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Katie Woolf spoke with Member for Solomon Luke Gosling · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Joining me on the line right now is the Federal
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  Speaker 1: member for Solomon, Luke Gosling.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you, Luke.
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  Speaker 3: Good a Katie in Town's great out there.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, this is the place to be. Where are you
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  Speaker 2: going to be enjoying Melbourne Cup today.
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  Speaker 3: I've had Elbow as you know, and Richard Miles in town,
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  Speaker 3: so we've had a great couple of visits this morning,
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  Speaker 3: but Elbows heading off. I'm going to take Richard Miles
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  Speaker 3: down to the Turf Club to watch your race down
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  Speaker 3: there and put a bed on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh good stuff, And I tell you what how I
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  Speaker 1: mean obviously we're all feeling full of Victorians at this
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  Speaker 1: point in time.
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  Speaker 2: It's a tough time that they're going through.
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  Speaker 1: But how exciting is it for us here in the
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  Speaker 1: Northern Territory that we've got things like the crocodile races,
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  Speaker 1: the horse races, the frog racers, you name it. We're
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  Speaker 1: racing it in the territory today and we're able to
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  Speaker 1: get out and about and enjoy, you know, enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: Cup day however you choose. But it's looking as though
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have bigger than what they are at Flemington.
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  Speaker 3: And that's been it is fantastic, and that's why I
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  Speaker 3: suppose we're taking a little break out of our program
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  Speaker 3: to pop down there to the surf gold and say
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  Speaker 3: good ay to people. But the Northern Territory lifted its
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  Speaker 3: ban on people from a regional Victoria coming into the
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  Speaker 3: Northern Territory, and five hours later Richard Marles landed in
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  Speaker 3: d He didn't waste any time. He's come straight up
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  Speaker 3: and it is brilliant and everyone takes it seriously, and
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  Speaker 3: we want to maintain what we've got. So everyone's going
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  Speaker 3: to have a great time, and good luck to everyone
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  Speaker 3: putting a bed on. But I haven't got a tip
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  Speaker 3: for you. But I was interested to hear Katie that
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  Speaker 3: there was a horse in the cup with a territory connection,
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  Speaker 3: so I'll put a bit each way on there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's what I was thinking as well, Luke, and
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  Speaker 1: Maddy Hepworth had told us that I trust Maddy Hepworth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure got it right that there is a territory
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  Speaker 2: connection to that horse. That's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 1: Well, only for a Winslow come there for wins now, Luke,
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  Speaker 1: obviously you have had your federal counterparts here over the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of days and you are going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to have them over the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: Mate, Tourism has been on the agenda, hasn't it.
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  Speaker 3: Very much so? And speaking of crocs, thanks to Professor
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  Speaker 3: Graham Webb and the fantastic team Shannon who showed us
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  Speaker 3: around there and we had a boat tour out at
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  Speaker 3: Crocodilis and that's a fantastic example of part of our
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  Speaker 3: tourism offering here. And lets you just hope that more
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  Speaker 3: and more of the word's going to get out that
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  Speaker 3: the territories are the place to be even when it's
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  Speaker 3: a bit warm. But yeah, we certainly have heard the
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  Speaker 3: message loud and clear from the tourism sector. It's just
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  Speaker 3: taking much too long for the federal government's investment that
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  Speaker 3: they keep talking about for Kakadu to actually get onto
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  Speaker 3: the ground. I mean, what are we waiting for. It's
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a duel in the tourism top end Crown.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, we just we'll obviously back in Camber next
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  Speaker 3: week continue to buy some pressure to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: that infrastructure funding that's been promised for Kakadu and for
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  Speaker 3: roads actually happened so we can open up some of
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  Speaker 3: some more of our amazing places to the Australian public
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  Speaker 3: and in time to the world again once COVID is
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  Speaker 3: under control.
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  Speaker 1: And Luke, I understand this morning as well that you've
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  Speaker 1: also been at the press conference talking about childcare.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, Codie. It's we went out to Casarina
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  Speaker 3: and thanks to Alice and her team there it's Kasarina
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  Speaker 3: family childcare. Child is massively important that it enables families
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  Speaker 3: to do the work they need to support themselves whilst
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  Speaker 3: the kids in those very important years while the brain's developing,
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  Speaker 3: and it gives them all that interaction and early education
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  Speaker 3: that they need to go on to do well at school.
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  Speaker 3: But it's just so expensive. So what Albo did in
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  Speaker 3: the Budget of a Price speech is to say that
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  Speaker 3: not only for the child's benefit the families benefit, but
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  Speaker 3: for the economic benefit, we're going to give families more
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  Speaker 3: assistance with child care. So ninety seven percent of families
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  Speaker 3: under labor will save between six hundred to three thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars no on their child care each year. No family
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  Speaker 3: will be worse off. But we see it as an
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  Speaker 3: economic policy as well, because too often families are working
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  Speaker 3: on a Thursday and Friday ends up being just to
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  Speaker 3: pay for the childcare. So we want to give families
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  Speaker 3: a bit more assistance there. And we're out there today
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  Speaker 3: at Kasarina Childcare talking to families and catching up with
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  Speaker 3: the beautiful kids there.
