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Good morning, Welcome to Wednesday. There's nineteenth day, March twenty twenty five. Where is the year gone? Flying by? Certainly flying by? Lots to talk about today, the toxic speech quarry. Do you live in the Selex Beach area? How have you been impacted? Does it concern you? Plans for a seventeen hundred house development being built in the area. Will that dissuade possible people moving into the area. We'll find out more about that and speak with the City of Onkaparinga mayor more a weir. If you're a resident of the are and have been impacted, let us know about it. Give us a call eight double two to three double double ow. There's a call today to help drought stricken farmers by pumping River Murray water into regional reservoirs. Is it conceivable? Is it possible? Is it a good idea? We'll find out more about that. There's a dental crisis among older Australians. A Senior's dental Benefit scheme is urgently needed to help stop thousands of older Australians ending up in our hospital system unnecessarily, and that causes additional problems, isn't it? Because they go to emergency departments checking up the system there. So this is a call for a special senior's dental benefit scheme. Fans are calling for free to wear Saturday football to be reinstated. How are you impacted on Saturday as a port supporter, Well, we're not talking about the result here, but the fact you might have turned your Telly on expecting to see the game and you to find out that there was some other programming on you had to wait ninety minutes to see your team. That will happen for Crow supporters this coming weekend when the Crows play Essendon in Melbourne, that game will also be delayed by about ninety minutes. It's the new world that we're living in, and there's been a call from supporters groups that let's reinstate Saturday free towear television. Mind you, we're not impacted as badly as are in Victoria, Tasmania and other precincts. I think in the Northern Territory where there is absolutely no football at all on freeedowear television, not even replays. So I mean the idea, of course is to get you to go into subscription television to Foxtel or KO where you can watch all games at a price, of course, but free tooware. Coverage of football is being limited. Saturday's are off the agenda at least in South Australia and in Western Australia. You get to see your game, but it will be delayed. What are your thoughts about that. We'll get the latest. Australians are spending a record amount of money online. In fact, in the last twelve months sixty nine billion dollars on online goods. That's up twelve percent from the year prior. Do you buy online? Have you ever bought online? Would you never buy online? What are your thoughts about buying online? More and more people are moving to it. There's no question that you can pick up some great bargains buying online, but there are pitfalls, there are dangers, and there are things that you need to look out for. We're going to have a chat with Matt Preston a bit later on on what's happening with a simple cup of coffee. It's not simple any longer. I know that there are some coffee shops that have eight different varieties of milk that you can have, and then there's all the different types and we've gone past, the flat white and the cappuccino. There's so many different varieties. What is happening. Matt Preston is pretty concerned. We'll have a chat with him about that. Also on the show, we're going to look at the moon the moon landing dero. No, we're not going to love the moon landing. That's come and gone a long time ago. But a lot of excitement this morning were the space crew splashing down, and we'll revisit that. But firstly, an issue that I want to talk about Every year twenty fifth of March is Say Their Name Day. It's a coming together to say the names of treasured babies and children that have been loved and lost. It's to honor their memory while highlighting the profound impact of each of these deaths. It's a wonderful concept, but this year in Adelaide, it comes with a dark side and a community call for help. This was a social media post by the Red Tree Foundation and I'll read it to you. Stolen volunteer shirts are disappointing setback. We're feeling pretty disheartened today. After following up on a delayed delivery, we discovered that our box of volunteer shirts was actually delivered on a weekend, but someone decided to help themselves. Being right next door to Cooper Stadium, thousands of people would have been in the vicinity. These shirts were meant for our amazing volunteers at our coastal walk on March thirty and as a charity, we simply can't afford to replace them. We were so looking forward to seeing our team proudly wearing them as they support our cause looking at local providers and a small turnaround is out of reach. Unfortunately, while this is disappointing, we know this doesn't reflect on the kindness of most people. We just hope that whoever took them is putting them to good use. Well, that is a sad indictment on a very small sector of the community. We're going to chat later this morning to Red Tree Foundation GM Carrie Langdon about that say their Name day. It's a wonderful concept and we'll find out more about it. Eight double two three double oh double is my numbered ring. We're going to be back shortly and we're going to talk about this toxic cell speech quarry pumping out dust that's got the local residents concerned.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
I'll tell you what it was a pretty exciting time in Adelaide. We have picked nineteen fifty four the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrived for their first visit to South Australia. People line the route from Parafield Airport. Yes, Parafield Airport. Some two hundred thousand people lined the route. And if you have any memories of that, do you record it? Give us a call and we'll talk about it a little bit later on this morning. The first royal visit by the Queen Queen Elizabeth back in nineteen fifty four eight double two three double oh doublo. If you have memories of that. From the text line our Eyes and Ears of the City, Terry says, an accident Main North Road and John Rice Avenue, elizabeth Vale slow to southbound traffic. So if you're traveling in the area be warned. An accident Main North Road and John Rice Avenue at elizabeth Vale. Thank you very much for that, Terry Howard says, I put the telly on to watch the live game. I need to find out it wasn't live. Solution was actually quite easy, just turned off the telly. Now don't bother with any football anymore. Cheers Howard. Let the people speak. Good on you, Howard. Look the solution I thought you could. The solution was I turned on five double A for a perfect, brilliant coverage. You didn't say that, but it was available to you. And yes, that is obviously going to be the solution for a lot of people who can't wait the ninety minutes for the delay. Just turn on five double A for the best coverage of AFL football in the land. Eight double two to three double double is the number to ring if you want to comment on that, or the Queen's visit to Adelaide or anything we're talking about today. Love to hear from you. That is the number, or you can take zero double four eight zero eight thirteen ninety five. Residents living near a huge ry at Selex Beach fear the area's biggest employer is turning the town toxic. The two hundred and sixty one hectare quarry produces limestone, shale, marble and dolomite, and it's managed by Adelaide based concrete giant Adbry. It operates twenty four to seven and residents say it's continually pumping out dust in the Celics area and it's causing major concern. City of Onkaparinga mere mora weird joins men are more a good morning to you. Just how serious is the problem?
Well, the local community really concerned. I actually live at Selex myself, Graham, so I know what they're talking about. And we've obviously had the drive summer in forty years. That's definitely not helping, and there's lots of roadworks. But they're concerned about the quarry.
So the quarry's been operating for some time. Has this been an ongoing problem?
Well, I think yes, it has been an ongoing problem. Community members have been concerned about it for a number of years. But what's happening in the last of probably twelve to eight months, people are feeling like, you know, it's getting a bit worse. As I said, some of the conditions that we've got with the dry summer and everything that hasn't helped. And there's a lot of roadworks going on as well. But the community are worried about respiratory problems and you know, anything that they might be inhaling. So they have been working together as a community council have been talking to them obviously as well, and I've been to some meetings myself with the locals about that, and so we took it to you know, take their concents very seriously. We've been advocating to the EPA about it, and just before Christmas we also corresponded with the South Australian Chief Public Health Officer, Nicholas Burrier about it because we would like her to have a look to and see if there's something else that can be measured or what's actually really going on.
So what response have you had from the government.
So the EPA wrote to us back while we're back saying, you know, that's set up a community group and one of our elected members is actually on that group that's got a it's the Silex Hills Quarry Community Consultation Group and that was set up from middle to late last year and so they are engaged in talking to the local community through that group. And we had a correspondence back from Professor Spurrier as well in where was that that was early in the right early in the year, and you know, she's certainly understood the concerns that the local residents had and indicated to us that you know that they are working with the EPA as well, and we'll be doing some more gathering of some more data to see if there's something else that they can look at and if indeed it is there any health risk.
Levels, what sort of symptoms is it causing.
Well, you would have possibly some of your listeners would have seen a current affair last night and and certainly what I here from the local community, they're worried about coughing. Is it getting into their lungs. We don't actually know if that's the cause, and that's what we're asking for more studies to be done, just to check is this the reason or are there is the quarry the reason or are there other reasons out there that may be impacting it, not the least the climate impact as well.
The Celic Speech area has also been near marked by the government for seventeen hundred new homes. Would they be near the quarry.
They are outside the quarry's boundaries inside the quarry, but they are close. And I know that some residents are concerned that you know, maybe the needs by beware message out there for people who might be moving into the area. And I know a number of residents who have fairly new residents, but also some of the older people who've been here for many years are concerned about that and raising their concerns with the government directly.
What does the quarry say itself? What's their response?
You need to ask them that one, Graham. What we're doing as counsel as we're listening to our local community. We take their consent seriously. We've been we had an emotion that was put by one of our counselors who represents that ward, and together we've corresponded with the Chief Public Health Officer and we also let some of the other ministers who might have an interest in that note by sending them a copy of our correspondence. So we sent that to the Minister for Health and the Minister for a Climate Border and also to the Minister for Minds and Energy.
I believe residents have collected some of the dust to have it analyzed. Have there been any results from that?
So the residence group did do that some of that and are continuing to do it. What we understand, however, from the information we've been given, is that it may not be you know, it's not current. So that's one of the things we've been asking for to get more current data that's analyzed by repute all laboratories that can be connected in with other measures that other departments like the EPA might well be doing. Because the EPA and the Department of Energy and Minds, they have the legislip oversight of the quarry and the residents are keen to find out what the health risks are and so that's why they're seeking some more information about that.
That City of Onkaparinga Mayor Mora Weir, thank you, Maraa for that. Local resident Michael van Berg joins me. Now, Michael's morning, Good morning Graham. Just how serious do you view the problem?
Well, I think it's very serious. I think it's very serious. I mean last night we had a community meeting about one hundred and fifty people that turned up and Frank Aangelo very kindly came down and joined us. And one of the questions we asked of the group is how many people believe they're being affected health wise by the Dutch seminating from the quarry, And I'd say eighty five percent of the peace will put their.
Hands up, and what sort of symptoms? What are people suffering from?
Coughing? People I mean down here, Graham, you've got principally two types of residents. You've got the holiday home, the Zeck type community, which is fantastic, and you've got the tyrees and so for with the aged, I mean the aged I think are very susceptible to respiratory issues. There are people who already have a respiratory problem e g. Asthma and they are definitely experiencing problems where they're having to put them all because of the dustinnhilation.
And that's short term effects, but we don't really know what the long term effects will be.
No.
And look, I mean I've written to all the ministers and also in some correspondence copied in the premiere, and there seems to be well, well, I can only describe platitudes and also dismissing us. I mean, I just don't believe they're taking this very serious. To be franked. I mean, we have people here who are being affected, and it's there's the inconvenience fact that where every day you have dust on your outdoor furniture, on the barbecues, on your cars if they're parked outside, et cetera. And this has been going on since ad Bright took the quarry over. Now we knew when we relocated here thirteen years ago, but there was a quarry, but the quarry at that point in time was owned by the new family. The new family in my view, and I'm not an expert, but in my view, we're responsible operators. Yes, occasionally we had a bit of dust when they were blowing, et cetera, but not to the quantum that we have today. And the last four or five years, twenty four to seven dust emanating from that quarry is just totally unsustainable.
So they're pumping out dust twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. Yes, you know, I can understand the concern of residents. I mean I don't know if there's any safe level inhalation. I mean, if you're saying there's dust over outdoor furniture and dust gets inside on benches and so forth, that means everyone's inhaling it that ends up in your lungs.
