Author and Artist Dave Warner (06.05.2026)

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We gather here tonight to bring women back to their rightful place.

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It's easier to accept a story than believe that the people around you are monsters.

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The battle isn't over.
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**Mark Duffield** (0:45)
Welcome back to the SNWA studio. We're headed up to stadium on a Wednesday morning in Perth, building to a top of 23 degrees in our Fair City today.
2026 will mark the 50th anniversary of Dave Warner's From the Suburbs first show. Plans are underway for some special performances in Perth in October 2026 It's one at the Astor Theatre on October 24 Dave is one of my favourite homegrown authors and artists. It all stems back to an experience at the Bustle Motor Hotel in the early 1980s. He joins us on the show now. Dave, welcome.

**Dave Warner** (1:22)
Thanks very much. Oh, the Bustle in the 1980s. There you go. Now we're talking.

**Mark Duffield** (1:28)
I've got to tell you this story, mate. It was the day of the Surf to Surf Fun Run in Bumbury. I had participated in the Surf to Surf Fun Run. I had gone straight from there with my mates to a wine tasting.
Say no more. Being about 19 years old, I of course did not rehydrate particularly well. By the time we got to the Bustle for the Sunday afternoon session, it's fair to say that myself, my two housemates, Sean Menegola, who went on to be a news director at Channel 7, and is the father of Sam Menegola, the footballer, and Reese Whitby, who is now a state government minister, as well as Norm Bailey, a photographer at the Sunday Times, who was then working at the Southwest Times. We were in real good shape. You were performing absolutely beautifully. You yelled out to the crowd, is there anyone here from Collie? And we went, yeah! And then you said, is there anyone here from Brunswick? And we went, yeah! And you looked at us with considerable derision, and you said, same for idiots. And the stern face did not spoil our spirit for the moment, and it was one of my favorite memories from the 1980s.
So, mate, still going strong, are you still as keen on your footy as you always have been?

**Dave Warner** (2:55)
Oh, absolutely.
Yeah, I am. Look, I even went out and saw East Bromale get tallied up by Perth on the weekend. That's how keen I was. But yeah, definitely keen on the footy duff. I go to a lot of the Sydney Swans games. Not all of them, because where I am near Manly, sometimes some of the Thursday and Friday night games is just maniacal trying to get there. But yeah, still go to the footy and taking a lot of interest and really happy to see that the two AFL teams that I support the most, the Swans, number one, and the Dockers, number two, are both heading at the top of the charts, shall we say.

**Mark Duffield** (3:34)
Yeah, they're absolutely flying at the moment. What did you make of the new community park model down there at the Goodgrocer Park for East Romanole? Obviously, a little bit of shift from the old Shark Park.

**Dave Warner** (3:47)
Absolutely. And I was actually talking to Tony Behajo about it last night. We had a dinner. Look, it's a tricky thing. I think the actual idea of letting people come to the footy for free at the waffle level is great. But there is, you just lose a bit of the majesty, I must say, with the, down to the Marmion Street end.
There's just a net. It's kind of like you're in your backyard park.
So I'll see how the model plays out. It's yet to be seen. The oval itself looked great. I know they had some teething problems, and people were enjoying themselves coming in and sitting out in the sun. And once I was on the stand side, and it was damn freezing with the wind coming in. But look, we'll see how it plays out. I think it would be great for Waffle if all the games could be free, and there was a way to generate enough sponsorship or something out of it to manage to do that. I don't know whether it is possible, but I think it would be good.