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Katie spoke with Member for Solomon Luke Gosling about the Darwin Veteran abused by protestors, and the scrapping of Voter ID laws · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: But one of the other things that we've been speaking
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  Speaker 1: about since yesterday, we caught up with Sam Weston, who
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  Speaker 1: is indeed a returned well he's a digger and he
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  Speaker 1: is also the owner of the Mad Snake Cafe, and
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  Speaker 1: he'd spoken to us about the online trolling which had
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  Speaker 1: been subjected to after voicing his opinion on his own
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  Speaker 1: page on social media about the use of the cenotaph
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend through that rally and also the playing
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  Speaker 1: of the last post. Now, if anybody has well I
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  Speaker 1: think the right to actually voice their opinion about those
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  Speaker 1: two things, it is somebody who's served overseas and has
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  Speaker 1: served our great country. Here's a listen to what Sam
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  Speaker 1: had to say on the show yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I've got a lot of abusive tech messages comments for
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  Speaker 2: people jumped on and gave him bad reviews on my cafe.
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  Speaker 2: Has never been in here and got told and got
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  Speaker 2: quite ugly. And I also know that other vets but
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  Speaker 2: I know that we're on there as well, got shot
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  Speaker 2: down as well. I only asked them not to do
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  Speaker 2: the last post, and I only asked them was a
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  Speaker 2: bit of respect of the I thought there were scooters
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  Speaker 2: and people sitting on the Senate PLF. I thought that
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  Speaker 2: was a bit disrespectful and I just said, please do
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  Speaker 2: not do that at the next proces and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not too sure what's going on with that audio there.
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  Speaker 1: I do apologize we're having a bit of a tech difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: But joining me on the line to talk a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more about this situation, it is the Member Fort
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  Speaker 1: Solomon Luke Goslin. Good morning to you lukeing Katie Luke.
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  Speaker 1: You two have have served our great country and I
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  Speaker 1: know that that you know Sam. What was your reaction
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  Speaker 1: to him being trolled online after well voicing his opinion
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  Speaker 1: about the rally, including and while playing the last post
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  Speaker 1: and also we're using the cenotaph. Well.
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  Speaker 3: Firstly, I was very proud of Sam using his voice
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  Speaker 3: and representing the concerns of so many veterans to to
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  Speaker 3: say what he said. And obviously it's an issue that
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  Speaker 3: has stirred up a lot of passion in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people. I was having a look at some of
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  Speaker 3: the comments on the NT news site and there are
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people coming out and support of Sam,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's good because it hit a nerve
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  Speaker 3: with a lot of people and it's sort of something
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  Speaker 3: that really sits uncomfortably. And one of the things that
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  Speaker 3: I was particularly disappointed about is the use of some
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  Speaker 3: of the Nazi imagery on some of the signings that
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  Speaker 3: were there as well. And I guess one thing I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to say is that I know that everyone who
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  Speaker 3: was at that protest is not a far right extremis,
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  Speaker 3: of course, and they don't want to be associated with
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  Speaker 3: any Nazi imagery or white supremacy stuff at all. That's
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  Speaker 3: just not them. But unfortunately, I think there is a
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  Speaker 3: small element that joined themselves into these protests and are
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  Speaker 3: using that and that is actually spurred and any some
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  Speaker 3: big grant on Facebook by by someone who should not
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  Speaker 3: be doing that at all, And of course that is
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  Speaker 3: a concern. It is a big concern that there is
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  Speaker 3: this hijacking of the concerns of territory and one issue
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  Speaker 3: to try and subvert it. So I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: important to call that out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I reckon, you make a really good point there,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, there are people who've been in contact
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  Speaker 1: with us here at the station as well to voice
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  Speaker 1: their opinions in a really respectful way. But I think
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  Speaker 1: that then that gets entirely lost when you are rallying
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  Speaker 1: in a respectful way when there's others who are part
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  Speaker 1: of that group who are then doing things in an
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  Speaker 1: entirely disrespectful way.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and we've seen it down south as well that
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  Speaker 3: of course Territorians and I just have been impressed up
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  Speaker 3: until this point by the way that the majority of
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  Speaker 3: those that have protested have used their right to have
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  Speaker 3: a peaceful process, and it has been peaceful. It's just
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  Speaker 3: this really ugly element with the use of swastiks and
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  Speaker 3: images of Hitler, Like there's no place at all in
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  Speaker 3: this current debate for the use of that sort of imagery,
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  Speaker 3: particularly when you consider that there's names of Territorians up
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  Speaker 3: on the walls of the Senator who were killed actually
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  Speaker 3: fighting that regime. So really disrespectful and people should, rather
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  Speaker 3: than having a go with Sam just have a listen
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  Speaker 3: to what he was saying, which is a very calm
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  Speaker 3: and sensible approach, just to use his voice. But there's
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  Speaker 3: so many other people out there that feel exactly the
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  Speaker 3: same that the cenotaph needs to be respected and those
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  Speaker 3: that are on the walls need to be respected as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Look, and we had a lot of support for
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  Speaker 1: Sam yesterday on the show, so many people getting in
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  Speaker 1: contact with us to say that you know that they
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  Speaker 1: were totally behind him. They support him and think that
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  Speaker 1: what he did was really brave, and you know, they
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  Speaker 1: agree with what he said and with his sentiment. And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's important that he knows that. I know
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  Speaker 1: lots of people asking where his cafe is as well,
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  Speaker 1: Luke to try and get down there and support him
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  Speaker 1: in person, which I think is a good thing to do. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now I do want to ask you. We know that
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  Speaker 1: today is not only the last day of parliamentary sittings
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  Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory, but it's also the last
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  Speaker 1: day of parliamentary sittings federally for the year. And there
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  Speaker 1: were plans to introduce this voter ID law, which we've
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  Speaker 1: spoken about on the show, Damien Hale and Dave Tolner
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  Speaker 1: having a fairly spirited debate about it earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 1: But what's ended up happening. I understand that it hasn't
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  Speaker 1: gone through.