Well you would think, I mean, that's common sense, really, And as I say, I'm not an expert. We did have an expert there last night at our meeting who basically expressed their view. But dust inhalation, whether it's got silica in it or not is a health issue, and even Professor Spurrier indicated the same thing in her response back to the mayor, because I've got a copy of that letter which is on on Comparringa's website. So the dust that's seminating is a health problem, but the other issue too, perhaps a minor problem. Our solar panels are covered, and solar panels when they're covered with dust that are up to thirty to forty percent less effective.
Oh right, Yeah, So there's.
A financial factor as well, in terms of people who basically capitalize and put solar and batteries and all that sort of stuff to save the planet in my case, to save money that's going to be extrapolated further out because of the return not being as first projected.
So, Michael, what would you like to see happen?
Oh?
Look, as I said last night on a current affair, I mean, you know, we've got a lot of empathy for the quarry and the workers. We just want to see ad bry at that senior level. And I might add that both the directors both joined me in severy are responsible for the proper operating of this quarry and currently they are not operating in cordance with their license, and they're not operating in the cordance with their own dust management plan, and that is fact. We want them to lift their game. Spend a bit of money, buy capital equipment, buy more water, buy more water trucks, pray during those critical periods where we have the southeast winds down here, which are constant during the hot months, and get on and do the job and do what they're supposed to be doing.
Michael, thanks so much for input. We certainly understand your concern and there's added concerns seeing that that Celex Speach area has been earmarked by the state government for seventeen hundred new homes. You know, trying to deal with the housing crisis. All well and good, but would you want to move into that area knowing that this issue exists and there is no plan to fix it. What are your thoughts? Love to hear you, Love to hear from you. Eight double two three double do double is the number to ring. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Then is there going to be any compensation for your peninsular residents who were hit by the blackout?
Five double A Mornings with Gram Goodings twenty.
Seven's then five double A on this delightful Wednesday morning. Hope we find you. Well, let's take some calls Ian, good morning.
Yes, okay, I just wanted to out. I don't work at that quite but I actually go there every week. I have to pick up like the samples of everything that they make there because I have to take it to all like different testing stations so that they can test that the rocks are all the right size that go into making the concrete. I don't think people don't think about that, but everything has to be graded and it all has to be done all the time, like is a thing. So there's no way it's toxic. I mean, it's not a uranium or a coal mine. It's just rocks and sand and gravel. There's just there's no way it can be toxic. And with the dust and everything. Yeah, I'm starting to deny that. I mean I don't notice that personally when i'm there, but if you are living there, I don't deny that that could be an issue. But they have got water trucks all the time that are trying to keep it down, especially in summer of that. But probably they're removing a Mountain, Like the Northern express All of that concrete that went into building that road in the Northern Expressway, all of that came out of that quarry at Celtics Hill. So it's actually it can't go without it. We need it. It's not something that can be replaced.
So what he's suggesting that the residents are overreacting.
Well, they moved there, didn't They's been there a long time before anybody's decided to move there, and it's just like everything. It's like everything else, Graham. Everything moves up and they move there, and all of a sudden, Oh, we don't want that there anymore. No, because we're living here, so we've got to get rid of it. I'm not saying that they can't actually put more water there or that, but when I hear about them talking about toxicity levels and things, I just think, now they're just starting to make stuff up because they want the quarry close down.
Okay, and thanks for input. Yeah, that's yet to be proven whether it's toxic or not. As reguards the dust level, it has changed dramatically. According to Michael, who's lived there for some time. When it was a family run business, they produced way less or had far smaller output. Now the plant is operating twenty four to seven, so obviously dust is always in the air. All right, it's the perfect storm. You've got people living near a major quarry. There's going to be issues, but it's certainly something that should be looked at. Eight double two three double o double is the number the ring. Frank Pangalo has called in, Frank, you've got a comment on the quarry.
Well, I have, and also in your last quarter. He doesn't know what he's talking about. You know, dust created by gravel quarries, who is considered respirable crystalline silica and stays have shown a strong link between these particles and health effects like silicosis, pole monary disease, lung disorders, hearty miscarriage and all this. And they have got recent testing. The residents did go out and collect some dust that that had gathered and had a test and found that the levels of the dangerous silica have actually increased since their last test. And it is hazardous and it is toxic because it does affect your health. Unless you go there yourself grain like I did myself. You just aren't able to comprehend the scale of the fugitive dust problem that exists here and it's been created by the constant mining of the materials by adby. The residents don't want the quarry shut down. They actually want the quarry to conform to their license and reduce the amount of dust. It is appalling grain If you had to wake up every day and had to clean your house out of this dust and you don't know what's in it, you couldn't live there. And the fact that the government want to build another seventeen hundred new homes in the shadow of that quarry without Lincoln people. What's going on there is just outrageous.
So are you happy with the reaction of the government so far?
No, not at all. They in fact, they are turning a wilful blind eye to all this. And we're talking about the EPA, the Health Department, and Minds and Energy and these people have been complaining for the last couple of years, maybe even longer, and the problem is getting worse and they are just turning a blind eye to it because they need those materials for all those building projects, the roads that are the duplication of the main South Road, the North South Corridor. They need those materials for that building project and just talking about that grame. You know they're going to build these tunnels for the North South Corridor. Ares an issue in New South Wales with tunnels where workers have been exposed to this dangerous silica dust and now the government are going to have to look at mitigating that problem when they start digging those tunnels.
Thanks, thanks for your input today. Frank called in over the quarry issue at Selex. Are you a resident? Are you concerned or you live there and it doesn't bother you either way, we'd love to hear from you. Eight double two three double DOUBLEO. Gwenda, Good morning, Good morning Graham.
And you were talking recently just before about nineteen.
Fifty four, Ah, the Royal tour.
Oh well, I've got very strong memories of nineteen fifty four, not because of the earthquake. First of all, we had the earthquake.
That's right.
And then I was doing my final apprenticeship at dressmaking in Hyde Street and I was racing from Hyde Street through the Adelaide Arcage to go to John Martin's to buy some more material and this very very smart man and woman stopped me and said, can we speak to you for a minute? And I said, oh, I'm sorry. I said, I'm on my lunch, and they said we won't take long. I said, all right then, and they asked me what did I think of royalty. I said, ah, I grew up with them. I said, Princess Elizabeth, and I said, Princess Margaret's the same age as me. And so then they asked me a couple of more questions. I said, look, I must go now because I had no idea who they were. And so ten days later I got this beautiful letter addressed to me, and it was from the to go to the Gothic Ball with the Queen Elizabeth and well Princess Elizabeth, and it was just beautiful. I still have the invitation and as up on a board in my study. And also in July I was married, and July the seventeenth.
So fifty four a big year for you.
It was a big year for me.
Lovely memories.
And when the black limousine came to pick me up, most of the street were there to see me all dressed up well, and I made a long blue lace evening gown, and oh it was just beautiful. So I thought, I've got to say something to you about I'm.
So glad you.
And I enjoy your morning talks too, So thank.
You, thank you, thank you for calling up Gwenda with memories of ninety What a big year it was for Gwenda with a with the earthquake and Adelaide, the royal visit getting married. Dear Idea, you would never forget that. On this actual day, the royal progress through Adelaide was attended by an estimated three hundred thousand people. In the afternoon, the Royal couple were taken to the races at Morphotville and to the Adelaide Oval for a cricket match between country teams. During the following week, the Royal couple visited Whaler and Port Lincoln, saw children to Wavell showgrounds, visited Rendmark and the Queen open Parliament. So if you were at any of those events the royal tour of nineteen fifty four or know of them, maybe your parents regaled you with stories of the nineteen fifty four visit of the royals, the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to Adelaide. We'd love to hear them. Eight double two three doublelow double oh is my number to ring memories. It's eighteen minutes to ten. This is not such a happy memory, or it won't be I was talking about earlier. Every year, twenty fifth of March is Say Their Name Day. It's a coming together to say the names of treasured babies and children who have been loved and lost, to honor their memory while highlighting the profound impact of each of these deaths. A beautiful concept, but this year in Adelaide, it comes with a dark side and a community call for help. I read out a social media post a little bit earlier from the Red Tree Foundation to tell us more about it. Is Carry Langdon Sids and Kids essay, General manager, Carry, Good morning to you, thanks for joining us today.
Good morning, Graham.
Tell us the story of the hardship face because of some cruel theft.
Yeah, we're really disappointed. We recently ordered some volunteer T shirts in the preparation for our Say They Name Day commemorative walk, so our coastal walk on the thirtieth of March, and it was taking a long time, and we thought, yesterday, okay, we're going to follow that up.
Where are these T shirts?
We did follow it up and saw that they had been delivered on a weekend on a Saturday, and unfortunately someone has gone and taken that parcel and taken the.
Shirts with it.
So they've got what possible reason could someone steal something like that, particularly knowing that it was such a great cause.
Yeah, I guess.
I guess with parcel thefts, people don't know what's inside the parcel when they take them, so, you know, we certainly don't expect that people knew what they were. And the heartbreaking saw is that potentially once they have opened them, thereof no use and they've gone in the bin. And I guess the other thing is is we're really worried that the T shirts could potentially be used to represent Red Tree Foundation, So we want the community to know as well. We don't do knock for donations. Any fundraising campaign would be organized and would follow up with photos and posts on our social media as well.
Yeah, it is so disappointing on so many levels because it's such a beautiful cause and the coastal Walk is so significant, and the T shirts for volunteers would have played such an important part. Is there anything the community can do to help?
Absolutely, we know that that this isn't the case with most of the community. We know there's a kind, giving, compassionate community out there, and we are calling on a community to help, whether by providing assistance so we can secure new T shirts in time. Because of the short time limit, it actually means they're more expensive than we first we first purchased them for. And the other way that people could help would be if they registered for the Coastal Walk. It is a walk on a little ones lost too soon. However, it is a fundraising campaign as well, so if people, if we had enough people register, we could go and purchase more shirts. Or the alternative is if someone could help us out through printing the shirts or making donations, that would be so greatly appreciated.
Look, I'm sure there are people out there that would love to help. What could they do, Carrie? How can I get in touch?
Yeah?
Absolutely so.
They can go onto our website at www dot Redtree Foundation dot org dot au. There is a donation tab up in the top right hand corner. There's also in our shop, so if you go onto the shop tab, it'll click and give you a link to go to register.
For our Coastal Walk as well.
It is such an important part of honoring these little babies and children and the community coming together is really important for these families.
Well, it's an awful incident and awful thing to happen that it has focused and drawn attention to the wonderful cause that say their Name Day. So the bottom line might be that you're going to get a lot of support, a lot of help, and a lot of focus on an issue that is so important. Carrie, thank you for your time today.
Thank you Grahame carry.
Langdon Skids and Kids as a general manager. What an amazing situation. You know, I'm sure whoever stole the T shirts didn't know that they were such a cause. But if you were out there and listening, and I wouldn't have thought you'd be a fire double a listener. But install these T shirts thinking I'll make some money out of this, and then how to look and to hang on these a save the Name Day t shirts? What could they possibly use for? I'm sure if you got in touch with the Red Tree Foundation and said I'll leave them at a certain location and go away, everyone will be happy. But you know, other than that, if you can support the Red Tree Foundation, please do so. It would be most appreciated. Eight double two three double O double. If you want to comment on that or anything we've been talking about today, give me a call.
