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Perth's Strange History - Excuse Me Lisa, Are You Carrying Today? · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Strange history.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a.
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  Speaker 1: Little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Today is very very strange.
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  Speaker 2: It is the potato law, that's right. It used to
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  Speaker 2: be illegal to have more than fifty kilograms of potatoes
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  Speaker 2: in your possession right up until twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't what happened.
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  Speaker 3: It was fifty kilos more repealed.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we're going to find out in the moment.
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  Speaker 2: But if you were carrying more than fifty k's you
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  Speaker 2: could have been breaking the law because members of the
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  Speaker 2: Potato Marketing Authority the PMO were allowed to stop and
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  Speaker 2: search your vehicle if they suspected you might have more
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  Speaker 2: than fifty kilos of potatoes on you.
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  Speaker 1: Wonder what gave you a wife?
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  Speaker 3: Were they were they? Were they in a plane or
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  Speaker 3: marked cars?
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  Speaker 1: The PMA.
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  Speaker 3: Excuse me, excuse me, ecuse me, Lisa, are you carrying today?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know what the giveaway was.
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  Speaker 2: In twenty sixteen, Tony Galadi, the spud King, he was
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  Speaker 2: declared winner of the Potato War. He took him thirty
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  Speaker 2: years of campaigning, but the Potato Marketing Corporation was closed,
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  Speaker 2: seeing Holt to stop and search potato inspections. But stop
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  Speaker 2: and search potato inspections that's a sentence.
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  Speaker 1: It was not on my bingo cart.
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  Speaker 3: Where do you hide potatoes? I don't in the boot,
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  Speaker 3: well certainly not down in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: No one at a time, carrying them one at a time.
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  Speaker 2: So but it did take until twenty twenty one for
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  Speaker 2: to officially be repealed.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, But you know, I think we want to
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  Speaker 3: get to the bottom of this because.
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  Speaker 1: More information from someone who can make sense of it.
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  Speaker 4: Not this is weird.
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  Speaker 3: What's strange, That's what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Laura Willocks as a senior criminal lawyer and practice director
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  Speaker 2: at Timpanno Legal.
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  Speaker 1: She is joining us.
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  Speaker 4: Hello Laura, good morning, Lisa and Russell.
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  Speaker 2: Very well, this is one we're not carrying bizarre laws.
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  Speaker 1: Why did it come about in the first place?
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  Speaker 4: Look the war. The legislation was introduced after World War Two. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: during the war, governments encouraged farmers to grow large quantities
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  Speaker 4: of potatoes because they were an important food source. But
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  Speaker 4: when the war ended and government subsidy stopped, there was
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  Speaker 4: concern that farmers would keep producing these large crops, fighting
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  Speaker 4: the market and causing causing the prices to collapse. So look,
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  Speaker 4: generally speaking, the law was created to and designed to
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  Speaker 4: stabilize supply, maintain prices, and protect growers from financial hardship
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  Speaker 4: after the war.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Okay, fair enough? So what would be the punishment
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  Speaker 2: if you break the law?
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  Speaker 4: Look, there were fines, but I mean generally, if you, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: if you had more than fifty kilos of certain potatoes
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  Speaker 4: and you couldn't produce the right paperwork like a sales
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  Speaker 4: docket or a delivery note, a court could presume that
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  Speaker 4: they'd been obtained unlawfully.
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  Speaker 3: Given that, you know, as the years passed and the
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  Speaker 3: war got further behind us, did not anybody think that
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  Speaker 3: maybe it was time to relook at the Great Potato Scandal?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I mean it's it. I mean, some people
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  Speaker 4: consider a positive. Others considered it was a negative. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: some supporters gave argued that it gave farmers stable prices,
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  Speaker 4: predictable income, and protection from you know, these market crashes.
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  Speaker 4: But critics, as you said, like Tony Gallati, argued that
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  Speaker 4: limited competition and kept prices artificially high. It just it
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  Speaker 4: probably served an important purpose in the years immediately after
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  Speaker 4: the war, but many people believed it became outdated and.
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  Speaker 2: He fought a hard I mean way before spudshed was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, like part of the vernacular.
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  Speaker 1: We just remember Tony four being on the news in he.
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  Speaker 3: Was he was the blue shirt leading the charge against
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  Speaker 3: the outdated.
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  Speaker 4: Law in his famous studies Stubbies. Yeah, he stubby short.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was, I think it kind of. It
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  Speaker 4: was a peculiar law up until twenty sixteen. It just
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  Speaker 4: showed how, you know, government could regulate something so bizarre,
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  Speaker 4: like how many potatoes can be grown.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it made perfect sense at the time.
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  Speaker 3: I would have at the time. I guess there's just
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  Speaker 3: so many laws there that they forget how which ones
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  Speaker 3: have put into place, which ones to take away?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, laugh, Well, Laura, thank you so much for helping
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  Speaker 2: us understand more our old potato law.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, pleasure, Thank yous for having me join real welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for the movie Great Potato Scandal. Yes, absolutely so,
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  Speaker 3: that's good news. I can transport that one hundred kilos
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  Speaker 3: of potatoes I have in my boot across the line
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  Speaker 3: and I will not Yeah, I can. I will not
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  Speaker 3: be picked up by the pm A