Mornings with Graeme Goodings - 16 June 2025 - Mornings with Graeme Goodings

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight minutes past nine five double A on a Monday morning,
June sixteenth. Hope we find you well jam Pack program today.
I hope you can take part. But before we get
into the contents of today's show, here's a thought. Imagine this.
You're the head of a major organization. You're employing tens
of thousands of people and have the destiny of millions

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in your hands. You're presiding over nine hundred and eighty
billion dollars debt and have predicted it will pass a
trillion dollar mark in the next few years. You tell
all your shareholders that they're just going to have to
tighten their belts. Then you stick out your hand for
a pay rise for you and your senior management. Well, folks,
that's just what's happening. In Canberra. Politicians are set to

(00:43):
increase their annual salary by thousands from July to first
for the Prime Minister Anthony Albanezy, pocketing a boost of
nearly fifteen thousand dollars. The politicians are set for a
beefed up paypacket, the PM salary jumping from six hundred
and seven four hundred and seventy one to six hundred
and six or six one hundred and twenty two fifty
dollars a year. MP's department secretaries and other senior public

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servants will all get a two point four percent pay
rise from July one, following the determination of the Remuneration Tribunal.
All the while, our national debt skyrockets nine hundred and
eighty billion dollars at the moment, expected to peak at
one point two to two trillion within three years. To
service our debt, think about this, To service our debt
costs five hundred and six million dollars per week. That's

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about two point one nine billion dollars per month. So politicians,
enjoy your pay rise. And I see that they're going
to set for just forty days for the rest of
the year. That's less than six weeks in Candra, not
bad seeing there are twenty eight weeks left in the year. Now.
I'm all for people getting pay rises based on increased productivity,

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but when you're a poly that doesn't seem to matter.
And that reminds me a government agency that just six
months ago after being set up, has spent to one
hundred and eighty thousand dollars changing its name when originally announced,
the PM said, the Net Zero Economy Agency is key
to unlocking our potential as a renewable energy superpower an

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ensuring Australia's region and workers realize the benefits of the
emerging global net zero economy. Six months on, the Government
spent one hundred and eight six hundred and twenty eight
dollars and eighty cents to rebadge the Net Zero Economy
Agency to become the Net Zero Economy Authority. Work included

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new logos, a new written style guide, as well as
establishing social media profiles. Executive Director of the Australian Taxpayers Alliance,
Brian Marlow said it was an example of taxpayers being
treated like an endless ATM. What are your thoughts, folks?
Eight double two three doubo doublo as I said, increased productivity. Look,
I know, multimillion dollar pay packets for CEOs who earn

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their shareholders millions of dollars and doing the right thing,
not against that at all. That's that's fine. But when
our po get a pay rise and the country is
in massive debt and the dead is going to get bigger,
and what do the police say in reply, Oh, well
it wasn't us. It's the remuneration tribunal. You know, we
don't decide on the pay rise. A very clever handball,

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but if you're sincere about that, you could say, look,
the country isn't doing well enough. We will handback our
pay rise. We will not accept a pay rise this time.
Thank you, Remuneration Tribunal, but we're not going to take
the money this time. Has any politician done it as
one politician of any persuasion done it. No, they've all
taken it and said thank you very much. On the

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show today, just what is happening in the Middle East?
The death toll is mounting as Israel and a Ran
continue exchange missile attacks for a third straight day, Israel
warning that worse is to come. US President Donald Trump
has called for an end to the conflict and warned
tay running its striking US targets in the region. Now,
to try to make some sense of what's happening, we'll
speak with Middle East international relations expert doctor Keith Suit

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this morning on the subject of Donald Trump. Do you
have faith in the US under Trump and its role
as international peacekeeper? According to new polling, only thirty six
percent of Australians have any faith in the US that
the US will act responsibly in the world. We'll speak
with pole author at the Lowe Institute, Ryan Neelam about
that new super laws kicking in on July, the first

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welcome news for hard working Assies. Just what it means
and what impact will have it'll have on you and me.
Will speak with CPA Superannuation lead Richard Webb and In
their first pre election policy announcement, the Liberal Party says
South of Stradia's first home buyers will have stamp duty
taxes scrapped on established houses or apartments up to one
million dollars in value. You heard Vincentazia on breakfast this

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morning and I'd like to know your thoughts on their
pre election policy eight double two to three doublow Also today.
One in ten Australians pay almost six hundred dollars each
year to see specialist doctors, with one million delaying or
skipping appointments due to the cost. According to a new analysis.
A report by the Gratton Institute reveal outpatient fees have

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sword over the past fifteen years. The average initial out
of pocket Sir Carter's fee was six hundred and seventy
one dollars, with some extreme fee specialists charging more than
triple the scheduled medicare fee. Are you feeling the bite?
Well many, many Australians are, and not surprisingly on a
lighter note Logi nominees, it's stacked with the other than

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Hamish Blake. The rest of the Gold Logging nominees are
female TV presenters Ali Langdon, Julia Morris, Lisa Miller, Sonya
Krueger and Poe ling Yu, plus veteran Home and awayst
Lynn McGranger. Who would you like to see win the
Gold Logie? Is it relevant any longer? Eight double two
three double O double ow and one further thing on

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this day?

Speaker 2 (05:51):
So.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
Thomas Playford, South Australia's longest serving premier, died the sixteenth
of June nineteen eighty one. He holds the record as
the longest serving premier of n any British Commonwealth state.
What was Sir Thomas Playford's legacy for Southastrata. A lot
of people would tell you that he was the greatest
premier this state ever had. So if you have memories
of Sir Thomas Playford and what he did for the state,

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would you like to see politicians with his demeanor return?
Have those days of having those politicians. He was almost
like a benevolent dictator actually, but he did so much
for Southastradia, and we'll talk about that later. If you
have any memories of Sir Thomas Playford, give us a call.
Eight double two three double O double oh is my number?
Back shortly five double A Mornings with Graham. Goodings, Good morning.

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It's seventeen past nine, five double A on a Monday,
June sixteenth. I hope you hadn't a good weekend. Hope
rain arrived where it was needed. I know much more
is needed, but there seemed to be quite a bit
over the weekend around a lot of parts of the state.
Eight double two three double O double oh is my number.
Let's take a call Steve. Good morning to you.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Good morning Graham. I just want to make a comment
about our governments, not only federal but state as well.
They seem to don't have any understanding of managing a budget.
You know, when in our families we are type for money,
what we do is we cut back spending in certain

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areas and look after the essentials. But in government, their
answer is always just broadened the taxation base. By some
of these most ridiculous taxations that we now have in place.
I mean, this previous liberal government expanded those land taxes
to an incredible level. The federal government's talking about taxing

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unrealized assets, and on and on and on it goes.
But never once do we hear them talking about looking
at the wastage that goes on with the public spending
and cutting back things that are absolute waste. And I mean,
I think we all understand, like there's billions of dollars
gets poured into our lovely indigenous people to look after them,

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and yet the money never seems to do any good.
It doesn't get to where it's supposed to go. And
that's just one example of waste. And I wish these
people would start getting real and looking at how they're
spending their money, whether it's doing the job it's intended
to do, and start you know, saving us some money

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rather than just broadening our taxation base.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Well, said Steve, I couldn't add anything to you, said,
I agree, one hundred percent, a double two to three
double o double. If you want to talk about Polly's
pay rises, the way they run the economy, I'd like
to hear from you. Well, the death dollar is continuing
to grow as Israel and Iran continue to exchange missile attacks.
A third state day it's been going on. Israel has
warned worses to come. US President Donald Trump has called

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for an end to the conflict and warned Tearan against
striking US targets in the region. Let's try to make
some sense of what is happening in the Middle East.
International relations expert doctor Keith Su the Jointsman. Now, Keith,
good morning to you.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yes, good morning.

Speaker 1 (09:05):
Now, what was the trigger for the recent escalation of
direct military strikes between Israel and Iran?

Speaker 4 (09:10):
Yes, this has been a conflict that's been twenty or
thirty years in the creation. What has actually changed now
is that Israel is very worried that Iran may be
very close to building a nuclear weapon. Now, the evidence
for this is very unclear, both pro and con because
you just can't send in international independent journalists to find

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out what's going on. But that was the Israeli fear
that they would need to act quickly to prevent Iran
from acquiring nuclear weapons. If you think back to North Korea,
North Korea has spent over thirty years stringing along American
presidents and all the while going ahead and developing nuclear weapons,

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and then now North Korea is untouchial because it now
has its nuclear weapons. So Israel was worried that they
could end up with the North Korea on their doorstep.
Linked to that is that in the conflict that we've
seen in Gaza, we've seen pro Iranian proxy groups like
hez Bala based in southern Lebanon might on the Israeli

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border and they have been very badly damaged by Israeli attacks.
So the Israelis have decided this wile window of opportunity
they can attack Iran without worrying about retaliation from Hezbala,
and so those attacks have gone ahead in the last
few days and there's not been any sort of counter

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reaction from Hezbalab. So Israel has had a window of
opportunity and has made the most of it.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
How do the military capabilities of the two countries compare.

Speaker 4 (10:48):
Well, Iran is a huge country, It's got eight times
the population of Israel's population, But this is a conflict
which is in the air. They don't share a common order,
so land warfare will not be a major factor in this,
which is obviously where Iran has the numbers. Instead, it's
a warfare that's been taken place in the air and

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here Israel, it's certainly proving to be a very successful
enemy in the sense that the raids that they started
off with, whereby they destroyed key individuals, they knew where
those individuals are living. They're actually able to go down
the street and blow up the houses in which these
individuals are living. So Israel has got very good intelligence

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and very sophisticated military equipment. Iran, by contrast, a much
bigger country, but it relies on old Soviet equipment and
it's just simply not up to date with what the
Israelis have got.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
How has the US involved. Iran's claimed the US is
complicit in the Israeli attacks. The US has denied it.
What is your reading of the situation.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
You've got to work out exactly what's going on in
the Trump White House at the moment. Donald Trump does
not want to have another war in the Middle East.
His base the Make America Greater gain people are saying,
we've spent enough blood and treasure getting bogged down in
unsuccessful wars in the Middle East. So he knows that
he's got to try to avoid having a conflict, but

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at the same time he's also very sympathetic to the
Israeli point of view. So the Americans have probably been
providing Israel with some intelligence advice, but they have certainly
not been directly involved in the military activities. And from
Donald Trump's point of view, he would prefer the war
not to have taken place.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
He would have.

Speaker 4 (12:41):
Preferred the negotiations, which he's now doing bilaterally in other words,
directly with Iran to get Iran back into the negotiating table.
So Trump is willing to take a chance for peace.
He saw that with what he was trying to do
with North Korea, although it failed, but at least he
made the effort. And now he's trying to make peace
with the Iranians by getting them to stop their nuclear

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weapons program in return to Iran becoming free from international sanctions.
So Trump is doing his best to avoid a conflict,
but at the end of the day, he remains pro Israeli.

Speaker 1 (13:17):
What role do were regional powers like Saudi Arabia and
Qatar play in the current conflict At the.

Speaker 4 (13:23):
Moment, of course, you know the Middle East world, Iran
sees itself as the leader of the Shia community. Saudi
Arabia sees itself as the leader of the Sunni community.
These other Arab states are not directly involved very much
in the conflict. The way that we've got is that
if the conflict drags on for a few more days,

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then Iran might start attacking some of the Arab defense
bases in Saudi Arabia or the Golf and that will
certainly add to tensions and increase warfare within the region.
So at the moment, those countries that are pro Saudi
Arabia are not directly involved, but there is a risk

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that they could become directly involved.

Speaker 1 (14:11):
Irana's threatened to target US bases in the region. How
real is that threatned?

Speaker 4 (14:16):
That is to worry that President Trump has got so
the United States has got a series of military bases
throughout the Middle East and other important defense installations. Now
we know that in the last few days, the Americans
have been removing not a central personnel and their family
out of the Middle East because they expected something big

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to happen. So the Americans are already working on the
assumption that they've got to keep their troops away from
the front line of the conflict. The warry is that
it's this war between Israel and Iran drags on, then
the Iranians may well start to attack American bases in
the region, and that will then draw the Americans explicitly

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into the war on side. So it is a very
risky proposition. As Iran thinks it's perhaps losing in the war,
they will become increasingly desperate, so they could either attack
the shipping which is on the States of hom Use
right on the Iranian coastline, in which case still be
a dramatic increase in the price of petrol. Or secondly,

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the Iranians will start to attack the American defense facilities.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is Russia likely to play any role?

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Well, Russia, It's interesting Russia is actually trying to set
itself up as a neutral mediator in this. It's not
showing itself to be a great ally of Iran. In
fact of anything, it's actually warning Iran not to prolong
the conflict. So Russia may well be moving into a

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position where it will try to mediate and try to
settle the conflict, and of course that would improve Russia
standing within the United States if they're able to pull.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Off that role. We've seen some very graphic images of
the air strikes. How effective are Israel's defense systems like
the Iron Dome.

