Speaker 1: It could not have gone better this gather round weekend,
Speaker 1: could it?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: I mean, all terms of tickets sold, everything that we
Speaker 3: hoped would happen.
Speaker 4: Absolutely did that and beyond.
Speaker 2: It feels like we've got a TV score of one
Speaker 2: hundred today as a collective state, doesn't it?
Speaker 4: Absolutely should we speak to the man who organized himself, who.
Speaker 2: Orchestrated the whole thing, who literally slept outside of AFL
Speaker 2: house and stalked Gil McLaughlin to make this happen.
Speaker 1: Good morning, our Premier. Peter mellanowskis, Hello.
Speaker 5: Good morning Jodie, Good morning.
Speaker 2: Hey.
Speaker 5: How are you They.
Speaker 4: Going very well? Our Premier, how are you feeling.
Speaker 3: It's been a pretty big weekend for everyone, But I
Speaker 3: dare say, I mean Tom Wrehn was in here before,
Speaker 3: but you've been the busiest man in South Australia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been that. It has been busy. We had
Speaker 5: to work pretty hard over the weekend to try and
Speaker 5: get this deal done. There's an awful amount of work
Speaker 5: that goes on behind the scenes, I've got to say,
Speaker 5: from a real team of people to try and negotiate
Speaker 5: these things. I was really determined to try and get
Speaker 5: a deal done by the end of the by the
Speaker 5: end of the round yesterday, because you're going to strike
Speaker 5: while the irons to hop times. We know that starting
Speaker 5: basically Friday. In fact, both in news Wales's government and
Speaker 5: the Western Australian government started to pitch in because I
Speaker 5: could see what was unfolding in the build up to
Speaker 5: the event, and then on Thursday night as a cracking start.
Speaker 5: So I was a bit I was a bit nervous,
Speaker 5: and but the AFL, you know, we negotiated in good
Speaker 5: faith that was certainly keen to have it here next year,
Speaker 5: but I wanted to leverage that up into three years,
Speaker 5: and we finally got over the line yesterday, which was all.
Speaker 5: It all happened very quick once once some key terms
Speaker 5: were arrived at it and then you've got to draw
Speaker 5: the paperwork up. That's been massive. But how did will
Speaker 5: worked out?
Speaker 2: How did that unvolved? Was it a phone call with
Speaker 2: you and Gil? Was that an in person conversation? How
Speaker 2: did you know the deal was done? Now?
Speaker 5: All in person, trody And so across the weekend I
Speaker 5: tried to get around to different venues to have to
Speaker 5: see how things were going and what we could learn
Speaker 5: from and so forth. So we started talking about it
Speaker 5: on Friday at a business lunch and then we're another
Speaker 5: chat on Friday night, and that was a bit sort
Speaker 5: of I was a bit concerned at that point. Then
Speaker 5: we had another good chat out of Mount Barker because
Speaker 5: we're both up there to see how Mount Barker played out. Yep,
Speaker 5: that's and then we started a bit closer and then
Speaker 5: and then yesterday we had a lot more discussion sort
Speaker 5: of more formally, and then our team's got to work
Speaker 5: around paperwork and the like. So it was sort of progressive.
Speaker 5: It costs the waken. These things always done better in person,
Speaker 5: and I think Gill appreciated that there was a need
Speaker 5: to sort of strike quickly here. Class part of the
Speaker 5: key pitch I was making it give us twelve months
Speaker 5: to prepare rather than four and a half months, and
Speaker 5: we can make it even better. And we've now got that.
Speaker 3: So a lot of eagle eyed viewers, especially on social media,
Speaker 3: premiere and look, it's hard to deny when you see
Speaker 3: the evidence. I think it's more than just a business relationship.
Speaker 3: With you and Gilb suggesting that you guys are close
Speaker 3: becoming best friends.
Speaker 5: I thought him, ok. Over known Gill that long. We
Speaker 5: first met at the Crow's afl W Grand Final a
Speaker 5: few years back when I was in a different role,
Speaker 5: and you just you know what it's like sort of
Speaker 5: every now and then you sort of struck a call
Speaker 5: with someone and get on with people, and yeah, yeah
Speaker 5: we did. And you know he's got you know, kids
Speaker 5: a little bit older than mine, but young kids and
Speaker 5: going through the sort of the balancing act to trying
Speaker 5: to manage a high profile job with children, and so
Speaker 5: for the we're just chatting about those sorts of things
Speaker 5: off a non please thing. So we get on well.
