Mornings with Graeme GoodingsConnie Bonaros, Bernadette Mulholland, Bea Sherwood, Kaes Cillessen, Luke Beck, Mark Siebentritt, Will Shackel, Nick Champion, Shane Johnson, Susan O'Connor, Mark Gilbert and your calls.
Listen live on the FIVEAA Player.
Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram.
Subscribe on YouTube
Good morning, Welcome to Friday. End of the week. Already, let it go. I'm very disappointed about yesterday. I know there was a bit of rain about. I did not see one drop, not at all, missed out totally. But I know some area has got a nice fall. Obviously not enough for our farmers, but still heading in the right direction, although there isn't any rain on the horizon. Hopefully that will change on the show today. All straight A's top supermarket chains rank among the most profitable globally. You'd be pleased to hear that, wouldn't you. How Stratton Competition and Consumer Commission's report has worn Coals and Woolworth's have not fully passed on cost savings due to the cost of living crisis. The A Triple C says the dominance of Coals and Walworth's market control will grow without stronger competition. We'll look into that further as the morning progresses. The nuclear debate it's going to be big when it comes to the federal election. I think cost of living will be number one, but power energy needs into the future won't be far behind. And as we've said before, Labor has totally done the renew path with a little bit of gas to top it up and batteries, while the coalition is renewables backed up by nuclear. So we're going to hear more on the nuclear side of things a little bit later on from Nuclear for Australia. The new Festival pas Are skyscraper. If you've seen the pictures of it, looks pretty impressive, doesn't it. What are your feelings about having a skyscraper. Well, in the large scheme of things, it's really only thirty eight stories. I'll look big on the Adelaide Skyline, but when it comes to on the world scale, pretty small potatoes. But it'll look great and the design looks terrific. We'll find out more about that today. Peter Dutton's call for a referendum on deportation has received real mixed reaction. We'll get a legal aspect on that and then design on that road safety challenges that older users face, particularly those over seventy. We're going to speak to say Poul about that. They've got a special campaign coming up and that is pretty good news. The boys. This morning we're talking about unusual names. I want to continue that conversation. Unusual names. When you went to school, someone you went to school with maybe you have an unusual name, but somebody that has an unusual name, I'd like to hear at eight double two to three double o double. Oh, we might have a bit of fun with that, because it's Friday and we like to have a bit of fun that we amid all the gloom and doom. But firstly, this morning, just eight years after opening the new Royal Adelaide Hospital, once the world's most expensive hospital, it's already run out of space, forcing some services to relocate. I'm asking the question, how did the government miscalculate so badly at the time. For many clinicians, this sadly comes as no surprise. Concerns about the project date back to two thousand and nine, when a group of senior South Australian doctors launched a public campaign to save the old Royal Adelaide Hospital. They argued that refurbishing the existing hospital would be better use of public funds than constructing a new facility. Two years later, September twenty eleven, the AMA, the Australian Medical Association, raised serious concerns that the new ra would lack sufficient space for pathology and clinical research. The Health Department met with doctors who address their worries, but the key issues persisted. Then the AMA State Branch warned about emergency department capacity and long wait times. They criticized the single room design which reduced overall bed availability, highlighted technology failures, including problems with automated pharmacy and meal delivery systems. Then the Nurses and Midwives Association expressed concern about understaffing at increased workloads. They reported safety risks due to poor hospital layout. The Patient Advocacy Group complained about long ed weight times and bed shortages. They criticized poor parking and accessibility. And despite all this in the two point three billion dollar price tag and just eight years into its life, the new RA is already struggling to meet demand, raising questions about government planning and decision making. Way back then, Unfortunately a Central Adelaide Local Health Network chief executive for spokesperson isn't available. We'll have their statement, but we'll talk about this more with SASMOA Chief Industrial Officer Bernadette Mulholland and essay best MLC Connie Benaros, who has some real concerns. So what are your thoughts on the new RA? Has it lived up to your expectations. I'd be surprised if it has, but if it has, let us know. I'd like to hear about eight double two to three double DOUBLEO is the number to ring. Also on the program today, we're going to preview the afternoon's Leaders debate. That will be pretty interesting where first time face to face the Premier of Southaustralia, Peter Malinaskus and the opposition leader of seven months will debate what are the issues Vincent Tazia coming into the role pretty much a poison Chalalice. I would think it's fair to say that the Premier, Peter and Malanaskus, has had pretty much of a dream run. His major stumbling block is of course not delivering on fixing ramping that will not be fixed before the next election. But he's skated over that provided other health services and benefits, but that is an issue that still exists. So the debate will be interesting. Stacy Lee will be involved in that. I believe she is a moderator and will have a chat with her to preview this afternoon's Leaders debate. What questions would you like to see asked of our leaders? What do you think of the burning issues for the state. Well, I think one of the big ones is, of course the farming crisis, the drought that's impacted so much of the state. I mean farming we rely so much on. I think the last figures it generated almost nine billion dollars for the state's economy. It provides employment for around seventy eight thousand people. And they're doing it so tough, not only physically but mentally. And there are lots of questions about how much assistance the government is providing. There's an eight million dollar resource fund to help them, but is it going in the right direction. There is two hundred truck loads of hay in Victoria waiting to come here. They need some money to put the diesel in the tanks of the trucks to come over here. What is the delay we're still waiting for that? Maybe that is a question that will come up at the leader's debate today. So so much to talk about, including your calls, your questions, your answers, and of course your eyes and ears on what is happening in Adelaide today. Eight double two three double oh double is my number. Would love to hear from you.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Seventeen past nine, five double A on Friday morning. From the text line, It's hilarious. We all knew the hospital wouldn't be big enough and was a complete debarcle. Labour couldn't run a cake raffle. Thanks Snelling. That's the health minister of the time. And to everyone who keeps voting for Labor, you reap what you saw. Let's take a call Robbie. Good morning to you.
Wel good morning, just the disual day.
Oh yes, yeah, go ahead.
I remember a company and I've never heard his name.
I remember.
Thanks to us and I had a little point before.
Yeah, and I have.
I couldn't kicks when they told me his name.
His name Ryan Neptune, Neptune, Neptune and they used.
To call him Nephie.
Well, I've heard worse, but it is unusual. Good on your Robbie, thanks for sharing that. Well was Neptune and little Neppie was his name. Let's go out to Ascot Park dab.
Good morning, Yeah, good morning. I want to talk about the Royal Ladelaide Hospital. Sure, my cousin is a part of hospital design. She helped design the hospital in Broken Hill. She lives in Sydney. The very intelligent woman. She was part of the Royal Ladelaide Hospital designs way way way back, and she said back then that it is far too small. You will outgrow that in no time. The minute you build it, it will be too small.
Well, the warning signs were there, they were by so many people. Yeah, that's exactly right.
I noticed way way back then. And look what we've got. We've got a problem. And why do they pay these design people to come in and stood on the board and designed the hospital and they take no notice?
Dead beer, thanks for your input. And of course did they listen to clinicians who issued warnings at the time of a shortfall in so many areas, But they didn't listen and they went and built. I think it was the time. It was the dearest building built in that year, two point three billion dollars. And here we are eight years later, run out of space. How can that possibly happen? Carrol says, why not ask Premier Pete why his government got the RAH so wrong? His answer, the previous government. Of course, we can't say that, Carol, because the government, the government that commissioned the RAH was a labor government. He was not Health Minister at the time, but when the hospital was about to open he was Health Minister, so he presided over the time. When the RAH came into being, Jack Snilling was the Health Minister who commissioned it initially eight double two three double do double O. Since the designs issues, since it was contemplated and thought about, the RAH has really been out of the news. And as you've probably seen and heard on our news this morning, the Essay Health originally leased out of space at the Royal Adelaide to a private consortium, but they then realized it actually needed that space. So guess what they had to rent it back and reported eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars. This is our own hospital, mind you, and our Essay Health wants to break the lease. That means finding a new home for the respiratory services currently using the space. Parliament Health Services Committee Chair Connie Benaros MLC it's called the situation unbelievable, she joins me. Now, Connie, this is truly a remarkable situation.
It's good morning, Graham, and good morning to your listeners. And I think, as Brad Krouch reported today in the other side, it is simply breastaking. Isn't it absolutely extraordinary state of affairs? But I think Grahame, it goes to the heart of the evidence given by Bernadette maul Holland and doctor Meghan Brooke last week about the planning and the lack of input clinicians had in the original design of hospital and the impacts that had then and is continuing to have on patients and clinicians today. And what people probably didn't hear from that evidence was the very ugly but accurate picture that doctor Brooks painted about how ill conceived the decision making was at the time, but that continues to impact clinicians and patients today. And when you're talking about clinicians who had to sleep in sleeping bags, who didn't have a break between Christmas and Easter because just because they were trying to make sure that that first inflow of patients were looked after they're moving furniture around to make the rooms workable, it's pretty harrowing to think that this is the condition that we put clinicians and patients under. But the least arrangement shows that it's been a problem since the hospital opened, since twenty seventeen. We apparently forgot to plan for an entire unit at the old hospital when we designed the new hospital, and then realized, oh, there's nowhere to put them, So we're going to have to, as you said, lease back from the consortium our own space to fit them. Now, I think what's happened, and this is you know, obviously we don't have access to those commercial and confidence contracts, but I think the bean counters have woken up and realized that since twenty seventeen, we've been paying, you know, some eight hundred and eighty thousand dollars a year to lease space that belongs to the hospital to a private consortium. So we're going to break that because that's a waste of money, but at the expense of what at the expense of a unit that now has to shift out of the hospital. And therein lies the issue with infectious diseases matter that's currently on foot in the tribunal. They are being asked to shift out of the hospital across the road into other premises. That raises a whole host of issues. And I will say, Graham, off the back of a pandemic as well. You know, we've just gone through a COVID pandemic. The infectious diseases unit was critical during that period and continues to be so. The idea that we would make a decision and I understand what the Minister says that the final decision now hasn't been made, but the idea that we would even contemplate shifting infectious diseases out of the hospital and across the road, it beggars belief.
That's Connie Benaros MLC, who is a chair of the parliament Health Services Committee, just as remarkable evidence and giving evidence to the committee. Bernadette Mulholland Essa Salary Medical Officers Association, Bernadette, good morning to you. Good morning, So what was the principal thrust of the evidence that you gave.
Look from the commencement of this process, when we found out that the infectious diseases services were to be offsite, we were incredibly concerned and so were the conditions. In fact, many of the conditions were in that service were quite distraught. The services, as con Binarus mentioned, is clinically multitask with many other services in that hospital and are called away from their clinics to go and see other services to provide their professional response to infections perhaps in a hip or a knee, or even some greater infections that they need to be there at a fairly quick pace to have them those Some of those services now being placed off site is going to have an impact on the efficiency of that particular service and indeed for patients and other clinical services tout the hospital. It is highly unusual that we see a service, a public service being put off the hospital site. That's really necessary for that hospital to allow for a private service to be incorporated into the hospital. And I think from our perspective, if it is correct and the ministry is now saying that there is no decision made, that the state government now step in and bring some common sense to this debate and make sure that our patients and our clinicians can provide the services that they can without these hindrances that continue to be put in place by the administration. It has been clearly said to us that this is about finance and about budgets this decision, and they have not reflected about how that is going to impact on the clinical care for our patients.
