{"id":30217,"date":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/mike-smithson-on-weatherill-s-murray-river-fight\/"},"modified":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T00:00:00","slug":"mike-smithson-on-weatherill-s-murray-river-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mike-smithson-on-weatherill-s-murray-river-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Smithson on Weatherill\u2019s Murray River fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Mike Smithson asks whether the Murray River really should be the Premier\u2019s priority right now.<\/h3>\n<p>Jay Weatherill was travelling with media to the Riverland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the start of his fight to save the Murray,\u201d Mike said. \u201cSo at taxpayers\u2019 expense he\u2019s flying up to the Riverland to have a community meeting at Renmark before he goes to COAG on Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it overkill? I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s going to save too much\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not sure the Murray actually needs as much saving as he seems to think it does.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/296572646&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I would say is that a government that is struggling &#8212; and Mike Rann was the same at one point &#8212; you fight for the river, you be the white knight for the river and that is a very safe option in South Australia if you\u2019re in government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smitho said the state currently had more pressing problems\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously the national electricity market needs rapid upgrading\u2026 to me that is a much higher priory right at the moment than the Murray.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the river Murray is an important issue, I don\u2019t know if you go out into the trenches today to fight for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-koch-comes-down-hard-on-jarman-impey\"><strong>DAVID KOCH COMES DOWN HARD ON JARMAN IMPEY &#8212; \u201cSTUPID\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/if-i-was-ken-hinkley-i-d-be-furious-says-graham-cornes\"><strong>GRAHAM CORNES STUNNED: \u201cI\u2019D BE FURIOUS\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Smithson asks whether the Murray River really should be the Premier\u2019s priority right now. Jay Weatherill was travelling with media to the Riverland on Wednesday. \u201cIt\u2019s the start of his fight to save the Murray,\u201d Mike said. \u201cSo at taxpayers\u2019 expense he\u2019s flying up to the Riverland to have a community meeting at Renmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16472,"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-30217","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) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mike Smithson on Weatherill\u2019s Murray River fight - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/mike-smithson-on-weatherill-s-murray-river-fight\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike Smithson on Weatherill\u2019s Murray River fight\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike Smithson asks whether the Murray River really should be the Premier\u2019s priority right now. 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