace those sheep and just use a tag reader and you'll be able to understand exactly where those sheep have come from. So if you did have stock theft as, that would be one way of really identifying those sheep and where they've come from.

Okay, because you'd think even if it went the extra and I don't know what would be involved with this, but GPS tracking. You look around at the Adelaide Hills at the moment, the federal deer everywhere, the goats. You go further afield out into the outback, I mean it's full of goats, lost sheep, and not to mention the cats, but you know every type of animal that's out there is out there.

Yeah, No, there's definitely a lot of ferals around, Yeah, no doubt.

Yeah. Indeed, where are you based, Joe, how's the rainfall affected you're the lack of it?

The lack of it affected us pretty severely. We've got we're east of the Barossa. It's just in Nearlaid Hills there and we are currently putting all our sheep in towards some containment lots, so they'll be locked up and fed with barley and grain or grain and high over the next numbers of months as they get mated and waiting for a good early break and a good solid break and a rainfall year that we can be excited about.

Yeah, well, absolutely is grain hard to get hold of.

It's not too bad. We've been out to secure it. I've worked with the daughter and son in law and we've been out of secure grain. We short grindst We knew that was going to be dry soon, so we actually made some planning about what hay and what grain we needed. We've sought that really early. So yes, we were in a pretty good position, but we're certainly looking forward to a reasonable break.

Absolutely, good luck with it. Joe, thank you for your time this morning.

No, thank you anytime, I think.

Farmer Joe Keynes on the new we tag livestock legislation in effect from well yesterday eight double two to three double o double oh's the number. News is coming up on the other side the premiere Vick sorry to hear this. Vickers texted through says Matthew had to take my cat to the vet a few days ago. She was twenty That's a good innings for a cat twenty years old. Pure White had to have her put down. It rips you apart, buried her in the backyard. Good on you, Vic, Thank you. That's sad to hear. But we do get attached, don't we too Well anything really, but pets love a good pet, and when you've been with an animal that longer it's been with you. Yeah, it's certainly a part of you that goes with them, no doubt about that. Thanks for the text. Hope you have a great twenty five. And incidentally, Vick read one of the books you dropped off to Lucy the Outsider, Stephen King's novel Great Who done It until he got all supernatural? But I was hoping for a non supernatural ending, but it was still a good read. I enjoyed it. How can you not enjoy Stephen king novel as weird as they are? Okay, we're going to talk to the premiere in Justice Sek Peter melanowskis on a range of different topics for twenty twenty five that I'm sure he's well across. But he'll be joining me in just a Sex still to come, Ron de birchmore in about half an hour. Six Sister Act the musical coming to Adelaide this year. We'll have a chat to her about that and everything else. She's doing in the meantime and Professor Nicholas Spurrier, Chief Medical Officers. We hurdle up to a million COVID cases in South Australia. Very close to that just a week or so, guys, So we'll see if we've got there at this point. Not that that's a target we should be aspiring for, but the reality is we're there. So we'll have a chat with Nikola in just a while. Paul says, jeez, i've missed you, Matthew. Thank you, Paul, I've missed you too. All right. The Premier is on the line. Peter malanowskis, Good morning.

Morning, Matthew, having you here's you too.

Happy to you to you and your family. New custom living measures. You put this out yesterday for twenty twenty five, and we've known about these before they were on the way, but they're here now, so good news for people, for instance, with healthcare cardholders. There's some more subsidies available.

Yeah, that's right, Matthew. I mean the happy new you to your listeners as well. I mean the new Year doesn't automatically relieve people of cost living pressure, but a number of things that we've committed to are now coming into effect in twenty twenty five, and what we've tried to do as a state government is make cost living concessions available to those people in our community really need it most. I mean, I think you know there's a significant number of people who would always like further access to concessions from government, but we've got to try and be targeted where we can, so starting this year, for those people that to have one of those concession cards, that can get access to a whole range of additional lines of assistance, whether it be is something as basic as people with eligibility for a subsidy for their gasses. A lot of South Australians need glasses but don't necessarily get it because they simply can't afford it. So we've got our glasses as as subsidy, but also more broader assistance, whether it be through our energy concessions, our funeral assistance scheme which we have in place, something as important as home dialysis, which is expensive but can make a really big difference to someone's standard living who is going through those struggles. But also then there's the broader support that we've got in place, such as the doubling of the cost living concessions for early South Australians and then free public transport for all senior cardholders. That that will all continue, but we do have these new measures coming to in place, starting effects yesterday.

