Podcasts about South Australia

Lac Gold has 1.66 million ounces of resources at the Rouyn Gold Project in Canada. Two rigs now drilling, with the potential to add a third or even a fourth. The name of the game is to grow the resource in what is a highly desirable address for gold deposits. Guest Bios Andrew Stocks — Managing Director, Lac Gold Limited (ASX: LAC) Andrew Stocks is Managing Director of Lac Gold Limited (ASX: LAC). He is a mining engineer with more than 35 years' experience in corporate leadership across the resources sector, including project development, capital allocation and strategy. Prior to Lac Gold, he was Managing Director and CEO of ASX-listed Iron Road Limited, where he led the company through feasibility work on the Central Eyre Iron Project in South Australia. Earlier in his career he was Managing Director and CEO of Siberia Mining Corporation through its merger with Monarch Gold, and served as Vice President of Operations at London-based Crew Gold Corporation. Matthew Keegan — Executive Director, Lac Gold Limited (ASX: LAC) Matthew Keegan is Executive Director of Lac Gold Limited (ASX: LAC) and the geologist who originally identified and secured the Rouyn Gold Project. He brings more than 25 years' operational, corporate and investment experience across gold, nickel, iron ore and coking coal, including mine geology roles with Rio Tinto, BHP's Nickel West and Barrick, and a period as an investment analyst with resource-focused private equity firm Sentient Equity Partners. He is a member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Produced by Resource Media The Hole Truth: Mining Investment Podcast is a product of Read Corporate. Please note that Read Corporate does not provide investment advice and investors should seek personalised advice before making any investment decisions. Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/the-hole-truth-podcast YouTube: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI4sZkSfEpPi_u7OrD7lQ-tZHbdy6EhCC Website: https://resourcesrisingstars.com.au/the-hole-truth-podcast/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theholetruthpodcast/ Company website: https://lacgold.com/ Key Insights A rare “no-minnow” story: 1.66 million ounces from day one Unlike the early-stage exploration stories the podcast usually profiles, Lac Gold arrived on the ASX already holding a JORC resource of 1.66 million ounces of gold (15.8Mt at 3.28g/t) at its Rouyn Gold Project in Québec's Abitibi gold belt. Managing Director Andrew Stocks and Executive Director Matthew Keegan acquired the project privately for around C$25 million (C$5 million cash plus a C$20 million vendor finance facility at 5% straight-line interest, with no warrants or options attached), before listing via a reverse merger with Ardiden Limited that completed in late 2025. A fragmented gold system that's only been drilled to 400 metres Rouyn sits on the Piché Group trend within the Cadillac–Larder Lake fault zone, in the same neighbourhood as Abitibi giants such as Canadian Malartic, LaRonde, Lapa and Kerr-Addison, which together account for roughly 200 million ounces mined over the past century. Keegan says the project's shallow drill depth reflects a century of disjointed ownership rather than poor geology: 73 separate mining claims were only consolidated under one owner in recent years, and the ground was mined intermittently in the 1950s and 1980s during periods of low gold prices rather than being systematically explored. Two rigs turning around the clock, with a third and fourth under consideration Lac Gold currently has two diamond rigs running 24/7 at Rouyn, advancing roughly 200 metres a day combined, with a third rig being brought on and a fourth available if the economics stack up. Cold Québec winters don't interrupt the program — the frozen ground makes drilling easier. Results to date show continuity, width and grade in known zones, while step-out holes are revealing broad mineralised halos that vector toward high-grade shoots, across at least 150 targets identified along the deposit's six-kilometre strike. Valuation sits well below peers, with two paths to a re-rate At a market capitalisation of roughly A$70 million against 1.66 million ounces, Lac Gold is trading at about A$42 an ounce in the ground, versus a peer average Stocks puts at two to three times that level. Management frames the opportunity in two parts: closing that valuation gap on the existing resource, and applying the same (or a better) per-ounce multiple to new ounces added through the drill bit. A second growth option at Golden Patricia, near Pickle Lake Alongside Rouyn, Lac Gold holds the Pickle Lake Gold Project in Ontario, inherited through the Ardiden merger. The company has since acquired the historic, high-grade Golden Patricia deposit from Barrick, a past producer that yielded gold at an average grade of around 16.5 grams per tonne. Historical data from the site is being digitised, with a modest ground program of roughly 5,000 metres of drilling planned once that work is complete.  

Interview with Rupert Verco, CEO & Managing Director of Cobra Resources PLCOur previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/cobra-resources-lsecobr-scale-and-heavy-rare-earth-quality-set-this-isr-project-apart-10761Recording date: 17th July 2026Cobra Resources has reported encouraging early-stage results from its Manna Hill copper project in South Australia, pointing to the potential presence of a larger porphyry system beyond the previously identified shallow skarn mineralisation. The company adjusted its drilling programme from a planned 1,800 metres to 1,500 metres, reallocating effort toward deeper and more promising drill holes rather than continuing at the Black Rock target, where initial results suggested distance from the main mineralising source.A key technical development is the transition in copper mineralisation from chalcopyrite to bornite observed in diamond drilling. This shift is significant because bornite contains a higher copper content and is typically associated with the potassic core of porphyry systems, suggesting proximity to a larger and potentially more economically viable mineral source. Supporting this interpretation, drilling has extended sulphide mineralisation continuity to depths of around 300 metres, beneath earlier shallow reverse circulation intercepts that already showed notable copper and gold grades.In addition, a step-out hole drilled south of the known skarn unexpectedly intersected shallow copper oxide mineralisation outside the previously defined footprint, indicating a new and untested extension zone. Cobra also identified anhydrite breccia, a feature often linked to fluid pathways in large porphyry systems, further strengthening the geological model.While these findings are based on visual core observations and remain subject to laboratory assay confirmation expected around August, they collectively suggest growing scale potential at Manna Hill. The company is planning further drilling in September to test the extent of the southern zone and refine its geological understanding. Alongside this, Cobra continues to advance its Boland rare earth project, providing a parallel development pathway.View Cobra Resources' company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/cobra-resourcesSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

South Australia has unveiled a landmark proposal to ban people convicted of domestic violence and sexual offences from using dating apps. The plan aims to improve online dating safety, following research that found many Australians experienced sexual violence from someone they met through a dating platform.

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Jeremy Cordeaux is in the garage with Pete and Gary, raising a glass to Derryn Hinch the day after his state funeral, then opening with a new "quote for the day" — Tony Abbott's line that "multiculturalism has failed and diversity is not our strength." From there it's a wide-ranging session: the electric-car owners stranded for months without spare parts, why "every float seems more like a sink," and Deutsche Bank's finding that Melbourne is now the dearest city on earth for a beer or a pack of cigarettes, thanks to stacked state and federal taxes. The heart of the show is Jeremy's argument that the trade union movement's push to make businesses consult workers before adopting AI is "unworkable" and will drive innovation offshore — the same forces, he says, that once priced car workers out of their jobs and handed them to robots. He also digs into South Australia's Firm Energy Reliability Scheme, revealed to cost $44 million a year despite promises of "no cost to the consumer," the government's response to the inquiry into Islamophobia, and a spirited defence of Pauline Hanson's right to a holiday — and to be discussed at all. Plus this day in history: the first moonwalk, the Sopwith Camel, Hemingway, Tony Bennett and the birth of Central Park.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Full Text of Readings Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 106 The Saint of the day is Saint Mary MacKillop Saint Mary MacKillop's Story If Saint Mary MacKillop were alive today, she would be a household name. It's not that she sought the limelight. On the contrary, she simply wanted to serve the poor wherever she found them in her native Australia. But along the way, she managed to arouse the ire of some rather powerful churchmen. One even excommunicated her for a time. Born in Melbourne in 1842, to parents who had emigrated from Scotland, Mary MacKillop grew up in a family that faced constant financial struggles. As a young woman she was drawn to religious life but could not find an existing order of Sisters that met her needs. In 1860, she met Father Julian Woods, who became her spiritual director. Together they founded a new community of women—the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart, also known as the Josephite Sisters. Its members were to staff schools especially for poor children, as well as orphanages, and do other works of charity. As the congregation grew, so did Mary MacKillop's problems. Her priest-friend proved unreliable in many ways and his responsibilities for direction of the Sisters were removed. Meanwhile, Mary had the support of some local bishops as she and her Sisters went about their work. But the bishop in South Australia, aging and relying on others for advice, briefly excommunicated Mary—charging her with disobedience—and dispensed 50 of her Sisters from their vows. In truth, the bishop's quarrel was about power and who had authority over whom. He ultimately rescinded his order of excommunication. Mary MacKillop insisted that her congregation should be governed by an elected mother general answerable to Rome, not to the local bishop. There also were disputes about whether or not the congregation could own property. In the end, Rome proved to be Mary's best source of support. After a long wait official approval of the congregation—and how it was to be governed—came from Pope Leo XIII. Despite her struggles with Church authorities, Mary MacKillop and her Sisters were able to offer social services that few, if any, government agencies in Australia could. They served Protestants and Catholics alike. They worked among the aborigines. They taught in schools and orphanages and served unmarried mothers. Money, actually the lack of it, was a constant worry. But the Sisters who begged from door to door, were bolstered by faith and by the conviction that their struggles were opportunities to grow closer to God. By the time Mary MacKillop was approaching the end of her life, the congregation was thriving. She died in 1909 at the age of 67. Pope John Paul II beatified her in 1995. In 2010, when Pope Benedict XVI canonized her, she became Australia's first saint. Her liturgical feast is celebrated on August 8. Reflection The story of many foundresses of religious communities and the tales of the early days of those communities can make for fascinating reading. Those women were dedicated and tough and fought for those they served. Let's thank the Lord for raising up such wonderful examples of faith.Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

At six foot five and 118 kilos, Brando Peričić is one of the most physically imposing heavyweights in the UFC. But behind the fighter is a story most people never see, a story of an absent father, childhood bullying, depression, suicidal thoughts, and a young man who had every reason to fail, yet refused to. In this episode of I Catch Killers, Gary sits down with the Adelaide-born UFC heavyweight in a raw, honest, and deeply personal conversation that goes well beyond the octagon. Brando opens up about growing up in a Croatian household with a single mother working two jobs, a father who went to prison, and a childhood marked by anger, confusion, and pain he didn't know how to carry. From getting expelled in year 10 and working Adelaide's roughest pub doors, where he was stabbed, bottled, and coward punched, to sleeping in the gym while chasing a dream everyone told him was impossible, Brando's journey is as brutal as it is inspiring. Subscribe to our new Youtube channel. Follow I Catch Killers:Instagram: @icatchkillersTiktok: @icatchkillerspodcastFacebook: @icatchkillersSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Week on the Toy Power Podcast; we dive back into our regular News Segment - with quite a bit to cover! First off, a recap from Episode 1 (of 4) from Trent's latest Lego Masters Bricktacula Event! Then, an exciting announcement from Cards & Collectables season 2 - now with an official release date! A New 4-Armed Beast is announced for the MOTU Origins line; who is hyped for this?! New Movie MOTU characters announced plus some awesome TMNT plus Ghostbusters multi-packs from Mondo. S7 Silverhawks keep on delivering more characters; & Blokees tease an Absolute Batman. McFarlane announces more Batman related characters; then Robosen showcase the most Superior Decepticon of them all! The Cross-Over nobody asked for? -Transformers X Scooby Doo offer. Sometimes you think that some modern toys can't do any better; but somehow, SH Figuarts said "Hold My Beer!" Lego showcase the first round of Pokémon Mini-Figures plus in scale Pokémon Characters too; all in a very nice looking Build. Then Ben tests the lads with the return of The Quiz! Is it too hard? How many did you know? Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Għal kważi 50 sena, Fr Tarcisio Micallef tas-Soċjetà Missjunarja ta' San Pawl, qeda lill-komunità Maltija f'Sydney, Victoria u South Australia, bħala saċerdot u Provinċjal tas-Soċjetà ta' San Pawl fl-Awstralja u bħala mexxej komunitarju dedikat.