Is Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Eleven to five, Double A on a Wednesday morning. Well, it appears there'll be no compensation for thousands of York Peninsula businesses and residents hit by that almost twenty hour blackout last week. State Energy Minister Tomkinson Turna says Electronet and say Power Networks don't have to pay any compensation to all those people hit by the huge blackout, you know, almost going for a day. It's caused outrage and concern among your peninsular residents, not surprisingly. And Fraser ellis Member for Nurunga, who joins me in our Fraser, good morning to you.
We Grant, thanks for having me.
So you're not at all happy with the government reaction.
Assuming well not government reaction to be fair, the reaction from Electronet and to lesser degree SPN, who you are responsible for the maintenance, maintenance and supply of our electricity, that they don't appear to be compelled to do any remediation or compensation seems a bit of a gap in the system to me, and I know that a lot of constituents assuming about that as well.
Yeah, I mean we had people ring this program and they've just gone out to the supermarket. Somebody'd spent two hundred and eighty dollars and a lot of perishable goods lost the lot. So they're not getting anything as compensation for that, not.
As it currently stands. But I undertake to do my best to either commitce Electronette to make an extraordinary compensation payment and lieu of that, hopefully the government step stuff and in lou of that, I'll consider other other opportunities I have to retroactively expand the compensation scheme.
Would you have any concept of what losses were incurred by York Peninsula residents.
Well, I've talked to a large number of businesses and there're certainly all that I've talked to are in the thousands and some in the tens of thousands of dollars they've lost through a stock and stocks had to be discarded and trade that's been missed out on and rescheduling of appointments and whatnot. But it all goes right the way down to people that rely on refrigerated medication to certain treatments who have had to either make emergency ashes to somewhere with power or discard that vital medication worth you know, sometimes hundreds of dollars. So there's all different sorts of people that are out of pocket, and it's through no fold on their own, and I don't think that they ought to be the ones that are bearing the cost of it all.
I'm sure some residents and businesses have a private insurance that would cover that, but there are a lot of people that wouldn't have any coverage.
There are, and I have spoken to one business or heard one business speak about how it shouldn't be beholden on them to put in the insurance claim and drive their premiums up and sort of adversely affect themselves that way when they had their house and order, all their machinery is operating well, and all their practices were in place, and it's through no fold on their own that are out of pocket. So some might be able to claim insurance, but there is a scheme for this for service delivery failures. Why it's not extended to transmission delivery failures, I'm not so sure. And that's what I'd like to get to the bottom of.
What did you make of the reasoning for why the blackouts occurred.
I thought it was an absolute fast to be unestcram at the risk have been to asymbolic. The idea that we could be reliant on rain to clean our electricity system when we live in the dry estate on the driest continent in the world is an absolute fast. I know for a fact that there has been proactive cleaning measures that have been in place over the past years, and I don't know whether they have still continued, but I'd like to get to the bottom of that. And if they aren't sid when place they order be every January, they should be cleaning insulators because they know that it's going to be hot and dry for an extended period and we shouldn't be put at risk of our power going out again.
Have you approached Electronet.
I've talked to Electronet representatives informally, but it's certainly on my list of things to do this week, and to approach them in a formal, written way to see if they'll extend a generous compensation offer and if not, we'll consider what's next.
Yeah, So what would you just look to the government to introduce introducing some form of legislation to cover situations like this.
Well, I'll certainly consider doing that myself, pramif need be. If we can't find any generosity and good will from Electronet or Electronet or government, then we'll sort of transford actions through legislative means. But in the first instance, it would be nice if the powers to be recognized the inconvenience that we've been subjected to and the extremely long delay that we hadn't putting it back on the power that is, and came to the party of their own volition and that will see.
What we can do. Yeah, And that is part of the issue, isn't it The length of the blackout and when it wasn't like an hour or two, you know, almost twenty four hours.
I mean that is crazy, absolutely insane that in this agent there a whole host of other problems that came with it that need to be investigated. I know, for us in Kanana, at about midday, the phone power ran out of juice and there was no phone calls coming in and out.
Oh right, so we were.
Completely cut off from the world and it was a hot day. And I know cefestis here. They no longer have the pages they're reliant on the phone system to get called up as well. So if they had been a fire starter, was in all sorts of discording and getting.
In the perfect storm, any serious injury or something like that and nobody being able to notify anyone, it could have been a whole lot worse. Well, they certainly need to take steps, as you say, this idea that they rely on rainfall to keep the dust off their components in this era, in this age is in the dryer state that has regular drafts, is relying on you know, that's ridiculous.
Absolutely absolutely outrageous, I think, and I don't think it's color mustard with the people milet.
For either Fraser of us, thanks for your input. I'm sure the residents of Ki not Ki from your pininsa will be keen to see how you achieve what you're aiming to achieve. A statement from the Minister for Energy Tomkinson turnus the Minister has been in regular contact with the Member for Narrangar throughout the outage and shares his frustration on behalf of his community. The Southastralian Government recognizes the impacts these events have had on affected how and businesses. Electronet is a private company that owns and operates the state's electricity transmission network. Following the decision of the previous Liberal government to privatize our electricity system, we have some serious questions that we are asking Electronet on how the situation occurred and what could have been done to prevent it. In this instance, it was a transmission fault, not a distribution fault. This means that no regulated compensation scheme applies. Individuals or businesses who suffered loss or damage may be entitled to compensation through their personal insurance. However, the Member for Narranga can rest assured. But the South Australian Governor is seeking answers from Electronet as to why the situation occurred and what measures were undertaken to manage this. That's a statement from the Minister for Energy, Tom Kutson Turnas, who was unavailable to come on to chat with us. Look it's in the hands of Electronet effectively then, and it would seem to be a great public relations exercise if they said, look, you know, we can see that we are not perfect, that hasn't operated the way we would hope. But to hide behind legalities and say no compensation will be paid. Leaves a nasty taste in the mouth, and you can understand the dissatisfaction. It's not like our power is cheap. It's not like you to say how at least the power is cheap. It is ridiculously priced and not going to head south anytime soon. So electronet, it's over to you. We'd love to hear from you. Eight double two to three double, give us a call. I'd love to hear from you now. After the news at ten older Australians in dental crisis. It appears older people are in a situation where they can't afford regular dental care. They're using the hospital system to get care when they really need it. Of course, the overburdened, over choked hospital system. We're going to find out more about that. And the call for footy on Saturdays to be reinstated, we'll take a look at that. From the text line, Andrew says silica dust that this mine emits was the reason reconstituted stone was recently outlawed in Australia. This product was common used for kitchen bench tops, walls, floors, et cetera. Needed to be work cut in shape, resulting in dust that caused terminal lung disease. The crux of the matter is ad Bright are not complying with conditions of their license. We'll have more as the morning progresses back shortly five Double Ay Mornings with gram Goodings. Good morning to you, Welcome to the second hour of the show. It's eight minutes past ten, five double A on a Wednesday morning. Well a burst water Maine is causing traffic chaots for morning commuters in Campbeltown. Trivers are facing significant delays after the main burst near at the corner of Lower Northeast Road and Gorge Road early this morning. SA Water Cruiser on the scene working to repair and restore water supply to the area. SA Police are on the scene to keep traffic flowing. This estimated water will be turned back on around three point thirty. If you're on the scene around the scene and would like to tell us what is actually happening, I'd like to hear from you. Eight double two to three double O double oh is my number. Fears that age dental care is in crisis and there's a call for a senior's dental benefit scheme to help stop thousands of older Australians ending up in our hospital system unnecessarily to tell us about it. To Australian Dental Association Vice president Angie Nilsen, Angie, good morning to.
You, good morning.
Just how serious is the situation for older Australians.
Well, at the moment, we've got sixteen thousand seniors that have been admitted TOSS for preventable dental conditions and that's set to increase by forty two percent if we're not going to do anything about it over the next five years. We've got four point two million older Australians in Australia, so it's a huge amount of our population that we need to manage.
Why are they not going to see a regular dentist? What's the situation there?
There's several barriers. Some of it is a financial burden, some of it is actually accessing care. So the point of the Senior Dental Benefits scheme is to help produce that financial burden and give people the option to go through other public or private dentists either way, to be able to access care and get to the problem before it gets to the point that they need to go to the need.
Well, I guess the problem with any dental issue or a lot of health issues. The longer you leave it, the worse it gets. So what could be fixed in a minor and simple way gets to be a major issue.
That's right, And the longer it's less the more complex it can be. But there's also quite significant links between oral health and general health, especially when you get to older people. So the situation with older people who get to hospital admissions is that they're at more risk of something like aspiration, pneumonia, and these things could potentially be fatal. It's really important that oral health is addressed early.
So you're calling for a senior's dental benefit scheme, how would that work?
So this is the same sort of way that it would work like the child dental Benefits scheme, and it comes off of that Dental Benefit Sact where it would be caps are just over a thousand dollars over two years, and it would be focused on prevention and that would be means. So it would be for concession card holders I've seen as city cards and healthcare card holders.
So it's a good concept. Is it been presented of the government, Do they have any thoughts about it?
It has been presented and we've talked about it. At the Senate Inquiry to dental Access. We've talked about it, it's been mentioned in the Royal Commission as a key recommendation. So we'd really look forward to speaking to the Health Measer of the new government about how it is possible to actually make it happen.
Would you say it become part of medicare.
I think it's a tricky thing when you talk about dentic care as a whole, and understand the Greens want it to go entirely to have dentistry for everyone. However, targeted schemes are going to help the most vulnerable people and make sure that we're using resources appropriately to cost up for dentistry. It was a really wide range of billions of dollars for the entirety, and having been an HS dentist myself in the UK and seeing how it does not work, finding it making sure it was working for the most vulnerable winner societs is going to be really important.
Thank you, Angie. That's Andrei Nilson, Australian Dental Association Vice President. Joining us now is Patricius Barrow, CEO of the Council on the Aging Australia. Patricia, what are your thoughts.
I can only echo what Angie is saying, and the question is that you're raising the fact that sixteen thousand people older people have ended up in hospital. When you think about the stress that hospital's under, it's crazy. And we need to make sure that older people can afford to go to the dentist. And that's what older people tell us, that they can't afford it, and so they put it off and then they end up in a much worse situation. Good oral health so fundamental to our health and wellbeing. We just need to see this senior dental benefit schedule introduced and make sure that people can go to see the dentist when they need to.
Are yes, that figure sixteen thousand older people admitted to hospital for urgent treatment, and it's expected that figure will increase to forty two percent. I mean, they are alarming numbers.
They really are alarming, and I think we need to put a stop to it. We know that there's four in ten older Australians, both who are particularly on lower incomes, who just skip going to the dentist because they can't afford it. They might end up going to the public dental system at state level, which generally by the time even by the time they've got there, they might have waited for twelve months and it's an emergency, so you can see how it happens that people end up in hospital, but with distress that the hospital system's under and it's not good for anyone to be in hospital if they don't really need to be there. So we need to make sure that we've got affordable dental care for older people to use when they need to.