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  Speaker 3: I know, in fact, it didn't even come up for
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  Speaker 3: a debate Katie, because well, quite frankly, it wasn't going
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  Speaker 3: to pass because it wasn't just labored there was a
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  Speaker 3: lot of independence and minor parties that just saw how
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  Speaker 3: stupid it was. It was something that wasn't fixing a
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  Speaker 3: problem like there's eighteen million voters in Australia and the
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  Speaker 3: last election there were only two thousand people that voted
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  Speaker 3: twice and there were no prosecutions, So do you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? It's not an issue of people who
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  Speaker 3: were double voting. Overwhelmingly it was senior Australians where maybe
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  Speaker 3: one of the one of the kids or grandkids had
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  Speaker 3: picked up Nan or pop to go and vote and
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  Speaker 3: then someone else picked them up later on or a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days later to vote, so it was mistaken
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  Speaker 3: double voting. So it wasn't an issue. But the problem
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  Speaker 3: was as that on estimates, there might have been upwards
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  Speaker 3: of ten thousand maybe more Australians who are living very
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  Speaker 3: different to what maybe the majority of Australians are and
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  Speaker 3: don't have readily accessible identification, and we just didn't want
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  Speaker 3: a situation where they wouldn't be able to have their say.
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  Speaker 3: And the majority of Parmentarians from different sides of politics
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  Speaker 3: down here agreed with that and the government did the
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  Speaker 3: sensible thing and through that legislation.
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  Speaker 1: I know the point that some people have been making
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  Speaker 1: it I entirely get it is that you know you
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  Speaker 1: need an ID for most things. Would it really be
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  Speaker 1: that hard to show your ID when you go to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of people have said that, But the
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  Speaker 3: reality is, and anyone who's worked in communities would know
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  Speaker 3: that there's some people who just don't get around with
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  Speaker 3: a wallet full of lots of various forms of IDA,
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  Speaker 3: would never have never been overseas, don't have a passport,
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  Speaker 3: may not get a bill in their name. But what
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  Speaker 3: the difficulty is is that the message that it sends
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  Speaker 3: to people is that that you can't vote. Regardless of
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  Speaker 3: what measures the government was saying we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: put into place, the reality is that there wouldn't have
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  Speaker 3: even been time to do the training that was required
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  Speaker 3: for one hundred thousand AEC staff around the for an
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  Speaker 3: election that's happening early next year, and it was going
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  Speaker 3: to slow things down in a time of COVID on
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  Speaker 3: voting day, so people were going to be waiting in
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  Speaker 3: Q to vote twice as long with this new with
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  Speaker 3: those changes that they proposed, when we've we're not one
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  Speaker 3: person got prosecuted from the last election for voting twice
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  Speaker 3: and in fact, in fact, the government's changes with id
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  Speaker 3: weren't even going to prevent someone from voting twice well,
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  Speaker 3: which is the way that it runs on election day.
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  Speaker 3: So it wasn't a good idea and the government had
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  Speaker 3: decided that as well.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke, we are going to have to get ready
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up anything else exciting or interesting happening in
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  Speaker 1: that last day of parliament today that we should be
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  Speaker 1: aware of. Is it going to be the last day
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  Speaker 1: of parliament parliamentary sittings before an election is called? Do
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  Speaker 1: you think?
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so. I think we'll come back in
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  Speaker 3: February for three days or so, and I think then
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  Speaker 3: he might call it for a March election. But there
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  Speaker 3: are other people who think it might be made. But
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  Speaker 3: one thing is interesting yesterday is that Christian port of
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  Speaker 3: the former Attorney Attorney General that your listeners would have
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  Speaker 3: heard lots about. He is not recontesting and also the
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  Speaker 3: Health minis that Greg Hunt is not contesting. And there
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  Speaker 3: is lots happening down here at the moment. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a sense of quite a few people
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  Speaker 3: in the government a jumping ship. What that means for
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister's decisions about when to call the election,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure, but whenever it is, let's bring it
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  Speaker 3: on and see what the plans are for the territory.
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  Speaker 1: Well. We will be keeping a close eye on things.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Gosling, the Member for Solomon, thanks very much for
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  Speaker 1: your time this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Katie, thank you