Yeah. Indeed, when you look at the headline in the paper today, it's on page seven, thirty thousand dollars. Worse off under labor is the front the top of that page. It's how it reads, and it talks about the federal government. Do you think these sorts of things though done here in essay? It's hard to imagine people saying, well, I'm better off now.

Well, look, I mean those statistics. I haven't seen that particular headline, but I've seen those sorts of numbers mooted before. In regards to the federal government. I think what they take into account when that calculation is made is, you know, families are the mortgage and the interest rates going up, and of interest rates, of course aren't set by the government, they're set by the Reserve Bank, and they reflect the inflation concern that they're seeking to bring back under control. And you know, the simple fact is in flation is lower today than what it was a few years ago, but it's still got more work to do until we start to see that critical cost of living relief. So so many people that have a mortgage through the Reserve Bank reducing interest rates, and that will be something that we keenly observe as a state government throughout the course of this calendar year. I guess my responsibility Matthew and hopefully Motion Leasterns would appreciate this. As a state government, I've got to focus as a premier. I've got to focus on what I can reasonably control and the cost living concessions for working parents, for kids at school through our increase to the school sports voucher's program, the relief we've provided people with a school card. Those families are the ones that we really tried to target because that's what we can do as a state government.

Few people on the text line asking about ramping and how that's coming along, and okay, it's improved from the worst point of a few months ago, but it's a long way to go. It's still higher than it was when you came to office.

We've actually had some I mean, and this isn't well understood for reasons I appreciate, but over the last few months we've started to see those dramatic improvements since the new beds are coming online. So again your listeners will appreciate that when you commit to building new beds, it takes years to get online, no different to a building a new home. But we started to wipen those new beds up in August and as soon as we started doing that, we started seeing ramping numbers come down a way. It has made a material difference in the months of October November. And then there's a sambastistics I've been put together probably today as we speak. What we've got to see though as that continue, and although the improvement is welcome, we want to see more of it. And the way that's going to happen is, again off the top of my head, I think there's another three hundred beds opening up throughout the course of the next twelve so the next twelve to eighteen months. So our commitments to open up a lot more beds as a new government are now starting to become fruition after being flat out trying to build them over the last couple of years. And as we see that capacity come online, it is making a difference in the system. The best example, if I had to put a clear picture in people's heads. Was in people's minds was that the Lion McEwen Hospital we are they opened up forty eight new beds over the top, over and above others that were already opened. And as soon as those new beds, those general medicine beds came into the system, ramping at the Lion mcullen hospital collapsed and is now performing really well. In fact, the Libecullen possible for instance, as a result of that investment, despite the growing nature of the northern suburbs, is now performing better in ramping than what was the case before the last election. So capacity matters, and that's what we're delivering as a governor. We just want to make sure that that momentum continues throughout twenty twenty five.

A federal elections due by May might be in March or April, though, and certainly by the end of May. Do you think that'll make a difference to well to the state moving forward, getting that out of the way, A.

Look at all run its course. I mean, naturally will be keen observers of the outcome of the federal election. I think there have been a number of commitments made by federal politics that are bipartisan, the Orchestra commitment being the best example of that, which we just want to make sure remains bipartisan into the foreseeable future. But then there are other commitments that aren't that don't enjoy bipartisan support that were but as a state we see as being in our interests, particularly the federal governments. The Alberanzi government's commitment to a range of things around making things here in Australia. We think that program that it made an Australia program has the potential to be really powerful. And one of the things that we've got a keen eye on is the relationship or what we're working with the federal government around making sure that this is a country that produces steel and that's saving something that is top of mind for me and the state government as we confront the challenges we've seen in Whyala over the last few months.

Well, I wanted to ask you about that, and you know, the blast burns, it's still not on it and we looking for that to happen. People not being paid, jobs been lost, it's absolutely going in the wrong direction and whatever last.