Thanks for that, Patricia, Patricia S Burrow, CEO of the Council on the Aging. Are you an older person, have you put off having dental treatment because you can't afford it or you're concerned in some other way, let's know your feelings about it. Eight double two three double o double oh. But huge numbers. Sixteen thousand older people admitted to hospital for urgent treatment of painful dental issues in the year twenty twenty two to twenty three, and that is expected to increase by forty two percent to twenty two thousand, six hundred and thirty by twenty seven twenty eight, and the number will continue to expand and grow as so Australia's population gets older. So it would appear that now is the time to introduce a senior's dental benefit scheme. It will be interesting to see with a federal election coming up, whether either the government, the current government or the wannabe government the coalition will put that forward as part of their program. What are your thoughts? Let me know? Eight double two to three doubleow is the number to ring from the text line. Andrew says. The technical fault causing the eight day space mission to be extended in nine months was Joe Biden's administration, who called off their retrieval before the election due to Illon's close relationship with Trump. There's always a political angle, isn't there? Yep, might be close to the truth. But an exciting time this morning when the crew splashed down, and how did the lead up go?
We're going to stand by for splashdown located in the Gulf of America.
Off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, and splashdown crew nine.
Back on Earth.
Yeah, just going away for a week, dear see. And nine months later they returned. Here's astronaut Caadtie Coleman.
Even though it was time to leave, I'm sure that it was hard to leave the space station and I mean, it's fun and that you're floating around. There's butch always it's great, there's such good work to do. It's not a rescue mission, it's just a normal return. And at the same time, I know they're going to be really happy to see their families, There's.
No question about that. What are your thoughts? Would you like to go into space? Everyone's dream, I mean Andy Thomas, Adelaide, boy man, astronaut, what he achieved, space walk and so forth. Every child's dream is to do something unique, and walking in space would be that. But could you imagine that? What are your thoughts? Would you go to Mars? That's Elon Musk's wonderful dream to set up a colony on Mars. Unfortunately, everything I see about Mars is not a place that I put on my holiday calend. Certainly not a place I want to go and spend the rest of my life. I've sat on this show numerous times. The worst day on Earth is going to be way much better than the best day on Mars. It's a quarter past ten, five double A five double.
A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Nineteen past ten on a Wednesday morning. Hopefully find you well, Jay, says, I wonder if the two astronauts will be getting a living away from home allowance to the past nine months. There's a question what it would be the situation when you sign up for a trip to wherever, to the moon or space or whatever. What are the conditions if something goes awry? And who would have anticipated they instead of spending a week, ended up spending nine months away. Ellis says, good morning Graham, Ella of Modbury Here, I'm so over every time there is any problem with electricity in this state. The current government's reply is that the blame goes to the previous government for privatization. They conveniently omit the reason that they were forced into the situation because they the labor government, put our state in a position of near bankruptcy. Tom, you lose all credibility by your comments. See it would be refreshing for politicians owning up when they make a mistake and they wonder why that we have no confidence in them. Nick says, here we go again, blame the other one. Thank you for that, Nick Lee, Good morning, Yes.
Good morning Graham. Yes, I'm mentioning about the dentistry department. Oh about a week ago, I've had two teeth pulled out, and I'm a single pensioner, and anyway, it cost me eight hundred and eighty dollars for the two only because I wasn't covered for dental, only just for hospital. Now, if I was covered for dent, if I would have put that in, it would have I had to wait a year, one whole year before I can get any money, you know, like that percentage back. So I thought, no, I need it because I was in pain for two years and I couldn't take anymore. So anyway, the thing is this, it's all right for all these CEOs to mention how they're doing this and doing that, but nothing ever gets done.
It's very little talk, talk talk.
It's about time someone did something. And also the dentistry, why is this so dear, that've been in business for years? Why why so dear?
I know there's nothing cheap in dentistry, is there?
No?
There isn't.
I mean, the doctors you can more or less well, you can cope with. Plus you've got your different things in that charge of the But dentistry it stays their bang just like that. You either take it or leave it. So of course it's true what they say, if you don't do something about your teeth, you will that your health will go down, and which it has. It does do that, But then what do you what do you do? Do you just leave your teeth go in, which we do, and then it gets worse, that's true. And then what and then they say, oh, dear, dear, dear, you need to have something done about that. Yeah, thanks to you that you charge so much. That's now I've got to go and do it.
Good on your lee, thanks for voicing your opinion. That comes on the back of a call for a senior's dental benefit scheme to help snop thousands of older Australians ending up in our hospital system unnecessarily. And that's where older Australians are having to go because they literally can't afford to go to the dentist at the current rate. New data released by the Australian Dental Association shows sixteen thousand older people or a minute to hospital for urgent treatment of painful dental issues. The ADA expects that figure to increase by forty two percent to twenty two thousand, six hundred and thirty by twenty seven twenty eight, and that number is only going to increase. There's no question about that, Peter says GG. If they get compensation for power outage, won't that just go on top of our power bills? The taxpayer pays for everything. Thank you for that, Graham. Can you find out Electronet's operating profit for the last year for the listeners to get some perspective on compensating customers for their losses. Well, what I can tell you is Electronet is a private company. Therefore they not beholden to declare their profit. But I believe their turnover was somewhere in the region of five hundred and fifty million dollars for the past year. So yeah, your guess is as good as mine what the profit is. But they're running at a pretty healthy profit, I would assume. And the compensation bill, while it might seem pretty hefty, but for thousands of people on York Peninsula who are one hundred dollars, one thousand dollars, a few thousand dollars here and there, is hugely significant. You would think a company of Electronet size, it would be a drop in the ocean and would be great goodwill and great pr It would be nice to see that wouldn't it. Andrew says the crux of the matter is add bry aren't complying with conditions over the license. That's regarding the dust that's coming out at Selex at the moment. Ian says Hi Graham as a port follower, I didn't like having to wait last week. I had followed the scores on the AFL app and nearly didn't bother watching it. If other fans felt the same way, the advertising return would have been less. Potentially, advertisers could curtail advertising, which would impact the AFL coffers. I hope things will be different next year, a return to normal. I can't fathom the AFL's decision not to have any free to air broadcast in Victoria, which is supposed to be the home of the AFL, as well as other states where this occurs. There are probably more fans who can't afford paid services than can The AFL has abandoned the majority of followers, so says Ian, yeah, well, in your comments would be reflected and agreed to buy a lot of people would. I can honestly say that Channel seven would love to be telecasting it live, but because of the broadcast situation and the rights issue. They are not the major shareholder in the rights deal. In fact, that's Foxtell and they pretty much call the shots. And when they say we want a free TV free day or free of free to wear coverage, they will get it. And this is the thin edge of the wedge, I can tell you, because in years to come it won't get better. It will get worse unless the AFL. Of course, the AFL, you know, it's their game. They can decide say no, we want more free to wear. But it's all about dollars, isn't it. Jane, good morning, Hello, Jane, Jane, are you there? Jane was there? We'll come back to you. Jane. David, good morning, good morning.
Here.
I have a way that the government can make money and stabilize the grid. Now, the gr in the government radio network has no battery backup. These towers are scattered all over the state. How about the government installs basic solar and battery on each of these sites and hang on. They could charge the battery when there's an excess of power making the grid unstable, and then they could sell some of that power back to the grid in the evening, stabilizing the grid at multiple points across the state. They could make a lot of money, and they could make the gr IN function during emergency outages.
So there would be enough input, David, to make an impact. You think enough, you know they'd be able to charge off batteries up.
Well, if you spread, you take a thousand sites, you put a team killer WAP battery on each. Yes, it's only a small amount, but a lot of the time when our grid is faltering, they are scrambling for half a dozen watts. It literally gets that close times a position where these batteries can charge from their solar resource or and it also means during an emergency, that battery is sitting there waiting to hold that emergency network up, which at the moment we're all told you know the GRN. If you've got one of those pages, well they fall over because they're normally not battery backed up. Oh and have your mobile phone during an emergency, Well, yes, your mobile phone being charged is wonderful, but when every towel within range of you has no battery backup and has no grid power, your mobile phone is a very useful toy for playing games like Snake Good David, I think.
You should become an advisor to the government, to the opposition or whoever about power and the like, because they always come up with some very novel and often very practical ideas, and I think we need to consider every conceivable aspect of it, don't you. Jane, Good morning?
Hi Graham, can you hear me this?
Tho?
I hear allowed and clear.
Sorry about that comment about dentistry. I mean, firstly, how naive and remiss it was when Medicare was established that dentistry was not incorporated. It's a well known fact that if you have dental issues, that can lead to fairly serious general health issues. So that's a megaphopa or way back in the eighties. But secondly, you know, I was actually at the dentist on Monday, and I was chatting away, and I know, I know the dentist and I was chatting away, and basically it customs re quarters of a million to establish their clinic with all their equipment and the running, and they had to take out a very substantial ten year business loan, which they're getting they end up paying. But when you look at the equipment that they have, which is extraordinary, far more than a GP has, and when you look at the staffing that is required. I mean, yes, it's horrifying how much it is, but it is a business and at the end of the day, they are providing a vital service. So I do think you know, there needs to be a completely vamp of many care and most certainly the children and the elderly must be must be teaked in, whereby those that cannot afford can indeed be looked after.
Oh look, you make some good points there. Thank you for that, Jane. Look stay on the line because you will have one a Wallace Cinema's Family Pass. Catch a movie this week at Mitcham Piccadilly, Mount Barker or no longer possessions visit Wallace dot com dot au. Thank you for that, Jane, you made some very valid comments. And yet the cost of setting up a practice we had to call us saying, you know, effectively that dentists are sort of ripping off people. How can they justify charging huge amounts. But to set up a dental practice is a very expensive exercise. The equipment, the chair, so many things and all the tools and things they use the same with the GP to set up a practice. It is a business, after all, and I don't know, and I'm not just going to automatically fend them here, but I don't know that you could really accuse them of ripping off the populace. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double o double Oh. We're going to take a break for news headlines. Then the fans call for free the Wear Saturday Footy to be reinstated. What are your thoughts? Will it ever be restated? We'll ask the question coming up after news headlines.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Twenty seven to eleven, five double A on a Wednesday morning. Frank on the text line says, morning, gg. I can tell you that some of the privatization was started by the previous labor government. I work for the government and one year after the Libs got in, we were told we were being privatized. And we all know the government never works that fast and it is costing double it used to Graham. The insane waiting time to see a dentist is due to all the Collingwood supporters getting to see them first. Oh, Adrian, really I should have read that first. Dear Idea, wash your mouth at rints. As the dentist would say, Hey, double two three double double the number to ring well sort of. On the subject of footy, fans of Port Adelaide were impacted on Saturday when there was no live free to wear coverage of their game had to wait ninety minutes. Adelaide fans will be similarly affected this Saturday. Not good news. But I'll tell you what. We're better off than the Vicks. You know, the home of sport, the home of football. No free to wear football in Victoria at all. Now, that has upset a lot of people, and with very good reason. And joining me in now is Ronisco AFL Fans Association President Ron.
Good morning to you, Good morning Graham.
How are you?
Firstly, who do you support?
By fire?
Richmond?
Richmond?
Do you?
Oh right? Well, your boys did all right the other night.
We did very well. We did what most people said we couldn't do. And you know what I think. I think we'll go through the season undefeated.
That coming from a team that looked like not winning a game all year. But I tell you what, you've come off a glory patch. I read three premierships. Well done and we were one of them. Unfortunately we started for I'm a Crow supporter, but let's not go Let's not go there. Let's not go there. We're talking about things more immediate, this encroachment of free towear television, losing live coverage. What are your first thoughts.