Speaker 4 (16:09):
Yes, Israel has got three defense systems and as you mentioned,
Iron Dome is one of them. They're very sophisticated, but
they can't stop everything, and so we've seen the attacks
getting through, particularly in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas. I
think Iran is a little hesitant about attacking Jerusalem itself
because it contains holy Islamic areas, whereas Tel Aviv on

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the other side of the country, modern cosmopolitan city that
is being targeted and certainly damage is being done. The
Israeli or defense system is very sophisticated, but not one
hundred percent perfect, and so some people have been perished
as a result of the missiles landing on other parts

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of Israel.

Speaker 1 (16:57):
Doctor Keith Suda, thanks so much for your inside today.
That's international relations expert, doctor Keith Souter and what is
happening on the Middle East, in the Middle East between
Israel and Duran and we'll keep you abreast of that
as the hours and minutes stick by well. On a
parallel note, it appears that Australians are losing faith in
the us to act responsibly in the world. A new

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poll has revealed some startling figures and we'll take a
look at those after news headlines back shortly.

Speaker 2 (17:25):
Five A Mornings with Graham.

Speaker 1 (17:27):
Goodings And as you just heard Kendall say, the Prime
Minister he's in Canada for the G seven conference. He
spoke just a short time ago.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
We're very grateful firstly for the opportunity to participate at
the G seven as an outreach partner. Australia and Canada
share values. We are long term allies and we are
true friends. We did discuss a deepening defense engagement, including
Canada's proposed procurement of Australian over the Horizon radar technology.

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We want to increase our cooperation on security, trade and energy.
And over a period of time Australian and Canada have
been enjoyed seignatures as well to various statements, sometimes between
just Australia, Canada and New Zealand, but sometimes as well
with other nations because we do share such common values

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going forward.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
And that's the Prime Minister Anthony al but Easy speaking
in Canada ahead of the G seven conference. Morti Graham.
Apparently the police can't say no to a pay rise once. Granted,
it's why in the past some have donated the rise.
Thank you for that, Paul. Yeah, a couple have done it,
but how many haven't. And yes, that's the remuneration tribunal
can say there's your pay rise, that's what you'll get,

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and all the polies say, well, it's not our decision.
We'll just take the money, thank you very much. But
wouldn't it be a great gesture by politicians to say, look,
the country is doing it tough at the moment, there
is a huge burden, we're heading towards a trillion dollar debt. Look,
we we really don't need this pay rise. But as
any current politician saying no to the pay rise, of

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course not of course not moving on eight double two
three double double Oh my number. If you'd like to
comment on that or any other issue of the day, Well,
only thirty six percent of Australians have any faith the
US will act responsibly in the world, according to our
latest poll. The Lowy Institute's twenty twenty five poll shows
Australia's feelings of safety and economic optivismism have fallen to

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the lowest levels in the twenty one year history of
the survey. Let's pull it apart find out more about
it from Ryan Keelan, the poll author from the Lowe Institute. Ryan,
good morning to.

Speaker 6 (19:46):
You, Good morning, how are you look.

Speaker 1 (19:48):
I'm well, thanks. It's pretty disturbing. I mean, we've always
looked for generations that the US is big brother. We
can always rely on the US to be there for
us and to be peacekeeper of the world. But that
feeling isn't a feeling of people today.

Speaker 6 (20:03):
Well, that's right. The level of trust in the United
States has dropped remarkable twenty points since last year. So
there's a clear Trump effect there. With Donald Trump now
in the White House. We have the lowest level of
Australians in our twenty one year history of this survey
saying that they trusted America. And if you look at

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the flip side, almost two thirds of Australians say they
have little or no trust in the United States. So
it's new territory here when it comes to how Australians
look at our major security ally. But the interesting thing
is when you ask a different question about how Australians
view the Alliance, eighty percent of Australians said that they

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see the Alliance of the United States is important to
our security. So people can obviously hold two thoughts in
their mind at the same time. On the one hand,
there's a feeling of trust and unpredict distrust and unpredictability
coming out of the White House. At the same time,
they continue to see the Alliance as an important pillar
of our security. And the question is what happens if

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low levels of trust continue, will that eventually undermine views
of the Alliance.

Speaker 1 (21:13):
There's no question that there's a lot of things happening
in the world at the moment that are unsettling, and
the world goes through these cycles of unrest. But we've
always seen the US as an ally that we can
rely on. But that feeling has gone well.

Speaker 6 (21:29):
As I said, there's some nuance there while Australians feel
that they're well. Clearly the lowest level of lowest number
of Australians in twenty one years has said that they
trust the United States under Donald Trump. At the same time,
Australians continue to hold pretty steady, pretty high levels of

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of the sense that the Alliance continues to be important
to our security. Now, if you break that down into
further detail, into what Australiaians are concerned about. We tested
on a whole range of different policies that mister Trump
has been espousing since he came into office, and on
the whole, Australians reject most of his foreign policies that

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we tested. So they disapprove of his attempts to acquire Greenland.
They strongly disapprove of his use of tariffs. Eighty one
censor that they disapprove of Trump's use of tariffs. They
disapprove of his withdrawal from the Paris Agreement on climate change,
attempts to negotiate with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine. So clearly

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Australians are at odd with much of Donald Trump's foreign
policy directions, and the question is how we navigate that
at a time when Australians continue to be wary towards
our major trading partner, China. That's the other interesting strand
of the international environment. We've seen a paradigm shift in
how Australian's book at China in the past few years,

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and now only twenty percent of Australians say they try
us China. So these two things are playing out at
the same time. On the one hand, a feeling of
uncertainty and certainly volatility coming from Washington. But at the
same time, Australians continue to feel very wary towards China,
especially in the wake of the economic coersion that we
found ourselves facing over the last few years.

Speaker 1 (23:21):
You mention the economic front, what is the general feeling
with Australians with the economy at the moment. Is there
a level of optimism.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
Certainly not. It's I think overall where we're seeing the
lowest levels of economic optimism over two decades of polling,
equal to the low levels of optimism we saw in
twenty twenty, and that was when the global pandemic was
coming into full swing. So it's a pretty bleak outlook
when it comes to the economy. And I don't think

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that's much of a surprise when you consider that our
major ally has not just levied tariffs on Australia but
also most of the world, and when much of Australia's
trading relationship is about selling resources to China, there are

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serious implications in questions about what happens when the US
and China at loggerheads on trade. As well, there are
secondary repercussions for Australia that could be quite serious for
our economy. So I think that's one aspect. But also
closer to home, we know that Australians have been feeling
the pinch at cost of living right now. So there

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are both global and domestic pressures that are leading to
an overall very low sense of economic obten.

Speaker 1 (24:39):
Is there a feeling that we should be doing more
in this country in terms of production. I mean, we
offshore so many things, you know, as you said, we're
supplying the world with resources and so forth, but there's
not many manufactured articles that leave this country. Should we
be making more in our country?

Speaker 6 (24:58):
Yes, well, eighty three percent of the Australian say that
we should be making more goods in Australia, even if
they cost more. So that's an interesting finding in the
context that, as you said, in the past few decades,
Australia has produced less and less. In Australia, we deregulated
our economy in the nineteen eighties and allowed essentially market

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forces to dictate where Australia produces more and where we
and what we seek to manufacture. And right now a
lot of what we consume and what we export has
at least some components of that made overseas. But in
recent years this is a global trend, not just in Australia.
But we've seen a focus on increasing economic security. In

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the wake of COVID, there's been more of an emphasis
on securing supply chains so that Australia Australia does not
suffer from global disruptions. But the challenge is making that
a reality. So while people might support manufacturing more in Australia,
the question is are they willing to pay higher costs.
They appear to say so in this poll, but when

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it comes down to particular products and who is paying,
those questions matter a lot.

Speaker 1 (26:10):
Your low A pole was far reaching and also looked
at social media. What were your findings in that area.

Speaker 6 (26:16):
So on social media, more Australians think that social media
has a negative effect impact on democracy than those who
say it has a positive impact. So seven and ten
of Australians think social media has more of a negative
impact on democracy. It's interesting given that this pole was

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fielded in early March, and around that time it was
before the fallout between the world's richest man, Elon Musk
and Donald Trump. But at that time we saw masks
taking quite a significant role in the Trump administration through DOGE.
It was flashed in the process of flashing government spending

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and and purpanel and most significantly had taken an act
to USAID, the USAID Foreign a program.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Ryan, thank you very much today. I appreciate your input
and Ryan Neelam the pole author from the Lowe Institute.
A whole range of aspects covered by the Lowey Poll
resulting largely and only thirty six percent of Australians having
any faith in the US that the US will act
responsibly in the world. What are your thoughts? Eight double
two three double o doublow Have you lost faith in

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the US? Did you never have faith in the US?
Did you see them as the world's policeman and a
role that they overstepped on many occasions. It would appear
that Donald Trump's pullback from that, but trust in the
US a record low in the poll. However, the nation
still wants to see the US Australia alliance continue. More
than eighty percent of the standards still believe the Australia

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US alliance is important to our security. Eight double two
three double o doublo is the number trust in China
also at dire levels, with only twenty percent of those
surveyed expressing any trust whatsoever in the country. It's a
turbulent world, isn't it. Gg You just delivered the greatest
stabany of a congrats, so thank you for that, Daryl.
They don't want the pay rise, but there's nothing they

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can do about it. Well they can. They can just
say I won't accept it or donate it, as did.
Someone suggested Robin Millhouse was a former politician and the
state Independent. Did he head upper party? Was it the
liberal movement? That's testing my memory? You will know, won't you?
Someone out there but Robin Milhouse, Henry says, if you
recall many years ago, state politician Robin Milhouse did regularly

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for go his pay rises and donated them to charity. Yes,
he certainly did that, and there were others. I think
Nick Xenophon did it for a term when he was
in the Senate. Darrels, is not true Americans trust Trump?
Who is this guy? Well, yes, a percentage of Americans
trust Trump, But what is happening in the US at
the moment would suggest there are a big percentage of
those who don't. David, good morning, good morning.

Speaker 7 (29:00):
Now, I sent you along an email for proof that
I haven't gone mad. As of the beginning of next month,
AGL are moving their feed in tariff to two cents,
and I'll take a deep breath and go okay, that's fine.
F APN announced over the weekend that any electricity sold
between ten am and four pm from solar will indure

(29:23):
a tariff of one point five cents, which will take
my two cents down to zero point five. Now I
can accept the grid in the middle of the day
is a wash with electricity. Well, we've been told this,
we understand this. Why am I paying during the daytime

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tariff so of the solar sponge tariff in the middle
of the day thirty eight cents when they are willing
to only buy it at point five percent. If the
power has so little value and the grid is literally
so a war with it, why are they not offering
us significantly discounted power during the middle of the day

(30:07):
to encourage use, Because use of power and a responsible
way will create prosperity within businesses. Am I misunderstanding something here?

Speaker 6 (30:17):
Now?

Speaker 1 (30:17):
I think you're totally on top of it, David. I
think the rest of us are trying to come to
terms with it, but it does. There's nobody that seems
to be standing back and looking at this saying, hang on,
people aren't getting a fair deal here. We are being
ripped off.

Speaker 7 (30:33):
What your bill? All the providers are harving their feed
in terrifies agl is two cents is the next month
and SAPN. I love the wording of their press release
that I sent to you. Oh, we're going to charge
one point five cents for grid access, but your provider
doesn't have to pass it on. Well, we both know
the truth of that. Oh, in any power sold outside

(30:56):
the time ten am to four pm, I don't charge
the tariff on well. I find my solar system is
so incredibly reactive on the moonlight.

Speaker 1 (31:08):
Good on you, David, Thanks for the input, and then
we'll check your email on that with the more detail
you have, any stories, So I know Ahl and I
think Origin to have announced that will be increases in
power costs and what are we told to do. I'll
shop around you get a better deal, but you're shopping around.
We're all on the same market unfortunately, and we're all
going to be paying more. Carl, good morning, Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:30):
Good morning, Graham. We've got us. Wanted to touch base
on that into the interview you did with the Gentleman
regarding the survey about Trump. Yeah, firstly, how do these
people do these surveys? Because I wasn't invited to be
part of it, that's a sure.

Speaker 1 (31:44):
But well, probably only I don't know how many. There'll
be probably a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people
out of the stage.

