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Catherine Tilmouth from the Minerals Council of Australia’s Northern Territory Division chats the Emergency Response Competition happening in the NT · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: It's joining me in the studio right now is Catherine Tilmouth,
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  Speaker 1: who is the executive director of the Minerals Council of
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  Speaker 1: Australia's Northern Territory branch.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning to you. Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 3: It's all very exciting morning.
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  Speaker 1: Now, before we get into what you came in to
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  Speaker 1: chat about, speaking about the minerals sector and taking into
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  Speaker 1: account the announcement that has literally just happened, I know
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  Speaker 1: that that the Deputy Chief Minister, Nicole Madison has indeed
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  Speaker 1: been the minister that's responsible for minds and minerals and
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  Speaker 1: your sector. Are you hoping that she continues down that path?
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  Speaker 3: Look, I think I speak on behalf of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of industries that have Manno as their minister. She's been
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  Speaker 3: in an outstanding minister for the mining sector and we'd.
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  Speaker 2: Love to keep her.
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  Speaker 3: She knows as being the treasurer where the money comes from,
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  Speaker 3: who pays royalties, who keeps the lights on in the territory.
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  Speaker 3: Mining sector plays a big part in that and so
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  Speaker 3: she's been very supportive of our industry and there was.
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  Speaker 1: Quite a bit of you know, talk about that earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the week as when the budget was handed down.
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  Speaker 1: I know that certainly there was a bit of a
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  Speaker 1: shadow and it took a whole other path with Michael
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  Speaker 1: Gunner resigning. But what we do know that the mining
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  Speaker 1: sector does have a huge part to play when we
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  Speaker 1: talk about the economy and moving things along in the territory.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Look, it's a huge employer of people. I think we've
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  Speaker 3: got three five hundred direct employees in the mining sector
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  Speaker 3: in the Northern Territory. But it's the indirect employment as well.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, miners have to fly somewhere, they've got
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  Speaker 3: to wash their clothes, they've got to live somewhere, they've
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  Speaker 3: got to eat, they've got to say. All of those
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  Speaker 3: things they all feed into the economy, so it's a
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  Speaker 3: spin off jobs that also come from the mining industry
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  Speaker 3: that play a huge part in the territory.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we know that it's a busy weekend for
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  Speaker 1: you guys. This weekend the emergency rescue teams are going
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  Speaker 1: to be put to the test, I guess you'd say
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  Speaker 1: in Darwin in a competition to test how well sites
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  Speaker 1: here and around Australia coat with major on site emergencies.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit more about what this is
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  Speaker 1: on the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: So it's a pretty exciting competition.
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  Speaker 3: There's teams from six different sites, well actually five different
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  Speaker 3: sites and a bit of a joint ring in team
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  Speaker 3: from Smaller Minds are participating this year. So what we
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  Speaker 3: do is they set up scenarios, very lifelike scenarios. We
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  Speaker 3: even have makeup artists coming in and making some of
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  Speaker 3: our casualties look as realistic as possible, and these teams
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  Speaker 3: get to test their emergency response skills.
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  Speaker 2: There's various scenarios.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to go down yesterday and watch them do
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  Speaker 3: an underground rescue in the tunnels, which has some pretty
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  Speaker 3: intense stuff to see, very very impressive. And over the
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  Speaker 3: weekend we've got rescue from heights, fire management, HASMAC situations,
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  Speaker 3: mass casualties, car crash rescue. So we make these scenarios
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  Speaker 3: as realistic as possible because out in the mind sights
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  Speaker 3: where these people are based, you can go through the
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  Speaker 3: theory as much as you want, you can spend all
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  Speaker 3: that time practicing, but until you're faced with a real
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  Speaker 3: of a situation, you don't really know how you're going
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  Speaker 3: to react. So while it is a competition, it's really
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  Speaker 3: an important training exercise as well, now, where.
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  Speaker 1: Have you got teams coming from? I know you said,
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  Speaker 1: not just the northern territory. Where else are they coming from?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've got Mount i.
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  Speaker 3: Maun Eiser mines, New Mont's south thirty two, so northwest
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  Speaker 3: Queenslanderze is our ringing team, and Rio as well. And
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  Speaker 3: it's really important you are and Mane is a girl.
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  Speaker 3: It's to point out that fact that Mount Ey's is
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  Speaker 3: a very unique situation where the mine is essentially right
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  Speaker 3: next door to the town. In a lot of these
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  Speaker 3: places that's not the case, and you don't have the ambulance,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have the police, you don't have the firefighters
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  Speaker 3: anywhere nearby. So a lot of the times these teams
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  Speaker 3: aren't just responsible for rescuing any sort of incident that
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  Speaker 3: happens at the mind side, but also accord on to
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  Speaker 3: be the first emergency responders to situations out in the
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  Speaker 3: public car crashes, lost fishermen, you know, rollovers.
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  Speaker 2: They've responded to snake bite victims.
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  Speaker 3: And they also have those sort of tactical skills that
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  Speaker 3: they need to put in place, like someone's fallen from
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  Speaker 3: a height or stuck up high and get those patients
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  Speaker 3: from that situation to hand them over to CareFlight Royal
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  Speaker 3: Flying Doctors and so they can go to hospital. So
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  Speaker 3: it's really important that they have those skills so they
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  Speaker 3: can serve the community as well, and a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Don't really realize that, you know that they do have
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  Speaker 1: such a huge They are so much a part of
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  Speaker 1: the community and at the end of the day, everybody
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  Speaker 1: that works at those minds essentially lives within the community
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  Speaker 1: as well. And then if there is an incident that occurs,
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  Speaker 1: they're the first ones in some cases that get called out.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, if you're in the middle of nowhere, you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to be waiting for an ambulance to be coming
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  Speaker 3: from Darwin when you've got a mind sit right next
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  Speaker 3: door with the guys and girls that have the kit
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  Speaker 3: and skills to come out and get you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. Well, Kat, it sounds like it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a very busy weekend. Where is this
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  Speaker 1: all happening.
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  Speaker 3: So we're set up at Charles Darwin University, the Casarina campus,
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  Speaker 3: which is really quite exciting because previously we've held this
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  Speaker 3: on mind Sights, so we haven't been able to open
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  Speaker 3: it up to public, but we've.
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  Speaker 2: Got it at CDU this year.
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  Speaker 3: It's on all day Saturday and all day Sunday between
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  Speaker 3: seven and four pm, and there's all of those various scenarios,
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  Speaker 3: very life like. I did actually have to put a
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  Speaker 3: bit of a warning out to the local neighborhood to
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  Speaker 3: safety see something a bit odd, bit of an accidents.
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  Speaker 2: It's okay, it's all out of control. Don't be alarmed.
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  Speaker 3: It is the competition, so people can come down and
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  Speaker 3: see these guys and girls in action and be blown away.
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  Speaker 2: They're just some professional.
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  Speaker 1: Time that it's sort of been opened up to the public.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we came into CDU last year, but we're we
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  Speaker 3: now have more teams and more capability, so we're inviting
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  Speaker 3: people to come down and have a look.
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  Speaker 1: Well. Cat till Mouth Catherine Tillmouth, the executive director of
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  Speaker 1: the Minerals Council of Australia's Northern Australia or Northern Territory Division.
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  Speaker 1: We really appreciate your time this morning. Thanks so much
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  Speaker 1: for coming in.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Katie soon