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Katie Woolf spoke with Dundee Progress Association Committee Member Emma Cartwright · 360 with Katie Woolf

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  Speaker 1: If you want to know what's happening on the local
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  Speaker 1: political landscape, Katie Wolf has it covered on three sixty.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is listening Mix one oh four point nine. We
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  Speaker 1: know that for some time the people of Dundee have
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  Speaker 1: been calling for a health clinic out that way. Now,
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  Speaker 1: joining me on the line from the Dundee Progress Association
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  Speaker 1: Committee member, Emma can't write. Good morning to you, Emma.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Katie.
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  Speaker 1: Emma talk us through well your latest and most renewed
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  Speaker 1: calls for a clinic for Dundee. I know this is
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  Speaker 1: something you guys have been pushing for for some time,
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  Speaker 1: but you're back into it and really want the government
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  Speaker 1: to listen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, totally, Katie. Look, Dundee's changing, you know, as we know,
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  Speaker 2: Dundee used to be that little sleeping community where we
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  Speaker 2: didn't pay rates and everybody went to have their nice
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  Speaker 2: little getaway and holiday home. But now with the you know,
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  Speaker 2: the boat ramp and the roads and the infrastructure. There's
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  Speaker 2: the holiday park down there putting quite a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money into redeveloping the the holiday part. You know, it's
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  Speaker 2: happening plates and the population is growing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, how many people do live out there now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, That's a really good question, Katie, for people probably
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  Speaker 2: don't want to know that they live out there. But
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  Speaker 2: there's we say about probably five hundred people. But what
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  Speaker 2: what the issue is, Katie, is that that five hundred
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  Speaker 2: based population can grow to five thousands over a long
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  Speaker 2: weekend or over a weekend. So I mean, when you
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  Speaker 2: think about you know, the other destination, he's got crab
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  Speaker 2: for he's got sam Palms. You know, you've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of little places in between. There's a huge influx
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  Speaker 2: of holiday houses at at Dundee. You know, it is
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  Speaker 2: the Dundee the Darwins go to weekend escape to get
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  Speaker 2: away from Darwin. It's only a ninety minute drive or
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  Speaker 2: you know, two hour drive really from Darwen City, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot. It's far enough to be somewhere that
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  Speaker 2: needs some healthcare facilities. But and like I said, the
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  Speaker 2: population is just growing. I mean, the caravans that are
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  Speaker 2: heading north, that are using Dundee is their home season
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  Speaker 2: is phenomenal.
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  Speaker 1: And like you said, you know, obviously over the dry season,
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  Speaker 1: but you know when there's people are there fishing all
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  Speaker 1: the time, it's become a real little tourist hub. You know.
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  Speaker 1: Can you talk our listeners through. Why it is such
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  Speaker 1: a concern that there's not a clinic out there should
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  Speaker 1: something go wrong or should somebody really encounter an emergency situation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I mean there are a lot of things
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  Speaker 2: to feedback to the health clinic. So like, for example,
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  Speaker 2: you know there's no post out at Dundee.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so if.
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  Speaker 2: Something goes wrong on the water, there's no first responders.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, you know, the growing population of people
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  Speaker 2: that are using Dundee as a holiday home or as
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  Speaker 2: a retirement destination, or the caravans that come to experience
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  Speaker 2: the dry season. There's not just the population growing, but
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  Speaker 2: also the other thing surrounding that, like Keelter for example.
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  Speaker 2: We've been banging on about Keelter as well for quite
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  Speaker 2: some time now. But on a long weekend or anywhere,
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  Speaker 2: can really at Dundee you don't get very rarely can
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  Speaker 2: you get into that access. It just completely drops out.
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  Speaker 2: And quite often if you try to make a phone call,
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  Speaker 2: it say's call failed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's a problem.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of other surrounding issues at Dundee is the
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  Speaker 2: community that feedback to the needs for some health service.
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  Speaker 2: Now I know that's about the numbers and the population.
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  Speaker 2: That's about all those other developments that are quite working
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  Speaker 2: in that community at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: And I understand that back in twenty nineteen, because we've
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  Speaker 1: spoken about this on air on numerous occasions, that the
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  Speaker 1: Anti Primary Health Network WILL did a report into opening
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  Speaker 1: a clinic out there that found that, you know, that
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  Speaker 1: we didn't actually I think it found that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: actually need a health service out there. However, the Health Minister,
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  Speaker 1: as I understand it, has now said that you are
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  Speaker 1: that they are going to consider clinical service options for Dundee.
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  Speaker 1: Is this you know, this is obviously a step in
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  Speaker 1: the right direction. Does it go far enough? Though?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Kay, just correct you there. But in twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: they did do that health needs assessment and it did
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  Speaker 2: show that Dundee was a growth corridor and the health
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  Speaker 2: facility was warranted.
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  Speaker 1: Oh right, So so really that.
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  Speaker 2: Was that was in twenty eighteen. Since twenty eighteen, there's
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  Speaker 2: been a lot of development at Dundee, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things changed, and so.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, you know, really, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: things have changed, things have grown. You would hope that
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  Speaker 1: this is something that they're going to look a little
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  Speaker 1: bit more closely into.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean it really is warranted that we
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  Speaker 2: have that health facility at Dundee. It's been shown, it's
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  Speaker 2: been proven back in twenty eighteen, and now, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we need those first responders out there. I can think
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  Speaker 2: of many incidences over the last you know, gosh, I've
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  Speaker 2: been down there for fifteen years where I call it
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  Speaker 2: what is the close course? Yeah, you know, and sadly,
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  Speaker 2: when something's going to go wrong, you know, something will happen.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to Dundee the great little community,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, we don't have a police station down there.
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  Speaker 2: We do have a lot of people down there on
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  Speaker 2: weekend on quad bites, and we've just been very fortunate
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  Speaker 2: that those people that have needed help have got help.
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  Speaker 2: Quite often it is to the support of locals helping out
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  Speaker 2: those people, getting them the support that they need. Or
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  Speaker 2: it's meeting that ambulance halfway at the turnoff, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: you've got no phone reception. Again between the turnoff and
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  Speaker 2: between Dundee and the Cox finentiala turnoff there's no phone reception.
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  Speaker 2: So I think I've probably done it twenty times in
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  Speaker 2: my life, met an ambulance halfway. But you're just the
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  Speaker 2: only way you know the ambulance is coming, as you say,
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  Speaker 2: or flick my lights when I see you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness mate. Well Emma, I really we are going
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  Speaker 1: to have to leave it there. I really appreciate you
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  Speaker 1: having a chat with us this morning. And and gee,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I hope that we do see some traction here.
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  Speaker 1: We have got the Health Minister on tomorrow, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: certainly see if we can get an update from her. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Dundee's a great little town. Some really cool things
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  Speaker 2: are happening. We just need to make sure we keep
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  Speaker 2: people safe.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, Emma, thank you so much for having a chat
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  Speaker 1: with us this morning. That is, of course, Emma can't
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  Speaker 1: right there. And she is part of the Dundee Progress
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  Speaker 1: Association committee, and I know that this is something that
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  Speaker 1: the committee's been, well all the Dundee Progress Association have
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  Speaker 1: certainly been calling for for some time