Well, the first thoughts are, like a lot of fans, it's just hard to even fathom that no free to wear footy on a Saturday. I mean, when you think about footy, the first thing comes to mind is footy Saturday, free to wear footy. And there are a lot of people that do not have the streaming service Fox Steel or Ko either can't afford it, don't have it. And just to think that in twenty twenty five you can't watch live free to wear footy, whether it be Victoria or South Australia or Queensland and U South Welles or w it doesn't matter where. That just does hard to imagine. And it's all to do with dollars, isn't it. Because the AFL have got this four point five billion dollar broadcast deal and they've got the balance wrong. And when you think about the ands A, the largest stakeholder in the game, we are the life plot of the AFL. I mean, we kept our memberships going during COVID well we couldn't go to the footy. This is the way they thank the fans by taking away free to wear footy on Saturday. Come on, Andrew Dillon, you've got to do better than that.
I see Andrew Dillon said. You know, look Round one has been a resounding success, record numbers through the gates. You know he's saying football's never been healthier.
Well, he's actually thanked the fans and haws. He thanked the fans by taking away free to wear footy on Saturday. So we do meet regularly with the AFL and number one the gender item will be you've got to do something about this. Come on, come on, the essence of footy is free to wear footy on Saturday. Let's face it. People grew up with footy on Saturday. You just can't take that away. It's just done Australian to take it away.
We know the dollar. Reality is that the dollar speaks and Foxtel has more. They're the major partner in the football broadcast rights issue and they want more people to be subscribers. If all matches are free to wear, who's going to sign up for Ko and Fox Tell So you can see what they're thinking.
Is Oh, look, I can understand, and there's a balance that we're going to get right. And what we're saying, what fans are telling us, and we're I'm just a spokesperson for the fans. I'm just a fan, and what we're saying to the AFL is we understand that you need to have these broadcast deals, but you've got to have the balance right. I mean, who's in the room there when you make the decision. Yep, let's get rid of free to wear footy on Saturday fans, were you okay with that? Come on, really, let's face it. That made it blue here and we're asking them to reinstate it on behalf of fans.
It does seem to be Unaustralia, but we know you know, you look Overseas and EPL you can't see it on free to wear television and then much the same in America with the NBA and the like. But Australia is different. I mean, sport is our lifeblood.
We are We've firstly, we've got the best game in the world. They felt footy is the best game in the world, no doubt about it. But in addition, we're the best fans in the world. We sit together with opposition fans. We're very well behaved. We are so loyal to our footy. We love our clubs. The AFL just got this one wrong and we're asking them reinstated.
Now.
Some people are saying you can't change contracts. Yes you can, absolutely you can. It's been done before. So we're saying, maybe you can't change a contract for this year, but work on for twenty twenty six unless bring back free to wear footy, because there are so many people that want to watch Saturday afternoon footy, twilight footy or nighttime footy on a Saturday. You just can't take that away from us.
As you say, the people being impacted the most. And a lot of people say, oh look I'll just pay the twenty dollars or whatever it is, so get Ko or Foxtel and pay a bit more for that. They can afford it, so they just do it. But there are a lot of people are the heart and Soul supporters who just say, you know, cost of living crisis, enough is enough. I just can't, I can't cough up. I'm just going to have to give up my footy.
And we heard from a lot of fans we heard from some fans that have streaming services, but the majority of fans we heard from with those are saying, look, can't afford to pay for Foxtell, I've got school fees, I've got mortgages, got to put food on the table. Please tell the AFL that some of us are struggling with the cost of living pressures and tell them to change their mind and reinstate the pooty so we know that people are having a tough time. And that's where I think had someone been in the boardroom when they made that decision to get rid of footy, if I was sitting there or to said, hey, Andrew, what about the people that can't afford Foxtell and Ko, what are we going to do about them? They forgot that. I think. I'm not sure if it was the dollars of the four point five million dollar contract they were going to get. They just forgot the fans. And we're saying, don't take fans for granted, Andrew.
It's virtually suggesting that footy's becoming an elitist sport.
You know what, if we're not careful and the fans don't band together and question the AFL and push back on the AFL. Here's one you can put in the time capsule. In five years time, there'll be no free aware footy on Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Put that in time capture.
Oh scary thought, isn't it.
So that's why we've got to We've got a we as the largest stakeholders to say, hey, the foot is our game. You're just the custodians looking after the moment. Don't take us for granted.
Please, Ron, you're the president of the AFL Fans Association. I'm sure you're well. I know that you're speaking strongly about this. What can the average rank and file supporter do to put forward the case for freewaware television?
Send an email to the AFL. Simple look up on the website. There'll be a you know, a general email and write them and say please restate freeware footy on Saturday.
That's all.
And the more emails they get from fans, the better contact us. Just look up AFL Fans Association on Google. You'll see we'll come up with our website. Join as a member, follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. And the more members we have, the more followers we have, the stronger our voices when we speak to the AFL. We met with Andrew a few times. We're going to have regular meetings with the AFL, and we keep on bringing this up time after time. Issues are of SEC fans, we bring up ron.
Keep fighting the good fight. We're right behind you.
Thank you, Graham ron Esco.
AFL Fans Association Present. What are your thoughts, folks? Do you say? Well, you know this is progress, this is where we're heading. I'll just go and buy my Ko subscription or my Foxtell subscription, and I'll watch all the games and watch them live and when I want, how I want? Or are you among the silent majority and not becoming so silent saying hang on? The cost of living is at a position where I'm having to make decisions on what my entertainment will be. I can't afford to go out as much as I did before. I've got a cheaper cuts of meat. I've got to cut back. I've got to keep the air conditioner turned off when it's too damn hot. I won't be able to put the heater on when it gets too damned cold. These decisions, and you know, our small pleasure in life is watching the footy at the weekend that gets us away that escapism is being taken away from us. Darren says AFL the people's game hijacked from the people. The competition acts as a non for profit organization pays zero tax. What an insult to all people in Australia, well said Rose, good morning.
Yeah, I just got to make the comment, what about the people in the nursing home, just.
Thousands of them, there's a point.
And they like to watch their footy as well.
Yeah, well you're going to have to wait for ninety minutes, which is you know, cold.
I'm not in a nursing home, but I'm just thinking of those that are in a nursing home. Sure its not the people that can walk around.
Or go and pay it, yeah, or can't even go to the game.
Nursing homes can't pay that much.
Yeah, and even if they could, they might physically not be able to work.
To go to it.
Anyway. Homes wouldn't put up a dish for them to watch the footyoln't.
No, No good point, Rose, Thank you very much for con good morning.
Good morning.
Yeah, it is very sad. The text free I phil selling it soul again. But get this to Graham next Tuesday evening.
In the World Cup.
Qualified China versus our country. Australia is not on free te a TV. It's not no, it's on bloody Paramount Plus and thousands of people you know, won't be able to see their own national team play. It's sad the way things are going.
Yeah, I think when we lose the ability to watch our national team competing, you know, all bets are off, something is something is wrong. Thank you for that con Yeah, I wasn't aware of that, but yeah, it's the encroachment of private enterprise taking over. You have to pay for everything. You know, We've had a wonderful dream run in Australia. Let's just keep it on sport. There there was an anti siphoning rule that meant that you couldn't hive off certain events. The AFL Grand Final is one of those events that will always be on free to wear television. Melbourne Cup would be another one, and other sporting events, but they're gradually being siphoned off. The dollar talks, the dollar speaks, but we have to speak too, and this is the only way you can get these things changed. As Ron was saying regarding the AFL, everyone needs to speak, you know, send a text, send an email, send a letter to the AFL saying you know, we don't want this. It's at the people's game, so you know, voice your concern. It's no good just wringing your hands and saying leave it up to someone else. Because and it's the same sort of thing with politics, isn't it. We all are upset with what our politicians do or don't do, but how much of how many of us actually do something about it. We think, oh, well, you know, when it's election time, I'll go and cast my vote, and then you stand back and things happen and you're not happy with them. You know, when you could actually get in touch with your local member, pick up the phone and ring the office and say, I'm not happy with this. What's my local member's view on such and such? How will my local member vote when it comes to this particular issue. We need to put pressure on these people because at the moment, you know, the only time there you know, there's a report card on them is on polling day and we give them the vote and then they've got a free hand for three years or so. So we need to be four years. As for a state election, so we need to be more vigilant to make sure to hold them to account. That's what we should be doing. A double two three double O double oh, give me a call.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Eleven two eleven five double A. What are your thoughts on live footy on a Saturday. It's a futy free day if you live in Victoria. No live or any not even delayed coverage of AFL football in Melbourne. Here in Adelaide, at least we have a delayed coverage of for Crows and port games, but a lot of people obviously upset. F Anny, good morning, Good.
Mor in Grain.
I'm thinking out of the box here. But if you can get a group of crow supporters or portsports, vice versa, and make a social night out of it, a person who's got foxtail and share equally how much it costs you make a night out, have ten or twelve people over your house watching Fox Tale.
Hey Vinnie, Vinnie, I like your thinking. I like you out of the box, Frank, that is good. Make a social gathering, nominate someone to and you could probably do it, but you know you don't want it to. I don't know how the length of term. I think you can cancel the contract, you know, at a month's notice or something like that, so you can do the grain. You can share it around. Hey, thanks Greg, good on your v Thank you for that. If I had a prize, i'd give Well how about that. There are folks, if there's a workaround. If your crow support game happens on a Saturday and you want to see it live, you can't afford ko, I'm not quite is it twenty dollars a month? I'm not sure. We'll check on the price of that. You can't afford it. So a group of half a dozen of you say, look, we'll share it around and for the next month or six weeks or so, it will be at my place while we'll chip in, we'll all pay for it. We'll come and make a day of watch the game, and after a few weeks move on to someone else's place because you cancel the contract. Because these days you can cancel these things. Drop in and drop out as you like. Vinny, good thinking, Alan, good morning, Hi.
Hey Graham, here go.
Yeah.
Well regards Tom Coots and Tonus Bleeping. Why the Liberals sold Etza. The reason was the State Bank and the government under Premier John Bannon, who was a labor premier, was bankrupt. He hired Marcus Clark from New Zealand to run the State Bank, who was already a dubious character. And you know, it'd be interesting to hear from a previous liberal minister, John Olsen or somebody to explain. But the government and the state bank went bankrupt. He had no option. There was no money to pay the government service as Education Department teachers and Tom Coats and Tnas keeps, oh, you know, liberal sold well they had to. There was no money. The government was bankrupt and that was under John Bannon's watch, who was the premier, a labor premier. But he doesn't mention that. So I've got a lot of day after about Tom Kirchs and Tonas and his stories.
Good on you, Alan, thanks for that. Yeah. The Electricity Trust was sold from about three and a half billion, I think, and the big ban of contention was it should have been sold for a lot more than that. A lot of people said it should never have been sold. But as John said, the state. Anyone who remembers the early nineties, we were in a parlors state. We were in a desperate state with the state bank going down the gurglar and leaving us billions of dollars in debt.
Sheierla, good morning, Good morning and Gray, and I'm going completely up the football and everything.
That's do you have Youngen come in?
Hang Youngen. We haven't had him for some time, but we can certainly try in the future to get in because he was great.