Speaker 5: And but when we when the afl first thought of
Speaker 5: the goat around concept idea, I was onto real quick,
Speaker 5: smart on the back of that relationship and because they
Speaker 5: were keen on New South Wales, and I think, look,
Speaker 5: we've got a relationship of trust and goodwill and that
Speaker 5: you know that counts for a lot, and including sort
Speaker 5: of bend to negotiate a few issues on the weekend.
Speaker 3: We're talking about your relationship. A few minutes ago, we
Speaker 3: knew that you weren't listening because you're on Sunrise and
Speaker 3: Jody said something and I said, I need to say
Speaker 3: that to the premiere in person. She said, no, I'm
Speaker 3: definitely not going to say that, but the power of
Speaker 3: radio mean we're always recording.
Speaker 1: So here's what she said, Peter and Gil sitting in
Speaker 1: a tree. Hey, I double I m G.
Speaker 4: Thoughts on that. Yeah, that's good, Jody.
Speaker 2: I loved that.
Speaker 5: Pretty wheeling there. Let me tell you if you if
Speaker 5: I'm frank about it, there are a couple of points
Speaker 5: on the weekend where the negotiations were happy that they
Speaker 5: couldn't have been further from. So like a couple of points,
Speaker 5: you're having a bit of a how do I put it,
Speaker 5: a genuine robust negotiation and you know, you know he's
Speaker 5: competitive by nature. I'm a bit too. So anyway, we
Speaker 5: got we got there in the end, and like I said,
Speaker 5: if you if you're working from a basis of trust,
Speaker 5: you can sort of work through most things. And that's
Speaker 5: hopefully what resulted in a good outcome for the state.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't stop because we've got to live golf
Speaker 2: this week as well.
Speaker 1: Everyone's exhausted. Everyone is so tight.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, look, I mean so the good thing
Speaker 5: about the golf is that that's attracting a whole other
Speaker 5: demographic again, Yeah, that's coming it's a lot of people
Speaker 5: actually leaving the state today. A lot of people are
Speaker 5: coming in accorders to the airport. But there are some
Speaker 5: Victorians in particular that have decided to stick it out
Speaker 5: and stick around for the golf as well if they
Speaker 5: are able to get a ticket, because that sold out
Speaker 5: pretty quick. But I sort of make this point and
Speaker 5: lots of the focus quite rightly because it was the
Speaker 5: whole idea been on the amount of money this brings
Speaker 5: in for the economy and what it does to you know,
Speaker 5: pubs and hotels in terms of dollars through the registers
Speaker 5: and so forth. That's important and good. The most powerful
Speaker 5: level of this, Jodie and Hazy is the national spotlight
Speaker 5: is on us and we've got a story to tell
Speaker 5: in this state. We've got the lowest unemployment rate we've
Speaker 5: ever had on record, We've got plans for the future
Speaker 5: around industries like defense, space, cyber, what we're doing on hydrogen, decarbonization,
Speaker 5: green iron, and we want people paying attention to what
Speaker 5: we're doing here and these events give us that. I
Speaker 5: think there's been a few stereotypes around Adelaide and South
Speaker 5: Australia that have been truly smashed. This weekend from interstated,
Speaker 5: and that's powerful and South Australians, I think can hold
Speaker 5: their head up hard because they made this happen. It
Speaker 5: wasn't me or Gill and when we put it is important,
Speaker 5: it was South Australian's Like we said, let's get more
Speaker 5: people to the footy on Friday night for a City
Speaker 5: Swans game than what Sydney get for our home game
Speaker 5: in Sydney, and we smashed it. We smashed it.
Speaker 2: I'm going to have to explain decarbonization to Hazy during
Speaker 2: Lizzo during the next song.
Speaker 3: There wasn't something about cutting carves because you're shredding food?
Speaker 5: Why? But it's important. I think we should be proud
Speaker 5: of the fact that, you know, these events are more
Speaker 5: than just the event itself, you know, and the rest
Speaker 5: of nations looking at us differently, and that's something that's
Speaker 5: South Australians have delivered and we can.
Speaker 4: Be proud of it.
Speaker 3: Premier congratulations from everyone in South Australia. This has just
Speaker 3: been so fun to watch and just even cruising through
Speaker 3: the footy festival village and everything, it's been an absolute spectacle.
Speaker 3: We're pumped at a tear for three years and beyond
Speaker 3: so well done.
Speaker 5: Thanks guys, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
Speaker 4: Premier Bye the premiere there. That's yeah, three or years
Speaker 4: unbelievable stuff.
Speaker 2: I was going to complain about the forty five minute
Speaker 2: lineup for the.
Speaker 1: Zip Line, but I thought not the time. Let's rejoice.
Speaker 4: Keep those complaints in here, sorry,