Speaker 8 (31:49):
Like when they do these surveys, they certainly skew them
a certain direction. But my view on and I've got
a best friend in America, so I keep in touch
with what's happening over there quite a while. And my
view on it is that Trump he supports and likes

(32:10):
to do deals with countries that are in line with
his beliefs or his way of running his countries. That
makes sense. Now, I don't believe he gets on great
with alban easy, and therefore I don't think he sees
Australia as you know, his friend at the moment, and
so that would probably be why it's reflecting negatively on

(32:31):
us with the taris and that sort of thing. So
I actually don't think it's Trump, and I don't think
it's America. I think it's actually our government that's hurting us,
not the other way around. And I feel like the
survey was a little bit skewed that one way.

Speaker 9 (32:44):
It's not.

Speaker 8 (32:44):
That was social media and also the mainstream media. Certain
channels will skew Trump a certain way and certain channels
will do it the other way.

Speaker 1 (32:52):
Well, that's that's the beautyful program like this that allows
you to divorce your opinion.

Speaker 8 (32:56):
Look, I appreciate and your last comment with him was good.
Where your last comment with him when you mentioned about
the local manufacturing, that is huge because that's exactly what
Trump's doing over there, is He's wanting to start and
manufacture everything in America again and keep everything local. And

(33:18):
I believe that we should be doing that here.

Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yep, good point. Good on you, Carl. Thanks for call
a double two to three double is the number to
ring back shortly five Double.

Speaker 2 (33:27):
A Mornings with Graham Goodings.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
Good morning, Welcome to Monday, this sixteenth day of June.
From the text line GG Trump donates his salary to
his nominated charity, so he does, thank you for that. Lead.
Trump is only doing what he said he would pre election.
The protests are only green lunatics against sending a legal
immigrants home, and of course the looters who take advantage
of the situation. Thanks for that, Gary. Why do the

(33:51):
media always speak for us telling us what Australians want?
Not ever have I been asked anything about any issue,
So I'm sick of them speaking for us. Yeah, take
your point when people sort of say with radio and television,
no one's ever asked me. Well, even in a city
the size of Sydney or Melbourne, I think only seven
hundred and fifty people are polled for what they want

(34:13):
to watch on television. Seven hundred and fifty And you
sort of say, oh, that's not representative. Well that's a
story for another day. But out of twenty seven million people,
if you're asked to do a poll, you are in
the absolute minority. And poles only are just to get
a feel for things. They are not They're indicative, but
they aren't comprehensive. So if you've never been asked, don't

(34:33):
be surprised these polls do take place. It all depends
whether you believe that you have confidence in them or not.
When it comes to the Lowy Poll, the Lowy Institute
I think has been pretty trustworthy over the years, we
need to start manufacturing now, even if dearer. We used
to do everything here and need to also get people
back working. Look after US first as a country, then

(34:55):
surplus overseas. US as citizens should be enjoying the best here.
For Trumpy flies away and brings back minions for him,
his country and people. Albert goes away and gives everything
away overseas, bringing back nothing Trumpy. The Trump supporters have
come out of the woodwork. Trump is the most pro
peace US president in decades. If ossies think we cannot

(35:15):
rely on the US, I guess we should expect to
see an increase in people joining the ADF. I won't
hold my breath. Mark Brindle joins us. Gooday, Mark, how
are you doing? Gooday?

Speaker 6 (35:26):
How are you?

Speaker 1 (35:26):
Graham? Good? Thanks?

Speaker 10 (35:27):
I was interested in some of those comments. I cannot
say I agree with them.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
No, but that's an open forum.

Speaker 10 (35:34):
Every opinion on your station.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Well, that's it. We can't be accused of taking one side.
I mean, I might have my opinions. I've been accused
of having all shades of red, green, gray, and you.
But anyway, you didn't ring to talk about that.

Speaker 10 (35:49):
No, I rang because look, don't get me wrong. I
actually liked Rob and I had Robin Millhouse. I have
a lot of time for him, but I worry when history,
when myths become history. Robin used to donate his salary,
that's true, but only after he deducted what he considered inflation,

(36:12):
cost of living prices, et cetera, et cetera, and then
over twelve months or so subsequently he reabsorbed the increases.
So you know, lots of publicity about donating the salary,
but twelve months later he had taken the pay rise.
When Robin, Robin was a great guy. He was an

(36:34):
excellent member and he but he he knew the media, Graham,
and he knew he knew how to make work for opinion. Yes,
and he did when he was a Chief Justice on
a Curebas the same Robin Millhouse actually demanded a Rolls
Royce and got one.

Speaker 1 (36:54):
And the I used to ride a bike to Parliament House.

Speaker 10 (36:58):
I recall, well, exactly, that's the point I'm making. Go
to Cirebas and he's in a Rolls Royce, and I
think Curebas is about three miles by about one mile,
so it's not exactly a place you couldn't ride a bike.
Great guy.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
See good to chat. Mark Brindle, former state MP who
called in a double two three double o double oh
if you'd like to call in love to hear from me, Daryl.

Speaker 9 (37:21):
Good morning, Yeah, good morning Graham. And I'm loving your commentary.
Thank you, thank you. Let's talk about business, Graham. We
were talking about the increase costs for the politician. But
you know, between twenty twenty Graham and twenty twenty four,

(37:45):
my two car operation was nearly one hundred percent expenses.
Now I have to negotiate with a customer on a price,
and a customer says, ah, you too, dear ubers better
that it did it. Now, this has a lot of
mental effect on it. Back, Graham, I've got to say

(38:08):
to you, this increase, it's only minor. We've asked the
two things in our operation as operators in the blue
plate industry, we've asked for our blue plates to be
exclusive and not on ride share, so people that want

(38:28):
a premium service know who we are. And secondly, we
do not want the passenger tax increase. Graham. Do you
know if you do two hundred jobs for the quarter,
you're going to have to pay the government now four
hundred dollars you know on this passenger tax levee. And

(38:51):
do you know it was written to us like it
was written to us as they were doing us a
favor the cost of running business. The people in point,
in the transport and in tourism do not know the
effects on the tourism industry currently. And do you know

(39:12):
they keep registering these ride share cards, Grime, it's not practical, hey,
our customers, we have to listen to their requests as
a business person when I go into the politician's office,
because Griham, I don't just ring you up. I make
the appointment and meet them and guess what, they have

(39:36):
gotten no concern for my concerns. So what do you do? Grime?

Speaker 1 (39:42):
I can understand your frustration, and thanks for sharing with us. Darryl,
I don't know. I'm sure that you've spoken to the
government about that, the Transport Minister, those that officiate in
that area, but it seems to be a cluttered field
at the moment, and I can understand your concern and
those of other drivers too. Hey double two to three,
double double the number, Andrew says, Trump is merely doing

(40:02):
the right thing by his country. It's about time our
government did the same by ours. It was only ten
years or so ago when Dick Smith launched his own
brand that was more expensive and people wouldn't pay the
higher price. Now polls say they will. Times have definitely changed.
I would hope that that is the sentiment. It is
one thing to say, look, if it's Australian, I'll buy

(40:23):
it ahead of anything else, even if it costs a
little bit more. But will you really in tough times
when money is really tight and you look at your
supermarket bill going to hundreds of dollars and if you
can save fifty cents here, seventy cents there, eighty cents
somewhere else, you'll do it. I mean I always like
to support Australian and then South Australia in particular, and

(40:44):
do it where possible. But if there is a huge
difference in price between the local product and overseas and
times are tight, people are inclined to say, well I
really need the money, so yes, if you can support local,
please do so.

Speaker 2 (40:58):
Five double a morning with Graham Goodings.

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Speaker 1 (42:39):
Seven past ten, Good morning to you. Later this hour
your chance to go along and see the Robertson Brothers
on either Wednesday the twenty fifth or during the twenty
ninth at Her Majesty Theater at the Barossa Arts Center, TONNDA.
The Robertson Brothers very talented, very entertaining. But your chance
a little bit later on this morning. From the text line,
I saw Capolis sitting on TV and couldn't work out

(43:02):
how many there were. It's amazing in parliament. Other countries
don't have as many, and the same with councils. It's
a ridiculous strain on taxpayers money. Yeah, interesting point. That
are in the number of politicians, let's put their pay
rate aside. Australia ranks right up there when it comes
to the number of politicians per capita thirty one point

(43:23):
eight per million. Canada it's up there too, but twenty
seven point five USA, twenty three point seven per million,
the UK fourteen per million, so we are more than
double the UK thirty one point eight politicians per million dollars.
A lot of snouts in the troth What are your thoughts?
Eight double two to three double ow is the number

(43:45):
to ring well. Moving to another subject, an innocent girl
who was repeatedly raped by two men has had to
reimburse the state government one hundred thousand dollars before being
compensated for. It's a aged failure to protect her from harm.
The girls lawyer, Andrew says, it's yet another fadure and
broken promise on behalf of a government that is shown
and continues to show it will not come down on

(44:06):
the side of victims every day of the week. Andrew
Carpetter joins me now, Andrew, good.

Speaker 14 (44:10):
Morning, Thanks for having me on Graham.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
It's a pleasure. It's a little distressing. Tell us the story.

Speaker 14 (44:17):
Well, this follows on I was on your show last
year about the Heilio triple murder, where the same thing
effectively happened. But this brave child, she was sexually abused
by her stepfather and uncle for many, many years and
this is the worst kind of abuse you can imagine. Then,
when she was in about year five, she disclosed to
a teacher at the school that she was being abused.
The school was a mandatory report at that time. However,

(44:39):
they did nothing, so she continued to be abused. And
then eight years ago. This happened in the eighties, and
then eight years ago she finally went to the police.
The two individuals got convicted, she was awarded the victim
of crime payment, and then she sued the state government
because they obviously could have prevented the abuse, they took
no steps doing so. And then in order to settle

(44:59):
the claim, she was forced to repay the vendors of
crime payment, even though that the victors of crime payment
she received was due to the physical act committed by
the offenders and the civil claim was directed at the
state government for failing to protect her. So two completely
different causes of action in our position. And again, the
state has refused to exercise a discretion to allow the

(45:21):
forgiveness of these funds. And I mean the hard thing
is the Attorney General has discretion to forgive any recoveries,
and we saw the Hilio triple murder years ago. He
refused to exercise the discretion and not to repay these funds,
and also with this young child. So we've got children
are being murdered and sexually abused and that isn't enough

(45:44):
for the government to exercise their discretion to recover the repayments.

Speaker 1 (45:47):
So what is the Attorney General's justification.

Speaker 14 (45:50):
I'm not entirely sure it happened with the Hilly triple
murder with the young it was five and six at
the time I believe were murdered, and that ended up
being before the Omudsman and a coronal inquest, and both
found that the state were grossly negligent for both of
these instances, but they didn't allow recovery. So I'm not

(46:15):
sure what the Attorney General is. The department is not
recovering these and the Victims of Crime funds. It's about
two hundred and fifty million dollars and it increases by
a million dollars every week, So I'm not entirely sure.
What's the point of having a Victor of Crime fund
if victims aren't going to be adequately compensated.

Speaker 1 (46:29):
So what do you think needs to happen to address
this problem?

Speaker 14 (46:34):
Well, when it's the direct consequence of the state which
has led to abuse, which is the same with this
matter here and the hillier the brave children there, they
need to exercise their discretion. That There was a press
release that the government put out in the twenty sent
of April saying that we're going to stand by the
side of viitness survivors every day of the week, but

(46:55):
forcing victim survivors to repay funds before they get any
compensation not standing on their side. It's another slap in
the phase and it just shows that our state is
still behind the apall when it comes to victims' rights.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
So what's the next step. I mean, you can voice
your concerns, but where does it go from here?

Speaker 14 (47:11):
Well, our position is that if there's a discretion that
can be enlivened, why isn't it being enlive when when
children are being murdered and raped. This is a common
sense approach. Our view that if there is a discretion,
I mean, what would it take for the discretion to
be enlivened if it's not going to be enlive into
these instances. This is something that the government is priding
themselves on saying they're standing up for victims, But we're

(47:34):
still behind the apall. We still haven't legislated around the
High Court case identifying churches for their actions, and we're
still not pushing the super campaign where in this circumstances,
In these circumstances, the state could be actually going after
the superannuation of defenders and therefore not touching taxpayers fund.
So until there's greater laws being changed protecting the survivors,

(47:56):
you'd think that this money is well spent on people
that have not been able to work, will never be
at all work because of what happened to them as
a child.

Speaker 1 (48:03):
Andrew Carpeter, thanks sir for your time today. Andrew Carpeter,
lawyer for the girl who was repeatedly raped by two men,
had to reimburse the state government's one hundred thousand dollars
before she could get compensation for its alleged failure to
protect her from harm. Connie Bara's say Best. MLC has
called in Connie, good morning. What would you like.

Speaker 15 (48:22):
To add Good morning, Graham and good morning to your listeners.
Andrew's quite right.

Speaker 7 (48:26):
If you can't.