If you’ve ever felt that nagging sense that the South Australia you were promised at the ballot box isn’t quite the one being delivered, this episode is for you. Stewart Sweeney arrived in Adelaide in 1975 to work inside the Dunstan government’s industrial democracy unit, and fifty years later he’s applying that same insider’s eye to a premier he believes is running the tobacco industry’s old doubt-sowing playbook against the citizens fighting to save the Park Lands. It’s a long, unhurried conversation – fitting, Steve notes, for an episode built around a Negroni “made to be sipped slowly and savoured.” On that note, before the main event, in the SA Drink Of The Week, Alexis and Tina Cattley – the show’s resident cocktail authorities – put Never Never’s Panettone Negroni through its paces, fresh off its win as World’s Best Contemporary Cocktail at the 2026 World Drink Awards in London. And in the Musical Pilgrimage, Adelaide music legend John Schumann returns with the Vagabond Crew to perform and unpack “Rag-tag Extremist Blues,” the song born directly from Malinauskas’ now-infamous put-down of Park Lands protesters. You can navigate episodes using chapter markers in your podcast app. Not a fan of one segment? You can click next to jump to the next chapter in the show. We’re here to serve! The Adelaide Show Podcast: Awarded Silver for Best Interview Podcast in Australia at the 2021 Australian Podcast Awards and named as Finalist for Best News and Current Affairs Podcast in the 2018 Australian Podcast Awards. And please consider becoming part of our podcast by joining our Inner Circle. It’s an email list. Join it and you might get an email on a Sunday or Monday seeking question ideas, guest ideas and requests for other bits of feedback about YOUR podcast, The Adelaide Show. Email us directly and we’ll add you to the list: podcast@theadelaideshow.com.au If you enjoy the show, please leave us a 5-star review in iTunes or other podcast sites, or buy some great merch from our Red Bubble store – The Adelaide Show Shop. We’d greatly appreciate it. And please talk about us and share our episodes on social media, it really helps build our community. Oh, and here’s our index of all episode in one concisepage. Running Sheet: Rag-Tag Extremists 00:00:00 Intro Introduction 00:04:32 SA Drink Of The Week There SA Drink Of The Week this week is Never Never Panettone Negroni. Steve, self-declared “Negroni newbie,” calls in reinforcements for this one: returning cocktail experts Alexis and Tina Cattley, last on the show refereeing a Crows-versus-Power gin showdown. They start with a reference Negroni built by Alexis from Never Never triple juniper gin, a Ruby Bitter in place of Campari, and a small-batch Rosso vermouth from David Franz, north of Adelaide – a drink Steve describes as landing “like a cloud-like pillow,” with a gentle bitter-orange finish. Tina, a self-described “Negroni naysayer” put off by Campari’s bitterness, finds herself won over by how the flavours linger and play off one another. Then comes the star of the segment: Never Never’s bottled Panettone Negroni, fresh from being crowned World’s Best Contemporary Cocktail at the 2026 World Drink Awards in London, and born behind the bar of the brand’s McLaren Vale distillery door before going nationwide. Built from triple juniper gin, a bitter citrus aperitif, sweet vermouth, aged muscat, orange liqueur, rye distillate and vanilla bean, it lands as something else entirely – “IMAX Christmas cake inside my mouth,” in Steve’s words. Alexis reckons it’s the perfect entry point for Negroni sceptics and a ready-made Christmas gift (buy two bottles, he warns – one won’t survive the wait), while Tina, newly vindicated in her Campari aversion, likens it to a sherry or port with all the spiced-cake flavour of the season, minus the traditional Negroni’s lingering bitterness. 00:18:51 Stewart Sweeney Stewart Sweeney has spent fifty years watching power slip loose from democratic control, and he’s watched a lot of it from the inside. In January 1978 he was working inside the Premier’s department when Don Dunstan sacked his own police commissioner over the Salisbury affair – a decision a Royal Commission later vindicated. Nearly fifty years on, Steve posits that the shoe is now on the other foot: where Dunstan acted because he felt deceived by an official, he contends today’s citizens are the ones being deceived, by a premier “savaging our Parklands for a golf tournament and a motorcycle race.” Sweeney’s own arrival in South Australia is a story in itself. A Glaswegian socialist who’d been coaching tennis in upstate New York and found himself unexpectedly unemployed back in Scotland, he stumbled into a tutoring job at the University of Tasmania, landed – almost by accident – in the middle of the Lake Pedder fight, and was introduced to the Democratic Labor Party within his first week in the country by his next-door neighbour, a young Gerard Henderson. From there it was a short hop to Adelaide and Don Dunstan’s Unit for Industrial Democracy, where Sweeney worked alongside economist Phil Bentley on an initiative to bring worker participation into South Australian workplaces – and where, as a footnote that says a great deal about how political communication has evolved, a young Mike Rann landed his very first Adelaide job doing media for the unit. Steve puts it to Sweeney that this early media training was the first real sign of rot in the system – the moment premiers became unreachable, hiding behind stage-managed doorstops instead of being interviewed. Sweeney doesn’t fully disagree, though he tempers it: whatever else came of it, Rann’s genuine gift was for writing speeches fast and communicating big-picture ideas clearly, “sort of decades before AI.” The conversation’s sharpest edge comes when Steve puts the government’s own numbers to Sweeney: the premier’s claim that only 585 of the Park Lands’ roughly 9,000 trees are affected by the disputed golf and motorsport development, against Park Lands management’s markedly different tally. Sweeney names the mechanism he believes is at work – the doubt strategy pioneered by the tobacco industry against the medical evidence on smoking. You don’t need to win the argument, he explains – you just need to plant enough doubt to keep people from acting on their convictions. Layer social media on top of that old tobacco-industry trick, he argues, and doubt becomes exponentially more powerful. Steve adds a live example of his own: an anti-protester Facebook page mocking demonstrators as “NIMBYs,” liked by the premier and half his ministry, that nobody in Labor will admit to running. None of this is abstract history for Sweeney – he’s a park guardian for Park 11 North, and he brings real texture to what’s actually at stake. He unpacks his argument that Adelaide’s Park Lands and squares are treated as “available” land rather than civic inheritance – fenced off for events for weeks at a time, repeatedly re-turfed and re-fenced in what he calls an annual cycle of “fence, event, repair” – and traces the intellectual lineage of the neoliberal thinking now driving those decisions back to a 1949 gathering in Switzerland convened by Friedrich Hayek. He also charts how a shrinking, disciplined leadership pipeline – what he only half-jokingly calls “Farrellism,” after Senator Don Farrell – has narrowed South Australian Labor’s internal debate at exactly the moment its base is most restless, evidenced by the wave of Adelaide residents telling him online, in effect, “I loved Peter Malinauskas, but now I hate Peter Malinauskas.” Sweeney closes on a note that’s more hopeful than the rest of the conversation might suggest. Reaching for the “world systems” thinking that has shaped his outlook for three decades, he reminds listeners that empires, ideologies and premierships all eventually give way to something else – pointing to the radical London reformers who dreamed up the idea of Adelaide in the first place, and to public servant Wainwright, whose ideas quietly transformed the Playford-era economy, as proof that a handful of good ideas, patiently pursued, can still redirect a small regional economy like ours. Further articles by Stewart Sweeney Manufacturing Doubt: Peter Malinauskas’s Political Weapon Think “outside the fence” Power without power: Is Farrellism Labor’s solution or its problem? Productivity is the symptom. Rentier capitalism is the disease 01:45:23 Musical Pilgrimage In the Musical Pilgrimage this week we listen to Rag-Tag Extremist Blues by John Schumann & The Vagabond Crew. The episode closes with John Schumann and the Vagabond Crew performing “Rag-Tag Extremist Blues” – a song that exists purely because Peter Malinauskas dismissed Park Lands protesters with that exact phrase. Schumann, a good deal more measured these days than in his fiery Redgum years, tells Steve he “grabbed it and expanded on it,” deliberately framing his cast of extremists as ordinary South Australians: a retired teacher, a war veteran, taxpaying citizens who’ve never broken a rule in their lives. He’s candid that his fear is less about the golf course – “that boat’s sailed” – and more about the MotoGP development still to come, and about a public whose attention span, he admits, will inevitably wane long before the next election. Streaming and download proceeds go directly to the Adelaide Park Lands Association, and the band will donate part of every ticket sold for their show at The Gov on 29 August to the same cause. Link to all things John Schumann including links to upcoming shows and musicSupport the show: https://theadelaideshow.com.au/listen-or-download-the-podcast/adelaide-in-crowd/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Suggest an interview for Cheryl Lee or let us know who your favorite interviewee is so farJoin Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musiciansNormie Rowe is the kind of guest who makes you sit up straighter, laugh harder, and think a little longer after the mic clicks off. He's 79 years young, still touring, still telling stories, and still proving that “rock and roll is the fountain of youth” only works if you back it up with the unglamorous basics: a steady routine, a practiced positive mindset, and people around you who bring real joy.We talk about what keeps him healthy and grounded, from gym days to the simple power of fun and gratitude at home with his wife, Samantha. Normie also opens up about the working musician's life, why the best bands feel like family, and what audiences can expect when he brings his music and storytelling show to South Australia, including dates in Goolwa, Adelaide at the Princeton Club Burnside Ballroom, and Mount Gambier.Then the conversation deepens. Normie reflects on Vietnam service, the bond of serving alongside mates, and why veteran support and allied health services matter long after the uniform comes off. Along the way, we trace the roots of his talent, the early gigs that shaped him, the discipline behind longevity in the entertainment industry, and his straight-shooting advice to any young singer who says they want a career.If you love Australian music history, live concert stories, and honest talk about perseverance, this one's for you. Subscribe to Still Rocking Up, share this with a friend who needs a boost, and leave a review so more listeners can find the show.What's Normie Rowe up to at the moment?  Let's find out!Get out when you can, support local music and I'll see you down the front!!Visit:  ThatRadioChick.com.au

In today's National Rural News: ** 13 nutrition experts and social media influencers from around the world are meeting with red meat producers from Monday, with fears there's not enough focus on iron-rich foods - especially for women, ** South Australia approves the state's first virtual fencing company, ** Police say pregnant ewes are the latest hot target for farm thieves. Plus the latest from the markets and more. Subscribe to the National Rural News podcast: http://bit.ly/RuralNewsPodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

ဆီၣ်သ် အီစထြ့လယါ—South Australia ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ် ထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်အပူၤ တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ အဆိကတၢၢ်တခါ လၢအဘၣ်ဃးဒီး တၢ်တြီတံာ်ကွံာ် ပှၤမၤဟံၣ်ပူၤဃီပူၤ တၢ်စုဆူၣ်ခီၣ်တကးဒီး မုၣ်ခွါ တၢ်မၤအၢမးဆါသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် အတၢ်သူ dating apps — တၢ်သ့ၣ်ဖးအဲၣ်တီ အဲးဖ် သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကီၢ်စဲၣ်အံၤ အစံၣ်ညီၣ်ကွီၣ်ခိၣ်ကျၢၢ် Kyam Maher စံးဝဲဒၣ် တၢ်ဆှၢနုာ်လီၤအံၤ ကမၤဂ့ၤထီၣ်ဝဲ တၢ်ပူၤဖျဲး လၢပှၤနုာ်လီၤပၣ်ဃုာ်ဖဲ လီမုၢ်ပျီ—အီးလဲ တၢ်သ့ၣ်ဖးအဲၣ်တီ အပူၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ဖဲ ၂ဝ၂၂နံၣ်န့ၣ် အီစထြ့လယါ စဲအ့ၣ်တၢ်ဃိထံသ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်ဃးတၢ်မၤကမၣ်သဲစးကွီၣ်မ့ၣ်—Australian Institute of Criminology, ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် တၢ်ပာ်ဖျါတခါ လၢအမ့ၢ် အဝဲသ့ၣ်တၢ်ဃုထံၣ်သ့ၣ်ညါဘၣ်ဃး လီမုၢ်ပျီတၢ်မၤတၢ်စုဆူၣ်ခီၣ်တကးအဂ့ၢ်, ဒီးအဝဲသ့ၣ်ထံၣ်ဘၣ်ဝဲဒၣ် ပှၤနုာ်လီၤပၣ်ဃုာ်ဖဲတၢ်စံးဆၢအံၤအပူၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် သၢပူ တပူ န့ၣ်စံးလၢ အဝဲသ့ၣ်တူၢ်ဘၣ် မုၢ်ခွါတၢ်မၤတၢ်ဆါပယွဲ ဒီးပှၤလၢအဝဲသ့ၣ်ထံၣ်န့ၢ်အီၤ ဖဲ အဲးဖ် တခါအပူၤ မ့တမ့ၢ် လီပှာ်ယဲၤသန့တခါအပူၤ ဖဲအပူၤကွံာ်ယဲၢ်နံၣ်အတီၢ်ပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ဆှၢနုာ်လီၤ တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤအခဲအံၤန့ၣ် မ့ၢ်ဝဲဒၣ် တၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤတခါ လၢအပိာ်ထွဲထီၣ်အသးခီဖျိတၢ်ပာ်ဖျါအံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.ဆီၣ်သ် အီစထြ့လယါ—South Australia ပာ်ဖျါထီၣ် ထံကီၢ်ဒီဘ့ၣ်အပူၤ တၢ်ရဲၣ်တၢ်ကျဲၤ အဆိကတၢၢ်တခါ လၢအဘၣ်ဃးဒီး တၢ်တြီတံာ်ကွံာ် ပှၤမၤဟံၣ်ပူၤဃီပူၤ တၢ်စုဆူၣ်ခီၣ်တကးဒီး မုၣ်ခွါ တၢ်မၤအၢမးဆါသ့ၣ်တဖၣ် အတၢ်သူ dating apps — တၢ်သ့ၣ်ဖးအဲၣ်တီ အဲးဖ် သ့ၣ်တဖၣ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. ကီၢ်စဲၣ်အံၤ အစံၣ်ညီၣ်ကွီၣ်ခိၣ်ကျၢၢ် Kyam Maher စံးဝဲဒၣ် တၢ်ဆှၢနုာ်လီၤအံၤ ကမၤဂ့ၤထီၣ်ဝဲ တၢ်ပူၤဖျဲး လၢပှၤနုာ်လီၤပၣ်ဃုာ်ဖဲ လီမုၢ်ပျီ—အီးလဲ တၢ်သ့ၣ်ဖးအဲၣ်တီ အပူၤသ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အံၤန့ၣ်လီၤ.