Because the tensioner is a single pension has just been given four dollars twelve a fortnight increase. Well, that's an absolute insult to any of us that worked all of our lives and me into my seventy It's not going to change.
Your life in any ways. That Yeah, I'm not going to buy a cup of coffee.
Can't even buy a cup of coffee. It's the lowest one since I've been a pensioner that we have ever been given. And this is a labor government who is supposed to be the government for the people.
I think it's linked to the CPI. I'm not sure. We will check into that to see what, but yeah, four dollars plus is pretty insulting and you can't do much with that. Sheila, thanks for that. We will get in touch with Hank Youngen and try and get him on a regular basis again because he provided a great service. If you have any centerlic issues, social Security payments and the like, Hank was terrific. He was always available, always accessible, and we will try and get in touch with him again. Lisays, good morning, Graham. My elderly grandmother is a pensioner and widow who lives in the country. Essay, she's been a one eyed glenelg and Crowe supporter forever. She has no computer, internet or email address, still cooks on a woodstove. Her access to all free to airsport is a lifeline for entertainment. Losing any live games on free to air is tragic. I will impact thousands like her. I think the coverage has been plagued by betting advertisements taking over the actual competitive commentary of the game, and this cash grab to gate keep access for viewers and fans is a disgrace. Thank you Lee, Thank you for that Lee. With all that money involved, the AFL will always put fans last, says Dave, and Kay says, coming from a different angle, one down now, Can cricket and horse racing please do the same thing. Sick to death of all of it. Oh, come on, kay, we love our sport. We do, We really do, Hi Graham, I'm a port supporter and have ko I wish I only had free to wear to listen to five double A and I wouldn't have watched none of it. Still fuming they better show up this weekend or headlines again with Kenny have a great day, good on you, Cyril. Well, it's stay as she goes. David Coosh isn't concerned. He spoke to the Brecky Boys this morning.
It's not a port idea and we won't be revisiting it at all.
It is what it is.
It is part of a plan that we developed over the pre season.
We've been working towards for.
Quite a while. That's Kenny saying it's steady as she goes with the handover plan. And he used that line that ideally love it is what it is? Can somebody tells me it is what it is?
Mean?
What it is? What it is mean? It's like boys will be boys, the sort of sentences that the things that don't mean anything at all. We might do a second segment on that one day of meaningless phrases when you can't think of anything to say, Oh, well, it is what it is, okay, thank you for providing me with that information. Lee says, Hello, very upset with the footy telecast. Why should I have to pay forty dollars a month for KO? And I only want to watch the Adelaide Crows. Maybe they'll get to a point where they can hive it off, So you is it forty dollars a month? Is it? But you get the whole coverage or you can hive it off just watch particular games and there they're you know, five dollars a game like that, because there are a lot of people who are hurting and really struggling and are going to find any impulse like this way way too much. Someone non text lines is I can hear the Fox tell lawyers already? Bill says, oh, oh that footy that we had that fabulous, fabulous idea from Vinnie about his footy hack where you get with a group of your mates fellow supporters and chip in to buy one subscription to KO and you go to that person's place for the next month or so, and after that month you cancel your subscription. Pretty easy to do, and someone else takes it up. But you share the cost and you can make an event of it, a day of it. It's a pretty good idea. So Bill says, in view of that great idea, what time do you want me to come around on Saturday for the footy? Ah? Bill, come on, come on, j says, KO is twenty five dollars a month. Now, look to be fair, that doesn't sound a whole lot, does it. Twenty five dollars a month. But still you've got to find that money from somewhere, don't you. Now, you know for sports nuffies, there's so much on KO. It's not just air ful foty. It's you know, cricket times, golf, snooker, not much soccer, but anyway, there's there's a lot of sport on there. And yeah, twenty five dollars a month in good times is not much. But if you're doing it tough, it is tough. What are your thoughts?
Let me know?
Eight double two three double double Oh back after the news and we're going to look at Ozzie spending online. It's reached record levels.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Seven past eleven and five double A. It's Wednesday, It's the nineteenth day of March. The Queen was in town nineteen fifty four with the Duke of Edinburgh on an extensive stay. I think they are in Australia for several weeks actually, and spent quite a lot of time in Adelaide. If you have any memories of the Queen's visit to Adelaide, let's know this is the first visit nineteen fifty four. A double two three, double o double the number to ring Sylvia. Good morning, hello, hello Sylvia.
Oh hello, I'm just ringing about football. I don't know whether anyone else just rang about this, but I think of the many footy fans who have supported their teams all their life, but now they have become older, they're not only perhaps unable to afford topstel, but they are physically able to attend a game, so free to air footy for them, that's their love. That's a great loss to them.
What do you feel about it being delayed by an hour and a half? Does that a peace? You would already sort of think, well, I'll just won't listen to anything, I'll wait for the replay.
Well, I suppose it's better than nothing.
It is better than nothing, but it's not not what you want.
Is it?
It's annoying?
Yes, thank you Sylvia for your thoughts. Appreciate the mate double two to three double o double. Oh the number to ring. Well, it wasn't that many years ago. The biggest online shopping platforms were probably eBay and Amazon. Well fast forward a few years and wow, how has that changed? A straight and spent a record sixty nine billion dollars on online goods in the past year. That's up twelve percent from the year prior. Where is it all heading? Well, there's only one person who asks when it comes to that. Barrierkat consumer of Lahavia Analyst Marketing Focus Barry, good morning to you.
Good morning Graham.
Is this a dramatic change or a change that we could see coming from a long way off?
Now it's an evolutionary change? Is this progressive? As you said the twelve percent increation from last year, which was really about twelve percent in total. When you take supermarkets and high street retailling together, Australia spend something in the order of four hundred and eighty billion dollars. So putting it into context for the advantage of your listeners at the moment, online represents about fourteen percent of sales across the board, which is in one in every seven dollars they is spent online, so it is very significant. Relative to that. Go back to Britain, they're just short of twenty percent, they're just above eighteen percent. So we are still trailing Europe, Britain and to a lesser extent, the United States of America. So it is growing, but it's certainly not happy the rapid impact that a lot of people thought it was going to have.
What are the long term implications for the high speed traders?
I was reading a report.
From Great Britain. I do a little bit of work for the British Independent Retailer's Association over in London and that type of situation. They believe that it will be about twenty to twenty five percent. That they've found also that in the last year online purchases one Pallen intertal volume and two similar to the Australian posts.
They're finding.
What they're finding is that the amount of money being spent on each purchase within Australia has actually this year. The average expenditure pattern is about ninety five dollars, so that's actually constrained now that is a consequence and you know, no doubt about this of the you know, the cost of living crisis that everyone is concerned about, and so it's the sort of thing where we can live with it. We need to live with it. And therefore anyone in business today, small resailers in particular can't say, oh, well, I'm only a bricks and mortar store. No, it is very much multi channel at the moment the consumers are expecting. And not only that, Bunnies was a very late comer to this data situation. It was only until recent years that you could actually buy online and transact in any way, shake or form with bunny so that they had their websites, but they weren't transacting. Now that's a very important issue that you now consumers go online in many instances they're purchased, but still and I think this is the key point to be made, with all due respect to Australia Posts, people are still buying online but collecting in store because they still like to touch the feel and the experience of insure in store retailing.
There are drawbacks buying online and they I mean, if you're buying clothes and you sort of think, oh that that suit looks good or that dress looks fine. When it turns up it's not what you expected.
That's sage advice for anyone in retail and business today to say I've got to go online and we will entrysale sales. Yes, you can increase your sales, but returns online are approximately three times the number of buying in store. So when you go in store and you go in and you try it on and you take it, well, it's not what I want, there is a very small percentage around about two percent of people will bring it back and say, no, it's not right for me. Online it's very much a cost of doing business because one it's three times greater than instore purchases, and two consumers expected I've bought online, but don't charge me to send it back. That's another cost you're going to bore. So in many instances, the economics or small retailers who are doing small volumes, it's an inordinately high cost of returns, and therefore it doesn't make it viable and their business has become very, very vulnerable to financial failure.
I know some people will buy just about everything online. There's nothing offline that they won't buy. I find that I'll buy numerous things online, but it's something like let's say a toast or a kettle, But when it comes to clothing, I really want to touch it and feel it and see how it feels on. But looking at a diagram or a picture of something doesn't give you the full information.
You are representative of the majority of Australians. When we had the lockdown with COVID and then all of a sudden we opened up and we started coming back shopping, there was a huge surge of in store shopping because people like the experience of shopping that as you said, that touch the field of smell, and also a very important consideration the interaction with the service provider, because males are very much incline well, and this sounds like it's a sexist statement and it is probably coming from a post war baby boomer, but still still today, fifty seven percent of men's were as sold to women, and when it is sold to males, a majority of those males have got a female company them and they say, well, darling, what do you think about this as a shirt fitting into It's the affirmations that a lot of people want online.
You don't get.
That type of situation. Therefore the total experience and therefore the value representation is lacking quite appreciably. I'm about I'm about to do an online seminar for a staff internal in Brisbane online from Perth now, and we're talking about customer service. And I've said to the guy, look, I'm going to say to your people up front, you should have chosen a local customer service expert to come into your business and speak to your people personally, because the one thing that is lacking in Australian business today is the word personal, not customer service. I would be far better, probably five times more impactful and beneficial to you as the manager, if I was there in person talking to them in customer service. And it's exactly what the online online purchases do not ensure one repeat purchases, three advocacy and four loyalty. So that's the kind of thing. It's transaction by transaction. We almost sound like we're talking to Donald Trump. It's exactly that transactional sort of nature is there is no loyalty online. People are more loyal to oh, I always shop on Amazon, rather than say I am a loyal person for one particular retail store rather than the other.
Yeah, changing times, Barry, always good to chat. I'll look just before you go. I drove into my local shopping center the other day and I couldn't get in. I thought, what's this long queue? And it was the queue for the Woolworth's Click and collect and they are about twenty cars in a row, and I'm thinking, how is this convenient? You can ring up and say, oh, look, I don't have to spend all the time, you know, walking up and down the aisles of the supermarket, but you're spending all your time sitting in your car waiting in the queue.
Well, let me go back two weeks ago, because the chief executive of wol Wars in the annual General Reports to shareholders said today the way that people choose to come to wol Wars, over fifty percent of that decision is influenced by convenience. Now register that you go there, you say, oh, oh this is great, click and collect and ban, and then all of a sudden it's very easy to place the order. Then you drive down and you have to wait in a line of twenty vehicles. That's disconcerting and that's not convenient, and that's going to be a very short term turnaround. So you've got to be very very respectful and so yes, there is a popular sort of situation, but what they've got to do is to say it's exactly the same as checkouts now. In many instances where its goals or walls, you go there and there's only two inverted commas manned check out. Now, people say no, no, no, I want more of that type of situation. Self serves fine, but when I've gotten for males, when I've got more than twelve items, I want someone to process it for me. Women are far more dexterious with their hands and their minds. They're more than happy to do twenty year items or more and still do itself serve. But above that it's very much no. I want a checkout check whether it's male or female, to serve me because I can talk to them and interact and then they can make comments in those sort of situations. So we've got to be very very careful about this word personal. If you want to develop relationships by all means, the first thing if you ever do to get onto the shopping list is to be convenient and to build up expectations that it will always be convenient, and customer satisfaction is measured in modules of time. But if you really want value and repeat purchase that leading to loyalty, there's got to be a human quotionent in that equation.