Speaker 15 (48:27):
Forgive a payment in cases involving the rape of a child,
when can you? And it really beiggs belief we are
even having this discussion this morning. There is a lot
of talk about double dipping from the Victims of Crime fund.
Let me make this crystal clear. This is not double dipping.
Andrew has just articulated that we are dealing with two
separate claims and that victim was well entitled to make

(48:49):
her claim from the Victims of Crime Funds after her
perpetrators were charged and convicteds. The fact that she then
took out a civil claim against the gunman should have
no bearing whatsoever on her initial claim from the fund,
and the government on Friday came out and said that
they won't speak to be repaid compensation that's already been received.

(49:12):
It'll take into account any previous payments that have been
made in its settlements. That is objectionable, it's morally corrupt,
it's semantics at best, because the bottom line is her
deed says that she cannot sign off on this matter
unless she agrees to pay back the one hundred thousand

(49:33):
dollars that she received from the fund in the first place.
The attorney's discretion is there, Graham. And if it's not
being exercised now, when on earth will it be.

Speaker 7 (49:46):
Exercise.

Speaker 1 (49:47):
It can't be because of a shortage of funds and
the victims of crime, as Andrew said, two hundred and
forty eight million dollars in the kitty and it's growing
by a million dollars a week. Surely they can just
let thishundred thousand dollars past.

Speaker 15 (50:01):
Absolutely absolutely they can and they should.

Speaker 7 (50:04):
And I'll be looking at.

Speaker 15 (50:04):
This from a legislative perspective to see what we can do,
because if the attorney can't do this by himself, then
we're sure as hell can introduce legislation into Parliament and
have a debate about legislating for this sort of thing
not to occur in the future. It is, as I said,
morally corrupt that we should be asking someone who was
persistently raped as a child to pay back money that

(50:27):
she is entitled to as a victim of those crimes.

Speaker 1 (50:31):
Conny Barnardos yep, go on at all.

Speaker 15 (50:36):
The next point I was going to make is just quickly.
The fact that we have waited in something like five
years for some movement on the other front around super
is also it is also objectionable. I mean, these people
in many instances have assets, they have homes, they have
super We move pretty quickly to take away the assets

(50:57):
of vikings in this state and we've from those laws
to the nth degree. Why on earth does a pedophile
get to keep their assets when there are victims who
will suffer from the rest of their lives. No, a
man of money is going to no amount of money
is going to heal them. But they don't deserve a
slap in the face on.

Speaker 16 (51:16):
Top of that.

Speaker 1 (51:18):
CONNYE Banarasa, thanks for your time todaysa best MLC and
we will put a call into the Attorney General's office
to see if we can find out what the situation
is and can it be rectified? Should it be rectified
or will the Attorney General stand his ground? Love to
know your thoughts. Eight double two three double O double
oh back in a moment, five double A.

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Mornings with Gram Goodings.

Speaker 1 (51:39):
Twenty minutes past ten, five double A. Hope we find
you well. Let's take a call Dennis, good morning, Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:47):
Graham, I haven't heard anything more about the avatars at
Port Waitefill there. It's seeing that Carls wouldn't take their
there are a pork.

Speaker 1 (51:56):
Yes, nothing's been.

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Done about it. Is it true to say that they
couldn't keep supply? Do we know anything more about it?

Speaker 1 (52:03):
No? I don't know that that was the issue. I
just believe that Coles just canceled their order or reduced
their order. That's but I know no more detail than that.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
Aren't they supposed to be you know, looking, you know,
like you'd think Coles it's bad publicity for Coals. Isn't
it that they they're going to lose two hundred and
sixty jobs because they've decided not to deal with it?

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Yeah? No, look, i'd agree entirely. I don't know what
their reasoning is. I haven't heard from Cole's whether they're
The suggestion was that they're going to source their pork
from Victoria. Yeah, yeah, but I don't know. God.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah. Another thing, you know, how we seem to be
getting a lot of this left wing stuff like pure
and A. People say it's very left and maybe it is,
and and other things. But Graham, I've got to say
to you the paper I read every day. Those writers
in the paper, ninety nine percent of them very right wing.

(53:02):
You think, so, yes, Andrew Hold or what his name is,
But I mean, why is it so biased the paper
towards towards the Labor Party. It seems to be every
one of those writers, you mean.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
Against the labor value, not for the labor party.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
Yeah, looked, do you notice that when you're reading the paper.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
Newspapers, Well, you've got to take into account that there's
a difference between reporting the news and commenting on the news,
and if there's a byline of its nature, like by
Andrew Bolt, I think everyone knows his political leaning, so
the newspaper obviously has their particular point of view. Newspapers
traditionally have had a stance where they differ from television

(53:47):
channels and radio stations where we don't push any particular barrow.
But yeah, I look, as they say, to be fore
warned is to be forearmed. If you don't believe in
what they're they're saying, that's fine, but they still have
a right to say it.

Speaker 4 (54:03):
Of course I do.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Yeah, yeah, Okay, thanks for take call.

Speaker 1 (54:07):
Good on you, Dennis, Thanks for that. Yeah, we'll see
if we can find out more about what is happening
regarding the Port Wakefield abatoars because a horrible situation with
so many people losing their jobs. Cole's pulling out of
that one. But yeah, has there been any any resolution
there as someone stepped into the breach. We will follow
up and see what we can find out. Well, Australia

(54:29):
is just weeks away from receiving a welcome booster their
retirement savings, with the change having a more significant impact
for some people more so than others. From July the first,
when changes to the superannuation guarantee kick in, employers will
be required to pay super contributions of twelve percent of
a worker's ordinary time earnings. Joining us now to talk

(54:49):
about it as Richard Webb, CPA Australia Superannuation Lead Richard,
good morning to you, Good.

Speaker 16 (54:54):
Morning Graham, thank you, thank you for having me now.

Speaker 1 (54:57):
Super contributions at the moment, eleven point five percent up
to twelve percent. Most people would say on zero point
five percent, that's not going to make much of a difference,
but is it.

Speaker 16 (55:06):
Well, that's a very good point, Graham. I mean, I
think one thing that people focus on, I suppose, is
the fact that the increase of twelve percent doesn't really
sound like much, but it can make a substantial difference
over a working lifetime. So for example, someone who's earning
sixty thousand a year could see tens of thousand more
in their super by retirement, depending on their investment returns.

(55:27):
And fees, even though their annual SUPER contributions are only
increasing by six hundred dollars. So, for example, we would
expect that someone who's twenty five and join the workforce
for the first time in July, they could expect retirement
income equivalent to a little over fifty thousand a year
in current spending power when they retire at age sixty seven,
assuming that they don't break their career for breaks.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
Yeah, yeah, when I mean it is cumulative, isn't it.
I mean, if someone's within five years retirement age, it's
not going to make a whole lot of difference.

Speaker 16 (55:58):
That's correct. I mean, be a little increase, I suppose,
but certainly nothing compared to someone who's said twenty five
joining the workforce.

Speaker 1 (56:06):
Now, when it comes to SUPER, how is it broken
down in terms of is it's going up point five percent?
Does that mean someone will see point five percent less
than their weekly income.

Speaker 16 (56:18):
Well, I think for most employees there's a common benefit
which means that more money is going into their superannuation accounts,
which of course is as we've just discussed, can significantly
boost retirement savings over time, but the immediate impact will
vary from employee to employee, because some might not see
an immediate increase as you've mentioned in take home pay,
especially if their employment contracts include a total remuneration package,

(56:43):
which is common now and that's where supers included in
the overall package. But for other employees, and this is
particularly true for people who are on things like awards
or enterprise agreements, their pay agreement may be as a salary,
which means that it will not affect to take home pay,
and the super is being just worked out on top
of what basically most of the salary is. So I

(57:06):
think the take home message for employees should be that
to best guard against any fiscal shocks in the new year,
it's probably a good idea for them to check in
with their employer to understand how they see the changes.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
Yeah, and I was just going to ask that question.
I mean, if you have any questions, I suppose you
could ask your accountant if you've got one, but best
to start with your employer.

Speaker 9 (57:26):
Oh.

Speaker 16 (57:26):
Absolutely, the employer will have all your details there as
to what kind of employment arrangement that you've got with them. Certainly,
of course, for a lot of employees who are diligent
and keep that welcome letter that they get from their
employer when they start. That's also a good place to start.
But if you haven't got that, the employer is the
next best thing.

Speaker 1 (57:44):
And these changes from superstart within weeks.

Speaker 16 (57:48):
That's right, they start on the first of July.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Excellent, good on you're Richard, thanks for your time today.
Thank you, Graham, Richard webb CPA. I'll stay their super
anuation lead. So a little bit of positive news from
July the first superannuation changes, employers will be required to
pay super contributions of twelve percent of your ordinary time earnings.
That's up from eleven point five percent, which doesn't seem

(58:12):
a lot point five percent, so what but as you
just heard explained there that over if you're a young person,
over a period of time, it will add up to
a substantial amount. So if you're an older person, it's
not going to make all that much difference. But still
it's better in your pocket than somebody else's pocket. From
the text line, you're right, Grahame. In regards to buying
Australia or Local, some families simply can't afford to buy

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it as it's too expensive. In some cases you can
pay double for an Australian product, which is just wrong.
Money doesn't grow on trees. Yeah, this is the difficult thing,
isn't it. I think every reasonable minded person, if you
had two products lined up, one was made in Australia Southastradia,
one was made in China or New Zealand or somewhere else,
you would gravitate towards the local product for so many reasons,

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supporting local business. It has travel further. If it's coming
from overseas, you can be assured that if it's local,
the quality will be impeccable, not so sure if it's
come from overseas. But then you look at the price,
and if there's a huge differential, no matter how much
you want to support the homegrown product, you've got to

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weigh it up and say, if I keep buying the
deerer products or across the range, it's going to add
dollars to my supermarket bill. Now, if that's not important
to you, If an increase here and there are fifty
cents seventy cents doesn't make a difference, of course you'd
go for the local product. But if it does make
a difference, if it means that add all these things
up and I can't afind to buy a meal a

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week for the kids or do something, can't afford to
pay the power bill, You're not going to consider so
when you can, please support the local. But I think
we all understand that if times are really, really tough,
you've got to go and get the cheaper deal. What
are your thought? It's eight double two three double o
double oh back after news headlines five double A Mornings
with Graham Goodings twenty eight two eleven five A hope

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we find you well on this Monday morning, sixteenth day
of June. How quickly the year is passing. From the
text line, let's see what you've had to say. We
thank everyone who voted this government in they knew they
were hell bent on rolling out renewables at any cost
to the taxpayer, whilst in they're pushed for an unattainable
emissions target they're so obsessed about they are okay wasting

(01:00:27):
our money on a title change. Yeah. Why do the
media always speak for us telling us what Australians want?
Not every ever have I been asked about any other issues.
So I'm sick of them speaking for us when you
can ring up and speak for yourself, tell us what
you think politicians they don't want to pay rise, but
there's nothing they can do about it. I think they could.

(01:00:49):
I think they really could if they really wanted to. Well,
Australian's losing faith in the US. Why is that so?
What is happening in the world stage that causes this constant?
Bruce Walthy, United States Study Center Senior fellow and author
joins men Now, Bruce, good morning to you.

Speaker 17 (01:01:05):
Hey Graham, good morning to you. Glad we could talk.

Speaker 1 (01:01:09):
Yeah, look, this lack of faith. I mean, Australia has
always seen THESS A staunch ally that we have been
stood side beside on the battlefield and being there through
think and through thin The faith now is shaking. How
do you see it?

Speaker 17 (01:01:25):
I see That's exactly how I see it. From travel
countries and studying in both countries and the seeing where
people are. The fear of Trump returning was just palpable here.
You know, in the run up to the election, the
amount of attention that Australians from all walks of life
were paying to it was huge. And wherever I go,

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I've written two books on Trump and Australia and talk
to people, they're just absolutely sad riveted. They don't like
being riveted, but they are to pay a lot of
attention to what Trump does. But I think there were
two events that really shook the faith of many Australians
in the relationship. I wanted to see street relations with

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the United States or relations with Trump, but as long
as he is in charge of the United States, it
just flows to the country and where it's going. The
first was just where everyone saw what Trump and did
to Zelenski in that meeting in the Oval Office, where
that you would treat someone who was invaded by boutin
that way, and it was it was a shock because
it just brought home exactly how Trump can operate. And secondly,

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the tariffs, the trade wars, and that here's Australia which
has exactly what Trump has been saying for years that Australia.
Australia has a trade deficit with the United States. US
has a trade surplus with Australia, and Trump's keep saying
that the world has ripped us off, but Australia isn't
ripping off the United States. But Australia's published is punished

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in the same way as every other country.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
And I think that's what's disappointed. I'll start in so
much that we thought we've had the spatial relationship on
a defense level, and all of us when it comes
to taras, we're bundled in with a lot of countries
that we shouldn't make.

