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Member for Solomon Luke Gosling says an new endometriosis and pelvic pain clinic has been earmarked for Coconut Grove · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Well, there is certainly a lot happening around the Northern Territory,
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  Speaker 1: and no doubt plenty happening in Federal Parliament.
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  Speaker 2: I know that the Member for Solomon, Luke Gosling.
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  Speaker 1: We thought he was going to be a little bit
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  Speaker 1: later because the bells were ringing in Federal Parliament, but
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  Speaker 1: he joins us on the line right now.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Luke.
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  Speaker 3: Oh good Katie. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good now, Luke.
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  Speaker 1: I want to ask you firstly about the situation that
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  Speaker 1: we well, we found out obviously yesterday this announcement that
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  Speaker 1: Australia's first endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics right across all
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  Speaker 1: states and territories, including one for right here in the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory in Coconut Grove. Tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more about this service and how soon it will be operational.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks Katie. It's a great step forward for women's
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  Speaker 3: health services in the non Territory and Darwin in particular,
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  Speaker 3: and I've spoken with them this morning following the announcement,
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  Speaker 3: north Side Health in Coconut Grove with a successful tenderer
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  Speaker 3: through the private so the health network and they're working
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  Speaker 3: with the department now they'll receive around seven hundred thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars to provide specialist endometriosis and pelvic pain services. Whereas
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  Speaker 3: territory women. Thousands of territory women are affected and in
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  Speaker 3: the past it's e's have gone undiagnosed and caused multiple
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  Speaker 3: issues into the future, or you know, when territory women
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  Speaker 3: just didn't accept the advices they were getting locally and
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  Speaker 3: if they thought there were some diagnosis they would have
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  Speaker 3: to go and see specialists and take expensive flights in
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  Speaker 3: the States of Brisbane. So it's great that we're going
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  Speaker 3: to have our own dedicated specialist service and it'll be
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  Speaker 3: up and running very soon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is really good news.
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  Speaker 1: I mean the fact that one in nine Aussie women
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  Speaker 1: can suffer and a lot of the time suffering really
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  Speaker 1: quite severely with endometriosis. I think that, you know, it
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  Speaker 1: is going to be music to there is to hear
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be able to get that support
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  Speaker 1: right here in the Northern Territory rather than potentially having
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  Speaker 1: to travel away.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent, Codie. And you know, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: know anything about indometriosis until one day one of my colleagues,
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  Speaker 3: Gabe Brodman, who's a former Member for Canberra who's suffered
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  Speaker 3: from ENDO for many years. You know, she got up
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  Speaker 3: when she got some specialist support and help and realized
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  Speaker 3: what it was, got diagnosed, and she got up in
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  Speaker 3: Parliament gave a speech and I was just listening and
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  Speaker 3: just for a while I wonder how many territory women
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  Speaker 3: are affected by this. We held some forums over the
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  Speaker 3: last few years just to raise some awareness and now
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  Speaker 3: we've got to a point where we're funding a dedicated
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  Speaker 3: clinic in Cacnut Go, which is a great result, but
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  Speaker 3: we need to do more. I've already been talking with
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  Speaker 3: Marion Scrimdaw and the Minister about an Alice Springs ENDO
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  Speaker 3: and public pain clinics. We have to announce that in
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  Speaker 3: the future in the second round of clinics, so that'll
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  Speaker 3: be great news for territories down in the center. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: MAHA goes out to so many women who have just
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  Speaker 3: been in pain and in some cases is told to
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  Speaker 3: go home and have a panadole and you'll be right,
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  Speaker 3: or told to go and get pregnant and that or
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  Speaker 3: fix everything up. But it's a more serious and complex
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  Speaker 3: issue than that, and often that can lead to infertility
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  Speaker 3: in about half the cases. So it's really serious health issue. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and we're going to have a dedicated clinic for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It most certainly is.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Louke, I do just want to ask you because
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  Speaker 1: this is very much breaking news this morning.
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  Speaker 2: We know that moves toward.
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  Speaker 1: Constitutional recognition for Indigenous Australians. They're certainly pushing ahead. After
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  Speaker 1: the Prime Minister revealed this morning the wording of the
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  Speaker 1: upcoming referendum question on the Voice to Parliament, Mister Albinezi,
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  Speaker 1: standing alongside the referendum working Group, said that the question
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  Speaker 1: would be a proposed law to alter the Constitution to
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  Speaker 1: recognize the first peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal
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  Speaker 1: and Torres Strait Islander Voice. Do you approve this proposed
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  Speaker 1: alteration so that indeed looks as though it is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the question? Luke, do you think how do
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  Speaker 1: you think this is going to go?