This isn't yeah, well this isn't out there publicly, but I got an update on this twenty four or yesterday this morning it would have been and where without sort of going into all of the technical details of the blast furnace because it is quite the signs. But they've now got ten twee's open, which is actually a really good sign for the bust and it's coming back online and better than it's been for some months. So there are a group of workers up there in Wayala that you know, people can't picture. They're not not seen on television, but these men and women who are working on this blast furnace, which is ninety percent science ten percent, are amazing Australians and they produce still for this country in a way that no one else can Otherwise it just all gets imported. And they've been working around the clock during this Christmas Newyar period. I've been getting updated on it basically every forty eight hours and they're working around the clock to make sure this Blastphermos comes back alive. And we've seen some really good progress which is which is really welcome. So we would hope that that sort of acts as a degree of relief for Wyler. But there is absolutely no denying the fat Matthew that one of the things I'm most worried about, to speak plainly, coming into the new year is how we get the still works back onto a financially sustainable footing. I mean, it's a privately owned business, so it's a bit difficult for government to intervene. But we have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, going right back to October state government about what the future of the steel works looks like. And that's something that will occupy a lot of my time in the early months of this year.

But there's a lot of okay, that's that's fair, But there's a lot of unpaid bills. A lot of people owed a lot of money throughout Wyala as a result of the steel Works and other parts as well. If they're not getting paid, they're not going to provide services anymore. We know the trains have stopped running for instance, or all the rest. You know, your contingency plans, surely they're on your desk and the dust has been blown off them because you very much may need them in the near future. Yep.

And that's exactly why we've been working on it. And you know we are as a government, we have been consistent in our calls on GfG and GOUDA is to pay their creditors. You know, the state government is one of those, but that's the least of my concerns because I would rather have the hard working small and medium businesses, even a few large businesses in Wyale getting paid first and foremost. Now, there have been instances where businesses have been paid up to date and that's been welcome, but there are others that simply haven't been and I think the key for the still work to be able to do that is to become to get some cash flow through the business, which means they've got to be producing steel, which is why that blast firmace is so important. But look, look, like I said Matthew, you know, we have been transparent about the fact that this is something that we are really concerned about as a government, and frankly, I think the whole country should be because I think it's completely unsustainable and you know, totally unsatisfactory for us to be a nation, an island continent nation that produces as much iron ore as we do, but not having the capability to be able to produce our own still domestically. And just to be clear, about this. I mean, you know, every single bridge, every single building, every single foundation being laid in Australia for a home that has reinforced concrete, that is to say, they're still running through it. The only place that can produce that long form still for for Reba in reinforced concrete, the only place that can do that in Australia is at Wyala. And if we lose that capability and something, we're to shock the system to stop us being how imported as a country, that means we stop building things.

You concern auld building BHP then talking about building their own, well, no, because I.

Think as a country we've got to have that capability. What I think, though, is that that capability exists in Wayaler and it should not be lost, and that warrants I guess a degree of attention around the country, including from the federal government, and I've spoken to the Prime Minister about this on a number of occasions and he's engaged in the situation in Whale. We've got to make sure that remains true because it's just so critically important for who we are as a people as a country.

Would good, but more money, more tax payers money. He surely wouldn't be given another cent Woldy.

No.

Well, here's the iroing of the situation the Sabastralian government going right back to twenty sixteen seventeen when mister Goodter required the still works, and this existed throughout the entirety of the Marshall Liverpool government and ben sustained under my government that has had fifty million dollars on the table to invest in the transformation of the still works. All that requires is GfG to come up with the plan to be able to do that, and they've never met that test. And then on top of that, we're able to get another sixty million dollars out of the federal government. So between the state governor of the federal government, there's over one hundred and ten million dollars sitting on the table for GfG and mister good to get access to, as long as that money has been spent on the transformation of the still works rather than just being lost overseas somewhere. So there is money on the table, but it's got conditions attached to it, and I would love to be assigning that check. Treasury's already got the money sitting there. We would love to hand that over, but it's got to be done with appropriate plans for the future of the Still task for the still work, and our Still Task Force provides advice to the government about when we should release those funds, and as yet they haven't advised us to do so.

All right, Premier, really appreciate your time this morning. All the best for twenty five.