We discuss sexually adventurous men's project, Down an' Dirty, with Craig from Thorne Harbour Health. This sexual health resource for sexually adventurous men covers kink, fetish, and harm reduction. Wayne from SNKR Bar joins to discuss sneaker fetish culture and his Melbourne-based community events for sportswear enthusiasts. We also talk about how safe, inclusive spaces support LGBTIQA+ communities explore various aspects of sexual expression while prioritising consent and community connection. Chapters 00:00 - Intro 01:42 - Down and Dirty sexually adventurous men health project overview 02:32 - Extensive range of kink fetish sexual practices content 05:09 - Harm reduction framework keeping community members safe during sexual activities 12:48 - Wayne from SNKR Bar joins to discuss sneaker fetish culture discussion 14:18 - Wayne shares personal journey 19:54 - Sportswear fetish offers accessible affordable alternative to expensive leather gear 24:54 - Sneaker Bar events create welcoming social space for newcomers to explore All chapter timecodes are approximate. Want more Well Well Well? Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at thorneharbour.org. Produced by: Jake Neville, Jack Crnjanin, Craig Bascand

A federal police investigation into a Sydney childcare worker who allegedly abused 136 children has expanded to a remote Indigenous community in South Australia. Hamish Tait is facing 329 charges related to the alleged abuse of the children over a 16-year period. Australian correspondent Murray Olds says police have released additional material related to the case in order to encourage more impacted families to come forward. LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On today's episode of Wonder, Holly & Anthony are joined online by Dr Jacqueline Halpin from the University of Tasmania for an armchair geological tour of one of Australia's most spectacular and surprising places.If you've hiked the Overland Trail, wandered Salamanca, or stared up at kunanyi/Mt Wellington from the Hobart warf, this one is for you. Tasmania's geology is in-your-face, world-class, and wildly underrated!It turns out the rocks of Tasmania have a story that starts not on this continent, but in North America, 1.4 billion years ago. From the ancient quartzites of Rocky Cape (cousins to the Rocky Mountains), through violent continental collisions in the Cambrian, Devonian beach granites, Gondwana-breaking dolerites, and a Pleistocene ice cap that carved the deepest lake in Australia... Jacqui walks us through the extraordinary archive written into Tasmania's landscape.Find us at www.thegeoco.com.au | Instagram & TikTok: @thegeoco | Newsletter: thegeoco.substack.comGeoCo comes to you from the traditional country of the Kaurna people of the Adelaide Plains, South Australia. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging.

Shutterstock Track 1219389 Monetization ID TFGEPGEI0LHEIJAI Kia ora. Welcome to Thursday's Economy Watch where we follow the economic events and trends that affect Aotearoa/New Zealand. I'm David Chaston and this is the international edition from interest.co.nz. Today we lead with news there is a growing sense that the world is close to running on empty the longer the US-Iran flareup carries on. But markets are ignoring that risk. In the US producer prices fell -0.3% in June from May, marking the first decline since August 2025 and an unexpected dip. A sharp decline in energy prices is getting the credit and the fact that energy risks are still around is being ignored. From a year ago US PPI was up +5.5%. Without that, the core index rose +0.2%, to be +4.7% higher than a year ago. The New York Fed's Empire State Manufacturing Index jumped 10 points to +15.6 in July 2026, signaling a significant pickup in business activity across New York State. Price increases remained elevated and supply availability continued to worsen, they said. The region is in a stockpiling mode, still expecting more cost impacts from tariffs. (Although the New York Fed boss indicated they are looking through these likely impacts. However, not every Fed member is so sanguine.) The July Fed Beige Book reported "modest to moderate" activity, with prices rising, with greater price sensitivity among consumers. US crude stocks fell again although not be as much as was expected this week. Their strategic reserves show not letup in their draining track. Across the northern border, the Bank of Canada left the target for its overnight rate unchanged at 2.25% for a sixth consecutive decision in July 2026, and as expected. But they are seeing an improved economic outlook, however. Across the Pacific and after impressing in April, Japanese machinery orders took an outsized tumble in May. down -12.4% from April and far worse than market forecasts for a -4.2% decline. It seems a broad-based weakness in business investment is setting in. Orders from manufacturers dropped -14.9% (vs 5.1% in April), while non-manufacturing orders fell -9.3% (vs 6.7%). Chinese house prices are still falling but at a slower pace now as background support measures and market cleanup activity is putting a floor under this weakness. China's new home prices across 70 cities fell -3.3% in June from a year ago, the mildest contraction since February. Shanghai was a standout with a +3.1% rise on that same basis, the only one with a measurable gain. Meanwhile, pre-owned home sales prices fell almost -6% on the same basis, and resale prices in Shanghai were negative too. Retail sales in China were up +1.0% in June from a year ago, restrained in large part by shrinking retail sales of cars. Without that, sales would have been up +3.0%, just enough to be higher than their CPI inflation. Industrial production in China rose +5.3% in June, its fastest pace in three months. Meanwhile, electricity production, which some think is a more realistic indicator of industrial activity because it is less susceptible to regional manipulation, rose +2.0% in June from the same month a year ago. Through all of this, China said its economic activity was up +4.3% in June from Q2-2025. This was slower than the +5.0% in Q1-2026 and lower than the anticipated +4.5% that analysts had forecast. And it is its slowest since Q4-2022, and prior to that pandemic interruption, the slowest since 1990. The uneven results posted today won't reassure Beijing. Markets are thinking they will announce new stimulus soon. China's new bank lending came in at ¥1.61 tln in June, much more than the very weak ¥520 bln in May, but well below both year-ago levels and the expected ¥2 tln rise. Bank debt growth typically accelerates in June as banks step up lending activity to meet their quarterly targets, but loan demand remains subdued in 2026. This is adding to expectations of new stimulus measures from Beijing. Yesterday's news of the arrival of bird flu in New Zealand likely shows that Australia's monitoring is likely very inadequate. They say Australia has 14 confirmed detections of H5 bird flu in wild birds. There are eight confirmed in Western Australia, five in South Australia and one in New South Wales. These are probably just the tip of the iceberg. The UST 10yr yield is now just on 4.54%, down -3 bps from this time yesterday.  The price of gold has firmed slightly to US$4061/oz, little-changed from yesterday. Silver is now just under US$57.50/oz, down -US$1.50 from yesterday. Oil prices are up +50 USc from yesterday at just on US$79/bbl in the US, while the international Brent price is now just over US$84.50/bbl. Hormuz transits have risen overnight There have been just 3 crude tankers and 15 cargo ships exiting over the past 24 hours (1 dark with transponders off) and 23 entering for new loads (9 dark) and most Iran-linked. More ships are crossing the Red Sea as well. The Kiwi dollar is up +40 bps from yesterday at just under 58.6 USc. Against the Aussie we are up +20 bps at 83.5 AUc. Against the euro we are also up +20 bps at just on 51.1 euro cents. That all means our TWI-5 starts today at just under 62.4 which is up +40 bps from this time yesterday. The bitcoin price starts today at US$64,950 and up +0.7% from this time yesterday. Volatility over the past 24 hours has been low at just under +/-0.8%. You can get more news affecting the economy in New Zealand from interest.co.nz. Kia ora. I'm David Chaston and we'll do this again tomorrow. Track 1219389 Monetization ID TFGEPGEI0LHEIJAI Audio soundtrack opening is licensed from Shutterstock, Track 1219389 Monetization ID TFGEPGEI0LHEIJAI

3CR would like to acknowledge the Kulin Nation – true owners, caretakers and custodians of the land from which we broadcast. 3CR pays respect to Elders, past and present of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their unceded sovereignty.//News Headlines//Calls for Royal Commission / Segal to address incorrect claims about Gaza death toll evidenceGovernment fast-tracks data centre approvals and delays AI legislationGrattan report criticising the Pharmacy Guild's influence over funding dealsUpcoming national convergence at Pine Gap// Oriela Williams (they/them), co-organiser with the Protect Our NDIS Alliance National and Magan-djin team, caught up with Priya earlier this week to discuss the ongoing fight-back against massive cuts to the NDIS announced in this May's federal budget. Changes to the scheme have been brought to Parliament by the Albanese Labor government under the National Disability Insurance Scheme Amendment (Securing the NDIS for Future Generations) Bill 2026, which is currently subject to an inquiry by the Senate Community Affairs Legislation Committee. Oriela is a proudly Disabled Lebanese Non-Binary Dyke based in Magan-djin/Meanjin/Brisbane. Oriela has lived experience as an NDIS participant themselves, with high physical disability and psychosocial support needs; being a full time power wheelchair user, requiring daily caregivers and living in Specialist Disability Accommodation / Supported Independent Living (SDA/SIL) environment. As well as being a dedicated community organiser and activist; Oriela is a passionate disability justice advocate, lived/living experience peer worker and trained Alt2su facilitator with a focus on anti-carceral, peer-lead and trauma-informed responses to distress.// Content note: This interview mentions gambling harm. If you, or anyone you know needs support, you can call Gamblers Helpline 1800 85 858 or go to gamblershelp.com.au. Kate Seselja is the Co-Chair of Gambling Harm Lived Experience Experts, Founder of The Hope Project Australia, a gambling reform advocate, and recovery coach. She has also been appointed to the Ministerial Advisory Committee to implement gambling reforms within the ACT. Today, Kate joined us to talk about her experience with gambling harm, where reforms on poker machines are up to in the ACT, the Canberra Labor Club, and solutions preferred by the Gambling Harm Lived Experience Experts to manage gambling harm.// Louise Byrne of the West Papua Women's Office joined us to discuss the connections between Sugar Research Australia, the Indonesian sugar industry, and alleged rights abuses and illegal deforestation in Merauke, West Papua. In December 2025, Greenpeace published the report 'Sweet Promises, Bitter Reality: Inside the Merauke Sugarcane Project' detailing serious concerns about the role of the Indonesian state and agribusiness in land theft and mass deforestation in Merauke. More recently, Royce Kurmelovs of Deepcut News has written about the connections between the Australian government-funded body Sugar Research Australia and land clearing in Merauke. Louise has been working for West Papua's freedom and self-determination since 1999, and helped found the West Papua Office in Docklands in 2014. There will be a screening of Pesta Babi: Kolonialisme di Zaman Kita (Pig Feast: Colonialism in Our Time), an investigative documentary examining contemporary colonialism, militarisation, and large‑scale development projects in West Papua, on the 29th of July at Eclipse Cinema in Collingwood, and on 31st August at the University of Melbourne. The documentary is also available to watch on YouTube.Louise shared the following information to supplement our conversation about Wilmar:Wilmar, the corrupt Indonesian sugar company in TownsvilleIndonesian oligarch Martius Sitorus has owned Wilmar Sugar in Townsville since 2010 when he bought CSR's sugar and ethanol division for $1.5 billion. Wilmar has eight mills in Queensland, and manufactures half of Australia's raw sugar. Sitorus is Batak, from Sumatra, and lives in Singapore, with an estimated net worth of $3.55 billion. In 2013 Sitorus and his brother Ganda (as Gama Group, then KPN Corp), with demonstrable government support, began forcing sales of customary land in Boven Digoel and Merauke (West Papua) for large-scale deforestation and agribusiness. Wilmar pays no tax in Australia. In 2022 Wilmar subsidiaries in Indonesia were found guilty of corporate fraud and systematic judicial corruption, including payment of 'Billions in bribes to avoid trillions in fines', Mongabay, 15 April 2025). In 2025, Wilmar's Duta Sugar was convicted for unlawful acts over the import of raw sugar into Indonesia. Also in 2025, and court officials ($4 million to four Indonesian judges Wilmar's huge subsidiary in China, Yihai Kerry Arawana (the largest food processor in the People's Republic and responsible for 21% of its palm oil imports) was found guilty of fraudulent documentation in palm oil trades. You can visit the West Papua Women's Office at 211/838 Collins Street, Docklands 3008 (VIC), and contact them at frwpwomensoffice@gmail.com or via SMS at 0424 745 155.// Content note: this interview includes mentions of a First Nations person who has passed away. For support, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners can call 13 YARN (13 92 76) or Yarning Safe'n'Strong (1800 959 563). Karina Lester is a Yankunytjatjara Anangu leader and second-generation survivor of British nuclear tests at Emu Field in South Australia. She is a senior Aboriginal language expert, anti-nuclear activist and ICAN Ambassador. Most recently, Karina has been selected as a commissioner for the independent AUKUS Public Inquiry. We spoke with Karina about the impacts of the Emu Field nuclear tests, AUKUS associated nuclear waste risks, First Nations peoples' concerns around AUKUS, and what the Public Inquiry is hoping to achieve.//