Parry always great to.
Chat my pleasure. Thank you, Graham.
Parry Urko consumer behavior analysts and marketing focus bring us up to speed with online purchases. Are you an online buyer or wouldn't you touch it with a forty foot pole? You one of those people say it's too dangerous. Well, more and more of us are doing at sixty nine billion dollars in the last year as we spent on online purchases.
Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Forty one past eleven five Double A hi Gg Thick black smoke behind Parafield Airport. Something is on fire. Not sure if some of our listeners know. Anyone out there is aware of the thick black smoke near Parafield Airport. Give us a call if you know what it's about. We would like to know if there's anything significant about it or not, so give us a call. Thick black smoke around the Parafield Airport area. A double two three double double is the number to ring a significant day in our history this Wednesday, the nineteenth of March, because back in nineteen thirty two the iconic Sydney Harbor Bridge was opened, and all these years later, more than one hundred is it one hundred, No, it's one hundred years later, but heading for one hundred years later, it is still still an icon and as soon as you see that bridge, you know exactly what we were talking about. Let's find out a little bit about the history of that famous bridge. From Cameron Logan from the University of Sydney. Cameron, good morning to.
You, Good morning Graham.
Back in nineteen thirty two, the bridge was opened to a lot of fanfare. How do people get across from one side to the north shore for the south main part of Sydney before that.
Well they didn't boats. Yeah, I mean trains arriving to the edge of the harbor on the north shore. But yeah, of course they did it else or maror of small craft.
Yeah right, So I would assume at the time it was a momentous undertaking and a very expensive one.
But honestly, yeah, yeah, and famously Jack Laying, the premier at the time of the state in significant amount of debt, and in the federal government basically tried to get some money back from the state in order to pay debts that were held in the UK. They regarded it as I thought we call sovereign risk or something of that nature, and Lane went and took a million dollars out of the New South Wales government account and hid it from the federal government. Ultimately an unsuccessful play, but yeah, the cost in a sense led the state to be in fairly deep debt. Not the only reason for that debt, of course, there was a depression on the time and significant fiscal fiscal problem. Yeah, the bridge was certainly part of that picture.
I assume that at the time of being built it was a technical logical marvel. I mean, they wouldn't have had the equipment that they have today to build something of that kind.
Enormously the engineering undertaking for Australia at that time and enormously labor intensive. Of course, in sixteen people died, and there a couple of historians who have written and spoken extensively about this sort of looked carefully the way in which it's done and the way you conduct such an infrastructure project today suggest that that even seems surprising that it wasn't more. A couple of those people were inquiries actually downe at Maria and southern New South Wales, where they quarried the grantity for those monumental approaches. The rest were working on the bridge itself. At Efect famously, someone survived to fall into the harbor and his mate followed him from the deck what is basically the deck level of the bridge now into the water, So there are also instances of near misses as well.
I believe it was pretty unique when it comes to singles brand bridges.
Yeah, there are a couple of There's a bridge New York called Healthcate I think Healthcate Bridge that was modeled on It wasn't a brand new engineering innovation. The scale of it was larger, however, and it was in Australia. It was certainly highly innovative and people were found the spectacle of it quite extraordinary. The two essentially that you know, the top of the coat hanger, if you like, was constructed from either side and met in the middle, and at the time they weren't people weren't necessarily aware that the deck would be hung from that arch, and so they imagined that people would be required to go up and over donkeys and carts and everybody struggle up over the top. But of course once the deck was duly hung and people came up, understand matter how how the whole thing would would work, and so yeah, the spectacle of it was also amazing people. It was enormously covered for the period that a photography, painting, all manner of kinds of representation fictions of the bridge. We're in the media all the time.
Certainly was a much smaller place then, and planning for the future, the size of the bridge there must have taken a lot of forethought to you know, I'm in a trains cross it tens of thousands of cars go across it every day. So it's still fulfilling a function that is almost one hundred years.
Old exactly, I mean enormously important to the city. Really are kind of machine for opening up real estate if you like. On one level and sort of rationalizing the movement of people. Had initially both had tram, train and vehicle. So one side where the transits to be is now open to cars of buses run across there now the other side still runs the trains, so you're very multi modal, which unfortunately we don't do a lot of our bridges in that way today, imagining all types of different modes of getting over them. We can have more single purpose sort of car bridges. But for that reason, I think it's it remains very It'll be one of I think the reasons it will endure, not simply because it is an amazing icon, because it's functionally very well disposed to that kind of flexibility and using all bodesep pedestrian, bike, car, bus, train.
Considering that the tens of thousands of tons of steel used and hand driven rivets and the like, how is it borne up? I mean, is it a huge job to keep maintenance, keep it up to speak? I mean, can we see a time in the future that they'll virtually have to tear it down and rebuild it?
Yeah, No, no reason to think to think that would be necessary unless some in catastrophic occurred. It's obviously subject to a fairly intensive, planned, routine maintenance operation. That is essentially, you know, you get to one site famously sort of finished painting it and head back to the other side and start again kind of thing that that's sort of the nature of it, but it's under renewal. It's changing all the time. The undercross areas it will often just did nothing for a long time, sometimes now occupied by commercial and retail spaces. So it's sort of there are ways in which its function is always evolving, but insteads of its actual durability and structure. I don't think there's anything suggested it. As long as we're prepared to invest in its renewal, in its maintenance, there's no reason why it would be obsolete.
In a sense.
It's certainly an icon. Thank you for your time today. That's Cameron Logan, the University of Southas not South Australia, University of Sydney, Associate Professor and urban and architectural historian in trouble getting the tongue out of the way eight double two to three double o double are any thoughts of I remember my father used to say that the amazing thing about the Sydney Harbor Bridge is when they paint it, when they finished painting it, it never ends because by the time you get from one side to the other, it's time to start painting again. I don't know if that's a true story or not, but it fascinated me when I went to Sydney, I looked out for the painters. We'll be back after news headlines and what are we going to talk about, Well, we're going to talk about your calls hear from you on what is happening on the day? Eight double two three double o, double oh back shorty.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings twenty eight.
To twelve five double A. Still looking for your recollections of the Queen's visit in nineteen fifty four, her first visit to Adelaide, not the last. You made many visits to hear over the years she was here with the Duke of Edinburgh. Any recollections, let's know about them. On eight double two three double oh Dean, good morning, good.
Morning, thanks for taking the talk. Call Graham pleasure you'd be too young. But many years ago they decided to run a lottery until the City Harbor Bridge was actually.
Fully paid for.
They run a lottery, I think it was a two dollars or two pound, five pounds ten pounds and be a weekly and that went probably right through or probably about nine insy of something.
They decided to.
Say, well the bridge is paid for, or stop the lottery there, And I'm glad you've spoken about this because I recommend that you what South Australian should run a lottery for the Australian steel and put that while I set up, would never be be about behind again. It would be a good thing for Australia. And what do you think of that idea?
Yeah, I don't think that's too bad, Den, thanks for passing that on to us. I do recollect that there was a lottery for effectively paying off the Sydney Harbor bridge what was it called? What was it? And there was a tragic story to go with that that a family won a million pounds or something like that at the time and their son was kidnapped, Graham Thorne I think his name was. He was kidnapped and it ended tragically. But yes, there was a lottery connected to the Sydney Harbor to pay it off and it would be had long been paid off and the lottery went on. But there's a thought we have a lottery that all South Australians and all Australians could contribute to to help pay for the situation for the wireless steel works. There's a thought. Give me your thoughts. Well, there's a call today to help drought stricken farmers by pumping River Murray water into regional reservoirs. With Adelaide's desalination plant running at one hundred percent capacity, we've taken far less water than usual out of the Murray. The idea comes from Liberal Primary Industries and Water spokeswoman Nicholas and A Fatty. She joins me in now Nikola, good morning to you.
Good morning, Graham, thanks for having me.
Just how practical is this idea?
Yeah?
Look, you know, I think first and foremost, we've got to talk about the reality out there, Graham. You know, and the reality in our regions is that all of the dams are dry or extremely low for farming communities across the state, and many farmers are having to try to source water from other places for their livestock, to keep their trusts fall and to keep their to keep their live stock alive. And of course we know that there's hundreds of thousands, one hundreds, if not thousands of families who are relying on rain water for drinking and they have also run dry. So we need access to water out in our regions for not just our farming communities, but for our livestock, and so we're really calling on the state government to explore all possible measures to ensure that water supply is available for those farming communities and to really be transparent with South Australians on what water is available. Now, we know that South Australia has an annual water entitlement under the Murray Dalling Basin Agreement of eighteen hundred and fifty gig leads, which for the current financial year has one hundred percent allocation, and that's because of some previously previous good rainfall within the catchment. With the Detail Nation Plant now running at full capacity supplying Metropols and Adelaide with unrestricted water, we're really calling on the government to make available any unused water allocation for our farmers and our farming communities, obviously subject to a sensible reserve or carryover that we might need. You know, the reality is is that the vast majority, if not all, of this entitlement that we haven't used, is likely to be lost if we don't use it by the end of June. So we should be making this water available for stock or to provide our farmers with at least water to be able to grow podder. Here in South Australia. You know, we have in particular, you know, the Bundalier Reservoir up north and a number of other reservoirs in our regions which are connected to the Murray through pipeline which could be utilized by farmers to ensure that their troughs and tanks remain full during these tough times. And I think.
They are connected of it. I mean, it's a great concept. But how do we get the water from the Murray to the reservoirs?
Yeah, so most of the a lot of the regional reservoirs are certainly supplied by a number of pipelines to the mor Than to Wyala pipeline and other pipelines, so they are connected to the River Murray, you know, and many, as you know, growing many of our farmers and our lives stock are in a dire situation because they do not have access to basic needs such as fodder and such as water. And by using our current allocation and opening up these reservoirs to farmers for water pumping, I think, you know, this is one practical solution that could be taken to really take the pressure off many of these farming communities.
Have you put the ideas of the government.
Look, we've certainly, I mean we're raising it publicly and I certainly will certainly be asking the government in the Parliament this week and I'm writing to Minister Close, Minister Scriven in regards to this idea, you know, and we really need it's about encouraging the government to ensure that they use their allocation of entitlement. I think it's worth remembering this isn't New Graham.
You know.
Back in twenty nineteen, the then state government turned on the Desale Nation Plant, which was at a cost to the Commonwealth, but that was to run a water for fodder program for farmers over in New South Wales and Victoria who were experiencing severe drought, to allow them to extract more water out of the River Murray to really help them maintain their breeding stocks during the drought. And so you know, we're really asking for a similar program here for our South Australian In turning on the d CEL, we should be using less River Murray water Formatropolitan adelaide and so you know, the state government should be looking at a portion obviously whilst keeping a sensible reserve for any carryover.
We appreciate that.
But really using any of that water that hasn't been used that is in their allocation to help our regional communities save to and our farmers to save their breeding stock.
That's sorry, I think we've lost Nikola. Sorry about that, Nicola, Yeah, thank you for that. Well, is that a good thought or not? Joining me now? As Grant Chaplain Mayor of the District Council of Ooro and Carrington, Grant, good morning to you. Do you think that idea has merit?
I think it has some mirror. The water is certainly issue, a major issue for anybody that's only got surface water. Just in our immediate area, we're probably.