Speaker 17 (01:03:04):
That's right. So those two things in particular, it really
drove sentiment and it was and it was occurring at
a time when Trump was going after Canada and just
being really rubbishing a relationship, so that the Liberal who won,
Carneie the new prime minister. You know that that party
was down after Trudeau being in for so many years,

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was down by like twenty seats, and the wins a
really strong election victory. So these things are all resonating
and I think Australians are feel even though you know
we're separated by an ocean, the sentiment is there and
it's really settled I think in the Australian political culture.
And as we could see in the in the federal

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election here wherever Trump is and't was raised you know
in Dunton's campaign, and if not directly by him, but
by people you know in the party who are running.
People reacted against it. So it's very tangible.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
I think, do you see the outcoming tools between Trump
and ALDENEZI?

Speaker 17 (01:04:03):
Yeah, this is a really interesting day, isn't it. And
we will see. I think the Prime Minister will be
very direct on what we've been talking about. We're one
hundred year ally and we're one hundred year Allies and
for Australia to be treated this way, we've gone out
of our way. This is no way to treat a friend,
which is exactly what the Prime Minister of Canada told Trump,

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and he feels really strongly about it. Our Prime Minister
is a very seasoned person. He's been around for a
long time. He's thought this thing through. I think he's
going to be very direct and I think he wants
to know, Okay, what are you going to do on trade,
what are you going to do on August? What are
you going to do in Ukraine? And what are you
doing in the Middle East? And I think he wants

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very clear answers if Australia is to charge its course
in a changing world. And the world has changed. The
United States is no longer the leader of the free world.
Nations are not following the United States. He has completely
disrupted the global free trading system. Yeah, there are issues,
but he's gone beyond that.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
Well.

Speaker 17 (01:05:07):
I think Australia needs to know what are you going
to do, mister president, because we have to decide our
future too.

Speaker 1 (01:05:14):
Donald Trump is not as the transactional wheeler and dealer.
He does deal. He puts these things out there and
hopefully getting people on the line, on the hook, and
then he can do a deal with them. Do you
see that with the relationship with Australia. Is he looking
to do deals but putting in Astrada in a position

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of weakness.

Speaker 17 (01:05:36):
I think he did well. I don't know about weakness,
but I think he wants if Australian gets some benefits
by having a good a commercial relationship on rare earth
minerals and other things that are important to supplying the
United States. I think that's okay, But I think when
when if? But if Australia is in the same basket
as every other country which with which the United States

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does have legitimate issues like China for example, or other allies,
that's not right. So again, I do think it's just
going to be a very informative discussion as to where
Trump is. But the other thing is doing deals Trump
said he can end the war in Ukraine in twenty

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four hours. Well one hundred and forty days later, you know,
it's still raging. He could do something in Gaza that
is completely still stuck. The trade wars, he has not
settled one definitive trading agreement with anyone, including the United Kingdom.
Have an agreement in principle, but it's not written down then.

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And of course what's happening with Iran. There's no nuclear
deal and a war is raging there. So can he
make deals? He sure talks a lot, but ultimately it's
the key thing is not to listen to what he says,
it's to watch what he does. That is the ultimate
definition of what Trump means for us and everyone else trying.

Speaker 6 (01:06:58):
To deal with him.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
We had to draw a line in the sand with
these Liberation Day announcement on taros, but he's already wound
back some of those.

Speaker 17 (01:07:07):
Yeah, I mean he can just given almost headline news.
The bond market is spooked, Wall Street is spooked. Oh
his immigration policies. He wants to deport He wants to
deport everyone who is in the United States illegally. Well,
he just kind of found out over the past couple
of weeks that there are a lot of people who

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are not documented who work in hospitality industries, the hotel industry, agriculture.
They're part of the backbone of America's economy and everyone
seems to have known that except him. So suddenly last
over the weekend, he says, Oh, we're changing our deportation
priorities and those people will be okay, we can't hurt
our farmers. Well, this is the chaos that can surround

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how Trump reaches decisions and execute decisions.

Speaker 1 (01:07:56):
What do you might have his fall out with Elon Musk.

Speaker 17 (01:08:00):
Well, everyone and myself included just thought it can't last.
You have the richest man in the world and the
most powerful man of the world joined. Those are huge power,
huge egos, and a huge money between them. Musk has
billions of dollars in contracts that Trump can control because
he's the president of the United States. And when Musk,

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it started from the position of both of them extremely well,
must became effectively the vice president of the United States
in terms of the power and authority that he could
wield when he was doing his job with this Department
of Government efficiency. But when he started speaking out against
things that Trump was doing trying to do in legislation
in Congress. Well, that's trouble. I mean a Musk has

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a following as well among Republicans in Congress. If he's
saying that the president's big tax and budget bill is irresponsible,
an abomination and shouldn't be enacted, well, that hurts Trump.
And so that was the That was the visible trip
wire that precipitated the very ugly fight. And it was

(01:09:05):
sort of amazing to see these two men fight this
out on social media in a forty eight hour period,
with the most disgusting things being.

Speaker 18 (01:09:15):
Said to each other.

Speaker 17 (01:09:17):
It's just nuts. But anyway, it cost Musk's position. He
lost the confidence of Trump, and I think Trump was
I think Trump was really there are many people who
could really hurt him because he believes and in fact
is more powerful than they are. But this hurt him
and they have separated.

Speaker 1 (01:09:39):
Can we just get back to the G seven summit.
At the moment, it looks like they will be a
meeting between Anthony Albanesi and Donald Trump. Does Australia does
Anthony Albanese have any boggaining power, because it would seem
almost certain that Donald Trump would say you've got to
up your defense spending. You know that they've been making
that loud and clear publicly. Anthony al easy As said,

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you know, we'll make our own decisions. What is likely
to be said behind closed doors.

Speaker 17 (01:10:06):
I don't think there's anything Australia can do that would
force Trump to act in a certain way. But the
question is what good is this friendship?

Speaker 7 (01:10:13):
Is?

Speaker 17 (01:10:14):
This is how you treat us after decades of being
aligned with each other, And it really comes down to, well,
am I still going to be friends with you? Yeah,
we'll treat each other decently, but are we going to
have a close relationship or not? And I think it
is really important. Again, the world has changed, but we
don't know exactly what the United States want. What does

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the United States really want in China?

Speaker 19 (01:10:38):
With China?

Speaker 17 (01:10:38):
What does it really want in Asia? What does it
really want with August those things?

Speaker 1 (01:10:43):
If not?

Speaker 17 (01:10:44):
Trump has not spoken out on those issues, So I
think I think it's very important for the Prime Minister
to come away with a clear understanding of what Trump
wants in those areas, and then Australia can do what
it can first to protect its interest and Project Australia
and Secondly, where you can work with the United States,
work with them. Where you can't, let's strike out on

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a different course to protect Australia's interests. So I think
it's going to be a very interesting meeting. I think
it will be quite civil. I think although it would
be bad news if Trump replicates what he does in
the Oval Office and has World Leader, you know, number
one right next to me and I'm going to call
in the media, We're going to have a little press conference.
That would be not a good thing.

Speaker 1 (01:11:27):
Bruce Walpy, thanks so much for insight today. Really appreciate it.
Bruce Walpy, United States Studies Center Senior fellow author and
someone with a wonderful perspective on what's happening in the
United States. Dan says, I've said this for years. I
think many will agree, but this state is weak with
dealing with pedopile cases. Just look at the family murders
where the suspect names have been suppressed for over forty years.

(01:11:50):
Gigi agree with Connie one hundred percent. Why is the
Victims of Crime fund so high? Obviously this money is
being squirreled away by the government and not being paid
out to victims like it should be so, says Steve.
Thank you for that, STEVIEA. We want to ask the
Attorney General some questions regarding that the victims of crime levy,
as Andrew Carpenter said, is two hundred and forty eight

(01:12:10):
million dollars at the moment that's just sitting there and
it's going up at the rate of about a million
dollars a week. What is the money for if the
government demanded back once they've handed it out. There's questions
that need to be asked, questions that need to be answered,
and we'll do our best to get the Attorney General
Kaiama on the show eight double two to three double
double Oh is my number five double A Mornings with

(01:12:33):
Graham Goodings seventeen to eleven, five double A on this
other gloomy Monday morning. Hope we find you well well.
Specialist fees have swored seventy three percent in real term
since twenty ten, and now there's a push to have
the doctors who slug patients with excessive fees stripped of
the Medicare funding. A report by the Gratton Institute revealed

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outpatient fees have sword over the past fifteen years. To
tell us about us from the Gratton Inner produced to
Elizabeth Bulwen. Elizabeth, good morning to you.

Speaker 20 (01:13:03):
Good morning Graham.

Speaker 1 (01:13:04):
I think anyone that's been to the doctor at any
level recent times knows that prices have gone up dramatically,
but your findings quite alarming.

Speaker 20 (01:13:14):
That's right. We've had a lot of attention on GP
fees and GP bolk dealing rates, but the problems are
actually even worse for specialist doctors. So still about eighty
percent of GP visits are both bills, but only around
a third of specialist visits are, and the average fees
for every single specialist visit are higher. On average, patients

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are paying about three hundred dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:13:36):
A year, and that's per visit or per just per years.

Speaker 20 (01:13:42):
That's adding up all of their visits across the year.
And our research also investigated the extreme fee side of
the spectrum. So these are feeds that can be hundreds
of dollars a year, six hundred and seventy dollars for
a psychiatrist, three hundred and sixty dollars for a cardiology
and we found that about one in five patients are

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paying one of these really high extreme fees every single year.

Speaker 1 (01:14:07):
Has this got anything to do with the long waiting
time only in people waiting months years at times to
get into see a specialist.

Speaker 18 (01:14:14):
That's right.

Speaker 20 (01:14:14):
So if you can't afford those high out of pocket
costs in the private sector, pretty much your only option
is to go and join a public queue. But those
cues can be months long, as you said, having a
look at some of the South Australian data and you
know up to more than two years, twenty seven months,
twenty eight months for some specialties in some areas. So

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that's not really a viable option for patients who have
gotten this referral from their doctor. They need some specialized
medical attention. So we think that the government should solve
this problem in a couple of ways. One is by
putting more investment into those public clinics so that people
have a real option if they don't want to or
can't afford to go private, they have an option for timely,

(01:15:00):
high quality care in the public sector. And then we
also think that the government should directly tackle those really
high extreme outlier fees.

Speaker 1 (01:15:10):
How many Australians are delaying or skipping specialist appointments each
year we hear and incdotally people are doing it all
the time they just can't afford to go and see
a doctor a specialist.

Speaker 20 (01:15:20):
Yeah, it's a huge number. It's two million people every
single year are delaying or skipping a specialist appointment, about
half of those a million or so because of the
cost of care. And in a universal health system like Australias,
those numbers should you know, raise real alarm bells and
they also clearly create illness and suffering and pain for consumers,

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but they also add to pressure on hospital and the
rest of our healthcare systems down the track. If patients
are delaying diagnoses, you know, delaying the treatment that they need,
their conditions are going to worsen and ultimately they might
need more intensive care later on. So we think that
this bestment that we're proposing about five hundred million dollars
in public clinics across the country will will be really

(01:16:07):
timely to prevent that deterioration.

Speaker 1 (01:16:10):
So this is five hundred million dollars towards existing public
clinics or new public clinics.

Speaker 20 (01:16:16):
We think it's a combination of boats. So we're supposing
that the government doesn't just splash this around the country,
you know, certainly not splash it in marginal electorates. We
think that they should be really sophisticated in the way
they target it. They should have a look across the country.
We've got the data, it's all collected, but we need
to put the data together and have a look at

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which areas are missing out on particular types of specialty
and then target the investment in those areas. So South
Australia's regional areas some of the places that need a
lot of investments, and that could be in the form
of building new clinics, it could be in the form
of virtual care, which for you know, some types of

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specialist care works really well and pay stay patients, travel
time and hassles. And then there's also a case for
the existing public clinics that we have to get some
support and some advice and information to do things better.
There's a lot of variation in how these clinics are run,
the way they manage their scheduling systems, the triage, the

(01:17:21):
way they use different staff members in the clinics, and
so we think that they could be seen even more
patients with a bit of an agenda to modernize those clinics.

Speaker 1 (01:17:33):
And by what you're saying, if they run properly. It
would take pressure off emergency departments around the nation.

Speaker 18 (01:17:40):
That's right.