South Australia has unveiled a nation-first plan to ban domestic violence and sex offenders from dating apps. The state's Attorney General Kyam Maher says the proposal would improve safety for those involved in dating online. It follows a report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology in 2022 that found a third of respondents were subjected to sexual violence by someone they had met on an app or website in the previous five years. - 南オーストラリア州は、家庭内暴力や性犯罪の加害者による出会い系アプリの利用を禁止する、国内初の計画を発表しました。Listen to SBS Japanese Audio on Tue, Thu and Fri from 1pm on SBS 3. Replays from 10pm on Tue, Thu and Sat on SBS1. Listen to past stories from our podcast.  Download the free SBS Audio App and don't forget to visit SBS Japanese Facebook and Instagram page! - SBSの日本語放送は火木金の午後１時からSBS3で生放送！火木土の夜10時からはおやすみ前にSBS1で再放送が聞けます。SBS日本語放送ポッドキャストから過去のストーリーを聞くこともできます。無料でダウンロードできるSBS Audio Appもどうぞ。SBS 日本語放送のFacebookとInstagramもお忘れなく。

Over the past three weeks, our listeners challenged us to give Australian wine another chance.This week, we wrap up the challenge with one of the most recommended bottles we received: Mollydooker The Boxer Shiraz (2023) from South Australia.Featured wine: Mollydooker The Boxer Shiraz (2023), 100% Shiraz, South Australia, 15% ABV, approximately $24-25.Along the way, we discuss why this wine surprised us, how American oak changes the personality of a Shiraz, and whether a wine label can actually tell you something meaningful about what's inside the bottle.Then we crown the winner of our Australian Wine Challenge and answer the question we never expected to ask after our infamous Yellow Tail review:Was Australia unfairly judged all along?If you've ever dismissed Australian wine, or wondered whether a bottle's label is clever marketing or an honest preview of what's inside, this is an episode you won't want to miss.Subscribe for weekly wine conversations.Support the show and help keep the wine flowing!Buy us a glass!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/cheers3⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you!Stop Wasting Your Wine on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stop Wasting Your Wine on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@StopWastingYourWine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Chapters00:00 - Australian Challenge Finale01:55 - Meet Mollydooker The Boxer Shiraz03:45 - First Sip Reactions06:20 - American Oak vs. French Oak11:55 - Wine Drop: Can You Trust a Wine Label?16:45 - Does The Boxer Label Match the Wine?20:30 - Final Ratings28:15 - Crowning the Australian Wine Champion33:30 - What We Learned About Australian Wine34:55 - Next Up: The Greek Wine Challenge37:30 - Australian Edition of Spellmelier