Likewise, thanks Matthew, Thank you.

Peter malanowskis Premiere of South Australia. On the issues we've had a chat about, Philip Henley, good question. If GfG at Wuayla owe so much money to credit us, how the hell can they afford the sponsor and AFL team. That's a good question, Phil, I see that come up a lot on social media too. Thank you for the text, and everyone else's texted in as well. Vincentazi is called in on the back of the premiere just a few minutes ago, the leader of the opposition.

Happy New Year to you, Happy New Year to you, Matthew.

What point would you like to make.

A couple of points there? I think in regards for Whiler, look, I think the time for the motherhood states in relations for Wiler is well and truly over. I mean, we've been calling for months now for better transparency around the future of while we know that Premier League Premier Taskforce when it comes to steal, and we've been asking for those minutes to be released because, as you pointed out, I mean, we know that the company there are in a rear. You know that people aren't being paid, you know that contractors are being laid off, and all the problem we want to talk about about the benefits, about why we need a steal industry. I mean, we already know that the time is now for the premiere to step in. You know, the rubber's got to hit the road in relationship.

He's right about that money on the table, though, isn't it. They can't release that and shouldn't release that until mister Good puts some plans on the table.

I just don't see the sense of urgency from this premier and this labor government. Don't forget he's got a number of leaders at his disposal. I mean, he can pick up the phone, call the Prime Minister and US Prime Minister step in here, because this is an asset of national significance. So it's all well and good to talk about money on the table, But I just don't see that sense of urgency that I want to see from a premier that should be fighting force out Australia. And in terms of ramping, your various student listeners point out, I mean, the promise was quite clear and that was to fix the ramping crisis. And excuse me, and you know, we know that Labor has now delivered the thirty thirty of the worst ramping month in South Australia's history and people are calling that out for what it is.

Do you think it'll improve with a new bed Supremier talked about.

Well, we would welcome additional spending into beds, but the promise wasn't just to put on more beds. The promise was to fix the temping crisis and that had close to our three years Matthew, and I think people are seeing that what it is.

All right, so I promise so far they've got to the next election though, haven't they To.

Be fair, they do, but I mean they said that it needs to be fixed now, and it would be fixed pretty much immediately. And as I said, we're three years in ye and it's getting it's getting worse, it's not getting better.

Yeah, that's it all right, appreciate you call, thank you. Thanks Matting Vincentansia, leader of the opposition. On the back of the premiere, got a great text here from Vassel who says, well, if the Premier says the only still works in the country not making a profit, how can it be? How can it not make a profit if it's the only one in the country. Good, good point. But that is one for mister Gupper more so than the Premiere, I think, because he owns it. Fix up the blast furnace, get it going, pay your creditors, get production back up and running if you want to. The question really is does he want to? Eight double two to three double O double O twenty eight past eight on five double A news is not far off. On the other side, runder Birchmore will join me, sister act the music or coming to Adelaide soon. We'll have a chat with Professor Nicholas Spuria as well. Got to talk respiratory illnesses, hooping, calf covid flu with the Chief Health Officer, Professor Nicholas Spurrier in around about ten to fifteen minutes time, but for now singing and dancing her way into twenty twenty five. The wonderful runder birch woar coming back to Adelaide in a few months time. Happy New Year.

On that happy New Year, Matthew to you and all your lovely listeners.

Now tell me about Sister Ract. Now we've seen the movie and now the stage show.

Who would have better thought, Matthew, you'd be a nun, that I would be a nun after all that, all that bling and leg and eye kicks and patues, that I'd be actually wearing sensible shoes and a habit and playing a nun. I would if someone had a you know, a magic you know, kind of viable.

Or what you know what I'm trying to.

Think of, you like, I would never have thought in a million years that I would be playing a nun.

And here I am and actually quite loving it.

Oh really, okay, well you might make a habit out of it if I dare say, you.

Don't get none of it?

No, no, no, no, it's it's you know on there, Casey Donovan, who you know, arguably you know it is one of the best things we've ever you know, had here in this country.

And she's she's rocking it as.