Speaker 20 (01:17:41):
We think that there is definitely flow on effects from
the neglect of the specialist care system. The other thing
that governments can do to take the pressure off, way
back at the beginning is implement what are called secondary
consultation systems. So we think that each state government, so
the South of Stralian government, should set one up. And

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this is a system where a GP who's got a
patient in front of them there's just one thing that
they're not quite sure about they just need a second
opinion on. They should be able to write into this
system and then give them details on the patient's condition,
the patient's history and get back high quality, expert written
advice from a specialist. At the moment, there's no systematic

(01:18:24):
way for gps to do that, and so there's some
referrals that are going into the system that aren't that necessary.
There's a Queensline system that's been running for a few
years that does this really well and we think if
it was rolled out across the country it could avoid
about seventy thousand referrals every year.

Speaker 1 (01:18:43):
I'd certainly take pressure off the system. Elizabeth thanks for
your time today. From on the Gratton Institute Health Program,
Elizabeth Baldwin eight double two three double double o. One
in ten al straduents play almost six hundred dollars each
year to see specialist doctors, with one million delaying or
skipping appointments due to the cost. According to the Gratten
Institutes analysis. Have you found that have you had to

(01:19:05):
put off going to see a doctor a specialist because
you just can't afford to. You have to make a decision.
Food on the table, pay the power bill or go
to the doctor. We hear it more and more unfortunately
eight double two three double o double oh to comment, Well,
here's your chance to head along to see the Robertson
Brothers on either Wednesday, June twenty fifth at a Majesty
Theater or Sunday, June twenty ninth at the Barossa Art Center.

(01:19:26):
To nonda, give me a call now eight double two
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Sunday afternoon, June twenty ninth. Very talented, very entertaining. You
will have a wonderful, wonderful night from the text line
tell Trump no more Pine Gap. Yeah, that is that

(01:19:47):
is a bargaining ship. There's no question about that. One
thing that has been mentioned is that Australia is a
great resource or supplier of rare earth minerals, which are
being needed more and more in this current day one world.
And while you can get rare earth minerals in other
countries around the world, Australia's supply would be ensured, it
would be safe, it would be guaranteed, and I'm sure

(01:20:10):
America would be eyeing them off. So maybe that is
another bargaining chip that the Prime Minister might have. Andrew says,
I disagree that Zelenski was ambushed at the Oval office.
He spent ninety minutes with Democrat senators just prior to
that meeting, who dissuaded him to sign the peace deal.
He traveled all the way to the US to sign.
It was clear all Zelenski wanted was more money and
weapons to keep fighting an endless, unwinnable war. You may be, say, Andrew,

(01:20:34):
the only point I would make, why humiliate someone publicly?
I'm sure Donald Trump could have achieved what he wanted
to achieve by doing it behind closed doors, to do
it publicly. I don't know that anyone was the winner
with that, Dan says, I've said this for years and
I think many will agree. But this state is weak
with dealing with Peter File cases. Just look at the
family murders. Agree with Connie Banaris, well said Steve, and

(01:20:58):
fantastic calls. We think everyone who voted this government in
they knew they were hell bent on rolling out renewables
at any cost of the taxpayer, whilst in they push
for an unattainable emissions target. They're so obsessed about they're
okay wasting our money on a title change.

Speaker 18 (01:21:13):
Phil, good morning, Good morning, And it's a very interesting
scenario regarding super annuation. Ye now, who's using this war
chest and who is where all this money is going?
Is getting the interest of that money? Now, somebody somewhere

(01:21:40):
is pocketing all that money from every employee and using
it to their own use. Now I think that is
totally unfair, irrepresnciple, and should find out where all this

(01:22:03):
money is going that somebody else's hard earned money, Well.

Speaker 1 (01:22:08):
It's really invested. Are your money? Your superannuation money goes
to an investment company and they invested for you. That's
why you end up with a lot more at the
end of it than when you put it in. But
do well, yes you do. I don't know anyone who's
paid into their super for ten, twenty thirty, forty fifty
years has come away with less money than the thought.

Speaker 18 (01:22:31):
Unfortunately, I disagree because if you pass away that money,
if you haven't got it appropriated in your will correctly,
gets lost. The whole thing to me is an absolute scamp.

Speaker 1 (01:22:50):
What all superannuation thinks are scam my opinion. Yeah, Look,
I don't know about what happens if you don't appropriate
it or in your will. Who will be the beneficiary
of your superannuation? But I think most people will agree
that superannuation is a great thing. Compulsory superannuation was institutional,
I think was Paul Keating bought it in back in

(01:23:12):
the late nineties and it has been very, very effective
and taking a burden off social services, etc. But yeah,
I think most companies do the right thing. If someone
can tell me otherwise, I'd like to hear it. Give
me a call eight double two three double back after
the News, five double.

Speaker 2 (01:23:30):

Speaker 1 (01:23:34):
Seven past eleven five double A and we have a winner.
Going to see the Robertson Brothers is Keith the Barossa
Valley and Keith, there is a concert twenty fifth of
June at a majesty theater. I think the one you're
going to will be Sunday, the twenty ninth of June
at the Barossa Arts Center to anunder So congratulations Keith
and the Barossa Valley. You're off to see the Robertson Brothers.

(01:23:55):
Very talented, very entertaining, and you're going to have a
great time. Speaking of entertainers, Lenny Kravitz is back, coming
back to Australia for the first time for thirteen years,
and he's going to headline at the Adelaide's Supercars event.
He's going to do a number of outdoor gigs around Australia,
but the big one will be the concert here in
Adelaide with Ossie rock band Jet supporting it. And I

(01:24:18):
see legendary rock icons ac DC a tip to return
to Australia late in twenty twenty five. Do you have
any recollections of seeing either Lenny Kravitz or ac DC.
It's been a long time since they've performed here. I
would suggest ten years. In fact, it would look to
be who was your favorite rock performer? What was your

(01:24:38):
favorite concert? Who would you like to see who hasn't
come to Australia for a long long time that you
think it's about time they came. I'd love to see them.
Give us a call. Eight double two to three double
doublo is the number from the text line, Well said Steve,
fantastic call. Regional hospitals should be used. Specialists should travel
to the regions, patients traveling not to the city. Look,

(01:25:02):
a lot of specialists do go to regional centers. There's
no question about that. Whether it is enough, I don't know.
Agree with Connie one hundred percent. Why is the Victims
of Crime fund so high? We're going to try to
find out from the Attorney General why that is two
hundred and forty eight million dollars. It sits out at
the moment, growing by one million dollars a week. So

(01:25:22):
if it goes to a victim of crime and then
the government says, well we gave you that, but now
that you're seeking compensation, we want our money back, I
would really like that explain to me. You know someone
who's gone through the horrors as a child of being
raped the hands of a pedophile and they get some
form of compensation from the victims of why is it

(01:25:43):
deemed that, Yeah, it's double dipping. You know you've got
that you don't deserve anymore. I mean, a victim of
that nature deserves everything they can possibly get and to
suggest otherwise is absolutely folly. So we will be pursuing
that eight double two to three double double oh is
the number to ring. And I'd love to hear from you.
Also on the show today, we were talking at some

(01:26:04):
sort of length about the Liberal Party saying that they
want to establish first home buyers having a stamp duty
taxes scrapped it on the established houses or apartments up
to one million dollars in value. What are your thoughts
about that? I'd like to know. This is what Vincentazi
had to say to the boys on Breaking this morning.

Speaker 9 (01:26:22):
What's the key difference between what you guys are offering
and what the government's already put in place every.

Speaker 21 (01:26:27):
Day in Australia has got an incentive on stamp duty
for existing homes, but not South Australia, and so what
we want to do knowing that stamp duty on existing
homes is just this massive barrier for first home buyers
in South Australia, as sod you point out, nearly actually
nearly fifty grand sometimes for the cost of almost a
medium priced home. What we want to do is we

(01:26:48):
want to scrap stamp duty entirely for established homes up
to that million dollar value for first home buyers. And
as you point out, that will say the average homeowner
nearly fifty grand, and it really gives them an advantage
in what is a very competitive home market.

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
So that's Vincentazia talking to David at Will this morning
on Breakfast regarding reducing the stamp duty or eliminating stamp
duty for first home buyers on not just new homes
but secondhand and established homes or apartments up to one
million dollars in value. It's done in other states. Why
isn't it done in this state? It would seem to

(01:27:27):
be a great idea if it could get more people,
young people into housing, because Biji, it's pretty tough. And
I was watching seven News last night where somebody was
saying that they were saving ten thousand dollars a year
and still couldn't get any closer to getting into housing.
I think Adelaide ranks one of the most expensive cities
in the world to buy housing when you take into

(01:27:50):
account the cost of housing and the income required. And
it shouldn't be that way. I mean, the beauty of
South Australia and Adelaide once was that, you know, o
cost of living, get into housing you can. The stories said,
oh gee whiz. You know, if you had a million
dollars in Sydney you get a ramshackle, run down place

(01:28:10):
forty five minutes from the city. In Adelaide for one
million dollars, you could be in the city or you know,
the surrounding suburbs and get a palace. Those days have
long gone. They are long gone. We do not get
anything of that quality any longer, and our prices rival
the rest of Australia. And what is not often taken
into account is the average income in South Eastradia is

(01:28:32):
far lower than most of the other states, in fact,
probably all states except Tasmania, I would say, but our
housing is not commensurate with that. So it is just
a real struggle for young people and not only young people,
older people too that have been renting and all of
a sudden say looking to be nice to buy. Let's
see how we go and what do they get? Can

(01:28:54):
they get into the system. The system bucks you. If
you can find a place forward it, then you've got
to pay the stamp duty. It's about a third of
the costs of a house that you buy go in
costs to stamp duty, rates, taxes and the like. Morning
Ree Super came in in nineteen ninety two. Read fine print.

(01:29:14):
If non binding one hundred percent nominated as binding, they
can still decide who gets it. Ay, if an unknown
child comes out of the shadows, you must make it
binding by signed form. Realize this. When a couple on
ACA said son left super to his children for education,
living to facto with woman who claimed it as a
de facto in some time, overruled by supermob dad requests

(01:29:37):
non binding kids got nil. She was not the mother
of the kids. Is different to what was in his will.
Thank you for that, Kim. I think we get your
point there. Morning Gg. Last time went to see ac
DC at Adelaide. Oval could not understand a word the
lead singer was saying. But Angus Young was the best.
Good on you Frank. I was only having a chat

(01:29:57):
with my wife the other day about singing that have
the best voice, not so much the best quality voice,
but you can understand every word. And we're talking about
old traditional singers like Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and
Ella Fitzgerald and the like, who their addiction was absolutely perfect.
It's fair to say that a lot of singers these days.
I might be sounding old here, but their addiction is

(01:30:20):
not what it should be. And you go, hey, what
did he say? Would she say? Not so sure? Some
of them are excellent, not going to name names here,
but some are excellent. But others I find very, very
difficult to understand. So one day we might do a
poll on the singer with the best diction, the one
that you can understand absolutely every word they sing. Maybe
the words aren't that important to you, it's maybe it's

(01:30:41):
the sound that's the thing. Maybe in the good old
days of rock and roll, it was the sound. Because
when you listen to some of the songs now, you
think that is so inappropriate. The lyric standards change, there's
no question about that. But some of the songs suggesting
males with underage girls or girls of questionable age or background.

(01:31:03):
Couldn't not get away with it today? And I don't
even know if those songs are played on the air,
but you need to be very wary nature. Eight double
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Speaker 2 (01:31:22):
Five Double A Mornings with Graham Goodings.

Speaker 1 (01:31:26):
Eighteen past eleven, five Double A Brand New Week, Monday,
sixteenth day of June. Where is the year going? Dom says,
I agree with making new home buyers exempt from stamp duty,
but why don't banks also reduce the deposit required for
home loans to five or ten percent? This would also
help first home buyers. It's the deposit they have difficulty saving,

(01:31:48):
and prices continue to increase while they are saving, therefore
increasing the deposit they need. Put on your Dom, you
have some good comments there. Why do the banks require that?
I think the banks went through a pretty dangerous period
there at one time when they they used to lend
helter skelter and then there was the global financial crisis
and around that time where banks were hit very badly,

(01:32:09):
and maybe that is the reason that they will not
lower their interest rates or their deposit rates. Carlos, Good morning,
Marren Graham.

Speaker 19 (01:32:19):
I think we've been discussing, or you have been discussing
the housing affordability things for quite a long time, and
nothing really is going to change into we actually look
at bringing the price of housing down. One of the
biggest issues now is that if you suddenly dropped housing
by say ten or fifteen or even twenty percent, you
would have a very large section of the community who
now would have what was called negative equity, whereby they

(01:32:43):
own more than what the house is worth. Sure, and
that could lead to what happened in the US, which
was the subprime that's right, yes, yes, So what you
have to do is whatever took forty years to do,
you have to undo over a long period of time gradually.
Otherwise it's going to there would be a disaster for a.