Rosemary previews Pardalote’s new hands-on blade repair course. EverWind’s Ocean Lake, Canada’s largest wind project, will feed a green hydrogen and ammonia plant in Nova Scotia rather than the grid. Plus BP’s exit from an offshore project in Japan, and the wake-effect lawsuit pitting SSE, Equinor, and Vårgrønn against RWE’s Dogger Bank South. Sign up now for Uptime Tech News, our weekly newsletter on all things wind technology. This episode is sponsored by Weather Guard Lightning Tech. Learn more about Weather Guard’s StrikeTape Wind Turbine LPS retrofit. Follow the show on YouTube, Linkedin and visit Weather Guard on the web. And subscribe to Rosemary’s “Engineering with Rosie” YouTube channel here. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! The Uptime Wind Energy podcast, brought to you by StrikeTape. Protecting thousands of wind turbines from lightning damage worldwide. Visit striketape.com. And now your hosts Allen Hall 2025: Welcome to the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. I’m your host, Allen Hall. I’m here with Matthew Stead, Yolanda Padron, and Rosemary Barnes is back this week.  Rosemary, you’ve been to a number of training courses over the last couple of weeks. The first off was GWO. What was your experience at GWO training?  Rosemary1: It was the fourth or maybe even fifth time that I’ve done it. Um, I did it a few times in Denmark and then, uh, this is the second time doing it in Australia. also, this was my first time doing first aid in Australia. Last time they did GWO here, but my first aid was still valid from Europe, so I, I didn’t redo it. And it’s like so much about [00:01:00] snakes and spiders and jellyfish But a good, good rule of thumb, not 100% accurate, but good rule of thumb, if it is something from the ocean that stung you, then you put something warm on it, and if it’s something from the land that stung or bit you, then something cold on it, Allen Hall 2025: well, how often do you usually take GWO training? Rosemary1: You gotta do it every two years to be valid. I don’t do it every two years because, um, if you do it every two years, like within two years, then you can do the refresher course. So that’s three days instead of four However, um, because I don’t climb constantly, like often it will be six months or more in between climbs, I’ll just do it before I know that I’ve got a climb. all the other people except for one were technicians who, you know, have been working for a while. So they’re also doing the full course, not the refresher. So they get a little bit more practice than I do. But, um, it’s just not often enough. Y-you know, like every time I go it’s like I, I really feel the need to have the refresher, um, because I’m just not fully on top of it. ‘Cause it’s [00:02:00] not just that you need to know what to do. You need to be able to… Like if you need to use it, you’re gonna be freaking out, you know? This is the worst thing that’s probably ever happened in your life, and now you’ve gotta remember all your training. It’s like you want it to be actually second nature to some extent. So yeah, first day is manual handling, which is v- you know, very– That one’s very easy and I would be happy to never do that again. Like I will always remember that. Um, then you got fire, um, fire safety awareness, and that one’s just fun ’cause you just get to, um, light fires and put stuff out then first aid, which I definitely always want a refresher on. The CPR dummies at this place, they had lights, um, and it lit up green if you were doing it right, and I haven’t used a dummy that was so advanced before, so that was quite good. I realized I wasn’t pressing hard enough. and then yeah, last two days is working at heights training, which is the most intense ’cause you got your harness on all day and, um, you know, climbing up and down and rescuing people. this was Rite Training in Goulburn, and, um, the [00:03:00] instructor’s name was Claire. highly recommend doing that one. Allen Hall 2025: Is that a general requirement in Australia that you have GWO before you can climb? Rosemary1: Like, yeah, they will sometimes, um, let you climb if you are babysat by people. I would not recommend other engineers, like if you’ve never climbed a wind turbine before, like I would really not recommend that you just go up with a team and haven’t done the training because you do need to be able to use a ladder safely and, um, you can, y- you can easily, like even inside the nacelle, you could easily hurt yourself really badly if you’re used to working in an office, uh, you’re upping your danger level by, you know, like many, many, many times by going up a turbine and it’s just something that you gotta take seriously. Allen Hall 2025: How busy are the courses in Australia? Are a lot of technicians trying to get in and get trained?  Rosemary1: No, it’s people that have a job that are getting trained. But there were heaps of techs in this course. There were maybe eight or so, which is also part of the reason why it took a really long time. Allen Hall 2025: So [00:04:00] this week, as we record, y- you’re presenting a blade repair course for engineers and technicians. a completely new area that you’re, uh, going into in terms of offering advice and expertise that it’s really hard to find on the planet. It’s probably a, a, a busy or, or requested course, I would imagine, in Australia, where you just don’t have access to a lot of the manufacturers. Rosemary2: it’s a, it’s a course for just for engineers or technical type people, um, but including hands-on stuff. So the way that I I forced this to come into being was just the last five years. I, um, you know, I started working a lot on wind turbine blade repairs and, um, people would ask me, you know, “Have these repairs been done right?” And the thing is that the only repairs that I had anything to do with when I was working at LM were weirdo ones, right? [00:05:00] Where the normal, like a technician couldn’t, couldn’t handle it. It was outside of, um, yeah, their, their standard, uh, kind of repairs that they can do for whatever reason. and now in the work that we do at Part Load, it’s primarily normal repairs, and I just didn’t know exactly what technicians know. You know, how do they, how do they know whether they can repair it or not? What do they know before they go up there? When are they calling the engineer? Um, all that sort of stuff, like the normal stuff. eventually it became less about me learning, ’cause like I said, I kind of picked up most of it. Um, but now I’ve got staff that I’m training up to be, uh, you know, composites engineers and to work with these kinds of issues. There’s a lot of repetitive tasks involved in what we do when we, like, assess the condition of a wind farm. A lot of what we do is look main- manually looking through photos and thing- if things are classified right or not. I [00:06:00] Found this guy from Direct Wind Services, Jurij Eska. He’s a blade engineer. He’s worked in Europe and then come back to Australia, so a little bit like me. And, um, I just worked with him on a few projects and I’m like, “Oh, okay. Well, this guy, uh, he really gets it.” And I asked him, “How do you, how do you train your technicians? What course do they do? Maybe I can do that course.” And he said, “Oh, we train them ourselves.” And so then I asked him to put this course together. So where we started off the course yesterday, that was, um, uh, an indoor session where I was talking through how are blades designed, uh, certified, tested, manufactured, um, what kinds of manufacturing defects can you see and what do they do about them in the factory? ‘Cause you know that they’re doing a lot of repairs in the factory already before you ever see a, a brand new blade. and then the next three days we’re going to be working on, um, yeah, grinding and [00:07:00] infusions and a bit of a, a bit of theory about, um, composite repairs.  Allen Hall 2025: What do you feel like are those key skill sets that engineers should know how to do, maybe not as well as a, a professional technician that does it a lot, but at least at a beginner’s level should be able to complete them before they start repairing blades on their own and giving advice about how to repair blades? What, what are those key items? Rosemary2: part of it is that I want them to be able to understand what is a bad damage and what’s not a bad damage cause you look a lot at images from the outside, but it’s really about what’s on the inside and how deep it goes is the real thing. So, um, it’ll be about learning, you know, developing some judgment about, um, how bad it can be and how bad it can look on the outside. We’re not gonna be looking at so many real damages ’cause like obviously we’re just dealing with pieces that are in the, um, in the, uh, workshop and Yuri has [00:08:00] made some samples for us, um, purposely made them badly so that we’ve got some, you know, damage to find. Allen Hall 2025: Are you addressing carbon fiber at all? Rosemary2: Uh, I actually haven’t asked about that. I don’t think so. Carbon fiber is, um, is a real pain to work with because it’s conductive. Like, even grinding it makes a bit of a hazardous work environment. We did talk a little bit about the different materials yesterday and, um, about pultrusions. And actually, it turns out Yuri used to work somewhere where they, uh, manufactured pultrusions, and I had always, I was always under the impression that a pultrusion is, you know, like, perfectly s- perfectly straight. That’s the point. And he’s like, “No way.” No way. There’s waviness in the pultrusions  Allen Hall 2025: And on March 3rd through 5th at WOMA 2027, Rosie, you’re gonna give part of this course as part of WOMA, right? Rosemary2: Little, little mini course. We’ll have to decide what, what makes sense to include, ’cause it was… Yeah, I went through really a, a fair [00:09:00]bit about blades yesterday, you know, like why they are shaped the way that they are. So we had to talk about aerodynamics and, um, why they’re made of composite. So we had to talk about, you know, like composite materials, like how, how they, how they work So I don’t know if, uh, people wanna write in comments that m- we should, we should do some sort of, um, poll beforehand to see what are the topics that are most interesting to people, ’cause I think we’ll have a half day, right? So we’ll need to be, we’ll need to be focused. Allen Hall 2025: the description of repairs and what repairs should look like could be tremendously valuable. Everybody who has seen a repair always wonders, “Was that repair done right?” And s- and if you can have some general tools to know, like, “Uh, maybe there’s something not quite right here,” or, “That looks like a solid repair,” that would be a tremendous help to the industry, p- particularly for asset managers Rosemary2: Yeah. And you know what I think is even more useful than being able to pick out when it’s wrong is to be able to know when it’s right. You can– Y-you know, like it is so– [00:10:00] It’s such a relief. Like it takes such a mental load off you when you’re just like, “Yeah, that’s all, that’s all good. That’s normal. Okay, I know that that– I knew that that would happen, so this is not a surprise.” ‘ know, once you know you can make that judgment, you can do it very quickly and focus your attention where it should be, so you don’t need to stress for an hour over every repair. You’re just like, “Yeah. Good, good, good, good, good.” And then, “Mm, please explain why you have chosen to not, not repair this, but just put a Band-Aid over it.” that’s the goal of this training is to get everybody, y-you know, technical people, not people who wanna ever be a blade repair technician. They’ve got their own training that covers what they need to know. But this one is just, yeah, getting people like asset managers or my employees to learn what they need to know about composites, given that they have already got a strong engineering education. So, um, you know, they know a lot of the stuff, but just need to know the composite-specific stuff and wind turbine blade-specific stuff I will run this course again, by the [00:11:00] way, ’cause there was a lot of people who wanted to do it I couldn’t fit in. So it’ll happen at least once. I’ll keep on running it until everybody that wants to do it has, has done it. But, um, yeah, feel free to get in touch  Allen Hall 2025: So if you wanna attend Rosie’s short blade course at WOMA 2027, just visit woma2027.com and register today ​ Allen Hall 2025: [00:12:00] Well, over in Canada, they just approved a, really a wind farm big enough to power a small city, and almost none of the electricity is going to the grid, which is a very interesting aspect to some of the things that are happening in Canada at the minute. So up in Nova Scotia, uh, they’ve conditionally approved the Ocean Lake Wind Project. This’d be the largest wind farm in the province’s history. Up to 158 turbines will rise, uh, generating as much as 1.2 gigawatts of power. But this power is not headed to households in Canada. Nearly all of it will be feeding Everwind Fuels’ green hydrogen and ammonia plant at Point Tupper, where clean electrons will become a fuel that can be shipped across the ocean to Europe. And Matthew, there’s been a lot of [00:13:00] projects like this in Europe that have stopped more recently, particularly in northern Europe and up in Scandinavia, uh, on the hydrogen side. Or at least they’ve slowed them down. Canada seems to be going into that breach maybe to fill that void. And is there a marketplace for this to occur up in Canada?  Matthew Stead: Yeah, I think it’s very interesting. Um, you know, like you say, a number of canceled projects, and in Australia there’s been numerous canceled projects. So I like, um, the analogy or use of the term hopium rather than hydrogen, um, where, um, everyone’s hoping hydrogen will be the answer. Um, although, you know, what I, what I’ve read and understood is that, um, you know, the commercials just don’t really stack up and, um, yeah. So in terms of South Australia anyway, um, there was some major, um, hydrogen, uh, development planned with, um, you know, it, it never stacked up. So, you know, it sounds like a great [00:14:00] idea, um, but I’m not sure that the commercials will ever stack up unless you’ve got that guaranteed offtake for the, for the ammonium Allen Hall 2025: Yolanda, what kind of uphill battle is this to get this wind farm up and running knowing that it’s one customer and that commercial market is a little shaky at the minute? Yolanda Padron: what we saw, they have a lot of ca- caveats, right? So they’ve, they need to secure the customers before they start building and before they do anything, um, behind the meter. But it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s a pretty big wind farm, and it’s pretty far up north. But I mean, we, we talked to someone in, in northern US today who was having icing issues. So I mean, of course we know Canada is no, no stranger to that, if they do make it work, I think it’d be really, really exciting to, to have sort of one technology power another, um, instead of just what we’ve been hearing a lot of the potential data centers and, and just wind po- [00:15:00] powering data centers. Matthew Stead: Why not data centers? You know, seriously, like you said, Yolanda. why not go something that does have commercial demand? Yolanda Padron: we’ve talked a lot about the potential of da- data centers, right? And we’ve talked a lot about people wanting to do them. Um, but there’s also a lot of talk of potentially doing data centers up in space and a lot of talk of maybe what if we do it offshore or, you know. And so I think there’s a lot of what ifs with data centers. Of course, there’s a lot of what if with this, but just from a technology standpoint, I think this is really intriguing to have something that’s, that’s a little bit even more out there than what we’ve heard so far Allen Hall 2025: Is it a build it and they will come type of s- situation here that hydrogen and ammonia may be the, the first offtake, but realistically, if that doesn’t work out, they can still connect to the grid and feed Canada, feed the Northeast of the United States or something else Matthew Stead: Also, um, like Japan has [00:16:00] also expressed strong demand for, um, ammonia, and so, you know, they- they’re on the East Coast, aren’t they? So, you know, shipping it from East Coast to Japan is not gonna be so, so easy. I stick by what I said before. It’s hopium. it’s not a plan Allen Hall 2025: I just saw an article today talking about Airbus continuing on with a hydrogen aircraft, and I think they were gonna work with a Japanese firm to work on that together. Six months ago I thought that died, but maybe it’s still in the offering. Maybe there’s an offtake for hydrogen. B- besides the, you know, replacement for some of the, uh, more unpleasant gases that are used in steel production and in some other industry things, maybe part of this is airplane fuel. Which ammonia is one of those offerings also, right? The, there’s been a number of efforts to turn ammonia fuel into essentially jet fuel. They configure the engines to burn ammonia, which is a possibility. It does seem remote though, [00:17:00] honestly. There doesn’t seem to be a huge pull for hydrogen, and there’s not a, a major market for ammonia at at least at the moment. So I don’t know. It, it’s… When you’re talking about gigawatts of capacity you’re gonna build, you, you hopefully have an offtake  for it  Yolanda Padron: if they designed it for it being not connected to the grid, right, it just is kind of like a behind the meter thing, and then could they later retrofit it into there? Like, how would all that permitting and everything  Allen Hall 2025: I–  well, that’s a great question. I– There are a number of, uh, connections between the United States and Canada at the moment. guess is that when they place this wind farm, they have that alternate route lined up, just like any wind farm in here in the States, that you’ll find them real close to high-voltage transmission lines. Generally, those are the easy ones because transmission lines cost money and take time for permitting. I’m not sure Canada has those kind of restrictions, right? But Nova Scotia is not the easiest place in the world to do heavy construction work, just the [00:18:00] nature of Nova Scotia. It will be fascinating to see how they progress with this, but it’s something to keep an eye on because a lot of other projects like this have slowed down Matthew Stead: Do you remember when some of the OEMs were talking about, um, putting electrolyzers on their offshore wind turbines? So the, the theory, the theory was you’ve got offshore wind turbine, you don’t connect it to the grid standalone, um, and you generate hydrogen or, uh, possibly ammonia on the actual wind turbine. And then every now and then you just decant it, you know, drive up with a boat, you know, plug in the hose, and then suck out the hydrogen or ammonia. So, um, yeah, once again, all of those have gone quiet, haven’t  they?  Allen Hall 2025: speaking of Japan, a global oil giant is walking away from the Japanese offshore wind project, uh, but the project’s not dying. BP has told its Japanese partners it intends to withdraw from a wind farm planned off Yamagata Prefecture, uh, apparently worried about [00:19:00] profitability. The 450-megawatt project sits, uh, just off the coast, and it is led by trading house Marubeni, which says it will press ahead without BP. Kansai Electric and Tokyo Gas remain on board also. So BP’s exit follows really a, a brutal year for Japan, where Mitsubishi has, and some others, have pulled out of, uh, at least three projects so far, uh, over rising construction costs, and I think a lot of that’s tied to inflation. Uh, the ambition’s still there for, uh, for a number of companies, but it’s just getting harder and harder to do projects in Japan. Is this just the nature of the economy in Japan at the moment, or is this more about Japanese policy on the offtake,  Matthew Stead: I, I’m not really deep into the details but, you know, it just appears to me like a blip. I mean, there, I think there’s a lot of commitment in Japan to, you know, carry [00:20:00] out their offshore developments and I, I think this is probably more just a blip, um, and a little, you know, internal corporate, you know, argument rather than a sustained issue on offtake agreements and so forth Allen Hall 2025: Well, Yolanda, how hard is it to keep partners on a wind development in general? Are there a lot of moving pieces there until the turbines hit the water or hit the  earth?  there’s  Yolanda Padron: I think a lot of moving pieces, but not, uh, I haven’t seen a lot of changes once it’s been publicly announced and everything’s, you know, everything’s been signed and everything. Um, I do think this is really interesting. I know we’ve talked a lot about, about having, about the idea of like sometimes people think wind’s really expensive, and the way that we’re gonna make wind work is just making it cheaper for everybody and just optimizing it as much as possible, um, and, and just being, having the turbines be as resilient as possible, right? And I think such a strong player just backing out maybe [00:21:00] will incentivize some of the people in Japan to sort of try to see how they can optimize it a little bit more. I’m really excited to see it. I don’t know. It’d be… I think it’d be a nice it  Allen Hall 2025: Isn’t the bonus to offshore wind the price stability? Although the price may be higher today than you may be happy to pay, the stability of that price is a huge leverage point when you compare it to things like oil and gas or natural gas, um, in particular, which are highly volatile, that for electricity, at least you have this fairly steady source at a fixed price that you can plan out 10 years, 20 years, 25 years, maybe even 30 years. And as batteries become more prevalent on the grid, that the math even gets better over the years. Isn’t that the bonus? And, and if [00:22:00] everybody can focus on the long-term effects to the economy is where all the action will be? Matthew Stead: Yeah, I mean, when I first, um, started looking into wind, you know, 10 plus years ago, I, I won- wondered why. Why would you build offshore with all that expense? And then, you know, it became clear to me just around the, um, you know, the diversity, you know, the, the fact that you might get more wind at times that you don’t get onshore wind, and the fact that it’s more consistent. Um, yeah, and, you know, so those… I- it’s really a trade-off, isn’t it? Between the capital costs and the, um, more reliable, more consistent, um, offshore wind. So I think, you know, I, I was convinced at the start, I thought it was crazy, but then obviously it’s, it’s a, it’s a… it makes sense Yolanda Padron: Yeah, I agree. And I think, uh, depending on where you’re having your offshore wind farm, you run into things that you maybe haven’t run into before, right? I know onshore we run into a lot of things in the [00:23:00]US and Australia that we, you know, the, the turbines just maybe weren’t designed for, or there wasn’t a lot of research being done because it was being done in Europe and, and the conditions are really different. Um, and just the same way, you know, the sea is different in different places. There’s different depths. There are diff- different things that you need to worry about. but yeah, I, I completely agree that there’s a lot more generation, um, offshore. It’s, it’s bigger turbines. Um, there can be bigger, larger costs. You know, if you need to do a blade replacement or something, it, it can get, again, really expensive really quickly. But, but it’s, it’s a trade-off for sure. Allen Hall 2025: We’re gonna take a quick break, but when we come back, we wanna talk about a place where wind is being fought over versus projects slowing down ​ [00:24:00] over in the UK, there’s a big fight about offshore wind, and not just about where wind turbines will be planted, but more about how they will affect other wind turbines. So RWE is defending the UK government’s approval of its three-gigawatt Dogger Bank South project, which won its consent order, uh, basically a month and a half ago. Uh, but the developers next door are taking that approval to court. Equinor, SSE, Vårgrön own the neighboring 3.6-gigawatt Dogger Bank wind farm, and they have filed for j-judicial review. Their argument is technical, but the price tag is not. They say wake effects, where one wind farm steals the wind from another due to turbulence, could cut their output and cost them between €500 million and [00:25:00] €669 million over the life of their project. That’s a lot of money, Matthew. A half a million euros is not something to ignore. It looks like this is headed to some judicial court or maybe arbitration. Wake effects, which are actually not that well understood from what I can tell at the moment, there’s a lot of discussion and argument about, uh, how real are they or, or what effect they can have on power output. Uh, there’s a lot of money at stake, and the location of some of these wind farms is pretty close to one  another  Matthew Stead: you know, we always, always talk about, you know, AEP loss and, you know, the, the challenge is actually measuring it. And, um, you know, I’ve heard different numbers, but, you know, plus or minus half a percent of AEP loss, um, appears to me from what– in discussions, you know, the, the limit of what you can actually ever measure on a good day. Um, I just wonder, I mean, while those numbers, you know, €500, um, [00:26:00] million is a, is a big number, um, but what is that as a percentage of the overall output of that, of that facility? Um, I, I don’t know the answer, but, you know, if, if it’s, you know, half a percent, I think you’d be struggling to, um, struggling to justify that, that wake effect loss. I mean, you know, going back to what you said, Allen, you know, there are wake effects of some sort, but it’s a question of how much. I mean, that-that’s why aircraft don’t take off, um, too closely, isn’t it? Because there’s wake effects. Um, so it’s definitely a given, definitely a given. Um, but, you know, how much of an impact it truly is. Um, and I mean, there’s always other variables, you know, variables in the weather, you know, wind patterns, da, da, da, da, da, da, da, and how much do this– does this actually compare to those other, other variables?  Allen Hall 2025: Yolanda, how would you even mitigate wake turbulence on an adjacent wind farm? Are there ways to do that today?  Yolanda Padron: I think the, the aerodynamics, Allen, would [00:27:00] be a lot more in your court than, than in mine. Matthew does have a really good point. I mean, what are we… With the UK wanting to ramp up offshore as much as they want to ramp up, right? They’re not going to just cancel a large project, and they need to… I mean, it’s not, uh, there’s a finite amount of space, right? So what, I mean, what, what are you, what are you gonna do? It’s like, it’s what, like, what happens in onshore where you, you really hope maybe that you don’t get a wind farm that’s really, really close by. Um, but you might also want to plan for it. I mean, I know of sites that have le- that lease a little bit of extra land so that way no one else can lease it, or that they can, they can use that to, to travel between turbines. Um, and it’s, I mean, it’s, it’s kind of… Isn’t it kind of just part of it, part of the trade? Allen Hall 2025: it has to be, right, at some point. [00:28:00] The question in my mind about all this is how much wake is there? Is it directly impacting the adjacent wind farm? Is there– are there things that can be done to minimize that wake turbulence? I think the answer is yes, but as wind turbine blade designers, I haven’t seen the same level of wake reduction that we have seen more recently in aerospace. It’s complicated to do some of these things on a wind turbine blade. You’re mass-producing. You’re making a blade a day or a blade in a day-and-a-half timeframe. Are you gonna design this really aerodynamic tip to go on to reduce the wake on a particular wind farm? Probably not, right? So it’s, it’s– is it worth doing that versus the, the cost it would be? So it’s gonna cost 500 million euros in loss to an adjacent wind farm. Do you put that 500 million into the design effort and the molds and [00:29:00]everything else to make these blades different? Uh, it’s a tight trade-off, right? It– from the engineering side. It may be better settled in the courts, honestly. Just it may be cheaper to do it that way. Matthew Stead: Uh, I, I was gonna go down a different avenue. I mean, obviously there’s always curtailment. There’s always curtailment due to grid congestion, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, maintenance. I mean, if they, if they just– when wind is coming from a certain direction, they could just de-rate and, uh, just not absorb as much energy, um, out of the wind when the wind is coming from that sector. And so that would be a way of, um, not modifying the turbine, just de-rating it under a certain wind condition. I mean, the same thing occurs with noise curtailment all the time. Um, so there’s, there’s noise modes. There could be a, a wake loss mode. We should trademark that Allen Hall 2025: Well, you know who’s gonna make money out of this no matter what? The  lawyers.  ​ Allen Hall 2025: [00:30:00] Well, in this quarter’s PES Wind magazine, there are a number of great articles, and you can download the entire magazine and all those great articles at peswind.com. There’s a nice little article from Enerpac Tool Group, and if you’re not familiar with them, they make a, a number of tools that are handy in the wind industry. Uh, and, you know, routine torque checks is kind of a pain, right? And the problem with a lot of those checks is that you have to haul around a heavy hydraulic pump to do it. And so if you’ve ever been to a trade show and seen some of these [00:31:00] pumps, it is a pain. And if you h- have to move around, especially on a w- wind site a lot, you really don’t wanna have a heavy pump that maybe is made for something, uh, more robust. Uh, and you need something that’s portable. That’s what you really need, right? So the Enerpac Tool Group has really created this, uh, LU series they call. Which is a lightweight, portable, hydraulic pump, which is for intermittent work, which is what happens on most wind sites. It’s intermittent. Uh, so the product line director, Angie Wallace, uh, talks about this and says technician feedback has shaped this new tool, uh, from multiple carrying handles and an upward-facing gauge. And that is a big thumbs up from me. When you put the gauge on the side of the tool where you can’t see it, such a problem. It’s like they’ve never used it. Well, obviously, the Enerpac has been talking to technicians, and they put the gauge where the technician can actually see it. Uh, and it’s designed to go through towers and, and tight [00:32:00] spaces. Uh, so this is made specifically for offshore conditions. It’s ruggedized, and it’s a great tool. And a lot of times, Matthew, when you s- see the technicians about and some of the tools they carry, you’re like, man, that is not a good tool for this. That is, that is too much to be hauling around, particularly uptower. It’s nice that we can see some tools that are designed job Matthew Stead: I, I’m completely convinced. I, I don’t have much to say. Um, I mean, my, my day job is, um, you know, designing products and working out what products we’re going to, to work on, and, you know, the customer is the main voice you should listen to, um, at least in the first step. So always listen to the customer first, and I think from what you’ve described, customer first, and then develop the product to suit the application. Yeah, so yeah, I’m convinced  Allen Hall 2025: Yolanda, you’ve seen Interpack on sites, haven’t you? It does seem like I run across them once in a while at some of the US sites  Yolanda Padron: Every once [00:33:00] in a while. I do gotta say I love the idea of when, like, actual, like, boots on the ground people’s feedback is taken into consideration for, for anything really. And so this is, this just makes me really happy because I think a lot of times, like, as engineers, like, we love the idea of just, oh, I’m gonna do this really cool fancy thing, and then it’s just it- no one can use it, or a very specialized person has to be able to use it. And so actually doing, you know, modifying a product so that it, it makes sense for the people using it, and I know we’ve, we’ve all talked about it a lot internally and, and we continue to work towards making it easier and easier on, on the people actually installing the product. Like, this is, this is really exciting. Allen Hall 2025: So if you need a lightweight pump for tightening some bolts uptower, particularly if you’re offshore, take a look at this Enerpac line of LU lightweight series tools. It’s well worth it. And at that same time, you should check out PES Wind magazine. Just go to [00:34:00] peswind.com That wraps up another episode of the Uptime Wind Energy podcast. If today’s discussion sparked any questions or ideas, we’d love to hear from you. Reach out directly to Rosemary, and don’t forget to subscribe so you never miss an episode. for yolonda, Matthew, and Rosemary, I’m Allen Hall, and we’ll see you here next week on the Uptime Wind Energy podcast.  ​