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  Speaker 3: I'm confident, Katie. I think that I was just speaking
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  Speaker 3: to a young leadership group this morning and just put
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  Speaker 3: forward the proposal to them, and a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: have had questions about what the question is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we've arrived at that point now, which
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  Speaker 3: was great, although until you read it out, I hadn't
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  Speaker 3: heard the final form of words. We've been consulting on
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  Speaker 3: that for a little while, being flat out with stuff
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  Speaker 3: this morning. But it's a pretty simple proposition to say,
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  Speaker 3: you know, let's recognize in our constitution first Nations people one,
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  Speaker 3: and that there's going to be a consultative body to
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  Speaker 3: the Parliament, to the ministers in order to get better outcomes.
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  Speaker 3: And I think we can all agree that we haven't
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  Speaker 3: got the outcomes that we need. And what I've found
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  Speaker 3: throughout my life is when you get input, buy in
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  Speaker 3: from the community, I think there's going to be more responsibility.
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  Speaker 3: We're quite out of representatives who are part of the
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  Speaker 3: voice as well. With representation and with a voice also
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  Speaker 3: comes responsibility to work with that community to get the
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  Speaker 3: outcomes we want. It's just not an avenue by which
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  Speaker 3: you can say, oh, we need more money, more money.
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  Speaker 3: It's like we've consulted with our people around these issues.
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  Speaker 3: We're concerned about AB and C. But there's also a
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  Speaker 3: mutual obligation, I think in terms of responsibility, because we
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  Speaker 3: all know that we need to improve in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of areas. In terms of rental responsibility and other issues.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's going to be much more likely
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  Speaker 3: if we've got the buy in from the people who
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  Speaker 3: are affected by these laws, if they've gotten input into it.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I know there's a lot of people that will
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  Speaker 1: be listening that are concerned that you know that this
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  Speaker 1: is going to wind up though, being a body that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have true representation on the ground in those communities.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, we're here in the Northern Territory about
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  Speaker 1: thirty three percent of our population is Indigenous. You know,
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  Speaker 1: are we going to have the representation on that body
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  Speaker 1: that the Northern Territory actually needs and deserves.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred percent. That has been something that myself
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  Speaker 3: and Marion and Melanderie McCarthy have been working through this
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  Speaker 3: whole time. Is that if it was simply the majority
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  Speaker 3: of Aboriginal people living New South Wales, So if it
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  Speaker 3: was going to be a situation as I know some
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  Speaker 3: people in our community sphere, that it would be East Coast.
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  Speaker 3: What people say maybe the elites that dominate the voice.
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  Speaker 3: We've got commitments around specific carve outs preferential representation from
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  Speaker 3: regional and remote and that is to take it into
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  Speaker 3: account places like the Territory and Northern Queensland and the
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  Speaker 3: Kimberley and there there the places where we've got the
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  Speaker 3: deepest connections to traditional life and continuing culture, but also
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  Speaker 3: significant issues and dysfunction. So we need to have proper
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  Speaker 3: representation so that whatever laws the Commonwealth may are appropriate
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  Speaker 3: and will not disadvantage and in fact will proactively advantage
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  Speaker 3: Aboriginal territories across the North in particular.
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  Speaker 1: Well it makes the change you to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the issues that are being experienced around northern parts of Australia,
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  Speaker 1: but particularly here the Northern Territory. You know, we want
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  Speaker 1: to see some positive change one undred percent.
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  Speaker 3: It's too much. Too much suicide, too much murder, you know,
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  Speaker 3: too much crime. There's too many victims, and there's victims
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  Speaker 3: of intergenerational trauma, and there's victims in that there's young
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  Speaker 3: Aboriginal Territorians who are on the back foot from before
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  Speaker 3: they're even born because they're affected by fetal alcohol syndrome.
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  Speaker 3: So we've got all these issues that we need to
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  Speaker 3: deal with, but we need real buying and real commitment
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  Speaker 3: from the stakeholders. That's what a voice allows, is a
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  Speaker 3: proper consultative mechanism will make sure that the territory is
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  Speaker 3: well represented. And let's face it, we're not getting the
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  Speaker 3: outcomes we need in terms of closing the gap. This
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  Speaker 3: is something new that respects people but also will demand
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  Speaker 3: responsibility as well, and I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: good for our nation.