Speaker 14 (01:33:01):
Lot of people.

Speaker 1 (01:33:02):
So what would you need to do.

Speaker 19 (01:33:04):
Well, first of all, you've got to say grandfather in
something like the the negative gearing and all those sort
of tax exemptions. You've got to do that slowly over
a period of time. But adding more money to the
supply to the demand side of the equation is just
overinflating the housing market. And neither party are interested in

(01:33:27):
the house prices coming down. They've both said that they
want house prices to increase, but in a sustainable matter. Well,
if you're already at ten times the average income in
South Australia, how is that even close to being sustainable?

Speaker 1 (01:33:41):
Yeah, And that is the point, isn't it. If you've
got more money that people all of a sudden, more
people than going to the marketplace, that is just going
to drive up the prices of the available housing because
there's not enough to go around.

Speaker 19 (01:33:52):
Correct. So, if anything, the only people we should be
bringing into the country actually people are going to be
swinging a hammer or doing eleect work or plumbing. That's
who you need to bring into the country. People that
are actually going to build houses. But even still, for
every person you bring in, they're going to need somewhere
to live. So there's no easy solution. But just you know,

(01:34:13):
making houses or giving first home owners a tax exemption
may sound like a good idea, but you're just adding
more money into the demand side of the problem, which
is just going to keep pushing the prices up.

Speaker 1 (01:34:26):
Carlos, you make some good points there, and they really
need to be considered. This is a problem that probably
needs all the wise heads in the country to sit
around a table and come up with a decision that
is for the benefit of the people, not for the
benefit of the party. There's a lot of these decisions.
I get the feeling are made for you know, we'll
let's get us elected next time around. Damn. The consequence
is long term. But if we could have the wise

(01:34:47):
heads of the nation, and I know, sitting around a
table having a talkvest is blah blah blah. But to
get the if we came out with the right decisions,
maybe we get somewhere. There's the overriding, of course, is
the immigration situation, which is exacerbated a problem that we
already had. Well, the federal government is taking action to
crack down on unscrupulous early childhood education and care providers

(01:35:11):
and strengthen integrity across the care economy. Well, I mean,
it's fair to say overwhelmingly children in early childcare and
early education are well looked after. The vast majority of
providers are doing the right thing, but there is a
very small number of providers not doing the right thing.
Johnny men I was Professor Darryl Higgins, the ACU Institute

(01:35:34):
of Child Protection Studies. Professor, good morning to.

Speaker 22 (01:35:37):
You, Good morning Luvey debo.

Speaker 2 (01:35:39):
You.

Speaker 1 (01:35:40):
This is a very delicate area, isn't it. We all
want what is best for our children and our grandchildren.
And as I've stated, childcare centers in the main are
doing the right thing, but there is a sector that aren't.

Speaker 22 (01:35:54):
That's right, and of course it's importance for government to
be able to step in and provide appropriate breaking relation
to ensure not just good quality in terms of the
education that's provided, but primarily and foremost to provide safe environment.
You know, any parent who is leaving a child in
the care of an early childsworth education center need then

(01:36:17):
deserves to be able to feel confident that their child
is going to have a safe experience that day.

Speaker 1 (01:36:25):
The standards a little lacks at the moment.

Speaker 22 (01:36:28):
Well, I think the fact that they are being updated
says that there was room for improvement, and I certainly
welcome that. I think that having really clear advice as
to what is appropriate and statements firstly about the obligation
to report to external authorities when there are breaches of

(01:36:50):
those standards really important, and that's certainly one of the
lessons that we saw from the Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to child Sexual abuse that we need to not
leave it up to organizations to kind of self manage,
but where there are breaches that we absolutely need to
be able to report this and make sure that there

(01:37:10):
is oversight of this.

Speaker 1 (01:37:13):
When you're dealing with any private enterprise, their bottom line
is to make money. That is not always or it
can be at odds with providing the best service.

Speaker 14 (01:37:22):
That's true.

Speaker 22 (01:37:23):
However, I think that, you know, it's important to recognize
the majority of providers, whether they're for profit or not
for profit, still have children's best interest at heart. So
we don't want to kind of tire everybody with the
same brush, but you know, I think that it's important,
regardless of the type of organization that's running a center,

(01:37:47):
that we have really clearly articulated high standards and zero
tolerance for breaches of those standards. And so I really
applaud the announcement by the government.

Speaker 1 (01:37:59):
What about the workers in the childhood sector? Are they
appreciated enough, Are they paid enough, Are they educated enough? Well?

Speaker 21 (01:38:08):
No.

Speaker 22 (01:38:08):
My colleague Victoria MINCN from ACU and myself wrote last
month in an article for the Conversation that there are
really three key things that we think the new Minister
for Early Childhood needs to do, and one of those
is exactly that issue that you've pointed to, and that
is boosting the kind of the status, the recognition, if

(01:38:29):
you like, of the early childhood center, and that comes
from the early childhood sector, and that comes both from
the pay but also the qualifications that are expected of
that sector, but also not actually valuing for the work
that they do. And often we tend to talk about
the early childhood sector as though they're babysitters or as

(01:38:51):
though they're enabling parents. And I must say we often
say mums here, you know, offering enabling them to go.

Speaker 14 (01:38:58):
Back to work.

Speaker 22 (01:39:00):
What we should be doing is thinking about the children,
thinking about what is it that enables children to thrive
and to have those early childhood experiences where they're supported
to be able to develop to the best of their potential.

Speaker 1 (01:39:17):
How can parents tell if it's a good or child
day case ander or not.

Speaker 22 (01:39:23):
Look, I think that there's some advice from the sector
about the kind of things that you can look out for.
But the key issue is you actually have to be
able to trust your instincts, and so that means asking
the right questions and being on the lookout for what
are signs of quality and safety and the inverse of that.

(01:39:45):
And so that means you know, being on site, having
conversations with you know, with the educators when you drop
off or pick up your child before or after their
their day, you know, turning up to events that the
cent might run that are about advising parents about programs
that they might be running, you know, if they're asking

(01:40:07):
them about their intention to have really good quality education.
So I'm aware of you know, organizations that run external providers,
that is that that come in and help teach children
about their body parts, their the importance of consent and

(01:40:28):
respect in age appropriate way, and that starts in early childhood.
And so to ask your center about are they running
these kind of programs, when are they going to start
and depending on the answers you yet to these kind
of questions, that will give you a sense of how
committed the center is to supporting both the safety and
wellbeing of your child.

Speaker 1 (01:40:49):
You mentioned it before, and I think it's worth mentioning
again that people are often seeing childhood services are just
a babysitting service, but they've got to realize it's much
more than that.

Speaker 22 (01:41:01):
Absolutely, absolutely, And of course as a sector, you know,
I think we have to make sure that when we
talk about it, that we talk about the important role
that educators play in developing children's capabilities now and into
the future, getting them ready for school. And so it's

(01:41:21):
pleasing in states like Victoria where there's school readiness funding
that is about increasing the capability of sectors like the
early childhood sector to be able to you know, foster
developmentally children's readiness, to be able to then you know,
hit the ground running when they enter primary school. So

(01:41:43):
you know, parents need to you know, in their minds,
not thinking about it as you know, kind of a
low cost childcare. And unfortunately, I think the debate in
Australia ends up coming down to that, you know, it's
about the economics and about getting parents back into work
and and I think that that's wrong in so many

(01:42:03):
different ways, but particularly because we're missing out on having
a conversation about what supports the safety and the well
being of children, and that should actually be central to
our conversation and to the agenda if you like, for.

Speaker 1 (01:42:16):
Australia certainly, Professor, thanks for your time today. That's Professor
Darryl Higgins ACU Institute of Child Protection Studies. Will take
a break. Be back after news headlines five Double A.

Speaker 2 (01:42:28):
Mornings with Graham Goodings.

Speaker 1 (01:42:31):
Good morning to you. I started the morning talking about
Polly's pay packets and the fact that the Prime Minister
is calling for an increase in productivity and yet the
politicians greatfully take on board a hefty pay rise and
they say, oh, look, it's the remuneration Tribunal. They awarded
it to us, and we can't say no, can we?

(01:42:52):
I mean, mind you, they can say to the remuneration Tribunal,
don't give us a pay rise, or we are going
to disband you and start up a new remuneration tribunal.
Of course they can turn down a pay rise. The
Prime minister salary six hundred and twenty two thousand. Look,
I'm not saying that's outrageous. He's running the country and
there are a lot of people in private enterprise earning

(01:43:13):
a whole lot more than that, But department secretaries actually
earn more than the prime minister. Department secretaries in this
state earn more than the premiere. Just ridiculous the money
that were forked out. I mean, and now politicians are
going to be sitting for forty days for the rest
of the year, so labor gets back in and oh,
another forty days and there we go. Now we know

(01:43:35):
that they work on their at home in their electorate
office and they do a lot of things, but surely
where the decisions are made is in Canberra. And then
they're just there for forty days. That the pay scale
is off the charts in this country, we the taxpayers
are talking out million dollar salaries for unelected public servants
and they're paid three times as much as overseas counterparts.

(01:43:57):
I mean, to quote a few, The former Reserve Bank
of US to Governor Philip Low earned a salary of
just over one million dollars. His US Federal Reserve counterpart,
your own Power paid two hundred and ninety five thousand
dollars Australian Australian two hundred and ninety five thousand a third.

(01:44:17):
I mean, why why is it so? And I mentioned
the other day about the amount that our head of
Defense gets he gets three times as much as the
head of the US Defense Department gets. Why how can
they be justified? But they do it. They put their
hands out more than happily. John, good morning.

Speaker 23 (01:44:38):
I am good morning to you, sir. Before I get
onto my main points. The other thing about building costs
is he might record it was a story a couple
of weeks ago that's gone quiet that Bowen has left
the door open for a carbon tariff on what they
define as Harvard intensive things in building and surprise, surprise,
what do they steal jip rock and cement everything. So

(01:45:01):
that'll really helped things, don't it. Anyway, on to my
main points, A couple of things. Taking on a bit
of a tour along North Terrace coming in from the
Western suburbs, women and Children's it sounds like, from what
I've heard, and I'm pretty a good authority, that people
will be the same mistake we are making with the
RA as far as having less beds than the old

(01:45:23):
unit than the older hospital, which is great. I'd like
to hear someone deny that, because if they are through lying.
And then you go along North Terrace a bit, you
go up to you know, the Brag Center that we're
still waiting for a pros on therapy unit. I take
that as you're welcome to Adelaide message, because I've sat
there and I do have a bit of spare time,
and you're probably wondering why the lights there give as

(01:45:46):
much time or more to the snide street that has
no cars that going behind the brag or Samburi and
the Ra than they do to North Terrace. And I'm
absolutely certain that's the way I was saying, bother coming
down here.

Speaker 16 (01:46:01):
It's very interesting.

Speaker 23 (01:46:03):
I actually just sat there with the salt watch one day,
so it's quite amazing that no one has ever Obviously
they don't care, and they'd probably say we'll go bother them,
and then we come along to Melanascus's monstrosity up at
up at the festival plaza, you know, walking back from
the footy last night. Even that Deloitte building to me

(01:46:24):
is a blight. It's like the monolith from Space Odyos
in two thousand and one. It's so out of character
for that area, and now we're going to have something
neat and ugly and next to it. So I'm actually
very sad about that area. I don't have a problem
with that being built elsewhere in the city. Stick it
anywhere in any of the commercial areas, Grenfell, Curry, whatever.

(01:46:46):
But putting it there, I just think it's going to
be terrible for how that looks. And I'm sure you've
probably ought to cross the bridge a number of times
and trying to imagine how bad that building will be is.

Speaker 9 (01:46:58):
It's pretty sad.

Speaker 24 (01:46:59):
Really.

Speaker 1 (01:47:00):
I think the building itself is a good looking building,
but yeah, the location not so sure about him. I'd
say the whole Adelaide used to be the pyramid city.
It was like I was at the Westpac building, Santos
whatever it was called. Initially it was the tallest building
and as you went away from that, all the buildings
gradually graded down. It was sort of like a pyramid.

(01:47:21):
It was a nice shaped city. But it's changed and
all the development is along North Terrace now, for good
or for ill. I love to see development, but yeah,
the city doesn't look like at once. Did good on you, John,
Thanks for your input today. What are your thoughts on
that new building. I like development. I love to see
cranes on the skyline, but is that building in the

(01:47:41):
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(01:48:46):
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Speaker 1 (01:50:15):
As we enter the final fifteen minutes of the show today.
Most of you who listen to the show regularly know
that I'm a little bit of a skeptic when it
comes to COP conferences and the fact that Adelaide Monster
host one. I understand totally the economic benefit, but in
terms of the benefit to the environment, not so sure.