Welcome to this special bonus episode in the 2026 Melbourne Frontyard Ultra Mini-Series on the ZenRUN Podcast. So far in this series, we've been following individual athletes through their event - from the start line, through the yards, into the tired bits, the funny bits, the crew moments, and eventually to wherever their race finished. But this episode is a little different. Because once the runners head out on a yard, there is a whole other event happening back in the event village. There are crews making food, filling bottles, hunting for dry socks, checking watches, guessing what their runner might need next, and sometimes just sitting around waiting for the chaos to come back. There are volunteers watching the clock, marking off runners, managing the corral, cheering people in, and trying to keep track of who is still going, who is out, and who may have quietly wandered off without telling anyone. There are race directors and event crew trying to keep everything moving - music, timing, food trucks, toilets, weather, questions, little problems, big problems, and those calm-looking moments where underneath it all someone is absolutely thinking: “Please let this all keep working.” And then there's the atmosphere. The countdown. The horn. The music. The sleepy middle-of-the-night chats. The crew tents that somehow become parties. The people dropping off snacks. The bike sweep. The runners ringing the bell. And all the beautiful little community moments that happen around the edges of the race. This bonus episode is about all of that. The people behind the yards. The helpers. The crews. The volunteers. The race team. The slightly random conversations I had while wandering around with a microphone and pretending this was a completely normal thing to be doing while also race directing. You'll hear from Nikki and Paige, two of the volunteers helping with timing and the corral. You'll hear from Stuart Rainbow, another race director, who was very much having too much fun with the microphone, cheering people in, chatting to the bike sweep, and generally refusing to go off shift. You'll hear from Nancy, the event manager and absolute boss of keeping things moving behind the scenes. You'll hear from a crew tent that had somehow turned into a fully functioning social club, complete with card games, footy, wine, multiple athletes, and a very clear system of evacuating the chairs when the runners came in. You'll hear from Lexi and Elise about the strange rhythm of crewing - lots of waiting, then sudden chaos, then waiting again. And you'll hear Em at around 1am on the second night, offering some very important feedback about the race music. Apparently, by that point, we needed less dance party and more full 80s, 50-year-old-woman energy. Honestly, fair. I also want to acknowledge Shaun Kaesler, the man behind Ultra Series Australia and the person whose vision has brought Melbourne Frontyard Ultra to life. Shaun travelled over from WA, including driving event gear from South Australia, and he was there from the very beginning right through to the final pack-up. Unfortunately, he wasn't feeling too well during the event, so I didn't manage to grab him on the microphone, but it would feel very strange to talk about the people behind the yards without acknowledging him. This is his vision, and the rest of us were lucky enough to help bring it to life. So this episode is raw, a bit messy, very human, and probably a fairly accurate snapshot of what happens once the runners head out. Because Melbourne Frontyard Ultra is never just about the person who wins. It's about everyone who turns up. Everyone who helps. Everyone who keeps the mood alive. Everyone who solves the tiny problems before they become big ones. And everyone who plays even a small part in helping someone get back to the start line one more time. Why You'll Love This Episode You'll hear what happens behind the scenes once the runners leave the corral There are volunteers, crew, race directors, party tents, snacks and slightly questionable sleep strategies Nikki and Paige give us a glimpse into timing, corral duties and volunteer life Stuart Rainbow brings full race director energy, including bell ringing, bike sweep chats and snack inspections Nancy gives us a peek into the event manager brain, which is basically adrenaline, caffeine and problem-solving The party tent crew may or may not convince you that crewing can look suspiciously like a social event Lexi and Elise explain the strange waiting-chaos-waiting rhythm of crewing Em makes a very strong case for better late-night race music It's funny, warm, chaotic and full of the community spirit that makes these events so special A Few Favourite Themes The runners are the heart - but they are not the whole event Every runner has a whole little ecosystem around them: crew, vollies, event staff, friends, family, bike sweeps, food people, timing people and random snack deliverers. Crewing is its own endurance event You wait. You guess. You prepare everything. They come in and want none of it. Then you reset and do it all again. Volunteers make the event possible Timing, corral, cheering, marking off runners, watching who is still in and who is out - none of this happens without volunteers. Race directing is calm on the outside, mild panic underneath Everything is fine. Mostly. Probably. Unless the timing guy messages, the music cuts out, someone doesn't tell you they've tapped out, or the weather decides to join in. The event village has its own personality Games, footy, wine, chairs, snacks, sleeping bags, spreadsheets, bags with instructions, and people saying they definitely don't want to run one… yet. The best stories are often between the laps Not every moment shows up in the results, but these are the moments that make the event feel alive. Listen In For The Melbourne Frontyard Ultra countdown Nikki and Paige talking timing, corral duties and volunteer life The two-minute warning interrupting the volunteer chat Stuart Rainbow cheering Maureen in and sending her to ring the bell Why Stuart volunteers and why he finds it so much fun Adrian the bike sweep and his job of coming last every lap Carmel dropping off sweet treats for runners and volunteers Nancy in event HQ, trying to decide whether sleep is actually going to happen The music cutting out because messages were coming through on the phone The very honest race director line: “Everything's fine” The party tent crew with games, footy, wine and five-ish athletes to look after The system of evacuating chairs when runners arrive Crew bags with pre-lap and post-lap instructions Lexi and Elise talking about crewing four Dandenong Trail Runners athletes The reality of crewing: lots of nothing, then lots of everything Packing like you might be home in a few hours… or a few days Em's 1am music critique The call for full 80s, 50-year-old-woman energy A big acknowledgement of Shaun Kaesler and the Ultra Series Australia team Mentioned In This Episode Melbourne Frontyard Ultra Ultra Series Australia Shaun Kaesler Nancy Nikki Paige Stuart Rainbow Lexi Elise Em Adrian the bike sweep Carmel Dandenong Trail Runners Maureen No Time To Die Daft Punk's “One More Time” Backyard Ultra / Frontyard Ultra format Melbourne Frontyard Ultra Melbourne Frontyard Ultra Event Website - https://www.melbournefyu.com.au/ Interested in the 2027 Melbourne Frontyard Ultra? Entries are open now for Saturday 1 May 2027 - and if 2026 is anything to go by, it's going to be bigger, better, and likely to sell out. Enter here: https://www.melbournefyu.com.au/

