Evenings with Matthew Pantelis

Before the 2022 state election, the Labor Opposition pledged to add Adelaide's parklands to the State Heritage List but last night, voted against Green's legislation to do that. Matthew speaks with Shane Sody from the Parklands Preservation Association 

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Paul Maric from CarExpert joins Matthew every Thursday night with the latest motoring news of the week. 

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Former Daddy Cool front man and co-founder, Ross Wilson, joined Matthew.

Ross and his current band, The Peaceniks, are playing shows at the Arkaba Hotel and Mannum's Pretoria Hotel on October 28 and 29.

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Drakes Supermarkets CEO Roger Drake joined Matthew following today's announcement that legislation had passed on several changes to shop trading laws. 

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Sun 23 Oct marks the 150th anniversary of the first message transmitted on the Overland Telegraph in 1872. Rosamund has cycled and campervan-ed the length of the line, exploring what remains and meeting some interesting characters along the way, her book Whispering Wire detailing the trip.  

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Mark is a Lion's volunteer who has been kayaking down the 2,440km length of the River Murray since August, raising funds for Trust for Nature. He's now at Blanchetown as locals brace for flooding.

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Matthew and John discuss the big international news stories, with John's great behind-the-scenes insights - China recruiting fighter pilots from the west, the continuing reign of China's President Xi, the war in Ukraine, unrest in Iran and how long will Liz Truss last as Bristish PM?

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Melbourne scientists have trained a dish of human brain cells to play Pong. They call it (of course) DishBrain, and it’s a world-first. The team describe their work as a “cyborg brain” and in a paper published on Thursday in leading journal Neuron claim it is showing signs of sentience – but not consciousness.

You may have seen that the Bureau of Meteorology decided that today was the right moment to send out a press release announcing they are essentially re-branding, and should no longer be referred to as “the Bom”. It’s just a really silly move, but I thought it would be a nice opportunity to talk about what Bom does and ask the audience how they feel about it, and/or reminisce about any particularly odd rebranding moves they can recall.

One of the largest portions of the Karoonda meteorite is going to the South Australia Museum, 92 years after it fell. It was an incredibly rare event in 1930, when the rock crashing into earth was observed and found several weeks later (most meteorites sit for a couple of million years before they’re picked up). It likely dates back to the formation of the Sun.

We mentioned pigeons a few weeks ago (pigeon-fanciers are a great natural foe of the peregrine falcon), and over the weekend some 1,500 homing pigeons were released in Coober Pedy to race back to Adelaide – the fastest one made it in  about nine hours, clocking in at about 1,334 metres per minute.

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The latest from the @Adelaide_FC & @WestTorrens development meeting that has just completed. Resident Paul Boylan join's @MatthewPantelis from outside the Council Chambers. 

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The 3200-kilometre-long Overland Telegraph Line from Adelaide to Darwin was completed in 1872. It transformed Adelaide into Australia's communication hub, connecting the continent with the rest of the world and heralding the dawn of instant global communication. One-hundred-and-fifty years later, author Rosamund Burton traced the path of this largely forgotten strand of wire through the country's vast desert interior to the flood-prone Top End.

Struggling with a lack of experience and fitness, Rosamund and her friend cycle the first 800 kilometres from Adelaide through the Flinders Ranges to the deserted outback town of Farina, battling piercing winds and pelting rain, visiting sites and chatting with locals as they go. Climbing aboard a four-wheel drive with her husband, she continues along remote dirt tracks searching for derelict telegraph repeater stations, before completing the journey, from Alice Springs to Darwin, delivering an unwieldy campervan.

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