The WHOOPI Goldberg type of role, and I my role's probably been extended, I guess from my role as Sister Mary Lazarus, who runs the choir of the very very bad Singing Nuns. And of course Casey's character Dolores comes in undercover, you know, to escape, you know, she's witnessed a murder. She's you know, and she comes into the convent to hide. And that's where that whole you know, sister act. She she converts this dreadful choir into something very very decent to sing for the Pope, and it's a it's a really feel good, fantastic show.

Is it hard to sing badly when you're a trained singer?

Yeah, it actually is, you know, because your I mean I laugh every night. It's the bad notes. And that's but miraculously, within from seeing the you know, the worst thing as you will ever hear, miraculously, in about all five minutes, we turn into this kind of angelic choir, which is, you know, it's all smoke and mirrors, but it's a lot of.

Fun, I'm sure, and I can imagine how good that would resonate on stage. And it is a play or a performance of great energy, isn't it.

Yeah, The thing is you know, you think, oh, you're a nun in your sensible shoes and no high kicks as such. But it's actually a really big workout because we are in these heavy woolen habits and all of the choreography is you know, with the shoulders and the upper bodies, so it is quite a workout as we're singing. And a lot of the numbers, of course, are all ensemble, so we've got as many the ten eleven nuns doing the same thing. So yeah, it's a really great I usually kind of go out and do you know, you know, a solo or something like that, but this is like a very much an ensemble piece and it's a really really fantastic harmonies are incredible, Matthew, you know, just visually how it's been set in this convent. The lighting is magnificent, and I mean we've we've played the four Houses through Sydney and we're currently in Melbourne.

No risk for the rest for the Wicked.

Yesterday was a bit rough having to do a show on Yesday a matinee, but you know, you know, we're loving it.

Okay, Well, please tell me at the end of the performance you'll rip off the habits and there sparkling sequence underneath.

Well, there's sparkling sequence, I tell you. I think it was the Christmas Eve performance. I actually did the whirl, and someone in the car park afterwards said, ronder, I never thought I'm going to see your legs tonight, but you did that incredible whirl in the bow that.

Only comes out very I might do it for opening night in Adelaide.

But apparently the habit went very, very high, and the chap got his Christmas.

Wishes very nineteen thirties, very very much.

With the sensible shoes, I mean, that's the best thing I'm used to, you know, you know, Adelaide audiences would know I have a very Usually the legs are out in a five inch heel, but I felt like a half an inch, a very sensible kind of you know, well a shoe like a very comforty I don't know what it is, but it's very.

Comfortable, homey, paired or something nothing, something like that. That must be very Actually, by the end of the night, you'd notice that, wouldn't you. You'd notice how much probably more comfortable, back is not aching as much or whatever.

Yeah, the Bunyan's the loving that I tell you it is and you know it's it's great. I mean, I've just gone through that Christmas time where I do you know, carols and you you and and Christmas shows, I do that in between, and you know, it's really it's quite you know, absolute opposite, you know, to go from that to and there's the thing is there's there's no hair because it's under like a like a ballet clab a type of thing. And then and then the you know, the I'm trying to think of the words for the top of the you know, the head piece piece than you wear. It's not too there's no hair, there's no makeup. It's quite empowering, so you don't need your two hours of prep before you walk on stage.

Excellent. Well, we'll look forward to saying that March twenty second at the Festival Theater on the big stage. And that is pretty good, sister the Musical Dot com dot au for tickets and run the look forward to seeing you back in Adelaide.

Look happyly, I love I'm in the City of Churches.

What I'm more perfect, you know what a more perfect place to play this show? And I mean the thing that people are walking away all ages matthew Is. You know, just the songs and just the joy in this crazy world we're living in at the moment.

So it's a really feel good musical.

You and the orchestra could take all the performers could could walk out the front in the habits and take a stroll to Saint Peter's and no one would think anything of it.

Look, and you know what I will.

I will because I'm in the respect and that just the people that come up and they have no idea that it's wrong to under that.

Yeah, that's just really really pleasant. I might do that. Actually, I will run.

The excellent Well, make sure you let me know. I'd love to be there to see that and take a photo or two, so.

I'll come. I might even come down to front double A and do in my nun's habit.

Yeah absolutely, no, be great because you know your statuesque, so it's got to be a big habit right as in terms.

Oh yes, it's very longest you don't.