-- Save 15% off everything when shopping. Use the code AGPOD15 here. This episode is proudly sponsored by Veggie and Flower Garden Seeds. With more than 900 varieties of veggie seeds, and unique and hard-to-find flower seeds, this is our go-to place to shop for garden goodies. Female founded, Bec sources freshest seed to help with your germination success. We love their amazing customer service, their helpful advice on getting the most out of your seed, and the range of stunning flowers and veggies they have available. -- Poh Ling Yeow is an artist, author, cook, and TV host - one of the hosts of Masterchef Australia. She's also a relatively recent convert to gardening—but gee whiz, has she grabbed it with two hands! ​She doesn't call herself a chef, but she burst onto our screens in 2009 in the very first season of MasterChef. Since then, she's been a regular on TV, including her own series, Poh and Co., which followed the creation of her amazing garden. ​Poh explains that her "greed for life experience" has always made her creatively adventurous and willing to invite change. We think those are words to live by. ​Poh lives, cooks, creates, gardens, and tends to her bees - alongside her beloved dog Tim on Gah-na land in Adelaide, South Australia. Before that we're chatting Miso - Maddie's obsessed with these miso chocolate biscuits, and this way of cooking cabbage that you're going to love (panko, miso and add some chilli - oh my!).  Maddie is loving strawberries growing in pots, and reccomends this Bee Native florists hand balm Poh talks about Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerrer, Maddie talks about Phosphorescene by Julia Baird Poh also references The River Cafe cookbook, and Tickle Tank in Adelaide

SpaceTime Series 29 Episode 83 Earth's oldest known asteroid impact crater dated in Western Australia Scientists have determined the most precise age yet for the oldest known impact crater on Earth finding it to be some 3.024 billion years old.   A Chinese spacecraft has just reached Earth's second moon China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft has arrived at a temporary second moon orbiting Earth -- although technically the object is a small near Earth asteroid which is orbiting in sync with the Earth around the Sun. Sea floor spreading seen in action for the first time Scientists studying a seafloor site southwest of Australia have for the first time actually captured how molten rock emerges at boundaries between the Earth's tectonic plates. The Science Report A new vaccine with the potential to protect people from developing HIV AIDS. Warnings that losing even a small amount of sleep each night could be linked to weight gain. South Australia's algal bloom found to be the most toxic species of its kind ever studied. China launches a nuclear capable missile across the Pacific in a clear threat to island nations. Skeptics guide to the Westall High School UFO sighting. Our Guests This Week: Professor Chris Kirkland from Curtin University NASA planetary geologist Cynthia Phillips Professor Dorothy Carter from Michigan State University   And our regular guests: Alex Zaharov-Reutt from techadvice.life Tim Mendham from Australian Skeptics  

A warning - the following story contains elements that may distress some people. South Australia has unveiled a nation-first plan to ban domestic violence and sex offenders from dating apps. It follows a report released by the Australian Institute of Criminology in 2022 that found a third of respondents were subjected to sexual violence by someone they had met on an app or website in the previous five years.

Denis Brien is a pioneer of sport in South Australia. Listen live on the FIVEAA Player. Follow us on Facebook, X and Instagram. Subscribe on YouTubeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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We go live on Facebook to celegrate anotehr milestone episode and without burying the lead, there is chaos. And maybe a Lord of Destruction or two. We go card-based for this ep and unboxed a sealed pack of Batman Returns cards from 1992. Can we get the full set? Who has the best costume? Who had the best comment? Is Scoty over-worked and under paid? If the audio sounds odd then check out the mid on Facebook to see our faces fit for radio! Thanks to all our wonderful Patreons and longtime supporters - we couldn't have done this without you! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A creation story of the Boandik people of the south-eastern coastal region of South Australia and western Victoria provides a timeline for Australia's geological history.

What's behind the explosion of mental health content flooding social media feeds today? We ask Lilly, a registered psychologist from Thorne Harbour Health's Under the Rainbow program, to help us find the answer. Jake and Jack speak with them about concerning trends including simplified diagnoses, debunked frameworks like love languages and MBTI, and why pathologising everyday behaviours can be problematic. We explore how to spot credible information versus clickbait, why self-diagnosis has both benefits and risks, and what you can expect if you decide to speak with a psychologist or therapist. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction and Social Media Concerns 01:53 - Meet Psychologist Lilly From Under The Rainbow 03:54 - Psychologist Versus Therapist Explained Simply 06:11 - Working As An LGBTIQA+ Psychologist 14:24 - Spotting Mental Health Misinformation Online 16:51 - Red Flags In Pop Psychology Content 27:14 - Debunking Love Languages And MBTI Myths 37:18 - What Your First Therapy Session Looks Like All chapter timecodes are approximate. Want more Well Well Well? Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at thorneharbour.org. Produced by: Jake Neville, Jack Crnjanin

Suggest an interview for Cheryl Lee or let us know who your favorite interviewee is so farJoin Cheryl Lee - That Radio Chick on STILL ROCKIN' IT for news, reviews, music and interviews with some of our favourite Australian musiciansA racetrack might be the last place you expect to find a country music weekend with line dancing, barbecue smoke in the air, and families settling in for a drive-in movie night, but that's exactly the point of The Bend Classic. I'm joined by Alistair McDonald, CEO of Shell V-Power Motorsport Park, to unpack how this South Australia country music festival is being built as a full long-weekend destination, not a one-night gig.We talk through what you can actually do on site beyond the main stage: motorsport action, karting, classic drags, car displays, a ute muster, whip cracking, axe throwing, and a Sunday night movie experience set up at the Dragway. If you're comparing festivals and wondering where the value really is, the answer is in the variety and the layout. With multiple camping zones and the new infield camping option looking back toward Pit Straight, you can choose your own adventure, from simple GA vibes to a more comfortable stay with real amenities close by.On the music side, we dig into the three-stage approach, including a brand-new acoustic stage inside the Welcome Centre museum for up-close singer-songwriter sets. You'll hear why headliners Lee Kernaghan and James Johnston are a smart one-two punch for fans of classic hits and modern country, plus how the supporting lineup and interactive moments like organized line dancing turn the weekend into something that feels communal.If you're thinking about the October long weekend, now's the time to plan, grab your tickets, and lock in camping before it's gone. Subscribe, share this with your festival crew, and leave a review so more people can find the show and we can keep spotlighting great live music.Tickets: https://classic.thebend.com.au/tickets/What's going on at The Bend at the moment?  Let's find out!Get out when you can, support local music and I'll see you down the front!!Visit:  ThatRadioChick.com.au

Most investors think buying property is enough. But one emotional decision can cost years of growth, while the right strategy can completely change your financial future. On The Property Nerds, Arjun Paliwal sits down with Sidd Sureshbabu to unpack the investing mistakes that stalled his early progress and the strategy that helped transform his portfolio into more than $1.4 million in growth. Sureshbabu reflects on buying his first Sydney apartment based on emotion rather than investment fundamentals, expecting the market to do the heavy lifting before discovering that not every property delivers the same result. The conversation then follows the shift to a data-led approach, with carefully selected purchases across Queensland, South Australia, and Victoria delivering significantly stronger capital growth in just a few years. Attention also turns to rentvesting, with Sureshbabu explaining why renting where he wanted to live while investing where the numbers stacked up allowed him to grow faster without compromising his lifestyle.

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This Week on the Toy Power Podcast; we have Special Guest: Sean in the Studio to chat all things DC related, with a big focus on Batman & the wider Justice League themselves. Kicking things off, we have our routine Get-To-Know-You questions. Then with a Fantastic recent visit to see Sean's Awesome Collection in person; we highlight a few things to chat towards; including the very controversial & quickly banned Jarts Toy from the early 1960's. Then we get into a discussion about Batman. Everything from Batman 66' & why that particular TV Run is so special to Sean. Highlights about the Batmobile & it's Origins; all the way covering the dynamic characters in the Show! We next pivot across to the Ground-Breaking Toy-line that was Kenner Super Powers. With Sean's expertise about the line, the variants & waxing on just why this particular Toyline out-shines many other interpretations of Super Heroes in Toy form. Then backing up that Super Powers discussion; we entertain another segment of The Team! This round focusing purely on the Heroes from the Kenner Super Powers Run! (with a purpose adjustment to the line-up, so that some certain characters don't get all the Votes!) - Who would you have picked?? Enjoy this fun filled ep! In this episode we promote Sean's good friend Glenn Pluck - whom crates Fantastic Acrylic Cases for your Toys & Collectables. Be sure to check out his Business site: Ultimate Figure Protection on all the social sites or directly via his Website: www.ultimatefigureprotection.com Milestone Episode #450 will be Broadcast LIVE on Facebook & potentially other streams, on Saturday July 11th @8pm (Adelaide, South Australian time). Tune in for Visual Fun, Interaction & Give Aways! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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A suspected case of H5 avian influenza detected in a wild bird for the first time now in NSW, farmers across parts of South Australia buoyed by a very wet start to July, and the Goat Industry Council of Australia proposes a levy increase for producers.

