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Katie Woolf spoke with Federal Member for Solomon Luke Gosling on how we can help East Timor · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: Three sixty with Katie Wolf thanks to Joyce Main, Darwin
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  Speaker 1: home Zo and Stuart Highway Beerromar. We know that the
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  Speaker 1: flooding and the situation in East Tmor and also in
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  Speaker 1: Indonesia well at this stage it's been reported that about
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  Speaker 1: will they believe around one hundred and fifty people have
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  Speaker 1: been killed and so many more have been displaced. Now
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  Speaker 1: joining me in the studio is the Member for Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Member for Solomon, Luke Gosling.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Luke, Morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: What's the latest from your perspective, Luke.
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  Speaker 2: I've been speaking to people in Dilley and down in
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  Speaker 2: the Embassy in Canberra and also people from the Department
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  Speaker 2: of Foreign Affairs and Trade, so everyone is getting the
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  Speaker 2: same information through about a really massive loss of life
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  Speaker 2: and a lot of people injured and homeless from this flooding.
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  Speaker 2: Unlike Darwin that's pretty flat, team was very mountainous and
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  Speaker 2: what's happened is they've had really a lot of rain
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  Speaker 2: over a short period of time and that's flooded down
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  Speaker 2: through the capital Dillian. There's about seven thousand people that
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  Speaker 2: have lost their homes are in evacuation centers in Delhi,
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  Speaker 2: needing some support.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and we know how difficult it is somewhere like
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  Speaker 1: the Northern Territory when you go through a cyclone or
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  Speaker 1: when you go through a terrible flood, you know, let
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  Speaker 1: alone being in another country where a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: time those buildings are not built to the same sort
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  Speaker 1: of standard as what we see here in Australia, particularly
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  Speaker 1: here in the Northern Territory, So that loss in terms
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  Speaker 1: of property and even just those essentials. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things that they're going to be needing at this point,
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  Speaker 1: isn't there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, And talking to someone in Delhi, they were
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  Speaker 2: saying that what everyone's really needing it some panadol, because yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a really human thing that with their medical warehouses,
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  Speaker 2: their government medical warehouse being flooded, their vaccines COVID vaccines
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  Speaker 2: that Australia has donated arrived on the weekend when all
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  Speaker 2: the flooding was occurring. But I guess the good news
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  Speaker 2: is those twenty five thousand vaccines have arrived. But of
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  Speaker 2: course now that everyone's been had to go to shelter
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  Speaker 2: in these evacuation centers, controlling the spread of COVID within
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  Speaker 2: those centers is become a real or it's a real danger,
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  Speaker 2: so I guess they need lots of things. They need
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  Speaker 2: some drinking water, some emergency food, and it's great to
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  Speaker 2: see the Darwen or the territory community rallying as they
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  Speaker 2: always do in the Portuguese Teamories Club have got an
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  Speaker 2: event on Tomorrow night where people can bring along clothes, nappies,
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  Speaker 2: household items that are going to be necessary for people
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  Speaker 2: to rebuild because a lot of these seven thousand people
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  Speaker 2: have lost everything.
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  Speaker 1: Now where can people sort of find out a bit
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  Speaker 1: more information about that event, or if they do want
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  Speaker 1: to make a donation, what can they do.
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  Speaker 2: There's a number of ways obviously in disasters like this,
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  Speaker 2: actual cash getting onto the ground through international charities that
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  Speaker 2: are working there is really positive. And I've put a
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  Speaker 2: link on my Facebook page for Carratas, so they're a
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  Speaker 2: charity organization that's got people on the ground in Dilley
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  Speaker 2: that can actually take that cash and help out with
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  Speaker 2: these evacuation centers. But there's also some great work being
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  Speaker 2: done with Vinnie's with the Portuguese Smories Social Club out
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  Speaker 2: at Marara where they're fundraising but they're also taking donations
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  Speaker 2: that they'll put in a shipping container to be shipped
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  Speaker 2: over to Dilly. Obviously that's not going to happen quickly though,
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  Speaker 2: so that's why they're also saying donations can be made
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  Speaker 2: and that will help in the short term. There is
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  Speaker 2: I've spoken with their north. They're waiting for the work
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  Speaker 2: that the airport in Dilly is open because that had
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  Speaker 2: a lot of mud go over it. So Edin author
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  Speaker 2: also said that for the specific high need, really immediate needs,
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  Speaker 2: that they'll be able to assist with some transport over
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  Speaker 2: to Dillhi as soon as the airport in Dilly is open.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's hope that they're able to do that sooner
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  Speaker 1: rather than later and get these things over to them.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Gosling, I always appreciate your time, mate, just tell
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  Speaker 1: us once more so if people do want to make
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  Speaker 1: a donation or if they're after a bit more info,
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  Speaker 1: they can head to your Facebook page.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got a link for Caratas on my Facebook
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  Speaker 2: page if they go to that. Carratas are doing a
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  Speaker 2: team more specific response because they've got people on the
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  Speaker 2: ground there. But the Indonesian community here in Darwin is
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  Speaker 2: also running an event their meeting to decide on that
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  Speaker 2: today if people go to the Indonesia Diaspora NT Facebook page,
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  Speaker 2: that'll be updated with information there because as well as
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  Speaker 2: East Team or West Team will has been hit and
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  Speaker 2: Flores Island, so Eastern Indonesia and Team WILL really copped
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  Speaker 2: the brun of all this rain that's unfortunately resulted in
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  Speaker 2: a loss of life and housing for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: And thanks again to all the people in the territory
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  Speaker 2: that are rallying to the call.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Luke Gosling, the Federal Member for Solomon, always good
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  Speaker 1: to catch up with you. I appreciate your time this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Cheers, Katie, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: And we have just received an email as well from
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  Speaker 1: one of our listeners, Peter, and it says that yep,
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Luke was saying there that the Darwin based
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  Speaker 1: Portuguese Te Marise Social Club they are collecting those donated
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  Speaker 1: goods and they're apparently going to be flown out on
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  Speaker 1: the ninth of April. So if you've got anything that
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  Speaker 1: you're able to donate, you can obviously get it to
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  Speaker 1: the Portuguese Te Marise Social Club as well from five
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  Speaker 1: pm Wednesday the seventh of April to five pm I
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  Speaker 1: believe Thursday, the eighth of April, so either that you'll
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  Speaker 1: head to Luke Gosling's Facebook page and you'll be able
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  Speaker 1: to find a bit more detail on there.