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  Speaker 2: And look, look, I think we all agree.
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  Speaker 1: I know myself when I had two kids in childcare
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  Speaker 1: at the same time. It's bloody expensive. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: almost easier to stay home in terms of the cost
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  Speaker 1: rather than actually going back to work.
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  Speaker 2: But you need it in a lot of ways for
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  Speaker 2: your mental health and to get back into life. But mate,
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  Speaker 2: how can we afford it? How is the country going
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  Speaker 2: to be able to afford to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Well, every report, and this is a conservative figure, every
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  Speaker 3: report says that for every dollar you invest in kids
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  Speaker 3: going to early childhood education, you get two dollars back
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  Speaker 3: in benefit to the economy. And that's a conservative figure.
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  Speaker 3: So it is an investment in the money that we
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  Speaker 3: will be assisting families with by lifting the maximum childcare
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  Speaker 3: subsidy rates to ninety percent, will have a benefit in
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  Speaker 3: the economy, will produce more productivity by having the parents
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  Speaker 3: working as well as the kids getting a good early
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  Speaker 3: childhood education. So we think it's a great economic plan,
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  Speaker 3: but it's also we're in a situation now, Cody. In
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  Speaker 3: the last budget where the federal government has spent an
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  Speaker 3: additional about one hundred billion, or at least they've announced it.
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  Speaker 3: Part of the problem is they announced a lot, but
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  Speaker 3: then there's very little delivery. We've done the sums on this.
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  Speaker 3: It will bring back two dollars in an economy. For
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  Speaker 3: every one dollar spend, it's going to be a six
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  Speaker 3: billion dollar spend. So compare that to the one hundred
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  Speaker 3: billion that was in the government's budget that's just been
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  Speaker 3: brought down. We'll have a mid year economic outlook by
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  Speaker 3: the end of the year and we'll see then how
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  Speaker 3: the economy is rebounding. But by next year and by
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  Speaker 3: the time the next federal election comes around, confident the
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  Speaker 3: economy will be coming back. We've got to make sure
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  Speaker 3: there's enough actual stimulatory effect in the economy, and that's
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  Speaker 3: what we'll continue to keep calling on the federal government
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  Speaker 3: to do so that people stay in their jobs and
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  Speaker 3: we can grow the economy and rebound back as strongly
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  Speaker 3: as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Luke, we are going to have to wrap up, but
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  Speaker 1: I do want to ask you very quickly and We
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  Speaker 1: did talk to the Northern Territory Health Minister about this
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  Speaker 1: earlier this morning. I know it's a bit outside of
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  Speaker 1: your area, but we know the situation in Catherine at
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  Speaker 1: the moment with the GP services is something that's really
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  Speaker 1: got the residents of Catherine quite concerned. They are looking
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  Speaker 1: at having an interim measure in place in the next
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  Speaker 1: few weeks. There's a bit of sort of confusion about
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  Speaker 1: whose responsibility this is, but it does seem to me
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  Speaker 1: as though it is a situation where it is the
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  Speaker 1: federal government's realm.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think needs to be happening here?
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  Speaker 3: I think exactly what Natasha Follows did last week and
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  Speaker 3: we caught up with her in Canberra and she when
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  Speaker 3: met with Greg Hunt, who's the federal Health Minister, and
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  Speaker 3: they talked about this issue. And I know that Catherine
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  Speaker 3: local federal member Warren Snowden has been talking to both
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  Speaker 3: the federal labor side as well as the government about
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  Speaker 3: about a longer term solution to this, but also an
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  Speaker 3: immediate solution. So I'm not keen to bag out the
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  Speaker 3: federal government too much until until they've had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to put in a solution. But we'll be asking them
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  Speaker 3: about it next week in Canberra again, and I know
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  Speaker 3: that Natasha Files is continuing to work on it. I
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  Speaker 3: do my brother's working down in Catherine. At the moment.
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  Speaker 3: I really feel for people down there and we're doing
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  Speaker 3: everything we can from the opposition's perspective to get a
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  Speaker 3: solution happening with the primary health net work. But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, we wish, we wish people
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  Speaker 3: down there well, and we'll keep pressuring the Federal Health
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  Speaker 3: Minister just to keep it top of his priority list
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  Speaker 3: amongst everything else that's going on, so that we get
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  Speaker 3: a solution sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Luke Gosling, we are going to have to leave
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  Speaker 2: it there.
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  Speaker 1: Good to speak with you this morning, and your tip
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  Speaker 1: Prince of Iran, that's the one I think with the
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  Speaker 1: Central Australia connection.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to the Prince put a bit each way
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  Speaker 3: and everyone have a great day and out there Verry
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  Speaker 3: springs as well with the Crocs you too.
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  Speaker 1: Mate, always good to catch up. Thanks for your time
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  Speaker 1: this morning. That was Luke Gosling, their Labour's member for
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  Speaker 1: Solomon