JB and Billy are having a little spell, so we're reliving our favourite moments from 2026. We start with Billy's shambolic horse racing quiz for legendary jockey Glen Boss, then flashback to when Nathan McAndrew called in shortly after South Australia won back-to-back Sheffield Shield titles. We hear a gigantic Idiot File, and list off some our sweariest guests, before JB and Billy relive a couple of Footy Show moments that didn't go to plan, and get inspiration from the Freo Dockers for a new favourite part of our show. UK comedy legend Stephen K Amos dropped by to talk about The Ashes, A.I, and MONA, then Topics Brayshaw gets interrupted by a surprise appearance from Billy's arch-nemesis Todd from Barwon Heads. Finally, we revisit Billy's joke about a visit to the doctor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rachel is joined by Jacob Boehme, an award-winning filmmaker, choreographer, and cultural leader. Jacob shares his journey from a troubled teenager in Melbourne's western suburbs to his studies, where he discovered the deep connections between traditional cultural practice and theatre. We also explore his acclaimed solo work Blood on the Dance Floor, which centres First Nations experiences of living with HIV. He closes after speaking about his current role leading the Mob+ program at Thorne Harbour Health's Positive Living Centre in Prahran. Chapters 00:00 - Show introduction and guest overview 01:52 - Early theatre and dance beginnings 05:54 - Cultural discovery and identity at NAISDA 08:22 - Multidisciplinary ceremony as theatre practice 11:45 - Founding Yirramboi Festival with self-determination 15:50 - Blood on the Dance Floor 20:21 - Introducing the Mob Plus program 26:03 - Hopes for the future of Mob+ All chapter timecodes are approximate. Want more Well Well Well? Check out our other JOY Podcasts for more on LGBTIQ+ health and wellbeing at joy.org.au/wellwellwell. If there's something you'd like us to explore on the show, send through ideas or questions at wellwellwell@joy.org.au Find out more about LGBTIQ+ services and events in Victoria and South Australia at thorneharbour.org. Produced by: Rachel Cook, Jack Crnjanin

In this episode, hosts Chris Armstrong and Zac Newman dive into the latest updates from the local running scene, starting with a breakdown of their recent training weeks. Chris highlights his recent work, including a solid 77km week and 8x1km intervals, as he gears up for upcoming races like the Bundoora XCR and Lakeside 10km. Zac discusses his experience racing the Calder Park Relays—an event that left both hosts questioning the choice of venue while still finding the racing element enjoyable.The conversation then shifts to the main guest, returning to the show is Jason "Jase" Smith from Oat Running. Jase shares insights into his evolution as a runner since his last appearance on episode 192, detailing how he manages a hectic schedule——alongside his passion for pacing major marathons. They explore his journey into the running industry and the growth of Oat Running, which has transformed from a passion project into a flourishing brand with a expanding range of colors and designs.A significant portion of the discussion focuses on the importance of the grassroots running community to Oat Running. Jase explains why he and his partner, Jess, prioritize face-to-face feedback at expos and local run meets over traditional digital advertising. By staying deeply embedded in local run groupsthey have built a brand rooted in trust and genuine performance. Jase also discusses the durability of their gear, noting that while it's great for the customer, it means they have to continuously innovate with new colorways to keep the community engaged.The episode also highlights some exciting developments for the brand, including the move into select retail stores across South Australia and Victoria. Jase shares his enthusiasm for upcoming events, specifically looking forward to meeting listeners at the upcoming Sweat vs. Steam expo. They also touch on the brand's reach, with high-performance athletes like Ed Marks choosing to race in Oat socks, proving that the product holds up under the pressure of elite competition just as well as it does for everyday runners.To wrap up, Jase tackles some quick fire questions from chriso.You can score some using the run2pb discount code : Run2pb15, for 15% off the range visit www.oatrunning.com.au

This week, we're kicking off our Australian wine challenge with a bottle recommended by you, our listeners.After our infamous Yellow Tail review stirred up plenty of passionate responses from Australia, we knew we had to come back with an open mind. Enter the 2022 Penfolds Max's Cabernet Sauvignon from South Australia (14.5% ABV, $18-22).Along the way, we explore why it's a mistake to judge an entire wine region by a single bottle, why Cabernet and Shiraz can taste dramatically different even when they're grown in the same country, and how understanding the grape can be just as important as understanding where it came from.Most importantly, we ask a bigger question: are we finally discovering the sweet spot for value wines, or is finding great wine under $17 still just a game of chance?Support the show and help keep the wine flowing!Buy us a glass!⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://buymeacoffee.com/cheers3⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with the show. We would love to hear from you!Stop Wasting Your Wine on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/stopwastingyourwine/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Stop Wasting Your Wine on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@StopWastingYourWine⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Chapters00:00 Australia Wants Redemption03:18 Todays Wine13:42 Wine Drops14:40 Cabernet vs. Shiraz: Same Country, Different Wines18:35 Buying Wine by Region vs. Grape21:14 Review and Final Thoughts27:37 Is Great Wine Under $17 Still a Gamble?32:30 Australian Challenge Week One Wrap-Up

Fayrasta shimbiraha ee la yiraahdo H5N1 oo dilaa ah ayaa gaartay gobol-ka South Australia, iyadoo la xaqiijiyay in shimbir saddexaad oo nooca badda ahi ay qaadday cudurka, isla markaana laga cabsi qabo in kiisasku ku sii bataan gudaha dalka.

Ipinagdiwang ng Filipino Association of South Australia ang limang dekada ng pagtulong sa mga migrante at pagpapanatili ng kultura sa isang gintong anibersaryo sa Adelaide Pavilion nitong 27 June 2026. - Ipinagdiwang ng Filipino Association of South Australia ang limang dekada ng pagtulong sa mga migrante at pagpapanatili ng kultura sa isang gintong anibersaryo sa Adelaide Pavilion nitong 27 June 2026.

This Week on the Toy Power Podcast; we have HEAPS of awesome Pop Culture News & Announcements to cover!! But at the very Top of our list, is the extremely exciting announcement that Trent is a contestant again on Lego Masters Australia! This Bricktacular Event will be held over four episodes & he is a part of a team of three - consisting of himself, Alex & Felix! We wish him good-luck in advance! Then onto Toy News with McFarlane Super Powers Officially revealing their wave 14 line-up; plus One:12 Collective announce an awesome Vintage style Punisher figure with ALL the Guns! Another Godzilla figure from Super7 & so many G.I. Joe figures, its hard to keep up with! Star Wars Black Series 'Expands their Universe', plus a neat addition to the Archie Comic Book Figure line-up that rounds out the set of Mighty Mutanimals. A Blind-Box offer of TMNT figs from Playmates that doesn't impress us much; but Batman media announcements & release dates certainly has us hyped indeed. Then we round out the ep with a Classic segment of Reading, Watching, Playing. Ben praises The Absolute Batman Comics, Frank appreciates the Supergirl film, Scot is impressed by the 'Obsessions' film; & Trent is flying the Aussie Flag for the World Cup Soccer! All this & More! Enjoy!! Milestone Episode #450 will be broadcsast LIVE on Facebook & potentially other streams, on Saturday July 11th @8pm (Adelaide, South Australian time). Tune in for Visual Fun, Interaction & Give Aways! Support the show: http://patreon.com/toypowerpodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Anne-Lise Hénin, directrice de l'Alliance Française d'Adélaide nous dit au revoir et nous présente un bilan des 4 dernières années en South Australia.

Interview with Rupert Verco, CEO, Cobra ResourcesOur previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/cobra-resources-lsecobr-discovers-high-grade-copper-gold-over-74m-9534Recording date: 24th June 2026Cobra Resources is advancing what it describes as Australia's only rare earth project suited to in situ recovery (ISR), a mining method that offers lower capital costs, reduced environmental impact, and faster development timelines compared to conventional techniques. Located in South Australia, the project has recently confirmed mineralisation across two prospects through sonic core drilling, supporting progress toward a maiden mineral resource estimate.A defining feature of the project is its high-value rare earth composition. Approximately 43% of the mixed rare earth carbonate (MREC) basket consists of heavy rare earths, including nearly 5% dysprosium and terbium—elements critical for electric vehicles and wind turbines and typically more valuable than light rare earths. This positions Cobra competitively among global ionic clay projects.Technical results further support ISR viability. Permeability testing has demonstrated strong hydraulic connectivity, with transmissivity rates of around 8 metres per day and 80% tracer recovery within two days. These metrics suggest efficient leach cycles of 30–60 days and support well-field spacing that enhances operational efficiency. Importantly, high tracer recovery also indicates effective containment, a key requirement for regulatory approval.The project may also benefit from natural sulfide oxidation within the orebody, which can generate sulfuric acid in situ. This could offset a significant portion of reagent costs, typically around 30% of operating expenses in ISR projects, improving overall economics.Cobra plans a low-cost pilot study using existing infrastructure and ANSTO's facilities to validate the ISR process, followed by a scoping study. With supportive regulatory conditions in South Australia and proven ISR analogues in similar geological settings, the project presents a differentiated, capital-efficient pathway to rare earth production amid rising global demand for critical minerals.Learn more: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/cobra-resourcesSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

Rhys Dalton-Morgan joins me from Contact in the Desert for a fascinating conversation about a remarkable family connection to one of Australia's most intriguing UFO cases. Rhys's grandfather, a decorated RAF fighter pilot and later operations head of the vast Woomera Test Range in South Australia, reportedly witnessed a bright disc-shaped object during the era of Black Knight rocket testing. According to Rhys's research, the object was seen over the range by multiple personnel, appeared to circle a missile site, and then accelerated away at extraordinary speed. The case has since led Rhys into a deeper investigation of his grandfather's military background, including a reported early involvement with a secret U.S.-U.K. UFO inquiry. We also discuss Rhys's mother's personal experiences, the role of respected Australian researcher Bill Chalker, the strange history surrounding Woomera, and some of Australia's most compelling cases. Later, Rhys gives an excellent overview of the 1966 Westall school UFO incident, including the witnesses, reported landings, unusual aircraft, alleged military response, and some lesser-known details surrounding the event. We also touch on Australian high strangeness, alleged abduction cases, cryptid reports including the Yowie, and why the UFO phenomenon may be far more complex than simply unexplained technology.SHOW NOTESCONTACT AND SUPPORT

With the surname “Kentish,” Nic carries his family's potato growing legacy. While it's one of pride, the journey has certainly not been easy.  After returning to the family farm in South Australia, he found himself confronting one of the biggest challenges many farming families face: how to build a profitable, sustainable business in an increasingly volatile industry. In this episode, Nic Kentish unpacks his lessons learned from decades in farming, including a difficult transition into organic potato production that ultimately left the business carrying significant debt. Nic speaks candidly about the financial and emotional pressure that comes with succession, the realities of running high-risk agricultural enterprises, and why understanding your gross margins matters just as much as understanding your soils. Now an educator with RCS's Grazing for Profit program, Nic explains why he believes agriculture must be viewed as a connected system: where soil health, profitability, relationships, livestock management, and technology are all intertwined. The conversation explores regenerative agriculture, biological farming, and why Nic prefers to focus less on labels and more on outcomes. Sarah and Nic discuss: Why “great technology” still has to solve real on-farm problems The lessons Nic learned from transitioning to organic farming Gross margins, debt, and the hidden pressures of succession Why soil health and profitability are deeply connected The role of observation and intuition alongside agtech Why family relationships are often the biggest risk, or strength, in farming businesses How farmers can build resilience in increasingly variable conditions     Useful Links: The Warble Podcast | RCS Change Agent: The maverick agronomist who changed grazing methods - ABC News Optiweigh Low Stress Stock Handling - Farmsafe Arden Andersen - Soil Learning Center Halter's $2 billion question, with founder Craig Piggott Regen Ag Series Australian Rural Leadership Foundation For more information and resources, visit our website.  The information in this post is not investment advice or a recommendation to invest. It is general information only and does not take into account your investment objectives, financial situation or needs. Before making an investment decision you should seek financial advice from a professional financial adviser. Whilst we believe the information is correct, we provide no warranty of accuracy, reliability or completeness. [12:00:00] Sustainable farming has to be profitable. [00:23:00] Regen ag is about outcomes not labels. [00:37:00] Good tech supports farmer intuition

Jeremy Zakis discusses the confirmed El Niño cycle bringing unusually warm, humid winter weather across Australia. He notes that local councils are performing early back-burning to mitigate bushfire risks during this dry period. Despite drought concerns, many residents are enjoying extended beach weather in coastal Sydney.1930 SOUTH AUSTRALIA

When Pete was transferred to a remote town in South Australia for work, he thought he was getting a pretty good deal: free housing, extra pay, and a new adventure.The house wasn't much to look at, but it was home. Then the neighbors came over.What started as a friendly welcome quickly turned into a conversation that left Pete questioning everything he thought he knew about the property. Suddenly, little details he'd barely noticed before—the unusual fence, the closed bedroom at the end of the hallway, the fact that the house had been sitting vacant—began to feel very different.The more he learned about the family's tragic history, the more he wondered whether he was truly living there alone. Yet what makes Pete's story so unusual isn't the possibility that the house was haunted.It's that whatever remained there never seemed to want him gone. #RealGhostStories #ParanormalPodcast #HauntedHouse #GhostStories #TrueGhostStory #AustralianGhostStory #ParanormalEncounter #HauntedHome #UnexplainedMystery #SpiritPresenceLove real ghost stories? Want even more?Become a supporter and unlock exclusive extras, ad-free episodes, and advanced access: