Mornings with Simon Beaumont

According to research commissioned by "The West Australian" there is a 16 per cent swing to the McGowan Government in 5 key seats. "The West Australian" reports that Opposition Leader Liza Harvey is at risk of losing her seat of Scarborough in the next election. The results were carried out by Utting Research and polled 3500 voters, 700 in each of the 5 key seats.

Opposition leader Liza Harvey joined Gareth Parker to respond to claims that the Liberal Party have 8 weeks to save themselves from oblivion and said "well I never take my seat for granted and the poll that matters the most is election day next year."

 

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Perry Heenan, Spokesperson for Ultra Tune franchisees told Gareth Parker that "this is just a grab to get their market share back."

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Despite the ACCC yet to give its tick of approval, Mitsubishi is forging ahead with its plan to offer 10 year warranties on new vehicles that are serviced at its dealerships. 

Under the change Mitsubishi will offer

-          10 year or 200,000km new car warranty.  If the owners decide not to service with a Mitsubishi dealer they will still be covered by their standard 5 year or 100,000km warranty

-          Capped price servicing for 10 years or 150,000

-          4 years roadside assistance subject to the owner servicing with an authorised Mitsubishi dealer

Stephen Moir - CEO - Motor Trades Association of WA told Gareth Parker that Mitsubishi are saying that this warranty can be transferred to second and third owners and that is where the problem will come in as most used car dealers that bring a car into stock will service it and that will void the warranty. 

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Mornings Host Gareth Parker says that the Premier annoyed people yesterday with his comments saying that there is no economic benefits for opening the border. 

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We asked listeners for their nominations of unusual sporting team names

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The new Tasmanian NBL teams name has been confirmed as the Tasmanian Jack Jumpers which has caused a stir amongst some of basketballs biggest names. Andrew Bogut tweeted “joking yeah? Good one. Got me good” while former basketball player Chris Anstey tweeted “the NBL takes a great step back into Tasmania, then calls them the JackJumpers? My goodness.”

We asked Simon Fearn, Collections Officer at the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston ... what exactly is a Jack Jumper?

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The Australian Medical Association says Perth hospitals are at catastrophic levels of ambulance ramping.

Ambulances were parked up outside metropolitan hospitals for more than 30 minutes for more than 3000 hours last month — the worst month for ramping in WA's history.

 AMA WA's Emergency Medicine Spokesperson, Dr Dave Mountain says that it is “catastrophic for patient care and terrible for grandparents who are the most likely people to be stuck on an ambulance trolley out the front of our ED’s.” 

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Jeff Angel, Director of environmental group Boomerang Alliance says that the program doesn’t meet the Government’s own minimum standards with the total number of refund sites and almost a quarter only open for between 2-4 hours a week. 

 

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WA’s long awaited Container Deposit Scheme has officially started.  West Australians will be able to get 10 cents back for each can, carton or bottle that they return to one of the drop off points. 

6pr’s Lindsay Brennan is at one of the drop off points and says that the system appears to be working well with people cashing in their cans for cash. 

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A new report has found that using e-cigarettes triples the chance of a non-smoker taking up cigarettes and there is insufficient evidence that they actually help smokers quit.  

The research led by The Australian National University reviewed the worldwide evidence on e-cigarettes and smoking behaviour, relevant to the Australian context.

Leader researcher Emily Banks told us that 2.3 million Australians still smoke and it is our number 1 cause of premature deaths and disability.

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