Not so much.
Looking for the water side of it, but because we're already got all got underground water so bores so that. But anywhere in the in the hills of High rain Fell there certainly is a big issue with I've undergot surface water.
So yeah, well, tell us about what's happening in your area has been severely hit by drought. How how are the people on the land coping?
Uh, well, I'd say a lot of art coping that. Well, we've had a succession of poor years here twenty sixteen was probably the last reasonable year sort of into the marginal areas. Some of the areas further south of that these were propping views, but the our biggest native feed. We've had some donated how coming to the area over the last six weeks, but sort.
Of nowhere near enough.
So we're imploring the state government to release their purse strings and let them more high come into the area.
Well, there's plenty of how evidently in Victoria they've got two hundred tracks ready to come over if the government will loosen the purse strings and give them some money to pay for the fuel.
Yeah, no, that's right, that's what we're hoping for where which certainly would alleviate the problem at the moment. I think people's mental health would improve with a couple of loads are high in their sheds. It's just a terrible situation here at the moment.
Yeah, I can well understand. Is there anything more that the government can be doing for you?
I think they've they've had the infrastructure grants and which has been very popular, but I'm sort of and also the mental health side of it, that's important. Infrastructure grants are appreciated, but they don't need the sheep, it's or cattle. So it's certainly I think perhaps if they could see their way to putting some more money towards the freight doubs for these trucks of the waiting to come, I think that would be much appreciated by everyone going to Grant.
Thanks for that, thoughts with you. That's the Grant Chaplain, Mayor of District Council, Ouru and Carrton, one of the many areas severely hit by drought in our state. It's eighteen minutes to twelve five double a GINO. Good money to you, Yeah.
Good Baron Graham. Just a thought occurred to me before the.
Actually built the.
Watching with desalination plant and port. Saying back Colin Pittman, who is well well by in terms of water conversation, convers conversation and in acquiring order approachedly doing labor government too, it was going to be cheaper than the detailed plant putting ordering up in from Morland Territory.
Into the artesian basin and then bringing it out that Asian basin apparently runs down to just a low lindmark, and then pulling it out that area and pumpling and putting in our pipelines, roose of boars wherever you wanted to do it.
And the cost apparently was much lower than the detail plant. But the then labor government were intent on building the detail plant and they just ignored.
Yeah, tell us more about this, Gina a year come.
Come in Northern Territory, which is just basically what goes out to the ocean.
So whose idea was this?
Gina jarn Botman, he's nine worldwide as the word of wise man. He's he did all of the workman's in the surf of council area and a lot of other councils now have adopted, uh that idea. And he basically, uh, his ideas important.
You know.
Uh, he's been overseas for a number of places that are struggling for water and showing them how to do things. And he came up with this idea and the Blood State Labor government didn't.
Gino, I'd really like to know more about this and have a chat with him. I'll put you back to my producer Patrick and if you could give him the details and yeah, look, that seems like a plan at least should be considered of getting water from the northern territory, pumping it into the Artesian basin, which is accessible as far south as Renmark. Now that would overcome the issue of you know, thousands of kilometers of pipelines and pumping stations along the way, which seems to make the cost prohibitive. Is this a concept? Is this a plan that should be considered? Yeah, Look, we will get more information on that geno, because I would certainly like to pursue it and have a chat with the gentleman you're talking about, Steve says, as a rape paranoral. Longer one could get a dump for no green waste, so you could dump for free every first week of the month. I rang this morning to get my dump pass. No, it's now twenty four dollars every time you go to the dump. Another council service gone. Thank you for that, Steve, Yes, the price of progress. It's sixteen to twelve back shortly.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Twelve to twelve five double A on a Wednesday morning, soon to the afternoon, and after one this afternoon it's Stacy Lee joins me out Kai Stacey.
Hello, Graham, how are you very well?
Thank you very well?
Indeed, good good.
This afternoon, we are going to talk about a few big issues in real estate radio. We'll be talking about some new data out from core Logic today about more data about the unaffordability of the Adelaide housing market. We of course had that report a couple of days ago from the Property Council. Adelaide is the second most unaffordable market to buy in, only second to Sydney, which is just It's craza.
Isn't it. You wonder how that could possibly happen. I mean, we've always the attraction of that Adelaide, other than you know, the beauty of the place and the weather and so forth, is that it's affordable all of a sudden, No, it's not.
It's not. It's a myth, and I think it's one that you know, the state government and government's gone by want to keep perpetuating. But it's no longer true that Adelaide's affordable. And in particular today, the news stats out about the housing market look at a different a different part of the market. So the report the other day looked at the price of houses compared to the income of key workers. This one is looking at how much profit home owners made after they sold their house compared to when they bought it and how long they're holding onto them. And I think it will surprise a lot of people to hear that when it comes to people selling their homes in Adelaide, they're not actually holding onto them for as long as they used to.
It's only a few years.
And they're still making huge, huge profits from just buying a house, holding onto it for a few years and then selling it. That didn't used to be the case in the Adelaide property market. It would go up, you know, one two three percent a year. You'd buy a house, if you sold it within two or three years, you were lucky to make back the amount you bought for it, plus your stamp duty. You were lucky to pay it off.
In a lot of respects. That was the beauty of Adelaide. There were no booms or busts. So you know in Sydney, oh the price of skyrocket and a few years later they'd drop Adelaide steady as she goes and you didn't make a big profit and would never make a loss. It was just a nice, steady incremental increase.
Boring and predictable, they called it.
And I'm happy with that.
I'd be happy with boring and predictable property market.
Because the problem is when you know, you buy a property at a price, and a few years later you sell it at an astronomical price. But if you're going to buy another place in the same market, you're paying more money. So relatively speaking, you certainly not better off.
No, No, what it does is create huge barriers for new people trying to get in. If you're in, you're lucky.
Yes, If you're not, good luck, bad luck.
So yes, we'll continue that discussion, and of course a conversation we were having a couple of weeks ago as well. Do you remember the West Torrens Council was being asked by one lawyer in Adelaide who was representing some victim survivors of a pedophile, Stephen Hammera. The wester Ron's Council was being asked to change the name of the Hamera Library, which was named after the mayor, and the mayor, Stephen Hammera, had a son, Stephen Hammera, and the son was the convicted pedophile, so they wanted to change the name of the library. Well, the council brought it up at their council meeting last night and they've made a decision, so we'll find out what that is this afternoon. Will the library be renamed? And I know this is something a lot of people get passionate about. They don't like renaming landmarks or libraries. We've got a lot of feedback on this story when we spoke about it a couple of weeks ago, because people said it wasn't it was named after the mayor, Stephen Hammera and not his son. It's a really tough one because.
There's not.
And so I think it. I don't know if it was an easy decision for the council to make, but they have voted, and they have voted to change the name. Well, okay, so they will be changing the name of the library. We'll be talking about it this afternoon and we'll see what they might be renaming it too. Brilliant So that's coming up tech talk as well. And there's a new bill in parliament Parliament sitting today. There's a new bill in parliament to make try and ensure that multinational companies and these are in regards to renewable energy companies pay their fair share of tax to local councils because at the moment they're managing to dodge it. And so Frank Pangelo is introducing a bill. We'll talk to him and we'll talk to the LGA president about it as well. How are they getting around this? I think it all it's a bit on the nose for everyone when multinationals are avoiding taxes and fees and charges in our country.
None of us like paying tax, but when we find people aren't, that should be it's a bit galling, to put it mildly.
Yes, So all of that's coming up.
Excellent, Going in Stacey, Stacey Lee, coming your way. After one o'clock this afternoon. We have a serious fire announcement. Are prepared to leave. Announcement Williamstown in the South Para Reservoir, approximately two kilometers south of the Williamstown township. Prepare to leave. Take action now as this bushfire may threaten your safety. Check that the path is clear and go to a safer place. Do not enter this area as conditions are dangerous. The Williamstown bushfire is uncontrolled. The scrub fire is burning in a south southeasterly direction towards South Para Road. Woolshared Road. Conditions are continually changing. For updates, check the CFS website CFS dot SA, dot gov, dot AU or phone the Information hotline on one eight hundred three six two three six one one A one hundred three six two three six one. So this is a watch and act. Prepare to leave Williamstown bushfire. So stay tuned. Will bring you further details and I'll be further details. The news lays.
Good morning, Yeah, good morning, Graham.
How are you well?
Thank you, good Graham.
Just falling on.
From your discussion early this morning about Oldinger's area with the soil removal. The thing we've had an issue down here at Halleck Cold for many years, going back probably ten twelve years with Resource Co. Now there is a big area of land between Maya Road and the Lonsdale Highway which has been affectionately called Mount Losdale. It's a dumping ground for soil, dust and other things which has been growing and growing and growing. It is now between sixty and eighty meters high and every time there is a wind blind there's a hell of a dust storm that closed over Halleck Cold Now. Just recently, about about two weeks ago, I took the took the opportunity to have my roof repointed and repainted. And at the same time I had a rainwater tank. I decided to clean out the raine water tank. I've taken out nearly eighty kilograms of silt from the bottom of that tank, eighty kilograms which is all the same color as the soil which is on Mount Losdale. Now my back area, my back patio, every time I go out there, the tabletop is covered in this brown silt or brown dust. My chairs are covered in it, the patio itself is covered in it. And I'm sure that the roof, even though it's clean two weeks ago, is now going to be covered in a faint distinct musting of that. Again, Now they're supposed to be putting a rain or putting a mitigation plan in place. They were supposed to be putting trees on bushes all around it to improve the soil erosion. And at the same time they were not to go higher than a certain height. As I said, it's now getting close to between sixty and eighty meters high.
Well, so who is responsible for this less? Who's the company resource co.
I'm going to send you a link that David's been put on his Instagram page back in nineteen twenty one, which highlighted the problem and it's still ongoing.
Yeah, please send us that and we'll take it further. Thank you for that, less thanks for bringing that to our attention. From the text line, Bill says, smoke in the paraphil area has reduced significantly in the last ten minutes. Well, that's good to hear, and Richard says. And then there's the inconvenience of all the supermarket staff pushing their fancy trolleys selecting the goods ordered by people online. Online orders should be fulfilled in a dark store or a different store. Yeah, I would agree with that, Richard. I certainly would agree, because it does get a little frustrating when you're trying to get to a certain section and one of these giant trolleys is there and they're gradually picking pieces off for several different customers. So, yeah, maybe they should have their online shopping in a different department would be a good idea. What are your thoughts on this day? Queen Elizabeth and the Duke were proceeding through the streets of Adelaide, attended by an estimated three hundred thousand people. In the afternoon. The royal couple were taken to the races at Morfattville and to the Adelaide Oval four a cricket match and.
Nearly ninety thousand boys and girls from six hundred thousand stadium school I've collected here at Wadough to meet her Majesty Queen Elizabeth.
Of England, Chuting boy.
I congratulate all of you who have taken part in this splendy demonstration this afternoons. My husband and I will long remember your enthusiastic welcome.
Ah my husband and I who could forget that line Queen Elizabeth on her maiden visit to Adelaide, a maiden visit to Australia back in nineteen fifty four. That's it for today. Thank you so much for your company, Thanks for your contribution. We'll be back tomorrow to do it all again. After the News, it's conversations with Quansey. Then it's Stacey Lee taking it through the afternoon
Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