Miss me, No, I'm sure run the lovely chatting once more and all the best to look forward to seeing you here.

See you're in March and I'm happy to knew you to.

All your listeners, good only run the you too, Thank you, runder Birchmore coming to Adelaide March twenty seconds. Sister Act the Musical sounds fun, doesn't it. And she's quality performer, so you know, you know she's in at Casey Donovan, Genevieve Lemon or Great and it'll be a terrific show. So make sure you get along and see Sister Act the Musical at the Festival Theater on the big stage. There great question from Kathy on the text line, talking earlier about the ferals who trashed a bus at Theberton and themselves as well to some degree some seventeen arrests and people aged thirteen to fifty eight. Kathy says they got out on bail, banned from catching public transport. Were they given a taxi voucher to go home? Well, you hope they walked. But anyway, Kathy, it's a great question. I don't know the answer, but thank you for the text. Twelve minutes to nine on five double A. Let's talk health. The Chief Health Officer for South Australia almost said Minister, but Health Officer it's Professor Nicholas Spurrier. Happy new year, Professor and happy new year to you two. Now hooping cough and this year or last year rather, we broke records in twenty twenty four with hooping cough cases. That's quite quite a lot of them.

Yes, look, it's really was a big problem. And we've still got lots of hooping cough around and it doesn't tend to be that winter seasonality that you think of with respiratory conditions, but we do expect cycles every four to five years, and we did have a wave in twenty sixteen, so it's you know, not it should we should think if this as expected, But we have a very good vaccine and the most important thing is to protect our really little babies against hoopin cough. So the numbers are just I just had a look at the chart this morning. It may look like it's just starting to come down, but there's certainly plenty of hooping cough around. So if you're pregnant, think about making sure you get your hooping cough vaccine during pregnancy along with the flu vaccine. And come another month, I'm going to be so excited because we'll have RSV vaccine for pregnant people as well. And then of course with the little bubbs once us six weeks of age can have their own hooping cough vaccine, And important to think about people around you. If you've got a new baby in the house, just checking that they've also had a booster.

Okay, I think from memory, you're a pediatrician, aren't you, as your normal yes, so you would have seen a lot of little children. Oh yeah, i'mwell from illnesses like this.

Absolutely, look, hoopinkoff is just awful. I have a very clear recollection of years and years ago seeing a little baby in icee you at the Women's and Children's and it was really impossible to ventilate this little baby because the cough is so awful and they fight against the ventilator and then you don't get enough oxygen up to the brain. So it's really dangerous for little babies. So as a community, be aware that there's a lot of hooping cough around still, and do everything that you can to protect the little one.

I imagine too, something like hooping cough would be highly infectious because of the nature of it. You're coughing and sneezing and whatever, and droplets are going everything.

Absolutely totally, absolutely right on that. And now since we've been well, we were always pretty good with ppe and hospitals, but I've been doing a little bit of board service up at Flinders and certainly we have really high use of mass and gowns and such like. Now to try and reduce that transmission in our hospital setting as well.

Okay, so immunization the key there to try and bring those numbers down. Eighteen hundred cases up from what one hundred and forty two the year before.

That's you know, that's sacd and you look, look, it's better just to even We've got some nice dashboards up with our spirituary dashboards now on our website. But if you go back, you can see a wave in twenty sixteen and then it was flat, flat, flat, and it was I think it fairly extended that flat period because of the pandemic and people were just being so extra precautious with the respiratory hygiene. But we've certainly had a nasty hooping cough season.

Yeah, what cause is that? Why does it rise like that and peak and then go back to next to nothing.

Well, it's you have to think of it as a whole of population immunity. Most people think of their own immunity and when they get their own vaccine. But I have to think it a whole of population level. And so with some of these viruses, if there hasn't been much circulating over a period of time, immunity wanes and whilst the hooping cough vaccine is good, the protection from it wanes over a period of time. And that's actually why we have now we now recommend having a booster for hooping cough in primary school age children. I think it's eleven to fourteen. And in fact, this when we look at our hooping cough case to break it down by age, quite a number of the cases have been in that age group and they tend to push the infection along and that's so because when they were little they were vaccinated. But over time the immunity wanes, and that's why we tend to see another little flip in that age group. So it's just part of the natural cycle of things in the way our immune system works. But that's why it's important have the boost of vaccine, particularly for hooping cough.