(01:50:36):
But how about this For the COP thirty Climate the
summit being held in Bellham, Brazil, guess what they've done.
Taking in mind the COP climate is all about the environment,
an eight mile stretch of protected Amazon rainforests has been
cleared to construct a four lane highway. This action has
sparked criticism as it involves deforestation for a road leading

(01:50:58):
to a climate conference. While the Brazilian government defends the
project as necessary for accommodating summert attendees and improving local infrastructure,
including sustainable features like wildlife crossings and solar lighting. Many
argue it contradicts the summit's focus on climate action. So
there you have it, folks, they're building an eight mile
stretch of lane roadway through the rainforest so people can

(01:51:24):
attend the climate conference. Dear Idea, have we got it
so many wrong? So wrong? And you know why I'm
against holding a climate conference in adelaide is that you're
going to fly people thirty thousand people from around the world.
How many extra flights is are going to be probably
about three hundred extra flights pumping toxic gases into the atmosphere.
So all these people can come in and say and

(01:51:46):
go tut tut tut, you know, cut back on your
carbon emissions, you know. And all these cop conferences have
at least three or four hundred private jets flying in
and think of the pollution they pump into the atmosph
You go, people like Prince or King Charles and Leonardo
DiCaprio and all these different people flying on their private

(01:52:08):
jets telling us what we should do and how we
should cut back and don't burn coal and don't burn gas,
and that will be coming to adelaide, pumping all these
things into the air. Speaking of things in the air,
while we're on a roll, how things have changed. Aerosols
remember once threatened the ozone layer. Well, they may now
hold the key to stopping potentially destructive cyclones in their tracks.

(01:52:32):
According to a study from the Australian National University, small
airborne particles from aerosols have been shown to weaken cyclones
so they can't fully develop. The study shows for the
first time the impacts of aerosols of various or varied
sizes on the formation of a tropical cyclone. The study
found that coarse aerosol initially dampen vortex acceleration, while fine

(01:52:56):
or ultrafine aerosols boost at first but later weaken it
more than course aerosols. We've shown it's possible to reduce
the intensity of cyclones by use of aerosols. So isn't
that amazing? John? Good morning to you. How are things
that held cove?

Speaker 18 (01:53:12):
Good morning?

Speaker 24 (01:53:14):
Yeah, he's talking about singers and that My dad was
highly disgusted when il was frankly saying that toody food
you want to Rudy.

Speaker 1 (01:53:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, he.

Speaker 24 (01:53:27):
Thought that was the most disgusting thing he ever heard.

Speaker 1 (01:53:30):
Was a bit marginal even back then, wasn't it, John.

Speaker 24 (01:53:33):
Yes, Yes, And another one, Jimmy Barnes's he can't see.
He just screamed.

Speaker 1 (01:53:44):
Oh no, Jimmy Barnes is a legend.

Speaker 24 (01:53:46):
No. I turned him off as soon as he comes on.

Speaker 1 (01:53:49):
Ah, John, do you who do you like? Who are you?

Speaker 2 (01:53:53):
Right?

Speaker 24 (01:53:54):
Kenny Rogers and all of them ones and Nave and
Dan Martin and all of them all one.

Speaker 1 (01:53:58):
Yeah, I'm a bit of a fan, particularly of Dino
Dean Martin. Sensational, great voice, great singer.

Speaker 24 (01:54:04):
It's one other thing. Yeah, with that advertise closing down that.

Speaker 1 (01:54:10):
Poort Wakefield Port, Wakefield, why.

Speaker 24 (01:54:13):
Couldn't I take that the battery recycling place here at least.

Speaker 6 (01:54:18):
Well well away from.

Speaker 1 (01:54:19):
This, I like you're thinking, John, Yeah, you know, I'm
pretty pretty against this battery recycling plant in the heart
of the suburbs. Yeah, that's right, put it there that
that'd be not a bad idea good only John, Thanks
for your call.

Speaker 18 (01:54:34):
There.

Speaker 1 (01:54:35):
Yeah, it might do that, but it's a long way
to go if you've got to replace your battery isn't it.
So I always say I'm not against EV's and I'm
not against lithium batteries, but I am against having a
lithium battery recycling plant in a suburban area because, as
you well know, if a lithium battery catches on fire,

(01:54:56):
they're almost impossible to put out. You ask the MFS,
they'll tell you the last thing they want to do
is call out an EV is on fire. They can't
put it out. You just contain it and let it
burn itself out. So if you had a storage of
lithium batteries at Marion, maybe two three hundred maybe more
batteries just sitting there they catch on fire, just stand

(01:55:17):
back and watch it happen. And who knows what chemicals
and rubbish that they pump into the air. Yeah, it
is very concerning. But I don't know about putting the
plant at Port Wakefield, No, I know it would be
appreciated at Port Wakefield to replace the abbatoirs which is
being shut down. Sadly, We've got to find out more

(01:55:38):
about that. What is anyone likely to step in into
the breach. It would be nice to know if someone
would certainly do that. A double two three double O, doubleo.
If you have any information on that, I'd certainly like
to know more about it. On a subject to do
with music is does anyone remember line dancing? Does anyone

(01:55:59):
do line dancing? It was huge in the what was
it nineteen nineties, Achy Breaky Heart. Who was the guy
that sang it, Billy Ray Cyris, Yeah, he sang it,
and it was huge at the time. And it's making
a comeback apparently, and it's jen Z's have gone absolutely
nuts over line dancing. I could never see the appeal,

(01:56:23):
I must say, but not being too good on the
feet anyway, and I really was loath to get on
the dance floor. What do you think is the best
dance if it's not line dancing? Do you go way
back to the waltz and the foxtrot? Or you more
from the rock and roll era? The pride of erin
going way back? The twist? Remember the twist? Now, that

(01:56:43):
is one dance I could do. I could manage that.
You just had to sway on both feet backwards and forwards,
backwards and forwards, and I could just about manage that.
Chubby Checker, wasn't it that sang that song? Yeah? But anyway,
what's your favorite dance? You've still got time to tell
us A double two three double O double ow. So
Nick says they need to keep the old children's hospital Graham,

(01:57:04):
but I hear it sold overseas to build apartments. Sounds
like we will have a baby's and children's ramped at
the new women and Children's hospital. Who wasn't that made
the point the other day is when they're building the
women's and children's, why don't they put some extra flows
on top, leave them vacant, just as a shell so
for future needs, so it's future proofed. Because when you

(01:57:26):
build a hospital and you spend that much money las
we did with the Royal Adelaide two point eight billion,
probably rand more than that, and it didn't provide any
more beds than we have now. Suggestions that the new
Women's and Children's will not provide any more beds. Surely
it will, Surely it will. We'll have to find out
from the experts. But why why don't we future prove

(01:57:48):
hospitals because it's always going to be more expensive into
the future. But if you put on an extra couple
of floors on top of the building, leave them as
empty shells, They might stay that way for ten, fifteen,
twenty years, but they're there. The structure is there, and
then you can fit them out in the large scheme
of things. And we probably need a builder to tell
us this. Would it add that much to the overall cost?

(01:58:11):
Would you know, when you're talking three or four billion
dollars anyway to go an extra floor or two up
and empty? Would that add much to the cost? Like
to know your thoughts? Eight double two three double o
double Oh after one this afternoon it's Leith Forest will
be a very happy man today. He's footy team? Did okay?

Speaker 25 (01:58:29):
Do you know what is the worst win ever?

Speaker 1 (01:58:32):
You know, it's still your wins.

Speaker 25 (01:58:33):
A win's a win, but I'd rather win ugly than
lose pretty. Oh yeah, but still you know you walk
away sometimes and you go how did we get away
with that?

Speaker 1 (01:58:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 25 (01:58:43):
We played one quarter again kick in the West, wasn't
it in the West against the worst team in the camp?
So it wasn't great.

Speaker 1 (01:58:50):
Well, I've got nothing to talk about after bridey.

Speaker 25 (01:58:53):
Wow, you were stiff? Do you think that was the AFL?
I know this is not the sport show and we
delve into this, but apologies with that was that the
AFL showing everyone why you need a roof in tazzy look?

Speaker 1 (01:59:01):
Would we would? Would they do that? Would the AFL
do that?

Speaker 2 (01:59:06):
Why?

Speaker 1 (01:59:07):
And I love Lonchester and I lived there on two occasions.
I love the place dearly. But you do not put
on a game of football at night in lonester or
anywhere in Tasmania unless you've got a roof over the stadium.
I think the FL had thought it through well, and truly.

Speaker 25 (01:59:21):
I were smart because we all went, okay, we're all
for the idea of Tasmania, but chier roof would be nice,
be nice if anyone could pick up the ball, which
would be great. Eight from your three big guns up forward.

Speaker 1 (01:59:32):
It's just ugly, ugly, ugly, and we want to present
and when it's night matches, you want to show them.
That's the showcase of the game. So you do the best.
You want the best, the best teams, yes, in the
best environment. And they had two teams, two good teams
in the absolute I almost said that s word there. Yep. Environment, yes,

(01:59:54):
terrible environment.

Speaker 2 (01:59:55):
It was idiots.

Speaker 25 (01:59:56):
It's like a soccer score a half time four to two.

Speaker 1 (01:59:59):
Awf on one. Good luck to them, but Yep, it
was just a terrible game, not a good advertisement. Get
a roof, that's right.

Speaker 25 (02:00:05):
We asked Andrew Demetro many years ago on the Sports
Show when they rebuilt the Outelaide over he said there
won't be a roof, so maybe there will be in
w sorry in Tasmanian, which we'll see coming up on
the show later this afternoon. We'll continue the chat about Santos,
find out whether people like the idea of foreign ownership,
which gaging by the reaction that I've seen online is
not overwhelmingly positive. So we'll talk about that.

Speaker 1 (02:00:27):
The headquarters are going to stay in Adelaide that I believe. Yeah,
but they say those things, don't they Yep, they say
those things, that everything will be the same, maintain all
the staff, twelve months, eighteen months, two years down the track.

Speaker 25 (02:00:39):
And how many things do we need to sell off?
And everyone thinks that was a bad idea. We shouldn't
have done that, but hey, they're offering so much money,
Sure we'll take that. Let's just live off the table.

Speaker 1 (02:00:48):
We're selling off the country. Someone some wise person said
to me the other day, Australia is going to become
the world quarry. That's it just we provide the raw materials,
just sell them off oil.

Speaker 25 (02:00:59):
And then you have We talked about this last week
on the show from the Seinfeld episode. You have no hand.
Once you sell it off, it's not yours. Yeah, so yes,
it's in your backyard, but you don't known it, so
that's not we'll talk about that today. We'll also catch
up with Smith. I'll get the latest in state politics
and what's happening around there. Jane Riley's going to drop
by for a very special visit. Can't say too much secret.

Speaker 1 (02:01:21):
Surely you can't say something. Just get food. That's always
a good start.

Speaker 25 (02:01:26):
Yeah, it's a new initiative that she is doing with
her son Edward. Oh really, so she's going to join us,
which will be a little bit of fun. And I
don't know if you knew this, but do you know
today's National Vegimi Day?

Speaker 1 (02:01:36):
No I didn't, No, I did.

Speaker 25 (02:01:38):
Today on the show, the grandson of the man who
invented Veggie Might will be on the show. Have you
driven from Adelaide to Melbourne and driven through Beaufort, the
little country towns? Have you noticed the Veggie Might Museum?
Have you ever stopped? You haven't no, I don't think
anyone has no but we'll speak to the grandson about

(02:01:58):
it today, because you should.

Speaker 1 (02:02:00):
The hours of vegiemight I think got there probably one
hundred and two years. Veggie might in a little town
of Boufort. So if you're driving through, something for you
to check out next time you go. When you're going
to a CDC in November, Order the grand Final, order
the gray for ROWI Lid's off. Here's a prelude to
your show this alfternoon. Thank you leith.

Speaker 11 (02:02:42):
Ah.

Speaker 1 (02:02:43):
Yes, Veggie might love it all loth it it's a
straight and to the bootstraps. Or as an American one
said to me, it tastes like axle grease. Well I've
never tasted axle grease. We'll take his word for it.
Just about time to go, just before we do, hi
gg cop is an indulgent talk for yes for elites
and wannabes. Climate alarm is a huge scam that transfers

(02:03:04):
public money to private hands, and governments are naively compliant. Graham.
If someone can put aside enough money each money to
save a home deposit, how will they be able to
afford loan repayments? Thank you for that that's it for today.
Thank you so much for your company, Thanks for the input.
We've covered a lot of territory. Coming up at noon
we have the News followed by Graham Corns Cornsey, I'm

(02:03:27):
causing Graham Corns today. Cornsey with his conversations and then
it's Leath Forest with the Veggiemite story. Have a great day.

Speaker 2 (02:03:35):
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