{"id":29971,"date":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/businessman-takes-giant-swing-at-sa-government-department\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T00:00:00","slug":"businessman-takes-giant-swing-at-sa-government-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/businessman-takes-giant-swing-at-sa-government-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Businessman takes a giant swing at SA government department"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Dick Smith has told staff inside SA\u2019s Department of Environment to \u201cgo and get a proper job\u201d after the department made moves to track down whoever restored the state\u2019s famous Marree Man.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re wasting resources on something like this, wow, they can\u2019t have much to do over in South Australia,\u201d Dick told David and Will on FIVEAA breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the sounds of it there\u2019s so many staff in that department they don\u2019t know what to do. Maybe some of them should go and get a proper job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/au\/podcast\/david-and-will\/id1167323375?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>David and Will podcast on iTunes here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"627\" width=\"940\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/marree_man.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The desert artwork and tourism drawcard was again ploughed into sand near Marree almost 20 years after it mysteriously first appeared in 1998\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still Australia\u2019s greatest mystery,\u201d Dick said on Friday. \u201cI don\u2019t know who did it and that was 19 years ago now. The person who did it in the first place is a hero of mine because the amount of income and jobs it\u2019s given is staggering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s known around the world and nobody knows who did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dick has donated money to the local community to build an airstrip that would help them capitalise on interest from tourists\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI bet you\u2019ll find that they won\u2019t be able to get permission to do that because someone will say, oh look, there\u2019s some rare weed there that we mustn\u2019t put a grader over, so you wont be allowed to do it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dick couldn\u2019t resist taking another sarcastic dig at the dept.:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the most serious things that\u2019s happened in Australia in the last century. God, I imagine they\u2019ve probably got the whole police force in South Australia working on this.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/ian-chappell-explodes-over-latest-cricket-controversy\"><strong>\u201cBOLLOCKS!\u201d &#8212; IAN CHAPPELL EXPLODES ON FIVEAA SPORTS SHOW<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/jade-robran\/do-not-fill-up-with-petrol-before-you-read-this\"><strong>DO NOT FILL UP WITH PETROL BEFORE YOU READ THIS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dick Smith has told staff inside SA\u2019s Department of Environment to \u201cgo and get a proper job\u201d after the department made moves to track down whoever restored the state\u2019s famous Marree Man. \u201cIf they\u2019re wasting resources on something like this, wow, they can\u2019t have much to do over in South Australia,\u201d Dick told David and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15734,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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