Okay, looking at your dashboard that you mentioned, I see FLU and RSVA a pretty much case for case. Almost year on year twenty three to twenty four.

Yes, so.

You know the message there would be as always get your vaccinations and everything up to date.

Absolutely, but I'm super excited this year because this year we have now got an RSV immunization program kicking off in hopefully February, the Commonwealth of providing the maternal vaccine, and then we've our governments provided the monoclonic monoclonal antibody, which is a passive immunization for babies that missed out on having their mum vaccinated. And talking to the other states Queensland and WA in particular, who had the monoclonal antibody last RSV season, we should see a really dramatic decline in the impact of RSV in our young children. So if you're out there, you're pregnant and you're thinking, oh, I really want this vaccine, hopefully you'll hear more about that in February, and we've got the monoclonal for bubs that couldn't have their mum vaccinated, so that's going to be great.

Yeah. Indeed, talking of all of this, the final one COVID of course and looking at your website there if we have another three hundred odd cases this week has seems to have been the norm for the last month or two about that many cases. Then we are likely to hit the million cases in South Australia this week, which is not a total you'll be popping champagne corks over, but it is concerning and still around it.

It's definitely still around and we're still getting those waves every three to four months, and for some people it can be a really nasty infection. There's definitely a wave at the moment. I can also tell that even though you don't have as many people doing tests, we look at the test positivity, so the number that's the number that it's or the percentage of the tests that are taken that are positive, and that's gone up as well, which just indicates we are in a wave now. Talking about what you can do to protect yourself, people will think I've been vaccinator, had three or four vaccines for COVID, but actually when you look at the recommendations, seventy five year olds and above are recommended to have a booster every six months, and for sixty five to seventy five recommended to have a booster every twelve months, but eligible for every six months. And then for the rest of us. Even though it's not recommended, we are eligible every twelve months, and I am definitely going to be one of those people that gets my twelve monthly COVID vaccine STEW in February, so you know, I'm thinking, right, got to make sure I get that done.

In the new year.

All right, Okay, well we're almost there. Liz is called in with a question for you. E. Lizabe Oapden, Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, professor.

I had a hoop and coth injection three years ago. Should I have a booster as I'm sixty seven, but I've got babies around me.

I'm pretty sure you're good with that. But what I would definitely do is I would never give a personal health advice without checking first. So I suggest you go and ask your doctor and just make sure in your own circumstances that you're fine with that.

Okay, thank you very much, Thank you to worry.

A great question and a very important one, and thank you, professor too for your time this morning.

No worries. Can I mention? Have I got time to mention one other thing? Because this is just something that again it's not for not necessarily for everybody, but empoc. You might have all forgotten about m pop. We have had the odd case in South Australia, yes, monkey pops, yeah, and we call it mpox now and it's the higher risk is in groups of men who have sex with men. The cases we've seen in South Australia tended to have caught it it overseas but also interstate, and we have a vaccine and the eligibility criteria has been expanded for that. So that's for all sexually active, gay, bisexual or other men who have sex with men and their sexual partners. And you know we've got the Pride Months happening soon, kicking off in February. There's people going overseas having a great time. Nothing wrong with having a great time, but good to think about protecting yourself with this vaccine and it's readily available. You need your two doses, all right.

Thank you for that and all the best for twenty twenty five.

Thank you very much, Matthew.

Professor Nicholas Burriat SA Chief Public Health Officer. It's around three to nine US on the way then Richard Pasco taking you through the morning. With hundreds of ways to save every day, it's better to be a member with RAA Rewards and thanks to the RAA will bring you fuel watch Petrol still sitting high servos of barely drop prices average across Adelaide dollar ninety seven for unlettered ninety one. A few servos now at a dollar ninety six cheaper though through the regions a dollar sixty eight in the Barossa, dollars seventy four in mount Compass diesel much cheaper. It's a dollar seventy six at United Winfield and they are on Grand Junction Road. That is it for me. Thank you, Lucy, Thank you everyone. Have a great day. Stay tuned. Richard Pasco coming up after the new

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