1. Who supports the desalination site? SA Water General Manager of sustainable infrastructure Amanda Lewrey. 1.28
2. Adelaide Symphony Orchestra funding. South Australian Premier Steven Marshall. 2.31
3. Emma Opener 1 3.02
4. Emma text-line 3.13
5. Emma Opener the morning after the death of a local child who was asleep in a skip bin. 3.34
6. My wife and grandchildren died, but I survived – barely. Bushfire burns victim Wayne Griffiths. 4.55
7. St Patricks Day 5.32
8. Father’s Day Shark Attack. Eye-witness Jasmine Buckland. 5.43
9. Celebrating Barngarla language. Port Lincoln Barngarla woman Emma Richards. 6.00
10. Barngarla language series/ word a day. Jenna Richards, Port Lincoln Barngarla woman. 6.25
11. My husband killed our son. Mother Valerie Staunton with a story about her son Cameron. 6.38
12. Old Salts stories. Local fishermen tell tales about what they used to see this is Jack on sharks. 7.16

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If you're one of many people who have been impacted by flight postponements and cancellations on Regional Express flights around SA and Broken Hill lately - you might wonder what's been going on?

Social media pages have been full of your stories of missed appointments, missed interstate and overseas flights, missed concerts, weddings and funerals. 

So what is happening?

Regional express Deputy Chairman and Independent Director. John Sharp AM - joined Emma Pedler who asked him that given Rex was 'rated Australia's most reliable airline' with the highest on-time performance  back in August - what has changed?

What's happening with Regional Express (REX) flight delays?

Frankie is 6 and about to turn 7 tomorrow and says that soccer is the best sport because everyone in the whole world can play it.

Cristiano Ronaldo is his favourite all-time footballer because, “he’s the best in the world right now”.

Frankie loves kicking goals and practising his skills which he reckons he does for, “maybe two or three hours a week”.

When he’s not kicking a ball, Frankie enjoys making paper planes, but says, “it’s annoying when you google something and it doesn’t work as good as it says it should”.

In three days Frankie made more than 20 paper planes and he says the challenge is folding it right because, “one wrong move and you just mess the whole thing up”.

Frankie Soccer And Paper Planes - Kids on Stuff

We're a big family here at ABC Eyre Peninsula - so when one of our family members isn't well we want to do what we can to help out...

Kiwi White is like the naughty older cousin who takes you on adventures - we've heard from him over the years - from flying in tuna spotting planes, surfing the waves of the west coast, travelling the world, cycling with the Peninsula Peddalers and loads more...

So when we heard he wasn't well, we asked him to come in and explain...

Local surfer diagnosed with stage 4 mesothelioma

Local surfing legend Kiwi White dominated at the Crescent Head Malibu Classic in May 2019. Here is is talking to me about taking out the over 75s category, despite a recent diagnosis of stage 4 mesothelioma.

Kiwi At Crescent Head After.MP3

When your uncle breaks the AFL Indigenous player games record, you'd be proud too. 11-year-old Tyree explains to me on ABC Eyre Peninsula. 

Tonight, Shaun 'Silk' Burygone lines up for a record breaking 373rd AFL game - breaking the Indigenous games record set by Adam Goodes. 

The 36-year-old spend some of his childhood living and playing footy in Port Lincoln where he still has a lot of family today. 

One of his nephews is 11-year-old Tyree Burgoyne who told me that he's super proud of his uncle Silk...

Tyree Burgoyne On Uncle Shaun.MP3

Street art has had a huge surge of popularity around the world and here in Australia over the last decade we are seeing more and more of that work creep out of the city limits and into country and remote communities.

Andrew Bourke from Melbourne has been bringing his aerosol cans with him from the desert to the sea, and despite the heatwave in South Australia this week, he's in a studio in Cummins working with local artist James Pedler - a Skill Development Grant winner through Country Arts SA. 

Reporter Emma Pedler was there...

Andrew Bourke Visiting Artist

For the past 6 years we've been joined by the same family of siblings to talk all things Christmas - and they've grown from 1, to 2, and now 3 kids.

When it comes to celebrating with yule-time glee, there's no one more excited than our young ones. So here in 2019 I asked Norah, Cyril and Aubrey about all things Christmas... 

*does contain a small slice of a Wiggles song at the start.

Pedler Kids Christmas 2019 AIR

Former Australian tennis star John Fitzgerald spent his childhood growing up on the family farm outside Cummins at place called Cockaleechie.

Back in the 1980s Fitzgerald became known by the moniker 'The Cockaleechie Kid' and in 1991 rose to number one on the world doubles ranking.

This week, he was inducted into the Australian Tennis Hall of Fame - only the 42nd person to achieve the honour.

"This is a special treat for me, it was a little bit unexpected -- look maybe I thought one day, you know in the back of your mind you're wondering if you might be included in something like that. But I didn't think it would be anywhere near as early as this. I thought -- I hoped maybe posthumously," he told breakfast presenter Emma Pedler.

The induction includes a bronze bust that has been created by sculptor Barbara McLean, who he said asked 'what era do you want to be?".

"I said, 'look, I'd prefer mid 30s if that's possible, it's the only chance I'm ever going to have any hair again," he said.

He said the bronze bust, "is in a good spot, it's right up close to Rod Laver arena," but said that the bust hasn't gone onto the plinth just yet so, "it's been used as a beer table at the moment and no doubt the pigeons will find a use for it later down the track."

Congratulations John Fitzgerald! Thanks for all you've done for the game and for helping put Eyre Peninsula (and Cockaleechie) on the world map.

Check out the sculpture on the city (northern) side of Rod Laver Arena in Garden Park next time you go to the tennis in Melbourne.

Interview by Emma Pedler.

Photo: Bridget, John, Jenny, Lizzy and Patrick Fitzgerald. Supplied by John Fitzgerald.

The Cockaleechie Kid John Fitzgerald enters Australian Tennis Hall of Fame

EP Footy Council Chair Tony Irvine joined ABC brekkie presenter Emma Pedler to explain the SANFL proposal for the future of footy on EP.

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