Bendadette muholland thanks for time read. Medical Officers Association. Unfortunately, a central Adelaide Local Health Network spokesperson is not available, but we do have a statement. The Infectious Diseases Unit provides valuable services for the community. The Central Adelaide Local Health networkers currently considering relocating the unit's art patient services. We appreciate that relocating clinical and patient services can present challenges and is not a decision that is made lightly. We're continuing to work through the options with staff and unions, including SASMOA, and aiming to identify the best possible solutions and new opportunities that will benefit both our staff and consumers. No final decision has been made on alternative spaces for the unit. However, only suitable alternative locations are being considered and will be fully equipped to continue delivering high quality care with minimal disruptions. So that is the situation after eight years, folks, this highly lauded hospital that went ahead despite so many people, so many people saying, and these people, clinicians, Australian Medical Association, Nurses and Midwives Association, patient and advocacy groups all ask questions of the new two point three billion dollar development, and those questions weren't answered, they weren't answered successfully and hence we've got this situation. I mean, talk about being the laughing stock when you undertake such a vast undertaking that was called a generational development for Savastralia. That's why we have to send so much money, spend so much money. It's a generational two point three billion dollar development. Generation hasn't even lasted a decade and it's inadequate. So we need answers. We need the Premier, we need the Health Minister to say what is going to be done? Are we going to tack on some add ons and so forth? And it begs the question, what about the Women's and Children's Hospital? What precautions are we taking that the same thing won't happen there? What is being done? Because it is going to be more expensive than the new Rah, how do we know for a fact that the new Women's and Children's Hospital will be a generational hospital and not run out of puff after a decade. Serious situation. I love to hear your thoughts. Eight double two to three double o hi gg Our premier got away with not fixing and should be held responsible, so says Wendy. The new RA not enough beds. The old RA should have been kept running. This has contributed largely to ramping. Premier has even stated we don't have enough beds. Four billion dollars was not well spent. Yeah, I think with the new hospital it went up from six hundred and twenty to about eight hundred beds. Don't quote me on that, but we only got around one hundred hundred and twenty extra beds. And now the Premier is saying we need population, We need more people here. Let's bring more people in because if we're gonna grow, we're gonna need more more people, and not addressing things like energy. Of course, we got energy supplies to you know, we got food supplies because farmers are facing drought. Have we got water supplies because there's just isn't enough water The desail plant has to operate at one hundred percent all the time. At the moment, PREMI, you wants more population, where are they going to go if they get sick? Certainly not the rare.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Ah.
Yes, there's nothing like talking about the hospitals and lack of beds and ramping on that to get people talking. We want to hear your thoughts eight double two to three double O double though but because it's Friday, we like to have a lighter look on the week. Two and the Brecky Boys, David and Will were talking about strange names this morning, and we'd like to hear your contribution. We had one of those. Neptune was a suggestion unusual to put mildly. But there's a lot more unusual names and Seb, you want to talk to us about names?
Ah, yes, I do. I went to primary school many years ago and I distinctly remember two boys in my grade. One was Clanston Hurley.
Hey, Clanston Hurley.
Yes, that was first name, second name, and the other was an Italian boy by the name of alberri Co.
Sevaglio, Alberio Savaglio, Albrico Alberto.
Yeah.
And you would never forget.
Names like that, never, never. It's interesting. So when that popped up this morning on the radio, I thought I'd got to share it.
I'm so pleased you did good on your SEB. Thank you for passing that on to us. Yeah, unusual names. I remember going to school. In primary school there was a girl called Melvi Stork and another girl the first name was quite sweet, Mona Lisa, but the surname was Schnitzhoffer, Mona, Lisa Schnitzoffer and Melville Stork. Now, I went to school with probably hundreds of kids, and I probably remember a handful. It's only the ones with the unusual names. If you can add to the list, I'd like to hear them eight double two three double.
Oh.
Well, Australian supermarkets have something that they can hang their hat on that probably you and I don't really care about and don't want to know about. Australia's top supermarket chains rank among the most profitable globally. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's report has borne Coals and Woolworths have not fully passed on cost savings during the cost of living crisis. The a Triple C says the dominance of Coals and Woolworth's a market control will grow without stronger competition and Alda is sort of included into that too. And what you're not going to like to hear is that Coles, Woolworths and Ali have some of the highest profit margins worldwide, second only to Canada's lob Law. In contrast, UK supermarkets Sainsbury's and Tesco have profit margins less than half are Woolworth's. And you speak to the big supermarket chains and they say, well, where you know, we're tight rain. You know, we turn over billions of dollars. We're entitled to a profit. Yes, you are entitled to a profit, but some of the biggest profits in the world, I don't know so much. So it is of concern because we feel it in the pocket and the wallet and the purse every time we go to the supermarket. Let's speak with B. Sherwood, a Choice senior campaign and the policy advisor, be a good morning to you, Good morning. These figures wouldn't come as a surprise to you, would they?
No, definitely not. And I don't think it's a surprise to consumers either. I think we've all been feeling it at the checkout for a while.
Now.
Do you see it as part of the reason that you know, it's virtually a duopoly and while there are some minor supermarket chains, they they're not enough of them to make an impact.
Yeah.
Look, I mean I think the AGEC report confirms that it is a highly concentrated market. Colgom Orworth have almost seventy percent of the market share, and they yet there appearing to be the most profitable in the world during a cost of living crisis.
What would you like to see happen?
Yeah, Look, I think this is why it's so important that we implement these reforms, these new reforms. So the agency has called on has made recommendations around regulating promotions, to introduce shrink flation notices. All of these things will make it easier for consumers to get value for money.
Something that has come up that is of concern, and I know that choice is covered, it is this thing called shrink flation. And it's very confusing. I mean, you're going to the supermarket, you look for a bargain and so forth, and you buy your regular bag of chips or your regular block of chocolate, and it just feels a bit different. What is shrink flation about?
Yeah?
Absolutely, So last year we actually ADDI fied fifteen supermarket products that had reduced in size that the price had remained the same or increased. And I think a lot of the time it feels like you're being tricked because you don't really notice until you take it home in your wholeness, this isn't the same as what I've bought before. So I think it's really important that Agacy. Hazro recommended the introduction of trimpulation notices, which will mean that supermarkets, if it's implemented, supermarkets will have to tell consumers when this is happening and to the products that they're buying.
I mean they use a lot of techniques, don't they. I mean, we know that the best way to you know, work out the price of something is per hundred grams or something. You in compare item for item. But sometimes you go in and there's an item so you're a violet crumble or something, and it'll be you know, two for I'm picking a figure.
I don't know.
I haven't bought a bilet crumber for a long time, but two for five dollars or something like that. But last week you were buying it and on special for one dollar fifty or something like that. And the next time they have a different way of packaging it. So you know, there's sort of one step ahead of the consumer.
Absolutely, I think we're seeing so many of these very confusing pricing tactics. In fact, I think across the board at Colson will Work, these promotions are making up to thirty percent of their sales, so they know it works. They know that it means consumers are going to buy more because they think that they're getting discountsiled deals that they may or may not actually be getting.
I heard one recent that they gave and I'm not saying it was the supermarkets, but manufacturer. They reduced the size of a treat and they said it was the interest and then the health of their consumers. They're sort of saying, if you have a chocolate block that's such and such a size two hundred and twenty grams and now it's one hundred and seventy, you will be a lot healthier. But what they're not saying is that you're still going to be paying the same amount for it.
Yeah.
Absolutely, I would say that if the size of the product is decreased, healthy or not, the price should decrease too, and if it's not, consumers should be made aware.
Yeah.
Is this across the board or is it you know, food items will eat or you know, as toilet rolls. Is everything hit by shrink flation?
Yeah, Look, from what we've seen, it's definitely a variety of products on the shelves, and yeah, it's I think it's really important that consumers keep an eye out and that's the way unit pricing that you mentioned before is so important as a tool to kind of assess what actually is the best value for money.
Part of the problem is my eyes aren't great and when they say, you know, price per one hundred grams, it's really small. Do you think it would be better if that was large? I mean, the price is there, and what you're getting is pretty big, but the price per one hundred grams is really small.
Yeah.
Look, I think that's another important recommendation that's come out of this report is that the age will be support essentially the government having another look at unit pricing and the legislation around unit pricing because we have and we hear from consumers all the time that the text is too small, or the fonds is more, or it's inconsistent. So you know, there'll be per item or per hundred items, the different products that make it really hard to compare.
So choice is the champion of the consumer. What would you advise us to do when we go supermarket shopping.
Absolutely, I think look that actually unit pricing is one of the things that we recommend. It's really hard when you're walking down a supermarket aisland, you're blinded by yellow tickets everywhere, and all these different scales and discounts and promotions that actually just looking at the unit price to assess which product is the best value, the cheapest option is the best way to do it.
But yeah, good to chat. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, thanks for having me being.
Sherwood Choice Senior Campaign and policy advisor. What are your tips, folks for going to the supermarket to keep the prices down? Does that super mark chain still say down down? I don't know that they do, because they really aren't. But shrink flation is so cruel. It's been around for a few years, but it's very prevalent now. I mean the way they do it. I see, like Sweps had soda water, mineral waters and mixes and so forth, a lead to twenty five of the bottle. They've reduced that to one point one. Leaders they say it's part of us leak new design, it's what consumers want. No, it's not. We just want good value. Arnot's shrunk the size of some popular biscuits snack packs, giving shoppers less bite for their buck, and you get a few less in the packet, like barbecue and pizza shapes, tiny teddies, have being crunched from ten bags to eight, a twenty percent drop Mini chip Chop Chop, I'll say in a second mini chop chip cookies down from eight individual packs to seven. The minder the recommended retail price doesn't fall accordingly. So if you've got any suggestions for us, I'd like to know what you would do in the circumstance. Are you aware of shrinkflation and what do you do to beat It'd like to hear from the text line years of health services or health services bean counters. We should never have let this happen, says Paul. I have a relative in medical imaging, and she was saying the government didn't draw on enough information in the planning process to the extent that the ceilings and the medical imaging area of the new RA were too low and they couldn't fit in equipment. Just I mean, we're going to hear a lot more of this, a lot more of this because clinicians at the time the warnings were out there. They go right back to two thousand and nine, they were warning that the new RA was not fit for purpose and they've been proven right. The new Women's and Children's Hospital has more beds than the existing one. Are the beds at the new hospital going to be used as back up for the ra so it says Alan, Well you can ask that question. I guess we'll find out. Let's take a call Joe.
Good morning, Good Graham, how are you doing all right?
Yeah?
Well thanks.
No.
I don't know whether this is your opinion or just people that are ringing in, but you're saying that if we get more migrants, more people that come into it, into the state here like Premier saying not only migrants, we're going to have a problem getting infrastructured to them. You know, yeah, I mean, mate, if we get more people into the state. The state's been at this size for Donkey's ages, as you know, you know, and the more people, more businesses, more tax and more money.
You know, what about more houses? There's nowhere for them to live?
Well, that's what I mean. I mean, people build houses, don't they? I mean, you build them.
They come here. Where are they living while they build a house?
Well?
People find places.
To you know, they find place is at the expense of other people.
Hotels, they rent hotels, they rent anything at ant Is that what they do with it?
Is it? Simple?
A So you think, just bring them in unlimited numbers. Have we got enough.
Water for them?
Melbourne and Sydney? Have you been over to Melbourne and Sydney? Lady, Yeah, hate them, you hate it.
Have a look at Melbourne. Melbourne's a basket case. Victoria's economy is going down the toilet.
Oh you've been reading the papers. Listen, listen, if you if you bring it, the place has got to get bigger.
Okay, so that's the solution to everything's just make it bigger.
Grihan, you're even a bubble. You live in a bubble.
Infrastructure. Have we got the infrastructure? What about the hospital? We've been talking about the hospital this morning and not enough beds.
Build bigger hospitals.
You know, who are you going to pay for that?
If you bring more people and people pay more taxes, taxes, we get the money for the existing hospital.
Joe, have you heard of the Ponzi scheme? Do you know what the Ponzi scheme is?
I've got no idea, mane, No, we'll look it up.
It's good about the pyramid scheme, where you keep increasing increasing the base. You know, you've got to keep building Europe. European countries have not relied on great population to increase. They have a wonderful standard of living because they live within their means.
You know.
So you're suggesting the bigger the city, the better it is.
I'm saying the bigger that the more people that come in, the more money comes into the city. Okay, And that's what happens. I've lived in Europe. I've been back on your ten years. I've lived in this country for the last thirty years, and I've lived in Europe for ten years. And mate, it's full of people. England, the UK is busting and you know what, there's plenty of money coming in. It's plenty of work. It generates work. You know, everybody here is living. You live in a bubble. You're living in the bubble.
And you can't do you own your house? Do you renting? Where are you living?
I bought my own house, lucky.
What about the people that can't afford to buy a house?
Well, ah, lots of people that can't afford about it. I've put my head down an ass up and I work pretty hard.
A lot of people are putting their head down an ass up and still can't get a house because they're not earning You've got to earn one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year to even be close to getting into a house these days. Joe, you're the one living in the bubble.
Mate.
I'm sorry.
Mate.
People live in units and rented places all over Europe. That's what they do. That's your problem, you think, and here you have to buy eighty thousand dollar harm You don't you live in a unit.
Where's the eighty thousand dollar home?
Well, I don't know, but I'm just telling you live in a unit. They have to live in a house.
Good on your Joe, you're the one living in the bubble. I'm right. Eight double two three double o, double o. Back shortly he is double A Mornings with Graham Goodings, Ah Friday, don't you love it? Got plans for the weekend. Hopefully the weather will be nice. Eight double two three double o double Oh. Wendy says, Joe needs to educate himself. He's drinking the kool aid. Glad you stood up to him. That last caller is the one not living in the reality of the situation. Our sovereignty is being smashed by excess imagination. Fact his mindset is part of the problem, Dave says, I think he sounds like I'm Okayjack, not worried about others. Dave, good on your Thanks for that, Joe. Joe, the UK is so overcrowded. We live in the best place, and in Europe a majority of the population lived with family members and don't rent like here, So there are Joe. That's just some of the feeling of people. Robert, you want to talk about names. Good morning to you.
Good morning, Graham. Just thought my name and my father's name were quite unusual. My father being friend is first Christian name and mine my middle Christian name friend Friend. We think, we think we're the only ones that are then had that name.
Well, it's nice to be called friend, isn't it.
Yeah.
Well, everybody keeps talking about friends and stuff, and every time I hear them say something, my ears pricker.
You think they're talking about you. Yeah, that's a nice story. Good on you, Robert, thanks for sharing it with us. We're talking about unusual names. The Brecky Boys started at this morning and got a flood of calls. People that went to school with people with unusual names have unusual names themselves. It sort of starts on the fact that lots of Hollywood superstars, and I think it's a great idea to give their kids bizarro names. All well and good for that, but the poor kids, the one that's got to go through school carrying a very unfortunate moniker. A Case is joining me. Now we're going to talk about the difficulty of buying used cars, particularly when you buy privately. You go to a dealer and you have some level of protection, but when it comes to buying privately, there are many dodgy operators there. Case a lesson is the Motor Trade Association representative. He joins me. Now, Case, good morning to.
You, Good morning, good to be with you.
This is an issue that a lot of people have come up with over the years. You're looking around for a car, you get one online, or you're seeing one advertising the paper like they did in the old days, and you think it's going to be fine and get a good price, only to find out that you've bought a lemon. How careful do we need to be when buying a used car from a private seller.
We need to be extraordinarily, extraordinarily careful, particularly now in the day and age of Facebook marketplace. So I think what tells that to us most recently is that overnight we've heard that and listeners may have remembered this story of Peja Yasini who bought a Masda from a private seller. It burst into flames on the Salisborough Highway within fifteen minutes after it being picked up. The dodgy seller who sold it to her and he sold a number of vehicles over a short period of time without a license, basically was given a two thousand dollars slap on the wrist. So people need to be very careful because there's a lot of people on Facebook marketplace dodgy vehicle sellers that are motivated by money and unfortunately South Australian laws and the loopholes that are there for private sales are exposing vocals.
What are the rules covering private vehicle sellers?
Really, there are no requirements for private vehicle sellers. So once you hand over that keys, the keys and the money, that's it. It becomes your problem. Now. You know, in the day and age of the trading post and meeting people, swapping keys, taking it for a test drive, you know, that was all good and we found that there was a lot more honesty. Unfortunately, with social media, Facebook marketplace, the speed of transaction and the anonymity in particular, people are taking advantage of that. So that's why we're seeing more and more South Australians fall off down of these dodgy vehicle sellers and really to see that people who do the wrong thing go through. It was only January was on the show talking about another seller who was winding back odometerous spared conviction, but in this most recent case a two thousand dollars fine. It's just a slap on the risk of people who are just trying to make money and certainly in our view, they're going to be making more money than the fines and lack of convictions that they're getting.
You're suggesting there are no real restrictions on selling cars privately. Your car and you decide to sell it and move on to another one, fine, But what about people who are doing it professionally? You know, is there a limit to the number of cars they can turn over?
Well, as a seller, once you sell four or more vehicles, you need to have a license, so that would mean that you need to comply with the Secondhand Vehicle Dealers Act. That's about providing consumers with warranty in most cases, providing a vehicle that's roadworthy and the duty to repair if there are issues that follow up. So certainly advice is in the first instance, people should always consider buying from the license vehicle deal and knowing that they're protected and that they have the support of local consumer and business services authorities that can assist them when they do have issues. But you know, it's really sad that time and time again, and it's generally vulnerable South Australians who are on a budget, trying to do the best they can to afford the best car that they can and they're just being preyed on.
What would you say to someone who's in the market for a used car and they're buying online, what precaution should they take?
There are a few simple tips they can take, and I think first and foremost is to take the take your phone and go to the PPSR website that's a Personal Property and Securities register and just punch in the registration number. That can tell you a lot about a vehicle, such as whether it has been in an accident, I written off, whether it has finance owing on it so hopefully it doesn't get towed away to you purchase it. Taking it for a test drivers is very important, but the most important level would be to take it to your local and trust mechanic to have a lookover. And I think to that point is probably one of the most difficult things in negotiating a Facebook marketplace transaction. It's also fast, and the power imbalance is favoring the seller who is pressuring the person to just buy it, just take it, and it's you know, people are very busy. It is quite difficult to be able to take it for an inspection when they're being pressured that there are other inquiries and interested in the vehicle.
For most people buying and Santa a car is not something they do that often, and they're not aware of the market value and so forth. How do you acquaint yourself with whether you're getting a good deal or not.
There are sources of information that are out there, and it does pay to do your research, so you know, simply going on a platform such as car sales. There are other websites like red book, etc. Which can provide an indication of a vehicle's value. Of course, that can be quite superficial based on the average of a car in good condition, so again you know know what you're purchasing, and that really comes down to making sure people have that information before they make the transaction, which is to get an inspection.
Great advice. Good on you for that, Thank you for that case. So Lesson from the Murtor Trades Association says, so let the buyer beware. And if you're buying online and the deal looks too good to be true, it probably will be, so be very wary. Glenn had at T. T. Gully. You've got a name for us, Glenn, go.
Ahead, brand just a quick one. And I, in my past life as a police officer had worked with an absolute champion of a young man by the name of Constable constable, and then he worked his way up through the ranks and became sergeant constable.
It would be interesting if he got all the way and became police commissioner constable.
Yeah, would have been But no, he was a lovely, lovely guy and this stilt exactly the same way. So when I first but it was constable constable, then it became first class constable constable, then senior constable Console, then sergeant constable.
Beautiful, lovely story, Glenn, thanks for sharing it with us. Ralph, you've got a name for us.
Yeah, the boys earlier were talking about the name of the hyphen Ladasher. I recognized saw an article in the tieser fifteen twenty years ago Ladasha and her sister Kai dasher k y hyphen a. So if that was fifteen twenty years ago, maybe one of the girls is listening. It might give you a ring.
That would be interesting.
Yeah.
As a former school teacher myself, I also remember the Christian name Caitlin or first name Caitlin, as I say these days, it can be spelt in about twenty four different ways I've heard. So you can start with the CEA A K, you can have an eye or no I. You can finish with L y N l I, double n whatever you want. You can do the math.
Yeah, good on your Thanks for sharing that with us, Ralph. Here, it makes life a little difficult if you've got a name that can be spelt various ways, and every time you giving your name to somebody, so is that spelled with an ira or an A? Very difficult. Back after the.
News five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Six past ten and five double A on a Friday morning, Hope we find you well, Hi Graham, that gentleman rebubble living. I can tell he has had help in material and money. Betty has never done volunteer work. He probably had worke due to being a bully in his jobs and pushing people out of work. I hear from people that visit or live in the UK, so it's overcrowded. Always need more money for living expenses and borrow for or from family members. Hi Graham, the unusual name theme. I can't read that out.
Joe.
Yeah, I've got to be very wary of these. Some of these names are very funny, but we can't read them out. Joe needs to educate himself. He's drinking the kool aid. Glad that you stood up to him. Thank you for that, Wendy. Let's hear from Maria on names. Maria, good morning, Good morning.
Grim.
Have you got a name for us, but you've got a name for us?
Yes, I have. I worked in Medibank going back seven to oh gosh, I'm seventeen, I'm six now, and we worked downstairs from medi Bate, the old Medibate, and were we called it the dungeon because we were All we did was open Marl All day and check the names out and whatever they wanted. And Helena, because it was such a tedious job, we decided, let's it a funny name. So we all called out, well, we had a funny name for all of us that listened, because there's only eight of us downstairs opening the envelope, and I reckon I won the best prize because I had a letter that said missus v dot d dot box and we laughed and laugh and laughter. He's off. And that was like a thing that made us keep going on in our job.
Nothing like a laugh to make the time go quickly. Good, Onia, Maria, thank you for sharing that with us. Eight double two three double double Oh. Names that you'd like to talk about, Names that maybe you care to forget. Oppositionally to Peter Dutton has proposed of referendum to amend the Australian Constitution granting the federal government authority who deport dual citizens convicted of serious crimes. This initiative has sparked diverse reactions and discussions regarding its implications and in fact, is it necessary. Luke Beck as a professor of constitutional law at Monash University. He joins me in our Professor good morning to you.
Thank you for having me.
Now give us some background on this regarding the core. I mean, it seems strange, we know what Australians think about referendums to start with that an opposition leader would go to the extreme suggestion of saying he'll call a referendum to amend the constitution regarding a deportation of dual citizens.
Yes, it's kind of a strange sort of comment. It just sort of popped out of nowhere. It's not clear what put this on the agenera. Just something he said one morning, but just taking a step back. So, dual citizens are people who have more than one citizenship. They're an Australian citizen and they're a citizen of another country as well. Lots of people are dual citizens in our country, and the law today already allows judges, allows courts, through the sentencing process to strip duel citizens of their Australian citizens ship as part of the punishment sentencing process for very serious crimes like committing terrorism or engaging in foreign incursions in Syria and things like that. So what people dotted is saying can already happen duel citizens to engage in terrorism can already be stripped of their Australian citizenship and therefore deported. The difference is this, At the moment, the law says that only courts and judges can do that part of the sentencing process, as part of the punishment for crime process. Peter Dutton wants government ministers politicians to be able to impose that punishment without the courts. And there used to be a law that said that that government ministers can take away people's citizenship if they engage in terrorism. And that went to the High Court and the High Court said no, no, no, guys. Remember the separation of powers. You might remember separation of powers from school. Only courts can impose punishment for criminal wrongdoing and taking away someone's citizenship as punishment, that's punishment, and only courts can impose punishment through the sentencing process. So politicians cannot do that. And so in response to that High Court decision a couple of years ago, Parliament passed the law and pitted up and was in Parliament at the time and he knows this. Parliament passed the law saying okay, well, then judges, courts can take away people's citizenship as part of the sentencing process to terrorism. So if you're a dual Australian citizen and you commit terrorism, odds are you're already going to lose your citizen And but of course we don't actually have that many terrorism incidents in Australia right, And of it's kind of this is sort of like a state politician, a state premier, state opposition leader sort of draw in order, tough on crime sort of rhetoric, but doesn't really connect to any real world issues because we can already do it through the court.
If this amendment was to go through and the Constitution was to be changed, would it impact us internationally we're regarding our commitments with other countries.
Well, well, firstly, it's never ever going to happen, like this will never come to a referendum, and there's no way that the Australian people are going to vote for. Australian generally reject referendum proposals, and the idea that the Australian public is going to say, yeah, let's get rid of the separation of powers is just not going to happen. And I don't think that the Liberal parties are going to adopt that mcaulia cash the shadow like that Tony General has already sort of walked this back saying it's not going to happen. It would make us look very odd to have a referendum saying yeah, we're in Australia, don't suport the separation of powers.
So I mean yeah, so from a legal point of view, it's just not going to happen.
Well, from a political point of view, it's not going to happen. So legally, theoretically, technically you can change the Constitution to have its say whatever you want. If the going people want to get rid of the separation of powers, well that can happen. But politically, of course that's never going to happen.
Right, Well, thank you for putting in the picture. And I think probably it'd be fair to say that Peter Dutton would regret that thought bubble. That's Luke Beck, Monash University, Professor of Constitutional Law. It's twelve past ten to five double A. From the text line, I've got to be so careful about reading out these name stories. I've just got to look through very carefully. I knew someone that called their little girl Crystal, and her surname was Crystal Crystal. No Christy was the surname Crystal Christy. Thank you for that. That's safe a big story. NAWMA rubbish contractors have walked off the job for a fourth time this week. This stoppage means residents rubbishmans will not be emptied effective from yesterday until the thirty of the March. NAWMA or Norma trying to get replacement rubbish truck drivers from Victoria, New South Wales. This is ludicrous. The stoppage will affect five council areas around Adelaide. Thank you for that, Adam. It would be good to know what council areas will be affected and whether the residents are notified because going until March thirtieth before you've been, particularly this time of year when it's pretty warm, bins could get very, very smelly and unhealthy.
Better.
I spent ten grand on a car just after the warranty finished. I had mechanical problems. I got that fixed, then electrical problems and now it needs it's transmitting down or transmission down. Guess what the car has set me in My sat there in my yard for over a year, going nowhere because I cannot afford extra money wasted. Kem feel for you. Hi Graham, that gentleman rebubble living. I can tell he had to help in material and money. Betty has never done volunteer work. No, that's another name. Sorry, I cannot read these names. Hopefully, Mike you've got one that we can hear without hitting the dump button.
Go ahead, Mike, Oh Graham, you're either going to laugh or cry. Get ready for these names?
Okay, all right.
So I used to work in the education department for about eighteen years. As SSO came across a beautiful family with three girls. The first one was Harmony true sorry, Harmony and Destiny, the third one in a minute. I said, wow, what beautiful game, lovely and the mom said, oh yeah, Harmony, you know, very harmonious. First and Destiny were destined to have earnest and the third child was never, Never. And I said, so, where where did never come from? And the mum said, we didn't want to sen plan.
Oh dear, that's terrible. Poor kid's got to live with that for the rest of a life. True story, Harmony, Destiny, and Never, Oh dear. Good on you, Mike, thanks for sharing that with us, Ah dear, idea, Yeah, why would you inflict your child with a name that they're going to regret for the rest of their life, or it's a difficult spelling name. There are unusual names. I remember not long after I came to Adelaide there was a VD clinic on North Terrace and the head of the VD clinic was a doctor Finger, just a little bit unusual, I thought. Then there was the Catholic Archbishop of Manila was Jamie Sin, who was Cardinal Sin. And I went to a chiropractice for years, probably the best cairo in Adelaide, Rodney Supple. What a great name. And then someone tells me they used a carpenter. His name was Building.
The Idea.
Sylvester Salone's first two children cop rather unusual names. A son named Sage Moon Blood stallone, Oh yeah, okay. And American musician Frank Zappa, who was a little bit unique. Four children named Moon, Unit, Dweezle, Armette, Emucha, and Diva Muffin. Oh dear, Idea. The child has got to go through Elon Musk's children. I won't even begin to pronounce their names. It's sort of like algebraic formulas. I think one's called X A A twelve, So I'm just nicknamed X of course as you would, and the other sibling was known as why ex a dark cider roll? Why would you do that? Is it clever?
Is it?
Do you go to your friends and say, guess what my kid's name is? And who can remember? Or mind you? As I said? With primary school, who could forget? I was in a class with melv Stork and Themona Lisa Schnitzoffer, and I've never forgotten their names. I wonder what they're doing today. If you're listening, give me a call. I'll have to have a chat with you. Let's take a call. Let that go to Morphet vale Yvonne, good morning to you.
Good morning. My jobs are just taken to bark. And now they must have known I was being.
Put through problem.
Go ahead, Yeah, I.
Just wanted to I want to make it brief, and I just wanted to bone and support Joe and what he was saying about people in Texas. Because he is Rush. It doesn't mean to say we bring in everybody, every.
Man and dog, but he was literally saying, you know, open the floodgates, bring in as many people as Yeah.
No, but you bring people in and they work and play taxes and then what we can possibly forward pipelines and nuclear and dams and all the rest of it. But it all comes from the coffers, which ultimately are Texas. So I just found you a little bit combative, if I can say that, and hold on talking about bubbles and all that sort of stuff. And I just thought I just wanted to show the support because he said what I thought. But I'm not good with words, and the first time a call because I've got a little bit thing about it. So thank you for taking my call.
It's a pleasure, yone. Just stay on the line for a second. The question is as I see it. And I was combative because Joe virtually said, you know, you just meet need more people, bring more people in. We'd be like Sydney and Melbourne and adelades of backwater and hasn't grown for years. But you've got to have the infrastructure. You've got to have the water resources. Look at our hospital. Our hospital is full to overflowing. Where are these people going to get to hospital? Where are they going to live?
I agree with all of that, but you sort of I don't want it to end up like Melbourne or bloody Sydney or these places that I get stressed going to a superbusive there's too many people. But if you start small and these people work and yes the housing son issue and all the rest of it, they pay taxes and then we can build more. We can maybe get a border pipeline and open more areas. So yeah, it's a very complex situation, but yeah, I just thought that's what I have been seeing you for.
A long time.
It's not anti bringing people in both, it's doing it, you know, conservatively, to look to the future, and that all comes from paying Texas. That's where the government gets the money.
Good on you, Evon looks stay on the line because you are going to have a family pass to Wallace Cinemas, catch a movie this week at Mitcham Piccadilly, Mount Barker or no longer for sessions. Visit Wallace dot com dot au and thank you for calling as a first time caller if you've been out there and never called up before and you have views and say Graham's an idiot, he shouldn't be doing this, he shouldn't say that, or whatever, or maybe you'll agree either which pick up the phone and give us a call, have a chat. That's what we're here for. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number to ring and by the way, I don't buy it.
Five double A Mornings with Gram Goodings twenty three.
Past ten, five double A on a Friday morning. Johno says, we don't hear farmers complain when they make millions of dollars in the good years. Seriously, do you really think that. I think it's wonderful when the farmers do have a great year, because I wouldn't go on the land for all the money in the world. It is the toughest job, most debilitating, difficult job, thankless job, and they're totally relying on the elements no matter how good they are. So when they do have good years, good luck to them, because there are plenty of bad years. So anyone criticizes them, Oh they've gone out and bought a new tractor, brought a new car. Yeah sure. I mean anyone who is successful in their business is entitled to the fruits of their labor, and so are the farmers. They're doing it tough now, so I'm afraid John O disagree with you totally. Alan says, maybe, like Singapore, we can sell off all our agricultural land and import all our food. Yeah, well that's what it could be alan if we build out all our good agricultural land. I think only four to six percent of South Australia is arable, and we've got a huge state, but only four to six percent is arable. So the more we eat into it for housing, the less we'll be able to produce our own produce. Let's go out to Boord Adelaide and say good morning, Hue, how are you.
Huya Griham?
Well? Thanks?
Two quick things.
The one you're talking about the Rah, the new one. I went through there about three or four people when it first opened a.
Few years ago.
And one thing I've picked up on straight away is the rooms for one person absorbedly two huge. You've put four or five beds in one of the rooms and to exaggerate, not far off the exaggeration, you're probably just about used the corridors to drive them and the drop off zone. Yeah, it's so big, and it's always been a question about when the design went through to view it and the clinicians and doctors, et cetera, those that were knowledgeable and skilled with the room availability and all the equipment and nurses to have the accessible access to cupboards, et cetera. Could have been much much better now. Some of the hospitals and buildings, as we know, you can always knock walls down and shift them to facilitate room and make much more the way of zones to suit the compatibility to current needs. I wonder if its earthquake or make push by and don't ever reallyse that, especially earthquakes which were so far behind at the moment, comes to fruition. We're gonna we're gonna put these people into the urhre other hospitals that don't equate to room that wasn't evolved. That's that's one thing. Paras names go, I do believe that the registration burst and marriage especially burst that can revoke names. I can revoke it stands to hideous. Wouldn't want any war villains that named after a person. I think that would be going very well within the customer young ones growing up in the years with any bad name as far as.
War villain, I don't know who you're talking about.
Yeah, so I can lack of revived debt and if you want to, you always change your name down the track.
Good advice, good on you Huey, and thanks for your input today. I always appreciated twenty six past ten five double a well. Recently ESCOSA deemed Adelaide City Council's financial or financial outlook is potentially unsustainable. The Essential Services Commission of Essay raised concerns over the estimated one hundred million dollar cost to replace the Adelaide Bridge and Torren's weir. They highlighted the pre COVID cost estimate sixty million dollars for the bridge forty million dollars for the wiir could be significantly understated due to shifts in market conditions, prices and supply chains. We had counselor Henry Davis on the program who was critical of the council. He said they had an eighty five million dollar black hole, facing two hundred and twenty five million dollar debt over ten years, no plans to replay the debt, and predicted a thirty percent increase for rate players. Certainly a prediction of doom and gloom. Well, counselor, sorry, I just can't see the name. Mark Siebantritt joins men now, who has somewhat of a different view counseled a good morning to you.
Good morning, Graham, How are you going?
Yeah, look, well thanks. You don't quite see it the same way Henry Davis does.
Oh look, I think there's lots of viewser our councils. That's a beautiful thing about them. So on the terror of the Finance and Governance Committee, I think this goes. The report's been really helpful point out a couple of things to us. One is that we look back COVID the past ten years. Really their conclusion was that prior to this term accounts, we've largely been operating unsustainably, and really COVID had a lot to do with it. It was a hard time for any organization to navigate through. But we also had periods of frozen rates and we've now really moved on beyond that and we're getting on with the job. And they actually said that in the current conditions where most of sustainable, So we've really started to turn the corner quite strongly from what they said was previously unsustainable. There's now where we are in the last couple of years so mostly sustainable. So it's heading in the right direction.
So what levels of death is the Council of Caring at the moment.
We've got very low levels of debt. We're actually got an operating surplus. I think the question that comes up is looking the future is we do have some assets that are aging. We've had as you flag there, we've got a bridge and a weird they need work. We've got some concrete and still there there is aging and it needs renewal. And so that's where a lot of the interest has been. Rightly, so a lot of the interests has been and how we're going to go about renewal of that in the future.
It would seem that you're always going to get rate players critical of the rates they're paying, but Henry Davis has suggested there could be to cover the potential debt a rate increase of thirty percent. Do you see it that way?
Well, I think there's a decision that council needs to make and that's not my view, but each council will have their own view, and there's different ways that councils go about bunny things. You are the pay for by increasing rates, you could increase years of charges for things like car parking, or we look to debt. So basically, how do we borrow money? And there's an interesting around around debt. I've been great on council for a couple of years and the argument's put to me is run inter generation equity, the idea being you don't want to hit the current rate pays with all of that money up front. So the advantage of borrowing money you can spread the spread the cost and spread the payment across really multiple generations that, particularly when we're looking at a bridge, are aware that's not just going to benefit the current rate pays. That's going to benefit multiple generations of rate pays. So that's one of the advantages of using borrowings rather than having a big upfront increase in rates, which is certainly not something that I suggest, and I don't think there's a company held do that that's the way to go across council.
So you're optimistic for the future of the council.
Yeah, absolutely, So you know, we've been in a period. I think that we've been really clear grown that we're in a period of budget repairs since we've been elected. So we're starting to invest more money in renewing our assets and we have some definitely issues to look out around the bridge and the weir, but we've got a plan in place, and there's a lot of positive things happening across the city as well. I think many of your listeners would have seen the remarkable w that's going up the Central Market Tower. I have the fortune of going through there the other day. The construction crews, the Central Markets team are doing an extraordinary job. And when you combine that with what's happening around festivals in the city, we've got declining vacancy rates. The businesses moving into the city because they will have access to the communities in the city. You know, we're really heading in exciting directions.
Cold on your councilor that's Counselor Mark seven Tritt responding to last week's sisco's a discussion with the councilor Henry Davis. Your thoughts, love to hear them. Make double two three, double O, double oh back after news headlines five double A.
Mornings with Graham Goodings twenty.
Six, two eleven five double A on a Friday morning this twenty first day of March, Andrew says, for Joe and Vaughn, with the one million people that the current labor government have let come into Australia in the past two years, how many homes have they built the answer, and it's been recently reported as zero. Good morning GG. Back in the eighties, we had two families that have been across the street from us named Moody and Jolly. I wonder if they the way they were. Let's go to Newton Mark good morning.
Good morning Graham men I used to work with many years ago. So these are names at least fifty years old, so no harm done. He collected. He had access to full names, so he couldn't separate these two.
He said.
The first one was Wilma may Bang the age. The second one was Horsed shid d.
That's close. That is close anyway, beautiful, thank you for that.
Mark.
On names, have you got any good ones? I think we've all come in contact with people over the years that have had unusual names or that suit their the job. Then, as I mentioned before, my chiropractor for many years, Rodney Supple. How could you get a better name for for the chiropractor than Supple? Well, while cost of living is going to rank as the major issue at the upcoming federal our future par needs won't be far behind. It's effectively Labour's renewables versus the coalition's renewable nuclear mix. Yesterday, oppositionally to Peter Dutton's address to the Lower Institute in Sydney was disrupted by anti nuclear protesters.
I understand that many Australians are unsettled by events abroad and implications.
I think, mister Dunnan, why are you lying to the Australian people about the cost of nuclear.
Well, that incident certainly underscores the urgent need for a rational, evidence based debate on Australia's nuclear future. And we're speaking about all angles of it on the show and we'll continue to do so leading up to the election. Joining the Now Is Nuclear for Australia founder Will shackle Will, good morning to you, Thanks for being with us today.
Good morning Graham.
Yeah, this debate gets very very frenzied to very emotional, and it is pretty much on party lines. How can we get a rational viewpoint on the outlook regarding nuclear Well, look.
I think we looked at the disruptions yesterday. The anti nuclear movement is all about shouting and slogans and not facts. We think it's really important through nuclear for Australia to be sharing facts and information about nuclear power because at the end of the day. When you look around the world, Australia is the only top twenty economy ignoring nuclear power. It's clear that nuclear power is needed in a balanced energy mix to lower power bills and ensure that the lights stay on. But for some reason, we've got all of these anti nuclear activists who have different intentions and decide to disrupt instead of actually engaging in a meaningful debate. So we think it's really important that Australians are learning about nuclear power for themselves and have access to the facts about nuclear power to make informed decisions about it.
Well, the government's big line is that nuclear is so expensive, it's going to take so long, and it will push power prices up. Would you dispute that?
Well, yes, when you look around the world, Like I said, the rest of the world's using nuclear power and they're investing big and nuclear power because it's needed in a balanced energy mix. Even when we look at the own the reporting which has been done in Australia Frontier Economics found that nuclear could reduce the cost overall cost of the energy system by twenty five percent, and there's been similar reports done around the world, including by the United States Department of Energy, which has found that nuclear power in a balanced energy mix lowers cost by thirty seven percent. So I think we really need to look at what's happening around the world, not just models, and see that nuclear power could be key to lowering energy costs and ensuring the liability.
What do you see is the biggest barriers to introducing nuclear to Australia.
Well, look, I think at the moment, it's the decisions of politicians that they're making at the moment because they're ignoring the facts, they're ignoring the science, and they're ignoring the people. I'm really happy to share with your grame that over one hundred thousand Australians have now signed our position to lift the band on nuclear power. So Australians are very clear we want have all energy options on the table. It makes no sense that when we've got a huge energy transition in front of us, which will require more energy and decarbonization, that we're limiting our options at the moment. So the issue is in public support. The issue is our politicians and their lack of action. If they want to be able to drive down power bills, if they want to keep the lights on and ensure that emissions reduced as well. We need to have nuclear power in the mix, and I think the important thing is we're not starting from scratch in Australia. We already have a research reactor operating in the suburbs of Sydney. We've got the Orcist Submarine program, which obviously South Australia is a major part of where we're training up all of these nuclear workers. And we've also got the most uranium in the world, approximately a third of the world's uranium. So it makes no sense why we would be ignoring a solution like nuclear power when we're already so well placed to take advantage of it.
What are the environmental impacts of nuclear energy compared to goal or coal, gas, and renewables.
So nuclear has the lowest emissions of any energy source, including renewables, So obviously that's significantly better for the climates and solutions like fossil fuels. But also it means that nuclear is actually better for the climate than renewables, which is a bit ironic when you see all of the people protesting nuclear because they say therefore the climate, when in reality, when you look around the world, the nuclears contributed more city carbonizations than solar and wind. In fact, it saved one point eight four million lives according to NASA as a result of replacing fossil fuels and preventing all of those air pollution deaths. So nuclear has been essential to de carbonization around the world.
Even in the.
United States, half of approximately half of their clean energy actually comes from nuclear power, so it's done the heavy lifting with their decarbonization. And when you look around the world, there's very similar themes. In France, for instance, they get around sixty five percent of their energy currently from nuclear power and they've got one of the most dec urbanized grids in the world. We look to their partner Germany, which recently shut down their nuclear plants, have got some of the highest emissions, highest power bills, and in fact, it now looks like nuclear power is going to be restarted in Germany because of the uses that there's since experience. So if we want to actually be able to decarbonized whilst keeping power bills low and keeping the lights on, nuclear power will be really important for Australia.
So why did Germany shut down there nuclear power plants?
Then well, look, I think there's been a lot discussed about Germany's grid, and if you look online, there's been some investigations which found that German politicians were falsifying evidence that nuclear power was actually really essential to the grid. There's obviously a huge protest movement with groups like green Peace and stuff which tried to sabotage Germany's nuclear power plants, and I think at the end of the day, it was really disappointing to see Germany shut down their plants. It obviously came after the Fukushima disaster where the German government decided to initially make those plans. But now with the change of government, they've realized that they need nuclear power. They've looked at the facts and they're reassessing it. And that's something which we're seeing all around the world, even in the US recently, where there is bipartisanship on nuclear power, both the Democrats and Republicans support it. There's been huge new investments in nuclear power, whether it be restarting Three Mile Island, there's another nuclear plant which the Trump administration has just put more money into funding to get restarted. So when you look around the world, obviously nuclear power has had some hurdles in recent years as a result of some of the incidents that people would be very familiar with, But when it's reflected with facts and evidence, countries around the world realize that they need nuclear power more than ever and that's why recently there's been thirty one countries around the world announced that they want to triple nuclear energy globally by twenty fifty. So not only there's already a lot of nuclear energy around the world, but because they think it's so essential, they want.
To fer the boost it.
So it makes no sense to why Australia would not even have the option for nuclear power because of our current band.
What do you say for the long lead up time, because it would be a long time even if we decided tomorrow to go nuclear.
Well, look, I think when you look around the world and you look at the evidence, the International topic Energy Agency says it will take ten to fifteen years for a new to nuclear country to introduce nuclear power. But I think the important thing to remember is, yes, that is a long time, But the important thing is we don't have time to waste because there isn't an alternative. If we are to continue pursuing this one hundred percent renewable vision, we're simply not going to be able to reach out de carbonization goals and power bills will continue to rise, so we must start to work now to introduce nuclear into the mix. And frankly, you know, nuclear power is not the only energy source or energy infrastructure which takes the long time to builds. When you look at Snowy Hydro II, the transmission that the transmission projects, the sport stamming projects which are required for the grid, they also take a very long time and they've also been faced with setbacks. But at the end of the day, it's clear that we need nuclear and we need to add it to the mix. Recent analysis found that the government is seventeen percent short at best of reaching their renewable target by twenty thirty, so we're not on track at the moment, and it's clear that with energy demands rising, with the need to lower power bills, increase reliability and lower emissions, then we need to be doing everything we can in this moment to make sure we're prepared and that means having all clean energy options on the table, including nuclear power.
Well thanks for putting the nuclear case. That's Will Shackle from Nuclear four Australia. He's the founder what are your thoughts, folks, Do you agree, disagree?
Let me know.
I'd like to hear from you. Jason says, Will Shackle is amazing. Keep up the good work on names. Gg Bergen is a legitimate surname. Again in the White Pages in the nineteen nineties there was a family with the surname Bergan living in Elizabeth, and deb from a lounger says, my guynacologist at Flinders was Elvis Seaman. When he left the treating room, I remember thinking Elvis has left the building. Paul says, how much revenue has the Fringe Festival and all the other festivals and events generated. Clearly, the crisis is not affecting everyone. Cost of living crisis? Yeah right, I'm sick of hearing this term cost of living crisis. Paul, we talked about people living in a bubble. You really don't think people are facing a crisis. Yeah. Sure, there will be people that are doing okay, that are doing better than the rest, but there are so many people absolutely struggling, So that is quite insulting you to suggest that there is no cost of living crisis. Congratulations to you if you're not and well done that a lot of people out there are really suffering.
Julie, good morning, Good morning crime.
You've got a name for us?
Yeah, go ahead, yes, yes.
My grandmother's maiden name was Olive Branch.
Ah, Olive Branch. That's lovely. Do you think the parents thought about it, thought it through or do you reckon they were deliberate with that naming?
Well, I'm not really sure, but yeah, it was a long time ago, so maybe they didn't think about it too much.
But yeah, Olive Branch and she was a dead.
Beautiful, lovely story. Look, you stay on the line, because Julie, you've won a Wallace Similar Cinema Cinema. I'll get it out in the minute. A Wallace Cinema's Family Pass. Catch a movie this week at Mitcham Piccadilly Mountain Barker or no longer the best place to see movies Wallacinema's posessions. Visit Wallace dot com dot a Hugh fiveble A Mornings.
With Graham Goodingshi.
Graham about names. There used to be a chiropractor that had a clinic I think on the corner of West Lakes Boulevard and Tapley's Hill Road. His name was doctor C. Slaughter. I think I've seen that one. Good on your gham, thanks for that. Morning. Graham went to Enfield High School, Metal and Woolwick. Teacher's names were mister Pine and mister Carpenter. Our home teacher was Miss Kitchen. The principal was Miss Seamen. Have a good one.
Good ear.
Thanks.
Yeah, interesting names. If you've got one or two, let us know. We'll share them, and who knows, you might come up with a unique one of the day. Eight double two three double double oh. A very learned person once told me you can tell the health of a city by the number of cranes on the skyline, and I'm pleased to say that looking at the Adelaid's skyline, it looks pretty healthy at the moment. And we've taken a giant step towards the sky with the latest designs for Adelaide's first skyscraper. Don't know if you've seen the pictures, the images, potential look of the building. I saw it in the advertiser this morning. Looks pretty impressive. It's a one hundred and sixty meter second tarer at the Festival Plaza. To tell us all about it is housing, Minister Nick Champion, Minister good morning, good morning Ran. It's an impressive looking building.
Yeah, look, they've really done a great job. A Walker Corporation, in conjunction with the Government architect Firsteine Mackay, have been through a whole design review process and the results of that process are very impressive, not just the sort of visual look from flying in on a plane or if we're standing on a hill somewhere around Adelaide, but also at the ground level as well. It is a very very impressive building and very sympathetic to some of the heritage around Parliament House as well. So we're preserving many of the sightlines and ability to see the heritage features of what is the great civic building in the Parliament.
What impact do you think it'll have on Festival Plaza and the surrounds.
Well, it will be a very positive feedback. First of all, we're getting turning a what would have been a forty million dollar project into a six hundred million dollar project, so it's a huge uplift thirteen hundre workers working in construction, but the end result will also be very impressive. Five thousand workers in that precinct and retail offerings, hospitality offerings and activated plaza with very clear pedestrian walkways between that and the railway station and king Wynhim Road and at a lot of open civic space as well additional civic space onto the plaza. So you can imagine with that many workers and that many sort of commercial entities in such a close proximity to it, that will really power what will come very vibrant square.
What sort of field do you reckon? What does this say for Adelaide at the moment regarding you know, we're pretty anxious economic times. This is a major commitment, isn't it.
Look it really is. And Walker Corporation we're talking about why they picked Adelaide and know they like investing in here in South Australia because they see it's an optimistic state with a really positive future. And I think, Graham, you know, I'm sort of turning fifty three, just term fifty three, and you know, I think about my working lifetime. You know, Adelaide was hemorrhaging jobs and hemorrhaging people for a long time agoing through a very difficult economic transition, and we really didn't see much upside of that the rest of the nation, did you know, West Australia and Queenslane really saw a lot of upside. We're now starting to see that upside. Very low unemployment, high levels of economic sophistication, lots of investment, and that means projects like this, you know, get off the ground and start to impress people. And I think every CEO who flies into Adelaide and sees this building will it should inspire them to invest in South Australia or if they live here, to go a bit harder on the buildings they're building and the businesses they're building as well.
The new building will be home to five thousand or so workers. What sort of retail outlets and restaurants and cafes can we expect well.
Down the bottom there's a between the tower too and the Parliament. There is going to be an activated lame way, and along that lame way on the tower to side there'll be a number of cafes and bars, and then there'll be a sort of lifted podium area where people can congregate open space and public realm. And then there'll be two levels at the podium to elevated levels of sort of bars and cafes and public realm, and then above that civic realm as well. So we've really managed to activate that lower level with things other than office workers. Office workers will spend time in the bars and restaurants, but there'll be a lot of activity there. And you know, Monday to Friday will be office workers, and then on the weekend it will be theater goers and people going to the casino and people going to gather around and all those other events in the city. So I think it will be a very vibrant festival plaza, very well located for public transport. After showdowns and the light, no doubt, crows and power fans will have a drink together and either celebrate or commiserate about the night with a night's outcome.
Celebrate or commiserate. There's a good way of putting it, and it's an exciting concept. Minister. When can we expect to see the first sod.
Turned Look, they're already they're already bashing away at it. If you were to go to Parliament House today and stand on that little balcony, you'll see that they've already busted through the top level of the car park. They're about to go all the way down to put in a very the core of the building, and then you'll see a very large crane arrive on site very shortly, and then twenty twenty seven is the completion date, so you know walker operation, I've already you know, they're not waiting for politicians to turn the side. They're just getting on and building and of course doing all that preparatory the preparatory work that you need to do before they obviously get their one all approval and get on with the building itself.
And when can we look to see it being completed?
Twenty twenty seven, Yeah, twenty twenty seven.
It's exciting times.
You know, it takes time to build a big building, but it'll be up before we know it. Brilliant got on your minister, Thanks Ry.
Nick Champion, Housing Minister. It is an exciting development to talk about twenty twenty seven. Have building techniques and methods improved all that much? I was reading something recently, the Empire State Building for many years the tallest building in the world, not so any longer.
What is it?
One hundred and twelve stories or something was built in thirteen months. Thirteen months. I'm putting up a floor a floor every week or something like that. Quite remarkable. But anyway, this will be our first skyscraper. You have to be one hundred and fifty meters in height, and that will be it'll be the tallest building in Adelaide, thirty eight stories, and if it comes out the way the drawings suggest, it will be a very attractive building. What are your thoughts? Eight double two three double O double ow Margaret, you want to talk to us about a particular name you have.
Yes, a couple. So when we were young, we had a friend mister Baker, and.
He was a butcher.
Baker the butcher, yes, and then.
The other one was years ago.
I had a chiropractor.
Called doctor Supple.
Oh.
I used to go to Rodney Supple too, mentioned that earlier. Yeah, a very good Kira and his son is a chiropractor as well. His brother was all also in the business. They were very supple, the supples, they.
Were very supple.
Thanks very much, Graham.
Have a good day you too, Margaret. Thank you for your sharing that story. Hi, Graham. A few amusing names are Melissa Delissa, Thomas Catt or Tom Cat as he was called, and the old favorite lorry driver. Also, I'm not in favor of turn our state and our nation to a third world country by overpopulation. It's just common sense, yep, that you speak common sense to We're going to take a break for news. After the news road safety challenges facing older drivers five double A.
Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Six past eleven, five double A. We enter the final hour of the show. Still time for your calls on eight double two to three double O double oh. From the text line cost through the roof. People don't have the money to spend in retail and hospitality. The five thousand office workers at the new city building, where will they all park their cars? No street parking, North Terrace or King William Street. Fair question Bill Morning, Graham. Does anyone believe it when cheaper power is tarted in the same sentence as nuclear power? Another furfee? Well, wojo, just how cheap is renewable power? Your bill's going down? Mind certainly art Hi Graham, please ask the minister about any concessions are there for water, council rates, et cetera and parking kind regards Joseph Well unfortunately is gone, but we'll save that question for another day. Right now, I'm a great pleasure to say join him in the studio. From say Pole, Southustralian Police, we have Superintendent Change Johnson and senior sergeants is An O'Connor. Good morning to you both.
Good morning.
How do you like our brand new studio.
It's lovely scared.
We're still learning to fly it, so've going to bear with us. What brings you into the studio today is the challenges that older drivers face. And this is an issue that is pretty complex, because, as I've been talking about on the show on earlier times, when you first get your license, it's a panacea. All of a sudden, you have that wonderful freedom, and for forty to fifty years you keep driving and you will really enjoy it and so forth. And then as you get older, your ability to drive might be in decline and there are things that you might need to do and consider giving up your license and so forth. So I believe you've got sessions for older drivers that will, I guess so quaint them with all aspects of being an older driver on the road.
Yeah, we do. We've opened up our Older Road User session to a public session. We offered this for the first time in December and we had a huge uptake and sold out our bookings within a couple of hours, and we had seventy people turn up, and I guess it's just an opportunity for older road users to come in and refresh their knowledge in relation to the road rules. As you said, most people haven't had to look at those rules since they taught their child how to drive a car. And when we're talking about older road users, there's quite a big difference between that and every year we get new road rules in, we get new legislation. Mobile phones are now thing. There's a lot of things that have changed on the road from when that age demographic learned how to drive. So we think it's a really invaluable way for them to come in and learn about road safety.
It's good that people are turning up because I think you ask anybody, oh, are you a good driver? And most of us say, are you, I'm a goo good driver? And that may or may not be the case, and a lot of particularly older drivers, and I'm not saying over seventy, but you know, someone who's been driving for ten fifteen years thinks they know all ari is to know about the road rules and so forth. But it never ends, really doesn't.
That's a really good point, Graham, because older road users are good road users. When we talk about the fatal five contributors to serious injury collisions. We talk about wearing seatbelts, speeding, not being distracted using a mobile, not using a mobile phone when you're driving, and not undertaking any risky, dangerous road behaviors. And that's typically not what older road uses are about. They don't take risks on the road. Yet, what we've found last year we lost ninety lives on our roads, which is truly tragic and has a shattering impact on all involved, on family, friends, communities. And yet of those ninety lives, twenty nine where our older road category over seventy, which is thirty two percent, which is a massive overrepresentation. And already this year, of the twenty two lives lost, six have been in that older eight category. So it is a concern. It's a concern for everyone, it's a concern for police, and we do have a focus on improving road safety for that older age group.
Yeah, I think when we think of road deaths and road toll we usually go to young people, you know, inexperienced drivers and so forth. But when you say thirty two percent are older drivers, that really is food for thought.
Yeah, older road users are also more susceptible to injuries that they sustain in a serious injury crush. So we find that with the serious injuries, they're more likely to die from a road crash incident. So that also impacts the numbers in their age demographic.
So what do people learn when they come along to these sessions. What sort of areas do you target?
Yeah, so the first time we sort of look at is the Australian road rules. As I said, that's a new bit of legislation. It's been around for a few years now, but for older road users they may not have gone into it in great depth. We talk about sharing the rope of cyclists, trucks, heavy vehicles, a big focus on pedestrian safety. A lot of older road users are also pedestrian and they may be crossing the road with the aid of a mobility device and that makes them slow when crossing the road. So again about judging the times and making sure that they're allowing enough time to.
Cross the road.
We cover EA scooters, we talk about the fatal five electric mobility device safety and also there's a good opportunity for a Q and a sort of workshopping session at the end, so we can answer any of their questions that they have, but we also do talk about fitness to drive and other options other than driving. If they are feeling like it's time to not be driving. It's certainly not a test for them to come in and do. It's literally just an information session, an education session so they can make informed decisions about their driving.
Yeah, and that is reassuring because if they thought, if I go along to the sessions, I've got to pass a test and I might fail, I'm off the road. So it's not anything like that.
No, it's an education session or chance to have a conversation and as I said, provide them with information to help them make decisions if they might need to have a conversation with family members about what driving looks like in the future, if they're at all concerned, we've got resources that they can take away. So it's just a free afternoon or morning session that is delivered over two hours for them to come in and learn some road safety information.
For those of USh are on the road sort of every other day, you know, we drive by roads. It's sort of we've been doing it for years. It sort of comes automatically. Although the road rules change, we sort of think we know them all, but I mean, road rules are changing or being modified all the time, aren't they.
Absolutely, regulations come in and mobile phone use was I suppose are typical with the cameras that have come in recently, and let new legislations come in all the time. So this is a great opportunity through the road Safety older road to users sessions that can highlight those changes that may impact older road uses that they may not be aware of.
And I guess older drivers, those that are my age perhaps can well remember time before bike lanes and so forth, and there are special rules that we need to know about bike lanes, aren't there?
Yeah, there are. All that sort of information is covered in the session. So all the distances is between vehicles and cyclists about overtaking trucks safely. We've still got a lot of old use, older road users that toe with caravans and things like that also, so it's again making them as safe as we possibly can whilst they're using the road system.
Have you ever been I mean obviously they asked questions of you, have you been stumped? An older drivers come out and said what do we do in this situation?
Or what about sale and day we're not experts in everything, and can we be with all the legislation that we do need to sort of be across. But we can always find the answer. So if we ever don't know the answer, we certainly will find the answer for them and get back to them, but we tend to be able to give them a fair bit of information.
Where do you conduct these sessions?
So at the moment, these publicly offered sessions are at their Road Safety Center, the new facility that opened at West Beach in October last year, So we're very pleased to be there as part of the West Beach Parks area and they're conducted there. But we did have a lot of commentary on our socials in relation to would we bring them out to the regions. And we deliver road safety education across the state all of the time. So if you've got a local council that wants to host this session, get onto your local groups in your area. We're more than willing to come out and present in an area.
And exactly when is this current session? When's it take place?
So the next one is the twenty seventh of March, which is currently booked out. We had two sessions that day and as I said, it booked out in a couple of hours, but we will have cancelations between now and then, so keep an eye on those bookings. And after that there'll be one on the thirtieth of May and then two others on the twenty seventh of August and the twenty fifth of November. And you can just jump on event bright and search South Australia Police Road Safety Center and it will list all of our public events. But if you want to book a normal road safety session, you can just jump on our website and all the booking details are there.
Fantastic, it's as easy as that, easy as that. Yeah, thank you both for coming in today. And if you're a driver over seventy and you want to a refresher or find out where you're at, this is the thing to do. Go along to the sessions on Thursday March twenty seventh their book. Sorry car Book, Sorry you can't go to that one, folks, but keep checking that you will find obsession suitable for you. Siperintendent Shane Johnson, Senior Sergeant Susan O'Connor, thanks for coming today. Back you back shortly five Double A.
Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Nineteen past eleven five Double a blue It's Bluey part of your life if you're a parent, or a grandparent, or a youngster. I'm sure Bluey Is Bluey has been an international sensation since began back in twenty eighteen. I think it was it's smashing all the records in a massed ten million viewers to one episode alone on Disney Plus. Recently, the series has become the most watch show in American TV. Yet, despite Bluey's unprecedented success seeing on the ABC, your ABC failed to capitalize on its billion dollar potential. We've talked about this before, but it's just it galled me. It's come to my attention again because the BBC who breaks in all profits from merchandising. Because Bluey was a joint project between the ABC and the BBC to launch this series from Queensland producer Joe Blum, and for some reason, the ABC didn't see any real merit in stitching up the merchandise. But the ABC or BBC did and they have, I mean they merchandising the BBC's huge three billion dollars turnover year in merchandise alone. Blue is so big they've set up an independent department, totally independent, a head of department just to manage blue because they believe over the next decade or two Bluey will grow exponentially. Already it's a two billion dollar year business. What amount of this comes back to Australia to the ABC, nothing, Australia's national broadcaster has missed out on a starting one billion dollar pay day by neglecting to secure merchandising rights with its British counterpart, the BBC. We didn't even approach the creator, Joe Brumm about a merchandise steak. Oh, this is horrendous. If this was in private enterprise, everyone would be dismissed that they had anything to do with it or was in a bull's roar of it. Now, the BBC has strategically positioned itself at the center of the blue global expansion and you can see it everywhere. You can go to the supermarket and see Bluey soft drinks and Bluey yogurt and different things like that, and there's a Bluey World in Brisbane. I think that some of that money might stay in Australia. In Queensland, I think it injects eleven and a half million dollars or so into Queensland's economy. But when it comes to merchandise, books, podcasts, food products and live events, that money all goes to the BBC, not one dollar to the ABC. And the ABC puts its hand out every year for one point three billion dollars. It could be self funding if they bought into the Blue merchandising arrangement, if they'd bothered to ask, they could have generated at least a billion dollars every year. So the tax prayer would have been free or burden by or far less amount of money. So love you Bluey by all means. But I tell you what, every time I see a new game, a new toy, a Bluey doll, I know part of the money and that sale is going to the BBC and not one cent is going to the ABC. What are your thoughts? Frustrating, isn't it? Nick says? What about people coming from other countries? Have they been tested? Oh, this is regarding older people and road testing sessions. Gig be interesting to know the price of power when Albow came to power compared to now, especially when it was supposed to drop two hundred and eighty dollars per quarter. Yeah, well, rubbery figures. That's all I can say. Oh my god, do these people road safety people think older people have lost their brains? Well, no, that's a little unfair, but there's no question that it's a good and I shouldn't be just say seventy. But at all times in life we probably should do a refresher course while driving. Are you up to date with all the road rules and the changes? And they're modify fight all the time, Alan says Graham. We spent a lot of money on ads for drugs and drink driving. Why not spend money on highlighting road rules, merging on freeways, roundabouts, etc. It's a fair point to say. On this day, John Lennon, who I absolutely adored. I loved him as a beetle, I loved him as a solo artist. And on this day a special park was unveiled called Strawberry Fields in New York Central Grand Central, sorry Central Park in New York and Strawberry Fields based on one of the Lennon songs. And of course John Lennon died. He lived, he had an apartment on Central Park or just off Central Park, and his death shocked the world. But he can always be remembered with his Strawberry Fields Memorial Park.
Imagine a man no country.
Compet to kill.
Mona ah, Yes, what are talents? The one and only John Levin eight double two three double o double oh if you would like to give me a call. Australia's top supermarket chains rank amongst the most profitable globally. We've been talking about it during the morning. The A Triple C has worn that Coals and Wolworths have not fully passed on cost savings during the cost of living crisis. They say the dominance of the big two will grow with strong without stronger competition. They are two of the most profitable supermarkets in the world and there's only one more profitable in Canada, I believe. And the two UK supermarkets the big chains. What's it to Costco? No, not Costco. Can't think of the name of the supermarket chains in the UK. But the big ones are their profit margin that's right, Sainsbrings and Tesco their profit margins are half that of Woolworth's and Wolworth's and Cole's crypoor. It's amazing, isn't it short I Goo A Triple C chair Mick Ko had this to say on supermarkets we.
Saw quite a lot of products where the price pattern between the two majors, for example, looks like an extended ABC logo. They take it in turns in being half priced one week and then normal price the next week, while the others at half price. So certainly it's no wonder. Consumers told us very strongly that they find pricing very consumed, confusing, and therefore very difficult to make good choices about what to purchase.
I ain't at the truth, folks. The supermarket prices go up and up. It's a sticker shock every time you go to the supermarket. What not that long ago cost you thirty dollars now costing you close to forty dollars and a lafe of bread seven dollars fifty And you know, the prices go on and on and up and up. That's the way of the world. Unfortunate at the moment. Let's go out to Port Broughton, Kevin, Good morning to you.
Good morning Graham.
Talking of unusual name, Yeah, go ahead, I come across the float some years ago.
Middle name was Polly bomb was what sorry say again?
Polly bumble y p o n K poll bunk poly bunk Yes, And then another unusual name.
My assumer is pronounced for your manus.
P U M A n I s okay.
That was a family name.
Do you imagine going through your life living with that? Good on you, Peter, Sorry, Kevin, thank you for that. I appreciate it. Hi Graham. There were two Adelaide doctors that worked together in the various operating theaters. Dr Perks was the anesthetist and doctor Butcher was a surgeon. How i'd feel about that? This is your surgeon, I'm doctor Butcher. Oh, I think I might ask for a second opinion on that. Strange names. Then there was Barb Edwyer, barbaraed Wire but you went through life Barb ed Wyre, I know of one personally. Again, there was a Chris Moss who had thoughts of becoming a priest. I don't know if he did or not, but of course if he did, he's now Father Christmas. Some of them you just can't read out, and thank you very much for telling us those. But no, we won't read that out. I'm sorry to say. But all I can say is thank you for sending in some of these names. I don't believe all of them, but they are very funny Catherine, good morning to you, good morning. What can you tell me?
Good thank you. My previous veterinarian was Dr Wolf.
Dr Wolf. Yes, ah, dear, that's a lovely name.
And we're I went into the Apple store in Singapore. The gentleman, lovely gentleman that served me his name take said his first name.
Was Samsung, Samsung working on the Apple store. Yes, yes, lovely, thank you. Has that any you got any.
More for us? Yes?
My current practor was a doctor Slaughter.
Oh you went to doctor Slaughter, did you? And live to tell the tale? Lovely stories? Thank you, Catherine, thank you for that. Yeah. I guess we've all come across people with unusual names. Do you have an unusual name that you've gone through life? I know somebody who's mister Bean, which at times could be a lovely guy. But yes, he was mister Bean and for orver, I think he would resent Rowan Bean ever creating a very funny character. We got to take a break and after news headlines. Holden a very special place in the heart of all South Australians. It's where Holden first began. Well, we're going to look at the story of Holden at the State Library five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings twenty eight to twelve, five double A on a Friday, the end of the working week. What if you got planned for the weekend doing anything interesting. Looks like the weather's going to be pretty good. Give me a call eight double two to three double double the number GG. Surely you know why the ABC missed an opportunity to cash in the people in control of public servants. They get paid regardless of their dumb decisions. They couldn't care less about us who pay their wages. Thank you for that, Stavros. That's in relation to the fact that the ABC missed out on a billion dollar pay day because they commissioned the TV series Bluey with the BBC, and the BBC put their hand up and said we'll take some of that merchandise, and the ABC didn't even bother and it's now generating about two billion dollars a year going to the BBC. The ABC gets nothing, So therefore you and I expayers make up the shortfall of one point three billion dollars. Well, there's an exhibition at the State Library on at the moment that's going to generate a lot of interest if it hasn't already. It's a revision the Holden collection. And joining me now is Mark Gilbert from the State Library. Mark goodbying to you.
Good morning, Graham. Great to be here.
I think Holden has a very special place in the hearts of most Southern Stadians because of the history of Holden, Woodville plant and so forth. And it was a sad time when we saw the last Holden roll off the production line at Elizabeth. So this reavision exhibit, I think is obviously it's been on for some time now, it's going on for some time to come, will be very well received.
I think. So we've the State librariy'es had the hold and archive since the early nineteen nineties, so we've got the material dating back to the eighteen fifties when Holden started on King William Street right in the city as saddle Maker, so just near the Behive corner.
Is that right? So well, I think most of us think of just from cars and the FJ. Holden, but they were around much much longer than.
Much much longer, and they were after the First World War. Holden motor bodybuilders were making all sorts of cars in Adelaide Chrysler's Fords as well as the GM cars, so they were assembling and making cars before the famous nineteen forty eight.
Is there any particular reason why Adelaide became the home of Holden and it could well have been produced in Sydney or Melbourne, bigger centers.
Well, it became a national company really when General Motors merged with Holden Motor Bodybuilders in nineteen thirty one, So the head office did move to Melbourne, so that when the Holden cars were made, the engines were made over there at Fisherman's Ben in Port Melbourne, transported over here for assembly at Woodville and later at Elizabeth So it became very much a national company and of course an international company as well.
If you have any memories of Holden, any fond stories you'd like to pass on to us, give us a call now eight double two to three double O double.
Oh.
Mark Gilbert is in the studio. We're talking about this rear vision exhibition at the library. So what sort of things can we expect to see.
It's kind of been three parts, Graham. So there's those early years and then the effort that Holden put into the war effort during the Second World War, which was just a huge manufacturing effort that kind of led to Australian cars being produced because they had this huge manufacturing base and after the Second World War the government was very keen that we had our own car and that's exactly what Holden did, so in ninety forty eight they developed the famous forty eight two to one five. But we've also got not just stories about cars, but stories of the workers. So in their own words, there was a big project that the Uni of Adelaide did and we've used those interviews with workers, some workers that worked for fifty years at Holden. Wow.
I mean, that's the thing is that's the heart and soul of something like that. I mean we sort of look at cars and they roll off the production line today, but going back then, it was very much a hands on operation.
It was a very hands on operation. And we've got many, many thousands of photographs in our collection at the State Library just to show how in those early days just how hands on it was. You know, the ock Elton safety perhaps wasn't what it was or later on, so a lot of the work could be dangerous and some of the workers do talk about injuries they received, but they also talk about the great times the social life. You know, there were bowling clubs in the middle of port Port Road across from the Woodville plant. They play courts at lunch time, so had big Christmas parties. It could be a big Holden family.
Holden has as you said, eighteen hundred when they first started.
Fifty eighteen fifties. Yeah, just a little shop in King William Street.
So they've gone through so many eras and I believe they were quite a large part of the war effort too.
They were a huge part. And the interesting thing is as a lot of men were overseas serving. Of course, women who had always worked at Holden in places like the trim section really changed the way they worked. So they were working in the manufacturing of parts for things like the both bombers and anti tank guns or huge effort was going into it. So women were very much involved in that story of the Second World War.
When it was so hands on, it obviously involved so many more people, and in later years, with the technology and the production line and so forth, the fewer and fewer people were involved. But when we go way back, as I said, it's so many much hands on and there would be a real level of pride among them workers at the time.
Yeah, and I think that pride kept going right through right to the end. Twenty seventeen. Workers say that the last holding off the line or the last model was probably the best holding ever made. But the story's going back, you know, around say the Woodville plant, and they talk a little bit about the skylarking that they would get up to. There's one good story about a gentleman who retired and then when holden closed, and as people may know, it's a Bunning's down there on Port Road. He still drives down Port Road and he kind of remembers how he used to play cricket in the grounds at lunch time and all that sort of thing. So some quite heartfelt stories.
Yeah. Look, I tell you what I mean. I drive every day around there, and I see Bunnings and Harvey Norman and so forth. But I also still see you Woodville GMH. I still see the old buildings the way they were, and that so it's indeblibly etched into I think most South of Stinian's minds.
When I first started, you know, I mentioned I was working on this exhibition, and about everyone I ever spoke to whether our friend's family or strangers would tell me the Holden story. You know, did you know I got the Best Apprentice award in nineteen eighty six, or my grandfather worked there, or I would hear the sire and go off, you know and on my way to school, that sort of thing. Everyone seemed to have a Holden story.
Yeah, and that's that's true. I've got a friend who used to work there and that he used to stitch the upholstery polstery stitch. Yeah, he's gone on to be a very big car dealer in town, you know, and he still talks very fondly of his days working for the general.
People do and they obviously they've gone on to other careers. Now, a lot of people retired, but others went on to other jobs, and they talk about how much they learnt at Holden, the value of you know, hard work, but also safety in the workplace, all those things that they could transfer to other jobs.
How did you go about collecting all the material for the exhibition.
Well, the State Library does hold the Holden Archive dating back to the eighteen fifties, but we also worked the Holden Manufacturing Heritage Association, which is run by volunteers former Holden workers. They're based up at the old Elizabeth plant, but they can't open their museum to the public generally because it's a secure plant now a secure area. So they've loaned us things such as this beautiful bronze line that used to sit on the on the wall as you go into Elizabeth, and they've loaned us the first Holding engine ever made, as well as one of the last Holden engines made. So we've really worked in with them and we've got some great interviews with those guys as well.
Yeah, it sounds wonderful. I can just imagine that people who have any link, you know, I mean the petrol heads, and that will certainly be there. But it's more than that, isn't it. I Mean Holden was part of the lives of so many South Australians for decades and decades.
It was, And you're right in that it's not just for car buffs. We do. We're having events through the time of the ex ambition out now fore Court at the library where car clubs are bringing their cars along. So it might be Manaro's one Saturday, and then two or three weeks later it might be the the FJS. We've got an FJ sitting in our fouryer at the moment, which just drove through the doors, just fitted in beautiful.
Yeah, there's nostalgia. I mean I can go back to them growing up as a kid, and a family across the road who are a lot better off than we were had two f J Holden's.
Wow, two FJ Holdens fantastic.
One was yellow and one was gray, And you know they drive off, you know, first thing in the morning, after work and home at night, and we just stand and look and say, wow. I mean it's incredible. It's just these sorts of things sort of live in your memory forever.
Well. The other thing that lives in your memory too is the sound of the cars as well. You know, they don't sound like modern cars. They just have this beautiful to me anyway, a beautiful tone of when the engine clicks over and off you go. They just sound beautiful.
The exhibition is on at the moment, when does it go through.
Till Dune the twenty second. It's in our gallery on the ground floor. You can't miss it. There's signs everywhere. There's a big Holden sign that used to be on the admin block up at Elizabeth, so it's about two and a half meters wide. You can't miss it on off or Terrace.
Mark, thanks so much for coming in today. Thank you, Grahat, appreciate your taking part. That's Mark Gilbert from the State Library about the exhibition called rear Vision the Holden Collection. It's on through until June. And if you have any link or history or feelings about good old Holden Plant, whether it be at Woodville or out at Elizabeth, go along and take a visit. From the text line, my grandfather, Johnny Johns was a big knob at Holden in the fifties and sixties. My first four cars were Holden's. Good on you, Sue and Andrews says, even though in the US, Trump is talking about the importance of retaining and reintroducing car manufacturing as well as car jobs, the point made by him is that car plants can be utilized in times of conflict when defense manufacturing becomes a priority. Sadly, I don't think that we will return to manufacturing, but they were wonderful days back shortly.
Five double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.
Are you looking for a cooking class that's all about you? At Sprout. Every class is one hundred percent hands on, no more standing around. You'll cook everything you eat, learn recipes you'll actually use at home, delicious, simple and fun. No worries. They cater for all dietary needs. Just let them know when you book and they'll handle everything. Your ticket includes dinner, drinks, and a whole lot of fun. So why just watch, come, cook, taste and enjoy it. Sprout Sprout, where cooking is an adventure and don't miss out on the menu. Sundays, ten am with Callum and Femus Arry, Good morning.
Yes, good morning. We've been to America about six times when our Sun lived over there. We've also down to the John Lennon Memorial. We've been I think I've been there probably about seven or eight times. It's across the road from the flats or building which he was shot at and killed. The memorial itself is about four meters round. It's got a pattern on it and in the middle of it it's got imagined.
Wow, it's very.
With the way that they've done it up over there, with the strawberry fields and all that sort of thing. When you go and visit it has a bit of a feeling about it, and you can't quite put your you can't quite think, you know, what is it? You know, but it's a really really nice it's really really done. The Central Park over there makes our park like bush tracks and all that sort of thing. It's absolutely a beautiful place. We used to stay at the other end of Central Park at I think it was sixty four I can't even I think it's one fifty nine West or whatever it was, and we used to have all the horses outside with there, and the guys on the bike used to take it through the park and all that sort of thing. But if anybody has a chance to go, there's two things they should do. They should walk Central Park and then they should go down to Washington to the Korean Memorial. And that is absolutely breathtaking. What it is is they've got all these soldiers, statues of these soldiers and all that thing, and then they've got a wall at the back of it and it's completely all glass and it's probably about well four meters high five meters high, and they've got this lighting which is really just you can see and that's about all you get, all the reflection behind it, and it looks like it's a jungle which goes back probably well, I don't know, one hundred and fifty meters two hundred meters, but the park it itself is actually only about fifty meters steep. It's with all the inflections coming from the mirrors and everything else side that.
Yeah, excellent, Barry, thank you very much for sharing that with us. It's ten to twelve five double a. Let's go to Craigburn Farm. Michael, good morning to you.
Oh, good morning, Graham. I've been listening to your commentary on a cost of living and the two majors and stagface. But I've got a there is some prudence shopping you can do.
Drakes.
Sell a twelve dollars fifty chicken, chicken and a plastic bag. I mean that's for a family of four. That's three bucks of portion. The nickname for the chicken in the bags actually called a bachelor's handbag.
Graham, I have heard it.
I'll give you another one.
The reckoning.
You get a hot meal with protein and vitamins and carbs for three dollars each. I'll give you one on the run. Sell a frankfort in a white bun smothered with sauce. Three dollars each.
What about that?
That's good value.
Twelve bucks for four people are hot meal.
I'll good on your Praddy. That's Michael Pratt, who is our man on the spot, letting us know the good oil and good bargains around town. Eight double two three double O. Stacy Lee's not in the studio at the moment because she's on higher duties because a year out from the state election, there is going to be a leader's debate happening in the press Club, and Stacy Lee is one of the moderators. Stacy, good morning to you, thanks for being on this.
Hello Graham, no problem.
All in readiness for the leader's debate.
Yes, we are down here at the Ground Chancellor on hind Lee Street, getting ready for the debate, which will get underway and all over an hour's time.
Now.
Mike Smithson and I will be the moderators of the debate, so there'll be an hour of debating. We've just done our ress rehearsal, our little Mike check and making sure everything works. We just have to make a decision about whether or not we should keep both of the leader's microphones on at all times, or if we should be able to have control of their mics, which felt very powerful, I must say, being able to make that decision.
It will be interesting. I don't know whether it'll be so adversarial as Donald Trump and Joe Biden and so forth, but no, it will be interesting. So it will take the form of a debate. Will they be sort of being able to cross examine each other or will you be cross examining them?
Yes, we will be asking them questions. So they'll have a few minutes each for opening remarks, then we will be asking them questions. And then we've done something a little bit different this year. At the end of the debate, they'll be able to ask each other questions. Often in press club, the Canberra Press Club, there are questions from the floor. We have found that over the years those questions from the floor turn into more of an elongated statement from different industry groups and lobby groups. So this year we've opted to allow the leaders to ask each other questions. So they'll get three questions of each other, which I think will be really interesting and is a bit of a bit of a different spin on a usual leader's debate. And of course Graham, you know it's twelve months out everyone's talking about the federal election in just a couple months time, But twelve months out from the election the last state election, there were policies being announced left, right and center. I think exactly twelve months out from the previous election was when Peter malinowskis an ousd a six hundred million dollar hydrogen plant which would lower all of our energy bills. Then it turned out it wasn't going to lower out and energy bills, and it turned out it was just going to help Sanjeev Gupta. And now san Jeev Gupta is.
You know, being.
Yeah, exactly.
So big question for the premiere is how can voters trust you this time around when three of your key election promises have so far been broken fixing, ramping, hydrogen plant and no new taxes. And then another big factor for the opposition leader of Instant Tazia as well. In three years you've had two leaders, one of them's in court. You've been considered a fill in leader since day one. How will you convince voters that your party is finally united when it certainly.
Doesn't look like that.
Yeah, and that's his achilles heel. I think that he really hasn't been seen as a viable alternative to Peter malinowskis, who, let's face it, as a formidable premier. But there is an achilles heel for the premier too because he has the weaknesses that you've foreshadowed there. So this would be a prime opportunity to Vincentazia to stake his claim and say, you know, I am a worthy alternative.
Yeah, and something I'm looking for today is answers to questions, which I know seems pretty simple, and doing what we do is what we expect every day. But every time you hear the leaders at a debate or a press conference, it can be very easy for them to, I guess, talk around the question. Today, we'll be trying to keep them on track in answering the questions. They only have a couple minutes to answer each question, so they've got to get their messages out pretty clearly, and also seeing how they react on their feet, which I think is another interesting sign of a good leader, someone who can adapt, who doesn't just read their talking notes put in front of them, who isn't shuffling papers around looking at what they've written down and what they've pre prepared and what their staffers have written for them, someone who can actually adapt. There'll be a few curveballs thrown at them, so we'll see how they respond.
Excellent, looking forward to it. Well, Stacy, you enjoy yourself throwing the tough questions there, keep them honest, as they say in the classics. Are you back in the studio later in the day? What are you back?
I am?
I am yes.
So we will be broadcasting this from one thirty to two thirty, and then after two thirty I'll be back in the studio for the rest of my normal show. Will be taking calls. I want to hear from listeners who do they think won the debate? What was the key takeout for them? We'll be hearing from key industry leaders who are in the room today who do they think won the debate? And then of course Thooty Friday, so Chris Yalmer will.
Still be joining me.
We'll be telling everyone what's over the weekend. So normal programming after two thirty.
Brilliant cone, Stacy, you enjoy that's a thank you. One of the moderators with along with Mike Smithson for the Leader's debate, and it will be very interesting to see what comes out of that. Stay on five double A for all the latest eight double two three double O double oh. I think if I remember this is regarding the Holden story in the Holden Exhibition, I think, if I remember correctly, to work in the pets, which was working under the cars, you had to be a certain height. I suppose, so if you were six foot five and the height was only six foot two, could be a bit unfortunate. Eight double two to three double O double oh is the number high Graham on Brighton Road, Brighton, Mister Whiting has a bait and tackle store has had for many years. Good on your Peter. In aviation, even private pilots who fly light planes required to undertake a flight review with an instructor every two years. It's not a test, and it's not for age. It's a proficiency brush up. My last proficiency test as a driver was my driver's licensed test at seventeen. I'm now fifty six. Andrew, you make a good point. We get our license and that's it. We've got a free hit unless we're pulled over for speeding or whatever. You just you're away and you don't have to do any refresher. You don't have to check out what the new rules are maybe we really should hi gg. Mister Bean was the headmaster at Prince Alfred College, a wonderful man, and Judy says Graham, you just reminded me of a friend many years ago. His name was Les Bean. Yes, has anyone mentioned the names Dick Pound and Dick Speed? No, nobody has, hi g Gg. I remember done in the Western suburbs there used to be a chiropractor, doctor Slaughter. Other than names have come out and thank you so much folks for sharing them with us today. Look, before we go any further, I've got to remind you that if you love your food, be listening to Stacy Lee today just after three pm where Chris Chalmer from Jarmer's Kitchen joints for Foody Friday thanks to Smeg and Pals. And today Chris will be cooking crispy potato prawn's. And if you've never had a crispy potato prawn cooked by Chris Jarmer, you haven't lived. They are sensational. Take it from me firsthand. Are you building or redivating? Your first choice should be visiting the Smeg showroom at Deabney Distributors. Taste the difference with Smeg and with pals. Look, that's just about it. We're just about out of time. Thank you very much for taking part on the show today. Thank you for all your contributions. Just before we go, Graham, this is going to be a landslide debate. It's going to be like a year eight on his first day of high school getting picked on by a year twelve. Malie, Malie your man for essay. It will be interesting to see. It will be a real test for Vincent Tasia and if he wants to stake any sort of claim at all to be the next premier of the state, he has to show up will and this debate. That's it for today. Thank you so much for your company. Again, after the news we have conversations with Qunsey, then the big debate and Stacey Lee to take you through the afternoon. You have a great weekend and will be back on Monday to do it all again.
Five Double A Mornings with Graham. Goodings,