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  Speaker 2: Look a question from Baz.
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  Speaker 1: Now this is a bit off topic, but he wants
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  Speaker 1: to know what happened with all those fuel levers that
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  Speaker 1: you committed to pulling.
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  Speaker 2: Three months ago.
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  Speaker 3: Fuel levers.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, So any changes to the petrol prices.
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  Speaker 3: The peture prices, well, they're not determined by the federal government,
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  Speaker 3: but we've been doing everything that we can. People would
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  Speaker 3: have seen we've become involved in setting maximum energy prices
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  Speaker 3: gas prices. We're not part of that. We're not part
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  Speaker 3: of that mechanism in terms of not on the same grid,
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  Speaker 3: but we've been working hard to minimize increase in energy
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  Speaker 3: prices across the East Coast. We've got our own electricity
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  Speaker 3: market and the NT so we have been intervening in
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  Speaker 3: that way. The AROOP, we'll see, continues to keep an
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  Speaker 3: eye on fuel gouging. Everyone would have seen that the
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  Speaker 3: campaign that I and others ran meant that the price
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  Speaker 3: of fuel when that exercise come back on didn't go
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  Speaker 3: back up twenty two cents or whatever it was. So
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  Speaker 3: we have been able to keep pressure on the fuel
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  Speaker 3: companies not to.
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  Speaker 2: Gouge high though aren't they They're still high.
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  Speaker 3: They are, they are one hundred percent, but they're not
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  Speaker 3: as high as they could have been. And that's the
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  Speaker 3: if the whole exits had have been put back on.
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  Speaker 3: So I think, you know, I'm not here to defend
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  Speaker 3: the fuel producers, but there was there was some There
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  Speaker 3: was some concession given that they were taking the piece
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  Speaker 3: was a language I think I used at the time.
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  Speaker 3: I think it did working. They were gouging Territorians and
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  Speaker 3: they did moderate their prices for wile, but it's it's
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  Speaker 3: like airline prices when I get Qunnice in the my
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  Speaker 3: office and just say, you know, you just wanting to
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  Speaker 3: make all of your loss during COVID back too quickly.
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  Speaker 3: And the people who are most affective, the people like
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  Speaker 3: in Darwin, Yeah, who are having to pay this extraordinary
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  Speaker 3: amount for flights. And I just said to some constituents
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  Speaker 3: who raise the issue of the cost of flights again
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  Speaker 3: with me recently, that you know, we might have to
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  Speaker 3: start at the fairfaares nt campaign again because.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I reckon, we probably need to.
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  Speaker 1: It's bloody ridiculous, it is insane at the moment, the
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  Speaker 1: cost of flights.
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  Speaker 2: I'd be right on to that.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, we're trying to sustainably grow our population,
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  Speaker 3: grow our economy. We know as the DSR will come
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  Speaker 3: out and we'll talk about that in the future of
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  Speaker 3: the Defense Strategic Review and what that means for Darwin
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  Speaker 3: and the Northern Territory more broadly. But we need people
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  Speaker 3: to be able to affordably get down south to catch
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  Speaker 3: up with family, friends, go to the footy, take a holiday, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and then people will come and live in Darwen in
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  Speaker 3: greater numbers. That'll be good, good for our community.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to have that connectivity.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, But I just take to say the Badge, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it takes his vigilance, our vigilance, and keep an eye
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  Speaker 3: on the prices, keep getting the feedback out there, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll keep representing down here and talking to the Minister
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  Speaker 3: for Northern Australia and the Minister of the Resources who
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  Speaker 3: is going to be in Darwin in April for a
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  Speaker 3: for a critical minerals conference, and she'll be getting getting
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  Speaker 3: around and we'll have her on your Showcatie, and we
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  Speaker 3: can talk about a whole range of issues such as
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  Speaker 3: that energy and fuel price.
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  Speaker 1: And well, look, we would we would definitely be keen
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  Speaker 1: for that. Luke Gosling, we are going to have to
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  Speaker 1: leave it there. Really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: so much for having a chat with us.
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  Speaker 3: Good on you, Katie. We got a bit of ground.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Mike. Appreciated